The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-15 00:00:00

MROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS•

Yesterday the ordinary weekly meeting of_. lb°
board was held in the Council Chamber, Guild-P"-
—the President (Mr. Thwaites) in the chair.
The total general balance in favour of the bow'
was reported to be 55,496/.

THE INTERCEPTING PLAN OF THE BOARD.
Mr. H. L. TAYLOR said that no direct anoVre'
had been received by the board to the communiefa
Lion which, by their order, had been addressed
the First Comro.i4sioner of Works, inquiring
I
it was probable that the board would receive
decision on the plan of intercepting drainage sl!Au
witted to him on the 22d of December. He would'
therefore, move that Sir B. Hall be again written t°
on this marten
The PRESIDENT said that the motion, if persisted
in, would probably lead to an inconvenient discus"
sion on the main question. •
After some further obseiTations the motion
dropped.

PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
Mr. Deputy HARRISON moved, pursuant to 13;
tice, "That it be referred to the finance coinmitt,e;
to consider and report the measures to be taken 1°
the purpose of raising the sum of 723,0741., tilA.
estimated gross cost of the following works, agree
°
to by this board, and also the titne within 101:101'
the amount should bo repaid, viz., Southwark ice,
provement, 429,4241. ; Coventry-street, 76,84
and Finsbury-park, 216,830/."
Mr. flows seconded the motion, which was pot
and agreed to.
The discussion of the Auperintending architectlS
reports occupied the remainder of the sitting.

The Queen, the Prince Consort, and the Prince °
Royal, drove through West CoWes, on Thursday ever
ing in an open phaeton, returned by the Newport-road'
and recrossed the ferry.
VIST OF THE EMPEROR. OF THE FRENCH TO CovVls;
—Soon after one o'clock on Sunday last, as the Peal
steamer was discharging a number of excursionists froo
London via Southampton, a 14 foot. punt was rowed of
to the causeway, at the Fountain Steam-boat-wharf's
and three gentlemen stepped out and proceeded by t 13,8
archway through the street towards the Parade, ,
which time it was tulderstood to be the Emperor an,
two of hie suite. Neither the Commodore, Vice-Cool
modore, or the Seeretary, happened to be at the club,
house, and Mr. Delin6 Raduffe showed the royal
tors over the oil and then over the • new Squadron'
horse ;
they returned through the town by the WO'
street, stepped into the waterman's boat that brought
them acroe, and were rowed across. • On landing tiV
East
—owes a fly was passing on its return crop
Oiborrie, they bailed the driver to know if he could tape
them across, which be agreed to do, not knowing vil.la
he was about to take, nor how well he was to be 103,1
for the job—on setting down his fare he was presente.
with a gold Napoleon. The boatman was paid in tliee
same way. The Emperor has allowed his name to
entered as patron of tho Royal Yacht Squadron, an ,
has given a cup to be sailed for in 1858.
VISIT OF THE QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS TO OS
th'
BaRNEI—SOUTHAMPTON, Friday. —ller Majesty
Queen of the Netherlands embarked from the docks thlt
day, about half past 1 o'clock, in the Royal steam yObo
Fairy, Captain the ion. Joseph Denman, on a visit t
the Queen at Osborne, for the purpose, we believe, °„',
taking farewell of her Majesty previous to her rotor'
home.
THE STORM AT SPA.—The damage done by the stoo,s
which burst recently over Spa and its neighbourhood
estimated at 427,6001. Spa figures for 88,000 f. T„l'e
for 55,8001., Polleur 126,0001., Barb 25,8001.,
132,000 f, .