The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-12 00:00:00

THE M .ETROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

The ' isnal weekly meeting of the Board was held
yester ley at the office in Spring-gardens; the
Chairman, Mr. J. Thwaites, presiding.

ST, THO'SIAS'S HOSPITAL AND THE PROPOSED SITE

AT STANGAT E.

The Engineer (Mr. Bazaigette) reported to the
Boa rd that he had been requested by gentlemen
coune cted with St. Thomas's Hospital to make affi-
davit as to the healthfulness of the site at Stangate,
which the Governors had agreed to purchase of the
subject to the decision of the Court of Chan-
cery . Th-; evidence he proposed to give was con-
tained in the following facts :—That, by July next,
the greater portion of the main drainage works for
the draining of the metropolis will be completed,
and then the sewage of the metropolis, instead to
being discharged, as it now is, at low water arcoand
the metropolis, and so mixed only with a small
volume of water, will be discharged during high
water at Barking, whicn is about 13 miles below
London-bridge, where it will be diluted with a
maximum volume of water, and carried by the ebb
tide to about 26 miles below London•bridge ; and
it was the intention of the Board to carry out great
-Improvements on the banks of the river by embank-
lug, when the land oa the shore of the Thames
would form a good site for any public building—
more especially as the several noxious trades now
carried on in the locality would be removed.
Mr. PHILLIPS moved that the engineer should be
allowed to make an affidavit in accordance with the
facts stated.

Mr. DIXON said that there could be no doubt of
the healthfulness of the river shore, for down by the
docks and by the banks of the river in the neigh-
bourhood of Limehouse and Bermondsey the people
were very healthy, and so much so that a doctor
could not ma ke a living there. (Laughter.)

After some further remarks,
Mr. LOWMAN TAYLOR observed that the Board
ought not to commit itself to any statements the
engineer might make. The officer of the Board
might be compelled to give evidence, but it would
not be right for the Board to be mixed up iu the
matter.

This pt at of the subject then dropped.
The So Jlicitor brought to the notice of the Board
that at a previous meeting a resolution Was passed
relative, to obtaining an act in the ensuing session
of Parliament that the Board might acquire addi-
tional lands at Stangate for the purposes of the
Southern, Embankment of the Thames scheme, and
he now needed further instructions, the preliminary
steps for: obtaining such an act having been taken.
It wits moved and seconded that steps should be
taken for obtaining the necesssry powers.
Mr. ROCUE desired to know why the Board should
go to Parliament at a great expense in order to have
powers to purchase a piece of land, if that land was
after Wards to be sold for St. Thurals's Hospital, as
he understood It was to be. The land was either for
the purpose of the Board or for St. Thomas's Hos-
Pitaioirui he wanted to know whether the hospital
authorit;,es would pay the expenses the Board would
go to in obtttining this act if the laud was for them.
Mr. 'ORF.ExtA.N answered that the site as it
stood at Stangate was not perfect, inasmuch as
roads would have to be made, and the purchase of
Lntis treated of in the proposed bill was ue.ces-1
barY to make the site per eci,; and then, if the site.
shui_ild not be used for the hospital, it could be
801 d for some ocher purpose. Tne Act was not for
Thomas's Hospital, but for the Board.
Mr. DERMER asked who would pay the expense.
The governors of the Hospital had voted £95,000,
and the answer wax in the negative, so it the board
expected to get any of these expenses it was mit].
taken.

The CIIAIRMXN said the purchasers of the site
would pay ail necessary expenses.
Mr. C'JLI:INSON stated that at a meeting of the
Governc,rs, which was reported in the Times, the
questio n was asked if there would be any expenses
requir.er'i for the site beyond the Y.,95,000, and thg
answer was in the negitive, so if the board expected
to !..;et, any of these expenses it was mistaken.
A.. 1 amendment was moved that the whole ques•
tier, be referred to the Thames Embankment Com-
mi -.tee, but this was negatived by 28 against 7, and
original motion was carried.
THE NEW STREET FROM THE MANSION HOUSE.
A letter was read from Mr. Daw, the clerk to the
City Commissioners of Sewers, asking the board to
contribute half towards the expense of forming that
street, whatever the expense might be,
Mr. LOWALIN TAYL'JR moved a resolution in
tfiect binding the board to comply with the request
stated in the letter, and in doing so said that the
expense of forming this new street had, he believed,
been greatly exaggerated beyond what it really
woilld be, because when city people were required
to sell land they did not know how to ask too
much for it. In one case he knew the sum of
£62,000 was asked for certain premises and a busi-
ness, and a jury had given £ll,OOO ; and this was
an instance of what might be asked and what given.
A. small piece of land near the Union Bank was set
flnwri in value at £17,500, but that sum would no
giouot be greatly reduced, and he had little doubt
'that when the street was made there would be a
in which the board would stand in equal
'Mrs. (A laugli.)
a ,tr being brought to the notice of the Board that
,rrbr,e7.lous resolution bound the Board only to con-
, "`-'4 Stated sum, the matter remains over until
future
• °easion as notice is required to be given
to reseuld.
‘tlY such resolution.

The elu‘ THE FIRE BRIGADE.
cominuaietti:;\t,aX stated that he had received a
Home .11epartm'ertiorn the Secretary of Stale for the
the 'Metropolis,. t relative to the Fire Brigade of
It was agreed that
to. a ewnmittee unreudthe letter should be referred
it was also
that application should the motion of Mr. RoGITE,
parishes in the metropoii:fradde to each of the
cost, for several years of it,°" a return showing the
ments, the amounts paid for atire-eugine establish-
tributions to the Fire Escape fire rewards the eon-
nu mber ot
144 tor other infer-
persons employed_
t`._igad,e (if any), the
mation on tho scne subjew.
•After other ousioess rue Boird
adjourned.

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MURDER IN SCOTLAND.—On Tuesday the god 11
of a woman named Nancy Stevens or Laffhttibile
of a miner residing near Holytown, was found lying 4
road near Newarthill. Various marks of violence were
discovered; there was a cut, extending to three inches in
length, under the chin on the left side of the Jaw; the
under part of the left ear was torn off, and hanging loosely
face
was ; bruises and scratches on the arms; the
was covered with blood, and the hair dishevelled across
the face, clotted with blood and dirt, thereby
rendering
the features at first scarcely recognisable,and the body must
have been dragged some distance along the road. It appears
that on Monday the deceased went to Airdrie to see her
husband, who had been committed fer some minor offsnce,
and in that town she met a Lean named Doyle, a miner,
whom she knew. They were drinking in several public-
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6 o'clock. On the way they went to another public-house,
and quarrelled because the deceased refused to stop there all
night. Doyle went out and shortly afterwards returned,when
he was told that the deceased had left, Nothing more was
seen of them till the body was found the next morning.
Qte7le was taken into custody. He has a wife and six chil-
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