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r' .r --••,,, 4~ LONDON and NOTTINGHAM RAILWAY Connecting London, Nottingham, Sheffield, and Leeds. (I'rovisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vict. c. 110.) Capital 1,500,0001., in 75,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. ( In Hance with the Standing Orders of the Houses of Parliament.) commrrrirs or MANAGEMENT. Sir George G. De Hochepied Larpent, Bart., Chairman. - ;Bev. Henry Robert Fowler, Deputy Chairman. William Bradley, Esq., Sheffield James Gemon, Esq. Frederick 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. Lieutenant-Colonel Elrington William Raines, Esq. William Edmond Ferrers, Esq. Exonitsa.m-Caner—Charles Hutton Gregory, Esq., C.E. ACTING ENGINEERS—Nathaniel Briant, Esq.,C.E. STANDING Cousrs€L—Mr. Sergeant Clarks. SOLICITOES. Messrs. Birch and Brame', Great Winchester-street Ilessri. Forbes and Drake, Warnford-court Megsrs. Freeth and Rawson, Nottingham. LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. Parker and Smith, Sheffield C. S. Eusb.Y, Esq., Chesterfield. PaatiAmincrearAGEsrs—Messrs. Gregory, Faulkener, and CO., 11, Parliament-street BANKERS. Messrs. Roberts, Curtis, and Co., 15, Lombard-street, London Messrs. Moore and Robinson, Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham The Sheffield and Hallamshire 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 6th day of October next, except from parties locally 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 omces of the Company ; Messrs. Edward Ellis and Co., 53, Threadneedle-street, London; of the Solicitors and Local Agents ; ant of the following persons :—Messrs. Stockley and Thompson, Solicitors, Liverpool; Messrs. Johnson, Bradley, and Co., Share brokers. Manchester ; Mr. Guy, Sharebroker, York ; Mr. A. Brand. Sharebroker, Glasgow; Ur. Charles Cowper, Sharebroker, St. Andrew's-square, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Allardyce and Jopp, Brokers, Aberdeen; Alexander Scott, Esq., Perth ; Messrs. Bruce and Symeb, 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 roceeding by ay of ing, Uppingh am , Oakham, Grantham p , on to Lincoln, w with two ex tensions from that city —one to the port of Gainsbeirough, and the other to Market Raisen and the rising and important port of Great Grimsby. (Previsonally Registered.) Capital 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL commirrea. 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 De Capel Broke, Bart., Oakley Hall, near Kettering Robert 31. Bates, Esq. banker, Strand Bell, Robert, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Beefthorpe Hall, Newark, Notts John Richard Burbidge, Esq., Surbiton lan, Surrey Johu Brieht man, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton Mr. Alderman Brooks, Manchester C. Bun:lick, Esq., merchant, 133, Fencharch-street, London John Barnett, Esq., Cheltenham Jonathan Burton, Esq., Nottingham, Director ef the Grand Union and Nottingham and Gainsborongh Railway Companies George Buxton, Esq., Northampton J. D. Barry, Eq., London and Paris, Director of the (Semite Tonne awl Bordeaux Railway Company Charles Britten, Esq., Northampton Mr. Alderman Bean, Nottingham John Bradley, Esq., The Park, Nottingham Mr. Sergeant Clarke, Recorder of Northampton and Linco ln Thomas Chitty, E sq., U pper Gower•street Richard Carpenter, Esq., Lonsdele-square, London Henry Cue Ceape, Es 1., Goldhanger, Essex Thos. Mortimer Cleobury, Esq., Acton, Middlesex N. Cumberlege, Esq. , Turk-terrace, Regent's -park Mr. Edward Cotton, merchant, Northampton J. 31. Cottle, Esq., Leamington Peter Coniston, jun., Ese., Husbands Bosworth, near Weiford Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Lincolnshire Jeliu Robert Dalby, Esq., Ashbourne, Derbyshire The Rieht Hon. George Lionel Dawson Darner, M.P., 6, Tllney street, Park-lane ITen. W. Dawson Darner, Parkstone Lodge, Poole Deyrell, Edmund F. Eire, Lilingstone Dayrell, High-Sh e riff of Racks John Eyston, Esq., Welton! and Salford Hall, Warwickshire lien. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Bclgrave square Benjamin Fowler, Esq., Tamworth, Director of the Northampton, letneury, and Cheltenham R a il way C ompany John Freeman, Esq., Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Company Major-General Oreenstreet, Northampton John Cooper Gotch, Esq., banker, Kettering Hon. Robert Gore, M.P., 21, Wilton-crescent G unhier, Esq., Sacombe Park, Hertfordshire .I.nn , I Geruon, Esq., Conduit-street, Bond-street A lexamlo* Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, London Frederic William Green, Esq., shipowner, Cornhill, London The Rev. George Edward Hanmer, Rector of Loddington and Over. stone, Northamptonshire Frederick William Hamilton, Esq. Charles Honeage, Esq., Cadehy-house, Llneolushire Henry Hangman, Esq., Pytchley, Northamptonshire George Harper, Esq., Moss-fields, Salop William Herbert, Esq , Nottingham Thomas Itagger, Esq., Northampton, Director ef the Nerthanspton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Company Thomas Hopkins, Esq., Nottingham Arthur Homes, Esq., Methuen Villa, Leamington John lieleert flclbert, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, London Mr. William Higgins, Merchant, Northampton Einviird Hall, Esq., West Bank-house, Macclesfield, Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Company John Baron Howes, Esq., Irthlingborongh-grange,.Northamptonehire Mr. Alderman Hollis, Northampton Higgins, T. C., Esq., Turvey House, Beds Richard Ilooper, Esq., Upper Clapton, London, Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway Company Hon. Edward Jerningliam Richard Parry Jones, Whitchurch, Salim William Layeteck, Eeri e MiWield, Director of the Nottingham and Liainsborough, 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, Egg., 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, and Bordeaux Railway Company George Murray, Esq., Chichester James Morrison, Esq., St. Mary-at-Hill, London ie Marshall, Esq., Godahning, Surrey E. W. Morris, Esq., Grovehurst, Pembury, Kent 34ajor J. A. Moore, Queen Ann-street, Cavendish-square Samuel Oxenharn, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's Park, London Sir George Prescott, Bart., Theobald Samuel Percival. Esq., hanker, Northampton Mr. Alderman Porter, Northampton Th e ,cy. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire Edwin p e n, Eeri e Sywell Hall, Northamptonshire James Watts Peenercorrie, Esq., Old Broad-street, London, and Dul wich, Surrey Vaughan Prause, Esq., Nether Stowey, Somersetshire Henry Pywell, Esq., Northampton John Phipps, Esq., Northampton Benjamin Payne, Esq., Leicester The Lord Rnssmore, The Dell, Windsor lir. George Lands, merchant, Nottingham The Rev. John Laces Sutton, Rector of Weekly, Northamptonshire Carwen Smith, Esq., Freeman Hall, Hampstead Te e med Sharp, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Companies Henry Lento?' Stockburn, Esq., J.P., Northampton Frederick Seymour, Esq., St. James's-square G. W. Smith, Ewe, Harbury Hall, Sheffield Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq , Grantully Castle Pilliam Spoerier, Eeq., Chapel-street, Beigrave-square, London tames Robert Settler, Esq., banker, Northampton William Strong, Req., Northanipton ;wince Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury Benjamin Williams. Esq., banker, 4, Whitehall, London Major James Waller, St. James's-street Mr. Alderman Williams, Northampton Nr. Thomas Woodhouse, manufacturer, Nottingham David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland-hollow, Derbyshire, Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Company G e orge Wince, Esq., Hungerford, Berke John Wheolton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tonbridge, Kent, Director of the Leicester and Bediord Railway Company Charles. Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Stratford-on-Avon, and Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire The Rev. C. F. Watkins, Vicar of Brexwortb, Nerthamptenskire Mr. John Woolston, jun., merchant, Wellingborough Mr. J seph Wykee, merchant, Northampton Mr. Alderman Walker, Northampton Mr. Marmaduke Wetherell, merchant, Northampton Charles Loxdale Warren, Esq., the Lodge, Market Drayton, *ad cornett Hall, Staffordshire Lien:-Colonel Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Brook's Club Sir Iletzry Webb, Bart, , Pall-mall, London Alien Allicocke Young, Eat., Orlingbury, Northamptonshire J. Borwick Yzarn, lEsq., Hentelllll, Surrey. RANKERS. Northampton—The Unien Bank The Northamptonshire Banking Company Kettering Messrs Gotch and Sons St at e furd—The Northamptonshire Banking Company. ENGINSES—John Urpeth Rastriek, Esq. soLicrroas. London _Augustus Walter Arnold, Esq., 31, Gold en - square Kettering—Messrs. Lamb and Nettleship Northampton and Welford—Mr. George Pell, LOCAL AGENT —Arthur Wens, Rieq. , Nettinghans. PARLIAMENTARY AGENT. ceawallader F. Wieldy, Esq., Fludyer-street. Secerrear —Richard Kirwan, Esq. Offices of the c o mpany, 34, Moorgate-street. PROSPECTUS. e por- The objects Intended to be aeCemplished by m thi od s a u t r o d n ert te aki th ng im are..... Firstly —The supply of local railway accom tent districts embraced by the line. Secondly—The benefit of railway the communleationwi le th neha m t e p tr r o- e. poke to a district of country upwards of fifty m il es in sent unprovided with that accommodation. Thirdly—The completion of' the chain of railway commun icatlos w beteen .he river Severn and the southern and western count ies, and the north-eastern district of the kingdom and the river Member anti its pores, including that of Hull. Commencing at the town efNorthampton, 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 coarse to the market town of Kettering, by which place all the companies compet ing for the line of railway between London and Manchester propose ee pass. It will then proceed also in a direct course to the market towns of Uppingham, Oakham, and Grantham, en to Lincoln. The country lying between the towns ef 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 .f Gainsborongh, and, on the other, by a north-eastern course to the market town of Market Raisen, on to the rising port of Great Grimsby. By a union with the Sheffield and Great Grinuely Junction Rail way at Market Baleen, a direct and uninterrupted chain of commun. cation will be established between all the above-mentioned districts eind the town and port of The sources of traffic which this line will secure are varioea 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 addit i on , I t will secure the important and inereasing local traffic, between that town and Market Raisen and Lincoln. From Gninaborough, the termini of several railways from the *firth and nod's-west, this line will carry the trail, to Lincoln, its county town. • The traffie front Hull to the metropolis, and also to the west, will enter upon this line at Market Raisen and proceed thereon to Lincoln. From Lincoln the whole ;of the train* passing to the west and the interneeelate towns must pass over this line. In the event of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway Company not obtaining their 11111, then the traffic from Lincoln to the south and west, and also the metropolis, will pass along this line of railway ; the former the whole distance, and the latter in any event to Grantham, % distance of about twenty-five miles ; and should the London and York Company not sucteeil, such trails will proceed on to Kettering or Northampton. The entire district between Grantham and Kettering, a distance of more than forty miles, and including the market towns of Oakingharn and Uppingham, is without a railway 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 the west but also to London. At Kettering this lino will unite with that one of the now c pKing schemes passing th a t town front Manchester and Leicester orn" London, which shall be s uccess f ul before Parliament. to The country is free from engineering difficulties, with oas or two exceptions only, and those are more than counterbalanced by the very favourable gradients of by far the Indeed for many miles the line will run upon a ev p arr i r of 1" lice; The line will not interfere with any ornament.' prop ert y. el. The landowners en the line are favourable to the underta king. The promoters reserve power to alter and vary tke route, to fame the proposed line of railway, and to increase th e wsnnt erseza: pita me may be necessary er advisable. ApplicJ.tlons for enures may be made to the Secretary, or to the following S.harebrekers, of whom prospectuses with maps of theline may be obtained:—London —Messrs.Peppercorne and Ce.. 2,014 Broad street; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury. Birmingham— Yr. W. H. Collis. Blackburn—Mr. Thomas Beardms.n. Bradford— Mr. George Clark. Bristol—Messrs. Tate and Nash. Cheltenham— XT. James Stokes. Coventry—Mr. J. S. Holland. Derby—Messrs. Er'e and Shaw. Dublin — Me ssrs. Labertouehe and Stafford. Edin g h _j eaes Pringle, Esq . . % 79, Princes-street. Exeter—Messrs. !Beaumont and Langwort h Y Glasgow—Messrs. Duncan and Hutehine fOrt uarsz—Air. wiWilliamVronlielm. Huddersfield—Messrs. ie ;of Parliament, they have the power which we 11° P i n g ael force. 'The defendants had always, till this occasion, 5,4 j themselves deserving of the confidence that had beenr in them. Mr. W. Hansom, superintendent of the traffic delo oti, rt ,..T v elj e t of the Easte rn C oun ti es R a il wa y, sa id that it was the h; the defendant Hewlett to see that the line was c lear. , ; to defendant Marshall acted under his instructions. Th e, The both at the Tottenham station on the 7th of September. tld were aware that the Cambridge up-train would be st station about 20 minutes atter six o'clock. CHAIRMAN—How would they know that? • There is a time table. does 11° CHAIRMAN—There is no time table when a trait - stop at a station. if t hel Witness—lf they attended to their duty Prt l i r foul would know that the train would p ass within three. minutes of the time it did. It had been running 5111 29th of By he CHAIRMAN—In July. ca A nd te rse' t removing the carriage -- isr box the porter would consult the clerk, but if there w „ bo ut mediate danger he would remove any obstruction W" orders. he 71bcf Robert Winning, engine -driver, stated that on t t f o ur September he left Cambridge with the train a b t o re o'clock. He had a watch with him ; when at a o b• about 100 or 150 yards from the Tottenham static II !, li o e r served a signal near a shed. This was about I the minutes after six o'clock. He immediately reversed Ato yllt gine, and gave an alarm by the whistle to the Vino the on the breaks, which was dune as quick as possible, , v a. b o ut progress of the train was changed from 33 to 8 a n orr l.o The signal was by the waving of a hand. In a secon 8 boo r after he saw the flag. The train was not stopped force e. which was partly on the line, was smashed to PI f o rce. wheels of which got under the engine, by which it 0 700 off the rails, and a passenger carriage was the up and down rails. • obst r" By the BF-rem—The orders are when there is A) lo ose tion, that a notice of half a mile should be given' ,„pB s t 6 to be at Tottenham station is from 17 to 20 minw" -- o'clock. William Ayres, a guard, corroborated the evidence' go, also taco stated that there were about 40 passengers in the air m some ladies, all of whom were much frightened. a to o for tance between the signal and the horse-box was yards. A *e James Blunt, a plate-layer, said that about n o 1- before the collision the clerk o r dered Marshall to renl ig horse-box from the shed, and directed witness tonst tba° Before moving it Marshall placed the red flag 9 te VP shed. The box had not been out more than a ° Lau they observed the train approaching. „nal; The superintendent stated that the horse-boX t Ate' quired till two o'clock on the following day, wh en - have been wanted for Alderman Copeland's liorses. train $, The defendant Hewlett stated, th a t when u rd expected he was employed, as it was his duty , in '' d his account in reference to the last train, which 10 it bn¢ a few minutes before. They are his orders. hlarsb,„ithosl the time the train was expect e d, an d it was entire', t i le t oo his knowledge that the horse-box was removed ° for gett er/ it was, and he had no doubt but that Marshall bad the train was coming. ;00 1' Marshall said that he removed the horse-bo/t L 5 se e having had his instructions from Hewlett, as he ,ever tomed on all occasions to do when i , James Blunt, being called . by Marshall, said t hat they were ordered by Hewl e tt t o rem ove a earr ieg o ei cset i° always done instantly. On this occasion there Nvasll given. t he e. The CHAIRMAN having expressed his regret 0,000 fendants, with the excellent character they bad, ;301 placed in the situation they then were, said that o lde n had a duty to perform to protect the public. If W " - in c ony ana— n.pr that the passengers had been e x p ose d to great G sequence of their negligence. . . been, , fof Mr. Gibson observed that, had the collision to ra,,, serious, and life had been lost, they would have been lir' a more heavy offence, for which they would have bee to transportation for 14 years. the /I' hig h t The defendants were severally fined in penalty of 405., or three weeks' imprisonment, ttiost. penalty being 101., or in default t wo mo nths' in 2 l 3l ' The fines were paid. TEE SIJN, LONDON, SATTTRDAY MORNINn, OCTOIIEIt 4, 1845, 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 ions ; Messrs. A. Birchali and Co. ; Mr. Charles O'Neil. Nottingham—Mr. Charles Spencer. Sheffield—Messrs. T. N. itardwell and Sons. Soutbampton—Mr. Joseph Clark, jun. Wakefield—Mr. E. 11. Armitage. Worcester— Mr. Miles. York—Messrs. Grayston and Earle. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Northampton, Lincoln, sad Hull Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 2W. each is 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 2/. 2s. per share. Dated this day of 1845. •.• • • • Profession and Professional Residence in full .... Private Residence in • • • • • • • • Usual Signature Name• .. Re5idence........... ...... And Profession of Referee • •• . Offices, 34, Moorgate-street. NORTHAMPTON, LINCOLN, AND HULL RAILWAY. PROStECTUSES and MAPS will bo ready for delivery on SATUR DAY, the 4th inst. EREWASH VALLEY EXTENSION, and ROCHDALE, BLACKBURN, and EAST LANCASHIRE JUNCVION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 1,750,0001., in 87,500 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Mid 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 William Bean, Esq., Tulse-hill William Beresford, Esq., M.P., 77, Pall-mall, London, Director of the Thames Valley Railwoy Company Hon. Augustus Berkeley, Berkeley-house, Spring-gardens William Elmsford, Esq., Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway Company Charles Bradley, Esq., Director of the Tre A Valley Continuation, and of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation Railway Companies Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth, and the South and Midland Railway Companies Louis 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 Carpenter, Esq., Magistrate of Middlesex, Deputy-Chairma n of the War w i c k and orcester ; and Director of the Tan Vale Railway Companies Rev. H. R. Chandos Pole, M.A., Rector of Radbourne 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 Talley 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 Pellett Green, Director of the Hull and Doncaster 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 Confirmation, and Welsh Junction Railway Companies F. J. Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, London, The Grange, Alfreton, Director of the Bideford and Tavistock Railway Company S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.S., Inner Temple, Director of the Great London aad 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, Staffordshire 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 Margetson, Esq., Streatham Henry Blair Mayne, Esq., 14, Wilton-street, Grosvenor-square John Atonally, Esq., Marble-hall, Warwick, Direoor of the Landon and Birmingham Extension, and of the Exetet' and Weymouth Railway Companies Peter Morrison, Esq., Prince's-street, Bank, London, Director of the Thames Valley Railway Company Robert William Netterville, Esq., Craise Rath, County Meath, and Sackville-street, Dublin John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetta-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 ukjamin 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 Union 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, Larne, and Bally mena Railway Companies William H. Terrell, Esq., Stone-buildings, Lincoln's lan, 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, D er b yshire, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley Railway Company G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed Coelyn, Denbighshire, and :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 Sheffield, Direc tor of the Sheffield, Barnsby, and Wakefield Junction Railway Companies Sir William Wynn, Meseynewadd, Chairman of the N or th Wales and Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway Company COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION. OUTMAN—W. HUGHES HUGHE Alderman S, Esq., F.S.A., F . L .S., &c, DEPUTT-CuitamAN—JOSEPH BROWN, Esq. Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart. Charles George Knox, Esq. G. N. Wright, M.A. William Law, Esq. William Bean, Esq. Stephen Lewis, Esq. Richard Carpenter, Esq. William Shaw, Esq. John Churchill, Esq. Robert Watkins, Esq. F. d. Hall, Esq. W. A. Wilkinson, Esq. Frederick Hewitt, Esq. BANKERS. London—The Commercial Bank, Lothbury Derby—The Derby and Derbyshire Bank Rochdale—Messrs. Clement Royds and Son Blackburn—Mite Manchester and Liverpool Banking Company. CONSULTING ENGINEERS Sir John Macneill, LL.D. and F.R.S. Junes Thompson, Esq., F.R.S.E. and M.R.I.A. ENGINEERS. William B. Prichard, Esq.. C.E. William Thomson, Esq., C.E. PAILLIAMENTART AGENTS—lfessra, Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Sowerres—Hull Terrell, Elm., 30, B Lo C u oates. -oeoehall-street s, ndo LOCAL AGENTS. T. Cressy Hall, Esq., Alfreton, Derbyshire George Henry Richardson Cox, Esq., Spondon, Derbyshire Sxcarrenv—Stillingtieet Locker, Esq. Assuming the northern terminus of the Erewash Railway as its origin, this line will pass through localities t o t a l ly un 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 from the Cromford Canal—communicating with the Codnor ironworks—along the Dinting Vale, and, obeying the course of the river Dement, enter Yorkshire, in the vicinity of Saddleworth. In Its course, It will pass through or near to Matlock, Ashbourne, Glos so.), Mottram, Hyfield, and Duckentield, In reaching which point, the 3finchester and Sheffield Railway will be intersected, and the Hud dercield Canal Railway passed, near to the Rochdale station of the 31,oichester and Leeds Railway. It is unnecessary to state here the character of the country from It .c!itittle to Blackburn : it will be sufficient to observe, that it is the se I of those manufactures to which England owes her accumulating w-:pith. The line will proceed thence through or near to Whitworth an 1 llossendale, and fall into the East Lancashire Railway, in the vi. ;uity of Haslingden. A branch will be thrown eat of the trunk line, from the Junction w:::. the East Lancashire line near Haslingden, by Low-Moor iron .riis and Bacup, to Todmerden. The Erewash Extension will be the only direct route front the centre of Derbyshire to the great manufacturing towns and chief sc.iports of Lancashire. It will traverse a valley district adorned w;.11 the most picturesque scenery, and, at the same time, rich In In' , leral produce. It will communicate, laterally, with several trunk lint, of railway, and will be fed by no less than five working canals— the Cromford—the Manchester and Sheffield—the Huddersfleld—the ALC'ehester and Leeds—and the Liverpool and Blackburn. 'l'., the multiplication of advantages which intersecting railways all i lines of still-water navigation are compelled to afford, the throw -111.: out of branches from the line itself in so many directions will add still further powers of accommodation, and, when the dense popula tina in the localities traversed is considered, there is every reason to conclude that an ample remuneration for vested capital will be Cy following the course of rivers, which, is this instance, fall in wi ill the exact direction of the projected line, highly favourable gra dients are obtained for a considerable part of ithe 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 gictension ; 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 tho Act of Parliament Is obtained ; and power will be taken in the Act to allow 4 per cent, in. West upon all calls. - - Prospeatuses, maps, and forms, may be had at the Codices of Hull Basinghall-street, London ; G. Cressy Hall , Esq.. solicitor, Alf reton ; GtOrg • Henry Richardson Cox, Esq., Terrell, Esq., solicitor, 30, Spondon, Derbyshire ; and the following Sharebrokers t — Mesell. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle-street ; Messrs, Taunton and Busk, 26, Austin-friary; Mr. T. Uzielli, 75, Old Broad-street, Lon don ; MesersManchester.Oastler an dWellbeloved, Leeds ; M essrs. HOughlalld and Leese, ; Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liverpool ; Mr. W. Wren, Preston ; Messrs. Flint and Toots', Hull; Mr. W. Mason, Bradford; Messrs. Graystone and Earle, 'York ; Mr. W. Croniere, Halifax : Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Bons, Shetnekl ; Mr. S. Byre, Derby ; MI T. Boardman, Blackburn. Appale4tions for shares must be accompanied by references to a member of the Proyilloilat committee —to t4O solicitor or yeeeA Name at full length .. .... •• , . Place of Business (if any)... .. .. • • Profession or Business ............ Reference ... • • ..... • • .... • • • • • • . . Profession and Residence of Referee A. BARRETT, Secretary. 1, Royal Exchange-buildings, London, Sept. 27, 1845. IitUGBY, WARWICK, and WORCESTER RAILWAY. The Directors, in consequence of their receiving daily applications for shares in this Company, announce that the list was finally closed on Saturday last, and that no further applications can be entertained. By order, September 26th, 1845. GEO. H. WELLER, Secretary. R UGBY, WARWICK, and WORCESTER RAIL WAY. The Directors in reply to the numerous applications on the subject, beg to inform the public that the shares in this Company are now in course of allotment, and that they, the Directors, intend issuing the letters of allotment so scon as the requisite examination has taken place into the application for shares. By order, September 27, 1845. GEO. 11. WELLER, Secretary. R UGBY, WARWICK, AND WORCESTER RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 900,0001., in 45,000 Shares of 20/. each. Deposit 2/. 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.A., 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 Com. niittee of Management:— William Frederick Beadon, Esq, Thomas Farmer Cooke, Esq. Peter Colston, jun., Esq. Edward Doubleday, Esq. John Freeman, Esq. Alexander Groig, 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 Eegby. The Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, at Leamington, Warwick, and Southern 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 ng proceeded with, a n d th l etters will u n i a T i o a t a b l t l b o l t y m b e e unsatisfied e . t u inss nowatis ebe 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, 1845. James Morrison, Esq. Cornelius Nicholson, Esq, Benjamin Payne, Esq. Robert Rising, Esq. Thomas Sharp, Esq. Joseph Satchell, Esq, John Wheelton, 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, 1/. 7s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Captain Laws, R.N., Crumpsall-hall, Manchester Joseph Ilegan, Esq., Liverpool ( Directors of the London and York Railway) George Crosland, Esq., Huddersfield Joseph Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield ( drectors of the Iluddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway) Robert Buchannau, Esq., M.D., Pontefract, Chairman William Moxon, Esq , Pontefract James -twins, Esq., Ileadingly, 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, Hud dersfield, and Goole Railway) John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester John Holford, Esq., Rusholine-house, Manchester Lott Gardiner, Esq., merchant, Manchester Edward Connell, Esq., Leaf-square, Manchester Mr. Alderman ]turd, merchant, Manchester James Con4terdine, Esq., merchant, Manchester Cephas Howard, Esq., J.P., Brinnington-hall, Stockport William Bayley, Esq., Larkhill, Staleybridge, Cheshire P. England, Esq., Huddersfield John Smith, Esq., Welton Garth, near Hull John Wood, Esq., Glossop, Derbyshire Vincent Corbett, Esq., Outhwaite-hall, Wortley • Thomas Chambers, Esq., Chapeltown I. 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., Hasbro'-hall George Knowles, Esq., ironmaster, Rotherham Henry Wilkinson, Esq., Endcliffe-hall, Sheffield C. S. R. Sandford, Esq., North Field-house, Rotherham James Tates, Esq., Effingham Works, Masborough John Aldred, Esq., Rotherham Thomas Wheatley, Esq., corn merchant, South-grove, Rotherham Samuel S. ltrittain, 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 Feoffees 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 It. C. Hoyle, Esq., Aughton-hall, near Rotherham Hebert 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, Rear 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 Duekle, 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, Gainsbor oug h Henry hall, Esq., wharfinger, Gainsborough R. D. Fretwell, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough Robert Plnder Moxon, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough 11. 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 of this undertaking is to connect the Sheffield and Man chester—Huddersfield and Sheffield—Midland and Great Grimsby Railways—the ports of Liverpool and Birkenhead on the western, and Great Grimsby on the eastern coast, afibrding accommodation to all the important intervening manufacturir: - ; and agricultural dis tricts—in fact, to open the shortest and moos: direct 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 coentry, and the pursuits of the inhabitants at the two t ermini — Lancashire and Yorkshire having redundant supplies of coal, ironstone, lime, and m nufactured 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. Tae 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 nue 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 an d more direct line. Sir Robert Peel, in his place in Parliament, on the 15111 of March', 1845, upon this point said—" Re would make no re ference to any incliviaual railway schemes, but he thought th e y oug h t to look forward to th e resu lt o f 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 dally introduced, was decidedly in favour of ti-c shortest lines." It may also be observed that the Bea .. of Tre ie, ix their detailed report, in reference to that part of the line from Rotherham to Galnsbrough (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 communication as could be desired with Gains borough and Lincoln." While so favourable an opinion is expressed upon this portion of the line, it may also be fairly grr ited to the extension from Bother. ham to Wortley. By the Sheffield and Manchester, and the Sheffield and Rotherham Railways, the distance from Wortley to Rotherham is 14 1 / miles, which by the proposed ex tension will be reduced to 9. That portion of the line will also open out one of the best coal-fields in England, with inex haustible supplies of Park-gate an d Si lkstone coals—besides the .green Moor Quarries at Wortley. containing very superior stone for paving and building purposes—while at Thonicliffe and Chapel Town, there are already most ext ens i ve ironworks in active' ope ration. At Rotherham and 31asborough—and in the immediate neighbourhood—there are large iica and steel works, and other manufactories, requiring qualities o. coal and ironstone, from which at present they are almost excluded, o n account of the heavy carriage. Rotherham is the great cattle market of Yorkshire, and likewise an important cons market, and one of the obj ects sought to be attained by the promoters of this undertaking is the shortest route from the manufacturing to the agricultural districts —and from th e agricultural to the great markets of Yorkshir e , an d the consuming districts westward. It will accommodate also the traffic of the localities through which it passes, and possesses the peculiar feature of following, as near as possible, the old route in which the stream of traffic, and especially passengers, has hithorto been accustomed to flow, The district between Rotherham and Gainsborongh is destitute of coal, and there is no canal or railway from which it can be supplied, excepting by s. 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 au 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-five and a half miles. There will 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 ho 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. W. F. HOYLE, c. L. coy A iw , Solicitors. .fisti Rotherham 0.1 , 845, Agent—to some person of known respectability —or to the applicants banker In London or elsewhere. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Erewash Valley Extersion, and Rochdale, Blackburn, and East Lancashire Junction Railway Com pany. Capital, 1,750,0001., in 87,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 201. each In the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or any portion of that number you may allot me, and to pay the de posit of 2/. 2s. per share on them, as well as all future calls, also to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when ever required. Dated 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 are pro gressing to their entire satisfaction, and that every care is being taken to insure compliance with the standing orders on going before Parliament. By order, October 3,1845. F. T. ELGIE, Solicitor, Worcpster JOHN BOLTON, Solicitor, Dudley. co ial th :B it ir a .s n n . it: lm o m f be . L E r o c . L E on. power Th e c to Commercial CONSULTING ENGINEER. B A NFIIEVI (W i th Messrs. R. and T. Hopk 5,M.1.C.E.; Messrs.Gough and Roumien,C.E. st,RvEyoßs.—Messrs. Shuttleworth and Sons. Sir John MaAcCiirrei,lN,GL.ELstN, ENGINEERS. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Chauntler 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 o n th e 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 o f 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 liungerford or Waterloo-bridge, the line will take the most predicable 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, Clapham, 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 t o 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 prese n t 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- Patty with which this line may ultimately be connected. A glance at the map will show, that as a brand' 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 tine, independent of the metropolis, and between the intended termini, exceeds 100,000, whose wants are almost wholly supplied from the London markets, &c., and whe 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 he 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 ascer tained 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 p assengers. 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 or dinary increase i n 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 b ecome 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 T t b h e h a e r l rn i there p b l i are i become , aprontable and eligible sch eme for the investment of capital. The promoters of thi s undertaking have pleasure i n announc i ng that It is app roved of, and will he generally supported by local in fluence. They hav e caused a partial survey to be made, which will completed ofy thet r, shortly, o a r n e d t t iaeiyi shareholders h ordinaryawvi have t bhee restricted, ssturri difficultiescatnecde: o bt yo f A,theircontend oeofpd engineers awril itah .. l the meat, to the a mount of their subscriptions; and power will be applied for in the Bill t o allow interest at 4/. per cent. per annum on all calls from the passin g o f the Act until the opening of the line. t p o p r l m i c a a t n i o n n e s x f e o d r ) may rthe further e i n a f( d ) n d r n e a s t s i e o d n , t o p r t o h s e p e s c o t l u i Solicitors; r s ; a u t c o l l t s l h i e a r S e e s c (in tary, at the offices of the Company, No. 34, Gracechurch-street; or to the following Brokers :--viz., Messrs. It. and M. Boyd, Princes street ; Mr. 11. J. Williams, 80, Old Broad-street ; Messrs. Greystone and Earle, York ; Mr. Anthony Laurie, Liverpool ; Messrs. Cardwell and Co., and Mr. He nry Benton, Manchester ; Mr. James Pearson, Birmingham ; Messrs. Watson and Co. Leeds ; Messrs. Brady and Stainforth, hull ; Mr. Geo rge 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 reuest Railway. q you will allot me , Shares of 201. each in the above rail way, 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) •••• • • • • • Date •• •• .• .• •. .• •. •• •• D UDLEY and BIRMINGHAA . I JUNCTION RAILWAY, In continuation of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway. BROAD AND .NARROW GUAGE. ' Capital, 200,0001., in 10,005 Shares of 20/. each. Deposit 21. ss. per Share. (Provisionally Registered.) A prospectus of this undertaking, with the names of a Provisions Committee will appear in a few days ; in the meantime applications for shares may be addressed to THE DIRECT WEST -END AND CROYDON RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 800,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 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 It. Barton, K.C.8., 2 Montagu-place, Montagu square; Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Maj or Beresford, M.P., 77, Pall-mall ; Chairman of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Director of the Tean and Dove Valley, and West midland, Manchester, anti Southampton Railways Charles R. Itigge, Esq., 10, Bryanston-square; Director of the Great Grimsby, Lfattli, Horrenstle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway William Bland, Esq., B. - xton ; Director of the North Wales, and Richmond and West-e id Junction Railways William Blanchard, Esq., York; Chairman of the Liberty of Ripon Quarter Sessions, 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., Ince Hall, near Wigan, Lancashire ; Direc tor of the Manchester, Derby, and Rugby, and Leeds and 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 Croydon Benjamin Collett, Esq., Manor House, Brornsgrove, 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 Brixton Lieutenant-Colonel Lothian Dic kson,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 Evart, Esq., Brick-court, Temple; Director of the Equity and Law Life Assurance Company, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway Thomas Farneornb, 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. It. 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 Beale, Esq., Gray's Inn-square ; Director of the Chelmsford and Bury Railway Lawrence Ileyworth, Esq., Yew Tree, Liverpool A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place ; Director of the Direct Exe ter Railway John Holford, 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., Re., Alderman of London, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and London and Greenwich Railways John Kynnersley Ilooper, Esq., Alderman of London ; Director of the London amid 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 .T. 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 Blackburmi, 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 tho 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 I'. Pratt, Esq., F.R.S., Bath, and 55, Lincoln's-inn-fields ; Director of the Kennet and ATM 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 Trine, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Oxford and Worcester Extension Railways A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Middle Temple, London; Director of the Great Western Extension Atmospheric Railway Richard Rowe, Esq., Beaufoy-terrace, Maida Vale 11. Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square ; Director of the West Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railway William Shid:ey, Esq., Alfred-place, Brixton ; Director of the Great Grimsby, Louth, liorucastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railways Timothy Steward, Esq., Heigham Lodge, near Norwich Edward H. 0. Scott, Esq., Hoe Garden House, Plymmth; Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weyrnoth Railway Thomas Sydney, Esq., Alderman of Loc_don ; 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 amid Liverpool Direct Railways Robert Watkins, Esq., 45, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square ; Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport, and Liverpool and Derby Railways Sir Henry Webb, Bart., 105, Pall-mall, London ; Director of the York and Lancaster, and Direct Western Railways Sir Thomas Woollaston White, Bart., Walling Wells, Nottingham Thomas Williams, Esq., Belgrave-street, Belerave-square Sir William Wynn. Maesynewadd, and Suffolk-place, Pall-mall ; Chairman of the North Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways ON THE PROPOSED EXCLUSION OF THE STATUE OF OLIVER CROMWELL FROM THE NEW PAR LIAMENT HOUSE. 0 English people, that in Time's long date, Slow piling stone on stone, have raised on high A stately house of freedom, where to lie Secure and smile, though kings beat at the gate : Do not, in this your ease, do not forget Those your forefathers, that in times gone by Did toil and sweat, and all their lives long ply At the foundations of your free estate. Hutchinson—Vane—Hampden, that with his blood Mortared the stone s , and that chief architect, Oliver Cromwell, he whose heavy hand Smote the false Stuart. Him would they new eject From his well-earned honours, and o'erflood With base neglect that ancient glorious strand! DUBL" IN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. No. CLIV. An excellent bill of fare promised in the table of contents is well supplied by the bulk of the papers which this number contains. " Ireland and her Church " (second article) ; " Poetical Reniaius of the late Mrs. James Gray:" "New Zealand ;" "The Asthetical Con dition of England;" "Irish Rivers;" " The Last Lay of the Minstrel ;" " The Whychcots—a Leaf from the Census of 1841 ;" " A Month in the Highlands;" " Gal lery of Illustrious Irishmen ;" " The Outpost Bugle;" " A Plea for Illusion;" " Sir Robert Peel and the Pro testants of Ireland"—these are the principal dishes which are served up by the editor for our delectation. The first and the last of them are, of course, strongly tinctured with a Protestant and Orange hue. We do not imagine that our readers would thank us for any recur rence in this place to daily objects of political polemics with which they must be aweary. Very beautiful are the " Poetical Remains" of the gifted lady whose name they bear; but we have not space for extracts—and, in deed, we could only give them at the price of so abridging her impressive stanzas as to do them grievous injustice. And yet we are irresistibly tempted to adduce this charming specimen of her high poetic power : "I lift with gentle hand the shadowy veil, I-16* - like myself thou art—and yet how pale! The same dark hair above the lofty brow, In its still beauty white and pure as snow. Thou might'st be sleeping that untroubled sleep I often watched when resting by thy side, But on thy face there is a calm more deep, And on thy lips a rest mere purified ; I touch thy hand—ah, now I feel the change For when was touch of thine so cold and strange? And no uplifting of those shadowed eyes That ever opening look e d f or l ove i n m i ne ; No answer to those holy sympathies, Whose magic trembled from my heart to thine. My love, my love, it cannot be thy clay That makes me shudd er th us an d turn -away, Away from thee—forgive —forgive! the thought Was from a momentary terror wrought. Wretch that I was to dread thee !—Lo, I rest My head once more upon thy marble breast As if it were a refuge still. Oh love, That word of mine could one dear answer move From these cold lips ! Surely thou still must share Some comfort from my watching and my care; Surely we shall not part! Oh joy for us If we might ever be together thus— That I could bear thee even as thou art To some lone cavern, where my aching heart Might have thee to itself, and none intrude For ever on that sunless solitude! Nay, is not our own chamber a defence, Who hath a right from me to take thee hence From me thy wedded wife?" " The Wife's Last Vigil," for example, is of so much unity and such profound pathos, that we could not bring ourselves to quote any disjointed parts of it. "New Zealand"—an extended review of the books of Earle, Brown, Edward Wakefield, Dr. Dieffenbach, and Capt. Wilkes (United States Navy)—is also the best topo graphical, statistical, and descriptive paper on this im portant colony that we have met with for some time past. Under the head of " Irish Rivers" we have a second article on the Blackwater of Munster—a very agreeable contribution to this interesting department of our national topography—full of historical anecdote, romantic legends, and fine descriptions of scenery. SIMMO.NDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE. Mr. Charles Hooton, who has long been well known in magazine literature as a shrewd observer and a smart and clever writer, gives us in the present number of Simmonds, a most amusing and animated description of a visit to, and sojourn in, the city of New Orleans. This city has the misfortune to bear a bad character in Europe, and is consequently seldom visited by travellers. If we mistake not, however, this paper by Mr. Hooton, in "The Crescent City," will induce many to visit it, more particularly in the winter season. He thus sums up the result of his experience during his sojourn:— " Upon the whole, the impressions left upon me by both the Crescent City and its inhabitants were of a very favour able nature, and such as will ever excite reflections of the most pleasing kind. With the two exceptions of jack' and a sun in summer rath er t oo h o t, f ew cities in the States are more agreeable; for in the winter season the climate is delicious—that is, during six or seven months of the year." The other papers of this number contain much useful information on the state and prospects of our various colonial dependencies. THE BALLOON. Emboldened by the success of the Aerostatic Magazine, the editor has in the present number laid aside his nom de guerre of Wells, and appears in propriet persona as Mr. Coxwell. The opening article " On Aerostation as it has been, as it is, and as it should be," is well worthy the attention of all who desire to see aerostation raised from the degradation of being a mere show to the dignity of a science. This is followed by an elaborate critique on the celebrated aerial voyage to Nassau ; and we have, as usual, accurate accounts with critical observations on the balloon ascents of the month. The present number of this magazine fully maintains its character. THE HARVEST IN IRELAND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR.-4 beg leave to inform you that the weather, since Monday morning, has been everything that the farmer could desire, in fact, this day is as warm as any day we have had in the early part of the month. We had no rain on Sunday, yet the day was gloomy; up to yesterday we had a smart ilryir g wind from the north. The wind is blowing to-day from south-oast. This will enable the farmer to save his mountain crop. The wheat, oats, and barley, that were cut and dry in the fields, were in a very precarious condition up to Sunday morning; but, thank God, all is now right, and the slightest injury has not been sustained. We never had a more splendid crop of barley and oats; the wheat crop will be short, but this will be more than counterbalanced by the fact that we require only ten months' consumption, or one-sixth less than last year, as the crop was so very productive that we had more than fourteen months' consumption. Very many of the millers have not one pound of corn; others have good stocks. Those without stock must, as a matter of course, purchase to keep their mills going. The farmers are yet busy drawing the corn to their haggards; until this is complete, they cannot spare time to thrash. Before the month expires you will see immense mar kets. The present price of wheat will be sustained for a fortnight or so ; perhaps another advance may take place, but it will again recede to what it now is. J. 11. Clonmel, Sept. 24, 1845. -- MELANCHOLY DEATH OF AN AGED FEMALE BY FIRE.—On Wednesday evening Mr. Bedford held an inquest at the Rising Sun, Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square, respect ing the death of Judith Money, aged 85 years, lately residing at No. 3, Thomas-street, Oxford -street. The deceased was in the receipt of a weekly sum of m oney f rom several bene volent persons, parishioners of St. George's, Hanover-square. On Tuesday se'nnight, about five o'clock, the lodgers in the house were alarmed at hearing loud screams, and on entering the deceased's room they discovered her on the floor enve loped in flames, which were extinguished with considerable difficulty, but not before she was frightfully disfigured over the upper part of her person. She was ultimately removed to the infirmary of St. George's workhouse, Mount-street, where she expired on Sunday. The accident was caused by her having fallen on the floor with a lighted candle in her hand, which ignited her clothing. Verdict, "Accidental death." THE LEAGUE BAZAAR.—The free-trade bazaar is fixed to commence on the 15th October. The Free-trade Hall is to be fitted up as a hall in the Tudor style of archi tecture, with gorgeous decorations, under the superinten dence of Mr. Grieve, scenic artist of the Italian Opera House and Drury •lane Theatre, the gentleman who gave such high satisfaction and obtained almost universal com mendation for his decorative transformation of Covent-gar den Theatre. A meeting of the Manchester Ladies' Bazaar Committee took place at the Free-trade Hall, on Thursday, when upwards of fifty ladies were present, and displayed their usual praiseworthy zeal in making arrangements.— Manchester Guardian. MAGAZINES—(CONTINUED). I JERIWLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE. This magazine opens as usual with a continuation of the " History of St. Giles and St. James." St. Giles has been sent off to the borough of Liquorish, to join 3 oung St. James, whose return for that borough is being contested by a rich parvenu. The van in which he is proceeding to his destination is upset, and St, Giles, and various drunken musicians, who are of the party, are tumbled into a ditch. Having extricated his com panions, St. Giles proceeds for assistance to a neigh bouring cottage, which he finds t enante d b y C apstick, the muffin-maer, who, having made his fortune and lost his wife, had built himself this cottage, which, out of respect to the memory of Diogenes, he had named " The Tub," and who had taken Bright Jem to live with him. St. Giles has previously met Kitty Muggs, now the widow of Caesar Gum, whose son is a footboy in the service of one of the Marquis of St. James's daughters so that we are getting gradually back among our old acquaintance. " Serving the People" is a pendant to the paper which appeared in the last number on " Serving the Country," and is well worthy the attention of all those who wish well to the cause of that social re formation which has already begun, and which it is the glorious mission of this magazine to urge onward. " The Englishman in Prussia" makes some very curious revela tions as to the self-sufficient selfish bureaucracy, which, by means of its secret police and its organised spy system, holds paramount sway in that country alike over the monarch a nd the people. Of the "History for Young England" we have the seventh chapter, which is devoted to the early English Churchmen from the fourth to the ninth century. It displays grea": research and much critical acumen. The friends of "Legitimacy" would have acted wisely had they consented quietly to let the statue of Cromwell take its place among those of the other chief magistrates of England. Such papers as " Cromwell in the Shades," in the present number of this magazine, cannot but tell with damaging effect upon the "right divine of kings to govern wrong." In another part of this number we have on this subject the following magnificent sonnet—a sonnet which would not have been unworthy of the muse of " that blind man eloquent" who, as Foreign Secretary to the Common wealth, achieved as mighty victories for his country with the pen, as his Highness the Lord Protector had done with the sword IRELAND. DUBLIN, SEPT. 30.—A special meeting of the Corporation has been called for to-morrow, in order to give Mr. O'Connell an opportunity ofstatine• his views in reference to the borough rates. The Hon. and Learned Gentlemen leaves town on Friday evening for Killarney. THE CORN MARKET. There was a further decline of Is. 6d, to 2s. per barrel on wheat, at this day's market. The provincial papers received this morning contain very favourable reports of the harvest in the late districts. The potato panic has nearly subsided. THE DETECTIVES. The following report of a case at Henry-street Police-office, yesterday, will give our readers an idea of the lengths to which the Dublin detective police are permitted by the autho rities to carry their irresponsibility : Two very well-dressed and handsome-looking young men, who gave their names as Joseph Fisher and Thomas Phillips, were brought up in custody of the detective force, under the following circumstances:— Mr. Frank Smyth appeared as counsel, with Messrs. C. Fitzgerald and Edward Fulham as agents, for the prisoners, who were taken up on suspicion of having committed a felony in the Bank of Ireland on Friday last, when some money was stolen from gentlemen win, were transacting business in that "establishment. Brennan, one of the detectivepolice, stated that, from infor mations which he had received, he arrested Fisher in Sack ville-street on Saturday. He took the prisoner off a car, where he was with some other persons. He (Brennan) knew the prisoners had arrived from England, and were going to the fair of Ballinasloe, and he suspected they would commit a felony if they could, and he had also reason to suspect that they belonged to the swell mob, and therefore he arrested them. He got thirty-one sovereigns and 51. 10s. in notes on Fisher, with a gold watch, chain, &c., and, in fact, every thing that a person might expect to find with a gentleman of property. On cross-examination by Mr. Smyth, Brennan admitted that he neither saw nor knew of the prisoner doing anything wrong—in fact, he knew nothing about him, except that he (Brennan) suspected he would commit a felony if he got an opportunity, and therefore he arrested him. Mr. Bardin wai examined to show that he lost money in the bank, but he could not tell who stole it; he never saw the prisoner before. Mr. Smyth produced Mr. Beckley, of the Sheffield Hotel, who proved that Mt. Fisher was in the habit of stopping at his hotel, and that he always had plenty of money, and was a gentleman who kept his horse and gig; he had the highest opinion of Mr. Fisher, who on one occasion ordered a suit of clothes, which were sent to the hotel after Mr. Fisher left, and he (witness) paid for them, and the property remained in his house for a long time; and on Mr. Fisher coming to Cork, some months after, witness sent the clothes, and Mr. Fisher remitted the amount at once. Mr. Smyth said it was monstrous to take up a gentleman on such a charge, and he urged that he must at once be dis charged. Mr. Tyndall said there was no case made against the pri soner, and at once set him at liberty. Thomas Phillips, a very fine and intelligent young man, apparently about sixteen years of age, was then put forward. The evidence against him was the same as in the last case, and Brennan said he got four sovereigns on him when arrested. Mr. Smyth (to Brennan)—Was there not a large paper placard put on this young 'gentleman's bat, with the words " English thief and swell mob" written on it 2—Yes, but that was not done by me. Mr. Smyth—Was he not marched through the streets with that paper on his hat, in order that the public might see him ?—Yes, he was. Mr. Smyth—And was he not taken through the streets to Pim's, in George-street, and paraded before the customers in that house, with the placard on his hat ?—Yes, he was. Mr. Smyth—And you brought him there to try if he had purchased a pin which he had, and which he told you he bought there for 14s. ?--Yes. Mr. Smyth—And his story was found to be perfectly cor rect ?—lt was. Mr. Smyth—And he was then taken through the streets to the Lower Castle-yard to the office of ➢ir. O'Connor ? —Yes. Mr. Smyth—And he was brought through the streets with five or six detective policemen jeering at - and pointing ... out to the people ?—Yes, he was. Mr. Smyth—And I believe you took him to almost all the chapels and churches in Dublin on Sunday with the placard on his hat, and pointed him out to the congregation, and asked if any person bad lost anything, and if so, could they, identify the prisoner ?—Yes, that is true, and I was or dered to do it. Mr. Smyth—Good; and then after marching him about the town all day on Sunday, you took him to College -street station, where he was confined ever since ?—Yes, sir. Mr. Smyth said perhaps the present was the most outra geous act committed by the detective police. Life or liberty was not safe in Ireland while such a system was permitted to remain, and he would certainly make a representation of the facts to the Government, for if this horrid system of espionage was permitted any longer, there would be no security to the person either by law or national liberty. He submitted that Mr. Phillips must be instantly discharged. Mr. Tyndall at once set the young man at liberty, as he had no case against him. REPRESENTATION OF KERRY.—It is said that Mr. Hirbert, of Mucross, is to start for Kerry on the repeal interest. AGRARIAN OUTRAGE IN ROSCOMMON.-011 the night of September 5 six heifers, the property of Mr. John Goldsmith, were houghed on the lands of Ballyoughter, near Elphin. On the morning of the 22d Mr. James Nolan's herd, on the lands of Castleplunket, found sixteen of the heifers in his charge stabbed in the flanks; three were dead, and the others mortally injured. A bayonet was found in the body of one. The value of them before the injury was estimated at 15 guineas each. We find, on looking over the county books, that at the last spring and summer assizes the sum of 2991. 13s. 6d. was presented as a compensation for malicious injuries, as follows :—Athlone barony, 108/. 13s. ; Ballintobber barony, 601. 10s. ; Frencbpark barony, 121. 12s. ; 3loycarron barony, 33/. 6s. 6d. ; Boyle barony, 211. 10s. ; Roscommon barony, 63/. 2s.—Total, 2991. 13s. 6d. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY OF IRE LAND.—RALLINASLOE, MONDAY EVENlNG.—Notwithstanding this being the immediate eve of the great agricultural meet ing and annual cattle show, the town is filling but very slowly. A mighty influx of strangers was this day con . fidently expected, but the arrivals have, however, been upon a very moderate scale. The proprietors of lodging-houses-- many of whom have gone to much more considerable ex pense than for the ordinary occasion of the great fair, in the hope, of course, of reaping a golden harvest in proportion— will, it is anticipated, suffer serious disappointment. There remain at this moment, as I have been informed, 500 beds to let. The coming in of th e ca ttl e an d ot h er sorts of stock for exhibition is progressing steadily, and every preparation to render the show itself in the highest degree effective is com pleted. A trial of agricultural implements, comprising ploughs, harrows, rubbers, scarifiers, &c., took place this afternoon, in a:field in the neighbourhood. Judges appointed to this department were present to test, by personal observa tion, the merits of each "newest invention," so as to be thereby better qualified to discriminate between the respective characters in making their awards. THE DETECTIVE POLICE.—Mr. Inspector O'Connor, of the detective police, has just made his appearance here, and half a dozen of his corps will be down from Dublin in the course of the evening. He has been taking a quiet survey of the town, peering about with his hawk-eyes, and innocently observing all that is going on. In the course of his ambula tions he was observed " measuring " some characters whom he conceives to be fair game for his detective powers. Those lads" evidently knew the detective, and " measured " him. Indeed it was most amusing to witness the little by-play between O'Connor and the swell mob "gentry," for sucl they are. MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. The Council met to-day at the Agricultural Hall, for the purpose of appointing judges and stewards. The Earl of Clancarty presided. Among the members present were Lord Ashtown, Wood lawn, Kilconnell ; Lord Clancarty, Garbally Park ; Lord Viscount Clements, M.P., Loughregan, Mohill ; Lord Clon brock, Clonbrock; Lord Crofton, Moate Park, Athlone the Duke of Leinster, Carton, Maynooth ; Lord River. ston, Flower-hill, Killiman ; Lord Walscourt, Oranmore ; Robert Archbold, F:sq., M.P., Davidstown, Castle- Dermott ; Major Bole, Henry-street, Dublin ; William Blacker, Esq., Market-hill, Armagh ; Thomas Bermingham, Esq. ; Sir Michael Dillon Bellew, Bart., Mount Bellew; Robert Bodkin, Esq., Thomas IL Grandon, Esq., Ballinasloe ; Pro 'fessor Kane, Dennis Kirwan, Esq., Castlehackett, Tuam ; J. D. H. Kirkaldy, Hernsbrook, Eyrecourt ; D. H. Kelly, Esq., Castlekelly ; Joseph Lambert, Esq., Brookville, Claremorris ; W. M'Donagh, Esq., Ballinasloe ; John Ross Mahon, Esq., George Charles Mahon, Esq.; the O'Conor Don; Shar man Crawford. Esq., M.P. ; John Robinson Price, Esq., Westfield Farm, Mountrath ; tb Rev. Francis Rutledge, Bloomfield, Hollymount ; Thomas Seymour, Esq., Ballymore Castle, Ballinasloe ; F. M. Shaw Taylor, Esq., Castle Taylor; E. K. Tennisson, Kilbona, Carrick-on-Shannon, and H. Trench, Esq., Mounthenry, Ballybrittas. After a good deal of desultory conversation, and some rather warm debating relative to the capabilities of the respective gentlemen named as judges, the following were appointed for short horned cattle :—Messrs. Hugh Watson, John H. Drought, and Torr, an English gentleman. The judges for the other section were also appointed, but as it has not been definitively ascertained whether they can conveniently act or not, they deem it the more advisable course not to give their names Some routine business connected with the internal arrange.. ment of the show-yard having been transacted, the list of toasts for the Council dinner was considered, and, after some discussion, settled. There will be no less than fourteen sen timents, each to be proposed by a different speaker, and each to be responded to, so that we AO have not less than 28 speeches. The principal speakers will be Lord Devon, Lord Clonbrock, Lord Clancarty, the Duke of Leinster, Major Bryan, William Blacker, Esq., Lord Crofton, the Marquis of Downshire, and the Earl of Erne. Covers have been laid for three hundred, and it is calculated that close on that number will attend, EDMONTON PETTY SESSIONS. (Before Mr. BUSLIE, Chairman, and Mr. Ginsox.) Henry George Hewlett, clerk, and John Marshall, porter, in the employment of the Eastern Counties Railway, ap peared to an information laid by John Whitticomb, on behalf of the Company, which alleged that on the 7th of Septem ber, while at the Tottenham station, by the negligent perform ance of their duty, they did not remove, or cause to be removed, a certain horse-box and passengers' carriage off the rail, to the obstruction of the passage of a train, by which obstruction an engine, to which a train of carriages was at tached, was forced off the rail, to the danger of the passengers, and whereby the said engine was greatly damaged. Mr. Wells, counsel for the Company, attended in support of the information. Mr. Wells stated, that he appeared on the behalf of the Directors of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, to prefer the present charge, which was instituted under the sth and 6th Victoria; c. 55, by which, upon any neglect of duty of their officers (by which neglect passengers were likely to have suffered a serious injury), such officers might imme diately be taken into custody and conveyed before a magis trate. In the present case th e Directors were unwilling to act so harshly toward the defendant, and were desirous that they should have a reasonable notice, in order that they might prepare for their defence. The Directors felt it their duty to adopt this proceeding, in order to assure the public that no efforts on their part would be wanting to ensure the safety of those who go on that line. He would be able to show, from the evidence he should produce, that the most gross negligence had been manifested by the defendants, while at the Tottenham station, on the day mentioned in the summons. In the afternoon of that day the Cambridge up train, which leaves Cambridge about four o'clock, has to be in London about 45 minutes past 6. - It would then pass the Tottenham station about 20 minutes past 6. It was the duty of the defendants to see that the up-rail was completely clear: but it would be proved that at the]time the Cambridge up-train was expe c t e d t o pass, there was an obstruction, which was caused by a horse-box and passengers' carriage,— that a col'ision was caused between the engine of the train and the horse-box, with the carriage, by the effect of which the engine was forced off the line. The passengers were much frightened ; but, had not the engine-driver seen the obstruction in time, there is no doubt that some lives would have been lost. Both the defendants had been dismissed. The Directors, however, in taking out these proceedings, were desirous that it should be known by their servants, as well as the servants of all other companies, that, by the Act 0 terEA:4 P FURTHER GLANCE at EVA-- RAILWAYS. (From the Railway Chronicle.) Ae trb If In a former number w e presented our readers W ith a 510. of some of the princip a l Continental railways sn o ok that there existed, or wou ld soon ex i s t, a gr an } We extending from Lisbon to the Russian frontier ' u poc propose to take a further glance at these; a n d ad, ' ll ' or view we perceive that, in addition to the one al a 50 oce r of tioned, there are two other trunk lines, des tine t sP iiit t bs later to traverse Europe, under the auspices of ths„ o f r enterprise which will one day make the different , f 4 7; r slP l world as accessible to one another as now are the sa l vinces of individual States. lled the g r Old The first of these achievements may be ea-- • r froO line from the mouth of the Tagus to the Baltic, e e tu t i Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Finland, when, at sons the W I day, it shall be continued to St. Petersburg ,ll of the Neva. t t he lei' s The second of these European highways, and I) ; „°.fitiiu important, will be the centrat line, which, begin n ',Phl e ,. / mouth of the Loire, touching at Paris, crossing,. t " e rel°„•,ii, Mayence, traversing the interior provinces a l i n g S!'1, 1 0, that is to say, Hesse, Thuringia and Saxony, vi st a: o' o o e, and passing . Breslau, wilt find its goal in Polantl , t cre" es t and join on, at Petrickau, to the Warsaw and Chia now in the course of formation. From Warst i ,,oll lll o l line will, in all probability, be extended into 1 , "" es , ' • White Russia as far as Moscow, and even f ur ther, b t, , dosa .. meeting the great navigable artery of the Auteer a „d, nions, the mother of Russian rivers, the Wolga. , c oOny Let us inquire what parts of this line are alreanYe,t what parts . have their execution assured,and wha t ; the spa' s, in project and speculation. Imprimis, in Fran c cielqi - i iss comprised between Nantes and Saarbruck, enl er eot ng is conceded, or about to be. The formation of d' otitu`, o l has commenced upon an extent of 553 miles, r br ad; '0 more than half of the grand whole. Between S 3ar i iiied a ,„.Pof Mayence there is a gap of 75 miles, but it w ill be an early period, if the declaration of the French ~', Goce Public Works in the Chamber of Deputies, tbat freorbr a ' c , ments of Germany were willing to prolong th e V e° line, on the one hand to Manheitn, on the other to iriat fo i. is worthy to be believed. Between Mayence and a i n cho there exists a line, called Mont-Taunus, 25 miles 100 °' f ing the branch to i uistaL Between Frankfort and Leipsic there is ancth er clu ded 141 miles; but after the treaty that has been , e 4 tu ring ia at tween the German principalities of Saxony ana 1844, the formation of truesrailwy to supply the f OPpanting " i• is tolerably certain. Its s that the execution e t to si tti c portant section proceeds but languidly which n t , a , buted to the absence of unity of action, resulting a i ii r piecemeal character of the territory ; nevertheless' p at 1111 ; will connect, by the most direct route, the twochsate.:g portant commercial towns of Germany, where n t , e ,, irs , r Detr nually congregate at the greatest of the known 1— dsd lit and Frankfort. The district between Leipsi c and Dresden is P ; "" 0 111. a railway about 77 miles long. i a 14 1 . d Between Dresden and Breslau the distance_,.„—, A railway betwixt these two points is now 113 a.,,;'i0 far completed at one end as far as Friburg, at t h e , Liegnitz. the polish From Breslau to Warsaw only the part betwee n e tlon , o o capital and Petrickau is in the course of constrtl•. t d ) opened for public traffic. The part completel ifi'rogre; twenty-five miles in length, and that which is n 'need about a hundred. The total length of railways fi ned 1 .0 nearly 250 miles. • t 4l We shall forbear to speak of the section betw' L l t hete"j and Moscow, which is nearly equal in length W t", fool. Paris and Warsaw, for no company has as yet bee for fit with the intention of bestowing a railway uPcn hahl e * er rest, its execution is an event that is not at all pro.„ the present, and one which no coal temperament 70,eut look for, so long as Russia remains under a G a ha ve r bsr°l which has no desire to bring its ignorant and 'esti° ll ", subjects into contact with freer and more enlighten eu i.r, • int witi The third European trunk railway, which, in P° o t s, portance, we place on a level with both its sister wo. oia oa; start from Bordeaux, traverse Central Fgance, antitir.. at Dijon and Beaune, to another line, which will at the Rhine, at Basle; from Basle it wl proceed, Lake as Ch i ' hausen, to the Lake of Constance; from the it 01 : 1 7 o t stance it will descend into the valley of the Dann, — i . rive at Vienna, taking on its way Ratisbon and Lh,an, leaving Vienna it will turn towards Presburg, Bude, and afterwards be continued to Debreczyn, Hungary on the one hand, and on the other tefi c t l7l ems' and Bucha res t, t o th e mout h o f t h e Danube' g we may hope, as f ar as C ons t ant i nop l e, b y Varna', .nceA; for But this is pr ec i se ly th e li ne w hi ch i s l eas t au / 7 1 40 o _ 4 in France, throu g h th e w h o l e extent between 13nt— The ?" - ",„, r Dijon, not so much as the plans have been taken , chow — between Dijon and Basle has been presented to the ,„„ n one r of Deputies, and will most likely be voted at the en" - ment of next session. Bai ls In the Grand Duchy of Baden, the line between oti t t: the Lake of Constance, by Schaffhausen, will be PlYS, o n the Legislature during the autumn of this year; b 1 "'„ o f and Lake of Constance, as far as Ulm, there is no certatro);-,o,,ern; railway for the present. Further on the Bavarian dour meet refused to see any necessity for supplying t ., ll ,..ilonr ce ; the Danube with the incomparable advantage 01 1 1 . radyan . , The section of this line which traverses Alist' o nt with even less rapidity, for the Imperial Govern_ ow Or; tematically opposes the construction of the line from that Persons who are well informed upon the subject se., tht4,o reason for the stoppage at Vienna is, that before turl z i o as attention to the Upper Danube, Government are a w ith t ba bring the capital into communiesttion, by railways' Baltic, the Adriati c , and even the Black Sea. long From Vienna, i n the direction of Hungary, there feted! line, the Vie nna an d Raal, which has been conig ost h an some time, and whi c h they are now extending to Debreczyn, over a space of nearly 300 miles. Dan ° We do net know whether any line for the is yet projected. To carry such a project into en' old$1; among the different Governments of "Wallachia, t h li t t and Servia will be indispensable. Let us licTe 0 the iil liberal-minded princes who now sway.the destinie s a hone lt habitants of these regions will recognise the imrfloi'd tbor of railways towards the enriching and civilisinof the t oe e people. at us hope, we say, that the monarchs, l eas aretf. kingdoms we have just named will take suel, the int!,l l will be requisite for bringing their territories ivitnr orke y 0 1 1 .0 1 :i ence of our third grand European high road' It • rumoured has to be brought to reason on this eet- Ys subj . „d that the young Sultan has a strong aversion to r ailway has declared that he will tolerate none in his rat her an truly the snorting of a locomotive engine wouldy" . But o w° ill-mannered sound under the walls of the Seragnao the l 3 sr do not yet despair of seeing a railway andstation_ phorus, spite of all obstacles; and if we were U reCOMinen'L to his Ottoman Sublimity, we should strong.Y rn his a tteni him to leave off toying with concubines, and t nh a ppinee l ° ,l tion to the improvement of his country a nd the wort hy an its population, as being pursuits infinitely Mer e respectable. a - Th ß e s E ta A:INGS IN NATURAL HISTORT.--TON Sclorpi.oll is a railway ruminant, and belongs to a dOf herd that may be seen loitering about the neighbourlw°,, 4" the Stock Exchange. T railw• tag has his head fat; branches, but he sheds anew branch directly there is h 7f a premium. He i s excee di ng ly fl e et of foot, and when_ are once off there is no catching him. Some railway stw a f_th m : however, distinguished by a sort of waddle, like that will . lame duck of the Stock Exchange. There are s t . ra v o ri T y stories told of the various forms assumed by the 011 report et a g n , f t 0 .,, r u t s eh muses g r an i a 1 is exceedingly cunning, and otofteany artifice to keep out of danger. 'The r aihrsq En neighbourhood e o a f t tahnenosytoaonkceEtxootahaeogbetspdbears in et FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE N-E c ,i,%ri SEE THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE '— THIS DAY. _---.00't"....--- --- , Oa " London: Printed and Published by DIURDO YO li i o, - .#, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, Na o f -- c t I uti Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the C O -- Middlesex, Saturday, October 4, 1546. _ . ~"