The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-09 00:00:00

an appointment to keep, to trust himself to a car-
riage conveyance through any of our principal
streets.
" The undersigned repeats, with increased ear-
nestness and confidence, what he has been for the
last twenty years frequently asserting, that these
evils will go on increasing until the business of our
principal streets will be forced into other channels,
unless measures be taken to give the means of rail-
way communication both for passengers and goods,
from, to, and through the City, the heart's core of
this constantly extending metropolis.
" During the three years -which have elapsed
since the date of the committee's report, the under-
signed has abstained from pressing the subject upon
your board's attention, from a knowledge of the
difficulties which impede the action of all newly-
constituted bodies, and of the important questions
affecting the metropolitan sewage, to which your
attention has been imperatively directed.
" Circumstances have, however, recently arisen,
which compel the undersigned to grapple with the
evils complained of, by again forcing his project
upon public attention, as the powers of the Metro-
politan Railway Company's Act for securing to the
public the first instalment ot this great measure of
relief, are in danger of dying a natural death, un-
less means be taken by the Corporation and the
Board of Works to render some assistance in the
manner referred to in the House of Commons Com-
mittees', and the Royal Commissioners' reports.
"It is understood that your honourable board
has referred it to a committee, to consider amongst
other street improvements, the propriety and neces-
sity of getting rid of a serious impediment to one. of
our principal public thoroughfares, by raising Hol-
born-valley, and readjusting to a higer level Far-
ringdon and Victoria-streets. Such an alteration
of the levels would offer great facilities for the
traffic to the proposed railway stations in Farring-
don-street, and it would give great encouragement
to the promoters of that undertaking, if your hon-
ourable board would, by means of that and other
surrounding improvements, lighten the burdens
which press down the railway enterprise.
"It is right to state that the Metropolitan and
Fleet Valley Railway and City Terminus, as now
proposed, are very much less in their proportions
than they were when presented to the public bodies
to whose proceedings I have already referred.
" When the plan was originally devised, the
Corporation of London was out of debt, and had a
large income available for the great street improve-
ments to which the plan in' its larger dimensions
would have given rise. The great railway com-
panies, too, whose vital interests required a City
terminus for the use of their most frequent and
best-paying customers, had at that time abundance
of capital and credit at their command. The under-
signed does not retract a single expression of his con-
fident opinion, if the Corporation and the great
railway- companies had at that time dealt with
the whole matter in a manner worthy of such
a great and important interest, and if the Govern-
ment had not interdicted the introduction of a
railroad into the City—a well-paying measure,
combining railroad accommodation with street im-
provements, would have been established in this
dull and dreary locality, which for beauty and
utility combined, need not have been ashamed to
compare with any other city in the world.
" Having regard to the altered financial position
of the great bodies who were formerly looked to for
means to carry the Fleet Valley Railway and Cen-
tral Terminus into execution according to the ori-
ginal design, it would manifestly involve a waste
of time and energy any longer to struggle against
the current of adverse circumstances with which it
has had to contend. It has been, therefore, deter-
mined to make a vigorous effort to carry into imme-
diate execution the powers of the Metropolitan
Railway Acts, by which a comparatively cheap line
and station, in the new street north of Holborn-
valley, may be constructed in such a form as will at
once serve to bring both goods and passengers from
the northern and western suburbs, and the Great
Western and Great Northern railroads, to the City,
leaving it to a future period to complete the grand
design, by extending it in a subway through the
City and over the river, to communicate with the
railroads south of the Thames.
" The Fleet Valley Trunk Line will, in fact, form
the back-bone or first instalment of a system of
subway railroads, which, sooner or later, must be
adopted to bisect the metropolis from the east to the
west, as well as from the north to the south, for the
purpose of conveying merchandise, coals, and market
goods by night, and passengers by day, from, to,
and through the centre of this ever-extending me-
tropolis, without choking up the main streets.
" As has been already observed, the metropolis
has more than doubled its population in 40 years ;
during the same period public conveyances of vari-
ous kinds have more than quintupled in number,
and there does not appear any good reason for
doubting that, during the next 40 years, the same
rate of increase will be maintained in the number of
the inhabitants; and that the same increased de-
mand for the means of carriage conveyance would
take place, but that it could not be satisfied, be-
cause of the physical inability of our streets to afford
any further accommodation.
" By means of subway railroads intersecting the
densely-inhabited parts of the metropolis, and by
a systematic organisation of the existing and future
lines that may be established in the country round
London, the metropolis of the empire may progress
for centuries, enlarging its boundaries, without in-
conveniently pressing upon its busy centre.
" Railroads, which have been not inaptly termed
the thews and sinews of commercial enterprise, and
the veins and arteries of social intercommunication,
appear to be especially designed to favour the in-
definite growth of great cities, by relieving them of
many of the evils which have hitherto attended
their increase.

" Regarded in a financial point of view, such a
mode of conducting the traffic of a great city,
whether undertaken by the public authorities, or
by private enterprise, could not fail to be in the
highest degree remunerative, whatever might be
the amount of the original outlay requited. It is
by extensive and costly machinery that quantity
and cheapness in every department of manufactures
can be obtained. When the density of a given
population is sufficient to create a large quantity of
passenger traffic, there is no description of machi-
nery in the world so well calculated, as a railroad,
to illustrate .this principle. Upwards of two mil-
lions sterling, or nearly £7,000 daily, are expended
by the inhabitants and wayfarers of the metropolis,
in the cost of omnibuses and cabs, nine-tenths of
which amount, it has been ascertained, is absorbed

,
in the working charges, notwithstanding they pad
nothing for the_tear and wear of the streets. Tha

at all times, and under all circumstances, a consider.

able portion of this expenditure would be required
for these purposes in passing from street to street
—but that a great present, and still greater future
amount would be applicable to the main arterial
intercommunication of both passengers and goods,
by means of subway railroads, there can be but
little doubt.

" The undersigned, therefore, prays your honour-
able board to take into consideration the foregoing
facts and arguments, which, with the sanction of
the House of Commons" Committee, he has taken
leave respectfully to lay before you.
" If, as the undersigned has been informed, your
honourable board has it in contemplation to confer
upon the public the inestimable bonefit of raising
Holborn-valley, and re-adjusting the adjacent
streets tethe improved levels, the undersigned prays
your honourable board to consider your projected
improvements in combination with the intended
Metropolitan Railway, in order that by united
action the greatest amount of public accommoda-
tion may he obtained at the least possible cost.
" "London, October 8,1858. CHARLES PEARSON."
Mr. PEARSON (who we regret to say did not ap-
pear in good health) intimated his willingness to
attend the committee, and give every information
in his power upon the subject, but was not suffi-
ciently well at present to enlarge personally upon
it, and his petition was therefore framed so as to
state his views in reference to the matter.
The memorial was received, and referreA to the
Works and Improvement Committee, Mr. Deputy
HARRISON intimating that the matter was most
urgent.

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