The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-21 00:00:00

THE BRITISH ARCHIEOLOGICAL

ASSOCIA lb )N.

WARWICK, JULY 19.—The opening meeting of the
annual congress of the association took place at three
o'clock in the grand jury-room of the County Courts in
this town, and, iu spite of several circumstances of acci-
dental inconvenience, was extremely well attended, es-
pecially by the ladies and gentlemen of the neighbour-
hood, who appear to take great interest in the proceedings.
An unusually active and intelligent local committee ha;
been at work during several weeks; and, on Saturday,
the secretaries of the association, Messrs. Crofton,
Croker, C. H. Smith, and T. Wright, with other active
members, arrived from London and (Alin. parts of the
country. In the course of this day the town of Warwick
has been rapidly filling with visitors.
The programme of the week and the arrangements
understood to have been entered into, with promised dis-
play of Warwickshire hospitality, give grounds fur ex-
pecting one of the most successful meetings the associa-
tion has yet had. It is understood that the association
will be received to-morrow in the Castle by Lord Brooke,
and that the architectural peculiarties of this noble
baronial edifice will be explained to them by Mr. Jack-
son, of Leamington. On Wednesday the archzeological
visitors will be received at Stoneleigh Abbey by Lord
Leigh, after having visited Guy's Cliff and Kenilworth.
On Thursday they will visit Stratford upon-Avon, and
will be received at Charlcote, the fine Elizabethan m in-
sion of Mr. W. F. Lucy. A meeting will be held at the
Town-hall of Stratford, by express permission of the
mayor, to consider of the best measures for providing
against the destruction of Shakspere's house, and for
erecting some worthy memorial of the great dramatist in
his native town. On Friday, after visiting the antiqui-
ties of Coventry, the archteologists will be received at
Combe Abbey by Lord Craven. Saturday, the last day
of the congress, will be almost entirely devoted to visit-
ing ancient castles and abbeys, and the party will be
hospitably entertained at Arbury by Mr. C. N. Newde.
gate, M.P.

...
The chair was taken soon after three o'clock by Lord
Brooke, who made a short address, expressing his regret
that the unexpected illness of the president, Lord Albert
Co ,yngham, had rendered it necessary for him to take
Ow chair.

M. PETTIGREW then read a long introductory report
on the labours of the association during the past year.
He made a classified enumeration of all the contributions
to a itiquarian and historical science which had been
mad i by its members through the pages of its journal,
t tui ig that period. He described the condition of the
association, both as to the activity of its labourers and
the extent of its funds, and showed how much had been
done, considering the very m6derate means at its dis-
posal, in comparison with tlic lavish expenditure and
small results to science which had attended the labours
of former societies of this kind. Mr. Pettigrew then
showed how much had been done by the association and
its agents during the year to hinder desecration and de
struction of our national monuments of antiquity, as
well as to bring to light those which had lain concealed
from observation. He concluded with a short maim',
biographical and panegyrical, of the distinguished
members of the: association who had been carried from
its ranks by death during the year, the rather long list
includidg the names of Henry Hatcher (the editor and
translator of " Richard of Cirencester "), A. J. Serape,
John Sydenbam, (the antiquary of Dorset), Henry
Stothard, the Rev. A. B. Hutchins, Edward Bridger, T.
F. Savory, the Hon. Ridley Colburue, and Mrs. Stuart
Hall, who, it will be remembered, threw open her house
with so much liberality to the members of the associa-
tion during tt,eir visit to Winchester in 1845.
Sir W. BETHAM made some observations relative to a
collection of drawings of early Irish antiquities which
he had brought with him from Dublin.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUN-
TIES RAILWAY. Monday evening, between five and
six o'clock, a dreadful accident, accompanied with loss
of life, occurred upon the above railway to a fine young
man named William Cold well, in the service of the
company as a carriage cleaner. It appeared that the
deceased, who had no friends or relatives in town, came
up from York about nine weeks since, and representing
to Mr. Grimshaw, the station-master at the Shoreditch
terminus, that he had lately been employed in a similar
office at Huddersfield, requested a situation upon the
railway, and was engaged in the above capacity. He
had repeatedly exhibited the most foolhardy daring in
dashing across the line while trains were in motion, and
been as frequently cautioned on the probable result of
his folly, but treated the cautions with indifference, and
persisted in the same course. On the preceding evening,
about half-past five o'clock, he was again seen crossing
the line before a train, and was called to by Mr. Grim-
shaw to take care or he would be smashed to pieces, but
the deceased made a careless answer and walked about a
thousand yards up the rails, and at the very moment
that a pilot-engine was running towards the station to
pull out some luggage vans and horse boxes, lie
attempted to run across the line. He was called to
by several of the porters not to do so, but he rushed ,
on, and before he could reach the opposite line
he was struck by tho engine, felled to the ground,
and instantly killed upen the spot, his blood and brains
being scattered upon the rails, between which also two
holes of considerable depth were dug in the gravel by
the force with which his body was driven along. The
engine was instantaneously reversed, and upon raising
the corpse it presented the most frightful spectacle; the
right shoulder was cut and mangled in the most horrible
manner, the arm only holding to the trunk by a few of
the ligaments, and the flesh was torn away beneath the
shoulder, exhibiting a large hole, through which the
cavity of the body was perfectly visible; in addition to
which, the whole of the upper half ef the head, from the
mouth to the crown of the skull, was completely crushed
off, the latter injury being manifestly inflicted by one of
the wheels of the engine, and that to the trunk and
shoulder by the guard of the wheel, a projecting piece of
iron, about a yard long, and half an inch in thickness.
Mr. Richardson, the company's superintendent, and Mr.
Grimshaw hastened to the spot, upon learning the occur-
rence, and immediately procured the attendance of Mr.
Wildbore, the surgeon of Shoreditch; but the latter
gentleman, upon his arrival, pronounced life to be totally
extinct, and said that the man must, as a matter of
course, have been dead the instant he was struck by the
engine. All the persons present at the time of the
calamity concur in describing the occurrence as purely
accidental, and that it was wholly owing to the rashness
of the deceased's own conduct.
THE LONDON COFFEE-HOUSE KEEPERS' ASSOCIA-
TioN.---The half-yearly meeting was held on Monday.
at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet-street, to receive the reportt
e
.1
of the committee, and to elect two pensioners on the'
funds of the society ; Mr.. Conneybeer, the president
h tecom-
of the association, in the chair. The
report
mittee stated the institution to be in a most satisfactory
state, the funds being such as to justify the election of
two additional pensioners. The air
3u!it of the funded
capital of the association was 1,916 Bd., the annul
income from which was 70/. 193. 10a., and the balance
in the hands of the treasurer, and sums since re, elve
d
make the total fund of the
itte had succeeded in
association 1,946/. Bs. 4d.
e
Since the last
adding thirty nmeewetsiungtis,ctrhieb4.cros.mmAt tie last annual din-
ner the subscriptions amounted_
to 751., and the com-
mittee telt that, with renewed exertions on the part of
the subscribers, the intentions of the association will be
carried out to the fullest extent. A ballot for the eke-
lion of two pensioners recommended by the committee
had taken play e. and the result was that a Mrs. Mary
Cullender and L. W. Williams were d:clared pensioners
of 13/. annually. The report having been received and
adopted, and the officers fur the year ensuing duly
elected, thanks were voted to the chairman, and the
meeting then operated.

DOMES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. I Price.
Annum. I Share.
s. d. I £ s. d. I--
Commercial •...
East and West India
East Country
andon - 104
St. Katharine......... 5 per cent. ' Stock. - -
Southampton • • .... • • 2/. per cent. 50 0 0 0 0 -
INSURILIVCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price,
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Albion •• •••••• • • • • • • 31. 101. 500 0 0i 50 0 0 74
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0i 11 0 0 171
Ditto Marine. ••• • • • 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0
..... . • 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 6 0 0 -
British Commercial .• 7s. per share 50 0 0 I 5 0 0 7
ilericl,Med.& Gen. Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 I 210 0 20%
Jounty .•• • • ••• • • • • 3/. 100 0 0 10 0 0
12s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 11
Eagle •• . • ...... •• • • 6s. 50 0 0 50 0 514
Eng. & Scot. Law .• .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
European Life ... • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. -
Freemasons' ..... •. • . 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
iriobe
Guardian .•• • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 47%
imperial Fire ..... •• • 6/. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 -
Imperial Life •.• • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
indemnity Marine ...• 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 -
LAw Life • ..... . 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
,egal and General Life. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
,ondon Fire
London Ship 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 14%
Marine .. ....• • • ... 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 9
Med. Invlid & Gen. Life 4141. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2%
National Lean Fund•• 51. per cent. 20 0 0 2 10 0 -
National Life.. 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0
Life ...... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 41s xd
P immix ...... • . 3/. p. ct. & bs. - 185
Protector Life.. ... 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/. 35.
PcoNidentiLife I/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Rock Life •.• • • ....... 4s. 5 0 0 010 0 4%
Royal Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock.
Sun Fire
Ditto Life 11. 6s.
Universal Life ..
LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. j Prier.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. £ s. d
Bank of Scotland - 100 0 0 168
Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 151
British Linen Company 81. per cent. - 100 0 0 200
Commercial Bank ...• 6/. per cent. - 100 0 0 162
National Bank 6l. per cent. I - '', 10 0 0 I 13X
Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr sent. - 50 0 0 88
Western Bank •.•• • • • • 61. per cent. - 50 0 0 82
I North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 5 0 0 6%
Clydesdale Bank ••• • • • 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 13%
Eastern Bank.... •• • . 51. per cent. - 10 0 0 11l 12e
Caledonian Bank - 2 10 0 41. 98
Edlnb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cert. - 5 0 0 7
City of Glasgow Bank . Si. per cent. - 10 00i 13
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 235. Gd
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 12%
Insur. Co. of Seetlnd.. 51. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 9 ,
North British Incur... 5341. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 26
Caledonian Fire Diann 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22%
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 lB
Edin. & Glasg. Railway 11.10 s. per s. 50 0 0 50 0 0 69
Ditto, 14 Shares • ... 7s. 6d. p. s. 12 10 0 All paid. i 17
Edin., Leith, & Grantn 20 0 0 i 0 0 0 2614
Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. ! 61%
riaasgw &Greenckßail. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. I 18
Glsgw&Garnkirk Rail. Si. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. I 39%
Dundee&Arbrothßall. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 , All paid. I 37
Standard LifeAssarnce. i 51. per cent. 150 0 0 1 2 10 0 9
WATER-WORKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ a.
East London..• •••• • • • 18/. 100 0 0 195
Grand Junction .• •• .. 31. 10s. 41 13 4 90
100 0 0 - -
Vauxhall • . • . .... • • 100 0 0 - -
West Middlesex . . . 51.10A•prent. 63 12 9 123

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY WORKS.

(From the Railway and Shipping Journal.)
The works on the Caledonian line are everywhere
being prosecuted in a most vigorous manner. On the
Glas4ovv main line—from the junction with the Wishaw
and Coltness Railway, a distance of 35 miles, to the sum-
mit near Elvanhead—such progress has been made as
leaves no doubt of this portion being in a stare to c pen
for traffic in the course of the year, with two months to
spare. The greatest activity prevails ; at the heavy
points two sets or shifts of workmen are constantly em-
ployed.

Near Carluke are the two deep ravines of Garion Gill
and Car Juke Burn, over each of which the railway is
carried by embankments 80 feet in height. Such works
are always tedious of execution. Thrse embankments
were closed, to have a road over, on Ist July. The rock
cutting at Cleghorn is in active progress, and a road at
the proper level may be expected through it in the mid-
dle of August. Over the Mouse Water will be a hand-
some stone viaduct of five arches, each forty feet span;
nearly the whole of the stone is on the ground, and the
workmen engaged in building the arches. Over the
light part of the works the permanent way is laid. An
excellent material for ballast is found in the furnace slag
of Shotts Iron Company, a communication to which is
formed by a temporary railroad.
Near Carstairs the earth work is nearly finished.
Towards Thankerton the heavy embankment at Grange
will, the contractors are sanguine, be close in August;
as also, at same time, a road through Liggetfoot excava-
tion. On each side of Thankerton a considerable
length of permanent way is laid. At a short distance to
the south of the village the main line passes through
high monnds of sand and gravel (the kaims of the pea-
santry); this is the very best material for ballast. With
so much permanent road ready, a locomotive engine
would now be most useul and is daily expected, to drag
the gravel from these kaims, north and south, to less fa-
voured localities.

Towards Abington, near Leamington Bridge, the Clyde
is crossed by a timber viaduct. This in course of erec-
tion—the principal timber being all on the ground.
South of this the work is light, the excavations nearly
finished, and the material proper for ballast.
At Crawford the formidable whinstone cutting through
the village is being executed in good earnest. It is quite
expected to have a road through in August. South from
this, over the Newton meadows, is the largest unfinished
embankment on the division; but a large portion being
from convenient side cutting, the completion in proper
time may be considered safe.

A very large quantity of work has been executed in
the last month—the weather being favourable, and work-
men by no means scarce.
The enterprising contractors evince their high spirit,
as also sound judgment, at this period of the summer, by
bringing at once additional horses, when two shifts of
workmen are required on the works. The services of
these useful animals must, however, soon be at a discount
for the purposes of the Caledonian Railway.

OPENING OF THE LANDEN AND
HASSELT RAILWAY.

Iwith great festivities.
at Hasse t ,
and was celebrated
one a special train left Brussels,con-
The opening of this line took place on Tuesday last,
At a quarter-past Public Works, and the Secretary
veying the Minister of
u rci-
General of his departtne,nct,olNnicre. s
sliiocnnanrayrd,
Company,the p Ballot, Barry, and Ter president,
and Mess"' Bru
Sigart directors
of nea
the
toge-
ther with a numerous party of guests, both Belgian and
English,
wabtomthwe'ellreamasaenity
station, at half-past
On their
four, they were received in a magnificent pavilion by M.
amongst
arrival
de Theux, the Minister of the Interior, who was sup-
ported by M. de Schierval, the governor Of the province,
General Delahaye and alacoste, and the other au-
thorities, both civil and military.
As soon as M. de Bavay, the Minister of Public Works,
had taken his place in the pavilion, he was addressed,
on the part of the company, by M. I3runeau, who totn•h(d
briefly but energetically on the present advantages
that would result from the now line, and on the still
greater importance it would assume on its junction with
the line from Maestricht to Aix la-Chapelle (now in
cour,,e.of execution), whereby a communication would
be established between the Scheldt and the Lower
Rohn, and the Ilasselt liailway would become the
M.
international line between Holland and Belgiuna.o_ me.
Brunesu having also acknowledged the zealous
..• le
ration of the Government and of the engineers o
001
Pouts et Chtitt): 6 s.
work ot public utility,
would always be ready to aid in an)
benefits which the new
M. de Bavay intimated, in reply, that the Government
and expatiated, in his turn, on the.
line would confer on the
the latter with the
chiet town, by the ofconnexionne
looked upon it as a
reseau of the State railways. Id
province of Limbourg and its

no 0-, -f

.. • : e 11l :el,d
tfe t; V,g.,11:. ,d v‘ith whieh
they ~od thew vverk, cluiing a season of
great financial c.iiLcultv.

- Both the,.e sp.-x:4l,s were reeeivpd with loud and long-
ebiltinUed .sheufs " EivL. le Ras !"

Two Royal thence were n,it,rwards read by the Se-
cretary G' 'writ of 'he MtuiLt/r of Publie Work, —the
one creating -Mr. K, nnal ti .a Knight of the 01.1, e of
Leopold, and the wher promoting to the third ral,k in
the corps of the "Poets ft Chatis6ss" M. Groafils, the
resident engineer of the company.
A procession was then formed, and the whole party
left the station, headed by the colossal figure of Don
Christopher, the effigy of a knight armed cap ri pie,
and with lance in hand, the history of which is
involved in some obFcurity, but which is said to
represent a noble Spaniard, who, in the thirteenth
or fourteenth century, saved Hasselt from famine.
At six o'clock a superb banquet of 200 covers was
served at the Hotel de Ville, in a saloon very richly and
tastefully decorated. The seat of honour was occupied
by Mr. Kennard, the president of the company, who had
on his right hand the Minister of Public Works, and on
his left the Minister of the interior, the Archbishop of
Liege, Messrs. Bruneau, Bullot, Barry, and Tercelin-
agSnaidgdeaw,rthmo.tihßsea:Gneeefx,ets,rea:ls.si:eoAmpmrmoopannrgidseittnotgrhteinhgeLupie.r:oltbvsio‘snucerego.abnsderbvreid-
ALAtdteheCdoye-seste,r,Glararn. d.K.VlEwaNrsAhßaDlaorsof
rose to
Court
_of Sweden,..
propose our first toast, Ifeel assured tbat
spired on my part to excite your loyalty toast, " The King," and spoke olattypi
tooopportseheaattcheee
ixsfierreselt:
: Infrisug to
lent monarch under whose paternal and fostering
reign
nc otnhfee r r
wisdomon this nogf
reign so many blessings have beau
rapidly improving country. i
your senators accepted a Saxon prince for their future
ruler, they rightly judged that ho nho had naturalised
himself in a foreign land, and had acquired the love and
respect of his adopted countrymen, had given con-
vincing proof of the possession of high qualities both of
heart and mind. It was no easy to-k or slight responsi-
bility that was involved in the acceptance of the sove-
reignty of Belgium—a country just emerging from a
successful revolution, and still agitated and convulsed by
the struggle it had gone through. H VI triumphantly,
through the prudence of his measures, and the sagacity of
the councillors whom he summoned to his ald, that task
has been achieved, it is not for me to dilate upon ; but,
after the ceremonies of to-day, lam naturally reminded
of one—perhaps the crowning bear fit—conferred by him
on this country : I mean the construction of the reseau
of the railways of Belgium ; and I cannot but look upon
it as a conclusive manifestation both of his wisdom
and his policy that almost the first great national act of
the enfranchised state should be one which, while it re-
flected imperishable honour on his own name, secured
at the same time the permanent well being of his sub-
jects, by develiping all the resources of the country, by
bringing together its agricultural and mineral districts,
and, beyond this, by its furtherance of that great
system of international communication which I
believe to be destined, more than any other
human agency, to work out the civilisation of the
world. This was an act, gentlt men, which requires no
eloquence on my part to bring home to every one of you,
and to which, on the present occasion, I am persuaded I
need only thus briefly advert, to ensure your entering
with me, heart and soul, int, the toast I have now the
honour to propose—a toast which, in the presence of the
distin,,,,uished Ministers who have so kindly taken a part
in our festivities, I have the greatrr p!easure in pro-
posing, .‘ To the heal,h and long life of his Majesty
Leopold, King of the Belgians !"
In his delivery of this speech, Mr. Kennard was in-
terrupted continually by loud acclamations, which were
repeated at the close with the greatest possible en-
thusiasm.

The Minister of Public Works having duly replied in
the name of the King, proposed in return " The health
of her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain," which was
also greeted with prolonged cheers.
Mr. Kennard acknowledged the toast, and then gave
" The King of the French, and the Proprietors of
France;" which was replied to by M. Bullot on the part
of his countrymen present.
M. de Bavay afterwards proposed " The Health of the
President of the Company which was followed by a
toast from M. Bruneau—" To the Prosperity of the City
of Hasselt."

Mr. Barry then expressed the gratitude which the
company felt to the Niinister of Public Works, who had
granted the concession, and aided and encouraged the
works; and he was persuaded, that, from the manner in
which the Government fulfilled its engagements with
private companies, foreign capitalists would never hesi-
tate to engage in Belgium in such enterprises as the
present.
At ten o'clock a splendid ball, under the direction of
M. Kevers, of Brussels, was given in the spacious sa-
loon of the Casino, and was kept up till a late hour ;
and at seven and ten o'clock the following morning two
special trains left Hasselt, conveying back to Brussels
the numerous guests, who will, no dou'A, long preserve
the recollection of the interesting ceremony they wit-
nessed, and of the hospitality which they received
from the population of llasselt and the concessionary
company.

LEICESTER TRADE.—There are further indications
of an improved state of things. So far as the arrange-
ments for the autumn are concerned, we hear there is
every hope of a fair business being done at the opening
of the season. Prices are firm, and there is now more
employment.—Leicestershire Mercury,
THE WELLINGTON STATUE. Monday a number
of men were engaged in removing the remaining portion
of the huge scaffolding which was erected to raise up
the Wellington statue. It is expected that a fortnight
will elapse before its entire removal will be completed.
THE STORM IN READING.—The very Leavy tem-
pest on Saturday morning which visited Reading and
its neighbourhood was, besides having been most de-
structive to the growing crops, otherwise of so violent a
nature as to do much damage to the new dispensary now
in course of erection in that town. Shortly before six
o'clock a double flash of lightning, succeeded by a tre-
mendous shock of thunder, took place, and in an instant
the upper portion of the building, comprising the entire
huge coping, came with an awful crash to the ground.
Several of the front projecting parts of the building
were also demolished. The extraordinary vibration of
the thunder, and loud report from the fall, resembling
the discharge of artillery, Oa! med the whole neighbour-
hood, and produced the utmost consternation. The pon-
detou.: masses of stone in their descent scattered the
scaffAding in all directions. One of the pieces of stone,
weighing nearly 6 cwt., fell on the roof of an adjoining
alms-house, but, owing to the sloping descent of the
roofing, it most providentially did not krce its way
through, otherwise the occupant, an infirm woman, who
was in bed just under the spot where the stone lay, must
have been crushed to death. When informed of her
narrow escape• from imminent peril and her impending
danger, the old lady rem-iincd for some time obdurate,
and it was with some difficulty that her removal was at
length effected. Beyond this no lives were fortunately
sacrificed, though a report had gained ground to the
contrary. The damage sustained by the falling of the
edifice is estimated at a considerable amount.

Angell, in The
ENGI-
NEERS "
-In GIGANTIC
Bulkier, Mr. George
- PRECURSORS
Imo21: OURsieyans
c.l‘ol
los
ruD.
bEmnsiNat
tme 'de'
Samuel
lto a Select Com-
mittee of the House of Commons a design of great mag-
nificence and practical utility ; it consists of a double
bridge, in the place of old London-bridge, to admit
of the passage of ships by the alternate ele-
vation of a drawbridge on either of the two
bridges, whilst an uninterrupted way over the
other would be afforded at all times for carriages and foot
passengers, without impeding the navigation, and with-
out the necessity of such elevated arches as the height
of ships' masts require. The plan embraced the embank-
ment of the river both above and below bridge, the erec-
tion of quays and a line of warehouses extending from the
Tower to the bridges,with dock entrances,and terraces on
arches, the Custom House being placed in the centre;
Besides these manifestly advantageous alterations,
proposed to throw open to the river the noble monumentthe focus
of
--
, erected by the genius of IN ren, making it
north :aide of
an extensive amphitheatrical area onht
a similar space on the Southwark
consisting each of six
were to be perfectly
level,independent of the centre or
the Thames, and to erect a navaltrepsidey.ien
Tthheeeehnritrdegeofs
arches of great span,
and the necessary
drawbridge. Its veryprincipal reasons
to the House of
architect, for among many
was not confined to the. city
magnificenceursveein this account, however,
ingenious designs submitted
bold and
of
sacrifice c
itsrifi ceee
no
-f a valuabledepti. ground oufan failure
period, I find one by Messrs. Telford
single arch, 600 feet • span, and 65 feet in
Commons at that
to replace old London-bridge by one of
and Douglas,
Dance appears to have been consulted on
he subject of the approaches to this pons trinniphalis.
t GRNENAL COURT-MARTIAL AT CIIATH.AM. The
proceedir.gs of a general court-martial holden at this
hcaesigt-hirtoln (.5,-)fira.
garrison on the 31st of December, 1846, for the trial of
batta-
lions6th
gueeonf
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erfe,
was
private Abraham Goods, N 0.2,475, of the reserve
promulgated on Saturday, the 17th inst., in the presence of
the prisoner and the troops. The prisoner was tried upon
the following charge: —" For having in the lock-up room
at Brompton Barrackv, Chatham, on or about the 18th of
December, 1546, offered violence to Sergeant-Major
Samuel Grix, his superior officer, when in the execu-
tion of his duty, by striking the said Samuel Grix with
the butt of a firelock. Upon which charge the Cot
found the prisoner guilty, which being in breach
virtue
convictions and general bad character,
articles of war, and taking into consideration formerhi.seoft
does in
the
thereof sentence him the said prisoner to
.bep
Court-
• •
expiration of his former sentence
of fourteen
Court-
martial) transported as a felon fe,dir
toh
approve and MI..
years. Her Majesty was a_
plea." the Court, and to com-
mas the finding and sentence
be eetraonsperted accordingly be-
yondmeal that the prisoner t_
place as her Majesty, by the ad.
the seas to such ebyteDrinistrict
Council shall think fit to direct and
vice of the Privy
pleasure thereupon, will be duly
with her Majesty
8 h •fJu..i.e, of her Majesty's Court
notified to the Lord Cl. ,P,1,.
appoint. The sentence
, of this court-martial, together
nal.g"uarld'hetoPraibwuanietr
of the Mutiny Act. (Signed) John Mac-
of Queen's Bench or Common ,as, as directed by the
lath clause
a'll'aSorredine fored
to the prison
his removal. The 56th Regiment is at Gibraltar.
SALE OF PROPERTY BY AC3 CTION.--CAUTION.--
don ald, Adjutant-Gene
of
f t,
he
mui
In the case of Robinson v. Wall, the printed conditions
of sale having stated that the property would be sold
without reserve, which means that " no person will be
employed to bid in behalf of the vendor for the purpose
of keeping up the price," whereas an arrangement
existed which would have prevented a sale under a cer-
tain amount; the Lord Chancellor has decided that the
[purchaser cannot be called on to complete.—The Builder.
EXMOUTH, JULY 15. -... Arrd. Sarah Prinsep, shapit
Rio Grande.

AQUATICS.
LAMBETH REGATTA.

The annual oars' contest for a purse of sovereigns,
subscribed by the ladies and genthJnien of Lambeth, took
place on Monday. and was both numerously and respecta-
bly attended. The race was in three heats, with twelve
watermen, many of whose names must be familiar to our
aquatic readers.