The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-29 00:00:00

TATTERSALL'S-(THIS EVENING.

A thin attendance, many of the subscribers being a
Lichfield. The favourite was not in very great force,
whilst 6 1 was taken about Summerside. As much as 20
to 1 was laid once against Trumpeter, and a report was
afloat that he had broken down again. Marionette was
firm.

'Umpire was first favourite for the Derby, 10 to 1 being
taken about him freely.

ST. LEGER.
sto 4 agst Promised Land (taken)
4to 1 agst Summerside (take 6 to 1)
Bto 1 agst Marionette (taken)
100 to 6 agst Trumpeter
20 to 1 agst Napoleon (offered)
33 to 1 agst Comforter (taken)
40 to 1 agst Gladiolus (taken and offered)
CESAREWITCH.
50 to 1 agst Allegra (taken)
50 to 1 agst Nucleus (taken)
50 to 1 agst Black Tommy (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Queenstown (taken);

DERBY.
10 to 1 agst Umpire (taken freely)
10 to 1 agst Buccaneer (take 11 to 1)
12 to 1 agst Nutbourne (offered)
12 to 1 agst Mainstone (offered)

LICHFIELD RACES.—(This Day.)

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

COPELAND HANDICAP.

Thornhill.

1

Kinnersley ..

2
Two ran. I
CHAMPAGNE STAKES.

The Nun ..
Lady Grosvenor
Earl of Essex

Five ran.
STAFFORDSHIRE STAKES.

Charlotte

Emblem
Moorcock

Five ran.

BRIDGE FOR THE VICTORIA STATION
AND PIMLICO RAILWAY.

The bridge which is being erected over the
Thames for the Victoria Station and Pimlico Rail-
way is being proceeded with rapidly. The stone
used in the construction of- the bridge is of three
kinds, viz., for the footing of the piers, Yorkshire
rag landings ; for the piers up to the level of
Trinity high-water, Portland roach stone ; and for
the whole of the masonry above high-water-line,
Brumley Fall stone. The bricks in the piers are
to be " paviors," and for the other parts Cowley
stocks.

The bridge will consist of four principal openings
across the river, baring each a clear span of 175
feet, and of one side opening at each end over the
road leading to the suspension-bridge, with a clear
span of 70 feet. The principals openings are each
spanned by six wrought-iron arched girders, rest-
ing on cast-iron bed plates fixed to the piers and
abutments, and will be composed of I shaped ribs,
with top and bottom tables, and central web of fiat
plate-iron, connected together by means of angle-
iron and T iron covers, and the whole riveted to-
gether.
Horizontal wrough-iron girders stretch from arch
to arch, bearing on the piers in the centre of their
length, upon cast-iron bed-plates fixed on the ma-
sonry of the piers.
The spandrils between the arches and horizontal
girders are intended to be filled in with a wrought-
iron framework, radiating from the arch. The
radiating bars will be intersected longitudinally by
a fiat wrought-iron plate passing through the centre
of each bar.

The roadway will be carried by means of wrought-
iron transverse bearers placed three feet apart and
bolted through the horizontal girders and arched
ribs, each alternate bearer being continued through
the centre and external spaces.
The seventy-feet opening over the road will be
spanned by six horizontal wrought-iron girders.
The roadway over this opening will be carried by
means of wrought-iron cross-bearers, placed three
feet apart, bolted through the horizontal girders,
and each alternate bearer being continued through
the centre external spaces.
On the top of the external horizontal girders a
cornice will run along the entire length of the
viaduct on each face, and will be composed of
wrought-iron plates, rolled or bent to the required
forms.

The whole of the wrought-iron used in the work.
is to be obtained from the Monkbridge Iron Com-
pany.
Power is given to the engineer to test to the
following extent :-
18 tons' strain must bo borne without

a greater extension of length than i of an inch.
21 tons strain .. .. S ~ extension.
23 tons' strain ..
~ t
25 tons' strain
.. i ~ 7/
-

and all bars must bear a tensile strain of 26 tons
before fracture.

Mr. Kelk is the contractor for the Victoria sta-
tion and Pimlico line, and considerable progress has
been ma le in the works. In two of the three piers
in the river, of the bridge we have illustrated, the
foundations have been put in, and the masonry is
considerably advanced towards the springing of
the arch. In the third pier the piling of the coffer-
dam is completed, and preparations are made for
the commencement .of the masonry. In the two
abutments the coffer-dams have been finished several
weeks, and the excavations are well advanced ;
moreover, with a trifling exception, all the masonry
required for the construction of the bridge is on the
ground and ready dressed.—Builder.