350 Report of the Select Committee on London Bridge. iMay 1 ; 



To tlic Breeder of the best draught 

 ra&v^r-A Piece of Plate of the value of 

 Twenty Pounds, 



To the Breeder of the liest steer of 

 any breed, possessing symmetiy, early 

 maturity, aptitude to fatten, aud qua- 

 lity of flesh— ^/ Piece of Plate of the 

 value of Thirtif Pounds. 



To the Breeder of the second best — 

 Plate to Ike value of Ticentij Potmds. 



To the Breederof the third best — 

 Plate to the value of Fifteen Pounds. 



CertiBcates from the Breeders must 

 be produced, of the age and pedigree of 

 all file Slock, viz. bulh, cotvs, rams, 

 ewes, boars, sows, staUious, mores, and 

 steers, exhibited for these premiums. 



The exhibition of sto^k is intended 

 to be annual, at such jilacs as this Board 

 shall appoint, on the second Monday in 

 April, when judges will be selected by 

 the Board from the most distinguished 

 breeders present, who will be instructed 

 in their decision on the bulls, to seek 

 for symmetry, strength of cimstitution, 

 aptitude to fatten, quality of flesh, and 

 general docility of temper, as points 

 of the ntuiost importance to merit. 



In their decision on the cows, or 

 heifers in ciilf, or calves by their sides, 

 — in addilioa to thefiiialitios above re- 

 quired in the bulls, they will be in- 

 structed to pay particular attention to 

 quantity and quality of milk, and 

 where meat and milk cannot be united 

 in the same animal, they will allow 

 milk in the cows and heifers to have 

 an equal shai'e of merit with meat; or, 

 in otlier words, that they will select 

 the three best cows or heifers for meat, 

 and the three best for milk, as the case 

 may be, for the adjudication of the 

 Prizes. 



In their decision on the rams, they 

 are to seek for symmetry, strength of 

 constitution, aptitude to fatten, qualify 

 of flesh, and quality of wool, as points 

 of the utmost importance to merit ; 

 aud in order to render reward to merit 

 as equal as possible, they will be in- 

 structed, in adjudging the premiimis 

 to the rams aud ewes, to select the 

 three best short-wooled, aud the three 

 best long-wooled sheep, for the adjudi- 

 cation of the Premiums 



In their decision on the pigs, the 

 judges will be instructed to consider 

 symmetry, constitution, aptitude to 

 fatten, and quality of flesh, as points 

 of the greatest importance to merit. 

 . SackvilU Street, London, 



HOUSE of COMMONS. 

 Extracts of Evidence and Proceedings 

 before the Select Committee of the 

 House of Commons, and part oftLeir 

 Eeport on I.OS DOS bridge. 



Evidence of Mr. Dodd, Engineer. 

 From a late survey 1 h*ve made, it ap- 

 pears to me highly necessary to build a 

 new bridge. The present bridge cannot 

 be substantially repaired from the dan- 

 gerous state of some of the arches, piers, 

 and sterlings. The water-works annex- 

 ed to the bridge may be wrought by 

 steam, a more faithful agent, which slack 

 tides and frosty weather would not delay. 

 The height of all waters running in to till 

 rivers, depends upon the height they rise 

 to in the offing at sea, subject to be aided 

 or retarded in entering rivers by stormy 

 wiuds. But how is it possible for all that 

 water, which nature has provided, to pass 

 London Bridge in its present state, whilst 

 the piers and sterlings act as a preventa- 

 tive? Thus the impellant force of the flood, 

 receiving its power from the sea, is checked 

 by the present bridge. 



From the survey I took of the present 

 bridge last year, 1 found many of its arches 

 in a very decayed state; in some places the 

 stones were wanting, in others they were 

 tumbling out, one of them in particular is 

 rent by two very dangerous fissures ; in- 

 deed this arch is so very bad as to render 

 it necessary to bind one stone to the other 

 by large iron and lead clamps ; and in 

 general the piers and sterlings are far from 

 being in substantial condition to keep the 

 briflge on its legs ; they must, as they are, 

 be always building, and yet the foundation 

 appears to be daily undermining by the 

 force of the agitated water rushing with a 

 great impetuosity through its confined 

 arches. To instance this in some of the 

 centre arches, you have two feet water, 

 and immediately below the bridge you fall 

 into thirty feet water. In short, the 

 wretched fabric is held altogether at a 

 great expense (about £'4,000 per annum) 

 which if left to itself for two winters, would 

 inevitably tumble into ruins. 



The dreadful fall of water at the present 

 bridge, has been, aud is still likely to be, 

 thejsource of many misfortunes; the delay it 

 has occasioned to commerce by the imprac- 

 ticability of passing it the three last hours 

 of the ebb of seven hours, is very great, as 

 the number of barges sunk, and the amount 

 of valuable property lost, and, above all, 

 the mischief it has done by bringing many 

 valuable members of society to untimely 

 terminate their existence,is truly distressing 

 to humanity ; all this shews the absolute 

 necessity of a remedy, and that must be a 

 new bridge, which should be built upon 

 such a construction as to occasion no fall of 

 water. 



Eridmue 



