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AUGUST 18, 1855J THE LEADEB, 787
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NAVAL AND»MILITARY NEWS. A Gigantic Stea...
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OBITUARY. General Sir Richard Boirke, K....
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MISCELLANEOUS. Tub Court.—Tho Queen and ...
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August 18, 1855j The Leadeb, 787
AUGUST 18 , 1855 J THE LEADEB , 787
Naval And»Military News. A Gigantic Stea...
NAVAL AND » MILITARY NEWS . A Gigantic Steam-raft has been projected by Mr . Daft , civil engineer , who has employed thirteen years in maturing his scheme- The chief features we find thus described : —It is proposed that the raft should be formed of 300 pontoon-ahaped iron boats , nearly nil 100 feet long by 10 feet wide and 7 deep , having semicircular bottoms and sides , and flanged on the edges or gunwales . With 15 of these placed longitudinally , tho length of tho raft would bo 1500 feet , aud 20 in breadth , and 6 foet spans between each would give a width of 800 feet . Thus the deck area wUuld be littlo short of ten acres . The pontoon boats it is proposed to brace together by diagonal tie bars , while tho deck would bo formed of timber six inches thick , firmly bolted to tho flanges , and having hatchways into each of tho boats , which would thus furnish tho accommodation and stowage required for passengors and goods . Bulwarks are contemplated , 12 feet 6 inches high , and consisting of hollow iron stanchions , 3 tt feet 4 inches apart from each other , with iron compartments between , mado to open from tho top on centres . It ia proposed by tho bold projector of this now leviathan to propel her by 22 flteam-engines of ot least 200 horao power each , 11 on each side of the raft , with paddlos and screws affixed alternately . Tho calculation is that tho raft will carry <* freight of 20 , 000 tons , though perfectly safe and
steady without ; will obtain a speed of 15 knots an hour ; will draw only 3 feet 6 inches of water , and give a surface sufficient to act as a floating breakwater in the roughest sea . The Hansa . —Major Lowth again writes to the Times to comment on the injurious effect which the state of this vessel had upon his late brother , and to dispute the explanations given by Sir Charles Wood in the House of Commons . A Soldier Accidentally Shot . —Private Samuel Coace , of the 11 th Regiment , was accidentally killed by a rifle-shot while engaged in military practice at Battlehill , near Bfecon . The unfortunate was one of the markers , and had incautiously exposed himself . Hints for Soldiers . —Some admirable suggestions , addressed to Riflemen , have been issued from the depot of the second battalion of the 60 th Rifles . Together with rules of a more purely technical character , we find the following excellent recommendations touching what may almost be called the domesticities of an army . It is pleasant to find the soldier thus spoken to as a human being , and not as a mere machine for slaughtering : — " I strongly advise your learning and practising songs and choruses in which all can join . You may not always have a band with you ; but a good song , sung in good time , and with a good chorus in which all can join , will help to keep you all in good humour , and to cheer many a weary hour ; and will be found of great assistance in lifting you along when on the line of march . A man who has a good stock of amusing stories will also be a . ' welcome comrade round a camp fire . " ^ A Rom-antic Dkcm 31 ER Boy . —A boy has lately been - « worn in as a drummer to the 86 th Regiment who is known to be the son of a brigadier-general lately deceased , and the nephew of a rear-admiral still living . Being under sixteen ( the minimum age ) , he was sworn in by special authority . An affra y took place on Wednesday , at the close of the Reading races , between two or three hundred militiamen aud the police . Several of the latter were severely wounded .
Obituary. General Sir Richard Boirke, K....
OBITUARY . General Sir Richard Boirke , K . C . B ., has died suddenly at Thornfield , Castle Connell , near Limerick . He was born in 1777 , and served in South America and in the Peninsula . For some years he was governor of New South Wales and Van Diemen ' s Land . Colonel Richard Tylden , of the Royal Engineers , who died at Scutari on the 28 th of July from the effect of wounds received on the 18 th of June , was in the thirty-sixth year of his age . "When at the Cape , during the Kaffir war , he greatly distinguished himself by defeating two thousand of the rebels under Sandilli with a very small force of burghers and Fingoes . Mr . Patrick Park , the sculptor , died suddenly on Thursday morning at Warrington . He was in the prime of life . The Dire of Somerset expired on Wednesday . He was President of the lloyal Institution , a member of several philosophical associations , and the author of some scientific treatises . The Dtike is succeeded by Lord Seymour , the member for Totness . Mb . Henry Colbukn , the well-known publisher of Great Marlborough-street , expired a day or two ago . Mr . Colburn's name is associated with some of the most important works and authors of the present century . As the first publisher of the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn , and as the introducer to the world of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton ' s earliest fictions , Mr . Col burn is a person worthy of some note . He will leave behind him many friend * , to whom his liberality as a tradesman is known .
Miscellaneous. Tub Court.—Tho Queen And ...
MISCELLANEOUS . Tub Court . —Tho Queen and the royal family , on Tuesday evening , were present at the Cowes Regatta . Several of the competitors , after the races , were called to the side of the royal yacht , and liberally rewarded by direction of tho Queen . Fatal Accident . —A railway bridge , in connexion with the projected East Kent line , is now in course of erection ; and on Saturday morning an accident occurred , by which three of the workmen have been suddenly killed . Hollow cylinders having , as usual in such cases , been luid down for tho foundations of tho piors , a steam-engine was employed in pumping out the water , in order that tho hollow tubes might bo filled in with concrete and gravel to serve as a substratum for tho masonry . The men connected with tho works were obliged to descend several timos to tho bottom of one of these tubes in a diving-bell ; when suddenly the bottoms came out of tho buckets employed in sending down tho concrete , & c , and tho whole mass , amounting to many hundredweights , fell inside tho cylinders , carrying away tho stages and tho diving-boll . Three men were buried in tho diibria ; and thoir bodies , when dug out several hours after , wore found frightfully mangled . An inquest him boon held , when tho jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death , with a recommendation to alter tho present cylinders . Kknbxnuton Gari > kns . —Sir Benjamin Hall has signalised his accession to the office of Public Works
mmmm ^^ mm ^ i ^^^ mi ^^^ m ^ mmmmmmma ^^ mmmmmm ^^ mi ^ m ^ mmp by obtaining her Majesty's permission for the band of one of the regiments of Life Guards to perform in Kensington Gardens on Sunday afternoons between five and seven . Captain M'Cltjre . — We can'state on authority that , in accordance with the recommendation of the Committee on the Arctic Expedition , moved for by Mil Mackinnon , Captain M'Clure has received 5000 ^ , and a similar sum is to be distributed among his officers and crew . — Times . The Late Sir John Franklin . —A letter from Lady Franklin to the Chairman of the Arctic Committee has been published . In it , she claims for her husband and bis companions the discovery of a north-west passage , since she conceives they could not have reached the spot where their dead bodies were found without having solved the problem . She does not , however , dispute Captain M'Clure ' s claims to an independent discovery . The Strike of Colliers at Ruabon . —About 1500 men and boys have been on strike at Ruabon for the last six weeks , and there is at present no prospect of a compromise . A deputation from the colliers waited on Mr . Ravenshaw , managing director , but made no distinct proposition . Mr . Ravenshaw told them that the company were willing to give the rates they had acceded to in April , but that one shilling per week would still be deducted for the supply of candles . As to the slack or small coal , they would be allowed threepence per ton for raising it , provided it were sent up clean and good . This sum would be an increase on their wages . The deputation declined the terms Mr . Ravenshaw proposed . America . —The last accounts from America state that affairs look very ominous in the Mormon settlements . Colonel Steptoe has resigned , and Brigham Young is again dominant . It is thought by some that the United States troops which have been sent in the direction of Utah , nominally in order to keep the Indians in check , are in fact intended to have an eye on the Mormons . Those fanatics , however , are surrounding their cities with high walls , and there seems everv prospect of their giving trouble to the troojps . But " it is not improbable that the saints will be obliged to emigrate bodily , owing to the legions of grasshoppers , crickets , and locusts which threaten to devastate the land . In case of their removal , some of the South Sea Islands are talked of as being their probable new home . A great deal of excitement prevails in California owing to the elections for Governor , Lieutenant-Govenor , & c . The yield of the gold mines is said to be unparalleled ; and there is talk of silver mines . The Chinese are shipping to their own land the dead bodies of their countrymen . Fires are of constant occurrence , and the San Francisco Herald says , " the annual fire season has set in . " Murders and lynch-law executions are also terribly frequent . —Santa Anna is granting concessions to the revolutionists . Two American ships of war have been ordered to the Fejee , on an important service . The civil war in Nicaragua is still Taging . A correspondence has passed between Mr . Parish , the English consul , and the Government of Btienos Ayres , with reference to a settlement of the claims of the Buenos Ayres bondholders ; but the Ministers Tefuse to give any assurances of a satisfactory nature The " Crops . — The recent change in the weather , from excessive rain to comparative dryness , has niad a very favourable effect upon the crops . Judging from the accounts received from all parts of tho island , we believe it may be stated in general terms that the corn has not been damaged to the extent at one time anticipated , and that , should the present dry weather continue , the yield will be of more than average excellence . Still , there is no question that the extremely brilliant prospects entertained in the early summer will not be realised to the full ; a great deal of corn having been laid , and necessarily deteriorated . A similar account may be given of the grain crops of Ireland , where , moreover , the potato Wight , though it has undoubtedly appeared , has not spread in any serious degree . The accounts from the Continent vary considerably ; and the state of the crops in America seems analogous to that in this country . Collision in the Channel . — The stoam-packet which left Dover for Calais on Saturday night at halfpast eleven came into collision with the brigantine Henrv , of Yarmouth , bound from Shields to Rouen , deeply laden with coal , when the latter was sunk , and the master , tho mate , and a boy sunk with the vessel , not having been able to cast tho boat they hud got into adrift from the ship . Two other men who were on board were picked up by tho boat of the packet . It is stated that the collier anchored in tho fair way , about hail ft mile off Dover harbour , and that she had no lights up . This is denied by one of tho survivors . Lost ln a Quicksand .-A man dredging for t . hrimns on the sands at . Suudcrland , was suddenly oiipil j ) heum a quicksand , and disappeared , exclaiming , Lord Jems , jlSE ^ rs ^» * rSfi = % - ^ rS £ ^ £ fv ^ XK ¦ on tho ^^^ y ^ SLrf ^ iSflToid . The police are Wall , with a eovoro wound m "is " <¦»«• * making inquiries .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 18, 1855, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18081855/page/7/
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