The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-14 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

The proeTarnme of business for the next meeting to-
morrow (Friday) is as follows :
To receive and consider report from the committee on
the salaries and duties of officers. As to the security to
be given by the Bank of London. As to the appoint
meat of officers in the departments of the engineer and
superintending architect. As to the appointment of
solicitor to the board. To consider the report of the
committee on the salaries and duties of officers presented
to the board on the Bth in:tanst, the consideration
whereof was adjourned. To receive the report of the
superintending architect as to the appointment of dis-
trict surveyors fur certain districts . within the limits of
the metropolis. To consider the following motions, of
which notices were respectively given at the meeting of
the Ist and Bth instant :—By Mr. Deputy Harrison—
" That concise minutes of the proceedings of the board
be printed for the information of members." By INlaj
Lyon—" To consider the question of consulting engi-
neers to this board, with a view to an early appointment
of the same." By Mr. Bristow—" That a concise state-
ment of the several works in progress under thn late
Commistionere, and now being carried on under the
sanction of this board, be prepared by the clerk and
engineer, arid printed and circulated among the mem-
bers of the board two days at least before the first meet-
ing of the board in March ; and that the plans, &c.,
connected therewith be also in readiness for the inspec-
tion of the board at that meeting." By Mr. Nicholay
—"That all reports of committees be printed and cir-
culated among the members of the hoard three clear
days at least previous to being brought up for con-
sideration, unless specially ordered otherwise in the
reference to the committee." By Mr. Coilinson—
" That taking into consideration the greatly increased
and daily increasing amount of traffic over London-
bridge, and in Wellington-street and High street,
Southwark, and also considering that there is a suinako!
80,0001. arising from the coal duties set apart fo
ing improvements in Southwark, it is most desirabr ni
ldethat
immediate and active measures be taken to provide fur
snaking a new line of street from some part of the High.
street, Southwark, towards the western part of the dis-
trict." By Mr. Wright "flteleant and ground in Greek-
street hers." By Mr.
committee of works
be appointed, consisting of pi
Davis :—'r That a plan of offices an
street be prepared, showing the height, area, and mode
of ventilation, and how supplied to the various offices."
To receive applications and communications, and for
general purposes-

ship Neptune's Favourite, Captain Lane, from
THE BARK MORO CASTLE.--BOSTON, JAN. 30, 1856.
The
Liverpool, arrived at this port today, reports that on
the 9th lost., in lat. 30 25, ion. 30, she fell in with the
British bark Moro Castle, Capt. Mound, from St. John,
N. 8., for Greeno2k, waterlogged and disreasted. Capt.
Lane, took off eight of the crew ; the remainder, con-
sisting of five of the crew, the captain, and one pas-
senger, were taken on board the ship Alfred Storer,
Capt. Carney, from New Orleans, bound for Liverpool.
The Moro Castle was digma,ted in a gale on the sth inst.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAlL-
WAY.—Yesterday morning a young man, named James
Arnold, an engineer, died in the London Hospital from
the effects of injuries received on the Eastern Counties
Railway. It appears that the deceased was engaged upon
an engine at the Stratford station, while the engine was
being supplied with fuel, when the machinery was sud-
denly put in motion, and before the deceased could get
out of the way his right foot became entangled in the
works. He was extricated, but the foot was so muti-
lated that it became necessary to amputate the limb,
which iaiortifie,), and caused death. The deceased has
left af+ 7. •

In order that we may not be accused even now of ad.
vancing charges without proper evidence in support we'
will take a few statements at random from the evidence.
Colonel Darby Griffith, of the Scots Greys, was examined
by the Commissioners. • This officer states that immedi-
ately after the 14th of November he mentioned to Lord
Lucan that his horses were beginning to suffer from the
inclemency of the weather ; but we had better give the
gallant Colonel's own words. He told Lord Lucan "that
he was afraid he should lose a great many horses if some-
thing was not done to protect them, and that if he could
hold out any encouragement to his men to the effect that
they were to remain for any length of time in the camp,
which they then occupied,' he- could get them to erect'
some covering to save them, when his Lordship
threatened to place him under arrest for presuming to
suggest such a thing." The Earl of Lucan, it appears,
like Prince Talleyrand, " objected to zeal." Colonel
Griffith, as though any voucher were wanted for his bare
word, adds that the conversation occurred in the pre-
sence of Colonel Hodge, of Lord 'William Paulet, and
others. It is his firm opinion that if his suggestion had
been acted on he should have saved many of the horses
which were lost. He attributes the mortality among
Hs horses to starvation, hard work, and exposure. At
last Colonel Griffith succeeded in getting the remains of
his rec'dment under sheds, "the first of them about the
3d of January—having employed, at his own expense,
five French soldiers to erect them—and had theirs com-
pleted about the middle of January." So what would
have been required to preserve the horses of the Scots
Greys was au amount of shelter which was ultimately
provided by the exertions of five men ; but against
such a step Lord Lucan determinedly set his face.
It appears that poor Colonel Griffith, being very hardly
pressed to get up his sheds in time, in the early part of
January applied to General Scsrlett to procure for him
the assistance of some ships' carpenters, as there were
no carpenters in the regiment. This request for the
arsi,tance of men, of whom may hundreds were idle in
the ships within sight, was, of course, refused, not by
General Scarlet% who made the application, but by the
Quartermaster-General, Sir Richard Airey !
We turn over a few leaves of the Report, and come to
the evidence of the Daputy•Assistalit Commissary-Gene-
ral, Alexander Crookshank. Would any of our readers
wish to know the end of the Light 'Cavalry Bi igade—
the remains of the heroic frenzy of B ilak lava ? litre it
is :—" After twenty days of short rations, the boracs
being at the same time exposid to very inclement wea-
ther, on unfavourable ground, the couuition of the troop-
horses was deplorable. When the brigade moved down
on the 24 of December, it was necessary to have the
horses led, as they were too weak to carry their riders,
and, notwithstanding, many pf them (34) on the way
from exhaustion, arid a considerable number were
left on the ground, unable to Move, with men to
attend to them. The cause of this groat deficiency
in forage for the brigade was the want of
transport to carry it to the front. Behoves theta
never was any (want of barley at Balaklava, arid
that the horses might, thereb. re, have had their full
rations of grain if there had been any means of carrying
it to the camp I At least the horses might have been
led to the bar.ey, if the barley could not be carried to
the horses. Thu, Vier() was all end of the Light Brigade.
The blame of its wanton destruction rests partly among
tour officers on the day of the futile charge of Ba;aklava,
and, next, upon those officers who starved the horses
which returned from that bloody fray. What was Lord
Cardigan's share in this latter transaction ?

PRESENTATION OF PURLIC PETITIONS

The following are the rales of the House of Commons
respecting the form and presentation of public peti-
tions :

Every member presenting a petition ti the house
west of hi mune at the beginning thereof.
Every petition inu,A be mitten and not printed or
lithographed.

Every pailinn must contain a prayer.
Every petition Inuit be sivied by at leant one person
on the ekin or sheet on which the petition is written.
Every petition must be written in the En-g1i.,11 lan-
guage, or be accompanied by a translation certified by
the member who shall present it.

Every petition must he signed by the parties whose
names are appended thereto by their names or marks,
and by no one else except in case of incapacity by aim-
ness.

No lettcrg, affidavit 9, or other documents, may be at-
tached to any petition.
No reference may be made to any debate in Parlia-
ment.

No application may be made for any grant of public
nalney, except with tho corp,ent of the Crown.

All petitions, after they have been ordered to lie upon
the table, are referred to the Girninittee on Public Peti-
tions, without any question being put ; but if any such
petition relate to any matter or subject with respect
to which the member presenting, it has given notice
of a motion, and the said petition has not been ordered
to be printed by the committee, such member may, after
notice given, move that such petition be printed with
the votes.