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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



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NOTICES OF AITHCATIONS TO NEXT PARLIAMENT FOR LEAVE 

 TO BRING IN BILLS. 



METROPOLITAN IMmOVEMENTS. 



UoUmrn Improvements. — For forming a new road or street on a level, 

 commeneing at tlic corjicr of Bartlet's-bniklings, top of Holborn-liill, ajiil 

 proceeding at the liael; of St. Andrew's cluircli, passing over Farringdoii- 

 street on a liridge, and terminating at tlie Old liailey, opposite tlie end of 

 Newgate-street. 



Piccadillii t'l Ltimi Jere. — For forming a new street from I'iceadilly, alojig 

 Coventry-street, tlie nortli side of Leicester-stpiare, and terminating at the 

 jnnetion of Long-acre witli St. Martiii's-lane. 



Lunr/ .tire iu Cliarlnfle-ii/rect, lUnonixhunj. — For forming a new street 

 commencing ojijiositc How-street, Long-acre, and terminating at Bedford 

 Chapel, Charlotte-street, and also to widen the north east corner of King- 

 street, Seven-dials. 



O.rfurd-nl reel In Uolhorn. — For forunng a ricw street, eommencing from 

 the east end of Oxford-street, and terminating at the sontli end of Sonth- 

 ampton-street, Bloomshury. 



London Doeks lo Sjnialjiehh Chnrcft. — For forming a new street, running 

 nearly in a direct line with Leman-street, and terminating at tlie west front 

 of Spitalfields ehiirch. 



Fulham Road and Bromptnu Road. — For widening, &c. a lane or road 

 leading from the Bell and Horns Tavern in the Fulham-road, to the lloop 

 and Toy Tavern, ("lid Brompton, and thence to Earl's-eonrt ; and also for 

 continuing the ^'ictoria-road, commencing at the east end of Kensington, and 

 to terminate by the most direct line, at the north end of Battersea-tnidge. 



Metropolitan J!ridr/es. — For redeeming tlie tolls on Waterloo, Sonthwark 

 and Vauxhall-hridges, and levying a tax of sixpence per ton on coals. 



DOCKS, CAN.\LS, H.VRBOURS .\ND BRIDGES. 



Wi/rleij and Efmini/ton Ca»«o/.-'-For power to incorporate the Company with 

 the Birmingham Canal Navigation Company, and also for power to make 

 additional cuts or canals. 



Portsmouth Floatimj Bridge. — For power to improve lancUng places and 

 approaches. 



Portsmouth and Stokes Bai/. — For constructing a Pier and Tide Ilartioiir 

 at Kicker Point, situate at Stokes Bay, in the Parish of Alverstone, and 

 county of Southaniptoii ; and also for making, &c., a Sliip Canal from the 

 said harbour, and comniunicating with the hiu'bour of Portsmouth. 



Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, — For making a canalivowi the said 

 canal at Hinksford, in the parish of Kingswinford, and to terminate in a canal 

 now being formed by the Devisees of the late Earl of Dudley. 



The llercnlanenm Estate Sock Lancaster. — For taking tolls, &c., for docks 

 about to be constructed adjoining the river Mersey. 



Deptford. — For forming new docks. 



Deptford Pier. — To alter and amend act, and for purchasing additional 

 property. 



Portishead Bay, Somer.sels/iire. — For making a pier, &c., and a road to 

 Bristol. 



Soutltampfon. — For making wet docks at Northam ilarsh. 



Isle of Wiijht. — For improving, he, the harliour of East and M'est Cowes. 



Dartford and Crayford Creek. — For deepening and improving the said 

 Creeks. 



Gravesend. — For making, &c. a pier at the Royal Terrace Gardens, Milton. 



Leeds. — For building a bridye over the river Aire, and forming approaches. 



Fnl/tain and Putney Bridge. — For building, Sec. a bridye over the river 

 Thames, and for making approaches. 



Netccastle-upon-Tyae, — For erecting a bridge over the river Tyne. 



NEW RAILWAYS. 



Croydon and Briyhton Railways.- — For the formation of a railway from the 

 Croydon railway at or near the Dartmouth Anns, and terminating at the 

 Elephant and Castle, or from the Brighton railw.ay at the Junction of the 

 Croydon railway at Croydon, and terminating as aforesaid. 



Manchester and Birmingham Ilailwag. — For an extension of the raih\ ay 

 from Stone to Rugby. 



Neircastle-upon-Tyne to North Shields. — For the formation of a railwaj'. 



West Cumberland Railway and Morecamie Boy Inclosure. — For making a 

 railway and inclosing the said bay. 



FOR ALTERING OLD RAILWAY ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. 



Chester and Birkenhead Railway. — For jiowers to raise additional money, 

 and to alter time for purchasing land ; also for extending the railway from 

 Birkenhead to the river Mersey. 



Commercial or Blackwall Railway, — To alter powers and provisions. 



Eastern Counties Railway. — For alterations, &c. 



Grand Junction Railway and Chester and Crewe Railway. — Powersf or the 

 former Company to purchase the latter railway. 



Great Western Railway. — For making a station or depSt in the parishes of 

 Upton and Stoke Poges, Bucks, or one of them. 



Ilartlej ojl Dock and Railway Company. — Relative to the government of 

 the company. 



London Grand Junction Railway, — To alter, &c., and extend line. 



London and Greenwich Railway. — To enable the Croyrlon, the Brigbtun 

 and the South Eastern Railway Company, or one of them, to widen and 

 enlarge the present London and Greenwieli railway. 



London and Greenwich Railway. — For powers to alter tolls, tkc, and to 

 make a new station at the Soulhwark tcniiimis, 



Newcastle-npon-'I'ync and North Shields Railway. — For alterations, (*^c. 



Norlltern and Eastern Railway. — For pow'er to alter act, and make devia- 

 tions. 



South Eastern Railway Company. — To alter line in the pai'isbes of Sellingc 

 and Standford, in the comity of Kent. 



WATER COMPANIES. 



London and Westminster pure Water Company. — For making, &c. a con- 

 duit to convey water from streams, rivulets and springs at Bushcy-lodgc Mea- 

 dows, and the river Colne adjoining, and to terminate near the Eyre Arms 

 tavern, JIarylebone. 



Surrey and Kent. — For sujiplying the metropolis on the southern side of 

 the Thames, Deptford, Greenwieli, Woolwich, &c., with water from Merstham, 

 Surrey. 



Bradford Water-works. — For better supjilying the town with water. 



Newcaslle. — For better supplying the towns of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and 

 Gateshead. 



Derby. — For supplying the I own with water. 



E.reler Water Company. — For power to alter present act, and make addi- 

 tional works. 



FOR INXORI'ORATING COMPANIES. 



Farmers and General Fire and Life .'Vssm'ance and Loan and .Vniiuity Insti- 

 tution. 



Protestant Dissenters and General Life and Fire Insurance Company. 



The Scottish AVidow's Fund and Life Assurance Society. 



The Standard of England Life Assurance Company. 



The Talacre Coal and Iron Company. 



The Gwendraeth Anthracite and Iron Company. 



The I'nited Wood Paving Company. 



Gas Jlanufacturing Company. 



Great Forest Anthracite Coal and Iron Company. 



City of London (Jas Pipe Company. 



Great Leecl of the IVash. — Company for reclaiming from the Sea, draining 

 and improving, Ac. land within the great Estuary, called the Wash, in the 

 counties of Lincoln and Norfolk. 



North American Colonial Association of Ireland. 



FOR IXCOlirORATING COMPANIES TO PURCH.\SE THE ASSIGNMENTS OF 

 PATENTS. 



Carey's Patent, for certain improvements in paving or covering streets, 

 roads, and other ways. 



Kollmann's Patents, for iniproveiiients in railways, and in locomotive and 

 other carriages. 



Justin and Burke's Patents, for improvements in raising and lifting sunken 

 and floating vessels, and other bodies under or in the ^^'ater. 



T/ie I'nited Wood Paviny Company, to purchase patents for paving with 

 timber or wooden lilocks, and for improvements in wood paving. 



John's Patent, for improvements in colouring or painting walls and other 

 surfaces, and preparing materials used for that jiurpose. 



Daniel Stafford's Patents, for his invention, or certain improvements on 

 carriages. 



STEAM WAVIGATIOW, 



The Neui Steam-ship, " New York." — The " New York," now on the slocks 

 at the yard of Jlessrs. Wilson, North Shore, is rapidly advancing towards 

 completion. She is a noble looking vessel, superior in tonn.ige to the Liver- 

 pool, belonging to the same eonipaiiy ; is of a beautiful model, and biult in as 

 substantial a manner as any of her Majesty's ships. The following are her 

 dimensions : — Length over all, 233 feet ; beayi of the hull, 3G feet ti inches ; 

 beam over paddle-boxes, CO feet; depth of bold, 22 feet ; tonnage (supposed 

 new nieasurement) 1600 ; horse power of engines, -120. The frame of the 

 New York is of English oak, the bends and clumps of English ami African 

 oak. Her bottom is of .\nierican elm and Baltic timber. She is fastened 

 on the diagonal principle, by riders of iron let into the timbers, and crossed 

 at right angles by strong trusses of English oak. Her bottom plank is five 

 inches in thickness, the diagonal wood fastenings six inches. Her frame is 

 peculiarly constructed, her timbers Ijcing dowcUed or " coakcd " together in 

 a scicntitic manner. Every alternate timber has a screw bolt through it. 

 She is tilled in, fore and aft, six feet above the lower edge of the keel, and 

 caulked, the whole forming a solid mass of timber. Her bolt and minor 

 fastenings are entirely of copper. Her bilge planks, clumps, and bends, are 

 six inches in thickness. In her flooring she has apparently from twelve to 

 fourteen inches of a rise from the keel to the bilge; and lieing otherwise 

 liuely modelled, and anything but wall-sided, she can scarcely fail to attain 

 an nncommon speed under steam. On deck the New York has a very noble 

 appearance, from her great length and beam, and her uucnciuubcrcd deck 



