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B ANK OF ENGLAND, Sept. 5, 1861.—The COURT of DIRECTORS of the Governor and Com pany of the Bank of England GIVE NOTICE, that a GENE RAL COURT will be held at the Bank on THURSDAY NEXT, the 12th inst., at Twelve o'clockprecisely, to consider , of a Dividend. This will also be one of the Quarterly Gene ral Courts appointed by the Charter. E. WELSH, Assistant Secretary. ;ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, G ra y' s -inn-road, Patron —Her Majesty the QUEEN. President —His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, B.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This Hospital relieves distress in its most helpless shape, that of disease aggravated by destitution. With more ade quate funds the Weekly Board could make immediately avail able 500 beds for the relief of the large mass of suffering in this metropolis. Its present resources, supplied entirely by the Voluntary Contributions of the Public, enable it to afford, in addition to its In-patients, effective Medical Assistance to an average exceeding 2.000 Out-patients weekly. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; Masterman and Co. ; and at the Hospital. J. B. OWEN, M.A„ Chairman of the Weekly Board. B 011 AL NATIONAL LIFE•I3 OAT INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK, (Incorporated by Royal Charter). Founded in 182 4.—Supported by Voluntary Contributions. PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRES IDENT—Vice-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northum berland, K.G., F.R.S. CHAIRMAN —Thos. Baring, Esq. : My., F.R.S., V. P., Chair- man of Lloyd's.' DE PUTY - CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of Lloyd's Registry of British and Foreign Shipping Society. API' The Committee of Managen the past year, the Institution ing, to £6,258 is. on the follow 'EAT # 'lent 'kw to state that, during has incurred expenses amount ing Life-boat stations:— Llandudno, Carnarvonshire. Southport, Lancashire. Lytham, Silloth, Cumberland. ENGLAND. Newbiggin, Northumberland. Saltburn, Yorkshire. Filey, Caistor, Norfolk. Aldborough, Suffolk. Margate, Kent. Walmer„ Selsey, West Sussex. Grange, Isle of Wight Brooke, 1 Penzance, Cornwall. St. Ives, 91 Newquay, IRELAND. Penarth, Glamorganshire. Portrush, Antrim. llandwyn, .Anglesey. Tyrella, Dundrum Bay. The Institution has also expended on the repairs, stores, alterations, and inspection of its numerous Life-bolts, Boat houses, and Transporting-carriages, £3,632 19.. ; and £1,550 for exercising the Crews of its Life-boats—making altogether a total of £11,441. SCOTLAND. Ayr, Ayrshire. Irvine, „ Kantyre, Argyleshire. Buckle, Banffshire. Banff, St. Andrew's, Fifeshire. North Berwick, Haddington shire. During the past year the Life-boats of the Institution have been instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the following wrecked Vessels : Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone Brig Pallas, of Shields .. Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow • • Smack John Bull, of Yarmouth .. Schooner Catherine, of Newry Barque Niagara, of Shields .. A Barge of Teignmouth • • • • Brig George and James, of London Brig Zephyr, of Whitby .. • • Coble Honour, of Cullercoats Schooner Elizq, of North Shields .. Barque Oberon, of Liverpool Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth Smack Wonder, of Teignmouth Brig Scotia, of Sunderland .. Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge ... Brig Ann, of Blyth .. • • Sloop Hope, of Dublin Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth .. Barque Vermont, of Halifax, U.S. .. Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis Steam Dredge, at Newhaven .. Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee Schooner Rose, of Lynn • Brig Prodroma, of Stockton • Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .. 1 .. 2 .. 6 .. 5 .. 5 .. 8 .. 3 .. 5 .. 16 • 2 - 5 - 3 - 9 .. 6 .. 5 .. 11 .. 7 .. 6 .. 7 .. 7 Total .. For these and other Life-boat seies the Institution has voted L9OB Bs. 4d. as re xards. It has also granted rewards amounting to £203 4s. for saving 245 shipwrecked persons, by shore-boats and other means, making a total of 455 persons saved from a watery grave on the Coasts of the United Kingdom. During the present year (1861), the Life-boats of the Insti tution have also been instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the following Vessels : Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford Schooner Prospect, of Berwick Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives A Fishing-boat of Whitburn Brig Arethusa, of Blyth • • •• Schooner Dewi Wyn, of Portmadoc Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris Schooner William, of Morecambe Smack Gipsy, of Newry Schooner M argaret Anne, of Preston Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven Schooner William, of Liverpool .. Lugger Nimrod, of Castletown . Brig Providence, of Shields .. Brig, Mayflower, of Newcastle Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood Barque Guyana, of Glasgow .. Brig Roman Empress, of Shields .. Brig San Spiridione, of Galaxide Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vianna French Brig La Jeune Marie Therese Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater Ship Danube, of Belfast • • • • Schooner Hortensia, of Hanover . Schooner Oregon, of Ston e h aven . Brig St. Michel, of Marans Spanish Barque Primcra de Tonierigo (saved ves sel and one of the crew) .. Schooner Hiverall, of Penzace (saved vessel and crew) .. 4 .. 4 .. 8 .. 4 .. 19 .. 10 .. 2 .. 8 .. 6 .. 5 .. 4 .. 17 Total .. ..184 The publio cannot but sympathise with the vigorous efforts now being made by this Institution to save the lives of Ship wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at the present time, when, through the extraordinary exertioui the Society has made within the past few y ears , it has now One Hundred and Fifteen Life-boats under its management, for the maintenance of which, in a state of thorough efficiency. a large permanent annual income is absolutely needed, it its humane mission is to be perpetuated. Donations and Annual •:u scriptions will be thankfully re ceived by Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard street ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand ; Messrs. Herries, Farquhar. and Co., 1 ,1 , St. James's-street, London ; by a 1 the Bankers in the United Kingdom; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London, W.C. Payments may be made by Cheques or by Post-office Orders (crossed), to Messrs. W Ills, Percival, and Co., or to the Secre tary. A.D. 1720. 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FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected With this Corporation on advantageous terms. ticipa In the Life Department, assurance s are gran t e d w i th par tion in participation. Profits, or, at l ower P rem i ums, without such The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. Life. AnY sum not exceeding £15,000 may be ins ure d on one This Corporation affords to the Assured— th e li Liber abilitipkesaral ticipation in Profit s — w ith exemption from of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Societies —with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock. The advantages of modern practice,—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. 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TOZEATT'S COPAHINE, or SACCHARATED CAPSULES.—Copaiba and Cubeba are doubtless the best remedies, but these drugs are of a repulsive taste and odour, and occasion colicky pains, nausea, and gastric dis turbance. M. Jozeau has succeeded in rendering these valu able therapeutic agents r erfectly innocuous by increasing in his Copahine all tie curative properties. This preparation has been adopted by the Paris Academy of Medicine, after more than a thousand trials in Paris and the different Lon don hospitals, viz., bit. Thomas's, Guy's, and St. Bartholo mew's, under the care of Messrs. Lloyd, Poland, and Legros Clark.—" Lancet," Nov. 6 and Dec. 10, 1857. The Copahine, which is in form of a pretty''pink sugar plum, effects a cure in abnut six days, either in recent or chronic diseases. 100 capsules, 4s. 6d. ; post free, Is. 2d. Post-office order required ; at J. 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Dr. Ricord's Essence of Life is sold in cases, with full in structions for use, at lls., or four quantities in one for 335., and may be sent to any pact of the world, carefully packed, on receipt of remittance or post-office order payable to Prout and Co. Dr. Ricord's Sole Agent in London is Prout, Patent Medi cine Warehouse, 229, Strand (seven doors west of Temple bar). . _ _ (Entered at Stationers' Hall.) DR. LA'MERT on NERVOUS and PHYSICAL DEBILITY, resulting from pernicious habits con tracted in Youth, excesses in Manhood, or residence in Tropi cal Climates. With Cases and Engravings from Life. Licentiate of the Roya' College of Physicians, Edinburgh ; Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, ko. The 81st Edition. CONTENTS. Section I.—The Physiology of the Generative Organs. Section ll.—Puberty—Manhood—The Morale of Generative Physiology—True and False Morality. Section lll.—Marriage in Its Social and Physical Relations— Happy and Unhappy Unions —How to secure Healthy Off spring. Section IV.—Touthful Abuse—The Secret Cause of Nervous Debility, Impotence in Man, and Sterility in Man and Woman. Section V.—Spermatorrhcea, or Chronic Impotence: its His tory, Causes, and Moral Consequences—The Sterility of Age. The objeet of this treatise is to furnish the reader with in formation of the most useful kind, and which every man should be acquainted with, on the physiology of the repro ductive organs, and on the nature and peculiarities of those physical functions on which the satisfactory fulfilment of the Obligations of Marriage depends. The work is not filled with mysterious and intricate theories, but is intended to elucidate the effects of imprudence, to remove unfounded alarm, and, where there is real cause for apprehension, to in dicate the course by which complete recovery can be effected, and the preservation of functional, physical, and nervous health secured. _ _ Price ls., post free for 13, or In a sealed envelope, 20 stamps, by Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or the Author, who may be consulted daily till 2, and from 6 to 8, at his residence, 37, Bedford-square. DR. CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD: MEDICAL A ESSAY ON SPERMATORRTT NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, Bro. net Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price is., Sold by all Booksellers, and sent post paid, by the Anther, for 12 stamps, ANHOOD: the CAUSE and CURE of PRE TL MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions for Veriect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. CURTIS, 15, Albermule-street, Piccadilly, London. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological Aructure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs. CHAPTER ll.—Causes of Spermatorrheea and Impotence; , arts , Vicious Indulgences ; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER lII.—A Review of the various Disqualifications t Marriage ; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of gonorrhoea and Syphilis. The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting ages, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive i•otion. REVIEWS OF THE WORK. ihoul ur d be in the 51 hands of young and old. valuableawy Times,' 3d lurch, 1856. lit2hweolmolr w h hi as ch co i n s f d err es e c c r l th a e gr d t e h a e t b so o ur on ce b whi ch IToduce decline in youth or more frequently premature old age. ...._ . Daily" Telegraph," March 27, 1856. by of publishing thoseds T uts work, which for - twenty years has stood the test of professional criticism and empirical hostility, treats in a plain diseases ands YMpathising manner on the various disqualifications and ImPediments arising from nervous excitement and de • MIRY : and to invalids suffering from youthful errors and excesses it will be found valuable and useful."—Record. London : Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater ‘ noster-row; ; Mann, Sg, CornhilL , r.. 4-tll 119 .X 4 P CI Cmuultation—io to 3 and 6 to 8 LbluluaYol:Av "" "• - - , 6 • /() / - / - 3 ‘ISIAPER ,Z t - et- fir • • r - • r >" '`• •P‘ • , • ( • • l _ de. 1 c'vi z --- -„Z -- - , *l 4 : %t t , ea, Af • (. 4 • , .r3N r 4S/i I'HE GREAT EXHIBIT , . ,064. h . 4 0 ", 'A:, • , .6' - 7 , 0 11 0 . , ' , • ' -•• , - I r, ROTT. o• • , ptawelnaoedyr short; i : T nt r a Iltwell understood, and It has been said that internationalAkus hibitions have a natural tendency to develope and, enlarge themselves with each succeeding display. The truth of this remark is being strikingly ex emplified by the widespread preparations now mak ing in all departments of science, arts, and manu e factures o for the hl t eye h a e kor eb g jpp r eor e cei a tns t et on e oftvfeet represented enoefxnhheei undertakingxb fi t to iyrote exhibition c r oo : n aw a l i n sans d sgi n i vd t e s si a f l o r d c e i b p l a y r s t n t in Asathe effortwhol whole f t t h h e e c c o o l l o o n n t i c e s s position to go to much expense s th ti e ll c zn olo or n were almost unrepresented. The notice given Was few of the colonies for contri butions. Thus it was that out of the 23,500 feet of horizontal space allotted to the British Colonies in 1851 only 6,180 were thinly occupied. The Indian Court, it is true, made a grand display of rich and gaudy wares, but the products rnd manufactures— the material wealth, in short, of our gigantic colo nial possessions, were either inadequately repre sented or not represented at all. Now, all this will be changed next year. The truth of the theory of the development of these exhibitions showed itself in the Paris Exhibition of 1853. Then our colonies not only appreciated the objects of the Ex hibition, but what was more important,zifiersto o A' what they had lost by being so imperfectly repre sented in 1851. The result was that 4 Paris, in 1853, there was a finer colonial display than in Lon don in '5l, and in the Exhibition of next year there will be such a show of colonial products and manu factures as has never been gathered under one roof before. All, even to our most distant dependencies, are making such efforts to be well represented next year as almost apparently to surpass the interest taken in the scheme at home. The Canadian Go vernment has voted £B,OOO towards the expenses of properly representing that grand colony; Cape Colony will give £5,000 ; British Columbia, £2,000; Queensland, £2,000; Tasmania, £2,000; New South Wales, £3,000, and £5,000 for an exhibition of gold ; Victoria gives £lO,OOO ; New Brunswick, £1,600; British Guiana, £l,OOO, and proportionate sums will be voted by nearly all the other colonial Legislatures throughout the world. The idea of the gold exhibition of the Australian colonies is an admirable one. For the first time the English public will see a properly arranged and classified exhibition of the various deposits of the precious metal, the discovery of which has in ten short years raised Australia from the position of an outlying colony and convict depot to a series of powerful and wealthy States. It is not to be a mere display of nuggets; on the contrary, the nuggets that are to be sent as specimens are to be limited in weight to 6oz. It is to be a display not only of the various forms in which the rich aurife rous yield is found, but also of all the machines and implements by which it is worked at the dig gings. Thus there will be gold earth and gold sand, with the methods of washing it, gold quartz of every grade of richness, from 3oz. to the ton, till the lumps of metal at last emerge in an eruption of pure nuggets upon the surface of the earth. To wards this display New South Wales gives £5,000, and the settlement of Victoria £5,000, with £5,000 more for the general purposes of exhibitors. Let those who affect to complain that 10 years is too short a space of time to intervene between those Exhibitions ti ink of this munificent grant of the Victorian Legislature, and of the progress made by that colony during the last decade. In 1851 Victoria was just starting into existence as a distant colony. Its population was then short of 80,0 1 10 ; it had barely 60,000 acres of land under cultivation; its annual imports were barely a million, and its ex ports short of £1,400,000. Novits population is nearly 700,000, its exports exceed in value 15 mil lions annually, and its imports are as large, while more than 490,000 acres of land are under cultiva tion. The colonists own upwards of 7,000,000 head of cattle, and have sent gold to the mother country to the value of £110,00,000 sterling. Nor is it only in Victoria that we see this astounding pro gress in the 10 years that has intervened. Port Phillip, which in 1851 had only just been erected into a separate colony, is now the great settlement of the group. Moreton Bay has within the last two years become a great, prosperous, and indepen dent colony, under the name of Queensland ; Van Diemen's Land no longer exists, but in its stead is the wealthy and thriving settlement of Tasmania, and even the beautiful Norfolk Islands are no more the most dreaded of all penal settlements, but have been colonised by the Pitcairn Islanders, to whom a romantic interest still attaches as the descendants of the mutineers of the Bounty, who kept up their primitive simplicity and isolation till they outgrew the limits of their first island home. We live fast nowadays, and ten years is a huge epoch in the rapid history of colonial enter prise and progress. There are now railways and telegraphs to towns in Australia which 10 years ago were only stations with sheep tracks through the bush. Steamers are plying on the Murray and the Darling, and Queensland, British Columbia, and Vancouver's Island have since the last Exhibition been admitted into that greatfamily of communities which constitute the gigantic empire of the British colonies. PRICE.. ..... .4d. STAMPED ....sd. artificers, labourers, and others who are in the re ceipt of daily or weekly wages, and who have en tered the service since the passing of the Superan nuation Act of April 19, 1859. " And, as the Lords Commissioners of her Ma jesty's Treasury are desirous of being furnished with lists of the individuals, or class of persons, who will be eligible under these regulations, I am to request that you will transmit a return thereof at the ear liest opportunity. " B. HAWES. " To officers in charge of departments, &c." The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Trea sury having had under consideration the regula tions which should be adopted to give effect to the Superannuation Act of the 19th April, 1859, in re gard to the allowances to be issued to such artificers, labourers, and others in the receipt of wages, as have been appointed since the date of the act in question, and, having further considered " the pro per manner of applying the provisions of the Act" in question, with reference to the nature of the remu neration given, either by means of a total compensa tion for service in the grant of a market rate of wages, or iy a rate inferior thereto, which in the course of years is made up by " steady employment" and the prospect of superannuation, have deter mined— "1. That no persons are entitled to superannua tion who are in the receipt of the full market rate of wages. 2. That persons receiving less than the full market rate of wages may be admitted to the service in an established capacity. and become entitled to superannuation on the following terms :-3. That the maximum age of admission to the service in an established capacity shall not exceed 35, except in special cases, in which the Secretary of State may, with the concurrence of the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, consent to make an excep tion. 4. The 17th section of the Act requires that all persons not appointed directly by the Crown shall, before appointment, pass a satisfactory exa mination before the Civil Service Commissioners, and receive a certificate of competency. The service of such persons will reckon towards superannuation from the date of the certificate of the Commissioners, or from the date (when a subsequent one) of the commencement of their duties. 5. With a view to give effect to the fourth item of these regulations, Sir G. C. Lewis has decided that the examination shall embrace the following subjects :—Reading, writing, and arithmetic,first four rules. Each person will also be required to produce evidence of physical fitness and the necessary proof of good character. 6. All artificers, labourers, and others employed in the colonies who are not of the English race, but who may be nominated for permanent ap pointment, will not (unless they desire it) be subjected to the educational examination above referred to. If, however, they should be exempted from this test they will be required to serve a period of five years on probation prior to appointment on establishment, and the necessary proof of age, good character, physical fitness, and aptitude for their duties must be furnished, in order that the certifi cates of the Civil Service Commissioners, as re quired by the 17th clause of the Superannuation Act, may be obtained." The detachment of officers and men of the Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery, who have been stationed at Shoebtaryness for the last two months to undergo a course of instruction at that school of gunnery, will return to headquarters, Sheerness, to-day. The detachment has been through a complete course of instruction in the use of the Awstrong gun, and will be the first draught despatched to India. Lieut. C. F. Daly and a detachment of the Royal Marine Artillery and Royal Marines left headquar ters, Chatham, on Saturday afternoon, and em barked on board the Malacca, 17, 200-horse power, fitting for the Pacific. The 6th, 7th, and Bth Batteries of the 10th Bri gade, Garrison Artillery, Col.-Commandant Gen. W. G. Power, C. 8., arrived at headquarters, Wool wich, on Saturday from Portsmouth. The battery was in command of Lieut. and Brevet-Col. P. 11. Mundy. The Artillery force now at Aldershott consists of the batteries of the 4th Brigade, commanded by Major Hoste, C. 8., Capts. Smyth and Leslie, and the battery of Horse Artillery commanded by Capt. Saunders. The new Artillery stations of Chatham, Canterbury, and Walmer, will be occupied by the batteries of the 9th brigade, commanded by Major Mackey, Capts. Byrne and Stokes. If there are any among the members of this sys tem of dependencies which show less zeal in the Exhibition than the rest they are to be found among the West Indian colonies. Sugar now and cotton for the future seem not unnaturally to occupy all their thoughts at present, and more interest is evinced among the people of the Sandwich Islands, at Hayti, in Japan,the South Sea Isles, the Fee jees, in Liberia, and along the settlements of the West Coast of Africa, than among the inhabitants of the greatest of the Antilles. Mr. R. Alcock is sending home a superb collection of objects from Japan, principally of China laquer ware and textile fabrics, with scientific and agricultural implements, raw products, &c. To this display her Maj esty will contribute from the Windsor armoury the magnifi cent weapons and armour which were lately sent to her as a present from the Tycoon. Our Indian em pire was last time represented by the display put forth by the Company. This time Dr. F. Watson is intrusted with gathering together a grand collection of the staples of that great empire, and it is said the collection will be one of the most valuable and most varied that has ever been brought together. The Indian empire does not come within the space assigned for the colonial display, but will, as in 1851, have a separate court to itself. In all, 12,000 feet of horizontal space has been given up to the colonies apparentlyand expected, have to o proper. Judging from the present applications, at icethmrai that sier amount sons is demanded will landeas t the t w co enlarge the area at first decided on. On all sides arises the clamour for more room, and yet more. The theory of development on which the Commis. sinners have depended has been rather more than realised, yet, as their belief in the theory has not taken the practical form of erecting a building large enough to meet what they rightly said would be the increased demand, it necessarily follows that a numerous minority of the late applicants will be disappointed altogether. There is not one-fourth more space for the exhibitors than in 1851, yet about 10 times the amount is wanted. England alone has sent in demands which amount to twice the contents of the whole structure, and France complains that she has about a tenth of the space required for what she must exhibit. Of all our large cities, Dublin seems the most apathetic on the subject, as compared with its size and importance ; but few applications have yet come in, and none whatever will be entertaine after the 30th of this month. T he 12th of Febru te when exhi ary next has been fixed on as the date bjects, and the bitors may begin to send i n thei r o that time till n othing Commissioners will rece ive them from rch whatever the end of March. After Ma from home or abroad, no will be admitted e ither ma tt e r from what caus e the delay have a r i sen. Th ere will be thus one clear month, during Which those in charge of the building can proceed unin terruptedly in the proper arrangement and display of the works of art and manufactures. If this rule is strictly adhered to there is no fear of a repetition of the hurry, confusion, and half finished the midst of which th e state in Exhibition of 1851 was opened. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1861. THE INCOME-7AX. The grand dispute about the policy of an Income tax is tame beside the minor dispute about the inequality of its incidence. The question of direct or indirect taxation is only a question of rich and poor, and this distinction of interests is too familiar and old-fashioned to excite much active party spirit; but the arguments for deducting savings from income, for giving the professional man or merchant an advantage over the landholder or fundholder, for relieving the annuitant at the expense of the grantee of a rentcharge for life, touch the very points upon which mankind, as taxpayers a re most sensitive. It is not, after all, the division of society into " horizontal layers," but the jarring together of the various sections and fragments in the same stratum, that causes most disturbance and uneasiness, and with all their social equality we suspect our American cousins will find this the rub in the financial experiment which they are now making. No one can peruse, however cursorily, the report, or rather the four reports, on the property and income tax, of which the most meagre and negative was curtailed and adopted by the committee, without marvelling how conclusively each or every side of the question can be stated, if only the others can be excluded from view. Some of the problems, indeed, that used to be solved with infinite ingenuity were found to re semble that said to have been submitted by Charles 11. to the Royal Society. For instance, it was common to ask with perfect assurance why precarious incomes should pay as much as perma nent incomes, and it was not discovered for some little time that in fact they do not, inasmuch as the receipts from the one class are quite as pre carious as, and cease together with, the income itself, while the other contributes to the Exche quer for ever, if the tax should last so long. Still, there are many which cannot be disposed of so easily. The oftener we read over Mr. Hub bard's draught report, with Mr. Lowe's answer to it, the report proposed by Mr. Sotheron Est court, and the argumentative passages struck out of Sir Stafford Northcote's before it was adopted, and the cross-examination of Mr. Mill by Mr. Gladstone, the more we shall be tempted to despair of a really equitable adjustment of the income tax. If we take Mr. Hume's scheme for adjusting the assessment in accordance with the value of pro perty, the tenure of the owner, and the age of owner, we shall find that we are in effect capi talising the income, and taxing it on its value as capital or property—a plan the injustice and im practicability of which are denounced by Mr. Mill himself. If we prefer Mr. Mill's own principle, and rigorously apply the rule of exempting savings we shall have converted the tax from a tax on income into a tax on expenditure—a source already ransacked by indirect taxation. If, with out importing this motive into our theory we divide incomes, with Mr. Hubbard, into " indus trial" and " spontaneous," we confound under the former head the profits and even the interest on trading capital with the hard earnings of labour; and, under the latter, subject such incomes as the dividends of shareholders to a higher rate of taxa tion than we apply to partners in business. Every move in this great, game of calculation has a counter move corresponding to it, every objection admits of an answer, and every answer of a further objection, till we see that it must be a drawn battle unless some party can succeed in getting both the first and last word. _ _ _ Taking, however, the three main features of Mr. Hubbard's scheme, as analysed in the Report, we need not shrink from having an opinion, not, indeed, on their fitness to become the primary axioms of taxation, but on their intrinsic merits, The first of these is a proposal to make nett, instead of gross, income the basis of assessment. The existing prac tice is, of course, founded on practical convenience, and, though we are bound to reject all arguments in its favour which might equally well be brought against all change, however salutary, practical con venience has a strong prima facie case. When we examine Mr. Hubbard's details we find that even he is forced to have recourse to an average, that this average must vary with each class of gross incomes, such as " mines and mining adventure," " land rents," "house-rents," and " fines," and that the very postulate by which the deduction is to stand or fall is shifting, sometimes taking the form that a man should not be taxed "in respect of income which ho does not get," sometimes that " capital should not be taxed in its transfer." Without pre tending to have exhausted the pros and cons of this proposal, or to have fully weighed the validity of the sweeping exception to the second rule claimed for the Succession Duty, we cannot wonder that Mr. Hubbard failed to convert the committee to this article of his creed. Again, in the suggestion for distinguishing between that element in an annuity which represents capital and that which represents income, we can detect the presence of two very questionable doctrines. It is assumed, in the first place, that the capital invested in an annuity retain its identity as capital, so to speak, iu the annual in stalments, and that the same reasons which prevailed against taxing it in its former shape continue to ope rate against taxing it after its conversion. Secondly, it seems to be taken for granted, by a petitio principii the very converse of that which under lies the demand for the protection of savings as savings, that the law is specially interested in spar ing those who have deliberately sacrificed a fund which would have survived them to the augmenta tion of present income. Moreover, why should the taxgatherer discriminate between annuities which are the " annual product of a permanent property" and annuities which " consume the property itself," when the two, as Mr. Lowe puts it, are "equal in amount, duration, and value, and actually conver tible the one into the other ?" While, therefore, we are far from denying that remedies might be devised for these two grievances, we cannot blame the committee for drifting into the conclusion that their chairman's plan " does not afford a basis for the practicable and equitable re adj astment of the income tax." The case of those whose profits are made by personal skill or intelli gence rests on different grounds. This class is toler ably clearly defined, and all its members are entitled to nearly equal consideration. " Industrial incomes are both precarious as to amount and also temporary as to duration ;" so that, if both or either of these are grounds of exemption, their claims are para mount. But this is not all. Labour of this kind is the very machinery of accumulation ; its earnings are the reward of the most valuable work that is done for the country, and much the same reasons of policy which led to the remission of import duties on raw materials militate against docking heavily the gains of professional men. It will not do to limit the motives for the concession in question, with Mr. Mill, to the " necessity of saving." If this view be adopted, means must be taken to as certain not only that the saving might be made, but that it has actually been made, and the best way of doing this might be by extending the encourage ment already given to life insurance by the Act of 1853. But then it may well be doubted whether it be any part of the duty of the State " to give bounties to saving, or to lay penalties on expendi ture." "A father may do more wisely if he expend £2OO a year in giving his son a good education than by laying by the money," yet, if saving be the condi tion of relief, he will thereby put himself on the same footing with the owners of land or Consols. The truth is that it is very difficult to find any technical formula that will comprise all the ideas that con verge in the all but unanimous sentiment that this class of incomes should be lightly taxed. It is partly the feeling that they are chiefly made by men during the short working prime of life, with many dependent on them, and amid many anxieties for the future. It is partly, no doubt, that the sense of property in the yearly produce of one's own hands or brains is stronger than in that which has been received from others, or even acquired and invested by oneself at an earlier period. But it is probably the precariousness of such receipts, and the fact that so much of them goes to replace the cost of educa tion and the expenditure of those long years of waiting that precede professional success, that weighs most with the majority of minds. Mr. Newmarch did but sum up an anomaly which has Le en recognised, without being redressed, by every Minieter from Pitt to Gladstone, when he specified two risks and two wants affecting the owners of industrial incomes, as such, which do not affect the owners of permanent incomes, as such. An appeal for indulgence so favourably ebtertained by the country for so long a time can never be shelved by the mere reluctance of a committee to unsettle the present basis of the tax. The hardship has been admitted by Mr. Gladstone himself; the difficulty of remedying it, with justice to other claimants, is confessed by all. This then is just a case in which a Chancellor of the Exchequer should face the diffi culty boldly, ami set himself to smooth over the administrative and political obstacles for which Mr. Mill could not undertake to find a specific. If we cannot have absolute justice, we must have an ap. proximation to it. There is little likelihood of the meinha ve grownoft hi at s repealedfamiliarinw with h r t d he a tax length being B e monster that, from scarce enduring , w e have almost Yhsideo W use learnt to embrace it. But we fear that the acqui escence of many people is founded on a guilty com plicity rather than on genuine affection, A sense of wrong is apt to beget a lax conscience, and the demoralising character of the income tax has loug been added to the list of complaints which are periodically brought against it. There can be no doubt that Schedule 1) takes very good care of itself, but we believe that much of the temptation to fraud would be removed were the law to recognise those distinctions between industrial and permanent in comes, which, however difficult to reduce to a ma thematical formula, every man's instinct pronounces to be real.—Times. the keys which holds the girders together, and when all are united, the timber staying is removed forward, and the girder rests with its two ends upon the supports of the pier or column. Three of the girders are already finished, a fourth is on the eve of completion, and the distance between the Surrey side and the first brick pier is spanned by two lengths of girders ; the centre, or widest portion will be spanned by four girders; and from the second brick pier to the Middlesex, the space will be covered by two more girders, making to gether eight •of these gigantic iron girders for each side of the bridge. There will be ten of the iron columns, and the two brick piers, to carry the bridge. There will be, of course, none of the chains which at present make the graceful cate nary curve across the river, nor the towers which are such conspicuously ugly object in the centre of the stream. The original estimates for the bridge were £166,000, but the cost had been increased by making it wide enough for four pairs of rails, instead of two, as first suggested. The station at Charing-cross, including the cost of Hungerford-market, was estimated at £320,000 ; the viadict between the Waterloo-road and the south bank of the Thames, at £126,000; and the works between London-bridge and the Waterloo station, at £464,ooo—making the total cost £1,070,000. Towards the expense of making the line, the South-Eastern Company subscribe a sum of £600,000, and they also have the power to subscribe £350,000 towards the cost of the City extension to Cannon-street. Between Charing cross and the point at which this branch will leave the main line, there will be a third pair of rails in the viaduct, to be used exclusively by the trains from tle City, which will start every five minutes, and perform the journey in that time, the trains being kept constantly oscillating, as it were, backwards and forwards during the day. THE NA VY. The iron steam frigate Defence, 22, 600-horse power, steamed into Chatham harbour at 1 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, in charge of Capt. R. Chit. ham, to whom had been intrusted the task of con ducting her round from the Tyne to Chatham. The Defence crossed Shields bar at 4 p.m. on Thursday, and at 10 o'clock the same evening left the mouth of the Tyne. Her engines, which were under the control of Mr. 011 is, worked admirably, and, not withstanding that only half speed was maintained, and occasionally scarcely that, 101 knots an hour were easily made, the screw making 52 to 60 revo lutions per minute, with a pressure of steam of only 201 b. During the run round the coals fell short, and wood bad to be burnt in the furnaces. For six hours after leaving the Tyne violent southerly winds were experienced, but subsequently the wind was light from the south and south-west. The Defence being the first of the iron-plated frigates which has actually been at sea great anxiety was felt as to how she would behave when meeting the swell which always sets in from the German ocean, coupled with a strong gale. The result, however, has been most satisfactory, the huge vessel pitching but very slightly. Although without a single spar or an inch of canvas set, she steamed as steadily and was as easily managed as a river steamboat. The engines were never once stopped until the Shipwash was reached at 12 p.m. on Friday, 26 hours after leaving Tynemouth, the distance run during that time being 210 miles, the steamer never once being at full speed. The Defence left the Shipwash, where she had anchored for the night, at 6 a.m. on Satur day, and dropped her anchor off Chatham dockyard at 12.45 p.m. Immediately on her arrival, which was altogether unexpected,she was visited by Capt. Schomberg, superintendent of the steam reserve at Chatham, who arrived from his flagship Cumber land, 74, in the Sandfly gunboat, with the other officials of Chatham dockyard, who spent some time on board. Later in the afternoon she steamed higher up the harbour, and was placed alongside the floating shears. Notwithstanding her great size this was accomplished with the greatest ease, the frigate being as manageable as a boat. About 120 hands arrived at Chatham in her, 80 of whDm have been sent from the factory of Messrs. Palmer Brothers, at Jarrow, her builders, to assist in com pleting her at Chatham. The third dock, in which she is to be placed, was on Saturday made ready for her reception, and it is probable she will be docked to-day, the Admiralty having sent down directions for the utmost despatch to be used in completing and preparing her for sea. Mr. W. B. Robinson, assist.-master shipwright, has been appointed to proceed to Liverpool for the inspection of vessels intended to be used for the colonial service on the coast of Africa. The following promotions were made on Satur day last H. Keane and William Holloway, supernumeraries of the Asia, promoted to engineers ; A. Andrews, on the Griffon ; C. H. Thompson, the Dauntless ; T. H. Kitto, on the Cockchafer ; S. Judd, on the Geyser; L. Backler, on the Arrogant, for the Handy; J. W. Elliott, on the Asia, for the Grinder; E. Keen on the Rinaldo, and F. Skelton, on the Slaney (acting), promoted to the rank of first-class assist-engineers. The follo wing appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Sub-Lient. G. G. Brodie, to the Donegal; Sub-Lieut. A. A. S. Watts, to the Revenge; Sub-Lieut. Francis J. Pitt, Sub-Lieut. H. M. Molyneux, Sub-Lieut. Duncan E. K. Grant, and Sub-Lieut. W. Brown, to the Warrior ; W. L. Southey, Master, to the Cumberland, for the Rosa rio ; C. R. Harris, W. E. K. Cockell, A. H. Duthie, F. R. Boordman, G. B. Keating, and E. B. P. Kelso, midshipmen, to the Warrior; G. M. Loch, midshipman, to the Centurion ; J. H. Robinson, midshipman, to the Nile, supernumerary, for dis posal; Edward E. Darwell, naval cadet, to the Malacca ; R. J. Fortescue, J. H. E. Parker, It. A. Murray, F. Coddington, H. J. M. Pugh, and F. C. Brown, naval cadets, to the Warrior; Edward H. S. Bray and Vincent H. Lye, Masters' Assistants, to the Warrior ; George J. Maybury, acting se. cond-class assist.-engineer, to the Cumberland, for the Wildfire; and Alexander W. Brett, assist.-pay master, to the Nile, for secretary's clerk. THE ARMY. The Duke of Cambridge has ordered the following circular to be issued for the information of general officers and officers commanding regiments and depots : " With a view to reducihg the deductions from pay to which the soldier is now liable for the re newal of part of his clothing, the Secretary of State for War, in concurrence with his Royal Highness the General Commanding•in-Chief, bas been pleased to approve the undermentioned addi tional articles of clothing being issued to her Ma jesty's troops serving at home and in the colonies : —One pair of boots annually to the cavalry, one pair of unbooted cloth trousers biennially to all mounted service and artillery; one pair of serge trousers biennially to the Foot Guards and infantry of the line ; one pair of boots annually to every non commissioned officer and soldier of infantry corps, and artillery, who now receive only one pair. These articles will be issued in addition to the clothing at present supplied to the several arms of the service. All bootings will in future be supplied biennially only. These arrangements will take effect from April 1, 1862, and commanding officers will accord ingly forthwith forward to the War-office requisi tions and sizo rolls for the additional articles re quired for the ensuing military year. In future years these requisitions will of course accompany the applications for annual clothing.—By command, 1 4 J, Y. SCAItLETT, Adjt.-General." The following general order was on Saturday re ceived at Woolwich from the Horse Guards for pro mulgation " Aug. 24, No. 794. " Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to direct that the new general hospital at Woolwich shall be called the Herbert HospitaMout of respect to the memory of the late Lord Herbert, by whom the building was established.—By order of his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief, " J. Y. SCARLETT, Adjt.-Ceneral." The annexed circular, No. 709, was on Saturday received at Woolwich from the War-office, dated Pall-mall, Aug. 29 : " Sir.—l am directed by Secretary Sir aC. Lewis to tr ansmit for your information and guidance the enclosed rules in regard to the superannuation of ._._..l_ THE COVENTRY POISONIN9 CASE. COVENTRY, SEPT. 7. The inquiry was resumed at St. Mary's Hall this morning at ten o'clock, before W. S. Poole, Esq., coroner, and the jury empannelled. The hall and its approaches were crowded to excess throughout the proceedings. The prisoner Beamish was, of course, the great object of attrac tion, and as he passed to and from the hall the anxiety of the crowd to catch a glimpse of him was strongly manifested. The door of the police-station, from whence the prisoner could hardly by any pos sibility have been seen at any moment during the day, was almost as effectually blocked up as the entrance to the hall. Mr. 0. Minster was again in attendance on behalf of the Crown ; Mr. Griffin and Mr. Powell (of Birmingham), appeared for the prisoner. Beamish was present as on the former occasion. John Weston, registrar of marriages for the city of Coventry, proved the marriage of Wm. Beamish with Betsey Stokes, on the 11th of August, 1849. Thomas Jones said—l am landlord of the General Wolfe, at Foleshill, which is about a mile and a half from Coventry: I know William Beamish. He first came to my house about six months ago. He had a female with him whom he called " Emma." He was most attentive to her, and I thought he was courting her. Jane Stokes recalled and re-examined—On the Monday night before the deceased died, William Beamish bought some port wine. He said his wife wished to have some. When I went about nine o'clock that night she was having some with a little toasted bread in it. She drank the whole glass of wine. I did not see that she was sick after that. I remained an hour after she took it. Beamish told me he gave her some more about four o'clock on the Tuesday morning. William Henry Beamish, a boy 11 years old, and son of the deceased, then deposed to the family being taken ill after breakfast, as already described. He then said—l have seen the memorandum book produced ; my father used to keep it in the parlour cupboard ; it belongs to him ; some days after we were all taken ill he sent me to fetch that book. (The book was the one from which the note found in deceased's pocket is supposed to have been torn.) I took it to him and he sat down and wrote in it. I never saw my mother write in the book ; the cup. board is not kept locked. I did not write the words "Dear wife, I hope you"—but I did write the words on the opposite side. It was after my sister died that I saw my father write in the book. Emma Hai per said—l am a widow. I live in Mr. Hart's factory yard. lam sister of William Beamish. My brother has worked in Mr. Hart's factory yard for about a month from to=day. He has during . that time had his breakfast with me every morning. He brings me coffee, and I have made it for him. By Mr. Powell—My brother was out of work a long time before his employment at the factory, a n d I know they were in great distress. John Prestidge said—l live by the side of Harnall lane near the garden. lam foreman of the brick company, and am bailiff of the . gardens ; one of them is in the occupation of Beamish, and contains nine roods. I went for his rent; nothing w as s a id , about either rats or mice or other vermin. There are 70 or 80 gardens altogether, but I have never heard any complaints about vermin, Joseph Nethercliff said—l live at No. 113, St. Martin's-lane, near Charing-cross. I am fac-simi list to the British Museum, and lithographer for the last 40 years. For the last 30 years I have been employed in giving evidence in courts of laws as to matters of handwriting. The writing of the note of the 14th August is not, I think, in a feigned hand. I think the note is written in the same handwriting as the documents, only the letters are small in the note. No evidence for the prisoner being offered, the Coroner proceeded to sum up with great care. The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after an absence of about 20 minutes returned a verdict of wilful murder against Beamish in the cases both of his wife and of his child. _ _ The jury appended to their verdict, in the first instance, an expression of their opinion that the girl Statham was aware of the poison being admi nistered by Beamish, and therefore was an accessory before the fact, but by the advice of the Coroner — who informed them that this would be tantamount to finding a verdict of wilful murder againsther also, which there was not su ffi cient evidence to jus tify them in doing—they withdrew por tion of their yerdiet , the hitter TEE NEW RAILWAY BRIDGE AT HUNGERFORD MARKET. The railway which is in course of construction from the South-Eastern station at London-bridge, to Charing-cross, with a branch leaving it near Union-street, in the Borough, and crossing the river to the back of the Mansion-house, will form one of the most important public works which have been carried out for some years past in the metropolis. It will relieve the already over crowded thoroughfares of all that portion of the traffic which passes from the West-end to the South-Eastern, London and Brighton, North Kent, and Crystal Palace Railways. The streets of that portion of the metropolis which lie between Temple bar and London-bridge are now at certain periods of the day all but impassable, and the time occu pied by an omnibus or cab in going over this short distance is not unfrequently as great as that which is occupied in performing the whole journey from London to Brighton. A short time since an estimate was made on theloss sustained by brewers, wharfingers, carriers, and proprietors of public conveyances by these stoppages in the streets, and it was found to be up wards of £1,000,000 per an num. Such is the value of the time lost by vehicles in passing through the City. Add to this the amount of annoyance sustained by persons anxious to arrive at a railway station by a particular time, who find all their efforts have been unavailing. Of the amount of traffic which requires to be accom modated by some other route than that of the crowded thoroughfares of the City, some idea may be formed from the facts which were given in evidence before the Committee of the House of Commons during the inquiry into the merits of the proposed Charing- cross Railway. It was then stated, from reliable returns obtained by the South-Eastern Railway Company and the police, that out of 4,190 cabs which left the station there were but 807 the destination of which was in the City. The rest, with the exception of 579, which went to the south of the Thames, and which, to a great extent, were on the line of the proposed rail way, went westward, and passed through most of the crowded thoroughfares which we have men tioned. There were 418 cabs and 845 passengers for the Blackfriars district, 780 cabs and 695 pas • sengers for the Waterloo district, 1,029 cabs and 897 persons for Charing-cross and its neighbourhood, 265 cabs and 275 passengers for Westminster, and. 249 cabs and 185 passengers for Pimlico and Chel sea. These returns, however, by no means exhaust the traffic between the West -end and the London bridge stations. The omnibuses which ply between these two points make not less than 2,000 journeys daily, or 600,000 in the year. To these vehicles is mainly due the stoppage of the thoroughfares, and the delays in making the journey which so con stantly take place; The journey from Charing-cross to London-bridge almost invariably occupies more time than would be required to get over half the distance to Brighton, or one-third of that between London and Dover. The united stations of the railways at London-bridge attract during the year not less than thirteen millions and a half of passengers, and any plan which will divert one-half of that living stream into other and less crowded channels cannot but be regarded as a great and much needed public improvement. Charing-cross is of all places in London that best adapted for a railway station. It is to the West-end what the Bank and London-bridge are to the East—the great centre of the traffic. There are Whitehall, the Houses of Parliament, and Westminster on the south-west ; Regent-street, Pall-mall, and Piccadilly on the West ; St. Martin's-lane, Oxford-street, Holborn, and Tottenham-court-road on the north; and the Strand, Fleet-street, and the City on the east ; while the pier at Hungerford places the passengers in direct communication with the steam-boats on the Thames. The inhabitants of Greenwich, NeW cross, Lewisham, Blackheath, Woolwich, Graves end, and other places on the lines of the Southern. and Bouth-Rastern Railways, will be brought direetiiy i lilltearsidst of the cl u b s , theatres, and al per tirnarto that and makes up the celebrity and attractions of the West-end. As the line will effect a junction with the South-Western Railway, it will afford direct access to London bridge and the City for passengers for Richmond, Putney, Wimbledon, Hampton, Windsor, and the South-Western Railway. The most important works connected with those lines are the two bridges which it is proposed to erect across the Thames. One of these, viz., that for the Cannon-street extension, has not yet been designed, but considerable progress has been made with the bridge which is to cross the river at Hungerford. The present Suspension bridge, with its piers, was purchased by the Charing Cross Railway Company for £168,000, and it will continue open to the public, as at present, until the new railway bridge, which will have side footpaths for passengers, is sufficiently advanced to afford the necessary accommodation. The new bridge will have four pairs of rails; it will be the widest rail way bridge in the world, and is to be supported by the two brick piers that now earry the towers for the chains of the Suspension-bridge, and by five pairs of iron columns sunk into the bed of the river. These columns are 10 ft. in diameter, and have their foundations resting on the London clay, 40ft. below the bed of the river. These columns are built up without resort to the old mode of construction by coffer-dams, which so greatly increase the expense and delay of bridge building. A coffer-dam consists of two or more rows of piles driven around the area on which the pier is to be constructed, the space be tween the piles is filled in with clay, and when the water is pumped out of the area thus enclosed, the workmen are enabled to carry on their work without inconvenience from the water, except from such as may. arise from leakage' or land springs. The coffer-dam is removed when the piers are brought up to the required height ; they form no part of the bridge, and are merely em ployed for the purpose of assisting in its construc tion. In the case of the new Hungerford-bridge, no piers were required to be erected, and no coffer dams have been or will be employed. The iron columns are built up in sections of about 12 feet in length. One of these lowered into the river until reaches the bottom ; then a second piece is added to it, and so on. When raised above high-water mark, the water is pumped out of these iron cylinders, and the workmen descend and excavate the earth at the bottom; and as this is removed from beneath, the weight of the cylinders forces them lower. The work of excavation is continued until a suitable foundation is reached, and that, in the present case, is found to be in the London clay, or forty feet below the bed of the river. Enormous weights, amounting to several hundred tons of iron, are placed upon the top of the cylinders in columns, in order to force them down as low as possible. When the columns have reached the foundations the hollow is filled up with brickwork and cement for 20 or 30 feet, and the remainder of the distance, up to within three feet of the top of the column, is filled up with concrete. Upon the top of this concrete is placed an immense slab of granite, and on this rest the ends of the girders d which will support the road f or the railway, the side-paths for foot These iron gir ders are the largest that hav e any bridge, and they will ha ve this p eculiarit y , that passengers. be n constructed for any r they will carry the whole r oadway, instead of there being a separate girder, as is usually the case, for each pair of rails. Had this bridge been attempted some years since, and before engineer ing science had attained to its present state of perfection, there would have been five girders re quired to carry the four pairs of lines of railway. These girders are put together upon the timber staging erected for the purpose, and they are made up entirely of plates of iron, varying from three to eleven feet in length. The greatest accuracy is re quired in drilling the various rivet holes, and this essential is ensured by the simple and ingenious mode by which the drawings for all the plates are made, and by which the exact position of every hole is determined to the minutest fraction of an inch. The sections of eleven feet and the diagonal braces which give strength and rigidity to the girders, are secured by a pin or bolt of four inches in diameter which passes through a number of plates laid side by side. In order that these bolts should fit with precision, a drilling machine, worked by a small portable steam-engine, is em ployed to drill through these several plates, and a hole is thus formed for the bolt with mathe matical accuracy. So closely does the bolt or pin fit into this opening that not even a ray of light can find its way through between the two surfaces. These steel bolts, of four inchef3 in diameter, form ) .7 g ..