The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-07 00:00:00

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Yesterday.

Amsterdam Short. 11 131 11 141
Ditto 3 Months. 11 17f 11 17f
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 45 25 50
Brussels
Hamburgh — 13 7f 13 7f,
Paris Short. 25 15- 25 20
Ditto 3 Months. 23 47 25 52;

Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine
Vienna

25 471- 25 52
1194 120
11 85 11 92

'rieste

11 85 11 92;

Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina

461 461
47 472.
25 70 25 75
25 70 25 75
g 5 70 25 75
25 70 25 75
25 70 25 75
25 70 25 75
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Lisbon 5ll 51i
Oporto 5ll
Foreign gold in bars (standard). £3 17s 9d per oz.

MetropolW n Board of Worko,

The ordinary weekly meeting of the Metropolitan
Board of Works was held yesterday, at their offices,
Spring-gardens ; Mr. John Thwaites in the chair.
The cash statement showed that the balances in the
hands of the treasurer were—on current accounts,
213,4921 Os. 4d. ; on deposit accounts,
.310,800/. ;
and on Government securities, 51,471/. 10s. 10d.
Mr. POLLARD, the clerk to the board, read a
letter to the Poor-law Board, to the effect that it
will be necessary to raise a larger sum for the relief
of the houseless poor than that provided for in the
estimates for the precepts for the current year, and
requesting the board to pass such orders thereon as
might be requisite.
The CHAIRMAN said he had been in communica-
tion with the Poor-law Board on the subject of the
amount that would be required up to the Ist of
May next. At first it was thought that 3,5001.
would be sufficient for the requirements of the
houseless poor, but subsequent experience had
shown them that a much larger sum would be re-
quired in consequence of the buildings it would be
necessary to erect in several of the metropolitan
parishos. They would increase the estimate to
about 7,000/. He had therefore - directed the ac-
countant to distribute that amount in order that no
time should be lost, and he would now ask their
sphooourl-dlawgive.
its
authority for it and issue the necessary certificatc:i
That would be necessary to prevent a question of
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difficulty arising. The act of Parliament
if it
expire in May, and it was a question t
did expire the board could supplem
therefore,
sum by any further precept. They sto increase
but one course to pursue, and that was
i,..td
had, therefore,
smaller
the sum from 3,500/. to 7,000/. The act li. not
when the precept was made,
oard led them
comeand
the intoex
porireantei
co no f
assent to
to believe that 3,500/. would be sufficient. He now
was then put for the: vote of 7,000/.1
proposed
and it was agreed to. The other business was then
theThlaergnelrotsituo:.
that the boathrde
proceeded with, but was not of sufficient public in.•
terest to call for notice.

DEAtThI lOIFAI belß C
. shared
byiN all whos.—lVit enjoyed
h'adeep
regret at will largely
the pleasure of his acquaintance, we have to announcethe
death of Mr. Charles James Collins, who expired on the
last day of the old year, at his residence, 9, Manor-terrace,
Brixton. Mr. C. J. Collins, who has been thus pre-
maturely taken from us at the early age of forty-four,.
had been throughout his life a very industrious and ver-
satile writer, and was just gaining a higher reputation for a
series of clever novels when his rapidly-advancing career
was so suddenly checked. As a sporting writer he was
well known under the signature of "Priam," and the
gaiety of his style and the excellence of his judgment
found constant expression in the various journals
to which he contributed. To the Era he was for
many years a valued contributor. To the stage he
furnished many dramatic pieces, chiefly burlesques,
that gained considerable popularity at the time, and
his later novels of " Sackville Chase" and " The
Man in Chains" gave evidence of higher literary powers
than he had previously manifested. It is to be
feared that the ardour with which he laboured in his pro-
fession had the effect of destroying his health, and that his
incessant devotion to his desk so weakened his constitution
s
that he fell a victim to the exhausting work which 0
,en),
securing for him a prominent place in the rank of
in
novelists.—. Era.