We are authorized to deny that the railway companies have
petitioned Parliament for a Bill assigning the Metropolitan Dis- trict to them as a railway station. They hope to present and carry such a petition in a year or two, but at present will be content with an Act authorizing them to take any portion of London they like, for any purpose they please, at any price it may be convenient for them to pay. To make this Act more acceptable they have divided the spoil demanded into sections, each railway pleading separately for its own. Anything more impudent than their demands, which would, if barely stated, fill an entire page of this paper, it is impassible to imagine, and five-sixths of them are unnecessary. We do trust that as the Commons are too much interested to do their duty the Peers will coerce these cor- porations into decency, insist that no railway shall come beyond the circular line, and provide some compensation for the poor people so ruthlessly turned out of their homes.
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