The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-09 00:00:00

ILAILWAYS IN THE CITY OF LONDON.

Mr. Heywood, the engineer to the Commissioners
of Sewers for the corporation, has just made a very interest-
ing report in names to the different =leap' proposed to
be brought into or connected with toe City of Leedom
dining the present ninon of parliament. It appears that
there are no lass than 23 project', all more or lees affecting
the City, that will have to be diamond. They may be
described as follows :—The Blankfriars Enisakenent Road-
way nod Railway, the Charing-noes Railway (additional
lands), the East Loathe Railway, the Great Restro Rail-
way, the London and Blackwell Railway Extensions, the
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway (new lines), the
London Low Level Railway, the Load= Main Trunk
Underground Railway, the London Union Railway, the
Metropoliten Grand Union Railway, Ohs Metropolitan
District Railways, the Metropolitan Railway (Ratio-
n= to Trinity-aquaria Tower-hill), the North and
South London High Level Junction Railwatkter
North London Railway (additional powers), theio
Knot and Oity Railway, the Thames Viaduct Railway, the
Tottenham and Parringdon-street Railway, Thames Tuned
Railway, the Victoria Station and Thames Embankment
Railway, the Courts of Justice Coucentratica (mcquisitioe of
site), the Holborn Valley Improvement, the Posarnatio
Despatch Company, and the Tower Subway. After giving
a ouzo description of the different projeces above
eomented, and stating that a few of them have on passed
the ceded of the Standing Orders of the House of Com-
mons, end on or two have been withdraws, Mr. Heywood
proceeds to ow that the total length of the various rail-
ways proposed to be made in the City, or within its jariedie-
lion, is about 21 mils, mad the sale of the erns respectively
scheduled for projects of all description 'mounts to about
211 eons, but many parts an under notice by two, them, or
four companies, and,the actual &tea scheduled im probably
Dot roars than about 100 acres, which is ones-fourth of the
entire City. The various public ways of al/ &nip-
lions which are interfered with is nowt 300,
but in comparatively few man are the levels to be
altered when the works are executed. As to
the sewerage within the City, it may be said of a very large
portion that it will be sanihilated, and will have to be re•
contracted upon an entirely different plan. What the
actual alteration may be will be a subject of future sad de-
tailed 000sideratiou. There probably never wee a city
threatened at once by so many projects se the City of Lou-
don is at the present time, nor were there over Assented to
parliament, in on asesiou, so many schemes which affected
the metropolis, neither have schemes been pecescuted of
greater bolder' of soseeption, or with greater iedifference
to cost. As shiny described, two companies propose
buying up and utilisiog the Thames Tunnel, two pro-
=crossing the river Thames west of the Tower of
by bridges with spans of 820 feet, and with heights
of 100 feet above high water wink ; another which is to
arose at Lambe= is equally ambitions, whilst to the west
of Lances four or five bridals, althoaffh of low itonwillff
dimensions, are proposed to be built. The Moonment at
Fuitstreethill, Temple-bar, Drepers'iardess, Finsbury.
circus, Apothsearise-hall, and a part of the premises of the
Tin= newspaper are also scheduled, as an various of the
City halls and the Admiralty al Whitehell. There are
several lines proposed to take possession of a portion of the
Thames embankment, and one to take pommies of the
entre of the river itself. Public parks sad pokes are
to be cut or teaselled through. The line of the
Fleet sewer throughout its length within the City, sad •
considerable portion without the City, is to be mooestroeted,
the sewerage of several square miles is to be interfered with,
and property to the value of many millions of pawns is pet
ender notice. The whole of the schemes cant aUy avoid
touching churches ; indeed, portions of most of them in the
City are curved in various directions apparently foe the sole
iacliof avoidiag them. The churchyards are not treated
thse same respect, as the lines are to be curled through
many of them, and in several cases very war to the walls
of the churches, although the churches see to be left un-
touched. After some further observations, Mr. Heywood
noosed, to say in his report that whatever may be the
causes which have led to it, or when= may be the
regret about the fut. there tea be no doubt of the necessity
for increased railway aorommodatioes is the metropolis, and
no
part of it is so much interested in that want being
properly relieved as the City of Leedom. An extension of
railway accommodatin seems therefore, from the admitted
necessities, and from the receot tendency of railway
legislation, inevitable, but it is of the Gist cossequesoi
that interests so greet as those of the City should not be
even temporanyinceovenienced, sienna( by project' which
have received the atomise care nod attention ha their
design. Mr. Heywood concludes by calling &Unlike to
the fact that the corporation of London have no greater
facilities afforded them for the examining of projected bills
having reference to railways, plans, ter., then the ordinary
members of the coonnuaity. They am only apply at the
Sessions Hone to the clerk of the place, and by paying the
anal fee they are allowed to nap= the various documents.
For the mere canal inspection, Mr. Heywood states that
there is but very alight =emendation at that 0010111, end
as to tracing or copying plans, it aniesats almost to an
impossibility when much has to be accomplished
in a short time. Mr. Hey wood steles that he
' draws attention to this fact because every district
board of this metropolis is entitled to have, and
has deposited with it, copies of all plasm or portions of
pleas for railways and other works likely to Wafers with
the property or pablio ways within its juriedietion, whilst
the of Seven of the City of hoodoo, which has
charge of • district containing within it the °sutras of those
eommercial intonate which contribute so largely to the
greatness dl the nation, has no such privilege accorded to
it, neither has the ancient corporation from which the coin-
ninon emanates. The Select Committee of the House of
'Lords, in its report upon Metropolitan Railway sommuoi-
' cation, advised that copies of plans and bills of all works
affecting the metropolis should bethiposited with the Metro-
politan Board of Works and the Commiesioners of City
Sewers, who should, if they thought lit, meet reports to
parliament on any of the posed proposed schemes. The privilege
of receiving plans an bills has already been conceded to the
Metropolitan Board of Works, an the interest of the
metropolis demands that &similar concession be *Mann
to the nepenthes.

RAILWAY AID PUBLIC CONPANINI IN ?MlLL-
warL—Yestorday, bear. the szaminers, the stendlag order
proofs
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ford and Word Railway and Boodam Harbor': ; Chip-
Lin Norms and Banbury Railway ; Wallingford sad Wat-
Alt..• Liverpool Cooing Static. Railway ;
Railway d
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eilway ; Claim ilmapdan
Bride,• Northern land • and Improvement Com-
pany ; Falmouth Docks • West Bidiog and Grimsby Rail.
way ; 'kidskin md Ashford Railway ; Wilsey Railway ,•
Wandsworth sod Fulham Bridge • West London Desks sad
Warehouse ; Stamford and Epontbra Railway (Babson Ha-
Maim) ; Nottuerisam Gas; Grand Western Canal sad
Bristol and Exeter Railway ; Bristol and Routh Wales
Union Railway ; West Drayton and Staines Bails.!!;. Holy'
well Railway ; Ricknisnsworth, Aromehant„ mod Micilisro
Railway (Leval Graining_ h• Weald of Yost Railway, Baylis;
Railways; Wart Orin Mead, Ciackflaid, aud Harm& Heath
Railway ; London and Blackwßa.lll4Biteciiiass) ; Ba=l
Tye' (Additional Atm* ; 111 Dock ; North
Railways; Blyth and ryas ways (New Works). The
oaly ere of newoomptianse was the Glowswelmahini sad
Wiltshire Railway. The MIL withdrawn, Moro Whig so
appearance, were Moos for the Wimbledon and Mutes Rail-
way ; the Rosa, Forest of Dean. Mosanoutli, and Lyd-
brook Railway ; and Domestic sad Thom Road.
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