The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-20 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20. 1857,

odditiaa, the ping al the hydros& INIIM bad goes book
Mini Wawa, the lbw earth holt having pored emoted to I
the straggle with the inertia al the Lawbass. Thant was
so help fur it ; a chats Itr whkit only the oceperotios of
Loudon wee reeposiblo bed mapped, the hock was
stopped, sad the mom arras& off through the pia—see

neWilltingly—to • rather Ide Maur.
Bet the public mot re be impettiee, see esparee, nor
hyper:Mksl le the steam It coly • little uptAitsl,
It wore not to be treeiheett et. win the ear

nor to which they have been inundated with
scientific jargon Men " stenhs" and " crabs," " ram"
and "drums," and kinks quiescent and sada% awl
band diminutions ea the laws of traction sad poopel-
daring the het tow w. With respect to the vestal
question of fraa M itab, at boa and wood, then ere quite
two parties to the Maio (al On NO side it is
loudly meted, and pond by the aimed at ahgebasio agar
time, that boa yeah bus areal Ode; while as the *that, tit.
fact I triaaaphactly palatal oat that it has Mak and would
have slid all the way, but hr on unforneen Isherupden.
Shipbuilders mg why the morass that mike& for the Dein
of Welnegtes would an do for the Leviathan f—end wky,
when a mina method was at hand, mythic amid ha
risked by a too daring innovation 1' Oa the other bend. the
ma et whoa urge that wood would not have borne the
weight—that it would have taken fin, with a misty et Aar
contingent:ler ; and so the doctors differ, while the lerriathin
numbers pametally en bar two esstUse, without coy vesking,
mad norm ammtaramediagtyvelastastaa bedialstat Bei

peopriskinewonM seem to be purely mai is the seeditemeat
tithe Vim al Wakefield with his greet bray pktere ; they
hare secured • wonderful work of art, bat they are brought
to a deed lock whim they try to get it Into ita peeper pesiticat
We ham no doubt, however, that all these dillicultiee will be
but temporary, end that is the Admen of time the Laviatlas
will be egoist ; and let us in the meantime pause and sum up
what the enterprise of the Great Easters Company, the in-
Teethe of Mr. Brunel, and the workmanlike skill of Mr.
aced Beriall ham already done in furtherance of the most
feepallant remistios that hes ever been efleated la our sari-
BIM ON/BIN/M. It is bat four years ethos Mr. Brunel who,
It shoal& net he largotten, had already built the Oreat West-
ern and Great Britain, amid the meets and anted Ben of
the old wheal of shipbuilding, conceived the daring project
of conitracting a vessel combining the well-known prisoiplas
which the Leviathan is expected to carry out. Dories that Was
an mamma= event ceased an interregnum of a whole year,
and after all we ham this unparalleled ship, complete in her
magnitude and beauty, 700 feet in length, 83 in breadth, 85
in depth, and of a bunks of 25,000 tans ; jut eight times
the it.. of the " great" Duke of Wellington. fthe hes et-
commodatioca for the population of • mug reirket tows, and
recast for a powerful amy ; her eliresgth fie sa greet aa human
hands as make it, sad she weenier a speed which will
practically reduce by two-thirds the distaac• between our
halm empire or our Australian ookay and ourselves. If
thee a slight hitch haa occurred at the eleventh hour—if, in-
stead et the middle of November, the Leviathan does sot
bet mall the 2ad of December—lst us have a little

patine& The work is • gnat work, Me work 01 the
testery, and awns within it the germ of • futurity of which
we Mee i paseat bat • very Imperfect idea, From its
midis novelty, obstacles have anent which no calculation
mold ham prepared for; bat the seam indomitable will
which held Lucknow and stormed Delhi, will, we feel con-
vinced, gain for British hands, in • mere proeful field, an
equally British triumph.