The Express.
London, England, 1854-01-06 00:00:00

METROPOLIS IMPROVEMENTS.

The report of " a committee appointed by the
board of ememisaissers forpaving and improving the parish
of Bt. James, Wesimiester, en the 7th day of December,
1863, to wham ems rams* tor examination the list of
plans deposited at the Private Bill-ollos for 1141111&11 1864,
dated 30th November, 1863," his been issued. It states
that the eematittee have to report that the list is divided
iota two parts—Railways and Miseellaaeses. Under Rail-
ways, 136 plans have been deposited; and under Iliseella-
meths 98—making a total of 233. Of the 136 railway
schemes, 13 effect the 'metropolis and 'amyl)", viz.. Direst
Southern Railway and Thames Terminus, Gnat Western
(Stream& Lae. me.), Leicester-square Junction Railway
and Eleuthwerh Improvement, London and North Western
(Haythimetwan), North London, North Metropolitan,
South Loather South Metropolitan, Sernhwark and Crystal
Patna, noise Babeahmest sad Railway (London and
Wommkater), Timm lealmmlumni nod Railway (London
to Wort Landes West bade Landon and Crystal
Paseo (brawl to Wandammih),Westarkmor Terminus. Of
the 96 miscellaneous rettemeran are brims improvemeate,
8 for roads, 3 for gassorks, in kr waterworks, 8 for her
boors, 3 for navigation., 6 lee Whim% 6 for dock', 4 for
embankment", &t., 1 for a pork, it sewerage, dtc. ;of
these 10 aka the mithropeth and salads, viz. :—Albort-
peek ; C emertwidp ; Cemmaimen for the Bain-
Mien, 1861 •gore-volad, Ike.) ; Great London
Drainage; Gwen sod Booth Eastern Docks ; Hearing-
ton Improvement AM (1861) Amendment ; Metropolis
lotthammests (saw Wert from Bell-yard, CSIO),
strum Fettaegam); MOrspelitaa Commission of
&WWII (Deptford paw*. Mat* ,) • Thames Its-
p_rovemsat ; Wellington Desks (Ileathwark). The 22
Tows Improvements magrins sense improvements
in Idfahmet, Obagew, lahrepret, Morebrator, and other
=lmam; Ist eau 10110 111.11.00ist Plea 1. de-
the mstrep•lM vb., the new street from Chan-
ts'? Itsta, empesite the and of Conran': to Fetter-lane, a
distasse anions 160 yew& The faiths bodies administer-
ing to the meet improvements of the metropolis are the
Capeentien of the City of London sad the Board ofWorks;
tie hews have not deposited any plans, sad the latter only
tow—the are ahem Mimed to. The railway schema
allintbg the madepsile appear to be under no effective con-
tra. Iter they Mat the City boundary or property be-
longing to this mown ;in the former ease the Corporation
ift City iaterthees, sad in the latter the Board of Works.
Thejarisdietion eg the Corporation extends to about come
isquare mile of the metropolis; and the jurisdiction of
the Board of Works is confined to the parks, royal
paws, and property ia the new streets, such as
Repnt-streat, New Oxford-street, &c., which have been I
comstrueted under their direction. The area of the metro- i
pais sad the suburbs soak sad eolith of the Thames may
be taken at about eighty square mike, the whole of which,
excepting the comparatively all portions before referred
to, ia laft to the Bare of paving commissioners end parochial
bodies. The Private Bill Oda paper shows that only one
goventsthat improvement is toatemplatsd, eta., from Chan-
cery lass to Fetter-lane ; and slider the eroding orders of
the Rouse of Camases, all other metropolitan improve-
ments (drain& as maims haw been given). meet be at a
stand•still for • period of nearly two years. The result is,
that, notwithstanding the increased number of deputations
to Ministers on this mitten and that two of the metropoli-
tan members of parliament (thelading one of the county
members) are members of the present government, no
attention has been paid to the representattons of the in-
habitants of the metropolis, and lea has been done than
in part years.

Taz MAODALENA arrived at Southampton pater-
dol.