The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

No. 16,947.

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been understated and that they had an advantage in
tha existence -of the bridge where it at present
-steed that could never be over-rated.—(Cheers.) He
was one of those who would alwaes support the bridge
that had carried him safely, ot-er it ; and notwithstanding
'what had been stated by his Very Reverend Friend,
the Dean of Westminster, he thought the present site
of the bridge was quite equal tO the erection of another
one. It was the first interests of. the inhabitants of
Lambeth and Westminster to use their greatest exeri-
tions to prevent the carrying out of so abominable a
measure as that proposed, by parties whom no one knew
anything of, or whose objects could hardly be guessed
at—the removal of Westminster bridge anti the erection
of a new one to Charing Cross.—(Cheers.)
Mr. FREEMAN seconded the resolivion, which was put
by the Chairman to the meeting, and declared by him to
be carried unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN said that the real business of the
meeting was now over. He was glad to see such unani-
mity as had been displayed in the adoption of the reso-
lutions, because it gave him every hope that their eftbrts
in this cause would be attended with complete success.—
(Cheers.) As a Member of the city of Westminster he
could assure his constituents that every exertion should
be used to resist this extraoedinary, uncalled for, and
unnecessary neasureeL--(Cheers.) At the same time he
felt bound to say, that he theught it so indefensible,
that he had very little doubt when the day of battle
came, if it ever did come, of which he had great doubt,
there would be no difficulty in overcoming their un-
known assailants. Such were hie opinions, and his in-
tentions. His Hon. Friend the Member for Lambeth
sat on his left hand, and he had no doubt he would tell
the meeting what was the cause he intended to pursue.
Mr. IleavEs, M.P., and Under-Secretary for the Colo-
nies, then rose to address the meeting, and was most en-
thusiastically received. When silence had been some-
what restored, Mr. Hawes said that he would re-
spond to his Gallant Friend's call, in few but
positive words—he would back him in every motion,
and stand by him in every division against this mon-
strous measure.—(Tremendous cheers.) After all that
had been said that night, it was almost a waste of
time to address any further arguments to the meeting
against the measure.—(Cheers.) He should have been
glad to have heard who were the parties that were op-
posed to them, or what was the reputation of the in-
dividuals whose proposition, whose monstrous proposi-
tion had made this meeting necessary.—(Cheers.) He
had done all in his power to find that out, but had
been unable to do so.—(Hear, hear.)" A short time
since he had had the honour of presiding at a meeting
for a similar object on the other side or the water, and
at that meeting he was happy to say they were just as
umminious as they had been that night in offering
their oppoiltion to the measure.—(Cheers.) He was
most happy to join his fellow citizens on that side of the
water in opposing the measure after having done all he
could in the same direction on the other.--(Cheers.) He
was glad to hear his Gallant Friend in the choir, quote the
report of the Committee against the erection of a new
bridge on a new site—(Cheers)—because he was
convinced that if any one would refer to that
report, they would find it altogether opposed to
the alteration cf the site of the present bridge.
—(Cheers.) Strong as was the arguments of his
Very Reverend Friend the Dean of Westminster against
the posibility of building a new bridge upon the site of
the old one, he could not but feel that its present posi-
tion was the best, if not the very best that could be
selected. He thought the engineering skill of the pre-
sent day would be at a very low ebb indeed if it could
not get over the difficulty, in a geological point of view,
that his Very Reverend Friend had pointed out.—
(Cheers.) He was for maintaining the bridge on its
present site—(Loud cheering)--and when he made
that statement, lie did so advisedly, because at whose
expense were they going to build the new bridge ? Not
at their own, but that of the public—(Cheers)—and
such being the case, it was their duty to do it at the
least possible expense, and on the least expensive and
most eligible site. Now, that its present site was the
best and the least expensive, ho thought all present
would admit.—(Cheers.) If any other site were
selected, some hundreds of thousands would require
to be expended, and he thought that such a sum
might be much better laid out in buying up existing
bridges for the convenience of the public, than ii
purchasing new approaches for a new. Westminster-
bridge.—(Cheers.) Added to this, he had been informed,
and he believed it to be the fact, that the amount that
could be procured for the materials of the old -bridge,
would be amply sufficient to construct a tem-
porary bridge while a new one aas erecting
en the site of the present bridge.—(Cheers.)
He was astonished at the temerity of those who could
propose the erection of a new bridge in the vicinity of so
many others—(Cheers)—a bridge, he would venture to
say, that would do nothing but obstruct the navigation
of the river.—(Cheers.) He looked upon the proposed
Bill for the erection of the new bridge to Charing-cross
as a private one, and as such he should treat it, believing
that the Woods and Forests would never lend their
name to so absurd an undertaking.—(Great cheer-
ing.) But supposing that they should, he was
sure another department of the Government never would,
and that was her Majesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer.
—(Cheers.) He called, in conclusion, upon the inhabit-
ants of Lambeth and Westminster to exert themselves
in a cause that was entirely their own, for they might
depend upon it if they did so they would hear as little
about this absurd measure in future as they knew at pre-
sent of its projectors.—(Cheers.)
Thanks were then carried unanimously to the Chair-
man, and the meeting separated.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—Two of the Lords of the
Admiralty, Captain M. F. F. Berkeley, C. 8., and Cap_-
tain the Right Hon. Lord John Hay, C. 8., accompanied
by Captain Henry Eden, private secretary to the First
Lord, arrived at Gosport this morning by the half-past
12 o'clock train of the South-Western Railway, and em-
barked at the Clarence-yard in the barge of Captain
Chads of the Excellent, and were put on board the Echo
steam tug (the only steam-vessel out of nearly a dozen
in commission at this . port in a sufficiently serviceable
condition to convey their Lordships to Spithead), in
which vessel they proceeded to the roadstead to visit and
inspect the Thetis, new 36-gun frigate, Captain Cod-
rington. Their Lordships were accompanied by Admiral
Sir E. Codrington, G.C.8., G.C.M.G., Captain Chads,
C. 8., and Captain Codrington, C.B. Their Lordships
were conducted over the ship by her gallant and experi-
enced captain, and expressed their unqualified approba-
tion of the internal economy and the seagoing efficiency
of the beautiful vessel, which certainly reflects the high-
est credit alike upon► her constructors and captain. Their
Lordhips partook of a de/diner, and remained on board
nearly three hours. They returned in the Echo, and
were expected to visit the Excellent, the Dauntless
new screw steam-frigate, and the Kestrel brigantine,
and conclude their visit by dining with the Commander-
in-Chief, Admiral Sir Charles Ogle. Their Lordships
sleep at the George Hotel, and return to town to-morrow
morning.

The 'Hyacinth, 18, Commander Scott, sailed to-day for
Sheerness, to be paid off.
All the disposable boys on board the Victory (about
60) were put on board the Thetis to-day for passage to
join the squadron under Sir W. Parker in the Tagus.
The Dauntless is to be fitted for sea, and tried with all
possible dispatch.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.--A terrible accident
happened on Saturday last at the works of the Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, near Worcester.
This line of railway, which has now been in course of con-
struction for several months, runs eastward of 'Worcester,
and at about the distance of a mile from that city, is a
short tunnel (about 300 or 400 yards long), passing
under Spooner s or Rainbow-hill. To carry on the ex-
cavations in this tunnel, two shafts have been sunk, and
it was at one of these shafts that the accident happened.
The soil, it appears, is removed from the tunnel by the
use of large windlasses, and " skips"- or large buckets,
men being plilced at the mouth of each shaft to receive
the skips as they are brought up from below. On Satur-
day one of the men, while erg, gad in the work of
drawing a skip upon the platform placed for its reception,
got on his wrong side, and was in a moment, before a
helping hand could be
.held out to him, forced off the
platform into the shaft, and falling to the bottom with
his head upon the rails, laid below for the purpose of
assisting the removal of the soil, was literally dashed to
pieces. The poor fellow must have died instantaneously,
for on being picked up it was found that (to use the ex-
pression of one of his fellow-workmen) there was not a
whole bone inhis body. The body was removed, and
now awaits R Coroner's inquest.
The late Earl of Yarb ,rough, by his will, executed
in June. 1843, has bequeathed to his younger son, tge
Hon. D'id!ey Pelham, his practical nautical books,
charts, chronometers, telescopes, and all nautical instru-
ments, for his own use, and a pecuniary bequest, havintg.
conveyed to him all his vested right under seruemhetner,
has also lift pecuniary legacies to
daughters-in-law , and his three sisters,
By jejteented
an-
nuities and legacies to his servan
to his oldest son Lord'
in 1842, his Lordship eenveryebd and liberal
,ag t
statues, and all.
Wursley, now thbeoilasr
plate, pictures, iporti'nitsa,rdroarmbuingghs,,alsl
ahiscd,iamo'nds,
his estates at Brocklesbury
ot.ler personal
Properl'aorkn, and in Arlington-street,
• .VI the settled estates, and has bequ,:athed
Hall, Appuldurcarnhe as
heir looms wi
to his Lordship' rall'the newly-purchased estates, and all
estates not in. seltlenient, and those in the countieS of
Lincoln and Kent, and in the Isle of Wight, and
that he may dispose of the Rorraky Marsh estate, and
has appointed his Lordship residuary legatee and sole
executor. The funded and personal estate was estimated
for duty at SO,OOO/. His Lordship had mentioned in his
will that if it would have been advantageous in the
opinion of his family and medical attendant to have had
a post mortem examination, such should be allowed to
take place. His Lordship was in his sixty-fifth year,
and at his own request was buried in the mausoleum in
his park. He was Vice-Admiral of the coast of the Is'e
of Wight and county of Southampton, Recorder of
Grimsby and Newport, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A. The
members of the Royal Yacht Squadron, of which he
was the revered commodore for many years, are erecting
to his lasting memory a monument near the Isle of
Wight, which from its elevation will also be a sea mark
to mariners. His brigantine, the Kestrel, in which he
diel on the coast of Spain, is offered to our Govern-
ment. The late Earl was created a Peer of the realm
in the reign Of William IV., on Jan. 21, 1537.

BAPTISM BY IMMERSION.—A novel and interesting
feature has lately been introduced into Trevethin
Church, Monmouthshire. under the sanction of the
Bishop of the diocese. A baptistry, measuring Bft. by
3ft. 6in., and 4ft. deep, has been placed near the south
door, wherein it is intended,- -should any person (and in
this district there arc Many such), having conscientious
objections to the sacrament of baptism by sprinkling,
to perform it by immersion.—Herejord Journal.
The. Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town
yesterday from ffickleton llall, Doncaster.