The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-13 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1863.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
LORD Wr, LENNOX AND THE PICEPOCRETS.—Edward
Turner, who gave the addre-s of Old Pye.s reet, and said
he was a shoeblack, was charged before Mr. linox with
attempting to pick the pocket of Lord William Pitt Lennox,
of 19, Upper Phillimore-gardens, Kensington.
Lord W. Lennox said that at 6 o'clock yesterday evening
he was passing along Old Bond-street, when three boys,
the prisoner being one of them, followed him, and on
turning down Bruton-street the prisoner seized his
pocket. He turned round to seize the prisoner, but he
ducked down and ran off, and though sharply pursued by him
was not stopped till he got to Maddox-street, where a number
of the prisoner's associates got round him (Lord W. Lennox),
and said that it was a shame, and that he ought to let the
prisoner go. The prisoner took advantage of this and
again ducked and ran off, but, being determined that he
should not escape, he pursued him, when the prisoner fell
and pretended that he had been run over. Mr, Lockwood,
auctioneer, of Queen's-terrace, Islington, then came to his
(Lord IN . Lennox's) assistance, and rendered him the
greatest service, and having got a cab, they put the prisoner
in and got in themselves to take the prisoner to the police-
station, not seeing a constable at the time. They went on,
amidst a shower of missiles, till they got to Verey's door,
when the cab stopped for some reason, and a man then
tried to get into the cab and bonnetted Mr. Lockwood, who
at his (Lord VT, Lennox's) suggestion lett the cab. He
then took the prisoner to the station and charged him.
George Castle, 69 C, said he went to the address the pri-
soner gave, but he was not known there. He knew prisoner
as formerly sweeping a crossing, and on searching him at
the station he found two duplicates relating to pocket hand-
kerchiefs,
Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for three months with
hard labour.
COMMITTAL Or A SERVANT FOR ROBBERY.--BAD
CASE.--Sarah Jones, 14, servant to Mr. Bainbridge, up-
holsterer, of 6, Tottenham-street, Tottenham-court-road,
was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing a gold watch
and two chains, and a quantity of wearing apparel, the pro-
perty of her mistress, Mrs. Sarah Bainbridge.
Mrs. Bainbridge said that she was out yesterday evening
and received information that her house had been robbed.
She hastened home and missed the gold watch and two
chains and a number of dresses and other articles. Directly
after, and while some one was gone for a police officer, she
told the prisoner to go to the coal cellar and get some coals,
and the prisoner did so, and came up to her saying, " I've
found a bundle in the coal cellar," and in the bundle was
some of her dresses. On telling the prisoner it must be
her who toe k the things she denied it, and on the officer
coming she gave her in charge,
The presecutrix, after looking at the property produced,
said it was all hers.

Emily Bainbridge, daughter of last witness, said she also
found a bundle packed up ready for removal.
Sergeant Lambert, 12 E, deposed that on telling the pri-
soner that he should take her into custody she e eked him
not to lock her up, and said that she was very sorry. On
telling her that a watch and two chains were missing, she
said that they would be found buried in the dust-hole, and
on searching there he found them.
Mr. Knox asked Mrs. Bainbridge what sort of character
she had with the prisoner, and she said a very good one.
Mr. Knox said he should commit the prisoner for trial,
and that she would then perhaps be sent to some insti-
tution.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATIERSALL'S —LAST EVENING.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
25 to 1 agst Gardener (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
25 to 1 agst Black Deer (taken)
33 to 1 agst Zetland (taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS,
10 to 1 agst Michael Scott (taken)
THE DERBY.
sto 1 agst Lord Cliflen (offered)
40 to 1 agst Taje (taken)
50 to 1 agst Melrose (taken)
50 to 1 agst Early Purl (taken)
100 to 1 agst Baldwin (taken)

BETTING AT MANCHESTER--THURSDAY.

Fir the Liverpool Steeplechase Satellite and Jealousy
were freely supported ; a little was put OIL Shropshire.
Nothing else. mentioned. For the Waterloo Cup there are
plenty of backers for the favourites if any slight advance
is offered, and liberal odds offered against the outsiders.
Mr. Spink's nomination was backed to win £7OO at 100 to
6i ; 100 to 7 was taken snd wanted about Mr. Blackstock's
nomination, and 100 to 6 was asked for Mr. Worrall's.
Closing prices :
LINCOLN HANDICAP.
12 to 1 agst Libellous (taken)
THE DERBY.
1000 to 18 agst Pratique (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
20 to lon the fitld (offered)
33 to 1 apt Lo Marechal (offored)
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
11 to 1 agst Satellite (taken)
14 to 1 agst Jealousy (taken)
20 to 1 agst Shropshire (taken
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
25 to 1 agst Gardener (taken and offered)
40 to 1 agst Catch'em Alive (taken)
WATERLOO CUP.
100 to 7 agat Mr. Blacks,ock's nomination (taken)
200 to 13 agst Mr. Spink's nomination (taken)
100 to 6 agst Mr. Wurrall's nomination (wanted)
40 to 1 agst Mr. Borron's nomination (taken)
40 to 1 agst Mr. B,ttetnan's nomination (taken)
50 to 1 agst Mr. Lawton's nomination (taken)

The Embankment of the South Side of the

Thames.

DEPUTATION TO THE FIRST COMMISSIONER
OF WORKS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Yesterday a deputation from the Metropolitan
Board of Works waited upon the Right Hon. W.
H. Cowper, First Commissioner of her Majesty's
Works and Public Buildings, at the office-in 'White-
hall-place, in reference to the embankment of the
south side of the Thames. The deputation consisted
of Mr. John Thwaites, chairman ; Mr. Doulton,
M.P., Mr. Le Breton, Mr. Dermer, Mr. M.Donnell,
Mr. Newton, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Shepherd, Mr. More-
land, Mr. Pew, Mr. Harris, Mr. Hall, Mr. Phillips,
Mr. Savage, Mr. Deputy Harrison, and Mr. Free-
man, with Mr. Pollard, clerk, and Mr. Yulliamy,
superintending architect.
Mr. THWAITES, Chairman of the Metropolitan
Board of Works, said—l have the honour to intro-
duce to you, sir, a deputation of the members of the
Metropolitan Board of Works in reference to the
embankment of the south side of the Thames, and
in the first place it will be rn cessary briefly to refer
to what has taken place upon this subject. A report
was presented by the Royal Commissioners, as ynu
are aware, recommending that an embankment on
the north side of the Thames should be constructed
from Westminster-bridge to Blacktriers-bridge;
and that a new street from Blackfriars-bridge to
the Mansion-house should be formed. In pursuance
of that recommendation you, sir, introduced a bill
into Parliament to authorise the Metropolitan Board
of Works to carry out the embankment and the
new street ; but there was something occurred in
the committee to which that bill was referred that
led to the postponer ent of that portion of the
scheme relating to the nets street. The bill then
became law which enabled the Metropolitan Board
of works to form the embankment. Imayhere men-
tion that there are kindred works to be executed,
but the estimates for the embankment were ob
tained from this office, and although those estimates
were prepared by very competent gentlemen, they
only referred to the net cost of the improvement,
and to the gross funds that would be necessary for
carrying out the works. Now, in carrying out large
works money is a equired in the first instance and
at once for the completion of them, and although
some portion of the land would be available for
building purposes, it cannot be put into
. the market until it is covered and we are enabled
to sell the ground-rents. Therefore, that being so,
it will necessarily be some time before the board
would be able to realise that credit. By the act the
hoard was tied down to a million of expenditure,
but he urged that a margin should have been left
for contingencies. He had made a calculation of
the produce of the coal duties for 20 years, and he
found that the northern embankment and the new
street would alone absorb the whole of those duties.
As regards the southern embankment, it is admitted
on all hands to be a necessary work, and was so con-
sidered by the Royal Commisioners, equally with
the north, and they recommended the Government
that'it should be constructed at an estimated cost of
£1,100,000. Now, that no dottier is a large sum, but
I feel, sir, that both yourself and the board will be
placed in a great difficulty if that portion of the
work is for the present to be postponed. The board
had already served notice 00 occupiers to enable
them to carry the embankment from Westminster-
bridge to Vauxhall-bridge, in order that there might
be no delay in complying with the staneing orders
and bringing in the bill, and no doubt under those
circumstances the public on the south side, who were
naturally much interested in the proposal, would
feel great anxiety at its being delayed for want of
funds. Therefore, sir, I trust you will deeply im-
press upon the Government the necessity of
providing us with funds. However desirous tha
board may be to carry on these works, without
funds they are utterly powerless. For any private
body to obtain a longer continuance than the coal
for 20 years would be completely hopeless. After
pointing out tl a improvements made by the bead
on the original plans for the northern embankment
and the new street, by extending the curve to the
new street at Blackfriars, widening Thetas
street, lowering gradients, &e., which, he con-
tended, justified ene excess in the original esti
mates, Mr; Thwaites continued—Having published
the notices of our intention to go to Parliament, I
must impress upon you that a bill should be intro-
duced by which the coal and wine duties shall be
continued to a longer period and enable us to dis-
charge our duties, and that funds shall bo found for
that purpose. No tax, either direct or indirect, can
be carried without difficulty; but if the coal duties
are extended for 40 years, that will enable us to
complete the southern embankment, and leave a
margin for other works. As extending this tax
over so long a period may be considered bad in prin-
ciple, perhaps it would be better to add threepence
to the coal duties for 20 years, and make them is.
instead of 9d., as at present. For 20 years that will
give us £2,900,000, I hope, therefore, that one
course or the other may be adopted, or perhaps some
other may suggest itself to your own mind which
may be better than either; but what we want to
do is to carry out a great improvement, as we have
published our intentions to do so; but we shall be
unable to do so unless we are provided with funds
for that purpose. Mr. Thwaites concluded by ex •
pressing a desire to answer any question that might
be put to him, and suggested that some members of
the deputation should offer a few observations.
Mr. DOULTON, M.P., suggested that the four-
penny coal tax at present received by the city of
London should be extended for 25 years, and that
the new street in the City should be carried out by
means of that extended tax. He also urged that
the inhabitants of the whole of the metropolis Con-
tributed to this tax, and that nearly all the money
had been spent in improvements on the north Bid(
of the river.
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER of WORKS said be
was glad to have the advantage of consulting the
chairman and the members of the Metropolitan
Board of Works upon this question. There was no
difficulty whatever in the way, but that of finance.
He completely Agreed with the lucid and candid
statement of the chairman, and it was always his
desire to embank as much of the river as the funds
would allow and the trade of the river would per.
mit. He always felt the great importance of em-
banking the river on the Lambeth side, and though
it was not equal to the northern embankment, it
was still of great importance. He had last year
introduced the Embankment Bill, and at the same
time saw the necessity of getting a Thames Eat-
bankment fund by prolonging the coal duties.
There was a good deal of opposition to that, and
there would have been difficulty in getting the bill
passed at the fag-end of the session ; but Sir John
Shelley moved that the question of the formation
of the new street should be deferred until the next
session, which got rid of a great difficulty. in
August the Royal Commissioners reported, pro-
posing works grand, excellent, and much desired,
but there was this difficulty, that they would cost
£1,100,000. It struck him that it would be impos-
sible to get the whole of the embankment from
Westminster to Battersea Park, but be thought
they might get a portion of it from Westnaineter-
bridge to the gas works ; and he asked Mr. Pow-
nall what it would cost if it stopped there, and his
estimate and that of Mr. M'Lean was, that they
might follow the line recommended by the Royal
Commissioners, at an estimated cost of £508,000
net, or £604,000 gross. It seemed to him that they
had got money enough. He would show them how
they got into financial difficulties. The hon. gen-
tleman here went into a variety of accounts as to
the sums to be received under the coal and corn
duties, and at some length exWained that, in con-
sequence of the increased expenditure on the
northern embankment and for the proposed new
street, it would absorb all the money de-
rived from the coal duties, And thus pre-
vent any application of the auto he had intended
to be applied to the formation of a
portion of
the embankment on the southern side of the river.
The cost of the embankment on the north and
south sides and the new street would be £2,800,000,
and as the coal duties would produce but £2,300,000
the whole of the work could not be done. There
was a second plan, which was to reduce the esti-
mates for both the northern embankment and the
new street ; and there was a third alternative, whie

was to increase Lhe coal duties. It would strengthen
his hands if there was a strong public feeling upon
it, and' he could propose it as coming from the
Metropolitan Board of Works ; but he could not
take the initiative, because he thought the poor
paid enough for their coals already. As to extend-
ing the coal duties beyond 25 years, he thought it
most objectionable in principle that a debt should
be incurred now, and that any one should have to
wait more than 25 years for the money. As to the
4d. coal duties, from the time of James the First
they had always been considered the property of the
City of London, with the understanding that they
should be spent cn metropolitan improvements.
After 10 years he had agreed that those duties
should be placed in the hands of the City to go to-
wards the improvement of Holborn-hill. He de-
sired that the Metropolitan Board of Works should
discuss the subject, and would be most happy to
receive the result of their deliberations.

Mr. L'.3 Breton, Mr. Newton, Mr. Dapuly Har-
tison, and Mr. Dermer having offered some observa-
tions as to the necessity of additional funds, they
retired, having thanked the right hon. gentleman
for the courtesy with which they had been received.