The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-26 00:00:00

RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN
PARLIAMENT.

THE PROPOSED NEW COVETS OF JrsncE.—Tbe
number of houses intended to be taken for the concentration
and constriction of the new courts of justice io 162, situated
in that colooy of court,' in St. Clements Diane between Yates.
court, and Lower Series-place, and including Clements-lane,
Plough-court, New-court, Old Boswell-court, Robin Hood-
court, Cromwell-court, and other dilapidated sod closely
=alined localities, the houses varying from two to twenty
rooms, and being teomally badly drained. The estimated
number of persons to be displaced is 210, and the promoters
state Urn no provision has beta made to remedy the incon-
venience, if any, likely to arias from such displacement.

METROPOLITAN MEAT AND POCLTRT MAREET.—The ex•
tansies properties in Smithbeld•bare and Smithfield required
for the new market are now being lotted out for sale :ad
demolition at the commencement of next month, ao that
there is now *very probability of the long delayed work
bong' begun.

THE DIOLBORN-TALLIT IXPEOTIEMENT AND DISPLACE-
MENT or TILE LANOLIN:NO CLAS.NES.—The number of
houses proposed to be taken and pulled down for the pur-
poses of taus improvement amount to 154, containing from
four to twelve sad two to ten rooms each, tamale io Shoe-
lane, Plam-tree-court, and other courts adjacent in the
parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, on the one side, and in
Great Field lane, Cock-court, Green Dragon-
court, Fox and Knox-court, Hosier-lane, Turner/am-lane,
and other salubrious localities on the other, in the parish of
St- Sepulchre. The total number of permits to be disp/med
by the demolition of these localities, as far as can be esti-
mated, is 2,216, but provision is proposed to be made by the
corporation of London to remedy toe inoosivimienoo likely
to arise from such displacement by building is some
suitable spot in the neighbourhood model lodging houses for
the labouring claims so ejected.

PROPOS= Ncw PIERS AND HARBOLHS FOR THr 1-7szTro
KL3GDOII. —The Board of Trade hive now under considers.
tion several important and extensive pleas for the establish-
ment of new piers and harbours in different parts of the
United Kingdom, and have gtaeted provisional orders per-
mitting them to be pruoeeded with in the following :saes :
To the Brighton (Wait Pier) Company for • promenade pier,
leafing place, and approaches opposite Regency-square,
Brighton, the pier running out on iron piles 1,150 feet sea.
ward, at an estimated cost of 22,0001. The Clevedoo
(Bris-
tol Channel) Pier Company, for a pier near Bock-house.
point, with power to levy rates on passengers and goods, at
aa estimated oast of 20,0001. To the lestbouroe Pier Coin.
piny, for a pier from the eoplanade by Devonshimplace,
extending seaward 1,000 feet, at • cat of 12,000/. To the
Earl of Devon, for a pier from the South Devon Railway,
on the eastern shore of the river Ere, at • eat of 15,000/.
The Filey Fishery Harbour Compaoy, for • harbour for the
numerous fishing vessels frequenting Foley, in Yorkshire,
with quays and breakwaters, at • cost of 100,0001. For an
iron pile pier of 900 feet, as Lytham, east 6,00 W. For a
promenade pier at ALA 1,066 yards. cost 13,000/. ; at San-
down, Isle of Wight, 1,500 feet, cost 15,000 f. ; at Torquay,
near the iAnd's End, 700 feet, eat 61,00.1/. ; at, Walton-on-
tbe-Nake, near the Clifton Hotel, 350 yards, cost 10,0110/. ;
sod at Waken (Suffolk), cost 1,14001. The board decline to
grant orders for the proposed Lundy Island Floating Break-
water, at an estimated cost of 100,0M7., on the ground that
there is no experience that such a breakwater will stand;
and to the Scarborough Marine Procured, sod Jetty, on the
that it would another, with the navigation and
granted to Permissive
te e r g ordersl
a a (Cot proceed
Sy I have
Harbour,akaßr ay
bran
(County Wicklow), Quiinsfordutough, Holywood (County
Dow.) Pier, Wexford Harbour Embankment, in Ireland ;
and for the extelisioa of Albert Harbour (Greenock), at a
eat of 40,0001, is Scotland.