The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-14 00:00:00

TES OILIT 1tA82721.N.

The Great Ship company have taken advantage
of tbs Whitson holidays to throw open their Leviathan ves-
sel es the public, in order that the letter, their shareholders
Waded, may see the progress that has been made in the
Masud fittings sine last she was entitled to be reckoned
amount the " rights" of London. The giant ship Mill
stretches " many a rood" slong Deptford-creek, shutting off
with her huge broadside • sheet of smooth water, that
might serve for a Leviathan dock, and is daily surrounded
by her flotilla of small boats Incessantly employed in fetching
curious visitors backwards and forwards between her end the
shore. On the last occasion when she wee open to the
public, an amassment was Inds by which the Greenwich
boats leaded passengers on the hulk alone ids, but this Uses
it appeared as duo such precaution hod been taken, or eirethet
the direct Greenwich traffic was too stimemdate to be iaterfered
with, for the chacktakers at London-bridge resolutely mined
to book pumengers for the ship, but were obliging enough to
offer to take them to Greenwich and back for double fors,
withal extra charge for the probability of stopping at the
" Dummy." Besides, the crowd of holiday-seekers bound
for the park was so large, cad It must be added, so uproar!.
one, that to get even ou board the steamboat was • herculean
task, involving • considerable derangement of toilette, with
the contingency of • pugilistic eson•eter too, in getting on
board, and the possibility of the test betas swamped through
over-toadies during the voyage down the river. A chance,
however, rem►ined for than who were acquainted with the
neighbourhood, by creeping London-bridge end taking the
rail to Deptford ; but here, again, coesiderable vigilant), was
requisite, sa the heavily-lades Greenwich train stopped bet
foe la moment at the neglected Deptford, and the
lean easoancement of the same of the ela-
tion, gives in the most difficult dialect of the
railway language, went very little way in enlightening the
traveller se to his actual whereabouts. At Deptford Pier
there were 'cullers enough in wait*, whore fare was
three•pence each person, but who would not refuse
crown, If the visitor should happen to be under the impression
that the Waterman had been appointed to receive the athandas
fee for the ship. All confusion on this wore might be saved
by a line added to the company's advertisement, and we
commend the subject to the attention of the menagemest.
Thetrein is the beet route, and as the 'cullers pen backwards
end forwards in perfectly smooth water, and as the Adresse
by which her Majesty ascended on her visit is on the shore
side of the Alp, the most timid may adopt It without the
slightest uneasiness. The sheet passage from the train doers
es the water is certedsl, rather too odoriferous to be
pleasant, but then, to a person w►o had started from home
with the prospect of a verge m " the Aver Thames," ens
this will sot be looked apes as much of a honor. When, at
teat, natty tended on the lofty Leh, se soon sees that buoy
hands have reenttly been at work in producing order out of
chaos, and, carrying out the innunsemble details which were
necessary to make the Great Eastern a perfect chip. The
deck, which on our previous visit presented but a rude sea-
session of huge iron girders over which people stumbled at
every step, is now completely plinked from end to end, and a
&ace along its immense expense gives the first and best idea
of the enormous sine of the ship. The different skylights
are ell also in their places, and give a look of finish where
all was before incompleteness and ceskaion. Three men
have been set up, end two flannels which also go into
" tarnish" the deck, sad the completed bulwarks all round
take away the some of dininess and Insecurity with which
people and formerly to approach the side of the ship. One out
now look over the side, judge of the vast height of the
vessel oat of the water, make comp•riems between her and
marbles else that floats upon the Thames, end then, enjoy
the prospect of the country, both Kent and Essex, now
clad la the brighten green of midsummer. The lower decks
have been plashed, and great programa has been made Is
partitioning them of into thin permanent compartments.
The grand saloon is in a very forward state, sad would be •
noble nistinent, mare like a drawing-room in • princely man-
sicaceshore, they the abut of • ship, wure it not for the two
humus funnels, which run up the centre, rod inns-
venisstly interrupt the longitudinal sweep of the apartment.
Os each side elegant cabins are being fitted up, sad the some
may be said of the other saloon, of which there are, we be-
lieve, six in the ship. One of the cabins has bean finished Is
order that the visitor may judge of what the rest are intended
to be, and • very pleasant actin it gives of what • ',ems
morose the Atlantic will be in such • noble ship sa the Ones
lastern. This completed department is what le celled a
hang, cabin, containing bed room, eating room, sad dressing
room, all of them lofty sad well ventilated, and possessing
• much greater number of convenience than could
he Sound in a similar suite on shore. The other cabins-,
are also in ea exceedingly forward state, and es an lon-
mime number of men are kept incessant, at work,
there is every prospect of the skip being ready for her
trial trip on the appointed 4th of August. There is free
circulation tow all through the ship, there being slogan
stehromes with carved oak balustrades, leading to the variant
saloons and cabins, and iron ladders fee the scientific, or
inveterately carious, who cannot believe they have " done"
the ship until they have explored the gloomy mysteries of the
vast engine-room. Here those who have read Vathek" will
be forcibly reminded of the Hall of Eblis, end those who
have not will wonder at the ponderous beams and shafts
end cylinders will he struck with the brisk
polish of the steel work, and think of the time
when all this vest mum of mechanism chill be in motion,
ploughing up the ocean with • giant's strength, and carrying
the Great Eastern along as if she were a feather at the Ms
of twenty miles an hour, Let no hope that she may go on
prosperously to completion, mid thus justify the scleatific
but daring scheme upon which she loss been constructed. If
she should realism the hopes of her projectors and the
deigns of her architects, she will fill • brighter page in Eng-
Wee history then any of her most famous oictories by
lead or water, for she will inauguriee a revolution In ocean
transit, which writ bring the farthest ends of the earth together,
and maks travelling on the ocean as pleasant and little
tattirthig as It; •ow is on the beet ordered of our greet rail-
roads. We were happy to kern that amongst the recent
/Wien was Mr. Bennet, whose restoration to health will be
plc Best sows to the public.

TEE ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE AT
ADDIECONBM

The public' half-yearly exeminstion of the gentle.
min cadets of her Idematre 'adieu forces took plate an Saar-
day at the Military College et Addiroombe, in the presume of a
Imp and dietieguiahad amemblage. In the nesvoidable
sheathe of the Secreury of Blare foe India, Sir Frederick
Carrie, Bast., the Yid-President of the Council We India,
took the choir. Yr. Naha, end moth of tba mem-
bers of the Indian Coonoil, were present. Among the viellors
were Sir John L. K. Lemmas% G.C.8., Ilejer-Onieral Sir
U. Virthe, B.C.'S., Sir limey C. llboatrabla7) Camsl Sir
Flyby F. Cautley, K.C.8., C,Glessl Mould, C. 8., and
Morn. Ulna llarnanaltten, Beetwick, sad
Primp, Sir Frederick Smith, Ild.P.,rdiliessisiars, bilejor
General Sir Frederick Abbott, C. 11... Ilbalassatioveraot of
the college, Ito.

MUSRUIi or PATRIOTS, BOW= KINSINGTOII.-e.
ISieembee of visitors ter the weak ends hos 11: Ileretsgs,
41801._• orawiage, 890; total, 1770;_ tin tke °peados at
Um Mos= kw dray (May 13, 11114.188,810.