The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-03 00:00:00

Chambers, Dr. Brooke, Dr. Adolphe Steen, Mr. Clauilet, r
Mr. Woods, Professor Fuller, Mr. Ferrets, Mr. Hoot, Mr.
NEWCASTLE. WSONTsDAT. Addison Potter, Captain Bond, Mr..% H. SUCheniey, Mr.
It w...a genemlly supposed that the meetings of the Sec- It. Ingham, M.P., and a Large number of distinguished
Corsa would have terminated yesterday afternoon, but members of the association.
several papers remain to be read in Sections A, B, C, and E. Several toeete were drunk, including the Queen, the
The business in the other sections has been brought to • British Association, with which the name of Mr. Fairleiro
close. As usual the sections were very well attended, was connected, and that of the Chairman, which was
especially Section E, which embraces the Ethnological de. Proposed by Mr. Tile, M.P. to the course of his remarks,
partment. Throughout the sittings of the association at Mr. Tits observed that any one who looked at theme eaten.
Newcastle, the Ethnological room has been the moat crowded, sive works could not but feel that they were iodeed •
no doubt owing to the reoent theories put forward as toman's triumph of science. To begin with hard ironstone, and to
remote elistesce on earth. and his supposed procession from see the end of it in those magnificent ships that almost
the Simian tribe of animals. Mr. Craft is to read a paper ! floated, and some actually floating on the river, and to see
today on his recent visit to the King of Dahomey. There the steps of its progress, were the greatest triumphs science
is to bee meeting of the association in the afternoon. The could suggest, and one of the greatest triumphs the world
great feature of to-day will be the gun experiments of Sir ! could possibly see. As he walked through those works,
W. Armstrong, at Whitley, to witness which • great crowd ' and knowing something of thaw% he could hardly see how
of persons has left Newcastle, leaving the erection's rooms the works could be kept rolling with 3,500 men employed,
comparatively empty. To-morrow there will be excursions without an amoruit of talent which they could find nowhere
to Allenbeada, Cleveland, and Marsden Rocks. Yesterday better exemplified than is their excellent hosts, the Messrs•
there was a visit to the great ship-building yard and iron Palmer.
works of the Mews. Palmer, at Jarrow, which we now The CHAIRMAN, in acknowledging the compliment, said
proceed to describe. that in the large operations which he superintended he took
VISIT TO JARROW. much pride in looking over the assembly of the working
A visit paid to the extensive iron ship-building works of classes that he bad to employ, to know that they prospered.
Mews. Palmer, at Jarrow, near the mouth of the Tyne, to see that their families were comfortably lodged and were
enabled about them-hundred members of the association to well conducted, and last, though not least, that proper
witness -the application of several important branches of provision was made for their education. In fact, he envied
acieisoe.to great practical purposes. There is probably no esta- not the noble lord nor the gettleman who could walk over
bliatiment in the north which could have afforded the party broad acres and vast possessions when he went through that
• greater amount of pleasure or could illustrate more for. yard and heard the merry hammer going, and knew that
eibly the progress of this busy enterprising district. A few the men were earning their wages, and that those wages
years since the whole of the establishment of Meesm • would be canied home, and make happy so many houses of
Palmer co:misted of a single small workshop standing alone ° that large community. If the British Association should
amid the bleak desolateness of the south bank of Tyne. do Newcastle the honour of visiting them again during his
The partners of the firm point with justifiable pride to this lifetime, and while he was at the head of these works, he
their first may in Ow great manufacturing world, and to should be happy on that occasion to give them as good a
the first screw collier, the John Bowes, which they built for welcome as he possibly could.
carrying coal to the London markets. The works now The company then broke up, and were conveyed by special
weepy little short of a hundred acres, and they have a fleet train to Newcastle, where they arrived in time to Wax Mr.
of sinew colliers which carry something like half • million Glaisher's lecture, which took place in the new Town-hall,
of tone of coal from their own pits, which remain ea 10 where a large assemblage bad met.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

surplus after supplying ao apparently unlimited number of 1 I The President of the association, Sir Wm. G. Armstrong,
greedy furnaces at the work, of Janow, More than I occupied the chair, and said he had great pleasure in intro-
this, tbey have screw colliers which carry the fief diming to them Mr. Glaisher, who they were aware had
of the firm to and from the Type and the ports cm just returned from • visit to the clout* and had kindly
the Yorkshire *out, as they convey the iron ores from the undertaken to deliver a lecture to them that evening on
ezhaustleks Cleveland district to those busy works. It is • the subject. Mr. Gleisher gave an interesting account of
great, and an far ae I can ascertain, an unique feature is his different aerial voyages, but made no reference in the
the work, at Jarrow—so far at least as this country is coons of his remarks to the short trip which he had just
concerned—that the construction of the iron ships ia hen made. Mr. Cozwell also addressed the audience, and both
complete in every respect; the ores are calcined. and dazed. ' gentumen wen loudly applauded.
and puddlad on the premien ; the coal is obtained from •
mine which forms a portion of the property ; the brass work
acd the machinery are made io the works—everything infect NAVAL AND MILITARY.
...

that is required for the purposes of iron chip•buildere is
supplied at Jarrow ; the iron ore is brought direct froth
the mince of Cleveland, and they are not supposed to rest
until they paw away in the graceful hoes of the screw
collier, the well•fonnd pastenger ship, or in the invulnerable
iron-cud frigate. When it was first proposed to send teal

ADMIRALTY, Sir. 2. APPOINTYDRITIL—Staff
Commander Henry Bealasi (additional), of the Ware.
Bub•Lieutenaen Alfred O. Hardy to the Liffey; Lawrence
Ching, to the Marlborough.
Midshipman Walter H. Joliff, to the Edgar.
Naval Cadet (Dominated) Win. D. TOUIISUL
First Class Assistant Engineer W. H. Brimfield, of the
Wye (000lirmed).
PaomirrioN.—W. H. Barker, of the Topaz*, to be acting
Aral Haas assistant anginser.

to the Them; from the Tyne in sew Colliers, there were
not a few who thought the idea prep:driers:rue sod the pro-

jectors insane, iud they prov.ed 'clearly to themeless
that it wad& be impossible for steamers carrying lay
650 toes of coal, and costing about 10,0001., to compete
with the old sailing collier, which carried about half the
quantity, and which did not cost more than a tenth of the
steamer. The John Bowen, which now lies at the Jarrow

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The Black Eagle and Vivid Admiralty steam-
vends are expected to leave Woolwich daring the prawn;
week for dotwerp, to form part of the @quadrat .which
will convey her Majesty, the royal family and suite from
that port to Gramma.

works for repairs, soon: proved, however, that the

practical men were right and the theorists wrong. Since the
31st when the pioneer of the screw colliers

started on its first voyage, the WOW steamers have supplied
about five and a quarter millions of tons of the coal which
has been consumed in the metropolis. Such are the im-
provements, too, which have been made in the mechanical
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PORTSMOUTH, Sin. 2.
The Dutch screw corvette Vesuvius, Captain
Pchotboegb, arrived off Ryde this morning from Tamil, and
exchanged salutes with the garrison and the dagehip of
the Commander-in-chiel. She is bound for the coast of
Guinea.
The French Imperial yacht Jerome Napoleon, Captain
Du Babson, arrived off Ityde to-day from Cowes, and
leaded his Royal Rightism the Prince Napoleon. His
Royal Highnem will embark to-night and proceed to
Havre.

arrangements for loading and unloading, that a cargo at
1,200 tom Is put on board in lour boars, makes

the trip to London in 32 hours, and by means of
the hydraulic machinery invented by Sir W. Armstrong
discharges her cargo in ten hours ; returns in 32 hears,
and thus delivers her 1,260 tons of eoal from the pit's month
into the barges of the Thames in 76 boars. One VONA Of