THE HIGH-LEVEL BRIDGE ACROSS THE TYNE, WITH STONE-PIERS AND TIMBER-ARCHING, DESIGNED BY MESSRS. JOHN AND BENJAMIN GREEN, OF THE ARCADE, NEWCASTLE, ARCHITECTS. Length, 1,150 Feet.-Height, about 108 Feet. [OTICE is hereby given, that application is intended to be made to Parliament, in the next session, for an Act for Erecting, Building, and Maintaining, a BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER TYNE, and over lands and hereditaments adjoining the same; and which said bridge will extend trom a place called Castle-street, in the parish of St. Nicholas, in the borough and county of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to or near to a close or parcel of ground late belonging to Edmund Graham, Esquire, and now to the Brandling Junction Railway Company, situate in the borough and parish of Gateshead, in the county of Durham; with proper and convenient roads, avenues, and approaches to the said bridge; one of such roads, avenues, and approaches to communicate with the north end of the said bridge, at or near to the said street called Castle-street, and to extend therefrom to a street or place called Saint Nicholas'-square, within the said borough and county of New. castle-upon-Tyne; and another of such roads, avenues, and approaches to communicate with the south end of the said bridge, at or near to the said close or parcel of ground late of the said Edmund Graham, and to extend therefrom through the said close or parcel of ground, and to terminate at a street, approaches, according to the lines thereof, as at present laid out upon the plans hereinafter mentioned. And Notice is hereby further given, that duplicate plans and sections of the proposed bridge, roads, avenues, and approaches, with books of reference thereto, as required by the standing orders of Parliament, will, in pursuance of such standing orders, be deposited for public inspection with the Clerk of the Peace for the borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne aforesaid, at his office, in Newcastle-uponTyne aforesaid, and with the Clerk of the Peace for the said county of Durham, at his office, in or near the city of Durham, in the said county of Durham, on or before the thirtieth day of November instant; and that a copy of so much of the said plans and sections as relates to each of the said parishes and parochial chapelry, together with a book of reference thereto, will be deposited with the Parish Clerk of each such parish and parochial chapelry, at their respective places of abode, on or before the 31st day of December next.-Dated this thirteenth day of November, 1841. CLAYTONS & DUNN, THOMAS SWINBURNE, ONLY SIXTY COPIES PRINTED.-TO BE CONTINUED ANNUALLY. Gateshead-on-Tyne: PRINTED BY WILLIAM DOUGLAS, OBSERVER OFFICE. MDCCCXLII. HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS. Thus, in five years, the customs-receipts at Stockton-upon-Tees have nearly doubled! And there is a healthiness in the progressive increase which augurs favourably for the prospects of the port.-JAN. 9. The Great North of England Railway was opened from Darlington to York, on Monday last, when an immense train of 101 carriages, drawn by four engines, traversed the whole line without a single mishap, either in its progress southward or northward.-JAN. 9. We are now in the keen enjoyment (?) of a snowstorm, in this part of the island. The ground has a thick eovering of snow, east, west, north, and south; and the frost is as biting as any enthusiastic skater can possibly desire. The Tyne, west of the bridge. will shortly be frozen over. it the frost continue. On Tuesday morning, at about twenty minutes to 9 o'clock, the inhabitants were started by the unexpected phenomenon of a flash of lightning, instantly followed by a loud "brattle" of thunder, in the midst of a heavy fall of snow and hail. On Thursday, during the day, the thermometor fell to 17 deg. of Fahrenheit, or 15 deg. below the freezing point.-JAN. 9. others, who were all highly satisfied with the accuracy of the accounts given by the public press of similar experiments having been made in the neighbourhood of Newcastle, upon locomotive engine boilers.-Ayr Observer. Mr. Hugh Lec Patttinson, of Bensham, near Gateshead, whose first communication to the Philosophical Magazine was transferred to our columns, has transmitted a second paper, in which he observes : There is no doubt whatever, as Dr. Faraday conjectures in his note to Mr. Armstrong's paper in your last number, "that this evolution of electricity by vaporization is the same as that already known to philo sophers on a much smaller scale." The electricity appears to originate at the instant of vaporization; aud the steam as it collects within the boiler is electrified with positive electricity, the water and metallic boiler being at the same time negative. In this condition the electricity of both is latent, like the two plates of an excited electrophorus; but the instant steam is suffered to escape, its positive electricity, being carried off along with it, and out of the equivalent quantity of negative electricity in the boiler, becomes free, and hence the steam is electrical with positive electricity. The same thing takes place with the boiler, in which negative electricity is set at liberty as the steam escapes, and which becomes evident on insulating the boiler. Mr. W. G. Armstrong, of Newcastle, has also communicated a second time with the editors of the Philosophical Magazine. Mr. A. says: The entire absence of negative electricity seemed to preclude the possibility of the phenomena arising from expansion; and the only remaining supposition appeared to be, that the condensation which took place in the jet, set free the electricity which the steam had absorbed in the process of evaporation. Dr. Charles Schaf haeutl, writing on the same subject, makes the following remarks: The electricity in thunder-clouds seems likewise to arise from condensation. I had once the good fortune to be immersed in a thundercloud hovering round the summit of Mount Brenner in the Tyrol, having with me at the time a barometer, thermometer, hygroscope, and an electroscope. I saw the clouds forming around me on the summit of the mountain into vaporous bodies of an irregular roundish shape, which seemed to retain their form by an attractive force arising from the centre of each individual cloud, as they had not the slightest tendency to amalgamate with each other. The hygroscope close to the cloud was not at all affected, and only when immersed in the cloud it turned first a few degrees, indicating after a few minutes the highest degree of moisture, and sinking gradually back to its first point. This fluctuation continued as long as I had time to observe it. The electroscope was likewise not affected at all outside the cloud. Immersed in the cloud the gold leaves began gradually to separate, the barometer at the same time slightly rising, and after each discharge of lightning both instruments returned to their original state. From these observations it would appear that with every flash of lightning the cloud became exhausted of its electricity and recharged itself for each succeeding flash. The air in the cloud seems to move from the periphery to the centre, of the nature of a whirlwind, fluctuating with the leaves of the electro. scope, and I had sufficient to witness twenty-one electric discharges from the cloud in which I was immersed, when the wind became so violent that the instruments were broken, and I was obliged to cling to the stump of a tree to save myself from being blown over the precipice; but the uproar around me was increasing and fluctuating with the electric discharges from the clouds, and the rapid alternations of wet and dry in the clouds, was during the whole time in exact coincidence with the electric discharges. THE GATESHEAD DISTRICT VISITING |