Star.
London, England, 1829-06-27 00:00:00

THE LONDON BRIDGE APPROACHES.

Most of the remaining claims under the new London
Bridge Act are, it is believed, likely to be settled
without being submitted to Juries. Indeed, the Cor-
poration has made such liberal offers, and the exor-
bitant demands of unconscionable claimants have had
such an effect upon the public feeling, that Juries, as has
been *ery lately testified, nn longer measure the verdict
by the amount required. The most valuable premises
on the London side of the Rivet have been already re-
moved, and either a vet dict or a compromi•.e has set
the claims for them at rest. Several houses on the
Surrey side have been disposed of in the same way. It
is calcu:ated that the Corpotation has settled for nearly
one fifth of Ore premises ►equired to t the ap-
proaches. The Cost of compromises wuh. ut verdicts
is upwards of 150,0001. and 'he following is an exact
account of the claims and verdict,. ; •
In Southwark. Claims. V erJict.
Lease and Good-will .. £23,957 3 4 .C 12,700 0 0
1)o. do 3,704 8 0 1,752 0 0
Freehold and 696(1 will 31,120 12 0 15 067 5 0
Lease sod Good.will 3,250 0 0 2.149 1 0
Do. do. 2,071 16 0 883 0 0
Do. do. —. 3,160 17 0 839 15 0

Do.

4:671 17 6 e,710 8 li

Freehold •
Leas.: and Good-will ...
Gout-will,
Freehold

5,500 0 0 2,600 0 0
... 4,170 7 0 2,126 0 0
92:: 15 0 220 0 *0
... 4,190 0 0 2,200 0 0

4,016 1 6
... . • :.11(1 0 0
15 6

Lease and Good-will ... ...
1)0. go.
Do. do.

Do. du.

.. •2,450 0 0

£95,67:1 10 10

485 14 6
887 8 6
1.616 1 6

1,4 V.: 6 G

X 50,450 I) 0

So that the excess of clsim upon the past of fifteen
claimants above the estimate of the Southwark Juries,
in the sum of 95,6751. 10s. 101 was no less than
4.5,‘2251. 10,. 10.1.
The ca.es settled by the verdict of Julies in London
weir as follow:

Claimo Verdict.
Freehold and Goodwill £40.924 10 9 X 18,695 2 8
Good-will ... 1,650 0 0 100. 0 0

Lease and 44,400 u 0 14,061 19 4$
do. 943 1 4 147 17 tl

£87,917 12 1

43.5,004 :9 W

The dispatity, particularly on the London side, is
enormous, and has excited some surprise among the
Citizens. Even the Law Vunctioects ies have turned up
their eyes at the contrast. It is not generally known
that in the, case of the Messrs. Jones, who demanded
the sum of 44,4001. for the lease and good will of their
oil piemises, Mr. Price, who formerly kept a great oil
warehouse on Snow•hill, was called on the part of the
claimants. This Gentleman had been obliged to re-
move on account:of.theiinproveMents in Skinner-street,
and he Was. asked, on cross4xamination, what he claimed
in a iiimPeniation for loss by removal from Ins pre-
'lM:es ? "Nuthirrg," said he. • " Nothing ?" said the
Counsel for the Corporation, "Why did you not make
any- claim 'for that lon ?" " Al:," said Mr. Price,
smiling, " We had not the experience then that we
have now:"
When the last of the cases stated above, that of the
two attorriles who sought for compensation for the
good-will of their apartments, the Common Sergeant
caused a great deal of laughter by quoting Lord Eldon.
The Learned Counsel was exanining the claimants'
clerk, and asked him whether the place to which his
'employers had removed was not more eligible on ac-
' count of being nearer to the Courts of Westminster,
than the apartments in Thames-street ? The clerk re-
plied that the proximity of rhos Courts was no object,
as they always laid their venues in the City of London.
He, however, was afterwards obliged to acknowledge
that the. present office of the claimants was also nearer
to the City Courts; whereupon the Common Sergeant
said, that the argument of the witness put him in mind,
of what Lord Eldon said about a week ago, about the'
marginal note' of an Act of Parliament: " Don't tell
me of reterritig to such marginal notes," said his Lord-
ship, "I was looking over a margin the other day to
where the venue was laid, and what should I see there
but these words, " Venus is to be laid in Middlesex."
The Common Sergeant observed that 'wherever the
claimants (one of them was lately married) thought
proper to lay Venus would produce nothing—
ig Parturient mould nascitur ridiculus NW'

DUBLIN, Jinn 24.

The folios ing is the address sent by the landed prG-
prietors of Clare to Mr. Vesey F.tzger aid :

" Sia—We, the undersigned, being anxious to maintain the had.
pendence of the county of Clare, and to prevent the interferencrl•
persona unconnected with the county in the Election of Member.
to represent it in Parliament, do hereby earnestly solicit you to
allow us to pot yott in nomination a. a candidate at the approaching
Election for that County. Convinced as we are that you will
receive the zealous and successful %norm t of all who are interested
in the welfare of a county which you so long and .o faithfully re-
' presented in Parliament, we hereby undertake to defray anti/nixes
attendant on your election.
.‘ Right Hon. W. V. Fitzgerald."
Mr. Fitageraki politely replied that be would not interfere in the
Election.

Mr. Villiers Stuart has published a letter, denying, in the most
explicit terms, that his resignation of the tepreirtiNtina of the
county of Waterford w.is in the slightest degree influenced by any
compact or arrangement.
A notice has -ippeareJ, calling oti the friends of the house of Cur.
raghmore to hula themselves disrtigard, as a Memh.( of the Bern.
ford family intends to offer himself as a candid ite.