29 MARCH 1856, page 12

Verification Of Cannon For The Public Service.

THE blame for the failure of the cannon that burst, whether in the Baltic or at Woolwich, has been thrown upon the contract system : we suspect that it could be carried yet......

Expositions Of 1851,'55, And '59.

Tire weakest part of the British portion of the Great Exhibition in Paris was the machinery ; manufactures were better represented, Manchester in particular. But there was much......

Railway Enormities.

Ma. BIDDER, the eminent civil engineer, appears on behalf of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, and is regarded as having " crushed" Colonel Wynne, the Government Inspector.......