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per i LONDON and NOTTINGHAM RAILWAY Connecting London, Nottingham, Sheffield, and Leeds. (Provisionally Rexistered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vict. c. 110.) Capital 1,500,0001., in 75,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. (Incompliance with the Standing Orders of the Houses of Parliament.) COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Sir George G. De Hochepied Larpent, Bart., Chairman. Rev. Henry Robert Fowler, Deputy Chairman. William Bradley, Esq., Sheffield James Gernon, Esq. Fraderick Pratt Barlow, Esq. William Hannay, Esq. Joseph Braithwaite, Esq. Thomas Wakefield, Esq. James Brand, Esq. Capt. Adamson George Parker Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq. Samuel Parsons, Esq. Lieutetiortt-Corouel Elrington William Raines, Esq. William Edmond Ferrara, Esq. :r:Neficiza-m-Cnizr—Charley Hutton Gregory, Esq., C.E. ACTING ENGINEERS—Nathaniel Briant, Esq.,C.E. TANDING COUNSEL—Mr. Sergeant Clarke. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Birch and Bramah, Great Winchester-street Messrs. Forbes and Drake, Warnford-court 31gssre. Freeth and Rawson, Nottingham. LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. Parker and Smith, Sheffield C. S. Busby, Esq., Chesterdeid, P..aLfaxErraity:Aoarirs — Messrs. Gregory, Fanlkener, and Co., 11, Parliament-street. BANKERS. Messrs. Roberts, Curtis, and Co., 15, Lombard-street, London Mcssrs. Moore and Robinson, Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham The Sheffield and liallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield. SECRETARY, PRO TEM.—Mr. William R. Drake. Offices of the Company, No. 8, Warnford-court, London. No further application for shares in this Company will be received after MONDAY, the Gth day of October next, except from parties ',wally interested in the line, from whom applications will be received up to WEDNESDAY, the Bth day of October neXt.. Copies of the prospectus, with forms of application, may be had at the offices of the Company ; Messrs. Edward Ellis and Co., 53, Threadneedle-street, London; of the Solicitors and Local Agents ; and of the following persons :—Messrs. Stock's' , and Thompson, Solicitors, Liverpool; Messrs. Johnson, Bradley, and Co., Share brokers. Manchester ; Mr. Guy, Sharebroker, York ; Mr. A. Brand, Sharebroker, Glasgow; ifr. Charles Cowper, Sharebroker, St. Andrew's-square, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Allardyce and Jopp, Broken, Aberdeen; Alexander Scott, Esq., Perth; Messrs. Bruce and Symes, Sharebrokers, Dublin; and Messrs. Ridsdale, of Leeds. By order of the Committee of Management, WILLIAM R. DRAKE, Secretary. NORTHAMPTON, LINCOLN, AND HULL RAILWAY, commencing at Northampton, and proceeding by way of Ketter ing, Uppingham, Oakham, Grantham, on to Lincoln, with two ex tensions from that city—one to the port of Gainsisorough, and the other to Market Raison and the rising and important port of Great Grimsby. (Provisonally Registered.) Capital 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. Admiral Ayscough, Southampton J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood House, Leeds, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Company Mr. Joseph Adnitt, merchant, Northampton Francis Simes Alliott, Esq., Nottingham Thomas James Arnold, Esq., Revising Barrister for the City of London Sir Arthur Do Capel Broke, Bart., Oakley Hall, near Kettering Robert M. Bates, Esq. banker, Strand Bell, Robert, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Beerthorpe Hall, Newark, Notts John Richard Burbidge, Esq., Surbiton Inn, Surrey John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton Mr. Alderman Brook*Sfanchester C. Buschek, Esq., merchant, 133, Fenchurch-street, London John Barnett, Esq., Cheltenham Jonathan Burton, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Grand Union and Nottingham and Gainsborongh Railway Companies George Buxton, Esq., Northampton J. D. Barry, Esq., London and Paris, Director of the Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux Railway Company Charles Britten, Esq., Northampton Mr. Alderman Bean, Nottingham John Bradley, Esq., The Park, Nottingham Mr. Sergeant Clarke, Recorder of Northampton and Lincoln Thomas Chitty, Esq., Upper Gower•street Richard Carpenter, Esq., Lonsdale-square, London Henry Coe Coops, Esq., Goldhanger, Essex Thos. 'Mortimer Cleobury, Esq., Acton, Middlesex N. Cumberlege, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park Mr. Edward Cotton, merchant, Northampton J. M. Cottle, Esq., Leamington Peter Coulston, jun., Esq., Husbands Bosworth, near Welford Robert Cook, Esq., Galnsborough, Lincolnshire John Robert Dalby, Esq., Ashbourne, Derbyshire The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Danner, M.P., 6, Tilney. street, Park-lane Hon. W. Dawson Darner, Parkstone Lodge, Poole Dayrell, Edmund F. Esq., Lilingstone Dayrell, High-Sheriff of Bucks John Eyaton, Esq., Welford and Salford Hall, Warwickshire Hen. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Beigrave square Benjamin Fowler, Esq., T a mworth, Director of the Northampton, Ban'arry, and Chelteham Railway Company 'John Freeman, Esq., Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Comppany Major-General Greenstreet, Northampton John Cooper Gotch, Esq., banker, Kettering Hon. Robert Gore, M.P., 21, Wilton-crescent William Gambier, Esq., Sacombe Park, Hertfordshire James Gernon, Esq., Conduit-street, Bond-street A.lexand..r Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, London Frederic William Green, Esq., shipowner, Cornhill, London The Rev. George Edward Hamner, Rector of Loddlngton and Over stone, Northamptonshire Frederick William Hamilton, Esq. Charles Heneage, Esq., Cadeby-house, Lincolnshire Henry Hensman, Esq., Pytchley, Northamptonshire George Harper, Esq., Moss-fields, Salop William Herbert, Esq., Nottingham Thomaaklagor, Esq., Northampton, Director of the North am pto n, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Company Thomas Hopkins, Esq., Nottingham Irthor.HAYtnes , Esq., Methuen Villa, Leamington Jclhe Helisert liclbert, Esq., Upper Gloucester-Place, London Mr. William Higgins, merchant, Northampton Edw frd Hall, Esq., West Bank-house, Macclesfield, Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Company John Baron Howes, Esq., Irthlingboroagh-grange,NorthaMptonshire Mr. Alderman Hollis, Northampton Biggins, T. C., Esq., Turvey House, Beds Richard Hooper, Esq., Upper Clapton, London, Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway Company Hon. Edward Jerningham Richard Parry Jones, FA2,,, Whitchurch, Salop Willis Laycock, Esq., - Sheffield, Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough, and Grand Union Railway Companies Sir Gregory A. Lewin, Recorder of Doncaster F. Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's Park, London, Director of the Eastern Counties Railway Company George Wortley Lovell, Esq., Great Billing, Northamptonshire Charles Leavers, Esq., The Park, Nottingham Major-General Mercer, C. 8., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square Christopher Markham, Esq., Northampton William Mackenzie, Esq., Liverpool and Paris, Director of the Or- • leans, Tours, andtordeaux Railway Company George Murray, Esq., Chichester James Morrison, Esq., St. Mary-at-Hill, London G. Marshall, Esq., Goalming, Surrey E. W. Morris, Esq., Grovehurst, Pembury, Kent Major J. A. Moore, Queen Ann-street, Cavendish-square Samuel Oxenham, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's Park , London Sir George Prescott, Bart., Theobald Samuel Percival. Esq., banker, Northampton Mr. Alderman Porter, Northampton The Rev. Thomas Price, Rr-ctor of Llanrothel, Herefordshire Edwin Pell, Esq., Sywell Hall, Northamptonshire James Watts Peppercorns, Esq., Old Broad-street, London, and Dui. wick, Surrey Vaughan Prause, Esq., Nether Stowey, Somersetshire Henry Fywell, Esq., Northampton John Phipps, Esq., Northampton Benjamin Payne, Esq., Leicester The Lord Ressmore, The Dell, Windsor Mr. George. Lands, merchant, Nottingham The Rev. John Lucas Sutton, Rector of Weekly, Northamptonshire F. Curwen Smith, Esq., Frognall Hall, Hampstead Thomas Sharp, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Northampton ...-... , Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Companies Henry Lenton Stockburn, Esq., J.P., Northampton Frederick Seymour, Esq., St. James's-square G. W. Smith, Esq., Harbury Hall, Sheffield Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq., Grantully Castle William Spooner, Esq., Chapel-street, Beigrave-square, London James Robert Spiller, Esq., banker, Northampton William Strong, Esq., Northampton George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury Benjamin Villains. Esq.. banker, 4, Whitehall, London Major JaniteWaller, St. James's-street Mr. Alderman - Williams, Northampton Mr. Thomas Woodhouse, manufacturer, Nottingham David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland-hollow, Derbyshire, Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborongh Railway Company George Willes, Esq., Hungerford, Berks John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tonbridge, Kent, Director of th'e Leicester and Betrord Railway Company Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Stratf,rd-on-Avon, an Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire The Rev. C.F. Watkins, Vicar of Brexworth, Northamptonshire Mr. John Woolston, jun., merchant, Wellingborough Mr. J seph Wykes, merchant, Northampton Mr. Alderman Walker, Northampton Mr. 3larrpaduke Wetherell, merchant, Northampton Charles f.oxdale Warren, Esq., the Lodge, Market Drayton, and Conseil Ball, Staffordshire Lieut.-Colonel llon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Brook's Club • Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Pall-mall, London Allen Allieocke Young, Esq., Orlin bury, Northamptonshire J. Borwick Ymirn, Esq., Herne Hill, Surrey. RANKERS Northampton — The Union Bank 19 >, The Northamptonshire Banking Company Kettering— Messrs Gotch and Sons Stamford —The Northamptonshire Banking Company. ENGINEER—John Urpeth Rastrlck, Esq. SOLICITORS. London —Augustus Walter Arnold, Esq., 31, Golden-square Kettering—Messrs. Lamb and Nettleship Northampton and Welford—Mr. George Pell, Esq., jam Locat, AGENT —Arthur Wells, Esq., Nottingham. PARLIAMENTARY AGENT. Cadwallader F. Waddy, Esq., Fladyer-street. SECRETARY—Richard Kirwan, Esq. Offices of the Company, 34, Moorgate-street. PROSPECTUS. The eFgects dotintende local ccomplished by this undertaking are— Firstly —The supply oc railway accommodation to the impor tant districts embraced by the line. Secondly—The benefit of railway communication with the metro polls to a district of country upwards of fifty miles in length at pre sent unprovided with that accommodation. hirdly—The completion of the chain of railway communication between the river Severn and the southern and western counties, and the north-eastern district of the kingdom and the river Number and its per: Including that of Hull. Commencing at the town of Northampton, in conjunction with the London and Birmingham, and the lines of railway proposed to con verge at that town from Cheltenham, and the west from Worcester and from 'Warwick, the line will proceed in a direct course to the market town of Kettering, by which place all the companies compet ing for the lino of railway between London and Manchester propose to pass. It will then proceed also in a direct course to the market towns of Urpingham, Oakham, and Grantham, on to Lincoln. The country lying between the towns of Northampton and Grant ham is wholly without existing or even proposed railway accommo dation, not only to the south but also to the north' At Lincoln the line will fork, and proceed, on the one hand, in a northerly direction to the flourishing port of Gainsborough, and, on the other, by a north-eastern course to the market town of Market Ralsen, on to the rising port of Great Grimsby. By a union with the Sheffield and Great Grimsby Junction Rail way at Market Raisen, a direct and uninterrupted chain of communi- Cation will be established between all the above-mentioned districts and the town and port of Hull. The sources of traffic which this line will secure are various and very considerable ; some of them only can be here enumerated, viz.:— Starting from Great Grimsby, the line will appropriate to itself the whole of the traffic from thence to the metropolis, and also the southern and western districts of the kingdom, and, in addition, it will secure the important and increasing local traffic between that town and Market Ralsen and Lincoln. From Gainsborough, the termini of several railways from the north and north-west, this line will carry the traffic to Lincoln, its county town. The' traffic from Hull to the metropolis, and also to the west, will enter upon this line at Marketßaisen and proceed thereon to Lincoln. From Lincoln the whole of the trate passing to the west and the intermediate towns must pass over this line. In tie event of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway Company not obtaining their Bill, then the traffic from Lincoln to the south and west, and also the metropolis, will pass along this line of railway; the former the wholf distance, and the latter in any event to Grantham, a distance of allbut twenty-five miles ; and should the London and York Company not succeed, such traffic will proceed on to Kettering or Northampton. The entire district between Grantham and Kettering, a distance Of more than forty rniles, and including the market towns of Oakingham and Uppingtam, is without a railwie , or water-carriage accommodation, and the whole of its traffic therefore will travel over this line of railway, which will be in the direct course not only to tl:e west but also to London. At Kettering this line will unite with that one of the now com pctlng schemes passing that town from Manchester and Leicester to London; which shall be successful before Parliament. The country is free from engineering difficulties, with one or two exceptions only, and those are more than counterbalanced by the very favourable gradients of by far the greater portion of the indeed for many miles the line w ill run upon a water level. ; The line will not interfere with any ornamental property. The landowners on the line are favour a bl e to the undertaking. The promoters reserve power to alter and vary the route, to ex tend the proposed line of railway, and to increase the amount of ca pital as may be necessary or advisable. Applications for shares may be made to the Secretary, or to the following Sharebrekers, of whom prospectus es with maps of the line maybe obtained:--London —Messrs.Peppercorne and C0.,2,01,1 Broad street; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury. Birmingham— Mr. W. H.ColliS. Blackburn—Mr. Thomas Boardman. Bradford-- Mr. George Clark. Bristol—Messrs. Tate and Nash. Cheltenham— Mr. James Stokes. Coventry—Mr. J. S. Holland. Derby—Messrs. Eyre and Shaw. Dublin—Messrs. Labertouehe and Stafford. Edin burgh—James Pringle, Esq„ 79, Princes-street. hin. Exeter—Messrs. ute Beaumont and Langnorthy. Glasgow--Messrs. Duncan an d 50D. gaigaz—Kr. William Cronlielm. Huddersileld•wlifeara. Everard and Co. Hull—Mr. Frederick Stamp. Leeds—Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler. Leicester—Messrs. Payne and Freer. Liverpool—Messrs. Townley and Whitehead ; Messrs. Cameron and Co. ; Mr. Morris Reynolds. Macclesfield—Mr. Richard E. Hine. Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons ; Messrs. A. Birchall and Co. ; Mr. Charles O'Neil., Nottingham—Mr. Charles Spencer. Sheffield—Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons. Sontbampton—Mr. Joseph Clark, jun. Wakefield—Mr. E. H. Armitage. Worcester — Mr. Miles. York—Messrs. Grayston and Earle. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Northampton, Lincoln, and Hull Railway Company. Gentlemen,-2 request you to allot me shares of 201. each in the above Railway, and I undertake to accept the same, or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regu lations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to pay, when required, the deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per share. Dated this day of 1845. Name in fall •••• 1.• •• •• • ..... •• •• •• Profession and Professional Residence in full . • .. Private Residence in full .• • ....... • • • • Usual Signature • • • • • • Name• Residence • • And Profession of Referee ••• • • • •••••• • • • • • • Offices, 34, Moorgate-street. NORTHAMPTON, LINCOLN, AND HULL RAILWAY. PROSPECTUSES and MAPS will be ready for delivery on SATUR DAY, the 4th inst. vREWASH VALLEY EXTENSION, and ROCHDALE, BLACKBURN, and EAST LANCASHIRE JUNCYION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 1,750,0001., in 87,500 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 2i. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. C.H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South ➢lid land Railway Company Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., York-terrace, Re gent's-park, and Walney, Director of the Trent Valley Railway Company Williarit Bean, Esq., Tube-hill William Beresford, Esq., M.P., 77, Pall-mall, London, Director of _ the Thames VI. Rey Railwoy Company Hon. Augustus _Berkeley, Berkeley-house, Spring-gardens William Blanford, Esq., Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway Company Charles Bradley, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and of the Manche ster and Birmingham Continuation Railway Companies — Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth, and the South and Midland Railway Companies Loriis Buckland, Lloyd's, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Railway Company Edwin Cadman, Esq., Westbourne-house, Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbech, and Lincolnshire ; of the Great Grimsby and Lincolnshire ; and of the Direct Western Railway Companies William Campbell, Esq., Fairfield, Ayrshire _ . . Richard Carpentel:, Esq., Magistrate of Middlesex, Deputy-Chairman of the Warwick and Worcester ; and Director of the Tan Vale Railway Companies Rev. H. R. Chandos Pole, M.A., Rector of Radboume and Muggen ten, Derbyshire John Churchill, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation Railway Company Major Morse Cooper, Hargrave, Henly-on-Thames, Director of the South and Midlands, and Thames Valley Railway Companies Samuel Walker Cox, Esq., Breadvale, Derbyshire, Director of the Tean Dove Talley, and of the Thames Valley Railway Com• panies William Thomas Cox, Esq., Spordon, Derbyshire, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley Railway Company John Dennis, Esq., Director of the West Midlands and of the Thames Valley Railway Companies Col. Robert Douglas, Director of the London and Birmingham Ex tension, and of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway Companies The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Director of the Thames Valley Railway Company Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the South and Midlands, and of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway Companies W. T. Fraser, Esq., Manchester-square, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Railway Company Lieut.-Colonel Sir L. Grant, K.C.8., 31, Harley-street Sir Andrew Pe.llett Green, Director of the Hail and Dencaster Rail• way Company Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of the South Staffordshire, of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth ; of the London and Birmingham Extension, and Northampton, Daventry, and Warwick ; and of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation, and Welsh Junction Railway Companies F. J. Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, London, The Grange, Aifreton, Director of the Bideford and Tavistock Railway Company S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.S., Inner Temple, Director of the Great London and Leeds Direct, and of the Thames Valley Railway Companies Frederic Hewett, Esq., Clapham, Surrey, Director of the Great Western, Southern, and Eastern Counties, and of the Leek and Mansfield Railway Companies George Price Hill, Esq., Gavenbrae-house, Hampstead, Director of the Thames Valley Railway Company Roger Molinsworth, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway Company John Douglas Hopkins, Esq., Director of the London and Birming ham Extension, and of the Staffordshire Potteries Railway Companies Abraham Howe, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Railway Company W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., .Alderman of London, Chairman of the Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, Rhuabon, and Vale of Llangollen ; of the Leek and Mansfield ; and of the Great Western, Southern, and Eastern Counties Railway Companies Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, and Parthenon Club, Regent-street, Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean and Gloucester Railway Companies Frederick I. Jones, Esq. Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, Staffo rdshire Potteries, and South and Midland Railway Companies Mr. Alderman Kelly, Director of the London and Birmingham Ex tension, and of the West Midland Railway Companies Thomas Kidley, M.D., Sheffield, Director of the Direct Western Railway Charles George Knox, Esq., Old-square, Lincoln's Inn William Law, Esq., Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway Companies George Lawton, Esq., Dutchley's, Essex, Director of the South Midland and South Union, and of Thames Valley Railway Com panies Rev. Richard Lee, rector of Darley-dale, Derbyshire Thomas Lee, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway Company William Alexander Long, jun., Esq., Kingswood-house, Wotton under-Edge, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway Company William 3fargetson, Esq., Streatham Henry Blair Mayne, Esq., 14, Wilton-street, GrosTenor-square John Mollady, Esq., Marble-hall, Warwick, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension, and of the Exeter and Weymouth Ra liway Companies Peter Morrison, Esq., Prince's-street, Bank, London, Director of the Thames Valley Railway Company Robert William Netterville, Esq., Cruise Rath, County Meath, and Sackville-street, Dublin John George Norbury, Esq., 3fancetta-house, Atherstone, Director of the Thames Valley Railway Company Henry Gerard Ohrley, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands, and of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway Companies B;njamin Oliveira, Esq., 8, Upper Hyde Park• street, Director of the Thames Valley Railway Company George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Company The Rev. John Poole, M.A., Mansfield John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Royd, Halifax, Director of Rosamel's Great Northern of France ; of the Manchester, Liverpool, and Great North of England ; and of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway Companies David R Ross, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, and Director of the London and Manchester Railway Companies. Henry Savage, Esq., 34, Dorset-place, Dorset-square, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway Company Joseph Shaw, Esq , Huddersfield, Director of the Eastern Unioa Railway Company William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and Thames Embankment Companies William Simpson, Esq., York William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the South and Midlands Railway, and Belfast, Lame, and Bally mena Railway Companies William H. Terrell, Esq., Stone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Hull and Doncaster Railway William Thornton, Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman-square Thomas Hammond Tooke, Esq., Director of the Bideford and Tavis tock, and London and Birmingham Extension Railway Companies Sir William Twysden, Bart., Portman-square, Dorset-street, Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean and Gloucester Junction Rail way Company Joseph Underwood, Esq., Blackheath-park and Norwich, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway Company C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Director of the Worcester and Warwick Railway Company Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Companies Samuel Watkins, Esq., Forest Hill W. A. Wilkinson, Esq. Director of the Waveney Valley and Great Yarmouth Railway Company B. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square, Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway Company Francis Sacheverel Wilmot, Esq.,' Storton •by-Dale, Derbyshire, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley Railway Company a• - Coed Coelyn, Denbighshire, ind:Lonsdale square, London, Deputy-Chairman of the West Midlands, and Director of the Oxford and Worcester Railway Companies William Wright, Esq., Thorp-house, Norton, near Stieflield, Direc tor of the Sheffield, Barnsby, and Wakefield Junction Railway Companies Sir William Wynn, Meseynewadd, Chairman of the Nrjrth Wales, Company and Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION. CIIAIRMAR-W. HUGHES HUGHES, Esq., E.S.A., &c, Alderman. DiTury-CmunagAN--JOUPH BROWN, Esq. Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart, G. N. Wright, M.A. William Bean, Esq. Richard Carpenter, Esq. _ Charles George Knox, Esq, William Law, Esq. Stephen Lewis, Esq. William Shaw, Esq. John Churchlll, Esq. F. J. Hall, Esq. Frederick Hewitt, Esq. Robert Watkins, Esq. W. A. Wilkinson, Esq. BANKERS. London—The Commercial Bank, Lothbury Derby—The Derby and Derbyshire Bank Rochdale—Messrs. Clement Royds and Son Blackburn—Taw Manchester and Liverpool Banking Company. CONSULTING ENGINEERS Sir John Macneill, LL.D. and F.R.S. James Thompsen, Esq., F.R.S.E. and 'ENGINEERS. William B. Prichard, Esq.. C.E. William Thomson, Esq., C.E. PARLIAMENTARY AczNrs—Messrs. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Coates. SOLICITOR—HuII Terrell, Esq., 30, Basinghall-street,London. LOCAL AGENTS. J. Cressy' Hall, Esq., Alfreton, Derbyshire George Henry Rlchardsoneox, Esq., Spondon, Derbyshire SEcarTAaY—Stillingleet Locker, Esq. Assuming the northern terminus of the Erewash Railway as its origin, this line will pass through localities totally tin provided with railway accommodation, into the populous ma nufacturing districts of Lancashire. It will continue the important line from which it borrows the prefix of its name, from Alfreton, in Derbyshire, where it will be a recipient of traffic Drom the Cromford Canal—communicating with the Codnor ironworks—along the Dinting Vale, and, obeying the course of the river Derwent, enter Yorkshire, in the vicinity of Saddleworth. In its course, it will pass through or near to Matlock, Ashbourne, Glos sop, Mottram, Hy field, and Duckenfleld, in reaching which point, the Manchester and Sheffield Railway will be intersected, and the Hud dersfield Canal Railway passed, near to the Rochdale station of the Manchester and Leeds Railway. It is unnecessary to state here the character of the country from Rochdale to Blackburn : it will be sufficient to observe, that it is the seat of those manufactures to which England owes her accumulating wealth. The line will proceed thence through or near to Whitworth and Rossendale, and fall Into the East Lancashire Railway, in the vicinity of Haslingden. A branch will be thrown out of the trunk line, from the Junction with the East Lancashire line near Haslingden, by Low-Moor iron works and Bacnp, to Todmorden. The Erewash Extension will be the only direct route from the centre of Derbyshire to the great manufacturing towns and chief seaports of Lancashire. It will traverse a valley district adornzd with the most picturesque scenery, and, at the same time, rich in mineral produce. It will communicate, laterally, with several trunk lines of railway, and will be fed by no less than five working canals— the Cromford—the Manchester and Sheffield—the Huddersfield—the Manchester and Leeds—and the Liverpool and Blackburn. To the multiplication of advantages which intersecting railways and lines of still-water navigation are compelled to afford, the throw ing out of branches from the line itself in so many directions will add still further powers of accommodation, and, when the dense popula tion In the localities traversed is considered, there is every reason to conclude that an ample remuneration for vested capital will be ob tained. By following the course of rivers, which, in this instance, fall in with the exact direction of the projected line, highly favourable gra dients are obtained for a considerable part of the length ; and every other section of the country, upon a preliminary survey, has been reported as more than commonly practicable. While the return for capital cannot be questioned, and the necessities of the district de mand accommodation, the expenditure must necessarily fall below the usual amount for works of equal magnitude. To identify this project with that of the Erewash Valley, although not included under, or belonging to the same executive, it is pro posed to allow subscribers in that Company shares in the Erewash Extension : the number to be regulated by the interest retained in the elder project. The deeds will provide that no call shall be made on the Share holders beyond the deposit now paid, until the Act of Parliament is Terrell, z sg ~ obtained ; and p ower w i ll b e taken in the Act to allow 4 per cent. in terest upon all ca l ls. ' Prospectuses, maps, and for ms , may b e h ad at the Off i ces of Hull Spina us ti, i 2 1 ( , 1, , Dolby As i, i hire: rri a r ; s solicitor, 30, Basinghall-street, London ; G. Cressy nail, solicitor, Alfreton ; George Henry Richardson Cox, Esq., Carden and Whitehead, and the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. : a M d r. T. Uzielli 75 'Oldlle Messrs. e-st , reet ; Messrs. Taunton and don ; Messrs.Oastler 3,antrdWrllteroicitadbriesinoTtevedied, Leeds Broad-street, g r h e e i a t ~ dL andon - Leese, Manchester ; ad llo - Preston ; Messrs. Flint and Tootal', Houlds, Liverpool ; Mr. W. Wren, Messrs. Graystone and Earle, York • 11; Mr. W. Mason, Bradford ; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sh ' Mr. W. Croniem, Halifax • etneld ; Mr. S. Mel T. Boardman, Blackburn. Eyre, Derby ; Applications for shares must be accompanied b member of the Provietottal Co{angttee—to th y references to a it Boliettor or Loetti Agent—to some person of known respectability—orto the applicant; banker in London or elsewhere. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Erewash Valley Extension, and Rochdale, Blackburn, and East Lancashire Junction Railway Com pany. Capital, 1,750,0001., in 874100 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. P. per Share. Gentlemen,—l request you wil'A allot me shares of 201. each in the above Company, and I ht.reby undertake to accept tle same, or any portion of that number, you may allot me, and to pat the de posit of 21. 2s. per share on. them, as wel las all future calla also to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when ever required. Dated Name at fall length .. ••• • • • . Residence • . Place of Business (if any) . • . Profession or Business • • • • Reference • • • • • • • ... • • •• • • • Profession and Residence of R.-Aree T HE CHESTER AND MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY. The Shares in this Railway having been allotted to all Deposits duly paid, the Committee of Management.have much pleasure in in forming their Shareholders that the Parliamentary surveys ere pro gressing to their entire satisfaction, and that every care Is being taken to insure compliance with the standing orders on pin; before Parliament. By order, A. BARRETT, Secretary, 1, Royal Exchange-buildings, London, Sept. 27, 1845. UGBY, WARWICK, and WORCESTER RAILWAY. The Directors, in consequence of their receiving daily applications for shares in this Company, announce that the list was finally dosed on Saturday last, and that no further applications can be entertained. By order, September 26th, 1845. GEO. H. WELLER, Secretary. RUGBY, WARWICK, and WORCESTER RAILWAY. The Directors in reply to the numerous applications on the subject, beg to inform the public that the shares in this Colopmy are now in course of allotment, and that they, the Directors, intend issuing the letters of allotment so soon as the requisite examination has taken place into the application for shares. By order, GEO. H. WELLER, Secretary. September 27, 1845 R UGBY, WARWICK, AND WORCESTER RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 900,0001., in 45,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. At a meeting of the Provisional Committee, numerously attended, convened by circular, and held at the Offices of the Company, No. 1, Guildhall-chambers, Basingnall-street, London, the 30th September, 1845, W. H. HUGHES, Esq., F.S.N., F.L.S., &c., in the Chair, The following resolutions were adopted Resolved,—That the Prospectus issued as that of the Provisional Committee be now approved and adopted. Resolved,—That the following gentlemen do constitute the Corn mittee of Management:— William Frederick Beadon, Esq. Thomas Farmer Cooke, Esq. Peter Colston, jun., Esq. Edward Doubleday, Esq. John Freeman, Esq. Alexander Greig, Esq. Mr. Alderman Hughes Hughes Thomas Hagger, Esq. John Haddon, Esq. Richard Parry Jones, Esq. E. W. Morris, Esq. Resolved,—That the following be appointed the Bankers of the Company : The London and Westminster Bank The London and County Banking Company, In London. The Northamptonshire Banking Company, at Northampton. Messrs. Butlin and Son, at Rugby. The Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, at Leamington, Warwick, and Southam Messrs. Berwick and Co., at Worcester. The Committee have great pleasure in informing the public of the extraordinary support this Company has received, and they regret that, in consequence of the number of applicants for shares in this undertaking, many highly respectable and influential claims must unavoidably be unsatisfied. The allotment is now being proceeded with, and th letters will be Issued in the course of a week ; thqse parties, therefore, who do not receive letters, must be pleased to accept the above as the apology of the Committee. By order, GEO. H. WELLER, Secretary Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street, Ist October. 184 s. James Morrison, Esq. Cornelius Nicholson, Esq, Benjamin Payne, Esq. Robert Rising, Esq. Thomas Sharp, Esq. Joseph Satchell, Esq. John Wheeßon, Esq. Edward Waddelove, Esq. Edward Welch, Esq. John Woolston, jun., Esq- MANCHESTER, MIDLAND, AND GREAT GRIMSBY JUNCTION RAILWAY,' via ROTHERHAM. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 800,0001., in 32,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 11. 7s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Captain Laws, R.N., Crumpsall-hall, Manchester Joseph Hegan, Esq., Liverpool (Directors of the London and York Railway) George Crosland, Esq., Huddersfield Joseph Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield (Directors of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway) Robert Buchannan, Esq., M.D., Pontefract, Chairman William Moxon, Esq , Pontefract James Audus, Esq., Headingly, near Leeds (Directors of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway) William Butcher, Esq., the Master Cutler of Sheffield E. B. Beaumont, Esq., Finningley-park (Directors of the Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Had• dersfleid, and Goole Railway) John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester John Holford, Esq., Rusholme-house, Manchester Lott Gardiner, Esq., merchant, Manchester Edward Connell, Esq., Leaf-square, Manchester Mr. Alderman Burd, merchant, Manchester James Consterdine, Esq., merchant, Manchester Cephas Howard, Esq., J.P., Brinnington-hal!, Stockport William Bayley, Esq., Larkhill, Staleybridge, Cheshire P. England, Esq., Iludderrfleld John Smith, Esq., Welton Garth, near Hull John Wood, Esq., Glossop, Derbyshire Vincent Corbett, Esq., Outhwaite-hall, Wortley Thomas Chambers, Esq., Chapeltown J. B. Greaves, Esq., Ecclesfield William Hall, Esq., Royds-moor, near Penistone Wilson Overend, Esq., J.P., Sheffield Henry Walker, Esq., J.P., Clifton-house, Rotherham Robert Bentley, Esq., Rotherham Robert Younge, Esq., Sheffield G. W. Chambers, Esq., Clough-house, near Rotherham J. G. Clarke, Esq., Masbro'-hall George Knowles, Esq., ironmaster, Rotherham Henry Wilkinson, Esq., Endcliffe-hall, Sheffield C. S. R. Sandford, Esq., North Field-house, Rotherham James Yates, Esq., Effingham Works, Masborongh John Aldred, Esq., Rotherham Thomas Wheatley, Esq., corn merchant, South-grove, Rotherham Samuel S. Brittain, Esq., Sheffield James Hodgson, Esq., Rotherham Mills John Brown, Esq., ironmaster, Rotherham William Owen, Esq., Phoenix ironworks, Rotherham Benjamin Badger, Esq., barrister-at-law, Rotherham Henry Thomas, Esq., Sheffield John Nightingale, Esq., Greave of the Fcoffeea of Rotherham Charles Sandford, Esq., Phoenix ironworks, Rotherham Robert John Bentley, Esq., Eastwood-house, Rotherham George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield Alexander Grant, Esq., steel refiner, Rotherham E. J. Heseltine, Esq., Rotherham E. L. Sidebotham, Esq., J.P., Aston-hall Rev. Geo. Chandler, J.P., Treeton Rectory John Green, Esq., Sheffield John Hall, Esq.. Kiveton-park, near Rotherham R. C. Hoyle, Esq., Aughton-hall, near Rotherham Robert Fisher, Esq., Maltby George Ridge, Esq., Sheffield Thomas Dyson, Esq., Braithwell Manor-house William Broughton, Esq., Batry John Bradley, Esq., Blyth Joseph Taylor, Esq., Newington James Cross, Esq., Gringley Charles Cross, Esq., Glentvrorth-heath, near Gainsborough William Wells, Esq., West Stockwith, near Gainsborough Henry Smith, Esq., Gainsborough Henry Etherington Smith, Esq., J.P., Gainsborough William Lister Sharp, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough Rev. Robert Hackle, Gainsborough. Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough Francis A. Lowe, Esq., Gainsborough John William Pashley, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough Frederick W. Fleck, Esq., wharfinger Gainsborough Thomas Adwick Farmer, Esq., iron merchant, Gainsborough Henry Hall, Esq., wharfinger, Gainsborough R. D. Fretwell, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough Robert Pinder Moxon, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough H. Robinson, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough John Hughes, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough. Edward Watson, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough. ENGINEER—John Braithwaite, Esq. SECRETARY—Mr. Francis Parker, Rotherham. BANKERS—Sheffield and Rotherham Banking Company, Rotherham, The object rif this undertaking is to connect the Sheffield and Man chester—Ruddersfield and Sheffield—Midland and Great Grimsby Rail7;ays —the ports of Liverpool and Birkenhead on the western, Great Grimsby on the eastern coast, affording accommodation to all the important intervening manufacturing and agricultural dis tricts—in fact, to open the shortest and most direst communication between the eastern and western counties of England. It is pro posed to commence at Wortley and run to the Midland at or near Masbrough, affording an outlet north and south, and thence for ward to Gainsborough. There are abutting on the west end of the line the West Riding of Yorkshire and Lancashire, with a population of 2,221,988—and on the east end Nottinghamshire and North Lincolnshire, with a popu lation of 431,485. Under any circumstances, the intercourse between two such masses of population must be great; but in this case it is much beyond the average from the different character of the country, and the pursuits of the inhabitants at the two termini—Lancashire and Yorkshire having redundant supplies of coal, ironstone, lime, and minufactured goods of every description, while Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire and the east are dependent on the former counties for these productions—and send their large supplies of corn and cattle to the Yorkshire and Lancashire markets. The traffic in goods and passengers between such important and mutually dependent districts must be unusually great. A glance at the map of England will show that the proposed line will be, as nearly as may be, a straight one. A circuitous line is an evil, and opposed to public policy. The public suffer by being de tained a longer time—by travelling a, longer distance—and by paying a larger fare than is necessary—and the proprietors suffer by being exposed to the risk, or rather to the certainty of their property being destroyed at some future period by the competition of a shorter and more direct line. Sir Robert Peel, in his place in Parliament, on the 15th of March, 1845, upon this point said—" Me would make no re ference to any indiviaual railway schemes, but he thought they ought to look forward to the result of mechanical improvements as applied to those schemes, and they might depend upon It (speaking of ulti mate results) that the shortest lines would be preferred.—(Hear, hear.) The tendency of the improvements which were almost daily introduced, was decidedly in favour of the shortest lines." It may also be observed that the Board of Trade, in their detailed report, in reference to that part of the line from Rotherham to Gainsbrough (which was submitted for consideration as a distinct scheme), state it to be " decidedly preferable to the Sheffield and Lincolnshire or the Sheffield branch of the London and York ;" and that " It affords a better connexion also with the important market town of Rotherham, and with the North Midland Railway, and gives as direct a comm un i ca ti on as could be desired with Gains: borough and Lincoln." While so favourab:e an opinion is expressed upon this portion of the line, it may also be fairly granted to the extension from Rother ham to Wortley. By the Sheffield and Manchester, and the Sheffield and Rotherham Railways, th e di s t ance from Wortley to Rotherham is 14 1 ,4 miles, which by the proposed ex tension will be reduced to 9. That ne portion of the li will also open out one of the best coa l- f i elds in England, with inex haustible supplies of Park-gate and Silkstone coals—besides the green Moor Quarries at Wortley, containing very superior stone fer paving and building purposes—while at Thorncliffe and Chapel Town, there are already most extensive ironworks in active ope ration. At Rotherham and Masborough—and in the immediate neighbourhood—there are large iron and steel works, and other manufactories, requiring qualities of ' coal and ironstone, from which at present they are almost excluded, on account of the heavy carriage. Rotherham is the great cattle market of Yorkshire, and likewise an important corn market, and one of the objects sought to be attained by the promoters of this undertaking is the Shortest route from the manufacturing to the agricultural districts—and from the agricultural to the great markets of Yorkshire, and the consuming will pas a sea, ccomaumaodpeastesesaalesso ththeepeteruiatlliarc feature f atu th re e of following, as near as possible, the old route in which the str eam of traffic, localitiesdistricts westward. It which it passengers, has hithorto been a ccus t omed to fiu and especially w. The district between Rotherham and Gainsborough is destitute of coal, and there is no canal or railway from which it can be supplied, excepting by a very circuitous route—in fact, the supply between Rotherham and Bawtry is entirely carted along the turnpike-road. The celebrated grindstones at Wickersley, with an immense quantity of the finest freestone, from the far-famed Roche Abbey Quarries, might also be sent—the former to Sheffield, Manchester, and Bir mingham—and the latter to every part of the kingdom, were an easier and cheaper mode of transit established: It is needless to remark. that any line of railway commanding the advantages referred to, and connecting Lancashire and West Yorkshire, with the Trent and the Humber, must prove a very ample investment for capital; indeed, the returns of the existing traffic are highly satisfactory. Surveys have been taken, and the landowners generally are favourable to the project. The length of the line is about thirty-flve and a half miles. There win be a clause in the Act of Parliament, limiting the liabi • lity of each shareholder to the amount for which he may subscribe, and power will be taken to allow interest at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum upon the paid•up capital, from the obtaining of the Act until the completion of the railway. By the Subscribers' Agreement, authority will be given to the Pro visonal Directors to vary or alter the line, or to enter into any arrangement which they may think expedient, previous to applying to Parliament in the ensuing session. The Directors congratulate the shareholders upon their very satis factory position, having secured the valuable co-operation and assistance of several influential companies. etiterbAns 143. W. F. HOYLE. 3 7 C. L. COWARD, Mk' lt°ll* D UDLEY and BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION RAILWAY In. continuation of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway. BROAD AND NARROW (HUGE. Capital, 200,0001., in 10,005 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21.55. per Share. (Provisionally Registered.) A prospectus of this undertaking, with the names of a Provisiona Committee will appear in a few days ; in the meantime applications for shares may be addressed to F. T. ELGIE, Solicitor, Worcester October 3, 1845. JOHN BOLTON, Solicitor, Dudley. E StIN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOUER 4, 1845. PROGRESS OF THE GERMAN REFORMATION. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, SEPT. 14.—R ouge en tered our city to day on his way to Stuttgardt, in a car riage garlanded with flowers, and followed by a train of from sixteen to twenty travelling carriages. Thousand: upon thousands of people awaited his arrival before the gates of the city, and accompanied him with a ceaseless succession of vivas to the posthouse, where he alighted. The rejoicing, shouts, and hurrahs of the multitude be came there so deafening, that Rouge at length appeared at a window of a second story of an adjoining house, whence he gave a short address to the waiting mass of human beings, expressive of his heartfelt gratitude for the extraordinary reception he had met with ; his regret that his necessarily short stay precluded his replying to it as he wished ; and his intention of soon returning to Frankfort for a longer period. Soon after eleven o'clock A.M., he drove off towards Stuttgardt, but such was the pressure of the crowd, as to compel passing through the streets at a funeral pace, and it was not without difficulty that numbers were prevented actually stopping the car riage for the purpose of touching the reformer's person ! THE GERMAN CATHOLIC SYNOD IN STUTTGARDT.— The Wirtemberg Government having refused the German Catholics the use cf a church to hold their conference in (though such had been granted them by theecclesiastical authorities), on the ground that a public celebration of Divine worship in a building belonging to the Esta blished Church would be tantamount to a recognition of them as a religious body, for which indeed they have ap plied, but have not yet obtained, they have been directed to hold their proposed meetings either in a private build ing, or, as hitherto, in one of the churches belonging to the reformed (or Genevese) congregation. " Hitherto," says the Allgemeine Zeitung, in reference to this denial, " the interest felt by the lay public in the new sect was comparatively trifling, but now, all at once, an eager desire seems to have arisen, and petitions in favour of their toleration come in from all quarters, a fact which very evidently roves that a religious move ment can by no system of resistance be so effectually rendered harmless as by leaving it a free and unhindered course ; for so soon as either, with or without founda tion, tion the idea of arbitrary suppression is spread abroad, the German phlegm gives place to eager sympathy, and the almost expiring lamp of public interest is instantly re-fanned into a flame. A petition, to which 2,000 sig natures are already appended, has been presented by Lutheran citizens of Stuttgardt, praying that one of their churches may be granted to the use of their German Catholic brethren." STUTTGARDT, SEPT. 13.—A. considerable number of deputies to the German Catholic Synod were present to day at Divine service, at which Kirbler presided, in the reformed church, which was festively hung with flowers, and, although cards of admission alone pro cured entrance, filled to overflowing. The communion plate, presented to the new congregation by some Lutheran well-wisher in this city, was used for the first time on this occasion. The meetings on the morning and afternoon of the 14th, as well as this morn ing's meeting, were private, at which, among other pre liminary business, presaes and secretaries for the ensuing council were elected; but the meeting of this afternoon. which assembled at three o'clock in the hall of the Sil berburg, kindly granted by the Directors of the Museum Society, was public, and numerously attended by per son s of both sexes and all confessions. Twenty-four delegates, many of whom act as proxies for several congregations, were present, as well as deputies from London and Rotterdam, who, of course, were more in the character, of listeners than actual members of this Rhenise synod. The next meeting appointed to take place in Frankfort, where many points respecting church government and a more ex tended organisation, which were on this occasion brought under consideration, will be more definitively settled. THEINER AND THE SILESIAN REFORM.—The long expected work by which this celebrated theologian was to avow and defend his adhesion to the German Catholics has at last begun to be laid before the public, and con ' tains a justification of the reform movement by a con nected authentification of the incurable abuses which have taken root in the Roman Catholic Church, and the hopelessness of obtaining from the Pope or Roman priesthood, as now constituted, any concession of a more rational church service. Theiner, as is well known, has laid down his office in the Roman Ca tholic Church, and addresses this work (the first part of which is now before us) to his former parishioners, under the title of " Efforts at Reform in the Catholic Church"—a circular letter, addressed first to the congre gations of Polsnitz, Grussen, and Hundsfeld, and next to all Catholic Christians who regard the revelation of Jesus Christ as eternal and saving truth. Without any unnecessary parade of learning, Theiner details the abuses and unchristian system which have obtained in the Church he has left. We hear, too, that he had early withdrawn everything like polemics from his pulpit and private instruction, seeking by a simple exhibition of purer doctrines to stimulate and satisfy the spiritual wants of his flock, and uniting in these efforts with a small but zealous portion of the Si lesian clergy, until the pertinacious refusal of his eccle siastical superiors to listen to any proposal for a purification of either ritual or doctrine compelled him to relinquish office in a church where he was called on to preach and teach observances and dogmas which neither his reason nor his conscience approved. The abuses so often alluded to are stated by Theiner in much the usual manner, yet with constant refe rence to the previous struggles of enlightened priests and princes for reform in the Roman Ca tholic Church. He is more diffuse in stating his views in regard to the position occupied, whether by the priesthood - or by orthodox Catholics at large, in re gard to the state, as well as on the subject of mixed ' marriages. He displays simply, but effectively, the con tradictions which Rome has constantly submitted to, and cannot avoid by her laws against heretics, and adduces many terrific examples of the means employed by " the Church." to obtain an accession of diciples. BRESLAW, SEPT. 12.—The people in Uper Silesia are, by ceaseless excitement, stirred up to such a degree of fanaticism, that it is much to be feared very energetic measures will speedily be called for. Under such cir cumstances alone is it comprehensible, that those lawless disturbers of the peace at Tarnowitz who are now under confinement and examination for tumultuous proceedings should be termed by the Silesian (Roman Catholic) Church Journal, the "firm principled citizens," or that the same paper should sound its paeans over the infamous attack on Rouge's life. But what then shall we say to attempts being made not only to obtain from the King the liberation without trial of these turbulent spirits, but to actual subscriptions being now raised to meet the fines which, it is anticipated, may pro bably be levied upon them as the due reward of their delinquency. It is, however, to be hoped that, as is credibly reported, measures are in preparation which will prove the time is not yet come in Prussia when the open avowal of religious conviction involves danger of one's life ; and even the above-named journal may perhaps learn that an open defence of illegal pro cedings is not admissible in our days ; and, conse quently, repent having so prematurely shown its colours. Meanwhile, the Dissenters from Rome are increasing. not only in Breslaw, where one-fourth of the Catholic population (reckoned at about 30,000) has joined the sect, but throughout the whole province. Congregations have lately established at Sprottau and Auras, and seve ral other places, such as Sagan, Frankenstein, and even Patchkan, are expected speedily to follow the example. TSERLOHN, SEPT. 10.— The late Roman Catholic priest, Briedenbach, of Strutt, a man of distinguished oratorical powers, and possessed not only of the love of his parishioners, but of the respect and esteem of his ghostly superiors, having very recently forsaken the Roman for the German Catholic Church, has accepted a call to preside over that branch of it which exists here, and was received to-day in a really magnificent manner. The discharge of nearly thirty pieces of ordnance, and a cortege , of above ten thousand persons, whose vivas rent the air, hailed his approach to the city. The German Catholic cause has obtained by the ac quisition of Breidenbach a powerful support, not merely in Iserholm, but through the surrounding district, where many congregations exist, and more are in contempla tion. A new one Was definitively organised on the 7th instant, in our neighbouring town, Hagen.—Elberfeld Zeitung. MAYENCE, SEPT. 6.—Our Bishop has deemed it his duty to announce to his clergy the apostacy of one of their brethren, the late Dean Winter, in Alzei, from the Roman Catholic Church. The exhortations and admo nitions with which the notification is accompanied are singularly mild, and whilst they are exhorted to pray for the restoration of their erring brother to the bosom of the true Church, the new Catholic sect to which he has joined himself is adverted to in much more moderate terms than ill the ban lately published by the Bishop of Fulda. EICHSTADT (BAVARIA), SEPT. 12.—The establishment of this bishopric, which has now existed 1,100 years, was celebrated here on the 7th inst. The whole city, but more particularly the cathedral, was festively adorned, the choir being entirely covered with a new carpet 286 feet square, embroidered by the ladies of Eichstadt and other places throughout the bishopric. The solemn proce. , sion of the reliques of St. Willibach and St Walburga was joined by the Archbishop of Mun chen Freising, the Bishops of Augsburgh, Spiers, Wurz burg, Regensburg, and Eichstadt, and an immense num ber from this city and neighbourhood. BOHEMIAN FRONTIERS, SEPT. 10.—Some time since a society was formed in the Leitmeritz diocese, under the immediate patronage of its bishop, in honour of "the immaculate heart of the Virgin Mary," to which the in ferior clergy as a body, and their most zealous adherents, have given their support. But Bishop Hille has recently come forward with a new evidence of his zeal, by com manding the introduction of so-called "spiritual exer cises," in which a majority of the clergy and consider able numbers of the more devout among the laity take part. The members of this godly society were convened in Leitmeritz the beginning of this month, for the pur pose of spending eight days consecutively in the said spiritual exercises, among which, and cer- tainly not the least remarkable, is the subjecting themselves voluntarily to a severe mutual scourging! Total silence is imposed on them during the whole period of their being together ; and strict fasting, except a light scup for supper, as well as every species of bodily convenience or recreation are forbidden. HALBERSTADT, SEPT. B.—The day before yesterday, Pastor Willig, lately Catholic priest in Hamburgh, arrived here by invitation of the Roman dissidents of this place, and celebrated Divine service in the Holy Ghost Church, at which, besides the members of the new com munity, very many Roman Catholics and from 600 to 800 Protestants were present. The German Catholics have, it seems, given a regular call to Willig to remain as their pastor, which, however, he has not definitively accepted, but promised to return after his visit to Berlin and Leipzic, and spend some months here. BERLIN, SEPT. 14.—Some journals lately circulated the highly-improbable intelligence that the question of religious differences was to come before the Diet ; we believe ourselves warranted in giving the following as a better founded statement s—ln consequence of arrange meats made by Prussia, the Courts of Berlin, Wirtorn berg, Saxony, and Hanover have agreed to set on foot conferences, in which the religious movements of the day, and more especially those of the " Friends of Light," shall be discussed. The basis to be adopted in these conferences will be a strict separa tion of the political from the religious element in the movement ; to restrain the former with a very tight rein, while to the latter will be conceded a freer and larger arena. The question of Church Go vernment in particular to be left open, but doctrinal points not to be allowed too wide an extent. In oppo sition to the foregoing, the Weser Zeitung quotes, on the other hand, a communication from Frankfort, in which it is roundly asserted that the religious movement in Germany has been already subject of discussion in the Diet, whose sittings ceased on the 11th September, to be resumed on the Bth of January, 1846. The Jesuit question, it is understood, did not come under considera tion, as the political and not the dogmatical aspect of the movement attracted attention, and the deliberations of the Diet were limited to the concoctions of mea sures to secure the existing order of political affairs against being affected by the religious ferment. " Who," asks the Frankfort correspondent, " who that has ob served the simultaneous and almost identical measures adopted in regard of the German Catholics by various German states, can doubt that such unusual union of ac tion is the result of previous union of counsel 7" ITANAU, SEPT. 13.—Otir Government has proved its determination to carry out to the letter its announced course regarding the Gertnan Catholics, by prohibiting Rouge to stop even one night in this city, or to preside over any meeting for Divine worship. DRESDEN, SEPT. 16.—The refusal of the Wirtemberg Government to grant the use of one of the churches in Stuttgardt to the German Catholics is but a counterpart of the decision of our Ministry, by whom a similar re fusal has just been given. The disappointment is the greater here, as the ecclesiastical and town authorities were unanimous in aces,rding them the accommodation. STUTTGARDT, SEPT. 17.—The German Catholic Church Assembly completed its sittings this day. The solemnities were terminated by Divine service, under the guidance of Rouge and Dowrat. The last business meeting took place yesterday, in wi;ieh, however, no questions were discussed ; but the dine was chiefly occupied with a statement of the nature and importance of German Catholicism, and a reply to the often-put question, " What do the German Catholics aim at?" SEPT. 19.—Yesterday Ronge and his friends received many testimonials of affection from his adherents in Stuttgardt. Poems, garlands, and still more valuable proofs of attachment were handed to him in various com panies to which he had been invited, and this morning, at ten o'clock, he left fur Ulm. A great concourse of people had assembled in the Dorothea-square, who greeted Ronge and his companions as they issued from their dwelling (which was nearly covered with garlands) with a joyful vina ! A garlanded carriage received the so highly prized reformers, and drove off, escorted by some members of the German Catholic committee on horseback, and followed by several other carriages. UEm.—At a dinner party given by the inhabitants of this town to M. Ronge, and at w hich more than seventy of its distinguished citizens, and several dele gates from the neighbouring places, were present, Dr. Gramm, the public physician of the district, made a speech, which we extract the following : "Dear Brethren, much esteemed Friends,—lt is known to you all that we German Catholics have separated ourselves from the Pope, from our Roman Catholic Bishop, and from his chapter. Now, it would be supposed that we are like sheep without a shepherd, and unable to defend ourselves against our numerous enemies ; but this is not our case. For, in union with our Protestant brethren, we have our bishop .n the person of our just and courageous King, who will acknowledge us as his faithful subjects, since we com bat all foreign influence, which is injurious to the free development of spiritual liberty, whether such an in fluence proceeds from this side or from the other side of the mountains." The assembly-room was magnificently decorated, and in one transparency, in large character, was read Johannes Rouge, the Champion of Light and Truth." STUTTGARDT, SEPT. 25.—M. Ronge returned here last evening from Ulm. The report which has circulated here that he bad been assassinated, or at least fired at, in the latter town, proves to have been groundless. M. Rouge sets out this morning on a journey, but is believed to be back in a fortnight, during which time it is ex pected that the renewed petition made by the inhabitants of our town to the Ministry, in order to have a church granted to the German Catholic community, will have proved successful. Indeed, this is hoped to arrive as soon as our King returns, which return is daily looked for. The cause of the German Catholic Church is gaining much ground here, in spite of all the endeavours to the contrary made by the Romanists of our place ; and all their insinuations cannot hinder both Catholics and Fro testants from joining the new Church, which counts now amongst its members several persons of the nobility. It is reported that a community of German Catholics is about to be formed at Heilbronn, and M. Ronge's pro ceeding there relates to this latter formation, which he will endeavour both to call into life and to organise. From thence M. Ronge will go to Heidelberg and to Manheim. Of his further movements nothing has as yet transpired, but it is supposed that he and his com• panions will meet Professor Konuer, from Ulm, at Elberfeld. MANHEIM, SEPT. 29.—Messrs. Ronge and Donran, and their travelling companions have just arrived here. They were met by a joyous crowd at the railway station ; who accompanied them into the town. The au thorities, however, would not permit M. Rouge and his partisans to enter the church. The police also refused permission for M. Rouge to hold an assembly of the German Catholics at the theatre. In consequence of this refusal the proprietor of the theatre invited the tra vellers to his own house. A letter from Heidelberg states that while Ronge was in that city, the chiefs of the German Catholic c mmu nity were cited before the municipal authorities, who signified to them that unless they would guarantee the observance of the decrees issued relative to M. Ronge, he would be ordered to quit the town. - j - - T HE DIRECT WEST-END AND CROYDON RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 800,000/., is 40,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Sir James Anderson, Knt., M.D., New Burlington-street ; Director of the Hereford and Merthr Tydvil Railway Lieut.-General Sir R. Barton, K.C.8., '2 Montagu-place, Montagu square ; Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Major Heresford, M.P., 77, Pall-mall ; Chairman of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Director of the Teen and Dove Valley, and West 3.l.ldland, Manchester, and Southampton Railways Charles R. Bigge, Esq., 10, Bryanston-square; Director of the Great Grimsby, Louth, Horneastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway William Bland, Esq., Brixton; Director of the North Wales, and Richmond and West-end Junction Railways William Blanchard, Esq., York; Chairman of the Liberty of Ripon Quarter .'essions, and Director of the York. Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield ; Chairman of the Isle of Ely Railway, and Director of the Manchester and Sheffield Railway Alfred Brodie, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square; Direc tor of the Grand Trunk Railway Thomas Byrom, Esq.. Wigan ; Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railways Edwin Cadman, Esq., Westbourne House, Sheffield, Director of the Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway William Caldwell, Esq., lnce Hall, near Wigan, Lancashire ; Direc tor of the Manchester, Derby, and Rugby, and Leed s an d Liver pool Direct Railways John Castendieck, Esq., Lewisham, Kent John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-steet, London ; Director of the Chelmsford and Bury, and York and Lancaster Railways Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London ; Director of the Direct Western Railway Richard Clark, Esq., Farnham, Hants George Clive, Esq., Sanderstead, near Croydo n Benjamin Collett, Esq., Manor House, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire; Director of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kiddermin ster; and Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railways Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Bayswater; Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway Millis Coventry, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-street ; Director of the Birmingham Extension and Great Leeds and London Direct Railways Charles R. Dodd, Esq., North Brief.. Lieutenant-colonel Lotman Dickson,Curzon-street, May-fair ; Direc tor of the Reading and Reigate Junction Railway Miles Dormer, Esq., Hans-place, Sloane-street ; Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, United Service Club; Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway Daniel Ebbetts, Esq., Mincing-lane ; Director of the Direct Western Railway Francis Ewart, Esq., Brick-court, Temple; Director of the Equity and Law Life Assurance Company, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London ; Director of the London and Westminster Bank, and Director of the London Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway Edmund .Aldam Fawcett, Esq., London, Derby, and Nottingham Captain S. M. Fisher, Junior United Service Club; Director of the Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Junction, and Bideford and Tavistock Railways Robert Fisher, Esq., Highbury Park, Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway The Rev. H. R. Fowler, Manchester-square ; Director of the Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway Henry Glynn, Esq., Temple F. W. Hamilton, Esq., 59, Gloucester-place, Portman-square; Di rector of the York and Lancaster Railway C. J. Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square; Director of the Grand Trunk Railway George R. Harrison, Esq., Harlingford-place, Kennington ; Director of the Grand Trunk Railway Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn-square ; Director of the Chelmsford and Bury Railway Lawrence Hsyworth, Esq., Yew Tree, Liverpool A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place ; Director of the Direct Exe ter Railway John llolford, Esq., Rusholm-hall, Manchester ; Director of the York and Lancaster Railway John Holmes, Esq., 88, St. James's-street ; Director of the York and Lancaster, and Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid land ; and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of London, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and London and Greenwich Railways John Kynnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London ; Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway Herbert Ingram, Esq., 128, Strand, and Swineshead Abbey, Lincoln shire ; Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway Slegerich C. Kreeft, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Junction Coast Railway Richard Kelly, Esq., 6, Cleveland-row ; Chairman of the New Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny, and Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln Extension Railway Sir J. Key, Bart., Alderman of London ; Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton ; Director of the London and Man chester and Direct Western Railways William Alexander Long, jun., Esq., Kingswood House, Wootton under-Edge ; Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway William Margetson, Esq., Streatham-hill, Brixton J. Mee Mathew, Esq., 4, Gray's Inn-square ; Director of the Direct Western Railway Thomas Morris, Esq., Fairhurst Hall, near Wigan ; Director of the Blackburn, Chorley, and LiVerpool, and Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railways James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean and Rhonda and Ely Valleys Junction Railway Horatio Nelson, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey mouth Railway G. Parbury, Esq., Russell-square; Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens ; Director of the Grand Trunk, the Oxford and Witney, and Reading and Reigate Junction Railways Samuel P. Pratt, Esq., F.R.S., Bath, and 55, Lincoln's-inn-fields ; Director of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company, and York and Lancaster Railway George Richard Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square ; Director of the Metropolitan Railways Junction Company, and of the London, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah House, Enfield, Middlesex ; Director of the York and Lancaster Railway R. A. Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square ; Director of the Tring ' Reading, and Basingstoke, and Oxford and Worcester Extension Railwaysallways A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Middle Temple, London; Director of the Great Western Extension Atmospheric Railway Richard Rowe, Esq., Beanfoy-terrace, Maida Vale H. Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square; Director of the West Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railway William Shidley, Esq., Alfred-place, Brixton ; Director of the Great Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railways Timothy Steward, Esq., Heigham Lodge, near Norwich Edward H. o.. Scott, Esq., Hoe Garden House, Plymmth; Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymoth Railway Thomas Sydney, Esq., Alderman of London; and Director of the Reading and Reigate Junction Railway Henry Taylor, Esq , Wigan ; Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, Manchester and Wigan, and Leeds and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Railways Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath Park ; Director of the Direct London and Manchester, and Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railways Robert Watkins, Esq., 45, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square ; Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and G os p or t, an d Li verpoo l Direct Western Railways and Derby Railways ave-street, Belgrave-square ,PBalalr-tm.,all'London ; Director of the Walling Wells, Nottingham SS Thomasrr YorkT H h e o n m r a naysd W w, ebo oWilliams,in b ila ß sEst e a r t t qor wlßca, anlie o l s tg re , Sir William Wynn, Maesynewadd, and Suffolk-place, Pall-mall Chairman,Of the North Wales, and South and Midlands' Junctio Railways (With power to add to their number.) BArizzas.—The ENGlNEEReCominercßaniC . of London, CONSULTING Sir John Macneil, L.L.D., F.R.S., M.1.C.E., ACTING ENGINEERS. Messrs. R. and T. Hopkins,M.l.C.E.; Messrs. Gough and Roumieu, C.E. SURVEYORS.—Messrs. Shuttieworth and Sons. SOLICITORS. Messrs. ChaUntier and Westwood, 8, Gray's Inn-square. SECRETARY—J. L. Cotton, Esq. The principal objects of the scheme are-Ist. To remedy the evils of delay and inconvenience to which parties are, at the present time, necessarily subjected in proceeding from the west end of the metro polis to Croydon, or the most distant places on tile South-Eastern and London and Brighton Railways, as well as the several sea ports and packet-stations on the coasts of Kent and Sussex; and 2d. To supply to the numerous and wealthy inhabitants of the district through which the intended line will pass (at present wholly with out railway accommodation), a greatly improved means for the in terchange of communication with the metropolis, and with each other. Commencing at the intended terminus of the South-Western Rail way, at Hungerford or Waterloo-bridge, the line will take the most practicable route to Kennington, from thence it will follow as near as possible the old turnpike road, passing through or near to the wealthy and populous districts of Stockwell, Cl ap h am, Brixton, Tulse-hill, Streatham, Norwood, Beulah, and Thornton-heath, effect ing a junction at Croydon with the several existing or projected lines from that place. It is also proposed to form a branch or branches from the neigh bourhood of Streatham to Mitcham and Tooting, and thus to extend to those places, and their respective neighbourhoods, the advantages of a direct railway communication with the metropolis. A great portion of the traffic in passengers and goods upon the Brighton and Dover lines is supplied from the west-end of London and the Birmingham and Great Western Railways. The necessity of proceeding to the station at London-bridge, and by the present circuitous route to Croydon, is a serious and unnecessary inconveni ence, entailing additional expense and delay. The removing of this long-felt grievance is a leading object with the promoters of the pre sent undertaking. They deem it right, however, to observe, in lay ing this scheme before the public, that they have no desire to inter fere with existing railway interests, further than is absolutely indis pensable, but that on the other hand it will be their object to yield assistance to, and in return endeavour to secure it, from each com pany with which this line may ultimately be connected. A glance at the map will show, that as a branch or arm of the London and Brighton Railway, this undertaking completes a straight line of communication from the west end of London to Croydon, Reigate, and Brighton, and renders the ports of Dover and Folke stone, as well as the several places on the South-Eastern line, more easily accessible from that part of the metropolis. The great amount of traffic at the present time upon the roads be tween Croydon, Mitcham, Tooting, &c., and London, proves at once that the existing railway facilities do not at all meet the exigencies of the mass of population to whom this line will be available. The population who reside upon or in the immediate neighbour hood of the proposed line, independent of the metropolis, and between the intended termini, exceeds 100,000, whose wants are almost wholly supplied from the London markets, &c., and who have, at the present time, no mode of conveyance but upon the turnpike road. In the transit of building materials, corn, coal, lime, and other heavy goods, from the warehouses and wharfs on the banks of the Thames, and for marketable produce in each direction, this line must become to them particularly useful and convenient. Some idea may be formed of the local necessity of this railway when it is known that the number ofpassengers who avail themselves of the accommodation afforded by the several omnibuses and other public vehicles, running upon the turnpike-road, have been ascen. tanned to exceed 2,600 daily. An equal number (at least) proceed by private and other conveyances. Of foot passengers, although no accurate estimate can be formed of them, it is considered that they at least number four times that of passengers who travel by con veyance. The tonnage of goods it is calculated will be in full pro portion to the receipt from passengers. Experience has fully proved, that on however liberal a scale the probability of future traffic in the transit of goods and passengers has been judged, almost every line of railway has, upon its completion, vastly exceeded the calculated amount. There are, however, in this instance, reasons for supposing that the extended facilities of com munication will cause more than an ordinary increase in the con veyance of passengers. The country which the line of railway will open is singularly picturesque and beautiful, and in addition to the admired districts of Brixton and Streatham, the long-favoured and much-frequented Beulah and Norwood will be placed within easy access, and become more than ever, objects of interest and delight to the visitor and resident of the metropolis. There can therefore be little doubt but that the present line must become aprofltable and eligible scheme for the investment of capital. The promoters of this undertaking have pleasure in announcing that it is approved of, an , l will be generally supported by local in fluence. They have caused a partial survey to be made, which will be completed shortly, and they have the assurance of their engineers that there are not more than ordinary difficulties to contend with. The liability of the shareholders will be restricted, by Act of Parlia ment, to the amount of their subscriptions; and power will be applied for in the Bill to allow interest at 4/. per cent. per annum on all calls from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line. Applications for Anther information, prospectuses, and shares (in the form annexed), may be addressed to the Solicitors; to the Secre tary, at the offices of the Company, No. 34, Gracechurch-street ; or to the following Brokers : Princes street ; —viz , - Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, Princes- Mr. H. J. Williams, 80;01d Broad-street ; Messrs. Greystone and Earle, York; Mr. Anthony Laurie, Liverpool; Messrs. Cardwell and Co., and Mr. Henry Benton Manchester ; Mr. James Pearson, Birmingham ; Messrs. Watson and ' Co., Leeds • Messrs. Brady and Stainforth, Hull ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Mr. Thomas Sand ford, Exeter ; Mr • James Pringle, Edinburgh. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct West-End and Croydon Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares of 201. each in the above railway, upon which or upon any less number that may be allotted to me. I hereby agree to pay the deposit, and to execute the Parliamentary Contract and the Subscribers' Agreement when required to do so, Name ••• • • • • • ..... Residence. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ... Profession or Trade (if any) • Place of Business (if any) ........ . Reference • • •• •• • • • • • • ....... • • . • • Date •••••••••••••••1 1 1•1/ "Oa 0.. • 1 STRAND THEATRE. M. Philippe, the neatest, the cleverest, the most gen tlemanly of necromancers, has taken this delightful little snuggery, and fitted it up as a Temple of Magic, and during the whole of this week he has been surprising crowded audiences by his delightful and really wonder ful performances. All our readers have doubtless read of the delightful doings at the Carnival at Naples, and have longed to enjoy the luxury of being pelted with delicious bonbons, let them go to the Strand Theatre ; it is every night acarnival there ; you have music and lights, and wit (Mr. Philippe is a most gentflenaanly and witty actor, as well as a great magician) and wine (his Liqueristo furnishes the most delicious wines and liquers) and best of all showers of the most delicious bonbons, which could not but be honoured with the high approval of even her sweet-loving Majesty of Spain herself. M. Philippa is seen to even greater advantage at the Strand than he was at the - St. James's. The theatre is not so deep or so narrow—the audience is nearer the stage, and they are able to observe more narrowly, and to watch every step in the progress of a trick, and thus the talent of the necromancer is more thoroughly appre ciated. The performances, too, are over at a reasonable hour (half-past ten), a most desirable thing where chil dren are part of the audience; and at the present moment there is not an amusement in London to which it is a greater treat to take children than to M. Philippe's Soirees Mysterieuses. Take it for all in all the Strand Theatre is now one of the plesantest evening lounges in the metropolis. A SEASONABLE WORD ON RAILWAYS. By Mr. Punch. At a dinner given I:Ty the Directors of the Diddlesex Junction Railway to one another out of the funds of the Company,—Fitz James de la Pluche, Esq., chairman, — Punch, Esq., vice-chairman,---the latter gentleman deli vered the following speech, in reply to a complimentary oration from the distinguished President : " Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,—The manner in which you have drank my health is most gratifying to me. I won't say that ' tears choke my utterance,' as O'Connell did, upon a solemn occasion, the other thy. Humbug and hypocrisy will not pass for honest emotion in England, and never can be welcome to honest men. Gentlemen, I drink all your good healths in return.— (Cheers.) "There was a talk last week of an Order in Council to prohibit the further issue of railroad prospectuses, on the plea that there were too many now on hand, and that it was impessible for Parliament to discuss those schemes already extant in the course of next session. "Mr. Punch is inclined to be of the opinion of the Order in Council, for various cogent reasons. " In the first place—do we wish to be the death of the House of Commons? If we work them with bills as we did last session, every one, except a few of the tough ones, will expire. Fancy a House composed of Hume and Peel, for instance, whom nothing can kill—old Joe, with his stupid figures of Arithmetic, and Bob, with his incomparably stupider figures of speech. (Sensation dans eauditoire.) " Secondly,—and this is even a more important rea son than the former—although some of you, my dear brethren, don't care a jot whether the House of Com mons is dead or alive, yet your own interests will pro bably affect you sincerely. Men and shareholders, you have already signed your deeds, pocketed your premiums, and the scheme being agreed to by Parliament, com mitted yourselves to the finishing of your respective un dertakings within a certain space of say three years. " Look, my dears, at the number of schemes now on the list ! I can't stop to count them—l can't tell the number of deeds I myself have signed—(the number of applications I my self have made—(Great applause)_ but oh, my dear brother-shareholders, which among you will not agree with me, that there is as much money to pay as this great country can conveniently fork out; that there is as much to do as our labourerepossibly can do: and that it will be well to get that done before we engage ourselves farther? "Parliament binds you to execute your contracts in a certain short period of years, or months almost. You must have the iron in that time, and do you think the ironmasters will spare you ? You must have the labour performed, and where are the hands to do it ? Work men will be in such request for the next three years, that the best profession for younger sons will be the pickaxe and shovel. Navies may dictate their own terms—at least until the Companies are bankrupt, when there will be no labour, nor wages, nor railroads at all. It will be a sad day when capitalists, and ironmasters, and workmen, sit looking at each other, after the general smash that our haste for speculatiou tiaa occasioned.— (Profound attention.) " Therefore, dearly beloved, I shall in my place in Parliament, or if called to attend the council-board of my Sovereign, approve of a mild check upon railroad ape- U,l •.x-- culation. We have enough on hand at pruden . t men to perform. Next year, my deo b r oth er capitalists, we shall be having our calls to paY. am sure you will all discharge with cheerful punctuslq; (Cries of "hear, hear," " Oh, yes, of by present, al " Wish you may get it.") lam not a croker nature, and only probes on rare occasions but upon my honour and conscience, it scone t° ,o l e l l e s to be touch-and• go with the prosperity of th is e ra country at this very moment when I am drinking y o ur You have the start of all BureP e c ; as you have always had ; and the railroad sYstenis,ild cessfully carried out will make such vast changes, and work such prodigious benefits, as I believe a reell re• scarcely an idea of now.—(Sneers.) But (vvithothi, buking the sneer of my worthy friend, Mr• shoulder, for I must speak a volume to set him right':olllc then he would'nt understand me) it depends on Ylo a ll whether the pre-eminence which you have eon— la is remain with you, or the ruin which all the longing to see accomplished shall fall upon you. V" ling sensation.) ,„ so "If I were an enemy of my country•—if I we - and aristocrat bent upon the maintenance of order dimly seeing that, with the triumph of the tistars system my coronets, and my lordships, and Ip illsdee and garters, must infallibly disappear into s pi l would, far from discouraging the Preerould road mania, exaggerate it in every way. itself rejoice to see the capital of the country engagiegii,bich beyond its means—plunging into speculations ouid must end hopelessly—and then the ruined leh d 4 l3 be come under my sway again and the whole ei,,,,e" - 4 of paramount once more. But let us hope better to 0 (1 the national prudence, and that our own- greedinelf we lust of gain is not to be the cause of our ruin- e are but prudent, Gentlemen, there is no end t ° here; versaries which we may be called upon to celebrat e happy to the dividends which we may announcepbiebDosy shareholders in our line; to the branch lines as spring from it ; and to the premiums 'whi ch 1;0 11 directors, may pocket.—(lmmense cheering.)vaload conclude, Gentlemen, by giving you — ' The ". market, and may we know when we have got eneS s ch After this and other eloquent speeches, 311.;‘,05 to nj u .., 0 , went home ; but, in spite of his own caution, and gloomy predictions regarding ever-fPlrell tion, the infatuated gentleman wrote tvientr i r c t ° igh t " applications for shares before he went to bed tLi e- 11 ~'»,. BANK OF ENGLAND• (From last Night's Gazette.) orictoriai An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and B,th :Ni l ° cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturd a y' ' 543 September, 1845. ISSUE DEPARTMENT . O 5 11' 1 0° X. Notes issued 28,557,990 Governme nt debt 2,984,vv" ill' 1 71 7 ,.. ° 0 O t h er securities... 05 ,s9O Gold coin and ..........b... .1,2,804 Silverbullio n.. o' ss ' ' v L► Ch ief EARSEIAL 1845. PARTMENT. £28,557,990 1 M. IV Dated the 2d day of October BANKING DI Proprietors' capita 1,14,553,000 Rest Public deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings banks, Commis sioners of National Debt, and divi- Government seetl" rifles (including Dead eight ~, 3 48,6 43 Annuity) ...... Jr4549,003e Other securities... , • 7 9 46,9 9 J Notes .............. • Gold and silver 00 coin... dend accounts) 8,802,110 Other deposits...... 8,070,212 Seven day and other bills - -G h ia , L , R I S B4 HA S. LT , ' Chi ef C° £36,047,344, Dated the 2d day of October; GAZ E "" ir TS' FRIDAY NIGHTS GAZ-- FOREIGN-OFFICE, Ocr. 1, 18tn 4 - yi r .,..,i: ot The Queen has been pleased to approve,°: the .15' Jenner, as Consul at Rye for his Maie s '" l Hanover. .. n e u' u sty The Queen has also been pleased to aPPi s 0 1 .1 — - Alexander Beattie, as Consul at Portsmouth for A the King of the Belgians. ,A Of gr .s . Of The Queen has also been p l ease d to aPer:ced Bergen, as Consul at Bermuda for the 1) J. 731 America. 780 WAR-OFFICE, Oct 1 ,. r.. t o tht te t , 16th Light Dragoons—Surgeon J. Bun , ' 1- o i nt- Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Sandham, promoted:o main- Surgeon J. E. Stephens, M.D , from the 63 d' Oct. 3. flet dr Surgeon, vice Pilleau, appointed to the Staff , v t he i tt e , 18th Regiment of Foot—Ensign H. Ja mes ' l ' nant, by purchase, vice Bloomfield, who r etir,e, 3, ~...0 0 Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, vice James , O ct. v' ot Su r cice 28th Foot—Supernumerary Staff As eiets sarg e°l4 G. A. F. Shelton, A.M. M.B. to be Assistant o r Alexander, promoted in the 78th Foot, Oet.„ a c s tein, not), 44th Foot—Lieut. H. H. J. Massy to be 4 ,,,.%-i e lfeani_.. lP t3elli , chase, vice Ballard, who retires ; Ensign ,"*O, PI . Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Massy; P• ~ o'74.e'; Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Haar ° e ~" to be, igh , 63d Foot—Assistant Staff Surgeon J. IL 0 111 ,1 9 1 6 '' ant Surgeon, vice Stephens, appointed to ''' y 44 Dragoons, Oct. 3. l a hil 'nth A I fr° vf 65th Foot—Captain W. Johnston (the 2L•Air. SO ' unattached, to be Captain, vice Brevet Maie r . , the exchanges, Oct. 3. de a r, to the front oth 78th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon A. Alexan Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Burt, 28th Foo a ppoint e ..,,the Light Dragoons, Oct. 3. 0, fro , e or Rifle Brigade—Assistant-Surgeon J. L }h l, / the - .„ Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice P° W-- „ fro P• changes, Oct. 3. „, lii•Yli 4 HotwiTai, STAFF—Surgeon B. L San eon f tvg ,, ,, 0 5- 0 . o the 16th Light Dragoons, to be Staff-Sarke:g.Day ; 'T y ; te Class, vice Thomas Clarke, who retires on ° jgrag ° , e a 0 tant-Surgeon H. Pilleau, from the 16th L i g ht appe ieL the be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice 61.33 14. rt f iliel ltie e the 63d Foot; Assistant-Surgeon H. Downes, ,-. F oe* Rifle Brigade, to be Assistant- Surgeon t° the Robinson, who exchanges, Oct. 3. _ O , of t i ll ADMIRALTY, OM 1 . Gaza - gol- Notice having been given in the Loon , ' of the A ition s let of August last, to the effect that alrCaptainslie eon' . t oy Navy, desiring to be placed on a retired list, 0 0 ; he Sicer 3 therein specified, should send in their names te o `a' the Odi c of the Admiralty prior to the Ist of October, 3 b e ing' who have sent in their names for consideration s oo ; e on one less than the number contemplated—nmeigviog rre‘ool - Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty othe r ci rt to believe that, owing to absence abroad a nd th e ZOO, stances, there are many officers who have not m the e on ~t en a tunity of making themselves acquainted Wit, ll „.. e d o , e io t ile upon which the retirement is offered, are 1 3 ,7 e tohr" the time for receiving names, from the Ist en „ 1 0. Ist of December next. -a V+ `" 1, WHITEHALL, Olidsl' WHITEHALL, Aria. 19- n on, 0 01 11 The Right Honourable Sir Nicolas Ceilr e : o f 0° e sler Knt., Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's g. r eli r " c othr e per' Pleas, has appointed Thomas Harding, of tone et. to harts of Lyne, in the county of Stafford, Gent., to be o ° l , c igi e ssec i petual Commissioners for taking the a u c o k r r w the ti A o s e tt he t oo ti t t li ; deeds to be executed by married women, for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and f or t the c° tion of more simple modes of assurance, in an d for 0 0 of Stafford. Ti Haan ?le° The Right Hon. Sir Nicolas Conyligh alli c , Coln 0 431 ' Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of u° o ol3ate has also appointed Richard Ellison, of Tickhill, r oar ° be in the county of York, Gent., to be one of the PJ. I d e ed, r the missioners for taking the acknowledgmen,te,. ioseel for °f executed by married women, under the l'AC' r„betitil,-wieg abolition of fines and recoveries, and for the e,Arest I` more simple modes of assurance, in and for the nd of the county of York. 15, 3 .,,,1 BANKRUPTS. r Oct- fficl William Stayt, baker, Oxford, to surrende , D e ll, .r_,' oy -le, Nov. 11, at two, at the Court of BankrupteP an -`1 i, is an d assignee, Coleman-street -buildings ; ' - '" -he 11, "'" Bedford-row; Thompson, Oxford. d Oct' Gree il, James Hurlstone Limes, butcher, Richnion , toy , /0 , Nov. 11, at eleven, at the Court a Bankraroro official assignee, ldermanbury ; S mith ' - f el , ter' he Holborn. ~ patell i°6 it _„ t Robert M'Entire, commission ag f a n " „ g t ale . ,„160 0 ' '' Oct. 14, at twelve, and Nov. 14, at half-P.' ee , tiv Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, Sof. street ; Young, Warwick-square, City. a 21, 0 c,0 04 '_,.. . . Thomas Davies, merchant, Liverpool, lir n i e ttiet _Arm -18, at half-past twelve, at the Liverpool ,eidll„ter. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; geed, Isei tch'' is Cheapside ; Sale, Worthington, and Shiplaanib itet oll PRICE OF SUGAR- .„ the r c t. official assign. The Average Price of Sugar, computed 0 f 113 2 "4/(1. g e her eoll . made in the week ending Sept. 30, was 3 ° e • -Able k ro . P 0 exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid , en the importation thereof into Great Britain' __-..... COURT CIRCUIA: - ------... WINDSOR, FNIDAY.—The Queen walked re.gren°, re Was the Prince in the garden chair in the Pleeegi--41%0.165"," the the Castle this morning. In the afternoono xii - oighne' l 00 driven out in a pony phaeton by his B Y. e attending i Hon. Colonel Grey and Colonel Bouverie et , 0 011 all i ci nl ec l :lsP: ti b°ll gg ieuci • t w o u rn s i- - 00 - e d f air l ri a o s horseback. The rainy state of the weather this the Royal Family.from being taken their ace. - nee ° . This afternoon their Roy Pr the rr l , e - r talce - t g the Princess Royal, and atlhkeiihinnecsessessAlice4, 'iiig e hn es . s . the airing in a carriage and four. Her ItOr l h dine 8 " Duchess of. Kent and the Baroness de wt Castle this evening Her. Majesty's ' private band will Perf°— h is th e eve°ll36 4 th d e sty the Castle. to het ligaini Mr. De Lara had the honour of presenting the e- a n a copy of his illuminated Hebrew Calendar Malty to to , year, dedicated to Sir Moses 3lontefiore- e l ' o ly , ples/:, her Royal Highness Prince Albert were ate ° .0 01 — express their approbation. • o l.offi ee ------------ Dispatches were received yesterday at the I°lll any for from the Governor of the Mauritius. r Can ada, '-iirere Dispatches for the Governor-General 0. „incest the Governors of the other North American Pr e , '''' sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-ora 1MM11M.............."""........... M. TIMES' HISTORY OF TUB s-0- ' •• b trans -I%llos Oct EmPRE.—The fifth volume of the authorised n' Ivo_ lation, by Mr. Forbes Campbell, of this iinPiarters of the which is exciting so great a sensation in all qt. oc e v . ent.s , globe, has just been published by Mr. Collikirli: g diversiflea recorded in this volume are of the most storm. ~..t hers, the . and momentous character. Witness, an dainongst ? geree n ; following subjects :—The Trial of Georges fopere, ------_ _o_—Teta..4,l,o AND Suicide of Picbegru ; Coronation of Napoleon ~,e-, unparallela by the Pope, and as King of. Italy, at gi,lai;boie for "D e e _ Pomp n of these Ceremonies ; Vast a t ov I vaston of England; Engagement off' t . es b et"' o mirais Calder and Villeneuve; Secrets reaci!ritto o f th Prussia and Russia, and Austria and Rus tin der 13 ?' t • h S Holy Alliance, as • • all b annotations o Alesan . rhir Abbe P' ' origin ysu iatoli, wh Mr. Pitt's thereon P i . i . t he cuations o Coal' F'— - and Napoleon's preP— Ferrol be el-eta I A 4I coalition against France, ana 1 .., „ __ campaign of Austerlitz, &c• &c• _ --_-----",„, 6-c . l d; FOR THE REMAINDER OF 71-1-g -57:6"111 OF rlo s 4., SEE THE SUPPLEMENT TO THIS DAY. -- - < -7- )f ____-_----------iOVN (I ' 2 hajgDO No . j. 1. ,, ..ondon : Printed and Published hir No. 112, Strand, Printer, at. Th , _.6 SO* in°oc: _roost/ °I • Strand,' in the Precinct of the ailLvlt Middlesex, Saturday , October 4 1*" . , A Ad ___ No. N °II TH (i'rolislonally CaPiti John , , ttw ood raes 31r J o _ aize El% a Jot, Vienry eh 'gShaW, , ard tetlier ‘:!rge I?ishoi; 'utustus '" 'Ph Itr "a Gel? -Rues jt „, mond u l l , nry 4 ir,,,.loarton, 44 l!rliur Iti eh , ( Itor a z t !„ B Poou 6 u.ren , l ltssrs, ' 4l lk of The 1..7ni 4 learr t , l:) ' G, t Lkj "t 4 ° Pc tf itirrittt th% 11 Use ' 4 Pir ' l 4s 14,, let t F4rQrm . 144 4 ti ~.~.