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London, England, 1863-02-11 00:00:00

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railways, therefore, will enable the inhabitants of
the metropolis to cross from north to south with a
celerity and comfort at present unknown to them.
They may be expected materially to relieve some
lines of streets of the present traffic, and will un-
doubtedly prevent that traffic from increasing at
the present rate, which bids fair in a short time to
make some of the main streets of the metropolis all
but impassable. The Metropolitan and portion of
the London, Chatham, and Dover Railways, there-
fore, bringing together as they will the northern
and southern suburbs, should be regarded, says Mr.
Haywood, as forming a trunk line of what may be
termed the metropolitan railways, from which the
full advantages will not be obtained if opportuni-.
ties are in future lost of connecting other lines of
railway with them; for, if the metropolis is to
obtain the greatest possible benefit from the various
railways now converging to its centre, it will be by
establishing, as far as practicable, direct inter-com-
munication between them. Nor is the direct con-
venience and comfort of passengers the only point
to be regarded, for the same means which would
give facilities to them would enable goods to be
conveyed wichout break to or from all parts of the
metropolis, and the relief of the streets in any
degree from ponderous goods vans must be regarded
as a great public benefit. Indeed, although the
question of metropolitan and city convenience has
alone been alluded to by him here, the subject, he
says, has really a far wider scope, as it embraces
the question of unbroken railway communication
between various parts of England remote from the
metropolis. The extension of the Great Eastern as
now proposed, will so far effectually prevent direct
intercommunication with the trunk line of the me-
tropolitan railways and its branches that passen-
gers arriving by either of the two railways and
wishing to continue by the other will have to leave
11 the terminus, cross Finabury-place, and go up or
down between 7n and 80 steps, with all the trouble,
inconvenience, and loss of time consequent there-
upon. In 1861 the Great Eastern Railway was
proposed to be extended to Finsbury-circus by a
different route from the present scheme. It was
intended to join on to the Metropolitan Railway,
and there was to have been a grand general station
in the circus for the use of both railways. That
part of the scheme which embraced a station in the
circus, with other important features, is for the
present abandoned ; but the construction of the
Eastern line as then designed is still practicable,
and would, he says, give to the public all the ac-
commodation it will have by the present scheme,
while it would in addition put the north and north-
' west, the east and the south of London, into that
unbroken railway communication which appears to
him to be so desirable. Nor, he adds, can anything;
now be said. against the general principles of the
Eastern Extension as proposed in 1861 for the
completion of the Metropolitan Railway, and its
great success must remove all doubts and objections
as to the extension of the system on which it is
based, and of which the public as yet have but the
slightest part of the benefits which will ultimately
accrue from its construction. This extension there-
fore seems to him to demand the most careful con-
sideration not only of the Corporation of London And
the Commissioners of Sewers, but likewise of
those railway companies which will at a future day
run trains up to Finsbury, and those sections of the
metropolis now unprovided with railway accommo-
dation, but which at some future day may be
accommodated by it ; and if an unbroken system
be, as it appears to him, a matter of importance in
relation to postal arrangements, the scheme de-
mands the special attention of the Government.
The Metropolitan Bridge Company's Bill is to
incorporate a company with power to make five
new bridges over the river Thames—namely, from
Irongate-stairs to Horselydown, from St. Paul's-
wharf to Bankside, from the Temple Steamboat-
pier to the Commercial-road, Lambeth ; from
Cheyne-walk, Chelsea, to the Albert-road, Batter-
sea; and from the York-road, Wandsworth, to the
King's-road, Fulham. That which immediately
affects the city is the St. Paul's-bridge, which is to
start from Paul's-wharf to span the river from that
point, and is to be for foot passengers only. The
company does not propose to take any property
within the city. The only area scheduled is a small
portion of the public way known as Paul's-wharf,
which is apparently to be used for forming steps,
or an incline, to get to the general level of the
bridge, and is not to interfere with the access of
passengers to the steamboat-pier at that spot. The
toll is to be one halfpenny per passenger, and the
bridge itself cannot, he says, be otherwise than a
public benefit if it be constructed ; and the same
may, indeed, be said of the others, while it will be
scarcely possible to overrate the convenience of a
bridge for foot passengers across the river Thames
east of the Tower of London, if it can be accom-
plished.

The Blackfriars-bridge Bill is to enable the cor-
poration to construct a new bridge in lien of the
present one, with power to take certain property
upon both sides of the river immediately adjoining
the bridge, so as to improve the approaches. That
in the city comprises most of the property in Cha-
tham-place. The property on the western side of
Chatham-place is also scheduled by the Metropoli-
tan Board of Works for the Thames Embankment.
The Bill for the new street from Blackfriars-
bridge to the Mansion-house is promoted by the
Metropolitan Board. The Thames Embankment was
sanctioned by the Legislature during the last Ses-
sion of Parliament. It joins the city at Blackfriars-
bridge by a junction with Chatham-place, from
which point the new street is to start. The centre
line of the street, curving eastward, crosses Earl-
street, and runs parallel with it to St. Andrew's-
hill, proceeding with a slightly northern inclination
to Bennett's-hill, which it crosses at about 130 feet
north of Thames-street. It crosses Peter's-hill and
Lambeth-hill, midway between Thames-street and
Little Knightrider-street, and, curving upwards,
enters Cannon-street West by the branch laid out
by the Corporation of the City some years ago ; it
then runs straight to the north angle of Charlotte-
row, by the Mansion-house, crossing Queen-street
at the junction with Watling-street, Pancras-lane,
and Bucklersbury. The street is proposed generally
to be 70ft. wide ; that portion which was laid out
by the corporation a few years since, when they first
projected the street, and which now forms a junc-
tion street between Cannon-street West and Old
Fish-street, is to be left 60 feet in width. Powers
are to be taken to widen Upper Thames-street
from St. Andrew's-hill to within a few feet of
Bennet's-hill, so as to make it about 35ft. in width.
Bennet's-hill is no longer to continue in a straight
line from Thames-street to Great Knightrider-street,
but will be stopped on the southern side
~ of the new
street, where it crosses it. At about oOft. westward
of that point a fresh junction with the new street
is to be made, which is to be continued south
ward to St. Bennet's Church, and thence, as
at present, to Upper Thames-street. Various
other diversions and alterations of existing modes of
communication with Upper Thames-street are also
contemplated, and new communications opened out.
With respect to the property scheduled, it may be
stated generally that the whole of that on the north
of Earl-street to a distance of al,out 90 feet north-
wards is included; also the whole of the property
in Upper Thames-street from St. Andrew's-hill
to Old Fish-street, which lies between the north
side of Upper Thames-street and Great Knight-
rider-street, Little Knightrider-street, and Old
Fish-street. There is a considerable area of pro-
perty upon either side of the line up to the Man-
sion-house, and property having a frontage of 130
feet towards the Poultry is also included. The total
area scheduled within the limits and deviation is
19 acres and 18 perches, which includes the area of
various streets and public places.

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