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Provisionally Registered. WILTS, SOMERSET, AND A SOUTHAIIP- Connecting the Englibh w;th the Bristol Channel, and forming a omplete communication, on the broad g uge, between Southampton, Salisbury, Rath, Bristol, and every other town in the West of Eng land and South Wales. Bankers' Receipts may now he exchanged for Script Certificates, and the Deeds now lie for Signature at the Company's Office, 26, Gre sham street, City. The Deeds will shortly be removed into the country, of which du notice will be given. _ . . London, August 21, 1845. H. B. SHERIDAN, 2ecretary. L EICESTER and TAMWORTH JUNCTION R tILWAY. .No further Applications for Shares in this Company can be re celvi,d, except from parties locally interested, or Shareholders In the Trent Valley Railway, who must apply on or before Monday, the 25th day of August instant. J. E. RATHBONE, Secretary. 4, Coleusau-street, London, August 18,1845. OLT TII WALES RAILWAY. LY The royal assent having been given to the South Wales Rail way Bill, holders of Scrip in that undertaking are desired to iorward the same to this office ou or before MoNDAY, the Bth of September next, with a letter requesting to be registered for their respective Shares, a form of which letter will be furnished oif application to me. The receipt of the Scrip will be duly acknowledged, and sealed certificates prepared for exchange as soon as possible, of which due notice will be given. Shares, in respect of which no application for registry shall be made on or before the above date, will be registered in the names of the original Subscribers, after which no Shares can be passed other wise tkan by formal transfer under the Act.—By order, N. ARMSTDONG, Secretary. South Wale4ltailway Office, 449, West Strand, London, August 8, 1845. C HESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY. . .. . With a Branch to Birkenhead. (Provis onally Registered). Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. cash. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Colonel the Hon. LEICESTER STANHOPE, Ashburnham House, Lon , on, Chairman Major JOHN T. CROFT, Regent-street, London, Deputy Chairman David Ainsworth, Esq , Manchester Samuel Barton, Esq., Dldsbury, Manchester lFlughßeaver, Esq., iManebesier, and Gly t Gartb, Anglesey . _ John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Mauchester James Far sh, Esq., I.anca.ster-place, London 31..j0r Ford, of liodlondet, Carnarvonshire Licht.-Colonel Henry Hanmer, Bear-place, Berks, and 7, Devon- shire-place, London Fraser B. Renshaw, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square, London, a Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction Railway Captain Sir John R. Hilton, R.N., Isle of Wight J. Harney Iligson, Esq., merchant, Manchester Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, 8.E.F.R.5., Director of the College of Civil Engineers T. 1). Johnson, Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, London John Joseph iteene, - Esq., St. John's Wood, London, Director of the National Provincial Bank of Ireland W. King, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Com- pany George Peter Livius, Esq:, the Grove house, St. Cuthbert's, and Cauldwell Priory, Bedford Horace W. Meteyard, Esq., 8.C.L., Middle Temple, and Chatham place Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Upper Hyde Park-street, London, ft' Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction RallwAy James Omit Esq., Cuicheth Hall, Kenyon James Oglen, Esq., M.D., Manchester David Price, Esq , Manchester Major James Waller, K.H., St. James's - square C. J. S. Walker, Esq., Longford, near Manchester Sir George William Presc.,tt, Bart., of Theobalds, Herts. (With power to add to their number.) ENGINEERS. Sir John Rennie, F.R.S. George Remington, Esq., C.E. • BANKERS. Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., London National Provincial Bank of England, Manchester SOLICITORS. London—bizssrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 29, Moorgate- street. Manchester—Messrs. Higson and Robinson, Cross-street R. B. B. Cobbett, Esq., Marsden-street. LOCAL AGENT—Chester—John Walker, Esq. The promoters of this Railway, encpuraged by the favourable sup port which has been given to the project, and In compliance with various reconitnendations they have received, ha—e determined upo❑ the addition of a branch to Birkenhead, which, although it will manifestly tend to the advantage of the Shareholders and the public, will be attended with comuaratively little additional outlay. The project will still retain its chief characteristic of a direct railway, and by its connexion, near Warrington, with the Grand Junction Company, is sufficiently comprehensive, without resorting to a com plicated system of branch lines, or materially conflicting with the in terests of existing companies. The line will commence at the city of Chester, and proceed by way of Trafford, Frodsh4m, and Preston Brook, to Warrington, thence by ',rum and Stretford direct to Manchester. From a point on the main line, near Frodsham, a branch will be taken to join the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, so as to unite Manchester in the most direct manner possible, with the docks now being formed at Bir• ke.i! ead. As Manchester, from its geographical position, is the centre of rail way communication between Svotlind and the most populous dis tricts of England, so Chester, from a like cause, is the great centre of railway communication between the capitals of Ireland and of Eng land. To con..ect these two points by a direct and independent line of railway must, therefb 13, be of the utmost importance, not only in a local point of view, but to the whole commercial intercourse of the eocntry. - This line will be the most direct route, by Holyhead, to Ireland, and will be. in all respects, by far the preferable channel of inter course and transit between Ireland and the great manufactu , ing dis tricts of Engl incl. liy the railways connecting Chester with Wrex ham, Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Hereford, Gloucester, and South Wales, this will -ho the nearest route from Manchester to the south western parts of England, and to the minerals of Monmouth and Glamorganshlre The communication with Bristol, Gloucester, and Exeter will be speedy and direct. On reference to the map, it will be seen that a very considerable distance will be saved by this line, as compared with the present circuitous routes by Cri we and by Birkenhead ; the former being 52 miles, and the latter 46 miles, while the proposed line is only 34 miles, saving in the one case 18 miles, and in the other 12 miles, besides the serious inconvenience, loss of Vine, and expense of passing through Liverpool, and grossing the water at that place. _ It is confidently expected that this line wilt be the precursor 01 another scheme, of no ordinary ImporLance—namely, to render 'heater an efficient port for large vessels. This subject was entertained by Sir John Rennie in 1835, and sub emu. ntly, in the same yea*, by the late Mr. Chapman, who wrote an able report upon the capabilities of the raver Dee. It was again nvcstigated, in 1837, by Sir John Rennie and Mr. George Remington, and the practic bility of forming a good navigable channel for vessels of large burden, together with docks at Chestsr, was then fully and clearly, established. - The entrance channel would commence at DawpCol. which Is easy of access (ant infinitely preferab e, in point of access and safety, to the docks at Liverpool or Birkenhead), for vessels of large burden, during .eight hours every tide, both at springs and neaps; and the till of the lock Ivo ild be sufficiently low to admit vessels drawing 20 feet watPr to enter at all tides. This; railway, therefore, in connexion with the rroposed docks, will render to Chester and Manchester incalculable advantages. To the former it will restore the proper position natural to so important a city ; to the latter it will give another outlet, by sea, to the ma nufacqiring districts, free of the heavy port charges, dues, and risks to which the produce is now subject. It has not been thought advisable to combine the two objects in one company at present, but should it be found requisite, the two may hereafter be amalga mated. 31c•its of no ordinary degree, therefore, may fairly be claimed for this railway, whether taken in connexion with the proposed docks, tray standing alone, combining as it does all the advantages of any other lines, with this great addition, that it will be the high road to the most convenient outport of Manchester, and will be quite inde pendent of any associations or influences that might tend to oppose the growing desire for a moans of direct and independent communi cation between Manchester and the port of Chester. The line has been carefUlly examined. There are no difficult earth-works to be encountered ; on the contrary it will be cheap, and of ,a;), formation. Power is reserved to the Committee to de viate from the proposed line in the vicinity of Manchester, should ulterior arrangemeuts render it expedient. Application• for shares in the subjoined form, and for maps and prospectuses to be made to the Solicitors, and to the following Share orokers :—Messrs. Shewell and San, 25,Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 8, Cornhill ; and Messrs. Taunton and Bush, 2d, Austin-friars. London; Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Mr. Locke, Messrs. A. Blrchall and Co., Thomas Leeds and Son, Henry Bents n, J. B. 'Lo k, and Samuel Slater, Manchester ; Mes:rs. .Neilsons, Messrs. Healer, Mr. C , lsp, and Mr. Morris Reynolds; Liver pool ; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield; Mess, s. Welliseloved and Oastler, Leeds ; Mr. E. A. Armitage, Wake fled ; Grayston and Earle, York ; Mr. Thomas Board man, Blackburn ' • Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. Francis Stamp, Hull ; Mr. L. Weatherburn, Huddersfield ; Mr. Wm. eronhetn., ; Mr. Charles Speue: r, Nottingham ; Mr. Samuel Eyre, Derby ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham ; Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton ; Mr. Jo n Thomas Hot and, Coventry; Mr. William M s,on. Bradfm - d, Yorkshire ; Messrs. I'ayne and Freer, Leicester ; Mr. Wm. Tomkinson, Newcastle-under-Lyne ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macele•fleld ; Mr. Lea, Cheltenham ; Mem. Tate and Nas , ., Bristol ; Mr. William Miles, Worcester ; M assts Read ind Nicholson, Ed nburgh ; Messrs. R..ss, Perth, N A L : an d Messrs. H. and W. A. Tassie, Ulasgow. Ap lications for shares mu's be accompanied by a reference to the Sol citors of the Com,any, the sharebrokers, or Some other respon alb e pfrsen. FORM OF APPLICATION r. OR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Chester acid Manchester Direct Railway Gentlemen,—l request von to *Het me Shares of 201. each In the above Railway, and I. undertake to accept the same, or such less number as you may a - ppropriate to me, subject to the Regula tions of the t ompany, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to pay, wh e n required, the deposit thereon of 2/. 2s. per Share. Dated this day of 1845. Name and Residence in full ................ Profession and professional residence intuit.. C HESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY. a meeting of the Committee of Management of this under taking, held this day, it was resolved that, in order to comply with the standing orders of the House of Lords, as recently altered, it is expedient to reduce the amount of each share to 201., and to extend the number to 50,000, and that the deposit required be 21. 2s. on each share, and that, in consequence of this alteration in the amount and number of shares and the deposit required, the period within which shares must be applied for be extended to the 28th instant for the London applications, and to the 30th Instant for country applications. By order, A. 2O, Moorgate-str ee t, A ugus t 14 , 1845 BARRETT, Secretary, TUE MIDLAND and EASTERN COUNTIES I..ILWAY, from CAMBRIDGE, by NORTHAMPTON to WORCES (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.) Capital 1,500,0001., in Shares of 251. each. Deposit I/. 7s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Alington, Rev. John, Little Barford, Bedfordshire, and Letchworth, Hertfordshire Booth, Williamson, Esq., Woodbury Hall, Cambridgeshire Banbury, G. 8., Esq., Leamington, a Director of the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway Burman, William, Esq., Stratford-upon-Avon Carrington, John, Eat., St. Neots Cochrane, Hon. Horatio William Bernardo, Little S..anghton Cottle, J. M., Esry„ Leamington,} Directors of the Warwick and Curtis, J. E. 13„ Esq., London, Cheltenham Railway Dabbs, Thomas William, Esq , The Newarke, Leicester Day, John Hill, Esq , St. Neots Day, Thomas, Esq., Wornditch, near Kimbolton Ellgnod, Thomas, Esq., St. Neots Falconer, Robert, Esq., Goldington IL-ill, Bedfordshire Gee, William, Esq., Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire Hewlett, Thomas Bernard, Esq., Northampton, a Director of the South Midland Railway Bumbley. Captain, Waterloo Cottage, Eynesbury, near St. Neot l i puga, T. F. J., Esq., 11.igliton Kerr's, Rev. Frederick, Little Gransden Onslow, Denzill, Esq., Staughton House, near St. Neots Page, Captain, Charlton House, Somerton, a Director of the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway Parker, Francis, Esq., Albion-place, Northampton, a Director of the South Midland Railway Simpson, Richard IL, Esq., Long Stow Hall, Cambridgeshire • St. John, the Right Hon. ord, Melchbourne Park, Bedfordshire Sitiney, Georga Deane, Esq , Orford Cluney, Huntingdonshire Webb, Dr., Master of Clare Hall, Cambridge Webb, Theodore Vincent, Esq., Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire Welstead, Benjamin, Esq., Kimbolton Welstead, 31., Esq., Stoneey Hall, Kimbolton (With power to add to their number.) 13ANItEas—Messrs. Glyn, Halllfax, 31111 s, and Co., London. SOLICITORS. John Chinery, Esq., Lean:dui4;n; a 7113, Church-conrt, Old Jewry Messrs. Day, St. Neots .Messrs. Harrizi and Sumpter, Cambridge Messrs. timbers arid Sowdon, Stratford-upon-Avon Charles Jones, Es 4., Alcestor. No further Applications for Shares in this Railway will be received after Tuesday Next, the 26th of August instant, except from Land owners, or parties living in the country, or locally interested, who must apply on or before Saturday, the 30th instant. In the meantime applications for prospectuses and shares may be made to the Solicitors, or to the following Sharebrokers, viz. : Messrs. P. W. Thomas and Son, 50, Threadneedle-street, London ; Forsyth anti Pritchard, or T. Crewdson, Liverpool; Johnstone and BraX,2y, or S. W. Graves, Manchester ; E. Wilson, or W. Collis, Bir igh ; White and Son, Leamington ; George Edwards and Son, or Luke Arnold, Bristol; W. Lee, or Hall Brothers and Co., Chelten ham ; Kirk and Co., or Scott and Co., Leeds; John Doy, or Ell :t and Tootal, Hull; Eaglestield, Leicester; Freeman and Son, Northampton; John Langworthy, Exeter; Wm. Bolton, Stratford upon-Avon , Wm. Miles, Worcester; Hugh Munro and Co., Edin burgh ;,George Brown, Glasgow; Bruce and Symes, Dublin; Brown tins Clark e Coventry ; and Peet and Son, Xottlnghani. • THE SUN, IION DON, SATURD A Y EV.g N .ING , AUGUST 23, 1845. AT the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEET ING of the PROPRIETORS of the NORFOLK RAILWAY COMPANY held at their Offices, Guildhall-buildings, London, on the 22d day of August, 1845, ADAM DUFF, Esq., in the Chair. The Report of the Directors having been read, and also a statement of the accounts of the late Yarmouth and Norwich and Norwich and Brandon Companies, The following resolutions were unanimously agreed to :- Ist. That the comwon seal of the Company be alflxed to the Regis ter of Proprietors. 2d. That the Report now read be received and adopted, and printed, and circulated among the Proprietors. 3d. That interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum be pgid to the proprietors of the late Yarmouth and Norwich Company, upon their paid up capital to the 30th of June last. 4th. That pursuant to the proVisious of the Act of the last session for altering the line of this Ita:lway, and making a branch to East Dereham, an additional capital of 220,0001. be raised by the creation of 22,0 0 new shares of the value of 101. each, to be appropriated among the Shareholders of the Company in manner provided by the same Act. sth. That the Directors be empowered to make arrangements with the Shareholders in the Diss and Colchester and Wells and Vereham Railways, for admitting them to subscribe (upon terms and conditions to be agreed upon) for part of any new capital which it may be necessary to raise for making extensions or branches from the line of this railway. 6th. That the number of Directors of the Company bo increased to Twelve, and that the present Directors be authorised to elect the ad ditional members that will be necessary to make up the number. 7th. That the agreement entered into by the Directors of this Company with Mr. Charles Cory, on the 16th May last, for securing to him an annuity of 800/. per annum in lieu of all tolls and charges upon the passenger and goods traffic of this railway passing across the river Bure at Yarmouth, redeemable on payment of the sum of 24,0001., and giving this Company the power of buikling a bridge for the purposes of their traffic across the said river at a point mentioned in the said agreement be, and the same is hereby confirmed. Sth. That the Directors be authorised to make arrangements with the Lowestoft Railway and Harbour Company for leasing of their line to apply to Parliament in the next session for the power to carry the same into effect. The Chairman having quitted the Chair, it was unanimously re solved, That the thanks of this meeting be presented to the Chair man and Board of Directors for the zeal and ability shown by them in the conduct of the affairs of this Comp: ny. RICHARD TILL, Secretary. Guildhall-buildings, London, Aug. 22, 1845. B IRMINGHAM and OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY, With a DIVERGING LINE through STRATFORD-ON-AVON, to UNITE with the MORETON-IN-MARSH RAILWAY. Capital 600,000/., in Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. per Share. Provisionally Registered, puruane r to Act 7th and Bth Viet., c. 110. Offices, 449, West Strand. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. The Mayor of Birmingham John Adams, Esq , Sergeant-at-Law, London J. T. Alston, Esq., Liverpool W. Alston, Esq., Elmdon Hall, near Birmingham John Aston, Esq., Birmingham Robert James Atty, Esq., Ligon Grange, Stratford-on-Avon F. P. Barlow, Esq., London Matthew I'. W. Boalton, Esq., Great Tow Park, Oxon Colonel Charles Oldfleld Bowles, North Aston Park W. E. Boyes, Esq., Alkerton, near Banbury James Boffin, Esq., Westfield House, near Rugby C. H. Corbitt, Esq., Adminton vY alter Cowan, Esq., Offchurch Bray, near Leamington John Crosthwaite, Esq., Liverpool Sir George Dashwood, Bart., Sirtlington Park, Oxon William Dickens, Esq., Cherrington, near Shipston Rev. John Ellis, Wooton, Henley-in-Arden Edmund Darby Ford, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon John Branston Freer, Esq., StrattOrd-on-Avon J. Gardiner, Esq., Southam Darwin Gallon, Esq., Edstone Hall, near Stratford-on-Avon Robertson Gladstone, Esq., Liverpool J. Haddon, Esq., Leamington W. Judd Harding, Esq., Baraset House, near Stratford-on-Avon Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., Liverpool Captain Hitchins, Idlicote House, near ShipstonllP Charles Lawrence, Esq., Liverpool John Lechmere, Esq., Steeple Aston Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington William Marshall, Esq., Husbands' Bosworth, Leicestershire WillianfMathews, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham J. W. Miles, Esq., Bristol John Moss, Esq., Liverpool P. H. 31untz, Esq., Birmingham Rev. Charles l'al.rier, Lighthorne J. G. Reeves, Esq Birmingham John Rich, Esq., Bearley John Roskell, Esq., Bath Francis Rufford, Esq., Bellbroughton, near Stonrbridge Charles Russell, Esq., M.P., London Charles Shaw, Esq., Birmingham Major-General Smith, Rugby Gustavus T. Smith, Esq., Gridicote, near Stratford-on-Avon Samuel Edward Steward, Esq., Leamington Thomas Thomson, Esq., M.D., Mayor of Stratford-on-Avon T. H. Thorne, Esq., Leamington Rev. Henry Townsend, Bennington, near Shipston George Richard Walker, Esq., Ileathfleld-house, Bletchington, Oxort Charles Woodmass, Esq., Avonhurst, near Stratford-on-Avon. (With power to add to their number.) BOARD OF MANAGEMENT. J T. Alston, Esq. J. W. Miles, Esq. F. P. Barlow, Esq. Joh Moss, Esq. J. B. Freer, Esq. P. H. Muntz, Esq. Robertson Gladstone, Esq. F. Rufford, Fsq. J. Haddon, Esq. C. Russell, Esq., M.P. Charles Lawrence, Esq. Chas. Shaw, Esq. W. Mathews, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co., Lorrelon Messrs. Attwood, Spooner, mid Co., Birmingham The Birmingham Banking Company, Birmingham Messrs. Miles, Horton", and Co., Bristol The Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, and th • Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, Leamington and Warwick Messrs. Moss and Co., Liverpool. The Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Company, Stratford-on- Avon. QOUTIIWARK ELECTION. ►y At a PUBLIC MEETING of the ELECTORS of the Borough of SOUTHWARK, held at the Bridge House Hotel, pursuant to public advertisement, on Friday, the 22d day of August, 1845, CHARLES SHAW, Esq., of llorselydown, in the Chair, It was moved by EDWARD PALmza, Esq., of Saint George's, and seconded by WILLIAM GRISENTIIWAITE, Esq., of Saint John's, and Resolved, That upon hearing an exposition of the sentiments of Jeremiah Pilcher, Esq., the resident candidate for the representation of the borough, vacant by the decease of our late lamented fellow townsman, Benjamin Wood, Esq., this meeting entertains the fullest conviction that his return to the Commons House of Parliament as their representative is of the greatest importance to the constituency at large. The thanks of the meeting to the Chairman was proposed by Thomas Camplin, Esq.; and seconded by Thomas Dare, Esq , of St. Olave's. . ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. A MAGNIFICENT, EXTENSIVE, and UNIQUE COLLEC TION of TROPICAL FRUITS, modelled by Mons. Grimaud during his long residence in the Isle of France, is just deposited. The ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY is Lectured upon by Professor Bachhofiber, and exhibited Daily and in the evenings. A NEW .4.MEIIICAN INVENTION, COLEMAN'S PATENT LOCOMO TIVE ENGINE, for ascending and descending inclined planes on Railways without the aid of stationary power. SWIMMI\ G and DIVING ILLUSTRATED by the son of Captain Stevens, the ce lebrated teacher of swimming, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at Two o'clock, and on the Evenings of Tuesdays and Thursdays at half-past Eight o'clock. The other exhibitions, &c. as usual. Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price, BALLOONS, BALLOONS, BALLOONS.- CB E.4ORNE GARDENS.—Remember, my beloved public, 051 MONDAY NEXT, the great Nassau Balloon, with a large party of ladles and gentlemen, will ascend from these exquisite grounds by sun-light or rain-light, as the weather may be. On Wednesday Mr. Green will again ascend by moon-light, star-light, or dark night, as the weather may be. On the latter occasion the veteran will, on be coming a quarter of a mile high, shower on shorter men below, bou quets of irascible light and streams of exasperated tire. On both occasions, fete, tun, and fireworks.— Admission Is. ; children half price. KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. - MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, 1845-46. The WINTER SESSION will COMMENCE on WEDNESDAY, the Ist day of October next, at Two o'clock, p.m., with an INTRO DUCTORY LECTURE, by Professor MILLER. DE iCRIP E and SURGICAL ANATOMY--Richard Partridge, F.R.S. PHYSIOLOGY, GENERAL, and MORBID ANATOMY—R. B. Todd, M.D., F.R.S. PRACTICAL ANATOMY—J. Simon, F.A.S., and W. Bowman, F.R.S. CHEMISTRY—W. Allen Miller, M.D., F.R.S. ANALYTICAL and EXPERIMENTAL CHEMISTRY (Labora tory Class)—W. A. Miller, M.D., and John E. Bownian. MAT ERIA MEDICA and THERAPEUTICS—J. F. Boyle, M.D., F.R.S. MEDICINE—George Budd. M,D., F.R.S. SURGERY—WiIIiam Fergusson, F. R.S.E. MIDWIFERY and DISEASES of WOMEN and CHILDREN.— Arthur Farre, M.D., F.R.S. SITMM ER COURSES. BOTANY—Edward Forbes, F.R.S., E.L.S. COM I'ARATIVE ANATOMY—T Rymer Jones, F.R.S. FORENSIC MEDICINE—W. A. Guy, M.B CHEMICAL MANIPULATION—John E. Bowman. RING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL. The Hospital is visited daily at Haltpast One o'clock, and 'Clinical Lectures are given every week by Dr. Budd and Dr. Todd, and by Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Partridge. The Physicians' assistant and clinical clerks, the house-surgeon, and dressers, are selected by examination from the students of the hospital. A FRESH ARRIVAL OF NEW PROVIDENCE PINE APPLES. WITESSRS. J. and J. ADAM will SELL, by AUCTION, at their Sale-room, 11, Pudding-lane, Lower Thames-street, on MONDAY. August 25, at Three o'clock precisely, 5, , 00 NEW PROVIDENCE PINE APPLES, in line condition, now landing by the William Forster, from Fieuthe. a. To be viewed on the morning of sale, and Catalogues had of J. and J. ADAM, Brokers, 11, Puddiug-lane. INCOME WITHOUT RISK. THE LONDON GENUINE TEA COM PANY, established Nov. 5, 1818, at 23, Ludgate hill, are now filling up their Lists of AGENTS; and Persons desirous of such An appointment, by which many have derived considerable incomes .vithout risk during the last twenty-six years, are requested to apply to the Company, at their Warehouses, 2, Laurence Pountney hill, London. rro THE EMBARRASSED.-IMPORTANT. 1. —There are thousands of persons who have struggled long against the force of misfortune, hut few arc aw're that by a very recent act all small.traders owing debts not exceeding 3001., farmers, and all others owing to any amount, cal be entirely raised trom their difficulties at small expense, and without imprisonment or bank ruptcy. All such, islr. Weston begs will apply to him, at Moira Chambers, IL Ironmonger-lane, Cheapsidc, by letter or personally. Tr ONDON REVERSIONARY INTEREST L SOCIETY, Established ISM, for the purchase of Reversionary Property, Policies of Insurance, Life Interests, Annuities, &c. 4, New Bank-buildings, and 10, Pall-mall, East. Sir Pr TElt LAURIE, Alderman, Chairman. FRANCIS WARDEN, Esq. (Director 11. E. I. C.), Vice-Chairman. Parties desirous of disposing of Reversionary Property, on liberal, terms, and without unnecessary delay, may obtain blank forms of proposal on application to the Secretary, Henry T. Thompson, Esq., 4, New Bank-buildings, or to the Actuary, 10, Pall-mall East. JOHN KING, Actuary. N A'rIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26, CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital 1500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament . This institution offers important and suLstantial advan tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borriw, without ex pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid, Om table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion if his Interests to meet other convenience , / sr necessity. Assurances fbr 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,lo declare a third Bonus, varying fl'om 30 to 75 per cent. on the premiums paid on each Policy effected on the Profit scale. The division of profit& is annual. and the next will be made in De ,ember of 'he present year. F. FEROITSON CAMROUX. Rea. Ll llt E PRO I ECTIVE and GENERAL A: BUILDINGS IMPROVEMENT COMPANY, for the PRE SERVATION of LIFE from FIRE, and PROPERTY from ROBBERY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 150,0001., in Shares of 251. each, Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Share. The Provisional Connilittee hereby 'give notice, that all Applica• lions for Shares must be made on or before MONDAY, the 25th inst. as on the following day the Committee will proceed to the Allotment M. BRAY, Secretary. Office, 9, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Aug. 19, 1845. G REAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE AS SURANCE SOCIETY, 14, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, LONDON. THE CHISHOLM, Chairman. WILLIAM MORLEY, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. Great advantages offered by this Institution. The whole of the profits divided annually among the MEMBERS. after payment of five annual premiums. An ample guaranteed Capital, in addition to the fund continually accumulating from Premiums, fully sufficient o afford complete security. Credit given to MEMBERS for half the amount of the first ♦e annual premiums, without security. Claims on Policies not subject to be litigated or disputed. An extremely low rate of Premium, without participation in the Profits, but with the option, at any time within five years, of paying the difference between the Reduced Rates and the Mutual Assur ance Rates ; and thus becoming Members of the Society, and entitled to a full participation in the Profits. Extract from the Reduced Scale of Rates, for an Assurance of 100/, Annual Premium. A g e ' One Year. Seven Yeara. WIIOIe Life. 20 f£a. d. £ 5. d. £a. d. 1 0 9 1 1 6 1 13 11 301291 3 3 2 2 1 40 1 5 6' 1 7 6 2 16 4 50 1 15 9 2 1 6 4 1 11 60 3 3 5 3 17 0 6 8 3 Full particulars are detailed In the Prospectus. A. R. IRVINE, Managing Director. 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To }e followed by the admired Drama of GRANDFATHER WHITEHEAD. Grandfathet Whitehead, Mr. W. Farren; Dray. ton, Mr. Tilbury; Langley, Mr. Stuart; Louisa Drayton, Mrs. E. Yarnold; Susan, Mrs. Stank•y. After which will be repeated a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES; or, Matrimonial Chap ters. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Buekstone ; Mrs. Caudle, Mrs. W. Clifford. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and one Guinea and a.Halt each. Tickets and • laces to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office. tom Ten till Five o'clock. THEATisE ROYAL, ADELP/11. UNDER MR DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTI. THIS EVENING Will be performed the MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. The Stranger, Madame Celeste. After which, SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES. Billy Lackaday, Mr. Munyard; Eugenia, Mrs. Yates; Laura, Miss Woo War. To conclude with THE IRISH DRAGOON; or, Wards in Chan cery. Paddy Murphy O'Brollaghan, Mr. Hudson. On Mouday, positively will be produced, Mrs. Caudle Abroad and at Dome. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNt)ER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY The Third Juvenile Night, and pOsitiv,ly the Last Night of Cinderella, TIILS EVENING Willbe performed a New and Original Comedy, to be called THE GOVERNOR'Sentirely New Scenery, Dresses, and Appurtena WIFE, nees.Principal with c liaraers by Messrs. Didd ear , K ee l e y. te F. Mathews, F. Vining, and Collier, !Iss Dawson and Mrs. Keeley. After which, an entirely Now, Original, and Novel Grand Fairy BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Les Danseuses Anglaises will upp?ar:, To be followed by an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric, Fairy, Romantic Burlesque, entitled CIND E REL LA. The Principal Characters by Mr. Keel'f, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Vinare, Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woo111:ige, Miss Grove, Miss Howard, Etc To coneiude with A MODEL OF A WIFE. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. 31. MADDOX. OPEN EVERY EVENING TILL THE END OF THE MONTH. THIS EVENING, Wl - 1 be revived THE DEVIL'S IN IT. The Oland Duke, Mr. Lynne; Albert Holstein, Mr. Walter Lacy; Bernard Bunne, Mr. Compton; Rollo, Miss Emma Stanley. To which will bz added A COUR I BALL IN 1740. In which will be introduced the Dances as pertbrmed at her Majesty's Bal Cos tume,wi th the Original Music. To be followed by THE BRIG I.IID. Alessandro Massa - oni, Mr. Wallack ; Rubaldo, Mr. Ranoe; Ottavia, Miss Grey; Maria Grazie, Mrs. Brougham. After which, TEDDY THE TILER. Teddy Mullowny, Mr. Collins. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITIIYATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. Last Week but One of the Engagement of the French Equestrians —The New Grand Spectacle is nightly hailed with shouts of appro bation. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY TIIEATR E. Fecond Week of Madame Vestrls and Mr. C. Matthews. THIS EVENING Will be performed I TIE Marplot, Mr. C. Ma thews; Miranda, Madam Vestris. After which, tHED UP. Supported by Messrs. C. Matthews, R. Ilonner, Neville, Heslop, Fredericks, Lewis, Mrs. R. Ilouner, and Mss Niartin. To conclude with LES rELLE ; or, The Wrecker's Bride. Simon Potts, Mr. R. Honner; Pierre La Roche, Mr. H. Hughes; Jean Kinroe, Mr. N. T. Hicks; Lestelle, Mrs. R. Houner. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner. at the Boa ° tee, tom Eleven to roar. 31 /rnlng .. 30 mi nute* after 5 HIGH WArElt AT LONDON-HI:HRH: THIS DAY. Evening .. 49 minutes after 5. THE WEATHER.—Sus OFFICE, AUG. 23. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 4A; Highest, 68; Noon, 67. BAROMETER, 30.19. WIND S.W., fine sunshiny weather. 1 4-- tent LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1845. In all the delinquencies of Parliament at the apprbaching close of a session, there is nothing so shocking as the steam power haste with which (the legislators being resolutely fixed ou the day for leaving the scene of their duties) the arrear products of legislation are consigned to the //mho of unfinished Bills and embryo motions and measures. Bills for the protection of partridges or the punishment of paupers ; for the creation of new channels of legal patronage, or for defrauding the poor of their rights of common and waste ; for extending, beyond all principles recognised by the common law or the Constitu tion the powers of the creditor to indict the met merciless visitation on any debtor to him, under judgment, in a sum not exceeding 213/. ; or for arbitrarily interfering with the representative of capital and with its employment these, indeed, are carefully exempted from this unceremc nious handling. One would suppose that the Premier could not sleep soundly in his bed, during the recess, without, in the first place, disburdening his conscience of the duty of previously seeing every objectionable or oppres sive measure conducted through all its stages to the effective maturity of a statute. When the Earl of LINCOLN, with Lord WOASLEY'S assistance, has fenced Out, warned off, and thrust back the hardy but poor yeomanry—the-laborious but vulgar peasantry of England and• Wales—the ever-toiling but ill-clothed and worse-fed artisans of our manufacturing districts—from all the healthful fields of exercise :and relaxation that yet re mained to them in the wild commons and healthful waste-lands of their native country ; he can rush down by rail or steam-boat to the moors of the far north. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, after breaking open the letters of M. Mazzistr, libelling his character, and then discovering " that he believes he must have been mistaken" in the ter rible imputations that he had thus cast on a foreigner, to whom the State had accorded the protection of its sanctuary ; after " running-amuck" against all the " geseral practitioners' of the medical profession ; and replying to communications touching the disgusting mismanagement of paupers in union houses (to tho unimagised atrocities of which every day has since supplied fresh evidence), by vague and worth less protestations of his own incredulity on the subject,—Sir JAMES likewise, in his impatience " to be off," throws overboard all his pledges on matters of poor-law amendment, the improved sanatory condition of towns, &c. &c. The grouse. of Cumberland are still better flavoured than those of Inverness-shire, and the sport is little inferior. So this Lord of Netherby hastens fram the haunting appeals of poor-law misery, and of dear connexions untowardly mixed up with sorry explanations about the buying and selling of railway shares. The Premier, having been again beaten off in his attempt to strangle the monetary system of Scotland, from which she has imbibed the energy and buoyancy that have sustained her for a century and a half, advancing her by slow, but always established, steps from one stage of political strength and improvement to another, contents himself with deter mining to complete for that kingdoin next year the same process of monetary disorganisation and ruin which he has already succeeded in applying to this. But all adequate provision for "Harbours of Refuge" on our southern and eastern coasts—all conservative measures of an enlightened humanity, for the better protection of industrial labour— all efforts towards the modification of admitted deficiencies in the social systems of which be has assumed to himself no small degree of credit, for being the great orignator (let us instance particularly the Metropolitan Police-courts and force, and the Courts of Petty Session i►, their jurisdiction of summarily convicting) ;—all these the Right Hon. Premier leaves either wholly uncommenced, or, if began, in the plight of the "adventure of the bear and fiddle,"—broken off "in the middle." He is content• to leave the several recommendations of the numerou, " Commissions" which he has granted or supported—as dead letters; untouched or unimproved. No progress has been made in enforcing the regulations reported to Parliament as necessary to be adopted " for the better prevention of ship wrecks ;" and as little in carrying out the practical advice of the first naval men in and out of Parliament, as to the best means of keeping up a sufficient number of able seamen en. service, and of reinforcing that number with any required addition, through the grant of half-pay, or pensions, to such men from the moment of their being first paid off out of active service; their title thereto being the condition of re ceiving such provision, in the nature of a retaining fey for their services, whenever these are called fur by the Government. Nothing more consolatory has yet been effected to ensure the adoption of those principles of ameliorated construction, improved efficiency, and increased armament which have ever and again been pressed upon their attention, and acknowledged by their reluctant admissions to be absolutely indispensable to the maintenance and security of our naval supremacy (especially as to the steam arm of the force) in any future maritime war. _ Ali this is " true, 'tis pity—pity 'tis, 'tis true." But of how much less moment to the community, these instances of a graceful, well-bred neglect of the " bores" of official duty, than would be the serious moral evil which must ensue from a failure in the First Lord of the Treasury, the First Secre tary of State, and the First Commissioner of Woods and Forests, to respond to those more exciting and interesting appeals—the calls of the grouse at this time of year 1 What would be said if Right Honourable Minis ters of the Crown did not discharge that most important of their functions which is identified with the discharge of their double MANTONS and PURDYS on the 12t1. of August ? The " wastes" over which the Earl of LINCOLN sports were never meant to be " inclosed " by that lofty genius which presides over the spluttering of flower-pot fountains—the ornamental (1) decoration of mock-asphalts pavements, that almost rival the magnificence of a pri son tennis-court—or the hopeless contrivances for re deeming the anomalous cockneyisms of a "National Gallery," into which the exquisite connoisseurship of her MAJESTY'S principal servants has admittett two or three of the most palpable forgeries, paid for by prices that should have purchased the chef d'ceuvres of RAPHAEL. MICHAEL ANGELO, or TITIAN. The wastes to be shut 111 were those from which, without these iniquitous Acts of Parliament, the poor could not have been shut out. Some injury to the national service may still b( to be dreaded from discontent among the best and bravest of our seamen, labouring under the im pression that their interests are neglected, their just expectations thwarted by a niggardly economy, the only attempted excuse for which is, that it enables the Chancellor of the Exchequer to make a better array of balances in the financial statements that he delivers, with so muck unction, every year to the House of Commons. But what of all this ? Not to hurry down to ac complish for the birds their illustrious destiny of dying by Ministerial guns would, doubless, create a spirit of the most dangerous disaffection and resentment among the grouse and black game of the North. Let public .busi ness, therefore; take care of itself ! Still, to speak seriously, the interests of human life demand somewhat more of decent attention, of external manifestations of consideration, if not of active sympathy, than they receive at the hands of our rulers. How often have we had occasion to refer, as each new recur ring casualty has been announced, to the scandalously neg lected resolutions and propositions of the Select Committee on Accidents in Mines. The most urgent and the most simple precautions by which vigilance and care may hope to guard against the operation of powerful subterranean agents of destruction, are still but partially adopted throughout the kingdom ; and the sacrifice of all the hecatombs of human victims which in a single year they sweel. away, seem powerless to arouse either the First Lord of the Treasury or the First Secretary of State, in the closing period of a session, to the great duty of steadily and strictly enforcing their general introduction in the localities that must necessarily suffer from the absence of them. It. addition to the sad, the appalling catalogue of colliery explosions we have had to record within the present year, our paper of to-day gives an account of two more, which, in our present deficiency of absolute evidence in these cases, we will not undertake to say, have been caused by a similar neglect of the similar precautions we allude to. But they powerfully corroborate all the solicitude we have ex pressed on this painful subject. At the Tividale Coalworks, near Dudley, no less than six unfortunate labourers have been killed by fire-damp —many more wounded; but at Jarrow Colliery, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, thirty five dead bodies have already been brought up, out of, pro bably, many more victims, exterminated by an explosion of the fire-damp ; and of 14 others who were retrievedalive, but severely wounded, three or four have since died. The fate 01 others who still remain entombed were, at the last advices, un known, but may be too readily anticipated 1 These terrible accidents have signalized one short week ! Had the duty of that supervision of such mines been adequately fulfilled before Parliament separated for the holidays, which the reports t f the Committee in question devolved on the Home Department, and the head of the Government, we may surely assume that it is very possible they might have been, and would have been averted. The assembling, on Thursday last,of a jry,or inquest, sum moned by the City of London Coroner, " to inquire by what means a certain house in Aldermanbury had been burned,' is an event of sufficient interest to call for especial notice. In modern practice it is quite a novelty to assemble the Coroner's court after a fire, where there has been—as fortunately the case was in the recent destruction of the Messrs. BRADBURY and COMPANY'S enormous premises and stock—no sacrifice of human life. Mr. PAYNIZ justly observed, however, that he was only acting in strict conformity with the ancient usage of his office ; and a most salutary usage we conceive it to be, and we heartily trust that it will be generally revived by coroners. On every ground of policy and protection, it is desirable that, when serious accidents have happened in large towns, their origin and history should be narrowly inquired into. The result may be to prevent their recurrence in fu ture, or to bring to light important facts in relation to the cases investigated. It is well that there should be some juris diction to make inquisition into affairs which, as really con corning every body, would otherwise be affairs looked after by nobody. There are a thousand conceivable, though generally latent, causes to which the firing of dwelling-houses and warehouses may be attributable, the knowledge of which can only be arrived at by means of such inquiries. It is highly probable (though we put the matter hypothetically, o f course,) that had there been an inquest on the last pre ceding fire which had occurred in the City, without loss of life, the destruction of the Fenchurch Chambers, with loss of life, might have been prevented.' Unsuspected agents of spontaneous combustion may be possibly detected, every now and then, by inquiries of this kind, which will be thus serviceable, not only to the protection of life and property, but to the interests of science. Setting aside all considera tions of this latter nature, fire inquests (if we must so call them) would undoubtedly demonstrate dangerous and de fective modes of lighting the interior of private dwellings, and also of warehouses and store-rooms ; of constructing fluo a , nd setting up fire-places; and running main timbe rs , the - 17inrciffiint of - which would assuredly operate to produce their removal, where convenient- or practicable, from existing houses, &c., and . to prevent 'their intro duction into such tenements and premises in futdre. It might be well if a public notice of the par ticulars of every such case, and the finding of the jury in full, were affixed to the church doors, or other public places, for the information and guidance of the parochi4l or district community. The inquest of . ; Thursday was fur ther remarkable for the additional proofit has supplied of dm! culpable, almost criminal, and altogether unintelligible neg legit and apathy, with which the securities and resource. supposed to be provided, and very largely paid for, in Let by the community, are allowed in the most dense and wealth sections of the city of London to fall into desuetude am. oblivion. One of the unfortunate partners in the house of BRADBURY, Guentronax, and I.3Eam,, stated, in his evidence, that the fire-plug could not be found for a considerable time, although the directing-board on the house- front clearly indi cated that the distance was 17 feet in a specified direction. It turned out, on the information of a juror, that this 1)14 had long previously been removed from the position so indi cated at the request of another of the partners in the saint firm. Now, what the public at large is clearly interested ii ascertaining is—Was this alteration of the communicatiw with the fire-pipe or main duly reported ? to what quarter: by whom ? and does there exist any registered evidence of the fact ? If there be no officer charged by the Water works Company, or other authority, wit h the duty of reporting such alterations, and no certain aLc;rtained department en trusted with the care of noting such reports, the neglect of such ordinary precautions in a matter of such signal import ance is a strange deficiency in the precautionary police of municipal regulations of a great city. If there be such at officer or department, how comes it that the old directing board has not long since been replaced by an amended one, :;hewing the altered position of the plug? It was proved before the inquest in this case, that when, at length, the true plug was found, considerable difficulty and delay were experienced before any supply of water could be ob tained. This does appear to us to be a state of things per fectly unpardonable in such a city as London, and such a portion of it as Aldermanbury, where there is nothing to pre vent the supply from being, at all times, most abundant. It is not too much to assume that, in all probability, a timely and adequate supply of water might have caused, with coin paratively little injury to the stock, the extinction of a fire which has probably consumed a more enormous amount of property than any burning of private premises which has happened in London for several years past. The early hour at which the flames were first discovered, and the fact that they were seen, by all the evidence which was taken, to have originated in the basement or cellars of the house, raise the very strongest presumption that. had the water-mains been duly supplied, a calamity that has probably visited upon a hitherto opulent and very ex tensive trading firm losses to an enormous amount, might have been averted. We lament that the Coroner did not call before him the turnkeys and others, who are bound to explain why there was all this fatal " unreadiness" for such an exigency as that of Monday night last. Again, we repeat that had a similar species of inquest sat, and returned its verdict, upon the last preceding tire, without loss of life, there would, in all likelihood, have been a speedy and effective check upon the conflagration in Aldertnanbury. In the next place, it was stated by Mr. BEALL that great diffi culty had been always experienced in turning off' the gas below, a difficulty which, where the supply is so large, is evidently an element of constant danger. If we mistake not, the Corporation of London, in reply to the repeated applications that have been made to it by other parties for a participation in the supply of gas to the city, under the newest and mast scientific improve ments fur its safe and eflicient regulation, have persisted in upholding their Chartered Company, or a strict monopoly of the gas contract. It would have been important to ascer tain, and we recommend the point to the next " fire inquest" that may be impanuelled in the City, whether or not the diffi culty spoken to of turning off the gas is one which is ex perienced, in an equal or a less degree, by those who use the fittings and apparatus of the more modern but excluded companies, with those who are compelled to adhere to the supply and management of the chartered monopoly ? In elation to these and other such points, interesting to a conservative municipal policy, we are rejoiced to find Mr. PAYNE coining forward to re-establish an ancient, and, as we conceive, valuable employment of the functions of his impor - rant office. We have received accounts from Leipsic of the 17th. The students had continued to do military duty up to that time, out they are now relieved from it, and replaced at all the points they occupied by the Communal Guard. The troops were still confined to their barracks. On the 15th the KING and QUEEN arrived at Leipsic from Dresden. Their Majesties went among the people, by whom they were received with en thusiasm. The KING promised that a rigid inquiry into the af fair of the 12th should take place, and that he would provide for the children of the victims. He then went to the hospital to console the wounded. On the same day about thirty persons, who had assembled before the barracks hooting the soldiers, were arrested. On the 17th the Municipal Council and the officers of the Communal Guard, met at the Town-hall, to receive the reply of the KING to the addresses that had been presented to him. The KING'S Commissioner, M. DE LAN GEUN, read the following as the answer of his MAJESTY:— " I have received the Deputies of the city of Leipsic, who came to express to me the pain that had been inflicted upon them by the events of the 12th, and to give me the assurance of their fidelity and devotedness. I think it right to communicate what follows to the city of Leipsic, and I desire that the public may be made ac. quainted with it. I was happy and proud to reign over a faithful people, respecting law and justice, and who have so often mani fested their attachment to the dynasty, under the most difficult cir cumstances. Relying upon and respecting the constitution of the country, I was justified in hoping that the Saxon people, penetrated with its spirit, would remain faithful to it even in the most stormy times, and that they would never depart from the constitution and the laws. I have been the more grieved that the second city of the kingdom, in which I loved to reside, and in which I have received so many proofs of fidelity and devotedness, a city so happy and flourishing as Leipsic, should have been the theatre of such an attack, inasmuch as the law has been violated in the person of my beloved brother, who, to perform a patriotic duty, had, full of kindness and confi. deuce, presented timself in the midst of the citizens. lam profoundly afflicted to see that the public opinion has beets shamefully excited by reports as ignoble as unfounded. I recom mend, paternal y and seriously, that no faith should be placed in them. I pity deeply the victims, perhaps innocent, who have fallen its consequence of the necessary intervention of the troops. A se vere and impartial investigation into the conduct of the authorities will throw light on all this affair, and if well.thinking citizens unite their efforts, order will be maintained, and more severe measures, to have the laws respected, will not be necessary. But I must de. clare, with profound grief, that my previous confidence in a city in which the idea of such acts could arise, and be put into execu tion, is shaken. Therefore is it that I address with kindness and firmness my royal word to the great number of the loyal citizens of Leipsic, who have at heart the welfare of their country and of the city, and the honour of the Saxon name. May they rally round the Throne and the Constitution, and resist with force and dignity the efforts of those who are opposed to constitutional order, so that the law may remain inviolable, and that my ancient confidence, in a city which has always been dear to my heart, may be restored." Atter the reading of the reply, the President of the assem bly exclaimed, "Long live the King !" and the whole a the persons present repeated the cry. On the same day the King's reply was posted up on all the walls of the town, and the Municipal Council announced that an extraordinary com - mission had been formed fur receiving such claims as any individuals may have to make. The Municipal Council also announced that, according to the most precise information, the perso:,s killed were Messrs. Nordmann, Prieur, Jelin, Frey gang, Muller, Kleeberg, and Arland, and that five persons were wounded. Prince JOHN, immediately on his arrival at Dresden, went to the Castle of Pilnitz, but is about to leave Germany for Italy. The Leipsic Gazette of the 15th contains a declaration by Major DE JECHAN, adjutant of the staff of the communal guards of that city, to the effect that Prince Joux did not give the order to fire on the 12th. General Rocitow, the new Prussian Ambassador at St. Petersburgh, has arrived in that city. Before proceeding to his post, he had been charged by the King of PRUSSIA with a secret mission to the King of HANOVEM It would appear from the following extract, from a letter dated Athens, Aug. 8, that COLETTI still persists in carrying out the designs of himself and his co-conspirators to swindle the Greeks out of their Constitution :—" On the sth inst. the KING yielded to the long-persisted-in solicitations of COLETTI, and swamped the Senate by the creation of 16 am Senators. Their names are CIIRISTIDES, MANsoLns, DOUCAS, THEOTOKY, KARACATZANI, KARAMENO, DELYETI, CANELOPULO, DARIOTTIS, ELIOPOLIS, MELAIKIS, HADOI PETRoS, AIEXIS, D. BULGAIUS, GLARAKIS, and CON TOUJIAS. The two last named are KLNG's then. The others are all creatures of CoLErri's. Immediately ou his MAJEs rY's signing their diplomas, METAXA, the Minister of Finance, gave in his resignation, which was accepted. He stated that his reason for resigning was, that he considered this act (the nomination of the new Senators) as both prejudicial to the throne and to the nation. It is the general opinion of the best-informed persons here that a violent crisis is approaching, and it is clear that a de termined conspiracy exists against the Constitution, which c onspiracy is most warmly supported, and almost openly, by more than one of the Ministers of the European Powers. Madrid Papers to the 16th have arrived. The Gazette publishes a convention between the Governments of Spain and Portugal, fixing the precise attributes of the consuls of the two nations, and which was signed at Lisbon on June 26. l he Progressist and Moderado journals of all shades attack with extreme violence the Ministry of .NARVAEZ and theacts of the Government. The Tienipo and G lobo maintain that it is impossible for NARVAEZ and his colleagues to continue in power in opposition to the unanimous manifestations of the press and public opinion, and that it is their duty to retire or immediately convoke the Cortcs. The Tic vo has a long article attacking the Government for having authorised the Duke of SOTOMAYOR to oiler a building at the ilavannah to the English Government as a depot for freed .negroes. The same journal states, that the proprietors of houses were preparing a remonstrance against the impost on house-rent. According to El Espectador, a rumour, believed to be well founded, is in very general circulation, of an approaching modfication of the Cabinet. It adds, that two additional Ministers were to be named, one of Public Works, and the other of the Colonies. Among the rumours afloat were those ‘I the of Foreign Affairs having tendered his resigna • don, and of a Carlist plot having been detected at Tolosa ; bent neither report obtained much credence. The two younger sons of Don Cannos have, according to the Herald°, enteiTd his Sardinian Majesty's service, one as colonel of the cavalry regiment of Savoy, with a pay of 6,000 francs; the other as major in the regiment of Arqui, with a pay Of 4,000 francs. ies the instructions iss ue d b y th e Fi nance The Herald° pubis ` t Minister, according to wli;,,t the unsold Church property is to restored to the clergy. The samji,airnal mentions the fact of apricot in Avila having extorted frotri q llin in his dying :noments a promise that he would cause to be restored to th e jhurch a large amount of property which he had bought. l'he priest orlered a notary to be sent for, and the will was 'lade out according to his wish ; and, to the astonishment-of .he family of the deceas:ed, for he died in a few hours atter, :t was found that everything was left to the Church. De' ,:eased's wife and children intend disputing the validity of the will. His name was TARAVZJI, and he had been deputy for The Barcelona journals state that the Company for a rail road from Barcelona to Mataro has received the royal autho' eisation to commence the work, and to import whatever materials, machines, &c., may be required, either for the working or carrying on the railroad, provided they are not to be had in Spain, or would come dearer by eight per cent. than if imported from another country. The Three per Cents. were rather firm to-day, for cash; they were quoted at 31 1 /, ;31% at 60days. 23,600,000 reals done. Five par Cents., 22% at 60 days. 2,000,000 reals done. We have received the Paris papers of Thursd3y. The storm of Tuesday had blown down three factories at Rouen, and buried several hundreds of unfortunate human beings ill the ruins. The particulars of this dreadful disaster will be found in another column. The lowest estimate of the pant her who have suffered in this dreadful calamity is 40 killed and 120 wounded, many of the latter so severely, that there is but little probability of their recovery. The Prince and Princess DE JOLNVILLE arrived at Paris eo Wednesday. M. Timers returned to Paris from Vichy on Wednesday. The Prince and Princess DE SALERNO, father and mother of her Royal Highness the Duchess D'ACMALE, have arrived at the Chateau d'Eu. The Journal des Debuts has the following on the subjeel of the German Catholic Church : " We are assured that the Prussian Government is about in take severe measures for arresting the progress in Germany of O. new sect of Catholic Dissenters. A circular has been sent by th e Minister of the Interior to all the censors of the kingdom, directing them to strike out every article having the Lightest tendency to promote these religious movements, which may be proposed to be inserted in any cf the journals, or other periodicals, which are go t expressly authorised to treat upon these questions." General GALBOIS has been ordered to proceed to Algiers tO organise the Spahis., or native cavalry, into three regiments - ' those of Algiers, Oran, and Constantine; each regiment t° consist of six squadrons. One of the squadrons of the reil lt went of Algiers is to go to Senegal. We extract the following on the subject of the concessiett (Yr the Great Northern Railroad from Galignani's Messenge r ; " We mentioned yesterday that a deputation of the Enter Committee of the Decan-Lebeuf Company for the Norther n Railroad had waited on the Minister of Public Works. TO course had been adopted by these gentlemen in consequence P , reports having been circulated that the company was not ip a condition to send in a tender for the line. The more immediate object of the visit to the Hon. Minister was to convince him th at all the conditions required by law had been strictly complied with, that the capital had been fully made up, and that the nceee 64 . l _ l . vouchers and documents, as well as the caution money, could v` deposited with him at any moment he pleased. Mr. F. Monet, the President of the Committee, in order to convince the On Minister that the whole transactions of the Company were ° I bona fide character, exhibited, exhibited to M. Dumon the sunv oa of the English subscription in Bank of England notes. T hy Minister received the deputation with great politeness, and list to their statement with marked attention." The National comments warmly upon the coalition of capitalists which has taken place for the purpose of securing the adjudication, and concludes in these words— " The Minister of Public Works should not hesitate. Let him 11111 4 . order an inquiry, and next the postponement of the adjudication. Se called upon to do this by the interest of the treasury, of his honour, and of his ministerial existence." The fell in our Stock Exchange on Tuesday, and the /S'„ creasing scarcity of money in Paris, induced a decline of, prices on the Bourse on Thursday. Towards the close °f business business an actual panic prevailed, in consequence of a reP ° l of the illness of the KING. It was also said that an atte_. had been made against the life of the Duke de Ntmov'; Mont de Marsan ; but the real cause of the fall was suPP °5 to have been occasioned by a further depression in Consols° Wednesday. P s i The Three per Cents. closed at 84f. sc. ; the Five Cents. at 1216 60c. ; Orleans Railroad shares, I,=`",‘", Rouen, 1,0801.; Vierzon, 702 f. 50c.; Havre, 900 f. ; 1,0551. ; Basle, 281 f. 25c. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 3 8 /11' The following are the quotations of the new lines : Orleans and Bordeaux, 2156 premium ; Boulogne, 12 0 1 premium ; Troyes and Montereau, 552 f. 50c.; Paris Lyons (Laffitte), 36f. 25c.; ditto (Calon) ; ditto ( 0 47 0 neron), 136 75c.; Northern Line (Laffitte), 60f.; (Rusamel), 29f. ; ditto (I°epin),ls6 ; ditto (Decan),l 6 f•'f. Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 16f. 25c. ; ditto (PO TA , lard), If. ; ditto (O'Neill) 76 50c.; ditto (Jacques !i-to fevre), 4f.; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 20f. ; (Talabot), 40f.; ditto (Compagnie Metidionale). Bordeaux and cette (Mackenzie), If. 50c.; ditto (EsPeL l 156 ; Creil and St. Quentin (Carette), 7f. ; ditto (C 011 7:e If. ; Paris and ,Stra s burg (G a nneron ), 15f. ; ditto 03ecos 26 30e. ; ditto (Ilinguorlot), 12f. 50c. ; Dijon and bille7 sen, par ; Dieppe, 40f. e ptl' LYONS, Aeu. 18.—Avinmon and Marseilles, 1,0 72..9 of of Augu,t ; Paris and Avignon 1,2931., ditto; Par is itto; Rouen, 1,073 f., ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 791 f ., ...lief, Orieans and Bordeaux, 715 f., ditto; Nimes and Morl!r -587f., cash. 'r BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS A • LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Auo. 2 1 ' 124 Boulogne and Amiens 11 ,Orleans and Bordewa.‘ Bordeaux &Mediterran Over Yssel ........... 314 Bordeaux and Toulouse 'l'aris & Lyons (Latitte) Do. and Cette 2 j Ditto (Ganneron's). Central of Spain .. 1 Ditto (Calon's)•••• . ;1 4 Dutch Rhenish ... Dendre Valley ...... ; Paris and Rouen Dieppe & Paris Juliet. :Paris and Strasburg Dijon and Mulhouse (Ganneron's)... East Indian Grt Northern of France Paris and St. Qt,'entin. (Laffitte',) Ditto (Rosamel's) Great Paris and Lyons -7.. lloyal North of Spain'• 84 - --,. Jamaica Junction 4% Sanibre and Meuse ...• ...,, • Do. North Midland I% Strasbourg and Basle . Louvain and Jemeppe — Tours and Nantes 3 Lyons and Avignon 2% ! (11.‘Kenzie's) ......... Luxembourgh.. 2A I Do. (Lefebvre's) ..... ~.., Namur and Liege 5 Verona and Ancona.... 434 Orleans and Vierzon .. 17% West Flanders ......... BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY•) (Before Mr. Commissioner FAris.) IMPORTANT DECISION UNDER THE 11311• LL DEETS ACT."'" os OF OF REQUEST. t be This morning, JURISDICTION several applications having been m ade t ge Learned Commissioner for summonses issued against perg' pl judgments given in Courts of Request, A osee g The Learned Commissioner FANE said he would give i 0 7 4, gbe in one of these cases. In consequence of the mode in 111 ' 4 ' . ge Act was framed, it was impossible to generalise the poie t " lb* would, however, say that this Court had not only to loe k tr/ judgment of the court from which the judgment issued, bu t c gel• the question of jurisdiction, and to pronounce whether it 0 1 . 0 01 petent to adjudge in the case. Now the Act before him oe s " - oef many special exemptions—that it should have no jurisdiction.ty, lands—nor testamentary, matrimonial, or ecclesiastical eityld tithes, tolls, or insurances. He would like to know how b e aide be expected to say that the amount claimed might not ari se one or other of V.ese cases or exemptions ? IS 1:4( The ATTORNEY fur the plaintiff' said that he believed, e - die ger of the judgment or order of the Court, the Learned Cooleli could proceed. The Learned COMMISSIONER—I am of a different opitt.e -- coo' first bound to see that there is a judgment; next, that tu„-;,n'a has a jurisdiction. I know the jurisdiction of the Court a n o * Bench to extend all over England, but I do not know 1 %40 1 diction of every court in the kingdom. These are . 0 sre points, and in these cases, where difficulties arise, Te rt ' t i o called upon to appear in person ; therefore I have OS vantage of a solicitor. eets bot The ATTORNEY said the errors of the law might be .• gr the public could not answer for them. Ti di Pelt° The Learned COMMISSIONER—Neither can L occur they must be surmounted legally. °O b. The ATTORNEY said that there was prima facie evidence joy s-- jurisdiction of Use Court, by the fact of process being eit her or issuable. It ree epl e al The COMMISSIONER—If the Act means anything, -- matter of fact, not of presumption. I might, if I ha ve e gt with presumptions, commit a party on an erroneous iu d r - c .. Of; t an incompetent court, and make myself liable to all e t r o go for false imprisonment. The rational course would hay..„,judr every court depending on its own jurisdiction to enforce 1- e assts ment. The Learned Commissioner then proceeded to 1 151 0 0 01 under all the circumstances, he should refuse to act, o° o sli, e. saying what course should be pursued, he should advise a cop e d to take advice of their solicitors until a judgment of court was obta.iied. CRIMINAL COURT. THIS DJ/11..) OLD CO Cllt7: (Before Mr. Baron PLArr.) groat° MANSLAUGHTEIG—TRE PRINCE OF WALES MAZOATS —Henry Ross, the captain of the Prince of Wales Marilee s te of to o was indicted for the manslaughter of David Davis, the ilto f small vessel called the Culloden, on the 22d of July, in the Thames. e Ott e Mr. lITtAAID conducted the prosecution on behalf of t hl4 London, and from the statements of the case to the furl him, it appeared that, on the day in question, the vessel, o f the prisoner was in command, in consequence of the ° tre c ti lled s* pidii yat which she was going, came against the boat of the or of which the deceased was mate, and swamped it , hf Wh,.icothete persons were thrown into the River, and Davis and trs' drowned. he P ilir Mr. Prendergast appeared also with Mr. Rylan d for cution, and Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin defended the 15,.."1:L Enoch Evans belonged to the Mary and Marg aret the 22d July was employed to unmoor the Culloden, rate, ti e s Thames. At this time a steam-vessel passed by at a raln' l te e, swell of which filled the boat of the Culloden with 11 :11 caused her to sink. The witness and four other pen es who in the boat were immersed in the water. Witness We Dee - the other three mess were lost. h n it/ Cross.examined by Mr. CLAsitsox—The boat in w hic tio lo ot' was saved was a waterman's skiff, and much smaller the t h o P; boat of the Culloden. The long-boat was chained, 55 hat vented its rising with the swell occasioned by the steinn-07.0101' the chain had been loosened, the boat would not, in all P r have gone down. Re-examined by Mr. PRENDERGAST—The skiff in WlPfr- • sa . t news was was greatly affected by the swell. oot g et By Mr. Baron PLATT—The s t a ted water from the swell did the skiff Williams, then in which witess was saved. ett oon Mr. commander of the Milord Pe -A g ot o f that he knew the deceased David Davis. On the dal nO. db e he was on board his vessel, which was near the Col" -e , of • • c hain f isi• saw Davis and three other men unmooring the stern h oe 0 Culloden ; they seemed to be doing it in a worker o ,ol f te Witness saw the boat capsized, in consequence of the 00 0 the steam-vessel, of which the prisoner was captain. bo lt 0 , 1 01 By Mr. Baron PLATT—CouId not say whether the . tie re d ' f i e cons , have floated had it not been for the chain. the skiff flea ed because no person was in it. to o.B llo' Ephraim Keely—Saw the accident, and en deavour . ' gr eet t o, three men that were drowned, but the swell we endeavour.' he could nut do anything with his boat. Nee r 0 4 % t 0 where the accident occurseJ, there was generally IP - t op n" of vessels and boats. Ic was necessary at this Pe t 1 asso..a be very careful in the navigation of steam -vette ls " „„, 0, - ..0 Cross.examined by Mr. CLARKSON—Was a vree' -s es , " not Bice steain-vessels.—(Laughter,) All the steam , " tol at there can go fast down the river. By Mr. Baron PLArr—Did not think it prudent for 1 7 u olf;s uhdcr chains, as had been done in the present cas oo , o o V t oo vessels, .when it was known that steam - ve ssels were the river. It was well known that a great many Ste .° a et O down the river about ten o'clock In the morning- eideace Mr, Cooper, a barge-buLkler, corrobQrsted tO. SOLICITORS Messrs Patterson, Haymes, and Hanbury, Leamington and Wartvi.lk W. 0. Hunt, Esq., and Charles Stevens, Esq., 80. 10, Whitehall, London Messrs. Clay and Swift, Liverpool. In congratulating the Sharehelders ou the issue of the late contest in Parliament, the Committee of Management beg to announce that active meastres are be'ng adopted to forward the surveys and plans, and prepare for the ensuing session. The success of the Oxford and Rugby Railway has confirmed the Directors in the view they enter tained waen they first brought to the notice of the public the merits of a line direct from Birmingham to Oxtord, and leaves little roem to doubt that Parliament will grant this important continuation, thus connec , ing the whole north of the kingdom and Birmingham with the south-western districts. It is intended to make the most convenient stations for the various towns on the line that circumstances will admit, connecting the line at Birmingham with that of the Grand Junction Company. By this means an uninterrupted transit will be effected from Birmingham through Oxford to every part of the South and to London. Looking to the very peculiar position of this line, the cheapness of its cons,ruction, and the great traffic that must inevitably flow to it from its connecting and central situation, the Provisional Directors have every confidence that the undertaking will be one of more than ordinary profit to the proprietors. By order of the Board. 449, West Strand, Aug. i 3, 1845. RAILROADS IN THE ISLE 01? WIGHT That the public may not be misled by the various statements that have appeared in some of the public papers, and in the pro spectus of the Isle of Wight Railways, I am desired to state, that at a General Meeting of the Landowners and Ratepayers of the island, held at Newport, on the 26th of June last, resolutions were carried declaring the opinion of the meeting to be adverse to the. introduc tion of railways into the island, and that a committee of gentlemen was at the same time appointed to watch the proceedings of the railway projectors; and I am further directed by this Committee to state, that not only will the scheme be opposed by the most influen tial landed proprietors through whose estates the railways would pass, but that it is also intended to offer a vigorous public opposition t the project in Parliament, should a Bill be sought for. C. W. ESTCOURT, Honorary Secretary to the Committee, THE MACCLESFIELD and LICHFIELD, or CHURNET and BLYTHE JUNCTION RAILWAY. Being the shortest possible route between London and Blanchester, In connexion with existing Railways. Provisionally Registered. Capital, 1,250,0001. in 50,000 shares of 251. each. Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per share. In compliance with the Standing Order of the House of Lords. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Dartmouth, Sandwell Park, Staffordshire The Right Hon. Lord Begot, Blithfleld Hall, Staffordshire The Hon. William Begot, M.P., St. James's-square, London Sir E. D. Scott, Bart., Great Barr Hall, Staffdrdshire H. F. Meynell Ingram, Esq., Hoarcross Staffordshire John Newton Lane, Esq., King's Brr....nley Manor William Drury Holden, Esq., W. C. Townsend, Esq., P ' l `.e.,Ko Park, Derbyshire - ....corder of Macclesfield R. B. Levett, Esq.. Alford Hail, Lichfield Matthew Gary . ::._ ' f ag.. HighfiebiHouse, near L ee k John Esq., Leek Same,d, Phillips, Esq., Leek ...nomas Osborne Bateman, Esq., Chaddesden Moor, Derby T. Kirkpatrick Hall, Esq., Holly Bush, Staffordshire Josiah Gaunt, Esq., Horton Hall, near Leek Thomas George Lomax, Esq., Lichfield J. L. Warren, Esq., Conseil Hall, and the Lodge, Market Drayten Michael Tumor, Esq., Brereton, Rugeley Edward Baylis, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, London. Charles C. Higgins, Esq., Abbots Bromley John Towgood, Esq., 64, Chancery-lane, London James Ileygate, Esq., M.D., Derby James Palmer, Esq., the Close, Lichfield Thomas Tumor, Esq., Abbots Bromley Thomas Henry Baylis, Esq., Inner Temple, London Thomas Finchet Maddock, Esq., Chester Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory Robert Ronald, Esq., Derby The Rev. James Bostock, Cliffs Park, Staffordshire Thomas P. Bainbridge, Esq., Der by Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Abchurch-lane, London Gaunt, Banker, Leek John Challenor, Gentleman, Overton Richard Cutting, Gentleman, Leek Josiah Gaunt, sen. Hugh Sleigh, Lilley Ellis„ John Russell, Samuel Clowee, Thomas Carr, John Ward, James Ridout, Robert Hammersley, Silk Dyer, Leek John Vernon, Cork Manufacturer, Uttoseter John Minors, Esq., Parks Cottage, Uttoxeter Thomas Rowley, Esq., M.D., Lichfield Randall Bradburne, Esq., Ediall House, Lichfield Joseph Webb, Esq., Lichfield William Butcher, Coach Manufacturer, Lichfield. Silk Manufacturers, Leek This line will commence at the terminus of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway at Macclesfield, and passing by the Rudyard reservoir to Leek, will proceed by the Churnet Valley to Consall, thence close to Cheadle, and Tean, and by Uttoxeter, Bagots Woods and Abbots Bromley down the Blythe, to a point on the Trent Valley Railway, near Lichfield, communicating there with one of the pro posed lines from Dudley and Walsall. A glance at the map will show that this will bo the most direct line for the London and Manchester traffic; uniting those two great termini by the shortest practicable route in connexion with existing railways. It will also completely accommodate the local traffic and manufactures, and open several extensive coal fields and some thou• sand acres of wood land for the supply of Manchester, the Potteries, and other great marts of the kingdom. Together, too, with 'the pro posed line from Derby to Crewe, it will aflerd a transit from the Eastern Counties and Derby to Manchester, and give every accom modation to the Potteries. This line is, in its principal features, much the same asthat already approved of by the Board of Trade, and partially abandoned by the Churnet Valley Company—will be scarcely 47 miles in length, and passing through the centre of the district, does not interfere with the Grand Junction, or any other existing, railway. It is material to re mark, that it is even more direct than the Churnet Valley as formerly projected to Tamworth, and is free from the formidable opposition of the landed interest, and the engineering difficulties consequent on the route by Rocester and Marchington. It must be observed also that it is the only railway which has been brought forward by, and is under the control of, the landowners and manufacturers of the Churnet and Blythe Valley districts. The co-operation of most of the principal landowners, f rom near Uttoxeter to near Lichfield, beent district,obtain obtained, Imd there b e i ng no competing lines phis portion of th e projected through t h h a ro vi u n g g h that line may be considered as secure. CONSULTING ENGINEER-40RO Locke, Esq., F.R.S. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co. Manchester—Tho Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, and Branches Lichfield—Messrs. Palmer and Greene Leek—Messrs. Fowler and Gaunts Uttozeter—Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbonme Union Bank Derby—Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company _ SECRETART, PRO XEns.--111r. Chnllinor,'Solicitor, Leek Applications for Shares, accompanied by a Banker's or other re spectable reference, to be addressed to the Secretary, of whom and the sharebrokers, plans, prospectuses, and further particulars may be obtained. Shareholders in the Manchester and Birmingham, Trent Valley, or London and Birmingham Railway Companies, applying for Shares, will be good enough to state they are such Shareholders. N.B. The names of the Solicitors &c ,will shortly be published. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Macclesfield and Lich field, or Churuct and Blythe Junction Railway Company. Gentlemen—l request you to allot me • Shares of 25/. each, In the above railway, and I undertake to accept the same or such less number as you may appropriate to we, subject to the regulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and pay the de posit thereon or 21. 12s. 6d. per share when required. Name in full . Re5idenee.................... .. Trade or Profession .......... ......... Reference Data ..... .ft •••• • 1 ••••••••••••.,• • • • •••• RESIDENCE OF STUDENTS, Students may reside in the College. Other arrangements have Fkewise been made for accomroodating them with lodgings, and some of the Professors receive pupils into their houses. T e parents or guardians of students coming - to King's College are particularly requested, before placing them in lodgings, to commtmt cate with the Dean of the Medical Department, from whom till information respecting the College may be obtained. Dr. George Johnson, the Medical Tutor, assists junior students, whether resident or non-resident, in the subjects of the coutscs which they mdy be attending. B. B. TODD, M.D., Dean of the Medical Department. B. W. J ELF, D.D., Principal. August, 1845. EMIGRATION to m the CAPE o f GOOD FREE PASSAGE ; UNDER the S.A';CTION of GOVERNMENT. The undersigned are authori‘c:, by her Majcsty'A Colonial Land and Emigration Commission , : ts t o above eminently healthy tm d grant a FREE PASSAGE to the prosperous Colony, to married Agri cultural Labourers, t,lieilerds, Male and Female Domestic and Farm servants, Met :dyers, Carpenters, Masons, and Smiths, of sober in dustrious e,liaracter. The demand for labour at the Cape is urgent, and is well remunerated in wages, provisions, clothing, and lodging. The passage is comparatively short, and the arrangements for the wlyage will be as perfect as they can be rendered. The first ship will embark her pas gingers at Southampton on the 23rd October, for Table Bay and Algoa Bay, and will be followed at frequent intervals afterwards by other First-class Poop ships,, of large tonnage, with very superior accommodations for all classes of passengers; and each ship will carry a thoroughly competent Surgeon. They will all all at Plymouth for the convenience of passengers - from the South- Western Counties, and from Ireland. Persons coming by way of London will be conveyed by railway in three hours alongside the ship in the Docks at Southampton, free of charge. Such steerage passengers as are not eligible for a free passage will be conveyed at 121. for adults, and 61. for children. Poop cabin-passengers 241. each. All particulars will be furnished on application, personally, or by letter, to JOHN MARSHALL and Co., 26,13irchin-lane, Comhill, London; or 79, High-street, Southampton. EXAMPLBS, I l op- ;:,v 7 1'4' a 4 ..4 Bonus Benny in g. i. i v , ?.- z - 4* Premium. " 5. p 4 added. Cash. Ei g k 4 N ? 9F. ::' '''' c , a A 1 1837 . X191 13 5 £B7 13 5 Xl3 17 1 £39 11l •n f ,, / f g 7 7 1838 165 13 01 74 13 10 11 8 6 346 2 3 -- „„- '' " '1839 138 13 6j 61 14 3 9 210 296 13 4 1840 89 001 41 13 4 6 0 0 247 4 5 PIRST-RATE COMMERCIAL HOTEL. TO BE LE 17, that commodious and well-esta blished HOTEL, situate near the NORTH UNION RAIL WAY STATION in WIGAN. The House is replete with modern 'conveniences, and contains 26 bed-rooms, travellers' room, dining rooms, sitting-rooms, bar-parlour, tap-room, &c. &c. In the yard there is stabling for 20 horses, with loose boxes, large assembly room, &c. _ _ _ Possession may be 11,0 on the 12th of November next. The rent is moderate, and this is such an opportunity as seldom occurs for any active person, wishing to embark in business, with every pros pect of success. For further particulars, or treaty, ap , ly to Mr. Thompson, Wigan, August, 1845. THIS EVENING Will be performed an entirely New Grand National Spectacle, em brac!ng the chief features of tile heroic achlevetnenta of the British Arms in Northern India, called THE CONQUEST OF SCINDE ; or, The Siege of Hyderabad. After which, a variety of New and Surprising Feata 'a Horseman ship by the French Equestrians. To conclude with TILE DUMB MAN OF MANCHESTER; or, The Factory Murder and the Felon Heir. Tom, the Dumb Man, Mr. T. Thompson. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. A DIFFERENT SUBJECT EACH SEASON, The Brilliancy of the Pyrotechnic Finale exceeds all imagination I The Day-light View of the Colossal Pictorial Representation, suggested By HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT. Is hailed with Universal Approbation. ROYAL SULIIIHI ZOOLOGICAL GAILJ)ENS. ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and THURSDAYS, Will be presented a Magnifice*t MODELLED REPRES TATION OF EDINBURGH, The Pride of Scotland and f Scotchmen. HE PROMEINADE CO.NCEETs, _ . . By the unrivalled Band of the Establishment, conducted by Mr. Godfrey. At husk will take place the most extraordinary _ EXHIBITION OF FIREWORKS. EVER ATTEMPTED, And, as a Finale, a Grand, Royal, and Patriotic AQUATIC TABLEAU, Fifty-two feet in height. will be exhibited in the Centre of the Lake ; The PORT RA F.- of HER MAIESTY and PRINCE A • BERT, Eurmounted by Fame, and surrounded by Emblems and Other Devices will be introduced. Admission, One Shilling. Ft3eding the Carnivor e at F ive ; Pelicans,&c., nt Half-past ETe Concert at Six ; and P yrotechnic Display at Nine. On Monday and T uesday, Aug. 25 and 2 6 , a Magnificent Fete Champetre, to conun emora ' e the Birthday of Prince Albert. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The communication entitled " Refutation," and dated from George -yard, Aldermanbury, being anonymous, cannot be inserted ; moreover, the matter has already been decided in a Court of Justice. The statements made in this communication should have been urged before the Magistrate. ~~ _r --_ --- - SPECIMEN OF TABLES. Age. Premium Animal Ag e .: ' P A r e n ni n i u u a Annual m l _ 1 Age. Premium For £lOO. For £lOO. •c - For £lOO. e , e, st - 20 £1 Iss. Bd. 40 £2 14e. 9(1. 160 £6 6s. 7d. 4404. 4 - -- '''' ~---44 : :: ,,i , ,•_." .-- 7 -- '•;.- c i. ,„.,- : ' 4 7 1 7-,,,,W . -- ..„.. ?1:: e),' 7 -,-.:C . - - ~,t-isw,h,c. CHARLES JAMES THICKE, Resident Secretary. 17, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. , ..,, ~,,,„. ' . ..g . ` ,----.0 *., 4: /AI ;' , -IN k -•r w 0, "--- ' - ft , 4 ~ , ~ 7 4 ' ?, . V .' - -)• 1 F '\ I t\Y , ♦\ ~,, - , -bF. 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