The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-21 00:00:00

STEAMER.

On Saturday afternoon another of those splendid 1,800
ton screw-ships, built by ;Mare and Co. for the General
Screw Steam Mail Company, was launched from the
extensive building premises at Orchard Wharf, Blackwell.
The chairman of the company, Mr. Ellis ; the manag-
ing director, Mr. Fox, M.P. ; Captain Ford, Mr. P.
Rolt, M.P. ; Sir W. S. Harris, and many naval officers,
were present, and admired the quiet business-like we)
in which the noble structure was sent into the water by
Mr. Waterman, Mr. Mare's naval architect. She wa,
named the " Ilydaspes," by a niece of the worthy chair-
man, as she glided off smoothly and gracefully into Bow
Creek, amidst the cheers of the assembled spectators.
She was afterwards taken in tow and immediately floated
round to the East India Dock.
This is the fifth of that class of vessels that Mr. Mare
has sent into the water, and it is worthy of remark as
reflecting the greatest credit on British skill and
enter-
prise, that this is the fifth ship that has been built
within the last twelve months, and three of them arc
now actually employed in conveying her Majesty's mail
to India—namely, the Queen of the South, Indiana, and
Calcutta—whilst another will be ready to embark the
mails at Plymouth for the Cape and Calcutta on the 15th
of next month. The public ate frequently surprised
with •paragraphs detailing the mighty enterprise of
Yankee ship-builders and the extensive orders of Ame-
rican steam Companie.; ; but if English writers, and
naval men. too, would only look at home and within
halt-a-dozen miles of London they would see greater
reasons for public wonder and professional admiration.
We do not think that the fact has a parallel in the his-
tory of shipbuilding in any country, that for one com-
pany, one shipbuilding firm, has in the course of twelve
months launched 9,000 tons of ships, and has nearly
built 3,600 tons more. This is a truth which is stranger
than foreign exaggeration or fiction.
The Hydaspes will have engines of 300-horse power,
by James Watt and Co late, Bolton and Watt.
We need scarcely add, that Mr. Mare received e the ;ty
congratulations of the company for launching so by d
so fine, a noble-looking, seagoing craft, n t the
company was complimented on the greaat and
s.
that
addition to their excellent fleet of screw-steamers. useful

WILLIAM WORDSWORTII.—It has been proposed to
place a memorial to the pool in tho church now re-
building at Cockermouth. It is tho place of his birth,
an'! where he received the first elements of his educa-
ti,;n, in the endowed school adjoining the churchyard.
His father, also, was buried near the chaccel ; and her, ,
in his grey hairs and honours, he often stood and com-
muned in spirit Iviih his depart: d orent, ;hot as yet no
public testimony has boenraisr,d in a locality so much
essociated with the parent's history. it is intended to
, anti t at tla
take advantage of the present opportunity b
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4. memorial windovv,' tilled with Scrip tu4.l subj ct sirs
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inscrio6.l to the memory of Wordswoith.
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