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BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

... BY ELEOTBTO TELEGRAPH. The royal -yacht arrived off Cherbourg on Tuesday, and was saluted by the forts. THEI ATLANTIC TrLEGRAPH. -A meeting of the directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Com- pany was held on Wednesday. A sub-commit- tee was appointed to report upon the accident, and on the best means of insuring success. The directors sit in permanence till their future plans are arranged. The ...

Published: Friday 21 August 1857
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 6477 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

NORTHUMBERLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

... NORTHUMBERLAND AGRIOULTURAL SOCIETY, The annual ploughing and hedge cutting matobes of the above society (for the Newoastle ucon Tyne dis- trict) were held upon the farms of Mr Ralph Davison, Chapel House, Mr George Arthur, Mewburn Eill EIead, and Mr William Burnup, East Danton, en Friday, the 16th day of January, 1857, when the following pre- miums were awarded by the judges, the competition ...

Published: Friday 23 January 1857
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 664 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

... SLY__ 1 _.8. . . . .. The loss the Baptist mission had sustained in Dalhi and the disturbed district is upwards of 3000. A number of ladies, some of whom had been nursesin the late war, offered to accompany Mr8 Seacole to India on a similar mission ;-bat the Bast India Coampny ha declined their services on the groand that there is no necessity for them, as every station and field force has its ...

Published: Friday 02 October 1857
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1665 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE COLLEGE OF MEDIOINE

... NEWOAsTLE.UPON-TYNE COLLEGE OF MEDIOINE. - OPENING OF TaE WINTER SESSION. It has already been notified in these columns that the rival medicol s-hoole of Niewcastle had settled those differences which had unhappily existed for several years between them, and had auspiciously effected a union. The winter session of the amalgamated insti- tution was opened yeeterday (Thursday), in the Noville ...

Published: Friday 02 October 1857
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 3126 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

ATTEMPTED LAUNCH OF THE GREAT EASTERN

... I ATTEMPTED LAUNOH OF THE :GREAT EASTERN. 8ERlOUSB ACCI~DENT.. On Tuesday morning. aommenced the above great operation, which has been looked forward to with so much anxiety. All night long Mr Brunel, Captain Hasrrlon (the future commander), Mr J. Scott Buesell *.(the originator of thih leviathan steamship), and 1600 mechanics were upon the ground making the necessary preparations by gas ...

Published: Friday 06 November 1857
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2335 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

NORTH SHIELDS

... NORTH SEHRLD5. WRDoNTS)Av, June 10.-*Wind NE. The arrivals here for some days back have been limited. The Americjan ship Rosclus, for Now York, and several other vessels, proceeded to sea last tide, The Mary, Henzell, from Colombo for London, was passed on the 13th Apri1, in lot. 30, long. 9 E. The Maid of the Tyne, Mann, left Akyab for London, on the 13th April. The Rockeliff, Smith, from ...

Published: Friday 12 June 1857
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 993 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

NEAPOLITAN DESPOTISM

... NEmOLITAN DESPOTISM. On Monday evening a public. meeting was held in the. Lecture Room, Nelson-street, in this town, in compianoe-with a nuraerously-signed requisitione- the Mayor, for the purpose of taking steps to urgoe'the go- vernment to procure the releae 'of- Hdiry Alerahder Watt, aenativo of this- town, and a' oompanion' named Park, who are now imprisoned in' Salerno''on a oharge of ...

Published: Friday 27 November 1857
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2469 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE

... RAILWAY. INTELLIGENoE. GREAT NORTaEm(N. The adjourned half-yearly meeting of proprietors was held on Tuesday, at the London Tavern; Edmund Denison, Bsq9;-X.IP-i in the chair. The chairman wai received with biases and cheers. There was consider- able uproar as to the question of proxies, in the midst of which ?? said he should content himself -withqasking. the meeting to receive the-report of ...

Published: Friday 04 December 1857
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 417 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FORTH SHIELDS

... ORBTE SHIELD5. WaDnsesDov, Dec. 2.-Wind E.N.E. A large number of vessels, from foreign mostly, in ballast, have arrived here during the last 48 hours. The Trieste, for Riga, and several other vessels proceeded to eea last tide. The Express, Walshaw, from Odessa; and the Lavinia, Starks, from Taganrog for Cork, arrived at Constantinople, leaky, on the 18th ult., and it is feared they would have ...

Published: Friday 04 December 1857
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 665 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

OPENING OF THE FIRST DOCK ON THE RIVER TYNE

... It is our pleasure to-day to record the formal opening of the first dock constructed in the river Tyno-the Northumberland Dock, at fayhole. This event must unquestionably be regarded as an era in the history of the Tyne; and the only admixture of regret, if any tbere be, in connection with the event, is, that in this river, dock accommodation had so long remained a deai- deratum. To inquire ...

Published: Friday 23 October 1857
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1730 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

INDIA

... 77-77?? -.DT? i ? I ? ?? Aw . RELTEF QF LUCKNNOW.e GBEAT VICTORIES OVER THE DELHI FUGITIVES. FRBES MUTW-IES 4ND UR-DES..- The following telegram w.aareoeived at the Foreign.' office ?? ng, at 10.40aa, , The Yeotis, just arrived from Alexandria,. bringa no further hews than W c omniicated this morning, except that Lucknow wsv reinforced by'her Ifjeaty'e 63rd and 93rd Regiment about the 24th ...

Published: Friday 27 November 1857
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 802 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

ALLAHABAD

... ALLAHABAD, ?? foloinS is frora Allahabed w o tetwber9,-A cfriaed hac just oome in, stid'e. portbd that 'five T egihont of infa try, and m tlsmro of eavalry 'had arthved fiom the we traru;; and in hn positaon at a plaee cailed MouaAennte, aboutentmentf miles fromupor The Tehaeeldar of Batoun, n-1laee ten miles helne, atirotshe ianges, *ith hie Ast lab, many of tthem wounded, catue in lihu ...

Published: Friday 30 October 1857
Newspaper: Newcastle Courant
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1306 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News