The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-29 00:00:00

CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

Mr. R. L. JONES brought up the report on the sub-
ject of the completion of the line of street from Far-
ringdon New-street to Clerkenwell-green. It stated,
that unless some arrangements were made for pro-
viding funds for carrying out this purpose during the
present year, the time must necessarily be delayed,
probably for years ; that the committee did not feel
themselves justified in recommending the Court to
comply with the application for carrying on an im-
provement beyond the limits of the City ; but, inas-
much as the measure itself had received the sanc-
tion of Parliament, who granted the sum of 25,0001.
towards effecting the same, they were of opinion it
was a fit subject to be brought under the notice and
consideration of the Commissioners for Metropolitan
Improvements, to whom it appeared to them legiti-
mately to belong, and they recommended the peti-
tioners to apply to them accordingly.
Mr. ANDERTON thought that, as the City of Lon-
don was suffering from the non-completion of so
necessary a work, the Court ought themselves to
apply to the Commissioners of Metropolitan Im-
provements, and to all others by whose influence
metropolitan improvements could be advanced.
Mr. BURN moved an instruction to the Committee
to make application to the effect suggested by Mr.
Anderton and approved by Mr. R. L. Jones.
Unanimously adopted.
MONUMENT TO SHAKSPERE.
Sir P. LAURIE stated that he did not at present
intend to press his motion for a grant of money in
aid of a fund for the erection of a monument to
Shakspere. He had received many communications
highly approving of the proposition, but he thought
it advisable to postpone his motion until the return
to town of many on whose support and influence he
relied. There was another reason which weighed
strongly with him, which was, that the committee
for purchasing what was called Shakspere's house
at Stratford, had appealed to the public, and he was
unwilling to interfere in any way with that body, or
to divert into any other channel those funds to
which they looked for re-imbursement.—(Hear.) .
Adjourned.

WATCH Alen CLOCKMAKERSI PENSION SOCIETY.—
The friends of this excellent society had their annual
dinner on Monday, at the White Conduit House Tavern,
which was served in Mr. Rouse's usual superior style.
Mr. Sheriff Kennard was in the chair. It appeared
from the report read by the secretary, that this society
has the merit of being the first to establish an asylum of
benevolence, by which the condition of the decayed and
necessitous workmen and their widows is brought under
the notice of their happier and more successful bre-
thren—an example which has been sin
Lce
ondon. followed by
almost every other branch of industry in Since
its establishment, in 1817, it has disbursed upwards of
6,5501., in rescuing 129 persons from the worst evils of
poverty, and has now 26 male and 13 female pensioners.
grateful recipients of its bounty. After the usual loyal
toasts had been given and acknowledged with enthusiasm,
the chairman proposed, "Prosperity to the Watch and
Clockmakers' Pension Society,' &c. The evening was
enlivened by the excellent singing of Messrs. Robinson,
Shoebridge, and F. Smith. A list of subscriptions,
headed by a handsome donation from the chairman, was
read, and the festivities of the evening terminated with
a ball, which was very numerously attended, and most
ably conducted by Mr. Croft, one of the gentlemen of the
committee.
FIRE IN CLERKENWELL.—Last night, about nine
o'clock, Peter's-lane, Cow-cross, Clerkenwell, was the
scene of a fire, which broke out in the premises of Mr.
Roe, a furniture broker, situate in the middle of the
above-named thoroughfare. Owing to the highly com-
bustible character of the stock in trade the fire travelled
with more than usual rapidity, so that before the in
mates in the upper part of the house became aware of
the outbreak the shop and all it contained were in a
general blaze. Fortunately, the whole of the parties
succeeded in effecting a retreat without receiving any
personal injury. In a very brief period the parish and
London brigade engines attended; and, there being an
abundant supply of water, the flames were extinguished,
but not until the lower portion of the premises was
burned out, and the stock therein consumed.
THE POOR IN ST. PeNcaes.—Yesterday at a very
numerously attended meeting of the directors of the
poor of St. Pancras, held in the new board- room, ad
joining the workhouse, King's-road—Mr. Churchwarden
Howarth in the chair—Mr. M'Gahey, the clerk, brought
up and read the report of a committee appointed to in-
quire into the present system of administration of out
door relief, and whether a better method could be in-
troduced to prevent imposition, and insure effectual relief
to the deserving and destitute poor. The report stated
that the committee were of opinion that no reason hay'
been shown to alter the instructions under which the
relieving officers administered out-door relief, and no
reason to alter the system adopted by the board ii'
granting out-door relief, but, that it would be advisable
to have an additional agent appointed, in order that
more effectual inquiries into the circumstances of the
various applicants might be made. Mr. Douglas moved
the adoption of the report, which, having been seconded,
was adopted. After some other business the board
separated.
ANSLAUGHTER.—The subject of careless driving
by cabmen and others has often been the object of
rthheon, wasafte
rkilled
a lengthened
by
ani-
madversion in the Liverpool papers. On Monday an
inquestwabsy a springheld on the body of a child named Anne
Owens, of Burlington-street,
cart—when, w
u n
-s
bing
run over
and careful investigation of the case, the jury returned
a verdict of Manslaughter" against the driver, Tho-
mas llaye, who was committed for trial on the Coroner's
warrant.
HEALTH or TowNs.—Last night a respectably
attended meeting
.was held in the large room of the
Talbot Inn, Mortimer-road. Kingsland, on the sanitary
condition of the district. The principal object of the
meeting was to take steps for the removal of a nuisance
in the Tottenham-road, arising from the accumulation
of filth and noxious matter on the De Beauvoir property
respecting the abatement of which there were some legal
difficulties, owing to its being partially a private and par-
tially a public property. Mr. Baker, the coroner, had exa-
mined it, and given a certificate of its unwholesome and
detrimental character. Benjamin Bingley, Esq., was
called to the chair, and after commenting on the im-
portant nature of the matter, called on the secretary,
Mr. Hawkins, to read a communication from Lord Mor-
peth on the subject, which was to the effect, " that he
himself had no power to interfere directly in the matter,
and the board of guardians ought to be consulted with a
view to its immediate removal." A resolution was una-
nimously carried for that purpose. Thanks were then
voted to the chairman, and the meeting separated.
FINE ARTS AT THE LONDON MECHANICs' INST'

TUTION.—An exhibition of drawings and modelling
executed by the members and students of the modelling,
human figure, and landscape drawing classes of the
London Mechanics' Institution, will take place on Mon-
day, September 27th, and remain open the whole of the
week, to commence at 8 o'clock, P.M., and close at I past
10, P.M. We are asked to mention this as a contradic-
tion to " those who think that the mechanics of London
have no brains to generate new forms either of beauty
or usefulness, and are unable to assist those who are
above them in art."—The Builder.
The Senatus Academicus of the University and
King's College, Aberdeen, conferred the honorary de-
gree of LL.D. on the Rev. George Tulloch, of the Belle
Vue Academy, an Alumnus and Master of Arts of the
University.—Aberdeen Journal,