The Sun. — 1851-02-01 (London, England)

WHAT ABOUT WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE ?—lt would be a great boon to the entire neighbourhood, both ends of the bridge, if you could enlighten us as to the intentions of the Government respecting the new bridge, the propssed temporary bridge, &c. There are so many rumours about that with many of my neighbours, who are leaseholders, I am in a state of perfect perplexity as to what is about to be done. I am told, on pretty good authority, that the new bridge will certainly be erected on the old site • that Mr. Barry has quite changed his opinion about the bridge' being injurious to the new houses; but that he wishes the new structure to be 100 feet broad, and flatter than the present one, allowing 18 feet only from high-water mark to the keystone of the arches. To this proposal, I hear, the City Navigation Committee object, and say they must have 25 feet clear above hightwater mark, is not the present wilh thrve arelms I,inekeli op in rle centr, of isn Thames, a disgrace to the country— tile centre arches of a metropolitan bridge kept up by of the Builder. a Wooden leg?—Correspondent  MURDER NEAR BAR NsLaaEtphrp.e—anreeOadra that ier Berry-moor-bottom, Thursdayiglls.c:r.aoicatanutrie coroner's inquest was held at the Lastfield Inn, Hollis-moor, the body of George Firth, who was found by some colliers on the morning of the preceding. Friday, lying . ptore t oil:, oh, it:os,l( u,lL:ttliiinaatiofonoittp on the night of his The man (lied on the Sandi.), morning following, been occasioned by a ball or slug fired from a gun that he hhiasd ‘byeen injured his head b ainn of one f iintemperatentoaxybi caahhtli oitost nn, ,eand oorlllof his quarrelling ahsenhefowuansdaibtlewatos the c woundedoaunr sbdey, y a fall,\\ ofwa abulletth e n night hs tl slag, bnwilmouiuettthr:vtidillheialaraiss;a:bi naermedso t hadli tehr dnetoanfadlltoonsitiheackfl. ing procured it was discover (I room, aid assistance bemuch from. the head, but he e that he was bleeding very lw, aa walk ehauri received his hurt, nor was it 9 could not tell how or where he pistol-allot wound till after death. discovered didto be a gun-shot er sad been robbed, x 0 lt not appear that he suspicion attaches to anybody in the neighbourhood, but he George Grey that hi t j..loroner has made a rstueat to Sir will oiler a reward for the discovery Of the murderer.  Since Anselm first preached the name of Christ in this island, well nigh 1,400 yearsllave passed away, and In! this is the result of all the scriptural teaching of bishop and priest, and presbyter and minister—to nearly onehalf the population the character . ivvhich that sacred name is written are unmeaning signs, and this, too, in a land where " the reading of God's word" has, for the last 300 years, been made the professed basis of the national religion! Now, the men of Manchester, with Richard Cobden at Their head, have originated a society, now called the National Public Schou! AssL.ciation." That it will meet with infinite ni—that it will hare to fight its way to victory through years, it may be, of arduous of 'art an,l feeviept defeat---tl-.7t it, will roni tip ngainst it mist Ali, n scruples of vg.i ik.,,norancr, and the affected zeal of interested hostility,—for all this we are well prepared, but it will triutaph in the end. To doubt