Churchill, sister to the great duke of Marlborough, was killed by a cannon ball, at the siege of Phillipsburgh, in Germany, in the 64th year of his age. He was only excelled in the art of war by the duke of Marlborough himself. FLORAL DIRECTORY White Dog Rose. Rosa arvensis. June 13. St. Antony of Padua, A. D. 1231. St. CHRONOLOGY. 1625. Henrietta Maria, youngest daughter to Henry IV. of France, landed at Dover, and was married to Charles I., at Canterbury, on the same day; her portraits represent her to have been beautful. She was cerainly a woman of ability, but faithless to her unfortunate consort, after whose death on the scaffold she lived in France, and privately married her favourite, the lord Jermyn, a descendant of whom, with that name, is (in 1825,) a grocer in Chiswell-street, and a member of the society of friends. Henrietta Maria, though a Bourbon, was so little regarded in the court of the Bourbons, and reduced to so great extremity, that she was without fuel for her fire-place during the depth of winter, in the palace assigned to her by the French monarch. FLORAL DIRECTORY. St. Vitus. Dioclesian. Why the disease called St. This saint was a Sicilian martyr, under known. Dr. Forster describes it as an Vitus's dance was so denominated, is not affection of the limbs, resulting from nervous irritation, closely connected with a disordered state of the stomach and bowels, and other organs of the abdomen. In papal times, fowls were offered on the festival of this saint, to avert the disease. It is a vulgar belief, that rain on St. Garden Ranunculus. Ranunculus Asi- Vitus's day, as on St. Swithin's day, indi aticus. Dedicated to St. Antony. cates rain for a certain number of days following. It is related, that after St. Vitus and his companions were martyred, their heads were enclosed in a church wall, and forgotten, so that no one knew where they were, until the church was repaired, church bells began to sound of themselves, when the heads were found, and the which causing inquiry, a writing was found, authenticating the heads; they consequently received due honour, and worked miracles in due form. FLORAL DIRECTORY. London, like famous old Briarens With fifty heads and twice toud fifty arms, For free communication with each shore; Hence, though the thews and sinews sink and shrink, That a renewal of the limb for purposes Of national and private weal be requisite, It is to be regarded as a friend That oft hath served us in our utmost need, The present engraving is from the design at the head of the admission tickets, and is exactly of the same form and dimensions; the tickets themselves were large cards of about the size that the present leaf will present when bound in the volume, and cut round the edges. COPY OF THE TICKET Admit the Bearer to witness THE CEREMONY of laying THE FIRST STONE of the New London-bridge, on Wednesday, the 15th day of June, 1825. (Signed) HEN WOODTHORPE, JUD. Clerk of the Committee. of the Eity Arms. N.B. The access is from the present bridge, and the time of admission will be between the hours of twelve and two. N° 281. It has been truly observed of the design for the new bridge, that it is striking for its contrast with the present gothic edifice, whose place it is so soon to supply. It consists but of five elliptical arches, which embrace the whole span of the river, with the exception of a double pier on either side, and between each arch a single pier of corresponding design: the whole is more remarkable for its simplicity than its magnificence; so much, indeed, does the former quality appear to have been consulted, that it has not a single balustrade from beginning to end. New London-bridge is the symbol of an honourable British merchant: it unites plainness with strength and capacity, and will be found to be more expansive and ornamental, the more its uses and purposes are considered. Width of the bridge, from outside to outside of the parapets, 55 feet; carriageway, 33 feet 4 inches. "Go and set London-bridge on fire," said Jack Cade, at least so Shakspeare makes him say, to "the rest" of the insurgents, who, in the reign of Henry VI., came out of Kent, took the city itself, and there raised a standard of revolt against the royal authority. "Sooner said than done, master Cade," may have been the answer; and now, when we are about to erect a new one, let us "remember the bridge that has carried safe over." Though its feet were manifold as a centipede's, and though, in gliding between its legs, as it "doth bestride the Thames," some have, ever and anon, passed to the bottom, and craft of men, and craft with goods, so perished, yet the health and wealth of ourselves, and those from whom we sprung, have been increased by safe and uninterrupted intercourse above. By admission to the entire ceremony of laying the first stone of the new London-bridge, the editor of the Every-Day Book is enabled to give an authentic account of the proceedings from his own close observation; and therefore, collating the narratives in every public journal of the following day, by his own notes, he relates the ceremonial he witnessed, from a chosen situation within the cofferdam. At an early hour of the morning the vicinity of the new and old bridges presented an appearance of activity, bustle, and preparation; and every spot that The following are to be the dimensions could command even a bird's-eye view of of the new bridge : the scene, was eagerly and early occupied Centre arch-span, 150 feet; rise, 32 by persons desirous of becoming spectafeet; piers, 24 feet. Arches next the centre arch-span, 140 feet; rise, 30 feet; piers 22 feet. Abutment arches-span, 130 feet; rise, 25 feet; abutment, 74 feet. Total width, from water-side to waterside, 690 feet. Length of the bridge, including the abutments, 950 feet; without the abutments, 782 feet. tors of the intended spectacle, which, it was confidently expected, would be extremely magnificent and striking; these anticipations were in no way disappointed. So early as twelve o'clock, the avenues leading to the old bridge were filled with individuals, anxious to behold the approaching ceremony, and shortly afterwards the various houses, which form the streets through which the procession was to pass, had their windows graced with "From every casement came the light, boats manned, to increase the bustle and interest of the scene. At eleven o'clock London-bridge was wholly closed, and at the same hour Southwark-bridge was thrown open, free of toll. At each end of London-bridge" barriers were formed, and no persons were allowed to pass, unless provided with tickets, and these only were used for the purpose of arriving at the cofferdam. There was a feeling of awful solemnity at the appearance of this, the greatest thoroughfare of the metropolis, now completely vacated of all its footpassengers and noisy vehicles. At one o'clock the lord mayor and sheriffs arrived at Guildhall, the persons engaged in the procession having met at a much earlier hour. The lady mayoress and a select party went to the coffer-dam in the lord mayor's private state carriage, and arrived at the bridge about half-past two o'clock. The Royal Artillery Company arrived in the court-yard of the Guildhall at two o'clock. The carriages of the members of parliament and other gentlemen, forming part of the procession, mustered in Queenstreet and the Old Jewry. foot of the bridge on the city side of the At twelve o'clock, the barrier at the river was thrown open, and the company, who were provided with tickets for the coffer-dam, were admitted within it, and kept arriving till two o'clock in quick sc cession. At that time the barriers were again closed, and no person was admitted till the arrival of the chief procession. By one o'clock, however, most of the seats within the coffer-dam were occupied, with the exception of those reserved for the persons connected with the procession. The wharfs on the banks of the river, between London-bridge and Southwark britze, were occupied by an immense multitude. Southwark-bridge itself was clustered over like a bee-hive; and the river from thence to London-bridge presented the appearance of an immense dock covered with vessels of various descriptions; or, perhaps, it more closely resembled a vast country fair, so com|pletely was the water concealed by multitudes of boats and barges, and the latter again hidden by thousands of spectators, and canvass awnings, which, with the gay committee, consisting of members of the The tickets of admission issued by the holiday company within, made them not court of common council, were in great unlike booths and tents, and contributed request. By their number being judicito strengthen the fanciful similitude. The ously limited, and by other arrangements, tops of the houses had many of them also there was ample accommodation for all their flags and awnings ; and, from the ap- the company. At the bottom of each pearance of them and the river, one might ticket, there was a notice to signify that almost suppose the dry and level ground the hours of admission were between altogether deserted, for this aquatic fete, twelve and two, and not a few of the for worthy of Venice at her best of times. tunate holders were extremely punctual All the vessels in the pool hoisted their in attending at the first mentioned hour, flags top-mast-high, in honour of the oc- for the purpose of securing the best places. casion, and many of them sent out their They were admitted at either end of the bridge, and passed on till they came to The entire coffer-dam was ornamented The tators. It was covered with canvass to A body of the Artillery Company. The Mr. Cope, the City Marshal, mounted, and in th Carriage containing the Barge-masters. A party of City Watermen without Colours. Carriage containing Messrs. Lewis and Gillman, the Carriage containing Messrs. Jolliffe and Sir E. Banks, Another party of the City Watermen. the Contractors for the Building of the Model of the New Bridge. of Southwark. Carriage containing the Under-Sheriffs. Carriages containing Thomas Shelton, Esq., Clerk of the Peace for the City of London; W. L. Newman, Esq., the City Solicitor; Timothy Tyrrell, Esq., the Remembrancer; Samuel Collingridge, Esq., and P. W. Crowther, Esq., the Secondaries; J. Boudon, Esq., Clerk of the Chamber; W. Bolland, Esq., and George Bernard, Esq., the Com. mon Pleaders; Henry Woodthorpe, Esq., the Town Clerk, Thomas Denman, Esq., the Common Sergeant; R. Clarke, Esq., the Chamberlain. These Carriages were followed by those of severa. Members of Parliament. Carriages of Members of the Privy Council. Band of Music and Colours, supported by City Watermen |