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

THE ME ,TROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

irde ust tal weekly meeting of the Board was held
yesterday at the office in Spring-gardens; the
iairme.o., Mr. J. Thwa.ites, presiding.
ST. TI10:1IAS'S HOSPITAL AND THE PROPOSED SITE

AT STANGATE.
The Engineer (Mr. Bazalgette) reported to the
Board I :hat he had been requested by gentlemen
connect ed with St. Thomas's Hospital to make affi-
davit e ,s to the healthfulness of the site at Stangate,
which the Governors had agreed to purchase of the
Board, subject to the decision of the Court of Chan-
cery. The 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 teen the sewage or the metropolis, instead of
being discharged, as it now is, at low water around
the metropolis, and so mixed only with a small
volume of water, will be discharged during high
water at Barking, which is about 13 miles below
London-bridge, where it will be diluted with a
maximum vuiume 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-

in°, when the land on the shore of the Thames
would form a good site for any public building—
'Lore 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 fan affidavit in accordance wits 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 make 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 10 the

matter.
This p: srt of the subject then dropped.
The Si tlicitor brought to the notice of the Board
that at e previous meeting a resolution was passed
relative to obtaining an act in the ensuing session
of Parl lament that the Board might acquire addi-
tional lands at Stangate for the purposes of the
Southern Embankment of the Thames scheme, and
he ',low needed further instructions, the preliminary
steps fur obtaining such an act having been taken.
It was moved and seconded that steps should be
taken for obtaining the necessary powers.
Mr.-RocHE desired to know why the Board should
go to Parliament at a great expanse in order to have
powers to purchase a piece of land, if that land was
afterwards to be sold for St. Thomas'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-
Pv,a I, and he wanted to know whether the hospital
autilorities would pay the expenses the Board would
go :co in obtaining this act it the land was for them.
2vlr. FREEMAN answered that the site as it
Ste od at SLingate was not perfect, inasmuch as
roi oda Would have to be made, and ;he purchase of
the lands treated of in the proposed bill was neces-
sary to make the site per eet ; and then, it the site
should not be used for the hospital, it could be
sold for other purpose. The Act was not for
Si. To oraas's Hospital, but for the Board.
nr.DERMER asked who would pay the expense.
The gor'ernors of the Hospital had voted £95,000,
arid tb.e answer was in the negative, so i: the board
expi,eted to get any of these expenses it was mis-
take o.

The CHAIR3IAN said the purchasers of the site
wo aid pay ail necessary expenses.
Mr. COLLINSON stated that at a meeting of the
Governors, wri',ch was reported in the Times, the
question was asked if there would be any expenses
required for the site beyond the £95,000, and the
answer wac s in the neg•aive, so it the board expected
to get any ot these expenses it was mistaken.
An an ienduaent was moved that the whole ques•
Lion be 'referred to the Thames Embankment Com-
mittee, but this was negatived by 28 against 7, and
the Ol;_ginal motion was carried.
TLIF. 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
con tribute half towards the expense of forming that
iitr.iet, whatever the expense might be.
Mr. LOWMAN TAYLuR, moved a resolution in
ant 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 rually
would 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 ot what might be asked and what given.
A small piece of land near the Union Bank was set
down in .7 Ale at £17,500, but that sum would no
doubt be greatly reduced, and he had little doubt
that
IV hen the street was made there would be a
lur
proat
in which the board would stand in equal
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being brought to the notice of the Board that
pr
as
g
.tribute aa resolution bound the Board only to con-
a future (3tltated sum, the matter remains over until
to reseinde:si°l:l' as notice is required to be given
np such resolution.
The ciLtimiluE FIRE BRIGADE.
stated that he had received a
communicationfr
the Secretary of State for the
relative to the Fire Brigade ot
tHhoeme
meDtreoppaorlitem.entr°
It was agreed that the
letter should be referred
0 a coutmittee unread,
it was also agreed, On t,
that application should beue_motion of Mr. RocitE,
parishes in the metropoii3 fZatle to each ot the
the
,rreturn showing the
cost for several years of
the amounts paid for 4'r..E-etigine establish-
ments,
tributions to the Fire Escape liutir,:wkrds, the eon-
employed, mi%Yle (it any), the
number of persons
tor other infor-
mation on the same subjeci.
After other business ;;he
Board •L e d

Hoz.*Aman's Tea is choice and strong,
moderate
in price, and wholesome to use. These advaTo.,
secured for this Tea a general preference. It is
pa&ets by 2,280 Agents.
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MURDER IN SCOTLAND.--A-,—Tuesday the bed
3'
found lyingv?"°
of 4 woman named Nancy Stevens or Laffy, the •
of a miner residing near Holytown, was
violenceineheweeT.,
road near Newarthill. Various marks of
discovered; there was a cut, extending to three e
jaw; thein
length, under the chin on the left side of th
under part of the left ear was torn off, and hanging
the facey
100 sel
attached; bruises and scratches on the arms; -
was covered with blood, and the hair dishevelled across
the face, clotted with blood and dirt, thereby rendertn
the features at first scarcely recognisable,and the bay 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 fcr some minor offance,
and in that town she met a man named Doyle, a miner,
whom she knew. They were drinking in several public-
houses during the afternoon, and left to walk home about
6 o'clock. On the way they went to another public-house,
and quarrelled because the deceased refused to stop there all
bight. 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.
i_, (110 was taken into custody. He has a wife and six chil-
uren. Tae deceased leaves a family of 14 children.—Glas-
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