The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-14 00:00:00

MR. SALTS MANTIC FACTORY.

It is known to mast of the ordinary reran of this
jawed (says the Driwiferd Oleirver) that nor enessyrisieg
totrommus, /dr. rifts Salt. same sesta age sommensed the
monks onlonehre marettooturios prenthos is the e
bourhood of with thew se assanthare hie sow
essay asiessed 'isliereals late am vast whelk wherein
the uum sossoloy of ishour may be onebised with every
mem& molted imisproment in the alpaca sad mobseir
asindestures. • pnitial, and, is some important roopootas
erroneous deemiptiss at this ondertakisi Me band Its way
into the Leaks jeuraole l sad w• have tbsgehre beat fa-
thead to visit the weeks. In order to furnish the paths with
• - dew althea wow ad importance.
Tote eade on whist' them buildings are being erected
stretches teem dee barer rued leading from Bhipley to the
Binglerne• weer the railway, the anal, and the river
Aire, to the amino of Bablerograto, and include' the
flour mill ad Hateggiegthellea" a Ilmiliar to the name-
row visitors to that monantio spot, Banish Olen. The part
of the estate devoted to the works "we are about to de-
scribe is one of the many beautiful spots so abundant in the
beautiful valley of the Aire. It lies between the railway
passing through Skipton to Lancaster and Glasgow, and the
Leeds and Liverpool Canal, both of which will be able to
convey goods to and from the premises without either cart-
g• or porterage. The area appropriated to the buildings
is computed at sir acres, while the several Boors in the
mills, warehouses, and sheds, form a superlicies of .5,5,600
yards, or lit acres.

The mill, which runs from east to west, will he 650 feet
in length, and 72 feet in height ►bove the level of the rails.
It includes sic storeys, and is constructed of =SAVO stone-
work in the boldest style of Italian architecture. Tho
walls look more like those of a fortified town than of a
building destined to the peaceful pursuits of commerce.
Tho floors are formed on arches of hollow brick made on
the ground by Clayton's went process; the openings in
the bricks being used for the purposes of ventilation.
Rows of ornamental cast iron columns and massive cast iron
beams support the arches. The roofs will be of iron. This
windows, of large sise, are to be entirely filled with im-
mense squares of cost plate glass. The whole of the build-
ing will be fireproof.

I'm. the centre of the mill running northward to the
bank of the canal, a distance of 830 feet, are the warehouse.,
which, at the lower end, are 90 t above the water. In
the angle formed by the mill and warehouses to the cut-
ward, comprising an area of 8,400 yards, are the weft-room
and weaving shed, communicating with the several floors in
the mill and warehouses by fire-proof hoists. The weaving
shed will hold 1,200 looms. The shafting will ran in vaults
ander the floor, thus preserving the vast run above free
from every obstruction. The corresponding 60%7 on the
western aide of the warehouses will be ocespied an im-
mense shed for combing machines, and chambers or wash-
ing, drying, and sorting the wool, and by reeling and pack-
ing rooms. Beneath this shed there is an enormous filter
and reservoir, capable of containing 600,000 gallons, into
which the rain water will be conducted from all the roofs,
to be applied to the process of scouring wool.

The offices and store rooms, extending to a length of 240
feet, with a very handsome facade, form the western
boundary of the works, and face a new road made by Mr.
Salt, which will extend from the Biagley turnpike-reed,
crossing the railway by a handsome cast-iron bridge, and
the canal and river by a wrought-iron tubular girder-
bridge, 460 feet in length, to the edge of Bandon. green ;
thus connecting the estate on the north bank of the river
with the more accessible parts on the south.
The arrangement, design, and construction of the build-
inp are mudded to Messrs. Henry F. Lockwood and
Wm. Mewson, architects, of Bradford. There are three
distinct contracts for the masonry works, which are in
the hands of Messrs. Female, and Wainwright, and
Messrs. Moulson, of Bradford, and Mr. Hogg, of Leeds,
respectively. The joiners' work is also in three contracts,
held respectively by Mr. Neill end Masers. &inland, of
Bradford, and Messrs. Ives, of Shipley. The iron-
work, a very extensive contract, is supplied from the
foundry of Mears. Cliff* and Co., of Bradford ; these gen-
tlemen will also construct the iron roof.. But the tabular
girder-bridge has been contracted for, and is in the course
of execution, by Messrs. Butler, of Surmises,. The
contract for slating is in the hands of Masers. Josh. Hill and
Son, of this town. The remaining contracts are not let.
We must not omit to mention that Messrs. George Hogg,
halal Ogilvie, and Wm. Chesterton, are the several clerks
of the works, charged with the constant supervision of the
buildings, a doty which they discharge is a very efficient
manner.

The engine*, boilers, and mechinem are entrusted to the
eminent tlrm of Mown. Wm. Fairbelrn and Bon, of Man-
chester. The enlace are of beautiful design, and consist
of two pairs, nominally of 400-hone power,-but capable of
being worked up to the extent of 1,250-horse power. The
boilers will be constructed pertly on the tubular principle,
end placed beneath the level of the ground to the south-
ward*, the mill, and communicate with the chimney (260
feet high) at the eastern extremity of the works, to which
is given the effect of an Italian campanile. The engine-
houses are situated on either aide of the principal entrance
to the mill ; and some idea of the magnitude of these vast
machines may be gathered from the fact, that the engine
bed has absorbed upwards of 1,400 tons of solid stone. The
engines will be supplied with water by mesas of tunnels
passing below the calla! and communicating with the Aire.
Anther series of tunnels will return the water back to the
river when used.

A branch from the railway will pass under the central
arches of the mill, at which point there will be two hoists for
loading and unloading railway trucks, and two for ordinary
waggons; and at the north end of the warehouses the same
number of hoists will be provided, two for waggons, and
two for loading and unloading vessels on the ainill.-
The whole of the works thus described are being con-
structed of stone, supplied by 20 quarries in the surround-
ing neighbourhood, and for extreme massiveness and solidity
have no equal in this or any other country.
The guworks, to be situated between the canal and river,
are to be upon White's patent hydro carbon system, and
are calculated to supply 100,000 feet per day for 6,000
lights, in the mills, abed,, streets, and houses of the work-
people.
When the works are finished 4,600 hands will be required
to keep them going. This will iuvolve an addition to the
population of Bellaire of from nine to ten thousand persons.
To ausommodata these Mr. Salt proposes to erect forthwith
700 dwelling-houses of various classes, replete with every
convenience requisite for the health, and comfort, and well-
being; of the inhabitants. The architects are expressly en-
joined tome every precaution to prevent the pollution of
the air by setae, or the water by sewerage or other im-
purity ; and, boa the high professional character of those
gealle.su,... end their biome sympathy with autitaaer:
these ems" sense to believe that this o
17 in. semplellely sealhed. [ln this reinsert, es as
fa =nay Wren the are town of &h airs will teach
a• haperleall peseta lemon to the mother town of Brad-
ford.] Wide slew% spesions squares, with gardens at-
tested, %= remealisa, • large dining hell and
end weshleame. a severed market, schools,
lelairsteeds ; melt maehtsieg every hapeisvement that
be set mei seisms hem bought to light, are ordered
to be paneled trith_WMseMse the gestlemea who has origiaated
this underbids,. the Wide sr the energy
or the philemenpy. et Ws aM man
ieldee is emit to be com-
,
mended, we knew ne•—emh is Mating, and different
minds will admire the see or the ether, es the ease may
be. That it may be oompieted seeemsfully, and be the
arena of increased preeperity le oar respemed fellow-
citizen, is the earnest wish mot only of the writer of this '
notice, but of every menhir el es r community, which has
already been so greatly bewillasit by his spirited and bene-
volent exertions._ _ _

The eipenee--4 this slims* 11dertakteg Le lost down at
half a million of sea ry,-bet we believe every expense con-
nected with it will be mice then met by lee than half the
anni named.

THE MEXICAN PRESENTS TO THE ROYAL CHIL-
Dnaz.—The Unison and been trappings mat by the Real-
ms neaten* Amble tin this country, as a present for the
Pabst (OWEN emit Wilms sets. One set is rottenly
senemmest with geld, enslime with silver, and the other
with he* gold mil Am. • pony whip is also with it
white le_portly made of yid sad adorned with praises
stems. The males were merely sent to set of the trap-
Ow The President et itesiee also sent boxes of sweet-
meals be the Royal children. Them sweetmeats are
of the most meted and delicious nature. They
are in UMW esoprefteab about en inch square, the revers
of whisk ere seemaseisi with silver,and on the top of the
covers sue 111.11•9 firelintiag the ,various clams and pie.
tunics, malmes et Maim. The figures asssimilar in
Ropes/ems te dame whisk melted so much admiration in
the Greet imWhirkm When the outer cover of the sweet-
meat hems is reamed the sight is esceedingly pretty to
as fames not en Ma 'wag, perfectly representing the
sesslenemes sad seetemn of every class of Mexican so-
ds". The ingesmity et their workmanship is truly mar-
vellous. The presents were to reach Buckimbam Palace
yesterday.
MORTALITY IN ST. PANCRAS WOBEHOUSE.—Yes-
terday, at a numerously-attended meeting of the vestry of
St. Pancras, Mr. Churchwarden &Heti in the chair, Mr.
Manning called the attention of the vestry to a letter which
had been published by the late Secretary of the Poor Law
Board. Lord Ebrington charged that in the workhouse of
St. Pancras the mortality was nearly double that in the
City of London Union, St. Martin's, and other metropo-
litan parishes, and more than double that of Paddington
and Bethnal.green, and in which be also drew a comparison
between the deaths in St. Pancras Workhouse and the
prisons and Greenwich and Chelsea Hospitals. The letter
has already appeared in the Daly News. The vestry re-
solved that a public investigation of the charges should be
made.

thecovEay OF A LAROE FRESCO PAINTING IN
BILDISTON CH I:Neg.—During the past week a number of
persons have been employed in scraping end cleaning the
pillars and walls of this noble building, and have dWOOO
vend several fresco paintings in venous parts, but in such
an imperfect state that the subjects of them cannot be ueer-
tattled ; at the west end, however, one measuring 30 feet
by 20, is discovered to be St. George and the Dragon, life
nee ; on the left hand side is a building supposed to be a
castle, with persons ou it, who are looking down upon the
combat ; a group on the opposite side seems intent upon the
same object.—lpswich Elpre&S
PRUSSIAN INDUSTRY.—From a statistical return
just publi.hed by the Prussian government, it appears that
there now exist in that country 2,207 spinning mills ; 6,188
manufactories, dye wean, and cotton printing establish-
ments; 39,263 mills of different kinds • 12,960 large metal
works; 17,166 breweries and distilleries; and 4,633 other
manufactories of different kind., making a total of 81,3e8
establishments, occupying 615,651 workmen.