Show aroa knod from the ui bonjon times kg ace 9 the great eastern completed the completion of this magnificent vessel was formally celebrated yesterday at a banquet on board the ship which was lio iio honored nored by the presence of many mahy of the members of caboth both houses and some or 0 the most distinguished engineers and scientific men in the kingdom during the short interval which has elapsed since our our last notice of this noble vessel the work of her completion has progressed with j giant strides dei deg and it is only doing bare justice 1 to mr scott russells rus Eus sells exertions to say that no other man in the kingdom could have fitted the vessel in the same time and there were not a few who believed that the task would prove I 1 I 1 too much even for his energy three weeks or so ago and only one or two of the six masts were fixed the bulwarks bulwa had not been quite completed the hull wanted painting the decks were piled wilh with indescribable lumber of all kinds while the labyrinth of cabins and saloons below seemed only so many dirty storehouses for unfinished joinery yesterday the scene on board was the reverse of all thi sand such progress has been made that the ship now looks as she will look when proceeding to sea and as she ought to look to keep 1 pace ace I 1 with her reputation as the largest a and n d nest finest I I 1 specimen of naval architecture that ever floated I 1 the deck has been and scrubbed to man of war whiteness and not even a stray ropes end breaks the wonderful effect produced by its immense expanse her fleet of small boats that is to say about the size of sailing cutters hang on the davits ten on each side the whole vessel has been paint edthe saloons are finished the cabins decorated and even finished the masts are fixed and ri rigged ed with the exception of the yards which will efy iff be sent up in a day or two the three center square rigged masts are of iron the they were made by mr finch of chepstow annare and are the finest specimens of masts of the kind klud that were eyer ever manufactured each la Ls madg made do of hollow wrought iron in eight feet lengths strengthened inside by diaphragms of the line hine same material between the joints as they were bolted together was placed a pad of vulcanized india rubber which gives a spring or buoyancy to the whole spar greater than wood while at the th same time retaining all the strength of the iron the breaking strain of the six shrouds to each of these masts is over auns tuns which gives ample security for the masts being being properly supported as the weight of each is only illy 22 tuns auns on deck are four small steam winches or engines each of which works a pair of 0 t cranes A on both sides of the vessel anything more simple or more perfect than the double mechanism by which these are made to work at both sides can hardly be conceive dand the value of the invention may be estimated when we say that with these four double granes cranes cranes alone tuns auns of co coal al can be hoisted I 1 into to the vessel in 24 hours thus the grave objections of those who speculated on the loss of time required to coal the great ship are entirely done away with the chief saloons all save one have only been fitted to a certain extent in a temporary manner the fittings are exceedingly cee handsome and substantial buethe but the decorations of the huge iron walls and girders have been reserved till after her first trip and now are only painted white the absence of elaborate decoration in them however is amply compensated in the chief saloon which has been finished to show the superb style in which the whole will be decorated when the great eastern begins running to the east on this saloon mr crace has lavished hla hib hia utmost efforts and the result is a combination of taste and richness to an extent really astonishing whether the fine traceries tra ceries of or gold and color are examined in detail or whether one chooses to judge by the tone and effect of the whole apartment the decision is equally favo favorable and this saloon is not only the finest and richest of any that has yet been attempted but is likely to remain for many years the standard by which all other cabins of the kind will be judged it is said that the mirrors mirrors gilding carpeting and bilk silk curtains cur lains laing for this apartment a alone lone 0 cost in the berths of course no attempt is made at costly decoration of this kind though the fittings 1 are good and sufficiently luxurious the berths are arranged in three classes those for parties of six or eight and these are large rooms tho sefor part parties ies les of four and the rest in the thle usual style of double cabins all are very roomy as cabins go very lofty well lit anu and and those on the outer sides exceedingly hejl ventilated on the lower deck the berths are even larger loftier and more commodious than those in the upper both the berths and ani saloons here are in in fact almost unnecessarily high having very nearly 15 feet in the clear the kitchens pantries and sculleries scull eries are all on the same extensive scale and fitted with all the large culinary requisites of hirst first class clasa hotels the icehouse ice house holds upward of tuns auns of ice and the lofty wine vaults for tor i such in fact they are already contain wine enough to form a good freight for an porto oporto trader J i i steam was got up in the paddle engines engine s at 1 11 12 12 1 2 at that time all the visitors were on board and the engine room and hatches hatchek hat chea chek in spite of the heat were crowded with eager lookers on among these were the marquis of westminster the earl of Shrews shrewsbury buy lord churston thurston Ch urston the earl of ellesmere EIl ell esmere lord stanley MP lord redesdale Red esdale the marquis of Staf stafford dord rord MP viscount canterbury lord Adolph adolphia Adol lis lia vasse tempest MP sir john bowring the lord advocate of scotland the right hon W napier MP sir joshua paxton MP mr bright nip DIP MP lieutenant colonel the hun hon cecil forester MP mr ayrton MP the hon 11 IL F berkeley MP the right hon hou 11 II S walpole MP mr jackson MP sir charles napier MP col sykes MP ALP the th right hon IV cowper MP mr herbert ingram ingrain MP mr J brady MP the right hon the lord mayor mr aid rose sir birj J V shelley MP sir de lacy evans MP mr 41 sir john rennie sir richard bethel MP mr locke MP mr J F maguire MP mr hennessey MP mr penn mr whitworth mr J locke mr yates secretary of the old company mr brereton sir S M peto MP mr L S magnus mr rose ros solicitor general for C canada a nada mr robert stephenson MP boulton Boulto nand and watt mr J W bazalgette Bazal gette ac mr brunel to the regret of all lall was prevented by indisposition from being present and sharing the ft ht s tivi tivit ties iea which marked the successful completion of his grand idea ile he was bo however wever represented by mr jacomb who has for him watched and superintended super intended the building and completion of the ship from first to last 1 tile the first movement of the gigantic cranks and cylinders of the paddle paddie engines was made I 1 precisely at half past 1 when the great masses slowly ros rose and fell as noiselessly as the engines of a greenwich boat but exerting in their great creat revolutions what seemed to be an almost irresistible power there was no noise no vibration nor the slightest sign of heating and the tremendous frame of ironwork r prang sprang at once into life and motion with as muc mue muchas b P if every rod and crank had been wobkea for the last ten years the steam in the boilers was about 21 ib lb but as a matter of course the engines were turned bat but slowly never exceeding six revolutions per minute eun with this slow motion and the slight immersion of the paddle floats the effect of i the enormous power was at once visible upon the ship chip the graat mooring chains astern were tighten cd ed to the utmost and it seemed as if eyen even Trot mans mana anchors themselves would yield brdar urdan the th atrain strain fortunately however how bow ryan ever these those on a list rag f 1 r euten continued 1 u ed bioni from page held fast and then the screw engines were got into motion working the ship astern so as to counteract the effect of the tile paddles these latter engines worked with the saine same marvelous aus ease and freedom there was no noise no sign eign of hot bearings and the result was considered by all the engineers on board to be satisfactory in the very highest degree and far beyond what could have been expected when the engines had been tested to the utmost to which they could be tried with a vessel at her moorings all the visitors adjourned to the saloons where a magnificent cold collation had been laid out |