The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-18 00:00:00

MEIROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

Yesterday afternoon a special meeting of the
Metropolitan Board of Works was held at the office
in Spring-gardens, Sir J. Thwaites in the chair.
The meeting was convened specially to consider the
following notice of motion :—" To receive report
from Works and General Purposes Committee on
the subject of Draught Bill, with reference to the
loans and funds for carrying on the works under
the existing Thames Embankment and Mansion-
house-street Acts, and also the works for the Thames
Embankment Approaches, the Chelsea Embank-
ment, and the Park-lane Improvement, and to en-
able the Board to charge in aid the rates of the me-
tropolis and the general properties of the Board
under thosa Acts." Mr. Pollard, the chief clerk,
read the report, which was as follows :—" Metro-
politan Board of Works. Report of the Works and
General Purposes Committee. Spring-gardens,
Feb. 17,1868. Your committee have, in compliance
with the resolution of the Board of Friday last, re-
considered the subject of the Draught Bill with re-
ference to the loans and funds for carrying on the
works under the existing Thames Embankment and
Mansion-house-street Acts, and the works for the
Thames Embankment Approaches, the Chelsea Em-
bankment, and the Park-lane Improvement, and to
enable the Board to charge in aid of those works
the rates of the metropolis and the general proper-
ties of the Board under those Acts. It will be re-
membered that the bill was referred back to your
committee to consider further the question of the
amount which the Board should be authorised to
borrow, and to make such alterations in the measure
as should prevent any portion of the interest on such
amount becoming a charge on the metropolitan
ratepayers. These two questions have been very
fully discussed by your committee, and they now
beg to submit a copy of the bill altered to meet the
views of the Board with respect to the question of
interest, and they now beg to recommend the same
for approval, subject to any verbal alteration which
may be necessary in the amounts and the previsions
of the bill.—Jo H N THWAITES, JOHN FREEMAN."
After a short discussion the report was adopted by
a majority of 23 to 3, the minority being Messrs.
Healey, Silas Taylor, and Roche. Mr. Freeman
then moved that the chairman should put himself
in communication with the Government with re-
spect to the matter, which was carried, after which
the Board adjourned.

TIIEATRICAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From Wilkes' Spirit of the Times)

The theatres spend a quarter of a million dollars
annually advertising in the press of New York. John
Owens paid annually twenty-three thousand for ad-
vertising " Solon Shingle ;" but his profits were sixty-
three thousand dollars.
Henry Von Gudera has composed a " Base-Ball Qua-
drille " dedicated to the " Tri-Mountain Base-Ball Club
of Boston." It is published by Henry Tolman and Co.
Every show window in Boston is adorned by three
portraits—Governor Andrews, gangalli, and Dickens.
The seats for the first six nights of the "White Fawn"
were sold (in as many hours) for $12,000.
Professor's Blot's Grub Club is growing rapidly-600
members already.

Edwin Booth averages three thousand dollars a week
during his season of thirty weeks, Mr. and Mrs. Barney
Williams one thousand, John Brougham eight hundred,
Miss Maggie Mitchell one thousand five hundred, and
Guillermo Florence and wife five hundred a week.

Grover is giving German opera in Washington. "Oliver
Twist" at Wall's ; Brougham's " Lottery of Life" at the
National ; " The Grand Duchess° of Gerolstein," to follow
Brougham, are the attractions offered to the dissipated
Washingtonians.
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EARL RUSSELL ON 271 E Stag OP
IRELAND.

We were yesterday:enabled to give the chief points of
Earl Russell's pamphlet on the state of Ireland. We now
subjoin a more lengthened notice of the work :

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