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area by about 3,000 feet than the latter. The centre
arch will have a span of 120 feet ; the next two oft
either side, 115 feet ; the next two, 104 feet ; and
the [shore arches on the Middlesex and Surrey
sides 90 feet span each. In addition to these main
arches there will be three small culvert arches in
the abutment on the Surrey side and one in that
• at Middlesex. The cost of the new bridge in all will
not exceed £235,000, or at the rate of £2 Bs. per
superficial foot, while the ',weight on its foundation
islshort of 22 tons.
Of course, as can be seen from a comparison of
these dimensions, the new bridge will occupy not
only the site of the old structure, but as much more
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completed avoid the expense of building a temporary bridge
while the new one was constructing, that Mr. Page
determined t
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tion for traffic, remove the old structure, and com-
plete the other half as soon after as was possible.
the width—at
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completed and ready for the arches, but all those
for the eastern half cannot be commenced till the
old bridge has been removed. In the case of four
of the piers, however, the Ist, 2d, 4th, and 6th, the
eastern halves pass under the archway of the pre-
sent structure, and in order to strengthen the old
piers from further sinking, as well as to forward
the work, Mr. Page has been continuing these four
piers under the old archways. Thus the general
work is not only advanced, but an immense saving
of time and money secured, as the four piers, will,
of course be of the utmost service in facilitating the
removal of the old bridge. Wherever the masonry
piers and abutments of the old bridge have been cut
away, the stone, which is of the best kind of Port-
land, has always been used in facing the abutments
of the new structure. All the exterior of the new
piers above high water mark are of solid granite,
and each is so continued up to the height where the
arches spring. Each of these piers will be sur-
mounted with octagonal columns of solid granite,
some of which are finished, and one has been erected
to judge of its effect on part of the works at the
Surrey side of the bridge. More noble-looking
columns than these, or better suited for their pur-
pose, it would be difficult to imagine. Each con-
sists of three immense blocks of granite, cut so as
to form one column, with moulded capitals and
bases. Some of the blocks are 10 feet high and
6 feet in diameter, and weigh 22 tons each. The
block above this part of the column weighs 12 tons,
and that which forms the base no less than 16. It
is earnestly to be hoped that before the bridge has
progressed too far to admit of it the Board of Works
will permit Mr. Page to have these columns po-
lished. The cost would be little when compared
with the advantages gained in appearance and much
increased durability of the stone. The main and
guiding piles for the eastern halves of the new piers
are now in course of being driven home, and the
staff of divers swill shortly be again employed to
fasten the tie rods beneath the water. All these
subaqueous workmen go down when the tide is at
half ebb and work till it returns to half flow. After
that the rush of water through the half-stopped up
arches is too great, and in the bed of the river even
the strongest and most experienced divers would be
sweptof tie
weather under
water for five hours at one spell. After this the tide
away.
the Ind
divers
is too strong and the men get numbed and ex-
hausted. The other day one overstayed his time,
and the tide swept him along and jammed him so
tight between some piles near the foundation of the
old bridge that two other divers had to go down to
release him, which they did with great difficulty.
A short time since, also, one of the workmen was
down in a diving bell, when the air tube parted
short off at the top. In an instant the water rushed
into the bell, which was so close in the river's bed
that, although;the man made three or four attempts
to force himself under it he was unsuccessful. For-
tunately the accident was perceived above the water,
and the bell was drawn up, though full of water,
and thus, at the last moment, its unfortunate occu-
pant was enabled to get from under it and reach
the surface almost dead from exhaustion. But, not-
withstanding these chances and the perilous nature
of the work, no fatal accidents have yet.occurred to
any of the divers, though, on the contrary, some of
the ordinary labourers, who seem to run compara-
tively little risk, have been drowned, mostly
through their own carelessness.

PRICE 4D. STAMPED, SD.

being a consideration for all matters in dispute between us
to this day inclusive."
The second :
"Received of Mr. Stevens £39 lls. 2d., balance of ac-
count, and in settlement of all disputes between us."
The document was signed, " Isaac Solomon."
The petitioner was then sworn and examined as
follows :
The Recorder—ls the signature to the receipt for
£39 1 ls. 2d. your handwriting ?
Petitioner (looking at the document)—Well, I
should say it was not.
The Recorder—Do you swear that is not your
handwriting ?
Petitioner—Well, I can swear that it is not my
handwriting.
The Recorder—ls the signature to the receipt for
£3OO your writing ?
Petitioner (after inspecting the document)—I
believe that not to be my handwriting.
The Recorder—But you must know whether it is
or not. You must know whether you ever signed
it or not.

Petitioner—That is not my handwriting.
The Recorder—Did you ever see either of these
papers before ?
Petitioner—l never saw those papers before to
the best of my belief.
The Recorder—Did you receive the £39 1 ls. 2d ?
Petitioner--Yes; at the same time that I received
the £3OO.

Alderman Copeland—Are the Court distinctly to
understand that you received from Mr. Stevens
£3OO and £39 11s. 2d. ?
Petitioner—Yes.
Alderman Rose—What was the £3OO for ?

Petitioner—For an overcharge upon the: Worth-
ing mining shares.
Mr. Hancock—ls that ycur signature (calling
the attention of the petitioner to an entry in a book
belonging to the respondent) ?
Petitioner—Yes.
The Recorder and Aldermen compared this sig-
nature with those to the receipts.
Mr. Stevens, jun., was then examined on behalf
of the respondent.
Mr. Hancock—Were you present on the 14th of
April, when sums of £3OO and £39 1 ls. 2d. were
paid to Mr. Solomon ?
Witness—Yes.
Mr. Hancock—Did he, in your presence,tsign the
receipts produced ?
Witness—Yes both of them.
Cross-examined by Mr. Le Breton—The receipts
were read over to the petitioner more than once.
Alderman Copeland—The question is, after the
admission of the petitioner himself that he received
the £3OO and the £39 11s. 2d., whether the Court
will proceed any further in the matter. The case
as assumed an aspect such as I have never before
witnessed in the course of my 30 years' experience
here. On the one hand we have the positive evi-
dence of the petitioner that these receipts did not
bear his signature, and on the other there is the
positive evidence of a man who saw him sign them.
In addition to. this there is the admission of the
petitioner himself that he received the money. I
cannot conceive that anything more frightful ever
came before the Court, and I, for one, think we
ought to impound these receipts. I move that the
petition be dismissed.
Alderman Sidney seconded the motion, which
was put and carried unanimously.
The Court after the removal of strangers, re-
mained in deliberation nearly an hour, when the
public were re-admitted, it being understood that
the City Solicitor had been ordered to indict the
.petitioner for perjury.

THE LATE POLISH ANNIVERSARY
1N PARIS.

We have been requested by a friend of the Polish
cause to give insertion to the following letter,
addressed to a contemporary
Sir, Your Paris correspondent on Saturday,
notwithstanding previous proofs offered to him of
the incorrectness of his information on Polish mat-
ters, has again been misled, and I must therefore
beg your permission to rectify his assertions.
He states, that on the late Polish anniversary at
Faris, on the 29th November "no religions service
was attempted ;" that "a hint ecclesiastical was
probably (riven by the authorities ;" .4 that it proved
the intimate alliance between Russia and France ;"
that " a sort of amnesty has been accepted b3r
Prince Czartorvski ;" that, owing to the Prince's
absence from Paris, " no more than fifteen Poles
had met in the library of Count Zamoyski," and
that it " was a complete failure."
Now, Sir, it is difficult to place more erroneous
statements in so few words. The facts are these :
—The Poles at Paris on the 29th of November first
met as usual at the Church of the Assumption,

Rue St. Honore; high mass was accompanied by
the singing of the pupils of the four schools, in
which upwards of four hundred Polish children of
both sexes are boarded and educated ; the Abbo
Jelowicki, in his sermon alluding to the gigantic
obstacles in the way of our wishes and expecta-
tions, reminded his auditors 'that faith removes
mountains, and pledged himself that they would
perform Miracles provided they were strong in
faith ; they next met at the Polish library, which
is in no way " Count Zamoyslii's library," but is
an institution open to the public, and situated in a
house purchased for it in 1851, by a subscription
among Poles ; instead of the annual speech de-
livered by Prince Czartoryski the Prince being
on a visit to his daughter in Prussian Poland—an
address was read by Mr. Morawski, late Minister
of Foreign Affairs in Poland ; but so far from the
Prince having accepted an amnesty .of any sort, a
letter from him was read to the meeting by his
son, in which the Prince expresses his regret
that he was prevented from attending, and not
only insists upon the principles which have been
the rule and honour of his long career, but seizes

the opportunity for throwing out suggestions
as to what he considers the best course to follow

in the various matters which at present en-
gage the attention of his countrymen under Rus-
sian rule, namely, the suppression of serfdom and
the improvement of the condition of the labouring
class.

Your correspondent having called the Poles who
met at Paris " disaffected dreamers in a line of
hopeless patriotism, " I beg leave to remind him of
a well-known speech, in which the present Czar of
Russia in 1856 did not think it superfluous to warn"
the poles at Warsaw against such " dreams," and
in support of the warning added, " curje saurai
sevir." It is but just to acknowledge that, though
certainly of a more humane and perhaps more
liberal disposition than his predecessor, lit has
kept that promise. It may be that he could not
prevent
his agents, trained in that predecessor's
school, from committing acts which, under a bene-
volent rule, could hardly have been expected ; but
the following particulars are, at any rate, worth
recording. The property of a minor, young Prince
Sauguszko, bequeathed to him by his grandfather,
has been confiscated by an Imperial ukase, issued
in 1856, for no offence-of his own, and though him-
self born a subject of Austria ; the crime of the
father in having
.served in the Polish army, in
1831, being thus visited upon the son. In 1858, in
several parishes, amongst others at Porozolvo and
Pavlow, wholesale flogging of the parishioners
e thed ia tsel deaths) abtuhts
u( fiosltleorlev
de di
ob yt
these several s iemomf
)unwraseleandtminig-
pressure exercised by the authorities for realising
the favourite scheme of the Russian Czarism :
" One race, the Russian race—one church, the
Emperor's church."—l have the honour, to be sir,
AN OBSTINATE DREAMER.

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