The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-05 00:00:00

THE RAILWAY INVASION OF THE CITY.

Yesterday, at 2 o'clock, a conference of meinbera
of parliament representing the city of London or connected
with it, and of buskers, merchants, and other prioriesl
citizens, was held at the banking-house of Messrs. Roths.
child, in New-court, St. Switbio's-lane, in reference to the
impending railway invasion of the City,which has given riso
to a great deal of public anxiety and alarm. Baron ROTI!i•
CHILD, M.P., occupied the chair; and there were present,
among others, Mr. B. W. Crawford,rd, M.P.; Sir Samuel Mot.
ton Peto, M.P.; Mfr. lite, M.P.; Alderman Salomon., M.P.;
Mr. F. W. Russell, M.P.; Mr. john Abel Smith, M.P.;
Mr. Samuel Morley, Major Soell, Mr. J. P. Gassiott, Mr.
Trower, Mr. Dorris (City Remembrancer), Mr. Charlie
Candy, and Mr. B. W. Horne.
Mr. SAN UEL MORLEY, as chairman of the committee ap.
pointed at the public meeting, enumerated the public work.'
which had already been sanctioned within the City, and
were now in course of construction or in contemplation.
These, he said, included three bridges acrois the Thames,
two for railways and one for ordinary traffic at Mirthless;
the Thames Embankment, the new street from Slackfrier
to the Mansion-house, a railway station io Casnoo-street,
and two others in Broad.street and Finsbury-place, top.
Min with an extension of the Metropolitan Railway. for r"
of which a large number of honest had yet to be taken
down, in addition to those which had been abeaiy demo-
baked. There we, also the projected viaduct over Holborn
yeller, to which parliament had given its sanction, and
which would involve an imormoni!dmtruction of property.
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Mr. Morley maid he should like Lord Pelmenton to see adept.
tatioo on the subject beforehand, believing that if he was as-
sured that beyond all controversy there was a deep Iselin
of anxiety on the subject among men engaged in the varioun
departments of banking, trade, and commerce, and that
their object was not to oppose in any unreasoning seem,
but simply to ask that time might be given, his lordship
would support • proposition so reasonable.
Mr. COMIC, the City Remembrancer, remarked that
the bills in question Wirier been read a second time,
and referred to Lord Stanley's committee, there would
be a difficulty in taking them out of the hands
of the committee ; but if this petition end that
of the corporation of London on the same subject
were presented together, a motion might be made to
refer them to the committee, with an instruction to In-
quire u to whether it would be desirable to postpone lef.;is•
lation for • time. The oca goodies of London had instructed
him to consider the schemes in question very carefully, and
he had that day had a conference with one of their commit.
tees on the subject. They lied gone through the various bills
sod come to • decision as to which they would cot op.
pose. They had agreed not to oppose the Charirg-crose
Railway, the North London Railway, or the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway Bills of the present sessioo,
imams& es they only asked for powers to perfect sae= e
previously sanctioned by parlisment, and which the cor-
porstioe rather regarded as improvements then otherwise.
They should, however, move the insertion of clauses with
the view to promote the public convenience in some respects.
With respect Wall the other schemes the corporation would
petition parliament to postpone them.
It was eventually decided that inquiry he male as to the
coarse to be taken to give the greatest practical effect to the
prayer of the petitioners, consistently with the forms of the
house, and that, before the petition was presmtwl, Lord
Palmeretoe be asked to see a depatatim on the matter.
The conference them terminated.