2 OCTOBER 1875, Page 3

The evidence as to the excellent behaviour of the '

Castalia,' the double ship plying between Dover and Calais, in stormy weather, accumulates rapidly. Apparently even when the ordinary Dover and Calais packet-boat is swept over every minute by the seas, the Castalia ' is not only perfectly dry, but pitches and rolls so little that even passengers the most sensitive to sea-sickness are not sick. The only fault is the slowness of the ship, which is said to take three-quarters of an hour longer about the passage than the ordinary boats. Still, though three-quarters of an hour of deadly sickness is an age, three-quarters of an hour of unexpected immunity from sea-sickness is not an age, or an age only of paradise.