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ment, and asked if any one could tell him what
colour the stone of those places was ; to which the
remark was vouchsafed, amid loud laughter, that
the river had not been pure, and it would be when
the embankment was made.
The motion was carried.

The engineer, Mr. BAZALGETTE, in making his
monthly report of the main drainage and Thames
Embankment, stated that the frost and unsettled '
weather of the past month had retarded alt building
operations, but that progress had been made with
the board's works. He stated that the sewage was
now let through the aqueduct over the Metropolitan
Railway, and thus the connexion had been formed
between the eastern and western portions of the
Middle Level Sewer, which was now available to
receive and carry off the whole of the drainage in-
tercepted in its route, conveying it from near the
Kensal-green cemetery to Barking-creek. The length
of the sewer was 12 miles, and its cost about £316,000.
On the western extension se hr ers work had been done
to the amount of £13,638, and only 300 ft. of sewer
remained to complete the work. On the Northern
Low Level Sewer £96,450 represented the work
done up to the present time. On the north side of
the river 81 miles of the Low Level Sewer had been
completed at a cost of about £204,000 ; work to the
value of £13,200 had been executed at the Green-
wich and Deptford sewers, and with respect to the
Crossness outf all works, these were rapidly approach-
ing completion, and their cost at the present time
was £288,500. On the first contract of the Thames
Embankment the single-piled dam hadbeen replaced
by a double cross dam, and excavations had been
made for the steamboat pier at Westminster, a work
which had been somewhat retarded by leakage and
other causes. Upwards of 400 piles had been driven
in the main line of dam, 950 ft. of caissons had been
sunk, and about 40ft. of the lower part of the wall
constructed, about 1,547 ft. of intercepting sewer
constructed, and 160,000 cubic yards of filling-in
material supplied. The value of the work done was
£27,146 ; of materials, £21,966 ; and of plant,
£51,538 ; in all, £100,650. On the second contract,
that between Waterloo-bridge and the Temple, the
stone work had during the month been brought up
to an average level of 13ft. above low water for a
length of 226 ft. The brickwork of the Low Level
Sewer was also completed for the length,"and the
subway above was in course of construction. The
dam on the river was progressing, and 190,000 cubic
yards of material had been filled in behind the line
of wall. The value of the work done was £59,615 ;
of materials, £9,338, and plant, £16,110 ; in all,
£85,063.

It was agreed that the Board should oppose any
application by the Messrs. Hall for a licence to store
gunpowder near the southern outfall works at Erith.

The Charge of Conspiracy to Defraud

Insurance Offices.

Yesterday Mr. John George Barry and Mr. Alfred Barry,
brothers, wharfingers,!at Meriton's wharf, Bermondsey, who
with three of their foremen and clerks, named Thorne,
Arnett, and Sedgwick, stand charged with conspiracy to-
gether to defraud the Royal exchange and other insurance-
offices, were brought before Mr. Alderman Stone at the
Justice-room of the Mansion-house, for further examina_
tion.

To render the proceedings of yesterday intelligible it is
necessary to be remembered that in June last, and again in
November, a fire took place at the wharf of Messrs. Barry,
destroying large quantities of valuable commodities, but
principally jute, seeds, and rice, the fire of November
being of the two much the more disastrous. The defendants
are accused, in effect, of conspiring tegether to misrepresent
and exaggerate the quantities of merchandise burnt on those
occasions, and particularly in November, with the view to
defraud various insurance-offices in which it was insured.