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102 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT S JOURNAL. [March, of which she can carry about eight hundred tons, are in, she will probably draw five feel more. The model of this great war steamer w'as drafted by two officers of the Russian Navy. Bnt of the steam frigate—no vessel of the kind that has ever crossed the Atlantic is like her. She is superior to the Western, the Queen, and the President.(?) Her bows are sharp—her stern is round—her bend is gradual and symmetrical—her wheel-houses are neat and not too large, and her whole appearance is rich, attractive, and man-of-war like. She has ihree masts, which, together with her rigging, are very light. This will contribute, in a great degree, to her speed against head winds. Large on wieldly spars are decidedly bad, when winds are unfavourable. Her internal arrangements will he neat, chaste, and beautiful. Her armament is to be very formidable. She can discharge at every broadside more than four hundred pounds of shot! She will mount sixteen fifty-four and thirty-two ounders on the second deck, and two ninety-six pounders hollow shot, called y the humane, death dealers, on the upper deck, which is flush fore and aft —a clear run of two hundred and twenty feet. Her engines w ill be about six hundred horse power. They will be equal to the ship, for no expense is to he spared in having them perfect. What her speed will he, is. of course, not yet known. We can only guess that she will go pretty fast, if not faster. Another account says—A splendid steam frigate, built at'New York, for the Emperor of Russia, was launched on the 24th November. She is to tie called the Kamtschatka. and is of the burden of 2,281 tons, of the length of 24(1 feet 6 inches. Breadth across the paddle wheels, 6(1 feet. Her armament is to consist of twelve 36 pounders, four 54 pounders, and two 96 pounders for throwing hollow shot. Steam Navigation.—If the French Government carry their proposition for admitting the importation of foreign marine steam enginesfreeofdiity.it will give extensive employment to the engine manufacturers in this country, and greatly extend French steam navigation. West India Mail Steam Packet Company.—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 Fawcett and 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 steamships between New York and England. The preliminaries are, we understand, nearly completed, and within a short time the keels of four gigantic vessels will he laid. They are to be about 2,000 tons, witli engines of 800-horse power.—New York Commercial Adver tiser. The City of Dublin Steam-packet Company—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 without regard to expense, the contracting parties are bound, under heavy penalties, to construct them to outstrip any sea-going steamer afloat; and it is confidently anticipated, that the average passages will not exceed nine hours.—Liverpool Albion. PROGRESS OF RAILWAYS. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. Expenditure to December 31, 1840. Engineering, surveying, parliamentary, legal and general expences; construction of line and works, stations, land and compensation, rails, chairs, &c. , 1,616,606 10 10 Locomotive engines and tenders, and establishment—car riages, wagons, trucks, and horse boxes .... 228,094 16 0 Purchase of Warrington &. Newton line .... 65,463 7 4 Purchase of Chester and Crewe line . . . . . 192,550 t) 0 Expended to Dec. 31, in works, &c. on Chester &. Crewe line 65,475 14 3 Interest on loans previously to the completion of the line . 22,270 18 3 Arrears of fourth call on half-shares, less received on account of fifth call on do., and Warrington & Newton interest not applied for 1,585 8 9 Total . £2,192,046 15 5 Value of Stock, December 31, 1840. Locomotive Engine Department 109,215 6 8 Waggon, horse box, and carriage truck department . . 53,451 7 5 Coach-building department ....... 51,843 14 3 Total value . . £214,510 8 4 Manchester and Birmingham Railway.—The Directors of the Railway have, by a unanimous vote, awarded to John Blyth, Esq., V.P. of the Architectural Society of London, and R. Cromwell Carpenter, Esq., F.S.A., the premium of two hundred pounds for their designs for the Manchester Station. The Strasburg and Basle Railway Company has just received from the bank of France the sum of 4,200,000f. on a warrant from the 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 154,635 0 7 To carrying stock, viz.—coaches, trucks, wagons, cranes, fee. 195,310 5 0 To charges, viz.— Obtaining act of incorporation 72,868 18 10 Law charges, conveyancing, engineering, advertising, and printing, direction, office expenses, salaries, and sundries 172,175 9 0 To interest on loans, previous to general opening, 17th 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 7 394,688 passengers travelled on this railway during the last year, each aa average distance of 65j miles. LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY. Extracts from the last Report. The cost of locomotive power, per train, has been Is. 2Id. per mile. Relaying of 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 w'ay 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 8c Sons £16,350 Messrs. Lee. 17,628 Mr. Jackson 17,650 Messrs. Grissell & Peto 17,734 Mr. Grimsdell 17,986 Mr. Munday 17,988 Messrs. Ward 18,650 Mr. Bennett 18,764 Messrs. Baker 8c Son 19.340 Mr. Mac Intosh 21,283 BLACKWALL RAILWAY. List of Tenders for the extension from the Minories to Fenchureh-street, slivered 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 Cubitt . . . 33,940 Bridger . . . 34,900 Stockton and Hartlepool Railway.—On Tuesday the 16th ult., this new Rail way was opened by the 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 degree of 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. In point of fact, we shall not overstate our feeling on this subject, if I we remark that the way in which the works have been finished on the Stock- ton and Hartlepool railway affords a model of railroad construction. Messrs. George Leather and Son, of Leeds, are the eng ; neers-in-chief, and Mr. Jehu Fowler, their assistant, was the resident engineer.—Leeds Mercury. Railway to Cambridge.—In the last month there have been no less than I three different surveys between Bishops Stortford and Cambridge, one lor I extending the line ol the Northern and Eastern Railway to the latter place; I one line by the East Anglian Railway ; and the other for the railway to | York, through 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 much. 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 would he avoided, and the Eastern Counties really benefited. ,