The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-04 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS MAGAZINES

The Count de Chambord (HenryV.) at Venice.

The Count de Chambord generally inhabits Venice from

November to April. The Palazzo Cavalli, on tho Grand

Canal, is his own property. It is known to all travellers,
from the magnificence of its structure and from the hospi-
tality and kindness of its occupant. In figure the Count
de Chambord is rather short. He walks lame from the
serious accident which occurred to him years ago, and he
has latterly became exuberantly stout. His face is hand-
some, his features regular, and he has so kind an expression
that no one could carelessly pass him. His voice is loud,
but his whole manner and bearing is that of a royal person-
age. He is accessible to all ; indeed, in this respect, the
Count would do better if he avoided the heterogeneous
masses who crowd ;themselves upon his privacy, and are
admitted to his hospitality.
Nothing will strike the stranger more than the scope of
the Count de Chambord's intelligence. He speaks German,
French, Italian, and English, the first three perfectly, but
he seldom speaks in English if he can avoid it, although
he delivers himself with accuracy, and his pronunciation is
good. He is capable of great fatigue, and has oftentimes
been the companion of the Emperor of Austria throughout
very unpleasant nights, waiting the daylight in huge casks
to commence the wild duck shooting, a species of amuse-
ment only arrived at by great privation and great fatigue.
There is an affectation of Royalty within his palace. The
guests invited to dinner are all assembled before the Count
and Countess appear. The royal party pass round and
speak to all the company. When the dinner is announced
the Count and Countess walk in first, and together. The
guests are placed according to their rank. Alter dinner the
same formality is observed, the Count and Countess again
speaking to each individual, the gentlemen always stand-
ing, and the ladies also, until the Countess has exchanged
some words with every one. Then there is an interval of
more general conversation until about eight o'clock (the
dinner is always at six), when the royal party, having
neared the door of exit, bow to the company and'retire. Then
follows a hasty departure of the guests, and the noise of the
gondoliers disturb the usual quiet of the now deserted
Queen of the Adriatic.-7 he Mirror.

Blackfriars Railway Bridge,

The foundation stone of this structure, which,
when complete, will form one of the most important
links in the widespread network of branches and
feeders which the London, Chatham, and Dover are
now throwing out in all directions, was laid on Sa-
turday last by Lord Sondes, the chairman of the
company. This foundation block is a single mass
of Portland stone, nearly five tons in weight, and
was placed on a bed of solid brickwork about ten
feet above the actual foundation and nearly level
with the low water-line. It is hardly necessary
to say that, though this is called the foundation
stone, the foundations themselves are considerably
below it, and, in fact, are already tolerably advanced
towards completion. The whole bridge, when com-
plete, will cross the river at a uniform level of 30
feet above high-water mark, and will be built in five
spans, similar to the new city bridge at Blackfriars,
the erection of which has also been entrusted to the
same engineer who has charge of the railway
bridge, Mr. Cabitt. The latter work, however, is
being pushed forward with wonderful activity,
though, apparently, very little is doing towards
constructing the public bridge, which, of the two,
is certainly more needed by the public than that
for the railway. A full description of the de-
tails of the railway bridge has already appeared
in our columns, so that it is unnecessary further
to refer to the work on this occasion than to
say that it is to cross the river in five spans,
varying in width from 163 feet at the sides
to 188 ft. in the centre. The girders which span
these intervals will be ion the lattice principle, and
three will form the width of the roadway, each
girder resting on a group of four massive cast-iron
columns rising from the piers. The piers will be of
granite to below
,the water-line, and hence, in a
caisson of cast-iron will be laid in solid brickwork
to a depth of 27ft. below high-water mark. These
brickwork foundations will be built in the manner
now always adopted to avoid the expense of coffer
dams, by wrought-iron caissons forced down into
the bed of the river, the Eater pumped out, the
slime and: gravel dredged away to the proper
depth, and the brickwork laid inside the
caisson. The stagings of piles necessary for
sinking these caissons are well advanced,
and it is expected that the whole work may
be opened for traffic in about 12 months from this
date. The close proximity
of this railway-bridge
will, of course, completely hi de from that side the
still finer structure which is soon to be built by the
city in place of the present most dilapidated and
unsafe pile of arches that now does
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friars. After the ceremony
of layinginvited
on
Saturday the noblemen and gentlemen
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be present on the occasion partook of a a sumptuous
-
dejeuner, provided by Messrs. Staples, of the Albion.
Sir Morton Peto presided during the repast, at the
conclusion of which the heaLths of Lord Sondes and
Lord Harris (the chairman and deputy-chairman
of the company) Mr. Cabitt, the engineer; Mr.
Hoiroyd, the secretary ; and other gentlemen con-
nected with the undertaking were given and drunk
with all the honours.

The spuriousness of the pretended discovery of a
Lumen bone in the drift, to which we last week
drew attention, has since been confirmed by Dr. Falconer.
M. Boneler de Perthes allowed Dr. Falconer to bring away
the molar found with the jaw-bone; and when suspicion
was aroused as to the genuineness of the "find," the Eng.
lish physician had this molar sawn across, when it turned
out to be a modern tooth.
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The Zational Magavne opens with the first in-
stalment of a story from the ready pen of Captain
Mayne Reil, bearing the fascinating title of "The
White Gauntlet." There are other tales of varying
attractions—a paper on the afflictions of the Deaf
and Dumb, a vividly drawn picture of the "scenes
which angels weep to see," entitled, " How others
Live," and an account of the Old Sanctuary at Holy-
rood, interspersed with divers rhymes and sketches.
—2 he Sixpenny Magazine certainly gives its readers
plenty to read, and its contents are generally of fair
average merit. A new story is begun under the
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romance, entitled " The Passion Flower," and a
host of other tales. Several amusing papers on
general topics are also to be met with.—Beeton's
Monthly Budget is always worth attention. His
illuminated Family Bible has reached the twenty-
first part, but how it is to be completed in twenty-
four parts, we are unable to comprehend ; the
borders to each page are especially graceful.—The
Englishwoman's Domestic Magazineis a marvel for 6d.
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miscellany for youthful reading, illustrated by
some very effective woodcuts.—Le Follet shows the
May fashions in radiant dyes, and tells us a pretty
little story on the blessings of content.