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Aldersgate-street to Post Office.—A subway tramway.

King's-road (Chelsea) and Buckingham Palace-road. A surface tramway.

Victoria-street, Westminster.—A surface tramway, starting at the northern end of Vauxhall Bridge-road, and passing along Victoria-street, Broad Sanctuary, and Parliament-square, and terminating at Parliament-street.

Marylebone and Euston roads.—A surface tramway.

Finchley-road.—A surface tramway.

Some of these proposals the Commissioners find open to criticism. They involve, in all, about seven miles of tunnels and subways, the cost of which, in some localities, might be as high as a million per mile, and not often lower than £300,000. They do not think that the case is made out for applying this view to the projects, outlined by the advisory board, of a subway being constructed, at the cost of the municipality, from Albert-gate along Piccadilly to the City merely as a continuation of the surface tramway to Albert-gate; it would be about four miles long, and would be very costly. A "tube" railway is already under construction along a considerable portion of the same route. 
Similarly, the scheme for a subway under the Thames east of the Tower Bridge does no seem at present to justify the great expense involved. in the City of London, if no surface tramways are admitted, the cost of subways to meet requirements would be prohibitive. Therefore, surface tramways should be laid down in the City wherever they can be shown to be reasonable practicable, and subways should be made where surface tramways are not practicable.

SUBWAY UNDER HYDE PARK.

A subway in proposed by the Advisory Board of Engineers, starting from Victoria Station and running beneath Grosvenor-place and Hyde Park, at it eastern edge, to Marble Arch. At both extremities