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TRAMWAYS AND LOCAL UNDERTAKINGS.
The North Metropolitan Tramways Company promoted in the
Session of 1880 a Bill to extend their existing lines from Groat
Eastern Street to Whitechapel, and from the western terminus at
Gray's Inn Road to Holborn and to Oxford Street. The Bill
passed the Commons, but its progress in the Lords was stayed by
the dissolution until the Session of 1887, when with certain
modifications as regards the western extension, it passed. The
Holborn and Bloomsbury lines have been constructed, and it is
probable that the Whitechapel extension will shortly bo proceeded
with.
THE GREAT EASTER N RIALWAY.
The Great Eastern Railway promoted a Bill in the present
Session which, so far as this Parish and District is connerned,
sought to obtain additional lands in Bishopsgate Street and Norton
Eolgato on the Eastern side for widening of the line and stations,
which would interfere with the Shoroditoh 1 ligh Street and
Worship Street, and also to obtain Parliamentary powers for tho
earrying on ol" the Bishopsgate Market, under the Goods Stations
in Shoroditoh and Stratford Market. The Vestry opposed the
Bill with a view to obtain protection against undue interfernnee
with the streets, sewers, &e., and also as to rating clauses. These