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been introduced into it when before a Committee of the House of
Commons, underwent considerable modification in the Lords, the
Metropolitan Board having submitted to the Committee of that
House, to whom the same was referred, other clauses for insertion
more or less inconsistent therewith, and a strong protest was made
by the Vestry of St. Mary, Newington, against the action of that
Board in the matter. After careful comparison of the two sets of
clauses, however, Mr. Burney, the Solicitor employed by this
Board, reported that in his judgment this Board and the Vestries
had lost nothing substantially which they had gained in the
Commons, except a general power of supervision over the construction
and maintenance of bridges and works of the Company over
streets, &c., which power had been transferred from them to the
Metropolitan Board. On the other hand, some slight additional
advantages had been gained, e.g., powers to compel the Company
to construct all bridges with parapets to hide the passing of trains
from public view, and to enclose the ends of arches, recesses, &c.
forty feet wide and upwards, not utilised for railway purposes.
South
Eastern
Railway
(Various
Powers) Bill.
The South Eastern Railway (Various Powers) Bill also passed
into Law, having received the Royal Assent on the 10th August,
1882. It will enable the Company to acquire additional land on
the east side of the passage leading from the Grove to Ewer Street,
for the purpose of carrying out the alterations and improvements
in that locality authorised by their Act of 1878.
Charing
Cross and
Waterloo
Railway.
An Act was passed in the Session of 1882 authorising the construction
of a Railway from Charing Cross to the Waterloo Station
of the London and South Western Railway, the motive power of
which is to be electricity; and in the last Session of Parliament a
Bill was introduced to enable the Company to extend the proposed
Line along York Road, Lambeth, Stamford Street, Holland Street,
part of Bankside, and thence beneath the bed of the River Thames
to a point opposite the Royal Exchange. The Bill provided for
the appropriation by the Company of the under-surface of streets;
the construction of ventilating shafts or openings; the under-pinning
of houses or buildings; the acquisition of vaults, cellars, and parts
of buildings without being compelled to take the whole; the diversion
of sewers and drains; the diversion also of the Subway for foot