3 SEPTEMBER 1831, Page 21

The pamphlet on London Bridge is an intelligent little work,

combining a great deal of useful information with some curious remarks on the history of the New London Bridge. It appears from this writer's statements, that there was no occasion to take down the old bridge ; and that, moreover, the existence of the present one will be fatal to the navigation of the river, and inju- rious to, if not destructive of, the other bridges—Westminster and Waterloo. The old bridge, it is well known, acted as,a dam, and kept the water above the bridge at a -height which served all the purposes of navigation at low-water. At present, after the removal of the old bridge, the river above it will be dry for certain hours. The choice then lay between the danger which attended shootingthe bridge at certain times of the tide, and the alternative of having the river dry for hours. Now the danger has been magnified by interested parties : it is not so great as has been represented,—or, atleast, so would the Professional Surveyor make out. From these, and various other premises, he concludes that the building of New London Bridge was, like so many other schemes of the same kind, a great JOB: The manner in which the history of public opinion on the subject is traced, is very cu- rious, and illustrative of the fraudulent way in which in this country it is oftentimes worked up.