The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-22 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

The usual meeting of this board was held yesterday, at
the offices in Spring gardens. The president, J. Thwaites,
Esq., took the chair at 12 o'clock.

FINANCE.

It appeared from the cash statement that the balances in
the hands of the treasurer were—on current account,
£99,699 15s. 7d. ; on deposit accounts, £10,470 ; and on Go-
vernment securities, £75,151 Os. 7d.
THE PRorosau NEW STREET IN SOUTHWARK.

A report was brought up from the streets committee,
submitting for approval plan of plots of land in the line of
Southwark-street, between Southwark-bridge-road and
Blackfriars-road, and recommending that the committee be
authorised to take the necessary steps for letting the plots
for building purposes. ,
The Board adopted the report.
NEW STREET FROM'BLACHFRIARS-ERTDOE TO THE
MANSION HOUSE.

A report was received from the chief engineer and the
superintending architect, on the line of the new street from
Blackfriars-bridge to the Mansion House, as recommended
in the report of the Royal Commissioners of 1861. The
report was ordered to be printed. It stated that they had
carefully considered the plan submitted to Parliament
last year, and that they were prepared to submit important
improvements that would not materially alter the depo-
sited plans. The plans of the Royal Commissioners
proposed to raise the level of Earl•street 3 feet 41 inches,
but as that was the outlet of Upper Thames-street it would
block up the entrances to the houses opposite the raised part
and would also increase the steepness of the approaches
from the river to Earl-street of several wharves in that
street, which had very heavy and important traffic. Addle-
hill, Bennet's-hill, Peter's-hill, Lambeth-hill, and Old
Fish-street-hill would moreover by that plan have been in-
creased from 1 in 12 to 1 in 7 and 1 in 8 ; and to form even
these steep approaches to the new street it would have been
necessary to purchase a large amount of property in the
vicinity of those streets, which would otherwise have beet,
blocked up by raising the level of the road. The report
recommended the continuation of the new roadway from
Chatham-place, Blackfriars-bridge, across Blackfriars-
bridge, across New Bridge-street, to a junction with Earl-
street, opposite Water-lane. Thence to run parallel with
Earl-street, St. Andrew's-hill, from which point the plan
deposited last year would be adopted. They proposed to
to increase the width of Upper Thames-street from 18 feet
to 35, for a length of 570 feet, between St. Andrew's-hill
I and Bennet's Church, and this would involve the purchase
of very little additional property, and would leave a valu-
able site for buildings, with a frontage on the one side
towards the Upper Thames-street, and on the other side
towards the new street. By that route their steepest gra-
dient would be lin 70. In order to avoid raising the incli-
nation of the cross streets to 1 in 7 or 1 in 8, they proposed
to direct Bennet's-hill, Lambeth-hill, Old Fish-street-hill,
and Bread-street-hill, on the south side of the new roadway,
in the manner shown upon the accompanying plan, and thus
to retain or improve their present rates of inclination at less
cost than would be required for reducing their inclination.
THAMES EMBANKMENT AND ROADWAY BETWEEN WEST-

MINSTER-BRIDGE AND VAUXHALL STATION. The following report was read by the Chief Engineer of
the Board :

" Thames Embankment and Roadway between Westmin-

ater-bridge and Vauxhall Station.

"Mr. Bazalgette presented the following report to the
Board :

"Gentlemen,---I submit herewith, for yourlapproval, a
plan showing the line of embankment and roadway recom-
mended in my report of the 6th inst. between Westminster-
bridge and Vauxhall Railway station. The estimated cost
of the work is £250,000, and the First Commissioner of her
Majesty's Works, &c., has favoured me with a copy of Mr.
Pownal's estimate for the compensation for this improve-
ment, which is £265,000, together requiring an outlay of
£515,000. The main features of the design have also re-
ceived the approval of the First Commissioner, It will give
a direct line of roadway near to the river, between London-
bridge and Vauxhall ; and it will increase the width of the
Thames opposite Milibank Penitentiary from 590 to 720 ft.,
and will thereby allow the tidal waters more freely to Paso
up the river instead of retarding the tidal flow by reducing
the width of the river to 600 feet for a considerable length'
as proposed by the plan of the Royal Commissioners. It will
not necessitate the serious alteration or the reconstruction
of of the Lambeth-bridge, as the line recommended
Royal Commissioners would necessarily do, in order to
..t
carry their roadway over it, and these advanetesegl"
,e. s.
ym 9be
them.
gained at less than half the expenditure prop
" I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
" Your most obedient seTrTvß7Et,
of the engineer
law
ngineer."
~ J. W. BAZAL
After some discussion the report and s
treept and embankment,
were adopted with reference to
the
ordered to be taken to enable
the. Board to apply
and the necessary
steps
Pepsawrleiran3ent duringe
the next session.
After transacting some routine business the board ad-
journed. _„-------
rhe Minister of Public W. orks b as just pronounced
thdjdication
line from Sables d'Olonne to Brea-
-1
sAree au of the
~ with eventual prolongation on Tours, in favour of
Mg. savin, Moustiers, and Co.