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the south side of Church-street ; or irregular intersections, as 

 Bold-street with Slater-street and Newington, Brownlow-hill 

 with Bedford- street and Elizabeth-street, Parliament-street 

 with Crown-street, and many others; What we want in Liver- 

 pool is a well digested plan for improving the old parts of the 

 town, for the execution of which an Act of Parliament should 

 be obtained, by which the owners of property, on the line of 

 any proposed improvement, should be required to give the 

 Council the option of purchasing either the whole, or as much 

 as may be required, before re-building, altering, or re-letting 

 it, subject to a reference to a jury, or other arbitrators. It will 

 thus be seen that I do not advocate any sudden efforts for 

 transforming the deformed ; but a gradual reformation, accord- 

 ing to a well considered and approved plan of original defects 

 in arrangement, and the introduction of adaptations to present 

 purposes. It should be an important provision in the Im- 

 provement Bill to empower the Council to build over any 

 streets, fragments of streets, or other open spaces, so as to 

 reduce the cost of the improvements, to make them more per- 

 fect, to promote sanitary amendment, and annual economy. 



In any thorough improvement numerous fragmentary streets 

 and alleys would be left of no public utility whatever, but of 

 great public expense in the interest of the price of the land, 

 and in the paving and cleansing. 



Whilst upon the subject of the width of streets, I beg to 

 dissent from the opinion, now so prevalent amongst sanitary 

 reformers, that it is desirable to make the streets very much 

 wider than is proportioned to the traffic ; because the expense 

 of sanitary improvement is seriously aggravated, through the 

 increase in the consumption of the land, in the first cost of 

 making, and in the annual charges for cleansing and maintain- 

 ing, whilst the exhalations from an extended street surface 

 cannot be so very desirable that any outlay should be incurred 

 to secure them. On routes where an increase of traffic is 

 probable a reserve of land for widening the si reef may be pro- 



