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

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Capital, I,2oo ,oool, Provision in 60,000 eg shares of 201. each. ,•sial overes ford, Esq D ., eposit 2/. 2s. per share. lard n W„, up.m.,., PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. 'lain ft .- Paget, Uxbridge House 'V , l iihir o „e„YalleY RailwaM.P.' 77, Pall-mall, Director of the Tean /tett, eon e i r le , Y t i lughes, Y Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid , rd p rice eor of the South and Midlands' Junction . Railways d lic r eeter of ' sq., M.P., Director of the Welsh Midland, an vid R . /to the South and Midlands' Junction Railways 1 1 ; ° •a e , (1°4 illitNi t ., s q'' 111 . E., Chairman of the Belfast, Director of the Blre s --nehester, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail raielill E. D agh g „. e Beauvoir B t Chairman of the London and Bir ar,lu,Lieges'o,DE...tension, ' and ar D ' ir , Director of the South and Midlands' of`vtilliigolala a ,,, he s o ~ acon Johnston, art Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director . g eo inn g n u. , •, , rg e w„„ Midlands' Junction Railway Ze Cheq,,"eain Prescott, Bart ., Theobalds, Herts, Director of s li ',,en It a i hr and Manchester Diret, and South and Midlands' June wolisra a), 3 1h.,:141)443.nn, Itlaesynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales, eller.tieor of tile South and Midlands' Junction Railways k i , pleay eral Sir Henry Pynn, Director of the Direct Western John Ke Y, /1 k i St aoeh oat, Alderman of London, Director of the London girlltaYs "ter Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction „ jar n o veysa ‘ ,„ „ "illi e "'saws ----• oart, Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Jlon ee ' 1148hYn a 41i.ehairo.1,47.nglles, Esq., F.S.A. F.L.S, &c., Alderman of Lon- Ilao ' ro 'oildoo anti"'r the Manchester ' and Birkenhead Continuation, desks ParoeeeGreewich Railways, Re. Re. ili di ' l lel We sti , Esq, , Alderman of London, Director of the Lend kis kaiLltis'Jitoe/,aster Bank, and Namur and Liege, and South an Loode'nersley ion Railways tio we, ester Direct, 4 1 II ' 4l 51 °Per, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the ktilas lielly, E and South and Midlands' Junction Doo47.\niciaojoilesqtb).,nAßlderman of London, Director of the South and tio gati clea n, L ,: Railways ..ail e .: 4l, and ,'(l., De puty-Chainnan of the Trent Valley Cann iaajorl's •Oireetor of the South and Midlands' Juncti on vrith -Ir er Lind, .le k id ce, -111, E.. 11 Ch • _)„ . net, . Ural 1..,.., •• airman of the Glou t c h es a t n er d , m A t b dt e aa rys d t a ; - 'scir.q,, l tailw ays 7 ales, and Director of the Sou f. te r and p era l Earlby ~, - antain f re ws• and- 'Li.' Ir-g t . o ,aelet n 0t ,.7 O • olith and Midlands' Junction Railways Rutland-gate, Director of the Worces- n be an a .e il r o rth - it e .', l:l aedougal, late Bengal Royal General Staff, John oouth - "'ton, Director of the Chester and Forest of "Win a gle exasd er la. Midlands' Junction Railways, Re. - e l i ,,,,„E5q., s o nkon Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club no.if e nZal - '414111-,-n'lldary of the City of London, Director of the -••••her t R . slid so4tkreial Insurance Company, the Great Western of •,,,Itailw o e p a rY Lyr,,,,.." and :Midlands' Junction Railway - kier 44 Rail f Shan, xii ii way ~ I)gell'titsq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth lytekuni ion ] ' l- Chairman of the Thames Embankment i aster, „ cl a p, Jo '-Chairman Srianl eel ; ''''erhysi t i , Esq., Director of the London and Man ot rir ney //i re and South Staffordshire Railways l lvra e It alian sae,„it,Esq., Wilton-place, et 'r %L I . --''' ' n strin, and South and Midlands' Junction ,ireera oe ' e csso n,Esq 14,,,ItailwayetriPanY, a • L'oi li , a ! l aging Director of the Britamila Life Insti '" el -ulrector of the South and Midlands' Junction „,:ma r , Y, oin., „ 41, t o ; , e and s o 7 /th -"iron: 1 0 0g ~ , Director of the Furness and White ilirsgolboughtsaT, - aidiands' Junction Railways ii' '' 'ii,,rs I '''' nl Extp',„ a Yal Artillery Director of the London and tagek --..101 1 and South' and Midlands' Junction Rail 411g IA oaaar t b.reetorroector'orsl, Director of the Thames Embankment, Manag ale4l,4 e r the e n ar t amer s , 14 Puty..,t 4 ,ellter Life Insurance Company, and Di _and. Midlands' Junction Railway rnetor -, liairg i ; ri zsel • Magistrate of the County of Middlesex, q jtal etio " ,, t he Le* Or the London and Birmingham Extension, Di- Z I ; 11,', 4' 1 1 .44, 1%3 , i :e5tr and Bedford, and South and Midlands' et,',..etrt P otter, E ‘ l .!in Je o ,,,e al si r /,,__N., Secondary of the City of London hi ke ~iliga, Esq 7 1 3 Grant, K.C.8., 31, Harley-street ()atm ',. • P otter i„,..'11n-grove, Hammersmith b tins 1 , . wite e „! ',la Sus sex -gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the teaja irii `alliv eys ' and Cheltenham, and South and Midlands' Juno 14lianiZ:eire t 1,',14 so4?l,liietori;}.„,!l•• E.ILS., 8, Upper Hyde-park-street ( s illiis i o n ' and ati d i a lii L,eeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, sra.. rater, E ds Junction Railways bo o tanY, s ou t sq., Director of the Britannia Life Insurance "0r , ,1 41 ,5a y , My and Stafford, and South and Midlands' June and- '' arbar y 1),,, bir o ,. , Esq. at g "keel p e ingh eol aa'i, as ell - square, Director of the Manchester Ilittrobritailwnt°4 Jolinsoalw:Y Liard h aY -, -•-sq., Director of the London and Manches ""nisq ‘arish t John ; _Pan el , 'o L , sq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire e Likadrs o 4 -r-ogq., Wordsley, near Stourbridge, Staffordshire genr.`sins'N•• E.1.C.5., rector Church of England h er th e l,wis sel'illil South and/ idlands' Junction Railway 4 aallea3/4olidoe and Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director to es „Ye Dover, and South and Midlands' Junction :414 :Leeve .B, t , . qI4 le ilth goilla Director of the London and Manchester Direct, li gs , ash , t idlands' Junction Railways ,„ I' 11, 4 „ sq. 4-1 - ti v , eat, E i • ila o °reenter ki•• Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick qie4l';endi e l,'l . l , ; ll,l South and Midlands' Junction Railways ,sand v. ieh ords 'a •• sq., Lewisham Itiiii•'' JIM North ' Esq'' ' 4o rg e ta11ana.,,44,1, Inner Teniple, London, Director of the South ; le ,. U. colmaunction Railway Director of the South and Midlands' June •,4„,i4l poron ,a,naPton and Banbury Railways Wil l , kdi a „,„ .sq, Langford, near Bicester, Director of the South er'ill Is lands Junction Railway /, • •lie i ts ,. gett, P 1.3-.il LI . -sq, Winchester House. Broad-street, Director lag ys -ll and Austrian, and South 'and Midlands' Junction 4 11 4 . ere ss, a l atio o „, sq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Con -I,t iii,ailway i, ter 4, e ,o k , s l) • ,arn, Es Leeds 4,3:lleli""lrlie, E:q . :, Leeds, Vice-Chairman of the Leeds and York ‘,.. llo likir, 4,,t0.„--s, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London ana I • 1, ( . .'°"unl Extension Railway N,,0, tornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond I, .!rness, Esq., Leytonitone, Essex • i illes, Esq., Hungerford Park, Berks ;titsliZt ght, 31. A., Coed Celyn, Denbighshire, and Lonsdale-squares Itt l'h‘ it iv ,;,t,i i , t, wis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway LS Jaesn, Esq., Director of the Newark and Sheffield Railway lord er.inan, Esq., Leeds, Di rector of the Lincoln, York and 11 3vay ~%..,. hilli 1 *;\ : ""ail l Ps• Esq., Avon House, 3 lelksham, Wilts, Director.of ~,,Zki•l,,„•'11•1 Midlands' Junction Railway j i ta.4° l l4 4 s Ward, Esq., Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clopton House, ese l ,o I lAvon, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction bely,' l ) . NA and li o "iirr G G,o n, t o p ., ~ reenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, , irg e t," Soo. , "Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield June : nire e lehr y i t 'a and Midlands' Junction Railways ( , :vay, , r ''' ef ti, ra ck, Esq., Edgulin-lodge, Huddersfield, Provisional ' Dt4l 4 `, • ild tor" H uddersfield, Halifax and Bradford Union Rail_ b it , . oltei t ; e etor of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway j,i 11 1 ., , - 4 0 ,tti o : Of the t`: , •I.C.S., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square, a•a 4 Na g , ` l 'eningham and Oxford, and South and Midlands' iti, "rl)o o, e l et ,, k I lixo t s " 1 . - • ' ,1, 4y n il Lemo n ' - sq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li 'ilei, ~ s "ts Direct, and Keighly, Halifax, and Huddersfield eev eh 'eeei t t Oay" t rY, ' i t a s „ c ia 15, G rosvenor-place and Brandon Lodge, near "44, '' lr eetor of the South and Midlands' Junction Rail •.,,llie 4 I Vat , ; 1 0,,,, -, rBe,' - - Prole r •lit• ''. l Nt' ' arld S o L-sq, Thurloe-squaro, Brompton, Director of t ier w' ortir ger n.-ll and Midlands' Junction Railways ii ; 44 elle an rile, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton ed,, S outh goi 11...., Director of the London and Manchester Direct, b ir -q „t ialtanae, , j lim' e teres Ball E unction 'Railways 1, h - tiej oh o fhe T re ' • „ . sil , T orrington -square, and Alfreton, Derby, J o y • 1 . A"J l ion n e e' valley Continuation, and South and Mid ,%,•er go ' , biso n t o, ways "Ili t r ' Laseg.;i'sq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and tro lmi q' La emotes Railways L ae ' 114,,, t44 . Life t o ' R , • sc la The Hall, Blackheath, Director of the Me it4l iiiVNhani e ranc e C ompay, and Director of the London i f i, //iianaw jor_Xtension Company, and Director of the South ii,•4atr e ; i v tBq., bpleOn Railway etch , a ,.. , i t ile s, an ,,re., tor of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and ofo e e ;'',. ne, Es South and Midlands' Junction Railways I triolle s o f eh o f i., 7 unpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman lvasas „oath s od `,l,giand Life Insurance Company, and Director ,ig.„ Dutton'aniiri e " ,oldlands' Jam e 1 411 e N., Bla la. ti" Railway it:ita3., t , 12 set. ti •eath lathy 'rector 0 ' t . rector of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds talo 4 .l ,Way ' and t ore... ._te L and Commercial Life Insurance , sim'a C. w "or of the South and Midlands' Junction f rq, fcti ali * TYnual e qef, ri ek J . d' j gee „ • Director of the South-Eastern and South ee.anes, t„,„°n Itailways b a ri ,,/', and sz'.l.? Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and toZigby : 1 : ‘ , 41%1, 1 ,7 11„aild Midlands' Junction Railways o, 4 : l Pit - e l: Soutilt:,,,,_'-aq., Director of the Great Manchester, ' r illi a - „, j41, 11 o "',,Yori t ,i•,,'"° l l Railw a y Essex-'" Le a-4 .in 'raee, R egent's -park, Director of the South Q, t...., Ileyon RaLlwa t.h.psznotasti4ZlooSear,l o'atDlitreacutwor of the Gravesend and Rochester, and TNil, on Its„' EN a3 's in ti eY, t Way a Director of the South and Midlands' '' ll eel 3l ' 11, IT u rns (1 Esn -11 shill Surr ton, olli g . a., Diey It , 71 11 do ridg e , rector of the Leicester and Bedford Railway t,lslilway on, t s ,,' '`..!,0.., Highgate, Middlesex It, wane, Esq. 17 kiirector of the South and Midlands' Junction 14 / N ert W li at eeci e 'E ' W sq lll , , "el ell, Middlesex I•reldialllSigrtkllolitellge-Plaee, St. John's-wood, Director of the 11• •• erl ek _. , t ., ~ ailwa y 4.es st'oo....lllsgiih,elo!actor of the Guarantee Society Ilio,. sor e Fl a T e ' sq., Thurlow-square, Th e ssina l ster t E ' -sq. Gr h Brompton ala q,, Xtensi o ea am-street, Director of the Oxford p, t 48 y ‘a n Dio, .ate li K ey, t og. .„,,, V k 'nli lII ' Es "t ' 4 'l )3 " and' worth I. IN I, e m _ •.;_ rades, near Bngham Abe're, t,,, ai dig„.. ,n, j u ireetor of the West Riding Junction, and t o ,:tr, %o gee ' s _‘i Inaction Railways 4,,,Nii, .7r, t Re , , ,Lerplace, Portman-square 3 1 :4 1 , . le Ao-4;.:/lie-street, May-fair, Director of the Great 4 sse i t Rog i t t ilseoli gi Zle Society ,iio ot :lti ort , and ki,28.,..E!et-Inace House, Southampton, Director slot am eprl, ts,: - " ,, i Junction Railway trovnidigea.o.,_ Director of the London and Brighton and Cei4hy , 4, , ta.,C; unction Railways Sie la kt.lDlreer:lllloilso, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the ci ao, sric ii ii. i4h rof the South and Midlands'Junction Railway 14 1 a Nri i 4i ellagd e e F',Direetor of the Warwick and Worcester, and. ti, sa • q er 4rY, tog Outiction Railways pirector of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Vaifl,,nd t 1 (I hrly . ' 1 1‘cio r .411b oil l ,d Isn., Director of the Trent Valley Continua , nnea . it, rci al LI, dlands' Junction Railways, and of the Legal noh o l iokiZtt, t , le Insurance Company \'•lti reckn•Raiown Brighton, Director of the South ~,t t,. ~„ Unctionway' ‘ paon li albsgov, hi I Nwa ''' E sq.. Director of the South and Midlands' Ileo 4 41 allito„ Y ,i4ty Sat, ts Earle, Royal Artillery Joelv ! Re rl., Direct° :a T . ~,, t el., , or rof the Reading Railway o te l ,, 4 ing, ,rritee,„, set-place, Dorset-square NL. r oe , ! ts q ., birf-441., Be rkeley-street, Portman-square • It iti ' i lli )4,,,n.,ett, L ,_ eetor of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway J way ''''s Ils gl a • Alderman of Devizes, and Director of the tl, elb er "g CoMpany, and South and Midlands' Junction k, e I, eie t it elbe t T hopP,ni: t s e b r aria t i l l Esq., Gl oucester-place, London, Director of .41147,_ebitt` rice, i t ilningharn Railway „ails. n'o re j, b e ,. , tor of Llaanothel, Herefordshire 4ist:P i l l neXter ftL..?oWer-street, London, Director of the Rugby teZ la T, 'fiZeorg -L e Z • 1.1 ; „ MA ages, on r ia London, and Bexhill, Sussex ! I ls r. i:itia , tsarlisag itaill,Na.light-terrace, Hyde -park, Director of the '4 4 4 liel' lialril.'„Eolton WY tit sm elt , // ' i -•,.D. onset mise, near Bradford )I, a e 0 , ~ „..otor of Fulbourue, Cambridge .kitlll.._,L4,zols.es2,%r rnaer4:4,,,,,,,..t.t!hehenhfaornr t ß he att C w o a u y nty of Gloucester, Director 4 40, i le ' r ek ?,°, - 4 1 e a'nae'llAreellapel-str.eet, Bolgrave-square, Director of tree,' °ni t j ee, E N i r E OO l Railway to e 4, 8 tine i ,. 1 : .4. Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Bar kw EN ., 1.4 ‘ailway "Worth i-Pll,, Saddleworth near Manchester, Director of (Win ' h ung Comp any ' : y !s t i a Ih i l a ir n t . ur 12.cion steei•lti.:,,ltl:nll:t4ll:niNtn:t;E:to.ll--vol:Thtiu;:,:yleir°!laiardJohn Mitenell, LL.D.:F.ILS. It ' 4 o 4 aln Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E. li tie,klbe, 1 -tr -•'% th at •ames, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street. ~,N , N l _ at t n , la LocAL AGENTS. lie - • ll ls te ' rs aY • o nd . wni be divided longitudinally by four great s c i , kitpidected bye will become so many main trunks, Inters"- 414a54i0 wiand rustily lines, both transverse and oblique, I,T Y erto e 'ket ato/T tominaunication with the intermediate die > b e rne, „ I s e, whi ch rs• and with seaport towns. The more 4 Th e %m a to (1 pm eing ts.,also the longest, originating at Newcastle- Anls e t ' r olia uteriningteirmigh York, Peterborough, and Qambridge, I:eitage," a ortli le ' calibr e London, whence all places are accessible. .4:41 I, - kr h , ern teri, westward, is more tortuous, and has also Te e n sj,e,:uTyart,terilail,ziii_;itirtiostigt th the preceding by which its ad" atok •. 4 ii„ . /id Daes,..3, restricted. This line, de:acending the Ere i,tetl:,llllra , g Sato th Rugby and Oxford, becomes a South •ito ,41 1„.-e Sou th - Western Railway at Basing r a'y tlesi...alltali„, t a t, v ers ekl ea sn b g " - ii: one, or the most westerly, is still more de 'lN loam o44 ... e arly th i e „ ll lrin e 4 Prec edlng i Gloucester'sp and narrow ' l e I ' t ie% '' a tight and as its first link, It Am e te r /1 W it se least and most undulating Oiso,,,ittße ,Pesd el, ; erka, populous ll'a "'th e a lstri, 'mai l on seet • k'A 44 4,1 1 0 et I nvitin or the kingdom -the West Midland o ot : ; 44(1 41 adrang similar species of accommodation from litq l ostileri gi( ! l lis c ut t • e l ges, Still remains unprovided with a chief ~,, I, k m g i ii ,... IRI , or _ fourth longitudinal line. .-irnasaiLToPrdt°-onß tc,,7, .I„ z ,n k h ( ..7.:,_ ai m so ,_ i_t northern terminus of the West Mid gs Is °r ma ss A al v l o w n a , y, is proposed to carry 41 8 - / ",, le o ae South alrforathence between Moreton, lands' Junction Railway. Itqct tr gni ot , and ~ Cricklade, and Swindon, where it will 4r niPliet'riiesi' ll e Pror,Z o u 14, 4 11,1 1 , t e ,_ by i t is ed line will be about sixty miles , and the h.. 41,,, 4 110,„ oilin g , a gently u nd _ i"O i• ch , e.ri o ' `I st,„"vindon it becomes .. ug and densely peo'pled. Loath 1 141,1:,,, kla. - .....3 of wh i , s identical with the So . le, tistoe d __, en it opens a most direct communica it . its , .r / so with the harbouns of Weymouth, Christ " . c(M a • a n'tll At its northern terminus, Bir ''.° Wi th 4 Weil of lini.4, pio*tio - d, in Pit- 1111r11111 GUAM S FIELD 11,013 is from lit wiles be• f inforning bus, Wit h 'll informations 22, Tbi t : emat l4 " Ipto mpietod, the et that the,' til the apPill; 'hare sin t lat •n ,7 to ,0 3e bay' u — d tabtuty, >nt. Sec w A 1. THE SUN,_LONDON, NVEDNESDA Y ET_ENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1845. grass, or completed, which will form the most direct line that can ever probe.i,ly be. constructed httwcen the southern ports of Enghw, In the alliancti of lines forming the West Midland, Manchester and Southampton Railway project, a combination of advantages pre sents itself—the result of a design, to a great extent, but of contin gencies also. If it be desirable that the terminus of every railway should be situated at some commercial or populous place, in this re spect the present project is peculiarly fortunate. If Government be resolved on countenancing the shortest and most direct lines, it will be seen, by laying a rule on the map of England from Salisbury to Manchester, that a course due north and south between these places will pass very nearly through the towns mentioned in this prospectus, as being on the proposed line ; and actual measurement has shown this line to be the shortest between Southampton and Manchester by 26 miles. By the 'construction, therefore, of little more than GO miles of rail, as here proposed, the shortest, most direct, and convenient communication between Manchester and Southampton will be es tablished—a line, also, however superior in position to others pro mising similar advantages, may yet be considered as competing with none, but as an independent work, originating at Birmingham and terminating in the seaports of Weymouth, Christchurch, Poole, and Southampton. In the allotment of shares in this Company the Directors propose giving a preference to shareholders in the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Company. Applications •lor prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms of application for shares had, at the Office of W. B. James, Esq., Solicitor, 5, BasinOall-street ; and of the following gentlemen:— London—Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street; Mr. J. B. Har rison, 8, Bank Chambers ; Mr. Thomas Hanbury, 4, Angel-court. Liverpool—Messrs. Mills and Co., and Messrs. Neilson. Manchester—Messrs. Houghiand and Leese, and Mr. Willitun .Marshall. Elnll—Me,ssrs Coninson and Flint, Leeds—Messrs. Young and Son Stratford-on Avon—Sir. William Bolton. Exeter—Mr. Thomas Sanford. Plymouth—Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Birmingham— Mr. Collis, anti Mr. John Wright. Glasgow—Messrs. Tassie and Co. Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co., and Messrs. M`Callum and Co. Derby—Messrs. Eyre and Co. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the West Midland, Manchester, _ and Southampton Railway. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of 201. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parlia mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Name (in Mil) .... ... • • ..... Trade or Profession .. • ...... Address of Referee.. • .. • .. Date THE WEST MIDLAND, MAN UtiESTER, AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND BIRMINGHAM, SWINDON, DEVIZES, AND SALISBURY JUNCTION. Notice is hereby given, that after the 30th of SEPTEMBER instant, no applications for shares in this undertaking can be received. By order of the Board, G. N. WRIGHT. 5, Basinghall-street, London, Sept. 23, 1845. LEICESTER AND TEAN AND DOVE VALLEY JUNCTION RAILWAY. . . - (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 300,0001., in 15,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. The Right Honourable the Earl of Uxbridge The Right Honourable Lord William Graham The Right Honourable Lord Alfred Paget, M.F. The Right Honourable Lord George Paget Sir Richard Dobson, F.R.S., 47, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, London The Honourable Francis Curzon, Barrow Hall, Derby The Honourable Frederick Byron Edward Buller, Esq., M.P., Dllhorn Hall, Staffordshire The Right Honourable Colonel George Lionel Dawson Darner, 6, Tilney-street, London Major Beresford, M.P., 77, Pall-mall, London George Dodd, Esq., M.P., Grosvenor-place, London William Henry Gregory, Esq., M.P., 5, Cork-street, London John Buller Yarde Buller, Esq., 10, New-street, Spring-gardens, London, and Holne Park, Devon William John Blake, Esq., 62, Portland-place, London The Rev. Reginald Chandos Pole, Radbourn Rectory John Bott, Esq., Coton-hall, Staffordshire Henry Barton, Esq , Rangemoor-house, Burton-on-Trent Capt. C. Twisleton Graves, Army and Navy Club, London Wm. Coare Brocklehurst, Esq., Hurdsfield-house, Macclesfield Richard Dyott, Esq., Freeford-hall, Lichfield Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., F : R.S., F.A.S., York-terrace, Regent's-park, and Walney, Lancashire Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq., 55, Chester-square, London Joseph Hoare, Esq., banker, Hampstead, London William J. Deane, Esq., 6, Lower Berkeley-street, Portman-square, London George Dixon, Esq., Colonel Scots Fusilier Guards, 97, Mount street, London Edward Thomas Coke, Esq., Mansfield Wood-house Edward Hyde Clarke, Esq., Hyde-hall, Stockport Thomas Landor, Esq., the Manor-house, Burton-on-Trent William Sharp, Esq., Linden-hall, Lancaster Thomas Webb, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire Samuel Walker Cox, Esq., Breadsall-lodge, near Derby Henry Meakin, Esq., Burton-on-Trent Moses Cartwright, Esq., Stanton-house, Derbyshire John T. Raworth, Esq., Leicester George Boden, Esq., St. George's-terrace, Kensington Charles Berners Plestow, Esq., Watlington Hall, Lynn Regis, Nor folk, and Princes-street, Cavendish-square, London James Valiance, Esq., 35, Cavendish-square, London, and Sitting bourne, Kent Colonel Cheney, Gaddesley, near Leicester (With power to add to their number). ENGINEERS. Joseph COM, Esq. J. F. Bateman, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. J. and J. Richardson, Burton-upon-Trent G. H. R. Cox, Esq., Derby. BANKERS. London=-Messrs. Barnett, Hoare.% and Co. Messrs. Roberts, Curtis, and Co. Commercial Bank of London Leicester and Ashby-de-la-Zouch—The Leicester and Leicestershire Banking Company Burton-on-Trent---The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbonrn Union Bank. SECRETART—Joseph Rickardson, Esq., Burton-on-Trent. MIIF LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEF - 4 FIELD, ;lila STAFFORDSIITRE (or LEEDS Eli DtiDLE ;) - DIRECT itIILIVA (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21.25. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Staffordshire Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street, Hyde-park Gardens Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Deputy Chairman of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail way, &c. Sir William Boothby, Bart, Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire Sir William Lowthrop, Kilt., Hull, anal Alga-house, Scarborough, Di rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc tion Railway Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, Ashburham House, Chairman of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Hon. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Nottingham and Boston Railway, Parliament-street, London, &c., &c. The Sheriff of York Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's London and Manchester Railway Bright, Selim, Esq., Buxton Blurton, Robert, Esq., banker, Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter, Direc tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Booth, John, Esq., Macclesfield Bradley, Septimus, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashbourne Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reming ton's London and Manchester Direct Railway Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon don and Manchester Direct Railway Cleobury, Thomas, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton Cooke, the Rev. J., Uttoxeter, Director of the East and West Junction Railway, &c. Cooke, John, Esq., Macclesfield Cooper, John Douglas, Esq., Hohne Cottage, Asjsbourne Cox, Walker, Esq., Breadsall, Derby, Director othe Tean and Dove Valley Railway Crockett, T. Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c. Cross'ey, John, Esq., Lamberhurst, Sussex, and Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Dolby. John, Robert. Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Dale, Major, Thurston, Ashbourne Daniel, Richard, Esq., Oak Hill, Stoke-upon-Trent Dawson, Samuel, Esq., sen., Ashbourne Dent, Edward, Esq., Westfield, Huddersfield Dent, John, Esq., Northgate, Huddersfield Dyson, Thomas, Esq., Well-house, Holmfirth Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Railway Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Hudders field, Sheffield, and Halifax Railway Edensor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbourne Fidler, Peter Pichott, Esq., Higgin Grange, Derbyshire Fisher, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Frost, Meadows, Esq., Chester Garle. Samuel, Esq., Uttoxeter Garle, William, Esq. Uttoxeter Gilpin, and Co., Messrs. William, Wedges Mills, Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Goddard, Thomas, Esq., Bank-house, Longton, Staffordshire Haden, Joseph, Esq., Dudley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of the Lei cester and Birmingham Railway Hartshorne, Robert James, Esq., Ashbourne Harpin, John, Esq., Birk's-house, Holmfirth • Hatfield, Thomas, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &e. Haywood, Richard. Howard, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries Hill, John, Esq., Derby Hirst, Abraham, Esq., York-house, Huddersfield Ingleby, loseph, Esq., Cheadle, Staffordshire Jones, the Rev. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Johnson, John Goodwin, Esq., Bentley Hall Ashbourne Johnson, D. T., Esq., Aidermary Churchyard, Director of the Cites- ter and Manchester Railway Johnson, Richard Wm., Esq., Moorgate, Director of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire,"and Worcester Junction Railway Keene, John Joseph, Esq.„ St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Director of the National Bank of Ireland, &c. King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance, &c. Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston Hall, Sudbury Lawrence, Richard Corbett, Esq., Wand&ld-hall, Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Laughton, Richard, Esq., Barrow-hill, Uttoxeter Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf _ . . . .. , fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, James, Esq., trttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf- fordshire, and Woicestershire Junction Railway Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn Commission, &c. Marlow, Joseph, Esq., Walsall Mason, Charles James, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries Mason, George Miles, Esq., Wetley Abbey, Ftaffordshire Meteyard, Horace, Wm., Esq., Director of Remington's London aid Manchester Railway, Middle Temple, and Chatham-place M`Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Manors, John, Esq. Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Mellard, James, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Minors, John, Esq.; Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Minors, John, Esq. The Parks, ITttozeter, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Mountford, Thomas John, Esq., Ashbourne Moorhousc, Joshua, Esq., Holinflrth Maskery, Thomas, Esq., Norbury, Derbyshire North, Joseph, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield Norton, George, Esq.. Clayton West, Huddersfield,Director of the Li- . . verpool and Leeds Direct Railway Orton, James, Esq., Woodford, near Uttoxeter, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Parkinson, John, Esq., F.A.S., Cambridge-terrace, Ilyde-park, Di- Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Rail way, &c. Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield House, Uttozeter. Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Roberts, Thomas, Esq., Manchester Robin son, John, Esq., Silcoates, Cottage, Wakefield Roden, Thomas Clarke, Esq., Birminham Sant, Edward, Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford- shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropton, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Juuction Railway Smith, Charles, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Smith, Thomas, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway _ Smith, Thomas, Esq., Blore-hall, Staffordshire, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, William, Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby- shire, Staffordshire Railway, &c. - Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of Team and Dove Valley Railway _ Smith, John, Esq., Barton House, Derbyshire Smythe, John Vere, Esq., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcesterihire Junction Railway Spiers, E . J., Esq., Carlton Villas, London, Director of the East and • West Junction Railway Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle As surance Company Terry, Benjamin, Esq., Mayor of Walsall, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway, &c. Tibbits, Thomas, Esq., Norton Manor-house, Leicester Tomlinson, Thomas, Esq., Bradley Pastures, Ashbourne Toogood, Rupert, Esq , Ashbourne Tylecote, Edward, Esq., surgeon, Great Heywood, Staffordshire Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, Holloway, London, Director of the East and West Junction Railway, &c. Waller, Major, K.H., St. James's-square, Director of the Chester and Manchester Railway, &c, Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire Walters, J. T., Esq., Rugeley Watts, William Royde, Esq., Birmingham Weston, Thomas, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Weston, Samuel, Esq., Leeds Wiles, George, Esq., Thagerford-park, Berkshire Williamson, Hugh Henshall, Esq., Greenway Bank, Staffordshire Potteries Williamson, Robert, Esq., Ramsdell-hall, Staffordshire Potteries Wise, Thomas, Esq., Ashbourne Witham, John, Esq., Ashbourne Woolrich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood, Charles, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshice, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood William, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc tion Railway Wood, William Hurd, Esq., Ashboume Wright, Thomas, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsbo rough Railway. BANKERS. Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., Cornhill, London The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne, Union Bank, Uttoxeter Ashbourne Ditto 7 , Ditto, Dudley and West Bunwich Banking Co., Dudley Derbyshire Banking Co., Derby SOLICITORS. John Owens, Esq., 35, 3loorgate-street, London William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttozeter ENGINEERS. Sir John Rennie, F.R.S. George Remington, Esq., C.E. LOCAL AGENTS. Armishaw, J., Esq., Rugeley Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley Eggiugton, A., Esq., Lichfield Green, James J., Esq., Walsall. Lowe, Richard, Esq., Cheadle Floyd and Booth, Huddersfield and Ho'mitt!' This line of railway, which is about sixty-five miles in length, is intended to commence at Uttoxeter (the terminus of the proposed Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway) and to proceed, to Sheffield and Huddersfield. It will form a direct com munication between two of the most important manufacturing and mining districts in England, viz., South Staffordshire, Huddersfield, and Sheffield, and Rotherham in Yorkshire ; the South Staffordshire portion including Dadley, Tipton,Walsall, Bilston, Wednesbury, and Wolverhampton. This line will also open a direct railway communication between Leeds, Huddersfield, and the West Riding of Yorkshire and Kidder minster, Worcestershire, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton, and Exeter, and with Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford, Brecon, Car diff, Neath, Swansea, Llanelly, Caermarthen, Milford Haven, Fish guard, Aberystwith, and with Porthdynllaen, the future outport for Ireland. And also the most direct communication between Leeds and Southampton. The line will pass nearly along the Uttoxeter and Caldon Canal to a point near Prestwood, in case the canal be purchased by the pro moters of this undertaking. It will proceed through Ellaston and Mayfield to Ashbourn, thence near Dovedale, Buxton, and Chapel en-la-Frith, Woodhead and Holmfirth to Huddersfield, where it will join the Huddersfield and Leeds Railway, and so to Thirsk. It will open new mines, in addition to those already in work, of lead, coal, iron ore, barytes, and carboniferous and magnesian limestone on the route, in addition to forming a direct, speedy, and cheap communica tion between the important towns above mentioned. Arrangements have been made with other companies to run into this line from Sheffield. This company reserves the right to raise additional capital to extend the line to Leeds. Many of the above-mentioned mineral productions are essential to the mining districts of South Staffordshire and Sheffield. The North Staffordshire and Derbyshire Limestone is much superior to that of South Staffordshire in the fluxion of iron (15 cwt. of the former being equal to a ton of the latter), and producing a better quality of ma terial. At present, the mode of transit is very circuitous and expen sive, the line from the Caldon Mines having to go by canal round by Etruria, Leek, and the Potteries, to the Dudley and surrounding furnaces, when, by this railway, it would be taken in a straight line to them ; and the Ashboume, Cromford, Worksworth, and Bakewell country would have an entirely new trade opened to them. The iron stone in the neighbourhood of Sheffield is also becoming very scarce, and great quantities are introduced from Scotland; the same scarcity exists in South Staffordshire ; and the route of this line would fur nish a cheap and good supply, at present not worked, and without a market, both north and south. In addition to these great advan tages, a good local market would be opened along the agricultural and other parts of the district at present very badly supplied with lime and coal, and that of an inferior quality, and by expensive car riage. It is, therefore, next to impossible to calculate the immense traffic which would pour down this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, aR d Worcestershire Junction Railway. The calculations which have been made show a very large profit. There are large lead and slate quarries on the line which only want an outlet like the one now contemplated to bring them into full work. The coal is of a superior quality. There are also extensive barytes and paint-works at Ashbourne, Cromford, and other places on the line. The scenery of Derbyshire is the resort of vast numbers of tourists; and particularcare a w g ill rea be t taken, in passing of the line near Dovedale, not to interfer e with or change its beautiful and romantic character. The conve n i ence , ithhfierueloorfe,pwashsiochhgteirisis, both h e o N h Vi b ll us ar b o os rd s a m b u d s p t l n eas ec u es r s e aril . y cause Ironstone is not so abundant in the South as in North Staffordshire, and vast quantities are sent by the tardy, circuitous, and expensive canal company, which this and other lines of railway meeting at Uttoxeter will remedy. The gypsum formation runs from Staffordshire to the Humber, and the demand for this article foi building, agricultural, and manufac turing purposes along this line will be great. The timber from the neighbourhood of the Neodwood Forest Banks, Bagots Woods, and Kingston Woods, upwards of 4,000 acres, chiefly finds its way to the Manchester market by a like objectionable route of tardy and circuitous canal convey ance ; whereas this line would open a direct, easy, and cheap communication to new markets. The line has been viewed prior to a detailed survey, and there are not more than ordinary enKineering difficulties. In consequence of the late Parliamentary decisions, it is intended to make this line on the broad gauge principle, but the pro moters do not pledge themselves absolutely to do so. At the urgent suggestion of some of the most influential inhabi tants Of deltheurne, the Cciramittee hire ordered a gamy at a jund (tion line to connect that town with the Derby, and with tb Derby and Gainsborongh and Midland Railways Applications for Shah s to ol,Ld, t o J o h n 30, moorgate-str6et, London, and William Arnold Bainbrige, Esq., littoxeter ; and to the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Psece and Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles, Worcester ; Mr. Thoma Henry Wheeler, Worcester; Messrs. Townley and Whiteheae Liver pool ; Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Moils Rey nolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macelestiel ; Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ; Mr. Thomas Boarding, Black burn ; Mr. George Clark, Bradford ; Mr. William Mason, Padford ; Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax ; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nangham ; Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby ; Messrs. Grayston ad Earle, York; Mr. E. li. Armitage, Wakefield; Messrs. ;Lettering and Marshall, Leeds ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenhfn; Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton ; Messrs, Tate and Nish, In is tol • Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter ; Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter ; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry ; Messrs, loughland and Leese, Manchester; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, 311achester ; Messrs. A. Birchali and Co., Manchester ; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr.L,Weather burn, jun., Huddersfield ; Messrs. Everard and Co., HiLdersfleld ; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester ; Mr. Nicholson, Ilinburgh ; Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ; Messrs. Lbertouche and Stafford, College-green, Dublin ; Mr. Jatnes Ross, Pah. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Leeds, Hudders3eld Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Direct Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares o 201. each in the above Railway, and I undertake to accept the sane or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the egulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to ?ay, when required, the Deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per Share. Dated this day of , 184 . Name in full ..... Profession and professional resid:nce • • Residence in full • • • • • • • • ..... • • • • Reference • • . • . NORTH KENT RAILWAY. At a very numerous and highly respectable meeing of the inhabitants of Canterbury, convened by the Mayor, in pirsuance of a requisition numerously signed, for the purpose of takiax into con sideration the projected line proposed by the North Ken. Company, held at the Guildhall, in the city of Canterbury, on Monlay, the 22d of September, 1845, and which was attended by a depitation from the North Kent Company, consisting of L. Goldimid, Bart., the Chairman, and five other members of the Committeeof Manage ment, and by a Deputation from the Great Kent Atmolpheric pro moters, consisting of W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Chairman d the Lon • don and Croydon Railway Company, and others, _ JOHN BRENT, Esq., Mayor, in the Chair, the following Resolutions were proposed and carried, with only seven dissentients : That it is the opinion of this meeting that a direct line d' railway, along the old line of communication, from Dover throne. Canter bury, is greatly required through the wealthy and populous district of North Kent, by which that part of the county may be In direct communication with the metropolis. That the line projected by Mr. Vignoles, termed the North Kent Railway, appears to this meeting to be the best adapted to meet the exigencies and to promote the interests of the county generally, and of this district in particular. That it cannot be supposed that the efficient service of the public, or the local interest of the inhabitants, will be as well attended to by a company already in possession of a line through another part of the county, as by an independent and competing company. That this meeting and the inhabitants of Canterbury view with distrust and apprehension the scheme proposed by the South-Eastern Company, and they now renew the pledge heretofore given, to use their best endeavours to carry out the object of the projectors of the Vignoles' North Kent Railway. That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Mayor for his con duct in the chair. J ON - DON, HOUNSLOW, AND WESTERN 1? I TLWAY. The PARE! L:N a i and SUIISCRIDERS DEEDS are LYING for EXECUTION at the Offices" of the Company, and the scrip is ready for delivery in exchange for the bankers' receipts. Due notice will be given of the times and places at which the deeds will lie for execution in the country. The deposit of 10 per cent. has been paid, being one of the first in stances of a compliance 'with the recent standing order of the House of Lards requiring a deposit of 10 per cent. The surveys are in a forward state, and the Committee are pro ceeding to enter into conditional contracts for the purchase of the property on the line. JOHN MASSON, Secretary. London, Hounelow, and Western Railway Offices, 7, Walbrook. REMINGTON'S LINE. T HE LONDON AND MANCHESTER DIRECT INDEPENDENT RAILWAY. The COMMITTEE of MANAGEMENT hereby give notice that one part of the PARLIAMENTARY CONTRACT and SUB SCRIBERS' AGREEMENT will LIE for EXECUTION, and Scrip Certificates will be issued to the Subscribers in exchange for the Bankers' Receipts, at the places and times mentioned below : Bath—At the York Hotel, on Tuesday, the 23d day of September instant. Bristol—At the Bush Hotel, on Wednesday, the 24th day of Sep- tember instant. Worcester—At the Star Hotel, on Friday, the 26th day of Septom- ber Instant. Birmingham—At Dee's Royal Hotel, on Saturday, the 27th day of September instant. Lichfield—At the Swan Inn, on Monday, the 29th day of September instant. Leicester—At the Three Crowns Inn, on Tuesday, the 30th day of September instant. Bedford—At the Company's Office in the High-street, on Thursday, the 2d day of October next. Uttoxeter—At the Offices of William Arnold Bainbridge, Esq., Soli- citor, an Tuesday, the 23d day of September instant. Burton-upon-Trent—At the Offices of Messrs. Bass and Sweting, Solicitors, on Wednesday, the 24th day of September instant. Ashby-de-la-Zouch—At the Offices of Edward M. Green, Esq., So licitor, on Thursday, the 25th day of September instant. Cheadle—At the Offices of Richard Lowe, Esq., Solicitor, on Satur day, the 27th day. of September instant. Leek—At the Offices of Thomas Redfern, Esq., Solicitor, on Monday, the 29th day of September instant. Macclesfield—At the Offices of Messrs. Parrott, Colville, and May, Solicitors, on Tuesday, the 30th day of September instant, and Wednesday, the Ist day of October next. Manchester—At the Offices of the Company, St. Adn's-square, on Thursday and Friday, the 2d and 3d days of October next. Derby—At the Offices of Henry Mosley, Esq., Solicitor, on Tuesday, the 23d day of September Instant. Leeds—At the Royal Hotel, on Wednesday, the 24th. day of Septem- ber instant. [lull —At the Victoria Hotel, on Friday, the 26th day of September instant. Edinburgh—At the London Hotel, on Tuesday, the 30th day of Sep tember instant. . Glasgow—At the London Hotel, on Thursday, the 2d day of Oc tober next. Liverpool—At the Adelphi Hotel, on Monday, the 6th day of October next. By order, H. W. MATTHEWS, Secretary. SH RE W SBURY, WOLVERHAMPTON, DUDLEY, and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. WM. ORMSBY GORE, M.P.. Chairman. The Hon. ROBT. 11. CLIVE, M.P., Deputy-Chairman. John Benbow, Esq., MP. W. Richford Collett, Esq., M.P. W. Fechney Black, Esq. James Clay, Esq. Richard Norman, Esq. Stephen Phillips, Eaq. Richard Smith, Esq. R. A. Slaney, Esq. Sir W. Young, Bart. In consequence of the repetition of Advertisements signed " Thomas 11. Smith," and an " Original Shareholder," the Committee of Ma nagement think it their duty to publish the names of that Commit tee, as the best answer to the latter anonymous writer, and to caution the Shareholders against being misled by any statements which might be made at any meeting called by Thomas H. Smith, of whom the Committee of Management know nothing. The Committee of Management take this opportunity to state, that the surveys from Shrewsbury . to Wolverhampton are nearly completed, and that the surveys from Wolverhampton to Birmingham are being made under the direction of a joint Committee representing this Company, the London and Birmingham Railway Company, and the London and Birmingham Canal Company, the whole under the im mediate superintendence of Mr. Robert Stephenson. By order, GEO, KNOX, Secretary. 3, Moorgate-street, Sept. 22, 1845. GLASGOW via FLEETWOOD and AR DROSS AN, every MONDAY, TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY, by the new Iron Steamers, " ITER MAJESTY" and ' ROYAL CONSORT," 700 tons and 350 horse-power. The above Ships leave Fleetwood, on the arrival of the trains that leave Euston-square, London, at 7.30., 8.45., or 10. A.I . Passengers can be booked through to Glasgow in London. Carriages taken by the 8 45 train only. Daily communication with the Isle of Man. Further particulars may be had at 8, St. Swithin's-lane ; or the Universal-office, Regent-circus, London; or of the Agents, Kemp and Co., Fleetwood, and M'Kean and Lamont, Glasgow. NORTH-WESTERN TRUNK RAILWAY, FROM CREWE DIRECT TO GLOUCESTER, passing through the Towns of Market-Drayton, Newport, Shiffnal, Kidder minster, Worcester, and Tewkesbury, forming the shortest and most desirable Communication between Liverpool, Manchester, and the Northern Parts of England and Gloucester and the Bristol Channel. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,250,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 10s. per Share. (Being in accordance with the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.) TIOVIDIONAL COMMITTEE. The Hon, Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, 4, Parliament-street, White hall, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashboum Hall, Derbyshire, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway John Bloor, Esq., Tuthury, Staffordshire, Director of the Stafford shire Potteries and Manchester and Liverpool Railway, and of the Derby and Man ester and Shropshire Mineral Railways John George Norbury, Esq., 31ancetter House, Atherstone, _ . Director of the Leicester and Bedford and Shropshire Mineral Railways • Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield and London, Director of the _ Direct London and Manchester and Shropshire Mineral Railways Clement Tabor, Esq ' Cornhill, London, Director of the London and County Bank, and of the National Loan-Fund Assurance Company Thomas Reginald lemp, Esq., Abchurch-lane, London, Director of the Chelmsferd and Bury Railway Thomas Bernard Baddeley, Esq., Newport, Salop, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway Alexander Brodie Cochrane, jun., Esq., ironmaster, Holly Hall, near Dudley, Director of the Dudley, Madeley, and Broseley Railway George H. Fourdrinier, Esq:, Hanley, Staffordshire Potteries, Direc tor of the Shropshire Mineral Railway John Benson, Esq., Park-place Villa, Maida-hill, London William Shaw, Esq., ➢fanaging Director of the Royal Farmers' Fire and Life Assurance Company, Director of the London and Bir mingham Extension, and Warwick and Worcester Railways Richard Lambert, Esq., Lyston Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk, Director of the Cork and Fermoy Direct Railway Ambrose Miller, Esq., Lower Thames-street, and Upper Bedford place, Russell-square, London, Director of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway William Millington, Esq., iromnaster, Summerhill Works, Tipton, Staffordshire, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway William Holmes, Esq., St. George's-terrace, Kensington, and Kentish town William Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, and Lower Thames-street, Director of the South and Midlands June- Lion Railway John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Royd, near Halifax, magistrate, and Deputy-Chairman of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and Director of the Manchester, Liverpool, and great North of England Union Railway, of the Shropshire Mineral Railway, and of the National Bank of Ireland Joseph Charles Ridge, Esq., merchant, Manchester, Director of the London, Holyhead, and Port Dynllaen Railway William Tomkinson Riley, Esq., Mlllfleld Works, Bileton, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Joseph Bull, Esq., Xanchester,' Director of the Staffordshire Pot teries and Manchester and Liverpool Railway James Stead, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds. and Shropshire Mineral Railways Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Hull, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railway William Wood, Esq.. M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di rector of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and of the Derbyshire Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways Edward Edwards, Esq., Ironbridge, Shropshire, Director of the Direct London and Holyhead, and of the Dudley, Madeley, and Broseley Railways Rev. Matthew Yatman Starkie, Rector of Rushbury, near Church Stretton Charles Merritt Rigg, Esq., M.D., York-place, Portman-square, Director of the Shropshire Mi nera l Railway Rev. Thomas Humphreys, Bishops Castle, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway James McMillan, Esq., Manchester-buildings, Westminster George Young, Esq., Foley House, Longton, Staffordshire Potteries Sampson Bridgwood, Esq., Spratslade House, Longton William Ottey, Esq., Longton John Ashwell, Esq., Longton, Director of the Nottingham and Gains borough, and Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester Railways William George, Esq., Weston, near Much-Wenlock Thomas Goddard, Esq., Bank House, Longton, Staffordshire Potteries Thomas Weaver Lewty, Esq., Wilden Iron Works, near Stourport, Director of the Dudley, Madeley, and Broseley Railway. BANKERS. Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London The London and County Bank, Lombard-street, London Messrs. Adams, Warren, and Co., Shrewsbury and Market Drayton The Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall The National Provincial Bank of England, Newport Messrs. Farley and Turner, Kidderminster Messrs. Farley, Lavender, and Co., Worcester The Gloucestershire Banking Company, Worcester and Tewkesbury SOLICITORS. Ingleby Thomas Miller, Esq., 3, Abchurch-lane, London Edmund Garbett, Esq., Wellington, Salop William Brinton, Esq., Kidderminster Gilbert Brown, Esq., Shiffnal. LOCAL AGENTS. William Burdett, Esq., Manchester Charles G. Brown, Esq., Bilston Thomas Griffin, Esq., Chelton, Staffordshire Potteries Thomas Bernard Baddeley, junior, Esq., Newport. SECRETARY—J. Stevens, Esq. Temporary Offices, 3, Abchurch-lane, London. This line of Railway will commence at the junction of the Man chester and Birmingham, Chester and Crewe, and Grand Junction Railways, at Crewe, in the county of Chester, and proceed from thence through or near the towns of Market Drayton, Newport, and Shiffnal, in Shropshire, thence through the flourishing town of Kid derminster, to Worcester and Tewkesbury, and to the Bristol Rail way at Gloucester. By this means it will form the most direct route from Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Hull, and Chester to the important ports of Gloucester and Bristol, indeed the most direct line from the north of England to the Bristol Channel. It will, also, in conjunction wtih the proposed Hereford and Worcester, and Swan sea, Merthyr-Tydvil, and Hereford Railways, form the meet advan tageous route from Swansea and the iron districts of South Wales, to Liverpool, Manchester, and Hull. The line will cross the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway at Shiffnal, and the Shropshire Mineral Railway and the Trent Valley Union at the thriving town of Newport. It will form a junction with the two latter railways at Newport, whereby persons and lug gage may be conveyed to Stafford, Derby, the Midland Counties, Staffordshire Potteries, Sheffield, and Hull ; and, in addition to the carriage of heavy goods from Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester, and Kidderminster, to Manchester, Liverpool, the whole of the north of England, and Scotland—will secure a large passenger traffic in the district through which it passes. The proposed railway will be about 87 miles in letigth, and.be tween the two termini of Crewe and Gloucester, will save in distance at least 20 miles, and the journey can be accomplished, at the pre sent rapid rate of travelling, in about two hours. This project as a junction line, connects itself with some of the most important rail ways in the kingdom. It also skirts the large, extensive, and densely populated iron districts of Shropshire and Staffordshire, and in its course passes through a rich agricultural country. It must, there fore, be obvious that there will be a sufficient traffic to pay a high rate of interest on the capital required. There are no engineering difficulties In the country through which the line is intended to pass, the whole being nearly on a level, and on reference to the map of country, taken from the Ordnance survey, which accompanies the prospectus, the line will appear straight, and will at the same time show the superior advantages it possesses, and that it cannot be surpassed by any existing or projected lines, between the same termini. It will not interfere with any ornamental property, and no tunnel ling will be required. The liabilities of the Shareholders will be limited to the amount of their subscriptions, and interest will be allowed on the deposits and further calls, from the date of the several payments to the opening of the line. Prospectuses, with Maps and Forms of Application for Shares, can be had from the Secretary on application at the temporary offices of the Company, 3, Abchurch-lane, London; from the Solicitors and Local Agents ; also from the following Brokers, viz.:—Messrs. Lyon, 2, Birchin-lane, London; Mr. Andrew Milligan, 2, Lord-street, Bir kenhead ; Mr. E. 11. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. W. Whitmore, St. George, Liverpool; Messrs. Sohmes and Tripp, Bristol; Messrs. Turley and Cooper, Leeds ; and Messrs. Green and Old ham, Man chester ; to whom Applications for Shares may be addressed. It will be necessary that reference be made to a Banker, Solicitor, or person of responsibility. FORM or APPLICATION. To the Provisional Directors of the North-Western Trunk Ra il way, 3, Abchurch-lane, London. Gentlemen—l request you to allot me Shares in the North- Western Trunk Railway; and I undertake to pay the Deposit of 21. 10s., and all further calls upon the same, or such lesser number at you may allot to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and the Parliamentary Contract when called upon to do so. Dated this day of , 1845. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient humble servant, Christian and Surname in Profession Residence. •• • 00000000 • 110 •• Reference .•••.•.•• . • • • • • • • 00000 • . • • Residence of Referee ...• .. • I It. ••••••••• I. 40 it el le It DIRECT LONDON AND EXETER RAIL WAY COMPANY, ' ( With Extension to Fahuouth and Penzance). Through Hammersmith, Turnbam-green, Brentford, Isleworth, Hounslow, Staines, tgham, Bagshot, Ascot, Bracknell, Bantield, Wokingliam, Kingsclere, Andover, and Salisbury ; Shaftesbury, Sherbourne, Yeovil, Crewkerne, Axminster, and Honiton, to Exeter. Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 11. 7s. 6d. per Share. [With further Deposit of 1/. Is. per Share after the Bill has passed the House of Commons.] „ With power to raise 1,000,0001. more, if necessary. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vie., c. 110.) OFFICES, No. $2, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE, Adjoining the County Fire Office. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. The Right Hon. the Earl of Mexborough, Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway Lord Henry Loftus, Belgrave-square Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, Bart., Montague-square, and Down-hill, Londonderry The Hon. Cecil J. Lawless, 71, Pall-mall, Director of the Great Man chester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway Colonel Sir Frederick Mulkey, G.C.M.G., Queen Ann-street, Caven dish-square, Director of the lonian and Ceylon Banks, and Bor deaux, Toulouse, and Cette Railway J. R. Phillimore, Esq., LL.D., 42, Clarges-street, Chancellor of Salisbury John David Chambers, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Recorder of Salisbury Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street, Director of the County Fire-office, and South and Midlands Railway Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak Park, near Winchester, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway The Hon. A. Capel, Theyden House, Essex, and Park-street, Gros venor-square Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square, Director of the Man chester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction, Warwick and Wor cester, Shropshire Mineral, and Grand London and Dublin Ap proximation Railways William Burge, Esq., Q.C., Temple The Rev. Bourchier Wrey Savile, Oakhampton, Devon G. Thompson Jacob, Esq., Blandford, Magistrate, and Deputy-Lieu tenant for Dorset Richard Francis Roberts, Esq., Burton Bradstock, near Bridport H. H. Hungerford, Esq., Dingley Park, Market Harborough, and Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Francis Dawson, Esq., Grosvenor-street Richard Francis Power, Esq., 73, Eccleston-square, and Long- Orchard, Tipperary Lieutenant-Colonel P. W. Pedlar, Mutley House, Devon, Director of the Manchester, Southampton, and Poole Railway. Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's-wood, Di rector of the Great Eastern and Western, and Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railways Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway The Hon. Henry Savile, Dover-street A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the Oxford, South ampton, Gosport,:and Portsmouth Railway George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the London and Holyhead Railway Francis Lloyd, Esq., Temple, London, and Bingley House, Bir mingham William Thomas Davies Lhoyd, Esq., Lhoydiarth, Anglesey E. S. Blundell, Esq., 18, Lower Seymour-street John Allen, Esq., 12 Gloucester-terrace, Kensington William Birmingham Costello, Esq., M.D., Wyks House, Brentibrd T. Piers Healey, Esq., Elm-court, Temple Wllliam Gunston, Esq., Piccadilly A. Abraham, Esq., Member of the Town Council of Southampton William Lowten Jones, Esq., Wood Hall, Hilgay, Norfolk Thomas Champion, Esq., Stoke Wood House, Dorsetshire Captain T. C. Forde, Graceileld, Aslane, Dublin Captain Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N. K.C.H., 9, St. James's street, St. James's-park, Director of the Australasia, British North America, and the lonian Banks, and Director of the Mutual Life Assurance Company Charles Gover, Esq., City Club J. Lane, Esq., LL.D , King's Bench-walk, Temple, and Keppel street George Waite, Esq., Old Burlington-street, Director of the Chelten ham and Brighton Railway H. Cane Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square, Director of the Sheffield, Buxton, Potteries, Leeke and Crewe, the Rugby, Derby, and Man chester, the Direct Birmingham, Oxford and Brighton, the Bognor and London Brighton Junction, the Great Leeds, the Great Welsh Central Railway, the Calais, Dunkirk,, and Bruges, and Ghent and Brussels Railways John Harvey, Esq., Ruth Hill, Wandsworth, Surrey, Director of the Commercial Bank of London Thomas Houghton Hardinge, Esq., 23, Park-lane Edward William Cox, Esq., Crown-effie,e-row, Temple W. A. Hill, Esq., Deputy Chairman oftho Oxford and Wituey Railway Company, and Barnet and Metropolitan Railway Company. Henry Ludnell Dampier, Esq., of Colnishays House, near Bruton Augustus E. Greaves, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway Gowell Moore, Esq., S.P.D.L., King's County, High Sheriff County Roscommon Captain Charles Frederick Parkinson, Polygon, Manchester, Ma naging Director of the North Lancashire, and Manchester and Southampton Railways COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Colonel Sir Frederick Mulkey, T. Piers Healey, Esq.' G.C.M.G. A. W. Hillary, Esq. Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn H. H. Hungerford, Esq. E. S. Blundell, Esq. W. L. Pope, Esq. Thomas Dowglasse. Esq. Walter Shairp, Esq. George Evans, Esq. Charles William Spicer, Esq. (With limited power to add to their number.) ENGINEER—John Braithwaite, Esq., C.E., 4, Trafalgar-square. JOINT SOLICITORS—D. E. Colombine, Esq.,\s, Carlton Chambers, Re gent-street; Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street. LONDON BANKERS—Messrs. Curries and Co., 29, Cornhill ; London and Westminster Bank, St. James's-square. LOCAL BANKERS. Bath—Tugwell and Co. Birmingham—Attwood, Spooner, and Co. Bradford (York)—Banking Company, Bradford Bridport—Dorsetshire Bank .Bristol—Baillie, Alines, Baillle, and Co. Cheltenham—County of Gloucester Bank Deyonport—Messrs. Ilodge and Norman Exeter—Saunders and Co. ; Milford, Snow, and Co. ; West of Eng- land and South Wales District Bank Halifax—Joint Stock Bank Hull—East Riding Bank Launceston—Foster, Bolitho, and Co. Liverpool—Liverpool Banking Company Manchester—Scholes and Co. Neweastle-on-Tyne—W. H. Lambton and Co. Norwich—Harvey, Hudsons, and Co. Nottingham—Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and Co. Salisbury 7 Everett and Co.; W. B. Brodie and Co.; Wilta and Dorset Bank Shaftesbury—Messrs. Brodie, King, and Afacklln Sherborne—Wilts and Dorset Banking Company York—Swan, Clough, and Co. Prospectuses, and plans of the line, with forms of Applications for Shares, may be had at the offices of the Company as above, and of the following Stock and Share-brokers, viz.:— Messrs. Sutton, Gribbin, and Sutton, Royal Exchange; Messrs. Taunton and Bush, Austin Friars, London. Also, Exeter—henry Watcher ; John Langworthy ; Wilkinson and Sons Bath—J. B. Munday Leeds—Potter and Co.; Kirk and Co. ; Ridsdale and Co. Huddersfield—William Moore and Co. Derby—Eyre and Shaw Hull—Sibary and Simpson ; Samuel Phillip York—Grayston and Earle Wakefield—Henry Billingham Plymouth—Hopwood and Palmer Cheltenham—Hall Brothers and Co. Newcastle-on-Tyne—W. W. Dickinson ; R. F. Bell and Co. Birmingham—W. 11. Collis Taunton—Richard Ball Shaftesbury—Raymond and Son Manchester—Myers and Itirkbeck ; Wm. Marshall ; CardwelF& Sons Norwich—John R. Mann and Son Edinburgh—Muurd and Co; James Pringle ; A. W. Moffatt: Bristol—Luke Arnold Coventry—John Thomas Holland Gloucester—J. M. Balms Glasgow—Messrs. H. and W. A. Tassie ; James Watson ; Thomas Gray Leicester—Williams and Sunderland Nottingham—Roworth and Shepperly Liverpool—Messrs. Sudlow, Brothers C. Spenser Bradford, Yorkshire—W. Mason ; James Clayton Reading—B. Cowderoy Settle—Joseph Nelson. The following gentlemen are appointed as Local Solicitors in furtherance of the interests of the Company, frOra ahem Prospectuses and Applications for Shares may also be obtained: — Exeter—W. Lambert, Esq. Egham—Thomas Harvey, Esq. " Ilagshot—John Mears, Esq. Bracknell—Charles Cave, Esq. Wokingliatn—Francis Soames, Esq. Salisbury—henry Cooper, Esq. ; Messrs. Foot and Radcliffe Shaftesbury—Messrs. Wills and Berridge Sherborne—George Hancock, Esq. ; Samuel Foot, Esq. Bruton—Messrs. Dyne and Son Yeovil—George Hancock, Esq. Crewkerne—Robert Lowman, Esq. Axminster—Walter Hancock, Esq. Blandford—George Moore, Esq. Dorchester—George Cull, jun., Esq. Bridport—S. li. Gummer, Esq. ; Henry B. Fox, Esq. Honiton—lsaac T. Cox, Esq. Lynn—George Platten, Esq. Lyme Regis—N. I'. Waring, Esq. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. EXCURSION TRAINS TO CAMBRIDGE. A Train, consisting of open Second-class and of Third-class Car riages, will leave the Shoreditch Station, on Monday, the 29th in stant, at Nine o'clock, A.m., and Hertford at Half-past Nine A.M., returning from Cambridge at Half-past Six o'clock P.M. The Trains will call at Tottenham, Waltham, Broxbourne, and Ware. Fare to Cambridge and back, from any of the above stations, ss. Eastern Counties Railway-office, Sept. 8, 1845. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This institution offers important and substantial advan tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured has, on all °cessions, the power to borr without ex pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid, (see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third Bonus, varying from 30 to 75 , per cent. on the premiums paid on each Policy effected on the Profit scale. EXAMPLES. .. 1 .1 1 6" e 7 El IS 4 . E. : 1 Bonus Bents in ., ,y t; a 7e: g Premium. 4 added. Cash. .. n go. g 3 & '• c i 4 : 1 • a . `1 A , . A 1837 Xl9l 13 5 £S7 13 5 I Sl3 17 1 £39511 1 ,„ n„X 4 s ; 7 1838 165 13 0 74 13 10 11 8 6 346 2 3 " I, ruy ' ' 1839 138 13 6 61 14 3 9 210 296 13 4 ;1840 1 89 0 0 41 13 4 6 0 0 247 4 5 The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in De cember of the present year. F. FERGUSON CADIROIJI, Boa._ UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMI'ANY, 8, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, LONDON. Established by Act of Parliament in 1534. DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG TIIE ASSURED. This Company, established by Act of Parilament, affords the most perfect security in a large paid-up Capital, and in the great success which has attended it since its commencement in 1834, its ANNUAL INCOME being UPWARDS of 72,0001. In 1841 the Company declared an addition to the Shareholders of one-half of their Stock, and also added a Bonus of 71. per cent. per S annum, son the u m Insured to all Policies of the Participating Clas s from the time they were effected. The Bonus added to Policies from March, 1534, to December 31, 1840, is as follows : Stun 'nine Sum added! Sinn Time Sum Added Assured. Assured. to Policy. Assured. Assured £5OOO 6 yrs. 10 mths. £6 8 3 6 81 £5OOO 4 year; to Policy. 5000 6 years 600 0 Q 5000 2 £4OO ea The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and only one halfneed be paid for the first Five Years, where the Insu rance is for Life. Every information will be afforded Directors, Edward Boyd, Es, on application to the R es id en t and E Lennox Boyd, Esq., of 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London. B. Just published, in post Bvo., 112 pages, price 2s. 6d. MESMERIC EXPERIENCES. By Author of "The Fores SPNCER T. ter's E Offerin," HALL, g`Rambles in the Country," &c., and Editor of "The Plireno-Magnet." " Though strictly philosophical in its principles, and natural in Its details, this book, for the popular as well as the scientific reader, is as interesting as a romance." 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Quack advertisements not admitted.—Oftice, 49, Fleet street, Dublin. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. MANCHESTER, HUDDERSFIELD, AND GREAT GRIMSBY DIRECT RAILWAY, via BARNS LEY AND DONCASTER, commencing at Penistone Station at the junction of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester and the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railways. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 1,000,0001. in 50,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2e. per share in compliance with the standing orders of Parliament. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co. Huddersfield—The Halifax and Huddersfield Unioa Banking Company. Doncaster—Sir W. Cooke, Bart., and Co. ENGINEERS. ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF. ACTING ENGINEER.—W. Billinton, ESQ., C.E. Some'Toas.—Messrs. Floyd and Booth, Huddersfield. LONDON AGENTS.—Messrs. Sudlow, Sons, and Torr, 20, Chancery- lane. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.—Messrs. Sudlow and Kingdon, 6, New- Palace-yard. The object of the proposed line is to complete a direct chain of railway communication between the Western and Eastern Coasts, from Liverpool to great Grimsby. It is intended as above stated to commence the line at Penistone at the Junction of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manches ter, and the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railways, and to proceed in a direct course south of and near to Barnsley, passing thence through or near to the extensive and inexhaustible coal fields of Worsborough Dale, Silkstone, Cawthorne, Darton, Bretton, Billingley, and others in the Barnsley District, thence continuing in a direct line throngh or near to Wombwell, Darfield (where it will cross the North Mid land Railway), Thurnscoe, Wath Swinton, Bolton, Hickleton, Barm borough, Mexborough, Conisborough, Sprotborough, Bentley, Don caster (where it will cross the London and York Railway), and proceed through or near to Armthorpe, Cawtley, Brampton (with a future branch to Thorne, and such further branches as may be eventually determined upon), Auckley, Wroot (where it will enter the Isle of Axholme), and through or near to Haxey, Epworth, Belton, Butterwick, Owston, Messingham, and then terminate in a junction with the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Railway, at or near Glanford Brigg, thus connecting, by the construction of a new line of railway of forty-six miles in length, or thereabouts (the entire line required to be made). The great manufacturing, mineral, and agricultural dis tricts of Lancashire and Yorkshire with Lincolnshire and the rapidly improving port of Great Grimsby, so as to afford the products of the several counties a most direct course of transit, thereby also greatly facilitating the introduction of foreign merchandise, and by this means perfecting the channel of communication between the Irish Sea and the German Ocean. The existing routes are very circuitous, so much so, that the pro- Posed line will effect a saving of about twenty miles, when compared with the Manchester, and Leeds, and the Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railways to Great Grimsby, and of about fifteen miles com pared with the Sheffield and Manchester, and the Great Grimsby and Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railways, and the relative distance from other places will be proportionally shortened. Several schemes are now before the public to connect, in the best Practicable manner, Keighly and Halifax with Huddersfield, so as to effect a direct North and South communication. When this desidera tum shall be accomplished, the proposed new line, will, in addition to the advantages before mentioned, form a grand direct railway com munication from Scotland and the Northern Counties, viii Hudders field, to the flourishing port of Great Grimsby, whilst the additional traffic brought to bear upon the proposed line to and from the con templated new Staffordshire and Derbyshire Lines, by uniting with the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway, at or near Holmfirth, must considerably enhance the value of the undertaking. Independent of the above, and of the superior advantages afforded by the proposed line for the shipping of coal to the London and other mark !t.s, a considerable augmentation of traffic may be expected from file North Midland and the London and York Railways. The important and agricultural town and neighbourhood of Don caster, hitherto comparatively isolated, for want of proper railway accommodation, will, by the aid of the London and York Railway and the proposed Him, both passing through the town, be at once brought in connexion with all the main railway arteries in the kingdom. The value of the Stock in the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway must necessarily be greatly increased by the proposed line, whilst the facilities given for the transit of goods from Liverpool and Manchester to Great Grimsby must eventually materially add to the importance and benefit of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway. The country through which the line will pass is admirably adapted for carrying out the design of the promoters. Nothing beyond ordi nary engineering difficulties is to be met with. A satisfactory survey of the entire line, by the acting engineer, has already bean made, and the sections of the ilne are in course of preparation, so that there is the utmost confidence that the scheme will be fully perfected in due time for the approaching session of Parliament. The number of Shares already subscribed for is very considerable, and an early allotment may therefore be expected. An influential Provisional Committee is now forming, and the rrtmes of the gentle men composing it will shortly be publicly announced. In the mean time, further information may be obtained from the Solicitors, at whose Offices Plans and Surveys of the Line are lodged for inspection, and applications for Shares (in the form given below), accompanied with satisfactory references, may also be addressed to them, to their London Agents, or to the following Brokers : namely, Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill, Threadneedle-street, London; David Kinnear, Edinburgh; Lloyd and Price, Liverpool; Cardwell and Sons, Manchester ; Wellbeloved, and Co., Bell and Ledger, Leeds ; Garton and Wright, Sheffield ; George Bowlby, Hull ; Charles Claye, Halifax ; John Cragg Skipton ; F. G. and C. C. Crossly, Bradford ; Henry Bellingham, Wakefield ; Geo. Tinker, liolmfirth ; Wilson and Hellawell, Wm. Moore and Co., John Gatliff and Co., Fred. Turner J. Casson, Chas. Fitton, J. H. Taylor, and Thomas Parratt, Hud dersfield. Huddersfield, Sept. 19, 1845. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct Railway Company. I request that you will allot to me Shares of 201. each in the above undertaking, and I 'agree to accept the same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, and also to pay the deposit of 21.25. per Share thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and the Subscribers' agreement when required. Dated day of , 1845. Name (in full) ........ ...... Residence ........ . Trade or Profession .. Reference• . . • ......... • • . ............ PROSPECTUS. This short but important line of railway is intended to commence at a point in the Tean and Dove Valley Railway, at or near to Snareston, and to extend to Leicester. It will thus furnish a link necessary for carrying on the traffic brought to Leicester by means of the South Midlands, the Bedford, and the Peterborough Railways (all of which terminate at or near Leicester), to the Staffordshire Potteries and the great towns of Lan cashire and Cheshire, and complete an unbroken line of railway, by the best and nearest practicable route, from the various important railway termini at Leicester to Manchester and Liverpool. This great line of railway, it will be observed, traverses the finest coal fields in the country, and embraces the towns of Burton-upon- Trent, Uttoxeter, Cheadle, Leek, Macclesfield, Lane End, Stoke upon-Trent, and Newcastle-under-Lyme, and the important and rapidly-increasing potteries of Swadlincote and Gresley, as well as those of Staffordshire. An inspection of the map will show that the junction line now proposed is essential for the accommodation of the public, and it can not fail to be exceedingly remunerative to the proprietors. The undertaking has the cordial support of the Tean and Dove Valley Railway Company. In the allotment of shares preference will be given to Shareholders in that Company, and to parties locally interested in the line. The capital of the Company will be 300,0001., divided into 15,000 shares of 201. each ; a deposit of 21. 2s. per share must be paid on al lotment, and each original subscriber must execute the usual Parlia mentary and Subscription Contract, or his shares will be forfeited. Copies of the prospectus and map may be had from the Secretary and Solicitors ; and applications for shares must be made to the Secretary only, accompanied by a reference to a member of the Pro visional Committee, a banker, or to one of the solicitors of the Company. Shareholders in the Tean and Dove Valley Railway who apply, will please to state the number of *area they hold in that Company. Burton-dii•Trept, Sept. 18, 1845. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT, NORTHERN COUNTIES (ROSS, SUTHER LAND, AND CAITHNESS DIRECT RAILWAY. To afford the very important division of the Kingdom the benefits of railway communication, and to promote and stimulate the pro gressively increasing pastoral, agricultural, and commercial, improve ments, which of late years have made such rapid strides in these counties, it is proposed to form, under the sanction of the most influential patronage, a railway by the most direct practicable route, to connect these northern and producing districts with the southern and consuming portions of the empire. Adopting the line which may be found the shortest to Dingwall consistent with a due regard to economy in its execution and work ing, and to the rights and interests of private parties, and from Ding wall by Novar to Bonar-bridge, the distance of the county of Suther land from Inverness would be many miles shorter than by any other route. From Bonar the line would pass by Lairg, through the valleys of the Brora and of the Frie, and by Strath Helmsdale to the Thurso water; thus nearly bisecting the county of Sutherland through its length and passing into the most populous parts of Caithness, diverging to the right and left to Wick and Thurso. A branch might be formed to connect the coast of Sutherland with the trunk line. In Ross-shire a branch would be formed from the main line to In vergordon, and this branch might be extended to the burgh of Tain. Arrangements .are being made for having the lines (the courses of which are but generally indicated above) carefully ex am i ne d by ex perienced surveyors and engineers ; and as soon as data which may be relied on have been matured, a full prospectus, With the names of the promoters and Provisional Committee and detailed particulars, will be published. Meantime communications from parties interested in the proposed William undertak ria g ek m enyie, , uEci psto., o f 3luirton, W.S., by Dingw a ll ; Hughthe Ist of October next, be addressed to Innes Cameron, Esq., Provost of Dingwall ; G. S. Taylor, Esq., Golspie • Peter Wilson, Esq., W.S. , Tow n Clerk o f Wick ; M. Snody, Esq., Thurso ; or to Messrs. Cameron and Bain, 18, Parliament street, London. rrHE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, WANTAGE, HUNGERFORD, and LUDGERSHALL. (Provisionally registered.) Capitall,2oo,oool:, in 48,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 21. 15s. per Share. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. The importance of connecting remote parts of E , .gland by Rail ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns and districts, can scarcely be better exemplified than by the Line which is now proposed to form a short and direct channel of inter course between Oxford and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines now before the public will make Oxford at the north, and Salisbury at the south of the intended Railroad the'central points from which various radii will diverge to the north-west, north, and north-east of the former, and to the cast, south, and west of the latter; and the proposed Line from Cambridge to Oxford, continuing to that city the course of Railway from the north-eastern parts of the island, requires the appliance now suggested to effect a complete means of transit to the western and south-western counties. The Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway, in addition to the benefits which will be conferred upon the nation at large, by preferring a direct line of commun'cation be tween the north-eastern and western and south-western parts of England, will afford to the borough of Abingdon, the market towns of Wantage, Hungerford, and Ludgershall, and the adjacent villages, an important railway accommodation, of which the agricultural districts in which they are seated stand in much need, and will provide a facility for the interchange of produce be tween the rural, manufacturing, and commercial population of the kingdom. Thewant of railway accommodation has long been felt to press unfairly upon the inhabitants of the important and thriving town of Abingdon. Their means and opportunities of competing with the more fortunate traders of those towns which are already provided with di rect channels of transit, arc thus severely crippled. The same remark applies in some degree to the market town of Wantage, which, as well as Hungerford and Ludgershall, claims a share of the profits and advantages produced by railway traffic. It has therefore been determined to commence the proposedit ne at Oxford, and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great Western Railway at Steventon, thus giving to Abingdon a direct rail road to London. By continuing the projected railway to Wantage, the same facility of transit to London will be afforded to that place ; and a perfect Him of road from the north-eastern counties will, by a junc tion with the projection from Cambridge to Oxford, be produced, through the towns which have been named, Hungerford and Lodgers hall to Salisbury, and thence to the south and western ports and dis tricts. _ _ A map of the line, and a statistical repert of the whole country intended to be traversed, is in course of preparation, and with the names of an influential provisional Committee, will very shortly be published. In the meantime, further information may be ob tained from Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, 3foorgate-street, London, solicitors to the undertaking, to whom, at present, applica tion for shares may be made. W ORCESTER and MERTHYR TYDVI JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 110.) Capital, 800,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Sir William Wynn, 3laesynewydd, Chairman of the North Walesl , . Railway _ a William Chadwick, Esq., Montagn-square, Director of the North Wales Railway, and Chairman of the Worcester and South g Wales Junction Gideon Colquhoun, Esq., Widmer Lodge, Avenue. road, Regent's Park, Director of the Manchester and Southampton .6 Railway Thomas Farneomb, Esq., Alderman of London John Knill, Esq., Thames street, Director of the Worcester, 7 4 Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway William Lechracre Whitmore, Esq., 19, James-street, Bucking ham-gateo Henry Plumtre Gipps, Esq., Mo n t agu -place, Bryans t on e-square, g Director of the Trent Valley and Holyhead Junction -et Railways Major-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London Thomas B. Simpson, Esq., Rutland Lodge, Brixton, Director of o the North Wales Railway, and Deputy-Chairman of the Wor cester and South Wales Junction John Purchas, Esq., Upton Bishop, near Ross The Rev. Edward Higgins, Rosbury House, Herefordshire John Tanner, Esq., M.D., Ledbury William Barnes, sq., Foregate-street, Worcester George Alfred Ellis Wall, Cross House, near Worcester, and Wortley Park, Hampshire ► John Hemming, Esq., North Rank, Regent's Park - Philip Matthews, Esq., Burton-court, near Ross Samuel Higgins, Esq., Berrow-court, Worcestershire Win. Nicholson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Railway Company Stephen Phillips, Esq., Director of the Whltehaven and Furness Railway _ _ Wm. Bland, Esq., 11, Park?terrace, Brixton-road, Director of tho North Wales Railway James Brand, Esq., New Broad-street Thomas Baylis, Esq., F.S.A., Pryors Bank, Fulham Henry Garrett Key, Esq., Tulse Hill, Brixton, Surrey Joseph Gillman Barratt, Esq., Ross James Upllll, Esq., Bromyar, Herefordshire William Candler, Esq., Newland Court, near Worcester James Chamberlain, Esq., Green Hill, Worcester. (With power to add to their number). CONSULTING ENGINEER. ENGINEERS—Messrs. R. and T. Hopkins, M.I.C.E. BANKERS. The London and Westminster Bank, Lothhury Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, Biddulph, and Co., Charing-cross Messrs. Webb and Co., Ledbury Messrs. Morgan, Hoskins, and Co., Ross Messrs. Berwick, Lechmere and Co., Worcester t . itteres, Pidlpot-lane, London The National Provincial Bank, Gloucester Messrs. Baileys, Graterex, and Williams, Abergavenny. C a l n T Messrs. Gilbert, Hooke, Street, Charles G. Jones, Esq., 11, Gray's Inn-square Messrs. J. and F. Higgins and Chamberlain, Ledbury. LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. Hydes and Tymbs, Worcester Messrs. Edwards, Ross Messrs. Gabb and Secretan, Abergavenny. SECRETARY PRO TEN—William Borrow, Esq. Offices of the Company, 7, Walbrook. This railway will commence at the station of the Monmouth and Hereford and Worcester and South Wales Junction at Ross, proceed ing through a rich agricultural district, now devoid of railway ac commodation, to Abergavenny , and from the nce by Llanelly, Nant y-Glo, Tredegar, Ebbs Vale , Rumne y , and Dowlais, to Merthyr Tydvil, at which place it will j oin the Taff Vale Railway. The dis tance will not exceed forty miles. On reference to the map it wi ll be seen that this line, in conjunction with the proposed Worcester a nd South Wal es Junction Railway, via Cadbury, communication from Ross,Merthyr Tydvil to London, Gl oucester, Bir mingham, South Staffordshire , a nd the north. will perfect a conti nuous and direct The population of Merthyr, and the surrounding mineral districts, exceeds 120,000, and this line will place it in direct connexion with the agricultural counties of Monmouth, Hereford, and Worcester. The line will be laid down so as to render the greatest accommodation to the principal ironworks in the district through which it will pass, and a saving of ten Mlles over any other linewill be effected between Merthyr and Worcester, and other places north and east of that city. Arrangements are in progress with the Worcester and South Wales Junction Railway Company, for the mutual advantage of both Companies. Applicants for shares, who are personally known to members of the Provisional Committee, are requested to refer to one of such Committee; all other applicants will be required to give a reference to some banker or other persons of known respectability in London or the town from which the application is made. A preference will be given to the holders of scrip in the Worcester and South Wales Junc tion Railway. The usual power will be taken by the Act to allow interest at four per cent. per annum on the amount of subscription paid up, and no subscriber will be answerable for more than the amount of his deposit until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond his subscription. Detailed prospectuses, with the names of a powerful local Provi sional Committee, will shortly be published, and may be obtained of the Solicitors and Local Agents, and of the following Sharebrokers : Messrs. Ashton and Scott, Throginorton•street, London ; John San ford, Esq., Exeter ; Messrs Ridedale, Myers, and Bailey, Leeds ; Messrs. Cameron, Cazenove, and Taunton, Liverpool ; Messrs. Green and Oldham, Manchester ; Messrs. Sohmes and Tripp, B r i stol ; Na thaniel Lea, Esq., Birmingham ; Mr. William Miles, Worcester ; and Mr. Andrew Brand, Glasgow FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Merthyr Tydvil Junction Railway. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of 201. each in the proposed Worcester and Merthyr Tydvil Junction Rail way, and I undertake to accept the same, and pay the deposit thereon, or upon any lesser number that may be allotted to me, such payment to be made within the time limited and prescribed by you, and I undertake to execute the agreement and Parliamentary con tract when required. day Dated WS of 1845. Name Residence • • • • • • . • .. Description ... Reltrenee • • • • • • Volta Sisnature.. • ;. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Proi:bional Committee of Management of the Direct London and Exeter Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 251. each in tho above railway, and I undertake to accept the same or such less nnmber you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations of the Company, also to sign tho necessary legal docu ments, and to pay, when required, the deposit thereof of 11. 7s. 6d. per share. Name in Profession (if any) and Professional Residence, in full.. Residence in full.. .......... Reference ••....•• .• .. • • Date.. • • • ... • • Signature of Applicant ••• •••• • • • ..... INDIA AND CHINA. (From the Times.) By extraordinary express in anticipation of the Indian mail, we have received our journals and correspondence from Calcutta to the Bth of August, from Bombay to the 7th of August, and from China to the 12th of June. The following will be found to be the chief facts of interest which had occurred since the last arrival, A memorial from the cavalry officers of tLe Bengal army had been transmitted to the Court of Directors, praying for the ap. pointment of a sixth captain to each regiment. This memorial shows the state of promotion in that gallant arm of the Bengal force to be most disheartening; 45 of the 80 lieutenants being captains by brevet, as having served 15 years; some of these veteran subalterns having served their country about a quarter of a century, and, in some instances, the junior lieutenant has been with his regiment 18 years. The general orders of the Commander-in-Chief of 1844, relative to officers, military and medical, having charge of companies and regiments, had been made retrospective—that is, if any officer now in charge, or who was in charge previous to that order, should vacate such charge, he is not to be re-appointed until he shall have undergone the requisite examination. Experiments had been made in Fort William on the effects of firing guns in casemated batteries, so as to ascertain how the smoke could be removed to allow of the gunners remaining at their post for any protracted time without being suffocated. These experi ments were made with a view to the construction of batteries for the defence of Aden, which it Is proposed to form by hollowing out the rock, as at Gibraltar, Dover, and Corib. A dratight act had been been published, allowing the transport of cotton from any of the subordinate ports of the Bombay Presidency to Bombay free of duty. This will prevent a great deal of trouble and annoyance to the traders in cotton, who were formerly obliged to pay duty on cotton in transit from the outports to Bombay, which was, in fact, subjecting it to internal taxation. The Union Bank, from the report of the Directors, published its the Hurkaru, appears to have done a very profitable business during the past six months, alike cheering to the shareholders and creditable to the Directors and their able secretary, Mr. Stewart. To those in England interested in the prosperity of the Bank, it will be highly gratifying to learn that from the let of January to the 30th of June the net profits of the Bank have been equal to Br. 14a. per cent. per annum, of which dividends were declared at the rate of 7 per cent,, after adding to the reserved fund :13,817 rupees. From the Delhi Gazelle of the 9th of July we find that the steamer Soorma was expected to arrive at Gurmoktessur Ghaut on the 15th. This is a completion of the experiment made by Government of the possibility of steam navigation being ex tended beyond Allahabad, and it Is most satisfactory to find that at that season of the year at least it was quite passible. It is pleasing to observe that steam was every day becoming more available in India. The Amherst packet.vessel, which had for some time past been employed by Government to run between Calcutta and Arracan, was to be sold, and the Hon. Company's steamers Tenasserim and Enterprise were to be employed in run ning once a month to and from the eastern ports in the Bay of Bengal, which will be a great convenience to those residing in Arracan, Kyookphioo, &c. It has been ascertained in Calcutta that three ships were on their way out from Liverpool with about 1,200 tons of salt, which, frost calculations made on good data, would cost in Calcutta only 9 annas a maund, while that manufactured under the Government monopoly costs from 15 annas to 1 rupee; supposing only a profit of 4 aanas per maund to the importer, and supposing that the ship owner loads his own ship, 450 tons will yied, at an exchange of Os., 337/. as profit, and 450/. as freight. Intelligence from Lahore mentioned that an attempt had been made, on the Gth inst., toassassinate Raja Ghoolab Singh, by firing at him while returning on his elephant from visiting the Ranee and Trime Minister. A duel had taken place at Fultah between Lieut. Tulloch, of the Old Native Infantry, and a Mr. Nilson, the officer of a ship, when the former was dangerously wounded, and after wards died of his wounds. The first step in a vast project for the incalculable benefit of India is most gratifying to behold. The prospectus of the East India Railway Company had just been published at Calcutta. It is impos sible to foresee the rapid improvement which the fulfilment of this measure will cause to take place in the condition, moral and tem poral, of the people of that immense empire, and most sincerely must all lovers of the human race pray for its speedy completion. It was said that the Governor. General and suite would leave Calcutta for the upper provinces about the end of September. His Lordship was to go by steam to Allahabad, and march thence. Sir Hubert Maddock would become, as a matter of course, Vice-Pre sident in Council and Deputy-Governor of Bengal. We are sorry to see, that under instructions from the Court of Directors, the regulation of Lord Ellenborough, sanctioning a loan to officers to enable them to build bungalows at new stations, has been abolished prospectively from the 13th of February, 1846. Those who are in the habit of blaming his Lordship's Administration will not hesitate to confess that the above measure was not one which called for aught but approbation. His Highness Meer Hoosein Allec Khan Talpoor had written a reply to what Sir C. Napier wrote about the Ameers of Sinde; a translation of Meer Iloosein's reply will be found in the Bur kart/ of the 7th of August. From Mr. Wilkinson's commercial annual of the external commerce of Bengal for 1644.45, lately published, !it appears that the increase in the value of imports in the past year over that of the previous one is 11,159,736 rupees, and the increase in the exports 2,146,642 rupees, the net increase in Customs' duties being nearly four lacs of rupees, almost wholly derived from imports. In cotton twist and yarn an increase of imports to the extent of nearly 50 per cent., and in woollen and woollen stuffs a similar increase have taken place. In the Punjab there had been partial disturbances; an attempt was made there to disband some of the turbulent troops, which created dissatisfaction amongst them, and fears were entertained of some commotions at the Dusserah, the great festival, which occurs this year on the 10th of October. A subsidiary force has been offered by the Government of India to the Queen-Mother, which it was supposed she and her brother, the Wuseer, would ac cept. The affairs of the Punjab engrossed much attention, since it was known that Sir Henry Hardinge was preparing to proceed to the north-west provinces in the beginning of September. There had been some trifling disturbances in Oude, but they were appeased, and an inquiry instituted into their cause. The news from China comes down to the 12th of June. The Governor of Hong. Kong had issued a proclamation assessing the lands and houses of that colony for the support of an efficient police. Rear. Admiral Cochrane had brought an action of libel against the editor of the Friend of China for some comments on his conduct. Verdict for the defendant. The intelligence •f the insurrection of the natives of New Zealand had reached Bombay. The ships Hyderabad and Coringa packet, from Sydney, for India, were lost, the former in Torres Straits, and the latter on an unknown shoal on the north-west coast of New Holland. ?ur correspondent at Aden v;il;undeidateof2l4tist 18th:--• The Hindostan has just arrived from Suez, 48 hours after her time. You will have already learned the occasion of her detention In Suez through some of your numerous correspondents. The ex planation given is one which, if correct, should Induce greater pre caution being taken hereafter. The scampering off of a camel in the Desert with some of the mail boxes in the dead of the night is certainly not a performance which decks rcpeiila placebit. " The passengers on hoard the steamer report the heat in the lied Sea to have exceeded anything within the remembrance of the most salamanderish among them,—thermometer in shade at 9,, in engine-room at 128, and temperature of water about 86. The engineers Were so much exhausted as to require knots forequirestim a consi der. ulantat are 1 indebted for an earlier relief able p f e r r o i m °d, the sunchai ibeer g i ve n to them. The Hindostan has performingbeen aengens the passengers above the St ra it s t h an they could and to t t s in g otherwise have hoped for. Mr. Waghorn is still here, and is expected to leave in the course of a few days, to proceed to London, yid Trieste, to deter mine with accuracy the relative advantages in regard to expedi. Lion of the routes through France and Germany, for the convey ance of the Indian correspondence and mail. No incursions hitherto from the Arabs. The garrison are kept continually on the qui rite by the cry of " the wolf," but the wolf will come at last, whenever the opportunity of relaxed watchfulness shall give them the shadow of the shade of a chance. " The outcry against this place as a residence is beginning to subside as it becomes better known, and the regiments quartered here are reconciled to, and much better pleased with, the service than had been anticipated." WOLVERHAMPTON, CHESTER, AND BIRKENHEAD JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPA'NY. visionallyße;isTered,Vu;StWiO iand 8 Victoria, c. 110.) Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. PRELIMINARY ANSiOCNCEMENT. The great principal on which the projectors of this important scheme have acted, is the establishment of a direct line of commu nication between Birmingham and Birkenhead, by the nearest pos sible route, and at the smallest possible outlay. To effect this object, it is proposed to make use either of the Grand Junction, or the Bir mingham, Dudley, and Wolierhampton Railway, as far as Wolver hampton, and thence to throw out a new line in as straight a direction as possible to Chester, where a junction will be formed with the rail way already existing between that city and Birkenhead. A most important saving of distance will thus be effected. It is obvious that such a scheme is fraught with consequences of the highest possible import to the commercial interests of the respec tive districts. The growing prosperity of Birkenhead even now de mands a more direct communication `with the midland, southern, western, and eastern counties ; and when her magnificent docks shall be completed, and the town itself shall have arrived at its destined greatness, this line will take a prominent position among the most lucrative of these undertakings. The Directors, therefore, conscious of the great traffic which flow from the densely populated termini, propose to construct this line in as straight a direction as possible, and thereby secure the immense through traffic which will resort to this railway for shortness and expedition, from the great manufacturing and agricultural districts of South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcester, Hereford shire, Monmouthshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Northamp tonshire, and in fact the whole of the eastern counties, as well as from London and the important districts to the south, east, and west of the; metropolis. . - Irrespective of the immense population of the termini, it is evident that this projected flue commends itself to the entire inhabitants of the counties already referred to. The scheme also possesses this fur ther and great advantage—that it will, in reality, form a shorter and more direct line to the neighbonrhood of Liverpool and the district adjacent, than any which has hitherto been projected ; and by means of the contemplated line from Chester to Holyhead, it will open the shortest possible route from London to Ireland, and thereby avoid the delay and inconvenience of a protracted sea voyage. A cursory inspec tion of the map of England, and a reference to the plan of this line will also show that the Trent Valley, London and Birmingham, It irminghzun and Gloucester, Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, as well as the projected Staffordshire and Shropshire Railways, will necessarily be valuable tributaries to this important line of railway. The line to be constructed by this Company will commence at Wolverhampton, and proceed through an agricultural district, by way of Market Drayten to Chester ; and although in Its direct course it may not pass through many towns of importance, the engineering difficulties of every other route will be avoided, and powerful loual influence brought into co-operation with this Company. In the formation of this line the extensive iron district of Lilleshall has been especially regarded ; and by means of the facilities of transit afforded by this Company, the ironmasters of South Stafford shire will be enabled to compete with the Scotch market, which they have hitherto been unable to do in consequence of the heavy charge for freight. The Provisional and Managing Committee are in the course of selection, and will be published in a few days, with other particulars. Applications for Shares to be made to Mr. W. S. Yardy, Solicitor, 18, Finsbury-place, Finsbury-square, London; or Mr. John Smith or Mr. C. J. Noble, Solicitors, Birmingham. SINDE. The following interesting news appeared as a supplement to the Delhi Gazette of the 9th of July ; the ordering of the pontoon bridge to Feroaepore looks warlike " One o'clock—We have this moment received intelligence from Hyderabad, under date of the 30th of June, to the effect that 480 men with head-quarters of the 18th Bombay Infantry and two mountain guns with Golundez, had embarked at eight o'clock on the 29th, accompanied by a Commissariat officer with three months' supplies, on three steamers, with orders to go to the north of Sukkur and establish head-quarters near a village named Kumsoor or some such name,' remaining on beard the steamers. The cause of the movement is, that a party of Punjabees had made a dour upon some villages of the Sinde frontier and killed two men. This detachment is to keep the country quiet. Sir Charles Napier declares, very properly, he will not allow his frontier to be disturbed. The pontoon bridge has also been ordered up to Ferogeivre by Special direction of the Governor-General. We Inthal n