The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-18 00:00:00

PROPOSED METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.

Yesterday evening a crowded mood./ of the in-
Viabitants of Parringdlos-strest, Honore, Neweretre et,
iMark,drosk mid the neighbourhood adjacent togat the
posed oity impeommente connezion with the tan
Renew sad City Terminer, the new meet and poultry mar-
ket, and the Botha's-Mil Viaduct, wee held at the New
Court, within the Old Bailey, for the purpose of coasiderioff
the report of the Committee on Metropolitan Improvements
appointed on the 22nd of Dezember Lai. The chair wee
token by Sir James Dux; Bart, M.P.
The report, whisk was teed by Mr. Postifez, wu to the
effect that the committee had considered the proposed Metro-
politan Belau and Terminus in Victoria-street, in oon-
nem= with the proposed meat market, and the long-pro-
mised vet:novel of the dangerous sootivitim of Holborn-bill
and Skinner-street, and were of opinion that the railway
would be of the utmost vat= In vineries the thoroughfares
of the City from their present overcrowded state ; that a new
meat and poultry market should be erected earth of Smith-
field, sod that the building should be commenced Immo-
dietbat that no part of the site south of Lang-lase
end ..strest should be takes sway from the public. With
regard ollern-hill,*;canmittee thought:any plank. its
buremensat which womb lave the Bill remaining for any
portion of the trifle would he objectionable and =last. The
report emicludes thus t. Your committee take leave to re-
port that although theyeessider Lima three object" cloudy
allied to each 'other asfithat united weir they aright
be moms aisibitity and muted out es the
several piste of one meets= fis yet the committee
fell abet the %beldame of the bm.bood have eat-
herd so much injury and the public has sustained so great •
lom from the demotes state in which the site around Smith-
field has been so long permitted to lie, that the three projects
ought not to be permitted to wait for each other, and that it
is 'like theduty and interest of the inhabitants of this ward
to units with their fellow-oitisens end the public at large is
rendertag every assistance in their power to the Metropo-
litan Railway Company, to carry Yr* greet undertaking tato
immediateexeoution."

H c in moving the adoption of the report, ob-
served that, with regard to the 'laded at Holborn-hill, he
bored that the project of the Board of Works would be found
in practice extremely =satiate:tory. That proposal was to
remove the houses on the north odds of Holborn-IM, and
they to omistruot a viaduct to carry off the traffic of the east
and south. This, no doubt, looked very well on paper, end
it bad the sdditional recommendation of bring cheaper by
100,0001. than some of the designs vowed to be carried
, out; but he believed that it would not effectually remedy
the evlle now complained of, ea it would still leave several of
, the house the bottom of the hill as injorionaly affected

as ever. (Hear, hear.) -
Mr. GARDNER seconded the motion.
Mr. PHILLIPS supported the motion, end adduced eta-
tidies to show that wUrese the am of the present Helmets-
market wee only 63,760 square feet, that of the proposed
MOM sad poultry market to be built on the north of Smith-
field would be equal to 139,200 square feet.
Mr. CARMAN fared whether the proposed wake
would interfere with main drainage project P
Mr. CHARLES PEARSON (City Solicitor), replied that the
Metropolitan Board of Works had signified their meat to
the whole plan as approved by the committee. The lend
gentleman In ropily to some other questions, stand
that he bed always beau In favour of filling up the Holborn
valley, and kiting the railway run under it, but that as that
scheme was strongly objected to, he was forced to accept the
viaduct, which was the only thing they could get. (Hear,
hear.) The overcrowdlag of dwellinge in various parts of
the metropolis where the poo abounded was dean by
eyewitnesses as even degra gto the tante creation. Rail-
ways,then, coming into the City and going out to the country
would act as the safety valves against over-population and all
its attendant train of into. Should it, them, continue to be
said that London, which was the most crowded, the most
weelthy, and the greatest commercial city in the world,
should allow this stigma to continue upon It, that thousands
of Its citizens ware canted to prematam grave@ in consequence
of dialers of a Sable armee Mr. Pearson having
entered at great into the details of the proposed im-
provements, coed by upraising his hearty concurrence
with the report.
Mr. Deputy OBBARD end other gentlemen having 1111.
dressed the meeting, votes of thanks WITS passed to the
committee and to the chairman, and the proceedings termi-
'Med.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. Is.

Ttte treatment of Piedmont by some of our con-
temporaries is not distinguished either by meek.
tiny or actuate knowledge d the actual position of
that State.

When Piedmont took part in that war, the
avowed object of which worn the independence of the
East of Europe, no prolese ware too high or load fee
its Etna and Government. Their courage, their
Swimming policy, their basest sympathise for right
and justice, their noble ambition, were then the
theme of themes. Its conduct in associating itself
with that great canoe from which Prussia meanly
shrank and which Austria only touched to betray,
threw an all into raptures of admiration for Piedmont,
and into throes of contempt (or Austria. Then the
hopes of Italy were associated with the Sardinian
Monarchy; then VICTOR EMMANUEL, and the great
Minister, Count Cavort., were encouraged to perse-
vere in their noble career i then if the struggle with
Austria in Italy ever did recto, then Piedmont
should see—what she should on.

Now, however, when the cries of Italian anguish
resound throughout Europe; now that all the
warnings which Csvora so solemnly 'admitted
to the Conferences of Pais are more than
fulfilled in consequence of the neglect with which
they were there treated ; now that Italy heaves
with that agitation which warn sure to came, and
which Piedmont had striven, by advocating jolter
treatment, to avert ; now that under thew circum-
stances Vlcroa EusAritTEL, being not less than
human, publicly expresses regard and sympathy for
the woes and miseries that render lady a great
receptacle of Congreve rockets, ready to explode
Heaven only knows when and where, injuring
friend and foe equally, he is without more ado stig-
mata'd sit an ambitious sovereign, a restless =marsh
• dangerous potentate, a fomenter of public disorder,
a favourer o! French desires on Italy.
We nay ask his English critics what role Vlcron
EullAnt:EL or Piedmont sea play in this world, but
that of lighting the way to Italian Liberation and
Independence? Neither Monarch nor Minister, we are
constantly urging, is exempt from the obligations of
prudence and discretion; the position of both KING
and country, although far from being identical, is, we
know, one of difficulty and danger ; but cowardice and
timidity on great emergencies like the present, would
condemn both to everlasting infamy. Was it possible
for the King of Pm:arm to be silent, or speak
with bated breath, when all that his Minister had
foretold to the assembled litarsmen of Europe at
Pais was occurring ? When the wrongs and ter.
tares of Italy, which he assured them =old less=
=endurable, went driving the Italians to ex•epsea-
tios, Mae irfcron EmM•nust. to hold his tongue ?
The simple truth is that Vicar EXMAINOLL had
no alternative. He is a Constitutional Sovereign.
and acs on Die advise of his responsible Ministers,
They—bound not morsly by (bely antecedents, hot
by the public opinion d their country—could pat as
other language Into the Kiso's girth. Had they
shrunk floss Hair coarse, the CATOrlt Cabinet would
have been at as sod—not to be followed, let it be of
Enemberrit by a nisetiosary or an Austrian Gover-
ment at Tarr, bat by one of more advanced order
foe the arse for which Piedmont lires, bat rest with
more discretion in carrying it forward. Would that
rest have contributed anything to the tranquillity
of Strops Word our fears have subsided soda •
Cabinet of Demagogy No they would have oar
mooted terra. Let as sot, thee, eempleia fermi
tactually.
But Piedmont prefers &French connexion to an
English antra. And whose halt is that ? Not the
Xis or Cii Ilt. j fie they showed Ames pm.
foresees for English sympathies. Ent what have,
they ever been, and what are they now worth to
Italy ? Let r be terrible on th,s point. We
don't cheese to interfere actively in the affairs of
Italy, and we are quits right not to do so. Bat is
Italy to lie down and die under its agonies, brume
Bow land won't aria it' Can we as retrial bergs
saps• that subregion to our policy? Well, Pied-
mont boding from experience that all the &dries or
support she gets from England is the schoolboy

raemasodation " to abut its eyes, open its mouth,
" Yi see what the gods will send it;" knowing that
it twat stand alone in the world ; feat( that it
meat bars a policy and friendship, turns to France
and Russia, and is not repulsed by either. Is not
this what every man similarly situated in his pri-
vate affairs would do ? Failing to get the best aid
be can, he solicits the next best assistance.

Ors Malta correspondent, writing on the loth
inst., forwirds the following garrison order :—" All
" guards to turn out to the Archbishop of Malta,
" and all sentries to carry arose and present arms
" when the Host passes.' Our correspondent observes
that the order hem been thesource of much bitterness.
We should think it had. It is not very clear why
our troops should pay to an Ecclesiastic at Malta
greater honours than are paid at home to the
Archbishop of CANTILBUIIto although the latter
takes precedence of the whole temporal peerage.
The reason of this preference can hardly be
that the English Primate acknowledges the
complete authority of the QUEEN, while the
Archbishop of Malta offers his diM allegiance
to a foreign sovereign. This, however, is a consi-
deration for citizens. The soldier will be content in
all obedience to leave his superiors to decide to what
ranks and orders of men, and for what remons,
honours shall be considered due. It is otherwise
when some familiar material object is offered to him;
end he is required to acknowledge in it some special
mysterious sacredness conferred by a process which
he will probably think senseless, and which, if he
is • Protestant, he will deem not only superstitious,
bat irreligious. The requirement by garrison order to
present arms to the consecrated wafer called the Host,
is setting less than an outrage. The British soldier
is sot sow, if he ever wee, a mere fighting
aetesestos. The glorious records of the Crimean
and Indian wars showed us what depths of noble
faith and intelligent piety, till then unsuspected,
exist in oar army. How can we hope that our
misdate will be leavened with such praying, bible-
reading sten as HAVIILOCI led to Bithoer, if an order
like that issued to the Malta garrison is to be
maintained

Bat or correspondent proceeds to inform us of
some of the consequences of the enforcement of that
order. A British officer, Captain SHEFFIELD, of the
Royal North British Fusiliers, a Crimean officer,
having refund to obey the order, has been placed
under arrest. It is a case of conscience with him,
and " he is ready to submit to any punishment
" rather than do homage to the Host." We should
think he is; but we should like to re who, at the
resent day, will dare to purdah any soldier of the
British Army, be he officer or private, for refusing
to pay religious honours to a priest's bit of bread.
It is time this nonsense was done with.
We have heard a great deal too much lately
from the Mediterranean of ignoble truckling to the
priesthood both of the Latin and Greek Churches.
Some whose high station and endowments ought to
have preserved them from unworthy compliances
in this respect have compromised the dignity of
their country among themes which inhabit the islands
of Southern Barer. The country, however, can
take ears of its own lessear, eminent public men may
expiate their wrote with the loss of »rotation ; but
the soldier, if the roles sad orders of tie service are
against him, is helpless. It is for those who enjoy
the protection of the Army and the reflected lustre of
he glories, to take oars that its members shall not
be hammed by the imposition of orders which
destroy their self-respect without bringing the least
edvaatage to the country.