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.THE GREAT EASTERN STEAMSHIP. (Abridgedf...
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The Mokmo3st Conference In London. Tun M...
three . to four hundred ' saints " in his district ; but , of these , one hundred and fifty are ' good , for nothing . ' The remainder ' vegetate on parish allowance . ' However , they have subscribed 50 i . among them , and hope to emigrate next year . A pastor from Southampton and Dorsetshire repudiated the imputations of profligacy made against the * saints , ' chiefly , as he said , on the authority of the United States Judge Drummond . The Sheffield delegate ( a gentleman from Utah ) said the 1 saints' in his district were not rich , "but were good looking , as ' they enjoyed the spirit of the Lord , which
made them look and feel well . ' He conjured his audience to become Mormons , and to forsake their sins and that state of life which is generally described as being encouraged by Mormonism . The ' saint 3 , ' he said , are the most temperate people in the world , in proof of which he stated that they have no pipes and no tea-pots : they have no use for them . Joe Smith ' had done more good than any man since our Saviour , and Brigham Young was a great and mighty prophet and father in Israel . ' Refreshments were served during the day , and collections were made after each service .
The Conference was brought to a close on Monday , when several American * saints' edified th « company with peech-making and singing . The singing was intended to ba religious ; but the words abounded in slang , and the tunes were popular melodies , such as ' The Lowbacked Car , ' 'Minnie , dear Minnie , ' ' <) h , Susannah , don't you cry for me ! ' & c . One of the elders sang a ditty about * sleepy parsons , ' of which the chorus was" Heigho ! you sleepy parsons ! Ha ! ha ! ha ! ha ! whatalaik ! After all your college learning ,
You ¦ will find you ' re in the dark !" g Another singer slapped his hands on his thighs after the manner of Ethiopian serenaders . The Apostle Orson Pratt gave the 'Sisters' some advice on the subject of marriage . He said that marriage , if celebrated by the Mormon Church , which alone has full authority , extends not only till death , but throughout eternity . He urged them not to marry men not Mormons , or else when they awoke on the Day of Judgment they would find themselves without husbands , and be obliged to remain single throughout eternity . This he described to
be a horrible eventuality , and propounded the doctrine that a , propagation of spirits would go on in the future world , just as the propagation of our species goes on in this . A Mr . Harrison , an . Englishman , defended the polygamy of Mormonisn , which he said is very different from the sensual polygamy of the Orientals . Mormonism , he asserted , ' supplements' and completes the revelations of the Bible . The proceedings terminated shortly after ten o'clock . A daily paper observes : — "We omit to record some of the more improper sayings and doings of the evening . "
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v . . . . _ 872 T _ H _ E __ 3 JjB _ AP " E B . [ No ^ gO , September 12 , 1857 .
.The Great Eastern Steamship. (Abridgedf...
. THE GREAT EASTERN STEAMSHIP . ( Abridgedfrom the Tt 7 nes . ) Tins nautical leviathan is rapidly and steadily progressing towards it 3 completion Nearly 1500 men arc employed on her daily , and , though when spread about her acres of upper and lower decks , they seem but few , they are in reality quite enough for the work . Already Borne of the cabins are finished and fitted to show the style of the arrangements which are intended to prevail throughout . Each of the small first-class cabins ia 14 feet by 10 £ , and 7 j feet high . The laTgest aro 15 feet by 11 , and . 7 ^ high . There are w hole streets and squares of such apartments as these , opening out into saloons , which of themselves afford as much space as the maindeck of a line-of-battle ship of the present day .
The bulwarks , which are now being put up , add considerably both to the height and symmetrical proportions of the vessel . They aro 9 feet 6 inches high forward , and slope down to about five feet high amidships and aft . The massive wrought-iron deck is also being covered in with teak planking , placed at about six . inches' distance from the iron . The machinery for both screw and paddle engines is in , with the exception of the crank shaft , which is being forged , and the screw shaft , which , though placed , is not y « t put together , or connected with the screw engines . Both engines are of ouch ponderous calibre and strength that the visitor gazes on thorn , as they lie ranged beneath him , with the dumb feeling of surpriso tlmt a sight of the tremendous rock-howu monuments of Egypt always occasions .
TUey look ho dark and massive beyond all other engines that it seems difficult to imagine how they themselves can be put in rapid motion , though , once at work , you can readily understand the amount of speed at which they would force even the Great Eastern through the waves . They are , beyond all doubt , the largest and moat powerful engines by some thousands of horso power that have over yet been constructed ; and some of the largest pieces of wrought iron that have over been forged , and the largest castings that have ever been run in one casting , are used in their manufacture . Tho paddlo engines consist of four oscillating cylinders of 74 inches diameter and of 14 feet otroko , working in a solid framo attached to tho frame of the ship . The combined paddlo engines will work up to an indicator power of 8000 . horaea of 33 , 0 O 01 b . when working 11 strokes
per minute , with steam in the boiler at 151 b . upon the inch , and the expansion valve cutting off at one-third of the stroke . But all the parts of the engines are so constructed and proportioned that they will work safely and smoothly at 8 strokes per minute , with the steam at 25 lb . and full on without expansion ( beyond what is unavoidably effected by the slides ) , or at 16 strokes per minute , with the steam in the boiler still at 251 b ., and the expansion valve-cutting off at one-fourth of the stroke . Under these last-named circumstances the paddle engines alone will give a power of about 5 00 0 horses . The paddle boilere are of wrought plate
iron , with brass horizontal tubes , and are adapted for working regularly at a pressure of 251 b-, though they are perfectly safe at 60 lb ., as they have all been tested with an hydraulic pump to a great pressure . These paddle boilers are in two distinct sets , and each set lias about 8000 square feet of tube surface , exclusive of flue and furnace , and about 400 square feet of fire bar furnace . Each set are equal to supply , with steady , moderate firing , steam for an indicator of 18 O 0-horse power , though with full firing each set of two gives steam to the amount of 2500-horse power , or 5000-horse pover in all .
The screw engines consist of four cylinders of 84 inches diameter and four feet stroke , working horizontally . As with the paddle cylinders , each of the four is in itself a complete and separate engine , capable of working quite independently of any of the other three . They work up to an indicator power of 4500 horses of 33 , 0001 b . when working at 45 strokes a minute , with steam in the boiler at 151 b ., and the expansion valve cutting off at one-third of tlie stroke . They are , however , made to work smoothly either at 40 strokes per minute , with steam at 251 b ., without expansion , or at 55 strokes a minute with the expansion cutting off at one-fourth of the stroke . Tinder these circumstances , they will be working at the tremendous power of 6500
horses . The boilers , of course , are of the same kind as the paddle boilers , only ten in number . Connected with the screw engines arc two auxiliarly high-pressure engines of 70-horse power , working with 401 b , but these , as with the other auxiliary engines , are made to work at 601 b . Both these , besides doing ordinary ship ' s work , are connected with the screw shaft abaft the ordinary disconnecting apparatus , so as to enable them to drive the screw if necessary , when disconnected from its main engine . It will thus be seen that the paddle and screw engines , when working together at their highest power , will exert an effective force of not less than 11 , 500-horse power , or sufficient to raise 200 , 000 gallons of water to the top of the Monument in
less than one minute , or to drive the machinery of all the cotton-mills in Manchester . The consumption of coal to produce this amount of locomotive force is estimated at about 250 tons per day . All the other details connected with the ship are on the same ^ colossal scale . For instance , slie will have four of Trolman's anchors , each weighing 7 tons , and "two small anchors of o £ tons , at the forward part of the ship . At the stern there will be two anchors of 6 tons each . The chain cables are likewise en suite . There will be two forward of 2-g-inch diameter ( about 601 b . the link ) and two of 2 i-inch diameter . In the after-part there will be two of 2 finch , and each cable will be 140 fathoms long . The total number of crew wilL be 400 . There will be six
masts , two of them square-rigged , and all of hollow iron , except the last , which will be nearest the compass . Tlie way in which the launch will be effected is this : —Two launching ' ways , ' or large and powerfully-built tramways , have been constructed by the railway contractors , Messrs . Tread well and Co ., running from under the fore and after portions of the vessel down into the river at low water spring tide mark :. Each of these ' -ways' is 300 feet long by 120 wide , and the distance between the two is also about 120 feet . To guard against the shifting nature of the river mud , both the ' ways ' are constructed with unusual solidity and strength , The foundation of each is formed upon seven rows of piles , tlie four outside rows being driven at three feet intervals , and the three inner rows at six feet . These piles are all forced homo to the gravel of the river bed , so that they graduate from a length of 32 feet under tho ship ' s bottom to 10 feet at tho low water mark .
To both aides of tho heads of tho rows of piles strong timbers , 12 inches by 12 inches , are securely bolted , and the whole area of tho ' way' covered -with concrete to a thickness of two feet . Above the con « rete , longitudinal timbers of great strength are secured at intervals of three feet nix . inches from centre to centre , and run tho entire length of tho ' way . ' Over these again are placed transverse timbers of the same solidity , but only three feet apart , which aru bolted together , and again bolted down to the wnlings to keen them
fixed under the pressure they will luivo to bear , and prevent them floating at high tide . On these transverse timbers , but running straight from tho vessel to the water ' s edge , arc acrewed railway metals at intervals of 18 inches apart . They arc the ordinary Holid bridge r / ulu used by Mr . Brunei on tho permanent way of the Great Western Railway , and are , of course , of tho strongest kind . Tho rails comploto the ' ways , ' which , thus resting on a bed of piles and concrete , form , as it were , a massive road of crossed and rccrossed timbers
stretching from under the Great Eastern to low water mark at an inclination of 1 in 12 . Down the railway metals on these « ways , ' then , the ship will be slowlr lowered into the water on cradles , which , are now bein ? constructed under her . The cradles will of course he of the same width as the ' ways , ' over -which they are to run . They are made of large balks of timber wedged and driven in so as to fit perfectly the bottom of the shin fore and aft . The process of launching will consist of lowering these cradles with the vessel on them sWlv over the ' ways . ' It is expected to take place in Octoler and will begin at two in the morning , -when the Great Eastern will be moved down as the tide ebbs till she reaches low water mark exactly at low water .
As a matter of course , if the monster were left to itself , the instant the shores were knocked away it would rush down the ' ways' and very probabl y strand itself on the opposite side of the river . To prevent this catastrophe , massive chains are fastened to the cradles , which are passed through double sheaves secured to clumps of piles driven 35 feet into the solid earth . The ends of these chains , after passing twice through the sheaves , will be attached to windlasses , so that men working on them may slacken the speed of the ship , or even stop it altogether , if required .
Our Civilization. Murder By A Maniac. A ...
OUR CIVILIZATION . MURDER BY A MANIAC . A kbightful . murder has been committed in the infirmary of Horsemonger-lane Gaol by a debtor -whose mind is much affected . On the 27 th of August , an old man , named John Hodges , was committed for trial from . Lambeth police-court on four charges of forgery . On . his arrival at the gaol , he was committed , owing to hit ill-health , to the infirmary , where James Preston , a debtor , and two other men were confined . They were all locked upon Sunday evening as usual , and , about four o'clock on Monday morning , the -watchman and the other inmates h « ard cries of ' Murder !* proceed from the
infirmary . Mr . Keene , the Governor , rushed in with several turnkeys , when Hodges was found lying in bed with his brains smashed out , and scattered over the bedclot lies . Mr . Ebsworth , surgeon , of Swan-street , was in immediate attendance , but life was extinct . It appeared from the statement of one of the other two men , that he saw Preston get out of bed and go to the closet ; and that he returned immediately with a pail , and went to Hodges's bedside , when he suddenly struck him several time 3 on the head with it , and liteTally knocked his brains out . So sudden was the attack that the two other men had no opportunity of preventing it .
The murdered man was sixty-nine years of age , and had been agent to a benefit and life assurance society , for which he collected sums of money from the assured , lie has undergone several examinations , and was committed for trial for forging documents and receiving money belonging to the society , and would have been removed to Newgate for trial on Tuesday . Preston formerly carried on business as a tool merchant in the London-road . The coroner ' s inquest on the body of Hodges has terminated in a verdict of Wilful Murder against Preston .
Mukdek Neait Bilston.—An Inquest, Which ...
Mukdek NEAit Bilston . —An inquest , which was opened as long ago as last May , but adjourned on account of the absence of an important witness who had absconded , was resumed on Friday week at Bradley , near Bilston , the witness having been found a few days before at Warwick . The name of this person was Powell , and he was a watcliman at some collieries , He is apparently a nervous man , with a wooden leg ; and his motive for absconding was fear , the person implicated in the matter having threatened to take his life if he spoke the truth . The inquiry had reference to tho death of Elizabeth Hopley , a young woman to whom a Lutty collier , named Philip Clare , seemed to have been paying attentions . From the evidence ? of Powell and of another watchman ,
it . appeared that quarrelling was heard on a bridge over the Birmingham canal at Bradley on the nig ht of the 29 th of lust April . Tho disputants were Philip t » arc and Elizabeth Hopley ; and Powell saw the former knock the girl down with his fist . Powell then advanced , and said , " Philip , you will have to suffer for this . " The other replied , " If I hear of your tolling anybody , I will kill you . I'll servo you the name . Tlie woman was at that time insensible on Clares shoulder ; and he carried her down to the wlinrf , and put her into tho water . Powell followed , and Claro a gum
threatened to kill him if he said anything , witling , * will set somebody to watch . " From the time he stmcK tho girl to tho time ho put her into the water , some qunrtcr of an hour or twenty minutes elapsed . Altoi being frequently threatened , Powell locked hirnsell into an engine house , and did not come out till morning , bRi » K afraid . Some weeks passed , and Powell still held ins tongue , under tho influence of the alarm inspired by Clare ' s continual menaces ; but at length ho g ^ vo information . 'The evidence of tho other watchman wn . to the effect that ho had heard quarrelling on tho bria ^ o on tho night in question . Tho jury found » -verdict oi
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 12, 1857, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12091857/page/8/
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