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the Company's Bill on account of the lowness of the arches intended to
be made across several streets, but under existing circumstances it is
suggested that the proposed line would be an advantage to the Parish
in furnishing increased facilities for traffic from the eastern part of the
Parish to the City and westward. A petition against the Bill has been
presented.
3. The Regent's Canal Railway, City, and'Docks Bill.—The Bill
seeks for power for the promoters to acquire, on terms specified in the
agreement and scheduled to the Bill, the canal and the property
belonging to the Canal Company, and to construct a railway, running
for the most part along one side of the canal.
In consequence of the levels of the canal in this Parish, the projected
works will not affect any of the streets or roads under the control
of the Vestry, but the Vestry have presented a petition in opposition
to the Bill with a view of obtaining not only the requisite clauses as
to rating and sewers, but an improvement of the bridges crossing the
canal. The worst of the bridges (that in Old Ford-road near the southwest
corner of the park) will not be interfered with, as the intended
railway will curve and run about 150 feet east of the bridge. "With
regard to the other bridges negotiations are pending. The privilege
of the Canal Company to have the canal assessed only as land is
regarded by many as unfair; and now that it is sought to make use
of part of the property of the Canal Company for a railway, and to
make the Company really a Railway and Canal Company, it is considered
the privilege should cease and the property be assessed in the
ordinary way, and the Vestry (in common with other vestries through
whose parishes the canal passes) ask by their petition that if the Bill
be passed the privilege shall be abolished.
PURCHASE OF YARD AND PREMISES IN DIGBY STREET.
For more than three years the Vestry had at a nominal rent the use
of a large piece of ground in Hare-street, belonging to the Great
Eastern Railway Company, for the deposit of stone and other materials.
The company, requiring the ground for their work, gave the Vestry
notice to quit, and resumed possession of the ground. It was thought
the company might have some other property in the parish suitable for
stores, and negotiations were entered into with the company's land