1839.] 



THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



477 



Birmiii^linm. Lni/iiif; the Cnnier-stnite of SI. CImd's Church. — TIip foundation 

 sttiiie of tlu' Roman Catholic Church in' Hath Street, was laid with Rivat so- 

 lemnity on Tuesday, 29th ult., accordin;; to the form prescribed by the Roman 

 Catholic Church. Owing to tlie irregidarity and declivity of the ground, Mr. 

 Pugin, the architect, deemed it necessary to erect, under the great church, a 

 crypt for the interment of the dead, connected «ith which is a mortuary 

 chapel, where service for the dead will be performed. The plan of the super- 

 structure will be, internally, cruciform ; consisting of a nave, transept, aisles, 

 and choir, at the entrance of w Inch will be constructed an open screen, usually 

 termed the rood loft. The space between this and the sanctuary will be 

 filled with .incient stalls, brought from Cologne, of exquisite carving, in the 

 style of the 13th century. Tho high altar will be in the ancient triptic form, 

 atid will be entirely decorated in the same pure and beautiful style of archi- 

 tecture. The windows, which will terminate the apsis of the choir, will be 

 filled with rich stained glass, the munilicent gift of the Earl of .Shrewsbury. 

 The church « ill altogether contain five altars ; one in the chapel of the Blessed 

 Virgin. tH I) at the entrance of the choir, the high altar, and one in St. Peter's 

 crypt. — Miilland Counties Ilcrahl. 



St. Helen's — On Tuesday, 8th Oct., two circumstances of iiiii>ortanco to tlie 

 improving and prosperous town of St. Helen's took place— the consecration 

 of a new church ami the opening of a new Town Hall. The buildings are 

 such as rellect the highest credit on the arch'tecis, Messrs. A. & G. Williams, 

 of Tarlton-street, Liverpool, and besides being useful, are really ornamental. 

 The Town Hall is situated in the new market place. The elevation is in the 

 inodern Italian style. The front is to the market square, and has a rusticated 

 basement, supporting in the centre a Corinthian portico, over which is a 

 ballustrade ; the entablature of the centre is beautifully enriched, w hilst the 

 cornice of the wings is plain and massive, and supported on brackets. The 

 groun<l floor is occupied by various offices. In tlie centre is a handsome 

 entrance, and a stone staircase, w Inch leads to the principal floor, containing 

 a news room, 26 feet by 26 feet, and a magistrate's private cKamiuation-room. 

 The court room is remarkably spacious and neat. It is 65 feet long, 36 

 feet wide, and 22 feet high, decorated with pilasters, and a panelled ami 

 enriched ceiling, through wdiich light is introduced, mellowed by passing 

 through ground and stained glass. The room is veniilated by means of 

 scroll-work panels between the pilasters, which may be closed or opened by 

 wires and cranks worked in the magistrate's retiring-room. The contract for 

 the building amounted to £3000. Mr. Morrison being the contractor. — The 

 church is in the early English Gothic, the style of architecture which pre- 

 vailed in England at the latter end of the 12th and the early part of the 13lh 

 centuries, and in the form of a Latin cross. The principal entrances are in 

 the transepts, through deeply recessed arches, and connected by a spacious 

 aisle. The galleries extend only across the west end and tlie transept. There 

 is a square tower, 76 feet high, which has long lancet windows, to give light 

 to the gallery stairs. The whole is ornamented by gables and pinnaccles. 

 The contract for the church was about £3500. — Wisan Gazette. 



PUBLIC BUIIiDINGS, &c. 



Aberdeen. — A new market is about to be erected in this town under the 

 directions of Mr. Archibald Simpson, Architect. 



Glasgow.— A new theatre is erectin"' in this city, from designs by Mr. ^V\\- 

 liam Sjience. Architect ; also a new club house in the Italian style, designed 

 by Mr. David Ihamillon, Architect. The Custom House is nearly completed, 

 from designs by Mr. Taylor, of London. 



Edinburgh.— A new Museum for the Highland .Society is just completed, 

 from designs by Mr. John Henderson, architect, in the style of Elizabeth and 

 .lames I. 



Liverpool. — On the 24th ult. the foundation stone was laidjof a new Insti- 

 tution iorthe Deaf and Dumb, to be erected from designs of Messrs. Cunning- 

 h,am and Holme, architects, on the site of the old Botanic Gardens, Oxford 

 Street. The building is to be of a plain Grecian character, the entrance front 

 being relieved by a solid projection in the centre, surmounted by a moulded 

 cornice and pediment. A parapet or attic will be carried round the principal 

 fronts, and etfectually hide the roof of the building. A portico of beautiful 

 proportions, comprising two Ionic columns, in Antes, w ill form the entrance 

 to tiie principal floor, on each side of which w ill be windows, with moulded 

 architraves. Tlie wliole of the principal fronts are intended to be o' white 

 stone. 



Woolwich. — We are happy to learn that the observatory, some time since 

 in contemplation, for the officers of the Royal Artillery and Engineers, is 

 now in course of immediate construction. The site chosen for the building 

 Is in the barrack-field, between the Repository .and the Mortar Battery, on 

 the right wing of the barracks. — M'oolwich Advertiser. 



Ireland. The Caledon Tesliuumial. — We are happy to learn that our towns- 

 man, Thomas J. Duif, Esq., has been the successful competitor for the pre- 

 mium otlercd for the best design for the Caledon testimonial. And when we 

 mention that there were submitted in comn-tition thirty-two plans, the f ct 

 that Mr. Duff's obtained the preference, sufficiently attests the superior taste 

 and ability of that gentleman. The approved design (with a sight of which 

 we have been favoured) is a (jrecian iJoric column, placed on a stylobate or 

 pedestal composed from Athenian remains. T'be panels on the sides are to 

 be ornamented with appropriate sculpture, executed in Imsso relievo, and hav- 

 ing suitable inscriptions. The column is to be fluted, iind will measure up- 

 wards of 5'1 feet in height from its inferior diameter, and is to be surmounted 

 by ^cippus, on which will be placed the statue (jf the late lamented nobleman, 

 habited in his parliamentary robes, decorated with the collar of the order of 

 St. Patrick, and other insignia. The stylobate is seated on a broad basement, 

 with surrounding steps, teiminating al the angles by dwarf pedestals sup- 



porting lions eouehant. Including the steps, basement, ^c, the column, u laen 

 finished, will be nearly 100 feet in height. The whole is to be constructed of 

 white freestone, procured from a (piarry in the neighbourhood of Caledon.— 

 Neiery Examiner. 



raiSCSIiZiANEA. 



A New Mathematic.a,l Instrument for the purpose of ascertaining 

 terrestrial distances and heights, has been invented by Mr. T. Sheffield, of 

 this tomi. " It is very neat, and so portable that it may be earned in the 

 pocket. It is, moreover, very simple in its ap])lication ; merely requiring its 

 sights— after some necessary adjustment at two convenient stations whose 

 distance has been measured — to be directed towards the object ; and then a 

 divided index or handle points out, upon the geometrical principle of similar 

 triangles, how many times the distances of the object fi'om the stations con- 

 tains the measured base line. It is also fiuaiishcd with two levels for placing 

 it either in the horizontal or vertical plane." — Carlisle Journil. 



A New Agricultural Machine. — "A Forest Farmer," in a Notting- 

 ham paper, calls the attention of agriculturists to the newly invented machine 

 of Messrs. Winrow and Carey, for the destruction of seeds, weeds, ami in- 

 sects on land, by burning the surface. lie says — " it destroys animal and 

 this vegetable m.itter, consequently makes manure ; and to use the machine at 

 time of the year, would destroy the slugs and their eggs, which would be of 

 the greatest importance to the farmer. My mind upon this subject was, like 

 many others, hard of belief, until the ploughing match at Ramsdalc Farm on 

 the 15th ult., when I was astonished to see this machine at work : althougli it 

 rained fast and the gi'ass was very wet, the machine did its work in excellent 

 style. Mr. AVinrow informed me that he cotdd make a light port,ablc ma- 

 chine, to be worked by two men without horses, that would burn about two 

 acres per day, — say one acre per day : paring and burning would cost 1/. Os. 

 per acre by spade ; so by this machine, sujiposiug two men at 3s.- each per 

 day, and coal 3,?. per day, there woidd be a saving of l/s. per acre to the 

 farmer, besides 70 per cent, in manure. 



Russian Observatory.— The grand observatory at Pulkhova, near St. Peters- 

 burgh, has been opened. 



£<-i^s of Wind for raising fc's.s<-/s.— We witnessed an interesting experiment 

 this ftrenoon on board the revenue cutter Hamilton, Captain Sturgis, which 

 was intended to illustrate the practicability of raising a vessel by means ot 

 cylindrical bags placed under her bottom, and tilled with almosidieric air. 

 The bags were each of large size, capable of containing 2,500 cubic feet of 

 air. They « ere confined by means of ropes passing under the keel, and after- 

 wards filled by two forcing-pumps propelling the air through tubes into the 

 cylindrical floats. The bags were made of three parts of stout cotton canvass, 

 made air and water tight by means of India-rubber, and w ere prepared by 

 M.I. Howard, of Roxbury. under the direction of the inventor, Mr. M'Kean. 

 The cutter was raised considerably Ijy this process, but the floats were made 

 for a larger vessel, and. when inflated, a large portion of them rose above the 

 water. The utihty of this apparatus, thus adapting a well-known principle 

 in pneumatics to a practical use, must be obvious to every one. It will 

 eiKible vessels with large draughts of water to pass over barred harbours, as 

 New Orleans. Mobile, Ocracoke Inlet, ivc, without lightening. It may be 

 used also with advantage to various other purposes, as raising a ve-ssel sunk 

 in several fathoms of water, he. — Boston. Mercantile Journal. — This plan of 

 raising sunken vessels has been known in England several years. — Ed. C. E. 

 and A. Journal. 



Remains of a Cetacea. — M. Laubepin has announced to the Academy of 

 Sciences, that he has found in Louisiana the fossil head of a cetaceous 

 animal. 



Ajine suit of armour has recently been discovered in an old manor-house in 

 the Vienne, which antiquaries declare to have belonged to an officer who 

 fought at tlic battle of Poictiers. It is to be sent to tlie Musee d'Artdlerie 

 of Paris. 



LIST OP KTE'W PATENTS. 



GRANTED IN ENGLAND FRO.M SlST OCTOUHR TO 2CtII NOVEMBER, 1839. 



Stephen George Dorday, of Blackman-strect, Borough, Chemist, for 

 " certain improvemmts in the manufacture of ijelatine si:e ffwrf y/ae."— Sealed 

 October 31 ; six months for enrolment. 



David Greenwood, of Liverpool, millright, and William Pickerring, 

 the same place, mercliant, for " im2)rovements in mgines for oblaining pmver." 

 — November 2 ; six months. 



Samuel Morand, of Manchester, merchant, for " improvement.^ in ma- 

 chinery for si retchiny fabrics." — November 2 ; six mouths. 



Theobald Wahl, of George-yard, Lombard-street, engineer, for " im- 

 provements in boilers applicable to locomotive and other enyines," — Novem- 

 ber 2 ; six months. 



Alexander Angus Croll, of Greenwich, mauufacturing chemist, for 

 " iniprovemeni.'i in the mantifacture of yas, and in re-convertiny the salts 

 used in purifying yas, and improvements in the manufacture of ummoniucal 

 salts." — November 2 ; six mouths. 



John Gotten, of Margate, coal merchant, for "improvements in garden 

 pots" — November 2 ; six months. 



