The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-09 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WoR

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At the usual weekly meeting of the Board, yes-
.erday, after various matters of the usual routine
character had been disposed of, Mr. LESLIE asked
the clerk whether, in the contract by the Board
with Mr. Moron for the construction of the
northern high level sewer at £152,430, the Board
and the Government were bound by the specifica-
tion of the engineer anl the drawings, levels, and
sections in connection therewith, or were concluded
by the estimates for those works signed by Richard
-Roberts and Edward Gotto, and dated Dec., 1858.
Mr. WooLnYcit (the clerk) considered that the
board were bound by the specification, drawings,
&c., which were incorporated in the contract ; but
he was of opinion that the contract imposed no
obligation whatever upon the Government, either
under the 9th section of the 21st and 22d Victoria,
cap. 104, or any other ; and he further thought the
Board were in no way bound by the quantities con-
tained in the estimate dated December, 1858.
Mr. LESLIE then proceeded to point out some
gross errors, as he termed them, in that estimate,
and said that the quantities were, in many in-
stances, greatly exaggerated, and far exceeded the
estimate made by Mr. Bazalgette, the engineer of
the Board. In the course of his observations he
stated that 16 contractors made tenders for the
work, and that 15 of them fixed their figures greatly
beyond the £152,430, at which the contract was
finally concluded with Mr. Moxon ; and he then
intimated, in terms rather stronger than we feel
ourselves at liberty to use, the possibility that the
exaggerated estimate had been furnished to 15 of the
parties, and that what he called the true estimate
had been in some way made known to the 16th
contractor. Upon this assumption he declared that
the document to which he was referring was a fraud
and a swindle upon the ratepayers.
Mr. H. L. Taylor, Mr. Carpmael, and several other
members of the Board expressed their strong con-
demnation of the insinuation thus made against two
highly honourable men, especially in their absence,
and called upon Mr. Leslie to withdraw swords ;
but that gentleman contented himself with denying
that he had said more than that there was a proba-
bility of such .formation having been furnished to
one of the 16 contractors ; and contended that he
was justified in asserting that the "document" was
a swindle upon the ratepayers.
In answer to a question by Mr. Wright,
The ENGINEER said no doubt there were errors
in the document referred to by Mr. Leslie, but it
was not upon the quantities contained in that paper
that the estimate of this board was made as to the
amount on which the contract should be taken, nor
did he think that if those quantitiesshould actually
be executed it would in any degree pecuniarily
affect the ratepayers.
addtrs.sLtEoStLhe boardlE made,butrepeatedhe w
efforts
asa
oftencontinueto callcalled t
hiso
order; and, after again refusing to retract any
words be really had used,
Mr. CARPMAEL .moved a vote of censure upon
that gentleman, which was seconded, and on a divi-
sion carried by a majority oflo,there
being 15 for
it and 5 against it.
m
Mr. Leslie was censured accordingly, the CHAIR.
saa time expressing his very great MAN at the
to discharge that painful duty.
reglirheet at.
boardh having
then
adjourned.

NANA SAllll3.—Accordinc,o• to the latest intelli-
gence received at Gorruckpore, the Nana is encamped at the
foot of the hills, with 3,000 troops at the outside. It is re-
ported that he has now no power, but goes about from place
to place disguised, and is known to very few of the rebels.
He now fears treachery.

COUNTRY MARKETS'.

LIVERPOOL-APRIL 8.

The arrivals from Ireland and coastwise since To
have been light. From foreign ports we have rec
6,334 quarters of wheat (of which 4,777 qrs are Egypt
2,160 qrs of beans, and 7,180 sacks flour. The caper
the same time, comprise 1,641 qrs of wheat, 2,462 qrs.
617 qrs of Indian corn, 1,067 sacks and 539 barrels of
The weather has become very fine and warm for the se
We had only a small attendance of dealers at our in
to-day, and business very limited. Wheat and flour
inquired for, and prices for every other article must be I
nominally as on Tuesday. •

WAKEFIELD—APRIL 8.
Moderate arrivals of grain from the coast and by rail
this week. The wheat trade is dull to-day, and the
ness done was very limited, at previous rates. Be
were steady. Barley also dull of sale, and easier to 1
Oats and other articles steady.
Wheat, per qr. of 8 bushels 601 b., Essex, Suffolk,
Rent, white, old, 47s to 49s ; 'new, 45s to hire
; ditto,
old, 41s to 43s ; new, 39s to 42s ; Lincolnshire and In
shire white, new, 41s to 45s ; red, 38s to 40s.
Averages for the week :
Wheat 5,417 qrs., at 41s 50
603 ..... • 378 4id
Oats, ........ 5 iy 2ss 6d

IiNARESBOROUGH—APRIL 6.
There was an average supply of grain to-day, and al
business at the annexed prices :—White wheat, frost
3d to 6s Od per bushel ; red, 5s Od to 5s 6d ; beans, 56,
to 6s Od ; barley, 23s to 34s Od per qr. ; oats, 22s to 2E4i

RIPON—ApniL 6.
There has been a good supply of grain at market toj
—White wheat, 5s Od to 55 9d per bushel ; r 5 Od
6d ; beans, 4s 9d to 5s Od; barley, 30s Od to 365 ed, 5;
oat*
to 28s Od per qr.

E XET E R.—APRIL 8.
An average attendance. Many of the samples were
better condition, and at an improvement in pries.
Wheat, white. 5s Od to 5s 3d Barley. .. . .... 4s Od to 46
Ditto red .. 4s 6d to 5s Od Oats .. 3s Od to
Flour, fine, 29s to 31s; seconds, 27s to —8 per sack.
CATTLE—The market was fairly supplied with stec
The attendance of farmers good. Pork carcases a sol
supply.
Fat beef,p score,9s6d to 10s6d Ewes, per lb ....6id to
Pork carcases, do7s Od to 88 Od Wethers, 61d to
Lambs, per 1b..... Od to Od Fat calves, do„„old to
Rough fat, 4-id per lb.

BRISTOL SUGAR—Amu, 8. ' )
There has been an improved disposition shown to
chase this week, and prices are about supported. The 00
consist of 16,000 mats of Mauritius, 8,000 bags Pernall,
and 700 tons Bahias, at prices not previously obtaine,
and the market closes firmly. Refiners' produce meeP
t,02
fair demand, and considerable transactions have
place, but there is little improvement in prices. RuDl:
still very dull, and proof Demeraras have been sold at

COAL MARK
(Prices of Coal per Ton at

s. d.
Buddle's West Hartleyls 3
Tanfield. Moor Butes..ll 3
Ward's West Hartley .14 0
Lambert's West Hart-
ley ................ 14
Holywell ........ . ... 13 6
Wylam ......... ..... 14 0

alls End.
Braddyll'sW Hetton ..... 15 6
Acorn. Close .......... 14 6
Eden .............. 14 6
Kepier Grange........ 15 9
Ships at market,

ET—APRIL 8.
the close of the market.)
Walls End.

Riddell 13
Kelloe
West Hetton. . 14
riSoaurtthonHartlepool .1811
Heugh Hall
Gosforth l3
Triindon Hartlepool l6
Hartlepool . li
Framwellgate 14
Nixon's Merthrt 2l
Powell's E Fyn Steam 21
105—Sold, 68.

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LOCAL SHARE MARKETS.

IVERPOOL—APRIL 8.
There was little doing to-day, and the market 01°6
at the lowest. Eastern. Counties, 11/ 15-16—Che5!
and Ifolyheads, 491 501—Caledonians, 811 I—Laneash:
and Yorkshire, 93 I —London and North-Westerns, 94 i
East Lancashire 92 f —Dutch Rhenish, q 4 difas''
Grand Trunk of? Canada, 8 11—Great Western, 561 °4l,
Great Western of Canada, 151 16—Dovers 20 154
—North British, 57 I—York and North Midland, 75 li
Berwicks, 911 1--4 Leeds Northern ' 46 46i—Midlaud, ,d
—Biackburns, 114 Lee
63 631—Shef60
381 1.

MANCHESTER—
There was a quiet business
lower. Leeds, 94 93F—Dovers,
15-16 d—Great Western, 584
Counties, 11 15-16—Shefilelds,
—Peak Forest Canal, 86.

-APRIL 8.

doing, and prices rats
, 21—North Staffordo;
-Midlands, 100--East,!
38f—Blackburn, 114

BIRMINGHAM—APRIL 8. .1
There Was a fair amount of business done to-day in
...,,
to,,
market. Londons, 94 I—Midlands, 101 f--South Stafforo
104- to 11—Crystal Palace, 11 f.

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Lutios--.A..pnu, 8.
The market has been moderately active to-day,
a small amount of business bas been done. Prices are v
Groat Westerns, 584—Midlands, 101 1001---LeedB9 Blvd'v
ford, and lialifa.x, 2 pm—Berivicks, 011-Caledonian, 8
London and North-Westerns, 94I—Bnghtons, 111.
and oil

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labvEurrsEmßisr.l—Hollow Pills and Ointmeni-A.
Youth.--The onward march of time can never be arrest 7,
and youth must be succeeded by mat rer years, but its
bloom and health may be prolonged bynstrict attention,,'
the laws of nature, by regulating the digestion and raw.'
taining the blood in a state of purity. Nothing accete,;
plishes these end with so much certainty and precision
Holloway's preparations which are famed - throughout ''',,-6
whole world for improving the digestion, strengthening t'
i stomach and regulating the liver and kidneys—funed°
essential to good health. In nervous temperaments, will
the stomach is irritable, this ointment, rubbed over tat
voriggoarntneetvheernfearilvsotuos relievesystem ,thaneddigistvreesysinougt
[ArevmerisEmmxr.l—Thorley's Food flinfel.,istoi 1:0;
Cattle
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beginning to seriously attract the attention of the farmer'
breeder, and feeder of stock. Two
.years of uuremittin
• care and attention have enabled its inventor to take high
lintonges
ground as a benefactor to these interests ; and notwithstail°'
ing the many drawbacks the malevolent shafts hurledl
against it and its probable utility, the food, from its admitted
value, will become a necessity to the agricultural interest'
Experience has proved, first, that it effects a considerable,
saving in the consumption of provender ; secondly, that 11'
produces health and vigour in all animals subjected W itj
influence : and lastly, increases 'in a remarkable degree „ ,1111,
early development of fat. Mr. Thorley, originating UP;
singularly efficacious food, aimed at a compound calculated
to supersede, to a certain extent, the tedious and ex ensue
mode then prevailing of fattening stall-fed beasts. Intbl'
he happily succeeded ; and success prompted a very new.'"
desire to improve upon the invention, so as to make it ar
plieable to every description of domestic animal. The Eng:,
„ lish farmer was slow to encourage its use, and manifested al
unwillingness to rely upon its efficacy, fancying he i3ossesse,`;
in the produce of his farm, ample materials whereby to fee°,
and fatten his cattle at a cheaper rate than by the employme!,
or addition of artificial food. The tests to which this food Jo!.
been subjected have proved its perfect admissibility as a cheap
addition to the natural produce of the farm ; inasmuch as. I'l
all cases a subtraction of one-third may
be safely submitted
to in the usual food of animals ;
and that the produce will be
realised, and rendered marketable in two-thirds of the time
usually consumed in developing fat ; it, therefore, become
apparent that a certain saving is effected by a fair applicatioa,
lP
of Thorley's Compounded Food. It is believed that the prese
unprecedented low price of wheat has induced its very gene;
ral use, in preference to any other of the usual articles 0
food ; it is, however, much questioned whether wheat is $
nourishing and proper food for the working horse, certainll
it is not for cows or pigs. Mr. Thorley's Food besides
possessing the advantage of greatly invigorating the health
and increasing the physical power of all animals, is a tonic
and gentle stimulant, and when mixed with their other
food, materially assists their digestive powers—a matter of
great consequence, since it is an undoubted fact that the
nourishment contained in their ordinary food is lost, eons&
quent upon the impaired or defective action of the digestive
organs ; it will also be found to be particularly beneficial
in restoring to good working condition horses which have
been over-worked, or become weak from disease, or are
naturally of a feeble constitution. In cows its effects are
undoubted, indeed almost marvellous, nearly doubling the
yield of milk and butter, whilst it at the same time enriches
the quality of both. In pigs its fattening qualities are still
more remarkable, displaying in a few weeks its manifest
superiority over every other kind of compound or manu-
factured food adopted in the feeding of swine. Such has
been its marked success, that at all our great cattle shows,
,
alty, noblemen, and others who have fed their cattle
onoThorly's Food, have invariably carried off the principal.
prizes, whilst cards of commendation have been awarde_d_
The patronage of Royalty, of our principal nobility, the
clergy? and of our leading agriculturists, must. prove i.,..
great incitement to this gentleman to p3irsueliisconwars:
course; and he may confidently rely, in producing.
high and distinguished patronage.
highly-favoured a compound, on a continuation of such

BIRTHS,
FLT.DBE:—FlOunde,thEesqB.t,hofualt.d,aautgllhalhter.am, Surrey, the wife of
GEARY.—On the 7th inst., at 10, Cadogan-place, the wife
PAR
• of
KFErann.LisoGnetahrey,7tEhsiqu.,sto.,f
aat sHono.unslow,
Cap-
tain C. W. Parker, late 69th Regt.,
SILVERTOP.—On the 7th inst., at 14, South Audley-street,
of a theaon. wife of
the Hon. Mrs. Silvertop, prematurely, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES
HELE—Snum—On the 6th inst., at Ringmore, Devon,
N. Fenwick Hele, Esq., M.R.C.S., to Harriet, the
youngest daughter of Major Shute, Howard House,
Shaldon.
JONES—JONES.—On the 6th inst., Edward A. Jones, Esq.
of 55, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, to Rosa, second
daughter of the late Henry Jones, Esq., of 23, Sackville-
street, Piccadilly.

DEATHS.
BEIOLEY.—On the Btb inst., at 14, Stanhope-street, Park-
place, Regent's-park, Joseph Bewley, Es
the Hudson's Bay Company, aged 74, q., formerly of
BOODLE.—On the Bth inst., John Boodle, Esq., of Heath-
Farm, Watford, and 9, Davies- street, Grosvenor-square,
aged 82.
LITTLER.—On the 6th inst., at Bigadon, S. Devon., Robert
T. Ryan, youngest son of the late Genera Sir J. Hunter
Littler, G.C.8., aged 15.
PINKERTON.—On the 7th inst., at Wray Park, Reigate,
Surrey, Robert Pinkerton, D.D., aged 76.
TEESDALE.—On the 7th inst., at 42, Connaught-terrace,
Hyde-sdaple, k, Laardy Teesdale, widow of Major- Gen. Sir G.
Tee
TE)IPEST.—On the 6th inst., Colonel Tempest, of Tong
Hall, Yorkshire, and Aughton, Lancashire, aged 85.

,ON DON : Printed and Published by MI7RDO YOUNG,
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112.
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county el
Middlesex, Saturday, April 9,1869.