The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-16 00:00:00

CITY SEWERS COMMISSION.

Yesterday a meeting of the members of this commission
was held at Guildhall. H. De Jersey, Esq., Deputy, pre.
sided.

THE IMPROVEMENTS IN MANSION-HOUSE-STREET.
In the course of the sitting the question of widening the
above throughfare was again brought under the considera-
tion of the commissioners. It will be remembered that at the
last sitting it was decided that the street should be widened
by throwing into the public way a portion of the land be-
lunging to Messrs. Lubbock and Co., the bankers, and for
which £17,500 was asked, provided the Metropolitan Board
would contribute one half of the cost.
Mr. H. Lowmax TAYLOR, one of the City represen-
tatives at the Metropolitan Board, said he had intro-
duced the subject at the last meeting of the Board, but an
objection was raised that the proposal of the Court of
Sewers could not be considered until the resolution of the
Board granting £2,600 towards the cost of carrying out the
improvement had been rescinded. With this view a notice
of motion had been given for Friday next, and he now asked
for more information in regard to this matter, and also that
he might be furnished with a plan showing the line of
improvement adopted by the Court.

A long conversation took place relative to this subject, in
the course of which it was suggested that the setting back
of the property from the church of St. Mildred, Poultry, to
the Britannia Insurance Offices in Mansion-house-street,
close to Princess-street, would be necessary for the increased
traffic that would be brought to the spot by the proposed
new street to be carried out by the Metropolitan Board
from Blackfriars-bridge to the Mansion-house.
Various suggestions for carrying out the improvement
were made, and ultimately Mr. BURNELL moved, "That it
is of importance to the public that the line of improvement
in Mansion-house-street as shown on the plan, including the
church of St. Mildred, Poultry, westward, and from the
Britannia Insurance Offices eastward, be adopted, provided
the Metropolitan Board of Works will contribute one half of
the whole cost of the improvement."

Deputy FARRAR spoke strongly against the motion, and
urged the Commission not to bind themselves in the way
proposed. He said that to effect such an improvement as
that now contemplated an enormous sum would have to be
expended out of the rates, and he felt that the Commission
was not justified at that moment in pledging themselves to
any such expenditure.

Mr. H. L. TAYLOR and other members urged on the other
hand that this was a great public improvement, and one
which it was desirable should be carried out as soon as pos-
sible.

The motion was ultimately carried by 7 to 5.
Deputy FARRAR gave notice to rescind the resolution just
come to.

LIGHTING THE PUBLIC LAMPS.

The Commissioners received proposals for lighting the
public lamps with gas, for the term of one year from
the Ist February next. A specification under which the
tenders were to be sent in had been prepared by the en-
gineer, but the gas companies declined to tender under it,
consenting only to be bound by the terms of the Metropolis
Gas Act of 1860. The tenders which were opened were from
the City, the Chartered, and the Great Central Gas Com-
panies ; but those of the two latter companies were accepted
—the Chartered Company to supply the Northern, and the
Great Central the Southern divisions of the City. The for-
mer company's tender was for burners consuming 3 feet of
gas per hour, £2 18s 6d per lamp per annum, and for 5 feet
of gas, £4 14s 6d per lamp per annum, an adaitional sum of
15s per lamp per annum being charged for cleaning, repair-
ing, lighting, and extinguishing the lamps during the year.
The Great Central Company agreed to supply the lamps
consuming 3 feet of gas per hour, the earburetting process
being applied to the whole of the lamps in their district, at
£2 17s 6d per lamp per annum ; 5 feet do., £4 13s 6d per
lamp per annum, with an additional charge of 15s per lamp
for cleaning, &c.