The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-25 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

A, parliamentary return has just been issued
showing the receipts and expenditure of the beard
from March 26, 1860, to March 25, 1861 ; also a
summary of all contracts entered into during that
period, and for the monies owing to and the debts
and liabilities owing by the board on March 25 last.-
The total receipts of the year under the heads or
general and special accounts and sinking fund had`
been £766,243 Bs., which, with the cash balances
on March 26, 1860, of £513,001 ls. 7d., made a
total of £1,279,244 9s. 7d. The total payments for
the year had been £1,099,012 1-Is. 4d.; and the
cash balances on March 25 last were £180,231 18s.
3d., giving the 'same total as on the other side. The
contract sums for the various works were as follows
—The Earl sewer and outlet, £8,56.6 ; Ranelagh
storm-overflow, £23,500 ; Ranelagh sewer, £2,296 ;
portion of southern low-level sewer, £9,150; the
northern outfall sewer. £625,000 ; and the northern,
middle-level sewer, £329,800. Total, £998,312, in-
cluding £57,500 provided for extras beyond the
original contract prices. The amount of money
owing to the board on March 25, 1861, was £176,996
13s. 6d., in addition to which there was a cash
balance in hand of £7,541 19s. 9d., and also the sum
of £31,826 2s. 6d. invested in New Three per Cent.
Annuities for the repayment of mortgage debts.
The assets and liabilities were—Mortgage, loans,
and other special liabilities, £361,763 18s. 6d. ; and
current liabilities, £13,065 2s. 3d. Total, £374,829
3s. 9d. The details of the various contracts are
also set forth in the return.

OSBORNE, Feb. 24.—Her Majesty, accompanied
by her Royal Highness Princess Helena, and attended by
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Dudley de Ros, drove out on
Saturday afternoon. The Duke of Argyll returned to Lon-
don to-day.

The Marquis of Sligo has arrived at Howehin's
Hotel.

The Earl and Countess of Bessllorough have
arrived in town from their seat in Ireland for the season.
The Earl and Countess of Cork have returned

to Grafton-street from Marston House, Somersetshire,

The Earl and Countess of Home are expected at
their residence in Grosvenor-square in a few days from the
Hirsol, Coldstream, Berwick. _

Lord and Lady Colchester entertained at dinner
last evening at their residence in Berkeley-square Viscount
Mahon, Lady Egerton of Tatton and the Hon Miss Eger-
ton, Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Russell, Sir George and Lady
Abercromby, Sir Robert and Lady Dallas and Miss Dallas,
Colonel and Mrs. Adair, Mr. Milbanke, Mrs. Forde, Mr.
Arnold Currie, Mr. Peel, &c.

Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest has taken a resi
dence in Chester-square, for a term of years.

Lady Lockhart has arrived at the Queen's Hotel,
Upper Norwood.
Miss WYNDLIAM.—This well-known actress,
whose case, it will be recollected, came some time since
before the Divorce Court, was on Saturday last married at
Kensington Church to Capt. Henry Baring, son of Henry
Baring, B,q , M,P. for Marlborough.

Mr. Henry John Lincoln is about to deliver at
the Marylebone Institution two lectures on the " Operatic
Overture," from its origin to the present time. The lec-
tures will be illustrated by a selection of overtures in chro-
nological order, performed as duets on two pianos, showing
the progress and development of the Operatic Overture
from Sully to Meyerbeer.

M. BLONDIN.—Since the first appearance of this
wonderful gymnast in this country it is supposed that he
cannot have realised much less than £30,000. His visitors
and admirers may be numbered by hundreds of thousands,
and the desire to witness his marvellous feats remains un-
diminished. We hear that Mr. J. Russell has entered
into an engagement with him for a limited number of per-
formances in the provinces for the enormous sum of
£lO,OOO. His engagement at the Crystal Palace is also
renewed for the approaching season.
CALAMITOUS FIRE AND Loss OF LlFE.—Yes-
terday morning a fire broke out on the premises numbered
43, Weston-street, near the new Leather-market, in Ber-
mondsey, which has caused the death of one person and
serious injuries to another. The house in which the dis-
aster occurred was only three floors high, and was let out
in apartments, chiefly to medical students attending the
Borough Hospitals. At an early hour in the morning a
student named Griffith, who was in the building, perceived
a strong smell of something burning. Feeling satisfied
that the house W 9.8 on fire, he at once gave an alarm. He
then noticed that the back portion of the first floor was in
flames. The Royal Society's escape from Tooley-street
quickly attended, under the command of Mr. Havard, the
inspector of the society, and Conductor Dank fixed the
machine in front of the burning building. Having entered
the room which a Mr. Treavershorne was occupying,
he searched for him and called to him, but, not seeing or
hearing him, he naturally concluded he had made his
escape. Captain Shaw, the superintendent, and Messrs.
Henderson and Swanton, foremen of the brigade, with
powerful bodies of firemen, promptly attended. The flames,
however, could not be extinguished until the whole of the
upper portions of the building were destroyed, including the
furniture and wearing apparel of the various residents. A
Mrs. Lowden, who had been the first to escape with her
children, was foolish enough to venture back to save some
of her property, She was so severely burnt in returning
that it was found necessary to remove her to the hospital.
About two hours after the outbreak, upon one of the fire-
men entering an upper room be discovered to his astonish..
meat the body of a man projecting from under the bedstead
in the room. It was found to be that of Mr. Treavershorne.
Remaining to dress himself, he must have been over-
powered by the heated smoke. In order if possible to avoid
the fire, he had crawled under the bedstead, and in that po •
sition had been suffocated. The body was forthwith re-
moved to await an inquest. Mr. Treavershorne has left a
wife and family, who reside at Brompton. He had merely
lodgings in the house which has been burnt,
slept at night to get to his business in a wholesale house in
the city early in the morning. The origin of the calamity
is unknown. Not one of the sufferers is insured. where he