1846.] 



THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 



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EAILAYAYS NOW AT WORK IN THE UNITED STATES, 



(Together with the length 

 Maine, New Hampshire, 

 Massachusetts. 

 Portland, Saco, and Portsmouth, 50 m. 

 Concord, 35 in. 

 Boston and Maine, 56 m. 

 Boston and Maine Extension, 17| m. 

 Boston and Lowell, 26 m. 

 Boston and Providence, 41 m. 

 Boston and Worcester, 44 m. 

 Berkshire, 21 m. 

 Charlestown branch. 

 Eastern, 54 m. 

 Fitchburg, 50 ra. 

 Nashua and Lowell, 14-J m. 

 New Bedford and Taunton, 20 m. 

 Northampton and Springfield. 

 Norwich and Worcester, 59 m. 

 Old Colony. 

 Stoughton branch, 4 m. 

 Taunton branch, 11 ra. 

 Vermont and Massachusetts. 

 West Stockbridge, 3 m. 

 Western (117 miles in Mass.) 156 m. 

 Worcester branch to Milbury. 

 Housatonic, (10 months,) 74 m. 



Connecticut. 

 Hartford and New Haven, 38 m. 

 Hartford and Springfield, 25^ ra. 

 Stonington (year ending Sept. 1) 48m. 



New York. 

 Attica and Buffalo, 31 ra. 

 Auburn and Rochester, 78 m. 

 Auburn and Syracuse, 26 m. 

 Buffalo and Niagara, 22 m. 

 Erie (446 miles). 

 Erie, opened, 53 m. 

 Harlem, 26 m. 

 Hudson and Berkshire, 31 m. 

 Long Island, 96 m. 

 Mohawk and Hudson, 17 m. 

 Saratoga and Schenectady, 22 m. 

 Schenectady and Troy, 20^ m. 

 Syracuse and Utica, 53 m. 

 Tonnawanda, 43 m. 

 Troy and Greenbush, 6 ra. 

 Troy and Saratoga, 25 ra. 

 Utica and Schenectady, 78 m. 



New Jersey. 

 Camden and Amboy, 61 ra. 

 Elizabethtown and Somerville, 25 m. 

 New Jersey, 34 m. 

 Paterson, 16 m. 



of each railway in miles.) 

 Philadelphia, 

 Beaver Meadow, 26 m. 

 Cumberland Valley, 46 m. 

 Harrisburg and Lancaster, 36 m. 

 Hazleton branch, 10 m. 

 Little Schuylkill, 29 m. 

 Blossburg and Corning, 40 m. 

 Mauch Chunk, 9 m. 

 Minehill and Schuylkill Haven, 18 m. 

 Norristown, 20 m. 

 Philadelphia and Trenton, 30 m. 

 Pottsville and Danville, 29i m. 

 Reading, 94 m. 

 Schuylkill Valley, 10 ra: 

 WiUiamsport and Elmira, 25 m. 

 Philadelphia and Baltimore, 93 m. 



Delaware. 

 Frenchtown, 10 ra. 



Maryland. 

 Baltimore and Ohio (Oct. 1), 188 m. 

 Baltimore and Susquehanna, 58 m. 

 Baltimore and Washington, 38 m. 



Virginia. 

 Greensville and Roanoke, 17J m, 

 Petersburg and Roanoke, 60 m. 

 Portsmouth and Roanoke, 78J m. 

 Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Poto- 

 mac, 76t' ro. 

 Richmond and Petersburg, 22 m. 

 Winchester and Potomac, 32J m. 



North Carolina. 

 Raleigh and Gaston, 84 m. 

 Wilmington and Raleigh, 161 m. 



South Carolina. 

 South Carolina, 136 m. 

 Columbia, 66 m. 



Georgia, 

 Central, 190J m. 

 Georgia, 147 ra. 

 Montgomery and \Vest Point, 89 m. 



Kentucky. 

 Lexington and Ohio, 40 ra. 



Ohio, 

 Little Miami, 40 m. 

 Mad river, 40 m. 



Indiana. 

 Madison and Indianapolis, 56 m. 



Canada. 

 Champlain and St. Lawrence, 15 m. 



FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM. 



The Syndicate appointed to report on the state in which the designs for 

 the building are left, and of the engagements made with the contractors for 

 the execution of the work, have reported as follows : — 



" The Syndicate find by an examination of the drawings left by Mr. Basevi 

 (which have been sent for their inspection by his brother, Mr. N. Basevi), 

 that the designs for the greater part of the work remaining to be executed 

 are in a forward state, but they conceive that these designs not having been 

 perfected, require, for the completion of the work, the assistance of an 

 architect of the same order as Mr. Basevi in professional eminence and skill. 



" The Syndicate think it highly desirable that the building should be com- 

 pleted with a close adherence to Mr. Basevi's intentions, so far as they appear 

 in a settled form in his designs. 



" The Syndicate have also ascertained, by inquiry of Mr. N. Basevi and 

 Mr. Baker, the state of pending engagements with Mr. Baker, and the results 

 of this inquiry will be laid upon the registrar's table. 



" The Syndicate, considering the high professional character of Mr. 

 Cockerel], and the confidence already reposed in him by the University, beg 

 leave to recommend that Mr. Cockerell be appointed Mr. Basevi's successor 



as architect of the new Fitzwilliam Museum, with instructions to adhere as 

 closely as may be to Mr. Basevi's designs in carrying on the work to its 

 completion." 



In; accordance with that report a grace passed the Senate to appoint 

 Mr. Cockerell architect of the Fitzwilliam Museum, in the room of the late 

 lamented Mr. Basevi. 



Newcastle Philosopliicut Society.— An excellent paper has been read by 

 Mr. Armstrong (the inventor of tiie hydro-electric machine,) on the appli- 

 cation of water pressure as a motive power, to be supplied from street 

 mains. The lecturer illustrated his remarks by a model of a crane for 

 lifting heavy weights, aud he had the complete control of the motive power, 

 and speed for raising, lowering, or turning round variab:e loads. He 

 referred to a paper in the Mechanic's Magazine of April, 1840, on the 

 subject, and w ished his claim of priority of application of this povter lo be 

 confirmed. The mechanical arrangement was very 

 perfect. The lecturer exhibited also a machine for 

 circular motion ; a a curved pipe, with water pres- 

 sure beneath ; b a circular disc, or piston, with 

 otiiers similar to it, arranged at equal distances ia 

 the periphery, and they are, like the reefing paddles, 

 made to enter edgeways into the curved pipe, and 

 to turn transverse to act as pistons ; each succes- 

 sive piston entering before the preceding leaves the 

 curved pipe. The machine is applicable to copper- 

 mill lathes, where a motive power of amount is required at intervals, and 

 the cost of power is estimated at only one-third the cost of manual labour. 



MISC£Z.I.Arj£:A. 



Astronomical Oesf.rvations. — A parliamentary document has just been 

 printed, in answer to a return of fllr. Hume, for a copy ot inslructions to astronomers ot 

 the several observatories at home and abroad in the year lt*3r-8, with tlie number of vo- 

 lumes ot astronomical observations made at each observatory since that year. It appears 

 that no instructions were sent by the Board of Admiralty to the Astronomer Royal ii: 

 183r-8. One volume of astronomical obs&rvations is printed in each year by the Royal 

 Observatory. A report is annually made in the month of June to the Board of Visitors 

 by the Astronomer Iloyal on the stale of the observator>, and communicated to the Board 

 of Admiralty. It is added, that at the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope no 

 astronomical observations have been printed since the year 1838, the astronomer and his 

 assistants having been chiefly employed in the measurement of an arc of the meridian. 

 Dili'erent volumes of astronomical observations made at Greenwich and elset; here have 

 been printed since IS'.C, under the superintendence of the Stationery-office. 



St. Mary's Church, .at Beverley. — A local paper says that the restorations 

 of this tine ediQce are progressing satisfactorily, and the work already executed is done in 

 a substantial manner. A barrel drain of sufficient dimensions has been laid at a consi- 

 derable depth round the church, which proves very efficient in keeping not only the floor 

 of the nave and chancel, but the whole building perfectly dry. The flagged area and 

 parapet wall, and the approaches to the five entrances, are finished. The foundations of 

 the fabric have been carefully examined, and the basements of the buttresses, the walls, 

 aud their respective weather mouldings, repaired and restored to a considerable height; 

 so that the stability of the structure may so far now be considered as secure as when Inrst 

 erected. The interior of the crypt is being proceeded with, and what has lor ares seemed 

 only a miserable-looking cellar, choked up with accumulations of soil,, and bones and 

 debris of every kind, already assumes a haudsome appearance. 



Present of Medieval Antiquities to the British MtsEt.M. — AVe understand 

 that Lord Prudhoe, anxious for the formation, in England, of apublic national collection 

 in illustration of national antiquities, and persuaded that the British Museum is the best 

 and most extensively available place o- dejiosit for sueli a collection, has made an offer on 

 subjrct to the Archteological Institute, — whose authority in such matters he desires'to 

 recognize and reserve. He proposes, we believe, to present to the JIuaeuui, through the 

 nredium of the institute, and as a result of the ntceling at Winchester, his collection o 

 remarkable antiquities which were exhibited in the Museum on that occasion, — on con- 

 dition that the trustees shall undertake to set apart a proper place for collections of the 

 kind. Such is the report in antiquarian circles ; and we have reason to believe that the 

 example of Lord Prudhoe has already been fruitlul in other otfers of a similar kind, in the 

 event of the arrangement which is its condition taking effect. We have little doubt that a 

 proposal of the kind will determine an arrangement for a separate assemblage and exhibi- 

 tion, in our great national institution, of the works of British and T-Iediieval Ait : and the 

 influence of the Institute will then have been early felt, in the formation. throtM^li their 

 means and authority, of a department which has been so long felt to be a necessary 

 feature of such an establishment. At the same time the Institute has no intention, 

 while ministering to their larger object, to abandon the formation of similar collections for 

 itself. Contributions to its library are, wc are glad to hear, rapidly coming in ; and one 

 of its projects is to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by its extended corres- 

 pondence, in the collection of materials for local history. A large number of impressions 

 from sepulchral biasses have also been presented ; aud the Society purposes, we believe, to 

 form, if possible, a complete collection of these memorials, tor the sake of their valuable 

 testimony on subjects of costume, family history, heraldry, and other antiquarian sub- 

 jects. — ' Athenaeum.' 



It is reported that an experimental squadron of steam vessels will put to sea to tr/ 

 their respective rates of sailing and steaming, and other features, as efficient and seri-ice- 

 able vessels of war, early in the ensuing spring, and that gunnery exercise will be a lead- 

 ing item in their trials, in order to ascertain which armament is best adapted for vessel* 

 of their class. The competing vessels named are the — 



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