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ALTO DOURO RAILNVAY. The Allotment of Shares in the Capital Stock of this Company is now complete, hut the issue will be suspended during thi ; progress of most important negotiations in Portugal, which have just been commenced, in consequence of dispatches received by the sat arrival from Lisbon. lay order, 9.5, Gracechurch-street. T. M. RUSSELL, Set zetary. THE CITY and CAMDEN-TOWN (BIR , MINGHAM JUNCTION) RAILWAY COMPANY. Registered provisionally. Capital 600,0001., in 24,000 shares of 251. each. Deposit 1/. 10s. per share. Temporary Offices, No. 7, Tokenhouse-yard. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Sir James Duke, Alderman, &c., M.P. Valentine Knight, Esq., 3, Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park Francis Homan, Esq., 25, Skinner-street, City Henry Lamplough, Esq., 88, Snow-hill, City Henry Stokes, Esq., 18, King-street, Snow-hill Lieutenant-Colonel Gant, Stoke Newington, Middlesex William Walker, Esq., 5, Farringdon-street, City John King, Esq., 17, College-hill, Thames-street John Gardner, Esq., 38, King-street, Snow-hill Ebenezer Fernie, Esq., 1, Birchin-lane William Lawrence, Esq., 30, Bread-street, Cheapside George Boustield, Esq., Gracechurch-street Richard Taylor, Esq., F.S.A., Red Lion-court, Fleet-street Edward Ilickson, Esq., King-street, Cheapside With power to add to their number. BANKERS —Mt ssrs. Glynn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co., London. CONSULTING ENGINEER—J. U. Rastrick, Esq., F.R.S. ENGINEER—J. A. Galloway, Esq., M. Inst. C.E. ARCIIITECT AND SURVEYOR—John Young, Esq., 35, King-street, Cheapside. SOLICITOR—John Castle Gant, Esq., 37, Nicholas-lane, Lombard street. The proposed line is intended to form a connecting line between the Great Western and the Birmingham Railways, and the most central part of London, and thus to obviate the serious inconvenience arising from the great distance of their respective termini from the City. It will &so meet the expressed wish of the Board of Trade in favour of a central terminus. To accomplish this desirable object, the line will commence at the south-west corner of the new Farringdon-street, passing in a north westerly direction to Battle-bridge, and from thence it will proceed almost in a straight line to the luggage station of the Birmingham Railway, at Camden-town. The houses in and about Saffron-hill, and also on the greater part of the line, are small, and of such a description that their removal will greatly benefit the neighbourhood, by improving its salebrity, and increasing the value of the surrounding property. The Provisional Committee have satisfied themselves, by careful surveys, that no engineering difficulties will present themselves In the construction of this railway, and it may be reasonably expected to yield a fair profit to the subscribers, as it is calculated that, by fares from passengers alone, a return of more than 71. per cent. upon the capital will be realised, without including what will be received for ground rents, vault rents, the carriage of goods and cattle, and also irrespective of the increased traffic which may reasonably be anticipated from the lines already formed, or contemplated, to the north and north-east of London, and of which the terminus of this Company will eventually become the common centre. No subscriber will he liable beyond the amount of his subscription, and power will be taken in the Act of Incorporation to allow 4/. per cent. Interest on deposits and calls, from the period of obtaining the Act until the completion of the line. Applications for shares, in the form required by the Registration Act, an annexed, can be made, addressed to the Company's Solici tor, John Castle Gant, Esq., 37, Nicholas-lane, London; to Messrs. Chalmer and Sim ps )n, stock and share brokers, 23, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury, London ; or to the Company's Temporary Offices, No. 7, Tokenhoase-yard, aforesaid, and no other form of application can be attended to. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SII k RES. To the Proviiional Committee of " The City and Camden Town (Birmingham Junctien) Raiway Company." Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me Shares, of 251. each, in the capital of the Railway Company, and I hereby under take and agree to accept the same, or any less number of Shares which - ou will allot to me, and to pay the deposit of 1/. 10s. per share thereon, and to sign the subscribers' Agreement and the Parlia mentary Contract, when requested so to do. Dated this day of 1845. Christian and Surname in full .• . .. • • • . Private residence • • ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • Place of business Profession or business . • • Reference • . • ..... .... - ••.• • • • . N.B. No application without a reference can be attended to. THE CITY and CAMDEN TOWN (BIR MINGHAM JUNCTION) RAILWAY COMPANY. Re4istered provisionally. Temporary Offices, No. 7, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury. Notice is hereby given that in consequence of the great number of Shares already subscribed for, no applicationswill be received after the 2 ith inst., instead of the 30th inst., and that as soon as possible, after the 24th inst. the allotments will be made. By order of the Provisional Committee, JOHN CASTLE GANT, Solicitor. Pith June, 1845. THE GREAT EASTERN and WESTERN RAILWAY, from YARMOUTH to SWANSEA. Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 110. Ofnces—No. 5, GRESHAM-STREET, BANK. Capital 3,500,00'1., in 70,000 Shares of 501. each. Deposit, 2/. 10s. per Share. The preliminary expenses not to exceed 10s. per share, without the sanction of a general meeting of the Shareholders. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Penry Williams, Esq., Penpont, Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Brecon Sir John E. De Beauvoir, Bart., Director of the Manchester and Sir William Mignay, Bart., Alderman of London Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction Railway Henry George Ward, Esq., M.P., Director of the Eastern Counties Railway. David Robert Ross, Esq., M.P., Belfast. Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, and a Director of the Namur and Liege Railway William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of London, and a Director of the London and Greenwich Railway Richard Ashton, Esq., White Lion Court, Conihill Robert Bestow, Esq., Surrey-place, London William G. Beare, Esq.. Porchester-place, London, Director of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway Joseph Beaumont, Esq., The Tump, Abergavenny, and Cwm Celyn Iron Works J. W. Bevington, Esq., Neckinger Mills, London and Worcester Thomas Henry Bluck, Esq., Limehouse John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London Docks . , . Tom Ll. Brewer, Esq., Coalbrook Vale Iron Company Thomas Brown, Esq., Ebbw Vale and Syrhowy Iron Company William Henry Buckland, Esq., Caduxton House, Yale of death Andrew Caldecott, Esq., Russell-square Messrs. Chamberlain and Co., Royal Porcelain Worcester Works, Worcester James Clay, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, and Birmingham Railway, and Whitehaven and Fur ness Railway George Beauchamp Cole, Esq., Chester street, Grosvenor-place Edward Henry Cole, Esq., Moore Abbey, Monasterevin, Kildare Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Copthall-court, and Old Palace, Richmond. Frederick Levick, Esq., for Messrs Crutwell, Allies, and Co., Cwm Celyn and Blalna Iron Works James Parker Deane, Esq., D.C.L., Porchester-terrace, Bayswater Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlbro'-pla St. John's-wood Henry Clarke Dappa, Esq., Boughton Monchelsea, Kent David Evans, Esq., banker, Merthyr Tydvil John Evans, Esq., banker, Brecon William Findon, Esq., Hanover-terrace, Regent's-park Rowland Fotherg,ill, Esq., Aberdare Iron Works, Glamorgan Algernon W. B. Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park George Hall, Esq., Ely John Harvey Esq., Rush Hill, Surrey Richard Heaviside, Esq., Brighton, Director of the Cork and Water ford Railway J. C. Hill, Esq., Pwllddw Colliery, Blaenavon Samuel Homfray, Esq., Tredegar Iron Work:, Monmouthshire Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq., Fenchurch-street, Director of the Great Northern of France Railway James James, Esq., Swansea Thomas Jevons, Esq., Liverpool and Venallt Iron-works, and Blaeng- . . . . wrach, Venallt, and Forchgoch Collieries John Knill, Esq., London-bridge Wharf, Director of the Woroester, Shrewsbu rila - nd Crewe UniOn Railway Lucy, Esq., Albany Steam Flour-mills, Worcester William John Macquire, Esq., Hampton Court Arthur Mann, Esq., Woburn-square, and Denver Hall, Norfolk John Maund, Esq., Tymawr, near Abergavenny, and Blain Dir Coal Works Henry Brooks Marriott, Esq., Vale of Neath Brewery Company William Morgan, Esq., Tay Dec Park, Abergavenny Charles Moseley, Esq., New Barns, Ely. F. H. Needham, Esq., merchant, Worcester Thomas Norbury, Esq-, Sherridge Hall, Worcester George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction Railway Joseph Rusher, Esq., Glyn y Rose, Vale of Neath John Bradley Read, Esq., merchant, Worcester Edward Smith, Esq., Old Broad-street B. J. Spedding, Esq., Mines Royal Copper Company, London and Neath. William Steele, Esq., Abergavenny, Blaenavon Iron Company. S. H. Ste-ale, Esq., Abergavenny Timothy Steward, Esq., Iligham Lodge, Norwich Henry Stick, Esq., Beddgelert, earnarvon John Shapland, Esq., Moorend House, Mathon, Worcester Joseph Shapland, Esq., Middle Temple, London, and Mathon, Wor- ceater Edward Tewart, E 341., Coupland Castle, Northumberland, and York place, Portman-square Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton . _ Railway George S. Trower, Esq., St. Mary-at-Hill, and St. James's-place, St. James's Joseph Underwood, Esq., Blackheath Park and Norwich Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the Chichester and Brighton Rail- way and Aberdare Coal Thomas Wayne, Esq., Gadly's Iron Company, Company. H. Webb, Esq., merchant, Worcester 3. Webb, Esq., merchant, Worcester William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., the Pryors Bank, Fulham, Director of the Irish Great Western Railway. (With power to add to their number.) ACTING COMMITTEE. Henry George Ward, Esq., M.P. R ow land Fothergill, Esq. David Robert Ross, Esq., M.P. Algernon W. B. Grevilie, Esq. Thomas Henry Black, Esq. Richard Heaviside, Esq. Henry Oornfoot, Esq, ISamuel Homfray, Esq. Thomas Dowglasse, Esq. Arthur Mann, Esq. Fatorszza IN CHlEF.—William Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S. ASSISTANT ENGINEERS. Sandiforth F. Griffin, Esq., C.E. Charles Brumell, Esq., C.E. SOLICITORS.—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street, London. LOCAL AGENTS. Swansea—Charles Basil Mansfield, Esq. Noath--George Leeds, Esq. Merthyr Tydvil—Messrs. Perkins and James Brecon—Messrs. Maybery, Williams, and Cobb Abergavenny—Messrs. Morgan and Batt Hereford—John Gwillim, Esq. Worcester—Henry Foley, Esq. Birmingham—Messrs. Lee, Pinson, and Bost Kidderminster—William Talbot, Esq. Norwich—Joseph Colman, Esq, BANKERS. London—The London and Westminster Bank, Loth!miry. London—The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury and H 2nrietta. street. Swansga—The Glamerganshire Banking Company Merthyr Tydvil and Brecon—Messrs Wilkins and Co. Leicester—Messrs. Berwick, Lechmere and Co. SECRETARY (pro tem)—Robert de Neufville Lucas, Esq The object of this railway is to open a direct line between asween theßir centre • rainghain, Swansea, and Yarmouth, taking Birmingham of the manufa c t ur i ng districts, and bringing it n communi cation with the British Channel and the German Ocean. The distance between Swansea and Worcester will be seventeen miles shorter than by any other proposed line, while the most ample accommodation is provided for the Iron and Coal districts, South of Merthyr Tydvil, by a loop line through Aberdare and Pontypool, /Dining the direct Passenger line at Abergavenny. • The nee, commencing at Oakham, or Peterborough, to the East, will embrace, directly or indirectly, the towns of Norwich, Thetford; Brandon, Ely, Downham, Lynn, Wisbeach, Peterborough, Stam ford, Oakham, Leicester Nuneaton, dirmingham, Dudley, Stour bridge, Kidderminster, Leicester, Worcester, Hereford, Aberga venny, Pontypool, Merthyr Tydvil;Aberdare, Neath, and Swansea, securing the advantages of railway communication to a population of nearly 3,000,000. Power will be asked in the Bill to be presented to Parliament to allow interest at the rate of 4/. per cent. per annum on all deposits and calls, from the time of payment until the opening of the line. Applications for Shares to be made to the Provisional Com mittee, at the offices of the Company, No. 5, Gresham street, Bank ; to Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, Solicitors, 47, Moergate-street, London, or Messrs. John Shewell and Son, Sharebrokers, Tokenhouse-yard. London ; Mr. John Smith, Share b-Oker, 3, Shorter's-court, London; Mr. John Duncuft, Sharebroker, Manchester ; Mr. John O'Neil, Sharebroker, Manchester ; Messrs. W. Reynolds and Son, Sharebrokers, Liverpool; Messrs. H. and C. Jleardshaw, Sharebrokers, Leeds ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Share- Mr. James Pearson, Sharebroker, Birmingham ; Bristo l ; Hutchinson and Co., Sharebrokers, Bradford ; Mr. Share brokers, 3re"m. Samue Sharebroker, Worcester ; Mr. Robert Allan, Share broker, Edinburgh d ! Mr. William Gordon, Sharebroker, Aberdeen ; Mr. Andrel' Bran , Sharobroker i , vh G o l in asg p o r w ospe ; a e n u d is lk e l , e nut asra y . h ß e ru haci ce . and syrnes, Sharebroker s, Dublin ; of and WESTERN GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY' Notice is hereby given that no further applications for shares win be tewlved after the 14th inst., except from parties locally interested, hrhes&ainillbations must be made on or berm, the 27th inst., ri 1.71 , f S' . • a . , . , ...... .._„ TO LOVERS OF CLEANLOTESS / • ' . . QROYDON'SCOMPOSITION forDESTROT. .:. ING HOUSE BUGS. - --.: WI/cation. It may be tiled safely without damaging the finest lamask. Heads of schools, keepers of boarding-houses and hotels, --, € ..,---: ~ pawnbrokers, , persons ring abroad, officers of the army and navy, \...._. .k . --r i. _ missionaries and emigrants, will find this application truly valuable as a mes.na , of eradication as well as prevention. A, T . ,: I - rroOttaior, E. H. Cropicn e Walsall; sole agent , W. S. Rumsey lwholeatle chemist, 3, Queen-street-place, London ; and to be had I Dikati;Atri vo ine 44ord ige ligtowen3 °herniate in town an . , GREAT COUNTY DOWN, BELFAST, NEWRY AND WARRENPOINT RAILWAY. MEETING IN BAN BRIDGE. At a numerous and influential meeting of the Gentry, Merchants, and other inhabitants of Banbridge and its vicinity, held at the Town Hall, Banbridge, on Monday, the 16th day of June, 1845, JOHN WELSH, Esq., J.P., Chinauley, in the Chair, It was moved by FREDERICK W. HAYES, Esq., seconded by JOHN FINLAY, Esq., and Unanimously Resolved—" That the GREAT COUNTY DOWN RAILWAY, being the only scheme projected to afford Banbridge a Railway Communication from Warrenpoint, through Newry. Ban bridge, and on to Moira, we view it favourably, and are disposed to give it ur support " (Signed) JOHN WELSH, Chairman. Mr. Welsh having been moved out of the Chair, and Richard Hayes, Esq., J.P., called thereto, it was _ Moved by .1. MITHELL, Esq., and seconded by WM. HUDSON, Esq.— " That the cordial thanks of this Meeting be given to Mr. Welsh for hls conduct in the Chair." (Signed) RICHARD HAYES, Chairman. K ILKENNY, CARLOW, and WICKLOW RAILWAY. Provisionally Registered pursuant to the Act 7 and 8 Vic. c. 110. Length of Railway 70 miles. Capital 1,000,000/., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, IL 58. per Share, Offices, 449, West Strand. COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT, The Earl Fltzwilliam The Hon. Frederick Pon.sonby The Earl of Besborough Robert Chaloner, Esq. The Earl of Courtown John Alexander, Esq. Lord Viscount Milton William Duckett, Esq. Sir Thomas Butler. Bart. Horace Rochfort, Esq. Colonel Acton, M.P. C. H. Doyne, Esq. W. G. Hayter, Esq., M.P., Director of the Great Western and of the South Wales Railways R. F. Gower, Esq , Director of the Great Western and of the South Wales Railways F. Pratt Barlow, Esq., Director of the Great Western and of the South Wales Railways Lord Viscount Duncannon, M.P., Director of the Waterford, Wex ford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway Sir T. Esmonde, Bart. M.P., Director of the f' )rd, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway. Soticrroas—Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Win: , thall, London. BAN/rims—Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., 43, Charing-cross, London. SzczurrAny—Richard M. Muggeridge, Esq. The object of the proposed undertaking is to - complete the line rf railway communication between the important city of Kilkenny and the capitals of Ireland and England, via Carlow; and to afford to the rich counties of Kilkenny, Carlow, and Wicklow, the most conve nient local intercourse, with the cheapest mode of transmitting their produce to many of the principal markets of England and Wales. A glance at the map will show the vast importance of the proposed railway, which will afford the most direct communication between all the south midland counties of Ireland and London, and the south and west of England; and it is expected that as soon as the contem plated railway from Port Dynllaen to Worcester is completed, the direct journey from Kilkenny to London will net exceed thirteen hours, and ftom Carlow, twelve ; while the proposed advantage of short and direct railway access to a port of shipment on the eastern coast of Ireland, will afford such increased facilities for the export of the live stock, flour, and other agricultural and mineral produce, abounding in the counties through which the proposed line of railway will rim, as may reasonably be anticipated to produce a considerable profit to the Shareholders, and to prove of incalculable advantage to that rich and highly improving portion of Ireland. The counties of Kilkenny and Carlow are also peculiarly famed for limestone of the purest quality, which is an absolute necessary, as manure, to the soil of the county of Wicklow, where, at present, with all the disadvantages of slow and expensive land-carriage, it is con veyed in very large and rapidly-increasing quantities. The mineral traffic of the county of Wicklow, close to the mines of which the proposed line of railway will pass, amounts to considerably upwards of 100,000 tons annually, a large portion of which is exported to Neath, Swansea, and the south-west of England, from which dis tricts there is, in return, a very large importation of coal and culm, which would find its way Into the interior of the counties of Carlow and Wicklow by means of the proposed railway. It may also be expected that the amount of passenger traffic from the inland counties of Ire land, which the projected line will unquestionably draw towards the unrivalled natural beauties of the county of Wicklow, may be esti mated as a source of very considerable income. Prom surveys already completed, it has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties calculated to impede the speedy and successful formation of the line; and the promoters have the satis faction of stating, that about three-fourths of the land through which the railway will pass is owned' by the noblemen and gentlemen who compose the Committee of Management of the Company. The capital of the Company has been fixed with a view of making such necessary improvements in the harbour of Wicklow as the public convenience may require. A portion of the Shares will be reserved for the Great Western, and the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway Companies, and power will be taken in the Act to lease the line to the latter Com pany at four per cent. per annum on the capital subscribed, in addi tion to a moiety of the profits, if deemed desirable by the share holders. It is also proposed to take power for augmenting the capit tl, and extending the line direct from Kilkenny to Clonmel, if hereafter con sidered advantageous ; in which case priority as shareholders will be given to the shareholders of the present company. The plans, sections, and books of reference will be ready within the time prescribed by the standing orders of Parliament, and appli cation will be made for a Bill to incorporate the company very early in the next session. No subscriber will be answerable for more than the amount of his deposit of 1 1. ss. per share until the Act be obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his subscription. Applications for shares may be addressed, post paid, to the Se cretary, in the following form, at the Office of the Company, 449, West Strand, London, where prospectuses, with map and printed forms of application, may be obtained. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Committee of Management of the Kilkenny, Carlow and Wicklow Railway Company. Gentlemen—l request that you will allot to me Shares of Twenty Pounds each, in the proposed Kilkenny, Carlow, and Wick low Railway Company, on the terms and conditions of the Prospec tus ; and I undertake to pay the deposit, and sign the necessary deeds, when required. Dated the day of . 184 . Profession ...... Place of abode and post. town . Reference ........ .. . . • • • . • • • Address of Reference ......... ........ RAILWAY from ST. QUENTIN to MAU BEIJGE and the BELGIAN FRONTIER. The Directors of this Company beg to state that a limited nom. ber of Shares of the Charleroi and Erquelinnes Railroad will he reserved for the subscribers to the St. Quentin and 3laubeuge Company; bat the amount win be inevitably small in consequence of the whole number of the Charleroi and Erqueninnes shares, at the disposal of the Directors for the English public, for the holders of the Paris and St. Quentin Shares, and for those of the St. Quentin and Maabeuge Shares, being restricted to 8,03). Wit4M l ll *ad OD. 30, zing's 14 XV* IPA THE GREAT COUNTY DOWN, BELFAST, NEWRY AND WARRENPOINT RAILWAY. Capital, 1,200,0001., in 24,000 Shares of 501. each.—Deposit, 21. 18s. per Share. PROVISION•L COMMITTIM Lord do Roe, Strangford, county Down Hugh Montgomery, Esq., High Sheriff of the County Down General the Hon. Robert Meade. Burren Cottage, Castlewellan, county Dewn The Rev. William B. Forde, J.P., Seaforde, county Down Roger Hall, Esq., J.P. and D.L., Narrow-water, Warrenpoint, county Down Nicholas Price, Esq., J.P., Saintfield, county Down Aubrey William Beauclerk, Esq., Ardglass Castle, county Down James Blackwood, Esq., J.P. and D.L., Strangford, county Down John Nugent, Esq., J.P. and D.L., Portaferry, county Down The Rev. John R. Moore, Castlewellan, county Down, Trustee of Estates of Earl Annesley, a minor Robert Batt, Esq., J.P., Purdy's-burn, Belfast James Watson, Esq., J.P. and D.L., Brookhill, county Antrim John Reed Allen, Esq , J.P., Mountpanther Clough, county Down Mathew Forde, Esq., Seaforde, county Down William Edmond Reilly, Esq., J.P. and D.L , Tamnaharrie Lodge. Warrenpoint The Rev. Dr. Blacker, 3tullabrack, county Armagh Isaac Corry, Esq., J.P. and D.L., Newry, county Down' Arthur Hill Montgomery, Esq., J.P. and D.L., Tyrella, Treasurer of the county Down John Temple Reilly, Esq.,J.P. and D.L., Scarva House, county Down The Rev. William Annesley, Ardilea, county Down William Keown, Esq., J.P., Ballydugan House, Downpatrick, county Down Peter R. 31. Browne, Esq., J.P. and D.L., Janeville, Ardglass, county Down Francis Montgomery, Esq., J.P., Newtownards, county Down Francis Charles Beers, Esq., J.P., Bailyward Lodge, Rathfriland, county Down Francis Heron, Esq., Killyleagh, county Down Major Hall, Narrow-water, Warrenpoint, county Down Major Waring, J.P., Newry, county Down Henry Thomson, Esq., Newry Directors of the Newry Fras. Carvill, Esq., Newry and Enniskillen Rail- Hugh Dalzell, Esq., Newry way Company James Robinson, Esq., J.P., Warrepoint, county Down Alexander AP.Mullen, Esq., J.P., Cabra-house, Rathfriland, county Down _ _ , , Hill Wilson Rowan, Esq., J.P., Hillsborough, county Down William Hastings, Esq., merchant, Downpatrick, county Down John Lindsay, Esq., J.P., Director of the Provincial Bank, Ban bridge, county Down Aynsworth Pilson, Esq., Downpatrick, county Down Bernard Ward, Esq., J.P., Vianstown, Downpatrick, county Down John B. Bankhead, Esq., merchant, Eustace-street, Dublin George Mullingan, Esq., merchant, Banbridge, county Down Richard Hayes, Esq., J.P., Millmount, county Down James Henderson, Esq., Newry, county Down Robert M`Blain, Esq„ merchant, Newry, county Down Edward Anderson, Esq., J.P., Moygannon, ounty Down William H. Quinn, Esq., J.P., Carnmeen, Newry, county Down John Saul, Esq., merchant, Downpatrick, county Down Hugh Carleton, Esq., Drumsesk, Warrenpoint. county Down James Murland, Esq., merchant, Annsbro', Castlewellan, county Down Thom•is Scott, Esq., J.P., Rathfriland, county Down Robert M'Clelland, Esq., merchant, Banbridge, county Down Robert Forde, Esq., M.D., Downpatrick, county Down Robert Medill, Esq., merchant, Newry, county Down Patrick M`Mullan, Esq., merchant, Castlewellan, county Down Frederick Wm. Hayes, Esq., merchant, Banbridge, county Down A4stne Guy, Esq., Newry, county Down William }lvey, Esq., Union Lodge, Banbridge, county Down Ross Thompson, Esq., Greenwood-park, Newry, county Down James Parker, Esq., Mount Kearney, Newry, county Down Robert Martin, Esq., Kilbroney, Rosstrevor, county Down Thomas Crawford, Esq., J.P., Ballydown, Banbridge, county Down David Ross, Esq., M.D., Warrenpoint, county Down John M'Morran, Esq., Newry, county Down John Martin, Esq., Loughorne, Newry, county Down George Guy, Esq., merchant, Newry, county Down John Henry Quinn, Esq., Newry, county Down John Henry Wallace, Esq., merchant, Newry, county Down Leonard Watson, Esq., Warrenpoint, county Down Owen M‘Mullan, Esq., merchant, Castlewellan, county Down Thomas King, Esq., merchant, Newry, county Down John Bennie, Esq., merchant, Newry, county Down Robert Greer, Esq., merchant, Newry, county Down John Gordon, Esq., Sheepbridge, Newry, county Down John Ellis, Esq., Newry, county Down James Quinn, Esq Newry, county Down Geo. Win. Bradded, Esq., Aughavilla, Warrenpoint, county Down Wm. Hudson, Esq., merchant, Mount Caulfield, county Down Charles M. Seymour, Esq., Newry, county Down Isaac Smyth, Esq., merchant, Derramore, county Armagh John Smyth, Esq., merchant, Banbridge, county Down Wm. Henry, Esq., merchant, Newry, county Down John Woods, E•q., merchant, Banbridge, county Down (With power to add to their number.) ENGINBERS—John Fraser, Esq., M.I C R. 1., Surveyor of the county Down ; John Ramsay, Esq., A.M.C.E , Resident Engineer to the Newry Navigation Company. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Murland and Nelson, Downpatrick Messrs. Frazer, Mitchell, and Robert Ross Todd, Newry ; Messrs. Flad gate, Young, and Jackson, 12, Essex-street, St - London. SECRETARY—Robert Gordon. Esq., DoNti.,,atrick. BANKERS—The Bank of Ireland and its b;t;nches : Provincial Bank of Ireland and its branches ; Spooner, Attwoods, and Co., Lon do.i and Birmingham ; the Bank of Scotland and its branches ; the Bank of Liverpool. OFFICES OF TIIE COMPANY-37, Moorgate-street, London ; Scotch street, Downpatrick ; Trevor-hill. Newry ; 63, Dominick-street, Dublin. This Railway proposes to afford to the entire county of Down a complete system of railway communication. Commencing at the quays of Warrenpoint, and passing through the commercial town of Newry (where it forms a junction with the Newry and Enniskillen and Dublin and Belfast Junction Railways), it traverses the entire length and breadth of the county, termed in the Land Commis sioners' report " the garden of Ireland." Proceeding from Newry in a northern direction, in a line almost parallel with the mail. coach road, to a point about midway between Newry and Banbridge, the trunk divides into two great portions, the one leading westerly through Banbridge, the seat of the linen and flax trade of Ireland, to Moira, where it forms a junction with the Ulster line to Belfast. The eastern portion proceeds by Rathfriland, Castlewellan, and the assize town of Downpatrick to Comber, where it is met lfy a most important and integral part of this undertaking, namely, a branch from the mail-packet station and port of Donaghaelee, through the richly populated district and town of Newtonards, and terminates at the quays of Belfast. It will be thus seen that this comprehensive undertaking embraces ever• important town in the county, and affords the only direct and continuous route through Newry to the port of Warrenpoint on the south ; while the northern portion to Donaghadee, in connection with the proposed British and Irish Union Railway, from Portpatrick to Stranraer, Dumfries, and Glasgow, accomplishes the most ex,,editious a , id safe communication between Great Britain and Ireland. Power will be taken to extend the line from Downpatrick to the port and harbour of Ardglass, whenever it may be deemed advisable by the shareholders. The traffic tables guarantee a return on the whole line of at least seven per cent. on the proposed capital. The Prospectus and map, with forms of application, may be had from the Solicitors and Secretary, at their respective offices. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. TO THE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE GREAT COUNTY DOWN, BELFAST, I4IEWRY, AND WARRENFOINT RAILWAY. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares of 501. each in the above Com?any, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, to pay the Deposit of 2/. 15s. per Share thereon, and to sign the subscribers agreement and Parliamentary contract, when required. Name.... •• • • • . Residence Profession ••••• • • • • • References (two or more) .. 1711 E SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1845. YORK and LANCASTER RAILWAY. Provisionally Registered. Capital 1,600,0001., in 32,000 Shares of 501. each. Deposit 21. 10s. per Share. This railway is intended to connect the City of York with Lancas ter in a Direct Line. It will commence near the City of York and proceed thence through or near Knaresborough, Ripley, Pateley bridge, Hartlington, Burnsall, Thorpe Linton, Threshfield, Hatton Bordley, Malham Kirkby, Malham Dale, Skipton, Gargrave, and Set tle to Lancaster, passing en route through eitensive tracts of Goal, lead, and other mineral productions. A detailed prospectus, with a list of Provisional Committee, will be published in a few days ; in the meantime, applications for Shares, accompanied with respectable references, can be made to the Solici tors, Messrs. Chauntler and Westwood, 8, Gray's Inn-square; or to the Secretary, Samuel Holdsworth, Esq., Sowerby-bridge, near Halifax, Yorkshire. STIAND THEATRE. IHIS EVENING relief, except on the condition of its being acknowledged as a loan, and to be repaid by `YELLER. This the poor woman refused ; and, remonstrating with the board, she told them " that the poor man, even when he was comparatively well, was unable, by reason of his malady, to work for intervals of many days, and on some occasions, of many weeks together :—that were they, at his age, and under these circumstances, to undertake to repay any amount of relief that should be extended to him, as a " loan," they must be half starved in order to do so, or must go the workhouse. In the workhouse, the man would lose his business, after being compelled to abandon his home ; so the poor man—a person of very good reputation—still lies in this precarious state, unrelieved, and without the chance of relief by the union, except under one of these two hard conditions ; either, that he take upon himself to discharge what ever may be disbursed on his account in the name of relief, (he being already in that utter poverty which has left him without the means of subsist tence, and has compelled him to make his reluctant ap plication for relief from the poor-rate ;) or, thot he go, with his wife, into the Union house, as the proper punishment for their advanced age—for their good character—for their reluctance to invoke parish assistance—for their desire still to support themselves, to as great an extent as possible, by honest industry — for their praiseworthy attachment to their humble but honest home—and for the "unpardonable and reckless" improvidence of an artisan, at 60 years of age, being afflicted with so chargeable an ailment as a bad lcg ! Will be presented (firstinne) an entirely new Drama, founded on Douglas Jerrold's celebrabd " STORY OF A FEATHER," to give due effect to which, in aidition to Messrs. H. Hall, C. Boyce, 11. Lee, R. Yonnge, CockrW, Dean, R. Romer, Misses Hamilton, Fitz jamee. Weymouth, and Us. Lee, arrangements have been made with Messrs. John Webster Laws, Mrs. C. Boyle, and Miss Beau champ. • After which, CHARLES THE SECOND. To conclude with the vey successful new Drama, called SECRET MEMOIRS. Mr. H. Hall's Benefit onMonday, June 30th, The Nautical Melodrama tf " Juniper Jack" having been receiv3d with enthusiastic applaust, and pronounced the best " bit of human nature" (since the appearance of " Black Eyed Susan") on the stage, will be repeated as a naval triumph 1 The Gallant Crew of H.M.S. Pallas (when commanded by Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence) figures to great advantage in the Piece, the scenes of which are laid in the neighbourhood of Portsmouth. QUEEN'S THEATRE. During the week, the Drama of " Juniper Jack ; or, My Aunt's Hobby ;" written by Mrs. Hallett, Authoress of the successful Comediettas of " Chester Fair," " Woman's Whims," &c., and dedicated to T. P. Cooke, Esq. TEIS EVENING, Will be performed HERNE THE 'HUNTER. To be followed by JUNIPER JACK. " The Captain's Cox'en by Mr. J. Parry, Jack's Botanical Aunt, Mrs. Menders; Justine, Miss Stoker. To conclude with the Domestic Drama of THE LADYE OF LAM BETH. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. Crowded and delighted Audiences—Two Grand Battle Spectacles— The Scenes In the Circle combine the greatest display of Female Equestrian Talent ever witnessed. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Introducing the Double Company of French and English Artistes. The Em peror Napoleon by Mr. Gomersal, who is engaged expressly for this occasion. New Scenes in the Circle, presenting the first talent of British and Foreign Equestrians of the present day. To conclude with the New Grand Pantomimic Spectacle of THE GREEK RENEGADE. We take it there can be no sort of doubt about the main features of this case. The correspondent of our Contemporary (the Times) took the precaution of making a formal application to the relieving officer of the union, who admitted, in reply, that the application had been rejected, except on the stipulation that the relief should be granted as " a loan," and be repaid by the poor old applicant. A loan, indeed Why the board, or their relieving officer, might have granted all that was asked and necessary in this matter, without one instant of hesitation. If the Somerset house Council of Three had even addressed one of its awful missives of censure to such offenders in the cause of humanity—the latter would still have survived it ! The public would only laugh as heartily at its prepos terous attempts to enforce unifomity " of construction' in the interpretation of its crude " instructions" and its sleepy " minutes," as they have already laughed at its attempts to enforce uniformity of diet. The report which the last advices from America have brought to England of the declaration, by Cali fornia, of her national independence, is one of imme diate moment by no means commensurate with the pro bable importance of such an event on the future relations of the Old and the New World. Already we perceive our excitable friends, the citizens of the United States, are revelling in the anticipation of the new State " knocking at the doors of Congress to be admitted into the Federal Union." Already does the prospect of a new dismemberment of the vast elements heretofore comprising the immense Mexican territory stimulate the unscrupulous passion for territorial aggrandisement, which is so eminently characteristic of the " Annexing Republic " This is all very natural, perhaps ;—a feel ing compatible enough with the notion which its citizens have lately taken up of absorbing, within the area of their own federation, all the inhabited or habitable regions of the continent on which they are established. For ourselves, disap proving on general principles of the policy of giving further extension to our own territorial possessions, we should be sorry to see our Government establishing —by the treaty and accommodation of course—its ancient pretensions on California, .although there is, perhaps, no country on the shores of the " Vermillion Sea," (as that portion of the Western Waters of America are called), on which the capital, energy, and commerce of Great Britain could realise a more speedy or profitable development. And, probably, there is no country on the surface of the globe in which we have done less to improve the advantages offered by an ancient connexion with it. Its pearl fisheries, though long discontinued, or very inadequately worked, there is good reason to believe from very recent observa tions by European travellers, who had,like Lieut. HARDY, for example, peculiar opportunities of communicating with and mixing among the native divers and fishers, might be rendered at least as productive as in the best periods of its yield in past years. But passing over its other and more important products, vegetable and mineral, we confess that we should like to have somo as surance that in any new political position which Cali fornia may be about to assume, she may be induced to treat with our own Government on terms which shall give us ready access to, and the unlimited facilities of, her harbours for our fleets and our merchantmen. No more extensive or perfect harbours, so far as ti.eir na tural features, as yet unimproved by art, are concerned, have presented themselves to the research of commerce since these were first discovered by the intrepid CORTEZ, now three hundred and ten years ago. One of these, as we had oft( n reed, and have lately been assured through the official dispatches of a French admiral, would suffice to accommodate the vast navy even of Great Britain ; a capacity which the quick eye of our undaunted DRAKE—whose judgment in these matters was little inferior to his bravery in action—pro bably appreciated, when, sixty years after the Spanish hero, he took possession of this singular and extensive peninsula. It is of little moment, now, to inquire whe ther the title which he asserted to it under the confirma tion granted him by the native King of the country was, in any respect, more valid or binding than that by which, in our own times, the King of the Mosquito country devolved upon the Indo-British, or Spanish Cazique, GREGOR M 4 GREGOR, the sovereignty of the Poyais territory. In a hundred years after the confirmation granted to DRAKE, the Jesuits had established their missions on the most happily situated of these remote coasts, and by the vessels they built in their distress, and the rude investments they were able to send by them to the friends and compatriots, whose aid they solicited from distant captaincies and go vernments in America, the sufficiency attested what were the natural capabilities of the fine region also into which they had passed, voluntary exiles from civilisa tion, and all the conditions of social life, to plant the cross in the savage forests of a primeval wilderness, and to preach the doctrines of peace and truth to the races of the human family still wider and more barbarous than the gloomy solitudes to which they had banished themselves. In a very few years these marvellous men had outstripped in their career of useful benevolence and reclaiming industry all that is fabled of the noble lessons derived by the first husbandmen from Ceres or Triptolemus. They really carried with them grain and seed to a soil which had never raised them previously, but rewarded in an incredibly short period the infant labours of savages, who at first could scarcely be made to comprehend the rudimental principles or processes of cultivation, with abundant crops. But they were a stupid and obdurate race ; and very many of the good fathers were cruelly exterminated by those who had derived from them this first of human acts, and the most vital of all truths. Still, it is most re markable, that with these and a hundred other irre fragable evidences to the value of a region, which the Jesuits had done so much to settle, amidst difficulties and dangers of the most extrordinery nature, Spain never seems to have made a subsequent effort to " reap" —us well she might have done—where those Jesuits, who she expelled, had " sown." During the sharp contest between the Governments of Spain and Great Britain in 1771, about the occupation of the Falkland Islands, there does appear to have been an awakened interest in the former in favour of the neglected California. COOKE'S sagacity was quickly alive to its importance ; and his patron, Lord SANDWICH, responded to his views and opinions upon this subject. Another long lull has succeeded to this transient activity of geographical excitement; and now . political circumstances will probably raise the tide of that excitement to a higher pitch than it has yet at tained. Beyond all doubt, our present extended com mercial position in China—its connexion with the still unexhausted resources of the trade to be secured in the North Pacific—and the accidents that invest the question of the Oregon territory occupation—bid fair to commu nicate a new interest and importance to the destinies of California. The intelligence from Madrid is to the 15th, and from Barcelona to the 14th inst. According to a Barcelona journal, the QUEEN was to take the oath to the new Constitution on the I Sth, and afterwards be present at a grand review. It was reported that the Court would return to Madrid by the 10th of July, and that the royal visit to the Basque Provinces will not take place this season. The Minister of Marine had left Barcelona, on his return to Madrid. The Paris papers publish the report of the Committee on the Slave-trade Convention read to the Chamber of Deputies by Marshal SEBASTIAN'. It is, as we stated on Saturday, highly satisfactory. The grounds for this new treaty are stated at some length, and considerable strength is laid upon three successive addresses of the Chamber, as well as public opinion, to put an end to the mutual right of search, and place the marine of France under the exclusive surveillance of the national flag. "In the face of such a general manifestation," says filo report, "the Conventions of 1831 and 1833 lost their efficacy, and their nominal maintenance could serve no other purpose but to keep up between the two countries BIRMINGHAM, DUDLEY, and WOL• VERLIAMPTON RAlLWAY.—Extension from Smethwick, through Cradlay to Stourbridge, there to join the London, Worces ter, and South Staffordshire Railway.—The object of this extension is to connect the large mineral and manufacturing district of the Valley of the Stour with Birmingham, and the lines of railway cen tering there. This scheme, in conjunction with the London and Worcester and South Staffordshire Railway, will afford the greatest facility of com munication to the towns and manufactories along the whole Talley of the Stour, with Birmingham and the principal markets in the ➢lid land districts. Application will be made to Parliament in the next session, for a Bill to authorise the construction of this extension.—Dated 13th June, 1845. Solicitors to the Birmingham, INGLEBY, WRAGGE, and COPE, Dudley, and Wolverhamp- S. CARTER, ton Railway. N ORTHERN RAILWAY of FRANCE, with its BRANCHES. (LEBELTF'S COMPANY.) Capital 200,000.000 francs, or 8,000,0001. (one-half of which has been already subscribed in France), in shares of NO francs, or 2C/. each. Deposit in England 21. per Share ; to be returned to the Subscribers without deduction, but without interest, within sixty days after the adjudication, should this Company not obtain the concession. COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION. Mons. Deerousseau de Medrano, Administrateur des Manufactures de Glaces de St. Quinn, Cirey, &c., et Membre duConseil General des Ardennes—President. Mons. Andre licechlin, Depute de Mulhouse. Mons. Le Marquis d'Alon, Ancien Prefet du Cher et de la Cha- rente Inferieure Mons. Le Vicomte de l'Espine, Administrateur de la Compagnie " La . _ Providence." Mons. Auguste Lefebure, Negocrant Mons Le Baron A. Pinoteau, Ancien Sous-Prefet Mons. Vejux, Depute de Besancon, et Conseiller 3la Corr Royale Mona. Catharinet de Rancey, Ancien Administrateur des Messa genies Royales Mona. Renard, Depute Mons. L. Lebeuf, Banquier, a Paris Colonel Barlow Henry Bonar, Esq., a Paris John Crosthwaite, Esq., Liverpool William Feilden, Esq., M.P. William G. Hayter, Esq., M.P. Charles Hindley, Esq., M.P. J. Dorrien Magens, Esq. Mons. Adol,he de Milly, I Paris Francis Mowatt, Esq. William Rotheram, Esq., Liverpool The Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P. T. M. Weguelin, Esq. BANKERS. Mons. L. Lebeuf, Paris ; Messrs. Currie and Co., London. ENGINEERS. William Cubitt, Esq., F.R.S. • Joseph Cubitt, Esq. NO FURTHER APPLICATIONS FOR SHARES in this Company can be received after TUBSDAY NEXT, the 24th inst. By order of the Committee, EDWARD FILDER, Secretary, pro. tern. 7, Tokenhouse-yard, London, June 20, 1845. NORTHERN RAILWAY OF FRAN( E. Notice is hereby given, that NO FURTHER APPLICA TION for SHARES in this Compiny can be received after TUESDAY next, the 24th instant. By order of the Committee, EDWARD FILDER, Secretary pro. tem. 7, Tokenhouse-yard, London, 18th June, 1845. A RMAGH, COLERAINE, and PORTRUSH RAILWAY. . . At a numerous Meeting of Noblemen and Gentlemen connected with the North of Ireland, held this day, at the Thatched House Tavern, for the purpose of taking into consideration the most effec• tual means for obtaining a Suspension of the Standing Orders In the House of Commons in favour of the above Company, it was Moved by the Earl of CiwlLEstosr ; seconded by Lord ACHESON, M.P.; and unanimously resolved, That this Meeting, being impressed with the very great import ance of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush line of railway, to the very populous district through which it passes, desires to promote to the utmost the success of the project through Parliament ; and, with that view, are most anxious to afford every assistance to the passing of the Bill during the present session. Moved by Lord NORTHLAND, M.P. ; seconded by Lord CLAI) HA. MILTON, M.P. ; and unanimously resolved, That the country immediately to be benefited by the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush Railway, being one of the wealthiest and most populous in Ireland, is entitled to the warmest support of the different noblemen and gentlemen possessing any influence in the Legislature; and, inasmuch as the inhabitants have, by petitions, signed by them in various districts, expressed a unanimous desire that the standing orders of the House should be suspended, in order that the Bill for its construction may pass into a law this session, this Meeting agree to support a petition on the part of the Directors of the Company for that purpose. Moved by Capt. JONES, M.P. ; seconded by Capt. BarxsoN, M.P.; and unanimously resolved, That this meeting, aware that the object of the standing orders being complied with, is mainly for the protection of the landowners and others interested on the line, are of opinion that, after such expressions of public feeling as those evidenced by the petitions re ferred to, a petition on the part of the Directors ought to be imme diately presented to the House, praying for the suspension of the standing orders. Moved by Colonel RAwDEN, M.P.; seconded by Mr. MACDoNNELL, of GlenarmCastie ; and unanimously resolved, That a petition on the part of the Directors of the Armagh, Cole raine, and Portrush Railway, having been prepared and read to the Meeting by the Solicitor to the Company, this Meeting is of opinion tflat the same should be presented to the Commons House of Parlia ment, with the shortest possible delay, that the claims of the Com pany may be immediately brought before the Legislature for a sus pension of the standing orders in their favour. Moved by Lord ROSS;IORE ; . seconded by Caismxs Fox, Esq. ; and unanimously resolved, That the several petitions from the local tenantry and others in favour of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush Railway to the House of Commons, and that the standing orders might be dispensed with this session in its behalf, are entitled to the greatest weight and con sideration, and prove at once the importance of the line, and neces sity of its early adoption. This Meeting is therefore of opinion that the same should be immediately presented to the House, and the proper measures should be adopted with that view. GOSFORD, Chairman. The Earl Gosford having vacated the chair, and the Earl of Char lemont having been called thereto, it was Moved by Lord CLAUD HAMILTON, M.P. ; seconded by Lord NORTH LAND, M.P. ; and unanimously resolved, • That the thanks of this meeting be Liven to Earl Gosford for his proper conduct in the chair. CHARLEMONT, Chairman. ,Tuna 20. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. First Appearance of Madame Rossi Caccia and Sig. Barroilhet. TO-MORROW EVENING Will be revived Donizetti's Opera, entitled ROBERTO DEVEREUX. Queen Elizabeth, Madame Rossi Caccia (her first appearance in this country) ; Sarah, Duchess of Nottingham, Mdlle. Rosetti ; Roberto Devereux, Earl of Essex, Sig. Moriani ; The Duke of Nottingham, Sig. Barroilhet (his first appearance in this country). The Danseuses Viennoises (under the direction of Madame Jose phine Weiss) will appear in some of their most favourite Dances. To conchide with LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi (her last appearance but two) ; Fleur de Lys, Madame Petit Stephan ; Phoebus de Chateupers, M. St. Leon ; Pierre Gringoire, M. Perrot. In the third tableaux will be introduced the admired Pas de Quatre, the composition of Madlle. Grahn, by Madlies. Lucile Grahn, Demelisse, Cassan, and Moncelet. Applications for Boxes. Stalls, tncl Pit Tickets to be made at the Orers,-office, ColonnsCe„ Haymarket. Doors open at Half-past Seven o'clock ; to commence at Eight. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. It Is respectfully announced that 3ldlle. TAGLIONI has been en gaged for a series of Five Farewell Nights, in which she will take leave of the Subscribers and the Public ; the tiret of which will take place ON THURSDAY, JUNE 26, It being an Extra Night, not included in the Subscription, When will be presented (second time these four years) Donizetti's Opera, ROBERTO DEVEREUX. Queen Elizabeth, Madame Rossi Caccia (her second appearance in this country) ; Sarah, Duchess of Nottingham, Mdlle. Rosettl ; Roberto Devereux, Earl of Essex, Sig. Moriani ; The Duke of Not tingham, Sig. Barrollhet. The Danseuses Viennolses (under the direction of Madame Jose phine Weiss) will appear in some of their most Favourite Dances. With various Entertainments, in which Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. Lucile Grahn, Mdlle. Carlot'a Grist, M. St. Leon and M. Perrot will appear. To conclude with the Ballet of LA SYLPHIDE. La Sylphide, Mdlle. Taglloni, it being the First of her Five Farewell Nights. kpplications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Bex office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven ; the Opera to commence at Half-past Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated an entirely now and Original Opera, entitled THE ENCHANTRESS. The Music composed by M. W. Balfe ; the %Ibretto, by M. de St. Georges and Mr. Bunn. Don Sylvio. Mr W. Harrison ; Ramir, Mr. Borrani ; Duke d'Aquila, Mr. Weiss; Nugnea, Mr. H. Horneastie; Stella, Madame Anna Thllion. After which will be repeated a Comic Ballet, in Two Acts, en titled NATALIE ; eu, La Laitiere Suisse. The Ballet produced by M. Silvain. The Duke, Mr. Birt ; Count, Monsieur Silvain ; Edward Mr. A. Webster ; Brockman, Mr. Howell , Alfred, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Natalie, Md le. Louise ; Betzy, Madame Giubilei ; Catarine, Mdlle. Adele: the Duchess, Mrs. W. H. Payne. Dress Circle, 7s; Boxes, ss; Pit, 3s; Gallery, 2s; ITpper Gallery, Is. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, may be obtained of Mr. John Par sons, at the Box-office of the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, by Douglas Jerrold, entitled TIME WORKS WONDER'S. Goldthumb, Mr. W. Farren ; Felix Uoldthumb, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Bantam, Mr. Buctstone ; AfiSH Bessy Tulip, Madame Vestris ; Florentine, Miss Fortescue ; Miss Tucker, Mrs. (hover; Patty, Mrs. Humby. After which will be repeated a Dramatic Sketch, entitled THE OLD SOLDIER. Sir Lionel Burlier, Mr. Brindal ; Master Michael Cramp, Mr. Tilbury ; Adam Lethersole (aged 95), Mr. W. Farren ; Buff, Mr. James Bland; Patience Cramp, Mrs. Stanley; Helen, Miss Telbin. To conclude with an entirely New Farce, called THE KING AND I. Period, 1691. Sir William Melrose, Mr. H. Holl ; Burchell, Mr. James Bland; Perkin Pyefinch, Mr. Buckstone ; Jessie iDonald, Miss Julia Bennett. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Halt each. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office, trom Ten till Five o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE . First Night of another New Piece ! THIS EVENING Will be produced a New Comedy, entitled PEG WOFFINGTON ; or, The State Secret. The Marquis de Mousseux, Mr. Selby; Baron Stuph, Mr, Paul Bedford ; George Tarleton, Mr. Hudson ; Merestick, Mr. Wright ; Peg Wolllngton, Miss Woolgar. To ')e followed by the highly successful and Original Farce, called THE IRISH DRAGOON. Mr. Brown Sherry, Mr. Selby; Paddy Murphy O'Brallaghan, Mr. Hudson. After which, an Original Terpsichorean Burletta, called POWDER AND BALL ; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Mr. Montgomerie Tibbs, Mr. Lambert; Captain Kidglove, Mr. Selby ; Jacob Gerkin, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Montgometie Tibbs, Mrs. Frank Matthews; Sally Knobbs. Miss Woolgar. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Play of THE STRANGER. The Stranger Mr. Wallack ; Baron, Mr. Archer; Count Winterstein, Mr. Courtney; Mrs. Haller, Miss Cushman. After which, a New Divertissement, called A COURT BALL IN 1740. In which will be introduced the Dances as performed at her Majesty's Bal Costume, with the Original Music. To conclude with the Second and Third Acts of Bellini's Opera, entitled LA SONNA3IBULA. Count Rodolpho, Mr. Leffler; Elvin, Mr. Allen Amina, Miss Grant. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack ; Stagg Director, Mr. Emden ; Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, in Two Acts. entitled FRIENDS AT COURT. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, A. Wigan, Diddear, Turner, Collier, and Bender ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, and Miss Fairbrother. After which, an entirely New, Original, and Novel Grand Fairy BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Les Danseuses Anglaises will appear. To be followed by a New Farce, entitled LUCK'S ALL. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Diddear, Keeley, Meadows, Km loch, and Turner ; Miss Hicks, and Mrs. A. Wigan. To conclude with an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric, Fairy, Romantic Burlesque, entitled CINDERELLA. The Principal Characters by Mr. Keeliv, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mrs! Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Grove, Miss Howard, &c ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—FRENCH - PLAYS. Tint appearance at this Theatre of the popular Aetor, M. ARNAL. Will be rm THIS EVENING perfo ed Hoffman's Petite Ccmaedie, in Acte, LE ROMAN D'UNE HEURE. Lucile, MademStselle Eliza Forgeot ; Valcour, M. Pascal ; Lisette (Suivante), Mademoiselle Bonval. After which (first time), L'HUMORISITE ; ou, L'Homme Difhcile a Vivre. Remy, M. Arnal ; Marie, Mademoiselle Lievenne. To conclude with (first time) LE MARI DE LA DAME DES Br CIICEURS, Yoqset, Tailiew ea Mailk4s, M. Anita ; }limo% afolgotax463 Orr. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. TIIIS EVENING Will be repeated a new local Drama, entitled THE OLD MINT of SOUTHWARK. The Seemery from designs taken on the spot. Splendidly cast, &c. After which, VIDOCQ, TIME FRENCH THIEF-TAKER. Sup ported by the entire Company. 'ro conclule with THE WEIRD WOMAN OF THE WRECK. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box )flice, from Eleven to Icour. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. COMBINATION OF ATTRACTIONS. Te Four Juvenile 3linstrel Brothers and the Rock Harmonlcon. Every Day, from Nine till Dusk. ROMANTIC GARDENS AND PROMENADE. EXTENSIVE AND UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE. COLOSSAL MODELLED REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH, The Acme of Scenic Illusion. The MINSTREL BROTH F,RS, from Four to Twelve Years of Age, will perform Select Airs at intervals. The ROCK HARMON ICON from Three till EigSt. Ind on MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and THURS DAYS, GRAND CONCERTS D'ETE and MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY of FIREWORKS. Admission, One Shilling. Feeding the Carnlvora at Half-past Five ; Pelicans and Polar Bear at Six ; Concert at Half-past Six ; and Fireworks at Half-past Niue. Now ready, at all the Libraries in 3 vols,, T " WHITE SLAVE; OR, THE RUSSIAN PEASANT GIRL. BY THE AUTHOR OF " REVELATIONS OF RUSSIA." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Mariborough-street. RAILWAY NEWS. Subscribers and others interested in Railways will find a FULL ACCOUNT of the PROCEEDINGS efore the RAILWAY COMMITTEES in the THIRD EDIIiON of TUE SUN, reported up to the CLOSE 0 . ) EACH DAY; it also con tains the DEBATES in BOTH HOUSES of PARLIAMENT up to the HOUR of POST EVERY EVENING, PRICES of RAILWAY SHARES, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE by EXPRESS, and all other NEWS ARRIVING in LONDON DURING the DAY. ORDER the THIRD EDITION, which contains NEWS TWELVE HOURS in ADVANCE. Sun-office, 112, Strand. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The communication from Devizes shall not be lost sight of. The omission was occasioned by accident. There was not time to save post on discovering it. " Paris Bourse Railways."—Yes. We have referred the letter of Mr. Wilkinson to our reporter. THE WEATHER.-SuN OFFICE, JUNE 23. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 48 ; Highest, 73 ; Noon, 74. BAROMETER, N.N.W. NoTx.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning •• 5 minutes after 4 1 Evening •• 80 minutes after 4 e__ 3 s). 4 • cr., , .. - 4 f , i „0„, „ 1: m. 4 , . ~ , Ri S o ' rfil , - \ S, i ', ...' ,•110 ' '' 3. \ < ( ../rp ri. 4 . -",-,.. Tim ^4 LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1845. So long as the New Poor-law shall be administered, in respect of cases not specifically provided for by the Acts last passed for its amendment--(and which cases, of course, must always form the vast majority of the ob jects to which it is practically applied)—on principles not compatible either with common sense er common humanity—so long will it prove an unfailing source of suffering, discontent, and resentment to the pauper com munity whom it is its confessed object to succour ; and of invidious administration and personal unpopularity to all concerned in its administration. No man doubts for a moment the necessity for a law to provide for the main tenance of the destitute poor, whose destitution is not the result of their indolence, wilful misconduct, or acts of moral or legal criminality. No man doubts for a moment that destitution, not the result of these causes, has a just claim for relief upon the more fortunate classes of his fellow-countrymen. And it is equally little a matter of doubt, that the vast—indeed, the enormous—funds annually assessed for the purposes of such relief, should be faithfully and economically administered by responsi ble officers, on a well-organised and intelligible scheme of management. But it is the peculiar misfortune of the New Poor Law that all its executive officers appear to imagine that they are administering some immutable edict of the Medes and Persians, the decrees of which may neither be detracted from nor added to by a single syllable, however unlooked-for and unthought-of the particular exigency which may demand their modifica tion in practically dealing with them. It has always ap peared to us, that magistrates, boards of guardians, and relieving officers exhibit, in nine cases out often, where any circumstances attach to a pauper case before them that may happen to be thus removed beyond the apparent scope, or of the express enactments of the statute, an utter paralysis of the faculties of common sense and clear judgment. They seem to ima gine that they have no discretion whatever beyond or within the letter of the statute, and fall into a sort of abject despair, or an apathetic indifference about any degree of hardship, cruelty-, or injustice which their servile compliance with that letter may cause them to inflict. There is scarcely one of her MAJESTY'S subjects who does not, at least twice in twenty-four hours, con travene, without hesitation, some positive law or other, about the breach of which he gives himself no trouble, being sensible that, could the Legislature have foreseen how such law would operate to work a grievance to him, in con nexion with matters indifferent in themselves, it would never have passed it. By reasonable analogy these func tionaries might surely suppose that they would be at liberty to act, where the exigency of the case demanded prompt and effectual relief, in the spirit with which alone any system of poor•law relief can have been projected and accomplished, however the letter of the law embody ing it might have omitted to prescribe a specific course to be adopted in such specific case. If it be a sound maxim that lex neminem cogit ad " impossibik," it is surely as sound a one, that" lex neminem ad crudele cogit." A most extraordinary case appeared last week in the columns of a contemporary, which will be found fully to bear out these observations. It is the more remarkable, moreover, inasmuch as the communication, although an anonymous one, is stated to be made on the authority of a magistrate, who declares his reason for bringing such facts before the public in such a shape to be, that he knows very well if he were to move the grant of the relief which the case he nar rates imperatively calls fur, " he should be outvoted at the Board of Guardians." So that here is a magistrate and a member of a Board of Guardians, so worked upon by this species of unworthy weakness, that he is afraid to move his own proposition to a board of which he is a member, because the fear of the Commissioners of Somerset House and their rescripts is ever before its eyes. Here is a magist"ate who, having a case of sin gular harshness and inhumanity, occurring within his own cognizance, to urge against the administration of the poor-law, resorts to the vicarious aid of a newspaper, in order to make known those facts, and his opinions upon them, which might have been so much more impressively given by him from the bench. It seems that in the Har.iwick (near Reading) union, at the board of which this magistrate acts, there dwells one WILLIAM WELLER, of the parish of Whit church, in the county of Oxford,—that he is between 80 and 70 years of age, and has been confined to his home for these last five weeks with a bad leg. The doctor in attendance upon him, and humanely so attend ing without any union order, gave a note to WELLER'S wife to take to the relieving-officer, stating that the man was very poor,- and being in this dangerous state required to have better and more nourishing food allowed to him, This C 639 was brought before the board, who refused a source of irritation. Besides this, the conventions, by their nature and by the circumstances which accom panied the conclusion of them, could never have been considered as perpetual. Having been admitted by way of experiments and as temporary measures, they ought to cease as soon as they had produced the effect of which they were capable." It then adverts to the terms of th e new treaty, and adds—" The final clause suspends all the former conventions during this new experiment, and declares them finally abrogated at the expiration of that term, unless by a common and express consent of the two Governments they be again brought into operation. The will of the country has thus been satisfied, and in this respect your Committee cannot do otherwise than give its entire assent to the result of the negotiations which wore carried on in London. Your Committee is well pleased at being able to declare that this result has been attained, to the honour of the gentlemen who conducted this delicate negotiation, and who, whilst they carried out a lofty idea of justice and humanity, knew how to pay attention to the national feeling, and award to it what was its due. All the provisions of the new treaty bear the impress of the confidence which the high contracting parties feel in each other, and of their equal sympathy for the cause which they wish to serve. It is worthy of such a cause to unite the efforts of two great nations ; and the treaty which has just been concluded will have the effect, we feel convinced, of effacing the remembrance of the differences that may have separated them." An animated discussion afterwards took place on the state of the French navy, when several of the Opposition Members charged the Government with a great dereliction of public duty by refusing to propose an increase of the Navy Estimates, and not even apply ing the sums voted to the most useful purposes. If we are to believe the statements made, the navy of France is in a most deplorable condition. It was worse, said M. BACOT, than under CHABROL, the Minister of Marine from 1824 to 1830, and yet, during the greater part of that period, added another speaker, the Budget of Marine was only 68 millions, while this session nearly twice the sum had been voted-120 miliions of francs—for main taining not more than 23 ships of the line, and 30 frigates. M. LEDRU Bonnier asked the Minister of Marine if he could deny that he had not employed the whole of the credits voted for the navy. " The country," said he, " wanted to see the naval forces in a condition to cope with those of England. The Minister might boldly ask the Cham ber to make sacrifices for that purpose. At present the Minister of Marine was following the course pursued under the Regent, and which prepared the maritime dis asters of the Republic. hey wanted to see their navy worthy of France—able to defend the principle of the liberty of the seas." Admiral MACKAU said, since his accession to office, he had done everything in his power to improve both sailing and steam-vessels, but really the estimates were not sufficient, and next session he should be obliged to apply for larger sums. Still, however, the statements made by certain Members were manifestly in correct. In 1829, the armaments at sea employed only 12,000 seamen, while in 1846 they would amount to 26.000, and besides the budget of his department was only 78 millions, the remainder of the estimates being expended on the marines and the guns. The Gallant Admiral, after some other:remarks, stated in reply to a question from M. CORNE respecting the blockade of Monte Video, that he had refused to admit the exten sion of the blockade, which the Government of Buenos Ayres desired to have recognised. The admiral on the station had a sufficient naval force at his disposal, and he felt no uneasiness whatever for the French subjects now residing in Monte Video, whatever might have been their antecedent political opinions. Most of the esti mates were afterwards voted. The sum of 60,0001. demanded by the Government, to increase the pay of the commanders of corvettes, was rejected. The fol lowing article from M. TRIERS' paper, the Coast tution nel, is in reply to the statements of the Minister of Ma rine, as well as to those made by Sir CHARLES NAPIER in the House of Commons : " We said a few days back that the country and the Chambers were determined to have the navy powerful, and the committee on the budget, in its report, gives a superabundant proof of the exacti tude of this assertion. But, in examining the affairs of the navy with respect to the future, the Committee, in seeking to appreciate the wants of the fleet, do not appear to have rendered to themselves an exact account of the manner in which in late times the grants for the navy have been employed. Let us just glance at the credit s accorded to the navy for several years back, with the results ob tained. We commence with the year 1837, in which the cadre of the navy was fixed by a royal ordinance, and completed in February, 1842. In the year 1837 the budget was 52,000,000 f. It has been successively augmented—in 1838 to 72,000,0001 ; in 1839, to 79,000,000 f. ; in 1840, to 99,000,000 f. ; in 184 1 to 124,000,000 f. ; in 1842 it was 140,000,000 f.; in 1843, 123,000,000 f.; in 1844, 124,000,000 f.; and in 1845 It will be 120,000,000[., without reckoning the credit allowed for the execution of the new treaty relative to the right of search. It is true that a sum of 30,000,000 f. for Trans. atlantic packets must be taken from the last three years; but, with this exception, there will still remain for the period comprised be tween 1537 and 1845 nearly a milliard. In 1846 the credits will exceed 160,000,000 f., or double the budget of 1837. Let us now see what was the state of our navy in 1837, and what it is at pro. sent. According to the ordinance passed in that year, we were to have 270 sailing vessels, of which 40 were to be ships of the line, 50 frigates, and 40 steamers. A decision of March, 1842, rai , cd it to 70 the number of these, assigning to them an 18,500 horse power. In 1837 the fleet consisted,— I st, of 41 men of war, 24 afloat, and 17 in the dockyards. The latter, more or less advanced, in construction only showed 17 vessels entirely finished ; 2dly, 56 frigates, of which 36 were afloat, and 20 in course of con. struction ; and, idly, 35 steamers, of which 28 were afloat, and 7 in course of construction, showing altogether a 4,630 horse. power. In 1845 we have not more than : 1 9 ships of the line, and 37 frigates ! There is certainly an increase in the steamers, for from 35 they have been augmented to 47. But can this aug mentation compensate for the preceding deficiency, and justify the employment of the considerable credits accorded to the navy ? We have not comprised in this comparison either the Trans atlantic packets or the money expended in providing them, these vessels not having been destined for a war service. This result, after a space of eight years, certainly evinces a considerable disorder, and a very faulty application of the funds voted by the Chambers. If the materiel of the navy has diminished, the personnel of the marl. time inscription has slighted increased, as the Committee has re marked. It is in 1839 and 1840 that this augmentation has shown itself, at the time that a greater extension was given to our military armaments. The inscriptions of that period have not disappeared, but the system of furloughs, I.ow in use, will soon, if care be not taken, bring down the amount of inscription to a lower point than it was in 1839. This apprehension is so much the better founded that commercial enterprise has much diminished, and does not promise to the navy a sufficient number of recruits. These figures prove hew erroneous was the statement of Sir Charles Napier relative to our naval force, and how ridiculous was the triumph which the Ministry assumed in its journal on the occasion." The Commerce, in alluding to the subject, makes some remarks on the state of the French dockyards, which, we believe, are well founded. "It is sufficient," says that journal, " to have gone through our dockyards to judge of the waste 'that takes place there. There is no unity ; everything is abandoned to local dirr-cto;•s. Each direction is appointed as it pleases ; it raises workshops on workshops, stores on stor, s, seeking to increase its own importance, and every where rejecting private industry. The stores, de prived of any appearance of ensemble, enter and leave by a thousand issues. There is affluence in one place, want in another. In the same hands are placed the workshop and the store ; that is to say, he who gives the command is he who executes it ; he who delivers the works when done is he who receives them. And all that is supported by documents impossible to verify, sometimes fictitious, always without uniformity. Such a disorder, such a chaos produces this result, that money is expended without its being known how it goes. A-counts from Lucerne of the 16th, state that Dr. STEIGER has chosen the town of Cagliari, in Sardini-, as his place of exile, the Sardinian Government having consented to receive him, and to leave him at full liberty in that place on his parole of honour. It appears from a letter dated Constantinople the 4th instant, and published in the Augsburg Gazette, that a sanguinary battle had taken place in Syria, on the 16th of May, between the Druses and the Maronites, which ended in favour of the latter, but the details are not given. On the Paris Bourse on Saturday the Three per Cents. closed at 84f. sc. ; the Five per Cents., at 1221. sc. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,210 f. ; Rouen, 1,070 F. ; Vierzon, 770 f. ; Havre, 862 f. 50c. ; Avignon, I,olof. ; Basle, 2661. 25c. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 41 1 / I . The following are the quotations fnr the new lines:— Orleans and Bordeaux, 205 f. premium ; Boulogne, 1151. ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 40f. 50c ; Paris and Lyons ( Laffitte), 20f. ; ditto (Calon), 50c. ; ditto (Ganneron ), 51. ; Northern line ( Laffitte), 25f. ; ditto (Rosamel), 61. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 9f. 75c. ; ditto (Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 3f. 75c. ; ditto (Jacques Lefevre), par; Lyons and Avignon ( Lecointe), 7f. 75c. ; ditto (Talabot), 37f. 50e. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionnle),7l. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), If. 50 ; ditto and Cette (Espeleta), 6f. 50c. ; Creil and St. Quentin, par; Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron), 10f. ; Dijon and Mulhausen (O'Neill), 2f. 50c.; Dieppe and Fecamp, 45f. LYONS, JUNE 18.—Avignon and Marseilles, 1,0151., for cash ' • Paris and Orleans, 1,200 f, ditto ; Paris and Rouen, 1.0751.., end of June; Orleans and Bordeaux, 677 f, for the 15th of July; Boulogne, 605 f, end of June; Montereau, 545 f., ditto. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were 6,000 bales, about one-third being on speculation. The market was quiet at previous rates. There was a good deal of ex • citement in the Share-market, owing to the Parlia mentary decision on the gauges. Great Western were advancing, and Birmingham were heavy. Barns ley Junction, 7 ; Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction, 11 1 4 1 / 2 ; Blackburn, Burnlsv, and Accrington, 9 1 4 ; Bel fast and Ballymena, 8 1 4 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 15% ; Caledmaian, 11 3 / 4 ; Caledonian Extension, 3 58s. 9d. ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 4 1 / 2 %; Chester and Birkenhead, 63 1 / 2 61 1 / 2 •, Ditto, New Shares, 57 1 / 2 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 31 1 4 31 ; Churnet Valley, 5 1 / 8 ; Cork and Bandon, 8 13s. 9d. • Derby and Crewe, 68s. 6d. 3 1 4, ; Dublin and Wexford, 2 2 ; Dublin and Galway - , 63 5 . 3%; Glasgow and Dumfries, 19s. 6d._. Glasgow and Ay r , 65 ; Gl oucester and Dean Forest, 1 1 4 ; Grand Junction, 241; Ditto, Half Shares, 120 1 / 2 120; Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 50 1 4 1 /2 ; Grand Union ' 1 / 2 Bs. 6d. • Great Gri ms b y an d S heff i eld, 4 1 / 2 %; Great Southern and Western Extension, 13; Great Western, 215 214 ; Ditto, Fifth Sh ares. 48 ; Ditto, 40 1 4 ; Hud dersfield Canal and Railway, 6% ; Lancaster and Preston, Three. uarter Shares, 331 A ; Leicester and Birmingham, I ; Liver ava Wattrforct, ; Ittywool, thauskirk, saur Preston, 6.35. 6d. 3%; London and Birmingham, 240 1 London and Brighton, 7 4 %; L oudon and Croydon, ir Shares, 345. 6d.; London and Windsor, 1%; London don anand Seuth-Western, 83%; Ditto , 401. Shares, 32; Lon York, 3%; Leeds and West Riding Junction„ . B 4 1 / 4 ; 31s1 " chester and Birmingham Continuation, 41s. 1%; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 77% • Ditto, Quarter Shares, 25404 264 ; Matlock and Midland, ' 54 ; idland Railway', ' Shares, 27 28% ; Consolidated Birmingham and DevlsYr 144%; Newark and Sheffield, 2% %; Newcastle and Bess. wick, 18%; Newry and Warrenpoint, 1% ; North Britishd , Half Shares, 6% ; North Wa les Mineral, 15%; Ditto, Ne Shares, 51 5 ., • North Western, 4% ; Nottingham and Mlbrds's ans , * field, 1 ; Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 6 5%; al Worcester, and Wolverhampton , 8 7 % ; Sheffield and Man' chester, 125 124 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 325.; Shrewsbury' and Herefordshire, i; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 5% Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire,44 ; ShrewsburY 03'1 Trent Union, 2%; South-Eastern and Dover, New Share* witty No. 1, 18% %; Ditto, New Shares, No. 2, 16 17 - New Shares, No. 3,8% % ; Scottish Central, 6%; Wlk e ss s fel ;4 Pontefract, and Goole, 18%; Welsh Midland, 4% I /3 ; `Vol" orkshire, 38s. ; Wexford and Carlow, 6s. 6d. 41.6 d. ; "'" cester and Tring, 18s. 265. ; York and Carlisle, % .1 3 n uingne and Amiens, 9%; Northern of France, English Sc. 3s. 9d. ; Ditto (Rosamel's) English, 2% ; i'aris anid IsY° ll. (Ganneron's), 2% 565. The ties are Cf s offitte's) , MANCHESTER. STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 21.—Tue 5._,,, Barnsley Junction, 7 : Birkenhead, Manchester and ClOehliv Junction. 11% q Ch nril ; Blackburn, Darwen, and B o lton, / Caledonian, 12% ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 43 E 1 ; Valley, 5% ; Clitheroe Junction, 3% ; Derby and ° I T" ' 1 13-16 preen.; Edinburgh and Gasgow, Quarter Shares , Ve i Erewash Valley, 30; Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, 11;1)4 Glasgow and Dumfries, % 17s ~ • Goole, Doncsster, She e iL and Manchester Junction, 04 235. 6d. ; Grand Uniona,rts: 3-16 prem.; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junctions Qeuitna. Shares, % ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and '' cot ss , 7 6 15-16 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction,6; L a n d Dive and Preston, Three-quarter Shares, 32% s Leicester av ndos mingham, 2; Liverpool, Orniskir, and Preston, 3 ; d and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 1% • London st a n 7ss steer 3% ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossedale, 17 1 / 1 1 1 '11'i; one Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 5 3-16 % ; Nrl nc " sin' Birmingham, New Quarters, 7% • Blanchester assd Billeato ham Continuation and Welsh Junction,' 2 1% • V ann gel/ and Leeds, Sixteenth Shares, 9% 9 ; North Shares, 6 13 16 ; North Eastern, / S prem.. Sort!' S t Era. shire, 4% 7-16 ; North Western, 4 3-16 ; Notting N o r. wash, Ambergate, and Manchester, 14 prem.; 0xib,. 14 _,.d and cester, and Wolverhampton, 8 ; Shrewsbury, nereloyosy North Wales, % % prem. ; Shrewsbury and Trent 0-16 Union, 2 3-16 % ; South-Eastern and Dover, Ni. 3s4sheatli 9 ; Trent Valley, 19 ; Ditto Continuation and '''' s i Fur Junction, 24 ; West Yorkshire, 1%; Whitehaven .4 pre. ne53,2% ; Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union , ut r r i g hs Our Contemporary, the lEforning Advertiser, ig a bP . -lies tion 011 in the statement made this morning, that the anr -- sae of 'Britisha,fford. behalf of the Spanish Minister to have sugar, the 1 0 4, 4 jot' Spanish colonies, admitted for home consumption a t 1 T 1 duty named in the new tariff, has met with a ref : Niro ground taken up by our Ministry is a most fair °ll- j s , to. that as Spain has not performed her duty towards to P IS ° 2 l British Government has no right to be called uPnl i say si.— her produce in the situation of one of the Most ' s ge tie' nations. Still, though the course taken lug , st i _ u ther e s a l t. ral point of view, be held exceedingly rigs's' bad flPs. cause for regret, that such an occurrence °f •_-• - c s tain should have 'been exhibited on the part of the '4 v icd Government, especially after the nnm en nshed t' 1346 this country has rendered to Spain. It could he W i shed o f the a concession should be made in favour of the OP link i n she Spanish colonies, as it would form the second lO Of chain which is in progress of formation for free trio.' or 09 produce of the cane, whether grown in own beat -our - Ate r foreign climes. We believe, however, that the ra7 ss ibiliti not been so completely settled as to preclude thtleliew thal of au arrangement. We have every reason t° fo o t 0111 Spain, deficient as she has been in completely _ o f will. terms of her treaty with us, has not been for Waii no s bells but from the pretty well known fact that she has has beef able, under the circumstances in which the shun ts the l a " placed, of acting up to the pledge gi Ven II- , n ea, The__ the e political ss-e r e accounts n is s s from unimportant. Brazil o -day arngement was signed. 6sss -. Ala to tebates in es;-; Chambers upon the increase of duties T h he be- Whether ere g -e daeci.e - V- long, but the private letters do not state against tbVl4l; sion had been arrived at. The feeling w w ils , a tccha n g e Iv-- crease of duty on British manufactures. l'w at 24%. A very limited business has been transact ‘-• - Securities t el. o- ay. The general value of Cent Re u . ii . Account has been 99Y • for the Three per ho ver-N. — l.nnuities, 99 1 % N. ' ecAoin_nsoise rodrrirred Ilie premium upon Stock a t 2 11 % has been quoted at 575. to 595., and Bank so''' and 211. Markel We : The Spanish Three per Cents in the Foreign s' steady to-day. The Dutch Two-and -a-Half 4 bee e n flat, having opened at 41%, and have fallen farretllverrosti Osg. Portuguese and the other foreign Bon ds t e nts al l __ per s ,„ we quoted at 63%, the Portuguese Converted at b! cal ; Do. Colombian ex Venezuelan at 17% %, and Mexicali ferred at 21% % • the , reilll iv l A large amount of business has been done in ' ~,,p list Shares to-day, and with various fluctuations, as '''''' t ekow , f • s no show. The broad and the gauge question i got sidered at all to be settled narrow t decision of the 7 1t b o l f lt C ni u s m e ThatonfloLuosr.ds.Theof ltd. inW atin respects constructed lines, is very generally adnut ba t i t t l e iswai I questionl b erefeouu gh fought l o ve r Ag . a t i ed. ll 1 0 3:15 demand for the French lines is on the increase. 05 14 a ONE Fla e 0. 0 PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLO CK. 2 Bank Stock . 3, per Cent. Reduced New 3 1 4 per Cents 102 1 4% ...• India Bonds, 1,0004. Ditto under 1,0001... Consols for Opening 99% 5 9 Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 1 1 7 4 d 57 59 P . , 7 , 11 ' 60 Ditto 500/. . Ditto Small 1, 0 08 ,- ONE C 0 0. , 1 PRICES OF' FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. 171 Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 17% 1 / 2 % 37 Ai exican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ... 9 1 Ditto, Deferred 21%% ....--, 3 1 1 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents — Ditto, Account 32 86 Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, Converted 6 7% 67 •••••• Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account 2 Bl ..-• 4 Ditto, Passive 40 Ditto 3 per Cent. — Ditto Account Dutch, 2% per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 99% 99 A C 1423 .4 PR ICES OF oflg • ' 1 41 C P tID A ONE O'CL-- ' ...-- B AILWAY sHARES ' ' .............. 4 Birmin ard Gloucester. 100 Ditto 1 / 2 Shares 44 Birmingham and Ox- 3/ 5 4 ford Junction .... /4 i s I .. ... Bristol and Exeter 7O ......102 100.- .... ! Do. New ..... . 3 Caledonian Ditto Extension ...... 2 1 ,4.. Cambridge and a il l y l h .i e n a c d o . l . n . 10 114 _ 5 4: . 43 .5. ............................... 5 4 Cliurnet Valk) , Coventry, Bedworth, and .. ••• 1 Nuneaton Coventry and Leicester 11.4 . 1 N ............. 9 • ... Direct N orthern Dublin and Belfast June 2 IA ...... ....... ......... 20 Dublin and Galway 2 IA ..... 3 1 4 ... ;; .. 244 7 Eastern Counties 141. 16;,...... 20% 2 '. / 9 ... Ditto New 41. 165....... 7%%••• ...... i% Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1.-5/. I3s. 4d ....... 1% ............... -*- ...... " 1 71 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... ....... ....• 2 Ditto Quarter Shares 121/2.-- 13/i ••• ••''' ....... Ely and I ; edford Great Grimsby and Shef- .......... field Groat South. and West ... 0 (Ireland) ....... 21 Ditto Extension Great Western ..... 80 ...... 210 .............. . Ditto Half Shares 5O ...... 118 117 •• .... Guildford, Fare'm,Ports 2%..... 53 / 4 S I .... •• Hull and Selby 5O ....• 1 08 .......... . ••• Lancaster and Carlisle 2O ...... 47 1 / 2 ... ; ... .. 2' ..... Laudon aidon and Birminghm(St oc k)...23 6 % . ... Do. New Thirds London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s 4d. 1014 . 1 : .. .... London and Brighton 5O ...... 7542 .. ...... London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. -- ...... '. •••• ..... .• Do. New l3s 4d...... •,". .. ••• Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d...... 83 8 ° "''.. •••• .... ;,' Do. Consolidated Bths 12 ..... •••//... 16A . " Do. New Do. New London and York ...... • 2 l / 2•••• • -- •:; ............. ' Londonderry &Coleraine 2 1 /,. ... 1 . 4%74 ... Londonderry and Ennis- ........ 4% killen 2 %•••• •• .......... . .... Lynn and Ely Manchester and Leeds 73 .. 171 ........ • ........ Do. Quarters 2 ...... 26 ............ Manchester and Birmin 4O ...... 59 1 4 1 / 2 . ........... Do. Quarters 4 ................... .... Do. New Quarters Manchester, Buxton, and ....... Matlock 22s. . ..... _ „.... Midland 100 ...... 184 18i 1 2 2 ,... Do. New ........ New.•as.le and Berwick 1% ...... V'S/ •••''' North British Do. New ........... 2 6 4 4 •4 ..... 4 ... : ... ......... .. Norwich and Brandon lO ...... *, , / .... 2/ .7 • 4 Oxford and Worcester 2 l /2 ...... 7 - /f , ....... Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 ...... 1 1 A ............ 6 ...... Scottish Central ....... Shrews., Wolverharnp., Dudley, and Birm South Eastern & Dover 33/ 22 :2 1 :s 4 ...... d ...... ...1. ... .......48864;4:57:/........ ............... ........................! Do., No. 1 8 ...... 19% .......... . •• ..... . Do., No. 2. Do., No. 3 South Wales !'rent Valley 2 ...... lei •••••• Trent Valley and Holy head Junction Welch Midland Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth .. Yarmouth and Norwich 2O ...... 29 ........... •• i'ork and North Midland 50 ...... 109 ..... .... Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25 ...... 09. ................. Do. Extension - . FOREI GN RAILWAYS. ..... ... 9 .......... Boulogne and Amiens 4 ••• 2%1A 2.•••'' Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 ...... • Bordeaux, Toulouse, and 2% 5 4 . .... "... Cet te - .............. Great North. of France (Laffitte's) 2 1 /4 ......... ••• Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2 ...... 117 ......... •••••• Great Paris and L yon s 2 •••••• s ....... -- •" ... •• Louvain and Jemeppe..• 4 ''' . 2 5 1 ......... • Lyons and Avignon 2 .... 51 ............ ::. Namur and Liege 17 2 .......... - , Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Borde tax .••••• 2 % . ........... Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2 ...... Paris and Lyons, Gan- --• ...... . ... neron's, ... .. __. 17s , . / z ...... ••• •••' Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2 .••••• .......... Paris and Orleans 2O ...... ....... Paris and Strasbourg 2 1 / 2 3a* .... •••• (Ganneron's) ...... ••• ...... ...••• '. ... Royal North of Spain ..• 2 ...... ___ 9 Wy i . ...... :... S tinbre and Meus Verona and Ancon ! ... BANIO' .... JOLT STOCK ....... t3riust4t3rhalaNsiora North American 50 . 40 .. .. . ... .... woe.* 1 ....... 17 1 0, 51 e' 7, I 13,4 00 t RAJ