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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1864.

NEW NOVEL BY MR 5. MURRAY.
Now ready, Dedicated to the Duchess of Athole, in 3 vols.,
ELL A NO.R M A I•i.
By ELIZABETH A. MURRAY.
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WILDFIRE. By WALTER THORNBURY.
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WHERE CAN WE MEET AFTER THE
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at EVANS', Covent-garden.

The Railway Works at Blackfriars.

London is never likely to be known as one of the most
beautiful of European capitals, but the natura of its great
public works now being completed, or about to be com-
menced, must surely make it the most wonderful metropolis
in the world. Between the railways and the Board of Works
there will within the next five years be carries out in the
metropolitan district alone a greater variety of the most
stupendous engineering works than not only any other
capital, but any other country in the world can show. The
Main Drainage and Thames Embankments are in them
selves achievements which from their cost, difficulty, and
usefulness, would suffice to crown the fame of any capital
which should carry them out successfully, though these are
mere items in the long list of engineering labours now plan-
ning or being executed in London. The Holborn valley
viaduct will be a gigantic work ; the extension of the under-
ground railway into Finsbury another ; the Charing-cross
bridge is acknowledged to be a magnificent specimen of iron
work; that for the railway into Cannon-street will, it is
said, equal it. If Mr. Yowler carries out his high-level
bridge at Limehouse visitors up the river will enter London
under an iron gateway, compared to which that at Menai
will be an ordinary structure; while further on the railway
at Blackfriars will span the river with a bridge which, as
far as is yet known, will have no superior. From its size
and strength, from the solidity of its workmanship, and the
rapidity of its construction, this Chatham and Dover Rail-
way bridge is long likely to be regarded with wonder. Only
last May the first stone of the bridge was laid—in another
month the first of its gigantic lattice girders will be in place
ready for testing, and by June next it is hoped that all will
be complete and the city traffic flowing in to the temporary
station in Earl-street. The subsoil at this thoroughfare
is all made ground, and one in which it has been
exceedingly difficult to find a proper foundation for
the massive arches on which the line will thence
be carrieJ high over the level of Ludgate-hill, across
the site of the old Fleet Prison and down an incline to the
station of the Metropolitan Railway in Victoria-street. In
seeking for a good foundation in Earl-street the workmen
have come upon the remains of what was evidently the old
Roman river wall many feet below the present surface, and
nearly 200 ft distant from what is now the south bank of
the Thames. As this wall was exceedingly difficult to re-
move,it was thought better to utilize it where it was ; it has
accordingly been used as part of the foundations, which
here can only be obtained by a perfect structure of piles
and transverse beams forced under ground and felled in be-
tween with concrete.
The railway bridge which is to connect the great goods
station on the south side of the river with the station in
Farringdon-street and Victoria-street is one of the moat
important of the works by which these changes are being
brought about. The length of this structure between the
abutments is just 997 ft, and its width 55ft, it being intended
for four lines of rails, not only on the bridge itself but for
some distance over its approaches on either side. The
whole structure is carried at a uniform level of 32ift above
high water. The two shore abutments are of great solidity.
They were built in wrought-iron caissons, and contain no
less than 223,000 cubic feet of solid masonry, the founda-
tions being taken 30ft below the surface and down into the
London clay. From these abutments four piers carry the
main girders across the river, the two spans at the shore
ends being 169 ft wide, the two next to these 194 ft, and the
centre span of all 205 ft, the longest single span we believe,
excepting that of the Britannia-bridge, that has yet been
attempted in this country. It is in the piers, however, that
the most striking features of this great work consist. The
permanent way of the bridge being carried entirely on three
immense lattice girders, each so-calledpier, in reality, consists
of three disijnet structures or piers,one for each girder, which
are built quite se;
single plates consist or,7llll2llsinde , of masonry
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caissons or wroughtiron tubes
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forced down never less than 30ft, and •_ cacti of these
40ft below the actual bed of the stream. lea.
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columns of masonry, at Eft above sigh water nse
a
springing from handsomely ornamented pediments, rise
group of four massive cast-iron columns, which united have
a total diameter of 14ft. These are joined together at their
summits by a massive and boldly ornamented capital about
4ft high, making the total height of he columns from the
masonry about 26ft. The cast-iron columns are then built
in solid with the hardest description ofbricks laid in cement,
and over all are built the wrought-iron main girders. Thus,
then, though each one of these groups of stone and iron
columns form a pier, yet each pier consists of three
distinct columns of stone, surmounted by four distinct
columns of iron. The caps of these four columns, by unit
ing them together, virtually make one column of them, and
the transverse fastenings between tLe three piers in like
manner unite their strength; and over all come the main
longitudinal girders which carry the wiway, stiffening the
whole into one rigid piece—the ends only of each si,an being
left free on rollers, to meet the contraction and expansion
caused by variation of temperature. Jest now the whole
system by which this remarkable structure is being raised
can be seen more perfectly than has yet been the case since
the works commenced. On the Surrey side the massive
groups of cast-lton columns arefiniehed,and peer out grimly
through the net-work of timber, more like the beginning
of some colossal Egyptian temple than any modern railway
work; while on the City side, the last of the great circular
caissons, or iron tubes, are being stink, and one can look
down and see where the men are quietly at Work in a
gloomy sort of twilight, nearly 40ft below the bed of the
river. When Messrs. Joliffe and Bankes, the contractors
for London bridge, succeeded, after 13 months of unremit-
ting labour and pumping, in getting their first cofferdam
water-tight and empty, all the civic authorities went in state
to see the wonder; had luncheon there, and drank the
health of the engineers who had wrought this marvel in so
short a time. How mach the science of engineering has
advanced since that may be judged from the simple fact
that from the time of commencing to sink one of the three
caissons at Blackfriars till the men are at work in a dry
chamber far below the bed of the river, occupies from first to
last only a month 1 If the corporation now have any
curiosity to dine far beneath the bed of old Father Thames,
that time their salle-ci-manger in the London clay can be
they have only to signify their wish, and in a month from
made ready for them beneath any part of the tideway they
may choose. Yet, like Columbus's egg problem, nothing can
be simpler than they way in which this apparently difficult
engineering feat is accomplished. „It may be briefly
described thus t—Over the site of the intended column for
the pier the traveller brings the first circular wrought-
iron joint of the tube. It is lin thick, 18ft diameter, 15ft
Long, and weighs 27 tons. It has a sharp edge at the bottom,
but a fiat flange or rim at the top, for the next joint to be
laid on it. This is lowered between four guiding piles to the
bottom of the river, and the next joint, of the same weight
and size, put over it, when the divers go down and, placing
bands of vulcanised indiaruber between the rims or flanges,
screw them both so firmly together as to be perfectly water
tight. As the joints above are added one by one, the weight
of the whole tube sinks it equally through themud and
gravel till it will go no further, when a new process com-
mences. A steam pump, of Mr. Woodford's patent—one
of the simplest and most powerful machines of the kind
ever invented—is set to work, and pumps the water out of
cavating the earth out of the tubs, go down and begin ex-
the tube in a single hour, when Inez
which goes lower and
lower as they work, joint upon joint being added on above
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till at last, when some 30ft into the London clay, no pres-
sure above or excavationbelow will move itraore. One that
had reached its bearings was weighted with 900 tons of rails
at the top without getting it down half an inch. When so
fixed the iron tube is about 65ft long, reaching from high
water 30ft into the clay, and the gloomy circular aperture
then precisely resembles in size and depth the present ap-
pearance of the mouth of the terrible Hartley pit shaft.
The last labour is then to excavate a circular chamber at
the base of the tube some 24ft in diameter, and 31t deep,
which is filled up with concrete when the hardened bricks
are laid in cement up to Oft below low water mark,
when the blocks of masonry begin. These blocks have
been chosen from the largest stones of old Westminster
bridge, and after being laid they are fastened together
with brass cramps and dovetailed in, like the keystones of
an arch,so as in strength to be equal to a single block of 18ft
diameter and 4ft thick. All of the iron caissons that can be
seen above low water is then removed, and the groups of
iron columns built and fastened together in the way we have
described. Most of these piers and columns being ready,
and all on the south side complete, the work of building the
main centre girder has already been commenced there.
These girders are to be wrought iron and on the lattice
principle, somewhat similar, but much larger than those at
the sides of Mr. Ilawkshaw's bridge at Hungerford, to
resist tension and compression. They will be 16 feet deep;
but the centre one, as having to bear the transverse iron
beams which unite it to the outer girders, will be made of
extra strength. The two outer once will at each span be
tested with a strain of 400 tons—the inner one up to 800
tons, and the weight of wrought iron used in the three will
be no less than 3,500 tons. The scaffolding required for the
erection of these main beams has to be almost as strong as
the beams themselves. Moro than 70,000 cubic feet of
timber have been used in constructing it. The mixed wood
and iron lattice framework which our readers may now see
at the top of all is what is called the American trues. it is
precisely similar to the framework by which all the railways
in Canada and America are carried over the broadest rivers.
This has been constructed, with the staging underneath it,
to support the first span of the girder while being built, and
its stn ength may be judged when we say that this scaffold-
ng has been loaded to a ton and a half per foot without

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

CANTERBURY HALL—THE GHOST in the
k.J MAGIC FOUNTAINS, surpassing any of the Trans-
formation Scenes of the Season--one of the most beautiful
affects ever produced. The scene, "The Tempest ;" Ariel,
Miss E. Townley. The flight of Ariel throuirh the Fairy
Fountains is certainly a triumph of art.—Vido rublio tress.

All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions of the
Estabishment as usual, including' Operatic Selections, &e ;
Comedy by Unswort'n (the great Stump Orator), Eugene, W.
Randall, G. Hutchenson, J:Jester, 'l'. gaelagan, &c.

Admission, 6d. ; Stalls arid Balcony, ls.
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of the sisters Irma and Mathilde Monfroid, the only accom-
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of the world—J. S. Case on the magic wire —Patterson's
troupe of performing Dogs—B. Franconi's wonderful trick
horses— Arthur and Bertrand, the unequalled French Clowns
—together with the whole of the double company will ap-
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evenings at halt-past Seven. Admission —Private Boxes,
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Gallery, 6d.

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sign of yield or weakness of any kind. When the spans of
the main girders join above the groups of columns their
junctions will be concealed by massive ornamental castings,
which will be relieved with gilt and colour. In the same
style the termination of the girders at each end will be
ornamented with exceedingly bold and massive castings.
On the Surrey side of the river the enormous range
of buildings which are being erected aro intended
mainly for a goods station—a great central depot
for all the traffic that will be brought from the Great
Northern by the connexion of the Metropolitan Railway and
that coming from the south. Abutting on the deep water of
the river, the company have here got a range of waterside
premises which are not surpassed on any part of the Thames
and the necessity for taking their line at a high level to meet
their railway bridge, has enabled them to build whet may
almost be termed acres of fire•proof warehouses under their
river-side station. All goods coming by water are leafed
on trucks in these warehouses, and thence raised in batches
by one of Sir William Armstrong's powerful hydraulic lifts
to the level of the line above, and thence despatched with-
out further change to any part of England north or south.
From this point of the river-side station on the Surrey side
the line passes through, and has or will have stations at the
Borough, Elephant and Castle, Cambeiwell-gate, Camber-
well-road, and thence the main line continues due south to
Chatham, Dover, or, in fact, anywhere over the south of
England, while the Metropolitan line is extended round by
Brixton, Clapham, Wandsworth, South Lambeth, and Bat-
tersea, into Victoria, making junctions en route with all the
southern lines. North of Blackfriars the trains will run
into the Metropolitan Underground line, and thence to Pad-
dington, and so on by the Great Western and West London
Junction round by Notting-hill, Kensington, Brompton,
Chelsea, Battersea, and by Battersea-park over the Victoria-
bridge into Victoria-station, thus completing one perfect
inner circle of railway, which embraces nearly all the chief
districts in the metropolis. But the Victoria station can
by no means accommodate this threatened addition to its
traffic. Already there is more traffic in and out of that
station daily than at any other station, and one Thames
bridge is not enough for it. A short line, therefore, is
proposed to be built from the south side of Battersea, so as
to give the Chatham and Dover an independent Thames
bridge of their own into Victoria station. This will
make the tenth new bridge across the Thames begun on
completed within the last four years, eight of which are for
railways. By next June it is expected that the city branch
will be ready for its traffic into Earl-street, and by next
Christmas the circle will be completed by the routes we
have named, and the distances of this unwieldly metropoli.
lis reduced, in point of time, to as manageable dimensions
as those of a country town. This, however, is not likely
to be the only new line into the metropolis, and to the pro-
moters of those who hope to follow we would say, in the
interest of the public, go and see the new stations which
the Chatham and Dover are about to give their passengers.
They are models of convenience, of cheerfulness, and even
comfort. They are models, in faot, of what such stations
should be, but which the public have never got till now.
To the engineers, Mr. Cu.bbit and Mr. Turner, is due the
praise of having designed the stations en such a compre-
hensive and liberal scale, and the contractors, Sir Morton
Peto, Mr. Betts, and Mr. Crampton, have carried out the
designs splendidly.

VALETTA, Jan. 17.—Her Majesty's screw line-of-battle
ship Trafalgar, 72, Capt. Mason, arrived on the 16th inst.,
in three days from Corfu, and by her intelligence has been
received that the dismantling of the fortifications had been
completed, and that preparations were being made for blow-
ing them up. The storeship Supply was expected there
from England to embark stores. The Trafalgar brought
with her military prisoners and naval supernumeraries.
She will leave for England and Gibraltar on Monday or
Tuesday, after embarking military and naval invalids, 50 old
guns, and 700 bags of biscuit for the Channel squadron.
The Chanticleer, 17, Commander J. E. F. Risk, left
-resterday for Beyrout. She will replace the Pelican, 17,
ander Comber, which had been ordered to return
sling on her way at Suda Bay and the Piteous.
sting Commander Lieut. Boger, left the
to relieve the Surprise, 4, Com-
`he western coast of Greece.
'o Malta. Instructions
Icarus to proceed
-settled state
Al term

Coma...
to Malta, sae-
The Icarus, 11, b.
same day for the Pirate.,
mander %V. 11. Whyte, on
The latter ship has been ordered -
were issued five or six months ago for tte.
home, but were cancelled on account of the n_
of affairs in Greece. She has now exceeded the us,-
of commission by upwards of a year, and considerabl6
appointment has consequently been caused on board by the
absence of fresh orders of recall. Tho Meannee, 60, Capt.
G, Wodehouse, which was to have left the Piraeus some
time since for Malta, has been detained there, as the Am-
bassador did not wish to diminish the strength of the vqua-
dron. It is rumoured, however, that she will be permitted
to leave soon for this island. Rear-Admiral Yelverton has
made a short cruise to Poros, where he wasmet by the Fox-
hound, 4, Corn. W. H. Anderson, but has since returned to
the Pirseas. The Foxhound afterwards sailed for Nauplia
and Zaute for a few days' cruise. No change had taken
place of late in the foreign ships stationed at Athens. The
Turkish corvette Broussa had been on a trip to Syra, with
the Turkish Minister, but with what particular object had
not transpired. The Austrian screw corvette Conte Dan-
dolo, Capt. Barone S. Dawdan Olewsky, arrived on the 14th
inst. from Alexandria and Suds Bay, and awaits orders
herd. Py her we learn that her Majesty's ships Racoon,
22, Capt. Count Gleichen, and the Psyche, 2, despatch-
vessel, Lieut. Cora. R. Sterne, were still at Alexandria on
the Bth inst., awai.,,Log
the arrival of the Countess of Elgin.
Her brother, the Earl o: Durham, has passed through
Malta to meet her on her way
„Lrougla Egypt. News has
been received from Gibraltar that her
esty's ship Magi-
cienne, 16, Capt. W. Armytage, had returnee'
from convey-
ing Sir Moses Montefioro to Saffi, and was at G ibr. taron
the 6th inst., where she was to remain a fortnight. It w.
expected that by that time Sir Moses Monteflure would
have completed his benevolent mission. She was then to
return to Melte. Her Majesty's ships in port are the Marl-
borough, 121 (bearing the flag of Vice. Admiral R. Smart,
K.H.) ; the Hibernia receiving ship (bearing the flag of
Rear admiral H. T. Austin, C,8.) ; the Trafalgar, 72, the
Resistance, 16, ironclad ; the Phcobe, 35 ; the Cossack, 20;
the Hydra and Firefly, surveying ship; and the Growler,
gunboat. An accident has occurred to the Malta and
Alexandria electric cable, and some more communication is
interrupted. The injury is supposed to exist not far from
Bengazi and to be mechanical, as the stoppage was quite
sudden, and took place without any previous deterioration
or fluctuation of electric force while a message was being sent
through the line to Alexandria. Every effort is being made to
discover the exact locality of the damage, which it is considered
very likely to have been caused by some ship's anchor drag-
ging during the late violent storm on the coast. An officer
from the station at Bengazi, attended by a proper escort
from the Caimacan, has been despatched with instructions
to proceed along the shore to see if signs existed of any ves-
sel having been driven on the coast, and if necessary to
prosecute his researches 100 miles to the eastward. Admiral
Smart has been most ready in offering any assistance in
his power ; but men of war, from obvious reasons, are ill
adapted for work of this kind, and it is feared nothing can
be done till the arrival from England of a vessel fitted with
all the necessary appliances for the purpose. On the 13th
inst., an hour before the interruption of communication,
very bad weather was announced at Alexandria. The
message added that a violent gale seemed imminent. Here,
at Malta, indeed in most parts of the Mediterranean from
which accounts have reached us, such a long continuance
of stormy weather has been almost unprecedented. The
unusually low temperature and constant rains have been
very unfavourable for invalids. A telegram just received
from Bengazi states that the expedition had been obliged
to return to that place in consequence of the state of the
weather.
The America, old wooden sailing frigate, having super.
sedod the Monarch as target ship at Portsmouth, is now
having armour-plates from Messrs. John Brown and Co., of
Sheffield, and other firms bolted on her sides for testing
in the usual manner with the 68-pounder and cast-iron
shot, and possibly for experimental practice with spherical
steel shot and sheeL Recent experiments at Shoeburyness
and Portsmouth have proved that spherical steel shot fired
from any smooth-bore gun at short range against armour
plates of 5i inches in thickness are so destructive that our
present armour plating must be worse than useless at close
quarters. The spherical steel shot may, however, be fired
from a simply rifled gun, and its effect when so fired from
this description of weapon upon armour plates has yet to be
ascertained. The great success which has attended the use
of steel is probably quietly affecting a revolution in the great
iron-clad question which the united talent of our numerous
great gun makers has hitherto been totally capable of
_ac
complishing.
The following appointments were made on Saturday a,
the Admiralty :—Cornelius H. Ward, acting assist.-surg.
to the Meander; Edward J. Butler, assist.-surg., to the
Royal Adelaide ; Wm. Anderson (b), assist,-surg., to the
Hector; Arthur M'Kenna, assist.-surg., to the Prince Con-
sort ; George F. Elliott, aasist.-surg., to the Hogue; James
Ambler, engineer in the Orontes, promoted.

THE ARMY.
A circular memorandum having been recently issued from
the War-office, containing instructions for the placing of
regimental libraries on a more satisfactory footing, besides
directing apartments to be set apart or ,constructed for sol-
diers' recreation robins, the authorities of the camp at Col-
chester have placed a hut at the disposal of a committee of
each battalion to be used in accordance with the terms of the
circular. In order to carry out the new system, the Go-
vernment, besides providing furniture for the rooms and
supplying apparatus for various amusing and harmless
genies, grants to each company in every battalion £2 10s.

per annum for the purpose of purchasing books, repairing
damaged books, and meeting casual incidental expenses.
Each recreation room will be supplied with the principal
daily and weekly papers, magazines, &c., the expense of
which will be covered by the Government grant and the
subscriptions of the officers, non-commissioned officers and
men. The subscriptions are not under any circum-
stances to exceed ls. per month for an officer, 6d. per month
for a sergeant. 4d. per month for a corporal, and 3d.
per month for a private. The battalions at the camp at
Colchester have now opened their rooms, and at each of
them refreshments can also be obtained.
The Rev. Mr. Henderson has been appointed Presbyterian
minister at the camp at Colchester, and has arrived at that
station. A detachment, consisting of 1 sergeant and 20
rank and file of the 2d battalion. 6th Regiment, has left the
camp for Portsmouth, for the purpose of being employed as
a guard over convicts in the West Indies. A draught of 35
rank and file of the let battalion sth Regiment has also left
the camp en route for Shorncliffe, to join the service com-
panies of the regiment at that station.