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CHARLES A. SAUNDERS, Secretary. I)IRECT LONDON AND MANCHESIER RAILWAY COMPANY. (Rastrick's Line.) T he Provisional Directors of the Direct London and Manchester Railway Company acknowledge the receipt of several letters and comMunications, containing various views and opinions, and also in quiries whether the Directors intend to proceed further in the prose cution of the objects for which the Company was formed, or to take means for winding up the same. the Frem the time when the Bill was reported as not having passed " Standing Orders" of the House of Commons, the Previsional ComPauy Directors have been most urgent in getting in the accounts of the ; they are now now engaged in a careful examination there of, and they w ill take the earliest opportunity, consistently with the interests of all parties, to consider and determine upon future Pro ceedings. SIDNEY' M. HAWKES, Secretary. 48, M oorgate-street, April 16, 1846. OXFORD, WITNEY, CHELTENHAM, Th AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY. that T he Committee of M anagemen t regret to inform the Shareholders in consequence of an adverse report from the Select Committee on St anding Orders, they will be unable to proceed further with this measure in the present Session ; but, from the unamious reports of all Parties in favour of the line which the Committee continue to receive, they see no reason f or a b an d on i ng th e project. In the meantime, all th ose having claims against the Company are requested to send in the same to the Secretary on or before the 22d instant, in order to t heir being examined, and if found correct discharged. By order of the Board, JOHN MENZIES, Secretary. 5 8, Gracechurch-street, April 16, 1846. SOUTH UNION, OR MANCHESTER, POT• TERIES, AND LONDON RAILWAY. The Directors of this Company regret to state that this measure has been defeated on Standing Orders in the House of Commons, in consequence of which they consider it their duty immediately to wind up the affairs connected with the undertaking. The liabilities are now beingaseertainql and settled ; but as some delaY must necessarily take place before this can be efreettff, the Di- rectors hereby give notice, that they will be prepared to return to each Shareholder twenty-nine shillings per share (as soon as the amount deposited by this Company with the Accountant-General shall have been repaid), and "a further pr 3 rata division of any ba lance of the funds remaining in hand, after the final settlement of all claims upon the Company in full, for his share and interest in the undertaking. The Shareholders will, on depositing the Scrip Certificates, or Rankers' Receipts, at this office, for ten clear days, on and after the 25th instant, and executing a proper release thereof, receive a cheque for the amount per share returned, together with a Certificate, en titling the holder to a pro ratA division of and remaining funds as above mentioned. The parties sendin g S cr ip C er tificates by post will do so at their awn risk ; they are strongly recommended to jegl i st er their letters, ant to add ress them to the Secretary of thisdaSEsp y. By order, • WM. WILSON}, Secretary. _l7, Fludyer-street, Westminster, April 16, , 1846. LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY. To the Scripholders and Subscribers to the Deed of the above Company. pA Committ ee o f Sh are h o ld ers i n the London and York Railway as been formed, with the view of considering the p ros p ec t s o f t hi s i ne, and whether anything can be done to lessen the responsibility of the Shareholders, er in any way improve their position. "'The Committee vi ew w ith a l arm t h e daily depreciati,,n which is king place in the market in the shares of all new lines, and that this depreciation increases in the shares of those Companies which are most likely to obtain Bills. The expensive contest in Parliament of the London and York Corn 'any most abs or b all the deposits. If the Act be obtained, calls must immediately follow ; and the majority of the scripholders will avoid registration, knowing that they will have opportunities hereafter of -T i tling into the undertaking at a much lower price. The calls must, e refore, be en f orce d aga i nst those who have signed the Parlia taentatY Contract. This fearful position of matters has induced tne Committee to con sider that probably the Eastern Counties Company, who are the strong oPponents of the London and York Company, may, for the sake of Protection and certainty to their own shareholders, be still open to some liberal compromise, and that the London and York directors and s hareholders ought, either by diminishing the extent of their undertaking (and consequently lessening the amount of calls to re lieve the pressure which will come en their subscribers), or by some .alsorptio n i n the Eastern Counties Company, obtain a participation t_ ran und ertaking yielding a present p rof it, i ns t ea d of one whose re- Th 11, Weyer obtained, will not be arrived at without years of painful Sacrifices and distrait. at these views, the Committee think steps ou g ht t o be Mimed'- !" 1 7 taken to open a negotiation with the Eastern Counties, if not to dissolve the London and York Company. In the opinion of the Committee, either the line south of Peter borough ought to be abandoned, and the shares reduced to 201. each, !or the line should be given up to the Eastern Counties Company, on Their agreeing to pay the whole or a portion of the expenses, and diving shares in their Line as originally proposed. The statement below, showing the past and present position of Several well-supported Companies, who, before the Committee of the Rouse of Commons, clearly showed a return on their capital from 6 to 8 per cent., proves that success on the part of the London and York Railway, in obtaining their Bill, will entail ruinous loss on the S ubscribers and scripholders ; and if any other argument was needed to maintain the views of the Committee, the following extract from the e Times" of the Bth of April, might alone be deemed sufficient : " The character of the crisis, and its effects on the new lines, are graphically illustrated in the catastrophe of the London and Oxford Railway, as reported in yesterday's paper : ' 'Mr. I. K. Brunel, examined by the Chairman.—The prices have so increased since the Acts wertoblained, that the lines mentioned above (the Oxford and Worcester, and the Oxford and Rugby) can not be constructed at the estimated prices. Considers that the con struction of railways is now 50 per cent. mere than at this time last Year, " At this point of the proceedings. the Chairman said that :the Committee thought it unnecessary to hear any more evidence re aPecting the London and Oxford Line ; and, accordingly, after the room had been cleared for a few minutes, the Chairman announced that the Committee were unanimously of opinion tbat the preamble of the London and Oxford had not been proved.'" The Committee beg to direct the attention of the shareholders to the ofteial announcement of the Government's intention to immedi ately introduce an Act investing the scripholder with such power, that a majority in number and value drily registered at any public Meeting will prevent the farther progress of any Bill in Parliament ; and as the London and York Railway Bill will, in a very few days, have to appear before a similar tribunal as thatof the defunct London and Oxford, the Committee are, therefore, very anxious at once to ascertain if the shareholders concur in any of their views, for which Purpose the following printed form may be obtained at the Corn rnittee-rooms, and every shareholder and subscriber to the deed is earnestly requested to return the same signed immediately, in order that the directors may be conferred with, or a public meeting con vened, as may be deemed most expedient for the protection of the interests of all parties. To the Committee of the London and York Shareholders. Gentlemen,—l am a scripholder of Shares in the London and York Railway, and am desirous, Firstly, of having the Line South of Peterborough given up, so as to lessen the cost ; or, Secondly, of having terms made with the Eastern Counties Company for an abandonment of the London and York Railway and Amalgamation With the Eastern Counties Line; or, Thirdly, of having the Company at once dissolved. I would prefer thee of these alternatives, and I authorise the Committee of Shareholders to represent my opinion to the Legis lature, and to pray Parliament to carry the same into effect, or to re ject the London and York Bill. Name in fu11..... Residence • . • Date ..... Numbers of E * Here Insert the word " first," Amount ?Aid up. Railways which obtained Acts last Session, £ e. d. 10 0 0 10 0 0 12 10 0 20 0 0 7 10 0 4 10 0 5 0 0 12 0 0 Caledonian ...... Aberdeen . • Oxford & Wolverhampton Chester and Holyhead • • Dundalk and Enniskillen Newry and Enniskillen . South Wales Waterford and Limerick GREAT WE STERN RAILWAY. The DIRECTORS of thi s COMPANY a re rea d y t o rece i ve TENDERS for LOANS (.f MONEY , i n sums of not less than 1,0001. F a period of ve or seven years, o n th e secur ity o f mor t gage de bentures bearing interest at the rate of four per cent. per annum, payable half yearly. Offi A- P o lications may be mad e t o th e un d ers i gne d, a t th e R a il way ce, Paddington station. IRECT LONDON and MANCHESTER RAILWAY and REMINGTON'S INDEPENDENT LON bON and MANCHESTER RAILWAY. The SUBSCRIBERS and SCRIPHOLDERS in this amalgamated Ip rillaatty are requested to MEET at the London Tavern, Bishops gate-street, on TuEsnev,2lst inst., at 3 precisely, to consider the pro- PrietY of recommending the Directors to wind up the affairs and return the deposits, or to adopt such other measures as may be for the interest cf the shareholders. Gentlemen attending will be re quired to produce their scrip certificates, and (to ascertain the number ef shares represented at the Meeting) are requested to hand in their cards, with the number of shares they hold (distinguishing the Com- Pa) nY written upon them ; and th e se unable t o a t ten d arc requested previously to communicate their wishes on the subject to the advertiser, Thom as P ocock, SS, Bartholomew-close, London, an original subscriber. or " second," or " third Premium per Share in 1845, before Bill ob tained. Discount per Share in 1846, while calls are being made. .£ . 3. d. 12 0 0 6 0 0 14 0 0 6 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 5 0 0 8 0 0 4. s. d. 3 5 0 9 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 7 10 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 10 0 0 By Order of the Committee, London and York Committee, 4, HEN RY PHILIPPS, Solicitor,Sise-lane, London, April 14, 1846. L ONDON AND YORK COMMITTEE OF f 7 " -- -- SHAREHOLDERS. The LONDON COMMITTEE for carrying out the abov e ebh ,,,, earnestly desire the co-operation of every scripholder in the and they therefore suggest that PUBLIC MEETINGisrb,; i mmediately convened in the following towns :—BIRMENGIam -arANCIIESTER, LIVERPOOL, LEEDS, HE'LL, HALIFAX, BR tDFORD, BOSTON, LEICESTER, NEWCASTLE, NOTTING HAM, PRESTON, SHEFFIELD, S I'AMFORD, LINCOLN, WAKE FIELD, YORK, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW, and ABERDEEN. It would also be advisable that the Provincial Committees, or Chairman presiding at such meetings, should admit no persons, "cePt those producing and registering their scrip, names, and ad dresses in a book, to be kept at the door for such purpose, so that The bona fide intentions of such meeting of shareholders be properly rePre3ented to the London Committee. By order of the Committee, 4 , Sise-lane, London. H. PHILIPPS. _NICOLL'S PALETOT of LLAMA CLOTH registered 6 and 7 Vic., cap. 63. .'atronised by the Prince Consort, Prince George of Cambridge, Ric. This overcoat recommends itself to the Public generally by its Peculiar elasticity and lightness, moderate price, and able defence against the almost constant humidity of the climate of Gre a t B r itain. _ _ To be had In London only of the - Patentees, I 14. Relent - street. rriE PERFECT SUBSTITUTE for SILVER. The high estimate formed bythe public during the ten years WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late it IPPON and BURTON'S) chemi cally purified material has been before it (made into every useful and ornamental article usually made in silver, possessing, as It does, the en aracteristic purity and durability of silver), has called into exist ence the deleterious compounds of " A:Sata Plate," " Berlin Silver," .it,act ether so-called substitutes ; they are at best bad imitations o f " tenuine articles manufactured and sold only by him. Fiddle Threaded King's doze n Ta b le 'peons and Forks, Hill else per Pattern. Pattern. Pattern. . . 12s. Od. 28s. N. 303. Od. T ea • •••••••••••• ••••••••••• D essert ditto and ditto, ditto . ditto and ditto • ditto ••• • • • bs. Oct. 1 Is. Oct. 12s. Od. ur eYY ditto ....,..., ........ ••• • • • 3s. Od. 6s. Od. 7s. Od. -Illr If ICKXL ELECTRO-PLATED.—The REAL NICKEL SILVER, oduced and made only by WILLIAM S. BURTON (late RIPPON and 8tin , ,,,,-, ----". m), when plated by the patent process of Messrs. El kington and Co., is beyond all comparison the very best article, next **sterling silver, that can be employed as such either usefully or orna- Nentally. I R the lengthened and increasing popularity et the ma. rtbllterial itself, and the high character of tke method of plating, the e have a gu a r antee that the articles sold by W. S. Burton (and 3 , him only) are, as it regards wear, immeasurably superior to what tan be intpplled at any other house, while by no possible test can %key be distinguished from real silver. - Tea Spoons, per dozes ...... Fiddle. Th rea d . King ' s. ........ Ills. .• 325. • • 383. DDessert Finks ~ ••••••• • • • • • • • 30s. •• 465. • 58s. essert Spoons •• • ............. Us. • • 525. .• 625. TTable Forks •• ••••••• • • • • - • • 40s. .• 68s. able Spoons •• •••• • • • ..... • • 40s .• 725. • • 80s. Tea and coffee sets, waiters, eandlesticks, at proportionate brices. A ll kinds of re-plating done by the pat ent ' proceas. Detailed catalogues, with engravings, as well as of every ironmongery article lent (per post) tree. WILLIAM S. BURTON'S (late RIPPON and BURTONS) stock et general Furnishing Ironmongery is literally the largest in the world, and as no language can be employed to give a correct idea of ha variety aid extent, purchasers are invited to call and inspect it.- 49, Oxford-street (corner of Newman-street.) Established to Wells- Street. 1820. RowL or, A PEA RL D DENTIFRIN's o C E. D oNTd; INaroalsed by the Queen, and the Royal Family of Great Britain, and the several Sovereigns and Courts or Europe. White Powder( or the Teeth, compounded of the choicest and baost r echerché ingredients of the Oriental Herbal the leading re ittty *f cleanliness and efficacy being present in the highest pos ° cl egree. It extirpates all tartarous adhesions to the Teeth, and a Pearl-like whiteness to the enamelled surface. Its anti and anti-scorbutie properties arrest the further progress of ii tca Y of the Teeth, and induce a healthy action of the Gums. The reath au e w ier. attains a Nagrant sweetness truly grateful to its pos. kil t 110 st efficient and fragrant aromatic Tooth Powder ever eepiWtOWLAND'S ODONTO has for a long series of years oc distinnithed place at the toilets of the Sovereigns and the kan e j throuthout Europe, while the general demand Er it at once tea the favour in which it is universally held. C.A.UTIO Priee 2s. 9d. per Box. teinion.r. X. To protect the public from Fraud, the Hon, Com- ' Address to b o ! ta riliAl have directed the Proprietors' Name and A . 1 - graved on the Government Stamp, thus— OVILAIth and SON, 20, Hatton.garden, 1914 b 7 and which is affixed on each Box. - * yf Pro prietors, and by Chemists and Perf umers. e AU others are fraudulent imitation. NOTE The Establishment of TAKE IC B. MOSES and i SON will be Closed on Thursday Evening next at Six o'clock until Saturd y Evening, wken it will be Re opened at Seven o'clock, resum ing business until 1 welve. WORD FOR THE HEAD Of all the places in the town For covering the human crown, The mart of MOSES you will find tends highest in the public mind. MOSES and SON let nought escape, In point of quality and shape; And if you knew what you are at, You'd hasten there to buy a hat. A WORD FOR THE BACK. Try MOSES' coats and waistcoats, too, And see how well they'll act by you. In fitting there is not a wrinkle, Nor will they spoil when rain-drops sprinkle. In durability and make, The highest value they partake ; And when 3 our largest purchase closes, You'll net find much expense with MOSES. A WORD FOR THE LEG. he leg's a most important limb, Which folks sh ould always keep In trim. MOSES and SON may safely be The patronag e of ev ' ry leg. g For not a wa rehouse. any h ow, sirs C cloth an ever equal MO.SES' trow sers. In , arid cut, and all the These trowsers are " the ver rest, y best." LIST OF PRICES. MIADT MAIM. .... ..........frorn 0 8 6 Beaver Taglionis ....... .. . —' X e. d. Chesterfields or Cedringtons ... .: D'Orsays, Athols, Pembroke, and e . y . Winter Coats ........ „ ....... .......es ptlon of Boys' Winter Coats in every style ..... .... ..... ..fron2 0 8 6 Winter tro Isere, lined ............................ .. 0 4 6 e " 14 . c . i .. Q.1 —. '••• • •• 0 10 6 Doeskin, ditto.. • ...... ••• • • • ...... •••• • • • •........, 0 10 6 Dress Coats, edged .. ..... ..........• ... t rock, ditto • • • • • • • ...... • - • • • ...........::::: :::::.• 1 1 50 : 11011 Collar Ve5t...... .• -•••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • 0 1 9 Double-breasted .• ••- • •• ••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • 0 2 6 Boys' Hussar and Tunic 5uit5........................ 0 18 6 Ditto, Winter Fr0u5er5.......................... •• •• 0 3 0 Ditto, ditto Vests •• .• •• -•••••••••••••••• •• •• •• •• 0 1 6 MADE TO MEASURE. Winter Coats, in every style and shape, handsomely trimmed .......................... ••.• • • ...... . 1 5 0 Milled cloth Great Coats, velvet collar aid cuffs ...... 1 12 0 Tweed Wrappers ...... ...... ...................... 0 18 6 Ditto Trousers ...• ................................ 0 8 6 Winter 'Trousers, in all the new patterns .• •• .. 6 12 0 Doeskin ditt0........... ...... ............. • • ...... 0 10 6 Dress Coats ....... ... Ditto, best quality made • • ...... ............... 215 0 Frock Coats ............ ....... ........ ..... 1 13 0 Ditto, best quality made ••••••.•.••••••• .• .• .• •• • • •• 3 3 0 _ _ Cashmere Ve5t5.......• ••• • • • : ............... 0 8 6 Satin do., plain or fancy ................. ..... 0 12 0 Boys' Hussar and Tunic snits• • ...................... 1 6 0 Great Coats ........ • ....... • 0 14 6 The New Work, entitled " Habiliment Hall," with full di. rectione for self-measurement, may be had on application, or for. warded, " Post Free." MOSES and SON, Tailors, Woollen Drapers, Hat. tens, and Outfitters, Minories, and Aldgate, City, London. IMPOZTANT.—Any article purchased ordered, if sot approved of or exchanged, or the money returned. N.B. No business transacted at this Establishment from sunset on Friday till sunset on Saturday, when business is resumed at twelve o clock. Catrriow.— Moses and Son are obliged to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the untradesnuurtlike false hood of being connected with them, or its the same concern, has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. They have no connexion whatever w ith any other establishment, in or out of London, and those who desire genuine Cheap Clothing should (to prevent disappointment, tcc.) call or send to 154, Mlnories, or 86. Altbrate. uooosite the Church. EASE AND COMFORT IN SHAVING.—B. and S. COWVAN'S invaluable CANTON STROP, or Quad rilateral Chinese Razor-Sharpener, patronised by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, renders the operation of shaving pleasant to the most tender skin. By a very simple process, the keenest edge may very speedily be giveu to the, bluntest razor. B. and S. Cowvan's pecu liarly tempered Razors and Tooth and Shaving-powder. Specimens of rom the strops are exhibited at the Royal Polytechnic Institution. P the many flattering testimonials received, the following, from that most eminent surgeon, Mr. C. Aston Key, is selected : " Sirs,— " I have made trial of your razor-strop, and End it to an swer better than any strop that I leave hitherto used for giving a keen edge to Cutting instruments for anatomical and surgical pu."- poses." " C I' TON KEY." Many others may be seen at the inventors', l'S. and S. Cowvan, 164, Fetich iroh-street, where the strops, Itc., may be obtained, and elan respectable perfumers, &c., price be. 6d., 7s. 6d., and Os. 6d. towvan') Canton Razor-strop Paste at is. it packet. The Shaving powder p , Is. 6d . ; and Prussi an Court Toothpowder at Is. 6d. and er box. Caution.—None are Pent itu exoept marked and spelt 4 . zt, and s. Cowart.' T TELFTH E Just Pithlishod, in a sea HE W , p led enveloperice DlTlO 2s. 6d. N. , and sent free, on receipt of a Post-ofnee Order for 3s. 6d. MANLY HEALTH: a Popular Inquiry into the Concealed Cause of its premature Decline, with Instruc• tions for its Complete Restoration. Addressed to th se suffering from the destructive consequences of excessive indulgence, terminatingui Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional Weakness, In digestion, and Consumption. Including a comprehensive Dissertation on MARRIAGE, Incontinence, and Celibacy. Illustrated with Cases, &c. By C. J. LUCAS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, No. 60, Newman-street, Oxford-street, London. And sold by Brittain. 11, Paternoster-row ;J. Gordon, 146, Lea den'tall-street ; and all Booksellers. CAUTlON.—Complaints having reached ns that several persons wishing to purchase our work, entitled "Manly Health," have had placed in their hands a fraudulent infringement of our copyright, pro duced by illiterate and dishonourable men, and which, though bearing a close resemblance of title, is utterly valueless; •re deem it a duty, by way of protection, to caution the public against being duped ky such base imitations. Persons desirous of obtaining the above work, and not wishing to apply to a bookseller for the same, may, to insure secrecy, hav e it direct from the Authors, by enclosing 3i. cd., or Postage Stamps. " The best of all friends is the professional friend, and is ne shape can he be consulted with greater safety and secrecy than in " Lucas en Manly Health."—The New Bell's Weekly Messenger. Messrs. Lucas and Co. are to be consulted from 'Pen till Two, and liom Five till Eight in the evening, at their reside-ee, N.. 60, New man-street, Oxford-street, London, and country patie:its may be successfully treated, en minutely describing their case, and enclosing the usual fee .f 11. for advice. SILVER TEA SERVICES OF NEW PATTERNS. B. SAVORY and SONS, Working respe ctf A• ully Silversmiths, 14, Cornkill, London, opposite the Bank, inform their customers that they ha ve recently finished a few new designs, in accordance with the present improved taste, and that they are sold at reduced prices from those customary in the trade. . Uxbridge Pattern. Thalia Pattern. Strong Silver Tea Pot.. £lO 18 0 Strong Silver Tea Pot. Xl3 0 • Ditto Sugar Basin— 614 0 Ditto Sugar Basin—. • Ditto Cream Jug.. • • 410 6 Di tto Cream Ewer 5711 2 9 0 Ditto Coffee Pot .....14 10 0 Ditto Coffee Pot 16 17 • Complete £35 12 f Complete.. • . £42 0 A variety of upward s o f Fi fty Silver Tea and Coffee Services 10 may be seen in the Show-rooms, and on application the illustrated Price Current, containing drawings, with the weights and prices of recent designs, will be forwarded to any part of Great Brltalp, Ireland, India, or the colonies. Drawback on Silver Plate exported Is. 6d. per ounce. OUR VICTORIES IN INDIA! Hurrah for our army—the pride of the world Victorious their banneri s proudly untlirl'd ; And Europe now rings with the Sutlej campaign, For bravely we've beat them again and again 1 Oh who can compete with our brave-hearted sons ? What honour, what laurels, what fame have they won ? They care net for danger —nor idly would lag, " Hyam's" a conqueror look at his dress, But nobly ad vance i n defence of our flag And It carries through England triumphant success And the French with dismay are compell'd to admit, That " Hyam" has made a most " palpable hit !" So whether in commerce—or whether in war, All nations on earth we can beat them afar. Hurrah then for England—for Hyarn and dress. Whilst fame spreads our triumphs and signal success I L. HYAM'S TAILORING, WOOLLEN DRAPERY, AND OUTFITTING ESTABLISHMENT 36, Graeechnrch-street, London. , SPRING PILETOTS, is endless variety— •• • from 12s. Od. An Immense Assortment of SHOOTING COATS from Bs. 6d. YOUTH'S CLOTH HUSSAR and TUNIC SUITS from 16s. 6d. LIST OF PRICES. READY-MADE GARMENTS. FOURTH QUALITY A s. Q. Dress Coat, Black c10th...• • 1 1 0 Trousers, ditto ditto . ..... • .... 0 5 9 6 6 Vest, ditto ditto .. S The Suit of Black complete ••.. • • •• .. 1 16 0 THIRD QUALITY. 0 Dress Coat, of any colour •••• •• Trousers, ditto ditto 012 6 6 Vest, ditto ditto ..............0 • 6 The Suit complete ........ om ••• • • • 2 5 0 SECOND QUALITY. ... 1 10 0 Dress Coat, of any colour Trousers, ditto ditto •••••• 0 14 6 Vest, ditto ditto ........ •• • • • 0 7 6 The Suit complete ........... ....... 2 12 0 FIRST AND BEST QUALITY. . 1 16 0 Dress Coat of and colour Trousers, ditto ditto .............. 081 6 Vest, ditto ditto ••• • • ... 0 8 6 The Suit complete ...... •• • • ...... 3 3 0 Articles are made to order in the very best style, at a small addi tional charge on the:ready-made list prices. THE CUTTING DEPARTMENT is managed by persons of known talent and great experielace, and such garments only are produced that will defy comparison. Norics.—To save trouble and time, and facilitate the business of this establishment, purchasers are respectfully informed that every article is marked the selling price in plain figures, from which no de ductions can be made on any consideration whatever. Money will be returned to any purhser, should he not approve of his purchase after seeing the articles c at a his own house. No business transacted un Saturdays until the evening. A book, containing a general list of prices, can be had on appli cation. The Public are respectflilly informed that most extensive altera tions for the a ccommodation of its patrons are now completed, and that the elegant Show-rooms for the ordered department and cutting saloon will be opened on MoNDAT KEIT, the 13th of April, w ith an entire new stook of Superfine West of England Bro a d Cl oths, the most novel designs in T rowserings, Vestings, and new materials for Summer Oyer-coats that can be produced in the kingdom. An early inspiction is respectililly solicited. No. 16,716. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING G RAVESEND STAR and BLACKWALL PACKETS. Packet and Railway Fare included It. one Payment. FROM THE BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACKIVALL. The Trains starting One Quarter of •n Hour before each of P U. t use times. WEEK DAYS.—At 95%, 1051, 11, 12, 1%, 3%, 5,6, and 7. SUNDAYS.—At 951, 101, li, 1%, 5,6, and 7. FROM "'HE ISE TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. WEEK DAY 3. 7i, 951, 3 56 , 11 % 1,3, 4 , 5 , and 6. SUNDAYS.—At 7g, 8%, 11% , 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. LOWEST FARES. Fore Cabin and Second Class Railway, 6d. Salosn and First Class Railway, 9d. " Blessed is he that considereth the Poor." POOR MAN'S GUARDIAN SOCIETY, 76, Great Portland-street. Instituted to Aid the Poor in their Applications for Parochical Re lief and to secure to them the Legal and Humane Dispensation of the Law. VICE-PRESIDENTS. John Walter, Esq., Bear Wood, Berks. Thomas Wakley. Esq., M.P., Bedford-square. Charles Cochrane, Esq., Devonshire-place. The Lord Viscount Ranleagh, Park-place, St. James's Charles Dickens, Esq., Devonshire-terrace. John Fielden, Esq., M.P. for Oldham. Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., F.R.S. The Committee feel much pleasure in announcing to the Friends of the Society, that the public Meeting, convened on the Bth instant, at the Li erary and Scientific Institution, Edward-street, Portman square, presided over by Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., F.R S., was numerously and re -pectably attended, and that an ample account of its proceedings had been kindly given by the daily and weekly papers. The rules for the government of this Society having now been approved and adopted, they may be had on application to the Secretary. The Committee confidently hope, from the smallness of the pecu niary qualification, that the operative classes will evince a readiness in enrolling their names as members of the Society, as they are de sirous of enlisting their early support and co-operation. Rule 5. That a donor of live gaineas be considered a life member of the Society, who, with annual subscribers of 10s. 6d. each, shall be eligible for election on the Committee ; and that a contributor of is. annually to the funds of the Society be entitled to a card of mem bership, admitting him to the privilege of attending and voting at all public meetings of the society. The beautiful drawing, illustrative of the benevolent objects of the Society, executed expressly and gratuitously by Sir W. C. Ross, por trait painter to her. Majesty, Is now in theJsands of the engraver, 48 it is intended to he printed on every shilling card of membership. The Committee feel that the Society is sufficiently organized as to encourage them to enter upon their active duties, by investigating two cases of apparent cruelty, involved in considerable mystery. They beg the public will freely communicate with the Society, taking care to have the information duly authenticated. They are happy to announce the following commencement of sub scriptions, made at the public meeting referring to : Charles Dickens, Esq , Devonshire terrace - - Mr. Metcalfe, 130 B, Oxford-street - - - B. Bond Cabbell, Esq., F.R.S., Temple Charles Cochrane, Esq., Devonshire-place - - Henry Heald, Esq. 25, Throgmorton-street - J. S. Waley, Esq., n, Devonshire-place John Walter, Esq., of Bear Wood Charles Jones, Esq., Cavendish-square Captain Evans, 15, Upper Porchester-street - J. S. Buckingham, Esq., 13, George-street - M. 0 10 0 Mr. S. 3f. Young - . - - 010 6 Mr. S. E. Bridgman, Wigmore-street - - - 010 6 Mr. Garth r; 20, Princes-street - - - - 010 6 H. Heath, Esq. E. 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W ANTED, A FIRST-RATE BUSINESS MAN, to represent an established home. Apply by letter to Messrs. J. and J. Colman, No. 1, Dovrgate-hill, London. MIDLAND L EEDS, WAKEFI ELD, AND MIDLAND JUNCTION .RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that a MEETING of the L'ICRIPHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Stafford Arms Inn, Wakefield, on MONDAT, the 27th day of April instant, at one o'clock in the afternoon. A report of the present state and futare prospects of the Company, and the Bill now before Parliament, will be then submitted to the Scripholders, and their opinion and directions taken thereon. The Directors are induced to call this meeting on account of the intimation given by the Government authorities with reference to the further proceedings of Railway Bilk; now before Parliament. The votes at the meeting will be taken by the namber.of shares; and to give distant holders the opportunity of voting, proxies have been prepared, and may be obtained at the offices of the Company in Cheapside, Wakefield. All persons wishing to vote by proxy must, on or before the 24th of April instant, deposit with the Secretary the scrip in respect of which they claim to vote, for which an accountable receipt will be given, and the scrip will be returned after the meeting. Shareholders attending the meeting will be required to produce the scrip in respect of which they claim to attend and vote. By order of the Board, HENRY BERNERS, Secretary. SPENCER'S ESE LIQUID HAIR DYE changes in a few minutes, without treuble, red or grey hair, whiskers, eyebrows, moustaches, &c., to a dark brown or black, by simply using a comb wetted with the liquid. One application will produce a pleasing and permanent change. Price 3s, 6d., 65., and 10s. per bottle. 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Harwich also offers an instance of the necessity of again defining the limits of ports, as the ,corporation of Ipswich claims by charter and daily exercises the right of levying anchorage dues upon vessels lyiitg close to the face of the town of Harwich, and manifestly far removed from the natural limit of the port of Ipswich. It appears from the Parliamentary returns that the aggregate debt of the several ports of the United King dom, exclusive of docks in the port of Landon, exceeds 4 ,000,000/ sterling; one-fourth part, therefore, of the whole harbour income of 800,0004 a year must be an nually apprepriated to pay the interest of this debt, which will consequently materially cripple the means for future improvements. This large sum, although borrowed with the sanction of the Legislature, has been laid out entirely by several local boards, without the slightest control being exercised over it either by Par liament or by any other power specially charged to watch over the interest of the public. Among the numerous cases of the misapplication of harbour funds, to which we have already had occasion to refer, a sum of more than 28,000/. expeoded last year in Parliamentary and legal expenses connected with Bills for the improvement of harbours, seems to your Commission to be a most impolitic and unnecessary out lay, and one which might be entirely prevented ffy the establishment of a harbour conservancy board, such As we have humbly ventured to submit to your Majesty's consideration. From the competition already commenced between we fear that u n l ess prove the harbour s i r m ai n !r i ad t : te an m d ea th st e ire c s oa b s e tin t g ak s e h n ip fo ing im , t a i r e t 1 1 1 0 7 t i g ) hwhere prac olessen v t e l t: e s o dues, this kingd om, alargepor a t n io d n , of the goods which these vessels now carry will be conveyed by the thrai i c e: e t - 1 3 s t. r a l p v i d e l y w e c u x l t d e , n d t i l n i e g r e f t e o r e a , lm st o r s e t ng e l v y er): rg p e art suc o h f as stance, not only on economical but on political grounds t o h f ci l i h dng the lidigon, he l st importance to th e mar iti me interests of for as the the h c a o rd as y ti r n a g ce tra o d f eseharnen asev w er ho b h ee a n ve th w e best nursery abkv maintained the honour and power of the country. gj ha . ? i a l 7 : 01 ne e r. , a ow l fa l hl u ilt e d hth e eh d :Te i nhaadomdu seriouslyi r eas fi o n r b s ae t it impeder w e ien p e o fno r r t mG t a o arntaid t vo h ene e sne o adn b iedi s hd t ga r ene u lrd c i t dt i Lhe o neo n en s neda a o: n n,ie d : brid , • have received since that report was presented fully con vince us of the correctness of the opinions we then ex pr sed, and we f ee l con fi dent -that , if the various and tie qu ntly conflicting auth6rities,.•to whaait guardianship Ith conservancy of this nobl e r i ver i s entrusted, could be • s in aced to co-operate cordially in its improvement, and to carryon their operations jointly on one sound and telifsirai - Sys:,em, the impediments which now ajscredit dui local administrations and endanger the commerce of the metropolis, might be speedily and cheaply removed. And in strong corroboration of our own view of this sub ject, we subjoin the following extract feolu the report of 'a select Committee of the House of Cut omens in the year 1836, specially appointed to inquire into the state of the port of London:— "That this Committee are of opinion that the various conflicting ig • • • sll'and claims of the Admiralty, the Trinity e, nd the Corporation of the city of Lon doa, over the fiver Thames below the brid,es, have had r a most injurious effect upon the interests of navigation ; that it is desirable they should be consolidated and vested in pome one responsible body, and that means should be found to provide for the removal of shoals and obstruc tions in the bed of the river." All these fat's and considerations induce us most ear i nestly to repeat the recommendation, which we ven tured dutifully to submit to your Majesty in our former report, that all the tidal harbours in the United King 'loin be placed under the special care of a board of ob servancy, to be formed under the authority and provi sions of an /Vet of Parliament (of which we annex a Bill), being fully convinced that any less stringent and decisive measures will be found wholly inadequate for the accomplishme n t of the great national object which your Majesty has been graciously pleased to direct us to consider and examine. All which we humbly certify to your Majesty. William Bowles, Rear-Admiral, M.l'., chairman ; J. J. Gordon Bremer, Captain, R.N. ; J oseph Hume, M.P. ; Aaron Chapman, M.P. ; Edward R. Rice, M.P. ; Thomas Baring, M.P. ; F. Beaufort, Hydrographer • G. B. Airy, Astro nomer Royal ; John Washington, Captain, R.N. ; Richard Godson, Q.C. and M.P., Coun sel to the Admiralty. London, 20th March, 1846. Bonus g ' Premium. . ' • swim. s. d. 1837 £l9l 13 5 60 1000, 74 3 4 1838 165 13 0 1839 138 13 6 1840 99 0 0 .7a V Banns in g i • Et g Cash. f i £B7 13 51A13 17 1 74 13 10 11 8 6 61 14 3 9 210 41 13 4 6 0 0 r £395 II 1 346 2 3 296 13 4 247 4 5 The division of profits is anneal, and the next will be made in De •emt+er of the present year. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, See. THE EXPERIENCE LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, Based upon the Experience of 17 of the oldest Life Offices. Capital, 300,000/. EniNauncli, 15, George street. LONDON, 58, King William-street. Cituasieri—The Right Hon. Lord DUNFERMLINE. NoTim—Parties assuring prior to 20th May will participate in the profits of the year. THE EXPERIENCE LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY embraces in its constitution the advantages of a MUTUAL OFFICE ; the assured are free from liability, and to meet any unforeseen contingency there is a capital, subscribed by a wealthy and influential proprietary. 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PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, price 28. 9d., 4s. 6d., and Its. per box, are the most effectual remedy for strictures, halm 'nation, Ike., without hindrance to business. Consultation fee, If by letter, 11. Minute detail of cases necessary. Messrs. R. and L. Perry and Co., surgeons, may be consulted, as usual, at 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, London, daily, and at 106, Duke-sreet, Liverpool, every Tharsday, Friday, and Saturday ; and at 10, St. John-street, Deanagate, Maacherter„ on Myedays, Tuesdays. and Wednesdays. TIDAL HARBOURS COIVIMISSION The following extracts from the Second Report of the Tidal Harbours Commissioners, presented to both Houses of Parliament, will be found interesting : A more extended inquiry has fully confirmed the views which the limited examination of last year led us to submit to your Majesty. Not only is there a general want of control over the management and revenue of the ports, but there is not a single exception among the numerous cases which have come before us, in which such a control might not have been the means of saving unnecessary outlay ; of preventing encroachments that can now scarcely be remedied, or of stopping works that must be removed in order to secure the objects to which the attention of the Commission is directed. The necessity of such supervision has also become more apparent since the publication of the returns to the orders of the House of Commons of August last, from which we learn that the income of the vari'jus ports of the United Kingdom considerably exceeds the sum of 800,0001. a year, the whole levied by charters and acts of Parliament, or otherwise, from dues on shipping, and on goods borne by shipping, but over the expenditure of which Parliament has not at present the slightest control. In Ireland we have been enabled to visit most of the ports and fishing piers around the coast, and have been strongly impressed by a sense of the great value of its natural harbours, their depth and capacity, and the extent and capability for improvement of its fisheries, which even in their present state, and with the fishery piers often in ruins from neglect, afford employment to 19,880 vessels and boats, and 93,000 hardy fishermen. But these natural advantages are very far from having been turned to the best account; on the contrary, a de tailed examination into the state of the principal ports shows that although much has been done, and, in many cases, at a heavy expenditure of money, yet that if the works had been planned with a little more foresight, and steadily carried on under efficient control, the same expenditure would have led to far better results, and might have removed the causes of complaint for which there is but too much foundation. The harbour of Dublin and the river Liffey offer an instructive example of the correctness of these state r ments. Within the last thirty years many improve ments have taken place; the depth of water over the s b e a v r er a a n l d fe u e p t, t b o y t d he redg ci i t n y g, q a u n a t y l s by h a t s he be b e o n ld in m c e re a a su se r d e of running out the great north wall ; the traffic and consequent revenue of the port have more than doubled; and the latter has risen to 34,000/. a year. Yet the evidence shows that the foundation of the quays is generally so imperfect that they will not, in their present state, admit of the river being further deepened ; that the south quay, the resort of three fourths of the shipping of the port, is encum bered at its foot by heaps of mud ; that the entrance into the Grand Canal Docks is all but blocked up by sand-bank s ; that there is a great want of graving docks; that there is but one public crane; that the port charges are very high; and that the ballast, of which, by Act of Parliament, the ballast-office has a monopoly, and for which it charges about double the market-price, is in many cases bad. Wexford harbour, which, from its capabilities, its po sition in a rich country, amidst an industrious population, and its vicinity to the English coast, ought to be one of the most prosperous in Ireland, is the resort of little more than coasting vessels. It appears in evidence that here are 104 Harbour Commissioners ; that the stream of the Slaney, and the tidal waters of its vast estuary, are left uncontrolled ; that the heads of the piles on which the quays are founded project some feet into the river, and have caused damage to several vessels ; that a vexatious toll is levied on all vessels passing through Wexford Bridge ; and that heaps of stone, now forming an artificial bar eight feet high, have been thrown in at the foot of its piers to save the foundation from being swept away. Similar neglect appears outside the harbour, where the want of a light off Blaekwater Bank, and the absence of beacons on the other dangerous sands which line this coast, are stated to have been the cause of several shipwrecks, and of a great sacrifice of life, At Waterford, a capacious natural harbour, consider. able exertion has been made to deepen the ford and ob tain a channel up t o th e town; but an extensive mud bank still lines the foot of the finest range of quays in the United Kingdom; the soil, dredged up in one part of the harbour, is dropp e d i nto t h e s t ream i n another ; thou san d s o f tons of refuse stone are annually swept into the river from the quarries of Grenagh; while the bridge, with its thirty-six arches and corresponding piers, and an opening for ships only eight yards wide, places a bar to the extension of navigation and improve ment towards Carrick-on-Suir and Clonmel. The celebrated harbour of Cork stands pre-eminent for capacity and safety, even in that country of fine natural harbours. The upper portion of it, which falls more im mediately within the limits of this commission, extends for five miles below the city to Passage. This part, since the year 1820, has been considerably deepened ; vessels of 500 tons now come up to the city, and the traffic and in come of the port have proportionably increased ; yet the harbour is far from being in that state which a revenue of 8,0001. a year for the last twenty-five years would warrant. Complaints are made that banks at footsthteeamers which ply be of the quays cause th e greate city riskty and c to the ov fi e ne ; that seven weirs cross the river Lee within one mile and a half of Cork, and impede the up ward flow of the tide ; that a wall has been built for 1,500 yards, in a doubtful direction, to guide ,tdhraeendsdgeittnhogef the current, and is now left in an unfinished state ; that the silt dredged up from the channel is laid at the back everyof this high wall, g h tide d e an ; d an vi d 'as th he a d t a d n o a w r n e a s o g f a l i s n o into anre s the , o reveir r incer i it v syi e hemh r ofir b euot_ y rhe the tides used to flow has been parily enclosed, whereby a large portion of tidal water is excluded. Yet this large ,ttls:oopi the se a csncaei harbour ifa i zg f retabnh i to n sie uo,c navigation, e o n, ox s sf e aet declnuadoddbreykfodofahr being aiaantl throughoutegl prapl left kfo o t m p af e osp r rea l properly ansi bura d eit a i ese r nand e nd c teb t hee e yex d the upper part of the bed of the river, might be a Withoutb enefit to quote the words of a highly respectable witness' half measures." Complaints, also, are made that the Glanmire and Ballinacurra rivers are both in a neglected state, while the latter has largely contributed to the Cork Ilarbo r Fund ; that a portion of the dues collected in Cork never reach the hands of the treasurer ; and that m oney has been borrowed, and consequently a incurred,d oc e fo b a t lystaltiegrhfot rd, the authority of an act of Parliament. Surveyors and sailors complain of the too great ele vation and ill chosen position of Cape Clear Light ; of the want of a light en the Foze Rock, the western point from the a dis tance was erected expressly tOosflndeeH Irelandoe f ad s e of v ; e n a l n t i y d i n m s t a h i f e e t s to the is Book no is Limerick, at the head of the estuary of the Shannon, the noblest river in the kingdom, and now, b y the energy of the Board of Public Works, rendered r av i_ gable almost through its whole length, offers great facility for navigation and commercial enterprise. construction of floating docks, the Here there is a magnificent bridge built across upon money ehi pin' chiefly the harbour at a cost of 85,000/. ; yet, although g th iv e es sa p m o e we A rs ct fo u r n t d b e e rwhich harbour still remains without a dock or place of shel ter, and vessels at low water lie on the rocky bot tom, and exposed to damage ; while its income of 4,000/. a year, gaged to pay the in le t v e i re ed st ex pended in building the bridge. It is also stated Drogheda has been much improved by steadily dredg ing the River Boyne, and the revenue of the port has been more than doubled during the last few years; there is, however, much yet to be done, and there are various symptoms of neglect that would vanish under efficient control; like Galway, its whole dues are mortgaged for a debt incurred in improving the harbour. The piers or breakwaters of the artificial harbours of Kingstown, Howth, Donagbadee, Dunmore, Ardglass, and Portruab, all built according to the same mode of rubble stone, with a long slope to seaward, have all suffered very material damage from the effects of the waves. Ardglass pier, together with its lighthouse, now lies a mass of ruins in the sea. Of the 70 fishing piers, constructed or repaired in 1822 and since, at a cost of 43,000/., chiefly of public money, many of them, from neglect in receiving timely repairs, are falling to decay; and one of them, at New castle, county of Down, has been entirely destroyed, to the great distress and almost ruin of the fishermen around. These piers have nevertheless proved highly beneficial to the districts in which they are placed, as have also the harbours built by the liberality of indivi duals, as the Earl of Courtown, at Courtown; Lord Annesley, at Newcastle; Mr. Ogilvie, at Ardglass; and Viscount Palmerston, at Mullaghmore, in Sligo; and it is earnestly to be hoped that some efforts will be made to preserve them from a similar fate. On the north-west coast of England, the river Lune and the port of Lancaster are capable of much improve ment. The recent Admiralty survey of this district has shown that there is a deep -water channel, hitherto ne glected, in Morecombe Bay, approaching to within three miles of Lancaster, which, if properly lighted and buoyed, would afford a harbour of refuge-.the great want of this part of the coast where all are tidal harbours. Fleetwood-on-Wyre, from its connexion with the Preston and London Railway, and from its direct com munication with Belfast and Glasgow, has at once become a port of consequence ; and the admirable system of lighting adopted in its channel, its extent of quay accommodation, and its well-appointed and power ful steamers, offer an instructive example of what well directed skill and energy can accomplish in a few years. The river Dee and the port of Chester afford a striking example of the danger to which the interests of navigation may be exposed by placing the power over the river in the hands of a joint-stock company, whose princip a l i nterest consisted in the successful reclaiming the land. The area of the estuary of the Dee between Chester and ICelstra, was formerly about 12,000 acreq, covered at every spring -tide ;of this space 8,000 acres have been enclosed, or, as it is termed, reclaimed, and the tidal water excluded ; about 5,000 acres of the land thus obtained on the Cheshire side, now form the Dee Company's estate, and nearly 3,000 acres on the Flintshire shore are the property of the adjoining landed proprietors. The Act of Parlia ment that sanctioned this extensive encroachment re quired that a depth of fifteen feet at ordinary spring tides should be maintained up to Chester, in default of which th e rental of the company was liable to be seized and applied_ to thoimprgovement.of the navigation. This condition, it appears in evidence, has not been complied with ; the•standard vvtlidh it should be ascertained; and whit& aeas.required •to• be-maintained, does not exist; and the river was in so bpi a state, _in December, 1844, that a vessel drawing only 8 , feet water could not go up to Chester on a spring tide. It appears also that a rubble-stone dyke or embank ment extends seven miles along the Cheshire side of the river, "on a li ne th e most i nju di c i ous l y la i d out with regard to navigation ;" thatithis dyke, a portion of which is covered a t half-tidy , i s on ly mar k e d by ins ig nificant it, perches or beacons, that several vesse l s h ave stru ck on some of which have been entir e ly l os t ; t h at the riv er, from Flint upwards, is neither li g ht e d nor b uo y that ; weir or mill-dam, rising 11 f ee t a b ove th e b e d o f the rive r exists just above the city, dams the water up for several miles, and prevents the upward flood of the tide ; that loads of stones are thrown into the river to secure the foot of the jetties ; and that at Parkgate, twelve miles below Chester, which formerly was one of the principal mail-packet stations between England and Ireland, a dry sand now extends almost across the estuary. On the south coast, at Salcombe, there are neither pilots nor a harbour master. On the north-east coast, the river Tyne and port of Newcastle, including North and South Shields, take the lead among the principal coal ports of the kingdom, which, owing 'to the vast in crease in steam navigation, are daily rising into great importance. Newcastle has shipped upwards of two millions of tons of coal per annum for the last quarter of a centary ; her foreign trade has risen to half a million tons yearly, and the revenue derived from the river and paid to the City Corpor a ti on , w h o by charter are conservators of the port, amounts to 19,000/. a-year, exclusive of 6,000/. annually levied by the Trinity Board for primage, buoyage, &c. Where all seems so prosperous, it is an un grateful task to point out that such a state of things may be deceitful ; yet so it assuredly will prove to be on the Tyne if the river be much longer abandoned to itself, as, generally speaking, it has been till within the last few years. Sunderland is indebted less to nature and more to art than the neighbouring port of Newcastle ; here exten sive stone piers project into the sea, by the aid of which several feet of water over the bar have been ob tained, and the enterprise of the coal owner and ship builder, and skill of the engineer, have been rewarded by a revenue of 16,000/. a-year, derived from an exten sive home -trade in coals, and a rapidly-increasing fo reign traffic. This port, however, is capable of much improvement ; the quays are private property, and much out of order ; the moorings were so indif ferent that, owing to the pressure of the ice in the winter of the year 1841, the whole of the shipping in the harbour brake adrift, and the damage done was estimated at 30,0001. ; the foundation of a part of the south pier is so insecure that the scouring of the sea has undermined its foot ; the en trance of the north docks is far from being well placed; so heavy a swell ranges along the piers, and into the h ar b our, that the engineer has been obliged to take down a large p or ti on o f t h e m id dle o f t h e south pi er in order to ma k e a b eaching place for the swe ll to expend itself upon ; and a general complaint is made of the want of dock accommodation, affording an easy outlet to the southward in north-easterly wind _ Hartlepool owes its rapid rise chiefly to Sunderland.itssouthern outlet, the want of which is so much fl felt . at 34g Vtotr Or ‘--(/ _ - . 4 :e* , ParcE SD. , APRIL 17, 1846. in evidence that while more than half a million of money had been laid out in improving the Upper Shannon, tb( estuary of that river, from Limerick to th e sea, h as b een denied even a few hundred pounds to buoy and beacon the dangerous shoals which, although easily removed. are allowed to remain and obstruct the navigation of the port. At Galw a y, s i m i larly situated at the head of a large inlet on the western coast, sheltered from the Atlantic swell by the natural breakwater of the Arran Isles, and shortly to be connected inland with the extensive navi gation of Lo ug h s Corrib and Mask, much spirit and enterprise . have b een shown since 1832, in making a floating dock, n i ne acres in extent, fit to cont a in vessels of 500 tons ; in consequence the trade has in creased, and the revenue of the port has risen from 340/ to 2,0001. per annu m . Y et unhappily the whole of this income is mortgaged to pay the interest of the debt in curred ; and, owing to some mismanagement, a rocky bar of three feet high, on which a vessel might break her back, has been left just without the sill of the dock gates. Great inconvenience is also stated to arise from the distance the Claddagh fishermen have to go to their fishing grounds, 30 miles off; and that a pier half way down the bay would be a great boon to this valuable body of men, as w e ll as t o th e owners of numerous turf boats which trade in this direction. Sligo, with limited means, has recently extended its quays 700 yards, an d remove d a port i on o f the Blennick Point, while its trade has much increased. Private quays, however, still cause great inconvenience ; weirs exist, which obstruct the upward flow of the tide ; the ebb and flood stream require directing to prevent the increase of sand-banks ; and the channel generally wants deepening, to enable the port to keep pace with its thriving trade. Londonderry, on the Foyle, where the river expands into a spacious navigable estuary, has great natural advantages, which have been ill seconded by art. Mud balm encumber the foot of the quays, which might be kept free by simply guiding the course of the stream. The quays, chiefly private property, are in a neglected state, and proje c t a pp arent l y as the owners think fit into the river. C omp l a i nts are made by sailors and pilots of the leading lights on Innishowen Head being on the same level, of the want of a light on Rathlin Island, and of the more glaring want of a beacon on the Car righ-vanan Rock, which lies in the fair tracks of steamers to and from the port. Belfast, the first town in Ireland in enterprise and commercial prosperity, ranks second only to Dublin as a port, and has an income of 22,0001. a year. In the year 1840, a channel up to the town was opened, having nine feet water at low tides, which has proved to be a great convenience to the fine steamers that daily run from hence to Glasgow and Liverpool. But even with this channel, the improvements in the harbour are far from having kept pace with the rapid advance of the town. Until very lately the quays and docks have been private property, and thus have been permitted to oppose a barrier to improvement. The evidence shows that they are still in a very negleeted state, and that there is so great a want of accommodation, that steamers are often obliged to discharge their cargoes lying alongside the quays three abreast. Complaints are made of the state of the Custom-house; that the lower lock of the Logan navigation is only a mile and a half above the town, and thus prevents the upward flow of the tide; that encroachments are making on the banks of the river, and that still more extensive encroachments are threat ened by railway speculation; in short, that everything points to the vigilant control which is absolutely neces sary to enable this fine port to keep pace with the rapid strides, both in manufactures and trade, of the capital of Ulster. Newry has the great advantage of lying within Car lingford Lough, which, a moderate outlay, might be made a harbour of refuge, an inestimable boon on this part of the coast. The Navigation Company here, instead of deepening the natural channel of the river, have em barked all their capital in an artificial canal. Dundalk has recently made great efforts, guided by a skilful engineer, to improve the harbour, and the increase in steam traffic, consequent upon deepening the channel, already demands leading lights at the entrance of the river. This fortunate psition has been in some measure econded by the a)elt and ItAilway Company, who hav e now a floating dock of twenty acre., where they can load 5,000 tons of coal a day ; while the entrance is illowed to be one of the mast easily accessible of any of the tidal harbours alone. this coast. The succ ess o f t hi s oort has indu ce d the ' formation of a Hartlepool West Harbour Dock, about half a mile to the westward, the works of which are in an advanced state. Stockton-on-Tees, including Middlesbrough, is one of the most thriving of our coal ports. Yet even here, on a closer inspection, the want of some control is mani fest—the quays are nearly all private, and are falling into the river ; the piers of the bridges are only sup ported by the loads of stone thrown down at their foot ; rocks of whinstone impede the upper navigation, and cause damage to the barges ; the entrance of the dock at Middlesbrough, completed but five years since, is only thirty feet wide ; wile about 2,000 acres of the estuary have been enclosed, and the corresponding tidal water excluded ; and the channel over the bar, which formerly h G o r u e r a t o f c s r n e n f p u a e i n i tns of ran due east, h as, in consequence, changed to N.N.E. the an d want o f of f' beacon alicaorn on Bedear ,ck, upon which vesse l s wrecked. are annually Whitby has a revenue of 3,600 a derived passing toll on coal borne by shipping, year , il from a im posed for the improvement of the tilaprigogu, r. spe lt ia ofTerstoshipping in return a west pier, of fine Whitby stone, not placed in the best direction, which projects 100 yards beyond the east pier, and causes an eddy at the en trance ; a circular head, inviting the run of the sea I into the harbour ; an entrance one-third too wide ; a rocky bar, that migh; easily be blasted, on which more s than one ship has broken her back ; a mill-dam that g ,tops the upward flow of the tide ; a railway dam, re cently made, which excludes 30,000 cubic yards of ! water on every spring tide ; ballast and the rubbish of the town thrown below high water mark and behind the west pier ; and a dry harbour. Scarborough, for some unexplained reason, has been denied the passing toll that has been continued to Whitby and Bridlington, immediately adjacent. Bridlington, like itby, has enjoyed a passing toll on coals for the last 150 years ; like Whitby, too, it offers in return a harbour dry at low water ; a north pier, built with public money at a very great cost, yet not even carried out to low water ; no quay accommoda tion ; a heavy range of swell along the pier, so that no moorings will hold the vessels • , and a pier -end light furnished with a single candle ; yet Bridlington Bay is the only good shelter in northerly gales on this coast. Kingston-upon -Hull takes the lead as the first port in the kingdom for inland trade ; while its position with respect to the North Sea has made it the chief outlet-of our manufactures to northern Europe, and raiseclii to the rank of the third port in the country inefOreign traffic. The approaches by the deep but intricate chan nel of the Humber are admirably buoyed and lighted by the Hull Trinity Board ; floating docks to the extent of 23 acres already exist, and 15 acres in addition will soon be opened. The activity at the docks is not sur passed by that of any other port in the kingdom, 75 vessels having lately passed through the Humber dock lock in a single tide. The tonnage of the vessels that have paid dock dues during the past year amounted to 700,000 tons, and the whole income of the port, derived from tolls on shipping and goods borne by shipping, ex ceeds 75,000/. a year. Commercially important as Hull appears to have been in the infancy of British commerce, it was not till 1775 that the old Hull dock was set on foot ; the traffic still increasing the Humber dock was begun in 1807 ; more than twenty years elapsed, during which the trade almost doubled, when the Junction doek was opened in 1829, but not until Goole had been de clared a bonding port. Great as was the increase of accommodation thus afforded, the trade more then kept pace with it ; and, as it appears in evidence, for want of dock room ships have been greatly damaged, and some sunk in the harbour from its over-crowded state, being at times so full that vessels could not get in or out for weeks together ; and, on one occasion, a vessel made a voyage to the Baltic and back, while another, ready for sea at the same time, was endea vouring to proceed down the harbour. Thus Hull af fords a striking instance of the evil of permitting a com pany levying heavy dues on shipping to obtain power to give or withold dock accommodation according to its in terests, instead of this power being vested in the Corpo ration or in trustees for the public good. The original shares of the Dock Company, on which 250/, only Lave been paid, are now worth 2,000/. Grimsby, from its position near the entrance of the Humber, will, when the proposed extensive works are carried out and the projected railways completed, offer great facilities to the trade with the Baltic and Northern Europe ; it will be a ready coaling place for steamers, and will, probably, become the principal resort of the fishing vessels employed on the Dogger Bank, as well as on the more distant grounds of the North Sea fishery. Great Yarmouth is of importance for its commerce and fisheries ; and its roadstead is well known as the most capacious in England, and as a great thoroughfare and shelter for the coasting trade. Yarmouth Haven has a depth of eight feet on the bar at low water, and vessels of from thirteen to tburteen feet draught enter at ordinary high tide. The registered tonnage of the port is 40,000 tons, and the number of arrivals yearly about 3,000 vessels, the aggregate tonnage of which amounts to 176,828 tons. One great impediment to the flow of the tide is the narrowness of Yarmouth-bridge, and of the adjoining part of the haven, which occasions in ordinary tides a difference in the height of the water of one foot. and in very high tides of from three to four feet, between the bridge and the pierhead. Norwich, a city containing 62,344 inhabitants, situated in the centre of the county of Norfolk, and distant 30 miles by water from the sea, was constituted a port by the opening of the Lowestoft navigation in 1832. Its exports and imports being large, its citizens had long desired a direct communication with the sea by the port of Yarmouth ; and the river Yare, throughout its whole course from Norwich to its junction with the Breydon Water, being of sufficient depth to admit vessels of 200 tons burthen, the Burgh Flats and the narrowness of the Yarmouth Bridge were, and still are, the only impedi ments to that desirable object ; but these portions of the navigation were then intrusted to the charge of the Cor poration of the town of Yarmouth, who refused the citi zens of Norwich the desired communication with the sea. Thus thwarted, the citizens of Norwich formed a joint stock company, and applied to Parliament fur access to the sea by Lowestoft ; but even in that attempt they were opposed by the Corporation of Yarmouth, who ex pended more than 8,0001. in Parliamentary opposition to their object. The communication, however, between Norwich and the sea at Lowestoft, was obtained; but having failed is realise the expectations of its projectors, there is again a unanimous desire to have a direct navigation to the sea through Yarmouth; but it is stated that there is still the same opposition to this project on the part of the Yarmouth Haven and Pier Commission, now intrusted with the management of the localities referred to, although it is generally admitted that the deepening of the Burgh Flats and the widening of Yarmouth Bridge, - Yrould not only afford the desired communication, but also tend to the improvement of the harbour and bar at Yarmouth; while at the sarre time the cost ofexecuting the necessary works, to secure these objects, would not greatly exceed the sum mentioned as having been spent in fruitless opposition to the navig a ti on by Lowestoft. It is stated that if St. °lave's- bridge were removed from the river Waveney, and the Burgh Flats deepened, sea-borne vessels of much greater draught of wate could easily reach Becclea through the port of Tar mouth. Blakeney and Cley, on the north coast of Norfolk, have a common entrance , which, by a wi n di ng course, is distant fr o m th e t own f Cloy 5:1, and from Blakeney 3A miles. Within the memory of some of the present pilots, 140 coasting vessels have taken refuge in this port during one tide ; yet in the place where these vessels lay afloat at low water there is now only a depth of five feet, and the utility of the harbour has consequently been almost destroyed. It s stated that this evil has been caused by the en closure at different times of more than 1,200 acres of land, over which the tidal waters formerly flowed. Unfortunately, also, in 1817, Blakeney, by Act of Parliament, became a proprietary harbour, and the mer chants and inhabitants, unless they are proprietors, have no power to interfere in its management, or in the regu lation of the charges on the shipping ; and until legisla tive authority be given, no such power can be exercised either by the gevermnent or by any other parties. The port of Wells lies a few miles to the west of Blakeney. The bar of its harbour is dry at low water, but the rise of tide on it at ordinary springs is 21 feet, though at the quay only 12 feet. The inhabitants struggled for nearly half a century to prevent the inclosure of the tidal lands by the adjoining proprietors, even at the expense of many suits at law; but all these efforts were frustrated, and 486 acres have been inclosed, to the great detriment of the harbour. The necessity of the supervision of harbours by Go vernment further appears from the fact that, under an Act passed so recently as 1844, the sum of 9,6501. has been borrowed, on an assignment of the harbour dues, to erect a quay; and the expenditure of this large amount has been left almost entirely under the control of one of the Commissioners, who acts as secretary, collector, treasurer, paymaster, and superintendent of the steam-tug and of all public works; and who thus has the whole management of the works and finances, without even the check that would be afforded by the assistance of a clerk or the employment of a practical engineer. The merchants and inhabitants complain of the heavy burdens imposed on them by such gross mismanagement; but, as in many similar cases, they have no interfere or obtain redress, as the Commissioners named and in the Act, who now p erm it suc h misman g tn power to many of whom do not even possess any pop town, have the poorer of mat ing 0 property anmtheed o th e rs to fill up vacancies. At Harwich, besides the extens ion of Landguard Point mentioned in our former of cement atone near report, it appears that, Owing to the continued excavation inroads in Mill Bay to the coast, the sea has made great siow to the eastward, and the Admiralty surveyorthe westward, and --3, Felix s tow reported that the waves are encroachingto a great r extent along Landguard E ast Beach, at the rate of five-and-twenty feet a year, Mires.% NORTH KENT RAILWAY.—There has just been pub lished, by order of the House of Commons, a statement in support of the petition from the parish of Camberwell against the North Kent Railway Bill. The petitioners, among other reasons against the Bill, urge that it will require the dernoli • tion of 640 houses in Southwark, Lambeth, and their vicinities, and that it will pass close to several churches and places of worship, and urge that as there has been issued a Royal Commission to consider theasestion of Metropolitan railways and termini, tleArth Kentlhie should be referred to that commission, a reMgendatien thich is supported by the authority of Sir R. Peel, who declared, that were he Chairman of the Committee of Group 14, he should suspend his judgment on the Metropolitan portion of the North Kent line until that Commission had reported on the subject. Various other reasons arc uited against the scheme, and the petitioners declare that they are ready t o support every material allegatio n b y the evidence of persons unconnected either with the North Kent Railway or with any of the rival schemes. fPROGRESS OF RAILWAYLEGISLATION IN THE Housie, oF COmmoNs.—From a Parliamentary Paper just published entitled, "List of Petitions and Private Bills in Parliament, and proceedings thereupon, Session 1846," it appears that 562 petitions for Railway Bills have been pres,nted, and that in respect of 386 of such petitions Bills have been read the first time, of which 370 have been read the second time, and 7 the third time, viz., Brighton and Chichester (Steyning Branch) ; Brighton, Lewes, and Hastiogs Deviations, Sec. ; Direct London and Portsmouth ; Eastern Union and Had leigh Junction ; London and York ; Sheflieldand Lincolnshire Junction ; and South-Eastern, Tunbridge -wells to Bye. Fourteen Bills have been withdrawn, and proceedings appear to be suspended as to 4318i115, and there are 130 petitions for Bills upon which no reports have been made. IMPROVED TASTE AMONGST THE EAST-ENDERS.— The vast advance which the people at the East-end of the town are making in literary taste is a source of frequent con versation in the City. Mr. Charles Kemble read Shakespeare's play of " As you Like it," on Easter Tuesday, to an immense audience at the splendid building iu the Commercial-road, called " the Eastern Institution," and, amidst loud cheers, he announced that on Tue•,:dav next he would read the play of " Hamlet" in the same room, which he considers admirably adapted to the occasion. Prince Sehwarenberg and suite arrived at. the St. Kitherine's Wharf yesterday morning, by the General Steam Navigation Steam Ship Bambon, after a quick passage of seventeen hours, from Havre. A NEW YORK AUCTION.—I strolled into one of the auction-rooms of New York ; I had been in th em b e f ore, b ut not to stop long—l stopp e d half an hour to-day. These sales are for goods by wholesale ; and certainly, if any English merchant could have seen the rapidity with wletch his goods were knocked down at the most erfiitrary prices, but rarely, very rarely, good prices, he would be staggered in his desire to send further consignments. Yorkshire wool len cloths were selling when I went in, and during my stay : I sin no great judge of them, but I should he inclined to say, from what I could judge, that all were sold at a loss— and some at a great loss. A nice si. , ei tiee b: - earl cloth, the colour "invisible green," as it is eiofi.d, was knocked off in about a minute or a Minute :nil a lilt at 2 ,,, dollars per yard, and would net, a i ut 6 '.i.l t., tue exporter, as this price, of course, must p:y all d i;i,,s and charges. Other things (woollen) went in !,rap ',Gr.. voicing from 1 1 ,1 to 216 dollars per yard. They are s,•:d .•! rito , -e than a minute in Knocking down a I ,t ; if 1-1 th vs,, : , ,le: are 4 ways under stood to be bona fi,l ~ 1. ~. the, ;-,,5, : - ing in ag tin. There were ten or a d0.z•,1 w:i., .4,....,,,,••! ~, 1r.,,-, conic- as buyers, i . :aotioneer; but the fine piece of super fi ne language is someillitg lite , t ,. n. malkievani; want i a n na wr a i s tin n g 'an t y he in qa r i ' ck l' l '-k ot ' i l i . l;iri of i t i t l * , i , •"'"l'bic t" describe a bid f or . /id a bid—a bid. IV hat shall I a bid—a bid—a bid—a I broadcloa t t h l i i, 3 gentlemen, what shall I say? One dollar and a half is cloth?— ln n n'll beautiful ‘ ''b"ie c 4 'lo ' t .e h t , 'n gentlemen, ; ‘'liowi , li bid, s gentlemen—ono and a half—one and a half —one and a half—only one and a half, gentlemen—going, going, going at 00 0 nn n e e e and ssiex‘,t e.. a n, , .seven-eights," half—one onegi 1 seventy,ts, ec . dollar ,8,) n 0 s c. i ; x s t ae y ln, e(cents, seventy-five, t so .. fi l vi o ee n , sixty,egoon ees soe Nn. use,.,lluntil, .. c i sixty, , :hii,ll, double quick time, down it comes at two dollars, perhaps. eightlngoods te a n • h pieces,i eli are or not quarter:,so cp o e expensive, siN , e half, e t a h s e es l o , t & s e a . ; are , i i m h t :s u . p in tion system is much reprobated by the respectable''' .unc tion New York, The British • consigner, however, must always remember, that if he wants to sell his goods immediately, the auction-room is the only place for that purpose —and he must take his chance accordingly; for if once offered at auction, his goods are not to be withdrawn. —llleinoir of B. Braidley, Esq. RENEWING THE SUGAR-CANE FROM THE SEED.—The Royal Agricultural Society of Jamaica have been making inquiries on this important subject ; Dr. Shier, the agricul tural chemist of British Guiana, having pressed it on their attention. They sent to Mr. Trail!, the superintendent of the garden of Ib ra hi m P as h a , a t C a i ro ; b u t h e re p or t e d that the cane is propagated in Egypt by cuttings alone, and is scarcely ever seen to produce flowers. Mr. Lambert, tiu secretary of the Ceylon Agricultural Society, stated that he had been unable to obtain cane seeds during an employment in cane cultivation in Spain for fifteen years, and in Ceylon for four years. During his residence in Spain, he had only seen three canes in flower. He had heard that cane seeds did germinate in 25 degrees north latitude in India, but had been unable to ascertain the fact. It was stated that we must look for seeds of the plant from spontaneous vegetation in India or China. There is reason to believe that in many The Jamaica and prevented as much as possible. . far the colony. parts of India the flowering of the cane is deemed unfortu nate,Churchill to study under They are about to sand a Mr. six months, and prebablY So ciety desire to have an agricultural chemist Pro fessor Johnston, in Scotland, for six nlop a further period. • • of our countrymen 1 EMIGRATION.—The then to study under Dr. Shier, emigration z,nni. Our qua" s are 1 this year is incomparably larger thal , i ve i r clad pea nre_ covered with crowds olhealthy and 1 in Guiana, ' for refuge in other lands fom . his. At the close of the will sailed the poverty of t thousand individuals have sidered that over eight neighbouring districts fir the Canadaa or from Cork and its nber of the emigrants seem to belong f season it is con sidered to seek a livlihood and a America. A great f n ar u t i able farmers. The failure of the po tato the class of theircom gloomy anticipations of the future seem their natural reluctance to quit the forefathers and their kindred.--Code E • aa country of then miner. An extraordinary phenomenon toA ploce on the 13th ult., at Karoly, in Hungary. Mount normentzee, about t t o ato ha c v ro e p 1,800 feet high, situated at the entrance of the defile of ( t ) i , i_i c ilreo.their forefathers Borsoe, suddenly split 10 two, and stopped up the course of the river running through the hollow. The whole country above the place where the earth fell was immediately flooded. 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