The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-13 00:00:00

it. The Board has at last had an access of
nelson, and this is due to the admonitions of the
independent press, the manly and straight forward
conduct of the Chief Commissioner of Works, and
the conciliatory and very sensible address of Mr.
THWAITES. We had all but despaired of the
Board of late, our feeling towards it when most
hopeful resembling that of BURNS for auld
Nickie-ben, a celebrity with whom its quarrelsome
members are possibly acquainted, if not on visiting
terms :

"Oh ! wad ye tak a thought and men',
Ye aiblins might, I dinna ken,
Still ha'e a stake."
Now our feeling with regard to it is still more
hopeful.

Sir BE.TJA3IIN HALL, whose conduct through-
out is deserving of the highest praise, being
worthy of his high position as at once a
member of the Government and the tried
representative of a metropolitan constituency,
has, it will be seen, rejected, as we predicted, the
plan for the sewerage submitted to him for his
approval his rejection, to speak more truly,
by the Board. We take no credit for this pre-
diction ; it was impossible he could do otherwise
than reject it, and the Board knew this to be the
case. The Right Hon. Baronet is in the habit
of doing what the Board has not—viz., his duty,
and it was not likely he was now going to break
through the bounds in which he was circum-
3cribed, as the Board knew, by an Act of Parlia-
ment. His duty was, and is, to see that the
sewage is not discharged within a certain distance
of the Metropolitan boundaries. The plan sub-
mitted to himlsproposed an outlet for the sewage
notoriously within those boundaries, as settled by
the Act to which the Board owes its existence.
There was no alternative left him—consequently
he has rejected it—but in such a spirit has this
been done as to nonplus, if not to conciliate, his
hitherto unconscionably stupid detractors.
Burying in oblivion the remembrance of
the ill-usage he has experienced, he, in the
most conciliatory manner, offers to meet a
deputation of the Metropolitan Board in a
friendly and business-like manner, and discuss
with it the various points to be considered in the
construction of a plan which shall be in accord-
ance with the provisions of the Act of Parliament.
Nothing could be more manly and straightforward.
In a like spirit we are happy to state he has
been met by Mr. TIIWAITES, the Chairman of the
Board, to whose admirable speech we beg to draw
the attention of our readers. It will be read with
great interest, as showing, among other things,
what can be done to facilitate the general business
of the Board, instead of the members wasting
time in fighting among themselves. Addressing
himself to the pugnacious majority, he does his
best to smooth his ruffled equanimity and dis-
pose it to listen to reason; and his reward is, by
unanimous consent it is determined that the olive
branch held out by the Chief Commissioner shall
not be contumeliously rejected, but that the
friendly parley he proposes shall take place. So
far well. Let the metropolitan public hope for
the best. The Board has surely had its full swing,
and under all the circumstances may fairly be
expected to listen to reason—at all events on the
great newarage question.
Prior to the reception of the communication
from Sir BEIN.TAMIN HALL, the opening of South-
wark and Waterloo Bridges engaged the attention
of the Board. Of course there was a good deal of
loquacity in dealing with the subject, involving
almost equally, of course, some glibly-spoken non-
sense. No reasonable being the reader would
fancy could take exception to the R3port of the
Committee on the subject, its chief characteristic
being common sense. That, however, was doubt-
less the reason why exception was taken to
the motion founded upon it by a few of the
members. " The bridge (Southwark is referred
to)—came from no place and leads to no place"-_
cries one, a rather remarkable character to give a
bridge. " I cannot easily conceive benefit
accruing to my district from VA opening of
Southwark Bridge," cries a se[sond---"My district
is situate at a consider-;1)1e distance from the
bridge, and I must "prote4 against any proposi-
tion by which its inhabitants would be taxed for
an improvement/ advantageous only to the City
and Sesithwark." The district represented by the
110.nourable member" is Bethnal-green, not
faltnous for its wealth, but it is to be hoped pos-
sessed of sufficient good sense to be ashamed of
I its representative. Why, on such a narrow and
ridiculous ground he might object to nearly all
taxation whatever. The Thames, we suppose,
must be made to disobey the laws of gravitation,
and run by his door in Bethnal-green, before he
would feel justified in contributing to a highway
thrown across it. Did he never hear of bridges
known as county bridges—structures for the
general convenience, and paid for by county taxa-
tion ? Is ho really of opinion that the bridges
across the Thames are mere structures for the
convenience of people in the neighbourhood, and
that it is not of the last importance to the welfare
of tie entire metropolis to have suitable ap-
-preaches fer the traffic of which it is the centre ?
We find it hard to believe such a Solomon is
to b© met with at the present day. An-
other remark, and we are done. flow far the
decision respecting the plan of the new street is
final we know not, but we deem it very desirable
that the street should come nearer the railway
terminus, and out at Tine-street into the York-
road on to the new bridge. A hundred yards of
needless distance is more than enough to lose a
passenger a train, irrespective of increased hin-
drance to traffic arrangements.

THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP OF THE
COMMON PLEAS.

The Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas is at
length settled. The Attorney-General takes the
scat on the bench, with a peerage either immediate
or perspective. The Solicitor-General, of course,
becomes, by this promotion, Attorney-General.
The Solicitor-Generalship has, we believe, been
offered to the Recorder oft Landon, Mr. Stuart
Wortley. If-he dr:clines this offer, which was due
to his professional position and to his House of
Commons standing, Mr. Sergeant Shee will, it is
understood, *be the Solicitor-General. Vacancies
for Aylesbury and for the county of Kilkenny
would dm; be made, but no opposition could suc-
cessfully *be offered to the return of either Sir R.
Bothell. or Mr. Sergeant Shee. For Southampton
it was e 'xpected that Captain Mangles would have
come fi )rward, but he declines. The seat is safe
for a g ood Liberal, and the electors of Southamp-
ton tar e quite alive to secure his return.