The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-24 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

Yesterday this board held a meeting in the
Council-chamber, Guildhall, for the transaction of
business within its province, Mr. Thwaites, the
chairman, presiding. The cash account contained
in the paper of business stated that the balance in
the hands of the treasurer of the board on the 19th
inst. was 9,2561. lls. 6d., and, deducting 7381.
ss. ld., the amount of cheques drawn but not
presented, the available balance on the general
current account of the board was 8,5181. 6s. sd.
The amount of the deposit account was 40,000 r.,
and the balances on "special accounts," including
the Southwark and Westminster communication,
9001; Covent-garden approach, 9001; and Finsbury-
park, 4761. Se. Gd., were in the aggregate
2,2761. ss. Gd., making the total general balance
now in the hands of the treasurer 50,7941. lltt 11d.
A deputation, introduced by Mr. Alderman
Humphery, from vestrymen and inhabitants of St.
Olave, Southwark, and headed by Mr. T. Walker,
attended and presented a memorial relative to the
proposed new street in Southwark, iu the direction
of Westminster-bridge, for relieving the traffic on
London-bridge and facilitating the communication
between the Bur nigh and the western parts of the
metropolis. The memorialists strongly objected
in the public interest to the commencement
of the street at the Town-hall, Southwark,
as now contemplated, and suggested that it
should start instead from a point net lower thaw
the corner of York-street, by which they contended
the traffic would be much more etfecandly relieved
and accommodated than by the proposed route.
The memorial, on the motion of Mr. Alderman
Humphery, we., referred to the Works Committee,
and the deputation withdrew. Mr. Turner then
brought up the report of the Works and Improve-
ments Committee, touching a suggestion for im-
proving and dedicating to the public the whole or
a me considerable pert of the triangular piece of
vacant ground at the south-east corner of St. Paul's
churchyard. The report stated that the committee
having considered a report of the Special Revenue
Committee on the Finances of the Corporation of
the city of London, together with certain informa-
tion communicated to them verbally by Mr. L. Tay-
lor on the same subject, and being satisfied the com-
mittee were correct inthe opinion expressed by them
in a former report, thit it was not intended by the
corporation to raise their proportion to the cost of
the contemplated improvement by any rate or im-
post within the city, but that the same would be
defrayed entirely out of the property of the corpo-
ration, which property was sufficient to meet the
full amount of such cost, the committee adhered to
the conclusion come to in their former report—viz.,
that they could not recommend the board to con-
tribute any portion of the purchase-money of the
Lind in question. A motion of Mr. Turner for the
ado. tion of the rep,,rt give rise to an animated dis-
cussion, in which Mr. Leal,e, Mr. Deputy Harrison,
Mr. D'ltTanger, Mr. Wright, Mr. Lowman Taylor,
and Mr. Doulton took part, the result being that
an amendment' moved by Mr. Palmer for the ap-
pointment of a committee of the board to con-
fer with the Improvements Committee of the
Corporation on the desirability of preserving
the ground in question as an open site, on the un-
derstanding that the Board would not contribute
more than one-third of the cost, was lost on a di-
vision, and the original motion carried. Mr. More-
' land presented plausand an estimate of the expense
of enlarging and widening the existing traffic ac-
commodation from• Shoreditch and the Eastern
Counties Railway to the western parts of London,
and, of "au extension line to the City, Pent on-
vine, Euston and New roads, thereby connecting
the docks and approaches to the whole of the rail-
way termini north of the Thames by one grand
thoroughfare." They were referred to the Work
and Improvements Committee, and after the trans-
set'on of seine routine business the Board ad-
journed.

THI CUSTOMS FRAUDS IN BELFAST.

A Belfast correspondent of Saunciers's News
Letter writes as follows. The letter is dated Thum
day night :
"There is no longer any doubt entertained thee. John
James Moore, the principal in the large robberies of tea
and the fraud on the Customs in Belfast, has succeeded
in edeetiug his escape to America by the steamer Asia.
He managed matters roost adroitly. On the Thursday,
wbieethe Custom-house officers were searching his bonded
a:ores and loosing the chests, of which some 780 turned
out to be 'dummies,' containing, instead of tea, turf,
br:oks, and straw, he was seen on 'Change, chatting un-
concermdly, and tit owing suepicion off its guard. He
did not leave B.dfast by th Liverpool le..at that evening,
nor did he leave Belfast by the early express train for
Dubdn, but he took a car, drove to Lisburn, where he
entered one of the up-trains to Dubloe and it was
;rem your city that he crease.] the Channel. A
gentleman from S;eekeort met him on board after
toe steamer left Kingst ,we, and there could be
no doubt about the idenacation. Moore was just
in time in Liverpool to proceed by the Asia, and Bates,
the private detective officer, who was formerly con-
nected with the Liverpool police eat-bliehment, saw a
peraen every way a: s wering his description going on
boar! the Asia and pang for a second-class passage
with a 201 note. At tide time a telegraphic ceTatch
respecting Moore wa. iu the hands of toe Liverpool
police, but it now appears it had not been acted upon.
A detective officer was despatehed to Liverpool from
litlatet on Friday night by the Semaphore steamer, but
he arrived ju-t in time to be too late, as the Sema-
phore and Asia passed each other at the Sloyue.
at
Admiraltywarrant.
foreaxpectatioa of
the Im-
mediatelydeliiq uoenn t his
ihs landing
succeeded on thien cigue t7uhgrigahnoeffa,r hearing
ge
tith
nstele-
graphedftaogoraettsd toeaffir Belfast,reeesrt:
olne left
tndß board,ee asteamer,satinined
twwh
eof intercepting the Asia in the North Channel,
on her outward passage. They were disappointed ;
cipurflvenitdi:ga:n notAd m
imr
aol more
steamer which put out from Queenstown to inter-
eau commander mm
Moorea ud ei
now
wtheAais
sc thete)el etucoeseful, r shAfiefsurial,afn-,dr,
s
flwoltendotnohtaystillogp
laugh-
ing at his dupes in some corner of the Great Republic,
ill-
gotten gain. v ginagin.SucHceisedclderlitn,
eatrtbiniszonb,
bail
; stilla and
dn
hadta
ihruerertte apist kthr
teeeacnt
kat:
precaution
ni:odaetn:
usf
southern route. The
and speculating as to tee best way of employing his ill.
alleged particeps crithinis, Henley, is at large, his friends
having promptly come forward to give the necessary
bail. Both are bound, as stated in a previous commu-
nication, to appear at the aaslze3 for trial. I may add
th°e"o°dthiie;
that large quantities of Moore's teas are unpaidfortoa
the London and Liverpool houses ; that he received
'
good deal of cash in town from parties to whom
as
day
paid ;' and that, so plausible was his manner h moi
chests at the long price, representing h
proceed-
ing, he succeeded in taking in someof
houses in town. The extent of the
fraud on the Customstahnetnlost eminent
them
of
is under 5,0001., parties
and on private it will reach
some
THE NICOL ~.ONUlif
is coin
Dundee Cowie). says :---
This monument•
commanding ieted—it stands 50 feet high on
P
ding eminence, about ahundred yards from
Auctergaven. The committee have
the spot where the poet was born, on the farm of Little
Tulliebelton,
shall take place on
Thursday next, and the Lord Provost of Perth hats
consented to preside on the Occasion.
arranged that the inauguration