The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-25 00:00:00

NEW PROJECTED RAILWAYS,

(From the 4ondoi: Gaulle of Last Night.)
RAILWAY DEPARTMENT, BOARD OF TRADE,
WHITEHALL, JAN. 24.
Notice is hereby given, that the Board constituted by
the Minute of the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade, of the 24th of August, 1844, for the
transaction of railway bnsiness, having had under con•
sideration the following schemes for completing the
eastern line of railway communication to Scotland, viz..
The Northumberland Railway, with Branch from
Berwick to Kelso,
The Newcastle and Berwick Railway, with Blanch
from Berwick to Kelso,
have determined on reporting to Parliament in favour
of the

Newcastle and Berwick Railway, with Branch to
Kelso
And against the
Northumberland Railway, with Branch from Berwick
to Kelso :
and the Board having had- under consideration the fol-
lowing schemes for extending railway communication in
the districts of Norfolk and Suffolk, viz.,
The Bury and Ipswich Railway,
The Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth,
The Diss and Colchester,
The Direct East Dereham and Norwich,
The Diss and Colchester—Redham and Loddon
Branches,
The Eastern Counties—Colchester and Bury Ex-
tension,
The Ipswich and Norwich Extension,
The Lynn and Ely,
The Lynn and East Dereham,
The London and Norwich Direct,
The Norwich and Brandon Diss and Dereham
Branches,
The Wells and Thetford,
have decided on reporting to Parliament in favour of the
Bury and Ipswich,
Ipswich and Norwich Extension,
Lynn and Ely,
against the
Diss and Colchester,
Eastern Counties—Colchester and Bury Extension,
London and Norwich direct,
Norwich and Brandon—Diss Branch,
Wells and Thetford,
and recommending the postponement, until a future
period, of the
Direct East Dereham and Norwich,
Norwich and Brandon—Dereham Branch,
Lynn and East Dereham,
Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth,
Dies and Colchester—Redham and Lodden Branches:
and the Board having had under consideration the fol-
following schemes for extending railway communication
to the north and north-west of Ireland, viz.,
The Belfast and Ballymena Railway,
The Dublin and Belfast Junction, with Branch to
Drogheda and Kells,
The Dublin and Drogheda—Howth Branch,
The Dundalk and Enniskillen,
The Great North Western (Irish),
The Northern Railway, inland line (Armagh to
Dublin),
The Newry and Enniskillen,
The Ulster Railway—Extension from Portadown to
Armagh,
have determined on reporting to Parliament in favour of
Belfast and Ballymena,
Dublin and Belfast Junction, with Brauch to Drogheda
and Kells,
Dublin and Droileda—Howth Branch,
Ulster Extension—Portadown to Armagh;
and of the
Dundalk and Enniskillen (with the exception of the
Monaghan Branch),
Newry and Enniskillen (with the exception of the
portion of the line between Newry and Armagh) ;
subject to equitable arrangements for the construction
and joint use of the line between Enniskillen and Clones,
coalmen to the two schemes ; and also for improving
the railway communication by the Belfast Junction line
to Newry, and for securing due facilities to the Newry
•raffie ;
and against the
Great North Western (Irish),
Northern Railway, inland line (Armagh to Dublin

DALHOUSIE.
C. W. PASLEY. G. R. PORTER.
D. O'BRIEN. S. LAING.

PURE SUPPLY OF WATER TO
THE METROPOLIS.
THE SOUTH METROPOLITAN PURE
WATER COMPANY.
On Thursday evening a meeting of the inhabitants
of the neighbourhood took place at the Nelson's Arms
Inn, Merton, for the purpose of taking into conside-
ration the plan proposed by the above Company for
taking the water of the river Wandle to supply the
southern portion of the metropolis.
Major Colebrooke took the chair.
It may be necessary to explain that oa two or
three occasions attempts have been made to obtain a
supply of water from the river Wandle, which flows
from Croydon, through Beddington, Carshalton,
Mitcham, and Merton, running into the Thames at
Wandsworth, and which bears a character of being
peculiarly salubrious. The first proposition was to
take the water from the neighbourhood of Hack bridge,
but as there was a number of mills employed in
different manufactories working upon the stream,
the owners took the alarm, and from their op-
position the Company were induced to abandon
their project. The next scheme was to take
the water at Wandsworth, thus offering no inter-
ruption whatever to the mill power, and to erect
a line of sewers from the source of the river to the
Thames, and thus carry off its impurities; but this plan
was also abandoned, and the present scheme is to take
the water, as originally proposed, at Wandsworth,
and to erect, in various places along the line of the
river, " catch-ponds," or " cesspools," for the pur-
pose of draining off the filth. This proposition has
been met by the most strenuous opposition on the part
of the inhabitants, and meetings have been held in
various parts of the district, at which resolutions
against the scheme have been unanimously agreed to.
The present meeting of the inhabitants of Merton, in
which parish the Company propose to have three of
these " cesspools," was for the purpose of enabling them
to express their opinion upon the subject.
The CHAIRMAN briefly addressed the meeting, and
said that the subject upon which they had assembled
was one of the very deepest interest to them all. It
appeared to be the intention of the Company to have
large cesspools or ponds for the receptacle of filth of
all descriptions, and the effect must inevitably be to
cause houses to be unoccupied, to raise the rates, and
to entail very great evils upon the whole district.
Several gentlemen having addressed the meeting,
and expressed their opinion that the proposed "catch-
ponds,' or "cesspools," would be highly injurious to
the health of the neighbourhood, and that they would
tend to depreciate the value of the property in it,
Mr. CAMPBELL, a mill-owner, said that although
he was not favourable to the present proposition of
the Company, yet he thought the evils of the catch-
ponds had been very much exaggerated ; and he ob-
served that if they opposed every plan for taking the
Wandle waters for the supply of the metropolis, with-
out due consideration of its merits, they might ulti-
mately, when the wants of the metropolis became
more urgent, which would, no doubt, eventually be
the case, have the Government, or some strong com-
pany, step in and take the water at the source, and
thus stop all the mills and throw hundreds of people
out of employment, and inflict almost incalculable
mischief upon the whole district ; besides which, in-
stead of having, as now proposed, isolated cesspools
in different places along the banks of the river, its
whole course would be one stagnant ditch and mass
of impurity. He at the same time wished to be un-
derstood that he was not at all favourable to the pre-
sent plan for taking the water ; and with regard to
the cesspool which the Company proposed to have
near their works, he was satisfied that it would not
contain half the matter that would flow into it, and it
would continually be overflowed.
Mr. ASHBY remarked that the effect of this would
be that all the houses in the neighbourhood would be
filled with the filth from the cesspools.
Messrs. Reynolds and Chapman, medical gentlemen
of the neighbourhood, expressed their opinion that
the establishment of these cesspools was calculated to
render the neighbourhood unhealthy, and even to
create, at particular periods, a pestilential atmosphere.
Resolutions embodying the sense of the meeting
against the proposed scheme were carried unani-
mously, and it was also resolved that they should be
published in the whole of the morning papers, and,
after a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meeting
adjourned.

ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER THAMES.—Yesterday
morning, as several deeply laden barges wore driving up
the river with the tide, one of them got foul of the centre
pier of Westminster-bridge, and by the concussion a
young man, twenty years of age, named Henry Richards,
was thrown overboard and drowned.
RAGGED ScnooLs.—Last evening a public meeting
of the Ragged School Union for poor children wag held
at the Vortland-rooms, Foley-street, Marylebone, R, C,
L. Bevan, Esq., took the chair, and was supported by
several of the district clergy and other gentlemen. Prom
the statements of the respective speakers it appeared that
there is a school for the children of the poor (" ragged"
children) in West-street, Smithfield, and it was proposed
that an extension should take place. Subscriptions for
that mos° were eptge4 into, .