Star.
London, England, 1829-10-27 00:00:00

THE NEW BRIDGES OF PARIS.

The Company, who have built the bridge of the Antin
Walk intended to form a new communication between Le Gros
Caillun and the Faubourg &. Hortort, wished to have been able
to open it to the public on the 4th of November, snd thus cele-
brate the King's fete, u it was celebrated last year by the opening.
of the bridge of the Archbishopric. But the continual rains of this
summer, and the sorry autumn we are likely to have, has obliged
the Company to retard, for some days, the moment when they will
have fulfilled their engagements, by opening, before the Ist of. J-
anuary, 1530, the three bridges of the Hotel de Vile, of the Arch-
bishopric, and of the Antin Walk, which they had not engaged to
complete till the let of January, 1531.

The bridge of the Antin Walk will be supported by two piles,
in such a manner that the access to it will he entirely disengaged
from the inclined chains for upholding it. The Seine is about 140
yards wide in thi. place. The hay of the joists In the middle will
be nearly 70 yards. The rest will be filled with lateral joists and
abutments. The road across the bridge, which is began to be laid,
will be seven yards and a halt wide ; it will allow carriages to pass
along it, and on each side a footway for passengers. It will be
upheld by eight chains, which are now laid. Each chain is com-
posed of double links held together by three plates • they have been
put into their places without any scaffolding. Those of the great
bay of joists were done in less than a day ; the rising of each chain
,ccupied from fifteen to twenty minutes.
The chains are fixed to blocks of wood, fastened by dove-tail to
the top of the piles. After resting on blocks of wood, placed on
the abutments, they go down into wells, and are there held by
thick wooden anchors fixed by masonry ; they are so disposed
that it will be always easy to examine every part of them. Through
the piles two openings are made, s yards, for the paggage of car.
riage. The piles rise above II yards above the stage of the bridge,
and they are, as well as the abutments, ornamented with heads of
columns.--Journal des Debaes.

ELOQUENT EULOGY ON A FRENCH BAR-
RISTER.

M. Vulpian, a young advocate in the Royal Court of
Paris, has just undergone a premature decease : it spread a
mournful impression through the Palace of Justice. Known by
his great success at the bar, M. Vulpian whose talent was flexible
and various, bad also obtained more Amu one triumph at the
Theatre; and his character, fall of mildness and sweetness, had
gained as many friends as he had clients and comrades. His fune-
ral took place on Thursday week, at the burial-ground of Mont-
martre, where a multitude of friends attended bis tactual remains
M. Cani, an advocate and chief editor of the Courier des Tribunal's,
delivered over the tomb of his comrade and fellow-labourer an
eulogy which was heard with deep emotion :

" Vulpian! twelve years ago full, both of us, of the future and
of hope, we talked together with closed doors, in combats pined
by stealth, and contested public and serious questions—twelve
years ago, revealing to us already what you would one day be-
come, you made us know how to forget the dryness of law by your
wit and spirit—every year you crowned our juvenile labours with
joyous couplet', the chorusses of which I still remember, and you
reckoned as a friend every member of our conferences—twelve
years age scarcely had that career opened itself on you. where you
knew bow to find glory without exciting jealousy, where you made
as many friends as you had clients and comrades—twelve years
scarcely is it, and all Is finished for you. But why am I talking
both of years and remembrances already at a distance? It is now
only a fortnight, at this very hour, that you were preparing to
achieve new successes—a fortnight has scarcely rolled away since
the hour when, full of warmth and life, you ably opposed, to the
attacks of satire, the whole history of an illustrious client, when we
surrounded you with the congratulations of friendship—that was
your last triumph! A fortnight only, and you are no more than a
cold cinder, and we surround no more than a tomb ! But, oh !
my old comrade—you, my first friend of the Palace—you, whose
exertions were associated with mine—you, who so many times
made me the first depository of the inspirations of your ready pen
—it Is not of your wit nor of your different talents that I would
speak I My grief would ill agree with it, and my heart is better
pleased by relating that modesty so true that filled ua with af-
fection—that touching frankness—that humour always equal and
kind, which rendered so sweet to us our intercourse every day, and
which causes us to-day so many tears and regrets. Alas! why
should it be that his friends should not alone weep upon his tomb?
He was a sou, a husband, and a father. A mother, four infants,
and a wife, are in tears with us. May, at least. our tears not be
improductive—may we not see realized. in all its desolate 'stew.
that thought which escaped yesterday from the grief of his widow—
' i have lost every thing—Alphonso is dead.' Adieu, my old
comrade !"

LOCOMOTIVE CARRIAGES.

We cannot allow the grand and astonishing results of
the late experiments with Locomotive Carriages on the Liverpool
and Manchester Railway to pass, without once more calling the
attention of our readers to the new prospects which open upon us
from those experiments. We have already expressed our sense of
the very interesting and improved character of the results which
have been attained by the Locomotive Engines, but this is a sub-
ject which appears the more important the longer and more atten-
tively it is considered. We had intended to give several illustra-
tions of the effects of this important mode of conveyance, but this
has already been so well done in articles which we have extracted
from The Scetussan and The Liverpool Tines, that we need do little
more than direct the attention of our readers to those articles. In
mentioning The Scotsman, we should do the Editor of that paper
an injustice. if we did not remind our readers of the series of able
papers which he wrote four or five years since on the capabilities
of Railways, and of which we made copious extracts in Thellernary.
The calculations he then made of the speed which might be at-
tained upon Railways were ridiculed at the time, even by engineers ;
we were always convinced of the substantial truth of those calcu-
lations, and their accuracy has now been fully established. Great
credit is due to the Editor for the correctness with which he has
made his calculations, and the boldness with which he followed
them up to their results—grand and surprising as those results were.
There is scarcely any more important means of advancing and
perfecting the civilization of a country, than by a good system of
internal communication. The greater the facility of travelling
from place to place, the more active will be the social and com-
mercial intercourse; and the more ready the transmission of all
the fruits of the earth and all the product; of manufactures, the
more rapid the communication of improvements and inventions,
and the more complete the dissemination of knowledge. Time is
money in all operations requiring labour, and therefore a saving of
time will be a saving of money. In every country, there are
tracts and situations which would be highly valuable but for their
distance from towns and the more populous districts : by easy and
quick modes of conveyance this disadvantage is overcome, and the
most may be made of all the natural capabilities of the country.
To a manufacturing country especially, good communications are
important: the supply of the raw material, and of the various
commodities necessary to the manufacture, is more quickly and
cheaply obtained, and the goods are more quickly and cheaply
stilt to the home or foreign market. If railway conveyance
should be extensively adopted in this country, we have no doubt
that our manufacturers will derive important benefit from it In
their competition with their foreign rivals; their superiority will
be still more decided than it is now, in the great branches of the
cotton, the woollen, the linen, the silk, the hardware, the cutlery,
and the earthenware manufactures. The mere saving of time and
money by the accelerated and cheapened conveyances will make the
difference of more than a profit on the goods.
'lo the landowners the advantage will, if possible, be still greater
—at least to those whose lands lie near the railways. The trifling
xpense at which they will be able to send their produce to mar-
ket, and to obtain manure, lime, &c. in return, will enable them
to dispense with the Corn Laws; whilst the land in the neigh-
bourhood of the railways will become of great value for building
purposes. The merchants of Liverpool may now build their
houses in the beautiful tract lying between Prescot and Wootton,
or inc:eed half way to Manchester, far out of the reach of smoke,
and yt:t run down to their counting-houses in a quarter or half an
hour after rising from the breakfast table. For social purposes
Liverpool and Manchester will be joined; and it will shortly be
common for dinner parties in those towns to be composed hells.'
criminately of brokers and manufacturers, shippers and spinners.—
It requires no great stretch of imagination to suppose that the ladies
of blai.chester will ere long begin to make morning calls on their
friends in Liverpool, and vim versa.
It seems highly probable that in a short time we shall travel on
railwaas with ease at the speed of thirty miles per hour, and it is
difficult for the imagination to foresee how great will be the changes
lroduced by such a rate of conveyance. Time will, of couroe, be
I to establish railways on the great lines of communication.
utmost care should be taken to construct them on the best
s; but the success of the Liverpool and Manchester Rail-
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stales which attend it will be realised to the community..--
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