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" Grenadier Guards Hospital.

" The two samples of your Patent Brandy I had an opportunity of
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" d. T. Betts, Esq." „ _

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accident, and calling out, " Stop the vessel! I see
six persons in the water ;" and " Lower the boat ;"
and to his (the witness) going in thelparga, with ten
others, to look for the bodies seen by
his Royal High-
ness, and also to finding three of them floating, and
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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD.—FLOATING OF
THE SECOND GREAT TUBULAR BRIDGE
OVER THE CONWAY.
Yesterday the second great tubular bridge over the
Conway Straits was floated on the pontoons to the.
piers. The operation, combined with the stupendous
machinery employed in the probess, attracted large
crowds from Conway and other parts of the princi-'
pality. Everything favoured the lifting of the levia-,
than structure, The wind was fair,
the Conway
water calm, and the rain that fell during the night
had the effect of causing a copious fall,of fresh water;
from the heights, thus holding baek the tide, and
tempering the strengh of the carrot, so essential to:
the success of the great operation. • At precisely nine-
o'clock, or fifty minutes before high water, Captain
Claxton, R.N., noted for his successful exertions in
raisinifintitier monster structure, the Great Britain,
gave, through a powerful speaking-trumpet, used for
the-purpoise of directing the engineers and the sailors
aboye and below, the signal to pipe all hands, and al-
most immediately the tremendous freight was seen
nibving stealthily to its destination. Next him were
Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P., the engineer, the de-
sip Tier of this new feature in engineering art; Mr.
Edwin Clarke, C.E., his principal assistant ; Mr. A.
M. Ross, C.E. ; Mr. W. Evans, the contractor ; Mr.
Frank Forster, C.E.; and near it Sir Charles Smith,
Bart., Mr. Amos, the Bishop of Bangor, the Rev.
Mr. Morgan, Mr. J. 0. Burger, and a large number
of the gentry and scientific men, whose names and
titles we could not ascertain. _

The tube was lifted in about sixty minutes, com-
mencing at a few minutes past nine, and with its
weight of 1,300 tons was got safely home at a few
minutes past ten, amid enthusiastic bursts from the
bystanders, and a salvo of artillery from the castle
walls. The entire operation was effected without the
slightest accident. This was the more gratifying, as
upon the previous occasion one man had the mis-
fortune to break his leg. Three cheers were given
for " Stephenson."
Go where you will in Wales, the question is,
" Have you seen the tube ? " To give a popular idea
of the huge fabric that now spans, or seems to hover
over the Conway, the reader has only to imagine in
his mind's eye the Thames Tunnel transposed—that
is to say, suspended 18 feet over, instead of passing
so many feet under the Thames, with no midway
support, but slung over, like the bridge at Hunger-
ford, without even the supporting chains, and only
resting upon piers 400 feet apart. Through this great
iron tube, upon rails within, p-ass the trains from
London to Holyhead. It is looked upon as one
of the greatest works of modern engineering
skill, and is the joint production of Mr. Stephen-.
son, the eminent engineer, Mr. Fairbairn, Mr.
Hodgkinson, and Mr. Clarke, Mr. Stephenson's
assistant. Mr. Stephenson states that it is six or
seven years ago since he first entertained the idea of
constructing bridges with wrought iron plates, ri-
vetted together. It was at a period when all the
ordinary kinds of bridges were being discussed that
he eventually hit upon the notion, and designs were
completed for an iron tubular bridge in principle the
same as at present. It was effectually completed, it
answered its purpose, and is now to be seen on the
Northern and Eastern Railway. From that time it'
appears that the idea fell for a period, in consequence
of the expensa of wrought iron exceeding. that of
cast, until the period of commencing the Chester and.
I lolyhead Railway. The original design was to cross:
the Conway by iron arches of very large dimensions,.
from 400 to 450 feet span, and when the tube bridge
was proposed. before Parliament it WM received in the
'Committee with zw..-cautity,:— . _
Tae scenery all around is excessively beautiful, and
the whole structure of the tube, one of which re-'
poses at the foot of Conway Castle, is, with its cas-
tellated masonry, in excellent keeping. With the
broad estuary below, and the hill of Benmarth in the
background, the view is very picturesque and im-
posing.

The tube itself is composed of a series of iron
plates, rivetted together like armour work. Its entire
length is 424 feet, the actual span over the Conway
being 400 feet ; its greatest inside width is 14 feet
throughout, its height 224 feet, at each end; but
rising to 2.5 feet in the middle, the additional three
feet being given to lessen the deflection of the bases.
The total weight of each tube is 1,300 tons, so that
the superimposed weight, now' that the two tubes are
at rest over the Conway, is 2,600 tons burthen from
bank to bank. The elevation of the tubes from their
bottom is 18 feet above high-water mark. The
wrought iron plates, of which the sides, top, and bot-
tom are composed) vary from half an inch to seven-
eighths of an inchin thickness. To a person standing
in the middle of the tube the light from either end
resembles a dim twilight. The end of the tube on
the Conway side rests altogether on the masonry of
the pier, but the other end of it is supported by cast-
iron rollers under the bottom, and by brass balls at
the top, by which the tube has freedom to expand or
contract, according to the degree of heat or cold
acting on it ; and from this circumstance it varies
about one inch in length. The entire tube, we under-
stand, has taken twelvemonths to construct. On the
iron floor of the tube about 70 solid tranverse beams
are laid, about 12 inches square, and five feet in the
clear apart. Upon these cross beams are laid longi-
tudinally, and to these the cradles that secure the rails
for the trains to pass upon are screwed. Each tube
has cost about 60,0001.
Now that the tube has been successfully raised,
what is called the " testing process," a most important
one, will follow. This will be done by removing the
wedges that support the tube upon its cradle, the ends
of the tube being left with a hohi of six feet each on
the stone piers. To ascertain the flexure of the tube,
about 30 ballast waggons, each filled with iron, in all
300 tons, will then be placed, and remain for a given
period in the centre.
One advantageous feature of the operation was that
the pontoons in
in their progress made no water. To-
morrow
or
Monday the whole structure will be com-
ns of the hydraulic machines. The
masonry
pleted by ea
will be built in under the corballing, and in
another fortnight the trains will run
,through unin-
terruptedly. The other tube then be closed for a
short time, to allow of the alteration of the rails, so as
to admit of the removal of the transverse timbers,
which may be dispensed with, and trusting only to
the transverse platesofireount experience in all . The first tube has now
,
been subjected to five months
found,
from the most minute and
delicate observation, that
wea-
thers, and it has been
the deflexion varies only from
the temperature up and down an inch, and although
heavy trains have passed daily through it, the general
inflexion observed has not varied
a from what it was
le was 5
when first brought into use. The greatest motion
registered from the strongest g , 00ths of an
inch. The tube has at present 6ft. rest at either end,
;
but it is intended by building 11P the abutments, that
to severalshrhewunshdurerdys,
eventually it shall have 12.
On the return of the special train,
went over the new line ?rtoirnngbeing completed with Chester
the entire operation of fiat
éclat considerably before eleven. There was some talk
of festivities and a ball at Conway.
A strong body of police We
superintendence of In-
as present to keep the
avenues and order, under tb
spector Partridge, and the trains to and fro displayed
triumphal flags. Numerous excurtsnihoenrstrtaeintshe spot.through-
out the week have taken large

EWSBURY
OPENING OF THE sim AND
CHESTER THROUGHOUT.
SITILEWSBURY, THURSDAY.-- To-day a general
holiday, such as neither Shrewsbury nor Chester have
'for a long time seen, was observed on the occasion of
uniting both by the completion of the through line
into Shrewsbury, the first railway, in fact, with
which the latter place has as yet been endowed. At
as early an hour as seven o'clock both towns were
astir, and at that hour the first excursion train left
Chester, drawn by three engines, with colours flying
and bands playing, with seventeen carriages attached,
containing Mr. Ormsby Gore, M.P., the chairman ;
Major Gore, Mr. Roy, the secretary; Mr. Robinson,
the engineer; Mr. Knox, managing director of the
Shrewsbury and Birmingham ; Mr. Williams, the
banker; Dr. Jones, Mayor of Chester, the members
of the corporation, and a large number of the gentry.
At half-past ten it returned, taking the Mayor and
corporation of Shrewsbury, who, after sundry cour-
teous exchanges, returned to Shrewsbury at about
two o'clock, in a monster train of fifty carriages and
three engines. Between 1,000 and 2,000 free tickets
were issued by the directors, and half Chester tra-