The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-31 00:00:00

THAMES.

SERIOUS ROBBERY BY A SERVANT GIRL—AIM
Phillips, a servant girl, was brought before Mr.
Benson, charged with stealing £7, the moneys of
her master, Mr. Wilson, of No. 22, Gainsborough
road.

The prisoner had been in the service of 11Ir. and
Mrs. Wilson for seven months. On Tuesday night
last the prisoner remained in the house after her
master and mistress had retired to rest. She
was entrusted with the keys, and among
them was a key which fitted a drawer in
which 14 sovereigns were deposited. At five o'clock
on Wednesday morning Mrs. Wilson got up and
missed her servant. She also found her drawer
open, and missed seven sovereigns from it. Yes-
terday evening a police-constable, named Cabb,
No. 240 K, arrested the prisoner in the house. of
her aunt in Burn's-lane, Spitalfields. He charged
her with stealing seven sovereigns. She said "SoI did;
go to No. 7, Ilannibal-road, Stepney, and you will
find a parasol, a locket, and a chain ; and if you
go to the Jacob's Well public-house close by you
will find a brooch which I have bought. The rest
of the money I have spent.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and said she had
got rid of all the money she had stolen, except
Bs. sd. she had delivered to the constable.

Caple asked for a remand, and said other pro-
perty was missing.
Mrs. Wilson—Yes, I have missed other things
since she has been in my employ.
Mr. Benson yetnanded the prisoner for a week.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON.—
At a general meeting of the Fellows, held yesterday, July
30, the following gentlemen, haviug undergone the neces-
sary examination, were duly admitted members of the Col-
lege :—Mr. David A. Mosey, M.D., Edic., Edinitugh-
house, Turahatn-green ; Mr. Joseph Frank Payne, M. 8.,
Oxon., St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington; Mr. John Junes
Phillips, M.D., Loud., Guy's Hospital; Mr. Thomas Pigg,
M.D., St. Andrew's, Manchester ; Mr. Joseph Rutter,
M.D., Loud., Brighton ; Mr. Robert Temple Wright,
M.D., Edin., 10, New Ormond-street.

Wilco IS LOP.D RIGLAW.—" The English," says a
French paper, "are no better off than ourselves. Such is
the heat in London, where the streets are even wider than
our own, that apoplexy is there, so to speak, quite an epi-
demic. Last Sunday Lord Riglaw (?), a sportsman and
dandy, was seen crossing Hyde Park in his shirt sleeves
and carrying his coat on his arm. Shocking! This fact
was announced next day in the papers. Lord Riglaw is
magi; coagarod, bat hcr►cp bfnamoka olobrity."

Mr. Searle, the secretary, having read the notice
convening the meeting, the report, an abstract of
which appeared in the 7inies, was taken as read.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, said it would not be necessary for him to
detain them at any length, as the position of the
company was now simple and straightforward.
The capital account had been practically closed.
The enormous mass of liability which pressed
upon the company last year had now been got rid
of, or had been reduced within manageable
limits. The largest portion of it was for liabi -
lities in connexion with lines in progress or in
course of being wound up. He was glad to say
that the borrowing powers, as define I by a
recent Act, would be ample for meeting all the lia-
bilities of the company. As far as the •directors
could see, there would be no necessity for issuing
any portion of the £1,000,000 of additional ordi-
nary stock authorized by the Act of 1863. (Hear,
hear.) He had explained on a former occasion that
it was necessary to ask for that power, because
they were not certain up to the last moment that
Parliament would selection the full amount of de-
benture power. It was well known that private
bill legislation was very different from legislation on
public bills. In the latter case they had three
estates of the realm —the Queen, the Lords, and
the Commons—to deal with, whereas in private
bill legislation they had the Queen, L_ rd:, Com-
mons, and Lord Redesdale—(hear, hear) -and they
could not feel sure that Lord Redesdale would not
prevent them in some way from getting their full
debenture power. They all knew that objections
had been raised which were only got over with
great difficUlty. If the debenture power, in-
stead of being £590,000, were only for £300,000,
there would have been a deficiency of more than
£200,000 on that head, it being necessary to make
provision for the outside possible liability in respect
of the Surrey and Sussex and Chichester and Mid-
burst lines. But arrangements had been made by
which those inestions had been referred to the ar-
bitration of the Duke of Richmond, and the result
of that reference had .been to enable them to make
a settlement of the remaining claims, which so far
reduced the outdle possible liabilities by more than
£lOO,OOO. The outside liabilities, therefore, instead
of being £275,000, would not be more than £175,000,
even if the award of the Duke of Richmond were to
be entirely against them, which he certainly did not
anticipate ; so that, between the debenture power and
the saving under the Surrey and Sussex and other
arrangements, it made a difference of about
£300,000; bat of course they were obliged to make
provision to meet all possible contingencies. As the
matter now stood they believed allliabilities would be
covered by the company's debenture powers, so that
they might dismiss from their minds any apprehen-
sion as to the issue of £1,03J,09) ordinary stock at
a discount. In addition to the provision made for
capital, there still remained consi lerable surplus
lands ,to dispOse of, aud out of those therhad suc-
ceeded in making an important purchase for the
company of the International hotel, close to the
station, for 30,000 guineas, the property having
cost alma. £147,000, and from the position of the
hotel it might be essential to the railway company
at any time ; and he believed it could not have been
purchased compulsorily for less than £lOO,OOO. The
revenue account showed that the gross receipts for
the past year had been £1,295,000, and the expen-
diture for the past half-year, was now reduced to
£311,000, and of course for the current half-
year the expenses would be more—say about
£70e,000 for the year, which, deducted from the
£1,295,000, would leave about £600,000 of net re-
venue. The total preference and debenture charges
amounted to £560,000, leaving a small balance of
about £20,00J towards or linary dividend. The
er finery dividend of the company must entirely de-
petid upon thr:e sources— the opening of the new
lines, the increase of fares, and the redaction of ex-
pendi:ure. '1 South London and Sutton line
would be ooened in September, and might be con-
sidered similar for traffic to the Croydon line, and
therefore ought after a short time to become pro.
&active. The scull iuereese iu the fares would
come into operation on the Ist of August, the effect
of which would be to give the compel), an iucrea:e
of 12 per cent. on first and second class fares. Ile
thought it, would give them sonic aldition to the
receipts, and as the normal increase of traffic
on all the, lines was about £60,000 or
£70,009 per annum they would have sonie-
, thing to look forward to for ordinary dividend ;
but they must not be too sanguine on this account
during the present year, as the very great heat of
the weather and the depression of trade would still
affect their pleasure traffic to some extent, and tend
to check the return of that buoyancy which existed
in their traffic previous to the panic of 1866. What-
ever the result of the present half-year's working
might be, the increase, he thought, would be shown
in the net profits. As the gross traffic on the line
increased they would be able to keep down the
percentage of expenses, and he trusted the result
would be to augment the amount available for the
ordinary dividend. (Hear, hear.) With respect to
the Working Union Bill, it had been withdrawn.
(A voice—" Glad to hear it.") The Bill was with-
drawn in consequence of the Committee of the
House of Lords insisting upon the condition of limit-
ing the tolls over the whole of the lines to the maxi-
mum of the tariff sanctioned for the Brighton
Company. The South-Eastern Company did not
see their way clear under such conditions, and
therefore, with the concurrence of the other com-
pany, the Working Union Bill was withdrawn. Ile
wished to correct 4n error in the report which stated
that the principles of, a working union had been
unanimously sanctioned by committees of both
houses ; it should have been " unanimously by the
Committee of the House of Commons, and by the
majority of the Committee of the House of Lords."
The bill having been thus disposed of, it would be
useless to revive a discussion upon it. The board
held the same opinion as before of the advantages
of a working union. The agreement had now fallen
to the ground ; but it might be revived if they saw
a fair chance of obtaining acceptable conditions in
Parliament. Oa the other hand, he did not think
they should keep things in suspense as to their own
internal arrangements; should the negotiations be
resumed the shareholders would have a fair oppor-
tunity of considering any arrangement that might
be come to, and of expressing their opinions, as
they had done in the past. (Hear.)
Mr. J. LEVY, deputy-chairman, seconded the
motion for the adoption of the report.
Mr. SAMIUDA moved, as an amendment, 11 That
the £5,500 creditei to the solicitors of the company,
and included iu the Parliamentary expenses, and
the expense (£120) of the proxies sent out on the
occasion of the meeting held in February last be
expunged from the accounts." He did not raise the
slightest objection to the legal proceedings against
the old directors in respect of the Surrey and Sussex
line. No one felt more than he that blame was
attachable to the former Board for the insane pro-
ceedings which had brought the company to the
brink of ruin. (Hear, hear.) He thought it would
have been better in the first instance to have offered
to submit the matter to arbitration, and, if refused,
then to have filed their Bill. He had told the pro-
prietors on a former occasion that they woull find
their working expenses nearer 50 per cent. than 60
par cent , and that they would not require to raise
any portion of Vile £1,000,000 of additional ordi-
nary stock now sanctioned in the Act, 1868.

Mr. FJLDER seconded the amendment. He was
glad that Parliament had not sanctioned what he
considered a most unfair agreement for the Brighton
Company. lie alleged that the directors had acted
more in the interests of the South-Eastern than in
those of the Brighton Company with reference to
the Working Union Bill. (Cries of " Time,
time!") The working expenses were now brought
down to 53 per cent., and he had no doubt they
would be lower.

Mr. C. LEGG said he had expressed an opinion
at a former meeting that the proposed agreement
was against the interests 94 tharightim company.

The Thames Embankment between Westminster-
bridge and the Temple is now complete, and was
yesterday formally thrown open to the public.
About 350 ladies and gentlemen assembled at half-
past eleven o'clock at the north pier of Westmin-
ster-bridge for the purpose of witnessing the
opening of the footway. Amongst those present
were Sir John Thwaites, Lord .f. Manners, M.P.,
Lord Ebury, Right lion. F. W. Cowper, M.P.,
Mr. Tite, M.P., Alderman Lawrence, M.P.,
Mr. Ayr ton, M.P., Colonel. Hogg, M.P., Alder-
man Salomons, the Lord Mayor, Mr.
Lowman Taylor, Mr. Collison and Mr. De
Brun (members of the board), Mr. Fur-
ness and Mr. 11. Harrison (contractors), Mr.
Bazalgette (engineer of the works), Mr. Humber,
Mr. Hepworth Dixon, &c. This party proceeded
along the footway, which was railed off from where
the workmen are still employed, to the Temple,
where Sir John Thwaites was met by Mr. Anderson,
Q.C., who, on behalf of the benchers. of the Middle
l'euaple, congratulated Sir John on the success of
the embankment. At a given signal, several shots
were fired, and Sir John Thwaites declared the
footway open. The visitors, as they proceeded
dOwn the footway, stayed to admire the gangways
and piers, and expressed themselves highly
pleased with the prospect of in future being able
to alight on a spacious " dummy" without the
horror in prospe.ct of having to climb those
wooden bridges that might try the sureness of a
foot of a mule after all the practice of the Abys-
sinian campaign. It is easy to realise what a
beautiful walk this footway will be, with a purified
river on one side, and on the other well laid-out
gardens, with their breadths of turf, and vases and
beds of flowers, and long-winding walks ; and, as
we would fain suggest, successive fountains. The con-
tract from IVestininster to Waterloo Bridge was un-
dertaken in the first instance by Mr. G. Furness, and
completed by Messrs. Brassey, Ogilvie, and Harri-
son ; that east of Waterloo to the Temple by Mr.
Webster, to whom that from the Temple to Black-
friars has recently been let by contract, and which
will be completed simultaneously with the new
street between Blackfri irs and the Mauston House.
Mr. Webster is also c nupleting the continuation
of the southern embin'ament from Latubeth Palace
to 'Vauxhall. The length of the embankrnetit
from Westminster-bridge to Blickfriars-bridge
is 6,610 fect, and the cost as tendered for £875,000.
The cost of the contract fron. "Westminster-bridge
on the southern side, up as far as 'Vauxhall, is
£309,000, the length of the new roadway
being 5,000 ft., and its width 60ft. The com-
pany having embarked on board a =pie of
steamers, proceeded to the North Wool wic*,
pier, near to which a train was in waiting,
which coaveyed them to the Abbey Mills P.onping
Station of the Main Drainage Works of Lon-
don. The building is shaped like a cross, in
the middle there being a kind of dome or
cupola. There are eight engines, eac'i of
142 horse power, two of which are ar-
ranged length-wise aril parallel in each arm
of the building, which are protected by iron
railings mounted with polished mahogany.
The pumps at the Abbey Mills lift the sewage of
Acton, Iltmmersmith, Fulham, Shepherd's Bush,
Kensington, Brompton, Pimlico, Westminster, the
City, Whitechapel, Stepney, Mile-end, Wapping,
Limehouse, Bow, and Poplar, representing an area
of 25 square miles, a height of 36ft. from the low
level to the high level sewers, where it will flow on
by the side of the high level gravitating sewers
to the northern or Barking outfall, where it is
carried off without the aid of pumps. The
maximum quantity of sewage and rainfall
which it is estimated the engines in
Abbey Mills will have to lift is 15,090 cubic
feet per minute. The sewage which is brought into
the pump-well from the low level sewer is, before
admission, strained of " any extraneous matter"
which would either not pass through or be detri-
mental to the pump valves, by means of cages of
wrought-iron bars. From the sewage well the water,
having been lifted through rectangular cast-iron
pipes, is forced through- cast-iron cylinders, six feet '
in diameter, into an air vessel in the centre of the
building, where it is forced through a cylinder ten
feet in diameter, and then having passed through
another cylinder ten feet six inches in diameter, is
carried into the outfall sewer and so discharged.
Already the utilisation of the sewage his com-
menced, and a farm of 250 acres at Barking has
been irrigated therewith, and grass and root crops
and fruit raised in luxurious abundance.
An elegant luncheon was served at three o'clock
in a spacious marquee, Sir John Thwaites presiding.
Luncheon being over the usual loyal beasts were
drunk with enthusiasm. The chairman then pro-
posed " The health of the House of Lords," which
was responded to by Lord Ebury, and was in its
turn followed by that of the House of Com-
mons. Lord John Manners, in responding, said
the House of Commons could, at any rate, boast
of having had something to do with carrying out
this great work, and he felt that in looking at so
great an undertaking, brought to a successful
issue, the lines of Pope naturally suggested them-
selves—

" Such blessings peace to happy Britain brings,
These are imperial works, and worthy kings."

Lord John Manners then proposed , the health
of the chairman; at the same time paying him
a high compliment for engineering skill. Sir
John Thwaites, in responding, reminded the
visitors of the hot season, and yet how little of un-
pleasantness had been experienced from the Thames
as compared with former years, and, amid loud
cheers, pointed oat that in London the state of
health was better by five per cent. than the average
in the whole country. At this moment it might be
contrasted with any city in the kingdom. The
engineering difficulties had been very great, but
they had all been overcome. The other t,)asts
given were " The Lord Mayor, Aldermen,
and Town Council," " The health of Mr.
Bazalgette," proposed by Mr. Tite, and " The
Contractors," proposed by Mr. Ayrton, and
responded to by Mr. 'Webster ; the toast of " The
Ladies" finishing this part of the proceedings.
During luncheon an excellent band played at
intervals, and after the toasts there was a concert,
in which the Sisters Doria, Miss Helene D'Alton,
Mr. Vernon Rigby, and Mr. Renwick sang several
popular glees and selections. At six o'clock the
train left for Woolwich, where the party found two
ateamera ready to conyey theukto Liclucl9n.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Dq.

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