... A LAMENT FOR THE DECLINE OF CHIVALRY. By Thomas Hood, Esq. Wet, hast thou cried, departed Burke, All chivalrous romantic work, Is ended now and past !— That iron some have thought Of metal rather overwrought— Is now all over-cast! Aye,—where are those ...

... •rth pier. 1 * *i- opinion thiit of .1. , •». , solulion. ' the'v not n o, hL. motion was that the names j [■;wsl-i1 at H««fral , t »!l oniecte*! to .Mr. Fisher’s motion on principle - that ho motion !kT carried X tltere .au1d^a,,.,,,! ..tit. 11. Jeflersoii ...

... marke said proof-sheet into his smal same i read and correct it, th e said Hastings standing over of the deponent at th neg that the deponent read over to such the said Hastings the aragraph in the petition men- writin, tioned, and he approve f of it, ...

... proposed new North Pier. These additions the West Pier you wished to he deferred until after the completion of the North Pier, which I agreed, without all abandoning opinion as to the propriety of erecting them previously. The North Pier, however, notwi ...

... William Handleson, Thomas Hastings. 11. Jefferson, Esq. in the Chair. Mr. Peile renewed the following Motion, made the Earl of Lonsdale at the last meeting, which was seconded Mr. Mitchell:— That whereas the termination of the West Pier head has always been ...

... present brad of tbe west pier, and to remove the pier bead and jetty, and certain portion of the north pier within them, and finish the north pier in that position with wooden iolwaik and rubble aimilar to that proposed lor the west pier, ...

... contraction of the New Pier was a deviation from the plan Mr. Rennie; and secondly, that a new light-house is perfectly unnecessary present, as the light-house on the New Quay and the light at the extremity of the New West Pier are fully sufficient to ...

... shelter of the N ew Pier, and thus skirt is without gores, and gathered in very full all ronnd render assistance when required 5 and as proof that | the wi t, and is ornamented with pyramidal hot even so much as spray was carried over the piers, | as high as ...

... outer harbour gets less quiet the New North Pier gets higher; evidently it v\ill so, but remembered that the West Pier is unfinished, and that an addition that pier would, bv partially screening the north pier, throw the se ...

... wisest calculations, and set at nought the most perfect arrangements. He gives the reasons why the North Pier was built; and lie urges that if the West Pier had been finished, originally proposed, that the main difficulty, namely, the rush of waters, in gales ...

... was At length, however, some of the gas-lamps on the piers became visible, and then experienced no difficulty in making mv way into the port. nearing the harbour I discovered that the light the pier-head, though not extinguished, was so feeble as to of ...

... aspect and relative position of pier beads, renders impracticable, for the following reasons, namely:—The prevailing ami most hampering wind locally 8. 8. W. though blowing steadily S. W. off Bt. Bees Head; ami as the present pier heads lie nearly east and ...