The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON; THURSDAY EVENINEt, JIULIY 4, 1856.

about the undertaking, are utterly out of the
question and preposterous. A move one way or
the other is imperatively requisite. The new
bridge must obviously be planned higher 'tip or
lower down. Higher up would be absurd—lower
down is consequently the one unavoidable alterna-
tive. It is not merely an unavoidable
alternative, but a thing to be earnestly deside-
rated. Construct it at a point sufficiently re-
moved from the old site in the direction indicated,
and you secure another and a very considerable
advantage to Sir CHARLES BARRY'S architectural
masterpiece. You give at once greater elevation
and an ampler area to the gorgeous gothic palace of
the Legislature. Doing this, moreover, with other
less picturesque but more obvious and practical
benefits in the way of metropolitan improve-
ment. Let the new Westminster Bridge cross
the river Thames, let us say, for example, at a
point somewhere between its old cramped-up,
tumble-down site and the corner of Richmond-
terrace, and we might at once render feasible the
long-desired project of a convergence of
four grand channels of intercommunication.
Thoroughfares might then extend from
the Surrey end of the New Bridge in one
direction along Bridge-road, Lambeth, branching
off in another to the Waterloo Railway Termi-
nus—from the Middlesex end in one direc-
tion by George•street, in another sweeping
round at a convenient curve through Scotland-
yard into the grand central place of Trafal-
gar-square, where unite together Pall-mall,
Cockspur-street, St. Martin's-lane, Parliament-
street and the Strand. Supposing all which to
be accomplished in the development of the new
enterprise now rendered essential by reason of
th© failure of the recent structure (the skeleton
bases of the Bridge lately condemned, in the Re-
port of the Messrs. RENDEL and SIMPSON, the
eminent engineers)—we shall not then be disposed
to begrudge the total loss of 42,0001. upon mere
experiments. A wholesale squandering of the
public moneys otherwise wholly unjustifiable.

trative principles. Lastly, the same administra-
tive system as before to be followed."

FRANCE.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
" Nothing is talked of at Plombieres," says the
Courrier des Vosges, " but the benefits which the
Emperor is continually spreading around him, and
which will perpetuate the remembrance of his so-
journ in our mountains. Touched with the po-
verty of the communes near Plombieres, and par-
ticularly of those of Clerjus and Bellefontaine, his
Majesty lately sent for their mayors, and en-
tered into an examination with them as to the
beat means to be adapted to effectually assist the
poorer classes. After a long conference, the
Emperor decided that a Bureau de Bienfaisaiiice
should be created in each of the communes, and
gave to each of the mayors a sum of 10,000 f. for
the execution of this plan.
BOURSE, July 23.—The following were the last
quotations :
Cash. fr. s. End of Monti.
ti per Cents.. .... . 93 75 —f. —o.
3 per Cents 7O 75 71
New Loan 1 71 —

Bank Shares 4,125 Roman

Credit Mobilier 1,500 Austrian
Belgian Fives OB Spanish Threes
. .

Pieamontese(s) _ 90 50 Home Debt ........

RAILWAYB-10E CA.SH.

fr. c. fr. c
Orleans 1,390 Western 965
Northern .1,062 50 Strasburg
Lyons ... .. 1,417 50 New Ditto
Hediterranean 1,832 50 Grand Central
Lyons Geneva 1 805 Teste
Cott° 785 Austrian Com. ...... 866