The Express.
London, England, 1850-10-22 00:00:00

)VERNMENT INSPECTION AND FINAL
OPINING OF THE BRITANNIA BRUME.

MIMI SMITE, MONDAY.—'he parliament public
epees of the sew We of tubes for the down line from L.
des %Dahlia took place this morning ; the great structure
being sew is all respesta mode somplete. Oa Saturday
rogillianiell. the gothreamst faspotor, west over ft
esethinegmi ledkthei, is senjusties with the
alms amiss et etheisests. The Gat sell pela
did fleth isseseethe mikes '
Saw. the tale, sad maths them at intervals is the metre 1
d the meths& Atonnelated is pain twee
sine Valet a tooth off 111 waggon" and
is lesemethee with NO tees e 1 geld wee drawn late all
her et the tubes, the dot odess beim emdslly meted.
Them athletics; is every ere, by moue *ls sloe apparatus
se
is, the pupae, were emerbisei be thud= '
Mobs off kilt leader this lead, weer the
moss mid sus d inn. Misr ea Meesoft rehearsal
et theft sigiorithethal ordeal', width essottestiseured
Muth, the trek al WO tams with Me the us, ,
was tthen est alma • mile dieting hem the tabe, sad this
with* shot three& wide the pullet attalaahl•
mid*, sad dee ressit was any fetheeffilft as determinist • I
mash fissessed wefts, It Ming teeth that the deflection I
at We immune atheley of lead was se seibly lees Is the way I
d ttsdsdatlof el Whin then whoa the lath was allowed to
rends at rest la the tabs. The BMW, in whiffs these re-
Balm wets registered mad Yelled at was by mesas of a new '
ead =dew oestrithess, it Wag found that the tremor coca. I
thug by Weiss is heath 'revealed then dthectioss from
=iieneasse:stely nth by the ordinary spirit level. The
by width the offish are Wined with great
presides esuith in • large pips cestaillnaire7 laid along
the lower sells of the Pabe, one end up within the
tube at the metre, sad the other sad against the
amuse& of the thutheate of the bridge. Both othremithe
of this pipe ars finished with glade tubes sad (Muted
males, by which the relative levels at the water were
sadly amertained, as the 'lightest leakage or ova-
swaths our the ordinary thermoneetrie expansion of
the water would &nage the level, while only hell
the actual &Seed= of the tube was registered et each
sad el the pipe. 'These diseduntages are obviated by the
eddition of a lugs rum* of water in the interior at the
tabs, which is covered with oil, and placed beside the gra-
dilated scale. Thu turn arse exhibited the whole of the denser
dose at the abutment eztrocalty, sad the apparatus pauses
spriest mirror d ell the deflutioes of the great sauture.
We leers from Moms. B. sad L. Clark, the resiCest en-
who hays watched minutely, from day to day, all
she peseithatiss si the novel undertsking—many
serisuedmailitheesedsg malts. Thus gentlemen state that
the heaviest cells through the straits do not products so much
modes over the trait of either tubs u the remove against
the olds of ties tubes of 10 men, and that the pressure of 10
men, keeping time with the vibrations. produces en °se:Ma-
ths of 1 X lash, the tube itself maths/ IS7 doable vibrations
per minute. The strongest guts of wind that have swept
up the Chemed dusty the late stormy weather do set
sum a vibratiou of some thee a quarter el as lash. The
broadside of a storm cause ea oscillation of leis than an
fed ; bat when the two tubes are brand together by frames,
whisk is now being dew, these motions will be almost awe-
Mated, sad sO oppeehessies heat wind or weather, from
their Wag sismased together, will mass. They calm-
late that • violent Must exerts a force of about
twisty pounds as every square foot of tube ex.
posed to its direst eS sad Wan the aide Nukes of
tile tabs at about scree het. the poetess strain
mead would be abut a les square inch, or hardly
worth auk's. The mstemoYgiml resell sines the tubes
have ounpled their 100 hat thud= have materially differed
trona thou that were observed when they lay slug the
Carearvoushire coast. The action of the gun at ne'drhy, In-
stead of Wadies them two or three inches, dam not move them
awe dm two-eighty or three eighths of an inch. The daily
umiak. sad ustrestios of the tubes varies from half an
bah to three kakis, attaining either the stultanes or mini-
mum at about I °Week am. and p.m. These end other
interesting remelts, as Winans the safe working of the great
' amehiate, are read by moue self-registerieg thermometers
that record the teastaat temperature, plated in mahogany
uses, protested by plate glass, end under lock and key.
There is also a erthaetiag clockwork app eratus that ele-
vates a shaft on a vertical plane, all the:minutest @toffees of
the tubas Wog delineated by in arm urrying • pencil
whiffle Is dud to the tube. If • rampart be held over eny
part el the hottest of the all' the south pole is affected, and
if held over the top of the cella the north pole is affected, and
this fa observable in all parts of the tube, whether at the
centre or eked, although their petition is only about 10 de-
grees west of the magnetic enuidLea.

Baum OF kit ILLICIT DIFFILLIIST.—In °ones-
gees= of informatics received by Megan. Benjamin Runty
end Frederick Pagan detective =Basra of inland
RS Satirday last they Proceeded to a house in Salamanca-
strese, Lunbath, near to the South Western Railway,
gala had the appeases:* externally of a wholesale glass
hustle warehouse. They knocked foe admission, but no
soma was returned, and in soosequana they procursd a
Was; and got in at the tint 820 f window. In a back room
ONE =roomed that a still had been erased, but had
bees very recently removed, the worm tub being left
belied, and the water in it waa quite wenn. There was,
=Fall the necessary iron work for the fitting of the
rom other appearances there could be no doubt
whatever that the still had been very hastily reurowd. They
punned their search, and in • dark rase in the cellar they
amour= a great quantity of illicitly manufactured spirits,
of the usual strength, with about HO gallons of molars*,
fermented wash, and all the apparatus for carry-
ing on • v. ry extrusive trade. In a room on the
ground floor also they found a large pan of spirits prepared,
ready fey bottling. The whole plant appeared as if it had
existed for a conederablo time, and mast have defended the
femme of duty to the amount of several thmsands of
peendk Considerable expense and ingenuity had been die.
played, with a view et avoiding detection se pipet were
prod through every room In the pre.nlais, and directly
comsawriesttho with the common sewers, for the discharge
of the waste wish, so as completely to prevent the well-
kawn =our arising from illicit distillation from ever being
detected by any one passing by. The bottle trade afforded
• very satishatory screen to their real employment; for,
when large Dampen were frequently sent Eros the pre-
sume, no waspiolon was excited, as they were locked open
a some packages of empty bottles, instead of which
they were filed with the contraband article. The slain
was conveyed to the lidera Revenue Warebouee, In Old
Broad.stuet.
MURDER IN ST. PANCRAIL—WhiIe on duty yes.
terday morning, pollos-oonstable. 296 8, discovered, at elm
o'clock, within the enclosure of E netoarquare, the body of
a fine female =fast, wrapped in a towel, having another
towel lightly fastened round her neck, apparently for the
purpose of causing strangulation. The constable instantly
conveyed tie body to the workhouse, where it was examined
by Dr. Robinson, the house physician who gate it as his
opinion that deceased had ban strangled. The body, which
is that of a fine grown infant, awaits • coroner's inquest, for
whisk Mr. Wakley has issued his warrant.
THE MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES AND MEDICAL
WITINSIIII AT C0R011123. lIICIDDISII.—Yestorday even-
fag Kr. Baker held an inquest at the Three Pigeons and
HUN, Hatieldierest, closwell-street, St. Lake's. on view of
the holy al RILE Stamp, three =oaths old. It appeared
that the mother of the deceased, who is is poor cream-
stmens, Uvlag at No. 12, Bross Arbour-earn, adjoining,
was la the habit of leaving her, when as west to her ear
=Tt, with a female, and that she, damaged, slept with
ight. Last Friday moraing about eight o'clock,
eseessed was found apparently dead the side of her mo-
ther, who Inissdiately got up and armed the female who
Wilke are of It la the extra of the day. The mother
gays her child to her sad west to Mr. Powell, the palish
arisen, Ohioan-street. Ho, however, did not attend.—
The foreman inquired if Mr. Powell wee present ?—Mr.
Gardner, the saasiaoalaa Aber, replied that De was not. He
bed not saw mosed Ida as he knew he would have demanded
lister, a guinea, mad he was not gas, to taken= respond-
Sly o h mself of !winglike him =are the sty as a medical
wham Re believed Mae medical would not'
MOM tenses. beaus they set be silted to the
eseenses inquiet The Mum=s obeerad, that he was the
psidl clam of the perish. sod muhe is @Mead to vire to the
Jury tedennathea es to she sean of death. The coroner
nonalted that the Malaise masistraes wore desirous to
eat 6111/11 the eapeases Is every pessibie way, end they had
maisemoored IS to es to Nero so medical mimeos, at
eraser'sße theaskt that It would be toyed not
be be •preheat emu. He was at ea =quest a few days
sell, where the 'flutes showed that a women had downed
biaself. It was stated that when she was tabu oat It was
she would lave reestered, bad she remelted medical
elds.V that, though some surpass won meat to, all sant
irzowass. Re was sold that It was ea account ot not re-
ed/deg their fees at ter having for two or throe hours bees
alesapdag to team aainadea, that they did not attend
the um Tit forma* stated that he wee at ea
=est a short time INN upon the death el a
who had • fell. Beton the child's death
the mother sailed upon • medical man, who did not &Wad,
sod the shild died. Tie jury, is that ease, for want of '
moiled evidesen,returned a Terns. "That the dunned was
found dead, but there was not saddest widows to show
the tare ot death."—The 'NNW sold he did net know
how far is this um Oa law extended to the attend-
ees* of the argue, he being a paid °Sur. Medical
gentletass were not required otherwise to 'thud, unless
they wen easeatesed. It wallaitr la the ewes of the Met
week that he wee told that would certify
in stay ens if they were sot to rettri upon MOM'S
ingaren—Rhoda Snap, the anther, being nulled, geld
that when she allot at Mr. Powell's asp, she saw Mr..
Powell, who ehourvirdi that It INA of IN we Mr. Powell Oil-
ing to see the child U It was dead. —Cereaser: It wee gate
cigar that the body dunk' have beer soon by seas segos&
Is the abases of toadied widenee he woad ruoutemed
the jury to ream a untie of "Found deall."—Vesdist
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cast
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