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London, England, 1858-12-02 00:00:00

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LONDON, TE UItBDA 1; DEC. 1.

THAT the streets of Loadon are beeeesiag each
year increasingly obstructed, and that the working
classes of the metropolis are, in consequence of each
successive improvement in the street architecture of
the metropolis, more expensively and more miserably
lodged, are two propositions which, if not equally
notorious, are equally undeniable. The first griav-
SACO is patent to all ; the second, and far more serious
evil, requires mon inquiry than the majority of boy
people will be at the pains to make. Everybody
knows asimethieg of Fleet-street and Cbeapside—
few turn aside into Bleed:rip Heart Yard. The
Railway mime which has poured in upon the heart
of the kingdom an ever circulating current of pro-
vincial life, has formidably increased the deadlock of
the great London thoroughfares. When railways
were regarded as a 'port of permitted evil, the
main object was to keep their metropolitan
termini as far as possible out of town. A necera.
sassy result has beta to make interjeoent Lew
don the perpetual theitre of a scrambling and
tumultriona traffic from one remote terminus to
another. Serried files of railway omnibuses, flying
squadrons of railway cabs, the still more formidable
impedimenta of railway vane, choke at all hours the
more frequented lines of transit from north to south
and from east to west. Nobody who has ever made
a race against time from Paddington or Easton-
square to London or Waterloi bridge, will be apt to
forget the discomforts of that middle passage. It is
no figure of speech to say that you can accomplish
the 30 miles between London-bridge and Brighton
more quickly than the five which separate the Great
Western from the South Eastern terminus. Ob-
viously this is a state of things which will some way
or other have to be pot an end to.

The expense, discomfort and indecency, the
moral and physical unhealthiness, of the Lon-
don working man's dweiliog, are admitted evils
of • far graver class. We do not now mean
to dwell upon them. The point we would
urge is that they are growing, not diminishing, evils.
The difficulty experienced by a working man, em-
ployed in or near the centre of Londou, of obtaining
anything like decent accommodation at a moderate
price, is a rapidly increasing difficulty. Every hook
metropolitan improvement makes the matter wares.
Field•lane and the Rookery are gone, but their
former inmates remain. They have been dispersed
into quarter, once tenanted by the more decent
asnang the poor. Where are the working
men's lodgiog-hoases along that cheerless city
solitude which under the style of Victoria-street

stretches howeekas and desolate from Holborn-
bridge to Clerkenwell ? Or look at the palatial
watchman which bees mods the *oath aide erf
Cannon-street the stateliest has of street ambits's-
titre is London: how many abodes of decent pottery
have been swept away to form that greatest and
best of our metropolitan improvements. In all that
district is there a working maa's lodging to bs
found ? Of mum there is nor, and the reason b
plain. Working men's lodging-houses cannot be
built when the selling priers of land is from
1,000,0001. to 2,000,0001. an acre.

What, then, are we to do in order to remedy the
serious and iocrea-iug inconvenience of obstructed
streets, the far graver and equally increasing evil of
overeiewded Leaden dwelling-housse fur lb* poor?
Mr. Class ns PRADION, the City Solicitor, thinks be
has discovered a plan which, if properly carried
out, will furnish • satisfactory answer to both these
questions. This plan of the City Solicitor's is so
new one; with characteristic energy he has bent
advocating it for years; be has thrown his whole
soul into it, and yesterday he had the opportunity
of submitting his views to • public meeting con-
vened by the LORD MAYOR, attended by
many of the leading City firms, and addressed
by Lord lotto Ruasem, who dwelt with much force
and feeling oat the mineable nature of the scrum-
modation now available for the working classes of
the Metropolis. The main objects of Mr. PEARI4ON'S
scheme are twofold; first, to relieve the streets of
the Metropolis of their present enormous over-
pressure ; secondly, to supply a cheap means of con-
veyance for the working men of London to the
suburb*, where in dwellings adapted to their means
(like those in the &layer omen's'', in the neighbour-
hood of Pule) they may find decent accommodation,

at a great increne of comfort and decrease of met.
His principal means of amomplisbing kis first Olsen
sr* • system of subterranean railmads, radiating

ham a common oentre (say Farringdon-street ass
Smithfield) to the different termini of the Metropo-
litan Railways.
It is obvious that this plan, if capable of being
carried out—as to which we are not in a position to
offer any opinion—would relieve London of that por-
tion of the increased street obstruction which has
been thrown upon it by the through traffic from
one group of Railway Termini to another.
The omnibuses, cabs, and v►ns which now choke our
thoroughfares in conveying passengers and goods
from Shoreditch and Fenchurch-street to Padding-
ton and Nue Elms, from Ruston-square and
cross to London-bridge and the Waterloo-road,
would be tamed under, instead of over, the Armee
of Londe., to the great and manifest advantage of
all by shoot these streets are frequented. The ad-
vantages of a central terminus in the heart of
London, except as a means of thus disposing of the
through traffic, may be more dosibtful. Wherever

a antral terming is establined ao

an almost

of business
Is unavoidable. What space anywhere sear thi
centre of London would snake foe accommodating
the outgoing and incoming Railway Traffic of *1
Metropolis at a terminus which would in reset be a
focus of looomotion to and from every quarter of the
globe ? Would not the stream of goods and pas-
sengers oonvergiag to, or radiating from, this centre
at all hours, produce upon certain lines of thorough-
tire, at least la great a " block" as any that now
exiats ?

Thin and mai filar queetioos must all
be asked end oaddretorily answered before Mr.
CLUBS Pitman's schema can be accepted as
an lagarrameat in as far as it goes to con-
stitute a sastnil terminus. As a means of sup-
plying cheap transit for the working men of
the Metropolis to the suburbs, it appears to promise
a fair mesons of success. If the calculation be well
founded, that the working man can be remunera-
.. . _

lively carried to and fro for moderate distances at
Is. • week, the difficulty from expense appears
solved. Four or five miles out of town be could no
doubt get better accommodation for three shil-
lings • week than he gets in town for
five shillings: the fixed payment, then, of II
• shilling a week to the railway would
give him a more decent lodging at a cheaper rate,
in purer air, and more free from the contaminating
neighbourhood of those degraded and criminal claws
whose nightly avocations are in the thick of great
cities. These are, no doubt, solid advantages; but
here, too, there is something to be considered on the
other side. Would it be well to hare the vast city
spread out immeasurably, till it fills and overflows
the great basin in which it lies, with miles
upon miles of viliagos (terriers ? Would health,
moral or physical, really be promoted in
the long run by such means? Is it wise
thus to overbuild all that yet remains to no of the
country in oar borders? is it well—and this is a grave
question—to habituate the working elasses to dwell
thus apart in separate camps?, In stating these dim-
cattle', we only suggest them as points to be duly
considered and dealt with before any scheme like that
proposed by Mr. Peso/ins can be definitively
adopted. At prolog it is only in an inchoate state,
said we willingly admit that its originator has • fair
right to ask that it should receive the respectful
and careful consideration of all those interested in
improving the metropolitan thoroughfares and in
raising the social status of the metropolitan poor.

tbt Court.

WINDSOR, Dsc. I.

Her Majesty's dinner party yastarday included
the Nutmeat Xent (selsaded by Lady Panay Howird), the
111114 nd Ceentne sf tlasktlets, dse Duke sad bather. of
Moodullut. Lord Odemby, lisier-Osairal th. Han. 0.
any, sad dr Ds .a d WWI= sad the Hos. Ike.
111•Oseley.
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The Qom, with Prises Arthur end Primer Louise, drove
end walked in the Ham Park file naming, and viaited the
Duchess of Kant, at Frogutore.

The Primo C0,*,..t00t out &hooting, acclmpanied by the
Doke of liaselmerr.

The Berl and Countess of lierdwkke and Lord Stanley
left the Coale in the forenoon.

colosa the Hon. A. N. Hood end Captain Du Piet have
mounded Lord Chortles Forßoy and Colour! the Hon. A.
Martino ae EAitterrise la Welting to the Queen end Priam
Comore.

84 Richard Bromley bad an interview with the Earl
of Derby yoga/day, st his 0111,:ial ;voidance in Downing-
street.

Tb. Judicial Casualties of Ur Privy Council eat yr-
terday. An appeal frost Bengal, "Clint Ram v. Chew-
dree Nowbrit " (pert bred), sus concluded.

Deepswhat Irani sent Ira; WI Colonial Otnos puterilay
to Ur Govan of Ilia Want India Wanda and Brit Loki
CAWdm.

Their Royal iiiiltama the Duette= of Cambridge
asd the Prisons liesy, Meads' by Lady Geraldme
meet imA Oa. 'WNW, ha Cambridge Cottage, Yew,
es Tuesday, fat Yam Peek, ea a Malt to Lied sad Lady
/beg.

Tieir Sense Rieman Prince and Princess
Zdwaird et BwWiiire liave retuned to tows from stay-
lag with tas NU sod Dubose at Mitoottester, at Kialtatiat
Grua.

Tee Earl aad Onatase of Errol have arrived at
Feetou'e add, lieu► •btars Gelds, Aberdeesehire.
Lord aad Lady Is&u lave returned to their
met In Bertiardeldee, been wilting the Dube and Duchess
M Meastarater, an K lobelias allefik

Lad Iwigb hu left Foatases Hotel for Stonelcigh
Ablvq,Wervieksblis.

Lilly Tiebborm has arriTed at the Bromwich
Hotel from tat Noe, Tielthorso Peet, Alreeturd.

Mr. and Mrs. &bag Sheridan have daring the
last ark bra anianinei et irk art, Tranvia& Conn,
the Irwin Tinian Dan eel Duerr d
Maria Karelinian K Manny. tan Kea. Kn. K. Phipps,
Mr Rana Lamaism, Mr lralsran sad Lady Iseursrei,
Ylr Kry Boyle, Kr. Tinskiv, Ron R. onniaer, Mr.
Tor/an K.P., Kr. Gann Bastian, M.T., Mr. K. W-
orn; C.apt. Cini, Kr. W. Lyn, ka.

Miss Burdett Coatts Yu arrived at Torquay, sad
takes ap beg resiAsees tor. tbe wistar at Meadtoot Hon"

Mr. Itedworth Jolift., M.P. for Wells, son of Sir
WiMoat Jaffe, Bort., will, it Is WA, 'Lally be 'serried to
W Ilea Agate Byag, EmOw di Lord linfleid, owl shoe
of the Dinkier of Rielskted.

The Right Hos. Robert Low*, M.P. for Kidder-
mimes', win Alt the bairn In the early pert of trot week,
and o■ Wednesday midair will Wren hie conentuests,

Pea ocr A trean.—We begin to ben fears for the
mem of Prince Alfred la Me naval cane'. We were led
to bellem that se the young royal mist was to sajoy so
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