The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-01 00:00:00

The main line of sewer from the chamber above

described will continue westwards, along and under
a field, and bearing slightly north, through Victoria-
park, for a length of 2,740 feet. In this distance,
the dimensions of the sewer, in the clear, will be 9
feet 6 inches in height, and 12 feet in width ; the
invert will be two bricks in thickness, built with
blocks in cement ; the side walls will be two and a
half bricks with footings ; and the arch will be
two bricks thick—both the last built in Barrow
lime mortar. A portion of sewer which will form
part of the new line, under Sir George Duaett's
canal, is already constructed. The line continues
along and under Hackney-common, crosses Cass-
land-road, and under No. 3, Cassland-terrace,
thence along West-street and the Darnley-road,
and under Nos. 1 and 2, Paradise-row ; crosses
Albion-road to the northern end of Fox's-lane, and,
turning more westward, passes under No. 1,
Church-street, by the railway station, crossing
Church-street, just where the railway also inter-
sects. For the distance last described, or 4,540
feet, the sewer will be in the clear 10 feet in
height, and 10 feet 9 inches in width, and will have
18-inch invert and arch, and 2 brick side walls.
Where it crosses Church-street it will be in cement,
with footings running through, and counterforts—
the wall being surrounded with concrete.
From Church-street, Hackney, the sewer
continue along and under a line of road to a point
opposite Dalston-lane, for a length of 1,440 feet. It
is here a barrel sewer of 18-inch brickwork, and 9
feet 3 inches in the clear. From Dalston-lane it
will continue along and under Amherst-road, the
Rectory-road (there nearly northerly), the Road-
ay, Newington-common, and High-street, Stoke
Road-
way, to the present open brook at the foot of
Stamford-hill, a length of about 6,460 feet, as a 9
feet barrel sewer, inl4-inch brickwork. From near
Stamford-hill-bridge the sewer will pass through
pasture and garden-groundto a point in the Manor-
road ; the length is about 1,210 feet, and the size 8
feet 9 inches, with 14-inch brickwork. Thence turn-
ing westerly, and somewhat south, the sewer will
follow the Manor-road, cross Lordship's-lane, and
pass through meadow land to the Green-lanes for
4,050 feet, with 8 feet 6 inches diameter in 14-inch
brickwork ; thence south-westerly, under the
New River, to the centre of Blackstock-lane, length
about 1,810 feet, diameter S fcet 3 inches, and
brickwork 14-inch ; thence along a new road called
King's-road, to a point eastward of the embank•
meet of the Great Northern Railway, length about
1,790 feet, diameter 8 feet, and to the centre of the
Hornsey-road, distance 1,520 feet, diameter 7 feet 6
inches, next along Tellington-road, to a point near
the Holloway-road for 1,130 feet, the size 7 feet 3
inches. From the Tollington-road the line turns
sharply round, and continues in a north-westerly
direction along the Holloway-road—the sewer
being, for the distance of 830 feet, up to the Seven

Sisters-road, intended to be of 7 feet diameter, in
14-inch brickwork , and for 220 feet, beyond, reach-
ing to the Tufnell-park-road, of 6 ft. Gin. diameter,
in 9-inch brickwork. At the Tufnell-park-road the
line again turns sharply round, and the sewer will
continue in a due westerly direction along that
road and across meadow-ground. to the Highgate-
road. near St. J.Aufs-park Academy, Ken-
tish-town ; the length, 1,230 feet, being of 6 feet
3 inches diameter, and 9-inch brickwork ; and
the lengths of 1,470 feet, 1.500 feet, up to
the intersection of Maiden-lane and the Junction-

road, and thence 1,730 feet to the Highgate•rond,
being of 6 feet, 5 feet 9 inches, and 5 feet respec-
tively. Thence crossing the Hampstead Junction
Railway, to the arch of the Fleet sewer in Mans-
field-road, Gospel Oak-fields, the length of 1,220
feet has a diameter of 4 feet 6 inches ; and the far-
thest portion at present proposed, passing along
and under the Mansfield-road, to join the sewer
already constructed opposite the end of Southamp-
ton-road, and in the line leading to South End-
green. Hampstead, a length of 1,800 feet, is to be
4 feet in diameter, and, as in the other cases, of 9-
inch brickwork.

The Wick-lane branch, or low-level line (so called
in the specification), it will have been understood,
is to branch from the llne of the storm water out-
let. It will then pass across meadow land, and
take the line of the brook, passing the canal at the
existing culvert ; it will continue to White Post-
lane, and thence along Wick-lane and Park-street
to a point where Homerton-lane and the Cass-
land-road intersect, The length is about 4.510
feet, and the sevrer is to be a 6-inch barrel sewer,
in 9 inch work. Thence due westward along
Wick-road, and lastly, turning north, it will join
the existing sewer of Bridge-street, Homerton, at
a point on the line of railway before mentioned, the
' length being about 3,290 feet, and the dimensions
of the sewer 4 feet in the clear height, and 2 feet
8 inches in the width, with 9-inch brickwork. From
a point near the junction of this sewer with the
storm outlet channel, the " low-level" lines to be
continued " with a drop under the invert" of that
channel, 2 feet 6 inches by 3 feet in the clear, in
14-inch work, resting on footings and concrete ; and
at the same time two chambers are to be constructed,
one for a penstock, and the other for a flap.
The works, besides what we have named, include
alterations to branch sewers ; the required provi-
sion for watercourses; 100 ventilating shafts, and
other matters. In some cases, where the brickwork
of the arch of the Sewer would be above the surface
of the ground, 6 inches of concrete is to be added
over the brickwork, and 6 inches of suitable mate-
rial from the trenches to be placed on that.
Of the materials to be used, the bricks are to bo
the best description of picked " stocks," and those
for the upper ring of the invert are to be the
best description of Staffordshire blue bricks, to be
built in Portland cement. Both are to be equal to
samples at the office of the board, and no broken
bricks are to be allowed on the works. The bricks
are to be well wetted before being used. The joints
are not to exceed 3-16ths of an inch in thickness
next the interior surface. For the lime, Barrow lime
is specifies', unless other blue Has lime should be
sanctioned. The Portland cement is to be of not less
weight than 1061 b. to the bushel, and the Roman of
not less than 761 b. to the bushel ; and the former is
to be mixed two of cement to three of sand, and
the latter two of cement to one of sand. In certain
cases, however, the cement will be used neat.
Besides surplus earth to be deposited in the line
of the present brook, portions will be required on
the main line near the Lea, and on the opposite
side of the river. The earth in such cases is to
be deposited in layers not exceeding s.ix inches
in thickness, mixed with water, and to be !punned
and levelled down. The foundation for the con-
struction of the outfall sewer to Barking-creek will
be so formed.
The conditions bind the contractor to finish the
whole of these works within fifteen months after
the receipt of the engineer's order to commence, or
to pay £5O as liquidating damages for every day
over the time. £lO,OOO is to be allotted for pos-
sible extra works. The specification includes a
schedule of prices, wherein digging with every
expense of shoring, carting, &c., is set down at 2s.
Gd. per yard cube ; and concrete (six of ballast to
one of ground blue lias lime) at 6s. Gd., unless the
ballast be got from the trenches, when the price
would be 3s. 6d. Brickwork, of the blocks of
" stocks" and Portland cement is put at 13 guineas
a rod (half-brick being 15 guineas, whilst in Roman
cement it is put at £l5. The work with Stafford-
shire blue bricks is put at £2O (that is, with Port-
land cement), and in Roman cement it is 'at £l9.
Ordinary brickwork in Barrow lime mortar is put
at £ll per rod, and in blue Has lime at 10 guineas.
" Fir timber, left in trenches," is set down at 2s. 7d.

per foot cube, whilst Memel or Riga, provided and
driven in piles, &c., is 4s. 6d. The " articles of
agreement," wherein the specification and general
conditions are embodied, occupy 35 printed pages,
and refer to 22, or 23, sheets of drawings.

THE MISSING SHIP BOMBAY.

DESPATCH OF TWO GOVERNMENT STEAMERS.
Unfortunately we have no news of this ship
which is at all calculated to relieve the anxious
fears for her safety which are now felt in all quar-
ters. The Bombay, our readers may recollect., was
recently taken up by Government as a transport
for the conveyance of troops to India, and in the
early part of last month embarked at Gravesend
some 300 officers and men of various corps—viz.,
Ensign Charles H. Atkinson and 11 men of the
61st Regiment, 43 men of the 94th Regiment, 1
subaltern and 34 men of the 7th Dragoon Guards,
64 men of the Bth Hussars, Captain Charles Steel
and 32 men of the 17th Lancers, Ensign Arthur S.
Gilbert and 13 men of the 70th Regiment, Ensign
Walter S. Brown and 12 men of the Ist battalion
4th, 2 MCR of the 33d, 16 men of the 71st High-
land Light Infantry, 10 men of the 72d High-
landers, and 57 gunners of the Royal Artillery.
The vessel was provisioned for the convoy of 500
men, with all their baggage, to Kurrachee, and in
addition to this we believe she had also 500 tons of
railway metals, with 300 tons of kentledge, or iron
ballast, and 200 tons, or thereabouts, of water—
nearly 1,100 tons dead weight in all. This was not
an overload for a ship which is registered at 1,279
tons, but it was certainly enough, as the vessel,
though teak built, is 50 years old, having been
launched at Bombay in 1809. However, had the
Bombay quitted England in this trim, and gone
direct for her destination, nothing more could have
been said. But in addition to the 300 troops on
board, she had also to take detachments amounting
to 190 men from Cork. Of course, any one would
imagine that some vessels among our steam
squadron that seem perpetually in reserve in all
our dockyards would have been employed to bring
round these mei to a slow and heavily laden sail-
ing ship, or that, failing this, they would, at least,
have been forwarded by one of the Cork steamers,
which would have brought them all at something
like £1 a-head. But the " How Not To Do It"
system seems to have been rampant in the case of
this unfortunate vessel, and the Bombay, after
taking in her troops here, was ordered to sail round
from Gravesend to look for the rest of her men.
She sailed from England on the 9th ult., and up to
within the last few days nothing was heard of her,
and, unhappily, the news that has last arrived is
by no means calculated to lessen the alarm which
is now felt concerning her, and those she has on
board. Lloyd's list of last evening gives us the
following intelligence up to the 18th ult.:—
" The schooner Emma, Nankivell, of Plymouth,
from Seville for Hull, was boarded on the 24th
idst. off Dingle. Captain Nankivell stated that on
the 18th inst., in lat. 49 18 N., long. 15 23 W., he
passed a large ship called the Bombay, steering
\V.S.W. before the sea, main and mizenmasts gone
by the board, foretopsailyard gone in the slings,
sails blowing about in shreds, flying jibboom hang-
ing to the bowsprit, ship rolling very heavily, and
a great
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de people laeo observeddoubt b t
gives. oan dinoesetk. ''
sad
pic-
ture of her condition at that time. The distance
here spoken of is about 440 miles from Cape Clear,
and though 12 days have elapsed since that date
nothing has yet been seen or heard of her. The
ship is a very strong one, and Captain Flanlank,
her commander, is an accomplished and well-tried
sailor, on whose experience and judgment the
utthost reliance, fortunately, is placed ; but, from
the crippled and unmanageable state in which the
vessel was seen, as well as from the heavy weather
that has since prevailed, there is no disguising the
apprehensions that are now spreading respecting
her. On the perilous situation of the ship being
communicated to the Admiralty, the Lords of the
Admiralty immediately forNitarded a telegraph di.-
patch 'to the naval authorities of Plymouth, direct-
ing the sailing of t*o steamers without delay in
search of the disabled ship. Most earnestly do we
hope that the result of these combined eilbrts may
lead to a quick and happy solution of the doubts
and friars abroad, and as earnestly do we trust that
the disastrous voyage of the Bombay may be the
last of the kind undertaken by sailing transports
'for India to pick up a handful of men at Cork.

NEW WORK BY MB. TUPPER,.-Among the an-
nouncements of forthcoming works which are likely to
excite considerable interest, we olrF,erve that of a mew wo; k
by Mr. Martin F. Tupper, th author of " Troverbia
Philosophy." It is entitled "St Jphan Langton," and is to
appear in a few days, in two volumes, illustrated with steel
engravings. In these volumes Mr. Tupper, it is said, has
devoted his pen to a romantic biography (If the celebrated
archbishop to Whom England is mainly indebted for the
great charter of her liberties. Such awe ,rk cannot fail to
be acceptable to the numerous admirers of Mr. Tuppees
popular productions.