The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1856.

TDB PROPOSED NEW STREETS IN SOUTH-
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WARE AND COVENT GARDEN.

There is now (says the Observer)• prospect of the
lent-th ked-of new street from the Tows.h.ll, floathwark,
to the York-road, near to the Reath Western Railway
station, being tensed. For some time the CLIO Commis
donor of Works has held in hie hands a government grant
of 90,0001, to be a• plied for the formation of a new street
is %La loeslity,;but to this grant there was attached the
proviso that if the street was sot formed within a stated
Period, this HIM would be applied to other purposes. The
listripc limn Board of Works, as early as Marsh lath, had
the r stth-tios directed to the subject, wh'sh was refund
to a einiesittee, who, however, diet art snake their report
until t..e Bth August, jest previous to the board's ?nation ;
so that the question has sicced over for two months, to the
imminent peril of its not being proceeded with this sent
session, se all the settees, in compliance with the standing
orders of the Roussel C 0011110•1, have to be delivered before
the 30th November. Tee bond have now, however, fined
to morrow week fei coneldnetion of the plan recommended
by the CARllkittell.

Ibis plea Is not very popular with a eonelderable portion
of the board, who consider that it Is not suffloiestly direct,
and t..st more advantage should be taken of saistiog tho-
toilet feres Thus Stamford-Ansi is a good, wide, end
open thoroughfare, and if the new attest were constructed
so as to maks Suiraford-ttreet available, the road would
be writ dined and less ezressive. The committee
0•••, however, thought otbarrime, and their prune
proposition is, that the street should commesate at the
Town-tall, Southwark, should proceed with a earn at the
' beak of Qaten-street to the Southwark-bridge-road, from
thence to no almost parallel -1 h CharleVe-e•reet into the
Bleektrierernad to the ncrth of Rowland Hilt's Chapel,
ttea across the Cornwall road to the Waterloo-road, sew
the station, and so a to York-read. The estimated cost
is as follows :—From High street, Southwark, to the South.
wart-bridge road, the purchase of the property, loxlwills,
asw sewers, de., 291,000/. ; from the 8 .uthwerk-bridge-
road to the Blathfriareroad, 293,4191 • from Blacithrlars
road ti the Wat(l.l9ll rood, 210,1931 ; sad from the
Waterloo rood to Yerk•road, Lambeth, 02,4871, =skies
• Lola of 895,1041. To meet this outlay It is estimated that
by the re sale of the property, by sale of gro end-rents, and
of old materiels in that portion of theatres% between Hit/h-
-aunt, Southwark, sad the Southwark-bridge-r0ad,144,804/.
will b. realised ; from that porticos between Soathwark-
bridge-road acd the Blackfrlart-road, 229,5001. ; from that
pert between I.lltekfriars-road sad the Waterloo-road,
169,920!. ; sad from the piece between the Waterloo-road
end 'ho York-read, 87,4801.; the gsvernment grant will be
90,0001. ; mating • total set-eff of 721.7941.; bevies the
se! :CGet of the sew street at 173,310 R—a very small
amount, It will he serenity admitted, coasidering
the densely-crowded seighboarhood through width
it is t. pass, and the number of bull Inge that
will have to be pulled dows. Sthald the board decide In
(incur of this plea, end eb•ain the 'escape of the govern-
ment at once, there will be just time to get the notices
erred and the bill brought iato the Hesse of Commons
nest version, and thee It as taught that the sew street wall
be completed in the nuns of the year NA The advs.-
bps to the South Esstan sod South Wieters Railways by
the e.natruction of this new thoroughfare will be very great,
ant it ir :amenity frolt that both thole companirs ought to
some fovea: d and subscribe liberally. Both nonentities are
fund of =akin eztensions of their HIM, but there are few
that will be so een.ceable to di. is as the formation of this
taw . There is to law at present satsuma by which
they can be comp Hod to ray more this an ordinary. rate-
payer; but It easy be resible to Wier, a dame is the
comicg bill to mass them ec.stribate handsomely to that
from wh•eh they will derive peculiar Nineteen.
la addition to this sew street fa Boathwark, Mr. Dents-
thorn's plan tor entities up • wide thoroograere bereft.
the corner of St. Martia'roste and Long-sere, and King-
stree% Covent-gerden, le Wetly at length to be adopted, the
Duke of Bedford, the principal it not the sole ground land-
, ord, cffeneg to contribute 15,4001. toward. She espial,.
The oaCay fur this inuakteeded improvement la am vary
large, as will be asea Irem the foilowiag incoant. The
purchase of the ezieting properties, goodwill, now sewers,
.end new paving, is est.:sated to amount to 91,82 W.
Agaicst this mate ser-off is by the sale of ground
rests and old ria.s, and the seatribsUoa of the Duke
of Bedford, 61,8001., testis, the set Net of the at
30,0204.

Oa the importance cf ibis improvement there cannot be
two opintons ; aod fortunately the h, ard and the primmest
are of awe mind on the subject. Whatever, therefore, may
to the fare of the Southworkoireet, this one is almost sure
to to lroceeded with. It has also bees Intermit!, stated
during Via past seek that toe prcpasal for r.-building
Covent•garden Timmins ow its old sit* hu been abandoced,
sad that the Duke of Bedford ts thiaking about palliog doom
the 04 church of St. C..venti inks, and re-erection
i• on the cite of the theatre, and of pull's, down the block
of hmses between Co,tut garden end Bedford-street, to
*steed the market In that directi m. This would be a great
im; r .rearot, a. the present accommodation is stesedir ply
lieci•ro, sod quite insdsgaste to theist:swim, demands of
[hi. ~'t InetTOPC44I.
Web respeet to the Bsathwork improvement, it may be
well to observe that one of the members of the board hoe
prepare,' an entire'y sew pan of his owe, sad this is to be
considered at the same time a. 'he one adopted by the sow-
, mime, so that it it not at all ito • soluble, eonaiderlog that
the c .mmittee VI re much divided in opinion, Shot MSG
alteraions in the origioal des'go may be made.