The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, A UGUST 15, 1864.

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charged with throwing stones and assaulting head-constable
Rankin, and a person unknown, and was sentenced to four
months' imprisonment. James Steen, Robt, M'Farland,
Jas. ‘Murran, Wm. Maguire,
AGVe. me.NTi.clNhlo‘i;nloo;alm
nV, Bays,Wm.Ga Mmble, John Wallace, Hutchin-
son Porter, and Jas. Graham, were each sentenced to two
months' imprisonment, on the complaint of the police, for
being part of a disorderly and stone-throwing mob in Dur-
ham-street, The evidence was the same in all the cases—
namely, that the prisoners were in the crowd, and some of
them were seen throwing stones at an opposing mob. I'at-
rick M'Cullogh was discharged, there not being sufficient
evidence to convict. Henry Lavery, John Stone, John
Johnston, Wm. Warnock, Thos. Martin, Wm. Marshall, Jas.
M'Farland, John Falkiner, David Warnock, William John
Flannigan, William Doran, and John M'Kenna (aged 77),
were all remanded till Tuesday for further evidence. Henry
Kane and Patrick M'Callister were charged by Head-con-
stable Rankin with assaulting Mary Grant and John
W atson, and Daniel Fitzpatrick, who was charged by Con-
stable Dunne with assaulting Victor Grant, were remanded
till to-day, as the prisoners had been only a short time
arrested, and wished to produce witnesses.

The Thames Embankment and the Conser•
vators of the Thames,

In consequence of a misunderstanding having arisen be-
tween Mr G, Furness (the contractor for the construction
of a part of the embankment) and the Thames Conservators
relative to the quality of the material dredged from the bet-
torn of the river for the purpose of filling in behind the em-
bankment wall, a correspondence has ensued between them
and the Metropolitan Board of Wos ks,the result of which has
been that the board has sent the following letter and notice
to the conservators :

Spring-gardens, sth August, 1864.
" Sir,—l am directed by the Metropolitan Board of
Works to acquaint you, for the information of the Thames
Conservators, that, upon receipt of your letter of the 29th
July, enclosing a copy of a letter addressed to the conser-
vators, on the 22d of that month, by Mr George Furness,
the contractor for a portion of the Thames Embankment
works, in relation to the supply of gravel, dredged from
from the river, for filling-in behind the Thames Embank-
ment wall, and the reply of the conservators thereto, dated
July 29, to the effect that the conservators were of opinion
that all future communications on the subject should take
place between the metropolitan board and themselves. Mr
Furness was communicated with in reference to the
matter, and, in reply, he has stated that he has, for
the present, stopped receiving any materials for filling
in behind the Thames Embankment, until some satis-
factory arrangement can be come to with the conservatory,
for the following reasons :—That the conservators do not
supply him with the best of the deposit dredged from the
liver, but that this is sold to other persons and used for
building and other purposes, and that he is supplied with
the inferior deposit only. That for this he is charged 6d per
yard, whilst Messrs. Hunter and English are willing to sup-
ply him with the same description of material, raised from
the river, at the rate of 41d per yard, the cost price to them
being about 31d. That a very large proportion or the
light and inferior material supplied to him is washed
out of the embankment into the river, and that he has
applied to the reservoirs to make a deduction for such
loss, and to charge him a fair price for that which re-
mains in the embankment, but that the conservators
have declined to treat with him upon that or any of
these points, or in any way to recognise him. That if
he is charged 6cl per yard for the material, and has to
barge it to his works at a cost of 6d per yard, and to
pay 4d per yard for unloading, making together is 4d, and
if half of this is washed away, the cost to him for forming
the bank will be 2s 8d per yard, and that he could not carry
out his contract upon these terms without very heavy loss.
That, under the circumstances, he proposes to suspend fill-
ing in behind the embankment until he shall have completed
the wall in front, when the material will be prevented from
being washed into the river, and he will then be prepared to
receive any amount of good deposit which the conservators
can supply at a fair price. At the same time ha expresses
his readiness now to receive the deposit from the conserva-
tors if they will take the foregoing matters into conridera-
tion in a fair and reasonable spirit.

" The board desire me to request that you will be good
enough to bring under the notice of the conservators these
facts, which they feel sure will receive due consideration.
" I am also to state that the board aro most desirous
of carrying out not only the letter but the spirit of the
Thames Embankment Act, and as the conservators have de-
clined to treat with Mr Furness on the subject, they have
sealed accompanying notice, containing their formal request,
under ale provisions of the Embank..one Act, for the con-
servators to dig, raise, and take up, from the bed of the
river, and to supply to the several contractors, Mr Furness
and Mr Ritson, the material for the purposes of the em-
bankment, the board reserving to themselves the power
to reject any portion which in their judgment may be unlit
for the purpose.

" I am further to state that, with a view of giving the
fullest effect to the request, I have, pursuant to the board's
instructions, apprised the contractors, Mr Furness aud Mr
Ritson, respectively, of the same, and required them to use
all material which may be so supplied, and to do all iu their
Power to enable the conservators to comply with the board's
requisition,—l am, &C., (Signad)
"JOHN POLLARD, Clerk of the Board.
"E. Burstal, Esq., Secretary, Thames Conservancy."
The notice referred to in the foregoing letter was as fol-
lows :

"To the Conservators of the River Thames, their
Secretary, and whom it
may concern.
"The Metropolitan Board of 'Works hereby, parsuant to
the provisions of the Thames Embankment Act, 1862, and
in order to enable the said board and their several contrac-
tors, Mr Geo. Furness and Mr Anthony Ward Ritson, se-
verally, to form the said embankment, give you notice and
require you to dig, raise, and take up from the bed of the
River Thames, and to supply to the said contractors, at
their respective works of
_the said embankment, all such
gravel, sand, soil, or other materials as rosy
be necessary
and proper for such works, and the said board require you
to proceed in such digging, raising, and supplying,
and to
execute the same within such period as may be reasonably
requisite in that behalf, and the said board will ba ready
and willing to pay all such sums of money
as provided in
that behalf by the said statute. The said board hereby
give notice that they reserve to themselves the power to
reject any materials which shall be unfit for the purposes of
the said embankment. Given under the common seal of the
said board. Dated the 5111 day of August, 1861."

r Italian interventlon),:order will very soon be firmly re-
established. There are some foreigners at Tunis who affect
not to believe in the reconciliation of the Bey with the
revolted Arab tribes of the interior of the Regency, while
others, for motives best known to themselves, are sadly and
grievously disapp'ainted at the pacific termination which
affairs have taken, without their proff,red assistance.
We subjoin, in confirmation of our own correspondent's
intelligence, the translation of an official despatch to the
Bey, from General Sy Ismail, commanding the Expedi-
tionary Corps, which gives the lie to the statement in the
Italian papers that he had returned from Tenourba under
tho pretext of illness, leaving his force of 3,000 men and a
park of 12 guns hemmed in by the insurgents.
This letter bears a date equivalent to July, 1664, and is
thus worded :

" I beg to inform your highness that at this moment the
Sheiks Sy Moustapha Ben Azouz, El Hadj Mohamed
el-Sadik, and Sy Ahmed Ben Abd-el-Melek, together with
about 400 horsemen, the chiefs of the tribes Dreed,
Ouled Sidy Abid, El Arab, Wergha, Sharen, Hama-
mesa, Doutan, Gendouba, Ouled Yacob, Zagalema, Tuabaa,
Ouled Ayar, Uerten, Ouled Ben Salem, and Meggiar have
arrived at the camp to treat with us respecting the termina-
tion of their affairs, as well as that I may solicit your High-
ness to forgive them from your heart, in addition to the
amnesty which your Highness has already granted, in obli-
vion of their errors. With regard, however, to Aiy Ben
Gdahem, the ringleader of the revolt, and those of his tribe
(the Meggiar) who were with him, they have withdrawn to
their abodes, after his having declared to the two Sheiks, Sy
Mohamed Ben Azouz and Sy Ahmed Abd-el-Maret, that
henceforward he will not interfere in anything regarding
the tribes, and he has given a document to that effect under
his hand and seal to the two venerable Sheiks above men-
tioned ; and that sinee he has obtained an amnesty, as well
as what it has pleased your Highness to grant by way of
diminution of the tax imposed upon them, and which has
caused their agitation, he will never again do anything
which will disturb the peace. The above is the substance
of his words, and hereafter we will inform your Highness
of any future occurrence."

Letters from Ali Ben Gdahem have also been received
apologising for what has occurred, and saying that circum-
stances and necessity compelled the Arabs to take this
course, and that many people had written him to urge him,
And he could not avoid seconding their wishes without any
desire of his own. In short, his words show the sincerity
of his conversion and repentance for what he has done.
With respect to himself, he says he is a Sheriff (descendant
of the Prophet) and a religious man, and that it is not in
his character, nor in the character of those who side with
God, to misguide the people, and other words leading to
purify the afflicted heart,