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METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.
The Bill promoted in the last Session of Parliament by the Metropolitan
Board of Works for the widening of High Street, Shoreditch,
having been rejected by a partisan Committee, the Vestry again in the
Antumn memorialized the Board to introduce a Bill for the same
purpose and also for the formation of a New Street from Shoreditch to
Old Street in continuation of Commercial Street. Several other Vestries
made similar requests, the most important of which, in respect to this
locality, were for a New Street from Shoreditch to Bethnal Green and
the continuation of Old Street to Oxford Street.
A Bill embodying these proposals was introduced into Parliament,
and though strenuously opposed at every step by several Vestries and
Boards, chiefly suburban, has hitherto made satisfactory progress and
gives every promise of becoming law this session.* The parishes of
Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, St. Luke's, Clerkenwell, Holborn, &c., have
reason to be satisfied with the course the Metropolitan Board has taken
and the triumph which has been obtained over the selfish policy advocated
by several favored and wealthy parishes. The improvements though
within or adjacent to the above parishes, will be for the benefit of the
Metropolis at large.
TRAMWAYS.
Nothing new has been promoted in respect of Tramways in Shoreditch
during the past year; but the works for which Parliamentary
powers were obtained in the previous session have been commenced and
are in active progress from Stamford Hill to Shoreditch, and will be
ultimately extended through Hackney Road, Old Street, East Road, and
New North Road. The Vestry have entered into an agreement with
the Tramway Company in respect to the paving of Old Street, in front
of the Town Hall, with Asphalte. The work has been executed by the
Val de Travers Company with compressed Asphalte, at a cost of about
£1400, of which the Tramway Company will pay about £600.
PRIVATE BILL LEGISLATION.
Only one Bill was introduced this Session relating directly to this,
parish, viz.: The London and North Western Extension of Goods
* The Bill has since passed Royal Assent, August 6th.