The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-30 00:00:00

In Parliament; Session 1870. Oxford-street' and Charing-cross
Railway.--New Railway—New Street— Compulsory Purchase
of Lands—Tolls—Repeal or Amendment of Acts, and other

purposes.
'NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application
is intended to be made to Parliament in the next Session
for a Bill to incorporate and to confer upon the Company so in-
corporated, hereinafter called "The Company," powers to effect
the purposes following, or some of them (that is to say)—To
make andmaintain a railway and street, following ; with all
proper and necessary stations, works, and conveniences con-
nected therewith (that is to say)—
A railway commencing at or near a point in the centre of
Tottenham-court-road whet e the parish boundaries between
St. Pancras and St. Marylebone join St, Giles-in-the-Fields, and
thencepassing through the parishes of gt. Marylebone, St. Giles-
in-the-Fields, and St. Anne Soho, and terminating in tke
Parish of St. Martin--in-the-Fields, in the same comity,
on the Victo.da Embankment, underneath the Charing-croSs
line of the South-Eastern Railway Company, at or near a point
twenty yards, or thereabouts, measured along the said line in
a southerly direction from the centre of the northern abutment
of the bridge carrying that railway over the River Thames.
A street commencing at a point where High-street, St. Giles-in-
the-Fields, effects a junction with Oxford-street, then crossing the
east end of Sutton-street and west end of Little Compton-street,
and through Leicester-square, and terminating at or near a point
about ten yards from the Bench Mark at the eastend of Pall
Mall East, opposite the College of Physicians; the said street or
road will be entirely in the said parishes of St. Giles-in-the-
Fields, St. Anne Soho, and St. Martin-in-Fields.
To purchase, by compulsion or agreement, for the purposes
of the said intended works, all or any of the lands and houses
situate in the before-mentioned parishes, and delineated on the
deposited plans hereinafter referred to.
To stop up, cross under, open, or alter, whether temporarily
or permanently, all such roads, streets, and other ways and
places as it may be necessary to stop up, cross under, open, or
alter or interfere with by reason of the construction of the said
intended railway and works.
To deviate in the level of the said railway under any street to
such an extent as may be agreed to by the Metropolitan Board
of worye.
To alter, vary, or extinguish all existing rights, privileges, and
exemptions connected with inch lands and houses, or which
would in any manner impalfo or interfere with the construction
or use of the intended works, and to confer, vary, or extinguish
other rights and privileges.
To levy tolls, rates, and duties, for, or in respect of, the said
intended works, to confer exemption from payment of such
tells, rates, or duties.
To raise capital by the creation and issue of shares, with or
without preference or priority in payment of dividend or other-
wise, or by mortgage or bond, oe by any of those means.
To apply the powers and preyisions contained in sections 83,
84, 85, and S 6 of the Act of 1864, to any lands and houses to be
acquired by the Company under the intended Act.
To enable the Company from time to time to enter into agree-
ment with respect to the working, maintenance, Management,
and use of the said intended railway, and the stations and works
connected therewith.
And notice is hereby further given, that on or before the 30th
day of November instant, duplicate plans and sections, de-
scribing the lines, situation, and levels of the intended
works, and of the lands, houses, and other property to be taken
for the purposes thereof, together with a book of reference to
suck plans, containing the names of the owners or reputed
owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and'oceupiers of those lands
and houses, together with a published map with the lines of the
intended railways delineated thereon, and a copy of this:notice
as,published in the " London Gazette," will be deposited with the
Clerk of the Peace for the county of Middlesex, at his office at
Clerkenwell Green, and with the Clerk of the Peace for the city
of Westminster, at his office at the Sessions House, West-
mizger i and that on or before the said 30th day of
November, a copy of the said plan, section, and
book of reference., with a copy of this notice, so
far ai relates to the parish of Saint Giles-in-the-
Fields, will be deposited with the Cleric to the St. Giles District
Board of Works, at his office, 199, High Holborn ; so far as
relates to the parish of St. Anne Soho, with the Clerk to the
Strand District Board of Works, at his office, 5, Tavistock-street,
Strand ; and so far as relates to the parish of St. Martin-in-the-
Fields, with tjie yestry clerk of that parish, at his office at the
Vestry-hall, St. Marfin:in-thp-Fields.
Brinted copies of the 54a Bill willth, on or before the 23rd day
of December next, be deposited in e kiivate Bill ()Mee of the
House of Commons. _

Dated this 19th day of November, 1870.
ELLIOTT, CEEE, AvD BEENAED,
86, Parliament-street, S.W,