The Express.
London, England, 1858-12-08 00:00:00

TES NNW WASTMIXSTER BRIDGB.

Bina we noticed the state of the works at the
New Walanteler-hridge, a hw months age, 00anderable
progress lm ban mode ha Am ender the engineering sepia.
handentre of Mr. Theme Pege. The new bridge will be a
my Minna kind sl Mutant to tat redeemer. It will he
Man, longer, mad lighter, and yet will pewees greatly It
entagth. It will be higher up the river, for the
half width it at present in come of conamatica is on the
mob= aide of the old bridge, and will run very many et
the Ore el the Clock Tower of the sew Home of Perin-
mat. Its heal lesilii will be 1,150 het hem the missing
el the ehelmeler mad dee wthk 86 hot, or about Sit het wider
Ana dr remit LadatleMp. These ere two mein brick

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die both en the Orratey and Middlesex side of the river. The
imervealeg space between the sods of these—about 900 het
--throe* whisk the deepest end most rapid pardon of the
elms rune, wit be egeeteed by 7 arches constructed of a
eembilmatlem d wee& end oast tree, in plea of the LI
nutty ono miss of white the present bridge is can-
pm& The mot ben fa the glebes will constitute that pot-
eke el them which, wiping from the stone pieta and
beemaing upwards, supports the roadway, and will only ham
le withstand downward pressure ; the central portion of
seek mei, Whig will be of course subjected to the heavy
trammels skein of the traffic, together with the vibratkm,
will be entirely composed of wrought iron. The two first
arches will be of 96 het span each, the two mooed arches
104 feet, those at molt side of the centre crab 116 bet, and
the centre etch Itself 120 het. The seven maim will be
supported, in addition to the two shore abutments, by elz
stone plan, extending rather beyond the total width of
the bridge, and are ten feet broad. These of coarse are
oonatructed upon a firm and solidly made foundation. Ice
the first plan, the whole surface upon which they stand was
closely driven with lee end wooden pies, over whlekaureivo
biotin of grad* interspersed with concrete, were pieced,
mad upon these the granite piers were erected, so that, with
such a foundation, there is little fear of the new bridge
making • settlement, unless the present bed of the river
should be washed away altogether. As Mutt/sting the com-
parative strength and weight of the old and new bddges, it
may be mentioned that, though the old *tractors wow sup-
ported upon 14 piers, the estimated weight which seek
superficial foot of these piers had to support wee about ix
tome The new bridge has only six piers, and yet the weight
upon them is only about two tons and a half per sapsrfloiel
foot. There is one greet defect In most of the bridges span-
ning the Thames which will be remedied in this instance,
via, the very steep incline which extends upward.
from each of the shores towards the central arch. The rise
from the shore to the central mob is upwards of 15 feet be
the present Wastaninster-bridge—la the new bridge it will be

little over 5 feet. The bamenhe breadth will allow of a nab-
diviehm of the roadway b< the bat sad slow traffic. Taking
it altogether, the bridge, when completed, will be one of the
prettiest crossing the Themes. It will be finished entirely
in the Gothio style. The openwork of the balustrade will be
oceopmed entirely of cast-ken trefoil ornaments, while the
spandril semi-eiroaler arches of iron, which support the
roadway, will be enriched with mat-iron quatrefoil demur
tbs. Running down the bee of each pier will be a massive
oetagend column of slid itimite, 22 feet high and *bout
7 fest die:eater at the hese, sad 0 feet at the upper portion.
These ere —posed el sly three blocks of granite of Ape-
* eise, erelghlng reepeetinty 23, 17. and 13 tons. They, in
einem= with aD the penile to be used in the bridge, were
quarried at the Cherearing Quarry, in Cornwall. Before
it le completed titre will be some 8,000 or 4,000 toes of met,
and between 703 and SOU tons of wrought iron used in its
construction. 8o sac► for what the new bridge will be:
of whet it la at prism* meth need not be said. To the un-
initiated °berme little sews In have been effected Dare the
purposeless emotion of a vest quantity of timber scaffolding,
bat la reality the most &Seek and tedious put of the week
—via., the laying of the entire found/Ake, of the pier, or
halt the bridge, the building of the Mona Owe thereon, sad
the mmerrnotion of the two merelve abutments et bah sides
of the river—in short, all the under-water wart—hie been
oemplebed. Thus little remains now to be dune but to get the
masks iron girders Into their plates (a work of comparative
sere, which ma be performed with rapid ity ) before the formation
of the roadway ma be proceeded with. At lent three of the
arches at the Barmy side will Map end finished in shoat a
math or six weeks, and probably the others will be pieced
end the bridge be ready for opening by the commencement of
the summer. The second hell of the new bridge, which will
crimpy the position of the pmeent one, cannot of course be
commenced sell it la cleared sway. Some of the piers of the
sew bridge which ,:tend ender the amine of the old one
will, however, be proceeded with at once. It will probably
be two or three years before the whole width of the structure
will be thrown open for public trate.

CITE COMMISSION OP SEWEEB.—Yesterday •
hewhist' Mr. Deputy Christie presided, was
kid kw the despatch of public badmen. The tollow-
iag is as rxtroct from the report of the medical allicr,
Dr. Lethaby, on the sanitary date of the City :—.• The
mortality Mures tar the week have fallen from the
very high proportion of 102 in the preceding week to 72, bat
this swam is Milt *host 16 per coot, above the average for
the 1111010116 26 of the teethes were amour children of leas than
6 years of era mad 21 among old perIODS of 60 and up yards.
Kest of the deaths were Ara dtmesees of a chronic form, bat
there wore 13 hatal oases of Ireimehltio, all swag adults, mid
6of yeomen* 4 of which we among intents. Of the
symetim deem of midedies them were 3 deaths from diptberia,
3 from whooping email% 3 ban fever, 2 from measles., 2 from
scarlet fever and 1 ban mnallpoz. Diptheria, therefore, is
again provident in a seven or malignant form. In the mores
M the week lbws wore 62 chiliren born ie the City, 3.5 of
whkii were maim red 97 females. The deaths, therefor,
want greatly la Mile of the births." A good deal of you-
ties blame woo disposed 4 after which the court ad-
journed.
THE LIVERPOOL 0111121M6 OF COMMERCE AND
Baas wan.—The special eamedstme ef tbe Liverpool Chamber
of Commerce, appointed to emmiler the oommosication from
the Zest India and Cbinallimmeladmi respecting the territory
at drawa, have kora a roper in which they state that
they have teased task lasidelas to the question, what
ego doe aummooliml adwantoppms which would atone to this
memmtry ben err paroder ei Ilmouralt f They reoomnieed
dri • gadder dwell le Ihroked ft the Home of Commons.
=l fm aMS WNW We tie whole oubjeot, and that •
Mehl' be Wronowlla the Hari of Derby, preying
W vet k Wrap rep tionuoitting the country to
liaa 4 err protectorate to ihrawsk
wOhissfripellminr.

The blank walls of the bankrupt citj still remain,
but within it is only the shadow of its former self.
Its " whistling shops," consuming their hogshead of
gin and thirty butts of porter a week, its i
hundreds of nmates, crowded three and four
in a room, or camping out on the stair-
cases and in the doorways, are all gone. Its
=freckled parsons, its ,resed attorneys, its elabo-
rate system of .• Garnish,' have disappeared, and
much beside has been done to render the ways of the
place more consistent with modern notions ; and yet,
admitting all this, the Queen's, and similar prisons,
still remain so eat an evil as to justify the
journalist in attention to their details.
How many years vs elapsed since Howard
astonished the world by his revelations respecting
criminal prisons, and set the legislators of the day
in a fright to attempt their reform P And yet we
find that prison discipline is still full of faults ; that
cruelties can still be practised within their massive
walls; that epidemics caused by bad management,
tan break out ; and that faulty officials can still find
sympathising magistrates to screen and support
them, and to oppose, on frivolous grounds, every
attempt at investigation or reform. In the same
way, the management of our debtors' prisons at-
tracted the attention of philanthropists half a century
ago, when Mr. Neild established his society, and,
' long since that time, imprisonment for debt was
popularly supposed to be abolished by act of
parliament. But nevertheless, down to the
present day we find two or three debtors'
prisons still lingering in the very heart
of London, destroying, morally and physically,
a few valuable members of society every year, and
annually sheltering a few rogues from their creditors
but serving no other earthly purpose save to justify
as annual vote in the estimates, and to preserve a
certain number of sinecure appointments for those
who may have interest enough to obtain them.

Previous to the alteration in the law of arrest the
average population of the Queen's Prison was from
five to six hundred, while sometimes as many ss
eleven hundred prisoner, have been known to be
confined within its walls. Then, it had its open
ambling, its perpetual riot, its drinking bouts, and
tk hns its immorali 'so gross as to be incredible if it were
not attested scores of still living witnesses. Now,
the open gam • is sapprered, while the compa-
rative fewness of the inmates renders riot unlikely ;
but there is too much reason to believe that immo-
rality still prevails, and that women of loose charac-
ter too easily and too frequently find means of visit-
ing the prisoner,. With respect to intemperance
also strong repressive rules are in force, but notwith-
standing this, the existence of a rather extensive
" whistling shop" was brought under the notice
of the governor very recently, and the proprietor
imprisoned in the strong-room for breach of the
regulations. During the present year the inspector
of prisons reported "that the discipline maintained
in this prison is more lax than that which prevails
in any other of a similar description, and the indul-
gences and privileges accorded by the rules are
greater than those enjoyed by debtors con-
fined in the other metropolitan prisons. It
would be satisfactory to be able to add
that these privileges are not abused ; but
there is much reason to fear that the sale of
spirits is carried on by prisoners to a considerable
extent, contrary to law and to the regulations of the
prison, and that the drunkenness thus engendered
is not the only form of debauchery that prevails."
Now let it be remembered that this severe condem-
nation applies to a community not exceeding 160
persona, about 100 of whom support themselves, and
fifty receive the prison allowance. Amongst the
inmates are members of all classes of society, and of
all it may be remarked that a rapid deterioration,
morel and physical, is observed to commence from
the moment that the hope of immediate
discharge is disappointed. There are now
persons in the Queen's Prison who formerly
moved in the first ranks of fashion and
respectability, the gradations of whose " break-
down" can be daily remarked by the other inmates
and officers of the prison. It may be eked—why, in
so small a community, cannot order and morality be
easily preserved P It is true there is a governor with
an income of nearly one thousand a year, bat the
rules of the prison, it appears, require from him a
visit of inspection only once a month. It is needless
to observe how easy it would be to have things in
order for the most searching eye on the occasion of
these periodical visits, although every irregularity
might have been perpetrated in the meantime.
But the fact is that, although the remunera-
tion of the governor is so handsome, the
rules which he is obliged to follow make his office
almost a sinecure. For instance, the first thing
necessary to preserve the inmates of such a place
from sickness, is cleanliness; but here the large
majority of prisoners who support themselves, also
provide their own furniture, and have complete
control over their rooms. The governor has not the
power to compel them to cleanliness, and a recent
trial in one of our law courts, in which he was de-
fendant, shows the difficulties with which he is beset,

even when he attempts reform in the most Angean
eases. Neither can he or his subordinates act with

safety is controlling the admission of loose women.
They may be morally certain that these unfortunates
come in in veep—that married men may be visited at
one period of the day by their wives, and at another
by their mistresses; they may know that prisoners
whose creditors are waiting impatiently for their
money are spending sixteen to twenty pounds a
week in entertaining such company ; and yet, if they
refuse them admission at the hatch, they may make
one mistake in a month as to the character of the
applicant, and in such case may be at once pounced
upon with an action for defamation of character.
The chaplain, as in duty bound, does everything is
his power to stem the moral plague. Munificently
endowed with a salary of 1601. a year (just 30&
less than the head turnkey), he devotes his whole
time, Sunday and weekday, to the spiritual
and temporal welfare of his erratic flock.
He preaches, he visits, he exhorts, he appeals to
the governor, but finds that, according to the rules,
the latter discharges his duty by a monthly inspec-
tion of the prison, and that by these rules he his no
power to enforce cleanliness, to discourage immo-
rality, or to preserve decorum. Beyond the Bete
custody of the prisoners it would ONO that the
governor bee no oestrol, and that, so as they do not
attempt to escape, they may live as their means or
inclinations direct them. The chaplain, es a Chris-
tian clergyman, feels all this acutely, and strenuously,
c although unhappily with slight effect, ha attempts

And then we ought also to consider the amount of
human degradation and misery which the mainte-
nance of this last rag of an absurd and cruel law in-
volves. The annals of the Queen's Prison contain
chapters far surpassing in interest thoee of the most
exciting romance, and at this moment sorrows are
being suffered which,but that the publication of their
details is for obvious reasons prohibited, would
astonish, while they would most assuredly grieve,
the public. Two cases, however, we think we may
give without unduly intruding on the privacy of
distress, and as showing the way in which imprison-
ment for debt still works in the creation of human
misery and mischief. Some years since two maiden
ladies, then young and beautiftil, and who had just
become heirs to a considerable property, were thrown
into the Queen's Prison by a legal process
which of course they did not understand.
While there, and helpless, they employed, one
after another, such lawyers as were to be obtained
under their circumstances, but the latter merely fur-
nished them with heavy bills of outs, and took no
further trouble about their affairs. The Masters in
Chancery, whose special is to redress such
cases, duly paid their mon visits—monthly visits
seem to be sufficient for all highly paid duties
connected with the Queen's Prison—inquired affec-
tionately s to the poor ladit a' health, sod thought
no more of them until the next month came round.
This went on for several years, the blooming girls
fading gradually into old maidenhood, their friends
forgetting them or dying off, and their means wast-
ing away, until Providence at last brought their case
under the notice of a member of parliament, who,
having known their father in his youth,
flew, the moment he heard the case, with all the
zeal of friendship to their relief. Being a lawyer
himself, he of course knew how to sweep away all
the legal cobwebs in which they had been so long
emeehed, and in two months he procured their en-
largement and restoration to their property, which
it is to be hoped they are enjoying at the present
moment. The name and residence of these ladies
can interest no one, but to conceal that of the author
of a benevolent action would be to deprive the world
of a high moral stimulus. The gentleman who thus
restored theft two helpless women to liberty and
fortune was Mr. Hadfield, the honourable and
learned member for Sheffield. The second cue is
still more striking, although the end is
not yet; nor is it likely, unhappily, to have so
favourable a termination. Just forty-four years since a
young joiner lived with an only sister in a village
in the south of England. The girl was seduced by
a rich tradesman, a butcher, in the neighbourhood,
and the latter, fearing the vengeance of the brother,
who was then an active, powerful young man, had
him arrested on • forged obligation, and thrown
into Winchester gaol. The prisoner was poor, and
within stone walls, and had no redress but to file a
schedule and become insolvent; but this he

lately refused to do, alleging, and with truth, that
he owed no money, and that to swear he did would
be perjury. Time went on, his persecutors both
died miserably, but he was still a prisoner. There
was a legal form to be complied with,
and without that he must remain a pri-
soner all his life. The prison authorities naturally
got wearied with his obstinacy, and used every
mesas of annoyance to subdue his indomitable deter-
mination. At one time he was four years in soli-
tary confinement, and at another, when the priso-
ners were removed from the old to the new gaol, he
was taken from his bed, carried in his shirt to his
new quarters, and placed in a room so damp as to
make him a rheumatic cripple for the rest of his
life, although it could not induce him to sign his
name to a debt which he did not owe. During this
long incarceration he became a complete lawyer
oorrespooded with every Lord Chancellor, from Lord
Eldon downwards, and having suffered the pains, at
last began rather to eny the dignity of martyrdom.
At last he got a "Habeas," as he calls it, and was
removed to the Queen's Prison after thirty-nine
years in Winchester gaol, and there he has remained
for the last five years, being forty-four years' impri-
sonment in all, and is likely to remain for the rest of
his life, as his determination against acknowledging
the false claim is as obstinate u ever. The on-
ginal demand was 1,0001., and in resisting it he soon
exhausted all his means. We may presume, there-
fore, that during the forty-four years his mainten-
ance must have cost the country 2,00 W., besides
his proportion of the 6,0001. a year which the
Queen's Prison authorities get for keeping him
and others in safe custody. But if we add to
all this, the forty-four years of skilled labour of a
strong industrious artisan, we shall than come nearer
to a practical estimate of the public profit arising
from imprisonment for debt.
The points which we wish to illustrate by the
foregoing statements ere, first, that many of the evils
of imprisonment for debt still flourish in rank luxu-
riant*, notwithstanding all the late reforms in the
law ; secondly, that the debtors' prisons, especially
the Queen's Prison, are conducted according to rules
which let in the most scandalous irregularity ; and,
thirdly, that it would be cheaper for the Chancellor
of the Exchequer to pay off the obligations of the
few who remain still amenable to the law, than to
keep up such enormous establishments solely in
order that governors who are only obliged to inspect
their dominions once a month may enjoy comfortable
incomes of from 8001. to 1,0001. a year.

EVA/106LICAL AllialiCh.-.-We are rrqueeted to
state that, at a meeting of the, owntrittee of council, held
Deo. 3, the lies. Wm. Cordell, M.A., late view of Bud-
biooks, Warwickshire, sad the Rev. Jones Davis, late lade.
pendent minister of Radiants, wire eppelated flat odic:Sal
seemtariss of the Jirsagelleel Allfsway in the twos of the
Be,. J. P. Dobson, who bap reigned the secretaryship, sad
have entered upon their duties.
SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY.—The receipts for the
rose pungens', pods, sad melt tattle, atter dietenng ex-
pandits's*, foe fibs font weeks ending the Nth of Novambor,
amount to 76.9391.85. bd. • expeediture to 98,9821. 17s. Id. •
maklag a totals( ter the 16 globs of 386,0031. 13s. 7d.;
and of expenditure, 162,3631. M. M.
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It Ispropoied for the future to make out the anionnie
annually to the 30th October. By declaring the dividend at
the December meeting the shareholders will participate
in the receipts of the company six menthe earlier than
they would do by delaying the division till the meet-
ing in June, and the adoption of this course will
render it unnecemary to submit any statement of socwants at
the June meetings, as hu he etc been the preadoe. The
revenue account *owe en income WA, in summer months
of 86,7791. 3s. 104., and a balance to the credit of revenue
during the half-year of NAIL lib. 3d. To this is to be
added the sum of 13,7991. 1i5.151. carried over from bat half
year, and after adulbg therefrom the preferable interest
charges to October 31, there tenmins 37,e98. lth. Bd. to
the credit of the general rumens amount. Out of this
sum the &rotors reoesamend that a dividend be declared
of 2a. 61. per stare on the maser, shares in the
company. lids dividend will nquirs the sum of
25,0731. 16.., sad • balance will be NU of 12,6261. Os. 3d.
to be earned over. The condo It essential to the
management of ea of this nature that a suffi-
cient working bellasewthoidel easereed annually. The do-
tailed aaxmate thew tien n very considerable ex
has been charged am**
_ormans account for this =el:
in various permanentotte to the property at the em-
ploy, particularly In the otheihment department; sad in
improvement, in the moms to therendered
to
by
wn* the op=sf W 7The 0:47F
, are the sums lea
the inoreased value of refreshment plant, when glom
over by Mesas. Staples, and the cost of two additional
substantial brick buildings white have been added
permanemtly to th redrashment department. In
to the first item, It is the improved value arising=
additions made to the plant by the former tonna.-
ton, and which plant the present contractors an bound*
mantel:tend hand over to the company at its full math An
increased revenue bas arisen from the refreshment depart-
ment, under the enerretio management of Nam Sawyer
and Strange ; and the directors have no doubt that should
the contract be renewed after the present peer, letereereed ex-
perience will suggest farther impeovesente end national
means of aocommodrAe The Wrath= have anew
coned in further c ordinary expenditure to all
the various breaches of noleirtthing, end this bee been
done without impaieng the efficient waft of the sub,
blishment. Notwithstanding the reduced expetteltnre, the
stability and condition of the building hes been improved, ell
repairs having been executed in the most sultiteallei
and t manner, and brick and iron substituted
for timber wherever practicable. In addition to the above,
the entire garden front of the palace, together with the
flat roofs an that side, has been thoroughly repaired
and painted. It la intended to proceed with the
painting of the road front and roofs early next year.
The six per cent. debenture stook, which was created for
the pupas of disclurglno thehaknee due on land P
and rep • with a permanent stoat the fioatingt=
debentures, bas now been allotted to the extent of 165,0001.,
upon which • sum of 121,6221. 10e. has been received to the
81st October leat. As loon as the whole 260,0001. hes been
taken up, the land will bellied from all claims, the debenture
debt will be extinguished, and the debenture Oink, as for-
merly stated, will form the first charge on all the land and
other property of the company.
With the de re to meet a wish frequently expired for
lectors, explanatory of the contents of the palace, as well as
on general branches al science, arrangements have been made
with Mr. Pepre,noLC.B., the well-known lecturer,
for the daily of leonine illustrated by photographic
diesel views et Pine Art Courts, &a,
_and by chemi-
cal ex Thies attractions, combined with the en-
tertainments preesslag !maintains, the Saturday Concerts,
the Winter Poultry Show, the Burns Centenary Festival,
will, the directors trust, be accepted as indications that
they era delarenned to do all in their power to mike the
Ogee a plan of mart during the winter months.
Diner the eneesata of the lease of Dulwich-wood, as
attended by the eel el parliament of 1856, the company is
bound to west et ems the erection of buildings of the value
allso7 es 1. is the peen yaw. The land having been od-
ve abe let Inedni lessee, but no satisfactory offers
ha been retelnd, the titmouse thought It necessary to
lempormily, this expenditure on the part of the
=. Looking to the success which has attended
operations In the immediate neighbourhood, they
have every oonddence that the rents obtainable from these
bowie will produce • good return on the expenditure;
and that the house and nreend-rants may ulti-
mately be gold at a proth be the company. They
.lea believe *at, by eh eameeneneent, other moms WW
be Wand to ease Ihrwerd and take the remeiming
et the be* Ind that by this mean., not only wilt the
Cruirem
recnimments of the lease be fulfilled, but the entire
expenditure =the this had, not already provided for, be
made good le the mespany.
The dimaless congratulate the proprietors on the prospect of
Inereand non to the Pane, erbioh is held out by the proposed
kranks d • line from the West London Railway to the
West BEd sad Crystal Panes Railway, crowing the Thames
above Batbresett. This line, if carried out, will put the palace
into immediate connexion with the whole system of railways
north of theAtver, including the North Western, North Lon-
don, Gran Placebos, and Great Western • and will open up
the importest Wahine to the north end north- east tif London.
The propel** we no doubt generally aware that the re-
mind= sagoromdag the directors to admit shanholdere to
the pelemeseuE on Sunday afternoons, which emanated
dr tram at the general meeting of 30th June
lest, owl apes a poll was demanded, was carded by a
large melon, el the rotas of the proprietors. At the ad-
journed green masting, held on the 2 let of July, those
intim woo deabled as 43,480 for the Sunday opmng end
19,405 ends* R. This resolution has been carried out by
the issue e(porsonal tickets to those sharebolden who have
applied for era. Up to the present time 786 Sunday *bete
have bees applied for and timed. The numbered pains
who have beeme holden of five shares and under, lea the
paste. of the neilallee, Is 417. The number of additional
&wedeln manse reraked on the Sunday is two, the wages
of when de set eaterd E few shillings.
The raieber of Ashen daring the six months embraced In
the eteessis hoe ben 1,068,206, being an increase of
21,641 ea the etneependlep sir meths of 1867, and of
0,604 an the isms period in 1866. It to satisfactory thee to
Sfind, that the nine NM Continue" to exercise so steady an
It ballseeir e 16.
"the.
pemesture at present to make any statement
with thgeni ee Ithe Groat Handel-Conamonormion-Feselval
whin Ow* the leading event of the coming ,Wen.
PoPleters any rest assured that while no exertion
wadi be eperdiditter by the directors, the general
ee the Said 1110110ede 8 nevi, (who are again assodatad
will the enneny in the affair), to render the festival *less
erainidel he a musical polo: of view than Wank the
peel et Wawa will be ex:robed in controlling the wow
rarit=p, and In midday All expenditure which *not
eunuch for mess.
In anehtileM, the dielletalel look forward hopefully to the
Adore. They has every enadence that the improvement
Ice a i,.......effefrkenneffient an the fen of themoonnta,
bun te sine tenethe yawed= for the bads. Thle
yeeneent Men petty keen an brraee•i Ike NW&
nee. but daddy hen • geennieetios at anyerklete tpds
elnehmeninnee d eft eery in all the is et Me
reiinieleldeg. It le the Ise belief of the dbeeterek
perweilis thb emu* inornetee where peeelble
andleee et tei=hiptizegluegardese, the politica
ma= will* Min bulbs"
leek lbenteduijeth trieddiemillleg
=Wide* reetadLE dein a tl r• Deli
Os oaken shine ai the eirsagesq
•

7111 CRYSTAL PALACE AND 211.8 SOND.dY
LIAGOA

Last night a public meeting wu held at St.
Marlin's 11111, in commotion with the National Sunday
ito promote the opening of Me Crystal Priem to the
pi=on Sundays, the provocation for tide step being the
Got that certain dignitaries of the church bad denounced the
opening of the Palace to the shareholders themselves ai,amo-
ral and irreligious.
The chair wag °coupled by Sir JOSHUA WALIPALIT,
Bert, wbo, In the 0011rei of his opening speech, congratu-
lated the meeting upon the growth of the League manatees,
ability, and importance.
Mr. STACK Men moved the first resolution, to the effect
" that with a view to promote the social end moral pewees
of the people, It is dateable that the Cryetal Palace should
beamed to than on Sunday afternoon, arid that stepe should
be taken to remove any uga difficulties to this end ;" and
argued that the sentries of the Continent where Sunday
wee sot regiuded in a fiabbatarian view were more moral than
England, where it was PO regarded, and far more than
drunken Soothed, 'rime it was moet rigidly observed.
Mr. Laura( seconded the resolaion ; which wag sup-
ported for=csag
framPraiboieof thewighoisiCiniArytheystal.
aPwatemamelittdaMmief
phercimeddeutheinixdatfirebreadwastimiatioas for be
te
they might afford to despise it, but tender as it did
the oonsideration of the meeting. They walk however.
Sad as lting to support their views in the New Teelefftwir
sad could rely ea ea ether authority than the Mamie Mum-
mtloe whidithWowa religiou had superseded.
The BST Kr WC defended the clergymen from
Me them of)hetag the members of superstition, mid argued
that tati ef the Learns Undue sameedul it
would add ft the mama! of Sunday Muer, sad belly give
the an TTOKIPS t ri=sing their kb= en the
al day into their own
Mr. Hosiara, • writing men, supported the latter view
of the cum, sad held that going to the Cryetal Pease as
Sundays for instruction wee all 0 genision.'
MT. BAKTIIII LASOLIT dm/ended the primitivist; of the
League, lbw which the readation was agreed te by a large
majority, and the prcuadhrge imagist/4 in the usual
acres.

AWN LAST 510117•3 GAZETTB.

BANK RU PT s.

VaiAN Nurntl. Nomlemaptcs, wholmal• boot mater, to
~,,nyegle Dee, 17 at 12i, and Jan. 20 at 2, at Baeineball-
street. flak, Beaman end Nicholson, College-bill, City,
mad Dm* Northampton ; oIL BeD, Coleman-
. -..__

W mama Rain, Halenrortk, Sadolk, watehmakar, No. 16
as Masi Jaa. 13 et 2, al lailAail-strest. bola, Tay-
lor sad Woodward, Grad Jraratrear, Hadford-row , oft.

-
, Bell. Cohmim-Mtemb•bellibir_
e. _•
WILLIAM ORSIVACILM IBA 01101103 ROMMILTII, Word-
wee*, drapers, Dm. 17 M 11. ea Jr.lp et 1, it Ba•lng-
hall-auest. IlMa., Lamm. mg Ow, OM Jewry-clam-
bers; at J
&wan CtI.LUIOPOdftrAdMIk, draper, Dec.
IS st li, mil Jas. M rarest SOIL,
Daylams sod Fa" ; Draws,

Elimialia ?Nouse Erman, Hanoveretrovt, Hanover-
awe" tarke,Des. 17 at 11, eat J. LS al 12, Dating-
beill-elverA Dela, Becks and BMWat aad
JortNorthsaintos ;
own.ixo, bet DerabfLatik Maw, 11ae.17
st 1, sed Jaa 111 it 2, at BaslagiritibisL Doyle,
Veralam-lawildimp, Orey'rina, sad Dais, Bad Donbas,
Norfolk ; of. swig. Lee, Aidenasahavy.
Jo se Tonrsoi, Swilew, Kent, geniis Deer 17 at 12, awl
Jas. 18 at 1, at Briaighall-atzerit. tiNLianialdrzysad
Mackerel, Iranwook; off. soak.. Les,
Wu-Liam Comma and As Dans Co Dlrenriogt;sze,
headers, Des 20 ad Jut. 10, at 101, DieltOmsm Court.
Sok., Meese. Wright, Birmingham ; of. swig., Whit-
tles*, Birmingham.
BANJ AXIS Tonna, Bindagharn, Lace, Des. II sad Jea.
13, st 11, at Barda Court. Bokt, AlleAsiger,l
Hodgson mod Alts. BiaminOsm ; off. seelg.,
Diem
BIN aritraroani, Linaval, Daabigirklee, bold keeper,
Dec. 17 and ha 11, at 11, at Liverpool Coast. Bola.,
Evans sad and JAMS, Lamest; of.
swig., Tamar,
CMAILLIS BAILOR. Willi, DSO. 20 sad JAIL to,
at 11, OA Oriert. SeL, Jaw, Liverpod ; of.
sang., Monis.
WILALAN 110/11; TIMM Melba,
Lancashire, an ersonhotaier, Das. Maud Ja M at 11,
at Manchester Cart Deb., Calitult sad wawa,
Maacharter , of. tiseig.,llll“Milik__Maseltester.
BA NERUTiCT ANNULLED.
Dec. 3, WILLIAM MILL., Sanwa" Staffordshire and
Warwickshire, wardeaskse.
INSOLVENT PITITONERS.
AT PORTOOAIeIITWI.

B. Raw, a.%
Alteny-road, Cenebereeell, bake MN—J.
Albion-place, Tome Mee, OM hold, Bog. *awl=
make—W. J. BU, Bardeon-elreet, Orr fehen-reed,
Bing-street, Cheeped*, accoantmet—J. P. Copeland, OMB-
teethe- west, Ueespeteed.road, meechanCe clerk—J. eteds.
Loudon-street, Fitzroy-square, tads.—W. Baker,
wren, Mueort**, J. street' Abinate; end WIS'
Uigh-street, Wepping, skip obannee—C. Henereed, sett-
street, Lembeth•road, sad Bpring-Ireense, Leenbeeh-walk,
cam ensoutacturve—W. H. Davie, Meares, Kest, Jour
Mr baker-8. Bodes*, Caelhe-strlnt, nble-equare,
arm end ear/ scoonnement maker.
DBCLARAT lONS OT DIVIDINDO.

010102 iIIDALL;;XF KMSolliillollo■ WILLI/SON,
Oita Is. Helan's, City, ship broliars—lst dividesd of
la. Olt, Dane.
7, sad my subeetimat Tuesday, at Nichol-
son's,ailsibell-strest.
°songs Ttantit, (segarals eineiCeat Bt. Hams, City,
Alp bralisr—lit evident of ,Dm 7, sad any mime.
game Tanday. Nialielsaits, bail-meet.
1110111 Draw TatkM-sheet, Wastralmar,
rite inmilma—lit a(1. sta., say Tietraday, st
Senatahl's, Issisball-streat.
RICIAID BILL, Otessebaroh-stress, City, Caltreetor-1/1
divalend at 6d., Dss. 7, sad any rabstiquast Tenday, at
Niabelsaa's, Bealashall- wine.
WILLIAIt AWNIT BILITLIMAN Hawaa, eland, end
Adapki-tarracs, &,.d, amaint—lst 6d.,
Dec 7, sad say selanquest Tardily, at Niaboiscia's, Bee
olaghall• saran.
Ozanne Parra, Brighton, cabinet of
as. Dee 7' and any subisquat Tassday, at Nicholson's

iSlia7Bo=tuatr Mbar.
Iddiro, duke la idlb-11"141andilli el7.4rums4d.. Dee. 7, aad
arateL• submpras Torlay,
Woman Was, Rediak Liderribbas melba saalar-
-10 Odin/ dik►
liewhadarla. Drs 21., r4w aidoeideal
Ihrd.
DilreaiNipaans Ulm Roar ailba-bd Edw.
es elides ea le. prorleadp dleabled), Dos 11, par?
sobasquat eatarisy. at impabeiarreestkotmes
Dec. 23 M. Eras sad J. W. Were, Oast IS. Nam.
City, add Trinity-wharf. Itotherhitho, wassail bolded low
=cram's- Dec. 28. W. Stratton (arpereate Male 011111,
sad biorfolk-.teen, Strand, Seaner-Dee.
_WM%
Oravesed. Km' heal Lesper-Jes. S. H. R. Waldo%
Weabroaerich, Stellerdehirs, draper-Jim S. J. Morareal,
Athenians, Wereechalore, grocar-elon. IS. W. Wllliame,
Cosmarthatabare, liaandaper-Jon. 12. T.
wryer Mad.r, Liaceladthe, ales onareboa-Doe. 29.
R. Liverpool. bleak mmulialuer -Des. I& J.
Maps. • Clreldra, deeper.
CERTITICALT oe be Faded, aaleas emu bo elves to
Us asobvey, ea tbe day et saessiag.
Dec 30. 3. Asidisay insintadar-leo. 10. J.
Nova, Deollerti, T am 10. R. Palmer,
am, add R. Polar,
dadea, , Yorkshire, serivonera
-Jea.
I& & Themer,_lrrag Lbeoleakirs, botcher.
PARTHRZIOHNI DIISOLV
T. B. Omar a, T. R. Wilma, C. 0. Ward, I. Lague,
W. Om, mad W. N. Camila& Celasepolaa,
• oases, T. R. lodiread, I. Lams%
R. Rad sal E. Lorayiko.darealodeganar ibe elle el Malsee prod ges taw
Yore- Frame& sod T. Froadi, Parytaboar,
=ll. Lye. mil R. B.musiletize.dergade, Roil,
Carmel' and D. C Holl,
Hate sad J. W. , hues-
de▪
spore-& Oopy sad W. Hip,, photographic
tortlaio-John lord, James Lord, Jelin R. Ingham,
J. Sless Reashem, sad Joni Inertia. Cosootteo
Besok lanatedino, adieu optasare, se *a so impede Juba
Lod dad James Lied-W. Triteddar, F. N. Todulder,ttad
J. Trbeeldurrei=elleee-C. H. Baran sad W. Weed, Ris-
er the saiinglowlessee Amylase fed
181=I li
fterso-J . H. Baal, W. & Cumelog aid F. H.
Seri, Plbp•ale.M, Sonelarart, hay dahm-4., W. Sentoot
and T. Tlenroonn, Neraheeter, boat dna, madeolsras-
W. 0. B. Osman sad F. R. Lloyd, Nees Weatea-mab,
Berrnaaday, alholutala eaggiete - J. W. CIIIV•W _ ad J
Rale, Panlareb.eang, City, tratthinduara- R. Ormoall
sad O. WeR-11. Claw (decoesid). J. Hem H. Hopi mai
J. Warm, jos" Oeboolow, Lancashire, Mica manitio
Weis, me des as lewd, R. Clegg-T. Leafage sad J.
Partridge, lairardor, abode Pea simoolialem•-& W. Tom-
Wagon sod O. Cesa, H beedesbio-F Webb and
B. C.dd, Weiroolody, Melo assahanias-
W. P. DemeA_Msesiihm, ma IL O. lahnhall.with-
Haelsolion, Somilan and B. J. W.
doodeakrewspis. N. W. aides imp w.
spl ohitanni-0. Pooall and
Coorweeart. üblagappeda-W. Dallas and
O. Cam Lialehlara, Clay. Rad brie moreitanto.
BCOTC 11 8 MIIIITRATIONS.
Jason lisown, Nadas, Dhipowast, Des. 11, at the British
Add, Dundee.

Loan DWI AND CIIIISCE RATza.—A depts.-
tbs, to pima% amovia to elm& mho from tom "
sod ceszoiredoss of Mentogitazo, had ma "

Mold Bah&enTleseig;aft—is Meld withwests Dews-
draw& The ralesisi hordes hew coed, this Pressitit
envoi labs for sore tins en the
eddies eresedithr Mp.sdse, Lord Dishy by at ones
redinsel the ingethiss of the asesorrible es is the bro-
ths d the gesetharnt Is thing in way bill en aura nth.,
legt Mt pie the Merlin r sisthweiewl that the gown-
mat reedi wig lbw eweeriblead elesithisa at the rase.—
JPlrinisplais /3a.
'Tis iisshotise os Serous Coustestos.—The
geld esandwdeers es bloke late the 'abject of
biebsess el whip en the rest brie soNllsuld ibis 'attars
of dr milts saw. Clamott-tow,
dr seises la itharkess brag Mobil (chairman),
Kr. W. & Lahq, Y.P., 81, P. Othilit, aptals Vieth,
• Ctfil* hadvan, R.N., Dards Wesmilitatjon, &N.,
and Kr. Cede, 0.1. Mr. Walker, Ow aglassr,
was asiesaini tagestise the proposed mdmien dr verbs
st Ibr .sib et ties Ty.. so as to man 111 e Isnot et
The worts, wed la UGM K mew Is mmt
= O
ere 400.00 W, sad repergarsd ear smest
B. was am owe by the Aiisrity le Weer the pane eel le
whims es se the rthistiss. The lard of tbe plan of the
warms would S. soreled of Is 30 led low water,
awl en print bar, trawl 6 bet sett 7 hat, be hoped to
bath 111 het ; a bee right hew across the proposed
serseera bet it mold ad be to say Went to
owe inrwralsese. He bared lid a bather of !thews
red be enstnisted at the seer el the Tres A harbour
at a •••••sslsl fat ii 4 obi wee of lamb are roles than
if It wee hsslst ciao said igland. As the pro
seat wade pumas, t head the Mad firth deorres,
sail he thee& It go away ibegpfher. Mr. ether,
ZJI kairalty cries eo the 101108•0_, said Ito wee
of hse • rive et With 111111 rub
noM *wee flaheriss aeotiaad, as thy axpred to
sad 6 tit rid • wheisethe hr. • batheer st Ireterlred
• Tterwhart would astir metal fur wring Mt. Is bee-
bests wee milittei he Neese A limber of
Eartispeei en a peeper rah to the bolsi
earths new ...rib wed sed 5. wtlbf t tbe Is of
ties 11.14. erimpiewth tail eels 6 es tor es Plistkeessit
Hie. • Irebeve Mc immeht set so atter hie emiliems-
tass Eietioresi I k yes te: hest a
babas mar Plent=li Erik bordered it thedd
he el 11•11611.....h.r ; see sessirest the hertsew et WYE
he the lattalizt he fades la. The meek le
Anil IW—a
11 weld te es the mt.
pkiesille 56 walk the " Wow Bases.' ler. Oahu,a
eandesiesesmedel owe th• gnaw portion of yedueley.
The plenedlese were stilereseit
ACTION vol COll ellthanon Anton TER KUM
Dock lisaaw —la aa arise Wee& ea at the
Lherpeal Coady Corr, to mere dmitse
*wry of a epee* y of lleessit,
Mier
ea Nast, et
Ow binary Roth Wwiesees• Mon =Pollak a
Laverveni, obsstwed • ',Aka, with 2N. 10• dai.sps

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