The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-11 00:00:00

NEW STREETS IN THE METROPOLIS.

The Board was ,p cqd,y coT;eUed for tht, purpose of
considering the byelaws to be hid down which are to
re,2ulate the formation of new streets in the metro-

polls.
The following byelaws were agreed to :
" 1. Six weeks at least before any new street shall be
laid out written notice shall be given to the Metropolitan
Board olarkyso,uatt
stuheehir
nofaw"etreets, stating the p No. 1, Greek-street, Soho,
in the county of Middlesex, by the person or persons
in-
tendingof
toW
level and width thereof, and accompanied by a plan of the
eroposed
ground, showing the local situation of the same.
" 2. Forty feet, at the least, shall be the width of every
new street intended for carriage traffic ; 20 feet, at the
least, shall be the width of every new street intended only
for foot traffic; 20 feet, at the least, shall bo the width of
every new mews; provided that the said width, re-
spectively, shall be construed to mean the width of the
carriage and footway only, exclusive of any gardens, fore-
courts, open areas, or other spaces in front of the houses or
buildings erected or intended to bo erected in any street or
mews.
"3. Every new street and every now mews shall, unless
tho Metropolitan Board of Works otherwise consent in
writing, have, at the least, two entrances of the full width
of such street or mews and be open from the ground
upward.
"4. Theineasurement of the width of every street shall
be taken at a right angle to the course thereof half on
either side, from the centre or crown of the roadway to the
external wall or front of the intended houses or buildings
on each silo thereof ; but where fore-courts or other spaces
are intended to be loft in front of the houses or buildings,
then the width of the street, as already defined, shall be
measured from the centre line up to the fence, railing, or
boundary dividing or intended to divide such fore-courts,
gardens, or spaces from the public way.
" 5. The carriageway of every new street must curve or
fall from the centre or crown thereof at the rate of three-
eighths of an inch, at the least, for every foot of breadth.
G. In every now street the curb to each footpath must
not be less than six nor more than eight inches in height
above the channel of roadway, except in the case of cross-
ings paved or formed for the use of foot passengers ; and
the slope of every footpath must be half an inch to every
foot of width if the footpath be unpaved, or not less than
a quarter of an inch to every foot of width if the footpath
be paved.
"7. In these bylaws the word street' shall be inter-
preted to apply to and include any highway (except the
carriageway of any' turnpike road), and any road, lane,
footway, aquae°, court, alley, or passage, whether a tho-
roughfare or not, and a part of any such highway, road,
lane, footway, square, court, alley, orpassa,4o.,2
Toe further oen.ideral len of other bylaws was ad-
journed for a fortneght
Some unintereetieg formal business as to the order of
proceeding in the Board having been disposed of,
The Board adj, urhed

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Jane 11,ileit,
of
Whitty Head
near Netlierbury, Dorst-t, i-liffered for many years from
a bad leg. From the knee to the ancle it had severa
wounds, so tha, the w,Ls u. able to stand or move ahem'
the house. She tried a variety of means and applica-
tions, but without obtaining a cure. By the ble,sing 01
God and using only three p of Poor Man's Friend,
and taking three boxes of site was, perfectly cured.
Dr. Huberls's Poor Man's Friend, for wounds and erup-
tions of every de.:oription, is sold in pots, lid. and
2s. 9d. each. His Pilule) Antiscrophotas, for ail urn
purities of the blood, is sold in boxes, ls. lid , 2s, 9d.,
6d., lls., and 225. each, by medicine vendors
throughout the United Kingdom and Colonies.