The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-20 00:00:00

The Inner Circle,

The line sanctioned by Lord Stanley's committee
commences by a double junction with the West
London Extension Railway between the Richmond-
road and Kensington, and passing through Earl's-
court, forms a connection with the Metropolitan E-
xtension Railway at High-street, Kensington, where
there is an exchange station, and by another fork
-turns to the south to Gloucester-road, where another
exchange station is made, and thence it continues
parallel to the'Metropolitan Extension Railway to
Alfred-place, West Brompton, where the terminal

station of the Metropolitan Extension Railway is
intended to be made. By these junctions, and the
exchange stations, opportunities will be given to all
the railways to find their way to the West London
Extension, London and North. Western, Great Wes-
tern, Brighton, and London and South-Western,
to communicate with the inner circle, and distribute
and exchange, and. receive their traffio from it. The
first station is in Sloane-square. The line passes to the
south of Thurloe.square and thence across the Ful-
ham•road, and across a numbzr of secondary streets
to Cadogan-terrece, at which point the Metropo.

Titan Grand Union Line down to the Victoria Sta•

tion is adiwpted, as it avoids a gcod deal of opposi•
tion from the district of Chester-square and other
places. At the Victoria Station the Metropolitan
District Line is adopted for a short distance, then
the Grand Uniou proposed line, for the purpose of

avoiding passing down Victoria-street, to which
there vas great objection made. By taking this
line, and running down Tothill-street, and widen-

iog it from a 30-feet street, to a 60-feet street, a
very great public improvement will be accomplished.
At the Westminster Hospital the District Railway
is taken, and from that point eastward it alone is
adopted. It is proposed to form a station at the
Victoria Station, taking a clump of houses between
the Victoria Station and Shaftesbury-terrace. At

Westminster a station would be formed between
Bridge-street and the Thames Embankment. It
was in contemplation to have had a line under cover,
to have given access to the Houses of Parliament,

but that is the private property of the Queen,
and the proposal has been struck out of the bill

The Crown probably knows as much about it as the
Khan of Tartary, but Mr. Gardiner, the agent, is
entitled to object if he likes. From Westminster
Station the line goes through the embankment to
Charing-cross. It passes under one of the openings
of the bridge, and dins not interfere with the Char-
ing-cross railway in any way. There is to be
another station at Blackfriars of a similar character
to that at Charing-cross—namely, for the locality,
and also an exchange station with the railway which
it there, which is at that place—the Lou.
don,
Chatham,
and Dover. From Blackfriars the
intersects
line follows the route of the new street which is
called New Earl-street, and along that street up to
very nearly the point wi:ere that new street joins
Cannon-street. Then it, diverges from that and runs
parallel to Cannon-".street, coming to the station of
the Charing-cress Railway. The line pass 10ft. be-
low the leveii of their rails. So far the line is kept
through an inferior class of property, At Trinity-
equate the line will run into the station of the Me-
tropolitan Extension Railway, which had just passed
this committee, and that will be an entire comple-
tion of the inner circle. All the questions affecting
sewers and works under the control of the Metropo-
litan Board of Works have been agreed upon.
There is only the question of compensation to be
Pelit. The length of the line through is VI miles;
t:eat which constitutes the completion of the inner
circle—the connecting link from Brompton to Tri-
nity-square—is 4 miles 75 chains ; the remaining
lines are 2 miles 44 chains ; the length actually pro-
posed by the bill is 7 miles 39 chains. The total
area of the property required will be 27a. lr. 19p. ;
the total number of buildings permanently removed
will be 234, and the total number of buildings in.
terfered with 808. This estimate includes every-
thing except the 'Thames Embankment and the
streets, distinguishing that from property ; includ-
ing everything, it would be 41a. 3r. 23p. The
quantity of property permanently retained in the
city, is loss than an aere—it is 3r. 23p. One prac-
tical effect will be that instead of terminal stations
there will be, comparatively speaking, only road*
side stations, and the' terminal business will be done
off the line. Eleven dwellings, 19 dwellinghouses,
with shops or offices, five shops or cffices only, and
four warehouses or largo buildings, will be perma-
nently removed, in the city of London, and during
' the execution of the works 32 dwellinghouses, 117
dwellinghouses with shops or offices, 11 shops or
offices only, and 32 warehouses or large build-
ings, making a total of 192—these would be re-
constructed. . The capital proposed to be raised
is £3,600,00, of which £1,918,502 is for the pur-
chase of land, the balance, £1,651,498, being the
estimated cost of the works.—Railway News.

DIE EiFRESSION OF DRESS.--Women are more
like flowers than we think. In their dress and
adosnment they express their nature, as the flowers do their
petals and colours. Some women are like the modest daisies
and violets —they never look or feel better than when dressed
in a morning wrapper. Others are not themselves unless
they can flame out in gorgeous dyes, like the tulip or bush
rose. Who has not seen women just like white lilies?' We
know several double marigolds and poppies. There are
women fit only for velvets, like the dahlias; others are
graceful and airy, like azaleas. Now and then you see
hollyhocks and sunflowers. When women are free to dress
as they like, uncontrolled by others, and not limited by
their circumstances, they do not fail to express their true
characters, and dress becomes a form of expression very
genuine and useful.—George ltieredith's _Emilia in _Eng-
land,"