The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-04 00:00:00

CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE.

Lieutenant-Colonel Lloyd, Special Commissioner
at the Exhibition, has suggested an easy means and
an inexpensive one of bringing over Cleopatra's needle,
which seems worthy of adoption.
The Government would, no doubt, be pleased, for
there is no immediate outlay of ready money; and it
is to be hoped a 10-gun brig might be spared without
any great detriment to the service.
It appears by his statement that Cleopatra's needle
is lying tin with the flank of a work close to an old
Roman tower at about the centre of the new port of
Alexandria.
There are 8 feet of water close to the shore, and 2
fathoms and more within a cable's length.
He proposes that a temporary pier with 17 beams
be laid down, supported by short piles, if the wharf
does not already give the means of support.
That cables of about 106 feet in length, 17 in
number, be laid securely along the beams and pro-
tected.

That a brig of 250 tons, old measurement, with a
" flat floor," be obtained, her deck beams and masts
taken out temporarily ; the former to fit in again secure
and bolted, the masts to " foot" on to the Needle
when stowed, and then lashed.

After the brig is so prepared and brought alongside,
the needle to be lowered by " parbuckling" it down
over the beam ends, the cables thus forming a tempo-
rary cradle, and so to be brought over.
The gear for lowering the same, and the whole
operation would be so simple and so inexpecsive as to
need no illustrations. The brig should be filled in
between decks nith empty casks, and sailed or towed
over.
Attached is a memorandum of details of scantling
of timber and girth of cables necessary to support the
weight. A few anchors, snatch and other blocks, end
running gear and tackle falls, would be required.
DATA FOR REIHOVING CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE.
Assumed length ••• ... 72 feet.
Weight ••• ••• ••• 250 toes.
To be "parbuckled' :from a temp: my timber pier
over the hold of a brig.
S. constant foTrotrtxram
Bstoaramin-sleq,luOiOr.ed.

A common fir beam, 12 by 12,
with a 6 feet bearing, will
support at the end ... ••• 4 about 62
Do. do. 12 by 12, 3 feet bearing 8 " 31
Do. do. 12 by 16, 4 feet do. ... 10-1 " 25
Do. do. 12 by 16, 3 feet do. ... 14 say 18
Two do. 12 by 12, bolted and
trenailed, laid wh making
glue or gotta paita, making
a beam 12 by 24, and 5 feet
will 81:Wert ... 19 and 15
bearing,
From these data a selection might be madepp
properaccord
ing to circumstances, and cables of the ro
selected.
Proposed to have 16 beams one foot square, 30 feet
or 35 feet in length, with additional
and supported
pieces 12 by 12,
and 10 feet in length, trenailed, Bto.,
5 feet from one end, the smaller ends well secured
down.

The needle to be " parbuckled " over the ends, and
down guide balks into the hold, and the deck beams
and planking fitted afterwards, and masts housed.

CABLES FOR PARBUCKUNO.

________.,...
Tone. No.
A 12. inch cable will securely bear ... ••
13 1,,
A 13-inch ditto •
15 14 ••• ••• ••• •••
Three cables of 100 fathoms each would give 1'
lengths of 106 feet, amply sufficient to " parbuckle "
the needle by lowering into the brig.
One over each of the beams would be sufficient,
but, if thought necessary, two might be placed on two
or three of the beams at the heavier end.
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and some scresvjaeks, Sze. ful wincb,
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required
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DARTMOOR.A. weekly market has been estab-
lished on Saturdays at Prince Town, and from the large
number of persons engaged at the prisons a ready sale is ob-
tained for the various commodities. Should the prisons go
on as at present for the reception of convicts, this place w
become a great market for the sale of every commodity.
Several houees are being erected, and Dartmoor will un-
doubtedly become an attractive scene. Two convicts escaped
on Wednesday, from Dartmoor prison; one named Samuel
Baker, the other Griffiths, both aged 19, and dressed in
prison clothes, marked D. P. The convict who ran off last
week gave himself up a day or two after. lie secreted him-
self in a barn, it is said, near liOZlAtoridge)till he dab nearly
starved.--Western Luminary,