Surrey Roads.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIAIM;S. Sir,-Allow me to correct a mistake into which yoar corretmond- ent has fallen respecting the witshed-for improvement in St. George's. fields. It tas the mne jority, not the minority, of the magistrates and trustees who expressed their anxiety, that the magnificent building of Bethlehem Hospital should remain fully open to the public view. The minority, on the contrary, propose carrying a street to its very walls; fo that, asdemonstratedby the surveYorto the trust, no part of the building, except the colonnade, would be visible from theObe_ lisk, and that would be seen but obliqucly. The trustees are wiU- ing to maintain the new road lately made, to awsist that object; but they deprecate the stopping up one of the greatest and most ancient thoroughfares leading to the rmetropolis, viz. the Lambeth-road, which extends from La,nbeth church to the Stones'-end, South- wark; and they depracate the filling up with law houses a plot of land capable of being converted into a noble approach to the city by each ef the five bridges. The resolution, wbich was moved by lMlr. Jackson, and seconded by the High Sheriff of the county. who have neither of threm a narticle of interest in the question bevond that of their public duty, '-will show that their object was not to tlitvrl, but to pronote the improvement of that populous neighbourhon-. As she resolution, however, will speak best for itself, I have the honour to nff-r. n- fnr v-,r in-trrionn.l _rn v.nr - -P.- A TRUSTEE. nis meetmg naving neara reau tne opinion or coun6se respect_ ing the proceedings of this trust, in regard to the exchanee of certain pieces of land with the Comnmiuteeof the Biidge House E;tates, ande the diversion of the Lambeth-rokd, and having taken into their con- sideration the stopping up of the ancient hizh road leading firom Lamnbeth church, through St. George'se-lds, to the borough of Seuthwark, in order to effect a circuitous wav by Bethlem Hos- pital, are of opinion that such measure will be highly inconvenient and injurious to the public, as well as to the neighbouring inba- bitants, and that the samne is not an improvement within the mean- ing ofthe actof the 3d of Hispresent .Majesty, c. 112, for the Manage- ment of the New Surrey RoadrE. nor of the geueral Turnpike Acts of the 3d and 4th of the King. " Resolved, therefore, that such part br parts of the proceedings of the trust, on the 30th of October, 1823, and such proccedings or resolutions as have been made or taken to cffectuate those objects, be rescinded. At the same time, this meeting declares its readines6 to concur with the Corporatien of london, or the Committee of the Bridge House Estates, in any measu(re for the enlargement andim- provement of the soutbern approaches to the metropolis, by West- minster, 'Waterloo, Blackfriars, Southwark, and London Bridges, by maintainingtheNew Road from Bethlem Hospital to theObelisk, or by such other means as shall b^;udged expedient, as far as may be consistent with the lezal powers possessed by this trust." SURREY ROADS.