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, at Charing Cross, and fit it into a third; and adjust the Great Western Hotel, at Paddington, and the Great Northern, at King's Cross, into apertures four and five, we should get some faint idea of the nature of the accommodation in the Great Eastern."

We have only adverted to a few of the wonders of this leviathan&mdash;this floating palace of Aladdin, which owes its existence to the potent genii of the lamp of science. Although this crowning marvel of our wondrous age still rests in the Thames like a giant spell-bound, we cannot doubt that it has a mighty future before it. All who watched the Leviathan's growth, and followed its progress along the launching ways, must long to see it "walk the waters like a thing of life," and show its mastery over those waves which it so closely resembles in its graceful curves. In justice to the wise men Brunel and Russell, who have wrought such miracles in the subjugation of the powers of nature, the genii of our wonderful lamp, we trust that the merits of their daring achievement in ship-building will soon be tested.

Let us now glance at another marvellous product of science, which rivals all the magical fabrics described in the Arabian Nights. We refer to the Britannia Bridge across the Menai Straits.

The deep chasm which separates the Isle of Anglesey from the mainland had long been a serious obstacle to the modern Aladdin, who could not brook the delay which attended the use of