The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-01-28 00:00:00

LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES..

" The propelling power intended to be employed is that of loco-
motive and stationary steam engines. By means of this power,
the Company will be able to transport the heaviest goods with
certainty and security, by day and night, at all times of the year,
in periods of frost and thought, at the rate of at least eight mile.
ter hour."—Vide Prospectus of the Birmingham and Liverpool
Rail-road Company. Royal Hotel, Sept. 8, 11124.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.
Sin,—Anxious to show the difference betwixt promise and per-
formance, in reference to the above extract from the Report of the
Birmingham and Liverpool Rail-road Company in September last,
I an: enabled, through the kindness of a correspondent in the coun-
try (who was an eye-witness, and on the correctness of whose infor-
mation 1 can confidently rely), to furnish the public, through your
medium, with the result of some grand experiments on the pow‘r
of locomotive engines, performed on the 17th inst. at Killing worth
Colliery, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, at the desire and in tie pre-
' sense of more titan Satire Gentlemen from the Committees of the
intended Manchester and Liverpool and Birmingham and Liver-
pool Rail-road Companies. as follows :
The engine, being one of eight-horse power, nn3 weighing, nit't
iVETtolliter, containing water and coals, 5 tons 10 cwt., was place,l
on a portion of rail-road, the inclination of which, in one mile and
a quarter, was stated by Sl r. Wood, the proprietor, to be one inch in a
chain, or one put in 702. Twelve waggons were then placed on it.
each containing front 2 tons 13 cat. to 2 tons 14 cat. of coal., mak-
ing a total useful weight of 32 tons 8 cart. The twelve waggons
were drawn one mile and a quarter each way, making two miles
and a half in the whole, in forty minutes, or at the rate of three
miles and three quarters per hour, consuming 44 pecks of coals.
Eight waggons were then drawn over the same distance in thirty-
six minutes, consuming four
.pecks of coals ; and nix waggons u, re
drawn over the same ground in thirty-two minutes, consuming five
pecks of coals. My correspondent also states, that the engine must
be supplied with hot or boiling, and not with cold water, anal that
two hundred gallons will take the engine only fourteen miles, a:
the end of which the supply must be renewed.
It thus appears that the utmost speed obtained in the convey-
ance of the lightest weight quottni, say six waggons in thirty-two
minutes, with a weight of 16 tons 4 cat. has been from four and a
half to four and three.qttarter miles per hour.
All doubt, therefore, on the subject of locomotive machines
completely set at rest, and the fortunate speculators in rail-roads
may " rejoice and be exceeding glad," since it is in oved to a de.
mdnstation that goods may be conveyed upon them at a r ere nearly
equal to a common fly-boat upon a canal.
Parturium montes, naseitur ridiculus mus !
Your's, Cie.
DE3IOCRITUS.

NEW COMPANIES.

The following are a few of
employment of capital within
Alliance Fire and Life I nsuratee.
Ditto Marine ditto.
Anglo-Mexican Mining,
Angto-Chiliao ditto.
A rigna ditto.
Ar:stralian.
Briiiih Paving, Building, or.d
Investment.
Birmingham and Liverpool
Rail-way.
Briatol Northern and NVestrrn
ditto.

the Companies formed for the
1 the last twelve months:--

General Coal.
General Steam Navigaficm.
Grand Junction Rail-road.
General SchooL
General Journal.
General Irish Rail-road.
Gas Engine Carriage.
Great M'aitminster Dairy.
Hibernian Mining.
Ditto Joint Stock Banking.
Irish Provincial Bank.
Investment Bank.
Ditto Irish ditto.
Irish Equitable Loan Bank.
Irish Mining.
Kentish Rail-way.
London and Birmingham ditto.
London and Bristol ditto.
London and Northern ditto.
London and Manchester Equi-
table Loan.
London, Brighton, and Devon.
shire Fishing and Sttani Na-
vigation.
Manchester and Liverpool Rail-
road.
Metropolitan Loan and Invest.
went.
Ditto Investment Society.
Ditto Banking.
Ditto Alderney Dairy.
Ditto Flour and Bread.
Pasco Mining.
Palladium Insurance.
Protector ditto.
Promoter Benefit.
Pearl Fi^hery.
Real del Monte
Kb de la Plata ditto.
South London 'kick.
South London Milk.
Surrey Rail-road.
Sea and Inland Coal.
Tlalpuxahua Alining Associa-
tion.
Taunton Grand Waters Rail-
road.
United Mexican Alining Amy..
ciation.
Welsh Iron and Coal Migiag
Mr. Rothschild's dine.

Bath and Bristol ditto.
Bristol and Birmingham ditto.
British Minnie Association.
Bristol Ship Canal.
British Annuity.
Brazilian Mining Association.
New ditto.
Bolan°. ditto.
Brick.
(Royal National.)
Bridgewater Ship Canal.
British Iron.
Bognor New Town.
Bermondsey Dock.
British Shipping Loan.
Chilian Mining Association.
Colombian ditto.
Canada.
Crown Life Assurance.
Equitable Loan Bank.
Ditto Investment ditto.
Exchange.
East London Rail-road.
Erection of a New Pier at St.
Ives.
Faversham Navigation.
Fish (Westminster.)
French Four Canal Shares.
General Mining Association.
Guardian Fire Office.
Gold Coast Mining Association.
Oss—lmperial Old.
Ditto New.
Continental.
British.
London Portable.
Provincial ditto.
Pheenix ditto.
United General.
Birmingham and Star.

Yesterday evening a man named M'Aulay, whale in a
state of intoxication, fell into the Old Dock. After re-
maining in some time he was picked up, and carried to the
restoring
Master's office. Mr. Marshall, who attend, th,
institution for the recovery of persons apparently drowned,
was sent for: in the meantime, however, Dr. Emerson, of
clthted eNavin who
otowrians passing when the body was found,
sue-
ee g animation.—Liverpool Paper of wr.
1 nesday. it