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comment ; we shall return to the subject on a
future day._Mornzng Chionick.
The only business which now prevents Par-
liament from being prorogued—we mean the
London Bridge Bill—was again under the con-
sideration of the House of • Lords last night ;
and in the course of the conversation which took
place upon it, Lord Londonderry again ex-
pressed his dissatisfaction with the accounts pre-
sented by the City of London, and gave notice
that if they were not amended in the course of
the week, he would move that the Lord Mayor
be summoned to the bar of the House, to an-
swer fin the neglect of the City in complying
with their Lordships' orders. What the Noble'
Lord is desirous of cffectin, is no secret to
any one—and, indeecL his Lordship would lie
but little alive to hiF own, and to the public
interest, if he . did not. attempt to prevent
an increase of the tax on coals, fur there
can be no question that any additional
tax on coals would materially diminish their con-
sumption, by adding to their price, and his Lord-
ship being one of the great- coal lords, that a
din-6'l6t mi of the comfort of the public would

be simultaneous with that of his own revenues.
But after all we really cannot see what just ground
there is for inculpating the City of London. It
culled on Parliament for a grant of money to
enable it to complete the New London Bridge ;
and the • House very properly demanded some
proof of its poveity before it would consent to
vote away-the public money. The City coinplied,
not very willingly we allow, but still it did com-
ply, and instead of sending copies of its accounts,
laid before the Committee of the Lords the
accounts themselves, so far as it had ;the
power of producing • them. And what more
' can there in justice be demanded ? If it appears
from these • accounts that the City has more

money than it makes a good use of, why the
House can determine at once to refuse aid, and
compel it to have recourse to what it may be
using improperly; but it has not yet appeared
that such is the case, and we can see no ground,
in consequence, for either summoning the Lord
Mayor to the bar of the House, or throwing out
threats against the city, because it has not dis-
closed what it had no right to make public. The
Dulie of Wellington chastised his " noble
friend" for his delay in not bringing forward a
motion on the subject at once, in terms which,
we dare say, Lord Londonderry viil not speedily
forget ; and we have little doubt will cut short
his intended speech on Monday next, by pro-
roguing the Parliament.— fr Advertiser.
Mornin

LONDON BRIDGE APPROACHES BILL.

On Saturday the House of Lords Committee re-
awmbled on this Bill. The City's Accounts were
laid before them ; and in the investigation of tlni
nature of their contents, their Lordships were occu-
pied for a considerable time with closed doors.
Counsel were afterwards called in, and Mr. Scott
was re-examined respecting them. They have the
general title of " Accounts of the Income and Ex-
penditure of the CorPoration of the City of London
fromlBl3 to, 1828, inclusive." The first is " A
Brief Statement of the Produce of the Bridge House
Estates for 1813;" followed by a similar statement
for each subsequent year. Then the payments, out
of such produce, under the several heads of "Rents,
and other charges,—Taxes and Trophies, Necessary
Expences, Timber, &e., Bo:evacuee, &c."
The following is the Abstract of Receipts on Ac-
count of the Bridge House Estates for 1828:---
34,2361. 28. 70.
The Abstract of Payments for 1828 X30,936 474
Balance on the 31st of Dec, 1828

£31,256 2
Lord LONDONDERItY stated that these were not
sufficient ; he desired to have the details.-
Mr. Scott replied that the order of the house
had been fully complied whit.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said that nothin
was so clear, as that the City,of London were bound
to give the amplest information of all their fundS,
in order that their Lordships might see whether the
best use was made of their means, and whether
these means were inadequate to effect-the purposes
contemplated by the Bill; at the same time, it
would be very satisfactory that the City should be
made clearly to understand what it was that really
was required, because then therelnight be a saving
of trouble, time, and expense.
Mr. Scott stated that the accounts, if detailed,
would occupy several thousand pages, and an im-
mense time to copy.
The Deke of WELLINieroN —Could yeti nut pro-
duce an abstract of them, if that would be satis-
factory ?
Lord LONDONDERRY-4 should be satisfied with
an abstract that would give us all the informatiou.
(A laugl4.)—l will give you an instance of what I
want. There is the Finsbury estates, of which we
have only general accounts.
Mr. Scott—They do not wholly belong to the
City ; only a half and two-sixtbs: the rest belengs
to the Prebendary of London.
Lord LoNDoNDElUtr—Caneot you give us the
details of that property, that we may see whether it
is well let and advantageously dispoed 'of ?
Mr. Scott—The property consists of from 1,6 W
to '2,000 houses; here is the book of accounts. (pro-
ducing an immense ledger, or volume, dearly
well written). The City will produce the has
(added Mr. Scotts after:having consulted with-Al-
derman Wood and other City Authorities around),
and lay them before your Lordships;—time would
be the chief difficulty in the wav of making collies of
such voluminous accounts.

Lord LONDONDERRY—What can I—what ea"
any of your Lordships do with such books as thes9 ?
While we arc here from eleven till five o'clock, I em
busily engaged in taking notes of the evidence -
then how can we travel through such immense
volumes as that just exhibited to find the inkrtna-.
tion ? If we have a detailed aceou:it of I'llr pto-
perty, and the way in which it is disposed of, I may
then be able to get sonic information to- enable us to
judge whether it is disposed of to the best advantage.
must press for such accounts of the Corporation's
property.
It was eventually ordered that further details of
the accounts should be prepared and produced. .
The Committee then proceeded to examine wit-
nesses in support of allegations of petitioners on the.
Surrey side of tile bridge, for an alteration of the
line of road.

Chimneys were scarcely known in England in
the year 1200, one onlybeing allowed in a religious house,
one in a manor house, and one in the great hail of a
—hut in other houses they• had no-
castle, or lord's house
thing but what was called Rere Dusse, where tl.eir food
was dressed, where they dined, anti the smoke found Its
way out us it could. In King HEsay the EIGHTH'S tin!te,
the University of Oxford had no fire allowed—for it is
mentioned, that, after the Stewards • had timed, which
took
place at eight o'clock, they went again to their stu-
dies till nine, and then, in the winter, they haring no
are, they were obliged to take a good run for half an hour,
to get he it in their feet before they went to bed.
.A RBrtoKrll.—On Tuesday, a young girl 'of
four vear,s of age died sudelenly in consequence of' having
swallowed a quantity of growing hemlock. Her body,
previous to death, exhibited a frightful ani:e trance being
swelled to a dreadful degree. She expired in great ,gony.
—Strathindre Jourizol.
ANCIENT LOVERS.—On. Monday the Ist
: two persons were married at Hackwood near Strath.-
': aven, whose united ages amount to 143 years. What
renders this matrimonial match the more interestiuos,
that this same couple pledged their fait's to each other
more than 50 years ago, but fortune at that time decreed
them to be separately united, and to bring up sera. rte fa-
, -willies. GlasgatvFree Press,