The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-15 00:00:00

NNW NAMES FOR LONDON STREETS.

Oar report of the proceedinp of the Metropolitan
sow of marks, at He oseetiag of Friday last. °waned a
inunary of the labours of Mr. D'lalager's etwassittee out
the street seemelatare of Loaden. Bone tanker lamas
tics ea the seas bead will probably be acceptable to ear
readers. Mr. D'lffsager attacks the difficulty is detail,
cad monemes his work by taking in head 671 street@
white bare bit 17 &antes ammo then ; it follows that for
the stone is this first seettoa alms 664 Isamu mist be
head.

We gin hem the Observer of yesterday aa analysis of the
proposals which the eemmittee maks ea this point.
Is the diet plass, there an 82 George-Wrests. George.
street, Hanonmunare, will remain unaltered, ssa there
will also be a Great Geoegewtseet and a Little Ourge.streell
In WM:Waster ; that is all of the Georges that will remain.
Among their gamesmen we notice scientific men, es Lieb-
sits, Ladner, Hatton, Priestley, and Shrapnel. Literature
and divinity are represented by Mahon, Paley, Marvel,
Bay" Ogilvie, Lowth, Thirlwall, Aytoun, Massey, sad
Be.ata Pug Power, the aster, has one of the saute. 01
the sulabgersey there are Wynford, Vivian, sad Rutherford*
Arai a masher of miseellaneue names of more or less
Mien Whittingtee, Rashworth, Bedaile, Blake, Miekin,
Proses*, Revised, Chaplin, Fairbeak, god others—comas
eagerody act of any gnat renown, with the eaception of
throe/ft far hard hitringtoa.
Ammo the outuldates fee the Chsrles•treete literary men
=reThere ars Ainsworth, Lever, Maraland,
",
Karoo, Quarles, Liegsrd, Thomson, Southey,
Cteb Belwer, and Humane. Men of winos ase repro-
seated by Hahne and Taunt; the aristocracy Wands the
names of V ea*, Caledoe. Rawdoe. Denham, and Duckworth.
There are tlueeaston--Crober, Garrick, and Foot.. These
three ealehritles very appropriately represent the three
Charles-Mu* which ;mist in the immediate amghbour-
hood of the two large theatres—Charlet-street, Drury-lane,
it to be Cibbovetreet ; Charles-street, Covent-garden, Gar-
rick-street,. awl Charles street, Long-tore, Foote-street.
The minniburis Ruses include that of Eugene Aram,
Meisel% Me enteseer. Biz Richard Mayne gives his name
to Chula* sear the Arbour-strut polies. station; then
is Miles Coverdale, who takes Charles-street, Lowadee-
square; while Croshonstreet, Bt. Johu'r-wood, is to be in
fawn named" Cameron street," after, we presume, the late
tainted meager of the Royal British Bank.
The names of the sristoontry are more frequent among
thew proposed in the place of the " John-streets" than in
either the Georges utile Charlene. There are St. Gernialas.
Ellesmere, Wodshouse, Lyttelton, and Portland; Litera-
ture is represented by Bremner, Horne, Horner, Miall,
Gnat, Mayhew, Headley, Chunisg, Parson ; Mayfair and
Brodie are the men of Wean; Canton, an old historic
worthy; Beseswen. a name familiar in the naval glories of
the country, and Handel, the Mr menet composer, are
smug the more prominent of the names. There are two
fumy names, " Feitlifal" and " Gay." We will not un-
true to doping the ousternation of some steady matron who,
waking ems morning, may dad her old familiar John-
street smutted into a " Gay-street. What, too, will the
coat re orthodoz resident in John•strest say to living
is future is a street bearing the name of Miall or Chartres ?
The 'riotously are unusually numerous in the suggested
Mamie for the family of King-streeta. They include Lennox
Hotham, Erskine, Wortley, Worsley, Woodville, Mande-
ville,Malunbuy, sad Paulen The House of Commons is
represented by on. name oily, that of Ewart. Ring-street,
Pail-mall, is to bear the name of the Premier, Palmenton;
Lag street, Smithfield, will bear the name et Ridley, ono
of the martyrs ; Hine-street, Alarm, the name of the re.
sent Jewish Rabbi, Br. Adler ; Kintstreet, Covent
is to be improved to Shoksepere-street ; King- street:2=i
hill, to Dibdrostreet; Slag-street, Commercialroad, L to
be traaaferred to the famous Booker, of protectiosiat no-
tetiety ; the name of Flaronaa is to supplant King-street,
Northampton-square. Jacquard and Felton are also moos
the suggested names, as are these of Beckett, Sedgwisk,
Whist's, Bentham, and Hauall, of unadulterated food
reactant/.
The Queen-streets have not so good or so varied a selec-
tion of names as the " King-streste." Qngen-street, Greet
Rusell-street, is to become ' &treetop-street," and Queen
street, Sena Dials, " Pepp-street." Queen-strut, Lin-
woks's Ina-Beals, Brougham street; Quad-street, Mile-
mad, slams Alderman Cimino The literary same. include
those of Lockhart, Hewitt, Dagald (Stewart), COONTOTO,
sad Mechem ; there are two members of the Hosea
of Commons, Mr. Mackinnon and Sir Edward Filmer, one
Sum Kiag (lighert), is. admiral (Pluntridge)—there is
no Napier—us founder of a at et (Wesley), for Queen-
nem% Chelese—ead fee:lords, Denby, Loftus, Ebriagton,
and Eisele..
The suggested names Is. the Chunk-stints contain bet
on. same of say cesamest of the church—it Is that of Wick-
liffe. Willa member of the Church of Rome consent to date
hie letters from sub a street ? Church-street left the gum-
tree of the rival moods an open one, sad Mennonites, or
high shush, might equally be proud of the street they
lived is while it wee yelled Church street. The literary men
' are is the majority among the suggested names; they
u• Waller, Wordsworth. Farquhsr, Somerville, Dampier,
Arbattinet, Mseselay, and Chalmers; &modals (Beneat),
se • musician ; Alderman Carden, Hosk"ecn, the financier ;
Kau, the divine; Tailor*, cue of the commissiones to the
Crimes; (Roger) &wham, the chemist; (Colonel) Sabine,
the mu of seduce ; Lord Btrangford, and Sir Ceiling
Studley are among the sew name.. The remainder of the
list is made up of some Needed gentlemen, to whose merits
we shall peesently more particularly allude.
The "Now streets" are to be converted into Suolleft,
Blame, and Whateley stints; and some others are to be
named after Smeatoe, Neentyth, and Doll.nd—each:
eminent sea la their spheres—Stigden, the Lord Chut-
e:4lu; Muslim, the artist Coke, the learned Chief Jus-
tice; Arse, the magician ; Anew, the naval commander ;
Hammed, well known by hie Debars; " Sotheby," the
sugemeful auctioseer; Swanton, the chess player ; Cath-
cart, one of the heron of the Crimea; and there is one
Slukspeare•treet, which is the second time the name of the
dramatist has been suggested to he need.
There yet resales that very sadist elate of person', to
whom we have already adverted, whose names its proposed
to substitute for those of more (request occurrence. The
rudivideste in question who seek to throat themselves into
tit,' Walhalla of the mistropolitan streets, are the members
of the Beard of Works themselves. Estimating their metier
and their claims to great honour at their own standard,
we extract the list of seed members of tie Board as are de-
sirous to laid the sanction of their mama to this wholesale
re-ebristening of oar streets.

NAYS 07 STiZIT. LOCALITY. SCOOTITZD WAYS.
Cisergs-street .... Rotherttitbe
w Pall-mall Carptasel.strest
Pe Idarybstione Cr,llin-itreet
Charlee.ttniet .... Bermondsey
Queen-street Kennington
Chureh-etteet .... Islington Penall-street
r. Bethnal Orison
re Hackney Off a street
IP Chelsea Chalmers street
Bi. Oiles's
Will -street.... Manchester square Deleon-street
IJaiess-strset—.... Bt 'dwell Dennis street
le Clarendon-square
Jams-surest Adelphi
Lambeth D milton street
York plies

FXTRAORDINARY LONOZVITT.—Died at the village
of Wsllbury, North Riding of the County of York. on the
10A instant, is the 110 A year of her age, Jane Garbutt,
widow. Deceased had been twice married, her husbands
being sailors during the old war. F..r some yam eta has
l
ima maintained b the parish of W.llhury, hiving het
ewe cottage and a (smals attendant. The old woman had
dwindled into a small compass, but she was free trom psis,
retaining all her faculties to the lest, end enjoying her pipe.
About • year ago the writer of this notice paid her a .:sit,
and took bar, as a "brother piper," a prcsen. of t ,baceo,
which ispedient of bliss was alertle acceptable frem her
visitors. Asking of her the question how leog she hod
smoked her reply was, " Very nigh a Imitated year. ! "
Sash a reply may be meal to these who allege that tobacco
lea slow poison. It is remarkable that this old woman sat
upright In her chair, rarely using the back of it ; and last
Saturday she walked steadily over the door of the boom.
Since iallmnities have crept upon her • railway in her
neighbourhood has bees completed. She at different times
impressed her wish to see this railway in operation, and
eoulel not comprehend how the peewit:ere and goofs media
could be tarried on without hors power end by locomotive
machines; bat her entrees* age reedered difficult, and
perhaps dangerous, her removal, end es hrr euricsiry was not
great on the subject she had got her time over without Ibis
wish being stratified. Jane Garbutt !Met, and will no • resit,
in the " Vale of York," that sand which boasts the birth
and burial places of the renowned Jeckits —l.hrlirogfon
arid Stockton Timms.
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FlRL—Yeeterdsy forenoon, eb )nt nine o'clock, a
fire broils out on the premises of the Feathers Tassrn, Omit
Wild-wrest, Drury-har, the croprrty of Mr. T. Orogen,
licensed victaaller, which were speedily mistimed with the
whole of their coot ai s, the isolates fornicate Iy • H, ctiag their
escape. Eogines quickly srrivion from the London Brigade,
the West of England I aaaaaa ce Company, and se from
Messrs. Conbe and Delefield, the brewers, the codling. dim'
was prevented from canoodle,, al,h.vigh at one time the
extensive paper warehouses of M . Spillage sod Hodge,
sad a row of old and dilepidateit tesemeets in Prinem-coart,
wen is imminent danger. It is cot known whether the
prepitetet is Wand or how the fin originated.