22 SEPTEMBER 1877, Page 3

Cleopatra's Needle will soon set out for the Thames. Mr.

Dixon, the clever engineer entrusted with the task of removing the obelisk, says that he lately took it a six miles' experimental

voyage in a heavy sea. While those on board the tug towing it had to hold on tightly to keep their feet, the men on the bare skin of the cylinder sat at ease, without a drop of water coming near them. It is to be towed home astern of a large merchant vessel, attached by a three-and-a-half-inch steel-wire hawser. In a few weeks we may look for the obelisk in the Thames, and then will come a problem greater than that which Mr. Dixon is in a fair way to solve,—What to do with the Needle?