The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-05 00:00:00

3$ 36
33 36

34 37
34 40

38 43
s. d. s. d.
56 66

SCOTCH MARKETS.
EDINBURGH CORN MARKKI:—Sept, 2.
We have had a very short supply of Grain to-day.
Wheat sold readily at last week's prices ; best 845., cur-
rent 645. to 82s. A small supply of Oats; top of Old
and New 335., current 28s. to 31s. Barley, New, 425.,
Old 365. to 40s. Pease and Beans from 38s. to 425.

Wheat.
First B4s Od
Second Bos Od
Third

Barley. Oats.
36s Od I 33s Od
—s Od 3ls Od
—s Od 28s Od

Pease.
42s Od
40s Od
38s Od

Beans.
42s Od
40s Od
38s Od

PRICES OF PROVISIONS, Cc.
Beef, per 1b.... Os. 4d. to Os.7d. Fresh Butter,lb.os.Bd. to s. 10d.
0 3 0 '7 Salt 0 8 0 0
0 4 0 10 Ditto, per c‘st.6B 0 70 0
Pork 0 0 0 0 Eggs, per dos. 0 8 0 0
Lamb, per qr. 0 9 2 6 OatStraw(kp'.) 6 0 8 0
Tallow, cwt.... 30 0 35 0 Wheat Ditto— 7 0 8 0
Quartern Loaf 0 10 0 11 Barley Ditto 6 0 6 6
Potatoes, 17i1b. 0 5 0 0 Hay, per 0 6 0 7

This ,carriage is not intended for the convey-
ance of passengers or baggage, but is intended
exclusively as a drag, by means of which a car-
nage with passengers is to be drawn along the
road at a rate of from eight to ten miles am hour.
The steam-carriage has four wheels, and con-
tains, besides the engine, a seat for two persons,
the one being the engineer, the other the steers-
man.

The engine is upon the principle of high pres-
sure, and the piston works horizontally under
the bed of the carriage. The motion is given
by means of a crank attached to the axle of the
hind wheels, and is so managed that the power
may be communicated to one hind wheel exclu-
sively, or be extended equally to both if required.
The mode of action is, therefore, thus far dif-
ferent from-that which governs an otainstyeftr-
riage, as, instead of being drawn forwards by a
power in front, this machine is pushed forwards
from behind by means of power impressed upon
the axle of the hind wheels.

The machine is steered by means of an hori-
zontal wheel fixed in front of the seat, and com-
municating with the axle of the fore-wheels in
such manner that the carriage may be directed
with greater precision than can any carriage
drawn by horses under the direction of a coachman.
The machine can be stopped instantly. The
length of the machine is the same as that of a
four-wheeled carriage without the pole, about
ten feet ; so that, when a carriage with passen-
gers shall be affixed to it, the whole length of
the two carriages taken together will not exceed
the length of one four-wheeled carriage with one
pair of horses.
The friction of this upon the road will be that
of a carriage with eight wheels, but it is pre-
sumed that the number of wheels may be easily
reduced to six.

This engine moved upon the turnpike-road
up a hill of more than ordinary steepness, and
round several turnings, for at least half an hour,
at the rate of from eight to ten miles an hour.
A barouche containing four people (of whom
the writer of this article was one) was then at-
tached to it, and was drawn along with great fa-
cility, upon the same road, and round the same
turnings, avoiding the steepness of the hill, at
the same rate.

The engine being of high pressure, and, there-
fore, expending its steam, necessarily consumes a
large quantity of water and of fuel, and which
renders a supply of water indispensable at every
half hour, and a supply of coke at every hour,
so that depots of each must be established at
proportionate distances of four and eight, or five
and ten, miles, according to the rate of speed to
be determined upon.
The noise of the steam-carriage, with the pas-
senger-carriage attached to it, is not so great as
the noise of a travelling carriage with two horses.
There is very little or no smoke from the burning
of the coke.

The eight wheels of the two carriages cause
less dust than would a carriage with four wheels
and two horses.

The danger to be apprehended from an engine
upon the principle of high pressure appears to
be altogether obviated by the manner in which
the boiler is made, not in one capacious cavity,
but formed of a series of tubes communicating
with each other.

The expence at which this apparatus can be
plied upon the road is stated not to amount to
three-pence* per mile.
It is evident that before this mode of convey-
ance can be brought into use for public conve-
nience, depots of water and coke must he esta-
blished at fixed stations along the line of road
which it is intended to travel, and that its use
must be confined to that line, and to that ex-
clusively.
It should seem that each fresh supply of water
and coke need not occupy above two minutes of
time.

One very serious difficulty will be opposed to
the general use of this mode of conveyance, in
the danger which will attend its unusual appear-
ance and rapid movements along a public road
in frightening horses, both saddle and draught.
Upon the whole the impression which this
inspection has left upon my mind, and giving
due weight to the many difficulties and accidents
which must unavoidably attend the introduction
a►►d first trials of such a novel and extraordinary
vehicle, it certainly appears to me that it will
eventually, and at no distant period, force itself
into very extensive use ; and I do not see any
other objections to it than such as may be over-
come by time, practice, and ingenuity.
(Signed) J. W. G.
Horse Guards, July 23, 1829.

READING, 28TH JULY, 1829, HALF•PAST
EIGHT O'CLOCK, A.M.—We left Cranford-
bridge at ten minutes after four o'clock this
morning ; a light barouche, containing four per-
sons, attached to the steamer. We went on ra-
pidly, and without the slightest accident or diffi-
culty, till we arrived at Longford, where they are
rebuilding the bridge over the Colne, about one
mile and a half on the London side of Colnbrook.

On the bridge is piled a large stack of bricks,
so high as to impede the view from the nature
of the road which winds up to the top of the
bridge. Just as we arrived at this point, a broad-
wheeled waggon was approaching the bridge in
the same direction as ourselves. In advance of
the steamer was our advanced phaeton, and be-
hind the steamer a carriage containing our coke
and some of the :engineers. At the moment
our leading carriage had passed the waggon, the
steamer following close, the mail from Bath ap-
peared on the top of the bridge coming on ra-
pidly. We called out to the coachman to pull
up, but he, not being aware of the unusual car-
riage he was about to meet, kept on till we all

• The distance between London and Southampton is
about eighty miles, and the inside fare by coach is IL 12s.
If it be true that the steam-carriage will work this distance
with ease in ten hours at the latest the cost to the proprie-
tors will be exactly I/. Now, if this machine can convey
twenty passengers, and if each passenger should pay only
65., or about one-fifth of the present sum, there would be
clear profit to the proprietors of 500 per Cot,