The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-09 00:00:00

No. 16,297. LONDON, SATURDAY) EVENING NOVEMBER 9, 1844.

PRICE sd.

COURSE OF EXCHAI
Amsterdam CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight l2 4
Rotterdam 2U. 12 6i
Antwerp 25 95
Hamburgh M.B. 13 13
Altona l3 13
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65
Ditto, 3 months 25 90
Marseilles 25 95
Bourdeaux 25 95
Frankfort on Maine l2l
Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin 7
Vienna, effec. 11.3 M 9 5533
Trieste, rieste, ditto
Madrid 36i
Cadiz
Bilbao 36
Barcelona 36
Seville ...

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depths .
Mr. GUNTER asked if the ID(
the Holborn and Finsbury division was 1.
pursued by that Court ?
The CHAIRMAN—No ; they contracted by the job.
Mr. LE BRETON—Which was the better way?
Mr. LESLIE then proposed a resolution, to the ef-
fect that, owing to the vague and imperfect manner
in which the bills of particulars had been Mee,
they containing many items not likely to be required,
that Court determined to receive fresh sontracts for
their works in the Ranelagh and
BCEoEucnifte,rasn-cdreesek.
district.
Mr. GUNTER seconded the r6.7lution.
An amendment was moved by Ail.
tender be
conded, that Messrs. Hazlitt and Bonnie,
accepted.
A lengthened discussion arose upon the quesilen,
Mr. Leslie explaining, at considerable length, the
different modes in which contracts were made by the
different Commissions. He adverted WI the facts,
that the lowest candidates on that day had reduced
their tender to an amount of some 2601. from that
which they had put in a fortnight before; that there
were only three candidates in all, arising, he had
no doubt, from the discouragement of public compe-
tition by the system pursued in that Court. He had
the Bow-street sewer to have
found that, suppo;!ng
to ale Holborn and Finsbury con.-
tract,
ng alone would be about
been built according
tract, that the saving in digii
3501. That was surely enough to make them pause
ere they proceeded further in the matter. Perhaps a
clause in that Commission's Act of Parliament could
satisfactorPy explain the better management of affairs
there. It was enacted, under a penalty of 1001., that
no person interested in the question at issue should
sit in that Court. The Hon. Commissioner then gave
the relative depths of works done at the rate of '
18s. 6d. per foot run in the Holborn and Finsbury
divktion, and argued therefrom that contracts should
be taken by "the job," as more likely to encourage
competition.
The CHAIRMAN said there was no parallel to be
drawn between the works done in Bow-street and the
line to which Mr. Leslie had alluded. The average
depth of the Holborn and Finsbury works was sixteen
feet, while in Bow-street the average depth. was
twenty-four feet, and that, too, through ground of the
most difficult character—a running sand. Mr. Ben-
nett had been a great loser by the Holborn works,
and the fact was apparent, for the second tender was
greatly higher. It would have been impossible for
him to continue the works at those prices. But he
(the Chairman) maintained that no public body was
justified in getting their works done out of the pockets
of the contractors. There was another fact in the
system pursued by the Holborn and Finsbury district
which materially reduced the expenses of the con-
tractor. If he were to use old bricks, and he was
allowed to do so, they would charged only 20s. a
thousand, and, in the great quantity'of bricks used, this
made a most essential difference to him--
Mr. BEECH—Of course, when new brias would
be charged 365.
The CHAIRMAN—Then, again, he was allowed to
use the pit sand instead of sharp river sand, and this
also made an important difference. He (the Chair-
man) knew an eminent builder, and he had said t•
him that he had some few years ago been allowed to
use pit sand in one of his buildings, and the mortar
was at that time actually rotten ; and so dissatisfied
was he with the result, that he stated he would rather
given in that day by Messrs.
haiT lost in the first instance 1,0001. out of his own
pocket than used ii. The Chairman was of opinion
that the eandteßnodnenrin
was a
mocierztte one, and should be
accepted.
The amendment and the original motion were then
put, when the former was carried by a majority-of sir.
Messrs. Hazlitt and Bonnin were then called in,
and informed that their tender was accepted ; but
these gentlemen begged to withdraw if the whole
works in the district could not be guaranteed them.
Their resignation was received, when--
Mr. LESLIE again urged that further competition
should be invited.
Mr. Woon moved, and Mr. LOCKE seconded, that
the next tender should be accepted. The motion was
carried, but Mr. Todd resigned the contract on the
same ground that the first parties had.
Mr. LESLIE renewed his application, but again un-
successfully, for it was carried that the third and only
candidate should have the offer of the works. He
also declined to accept them, and for the same reason.
Mr. LESLIE inquired whether, under these un4
paralleled circumstances, it would not be worth their
while to try the plans he had all that day been ad-
vocating. It was very evident that the bills of par-
ticulars were either not understood, or looked at with

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suspicion.
The CHAIRMAN was of opinion that the Court was
degraded in the eyes of all contractors, by its never-
After much recrimination, the Court adjourned, it
being understood that the subject of the contracts
should be considered again next Friday.

IGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Gibraltar
Leghorn 3O 50
Genoa 25 85

Milan —
Venice
Naples 391
Palermo, per oz llB
Lisbon 55
Oporto 55
Rio Janeiro 23

Bahia 23
Buenos Ayres
NewYork,2l dys sight
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OR.
Foreign Gold, bars.. .£3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons-- 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 9;
Silver in Bars 0 4 111

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
,• EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals—Fairy Queen, Owen, from Ichaboe, off Ply-
mouth, sailed Sept. 11, and from St. Helena Sept. 18.
Arrivals at St. Helena—Pink, Patterson, Sept. 13,
from Coast of Africa, and sailed 14th to Glasgow; John
Pixie, Morice, from Coast of Africa, and sailed 15th to
Plymouth. Sarah Charlotte, Dunnet, from Cape,
fromand
sailed 14th to London ; Dryad, Hanson, 14th,
Singapore, and sailed 15th to Liverpool; Rowley, Ewing,
16th, from Coast of Africa, and sailed 16th to Cork;
Beatrice, from Coast of Africa, and sailed 16th to Bar-
badoes; Margaret, Leitch, 17th, from Coast of Africa,
and sailed 18th to Cork; Jane, Pitt, 17th, from Coast of
Africa to Parbadoes - Victoria, White, 17th ; Lord
Glendg, John2ton duiana, Anderson ; Thomas Bat-
tersby, Eccles; Fairfield, Abbott, 17th; Superb, M`Kin-
non, 18th ; Margaret Boyle, Morrison ; James Dean,
Campbell; Lady Raffles, Graigie, 18th. all from Ichaboe
to Cork; Hope Crawford, from China to Dubin.
Departures 'from St. Heleila-•-•Her Igapty's ship
Albatross, Sept. 16th, to West Coast of Africa.

SWEARING IN OF THE NEW LORD MAYOR.+..ACa
cording to annual custom, the Lord Mayor elect Was
yesterday sworn into his office of Chief Magistrate of
the City of London, at Guildhall. Sir William Maguey',
Bart., the retiring Lord Mayor, being a member of the
Stationers' Company, that body took a conspicuous part
in the ceremonial, as did also the Fishirongers' Com-
pany, of which the Lord Mayor elect is a member.
The principal members of these two companies and the
various civic functionaries proceeded to the Mansion-
house about one o'clock. They were there met by the
new Lord Mayor, and having partaken of an elegant
dejeuner a la fourchett,e the whole party proceeded tti
the Guildhall, where the ceremony of swearing in took
place. The hall had a very splendid appearance, being
all in readiness for the banquet this day: His Lord-
ship elect arrived shortly after that liar in his private
carriage, and was accompanied only by his son, the
clergyman. He looked in good health and spirits, nd
was smiling as he alighted from the carriage:
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