REPAVEMENT OF THE STRAND, LONDON, UK; The usually crowded roadways of Fleet Street and the Strand have just been in part re-laid with granite pavement, in well-timed anticipation of the additional amount of traffic to be expected during the approaching Great Exhibition. The system now generally adopted in the metropolitan carriage roads is, to prepare a foundation of concrete, and then place upon it the granite blocks to a proper curve, generally a flat segment of a circle, so as to throw off th