The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-15 00:00:00

1,
the privilege of IL‘Ying "A has b ought for-
and a still more auLlahi°us e 13, g: in --1. ri
a viarduct in the
ward a plan for cart:Ting ,a,"123.t-.3
h. stations and ap•
stream of the river itself, with a railway . above or below 1 ,
proaches at all the bridb'es. 'A
1
Aso
-roi n Eiensington to
11.!ailway is. designed to
Pt.a-de- a rk-corner, Picot-
Knightsbridge, thence to II s
P d and a variety of
tran ;
ci .11ed Mid -Lobe
dilly,Claaring-cross, and the ~ marl;
aubordinateschemesof thea Yarts of the
down over all the most t. 'orta.a p v .
as a
us cm. pa.n, h
caetropolis. A yet more ambit which
mnioaatio.n 5.....
project to
resupply the whole acco
a C 0133 ,0 ET ,are DI
London requirea by a double circa. ;aess of tae
one for the convenience of the goodt flts4--- he co.,
main lines, and the other as a substitt. ~f for t
Ever
nibus traffic in the interior of Lot. 'Ll°ln' o7e.
suburb of great or little importance haLt , O,
it of railNa) ~
line in embryo, to bring it into immediate leastle,,
with the City, Tottenhatn and Edgwai • ,ii;to.p.
raerstnith and Clapton, Walthamstow and i
Surrey
stead, and a score of other districts around 1
are all to be amply providtrd for; and the
ve
and
side is to be linked- to the North by lines abo
. rereat
below the river, at we know not how many dd. ;ects,
points. Besides the crowd of independent proti
the
every great line is pushing inwards either _„0
City or the West End. 'fix Greet Eastern,,
L'or"e.,
some reason, is weary o!' its banishnient in b 00d
°ado,
ditch ; and the Great Northern, the l‘lidla'rld'facs
the North Western "are setting the,ir..
ri
ii
southward, and threatening to cony ert Uniel'od
Cross and all the iintnediate neighbOurtions„
into a vast combination of terraival fr,tPto be'
In spite of unmanageable levels, the Strand I%,er-
passed, and the new station on the eite of Huh id
ford Market to be made available for the icbt,
Northern system. But it is vain to atteraPt to eo.,"':
merate half the proposals which are made for tlf,
demolition of London. As laid down upon theoF,
they may be seen to reduce the habitable area
metropolis by a very considerable percentae.;4 ads
what is more important in the view in any live,
regard the matter, they leave scarcely wiJ of,
whether short or long, above or beioW gr° to
without some body of projectors who are realot
undertake its constructiou. Whatever the „,,,,
perfect system of railways for the metrop!is Le_ be
found
to be, the whole of it is assuredlY t'Ll.o
somewhere among the schemes which f:ich
been brought forward ; and the only to roe
Parliament has to perform is to eliminate frei`'..ota,
cableaffe lines, and to leave a working
plans before it the vast mass of useless or rkieb
rd all the accommodation desired, with thendit to
mum injury to London and its inhabit:Otte. rl°f
do this the committee must be under 06 c°,1313 both
someb one comprehensive principle in NOP' d, 0411
be
euses shall concur, and this, it may be h°re been
secured by the joint committee which 0500 of
proposed. It is perhaps fortunate that the raoia
projectorstb have exerted themselves so vige:°lltieoco
systera si;vi..
mighte present session. A less alarming crop °' '3c Va'
liamentary have been allowed to slip through
"ecohcr
n_ebe net without much regard th theliodoal
buti cof the unfortunate inhabitants 01 yto
the raid is on so magnificent a scale as Jad to
awakenaibi the attention of the Legislature, 13 } irt
y to leed to a much needed reforth, tiot °I) the
the principles of railway construction, but ill
vhole machinery of private bill business.
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