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

BLACKFRIARS 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
under 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 a new one built. The committee, however, were
induced to believe that the bridge might be so well
and substantially repaired 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 INT'ELLIG'ENCE.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK.

-.7 Miles Opened. Receipts.
heßailways. ~..___,..____, ~....____.....____,
al
m X
Ballymena and Port Rush.. - - x 1
- / -
Belfast and N. Counties, - 100 100 1,472 • 1,528
at Belfast and County Down.. 39 39 611 589
Birkd., Lane., & Ches. June. - - _ _
ss Bl'th and Tyne 22 22 1,376 1,360
Bristol and Exeter 125 125 5,734 ;5,720
Caledonian
11
Cockermouth& Workington 84 84 181 245
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 312 300
in Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 01 191 175
Cork and Youghal .... 26 - 212 -
Cornwall 531 531 1,202 1,041
r- Deeside l7 17 242 239
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,279 1,265
n Dublin and Drogheda 63 63 1,718 1,593
Dub. & Wicklow (in. Kingst ) 401 • 401 1,400 1,236
Dundalk and Enniskillen
5 Dundee and Arbroath l7l 171 643 800
.-2 Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 1,120 1,030
4.- East Anglian 671 674 1,006 955
E.Counties,Nrik.,&E.Union 499 499 23,395 23,123
IS Edinburgh and Glasgow 142 142 5,912 5,539
d Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee 78 78 3,502 3,360
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness
, Glasgow & South-Western 1831 1831 7,151 6,528
- Great Northern 283 283 25.0 6 23,894
d Great North of Scotland
qt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 329 2494 7,3,1 6,785
Great Western 5831 578 i 35,509 34,198
„ Inverness & Aberdeen June 55 55 721 613
" Irish South-Eastern 251
e Lancashire & Yorkshire 3951 391 33,920 33,415
Leominster and Kington
DI, Limerick and Ennis.
Limerick and Foynes 2 2
e 177 138
Llanelly 4 4 422 443
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l 54 1,366 1,349
London & South-Western
1 Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 221 2234 13,294 11,573
London, Chatham, & Dover 5 196 818 24.9
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend 42 40 970 917
slan.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh 173* 174 11,030 10,581
' Manch. S.Jun.& Altrincham, 94 1,012 , 914
t Maryport and Carlisle
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6141 6144 38,362 37,849
. Midland Gt.Westn. of hind 177 177 3,920 3,980
Monkland
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal
19445961
131_5445709,26:
32:321,,:,03,24735031634/3800331
15253211234424E67949081
Newcastle and Carlisle 7B
North British (incL Selkirk
and Gal ashiels)
North Devon 35 35 403 427
I N-Eastern(Bedale&Leybrn) 764 764
, North London 9 9 2,360 2,347
North Staffordshire 246 233 7,655 7,680
' Oswestry and Newton 21904
Rhymney 691 620
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 30
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115 3,880 3,795
Shrewsbury & Birmingham 291 294
7 -
725424811 2 1:98
7917 1,659
Shrewsbury and Chester
Shrewsbury & Hereford
27529114
Shropshire Union
17,493705 126,217)014538
South Devon
South-Eastern 306 306
South Wales l7l/ 1711 6,860 6,371
S. Yorkshire and River Dun 118 118 3,453 3,268
Stockton and Darlington
Taff Vale 5B 54 4,203 4,756
Ulster
Ulverstone and Lancaster
Vale of Clwyd.. lO - 157 102
Vale of Neath 35 35 1,748 1,460
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 352 345
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,475 1,137
West Cornwall 271 274 .731 668
W. Hartlepool Harbr.&Rail 39 39 3,706 3,593
West Midland.
W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7 7 406 441
Whitehaven Junction l2 12 635 686
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 608 681
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 876 752
Austrian B2B 673 36,58.) 51,356
Belgian Eastern Junction 264 264 242 260
Buffalo and Lake Huron
Demerara (fortnight)
Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 185 1,664 1,575 '
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081 3,313 2,850
Eastern of France 1032 1006 49,551 42,777
Grand Trunk of Canada 970 970 13,009 11,601 4
Great Indian Peninsula 2974 2731 4,376 3,934
Great Luxembourg l2B 128 2,866 2,108
Great Western of Canada 345 345 9,056 8926
Lyons and Geneva . 142 142 5,178 3 446
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 301. 284 14,470 10,413 ... Northern of Canada
Northern of France 620 602
Norwegian Trunk 44 44 43,404 42,536
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 879 840 .- B_9_l 705
Paris and Orleans 922
922 oa,zu3 65,681
Paris and Strasburg - 51,034 44,273
Royal Danish 69 69
Sambre and Meuse 6B 574 537 1,
South Austrian
904
Southern of France ~ 777 826 40,494 32,371
Welland
.. 25 773 21,230 18,326
-75
34,400 33,8 g
West Flanders .. • 75
W. and N.W. of France.... 742 730

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