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THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



[October, 



FRENCH STEAMERS. 



The following list of vessels is from the Railway Moniteur, with the ports 

 at which they are being built, and the names of the engineers who are making 

 the enjines. They are 14 in number, of 450 H.y. each; the UUoa, Colum- 

 bus, and Labrador have been already launched, and it is expected that they 

 will all be ready for sea in the course of next year. 



Name. Port. Engineer. 



Darien 



Ulloa 



Christopher Columbus 



Ma ellan 



Cacique 



Eldorado 



Carib 



Canada 



Labrador 



Orinoco 



Albatross 



Greenland 



Montezuma 



Panama 



Espador 



Caimar 



Phoque 



Glan 



Cuvier 



M. Cave, of Paris. 



Government Steam Factory at Indret 



M. Schneider, of Creuzot. 



Cherbourgh 

 Ditto 

 Brest 

 Ditto 

 L'Orient 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Brest 

 Toulon 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 

 Rochefort 

 Ditto 

 Ditto 



Five War Steamers of 220 h. p. are also being built. 

 Indret "1 



\ M. Stehelin. 



Ditto 

 Bichwiller 

 Ditto 

 L'Orient 



M. Ilallette, of Arras. 



M. Pauwels. 



Miller, Ravenhill & Co. of London. 



American Mail Steam Ships. — The British and North American Royal 

 Mail Steam Company's new steam ship Hibernia was launched at Greenock 

 on Thursday 8th Sept. The Hibernia is about 200 tons larger and of 

 greater power than the present mail steam ships. Captain Edward C. Miller, 

 formerly of the Acadia, will now command the Columbia. If the new ship 

 only equal, in general efficiency and speed, the four vessels composing the 

 line, she will be a steamer of the first class . That she will equal, if she do 

 not exceed them in those indispensable qualities, the skill and judgment of 

 the managers of the company are sufficient guarantees. — Liverpool Albion. 



The Ilindostan. — This splendid vessel started from the Southampton Docks 

 on the 24th ult. for Calcutta ; she is destined for the navigation of the Indian 

 Seas, between Calcutta, Ceylon, and Suez, and forms part of the intended 

 fleet of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for establish- 

 ing a communication between England (from the Port of Southampton) and 

 our Indian possessions, via Alexandria and Suez ; between these two points 

 the communication will be as heretofore, overland. This vessel was built by 

 Messrs. Wilson, of Liverpool ; her length of keel is 220 feet, length over all 

 250 feet, beam inside the paddle-boxes 39 feet, depth 30-J- feet, burden 1,800 

 tons ; engines, 550 h. p. constructed by Messrs. Fawcett & Co., the eminent 

 engineers of Liverpool. She is fitted with Captain Smith's safety paddle-box 

 boats, which are so large that the whole of the crew and passengers could be 

 taken in them in any sea. She has also four large quarter boats and stern 

 boat. She is divided by wrought-iron water-tight bulkheads into five com- 

 partments. In our next number we sliall give some further particulars of 

 this splendid vessel. 



Gloucester and Ledbury Canal. — The feeder at Canon Froome, for supply- 

 ing the canal with water, has now been put in operation It is expected that 

 in two months boats will be able to come up to Castle Yroovae.— Hereford 

 Journal. 



Portsmouth. — A new steam-frigate called the Firebrand, was launched at 

 this dock-yard on the 5th inst. She was immediately taken into dock to be 

 coppered, and will, as soon as fitted with her engines, be commissioned. Her 

 original name was the Beelzebub, but when the Firebrand, after bringing over 

 the King of Prussia to this country, had her name altered and was called the 

 Black Eagle, the Beelzebub was changed to the Firebrand. Two other first 

 class steamers are building at this dock-yard called the Scourge and Centaur. 



I.IST OF ti-ErW PATENTS. 



GRANTED IN ENGLAND FROM THE 31ST AUGUST, TO 22nD SEPTEMBER, 18 2. 



Six Months allowed for Enrolment, unless otherwise expressed. 



Charles Frederick Guitard, of Birchin-lanc, notary public, for " im- 

 procements in the construction of railways." — Sealed August 31. 



Charles Thatcher, of Midsomer Norton, Somerset, brewer, and Thomas 

 Thatcher, of Kilmersdon, in the said county, builder, for " improvements 

 in drays or breaks to be applied to the wheels of carriages generally." — Au- 

 gust 31. 



Rouert Hazard, of Clifton, near Bristol, for " improvements in ventilating 

 carriages and cabins of steamboats." — September 3. 



William Roche, of Prince's-end, Stafford, mechanic and engineer, for 

 " improvements in the manufacture of mineral colours." — September 3. 



William Warburton, of Oxford-street, gentleman, for " improvements 

 in the construction of carriages and apparatus for retarding tlie progress of 

 the same." — September 8. 



John Wordsworth Robson, of Jamaica-terrace, Commercial-road, engi- 

 neer, for '* improvements in machinery and apparatus for raising, forcing, 

 conveying, and drawing off liquids." — September 8. 



James Insole, of Birmingham, saddlers' ironmonger, for " improvements 

 in the manufacture of brushes." — September 8. 



Joseph Henry Tuck, of Francis-place, New North-road, engineer, for 

 " improvements in machinery or apparatus for making or manufacturing 

 candles." — September 8. 



William Edward Newton, of Chancery-lane, civil engineer, for "im- 

 provements in machine}^ or apparatus for making or manufacturing screws, 

 screw-blanks, and rivets." (A communication.) — September 8. 



Herbert George James, of Great Tower-street, merchant, for "improve- 

 ments in machines or apparatus for weighing various kinds of articles or 

 goods." (A communication) — September 8. 



William Fotiiergill Cooke, of Copthall-buildings, Esq., for " improve- 

 ments in apparatus for transmitting electricity between distant places, which 

 improvements can be applied, amongst other purposes, to apparatus for giving 

 signals and sounding alarums at distant places by means of electric currents." 

 —September 8. 



Thomas Thirlwall, of Low Felhng, Durham, engine-builder, for " im- 

 provements in lubricating the piston-rods of steam engines, and of other ma- 

 chinery." — September 8. 



WiLLi.\M Crofts, of New Radford, Nottingham, lace machine maker, for 

 "improvements in the manufacture of figured or ornamental lace." — Sep- 

 tember 8. 



Thomas Marsden, of Salford, Lancaster, machine maker, and Solomon 

 Robinson of the same place, flax dresser, for " improvements in machinery 

 for dressing or hackling flax and hemp." — September 8. 



James Wake, jun., of Goole, York, coal factor, for " improvements in 

 propelling vessels." — September 9. 



John Rolt, of Great Cumberland-place, colonel in IJer Majesty's army, 

 for ** improvements in saddles." — September 15. 



Frederick Bowles, of Moorgate-street, London, for "a new method by 

 machinery of preparing fiour from all kinds of grain and potatoes, for ynaking 

 starch, bread, biscuits, and pastry. (A communication.) — September 15. 



Christopher Nickels, of York-road, Lambeth, gentleman, and Caleb 

 Bedells, of Leicester, manufacturer, for " improvements in fabrics produced 

 by lace machinery. 



William Henry James, of Martin's-lane, London, civil engineer, for 

 " improvements in railways and carriage ways, railway and other carriages, 

 and in the mode of propelling the said carriages, parts of which improvements 

 are applicable to the reduction of fi-iction in other machines." — September 

 16. 



John Sanders, William Williams, Samuel Lawrence Taylor, and 

 William Armstrong, all of Bedford, agricultural implement makers, and 

 Ev.iN William David, of Cardiff, for " improvements in machinery for 

 ploughing, harrowing, and raking land, and for cutting food for animals." — 

 September 22. 



Patrick Stead, of Halesworth, Suffolk, malster, for " improvements in 

 the manufacture of malt." — September 22. 



John Juckes, of Putney, gentleman, for ** improvements in furnaces." — 

 September 22. 



Mr Peter Ewart. — We very much regret to announce the death of Mr. 

 Peter Ewart, of Woolwich Dockyard, many years chief engineer in the 

 Government service, to whom was entrusted the direction of the marine and 

 mechanical engineering establishment at Woolwich"; his death was occasioned 

 by a serious accident on the 8th ultimo. Mr. Ewart was present at the 

 testing of a chain cable in the proof-house, when the cable suddenly broke, 

 and a portion of it flying back struck him a violent blow on the body, by 

 which he was driven with great force against the wall of the proof house. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Communications received from 0. T. on earthwork and suspension bridgt:s. — 

 J. W, S. of New York.— Mr. Hartop.— Mr. W. Gartland.— Mr, E. B. Rowley, 

 and Mr. Pring . 



.i correspondent is desirous of liuowing the maker's name of iron houses. 



l^hctnis. — IVe arc collecting maicriats for forming a table of lite proportions 

 of alt our large steam ships and boilers, pressure of steam, S)C., and will thank 

 him, or any other correspondent if they wilt favour us with any information they 

 may possess upon the subject. 



Books for Rivicw must be sent early in the month, communications on or before 

 the 20/// (if irith drawings, earlier), and advertlstments on or before the 25th 

 instant, addressed to the Editor, No. 10, Flndyer Street, Whitehall. 



No. 2 has been reprinted and may now be had of the Publishers. 



Vols. I, II, HI, and IV, may be had, bound in cloth, price £1 each Volume. 



