Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-03 00:00:00

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ship be to

upon settling the question of the merits of ;the great
ship, which the late untoward accident, and the lamented
death of the great master spirit of the undertaking, has
for a short time, delayed. ;
It has been decided that no passengers will ba con-
_

veved upon the trial trip to Holihc
sewers who have taken

a, and a

)erths for the occasion will ha
turned to them. under
isions of the Mercantile Marine Acts, the Great

the passage money

would not be permitted to carry passeng

before receiving the certificate of th

partment of th
the passengera-

Yoard of Trad

Havine, no fear of

left eyes, Mr. Seoti

ssell awl

ship and her machiney, tho-
roughly and in every respect. Capt. Robertson or Mr..
Galloway, who were on board at the time of the late acci-
den, will no doubt accompany the ship on the trial trip,
in order to report upon her sea-going qualities, before
giving the certificate. Mr. Russell has publicly: stated
that he will take charge of his own paddle engines, and.
so far as the screw engines are concerned, they will be, as
they undoubtedly were during the trip from Deptford to
Portland, under the control of engineers appointed by
Messrs. Watt, & Co., the engines not having then nor since
been delivered to the company. A trial-trip is provided
for by the terms of their contract, and such a trial could
not of course be afforded by the usual run of small
vessels down the river. We have no doubt that every
precaution will be taken to have every part of the
machinery and gear in proper working order, and, what-
ever may be the result, that there will be no more of
that petty quibbling and special pleading by which every
person tried to throw the blame of the late accident upon
somebody else.. The makers will be in charge of their
own engines; but if the engineer of the ship should see
that the donkey engines are as obstinate as their name
would imply—that they require being held together,
that some rivets are looser that some valve will not open
or shut, that the boilers are deficient of water, that some
pipeclosed,
is or that any other little contrivance is
out of order, or requires looking. at, it is to be hoped,
for the sake of humanity, that he will not decline to
open his lips .on the subject, even though he. may have
received orders not to interfere with the engines. The
representatives of the Board of Trade will be on board too,
and they may also, no doubt, feel it to be not-beneath their,
dutyte make themselves acquainted with such small matters
as the stop-cocks of steam pipes. It affords a curious com-
mentary on the value of the usual official inspection:A°.
learn from the evidence of Mr. Galloway that he was-so
well satisfied with the working. of the machinery, that if
the explosion of the water-casing round the funnel had
not taken place on the voyage to Weymouth, he shfuld
have had no hesitation in giving his certificate to the
Ship ; and all the while this stop-cock was shut off, and
the destroying power was rapidly acquiring that force
which -exerted itself with such terrible effect. The Great
Eastern might, in factilave gone into the Atlantic with
the certificate of the Board of Trade in the captain's
cabin ; and the stand pipe of the funnel-casing effectually
plugged up, inviting explosion, destruction, and death.
The repairs which have been rendered necessary by
the explosion, have been, already so far completed as to
admit of the Great Eastern going to sea on the day We
have stated. There was nothing to prevent the vessel
continuing her vovage from Weymouth, as she had-done
from liastine.sthe explosion ; but the machinery
would have required to have been worked with four in-
steade. after
which would have been insufficienatpfaoilirrsgdouflyllb
of five sets of boilers, an arrangement,-
testinghowever,
ma4eprsersons
speed and capabilities. The five
pro-
vided leave the ship; in the opinion of
somewhat deficient of boiler power, and she could
therefore but ill dispense with the • services of
one-fifth of the number. As we stated last week, the
injuries done to the' forward boiler were not very
`extensive, and they will be completely repaired in
the course of the ensuing week. The new funnel, con-
structed at Millwall and sent down to Weymouth in
sections; is now almost entirely -fitted up_ on board.
With'respect to the • wreck of . the private and sleeping
cabins in the lower deck, there is no immediate necessity
for 'refitting or reconstructing them. The • uninjured
cabins will, no doubt, prove amply sufficient to
accommodate the passengers on the first voyage of

the utmost, and try tl

he ship. Some attention has: ;been paid to the
state of Ifier'coal bunkers. AS there ;will be probably
little short of ten thousand tens of coal on board, it
is considered priitlent- to Itaker steps likely to
prevent spontaneous' Combuitidni among this large
mass of fuel; but as the coals are said to b 4 all
anthracite, there is not much cause of apprehension
on that ground; but any casualty of this sort is, how-
ever, provided against by fitting- the bunkers with
pipes, as in the cases of ships of the rayal navy, so as to
enable the temperature to be tested at frequent intervals.
The boilers also will not, as before, be solely dependent
for the supply of water upon the donkey engines—an ar-
rangement which ought never to Piave - been made,
a .was, in fact, the primary cause of the late
cident. Feed and bilge pumps are to be attached to
ad paddle engines, and the donkey engines
The

and whi

the screw

)r bile

)e worked independently of the donkey, feed,
pumps, and will be capable of throwing some
iy part of the ship whete

ty ton!

r minute mi

ferers of the lf'it'eaceident—Tait, Sparkes, and Yoson-4
are "progreising steadily and favourably, =4 there is
good ground 'for believing that they will ultimately

recover

the Great
Eastern will leave holy head for Portland in the United

Should the trial-trip pr

States• on th

e 20th ins

CONVICTION OF A • DRUGGIST, AT -THE
• OLD SWAN, FOR PRACTISING AS . A
SURGEON.

SERIOUS CHARGI

On Saturday, at the County Magistrates' Court,
Basnett-street, before Messrs. S. Ilohne, R. Benn, and
J. Myers, Mr. John Sharpies Hallow-3, a chemist and
„..

summons wh

practising

the Old Swani. an
had been

in answer to a

ssued against him,

The court. was ni

iolatiou of the

duly qualified

under the

led, and there were

gentlemen present;
Mr. snowball, solicitor, appeare

on behalf of the

defendan
Mr

r ►tzpa

Ir, sur

aottyAsh, was pro-

the defendant, when lifr: 'Snowball interyord;and asked

him if he'was an attorn,

I that he was

Mr. Snowball—Then I object to your making

statement before yoli are sworn as a witness.

trick, having "been sworn, stated that this
Li information laid under the 40th section of the

alified persons taking the title of sur

sely pretend to

loctor Ofmedicine,