The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-02 00:00:00

THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAYECHEKES.

The following is the report of the joint com-
mittee of both houses of parliament appointed to
consider the best method of dealing with the rail-
way schemes proposed to be sanctioned within the
limits of the metropolis by bills to be introduced in
the present session, and to report their opinion
whether any, and if any what, schemes shouM not
be proceeded with during the present session. The
committee had referred to them a report by Colonel
Yolland to the Lords' Committee of the Privy
Council for Trade on metropolitan railway schemes
proposed by bills in the session of 1864, and also
the report of the select committee of the House of
Lords of last session on metropolitan railway com-
munication. The following is the text of the report
of the committee :

Ordered to report that the committee bare twat, and
having joiatly considered the matters referred to them, and
having taken evidence of such agents and caesura of the
several alums, as it appeared to them material to examine,
have speed to the following report, viz :
The railway schemes that have been referred for the
consideration of the joint committee are of extraordinary
magnitude for so limited an area as the metropolitan rail.
way dis~iot, outmodiog over a Lnagth of 174 miles is thi
wept*, itivoirieg the raising a capital ct asarri
33,000,000 t. in shares and of 11,000,0001. by loan, creating
slum among the holders of i vast amount of property, and
interfering, dories the construction of the proposed works,
with many important public thoroughfares. They include
the coostruction of not lets than four new railway bridges
arrow the Thames, two of them of gigantic Moe, below
Laudon•bridge. It is stated by the surveyor to the Com-
missioners of Sewers of the City of London that the Wade
wad boildisp scheduled is the City of Lembo for the pro-
posed railway schemes comprise about coo-fourth of the
'stirs area of the City.
The easunittes are of opinion that the following bills or
parts of bills shoeld not be proceeded with during the pre-
' seat emmion :—Victoria Station and Thames Embankment,
Oxford•street sad City, London Main Trunk Underground,
Metropolitan Orand Vision (the portion south of Thames-
street), Charing-crow (Northam), Charing-cross (Western),
London Union, Metropolitan District (portion forming the
outer circuit), Tottenham and Farringdoaatrest.

The committee recommend that the fees which have
been incurred in respect of the said bills be remitted.
The two first-named of these lines are proposed to be
worked on the pneumatic principle—a principle hitherto on-
tried NI applied to railway passenger carriages, and it NOM
undesirable that the experiment should first be made in an
important public thoroughfare. They are passenger rail-
ways, and are intended to relieve the streets of omnibus and
cab traffic. The neoeesity for any such lines has been
to some extent lessened, supposing the railways forming the
inner circuit scheme referred to in a subsequent part of this
repot bs ratikead.
The Loudon Main Trunk Underground Railway pro-
poses to provides more central station for the Great Easton,
an object which is also sought to be accomplished by the
Great Eastern itself, by the Great Emden (Metropolitan
Station and Railways) Bill. The select committee of the
House of Lards on metropolitan railway communication of
last session recommended that the Gnat Eastern should be
allowed to establish a more central station than it has at
present.

The portion of the Metropolitan Grand Union south of
Themes-street, which the committee recommend should not
be proceeded with, involves a high-level bridge over the
river below London-bridge. The communication between the
railways north sad south of the river at the end of the
metropolis might, it appears to the committee, be better
effected by the Fast Loudon, through the Thames Tunnel
sod the proposed abandonment approved by the promoters,
sad the committee reeeinmesi that they should be allowed
to awed their estimate, and be permitted to withdraw •
pests at their deposit.
Three schemes in this list, the Charing-cross (Western),
the London Usioe, and the portions of the Metropolitan
District railways proposed to be postponed, in addition to
other objectoona, require the construction of bridges acmes
the Thames, one of them being a high-level bridge below
London-bridge.

It is further to be observed with reference to these
schemes that railway communication between the lines
north and south of the Thames already exists oo the West-
=Outer side of the metropolis by means of the West
London and West Loudon Extensions railways, and another
line is is coons of constrection through the centre of
Louden by the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway,
which when completed will unite their south Louden
system with the Metropolitan Railway at the Farriogdos-
street station, thereby giving them a communication with
the Great Northern line, and thus the necessity of connecting
the Charimpaross and South Eastern Rahway it Charing-
cross with any of the main lints to the north, as proposed
by any of the last-mentionsd schemes, is not urgent.
The Tottenham and Farringdonotreet Railway, by which
it is proposed to connect the Cambridge line of the Great
Eastern with the station at Farringdon-street, is open to the
same objection urged against the Charing-nose (Northern),
and the Tottenham and Hampstead (extension to Charing.
erase), in that it tends to create a great central station, inte-
rne,* as the Great Northern, the Midland, and the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railways, an already brought in direct
station communication with the Metropolitan Railway at
Fsrringdoo•street. As the Great Eastern Railway is another
scheme for an improved station, which the oommittee re-
commend should proceed, it appears desirable that this bill
should be postponed, at all events until it can be known by
esperience whether any inconvenient amount of traffic will
be concentrated at Farringdon-street by the lines already
allowed to meet there.

As to all the schemes above referred to the committee
would observe that in recommending their postponement
they have been strongly influenced by the consideration of
the great public iocoommienoe and pecuniary loss to the
inhabitants of the district that must unavoidably be named
by the interruption of thoroughfares during the comtructios
of works of this nature, and as the schemes which the com-
mittee (coocorriog generally ie the view of the Lords' com-
mittee of last sessioo) recommend to be proceeded with
are of very great magnitude and extent, they have thought
that any scheme which did not appear to be of more than
ordinary urgency might properly be postponed for future

The estimated capital required for the construction of the
schemes above proposed to be postponed amounts to
18,500,000 L is the aggregate, exclusive of what was pre-
posed te be raised by loan for the purpon of the under-
taking. The remainder of the sum of estimated expendi-
ture above referred to may be expected to be reduced by the
rejective of some of the schemes allowed to prcemul.
Without expressing any opinion as to the merits of the
follow* bills, the committee recommend that they should
be proceeded with in the ordinary oourse, being only
improvements of existing lines, or works connecting
links a a very limited extent, for enlargement
of 'miming stations in no way conflicting with any conr
prehensire system of Metropolitan railways—vix.,
Great Northers and Victoria Station ; London and Rea-
wall (Extension); London, Brighton, and South Oust (new
lines is Battersea) ; Great Northern (No. 1, Barest branch) ;
London sod North Western (additional power) ; London
and South Western (additional works) ; North London (ad-
ditioisel powers) ; London, L.'hatham, sad Dover (No. 1);
Lowden, Chatham, and Dover (No. 2) ; Great Beaters (fuse.
tics; incept junction No. 8) ; Midland and SL Pancras
branch ; Metropolitan (additional powers).
The committee also recommend that the Metropolitan
sad St. John's-wood should be allowed to proceed, as it is a
line that passes through a not very populous but increasing
district without interfering with much property, and is no
way competing with any other scheme. The committee
might here remark that it is proposed to be oonstructed as a
single line only.

The committee also recommend that the Hammer-
smith, Midland, and North Western, and Charisig-orom
Junction shall be allowed to premed. This scheme
is in some degree open to an objection already
referred to, that it tends to create a central
'tenon at Marin-cross. It however proposes is
additioa to the railway, which is to be eteastraMed wholly is
tunnel, to tot m three new striate, one of them of • very
important character, in continuation of Tottenbam•coart-
road from Oztordiitreet, is a direct line to St. Martin's-

lane, near Aldridge's Bebe Hay, and from theism to the
Thames Abbaalunent afar the Charingame Railway
Station. This sow line of theromthiere, whit& would be •
substitute for the present objectioeable road through Seven-
dials and ELighuirest, 8L Giles, would be • peat public is-
provement. nie combination of new streets in crowded
parts of the metropolis with the obstruction
of railways was recommended in the report of
the Lords' committee lest semioll. The committee
are of *pilgrim that If the mint committee to
which the 141 for them schemes may be referred
should see fit to sanction the scheme they should do so
ally on oosiditices that the new streets above referred to
should be coostructed cotemporansonaly with the railway,
and that provision should be made in the bbl for insuring its
completion.
The committee amour in the opinion 'imbed by
the select committee of the House of Lords on metro-
politan railway communication of last brim in their
third report, that with • view to the itistributioa of par
saw traffic arriving by the main lines of railway cormag
within the metropolis, and also the relieving the crowded
streets by the absorption of • large portion of the omnibus
and sab tniSc, the completion at the mart oiroait of rail-
ways is desirable.
It was estimated by the evidence before the committee
that great additional atoonunedation, especially for the
laboursag dames, is daily beam* more somasary, while
there is no prospect of the t ordinary means of cos-
rays", being at all adequate to future want., and they are
of opsaion that the following schemes, which contribute
towards the forreaties of swab • circuit, may properly be
proosedsd with :—Metropolitan Distract Railways (the por-
tion forming the taper circuit 33, 33, 34, sod jaactsoes 7,8,
and S.) Xrarowlitan Railway (Trinity-equare Estes/aim j
Metropolitan Railway (Not ing. hill and Brampton Ex-
teethe- ) Metropolitan Grand Union (portion north of the
Thelma) . . . .

The committee are also of opinion that the following
schemes—eats, the East London, Great&stern (Metropolitan
stations and nallways), Great Eastern Junction, (junction
No. 8,) North Leedom (Kingsland sad Totteuhiun line),Wal-
thanutow Clapton, and City, may be properly proceeded
with ; and as theseClapton,
schema more or lees enter into oom-
maakatioa with or compete or conflict in levels with the
schemes above referred to, as designed to form the inner
circuit, and with each other, the committee are of opinion
Withal! the above mimes may with advantage be grouped
laithand be referred to the rune select committee.
urm'aking them recommendations, the coinnuttee are
of opision that the greatest accommodation to the public
will not be secured by treating the two schemes which
pursue almost the lame line from Kenston to Bra which
is ▪ the City merely as competing scheminges, one of which
is to be preferred to the exclusion of the other.
The committee are of opinion that the promoters
of these schemes should be recommended to com-
municate together and with the surveyors of the
City and Metropobtaa Board of Works, sad devise the
most perfect line which their several plans will admit of.
By a relaxatioo of the standing order, such revised plan
may be embodied in one bill. The Metropolitan Railway
(Trinity-square Enemies), sad the Western branches of
the Fist London Railway, should also be part of the pro-
posed consultation. By seek a course much useless expen-
diture would be saved, and the interests of the metropolis
far bettor moored time by taking the chance of selection of
one among the competing lines.
The committee observe with regret that two of the
Paean* which they bare recommended should be al-
lowed to pave iltroegli Finsbury circus in apes cutting.
They are, however, informed that the promoters of both
are willing to substitute • oovered way for the open cutting.
In the meat of the select committee finding it desirable to
adopt either of these lime in preference to thou which do
not interfere with the Circus, the committee recommend
that effectual provision shall be made by which the time to
between the breaking up of any part of the garden,
and the completion of the works there, sad the proper re-
etoratioa of the enclosure, shall be as as pounible.
Although the committee have recommended that those
portioned the Metropolitan District Railways scheme which
en demigod to form the outer circuit shall sot be proceeded
with, they concur with the House of Lords' committee of
lest session in thinking au outer circuit deniable, and they
are of opinion that this object might be accomplished by
uniting the existing railways on the eastern aide of the me.
trepan with one soother, sad ethaecting those of them
which are situate oa the monk side of the Thames with the
railways on the south side, making use for this purpose of
the Thames Tumid. For this purpose it would be
for the East London to be in masa:ion with the
London, the Great Eastern, and London and Blackwell
Railways. This omobinatioe, taken ia menexiee with the
mistime lines on the west and south of the metropolis, as
amened by the Secretary of the Loudon and North Western
Rainy Company is his evidence before the committee,
would complete the outer circuit, but it would be further
asormen that mutual facilities to be secured by legislative
thactaient should be afforded by the several companies for
interchange of traffic.
In order to give the public the full extent of the system
of intercommunication such as that which has been sug-
gested, it would be desirable that the select committee to
whom the metropolitan schemes in question may be re-
ferred should require that each modifications may be made
in the schemes that may be sanctioned as may be necessary
for effecting the proposed combinations, and also that a
clause should be inserted in the bills of all railway
companies having termini within the metropolitan district
for securing s mutual interchange of facilities for working
the traffic upon railways in that district on equitable terms
among themselves, and without any undue preference, the
terms to be settled in cane of difference by the Beard of
Trade, or an arbitrator to be appointed by that department.
A clause should also, they think, be inserted in each of the
bills ptit7i4iDif that railways having termini' within the
metropolis shati be ittbjeet to the tiretiatal• Wt aay eat to
be passed in the present or any future session for the reple-
tion of railways within the metropolis.
The committee are of opinion that some of the provisions
of the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, require
miens in relation to the Metropolitan arrangements,
and they resoninned the istroduetion of a bill far that
purpose. They desire also to direct attention to •
Lion of Colo Yolland's report to the Board of Trade as
to the expediency of requiring all plane for railways within
the
datum lima

The committee are of opinion that in the present series
such of the bills proposing to sanction railway communica-
tion within the limits of the metropolis as are to be pro-
ceeded with should commence is the House of Commons.
The report concludes by Gratin that a map showing the
eiletireg and proposed railways in the metropoli■ &mom.
patties the report, and that they have directed the minutes
of evidence taken before them, together with the appendix,
to be reported.

Mendeleaobus' Elijah will be performed at
Exeter•hall by the National Choral Society the Lit time
this seasoa to-night, with the followiag straw cut—
Madame Eadersdorff, Mies Annie Con, Miu Emma Hey-
wood, Miss Palmer Lisle, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Evans, Mr.
Bentley. Band and chorea 700 performer■. The whole
under the direction of Mr. G. W. Martin.

Loin or Fora Livia. —A sad annuity, involving
the loss of four lives, oocurred off Great Yarmouth on
Monday afternoon. It appears that the Miaow Ryhope,
Captain Douglas, of and for Loudon, when in the Wold,
fell in with the brig William and Richard, of Whitby. The
latter was derelict Some of the crew of the steamer went
oe board the brig, sod she was towed into the roadstead.
When off Yarmouth Mom:meat emend bombings sod re-
yeene-men from the Dolphin cutter boarded her. The
pumps wan manned and the salvors found they were
gaining on the water. When the venal was nearly abreast
of the Britannia pier, she was unfortunately' struck by two
heavy seas, which laid her oo her broadside ; in that posi-
tion the shipped large quantities of water, and before
the sailors mOM quit the brig she heeled over and gunk. She
carried down with her 18 men, but 14 of these were
resened. Poor poor follows, however, perished. one of
them, named Hunter, belonging to the steenier,and another,
a young man named King, belciagbog to the revenue cutter.
Two more seamen belonging to the steamer ago soak to rise
so more. There were several very narrow escapes, among
°than that of a young man named Knowles, belonging to
the reviews cotter, wbo, on the foundering of the brig,
caught hold of the rigging and was dragged down with the
sinking vessel; he rose to the surface in • very exhausted
state, but was just able to ding tr the topmast of the brig
until he was rescued. The weather was exceedingly foggy
yesterday sad Monday off the east coast, and some shipping
casualties have bleu the result.

HEALTH 07 LONDON.--It appears from the return
dam RegibtrarGeas!sqlat thit drtlis is Loo4op wars more

miniereei in the week thee ended last Sitardei thee they
had been in say pamioes week ethos Jemmy. They rose
t 01,877, of which Dumber 741 recurred Racier 20 years of
age, 498 is the period of life 20-60 man, and 427 at eighty
man of p and upward• The average number of deaths
forth. eighth week of ten previous years 1854 —63 is, with
a serrectioa for lacrosse of popelatioa, 1,467. The preempt
return exhibits an emcee of 210 deaths. While the mor-
tality from phthisia (157 deaths) is eomidembly lea than it
wee is previous weeks, that ban bronchitis has Mewed.
The latter diseese was fatal in 301 cease in the week,
Pneumonia in 97, heart disease in 90 mass. The deaths
from dames of the heart is the last four weeks were 74,
60, 66, mid 90. The aorrested averages of bronchitis,
posammia, and beast disease for the eighth week of the
year are respectively 189.95, lied 62. It is pleis from the
comparisoo that the present mum bee developed Mamba'
a ffectioas with antisoil effect. As iofant, aged 3 weeks,
wee poiessed by • lossoge, which cractained the forty-eighth
pin of a main of morphia. A child, aged 2 yews, died
flow the scratch of • kitten. Kim sesegmariam died I.
the week. Lett week the births at 1,019 boys sad 981
girls, in all 2,000 children, were regiMmed in London. In
the WO correspoodiag weeks of the years 18.54-63, the
average number (corrected) was 2,057. i

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