The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-23 00:00:00

BLACKFRIA.RS BRIDGE.

The committee for letting the Bridge-house
estates have just presented to the Court of Common
Council a report, recommending the demolition of
Blackfriars-bridge, and the erection of a new one,
and asking for authority to obtain designs and esti-
mates for the construction of the proposed edifice.
They state in their report, which was finished yes-
terday, that the London, Chatham, and Dover Rail-
way Company had submitted to them a plan and
elevation of the bridge proposed to be constructed
uuder their act for carrying the railway across the
Thames at a point below Blackfriars-bridge. The
design laid before them had been prepared with the
view of constructing the railway bridge in harmony
with the existing one, and with nine arches, exactly
corresponding in position with those of the old
bridge, an arrangement which they state would he
very desirable, if that bridge were always to remain
in its present condition ; but having regard to the
proposed embankment of the Thames they think it
advisable, if not absolutely necessary, to take down
Blackfriars-bridge and erect one with a less number
of piers, founded at a greater depth, so as to allow for
the future deepening of the river, in which case they
say it would be attended with great inconvenience
to have a railway bridge of a different construction
within the short distance of 110 feet. In April,
1853, the Court of Common Council agreed to a
report of the Bridge-house Estates Committee re-
commending Blackfriars-bridge to be taken down
and anew one built. The committee, however, were
induced to believe that the bridge might be so well
and substantially repelled as to render it equally
useful for all purposes required for many years.
The resolution, therefore, of the Common Council,
authorising the building of a new bridge, was, with
the sanction of that body, allowed to drop. Pending
the consideration of the repairs suggested to be
made to the present bridge, the proposed embank-
ment of the Thames having been made known, the
Common Council determined not to take any further
steps for putting the bridge into a permanent state
of repair. The committee add that they have exa-
mined the various plans submitted to the Select
Committee of the House of Commons for the Em-
bankment of the Thames, and that from information
they have obtained upon the subject, it appears to
them that an embankment according to any plan
likely to be adopted will project so far into the river
as to stop .up some of the present arches of the
bridge, and will increase the scour of the river and
velocity of the current through the bridge to such
an extent as to endanger the stability of the struc-
ture, unless effectual means be taken to prevent it,
the expense of which they consider would be almost
equivalent to that of building a new bridge.
Under all the circumstances they recommend that
the bridge should be taken down and a new one
erected, and that they may be empowered to make
temporary provision for the traffic. The report is
signed by all the members of the committee, 22 in
number, including among others, Mr. Valiance, the
chairman, Sir Henry Muggeridge, Aldermen Abiss,
Rose, and Mechi, and Mr. Sheriff Lusk ; and the
whole subject is to be discussed on Tuesday at a
Court of Common Council especially convened for
the purpose.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK.

Miles Opened.

Receipts.

Railways.

Ballymena and Port Rush,
Belfast and N, Counties...

Belfast and Comity Down
Birkd., Lane., & Ches. June
Blyth and Tyne
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian
Cockermouth & Workington
Cork and Bandon
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall
Deeside
Dublin & Belfast Junction
Dublin and Drogheda
Dub. & Wicklow (in.Kingst )
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Dundee and Arbroath
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun
East Anglian
E.Counties,Nrlk.,&E.Union
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness
Glasgow & South-Western
Great Northern
Great North of Scotland
& Westn.(lrind )
Great Western

Inverness & Aberdeen June.
Irish South-Eastern
Lancashire & Yorkshire
Leominster and Kington
Limerick and Ennis
Limerick and Foynes
Llanelly
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall

London & South-Western .
Lond. Brighton, & S. Coast.
London, Chatham, & Dover
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
Man., Sheffield, & Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.& Altrincham
Maryport and Carlisle
Midland (incl. N.-Western )
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind
Monkland
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal
Newcastle and Carlisle
North British (incl. Selkirk
and Gal ashiels)
North Devon
N-E as tern(Bedale&Leybrn)
North London
North Staffordshire
Oswestry and Newton
Rhymney •
St. Helen's Canal & Railway
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern
Shrewsbury & Birmingham
Shrewsbury and Chester
Shrewsbury & Hereford
Shropshire Union
South Devon
South-Eastern
South Wales
S. Yorkshire and River Dun
Stockton and Darlington
Taff Vale
Ulster
Ulverstone and Lancaster
Vale of Clwyd
Vale of Neath
Waterford and Kilkenny
Waterford and Limerick
West Cornwall

W.Hartlepool H arbr. &Rail.
West Midland.
W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt
Whitehaven Junction
Whitehaven & Furness Jun

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam
Austrian
Belo-ian Eastern Junction
Buffalo and Lake Huron
Demerara (fortnight)
Detroit and Milwaukie
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern of France
Grand Trunk of Canada
Great Indian Peninsula
Great Luxembourg
Great Western of Canada
Lyons and Geneva
Madrid, Sarag-ossa &Alicant
Northern of Canada

Northern of France
Norwegian Trunk
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Strasburg
Royal Danish....
Sambre and Meuse

South Austrian

Southern of France .

Welland

~....•
West Flanders
W. and N.W. of France

1861.

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306
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118
123

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1032
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297 i
128
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181
312

212
1,202

242
1,270
1,718
1,400
1,544

643
1,120
1,006
23,396
5,912
3,502

222
1,428
7,151
25,0 ‘6
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7,3 ,7
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33,920
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422
76,870
1,366
15,372
13,294

970
11,030
1,012
1,109
38,362
3,920
1,531
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3,464

5,733

405
37,250
2,360
7,655

691
2,006
3,131
3,880

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300
175

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1,593
1,236
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7,931
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23,123
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3,360

731
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1,866

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3,980
1,298
2,471
3,460

5,369

1,664
3,313
49,551
13,009
4,376
2,866
9,056
5,178
14,470
1,357
43,404

427
35,208
2,347
7,680

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2,044
3,0 2
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16,213
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1,460

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1,137

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85,203
51,034

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1,291
40,494
21,230

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3,593
6,572
441
686
681

752
51,356

260
1,220

1,575
2,850
42,777
11,601
3,934
2,108
8,226
3,445
10,413

975
42,636

705
65,651
44,273

637
1,161
32.371
18,326

843
34,400

838
33,870

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