The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-03 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

The usual meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works
was held yesterday at the office in Spring-gardens, Mr. J.
Thwaites in the chair.
The financial statement was presented, and the principal
heads of accounts were as follows :—Current accounts in the
8ank15,46 f London, £26,383 15s. ; in the Bank of England,
£
6d. Deposit accounts in the Bank of England,
£74,000. Government securities, £57,500 9s, ld. The sums
to be set aside this year for repayment of mortage debts are
£9,268 Os. 7d-
TIIE NORTIIERN EMBANKINIENT OF THE THAMES.
The following report was brought up from the Thames
Embankment Committee:—.
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" Spring-gardens, Sept. 28.
„Your bon. Board, on the 7th of August, having refer
red to your
committee for consideration and report the plans
for the
construction of that part of the northern embank-
ment of the river between Waterloo-bridge and the eastern
end of the Temple-gardens, and instructed your solicitor to
our committee as to the several properties which
ted by these works, your committee have now to
rree
willpp eo port
be tt oehtsayect
they have considered said plans, and have re-
ceived from your superintending architect a report which
carefully examined by your solicitor with regard
perdes referred to, and they have directed the
pre
notices to be served for acquiring or otherwise
thdzioeaeasteelhinbseesgeu necessary
ywith those properties. Your committee have also
rtthat the question with regard to the interest of
the ee
Crown
u
in the foreshore required for the works has been
ascertained
p
arranged,
Plans and letting the contract for the works
in questionapproving t ;
and your committee therefore recommend that
te plans for
the Thames Embankment (North) from
h d that no impediment now exists to the Board
go to the east end of the Temple-gardens,
itt
Board by the engineer on the 7th August
last prl:ro ird
the Board
and that advertisements be issued
inviting
tenders for the execution of the works. All which
your committee beg to
subm
(No.e d
i7),to
submit."
Mr. FILEEM°T moved that the Board do receive the re-
port and sanction the recommendations of the committee.
The
eAI
put the motion, which was unanimously
agreed t:11;:ss OP TAB MAIN DRAINAGE WORKS.
TILE TRO
Engineer p
The resented the following report on
the progress
the main drainage works :
Chief
of
" S -gardens, Oct. 1.
" Satisfactory progress continues,Prigunpon the whole, to be
made
the main drainage of the metropolis. Messrs.
Brassey and Co. have now completed about 10i miles of the
intendedin the
execution of the several sections of the works
for
Middle Level Sew
12fter andftits branches, in sizes varying from
4by 9 6in. A junction has been effected
between
passing under the various private pro-
pertiesft by 2 ft
t Sinhe W
works
from wilderness w -ro
to Clerkenwell Sessions-house,
and the sewer, with slight exception, is now complete from
Old Ford up to that point. The Metropolitan Railway has
yet to be crossed
w
at 'Victoria-street, the design (a single
wroughtfor effecting which object is now
under
t iron aqueduct),
the consideration of the Board. The works
for the diversion of the Fleet Sewer are progressing as
fast as their nature and the difficulties of the locality and
ground will permit. The main line westward of the Fleet,
passing along Liquorpond-street, Oxford-street, and other
leyaing Saffron-hill thoroughfares, is, with the exception of a portion
b
minor works, completed. 'rho
leading
atr
works of the Piccadilly branch are also in progress. The
total value of the work executed up to this date is about
l,
£278,000, being £20,000 in excess of my last report.
Rather more than two miles of the Western sewers, of
sizes varying from 3ft 9in to 2ft Sin to 4ft circular,
have been completed by Messrs. Moxon and Co., at
a probable cost of £32,000, or £6,000 more than at the
date of my
last monthly report. The Northern Out-
fall Sewer, with the exception of some portion of the
embankment, the Parapets of the bridges, and the
apronpl e t throughout d in the bd t
s
entirecom-
ivlength of 51 miles. The
c
sewage of the High and Middle Level Sewers has now been
permanently turned into two of the 9-feet sewers, and is
discharged through the tumbling-bay direct into the Thames
near Barking Creek—thus permitting the abandonment of
the temporary measures adopted in July ast for diverting
the sewage from the River Les. Tha accomplishment of
these works has facilitated the testing of the third 9-feet
sewer, which has been satisfactory, no leakage being per-
ceptible from either the ironwork or brickwork. The
total cost of the work done by Mr. Furness under tho con-
tract is about £630,000—£15,000 being due to the progress
made ',ince presenting my last report. One compartment
of the Northern Outfall Reservoir is completed, and a
second is in a forward state. The foundations of the re-
mainder are nearly all got in, and the brick piers and walls
are being built thereon. The amount of the work done
under this contract by Mr. Furness is estimated at £BO,OOO
or 017,000 333,re than I3st reported. At the Crossness
pumping
Station
the engine and boiler houses, reservoir,
culverts, and other works arc all advancing. Upwards of
130,000 cube yards of excavation and 66,003 cube gelds of
concrete have been executed, in addition to about 25,000
cubic feet of masonry. 56,000 superficial feet of York
paving have been laid, and 56 penstocks fixed. The value
of Mr. Webster's works under the contract is about, £147,000,
of which £22,000 is due to the work done since my last
report. Upwards of 1 mile of the Southern Low Level
Sewer have been constructed by Mr. Webster, at a cost
of about £17,500, being £23,501 in excess of my last report.
Messrs. Aird and Son have completed a length of nearly
three miles of the Bermondsey branch of the Southern Low
Level Sewer at an estimated cost of £86,000, dr £4,000 more
than last reported. Mr. Pearson is making fair progress
with his contract for the completion of the Southwark new
street, between Great Guildford-street and the Blackfriars-
road. Up to the present date he has completed 1,130 ft.
of the subway, with about 500 ft. in progress, 1,140 ft. of
sewer TIM of area wall, about 1,2001 t, of pipe con-

Her Majesty's ship Majestic, 80 guns, Capt. In gle-
field, C. 8., lett Holyhead for Liverpool on Thursday.
She was stationed at Holyhead for nearly three
months for the purpose of training her crew and the
Naval Coast Volunteers on the station.

Her Majesty's ship Hydra, now completed at
Woolwich for surveying duties in the Mediterra-
nean, yesterday returned to the dockyard after a
two days' trial trip of her machinery down the river.
Her average rate of speed was 71 knots, the wind
blowing fresh the whole time. On Tuesday she will
be swung at Greenhithe for the adjustment of com-
passes, and onWednesday will proceed on her voyage,
calling at Plymouth on her way down the Channel.
She is expected to arrive at Malta about the 21st inst.
She was commanded by Lieut. George It. Wilkin-
son, of the Medina, who, on his arrival at Malta,
will transfer his command to Capt. Spratt. The
officers and crew, being appointed for the voyage
only, will be turned over as supernumeraries to the
flagship Marlborough,
Four of the large iron cylinders cast at the foun-
dry of Messrs. Aveling and Porter, Rochester, have
been received at Chatham dockyard, to be used in
the works now in progress for the enlargercont and
extension of that establishment by taking in the
whole of St. Mary's Island. The cylinders, which
are the largest of the kind ever manufactured for
that particular operation, are intended to be used in
the construction of the new basins and docks, the
foundations for which are now being excavated. In
the construction of the new basins and docks, ad-
vantage has been taken of St. Mary's Creek, which
intersects the southern portion of the island, and the
bed of the creek, which is now being drained, will,
in fact, form the site of the three basins, the united
area of which will be nearly 90 acres, or about
double the extent of the whole of the existing avail-
able basin accommodation at all the Royal dock-
yards. Up to the present time the entire work in
t
connection with the enlargemen of Chatham dock-
yard has been performed by convicts, of whom be.
tween 800 and 900 are daily employed.
The whole of the shipwrights and other dockyard
mechanics have been withdrawn from the paddle-
wheel steamer Salamis, 4, 200-horse power, lying
alongside the dockyard in Chatham harbour, and
that vessel is now entirely completed and in all re-
spects ready for commission.