The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-22 00:00:00

SECOND ROUND.

Primo Minister beat Teddy Brigadier beat Msniolana
(1) Lucy Long beat Elsecar
Mountain Chief boat Lord Woman in Blue boat Lord
Lyon Soulis
Blanche beat Glideaway I Golaloo boat Lightfoot
Shy Girl bea6 Sea Saud

THE WATERLOO PLATE.
FIRST ROUND.

Mr. J. Johnston's Fieldbare boat Mr. J. 11. Blundell nd
Hearty Lass
Lord Boctive nd Minias beat Mr. J. Gibson's Ronald
Mr. W. S. Garnett nd Lady Cecil beat Lord Grey de
Wilton's Blue Rock

Mr. W. Barden's Hawk beat Lord Lurgan's Master
Price

Mr. A. Graham nd Constable ran a bye
Mr. J. S. Bland nd Basil drawn
Lord Stair nd Princess Royal beat Mr. W. F. Clark's
Theatre Royal
Mr. C. J.Chesshyre nd Catholic beat Mr. Savage's Life-
boat

Mr. J. Hyslop nd DickTurpia boat Mr.T.Brocklebank's
Batavia

SECOND ROUND:

Fieldfare boat Mimas
Lady Cecil beat Hawk

Princess Royal beat Con-
stable
Dick Turpin beat Catholic

CITY IhIPROVEDIENTS.

Yesterday a meeting of the Common Council was
held at Guildhall for the despatch of business, Mr.
Alderman Finnis acting as chairman. The Remem-
brancer having reported that a bill had been intro-
duced into Parliament for regulating the traffic of
the metropolis, Mr. :Alderman Lawrence, 1%1.P.,
moved that a copy of it be sent to every member of
the Court, and that the bill itself be referred to a
committee, with authority for them to confer
with such other branches of the Corporation as
they might think it concerned. He made that
proposition, he said, because the bill placed
the Commissioners of Sewers entirely under the
jurisdiction of the City Commissioners of
Police, and in that respect deserved the
careful consideration of every member of the Cor-
poration. The motion, with a modification suggested
by Mr. Rudkin, chairman of the Markets Committee,
as to the driving of cattle through the public streets,
was agreed to. Mr. Alderman Lawrence, 111. P., ad-
verted to the report of a committee of the Metropo-
litan Board of Works in July, 18G3, to whom the
bill for making the new street from Blackfriars to
the Mansion-house had been referred, and he asked
the cause of the delay which had taken place in
making the proposed street—whether the works had
yet, in fact, been commenced, and when the street
was likely to be opened for public traffic. Mr. 11.
L. Taylor, a representative of the corporation at the
Metropolitan Board of Works, replied that he had
reason to believe that about 120 houses of the Black-
friars end of the proposed street would be taken
down within the next six weeks or two months. The
Metropolitan Board, however, were not free to act
of their own accord in the matter, being mixed up
with and hampered by the company for carrying a
railway below the level of the embankment. The
low-level sewer, the railway, and the embankment
were being carried on together. The contractors for
the embankment objected to the railway contractors
interrupting their operations, and the embankment
contractors had possession of the ground. The rail-
way company were desirous of proceeding with the
construction of their line. He did not know any-
thing as to their means. His opinion was it would
be years before the works were completed. The
Board of Works were to receive £200,000 in consi-
deration of the railway running under the embank-
ment and the street, but the act of Parliament did not
compel the company to make the railway. It only
gave them power to make it, and that being so the
workmight be hung up for an indefinite time. Mr. C.
Reed gave notice of motion to the effect that it be
referred to the Law and Parliamentary Committee to
consider and report forthwith to the Court as to the
circumstances under which the Corporation was
alleged to have lost its right of renewal over the
property known as the Finsbury Estate, and held
by lease from the Prebend of Finsbury. On the
bringing up, by Mr. Alderman Stone, of a report
from the Police Committee relative to the City
Police infirmary, Mr. Medwin availed himself of
the occasion to complain that the shield and badge
of the City of Landon had been removed from the
uniform of the police by direction of the City Com-
missioner of Police (Colonel Fraser), and without
the consent of the Corporation. Mr. Alderman
Stone objected to statements bein; made against the
Commissioner behind his back. Mr. Deputy Elliott
remarked that there never was a police organisation
in better hands than those of the present Commis-
sioner, and contended that the police was a sort of
army, and that the Common Council had no power
whatever over the uniform of the force. A report
was presented fron► Mr. Haywood, the engineer to
the Commissioners of Sewers, as to the progress of
the Holborn Valley Improvement. It stated that
the principle of the bridge over Farringdon road
having been determined, the work upon the abut-
ment bad been resumed ; that the works west of
Farringdon-street, as far as Shoe-lane, had been
brought up to the pre sent surface level, and that the
excavations of St. Andrew's Church had been com-
menced and had very considerably advanced. A
portion of the excavation of the churchyard had
been completed, and the western abutments of the
Shoe-lane bridge had been begun. The whole of
the property on the southern side of the way from
St. Andrew's churchyard to Bartlett's-buildings had
been removed, preparations for the excavation com-
menced, and the temporary roadways to the places
north of the viaduct were now being formed.
The works between the Farringdon-road and the
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway had been
carried up to the present surface level, and the works
cast of the railway had also been commenced. The
arrangements for carrying a second line of railway
beneath the viaduct were in a forward state, and be-
fore long that part of the work would also be in
hand. The work of filling up Farringdon-road to
the new levels had been begun, with a view to the
construction of the western approach street, the
largest part of the property required for which had
been pulled down already. Generally, the works
were in a state to be executed quickly on the return
of spring. A report of the City Lands Committee
was again brought under consideration, recom-
mending that the picture painted by Mr. Alexander
Melville representing the ceremony of the presenta-
tion of the freedom of the city to his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales be purchased by the Cor-
poration for a sum not exceeding £5,000. The sub-
jest had given rise to a long discussion at a previous