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RAILWAY BILLS.
The Great Eastern Railway Company deposited plans, shewing they
proposed to acquire power to purchase part of the back premises in
Hare-street and Three Colts-corner. The acquisition of the property
will not affect the public, and the Surveyor reported there was no
necessity for any arrangement being made with regard to sewers or
roads, but that it was desirable to preserve, and if necessary extend,
the existing footway bridge across the line from Three-Colts-corner
to Fish-street hill.
The East London Railway Company deposited plans, shewing they
proposed to acquire some property in Tent-street, and to obtain the
sanction of Parliament to abandon the line from Whitechapel to
Bethnal Green Junction, authorised by the Act of 1876. The Parliamentary
Committee were authorised to negotiate with the Company
as to the terms on which the sanction to abandon the construction of
the line should be granted ; but the Company (on the opposition of
the London and Brighton Company) struck out the clauses in their
Bill relating to the sanction to abandon the construction of the
intended line.
CLOSING BACON STREET.
Several inhabitants of Bacon-street and neighbouring streets urged
upon the Vestry, by deputations and memorials, that the intended
closing by the Metropolitan Board of Works of the Western end of
Bacon-street, between Swan-street and the new street formed by the
Board, would seriously diminish the value of the property in Baconstreet,
be very prejudicial to the trade in that and adjacent streets,
and prevent the future improvement of Bacon-street.
A deputation from the Vestry, consisting of Messrs. Ewin, Francis,
Jacobs, J. C. B. Richardson, Forrest, Key, Edwards, and Milbourn,
was appointed to wait upon the Metropolitan board of Works, to urge
upon that Board that the street should be kept open.
The deputation waited upon the Board, and urged as strongly as
possible that the street should be kept open. Before coming to a
decision, a Committee of the Board visited the street, and resolved to
recommend that the application of the Vestry should not be complied