The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-03 00:00:00

TUNBRIDGE WELLS.

Our Royal and other distinguished visitors seem to have
made good use of the calm which has succeeded the bustle of
the Race week, by enjoying the delights of polished society.
The Royal Duchess has given three dinner parties to the re-
sident and neighbouring nobility and gentry. On Wednesday
last the Royal party honoured the Marquis Camden with their
company to dinner at Bayham Abbey.
On Friday last, two meetings of the Tunbridge and Tun-
bridge Wells Branch Bible Society were held at the Royal
Sussex Hotel, when a collection amounting to about 501. was
made towards its objects. The Duchess of Kent sent a dona-
tion of 101., and two resident ladies Si. each, for the purchase
of Bibles for the emancipated negroes.
On Sunday morning last, their Royal Highnesses, with their
suite, attended divine service at the New Church, when a sermon
was preached by the Rey. H. Woodgate, the resident minister.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent liberally patronised
the benefit of Mrs. Sloman at the Theatre on Monday evening,
which was most numerously and fashionably attended.
A grand Archery Fete took place at Hawkhurst on Thurs-
day last. The grounds were laid out very tastefully, and the
ladies and gentlemen displayed great skill in archery. After
the shooting, they adjourned to the Queen's -tlead Inn, where
150 sat down to an elegant dinner prepared Mr. Godfrey,
the landlord, whose assiduous attention cannot be too much
praised. In the evening, the company assembled in the ball
room, where dancing was kept up with great spirit to 11r.
Guinness's celebrated Tunbridge Wells Parade Band, who
performed several beautiful new quadrilles, waltzes, &c. Among
the company present were Mr. Herbert Curteis, M. P., Mr.
Hodges, M. P., and Mr. Courthorpe, who kindly officiated as
ste wards.

The Town Council of Montrose on Wednesday, re-
solved to present an address to Earl Grey for his important
services in promoting the extension of the representation of the
people of Scotland.—Edinburgh Evening Courant.

Her Grace the Duchess of Bedford is again at her
Highland residence at the Doune Of Rothiemurchus. There
was some talk of Lord John Russell visiting her Grace in the
North this season, but we find he is at present in Buckingham-
shire.— Glasgow Herald.

On Wednesday the Earl and Countess of Harrowby,
with Lady Harriet Ryder, arrived at the Royal Hotel, Glas-
gow, and departed on Friday for the seat of the Duchess of
Sutherland, in the north. Lord Grosvenor arrived at the same
hotel on Thursday, from from Inverary Castle, and departed on
Saturday morning for Edinburgh, by way of the Trosachs. Ad-
miral Drummond arrived on Tuesday, and departed on Thursday
for the West Highlands.—Edinburgh Evening Courant.

The Marquis of Downshire, accompanied by the
Earl of HilliborOuih and Lord Charles Hill, have arrived at
Cheltenham from Ireland.

The Earl of Westmorland arrived last week at his
seat, Apthorp Hall, Northamptonshire. His Lordship will enter-
tain a distinguished circle of friends during the present month.

Lord and Lady Holland are residing at their seat ,
Ampthill Park, Bedfordshire.

Lord William Beresford, brother of the Marquis of
Waterford, who has exchanged from the 43d regiment of
Light Infantry to the Ist Life Guards, has arrived in town
from Dublin. His Lordship has been seriously indisposed,
but is now nearly restored to perfect health.

Lord Auckland, accompanied by the other Lords of
the Admiralty, after inspecting Plymouth, Falmouth, and
Pembroke Dock-yards, is expected to visit Cork.
We regret extremely to state that the highly re-
spectable firm of Messrs. Robert Allan and Son, bankers, &e.,
Royal Exchange, were under the necessity of suspending pay-
ment on Saturday morning.—Edinburgh Evening Courant.
As neither Messrs. Kinnear nor Messrs. Allan is-
sued notes, their stoppage, thougli much to be regretted, brings
no discredit on the Scotch system ofbanking.— Glasgow Herald.
Mr. Holmes, civil engineer, has published a pam-
phlet, in which he suggests the propriety of rendering avail-
able as manure the filth which now runs from the common
sewers into the Thames. He estimates that " the amount of
manure now passing into the river Thames, and otherwise
wasted, exceeds 12,000 tons per diem ;" and that, " it may,
almost without expense, be concentrated to about 7,000 tons,
which will yield a profit of 400,0001. per annum, after paying i
all expenses attending t."

A Learned Professor, in a certain Scotch Univer-
sity, lately paid a visit to the metropolis, for the purpose of
paying a long-promised visit to an old pupil, now in distin-
guished practice at the English bar. In the course of his
walks iu London the excellent Professor was seized with a
desire to visit the House of Peers, but having entered it, he
was stopped in the lobby by the door-keeper, who told him he
could not be admitted without a Peer's order. Startled, but
no way discouraged, by this intelligence, the unassuming but
not very ceremonious Professor turned to the right about, and
meeting an individual hastening along the lobby, as if entitled
to entree, thus addressed him, " Are you a Peer, Sir?" "Yes;
what of that ?" " Why, I wish admittance to the House,
but have been informed by the door. keeper I cannot be al-
lowed to pass without a Peer's order. Will you give me one ?"
The Peer eyeing him suspiciously, said, " I know nothing

about you ; but," thrusting his arm into the Professor's most
familiarly, said, " come along !" The Professor's curiosity
was now roused concerning the thin-looking Peer to whom he
was thus indebted; and, on inquiring his title, was answered
the Duke of Wellington I—Perth Courier.
Mrs. Chappone was asked how it was she was al-
ways so early at church ? " Because," said she, "it is part of
my religion not to disturb the religion of others."—Saturday
Magazine.

- ROYAL ANTI-CLIMAX.—His Majesty of Ava,
after styling himself " King of Kings," " Regulator of the
Seasons !" " Brother to the Sun," &c. '&c., winds up the whole
by " and King of the Twenty-four Umbrellas I"
On Friday a merchant, recently arrived from the
south, blew out his brains in a furnished lodging-house. This
desperate act is attributed to great losses at Frascati's.—
Galignani's Messenger.
A Roman Catholic chapel, capable of containing
nearly 500 persons, has been erected at Sutton Coldfield, and
is rapidly approaching completion. There is not, we are in-
formed, at present, six persons in the town who are professors
of this religion—Birmingham Advertiser.
On the 20th inst., a carriage, drawn by a pair of
horses, and containing five persons, fell over the hi-4e at
Quesnoy sur Deule, in the department du Nord, into the river,
and a young girl, aged eighteen, was drowned. Both the
horses also perished.—French Paper.
A smart shock of an earthquake was felt at Ports-
mouth on Wednesdsy night last, about ten o'clock. Several
houses were much shaken, and some slight damage was sus-
tained. In other houses articles placed against the walls, or
upon shelves, were shaken violently.
LISICEARD.—We understand that some miscreant
placed a candle contiguous to a rick of hay, belonging to Mr.
Henwood, in this parish. No doubt exists but that the destruc-
tion by fire of the hay was contemplated. Active search is
making for the delinquent, and we trust he will not escape
justice.—North Devon Advertiser. •
THE SWALLOWS' FLIGHT.—It is supposed that
the flight of the swallow, when emigrating, is not less than 50
miles an hour; so that, when aided by the wind, they soon
reach much warmer latitudes. Spallanzani calculates that
the swallow can fly at the rate of 92 miles an hour; and that
of hawks and several other tribes, to be 150 miles.
When John Reeve was acting Bombastes at Bristol,

upon being stabbed by the Artaxominous, he denied the fair.
ness of the thrust, and appealing to the pit said, "It is not
fair, is it, sir ?" A bald-headed gentleman, who probably
took the whole representation to be serious, and to whom Reeve
directed his glance, replied, " I really can't say, for I don't
fence. "—Mirror.

INFALLIBLE TEST.—" Wouldst thou know,"
says Quarles, " the lawfulness of the action which thou de-
sirest to undertake, let thy devotions recommend it to Divine
blessing. If it be lawful, thou shalt perceive thy heart en-
couraged by the prayer ; if unlawful, thou shalt find thy
prayer discouraged by thy heart. That action is not warrant-
able which either blushes to beg a blessing, or, having suc-
ceeded, dares not present a thanksgiving."
In the act for improving the Borough Court of
Liverpool, the mayor is empowered to order process to issue
out of the court to hold to bail any person indebted to another
in 201. or upwards, wherever, the cause of action may have
arisen, upon affidavit or affirmation of the debt, and of belief as
to the debtor being about to depart the realm, with intent to
avoid payment of his debts. Liverpool is the grand port of
transit for fraudulent debtors on their flight to the United
States, and therefore the power which is given to the mayor
will be of great importance to tradesmen and merchants.—
Liverpool Standard.
SINGULAR DEATH.—On Wednesday, a child met
its fate at Camelon under rather uncommon circumstances,
which ought powerfully to caution persons from suddenly
frightening children who may be of nervous temperament. It
was holding a little dog in its hands, which it was innocently
causing to bark at the cat in a neighbour's house, where the
occurrence happened, when the woman came in and gave a
sudden and loud cry to the child to desist from tormenting her
cat. The effect was instantaneous and fatal, for the poor
child fell upon the floor, and although every assistance was
immediately rendered, life was found to be extinct.—Scotsnzan.
Captain Marsh, inspecting Commander of the Coast
Guard, Mount's-Bay, with the crew of the Mousehole Pre-
ventive boat, on Wednesday night captured five farmers from
the neighbourhood of the Land's-end, and two boatmen be-
longing to the Scilly Isles, with sixteen tubs of spirit in
their possession. The men have undergone an examination
before George John, Esq., one of the Magistrates for the
county, and have been remanded. By a late enactment,
where more than three persons are found associated in a
smuggling transaction, the Magistrate before whom a con-
viction takes place is required to commit them to the House
of Correction for six months, at hard labour.

THE HARVEST. Recent accounts, from most
parts of the county, have been highly gratifying on this sub-
ject ; but the' continuance of wet weather now begins to create
serious apprehensions among the farmers in our neighbour-
hood, that they will not be so fortunate with what remains to
be saved, as was anticipated two or three weeks since. For
the last fortnight, we have experienced a daily succession of
heavy showers ; and though, in many instances, they may be
only partially felt for some miles contiguous, yet they are such
as to retard materially the labours of the field. Many spots
of grain are uncut, and others other ready to be carried, all
of which require the providential aid of dry weather.—North
Devon Advertiser.
An old miserly bachelor, possessed of a fortune of
•40,000 L, meeting a friend one day, began to harangue very
learnedly upon the detestable sin of avarice, and gave the fol-
lowing instance of it :—" About three years ago," said he,
by a very odd accident I fell into a well, and was absolutely
within a very few minutes of perishing before I could prevail
upon an unconscionable dog of a labourer, who happened to
be within hearing of my cries, to help me out for half a crown.
The fellow was so rapacious as to insist upon a crown for
above a quarter of an hour ; and I verily believe that he
would not have abated me a single farthing if he had not seen
me at the last gasp, and determined rather to die than sub-
mit to his extortion."
Mr. BURKE'S HISTORY OF THE COMMONERS.—
Among many other distinguished families recorded in the
seventh part of this important and interesting work, we find
very ample and interesting details of the eminent and wide-
spreading houses of Fortescue of Devonshire ; Cartwright
of Aynho ; Gough of Perry Hall; Bramston of Skreens ;
Lane Fox of Brumham Park; Elwes of Great Billing;
Mytton of Halston ' • Stonor of Stonor ; Tate of Burleigh
Park ; Trigonwell of Dorsetshire ; Walrond of Bradfield and
Dulford House; Whitmore of Apley and Dudmaston; Wing-
field of Tickencote and Onslow ; Thornton of Brockhall ;
Dyott of Freeford ; Owen of Tedsmore, Bettws, Condover,
and Woodhouse; O'Connell of Derrynane Abbey; Guthrie
of Guthrie ; Anguish of Somerleyton Hall ; Pennefather of
New Park ; Floyd of Gloster ; Blundell of Crosby ; Bruce of
Kennet ; Huntley of Boxwell ; Scott of Betton, &c. &c.
A few days ago three soldiers of the 29th Regi-
ment, quartered at St. Brieux, in the Cites du Nord, were
discovered by a farmer at Bois-Boissel, about a quarter of a
league from the town, in the act of robbing his orchard.
Words arose, and blows were about to ensue, when one of the
servants of the farm let loose a large dog, which soon put the
marauders to flight. On the following evening 17 men of the
regiment went to the farm, resolved to be avenged. One of
them entered the house and asked to speak to the farmer, and
on his appearance attacked him and wounded him in several
places with a sabre. The son of the farmer, his men, and a
large body of the inhabitants came to his succour, and a gene-
ral combat commenced between them and the soldiers, one
party armed with pitchforks, iron bars, and staves, and the
other with their swords. The rustics, however, beat the mili-
tary men and drove them into their quarters. Four of, the
countrymen were wounded severely, and particularly the one
who let loose the dog. He received four wounds, one of
which cleaved his skull.—French Paper.

ASTONISHING LEAP. -- On Friday last, while
Mr. Aitkin, corn-merchant, Musselburgh, was proceeding in
his gig to attend the market at Haddington, his horse took
fright, and suddenly bounded off at full speed, when in at-
tempting to pull him up the reins gave way, and Mr. A. was
thrown from the gig with the slightest injury imaginable in
such a case. As the horse, in his wild career, neared the
town, he was observed by the toll-keeper, who quickly shut
the gate, with little ceremony, in the animal's face ; but the
noble creature was not of a race to be daunted, and on ap-
proaching the obstacle placed in his way, he fearlessly dashed
at the bar, which we should suppose is nearly six feet, and
cleared it in the manner and style of a good old hunter who
well knew how to do his work. The wheels of the gig having
struck the top bar of the gate were the means of throwing the
horse down, when he was secured and again " taken into cus-
tody ;" and on examination it was found that neither man,
horse, nor gig has sustained much injury ; but we would not,
on that ground, recommend such capers to be practised by any
of his Majesty's lieges, lest a worse chance should befal them.
—Berwick Advertiser.

SINGING.—,-A great fault with singing masters and
mistresses is the giving their pupils nothing but the fashion-
able songs of the day for exercise, which, for the most part,
are quick and lively tunes, to the utter ruining of their voices,
at least for perfect and solid execution. The tunes selected,
at the commencement, should be invariably slow, and these
should be persevered in for a considerable length of time, and
no solicitation on the part of the pupil should cause a devia-
tion from this rule. Italian students practise solfeggi for
years, and then deem themselves deficient ; but the English
scholar, who naturally requi:es more, cares not about prac-
tising at all, conceiving that those harsh, throaty, and inhar-
monious tones derived from his mother tongue are to be got
rid of in a few days, and that he is to be made a singer with
the same ease as a glass bottle is blown—and this is one rea-
son why we have so very few finished singers among the men.
The women, generally, are more industrious and persevering
—hence a predominance of lady vocalists ; although there is
much caution and judgment required in the union of these
and head volce, as in the other sex, though the chasm may be
not half so perceptible. It is not that nature had endowed
and given Mr. Braham any superior physical power over
other men, but it is the praiseworthy assiduity that has been
employed in the cultivation of that power, which few English
singers have the resolution or inclination to imitate, that has
raised him to such eminence in his profession ; the public has
been most highly gratified at the result, and Mr. Braham has
very properly reaped, and is still reaping, the just reward of
his labour—A Treatise on Singing.

DUBLIN-SEPT. I.

(PROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
The death of Judge Jebb has thrown our Tory
highflyers into a state of lamentable trepidation. Grief
for the man they have lost is, in no slight degree, em-
bittered by apprehension as to the person, as yet un-
known, who may come in his place. Were the seat
doomed to remain empty, it might not be so hard a
matter to dry up those tears : but it is a most " unfor.
tunate thing" (so have I heard more than one Squire of
high degree express himself) that" these fellows,' mean-
ing the Government, should have an opportunity of rais-
ing a Whig to the Bench. That they dread ; that,
worse than Liberal Secretaries, or Whiggish Viceroys,
they deplore and deprecate. These are birds of pas-
sage, but a Judge is a rooted evil. Once plant him on
the Bench, and there is no end of him. He sits and
sits for ever.
he elevation of a new order of men to the highest
judicial places must take place before a substantial or
perceptible improvement can be produced in the admi-
nistration of justice. As long as those places shall
be filled exclusively by the old set, it is childish to
think of any real effective controul being exercised
over the subordinates in office. Every one engaged in
public prosecutions " onward, downward, and above,"
from the Petty Sessions' Justice who takes the infor-
mations to the Sheriff's Officer who sees the sentence
of the Court carried into effect, looks to a sanctuary
behind the judicial chair, which makes him feel alike
independent of public opinion and of the displeasure
of the Executive Government. For the Judge's re-
port is the touchstone by which all complaints and re-
monstrances, received at the Castle, are tested ; and
therefore the grand object is still to preserve that tri
bunal of dermer ressort uncontaminated and unbroken

in-upon by vich as doubt that " whatever is, is right."
It is not easy to account in any other way for the un-
feigned horror and alarm which the base expectation
of a Judge, who values popular rights and feelings,
has filled the breasts of many worthy and respectable
gentlemen of the old school. They would rather see
Sidney Smith exalted to the Primacy than Sergeants
O'Loghlan and Perrin among the Judges.
I do not impute corrupt motives or conduct to the
Judges, who (due allowances being made for their
education and opinions) are in general honestly dis-
posed to do right between man and man. But there
are among them just and honourable men, who would
themselves scorn to mix themselves in transactions
which, some way or other, after being done, they fre-
quently lend the sanction of their authority to palliate
or excuse. Now, we want men of resolution and
moral courage, whom the Squirearchy shall neither
hope to wheedle nor dare to browbeat ; and the country
looks with intent solicitude to the choice which the
Government may be induced to make for its first

Judge. First lei me call him ; for the Chief Baron
and Chief Justice Doherty, though appointed by the
Whigs, were in truth nominated in deference to the
Tories, whose devoted and true allies they were and are.

JAMES LE CONTEUR'S BANKRUPTCY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—ln your paper of the 25th inst. you have given the
report of certain proceedings under a commission of bank-
ruptcy issued against James Le Conteur, of this island ; and,
in the simplicity of your English nature, you have qualified as
"extraordinary" the disclosures which were then made.
Had you, Sir, been as well acquainted with the laws of
Guernsey as you are with those of other parts of the British
empire—had you been aware of the primitive barbarism' of its
code, and the very congenial manner in which it is carried into
execution—the term extraordinary is perhaps the last that you
would_ have applied to the transaction alluded to, and you
would rather have reserved it for one of those accidental devia-
tions from folly and injustice which in spite of the system do
occasionally occur.
It is not my intention to trouble you with any observations
on the case which you have brought forward. lam not
learned in the law,---and I doubt not the parties interested
have already learnt the hopelessness of obtaining justice in a
matter which is determinable by the Guernsey Code. My
motive is to improve the opportunity thus given of drawing
the public attention to the state of things in this island, and to
extract from the event of which the bankrupt's defrauded
English creditors have so much reason to complain, some ad.
vantage to the cause of justice, as well as to the large and
respectable class of inhabitants, both native and foreign, who
view with indignation and contempt the vices and absurdities 1
of the existing system. I will not attempt the hopeless task
of giving you a comprehensible account of our island juris-
prudence. No man is bold enough to pretend that he under-
stands the laws. Small as is our community and limited as
are its interests, we possess a mass of vagueness, confusion,
and anomalies, that would rejoice the heart and gratify the
imagination of the most thorough-paced lawyer in Europe.
Formed for the Norman freebooters, and subsequently adopted
by our ancestors, the fishermen and smugglers of this place,
and occasionally patched and altered by the local Legislature,
the laws, as far as they can be understood, are about as appli-
cable to the present state of society as the swaddling clothes
of infancy are fit for the vesture of active manhood.

The administration of the system is in perfect harmony with
the system itself. The judges who are called upon to conduct
this fantastic and unwieldy machine, are men who, however
estimable in their private capacities, are generally destitute of
the qualifications one is apt to look for in persons filling simi-
lar situations. * They are chiefly small proprietors or retired
tradesmen, whose studies have been confined to their farms and
their merchandise. The natural consequence is that in taking
evidence, and in all the important functions of a court of
justice, the most ordinary observances of legal practice are
wholly disregarded. Having no fixed principles of conduct,
and no record of the grounds upon which cases are decided,
their judgments are not only inconsistent with all established
ideas of jurisprudence, but are continually in contradiction
with themselves. With no improper motives, it is notorious
that they are frequently biassed by extraneous circumstances,
and, from the experience I have had on this head, I would,
if my fate depended on the Court's decision, as soon con-
sult the state of the atmosphere as the provisions of the law :
a shower in hay harvest, or an easterly wind, would go further
in ensuring an unfavourable verdict than the strongest and
most learned argument : and it is well known that the con-
versation of the club-room and the gossip of the tea-table have
as much influence in forming the opinion of the Judges as the
evidence produced in Court. Thus, Sir, as you see, we are
blessed with a code of laws which would require profound
knowledge and great legal skill for its proper execution, and
yet it is committed to the hands of persons who are totally
devoid of both.
And to such a system, and to such administrators are
‘the
life and fortune of every inhabitant of this island subject ! In
civil cases, it is true, an appeal lies to the Privy Council,—
but in criminal matters there is no appeal.t
With this description before you of things as they are, you
will not be surprised to learn that there exists a large and very-
orthodox party who insist that they are as thv. aught to be,
and that any one who thinks otherwise is no better than a re-
publican, an atheist, a philosopher, and no gentleman. We have
a race of Conservatives here of the pure breed : with them, to
hint at an imperfection is downright lese Majesty, and to
suggest reform is a sin to be forgiven " neither in this world,
neither in the next." In fact, it has been long obvious to
those who have thought on the subject, that reform must come
from without. The present state of things is too deeply
rooted in the interests and prejudices of a large and influen-
tial class of persons here to permit of a successful effort to
reform ourselves, and we can only hope to be relieved from
the incubus which sits upon our energies by drawing the at-
tention of the British public to our situation.
Many of your readers may exclaim " what interest have we
in all these things—where is Guernsey—what is it ?" Sir,
be assured the subject is of more importance than at first may
be supposed. The capZbilities of the island are little under-
stood in England. Under proper management, and relieved
from those absurd and iniquitous laws which at present weigh
it down, it might become one of the most important places in
the British empire. The geographical position of this beau-
tiful and fertile island renders it peculiarly adapted for a com-
mercial entrepot. Its harbour is susceptible of enlargement
to any required extent, and as the place is to all in-
tents and purposes a free port,—the commodoties of every
qflarter of the world might with great advantage be
warehoused here, and hence distributed to all the Bri-
tish ports, and elsewhere, as there might be a demand for
them, and thus the expense and perplexities attending the pre-
sent bonding system be in a considerable measure avoided.
Another great advantage belonging to this island is, that its
climate is peculiarly favourable to the ripening of wines, and
it is therefore especially calculated for an entrepOt for this trade.
But, as I have already stated, the energies and capabilities
of the place are depressed by its laws. The natives them-
selves have little enterprize, and British capitalists can never
be expected to place their property under the control of an
absurd and barbarous code, which no man can entirely under-
stand, and which, as far as it can be understood, is wholly un-
fitted to the present commercial system, and is moreover admi-
nistered in the extraordinary manner I have described.
To produce any good, the Government must institute a
thorough surrey of the whole fabric of the island constitution,
and of its administration ; and having ascertained its rotten,
its useless, and its inconvenient parts, it must remove them
with a firm hand, and supply their places with materials more
adapted to the welfare of those who live beneath it. In two
words, we pray for inquiry and reform ; and we trust that
neither the people of England nor the Government will allow

This is to be considered as a general observation, and not ex-
clusively applicable to the present bench of jurats, many of whom
possess the acquirements of gentlemen, although they are without
the qualifications of judges.
t By the way the Royal Court of Guernsey have the power
(which it almost invariably avails itself of) of refusing permission
to appeal to the King in Council, which permission all parties dis-
satisfied with its decisions are compelled to ask.
seldom
ed
appeal is
demanded under a certain form, which is very expensive, and of
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Guernsey, Aug. 29.

LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY.

This undertaking, which promises to be one of the most
important public works in the neighbourhood of the metro-
. polis, is making rapid progress. About a mile of piers
being already constructed, they have approached near to
High-street, Deptford. The arches now turned are 52 in
number. These being filled in with concrete foundations,
a substantial road-way is formed, upon which those who
visit the work are permitted to walk on paying a small gra-
tuity. Having enjoyed a promenade upon this elevation,
we are able to report that the prospect of the surrounding
country is most interesting. The north view commands
St. Paul's, the Tower of London, the winding of the river
to Greenwich, and all the commercial activity of the ship-
ping. Eastward there is Greenwich College, Deptford
Dock-yard, and all the picturesque woody scenery on the
heights of Blackheath. The green Surrey-hills on the
south, and the more contiguous cultivated fields extending
to the Kent-road and Surrey-canal, complete one of the
most delightful viewenear London.
The breadth of the railway or viaduct is about thirty
feet. It is formed by external walls three bricks thick,
with four internal running walls of two bricks thick. These
abut upon the arches which are sprung from piers of equal
thickness. Strong parapet walls will be erected, and the
whole formed in the most substantial manner. Some delay
has occurred in the work, in consequence of objections:made
by the Commissioners of Sewers, but the men are now
going on with the greatest activity. As one of the stopping-
places, viz., at the Grange-road, is very near to the Brick-
layer's Arms, passengers from the West-end of London will
be brought to this place in omnibuses, and perform the rest
of the journey to Greenwich at the same cost, and in
seven minutes, instead of half an hour. It is calculated
that the engines will be capable of conveying 200,000 pas-
sengers along the road daily, should they ever amount to
so large a number. This undertaking attracts much public
attention, and the works are daily visited by the admirers of
useful architecture.--Morning Advertiser.