CHELSEA SUSPENSION BRIDGE is an elegant structure on the suspension principle, (from the site of Ranelagh to Battersea Park): it measures 347 feet between the towers and 705 between the abutments. It was made at Edinburgh and erected in 1857 after designs by the late Mr. Thomas Page, the architect of the New Bridge at Westminster, at a cost of £85,319. It was opened on the 28th of March, 1858. The roadway is suspended upon chains, which hang from two massive and ornamental piers in the river, the ends being firmly secured by solid masonry on the shores. On a portion of the iron-work of the beautiful arches connecting the towers of this magnificent bridge, beneath the escutcheon representing the Royal Standard, are emblazoned the following Latin inscriptions in old German characters:--_Anno Regni Vicesimo Victoria, Anno Domini_, 1857, _Gloria Deo in Excelsis_. The large globular lamps at the top of the piers are lighted only when the Queen sleeps in London. Tolls paid for passing over this Bridge were:-- For every foot-passenger ½d. For every description of vehicle drawn by one horse and other beast of draught 2d. For each and every additional horse or other beast drawing 1d. For every horse, mule or ass not drawing 1d. For every wheelbarrow or truck not drawn by any horse or other beast 1d. For every score of oxen or neat cattle and so in proportion for any greater or less number 8d. For every score calves, sheep or lambs, and so in proportion for any greater or less number 4d. Hackney coaches and licensed cabs without passengers, waggons, carts and drays unladen with two or more horses, to pass over the bridge upon payment of half the above toll. And all post chaise returning without passengers and return post horses, to pass over the bridge free. By virtue of an Act of Parliament 9th and 10th Victoria, cap. 39. By order of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, 1858. Office of Works, 12, Whitehall Place, Westminster.