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dueed the gardens for the last 25 years, adding, that, if
he should feel inclined to take any shares, his strongest
inducement would be the knowledge that the concern
was to continue under Mr. Tyler's management.
This resolution, and another bearing testimony to the
advantages which the gardens bad conferred on the
whole neighbourhood, having been put and carried
unanimously,
Mr. J. CORPOCE the well-known Parliamentary agent,
and who is one of the committee of management, entered
into some explanations on the important point of the
dividend which the shareholders might expect from the
undertaking. He showed that t►me calculations had
been made on an average of 2,500 visitors a night,
whereas the nights of M. Jullien bad, during last sea-
son, brought 20,000 ; indeed Oat excellent judge had
pronounced the calculation to be ridiculously low. In
all the other departments, refreshments, hire for great
public occasions, promenade concerts in the winter, &c.,
the seine moderation had been observed, and still an
annual dividend of 10 per cent. could be clearly shown,
with a surplus sufficient in five years to return to the
shareholders the whole of the capital originally invested.
Some questions on points of de,ail were then asked
and satisfactorily answered, and the meeting terminated
without a singe dissentient voice having been raised
against the proposed transformation of the Surrey
Gardens.

TRIAL TRIP OF THE PERSIA, THE
LARGEST STEA.IIBR IN THE WORLD.

GLASGOW, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
Yesterday the magnificent iron paddle steam-ship
Persia, which has just been completed by Messrs. Rob.
Napier and Sons, for: the Cunard Company, made her
first trip in sea water, subsequent to the adjustment of
her compasses, by running some 20 miles down the Frith
of Clyde, and returning in the afternoon to the "Tail of
the Bank," opposite Greenock. With from 20Ib. to
211 b. of pressure upon the square inch she easily made
18,i statute miles an hour, while the paddles gave 174
to 18 revolutions in the minute. This day, however,
was reserved for the formal trial or pleasure trip, and
at the same time for the final departure of the ship from
the Clyde for the Mersey, whence she departs for New
York on the 26th current. Thu Messrs. Burns of this
city, the resident and principal shareholders in the Cu-
nard C ,mpany, had invited a distineuished party to en-
joy the occ vion, and at half-past 8 they left by special
train for Greenock, whence they were carried to the
Prrsia in a tender, where they met with a cordial re-
ception from Captain Judkins, the future commander of
the ship. The party on board mustered 220 ladies and
gent;einen, including peers, Glasgow merchants, country
gentlemen, Crimean heroes, &c. The day was surpss-
iogly lo‘ &yr. The sun speedily brushed away the morn-
ing frost, and shone out with unclouded splendour, while
there w.,s scarcely a ripple en the sea. The ship speedily
proc, ede I on her way, and stretched down under easy
steam a few miles past the Cuinhrae Lighthouse. With
only 15 pounds of pressure and 161 revolutions she
made the distance between Cloch end Cumbrae, the usual
testing ground on the Clyde, in 58 minutes, a distance
of 15i mile:. Bat this day's trip was not by any
means intended for a trial of speed, being in every sense
of the word a pleasure sail ; and an opportunity for test-
ing the real power- o the ship being reserved for the
passage to Liver/yid, for which she was to sail on re-
turning with the party. It is enough to say that the
performances of the Persia on the Clydu excited the ad-
miration of all.

The Persia, as we have said, is bui't of iron, and her
engines are constructed by Messrs. ItAert Napier and
Sons. She was launched in the Clyde on the 3d of July
last, and the intervening period has been fully occupied
in laying her machinery, and fitting her out as the most
magnificent floating hotel and goods transport that has
ever breasted the waters.

This, as we have said, is the largest steamship afLiat
in the world—far exceeding in length, strength, tonnage,
and steam power the Great Britain or the Himalaya,
and exceeding also by no less than 1,200 tons the in-
ternal capacity of the largest of the present splendid
Cunard liners. Her chief proportions may be summed
Up RA follows

Length from figurehead to taffcail
Length in the water ..
13readth of the hull
Breadth over all
Depth
Burden
Diameter of paddlewheels 4O feet.

According to the strict Government rule of admeasure-
ment, her power is equal to that of 900 horses ; accord-
ing to the plan laid down in the Earl of llardwicke's hill,
her power is equal to that of 200 horses ; and according
to James Watt's old established rule of 33,00011 L to the
horse, she is expected to work up to the pitch of between
4,00. and 5,000 horses.

Stupen loua as the Persia is, the lines of beauty have
been so well worked out in the preparation of her model
that her appearance is singularly graceful and lightsome.
Yet this mighty fabric, so beautiful as a whole, is made
up of innumerable pieces of ponderous metal, welded,
jointed, and rivetted into each other with exceeding
deftness. The framing of the ship is very heavy. The
space between each frame is only 10 inches, and the
powerful frames or ribs are themselves 10 inches deep,
with double angle irons at the outer and inner edges. The
bow is constructed in a manner at once peculiar and af-
fording the greatest possible strength to this important
part of the ship. The framing is so placed to the stern,
that the effect is that, in the case of collision with other
ships, or with rocks or icebergs, the strain would fall on
the very strongest material within the structure, and the
Persia would have a good chance of safety and successful
resistance while ordinary vessels would indeed be in
great peril. She is not clinker-built, as some ships hare
been constructed of late. The plates or outer planking of
the ship, so to speak, are laid alternately, so that one
adds strength to the other, and they form, a whole of won-
de•rful compactness and solidity. The keel plates are
11.16ths of an inch in thickness; at the bottom of the ship
the plates are 15 16the of an inch in thickness ; from this
section to the load water-line they are of an inch ; and
above this they are 11-16 the of an inch in thickness. The
plates round the gunwale are iths of an inch in thickness.
The Persia has clever' water-tight compartments, The
goods are to be stowed in two of these divisions, 'each
about 90 feet long, by 16 in breadth, and 20 ft. in h,ight.
These goods' stores, or rather tanks, are placed in the
centre line of the ship, with the coal cellars or bunkers
on each side of them. At the same tone, the vessel is
so constructed as to have in reality a double bottom
under these goods' chambers, se that if the outer were
beat in or injured, the inner would, in all likelihood,
protect the cargo dry and intact. The chambers are per-
tectly water-tight ; and in the event of accident to the
hull these tanks would of themselves float the ship. The
liner has two engines, and eight large tubular boilers and
two funnels ; and we need only speak of her machinery
in general, which is all ready, as being first-class. The
firing space for the boilers is 'placed in the fore and aft
line, instead of across the ship, as is usually the case with
smaller vessels.

She has separate sleeping accommodation for 260 pau-
sengers, disposed along what may be called the main
deck, lying immeiiately above the goods and coal stores.
These cabins have each 8 feet 6 inches of head-room,
and, coupled with the excellent system of ventilation in-
troduced into all the Cunard liners, we need scarcely say
that they will be alike pleasant, airy, and healthful.
Exclusive of the wholesome accommodation for the offi-
cers and engineers, there are in the forward part of the
ship about 120 berths for the sailing crew, firemen, and
stokers. The total number of persons employed in work-
ing the ship, from the captain downwards, is 150.
Above the main deck there is a deck-house covered in,
the roof of which affords a promenade from stem to
stern. It contains the main dining saloon, about 60 ft.
in length, by 20 ft. in width, and 8 ft. in height. It is
copiously lighted from the aides by plates of glass placed
in the alternate panels, In front is that important
adjunct, the pantry, which has about 300 square feet
of area ; and before the funnels is the kitchen, of equal
size, with its cooking ranges, exceeding most and equal-
ling any of the culinary establishments of the most ex-
tensive and noted hotels in the kingdom. But we have
not space to enter further into detail than to say that
on this deck and below it are also to be found the bakery,
the butcher's shambles, the scullery, the cowhouse, the
carpenter's workshop, the lampbouse, the doctor's shop,
the icehouses, the bathrooms, and no fewer than 20
watercloset.i.
The weight of the iron in the Persia, when launched,
was 2,200 tons. When the engines are on board, and
fully lo i.ded, the weight of the immense mass will be
5,400 tons, at which time she will draw 23 feet of water.
Her coal cellars are constructed to receive 1,400 tons of
coal—an ample supply to carry her on her voyage across
the Atlantic as fast as she can burn them. She has also
accommodation for about 1,200 tons' measurement of
goods. This may be considered small when the extra-
ordinary capacity of the Persia is considered ; but it must
he remembered that her main design is that of a floating
ketch and that the goods of the liners of Messrs. Burns
are principally those by which the manufacturing inge•
nuity and refinement of the East minister to the comfort
and luxury of the West.

LIVERPOOL, Jan. 10.
The large new iron paddle-wheel steamer Persia, re-
cently built at the yard of Messrs. Napier, Glasgow, for
the Royal British and North American Mail Company,
and which left the Clyde yesterday, arrived at this port
this morning, and was immediately taken into the lius-
kisson-doek, where her graceful lines and noble propor-
tions were much admired,

The Per,ia left the Cloch lighthouse yesterday (Wed-
nesday) afternoon at 4.56; reached Cumbraes, a distance
of 14 miles, in one hour and one minute; 'the Pladda,
south of Arran, 6.54 ; Ailsa Craig, 7.36 ; Corsewall
Piiint, 8.40 ; Mull of Galloway, 10.12 ; Point of Ayre,
Isle of Man, 11.45 ; Bell Buoy, this morning, 3.40.
The tout passage, a distance of 175 knots, or 203 miles,
was thus run iu 10 hours and 43 minutes, making an
average of speed 16 knots, or 19 miles, au hour.

BANKERS' CLERKS.—Among the several banking
firms who have presented to their clerks 1,0001. for dis-
tribution since the commencement of the new year are—
Messrs. Hey wood and Co London ; Messrs. Heywood
and Co., Manchester ; Messrs. Prescuttand Co., Messrs.
flankey and Co., and the London and Westminster
Bank. In addition to these gifts, it is understood ad-
vanced salaries have in some cases been granted.