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<~ he 41 ) Lost. '3:j} i`l Lt ten o'clielri, ,on, when tfies, 'as arranged: the original, ors to Which, nrsfts of the contrast, with plans and speeifisations, will be reedy Sot' inspection en and after the 2Sth i!:stant, at the offices of the En gineors-in-Chlef, Store•Fireet, Manchester. Printed Aims of tender may be had at this Engineers' offi ce ; an d r >lll tenders. must b g' e lodged previ ous ly t o t h e h our of meeting', at the ,"Tany's office, in Bond-street, M anc h es t er , en d orsed " Tender Work s ;" an d no tender, except the printed form furnished by the sCompelay, will be attended to. The party whose tender is accepted will be required to enter into bsnd, with two sureties, for the due performance of the contract, to the extent of 10 per cent. en the grass amount of such contract ; and the names and descriptions of the proposed sureties must be set forth in the tender. The Directors will not consider themselves bound to accept the tweet tender ; and they expect the several parties tendering, or Persons duly authorised by them, to bo in attendance at the office.; a llood-street, Manchester, at the time of meeting. • (Signed) THOMAS ASHTf)N, Chairman. 7701 nosh r. .Birmingham Railway Office, . , t,„lllanchestor. - --• I A STE AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. • F £5 PER SHARE. • rk. Diree .trabtif the provisions of the Act of In oorporation; ha ..elpty . .nisde a CALL upon t h e P roprietors of IL per Share, wild - haireappointed that the same be paid to one of the Company's bankers, en or before the 12th day of January next. l'ho Proprietors are, th ere f ore, requ i red to pay the same cc eOrdingly. The Company's hankers are— In Manchester The Manchester and Liverpool District Bank. Messrs. Cunliffe, Brooks, and Co. In Liverpool.. .. The Manchester and Liverpool District Bank. In L 0nd0n....... Measrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith. Messrs. Cunliffe, Brooks, and Co. And the b ranc h es of the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank in other place s . Interest at the rate of £5 per cent. per an,narn will be charged on unite rernaiaiog unpaid after the day appointed for payment. THOMAS A S 1 - 1 TOR, Chairman of the B oar d o f Di rec t ors. 'lend- t t Manchester, 20th December, 1838. ANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM EXTENSION RAILWAY COMPANY. NOTICE TO SCRIPHOLDERS. Manchester, , 1838 IThe Seripholders, who are wishful to become Shareholders in , Company, are requested to apply, o n or b e f ore th e 1 4th day of nuary neat, at one of the undermentioned places : liaNcriarrna—At the Company's Offices, No. 29, Bond- Are s & LITEXPOOL—To Mr. James, Treasurer to the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company, Fenwick-street. h L ONDON-At the Offices of Messrs. Ross and Ash, No. t, ett Wisichester-street. No Scripholder oaa become a Shareholder after the day ab o r t . linsitod. This Notice does not apply to the Holders sf the newly istined Red Serip. By Order of the Board of Previsional Directors, THOMAS ASHTON, Chairman. T HE BRITISH AND AUSTRALASIAN BANK. Incorperated with the AUSTRALASIAN LOAN COMPANY.. Capital—One Million Sterling. In Two Serioi of Shares of Twenty Pounds each, a portion of which will be reserved for allotment in the Colonies. First Instalment £5 per Share. DIRECTORS. Frederic Boucher, Esq., Managing Director. W. H. Burnand, Esq. - George S. Ogilvie, Esq. George Cox, Esq. William H. Scarnett, Es q . Daniel Fryett, jun., Esq. Walter Scott, Esq. James Brodie Gordon, Esq. George Whitcomb, Esq. p-wer to add to their number. Th6 l3 ANKEfts—Messrs. Ladbrokes, Kingscote, and Co. Company will carry on the business of Banking in all -11.1°'is branches in Great britain and in the several Colonies and Settlements of AustralaEia. Pr ospectuses 'describi ng the business to b e t ransac t e d b y the -th 13ank, may be obt a i ne d at .the Office, or of any of the Agents of c - omp any . this S o ei et By the incorporatio n o f t h e Australasian Loan Company with y, the Directors have been enabled to appropriate a con siderable number of the Shares of the First Series, and are pre pared to commence business immediately. Applications respecting business, or for the remaining Shares, May be made personally or by letter, post paid, to FREDERIC BOUCHER, Iklnaging Director. 55, Mo orgate-street London, ith January, 1339. iT Agents will shortly be appointed for the principal Towns in the nitPd Kingdom, and for other places,.rtnd apOiea tons for Agencies rn Banks or Bookers will be preferentially considered. BARFIELIYS DIAMOND PLATE POW - DER, warranted not t o wear th e p b tte. llt instantly clears tarnish a n d di r t, an d mag i cally produces a '" ?!tst inimitabl e P o li sh upon Gold, Silver, Plat ed Goods, Brag. C ., pner, and makes British Plate, Zinc, and Pewter, look as w hite as the best Silrer. D_8"1(1, wholesale and retail, at. liallet and Co.'s British Plate tory, 41, Ludgate-6treet. . v te nutn, Che m i s t to t h e Q ueen, l Poole, Manchester. square "". 8, .Castl e - street, Leicester- Holbrook, 115, Grafton-street, Dublin. '',ebaPell, 84, Lornbard-street.,Parkinson, Birmingham. *Pion, 47, Fenchurch-street. :Nettleship, Lincoln. hall' and Son, Carmarthen. :Bloomfield, Poole, Dorset. "all, Newport, Isle of Wight. And at the Manufactory, 92, Feneitureh-street. AGENTS WANTED for every Town in the Kingdom. "• IL—Plato cleaned with this powder will not again tarnish. , BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY. CHRISTMAS SUPPLIES. T. BETTS, and CO. respectfully request their „. • friends not to postpone giving their Orders for the PATENT '"NDY beyond the 20th instant, as the multiplicity of orders B'E...tn that time to Christmas, renders it impossible for them to re !ltul?.te their deliveries with that punctuality which it has ever been in4henxious wish to observe. Patent Patentees in consequence of the numer ous imit a t or s o f th e elrlißrandy avail themselves of this opportunity to state that. the !!!ar wh o l esome properties of their Brandy, attested by many rent Chemists and frequently published since its introduction in tra,nottreee,lfcured by Patent Right, which in itself f orms a su ffi c i en at rtiel Purchasers be careful to establish the identity of the No se ,-, • a ‘iREAT RUSSELL-STREET, BLOOMSBURY, and; 4 . A . 9 , HALF MOON STREET, PICCADILLY . INERAL SUCCEDANETTINI FOR FILLING DECAYED TEETH LOOSE TEETH FATTENED, AND LOSS OF TEETH SUPPLIED. wtnsieur MALLAN, and Sop, Surgeon_, Dentists, 32, GREAI trtuD E ., l • l, - STREET BLOOM3BURY,.. , :pid •9, HALF MOON_ With''ir, P ICCADILLY, continue to restore DECAYED ETH Sa, tit,eir MINERAL SUCCEDANEUM, (of which they are the - - lites z , 'VENTORS and POSSESSORS'), without pain, heat, or fro m ' O . and FASTEN LOOSE TEETH, whether arising any ,2 0 re, neglect, disease of the Gums, the use of , Calomel, or Tio l e f er cause. ' They have also discovered a NEV‘ COMPOST T...., at' AR TIFICIAL TEETH. A peculiar advantage attending vi'Z'O Made from this SUBSTANCE is, that they are totally itrit,er 1.:, , s te acids. A RTIFICIAL TEETH have hitherto been fount ob. 61119ahle lay INVALIDS taking MEDICINES which have a tendency \e,. n SCOLOUR them, and by personseof bilious habits. Messrs. IM have vEtosuccessful in obviating these objections by their NYY,_ PISCO_ c, u 4, and they can tix the above without extracting the t 3 . TUMPS, er Nr ot . ! 4/11 i ncumbrance, anal even lni GUM; of the Tr . )f ~ ~ t o e r r ii 4 ,z , 1 u R y an!! the adjoining Teeth, however loose. No Wi;! P-• of s ha '•° are used, and they MATCH the 0 MGT ITETH in ' ;• `JAL , ..p0...t Tt eti r and Velour. GUA II A NTEED for MASTICATION and AR. a real d'ATION. In consequence of their improvements in the . moth, h ePartm ent of . ~,, 0 foliq w ,... 1.1. nti,try, they are enabled to reduce their charges t , A t . .".. seAtle 7 '": l 4ir Artificial Tooth ..•••• ••••• ~et .., . n ........... • A :et. I Natural Teeth . .. • i oe n i t th e e f i M in es t s,r ,e s. fi M i.6 ll B l t a v n l is . In.,orrodibl ....... 20 A 0 ' 144-4° l eech,Fastened ,_ Filth v ... - vecayed Tooth • —At 3. , ( q . , R , 1 , • , t 1 , 1, %hui.y and 9, Half Moon ,ea , .•!.,. OR Ufte aA ti IN. . ...., v I• 1• .., P " ' 1 _DROPSY AND CONSUMPTION CURED £0 10 e 5 5 0 15 0 0 ..... Teeth, •liighly 117 a PHYSICIN. bai n „ NEW SYSTEM 'I RIUMPH A NT H ! —The most extreme cases boy s, cured by it with great rap'tlity, as reference to patients will 1)„, is z v r.satistied is the discoverer of the rental ty of his success, that until aft il ng to forego his lee 'to al personat . b ' apply) for advice rs Gr a he! ao are sured At e: , (I3IICC from Nine till I. re?, at Messrs C oiiml :L , arid Co's , 138, Holborn Bars, where may be . ollained the Ant:_. cetzsru:n;,Pti;eer,l.iittniiiiment, so celebrated for quickly curing and preventing Thr ou i r ° ". Alithm, Chronic Coughs, and all di!eases of the Lungs, Stomach, which is efrected without tenderness or "title fr b i c" T ve nience. The remedy is perfectly safe, _and is applied by that au " and its power is so great in strengthen ing !he chest, Sze . a PP I Y to It : eall Y habits, or predisposed to pulmonary cl_iseases, shot! t „ . ht m , _about delay, as also vf.cali4s, public speAers, who llavemuch exercise for the lungs. ' Bottle I+9'l he given the ESSAY lately publ;shccl on the abOAtte Of) (-I-RING DROPSY and CONSUMPTION, or the m ay be 6 rtatt alone o f an booksellers, or at Mea rs. Graham's, as '(. -, NTRACT FOR MAHOGANY. 1:1'llYNT OF THE STOREKEEPER -GENERAL OF SOMERSET-PLACE, JAN. 9, ISSO. (-7 (YVnr - ISSIONERS FOR EXECUT «:. IN(4- OFFICE of I.OIID CIVal ADMIRAL of the fiNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN end IRELAND ao hereby give Notice, That. on THURSDAY, the 24th Instant,. at One o'elock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may he willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into Her Majesty's Dock Yard at Chatham, one-third by the 31st March, and the remainder by the 30th June next, 100 LOADS of HONDURAS MAHOGANY TIMBER. Form of the Tender may be seen at the said Office. No 'fender will I , t, received after One o'clock on the Day of Trvatt-, n - ;,r any noticed, finiet.:4 the Party attends, or an Agent f.,r kiln duly authorized in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Adroi. :Tatty, and bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender for ltlah•gany," - and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, ac companied by a Letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging. to become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of 500!. for the due performance of the Contract. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY: Horses as well as Carriages are. now conveyed by the Rail way betwen Paddington and iclaiderliead. In addition to the usual Trains to Maidenhead, calling at Slough, SHORT TRAINS will run daily (Sunday's excepted) TO WIRT DRAYTON, rKoAt WEST DRAYTON. Calling at Ealing and Hanwell, Catlin , * at Hanwell and Ealing, % past. Nine o'clock, morniing, * 1 ,4 before Eight o'clock, morning y 2 past O ne , afternoon, , !‘ before Eleven, ditto. . 1 4 past F our , even i ng. M before Three evening. 4* % past Eight, ditto. I* M before Seven, ditto. Those marked are the only short trains which run on Sundays: The farta-by omnibuses are redneck' to 6d. 1 NCrl FSTFP AND 131 M I N(.; HA Al J . RAILWAY. CONTRACT. FOR WORKS. Nolte is here 'v- givert, that the Directors of the Manchester :nil PaiLvay Corrpnny, will MEET at their Offioes, No. 54 , Bond-strect, Mancl,ester, on WEDNESDAY, the 16th January,' Wig, it Twe'v, o'clock at Noon, to RECEIVE TENDERS for Clestract No. 0, or Ccngloton Viaduct Contract. Ts mak e and maintain the Bridge or Viaduct over the river Dave, the r.crtheriy. end of which is to be situate in a field, marked eta the PaAiamontary plan as We. 81, in the township of Hultne liir lifie4d, in the County of Chester ; and the southerly end of whirl, " situate•shout two chains distant from the south side of tln• leadiner front Congleton to Westfiehis, being in the fiehl, ,glarkorl Sr the said plan No. .';:11, is the to w n s hi p o f C ong l eton, Il e *kid worsts. Tile length of the viaduct will be about 8,078 feet, Vad ib zreeteut licight about Fs , .'s fttrt 6 Lacher; from the river to the' 1,a44. •rn , r cur -42s a 44s nd good y. The the year, the I tth the chair !es equal ouchong, yson, and was !Lib- Congon, mug and D 1.5 5d ; tO 2A 4d ; :1; Pekoe Twankay !low leaf Twank ay 2s 3id s Bid to Orange 1 ; Gun -2s 6d ; 'or about er lower ;ous, sal re freely, '; strong ling and resh with kish leaf a is 40, ;here was paring lyt lore par per lb sold at of rather or strong ,orn kind mng Hy 10d, but ry rather inpowde DOO pkgs buyers. gs out of inquiry; atcs have night 4d , a 4id per imenttl tS bar Pep- es are re• to supply' could not ieing re' this day l i d, 3 a 5 11 a 13 31 a 33 h e quail' 243 lihd 6 onth Wag Lords of tta mer as West• limited quantity 400 gals, firmly at ers. At has bee o ; but the y limited for first livery few daY.. Tallow 10 contrac Les of 6( 1 and fine ons. Id at ifl lot 295. l'eAse. - / -. ia - - ~ - / ... _ ..... v..rage 43 2 to 15s. °(/' 3L 0 'ounU? s. 0 1' o ",, 40 v __ to ils. 5 4 ' 0 0 5 0 6 ° 0 i 0 N D A " . Vatchisi srw Bank .1 E S.l nd-hitu ‘t aste , ' 4 °, 11 Guiue — Silret church- I , cly of 4, of '1 1 , of a in Pr°- f I's o ' of , EA"' ten on, 'afloat, rch, to i'Avor d erv ice, t 1-1("1' Irish' fierts i ,sq., ° vrid oo of the lorf of !, an d ,q . , ' S 33d e, th e Rev' TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, - 1 HAVE the honour to submit to you the Resolu tions passed at a numerous Meeting of my friends and supporters, at the London Tavern, this day, manifesting the sentiments of a large and influential body of Proprietors on my qualifications for a seat in the East India Direction. I beg leave to assure you that, in the event of my attaining the high and honourable object of my ambition, it shall be my constant study to merit the favourable opinion entertained of me, and to prove myself a zealous supporter of the rights of our native fellow subjects, and a faithful servant of the East India Company. With a grateful acknowledgment of the flattering support which I have already received, and soliciting acontinuance of your influence, I have the honour to be, with great respect, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most obliged and faithful servant, W. H. SYKES, Lieutenant-Colonel. 47, Albion-street, Hyde-park, Jan. 7, 1839. At a numerous Meeting of Proprietors of East India Stock, friends of Lieutenant-Colonel Sykes, F. R. S., held at the London Tavern, on Monday, Jan. 7, 1 839 Sir CHARLES FORBES, Bart., in the Chair. - First Resolution—Moved by Sir PETER LAURIE, seconded b) GEORGE ARBUTHNOT, Esq., and carried unanimously— That in the administration of the affairs of the British Empire hi the East, it is of the first importance that the executive body should be chiefly composed of men who, by long service in India, have ac quired a competent knowledge of the character, feelings, and inte rests of our native fellow-subjects, wh-se welfare and happiness it is the paramount duty of the East India Company to promote by every means in their power. Second—Moved by Ma; er- General B a ions, Madras Army, seconded by Major-General Sir JAMKS SUTHERLAND, Mnabay Army, K. L. S. , and carried unanimously— That the early part of Colonel Sykes's military career, which was devoted to the attainment of an intimate acquaintance with the character and eonstitutien of the Native Army, his proficiency in the native lanzuages, and his constant intercourse for a period of years with the agricultural pcpulatioa of the Mahratta territories, whilst he held the important officc of statistical reporter to the Bombay Government, enabled him to acquire that thorough know ledge of the resources of the country, and the .social condition of the people of India, which peculiarly qualifies hiin far a seat in the East India Direction. Third—Moved by Sir JOHN J. HIS s•,ER, F.ll. S. , seconded by I‘l4,jlr Gaoeu WILLocx, K. L. S., and carried unanimuusly— That on these grounds, and relying with confidence in the Kell known zeal, ability, and independence of Colonel Sykes—qualities so essentially requisite in public men—the present meeting strongly recommend him to the Proprietors at large, and pledge themselves to use their best exertions to ensure his election to a seat in the Direction on the first veeancy. CHARLES FORBES, Chairman. Fourth—Moved by JOSEPH HUME, Esq., 11.1 3 .; seconded by Capt. RivETT C.ansitc, R.N. : and carried unanimously— That the cordial thanks of this meeting are'due, and are hereby • given to Sir Charles Forbes, Bart.., for his zeal, ability, and impar tiality in the Chair. ACLERK is REQUIRED by the GREAT WESTERN STEAM. SIIIP COMPANY. He must be of active habits and good address, a good Correspondent, rnd thoroughly acquainted with Keeping Ships' (er preferably Ste=m Vessels') Accounts, by Double Entry. Security in 1,000/. will b., required. _ Apply, by letter, post paid, to C. Claxton, Esq., Bristol ; or, tinder cover, addressed care of Mr. T. M. Ward, Great Wr stern Pai:way Office, Princes-street, Bank, London. STEAM between BRISTOL an& NEW YORK. rri HE GREAT WESTERN, AL. Lieut. JAMES . HOSKEN, R.N., Commander, is intended to Sail from BRISTOL for NEW YORK, on MONDAY, the 2.9 th instant, on which day St-amers to convey Passengers on beard will leave Cumberland Basin at half-past Seven, A.m. And during the remainder of the Year she is intended to Sail as follows: From Bristol. 23d March 18th May 6th July 24th August 19th October From New York. 23d February 20th April 13th June Ist August 21st September 16th November. Pares to New York, in best State Rooms, 40 Guineas ; in other State Rooms, 35 Guineas. Children and Servants, Half Price. Specie, if of above Twenty Thousand Pound's, at per Cent., ender that amount 1,4 per Ceet. Parties who have secured Freight (the whole of which is en gaged) are informed that the 21st will be the latest day upon which it can be received. Shippers of Debenture Goods will please take notice that the Certificates must be transferred to thernaelvas, or the Goods can not be shipped. . _ _ ATI experienced Surgeon is attached to the Ship. For information, and to secure State Rooms, apply to Mr. T. M. Ward, Great Western Railway Office, Prince's-street, Lon don ;. Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Ci., Liverpool ; Messrs. Ha milton, Brothers, Glasgow ; Mr. W. Davidson, Havre •, Mr. A. Annelle, Paris; and of Christopher Claxton, at the Company's Office, Bristol. Passengers are particularlyrequested to hare the word " Bolen," in large letters, written en such portions of their luggage as are net required in their berths. Freight of Measurement Goods 51. per Ton, which will be collected in New York, at the rats of 4 Dollars 80 Cents. to the Pound Sterling. No Second Class or Steerage Passengers taken. No Parcels can be received after the 26th instant. N.B. Great inconvenience - having resulted from Passengers bringing Merchandize on Board at the last moment as Baggage, they are respectfully informed, that in future, besides a small Port manteau or Carpet Bag, for use on the Voyage, only 15 cube feet of bona fide Luggage will be allowed to each adult, and half that quantity for Children and Servants ; and all Merchandize or Sam ples brought on board by Passengers, who have not previously en gaged room for the same, will be charged at th e rat e o f Five Shillings per foot, and if damaged, the Directors will not be re sponsible. • , .... ..A. . 4 ... 7 .-?-,”,.. . , , 7) .44.-,....\ Of ), i 1114,4 4, , . O .........,? . 1 e- ..., g fk , c a., the further poll was adjourned till this day tti (7 1 .4 1111 H -- : k,. _ . - —..- --- keitctrki 1 . - u .„. , ~ s 4 '' '!,al) ,_O S. ,), „' le \i''' ((lA , ) • n at the same place ; to be finally closed at not scrutineers will report the numbers, and it w; , ,.`-' ..' r , - , • -: ; u 1 1 ) i I : n . - --: ' 0 1 .. , :, th en ?:-__ ';',:- . ''t yA k i ,v ,,... , ._- -7 6;# ~,._-..„..? ? : N f. , _ motion should be affirmed without a ballot. ' , .. -- - ,, e _... , N o .4 4e, " Ttr,lllllL it 0, . re: 4, -, , \ ',- ..-4,, t:11 -- ' ,- - 7 ,' , - -..... + ~-: \-... , ~, The following is the roport of the Directo , IP 7-. 7,..„ " ~..! arA ..crz, / , t rox. - we yesterday referred. itt ~y ; W 84h Do ) ' 41141 ' , /IN' , .) 1 , Ft # ) 45,,k' 'O/ T , „‘ . wt: ~ "" . -_,...t -0 i. WITH WILI 1-11--- - . The Secretary then read the following report:— " The Directors have been enabled by the adjournmen t of the special general meeting from the time originally fixed for it, to give to the Proprietors an interval of several days for the perusal and consideration of Mr. Wood's and Mr. Hawkshaw's reports, since those doeoments have hems sent into circulation. Much as this postponegient was tes be deprecated on account of its retarding the ulternate de• termination of those points, upon which every step to.7ards, the completion of the railway mainly depends, it has beenr attended with one countervailing benefit. It has given_ both to the Directors and Proprietors ample opportunity for reflecting upon the result of the investigation under taken by those gentlemen as comprised in their :iso reports, now presented for consideration at this meetings The Directors have bestowed the most anxious attentioac on every branch of the subject, weighing in the fullest and most impartial manner every point urged in either report, whether of actual objection to the system adopted, or of doubt as to its comparative advantages. " It may be here concisely stated that Mr. Wood de -1 duces from experiments upon the performance of engines on the Great Western and other lines, that although a higher rate of speed has been attained on the former, it would appear only to have been accomplished by the in creased power of the engines, with a much greater consump tion of coke when calculated per ton per mile. He ascribes this result principally to the resistance presented by the atmosphere to the motion of railway trains, especially at - high rates of speed. His remarks on that subject are qua lified, however, by the expression of a doubt as to the value to be assigned to the single set of experiments on each V two inclined planes, which are quoted as the autho rity for the degree of atmospheric resistance supposed to have been discovered. The reduction of friction by the employ ment of wheels of increased diameter, and the benefit of lowering- the carriages between the wheels aro affirmed by Mr. Wood as incontrovertible. The increased stabi lity, and consequent increased steadiness of motion to carriages on the wider base, are also admitted by him. The c n truction of the road is discussed in the report in e- e y awect. Mr. \\rood states that continuous timbers will present a more perfect line of road for high speeds than stone blocks, although he estimates them as more costly. He disapproves of the use of piles, and considers that the continuous bearings should be of a scantling of timber greater than that at present in use, and that a more rigid and heavier rail should be adopted. He expressed nn opinion, deduced from actual experiments, that the mode of fastening the rails to the timber by screws ef fects a firmer junction than any other plan. The vari ous propositions of doubtful advantage from the wide Nage,. as well as of alleged objection to it, appearat i g s hOre ea thoroughly considered in the report in qtrestion. The • experiments on the consumption of coke at billsoc i loet s c:ties were unfivourable, and in connection with thTils . eoey of . 4 atmospheric re s i s t ance , appear to have iuflienna4lie mind of Mr. Wood to consider that a 7-feet girege".ivasforl:the width which he would deem the best. es'Ast tlse.4e time, upon a review of all the circumstances, and considering that there are counteracting advantages incidental to an increased width of guage, he does not think that the result of his inquiries would justify a change in the dimensions adopted on this line, and he recommends that the present width should be retained. The advice thus given by Mr. Wood, upon mature reflection, being directly at variance with the conclusion at which Mr. Hawkshaw had previously arrived upon an investigation similarly delegated to him, it became the duty of the Directors to consider most atten tively the train of reasoning and argument which led the latter to urge such an opposite course. Naturally expect ing from that circumstance to find in his report a clear and definite statement of the positive loss or disadvantages ac cruing from the increased width of guage, the Directors could not fail to remark with some surprise that he en• forces his recommendation, not upon any ascertained injury or f cilure in the plan, but almost exclusively upon the pre sumption that all railways, however disconnected or locally situated, should be constructed of one uniform width. While he appears to think that it might be an improvement to have an addition of a few inches, five or six at the most, he still questions the expediency of any variation from the 4 83- guage. Air. Hawkshaw, in his report, also considers ant additional expense upon the guage, as well as upon the improvement of gradients, to be undesirable, and assumes it at a scale of augmentation far beyond the real difference of cost. His estimates on that head are impeached in the engineer's observations, and no doubt exists in the minds of the Directors, that the subject, reduced to a mere question of figures, in its present position would undeniably show a Ncuniary loss to be borne by the Company, by any such change of system as he advocates, even if it were on other grounds deemed advisable. The objection that the wide guage might prevent a junction with other lines seems both to Mr. Wood and the Directors to have but little weight as applied to the Great Western Railway. Already has the same width been contemplated and provided for in the extension lines through Gloucestershire to Cheltenham, and from Bristol to Exeter. Any local branches here after to be mate would undoubted's , fo:low the same course, and the Proprietors, therefore, may be satisfied • that no apprehension need be entertained by them on that head. The advaetage of following Mr. Wood's advice, in not making any alteration in the width of way, has been since most forcibly shown by more recent experiments, which have entirely changed the rrsults upon which the chief objections to the guage were founded. The perform aoce of the engines, shown by Mr. Wood's experiments in S. ptcmbrr, gave such a disproportionate result in their p wee upon the attainment of high velocities, as to render :t all but impossible that the effect could be entirely pro duced by the action of the atmosphere on the trains. All doubts were shortly removed by its being ascertained that a different cause (a mere mechanical defect in the engine itself) had been jn operation. If Mr. Wood had wit nessed these recent performances of the engines, he must unquestionably have changed his opinions as to the means and precticability of carrying full average loads at a high speed, without the great increased ex pense of fuel. The Directors have satisfied them selves of this very important fact, by personally attend ing an experiment, (accompanied by several gentlemen, among whom was a very cm'n nt practical mecharic), on which occasion the North Star took a train of carriages calculated for 166 passengers, and loaded to 43 tons to and from Maidenhead, at a mean average speed of thirty eight miles per hour, the maximum being forty-five miles per hour, consuming only .95, or less than 1 lb. of coke per nett ton per mile, instead of 2.76, say 2i lb., as previously shown. This was accomplished by a mere altered proportion in the blast pipe of the engine, in the manner explained by Mr. Brunel, being a simple adapta tion of size in one of the parts which admits a more free escape of the steam from the cylinder after it has ex erted its force on the piston, still preserving sufficient draft in the fire. It must be almost needless to point out to those who have perused the Reports how im portantly this change bears upon the subject in almost every relation of the inquiry. It neg atives the assump tion that velocity can only be attaine by a ruinous loss of power. It establishes beyond doubt that the con sumption of fuel as now ascertained in the proportion to the load is only one-third of that which from the former expe riments had been the basis of Mr. Wood's arguments. An analysis in the Report of the performance of the Great Western engines, with heavy loads, varying from 80 tons to 166 tons, shows in every respect a peculiarly satisfactory result at a small cost of fuel, and warrants the expectation . of very great benefit to the Company of the economical transport of goods on the line. That the expenses of loco motive repairs, especially on that heavy class of repair which wises from lateral strains on the wheels and framing of the engines, have been materially less than on other lines is ascertained by very detailed accounts, accurately made and submitted to the Board by the Superintendent of that department. The experience of some months has now enabled the Directors to witness the progressive improvement in the practical working of the railway. A higher rate of speed has been generally maintained than on other lines, and at the same time with that increased speed greater steadiness of motion has been found in the carriages, with consequent comfort to the passengers. If speed, security, and comfort were three great desiderata in the original institution of railway travelling, the Directors feel sure that the public will appreciate and profit by any improvements in those qua:iees, the Company deriving ample remuneration in the shape of increased traffic. A saving of time upon a long journey, with increased comfort, will necessarily attract to one line in preference to another many travellers from be yond the ordinary distance of local connection, and will thus secure a valuable collateral trade which would not other wise belong to it. It has also a decided tendency to avert competition which may with much reason be regarded as the chief peril to which railway property is subjected. The Directors, upon a deliberate re-consideration of all the cir cumstances affecting the permanent welfare of the under taking, divesting the question of all personal partialities or ob stinate adherence to a system, unanimously acquiesce in the abandonment of the piles, in the substitution of a greater scantling of timber, and of a heavier rail, retaining the width of guage with the continu ous timber bearings, as the most conducive to the ge neral interests of the Company. Their experience of the past leads them earnestly to express a hop e t h at these deeply int e resti ng qu estions - being once determined, the good sense and the interests of the Proprietors will induce them to forego the en re-agitatio n of su c h top i cs as can only tend to distract ergies of those on whom the ezecu- EVELYN ARMS TAVERN, DEPTFORD. TO BE PEREMPTORILY SOLD, pursuant to an order of the High Court of Chancery, mule in a taus' of COLLINS v. COLLINS, with the approbation of Sir GIFFIN WlLsorr, Knight, one of the Masters of the said Court, nt the White Swan Inn, in High-street, Deptford, in the county of Kent, on THURSDAY, the 17th day of January, 1839, between the hours of Three and Four in the afternoon, in One Lot. 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S NOW INCORPORATED GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY MEETING-(YESTERDAY). (Mr. BARRAGE'S speech, continued froth our paper of yesterday.)—As to the consumption of coke, necessarily, made in taking a given weight at high velocities, he aced scarcely .make a comment—the question was so completely set at rest by the subsequent experiment detailed in the Report of the Directors. In practice the fact had been established that such a high rate could be accompli s h e d as Mr. Wo o d h a d thought unprofitable ; they had experienc e d such a result, and he was satisfied to leave the matter in the hands of the Directors, contenting himself with no 'n- Conin g one circumstance, which showed how desirable it was to make an analysis of the source of expense of con veying the passengers. He had started on a railroad with a new engine, and, going out they had scarcely attained an average speed of twenty miles an hour, and never exceeded a rate-of thirty-one miles, while at the end of the trip he left for a short time, and when the same engine came back it accomplished a mean rate of forty miles an hour, and on one portion of the line had proceeded beyond the rate of forty-one miles and a fraction. As he knew that on goin g out they had proceeded at the greatest possible rate of speed, he was surprised at the change ; and havin g . asked how it was accomplished, he was told by the engineer, " Why;, I considered that the draught of the chimney impeded the motion, and that a dif ferent form for the exit of the steam was desirable ; so when you were away, I got a.hammer and knocked off a small piece of iron, and you see the result ;" so that by a very slight alteration of the engine there was the great gain of from thirty to forty miles an hour in the speed.—(6'hee:'s.) That engine was their own engine, and that engineer was their own engineer—(Hear,hear)—and they saw with how trifling an alteration, and under what circumstances, they had obtained a large increased per eentsge of speed.— (Cheers.) He had always foreseen that it would be ex tremely difficult to use any instrument to ascertain lations, and whether they could rely upon any . oscillating instruments. He had contrived an apparatus which hail very little friction, and indeed less than the apparatus it self. He had used this instrument himself. He had ex pected the results to be large ; but as to agreeing in num ber and magnitude with those previously ascertained, tloi greatly exceeded them, and were, in fact, beyond all. mar , - nitude ; and having travelled with this instrument fur more, than 120 miles, he had come to the conviction that they must throw overboard all that this instrument told them, and he, for one had no faith in oscillating instru ments ; they might- or might not be correct.—(Cheers ) His respect for the knowledge of their engineer had in creased as his opportunities for examining the work on the. railway had become more frequent. Even if they did not agree with Mr. Brunel as to the past, he should say that if they looked at the question in a mere worldly point of view, and wished to improve their property, they ought, in stead of disturbing the attention of those who had the borious office of conducting their great undertaking by any further discussions, to give them every aid in their power— (Cheers)—which would inevitably lead to the benefit of the Proprietors at large. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by expres,ing a hope that, loolthig forward as they did to ob taining the highest velocities that could be fairly antici pated, they would not press the Directors, upon any grounds of economy, to pause- in their pursuit. It was not good economy to check necessary expenditure. Upon that point the best plan was for the Proprietors to leave the Directors fully to take their own measures.—(Cheers.) A PAOPRIETOR expressed a hope that the Directors would, right or wrong, make a stand, and that the meeting would that day come to a definitive resolution; so that the Proprietors might know the position in which they were placed. lie thought it desirable that some of the Liver pool Proprietors should be associated with the Directors forming the London Board, as well as with the Directors at Bristol. The CHAIRMAN did not like to suffer a matter of this importance to pass without remark. He regretted that any amendment should have been deemed necessary ; but notwithstanding that circumstance he could not but con gratulate the meeting on the alt ere d t one t h e present d s emission h a d taken. This justified them in looking forward to their making some approach to unanimity. If the system pursued by other railways—the Manchester and Birmingham, for instance —had been laid as bare and naked a-, that of the Great Western Railway Company had been, it would have been impossible for it to have escaped without datnage.—(Hear, hear.) Taking an uu prejudiced view of the Reports now before the - meeting, lit, did not think an impartial person could say that any pretext had been offered for altering their present system. A PROPRIETOR thought that Mr. Hawkshaw had been unfairly dealt with. Mr. HAY WORTH, supposing that the discussion wes almost at an end, wished to make a few explanations. Although an engine might have attained a greater speed of two or three miles aa hour, it proved nothing ; and ever, if Mr. Brunel could with a hammer make a great improve ment, yet the, question was not whether they could accom plish the finest thing, but how they could do the best at the cheapest rate. This was the really important principle, and it. was one which ran through ail nature, and it was here that Mr. Brunel failcd—he had given play to his in ventive power s without consulting economy. Now, if th's law of nature existed at all, it must exist with greater power on a wide gauge than with a narrower.—(Spoke, spoke.) He felt the importance of the observations he was making, and with these he would leave the matter in the hands of the meeting, remarking only, in conclu sion, that Mr. Babbage had said that the resistance was only proved by two experiments, which were not sufficient ; but he held in his • hand a table of 36 experiments, by I.n eminent engineer, which showed that there was a great relative increase in the resistance on bodies moving at in creased velocities. The table was calculated up to a vele, city of 80 miles an hour. The CHAIRMAN remarked that Dr. Lardner would assure them that the laws of gravity would become expended !mg before that. Mr. HAYWORTH—This was no answer to his state ment. The fact was undoubted that the resistance did in crease considerahly, and he believed that it was as the squares of the velocities. Mr. BABBAGE explained that the Great Western Rail way was less exposed to that class of accidents which he believed to be the most dangerous, viz., running the engine the rail, than others —(Cheers.) This was the class of accidents to which he had referred. Dr. CARPENTER said chat there was nothing which pre vented him from giving a single and independent vote, and declaring his judgment after weighing all the facts. He was bound to say that his confidence in the engineer ha :l been increased at every step he had taken.—(Cheers.) And when, in addition to that confidence, he found elo quence and science aiding the engineer, be did feel strongly that his respected friend Mr. Hayworth should withdraw his amendment.—(Cheers.) A general call took place for Mr. Brunel ; and the CHAIRMAN having requested that gentleman to address the meeting, Mr. BRUNEL rose amidst much cheering. He had hoped, he said, that from the course which the present diseussiol had taken, it would not have been necessary for him tl have addr&.sscd them, nor did he think that he should havo obtruded upon their attention, if he had not been called upon by the Chairman to do so. Mr. Hayworth and the gentleman who had seconded the amendment havir ' , re peatedly a ll u d e d t o one subject in their speeches, and hav hay- ing in fact made it the ground-work of their views, and Mr. H aywort h h av i ng ma intained th at t h e su b ject had not been r e f erre d to b e f ore , he (Mr. B rune l) f e l t that he ought to offer a few words in explanation. He could hardly, however, allude to the subject seriously, considering the manner in which it had been handled and bandied about, no t wonder that others had not spoken s u i p s t o a n n e t % because it was not their object to treat though in itsclf it was one that de trued to be treated with becoming attention—be alluded to atmospheric re of evrything ; but as it had been urged as an argu e subject, Hedid cot e he felt it to be his duty, considering the situa tion in which he was placed, to treat it as such. It had been taken up in the Report, and argued by a gentleman of great emi nence (Mr. Wood), for whom individually he felt great respect, and many persons on reading it would sup. pose that he attached great importance to it, but really this topic of a t mos pheric resistance had been so bandied about that it had at last become a bugbear, and at the risk of be ing thought to treat the subject too lightly, he must state that, considering the state to which the question had been brought, it was nothing less than humbug.—(Cheers and laughter.) This amount of resistance was as • well known sixty or seventy years ago AS it was now. What was it ? It was well ascertained that a certain square surface going through the air at different velocities would meet with dif ferent degrees of resistance, but who would send a flat surface through the air if he wanted it to go fast? Thcs 3 experiments, however, which had been referred to, had been made with a fiat body. The fact was, he had repeatedly said that the resistance was perfectly known ; that there was nothing new in these experiments, nor anything in them that gave results different from those known before. If so, how could an increased speed be obtained ? Not by sending a flat surface through the air, but in the construction of the engines and of the carriages. That had always been foreseen, before this railway was made or any attempt made to attain higher speed. The manufacturers were directed to make round extremities to the engines, and not to expose a flat surface to the air. —(Hear, hear.) And when they got free from other obstacles, these machines wonld be used. He could not ascribe any particular merit to himself for these direc tions ; any fool would have done it if he wanted to go fist. (Laughter.) What then was the use of inquiring into these experiments of Dr. Lardner—he begged pardon, of Mr. Wood—as whether they were correct or not, when the fact was that their engines did now actually go forty miles an hour ?--(He.r, hear.) Mr. Hayworth had for merly ridiculed him for the views he entertained, saying that he prz:ferred men who took real practical common sense views of things ; now, he might turn round upon Mr. Haywo: th, and ask him where was the practical common-sense view of this question, in asking hoW could high speed be attained, seeing, as they all did, that it had been attained ? There was no natural law against travelling at th e ra t e o f f or t y or f orty -fi ve m il es an hour. Whatever prejudice might be entertained by a few gentle men on this point, he was ruro that ninety-five per cent. of those present would admit it to be sufficient to have accom plished that rate of speed once to show that it could be done without any extraordinary consumption of power, and if they could _do it once, though they might not do it again for a week, it showed at least that the possibility existed. Therefore, there really was no such cause of resistance in operation as that to which Mr. Wood referred in his Repor, and that was all he (Mr. Brunel) wished to prove. The argument, had been unfairly conducted by the mover and seconder of the amendment. In the first place, they con tended that high velocities were impracticable, and that it was, therefore, no use to do anything with a view to attain them, and then they went on to show that they were quite attainable on other railways.--(Hear, and laughter.) But it was said that the same improvements that had been made in the North Star could ba made in the engines on other other ia r , a iiiliwi:y these He was no t di s p ose d to d eny, for the sake of argument, that tho se i mprovements might be applied to en - g l i : n e e s improvements s e ;hemerclYwvivshouedld to en showable themth a t in to a all t a p pi r va rite of forty or forty-five miles speed. For the sake of argument he had admitted that these alterations might be applied to other railways, but at the same time he must qualify that admission very considerably, inasmuch as there was not sufficient room in the engines on the other lines to admit of the alterations. The North Star, though not one . of their large-wheeled engines,. was much larger than any of the engines on other railways, the former being a seven-foot wheel, whit: the others were generally five or feet. To make one revolu tioa, therefore, of the North Star wheel, there was a considerably less number of strokes of the piston. The defect in the North Star arose from the circumstance that they were, with a power of thirty miles, actually getting only only twenty. That defect was remedied by proportioning the blast-pipes to the size of the wheel. He believed that the smaller engines were perfectly well proportioned now ; they had been made by eminent men, and are therefore at their best, whilst they were not ; but there is the same dif ference of speed, with the same consumption, as there was in the difference in the diameters of the wheels of the two. The wide guage had never been recommended by him simply for the purpose of effecting high speed : it was for the purpose of being able so to construct their carriages as to diminish resistance. He must refer to.a statement made by Mr. Hayworth, supported by a document in his posses sion—at the same time he (Mr. Brunel) thought that that gentleman must be labouring under some mistake ; he could not believe that Mr. Hayworth had any account of experi ments actually made by engines that had run up to eighty miles an hour, thereby promising still more the accomplish ment of impossibilities.—(Laughter.) Mr. HAYWORTH said that the statement he alluded to was a calculation which had been made by an eminent en gineer as to the degrees of resistance in the atmosphere, and that the cases were composed, among others, of four or five, which he had no doubt were actual experiments.— (Laughter.) Mr. BRUNEL—Then he was about to attack, it seemed results which were not, after all, a table of experiments ; i. was a calculation only. The thirty-six cases were no actual experiments. Mr. HAYWORTH—They were a scale founded upon ex periments. Mr. BRUNEL—And so were all scales, So were Dr. Lardner's on the Great Western Railway : but those who made them might ha mistaken.---(Laughter.) Another point alluded to by Mr. Hayworth was the expense which the width of the gunge had occasioned ; and he said that it had taken 70,000/. out of his pocket., that being calcu lated on the assumption that 2,300,000/. had been or WdS proposed to ha expended on the wide gunge and the gra dients: But of course Mr. Hayworth could not mean that, beeauFe from the attention be had paid to the financial eir cumstinces of the Company, he must know that it was not the fact. The increased width of the guage was certainly a cause of a small increased expense, hut not a very large one, on account of the guage. Mr. Ilawkshaw's report con stantly referred to the good gradients of the Great Western Rail way. Theeffect of reading that report would be to induce the opinion :hat the Company' had incurred some enormous expense on account of those gradients. It was strange that the report. d d not show what. had been the effect of the increased gradients. It would have been desirable to know what would have been the difference in the cost of the line if constructed with the old gradients instead of the ne,.. Difficult it would have been if it had been attempted to be shown by Mr. Hawkshaw. He (Mr. B.), however, b..•- lieved that there would have been very little expense. Mr. Crawshav might shake his head, but he (Mr. Brunel) would ask him whether, when attending to this line he had been able to point out any gradient where great expense had been incurred ? In fact, no systematic expenditure had been made from one end of the line to the other, for the purpose of obtaining good sradients. Had Mr. Hawkshaw or any other gentleman seen th a t th ere h a d b een suc h an expenditure, they would readily have pointed it out. The total expenditure of the Comp-my had been largely in • creased, but to attribute that increase to the width of the guage or the gradients would be erroneous, and would entirely mislead the public mind. With respect to the saving of four hundred pounds a mile by the the adop tion of a change which Mr. Hayworth supposed to have been occasioned by the agitation which had been in troduced, he (Mr. Brunel) should have been too happy to have adopted any suggestion that would have accomplished that saving. He was sorry, however, to say that it was not quite the case. In the first place the saving could not be made, because their original expenditure had not been so much as 11,000/. per mile, and, . therefore, the excess be tween 7,000/. and 11,000/. could not have been saved. In the next place, the saving would not arise simply from any particular part of the plan. They would necessarily have avoided some expenses in the execution of the plan. The Directors were well aware, at the meeting at Bristol, that there were seven or eight miles of Railway which could not be made with piles, so that they were abandoned, not merely from the effect of agitation or the suggestions r f Mr. Hawkshaw or others. No other subject presented itself to his mind on which he need to address them ; but he had thought it right to point out to them, as practical men, the facts, that they might not be led away by a spe cies of bugbear, shutting their eyes to the fact that, whe ther theoretically possible or not, it had been done. Mr. HAYWORTH again rose to explain. He did net mean to say that by obtaining better gradients they might not go at a greater speed than 35 or 40 miles an hour, but at an enormous expense. No one remark of Mr. Brunel had caused him to change his opinion; on the contrary, Mr. Brunel's speech had only confirmed it. Only a week ago he had been told by an eminent engineer that the extra cost would not amount to less than 20,000/. a mile. Mr. SWIFT supported the amendment. The CHAIRMAN then put the amendment, when about fifteen hands were held up for it, upon which Mr. HavwoaTri said that so important did he consider this matter, that he was compelled to demand a poll. Mr. RUSSELL GURNEY, before the poll was taken, wished to ask Mr. Hayworth, whether it was true or not that certain proprietor s had split their shares ? Mr. SWIFT answered that he had not. The CHAIRMAN also denied that any thing had been done by the Directors to prevent the poll being taken fairly. Mr. HAYWORTH said that if the question could be le gally put, he would answer it ; but as he conceived that it could not, he must refuse an answer. Mr. GURNEY replied, that a refusal to answer did just as well. 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