The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-10 00:00:00

HONEY AAR_ YET AND CITY NEWS,

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
There is rather more inquiry for discount accom-
modation, but the quotations, although exhibiting
a firmer tendency, have not undergone any change
of importance.
Business in the Liverpool Cotton Market yester-
day continued moderately active, and prices steady.
The sales amounted to about 10,000 bales.
The directors of the North London Railway re-
commend a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. for
the past half year.
A call of £2 per share, amounting to £47,870,
becomes due on Monday on the Shrewsbury and
Hereford Railway new shares.
About £72,000 in gold was sent into the Bank
of England yesterday.
The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon exhi-
bited a slight advance in the rates on Paris and
Vienna.

The Ellora, which leaves on Monday with the
/3embay mail, will; take £2,000 in gold for Alex-
andria, and £53,435 in silver for Bombay.
Since Monday last the imperts of specie have
been about £378,800, and exports £224,500.
The English Stock Market has been very quiet
today but rather more firmness has been apparent,
and Consols are about per cent. better than they
Were at the close of business yesterday, the latest
quotations being 901 fo for money, and 901 I for
the 10th proximo. The New Threes and the Re-
duced are steady at 901 ; Bank Stock has receded
to 2341 ;',lndia Scrip firm at 1001 ; Exchequer Bills,
15s. to 10s. dis. ; ditto June, 3s. dis. to par.
Very little business has been reported in the
Foreign Market, and prices, in some instances, are
flatter. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 79 4 ; ditto,
1858, 694 to 701; ditto £lOO Bonds are steady at
'2a
; Mexican at 228 ; Peruvian, Uribarren, at 90;
and Portuguese at 461.
In the Railway Share Market the operations
have been of a very limited character ; a firmer tone
however has been apparent. Eastern Counties,
North Western, and South Eastern have improved
58., and Great Western 10s. South Western and
London, Chatham and Dover have declined ss.
The Foreign and Colonial lines have continued
inactive. South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian
have receded to 16! 1, Eastern Bengal to 19, and
East Indian advanced to 100.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
remained inactive without any material change in
quotations.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
sank Stock
234 k
:I per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9oi 1
New Cent. Conscas Annuities
India St
3 peock .r Cent. Annuities
Ditto 5 per Cent. ...
Ditto Loan Scrip, .5 per cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864 961 1
onsols
tofor Account, Set. 10
ludia Sck for Account t 5
per Cent .... 1001 it
..
Mar. 2d. p. day June 31 la. ct
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d ll 15 dis 3 dis par
D tto £5OO lO dis par
Ditto Smal

IlezicalFOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES
l er Cent
rebitt? Account
nivian 41 per Cent
Ditto (I.llibarren), 41 per Cent.
PO)ll„gilese 3 per Cent., 1853 -
T Liu) A.ccount
4.1(1811 6 per Cent •
Ditto
Ditto Account
New Loan
,r,
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ccounb
`'ltic £lOO Bonds'
1),,,,_ Dividends on the above payable in London.
Pe'l 2i per Cent., Exc4± per
ravian Dollar Bonds, Ct. Ex. 4s. 83
Consols TWO O'CLOCK.
Money
Ditto Account ..

901 11 90

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25 45
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liars • .. 3 Months. 25 671 25 72/
25 67± 25 75
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TrieZ:• — 14 0 14 10
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South American Doubloons

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25 70
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THE IVEATILER.

EATHER EXPECTED- TILL TO-MORROW OR

NEXT DAY.
North Britain North-westerly wind, moderate; fine.
:east Coast Similar.
South Coast Similar ; cloudy, and fine.
Ireland .. North-west to Northerly, cloudy; fine

811 ARE MARKET.-(TIIIS DAY).

ORDMARY SHARES AND STOCKS.

Closing Business
Share Railways. Paid.; Price. Done
60 ,Belfast and Ballymena , all
13.14 Bir., Wol , and Str. Val.' all 71 84
stock Birk., La., and Ch June lOO 84 85
25 Blyth and Tyne all
10 Bost. Sloaf. andMid.Co all 6 7
stock Bristol and Exeter 100 91 92
stock Caledonian
10 Carmarthen & Cardigan all
60 Cork and Bandon all --
20 Cork, lilrock., ,t Passage all
20 Cornwall .. .
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10 Do B (hauntils b e6e In CT d
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50 Dublin & Belfast Juno all 42 44
25 Dun., Perth, &Ab. Juno all 84 9
stock East Anglian lOO 164 174
stock Eastern Counties lOO 464 474 47 61 74
stock Eastern Union, A stock 100 39 41
steno Do do B do 100 28 29
25 Do Nw A, late EU3ds. 134
stock East Suffolk
stock Edinburgh & Glasgow j 100 87 89 97
stock Edin. Perth, & Dundee 100 274 284
10 Forth & Clyde Junction all
stock Furness i 100
stock Glasg. and S. Western 100 105 108
10 Great Nthn. of Scotland all 132 134
stock Great Northern lOO 1054106* 105
stock Do do A stock
stock Do do B do
stock Gt. S. &W. of Ireland 100 104 106
stock Great Western
stock Do Str Val gua. stock 100 58 62
12 Irish South-eastern. all
stock Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 110 1104
stock London and Blackwall 100 50 92
stock Lon., Bright. & S Coast 100 114 116 115
stock Lond., Chat., and Dover 100 47 60 44
stock Loud. &Nth. Western 100 924 921 1,5,11
stock Loud. & sth. Western lOO 93 05
25 L'derry & Coleraine all
25 L'derry & Enniskillen all 10 11
stock Man. Shef. & Lincoln.. 100 44 144
50 Maryport and Carlisle.. all
124 Do In 4 shares.... all
10 Metropolitan 74 4 3 d
stock Midland
6.4.0. Do new
stock Do Birming. & Derby 100 94 96
50 Nfld. Gt. W. of Ireland all
25 Do 4 shares all
25 Mid Kent all
10 Do, Cray Line . all
100 Newcastle and Carlisle I all
10 Newry & Armagh, def 9 8 6 d
20 Newry, Warnpt. & Ros all
!tock Norfolk ... 100 56 68
lock North British llOO 614 611 614 2
lock Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stoca 100
,took 1),, & stk ; A revs no d.
until 6pchas beenpd.B 100
took Do B stock lOO
took Nth. Eastern—Berwlek 100 1044 1041
25 Dodo, G.N.E. purchase 15 134 4 1 o
took Do Leeds 100 60 604
took Do York ........ lOO 924 03 924 2
took North London
10 Do new 5
P. 16 4 North Staffordshire 174 41 44
10 N. and S. W. Junction j all 104 11
took Not. & Grantham Rail lOO 87 83
10 Feebles all
20 Portsmouth
10 Rhymney ' - all
took Scottish Central
Lock Scot N. E., Aber. stock 100 35 36
Lock Do Scot. Mid. stock lOO 88 90
took Shropshire Union ...
10 Sittingbourne & Sheer. all
lock South Devon ....
25 S.-Durham & Lanc. Un 224
took South Eastern ...• 100 804 81 801 1 1
took South Wales .... •
lock S. York. and River Dun 100 94 96
20 Staines, Wok,. and Wok all 4 7
25 Stockton & Darlington all 39 40
25 Do do l3 94 10 p
25 Do New (1860) 3 54 64 p
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ock Do Pref. No 1 lOO
25 ThamesHavenDk&Rail 22
50 Ulster .. "
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10 Do . :
ock Vale of Neath
10 Victoria Sta. and Pim all 111 12
ocx Waterford & Kilkenny 100
50 Waterford & Limerick all
20 West Cornwall I all 5/ 64
20 West London ; all 14
10 Do Ist class all
20 Do 2d class .. , all
ock WestHartlepool Harbr,
and Rail lOO
ock West Midland—Oxford; 100 43 45
ock Do. Newport 100 41 43
ock Do. Herefordl 100 85 87

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THE SIJN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVNING, AUGUST 10, 'lB6l.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—iThis Day.)

;witness done

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fare.)

WINDING UP OP THE " DISTRICT SAVINGS BANK."

911 i

To-day was appointed for hearing a petition for winding
up the affairs of the "District Savings Bank" on account
of the loss of capital and discontinuance of business.

None of the facts or circumstances were gone into, as Mr.
Roxburgh, who appeared for the petitioner, Mr. Geo. Hy.
Laws, who was a shareholder of 1,000 shares, said
that he was very glad to say that a well-established
company had agreed to take the business at a price
to pay the creditors of the company in full. Ho (Mr.
Roxburgh, therefore, had to ask for an adjournment, to
enable the parties to complete an arrangement which must
be highly desirable, as the creditors would be paid in full.
Mr. Cotterell, for the Company, assented, as did Mr.
Bayley, for a contributory.

Other gentlemen appeared representing parties interested,
and a discussion arose as to the terms on which the order
for adjournment should be made.

Mr. Roxburgh and Mr. Bayley urged that to whatever
day it is adjourned, no fresh petition shall be allowed, or
that the present petition should take precedence.
His Honour said that he had no power to prevent any
party, entitled so to do, presenting a petition if he thought
fit—all he could do would be to adjourn the case generally
till the 10th of October, with leave to apply at any time
previously.

96 51 6
94

The effect of this will be that in the event of another
petition being filed, it may probably frustrate the professed
object of the present adjountment,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
ROBBING A COFFEE-HOUSE KEEPER.—Raffaello Tra-
bucco, residing in Trevor-square, Brompton, artist, was
charged before Mr. Mansfield with stealing a silver watch,
value £5, the property of Thomas Howard, coffee-house
keeper, 51, Haymarket.

Mr. Howard said that on the Bth of July the prisoner
came into his coffee-room about 5 o'clock and asked for a
cup of coffee. He (Mr. Howard) was alone, and took the
prisoner the coffee, before doing so laying his watch and
chain on a marble table. He was called away to attend a
person upstairs, and on his return the watch and chain
were gone. Those produced were his property.
Prison: said he was an Italian, and one of Garibaldi's
officers, and with much vehemence asserted that he had
bought it o!' Mr. Howard for 20s.
Mr. Howard denied this.

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James Edwards, 43, Frith-street, Soho, in the employ of
Messrs. Sitttmonds, pawnbrokers, said he took the watch in
pledge on the 10th of July. He lent 12s. on it, and it was
a very common watch.

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88 39

Butcher, 137 C, said he went to Trevor-square, and after
waiting for an hour met him in the street. Prosecutor told
him the charge, and prisoner said lie could get him his
watch in the morning if he let him go, but not without,
and that a friend of his who had gone to America had taken
the chain. On telling him that b e must take him into
custody he gave him the ticket of the watch. He wished
for a remand, as he believed he had defrauded a German
of £6O.

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Mr. Mansfield remanded the .'prisoner, who is said to be
a lecturer, frequently attending Hyde-park, till Wednes-
day next.

THAMES.

THE FOOTMAN AND THE LADY'S MAID.-Wm. Wood-
land, footman to Sir Edward Ryan, the eminent lawyer and
member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, of
No. 5, Addison-road, Golden-lodge, Kensington, appeared
before Mr. Woolrych on a summons to show cause why he
should not be adjudged the putative father of an illegiti-
mate male child, born on the 10th Jrtly last, and which the
mother, Augusta Moon, of 23, Back Church-lane, White--
chapel, carried in her arms.

Mr. Jox son, from the office of Mr. Charles Young, soli-
citor, appeared for the complainant, a very interesting and
pretty yoang woman, who was maid to Lady Jocelyn.
Last summer her ladyship 1( :t her house in
Hastings to Sir Edward Ryan and family, and
the complainant was left in chargo of it. She formed
an intimacy with Sir Edward's footman, and lis-
tened to the tender arguments of the gallant gay Lothario
in plush, and surrendered herself to her admirer without
applying to the church to sanctify the union. The conse-
quence of this intimacy was the birth of the " little one" in
the classic locality of Back Church-lute, on the 10th of last
July.

Mr. Gomm—l believe the defendant will admit the pater-
nity.

The defendant said he would admit the intercourse be-
tween him and the complainant, but not that he was the
father of the child.

Mr. Gomm—He admitted he was the father of the
little stranger" before me and the officer Taplin,
The defendant then made some further admissions.

Mr. Woolrych—l am not going into a physiological in-
quiry. I adjudge Woodland to be the father of the child,
and to pay 2s. 6d. per week, and 235. costs.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE OP CUTTING AND WOUNDING.
Walter Adolphus Mason, a tall, sallow-faced man with a
large moustache, was brought up •on remand before Mr.
Woolrych, charged with cutting and wounding Walter
Griffiths, who appeared in court with his right hand in a
sash.

It appeared that the prosecutor is the second mate of the
Nedagdude, an English ship with a Russian name, which
sails cn Monday. The prisoner is the second mate of an
American ship. They were lodging at a seaman's board-
ing house in Prince's-square, Ratcliffe Highway, up to
Thursday morning last. At an early hour that morning,
Griffiths was in bed, and the prisoner who was dressed,
suddenly threw himself upon him, took out a knife, and
said " You were out last night very late. You are
fined five shillings." The prosecutor said he would
not pay any fine, and had a right to stop out as late as he
pleased. The prisoner immediately raised his knife and
made a blow at Griffiths's throat. The prosecutor put up
his right hand to ward off the blow, and caught the knife
on his hand, which was severely cut. The knife flew out
of the prisoner's hand and struck the wainscot at the side
of the bed. The prosecutor's hand 'was seriously wounded,
and he was sent to the London Hospital. He lost a good
deal of blood.

The prisoner asked the prosecutor if he was not "sky-
larking" with him ?
Griffiths—No, you were not.
Mr. Woolrych—Where did he take) the knife from?
Griffiths—From his right side.

Mr. Carter, house surgeon of the liondou Hospital, said
the palm of the man's hand vas cut very deeply. He
believed the wound was inflicted in, the way stated by the
prosecutor.

The knife, stained with blood, with which the wound was
inflicted was prgduced. It was found under a carpet in the
lodging -house.

Mr. Woolrych committed the pri sonar for trial for un-
lawfully wounding, and bound over the witnesses to prose
cute.

THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE.

Monday.
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The law must take its
course.

2.1118 DAYS

LONDON, Aug. 10.—Wind this tlay at noon, South-
Westerly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather.
SWANSEA, Aug. 9.—Wind W.—Arrived—Marshal
Pelissier, from Coquimbo ; Au ustirie Schneider, from St.
Jago de Cuba.
TORBAY, Aug. 9.—Wind S,W._Arrived—Flora, from
Poule for Newfoundland.

CoWEs, Aug. O.—Wind W.—_Arrived—Saxonia, screw
stearerE,si AromuNew York.

DOVER Aug 9.—Wind \V.—Arrived—United, from
Iceland ; Nixen, from Newcastle for Port en Basseni, with
loss of two anchors.

PILL, Aug. 9.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Uncle Joe, for
New York.

LIMERICK, Aug. 9.—Wind S.W.--Arrived—Lady of
the Lake, from Miramichi.
FLEETWOOD, Aug. B.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Neptune,
for Quebec.

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BELFAST, Aug. B.—Wind S.W.—Sailed•—Cora Linn,
for St. John's, N.B.
WARRENPOINT, Aug. B.—Wind N. W.—Sailed—Henry
Cort, for Quebec. _

LEITH, Aug. 9.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—:Royalist, for
Quebec.

SHIELDS, Aug. 9.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Henrietta,
from Quebec.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrivfromed,
HAaumg.bulOr.—gßichard, from Miramic ; Metropo-
a

DEAL, Saturday Morning.
; Silvestrain,
froPassedßombay Sam; mem u
Montmorency,i r ,
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from Y York k
H ongkong—all
for London; Lady Combermere, from the northward, for
the westward; Maria, Chase, Nasmith) Atlanta, and
Daniel Jacobi—all from London, for New work; Lydia,
for Mauritius; Sydney Griffiths, for Portland Bay; Ring-
floeardLerisbfoornß; osctiotniz;eMn,enstoor,ew m
for St. Herman Albert, B
orde ax—all
from London; Choice, for Singapore; Balfour, for Bar-
celona; Pomona, for Moulmein —all from Shiefds ; H.M.S.
Himalaya, with nearly all the outward bound, .for the west-
ward ; and the Swedish line-of-battle ship, from Stockholm,
for Sheerness. _ . . _

The bark Queen, at anchor in the Downs, was run into
by the American ship Martha Ward, and sustained sundry
damages.

THE Loss OF THE BALTIC.—The particulars of
the loss of this fine steamship, belonging to Me Bars. T. "Wil-
son, Son, and Co., of Hull, have already been .reported. At
the Police-court yesterday morning Mr. T. H.. Travis, the
stipendiary magistrate, read a letter which he had received
ythis vessel was
'had carefully
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lost. " The default," it says, "of the master in leaving the
ship when in such a position, and under such circum-
stances, in charge of a thoroughly incompete cut person, ap-
peared to them to be so gross that to mark the disapproval
of his conduct they have deemed it right to cancel his cer-
tificate, without naming for the present any time at which
application may be made for its return."

The Fort Pickens correspondent of the New York
World, who writes under date of July 7, is respon-
sible for the following very doubtful statement :
" Through a third party I have been endeavour-
ing for some time to obtain something like the sub.
stance of a report of our blockade, made to the Bri-
tish Admiralty by Admiral Milne, the Commander•.
in-Chief of her Britannic Majesty's naval forces
here. I had learnt three things from undoubted
authority—first, that Lord Paget had instructed the
admiral to detail vessels to look after the cutting off
of egress to the Southern ports; second, that the
admiral had obtained one or two copies of Commo-
dore's Mervin's official orders ; third, that his ad-
miralship was reported in , Havannah to have
laughed at the idea of the United States being
able to cut off maritime communication with the
harbours of revolted States.' It seemed to me that
the reply of the Commander-in-Chief to the First
Lord of the Admiralty would be a document of
great importance to you, and I left no means un-
tried to procure it. Owing to the industry of a
subordinate officer of one of our gunboats, and to
the kindness of one of our most loyal citizens in the
Cuban capital, lam enabled to give you the body
and soul' of Admiral Milne's letter. Leaving out
the ♦erbiage, here is its substance.
" I regret that it is my duty to discuss,
in a
measure, the nature of this so-called blockade.
Representatives of the United States meet me
with two statements, the force of which it
will be for your lordship to decide. lam told by
some that there is no pretension on the part of the
United States of a blockade existing; that the Go-
vernment is merely closing its own ports, to do
which they claim to have a perfect right. In direct
conflict with this are all the official notifications of
United States' officers. Capt. Adams, for instance,
writing on board the Sabine; on May 19, says, in
a letter to General Bragg :
" This (Pensacola) port is now strictly block-
aded, &c.
" Commodore Mervin's announcements—l have
not seen any of them—are said to be similarly
worded, and lam told that the President of the
United States publicly promulgated the blockade
of all the ports south of Baltimore' (which is in the
State of Maryland).

"'A prominent feature of this alleged blockade
is the complete absence of uniformity, order, and
regularity which has characterised it. The distance
of several rendezvous of the naval fleet from Wash-
ington, the difficulty with which communication is
kept up, and the immense extent of the coast line
to be guarded, are represented as the causes which
necessitated the United States Government to leave
the date of blockade and the commencement of it
to the discretion of the commanders of men-of-war.
No date was laid down on which the cessation of
general commercial intercourse was to stop, and
ports situate within a day's sail of each other have
been for weeks blockaded, and not blockaded, at
the same time.

" "rhe confusion arising from this state of
things can be imagined by your lordships. On
the 19th of May, as you will see by the enclosed
circular, the blockade at Pensacola began ; yet, up
to the 30th of that month, vessels freely obtained
admission, some had leave to do so, others were not
even overhauled, and others, still, seemed to
defy the cruisers. One barque ordered off
from the Pensacola entrance, through an un-
known instrumentality, found out that Mobile was
not guarded, and immediately sailed for and arrived
at that place, where her cargo was disposed of.
Five or six brigs, two barques, and some fifteen or
twenty schooners, also warned off by the fleet,
moved to other harbours and easily gained admis-
sion.

" ' A grace of fifteen days was given to vessels
under certain circumstances, which we"e so con-
fusedly explained that no one I have seen thus far
could properly understand them. Three British
ships, laden with cotton, in the harbour of Mobile,
were compelled to pack up and go away to fulfil
this requirement. while under almost similar cir-
cumstances four barques and brigs were permitted
to commence loading at another point, on the
twentieth day after the announcement of the
blockade.

" ' The frequency of vessels escaping the vigil-
ance, or rather the lack of vigilance, of the United
States' squadron are too numerous to be even
named. I sent Capt. Von Donop, of the Jason, to
look after the interests of our shipping, and to the
efficiency of the blockading ships in several ports.
He mentions numerous cases of ships, barques, and
brigs escaping the cruisers. I learn that while a
large American frigate, fully as formidable as the
St. George, apparently, was under steam, off
Charleston, a complete flotilla of small ocean coasters
continued to pass in to the city, and out again,
either regardless of or insensible to the presence of
war ships.
" The numerous facts establishing the pc: feet
inefficiency of the men of war in regard to the
stopping of commercial intercourse with ports
before which they have appeared could be elabo-
rated to a great length. But even now [the Ad-
miral, permit your correspondent to say, is writing
about the 2d of June] St. Marks, an important port,
is not at all cut off from maritime trade, as one of
my fleet saw all sorts of vessels enter and depart
from it, without being impeded. Apalachicola was
thronged with craft until a few days since, and four
other ports are stated to be open to-day.
" A regular steamer communication is constantly
kept up between Savannah, an important harbour
in the State of Georgia, and some other port.' "

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

The ordinary meeting of the board was held yes-
terday at the offices of the board, Spring-gardens;
Mr. Thwaites in the chair.

The CHAIRMAN opened tenders for making sewers
and subways in connexion with the Soutl, wurk and
Westminster communication. The tender of Mr.
Down (L 7,983) was accepted.
Tenders were also opened for constructing sewer
and making up the road along Victoria-park ap-
proach. The tender of Mr. Thomas Pearson, viz.,
£2,481, was accepted, subject to the usual inquiries.
A report was brought up from the sub-architect,
in which he proposes for the accomplishment of the
widening of Great Turnstile, Holborn, that the
whole of the houses on the west side of Great Turn-
stile, and two printing warehouses in Tichborns-
court, should be cleared away. The width of the
new street would be 47ft. Gin. at the north end,
gradually increasing to 50ft. in the centre. He also
stated that on the west side of the new street, and
south end of the Robin Hood public-house, there
would be a piece of building land, with a frontage
of bOft. and an average depth of 36ft., and this he
arranges into plots for five houses, for a set of offices
suitable for solicitors and barristers. He considers
that the cost, together with the expense of forming
carriage and footways, and lamps, will be £28,800,
which sum would include the return which might
be obtained from the sale of vacant building ground
and old materials. He further considers that a
more complete improvement would be effected by
clearing away the five houses and two shops on the
west side of Newman's-row ; by doing which the
width of the new street would be equal along its
whole length.
A motion was made and agreed to that the archi-
tect's report and plans be referred to the Works and
Improvements Committee for report.
The board then adjourned for the holidays.