The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-12 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

SPAIN.

MADRID, March 11.—The question of the Aid-
aides Railway, which has been again brought
forward by M. Salamanca, has just been definitively
set elide by the Cortes, who hive adopted by a
majority of 105 to 28 the Ardanaz propositicii,
which restricts the rights of individual initiative
relative to demands for concession of new lines.

Hampstead, Midland, and ' North-Western
Charing-cross Junction Railway.

The joint committee of the Houses of Lords and Commons
having reported that this bill should be allowed to proceed,
daring the present session of Parliament, the owners,
lessees, and occupiers of property to be pulled down, or
injuriously affected, to form new streets from the Thames
Embankment, at the foot of Villiers-street, across the
Strand, and through the parishes of St. Martin-in-the-
Fields and St. Giles-in-the-Fields, to Tottenham-court-
road, held a meeting yesterday, in St. Martin's Hall,
to consider what steps should be taken by the parties inte-
rested to protect themselves from injury to their property,
and loss of their trade, during the progress, or on the com-
pletion of the works, and to ensure adequate compensation
for the same, and for that purpose to obtain insertion in the
bill of such clauses and provisions as may be necessary.
The chair was taken at three o'clock by Mr. 1 hordaa
iNnV- ldotohlel_eFyi l‘eiars.shall, one of the churchwardens of St. Martin-

The CRAIRMAN said they had met that afternoon to take
into their consideration a matter to many of them of vital
importance, viz., the destruction and obstruction that
would be occasioned if Parliament 'gave its sanc-
tion to the proposed new railway. Whilst railway
way interests were well organised, the unfortunate per-
sons whose property was required in the majority of in-
' stances were totally helpless owing to their union. They
had all heard of the scheme which would so interfere with
their property and business, and without they took some
very active steps they would be left totally at the mercy of
the railway directors. He did not want anything but
what was right, and with less than that he did not for one
mojnent intend to rest satisfied. There were about 47 railway
directors amongst the members of the House of Lords, and
157 in the House of Commons, so they were well enough
represented, but what was the position of the owners of
property in the line of a proposed railway ? Why they
were totally uncared for, and the only way they had of
making themselves heard was by opposing the measure in
committee. He thought it would be perfectly useless after
the report of the joint committee of both Houses of Parlia-
ment, to attempt to oppose the scheme which would so
largely interfere with business, but they could fight for
their interests inch by inch in the committee, and
that was the course he thought the inhabitants
of the two parishes had better pursue. He did not want,
as he said before, anything unreasonable, but what he did
say was that the railway directors should pay a sovereign
for every sovereign's worth of the property they took,
(Hear, hear.)

Mr. DINGEILFIELD then, at the request of the chairman,
explained the exact position of the matter, and the various
ways of obtaining the insertion of protecting clauses or
alteration of others by the parliamentary committee, which
the parishioners could adopt.
A number of the most influential gentlemen in the parish
of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields then addressed the meeting,
after which it was determined to make a most vigorous
opposition to some of the clauses of the bill in committee,
and a number of gentlemen were selected to act on behalf
of the meeting in obtaining the necessary protection for
those whose property or business was likely to be interfered
with by the railway.
During the meeting it was stated that no less that 400
properties in the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields and
St. Giles's, involving the interests of more than 1,000
families, would be required by the parties making the pro-
posed new railway.
The meeting, which was a most numerous and deter-
mined one, then separated after a vote of thanks to the
chairman.