The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-11 00:00:00

METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT, &c.,

ACT AMENDMENT BILL.
The committee reassembled yesterday to consider
the different clauses—Mr. F. Peel in the chair.
A long and desultory conversation ensued between
the different counsel as to the form in which the
third clause of the bill should stand affecting
parishes, parts, and places, on which certain debts
and liabilities of the Metropolitan Commissioners
of Sewers stand charged, but it was finally struck
out of the bill.

Mr. Smith, the solicitor to the Metropolitan
Board of Works, was examined as to the manner
in which land was obtained for the purposes of the
board, which was by giving the parties notice of
their intention to take the land under the provisions
of the act, and in the event of any dispute to sub-
mit the question to arbitration. There had been
no complaint made as to the insufficiency of the
notice, or that the board had taken more land than
they required, and sold it again at a profit. If they
obtained more land than they really required, it
was first offered to those from whom it had been
obtained at the price given for it.
Some new clauses were proposed, quite of a legal
and technical character, and the committee ad-
journed.

THAMES EMBANKMENT.
This committee met yesterday—Sir J. Paxton in
the chair. The other members present were Mr.
Tite, Lord-R. Montagu, Mr. Walter, Mr. Beamish,
MrAlderman Cubitt, Lord J. Manners, and Mr.
Roupell.
Mr. Bradfield was examined, and stated that he
had been secretary to the stage coach proprietors
since 1855. With respect to the metropolitan car-
riages and those in provincial towns there was no
difference except as to local arrangements ; in the
provincial towns they did not pay a licence for
driver or conductor. He was of opinion that steam-
boats, stage carriages, and vans all purely metropo-
litan should be placed on an equality of taxation.
The railways paid 5 per cent. on all their Ist and 2d
class passengers, which went into the imperial exche-
quer. Omnibuses paid id. per mile whether full or
empty. Hackney carriages paid is. a-day. All
this taxation went into the Imperial exchequer.
There was no local appropriation, the roads being
maintained by tolls. The amount of money paid
into the Exchequer by the Liverpool cab and om-
nibus proprietors was considerably less, carriage
for carriage and horse for horse, than was paid by
the London proprietors, because in London they
paid under the Post-horse Act. Supposing they
kept 12,000 horses in London and 12,000 in Liver-
pool, the empense in London would be nearly
double that of Liverpool.
Mr. James Edmeston was next examined, and
said he was an architect, and produced certain
plans of his own for the embankment of the Thames
River. He proposed to make a roadway and rail-
way as nearly as possible to the side of the river;
the railway was to be so constructed as to allow
landing places opposite to different wharves.
The road should pass under all the bridges, for
which purpose some alteration would be made at
Blackfriars-bridge, the landing places would be for
the sole use of the occupiers of warehouses. With
respect to the probable cost of his plan it would be
impossible to speak positively unless the bed of tile
river was examined, but he should say that the
cost of the general works, exclusive of the railway,
would be £450,000.

Mr. Sewell Produced another plan by which he
proposed to carry the embankment from Chelsea
to London-bridge, at an estimated cost of £750,000.
Mr. Thwaites gave some further evidence in cor-
rection of what he stated on a former day with
regard . to the license, &c., for stage coaches and
omnibuses in London and large provincial towns.
The committee adjourned shortly before four
o'clock.