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London, England, 1855-09-08 00:00:00

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long been contemplated. Sixteen or twenty years ago, the city
somebody, bought the old Fleet Prison, and pulling it down,
the site ready for street operations. There, till this day, however,
the site lying useless—a good number of thousands sunk, as it wer,
for nothing. Some houses about the Cheapside end of Paternoste,
Row and Newgate Street have likewise been pulled down, and their
sites left a waste, for no particular purpose that we can see but to
furnish desirable boarding for bill• stickers. The plan in cogitation,
we have been told, is to clear away the whole of the north side of
Paternoster Row, and then re-build it at a suitable distance back,
so as to form the beginning of the new central extension. Carried
out effectively, the projected street would at once take a large
portion of the western-bound traffic of Cheapside from Ludgate
Hill, and the daily choking up of that unfortunate aorta be relieved.
What a blessing, also, would such an improvement effect in clearing
out the abominations of Newgate-market, which no city but Lon-
don would have tolerated till these later times ! A grand scheme
this central thoroughfare, any way it can be viewed, and we only
wish we saw it realised. The expense, however, as is generally
imagined, would be unendurable. We do not quite agree in thinking
this a valid excuse for civic indolence Looking to the enormous
sums at which building ground has been sold in Cannon Street
West—the site of one edifice being disposed of, as is said, at a
ground-rent of £1,200 per annum—and looking to the similar
success of Regent Street, we apprehend that much of the outlay
would be repaid by sales of land for new buildings. Sunnf.;,,,,.

however, that there was a shortcoming from this department, on
what better object, we should like to know, could the funds of the
city be employed ; or for what could a certain rate on property be
more properly levied ? The public, it is clear, would be the re-
cipients of the benefit, and on the public must the burden fall in
some form or other. At all events, it is surely time that the street
extension in question, along with other improvements incident to
this important change, should be entered upon with as little delay
as possible. It is almost needless to say, that those resident or carry-
ing on business in London are not alone concerned in this renova-
tion of a dense and inconvenient section of the metropolis. All
who visit London are equally, if not more, interested in seeing
effected so very desirable and long looked-for an improvement.