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METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

Yesterday an, adjourned meeting of the Metropolitan
Board of Works was held in the Council Chamber,
Guildhall ; John Thwaites,-Esq., in the chair.
The members met for the following purposes—first,
"To receive a memorial from the vestry of the parish of
Rotherhithb, Surrey, objecting to certain portions of the
engineer's plan for the sewage interception, &c., south of
the Thames, and also praying that the same might be
modified ; secondly, "To read a letter from Mr. J. J.
Morewood, relative to the great London drainage
scheme ;" and thirdly, "To consider further the report
ot the engineer of the board on the sewage interception
and main drainage of the districts south of the Thames."

After a brief discussion, the memorial of the vestry of
Rotherhithe was unanimously received and adopted.
The CHAIRMAN said that he bad received the follow-
ing letter from Mr. J. J. Morewood :
Sir,— I observe that there are notices given for bring-
ing before the Metropolitan Board of Works the adoption
of plaps for the drainage of the soath side of the Thames,
and that the new plan proposed by Mr. Bazalgette is by
him estimated to cost 831,696/. The consulting engineers
to the late Metropolitan Commission of Sewers have, how-
ever, estimated a less extended scheme of Mr. B aalgette's
at 1,250,0001., whilst the plan tested by all the first engi-
neers of the day can be executed at a cost of 349,877/. I
venture to trouble you %ith a word upon the subject.
When the late Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers
held their first meeting, a letter was read from Mr. Apsley
Pellatt, M.P., in which he :.toted " that he had taken con-
siderable interest" in plans of sewerage, and especially in
that designed by Mr. Morewood, and from questions asked
by him and answered by Lord Palznerston, he was given to
understand " that the largo sum of money granted last ses-
sion would be applicable to that scheme ;" and he suggested
that the " Commission should take into its serious conside-
ration Mr. Morewood's plans and estimates,' espe ially : a
the latter showed a very considerable economy as'compared
with the one before the late Commission."
This plan was accordingly submitted to the late com-
mission of sewers, with the ren3.4rk that a select committee
of the House of Commons had fully approved the scheme
of drainage, although they-could not sanction the financial
arrangement. In compliance with the request made by
the commissioners 2.1 plans and sections were forwarded to
them in 1854.

Subsequently, at a meeting of the chairmen, vice-chair-
men, and members of the variotis public boards of the six
parishes of Southwark, it was resolved,
That, in the opinion of this meeting, it is most'essential
for the borough of Southwark that a plan of sewers upon
the system as set forth by the great London scheme, as ap-
plied to that borough, be carried out without delay.
This is one of the plans which your engineer reports to
be now before your bo..rd.

lam now desirous of establishing the correctness of the
favourable opinion thus expressed respectively by the se-
lect ccminittee of the House of Commons, by the ho. our-
able member for Southwark, and by the various local
boards referred to, and have to bag the favour of your
submitting to the board the propriety of their examining
my plans and hearing my explanations, before e. final deter-
mination be adopted for at once proceeding with the works
necessary for the complete interception of the sewage of
the metropolis.—Yours truly, J. J. MOREWOOD.
To John Thwaites, Esq.,
Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works.

He (the chairman) thought he was bound to bring be-
fore the board whatever was sent to him, no matter
what it might be.

letter was then received.

Mr. LESLIE then Paul he did not wish to second the
amendment of Mr. Howe, moved at the last court. All
he wanted was to bring forward the plan of their chief
engineer, Mr. B ,zaigette, and to adopt it.
The CHAIRMAN wished to call the attention of the
board to a letter from Lord Panmure, as follows :
War Department, Pall-mall, May 19, 1856.
Sir,— In reference to the report of the engineer of the
Metropolitan Board of Works, dated 3d ult., "Oa the
sewage interception and main drainage of the districts
south of the Thames," according to which an extensive
reservoir is to be made within a short distance of the Royal
Arsenal. And that the proposed outlet is not one mile
from the north:east end of the Royal Arsenal, and as the
deposit will be floated up the river to the Arsenal at neap
tides, it is apprehended that the health of the persons em-
ployed in the several departments will be seriously affected,
and that the efficiency of those departments will be de-
stroyed if the scheme be carried out. I aui desired to re-
quest, therefore, that you will submit this subject to the
serious consideration of the Metropolitan Board of Works,
and favour Lord Panmure with their.views as to the ex-
pediency, under the circumstances stated, of adopting this
measure.

I 4 ONDON and NORTH-WESTEP,N,
and Ctl F.STER and HO GYFI E 4.D RAILWAYS.—TOURISTS'
TICKETS.--On and after the 15th iwtant, Tickets available for
THREE WEEKS will be issued from the undermentioned stations
to stations on the Chester end Holyhead Railway, enabling the holder
to vi.lt all paints of interest and the numerous watering plaOs on
tie North Wales coast.

Tickets available for the same places can also b had to the fa.
vourite Lancashire watering places, Lytham or Blakpool.

From.

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 12 1856.

EJST INDIA HOUSE.

A. special general Ciurt of this Company was held
yesten'ay at their house, in Leadenhallsstreet, to confirm
or otherwise the resolution which was passed by the
Court of Proprietors on the 14th inst. .for granting a
pension of 5,0001, a-year out of the revenues of the
Company to the Marquis of Dalhousie, as a mark of
their deep sense of the great ability, integrity, z.-al, and
untired energy displayed by that distinguished noble-
man in all departments of the Government during his
tenure of office as Governor-General of India ; Colonel
Sykes, Chairman of the Court of Directors, in the chair.
The minutes of the last Court having been read,
Tile CHAIRMAN informed the Court that it had been
specially summoned for the purpose of submitting to the
proprietors for their approha.tion,a resolution agreed to
by the Court on the 14th inst, for granting th.the Mar-
quis of Dalhensie a pension of 5,0001. a-year on the
~rounds therein stated, and he now moved that the
Court do confirm that resolution.
Mr. D. R. MANGLES, Deputy-Chairmin; seconded the
motion.
Mr. TWINING was anxious to express his hearty con-
currence in the resolution. Of all the; reiphitions of a
similar character,—and he had known he never
knew of one which had stronger claims on tde Company
than the present. Considering the position of a Gover-
nor-General of India to he one of the most difficult and
important that came within the reach of any appoint-
ment that could be made by the East India CoMpany, it
was a great satisfaction to see it person who had been ap
Pointed to that great undertaking quit his pO4 with the,
-warm approbation ;,-of those who appointed him. No-
body who contemplated and eiaMined the acts of Iserd
Dalhousie could fail to find thatlio hafleft Itsdfa 4 irra.
most advanced state. A new era, as it svertaliadssjitsag
up, and the present Governor-General would finerheS'
path suseo•hed by the acts of his predecessor, and he
hoped that that noble Lord would carry out all thosc
measures which had for their object the happiness and
p -,,Rperity of the people of India.
Mr. LEWIN (IA not think that the rule of Lori Dal-
housie had added to the stability or the general coriteet
of our empire in India. He be'ieved that the native
princes of India were all ready to cembine against the
British rule. It was well known in India that our rule
was opposed by every naive prince. The principle of
the British Government being to grasp all India, and
that principle being known to the inhabitants, it was
most natural that they should be opposed to it. The
r ght hon. baronet (Sir J. Li ej,g) had drawn a compari-
son between this pension to Lord Dalhousie and the
pensions received by the civil servants of India ; but
there exited the greatest possible distinction between
the two descriptions of pension. The civil servant re
ceived only a portion of his salary during his services,
the remainder of which was laid by to forma fund
out of which he should be pail an annuity during
his life, in order that he might not become a charge upon
the annual revenue of India. But this grant of 5 0001. a
year to Lord Dalhou-ie was, in fact, a gratuity. No two
things, therefore, could be more dissimilar. After some
further observation, the hon. gentleman concluded by
moving, as an amendment, the following resolution :--
" That it is premature to vote a sum of money out of
the territorial revenues of India, while we are unassured
that they will yield a surplus capable of providing for it.
Equally so, while we are without the assurance that the
moral sense of the Marquis cf Dalhousie will permit him
to accept a gratuity in the shape of a sum of money drawn
from the pop rest ryots in the world, the ryots of India."
Mr. JONES seconded the amendment.
The atni,ndfnent was then put and negatived, and the
original motion was carried almost unanimously.
The Court then adjourned.

LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM.

THE SOUND DUE...

The following is the protocol of the Danish pro-
position for the redemption of the Sdund Dues, to
which the Governments of Russia., of Sweden, and
of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg have given their
adhesion

"Tne-Government of his Majesty the Emperor of All
the Russias and of his Majesty the King of Sweden and
Norway haring adhered to the propositions male by the
Government of his Majesty the King of Denmark relative
to the redemption by purchase of the Sound and Belt
Dues, the delegates of their said Majesties, as also the
delegate of Dan=ark, in the negotiation of the dues have
agreed to make a declaration by the present protocol of
the different points arrived at by that negotiation.
" Although the Government of his Royal Highness
the Grand Duke of Oldnburg has also adhered to the
said propositions; the aelegate of his Royal Highness in
the negotiation on the dues could not take part in this
acs, being absent from Copenhageo.
" The delegate of his Danish Majesty, in .recapitulat-
ing the propositions which he made in the Conferences
of the 4th of January and the 2d of February of the
present year, states them as follows : •
"Denmark renounces the Sound and Belt Dues in
consideration for a compensation of 35,000,000 of rix-
dollars (rigstnynt) on the following conditions :
" a. Tue pUrelase shall include all the Powers inte-
rested in the commerce and nasigation of the Sound and
of the Belts. That the abolition of the dues may become
obligatory the purchase must be agreed to by all the
Powers represented in the present negotiation, Den-
mark reserving to itself to treat separately with .Powers
not reprvented.
-• "'b., The said sum of 85,000,000 rix.dqlfsesi shall- be
opipi4ereko4 oonmeelsatioo for fines a4ipping p. 4 well.,
as on cargoes:" -Tie difei on shipping to be regiilated
according to flag; the dues on cargoes to be divided by
one half on imported and the other half on exported
merchandise by the Sound or the Belt.'

"The payment of the quota which, according to table
N. 13., presented in the Conference of the 21 of Feb.,
fall to the lot of each Power represented will be as-
sured to Denmark in such manner as will seem to it
satisfactory.
"In toe Conference held on the 4th of Jan. last were
present the delegates of Austria, Belgium, Denmark,
Spain, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Prussia,
Russia, acid of Sweden and Norway.
"At the Conference of the 21 of Feb., in addition to
the above-named delegates, the delegate of his Royal
Highness the Grand 'Jake of 01,1snburg was present.
"The delegate of his Danish 51.tjasty repeats the de-
claration already made by him in the C inference of the
21 of Feb., that, according t ) the precise orders of his
Government, the sum indivatel above is the .miniinuin
of the indemnity which Denmark thinks she has a right.
to ask for the abolition of the dues.

"Conformably to the prineip'esproposel for the divi-
sion of the eventual indemnity the qtr)ta for which the
different Powers represented in the present negotiation
shall c mtribute to the said sum of 35,000,000 rix dol-
lars are :

Rix-dollars.
For Denmark , 1,122,078 3'21 per cent. of 35,003,000
For Austria
„
For Belgium
11
For Spain
For France 1,219 00.1 3'41 ft tf
For Great Britain 10,1 ?6,855 28'93 91 1/
For Norway
For Oldenburg
For Netherlands 1,408.030 402 91 PI
For Prussia 4,440,027 11.69 ft /9
For Russia 9,739,993 27.83 ~ ~
For Swedtn

Total 31,692,776 -
" The remaining sum of 3,307,224 rix dol'ars falls to
the charge of the Powers not represented in the pre-
sent negotiation, inasmuch as it was able to specify those
Powers in table N.B.

"The delegate of Denmark declares, a 4 expressly un-
derstood, that the Governments adhering to the prop°
sitions which he has made shall only be eventually re-
sprmsible for the cootum falling to the charge of each of
them as in the division indicatel aheve.

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"The delegate of his Majesty the Emperor of all the
Russias renews the adhesion of the Imperial Cabinet
already expressed by him in the Conference of the 2d
of February, as well as regard; the principle of redemp-
tion as the mode of division proposed by the Danish Go-
vernment.

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SIR D. HALL AND TED SUNDA? 2.11:094

Last evening a meeting, convened by the churchwar-
dees in compliance with a requisitior, was held in Hall's
Riding-school, Albaeiy-street, for the purpose of eliciting
an expression of public opinion on the recent stoppage
of the Sunday bands. Mr. J. A. Nichelay presided.
The Chairman having briefly opened the proceedings,
Mr. P. GuAIIAM proposed a resolution expressing the
regret of tee meeting at the concession made by the
Prime Minieter to the views of a party, and in opposition
to his 07.11 convictions.
Mr. OVEBTON seconded the resolution, which was fur.
ther supported by Lord Raynham and Mr. D'lffanger.
Sir B. HALL, who was loudly cheered, said thetas the
representative of Marylebone he felt it due to his consti-
tuents to come bet, ele them and state, expressly and fully,
the circumstances under which he hail of d seed the bands
to play on the Sunday afternoon. His first act after ac-
cepting 'office was to see how far he could benefit those
who had 'placed such entire confidence iu him. (Hear )
Having so long represented the great borough of Mary-
lebone, he felt that he could judge of the wants of the
peop e. I r ordering the bands to play on Sundays he
Celt that he W,tB giving a boon to the working men,
and doing g •od to many, while at the same time be did
net °deed his Maker. It the Sunday bands were so bad,
and gave so much offence, why was he not found fault
with in the House of Commons ? (Hear.) No sooner had
he grante.l a band to Victoria and Regent's-park than
he was accused of pursuing an aggressive policy, and it
was fureleer said that had he confined the band to lien-
engt .n-ear lens he would not have been interfered with.
His (Six:Dß. Hal's) reply was, that if the bands were
stopped in the Regent's end V.ctoria-parks there should
be no music in Kensington-gardens. (Cheers.) He
would not say one word, although he knew a great deal,
about how the various petitions were got up. (sear,
hear.) The prayers of some of the memorials called
for the closing the Post-offiee, the park gates, and that
the trains and steam-boats should cease to run.
Not content with this at home, they actually wished
that the s tine policy should be inculcated it all foreign
coo: tries, to which we cent accredited ministers. Mr.
Baines—(hisses)—was a man of great influence, but be-
tore he attempted to interfere with the bands in the Lon-
don parks he ,hould look at home. Why did he not u-e the
mighty engine he bad at his disposal, the Leeds Mercury,
in putting a stop to the numerous trains which pass
thiceigh Leeds? (lear.) It had bees said that the
working men could have bands on the Saturday after.
noon, hut he (S r B. Hall) felt that, were such a proposal
carried it, it would, in many cases, attract the man, with
his wages ie his pocket ; and it might so happen that the
husband w iuld not reach home in time for the ,wife to
eo co market ; lie 'ce, she and her family would suffer
much inconven ence. However, up to the present time
-lie Saturday calf-holiday was not general, and even if
it were it was not the question at issue. Had the people
wieeeeduCted themselves, then indeed some complaint
might have been made. He (Sir B. Hall) had visited the
harks on the 11th inst., and ho never felt more eati.fied
wi h any act of his life than he did on that day. (Hear,
hear.) In order to ascertain beyond all doubt if there
had been any disorder which might have escaped him,
he hi,d a tdressed a letter to Mr. Broughton, the police
magistrate, and he was happy to say that the magistrate
had replied that he had not one charge of disorderly
conduct on the day following the a-sembling of the
258,000 persons in the park. If the strings of Puritan-
ism were pulled too tight, God alone knew what would
be the result. (Cheers.) Ono word of advice he would
give to the people of the metropolis :—lt was to be pa-
tient, and continue the same orderly conduct which had
hitherto marked their proceedings. (Hear, hear.) It
was to be regretted that their opponents were so un-
charitable as to designate those who differed from them
as heathens, but it was a fortunate thing that all good-
ness and Christianity in this country were not contained
in Exeter-hall. (Cheers.) But if the Exeter-hall
agitators would throw open the portals of that
vast building, he (Sir B. Hall) would be ready to
inset any number of hie opponents, and explain and
defend the course he had taken—a course which, after
the expression of public opi ion in St. Paucras, and that
of the vast assemblage before him, he had certainly no
cause to regret. (Cheers.) Toe right hon. baronet re-
sumed hi- seat amidst deafening cheers.

Mr. FARNHAM intimated his desire to move an
amendmet!t, and after many feeble attempts to obtain
hearing, retired amidst hisses and cries of "No Exeter
Hall."

The resolution was put and carried amidst loud ap-
plaue, a few hands only being held up against it.
A resolution appointing a deputatio❑ to wait on the
Prime Minister to urge upon him the propriety of revok-
ing the order for disc-mtiouing the bands, was also
adopted, arid a petition to the Queen having been
agreed to the proceedings terminated.
CiasraL PALACE. —The first grand flower show of
the year will be held on Saturday, and is expected to
comprise as many specimens as that of last year, and to
be more brilliant and effective. There will be a special
display of fruit and tulips, and the fountains will play in
the course of the a'ternoon.

IW ESIAN SETT LEME TS ON THE

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