Majority..

806

43 -763

The bona fide voters of the ward are in number about 3,000.-[We did intend to have reported, in full, the proceedings of the nomination-day; but the railway-meetings at York and Darlington have compelled us to forego our purpose.]

CORONERSHIP OF CHESTER WARD.-Mr. Nixon, we unYesterday, a claim was derstand, has withdrawn from the contest. made by the Freemen of Durham to vote for a few square yards of moor-land; for which, in conjunction with the Mayor and Corporation, they receive, or are entitled to receive, about eighteenpence a year-and their claim was allowed. There are about 700 Freemen who would be qualified by this decision, were it a sound one; and 200, we are told, actually polled yesterday. Mr. Nixon retires with honour and credit:he has done his duty to the freeholders-and theirs will be the loss, not his, if the best-qualified candidate has not been elected.-Second Edition of the Gateshead Observer, Feb. 18, 1843.

THE WATER-CURE.

To Malvern Well came Mary Bell,
To nurse her Peter Head;
For he was lying sick and sore,
All in his watery bed.
"O, Peter dear! Ö, Peter dear!

How could they serve you so?
To wrap you in a cold damp sheet,
All chill'd from top to toe?"
"Oh! do not fear for me, he said,
For, like the ocean's tide,
Full five-and-thirty tumblers now,
Are washing my inside.
Then cease to weep, dear Mary Bell,
Nor shed another tear;

"O, Peter dear! fine water'd silks
I've often seen, 'tis true:
Of watery setting suns I've heard,
And watery suchet too.

If with a watery lover I

Must make myself content,
I'll to the Coldstreams go, and choose
One from that Regiment."
"Dear Mary Bell, no words can tell
How sorely I'm amaz'd:
And can you a wet blanket throw
Upon the hopes you've raised?
For, were I pump'd upon all day,

And drench'd with water too,
It never would put out the flame
That burns so bright for you."
If you get well, O, Peter Head,
Go seek a maid more bold:
I fear you'd be so very damp,
You'd always give me cold.
A widow, too, I soon should be;
For one who does such deeds
As almost drinking rivers dry,

And cease to whine: I'm not allow'd
To touch it while I'm here."
Then from his head the cap she took,"
Which they'd put on the spout;
And with her pretty little hand,
She wrung the water out.
And gazing on his pallid brow,
She by his couch did stand;
And having wrung the cap quite dry,
She wrung-her lily hand.
"Had any other watery death
Than this befallen you-

O! had you fought with Wellington,
And died at Waterloo-
You'd moulder then in honour's

Would leave me in the weeds." Then down he hung his dripping head

He closed his watery eye; And wrapping close his cold damp sheet,!

He turned him round to die:"Farewell," he said: "when Peter Head

Is gone, you'll know his merits!"' And so be left this watery world, For another world of spirits.

THE RECTOR OF CUMBERWORTH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE GATESHEAD OBSERVER.

SIR, However much we may differ in opinion with

some who take a prominent part in Church Reform, one cannot but regard with admiration the man who sacrifices all his temporal interests, by separating himself from the com munion of the State Church, in which he possessed a benefice, rather than countenance its enormities by sharing its wealth. Much interest was created in Hexham, on Sunday, the 5th instant, by the appearance of the pulpit of the Independent chapel, of a young clergyman, the Rev. George Bird, late Rector of Cumberworth. He is the son of the Rev. Christopher

Bird, of whom we shall say nothing less respectful than that he is Rector of Warden, Vicar of Chollerton, and Rector of High Hoyland, in Yorkshire.

It was to all a novel, and to many a pleasing sight, to see the son of a beneficed clergyman, himself in holy orders, ascendiug the pulpit of a Dissenting chapel, and preaching to a crowded and attentive congregation (morning and evening), such as country-churches seldom contain-independent of notesspeaking without embarrassment full forty minutes-and not a whit the less efficiently for having laid aside his gown and bands. Some account has already appeared in print, (in the columns of the Inquirer, London newspaper,) respecting the peculiar views and extraordinary conduct of Mr. George Bird; but it seems desirable, through the medium of the Gateshead Observer, to give it a more extended circulation. It is not de. signed, at present, to do more than to state so much of the pian of Church Reform which he propounded to the people of his chapelry, whilst yet their minister, as will afford some adequate With doctrines, it may be notion of his views of discipline. prudent either not to meddle, or else to give them a separate consideration; for our admiration of a man who, for conscience' sake, has made so noble a sacrifice, by no means implies our assent to the peculiar views which he may be disposed to promulgate.

In an address to his parishioners, which has been published, we find, amongst the measures of Reform which he proposes, the following: :

"The mutual arrangement of all quarrels amongst ourselves, by means of church-arbitrators.

"An efficient church provision for the necessities of all the poor members.

"The religious training of children and youth.

"Separation from all those who, after repeated admonition, persist in walking disorderly."

In a concluding paragraph he says:-"As far as I am concerned, the burial-ground will remain open, without fee, to men of all persuasions who choose to inter there. I shall preach to all who choose to attend the chapel. I shall demand no church-rate for this chapelry. As far as those without the Church are concerned, I shall simply leave it to their own option to give or withhold a purely voluntary contribution, in consideration of the use of the chapel for preaching, and the yard for burying."

Mr. Bird, both by his preaching and writing, shows that he feels strongly on the utter want of discipline, in spiritual matters, in the "Establishment," as he loves to call the State Church; and finding his plans of Reform incompatible alike with the feelings of Churchmen and the ceremonial of their worship, he has proved his sincerity by coming out from amongst them-an example worthy of the imitation of those half-reformed clergy men, who, freely admitting the enormities of the Church of which they are ministers, yet closely cleave to its emoluments. And in relinquishing his benefice, George Bird puts to shame those pastors of Dissenting congregations, who go about seeking what church will bid the highest price for their services.

The uncommon sensation produced by this young Minister's development of his peculiar views of Christianity-the zeal manifested by certain orthodox divines in honestly opposing him-and a sketch of what may be called the Hexham heresymay probably engage our further attention. I am, Sir, yours very truly, J. R.

Hexham, Feb. 13, 1843.

John Thomas Carr, Esq., Russian Vice-Consul, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has received, in a letter dated" Russian Consulate General, London, Feb. 14," and signed "G. Benkhausen," an official copy of the treaty between England and are placed on Russia, by which the ships of the latter country the most perfect footing of reciprocity with those of the United Kingdom, in regard to all custom house charges, port-dues, pilotage, lights, &c.," and "the vessels of the two nations are to enjoy all the privileges in either country to which they would be entitled in their own." Since signing the treaty, the Emperor, we learn from the letter (which Mr. Carr has kindly placed at our service), has also issued a ukase, "with the view of giving greater facilities to the foreign trade in the empire, in accordance with which, new bonding ports have been estab

lished at Cronstadt and Archangel, in addition to those of St. Petersburg and Riga; and for three years, beginning on the 1st of May, 1843, until the 1st of May, 1846, goods may be bonded at the above-mentioned four ports, and reëxported from them, free of all duty, within the period previously allowed for bonding." The Minister of Finance, also, bas issued orders to the custom-houses of the Russian empire, that fines for errors and mistakes in bills of lading (the rigid exaction of which has been much complained of in this country) shall be relaxed, "whenever it shall be satisfactorily proved that such errors "Facilities," adds the cirand mistakes were unintentional." cular, "have been granted to masters of foreign vessels, arriving in or departing from Russian ports, to make, in their own names, entries at the different custom-houses, both for the importation and exportation of goods legally permitted to be imported or exported; and masters of such foreign vessels enjoy also the privilege of selling and buying foreign and Russian goods to and from Russian merchants of the first and second guild."

We are authorized by the Managing Directors of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Marine Insurance Company, and the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Commercial Insurance Company, to say, that the statements in the (London) Times and Shipping Gazette newspapers of the 11th Feb., to the effect that the said Companies are not in the habit of putting their policies on stamps, thereby defrauding the Government of the stampduty, are UTTERLY AND ENTIRELY FALSE.

THE COAL TRADE OF THE WEAR.-The vend, from Duty- ChargeJune 30 to Dec. 31, 1842, was (in chaldrons) as follows:able. free. 578 58,969 1,721 1,763 42,146

Executors of the late Countess of Durham:

Fatfield and Low Lambton Collieries, ..........

Sir R. J. Eden, Bart., Beamish Colliery,

....... 1,312

12,063 5,647 23,566

1,406

Edward Backhouse & Co., Arbour House Colliery,.. 1,529

119 9,564

6,945

Lambton and Newbottle Collieries,

Low Lambton Colliery,

Hetton Coal Company,.

Henry Stobart, Esq., & Co.:

Lumley Colliery,

Haswell Coal Company,

Whitwell Coal Company,...

William Bell, Esq., & Co. :

Shincliffe Colliery,

Belmont Colliery,

Shield Row Colliery,

Pemberton & Co., Monkwearmouth Colliery,

Pensher Colliery,

Kepier Colliery,.

North Hetton Colliery,

John Mounsey, Esq., & Co.:

Washington Colliery,

Elvet Colliery,

T. C. Gibson, Esq., & Co.:

6,847

Farnacres Colliery,

2,376

.....

1,409

Pontop and South Shields Railway Company,

1,180

Owners of Oxclose Colliery,

1,700

Trustee of the Marquis of Londonderry, Rainton Colliery,

336

William Bell, Esq., & Partners, South Moor Colliery,

Edward Richardson, Esq., & Co.:

Derwent Colliery,.

Charlaw Colliery,

Thomas Hedley, Esq., & Brothers, Craghead Colliery,

James and A. Reid & Co., South Tanfield Colliery, ......

Michael Brown & Co., Monkwearmouth Colliery,.. Joseph Lee & Co., (cinders,)

.....

North Durham Colliery,.

Edmonsley Colliery,...

Northern Coal Mining Company, Framwellgate Colliery,.. Stanley Colliery,

Total shipped in North Dock,

5,310 2,182

house, and went down a narrow passage leading to the river. From a wherry (in which, it is supposed, he had lain concealed,) an axe had been taken, no doubt as a housebreaking implement-for the door had been broken open by some such tool. After the robbery, he had proceeded in the boat as far as Skinner Burn, and there turned it adrift.-At two o'clock the previous morning, Miss Petch, sister to the landlord of the Earl Grey inn, High-street, Gateshead, heard an unusual noise, and, looking from the window of her bed-room, saw a man at the house-door. She inquired what he wanted; and he, affecting drunkenness, replied, "To be in the house." She told him Miss Petch having roused the to be gone-and he went off. inmates, it was found that he had obtained admission to the kitchen, by picking the lock. But the kitchen being detached, he was disappointed of making his way into the house; and in the kitchen itself, although he had ransacked it thoroughly, he found nothing that tempted him to steal. He had got into the premises by scaling a high gate, with spikes at the top, so that it is hardly likely that he was really tipsy.-On Saturday night, Feb. 11, Mr. Kirkup, butcher, was attacked by three highwaymen, near the Black Horse, on the road from Durham to Auckland, and robbed of £10 and a watch, (maker's name, Michael Johnson, Barnard Castle, No. 24,151).—Lately, we stated the apprehension of a gang of burglars at Winlaton. We have since been furnished with additional facts. It will be remembered that the house of Mr. Anderson, of Ashtrees, Winlaton, farmer, was burglariously broken into, on the morning of the 31st ult., by five or six men, with their faces blacked, who had succeeded in making a hole through the wall at the south end of the house, sufficiently large to admit a man's body. The ruffians, on gaining admission, presented a loaded pistol and gun to Mr. Anderson, and threatened to blow out his brains, if he did not immediately deliver up all the cash he was possessed of. Finding the fellows so determined, Mr. Anderson gave them 10s., when they left the house, taking with them two or three silk handkerchiefs, a new pair of shoes, and other articles, Superintendant Hall, hearing of the robbery, proceeded to Mr. Anderson's to investigate the affair. A crow-bar was given to him by Miss Anderson, which the gang had used to force an entrance, and a piece of cloth, used for the purpose of concealing the face. A muffatee was also found at the entrance of the hole, supposed to have been lett by some of the gang. This also was given to Mr. Hall. Some time afterwards, when Robert Guy, of Winlaton, as stated in the Observer of Saturday, was apprehended for the Tanfield robbery, he was handcuffed to one of the police-officers, and marched down to Blaydon. On their way, Mr. Hall, who strongly suspected Guy of the burglary at Ashtrees, bethought him of the muffatee, and, calling Policeman Buglass to him, desired that he would go to the prisoner, and to the officer who had him in charge, and say to them he had a muffatee-did it belong to either of them? This was done-and the prisoner Guy immediately claimed the muffatee, and, in support of his assertion, stated that he had the marrow to it at home. Hall then desired one of his officers to return, and search. This being done, On Guy's person three or four the marrow was found. combs and penknives were found-which have been identified by Mr. Laidler, hairdresser, Winlaton, who had his shop feloniously entered on the 15th ult., and the whole of his goods stolen, consisting of razors, penknives, combs, fruit, and other articles. The capture of this gang of thieves, who have infested Winlaton and Swalwell, and been a terror to the country, for many years, has given great satisfaction to the respectable inhabitants. The manner in which the gang was discovered, is curious, and worthy of notice. The police had kept their eyes open in passing through Swalwell and Winlaton. They knew the description of goods that had been stolen from Mr. Addison's shop in Tanfield: they had procured, indeed, patterns of the articles-corduroys, cotton prints, &c. And when, as the thieves thought, the affair bad blown over, and they had ventured to bring their burglarious booty into use, the police began to see certain parties cast their old skins, and come forth in new ones-in corduroy trousers, and other descriptions of Tanfield trim. A clue was thus obtained, which was industriously followed up, until several of the supposed rogues were in custody. The police, we must say, deserve great credit for their vigilance and sagacity.Between Saturday night and Monday morning, some thief, by means of a false key, entered Waterville-gate House, in the absence of Miss Patterson, col

lector, and took away almost every thing belonging to her, consisting of cooking utensils, articles of wearing apparel, &c.

CLAIM OF HARTLEPOOL TO INDEPENDENCE AS A PORT.-In the Shipping Gazette of Thursday, the 16th Feb., we find it stated that a memorial has been forwarded by the mercantile inhabitants of Hartlepool to the Lords of the Treasury, praying that it may be made an independent port. The document was agreed to at a public meeting, and signed (on behalf of those assembled) by the Mayor. We understand that it has been forwarded by the Treasury to the Board of Customs. The grounds on which they claim to be an independent port are several. In the first place, the memorialists allege that the Hartlepool Railway connects the port with the most valuable coal-mines in Durham; while its docks are not surpassed by any others in the kingdom, with the exception of those in London. The rapid increase of trade is then urged upon the consideration of the Treasury. In 1832, the Dock and Railway Company were constituted; but took some time, of course, before their operations were available by the port. It appears, however, that in 1835 there were only three sloops registered as belonging to Hartlepool; whereas at the present time there are 90 ships, whose aggregate tonnage is 20,181 tons, registered there. Last year it appears that 2,678 ships, with 559,766 tons of coal, cleared thence coastwise; while 67 British, and 141 foreign vessels, have cleared for foreign ports since the new tariff became law. Other instances of a rapidly increasing trade were also given by the memorialists-who likewise recite the inconvenience which they allege is created by the dependance of Hartlepool on the port of Stockton-on-Tees. All bonded stores, they urge, are compelled to be brought from Stockton or Sunderland at considerable expense-all register or indorsement on them must be made at Stockton, which may frequently cause the loss of a day's sail; and an instance of in. convenience is cited in the case of a merchant at Hartlepool, who pays £2,000 a-year to the Customs, and is, nevertheless, obliged to bond his goods at Stockton or Sunderland; and the measurement and certificates necessary under the new act, in reference to the exportation of coals, must take place by an officer from Stockton. Amongst other reasons given why Hartlepool should be independent, the amount of export duty on coals received at the three ports of Stockton is shown. It appears that since the passing of the tariff, up to the 4th of January last, the amount received at Stockton was £757 6s. 9d.; at Seaham, £573 7s. 2d.; whilst that paid at Hartlepool was £1,926 13s. 10d. This is an abstract of the case submitted by the traders of Hartlepool to the Treasury, in favour of its being made an independent port.

AVERAGE PRICE OF GRAIN FOR 1842.-The following are the official ascertained average prices of grain per quarter for the year 1842, as stated in a return which has just been laid before the House of Commons:

Wheat Barley Oats

57s. 3d. Rye

27s. 6d. Beans 19s. 3d. Peas..

33s. Od.

32s. 5d. 33s. 11d.

It will be seen, by the yearly averages for 1841, that these prices are considerably lower than those of the preceding year which were the following:

Thus it will be seen that on the average of the year, wheat was 7s. 2d. per qr., barley 5s. 6d., oats 3s. 2d., beans 6s. 8d., and peas 7s. 6d. per qr. cheaper than in 1841.

"THE MISTAKE OF A NIGHT!"-A positive postboy, who was driving a chaise from Durham to Newcastle, the other night, and had got himself half-tipsy, ran his vehicle into a ditch. On extricating himself from his awkward position, and regaining the middle of the road, off he drove in the direction of the place from whence he came! The gentlemen inside, perceiving the blunder, demanded a parley-which was courteously conceded by their comical conductor; but it was impossible to persuade him that he was in error-he was positive that the South was the North; and as he was determined to drive back to Durham, the passengers alighted, and came to Newcastle (a distance of three or four miles) on foot; while Master Jarvey, instead of returning to the "canny" town to which he and his chaise belonged, rattled furiously back to Durham!

The Hon. Adolphus Liddell has arrived at Gloucester House, and commenced his duties as Comptroller of the Royal Household.

THE COAL-DUTY.

MR. GLADSTONE, the Vice President of the Board of Trade, and a gentleman who has always appeared to us to be far in advance (in point of commercial common-sense) of his colleagues in the Government has been committing a mistake in reference to the Coal Trade, which, we are sure, he, as well as the public, will not find fault with us for correcting.

Lord Howick, in introducing his motion on Monday, Feb. 13, to the House of Commons, took occasion to notice the coal-duty, as a measure injurious to the trade of the northern ports of England. From his Lordship's allusion to the evil effects of the tax, we are surprised to find that Mr. Gladstone dissented. "As to the coal-duty," said Mr. G., "it could not be charged with crippling our foreign trade; for while the exports in 1841 were 1,842,000, those of 1842 (including coal sent to the colonies) amounted 1,852,000."

to

The total exports of coal, then, it seems, during the year 1842, exceeded those of 1841, by 10,000 tons.

We are willing to admit the correctness of the figures, but we fearlessly contend, at the same time, that they prove that the trade has been "crippled" by the coalduty.

As facts are "stubborn things"-things to which even Tories are compelled occasionally to assent-we proceed at once to show, from official returns, that the Peel-duty has not only "crippled" the foreign coaltrade, but crippled it very seriously indeed.

The following have been the exports of coal (in tons) during the last nine years :

Newcastle. Sunderland. 230,342 149,956 313,107

Stockton. United Kingdom. 615,255

1834

..

9.988

1835

151,538

26.840

735,000

242,463

308,178

370,620

Our readers, we believe, will excuse us from troubling them with remark, after such a condemnation of Mr. Gladstone's statement as this table affords.

For eight years, we had had a gradually increasing export of coal-the quantity, during that period, having been as nearly as possible trebled (viz., from 615.255 tons in 1834, to 1,848,294 tons in 1841); whereas in 1842, in spite of the immense (we might almost say feverish) exportations of coal during the first six months of the year, the increase only amounted, according to Mr. Gladstone's own statement, to 10,000 tons.

A more withering condemnation of the duty could not have been pronounced by its bitterest enemy.

Instead of increasing at the rate of more than TEN per cent., as during the eight preceding years, the exports of coal in 1842, even including the excess of shipment which the anticipation of a duty of course led to, did not increase, according to Mr. Gladstone's own statement, to a greater extent than ONE-HALF

TO THE FREEHOLDERS OF CHESTER

MY

WARD.

Y LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,-The gratifying majority by which you have been pleased to elect me to the Coronership of your Ward, demands my best thanks, and I sincerely offer them to you.

I trust it is not arrogating too much to myself, when I state that I entered on the contest firmly determined to conduct it throughout with fairness and courtesy, and that I have at all times carefully carried out my determination.

To the many friends and neighbours who so kindly and zealously gave me their support and services, it would be ungrateful were I to permit this opportunity to pass without publicly expressing the pride and satisfaction I feel for their goodness and assistance.

Nor is the obligation under which I am laid to the great number of my supporters who remained unpolled at the close of the election the less, because their votes were not put in requisition.

Allow me to add, that I assume my office with a fixed resolution to justify your choice by an assiduous and correct discharge of the duties which now devolve on me.

I have the honour to remain,
My Lords and Gentlemen,

Your obedient, faithful servant, JOHN MILNES FAVELL. Eighton Cottage, Gateshead, Feb. 18, 1843.

TO THE FREEHOLDERS OF CHESTER

WARD.

Y LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, — I retire

MY LORDSON for the Coronership of your Ward

In my last Address I expressed a hope that the High Sheriff would, by the power which I presumed was vested in him, appoint Polling Booths in different parts of the Waid, so that you might, with the least possible inconvenience, record your votes. I cannot but deeply regret that he should have arrived at the conclusion that he did not possess the power to take the Poll at any place save the County Courts, in the city of Dur. ham. This decision I regard as a virtual disfranchisement of the great bulk of the Electors, not only of your Ward, but of the other Wards of your County. But one alternative was left me, viz., to spend a large sum of money in the conveyance of my friends to the Poll, or lose the Election. I could not reasonably expect many of them to travel from distant parts of the Ward at their own expense. My strong desire to uphold the principle I came forward to maintain bas, however, been frustrated. The Poll has been kept open by me up to this time; but whilst the important question as to the right of the Freemen of the City of Durham to vote in this Election remained unsettled, I did not feel justified in incurring expense. I had caused the opinions of the Solicitor-General and other eminent Lawyers to be taken, all of which were against the right of about 450 of the Freemen to vote for the Union Hall Farm; and yesterday, the Assessor of the Sheriff decided that these votes should not be received. The anxiety, however, that the fate of this Election should rest with the Freemen, immediately gave rise to a claim on their behalf to vote for a few yards of ground which is said to belong to them, in conjunction with the Mayor and Corporation of the city, and which, I am informed, lets for about 1s. 6d. a-year; one-third of which is paid to the Corporation. For this contemptible interest, it has been this day decided that upwards of 600 Freemen are entitled to vote in the Election of Coroner! This unexpected event, to say the least, renders my gaining the Election by honourable means so uncertain, that I do not feel justified in any longer continuing the Contest. It is as mortifying to me, as it must be to you and the Public, that the inde. pendent Electors of the Ward are to be swamped by votes of such a character.

It may possibly be alleged, that notwithstanding this unforeseen and unfortunate event, I ought to keep the Poll open so as to afford every Freeholder a still further opportunity of recording his vote; but after the most anxious consideration, I conclude, that unless there was a reasonable prospect of gain. ing the Election, by such means, I should be putting my Friends to trouble and expense, without benefit to myself, or the cause we have espoused. I therefore, on the advice of my

Committee, retire from the Contest-though not with victory, yet I trust with honour.

It remains for me to return my sincere thanks to the Gen. tlemen who have come forward, at their own expense, to record their votes in my favour-to the many hundreds of Electors who freely tendered and were prepared to give me their sup. port-and to those Gentlemen who have exerted themselves to secure my Election.

In conclusion, I cannot but express a hope that the interest which this Contest has excited, and the various glaring absur dities in the Law of Coroner it has tended to expose, will be of use to the community, and give rise to these remedial measures which will render easy the success of sound principle. I have the honour to be,

My Lords and Gentlemen,

Your humble and obedient Servant,

EDWARD NIXON,

Surgeon of the Durham Regiment of Militia, and formerly of the Coldstream Guards.

Committee Room, Durham, Feb. 17, 1843.

SCHOOLMASTER WANTED.

WANTED, a SCHOOLMASTER for the GATES

HEAD LOW FELL PUBLIC SCHOOL, in the place of Mr. DAVIDSON, resigned. A Person without a Family will be preferred. Besides the use of a large School Room, and convenient Dwelling Rooms, the Master will be allowed, for the present, the whole of the Weekly Payments from the Children. The present number of Day Scholars is about 70, and a Night School is held also. Further particulars may be obtained on application to the Secretary, Mr. THOMAS FERGUSON, Gateshead Low Fell, to whom testimonials must be transmitted on or before the 27th inst.-Gateshead Low Fell, Feb. 14, 1843. NOTICE TO THE SHAREHOLDERS OF THE NORTH OF ENGLAND JOINT STOCK PROVISION COMPANY.

A

DIVIDEND of ONE SHILLING per share will be paid to the Shareholders, being part of the Monies realised by the sale of the remnant of that ill-fated Company, at the house of Mr. MANNERS, Corn Exchange, Cloth-market, Newcastle, on Saturday, the 25th of February, and the following Saturday, March 4, between the hours of 10 A.M., and 4 P.M., for the convenience of Country Shareholders, who are particularly requested to produce their own cards, otherwise they will not receive their Dividend.

BY ORDER OF THE DIRECTORS. N.B.-Those Shareholders who do not claim the above Divi. dend within three months of this date, the 17th of Feb., will be deprived of all future benefit.

BOROUGH OF GATESHEAD.
ELECTION OF AUDITORS.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Burgesses of the

said borough will assemble at the TOWN HALL, in the said borough, on WEDNESDAY, the first day of March next, and elect, from the persons qualified to be Councillors, TWO AUDITORS for the whole borough; and that the voting will commence at nine o'clock in the morning, and will finally close at four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day; but the Presiding Officer is authorized to close the poll at any time before four o'clock, if one hour shall have elapsed during which no vote shall have been tendered for any candidate.

No Burgess can vote for more than one Auditor; and no Burgess is eligible to be elected an Auditor, who shall be of the Council, or the Town Clerk, or the Treasurer of the borough. WILLIAM KELL, Town Clerk.

Gateshead, Feb. 23, 1843.

BOROUGH OF GATESHEAD. ELECTION OF ASSESSORS FOR REVISING THE BURGESS LISTS WITH THE MAYOR.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Burgesses of the

said borough will assemble at the Town HALL of the said borough, on WEDNESDAY, the first day of March next, and eleet, from the persons qualified to be Councillors, TWO ASSESSORS for the whole borough, to revise the Burgess Lists

with the Mayor; and that the voting will commence at nine o'clock in the morning, and will finally close at four o'clock in the afternoon of the same day; but the Presiding Officer is authorized to close the poll at any time before four o'clock, if one hour shall have elapsed during which no vote shall have been tendered for any candidate.

No Burgess can vote for more than one person to be an Assessor; and no Burgess is eligible to be elected an Assessor who shall be of the Council, or the Town Clerk, or the Trea. surer of the borough. WILLIAM KELL, Town Clerk.

Town Hall, Feb. 23, 1843.

BOROUGH OF GATESHEAD.
ELECTION OF ASSESSORS.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Burgesses en

rolled in the several Wards within the said borough, will, on WEDNESDAY, the first day of March next, openly assemble in their respective Wards, and elect, from the persons qualified to be Councillors, TWO ASSESSORS for each such Ward.

The Election in each Ward will be held before the Alderman and present Assessors thereof, at the places undermentioned, which have been appointed for that purpose; and each election will commence at nine of the clock in the morning, and will finally close at four of the clock in the afternoon of the same day; but the Presiding Officer is authorized to close the poll at any time before four o'clock, if one hour shall have elapsed during which no vote shall have been tendered for any candidate. FOR THE EAST WARD.-The Justice Room in the Town Hall, Oakwellgate.

FOR THE WEST WARD.-A Room in the House No. 176, High-street, west-side, being the Committee Room of the Gateshead Dispensary.

FOR THE SOUTH WARD.-The National School in Kell's Lane, on Gateshead Fell.

No Burgess can vote for more than one Assessor for his Ward; and no Burgess is eligible to be elected an Assessor who shall be of the Council, or the Town Clerk, or the Treasurer of the borough. WILLIAM KELL, Town Clerk.

Gateshead, Feb. 23, 1843.

All the valuable HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, and other Effects, late the Property of THOMAS ROBSON, Esq., Deceased, Comprising handsome Dining and Drawing Room Suits, nearly new; Fine-toned Piano Forte; Music Stool, Canter. bury, &c.; Superior Bedroom Furniture; Five excellent Feather Beds; Bedding and Table Linen; Dressing and other Glasses; Brussels and other Carpets; Plate, China, Glass, Linen, and Cutlery; together with all the Kitchen Requisites.

The whole may be inspected on the Friday and Saturday previous to the Sale, from ten o'clock in the forenoon, until four o'clock in the afternoon.

Catalogues are now ready, and may be had of Mrs. EMBLE TON and Mr. CLARK, Innkeepers, Newbiggin; Mr. HAIR, Grocer, Morpeth; at the Observer Office, and of the Auctioneer, Grey Horse Inn, High-street, Gateshead.

Grey Horse Inn, Gateshead, Feb. 13, 1843.

The Rev. Edward Moises, in a note addressed by him to the Rev. Joseph M'Alister, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, says :"Mr. Moises presents his compliments to Mr. M'Alister, and, in reply to his inquiry concerning the Literary and Philosophical Society, begs to assure him that Mr. Moises disclaims all pretensions to be considered as the founder of that institution, which is solely due to Mr. Turner. Towards the close of 1792, Mr. Moises received a circular from Mr. Turner, inviting him to join the proposed Society, to which Mr. Moises expressed his ready consent."

This frank testimony, Mr. M'Alister justly observes, "is honourable alike to Mr. Moises as a friend of literature and of truth."

The Bishop of Durham arrived in Newcastle on Thursday, Feb, 23, to consecrate the new chapel of St. Peter,

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in the parish of St. Andrew. His lordship was received at the gates by Dr. Headlam and other Aldermen, the Sheriff, Town Clerk, and several Councillors, Magistrates, Churchwardens, and Chapel wardens, with a large body of clergy. The donor of the site, Peregrine Ellison, Esq., presented the petition for consecration-with which the Bishop proceeded to comply; and Archdeacon Raymond, Rev. James Raine, Rev. W. Dodd, Rev. F. Simpson, and Rev. W. T. Shield, assisted in the servicesthe Archdeacon preaching a discourse from 1 Cor. xiv. 26. Among the other clergymen present were:-The Revds. H. J. Maltby, H. Douglas, W. N. Darnell, J. Collinson, R. C. Coxe, R. Green, F. R. Simpson, W. M. Humble, H. W. Wright, R. W. L. Jones, G. Heriot, T. Green, Hon. F. R. Grey, A. C. Carr, W. Maughan, M. Allen, H. Delamere, W. C. Atkinson, M. Plummer, F. Bewsher, E. H. Adamson, J. Armstrong, C. Bird, Dr. Besley, C. Reed, J. Reed, H. Nanney, R. Skipsey, H. Blane, J. P. Linskill, E. Elder, H. Stoker, B. E. Dwarris, H. Evans, R. Chatto, Charles Carr, H. Wardell, J. Bigge, J. Blackett, F. Robertson, G. B. Latimer, J. G. Pearson, J. W. Hick, J. H. Bastard, B. S. Broughton, Maude, J. Davies, H. Hodgson, F. Thompson, E. Chapman, W. Bennett, and T. Dalton. The church, which is built in the decorated Gothic style, from a design by Mr. Dobson, is capable of seating 1,200 persons. One-half of the seats are free. The incumbent of the parish, the Rev. W. Dodd, has contributed a stained-glass window, dedicated to the memory of his father, and placed at the east end: in the chancel there is also another painted window. Both were executed by Mr. Wailes. The teachers of St. An. drew's and St. Nicholas' Sunday schools are the donors of the font and a pair of candlesticks; Miss Ellison, an eagle desk; Mr. Mather, a litany desk; Miss Lotherington, an altar cloth; Miss Gothard, a pair of massive flagons; Mrs. James Taylor, two patens and chalices; St. Andrew's churchwardens, a large alms dish; Rev. H. A. Dodd, M.A., a handsome carved canopy for the font; and the Christian Knowledge Society, the books for the church services. The masonry of the edifice was executed by Mr. Cail; the roof, by Mr. James Wallace; the carving, by Messrs. Scott, Hall, and Jobson; the plastering, by Mr. Robert Robson; and the wood-staining, by Mr. Lawson. THE GATESHEAD BEQUESTS TO THE POOR.-" The poor of the parish of Gateshead," it is perhaps not generally known, are entitled to receive, annually, certain sums of money, which have been bequeathed from time to time by a variety of charitable individuals. The distribution of this money is made, we believe, by the churchwardens; and, until lately, there has never been a doubt entertained of the poor of that part of the parish of Gateshead, which now forms the ecclesi. astical parish of Gateshead Fell, being entitled to their fair proportion of the money :-at least, they had their claims allowed cheerfully by the late Rector. The present Rector, we understand, has also agreed to devote a portion of the money to the poor of Gateshead Fell, but he has expressed some doubt as to their title to it. As the removal of this doubt appears to us an act of justice, both to the poor and the parties entrusted with the money, we have much pleasure in saying, that any person who will take the trouble of looking into the Act of Parliament for building the church on Gateshead Fell, will find that, so far from the poor of the ancient parish of Gateshead being deprived by that Act of any of their previous privileges, or the parish of Gateshead of any portion of either its previous controul or liability in matters connected with the poor, the Act expressly provides, that for "every civil purpose whatsoever," the parish of Gateshead is to remain the same as before. Here is the clause verbatim :

"Provided always, and be it further enacted, that nothing in this Act contained shall alter or affect the manor of Gateshead aforesaid, or the division of the said parish of Gateshead into townships, or separate districts, for the maintenance of the poor, or for any other civil purpose whatsoever; but that the said manor and parish of Gateshead shall, as to those purposes, remain in all respects the same as if this Act had not passed."

If any of our readers, after a fair and candid perusal of this statement, still doubt the right of the poor resident on Gates. head Fell to a portion of the poor-money bequeathed to the whole parish of Gateshead, he had better consult his attorney. We are sure that any member of the profession will not only set him right, bul, for the sake of the poor, dispense with his "six and eightpence" into the bargain.

PARODY ON THE PROCLAMATION OF LORD ELLENBOROUGH.-Some months ago (says the Suffolk Chronicle)