The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-11 00:00:00

4425,520 tons, or 64 per rent. on the work regnirra to
be done in '44 more than '34, and yet with this incre3se of
work there is not a single additional lindinz-water ap-
pointed. But he held in hand an o'er of the Board
of Customs which fettered very much the trade of thr! °PP6
norr. He alluded to the list of cases where vessels were "nrri.
'tted t- 1: yroject

permit, o discharge in what were termed over hours.
TFe council were probably :not awnre that the usual or
average time allowed for a vessel to he discharged by the
toms was not more than six hours a-day ; and this
might perhaps be very well, if they could get permission
to be discharged for two or three extra hours by payment.
It was true there were invidious distinctions. For iry.'aice
if a packet entered the port, she might be permitte'
land in over hours. -

er was not per-

peditious pass:lye. and lie detained for twelve hours in the
river, she would be permitted to discharge in over hours;
but let a vessel be becalmed six weeks at sea ; let her
be put into Cork, and kept there ten days, she could get
no redress whatever, and she would not be permitted to
discharge in over
(Hear, hear.) He was not I

his was a great injustice

have frc

NEW SUSPENSION BRIDGE

ago at

proposed sin

ed, probsbly, to arrest the prosecution of t

About the same epoch, another Project of equal daring
was proposed by Mr. Telford, of engineering celebrity,
and which consisted of a suspension bridge, one thousand
feet span, for crossing the Mersey at Runcorn ferry. That
laid aside, probably until the trial was
of smaller dimensions, then in progress
rid when that work was achieved, time was

project.
_was.

made of a brid

I o;•ex!cution

and with him passed away his project of the bridg,
Runcorn.

We remark that the great oscillation which takes place
in suspensirn chain bridges of great span, during high
winds, and the consequent premature destruction thereof,

be impor
mired for

that other similar bridges of equal or greater magnitude
will in future be constructed ; hence arises a want of some
new mode of construction for bridges of great span.
These reflections have been suggested to us, by the in-
spection of a new project, which has lately come under
cur notice, namely, that of a bridge uniting, it is said, all
the advantages of the suspension system fur the extent of
span, and the advantages of the arched system for its in-
flexibility and permanent stability. This new project is

represented to us to possess, from its mode of construc-
tion, all the advantages of the suspension or chain bridges,
as to their extent of span; but in reality, this new system
begins where the old system ends; the greatest span ever
proposed, as far as our knowledge extends, was that by
Mr. Telford for the bridge at Runcorn, one thousand
feet span ; whereas, by the new combination, which we
have minutely inspected, we are given to understand, an
arch of two thousand feet span may be safely constructed
with every rational prospect of success; and the lucid
calculations which accompany the design and sections,
incline us to believe that it may far exceed even that
gigantic stretch.