The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-28

| reports are considered doubtful.
:, NAPLES, Aug. 1.-THE Court party insists upon
the proclamation of a state of siege. The govern
ment refuses.
The Pdtrie says that Austria has declared that
IN the event of Garibaldi taking possession of Ma
! pies, Austria would not wait for the attack, but
| would proceed to meet the Garibadan troops on
whatever point of the main land it might be neces
| sary.
MADRID, Aug. 1870, ,OOO, 900 reals of the indem
nifty have arrived from Morocco.
From the ". 7. Herald, Aug. 2o1
TIE M pRiNCE = 6}t1, AT AT MoNrREAL-A MAGNIFI.
MINATION-THE GREATEST DAY YET
INAUGURATION OF CRYSTAL PALACE
| AND COMPLETION OF VICTORIA BRIDGE.
| MONTREAL, Aug. 25.-This has been the great
day of the Princes visit to Canada, for to-day he
| has inaugurated that immense bridge which has
! linked England with her provinces and brougbt
royalty to loyalty. Had the bridge never been
completed it is not likely that any of the royal
family would ever have come to Canada
The morning was sunshiny, and as like that of a
summer day in America as Canada can afford
THE DISCRIMINATION OF THE PRINCE AT MONTREAL
The Prince is losing his reputation for punctu.
ality, however, for he dsembarked at ten instead
OF, OF nine o'clock, landed at the wharf,
and was received by the Mayor and CITY
olhclals. The steamers near the dock and in all
the surrounding neighborhood were CAV with flags
and crowded with humanity. Over sixty thousand
people were present Tho Prince took his place
upon dais, with his suite in semcircle around,
and Mayor Rodier advanced in a robe of scarlet.
trimmed with otter, and along sword which tripped
him as he walked He expects to be knighted and
every moment seemed ready to dron mon his Inne
and receive the tap of the royal sword. Finding
no chance of this, he unfurled a parchment and
read, in English and French, the address of wei
come, to which the Price read his reply the Mayor
standing with bowed head and clasped hands, The
very picture of devout listener.
The Prince was received with immense cheering
and salute As soon as his reply was finished the
procession formed and marched through the prin-
cipal streets to the CRYSTAL Palace where the In.
dustrial Exhibition is to be held.
The streets and windows were filled with people
and the Prince was loudly cheered the procession
| splashed dreariy along through mud ankle deep.
THE INAUGURATION OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE EMIL
BITION.
The Crystal Palace is a sort ofimifation oftbat in
Hyde Park, but is quite small. The Prince was re-
celved with tremendous cheers. The bands and
organs played, and the Oratorio Society sang "God
Save the Queen," with added stanzas and also a
halleluiab chorus when the Prince left
Sir Edmund Head made an address to his Royal
Highness, asking him to inaugurate the exhibition
to which the Prince read reply, and then declared
the exhibition open, and walked round inspecting
the articles. The exhibition has been very much
hurried, and was not at all complete especially in
the mechanical department. The articles were
those usually found at country fairs.
None OF the aristocracy were present in the au-
dience except Lady Franklin and a few attendants.
LAYING THE CORNERSTONE OF THE VICTORIA BRIDGE
The Prince then rode over the worst road in the
world to the depot of the Grand Trunk Railroad,
where a great crowd had assembled to witness the
laying of the cornerstone.
The approach to the bridge was lined with
seats, to which persons were admitted ONLY by
ticket. Inside the abutment were seats for the
higher classes, covered with red CLOTH while the
gallery above was reserved for the families of the
| legislators.
| scaffold was erected for the Prince near the
cornerstone, which was slightly raised, together
with an apparatus for lowering the stone Trains
| with invited guests came first.
The Prince and suite having ascended the plat
form, the builder of the bridge handed him silver
| trowel the handle of which was made of Canadian
beaver and connected with the blade by the Princes
| leather. on the blade was inscription COM
memorative of the completion of the bridge by the
Prince. On the reverse was a representation of
| Victoria Bridge.
The mortar having been placed under the stone
by the masons, and the Prince having received di
rections from the Duke of Newcastle took a little
mortar on the trowe and spread it under the stone
| in fine style The stone was then slowly lowered
and the Prince tapped it three times with wooden
| mallet.
The ceremony being completed, cheers and sa-
/ lutes Numbered out upon the air. The Prince
then entered the car proceeded to the centre arch
OF the bridge, fastened two rivats, and then pro
| caadod 81. Lamberts, returning in time
| for the dejeHner.
THE VICTORIA BRIDGE.
| The Victoria Bridge is part of the Grand Trunk
OI.
distance from Montreal. 1t was commenced in 1854
and finished in 1859; but undoubtedly its progress
was impeded by the monetary crisis of 1857, which
affected the affairs of the company, or it might
nave been iui.y two years earlier completed Thus
thaIeneGted 1d1S3f anu 1885, IN fS5 TnnC n verv
trifing addition made to the amount of the
previous year, whereas, in 1858 as much work was
done as in the two preceding years.
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The bridge contains twenty-five openings of 2l2
the execution of thp urhi
is $50 feet, hence the length of tube is 5000 feet
| approached by embankments, the Montreal end
being 200 feet, the southern shore of 800 feet
| which, including the abutments, makes total OF
9,OS4 feet, or one and three quarter miles nearly.
The abutments are, at the base each 27S feet long
divided into cells of twentyfour feet, with inter
vening tie walls of five feet but at the top they cor
respond exactly with the length of tube 242 feet
| in length and indeed are carried up to the same
| height the cells being filled with gravel.
| To resist the thrust of the ice both the abut-
ments and piers furnished with n cut-water
which meets the pier proper thirty feet above sum
| mer water, the whole height of the abutment be
ing thirty-six feet above summer water, the centre
pier being sixty feet; hence the bridge rises in a
grade of one inch in 1872, forty feet to the mile
| the centre again being a pure level. The centre
! pier is twenty-tour feet in width the remaining
piers are but sixteen feet. These dimensions are
directly under the girder for at the foundation the
piers are twenty-five feet in width, and at summer
water sixteen feet Transversely the piers are
|
mensons at the junction with cutwater, sixteen BY
| thirtythree feet, extending outwards to the foun
| dation up stream, make the area of the course
| whence the cutwater is commenced sixteen by nine
| ty feet.
| MASONRY
Three millions of cubic feet of masonry in the
| V ictoria Bridge! That is to say, if turned into
lineal measure it would reach $40 miles, or, as
solid, would form pyramid 2l5 feet high having
| a base of 2l5 feet square These figures will rive
| r. he Of md n
warrant that exists for its endurance for all time
| The stone itself was mostly quarried from Point(
Claire and forms the first in the series of the Low
er Silurian, and is known by the geological term o
Chazy, resting Immediately on the calciferous sane
rock and the Potsdam sandstone At the quarry
the stones We're taken out in large masses as il
any quarry in the world. We shall be borne ou
in the statement of this fact in the dimensions o
the piers. The courses being feet 10 inches and
feet to 2 feet inches to above water level, anC
thence verging into course Is inches under thu
plates, being in length from to II feet. Ont
course of ashular of 3 feet 10 inches was examined
by the engineer during the progress of the work
| The perimeter of the pier at this point measured
| 200 feet. 1t consists of 80 stones, the lightest o
these weighed tons, the heaviest II, the average
weight of the whole was 1015 tons. Each course
| to the top of the cutwater is fastened by a dog
wedged bolt of = inch iron-that is to say a Dol
with the base slit to receive wedge into which al
iron prism is inserted. Thus prepared, they wer
passed down until it reached the bottom of the ho
| upon the wedge-thus widening out the end of tn
bolt so that it never be again drawn ont, pass
ing through the whole courses into the third below
1t. Thus every three courses are distinctly dowelle
| together, and the whole mass of work being like
wise laid in the best water lime, and CAREFUL
| grouted, is formed into solid mass, for horizon
| tally the joints are likewise kept clamped togethe
| py plates IL inches by Inches OF y Inch irOn
| TUBES.
Each tube covers two openings, that is to say,
s fixed in position in the centre, and is free to
pand or contract on the adjoining two piers. The
are sixteen inches bv nineteen inches at the ends
but they gradually increase to the centre, at whc
point they are sixteen feet by twentyone feet eigh
inches. The length will accordingly be:
Feet
On the centre
Resung on east per
Resting west pier.
The expansion rollers are seven in nun
| ber, set in a cast iron frame rollin
| on planed bed plates, the rollers themselve
being turned and the beds plated, they run
smoothly glass The weight of each tube
with all its appurtenances of 5l6 feet is about Ga
tons, that is to say for each opening 322 TONS TIL
| construction of this character of work is now s
| we'll known that much alusion is not necessary
Moreover it is simple in the extreme, being forme
of boiler plate riveted together with angle iron
and lateral and transverse braces The skill laid il
| reducing this boiler iron to such dimensions tina
| there was no unnecessary material. to add to tn
weight and to the expense, and vet obtanir g su
| iciency of strength.
| The immediate part of the tube resting on tn
pier is strengthened by increased lateral bracing
The tubes themselves were constructed in posi-
| ton, and the difficult and expensive process O