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London, England, 1864-03-02 00:00:00

CROWN OFFICE, FEB. 29.

MEMBERS RETCRNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PAR-
LIAMENT.
County of Dorset—John Floyer, of West Stafford, in the
said county, Esq., in the room of Henry Ker Seymer, Esq.,
who has accepted the office of steward or Bailiff of her
Majesty's Manor of Hempholme,
WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, MARCH 1.
Ist Dragoon Guards—Gentleman Cadet Charles Rainier
Jones, from the Royal Military College, to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice John Robert Burlton Bennett, transferred
to 7th Hussars.
2d Dragoons—Captain Townley Patten Hume Macartney
Filgate, from 18th Hussars, to be Captain, vice Stewart,
who exchanges.
61h Dragoons—Major Theodore Wirgman, from half-pay
Unattached, to be Major, vice John Edward Swindley,
who retires upon half-pay.
7th Hussars—Cornet John Robert Burlton Bennett, from
the Ist Dragoon Guards, to be Cornet, vice William For-
tescue Armstrong, who retires.
18th Hussars—Lieut. Harold Esdaile Malet to be Captain,
by purchase, vice George Harmer Poling, who retires—
Captain John Loin Stewart, from 2d Dragoons, to be
Captain, vice Filgate, who exchanges—Cornet Frederic
Louis irandreth to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Malet—Gentleman Cadet Robert Stevenson, from the
Royal Military College, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
Brandreth.
19th Hussars—Henry Octavius Currie, Gent., late Lieu-
tenant in her Majesty's Indian Forces, to be Paymaster.
21st Hussars—James Clarke Hicks, Esq,, late Captain 18th

Hussars, to be Paymaster.
Royal Artillery—Second Captain Frederick Cockburn
Griffin to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major Richard King
Frceth, removed to the Supernumerary List; Second
Captain John Henry Peile to be Captain, vice Henry
Mercer, died of wounds received in action ; Lieutenant
George Murray Lyon Campbell, to be Second Captain,
vice Griffin ; Lieutenant George Edwin Maule to be
Second Captain, vice Peile; Gentleman Cadet John Mit-
chell Salmond to be Lieutenant, vice Campbell ; Gentle -
man Cadet Henry Samuel Spitler Watkin to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Maule.
Corps of Rt;val Engineers—Lieut.- Colonel and Brevet-
Colonel Willi:3m Charles Hodden to be Colonel, vice
Nelson, retired on full pay—Captain and Brevet-Major
Millington Henry Synge to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice
Brevet-Colonel Haddext—Second Captain Edmund Fre-
derick Du Cane, on the Seconded List, to be Captain—
Seoond Captain William Cossman to be Captain, vice
Brevet-Major Synge—Lieutenolt Edward Mitchell to be
Second Captain, vice Crossman—Gentleman Cadet John
Lawrence Macpherson to be Lieutenant, with temporary
rank, vice Mitchell.
2d Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Fronde Roach Gabbing
to be Captain, by purchase, vice John Leslie Toke, who
retires—Ensign Charles Fairbanks Lawson to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice. Gabbins—Gentleman Cadet
Arthur Thomas Mudge, from the Royal Military Col-
lege, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lawson.
sth Foot—Lieutenant Charles Langford Oliver, from the
1024 Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Beasley, who ex-
changes.
7th Foot—Gentleman Cadet William Prescod Holmes,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Charles Tayleur, who retires.
Bth Foot—Captain Angus William Hall, from Adjutant of
a Depot Battalion, to be Captain, vice John M'Queen,
appointed Adjutant of a Depot Battalion.
11th Foot—Lieutenant Christopher Samuel Bailey, from
16th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Boyce, who exchanges.
15th Foot—Captain Andrew John Cowper to bo Major, by
purchase, vice William Cairnes Armstrong, who retires
—Captain William Wood, from 74th Foot, to be Cap-
tain, vice Low, who exchanges—Lieutenant Francis
lronside Rawlins to be Captain, by purchase, vice Cowper
—Ensign Henry John Lancaster to Le Lieutenant, by
pnrchase, vice Rawlins—Ensign Arthur Fishe, from the
67th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Lancaster.
16th Foot—Lieutenant;;John Boyce, from the 11th Foot,
to be Lieutei2olt, vice Bailey, who exchanges.
18th Foot—Ennis n Henry Goraon Heath to bo Instructor
of Musketry, Lieutenant John Wily, who has re-
signed the appointm.'nt•
19th Foot Lieutenant t.),gorge Douglas Harris to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice E.' Stokes
Robert Ward Bayley,
win,
et
Henri to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Harris—GentletCan Cadet John Francis
James Miller, from the Royal ls:ilitary College, to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Stokes.
,ton to be Lieu-
25th Foot—Ensign Francis Edward Cara.
who re-
tenant, by purchase, vice Charles Bassett ..I.4e.wiß,
from the
tires—Gentleman Cadet Henry Hartley Pr.. throe
chase) vice
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by pus.
Carleton.
31st Foot—Ensign Richard Horatio Townsend to 1,:`) In-
31st
of .Musketry, vice Captain George NicholOn
Pepper, who resigns the appointment.
34th Foot—Captain Irving Francis Kennedy, from half-
pay, late 41st Foot, to be Captain, vice Julius Dyson
Laurie, seconded on appointment as District Inspector of
Musketry.
37th Foot-Ensign Russell Skinner to bo Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Michael Andrews Borthwick, who retires
—Gentleman Cadet Edward Jodrell, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice

Skinner.
46th Foot—Lieutenant Frank Grieve to be Adjutant, vice
Ensign John Dwyer, who resigns the appointment—
Ensign John Dwyer to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase.
60th Foot—Major Randal Joseph Feilden to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel Webbe Butler,
who retires—Captain henry Edward Warren to be
Major, by purchase, vice Fielden—Lieutenant Edward
Campbell Ainslie to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Warren—Ensign Charles Louis Constantine tie Itobeck
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ainslie—Geotleman
Cadet Thomas Ambrose Worawick, from the Royai Mili-
tary College, to be Ensign, lay purchase, vice de Robeck.
67th Foot—Lieutenant George Thomson to he
without purchase, vice Edward Cozen, deceased—En.
sign William Mascall Kenrick to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Thomson—Gentleman Cadet Charles
Christian Pearson, from the Royal Military Collegerre , to d
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Arthur Fishe, transfe
to 15th Foot. to be
74th Foot—Captain John Low, from 15th Foe"
Captain, vice Wood, who exchanges.
79th Foot—Gentleman Cadet John Angus from the Royal
nwglittlea resigns,ters
Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Arthur
Lenon, who retires.
B'ld Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon
johNhinvelkni,
iDttaDwoews to be Lieutenant
to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
100th Foot—Ensign Bethel Martin
by purchase, vice Reginald Ble . I ires
—Ensign Alexander Webster 14.0..enz!.e, from 30th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Joseph Dooley,
who retires on temporary half pay—Gentleman Cadet
John Hart from the Royal Military College, to be Ent
John
boyot—PuLreiheuast:n' avnicteJDoahwn°BCampbell Partridge to be
Adjutant, vico Lieutenant Henry Howard Chapman,
kilted in action.
102 d Foot—Lientenant George Todderick Beasley, from
the sth Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Oliver, who ex-
changes.
104th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Campbell Richardson to be
Paymaster.
Rifle I3rigade—Lieutenant Charles Edward Buckley to be
captain, without purchase, vice Frederic Carl I'layne,
deceased.
' 4th -West India Regiment—Captain Meyrick William Bid-
well Edwardea has been permitted to retire from the ser-
vice by the sale of his commission.
Cape Mounted Riflemen—Major Oliver Barker D'Arcy
has been permitted to retire ti om the service by the sale
of
his commission; Captain and Brevet-Major Frederick
Campbell has been permitted to retire from the service by
the sale of his commission.
DEPOT BATTALlONS.—Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Gil-
bert Elliot, from half pay, late Rifle Brigade, to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel Frederick Green
Wilkinson, who retires upon temporary half pay—Capt.
John, 11'Queen, from Bth Foot, to be Adjutant, vice

Captain Angus William Hall, transferred to the Bth

PURVEYORS' DEPARTMENT,—Purveyor's Clerk Frede-
rick William Page to be Deputy Purveyor, vice George
Ward, deceased—Furveyor,a Clerk Robert Deport to be
Deputy Purveyor, vice Thomas Rogers Vicary, deceased,

The Metropolitan Railway Schemes.

The report of the joint committee of both Houses
of Parliament appointed to consider the best method

of dealing with the railway schemes proposed to be
sanctioned within the limits of the metropolis states

that :

" The railway schemes that have been referred
for the consideration of the joint-committee are of
extraordinary magnitude for so limited an area as

the metropolitan railway district, extending over a
length of 174 miles in the aggregate, involving the
raising a capital of nearly £33,000,000 in shares
and of £11,000,000 by loan, creating alarm among
the holders of a vast amount of property, and in•
terfering, during the construction of the proposed
works, with many important public thoroughfares.
They include the construction of not less than four
new railway bridges across the Thames, two of
_ _

them of gigantic size below London-bridge. It is
stated by the surveyor to the Commissioners of
Sewers of the city of London that the lands and
buildings scheduled in the city of London for the
proposed railway schemes comprise about one-fourth
of the:entire area of the city.
" The committee are of opinion that thefollowing
bills or parts of bills should not be proceeded with
during the present session :—Victoria Station and

Thames Embankment, Oxford-street and City,
London Main Trunk, Underground Metropolitan
Grand Union (the portion south of Thames-street),
Charing-cross (Northern), Charing-cross (Western),
London Union, Metropolitan District (a portion
forming the outer circuit), Tottenham and Far.
ringdon-street.
" The committee recommend that the fees which
have been incurred in respect of the said bills be
remitted.

" The two first. named of these lines are proposed
to be worked on the pneumatic principle—a prin-
.

ciple hitherto untried as applied to railway passen-
ger carriages, and it seems undesirable that the
experiment should first be made in an important

public thoroughfare. They are passenger railways,
and are intended to relieve the streets of omnibus

and cab traffic. The necessity for any such lines has
been to some extent lessened, supposing the rail-
ways forming the inner circuit scheme referred to
in a subsequent part of this report be sanctioned.
" The London Main Trunk Underground Rail-
way proposes to provide a more central station for
the Great Eastern, an object which is also sought
to be accomplished by the Great Eastern itself by
the Great Eastern Metropolitan Station and Rail-
way Bill. The Select Committee of the House of

Lords on metropolitan railway communication of
last Session recommended that the Great Eastern
should be allowed to establish a more central sta-
tion than it has at present.
" The portion of the Metropolitan Grand Union
south of Thames-street which the committee recom-

mend should not be proceeded with involves a high-
level bridge over the river below London-bridge.
The connexion between the railways north and
south of the river at the end of the mei:ropolis might,
appears to the committee, be better effected by
the ,ast London through the Thames Tunnel and
the prop
nosed abandonment approved by the pro-
moters, any ,
the committee recommend that they
should be allo%, to amend their estimate, and be
permitted to withd, -rt w a portion of their deposit.
"Three schemes on ..his
+ list, the Charing.cross
(Western), the London UnL,in, and the portions of
the metropolitan district railtvu.,vs proposed to be
postponed, in addition to other °Ns^t ons, require.
the construction of bridges across the Tth2mes, one
of them being a high level bridge below Lot:dm"
bridge.

"It is further to be observed with reference to
these schemes that railway communication between
the lines north and south of the Thames already

exists on the 'Westminster side of the metropolis by
means of the West London and West London ex-
tensions railways, and another line is in course of
construction through the centre of London by the
London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, which when
completed will unite their south London system
'with the Metropolitan Railway at Farringdon-

street, thereby giving them a communication with I
the Great Northern line, and thus of necessity con-
necting the Charing-cross and South Eastern Rail-
ways at Charing-cross with any of the main lines
to the north, as proposed by any of the last-men-
tioned schemes is not urgent.

"The Tottenham and Farringdon-street Railway,
by which it is proposed to connect the Cambridge
line of the Great Eastern with the station at Far-
ringdon-street is open to the same objection urged
against the Charing-cross (Northern), and the
Tottenham and Hampstead (extension to Charing-
cross) in that it tends to create a great central
station, inasmuch as the Great Northern, the Mid-
land, and the London, Chatham, and Dover Rail-
way, are already brought in direct station commu-
nication with the Metropolitan Railway at Far-
ringdon-street. As the Great Eastern Railway is
another scheme for an approved station, which the
committee recommend should proceed, it appears
desirable that this bill should be postponed, at all
events until it can be known by experience whether
any inconvenient amount of traffic will be concen-
trated at Farringdon-street by the lines already to
meet there.
" The estimated capital required for the construe-
tion of the schemes above proposed to be postponed
amounts to £18,500,000 in the aggregate, exclusive
of what was proposed to be raised by loan for the
purpose of the undertaking. The remainder of the
sum of estimated expenditure above referred to may
be expected to be reduced by the rejection of Borne
of the schemes allowed to proceed.
"Without expressing any opinion as to the merits
of the following bills, the committee recommend
that they should be proceeded with in the ordinary
course, being only improvements of existing lines or
works connecting links of a very limited extent, for
enlargement of_stations in no way conflicting with
any comprehensive system of metropolitan railways
—viz., Great Northern and Victoria Station, Lon-
don and Blackwall (Extension) ; London, Brighton,
and South Coast (new lines in Battersea) ; Great
Northern (No. 1, Barnet branch) ; London and
North Western (additional powers): London and
South Western (additional works) ; North London
(additional powers); London, Chatham, and Dover
(No. 2); Great Eastern (junctions, except junction
No. 3) ; Midland and St. Pancras branch ; Metro-
politan (additional powers).
"The committee also recommended that the Me-
tropolitan and St. John's Wood should be allowed
to proceed, as it is a line that passes through a not
very populous but increasing district without inter-
fering with much property, and in no way compet-
ing with any other scheme. The committee might
here remark that it is proposed co be constructed as
a single line only.

" The committee also recommend that the Ham-
mersmith, Midland, and North Western, and Chia-
ring-cross Junction shall be allowed to proceed.
This scheme is in some degree open to an objection
already referred to, that it tends to create a central
station at Charing cross. It, however, proposes an
addition to the railway, which is to be constructed
wholly in tunnel, to form three new streets, one of
them of a very important character, in continuation
of Tottenham-court-road from Oxford-street, in a
direct line to St. Martin's-lane, near Aldridge's Re-
pository, and from thence to the Thames Embank-
ment, near Charing-cross Railway Station. This
new thoroughfare would be a substitute for the pre-
sent objectionable road through Seven-dials and
High-street, St. Giles, and be a great public im-
provement. The combination of new streets in
crowded parts of the metropolis, with the construc-
tion of new railways, WAS recommended in the re-
port of the Lords' Committee last session. The com-
mittee are of opinion that if the select committee to
which the hill for these schemes may be referred
should see fit to sanction the scheme they should do
go only on condition that the new streets above
referred to should be constructed cotemporaneously
with the railway, and that provision should be made
in the bill for insuring its completion.
" The committee concur in the opinion expressed
by the select committee of the House of Lords on
metropolitan railway communication last session in
their third report, that, with a view to the distri-
bution of passenger traffic arriving by the main
lines of railway coming within the metropolis, and
also the relieving the crowded streets by the ab-

sorption of a large portion of the omnibus and cab
traffic, the completion of the inner circuit of rail•
ways is desirable.

"It was estimated by the evidence 1 afore the
committee that great additional accommodation,
especially for the labouring classes, is daily becoming
more necessary, while there is no prospect of the
present ordinary means of conveyance being at all
adequate to future wants, and they are of opinion
that the following schemes which contribute
towards the formation of such a circuit may pro-
perly be proceeded with.
" Metropolitan District Railways (the portion
forming the inner circuit 32, 33, 34, and junctions
7,8, and 9).
" Metropolitan Railway (Trinity-square, Exten-
sion).

" Metropolitan Railway (Notting-hill and
Brompton Extension).
" Metropolitan Grand Union (portion north of
the Thames): _ _ _

The committee are also of opinion that the
following schemes—viz., the East London, Great
Eastern (Metropolitan stations and railways),
Great Eastern (junction No. 8), North London
(Kingsland and Tottenham line), Walthamstow,
Clapton, and City may be properly proceeded with,
and as these schemes more or less enter into com-
munication, or compete or conflict in levels with
the schemes above referred to, as designed to form
the inner circuit,and with each other, the committee
are of opinion that all the above schemes may with
advantage be grouped together, and be referred to
the same select committee.

"In making these recommendations the committee
are of opinion that the greatest accommodation to
the public will not be secured by treating the two
schemes which pursue almost the same line from
Kensington to Brompton to the City merely as com-
peting schemes, one of which is to be preferred to
the exclusion of the other. The committee are of
opinion that the promoters of these schemes should
be recommended to communicate together and with
the surveyors of the City and Metropolitan Board
of Works, and devise the most perfect line which
their several plans will admit of. By a relaxation
of the standing orders such revised plan may be
embodied in one Bill. The Metropolitan Railway
(Trinity-square Extension) and the Western
branches of the East London Railway should also
be part of the proposed consultation. By bucb a
course much useless expenditure would be saved,
and the interests of the Metropolis far better secured
than by taking the chanee of selection of one among
the competing lines.

" The committee observe with regret that two of
the schemes which they have recommended should
be allowed to proceed pass through Finsbury-circus
in open cutting. They are, however, informed that
the promoters of both are willing to substitute a
covered way for the open cutting. In the event of
the select committee finding it desirable to adopt
either of those lines in preference to those which do
not interfere with the Circus, the committee recom-
mend that effectual provision shall be made by which
the time to elapse between the breaking up of any
part of the garden and the completion of the works
there and the proper restoration of the enclosure
shall be as short as possible.
" Although the committee have recommended
that those portions of the metropolitan district rail-
ways scheme which are designed to form the outer
circuit shall not be proceeded with, they concur
with the House of Lords Committee of last Session
in thinking an outer circuit desirable, and they are
of opinion that this object might be accomplished
by uniting the existing railways on the eastern side
of the metropolis with one another, and connecting
th,;;_qe of them which are situate on the north side of
the Thaii2es with the railways on the south side,
making use for this purpose of the Thames Tunnel.
For this purpose it would be necessary for the East
London to be in connection with the North London,
the Great Eastern, and London and Black wall
Railways. This combination, taken in connection
with the existing lines on the west and south of the
metropolis, as suggested by the secretary of the
London and North-Western Railway Company in
his evidence before the committee, would complete
the outer circuit, but it would be further necessary
that mutual facilities to be secured by legislative
enactment should be afforded by the several com-
panies for ..nterchange of traffic.
" in order to give the public the full extent of the
system of intercommunication such as that which
has been suggested, it would be desirable that the
select committee to whom the metropolitan schemes

in question may be referred should require that such
modifications may be made in the schemes that may
be sanctioned as may be necessary for effecting the
proposed combination, and also that a clause should
be inserted in the bills Of all railway companies
having termini within the metropolitan district,
for securing a mutual interchange of facilities
for working the traffic upon railways in that

districts on equitable terms among themselves,
and Athout any undue preference, the terms
to be settled in case of difference by the Board
of Trade, or an arbitrator to be appointed by that
department. A clause should also, thee think, be
inserted in each of the bills providing that railways
having their termini within the metropolis shall be
subject to the provisions of any Act to be passed in
the present or any future seßsion for the regulation
of railways within the metropolis.
" The committee are of opinion that some of the
prooisions of the Railway Clauses Consolidation
Act, 1315, require provisions in relation to the
metropolitan arrangements, and they
recommend
the introduction of a bill for that purpose.
They
desire also to direct attention to a suggestion of
Colonel Yolland's report to the Board of Trade as to
the expediency of requiring all places for railways
within the Metropolitan Railway district being
drawn to the same datum line.
" The committee are of opinion that in the pre-
sent session such of the bills proposing to sanction
railway communication within the limits of the
metropolis as are to be proceeded with should com-
mence in the House of Commons."
The report concludes by stating that a map,
showing the existing and proposed railways in the
metropolis, accompanies the report, and that the
committee have directed the minutes of evidence
taken before them, together with the appendix, to
be reported.