Among the magnificent speci of modern naval architecture which the Messageries Maritimes Company have placed on their Oriental line, the latest and most improved is the Anadyr, which arrived at this, the Eastern terminus of the voyage, with the Inst French mai Following the eluvial system adopted in the Messageries fleet, the Anadyr takes her ame from a navigable river of Siberia, which falls into the Gulf of the me name south of Behring's Straits. The earner is, we believe, the same size as the one previously turned out from the Com) yards, the Trvacwaddy, her Jing, length 130 metres or about 412 English feet; breadth 39 feet. With 2,000 tons deadweight, or 3,400 measurement, she has a mean' draught of metres, oF 19 feet, and displaces 5,440 tons of water. She has accommodation for 187 paseongers—105 first, 46 second, and 36 third; and carries a crew, all told, of 172.
The Anadyr is iron throughout, from yards (which have been taken down) to Keel; and all through the ship one's eye attracted by the meat and serviceable character of her fittings, The rich and chaste lo of the saloon, panelled with hi which, so far as appearances go, has not ti fully finished mahogany; the ingenuity been improved by the compression of two with which space is economise and practi-smoke-stacks into one. cally multiplied in the cabins; the commo-For the amusement of passengers, a dions bathrooms,—which for ladies are piano and a sort of orchestral polyphone connected with equally commodious ante-is carried; and on the way out some drama-rooms, and provided with baths consisting tic and legerdemain performances were of one piece of marble; the entire absence given ina theatre extemporised on the of the old-fashioned glare of brass work, spacious quarter-deck. We learn that, the offensive to the eye and not always safe to prestidigitateur of the Anadyr is to perform the foot or pleasant to the touch, are all in the French Municipal Hall this evening. matters which strike the visitor. In ad-We believe that some intention to signal dition to the usual first-class accommoda-the arrival of the Anadyr upon her first tion, two handsome state-rooms, fitted voyage by a reception on board, was almost like private apartments, are placed checked by the unhappy intelligence of the at the head of the saloon companion, for disastrous loss of the Co,'s str. Vil. distinguished travellers. abaft the engines on deck is a Fumoir, where the smoker may enjoy his weed, in all weathers, with
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