The Sun. — London, England, 1845-08-25 00:00:00

1%./102,TEY.---.BILLS DISCOUNTED to any .-LV_j_ Amount. `on application, in the first instance, to X. Y. Z., di, 13rs -zek mose - W.cet, Manchester. No personal application can be a:tended to. All "num unications shall be considered sirictly • TT. EIt,S of CREDIT on INDIA. The B Via OF LONDON, as AGENTS : - f r e,V'„ e , °P . ' TENT - AL 4 •BANk, are authorised to issue LETTERS t for any Moneys paid to them, to be repaid in Rupees, efli,„' et Anent rate of exchange en the day of presentation, at the Fid.„, B of the Oriental Bank, in Bombay, Calcutta, and Colombo. of 4 r Letters of Credit may be obt ,iced at any of the Branches Ir ate National Bank' of Scotland, and of the Provincial Bank of t land, By order of the' Directo-F W. C nioo Bank of London, No. 2, , Manager Princes-street, Mansion -house. j. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. 111ANr,HESTER, HUDDERSFIELD, BARNSLEY, and GOOLE JUNCTION RAILWAY. " (Provisionally Registered.) The Legislature having, during the recent Session, sanctioned the Taking of a rail - Aray film Huddersfield to Manchester, the long-de ;4!ed object •Jpeaing cLrect line of railway communication. from Zauchesterof the Port of Goole, passing through the Saddleworth Alarse,en Valleys, now presents itself.. neAinipl:sh this object, it is proposed to mak e a r a il wa y, corn- P . 4 an at or near at eld of Huddersfield -mid - A 1, 1) . ehester Railway the , station proceedin H g through the the Kirkburton and VA , 3 Valleys, and thence by way of, or near, Barnsley, to Goole. the proposed railway, and the intended Huddersfield and Man ,T,rtliter Railway, there would be then ; established one continuous of railways between the Irish Sea and the German Ocean, pass ::irough 2.lanchester, and connecting the two ports of Liverpool -4 ( :Dole ; and also sev e r a l i m p or t an t an d popu l ous manu f ac t ur i ng districts would have the benefit of railway communication, for which Provision has yet been made by any existing Company, or pro- Pesed by any scheme now before the public. The proposed line would cross the North Midland Railway at or tear Cudworth Station, opening a direct communication southwards. j2‘e Portion of the line between Huddersfield and the North Mid- Railway would pass through or near several of the most ex 7ive and celebr a t e d coa l .fi e ld s i n Yor k shire ; and the other part of line would afford increased means of attaining the va l ua bl e Zstolte of Kuottingley. he country through which the line woul I pass generally is of a t 7g . aratile character, and presenting few (if an y) eng i neer i ng J eS ; bnt h survey is now being made, and, when completed, a c .:a iled Prospectus, with the names of a most influential Provisional `,"°lntr.ittee, consisting of land owners , merc h ants, manufacturers, !_z l. l oth ers locally, interested, will be published. In the meantime st ninunicatlons may be made to WILLIAM JACOMB, Esq., Solicitor, Huddersfield. Provisionally Registered. WILTS, SOMERSET, AND SOUTHAMP- • TON JUNCTION RAILWAY. .:7_ , Jonnecting the English with the Bristol Channel, and f orm i ng a I,7ftplete communication, on the broad gauge, between Southinepton, C El Thury, Bath, Bristol, and every other to wn i n th e W est o f Eng- Id and South Wales. k 4 ankers' Receipts may now be exchanged for Scripi Certificates, and Heeds now lie for Signature at the Company's Office, 26, Gre 7:i-street, City. 4„tle Deeds will shortly be removed int", the country, of which du ,7 4 ce will be given,. ii. B. SHERIDAN, Secretary. o.l4..A.ui,rust 21,1845. ..___ . _ FOIL iIING wards of sufteria s the Sr le Gumi Icaciotte, that no should )THING 95, Far• recipe), ettle. ,S, for positive ersons of d by the -otell Memo• 10, Bow S a nger, Wedicine Thomas 'ills pre tperien ~- liate o 3n.1071. s. 6d. .artti lite is- street ; hor, 21, {ems ; UZI' Dr, 21, Work ility result iSed to tealth• ;easer , , Bed- [reef ; t, RC' rect. luabls I earl! scrip twctEft r and %Trig. not k - . • , ' BANKERS. i ss rs. Rogers, (Wing . , and Co., Clements's-lane, London Ils: Burton,Burtoa Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Bank, Uttoxeter l'h: Uttoxetcr, and Ashbourne Union Bank, Ashbourne 4 T h : ,ational Provincial Bank of England, Rugeley .4 " - National Provincial Bank of England, Lichfield 1 SOLICITORS. John Owens, Esq., 35, illoorgate-street, London William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter. LOCAL AGENTS. .Arnishaw, J., Esq., Rugeley Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley Egginton, A , Esq., Lichfield James J. Green, Esq., Walsall ENGINEERS. . - Sir John Rennie ' G. Remington, Esq., C.E. t; : he line of Railway proposed between Uttoxeter and Dudley has t,.Jh uing at the suggestion of several influential parties, as (without being a competing lino with any railway at p -e -inade) all the advantages of several projected lines, with addi tkis of no ordinary value. The town of Uttoxeter, in the Dove Val -4:- is itself the centre of a rich agricultural district, supplying al h„'` the markets of Dudley, Tipton, Walsall, Bilstan, and Wednes ,,'. , with cheese, cattle, and agricultural produce, but by a very ,Pinsive and dilatory Made of transit. All the proposed lines ne s t - with Manchester, London, and the Potteries, , tl, l '' t- necessarily pass to or near Uttoxeter. Already the Chur -44, Valley, Derby 'nd . Stafford, Derby and Crewe, Tea% Dove Valley, No a rth Staffordshire, Manchester Direct Inde b.telent, Leicester and Ashby lines of railway, project a station at Xeter. Asstimlng . either of these former, or some equivalent, to t 17is this will be the best route from Manchester, Macclesfield, the t t . clt teries, Hull, Sheffield, and the north to the mineral districts of Nv ii th Staffordshire, and to Kidderminster, Worcester, and South liy' l ,,s• By the Leicester and Ashby line, which will comnicate its branch to Uttoxeter, traffic of great part of thee ast of t!mgland will be available for Staffordshire and the west. kohinencin. , at Uttoxeter, the line 'will be carried over I t '''Xtrable ground to Abbott's Bromley, thence to Rugeley, whore ti will fall into the Trent Valley Railway Station, by Channock \N r i aie, along the Rising Wok Valley to Hednesford, and thence by it across the Grand Junction itailway, through Wednesbury , the mineral districts of South Staffordshire to Dudley ; there it 4. 4 Join all those railways that will connect the Staffordshire coal -44'1 with Worcester, Ludlow, and I'orthdynllaen on the south-west, Guth et Merthyr' Tytivil, Swansea, Hereford, on the west and e t • 41 ,1 1. In fact, it will smite by the nearest route the cast and 'west tugland. ~, 10 line will fall into and cross the Trent Valley, Midlands, and d Junction Railway at Walsall, and from Cannock afford direct }:philiunication with Wolverhampton (where it will run into the ti v ad gauge railway) from Leeds, and Huddersfield, and the north "" east of England. „a r • C bePopulation on the line exceeds 300,900, and the ordinary traffic v c .:''lng from internal sources alone is sufficient to maintain the rail and afford more than ample remuneration to the shareholders. a Junction line (with the present immensely increasing public gar t o railway travelling) it is scarcely possible to compute the ' - '*'?tint of passenrer traffic, but it must necessarily be very great. 0 ,1 1 , 5 e this line was registered, a company has been formed for ex ts,Pding it by a junction at Uttoxeter, to Huddersfield, Leeds, and ktftield, by way of A.shhourn, and by this meanmmense mines of 40 , iron, :stone, and coal of Derbyshire, the products of the paint i i nufactorics aid barytes works at Ashbourne, Cromford, &c., will 11,ed, and with those already in work, find a ready transit to and Birmingham, Dudley, and Wolverhampton. The in -1,74e of passengers, attracted by ready means of conveyance to the ,`4llantle country of Dovedale, and the High Peak, will be necessarily ' T Y greet. lt,The copper, ore, lime, and coal, abounding in the Caldon and the il t ) , c ien mines, will be transmitted by this line to the manufacturing t priete of Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and South Wales, and it will 411 1 a direct communication between Leeds, Huddersfield, and f,;', 4 thampten, and it will also be the nearest route to Southampton 1 ) )11 1 Manchester, via Uttoxeter, by the London and Manchester I , E l:ea Independent Line, or whatever railway should ultimately Dbetween Manchester and London, as forming the shortest route ~ t he metropolis, a line which, it is now admitted on all hands, must carri e d . bi This Company reserves the right to raise additional capital to com ete tile lino from Dudley to or near the Droitwich station. on the s 'iriningliam and Gloucester Railway. 11'Plflications for shares and every information to be made to Itiiam Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter ; and John Owens, 09, o 35, Moergate-street, London ; and of the following share e. kers :—Messrs. Preece ' and Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles, orcester ; Mr. Thomgs Henry Wheeler, Worcester ; Messrs. Willey and Whitehead, Liverpool ; Messrs. Cameron and Com :- V i nY. Liverpool ; Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard 4' .' , Wet, Macclesfield; Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds; Messrs. Well ii"ed and Oastler, Leeds; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull; Thoina4 Boardman, Blackburn ; Mr. George Clark, Brad ;lla Mr. lia mason, Brdford ; Mr. William Crohine Mr. Wil Charles M Spencer, a Nottingham ; Messrs. Eyrecand ,‘"' Derby ; Messrs. Grayston and Isle, York; Mr. E. H. initage Clark,, Wakefiel jun., d; Southampton ; Mr. James SMessrs. tokes, CTatehel tenha a n m d Nash, ; Mr. te9lle ; Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter; Mr. I,,, tl wilas Sanford,Holland, Coventry essrs. Houghland and Leese; Manchester; Messrs. Cardwell and II?", Manchester; Messrs. A. Birchen and Co., Manchester; O l ssrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield ; Mr. W. H. Collis, Bir ngliam ; Mr. L. Wetherburn, jun., Huddersfield; Messrs. Everard , Co., Huddersfield ; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester ; Mr. I t rolson, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow; "sm. Labertouche and Stafford, College-green, Dublin. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SNARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, — Oxfordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares, of 20/. each y l the above railway, and I undertake to accept the same, or such ,Ts number as yoy. may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations the Company; and to sign the necessary deals, and to pay, when *eq.illred, the depo , it thereon of 2/. 2s. per share. Dated this day of . 184 Narr e in ilrll Procession and professional residence in full Re; idenoe in Rill • • • • • • . Reference • •• • • • • • ~/l 1 ~/ , .l. ~ ~ a 1 i~ GCi~ !~~ _---- • I . - -"Pr . :•.4 ' ~ . . (# I4W . A. , ,j4.0.4. , ...... .. . ~ 1. , • • , 1 1 N • • , L A. 1% , 7:,*=::. 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AUGUST 25 1845 et,..:z • PRICE SCC THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNIN G at FIVE O'CLOCK, in Time for the EARL Y TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) ig ,Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINS, and a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCIC,,for POST, containing PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that Hour. ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, a n d Ni g ht, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION at ONE CHARGE. NTOTICE is hereby given th a t th e GUARAN TEE SOCIETY has REMOVED from 28, Poultry, to the premises lately occupied by the London Assurance Corporation, 19, 11ircbln-lane, Comhill. OUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. 1,3 REDUCTION OF FARES.—EXPRESS TRAINS. On and atter the Ist of SEPTEMBER NEAT the fares on this line will be'as follows Between the London and the Dover and Folkestone Termini — Express Trains, 18s. Other Trains—First Class, 15s. ; Second Class, 10s.; Third Class, 6s. The intermediate fares will be in proportion. From the same date, DAY TICKETS will be granted at the fol lowing fares : London to Dover and Folkestone and back—Express Trains, 275. Other Trains—First Class, 225. 6d. ; Second Class, 15s. ; Third Class, 9s. To intermediate stations in proportion. Tickets issued on Saturday will be returnable on Saturday, Sun day, and Monday ; those issued on Sunday will -be returnable on Sunday and Monday. Periodical Tickets will be charged for as under :- Ist Class. 2d Class. Ist Class. 2d Class One Month •• • •.t,12.• •• £ 9 Six Months • . £35...... £25 Two Months •• • • 20 l4 Twelve Months 50.... 35 Three Mouths .. 25 •• .• •• 17 By order o 17 -1 TIE OXFORD, SOUTHAMPTON, GOS PORT, AND PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY. Provisionally Registered. Capital 500,0001., in 25,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Hon. How e Browne, Chairman of the Manchester and Bir mingham Continuation Railway John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Hyde-park John Maste , rman, Esq., Nicholas -lane, Lombard-street, Banker Sir John Campbell, Sir John Pirie, Alderman, Bart , Directors of the Peninsular and Pedro de Zulueta, Esq., Oriental Steam Packet Company B. M. W.lcox, Esq., Sir William Wynn, Chairman of the North Wales Railway Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of the City of London William Hughes Hughes, Esl., Alderman of the City of London, late M.P. for Oxford, and lat e Hi g h Sheriff of Hants John iltunphery, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, and M.P. for the Borough of Southwark The Mayor of Newbury George Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, comma James Henry Attwood, Esq., Seymour-street, Portman-square Charles Baker, Esq., South ampton James Beech, ESq., 15, Gros:enor-place Samuel Rovill, Esq., Southampton Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, and East and West of England Junction and Crewe Railways W. C. Boyer, Esq., Banbury, Director of the Birmingham and Oxford Ral.way Robert Barlrur, Esq., Manchester John Churchill. Esq.' Bayswater, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation Railway C. R. Cohnan, Esq., Irongate-wharf and General Steam Navigation Company, Director of the South Midland Railway William Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway Samuel James Capper, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge F. F. Clossmann, Esq., Mincing-lane George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Midland Junction Railway William Dredge, Esq , Newbury, Berks, Al !erman Captain Farrington, R.N., West. Cowes, Isle of Wight William Henry Forman, Esq., Upper Tkathei-street W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq., Old Bread-street, Director of the Essex and Suffolk Railways J. FarroW, Esq., Newbury, Director of Union Bank Samuel Haines, Esq. Chad Iloneer,,Udgbaston, Director of the Man chester aud Birmingham 140111111111Eatkin-Rallway • - William Hill, Esq., 31ancheskr John Newington Hughes, Esq., Winchester William Jacomb, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the East and West of England Railway J. Kinloch, Esq., Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director of the North Wales and Newry and Enniskillen Railway EdWard Lomer, Esq., Southampton James Lees, Esq., Deputy Chairman of Union Bank, Manchester Captain James Patrick Macdougal, Brixton, Surrey, late Bengal Ge. neral Staff Captain George Probyn, Bryanston-square William Prescott, Esq.. Manchester David Price, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Leeds and Bolton Railway N. M. Priaulx, Esq., of the South-Western Steam Packet Company, Southampton George Parbury, Esq., Director of the East and West of England Railway William Watson Prole, Esq., Director of the Jersey Railway William Langley Pope, Esq., Birchin-lane and Woodford, Director of the Falmouth and Exeter Railway Clements Itoyds, Esq., Chairman of the Preston and Wire Railway Major Selwyn, R.E., Director of the East and West of England Junction Ita.lway Walter Shairp, Esq. ' Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, and Austin-friars, Director of the Cobra Mining Company Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Dublin and Kilkenny Railway T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Richmond Railway Edmund Slocock, Esq., Newbury • Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of England Railway Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton %Immo—Messrs. Masterman and Co., London. ENGINEER-IN-CHlEF—Joseph Lock, ESQ. ACTING ENGINEERS—Messrs. J. B. and E. Birch SOLICITORS. John Bethel, Esq., 78, King William-street, City Messrs. Sharp and Harrison, Southampton SECRETARY—JOhn Dunlop, Esq. the Board, W. O'BRIEN, Secretary. London Terminus, August 18, 18 QOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. - PLEA SURE EXCURSIONS between the Bricklayers' Arms or Dover termini, and all stations except London-bridge, at one fare there and back, every Saturday and Monday until further notice. On the above-named days excursion tickets will be issued by the following trains : DOWN TRAINS. 6 45 a.m 3d class train 10 0 a.m. Ist and 2d do. 4 0 p.m. ad do. 5 30 p.m. Ist and 2d do. UT TRAINS. 5 30 a.m. 3d class train 6 45 a.m. Ist and 2d do. 2 0 p.m. 3d do. 6 30 p.m. Ist and 2d do. Fares there and back :- Ist class, 18s. Gd. ; 2d class, 12s. ; 3d class, 7s. 4d. Trains . calling at the Stations on the Maidstone Branch Line wil. meet the whole of the above-named Trains at Tunbridge, leaving Maidstone at 8 a.m. and 7 45 p.m. for first and second class pas sengers, and at 7 0 a.m. and 4 0 p.m. for third-class passengers, and Tunbridge for Maidstone on the arrival of all the Down Excursion Trains. Excursion ticket 4 are available only to return by the Excursion trains on the same day they are Issued, or on the following Monday, when issued on the previous Saturday. N.B. Excur-iox tickets are not issued to or from the Lonlon bridge Terminus. By order, W. O'BRIEN, Secretary.- Provisionallyßegistered. 6 11 ?, OUTH-EASTERN and CONTINENTAL I.Y STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—To PARIS and the SOUTH of FRANCE.—Sea passage in less than two hours.—Shortest route, via South-Eastern Railway, in conjunction with the Folkestone and Boulogne steamers. The celebrated new iron steam ships of the South-Eastern and Continental Steam Packet Company. QUEEN of the FRENCH, QUEEN of the BELGIANS, and PRINCESS MAUDE, now leave Folkestone and Boulogne every tide, viz., twice a day from each port. The departure of the day steamer from Folkestone is arranged so that passengers may arrive in time by the morning trains from London. For time and tide bills apply at the South-Eastern Railway-office, London-bridge; or to Mr. Faulkner, Folkestone. Provisionally Registered. QOUTH-EASTERN AND CONTINENTAL Li STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—BEST ROUTE to BELGIUM and GERMANY, via DOVER and OSTEND.—The South-Eastern and Continental Steam-packet Company's splendid fast iron steam-ship PRINCESS MARY, carrying the English and Belgian malls, and performing the passage in four hours and a half, leaves Dover for Ostend every Thursday and Sunday morning early, enabling tra vellers to leave Ostend by the early trains, and returns to Dover en Tuesdays and Fridays. Departures from Dover : August 28, at 6h. A.m. I August 31, at 8h: A.M. Luggage, parcels, &c., expeditiously forwarded. For particulars apply at the South-Eastern Railway-station. Lon - don-bridge ; and to John Hayward, jun., Dover. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. The Directors think it desirable to state that they sometime since instructed Mr. Stephenson to prepare for Parliament in the next session a complete system for supplying railway communi cation with the whole of Kent. It is proposed to provide direct lines to Tunbridge, Maidstone, Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham, Faversham, Canterbury, and Dover. The surveys have been for some weeks in progress, and the whole scheme will be very shortly in a complete state. JOHN KIRKLAND, Chairman. _ . South-Eastern Railway-office, July 26, 1845 SHREWSBURY, HEREFORD, and NORTH WALES RAILWAY. The Offices of the Company are removed from 41, Moorgate-street, to 449, West Strand, where every information may be obtained; or of Messrs. Hunt, 10, Whitehall, solicitors to the Company. By order of the Committee of Management, CONWAY ROSE, Secretary. IPSWICH AND BURY ST. tDM RAILWAY COMPANY. UND'S Notice is hereby given, that the FIRST ORDINARY SffiF;TING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this Company will be held at the OiliCes of the Company, Brook-street, IPSWICH, on FRIDAY, the 12th cfey' of September next, at one o'clock in the afternoon precisely, for the general purposes of business. And notice is hereby given, that such meeting Will also be held for the special purpose of increasing the number of Direette4 named in the Act of Incouporation to the number of fifteen, and for that Purpose to elect Two Directors, and to determine the order of rtifik tion in which such increased number shall go out of office ; and also for the special purpose of authorising the Directors to apply to Par liament in the ensuing session for an Act or Acts of Parliament enabling this Company to construct a Railway to Norwich, diverging from the Ipswirh and Bury St. Edmund's Railway at, or near to, Stowmarket, with or without Branches therefrom ; and also of authorising the Directors to apply to Parliament in the ensuing session for an Act or Acts of Parliament enabling this Company to construct a Railway, in continua tion of the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway, from Bury, to join the Northern and Eastern Railway at or near to Cambridge, with or without branches therefrom ; and also of authorising the Directors, on behalf of the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway Company, to execute the necessary Parliamentary deeds for the several purposes aforesaid, and to issue such scrip, and to adopt such measures, and make and enter into such terms and agreements, and take such steps in reference thereto, and in furtherance thereof, as they may deem necessary or expedient. Fonr of the Directors will, under the Act of Parliament, go out of office at the above meeting, but being eligible for re-election, will offer themselves accordingly. For the convenience of Shareholders in London, it has been deter mined to receive scrip to be registered at No. 53, Parliament-street, as well as at Ipswich, if the party sending it writes across each cer tificate his name and address, with the application for registry and conversion, as advertised on the 2d inst. JOHN CHEVALLIER COBBOLD, Chairmau, By order of the Board, JAMES F. SAUNDERS, Secretary, Brook-street, Ipswich, 20th Aug., 1845. YNN and ELY RAILWAY COMPANY. A The Directors beg to inform the public that they have given the necesary directions for applying to Parliament, in the next ses sion, for an Act to extend their railway from Wisbech to. March, to join there the Ely and Peterborough line of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, with a view of affording to the port of Wisbech a direct line of railway communication with the metropolis, the city of Peterborough, and all the western and south-western parts of the kingdom. W. BROWNE FOLKES, Chairman of Board of Directors. H. C. LACY, Deputy-Chairman. W. W. WILLIAMS, Secretary. 18, Great George-street, Westminster, Aug. 19, 1845. L YNN and ELY, and LYNN and DEREHAM RAILWAY COMPANIES. IZUCKINGIIAMSIIIRE RAILWAY, AND I"_.:a OXFORD AND WOLVERTON JUNCTION. Capital 2,250,000/., in Shares of 201. each. Deposit 2/. los. per Share. Registered Provisionally, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, K.G. The Right Hon. Lord Nugent, Lilies, Aylesbuary, Bucks Sir John Chetwode,taif., M.P., Chetwode Manor House, Ulla Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey, Bart., Oving Rouse, Bucks Sir Harry Verney, Bart., Claydon House, Bucks Lieutenant-General Sir James Watson, K.C.8., Wendover House, Bucks • The Hon. Philip Sidney Pierrepont, Evenley Hall, Brackley, North amptonshire Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., Lillingstone Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff of Bucks Charles John Baillle Hamilton, Esq., M.P., Thame Park, Oxfordshire Rice Richard Clayton, Esq., M.P., Hedgerley Park, Bucks John Deering, Esq., The Lee, Bucks George Morgan, Esq„ Biddlesden Park, Backs Robert Bullock Marsham, Esq., L.L.D., Caverafleld House, Ox fordshire Walter Henry Bracebridge, Esq., Norville House, Warwickshire and Chetwode Priory, Bucks John Barnes, Esq., Chorley Wood, Herts William Osmond Hammond, Esq., St. Alban's-court, Wingham, Kent Benjamin Brice, Esq., Westbury, Bucks Colonel John Hall, Life Guards' Barracks, Hyde Park, London John Newman, Esq., Brand's House, Hughenden, Bucks Thomas Newland Allen, Esq., The Vache, Chalfont, Bucks Henry William Beauclerk, Esq., 61, Chester-square, London Robert Fox, Esq., Wendover Lodge, Bucks William James Bally, Esq., Shenley House, Bucks Thomas Sands Chapman, Esq., The Park, Aston Clinton, ucks Robert Marriott Freeman, Esq., Stony Stratford Bucks George Parrott, Esq., Castle Farm, Buckingham Captain Edward Dewes, Buckingham Humphrey Humphreys, Esq., Buckingham William Stowe, Esq., Buckingham William Davis, Esq., Bieester, Oxfordshire Captain William Style, R.N., Bicester, Oxfordshire John Horwood, Esq., Steane Park, Brackley, Northamptonshire John Henry Butterfield, Esq., Brackley William King Malins, Esq., itrackley Alfred Hoperaft, Esq., Brackley Charles Tawney, Esq., Oxford Richard Wootton, jun., Esq., Oxford Jonathan Samuel Browning, Esq., Oxford Henry William Tancred, Esq., M.P., London Timothy Rhodes Cobb, Esq., Banbury, Oxon Zacharia Daniel Hunt, Esq., Aylesbury, Bucks Joseph Ashby Gillett, Esq., Banbury, Oxon George Carr Glynn, Esq., London Joseph Frederick Ledsam, Esq., Birmingham Edward Cropper, Esq., Liverpool Thomas Smith, Esq., Reigate Lodge, Surrey Thomas Young, Esq., Albany, London Ross fondly Mangles, Esq., M.P., London Captain Constantine Richard Moorsom, R.N., The Directors of these Companies have the satisfaction of informing the Proprietors and the Public that they have entered into arrangements with the promoters of the Notting ham, Erewash Valley, and Ambergate and the Nottingham, Vale of Belvoir and Grantham Railway Companies, under which the lines of these Companies will be extended from Grantham to Spalding, to meet the proposed extension line (from Wisbech to Spalding) of the Lynn and Ely Company, by which means a direct line of railway communication with the northern and midland districts will be af forded to the port of Great Yarmouth, the city of Norwich, and the ports of Lynn and Wisbech. By the terms of arrangement ahoy._ , *be increased capital which the Nottingham Companies will require to raise for carrying out the extension has been reserved to the Proprietors in these Companies. W. BROWNE FOLKES, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Lynn and Ely Railway Company. H. C. LACY, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Lynn and Dereham R..llway Company. W. W. WILLIAMS, Secretary. 18, George-street, Westminster, Aug. 20, 1845. The great importance and increasing prosperity of the port of Southampton requires that more extensive railway accommodation should be at once provided. According to the evidencelately given before Parliament by Mr. Ed wards, the Collector of Customs at that port, the exports have more than quadrupled during the last three years, and he expressed his conviction, that if a more direct communication with the manufac turing districts was made, the exports would increase to no less a sum than ten millions the first year afterwards. All the steamers from England to Jersey, and the Channel Ishnds, to Portugal, Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Malta, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and the East and West Indies, now depart from and arrive at Southampton. It is also the most direct and shortest course to Paris througk Havre. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. A MAGNIFICENT, EXTENSIVE, and UNIQUE COLLEC TION. of TROPICAL FRUITS, modelled by Mons. Grimand during his long residence in the Isle of France, is just deposited. The ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY is Lectured upon by Professor achhoner, and exhibited Daily and in the evenings. A NEW k'IIERICAN .INVENTION, COLEMAN'S PATENT LOCOMO TIVE ENGINg, for ascending and descending inclined planes on Railways without 'the aid- of stationary power. SWIMMING 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 Thttd ua r at half-pall Eight o'clock. The other exhibitions, &c as usual, Admission, is, 5 School!, rice. PUBLICA . T.IONS , Large quantities of goods are now brought to it from Manchester and the manafacturing districts for export, which would be greatly increased if the means of transit were easier and less expensive, and the supply of clothing and naval stores from Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Staffordshire, to her Majesty's dockyards, .and victualling stores at Portsniouth and Gosport, in addition to the export trade, is neces sarily very great, so that it is clear, that a more direct railway com munication from the manufacturing districts to Southampton, Gos port, and Portsmouth. is absolutely necessary. The passing of the Oxford and Rugby, the• Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Acts this session, has afforded the facilities of effect ing this communication in the most direct course. " ' _ By making the railway, which will now be constructed by this Company; Prom Didcot, on the Great 'Western Railway, where the Oxford Line terminates, through Newbury, to the Southamp ton and Gosport Railway, near the Andover Road station, a distance of only thirty miles, the most direct and the shortest commu nication will be formed from all parts of the north of England and the manufacturing districts, to Southampton, Gosport, and Ports mouth. The line goes through a favourable country, and will be made at little cost. The traffic on it, wholly irrespective of that from Man-. chester and the north. will be very large. A communication from Aewtatry to a port is muctrwantea, ea that tne Large quaturuee cx corn brought to that market may be exported along the coast. A quick transit from Oxford to Winchester. to Southampton and France, and to the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth, will be secured. From Oxford railways are about to be made to Cambridge, Peter borough, and Lincoln, and to Rugby, there joining the Midland and York Railways ; by Ahis means affording the most direct and shortest road to Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Sheffield, the large cloth districts of Yorkshire, and to York and Scotland. The whole of this traffic, together with the carriage of the cutlery and plated goods of Sheffield, and the cloth goods of Yorkshire, must belong exclusively to this line, and it is quite sufficient of itself to maintain it, and to secure for it a large share of support, even if it had no further claims on public attention ; but when reference is made to the map, it will be seen that, from the Oxford and Rugby Railway, near Banbury' another railway will proceed to Birmingham, which brings that most important town several miles nearer to the port of Southampton than by the route proposed by other parties through Cheltenham. Again, from Rugby the Trent Valley and North . Staffordshire Railway will carry the traffic on to Manchester, by which route the distance to Manchester from Southampton is considerably less than by the same route round Cheltenham, and will be further reduced by the Rugby and Maccles field line when made ; and as the goods coining by this line to South ampton will, for the greater part of the distance, travel over rail ways possessing a very large traffic of their own, and which can afford to carry this extra traffic at very much lower rates than a now company, which depends for its support entirely on such traffic, can Possibly do, they will be brought much cheaper by this line, than by any line which can be made between Southampton and Cheltenham. But it Is of the most vital Importance to the town of Southampton that this communication with the manufacturing districts should be completed in the least possible time, in order that the continuance of the foreign steam packets may be secured to that Port. This Rail way will be made and opened in twelve months after the passing of the Bill, i. e., the let of September, 1847, whereas the line, via Chel tenham, cannot be finished in less than three years. The Railways from Yeovil and Dorsetshire, and parts to the west ward, will join this line near Whitchurch, and bring great portion of the traffic from the west over this line to Oxford and the places beyond it. As to the gauge there will be no difficulty. The Commission now sitting will decide that. and there is not the least doubt, but that goods will be brought from Manchester, Birmingham, Sec., in the same truck, and without any shifting throughout the whole line to the ship's side in the docks at Southampton and to Gosport. 'S" A certain number of Shares will be allotted to Shareholders in the Great Western and South Western Railways who apply for them. Applications for detailed prospectus, maps, and shares, may be made to the Secretary, at the office, 78, King William-street, City, London.. A work of great Interest, a perfect Literary E LUNGE CHARLES EDWARD STE WART. fi e fplitical Cu riosity, most fascinating to the general reader, eur'ous to t}:e anti quarian, and invaluable to the historian is in the Press, and w2 ll be issued as soon as the list of subscribers, which is already numero, is completed. It is a reprint from the only copy now extant of the first Fifty-two Numbers of the Directors of the London and Birmingham Railway BURNS' FIRESIDE LIBRARY ; a Series of Cheap Books for Popular Beading, suited for the Fireside, the Lending Library, the Steamboat, or the Hallway Carriage. VOLUMES JUST PUBLISHED. 1. GERMAN BALLADS and SONGS, a new and careful Selection; with 15 Engravings by Artists of the day. 2s. Gd. 2. LIVES of ALFRED the GREAT, Sir THOMAS MORE, and JOHN EVELYN, 2 Engravings. Is. 3. LAYS and BALLADS from English History, &c., a new and cheaper Edition, with designs by Tenniel and Selena. 2s. Gd. 4. MUSAEUS' TALES. A 'choice Selection from the well-known and popular Work of Musaeus', with 6 Engravings after the German. Is. 9d. 5. LIESLI: a Tale of Switzerland. 82. Lists of the Volumes published and in preparation may be had of the Publisher, 17, Portman-street, London, or of any Bookseller in town or country. Birmingham Robert Benson, jun., Esq., Fairfield, Manchester Edw. Wm. Selby Lowndes, Esq., Winslow, Bucks With power to add to their number. COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Sir Harry Verney, Bart. G. C. Glyn, Esq The Hon. P. S. H. Pierrepont J. F. Ledsam, Esq. E. P. Dayrell, Esq. Edward Cropper, Esq Z. D. Hunt, Esq. Thomas Smith, Esq. Captain Edward Dewes Captain C. R. Moorsom, R.ll, Humphrey Humphreys, Esq. Robert Benson, jun., Esq. J. R. Cobb, Esq. • Thomas Young, Esq. Jon. Samuel Browning, Esq. Ross D. Mangles, Esq., M.P. With power to add to their number. ENGINEER—Robert Stephenson, Esq. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co., Lembard-street Aylesbury—Messrs. Bickford and Hunt ; the London & County Bank Buckinghena—Messrs. Bartlett, Parrott, and Hearn ; the London and County Bank Banbury—Messrs. Cobb and Co. ; Messrs. Gillett and Tawney Oxford—Messrs. Wootton and Co. ; the London and County Bank Bicester—Messrs. Tubb. • GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COM-. PANT, incorporated by Act of Parliament, 69, Lombard street, London. Notice is hereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of this Company will be held at the Company's Office, 69, Lombard-street, on TUESDAY, the 26th instant, at Two o'clock precisely, pursuant to the Act of Parliament, to transact the usual business, and to declare the dividend for the half year ending June 30, 1845. JOHN WILSON, Secretary. London, August 1, 1845. 5 . , 0e, • , / i ~~ ~G ~r ~ LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, and NEW CASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY. The Committee of Management, in consequence of negotiations .of Importance to the interests of this Company being still pending, have been obliged to defer the issue of the letters of allotment for a few days. By order, W. 11. INGRAM, Secretary. 22, Parliament-street, London, Aug. 22, 1845. CHESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY. With a Branch to Birkenhead. (Provisionally Registered). Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Colonel the Hon. LEICESTER STANHOPE, Ashburnham House, London, Chairman Major JOHN' T. CROFT, Regent-street, London, Deputy Chairman David Ainsworth, Esq., Manchester Samuel Barton, Esq., Didsbnry, Manchester • Hugh Beaver, Esq., Manchester, and Glyn Garth, Anglesey John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester James Farish, Esq., Lancaster-place, London Major Ford, of Bodlondet, Carnarvonshire Lieut.-Colonel Henry Hamner, 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 it. Hilton, R.N., Isle of Wight J. Harney Higson, Esq., merchant, Manchester Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, 8.E.F.R.5., Director of the College of Civil Engineers T. D. Johnson, Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, London John Joseph Keene, 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 Milts, Esq., the Grove House, St. Cuthbert's, and Cauldwell Priory, Bedford - Horace W. MeteyardrEsq., 8.C.L., Middle Temple, and Chatham place Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Upper Hyde Park-street, London, a Director of the •Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction Railway James Orrell, Esq., Cuicheth Hall, Kenyon James Ogden, F,sq., 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 Prescott ' 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—Messrs. 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, encouraged by the favourable sup port which has been given to the project, and in compliance with various recommendations they have received, ha-. 13 determined upon 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 comparatively 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 corn plicated system of branch lines, or materially conflicting with the in terests of existipg companies. _ . . The line will commence at the city of Chester, and proceed by way of Trafttird, FrOdsham, and Preston Brook, to Warrington, thence by Lynun and Stretford direct to Manchester. From a point on the main line, near Frodsbam, 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 kenhead. As Manchester, from its geographical position, is the centre of rail way communication between Scotland 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 coimect these two points by a direct and independent line of railway must, therefore, be of the utmost importance, not only in a local point of view, but to the whole commercial intercourse of the country. This line will he 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 manufacturi ng dis tricts of England. By the railways connecting Chester with Wrex ham, Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Hereford, Gloucester, and South Wales, this will be the nearest route from Manchester to the south western parts of England, and to the minerals of Monmouth and Glamorganshire 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 Crewe 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 time, and expense of passing through Liverpool, and crossing the water at that plaee. It is confidently expected that this line will be the precursor of another scheme, of no ordinary importance—namely, to render 'hester an efficient port for large vessels. This subject was entertained by Sir John Rennie In 1835, and sub sequently, in the same year, by the late Mr. Chapman, who wrote an able report upon the capabilities of the river Dee. It was again nvestigated, in 1837, by Sir John Rennie and Mr. George Remington, and the practicability 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 Dawpool. which Is easy of access (and infinitely preferab'e, in point of access and safety, to the (looks 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 would ue sumulently low to admit vessels drawing 20 feet water to muter az - an Ltd...-. - - This railway, therefore, in connexion with the proposed 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 nufacturing 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 owe company at present, but should it be found requisite, the two may hereafter be amalga mated. Merits of no ordinary degree, therefore, may fairly be claimed for this railway, whether taken in connexion with the proposed docks, ores 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 means 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 easy formation. Power is reserved to the Committee to de viate from the proposed line in the vicinity of Manchester, should ulterior arrangements render it expedient. Applications for shares in the subjoined form, and for maps and prospectuses to be made to the Solicitors, and to the following Share orokers :—Messrs. Showell and Son ' 25,Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 8, Cornhill ; and Messrs. Taunton and Bush, 26, Austin-friars, London ; Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Mr. Locke, Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Thomas LeedS and Son ; Henry Benton, J. B. Lock, and Samuel Slater, Manchester ; 31,essrs. Neilsons, Messrs. Healey, Mr. Crisp, and Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liver pool ; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield; Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds ; Mr. E. A. Armitage, Wake field; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York; Mr. Thomas Board man, Blackburn ; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. Francis Stamp, . Hull ; Mr. L. Weatherburn, Huddersfield ; Mr. Wm. Cronheina, Halifax ; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham ; •Mr. Samuel Eyre. Derby ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham; Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton • Mr. Join Thomas Holland, Coventry; Mr. WillianiMason, Bradford, Yorkshire ; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester ; Mr.• Wm. Tomkinson, Newcastle-under-Lyne ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield ; Mr. Lea, Cheltenham ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr. William Miles, Worcester ; Messrs. Read and Nicholson, Edinburgh; Messrs. Ross, Perth, N. 8.; and Messrs. H. and W. A. Tassie, Glasgow. Applications for shares must be accompanied by a reference to the Solicitors of the Company, the sharebrokers, or some other respon sib:e person. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Chester and Manchester ' Direct Railway Gentlemen ' —I • request you to allot me Shares o f 201 . each In the above Railway, and . l undertake to accept the same, or such leia number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the Regula tions of the t °wally, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to pay, when required, the deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per Share. Dated this day of 1845. Name and Residence in fu11................ Profession and professional residence in full.. Reference ... ......... •. • • • • • , • •• • • • • C HESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY. At 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. BARRETT, Seeretary. 29. Moorgate-street, August 14, 1845 THE MIDLAND and EASTERN COUNTIES RIILWA.Y, from CAMBRIDGE, by NORTHAMPTON to WORCESTER. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vict., cap. 110.) Capital 1,500,0001., in Shares of 251. each. Deposit 11. 7s. Gd. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. Alington, Rev. John, Little Barford, Bedfordshire, and Letchworth, Hertfordshire Booth, Williamson, Esq., Woodbury Hall, Cambridgeshire Bunbury, G. 8., Esq., Leamington, a Director of the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway Burman, William, Esq., Stratford-upon-Avon Carrington, John, Esq., St. Neots Cochrane, lion. Horatio William Bernardo, Little Staughton Cottle, J. M., Esq„ Leamington,l Directors of the Warwick and Curtis, J. E. B. Esq., London, 5 Cheltenham Railway Dabbs, Thomas William, Esq , The Newarke, Leicester Day, John Hill, Esq , St. Neots Day, Thomas, Esq., Wornditch, near Kimbolton Ellgood, Thomas, Esq., St. Neots Falconer, Robert, Esq., Goldington Hall, Bedfordshire Gee, William, Esq., Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire Hewlett, Thomas Bernard, Esq., Northampton, a Director of the South Midland Railway Humbley, Captain, Waterloo Cottage, Eynesbury, near St. Neot s Lauga, T. F. J., Esq., Brighton Norris, Rev. Frederick, Little Gransden Onslow, Denziil, 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 H., Esq., Long Stow Hall, Cambridgeshire St. John, the Right Hon. Lord, Melchbourne Park, Bedfordshire Sitmey, George Deane, Esq , Orford Ciuney, Huntingdonshire Webb, Dr., Master of Clare Hall, Cambridge Webb, Theodore' Vincent, Esq., Great Gratisden, Huntingdonshire Wei stead, Benjamin, Esq., Kimbolton Weistead, M., Esq., Stoneloy Hall, Kimbolton , (With power to add to their number.) BANKERS—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co., London. SOLICITORS. John Chinery, Esq., Leamington, and 3, Church-court, Old Jewry Londoll Messrs. Day, St. Neots Messrs. Harris and Sumpter, Cambridge Messrs. Umbers and Sowdon, Stratford-upon-Avon Charles Jones, Esq., Alcester. No further Applications for Shams 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 and Pritchard, or T. Crewdson, Liverpool; Johnstone and Bradley, or S. W. Graves, Manchester ; E. Wilson, or W. Collis, Bir mingham; 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 Flint and Tootal, Hull; Eaglesfield, Leicester; Freeman and Son, Northampton ; John Langworthy, Exeter; Wm. Bolton, Stratford upon-Avon ; Wm. Miles, Worcester; Hugh .31unro and Co., Edin burgh; George Brown, Glasgow; Bruce and Byrnes, Dublin; Brown and Clark, Coventry ; and Peet and Son, Nottingham. CHEPSTOW, FOREST OF DEAN, AND GLOUCESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY, Through the Forest of Dean (with Branches to the Collieries, Iron Works, and River Severn). to join the Gloucester and Birmingham, Gloucester and Bristol, intended Cheltenham, Oxford, and London direct, and Gloucester and Aberystwith Railways. (Registered Provisionally, according to the Act of 7 and 8 Victoria, Chap. 110.) Capital 600,0001., in 30.000 shares, of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s per Share. No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. W. P. Andrew, Esq., Grosvedor-street, Grosvenor-square Joseph Bailey, Esq., M.P., Glanusk. Park, Breconshire W. F. Beadon, Esq., Director of the Essex and Suffolk Railway James Beech, Esq., 'l5, Grosvenor-place, London C..ft. Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf, Director of the South Mid- _ . .., , land Railway William Crawahay, Esq., Carfartha, Glamorganshire, and Carer sham Park, Berkshire Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., of Lillingstone Dayrell, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, and Director of the Buckinghamshire Railway Joseph Davis, Esq., Chepstow, merchant W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq„ Broad-street, London, merchant, Director of the South Midland Railway Edward Hall , Esq., Director of the South Midland and Northampton _ and Cheltenham Railways William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., Alderman, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, Director of the London and Greenwich Railway Company Sir W. B. Johnston, Bart, Hilton, Aberdeenshire George Lawton, Esq., Ditchleys, Essex, Director of the South Mid land Railway William Strahan, Esq. Banker, Fleet-street, London Sir William Twysden;Bart. Major White, 105, Pall Mall, Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway . John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of Leicester and Bedtbrd. Railway With power to add to their number. Gravatt Esq , F.R.S. LONDON BANKERS. Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Co., Strand ; and Messrs. Glyn and Co. PROVINCIAL BANKERS. Messrs. Bailey, Greatrex, and Co., Monmouth and Abergavenny The West of England and South Wales Banking Company and Branches -- Messrs. Bromage and Snead, Chepstow The Monmouth and Glamorgan Banking Company and Branches Messrs. Williams and Sois, Newport. The Gloucestershire Banking Company and Branches The County of Gloucester Banking Company and Branches The National Provincial Banking Company and Branches STANDING COUNSEL—WiIIiam Hughes Hughes, Esq., Temple, London Sommoa—Mr. W. T. H. Phelps, Newport, Monmouthshire . LONDON SOLICITORS—Messrs. a Beckett, Son, and Sympson, 7, Golden-square LOCAL SOLICITORS. Chepstow—Messrs. Baldwin and Morgan Gloucester —Messrs. Ellis, Elliott, and Swann SECRETARY —Wm. Protheroe, , Esq., 10, Old Jewry-chambers,Londo n This railway is intended to connect the South Wales Railway at Chepstow with Gloucester, Cheltenham, and Birmingham, with the projected Cheltenham, Oxford (and London direct), Gloucester, and Aberystwith, Northampton and Cheltenham, and Manchester and Southampton Railways ; thus forming an uninterrupted line of com munication from the South of Ireland, through Fishgard and Milford in Pembrokeshire, to Gloucester, Cheltenham, Oxford, and London direct, Southampton, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and the North of England, by a less circuitous route than can be effected by any of the projected plans for crossing the Severn below Gloucester, thereby avoiding the difficulties which must necessarily be encoun tered in such an undertaking, and affording the important towns and districts upon the intended lines that accommodation which their im portance entitles them to. The whole of the traffic upon the South Wales line passing to the Eastward of Chepstow will be carried on this lino ; added to which the coal and mineral traffic from the Forest of Dean (which, from the Eastern side to Gloucester, has been estimated upon authentic documents and information, at upwards of 300,000 tons ; and from' the Western or Lydney and Chepstow side the same amount of traffic may safely be calculated upon), amounting to 600,000 tons per an num (the produce of the Forest alone), must be carried upon the line, independent of the local passenger traffic and an extended trade in the produce of the Forest, which will necessarily follow the facilities offered by the proposed railroad. The revenue from this source alone will give a very handsome di vidend upon the capital to be expended, which is expected will not exceed three-fourths of the intended capital. It is proposed to make branches to till Collieries and Iron Works in the Forest, to the present or any new Ports which may suggest themselves on the Severn ; and to make the River Wye, at Chep stow, the port of foreign export, where vessels of any size can enter free from the dangers and difficulties attendant upon the navigation of the Severn, consequent upon the rocks and shifting sands in that river. It is intended to build a bridge across the Severn at Gloucester, which will in no way obstruct the navigation ; and the proposed Gloucester and Aberystwith Company will no doubt be ready to join this Company in the expense, if they obtain their Act. The cost of the intended line from Chepstow to Gloucester, including the bridge at Gloucester, and the one over the River Wye, at Chepstow, to join the South Wales, with branches to the Collieries, Iron Works, and the Severn, is not expected to exceed 450,0001., but it is intended to provide a capital of 600,0001. to meet any contingencies which may arise. A reference to the map will show the self-evident importance of this line as essential to the perfecting the great project of the South Wales Railway Company (who have obtained their Act of Parlia ment for a railroad from Fishguard and Milford Haven to Chepstow) n connecting it with the principal railways of the kingdoni, at Gloucester, and making it the direct road to London, via Cheltenham and Oxford, for effecting which projects are now before the public with most influential support. The line is twenty-six miles in length, has no engineering difficulties ; the gradients and curves are extremely good, and works light. It may with very great confidence be asserted, that there is scarcely a short line of railroad in the kingdom which offers greater advantages to the Shareholders than the present. Pro vision will be made in the Act of Parliament which will be applied for in the next Session to limit the liability of the Shareholder to the amount of his Shares, and to allow four per cent. on the calls. Applications for Shares, in the usual form,' to be made to the Solicitors, or to Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle• street, and Messrs. Backhouse and Co., No. 4, Angel Court, Throg morton-street, London ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Chelten ham ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol; Mr. Thomas Evans, Bath; Messrs. Bradley, Find, and Parker, Manchester ; Messrs. H. Davies and Co., Dale-street, Liverpool ; Messrs. Chantrell and Boyg, Leeds ; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull ; and Mears. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin. INJUNCTION. —His Honour the Vice-Chancel lor of England has this day granted an Injuncntion to restrain FREDERICK T. FOWLER from publishing certain articles pirated from the Railway Chronicle. August 22, 1845. THE SOUTHWARK ELECTION. Two Southwark electors were having a chat, Concerning the candidates—this man and that. " Pray who is the man that you wish to succeed ?" Said one, as he touch'd on political creed. " Nay, don't pester me, sir ; I don't care a pin," Said the other, "for my part they all may get in; I only wish MOSES, or MOSES'S SON, Had entered the field, as he ought to have done ; Each one of these men would have proved on a trial, As faithful as Molesworth, or Pilcher, or Miall. If Molesworth, or Pllcher, or Mall had done - As much in apparel as MOSES and SON, My vote I'd have given, and tried all I could To help the good fellow—believe me I would. But now, sir, I don't care the turn of a straw, Who gains or who looses, or who may withdraw." " Well done !" said the other companion, "Nell done, You're a back-and-edge' friend to E. MOSES and SON. And I'm net much surprised at the warmth you express, When I think of the service they've done you in dress. You've certainly cause to respect Messrs. MOSES, For the good which their wonderful Dress Mart discloses. Nor do I much wonder, on sober reflection, That you wish they were up for the Southwark Election." The New Work, entitled " The Monarch Mart," with full direc tions for self-measurement, may now be had on application, or for warded, post free. LIST OF PRICES. • READY MADE. £ fil. d. Tweed Taglionis.....• • •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • . ....from 0 7 6 Ds. de., a superior quality, with silk collar, cuffs, and facings . ........ 0 13 6 - - - Codrington and Chesterfields, in light and gentlema n ly . ma- terials ..• • • ..... •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • ...... • 0 18 6 Cashmarette Coats in every style and make, including regis -1 2 0 Milled Jean, grand Drill, and diagonal Blouses ..... .••• . • • 0 3 6 Splendid Summer Vests .••••••• • • • • • • • 0 2 6 Cashmere and Persian, in endless variety ..... 0 4 6 T B w l aecekaand do. fancy . ... ............... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. i .. .. : : : : .. : .. : : : : .. : : : : .: 0 0 6 4 6 6 Cloth Trowsers .• . • ..... ••••••••• • • • • • • • . ....... ...from 0 9 0 otnri.m. m .. ed 1 1 1 5 5 0 0 Frock ditto, ditto •• • ......... ' ..... """••••••• • • • . • • • • • 1 3 0 MADE TO MEASURE, Tweed Coats, trimmed with silk .... „ ................ 0 12 0 `'lashmarette in any shape, handsomely trimmed, made in Saxe Gotha a e first s h t a y n le ds o o f in fas ei hi y Quilting Vests, 4. 6d., or Three for.. . • • • .. .. .. .. ' . .. .. ••• Ol9 0 Cashmere in choice patterns • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • .. 0 8 6 0 0 c0: . 111 1 6930 4 0606 6 Satin do., plain or fancy ..... • •"• • • • • • •.• • • • . . • Spring Trowsers in great variety • • ....... . . SingleT wßesetelmd qualityon milled d i n bal c an h ed o k i A i c o t r • b e p: .rte t tape plain o s n . i.). . ().4..T.r.0 . 7: 5 : e:r5 .................. : : .: : .... .... ... Ditto ,ditto, best manufactur ed •••••. . . • • . . . .. 2 15 0 Frock Coat • • • • • • • • ....... • Ditto, the best manufacture d • • • • • • • . . . . • • . ............ : 3 1 135 0 Mourning to any extent can be had at five minutes' notice, at the following prices : Men's Suits, dress coat, ;;,it and trousers Ditto, jacket, vest an d trousers.-- 0116 0 18 0 IMPORTANT.—Any article purchased or ordered, if not approved of, exchanged, or the money returned. Observe—E. MOSES and SON, Tailors, Wholesale and Retail Woellen Drapers, Outfitters, and General Warehousemen, 154, Mino des, and 86, Aldgate, City, opposite the Church. CAUTION.—E. Moses and Son are obliged to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the untradesmanlike false hood of being connected with them, or it's the same concern, has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons. They Lave no connexion whatever with any other establishment, in or out of London, and those who desire genuine Cheap Clothing should (to prevent disappointment, &c.) call or send to 154, Minories, or 86, Mdgate, opposite the Church. N.B. No business transacted at this Establislunent from sunset on Friday tin Bananiet S a t u rday when business is resumed at twelve Coles* THE OXFORD, SOUTHAMPTON, GOS PORT, AND PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY COMPANY. In consequence of the most numerous applications that have been already received fa Shares herein, no further applications can be re ceived after WEDNESDAY, the 27th August instant. SOLICITORS, Messrs. Parker, Mayes, Barnwell, and Twlsden, Liaeoln's Inn-fields, Mr. Smite' Carter, Birmingham, and 37, Grea' .Org 7 i minster Mr. William Mcyrick, 2, Furnival's Inn, Loudon Messrs. Rose and Messrs. Tindal, Aylesbury Messrs. Hearn and Nelson, and Mr. Henry Smith, Buckingham The object of this undertaking is to supply railway communication to the towns and districts lying between the London and Birmingham, and the Great Western Railways, giving them the best means of access to the metropolis, and connecting them also with the Northern and Eastern lines of railway, as weli as with Oxford and the South. The main line will commence from the London and Birmingham Railway, near Harrow, and passiny, to the north of Uxbridge, will proceed up the Valley by Chalfont, near Amersham and Chesham to Missenden and Wendover, and thence to Aylesbury; from which place it will extend to Buckingham, and passing near Winslow, and approaching Brackley, will terminate by a Junction with the proposed Warwickshire and London Railway, near Banbury. . In addition to the line above described, it is intended also to con struct a Railway from the central station of the London and Bir mingham Railway at Wolverton to Buckingham, and thence through Bicester to Oxford; and in connexion with the line here proposed, the Bedford, and London and Birmingham Company, intend to make a connecting line between Bedford and Wolverton. The proposed Buckingham and London and Birmingham Railway Company (for the construction of a line from Wolverton to Bicester) is amalgamated with this Company. Accurate surveys of the country have been taken by Mr. Robert Stephenson, and it has been ascertained that no engineering difficulty of importance presents itself. The undertaking has already received the sanction and support of a very large proportion of the Nobility, Gentry, and Proprietors of land through or near whose property it is intended to pass. It is proposed that these lines should be made with the co-operation, and under the direction and superintendence of the London and Birmingham Railway Company; under a lease, in perpetuity, at four per cent. per aunum on the outlay, with a conditional arrange ment as to the surplus profits. It is intended to offer the shares in such proportion as the amount of capital will allow of, to the holders of shares In the London, Worcester and South Staffordshire Railway Company, subject to the approbation of the Committee of Management, with the exception of such as may be required for parties having local interests. B UCKINGHAM and LONDON and BIR MINGHAM RAILWAY. The public are respectfldly informed that the Company for con structing the BUCKINGHAM and LONDON and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY is amalgamated with the BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY. Any parties locally interested, who have applied for Shares in the Buckingham and London and Birmingham Company, and who may wish to take Shares in the Buckinghamshire Company, are re quested to make application on or before the 20th day of August instant, to any of the solicitors of the Buckinghamshire Railway. In consequence of the arrangements with the Buckinghamshire Railway Company, no Shares can be allotted except to parties loca !Acres' 1. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 2G, CORNHILL, LONDON. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This institution °Mrs important and substantial advan tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borr)w, without ex pen:e 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 tbr terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The saccess 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 Fran scale. EXAMPLE 3. g d , i7 t n Premium ~.1 Bonus Banns in 8a B ''o wr4 p p ' ;. 0 , , added. Cash, t:; g k 0 ft : 5 0 ° ' 4 4 6' fa , _ - 1237 1191 13 51187 13 5 113 17 1 1395 II 1 d. 1838 165 13 01 74 13 10 11 8 6 346 2 1 SO tOOO 74 3 4 1839 138 13 6 61 14 3 9 210 296 13 4 1 ,1840 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 CAMROUX, Sac. PROMOTER LIFE ASSURANCE and AN NUITY COMPANY, 9, CHATHA s I-PL E AC bI E, hed BLACKFRIARS, LONDON. stai in 1826. This Society is supported by an ample subscribed Capital, and by a considerable accumulated premium fund. Assurances are effected at a low rate of premium, without profits, or at all increased premium, with participation in the profits of the Office. A bonus in ready money, at the rate of fifteen per cent. on the premiums received (equivalent to a reversionary bonus of about thirty per cent.) wee declared in May, 1842, on all beneficial po licies OR which three annual premiums had been paid in the December previous. A division of the profits takes place every five years, and the holders of beneficial policies can receive their bonuses in ready money, or have them applied in augmentation of their policies, or in reduction of their future premiums. Assurers may contract to pay their Premiums either in one sum, in a given number of payments, in annual, half-yearly, or quarterly pay ments, or on the ascending or descending scale. Officers in the Army and Navy on active service, Persons afflicted with chronic and other diseases, and such as are going beyond the limits of Europe, are also Assurel at moderate Rates. Prospectuses and all necessary information may be obtained at the Office. MICHAEL SANARD, Secretary. BURGESS' ESSENCE of ANCHOVIES. Warehouse, 107, STRAND, corner of the Savoy-steps, London, JOHN BURGESS and SON, being apprised of the numerous en deavours made by many persons to impose a spurious article for their make, feel it incumbent on them to request the attention of the public, in purchasing what they conceive to be the original to ob serve the Name and Address correspond with the above. The genee ral appearance of the spurious descriptions will deceive the un guarded ; and, for their detection, J. B. and Son, submit the following cautions:—Some are in appearance at first sight, " the genuine," but without Aame or address ; some " Burgess's Essence of Anchovies," and others " Burgiss's ;" and many more without address. John Burgess and Son, having been many years honoured with such dis tinguished approbation, feel every sentiment of respect towards the public, and earnestly solicit them to inspect the labels previous to purchasing what they conceive to be of their make, which they hope will prevent many disappointments. BURGESS' NEW SAUCE, for general purposes, having given such great satisfaction, continues to be prepared by them, and is recom• mended as a most useful and convenient sauce ; will keep good in all climates. Warehouse, 107, STRAND, corner of the Savopstepa, London. The Original Fish-sauce Warehouse, GLASGOW COURANT, Commencing with the 14th day of October, 1745, and concluding with the 13th day of October, 1746, and containing very curious, and minute accounts of the extraordinary movements of the UNFORTUNATE PRINCE. With trrple details, from week to week, of the striking events which took place at tina time. By WILLIAM MEIKLEFIAM, Solicitor in Glasgow, and Secretary to the University,' Proprietor of the Volume The work will be printed hi a similar type to that furnished one hundred years ago by Alexander Wilson, letter-founder, Glasgow, to Robert Foullls, bookseller, the celebrated printer, Subscriptions will be received by the Editor, personally, or by letter, post-paid, addressed to him, at his Chambers,72, Wilson-street, Glasgow, at his Chambers, 23, Parliament-street, London, or to the Tavistocle Hotel, Covent-garden, London. AlVo - by Messrs. 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Stitched in sheets The personal appearance of " handsome young Charlie," as he marched at the head of his troops, or partook of the festivities of balls, &c., is graphically described, and numerous highly interesting anec dotes, showing the bewitching influence of this chivalrors adventurer on the fair sex, are interspersed throughout. THE BEST ENGLISH WATCHES. AB. SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers, Nu. • 9, Cornhill, • London, opposite the Bank, request the atten tion of purchasers to their stock of London-made PATENT LEVER WATCHES, which are manufactured by themselves in their own house. In Silver Cases, with the Detached Escapement and Jew elled, the prices are Four Guineas and a Half, Six, and Eight Guineas each ; or in Gold Cases; Ten, Twelve, Fourteen, and Six teen Guineas each. The very large stock offered for selection in cludes every description, enabling a customer to select that which is more particularly adapted to hie owls use. LECTURE ON THE CURRENCY. On Friday se'nnight an able lecture was delivered at the Chelmsford Institute, by Mr. Capps, on the National Currency. The lecturer commenced his address, the delivery of which occupied nearly two hours, by observing that as he believed the audience he had the honour of addressing was composed princi pally of the members of the agricultural class, he should con fine his remarks as closely as possible to the action and influ ence of the currency on the welfare of that interest; but at the same time he would remark, that the injurious influence of our monetary system was not exclusively confined to the agricul tural portion of the community. There was a radical error or detect in our political or social system, which affected all classes of the community in their turns, though not, perhaps, all at one and the same time. He would beg them to enter upon this subject calmly and reflectively, whilst he endeavoured to take hold of some of the leading features of the case. What --nl-13.1s taJ Ta 13.1 1 .1 grievances of the farmer, and the great cause of his distress ? It was evidently this—that after having carefully cultivated his farm to the best of his ability, the farmer could not obtain for the produce thereof a sufficient price to repay him his expenses and a living profit. —( Hear, hear.) In 1822 the agricul tural interest called upon Parliament to mitigate by any means in its power the distress which then oppressed them ; and what was the cause of that distress? Simply, that wheat would realise only 435. per quarter. In 1835, a mo tion was made by Mr. Cayley, in Parliament, to inquire into the cause of agricultural distress, when the great feature of the distress was alleged to be that wheat was only fetching 395. per quarter, which price would not afford the grower a living. And now, in 1845, what was the "head and front" of their just complaints? Precisely the same thing as before— they could only obtain 455. a quarter for wheat. That this was the true cause of the distress might be proved by referring back to the years previous to Sir R. Peel's Currency Bill of 1819. The farmers were not distressed during the first 20 years of the present century, simply because they obtained on the average 85s. a quarter for their wheat, and similar prices for their other produce. But our present statesmen would have them believe, that the distress was occasioned by the extreme drought of one year, and the extreme wetness of another—the large crops of one season, which produced low prices, and the crops of others, which left the farmer nothing to sell. But they had all those diversified seasons between the years 1800 and 1819, and yet they had no general complaints of agricultural distress. He was aware that many landowners and farmers were apt to attribute the exceedingly low price of farm produce to the Canadian Corn Bill, and Sir R. Peel's new tariff; he did not dispute that they had in some degree contributed to it, but he denied that they were, that they had been the principal agents. They must recoPect that wheat was 7s. a quarter cheaper than it is now. The Canada Corn Act had not then passed : in 1822 also wheat was 3s. per quarter cheaper than now, and at that time the price could not be affected by an act of legislation which did not take place until twenty years afterwards. But there was another measure of Sir Robert Peel's then in operation, which continued in operation to the present time—a measure professedly to regulate and give stability to the money of thecountry, and to prevent speculative business and ruinous fluctuations, while practically it had diminished and contracted the money, without in the least degree abating speculation and panic. Upon examination they would find that this was the principal cause of the low price of itorn—so much so, that could they get the new tariff, and the Canada Corn Act repealed to-morrow, and could they in addi tion get Parliament to legislate as much in their favour as it had lately legislated against them, there would still be in opera tion a baneful measure, which would, whenever there was a general average crop of farm produce, effectually prevent their obtaining a fair price for it. The lecturer then proceeded to prove that the changes effected by Sir Robert Peel in the monetary system of the country, when combined with the sys• tem of taxation which prevailed, had necessarily produced the deplorable state to which the agricultural classes were reduced. He first adverted to those changes- During the first twenty years of the present century a system prevailed which permitted gold and silver to take a market price, and not to be tied down to a fixed price, as at present. It permitted the piece of go'd called a guinea to fetch 275. or 28s. in the market; and that circumstance, he contended, produced those re munerating prices for agricultural produce which caused those times to be so prosperous to the farmer. He wished them, therefore, to understand that he attri buted the low price of farm produce, which hail been so prevalent during the last 25 years, to the operation of Peel's Bill, passed in the year 1819, which fixed gold permanently at the low price of 3/. lis. told. an ounce, a price tco low for the present circumstances of the country ; so low, that even wheat, at 455. per quarter, was still 25 per cent. higher than gold. The lecturer, after explaining the reason why gold had been fixed at that price, affirmed that this low price of gold in the general circulation of the country caused an equally low price for care.—( Hear.) That, in fact, it had a tendency to bring wheat down as low as 345. or 355. a quarter, and that the only reason why wheat was not now 355. a quarter was, because it cost some 10s. a quarter to bring it from other countries. For what was the inevitable result of 3/. 17s. 10id. of the general paper money of the country always commanding an ounce of gold? Why just this—that it always commanded those things which were of the same natural values, those values being founded upon the different degrees of expense or quantity of la bour necessary to produce the same. Dr. Adam Smith and all political economists ;had told them that the higgling and bargaining of the public markets would soon find out the real values of those various productions, and that they would soon be found to exchange against each other in their proper proportions according to their respective values. It became a question, then, of great interest to the agri culturist to find out what quantity of wheat was naturally equal in value to the ounce of gold, and it was to this point that he would next direct their attention. He pointed out upon a table which had been prepared from the statistics of Mr Taylor, an eminent author on the currency, that the utmost price that the price of gold would allow for wheat in this country,quarter; if ere t g e e n f d a e v n o c u y r a f l e t s h e e a s n pr e s e , a t s s 4 t s a i s t . d a p r e t r i er t e he we n r a e t a u v ra e l ra price of gold wes to bring down wheat to the universal average price of 335. or 345. per quarter, which result was only pre vented by our growing a little less corn than our annual con sumption ; and that should we by our agricultural improve ments produce any considerable surplus beyond the average consumption, it was extremely probable that wheat might fall Is. a bushel lower than it was at present. The lecturer next alluded to the amount of taxation which this country sustain( d, to show that no articles of production could be afforded at con tinental prices. Our revenue was principally derived from duties upon the productions of industry. It was not sufficiently considered that the taxes raised in this manner were fully equal to the whole lauded rental of the kingdom. Mr. Al‘Cullrch had estimated the landed rental at about 40,000,04'0/. sterling ; now, the Excise and Custom duties alone amounted to about 37,000 0001., and when they added to this the various items of local taxation which were sustained by the occupiers of the soil, they would find that the amount considerably exceeded the rent of the land. Yet Sir Robert Peel's currency measures made no pro vision whatever for this important element of cost.--(Hear, hear.) That was the very point in which Sir Robert Peel's grand failure laid. He had fixed gold at the same e" 4e; v. !price at which it was Current before there was ah: indirect taxation imposed upon the country. Gold at Si. 17e. 100., and wheat at 4s. 6d. per bushel, did very well 200 year. ago, when scarcely any indirect taxation existed ; but to attempe tar enforce such prices for the general products of industry now, would be to consign all the productive classes to unremunerated toil, if not tw absolute beggary ; but more especially the agri cultural classes, who could not, in their distress, have necour,e to steam. machinery as their manufacturing brethren coold.— (Hear. ) After Some further arguments to show that the low standard price of geld peremptorily forbade any rise in the price of wheat or other corennodities, the lecturer directed attention to a machine he had Very ingeniously constructed, called a currency clock, on which were shown the relative proportions' in value to each other of gold, silver, wheat, and the wages of labour on the level of an annual taxation by Customs and Excise of 17,000,0001., which he showed would consist with 455. per quarter for wheat, with gold at 3/. 17s. 10id. per ounce; with silver at ss. per ounce; and the wages of the labourer at 7s. 6d. per week. There were the prices with which the country could prosper under an annual taxation of 17,000,00 0 /. But as taxation increased wheat ought to rise in proportion; and that proportion he maintained, as the result of close observation, should be—that for every million of indi rect taxation per annum beyond 17,000,0001., Is. was necessary to be added to the price of the gleaner of wheat to compensate the farmer for the increased taxation he sustained.—( Hear, hear.) At the present time the indirect teetation was twenty millions beyond the seventeen millions, so :Ms. were necessary to be added to the price of the quarter of wheat to remunerate the grower properly; 20s. added to 455., the:original price with seventeem millions of taxation, would make: 655. per quarter for wheat, which he thought would commend itself to every practical farmer as being about the price whic;: he felt would afford him a fair and not extravagant remuneratiole.—( Hear. ) But though the wheat rose, the gold could not rise that was held down by the standard price of 3/. 17s. Mid. peer ounce. Here then was an absurdity, a distinction in the price s ef two things of equal value—one was fetching 655., the other sto,ld at the scale of only 455. Was that asystem to be established as oNe which would exchange equal values fairly and upon equal terms;` —( Hear; bear.) He had now to show them that this fixed, unvarying peice of gold pulled down eventually the prices ot all other prodtctions from a remunerating price to its own level' This was affected by the certain export of gold by the foreigner whenever, by the high price of other things, gold became the cheapest a rticle for him to take in return for the goods he has sold us. The foreigner was naturally anxious to take back a return cargo; he therefore looked round to see what would be advantageous to is im to buy to sell ag ain ; but he found wheat at 655. per quarter. " T hat won't do," says he, " I can get it at Dantzic at 30‘. ; I won't take wheat." He looked again ; he saw iron at 61. per ton. " That won't do," he says again, can - get it , at ;Sweden at 41. per ton." But there was one article which he saw had not risen, an article too which was tt.Q easiest of soy to carry away—gold. Gold has not risen with toz other coo:I -nv:Allies, and therefore was to him too cheapest commodity,. and he took it. But, says an Englishman to this foreigner, " You ought not to refuse taking our productions at our prices, even if they are what you call high, fur you have had the bene fit of bringing your gonsls to the same market, and obtaining similar priers for them, and after all our prices only give vs a fair return for our own expenses." " That is all very well, rejoins the foreig7ner, " but I like to take the cheapest which I can find—your re'on, your lead, and your wheat, are all much dearer than your golca.• I like your gold best. I prefer taking your untaxed gold to y s tr, taxed articles." Away, therefore, itehneggthoildofwtirlite., what Sutp:..sueltd.ltbie th e o ltimate result ? Why, that s o peration . m to be courued for any the c .untry, and consequently the Ba. lk of Eng land, would be drained of its gold. So long as goo d s ~, ,e re higher than gold, gold would be chosen by the foreigner in 1 , -reference to goods. —( Hear, hear.) But the Bank of Englandi being compelled by law always to provide gold on demand, was obliged to have recourse to energetic though destructive measures to get the gold hack again into its coffers. Then came the pressure upon the productive classes, agricultural and manufactur ing. The Bank of England knew that the cause of the gold going abroad was its comparative cheapness, and however grieved it might feel in putting an end to a prosperous state of things induced by remunerative prices, stern necessity compelled. 'f he Bank must have the gold back at all hazards, and it took measures fur bringing down corn and all other productions, which were so much higher than the gold to the level of gold, for the Bank knew well enough that that was the only effectual method of stopping the export of gold and bringing it bask to its owe coffers. This was done by the Bank beginning to withdraw Its supply of notes, refusing discounts, or selecting only the very highest ' character of bills for discount; raising the rates of interest, contracting its accommodation to country bankers, and various other methods which it had at its command: By the use of these means the general eirculatingmedium became contracted; everybody somehow or other found himself short of money ;. there was no effecting sales without submitting to a reduction in prices, and in proportion to the intensity of the pressure was the fall of prices, which fall only ceased till things were brought down as low or lower than the price at which gold was fixed. They were, therefore, placed on the horns of a. dilemma—if the Bar.k managed to keep the gold in the country, it only did so by keeping all our produce so low in price as to ruin the agriculturists and manufacturers, because they did not get back what they had, paid in taxation. On the ether hand, if they got remunerating prices, and paid their workpeople for their labour, then away went the gold, and the Bank and our monetary system were both in danger of being brought. to a standstill.—( Hear, hear.) In illustration of this, the lecturer referred to the panic of 1825, which he said was a memorable lesson of the vascillating and insecure nature of our present monetary eystem. He then proceeded to consider the causes of that panic. Sir R. Peel's Currency Bill of 1819, he said, instead of lowering prices only 4 per cent., as its abettors had prophecied, speedily pulled them down 40 or 50 per cent. Wheat, which had been 705.„ 80s., and 99'. per quarter, was brought down by the latter end of 1822 to about 38s. ; meat, which had been sold for 4s. 6d. or ss. per stone, was reduced to 2s. rid., and other things in like proportion, This unexpected reduction in the income of the sellers of coCamodities, without a proportionate reduction of the national debt, caused such depression and ruin, that the Ministers were s j are eed, and hastened to relieve the distress by the re.issue of one- pou ,:d notes, thereby inducing greater ac commodation by the count;''Y bankers. The end in view was to ,-yhich had fallen so low ; that was increase the prices of goods what was wanted; but, as he had already shown, the prices of goods could not permanently rise I."ithout the gold leaving the country, unless gold and silver were ,eermitted to rise in the same proportion. The Ministry were toad this by persons who understood the currency. but all argument was in vain—they persisted in forcing tie the prices Of goods. while they kept gold retu'it turned Out as no. 10141. and the had been anticipated. left the cotin zey — tbe Bank Post Ira stock of bullion—the nation was convulsed fre.'n end to end, and had the panic continued twenty-four hours . Mr. lluskis- .sorted to. - son said, that a system of barter must have been What was wanted, continued the lecturer, was a systes: which would let gold rise in the *erne proportion as taxation re'ist'd the price of other things. If gold thus rose it would not tee exported, and a pet manently remunerating price both for corm and everything else would be obtained.—( Hear, hear.) And here he would pause to inquire how, under the operation of the present depressing system, was it possible for the farmer to. avoid pressing unduly on the labourer ? It was the result ne cessarily engendered by the operation of the low price system, and it could not be otherwise, unless they enabled the farmer to pay better wages by giving him better prices for his produce. It was all very easy for gentlemen of the manufacturing dis tricts, who counted their profits by thousands, to declaim against the low wages of the agricultural labourer, and exult ingly to point to the condition of their own work-people by way of contrast, thus taking credit to themselves for superior generosity. This, however, was a very fallacious way of look ing at the matter. If they really wished to contrast the matter fairly, let them compare the amount of wages paid with the amount of profits realised from the wages.—( Hear, hear.) But in order that gold might be able to rise in proportion to other things, they must have a kind of currency which would allow of this taking place ; they ;oust have another vehicle or medium exchange ; and that could be obtained by the issue of a fixed amount of Government Ex chequer money, based upon the proceeds ot the annual taxes. In such a currency as this, gold could rise or fall like all ocher commodities, according to supply acrd demand, and in subser- , • vience to the amount of taxation imposed upon goods. But here they were met with what Sir Robert Peel, and those who agreed with him, thought an insuperable objection. " What." say they, " are you foolish enough to recommend that the paper currency of the country should he convertible into gold at the market price, instead of the fixed price that we have now? Pray what would your pound be ? What would your pound note mean ? This year, perhaps, gold would be 41. an • ounce, and then your one pound note would exchange in the market for a quarter of an ounce of gold ; next year gold might be Si. an ounce, and then your pound note, instead of being the fourth-part of an ounce of gold, would only be the fifth-part of an ounce ; and if gold were to rise to 61. an ounce then your pound note would be only the sixth-part of an ounce. Why, your pound would be always changing, upsetting all contracts, and alternately robbing all debtors and creditors. No, no ; let us have a pound which is fixed and invariable in value. Let us have a pound which will always command a certain definite quantity of gold or silver ; then we know what we are about. But if the pound is to be a thing con stantly changing in value, nobody will know what they are doing." Ile had put this question in as strong a manner as he possibly could, because, in the first place, it was an ex ceedingly prevalent one, and, secondly, because he was anxious to grapple with it in its most imposing form. The whole matter resolved itself into this simple question— ought or ought not our money denomination, whether pound, dollar, shilling. or franc, to be or represent at all times and under all circumstances a certain definite (that was, an ascer tainedgd h a u n m d b s l i y l v y e r r e ? s u m S i e r d R t He tr ( u t a li n i lecturer) Y f el m and n ,iit ought.invariable) say it ought not, and joined issue with him on this point. His position was, that neither in this nor any other country ought the money denominations to represent under all circumstances a fixed and invariable quantity of gold or silver, and if they overthrew Sir Robert Peel upon this point, they, upon his crwxs confession, overturned the whole ants currency scheme, Aar he nad said the whole of his measure rested upon that assumption. —( Hear, hear.) The lecisrer next remarked upon the sources from which the revenue of the country was derived. Eight-tenths of it, he said, was derived from duties upon com modities, and the price of them ought to depend upon the amount of taxation imposed ; for, as Mr. APCulloch had justly observed, " when taxes are placed upon commodities, their prices must rise in a corresponding proportion, otherwise the producers will not obtain their ordinary rate of profit." After some further able arguments upon the evils connected with a fixed, unvarying price of gold, the lecturer proceeded to re mark that the system regulated the quantity of money in cir culaCon, not by the wants of the people and the demands of agriculture and commerce, but by the quantity of a certain foreign metal which it was probable could be procured by the Bank at the price fixed for it ; and there was no class of persons whose interests had suffered so much from this cause as the agricultural class. In London and other great towns great facilities were afforded by bills of exchange and promissory notes, so that the pressure which would other wise be felt was relieved in a great degree by these substitutes. But in the country districts, where bills of exchange wore alinoa unknown, the want of an abundant supply of circulating medium as most severely felt. The lecturer then alluded to the restrictions placed upon the issues of country bank sby th e recent Act of Parliament; after which he said—However clear and demonstrable this subject might appear to himself and to the meeting, yet he was aware that in an assembly of thinking men to whom a difficult subject had been for the first time brought under their consideration, that some such thoughts as the f dlowihg would be prevalent :—." Well, it ap pears, as far as I can judge, very plain and very true; but Si R. Peel and other eminent men are of a different opinion, and I wonder why this is : they surely must see other light, or perhaps they are acquainted • with something more respecting it that has not been brought forward by the lecturer to-day. I should very much like to hear a little more of what such parties as those have to say to it. I should like fully to und , rstand the opposite opinion, that I might be able fairly to judge between them, for at present I have only heard one side of the question." He (the lecturer) would therefore to the best of his ability, and without knowingly withholding anything, give them Sir B. Peel's view of the subject, as tie forth in his public speeches upon the question, and then leave them to draw a fair comparison between their views. Sir R. Peel's view appeared at first eight to be very correct and simple, and indeed it was true, as far as it went, for it was wrong rather because it was incomplete % and did not embrace all that was necessary to be con sidered, than that it was wrong in itself abstractedly. Sir B. . Peel's philosophy of money appeared to he embodied iii the fol lowing reflections :—" What is money ?'' 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