The Sun. — London, England, 1845-09-24 00:00:00

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', an extension oethe South and :MlMani,' J D BIRMINGHAM, Ca (Provisionally Registered.) pital, 1 , 2 00,0001., in 60,000 shares of 201. each. Lir Deposit 21. 2s. per Shan.. e ", PROVISIONAL CommiTTER. Wilt. erge Paget, Uxbridge House 414 -14111 Ilresford, Es q. , M.P., 77, Pall-null, Director bore Valley Railway he Welsh Mid- LIZ kulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P. • nen of t ' Chat • n ds' Junction Railways _ of the Teen likliktdald D irector of toe South and Midlan b s . rriee, EN., m.p., Director of the Weis Railways eara e i i i er of the South and Midlands' Junctio B n elfast, Director of the Lekdo„lt ass, Chairman of the nuan . h Midland, and ds Junction Rail , Wa ss ' 'lad Manchestei, and Soath and M air 4 0 , rei e l .De Beauvoir Bart., Chairman of the e th and Midlands u.eitgiaal Extension ' and Director of the Sou 91,,r te„,i.ea Railways ' Director London and Bir- , SIBofu;" -1 4 111 'B acon Johnston, Bart„ Aberdeens hire,Hilton, h ees%li.Tid !Calends' Junctior T i h ß e a , l ni - da, Director o Hertz, Junc_ f the eitl...,"liailleain Prescott, Bart., and South and Midlands' tioe h'7 l er d Manchester Direct, 111 witallways -, th Wales, the Nor aka aal Wynn, Maeynewadd, Chairan Junction Railways 11e4iireetor of the South and Midlands the Direct Western 111,r4eneral Sir Henry Pynn, Director o f tir 4 1 ; a r. of the London Director an d al^e3', Rare, Alderman of London, _ an _ , ds Junction liail laechester Direct, and South and Mi dl ands ' Sir 11.4aSs and Forest of hean ilei IwYsdeu, Bart., Director of the Chepstow Wileks, nallwaY n of Lou --- -sughes Bu F L.S., &c., Alderma doe, eliai____ g h ee, Esq., F.S.A., -._ a Birkenhead Continuation, Lon -1))°m 1. 0 , 5 , nnan of the Manchester am ~ c .tbere '"ou ane Greenwich Railways ; &c. ffe • Director of the Lon c i. doeses4,leollll?, Esq., Alderman of London, Liege, and South an Stidis„',',_, _esnunster Bank, and Namur and e Job/6;17 Juliction Railways ~ • - - - t. London, Director of t t ia h n Lom e , !rsieY ManchesterEs, -Alderman and Midlands' June han..__ .and Direct, and South Iliveu es is the South and , 4; as s hell Esq., Alderman of London, Direotor of . onale m " 'action Railways . • t Talley Con ti,l4a;, aelean, P Deputyhairman_of the Tren anda, Junction ,Italh s „ . , and Director of the South and Midi . .aior Q.': Aberyst with' ae w T,',''ndam. Ka ,Chairman of the Gloucester, d Midlaads' Juli et' (- C entral. ' and Director of South an d kalor ,sehil.Rlways ' rces n ter k4",,,',-rei Parlb n Eutiand-gate, Director of the W o 'al.taieT'rews, and%oeufli and Midlands' Junction Railways e _ rai Staff, Pi„,-r'arees Patrick ltacdougal late Bengal Royal and Forest of DeZ, nye, North Brixton Dire c tor of the Chester _ c tapt .3l ,,' and South and Mlcll ' ands' Junction ' Railways, & te' rui Club Jo, , li ' l t , -eie,xaniler Ilainilton Carle Royal Artiller, Director of the Ikkal uu'i}4l., Secondary of, th ' e City of Lond o n, the Grea t Western of 114bee'rtial' 11 and ~,unitteircial Insurance Compan y, cn ti Railway „,..Itoael!larY Lyeekesaaciellidiaiids janc the Exeter and Weymouth at e j et ,i - ,f. -, ...sq., Director of i RilleltirawaY":44.' Ltta dY - Chairman of the Thames Embankment ches tr l% " ta hl John • of the London and Man- wilt _,end berby4an, Req., Director . Railways tar/a:b.f. chney 014 1- ire and South Staffor d shire Belgrave-squars, Direc- R ai I the ltaliaa e e Esq., wiiton-piace, and Midlands ' Junction ? lw aYs and A.u - tri n and South eter More . - ' a ' Jsrivra -,SOII a nd Britannia Life luau , .ee ore,„„,_tanaeing Director of t he Midlands' Junction ey """.7 Director of the South and ollae'ventli,a)e'd'cle Brompton, Director of the Furness and White- i hitteret .iiseseatihmit, nidtaMtllarsh' Junctioit 27 D irector i t w of y s he London and vetek ghael ExtensioTt, and South and Midlands' Junctio n . 1 W4 sei sh illail bit„Eia''' Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, and Di- 1 t e ti ci or of4,)re of the for Life Insurance _Company, b ant carpectoeru,thEand li t dlands' June f ti t o R il h n e County of Middlesex,i , tkei,),,o-9hainnan oritlie Leognietatr:aendoßirmingham Extall-ll'ands' o.` l aneu en t ilit ai e l L. eicester and .Bedford, and South and Lisi,.Rillett PoTtl e F City of London Joh n J G enerai sii..eo—sq, Secondary of the City I street I v . , enut uirs wis Grant, K.C.8., 31, - 11 elikin 8P ' N., LIIII-grGVe, HarninerSmith _ Director of the Oxf ord • Otter, E n, . ~,, Cheltenham , and Hyde-park Diree Midlands' June -11:194 114.11WWiat Y 4 S eY 4 -- ' llelt enkaln, and South and I",i'llilialnln Oliveira, Es ETts,g upper Hyde-park-street Leeds, Er, '4lBlCBln h glet° ' Eklq>'Leed's • Dl;ector of the Liverpool an d ,sesis7-,risind Midlands' Junction Railways Life Insurance .',o(l'lllcty,.sii:l,4li_q:, Director 'of the Britann ia sant and Midlands' June- Daniel f, t a i l r y b ray s rey and Stafford, and f the Manchester band BirreleirYn,,,' tale Russell-square. Director o f Peru, sin Railvvay - London and Blanches bter h ail a Johnson, Esq, , Director of the ,'',llaci r.W.,,Y,' re 3aatiiki paTisa, Esq., Rank House, Wordsley; Staffords Staffordshire hi 1 1 , 1 .Aue ttss ish i ; Esq., Wordsley, near Stourtbrtage6hareh of England Re ny Illsuranc ' e:citi IS” a p- :fi e d e l tn au r d e s' Junction Railway_ _rector s 'i r t l ie Lee f t s salute South an u ' ghley House, Tottenham, Di ds' Junction Rae,. 'don and Dover ,, . and South and Midlan ilk e , se t iO's Juba See ee e ," B, Esq , Director of the London and Manchester Direc t, 11" a asi,"And Midlands' Junction Railways .I:4ll\v a rl i ,ghtl.E sci , B runswick-square, Director of the Warwick -ob, caBV-t—ester, and -' . 1 , South and Midlands' Junction Railways ilqert Itlceil:allrlek'l7, sq.' Lewisham 'Director of the South n 4441 Sliah., --!, . 44, 1.; Inner Temple, L on don,... .... swor e , it. •",,,acla 'Junction Railway. and Midlands' June ,..tioe 'Wotan, Esq., Director of the S°uth willia',:ed Northampton and Banbury Railways of the South ski-3 Yaxton, Esq., Langford, nearßicester, D i r ector Willi lidlands' JunctioWi nches Y Broad - street , Director 040 kardgett Esq ter House, allands' Junction Ibu i e Italian.an'd Austrians . and South and M 11'. 8 t,*aYs . . --.. . Jo -re ". Esq.. Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Con= ,10,._ tuition Railway 1.4 Vacklitirri,.Esq., Leeds of the Leeds and York i lbuiwaalyrhairne, Esq., Leeds, Vice-C hai rman of the London and .:I•liir,,,ll:4)kinii,• Esq., Bedford-square, Director ei,..erigham, Extension Raiewi c iy Richmond . . _ itsY Corneect, E sq ., old Palteol, Essex 4 Der Req., LeYte ' s ° I; Berke Cl eetp. , "ess,T „erford ark, I and Lonsdale-square, C, ',e ,VilleS, Esq., --a--crelyri; - Denbighsh re, L ig, W right, 31.-A:4 C South Wales Railway I."4lo4Ji°a Director of the and Sheffield Railway ek ei a Lewis, Esq., Director of the Newark Lincoln, York and IVilllBPurnees' Req., Leeds Director of the 1,,!-tii Cadman, ESQ., . 44 ' 7%, Railway 'Hotise,' Melksham, Wilts, Director of iii`a,cl Z'hillips, Esq., Avon . Railway th,,,1t,,,0tit and Midlands' Junction Hcc Bede, and Clopton Ha e, k ''' T hotnas Ward, Esq., Luton .South and Midlands' Junc tion Italitc"q-011-AvOn, Director. of .the 4 ''' , 2 t ,1.4 i l l ; Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, "',0%.,E, Esq., Greenhead , . Hudders d field and Sheffield June he'4', kiZ , and Manchester, a , nd 'lt'd Junction e ß7allways )2,,,p lt,Z'4oth and 'Midlands urn.._ge, oa Huddersfield, Provision i al *4:. ' e k he Eml.' fi E el d d A 1 .. g alit- 'and Bradfbrd Union l- Railway Cast sia a i r birecillruadfdetirsme South c and Midlands' Junction sq uare, iiir ectep ikl iiiis, DEI c s , Queen Anne-street,. Cal' d s • ,ftlt .. . ' and Oxford, and South and Midlands' ,i A I ios , Birmingham '4'li, Itadways the Li , re„„ i atk IA eel. Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, of Directer lt:ii`e,..'s',aad Lee % et; Direct, and KeighlY, Huddersfield Halifax, and *taelaii.34ell, Esq . is 0 „ et' 1 and Brandon Lodge, near ti'ae -- I.Y ' 'WI Director Grosvenor-place, n S t Ou P th and Midlands' Junction Rail 'tters' ~,,ile'll„,Zatson Prole E Thurloe-square, Brompton, Director of , sq., V e lli',7,Y , and South and Midlands' Junction Railways aaier leartinier Cleobury Esq, Askew Villa, Acton 1, 4ultler, 1, I fegea —de D irecto ' r of the London and Manchester Direct, !1 and Midlands' Janction Railways bite s l ° `_d allies all„ Esq , T orrington -square, and Alfreton,DerbY, Mid _ lke t i..,l2 l ' of the Trent Valley Continuation, and South an d j . 4. Iv unction Railways - • d tell ' atit tk i iesaa, Esq., Director of the .Leicester and Bedford, an Jestsm t--..iaticaster Railways tre eolit aderwe ed Esq. The Hall Blackheath, Director of A. Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London th Nand ,1 1 ,a, inehain Extension Company , and Director of the Sou .4.'4.4-eads' Janction Ril • 1 lit 1, E,,,,,.. , ~ a way d AberYstwith and 11,nentrsilvar -.sweeter of the Gloucester an . il ani 81 0 „ ea,.,i.tud South and Midlands' Junction Railwa_3:s ,rman eot..tbe elii"ile.! -._t_sa., Wimpote-street, Cavendish-squaraen, unal d Director we'iTe souti2.t. rin__lnd Life Insurance Company. 14 1 ; In riteiis';;Nalldiiiiiiadesi'ufauangion Railway Ilatedeb.ilitaa,- Esq., ye t. Direc. of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds Ceies,-;1, Director of the and Coinniereial Life Insurance kali,. n r , and Director or the South . and Midlands' Junction Ck,aY `e e. W •r Rini titei ' -Yea DireCtor of the South-Eastern and South ?tt,ttri„.. ands' Junction Railways e eress,..j„„nee, 'Feel:, Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and ale) r ~.., and South and Midlands' Junction Railways kith•eglis Jerdein, Es ----4 ' Direct r of the Great Manchester, teleesiYTlSoZnhanniton Railway e wted Fitc hd;foatece, Regent's -park, Director of the South a,aa. Lee, Es„, iliadlit!ti lwa Y Rochester, and 1,4--o;isie4 an d Suffc'ilk .t'eacitiowraof the Gravesend and JUnction-Zij.,',,apq., Director Of the South and Midlands' jottaLv_y.,..Eaq., Rush-len Thomas' ee,eitoa,t,,i. ts , , Surrey ~..i.. coni ngria g : 'i'rectoy of the Leicester and Bedford Railway IT_ Wilkinson, Es Zl,'' Ilingate, Middlesex ~.- t allway cle irecterotths SOUth and Midlands' Junction B • tral . le, Esq., Will Afjcid • Borth WWl, Esq., Lodge.: iesal Veia Metropolitan it "; St. John's-wood, Director of the I,t_fetrii %ark, Esq.. Direct:lY Ns•ZerieltCoollingridge, iz sq. 'Toiftilhie G uarantee Society: in idleorceSt es Rate, Esq.' Ore:lll square, Director of the Oxford ij,Zniu Gr.4: i lensia tt s ree , Vi7ats IlantYAßsPlWandsworth South 'llEs., Le,d.'',.. na vies, near Birmingham ??., and Atidbind s,a,, Jussirector of the -West Riding Junction, and It ot ,tt'Zisq.. Gloucester- rti°llßailwaYs " Il rits.h.:7,er. Esq P a e Queen-s;'' l.),ort man-square Director of the Great — Aun t ' -4.7:t. ..ssura tice soetezt, May-fair, as 'th e gene', eengh,Proseeet-place House, Southampton, Director k-Ze,liii Thoirnlaaend illidlands! Junction Railway r th .„ ridnaenasq Director of the London and Brighton and t'aQooo-i.-:;l7bautiA,stwe'tiltitinoenstion Railways i, xl_te, Wilts, Magistrate of the ittairi seuilid\ziblieetor of tlfeegoiitreand 31 Idlands'Junction Railway_ 't, ~.,4 l li I, h , i',,,. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and )iss.,"- N,""ll,aada'Junction-R 11 s ' Y qe -i..Y ' r-sq a waY Bedford Railway Ni l i.,,,441 Hhrl : ,D irecto r of the Leicester an d ~titil'Q4-'" South si.e,k-stle Director. of .the Trent Valley Continue d of the Legal -ues„.rtituerei„ .i Midlandy.Junetion Railways, an 1%1 inisii. te Insurance Company 4'4‘41411441,18: E sq" Ke nn) Town, Brighton, Director of the South 14Je,,,t,',),eks Walebilnetion Railway. and Midlands' 14ailltittk4a4yaelte, Reg, - Direetoe of the Sou th -i ee t 44l ,_ Lee itii,en Earle, Royal Arti ll ery'. Vi'ile; Ntite',l4,lt,., Director of the Reading Railway l.t°h;,_,ll.l‘ l'il'"(1., Dorset -place, Dorset-square -eles.l)ll,'-ja,Es,..ta,a, EN, Derkeley-street, P-ortman-sqnoarne_allway ,aorth`tickeh'ie,pireetor of the Erewash Valley Extensi It tor of the 1,4141.1;87dt '- ‘,,.. 5q , Alderman of Devizes, and three Junction 4° .a " 8 bell. ' a g Ce inPany, and South and Midlands ' kthe C hert is , Leiessit .elbert, a sq • , . G loucester-place, London, Director of "therel.,,,h"uilas I.,ane kinninghain Railway ijillfiedl".liltiy lee, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire the Rugby 4i,,rce,stWitldiltlower-street, London, Director o f VBlP'..et&ifl4 'r lod er e e°ree ' Pel, London,and Bexhill, Sussex - h e-, aize e --es. COnna.ught-terrtce, Hyde -park, Director of the ),,ylein, x,.krlisle Railway 'Tabulilitlolton House, near Bradford ,of th a rnett i -'.l-1.. Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge i Dir er ', , Coroner for the County of Gloucester, Director '1,,t1 Seess`',ll.l Cheltenham Railway Castl e ' .l4,: _ aev' Esq., Chapel-street Belgrave-square, Director of eri iii and Liverpool Railwily alirlieseilli Ju"'.Esq.. 14. Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Bar- Rae t e , t, p Iletioß Railway 84441e41iL1P,P11, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of anking Company , Etk l ,„ 1 4 luYwer to add to their nuMber). ;-eivlsr, "Mis—The Commercial Bank of London. 'll-trie-,:l!ae Exciset—Sir John Maenell, LL.D., F.R.S. S e —Williain Mullin - gar gigging, Esq., C.E. It -4-131. • rt. James, Esq., 5, Daainghall-street. le 1 1 , De es et Of that tile.' LoCAL AGENTS. veesclet ra . and :will be divided longitudinally by fotitr_g_r_e_a..t :,a lete,„B_,lnich will become so many main trunks, ..14,7.7.'„, ZZtrithl,raeld a'''erecYnanumerous lines , both transverse andnlfnd";.. erlysiiittacfieqt istatToteem„. Inudnea.eintinn with the intermediate ns. The more 11 4 .. ,, t Y1ie, e', whtelf isleaisir the ionth ge , s 7 , a o l il r ginating at Newallgea ette s e si e t i o d r0d 44,41ng tt!.rough York, Peterborough, and G ri acce b ssible: z l le,„_ n lid hes:%iluagnin Lwondon, whence all pla are has ice. eee and i ~,Ltat,g...it,:_ neoraithern terfnitta ewe t irh erl t l l; e . is more rea tortuous, ngby which its ad _ 54,1,1 ii veisar await,earially restricted. This line, dm' _c_.: stOi ts -"lee 4 s'a through Itughy and Oxford, b ecomes a S aul.. Tt, falling int° the So uth - Western Railway at Basing i seti v ' t hird i o 4, 6,4 e in ~eingitudinal ine, or the most westerly, is still more de- I ttie e ,,Y celi,„, 1111 than the preceding ; employing the ' steep and narrow littl4`4o4-i'riktirrnirigham and Gloucester as its first link,it tist`al not isiliaeeeetet.,44ligtt ltthe least populous and moa t undul ati ngpeaki ng, t-Izge i on dent term', , ts, and Hants ; and, prope rly -__a,ogitual„, tale Ig fle elitt "strict i - se ction Of the kingdom—the West Midland e k N a c ttd l nvitin a ~, advent - —renew species of accommodation fr h o i m e _ liter°n one ; tani t i_ ages, still rentehis unprovided with b a y c f Jo_ uris a contemplated to remedy this deficiency the Ptie„. „f - "" g, or a fourth longitudinal line Alan'eli'irti2Mgh as a r h' of the West Mid ts,„. tb .i .ssZter, ,_,,,i Southamso t rt eittm terminus i's' IN ertiq er ne KairatfoPdn aftway, it s proposed to carry n Moreton, I.i i : in TheZh, Ea:lA ertrctrand-cAvon thence b et ty e n t will iliatrietiZ.llBth of and )41.1jands' JutictToind .41. w i l w nd a on. wh ere l t k so _ . ro st. , the ',repose, „_ fllie Will be about sixt y ; miles, and the ski Zhern t' e-(1 bY it la e I; ' ' At tk„ idi_eriniuhs s ..lt n F 1144nlating and densely peopled, South tlZblth. l :` , ._, by i:„"lnden, it lee identical with the ,_. Oh, f._suggel,,l T., with it opens a most direct c 0m , m...n.n .. .e . a 1 t.. —O ka, it et.4),no. soutztli 13701; h. ar t o i ttifrisna rthern of Weymouth , uu5,....;r. 44414144 a with a. 411,61 pf 111164 Prctiedetts in Pri). • . THE SITNT,._LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, MIS. greys, or completed, which will form the most direct line that can ever probably be constructed between the southern ports of England and the great manufacturing districts. In the alliance of lines forming the West Midland, Manchester and Southampton Railway project, a combination of advantages pre sents itself—the result of a design, to a great extent, but of contin gencies also. If it be desirab'e that the terminus of every railway should be situated at some commercial or populous place, in this re• spect the present project Is peculiarly fortunate. If Government be resolved on countenancing the shortest and most direct lines, it will be seen, by laying a rule on the map of England from Salisbury to Manchester, that a course due north and south between these places will pass very nearly through the towns mentioned in this prospectus, as being on the proposed line ; and actual measurement has shown this line to be the shortest between Southampton and Manchester by 26 miles. By the construction, therefore, of little more than 60 miles of rail, as here proposed, the shortest, most direct, and convenient communication between Manchester and Southampton will be es tablished—a line, also, however superior in po,ition to others pro mising similar advantages, may yet be considered as competing with none, but as an independent work, originating at Birmingham and terminating in the seaports of Weymouth, Christchurch, Poole, and Southampton. In the allotment of shares in this Company the Directors propose giving a preference to sharebolderS in the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Company. Applications :or prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms of application for shares had, at the Office of W. B. James, Esq., Solicitor, 5, Bashuhall-street ; and of the following gentlemen:— London—Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street; Mr. J. B. Har rison, 8, Bank Chambers ; Mr. Thomas Hanbury, 4, Angel-court. Liverpool—Messrs. Mills and Co , and Messrs. Neilson. Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. William Marshall. lull—Messrs Collinson and Flint. seeds—Messrs. Young and Son. Stratford-on Avon—kr. William Bolton, Exeter—Mr. Thomas Sanford. Plymouth—Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer. Birmingham— Mr. Collis, and Mr. John Wright. Glasgovr—Messrs Tassie and Co. Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co., and Messrs. M`Callum and Co. Derby—Messrs. Eyre and Co, FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES, To the Provisional Committee of the West Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railway. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of 201. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parlia mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Name (in full) Residence... ....... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Trade or Profession • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • Address of Referee Date THE WEST MIDLAND, MANUtIESThIt, AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND BIRMINGHAM, SWINDON, DEVIZES, AND SALISBURY JUNCTION. Notice is hereby given, that after the 30th of SEPTEMBER instant, no applications for shares in this undertaking can be received. By order of the Board, . G. N. WRIGHT. 5, Basinghall-street, London, Sept. 23, 1845. L EICESTER AND TEAN AND DOVE VALLEY JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 300,0001., in 15,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Honourable the Earl of Uxbridge The Right Honourable Lord William Graham The Right Honourable Lord Alfred Paget, M.P. The Right Honourable Lord George Paget Sir Richard Dobson, F.R.S., 47, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, London The Honourable Francis Curzon, Barrow Hall, Derby The Honourable Frederick Byron Edward Buller, Esq., M.P., Dilhorn Hall, Staffordshire The Right Honourable Colonel George Lionel Dawson Darner, M.P., 6, Tilney-street, London Major Beresford, M.P., 77, Pall-mall, London George Dodd, Esq., M.P., Grosvenor-place, London William Henry Gregory, Esq., M.P., 5, Cork-street, London John Buller Yarde Buller, Esq., 10, New-street, Spring gardens. London, and Holne Park, Devon William John Blake, Esq., 62, Portland-place, London The Rev. Reginald Chandos Pole, Radboum Rectory John Bott, Esq.,-Coton-hall, Staffordshire Henry Barton, Esq , Rangemoor-house, Burton-on-Trent Capt. C. Twisleton Graves, Army and Navy Club, London Wm. Coare Brocklehurst, Esq., Hurdsfield-house, Macclesfield Richard Dyott, Esq., Freeford-hall, Lichfield Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., F.R.S., F.A.S., York-terrace, Regent's-park, and Walney, Lancashire Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq., 55, Chester-square, London Joseph Hoare, Esq., banker, Hampstead, London William J. Denne, Esq., 6, Lower Berkeley-street, Portman-square, London George Dixon, Esq., Colonel Scots Fusilier Guards, 97, Mount street, London Edward Thomas Coke, Esq., Mansfield Wood-house Edward Hyde Clarke, Esq., Hyde-hall, Stockport Thomas Landor, Esq., the Manor-house, Burton-on-Trent William Sharp, Esq., Linden-hall, Lancaster Thomas Webb, Esq., Tutbnry, Staffordshire Samuel Walker Cox, Esq., Breadsall-lodge, near Derby Henry Meakin, Esq., Burton-on-Trent Moses Cartwright, Esq., Stanton-house, Derbyshire John T. Raworth, Esq., Leicester Gebrge Boden, Esq., St. George's-terrace, Kensington Charles Bemers l'lestow, Esq., Watlington Hall, Lynn Regis, Nor folk, and Princes-street, Cavendish-square, London James Valiance, Esq., 35, Cavendish-square, London, and Sitting bourne, Kent :2.010nel Cheney, Gaddesley, near Leicester (With power to add to their number). ENGINEERS. Joseph Cubitt, Esq. J. F. Bateman, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. J. and J. Richardson, Burton-upon-Trent G. H. R. Cox, Esq., Derby. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Barnett, Hoares, and Co. Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co. Commercial Bank of London Leicester and Ashby-de-la-Zouch—The Leicester and Leicestershire Banking Company Burton-on-Trent--The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourn Union Bank. Sscameur—Joseph Richardson, Esq., Burton-on-Trent. THE LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEF FIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSIIIRE (or LEEDS WOLVERHAMPTON, and DUDLEY) DIRECT RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,7C0,000/., in A 5,000 Shares of 20t. each. Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Staffordshire Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street, Hyde-park Gardens Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Deputy Chairman of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail way, &c. Sir William Boothby, Bart, Ashbourne-hail, Derbyshire Sir William Lowthrop, Knt., Hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Di rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc tion Railway Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, Ashburham House, Chairman of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Hon. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Nottingham and Boston Railway, Parliament-street, London, &c., &c. The Sheriff of York Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's London and Manchester Railway Bright, Selim. Esq., Buxton • 'Murton, Robert, Esq., banker, Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter, Direc tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordslire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Booth, John, Esq., Macclesfield Bradley, Septimus, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashboume Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reming ton's London and Manchester Direct Railway Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon don and Manchester Direct Railway Cleobury, Thomas, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton Cooke, the Rev. J., Uttoxeter, Director of the East and West Junction Railway, &c. Cooke, John, Esq., Macclesfield Cooper, John Douglas, Esq., Hole , e Cottage, Ashhourne Cox, Walker, Esq., Breadsall, Derby, Director oi the Team and Dove Valley Railway Crockett, T. Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c. Cross'ey, John, Esq., Lamberhurst, Sussex, and Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Dalby, John, Robert. Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Dale, Maier, Thurston, Ashbourne Daniel, Richard. Eq., Oak Hill, Stoke-upon-Trent Dawson, Samuel, Esq., sen., Ashbourne Dent, Edward, Esq., Westfield, Huddersfield Dent, John, Esq., Northeate, Huddersfield Dyson, Thomas, Esq.. Well-house, Holmflrth Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Railway Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Hudders field, Sheffield, and Halifax Railway Edensor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbourne Fidler, Pater Pichott, Esq., Higgin Grange, Derbyshire Fisher, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Frost, Meadows, Esq., Chester Garle. Samuel, Esq., Uttoxeter Garle, William, Esq. Uttoacter Gilpin, awl Co., Messrs. William, Wedges Mills, Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Goddard, Thomas, Esq., Bank-house, Longton, Staffordshire laden. Joseph, Esq., sudley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford- . . shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of the Lei cester and Birmingham Railway Hartshorne, Robert James, Esq., Ashbourne Heroin, John, Esq., Birk's-house, Holmfirth Hatfield, Thomas, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &e. Haywood, Richard Howard, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries Hill, John, Esq., Derby Hirst, Abraham, Esq., York-house, Huddersfield Ingleby, Joseph, Esq., Cheadle, Staffordshire Jones, the Rev. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Johnson, John Goodwin, Esq., Bentley Hall Ashbourne Johnson, D. T., Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of the Ches- ter and Manchester Railway Johnson, Richard Wm., Esq., Moorgate, Director of Remington's . _ London and Manchester Direct Railway Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire, Statfordshire, • and Worcester Junction Railway Keene, John Joseph, Esq.,, St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Director of the National Bank of Ireland, &c. King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance, &c. Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston Hall, Sudbury Lawrence, Richard Corbett, Esq., Wandlleld-hall, Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Laughton, Richard, Esq., Barrow-hill, Uttoxeter Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Laseetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lasseter, James, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn _ Commission, &c. Marlow, Joseph, Esq., Walsall Mason, Charles James, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries Mason, George Miles, Esq., Wetley Abbey, Ftaffordshire Meteyard, Horace, Wm., Esq., Director of Remington's London aid Manchester Railway, Middle Temple, and Chatham-place M`Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton. Director of the Derbyshire Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Manors, John, Esq. Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Mellard, James, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway 7, M ra in oc or r , jys h ph n lo, , ,ni E Ea sq ,sq, .., E. Tl esql t a. e Parks, Uttoxeter, Director of the Derby- N.m,, s o, h tit i hn r .t e f , or S d t , a T ff h o o rd m sl a i s ir j e, oi a m nd , EWmo.r,cAeltheborshuirnre.Junction Railway Moorhouse, Joshua, Esq., Holmflrth NPbrtrykosiiiiiiyroaeon7,:s: John, Staffordshire, I , vaa N ytio,t o ,noi r n b svlv u N ry oversee , ts: D t:t e rie r nirs b ud y ddh s dei h rrsee l rs r lij e fieurnme:Dioinrecßtom Li verpool Orton, and Leeds Direct Railway pr:sq 7oo4l ,F r . s d,..n c e aarmUlirtitdo:teterr,raDeler.ecut Director p t a h r e k, D D e r rlwifythe Director of tke Itot : thampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Rail way, &c. Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield House, Uttoxeter. Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, an d Worcestershire Junction Railway Roberts, Thomas, Esq., Manchester Robinson, John, Esq., Silcoates, Cottage, Wakeflad Roden, Thomas Clarke, Esq., Birminham Sant, Edward, Esq., Cannock, D rector of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropton, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, Charles, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Smith, Thomas, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway Smith, Thomas, Esq., Blore-hall, Staffordshire, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, William, Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby- shire, Staffordshire Railway, &c. Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of Tean and Dote Valley Railway Smith, John, Esq., Barton House, Derbyshire Smythe, John Vere, Esq., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Spiers, E. J., Esq., Carlton Villas, London, Director of the East and . West Junction Railway Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle As- surance Company Terry, Benjamin, Esq., Mayor of Walsall, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway, Scc. Tibbits, Thomas, Esq., Norton Manor-house, Leicester Tomlinson, Thomas, Esq., Bradley Pastures, Ashbourne Toogood, Rupert, Esq , shbourne Tylecote, Edward, Esq., surgeon, Great Heywood, Staffordshire Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, Holloway, London, Director of the East and West Junction Railway, &c. Waller, Major, K.H., St. James's-square, Director of the Chester and Manchester Railway, &c, Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire Walters, J. T., Esq., Rugeley Watts, William Royde, Esq., Birmingham Weston, Thomas, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby _ . shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Weston, Samuel, Esq., Leeds Willes, George, Esq., Thagerford-park, Berkshire Williamson, Hugh Henshall, Esq., Greenway Bank, Staffordshire Potteries Williamson, Robert, Esq., Ramsdell-hall, Staffordshire Potteries Wise, Thomas, Esq., Ashbourne Witham, John, Esq., Ashbourne Woolrich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood, Charles, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshice, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood William, Esq., 111. D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc tion Railway Wood, William Hurd, Esq., Ashbourne Wright, Thomas, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsbo rough Railway. _ _ BANKERS. Messrs. Rogers, Oldtng, and Co., Clement's-lane, London Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., Cornhill, London The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne, Union Bank, Uttoxeter Ditto, Ashbourne Ditto Ditto, Dudley and West Bunwich Banking Co., Dudley Derbyshire Banking Co., Derby SOLICITORS. John Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoseter ENGINEERS. Sir John Rennie, F.R.S. George Remington, Esq., C.E. LOCAL AGENTS. Armishaw, J., Esq., Rugeley Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley Eggington, A., Esq., Lichfield Green, James J., Esq., Walsall. Lowe, Richard, Esq., Cheadle Floyd and Booth, Huddersfield and Holmfirth This line of railway, which is about sixty-five miles in length, is intended to commence at Uttoxeter (the terminus of the proposed Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway) and to proceed to Sheffield and Huddersfield. It will form a direct com munication between two of the most important manufacturing and mining districts in England, viz., South Staffordshire, Huddersfield, and Sheffield, and. Rotherham in Yorkshire ; the South Staffordshire portion including Dudley, Tipton,Walsall, Bilston, Wednesbury, and Wolverhampton. This line will also open a direct railway communication between Leeds, Huddersfield, and the West Riding of Yorkshire and Kidder minster, Worcestershire, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton, and Exeter, and with Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford, Brecon, Car diff, Neath, Swansea, Llanclly, Caenuarthen, Milford Haven, Fish guard, Aherystwith, and with Porthdy - nllaen, the future outport for Ireland. And also the most direct communication between Leeds and Southampton. The line will pass nearly along the Uttoxeter and Caldon Canal to a point near Prestwood, in case the canal be purchased by the pro moters of this undertaking. It will proceed through Ellaston and Mayfield to Ashbourn. thence near Dovedale, Buxton, and Chapel en-la-Frith, Woodhead and Holuffirth to Huddersfield, where it will join the Huddersfield and Leeds Railway, and so to Thirsk. It will open new mines, in addition to those already in work, of lead, coal, iron ore, barytes, and carboniferous and magnesian limestone on the route, in addition to forming a direct, speedy, and cheap communica tion between the important towns above mentioned. Arrangements have been 'Made with other companies to run into this line from Sheffield. This company reserves the right to raise additional capital to extend the line to Leeds. Many of the above-mentioned mineral productions are essential to the mining districts of South Staffordshire and Sheffield. The North Staffordshire and Derbyshire Limestone is much superior to that of South Staffordshire in the fluxion of iron (15 cwt. of the former being equal to a ton of the latter), and producing a better quality of ma terial. At present, the mode of transit is very circuitous and expen sive, the line from the Caldon Mines having to go by canal round by Etruria, Leek, and the Potteries, to the Dudley and surrounding furnaces, when, by this railway, it would be taken in a straight line to them ; and the Ashbourne, Cromford, Worksworth, and Bakewell country would have an entirely new trade opened to them. The iron stone in the neighbourhood of Sheffield is also becoming very scarce, and great quantities are introduced from Scotland; the same scarcity exists in South Staffordshire ; and the route of this line would fur ' nish a cheap and good supply, at present not worked, and without a market, both north and south. In - addition to these great advan tages, a good local market would be opened along the agricultural and other parts of the district at present very badly supplied with lime and coal, and that of an inferior quality, and by expensive car riage. It is, therefore, next to impossible to calculate the immense traffic which would pour down this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford ' shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway. The calculations which have been made show a very large profit. There are large lead and slate quarries on the line which only want is of a superior quality. an outlet like the one now contemplated to bring them into Pull work. Tile coal There are also extensive barytes and paint-works at Ashbourne, Cromford, and other places on the line. The scenery of Derbyshire amnudstnecessarily cause a great pleasure. Ironstone is not so abandeftt in the South as in North St a ff or d s hi re, is the resort of vast numbers of tourists; and particular care will be taken, in passing of the line near Dovedale, not t o interfere with or change its beautiful a nd romantic character. Th e convenience, therefore, which this line afford influx of passengers,and vast quantities are sent b y the tatialY, eircititous. and ex p e nsive both on ess canal company, which this and other limes of railway meeting at Uttoxeter will remedy. The gypsum formation runs from Staffordshire to the Humber, and the demand for this article for building, agricultural, and manufac turing purposes along this line will be great. The timber from tileneiilhbollr(lood of the NeedWOod Forest Banks, Bagots Woods, and • Kingston Woods, tiPwards of 4,000 acres, chiefly finds its way to the Manchester market by a like objectionable route of tardy and circuitous canal convey ance ; whereas this line would open a direct, easy, and cheap communication to new markets. The line has been viewed prior to a detailed survey, and there are not more than ordinary engineering difficulties. In consequence of the late Parliamentary decisions, it is ,letendul to make this line on the broad gauge principle; lint`the pro- WOO 40 Pt pledge themselves absolutely to do so. At the unite* 44kpiilign of some of the most influential inhabl- WWI Ot A 11100111149 COailllftt9e 44Y0 OF4eT94 e r Tg - r tion line to connect that town with the Derby, and with the Derby and Galnsborough and Midland Railways Applications for Shares to be made to John Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London, and William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter ; and to the following Sharebrokers :- . --Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles, Worcester; Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler, Worcester; Messrs: Townley and Whitehead, Liver pool ; Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Morris Rey nolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield ; Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ; Mr. Thomas Boardman, Black burn ; Mr. George Clark, Bradford ; Mr. William Mason, Bradford ; Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham; Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby ; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York; Mr. E. H. PArmltage, Wakefield; Messrs. Kettering and Marshall,.. Leeds ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham; Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton; Messrs, Tate and Nash, Bris tol • Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter ; Mr. Thomas J. S. Holland, Coventry; Messrs, Floughland 'Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manchester; al , S nta:in:d3Lfroser. A. is h B x ra t ceiricna;l Manchester; 'Messrs. C Manchester; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr.L. Weather ourn, jun., Huddersfield ; Messrs, Everard and Co., Huddersfield ; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester ; Mr.' Nicholson, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson , Glasgow ; Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, College-green, Dublin ; Mr. James Ross, Perth. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. _ To the Provisional Committee of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Direct Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares of 20/. each in the above Railway, and I undertake to accept the same or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations 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 , 184 . Name In full.. ..... Profession and prcifessional residence Residence in fu11..." • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • NORTH KENTRAILWAY. At a very numerous and highly respectable meeting of the inhabitants of Canterbury, convened by the Mayor. in pursuance of a requisition numerously signed, for the purpose of taking into con sideration the projected line proposed by the North Kent Company, held at the Guildhall, in the city of Canterbury, on Monday, the 22d of September, 1845, and which was attended by a deputation from the North Kent Company, consisting of Sir I. L. Goldsmid, Bart., the Chairman, and five other members of the Committee of Manage ment, and by a Deputation from the Great Kent Atmospheric pro moters, consisting of W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Chairman of the Lon • don and Croydon Railway Company, and others, JOHN BRENT, Esq., Mayor, in the Chair, the following Resolutions were proposed and carried, with only seven dissentients : That it is the opinion of this meeting that a direct line of railway, along the old line of communication, from Dot , -r through Canter bury, is greatly required through the wealthy and populous district of North Kent, by which that p-lrt of the county may be in direct communication with the metropolis. That the line projected by Mr. Vignoles, termed the North Kent Railway, appears to this meeting to be the best adapted to meet the exigencies and to promote the interests of the county generally, and of this district in particular. That it cannot be supposed that the efficient service of the public, or the local interest of the inhabitants, will be as well attended to by a company already in possession of a line through another part of the county, as by an independent and competing company. That this meeting and the inhabitants of Canterbury view with distrust and apprehension the scheme proposed by the South-Eastern Company, and they now renew the pledge heretofore given, to use their best endeavours to carry out the object of the projectors of the Vignoles' North Kent Railway. That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Mayor for his con duct in the chair. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT, NORTHERN COUNTIES (ROSS, SUTHER LAND, AND CAITHNESS DIRECT RAILWAY. To afford the very important division of the Kingdom the benefits of railway communication, and to promote and stimulate the pro gressively increasing pastoral, agricultural, and commercial, improve ments which of late years have made such rapid strides in these counties, it is proposed to form, under the sanction of the most influential patronage, a railway by the most direct practicable route, to connect these northern and producing districts with the southern and consuming portions of the empire. Adopting the line which may be found the shortest to Dingwall consistent with a due regard to economy in its execution and work ing, and to the rights and interests of private parties, and from Ding wall by Novar to Bonar-bridge, the distarce of the county of Suther land from Inverness would be many miles shorter than by any other route. From Bonar the line would pass by Lairg, through the valleys of the Brora and of the Frie, and by Strati' Helmsdale to the Thurso water ; thus nearly bisecting the county of Sutherland through its length and passing into the most populous parts of Caithness, diverging to the right and left to Wick and Thurso. A branch might be formed to connect the coast of Sutherland with the trunk line. In Ross-shire a branch would be formed from the main line to In vergordon, and this branch might be extended to the burgh of Tain. Arrangements are being made for having the lines (the courses of which are but generally indicated above) carefully examined by ex perienced surveyors and engineers ; and as soon as data which may be relied on have been matured, a full prospectus, with the names of the promoters and Provisional Committee and detailed parti cu l ars , will be published. Meantime communications from parties interested in the proposed undertaking may, up to the Ist of October next , be addressed to William Cameron, Esq., Provost of D i ofijuirt*ni W.S., by Dingw a ll ; H ug h Innes Dingwall ; G. S. Taylor, Esq., Golspie ; Peter Wilson, Esq., W.S., Town Clerk of Wick ; M. Snody, Esq., Thurso; or to Messrs. Cameron and Bain, 18, Parliament street, London. rpHE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT 11 RAILWAY, via ABINGDON , WANTAGE, HUNGERFORD, and LUDGERSHALL. (Provisionally registered.) Capital 1,200,0001., in 48,000 Shares of 257. each. Deposit 2/. 15s. per Share. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. The importance of connecting remote parts of E gland by Rail ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns and districts, can scarcely be better exemplified than by the Line which is now proposed to form a short and direct channel of inter course between Oxford and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines now before the public will make Oxford at the north, and Salisbury at the south of the intended Railroad the central points from which various radii will diverge to the north-west, north, and north-east of the former, and to the east, south, and west of the latter; and the proposed Line from Cambridge to Oxford, continuing to that city the course of Railway from the north-eastern parts of the island, requires the appliance now suggested to effect a complete means of transit to the western and south-western counties. _ . The Oxford and ).alisbury I)irect Railway, in addition to the benefits which will he conferred upon the nation at large, by preferring a direct line of commun'cation be tween the north-eastern and' western and south-western parts of England, will afford to the boromh of Abingdon, the market towns of Wantage, Hungerford, and Ludgershall, and the adjacent villages, an important railway accommodation, of which the agricultural districts .in which they are seated stand in much need, and will provide a facility for the interchange of produce be tween the rural, mantacturing, and commercial population of the kingdom. Thewant of railway accommodation has long been felt to press unfairly upon the inhabitants of the important and thriving town of Abingdon. Their means and opportunities of competing with the more fortunate traders of those towns which are already provided with di rect channels of transit, are thus severely crippled. The same remark applies in some degree to the market town of Wantage, which, as well as Hungerford and Ludgershall, claims a share of the profits and advantages produced -by railway traffic. Rims therefore been determined to commence the proposedli ne at Oxford, and. to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great Western Railway at Steventon, thus giving to Abingcln a direct rail road to London. By continuing the projected railway to Wantage, the same facility of transit to London will be afforded to that place; and a perfect line of road from the north-eastern counties will, by a junc tion with the projection from Cambridge to Oxford, be produced, through the towns which have been named,. Mingo - ford and Ludgers hall to Salisbury, and thence to tke south and western ports and dis tricts. A map of the line, and a statistical report of the whole country intended to be traversed; is in - eou r rso of preparation, and with 'the names of an influential provisional Committee, will very shortly be published. In the meantime,. f ur th er i n f orma ti o n may be ob tained from Messrs. Elmslie- and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street, London, solicitor& to the undertaki ng , t o w h om, a t prese nt, applica tion for shares may be made. NV °KOESTER.. and MERTHYR. T YDVI y . JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 110.) Capital, 800,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 2/..25. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. Sir William Wynn, Maesynewydd, Chairman of the North Wales" .a . ? Railway • • A William Chadwick, Esq., Montagu-square, Director of the North • a Wales Railway, and Chairman of the Worcester and South ;-_,, Wales Junction Gideon Colquheun, Esq., Weime r L o d ge, A venue . roa d, R e gent's g Park, Director of the Manchester and Southampton i R a ilway . . . . . . ,-, Thomas Farneomb, Esq., Alderman of London $ John Knill, Esq., Thames stre e t, Di rector of t h e W o rcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq.; 19, James-street, Bucking- 4 ham-gate - 5 Henry Plumtre Gipps, Esq., Montagu -place, Bryanstone-square , Director •of the Trent Valley and Holyhead Junction Railways Fs Major-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland- ga t e 8 Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman o f L on d on ' Thomas B. Simpson, Esq., Rutl an d L odge, B r i x t on , Director of S mr the North Wales Railway, and Deputy-Chairman of the Wor- 8 cester and South Wales Junction lic John Purchas, Esq., Upton Bishop, near Ross .7.: The Rev. Edward Higgins, Rosbury House, Herefordshire ~_ ° John Tanner, Esq., M.D., Ledbury William Barnes, Esq., Foregate-street, Worcester George Alfred Ellis Wall, Cross House, near Worcester, and 2 r, Wortley Park, Hampshire la John Hemming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park - A Philip Matthews, Esq., Burton-court, near Ross Samuel Higgins, Esq., Berrow-court, Worcestershire Wm. Nicholson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and . .. Rugby Railway Company Stephen Phillips, Esq., Director of the—Whitehaven and Furness Railway - _ Bland,Esq., .11, Park?terrace, Brixton-road, Director of the _ North Wales Railway James Brand, Esq., New Broad-street Thomas Baylis, Esq., F.S.A., Pryors Bank, Fulham Henry Garrett Key, Esq., Tulse Hill, Brixton, Surrey Joseph Gillman Barratt, Esq., Ross • James Upfill, Esq., Bromyar, Herefordshire William Candler, Esq., Newland Court, near Worcester James Chamberlain, Esq., Green Hill, Worcester. (With power to add to their number). CONSULTING' ENGINEER. ENGINEERS—Messrs. R. and T. Hopkins, M.I.C.E. BANKERS. The London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, Biddulph, and Co., Charing-cross Messrs. Webb and Co., Ledbury Messrs. Morgan, Hoskins, and Co., Ross Messrs. Berwick, Lechmere and Co., Worcester The National Provincial Bank, Gloucester Messrs. Baileys, Graterex, and Williams, Abergavenny. sostcrroas. Messrs. Gilbert, Hooke, Street, and Gutteres, Philpot-lane, London Charles G. Jones, Esq., 11, Gray's Inn-square Borrow, Esq. This railway will 'Commence at the statio n of the Monmouth and Messrs. J. and F. Higgins and Chamberlain, Ledbury. LOCA L AGENTS. - Messrs. Hydes and Tymbs, Worcester Messrs. Edwards, Ross Messrs. Babb and Secretan, Abergavenny. SECRETARY oit ces . of PR ti o ie TRm—Will l7a, mIVII Company, Hereford and Worcester and South Wales Junct ion at Ross, proceed ing through a rich agricultural dis trict, now d evoid of railway ac commodation, to Abergaven sod from thence nY• by Llanelly, Nant y-Glo, Tredegar, Ebbe Vale, Rumney, and Dowlais, to Merthyr Tydvil, at which place it will join the Taff Vale Railway. The dis tance will not exceed forty miles. On reference to the map it will be seen that this line, in conjunction with the proposed Worcester and South Wales Junction Railway, via Ledbury, Malvern, and Ross, will perfect a continuous and direct communication from Merthyr Tydvil to London, Gloucester, Bir mingham, South Stafferdshire, and the north. The population of Merthyr, and the surrounding mineral districts, exceeds 120,000, and this linewill place it in direct connexion with the agricultural counties of Monmouth, Hereford, and Worcester. The line will he laid Gown so as to render the greatest accommodation to the principal ironworks in the district through which it will pass, and a saving of ten miles over any other linewill be effected between Merthyr and Worcester, and other places north and east of that city. Arrangements are in progress with the Worcester and South Wales Junction Railway Company, for the mutual advantage of both Companies. Applicants for shares, who are personally known to members of the Provisional Committee, are requested to refer to one of mat Committee; all other applicants *III he required to give a reference to some bankeror other persons of known respectability in London or the tosvn from which the application is made. A preference will be given to the holders of scrip in the Worcester and South Wales Junc tion Railway. The usual power will be taken by the Act to allow i n t erest at four per cent. per annum on the amount of subscription paid up, and no subscriber will be answerable for more than the amount of his deposit until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond his subscription. Detailed prospectuses, with the names of a powerful local Provi sional Committee, will shortly be published, and maY be obtained of the Solicitors and Local Agents, and of the following Sharebrokers : Messrs. Ashton and Scott, Throginerton•street, London ; John San ford, Esq., Exeter ; Messrs Ridsdale, Myers, and Bailey, Leeds ; Messrs. Cameron, Cazenove, and Taunton, Liverpool ; Messrs. Green and Oldham, Manchester ; , Messrs. Sohmes and Tripp, Bristol ; Na thaniel Lea, Esq., Birmingham ; Mr. William Miles, Worcester ; and Mr. Andrew Brand,•Glasgow FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Merthyr Tydvil Junction Railway. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of 201. each in the proposed Worcester and Merthyr Tydvil Junction Rail way, and I undertake to accept the same, and pay the deposit thereon, or upon any lesser number that may be allotted to me, such payment to be made within the time limited and prescribed by you, - and I undertake to execute the agreement and Parliamentary con tract when required. Dated this day of 1845. Name • •. • Residence.. Description .... *...... Reference •• •••••••• •• Vsual Signature • • • • , .• LONDON, - HOUNSLOW, AND WESTERN RAILWAY. The PARLIAMENTARY and SUBSCRIBERS DEEDS are LYING for EXECUTION at the Offices of the Company, and the scrip is ready for delivery in exchange for the bankers' receipts. Due notice will be given of the times and places at which the deeds will lie for e.xecutiOn in the country. The deposit of 10 per cent. has been paid, being one of the first in stances of a compliance with the recent standing order of the House of Lords requiring a deposit of 10 per cent. The surveys are in a forward state, and the Committee are pro ceeding to enter into conditional contracts for the purchase of the property on the line. JOHN MASSON, Secretary. London, Hounslow, and Western Railway °faces, 7, Walbrook. REMINGTON'S LINE THE LONDON AND MANCHESTER. DIRECT INDEPENDENT RAILWAY. • The COMMITTEE of MANAGEMENT hereby give notice that one part of the PARLIAMENTARY CONTRACT and SUB SCRIBERS' AGREEMENT will LIE for EXECUTION, and Scrip Certificates will be issued to the Subscribers in exchange for the Bankers' Receipts, at the places and tunes mentioned below:— Bath—At the York Hotel, on Tuesday, the 23d day of September instant. Bristol—At the Bush Hotel, on Wednesday, the 24th day of Sep- tember instant. Worcester—At the Star Hotel, on Friday, the 26th day of Septern- ber instant. Birmingham—At Dee's Royal Hotel, on Saturday, the 27th day of September instant. Lichfield—At the Swan Inn, on Monday, the 29th day of September Instant. Leicester—At the Three Crowns Inn, on Tuesday, the 30th day of September instant. Bedtbrd—At the Company's Office in the High-street, on Thursday, the 2d day of October next. Uttoxeter—At the Offices of William Arnold Bainbridge, Esq., Soli- citor, en Tuesday, the 23d day of September instant. Burton-upon-Trent—At the Offices of Messrs. Bass and Sweting, Solicitors, on Wednesday, the 24th day of September Instant. Ashby-de-la-ZoUch—At the Offices of Edward M. Green, Esq., So licitor, on Thursday, the 25th day of September Instant. Cheadle—At the Offices of Richard Lowe, Esq., Solicitor , on Satur . . . . . day, the 27th day of September instant: Leek—At the Offices of Thomas Redfern, Esq., Solicitor, on Monday, the 29th day of September instant. Macclesfield—At the Offices of Messrs. Parrott, Colville, and May, Solicitors, on Tuesday, the 30th day of September instant, and Wednesday, the Ist slay of October next. Manchester—At the Offices of the Company, St. Ann's-square, on Thursday and Friday, the 2d and 3d days of October next. Derby—At the Offices of Henry Mosley, Esq., Solicitor, on Tuesday, the 23d day of September Instant. Leeds—At the Royal Hotel, on Wednesday, the 24th day of Septem- ber instant. Hull—At the Victoria Hotel, on Friday, the 26th day of September instant. Edinburgh—At the London Hotel, on Tuesday, the 30th day of Sep- tember Instant. Glasgow—At the London Hotel, on Thursday, the 2d day of Oc- tober next. Liverpool—At the Adolph]. Hotel, on Monday, the 6th day of October next. By order, H. W. MATTHEWS, Secretary. SHREWSBURY, - WOLVERHAMPTON, DUDLEY, and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. WM. ORMSBY GORE, M.P.. Chairman. The Hon. ROBT. H. CLIVE, M.P., Deputy-Chairman. John Benbow, Esq., MP. W. Riebford Collett, Esq., M.P. W. Fechney Black, Esq. James Clay, Esq. Richard Norman, Esq. Stephen Phillips, Esq. Richard Smith, Esq. R. A. Slaney, Esq. Sir W. Young, Bart. In consequence of the repetition ofAdvertisements signed " Thomas 11. Smith," and an " Original Shareholder," the Committee of Ma nagement think it their duty to publish the names of that Commit tee, as the best answer to the latter anonymous writer, and to caution the Shareholders against being misled by any statements which might be made at any meeting called by Thomas H. Smith, of whom the Committee of Management know nothing. The Committee of Management take this opportunity to state, that the surveys from Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton are nearly completed, and that the surveys from Wolverhampton to Birmingham are being made under the direction of a joint Committee representing this Company, the London and Birmingham Railway Company, and the London and Birmingham Canal Company, the whole under the im mediate superintendence - of Mr. Robert Stephenson. By order, GEO, KNOX, Secretary. 3, Moorgate-street, Sept. 22, 1845. GLASGOW via FLEETWOOD and AR DROSSAN, every MONDAY, TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY, by the new Iron Steamers, " HER MAJESTY" and ' ROYAL CONSORT," 700 tons and 350 horse Tower. The above Ships leave Fleetwood, on the arrival of the trains that leave Euston-square, London, at 7.30., 8.45., or 10. A.m. Passengers can be booked through , to Glasgow in London. Carriages taken by the 8 45 train only. Daily communication with the Isle of Man. Further particulars may be had at 8, St. Svrithin's-lane ; or the Universal-office, Regent-circus, London ; or of the Agents, Kemp and Co., Fleetwood, and M'Kean and Lamont, Glasgow. NORTH-WESTERN TRUNK RAILWAY, FROM CREWE DIRECT TO GLOUCESTER, passing through the Towns of Market-Drayton, Newport, Shiffnal, Kidder minster, Worcester, and Tewkesbury, forming the shortest and most desirable Communication between Liverpool, Manchester, and the Northern Parts of England and Gloucester and the Bristol Channel. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,250,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 105. per Share. (Being in accordance with the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Hon, Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, 4, Parliament-street, White hall, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway Sir William Boothby, Bart., Aslibourn Hall, Derbyshire, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Rillway John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire, Director of the Stafford shire Potteries and Manchester and Liverpool Railway, and of the . _ Derby and Mandsester and Shropshire Mineral Railways John George Norhury, Esq., Mancetter House, Atherstone, Director of the Leicester and Bedford and Shropshire Mineral Railways Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield and London, Director of the Direct London and Manchester and Shropshire Mineral Railways Clement Tabor, Esq , Cornhill, London, Director of the London and County Bank, and if the National Loan-Fund Assurance Company Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Abchurch-lane, Louden, Director of the Chelmsferd and Bury Railway Thomas Bernard Baddeley, Esq., Newport, Salop, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway Alexander Brodie Cochrane, jun., Esq , ironmaster, Holly Hall, near Dudley, Director of the Dudley, Iladeley, and Broseley Railway George H. Fourdrinier, Esq., Hanley, Staffordshire Potteries, Direc tor of the Shropshire Mineral Railway John Benson, Esq., Park-place Villa, Maida-hill, London William Shaw, Esq., Managing Director of the Royal Farmers' Fire and Life Assurance Company, Director of the London and Bir- . . mingham Extension, and Warwick and Worcester Railways Richard Lambert, Esq., Lyston Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk, Director of the Cork and Fermoy Direct Railway Ambrose Miller, Esq., Lower Thames-street, and Upper Bedford place, Russell-square, London, Director of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway William Millington, Esq., ironmaster, Summerhill Works, Tipton, Staffordshire, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway William Holmes, Esq., St. George's-terrace, Kensington, and Kentish town _ _ William Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, and Lower Thames-street, Director of the South and Midlands Junc tion Railway John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Royd, near Halifax, magistrate, and Deputy-Chairman of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and Director of the Manchester, Liverpool, and great North of England Union Railway; of the Shropshire Mineral Railway, and of the National Bank of Ireland Joseph Charles Ridge, Esq., merchant, Manchester, Director of the London, Holyhead, and Port Dynllaen Railway William Tomlanson Riley, Esq.,lllleld Works, Bilston, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire,. and Worcestershire Junction Railway Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire Pot teries and Manchester amiLiverpool Railway James Stead, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds. and Shropshire Mineral Railways Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Hull, Director of the Derby, Uttozeter, and Stafford Railway William Wood, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di rector of the Leeds and •Liverpool Direct, and of the Derbyshire Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways Edward Edwards, Esq., Ironbridge, Shropshire, Director of the Direct London and Holyhead, and of the Dudley, Madeley, and Broseley Railways Rev. Matthew Yatman Starkie, Rector of Rushbury, near Church Stretton Charles Merritt Rigg, Esq., M.D., York-place, Portman-squars. Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway Rev. Thomas Humphreys, Bishops Castle, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway James McMillan, Esq., Manchester-buildings, Westminster George Young, Esq., Foley House, Longton, Staffordshire Potteries Sampson Bridgwood, Esq., Spratslade House, Longton William Ottey, Esq., Longton John Ashwell, Esq., Longton, Director of the Nottingham and Gains borough, and 'Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester Railways William George, Esq., Weston, near Much-Wenloek Thomas Goddard, Esq., Bank House, Longton, Staffordshire Potteries Thomas Weaver Lewty, Esq., Wilden Iron Works, near Stourport. Director of the Dudley, Madeley, and Broseley Railway, BANICEILL Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and lement's-lane London The London and County Bank,Co., C Lombard-street, , London Messrs. Adams, Warren, and Co., Shrewsbury and Market Drayton The Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall The National Provincial Bank of England, Newport Messrs. Farley and Turner, Kidderminster Messrs. Farley, Lavender, and Co., Worcester The Gloucestershire Banking Company, Worcester and Tewkesbury SOLICITORS. Ingleby Thomas Miller, Esq., 3, Abchurch-lane, London Edmund Garbett, Esq., Wellington, Salop William Brinton, Esq., Kidderminster Gilbert Brown', Esq., Shiffual. LOCAL AGENTS. William Burdett, Esq., Manchester Charles G. Brown, Esq., BiLston Thomas Griffin, Esq., Chelton, Staffordshire Potteries Thomas Bernard Baddeley, junior, Esq., Newport. SECRETARY—J. Stevens, Esq. Temporary Offices, 3, Abchurch-lane, London. This line of Railway will commence at the junction of the Man chester and Birmingham, Chester and Crewe, and Grand Junction Railways, at Crewe, in the county of Chester, and proceed from thence through or near the towns of Market Drayton, Newport, and Shiffnal, in Shropshire, thence through the flourishing town of Kid derminster, to Worcester and Tewkesbury, and to the Bristol Rail way at Gloucester. By this means it will form the most direct route from Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Hull, and Chester to the important ports of Gloucester and Bristol, indeed the most direct line from the north of England to the Bristol Channel. It will, also, In conjunction wtih the proposed Hereford and Worcester, and Swan sea, Merthyr-Tydvll, and Hereford Railways, form the most advan tageous route from Swansea and the iron districts of South Wales, to Liverpool, Manchester, and Hull. The line will cross the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway at Shiffnal, and the. Shropshire Mineral Railway and the Trent Valley Union at the thriving town of Newport. It will form a junction with the two latter railways at Newport, whereby persons and lug gage may be conveyed to Stafford, Derby, the Midland Counties, Staffordshire Potteries, Sheffield, and Hull ; and, in addition to the carriage of heavy goods from Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester, and Kidderminster, to Manchester, Liverpool, the whole of the north of England, and Scotland—will secure a large passenger traffic in the district through which it passes. The proposed railway will be about 87 miles in letgth, and be tween the two termini of Crewe and Gloucester, will save in distance at least 20 miles, and the journey can be accomplished, at the pre sent rapid rate of travelling, in about two hours. This project as a junction line, connects itself with some of the most important rail ways in the kingdom. It also skirts the large, extensive, and densely populated iron districts of Shropshire and Staffordshire, and in its course passes through a rich agricultural country. It must, there fore, be obvious that there will be a sufficient traffic to pay a high rate of interest on the capital required. There are no engineering difficulties in the country through which the line is intended to pass,' the whole being nearly on a level, and on reference to the map of country, taken from the Ordnance survey, which accompanies the prospectus, the line will appear straight, and will at the same time show the superior advantages it possesses, and that it cannot be surpassed by any existing or projected lines, between the same termini. It will not Interfere with any ornamental property, and no tunnel ling will be required. The liabilities of the Shareholders will be limited to the amount of their subscriptions, and interest will be allowed on the deposits and further calls, from the date of the several payments to the opening of the line. Prospectuses, with Maps and Forms of Application for Shares, can be had from the Secretary on application at the temporary offices of the Company, 3, Abchurch-lane, London; from the Solicitors and Local ,gents; also from the following Brokers, viz. :—Messrs. Lyon, 2, Birchin-lane, London ; Mr. Andrew Milligan, 2, Lord-street, Bir kenhead ; Mr. E. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. W. Whitmore, St. George, Liverpool; Messrs. Sohmes and Tripp, Bristol; Messrs. Turley and Cooper, Leeds ; and Messrs. Green and Oldham , Man chester ; to whom Applications for Shares may bo addressed.. It will be necessary that reference be made to a Banker, Solicitor, or person of responsibility. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Bisectors of the North-Western Trunk Railway, 3, A bchurch-lane, London. Gentlemen—l request you to allot me Shares in the North- Western Trunk Railway; and I undertake to pay the Deposit of 2/. 10s., and all further calls upon the same, or such lesser number as y o the rl m p a n ya i ll ain o tetnotanrsy C use, andontztaoc Contract calledth AgreementeSuupbosncritobedros'so. and Dated this day of , 1845. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient humble servant, • Christian and Surname in ..... Residence........ • • • • • • • • • • • . • ..... .......... Reference ..... Residence 'of Referee • • . • • ... . • .. .• • • . • ..... D IRECT LONDON AND EXETER RAIL WAY COMPANY, (With Extension to Falmouth and Penzance). Through Hammersmith, Turnham-green, Brentford, Isleworth, Hounslow, Staines, Egham, Bagshot, Ascot, Bracknell, Bonfield, Wokingham, Kingsclere, Andover, and Salisbury ; Shaftesbury, Sherbourne, Yeovil, Crewkerne,• _Axminster, and Honiton, to Exeter. Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 11. 7s. 6d. per Share. [With further Deposit of 11. ss. per Share after . the Bill has passed the Bailie of Commous.] With power to raise 1,000,000/. more, if necessary. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vie., c. 110.) OFFICES, No. 52, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE, Adjoining the County Fire Office. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the garl of Mexborough, Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Direct London and Blancliester Railway Lord Henry Loftus, Belgrave-square Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, Bart., Montague-square, and Down-hill, Londonderry - . The Hon. Cecil J. Lawless, 71, Pall-mall, Director of the Great Man chester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway Colonel Sir Frederick tiankey, G.C.M.G., Queen Ann-street, Caven dish-square, Director of the lonian and Ceylon Banks, and Bor deaux, Toulouse, and Cette Railway J. R. .Philliniore, Esq., LL.D., 42, Clarges-stroet, Chancellor of Salisbury John David Chambers, Esq., Lincoln's Dm, Recorder of Salisbury Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, .19, Clifforthstreet, Director of the County- Fire-office, and South and Midlands Railway Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak Park, near Winchester, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway The Hon. A. Cape!, Theyden House, Essex, and Park-street, Gros venor-square Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square, Director of the Man chester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction, Warwick and Wor cester, Shropshire Mineral, end Grand London and Dublin Ap proximation li . gilways • - - William Burge, Esq., Q.C., Temple The Rev. Bourchier Wrey Savile, Oakhampton, Devon G. Thompson Jacob, Esq., Illandford, Magistrate, and Deputy-Lieu tenant fer Dorset Richard Francis Roberts, Esq., Burton Bradstock, near Bridport FL 11. Hungerford, Esq., Dingley Park, Market Harborough, and Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Francis Dawson, Esq.. Grosvenor-street Richard Francis Power, Esq., 73, Eccleston-square, and Leng- Orchard, Tipperary Lieutenant-Colonel P. W. Pedlar, Mutley House, Devon, Director of the Manchester, Southampt4U, and Poole Railway. Thomas Dowglasse, Esq.,' Marlbdrough-place, St. John's-wood, Di rector of the Great Eastern and IVestern, and Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railways Walter Shairp, Esq., Susiex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway The lion. Henry Savile, Dover-street A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the. Oxford, South ampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park, Director Of the London and Holyhead Railway Francis Lloyd, Esq., Temple, London, and Bingley House, Bir mingham William Thomas Davies Lhoyd, Esq., Lhoydiarth, Anglesey E. S. Blundell, Esq., 18, Lower Seymour-street John Allen, Esq., 12, Gloucester-terrace, Kensington William Birmingham • Costello, Esq., M.D., Wyke House, Bradford T. Piers Healey, Esq., Elm-court, Temple William Gunston, Esq., Piccadilly A. Abrahams, Esq., Member of the Town Council of Southampton William Lowten Jones, Eeq., Wood Hall,- Hilgay, Norfolk. Tl*nas Champion, Esq., Stoke Wood House, Dorsetehire Captain T. C. Forde, Gracefield; Aslene, Dublin Captain Sir Andrew Pellatt. Green,, K.C.H., 9, St. James's street, St. James's-park, Director of the Australasia, British North America, and the lonian Banks, and Director of the Mutual Life Assurance Company Charles Gover, Esq., City Club -• J. Lane, Esq., LL.D , King's Bench-walk, . Temple, and Keppel street George Waite, Esq., Old Burlington-street, Director of the Chelten ham and Brighton Railway H. Cane Leahy, Esq., St. JaMes'll4quare, Director of the Sheffield, Buxton, Potteries, Leeke and Crewe, the Rugby; Derby, and Man chester, the Direct Birmingham,•Oxford and Brighton, the Bognor and London Brighton Junction, the Great Leeds, the Great Welsh Central Railway, the Calais, Dunkirk, and Bruges, and Ghent and Brussels Railways John Harvey, Esq., Ruth Hill, Wandsworth, Surrey, Director of the Commercial Bank of London Thomas Houghton llardinge, Esq., 23, Park-lane Edward William Cox, Esq., Crown-office-row, Temple W. A. Hill, Esq., Deputy Chairman ofthe Oxford and Witney Railway Company, and Barnet and Metropolitan Railway Company. Henry Ludnell Dampier, Esq., of Colniskays House, near Bruton Augustus E. Greaves, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway Gowell Moore, Esq., S.P.D.L., King's County, High Sheriff County Roscommon Captain Charles Frederick Parkinson, Polygon, Manchester, Ma naging Director of the North Lancashire, and Manchester and Southamptau Railways COMMITTER OF MANAGEMENT. Colonel Sir Frederick Hawkey, T. Piers Healey, Esq.' G.C.M.G. A. W. Hillary, Esq. Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn H. H. Hungerford, Esq. E. S. Blundell, Esq. W. L. Pope, Esq. Thomas Dowglasse. Esq. Walter Shairp, Esq. George Evans, Esq. Charles William Spicer, Esq. (With limited power to add to their number.) ENQINEER—John Braithwaite, Esq., C.E., 4, Trafalgar-square. JOINT SOLICITORS—D. E. Colombine, Esq., 8, Carlton Chambers, Re gent-street; Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street. LONDON BANKERS—Messrs. Curries and Co., 29, Cornhill ; London and Westminster Bank, St. James's-square. LOCAL BANKERS. Bath—Tugwell and Co. Birmingham—Attwood, Spooner, and Co. Bradford (York)—Banking Company, Bradford Bridport—Dorsetshire Bank Bristol—Baillie, Aimes, Baiilie, and Co. Cheltenham—County of Gloucester Bank Devonport—Messrs. Hodge and Norman Exeter—Saunders and Co. ; Milford, Snow, and Co. ; West of Eng. land and South Wales District Bank Halifax—Joint Stock Bank • Hull—East Riding Bank Launceston—Foster, Bolitho, and Co. Liverpool—Liverpool Banking Company Manchester—Scholes and Co. Newcastle-on-Tyne—W. H. Lambton and Co. Norwich—Harvey, Hudsons, and Co. Nottingham—Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and Co. Salisbury—Everett and Co. ; W. B. Brodie and Co. ; Wilts and Dorset Bank Shaftesbury—Messrs. Brodie, Ring, and Macklin Sherborne—Wilts and Dorset Banking Company York—Swan, Clough, and Co. . . Prospectuses, and plans of the line, with forms of Applications for Shares, may be had at the offices of the Company as above, and of the following Stock and Share-brokers, viz. : Messrs. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, Royal Exchange; Messrs. Taunton and Bush, Austin Friars, London. Also, Exeter—Henry Watcher ; John Langworthy; Wilkinson and Sons ltathL—J. B. Munday Leeds—Potter and Co.; Kirk and Co. ; Ridadale and Co. Huddersfield—William Moore and Co. Derby—Eyre and Shaw Hull—Sibary and Simpson ; Samuel Phillip York—Grayston and Earle Wakefield—Henry liillingham Plymouth—Hopwood and Palmer Cheltenham—Hall Brothers and Co. Newcastle-on-Tyne—W. W. Dickinson ; R. F. Bell and Co. Birmingham—W. 11. Collis Taunton—Richard Ball Shaftesbury--Raymond and Son Manchester—Myers and Rirkbeck ; Wm. Marshall ; Cardwell & Sons Norwich—John R. Mann and Son Edinburgh—Muurd and Co ; James Pringle ; A. W. Moffatt Bristol—Luke Arnold Coventry—John Thomas Holland Gloucester—J. M. Balms Glasgow—Messrs. H. and W. A. Tassie ; James Watson ; Thomas Gray Leicester—Williams and Sunderland Nottingham—Roworth and Shepperly Liverpool—Messrs. Sudlow, Brothers Halifax—ll. C. Spenser Bradford, Yorkshire—W. Mason ; James Clayton Reading—B. Cowderoy Settle—Joseph Nelson. The following gentlemen are appointed as Local Solicitors in furtherance of the interests of the Company, froth whom Prospectuses and Applications for Shares may also be obtained: — Exeter—W. Lambert, Esq. Egliam—Thomas Harvey, Esq. Bagshot—John Mears, Esq. Bracknell—Charles Cave, Esq. Wokingham—Francis Soames, Esq. Salisbury—Henry Cooper, Esq. ; Messrs. Foot and Radcliffe Shaftesbury—Messrs. Wills and Burridge Sherborne—George Hancock, Esq. ; Samuel Foot, Esq. Bruton—Messrs. Dyne and Son Yeovil—George Hancock, Esq. Crewkerne—Robert Lowman, Esq. Axminster—Walter Hancock, Esq. Blandford—George Moore, Esq. Dorchester—George Cull, jun., Esq. Bridport—S. H. Gunimer, Esq. ; Henry B. Fox, Esq. Iloniton—lsaac I. Cox, Esq. Lynn—George Platten, Esq. Lyme Regis—N. P. Waring, Esq. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. EXCURSION TRAINS TO CAMBRIDGE. A Train, consisting of open Second-class and of Third-class Car riages, will leave the Shoreditch Station, on Monday, the 29th in stunt, at Nine o'clock, ♦.M., and Hertford at Half-past Nine ♦.M., returning from Cambridge at Half-past Six o'clock P.M. The Trains will call at Tottenham, Waltham, Broxbourne, and Ware. Fare to Cambridge and back, from any of the above stations, ss. Eastern Counties Railway-office, Sept. 8, 1845. N ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This institution offers important and substantial advan tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borr )w, without ex pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid, (see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion rd - his interests to meet other conveniences er necessity. Assurances , cr terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third Bonus, varying from 30 to 75 por cent. on the premiums paid on each Policy effected on the Profit scale. EXAMPLES. g VI ,PZ Premium . Bonus Bents in a 0 ot w g R. E p ' 4 i added. Cash. ,a , o ~k. Is :t 4 " . .„. , 4 i 0 o °4 o. . ----. -- —. , A 11137 El9l 13 51E87 13 5 El 3 17 1 .E 395 111 I A I. ' l *i GS 13 0 74 13 8 6 346 2 2 i 0 1000 74 3 4 1883389' 1 13 10 11. 8 13 6 61 14 3 9 210 2% 13 4 :1840, 89 0 0 41 13 4 6 0 0 247 4 5 The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in De .ember of the present year. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX. Sea. UNITED KIN GDOAI LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 8, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, LONDON. Established by Act of Parliament in 1534. DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG TIIE ASSURED. This most This Company, established by Act of Parliament, or perfect security in a large paid-up Capit al, And int3hazffitredat ', Iti ANNUALaccess which has attended it since its comme ncement in is INCOME being UPWARDS of 72,0001. In 1841 the Company declared an a ddition to the Shareholders of one-half of their Stock , and also added a Bonus of 21. per cent. per annum, on the Suns Insured to all Policies of the Participating Class from the time they were effected. The n ou ns added to Policies f loor March, 1534, t* December 31, 1840, is as follows : S um Time Sum addcd! Sum Time Sum Add e d Assured. Assured. to Policy. Assured. Assured. to Policy, ? £11124 : 0 , 00 un d £lOOO 6 yrs. 10 rails. £683 6 81 £ 5000 4 years GOO o . o re , o,slootiOie most 2y n e lo tr d s erate s , 5000 6 years The Premiums, nevertheless, only one halfneed be paid fur the first Five Years, wher ranee is for Life. e me In t i.. Every Information will be afforded on application to the R es id ent DiWaterloo-prectors, lace, Pall Edward -mal ßoyd l, Lond, Esq., on and E. LtntioX Boyd, Esq., of 8, . Just published, in post Bvo., 112 pages, pries 2s. Gd., mESMERIC EXPERIENCES. R y Author of "The Fores ß te SP ENCE r's Offering," T. HALL, " Rambles In the Country," &c., and Edit or of "The Phreno-Magnet." " Though strictly philosophical in its principles, and natural in its details, this book, for the popular as well as the scientific reader, is as interesting as a romance." London : ii. Railliere, 219, Regent-street, and J. 011ivier, 59, Pall mall ; Maclachlan and Stewart, .Edinburgit ; William La n a , GlaS- Zooksalem Just published, Bvo., with Illustrations, price 7s. 6d., PRISONS AND ' PRISONERS. By .7 OSEI'H ADSIIEAD. CONTENTS. I. The Fallacies of " The Times" on Prison Discipline. 2. Fictions of Dickens on Solitary Confinement. 3. Prison Enormities—City of London and Middlesex Prison. 4. Model Prison—Separate System„ 5. Continental Prison Reform. etc. London: Longman, Brown, Green,and Lononitni' • CIRCULATION,- 18,000. HE !GENERAL ADVERTISER (established nine years), published in DUBLIN every WED NESDAY and Servansr, having a select circulation, equal to the aggregate of all the other Dublin papers; iS new the principal adver tising medium in Ireland, and contains . in each publication more than double the number of advertisements ivhich appear in any other Irish paper. One fixed scale of charges for all classes of ad vertisements. Quack advertisements nokadmitted.-office, 49, Fleet street, Dublin. - ~ PRE L EMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. MANCHESTER, HUDDERSFIELD, AND GREAT GRIMSBY DIRECT RAILWAY, via BARNS LEY AND DONCASTER, commencing at Penistone Station at the junction of the Sheffield, Ashton•under-Lyne and Manchester and the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railways. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 1,000,0001. in 50,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2r. per share in compliance with the standing orders of Parliament. BANKERS, London—Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co. Huddersfield—The Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Company. Doncaster—Sir W. Cooke, Bart., and Co. ENGINEERS. ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF. ACTING ENGINEER.-W. BiHinton, Esq., C.E. SoLicrroas.—Messrs.Floyd and Booth, Huddersfield LONDON AGENTS. 7 -111C158111. SudlOvr, Sons, and Torr, 20, Chancery- lane. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.—llessrs. Sudlow and Kingdon, 6, New- Palace-yard. The object of the proposed line is to complete a direct chain of railway communication between the Western and Eastern Coasts, from Liverpool to great Grimsby. It is intended as above stated to commence the line at Penistone at the Junction of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manches ter, and the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railways, and to proceed in a direct course south of and near to Barnsley, passing thence through or near to the extensive and inexhaustible coal fields of Worsborough Dale, Silkatone, Cawthorne, Darton, Bretton, Billingley, and others in the Barnsley District, thence continuing in a direct line throngh or near to Wombwell, Darileld (where it will cross the North Mid land Railway), Thurnscoe, Wath Swinton, Bolton, Hickleton, Berm borough, Mexborough, Conisborough, Sprotborough, Bentley, Don caster (where it will cross the London and York Railway), and proceed through or near to Armthorpe, Cawtley, Brampton (with a future branch to Thorne, and such further branches as may be eventually determined upon), Auckley, Wroot (where it will enter the Isle of Axholme), and through or near to Haxey, Epworth, Belton, Butterwick, Owston, Messingham, and then terminate in a junction with the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Railway, at or near Glanford Brigg, thus connecting, by the construction of a new line of railway of forty-six miles ha length, or thereabouts (the entire line required to be made). The great manufacturing, mineral, and agricultural dis tricts of Lancashire and Yorkshire with Lincolnshire and the rapidly improving port of Great Grimsby, so as to afford the products of the several counties a most direct course of transit, thereby also greatly facilitating the introduction of foreign merchandise, and by this means perfecting the channel of communication between the Irish Sea and the German Ocean. The existing routes are very circuitous, so much so, that the pro posed line will effect a saving of about twenty miles, when compared with the Manchester, and Leeds, and the Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railways to Great Grimsby, and of about fifteen miles com pared with the Sheffield and Manchester, and the Great Grimsby and Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railways, and the relative distance from other places will be proportionally shortened. Several schemes are now before the public to connect, in the best practicable manner, Keighly and Halifax with Huddersfield, so as to effect a direct North and South communication. When this desidera tum shall be accomplished, the proposed new line, will, in addition to the advantages before mentioned, form a grand direct railway com munication from Scotland and the Northern Counties, viA Hudders field, to the flourishing port of Great Grimsby, whilst the additional traffic brought to bear upon the proposed line to and from the con templated new Staffordshire and Derbyshire Lines, by uniting with the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway, at or near Holmfirth, must considerably enhance the value of the undertaking. Independent of the above, and of the superior advantages afforded by the proposed line for the shipping of coal to the London and other markets, a considerable augmentation of traffic may be expected from the North Midland and the London and York Railways. The important and agricultural town and neighbourhood of Don caster, hitherto comparatively, isolated, for want of proper railway at.lommodation, will, by the aid of the London and York Railway and the proposed line, both passing through the town, be at once brought in connexion with all the main railway arteries in the kingdom. The value of the stock in the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway must necessarily be greatly increased by the proposed line, whilst the facilities given for the transit of goods from Liverpool and Manchester to Great Grimsby must eventually materially add to the importance and benefit of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway. The country through which the line will pass is admirably adapted for carrying out the design of the promoters. Nothing beyond ordi nary engineering difficulties is to be met with. A satisfactory survey of the entire line, by the acting engineer, has already been made, and the sections of the line are in course of preparation, so that there is the utmost confidence that the scheme will be fully perfected in due time for the approaching session of Parliament. The number of Shares already subscribed for is very considerable, and an early allotment may therefore be expected. An influential Provisional Committee is now forming, and the n'mes of the gentle men composing it will shortly be publicly announced. In the mean time, further information may be obtained from the Solicitors, at whose Offices Plans and Surveys of the Line are lodged for inspection, and applications for Shares (in the form given below), accompanied with satisfactory references, may also be addressed to them, to their London Agents, or to the following Brokers : namely, Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill, Threadneedle-street, London; David Kinnear, Edinburgh; Lloyd and Price, Liverpool; Cardwell and Sons, Manchester ; Wellbeloved, and Co., Bell and Ledger, Leeds ; Garton and Wright, Sheffield ; George Bowlby, Hull ; Charles Claye, Halifax ; John Cragg Skipton ; F. G. and C. C. Crossly, Bradford; Henry Bellingham, Wakefield ; Geo. Tinker, Idolmlirth ; Wilson and iiellt:well, MG. Moore and Co:, John Gatliff and Co., Fred. Turner J. Casson, Chae. Fitton, J. H. Taylor, and Thoma 9 Parratt, Hud dersfield. Huddersfield, Sept. 19,1845. FORM OF APPLICATLON FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct Railway Company. I request that you will allot to me Shares of 201. each in the above undertaking, and I agree to accept the same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, and also to pay the deposit of 21.25. per Share thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and the Subscribers' agreement when required. Dated day of , 1845. Name (in full) • ....... Residence . Trade or Profession . Reference • • •••• • • • •••• • • . PROSPECTUS. This short but important line of railway is intended to commence at a point in the Tean and Dove Valley Railway, at or near to Snareston, and to extend to Leicester. It will thus furnish a link necessary for carrying on the traffic brought to Leicester by means of the South Midlands, the Bedford, and the Peterborough Railways (all of which terminate at or near Leicester), to the Staffordshire Potteries and the great towns of Lan cashire and Cheshire, and complete an unbroken line of railway, by the best and nearest practicable route, from the various important railway termini at Leicester to Manchester and Liverpool. -This great line of railway, it will be observed, traverses the finest coal fields in the country, and embraces the towns of Burton-upon frent, Uttoxeter, Cheadle, Leek, Macclesfield, Lane End, Stoke upon-Trent, and Newcastle-under-Lyme, and the important and rapidly-increasing potteries of Swadlincote and Gresley, as well as those of Staffordshire. An inspection of the map will show that the junction line now proposed is essential for the accommodation cf the public, and it can not fail to be exceedingly remunerative to the proprietors. The undertaking has the cordial support of the Tean and Dove Valley Railway Company. In the allotment of shares preference will be given to Shareholders In that Company, and to parties locally interested in the line. The capita of the Company will be 300,0001., divided into 15,000 shares of 201. each ; a deposit of 21. 2s. per share must be paid on al lotment, and each original subscriber must execute the usual Parlia mentary and Subscription Contract, or his shares will belorfelted. Copies of the prospectus and map may be had from the Secretary and ,Solicitors ; and applications for shares must be made to the Secretary only, accompanied by a reference to a member of the Pro visional Committee, a banker, or to one of the SaleitOrs of the Company. Maretiolders in the Tean and Dove Valley Railway who apply, will please to state the number of stares they hold in that Company. Burtod-Onsirrett, Sept. 18, 1845. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of Management of the Direct London and Exeter Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Aare' of 251. each in the above railway, and I undertake to accept the same or such less number you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations of the Company, also to sign the necessary legal docu ments, and to pay, when required, the deposit thereof of 11. 7s. Gd. per share. Namein full • • • • • • . • . • • • Profession (if any) and Professional Residence, in full.. Residence in Mb.... Reference Signature of Applicant INDIA AND CHINA. (From the Times.) By extraordinary express in anticipation of the Indian mail, we have received our journals and correspondence from Calcutta to the Bth of August, from Bombay to the 7th of August, and from China to the 12th of June. The following will be found to be the chief facts of interest which had occurred since the last arrival. A memorial from the cavalry officers of the Bengal army had been transmitted to the Court of Directors, praying for the ap. pointment of a sixth captain to each regiment. This memorial shows the state of promotion in that gallant arm of the Bengal force to be most disheartening; 45. of the 80 lieutenants being captains by brevet, as having served 15 years ; some of these veteran subalterns having served their country about a quarter of a century, and, in some instances, the junior lieutenant has boeu with his regiment 18 years. The general orders of the Commander-in-Chief of 1844, relative to officers, military and medical, h4ving charge of companies and regiments, had been made retrospective—that is, if any officer now in charge, or who was in charge previous to that order, should vacate such charge, he is not to be re-appointed until he shall have undergone the requisite examination. Experiments had been made in Fort William on the effects of firing guns in casemated batteries, so as to ascertain how the smoke could be removed to allow of the gunners remaining at their post for any protracted time without being suffocated. These expert. rnents were made with a view to the construction of batteries for the defence of Aden, which it Is proposed to form by hollowing out the rock, as at Gibraltar, Dover, and Corfu. A"draught act had been been published, allowing the transport of cotton from any of the subordinate 'porta of the Bombay Presidency to Bombay free ofduty. This will prevent a great deal of trouble'and" atmOyanee to the traders - In cotton, who were formerly obliged to Pay duty on cotton in' transit from the outporta to Bombay, which was, in fact, subjecting it to internal taxation. The Union Bank, from the report of_ the Directors, published In the Hurkaru, appears to have done a very profitable business during the past six months, alike cheering to the shareholders and creditable to the Directors and their able secretary, Mr. Stewart To those in England interested in the prosperity of the Bank, It will be highly gratifying to learn that from the let of January to the 30th of June the net profits of the Bank have been equal to Br. 14a. per cent, per annum, of which dividends were declared at the rate of 7 per cent., after adding to the reserved fund 93,817 rupees. From the Delhi Gazette of the 9th of July we Snd that the steamer Soorma was expected to arrive at Gurrnokteasur Gamut on the 15th. This is a completion of the experiment made by Government of the possibility of steam navigation being ex tended beyond Allahabad. and it Is most satisfactory to end that at that season of the year at least it was quite passible. . . . . It is pleasing to observe that steam was every day becoming more available in India. The Amherst packeLvessel, which had for some time past been employed by Government to run between Calcutta and Arracan, was to be sold, and the Hon. Company's steamers Tenasserim. and Enterprise were to be employed in run. ning once a month to and from the eastern ports in the Bay of Bengal, which will be a great convenience to those residing in Arracan, Kyookphioo, arc. It has been ascertained in CaTcutta,that three ships were on their way out from Liverpool with about' 1,200 tons of salt, which, from calculations made on good data, . would cost in Calcutta only 9 annas a maund, while that manufactured under the Government monopoly costs from 15 annas to 1 rupee; supposing only a profit of 4 minas per maund to the importer, and supposing that the ship. owner loads his - own ship, 450 tons will pied, at an exchange of 2c, 337/. as profit, and 4501. as freight. Intelligence 'from Lahore mentioned that an attempt had been made, on the 6th inst., toassassinate Raja Gboolab Singh, by firing at him while returning on his elephant from visiting the Ranee and Prime Minister. A duel had takeri place at Fultah between Lieut. Tulloch, of the 22d Native Infantry, and a Mr. Nilson, the officer of a ship, when the former was dangerously wounded, and after— wards died of his wounds. The first step in a vast project for the incalculable benefit of India is most gratifying to behold. The prospectus of the East India Railway Company had just been published at Caleutta. It is import. sible to foresee the rapid improvement which the fulfilment of this measure will cause to take place in the condition, moral and tem. poral, of the people of that immense empire, and most sincerely must all lovers of the human race pray for its speedy completion. It was said that the Governor-General and suite would leave Calcutta for the upper provinces about the end of September, Ilia Lordship was to go by steam to Allahabad, and march thence. Sir Hubert Maddock would become, as a matter of course, Vice-Pre sident in Council and Deputy-Governor of Bengal. We are sorry to see, that under instructions from the Court of Directors, the regulation of Lord Ellenborough, sanctioning a loan to officers to enable them to build bungalows at new stations, has been abolished prospectively from the 13th of February, 1846. Those who are in the habit of blaming his Lordship's Administration will not hesitate to confess thillu'the above measure was not one which called for aught but approbation. His Highness Meer Hoosein Allee Khan Talpoor had written a reply to what Sir C. Napier wrote about the Ameers of Sind.; a translation of Meer Hoosein's reply will be found in the I her karu of the 7th of August. From Mr. Wilkinson's commercial annual of the external commerce of Bengal for 1644-45, lately published, :it appears that the increase in the ♦alue of imports in the past year over that of the previous one is 12,159,736 rupees, and the increase in the exports 2,146,642 rupee►, the net increase in Customs' duties being nearly four lacs of rupees, almo►t wholly derived from imports. In cotton twist and yarn an increase of imports to the extent of nearly 50 per cent., and in woollen and woollen stuffs a similar increase have taken place. _ _ In the Punjab there had been partial disturbances; an attempt was made there to disband some of the turbulent troops, which created dissatisfaction amongst them, and fears were entertained of some commotions at the Dusserah, the great festival, which occurs this year on the 10th of October. A subsidiary force has been offered by the Government of India to the Queen-Mother, which it was supposed she and her brother, the Wuseer, would ac cept. The affairs of the Punjab engrossed much attention, since it was known that Sir Henry Hardinge was preparing to proceed to the north-west provinces in the beginning of September. There had been some trifling disturbances in Oude, but they were appeased, and an inquiry instituted into their cause. . _ The news from China comes down to the 12th of June. The Governor of Hong-Kong had Issued a proclamation assessing the lands and houses of that colony for the support of an efficient pollee. Rear-Admiral Cochrane had brought an action of libel against the editor of the Friend of China for some comments on his conduct. Verdict for the defendant. The intelligence of the insurrection of the natives of New Zealand had reached Bombay. The ships Hyderabad and Coringa packet, from Sydney, for India, were lost, the former In Torres Straits, and the latter on an unknown shoal on the northwest coast of New Holland. h :..... Our correspondent at Aden writes under date of August I ftlletr her " The Hindostan has just arrived from Suez, 48 ho h u e r r s time. You will have already learned the occasion of her in Suez through some of your numerous correspionnduce greater ln pre planation given is one which, if correct, should induce oft' el camel its caution being taken herea ft er. The scamp d a lt . e e nt e l x os: night is the certainlyD eert with not a performancesom eof the report the heat in the Red " The passengers on board the stea m e r remembrance of t he most w m h a i i c l ii bo d xes c thermometer in shade at 98, in tees f i r n e e r r i t n e h i e a dead ap ia of the i salamander's!' among them,— erature of water about 86. The Sea to have exceeded anything within ted as to require stimulants to be so much ezhaus engineers were given to them. engine-room at 128, and temp erature ~ The to this the passengers are indebted for an earlier thndostan has been performing 1 . 1 knots for a consider. heatabove the Straits t h an suffocating relief from the s otherwise have hoped for. mr. able period, Waghorn is still here, and is expected to leave in the and . Course of a few days, to proceed to London, rid Trieste, to deter mine with accuracy the relative advantages in regard to expect'. tion of the routes through France and Germany, for the convey ante of the Indian correspondence and mail. No incursions hitherto from the Arabs. The garrison are kept continually on the qui rite by the cry of " the wolf," but the wolf will come at last, whenever the opportunity of relaxed watchfulness shall give them the shadow of the shade of a chance. " The outcry against this place as a residence is beginning to subside as it becomes better known, and the regiments quartered hers are reconciled to, and much better pleased with, the service than had been anticipated." SINDE. The following interesting news appeared as a supplement to the Delhi Gazette of the Uth of July ; the ordering of the pontoon bridge to Ferosepore looks warlike:— " One o'clock—We have this moment received intelligence from Hyderabad, under date of the 30th of June, to the effect that 4480 men with headquarters of the 18th Bombay Infantry and two mountain guns with Golundes, had embarked at eight o'clock on the 29th, accompanied by a Commissariat officer with three months' supplies, on three steamers, with orders to go to the north of Sukkur and establish head-quarters near a village named Kumsoor or some such name,' remaining on board the steamers, The cause of the movement is, that a party of Punjabees had made_ a dour upon some villages of the Sinde frontier. and killed two men. This detachment it to keep the country quiet. Sir Clarice Napier declares, very properly, he will not allow his tontler to be disturbed. The pontoon bridge has also been cadered up to VerOsspore by special direction of the Governot.Generel. Wti WOLVERHA AIPTON I , N C A ll i E n S v r i f y El thA tN m D (Provis l ionall KEd y Beg lil is E' tele p d, pursuant to 7 and Victoria, c. Capital I,ohcl p o9o/ : ,..ip 4p,00p S'aares of 204. each. Tieraisit 2/. 2s. per Share. - kIZELIMINABY ANNOUNCEMENT. The great principal• oir which the 'projectors of this important sehethe:haye ate, Is thckstablisliment of a direct line of coramu ideation between Birmingham and Birkenhead, by the nearest pos sible-route, and_at.thc smallest possible outlay. To effect this object, it'is . prsposed temake use either of the Grand Junction, cr the Bir mingham, Dudley, and Wolverhampten Railway, as far as Wolver hampton, and thence to throw out a new line In as straight a direction as pestible to Chester, where a junction will be formed with the rail way already existing. between that city and Birkenhead. A..ntost important saving of distance will thus be effected. . It is obvious that such a scheme is fraught with consequences of the highest possible impOrt to the commercial interests of the respec tive districts: The growing prosperity of Birkenhead even now de mands a more direct communication with the midland, southern, western, and eastern counties; and 'Ow her magnificent docks shall be completed, and the town itself shall have arrived at its destined , greatness, this line will take a,promthent 'position among the most lucrative of these - Undertakings. - The Directors, therefore, conscious of 'The great traffic which flow from the densely populated termini, propose to construct this line in as straight a direction as possible,' and f thereby secure the immense through traffic which will resort to this railway liar shortness and expedition, from the great manufactur.ng and agricultural districts of South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcester, Hereford shire, Monmouthshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Northamp tonshire, and in fact the whole of the eastern counties, as well air from London and the important districts to the south, east, and west of the metropolis. Irrespectii-e of the immense population of the termini, it is evident that this projected li e commends itself to the entire inhabitants of the counties already. referred to. The scheme also possesses this fur ther and great advantage —that it will, in reality, form a shorter and more direct line to the neighbourhood of Liverpool and the district adjacent, than any which has hitherto-been projected ; and by means of the contemplated line from Chester to, Holyhead; it will open the 'shortest possible route from London to Ireland, fad thereby avoid the delay and inconvenience of a protracted sea voyage. A cursory lnspec thm of the map of England, and a reference to the plan of this line will also sliciwi hat the Tre n t V a l ley, L ou d on and rrningh am, Ilirmingliam and Gloucester, Oxford, W , reester, and \ Vol rerhaMpton, as well as the projected Staffordshire and Shropshire Railways, will necessarily be valuable tributaries to this important line of railway. The line to be constructed by this Company will commence at Wolverhampton, and proceed through an agricultural district, by way of Market Drayten to Chester; and although in its direct course it may not pass through many towns of importance, the engineering difficulties of every other route will -be avoided, and powerful Weal influence brought into co-operation with this Company. In the formation of this line the extensive . iron district of Lilleshall has been especially regarded ; and by means of the facilities of transit afforded by this CoMpany, the ironmasters of South Stafford shire will'be enabled to compete with the Scotch market, which they have hitherto been unable to do in consemience of the heavy charge for freight. • . The Provisional and Managing Committee .are in the course of selection, and will be published in afew days, with other-particulars. Applications for Shares to be made to Mr. W. S. taidy, Solicitor, 18, Finsbury-place, Finsbury-square, London ; or Mr. John Smith or Mr. C. J. Noble, Solicitors, Birmingham. - '