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avoid an excess of expenditure beyond the contract
sum. At the instance of an influential public body
at Bristol, the two companies have also consented
to contribute £125,000 towards an extension line
promoted by a local company for a railway from
the present station at Temple Meads to Brando'i-
hill, near Clifton, embracing a connection with the
docks and quays of Bristol. The directors entertain
no doubt that it will be very advantageous to
support such an undertaking. There are other
bills now before Parliament, some promoted in
favour of, and others adverse to, this company's.
interests, and the directors refrain from express-
ing, upon this occasion, an opinion either upon
their merits or their objectionable features. In the
meantime the directors will not fail to devote their
best attention to the interests of the united com-
panies, in respect to all bills submitted for legisla-
tive powers during the present Session.

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extant by what they votzld have ttv
of that accident.
Mr. ITERAPATH said ho would not treble tan
with any questions, as he had had a- conversation
with Mr. Chubb prior to the meeting, and was
satisfied with his explanations.
The report was then unanimously adopted, and a
dividend at the rate of £2 15s. per cent. was de•
dared for the half-year on the ordinary stock and
shares of the company.
Mr. G. G. Glyn, M.P., and Mr. Allender, the
retiring directors were re•elected, and also Captain
T. Porter, RN., the retiring auditor.

On the motion of Mr. 111F.-RAP:vim, thanks were
voted to Mr. Scott for his long and efficient services
to the company, and the proceedings concluded with
a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors.

2HE LAST VOIAGE OF THE (]REIT

EASTERN-.
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At the monthly meeting of the Liverpool Poly-
technic Society on Monday evening, Capt. Walker,
late captain of the Great Eastern, read a paper de-
tailing the principal events of the last voyage of the
" big ship." He said,—" I was appointed to the
command of the ship on the 31st of August and
joined her on the 2d of September last, all the
arrangements for the voyage, except the shipping
of the crew, having been made independent of me.
We proceeded to sea on Tuesday the 10th of Sep-
tember, andpassed the Bell Buoy at 4 p.m. and
Holyhead at 8 p.m.; at 3 o'clock next morning
passed Tuskar, and at 1 20 p.m. passed Cape Clear,
weather being moderate and fine, with a long wes-
terly swell,causing the ship to roll heavily at times.
On Thursday, at noon, I found that we had run a
distance of 283 miles, with a strong breeze from
S.S.W., and a long westerly swell and heavy cross
sea. At 2 p.m. on that day the wind and sea in-
creased, and as a precautionary measure I put on
relieving tackles. At 330 the port forward boat
unhooked from the slings and was stove. At this
point I should inform you that this boat was about
40 feet above the water, and immediately before the
paddlewheel, and was blown out of the slings by
the force of the wind. I stopped the paddle-en-
gines and cut the boat adrift, and at 3 35 started
the paddle-engines, the boat having cleared
them. At 4 p.m. we had a strong gale and very
heavy sea, causing the ship to roll very heavily
at times. I hauled her up to the west, but could
not get' her to keep to the wind. I then set the
fore staysail and trysail, and tried to get her
before the wind, but could not succeed. Carried
away the clew of trysail and split fore staysail. Up
to this period the machinery of both paddies and
screw had worked efficiently, when, something
having gat adrift in the engineer's store-room, the
bulkhead of it was carried away, and some of the
articles falling among the machinery of the paddle
engines, the engineer to save the machinery being
injured, stopped them suddenly. At 610 p.m. we
started aiain'half speed, wind being S.W. At 630
port paddlewheel carried away. I was then com-
pelled to stop the paddle engines. At this time the
spare cable on the cable deck broke adrift and
started with it a spare riding-bit which had been
placed on the deck but not secured. This bit—a
casting weighing some 3.0 cwt. or two tons—stove
one plate in starboard bow. I got it and the cable
secured the best way I could by jamming with
spare sails. At midnight the gale was fearful, with
tremendous sea, causing the ship to labour and roll
heavily. On Friday, Sept. 13, at 1 a.m., the wind.
shifted to N.W. The ship rolled fearfully—rolled
a sea on board which carried away two boats and
stove two more on port quarter and one on star-
board quarter. At 2 a.m. the starboard paddle-
wheel was carried away from the boss and dropped,
and hung on the shaft by the outer rings, and at
730 it dropped clear of the ship. At 6 a.m. sent
an officer below to see the spare steering gear clear,
and then for the first time discovered that the rud-
der shaft was carried away. lat once sent for Mr.
Rorison, the engineer-in-chief, and Mr. Wright, of
the paddle department, and in the meantime or-
dered the rudder chains to be taken to. They
snapped like glass. We tried three sizes of chain.
round the cone on the rudder shaft, and found that
nothing would stand the strain. In the meantime
part of the crew were rigging a temporary rudder
on deck, and part bending fore and aft sails. I
put an extra man to the steering wheel, and gave
thequartermaster orders tow ork away as if nothing
had happened, so that the passengers might not be
alarmed, and they were not aware of the acci-
dent until they saw 15 fathoms of the large 2A--
inch chain being dragged along the deck.
This was the piece that we ultimately succeeded
in securing round the cone on the rudder head.
Great credit is due to the two engineers above
named for their active exertions to secure this re-
sult. At this time a passenger, an American named
Towle, went to the other passengers and volunteered
his services, and at their request we attempted to
put Mr. Towle's plan into execution by building a
drum over the cone or rudder head, but it was no
sooner completed than the first jerk sent everything
flying. This person afterwards attempted to mono-
polise any credit there might be due for the inven-
tion of the successful plan, and has since made an
application to the directors for remuneration. At
1 p.m., having failed by all ordinary means in cast-
ing the ship, I adopted the expedient well-known
to all masters of screw steamers—viz., that of re-
versing the engines, which had the desired effett of
bringing the ship's head to S.E. from W.N.W. At
1 10 p.m. set on ahead slowly, and at 1 20 found
that the rudder post had carried away. This rudder
post appears to have been an afterthought of the
builder, and, unlike the other parts of the ship, was
a slender affair, built of plate iron, and intended as
a shore or stanchion to prevent the heel of the
vessel being strained if she was put on the grid-
iron. Simultaneously with this discovery we saw
a large cutting in the after part of the rudder,
which we supposed was caused by the screw hit-
ting it. It was, however, a most fortunate thing
for
suggeasptpeadrtaotums.e the idea of.w riggingalker here
the
explained, by means of a model, the plan adopted
for working the rudder. " All this," he continued,
outside me,
as
steering it
" was not completed until Sunday, at 5 p.m. In
the meantime, the temporary rudder was being
made, and on Friday evening, at 5 o'clock, I stopped
the screw engines and launched the temporary
rudder, in doing which one of the hawsers fouled
the propeller, which gave considerable trouble to
clear it. Having done so we dropped it astern, and
it assisted considerably in keeping the ship's head
to the wind. At midnight we hove her to under
the trysails, with engines stopped. Next day (Satur-
day) the wind and sea were decreasing, but the
ship continued to roll fearfully, carrying away
some of the internal fittings at almost every roll.
During this time the ship was drifting about 11
knots per hour to the southward. On Sunday,
the 15th, at 5 p.m., having completed the steering
gear, we set on a head half speed, and, having found
the gear to answer, at 6 set on at full speed. On.
Tuesday, the 17th, at 9.30, ship steering badly,
stopped the engines off the Old Head of Kinsale,
found that the shackle had slipped round, causing
the loss of leverage on the rudder one way. At 4
p.m, got this put to rights, and 5 30 p.m. arrived
off Cork harbour, where we came to an anchor to
wait tide. On Wednesday, the 18th, at 9 a.m. hove
up anchor, and assisted by four tugs, tried to enter
the harbour, but in consequence of the strong breeze
failed to do so. Came to an anchor, and tried it
again at 5 30 p.m., and, not succeeding, came to an.
anchor at 830 p.m. On Thursday, the 19th, it
blowing very strong, and with falling barometer, I
deemed it advisable to proceed to sea till the weather
moderated ; and on Friday, at 8 30 am., returned
and anchored in Queenstown, having been 36 miles
off the land all night. I think it right to take this
public opportunity of thanking the captain of the
brig Magnet for his prompt tender of service ; and
at the same time would say that this unfortunate
accident arose from an imperfect welding of the
rudder shaft, which could not have been foreseen.,'%,
—Liverpool ir ercury.

8. member
Princess Ca:inpello,
was entering the theatre at Rome
of the Bonaparte familY,
It is said that the
the other day, with her brother-in-law, the Prince Musig.
nano, when a
bouquet which she held in her hand was
snatched from her by a sbirro, under the pretext that the
flowers formed a yicolour.
hisrtnce Campello was highly
ant at this insult to Wife, and upon the instruo-
indign
tions of M. Thouvenel, the Marquis de Lavalette has, it is
said, asked the R9llllll Vvierlitc,ezAt ter cxplanations.