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London, England, 1844-12-06 00:00:00

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WATERLOO-BRIDGE COMPANY•

The half-yearly general meeting of the Company or
Proprietors of the Waterloo-bridge was held yesterday
in the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand. The Rev,
Mr. Rush presided.
Mr. POWELL, the secretary, read the Directors' report
for the half-year, which stated that the receipts had
amounted to 8,4384 2s. 3d., being 9241. 9s. more than in
the corresponding period of last year, which had enabled
the Committee to pay the interest of 5/ per cent. on the
Company's bonds, and to pay a dividend of 12s. Bd. on
the annuities, and leave a balance of 1,6511. 17s. 6d. The
tolls were progressively improving, and the Committee
anticipated a further increase in their revenue on the
opening of the new street from Long-acre to Great Rus-
sell-street, Bloomsbury, which will form a direct line of
communication with the Birmingham, Dover, Brighton,
and other railways. The report further stated that the
Committee had received notice of an intended renewed
application to Parliament from the Anti-Toll-bridge
Association, and that the Committee had been in com-
munication with the engineer and other parties con-
vected with the proposed Thames embankment, and they
had every reason to believe that the interests of the
Compan would receive every consideration from her
Majesty s Commissioners of Woods and Forests. The
report also alluded to the several projected railways on
the Surrey side of the river having termini in the vicinity
of the bridge as a matter likely to be beneficial to the
concern.

The report was unanimously received and adopted.
Mr. COPE informed the meeting that the approach to
the bridge from the Waterloo-road would soon be paved
all the way from the obelisk to the bridge.
Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P., Mr. Fielder Jenkins,
Mr. Anderson, and Mr. Woodyer, the retiring Directors,
were then unanimously re-elected, as was Mr. Lyon as
an auditor.

A PROPRIETOR adverted to the floating pier which
was a few years ago erected at Southwark-bridge, and
which had proved to that concern a most profitable un-
dertaking, and inquired if the Directors of the Waterloo-
bridge had any intention of erecting a similar pier ?
Mr. PowELL read extracts from recent minutes of the
Committee, from which it appeared that the subject had
been under consideration, and that it was referred to Mr.
Plews and the Chief Clerk, is order that the necessary
information should be obtained. These gentlemen, after
examining the different piers on the river, and conferring
with Mr. Saunders, the Water Bailiff, reported that it
would be inexpedient to construct a pier at present, as
it would probably be superseded by the projected Thames
embankment.

It was then resolved that the annual allowance of 561.
to the Directors and 61. to the auditors should be respec-
tively increased to 2001. and 101. ; and after a vote of
thanks to the Chairman, the meeting separated.

STABBING IN LEICESTER.—On Monday night, at
eleven o'clock, a young man, named John Kasen, and a
young woman, named Gilham, with whom he kept com-
pany, were in the Gallowhee-gate, Leicester, near the
Castle Tavern, when he stabbed her in the neck, and in
the back between the shoulders. She screamed out, and
succeeded in getting into the tavern, where she was
placed in a chair. The flesh protruded from the wound
in the neck, and the blood flowed out with increased
force from the wound in the back every time she breathed.
Mr. Macauley, surgeon, was sent for, and subsequently
the girl was removed to her residence, the Albert Inn,
where she lies in a most dangerous state. The man was
apprehended upon the spot, but made considerable re-
sistance. Ile had purchased the knife last Saturday fort-
night. It was a large one, called a lock-knife, opening
and shutting, with a spring to keep it open, the blade
being more than six inches in length, and sharp pointed,
though not two-edged. The man was in liquor, though
not what is called drunk. The act is attributed to jea-
lousy. The knife, aftsr the deed, had two notches upon
it near the point., as though it had struck a bone.