The Sun. — 1864-03-19 (London, England)

NEIVGATE-STREET.  A-report was brought up from the Works and Improvement Committee, recommending (among other things) that the board do contribute the sum of £3,058 10s, being onehalf the cost of effecting a public improvement in Newgate • street, to be carried out by the Commissioners of Sewers of the city of London, by laying into the public way so mach of the sites of the houses, Nos. 67 to 70, inclusive, in that street, as is shown on the plan accompanying the memorial, at an estimated cost of £6,117 exclusive of professional charges ; and that ouch amount be pad to the Commissioners of Sewers of the city of London, oa a certificate from the architect of this board of the completion of the work. After considerable discussion and several divisions, it was eventually decided by the casting vote of the chairman that the amount to be contributed should be £2,500. The routine business having been disposed of, the board adjourned.  SALE OF Mn, THACKERAY'S LlERARY.—Yesterday, the third and last day of the sale of Mr. Thackeray's effects, the library of the deceased gentleman, was put up to auction. There was a very numerous attendance of ladies end gentlemen connected with literature and the fine artb. The books were put up in 326 lots, and were in number about .5,000 vols. They were of the most miscel laneous description, and many of them sold for very high prices. A few were very rare, and found a bidding proportionacely high. The following is a list of the principal books eold, with the prices annexed :—"Ainsworth'e Latin Dictionary," with autograph, " W. M. Thackeray, Charter House, July, 1827," £4 15s, " Biographie Universelle Ancienne et Moderne," 52 vols., Paris, £B. "A Christmas Carol," by Charles Dickens., presentation copy, inscribed "W. M. Thackeray, from Charles Dickens, whom he had made very happy a long way from home." For this little book, an ordinary copy of Mr. Dickens's story, there was an exciting competition, and it was at length sold for £25 10s. Chastellux (Marquis de) "Travels in North America," with autograph of Washington (1787), £1 108. " Cornhill Magazine," from January, 1860, to June, 1862, 5 volumes, in red morocco, £3 12s 61 ; ditto, in green ditto, £3. De Quincey (['homes), " Selections, Grave and Gay" (14), Edinburgh, in date, £5 10s. Bronte (Charlotte), " Villette," 3 vole , a presentation copy, £5 ss. "The Gentleman's Magazine," from commencement in 1731 to 1827, 112 vols., £ll. "Herodoti Historiarum Libri IX Cure," T. Gaisford, with an autograph of Mr. Thackeray, £6. " Homeri Odyssea cum Schollis Veteribus," and autograph, £3 10s. " A Course of Mathematics," by C. Hutton, with an autograph of Mr. Thackeray (1806) £3 10s. " Liaisons Dangereuses (1788), recueillies dans une Societe ;" ditto, " Recueil des Faceties Parisiennes (1760) £3 10s. " Memoirs pour servir a l'Histoire de France details le XIIIe Sidole jusqu'a la Fin du XVIIe," 33 vols., Paris, 1837, £6. The Midnight Spy ; or, a View of the Transactions of London and Westminster from the Hours of Ten in the Evening till Five in the Morning" (1766), £2 4s. Paine's "Common Sense," addressed to the inhabitants of America (1792), £2 2s. Rabelais (F.), "Works, translated and illustrated by M. Laduchat." 4 vols., £1 Bs. " Shakspere," the text revised by the Rev. Alexander Dyce, 6 vole. (1857), £3 10s. Thackeray (Rev. F.), "Researches into the Ecclesiastical and Political State of Ancient Britain," 2 vols., £l. " Walpole's Letters," edited by Peter Cunningham, presentation copy, £3 ss. "The Bloody Register; a Select and Judicious Collection of the most remarkable Trials for Murder, Treason, Rape, Highway Robbery, and Piracy, from the year 1700 to 1761," 4 vole., £4 17s GI " Wieland's Poetiscbe Work," 49 vole , 1 eipsig, 1818, £1 18s. Quartos: " Froissart's Chronicles," translated from the original by Lord Berners, reprinted from Pynson's editions of 1523 and 1525, 2 vole., £3 15. " Worcester's Dictionary of the English Language," presentation copy, Boston, 1860, £ll7s, _Punch, Vols. I, to XXII,, Vols.