The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-13 00:00:00

RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN
PARLIAMENT.,

Yesterday the two last projects on the list for
metropolitan railway counnanication came on for *onside.
ration before Lord Stanley's committee. They are the bills
for the Metropolitan District Railway sad the Metropolitan
Grand Union Railway, end the committee have been em.
powered by the home to consolidate the two bills into me,
and to take evidence bearing of each, re se to Maids Slim in
adopting the best portions of both. The Mistropitan
District Railing has abandoned what is known as its ' eosin
outer circle" system of railways, and conker its application
to the " main inner circle," which owlets of • railway
from Bromptoa to Westminster-bridge of two milts,
commencing ow Alfred-place West, Thurionagoare, to
the Notting-hill and Brampton extension of the ,!
Metropolitan Railway, theta running eastward wit Blase.
sod Chester agnates. north of the Victoria-station end
wider Victorinstreet to Bridge-court, near Westminster.
bridge, with a road to connect the Cornwall-road and Alfred- '
place West, and • enured way betwano the intended statioe
at Westininater-bridge and the Palace of Westminster. The
line will than pursue its way from Weetnainsterbridge to
Campos-gnat, City, north of the Thames embankment to
Blackfriars-bridge, thence wider the London, Chatham, and
Dover and the proposed new street hareem Blackfrian and '
the Mansion-bone, to the Casnomenset stenos of the
Charing-cross Railway, aid then under King William.
street and south of Eastcheep to the Blackwell Railway at
Feachereinetreet, to the earth-sees of Trinity-muse,
Tower-hill, in jimMion with the Metropolitan Railway, The
proposed capital of the Metropolitaa Districts Railway is
6,010,009/. in shares and 2,000,CC0L in loan. The wood
snise.
projec the Metropolitan Greed Union, proposes to be
a capital of 4,000,000 i. is skansandl,333,oolll.
loan, and the leugth of the proposed Railway is
1 miles, renningagrnegrithe West Landes Railway Tie Faris
court, Old Brampton, aadPelham-cresosat,usder theFulham.
read, and Sloane-winare, north of Victoria station, Victoria-
street, coder the Broad Suntamy and Bridgeatiest, to the
Thames Embankment. It will then bike ea
u
operas under the rpidway of the embankinest tosle=
friars, under • poetics of the intended new street, then • 1
little north of Upper and Lower Thames streets, thence
under Cannon and King William streets, north of the '
Monument, and north-west Ado of Trinity-square, paring
under the Loudon and Blackwell Railway sear America.
square, and terminating at Chastise-Week Bt. Geors-is-
thaEast. Another extension travels northward from inity-
square, under the Minories, and Aldgate and Bishopgatee
street to the North Liodon end Metropolitan Railways, at
Finsbury, with • *outlaws arteasion Meng GreatTowerhill,
crossing the Thames by • bridge of ose areh filD feat span,
for which a postage toll is to be chargeable to the Grose-
wich branch of the South Eastern &away, with divers
other basaches. It is also intended to emetrnet • new
street from AMpte High-street, near the north-
east side of Houndsditch, to Bishopgateatrest With-
opt, at Artillery-lace. The projects are
en petition by the Corporation of London, Society of
the
Middle Temple, Lord Kensington, Marquis of Salisbury,
Oriental Bath Company. Beechen of the Inner Temple,
Metropolitan Board of Works mad Metropolitan Rods Coen.
minionen, Commissioners of Sewers of Leedom, Betchers'
Company Commission of Works sad Public Buildings,
Dukes of Norfolk and Buccleoch, on the pound of interfer-
ence with property. The witnesses examined in favour of
the bill were Sir C. Fox, Mr. Fowler, Mr. Haddon, end
Mr. Bosch, engineers; Catania Hui* Mr. C. Steward,
secretary of London and North Winters, mad others. The
CASS for the promoters of the bill having closed, the Records
mid Coalmen Serjeant opened the opposition for the corpo-
ration of the City of London, and the committee adjourned
to this day. The bills for the Irish North Western Railway,
Belfast Central. Kilkenny danctioa, and Hubberston Docks
fussed in Mr. Memey's committee. A committee, consisting
of the Earl of Chichester (chairman), the Duke of Welling-
ton, and Lords &avers, Abercrombie, sad nary, met to
consider certain bills for railway extension in Wang.
Thom) for the Rhymney Railway Company's extensions be.
tense Cardiff and Caerphilly and Mbar places were i
and Mr. Combiners, the engineer of the Brame and Merthyr
Tydfil Junction Railway Company's new lines, was examined
at considerable length by Mr. NOWA' and Mr. Burke.
The ease for the °sweaty and Newtown mid London and
North Western Companies' bills closed is the Duke of Rich-
mood's committee, and the bills passed. The can for the
promotes of the Fast Gloucestershire Railway closed ha
Lord Evenley's committee, and that of the Glasgow City
Colon Railway in Lord Portion's, after which Mr. &risme
Danis was heard in behalf of owners of property on the
south side of the Clyde. A select committee, consisting of
the Dukes of Devonshire and Buckingham. Lords Devon,
Romney Cray. Stradbroka. Doeougtimore, Camoym Wode-
house, Romney,
Stanley of Alderley, Baler, Lyveden,
and Taunton, sat sod took evidence upon the Railways Coo-
structiou Facilities Bill, and as the Railway Companies
Borrowing Powers Bill.

CoNIMISSIONEES or Sivas& —At a meeting
of the Commissioners of &wen, held yesterday at OniW
ball, Dr. Lettish, reported that 293 houses bad bese in-
epected during the week, and be submitted lists of pleas
for muitary improvement, and for farther proceedinge es
armouot of orders issued sot having Mee complied with.
The market+ Led slensbter•bousee bad been inspected daring
the week, and the officer had condemned 1.063 lbs. of mese
as with for human food, the whole of which was dimmed.
The mortality returns were greetir below the Average. colt
39 deaths having been registered darieg the week iesteed of
47, which is the average camber for the
period of the last eight years. Sixteen of the deaf
among children of lees than five years of arm, and semen
among old pence, of 60 and upwarda. Ties chief mums of
death were—pbtbisis, 3 ; pseurnosia, 4 ; memsterio dimes,
; loombitis, 4 ; comisued fever, 2 ; diphtheria, 1 ;
isfas-
tiledi,rrhoes, 1 ; aryliatalaa, 1 ; measles, 4 ; snakier; together
eight distils from tubercular dienesee,einht from Inflammatory
affectiona of the Mop, and nine from dismal si the ay optic
slam