The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-15 00:00:00

New Street in Southwark,

Yesterday a new and commodious thoroughfare, intended
as a continuation eastward into the populous districts of
Bermondsey and Rotherhithe of the main street recently
opened between the borough of Southwark and the western
parts of the metropolis by way of Stamford street, was dedi-
cated to the public use in presence of Mr Thwaites, the
chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the members
of the Local Board for the district of St. Olave, and many
other of the principal inhabitants. The new street, which
connects Bermondsey and old St. Thomas's street, is about
1,050 ft long and 40ft wide, and has been made by the London
and Brighton Railway Company, at a cost of about £7,000
exclusive of allowances for compensation, at the instance
and under the supervision of the Local Board of Works.
This great local improvement, for such it is beyond all ques-
tion, is said to be mainly duo to the Board of Works for St.
Olave. A year or two ago when the London and Brighton.
Railway Company were applying to Parliament for powers
to enlarge their station at London-bridge and to improve its
approaches by buying up Lunch of the surrounding property,
the Local Board succeeded in procuring the introduction of
clauses into the company's bill which they have since made
subservient to the public convenience by inducing the rail-
way authorities to construct the new thoroughfare, in con-
sideration of their having for their own purposes greatly
altered the configuration of the district. This the company
have done, too, whollyat their own expense, but they hope
to be more than recouped in time by rents to be derived
from letting the arches of their viaduct which a2drts one
side of the street. The street runs through a po,uulous
district, intersected until now by a number of little nt: rrow
and tortuous alleys,
for which it is substituted, but 1.: is
said to havetuuc sl displacedasses, the dwellings of about 200 of tilt:
ou
who have in consequence gone no one
iabtthr
appears to know whither, but probably, as they are bound
to the locality by ties of interest, to herd in neighbourhoods
already densely crowded. At the opening ceremony
day M
Mr Thwaitos, the chairman of the Metropolitan yc
Board
took occasion to dilate on the great Public
works
inster-
con-
nexion with the Thames Etnbankin, nt on which the Board
aro now engaged, and which, he said, when completed, in
conjunction with the new street from the Mansion-house to
Blackfriars-bridge, would afford a commodious thorough-
fare, 100 ft in width for the greater part, from the heart of
the city to the Houses of Parliament, in place of Cheapside,
Ludgate-hill, Fleet-street, and the Strand. Ho mentioned,
too, as a gratifying circumstance to the tax-paying coro
nom ;ty tirong!l'ott tie) rnetropoli,, ;liar by an an
which the Metropolitan Beard is now making with LL,
Chancellor of the Exchequer, instead of the Board raising
money to carry out its gigantic enterprises at the rate of 4f
per cent., it will obtain it from the Government at 3i per
cent.—an operation, he said, which alone will effect a
saving to the ratepayers of £18,600 a year, over a period
of 18i years.

THE NEW POLICE CAP.—Yesterday, on the ocea-
sion of her Majesty's drawing-room, a number of the men
belonging to the A division wore the now cap on duty, It
is to be introduced to the three first divisions, and nest year
to be generally adopted by the force,