The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-24 00:00:00

N°.18,724.]

BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
1, Princes-street, Bank, London.
Established August 1, 1837.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament, 4 Vict., cap. 9.
CHAIRMAN—CoIoneI ROBERT ALEXANDER, Blackheath Park.
ADVANTAGES OF THIS INSTITUTION.
INCREASING RATES OF PREMIUM.
A Table especially adapted to the securing of Loans or Debts, and
to all other cases where a Policy may be required for a temporary
purpose oily, but which may be kept up, Rue essary, throughout
the whole term of life.
HALF-CREDIT RATES OF PREMIUM.
Credit given for half the amount of the first seven Annual Pre-
miums, the amount of the unpaid Half-Premiums being deducted
from the sum assured when the Policy becomes a claim.
SUM ASSURED PAYABLE DURING LIFE.
The amount payable at the death of the assured, if he die before
attaining the age of sixty, but to the assured himself, if he attains
tbat age, thus combining a provision for old age 4•ith an assurance
upon life.

lIE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.,
On SATIM DAY, SEPT. 18th last, was published a
DOUBLE NUMBER of the ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS,
price One Shilling, containing the LIFE of the NOBLE DUKE,
Etistrated witb,the following splendid Engravings :—His Birth-place
and Residence of his Family in Ireland—Battle of Talavera—The
Storming of Badajoz—Passage of the Douro—Waterloo : The
Farm-house —" Up Guards and at them"—" The Old Guard never
Surrenders "—Charge of French Cuirassiers—Three Splendid Por-
traits : His Grace as Field-Marshal, as Premier, as Chancellor of
the University of Oxford—The Congress of Vienna—View of Apsley '
House—Walmer Castle—With other interesting Engravings, illus-
trating a complete Life of the Duke, occupying forty-eight columns
of the ILLUS TRATED LONDON NEWS. Besides Twenty other
Engravings of the News of the Week.
On SATURDAY, SEPT. 25th, 1852, will be published, in a
SPLENDID DOUBLE NUMBER, a Continuation of Illnstrations
of the Life and Death of the Duke of Wellington : namely, Cas-
tlecarbury, the seat of the Cowley family—Church of Laracor,
adjoining Dangan Castle—The Wellington Column, at Trim—
Walmer Castle, Exterior ; Entrance to the Castle, and plan of the
Duke's Bed-room—Walmer Church, Exterior ; Interior —the Mike
attending service—Bust of the Duke, by Noble—Wellington Chair,
Bust, and Waterloo Flag in Windsor Castle—A Street Reminiscence
of the Duke—The Duke's Horses—The Duke on Horseback—Also
" A. Dirge for Wellington ;" Poetry by Charles Mackay; Music by
Sir H. R. Bishop—A Portrait of the Countess of Mornington, the
Mother of the Duke—Plan of the Funeral of Lord Nelson, in St.
Paul's Cathedral.
The accompanying Number of the ILLUSTRATED LONDON
NEWS contains the French President's Departure for the South—
Inundation of the Rhone—Algerian Antiquities in the Louvre (Two
Views) —" Stockwell," the Winner of the St. Leger, 1852—West-
wood House, the Seat of the Right Hon. Sir J. Pakington, M.P.—
Burning of the ship " Thomas Thompson"—Sword and Centre-piece
presented to Sir C. J. Napier—The Opening of the Grand Neapolitan
Dock by the King of Naples—The Philanthropic Society's Harvest-
home, at Red-hill—Prize Poultry exhibited at Great Yarmouth (Two
Illustrations)—Teignmouth made a Free Port—Opening of the
South Wales Railway (Two Views), with other Engragings.
PRICE OF THE TWO NUMBERS, ONE SHILLING,
Regular Subscribers will receive GRATIS splendid LARGE EN-
GRAVINGS of the PROCESSION and PUBLIC FUNERAL of the
DUKE OF WELLING CON; a lasting memorial of the national
mourning.
Office, 198, Strand.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
PROPOSAL PORA NEW BRIDGE OVIR THE THAMES•

At a Court held yesterday, iii.-BARKLY-
(in the
absence of Mr. Thomas Rowley, the chairman of the
Bridge-house Estates Committee), roved, " That the
report recommending the re-building of Blackfriars-
bridge be adopted. He said that the Committee
were decidedly of opinion that it would not be wise
to expend their means in repairing the bridge, but
that they were unanimously of opinion that a new one
should be erected.—(Hear, hear.) In the repair!,
connected with that bridge some thousands of pounds
had been expended, and having bad so much of repa-
rations in such matters, the committee thought it
better to submit to the consideration of the Court at
large whether it would. not be better at once to con-
struct a new bridge. He therefore moved that the
court agreed with the committee in their report.
Deputy HOLT submitted that as the chairman of
the Bridge-house Estates Committee was not in his
place, that it would be wise to postpone the motion.
Mr. Bermes observed that he had had for some
time a notice upon the paper of business with refer •
ence to the desirability of constructing a new bridge
over the Thames in a direct line with Old 'Change,
north and south. He was ready to go on with that
proposition, in conjunction with the one then before
the court as to the recommendation for constructing
a new Blackfriars-bridge, and he believed, if he
was permitted to do so, he should be able materially
to abridge the discussion on both of the propositions.
The COURT then agreed that Mr. Bennoch's pro-
posal should be entertained simultaneously with the
report.
Mr. BENNOCH then said, although he had given
notice of the motion for a new bridge Bo long ago as
December, 1851, he was nevertheless glad of the
delay, as the report introduced by the Bridge-house
Committee added weight to,
,his propos,.
in pro-
-posing such alitiliknertes hirhiteito introdn,*proe
bending an improvement of the most mportant
he had no personal or pecuniary advantage in view.
important kind,
Neither the pulling down of old and dilapidated
houses, nor the building of new ones, could benefit
him. His business lay in a different direction. Since
papers,
eohfe
hadthe mreoctaiiovnedhmadahay offers
ad in the public
ofassistance from
influential inhabitants, who thought that any propo-
sition petitions from
the
byh
extensive
bu the had should
declined backedauc
offers, being
anxious that the corporation should take the initia-
tive, and have all the merit of so important a work.
citizens s o
There was no good without a certain admixture of
evil. The noblest river, however essential to the
health and comfort of a large city, was stil an enor-
mous inconvenience. While it brought to their doors
the necessaries and luxuries of life, sad carried
away the refuse of their streets, still, by dividing
one portion of the population from the other, it
became an evil to be mitigated by the
construction of bridges alone. He would endeavour
to prove the necessity for a new bridge, the fitness of
the site suggested, and the probable cost of the con-
struction, and the general advantages of the plan re-
commended. He would only ask any of the mem-
bers to stand on London-bridge for ten minutes be-
tween nine in the morning and six is the evening,
to convince them of the necessity of further accom-
modation for the increasing traffic of the metropolis.
Blockaded with waggons, cabs, and omnibuses, at
certain times it was almost impassable. At Black-
friars-bridge the evils were greatly aggravated.
Much of the crowding of the large thoroughfares
arose from the fact that many of then converged at
a certain point without sufficient provision being made
for the proper circulation of carriages. New streets
were opened parallel with old ones, which they re-
lieved at one point to block up at mother. Traffic
north and south naturally found its way over Black-
friars or London-bridge. Omnibuses from Islington
to Kennington might go down lawgate-street to
avoid the crush on Ludgate-hill, tut they must go
across the line at Farringdon-street ; t
o_hers went to
London-bridge to swell a tide already too full, and
everybody knew that the sleep+ progress and
frequent interruption of pa ha conveyances
rendered it economical in poht of time to
walk rather than ride from Aldgate to
Temple-bar. If Southwark.hidge were free
of toll to-morrow it would not greatly relieve the
streets. There was no outlet to tie stream of traffic.
It would ease London-bridge of many of its car-
riages, but it would soon block tit Queen-street, and
find a dead lock in Cheapside, chile the gradients
were so bad that heavy drays woad avoid it. In all
improvements, especially in the ormation of bridges,
a free outlet should be the chief aim, and until Vic-
toria-street was completed Ipndon-bridge alone
agreed with that principle. It mould be interesting
to arrive at the annual amount o the loss sustained
by brewers, wharfingers, carriet, and proprietors of
public conveyances through stopages in the streets.
An ingenious friend of his had tone into the calcu-
tion, and come to the conclusion that what might be
done in ten minutes usually occupied fifteen minutes,
to the sacrifice of one or two thousand pounds per
day, or from 300,0001. to 600,00/- per annum; nal
taking, the loss at 300/. per dab
there was a loss 90
100,000/. annually, an amount almost sufficientt
build a bridge once a year. Tie argument deducible
from the extraordinary increase of public convey-
ances, not only since our last (itY bridge was com-
menced. ..
but opened, must haveconsiderable weight.
Since then cabs had multi led four or fis:e7.
fold, whilst of omnibuses, whip were at that period
unknown, there were upwards f 3,000. The rapid
spread of commerce, and the recessities of business,
conducted within a circumscribd area, turned
d the
dwell-
ing-houses into counting-holies, and force
population to reside in the valous suburbs,
and the
vehicles necessary to convey tpm to and from their
houses seriously added to the faffic. But the luo
argu-
ment arising from the rapid acrease of PuPuhat be
was perhaps the most contusive, and
ulig
1801
gathered from the following fa 4 :—ln the year ,
when the population was br 958,863, there were
but three bridges; in 1811 When more were de-
manded, there being an incrase of 179'951
2 souls,
there was no addition to the number. In 18-9 , when
the increase amounted to 241,132, two were
pleted, making five in all. In 1831, one of
the
bridges was widened, still thee were but five bridges,
withbridalthough the population had isene as compared
had
1801, to an increase of 293,t5. In 185wawa foot
six bridges, one of which, ungerford,
hed the
_at. bridge only, though the po I i
taon had reac
enormous number of 2,369,60-- (Hear.) It would,
therefore, be seen that sins 1821, only
one foot-aen ed. If.
bridge has been added, and de bridge vii obliged to
from increased traffic, Londe-bridge vise 9 million
be widened, surely an incase of nearlyovision in-
souls would render additi(al bridge provision
at the
dispensable.—(Hear.) Loking carefullytaired
after the
figures produced, it would reillY appear ired an ad-
year 1821 every increase of 250,000 requ
of five
ditional bridge, and, upon Pia basis, insteadieygt to
bridges adapted to trafficaarriage, tal to one be-
have ten. Were the fotadatien 10100 would be
fore it could be opened at east' 100,
contrast their
added to the population. Let them
a Paris. They
bridge accommodation with that,.. -,„ distance of four
would find that over the Sege, in,
miles or one in 580
miles and a half, there were 14
badges,
-others leading to
yards.—_(Hear.) If they el
deiedhethiencreased to 27, all
the old city, the number well.' -...-while the popula-
of which were free—(Hearse heel_
d of that of London.
tion was little more than ole-thol third the number of
If distance should alone ieterwas
to be taken as the
bridges necessary, and if 1011,1d,.es in London, they
standard, instead of six "'"ind what still more
ought to have 42.—(Hear)
hat between London and
aggravated the evil was, - o
a free bridge, and that
be- they had b b.e
a ) If they took Lyons,
was broken-backed,—(A Pliample, they would find
another French city, as at e'
12 bridges over the
that in five miles there hereiboy had seven over the
Saone;
and in 3i mile' As there the population
Rhone-19 altogether.
„at one-seventh of ours—
Yeas only 350,000, or ar— to be taken as the
and if population wee
yet with
bridges required
criterion for the nunlevei with Lyons in that
to place London on a
ueave 132 instead of seven
respect, they ought to m w bridge he had the pri-
bridges.—(Hear.) The aera a link, connecting lines
vilege to propose would Pr,
direct north and south ; and
of traffic running nearly completed, they would
when the approaches woeoo,
ta the Angel, at Islington,
have a continuous street"
lie or, indeed, all the way to
to the Elephant and Cae,.--;„„
, would be no needless
Clapham.—(Hear.) fiber London-bridge, nor to
deviation to the left to 4r°friars. AB a large num-
the right to choke up /tuts had business in the centre
her of the Clapham resies
come directly to St. Paul's,
of the City, they might
resent free bridges, and avoid
greatly relieve both the. P
depot,
as well as the
the slippery incline a nr
Snow; while Smithfield,
steep hills of Ludgate °remove a , might become
when the market was a public convenience
great central otnnib#6
provement much requirede--•
nd of the new Cannon-street.
provement began at the e d open a proper approach to
To widen Old 'Chante an ,
f Old Change must be taken
the bridge, the west tide 0
hames-street, the
down. From Fish.street to T east side
Come down, and from of Lambeth-hill mast com. ,
Thames-
street 'to the river the eastern side of Trig-lane must
be taken down. They would observe that all the
way only one side of a street had to be taken down,
ould be claimed, while
and only half compensation c

ORPHAN'S ENDOWMENT BRANCH.
Established for the purpose of affording to parents and others the
means of having children educated and started in life, by securing
annuities, to commence at the parents' death, and to be paid until a
child, if a son, shall attain his 21st year, or, if a daughter, her 25th
year of age.
These annuities are at any time commutable for their full value, if
a ready money capital is required for a marriage portion, or on en-
tering into business or a profession.

BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION.
1, Princes-street, Bank, London.
Empowered by her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.
Annual division of profits—applied in reduction of the current
year's premium.
Policy holders entitled to participate in the profits after payment
of five or seven annual premiums according to the table of rates se-
lected.
Premiums charged for every three months' difference of age—not,
as is usually the case, for every whole year only.
Half credit policies granted on terms unusually favourable to the
assured, the amount of half premiums for which credit is given,
being liquidated out of the profits.
At the Annual General Meeting on the 27th April last, a reduction
of 30 per cent. was made in the present year's premium on all policies
of five or seven years' standing.
A Board of Directors in attendance daily at Two o'clock.
Age of the assured in every case admitted in the policy.
Medical attendants remunerated in all cases for:their reports.

"pilE FIRST of MAY, 1851."
L Now publishing, the Engraving by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A.,
from the above Picture, painted by_ M. F. Winterhalter, for her
Majesty, as a record of the Royal Anniversaries connected with that
day. The Engraving contains Portraits of her Majesty, H.R.H.
Prince Albert, Prince Arthur, and the Duke of Wellington,
being the last.P.ortrait for which his grace sat.
Prints, 2/. 25.; Proofs, 41. 4s. ; Proofs before letteri,“Grra.tArl'
tists' Proofs, 8/. Bs.
Paul and 'Dominic Colnaghi and CO., Publishers to her Majesty,
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(PROPRIETARY.)
Extract from the Hall
Credit Kates of
Premium.

(BurruAL.)
Extract from Table with Participation
in Profits, after t4eVen• Yearly _
Payments

Half
!premium
6 during
.41 First
Seven
Years.

Whole
(Annual)
premium
for Re-
mainder
of Life.

Age.

Annual
premimn

Half
Yearly
Pre-
mium.

Quar-
terly
Pre-
mium.

BARON LIEBIG, Mr. ALLSOP, and the
MEDICAL CIRCULAR. Threatened legal proceedings for
imputed defamation. Dr. Glover's denial of his certificate in favour
of Mr. Allsopp, with the Editor's remarks on the monstrous Beer
Puff. See MEDICAL CIRCULAR (No. 19) of this day. Price 3d.,
by post 4d. Office 4, Adam-street, Adelphi. The trade supplied by
Gilbert and Co., Paternoster-row.

£ s d.
25 0 19
30 1 1
35 1 411
40 1 9 2
45 1 14 101
50 2 2
55 2 12 9r
60 3 6 8,

£ s. d.
1 19 2
2 3 6
2 9 10
2 18 4
3 9 8
4 5 0
5 5 6
6 13 4

Years. Months
30 0

5. d.
2 7 3
2 7 6
2 7 10
2 8 2
3 3 0
3 3
3 4 1
3 4 7

£ s. d.
1 4 2
1 4 41
1 4
1 4 8
1 12 3
1 12 6
1 12 10
1 13 1

£ s. d.
0 12 3
0 12 4
0 12 5
0 12 6
0 16 5
0 16 7
0 16 9
0 16 10

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APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED.
LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE
SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops
and all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad,
and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to
perfectly digest the food.
The daily use of this aromatic and. 13.1 dons Sauce is the best safe-
guard to health.
Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch-
street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester ; also by Messrs.
Barclay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other Oilmen
and Merchants, London; and enerally by the principal dealers in
sauce.
N.B. To guard against imitations, see that the names of " LEA
And PERRINS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle.

E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director.
ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary.

NATIONAL ASSURANCE AND
INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION,
7, St. Martin's-place, Trafalgar-square, London.
The investment of money with this Association, which was
established in May, 1844, on a plan peculiar to itself, secures equal
advantages to the surplus capital of the affluent, and the provident
savings of the industrial classes of the community, and affords an
opportunity for realising the highest rate of interest yielded by first-
class securities, in which alone the money is employed.
Moneys deposited with the Association, for Investment, are
exempt from liabilities on account of life contingencies, as well as
the expenses of management, which are borne by the Life Depart-
ment, iu consideration of the business brought to it by investment
transactions ; therefore, Depositors enjoy the entire profits yielded
by their capital free from deduction of any kind—an advantage
which no other Institution, either public or private, holds forth, or
can afford, to its members.
Interest or Dividend, is payable half-yearly, in January and July.
Capital Stock, £lOO,OOO.
The Capital Stock is altogether distinct and separate from the
Depositors' Stock in the Investment Department. It constitutes,
with the Premium Fund, a guarantee for the engagements of the
Association, and has been provided in order to render the security of
the Assured complete.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
This Department embraces a comprehensive and well-regulated
system of Life Assurance, with many valuable and important im-
provements.
Full information and prospectuses may be obtained, on application
at the Head Office of the Association, or to the respective Agents,
throughout the United Kingdom.
PETER MORRISON, Managing Director.
N.B. Applications for Agencies may be made to the Managing
Director.

BRITISLI COLLEGE of HEALTH,
7.sTEWBOAD, LONDON.
THE HYGEIAN OR MORISONIAN SYSTEM OF MEDICINE.
1. All animal bodies consist of fluids and solids.
2. While in a state of embryo, all animals consist entirely of
fluids.
3. It is from and by the fluids that the solids are formed.
4. The fluids contained in the human body are four times the
weight of the solids.
5. The chief of the fluids is the blood, from which all others are
derived.
6. The blood not only repairs every part of the human machine,
but also carries with it all the rnbbish or decayed parts, to be depo-
sited in the intestines, previous to being expelled along with the ex-
crement.
7. The blood is the life—the primtun mobile—the first agent—from
which all others derive their origin.
8. Health depends upon the purity of the blood.
9. The purity of the blood depends upon its having free outlets for
its decayed particles.
10. Disease is induced by the choking up of these outlets in the
bowels by reason of an accumulation of glary mucus on the inner
surface of the intestines, Sac.
11. This accumulation is occasioned by anything that weakens the
circulation or hurts digestion, but chiefly by the poisonous drugs and
bad treatment of the Faculty.
12. The Impurities thus detained in the blood occasion every spe-
cies of disease, according to the quality of the humour, or the parti-
cular locality in which it is lodged.
13. All diseases arise from one source, therefore they may all be
cured by one medicine.
14. This medicine must be a vegetable purgative, innoxions in it-
self, yet sufficiently powerful to pervade the whole system, clear
away the abovementioned mucus, and purify the blood.
15. The discovery of a vegetable compound, capable of being di-
gested, and mixing with the blood, so as to impart to it that energy
requisite for ridding the body of all superfluous humours, was a de-
sideratum.
16. This discovery has been made by JAMES MORISON, the
Hygeist, in the composition of the Vegetable Universal Medicine,
commonly known as Morison's Pills, of the British College of Health,
Hamilton-place, King's-cross, New-road, London.

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and 10, WATER-STREET, LIVERPOOL ;
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Capital, Two Millions Sterling. Reserved Fund, 346,0001.
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MICHAELMAS POLICIES should be renewed within fifteen
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LIFE INSURANCE in all its branches.
LIFE POLICIES, when taken out under Table No. 2, have FIXED
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Prospectuses, and all information, may be had on application.
BEND. HENDERSON, Resident Secretary.
SWINTON BOULT, Secretary to the Company.

IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS,
Just published, by H. BaiMere, 219, Regent-street, London.
No I.
Second Edition, with Additions,
Bvo., in cloth, price 55., by post free, ss. 6d.,
ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRIREA ;
with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors
n relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the
Generative System, or Sexual Hypochondriasis.
Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD.
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cal contr informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi-
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We have delayed so long upon the content§ of the preliminary
chapter, that we have scarcely left ourselves space for any notice of
the subject specially treated of by Dr. Pickford ; but the moderate
price at which the `brochure' is sold, places it within the reach of
every one interested in the matter."—Dublin Medical Press, April
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ventive of diarrho3atic complaints at this season. They equally con-
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ALLSOPP'S PALE ALES.
BARON LIEBIG ON CERTAIN LATE ANONYMOUS
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Extract of a Letter dated Munich, 12th September, 1852, from
Baron Liebig to Mr. Henry Allsopp, Brewery, Burton-on-Trent.
.‘ To'my great astonishment and concern, my attention has lately
been called to several anonymous articles and advertisements
headed by my name, such as in the -, whose author altogether
misrepresents the motives of my remarks, and even goes so far as to
say that I had never analysed your beer, nor perhaps ever tasted it
in my life,' and to allege a retractation on my part of the original
statement.
y
" I emphatically declare that I had not the slightest knowledge of
these anonymous articles, the contents of which 1 entire' disapprove
of; and that in every respect I adhere to the statement made in my
letter to you, which certainly you were, and are at perfect liberty to
publish."
" Munich, 12th September, 1852

No. 11.
rBvo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 4s.
THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princi-
ples at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate
and apparently Intractable Forms. To which is added, PRACTICAL
OBSERVATIONS ON THE TREATMENT OF SPERMATORR-
HCEA BY CAUTERIZATION; its Inefficiency and Danger.
BY F. B. COURTENAY,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
"Those who complain most loudly are those only who know not
how to use the common instruments
geons has been marred with all kinds of violence, an iidifference
Surgical
Observations.—" the sinapie cure of diseases, and a passion for operations and
giventhe
history
all the excesses
oafaad
ghreoarrtomrsanoyf
esasuregsesruye.:—ssJfuouhyn
treated,ilell
as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated.
Such are cases ix., and xviii. No. ix. had resisted, for a
period of twelve years, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally
removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xis. appear, both
in duration, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag-
gravated character than ,any detailed, by Mr. Syme, and yet the
treatment adopted by Mr.; Courtenay proved eminently successful..
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equtoalsionmseimopflitchitey
Doctors' Commons would remain undisturbed. The
street projected from Cannon-street to Earl-street,
route chosen ; and if they look at the rates of incline-
approachesd id nt
the Thames, London-bridge, on the Surrey side,
Blackfriars,do n of tebridges
andd
ge beauty
acrossth the
from the gate of St. Thomas's Hospital, bad, in 100
ft., 4 ft. rise; Southwark, 3 ft. 3 in.; Southwark
(City side), 4 ft. 6 in.; Blackfriars (Surrey side),
3 ft. 10 in.; Waterloo (ditto), 3 ft.; Westminster
(ditto), 3 ft. 9 in. ; Middlesex side, 3 ft. 9 in.; and
the proposed bridge (Surrey side), 2 ft. 6 in., and on
the City side it would be on the level.--(gear.
Then let them look at the cost of the several bridges.
The new London-bridge cost 680,2321., removing
the old bridge, 35,600/. ; the approaches, 1,840,4361.;
Southwark, including the approaches, 800,000/. ;
Blackfriars, ditto, 210,0001 ; Waterloo, ditto,
1,000,0001.; Westminster, 388,7001.; Vauxhall,
,
150,000/. ; Hungerford. 110,000/.
• while be had
it from the best authority that the proposed bridge,
which he would name " St. Paul's," to be 60
feet in width, with a headway of 27 ft. 6 in.,
might be erected for 144,0001. The estimate of
144,0001. did not include the purchase of any land
or compensation to be given, but even these, from
the character of the locality, might be fairly con-
sidered less than is usual in such cases. The sum,

though moderate, is ample, and the designer would
guarantee its execution within the estimate. This
arises from various causes—such works, through the
incitement of railway enterprise, are better under-
stood. The nature of iron, and its many advantages
in works of this magnitude, are thoroughly compre-
hended ; and, above all, coffer-dams and the old-
fashioned system of pile-driving are entirely dispensed
with by a recent very ingenious application of the
principles of the diving-bell. A tube is dropped
into the water, and rests upon the bed of the river. If

are riveted Wit' tsitirthe titiPeTrfusit-etittids above high
114414.*A1111.40r—thsil tube is long, other tubes
water; an apparatus with double valves is fixed on
the top, and made air-tight, an air-pump is then ap-
plied, and the pressure within the pipe raised until it
expels the water, which cannot ooze in again, the
pressure within being greater than the density
of the water without, and keeps the interior
of the
tube perfectly dry. Workmen then de-
scend, dig away the ground from under the edge of
the tube, which sinks by its own weight, and as it
sinks other cylinders are fixed on the top, and the
whole let down until they have reached a solid foun-
dation. In this manner the tubes of one of the piers
bridge at Rochester were lowered forty
feet belownew
the bed of the river, and planted on the
solidock, and they could have taken it 400 feet if
necessaryattin r
The material cut out is lifted up through
the valves before named, and when the proper depth is
gained, they
introduce bricks and Portland cement,
and fill the cavity of the tube with them, which im-
mediately becomes as strong as stone. These tubes
(being six or seven
feet in diameter) are placed within
eero the
two or three feet of each other and in double rows,
and can be extended to any length that the width ofres•
the bridge requires. They are then all braced to-
gether with beams of iron, and on the top is placed a
plate of iron, with transverse beams, and the cavities
.
between, about twelve.inches deep,
' are filled with
cement, &c. Then round all the tubes is fixed a
shield, pointed up and down the river, so that all
off and from'
collisions
danger is warded
foundation for the stonework, from which the arches
the foundation.
itself may become
spring, or the plate _
avoided. The plate described may then become the
likelihood
to corrode
and fall off, he (Mr- Bennoch) had been
Should any question arise as to the durability
of the iron, or its
assured by Sir Charles Fox, than whom there is
no better authority, thatiron in such a position, and
one inch thick, would last 500 years, but if it did fall
off you have still left the solid masonry, which time
could hardly destroy. He had, he trusted, proved sa-
tisfactorily the three propositions he set out with—
the necessity was obvions--no site could be better
chosen—and the cost will be only half the cost of
Blackfriars, and only one-fourth the expense of Lon-
don.bridge. The streets in the neighbourhood seem
to have been arranged as if some such improvement
had then been contemplated. After crossing the
river on a dead level from Fish-street by a very
gentle descent of 2 feet 6 inches in 100 it comes to
the level at Union-street, crossing only two streets
of any importance—Thames-street, in the City, and
Great Guildford-street, in the Borough; continuing
southward it joins the New Southwark-bridge-road
beyond the Queen's Bench, and gives a direct line
from the heart of Middlesex to the heart of Surrey.
One objection may be urged whichhas generally made
weight, but in this instance opposition would be
fruitless, as he believed the building of a church
where church accommodation was needed would
overcome the scruples of the Bishop of
London ; and permission to pull down St.
Mary's, Fish-street, would easily be obtained.
He (Mr. Bennoch) had caused statistics of
attendance of the churches in that locality to be taken,
and was astonished
to find, that in seven churches
within 200 yards of the one proposed to be removed
only 250 persons were present. In one at the corner
of Old Change and Watling-street there was a con-
gregation of 150, leaving only 100 for the other six
churches, an average of not quite 27 each, so the re-
moval of one would not greatly overcrowd the others.
One word more and I have done—how were the funds
to be raised ? That was legitimately within the scope
of the inquiry of the committee; but he believed the
scheme carried with it so much common sense and
argument that Government would immediately sanc-
tion any feasible plan to raise the necessary amount ;
it is a question for Middlesex and Surrey, quite as
much as for the corporation, and all might be bound
to centribute their shares. So far as the City
is concerned, he verily believed that not only
would the ground be cleared, compensation
given, but the bridge built for less money
than it would coat to open the road to
Earl-street; and there is no comparison between
them when the public convenience is duly considered
—it would not indeed cost more than the removal
of Farringdon Market. While advocating the
scheme he had projected he had studiously avoided
any remarks upon the present or late improvements,
because he felt that those completed and others sug-
gested went far to render necessary the one they
were then considering; and if the court would refer
it to a committee to be investigated, he would pledge
himself to substantiate, by irrefragible evidence, every
statement he had made. He would, therefore, move,
as an amendment, " that no further proceedings shall
be taken in the proposed rebuilding of the bridge at
Blackfriars, especially a temporary bridge, until
the Bridge-house committee have examined and re-
ported on the propriety of building a new bridge
across the Thames between Blackfriars and South-
wark-bridge,: and the probable cost of the same,
and the approaches thereto ; and that the report be
referred back to the Bridge-house committee ac-
cordingly."
Mr. ANDERTON seconded the amendment.
Alderman LLWRENCE remarked that there could
be no doubt but that the erection of a temporary
bridge, as proposed in the report before the Court,
would involve a considerable amount of expense, and
he thought that such an amount would be much bet-
ter laid out if it were dedicated, in part, towards the
erection of an extra bridge for the convenience of the
great body of their fellow-citisens.—(Hear, hear.)
Whether the proposal of Mr. Bennoch, as to the
bridge crossing the Thames at that identical spot,
was the best that could be selected, would be consi-
dered by the committee to which the matter might
be referred. As to difficulties with regard to levels
which had manifested themselves on former occasions,
hadesp especially chi aelel
been insurmountable,
w ith reference
nßdl,a
iknf. consequence,ar' s- b r idge,
that
theytt
bridge had been, as it then was, unimproved, and, in.
deed, unimprovable. He heartily agreed with Mr.
Bennoch's amendment, and he thought that the
plans
efanrswerhried, which that gentleman emanhad produced should
be original
report, to the
Bridge-house estates' committee, for full conside-
ration.

Upon a show of hands it was found that Mr. Ben-
noch's amendment was carried without a single dis-
sentient.
WORKS OF ART FOR THE MANSION ROUSE.
A report was brought up by Mr. J. B. Toole,
chairman of the committee for general purposes, F.ee-
lative to procuring works of art to ornament tn
Mansion House.—Agreed to.
THE FLEET VALLEY IMPROVSMES% of the
Deputy BEDFORD, seeing the chairman aFleet-valley improvement committee (1/
Har-
rison) in his place, wished to ask—as
m
his constituents
were exceedingly anxious about the
early day in the
anything was likely to be done anonnewent
matter of the Fleet-valley
improvement
to answer Deputy
Deputy HARRISON was
not
tmaittee were waiting to
Bedford's inquiry. The c_
;rho court, with whom, up
be moved by parties out
0t
had communication. The
to that time, they bad no
IA that they had simply
res__
matter, therefore, „..)—Adjourned. ether
nothing to ajtter—wh.

DUTCH CATTLE.—The large number of 1,544
sheep, besides 81 head of oxen and cows, 1 horse, and 41
calves, were recently brought from Nieuw Diep by the vessel
William Penn, the produce of Holland. This is the largest
number ever brought on one occasion from abroad since the
first introduction of foreign cattle to any extent into this
Country.

[PRICE SD.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TlMES.—Mankind—at least in all civilized coun-
tries—have agreed to respect the period which inter-
venes between death and burial—" the first dread
days of nothingness," as Lord Byron calls them—that
solemn and touching time when the earthly tenement
which the soul has deserted seems not wholly uncon-
scious of the life which once animated it, and lingers
between the action which it has lost and the corrup-
tion to which it is destined. The family are secluded
from the eye of the public, the ordinary place of
worship is deserted, and the greedy heir himself must
restrain his impatience to know the amount of his
acquisitions till the grave has closed over the form of
their late possessor. If these be the forms and solem-
nities of a private mourning, how much more faith-
fully should they be observed when a nation grieves
with genuine and unsimulated sorrow for the loss of
the greatest of her sons ? So long as those limbs
which for our sake have braved every danger from
which human nature shrinks back, and have been
preserved as if by miracleto .
sink in an honoured
and mature
thought of the
old age, remain still uninterred, the
mighty
dead should be uppermost in
our hearts, and
little space should be left for the
jealousies and rivalries of the living. Death has
just struck
wield his arms no IL
a noble prey. Achilles can
of Greece are contenodrie, and the second-rate heroes
warrior before the lastnef for the spoils of the great
paid to his memory. unavailing honours have been
tory and biography will
not forget to record that within four-and-twenty
hours after the death of the
ton the heads of the Univerit at Duke of Welling-
ton of which he was the
and
deplore the irrepa-
rable loss which the country University had
sustained, not to consult on the ma
that learned body might best show its net in which
grief for the
man who for 18 years had presided over
and her councils, but to consider to whom thresvtatledaineas
chair of office might be offered and what measures
might be taken for securing the succession. ie
preliminary meeting was not unfruitful, for on
Friday, just three days after the late honoured Lord
and Chancellor of the University had breathed his
last, a requisition was framed and signed by Ileads
and Fellows of Collges, declaring the Earl of Derby
to be eminent'y qualified for the Chancellorship of the
University, and inviting all members of Convocation
who might be of the same opinion to join in a request
to his Lordship that he would allow himself to be put
in nomination. It would be too much to expect
that where a Prime Minister is concerned, the honour
to the dead, or self-respect of the living, would be
allowed to restrain the burning zeal of this learned
and enthusiastic body. Many reasons combine to
make the Earl of Derby the natural choice of a large
number of the resident members of the University of
Oxford. The maxim " Blessed be each man pos-
sessed of aught to give" is nowhere more cordially
recognised than in our ancient seats of learning. The
man who can make the Head of a College into a
Bishop, a Tutor into the Head of a Hall, or a Master
of Arts into a fat rector, has more virtues than meet
the eye---more capabilities than a superficial observer
can detect, and is the object of a hero worship more
sincere and unfaltering than that which waits on mere
virtue and merit. In their zeal to fling themselves at
the feet of the Premier the Oxonian magnates had no
time to think of the glorious past or solemn present
of their Chancellor. Their thoughts, their aspirations,
were all for the future. The dead might bury their
dead, the living, especially those who live by patron.
age, must look to the living. Besides these very ob-
vious individual motives, there was another cause at
work, sufficient alone to have driven the remem-
brance of the Duke of Wellington from the minds
of the resident Oxford electors. The report of the
recent Commission threatens the University with
changes which the routine and obstructive spirit of
the place regards with aversion and terror. We are
told that the great Duke had arrived within a few
pages of the end of this report, and we cannot doubt
that his clear and masculine intellect yielded an assent
to many of the propositions it maintains and enforces,
never, unhappily, destined to be carried into action.
Escaped from the danger of a reforming Chancellor,
the last chance for avoiding the dreaded changes was
to link the fate of the University to one who, like
Lord Derby, had political power to protect her from
improvement, and like him, would be willing to per-
petuate any abuse whose existence gave power to
himself or stability to his Government. With such
an object in view, with no less an end to attain than
the enlisting the Premier in defence of University
abuses, it was only natural that the respect due to the
mighty dead should be forgotten and the canvass for
a new Chancellor should commence when the frame
of the old one was scarcely cold in the glorious repose
well earned by eighty years of labours and battles.
The same indecorous haste which spurred on the ap-
plication to the Earl of Derby has pervaded the other
arrangements of the clique who have already given
away the highest honour which the University has to
bestow. We are informed that the day of election
for the new Chancellor is already fixed for the 12th
of October. A wish is also expressed that the Uni-
versity may be spared the annoyance and trouble cf
a contest. The friends of Lord Derby have been so
unscrupulous as to mature and carry out their mea-
sures within less than a week from the death of the
Duke of Wellington, and they claim as the reward
of their questionable diligence the right to give away
the highest position in the University without contest
and without question. The case has been settled
while the rest of the University have been engaged in
counting up the services and regretting the irreparable
loss of the greatest man who has ever filled, or who
will ever fill, the presidential chair of the Sheldonian
theatre ; and it were surely hard to disappoint those
indefatigable personages who knew how to employ
these precious moments so much better than
in vain regrets and unselfish contemplations.
It is, however, quite possible that the mea-
sures by which a small knot of resident seniors
have contrived to nominate a Chancellor for the
University may provoke the very opposition it is in-
tended to forestall. The appointment of the 12th of
October as the day of election, which might have been
so easily postponed till the meeting of the Colleges,
has too much the air of an attempt to withhold the
franchise from the resident electors to be allowed to
pass wishout censure and without resistance. The
younger Masters of Arts, for the most part now absent
from Oxford on their vacation ramble , will e apt
to consider that they have as good a right abs their
resident seniors to form an opinion on a subject so
momentous to the University and themselves. They
will be disposed to ask what are the qualifications,
beyond those of high rank and large official patro-
nage, which render the Earl of Derby a prize to be
secured at the price of so much jockeyship and so
much indecorum. The keen pursuit of
politics on all sides in turn and a party
devotion
to the pleasures of the turf are not such para-
mount recommendations as to necessitate such
hasty measures, and it is possible that
singly to the good of the University those who look
where a nobleman whose pursuits might find else'
s-
fit him far better for theand whose tastes
duties. Without anticipatin discharge of academical
of
gor prejudging Y
those who may come forward at the reqilsthosf:those
members of the Univeritbeen
invaded by the indecorousY
resi-
dents, it occurs to us that thereaste are many men in
favourable
Whoseh offregebiseenior
this land whose pretensionsould bear a
comparison with those of'th
place and patronage. We commend the subjent to
the Premier in all except
the consideration of Oxford,
varsity will assert and hope that the U_ in-
decision, even though the
be driven into its
aotwurne freedom of action, and not
a prfe
Lm
hasty supporters oLord Derby may lose somewhat
of the merit of exercising in his behalf the patronage
of the Chancellorship.
DAILY NEWS.--Lord John Russell when pro-
s ling an elaborate eulogium on the
nouncing nintirton said :—" Perhaps lam the more
Duke of 1; et
What I have done because there
justified in sagiegg
few, perhaps there were no, persons, except the
were
M
late Lord elbourne and myself, who can bear this
that however he (the Duke) might differ
testimony--
in political sentiments with the person who held the
chief office in the political service of the State, he was
as veining, as ready, as forward in giving every assist-
ance that he thought for the benefit of his country, to
one who differed in political opinions, as he would
have been to the dearest of his political friends." This
is, indeed, high praise—praise, the value of which is
infinitely increased, when coming from the mouth of
a political opponent. But few persons know so well
as the Whig leader the value of the influence which
the Duke exercised. The House of Peers is notori-
ously behind the age in its knowledge of the signs of
the times. Nevertheless, it may be affirmed of mem-
bers of this order that however they may be below
the level of general public intelligence, they are often
practically willing to recognise the realities of their
position. Conscious that they were themselves unable
to collect sufficient materials to form lucid judgments
upon great questions, many of them--for instance—
threw themselves unreservedly upon the great prac-
tical common sense of the Duke. Often and often
has his Grace had in his pocket enough votes to give
a majority in the House of Peers. He has had—it
is known—as many as sixty proxies confided to him.
The Duke of Wellington by his death has thus sur-
rendered the keeping of some sixty consciences, which