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' asked a blessing on the feast, and the• whole assembly,
sat down with appetites commensurate to the great de-
sign. To take a poet's license, it might be said that
those " rugged rocks," which for ages had echoed only
to the sounds of the deep rolling and wildly surging
waves, on this occasion responded to the joyous acclaim
of cultivated human voices. And nature, which here
presents herself in the most imposing form, seemed to
rejoice. After dinner the Cornish miners employed on
the work rose and sang with fine effect " Non nobis,
Dornine," which was most creditable to that class of men
who, amidst the severe struggle of arduous and dangerous
labour, have found time to cultivate " the gentle melo-
dies." The day passed off with joy and pleasure, and
the completion of that immense and beautiful work is
looked to with great interest. The headings have been
through for a long time, and the main body of the
tunnel to the proper level is progressing very rapidly.
There were present Messrs. Warton and Warden, the
Rev. J. J. Vincent, Frank Foster, Esq., H. Swinburn,
Esq., and many of the respectable gentlemen who hold
situations upon this important contract, No. 8. A full
band of music, with some splendid fireworks, made a
finish to the scene.
REGENT'S CANAL LINE.—At the meeting of the Mary-
lebone Vestry on Saturday, Sir Peter Laurie expressed
gratification at the course adopted on the previous
Saturday with respect to the Regent's Canal Railway.
He had communicated with the Secretary of State
on the
matter, and had received a letter from Mr. Phillips, in-
forming him that the views of the inhabitants of the
Regent's-park were accorded in. He had also received
a communication from Mr. Jardine, the magistrate,
stating that if the railway was carried, he must leave the
park; and from the owner of twenty houses, stating that
if the Regent's Canal Company obtained their Bill, his
property would be ruined. The Royal Botanic Society
had also intimated their intention of offering the most
determined opposition.
ANOTHER PRACTICAL PROOF OF THE DANGER OF
LEVEL CROSSINGS.—On Friday an accident occurred at
the place where the railroad crosses the highway on a
level near the station. Alrain liedjust left the station
at Ware, and gone to Hertford, and another 4 50 P.M.
train was coming up from Hertford, when a man whb
had arrived from the direction of the post-office attempted
to cross the line. The gatekeeper tried to stop him, and
received a blow in the face for his pains. Just at this
moment the train came up to the spot, and the buffer
threw the unfortunate stranger on the line, with his
legs across the rail. The consequences may be easily
imagined ; both of his legs were cut off below the knee.
He was conveyed to the Cherry Tree, under the care of
Mr. John Reilly, surgeon, who happened to be at the
station at the time of the accident. We could not ascer-
tain his place of residence, but he states his name to be
Roe.—Herts County Press.
The .Notional having stated that the directors of the
Rouen Railway had given the privilege of travelling by
it free of all charges to the first President of the Cour
Royale of Rouen, M. Frank Carre, who fills that high
office, has addressed a letter to the National, affirming
that no such offer has been made to him, and that if it
had he should have declined it, because, being a judge,
he might at any day be called upon to decide upon cases
in which the acts and interests of the company were in-
volved, and he should have been seriously wanting in his
duty if he suffered himself to be invested with such a
privilege.

WITHDRAWAL or CoAcHEs.—Yesterday week, in
consequence of the opening of the rail, two coaches were
withdrawn from the Ipswich road ; one, the " Old
Ipswich," driven for 37 years by that old favourite
coachman, " Tom" Emmerson, and the other, " The
Regulator," by Robert Sewell.—Bury Herald.
EDINBURGH AND PERTH.—The town council, it will

be seen, have, by a large majority, decided to take 100
shares in this new undertaking, and to assist its progress
by every means in its power. It is now generally re-
ported that two of the most powerful railway companies
in Scotland, too obviously interested in its establishment
to require more particular specification, are to lend it all
their influence in its progress through the Legislature,
for which every Parliamentary requisite has been pre-
pared, the arrangement with the old company for the
plans,
&c., executed by its orders, having been com-
pleted last week.—Perthshire Courier.
How TO MAKE LANDED [AND RAILWAY?] PRO-
PERTY VALUABLE.—A very curious rumour is in circu-
lation through the district of Penge, in the vicinity of
the Croydon line. It is stated that a petition or
memorial has been sent to the directors of the London,
Brighton, and South Coast Company, from the inhabi-
tants of the above village, requesting or praying that
the benefit of a station may be extended to their imme-
diate neighbourhood. Now the rumour is, that Mr.
Schuster, who has recently rendered himself so famous
in the railway world, has purchased a large landed pro-
perty at or close by the spot where the inhabitants de-
sire to have a station, and that he is about to build ex-
tensively upon it. Can this be " cause and effect?"—
Railway Record.

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submitted for competition during the present month. It
is rumoured that the part from Rye to Hastings will
giro way to the line obtained last session from Rye to
Warblington, on the Tonbridgo-wells and Hastings line,
thereby effecting a saving of seven miles of most expen•
sive work, for which no possible compensation can be
derived in the shape of traffic.—Dover Chronicle.
MANCHESTER AND BOLTON,--It has been already
noticed that, owing to the recent accidents on this line,
a memorial was forwarded to the Board of Trade,
calling for an investigation into the state of the line.
In compliance with the prayer of the memorialists,
Captain Coddington arrived at Bolton on Friday, the
25th of December, on this mission. It was shown that
the lessees of this line, the Leeds Company, had already
put down six miles of new rails out of the ten, and were
proceeding with the other four miles, to put that por-
tion of the line in like repair, a course which Captain
Coddington appeared to think evinced a proper desire on
the part of the lessees to secure the public against future
accident; but be is said to have recommended that,
until the four miles not yet laid with new rails are com-
pleted, trains on that part of the line should travel at a
reduced speed. His attention was called to the state of
the bridges by which the turnpike-roads are carried over
the line. These bridges are flat ones, supported by
pillars between the lines of rails, and are so dangerous
that passengers leaning incautiously out of the carriage-
windows might suffer injury from them. One of the
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Captain Coddington suggested the construction of better
bridges, and that an arrangement should be effected,
KENT LINE.—TONDRIDGE, MAIDSTONE, AND CANTER-
uinto circulation in the county of Kent, signed by the
bfuoirlt diverting. the
solicitors of the London, Brighton, andSosutthbeenput
Coast
Railway. It runs thus:—"The committee of directors
entrusted with the conduct of the Bill for the Kentish
lines promoted by the London, Brighton, and South
Coast Railway Company, have authorised us to invite
the co-operation and support of the landowners and in-
habitants of the county of Kent, and to state that they
will be happy to receive any communications in further-
ance of the objects of the undertaking. The committee
will take an opportunity of circulating a statement and
msp, showing the course of the lines, and the great ad
vantages which their scheme of railway communication
will afford to the county."—Railway Record.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Anaccident of a
very deplorable character on the Eastern Counties Rail-
way, near Laken-heath station, which involved the loss
,
of two lives, was the subject of a coroners inquiry yester-
day,
forenoon, at the Railway 'cavern,
Brandon station. The thenamesovfernadjacent to the
deceased were
Joseph Roderham, aged 31, and William Talbot, aged
25, both ballastmen in the service of the company. Mr.
Ashcroft, the irspector of the permanent way, was
pre sent to watch the proceedings. The evidence of two
witnesses thus describes the cAirtcudmaystlaignhcets
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unfortunate occurrence :
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morning a train of twelve loadedrabnadlloanst
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ceeding along the line from B
required to keep up the permanent
way. The deceased, wish several other labourers, ac.
companied the trucks, in order to unload them •, they
were seated on the top of the soil. The train proceeded
apparently in the usual safe manner, but on nearing
Laken-heath, the fore-axle of the truck on which the
deceased were seated, from some unknown cause, snapped
asunder in two places. The body of the machine instantly
dropped, and as the train was drawn along the next
truck mounted the one that was broken, and the poor
fellows were crushed underneath it. Fortunately the
speed was not great at the time, being not more than
t•n or twelve miles an hour, and the engine-driver per-
ceiving the disaster brought the trucks almost imme-
diately to a stand-still. On the disabled waggons being
removed, the poor fellows were found to be most shock-
ingly mutilated. Talbot had been killed on the spot.
Roderham, although his legs and arms were fractured
in a shocking manner, was still alive, but ere he could
reach Brandon he had breathed his last. Mr. Samuels,
the resident engineer, was sent down by the compy to
inquire into the cause of the axle breaking. liean exa-
mined the metal minutely, found no defect i e
n it; th
cause of it breaking was a matter very difficult to ar-
rive at. The jury expressed themselves satisfied that
the company had adopted the necessary precautions for
the protection of such, workpeople as the deceased, and
that the accident was the result of circumstances over
which they had no control. A verdict of " Accidental
death " was returned. The deceased were married
men. Mr. Ashcroft, on behalf of the company, directed
that every attention should be paid their widows and
families which their melancholy condition would suggest.
SU ,LBIEFUL IMPOSTURE.—One day in the week pre •
ceding the last, a fellow, whom our informant, a highly
respectable citizen, says is a resident of Hereford, went
to the house of Exell (the man who was sentenced to
transportation on Tuesday last for stealing a sheep, the
property of Lady Emily Foley), at Woolhope, and told
his unfortunate wife that her husband had escaped from
the county prison, and desired him to call upon her for
his best suit of clothes and five shillings. The unsuspi-
cious woman, not doubting the truth of what the scoun-
drel told her, instantly complied with her husband's
supposed request; we need scarcely say that the tale
the fellow told was entirely false, and that he committed
a heartless robbery,—Hereford Times.

property and of the vested interests ;which it was his
duty to maintain.—(Cheers.) And on behalf of public:
convenience, of public improvements, which it was his
duty to promote ; and on behalf of the comforts and
interests of the working classes, to which it was his duty
to attend.—(Loud cheers.) With respect to the in-
jury threatened to public and private property, and to
investments of an almost incalculable amount, founded
on the faith of Parliament, pledged now a century ago,
when the bridge was completed, in 1737, he would first
address himself. During the century just passed three
generations had, on the faith of Parliament, ventured
to lay out large portions of their fortune in investments,
to which the destruction of this bridge would in a
greater or less degree prove fatal.—(Hear.) In behalf
of the Chapter, at the head of which he had recently had
the honour to be placed, he rose to state that they con-
sidered that a very large amount of their property, on
which their maintenance depended, and which they had
inherited from their predecessors—the ancient members
of the Abbey, would be most materially injured
if the bridge were destroyed; and besides it would pre-
vent the improvement of that portion of Westminster
lying between the Thames and St. James's-park—a
region which required bette. ventilation and better drain-
age, and on which the Dean and Chapter had expended
large sums of money. These improvements would at
once be annihilated, and from 50,000 to 60,000 persons
WOUld remain without that ventilation and drainage, and
that same lack of improvement in which they
had stood so much in need, for more than a
a century.—(Cheers.) He rose also on behalf of
the working classes, who would be much more -perma-
nently injured by the removal of the bridge than pro-
prietors of scores of houses in any part of the district to
which he had referred—(Cheers)—for, he had met at
least 20,000 labouring men crossing the bridge to their
residences after their work. The total number crossing
the bridge daily on foot might be computed at 63,000, or
23,000,000 in the course of the year, who would have to
go half a mile about to effect the'same object, and more-
over, would have to pay a toll. It Ives monstrous that such
a mass of people should be put to this great inconvenience
and that those riving in other parts of the metropolis
should also be seriously inconvenienced for the purpose
of carrying out a project which the public necessities did
not require.—(Cheers.) He should like to see another
bridge at Charing-cross, but why they were to be de-
barred from using the present bridge he was perfectly
unable to understand. Sir J. Rennie thought there was
an immense conflux of traffic at Westminster-bridge.
He thought that the present site of the bridge was so
affected by its present coffer dams that it would be im-
politic to rebuild it upon it. If it was erected about 150
yards from its present site, as far as Derby-street, only
about twelve houses in Parliament-street would be
affected, and the best situation possible would be ob-
tained. The Right Rev. Gentleman concluded by pro-
posing the first resolution, which was to the following
effect:—
" That the proposed abolition of Westminster-bridge
and the application of funds appropriated by Parliament
for its maintenance to the erection of another bridge
near Charing-cross is unjust and injurious to the public,
to the parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, and to in-
dividuals, for the following principal reasons :
" Because it would abruptly close the long-established
thoroughfare from Surrey to the city of Westminster,
St. James's-park, and the daily increasing neighbour-
hood of Pimlico and Chelsea, and leave no communica-
tion whatever across the river west of Charing-cross free
of toll ; and also, because the cost of approaches to a
bridge on another site alone would suffice for the erec-
tion of a new bridge on or close to the present site.
" Because it will entirely put a stop to the opening of
new streets through the notoriously crowded, ill-drained,
and dilapidated portions of these parishes (one of which
streets has already received the sanction of Parliament)
and prevent all improvements therein.
" Because the streets in connexion with the present
bridge were laid out by Commissioners appointed by
Parliament, and a very large amount of property has
been therein created under an implied agreement that a
bridge should be maintained by Parliament on this spot
for ever, and that the substitution of a bridge on a dis-
tant site (involving as enormous depreciation in the
value of such property, and almost ruin to many indi-
viduals) would be a breach of faith which ought not to
receive the sanction of the Legislature."
Mr. WHATELEY, Q.O ,seconded the resolution. He
could not understand how any person could for a moment
assign any reason for removing Westminster-bridge; who
was desirous of making a bridge to Charing-cross?—
(Cheers.) What, he would ask, was to become of the
property at both ends of the present bridge if it was to
be removed, and its site changed to Charing-cross?—
(Cheers.) Why the owners of it would all be ruined,
and the inhabitants of Charing-cross would not only not
be benefited, but greatly inconvenienced. It used to
be said that the world was made for those who rode in
coaches.—(Laughter.) He hoped there were better
feelings existing now.—(Cheers.) He hoped that the
feeling that existed at the present moment was, that the
poor man, who had to carry his tools to his work, ought
to have the nearest way of doing so, and not be com-
pelled to go upwards of a mile out of his way—(Cheers)
—which would be the result if Westminster-bridge was
to be abolished.—(Cheers.) He had no objection to the
erection of a bridge to Charing-cross, provided it was
found to be necessary.—(Cheers, and cries of "It is
not ")—but he objected in Coto to the removal
of Westminster-bridge.—(Cheers.) If the site of that
bridge was important, as it was undoubtedly considered
a hundred years ago, how much more important he
would ask was that site at the present day ?—(Great
cheering.) Buildings had risen up in every direction
about it, to whom its removal would be total ruin.—
(Cheers.) Added to which, what he would ask, was to
become of the great street for the improvement of West
minster for which an Act of Parliament had been
obtained, and the construction of which would be at-
tended of such . benefits to the 'city in which they then
were?— (Great cheering.) For what was that
great plan of improvement to be sacrificed
which, there could be no doubt it would be, if Westmin-
ster-bridge was to be removed?—(Cheers.) No one,he
believed, could answer that question, unless it was some
party connected with a railway terminus.—(Great
laughter.) Mr. Barry, the architect of a building that
would carry his name to posterity, so far from being
unfavourable to the continuance of the bridge on its pre-
sent site, was anxious for its continuance there, as was
proved by the plan of the iron bridge that he had pro-
posed.--(Cheers.) The report of the Committee of the
House of Commons was in favour of its present position,
and why that report was to be stultified, he could not,
for the life and soul of him, tell.—(Cheers.) 1 he Hon.
and Learned Gentleman concluded by most cordially
and heartily seconding the resolution.
After some observations from Mr. COPE,
The CHAIRMAN put the resolution to the meeting, and
declared it to be carried unanimously.
Mr. PAGE Woon (the son of the late Sir Matthew
Wood) proposed the second resolution, which was to the
following effect a—
" That independently of the most important conside-
rations contained in the former resolution, and of the
questions financial, local, and architectural, involved in
the proposal for erecting the bridge near Charing-cross,
and making the approaches thereto : this meeting is of
opinion that its substitution for a bridge on the present
site would be productive of manifest public inconveni-
ence, because it would throw the enormous carriage
traffic of Westminster-bridge, a portion of that now
using Waterloo-bridge and ultimately the traffic from
all the South of England railways on a spot which is now
at times impassable by reason of the immense traffic from
the City to the West-end and western suburbs of the
metropolis."
He did not see that there was.any necessity for a bridge
at Charing-cross—(Cheers)--but supposing that there
was, he thought it would be the height of madness to
attempt to draw off to that locality the immense traffic
of Westminster-bridge.—(Cheers.) He was very happy
to see the Very Rev, the Dean of Westminster, and
several members of the Chapter, attending at that meet-
ing, not only for the purpose of protecting their own
interests but that of the poor.—(Cheers.) It was but
an act of justice for him to say that they were
greatly indebted to that body for the room in which
they had met—(Cheers)—and for the liberality they
had shown to forward to the utmost the great object cf
education.--(Cheers.) For they had recently spent no
'este a sum than 10,0004 in support of the schools of that
parisle—(Oneersee If the present site. of Westminster
bridge was to be removed, it would prevent hundreds of
thousinds from enjoying the lungs of the metropolis ;
he alluded to St. James's park.--(Cheers.)
Mr. JAMES WILKINSON seconded the resolution. He
was sure, if they only acted in concert, success was
certain.—(Cheers.) When first he entered that room,
he 'was disposed to think that the repair of the
bridge would be the best course—(Hear)—but after
the observations of the Very Reverend the Dean,
he was free to confess that the best course would be to
take down the present bridge; and erect a new one as
near its present site as possible.—(Cheers.) • He had no
objection to the -multiplication 'of bridges across, the
t
Thames when it was shown that they were necessary at
meet the wants of the public, but such structures ought
to be erected with a due :regard to existing interests.—
(Cheers.) Of what interest such a bridge as that pro-
posed to Charing-cross could be to any one he could
not imagine.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then put the resolutions to the
meeting and declared it to be carried unanimously.
Mr. CARTER Woon moved the third resolution :
" That a copy of the foregoing resolution be forwarded
to the Commissioners of Westminster- bridge, and that
the Members far the city of Westminster and the bo-
rough of Lambeth be requested, both as the members of
the Commission and our representatives in Parliament,
to oppose the appropriation of the property set apart for
maintaining the present bridge, to the erection of a
bridge on a distant site ; and that a committee be formed
to consider the best means of opposing the threatened
measure, and if expedient, in concert with other opposing
parties, that a subscription be commenced to defray the
necessary expenses."—(Cheers.)
Ho felt no doubt that the large mass of the manufactur-
ing acid trading community would suffer the greatest
inconvenience if the bridge was to be removed from its
present site.—(Cheers.) He had seen enough of the
effects of closing it for a short period to warrant him in
asserting, that to remove it altogether would be ruinous
to parties in its particular locality.--(Cheers.) He be-
lieved that all that had been said of the great disadvan-
tages that would result from removing the bridge had