The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-05 00:00:00

MPROVEMENTS IN THE METRO-
POl As.

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The Select Committee ar4 );inted to consider of the most
effectual plan for raising mor ey to carry into effect the ne-
cessary improvements reqr y ired in London and Westmin-
ster, and Middlesex and S arrey, and for the purchasing of
the interest of the proprie ,tors of Waterloo and Southwark
bridges, that they may be thrown open to the public free of
toll, have made their re port. The following are the prin-
cipal improvements sugf rested, and which are explained in
detail by the plans annexed to the report :

CI TY OF LONDON.
A new street from ti je Bank to the General Post-office.
A new street from the General Post-office to Newgate-
street.
The improvement ( of Skinner-street and Holborn-hill.
A new street from ti Ile Mansion House to the Southwark-

bridge.
A new street from St. Paul's Cathedral to Blackfriars-
bridge.

COU t :TY OF MIDDLESEX.

A new street fro a.n Farringdon-street to the Sessions
House, Clerkenwell.
A new street from IVvstminster Abbey to Pimlico.
A new street from Oxford-street to Plumtree-street, St.

Giles's.
A new street from II ower-street to Waterloo-bridge.
A. new street fror a Finsbury-square to Whitechapel
church and the Comt nercial-road.
A new street from _Holborn. to the Strand, and takiNg
down the houses on t he north side of the Strand, between
the churches of St. ( lement Danes and St. Mary-le-Strand.
The improvement of the thoroughfare from St. Kettle-
tine Docks to Eastc beep.
The removal oft Biddle-row, Holborn.
C OUNTY OF SURREY.

A new street fro! n St. George's church, Southwark, tc
Blackfriars-bridge.
A continuation )f the proposed new street from St. i
George's church, F ;outhwark, to Blackfriars-bridge, Wa-
terloo-bridge, and Arestminster-bridge, and to the proposed.
bridge at Lambeth .
It is estimated t hat these improvements, together with
the purchase of the interest of the proprietors of Waterloo
and Southwark Br. idges, may be effected for a sum not ex-
ceeding 1,200,0001.
Two modes of raising the money have been brought
under the-considera Lion of the Committee :-Ist, by an ad-
ditional duty of 6, 1. per ton upon coal imported into the
port of London ; 2d. by raising a sum of money annually
by lotteries.
According to the) evidence of Mr. Scott, the principi.l
clerk to the Chambeeain of London, an additional duty of
6d. per ton on coal Ivrought into the port of London, calcu-
lated on the avera• ge quantity imported in the lest four
years, would produc ;e 53,3271. 11 s. per annum. This annual
sum could provide for the payment of interest at the rate of
3 per cent. per alluum on 1,500,0001., and discharge the
principal in sixty-two years and a half, or at the same rate
of interest discharge the sum of 1,200,090/. in thirty-eight
years and a quarter, and, with the assistance of his Mijesty's
Government, the Committee are of opinion that such sum:.
of money could be raised at a rate of interest not exceeding
three per cent. per annum.
Upon the subjec t of lotteries Mr. Bish and Mr. Hesse
were called ; and, ii•orn their evidence it would appear that
a sum of 100,0006 to 200,0001. per annum could be raised
by lotteries. They both concurred in stating that the evils
of the insurance were entirely obviated by drawing the lot-
tery in one day, and that it was not the system of lotteries,
but the number of days of drawing, which produced the in-
jurious effects complained of: In the event of the House
agreeing to raise a sum of money for public improvement -
the Committee suggest that a commission of twenty-on,
persons, consisting of Members of Parliament, and the Cor-
poration of London, with county magistrates, should be ap-
pointed to raise a sum not exceeding 1,500,0001. to carry
such improvement into effect.