The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-03 00:00:00

THE GALWAY PACKET SERVICE.

this iron screw fleet, the James Liam, actually made 67 I
A correspondent of the Dublin Daily Express
voyages from the Tyne to London in was year, and with • writing from Galway, on Toeeday, says The Adriatic az-
Crew of 21 persons, delivered 62,810 tons to the need in our harbour oe Iloodshria re tug at 5.30, and accord.
coal consumers of London—en amount of work which log to previconanaugement, were admitted on board
would have required, under the old system, 16 the revel during the entire day to view her splendid pro.
• and internal accommodation. Hundreds of the oi u-
railing ships and 144 hands to man them. The screw •
llens wrWanvailed themselves of the privilege so accorded by the
steamers, being made of two shells of iron, admit of the compeny, so that, with rioters and passengers crossing to and
water being rue into the space between the skins, which thus fro, between the a/Pore and the steamer, the tender steamer
act+ as ballast for the return voyage, avoiding thereby all Pile was busily engaged durum the eptireday, and her decks,
the delay incident to taking in ballast. When the ship Presented • crowded appearance ; boxes of lima. bales of
a, bedding, and culinary Mena& for the purengere
arrives in the Tyne and takes in her cargo of coal, the Wg beeped large pile. on her geek whilst the pen.
water which is held as ballast is rapidly discharged by steam sentare and intended visitors to the steamer crowded the
pump. & Moe read by Mr. Palmer, a few days since, at poop, or took shelter from the bustle and confusion on the
the Mechanical Section, gave some daddies with re- top of the bale The utmost eagerness was maoitested to
spect to this remarkable establishment. He said—" In obtain • passage by the Adriatic. A great many emigrants
besieged the doors of the company's office, stodeeirounng to
the first place, we obtain the greater portion of our iron- obtain passage in the vessel, but as she had a/ready her
stone from our own mime At • point on the coast, ten full complement booked, they were doomed to
miles north of Whitby, the ironstone seams crop out in the disappointment. A large number have had to leave
sides of the cliffs, end here we have fanned the small bar. to take shipping from Cork, but • goodly portico
boar of Poet Mulvey., where vowels can ride in safety, and toe I mdetatud, rettaillowfor the aseuxt yeast;
ship their cargoes with 6666 and exPediticw. Between the mousy in comPre interval. skint
allow them
to the
Tyne and Port Millirem some of our steamers run direct, Ulster Batlway were landed at the docks laden with goods
making on the average four voyages per week, whilst others from Balboa. I could not me much from any other part of
of a Lager clue call to load atone on their return voyage the country, but I believe the vend has • very large cargo
from London. At Jarrow the ore is delivered to the fur shipped from Liverpool. Au excursion train from Belfast
arrived here reeterMy arming at five o'clock, and it was
noes by 'EMU the Armstrong hydraulic cruel, and intended to leave given the paresogers a hearty welcome, in
mixed with owe from Cumberland, Devonshire, and Lin. the warm support extended to this lime,
by
coloshire ; thence it le paned to the mills, and from the the inhabitant. of Belfast. But while the train on last week
mills to the shipyards. The number of Ms employed in brought 200 or 300, the one yesterday only brought 27
these operations is upwards of 3,500. The number of tons person! with. return tickets. A few passengers for the
Adriatic strived by it. Prom an early hour this mona-
d iron constmedPer annum in our yards and engine works ing passengers mad their In gage were being conveyed
is about 18,000 lOW. The amount of tonnage Leached on beard, and by 1 o'clock the -him batch had lot the land of
during the year ending the Ist August was 22,000 tone. We their birth, very likely for ever,as the peal demand for
have Ll,OOO toes in course of coutruction, and orders, spread men in &wawa at Present will Probably prove a barrier to
over a Friel, far 40,000 tons mere." escaping from the nountry eves were 'hey so inclined.
Raring the morales the wind versed to the west, and im.
In the treatment of the ores the arrangements at the owigiow, root began to fog, pho web ob.
works are of the most complete character. There are four by the time the mails arrived the bey was very much
huge furnaces. built side by side—three of great height, agitated, and the wind blowitag a gale. At • quarter past
which form premiasat objects even amid the many fur- Iht_hs reiril• colour isatiglibeatill hags, wen given charge
board t Pilott
=OM Whith aortas tie sky by day, and redden it by night,
steamer, were quickly 000vg bean
yed to the 'mash At 2.40 a
on the beaks of the Tyre. Oa either side rise, the tall gun was and. the writ:. beg., to revolve, and the
chimney shaft of the boiler-house, the steam from Adriatic was on her way acmes the Atlantic. The weather
which keeps in oodles* motion engines of upwards of 700. was so disagreeable, and the bey so rough, that no person
horse power. The blowing machines foe the funacs wooe ventured out with the boat, so that when the mails were.on
board, the Pilot steamed for shore. Just before the lading
require engines of over 300.herse power. The victim of of the eteeeteo, Mr. ft ch.g.
mum general manager, 'a-
ttire huge ci finder engine+ as they sucked in the air covered scene stowwwaye, ou board, end wee anxious for
through the valves at the top, and primed and compressed the police to take charge of them ; but the police, of course,
it with resistless power till it rolls said roan in the depths could not interfere unless Mr. Chapman would undertake to
prosecute,. aad Mr. Chapma°. having no spars time to wait
of its prison beers like thunder, wee watched with great
die the police court, the culprits were merely sent ashore, no
inters" ;and not le" the arraefeu"e" made for leadieB doubt, greatly disappointed at their illeucoses in the &Helot
the air through the taverns into the furnaore,wbere, heated to secure a pima,. to America gratis."
to the fearful temperature of 800 degrees, it rushes
off is 6 body el red fir. t° quick" the lazy I DUMMIED, LOCHMADEN, AND LOCEMBIE JUNC-
thenittim the cue'ela fusee", sad with its mpg RAlLWAT.—Thislias of railway waa opened on Tur-
bot bleat blow the glowing mar, until it metese, day for goods and pareemper traffic. The act authorising the
a temperature at which no pyrometer will stand—which construction of the line wee pared in June, 1860, and the
can only be expressed by thousands of degrees, and which contract was let to Mr. William Aytoun, of Partick, near
la as incomprehensible as the millions of age, of which the ?glrwihwelliuse" ir"ll;digePrrila.etioinosZtat,gityh,ineeth; summer rerettit
geologist talks so glibly—but which makes the hard rocky ...the, osperionood th....mers et Ipen arid
ore fuse and yield, and give up that one-third of its weight 1862, and which greatly retarded the works, it would
of boo which it holds with such mighty tenacity. In a have been open for traffic at the time originally mid-
stream of red ere the coveted ore descends into the lower cleated, via., March of the current year. The line in a
part of the furnace, glowing with the brig/Oates of a titiolooir otexcrtboti. the Jutuitt`teiumit-Aosug'oitwh
the
and
midday suf, sad there it seethes and boils sod throws up South-Weslaco at Madrid% but the laud has been
Its scoria and slag as the hurricane of red hot air I. driven taken and the bridges constructed for a double
into the molten mem, until at the end of twelve hours the line. The works throughout the whole extent of the line
liquid ere "ism" frac° the "'jail/jug furnace. This soot
ethe roost
suaskewtarae kind,
eannp''l reaseMtr.g.rolitn credit
topple; of one of the femme' was shown to the vhdtors, juror.. C.E, Edinburgh. By the act of 186 18,
0, tbe company
and • more picturesque seem bas not often been witnessed. were autheened to raise 85,0004 of share capital, and to
The visitors clustered around the vast beds of moulded borrow on mortgage 28,3007., and by • deviation act passed
sand into which the iron his to be run to form the aims in 1841 they were aothorieval to raise an additional 50001.
iron, of share (spite!. The whole of this amount (118.:b001.) has
and pip of and slowly the borates fluid streamed into been raised, bus the exact coat of the hoe is not known.
the channels formed for the passage, until the whole surface The opening of the lint wt
not attended by any public de-
o( the ground was glowing red. The " sows" are the larger ministration. The first passenger trio left Dumfries station
channels running is • horizontal direction, and from each of at 6-25 • in., wheela considerable number of passers ere were
these there breach off at right angles a number of small booked for tockerbie and intermediate stations he hour
too early for my popular demoostratiou at the various
"lete which term the Page ; the fertile fa", of the
ken- stations, but conaiderablenumber of personated assembled
workers wing is tine arrangement ti,•," Vivi aled suet' at the end Loakerbee statioca to see the first
hag her pip. limos the name sow end pig iron. Another train that had ever directly penetrated from Nitbedale
interesting proem was the rolling of a large plate of iroa, to Annandale. The time occupied in the run from
but the bowing of she imam.* abaft, which ...wed with Dominos to Lisekerhis, stopping at all the stations, was
• noise like the report of a mason, put an end to the forty Mantra The Ems ie to be worked by the CaledOillial
Pro" fo
rty ONMPIIIy far 80 per cent. of the treat nuipta,
cue before it was finally completed er the plate had been that mousey simplyies the plant. servants. he. Yesterday
brought to its required degree of attenvity. The puddling the first We to Lockerbie was accompanied by Sir Willies
furnaces, the steam hammers, the rolling mills, got. Brown, But., vineohairmae of the company ; Mr. Jecksom
tiog, dnthsg, punching, tondo& and allthe other thesecride; Mr. Miller, engineer; Mr. Aytons, ciontraa.
hot tor; M. ward, seperinteadsot; Mr. Graham, neer;
"rill*. a huS° machine' lot torturing iron whether sad Mr. Comer, locomotive superintendent of the Gldo
or add, were enmeshed with retarget hy the members, most elm Railway.—Scotraion.
courteously explained by the proprietors of the weeks, and LONDON 011111RALOM EMUS COMPANY(LIWITED).—.
sally the whole party were entertained at • mod +thorns Traffic rewrote far the week rubel Aug. 30. 11.2061.3 a 81.,
sad heepitehde leach in the large mould ream of she works The Illumination of Coal Mines surely might be
Mr. C. Y. Palmer, the priacipal of the firm, presided, sump/Med by the Magnet. The development or Its power is
supported on the right by Mr. Pairlamin and Sir S Belcher 'Lt.!' iect"""' ens Wise& hatroligngemretip:riflrel'bruit
sod use the left by Mr. Tite, Anacept the general hitherto mad., as reeeeete their mechanic.' construction and
company were Mr. A. C. Palmer, M. Ballet, Dr. Lee, Pro. their elegeetereleleVe. the nosy jefeCl I°l4
faux Jamie Thomism, Ilelfeet; Mr. LeNeve Nobw, Mr. —tam tharks.—gelvertleeseest4