The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-19 00:00:00

No. 19,080.]

THAMES IMPROVEMENT.—
(Improveme,l of Navigation between Lambeth Peetee and
Loedon-bridge, by river walls and dredgine, with power to make
sewers, pipe e or aqueducts beside river walls, esplanades, street-,
roads, railways, and wharves ; preserving wit er frontage toe aisting
whaler sin certain places ; purchase of lands.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVE e, That apellcation is intended to
be made to Parliament in the next cession, fit an act to impr ye the
Navigation of the river Thames, by constru- tin g A river wall on the
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uddlesrmexinsaitdil thereof, commencing at o- near Westmiuster-bridge,
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the said river, commencing at or near the Palace, at Lambeth, and
terminating at or near Loadon-bridee, and by teeing powers to
dredge the said river, from o?posite La rabeth Palace to, at, or near
Loudon-bri'lge.
And it is proposed by the said intended act to appoint or provide
for the appointment of Comneesioriers, and to incorporate such
Commis, oners, and to onfer upon them all the necessary and pro-
per powers for enabling them to construct the acid river walls and
the works hereinafter mentioned. and for otherwise carrying into
effect the objects and purposes of the said intended act.
And it is propose t by the sal inteude t act to take powers to
construct and lay down an aqueduct, pipe, or sewer behind, or on
the land side ot each of the sa d river walls throng out the whole
extent thereof respectively.
And it is propose] by the said intended act to vest the foreshore
or soil of the river between the _said intended river walls and the
existing river banks respectively, or certain portions of such fore-
shore or soil, in the said Commissioners, and to take powers to raise
the present g oun-i level of such fireshore or soil by ear hwork,
brickwork, or otherwise, and there on to construct, on either side
of the said river the f -row' ,g works, with all necessary and proper
stations, approaches, works, and conveniences connected therewith
respectively, that is to say,
On the Middlesex side of th. said river.
Ist. An esplanade terrace or public footway, commencing at or
near Westminster-bridge. and c tmtnuqiceting therewith, un I ter-
minating at or near the south or river end ot Trig-lane, in the city
of London, and, passing through ornerier ilungerford bridge, Water-
loo-bridge, and Black iiars-bridge respectively, and also communi-
cating on each side of suit bridges respectively with the footway or
footways going over such bridges.
2nd. A railway commencing at or near Westminster-bridge, pas-
sing under or throueh the h ieineefore bridges and Southwark-
bridge, and terminating at or near Ftshmongere-hall aforesaid.
3rd A public street or carriage road commencing at or near
Westminster-bridge, and terminating at or near the south or rver
end of Trig-lane efores ‘id an .1 communiceting with the street or
road atiproachine or vette over Westminitsr-bridge. 11.;.:1 with Trig-
lane of resaid, end passing both under and over the roads, and foot-
ways going Over Iluiezerford-bridge, Waterloo-bridge, and Black-
friars-bridge respectively.
4th. Such wharves, warehouse.. shops. dwelling-houses, and other
buildings as the Commissioners sha I think proper.
sth. I hree streets, public carriage roads, or public footways, in
continuation of Craven-street, Buckingham-street, and Norfolk-
street respectively, to, and to connect such etreets respectlyrey with,
the intended public street or carriage road hereinbetore mentioned.
On the Surrey side of the said river.
6th. A public street or carriage road commencing at or near Lam-
beth Palace terminating at or near Blttekfriars-bridge, an 1 commu-
nicating with the west or river end of Church-street, Lambete, and
with tie street or road approachine or going over Blace friars-bridge,
and passing both under and over the roads and footways leading
over Westminster-bridge, Y-lungerlord-bridge, and Waterloo-bridge
respectively.
A 11.1 it is proposed by the said intended act to leave in front of
all existing wharves on the Middlesex side of the said river, he-
tweet, Westminster-bridge and waterloo-bridge, and between
Somerset-house and near Paul's-wharf, and on the Surrey side of
the said river between the Bishop's-garden at Lambeth and near
Old Barge-house-alley, leading into Broaowall, a good and sufficient
eraterway for the navigation of barges and other craft to and from
the seed wharves, and to and from the wharves to be ceestructed by
the Commissioners, and for loading and unloading carves at such
wharves respectively, with proper red sufficient entrances Beim the
river to such waterways respectively.
And notice is he-eby given, that the said intended river walls,
aqueducts, pipes, sewers, railways, streets, roads, wharves, aad other
works and builditers, will pass from, through, in, or into, or be situ-
ate within the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial, or
other places following, or some ot them—that is to say, River
Thames, Westminster, Saint Margaret Westminster, Saint el artin-
in-the-Fields, St. Clement Danes, the precinct of the Savoy, and St.
Mary-le Strand, in the county of Middlesex, river Thames, London,
he Liberty of the middle Temple, the Liberty of the Inner Temp e,
the precinct of Whitefriess, St. Bride's, the precinct of Bridewell,
saint Anne, Blacktriars, St. Andrew by the Wardrobe, St. Benet,
Paul's Wharf, St. Peter by Paul's Wharf, St. Mary Somerset, St.
Michael Queenhithe, St. fames Garlickhithe, otherwise Garlick
Hythe, St. Martin Vintry, Allhallows tne Great, Allhallows the
Less, St. Laurence rountney, St. Martin Orgar, St. Magnus
the Martyr, and St. Michael Cro ked-lane, in the city of en-
don, or county of the city of London, and county of Middlesex, or
one of them, and river Thames. Southwark, Lambeth, St. Mary,
Lambeth, St. John, Waterloo-road, Christchureh, St. Saviour,
Southwark, and the Liberty of the Chuck, in the county of Surrey.

And it is proposed by :he said intended act to authorise the said
Commissioners to purchase, or take by compulsion or agr.ement for,
or to appropriate to th,, purposes of the said intended act, all the
lards, streets, and buildings situate, lying, or being between Fish •
mongers Ball Wharf on the east, and Swan-lane, in the city of Lon-
don, on the west, Upper Thames-street, on the north. and the be I
of the said river Thames on the south ; together with the site of
-van•lane woresaid, and all such otherlands and buildings on either
side of the stud river ai may be required tor the purposes of the said
act and to stop up and discontinue as public streets, lanes, or places
Swan-lane afore aid, Black Raven-alley, Wheatsheaf alley, Old Swan-
wharf, in the parishes of St. Laurence rountney, St. Martin Organ,
and St. Magnus the NI artyr, or so ne or one of them, in the city 01
London, and all other streets, lanes, and places, if any, on the lands
to be purchased or appropriated as aforesaid, aed to stop up, alter,
divert remove, or displace, temporarily or permanently, all or any
other streets, roads, lanes, passages, or places, railways, tramways,
streams, sewers, aqueducts, mains, pipes, bridges. or other buildings,
erections, or works in, upon, over, adjacent, or near to the said river,
which it may be necessary or convenient so to stop up alter, divert,
remove ,:or displace, for the purposes of the said intended act, or for
carrying any ofthe provisions thereof into effect.

And it is proposed by the said intended act, to authorise the
levying, taking, and sale of tolls, rates, duties, charges, and ground
rents, and to alter existing tads, rates, rents, d Aloes, and charges,
and to grant exemptions from tolls, rates, rents, duties, and charges,
and to authorise the Commis,•ioners sell or 1.4 upon building ,eases,
or otherwise all or any lands or buildings for the time teing vested in
them.

And it is proposed by the said intended act to vary or extinguish
all existing right, or privileges upon or in any manner connected with
'he b idges, streets, lanes, passages, or places stooped up, altered, or
diverted for the purposes of the said intended-act, or tnoxpon,
any manner tonne ted with he lands or buildings to be purchased
by or ye- ted in the Commissioners, or the works or buildings to be
interfere I with by them, or which would in any manner impede or
interfere with t e carrying Iwo full and complete effect the objects
and purposes of the said intended act, and to grant other rights
and privileges.

An 4 it is proposed by the said intended act to repeal, alter, or
amend, so tar as mar he n -ces,ary for the purposes of the said in-
tended act, the provisions of the several lolal and personal acts of
Parli,ment relating to Westminster-bridge, Bungertord-britt.e,
linngerford-market, Waterloo-bridge, Blackfriare-bridge, South-
wark bridge London-bridge, the CoAnmissi niers of Sewers, the
Corporation of London the New River Company, the Lambeth
Water-works Company, toe Chelsea Water-works Company, the
S ,uthw irk and Vauxhall Water-works Company, the Equitable Gas-
light Company, the London Gas-light Company, the City of Lon-
don Gas-light Company, the Chartered Gas-light Company, the
great Central Gas Consumers Company, the Phoenix Gas-light Cora
pany, and the South Metropolitan Gas-light Company, and all other
gas andwater companies whose pipes, mains, or works are situatst in

or near to the said river betweenCamiieth Palace and London-bridge,
on the Surrey side thereof, and between Westminster-bridge and
Fishmongers'-hall on the Middlesex side thereof, and of all other
local and personal acts. any of the provisi ins of which relate to any
lands, bui,dings, or works, in or near the said river on either side
thereof, between the points atorsaid, or to any lands or buildings to
be vested in the commissioners to be appointed un ler the said act,
or which would in any manner impede or prevent any of the pro-
visions of the said intended act being carried into full and complete
effect.

And Notice is Hereby Given, that a map, showing the general
course and direction of the sold intended railway and plans and
sections of the said intended river walls, pipes, aqueducts, sewers,
railways, streets, roads, and works, together with a book ofreference
to such plans, and a copy of this notice, as published in the London
Gazette, will be deposited, on or oefore the 30th day of November
Inst., with the Clerk of the Peace for the city of London, or county of
the cite of London, at his office, at the Session—house, Old Bailey,
and with the Clerk of the Peace for the city and liberty of West-
minster, at his office in Clerkenwell, with the Clerk of the Peace for
the county of Nliddle ex, at his office in Clerken well. and with the
Clerk of the Peace for the county of Surrey, at his office in Lambeth,
and that a copy ofso much of the said plans, sections. and books of
reference, as relates to each of the said parishes, or extra-parochial
places, together with a copy of this notice, will, on or before the 30th
day of November inst., be deposited as follows—that is to say, in the
case of a parish, w.th the parish clerk of such parish, at his residence
and ir. the case of an extra-parochial place, with the parish clerk of
some parish adjoining thereto, at his residence ; and that copies of
the propose I bill will be deposited, on or before the 31st day or
December next, at the Private Bill-office of the House of Com-
mons

Dated this 10th day of November, 1853. •
S. F. NOYEQ, Solicitor for the Bill,