The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-09 00:00:00

EXPERIMENTAL TRIP TO PARIS.

On .Saturday last an interesting trip took place for
the purFose of ascertaining the practicability of effect-
ing an improved system of communication between
London and P3.T13 by way of Dieppe. On the map
this route is evidently the shortest, forming nearly
a straight line, through Newhaven, Dieppe, and
Rouen, from the one metropolis to the other. Hi-
therto this route has been little used, mainly on account
of insufficient steamboat accommodation across the
Channel, and incomplete arrangements for connecting
the London rad Brighton Railway on one side, with
the Paris, Rouen, and Dieppe line on the Other.
During the greatly increased traffic of 1851 the di•
rectness of this route, and its cheapness, attracted
crowds of passengers, but the steamboat and harbour
arrangements were found to be such as called for
dacided improvement, in order to render it perma-
nently a favourite with the public.
Since that time
m
the attention of practical has been a good deal
efforts directed to the subject, and are now being
made to place the communication on a better footing.
On Sacuday morning the chairman,directors, and
officers of the Paris, Rouen, and Dieppe
Paris by an express train, and reached Dl•eype in
three llama and a half;endon the same morning
Brighton
Railway chairman and officers of the London and
an
express
ton
Railway left London to meet them
train, with which they reached Newhaven in less than
the
an hour and a half, the total railway distance being
thus got over in five hours, excluding, of course,
sea voyage, vallich is the chief difficulty of the route.
kor the purpose of rendering this as perfect as oa_
Bible, a new description of vessel was tried, possess-
ingr qualities and arrangements of an unusual
kind. Instead of the close cabins down in the
hold of the ship, where passengers are usually con.
fined, the vessel carries her first-class passengers on
dnek in a large and luxurious saloon, surrounded
with plate glass windows, where they are thoroughly
protected from the wind and wave', and yet enjoy
an extensive view, having abundance of light and
the most perfect ventilation. Owing to the peculiar
construction of the vessel the motion of the sea is
much less felt than in steamers generally, a result
which has been accomplished by making her of un-
usual length. so as to prevent pitching, and by a
proportion of beam and height which diminishes the
rolling. With this vessel, called the Wave Queen,
the Chairman of the Brighton Railway, Mr. Laing,
ALP., and several other gentlemen made the passage
from Newhaven to Dieppe, with a strong south-
westerly breeze and a considerable sea, directly on
is
the
aeom—circums'ances regarded as, exceedingly
unfavourable for the voyage—in 54. hours. It is
believed,
to
Paris
may be
that the whole route from London
hours, exclutla be accomplished in from 9i to 10k
ca each side o e stoppages,
and that, allowing time
mbarcation and debarcation, it may,
with good arrang ,:,
eats, be ecomoleted in from 10 to
11 hours. The
jointmeeting cf directors already
alluded to was toconsider the mode of carrying cut
this object. The mayor andautborities of Dieppe—
Mestrs. Simon, Blount, Duchatel, Bailly, Cretu,
and De la Peyriero_wera
side; Mr. Laing, Up present on the French
n llr. Slight
a/2'l Captain Claxton, R.N. Captain&c. on the
other,
Kr. Scott Russell, Mr. Farquhar,
and other scientific
tlemen, were also present to ghn make the a p ssage in
the vessel and test her seagoing qua iI. •
ties• The result
n
of their deliberation ia, we und.:rstand, the '
that the arngercents which have hithertoonv existediction
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cae very defective, and a determination to open
nthe
route with two or more fast steamers,;
having the lin
proved schommodation. for passengers •,‘ oich t,,,e,
ICrave Queen possesses, and to run them in combina-
ron with fast trains, so that this route, whi.,h is the
shortest in point of distance, may be rendered the
shortest also in mint of time.

LIE CoasT zrzr7c ES D .—A survey, under the
p E and Captain
Board Or OrAnatiee, by Captain Fansbawe, ~ ,
Gambier. R. A., i 5 ~c, ki,,io. made along the Sussex coast
as far as Fairlight, to
torts for the national dat• ~,ae' A'similar survey by Captain
as,--er--;'a tl-e capabilities of the several
'Gambier and Captain c,. '''ar. -nt
.Littlatampton (Bosses; to Castle (Dorset), with
the same obj ., has been made from
;:c. ()1
NVNl%sda; last a board of military
.and seiente (civil) °facers, -resided over by Colonel Sir
Frederick Smith,
C. 8., ,p' Commandant of the Royal
Engineers in Portsmouth ear,t
- -'on, made a tour of inspection
along the Gosport shore, with the ohofselecting sites for
abject
a Clain of new for
Cowzs. AiG. B.—Wind
S.l7..—Arrci Aristides, Feld-
hauwon; Arnzria3n ari Countess of Ega .- ,
nt(in, Patrieg,
Bahia.