The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-30 00:00:00

N IMPROVEMENT AND
EMBANKMENT.

At • meeting of the Society of Arts yesterday,
Rev. Dr. Hoorn, F.H.S., in the chair, Mr. FRANCIS BEN-
coca road a paper on this subject, in which, after stating
that in 1867 we have ten times the number of vehicles tra-
versing the streets that we bad in 1801, he observed that
the removal of Middle-row and Tembie-ber was necessary
as a :preliminary measure, and that it was indispensably
W necemary to secure at itt them great thoroughfares east
and west. To meet this necessity we have on the north •
direct lino from Charing-cross to London-bridge by way of
the Strand, Fleet-street, Ludgate-MU, St. Paul's and Can-
non-ed. The centre tine should be the continuation of

Chseiwide, meth d Peemnostervow, over Farringdoo-street
by a video& bearing . iOtly to tho south of Linecdn's-ina•
Seib, end so as to meet the tpruvemeDte in the west on
line with Piccadilly. The northern line should be New
Word-and, a part of Holden, diverging at the top of the
hilt, sod by • viaduct erowflg Victoria-sued to Smithfield.
Etalw.front of St. Bdomew's Hospital, through
aciose, across Aldersgsto-street on the level.

in a line with and into London-wall, joiniti
the Pavement for Houton traffic, BiehepegaMsiroat
for Hackney or Shoreditch tragic, and proceeding
down to the river aide, by way of Houndsditcb,
the Kincein and Tower-hill, crafting the river by •
Mean ferry. On the south aide the new street res,lved upon
by the Metropolitan Board of Works would be of immense
Ocamnihnee, although he thought the line abeam by
_Mr.
pannethess. W _Tosgilevelo,and=
m the lOW
Senewesks should be meth bee el WIZ
thnentseheit, betas. CsanenNreet aid Cheepaitmtil
with
of a width equal le that between Cennessetreet and
sheet. St. Pites•lids, which he inigneed may.
would, next to heMfti have the Wren teethe earths
the river.
the Telpiestridge nal it
• non inparient
hens* in Nerearthenent. It wadi
tai l the
tine tin whole dithici ad Itheelef ether
adrentegn. Watnieesbridp amid be km of iga.
Nod Hunpethrd widened End theigilmined to beer '
hall Pei, Aar all, the Nag haperiel eisp wasnt E
nathineent et the deer Iliansin The plea peeped nth-
cetilmatennede, • carriege-way, and • sidihramoail=
at •IN the elks week might be
the nelespelle ea the saintry • Lathing. 11i• thew
nati the NEway, end the frontage obtained fame the
rim, wadi net ashy compensate a persons havintp,
b=inilnellenne dividend to the errors The
otheennes at Wesabridge anneieris
Wat the propel St. Paura-tithige. A railway stens
Atha the Potheion_ being in cantheation of the neat
%thy railway hem ithireateas ; k hikers the road on the
anbankraent aims the dew, Ales
_a NNW at Whitehall,
=ads retaa te Weirs& Ned Brantford. The
el Whalen end tits Temple are to be enlarged.
pilaw, prim as ft war boat of Somerset
wary then Neal( &min the river is to be improved. end
=Yr of wharf aftiememillitin /NMen th tow
The railway starting to.. the Pon-office bee •
km& tsYleg k with the South Welton ea the one hied.
whlle en de ether it is anneeled whit the Senth thersine,
Hie thought Oh mike whim brie Theme Priori net;
MAW Amnon, and • het lend bridge at lit.
=it amid be completed in dve yearn On the
lewd facing the elver, it is Nopoead to
plan Os when and ether 11101111 oainedW with trade;
en • Wgher lavel. but roman canaiderably, is a yro-
tomb fir pew ; Nod COMM the space over which.
en ken ethane, the railway le be be lad dews ; next come
the roadway far eankars. d 0 hat *ft and then calker
footway or Nemeth& la" bent of the he.... that may be
inlet • the ells width he het panthree,
way, sand sallway, being 100 feet. Aitedivar the Wei nu
aim the side of the new road, boa flt. Pees to EN-
pled and Celle, and breaching of is the be, givethe
railway
conmines le the hamenee omnibus poplins' at Cambers
wall, Lainthertan &Litho, Clapham", end Otheithant, uniting
with the Crystal Palace Railway to the arest-ead. It is
further proposed to unite the Thermo Eninlonent Railway
with the Stockwell Railway.
A dlecesnion awned, in which Dr. Lathe by, Heron John
Ware, Edwin Gan C. 8., and Hayward, and the Chair-
man, took put