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Her Majesty's iron paddlewheel steamer Recruit, 6, 150
horse power (nominal), having completed the alterations to
her engines and machinery, and made ready for sea, was
yesterday taken out of Chatham harbour to the Nose, for
the purpose of testing her rate of speed at the measured
mile, Maplin Sands, before being finally handed over by the
dockyard officials to the first-class steam reserve, in 'earli-
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taken on her last trial trip she proved in every respect a
complete failure. A maximum speed of only about four or
five knots an hour was obtained, and the paddlewheel floats
were at the same true so deeply immersed in the water that
it was considered useless to attempt to continue the trials.
Indeed, from the way in which the vessel laboured during
her trial a strong feeling of relief was felt by all on board
on the steamer being safely brought up at anchor. Since
the trial alluded to the Recruit has been very considerably
lightened by the removal of some of her heavy stores, toge-
gether with two of her 32-pounder 56cwt guns. She has
still, however, the whole of her six months' sea stores on
board, with the exception of her provisions. With 'JO tons
of coals in her bunkers at starting yesterday, together with
about 120 tons of machinery and boilers, 40 tons of water,
and about 30 tons of anchors, cables, &c., the Recruit drew
Sit 4in aft and Sft Sin forward, and thus being on as nearly
as possible an even keel she was not in the test trim to make
her trial. Chatham harbour was left shortly after 9 a,tn.,
the officials on board being Capt. W, It. Hall. C. 13., com-
manding the steam reserve in the Medway, who superin-
tended the trials ; Mr. J. Biker, chid engineer at Chatham
dockyard, and inspector of machineryafioat ; Mr. Hutchens,
assistant master shipwright; and Mr. Rumble, chief engi-
neer in charge of the steam reserve squadron. The Recruit
was navigated to the trial ground by Mr, Blakey, second
master and Queen's 'pilot, and the engines were in charge
of Mr. J. H. Brettal, principal engineer. Captain 11. F.
M.Killop was also on board during the trial, for the purpose
of testing the new cofferdam or portalle dock recently in-
vented by him, and submitted to the Lo'ds of the Admiralty.
On reaching the trial ground, six runs were made over the
measured mile with the following result; :—First run, time
5 min 35 sec., speed in knots 10146; number of revolu-
tions 33; second run, 6 min 20 sec, speed 9.474 knots,
number of revolutions 33; third run, 5 min 20 sec, speed
11.25 knots, number of revolutions 321; fourth run, time
7 min, speed 8.571 knots, number of revolutions 32; filth
run, time 5 min 1 sec, speed 11.96 knots number of revo •
lutiens 32; last run, time 7 min 2 see, ;peed 8.531 knots,
and number of revolutions 322. From hese figures it ap-
coals, stores, &c„ on board, is 10'179 lends per hour, which
piseaarsfathirat the
rate fmoreaan
vessel
lge speed of the Recruit, with her
of her clan: and dimensions.
On the occasion of her former trial, on th? 9th of July last,
the Recruit attained a mean speed of P. 508 knots, the
slight loss during her yesterday's trial resulting from her
increased displacement and the quantity o' stores on board.
The mean pressure of steam was 221 b, and the vacuum 25.
The temperature on deck was 44 deg, in he engine-room
96 deg. The weather was favourable for the trial, there
being a slight breeze from the southward vith a force of 3.
At the close of the official runs at full steam a couple of
runs were taken with two of the boilers ctt off, when the
sec, equal to r speed of 10.651
firstkno milets, an wdtahs run in
esecondSmniili: 3i489 min 42 see, giving a speed
equal to 6 186 knots. The average speec at half boiler
power was 8.418 knots, with 26 revolutions of the engines
and 26th of steam. The Recruit is fitted with a rudder at
both stem and stern, which thus enables tor to be steered
elplerra of
rather loss than 200 yards, in 3
in either direction. Some trials were accordingly made to
ascertain her capabilities of making a circle when both rud-
ders Each helm was accordingly
deg. by two men; when at
hardplay, Each
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the trials to ascertain the speed of the vessel was completed,
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arrhyoutthe experiments
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side of the steamer in readiness for use had time allowed.
the public trials wore accordingly postponed until Satur-
day, when they will take place in the presenoo of various
officials. The Recruit was handed over to the steam re-
serve at the termination of the trials, and will, it is stated;
be shortly commissioned to relieve the iron paddlewheel
steamer Weser, 6, 150 horsepower, Commander Johnstone,
now in the Mediterranean.
yesterday it was rumoured at Plymouth that the Edgar,
Black Prince, Warrior, and Defence, which left Gibraltar on
the 13th, are to rendezvous at LisbonunTtailesfuday
rth,erfroormders.
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cargo of old stores, and on
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spo k e n
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Cowes for orders.
The following appointments were made on Wednesday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. the Hon. Victor A. Montagu to
the Racoon—Anthony G. F. Gordon, L. H. Eliot, and W.
, i
and la t.
on 2
the
Bristow, naval cadets, to the Hector—Philip E. :Cresswell,
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In two months more the easy work of helping old Black-
friars-bridge down will be begun, It has done its best to
save contractors unnecessary work in rendering this last
office. It is like a ship ready to be launched ; they have
but to knock away the centring from the two b-oken-
backed arches which now obstruct the river, and the whole
structure will go pell-mell into the Thames. It is just in
that critical condition that it can change no further with-
out coming down with a crash. It has reached its last
point of subsidence, and, to do it justice, it has for some
time past seemed disinclined to tempt its fate further. It
might stand in its present condition for the next ten years,
or it might tumble down like a house of cards in a few
hours. The intricate, yet beautifully arranged web of scaf-
folding raised for the erection of the temporary and the
railway bridges has much decreased the scour of the river
through the arches ; it so far has checked any tendency to
further settlement, and, perhaps, the old bridge has more
chance of standing now than it has had for the last 25
years. But it is not a safe rule to calculate too closely in
these matters, so Mr. Cubitt has hurried his plans forward
for completing the temporary bridge at once, that the old
high-shouldered structure may be closed in April and re-
placed with a far wider, stronger, and infinitely handsomer
structure as soon as possible.
The great engineering works now in progress at Black-
friars always command a somewhat large and apparently
deeply interested body of spectators, who from the old
bridge survey what is going on beneath them hour by hour
as lung as daylight lasts. To the ordinary spectator it is
a curious and rather bewildering scene, a web of piles and
ties, a singular two-storied mixture of iron and wood, with
glimpses through the network of deep round iron cylinders,
like those used for soap boiling, pushed far down in the bed-
of the river, being filled up with masonry. In the nooks
and corners of the great framing lurk steam pile drivers
fussily busy, driving great balks of timber down into the
London clay, while overhead the travellers are crawling
slowly to and fro with blocks of granite, masses of iron,
besets, girders, or whatever else they may have seized upon,
and crept off with till they are claimed with a hail from
below, and lowered to their proper places in the structure.
This is what can be seen from the old bridge, but the as-
pect is very different from the works themselves. There
nothing is in the way or out of the way. The tangle of
scaffolding reveals itself under proper inspection, and we
see at once that, as in a spider's web, there is not a fasten-
ing without a purpose—nowhere is there one more or lees
than is required, and everything, from the largest iron
girders to the smallest fastening, has its own special work
to do, and will do it when the time comes. Looking towards
the east from the old bridge two bridges are now being
built, and both by the same engineer, Mr. Cubitt—one the
great four-line bridge for the London, Chatham, and Dover,
of which very little can now be seen; the other lofty tier of
scaffolding is the temporary structure which is happily to
replace Blackfriars in a couple of months or so. This, as
the first temporary bridge we have yet seen over the Thames
in London, and for its own intrinsic merits, as a very
simple, yet immensely strong contrivance in scaffolding,
merits some notice. Its length is 990 ft from wharf to
wharf, and it is built in two stories; the lower one is
26ft wide (the width of the old bridge roadway) ; the
upper storey is raised 16ft above this, and consists of two
footways, each 9ft wide, the width of the footways in the
present bridge being only 7ft. The lower storey is for the
carriage traffic, the upper for pedestrians, and the four feet
extra width of footway given to the latter is to accommo-
date the loungers on either side who are sure to pass much
of their time in looking over at the progress of the works
beneath. This scaffolding, though called a temporary
bridge, is in reality a permanent structure as far as strength
is concerned. It is only temporary in the sense that it is
not built of durable materials, such as stone or iron. The
lower piles are driven 10ft into the bed of the river ; the
staying piles which carry the roadway are only 18ft from
centre to centre longitudinally—those laid transversely are
only 7ft apart. All these, too, are braced together with
horizontal and diagonal bracings, and, in fact, even as far as
the woodwork is concerned the whole is built of consider-
ably greater strength than ordinary wooden viaducts for
railways. This bridge has three openings for river traffic,
each of 70ft span. These are formed by two girders, Oft
deep, with ordinary transverse girders between. They are
already nearly all floored with wrought iron buckle plates,
and for the future traffic are to bo covered with asphalt and
paved with wood. The gradient of this temporary road
will be exactly that of the new bridge when finiehed—that
is, a rise of lin 40, instead of as at present lin 22—an in-
cline only less dreadful than that which stops the traffic up
Holborn-hill. The approaches to the foot bridge, as being
taken up to a high level above the roadway, will be touch
more steep—no less than linlo on either side. To make
these easily practicable to pedestrians it will be necessary
that in wet and frosty weather such timber slopes should
be well sanded, or they will be almost insurmountable. This
steep gradient is only continued to where the footpaths
going and coming from each side meet the road traffic
above, whence they are continued across the river at al-
most a level. Yesterday this temporary bridge was tested by
a mass of iron weighing 36 tons being drawn slowly acmes
the greater part of the carriage-way. Under this severe
test not the slightest yield or complaining among the tim-
bers could be detected, though the strain was certainly more
than double what is ever likely to come upon a single part
of the bridge at any one lime. This was a test for strain
only ; the next will be for vibration, when a weight of six
tons will be drawn rapidly over it, in order to counterfeit,
as far as it is possible to do so, the rapid, reckless driving
of one of Pickford's heavy vans. Under this last test a
good deal of vibration is sure to be found, but that in mere
wooden structures, which, as it is said, "give and take so
much," will be of little consequence so long as no lateral
sway of the whole fabric takes place. In April it is hoped
to be able to open this bridge, when the old one will be at
once closed, and the work of removing it to make room for
its grand successor be urged on with all rapidity.
The new bridge, which is to occupy the site of the old
one, will be as great an improvement upon that which now
cumbers the river, as Westminster is upon the heavy, dan-
gerous, and steep pile of stones it at last superseded, with
so much benefit to the public. The improvement that will
result from the change, looking at it only as a question of
accommodation for the public, may be seen at a glance by a
mere comparison of dimensions. The width of the roadway
of the old bridge is 26ft; the width of the new roadway will
be 45ft, Old Blackfriars has two pathways of 7ft each ;
new Blackfriars will have two of 15ft each. The gradient
of old Blackfriars is i in 22ft—of the new, 1 in 401 t, or the
same as new Westminster, which on the surface it will en-
tirely resemble, except in being 4ft less wide over all. It
is to be built in five spans or arches': the two next the shore
being of 155 ft span each, the two next those, again, 175 ft
span, the centre arch having a stretch of 185 ft. These
arches will be all of wrought iron—the piers ore which they
rest of Aberdeen and red polished granite, with orna-
mental cornices and capitals of Portland stone.
The total length of the proposed structure from ena to
end is 1,170 ft., its width extreme from point to point of
piers, 130 ft; its height from high water, 361 ft, and from
foundation to parapet, 81ft. The waterway under the
arches will be 845 ft, as compared with the present water-
way of 769 ft; its headway under the arches will be 25ft,
and though Oft lower in height than the present structure,
it will double the accommodation to river traffic under it,
owing to the elliptical shape and somewhat flat crowns of
its arches. The style of the whole is to be what is called
Venetian Gothic. Tho two outside ribs of the ironwork
that will be seen from the river will have open lattice span-
drils of wrought iron, ornamented at their junctions with
bold gilt flowers. The ribs beneath this will be in five
joints, of great depth and strength, and similarly orna-
mented, but on a larger scale. In the centre of each arch
will be hanging shields, gilt and emblazoned. Over the
latticework will be a moulding, carried on concave brackets,
enriched with broad graceful leaves of foliage, while above,
all will come the balustrade of the footways. This latter
will be exceedingly handsome. It will be formed of an open
arcading of cast iron, each of the small columns which
support it having highly enriched foliatd capitals of the
most varied designs, though all in strict keeping with the
style and intended general effect. Above these columns,
the cornice, so to speak, of the balustrade will be pierced
in trefoils with a kind of moulded string course to resemble
a sort of handrail above all. This balustrade will be 34ft
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high, and all its beautiful proportions and detail of design
have evidently been studied with the utmost care, and
certainly with the utmost success. The spaces between the
many separate ribs which go to form each arch will be
built over with buckle-plates, and the usual bed of asphalt
and atone pitching pavement laid above all. So much
fur the ironwork. With the stone, as might be expected,
higher efflorts are made at ornamental details, and, in
an architectural point of view, are made with even more
success. There are to be four stone piers, each 130 ft
long by 20Ift wide, and 35ft high from Trinity level. As
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bases and capitals of richly-carved white Portland steno.
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end of each pier, and rising from a bold rich pediment o
carved white stone, will be a column of polished red granite,
7ft in diameter and 12ft in height. This will be surmounted
by a gigantic capital of carved white stone, and this again
with what we may term a cornice deeply cut and rich in its
design. Above all will be the massive ornamental parapet
of white stone, partly pierced in bold yet simple designs,
and this latter will form the balustrade surrounding the
wide recess above each pier. It is difficult to speak too
highly of the general effect of these piers as they will be
seen from the river. There is a simplicity, a massiveness,
and dignity in their whole proportions, and the effect of
their colour contrasts will be so striking that no merely
verbal description can do them justice.
When the piers are all finished the pressure on the foun-
dation will be only four tons per foot, or not much more
than half the pressure on the foundations of large ware-
houses. The ironwork will, of course, all be tested before
it goes up, and before the bridge itself will be opened ;
but it is almost not too much to say that the second
testing in place will be a mere matter of form, for
the sectional area of all the girders has been designed to be
about seven times stronger than any strain than can ever
come upon it in the reasonable course of London daily
traffic.
One most ornamental and novel feature in the new bridge
deserves especial mention, both for its own merit and for
the praiseworthy liberality and good taste the corporation
have displayed in granting this extra expense for purely
decorative purposes. At both sides and at both ends the
new bridge is to have a wide and noble flight of steps lead-
ing to the waterside. But, unlike other bridges, which ge-
nerally have their parapets tapering away into insignifi-
cance at their extremities, the balustrades at either end
stop short and terminate in four bold massive pediments
about 25ft high, somewhat similar to those which terminate
theledustrades at London bridge, but far more lofty in size
and noble in proportion. Once seen in design and it was
impossible for any architect or engineer of taste to resist
surmounting them with groups of statuary, and this Mr.
Cubitt boldly did, and included the price of the bronze
groups in his estimate for the whole bridge. Though these
are, after all, mere supplementary ornaments, without which
no doubt, the bridge, as a bridge, would do quite as well,
yet the corporation, to their great honour, did not take this
narrow view of it, but, regarding the statues only as a
splendid finish to their splendid work, almost unanimously
granted the £16,000 required for the four groups. All these
are to be equestrian statues in bronze, and 20ft high. Three
of them are already decided on—her Majesty, with Queen
Elizabeth, at one end, and King Alfred, and most probably
Edward the Black Prince, as the first and most renowned
of our Princes of Wales, at the other.
The cost of the whole work, including the temporary
bridge, is only £265,000, which is at the rate of £3 per
foot super, only about is a foot dearer than Westminster-
bridge, which still enjoys the honour of being the cheapest
and as yet the mast beautiful that spans the Thames. There
is only one great drawback on Mr. Cubitt's bridge, but
this, unfortunately, is a most serious destroyer of its
beauty. It is that the equally fine bridge which is being
built for the Chatham and Dover line is so close to the site
of new Blackfriars that from no point of the river can a view
be got of one structure without the other also appearing and
spoiling it. The distance between the two is only 150 feet
—a mere nothing in perspective. The spans of both are the
same, bat the railway is a level bridge and the city struc-
ture is arched, and situated as they are, apparently almost
touching, one most effectually kills the other. In these
days of metropolitan railways the Chatham and Dover
bridge (which is a wonderful structure of its kind) must,
we suppose, be regarded as a necessary evil. But, neces-
sary as it may be, it is cordially to be wished that it was
anything but alongside the site of new Blackfriars. The
latter will really be a noble structure, and will add still
further to the character the Thames enjoys above all other
rivers in the world for the grandeur and beauty of its
bridges.

THE PROPOSED PRITSSIAN LOAN,

BERLIN, lan. 19.
The report of the Committee of the Chamber of
Deputies upon the loan demanded by the Govern-
ment has appeared. Having been drawn up before
the declaration of Austria Etna Prussia at the latest
sitting of the Federal Diet, it does not touch upon
the most recent phase of the Schleswig-Holstein