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

bers or to capitulate, preferred to withdraw, and,
sharply pursued by the enemy, retreated upon Flens-
borg, whence the major portion of the army crossed
into the district of Schleswig, called from the arm
of the sea which separates it from the mainland the

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the privilege of laying a railway above or belh°t for.
and a still more audacious engineer has br°g,. ja the
ward a plan for carrying a line on a vial3tte"o alr
stream of the river itself, with stations 13, 0,109
proaches at all the bridges. A so-called 'Slid' doe
to
Railway is designed to pass from E•elleivgi,icca-
Knightsbridge, thence to Hyde-park-corner, 0- of
dilly,Charing-cross, and the Strand; and a as
arks`
subordinate schemes of the same coMpanY hre of the
down over all the most important Parts t$
a
metropolis. A yet naore ambitious comp' , ;eh
lodation sc.. .
project to supply the whoe accorati ratli°ef
e
requires by a double circuit of ;rnaeiss of l be
storafffigrcoaitn
one for the convenience of the goods 011,57 For
01a.
maino.ho lines, and the other as a substitute ;°` .ve I
suburbliio has at It eiioa
with
in embryo, to bring it into immediate eou'ara.
orthleittlionitmerplrtuonfoel,ondon. ,ast ono
the City. Tottenham and Ed gNgar e ) i'-eO)..
mersm i t. h and Clapton, Waltharnstow and-ri,:deat
arstead, and a score of other districts around ))°,;005,
e all to be amply provided for ; and the % aid
side is to be linked to the North by lines ab°./ffeent
below. the river, at we know' not how mall uiro;ects,
paints. Besides the crowd of independent P..-z, 00
every great line is plashing inwards either wifitll
City or the West End. The Great Eabter%hore,
somedi reason, is weary of its banishment A, sad
and the Great Northern, the Iklidlallu faces
Cuthward, and
theten ;
so North Western are setting their „aria
eighboalti
into a vast combination of termival 6t.a t'o b 3
threatening to convert '''' hood
In spite of unmanageable levels► the Strand,?Deer.
assed, and the new station on the site of bola
ford Market to be made available for the
t; or
mNorthern system. But it is vain to atteillPt for the
erate half the proposals whiet aro ruatletbetasil
demolition of London. As laid dt;val upon - beta
they may be seen to reduce the b abitable 1,1.. sod!
metropolis by a very considerable pecentar"ch ice
rewhat is more important in the view in W13„1. flier
gard the matter, they leave scarcely' B-iroati,
whetherwithout
short or long, above or bele/ dr to
u some body of projectors wh oare reti stoet
peorthect system of railways for the
undertake its construction. Whatel'ir ttr's 0131
foundb ought to be, the whole of it is assuredlY,i of°
somewhere among the schemes ich'c'oblell
beenbrought forward ; and the only teal► the
Parliament has to perform is to eliminate fr°,oteit,
planseabl before it the vast mass of useless or lOrich,;er
lines, and to leave a working systelll 00,
affored
mum all the accommodation desired, with °DLit Pe
injurythis to London and its inhabitantai 4ot or
y concur, j 0 and this,m ii
tt t nsle
ea rnyiY hebtierc°hlll3°l3l3lllrsst:eolif
do
see ceu shall
e d h
some the committee must be under the ct.°.l botili
one comprehensive principle in lve, oil'
houses
propssed. It is perhaps fortunate that the,,oolfil!
t.projectors have exerted themselves so vig7geheale'
he present session. A less alarming eroP°',"be pa
might have been allowed to slip throligh:e 0001'
liamentaryuiee net without much re,gard to the
he of the unfortunate inhabitants o.` pia t°
butn
awaken
e raid is on so magnificent a scale as od po9'
the attention of the Legislature, 4, 0011 il/
sibly to Teed to a much needed reform, not ifi the
the
principles Of railway cnstructo, but
whole machinery of private billsS.