The Newcastle Weekly Courant from Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England • 7

NorfiMDBirStr 185'. 5 PRICES OF SHARES AT NEWCASTLK. Mr. Buckingham v. Punch.

-The readers of prevailed of constructing the Railways and Shippirg Places, Staiths and Drops, by individual Enterprize and vpital must give way to the greater Facilities af NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, EDINBURGH, AND DIRECT GLASGOW JUNCTION tended for the eastern coast of England and the northern ports of Europe. Lastly, the Passenger TrafBe, between the towns on the western side of Scotland, and the eastern and Seduction and 'MANSEAUrfHTER. On Saturday week, William Charnock was comrriitted for trial at the next Liverptioiaissizes, on a charge" of Saving caused tba death of John Satcliffe, of Union Place, Everton. It appeared that the deceased had' sSducecf the old man's daughter, and (hat he had gone to the house in a statelet intoxication, and refused to -leave when i'Sp so Charnock became- irritated, and struck the deeea'sexl several violent blc-wa lower part of the body with a poker, one of whichproduced an abscess in the knee and caused death; i' Confession of the Murder ai. Great Yarmouth.

Twelve months ago, a murder was committed in one of the principal streets of Yarmouth, before- the business of the day had scarcely closed, accompanied by such an amount of unnecessary and brutal violence as must ever make it stand almost unparalleled in the annals of crime. The deceased, it may be remembered, was a widow, living alone, and carrying on a small retail Business the chandlery line. AVhilst sbe was gone to neighbouring public-house to buy her supper beer some persons entered her house for the purpose of robbing it (they having heard she had taken 1501. as a legacy the day betore); and from some cause or other fractured her skull in several places, and after doing this cat her throat. Her next-door neighbour, Mr Yarham, was suspected he made a statement which nroverl after the fact, but he was admitted evidence for the crown against three others, Royal, Hall, and Mapes, who were all acquitted.

From that time until the last few days little beyond mere conjecture existed as to the manner in which this deed of blood was neroetraterl. Mm Dick, the wife of a sergeant of Marines, found the money buried in the sand-near her house by the sea-side: she gave evidence of this at the trial. A few days ago, she appeared before the Mayor and gave the following as the substance of a confession which had subsequently been made to her by Yarham I am not," said he, so much to blame as Hall, and Mapes, who Knew that Mrs Candler had got money, and they never would me rest, but were constantly asking me to let them into the house. They heard that Mr Catchpole was going dine at the Angel, and. they wanted to be let in that night.

I made a bargain with them that they should not meddle with the old woman, but that they should go when she went for her supper beer, as she would, sometimes be gone a quarter of an hour. They promised not to use her badly, only to- get the money. They arranged, and I let them in between 10 and 11 o'clock the back door. Mrs Candler was- going about, and the shop was not closed. Royal, consequently, watched about the outside until she went for her beer, when I let them all in.

At this time there was a great noise, as if men were drinking at the Swan. I told them to go into the bedroom first, as she kept her money there. Myself, the boy Mapes, and Hall were in the bed-room. I had a candle in my band. Royal was secreted at the back of connter.

When we heard Mrs Candler come in, I put the candle out, and sat down upon the bed, where continued for a few minutes, not knowing what to do. Mrs Candler sat down by the fireside, aud when Royal moved behind the counter the noise attracted Mrs Candler's notice she went out and asked Royal what he wanted 2 I know said she; and he said, I want half an ounce of She turned round to get the tobacco, and Royal struck her then we left the bed-room, and Hall, who had a pair of pincers in his hand, beat her about the head, and left her, and went and got all the money they expected. I told them to go and hide it, as house would be sure to be searched first, and to give a signal when they had done it. I went straight home, and I heard Mrs Candler moaning, and went in to see, for I was afraid, as I thought she must surely know all. The lard-knife was lying upon the counter, and turned her eyes upon me, when I cut her throat with-the knife; she put her hand to grip the knife, and that was the way her poor hand became cut." There' is no reason to doubt the integrity of Mrs Dick, who bears a good character.

Yarham has left the town, and it is not known where he is residing. None of the prisoners have yet been indicted for the burglary. Diseased Potatoes. Extract of a letter Scorn. Professor Liebig to Mr Walter Crum, dated Giessen, 5th November The researches I have undertaken upon the sound and diseased potatoes of the present year have disclosed to me the remarkable fact, that they contain in the sap a considerable quantity of vegetable casein (cheese) preeeptible by acids.

ThiB constituent I did not observe in my previous researches. It would thus appear, that from the influence of the weather, or, generally speaking, from atmospheric causes, a part of the vegetable albumen which prevails in the potato has become converted into vegetable casein. The great instability of substance is well known, hence the facility with which the potato containing it undergoes putrefaction. Any injury to health from the use of tjlese potatoes is out the question and nowhere in Germany has. such an effect been observed.

In the diseased potato no solamia be discovered. It may be of some use to call attention to the fact, that diseased potatoes may easily, and at little expense, be preserved for a length of time, and afterwards employed in various ways, cutting them into slices of about a quarter of an inch thick, and immersing them in water containing from 2 to 3 per cent, of sulphuric acid. After 24 or 36 hours, the acid liquor may drawn off, and all remains of it washed away, by steeping in succession portions of fresh water. Treated this manner, the potatoes are, easily dried. The pieces are white, and of little weight, and can be grotuid flour and baked into bread along with the flour of wneat.

1 think it probable tnat tne diseased potatoes, after being sliced and kept for some time in contact with weak sulphuric acid, so as to be penetrated by the acid, may be preserved in. that state in pits. But farther experiments are necsssary to determine this. It is certain, however, that dilute sulphuric acid stops the progress of putrefaction." The Locomotivs Engine v. the Light-bin-gered Fraternity.

A traveller by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, 'on lately leaving the station SLlhe former city, missed his pocket-book containing 700nr5 immediately returned to the train to make inques. The stoker told him that a fellow-ljFaveller, whom he had supposed to be his servant, followed him from the station, and afterwards returned took his place in a train that was starting for Glasgow and was now on his way-westward. The gentleman ordered an express train but there was little hope of overtaking the other, or.some time was lost in getting up the steam. However, off-he went, the stoker accompanying him; and when they were approaching the inclined plane which leads into Glasgow, they saw the train a-head. The whistle of the express" engine was violently blown and the conductor of the passenger train, inferring mger, removed to the other line of rails.

The "express" shot past, and got to the station in time to admit of arrangements for apprehending the pickpocket. The train then came in the suspected person was seen and identified, by the stoker and the pocket-book and money were found upon his person. The owner offered a handsome reward to the stoker, which was resolutely refused and the gentleman therefore enclosed 1001. to the directors, requesting them to take pay for the express to reward their servant ad libitum and to return the change (if any). The directors returned the whole, stating that they would make no charge for the engine, and would, themselves reward the stoker.

Scotch paper. Military Defence of Canada. "We under stand that active preparations are now being made for the military defence of Canada. The engineers are now work, surveying the narrow isthmus which divides the head waters of the Bay of Quinte from Lake Ontario, at Presque Isle, with a view to the construction of a canal at that point. At Kingston, the front of the town, at present occupied by forwarders, as.

mercantile store houses, is to be pulled down, and a heavy, battery erected' in their stead. Three martello towers, one on Cedar Island at the east and one on Stuart's Point at the west and one on the shoal in the bay, are designed for the strengthening of Fort Henry, and the more effectual security of the city and harbour. In Lower Canada a military general order has been issued, calling on all officers to report themselves. to their commanding officer, in the event of their wishing to retain their commissions. Canada Statesman.

New System as Locomotion. A system of locomotion on railways, altogether dirlerent from any hitherto invented, has recently been put forth. We wit- nessed on Saturday (says a London paper) the action of a working model ot the new plan, in a large room at Messrs Keene and Nickell's saw-mills, in the York Road, near Westminster Bridge; but, before we describe the apparatus, we will insert the account given by Messrs Keene and Nickells themselves of the wonders to be achieved by their ingenious mode of applying the power of compressed air to propel carriages on railways: They can now confidently state that, in addition to the general advantages possessed by competing systems, they may subjoin the following as peculiarly characterising their invention: 1. Perfect safety. 2, Great economy in construction, in simplicity, in motive power, in reparation, in facility of adaptation.

3. Less oscillation, 4. Less vibration. 0. steeper gradients overcome, b.

sio leakage or loss of power beyond the actual amount required for working. 7. Absence of pistons, wheels, racks, pinions, and longitudinal valves. Most perfect con-troul." With the exceptionof the seventh characteristic feature, the working model affords no, test whatever whether the extraordinary advantages held forth will be realized. It is true, however, that without travelling piston and longitudinal valve, as in the Clegg and Sa-muda Atmospheric Railway, and without racks and pi Punch and who is not included in the number? cannot fail to have noticed the repeated attacks upon the Britishand Foreign Institute, and its founder and resident director, Mr J.

S. Buckinsham. The institution has been held np to ridicule, while the motives and conduct of Mr liuekingnam nave been unscrupulously misrepresented; That gentleman, finding his antagonist unrelenting in his aggressions, has just issued an appeal to the press of the country for protection against the persecution of one of its own body." The appeal is too long to be copied; nor does its insertion appear by any means necessary. The institution so bitterly assailed is generally known to be highly usefol in its object; while the position and character of its natrons' and leading members preclude suspicion of dishonorable management.even were it entrusted to one less known than Mr Buckingham. At the last general meeting, indeed, Mr Ellis, M.P., took lv ttiat Mr Buckinuham had de rived no benefit or emolument from his present office, but that he had disinterestedly incurred a large personal ex-rwnditnr f.o advance flip interests of the Institute: and this testimony accords with what is known of Mr Buck- mgliam career.

It is to be regretted tnat a penuuiudi possessing the circulation, and conducted with the ability, Punch," should descend to the personal attacks of which Mr Buckingham complains, its wit and humour are universally acknowledged, but surely the most appropriate objeets for their exercise are the viees and follies the time, whether manifested by public men or society general. Love and attempted On Sunday evening an attempt at murder was committed by a young man named John Harrod, on the person of Elizabeth SMllam, a young woman to whom lie had for some paid his addresses the parties all reside in the neighbourhood Winchcomie, Harrod being a farm servant in the employ of Mr Smith of Irley. On the evening in question, Elizabeth Shitlam was walking with two other women in the neighbourhood of Winchcomb, they were met by Harrod, who went up to her and said he hnd afew words say to her the other women walked on, but they had not proceeded many yards when they heard a scream and cry of murder," and looking ronnd they saw Harrod with his arm round their companion's neck, who was struggling with him and still shrieking murder." On their running back to the spot the fellow made off they found his intended victim with her hands covered with blood, and nearly black in the face from strangulation. appeared that on Harrod entering into conversation with her, he wished her to renew the intimacy between them, which had been broken off through quarrel, and, on her refusing, he seized hold of her arid endeavoured to strangle' her by twisting her bonnet-strings round her neck unable to succeed in this, he opened clasp-, knife, and made several attempts to Btab her, and cut her throat, but in this he was prevented by a thick shawl which she wore tied ronnd her neck at the time the shawl was cut through several places, and the skin of the neck slightly g-raaed, and her hands were severely cut endeavouring to ward off the blows. Information having been immediately forwarded to one of the county police, that officer succeeded in capturing the offender, hid in a barn on his master's farm.

The knife was found be a very formidable looking weapon, the blade five inches long, and covered with blood. Wilts Standard. The Potato Disease. Thisdestructive malady still continues to rage in all parts of the three kiagdoms, and daily to sweep away large quantities of the food of the poor. In this part of the country it is as bad as ever, and on the eastern side of the island it is so intense, that whole cargoes of potatoes, shipped in the Humber for London during the last week, which were apparently in good condition, have been found to be decayed before half the voyage was accomplished, and have been brought back to Hull as worthless.

Many of the accounts from Ireland are quite as unfavourable as these; and, notwithstanding the bold assertions of persons who are afraid to face the truth, there is no doubt that, great as the evil now is, it is becoming greater every day. Even in these few cases in which the potatoes were quite sound when they were got up, and in the still fewer ones in which they havii been kept sound by the only effectual method, that is, by causing abundance of fresh air to circulate through them in the heap, they will not bear the usual treatment. The cargoes brought back to Hull on Thursday last, were quite sound when shipped, and under ordinary circumstances would have reached London just as sound but like all the potatoes of the present year, they had much more than the usual quautity of moisture, and much less than the usual quantity of alluvia, and consequence was, that they heated and decayed after few hours' confinement in the hold of the ship. This shows that the best potatoes are unusually tender this year, and that the slightest relaxation of care in keeping them is fatal to them. Under these circumstances it is absurd to expect that the malady will cease.

Liverpool Times. The Mines of Ireland. Thatlreland abounds mineral deposits as widely diffused, and just as rich as those of England there can be no doubt. But to raise the mineral from the earth in which it lies buried, and reduce it to a form in which it may be applied to industrial purposes, requires a combination of circumstances which have not hitherto existei to any extent in this country. We have wanted capital, industrial enterprise, knowledge and perseverance.

With abundance of the finest ironstone, fully equal to the celebrated black band Glasgow, we are compelled to import iron from England, because we are not yet in a condition to try our strength with her in this branch of industry. The lead and copper mines of Ireland have long been a source of employment to the people and of profit to the monied interests. Of copper we have abundance in Wicklow in the extensive range of mountain coast stretching from Dungarvan to Tramore, and in the soutb-western portions of Cork and Kerry. But in the extraction of this mineral we have made little progress. The total quantity Irish copper ore sold for smelting in Swansea amounted to 21,819 tons in 1836; at present the quantity raised does not, probably, exceed 25,000 tons.

Lead is more extensively diffused throughout Ireland than copper. We have numerous veins in Wicklow, Clare, Wexford, and Down, many of which have been worked with considerable profit to the enterprising individuals or companies whom they were opened. Irish Railway Telejraph. New Invention for preserving Timber from Fire. An invention has been recentlv patented by Mr Kaje, of Liverpool, for preserving timber from fire, dry wet rot, and destruction by insects; and the patentee surjoiitiea some 01 me wooa, propareu aucuiuiug ma process, to a public trial of its fire-resisting properties, at the Police-yard, Manchester, on Friday, when Mr Brotli-erton.

M.P.. Mr Alderman Harvey. Mr Rose, superin tendent of the fire-engine department, and other gentlemen were present. The merits of the invention were tested in the following manner: A number of pieces of pitch pine, said to be prepared according to the patent, each about two feet long, and measuring about an inch bv an inch and a half on the nlaned surfaces, were con nected together at one end, the other ends resting upon a piece of prepared plank, so as to represent the rafters or roof-timbers of a house; and the same number of pieces of wood in an unprepared state were similarly arranged. Beneath each of these roofs a quantity of wood shavings was placed and ignited, and the fires were fed from time to time, as the shavings bnrned.

A constant fire was kept up under the prepared wood for twelve minutes, the wind at the same time causing the flames to curl round the different pieces, notwithstanding which they showed no aDnearance of beine in flames, nor exhibited any sign of red heat, although by the end of that time each piece was more or less charred, some of them to the depth of a quarter of an inch or more below the original surface, and others in a less degree, in proportion to the extent to which they had been exposed to the action of the flames. The unprepared wood, as a matter of course, blazed, and was nearlv consumed within the same time, although the fire under it was fed less often than the other. In answer to some questions put to him by Mr Brotherton, the patentee stated that, on saturating, he had adhered strictly to the natural mode, by means of capillary attraction; and that the wood prepared according to his process ac- quired a great degree of hardness and compactness, ren dering it capable of enduring greater pressure and friction tnan in its tormer state. TTn said that the saturating nro- cess took about a month; that the thickest beam could be as easily prepared as a thin plank and that the expense Of preparation increased the cost of the timber about seven and a half per cent. He also said that, after saturation, the timber was ready tor use in a snorter time tnan it would have been without saturation.

He made some re marks tending to show the inutility of muriate of mercury, sulphate of iron, and other preparations which had been applied to prevent destruction of timber by fire or rot; but he save no explanation of his own process, as regards the constituent parts of the liquid used. taking stock. until very recent period, the year 1845 has beena prosperous year, and its successor was if anything a shade better. Up to the middle of September the- home trade in the woollen districts was good; and the cotton houses engaged in this branch had done considerably more business than they did last year. In the export trade, the relative amount of business had varied very slightly.

The total exports of our leading textile- manufactures, Irom tne four English ports embraced by the Custom house publications, show this. 1844. 1845. Plain cottons 424,453,165 yds 430,723,349 yds Cotton yarn 92,457,141 lb. Woollen (values).

967,578 Worsted (values). 3,400,755 The exports from the Clyde, which may be taken to represent the state of trade in Scotland, speak to the same effect. 1B44. 1845. Plain 42,394,140 yds 41 ,259,433 yds Cotton yarns 2,174,757 lb.

Worsted and wool- 1 702 lens (values) j-M-4-. The exports for the two months whieh have since elapsed, show a marked decrease. In the cotton districts, the-houses engaged in the-home trade already begin to complain, that the state of. Ireland is operating unfavourably, upon them. There has not yet been any sensible diminution of stocks.

are low, and the cheapness of.cotton attribnted.to the absorption of all spase cash.in railway speculations encourages the.spinnerstoholdon-. Markets, however are in a very unsettled state-, and. little business is doing. In Yorkshire matters are rather worse. Spmners and manufacturers uuv au-eauj 'w- operations, though their articles have hitherto maintained their prices better than might have been expected The vn.t).!n aninners and manufacturers are generally press ed, and five or six failures have occurred among them in Bradford.

Apart from the domestic sources, of commercial pressure to which all eyes are turned, our foreign relations, are not satisfactory. An imperial, ukase which may be rescinded at any moment has led to a. great export of refined sugar to Russia. The. refiners, knowing the precariousness of this opening, have taken time by the forelock, and crammed the warehouses of St.

Petersburgh for two years in advance. Oa the other hand, the export of cotton yarns to Russia has much fallen off; 24,061 bales were exported to that country to the end of August, 1844; in the same period of 1 845, only 18,785 bales. In Germany, the duty on English fancy goods of woollen and woollen and cotton mixed, is to he raised from thirty dollars to fifty dollars per cent. This will press heavily on 1 orKsnire, wniu" uaa nau us trade witnuie umtea ocaies diminished bv the operation of the tariff, Over the whole continent the rates of discount are from, a third to a half ttoi, haon ItQan Al.fn uiguejr vwt a let to in as at the we my me us she as this of can be in into at Description of stock. Nominal; Paid.

Price. Rill.WAVO I2s 13 V.n,. uiauttuurn. Hum X. 6i 5 25' 19 IS 5 34 14 IS 0 6 13 4 v.icuutliail.

10 10J: 11 Ha ditto Ulcnter and Hnluhml 3 34 Igtainbride and lincolm' 18 16J 3J 4 22 3 44 junction Cockeriuoutu and WorkingtoH Durham Sunderland (average) Unto New guar. 5 Direct Northern Eastern Counties (average) do. Perpetual 6 per Cent. Stk. tdinburgh and 50 40 50 is 26 28 IS 2 2 2 2j I9i 20 i viu.

i OS 72 1C 18 9 5 6: Hi 134 50 Mi 25 25 100 40 30 101) 100 50 ao 25 sa so 50 124 100 10 60 50 Stock 50 80 13J 50 50 to '25 20 50 50 50 an 25 B5 ao 50 25 40 10 Stock 40 Slock 25 50 100 25 50 50 onto Quarter Shares 12i ditto Mhlv r. Ely and Huntingdon 3 bauibursli and-Northern 2S 44 Uicat Nonli of 100 212 21b' new auares I 5 ditto Extension I 2 49 51 26 28 235 240 148 152 85 87 34 30 2i 21 20 22 maud Junction inn Great Western I so ditto Half Shares 50 ditto tit'lh I on Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle a GreatSoutnerii 15 ditto Extension 5 Ot. Grimsby Sheffield Jnnc. 5 114 13i 14 uuiu quarter snares Hartieuool Dock and 100 ISO 165 Hartlepool 25 494 504 50 Inverness aud-Elgin 2 Lancaster aud Carlisle .1 39 Lancaster and Preston 47 2 2.4l5-i 49 ai 54 50 213 215 45 London and Birmingham 100 London and Brighton 50 ditto Consolidated -Eighths 25 ISO 61j 41 43J Loudon autl Croydon (average) 1 ,13 15 i) 20 21 ditto i birds guai'. 5 per Cent.

8i 8 ditto New 0 J3 4 London South Western (aver.) 41 6 10 74 70 onto New -74 dilto New Consolidated Eighths 20 IU 181 32 34 Loudon aud Blackwali (average) WHO 13 4 London aud Greenwich (average) 1.12 15 4 8J 9.J 10 Liuiiuou uuo 24. Leeds aud Bradford 15 ditto 10 Leeds and West Riding 1 Liverpool, 24 Manchester Midland Junction 2 4 43 39 131 41 4 4J 54 Manchester and Leeds 1 76 130 140 59 eo 15 17 88 72 10 12 10 142 145 20 21 112 115 dnto Half Shares 34 ditto Quarter Shares 2 Manchester aud Birmingham 40 ditto Quarter Shares 4 ditto New Quarters 2 Midland ioo ditto New 0 ditto Birmingham and Derby mo Mauchesujr, Bury, Hosseudale I2J Maryport and Carlisle 50 Newcastle and Carlisle leo ditto Quarter Shares 25 Newcastle aud North Shields 50 Newcastle Darlington Junction 25 ditto New (Brandling) 15 Newcastle and Berwick 5 N. Castle, Durham, Lane. June. IS North British 174 dilto New ditto Carlisle Brauch Norwich and Brandon 16 dilto New 3 18J 19J 07 OS 108 109 07 110 27 27j 5 25 25 25 25 121 124 20 10 20 20 50 95 50 50 60 20 25 21) 50 50 20 50 50 25 25 50 57 24 25 61 71 1 7Sis 3S 3t 7 North Staffordsu.ii 2 si 5: 54 5JI South Midland 1 2 Stockton aud Darlington 100 Stockton aud Hartlepool 50 ditto Ne.v 25 South Eastern and Dover (aver.) 33 35 30 3d 16 11 17 17 ditto 12 Ditto New No.

2. 7 ditto New No. 3. 21 Scottish Central .....1 Trent Valley 2 West Yorkshire 2 Welsh 2 2 2l! Whitehaven Junction 10 Yarmouth and Nurwich 20 25 27 3l York and Carlisle 25 York and -North Midland 50 100 105 ditto Half Shares 25. dilto Scarbro' Branch 25 ditto Sethy 40 ditto 5 50 52 49 51 74 76 25 27 Carlisle City aud District 12 1 Carlisle and Cumberland .5 North of England To 0 Northd.

Durham District 5 N. Castle, Shields, StSuud. Union 5 Newcastle upon Tyne 5 10 10 10 10 10 10 20 50 50 50 25 5 20 5 20 25 11 OS 113s 5 13 8 7 0 8 8 0 5 8 6 16731688 Newcastle Commercial 5 0 0 Sunderland. 7 10 0 Stockton aud Durham County 7 10 0 MISCELLANEOUS. I Durham County Coal Company 43 Northern Coal Mining Company 23.

No. and So. Shields Steam Ferry 50 110 112 N.uasue ud. water- 25 N. Castle Gateshead Un.

Gas Co. 5 N.Castle Marine Insurance Co. 4 N.Castle'Com. Marine In. Co.

1 N.Castle General Cemetery Co. 20 Whittle Dean Water 32 33J 4 32J 7 8 0 DEE WRY RICHARDSON. Sharebrokers, 92, Side, Newcastle. RAILWAY TRAFFIC. Railway.

7Te. Passeno. MercUan. and Carlisle Great No. of England Nov.

738 2 6 453" 8 3 1037 7 7 1775 10 0 453 8 8 Newcastle N. Shields Durham tjunderland1 Receints the corresnondin? week laat vear TCewnfintln nnd Carlisle, 1,665 lis 5d. IMPROVEMENTS IN FARMING. From Johnson Sr Shaw's Farmers' Almanack for 1846.) The last five years have been remarkable for many important improvements; by the gradual employment deeper and better modes of drainage; by the introduction of guano, and a sulphuric acid as a mixture with bones; by the more perfect understanding- of the mode in which animals can be the most profitably fed; the nature of that food and, through theBe and other great improvements, by a steadily increasing prod uo-tiveness of tho soil. These efforts have nearly, if not quite, kept pace for a long succession of years with the demands of a steadily increasing population.

Let us only examine the increase of England's population, and the deficiency in the corn which it has produced, as shown by the quantity imported from foreign countries iPopulation of Average Year. Quarters of Wheat imported in that year. jprice i)9. qr isngiana ana waies. 5134516 5066337 5345351 5687993 5829705 6039684 6479730 toat year, a.

d. 35 6 69 4 32 10 82 5 48 10 28 10 82 5 1700 1710 1720 1730 1740 1760 1760 5 400 76 5469 Wheat entered for home consumption. Annual average of previous 10 years in quarters. 94089 111372 143292 470342 555959 429076 534762 908118 1770 1780 1790 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 7227586 7814827 8540738 43 35 S3 115 92 54 66 64 2 11 5 5 10150615 11978875 13897187 15911757 It is evident, then (supposing the annual consumption of each person to be equal to about one quarter of wneatj, ttiat tue tarmers 01 Jtsngiana nave, Dy improved modes of cultivation, been enabled to supply food for muicrasu iiuuu iite jfcar ityv) vi 01 111- habitants The average deficiency, be. it remembered, in the ten years endinz in 1841, being only equal to the consumption ef 908,118 persons and this is all that Great Britain has needed from other soils than her own.

That during the last four years the exertions of England's farmers have still kept pace with the large increase of her population, may be seen from the following table, whioh shows the quantity of wheat and flour entered for home consumption, and the duty paid on it, in the United Kingdom, from the passing of the Act Vic, sess. 2, c. 14 (29th April, 1842,) to 5th January, 1845.: Foreign. When the duty was 8s. per qr.

9s. 10s. lis. 12s. 13s.

14s. 15s. 16s. 17s. 18s.

19s. 20s. damaged British Colonial is. per qr. 2s.

3s. 4s. 63, Total- 755816 Mahometan Schism. A new sect has lately set itself up in Persia, at the head of which; is. a merchant who.

had returned from a pilgrimage to Mecca, and pro- utmseti a successor 01 tne-rropnei. iub way they treat such matters at Shiraz appears in the following account (June 23): Pour persons-being heard repeating tho profession of faith according to the form prescribed by the impostor, were apprehended, tried, and found guilty of unpardonable blasphemy. They were, sentenced to lose1 their beards by fire being set to them, The sentence was put into execution with all the zeal and fanaticism 'hfinnmino a trtlft bAliRVP.r in Mftbnmot- Not deeming the loss of beards a sufficient punishment, they were further sentenced the next day, to have their faces blacked and exposed through the city. Each of them was led by a mirgazah (executioner), who had: made a hole in his nose and passed through it a string, which he sometimes pulled with such violence that the unfortunate fellows cried out alternately for mercy from the executioner and for vengeance from heaven. Itis the cus tom in rersia on such occasions tor tne- executioners to collect money from the spectators, and particularly from the shopkeepers in the bazaar.

In the evening, when the pockets of the executioners were well filled with money, they led the unfortunate fellows to the city gate, and there turned them adrift. After whioh the molla'-is at Shiraz sent mpn tn TinTiirp. with nnTOAv to the im- nostor. and t.aha vim tn -mi-ioro. nn hmnn tried, very wisely denied the charge of apostacy laid against Mm n.A 1 vtiuif escapes rryn ptwameui', Wheat.

Flour. Qrs. Owts. 2105614 427588 226881 27725 28924 16246 124319 19623 92837 20012 26877 13640 74(1270 23324 48020 4002 75946 5365 636297 6430 137742 13345 20860 2476 80793 8038 274 4245654 586877 S1858 534472 61 1749 97 26799 1636 8610 15957 184186 49609, I 1 of of 'in of to It in to the a in of of by or i I ft I I he forded by the proposed JJocK. and the more economics1, safe, and convenient Means of Shipment which will be provided; to say nothing ot the great saving oi nme which will arise from Vessels being discharged of Bal last, loaded with uoais, and sent to sea a Day.

There were shipped from the Port of Newcastle, as appears from the official returns of the Commissioners under the Coai-turn Act, in the xear ending may, imo, 2,725,611 Tons of Coals, and of that Quantity fully 60U.000 Tons were loaded at Whitehill Point, imraedi-afcelv fldinininc thfl Dnijk. T.ifi othftr exnorts from the River include Iron, Lead, and Brass, in all Stajjea of Manufacture, Earthenware and Mass to a areat extent, Paper, Soap, Soda, Magnesia, Alum, Sail Ammoniac, Copperas, and other Chemicals; tnd a so Venetian Red, Lamp Black, and Grindstones in large Quantities. In there were cleared Foreign and Coastwise, at the Custom House, 17,721 Vessels, and at the present Time about 1400 Ships are registered as belonging to the Port, exclusive of 4'i or 5fl0 which are registered at other Ports, but trade constantly fr the Tyne. TheCustosas Duties received from this rt bk-ooed Half a Million annually, and show a gradual and steady Increase, highly indicative of the Extent to which the Trade of the Port might be raised were proper Facilities afforded. Tho Limited Extemtof this Undertaking, the moderate Expense of Construction, and themall Amount of Cupital required to carry out the Plan, coupled with Circumstance that a Trade-already exists upon the Spot, almost sufficient to give full Employment to the Dock, leaves no doubt upon the Minds of the Promoters this Undertaking that its Profits will secure a good immediate Dividend to tho Shareholders, with every Prospect of a great ultimate Increase in its Amount.

The Capital of the Company, should it be found expedient to increase it, can be most advantageously employed in the Enlargement of their Warehouses and Works to any Extent, while ths Basin, afibrdin; Room nearly 300 Vessels, will ensure their being constantly occupied. The Dock will also afford excellent Accommodation for Ships laid up during. the: Winter. His Grace the of Northuiuborlaud, and Mr Hylton De Cardonnell Lawson, who are the sole Proprietors of the Laud, are both favourably disposed to Undertaking. A Deposit of 10s per Share will become payable on Allotment, and the additional Deposit of 21.

per Share required by the standing Orders of Parliament will be called for upon the Signature of the Parliamentary Contract, in the Month of January next. The Committee will, on the 1st of December, proceed to the Allotment of the Shares, after whioh Time Application will be received. Applications may in Meantime be addressed to the Solicitors in the Form subjoined. FORM OF APPLICATION, tho Provisional Committee of the Northumberland Dook and Percy Brauoh Railway. Gentlemen, I request that you will allot to me Shares 20 each, in this undertaking; and in Consideration of your so doing, I agree to accept the same, or less Number that may be allotted to me, to pay the Deposit thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract, and Subscribers' Agreement when required.

I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, Name in full Business or Profession Residence Date Reference to Banker, Solicitor, or any well 1 known Party NOTICE is hereby given, that by Indenture bearing Date the 11th Day of November instant, EDWARD CATO, of Tyne Street, North Shields, in County of Northumberland, and of Conside, in the County of Durham, Grocer, hath conveyed and assigned his Estate and Effects whatsoever, to certain Trustees therein named, upon Trust, for the Benefit of suoh the Creditors of the said Edward Cato, as shall execute the said Indenture within three Calendar Months from the Date thereof. And Notice is hereby also given, that the said Indenture now lies at my Office for Perusal and Execution the Creditors. And all those who do not execute same within the Time specified, will be excluded from the Benefit thereof. GEO. WM.

HODGE, Solicitor to the 24, Grey Street, Newcastle on Tyne, November 18th, 1845. LOCAL MARKETS. Continued from page 2 of part 1. Prices of Butter and Bacon ai Newcastle. On the 20th Butter sold at 51s to 52s per firkin.

Bacon 9d. Eggs, 8s 6d per hundred. Cumberland Bacon, small, 7s 3d: large ditto, Od. Lard, 5d. Hams, small, 8s Od; ditto large; 7s 9J.

Butter, 51s to 52s per firkin. Eggs, 8s 6d per hundred. Morpeth, Nov. 19. Wheat 32s Od to 62s Od.

Barley Od to 33s 4d. Oats, 20s 8d to 24s Od. Peas, 40s quarter. Alnwick. Quantity and average price of corn sold week: Wheat, 427 qrs.

at 52s I id. Oats, 309 qrs. at 3d. birley, 265 qrs. at 27s 4d.

Hexham, Nov. .19. At our market to-day we had good supply of grain, that in good condition sold readily, but the inferior met with few buyers. Prioes: Wheat 44s Od to 68s Od. Maslin 40s Od to 54s Od.

Barlev 28s to 32s. Oats 24s to 28s Der ar. General average and auantitv of trrain sold in this market for week ending iVot). 12: Wheat, 63 qrs. 0 57s 2d Barley, 46 2 at 33s 9d.

Oats, 26 7 at 25s 7d ner ar. Darlincton. Nov. 17. Our market was well sup plied with wheat this day; sales rather dull prices about the same as last week.

White wheat sold from 16s 18s Od. Red 13s 6d to 16s 6d. Oats 7s Od to 9s Od. Barley 8s Od to 9s Od. Peas 9s Od to lis Od.

Beans 10s 12s Od per boll. Potatoes 2s Od per bushel. Apples 8dto Is 4d per peck. Butter is 3d per lb. Fowls 4d.

Ducks Is 6d each. Geese 5s Od each. Stockton, Nov. 19. We had a good supply of wheat market this day, which sold at about last week's prices.

Soft and inferior wheat Is to 2s per qr. less. Oats at Is to 2s per qr. lower. Flour Si per sack lower.

Northallerton, Nov. 19 New wheat sold at 6s 3d to 7s 6d. Old ditto 7s 9d to 83 6d. Oats 2s 6d to 3s 3d. Barley 4s 3d to 4s 9 d.

Beans 53 6J to 63 9d. Potatoes Is 6d to 2s 6J per bushel. Butter Is 8d to Is 9d per roll of 24 oz. Geese 4s 6d to 5s 3d eaoh, Richmond, Nov. 15.

We had a fdir supply of grain in our market to-day, but the sale was only dull. Wheat sold from to 10s. Oats 2s 9d to 4s 6d. iBarley 4s to 4s 6d. Baans (is to 6d per buslial.

Richmond Hiring! The first Martinmas hiriogs for farm servants was held on Saturday last a great number attended, they asked high wages, but not many engagements took place. Leeds Corn Market, Nov. 18. There is a good arrival of all grain, and the demand for wheat is more active than of late, at an advance of Is per qr. over the rates of laBt Tuesday.

As the supply of barley increases, the price continues to decline, and we note this article again Is per qr. lower, except only for best dry qualities, which are scarce and flrra in value. Beans are Is per and oats per stone cheaper. Dr. Arthur Savage "Wade, D.D., who some years ago made himself conspicuous by his earnest advocacy of ultra liberal opinions, has just died from apoplexy.

He was in his 58th year. An article on German railways in the Railway Review contains the following" One of our scientific men says that it would be possible to form a railway on a sheet of water, without any piers or supporters driven in the bed of water in otner words, ne couia matte a railway float on water. He is so sanguine that he thinks it would be very easy to establish a floating railway between Dover and Calais and perhaps even from Liver pool to JSew 1 ork. Gretna-Green Marriages. What appears to us to deserve some degree of attention is the strange ano maly, in a country wnere law exists, wnicn gives to urn innkeeper of a certain village, in conformity with an ancient custom, the privilege of legalizing abductions and seduction of minors, and that it is only necessary for this species of Maitre Jacques" to cast off his landlord-suit and to don the sacerdotal robes for the purpose of setting at nought the authority of the law and that of families.

We admit that these eccentricities possess a piquant flavour in romances and scandalous stories, but we are less able to comprehend how they are reconcileable with law and morality. Thus, ia the adventure to-which we now allude the two fugitive lovers find the innkeeper at din-. Jaft.nnK- lavs aside his nankin and nuts on his priestly robes, and proceeds to give the nuptial benediction with the same hand that was a few moments before-busily engaged in handling the knife and fork His wife and a postilioni are employed to act as witnesses, and in their presence the grotesque priest pronounces, and makes the lovers gravely repeat, the sacred forms by hih the, Ohnrch. confers her sanction unon marriages. Once more, our readers may laugh it tney will, out tney may likewise entertain other thoughts respecting the thing.

Journal des Debats. American Protision Markeis. The eommer- cial advices up. to the 29th of brought by the nh arrived at Livernool on Tuesday morn ing, state that the demand for flour has been good, but the transactions limited, owing to the continued scarcity of stock. Ordinary mixed parcels of fine have readily found buyers at 30s to 30s good shipping lots have commanded fully Is higher.

Superfine haB been placed at 32s 6d, 2000 barrels having been taken m. one lot at that price. Wheat has, been eagerly sought after, and readily sold on arrival at 8s 3d to 6s 4d for middling, and 6s 6d to 6s 7d for the best and trie demand is still good. "A quantity of peas shipped for Glasgow have been sold per bill of lading at 4s per minot: a very good lot of barley ia offering at 3s 2d per minot, fnu mi Vinnrd AshpR have nnfin irrefinilar in de mand, at 21s 9dto 22s. for pots, and 22s 9d to 23s for nnnls P.nrlv last weak.

Ifis -ner nnarter for wheat, and 7s Sd per barrel for flour, were the rates demanded for light; but since tnen tnere nas oeen a decline 01 10 flour, and from 3s. to 5s for wheat. The engagements have been for Liverpool and but to London there is nothing doing. The advance in flour that took i Naur Vnrk on the arrival of t.ha Western has not been sustained! and since the receipt of the news by her the market has-been heavy, and the; prices gradually fair receipts. The lenath of time to receive flour by the canal is drawing to a close, and we cannot than 25 davs of navigation.

The demand for some days has been confined to home demand, and Via mai.Vat finiftt. with sales to-dav at 5 dollars 62ic. for Genesee, and not brisk at that. There was a little hottci. few.

in in uie iimrB.efc xiuuaiu. aituvuK" price of freight still keeps most buyers out of the market. The Baltimore market was without any large operations for Howard-street Sour. The stock was very light, and holders asked 5 dollars 50c In consequence of adverse winds, no wheat of consequence appeared the market. Flour does not maintain its position at Albany, though some holders are impressed with the idea that for fee bajaaoe of the.

seasQn high prices will 9 100 100 of of RAILWAY. MrTlTV WTW 1 CT I 1-3 November 10, 1845, at Belsay Castle Inn, the fallowing Resolution was adopted We, the undersigned, Landowners on and near the of Railway proposed to be made by a Company aUine taelf Newoastle-on-Tyne, Edinburgh, and nirect Glasgow Railway, with a Branch to Hexham, having considered the proposed Line, and explained with Mr Monck, the Chairman of the Managing Committee of the said Railway Company, are of opinion Sat the proposed Line of Railway, both in its Main I in its Branch, will be beneficial Doth to the iin nf country through which it will pass, and to our mnnioation between Glasgow, Edinburgh, and New-rustle-upou-Tyne, and iu opening out to use the lime and other minerals which may be now ing unwrought era lands. We are of opinion, therefore, that the projectors of the proposed Line ought to have our consent and support, subjeot to suoh reservation, in regard to all private and personal interests as is usual in such "belsay "Jastle lun, November 10, 1845. Signed. JOHN E.

SWINBURNE CHAS. M. L. MONCK THOS. ANDERSON TH03.

ATKINSON HARLE JOHN FORSTEtt W. D. DENT P. G. ELLISON (for Ralph Bates, Esq.) NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, EDINBURGH AND (DIRECT) GLASGOW JUNCTION RAILWAY, WITH A BRANCH, BY THE NORTH TYNE TO HEXHAM.

CAPITAL, 1,500,000, IN 75,000 SHARES OF 20 EACH. DEPOSIT, 2 2s PER SHARE. Provisionally Registered, pursuant to Vie. e. HO.

and 8 PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Sir Chas. M. L. Monck, Belsay Castle, Northumberland S.

C. M.P., Kirkley Hall, Northumber- William Henry Charlton, Hesleyside, Northum- RoberCharlton, Lee Hall, Northumberland Thomas Cookson, Swinburne Castle, Northumber- jjjajohn Crawford, Paper Manufacturer, Warden, Northumberland jtr Edward Campion, Iron Manufacturer, Hareshaw Iron works, Northumberland Ralph Wm. -Grey, Chipcliase Castle, Northumberland Mr John Green, Iron Manufacturer, Ridsdale Iron Works, Northumberland Mr William Grace, Saltwiok, Northumberland Haggerston.iEsq., Reedsmouth, Northumberland Nicholas Maughan, Newbrough Lodge, Northam- land Charles Atticus Monck, Humshaugh, Northumberland Thomas James, Otterburn Tower, Northumber- UiW. R. Rayne, Paper Manufacturer, Haughton, Northumberland Smith Stobart, Banker, Hextiam Abbey, Northumberland Capt.

R. Jobling, Newton Hall, Northumberland Rev. William Kell, of Corsenside, Northamber- Trevelyan, Topsham, Devon Sir John Fife, Newoastle upon Tyne Mr Thomas Gray, Tobacco Manufacturer, Newoastle MrharieRayne, Merchant, Newcastle upon Tyne Mr Henry Glynn, C.E., Newcastle upon Tyne Mr Wm. Anderson, Coal-owner, Newcastle upon Tyne Mr William Hunter, Colliery Viewer, Newoastle upon Tyne Mr John Coulson, Newcastle upon Tyne Mr Alexander George Gray, Merohant, Newcastle-Cap JohiTBenthara, St. Mary's Place, York Capt.

John Kelly. Newoastle-upon-Tyne T. C. Granger. M.P., Durham Andrew White, Tunstal Lodge, Sunderland Richard White, Thorney Close, Snnderland A.

J. Hill House, Sunderland Mr Michael Brown, Merchant, Sunderland Buah nivAn. Esn. Manufacturer. Sunderland Thomas Bell, Alkali Manufacturer, South Shields Mr Joshua Greene, Merchant, Gateshead Willam Hymers, J.

1., Gateshead John Gibson, Provost of Lanark Thomas Brownlie, Convener Trades House, Glasgow Wm. Provost of Calton, Glasgow James Wolfe Murray, Saint Andrew's, Fife (With Power to add to their Number.) I BANKERS. i London-Messrs Glynn Co. Newcastle upon Tjue The Northumberland and Durham District Bank. ENGINEER-IN-CHIEE.

1 John Miller, C.E., Edinburgh ii LOCAL ENGINEERS. I Messrs John and Benjamin Green. SOLICITORS. Mr John Brown, and Messrs Laws and Glynn, castle upon Tyne. Messrs Prichard and Colletto, 57, Lincoln a Inn rields, London.

LOCAL AGENTS. Mr C. R. Sinclair, W.S., 11, South Bridge, Edinburgh Messrs Strang, Yuile, and Glasgow i William-Blackwood, Banker and Solioitor, Peebles Mr-Simon Scott, W.S., Jedburgh Mr George Oliver, W.S., Hawick, I Messrs. J.

and R. Gibson, Hexham. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS. I Msssrs Spottiswoode and Robertson, Great George Street, Loudon. SECRETARY.

Mr James Potts. 'Offices of the Company, No. 11. Eldon Square, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; THIS Railway is intended, by means of a Junction with the Edinburgh and Hawick isadthe Caledonian Extension Lines, to form a direct Communication between Newoastle and Edinburgh and Glasgow. StartingfromtheNewcastleandNorthShields.

Railway Station at Newcastle, the Main Line will pro-v: mi Northward by Coxlodge. and thenoe, by nearly a straight Line, the Direction oi romeianu aim say, by Lislesburu to Woodburn, on the Reed, whence ft ii will follow the Course of that River, passing Horsely, Birdhope, Woolaw, Catcleugh, and Whitelee, to Carter where the Border will be crossed by a Tunnel into 'Scotland, and so on to Hawiok, where it will join the before-mentioned Lines from that Town to Edinburgh sad Glasgow. By this Line the distance by Railway between New-J- oastle and Edinburgh will be very materially sliorten-ii ed, whilst it will form the shortest and (except by the (i Try circuitous Route by the East Coast Line), the only Railway Communication from Newoastle to Glas-gow. Pi It is also intended, by a Branch from the Main Line at Woodburn, down the Valley of the North Tyne, to joia the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, near p. Hexham, and thus, by the Lines now proposed to be Made, to form a direct Communication from London to Scotland, by the Midland and shortest route, fii It will be observed, that the Terminus at Newcastle "as been altered; this has been done after mature consi-; deration, and with the view of affording to the proposed Line the additional faoility of Shipment, by means of we Tunnel which the Newcastle and Shields Railway Company are under engagements, by their Aot, to make Horn their Line to the CiuayBide, and of the proposed branch from that Line, at Peroy Main, to the intended fj Docks at Coble Dean.

fr, The Union which has just been effected between the North Tyne Junction and the Newcastle, Hawiok, burgh, and Glasgow Junction Companies, gives to the united Company the Countenance and Support gs: of nearly the whole of the Landed Proprietors, as well of the Owners and Lessees of the extensive Coal fields and Iron Works in the Districts, through Amongst the various sources of revenue which will i accrue to the proposed Line, the following may be briefly adverted to'. Facilities will be afforded ior the transit of Lime and Manure to, and of Agricultural rroducts from, the extensive and valuable districts I of Northumberland, stretohing in a north-westerly direction from Newoastle to the Scottish Border, and II the fertile Counties of Roxburgh, Selkirk, Peebles, and II Lanark. Whilst the transport of Live Stock, rroin the ditsrictsjwill be in an especial degree facilitated by hub Line, since the roads, used for generations by the II Scottish Drovers, will be in immediate contact with it Mi "considerable portion of its length. the supply of Coal to the populous manufacturing Wp's of Scotland, including the Towns of Hawick, Jeaburah. KJnn Moirio RalnsViinls.

Peebles. Lanark, has become an urgent necessity. And the proposed wne, proceeding as it does from the extensive Coal 'eta's of the south-eastern portion of Northumberland, and through the hitherto unapproachable seams ot Coal aP the course of the Reed, will become the pnnoipal means of minnivino. it. ami Hum derive an abundant wurce of revenuefrom its transit.

As proof of whioh, I are at present shipping, in considerable from Newcastle to Glasgow, through the Canal, at heavy tonnage rates, far exceeding the wat of transit by the proposed Line, through the entire wstance from Newcastle to Glasgow. An imp0rtant feature, presented by this undertaking, is the development, which will thereby be afforded, ot extensive beds of Minerals, in the districts of the North tftte and Reed, especially of Limestone and Ironstone latter of great richness and superiority, for the Jfafactnre of which extensive works are now ope-ion at Hareshaw and Ridsdttle, and others are projected and iu the course of erection, the entire pro-wice of which would be conveyed by tho proposed Lmo 10 Newcastle for consumption and shipment. By means of this Line, the Tyne will become the "expeditious and economical place of shipment, for that portion of the manufactures oi Glasgow, and Other mannfat-tniins towns before mentwoed, in 31 and Jaid all are to of Act Aot. to lis, D. Son, Co.

W. and and Mr To to or and Sir D. middle portions of England, added to the Great, Local weneral iramo on the several pares oi me will form a large and constantly increasing item of return, always aided by the consideration, that the line down for this Railway will shorten the distance from the western and many other parts of Scotland, to the eastern portions of England, by not less than 30 miles. From these nnited sources will flow an amount of in come, that will abundantly compensate the Shareholders for the outlay upon the Line. A survey is rapidly proceeding, which the Committee assured by the Engineers will be completed in time depoBite the requisite Plans, and enable them to obtain an Act in tho next Session of Parliament for, at least, that nart of the Line which will lav open a very considerable portion of the agricultural and mineral wealth which will form so important a feature in the general value of the Undertaking.

The subscribers will beheldliab-leonly to the amount their subscriptions, and power will be taken in the of Parliament to allow interest at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum on all Calls from the passing of the ADDlications for Prosoectuses and Shares to be made the Solicitors, and to the following Brokers: Messrs Warburton Central Exchange, Market Street, Newcastle upon Tyne; Messrs Tucker, Barnett, and El 11, uircliin L.ane, Jbonaon; kddi. Allan, iviessrs Pillans and Home, and Anthony Sliiels, Edinburgh Messis M'Ewing and Auld, Glasgow; Messrs and J. B. Neilson, and Messrs William Reynolds and Sons. Livernool Messrs Alsop and Hull; Messrs Bjaumont and Williamson, Leeds; Messrs Thomas Uardwell and sons, and messrs Robertson and Bites, Manchesier Mr J.

R. Lane, Birmingham; Messrs Walmsley, Woodhead, and Bradford Messrs Low and Tunstal, Bristol Messrs Moore and Huddersfield; MrN. Balme, Gloucester; Mr W. Pollard, Lincoln Messrs Warburtou Crossland, Sheffield; Messrs Helliwell and Davis, Halifax; Mr T. C.

Mavnard, Durham; Messrs Hills AUason, and Mr W. I. Barker, Suaderland; Mr Wm. Davison, Alnwick; Mr T. Glover, South Shields; John Hurst, Louth; Mr Jos.

Nelson, Settle; Mr John Sturrock, Dundee; Mr Jas. Ross, Perth. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. the Provisional Committee of the Newoastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh, and direct Glasgow Junotiou Railway, with a Branoh by the North Tyne to Hexham. Gentlemen, I request that you will allot to me Shares of 20 each in this Company, and I undertake accent the same, and to pay the Deposit thereon upon any less Number that may be allotted to me; 1 also unueriaKO to execute wie rarimuionuuj Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, when required.

Name in full Residence Trade or Profession (if any) Place of Business Reference Address of Referee Date of Application NORTHUMBERLAND DOCK AND PERCY BRANCH RAILWAY, AT COBLE DEAN, NEAR NORTH shields, IN THE RIVER TYNE. Capital 120,000, in 6,000 Shares of 20 each. Deposit 2 10s per Share. Provisionally Registered Pursuant to 7th and 8th Viotoria, Cap. 1 10.

I'm VISIONAL COMMITTEE. George Hudson, Esq. M.P., Chairman Richard Spoor, Esq. Managing Direotor of the JNew- castle and North Shields Railway, Yioe Chairman The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of York John Simpson, York. James Richardson.

Esq. York, Director of the Newcastle and Berwick Railway Alexander Bartleman, Esq. Tynemouth Thomas Barker, Esq. Rosella House, North Shields George Burdis, Esq. Banker, Newcastle George Cruddas, Esq.

Managing Direotor of the New-castle and North Shields Railway John Carr, Esq. Roseworth, near Newcastle Charles Carr, Esq. Seghill Colliery John Currie, Esq. Secretary to the Trinity House, Joseph Glynn, Esq. F.R.S., Butterley, Derbyshire Thomas Gray, Tobacco Manufacturer, Newoastle James Hartley.

Esq. Glass Manufacturer, Sunderland Matthew Hudson, Esq. Chirton, Direotor of the Newcastle and North Shields Railway Company Nathan Horn, Sunderland John Potts, Esq. Benton Park, near Newcastle, Director of the Newcastle and North Shields Railway Company Joseph Simpson, Esq. West House, near South Shields Joseph Straker, Esq, North Shields John Scott, Sunderland B.

White, M.D., Newcastle (With Power to add to their number.) ENG1NJHEUS. Robert Stephenson, Esq. Robert Nioholson, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs J.

and J. T. B. Tinley, North Shields Messrs Laws and Glynn, Newcastle upon Tyne ARCHITECTS. Messrs John and Benjamin Gieen, Newcastle-upon-Tyne AGENTS.

Messrs Meggison, Pringle, 3, King's Road, Bedford Row, London PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS. Messrs Parratt and Walmisley, House of Lords BANKERS. The North of England Joint Stock Banking Company The London and Westminster Banking Company IT has long been a Matter of Surprise that the Port of Newcastle, which ranks as one of the First in the United Kingdom, both from the Number of its Ships and the Extent of its Commerce, should have no Dook of any Description for the Accommodation of Thus'want has been so strongly felt and so repeated ly expressed by the Coal-Ownera and Ship-Owners of the Port, that Efforts hare been made at various limes to supply it, and there are at the present Moment several Projects on Foot for Dooks at various Parts of the River Tyne. Without expressing any Opinion as to the Merits of other Plans, the Promoters of this Undertaking will shortly explain the Scope and Extent of the Works proposed, and prooeed to state the trrounds upon whioh they consider they are entitled to the Support of the Public, and the Expectations they entertain of a remunerating Profit for the Capital invested. The Coble Dean is a Bay or reoeding Portion of the Shore of the River Tyne, immediately adjoining the anrt xtendin2 from that lown to Whitehill Point.

This Bay is not far from the Entrance of the Harbour, and though covered with Water at about one-third of the Flood Tide, is entnrely dry at Low Water. Immediately to no ui Point lies a ot A he Droit- wisn ana, ana wiuuu deep Water Entrance to the intended Dock, which will open into the Harbour of Shields, below all the Sand Banks in tne Kiver. --w taking is to build the River Wall and Lock Gates in Front of this Natural Dock, and to complete the same bv the Excivation of the Sand, so as to form a Basin of from Twenty to Twenty-five Acres in Extent, where Vessels of any Draught of Water may load their Cargoes afloat; to erect extensive Warehouses, Coal Drops, and Ballast Machinery; and also to oonnect the proposed Dook by Means of a Branoh Railway to Percy Main, with the Newcastle and North Shields and Newcastle and Berwiok Lines, and the various Colliery Railways in that Locality, so as to make the Coble Dean the Shipping Plaoe of these Railways, and by its ultimate Connection with the Newoastle and Carlisle Line, to complete the great Railway Combination recently effected, and unite the Irish Channel with the German Ocean. It is not neoessary to enlarge upon the Advantage of Dooks in general, over the precarious Anohorage of an open Rivel, where Vessels are exposed to Damage by Floods, by Ice, and by Wind.ot which many recent Examples might be noticed; and also to the Straining of the Vessel, shifting of the Cargo, and scraping of the Copper; Accidents of serious Moment to large and valuable Ships; but as it has often been said, that the River Tyne is in itself a large and commodious Dock, it may be well to state that the Witnesses examined before the Tidal Harbour Commissioners, vvere decidedly of Opinion that Dooks were much wa.ited in this River, there being now but a few isolated Spots where Vessels can lie afloat at low Water; ana tnat vessels oi iarSe Size cannot asoond the River at all, and those.ot even a Water, are unable to finish their their Loading at the Staiths, bat the Surplus is sent at ter them to Sftieias in n.wa, onil Delav It is also well known that certain expensive coppered Ships are not allowed to trade to the Tyne to London, Hull, Berwick, Leith, Dundee, Aberdeen, and other places, and of the lately-established Trade to India seems Jso to point out the Necessity provid Jit it. i iinnri.

annnnor Class of vessels, and India, seems also to ing for the Reception alreat wSbSr of them, and of affording Room for tah? immediate Warehousing of valuable Goods iy to receive Injury iu ituiuiuB nv immediately to the North and North West of North Shields, and to the South of Blyth, lies a most important ana valuable Coal Field, comprising Cramhngton, Seg-Ml, Seaton Delaval, Baekworth Cowpen, and orani. Portion of the Coals used for Steam and Gas Purposes are procured. Some of nL, PAiWina have no Shipping Places at all in the Ty nl bS ttir Cals froPm the Smiths of other Od-liflries Several new Collieries are now in progress, Holies, oeverat shiDDin places at all; and it nfafbeZetuy Shipping SSL- vor Tvne have as many Collieries already riaoes i y-- proscribed as tney can by the dangerous. Another Kail way is about to be formed from the Coal District above mentioned, to the River Tyne, and it is expected iu marln tn brine the Terminus tnat AHiiiiKeuiom.a nl, ia and Shipping Plaoes of that Railway to the Coble Dean. Proposals Have also been received from the Owners of other Collieries to bring their Coals down the North Shields Railway for Shipment at the UooIl.

The Advantages to be derived by the Coal Owners from coramunioating with a Plaoe 01 Shipment on the River have induoed them to make any Saorinee 1 or pease to. it. but tfes System wWob mamo A ii JL the of for the no the To of any the all of by the 7s 7s 26s per laBt 24s a the at to Is at 5s 6s nions, as in niorow inveiiuuu, im carriage 10 propeiieu by the pressure of air with great velocity and a tractive power is attained, superior to that of the working models on, the same scale of either of the-atmospheric railways. Between the two rails there is laid down as in the atmospheric railways, a pipe to contain the air which acts as.themoviug power; butinsteadof being a circular rigid iron pipe, it is square, and on each side of this square pipe there is a flat flexible tube, through which the propelling compressed air passes. Two.

small wooden wheela. fixed upon verticle axles, press, against these flexible tubes or air passages, so tightly as- to arrest the progress of the air along them. The wheels are fixed to the body of the carriage, which is mounted on flanged wheelsas in, ordinary railway, carriages; no part of the weight resting on the two wooden wheels, which serve merely as propellers. When the compressed air is admitted into the elastic tubes, they become instantly inflated, and the air presses against the wooden wheels, and forcesthem onwards. It is really extraordinary to -witness, the force with which the compressed air acts when applied in this manner, like a wedge and apparently at great disadvantage.

Compressed air, with an acting pressure of 4ft pounds to the square, inch, admitted throgh a pipe not more than one inch and a half in diameter, propelled a carriage holding four persons with grsat velocity; and the tractive power was so great, that a. gentleman stands mg on the ground, could not tiold it nacK. 1 ue material of which the flexible tubes are made is a peculiar composition, adapted for the and the external part which presses against the wooden, wheels is nearly a quarter of an inch thick, and seems well protected against abrasion. The experiment was perfectly successful, and the tractive force of the compressed air so applied, is very much greater than would on. a first inspection of the apparatus, be supposed possible.

The mode by which a train in motion is telle controlled was not explained, as the inventors do not wis'a at present to make known the whole of their, plans.