Genre:

News-Commentary, Spoof

Subjects:

Engineering, Transport, Commerce

    Reports on an 'experimental trip' across the Clifton Suspension Bridge which, it observes with concern, 'consists only of two piers, with no communication between them, the chains not having been fixed'. Notes that a procession was formed, including 'a potato-basket containing the chief engineer', 'a clothes-basket with the Committee', and 'a ridicule for the dividends'.