The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-05 00:00:00

—Maidstone Gazette.

HUNGERFORD AND LAMBETH
(PROPOSED) SUSPENSION BRIDGE.
This very elegant chain or suspension bridge is in
course of construction across the Thames, from Hunger-
ford-market to the Lambeth bank, at a short distance
west of the brewery of Messrs. Goding and Co., and in
a line with the Belvidere-road. The want of such a com-
munication as this bridge will present has been generally
acknowledged since the erection of Hungerford-market,
in the year 1833 ; shortly after the plan was submitted
to the public, a Company formed, and an Act of Parlia-
nient obtained, authorising them to raise a capital of
106,0001. for the purpose.
The engineer of the bridge is Mr. I. K. Brunel,
F.R.S., who is also executing a stupendous suspension
bridge across the Avon, at Clifton. The design presents
a handsome arched approach from each back of the river,
the road, or rather the pathway, being suspended by
iron chains from two stone piers in the Italian style,
corresponding, generally, with the campaniles of Hunger-
ford-market. The architect to the Company is Mr.
I. P. Brunning, and the masonry has been contracted
for at 63,000/., by Mr. G. Chadwick. The iron work
will be executed at the works of Messrs. Sandys and
Co., in Cornwall, at the estimated cost of 17,000/. The
weight will be 700 tons ; the entire length 1,410 feet,
divided as follows :—From each shore topier, 370 feet ;
centre between piers, 670 feet ; the viaduct will be 28 feet
above high water mark, or three feet higher than the
crown of the centre--arch of Waterloo-bridge. It will
be adapted for foot passengers only, the toll being a half-
penny each person. On the Hungerford side the plat-
form will join the centre of the terraced roof of the co-
lonnade between the two taverns, whence the traffic will
pass through the galleries over the colonnades of the
fish market, by the level of the general market to Hun-
gerford-street and the Strand.
The total cost of the bridge and approaches is estima-
ted at 102,254/. 7s. ; and the estimated return, based
upon the traffic of the existing bridges, is as follows :-
Ist. Ordinary traffic at a halfpenny each person is
estimated at per annum
2d. Traffic from Lambeth to the Hungerford

market v 260
3d. Matches on the River, for the sight of which
the bridge will be particularly adapted
4th. Estimated traffic to and from steam boats 3OO
sth. Rent of unappropriated portion of the pro-
perty already purchased

£9,010

We trust these anticipations may be realised to- the
full, for assuredly the new bridge must add considerably
to the public convenience. As a point for embarking or
debarking there will be a commodious flight of stairs at
each extremity of the bridge, which will probably super-
sede the unsightly wooden piers now in use. The steam-
boat traffic at the Hungerfori Pier has increased from
100,000 persons in 1834-5 (thett&st year of the running of
the small steam-boats), to upwards of 1;100,000 persons in
1839-40. The importance to Lambeth of the contiguity
of a general market (particularly of an excellent fish-
market) will, it is calculated; ensure much traffic. The
bridge will likewise afford a safe and agreeable prome-
nade ; and upon the completion of the new streets in
Southwark and Lambeth (the Bills for which have been
submitted to Parliament), the Hungerford-bridge will be
the most direct line of communication between the
southern, south-eastern, and south-western districts of
the metropolis and Charing-cross, shortening the dis-
tance between many of these parts nearly half a mile.
The works are now in active progress, and it is ex-
pected that the bridge will be completed in about eighteen
months. Mirror.

WESLEYAN CONFERENCE AT
MANCHESTER.

The ninety-eighth annual meeting of the Wesleyan
Conference commenced sitting in Oldham-street Chapel,
at Manchester, on Wednesday week last. About four
hundred ministers were present. The Education Com-
mittee, on reading its Report, stated that a large in-
crease had taken place in the number of day-schools,
and that it was their intention, for the present, to de-
vote the interest of the grant from the Centenary Fund
towards the maintenance of teachers at the Glasgow
Normal School. _ _ _

At the meeting of the Missionary Committee, it ap-
peared that from the great debt of the Society, amount-
ing to no less a sum than 3903001., but few additional
missionaries had been sent out, chiefly to Ashantee and
the Gold Coast. The aspect of this debt was gloomy,
and would prove a serious check.
Two new Theological Institutions were spoken of as
now proceeding, one at Didsburv, near Manchester, and
another at Richmond, near London.

After a President, Rev. J. Dixon, and a Secretary,
Rev. Dr. Hannah, had been chosen for the Conference,
inquiry was made as to how many ministers had died
during the past year ; to which it appeared that fifteen
had died in England,' two in Ireland, and ten mission
aries at foreign stations.
On Thursday evening the. Centenary Appropriation
Committee met, and the Treasurer announced that he
had received to that time 190,0001. The following sums
were then voted :
Former appropriations
Additional to the guarantee for the New Auxi-
liary Fund
Additional to the Centenary Chapel Relief Fund 3,000
As a Special Fund, the interest to be applied for
keeping the Centenary Hall in repair
To be divided equally between the Theological
Institutions and Missions

. .£lBO,OOO

2,000

£200,000

The Conference was occupied, during the whole of
Thursday and Friday, in investigating the characters of
the ministers, and considering any charges that were
made. The " gown question, as It has been termed,
has, we understand, been mooted," but no decision has
yet been made. As far as could be ascertained, the feel-
ing of the majority is decidedly in favour of the Wes-
leyan ministers assuming the ministerial costume.

rCAPTAIN CHAMIER'S NEw NAVAL STORY,
Tom BowLlNG."—This spirited tale of the sea seems
to be generally considered as one of the best that has
proceeded from Captain Chamier's popular pen. The
Naval and Military Gazette says :—" There is some-
thing in the name of Tom Bowling that is essentially
suggestive of all that is stirring and attractive in sea-life;
and this Captain Chamier seems to have felt, for his
novel is typical of all that is British seamanlike in the
character of these whose home is on the waters.' A
general idea of this novel is indicated in the fact that
its author has made Tom Bowling the ideal of a British
seaman in all the various grades of that character—from
the, poor cabin boy of a collier to the great Admiral.
But this is but a comparatively small portion of their
contents ; the career of the imaginary hero being made
the vehicle for placing before us incidental delineations,
drawn from the life of 'several of our most celebrated
naval heroes—Nelson, Collingwood, Jervis, &c.—to-
gether with a large variety of other sketches, both real
and ideal, forming together one of the most charac-
teristic, spirited, and entertaining illustratio-.is of sea-
life that our recent literature. has furnished.
THE CONVICT FRO47.—A gentleman who
lately arrived from Van Diemen's Land says—" Frost
was, in spite of the assertions to the contrary, an over-
seer of convicts, but he is no longer so. About ten days
previous to my informant's departure, Frost, with a gang
of his fellow-prisoners, was missing. They had pro-
cured a whaling-boat, with which they had attempted to
escape. After a week of very great privations they re-
turned to Hobart Town and surrendered themselves.
Notwithstanding the declarations of the others that they
had forced him to accompany them, ho had been deprived
of his appointment, and has been sent to the extra penal
settlement of Port Arthur. The Government believe that
he must have had some foreknowledge of the attempts.
Glasgow Courier.
THE VALUE OF PINS' HEADS.—The prin-
cipal members of the Chancery bar were occupied for
several days last week before the Lord Charxeller in
arguing
lakainqgueosftiponinsr,eliaiteiandgs.to
rarhpeatmenstts of the connected with
the n
proceed-
ing on both sides are said to amount to nearly 5,000/.