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

MET_ROPOLIPAN BOARD OF WORKS.

Yesterday this board held a meeting in the
Council-chamber, Guildhall, for the transaction of
business within its province, Mr. Towaites, the
clia.ii man, pr-sidinig. The cash account c )nt -Lined
in the paper of business stated that the balance in
the hands of the treasurer of the board on the 19th
inst. was 9,256/. lls. 6i., 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 8,518/. 6s. sd.
The amount of the deposit account was 40,0001.,
and the balances ou "special accounts," including
the Southwark and Westminster communication,
9001; Covent-gardan approach, 9007; and Finsbury-
park, 476/. ss. 6d., were in the aggregate
2,276/. ss. 61., making the total general balance
now in the hands of the trea urer 50,794/. lls. 11d.
A deputaqou, introduced by Mr. A!derman
Humphery, from vestrymen and inhabitants of St.
Olavr, Southwark, and headed by Mr. T. Walker,
attended and presented a memorial relative to the
proposed new street in Southwark, in the direction
of Westminster-bridge, for relieving the traffic on
Laudon-bridge and fa..ilitating the comumnication
b.ttween the B Tough and the western parts of the
metropolis. The ineinorialists strongly objected
in the public merest to the c-Jnmencement
of the street at the Town-hall, Southwark,
as now contemplat. d, and suggested that it
should start instead from a point n. t lower titan
the corner of York-street, by which they contended
the traffic would be much more etTe.cmally relieved
and accommodated than by the proposed route.
The memorial, on the motion of Mr. Alderman
Hunsphery, was referred to the Works Committee,
and the deputation withdrew. Mr. Turner then
brought up the report of the Works and Improve-
ments Cornrnit.eie, tmchiug a suggestion for im-
proving and dedicating to the public the whole or
s ,me considerable part of the triangular piece of
vacant ground at the south-east corner of St. Paula
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 Loudon, together with certain informa-
tion 9ommuuicated to them verbally by Mr. L. Tay-
lor on the same suhj, et, and being satisfied the com-
mittee were correct inthe opinion expressed by them
in a former report, that 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 sane 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 coa-
lesti
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tribute any portion of the purchase-money of the
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loan Mr. Tau: i ume
ar t feodr thedis-
cussion,
of
in which Mr. Leslie, Mr. Deputy. Harrison,
Mr. D'lfl'anger, 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 cos', 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 ttie City, Pent n-
vile, Euston and New roads, thereby connewing
the docks and appro wiles to the whole of the rail-
way termini north of the Thames by one grand
thoroughfare." They were referred to the Works
and Improvements Committee, and after the trans-
ae,,'oll of some routine busint'ss the Board adl•
journed.