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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL, 



Sir, 



PROCEEDINGS OF PARIiIAMENT. 



Hous of Commons.— List of Petitions for Private Bills, and progi'ess therein. 



Alcrl.rotln\ii-k il;\rbour . . 



Al.iTiloen IhirlioLir 



Ballochnev R:iil«ay . 



Barnsley Waterworks . 



Balli Cemelcry . 



Rolfa.st Walcr«orks . 



Birminsham Canal . 



Birmingham & Glos. Ul«ay. 



B|). Aiieklanil & AVeardalcRa. 



BlaekhcnthCemelery . . 



Bradford (York) Waterworks 



Brighton Gas 



Brighton Cemetery ■ • 



Bristol & (^loueestersliirc Ha. 



Briiish Museum Biiildmgs . 



Brompton New Road . 



Clieltenham ^\•aler^^orks . 



Commereial (London and 

 Blackwall) Railway . 



Dean ForesI Railway . 



Dejilford Pier . • • 



Dentfbrd Pier Junetion Rlw y. 



Deptford Steam Ship Doeks 



Edinborgh. Leitli.and New- 

 haven Railway . 



Eyemouth narl)our 



Fraserburgh Harbour . 



fieneral Cemetery 



(iravesend Gas . ■ , • 



Great North of England Ra. 



Great Western Railway 



Great Central Irish R;iil« ay 



Herefordshire and Glouces- 

 tershire Canal . 



Heme Gas . . . • 



Liverpool Docks . 



Liverpool Buildings . 



Liverpool and Manchester 

 F,.\lension Railway . 



T>onilon and Birmingham Ra 



T,ondonBridgeAj)proaches,&c 

 Croydon Railway 

 London Cemetery 



Ijondon & Croyd 



London & Greenwicli Rlway 

 London and Southampton 



(Guildford Branch) Rluy. 

 I^)ndon and Soulliampton 



(Portsmouth Brancli) Ra. 

 Mancliester SiBirminghamlla 

 M.anchesler and Birmingham 



E.\tension(St(]ne&RugljyRa 

 Manchester U Leeds Rlway. 

 Marvlcb,,neGas&CokeCiiiiip. 

 Mon1<laud:^ Kirkinlilloch Ita. 

 Necropolis (St.Panc.jCemetry 



Newark Gas . ■ • 



Newcastle-upon-Tyne 81 N. 



Shields (Extension) Rh\y. 

 Northern Si Eastcm(l)Rlwy. 

 Norlheru&iEastern(2)Rlwy. 

 North Midland Railway 

 Norili Union Railway . 

 Not tingliamlnclosure & Canal 

 Over Darwen Gas 

 Perth Harl)our&. Navigation 

 Portishead Pier . 

 Preston Gas 



Preston and Wyre Railway 

 Preston and Wyre Railway, 



Harbour, and Dock . 

 Redcar (No. 1) Harbour . 

 Redcar (No. 2) H.arljour 

 Rishworth Reservoirs . 

 Rochdale Waterworks 

 Rochester Cemetery 

 Sawmill Ford Bridget Road 

 Slamannan Railway 

 South Eastern Railway 

 .S. Kastern (Deviation) R:i. . 

 Teignmouth Bridge 

 Tyne Dock .... 

 Tyne .Steam Ferry 

 Walsall Junction Canal 

 West Durham Railway 

 Westminster hnprovement . 

 \\ ishaw & Coltness Railway 

 Wy rley and Essington and 



Birmingham Canal . 



Petition 

 pre- 

 sented. 



Bill read 

 first 

 time. 



Feb. 6,: 

 Feb. 8. 

 Feb. 12. 

 Fell. 21. 

 Feb. 22. 

 Feb. 22. 

 Feb. 20. 

 Feb. 21. 

 Feb. 22. 

 Fel). 22. 

 Feb. 21. 

 Feb. 21. 

 Feb. 21.- 

 Feb, 2L 

 Feb. 22. 

 Feb. 22. 

 Feb. 22. 



Feb. 14. 

 Fell. 19. 

 Feb. 22. 

 Feb. 22. 

 Feb. 22. 



Feb. 19. 

 Feb. 12. 

 Feb. 20. 

 Feb. 20. 

 Feb. 21. 

 Feb. 18. 

 Feb. 14. 

 Mar. 12. 



Feb. 20. 

 Feb. 22. 

 Feb. 21. 

 Feb. 21. 



Feb. 22. 



Feb. 6. 

 Feb. 18. 



Feb. 11. 

 Feb. 18. 

 Feb. 22. 

 Feb. 12. 

 Feb. 21. 

 Feb. 14. 



Feb. 18. 

 Feb. 22. 

 Feb. 22. 

 Feb. II. 

 Feb. 22. 

 Feb. 19. 

 Feb. 21. 

 Feb. 14. 

 Feb. 22. 

 Feb. 6. 

 Feb. G. 



Feb. 21. 

 Feb. 19. 

 Feb. 22. 

 I'Vb. 21. 

 Feb. 7. 

 Feb. 22. 

 Feb. 21. 



Feb. 

 F,b. II 

 Feb. 22, 

 Feb. 21, 

 I'Vb. 22 

 Feb. 21, 

 Feb. 22. 

 Feb. 21 

 Feij. 2). 

 Feb. 12 



Feb. 18. 



Feb. 27. 

 M,ar. 15. 

 Mar. 14. 



Mar. hi. 

 M.ar. I,'). 

 Mar. 18. 

 Mar. 18. 



Mar.'lS. 

 Mar. 18. 

 Mar. 7. 



Mai-.'l8. 

 Mar. 12. 



Mar, 8. 



Mar.'lS. 

 Mar. 20. 



Mar. 11. 



Mar. 11. 

 Mar. 18. 

 .Mar. 13. 

 Mar. 4. 



Mar. 13. 



Feb. 2.5. 

 Mar. 18. 



iMay. I, 

 Mar. 8. 

 M.ir. IS. 

 .Mar. 14. 

 Mar. 15. 

 Feb. 28. 



Mar. 15. 

 Mar. 18. 

 Mar. 27. 

 Mar. 4. 



Mar.'lS. 



Feb. 20. 

 Feb. 20. 



Mar. 18. 



Mar. 27. 

 Mar. G. 

 Feb. 21, 

 Mar. 18. 

 Mar. 18. 

 Ma>. 18. 



May' G. 



Mar.'lS. 



Mar. 18. 

 Mar.' 14. 



Bill read 

 second 

 time. 



Mar. 12. 

 Apr. 1'). 

 Apr. 8. 



Apr. 12. 

 Apr. 1. 

 Apr. 15. 



May 28. 

 Mar. 19. 

 Apr. 12. 

 A pr. 30. 

 Mar. 22. 



Mar. 21. 



M.ay 2S. 

 May 28. 



Mar. 27. 

 Apr. 8. 

 Apr. 8. 

 Mar. 21. 



Mar.25. 

 Mar. 13. 



May 28. 



Mar. 12. 

 Mar. C. 

 Apr.2G. 

 Apr. 8. 



Apr. 8. 



Mnr. 7. 

 Apr. 23. 



May 14. 

 Mar. 19. 



Apr. 8. 



Mar.'ll. 



Apr. 1 fi. 

 Apr. 10. 

 Mar. 14. 



Apr. 12. 



Mar. G. 

 Mar. 4. 



Apr. 12. 



Mar. 30. 

 Mar. 2G. 

 Mar. G. 



Mar. 27. 

 Mar. 25. 

 May 30. 



May 7. 



Apr. 8. 

 Apr.' S. 



Bill read 

 third 

 time. 



Apr. 15. 

 May' 3. 



June 13. 



May 31. 



May'l3. 

 May 3. 



June 20. 

 June 21. 



May 30. 

 May 28. 

 Apr. 16. 

 June 7. 



May' 3. 

 May 1. 



May 1.3. 

 May 30. 



May" 3. 



May' 3. 



May 3. 



Jfay'sO. 

 May 3. 

 Apr'.'lS. 



June 4. 

 June 4. 

 May 1. 



June 3. 

 May 2. 



Mar. lil. 

 Mar. 15. 



Mar, 15. 



May 30. 

 May C. 



June 10. 

 May 28. 

 May 1 5. 

 June 19. 



lune 13. 



May H. 

 May' 3. 



Royal 

 Assent. 



July 1. 



July 1. 



July 1. 



July 19. 

 July 19. 



July 1. 



June 14. 

 June 4. 



June 4. 



June 14. 

 June 14. 



June 4. 



June 4. 



July 4. 



July'l. 

 July '4. 



July 19. 

 July 19. 

 July 1. 



June 4. 



July'l. 

 luly 1. 



July 1. 

 June 14. 

 July 19. 



July'l. 



July 4. 

 Julv'l, 



ENGINEERING WORKS. 



The Patent Rotative Disc Engine. — Mr. Wliishavv having been requested to 

 examine mid report on the principle of coiistruetioii of the Rotative Disc 

 Engine, and to institute a comparison between it and those of the recipro- 

 cating kind, devoted a week to the purpose, and examined si.x difTereut en- 

 gines, the whole of vvliieh were represented by the parties at whose works 

 they are in use, to ha\e performed their duties most satisfactorily. One of 

 these engines (-\Ir. Wbishaw observes) has been working for fifteen months, 

 and has only required dining tins period the expenditure of three shillings 

 for rejiairs. Mr. Whishaw continues : — " The advantages to be derived from 

 a rotative engine of simple construction, yet producing a mechanical eft'ect 

 equal to one on the reciprocating principle, at much less original cost, aud 

 with less expenditure of fuel, must be obvious to every one. Such a ma- 

 chine has long been a desideratum amongst engineers. The attempts which 

 have hitherto been made to accomplish this desirable object, so far as my 

 knowledge extends, have failed, either from the motion of the various parts 

 of the machine being such as to produce so great an amount of friction, 

 and, consequently, of rapid destruction ; or from the engines requiring a 

 greater supply of steam to efi'ect a given amount of work. In my examina- 

 tion, therefore, of this invention, I have particularly directed :ny attention 

 to these two important points. As regards the first, I find the moving parts 

 of this engine are so few in mmiber, and their motion so uniform and regu- 

 lar, that the amount of friction must be very materially reduced ; the wear, 

 therefore, of these moving parts, and their liability to derangement, will be 

 reduced in a proportionate degree. This opinion is fully borne out by the 

 examination I have made of several engines, which have been in operation 

 for a considerable time ; some of these were taken to pieces in my presence, 

 for the piu'pose of ascertaimug the wear of the moving parts, the amount of 

 which appeared so small as to be ina])]ireciable. With respect to the 

 second, viz., the quantity of steam reqmred to perform a certain amount of 

 work — I have made several trials with an engine of this construction at the 

 works of the British Alkali Company, near Bromsgrove, which is appUed to 

 a gi'cat variety of v\-ork, but as a considerable portion of the duty performed 

 consists of pumping, I was thus enabled to make such a comparison between 

 the ditterent portions of the work, as to obtain an accurate indication of the 

 whole duty performed. The result of these trials is, that the work done by 

 this twenty-four inch Disc Engine, working with steam at 29 lbs. pressure, is 

 equal to twenty horses' power, after making ample allowance for friction ; 

 and the consmnption of fuel (common Staffordshire coal) is equal to two 

 hundred weight per hoiu", or rather more than efejiafji^of/H/f*' per horse per 

 hour. This engine is worked by high-pressure steam, which, after perform- 

 ing its duty, passes into the atmosphere ; and, during the experimental trials, 

 I found, by the mercurial steam guage, that the average pressm'C was equal 

 to 29 lbs. on the inch ; but in order to work this engine to the greatest ad- 

 vantage, the pressine should be considerably increased. I am informed, that 

 this engine was fixed upwards of twelve months ago, at which time the 

 patentees had not acquired the experience in its construction which they 

 now possess. Taking all these circumstances into consideration, viz., the 

 want of experience, the disadvantageous pressure at which the engine is 

 working, the inferior quality of coal used, and the amount recpiired per 

 horse power, and, nmreover, that this amount does not exceed the quantity 

 consumed for a high-pressure reciprocating engine of equal power, I am of 

 opinion, that Rotative Disc Engines, constructed with all the advantages 

 necessarily to be obtained by experience, will be found to be decidedly 

 economical rs regards the consumption of fuel. Tnis engine, which I find 

 to be equal to twenty-horse power, with steam at 29 lbs. would, with steam 

 at 43. \ lbs., be equal to thirty-horse work. It occupies a space equal to four 

 feet square by seven feet high, and its whole weight, including the frame, is 

 41 cwt. 3 qrs. 16 lbs., but as the frame of this engine is too light, an addi- 

 tional weight will he necessary for giving steadiness to the machine, which 

 would probably increase the weight to 21 tons; whilst, I am informed, that 

 the weiglit of a high-pressure reciprocating engine of equal power would 

 not be less than twenty tons. The foundation of this engine consists of 

 brick-work nccnpyiug four feet siinarc by five feet deep." — Abriilijcd from 

 the Mid. Count. Herald. 



Demnsliire.— An iron briJge of three arches, each 30 feet span, is to Ije 

 erected over the river Ottir, near Newton Popplefcnd, under the directions of 

 Messrs. Green and Son, of I'ixeter. 



Roclifste.r.—\Vc arc infcnmed that the foundation stone of the new bridge 

 over the river Uo\e, will be laid on Thursday, the 8th day of August next, 

 at 12 o'clock at noon ; and that the commissioners and their friends dine to- 

 gether at lour o'clock (jn the s.amc day, at the Black Swan Inn, Uttoxetcr. 

 The stone will be laid with masonic honours. 



Worcester and Binniniiliam Canal.— Ai the last half-yearly meeting of pro- 

 prietors, held at Wincester, it w.as stated that the company had engaged a 

 dredging machine, for the purpose of t;iking out the shoals in the Severn 

 below Worcester, with a view to remove those impediments to trade wdiich 

 now exist. The operation is expected to be commenced in about two 

 tnunths. 



Ribhlc Navigation Improvemnit. — We ai'e enabled to state, from the best 

 sources of inform.ation, that the operations of the Ribbic Improvement un- 

 dertaking are proceeding most sntisl'actorily. The constructiun of the cofier- 

 ilam is completed, and everything is in readiness fur commencing the dis- 

 lodgement of the water on Monday ne.xt; the engine and all the pumi)ing 



