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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 



[March, 



of which she can carrv about tight hundred tuns, are in. she will probaMy 

 draw five fi-c! mere, the model of this great «ar steamer wis drafted by 

 two otTuers of the Russian Navy Bnt of the steam frigate— no vessel of the 

 kind Ihat Ins ever crossed the Atlantic is like her. ^he is superior to the 

 Western. '.he Queen. »rn] \\\Q Frt^idenlf':') Her liows are sharp — her stern is 

 round — her bend is gradual and symmetrical — her «heel-houses are neat and 

 not too laree. and her whole appearance is rich, attractive, and man-fif-« ar 

 like. .She lias ihree masts, -.vhich. togeiher with her ri^'ging, are very light. 

 This will contribute, in a great degree, to her speed against head winds. 

 Large iinwieldly spars are decidedly Lad, when winds arc unfavourable. Her 

 internal arrangements will be neat, chaste, and beai tiful. Her annamcnt is 

 to be very formidable. She can discharge at every broadside more tli-.n four 

 hundred pounds of shot ! She will mount sixteen fifty-four and thirty-two 

 pounders on the second deck, and two ninety-six pounders hollow thot. ciUeil 

 by the humane, death dealers, on the upper deck, » hich is Hush fore and aft 

 — a clear run i>{ two hundred and twenty feet. Her engines will be about 

 six hundred hcrse power. They will be equal to the ship, for no e.\pense is 

 to be spared in having them perfect. What her speed will be. is. of course, 

 not yei known. We can only guess that she will go pretty fast, it not faster. 

 Anoiher account says — A splendid steam frigate, built at New York, .''or the 

 Emperor (.f Russia, was launched on the 24th November. She is to be called 

 the Kamtsrhatka. and is of the burden of 2.281 tons, of the length of 24C feet 

 6 inches. Breadth acros-s the paddle wheels. 66 feet. Her armament is to 

 consist of twelve 36 pounders, four 54 pounders, and two DC pounders for 

 throwing hollow shut. 



Steam Naiipolion.—lf the French Government carry their proposition for 

 admitting the importatitn of foreign marine steam engines tree of duty, it 

 Hill give extensive employment to the engine manufacturers in this country, 

 aud greatly extend French steam navigation. 



K'est India Mail Steam Packet Ccmpany. — This Company have in hand 14 

 steam vessels of 1400 tons burthen, each to be fitted with a pair of engines of 

 220 horse power — 6 pair are being made in the Clyde, 2 pair by Fawcctt r.nd 

 Co.. 2 pair by Maudslay and Field. 2 pair by Miller. Ravenhill and Co.. and 

 2 pair by Acraman and Morgan— the parties are under heavy engagements 

 to have them ready within a very short time. 



New York. — We believe that we are at last enabled to announce the estab- 

 lishment of a New York line of steam ships between New York and Kngland. 

 The preliminaries are, we understand, nearly completed, and within a short 

 time the keels of four gig.antic vessels will be laid. They are to be about 

 2,000 tons, with engines of 800-horse power. — New York CcTr.mercial Adver- 

 tiser. 



The City of Dublin Sleam-paeket Compariji — We understand that this Com- 

 pany have decided on laying down two new steamers immediately, to run. in 

 conjunction with their unrivalled vessels, the Prince and Princess, to and 

 from Kingstown. As the utmost speed that can be attained is determined on 

 witlujut regard to expense, the contracting parties are bound, under heavv 

 penalties, to construct them to outstrip any sea-going steamer afloat ; and 

 it is confidently anticipated, that the average passages will not exceed nme 

 hours. — Liverpool jllbion. 



FROGRZSS OF RAIL^VAVS. 



GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. 



Expenditure to December 31, 1840. 



Engineering, surveying, parliamentary, leg.al and general 

 expences ; construction of line and works, stations, land 

 and compensation, rails, chairs, &c. . , • . 



Locimotive engines and tenders, and establishment — car- 

 riages, wagorTs. trucks, and horse boxes .... 228.094 16 

 Purchase of Warrington Si. Newton line .... 6.5,463 7 



Purchase of Chester and Crewe line 192,550 



■Expended to Dec. 31, in works, &c. on Chester & Crewe line 65,475 14 

 Interest on loans previously to the completion of the line . 22,270 18 

 Arrears of fourth call on half-shares, less received on account 

 of fifth call on do., and Warrington St Newton interest not 

 applied for 1,5S5 8 9 



1,616,606 10 10 



Total 



Value of Stock. December 31, 1840. 



Locomotive Kngine Department .... 

 Waggon, horse Dox. and carriage truck department 

 Coach-building department . . ' . . 



Total value 



£2.162.046 15 5 



109,215 6 8 



53,451 7 5 



51,843 14 3 



£214,510 8 4 



ifancliesttr and Birmingham Railuay — The Dire cti rs of the Railway have, 

 by a unanimous vote, awarded to John BIyth, Esq., V.P. of the Architcclur.il 

 Society of London, and R. Cromwell Carpenter. Esq., F.S.A., the premium 

 of two hundred pounds for their designs for the Mancnester Station. 



Tlie Strasburg and Basle Railway Company has just received from the 

 bank of France the sum of 4,200. COOf. on a warrant from tlie treasury, 

 being the first of the three instalments of 12,600,000f. which the French go- 

 vernment is authorised to lend it. The Company therefore is about to adopt 

 additional measures for carrying on their works. 



LONDON' AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. 

 Expenditure to December 31, 1840. 



To land and compensation 721,566 14 3 



To works of road and stations 4,348,269 12 5 



To locomotive stock, viz. — engines, tenders, tools, and im- 

 plements 1.54.635 7 



To can ying stock, viz.— coaches, trucks, wagons, cranes, S:c. 195,310 5 

 To charges, viz. — 



Obtaining act of incorporation 72,868 18 10 



Law charges, conveyancing, engineering, advertising, antl 



firinting. direction, office exjienses. salaries, .and sundries 172.175 9 

 To interest on loans, previous to general opening. 17lh Sept. 

 1838, and debenture charges 127.649 8 6 



Total . £5.792,475 8 7 



Value of locomotive engines and carriage stock, Dec. 31, 

 1840 ......... 



£349,945 5 7 



394.668 passengers travelled on this railway during the last year, each an 

 average distance of CSf miles. 



LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY. 

 Extracts from the last Report. 



The cost of lopomotive power, per train, has been Is. 2|rf. per mile. 



Relayingof the line, together with the asphalting over nearly 500 arches have 

 been completed, and the new rails on cross sleepers laid thereon, and. so soon 

 as the season of the year will permit, the remainder will be proceeded with. 

 — 1.566,736 passengers were safely conveyed over this line during the past 

 year. 



In conformity with an act obtained last session, empowering the Company 

 to increase the width of the railway from the London station to the junction 

 with the Croydon Railway, so as to admit of four lines of way instead of 

 two. as heretofore, two contracts have been entered into for widening the 

 railway as above mentioned, and which extend over about 2,400 yards, leav- 

 ing only about 660 yards of the line and the addition to the station to be 

 contracted for. A list of the tenders for the first contract was given in. the 

 Journal for last December, and we now annex a list of tenders for the last 

 contract. 



Messrs. Little St Sons £16.350 



Messrs. Lee 17,628 



Mr. Jackson 17,650 



Messrs. Grissell Jc Peto 17,734 



Mr. Grimsdell 17,986 



Mr. Munday 17,988 



Messrs M'ard 18.650 



Mr. Bennett 18.764 



Messrs. Baker & Son 19.340 



Mr. Mac Intosh 21.283 



BL.\CKM'ALL RAILWAY. 



List of Tenders for the extension from the Minories to Fenchurch-street, 

 delivered in on the 23rd ult. 



Jackson . . . £29.800 



Webb . . 30,333 



Baker and Son . , 31.888 



Lee ... 32,333 



Piper . . . 32.690 



Grissell and Peto . . 33.000 



Grimsdell . . . 33.120 



tubitt . . . 33.940 



Bridger . . . 34,900 



Stockton and Hartlepool Railway.— On Tuesday the 16th ult., this new Rail- 

 way was opened by tne Directors, and on the following day to the public. It 

 connects the flourishing ports of Stockton and Hartlepool, and must prove a 

 convenient means of communication between the two places. The undertak- 

 ing altogether reflects the highest degreeof credit on the public-spirited com- 

 pany who are engaged therein, and also on the talented engineers and their 

 assistants, and the contractors who have been employed in executing the 

 work. Ill point of fact, we shall not overstate our feeling on this subject, if 

 we remark that the wav in w hich the works have been finisheil on the Stock- 

 ton and Hartlepool railway aflbnls a model of railroad construction. Messrs. 

 George Leather and Son, of Leeds, are the eng neers-in-chief, and Mr. John 

 Fowler, their assistant, was the resident engineer. — Leeds Mercury. 



Railway to Cambridge. — In the last month there have been no less tlian 

 three difterent surveys between Bishops Stoitford and Cambridge, one for 

 extending the line ol the Northern and Eastern Railway to the latter place ; 

 one line by the East Anglian Railway ; and the other for the railway to 

 York, througli Lincoln. We certainly think it a great fault in the present 

 state of affairs for new companies, as in the above case, to attempt to do too 

 mtich. It would have been far better for the projectors of the lines from 

 Norwich and York, to have made an arrangement with the Northern and 

 Eastern Railway Company to have completed their line to Cambridge, from 

 which the other two lines could then have diverged, and at some future time 

 a line to the westward, through Bedford to Rugby, and unite with the Lon- 

 don and Birmingham Railway. By such a step the expense of conflicting 

 surveys, and perhaps of a parliamentary contest woitld DC avoided, and the 

 Eastern Counties really benefited. 



