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- - - --,- „/ , -, z _____. __„. 2 _,- - _- Z 2 - - - ' 7 ' :- ~./- 2 /----<:-/ - 2-.." . .. ‘___ .. / -•- • -- Z:_ e _ r_____ __./ „., . 6>( •''------ 7 1./ / - /-- , -- - e-4 ~'4"5:2 - -. z , , - , .--- ,---' . . • . t ~" --' ` , ':l"' ',.. .c.z. , :, 4. , . 6e...41. . •,,iity vts. , . ~, ~,; ~ ~..,,,, 1 ' - , - - . 1I I I ITh . %" I 1111 I I I lib ' ' ' - '5 , , 1 I A r _ . NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. tire , ..,, ' ._., i _ _., 4 ,..„. e ta y z ., ~.,,...: _ , f ,, 8 . PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 14.—The two-deckers lately 4 '''-",, :t.tstii - .'s , ' ..4.. t Nt\ - 1 , ..t • - ,---,- 4 Z. -'S °M .• • '' - 'l4 4 ... ,,1. - ' c• ' ,_, .. . -- -- -- - I' forming the experimental squadron under the command ;._ 2 49, t 6 ~ . 2 ... , . 0 5 :t i ' 4O ..„.,• ..) 7 7 ::, ''' '. . 1 ` :- ' ' .*5....-4 , fre ~.. ~..... . - ......, , i - ...4 , -:,A, , , ~----- . -,,. _ . ..,...., ~. of Commodore Willes, of the Vanguard, ar sta. ' . Ctk‘ -'';; ' 1,. ; !,‘ ~,,,.4.,- , , • ,•••• 1t.6-.1 . 11,..= % . L..; i ..., , ' ' '''. ' 3 ? 1„) .A r i • e l- ..4,1" ---- ' l ` - 7 ,/,•-• -,-,.'. - „.,?, ' ' 1 ' 1 - ---*,---:-.° -- 1 -`, * 4,- --- 'c . ...0 1 ... , ,),-,,inj y, _ . -_, 1, s tioned as follows, but kept in readiness for sailing on : 1 ) 4 ' ' - -- t*,,,, i, ''""-- - ,-, ,-.. A , , ,' + Z-- ' • ^ _ . Captain Collier, C. 8., ; , it,„, -- 7 --- --,*,.. - '' ," 's; ....'.....„0 , , . ... \-_----, i SCI - .zA , ------ -4., r''' -. • - mit t ~,... ~ -. 1,0 -tt ~.P: :7 1 . - ii.2 ____ 6; , \,,,..1,P ,, e4i ~., tio-,.. t. _Din; • (the latter we be ...,;.-.7,-- -ill NATIONAL. ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. GREAT LEAGUE MEETING in COVENT-GARDEN I 11 ::ATRE he COUNCIL of the NATIONAL ANTI-CORN.LAW LEAGTE rSs to AGUEannounce the Theatre that the Royal, Govent Garden, MEE T wiII ING RE-COM- S of the t, in I, E t.„ I 'CE Tats EV ENING , the 17th of December. OItGE WILSON, Esq., will take the Chair at Seven o'clock pre v`a.FY. I Wit! s -an line of Zora ; 3°'l shortestnotice:—The Rodney, 92, and the Superb, 80, Captain Corry lieve, however, will ultimately proceed to the Nore), will remain at Spithead. The Vanguard, 80, Captain Willes, will proceed to the Cove of Cork, and take the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Pigot, now carried by the Crocodile, 26. The Albion, 90, Captain Lockyer, C. 8., and the Canopus, 84, Captain Moresby, C. 13., will re main at Plymouth. Such we believe are et present the destined stations of these fine ships, and we applaud the project of keeping them in our roadsteads, ready for any emergency. The Rodney and Superb are refitting at Spithead; and in order that no time may be lost in repairing their de fects the art;zans sleep on board. The Rodney, we are informed, has fewer defects to repair that any other ship of the squadron. The Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant-Commander M'Denald, is also detained at Spithead by contrary winds. The Scourge steam-sloop, Commander Ceffin, is pro gressing very rapidly with her fittings and maniing. She will have another bed for her mortar cast, having split her first when lately practising with the mortar. It is intended we believe to try wood. The Lizard iron dispatch boat, Lieutenant Commander Tylden, is refitting with all dispatch alongside the jetty. The Rattler steam-sloop, Commander Smith, in doek,, will be ready to leave next week. The Excellent gunnery ship, Captain Chails, is likely to change her position up the harbour for one outside, near St. Helens. We hope the report is true, as it is impossible officers and men can be properly trained in the practice of gunnery afloat in still water, which is the case now, and has been since the appropriation of the Excellent as a school of instruction in the art of naval gunnery. By mooring this vessel " outside," she would be subject to the unimpeded acti..n of the sea, and consequently enable her efficers and crew to lx come far better acquainted than they can possibly be at pre sent with the practice of firing when the vessel is roll ing ; added to which, she would be, in such a situation, a far more efficient protective floating battery than half a dozen " block" ships. The following o ffi cers are undergoing their half-yearly examination at the Royal Naval College : Captains—Hon. G. Hastings, Jones, Giffard, and Halstead. ll Meeting will be addressed by Richa'd Cobden, Esq., M.P.; J an Bright, P ; and W. J. For, Esq. Tickets of - admis " sion to . all parts of the house may be had as usual 07. rleat-street. __ Se uts Will in future be reserved for all farmers who may make ap ,,h 7 4 t10n at the Offices of the League, 67, Fleet-street, up to the hour ;_nleeting ; and their attendance, whether favourable or opposed to ri!! Trade, is especially requested. ' lO aPpllcation for tickets by letter can be attended to. No. 16,642. LONDON, WEDNEsDAY = r ORNING SUN, DECEMBER 1! ) ;. 1845. PRICE SD. f the DUDLEY, MADELEY, BROSELEY, AND IRONBRIDGE RAILWAY, WITH EXTENSION TO SH RE W SB URY. At a meeting of the Managing Committee of this Company, held at the Stork Hotel, Birmingham, on Thursday, the 10th of Decem ber, 1845, WILLIAM COLLINS, Esq., M.P., in the Chair, several solicitors, Mr. Giles, after informing the Committee that he had known amended sections deposited after the 30th of November to be received in Parliament, where notice of such emendations had been given to the landowners, offered to snake correct sections at his own expense, to enable the Committee to apply for their Bill ; and Mr. Houghton also offered his personal services, free of charge, in the event of their determining to proceed, and the application proving unsuccescful. Under these circumstances, taking into consideration the fact that the crass line from Stourbridge to Wolverhampton Ibrined a very important, and to a certain extent independent por tion of the projected railway, and that it was probable, from what Mr. Giles had statest, that they should be iu a position to apply for a Bill for it in the. ensuing session with a reasonable prospect of suc cess, the Committee agreed that the solicitors should forthwith take the opinion of the Parliamentary agents, Messrs. Dyson, Hall, and Company, as to the course the Committee should pursue; and also send competent persons to ascertain what sections had really been deposited. Mr. Giles had stated that he should at once proceed to make entire new sectious of the whole line. The deliberate written opinion of the Parliamentary agents has been obtained, to the effect that it was " a very reasonable and proper ease to bring before the Standing Orders Committee, with a view of obtaining a decision in favour of the Bill proceeding." But inf rmation was afterwards received from the parties sent to search at the offices of the Clerks of the Peace, that the sections of the im portant cross hue from Stourbridge to Wolvehampton had not been deposited, that sections of several miles: of the main line had also not been deposited .(despite the decisive statements of Mr. Giles and N , r. Iloughton, the latter of whom delivered out the sections), ar d that those which had been lodged were extremely incorrect in detail. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, A Lecture on the PREVALENT DISEASE in POTATOES, and the Means of extracting the Starch as an Article of Food, will be delivered by Dr. Ryan, daily, at Half-past Three, and on the Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Frilays, at Nine. Professor Bachoffner's varied Lectures, with experiments, in one of which he clearly explains the principle of the ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY, a model of which is at work Daily. Mr. Dowse, the celebrated Flutist, will perform, at Three o'ClocX. on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. (2olemait's NEW AM.E.RICAN LOCO MOTIVE ENGINE, for as !ending and descending Inclined Planes. A beautiful series of DISSOLVING VIEWS. New OPTICAL IN NTRU.qENTS, &c. Experiments with the DIVER and DIVING BELL, &c &c. coal merchant, Tysoe-street, Spatields, Jan. 3—M. Barnes, chemist, Woodbridge, Suffolk, Jan. 16—J. Spofford, linen draper, Chatham, Jan. 13—J. Harvard, lamp maker, Brook street, Bond street, Jan. 9—C. Best, printer, St. James's street, Clerkenwell, Jan. 7—A. Lack, saddler, Stockbridge terrace, Pimlico, Jan. 7—H. J. Owen, surgeon, Madeley, Shropshire, Jan. 16—R. Shanklin, druggist, Salford, Jan. 7 —G. Luckin, bootmaker, High Holborn, Jan. 6—J. Dawson, calico printer, Manchester, Jan. 6-I'. Davies, merchant, Liverpool, Jan. 6—J. Thompson and J. Thompson, stock brokers, Leeds, Jan. 6. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Stevens and G. Alexander, civil engineers, Clement'slnn --W. Munt and T. Johnson, bricklayers, Leyton, Essex—C. James and A. James, sharebrokers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne— G. Taylor and W. Foord, plumbers, Old Brentfurd—R. Foot and R. Taylor, greengrocers, Stoke Newington—J. Fawcett, T. N. Bardwell, jun., and F. Bardwell, stockbrokers, Sheffield —J. Swaine, J. Swaine, W. Wood, W. Bell, and J. \\'il cock, worsted spinners, North Bierley, Yorkshire—J. Barber, J. Barber, jun., F. W. Thompson, and A. W. Barber, grocers, Norwich (so far as regards A. W. Barber)—W. Melland and J. Bradshaw, solicitors, Chesterfield, Derbyshire—J. Walton and J. Smith, brickmakers, Coventry—D. Aldred and J. Lainson, hosiers, Rotherhithe—J. Prest, F. S. Hall, and R. Forbes, linendrapers, Halifax—J. B. Lucas and C. Ireson, limeburners, Kingsthorpe-lodge, Northamptonshire —J. Wyllie, M. Wyllie, and A. Wight, Long Island Mill, Car lisle (so far as regards A. Wight)—J. Schofield and J. Collin, machine makers, Oldham—G. Smith and -R. Worthington bankers, Manchester—R. 11. Clark and W. Clark, jun., tea dealers, Birmingham- 7 W. B. Adams, S. Adams, ad W. A. Adams,. machinist', Bow (so far as regards W. A. Adams)—T. Genn and D. Genn, grocers, Sheffield—W. Ward and T. Barrow, shirt manufacturers, Manchester— J. Platt, J. Toole, and W. Platt, ironfounders, Oldham—J. Owen and A. Hopkins, woollendrapers, Swansea. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Alexander Gracie, sen., cattle dealer, Two Merkland, Dumfries-shire, Dec. 19 and Jan. 8, at twelve, at J. Donald son's Inn, Minnyhive. Alexander Gracie and Robert Gracie, cattle dealers, Two Merkland, Dumfries-shire, Dec. 18 and 'Jan. 7, at twelve, at E. M'Kinnell's Inn, Thornhill. British, New Carlisle Branch, 2—London and York, 3% — Leicester and Bedford, IN-I.Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 3%—North Staffordshire, 4 3 %. SHEFFIELD, DEc. 15. EERATION OF TIME AND Ott REDUCTION OF FIRES. GRAVESEND for 64. or 94-, and railway included. The STAR and ELACKWALL 11,,,__‘ - ' I QTS are now running at the above reduced fares from the B ~swlck ' Blackwall, at 9%, 1014, 12, 1%, 3y, and 5. (3".t a Ys, 12 and 3% excepted. From the New Terrace Fier, pe.,esend, at 8%, 9%, 11%, 1,2%, and 5. Sundays 9% and 1 ex .'d• Fare : Fo re Cabin and Second Class Railway, 6d.; Saloon rid First • Class 94• Sia r 0 _ ••••.....___wte, Gravesend, Oct. 11, 1845. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 17 1 4—North British, 21 1 4—Oxford, Whitney, and Cheltenham, 2 South Midland, 414. - SALE AND TRANSFER OF SCRIP. The following is the opinion of Mr. Addison, of the Northern Circuit, on this subject C r LASGOW via FLEETWOOD and 'kit h, DROSSAN, every MONDAY, TUZSD AY, THURSDAY, and bY the new Iron Steamers, " HER MAJESTY" and AL CONSORT," 700 tons and 350 horse power. The above Ships leave Fleetwood, on the arrival )f the trains that ta n E uston-square, London, at 7.30., 8.45., or Passengers th e booked through to Glasgow in London. Carriages taken by p a i train only. Daily communication with the Isle of Mau. C "her Particulars may be had at 8, St. Swith tes-lane ; or the ist tlai-offlce, Regent-circus, London ; or of the Agents, Kemp ' O ., Fleetwood, and M'Kean and Lament Glasgow. Admission. One Shilling. Schools. Half-price. ANK OF AUSTRALASIA . Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1533. _ _ " QUESTIONS. " Whether the 7th and Bth Victoria, chap. 110, sec. 26, prohibits the sale of scrip in railway companies not re gister( d unch r the Act, or only registered provisionally ? Whether such prohibition is limited to subscribers and persons actually possessed of scrip at the time, or extends to all contracts for sale of scrip prior to com plete registration ; whether the contracting party is, or professes to be, possessed of the scrip at the time of the contract or not ? London Office, 8, Austin-friars, Dec. 13, 184 5 . Tine Court of Directors hereby give notice, that an EXTRA ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of PROPRIETORS will be held at the office of this Corporation as above, on JIoNDAY, the 12th day of January next, at One o'Clock precisely, for the purpose of electing two Directors, hi the room of Richard Norman, Esq., and llazett David Colvin, Esq., who have resigned, and that the pre scribed half-yearly Meeting will take place on that day. ArIONAL LOAN EUND LIFE ASSUti,- ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNHILL, LONDON'. Capital SAOO ,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament 4 4 .. 1114 Institution ours important and substantial ad van- Th e — *ith respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuit ies. btu: W ired has, on all occasions, the power to borr)w, without ex (set ...or forfeiture of the Polley, two-thirds of the premium paid, of bi L tble) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion for t e rms to meet other conveni,nces or necessity. Assurances of Years are granted on the lowest possible rates. • DIVISION OF PIZOFIT:. Blecessi and increasing prosperity of tee Society has enabled lio n ,L'iroctors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third 4ar3 ing from Su to 75 per cent. on the premiums paid on ° Hey effected on the Prodt scale. (Signed) fly order of the Court, WILLIAM 'MILLIKEN, Secretary, " Would a contract made prior to complete registra tion for procuring a transfer of scrip after registration, or of shares, after the passing the Railway Act, be binding? TIIv. BEST ENGLISH WATCHES. A 13. SAVORY and SON S, Watchmakers, No. L 11.• 9, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank, request the atten tion of purchasers to their stock of London-made PATENT LEVER WATCHES, which are manufactured by themselves in their own house. In Silver Cases, with the Detached Escapement and Jew elled, the prices are Four G ineas and a Half, Six, and Eight Guineas each ; or in Gold Cases, Ten, Twelve, Fourteen, and Six teen Guineas each. The very large stock offered for selection in cludes every description, enabling a customer to select that which is more particularly adapted to his own use. " OPINXON. %.,......, ' EXAMPLES. • ua 1 [ i 0" NI 0 ir . 7 1 . t.. .... 4 'O. r. 4 , 0 . 1 1 Premium . c .," 1 Bonus Benas in p i 'ii ig o t s w y u) g added. Cask. •I'D": g 25 it 0 4. ;4 . , Fl o 0 • ; .... 5...„,' ......_ i iitxtr. ... 4 1.. ~..' - -- ---- -- --- X 1 1837 Z. 91 13 5 ill 7 13 5 Al 3 17 1 X 395111 , s. d. I t _ 3 4 1113 165 13 0 74 13 10 11 1 6 3 46 2 3 r .. 1839 :38 13 6 ; 0 1.4 3 9 210 296 13 4 ..,..._I 1840 89 001 41 13 41 6 0 0 247 48 i Archibald Donaldson, jun., tailor, Edinburgh, Dec. 23. and Jan. 14, at twelve, at th e citanaberi_of Messrs. bumf"lif Bo: bertson Edinburgh. John Brown, grocer ' Auchterarder, Dec. 25 and Jan. 15, at one, at the Salutationllotel, Perth. Commanders—lngrain, Sullivan, Fisher, Fishbourne, Help man, and WC leverty. Lientenauts—Griffiths, Ryder, Royer, and Wood. Lieutenants of Marines for the Artillery Companies— Meape, Gell, Henry, Davis, and Baynes. Mates—Brandreth, Molyneux, Partridge, West; and Pari.sh. • T 41‘,... - Luon of profit' is annual, and the next will be made in De of the present year. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, 4as. LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND DUBLIN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 3, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house, London. bi l l! Success which has attended the system of A ssurance p ursued sr s Company is illustrated by the fact, that at the General Court, an the 9th day of July last, there was declared tst th A REDUCTION OF 25 PER CENT. Q! current year's premiums of all participating policies op ened on th;7°re the 9th day of February, 1841. fa , l Person aged 40, who opened a policy for 1,0001 in .£ s. d e ausrY, 1841, at an annual premium 0f.... •• • .... 32 10 0 141 4 upon to pay this year only tt _o this abatement be applied to pay the first year's lured of an addit.onal policy„the party will be further 4 red to the extent of ••• • • • ..... .•. . • .... ...... 215 9 4 C _ Proportionate benefits accrue to policies en all ages. ix t "Ples of the report of the last investigation of the affairs, contain %Si -4411 exPosition of the principles and practice of the Society, An Information required,in ple ma p y be obtained by applying , per -'l7, or by letter, at the head-office, or any of the agencies. BOARD OF MANAGEMENT. RICHARD SPOONER, Esq., M.P., Chairman. BENJAMIN IFILL, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. The lion. DIRECTORS. Frederick Ponsonby James Hartley, Esq. Art Iloyd, Esq., M.P. Kennett Kingsford, Esq. ex .1„, • Anderson, Esq. John M`Guffie, Esq. eun Atkins, Esq. John M . Lee, Es q . soattaln Brandreth J. M. Rosseter, Esq. Harrison, Esq. Wm. Wilberforce, Esq. MEDICAL ADVISERS. 141. 511a1l Hall, M.D., F.R.S. ; Alex. Anderson, Esq., F.R.C.S. Szcatriatt--H. Kift, Esq. Auniroas—R. E. Alison, Esq. ; H. H. Cannan, Esq. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Palmer, France, and Palmer. ALEX. ROBERTSON. Manager. YILLITABLE NEWSPAPER PROPERTY AND PRINTING MACHINE. MR. HARRIL will SELL by' AUCTION, at bkt the Commercial Sale Rooms, Corn-stieet,ristol, on TUES (0421;” 6th January, 1846, at One for Two o'cloc kin the Afternoon Ape "... Previously disposed of by private contract , o f which due 41t4 - 2" 11 be given, and subject to such conditions of sale as will be Th`.. l there produced), Plefollovring valuable NEWSPAPER COPYRIGHT and PRINT IN LACHINE which will be sold either in the undermention ed - t , r otherwise , as may be agreed upon at the tim e of sale. Jibi : j• All that the COPYRIGHT of the " GREAT WESTERN to k LatTISER AND CHRONICLE," for two years past the most tilitt.,7 v elY circulated paper in the West of England, and one con -4474, on a plan similar to that of the "North British Advertiser," I,o l idland Counties Herald." 1114 - 7 Paper, from having been most extensively patronised, and bPpo:L i dlY enlarging its advertising connexion, offers a most eligible L ot — ritY for investment. nix.„`; All that new and valuable Four-sheet Royal Perfecting 4rid 1 .' 4 wIG MACHINE, hich works in the most exact register, tits adapted for printing the largest newspaper sheet allowed by st amp,p o . Act. 411 0 .; further particulars, or to treat by private contract, apply to the lt , rtieer, Bristol, or to Mr. William Harrington Bush, Solicitor, %-...:",L1n-street, Bristol. IN,IMMENSE SALE OF LAMPS AT lIALF -PRICE. ' L ' jARK and COMPANY, 447, West Strand, th b eg to announce that they intend making extensive alterations ef t establishment, and, in consequence, are compelled to dispose Th t ?N o portion of their immense and excellent stock of lamps. (ti t k consists of the New Light, Clark's Patent Carcel Oil Lamp t o , b est oil lamp ever made), Solar Lamps, and all other oil lamps. Vesta Spirit Lamp, the Gem Spirit Lamps, Oil and Candle koZellers, Candelabras , ' and Ormolu Candlesticks, and richly cut Palmer's Magnum Candle Lamps, and every deription of Tr I and Clark's Candle Lamps that can be required sc . In fact, tie,. 4 /Intense variety provides a choice for all, and gives all satisfac e whole will be sold considerably under the usual charges. c : e .uuction in prices commence Tuesday, Nth December, and 1. 1 . 4 . Y continue one month, or perhaps less. ass write down Address, CLARK and Co., 447, WEST STRAND, nse Lamp Depot. ItRANDY AN!) CAPSULES.—Mr. BETTS bi nni (the late tins of J. T. BETTS and CO.), Patent Brandy Itati' gr, 7 Smithfield Bars, feels it due to himself and the publie to that , the Manufacture of the PATENT BRANDT was not, er se eorer has been known to any person except to himself and one tins. And that he was succeeded in the business of the Dis ers til 7 , Smithfield Bars, by his sons, J. T. BETTS , J an., and CO., M r • retiring therefrom, he 1843. BETTS further states, that he is the sole Patentee, manufao k : 4 nd vendor of the Metallic Capsule, (or solid metal covering tti;rnouths of bottles), that no other Brany in Egand excet S PATENT BRANDY, is thereby pr d otected n ; l the , Paten p t 1 14,7' t ‘. _Lie Capsule if, therefore, applied to any other Brandy, must ,"een surreptitiously obtained. letallie Capsule Manufactury, 1, Wharf-road, City-road. IETTS'S PATENT BRANDY, certified by the i h Faculty of England to be the purest spirit, and guaranteed .Ce Patent Metallic Capsules, embossed " Betts's Patent Brandy, ti t ilthlield-bars," is sold at 3s. 6d., bottle included, by the most . 0 etable dealers, lists of whom may be obtained at the Distillery, eit o ; i 7 quantities of not less than tw gallons, in bulk or bottles, are Address, 7, Smithfield-bar o s. GRATIS! GRATIS! GRATIS! THE PALACE OF BEAUTY. h 0 doubt many persons are anxious to look At what we have said in the new winter bo•k ; And we beg to acquaint them this book is now printed, And that many a fact of importance is hinted; You'll find that we've not been remiss in our duty, When you read what we state in "The Palace of Beauty." This book costs you nothing (it couldn't cost less), And that is a fact upon which we lay stress ; If You just write a letter applying for one, / our request will be granted by MOSES and SON, Who are never accus'd of ne lecting their duty, With regard to transmitting "The Palace of Beauty." No matter the distance at which you may dwell, We send in the town and country as well ; And that which, perhaps, will surprise you the most Is the fa•t that we also agree to pay post ; This proves that E. MOLES and SON do their duty, When'er they're asked for " The Palace of Beauty." LIST OF PRICES. READY MADE. A s , d. aglionis . .... • • • .....MADE .•• . • 0 8 6 Oter* olds nr Codringtons .... • • •• • • .• ............ w'' s, Attols, I embroke, and every description of bite rCoats ••..•••••• • • • • • • • • .................. 1 6 • la,„Yo' Wilier Cysts in every style .............. from 6 Eil)hter treasers, lined .... •••••• • • • • .............. 0 4 6 • sas • Coats, edged • .. • •• •••••••• • • •• . .............. I 0 ro ck. : 1 ditt0........ ry t ••• • „ •• •• „ •• •• " „ •• „„„„„„„„„„ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ „ ; 6 1 • Z!nble-breasted .................................0 2 6 Ditto. Hussar and Tunic suits...... , `te. Winter ronsers...• •••. • • . ......... ....... . , 0 3 0 ,Pitto, slats Yeats ..... .......• •• •• 0I 6 WI JUDI TO MICLOWILL. Muter Coats, in every style and shape, handsomely 1 0d cloth Great Coats, velvet collar and cuffs ...... 1 12 0 DL edd Wrappers ... ••••••• • • • • - • "•" • • •................ 0 8 6 . 0 li 6 ,„:to Trousers .• in all the • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 13(14iter Trousers, new patterns ••• • • • ...... 0 12 0 N utb_ quality, or dress do ... ••••.• • • • • .............. 1 6 0 Ditto, Coats ; 4 40, best quality made .......................... 2 15 0 boats 13 0 c i ttd, best quality made ••••••• • • • • • • • .............. 3 3 0 sdahniere Vests.... .. u lti n de., plain er fancy ...... •••• • • • • Treat Hussar aid Tunic suits ••••••• • • . • • • • Oil Coats .......• ••__.. .. _ ... ot . New Work, entitled the " Monarch Mart," with full directions I l elf-measurement, may be had, on application, •• Pest Free." ta re lTamr.—Any article purchased or ordered, if sot appro ved of o anted, or the money returned. Vfn,1h...1-vd—E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Wholesale and Retail ti e T t ed Drapers, Outfitters, and General Warehousemen, 154, Mino x•!nd 86, kldgate, City, opposite the Church. ' 5l . No business transacted at this Establishment from sunset on Y till sunset on Saturda3, when business is resumed at twelve 6 c` 4 lc. Catrri,;m.—E. Moses and Son are obliged to guard the public ~,4 111 st i mpo .:` l en, haying learned that the untradesmanlike false 14t1 of b e i ng eon . .ctod with them, or its the same concern, has lio n . "'sorted to in trt ' ani instances, and for obvious reasens. They or - _n2 connexion whatever •". Ith , any other establishment, in or out print,."u and those who desire ~riiine Cheap Clothing should (to Afe disappointment. &e.) call er 1:44 to .154, iseaories, or 86, •••• J. C .,t_d• opposite the Church. ... _ FOGS AND DAMP AIR. ARCLA.Y'S ASTHMATIC CANDY has, for Ul raanY years, been proved an effectual preservative from the , s - -acts of the fogs and damp air which, in the winter season, are sagP r alent in this climate. Its effects are to expel wind, to pre velw..till stomach from the admission of damps, and to relieve those Inlfer from difficulty of breathing. d on r . ePared only by Barclay and Sons, 95, Farrlngdon-street, Lon- Titre ‘ and sold retail, by their appointment, by Sanger, 150, Oxford coral ; Gifford, 104, and H. Burfleld, ISO, Strand ; Johnston, GS, Or n 1111 1; Hallows, druggist, 2, High-street, Islington ; Heudebourck, veaigist. Church-street, Hackney ; and all respectable Medicine "'ens In town and country. b h , rve--.24 0n ,, can be genuine unless the names of " Barclay and on the stamp affixed to each box. ‘OWLAND'S KALYDOR, a n eminentl y 4110 balsamic preparation, is equally celebrated for its safety in APPlleation, as for its mild and soothing oper ation, in thoroughly I* ,„_rifYing the skin of all redness, pimples , spots, freckles, tan, and "'eulourations ; producing a healthy 'freshness and transparency of colZulexion ; and an admired softness and delicacy on the hands, trlni an , 1 neck! is 1),. sof ei.. In ea , üblains, chapped skin, or incidental inflammation, it e•etninently succe.__ ' . .AO and gentlemen after shaving will find it allay all irritation and tenusi mess of the skin, and render it soft, sin n ,s. ro and creamy, its purifying `-',. and pleasant. Balmy, odo: ife • us ' h the 4(1. refreshing properties have obtained it . : "u and the Royal Family of Great Britain, ^ , l those of the Conti nentZ.cl-usive selection y Of Europe , together with the "61ete" of the a.. 4.- - 4 etocraey, and "haute voles " ' its h . R„ high reputation induces unprincipled shopkeepers to offer tho PUrlens " Kalydors" for sale, composed of mineral astringents, autterly ruinous to the complexion, and by their repellent action en ngering health. It is, therefore, imperative on purchasers to see . that the Words "Rowland's Kalydor" are on the envelope (an en graving of exquisite beauty from a steel plate by Messrs. Perkins, Bacon, a n d Co.) and that A. RO‘VLAND and SON, 2Q, Hatton garden, are engraved (by authority) on the Government Stamp affixed en each bottle. Price 4s. 6d. and Bs. 6tl. per bottle. Sold by the rOprieto,rs, and by chemists and perflimers. *** All ether Xalydera are fraudulent imitations I The following Report of the Committee was read : The Managing Committee of the Dudley, Madeley, Broseley, and Ironbridge Railway Company, with exteision to Shrewsbury, feel that it is due to themselves and to the Shareholders, to lay before them, at the earliest possible period consistent with due inquiry, their present position, consequent upon the circumstances which will be found detailed in the following Report : Mr. Francis Giles because the engineer of the Company on its for mation, and the Committee were induced to place confidence in him from the fact of his having been employed by Mr. Robert Stephenson, in his absence, to lay out several important lines in the vicinity of the line of railway projected by this Company. Mr. Giles attended a meeting of the Committee at Birmingham, early in October, when he gave positive assurances that he was ra pidly proceeding with his work, and had made such arrangements as would enable him to complete it in good time; and from that pe riod till the end of November he constantly rei crated those assu rances to the Committee, to the respective solicitors, and to the se cre:ary, both orally and in writing. Every assistance was rendered which ke required, and extracts from the correspondence will abuts dentlY testify that all was done by the Committee and the oftlcers of the Company to enable him to complete his work by she 29th of No vember. His applications for money were, in every case, complied with, and the sum of 4,0, 01. was at various periods advanced to him, on account of his own and the surveyors' charges ; the last payment of 2,0001. having been made, at his own solicitation (though not with out conside - rable hesitation on the part of the Committee), in order to avoid the possibility of his operations being retarded for want of funds, or to afford any possible pretext for their being inefficien•ly perfmned. Of this sum, Mr. Dugdale Houghton, the Company's surveyor (Mr. GI iles's brother-in-law), has accepted his (Mr. Giles's) liability to him for 2,0001., and Mr. Giles has paid Mr. John Brettell, another surveyor, 3001., thus leaving him (Mr. Giles) the sum of 1,7001. The anxiety expressed that all should be ready in time was only equalled by Mr. Giles's assurances that there were no grounds for apprehension, as the following extracts from the correspondence on the subject will show : On the 17th of October, Mr. Collis, one sof the Company's solici tors, thus addressed Mr. Giles— " Great anxiety is entertained as to the sections and surreys being ready in time. I do hope you will use every exertion to get them done, and well done." On the 28th October, Mr. Collis writes to Mr. Giles— '', " I trust you will get the sections of the Dudley and Madeley line completed without delay, as time runs on. I am glad to tell you that all goes on favourably, and everything now rests with you. lell have, of sourse, matte proper arrangerbents Us to the engravlu4: On the 31st, Mr. Collis says in a letter to Mr. Giles— , :- " I assure you most unpleasant rumours are abroad amongst our proprietors that our sections and plans will not be properly done or ready, as Dugdale Houghton will have told you. Now I have done all in my power to put a stop to these reports. I entreat of you to have the sections of the whole line from Dudley to Ironbridge and to Shrewsbury, as well as the surveys, most careflilly done. You have, of course, made due arrangements as to the engraving of the see- In the altered circumstances of their affairs, the Committee were at once convinced that their only course was to advise the share holders to abandon all thoughts of an application to Parliament for a Bill in the ensuing session, and to consider what steps should be taken to protect the shareholders from the consequences of the con duct.which it has been their painful duty to detail. With this object, as well as with respect to the future operations of the Company, the Committee have called Mr. Sergeant Allen and their Parliamentary agents to their aid, and they will mast anxiously and carefully consider the propriety of taking such steps in reference to competing lines lu the next session as they may be advised. Ofie course which the Committee propose to adopt, is forthwith to return to the Proprietors the sums of 21. per share, on such condi tions as counsel may deem necessary for the purpose of enabling the Committee to prosecute the undertaking in the session of 1847, should it be found expedient to do so. The liabilities of the Company will be forthwith ascertained and discharged ; and the. Committee beg to inform the Shareholders that every regard has been paid to economy consistent with the progress of the scheme ; and further, that no expenditure has taken place since the 30th ofNovember, 'saving such as was actually necessary for ascertaining their real position. The Committee desire to record their unabated confidence In the intrinsic excellence of the line, and to express their regret that a tithetue, supported by such an array of noblemen, Nerabers Of Par randowners, ironmasters, and other gentlemen, whose in terests demand its construction, together with a large proprietary of unexampled respectability, full, one-half being local, should have been frustrated by the circumstances which they have set forth. They are consoled, however, by the-conviction that a railway so int pei atively demanded by the localty, possessing gradients superior to any 'other line in the district, accommodating South Staffordshire and Shropshire in a manner that no other scheme can do, bringing the respective places in its course much nearer to each other than any other project does, and gaining, as it has, so great an amount of public favour by its undoubted merits, must shortly be carried out. It now only remains for the Committee to say that they should fail in fully discharging their duty, if they did not express their per fect 'satisfaction With Ikifconduct of the solicitors and the secretary, all of whom have pallePe most unremitting attention to their re spective duties, and hav• used their utmost exertions to advance the interests of the Company. TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. WHITEHALL, DEC. 12, 1845. The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint Alexander Pringle, Esq., sole and only Clerk and Keeper of the General Register for Seasines in Scotland, and of the par ticular Register of Reversions and Seasines within the shires of Edinburgh, fladdington, Linlithgow, and Bathgate, in the room of the Right Honourable William Dundas, deceased. WHITEHALL, Dec. 15. The Queen has been pleated to present the Rev. Alexander Maclean, - DAY*, to the church and parish of Kiltearn, in the presbytery of Dingwall, and county of Ross, vacant by the death of the Rev. James Mann. FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 10. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint James Forbes, Esq., British Pro-Consul at St. Jago de Cuba, to be her Majesty's Consul at that port. WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 16. 2d Regiment of Life Guards-Ensign E. F. Wingfield, from the 56th Foot, to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by pur chaso, vice Langley, who retires, Dec. 16. 10th Light Dragoons-T. Fraser, M.D., to be Assistant - Surgeon, vice Anderson, promoted in the Rifle Brigade, Dec. 16. 17th Light Dragoons-H. Kendall, M.D., to be Assistant- Surgeon, vice Anderson, promoted in the 77th Foot, Dec. 16. 2d Regiment of Foot-Captain A. W. Wynne, from half pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice O'Graay, promoted; Lieut. 'l'. Addisen, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Wynne, who retires; Ensign A. Gillespie, to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Addison; F. Mathias, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gillespie, Dec. 16. Bth Foot-Lieutenant-Colonel T.Butler, from half-pay Un attached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice C. St. Lo Malet, who exchanges; Major H. W. Hartley to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Butler, who retires; Captain H. W. Roper to be Major, by purchase, vice Hartley; Lieut. T. Clowes to be Captain, by purchase, vice Roper; Ensign E. J. Charter to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Clowes; Maas , - Rynd, Gent., to be Ensign. by purchase, vice Charter, Dec. 16. 12th Foot-E. Herrick, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Uniacke, appointed to the 71st Foot, Dec.l6. 25th Foot-Major H. F. Strange, from the 26th Foot, to be :11ajor, vice D'Urban, who exchanges, Dec. 16. 2tith I oot-Major W. J. D'Urban, front the 25th Foot, to be Major, vice Strange, who exchanges, Dec. 16. 43d Foot-Assistant -Surgeon R. Lawson, from the 47th F.sot, to be Surgeon, vice Millar, promoted on the Staff, Dec. 16. 47th Foot-G. Saunders, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Lawson, promoted in the 43d Foot, Dec. 16. 52d Foot-Ensign M. Da Pre Stronge to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Peel, who retires; C. C. Ross, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Stronge, Dec. 16. 56th Foot-k. Fellows, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wingfield, appointed to the 2d Regiment of Life Guards, Dec. 16. 65th Foot-Ensign J. H. E. Elwes to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Trafl'ord, who retires; G. C. Pemberton, Gent., to lie Ensign, by purchase, vice Elwes, Dec. 16. 68th Foot-Lieut. J. Johnston to be Captain, by purchase, vice Barlow, who retires ; Ensign H. Stewart to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Johnston ; H G. IL Carmichael, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Stewart, Dec. 16. -71st Foot-Ensign E. J. A. Gore to be Lieutenant, by pur chaise, vice Brice, who retires, Dec. 16 ; Ensign A. Denny to be Lieutenant, by I urchase, vice Sir T. Erskine, who retires, Dec: 17; Ensign 3. Uniacke, from the 12th Foot, to be En sign, vice Gore, Dec.l6 ; B. Brochas, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Denny, Dec. 17. 77th Foot-Assistant-Surgeon G. Anderson, from the 17th Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice Burrell, promoted on the Staff, Dec. 16. Rifle Brigade-Assistant-Surgeon A. Anderson M.D o from the 10 t h Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice \Vliii4eyroe noted on the Staff. Dec. 16. 3d West India Regiment-Ensign W. Cooper to INieu tenant, without purchase, vi. e Cox, deceased, Oct. 31; H. Wheeler, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Cooper, Dec. 16 . Ceylon Rifle R e giment-Lieut. J. Jago, from half-pay 32d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Clare, promoted ; Second Lieut. J. S. Tulle to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jago, who retires; A. J. D. Smith, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tulk, Dec. 16. Ustarracitere-To be Captains, without purchase-Lieut. J. Ralph, from the 6th Fout ; Lieut. W. Spring, from the 24th Foot, Dec. 16. BREVET.-Captain A. W. Wynne, of the 2d Foot, to be Major in the army, Jan. 10, 1837. HOSPITAL STAFF. -T O be Inspectors-General of Hospitals -Deputy -Inspector J. Gillkrest, M.D. ; Deputy-lespector T. Kidd, M.D. ; Deputy -Inspector A. Stewart, M.D., Dec. 16. 'lo be Inspectors-General of Hospitals, with Local Bank- Deputy-Inspector M. M. , Malionv M.D. ; Deputy-Inspector s H. Franklin, Dec. 16. To he Deputs - Inspectors-General of Hospitals-Staff- Surgeon of the First Class J. French, M.D., vice Gillkrest; Staff-Surgeon of the First Class A. Stewart, M.D., vice Kidd; Staff-Surgeon of the First Class W. Henry, vice Mahony ; Staff-Surgeon of the First Class J. W. Watson, 11. D., vice Franklin, Dec. 16. To be Staff Surgeons of the First Class-Surgeon J. Millar, from the 43d Foot, vice Stewart; Surgeon Moses White, Burrell, R. cJ\l lll no . l D sitsy . s , ii f lo r ,n o E m bsyci t . M.D., from the Rifle Brigade, vice Watson ; Surgeon W. H. ec. I:titeroe7bLetohrDdle-'ll,:i Fool, vice Lord-Lieutenant nt Henry,tt e o t i f an t nDst Sept. 6. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Northamptonshire. Northamptonshire Regiment of Militia.-P. D. P. Dun combe, the younger, Esq., to be Captain, Dec. 5 . WHITEHALL, DEC. 5. The Lord Chancell or h as appo i n t e d Francis Bodham, of Wellington, in the c ounty o f S omerse t, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, DEC. 8. The Lord Chancellor has appointed David Thomas Willis, of Winslow, in the county of Buckingham, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. Will FEHALL, Dec. 11. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Robert John Francis Oldacres, of Leicest er , Gent , to be a Master E x tr aordinar y in the highs' Court of Ch ancer y. WHITEHALL, DEC. 15. The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Morgan Thomas, of Langbarne, in the counts , of Carmarthen, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BAN KRUPTS. William Kearton, cheesemonger, Lamb-street, Spitalfields, to surrender Dec. 23 and Jan. 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee; Hutchison, Crown court, Threadn ee dl e - street. - Michael Jones, grocer, Theobald's - road , Dec. 24, at two , and Jan. 21, at one, at the Court of Ba nkru p tc y. Bell , offi cial assi ;nee, Cole man - s t ree t -buildings; Miles, Brunswick place, City -road. Thomas Pool, builder, Princes-road, Notting-hill, Dec. 30 and Jan 30, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Foster, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street ; Wright, Cook's -court, Lincoln's Inn. William Gill, poulterer, Leadenhall-market, Dec. 22, at eleven, anel Jan. 27, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bank . ruptcy. Turquaud, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers; Tippet ts, Pancras-lane. William Humphryes, hotel-keeper, Haymarket, Dec. 29, at eleven, and Jan. 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, oflicial assignee, Coleman-street; Lewis, Arundel street, Strand. t Liverpool , Dec. 31 and Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Minshul Frederick Cordaroy, hatter , official assignee, Liverpool ; Vincent and Sherwood, Temple, London. James Reynolds, farmer, Fazakerlev, Liverpool, Dec. 30 and Jan. 20, at eleven, at the Liverpool" District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ; Bridger and Blake, London wall, London ; Dodge, Li A ve b r b P o ° t ° t l ,. Charlotte -street, Bedtbrde orte iie' Manchester. Jasnes Hulme, paper de aler. Manches ter, Jan. 2 and 16, at twelve, at the !Manchester D istrict C ourt. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; , square, London ; Atkins on and Saunders,N doyen, at the Leeds Dist rict Court. Hope, o ffi c i a l assignee, Leeds; Taylor, Nicholas -lane, London ; Clegg, Bradford Thomas lbbetson Hellawell, James Cariss, Leeds. and John Beaumont Hellawell, dyers , Halifax, D ec. 2 9 and Jan. 21, at d Hons." In a letter to Mr. Collis, on the 9th of November, respecting the Oldbury branch, Mr. Giles says, In reference to the plans which he had received— " The plans are, as I consider, in good condition." On the 10th of November, Mr. Collis thus writes to Mr. Giles— " I know you will pardon my expressing deep anxiety as to every thing being done in due time, particularly that we may have the Sec tions and surveys finished, as the middle of November is nearly arrived." Three days afterwards, viz., on the 13th, Mr. Collis says— " I hope you will use every means to complete the sections with the least possible delay. I assure you we all feel extreme anxiety on the subject. Should you want me, or if I,can do any thing to for ward you, pray send for me, or let me know immediately." The next day, the 14th, Mr. Collis again urges Mr. Giles onward, by saying— " We quite rely upon your having all ready, and that the sections are In the hands on the lithographer. Bear in mind that the 29th is only twelve days off, and that the sections must be sent before then to us, and be ready to deposit. I trust you will excuse my most earnestly beseeching you to use every possible exertion to complete everything as quickly as practicable. The general impression is, that we shall not be ready. We must not spare exertion of any kind ; in fact, we must keep faith with the public." . On the 19th, Mr. Collis writes— " I have just heard that Houghton thinks there is some misunder standing between you and the lithographer. If there be the slightest foundation for this, I beg and pray of you not to lose an instant in setting this matter right. Excuse my personally entreating you to use every exertion, as I am daily pressed on the subject." To this Mr. Giles replies on the 20th— " I know of no misunderstanding between me and the lithographer. Don't give credit to such nonsense." The same day, the 20th, Mr. Collis writes to Mr. Giles as follows— " I am desired by the Committee to beg and entreat you to see that the sections are completed, and placed in the lithographer's hands as speedily as possible. I do hope you will excuse my writing se ur gently to you. Ido seriously assure you that we all feel that our honour and characters are at stake, to say nothing of the large sum of money that would be sacrificed if our plans and sections are not duly deposited." On the 21st, Mr. Giles replied as follows— " I beg that you will not be in any anxiety about lithographing the sections. Mr. Houghton will get some done in Birmingham. I will get all the rest done, and have provided for it. You shall deposit on the 29th. I come to Birmingham to-morrow night, by express train, to meet my troops, who are all to assemble at Dee's to-morrow night." Mr. Collis'a next letter to Mr. Giles is dated Novembr 21st, to which he says— "l know you will not like my troubling you with these repeated urgent letters, but I confess I am so strongly pressed by numbers of people daily, that I feel painfully mistime that we should not fail in keeping good faith with our shareholders." Mr. Giles replies on the 22d— " If you come tome to-morrow, in order to be made certain of my work being done, I will even show you my plan and arrangements for it—otherwise be assured of it." The Committee, feeling that the foregoing extracts abundantly confirm the assertion with which they set out, will now refer to the statements made to them by Mr. Joseph King and Mr. Heath, two active members of the Committee, who were in Birmingham, watch ing the later proceedings. Mr. King states that he went to Birmingham, at the urgent re quest of Mr. Collis, in company with him and Mr. Heath, on Thurs day, the 27th of November, and that he remained there till Satur day night, wills the exception of a few hours on Friday, during which Period he had every reason to believe that the business was pro ceeding satisfactorily. Mr. Heath reports that he accompanied Mr. Collis to Birmingham on the 18th of November, at his request, to have an interview with Mr. Giles, who had stated that he should be there that night. They and Mr. Wainwright saw Mr. Giles after midnight. at the Royal Hotel, when he gave them the most positive assurances that every thing would be ready in time. 'she following Monday, the 24th, Mr. Heath again went to Birmingham with Mr. Collis, when Mr. Giles repeated his former assertions that everything would be ready. Three days afterwards, Thursday, the 27th, Mr. Heath, at Mr. Collis's request, once more went to Birmingham, accompanied by Mr. Collis and Mr Joseph King, and remained there until he had seen the various gentlemen start on Sunday night to make their re spective deposits. About five o'clock on Sunday afternoon Mr. Heath saw Mr. Houghton deliver the plans to the several solicitors, lic doing which he (Mr. Houghton) expressed his obligations to them and the other gentlemen connected with the Company, for the assistance they had rendered him, adding that the sections would be ready in half an hour. After this interview with Mr. Houghton, the party left to prepare for starting, and returned to Mr. Houghton's office about half-past five o'clock in the afternoon, where they remained until twenty minutes to nine in the evening, and during this period, facts of such importance are spoken to, that the Committee feel bound, not withstanding its length and the reluctance of Mr. Heath, to give a la , ge portion of his report in detail. After stating that they found Mr. Joshua John Pesle, of Shrewsbury (solicitor to the Wor cester and Crewe, and also to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Rail way Companies), and Mr. Hood (a relative of Mr. Roy, the other so licitor to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company), in Mr. Hough ton's waiting room, ready to convey the Worcester and Crewe plans for deposit, Mr. Heath thus proceeds : " Between seven and eight o'clock Mr. Pecle was sent for by Mr. Houghton, and he remained in Mr. Houghton's room until after the delivery of the sections by Mr. Houghton to the respective solicitors. At this period I became very anxious, and requested Mr. Collis to see Mr. Houghton. Mr. Collis accordingly went into Mr. Houghton's room on the first floor, but immediately returned and told us that Mr. Houghton positively insisted on his leaving the room. Shortly after this Mr. Giles came out of Mr. Houghton's room, and on my asking him respecting the sections, Mr. Giles said that they had been out of his hands some time, and that they were under Mr. Houghton's care, upon which I again requested Mr. Collis to go to Mr. Houghton. Mr. Collis, consequently, went a second time, but came hack directly and said that Mr. l'eele (whom I saw in Mr. Houghton's room when the door was opened) refused to admit him, telling him (Mr. Collis) that Mr. Houghton would soon hand out time sections. Mr. Collis further said that he had remonstrated with Mr. Peels on,,the impropriety of his being in Mr. Houghton's room at such a moment. Thus matters stood, the solicitors and myself remaining in a small room adjoining Mr. Houghton's, in a state of great anxiety ; a person being then stationed in the passage leading to the door of Mr. Houghton's room, who positively refused to allow any one of us to pass to it. Soon after eight o'clock Mr. Peele, from Mr. Hough ton's room, called the respective solicitors of the Company, who ac cordingly went into the room, whit,her I followed them ; and where I saw Mr Houghton give to each of them certain rolls, which he said contained the sections of the Dudley and Madeley line com plete, except the section of the branch from Hedge to Wolverhamp ton, which he said should be delivered out in a few minutes, if it could be found, adding that they were then engaged in looking for it. We then left Mr. Houghton and went into the anti-room, where we consulted together as to the propriety of the solicitors at once pro ceeding to their respective destinations (the evening being so tar ad vanced), to deposit such sections as they had ; but it was at length agreed that Mr Houghton should be again distinctly asked if the rolls he had given to each of the solicitors contained the sections of the whole line, except the Wolverhampton branch ; for which pur pose Mr. Collis (MCC more went to Mr. Houghton's room, Mr. Wain- , wright, another of the Company's solicitors, following him. Mr. Collis rk turned immediately, and reported that Mr. Hough- ton had told him, contrary to what he (Mr. Houghton) had previously stated, that the respective busdles did not contain the whole of the sections with the exception of the before-mentioned branch. Upon this the solicitors andmyself held another con ference, during which Mr. Collis partially unrolled one of the bundles of Sections, and it appearingthat Dudley was upon one sheet and Shrewsbury upon another. the solicitors and I came to the con clusion that the rolls which they had received comprised the sections of the entire main line, contrary to Mr. Houghton's last statement. Immediately upon this discovery being made, Mr. Peels c lied Irons M r . Houghton's room for Mr. Collis, whither he went, returning directly, and stating that Mr. Houghton had now informed him that their respective rolls did contain the whole of the Sections of the line, with the exception of the Wolverhampton branch. The same state ment as to the correctness of the rolls w 3 mm i s r. m c a ,o d ,ili e ise b k y al., 3 ,d lr i . ii l s lo c u o g n h e t a, on uc to s the other solicitors of the Company. then started, at twenty minutes before ,, nine o c . o . . afodlelowtos i:m—puOtebsbeiravinineg,towtihthe solicitors, in h i l l , llea Heath have been attemptstha M t r. preceding days, and particularly that a scene o gross . li I reference to their conduct on Sunday, the 30th f ofsN c o o v i e lf tb i e o r n , a ai i i i i d i disorder occurred in the surveyor's room, in which they are imp ed y 'charged as participators, I feel that though I have shown they were , D s E a C ti L d N ia ß cr E e, D l . ) rigidly denied access to Mr. Houghton's room, I owe t to the Com pany,- to these gentlemen, and to myself, as a member of the Manag ing ing Committee, to declare that a more unfounded calumny couldnot f have been uttered. I was with these gentlemen during the whole o Sunday ; I had many (opportunities of observing their unremitting rrsns Y s PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS, price 2s. 9d., s.s. 63, exertions on the preceding days—l may say nights also ; and . ' and 1 is. per box, are the most effectual remedy for strictures, inliaaa oration, consui &c., tat o w p, i f t e ir without hindrance letter,raann d c e to business. grfaielautreplineasayurteesti,n i s t ta w ti a n s g i tl i r i t io , •,wraityhart•hriohnuitsaobelveertotlaienyb, blame of this of ar- ..—...t ~, C I 1 0 . . . M s t Zu e t o e n t s l e , t m ail s !! mugement or zeal, or activity, on the part of the solicitors, or of in the secretary, their conduct throughout, and especially during tine , T. T. Barker, he consulted, se critical period, having been praiseworthy in the highest degree. ' The Committee have also received reports from the solicitors, re Messrs. IL and L. Perry cases neeev.ar , . Derbyshire—first • div. of 3s. 9d. in the pound, any Thursday, at the office of ferring to the circumstances detailed by Mr. Heath, and speaking usuaS at 19, tierners-street, Oxford-street, L ' its the highest terms of the exertions made by Mr. Houghton to cons- toe, Duke-s eet, Live, pool, every Thursday,F hi ~rlsn da ly, asd at Mr. Valpy, Birminghain. doubler T. Barker viete his portion of the work in good time, up to time period of the and at 10, St. Jo n-stre,t k r sy, and Saturdsy ;J. Palmer, semi., and T. ,Cotton doublers, Sandi not-and Wednesdays. delivery of the plans ; but they do not think it necessary, after g Tuesdays, . Daansgate, Man he ;ter, on Mo d s D h --I • —first div. of 3s. Bd. in the nay , acre, er ys lire . pound, any hog at so great a length from Mr. Heath's statement, to allude to Thursday at the office of Mr. Val . , PY, Birmingham. them further at present. TIIE TWELFTH BDITION. Liver o T. Bourne, corn factor, F 01—first div. of 10d. in Just Published, in a sealed envelope, Notwithstanding the foregoing facts show it was next to an imp . he tfP st price 25. 6d., and seat free, on the ound, any Thursday, at t office of Mr. Cazenove, sibuity to Make the deposits in time at Shrewsbury and London, the recem o a o -office Order for 3s. 6d. Committee think it no more than justice to state, that the inost MANLY HEALTH : p strenuous exertions were made to do so, Mr. Anstice posting to the the Concealed Cause of its D a opular Inquiry into R. Nicholson, bookseller, Stocton--first div. of 3s 3d. in . former place, a distance of forty-five miles, in three hours and twenty -Complete Restoration. Addressed Decline, with instructions the pound, any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker, New for its seven minutes, and Mr. Wainwright arriving at the Board of Trade, tile destructive consequences of excessive indtfigenco, terminating in castle-upon- yne. . In London, upwards of one hundred and fourteen wiles, by the aid of Mental and Nervous Debility, Local or Constitutional Weakness, iW. Reay, Flupbutlder, Walker, Northumberland—first div. a special engine, in three hours and forty-six minutes, both gentle- digestion, and Consumption. 'lncluding a comprehensive Dissertrltio - Dissertation of Bd. in the pound. any Saturday, a t men having been retarded on their way by accidents on the road. on MARRIAGE. Illustrated with Cases, the office of Mr. The journey to Stafford, tivonty,s4 miles, might have been readily amid Co., Consulting Surgeons, London. &cc By C. J LUCAS Baker, Netvcastle - upon -T y ne. eecoMplished by Mr. Collis, but he was detained a long time on the lON. —Complaints having reached T. Johnson, see., W. Johnson, and C. Mann, bankers, Rom- CAUTION. — CompIa g us teat several persons f ddiv. of Is. in the pound, Dec.l7, at «' mite between Binningham and Walsall, in consequence of the t Ma. w ishing to purchase o.tr work, entitled " Manly Health," or —a misconduct of his postboys, which was such as to induce suspicion have had placed in their hands a fraudulent infringement of our copyright, pro- subsequent Prid Inn, Roinfor4, or any ß . l , , y, at the office of Mr. that unfair meant; had been employed to retard his journey. I v -1 - duced by illiterate and dishonourable men, and which, though beams. Follett, Sambrook -court, astng tali-street. great exertion Mr. Collis nitlinetaly reached Stafford hi due time. a close resemblance of title, is utterly valueless; ye deem it a duty * DIVIDENDS. Mr. Houghton Made time deposit at Wee peates also in good time. by way of protection, to caution the public against I.i —.ng duped ~ ' At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. As soon as the failure in the deposits was knowq, 4 meetleg of the such base imitations. Y Committee was hastily surfiglinied at Dudley, When Air, Giles andE. P. Harding, hosier, Gravesend, Ja e , 6 Perseas disainsgs of obtaining the above work, ?rid tot wishing •••• , we ve— . Mr. Houghton attended. The former offsrest no excuse for his COII - to a bookseller for tine sante, may, to insure s ..., , Tinson, arriug«,n, Jan. 6, at one— duct, further than that he had been disappointed, adding that no direct from Authors,enclosing • ecrecy, have to ; F the by 3s. e 1., or Postage Stamps I . Gautier, Merchant, Gould-square, C ru h parties could have behaved better or acted more handsomely, than retched-friars, ed-friars, Jan. 6, to that amount. lat eleven—lV. Dettliler, pianoforte manufactu U DI the Committee and the officers of the Company had behaved towardsrer, pper ary- May be had of the Authors, No. 60, Newman-street, Oxford-street ; i lebone-street, Jan. 6, at hito; gaol he at once admitted, that even ir the lateness of the de- half-past eleven• ---J. Hart, builder, and sold by Brittain, 11, Paternoster-row ; lisimay posits could be got, (seer, his sections were in some instances so de- • and Co., 63, i Greenwico, Jan. 6, at half-past twelve—W. Oxtbrd-street ; Noble, 114, Chancery-lane; J. Gcsdan, D. Townsend, fective, that they would not ilaf a egarehing examination. In an- • 146, Leaden. ! b oke - Little Russell-street, Covent. pawn r ~ hall-street; G. Mansell, 3, King-street, Southwark, London; T.garden, Jan. 9, at swer tq qintations which were pressed tigers him, he paid " That J. S offord, 1 . the heavier, Courier-office, 4, St. Axe's-square, Manchester ;W. Itswea, ;half-past eleven— _. p 13 mendraper, Chatham, Jan• sections et file efete line from Stourbridge COly4lverllqipplp wel,4 75 Dale-street, Liverpool • W. , Wood, 7s, aighstseet, Ili ; : 20, a t eleven—F• W E arandon, merchant, Philpot-laue, rm.nw._a It • ''‘ , .tv correct ;in fact, he believed the iectiens of the vvisole scheme ,W. and (f.' • lt'obinson, lf, Oroonside,strret, 4u.i.ourgh ,T. Price,' Jan. 10, at half-past twelve. ...... w ith tths penile exesption of the branich to Wcilver- Dame-street, Deblin; and all Booksellers,ln the Country. - ---,Awl osprPosod his sorrow at the failure to tie- 't The best'ef all friends is the professional friend, and in no i p felinonger, Newcastle - -..,,,,timetit made by hen na mr : f., ifs „ , ~.s -aria , J. earson, upon-Tvne, Jan. 9, at • .„,. by h'ai'l s dial h. cat? ne tl) consulted with greeter safety and secresy than in `Lucaseleven,at the Newcastle-upon-Ty ..---s s " •'''''''' "' iio . MalilY Ilealt,ll.'—The New liell's WettX l YAttaseuger. 'strict ,ourt— • •-••■ exertiul.4 ' ' Messrs. Lucas and Co. are to ke consulted tross 'feu tail Two, and ' Yates banker, Stafford, Jan. 16, at twelve, at the Birming . - 'wive till I,ight in the evening, at their residence, Ni. €O, N ews ham District Court. Irani _ . _.....t London, and country patients may be , CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to man-street, °Libra-b.. -.., successfully treated, on minutely describing their case, and enclosing I . the contrary, on the day herein mention de . the usaaires 011. for ethics. I E. r. Harding, hosier, Gravesend, Jan. B—T. Perneller, The report having been read, the following resolutions were unanimously carried:- 1. That the report now read to the Committee be adopted and published, at the discretion of the Committee, in the local and daily newspapers. • 2. That the further services of Mr. Francis Giles, as engineer to this Company, be at once dispensed with. 3. That the Committee of Management take such proceedings against Mr. Giles, their late engineer, as counsel may advise. 4: That the warmest thanks of the Committee are eminently due to Richard Heath and Joseph King, Esqs., for remaining in Birming ham during the eventful period ending with the 30th of November, and lending their valuable assistance to secure the deposit of the plans and sections WILLIAM COLLINS. 5. That the thanks of the Committee be presented to Mr. Collins, M.P., for his able and impartial conduct in the chair. WILLIAM CHANCE. NORFOLK RAILWAY.-GOODS TRAFFIC. The Directors respectfully give notice to the public that the goods trains are now running. The Company undertake to forward all sorts of merchandise, grain, cattle, &c., between Yarmouth, Norwich, Attleborough, Thetford, Brandon, and London. The classification of goods, and scale of rates, may be had on ap plication at the Secretary's office, London, and to the Superintendent of the Norwich Station. RICHARD TILL, Secretary. C nildhall-buildings, London, LEEDS and CARLISLE RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that an amalgamation, on terms mutually advantageous, having been effected with the YORKSHIRE and GLASGOW UNION RAILWAY COMPANY, by which an expensive Parliamentary opposition is obviated, the Shareholders in tke. Leeds and Carlisle Railway Company are requested to forward their scrip to the offices of this Company on or before the 31st of December, 1845, in order to have it stamped, agreeably to the ar rangement entered into by the Directors. By order of the Committee of Management, CHARLES LOCOCK WEBB, Secretary. Gresham-rooms, Basinghall street, London. T HE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT It AI LIVAT. CRAIIMAN—Thorsas Dowglasse, Esq. ExcircEEtt-IN-CnixF—Samuel Charles I4rees, Esq. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate.street. IiECRETART—Z. Hubbvraty, Esq. The Conti'Mee of Management have the satisfaction to announce that, in compliance with the applications and suggestions of several gentlemen of experience, they have instructed the several bankers named in their Letters of Allotment to continue to receive the pre liminary deposits from this time until the 7th of January next, in order that those parties to whom Shares in this Company have been allotted may consult their own convenience by paying the first de posit at the present time, or paying the whole deposit en or before the 7th of January next. By order of th• Board, Z. lIUBBERSTY, Secretary. Moorgate-chambers, Moorgate-street, Dec. 9, 1845. C ITY of TORONTO and LAKE HURON RAILWAY COMPANY. The shareholders in the above Company are hereby informed that the Deed of Sattlentent Is now ready for signature at the Company's ottlee, 13, St. Helen's-place, Bishopsgate-street, and they are requested to attend to sign the same, between the hours of Ten and Four o'clock, on and after Friday, the 19th inst. • By order of the Board, W. T. SMITH, Secretary. 11, St. Helen's-place, Dec., 1845. were comp.., hampton." Mr. posit, and his regret at the in on Sunday evening ; justifying himself, ~.. was greatly excited at the time, from his prey,,.... and that he corrected himself immediately. This, the Committee may remark, is opposed to Mr. Heath's statement, by which it appears- that some time elapsed before Mr. Houghton r called ids prerivus answer , and title g e n t leman is conilrrned tj e ae PUBLICATIONS. Just published, Bvo., 16s. cloth-lettered, THE THREE GRAND EXHIBITIONS OF MAN'S ENMITY TO GOD. By DAVID THOM, Bold street Chapel, Liverpool. London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. ; and G. Philip, Liverpool. VENTILATION. This day is published, by Messrs. Madden and Malcolm, 8, Leaden hall-street, REPLY to MIS-STATEMENTS made by A. the TIMES and the ATIIEN,EUM in reference to Ships and Buildings Ventilated by the Author; with a Few Remarks on the Opposing Demands in respect to Ventilation of different Constitu lions. By D. B. REID, M.D., F.R.S.E. THE IhN AN T FARMER'S ADVOCATE. It is abundantly manifest that the position of the agricul tural interest as a class is undergoing, and must undergo, a great change. In such change the relative position of " Landlord and Tenant" will form the most important feature, and the establish ment of a sound system of " Tenants' Rights" will be a cardi nal point for " Tenant Farmers." For fourteen y ears THE MARK LANE EXPRESS AND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL has been the zealous and uncompromising advocate of the Tenants' Rights, and with the conviction that the interests of the Tenantry are vitally involved in the question, the columns of this journal will be continuously devoted to its discussion and elucidation. Published every Monday iu time for post. May be had by order of all Booksellers and Newbmen. Otlice, 24, Norfolk-stmet, Strand, London. Price It. 10s. 4d. per annum. Elegant Pocket Edition, price Is., by post Is. 6 d.• D R. CU INER W ELL ON MARRIAGE, its HINDRANCES and OBLIGATIONS. Ti be or not to be, that is the question."—Shalmpeare. Contents :—On Matrimonial Eligibility and Unfitness—Laws of Patermty—Phenemena of Gestation—On Maternal Influence—On infelicitous and unproductive Ualons—Curiosities of Medical Experi ence, Cases, &c. &c. Also Companion to the same, price Is., by ?Ist Is. 6d. CHASTITY ; its ABUSES and I)ISEASE 4 (71 Engravings). 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" I am of opinion that the statute 7 and 8 Victoria, c. 110, sec. 26, prohibits the sale of scrip, or any interest in shares, in all companies the formation of which shall have commenced after the Ist of November, 1844 (in cluding railway companies, and whether provisionally registered or not), before such companies have obtained a certificate of complete registration according to the provisions of that Act. The prohibition does not ex tend to companies formed, or begun to be formed, before that day. " I think the prohibition extends to every sale or disposal of any interest in any share, whether the party selling is possessed of the scrip or not at the time, or whether it be for an immediate transfer of scrip, or for a transfer of scrip to be postponed until the certificate of complete registration shall have been obtained, or for a transfer of shares after the. Act shall have been obtained. " I have had considerable doubt as to whether the 26th section applies to railway companies; but, after a careful perusal of the different clauses of the Act, I think it does. It certainly is not expressly applied (sec. 2) to companies formed for the purpose of executing works under the authority of an Act of Parliament. And the whole machinery of the section is more applicable to other companies, more particularly the former part of it. But the registration sections by " special provision" extend to railway companies (see sections 4, 7. and 9); and the restrictions contained in the latter part of the 26th section, as to the sale of shares, is part of the registration enactment, being for the purpose of encou raging and enf ,rcing the complete registration. There would seem also the same reason and necessity for ap pl)ing the restriction to railway projects as to others. And further, the clause is expressly applied to all com panies the formation of which shall commence after the Ist of November, 1844. " JOSEPH ADDISON. " Temple, Nov. 1, 1845." THE LATE MINISTRY. A meeting of some of the members of Sir Robert Peel's Government was held yesterday at the Right lion. Baronet's residence, in Whitehall-gardens. The Earl of Aberdeen, who had left town for Brighton on Saturday, was sent for to attend the meeting. His Lordship arrived in town at two o'cicck yesterday, and immediately afterwards called on Sir Robert Peel. The Earl of Lincoln, Sir .1 awes Graham, the Right Hon. S. Herbert, and several other members of the (late ?) Cabinet, were present at the above meeting. The Lord Chancellor, the Earl• of Haddington, Lord Wharncliffe, and Lord Granville Somerset did not attend the meeting. Earl St. Germans has, it is stated, not yet entered upon the duties of his office as Postmaster-General, though his Lordship was fully prepared to do so when the Minis try resigned. Sir Thomas Fremantle's mansion in Eaton-place is pre paring for the reception of the Right Hon. Baronet, but no intimation of his intended return from Dublin Castle has yet been received in town.—Post of yesterday. THE NEW MINISTRY.- It has been mentioned that Lord John Russell has had several confidential communica tions with Sir James Graham since his Lordship's return from the Isle of Wight. It may be that such communica tions have taken place, though we know nothing certain upon the point; but if they have, they must have related to some routine affairs connected with the carrying on of the ad interim Government, for we can assert most positively that neither Sir James Graham, nor any other member of Sir Robert Peel's Cabinet, has for one moment contemplated either coalition or concert with the projected Whig-Radical Adiiiinistration.-Herald. Mr. Wallace, the late Member for Greenock, whose public spira.and praiseworthy services we have so often bad cause to compliment, has just performed auother gracious act to his late constituents, which calls forth farther commends dation. It appears that Mr. Wallace has kept, with scru pulous care, sets of all the public and Parliamentary docu • merits which were presented to him as a Member of Parlia ment. These books, plans, and reports, amounting in the whole, to about 12,400 volumes he has presented to the Greenock Library, and along with them he has also given up the gold medal which, as representative for the town, he was presented with on the accession of Queen Victoria to the Throne. In addition to this, Mr. W. has also reserved another set of the same documents, which he means, we are informed, to present to the Mechanics' Library of Greeijock. Glasgow Post. I Statements have been put forward that the decrease 1 of the stock of bullion in the Bank of England is owing to a demand for foreign corn. These statements are altogether erroneous, as we have the most unexceptionable authority for the fact, that not a single sovereign nor an ounce of gold bullion has gone abroad. There is much more probability in the opinion, which is generally current, that the bullion has been absorbed by the Scotch and Irish bankers, who are preparing to make the railway deposits.-Tinos. Paws or GOLD.-On the 9th instant the price of gold in Hamburgh was 434 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 91 ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short date being 13 101, it results that gold is 0.46 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. On the 13th instant the premium on gold at Paris was 11 per mills, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 421, and the exchange at Paris on London at short date being 25 57k, it results that gold is 0.60 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. It may be mentioned, as a proof of the immense .flunt of business now being carried oil by manufacturers est ocomotives, that no firms engaged in the trade will con tract to supply engines in less than three years.-Neweastle Journal. THE LATE MAJOR-GENERAL RICHARD GOODALL ELRINGTON, C.8.-The will of this distinguished officer was preyed on Saturday last, the 6 th instant, by his friend , John Collier, Esq., of Plymouth, whom he had appointed his sole executor. It was made as far back as the year 1809, when this enterprising officer was embarking for India, and leaving behind him his wife and children, to whom he therein bequeathed the whole of his property, real and personal, wheresoever the same might be- the wife to take life interest therein, and at her decease the same to be divided equally between his two daughters, Louisa and Ca therine, absolutely. The personal estate in England was sworn under 18,0001. He died at an advanced age, on the 2d of August, four days only after his return from Malta, in the Oriental. He was Colonel, and for some time commanding the 47th Regiment of Foot ; a Major-General in her Majesty's army, and Companion of the Most Honour able Military Order of the Bath. This brave officer had most conspicuously distinguished himself through a long and incessant career of arduous campaigns, in the very commencement of which his courage nearly cost him his life. Whilst ensign, in 1793, he was shot through the body on the onset before Dunkirk; and again, three years afterwards, in 1796, at the Island of St. - Vincent (then a captain) he received a shot wound through the thigh ; this only strengthened his intrepid spirit. He was always engaged, and was in active service throughout the whole of the Burmese war; it may in truth be said, few officers have seen harder service, or been more actively engaged. His commissions were dated-Ensign, December 4, 1790; Lieu tenant, April 19, 1794 ; Captain, June 1, 1795; Major, April 25, 1808 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, June 4, 1812 ; Colonel, July 22, 1830 ; Major-General, November 23, 1841. NAVAL COURTS-MARTIAL.-We are happy that the Admiralty are strongly setting their faces against the prevalent fever for Naval Courts-martial upon Foreign Sta tions. We learn that one ship in which the disease prevailed has been ordered home.-Dublin Evening Mail. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. DEATH OF W. FRANCIS HARRISON, ESQ., F.A.S. -On Monday morning, Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an in- LIVERPOOL, DEC. 15. quir t' at St. Marylebone Workhouse, on view of the b o dy o f STOCK EXCHANGE.--elle sales are-Birkenhead, Lance- W. Francis Harrison, Esq., F.A.S. Richard Bryant, cab shire, and Cheshire, 23 p.-Cambridge and Lincoln, 1% p.- man, said that about eleven o'clock on Friday morning last Chester and Birkenhead, New Shares, 27 3 / 4 p.-Glasgow and he took up deceased in his cab, in Baker-street. The de- Dumfries, 10s. dis.-Grand Junction, 233-Ditto, New Quer- ceased gentleman had been to see the cattle show, and he ter Shares, 32 p.-Ditto, 401. Shares (L.M.), 52% 1 3 - - seemed perfectly well. After a few minutes witness, by Goole and Doncaster, Is. dis.-Huddersfield Canal and Rail- order, pulled up at a neighbouring tavern, and was desired to way, 4 1 ,4 p.-Liverpool and Leeds Direct, 1 1 / a dis-Liverpool, get a glass of water, and as soon as deceased had taken a lanchester, and Newcastle Junction, 3 4 p.-London and spoonful he began to foam at the mouth, and fell back in his York, 7 8 p.-Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, '2s. seat. He then made a sign, intimating that witness should 6d. p.-Midland, 139-Ditto, 40/. Share', 12 1 4 p.-North convey him to a surgeon's. Witness immediately drove to a Union (A), 208-North Staffordshire, 465. 3d. p.-Sheffield surgeon's, but on his arrival there deceased breathed his last and Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. 3 (scrip), 3 p.-South in the vehicle. Verdict, " Natural death." Eastern and Dover, Consolidated Thirds, Half Share -Welsh Midland, 12s. 6d. dia.-West Riding Union , 3 % p. Shares, MP. RAMSGATE.-The f oun d at i on i s b e i ng d u g out on West Cliffs for the erection of a new Roman Catholic Church, -Dutchßhenish,l p.-Paris and Lyons (Ganneron), par. which is to be an elegant edifice, faced with chipped flints; MANCHESTER, Vic. 15. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Cambridge and Lin erected at St. George's, Bermondsey, is to superintend the coin, 3 1 4-Chester and Birkeahead,4s-Dudley, Iron Bridge, erection of this, which will be a groat ornament to that and Shrewsbury, l ,z 4 -Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding ofthe town, 11 great public accommodation to Junction, 225. c.-Goole, Doncaster She ffi eld, &c., 445. 6d.- part and Mr. Pugin, the architect of the Catholic Cathedral lately the numerous Catholic familes that visit this fashionable Great Grimsby and She ffi eld, 8- duddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 16-Leicester and Birmingham, 18s.-London and p la c e :asarrived for the purpose, and it is expected to be cAunpleted g f h ort t y he y r e e ar w s Birmingham, Thirds, 40% c.-blanchester and Birmingham, previous to thecommencement of next season.-Kent Her ald. Quarters, 10 %-Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 1114-Man- of resort during the summer season. A cargo of stone AC 18. ABSCONDED. -We understand that yes cheater and Southampton, 2-North Staffordshire, 89s. 6d. -North Union ( A), 206 -I' orth Western,s7s.-Nottingham l b tlo u u t as uf ab a : g u e t : 5 a n 00: . h u i n leftb a n bank h ewe.eensive flax establishment of hlessris. Marsh ll at er terdayitsliks, Mr. John Sugden, for many years cash keep k x ' absconded from his situation taking • a ' , with him Extension, 1-Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead, 2% and Mansfield, 24-Oldham District, 875.-Preston and Wyre Holbec , _ Property of his about 130/., the p employers. The money was c.-West Riding Union, 6. LEEDS, DEC. 15. , all sovereigns, 'notes in the counting-house, they have been le ft untouched. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Sheffield and Man- d has been i n the • . Mr. Sug en service of Messrs. Marshall from cheater, Quarter Shares, No. 3, 5%-Leeds and Bradford, Extensions, 48-Leeds and Dewsbury, 20 3 / c n.-Ditto, New ~ 4 C. ' family i b h' e Ind.-Leeds Intelligeneer. Shares, 3N p.-Leeds and Think, 9N-North British, New IEARLY1 EARLY HO vas IN THE HOUSE or COMMONS.-In the Carlisle Branch, IN-Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver of William 11!. days _ hampton, 12X-Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 30% c n• the House of Commons was accustomed , -Cambridge and Lincoln, 3%-Direct Northern, 11/4 -Li- ito sit at nine o'clock in the morning ! verpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3 3 / 4 -West Riding Union, ; WIGTONSHIRE.-Thi3 county' has been visited 5% -Chelmsford and Bury, 10s. dis.-Grand Union, ls. 6d. with a great deal of thunder and lightning for the last week ihn'styoeuth. He an ie d a a dis.-Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 3 1 4- or ten days. On Wednesday evening last, a farmer of the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction, 10s. dis.-North name of Buden, in. Stoneykirk parish, had a cow and Western, 24-Wakefield and Bradford, 12s. 6d. dis.- a stirk killed by the electric fluid. Mr. Baden and Wakefield and Harrogate, ss. p. his wife had a narrow escape themselves-the hearth- YORK, DEC. 15 . stone of the fire-place at which they were seated having STocK EXCHANGE.-The sales are--York and North Mid- been split by the fluid that came down the chimney.-Ayr land Extension, 24 1 %-Newcastle and Berwick, 10 1 A-North Ob ser v er . , _. . Thanks having been given to the Chairman, the meeting broke up. HAVRE RAILWAY COMPANY. At the last general meeting of the shareholders of this Company, it having been shown that the heavy ex penses incurred for the purchase of the land required for the con truction of the line would necessitate a loan, an extraordinary meeting was held yesterday, to hear the views of the board of directors on the subject, and decide what steps it would be advisable to adopt. M. C. Laffitte, the president, filled the chair, and was sup ported by Count d'Alton Shee, M. Dailly, Sir J. East hope, Mr. Reid, Mr. E. Blount, &c. As soon as the meeting had been formally constituted, M. Thibaudeau, the counsel of the Company (M. De lacour, the secretary, being in delicate health), read a report, explaining the causes which rendered a loan ne cessary. As they were enumerated fully in our account of the proceedings of the last general meeting, we con sider it unnecessary to repeat them at present. The re port concluded by stating that the board of directors proposed to effect a loan of 10,000,000 f., in bonds of I,ooof. each, bearing a yearly interest of five per cent., the whole to be paid off in 78 years by yearly drawings, giving 1,250 r. to each bond that should come out. Of the above-mentioned 10,000,000 f., the sum 8,000,000 f. would be required at present, and the other 2,000,000 f. at an after period, should the requirements of the Com pany demand it, which, however, was considered ex ceedingly unlikely. After the reading of the report, some conversation ensued relative to the terms of the loan, one of the shareholders expressing an opinion that five per cent. was too high a rate of interest. M. THIBAUDEAII replied, that under present circum stances easier terms could not be well obtained ; other companies had not deemed even more stringent condi tions unfavourable, and the length of the lease which the Havre Company kad obtained enabled them to bear such a charge much better than other companies. In answer to a question from another shareholder the CHAIRMAN explained that the present holders of shares: would have the preference in obtaining a part in the loan; that the proportion would be about one in five; and that a letter would be written to each shareholder in a few days demanding what portion he should wish to have, and with an intimation that an answer was to be sent i The he n by qu e t s h t e i 0 3 11 1 s o t f o t f h e ll e l c o e a m n be. was r then put to the vote, and adopted unanimously. Some changes in the statutes were then agreed to; after which the meeting separated.—Galignant" s Mes senger of Friday. THE GRAND JUNCTION AND MID LANDS UNION RAILWAY. A meeting of the Shareholders in this Company. called for the purpose of considering the future steps to be taken by the Directors, was held at the Company's offices, No.l, Exchange-buildings, on Monday. Mr. Barlow was called to the chair. The advertisement calling the meeting having been real, The CHAIRMAN asked the Secretary if it had been advertised in all the papers ? The Secretary having answered in the affirmative, The CHAIRMAN said he was sorry to find that the result was not such as they might have expected from the publicity which had been given to the advertise ments. Perhaps it might have been different if Lord Ingestre, the Chairman of the Company, had presided ; but as it was ne would endeavour to place the principal facts before them. It was well known to all the share holders present that at the time the present scheme came before the public there was none which had a greater number of applications for shares, or which stood higher in public estimation. It was no scheme of speculation, but one that promised areal and permanent income; cer tainly if it were to be prosecuted it would be attended with great advantages to the public and to the share holders. As things now stood, the position of the Com pany would be very different, supposing they brought the scheme before Parliament. True, the Committee might bear the expenses without troubling the share holders, and if they received the consent of the Provisional Committee, many of whom resided in the country, they could do so. They, however, legally required the sanc tion of those gentlemen, and therefore they would ask the shareholders to leave a moiety of their original depo sit, for the double purpose of meeting all claims and securing to those so doing some portion of the original scrip. The Secretary would read the report. The Secretary then read the report, which was in sub stance as follows: " The proposed railway was intended to commence on the Trent Valley Railway near Staffird, and proceeding thence in an easterly direction, to pass through or near to Tixall, Haywood, Colwich, and Abbots Bromley, to the rapidly in creasing -town of Burton-upon-Trent, where it would run into the Birmingham and Derby Railway, forming the shortest and best practicable route from Stafford to Derby. Leaving the Birmingham and Derby Railway at Burton-upon-Trent, it would proceed along the Valley of the Trent by Repton, Swarkestone, and Shardlow, to the Midland Counties Rail way, at the point where that railway formed a junction with the Derby and Nottingham Railway ; and thus, by means of these and other railways in progress, form a complete line of railway communication, between the central towns of Stafford Derby, Nottingham, Lincole : Leicester, Peterborough, and Boston on the east, and Shrewsbury, Chester and Holyhead, North Wales, and Ireland on the west." The remainder of the report was an echo of the Chairman's speech. To questions asked by several members, the CHAIR MAN replied that about 5,4001. had been already paid into the banker's hands on behalf of the Company, that other panics were now waiting the result of the Com mittee's determination to pay in or not ; that the guarantee for the moneys already paid in would be a guinea returned and a portion of scrip secured ; that the Committee of Management were secured in the very same way with general shareholders, and that there was no intention of amalgamating with another Company. The report was then received and adopted. The meeting then, after a somewhat desultory con versation, determined that the Grand Junction and Mid lands Union should not be prosecuted in the next session of Parliament. PROMOTIONS. Lieutenant—H. C. Hanston, to the rank of Com mander. Mates—H. Bayley (1838), of the Volcano ; W. E. Fisher (1838), of the Crocodile ; J. C. Clark (1839), of the ri o Rattlerus; C. O . w° ; A. D o d ( D. GordonGordon oftheQueenC. (1840), u l e a e te ofth e k i l A i l yn us t• sley (1841), late of the Scout ; G. A. Brine (1840), of the Curagoa ; J. C. W. N. Taylor (1838), late of the Ardent ; E. G. Simpkinson (1838) ; T. L. Gauss‘n) (1838), of the Rodney ; and C. T. Leckie (1840), of the Hibernia, to the rank of Lieutenant ; F. K. Hawkins (1841), of the Eagle ; and A. B. Davies (1838), of the Coast Guard, to the rank of Lieutenants. Assistant-Surgeon—Edward Heath (1841), to the rank of a surgeon. The following mates passed their examination for the rank of Lieutenant at the Royal Naval College, Ports mouth, on Tuesday :—F. L. Cotton, of the Excellent ; J. A. Sandford, late of the Cary sfort ; A. B. Davies, of the Coast Guard ; W. F. G. Fead, of the Trafalgar ; G. T. Colville and A. Suplen, of the Excellent ; P. C. Crough, E. Algar, and T. D. Sullivan, late of the Thalia. At the same time Mr. Ponsonby May Carew Croker, and Mr. John Cree Giles, passed examinations for com missions in the Royal Marine corps. ♦PPOINTMENTS. Captains—George Robert Lambert (1825), wlio was midshipman of the Eagle from 1809 to 1814, and under the late Admiral Sir Charles Rowley, Bart., shared in all the services of that ship in the Adriatic, including the taking of Trieste and Fume, where he served ashore, to the Endymion, 44, at Devonport ; Thomas Henderson (1840), who commissioned and fitted out the Endymion, to the Sampson steam-frigate at Sheerness. Lieutenants—Henry Need (1841), who was mato of the Druid, and promoted for his servicts at the taking of Canton, and when lieutenant of the Harlequin served in her boats in a severe encounter with pirates on the coast of Sumatra in 1844, to the Terrible steam-frigate, at Bo W net o ta olwich ; Edward ..totomman Evans dthevi Grey perbnr ( a l n B t 2 in 7 e ) : l a a t te s o h f e t e h r e . ness ; J. C. Clarke and C. 0. Wood (additional), to the Vernon ; W. E. Fisher (additional), to the Penelope ; P. W. May, to the Alarm ; W. G. Herbert, to the Bittern; J. Rawstorne, to the Trafalgar ; J. W. Tarleton, to the Endymion ; R. M. Floud, to the Nimrod ; C. M. Ayns ley, to the Terrible ; W. Crawford and th Hon. H. D. Keane, to the Scourge ; J. Simpson, to the Vernon ; W. C. Forsyth and H. Bayley (additional), to the Hi bernia ; W. Cashman (additional), to the Vindictive • E. Hempstead (additional), to the Collingwood ; C. Young (additional), to the Agincourt ; 0. Borland, to the Nimrod ; A. F. Webster, A. F. Austin, and H. S. Haysker, to the Samson ; W. R. Rolland, to the Alarm; R. T. Bedford, to tha Superb. Masters—R. C. Allen, to the Teriible ;P. Welling. ton, to the Alligator; G. Wilson (acting), to the Samson. Surgeons—C. H. Fuller, to the Grauipna ; C. Carter. to the Terrible. Paymasters and Pursers—G. H. Moubray, to the Terrible ; IV. G. Parmeter, to the Daring ; W. Drury, to the Samson. Chaplains—Rev. J. H. Laing to the Grampus ; Rev. J. Thompson, to the Alligator. Naval Instructors—J. Laing, to the Grampus ; T. Eastman, to the Excellent ; M. P. Sambell, to the St. Vincent. Mates—P. Hudson and E. Scott, to the St. Vincent ; N. De C. Blennerhasset, to the Alecto. Assistant-Surgeons•—A. Elliott, M.D., to the Terri ble ; W. T. Alexander, D. Davidson, and R. D. Prit chard, to the Alligator ; C. S. Lester (acting), to Hasler Hospital ; and R. Sparrow (acting), to Plymouth hos pital. Second Masters—E. L, Buist, to the Terrible ; J. Cut tij ar, to the Samson. ° Clerk in Charre—W. H. Turner, to the Viper. Midshipmen—H. H. Sainsbury, to the Rooney; F. G. Meekham, to the St. Vincent ; J. W. H. Thompson, to tho Amazon ; H. Christian, to the Sydenham. Naval Cadets—ll. M. Knox, to the Endymion; A. P. Willis, to the Trafalgar. Clerk's Assistant—J. F. Harris, to the Alarm. WOOLWICH, DEC. 15.—The Gladiator steam-frigate is commissioned at Woolwich by Captain John Robb (1841). The Grampus, 50 gun frigate, Captain Martin, C. 8., is to be taken out of the basin into the river to-day. The following change has taken place—R. Taylor, gun ner, vice Wicks, cancelled. The Terrible steam-vessel, commissioned on Tuesday last by Captain Ramsey, has had the following officers"- appointed to her :—C. M. Aynsley, lieutenant; Dr. Car ter, surgeon; Dr. A. Elliott, assistant surgeon; G. H. Moubray, paymaster and purser, vice Brickwood, ap pointment cancelled; R. C. Allen, master, vice Cbegwyn, appointment cancelled ; R. Beatson, carpenter, vice Tucker, appointment cancelled. The Monkey steam-vessel, Master Commander William Bryant, left Woolwich on Friday for Sheerness. The Joseph Soames, hired convict ship, still remains off the Royal Arsenal, and the Nymph Woolwich steam packet brought down 150 convicts on Friday to complbto the number (286) she is intended to convey to Norfolk Island. RECRUITS YOU THE ROYAL ARTILLERY.—TWeIIty• eight fine young men arrived at head-quarters at Woolwich. on Friday evening last, from Lisburn, Ireland, where they were enlisted by the recruiting party under the charge of Lieutenant Clark, at that station. The recruits were in spected yesterday at the Ordnance Hospital, and all passed as eligible to join the Royal Regiment of Artillery. A re cruiting sergeant left Woolwich for Carlisle, and a party for Taunton last week. The accounts from Elgin, Scotland, do not afford much prospect of success in that quarter, none having been obtained as yet. A report has stated that the bounty has been raised, but such is not the fact. REPRESENTATION OP WINDSOR.—Some doubts having prevailed amongst a large portion of the electors of Windsor as to the: certainty of Mr. Neville again offering himself at the next election, and a general election being considered by many, under recent circumstances, to be on the eve of taking place, it was deemed advisable on the part of those who introduced Mr. Neville to the constituency in 1841, to communicate with him on the subject. A letter was received yesterday morning from that gentleman, which set at rest all doubts and speculations; Mr. Neville explicitly stating that it is his intention to offer himself at the next. election for the borough whenever it might take place. MYSTERIOUS DEATH . or AN INPANT.—On Monday evening, Mr. W. Payne held an in q uest at St. Ba rtholomew. Hospital, on the body of John Cockin, a child three months old. The friends of deceased live at No. 15, Plough-court. Fetter-lane. The deceased's mother was very much addicted to drink, and on Saturday night she returned home in a state of intoxication, refiring to rest about midnight. Next morn ing, about six o'clock, she called some of the lodgers and said her child was dead, and she believed death had resulted from inflammation, produced by a cold under which deceased had been labouring for the last fortnight. Soon after she brought the dead child into the street, when City police-sergeant, 909, noticing her standing without shoes or stockings, with the child in her arms, quite dead, at once removed her to the station-house, and the deceased to the hospital, where it was pronounced to have been dead for some hours. The house-surgeon opened the body, and considered that death had occurred in the course of nature, probably accelerated by exsure to the cold. Verdict, "Natural causes." FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILIL• WAY.—On Monday morning a labouring man was killed by a train running over him near the West Drayton station. A special train, containing some scientific gentlemen, left the Paddington terminus at seven o'clock for Exeter, to test the speed on the broad gauge, and immediately after passing the station at West Drayton, a labouring man named Green, who happened to be on the down line, was knocked down and literally cut in two. The accident occurred nearly on the same spot where two *persons met their death in a similar were for r t e h m e e p v r ed esit t manner about thirteen months since. The unfortunate man was rather late, and not being aware that a special train was expected, kept on the down li ne, as there was n o o f t. regular e train to pass before eight o'clock. The remains n ti us la e, ted bu w t conveyed to the luggage . a coroner ' s inquest. The the evening to the village, to await ceased, which are shockingly_ , mu deceased was forty-seven years of age, and married, but has not left any family. A Sussex farmer , o n his return from a- loot s grist agricultural dinner in that county, dignified bY'th e p rese nce o f grandees of the highest rank in the Peerage, was asked by a neighbour, how he liked the entertainment? The honest yeoman, referring, perhaps, to the redundancy of poultry on the table, replied, in his provincial dialect, "that he was sick of the dewkea and fules that he &rad there."---. From an Old Suieeriber. 'sC vy, ~1~..~ ssti°' Rf tb: • co- rctiol" ot her .ondi vilic's bea r, the t he tal , if 00 0 314, iticx6 socl