The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-10 00:00:00

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.

LSEDS, MAY B.—We have no excess of supply, nor any
anxiety on the part of factors to force sales, yet_ the trade is
slow for wheat, and millers supply themselves in retail, at about
Is per quarter below last Tuesday's rates. Less inquiry for
barley, and prices a shade lower. In oats or shelling, no alter-
ation; demand steady. Beans and peas in better demand, the
latter rather dearer. We have a slow dragging trade for wheat.
Arrivals during the week—Wheat, 6,232
quarters ; barley, 775
quarters ; oats, 1,293 quarters ; beans, 702 quai tern. Averages
for the week-1,637 quarters of wheat, 475; 765 quarters of
barley, 29s sd ; 291 quarters of oats, 18s 9d;
beans, 28squarters of peas
NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, 'MAY 8. We have at
,length to report a considerable decline in the quantity
indifferent. Also about 3,928 sheep, of cattle
brought forward ; about 140 were from the north of Scotland,
which were of excellent quality, but 96 quarters of
as a whole the quality was
is considerably
. above an average. The supply of beef would
comprise about 530 head of.beasts. The falling off from last
week, together with the cool state
of the weather, has caused
the beef trade to advance about 5d b • is
not active, but from present
appearances,iland6aolilawilbisb—e tshoeldf.erTutheer
per stone, yet business
mutton trade is firm, and former
prices are fully supported.
Lambs also meet with a ready sale.
.Pries,—Beasts—heifers,
of the best quality sold freely at N; 1/IWling,
Si 6d ; good
steers, 556 d ; middling, 5s 3d ; stag, and inferior, 4s 9d to 55
per stone of 141bs ; sheep in wool,
to 64 ; shorn, 4%d to
5d per...lb, sinking the offal.
• mnstilinaan MEAT.; 4145.astrt;M
AY B.—There Were in
in the market to-day In sacks oatmeal, 'each weighing 2
10 at 11 7s 6d,
80Ibs
imperial, whereof 79 sold thus :-49 at 1/ 88 04,
5 at 1173 3d, 15 at 117 s Od, 0 at 1/ 6s 9d,-Average price of the
whole, 117 s 8d 4- 12ths. 16 sacks flour, whereof 2 sold at
325, 8 at 30s, 2at 295, and 3 at 28s. 1 sack peasemeal,
which sold at 205. 11 sacks pot-barley, whereof 20 sold thus:
1 at 11 lOs Od, 1 at 117 s Od, 1 at 116 s 04, 6at 115 s Od, 7
at 114 s Od, 4 at 1/ :Is 6d.
EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, MAY 8.
Supplies of all kinds again large. Oat straw, from 6s Od to
7s Od per kemple of 16 stones tron ; wheat ditto, 6s Od to
7s Od ; barley ditto, 5s 6d to 6s Od. Hay from 7d to 9d per
stone.
BELFAST, MAY 7.—Grain—Since Friday the supplies
of oats and oatmeal have been small, whilst of wheat and
barley scarcely a single sack has been shown ; so that their
prices continue nominally the same as on Friday, whilst those
of oats and oatmeal are well maintained. Wheat, 9334 to 10s
6d ; barley, 6s 3d to 7s ; oats, 6s 6a to 7s 6d ; oatmeal, lls 6d
to 12s 6d per cwt. Butter—firkins, first 9d ; crocks 9d ; firkins,
third 7 id ; crock 6id per lb; shipping price 70s to 86s per cwt.
Potatoes, per stone, '9d to 104; ditto, per cwt, 53 to bs sd.
Fruit—Apples, per dozen, 6d to 9d; pears, per ditto, Od to Od;
grapes, per lb., 8d to 10d; lemons, per dozen, Os 9d to N 10d;
nuts, per quart, 6d to Ed; wall-nuts, per hundred, Is to is 3d;
chest nuts, per ditto, is Od to Os; cocoa nuts, 6d to 8d each;
American apples, lod to Is Od per dozen ; mixed pickles, 10d to
Is. Butchers' Meat—beef, per lb, 4d to 74 ; mutton, 5d to 7d ;
veal, 64 to 7d ; lamb, 55 Od to 6s Od per quarter.
Fish—Trout, Os 6d per lb ; brett, 311 Od to 4s Od ;
soles, Is to is 6d per pair. Poultry—Fowls, 2s 6d to 3s a•
pair ; chickens, Is 6d to 2s per pair; ducks, 2s to 2s 6d per
pair ; turkeys, 3s to 4s each ; geese, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; eggs,
per doz., 5d to 6d. Hay, Is 2d to 2s 2d ; straw, oat, 8d to Is 3d ;
ditto, wheat, 10d to Is 2d per cwt.
BANBRIDGE, 11AY 7.—Oatmeal, from I2s Od to 12, 64
per cwt ; Indian meal, 9s Od to 9s 6d per cwt ; flour, first, per
1121bs, 16s 04 ; second, 14s 6d ; third, 12s 7d ; fourth, IN Od ;
bran, 6s Od ; wheatmeal, 125 6d to 14s 04; wheat, from 9s 9d
to 10s fid per cwt. of 1121bs • oats, seed, from 8s Od to 9s Od ;
grinding, 6s 104 to 75 6d; barley, 6s 6d to Os Od per cwt;
best butter, firkin, at the scale,
_none in market; meskin, 8d
to 8d per lb ; beef, 3d to 5d ; mutton, 5d to 6d ; potatoes,
for seed, 3s 6d to 5s 64 per cwt ; for table, from 4s 8d to
53 per cwt ; hens, 10d to Odd each ; chickens, 10d
to is 2d per pair; ducks, Os 00d to 2s Od; turkeys, 3s Od to
3s 9d each ; geese, 2s 6d to Os Od ; eggs, hen, 4id to Od per
2s Od Oto per cwt;
straw, from 8d to 104;
ditto, lowland, from Os Od to is 4d;
.
dozen ; duck, Od to 6d per dozen ; turkey,_ Os to Is per dozen;
goose, is 64 ; hay, upland, from Os d
lamb, from Od to 7d per lb. Weight of bread at Hamilton
Moore's bakery, 41bs for bid.
Old grain whiskey, at Mr.
gallon, turnips, Od to Is 8d ; pork, from 4250 d to 45sOd per 1121bs.
Robert Beli's 6s 3d per duty paid.
BALLYMENA,S.—Oats, 6s Od to 7s 9d; oatmeal,
As
11
s9d to 12s 3d per cwt ; butter, 7id ; beef, 3d to 6d per lb ;
mutton, 3id to 74; flour, first, per cwt, 18s Od ; second, 175 Od;
third, 15s Od ; inferior third, I3s Od ; fourth, lOs Od ; bran,
Os Od to 6s 8d; Indian meal, white, per cwt, 050 d to 9s 6d;
yellow, 93 Od to 95 6d; potatoes, 3s 6d to 6s 3d per cat; hay,
Is3dto 2s Od per cwt ; American flour, 30s per barrel; tallow,
4s Od to 5s 4d per stone ; flax, 4s to 616 d ; straw, 104 to is 3d ;
hides, 2s 6d to 6s 6d each ; pork, 37s 6d to 445 6d per cwt ;
turnips, 104 to is per ditto; carrots, Os to is per ditto; beans,
6s 6d to 7s ; grey peas, 6s 6d to 7s 6d.

COAL MARKEI
Bate's West Hartley 13a 6d
I:kiddie's W. klartiey 145- Od
Carr's:Hartley
Chester Main 135 6d
Dean's Primrose
East Adairs Main 125 Od
Hasting's Hartley l3s Od
llolywell Main ..... 138 9d
New Tanfield l2s 6d I
North Percy Hartley l3s 6d
Ord's Redheugh
Tanfield Moor
West Hartley
Wylam ..
Wall's End, &c
Brown's l3s Od ,
Brown's Gas.. l2s 6d
Gibson.
Hilda l3s d
Hedley .. l4s Od
Ramsay . .....us 6d
South Killingworth
Washington
Eden Main los Od

%-YESTEILDAY.

Lambton Primrose . 15e3d
Botrnoot ..‘‘.:resVS2B. ea
&eddylfs Hetton...... 16s 6d
Bell
Hetton
Haswell l7s 6d
lautton
Lambton
(Russell's Hetton
Stewart's
Benson
'Hudson's Hartlepool 145 Od
„Kenos •-•• 15s 6d
south Hartlepool ..... 14s 9d
Whitworth 123 6d
Adelaideesle
Hetton
16s Od
Bishop's Tees lss Od
Denison
South Durham l4s Od
Tees
Nest
14s 6d
Cowpen Hartley
Ships at market, 258.

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGI-

NEERS.
JOSHUA FIELD, EsQ., President, in the Chair.
TUESDAYS, MAY 1 AND B.—At the first of these
meetings the monthly ballot took place, when the
following candidates were elected:—w. Wilson and
R. Peacock, as members; and W. E. Bott, W.
Sowerby, jun., and Captain H. James, R.E. as
associates. The discussion on Mr. Crampton's paper,
" On the construction of Locomotive Engines," was
continued through both these evenings. The same
tone of argument was kept up, and numerous instances
were adduced supporting the views of both sides; but
without arriving at any definite result, other than that
it was desirable in all engines to lower the centre of
gravity, in order to establish a great angle of stability,
and to arrive at a ratio between the circumference of
cylinders, such as whilst the greatest
the driving wheel and the cubic content of the
maintained, with an economical consumption of fuel,
every facility should be afforded for starting
rapidly, which was a point of importance on
the one
lines running frequent trains. On
speed might be
hand it was argued, that small driving
dgery%
wheels were essential for quick starting; and on. the
a given
other hand it was contended, that with
amount of evaporating surface in the bolter, the trac •
a
taitvethpeopweerripwhoeuryld beof theth circumstancesprovidedteel,
given relative proportion existed 'between the cubic
content of the cylinder and the circumference of the
driving wheel, and that Irqe wheels reduced the
esamdreivuinn
wear and tear.

The long disposed of. 'question of the stability of
the long boiler engine% was again cursorily touched
on and disposed of.
The diminution, r;f the wear and tear of the sides
of the brasses the engines, having the driving
and the greatest weight upon the ex-
wtrhemeeiltsiebse,hilier.a,
p.
ving a comparatively light load on the
centre W}'.eels, was adduced as a proof of their
an engine of that kind having run twenty-
five
li..,itr njou' sand miles without any appreciable lateral
whereas an ordinary engine on the same rail-
way,s7taPbr ;
had worn away a thickness of a quarter of an
inch whilst running the same distance.
A short paper was read, describing a kind of per-
manent way, which had been somewhat extensively
laid down on the Lancashire and Yorkshire and
other Railways, in the north of England, by Mr.
Hawkshaw, M. Inst. C. E. The principle was that
of a bridge rail, weighing seventy-five pounds per
yard, placed upon continuous longitudinal timber
bearing, and the novelty consisted in having
at each joint a malleable iron plate chair,
with a projection on the upper surface, fit-
ting within the interior of the rail, and the
flanches, which were fourteen inches long by eight
inches wide, and half an inch in thickness attached to
the rail by rivets in such a manner as to fix them
firmly together, and yet to allow for the expansion
and contraction caused by the variations of tempera-
ture. The details of the arrangement were very sim-
ple and complete, and it appeared to succeed perfectly,
as in an extent of twenty miles of railway so laid,
over which numerous heavy trains had ran daily, at
considerable speed, for the last year, only three rivet
heads were found to have been knocked off when re-
cently examined.
The paper announced to be read at the next meet-
ing of Tuesday, May 15,
was " On the Theory of
Transverse Strain of Cast-iron Beams," by W. T.
lloyne, Assoc. Inst. C. E.
The President invited the members and visitors to
contribute and to procure models for exhibition, at the
annual Conversazione, which was announced for
Tuesday, May 22.

the eek ended May 5. 1849:
14s. 5d.; Coaching traffic, 1,0771.
MESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for
%r
18s. parcels, 341. 14s. Od.; goods and cattle. 2411.
5d.; steam-boils, 1521. Bs. Od.—Total, 1,5061. 14s.
10d., exclusive of toll from Shrewsbury and Cheater
Company, and payment for conveyance of mails.