The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

NAMING AND NUMBERING OF

STREETS.

The new Metropolitan Building Act, which copes
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Board, tonsisting of tWnioffrbfaliiferge's.afiaa iitratrar,
for the general superintendence of buildings in London.
The new Board would render the public an important
service, if they would undertake such a 'registration of
houses that every house in a street should have a dis-
tinct number, and that no two streets should be called
by the same name. Great inconvenience is now occa-
sioned by the neglect of this very simple matter of muni-
cipal arrangement, The last Act for the registration of
voters directs that in every claim to vote, the number of
the house shall be inserted for which the vote is claimed,
but in some streets many of the houses are without num-
bers ; and the instances are numerous, of two or more
houses in a street having the same number. In Regent-
street, St. John's, Westminster, there are five No. thir-
teens, and six No. fourteens.
Equal or greater confusion arises from the multiplica-
tion of the same street names. We find in a London
Directory twenty-eight King-streets, twenty Queen-
streets, twenty-six Charles-streets, twenty-five Church-
streets, twenty-three John-streets, four Water-lanes,
two Water-streets, &c.
A serious loss, as well as inconvenience, arises to the
public from this source. The expenses attending the
delivery of letters are increased some thousands of
pounds by the puzzling uncertainty
_of addresses. A
letter from the country
,directed King-street, London,
is, perhaps, first delivered in King-street, Cheapside,
whence it may be returned with the words " try King-
street, Holborn ;" and perhaps , twenty district postmen
may each have to walk a mile 'before the right King-
street and the right person.be discovered. Nor does the
fault rest altogether with careless directions. A stranger
to London cannot be blamed for ignorance of the extent
to which the amplification of an address is necessary.
Thinking to be both precise and explicit, he may direct
a letter to " John Smith, Water-lane, City, London,"
and his letter may be sent to three different Water-lanes,
all in the City, and all within a stone's throw of each
Other:—Water-lane, Blackfriars; Water-line, Thames-.
street; Water-lane, Fleet-street; and, perhaps, in each
Water-lane there may be a John Smith.
The evil is one which we believe the Corporation of
London, and the Commissioners of Paving generally,
have power to remedy, and we may hope it will be con-
sidered as part of the duty of the new Registrar to call
their attention to the subject

ELIE —AT . _ARK OF RESPECT TO SIR WYNDHAM
CARMICHAEL ANSTRUTHER,BART.-011 Wednesday, Sir
W. C. Anstruther, Bart., having honoured this village as
his residence for these three months past, his tenantry
met, and, with a unanimity and cordiality never sur-
passed in this district, agreed to give him a dinner. The
day above specified was appointed for thefele, and, with
the utmost enthusiasm, the tenantry, vied with each
other in giving eclat to the occasion. From sixty to
seventy sat down to dinner in the parish school-hosts',
which was moat brilliantly lit up with gas, and tastefully
,decorated with evergreens and flowers for the occasion.
The chair was occupied by Mr. James Luke, Muircambus
Mill—the oldest tenant upon the estate—supported on
the right by the honoured guest, the Rev. Dr. Ferric of
Kileonquhar, &c., and on the left by Provost Dairsie of
Anstruther Easter, Bailie Todd of Pittenween, &c., the
croupiers being the Rev. Mr. Dickson of Kilre nny, and
Mr. Simpson, tenant at Coalfirm.—Scotsh paper.
CONSTRUCTION OF GRACING DOCKS AT SOUTH.
AMPTON.—We have a' fact to announceblerocifatlhperhbisgpleteestst
importance as connected with the commercial
of Southampton. Strenuous effortsbi have been made by
different parties, for a considera, e time past, to procure
the estabrnspss
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rest. the Pier
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decision
to know
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Directors
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the Dock Company, come to on Thursday. oTheirecht()
re-
solved immediately to proceed with the. construction
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a graving dock on theirsown prewises,—llampshire Inde-
pendent.