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This meeting was held on the 7th May, Mr. T. Jay, of Regent
Street, being elected chairman. Resolutions were passed condemning
the scheme of the Railway Company, and asking various members
of both Houses of Parliament, who were interested in the matter,
to watch the Bill and endeavour either to reject the proposal altogether,
or to restrict the area of ground to be acquired by the
Company to the smallest possible limits, having regard to the
absolute requirements of the Company for public or quasi public
purposes.
The Bill was considerably altered in Committee of the House of
Commons, and was subsequently again altered in the Lords, the
final result being that the extent of the ground to be taken by the
Company was limited to 3,950 yards, or less than one-fourth of the
whole area, part of which was to be devoted to the formation of a
new street in lieu of a thoroughfare to be closed. The price to be
paid by the Company was fixed at £8,000, and the remainder of the
ground was to be conveyed, without further consideration, to the
Yestry of St. Pancras, and to be laid out and maintained by them,
for ever, as an open space for the use of the public.
Possession of the Burial Ground was given to the Railway
Company and the St. Pancras Yestry on the 1st February, and the
purchase-money received from the Company, which has been
paid into court, as provided by the Act, is to be devoted to
such ecclesiastical, parochial, and other purposes, for the benefit of
the Parish of St. James as the Trustees, with the sanction of the
Yestry, may direct; the Yestry have approved the proposal of
the Trustees to apportion the sum equally between ecclesiastical
and secular objects, but the precise purposes to which the money
is to be applied are still under consideration.
ARCHBISHOP TENISON'S UNITED SCHOOLS
for the Parishes of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and St..James, are
governed by a Board of Trustees, of whom three are elected by
the Vestry of this Parish. The Trustees so elected are, at the