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The FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL EXHIBITION is NOW OPEN, at their Gallery, 5, Pall-mall East, each day, from Nine till Dusk. Admittance, One Shilling. Catalogue, Sixpence. J. W. WRIGHT, Sec. The Committee then adjourned until half past eleven on Monday. GROUP XXVII This Committee met this morning at the usual hour ; Sir Chalet Lemon in the chair. SOUTH MIDLAND AND xszpronn AND LEICESTER (COMPETING). ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, Dr. Ryan's New and Interesting LECTURE on the CHE 3IISTRY and PHILOSOPHY of DIVING, at Half-past Three daily, and on the Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Professor Bachhoffner's LECTURES on NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, 'with brilliant experiments, daily. MACINTOSH'S ROTARY EN GINE, COLEMAN'S PATENT LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE for iascending and descending Inclined Planes, FARRELL'S ARCM MEDIAN RAILWAY, the , ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY, an EN VELOPE CUTTING MACHINE, and WOOD'S NEW PATENT STEAM-ENGINE GOVERNOR, all in action. Scenes in the OREGON TERRITORY are among the NEW DISSOLVING "VIEWS. PORTRAITS of Distinguished Men in the GOVERN MENT and ARMY of LAHORE, magnified by the OPAQUE MI CROSCOPE. The OXY-HYDROGEN MICROSCOPE exhibiting a Inc Collection of Living Objects, &c., &c. Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price. • COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHIC POR TRAITS, by Mr. BEARD, to the superiority of which all leadingthe journals have so liberally borne testimony, are taken daily E' .. m Nine till Six, at 34, Parliament-street, Westminster ; 85, King 'w___ lllllll 32-litreet, City; and the Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent t.rvet• "There is no comparison between the early steps in the art 43 thaafa which have now been attained." " The colours are decided and aL Every tint." " There is a depth of tone in the picture, a Zeller, a freedom, perfectly unknown before." Licences to exercise the Invention in London er the provinces, ,ranted by Mr. Beard (sole patentee of the Daguerreotype). 8 5 , King m-s treet, City. tiOST—A. BLUE MORROCCO POCA.EI - with Silver Clasps, engraved with an Austrian Coronet, Sh'eld and Motto. It contained some notes and correspondence in the German language, bat much of which is in cypher. It is supposed to have dropped from the pocket of the owner whilst standing in a crowd in Regent•street, about a fortnight since, who were waiting to see the Duke of Wellington come out of the ware r°oBlll of Messrs. Nicoll, makers of the Llama Cloth Registered Paletot. If the whole of the contents are returned untouched on or before the 20th of June, a Reward will be given equivalent to what would have been the value of the Travelling Letters of Credit, also part of the contents ; these are addressed Vienna, Dresden, and Paris, but mot being signed are useless to any ether but the owner. Communication can be erected by application to the English Nobleman, address stated in one of the letters contained in the Pocket-book. rrIFIE NEW ASYLUM for INFANT OR PHANS, STAMFORD-HILL. For Orphans under Eight Years or Age, without distinction of sex, place, or religions connexion. The SECOND ANNIVERSARY DINNER of this Charity will be held at the 14ndon Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on WEDNESDAY, the 27th of May, The B.ght Hon. Lord Viscount HORPETH, M.P., in the Chair. STEWARDS. The Right Hon. the Earl of Cla- Sir Geo. De H. Larpent, Bart. _ r endon William Ewart, Esq., M.P. dam Pattisen, Esq., M.P. Ch ar l es L us hi ng t o n, sq. Charles Hijidley, Esq., M.P. James Harmer, Esq. lienrY Vyner, Esq. S. M. Pete, Esq. -A. W. Roberts, Esq. Robert Lush, Esq. a. P. Arnold, Esq. William Leavers, Esq. Trends Bennoch, Esq. John Remington Mills. Esq. Edward Brown, Esq. Robert If`Cabe, Esq: D omenic Braggiotti, Esq. William Mawby, Esq. Jesitth Conder, Esq. James Peek, Esq. 'buries Carter, Esq. John ltelfe, Esq. 'vase Circuit, Esq. Charles Reed, Esq. :Joseph Crane, Esq. Robert Rymill, Esq. .Joseph Davis, Esq. George Simmons, Esq. 'John Finch, Esq. James Smith, Esq. :Edward Edwards, Esq. George Thompson, Esq. William Groser, Esq. Henry Thompson, Esq. Edward Healey, Esq. William Tho•nborrow,Esq. John W. Harker, Esq. William W. Tyler, Fsq. Charles Jones, Esq. William Wilkinson, Esq. George T. Kemp, Esq. David W. Wire, Esq. P. C. Leckie, Esq. John Wilks, Esq. Christopher Lund, Esq. I Captain Weller. Tickets, One Guinea each, may be had of the stewards ; at the Oicea of the Institution, 32, Poultry ; and at the bar of the London Tavern. 31, Poultry, May, 1846. JAME SIIERMA.N, Hon. Secretary. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNHILL LONDON. Capital .£500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. its Institution embraces important and substantial advantages "with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured • on all occasions, the power to borrow, ^without expense or for feiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premiums paid (see Table) ; * ll O the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in terests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The remarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare 11. fourth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid efAch Policy effected on the Pront scale. p Premium.. 4 £s. d. r 60 1 (000 74 3 4 1. EXAMPLES. O g 1 Bonus Bonus in c. 52 d 0 a Assursd added. Cash. gtj a may Borrow. 1837 £217 15 1 1 11838 192 3 0, 1839 165 11 10 1840 1 116 7 6, 18411 111 6 8, I £loo 0 11' 87 1 .0 ' 74 1 9 54 0 10' , 49 10 0, I £l6 0 4' 13 10 2; 11 3 11 7 18 10, 7 10 4' '.£445 0 0 395 11 1 346 2 3 296 13 4 247 4 5 The division of profits is annnal,:and the next will be made in 2acember of the present year. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. THE DERBY.—In this our fickle climate be ever cautions. It may be a drizzle or a downright pour, sunshine gentle or fierce, or a road clouded by dust ; yet have with Yon at all times, but then especially, the REGISTERED PALETOT of Llama Cloth, a very light gentlemanly over-coat, which can be bad only of the Patentees, H., J., and D. NICOLL, 114, Regent street, or their New Warereoms, 22, Cornhill, opposite the south e.ntrance of the Royal Exchange, one door from Change-alley. NICOLL'S PALETOT of LLAMA CLOTH registered 6 and 7 Vic., cap. 65. Patronised by the Prince Consort, Prince George of Cambridge, &c. This overcoat recommends itself to the Public generally by its 13,Jcullar elasticity and lightness moderate price, and able defence 4 Cainst the almost constant humidity of the climate of Great Britain. be had in London only of the Ptitentees, 114, Regent-street. SELLING OFF, at 379, Strand, the entire STOCK of Sheffield plated DISH COVERS. corner dishes. * o t l l3 tureens, tea urns and kettles, branches, candlesticks, &c., at an enormous reduction in price, in consequence of the proprietor leaving the business. The following prices of some of the most useful articles are stated to convince the public of the advantages they 3 n . „ nY gain by purchasing at this establishment . Sheffield plated "'WI covers, waranted best quality, 101. 4s. 6d. the set ; corner dishes and covers, 51 18s. 6d. the set of four, forming eight dishes if required; silver-plated spoons, forks, &c., on solid white metal, Warranted : —Table forks, fiddle pattern, 265. to 365. per dozen ; table spoons 265. to 365. ; dessert forks, 20s. to 30s. ; dessert spoons, 20s. to ; tea spoons, 10s. 6d. The British plate articles (the best in Lon don) are selling at equally low prices—table forks and spoons, 10s. per dozen ; dessert, Ss. ; tea spoons. 4s. 61. ; and other articles in British Plate equally cheap, as the stock must be sold. Ivory table knives in great variety, warranted ; sets of 50 pieces, 3-N inch, handsome ba lance handles, for 345.; table knives. 9s. 6d. per dozen ; dessert, Bs.; carvers, 3s. 6d. per pair—all balance handles. The stock of jewellery Will be sold at little more than half price, consisting of diamond and other r ings, ping, brooches, and a variety of handsome gold guard chains, that are now selling for their weight in sovereigns —at W. CRAM-BROOK'S , 379, Strand, corner of Southampton-street. - VARLY HAY HARVEST.-RICK CLOTHS, with Poles, Pullies, and Lines, complete. . . "No farmershould be without a good rick cloth, for it is certainly one of the most useful things he can havo OR his pre misee."—Gardener's Gazette. Rick Cloths, both New and Second-hand, at a reasonable cost, At BENJAMIN EDGINGTON'S, 2, Duke-street, Southwark. Early application will ensure prompt attention. A Warehouse at 20 8, Piccadilly. Marquees, Tents, Flags, Netting and Bunting for Fruit Trees, Railway Truck Covers, &c. REDUCTION OF DUTY ON FRENCH BRANDY. COGNAC BRANDY, like the wine from which it is obtained, requires age for its perfection ; when old, it is the most wholesome of spirits, but if adulterated with British when new it is deficient in its good and medicinal properties ; while, Brandy, these valuable properties are lost, and, from a generous and invigorating cordial, it is changed into a coarse and inflammatory Spirit. The great difficulty of procuring good genuine old Cognac Brandy, many Brandy, and the high duty cha r g ed u p on it, have hithe rto pre persons from using it; b ut now that a g ood and genuine article e may be obtained, and at a much more moderate rate, it is natural to ex pect a great increase in the consumption. To meet this demand, Mr. L. E. SEIGNETTE has determined to avail himself of his long and intimate acquaintance with the Brandy trade as an importer. He holds the largest stock of Cognac Brandy, pale and brown, in this country, and, is accordance with the wishes and recommendations of his numerous friends, he has taken out a Wholesale Dealer's Foreign License, which enables him to dispose of it in quantities of two gallons upwards, duty paid. He pledges him self to sell none but the best Old Cognac Brandy, genuine as im ported, and carefully selected. To those who know him, he feels assured that this pledge will be satisfactory. To strangers, who can discriminate the soft and fin grant flavour of pure and matured Cognac from the coarse, ardent, and frequently adulterated spirit until now imposed on the public, he recommends a trial, with reliance on their judgment in favour of the Superior quality of his Brandy. Mr. Seignette begs also to offer to the Public the best Hollands' Geneva that can be imported. Prices for Cash on delivery, in quantities not less than two gallons are -245. per Gallen for best Brown Cognac Brandy. 265. best Pale Ditto. 20s. best Geneva (Hollands). A liberal allowance to the Trade, to whom Mr. Seignette takes the opportunity of offering his Brandies and Geneva in bond at current market prices. Agents wanted for Town and Country : persons of respectability may apply, per letter only, at the Office, 26 and 14, MINCING-LANE, CITY. GOLD FLAT HORIZONTAL WATCHES, enamel dials, carefully finished, with engine-turned of the cases, jewelled in four holes, going barrel to continue the action watch while winding, are offered, price six guineas. Th ese ele g ant little Watches will be found to perform very correctly, and a printed undertaking is given, with fixed terms on which they will always receive any attention required. &c., 47, Cornhill T. COX SAVORY and Co , , W atchmakers, (seven do ors f, om Gracechurch-street) , London. N.B.—Seeond hand Watches purchased in EYEBROWS, MOUSTAC HES, and WHIS KERS produced in a few weeks by using an essential Spirit w e :i nt ch are known !I .a front choice Aromatic Herbs, the peculiar properties of in by weak itSeit will prod Hair on bald places, caused only to the Inventor, and although perfectly limo ace new nem of constitution, or where Nature has not bestowed this orna ment of the Man.,' and Gentry—u tor most • fi gure. It has been known to many of the Nobi- Pwards eleven years, some of whom the Irina ztalonsttysionfcerely thanks for teirattestation of its merits, 13. the restoring Hair and giving it additional lustre and ength. Its virtues are manifold—it prevents the Hair from fall " °ff orturning gray; a few drops on the crown of the h ead will rternove the most dist ress i ng p a in in that part produced by or at ended with faintness ; and is acknowledged by the Faculty as the only specific known to cure that disease of the head called Porigo (le ealvans (which" causes the Hair to come off in patches) ' • n few a pp li cations remove" dandriff. This wonderfid discovery is flilly ex plained in a pamphlet, containing testimonials to its regenerating new Hair upon bald places, entitled, " Three Minutes' Advice on the Growth and Preservation of the Human Hair," by W. Grimstoae, Inventor of the Aromatic Regenerator for the Growth of the Human Hair, and a certain preventative of headache and fainting ; also a toilet perfume—bearing the Inventor's signature, Herbary, High gate, near London. gold only in triangular bottles, with name, &c. &c., cast thereon, at 45., 75., and lls. each, Government stamp included, wholesale and retail, by all Chemists, Druggists, and Perfumers, and by special appointment THE FOLLOWING AGENTS FOE LONDON. Messrs. I. and E.l.lll.ll;son,lerftllrer;, 24, Old Bond-street. Messrs. Fisher and Toiler, Chemists, Conduit street, Bond-street. J. Sanger, Patent Medicine Vendor, 150, Oxford-street. Messrs. Hannay and Co., Chemists, &c., 63, Oxford-street. Messrs. Barclay and Son, Patent Medicine Warehouse, Farringdon street. Thos. Keating, Chemist, 79, St. Paul's-churchyard. E. Edwards, Patent Medicine Warehouse, 67, St. Paul's-churchyard. T. Butler, Patent Medicine Warehouse, 4, Cheapside. Messrs. W. Sutton and Co., Patent Medicine Warehouse, Bow churchyard. E. Johnston, Patent Medicine Warehouse, 68, Cornhill. Brothers, and Scott, Wholesale Druggists, 225 and Messrs. Langton, 226, Thames-street. Messrs. Drew and Hayward, Wholesale Daeggists, Great Trinity lane. Messrs. Butler and 3f uckley, herbalists, Covent-garden. . T. Prout, Medicine Vendor, 229, Strand. R.l3endree, Perfumer, Tichborne-street. FOR MANCHESTER. M. Lereeche, Patent Medicine Vendor, Adveraser FOR EXETER. Buggy, Medicine Warehouse, North-street, rev)nahlre Ohroniole Moe. FOR sAmst Potts, Medicine Vendor, Guardian Office. FOR ENNISKILLIN, IRELAND. Been, Chronicle Office. FOR EDINBO RGH. Messrs. J. and R. Raines and Co. Druggists, Pee., Leith-walk. N.B. The 7a. size 'Natalia two of the 0., and the I Is. sire con tains four times the quantity of the is. By forwardlng a Pcgt-tfice 4 .! Otto Di We Q 1 2 .9 AVM 1 1 4T6 11 ). retilo4. LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.- The Committee of Shareholders hereby give notice that no further Signatures to the petition can be received, nor Scrip marked as approving of the AMALGAMATION with the EASTERN COUNTIES COMPANY after Tutsnev next, the 26th instant. By order of the Committee, 4, Size -land, May 22, 1846. HENRY PHILIPPS. ,ONDON AND YORK RAILW A Y . a The Committee of Shareholders direct the attention of the Proprietary to an advertisement, by which, it appears, the Directors of this Company have convened a Public Meeting of the Shareholders for SATURDAY, the 30th Instant. The Committee have confidence in the integrity and character of the Directors, but fear they do not suf ficiently estimate the financial and other difficulties which will im pede the construction of so large a work, and the great relief which would arise to the Shareholders by an amalgamation with an estab lished dividend-paying company. There is little doubt that a complete consolidation of interests with the Eastern Counties Company might be effected, the liability on the Shares thereby decreased, and their value improved ; and that, if the Directors were convinced It was the wish of the larger portion of the Shareholders, they would feel it their duty to effect such an ar rangement. The Committee have throughout only sought to attain this object, arid they now urge the Shareholders personally to attend at the meeting, and if they vote for the continuance of the project to do so, accompanied with some suitable expression of their opinion on the advantage of amalgamation. It is necessary for every proprietor, who wishes to vote at the meeting, to attend personally with his scrip, or to entrust it to a friend. Those proprietors who may desire to be represented by the Comm ttee, are requested to send their scrip, addressed to Mr. H. Phillipps, No. 4, Size-lane, London, on or before THURSDAY next, when a proper receipt will be given, and the scrip returned imme diately after the meeting. By order of the Committee, 4, Size-lane, May 22, 1846, HENRY PHILIPPS. WEST RIDING UNION RAILWAY S. Notice is hereby given, that in compliance with the Ses sional Orders of the two Rouses of. Parliament, a Special Meeting of the Holders of Scrip and Bankers' Receipts for Scrip of the West piling Union Railway Company will be held at the Court-house, in Leeds, in the county of York, on FRID AY, the 29th day o f M ay instant, at Twelve o'cloc k at noon precisely, to consider the Bill now in Parliament for making certain lines of railway in the West Riding of the county of York, to be called " The West Riding Union Railways," and to approve or disapprove of the said Bill.—Dated this 13th day of May, 1840. H. HOULDSWORTM, Chairman. R. OTLEY, Secretary. Persons attending themeeting will be required to produce the Scrip or Banker's Receipt for Scrip of their own, and also of any other person or persons on whose behalf they attend. The voting paper, properly filled up and signed, may be transmitted, together with the corresponding Se: Ip, to any of:the following directors, or the Secretary, who will cause the votes to be registered accordingly, and return the Scrip after the meeting : Henry Houldsworth, Esq., Manchester, Chairman. William Rand, Esq., Bradford. Edward Akroyd, Esq., Halifax. Wm. Firth, Esq., Leeds. Printed forms of voting papers may be had on application at the Company's Office, Broad-street, Halifax ; Messrs. Barr, Lofthouse and Nelson's office, Leeds; Mr. Thompson and Mr. T and S tary's office, Manchester and Leeds R ailway Company, To facilitate the dispatch of business at the meeting, the Secretary will attend at the following times and places to take an account o e f the Scrip, &c., intended to be produced at th e meeting, and receiv the same from parties disposed to transmit through him, and at all events the Scrip, &c., must be produced at the meeting. At Halifax, on Monday, 25th instant, at the Company's office ; At and Nelso oonffie e Wednesday, ; 27th instant, at Messrs. Barr, At Bradford, eeds on Tuesday, 26th instant, at Mr. Thompson's offi ce ; Lofthouse Leeds, From Ten to Four o'clock each day. By ordr, It. Offices, Broad-street, nali e fax, 18th May, 1846OTLEY, Secretary. • Or Bankers' receipts (as the case may be). o. FORM OF VOTING PAPER. WEST RIDING UNION RAILWAYS. As the holder of the following Scrip (or Bankers' Receipts for Scrip, as the case may be) of the West Riding Union Railways Com pany, I, the under-signed, approve (if disapprove, say so,) of the Bill now in Parliament for making the proposed West Riding Union Railways, submitted to the Special Meeting held at the Court-house, of May, 1846, pursuant t o th e a t r h li e am 29 e t a h t. day i S n e Sessional Leeds, Orderson Friday , o f Name (at length) ... Occupation, 8cc...... Residence— ....... Date ... • ... ...... .. LIST OF SCRIP ABOVE REFERRED TO. 1 Bankers' Date of Numbers of Numbers of Numbers of Receipts Total 1 Shares. ' 5 Shares. 10 Shares. and No. of Shares * Shares. I N.B.—Be par prom whirou, teltlax to the nuni ibers of th, Scrip in the T ll. DIRECT BOMBAY and MADRAS RAILWAY COMPANY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 4,5€0,000/., in 90,000 shares of 501. each, Deposit, ss. per share, being the amount limited by the 7th and Sth Victoria, cap. 110, with the provisions of which Act the Company have strictly complied ; and no further call until the local surveys have been taken and reported to the shareholders. - Pitoxo•rm—Captain BOIT HETTE, C.E., son of the late Hon. Colonel Bouchette, Surveyor-General for Canada. Offices of the Company-58, Fenchurch-street. The plans, maps, and sections of this line have been laid before the following most distinguished and influential personages, who have all given their approval of its importance and utility. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, KG. G.C.8., &c. The Right Hon. the Earl of Auckland, G.C.8., late Governor-General of India. The Righ7Hon. the Earl of Ripon, President of the Board of Control for the Affairs of India. . _ . The Right Hon. the Earl of Dalhousio, President of the Board of Trade. The Right Hon Lord Metcalfe, late Governor of Madras, and Gover- nor-General of Canada. General Lord Aylmer, G.C.8., late Governor-General of Canada. General Lord Strafford, G.C.8., late Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in Ireland. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, her Majesty's Principal Secretary _ _ of State for the Colonies. General Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., G.C.M.G., G.C.B. F.R.S., and M.P., late Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. General Sir James Caldwell, K.C.B. General Carpenter, H.E.I.C.S. . . Colonel Sir hand; Cockburn, K.C.8., late Governor of the Bahamas. COMMITTEE. Major-General Moss, Honourable East India Company's Service. Major-General Watson, C. 8., Captain Frobisher, H..1.C.8. J. Hodgson, Esq., Oakhill-park, Middlesex. Captain Gilliam, Bengal Service. H. Hadding, Esq., Hoobly, near Darwar. Richard Lucas, Brona ey, Bucks. W J. Jerardjee E - s - q Madra;. Thomas Fuller, Esq., merchant, the Elms, near Louth. (With power to add to their number). CONSULTING ENGINEER—John A. Galloway, Esq., C.E. ENGINEERS—Captain Boachette • Walter P. Wade, Esq., late Roy a l Engineers. STANDING CoUNSEL—Her Majesty's Solicitor-General; AleXander Coekburn, Esq., Q.C. BANKERS. London—London and County Bank. Bombay—Bank of Bombay. Edinburgh—British Linen Company's Bank. York and Leeds—Yorkshire Banking Company. Hull—Hull Banking Company. Bristol—Messrs. Stuckey and Co. Birmingham—Birmingham and Midland Banking Company. Southampton—Hampshire Banking Company. - GlasgOvr—Mnion Bank of Scotland. Liverpool—The Liverpool Banking Company. AGENTS. _ _ _ Bombay—Messrs. Nicoll and CO. (Madras—Messrs. Bimsy and Co. SECRETARY—James Ward, Esq. PROSPECTUS. Pwblic attention is naturally directed to the continent of India, in these times of speculative enterprise, as a new and unexplored field for the investment of capital, from the conviction that the yet unde veloped resources of its wealth, its Industry, and its productive power, will richly and amply remunerate the speculator. The millions who people that vast and fertile region of the globe, only require the impulse of enterprise to call forth the almost bound less riches that Immediately surround them ; and were they possessed of that great artery of eivillsatiou—ralliumis —the ...-ron * or their political and industrial strength would instantly become enlarged, not only in volume, but in richness also. If we glance at the continent of India, we find our power mainly concentrated on three points on the coast—Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, which form an irregular triangle, the base of which may be termed Madras and Calcutta, and the apex Bombay; and the great bulk of the wealth and physical power of India is inclosed within that figure; therefore, it becomes a matter of the primest im portance to have the intersecting lines of our empire as perfect as possible, so that our power may be felt at every point, and our in fluence extended to every part. From the want of this concentrative power, India has become almost a burden to the mother country, barely paying its executive administration in lieu of being a lucrative possession —a wealth-yielding appendage. To obviate this great and glaring defect in our Anglo-Indian em pire, it is only necessary to extend to her the same means of com munication that we possess at home ; to bring, in short, the great centres of her internal power nearer' to each other ; and, instead of depending upon her rivers as lines of traffic and intercourse, she aught to have a well-arranged network of railway extending over her surface; then she would increase in power, and augment in riches. The Direct Bombay and Madras Railway is projected to carry out, in part, this noble scheme ; and a single glance at the map must convince the most cautious calculator that the project is well founded, and the line of route happily chosen to effect its purpose; as it will intersect the most wealthy and industrious provinces of the continent of India, the Carnatic, and the Mysore, which abound in natural productions, in manufacturing industry, and in agricnitural wealth. The two great Presidencies of Madras and Bombay will be brought within a few hours' journey of each other, and not months, as here tofore ; and, in lieu of vessels making a long and dangerous voyage of some 5,400 miles half round the entire peninsula of India, their c3stly cargoes may be easily conveyed to Bombay for shipment, in a less number of hours than the voyage occupies days ; thus avoiding all risks of damage, peculation, wear, and tear, &c., which in general characterise these voyages. The saving of insurance will also be immense—a matter of first-rate importance. In a political and military point of view, the line must be of almost incalculable importance, as it will intersect the great depots of the East India Company, and afford at all times a ready and prompt conveyance for troops, baggage, stores, artillery, and that cumbrous materiel which invariably attend their march ; and, above all, it will prove of the utmost utility to the Indian Government, in the distri bution of their forces among the various military posts of the three Presidencies, and for their rapid concentration on any required point, the want of which was so distinctly shown in the late' calamitous events on the Sutlej, and the consequent fearful sacrifice of life. The district traversed by the Direct Bombay and Madras Railway contains upwards of 30,0 , ..,0,000 of inhabitants ; and the wants and industry of this large body already yield a considerable tonnage, al hough in a com . parative state of barbarous communication. In the report of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, we find that the traffic to and from that City amounts to 187,343 tons annually, con sisting chiefly of cotton and salt. These two items form merely a fraction of the requirements of the Indians. Bombay is unapproach able except by a dangerous and expensive sea-board, and a cheap and safe communication can alone render available her internal resources. Cotton has now to be transported 500 miles to the coast, to reach Bombay for shipment. A railway would naturally obviate so cir cuitous and expensive a route. Some idea may be formed of the de struction and delay occasioned by these journeys, when we state that the cotton is carried on the backs of oxen, at the rate of 10 miles per day, which enormously augments Its shipment price. The present cost of conveyance from Nagpore to the port of shipment is from 141. to 2('l. a ton, and the charge by rail of 2d a tort per mile would amount to 41. 3s. 4d., a considerable difference. The same facts pre vail in regard to silk and other commodities, which are of the first importance to our manufacturing interests. This line will also bring nearer to us the fine island of Ceylon, with all its rich productions, commencing as it will at Madras, and taking in its course Arcot, Vellore, Banglore, Oscotta, Bangalore, Sera, Dodairee, Hurrioor, Ghittledroog, Myacunda, Anagee, Hurryhur, Shahnoor, Hullyhall, Hoobly, Darwar, Taloor, Gohauk, Rybaugh, Meeruj, Kola poor, Satara, Poona, Poonah, Tulligaon, Singhur, Callianee, Basseen, Salsette, and Bombay; thus absorbing the interests and traffic of up wards of 30 first-rate cities, and from 400 to 500 towns in the most densely populated part of India, facilitating the conveyance of cotton, coffee, tobacco, opium, sugar, silk, senna, gum, cassia, dye-woods, hides, furs, lac, betel nut, saltpetre, spices, fire-woad, charcoal, coal, corn, and various kinds of grain, indigo, &c., and the imports of treasure, manufactured and other goods, salt, ice, &c. The passenger traffic alone, according to reasonable and carefal calculation, will yield an ample per tentage on the capital raised; and the immense tonnage of merchandise and raw produce must insure to the shareholders a profit beyond even the first-rate lines of England, Tke promoters of the present s c h eme h ave rece i ve d i n t e lli gence fr om their agents that the line presents no engineering difficulties, and that the cost of construction must be moderate, labour being plentiful, and the purchase of land comparatively trifling, and wood, coal, and iron abounding in the immediate neighbourhood of the whole line. The management of the Company will be vested in a Board of Di rectors in London, In connexion with an influential branch both in Bombay and Madras. Care will be taken, in the act constituting the Company, that the responsibility of the Shareholders shall be limited to the amount of their subscriptions; and four per cent. interest will be paid upon the capital advanced up to the time of construction. The Directors also beg to call especial attention to the principle by which allottees in this Company are protected from an objectionable responsibility, by the condition that their application for shares will not be considered binding upon them, should they afterwards decline to pay the de _. posits requi: ed at the time specified in their letters of allOti-neni. . . A reserve of 40,000 shares will be made for India, which the pro jectors have much pleasure in stating will scarcely suffice for the demand already made. Applications for shares, in the annexed form, may be addressed to the Secretary, at the Company's offices,"sB, Fenchurch• street, and to the undermentioned sharebrokers and agents :—Messrs. Joshua Hut chinson and Son, Lothbury ; Messrs. Hughson aad Dobson, Frederick street, Edinburgh ; Mr. Edward Dickenson, Liverpool; Messrs. Borthwick. Campbell, and Co., Glasgow; , Mr. J. R. Massey, 6, Temple-street, Birmingham ; Mr. Thomas J. Greaves, St. Ann's square, Manchester; Messrs. Edward Morgan and Co., Norwich; Messrs. Borthwick and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne; Mr. W. H. Land, Bristol; Messrs. Turnbull and :Mister, Hull ; Messrs. Dodsworth and Alderson, York; Messrs. Muneaster and Wilson, Sheffield ; Mr. John Caldecott, Bridge-street, Chester ; M. W. Oliphant, Perth ; Mossrs. E!sgood and Harrison, Leicester ; Mr. J. Clark, jun., Southampton ; Messrs. Tyeth and Luscombe, Plymouth; Mr. Percy Bolger, Gardener-street, Dublin ; Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter ; Mr. W. Miles, Worcester ; Messrs. White and Son, Leamington and Warwick ; Messrs. Browne and Clarke, Coventry ; Mr. J. W. Carr, Colchester ; Messrs. Lang and Brown, Glasgow ; Messrs. Smyth and Du Bedats, Royal Exchange, Dublin; Mr. Richard Richardson, Halifax; Messrs Smith and Perfect, Leeds; Mr. J. Hurry, Spalding, and Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham May, 13th, 1846. JAMES WARD, secretary FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Bombay and Madras Railway. Gentlemen —I shall feel obliged by your allotting to me shares of 501. each in the above Company; and if the deposit be not paid on or before the time specified in your letter of allotment, you may consider this application void. Name in full • • .......... . Residence ... . . . Trade or profession.... Date .......• •• Reference. ..... ....... No farther applicati on for shares can be received . after Thur May 28. Elegant pocket editi on , pr i ce Is., by post Is. 6d. n R. CULVERWELL ON MARRIAGE, its BINDRA:NCES and OBLIGATIONS. " To be or not to be, that is the question."—Shakspere. 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The Third Edition, just published, price 55., APRACTICAL TREATISE on STRICTURE of the URETHRA ; its Causes, Varieties, and Cure ; by AN IMrROVED METHOD of TREATMENT, of such efficacy, that by its adoption Urethral Contractions that had resisted for periods varyinr , from ten to twenty years, all the ordinary means of cure, have been in a few weeks completely and permanently removed. The mode of cure is illustrated by numerous cases, showing every peculiarity incidental to each variety of stricture to which the Urethra is liable, and the modifications in the treatment consequent thereon. No. 16,747. • . 1 :re LONDON - , SATURDAY' '.l • • 4?„.. GUILDHALL, MAY 16, 1845. THE COMMITTEE for LETTING the CITY'S LANDS will MEET at GUILDHALL on WEDNESDAY, the 10th day of June next, at One o'clock precisely, to receive Ten ders cot . Letting, on Lease, for seveu years, from Midsummer next, a House, No. 57, on the south side of Fenchurch-street. Further particulars may be obtained, and plaas seen, by applying at the Office of Works, Guildhall. THOMAS SAUNDERS, Comptroller. NINETY-SEVENTH SALE. Custom-House, London, June, 1846, FOR SALE, by order of the lonourable COM MISSIONERS of HER MAJESTY'S CUSTOMS, at Twelve o'clock at *Toon, precisely, on WEDNESDAY, 3d, THURSDAY, 4th, and FRIDAY, sth June, 1846, at the Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing lane, The FOLLOWING GOODS FOR DOME CONSUMPTION :- 12 Musical Boxes. 209 Pieces Gimp. 75 Pieces Old Point Lace and other Antique Lace. 187 Cartons Artific',l Vlowers. 195 French Silk Shawls and Scarfs. 4 Last India Cashmere Shawls. 8 Canon Crape Shawls, Tournay Carpet, 500 Pairs Embroidered Muslin Curtains. 330 Gold and 153 Silver Watches, 41 clocks. 560 Cameos, 1 Pianoforte. Dinner: Desert, Supper, Tea Q. Coffee Services, and other r t. L.Ornamental French China.. L. 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FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CROWN:— A Quantity of Clinkers and Two Masts. To be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-house, Thames street. at the London Docks, anti at Ferguson's 3Last ard, Mill wall, Saturday, 30th May, Monday Ist, and Tuesday, Julie 2, 1846, from Ten o'clock in the Morning until Three o'clock in the After no in, and on the Days of Sale, from Ten o'clock in the morning until Twelve o'clock at Noon. Take notice, that the Goods sold at this sale will not be delivered until after two clear days of the day they are sold, and that no lots can be paid for at the Office of the Receiver of Fines after Two o'clock in the Afternoon. During the days of sale, money will not be received by the Receiver of Fines after Eleven o'clock In the Forenoon. Catalogues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-house, pr,ce One Shilling each. nENIOWSKrS NEW PHRENOTYPIC CLASS ilfir WORKING MEN, on Wednesday. Evenings, at Half-past Eight, will COMMENCE May 27. 10s. the Course (Six Lessons). Hand- , book of the Principles, and their Applications. 2s. 6d. Pro spectus gratis.—Bow-street. B RIGIITON RAILWAY. - REDUCED FARES. WHITSUNTIDE EXCURSION TICKETS, on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, will be issued at London, New Cross, and Croydon, returnable on any of those days, to BRIGHTON and back, at 10s., 78, 6d., and 58., by ALL the TRAINS, except the 110 a.m., and 5 0 rad, DOWN, and the 8 45 a.m. UP. Excursion Tickets for the Branch line may be had at the Brighton station. By order, T. J. BUCKTON, Secretary. London Terminus, May 22, 1946. G REAT NORTH and SOU'tH WALES RAILWAY COMPANY. Notice is hereby given, that the Deed of Release will lie for Sig nature, and the declared Dividend herein will be paid on the days, and at the places hereunder named, between the hours of Eleven and Three o'clock, viz. : Hull—May 25, and 26, at the Cross Keys Hotel. Leeds—May 27, at they Royal Hotel, Manchester—May 28, at the Albion Hotel. Liverpool—May 29, and 30, at the Argel Hotel. Shrewsbury—June 1, at the Raven Hotel. WILLI.kM WEST, Acting Secretary. Company's Offices, 8, St. Mildred's•court, Poultry, May 22, 1846. VENTRVENTRAL CITY TERMIN Cs.— AL The Model of Mr. CHARLES PEARSON'S proposed AR CADE RAILWAY and PASSENGER STATION in FARRINGI)ON, will be exhibited at the City of London Literary and Sc:entiflc Institution, Aldersgate-street, on TUESDAY evening the 26th instant, when Mr. PEARSON will explain the principles of his proposed plan, and will demonstrate the increased facilities to the passage of the existing and increased traffic, which Will be afforded by the raising of Holborn Valley, and the re-adjustment of the adjacent streets. _ _ _ The Chair will be taken at Seven o'clock precisely. A limited nur&er of tickets, for the admission of ladies and gentle; men (not niembersj k may be had, by application, on Monday next, at the Institution, and of Mr. Richardson, Cornhill, or Mr. Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. L ONDON, BRISTOL, and SOUTH WALES DIRECT RAILWAY. The replies to the circular of the 30th tilt., from the Committee of Management, having b•en received, and the expressed wish of a large majority of the Shareholders being in favour of an immediate dissolution of the Company, the Committee of Management beg to inform the Shareholders that they have consequently withdrawn the Bill from the House of Common.. -nd given orders for all outstand ing accounts to be forthwith sent in, when, after their careful exami nation and payment, the earliest notice will be given to the Share holders of the amount of deposit that will be returned to them. The Committee of Management, while acting upon their promise held out to the Shareholders iu the above circular, take this oppor tunity of expressing their regret that the Shareholders have com pelled theni to adopt a step so much opposed to their confident °pillion as to the success of their application to Parliament, and the great value of the undertaking they have been forced to relinquish. By order, FRANK W. SYKES, Secretary. 29, Parliament-street, May 21, 1846. .-- .--...-.....,.....-,-_ -... ......, _____ EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. A. SPECIAL TRAIN of First and Second Class Carriages WILL START FROM CAMBRIDGE for the convenience of parties attending EPSOM RACES, on WEDNESDAY, the 27st instant, (The DERBY DAY.) . From Cambridge.... 6 45 A.M. Bishop's Stortford « 745 A.M. Returning from London, at 7 30, P.M. , Chesterford .. 7 5 „ Harlow •••••• a • • • 8 0 Vanden...... 7 15 Due in London, about 9 0 « and arriving at Cambridge at about 9 45. By order, C. P. RONEY , S ecretar y . Shoreditch, London, May 20, 18.:11. calling at the a)ove stations, WHITEHAVEN and FURNESS JUNCTION RAILWAY, WHITEHAVEN EXTENSION, and KIRK SANTON DEVIATION. In pursuance of the sessional orders of both Houses of Parliament, notice is hereby given that an ADJOURNED SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Company's offices, 1, Guildhall Chambers, Basinghall-street, London, on THURSDAY, the 28th day of May instant, at Twelve for One o'clock precisely, when there will be submitted to the considera tion of the Shareholders for their approval or otherwise, a copy of the Bill now before Parliament, intituled " A Bill to enable the White haven and Furness Junction Railway Company to make a railway in deviation from their line of railway, and to construct an extension thereof to a point ofjunctionwith the WhitehavenJunctlon Railway." By order, LONSDALE, Chairman. JOHN MEYER, Secretary. 1, Guildhall Chambers, Basinghall-street, May 21, 1846. YORK AND LANCASTER RAILWAY.- The Managing Committee of this undertaking beg to inform the Shareholders, that in accordance with the wishes of a majority of the proprietary, they have determined to dissolve the Company, and forthwith return the amount remaining in their hands, after de ducting the expenses incurred. As some time necessarily must elapse before the balance divisible can be ascertained, the Committee believe they shall be best consulting the wishes of the proprietary by an im mediate return of 30s. per share, and the remaining fund, at the earliest opportunity. . _ Therefore, the Committee request the Scripholders to forward to the Secretary their addresses, the number of their scrip, and the ag gregate number of shares, after which it is advisable that no transfer thereof should be made. _ _ Early intimation will then be 'given by the Committee of the time and place the above amount per share may be rr *Wed. By order of the Board, SAMUEL Palace Chambers. St. &toles's rec , iiOI, 4 pS.SitTII, Secretary. ir!sc, , I f 346. E XETER, YEOVIL, and DORCHESTER RAILWAY. In compliance with the sessional orders of the two Houses of Par liament, a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the -11OLDERS of SeRIP and of BANKERS' RECEIPTS for SCRIP of this Company, will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, London, on SATURDAY, the 30th of Ma 3, 1846, at Ten o'clock in the morning, when a copy of the Bill now before Parliament, entitled a Bill for making Railways from Exeter to Yeovil and to West Milton, to connect the same with Dorchester, with branches, to be called "The Exeter, 'Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway," will be submitted for the consideration and approval of such meeting. And notice is hereby given, that all persons attending such meet ing will be required to give their names and addresses, with the names and addresses of the owners of the scrip or bankers' receipts, which may bepreduced by them at such meeting, and to permit the numbers and details thereof to be taken down in writing, before the votes can he received. . A form of voting papers may be had on application to the Secre tary, at the Offices of the Company, as below. Dated this 19th day of May, 1846. By order of the Committee, JOHN CLENCH, Secretary. 33, Parliament-street, Westminster. EPSOM RACES. 1/1 R. L. E. SEIGNETTE, 26, Mincing-Lane, availa himself of this opportunity to offer his Friends and Public, CHAMPAGNE WINE, and COGNAC BRANDY, at the the following prices, delivered free to all parts of the town and country : Per Case and Bottles included. One Doz.-Case of the finest Champage .• •• • • • 60s. One Doz.-Case of very excellent Champagne .• • • .... 425. One Doz.-Case of his best Old Cognac Brandy ••• • • 60s. These prices being extremely low, all orders must be accompa nied with a remittance, or paid for on delivery. _ 14 and 26, Mincing-lane, May 21, 1846. WALKER'S NEEDLES (by authority the " Queen's Own") with the new large eyes, are easily threaded (even by blind persons), and work with great ease, having improved points, temper, and finish : they are made of every length or substance, and for every purpose : the labels are correct likenesses of her Majesty, and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, in relief on coloured grounds. They can be sent free by post, by any respectable dealer, on receipt of thirteen penhy stamps for every shilling value. H. Walker's Hooks and Eyes, Fish-hooks, Steel Pens, &c., are re commended. _ . IL Walker, Manufacturer to the Queen, Gresham-street West, Post-office, London. (No. —TO SHAREHOLDERS WHOSE ADDRESSES ARE NOT KNOWN AT THE OFFICE OF THE COMPANY.) LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY. COMPANY'S OFFICES, 7 Lothbury, London, May 19, 1846. . . . Notice is hereby given to those parties who have net „ signed the Deeds, and who by purchase or otherwise, are the holders of Scrip or Shares in this Company, and who have not already sent in their Scrip, that a Meeting of the Scrip or Shareholders will be held at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, on SATURDAY the 30th of May, instant, at One o'clock, in pursuance of the sessional orders of the House of Lords, when the Bill for the incorporation of the Company now before Parliament, will be submitted for the ap proval of such meeting. As the sessional orders require the denoting numbers of the Scrip produced to be recorded with great minuteness, to save time and trouble to all parties, and to facilitate the proceedings at such meeting, Scrip holders are requested to send in their Scrip to this office, with the denoting numbers filled in, in the form subjoined, (which must also bear the name, address, &c, of the Scrip-holder) in exchange for which a printed receipt will be sent by the following post, and the Scrip will be returnable the day after the meeting to the party pro ducing such receipt. . . . And notice is flirther given, that the Scrip sent in by persons who cannot attend the meeting, will be produced, and the votes in re spect thereof will be recorded by the Chairman, under the authority of the form to be sent to me. _ _ _ The London and York Bill is now before the Committee of the House of Lords ; and the Directors confidently expect an early favour able decision from their Lordships. By order, J. R. MOWATT, Secretary. FORM FOR 501. SHARES. L .ndon and York Railway Company. To J. R. Mowatt, Esq., Secretary, 7, Lothbury London. Sir—l am the holder of Shares of 501. each in this Coin pany,Scrip for which I enclose, the " denoting numbers," being as under:— I approve of the Bill being proceeded with, and I request you will so record my vote in respect of my Shares, at the meeting of the Scrip holders, on SATURDAY, 30th May, 1846, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. SCRIP FOR ORIGINAL OR 501. SHARES. Denoting Numbers 01 Scrip Certificates. Number of shares. 'Denoting Numbers 01 Scrip Certificates. If Number of shares. - -- Address ... Description .• .. Date .. • NOTE.—No person can be admitted at the meeting without the production of Scrip Certificates, or a Receipt for Scrip. N.B —A separate similar form to the above required for the Ex tension or 25/. Shares. LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.- Notice is hereby given to the Scrip or Shareholders that, im mediately after the General Meetings convened for One and for Two o'clock on SATURDAY 30th May instant, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street London, for the purpose of submitting to them the LONDON and YORK BILL, and the BILLS for the EXTEN SIONS, pursuant to the sessional orders of Parliament, the AMAL GAMATION of the LONDON and YORK, and the DIRECT NOR THERN COMPANY, will be also submitted for their approval. Those Shareholders who have already signified in writing their approval of the Amalgamation, being a majority of the whole number, may disregard this notice and need not be at the trouble to attend the meeting, as in their absence their votes will be regis tered in accordance with their written approval already given. By order, J. R. MO WATT, Secretary. Company's offices, 7, Lothbury, London, May 22, 1846. PUBLICATIONS. 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PART I.—Shows how Mr. Brunel, in 1838, persuaded the Directors of the Great Western Railway to adopt the Broad Gauge, assuring them that this railway would hare " no connexion with any other of the main lines;" and how, in 1845, he attempted to force a con nexion between it and the main lines, at Wolverhampton, Rugby, Dorchester, &c.—How Mr. Brunel stated that carriages and trucks would not pass from one railway to another, being different pro perties, whereas more than half a million are passing annually at the present time.—How Mr. Brunel, in 1838, adopted the Broad Gauge, for the express reason that the railway would be nearly level, and have very slight curves ; and how, in after years, he applied the Broad Gauge to Railways having the steepest gradients and the sharpest curves.—How Mr. Brunel said, in 1839, that " he never re commended the Broad Gauge for the purpose of having larger en gines ;" and how, in 1845, it was his boast that he was building en glues wider and lan-en How Mr. Brunel selected the Broad Gauge because he could place the bodies of the carriages within the wheels, and how he has always brought them outside the wheels.— How Mr. Brunel advocates the atmospheric system, which in all essential paints is the exact converse of the Broad Gauge System. PART 11—dhows what Mr. Saunders thought of competition in disinterested party, and what he said about Competitioh when he was an interested party. John:ollivier, 59, Pall-mall. 1844, when he was a Now ready, price 6d. FHE BROAD GAUGE ,THE BANE OF THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. With an Account of the Present and Prospective Liabilities saddled on the Proprietors by the Promoters of that peculiar Crochet. By s. d. " A barbe de fol, on apprend I raire." [Which, being translated for the benefit of country Gentlemen, means]— " Mr. Brunel has learnt to shave on the chin of the Great Western Directors." _ PRICE sr. be struck out as far its these tables were concerned, as they were calculated to he supplied from Canobie and Langholm. Mr. Patrick Maxwell, of Canobie, was briefly examined in corro ,boration of the evidence of the previous witness. Mr. Blythe, civil engineer, examined by Mr. Sergeant BELLasis— He laid down the line under the direction of Mr. Miller. The line joined with Ihe Edinburgh Railway at Myrick, and passed by Moss Paul, Langholm, and the east side of Langton, on to Carlisle. The last mile of this line was nearly identical with the deviation line of the Caledonian Conipanynow before Parliament, for entering into a central station to be constructed in Carlisle. There would be no diffi culty in both companies using the same line here with a sloqble' set of rails. The steepest gradient on the line was 1 in 75, between Netherby and Langton. The length was 21i miles. The smallest radius on the main line was tbiree furlongs. There was a tunnel of 300 yards in length, near to Moss Paul. The ascending gradient from Hawick to Moss Paul was one in 100, and the d escen di ng o ne towards Carlisle, one in 9 0 . Thereinl :: were four s h or t v i a d uc t s, 850 yar d s i n l eng th altogether. The main line was 42% m il es i n l eng th, an d th er e were two short branch to t ofl% miles each. Thi s would form the shortest route from HawickLondon and Lancashire, connecting the lines at pre sent beauthorised o 3 made. From an Hawick by Kelso awickby andCarli nsletemhe to London would be distance4o7 miles. The whole distance f was 96 miles, by the rnin Edinburgh by Hawick to Carlisle mate of the line, including Caledonian about 100 miles. His whole esti were eat mated at 37 p er cent. land, was 660,0001. Th e wor ki ng ex p enses Croce-examined by Mr. HOPE—Re and H aw i c k li ne. L ast thought be worked in connexion with the Edinburgh the present line would year his estimate was 40 p er cent. for not calculated the distanc e front Hawicr trokiL ng expenses. He had lion of the London and York b e i ng granted. If that on the suppo s i • the distance by Berwick and that li ne wou l d b were made then be the Direct Northern passed, nine miles shorter. ge s y miles ' and if proposed to run into the station of the Lancaster and _Carlisle Company lisle, to which the latter objected. This line crossed at several Car. It crossed Crown-street on a level. Borough street was proposed to be lowered three feet, and to be Crossed by an arch of twelve feet. There were several crossingS on the leVel. They might have had a gradient of one in a 100 at Netherby had they chosen to expend money for it. Witness bad had a scheme to pass along the other bank of the Esk, but Sir J. Graham objected to it. It would have had better, gradients than the present line. A deviation had also been inalp to meet the objections of the Duke of Bucelench. The Tevoit w: w, , ssed 13 times. Mr. Hops here submitted a paper, wi > ' series of questions on the estimates of works, which, if the wit . would return written answers to them, his (Mr. Hope's) cross-emainipation would be very much shortened. Mr. Sergeant BILLASIS Objected to this course as lUscanal, and thought it would interfere mach more With the Clint • eir the Com mittee than if the questions were now put to the witness in regular order. After some conversation on the point, it was arranged that Mr. Hope should put l.is questions then seriatim to the witniss. Mr. Blythe was then qustioned at length on the amount of exca vation, the nature of the strata, the embankments, bridges, mason work, permanent way, &c., going in detail over the whole works along the line. The cross-examination was proceeding, when The CHAIRMAN said, as it was evident that the questions had re ference to the case of the Caledonian that was to follow, he thought it would be as well that a written abstract was drawn up and put in by the witness. This was assented to and the cross-examination was dropped. . C.A.LEDOIMIN „MNITENSION. Mr. COCKBURN, in reference to an observation that dropped from the Chairman at the close of yesterday's sitting, as to whether the promoters intended to proceed with the Cale donian Extension, said it was evident that the observation of the Chairman proceeded, no doubt, from the supposition that the main claim of that line was negatived by the decision in favour of the Dumfries scheme. Now he wished to call the attention of the Committee to the fact that the southern connexion with Ayr shire was really subordinate to the real claims which the Caledonian Extension preferred for the favourable consideration of the Commit tee. The main feature in the case was the formation of a connexion between Edinburgh and Ayrshire. Besides, it would have the effect of opening up to Glasgow the richest coal and mineral district in Scotland, that of Lesmahagow. It was, therefore, their intention to proceed with the Bill, which he begged to observe was independent of the Caledon!an Company. The Clumsier; said the Learned Gentleman was correct as to the impression of his meaning. He certainly thought the question of southern connexion was in a great measure settled by the decision in favour of the Dumfries line. Still, as the case was such as the Learned Gentleman represented, the Committee would cheerfully go into the whole case for the Caledonian Extension, and he begged of the promoters to dismiss from their minds all supposition of the Committee being in the least degree prejudiced against the scheme. The Committee then adjourned till Monday at twelve o'clock. GROUP XIV. The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the Bills comprised in this group re-assembled at the usual hour this morning, Mr. Protheroe in the chair. THE MID KENT ATMOSPHERIC. The case for the promoters of the atmospheric line, was the first gone into this morning. Mr. Wm. Arthur Wilkinson, the Chairman of the Croydon Com pany, was the first witness called. The original estimate of the Croydon line was 140,0001. or 15,0001. per mile. At the time It was carried, an arrangement was made that the traffic of the South- Eastern scheme should pass over that line. Mr. ALEXANDER, on behalf of the South-Eastern Mid Kent scheme, objected to the . evidence taking this course. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD apprehended that the evidence was per fectly relevant to the question before the Committee, namely, which was the best line for the public. Now a very large capital had been expended in the construction of the Croydon line on the faith that the Senth-Eastern traffic would pass over it in approaching the metropolis. Here, however, was a line which proposed to avoid the Croydon line altogether, while the Kent Atmospheric used two miles and a half of it. Ile contended that the evidence was perfectly germane to the matter in dispute, It was to show that the Kent Atmospheric proposed to use a line which had been laid down for the express purpose of accom modating the Mid Kent traffic, while the South-Eastern scheme altogether avoiding it, if the Committee granted that tine, it would in volve an unnecessary expenditure of capital. The room was then cleared, and after a few minutes' consultation, The Committee decided that they could not permit the proposed course of examination to be adopted. The examination of Mr. Wilkinson was then resumed —Originally there was a more extensive scheme projected by the atmospheric company. They proposed at first to go entirely to Dover, and depo sited plans for that purpose, but in the autumn of last year it was thought expedient to abandon a portion of the scheme. Accompa nied by several of his co-directors he went over to Ireland a few years ago to inspect the operation of the atmospheric prin ciple, and so satisfied were they with . it that they agreed to take the advice of Mr. Cubitt and adept it upon the Croy don line, and the experiment had proved most successful. The atmospheric tube had been laid down for live miles. The great advantage of the atmospheric principle was, that the engines were always at work, and consequently a larger number of trains could be run at much less =pensu than by means of a locomotive engine. The loss of time in passing from the atmospheric to the locomotive line was not more than two minutes, and it was hoped that in a very short time the difficulty would be removed. On cross-examination, Mr. Williamson stated that a portion of the original scheme was abandoned for the want of funds. The want of funds was occasioned by a change which took place in the public opinion of railways ; and railway directors, like other and larger potentates, were obliged to modify their plans to meet the views and opinions of the times in which they put forward their schemes. Mr. CATER proved that the South-Eastern line crossed several turnpike roads en a level. The traffic in these.roads was very ex tensive, and he had no doubt crossing them would be attended with considerable inconvenience. Indeed, the railway crossing in this way was exceedingly dangerous, and the roads on the Croydon line which were crossed on a level were diverted at the request of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, and in consequence of several frightful accidents having occurred. Sir John Lubbock said the two lines from Bromley to Ockford were so nearly identical that he could not determine which was the best. He understood, however, that the atmospheric line was first in the field. He travelled every day upon the Croydon atmospheric line, and was convinced the principle had entirely succeeded. Mr. Ward, of Oldwood, a large landed proprietor, preferred the atmospheric line, because it was the cheapest of the two, and would in his opinion rive more accommodation to the public. Mr. Wm. Bell, bailiff to a large landed proprietor at Beckenham, proved that the inhabitants of that neighbourhood thought they were amply accommodated by the existing line, and were therefore in favour of neither line. In his opinion the South-Eastern scheme, crossing as it did on a level with the Lewisham-road, it would be at tended with considerable inconvenience to the public. There was an extensive traffic upon the road, and all kinds of vehicles, sheep, and cattle were constantly passing and re-passing along the road. Mr. Coleson, a farmer at Sydenham, gave similar testimony with regard to the south end and Sydenham road, which was crossed on a level by the South-Eastern line. Mr; J. W. Hilop, of Bromley, proved that previous to approaching the Ravenbourne Valley, which it crossed on a high embankment, the South-Eastern line passed a turnpike road on a level, and as there was a large traffic on the road, he had no doubt it would be attended with danger and inconvenience. The road was on a severe inclination ; and on a recent occasion he witnessed a serious accident upon it : the weight of a timber waggon going down it overcame the horses, and the waggon was precipitated with fearful and tremendous velocity to the bottom. The Kent Atmospheric line avoided this road, and the inhabitants of Bromley were therefore in favour of it. Mr. John Atkins, a landholder at Halstead, was decidedly in favour of the Kent Atmospheric line. The majority of the inhabitants In his neighbourhood, and in the neighbourhood of Seven Oaks, were of his opinion. The Atmospheric Company was in the field long before _ _ the South-Eastern Company. Mr. Bryan Burton, of Seven Oaks, and other witnesses, gave similar testimony. The Committee adjourned shortly after four o'clock till Monday, when the engineering evidence is to be gone into. GROUP XVIII. The Committee met at the usual hour; Mr. B. Denison, chairman. EXETER, YEOVIL, AND DORCBBSTE II, AND LONDON, SALISBURY, AND YZoIrIL Mr. Locke, the engineer of the line , was examined — The the t a l o n i a of t Exeter was proposed to be made in an open sluice Queen-street, and would be in close proximity to a n the principal t Yeovil with easy buildings in the city, and would proceedwo:y from the station at gra dients. There would be a branch ra t Exeter,onw st h a i t c io h n t . here would be two $ and Exeter hrt nnels to join the Bristol It was agreed by the Committee that, as they had traffic evidence for the whole line between Exeter and Salisbury, they would also take the engineering evidence for the same length. Mr. Locke was then examined with reference to the line from Yeovil to Basingstoke. The line between Yeovil and London at the station at Hungerford bridge was 124 miles, the total expense 1,600,000/. The gradients were of a favourable nature, the severest being only 1 in 106 for a length of two miles. The cross-examination of the witness was not completed when the Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock on Monday. GROUP XX. This Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock 0' Ml'• Sotheron in the chair. MOND ON, HOUNSLOW, AND WESTERN. Evidence on behalf of this Hue was resumed. the line. His total calculation of Mr. Scott, traffic-taker, was examined at great length as to the he calculated that one-third of the Great traffic he estimated to go along gross traffic was 130,58b1. Among the items, in addition to the large one for road passengers , W es tern passengers from the Househill and Southall stations would take this line ; that 4,9971. would be realised from passengers that now went by water ; and that 2,6001. would be got from Egham and Ascot races. Deducting 40 per cent. for working expenses, there would remain a net receipt of 78,7361., or 11 per cent. on the whole capital embarked. The witness was cross-examined at great length on the part of the Great Western Company, but nothing was elicited materially to alter his examination in chief. Captain Moorsom, civil engineer, deposed as to the engineering character of the scheme. The line was alm ost a perfect level, and of the most favourable engineering character. The whole expense of its construction he set down, if with an embankment and retain ing wall, 485,0001. ; and if with a brick viaduct, 535,000/. The Committee then adjourned. GROUP XXII. WAVNNEY VALLEY. This Committee met as usual. Sir G. Grey, chairman. Mr. Manilla opened the case at considerable length for several l an d o wners who were opposing this line. Several landovrners were examined as to the injury caused by the railway passing through their property. ZPSWXCIE, NORWICH, AND YARMOUTH. This case was opened on behalf of the promoters by Mr. Harrison. The first witness who was called was The Earl of Stradbroke, who gave evidence of a favourable nature with regard to the line, sad also of the benefit it would afford to the district through which the line passed. The Committee then adjourned till twelve o'clock on Monday'. The CHAIRMAN officially announced the decision which we gave in our evening impression yesterday, "That the preamble of the South Midland Railway was not proved, and that the preamble of the Red ford and Leicester was proved." The Committee then adjourned for an hour, as the Chairman w as about to be examined before another Committee. Business was resumed at a quarter before two, and the remainder of the day was occupied in going through the clauses of the Leicester and Bedford Bill. The Committee then broke up. GROUP XXXI. SOUTH WALES The Committee met this morning at the usual hour; Mr. Round L the chair. Mr. CHOWDER, Q. C., continued his address in support of the oppo sition of the Severn and Wye Canal Railway. He contended that the Forest of Dean and the Severn and Wye Railway were pro tected from interference by any other company by the Acts of 1809 ; that the line was not a direct line to Bristol or Gloucester, and that it dld not, consequently, traverse the passenger route to these districts ; that a tunnel under the Severn was a thing unheard of in the annals of railways ; that it would involve the expenditure of as immense sum of money, and require a number of years to construct. if it could be constructed at all, which was very doubtful. on account of the uncertain bottom of the river. Mr. Brune gave his evidence in an extremely off-hand manner with respect to such an immense undertaking, a project of greater extent than the Thames Tunnel, only 500 yards of which was under the bed of the river, whereas the proposed tunnel would be 700 yards under the water. Then let the Committee imagine the desperate nature of any casualty which might occur in the event of the tunnel breaking in. Ample communication between the opposite shores of the Severn would be effected by a bridge to be constructed at Aust Passage, and besides eligible communication between the districts to be traversed by the South Wales Railway and Gloucester wag in existence. He apprehended the undertaking was not required by the wants of the city, and called upon the Committee to reject the preamble of the Bill. Bigg, secretary to the Severn and Wye, produced the Act of - Parliament relating to the railway, and stated that it had been im proved from time to time to meet the increased wants of the district. - - This closed the case of the Severn and Wye. Mr. CO OKE f o ll owe d on b e h a lf o f Mr. HOSking. !`: entered at great l eng th i n t o th e p r esent communication, and the whole district proposed to be traversed, and held that the proposed li ne was not demanded .by i ts req uirements. That district requ i red direct communication tt om the pits to those places where the coal was greatly in demand. The line would not effect this as it was indirect, and as the Forest of Dean Rallwaycarried coals fcom the Fits towards the north of the Berkeley canal to Gloucester, and he called upon the Committee to reject the preamble of the Bill. The Committee then adjourned until Monday. GROUP XXXII. Tke Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock ; Mr. J. Z. Deulipn in the chair. CHELTZNBAIYI AND OZZ'ORXI. Mr. Brunel, the engineer of the line, stated in his evidence he did not think there would be any diminution in the water caused by the cuttings from Duke-street to the proposed station, or at other sec. tions, for the railway might be made water tight by walls an d invests. Mr. AUSTIN here interposed to inform the Committee that it bad being discovered that the engineering costs would be more than the deposited estimate, and the promoters were for a time undecided as to the course which they ought to adopt. Last night they sent a proposal to those opposing on the part of the town of Cheltenham. offering to stop short of the town, opposite to Grosvenor-street, for this session, and next session to come to Parliament for a Bill for the rest of the proposed line, or for a line projected ac cording to the original plan, as the opposing Committee and the promoters might agree. An answer, however, had been sent back, which virtually rejected the proposal. Mr. Austin, in these circumstances, proposed to conduct his case for this altered line, and leave it with the Committee to say whether they would alter the preamble of the present Bill to meat the new arrangement. Mr. WEBSTER, on the part of the town committee, could not be a consenting party to the proposal made en the other side. The Committee ordered the room to be cleared, that they might consider whether they would allow the evidence to go on and accede to the new proposal. On being readmitted, parties were told that the Committee could not consent to the proposal to alter the preamble. Mr. AUSTIN then said that no other course was left him but, with the permission of the Committee, to withdraw the Bill. 33 ITCMINGHA26ISHIRE (TILING TO IiiikIIII3TJUY). This Rue, for which Mr. Austin, Mr. Hilt:lyard, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Hope, and Mr. Laing were retained, is promoted by an independent company in concert with the London and Birmingham Railway Company. It is opposed by the Great Western Railway and by Lord Carrington, Mr. Richards, Mr. Cripps, and other landowners, who appeared by Mr. Talbot. Mr. Cockburn, and Sir S. Phillips. Mr. Hors briefly opened the merits of this line. It is 40 miles long, starting from the Tring station on the London and Birmingham Railway, and passes through Aylesbury, Winslow, Buckingham. and Irackley, to Banbury, accommodating a large and important agricul tural district with carrying power to Birmingham and Banbury on the north, and to London on the south, for their cattle, coals, and lime. Mr. Thomas Pearse was examined in favour of the project. Ho stated he was a land steward for 20,000 acres in the district through which the line passes, and was well acquainted with the necessities of that country. No other line offered equal accommodation for reaching the cattle markets in Hereford, the coal-fields in Derby, and Stafford, and Leicestershire. He himself made 300,000 draining tiles annually, and would make double the quantity if the coals were cheaper. Mr. Humphrey Humphries, tanner, in Buckingham, stated in evi dence that it would be a great advantage to Buckingham, and per sonally considered it would be so in the conveyance of bark, fell, and leather, for in the last article he calculated a saving of about 103. a ton on the transit of it to London. Mr. Fraser, steward to Sir H. Verney, whose land lies in the dis trict of Banbury, stated that butter sent away on Friday did net asach London before Monday, that the timber grown in the district could scareely be got to a market, and the bark was sold for a very reduced sum. He calculated that a district of ten miles square exported annually GOO tons of butter, 9,000 fatted beasts, and 30,000 sheep, which he had no doubt would be greatly increased by facilities of conveyance. The railway would offer great advantages for tke carriage of store stock, and give the farmers the opportunity them• selves of attending the market to make their own selection. . . The Hon. Sydney P. Pierrepolnt and the Duke of Buckingham were examined, and corroborated the evidence which had been al ready given, both of them concurring in the proposed line, and giving it their utmost support. The Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock on Monday. London: John 011ivier, 59, Pall-mall. RADMORE, having PURCHASED the • GLOBE HOTEL, at PLYMOUTH, thinks it advisable to announce the same to his numerous Commercial and other Friends, and to thank them for the kind support and attachment they have always evinced towards him. Plymouth, May 21, 1846. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (YESTERDAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. GROUP I. LONDON AND TORR.. The Committee met again this day at eleven o'clock, the Earl of Lovelace, chairman. The case of Mr. Chapman, landowner at Hornsey, was opened by Mr. HOPE. The Learned Counsel stated that the line of railway in terfered with his client's residence at Homsey, and nothing but a deviation of the line would suit him, for as the line was at present on the plan, his residential property would be rendered entirely valueless. Mr. Chapman was called to speak to the injury which he would sustain. Mr. Hughes, civil engineer, was called on the part of the pro moters. This gentleman said that the line, as laid down in the plan, was the least objectionable which could be made near Mr. Chapman's property. The next case was for Sir John Trollope, M.P., who 'alleged that the line would also injure his property. This was the last of the landowners' cases. THE EASTERN COUNTIES. 3fr. AUSTIN said that he would now proceed with the case for the Eastern Counties. He would not trouble their Lordships with an opening speech, but would reserve himself 01 the conclusion of the evidence. The first witness called was Mr. Jasper Gripper, of Hertford, to rove that the Eastern Counties line would be the best accommoda tion for the traffic between that place and the metropolis. The wit ness was examined at great length by Mr. AUSTIN. After a cross-examination by Mr. DENISON, several ether witnesses were called to prove that the Eastern Counties line to several towns would be of greater advantage than the line proposed by the pro moters of the London and York. _ _ _ ......................_..... _......._. The Committee adjourned at four o'clock to eleven o'clock on Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP X. The Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock, in Room No. 1 (House of Commons); present, Mr. Deedes (chairman), Mr. Arkwright, Mr. Vivian, Mr. Farnham, and Mr. Stanley. They resumed the consi deration of the GLASGOW. AIRDRIE, AND MONKLANDS 31YNCTION. Mr. Adie, the engineer, was further cross-examined by Mr. FOR SYTH, the counsel for the Caledonian (Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coat bridge Railway Branches). In re-examination by Mr. ANDREWS, Q.C., the witness stated that the purchase of the Glasgow University buildings was effected for the company on terms advantageous to both. The company would purchase a new site and erect new buildings for the university at an expense which would leave certainly a balance against them. But the buildings now standing would be very much available for the uses of a railway company. A stream also ran through the grounds, which was obviously an advantage to the railway, because " where ever you have coals and water you will be sure to get plenty of factories." Mr. John Millar, civil engineer, was next examined by Mr. AN DREWS, .in support of the evidence of Mr. Adie, whose mode of lay ing out the line he entirely approved of, in respect to the choice of the direction, the levels, and the plan of working. He regarded the estimates to be rather full, and certainly not below 'the probable cost. The witness had turned his attention particularly to this sub ject, and he had no doubt that the Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction would give better accommodation to the district than the two competing branches projected in connexion with the Caledonian. Witness is the engineer of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The evidence of Mr. Smith, of Glasgow, architect and surveyor, and others, was then taken in support of the estimates, into the detail of which it is not necessary to follow the witnesses. It appears that the cost of erecting a new university, including the purchase of the new site. would be 110,0001., from which should be deducted 48,9801., which the Company would receive for the land and materials to be sold, ioavias ci,nsru as the cost of the terminus and atistion , in Glasgow. . . The evidence for the promoters having been concluded, Mr. Errington, the engineer of the Caledonian (Dundyvan Branch), was called by Mr. FORSYTH, and gave evidence to the effect, that in the engineering merits, the cost, and the general accommodation to the district to be passed through, the Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monk lands Junction was inferior to his line. . . The Committee then proceeded to take the evidence (according to Mr. Duncombe's resolutions) respecting the CALEDONIAN (BUNDYVAN BRANCH). Mr. Smith, of Deanston, land surveyor and valuator, was then called by Mr. Forsyth, and examined as to the accuracy of the esti mates for the purchase of the land to be required by this company. In cross-examination by Mr. ANDREWS the witness adhered to his opinion that his valuation was adequate, " especially as he had no university to value."—(A laugh.) Other evidence in fa , ;our of thie competing line was adduced, and the Committee adjourned at four o'clock to Monday—the decision as to the preamble of the previous Bill being postponed until after the evidence on the competing lines ; and the statement of the counsel for this Bill being also deferred until after the evidence in its support. GROUP XII, This Committee met at twelve o'clock. Sir IV. Clay in the chair. Other Members present, Earl Jermyn, Mr. P. Ainsworth, and Mr. Cartels. NORTH BRITISH (CARLISLE EXTENSION). Evidence oa behalf of this line of railway was resumed. Mr. Saull, of Burnstock, in the county of Cumberland, and a justice of peace for that district, generally agreed in the evidence given yes terday by Sir James Graham. He thought the line in question would be used to a great extent for the conveyance of coal as well as for the transmission of sheep and cattle. The feeling in Carlisle he be lieved was very generally in favour of the line. Both Cumberland and the county of Roxburgh would be benefited by a through com munication. Cross-examined When the Lancaster and Carlisle Rail way was opened . hat would give a good communi cation with Liverpool. Liverpool and Newcastle were the great markets for fat cattle, and that line, with the Carlisle and New castle Railway, would give direct communications Awn Cumberland to these markets. He thought the North British Extension would be mainly beneficial in bringing lean stock to Carlisle and Cumber land. There were large fairs in Roxburghshire, from which sheep and cattle were brought for Cumberland. There was a large fair at Langholm, and another at Moss Paul, from which sheep would, he thought, be brought in large numbers. Mr. Robert Cowen, a consulting engineer, residing in Carlisle, de posed that the opening of the line would be highly beneficial on account of the deficient supply of coal at present at Carlisle. The opening of the Newcastle line had been of great benefit in reducing the price of coal and in increasing the manufacturing power, and the same results would, he thought, follow the open ing of the present line. He thought 40,000 tons of Canobie coal would be brought to Carlisle, and that this coal would go as far south as Kendal, and compete with the Wigan coal. Cross-examines—There were about 60,000 tons of coal annually consumed in Carlisle, of which, about 20,000 he thought would be the produce of Canobie. He thought other 20,000 would be exported. The exports from Carlisle would take place in small vessels ; those from Annan in large vessels. The 20,000 he believed would all go down the canal and be exported from the port of Carlisle. He ex pected small vessels would come up the canal and take the coals for rebind. He was not aware that the rates were very high. Mr. Robert Cowen re-examined—The 20,000 tons of Canobie coal he meant was the quantity that would be consumed in Carlisle and south of it. To the CHAIRMAN—The length of the canal was 11% miles. The present rates down the canal was Is. a ton, and 3d. a ton for tack ing, being Is. 3d. each ton. Ile had learned that there was an in tention to reduce it to 6d. The present price of coals in Carlisle was for the best 83. 2d. ; second, Sc. Bd. ; and third quality for steam purposes, 4s. Mr. Marshall, traffic-taker, examined—lle had had considerable experience in taking traffic. He took the traffic for the North Bri tish line. The observations on the present line were taken by men placed at various points along the route in the months of January and August. He took the passengers from the way-bills. The traffic of this route had much decreased of late, on account of the greater facilities afforded by the Newcastle route from the opening of the railways south. In making his estimate of passengers, he had added 150 per cent. for increase, which he considered a moderate cal culation. In addition to the passengers through Hawick, he had taken 1,500 passengers, who went yearly by the Newcastle route for the south that would go by the present line, if it was opened. The whole number of passengers that went that way was 10,000, and of that amount he thought 1,500 a moderate number that would go this way if they had railway accommodation. The parties by gigs and private vehicles were taken by observation, and to that also he had added 150 per cent. The same principle of noting traffic was observed in estimating goods. He had taken credit in the tables for a large amount of fish that would pass along this line from Dunbar to Liverpool and Manchester. He had calculated 1,500 tons of fresh meat that would go by this railway. His coal esti mate he made out from the estimate of the witnesses examined yes terday. The cattle and sheep traffic was made from the information of Mr. Nelson and Mr. Maxwell. The total income was set down at 60,5661, Cross-examined —He took January and August for the passenger traffic, August was not a fair month, but it was compensated by January. The traffic in August was taken about the middle of the month. His information of the passengers that went by Newcastle he got from guards and coachmen and inquiries made at Edinburgh. Of all the passengers that went by the Edinburgh and Newcastle coaches he took 1,500 that would go by this line; as he learned that a great proportion of those also went south of Newcastle, went to the midland counties of England. He had but estimated 100 per cent. of increase on the Hawick line last year, but he had seen reason this year to consider 150 a fair calculation. The men who were placed to make the observations were instructed to put down every person on horseback and every vehicle that was travelling more than three miles; and out of this information he made his tables, striking off from the data furnished a proportion, so that the table furnished would include only those that were travelling six miles and upwards. He considered that 9,1371. would be raised this way. We did not consider that an over-estimate. He had never heard of parties being purposely sent by companies along the roads in gigs, in order that they might be included in the traffic calculations.—(Laughter.) If the ratite from Dunbar, through the North British to Newcastle, and from thence in a direct manner to Manchester, was shorter, then the 4,000 tons of fish he had estimated to be carried by this line was erroneous, as a great portion of it would go by the east line. The fish that would go fo Liverpool and Manchester, would in all proba bility, take that route. With respect to the coal traffic, he had taken the present consumption at Hawick, and trebled it, making 24,000 tons in all. He had estimated a ton and a half to each person. When he spoke of Hawick in this estimate, he meant the town and parish of Hawick and the district surrounding it. The population of the town and parish of Hawick in 1841, was 6,573. Mr. RICKARDS asked bow he could make up the balance of 16,000 of a population which was implied in the supposition of a ton and half being consumed by each person in the Hawick district ? Witness then went through a series of parishes in and beyond the neighbourhood of Hawick which when cast up made a population of 13,419. He admitted, therefore, that 24,000 tons showed an over estimate of 4,000. This was at the same time on the supposition that the coal delivered at the Hawick station would go as far north as Jedburgh and St. Bosweli's, and that the Dalkeith coal would be shut out of this district, also that the Canobie coal would retain its present price. His calculation givew- last year of coal and lime being brought out of the Lottlians must now GROUP XXVI. SOUTH ESSEX. The Committee assembled at twelve o'clock to-day, Mr. M. O'Con nell in the chair, when the rebutting evidence of the North Graves end Company against this line was taken, and occupied the greater part of the day. The chief witness examined was Mr. Bidder, the engineer, who deposed as to the great ingress of cattle from Norfolk and Lincolnshire. According to this gentleman's evidence, the traffic on the South w ould l e would be reduced from 48,0001. to under 30,000/. ; then: would be a saving, he allowed, of a mile and a half in distance, but there would be three junctions on the line, on one of which there would be a delay of five or six !lu xe : es tredarielvt s ea e oi t .f against the saving of three minutes in the distanc a e t . dthth T ee h e would bo at Tilbury, where wou lbciettb be the inter Gravesend eerseoduwt t hi r t a hE f fi os c sne w l would be of value. y and passengers. te This eiriff erae traffic, ec h eo o fo w f g e co vi icii r se , A long cross-examination then ensued, the result of which was to I show that the agricultural traffic was great, and that if the whole of the Vale were obtained, Naticipated by the promoter', one • • - GROUP XL. The Committee met this morning at twelve o'clock, Mr. 8. O'Brien in the chair. The Committee went through the clauses of the Lancashire and Yorkshire (North-Eastern) Renew Bill, and deferred their report till Monday. MOUE C °MBE U a lit. II 0 ITU AND 312..9.XX.VTALY Y. This was a Bill for making a harbour and docks at Heysham, on Morecombe Bay, and a railway in connexion with them. The peti tions in opposition were withdrawn. Messrs. Hartley, Sharpe, and Captain Washington, were examined In favour eA the pin. The Committee reported the preamble proved, and wentt the clauses of the Bill. GROUP LW. This Committee re-assembled to-day at twelve o'clock. Present- Mr. Bannerman (chairman) and the other members. MIDLAND (BURTON-ON-TRENT TO NUN.. EATON, AND lIRA.I=; CII). The evidence was resumed. Mr. John Thomas Woodhouse, cross-examined by Mr. CAL. VERT—Understood the railway to commence at the sixth mile from Barton, and to run to Nuneaton. At the sixth virile they came to the property of Lord Hastings ; his Lord ship consented to the railway. Could not state through how much of his Lordship's property they went, but 12Plieved it to be about a mile and a half. This took them half way between Be seventh and Eighth miles. The next property they came to was, he believed, a small freehold, the owner of which was a consenting party to the railway. The next property they came to was Mr. Greave's, and then to Sir John Cave's. The length of the latter property affected by the railway was some where about half a mile. The owner was a dissentient. They then came to the eighth mile and a half. (The witness was then examined respecting the other properties affected by the line, the substance of which has already appeared in the evidence of the preceding witnesses.) Considered those that traded on the Ashby canal were the best judges of the benefits or disadvantages thatwould result from the proposed amalgamation of it with the railway. Mr. DANIELLS, on the part of the promoters, said that his clients would insert a clause in their Bill that they would not exercise their compulsory powers without the consent of Lord Howe and Colonel Wollaston. . . .. --...... The objection on the part of these petitioners was then withdrawn. Mr. Sergeant Wtnaias, on the part of Mr. Ilemmins (one of the petitioners) said, that on the part of his client, he had to pray for a little delay in bringing forward his case. His client's property affected by this railway would be no less than 2,000 urea. which would be cut up in a way that would lead to an actual revolution amongst the tenantry on the estate. The ground upon whieh he asked for delay was, that he would be enabled to show that the levels of the company were quite wrong. They would have been prepared to establish this then, but were prevented from taking their levels, having been driven of the line by the levels, pect res sand 150 men, who refused to allow them to proceed until they had ob tained an order from Mr. Woodhouse. If the Com mittee would, under these circumstances, permit the case to stand over till Monday, he would be prepared with that evidence , in the a b sen ce of which to t h e t K e w li o n u l e d . H b be un w o a u b i t d e t b o e t i, o b c l e o mtheentotniewq,ultaanbleerrdoereisiniotihit w that the Lincoln and Cambridge had been rejected last year. rt of the promoters, objected to the proposed the Committee should remember t hat it was en the same ground M r .D ANIEL LS on the-Pa w out of the statement mings was not alleged in his petition, but gre he had made respecting the other petitioners. He trusted, therefore, delay on the ground that the objection noW set forth the st atement that the the Committee would not accede to the request of his Learned Friend. The room was then cleared, and on oar re-admission, The CIIAIRMAIt announced that the Committee had determined to adjourn till Monday next, at twelve o'clock. The Committce then adjourned at two o'clock. GROUP LV. MANCHESTER AND HYDE RAILWAY. The Committee on this group assembled at 12 o'clock, and after much conflicting evidence it was decided that the preamble was not proved. MANCHESTER, MACCLESFIELD, AND .A.SHTON-UNDER-LTNE. After some consideration the Committee refrained from any deci sion on this line, but adjourned until three o'clock on Monday, when their conclusion will be stated. GROUP LVI. The Committee met again at twelve o'clock, in room 29 (New Houses of Parliament) ; Mr. Ewart in the chair. All the Members were present. LONDON AND CROYDON (2 1 8A1KES .TUNC- =ON SMA.NCII). Mr. Walker, engineer to the Admiralty, was called and examined by Mr. Sergeant WILKINS on the part of the Surry Canal Company. On Mr. Sergeant Wilkins putting some questions to the witness, with reference to the docks, which forms one terminus of the proposed nee. Mr. RAWLINSON obj y ected to an such questions, on the ground that the dock having been abandoned as a part of the Bill was no longer before the Committee. The Committee cleared the room on this point, and on our return The Caste/esti said that no such questions could be put. Mr. sergeant Wn.xnes—Very well, sir, we will proceed With the chain and seals without the watch. The Learned Counsel proceeded to examine the witness as to the mischief that would result from the line crossing the canal on a swing bridge so near the water as that which was proposed by the pro moters of the Bill. The witness was of opinion that, to cross the canal in such a manner, would be highly objectionable. Be was cross-examined by Mr. R awlinson on the part of the promoters. Mr. FLIJND inquired whether the Committee were of opinion that he was entitled to examine witnesses as to the necessity for taking eertain property within the walls of the dockyard, and as to the cost of such property ? If the Committee thought their d ision, tha of t no eteetiOns ought to be asked as to th e dock, applied to th e kind evi llyt reg a admissible. rd th l e t dence he proposed to give, he wo uld withdraw. pa Th rt o e f C4 th m e mi r WAS only to the evide nce as to the construction of the dock itself tateeilw a w y er w e iotfhionpitmh'oendtochakt v‘evi...depnrocep Mr. Allen, a surveyor at Rotherhithe, was then called, and proved of the London and Greenwich that in order to carry the line down to the banks of the river it that the objection on which they had decided applied. would be necessary to fill up a part of the dock which they must pass ewrto,uolndecoosft tahbeoudtirle2c,tooOrsol. Railway, gave evidence which went to show that there was no ne cessity for the proposed line. Mr. I T I Mr. Sergeant Wudatis then rose to address the Committee on the part of the Surrey Canal Company. He said that a more clumsy, ill-conceived, and incomplete plan than this had never been submitted to a Parliamentary Committee. It was a line which the Bill afforded no powers to make. It was to alter and remove a bridge which it contained no powers to alter or remove a single plank of. He, as counsel, should advise his clients. in case the Bill passed, to station a body of men at that bridge, who should say, "Yon shall set touch a plank or a stick of that bridge." Again, Mr. William Cabitt had said that, in laying down the line, he had not contemplated the alteration in the docks, or the works in connexion with them. klow could this be reconciled with Mr. Benjamin Cabitt's statement, that he allowed 5,0001. for the clearing out of the dock? How could it be reconciled with the fact that the greater part of the Bill referred to the dock? What was their preamble about? Docks ! docks ! docks! What were their clauses about ? Docks ! docks ! docks! what were their traffic tables —their estimates—their evi. dence about ? Docks! And now they had " docked " their scheme nicely. The Le arned Coun sel also dwelt upon certa i n di screpancies be. t h e s tatements of Mes srs. Wm. and Benjamin Cnbitt and upon t the e nomission of coffer-dams, deck walls: purchase of certain land, and erection of stations, from the estimates. Upon the conclusion of Mr. Sergeant WILKINS'S speech, Mr. Poway said that he had to withdraw the opposition or the