The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-16 00:00:00

LONDON STREET NAMES.

Ablue book has just been issued by the Metropo-
litan Board of Works, giving returns of the names of streets
in the metropolis as regulated by the orders of the board.
since 1656. These returns show that from 1857 to May in
the present year 46,679 houses were re-numbered, 2,110
subsidiary names of streets were abolished on re-naming
or re-numbering the whole street, and 824 new streets
have been approved from time to time under the Metro-
polis al Management Act. In selecting new
names of streets, the rule of the board is to adopt
such as are not already in use in the metropolis, as far as
this can be known, but they complain that the law
on the subject is not eufficiently observed by vestries
and district (oards, who frequently adopt names for new
streets without communicating with the board. The con-
sequence is, that streets, roads, terraces, squares, and
places of the same name are constantly reenmug all over
London. The " Post-office Directory for 1666 " gives the
following among other results :—London contains 6 streets
called Smith-street, 12 Thomas-streets, 14 Gloucester-
streets (with 9 Gloucester-places,9 terraces, and 6 Glouues-
ter-roaells), 15 Market-streets, 114 James-streets, 20 George.
streets, upwards of 20 Duke-streets, 20 Princes-streets,
21 Union-streets, 25 William-streets, 26 High-streets,
30 Charles-streets, 3i Devonshire-streets, terraces, awl
places, 40 Wellington ditto, 40 John-streets, 40
King-streets, and upwards of 30 Queen-streets ;
there are 46 Park-streets, places, terraces, and
roads; the nano Victoria occurs 40 times in the
" London Street Directory," including 4 streets, ri terraces,
9 roads and 6 places, sod the name Albert, occurs about as
often. York, a very favourite street name, occurs 60 times.
There are 14 West-streets, 12 East-streets, 17 South-streets,
end 21) North-streets in the metropolis ; 85 thoroughfares
designated " Great,"and 118 designated" Little" (there are
as many as 8 Little George-streets alone), and there are 50
Lower-streets, and the large number of 139 Upper-streets
11 in the modern Dabylon. These names have been abolished
in a number of instances by the regulations of the recent
act. It is worth every one's while to know the
, following facts touching the miming of streets and the
numbering of houses. St. Paul's cathedrals recognised
as a central point, and the numbering of houses begins at
the end of the street nearest to that building. Taking,
therefore, the sides of the streets as right and left (assum-
ing the hack to be towards St. Paul's) the odd
numbers will he assigned to the loft, and the even
numbers to the right hand side. No name is to be used
for a street unless with the approval of the board, and the
name must be one consisting, if possible, of one word,
with the addition of " street," or " road," as the case may
be, not already in use in the street nomenclature of the
metropolis. Only such streets as are haling thorough-
fares of considerable length can be designated " roads."
Lastly, name for terraces, or places, or other blocks of
houses, and sections of streets, and usually known as sub-
sidiary names, will nut he recognised ; nor such names us
are already in use for provincial towns and postal places.
If persona about to build would give attention to these
directions it would facilitate the labours of the board and
tend greatly to simplify our street arrangements.—Building
Yews.

There is much speculation even already (says our
Dublin correspondent) with respect to the probable suc-
cessor to the Irish Mastership_ of the Rolla. Baron Pita-
gerald's name is most naturally connected with the vacant
equity judgeship, but in the event of his Is iug disinclined
to accept it, the transfer to the Rolls of B. ron Hughes,
who had large experience of the court when a practising
barrister, is thought not unlikely. Baron Hughes is a
Roman catholic of liberal views. The selection of tither
of the judges of the Court of Exchequer for the vacant
place will make way for a new man, and Mr. George's
claims are generally considered paramount when a puinne
judgeship is spoken of. There is a family relationship
between Baron Hughes and Mr. Morris, 4.C., the Solicitor-
GeneraL —Pall Mall Oavate.
At a typefounders' feast, held at the Crystal
Palace, on Saturday, Mr. Caslon mentioned the curious
fact that matrices from punches originally cut by William
Callon in 1725 were now taken down for daily use, after
having been laid aside since 1772 as obsolete—nearly 50
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wnecessary consequence of the greater popularisation of art
in our times—the ' old-faced type' had come to be re-
garded as the moat elegant letters within the range of
typcgrayby."
Diocass or Lnicol.s. —The ishop of Lincoln
has admitted the following gentlemßen to appointinents
in his diocese :—The Rev. C. W. Markham, incum-
bent of Tong, near Leeds, to the timings of Selby,
near Barton-upon-Humber ; the Rev. IV. Homfray
to the rectory of West Belford; the Rev. H. Shor-
mck, late curate of Sutton-in-the-Marsh, to the rectory
of Hammeringham with Scrayfield, near Horicastle ;
the Rev. H. Williams to the curacy of South Colling-
ham, near Newark ; the Rev. J. Carpenter to the curacy
of ?iortb and South Stoke the Rev. J. T. Bartlet to the
curacy of Holy Trinity Church, Gainsborongh ; the Rev.
G. Shaw to the curacy of Bardney ; the Rev. W. Brooke
to the curacy of Ropsley, alias Ropealey, near Grantham ;
the Rev. E. J. Grey to the muncyof Harworth,Nottiogham-
shire ; the Rev. S. Lodge to the curacy of Scrivebiby with
Daiderby ; the Rev. C. Newton to Jhe curacy of Timber-
land, near giesford.
--J
Pansren Batru.ust at the moment when
everybody was expecting that this hank would resume
operations, a difficulty which may be insurmountable pre-
sante itself. The following communication from an official
source was made public yesterday :—" It wag hoped that
by this time the pie announcement would have been
made that the Preston k had resumed its operations ;
but though the committee have 'pared no exertions to
bring this about, we are sorry to learn that a degree of
disappointment is now being felt, arising entirely
few from the
unwillingne of a number of creditors—and • very
u
large ones—to assent to the terms proposed. Some nuke
one excuse and some another, and as the com-
mittee are determined to act upon eats ground,
if this stubbornness remains, and the affairs of the bank,
after all, have to be wound up by order of the Court of
Chancery., the public, at any rate, will know to whom
they are indebted for this catastrophe. A meeting of share-
holders Is called for Saturday, to ratify and make legally
binding the resolution that no shares shall be transferred
till the last instalment is paid ; and this certainly. ought
to remove the scruple of the most timid as to signing the
agreement. It is difficult to estimate the loss which the
bank is sustaining by the delay in resuming business, but
• decision must be acme to in a few days." At the meet-
ing on Saturday next, Messrs. Chadwick, Adamson and
Co.'s corrected report—the result of an extended examina-
tion of all the accounts of the bank, and which brings out
the balance nearly the same as that previously
submitted
—will be made.
The directors of the Staines, Wokinghani, and
Woking Railway•
dim end
have decided on recommending
the payment of • dividend of ss. 6d. per share, or 2i per
oent. per. annum, for the half-year ending the 30th of June
last, against 4s. per share, or 2 per cent, per SWIM, for
the corresponding half at 1865.