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LOCAL AGENTS, Messrs. Stone and Paget, Leicester Messrs. Tatham and Son, Highgate E. L. Brickwo+.d, Esq , Dunstable :Edward C. Williamson, Esq., Luton 1_!. L. Ilrett, F sq., Bedtbrd ticorge Burnham, Esq., Wellingborough Messrs. Lamb and Nettleship, Kettering Beauvoir Brock, Esq., Loughborough Thomas Richardson, Erq., Uttoxeter Geort:,-e Sawkins. Esq., Leek lticlian - 1 Worm::ld, Esq., INfacelesfleld John Boothroyd, Esq., Stockport William J. r.ittio Esq., Devouport 111essrs. Ftanley end Washrough, Bristol Charles Naylor, Esq., Leeds SECRETARY rno TEM.—Edward L. Ogle, Esq. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.—MeBSra. Parkes and Preston, 21 George-street, Wasiminster The London promoters of this line, in their ordinary commercial operations, now pay for the carriage of goods, &c., a sum equal to four per cent. upon the whole capital ; an amount of traffic which 'will puts upon the dtreet line when competed. I its course, the line will approach to and accommodate the fol lowlng towns—viz., Barnet, St. Albans, Dunstable, Luton, Ampthill, Bedford, Wellingborough, Kettering, Market Harborough, Leicester, Loughhormigh, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Burton-on-Trent, Uttoxeter, Cheadle, Leek, Macclesfield, Stockport, and Manchester, terminating iu the station of the Manchester and Birmingham Ragway. Applications lb: Shares may be mule, addressed to the Provisional Committee, or to the Solicitors, at the Company's Offices, 48, Moor gate-street, London, of whom further particulars may be obtained. July, 1545. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct London and Manchester Railway, 49, Moorgate-street, London. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of 50/. each, in this Company, and t undertake to accept the same, and to pay the Deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me ; and I undertake, also, to execute the Parliamentary Contract and sill - scribers' as when required. Name in full ...... . ... Trade or Profession ................ Reference •••••• • • • • • ..... . Address of Referee. ..... ............ This Company Is established pursuant to the following request and uthority : -- " We, the undersigned, being interested in the trade of Manchester, and in tip shortest and quickest intercourse between London and Manchester, hereby express our conviction that a direct line of rail. way between those places will give the public the greatest cheapness, coo vcnienec, and speed. " That it is of paramount importance to the trade, and to the public, that they should not continue dependent for communication with Lancashire upon one, and that a circuitous line of railway. " That the immediate formation of a direct line is essential, because, if delayed, it will become more and more difficult, in con sequence of the branch railways which local necessity will originate. " That an independent trunk line is necessary, to guard the trade and commerce or the metropolis and Lancashire against excessive charges_ and the many evils of a rapidly-extending monopoly. " We therefore authorise and request Messrs. Ashurst and. Son, Solicitors, ana Messrs. Sudlow, Sons, and Torr, Solicitors, to take the ticcvssary steps for the formation of a Committee, with a view to thy adoption of such a line. Allan and Smith, London William Allen and Brothers, Manchester 11. Bannerman and Sons, Manchester Robert Bentley and Co., London joint third and Sons, Manchester Robert Barbour and Co., Manchester George Brettle and Co., London .1. T. Basset, Lcndon hurls and Gladstones, London J. B. Banks, London John Burls, London James Bradbury, Manchester Bradbury, Greatorex, and Co., London Bowman and May, London BIM: and Burton, Manchester S. A, Butterworth and Co., Manchester John Biggs and Sons, Leicester Caldecott, Powell, and Wilcox, London Cook, Sons, a d Co., London J. and F. Cowper and Co., London Courtauld, Taylor, and Co., London Capper, Morley, and Co., London Francis W. Coates, London William Cash, London Cheeper, Watson, and Jackson, London James Carlton, Walker, and Lewis, Manchester Richard Cobden and Co., Manchester hoinas Crompton, Manchester Darby and Garland, London James Deacon and Sons, London and Manchester W. and T. Devas, Minchener, and Routledge, London Davies, Freeman, and Co., Manchester John Dugdale and Brothers, Manchester Ellis, Everington, and Co., London David Evans and Co.. London Samuel Fletcher, Son, and co., Manchester George Fraser, Son, and Co., Manchester A. Grant and Brother, London John and Edward Grundy, Manchester Edward Granville and Co., London Gillett, Porter, and Co., Loll‘loll Gates,Coates, Bartlett, and Co., London Lot Gardiner and Brothers, Manchester Hood, Ward, and Hood, London Tlenry Hilton, Manchester Hobday and Cheetham, Manchester Hoyle and Hanson, London Richard Harris and Sons, Leicester Johnson, Bulmer, and Co., London Jameson and B Kershaw, Leese, and Co., Manchester Leat; Coles, Smith, and Co., London Luck, Castle, and Co., London Lycett and Davies, London Luck, Bondi, and Coath, London John Lart and Son, London Le Gros, Thompson, and Bird, London Thomas Lomas and Co., Manchester Lewis and James, London Liddiard and Co., London Lewellin, Truman, and Hitchcock, London William Lawrence, London Morrison, Dillon, and Co., London J. mid R. Morley, London 31`CIttre and Hashun, Manchester James Martin, Lmdon Robert Mutrie, London John Munn and Co., Manchester James and William Morley, London Vii; bolls, Lucas, and Co., Manchester Ovington, Warwick, and Co., London oldroyd, Hodgson, and Co., London. J. F. Pawson and Co., London Potters and Norris, Manchester Peel, Holmes, and Co., Manchester John and Nathaniel Phillips and Co., Manchester Puzey and Pallet, London Reddish amid Biekhatn, Manchester It. H. Robertson and Co., London Rhoades and Williams, London John Read, London Samuel Ridley, Son, and Ellington, London Rowlandson anti Atkinson, London Sadler, Fenton, and Co., London B. Salmons and Co., London Start amid Sharp, London :Gorge a! , d James Smith, Manchester Thomas James Smith, London W. S. and T. Storar and Co, London Them ea Shepperson, London Straehan and Loan, London Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, London Towncnd and Hickson, Manchester Thompson, Brothers, and Son, Manchester Jose{ h Travers and Son, London Todd, Coston, and Co., Manchester Tattersall find Mellor, Manchester Tarsay and Milhnite, London George Vim me, Loud. in NVI - :to, and Gr:., , e-avell, London D'art and Co., London WhoJcworth and ['rooters, Manchester Thninas Worthington, Manchester John Wrefnrd and Co., London Westram, Dignam, and Co , London S B. Watts and Co., Manchester Wilson, Keith, amid Co., London Wrelbrd and Pugh, London Welch and Margetson, London D IRECT LONDON - nnd MANCHESTER RAILWAY. ALLOTMENT OF SHARES. NO fr,rl,er APPLICATION for SIIAI:ES In this Company can be .received al,r TO-MORROW (WEDNESDAY), the 27th of Att,ttt, 1845. EDWARD L. OGLE, Secretary. 0111c^, 43, 31corgate-strew T HE DIRECT LONDON AND MAN CHESTER RAILWAY. Offices, 48, Moorgate-street, London. Provisionally registered. Capital, 6,000,000 Z., in 100,000 Shares of 501. each. Deposit 2/. 15s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Earl of Mexborough, Methley Park, Yorkshire The Lord Rossmoro, the Dell, Windsor Colonel the Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Darner, M.P., 6, Tilney-street, Park-lane Lieut.-Colonel the lion. John Craven IVestenra, M.P., Sharavogue Castle, Roscrea, Ireland The Hon. Robert Gore, M.P., 21, Wilton-crescent David Robert Ross, Esq., M.P., Rosstrevor, Ireland John Ilninphery, Esq., M.P.,. and Alderman, Kayos'-wharf, ToOley street - Wm. Williams, Esq., M.P., Park-square West, Regent's Park John Dillon, Esq., Fore-street, Cripplogate Andrew Caldccott, Esq., 20, Cheapside John Kinnersiey iiooper, Esq., alderman, Queenhithe Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman, 1 i, Paterno,ter-row Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff, Leyton House, Essex Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde Park-street Rigby Wasos, Esq., Corwar House, near Girvan, Ayrshire Richard Woodhouse, Esq., 56, Torrington-square Kenyon Stevens Parker, Esq., Q.C., .40, Gower-street Thomas Shepperson, Esq., 27, Cheapside William White, Esq., 108, Cheapside Thomas Townend, Esq., Manchester James Kershaw, Esq., Alderman, Manchester Robert Barbour, Esq., Manchester • Charles Warwick, Esq., 137, Cheapside Richard Hopper, Esq. Upper Clapton William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton John Bard, Esq., Alderman, Manchester Thomas Longworth, Esq., Manchester Thomas Price, Esq., Manchester J. W. Deacon, Esq., Gresham-street, and Manchester Jonah Smith Wells, Esq., 75, Old Broad-street John Bradbury, Esq., 6, Aldermanbury Thomas Devas, Esq., 24, Lawrence-lane William Cook, Esq., St. Paul's-churchyard John Gladstone, Esq., Stockwell Lodge, Surrey Charles Townend, Esq., Manchester J. P. Gassiot, Esq., F.R.S., 77, Mark-lane J. Reeves, Esq., 150, Cheapside, and Leyton, Essex Richard Groucosk, Esq., Bow-churchyard T. B. Simpson, Esq„ Rutland Lodge, Brixton, Director of the Rich mond and North Wales Railways Thomas Vyse, Esq., 3, Cripplegate-buildings William ltathbone, Esq., Temple Thomas Winkworth, Esq., 54, Gutter-lane B. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-place, Bryanstone-square James I'rocter, Eery., Manchester henry Earington, Esq., Manchester Sir John Key, Alderman, London Henry Plumtre Gipsy, Esq., 9, Montagu-place, Bryanstone-square William Cash, Esq., 39, Wood-street, Cheapside Richard Vyse, Esq., Luton, Bedfordshire Thom.is Stokes, Esq., Leicester Joseph Cripps, Esq., Eastiteld House, Leicester William Bates, Esq., Leicester Joseph Fielding, Esq., Leicester Thomas Wood, Esq., Leicester John Taylor, Esq., Leicester John Dove Harris, Esq., Leicester William Biggs, Esq., Leicester Richard Warner Wood, Esq., Knighton, near Leicester Alfred Burgess, Esq., Brookfield, near Leicester P. A. Taylor, Esq., Carey-lane, Cheapside John Welch, Esq., Aldermanbury. 11. B. Whitworth, Esq., Northampton Je,sepli Underwood, Esq., Commercial Bank Edward Gabisett Beard, l'orchester-place Benjamin Salter, Esq., West Park Villa, Exeter Thomas Hopkins, Esq., Alderman, Manchester R. Hartley Kennedy, Esq., Emscote House, Leamington, Chairman of the Coventry an a Leicester and of the Warwick and Chelten ham Railways Goldney, Esq., St. Paul's Churchyard (with power to add to their number.) COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Jehn Linen, Esq., Chairman pro tens. Andrew Caldecott, Esq., Deputy-Chairman pro tern. Mr. Alderman Hooper Inornas Shepperson, Esq. 'William White, Esq. "Wiliam Lawrence, Esq. 'Richard Hopper, Esq. William Cash, Esq, .1. W. Deacon, Esq. J o hn Gladstone, Esq. :tlr.Alderman Sidney. Rastrick, Esq. BANKERS. London--Messrs. Jones Loyd and Co., Lothbury Manchester —Messrs. Jones Loyd and Co. Bedtinsi—Thomas Barnard, Esq. Stockport—The Bank of Stockport Leicester—Pares Leicestershire Banking Company Northampton—The Northamptonshire Union Bank Wellingborough..i'he Northamptonshire Union Bank Lublin—Messrs. Boyle, Low, l'im, and Co. JOINT SOLICITORS. Messrs Asliurst and Son, 137, Cheapside Messrs. Sudlow, Sons, and Torr, 20, Caancery-lane. THE SUN, LONDON, B IRMINGHAM and OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY, With a DIVERGING LINE through STRATFORD-ON-AVON, to UNITE with the MORETON-IN-MARSII RAILWAY. Capital 600,000/., in Shares of 201. each. ... -- • Deposit 2/. per Share. Provisionally Registered, pursuant to Act 7th and Bth Viet., c. 110, - - PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Mayor of Birmingham John Adams, Esq., Sergeant-at-Law, London J. T. Alston, Esq., Liverpool W. C. Alston, Esq., Elmdon Hall, near Birmingham John Aston, Esq., Birmingham Robert James Atty, Esq., Ingon Grange, Stratford-on-Avon F. P. Barlow, Esq., London Matthew I'. W. Mutton, Esq., Great Tew I'ark, Oxon Colonel Charles Oldflelti Bowles, Esq., North Aston Park W. E. Boyes, Esq., Alkerton, near Banbury James Butlin, Esq., Westfield House, near Rugby C. 11. Corbitt, Esq., Adminton alter Cowan, Esq., Offchurch Bury, near Leamington John Crosthwaite, Esq , Liverpool Sir George Dashwood, Bart., Xirtlington Park, Oxon William Dickens, Esq.. Cherrington, near Shipston Rev. John Ellis, Wooton, Henley-in-Arden Edmund Darby Ford, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon John Branston Freer, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon J. Gardiner, Esq., Southern Darwin Calton, Esq., Edstone Hall, near Stratford-on-Avon Robertson Gladstone, Esq., Liverpool J. Haddon, Esq., Leamington W. Judd Harding, Esq., Baraset House, near Stratford-on-Avon Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., Liverpool Captain Ilitchins, Idlicote House, near Shipston Charles Lawrence, Esq., Liverpool John Lechmere, Esq., Steeple Aston Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington William .Marshall, Esq., Husbands' Bosworth, Leicestershire William Mathews, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham J. W. Miles, Esq., Bristol John Moss, Esq., Liverpool P. 11. Mentz, Esq., Birmingham Rev. Charles Palmer, Lighthorne J. G. Reeves, Esq Birmingham John Rich, Esq., Bearley, near Stratford-on-Avon John Roskell, Esq., Bath Francis Rufford, Esq., Bellbroughton, near Stourbridge Charles Russell, Esq., M.P., London Charles Shaw, Esq., Birmingham Major-General Smith, Rugby Gustavus T. Smith, Esq., Goldicote, near Stratford-on-Avon Samuel Edward Steward, Esq., Leamington Thomas Thomson, Esq., M.D., Mayor of Stratford-on-Avon T. H. Thorne, Esq., Leamington Rev. Henry Townsend, Honnington, near Shipston George Richard Walker, Esq., Heathfleld House, Bletchington, Oxot Charles Woodmass, Esq., Avonhurst, near Stratford-on-Avon. (With power to add to their number.) BOARD OF MANAGEMENT. J. W. Miles, Esq. John Moss, Esq. P. H. Muntz, Esq. F. Rufford, Fsq. C. Russell, Esq., M.P. Chas. Shaw, Esq. J. T. Alston, Esq. F. P. Barlow, Esq. J. B. Freer, Esq. Robertson Gladstone, Esq. J. Haddon, Esq. Charles Lawrence, Esq. W. Mathews, Esq. _ ENGINEER—I. K. Brunel, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co., London Messrs. Attwood, Spooner, arid Co., Birmingham The Birmingham Banking Company, Birmingham Messrs. Miles, Ilarford, and Co., Bristol The Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, and the Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, Leamington and Warwick Messrs. Moss and Co., Liverpool. The Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Compan Avon. y, Stratford-on- SOLICITORS. Messrs Patterson, Harms, and Hanbury, Leamington and Warwlzk W. 0. Hunt, Esq., and Charles Stevens, Esq., No. 10, Whitehall, London Messrs. Clay and Swift, Liverpool. In congratulating the Skarehidders on the issue of the late contest in Parliament, the Committee of Management beg to announce that active measures are be4ig adopted to forward the surveys and plans, and prepare for the ensuing session. The success of the Oxford and Rugby Railway has confirmed the Directors in the view they enter tained when they first brought to the notice of the public the merits of a line direct from Birmingham to Oxford, and leaves little room to doubt that Parliament will grant this important continuation, thus connecting the whole north of the kingdom and Birmingham with the south-western districts. It is intended to make the most convenient stations for the various towns on the line that circumstances will admit, connecting the line at Birmingham with that of the Grand Junction Company. By this means a❑ uninterrupted transit will be effected from Birmingham through Oxford to every part of the south and to London. Looking to the very peculiar position of this line, the cheapness of its construction, and the great traffic that must inevitably flow to It from its connecting and central situation, the Provisional Directors have every confidence that the undertaking will be one of more than ordinary profit to the proprietors. . . By order of the Board. 449, West Strand, Aug. t 3, 1845. FLY and BURY ST. EDMUNDS RAIL WA Y. 4I A Company is in the course of formation for the construction of a Railway fr,in the city of Ely to the town of Bury St. Edmunds. The line will C3IIIMCIICC by a junction at Ely with the Eastern Counties, Lynn and Ely, and Ely and Huntingdon Ralways, and will terminate at Bury by a junction with the Ipswich and Bury Railway. Its object is to preserve the mercantile connexion which has for generations subsisted beta een the county of Suffolk, the town of Itury, and the port of Lynn, and to afford Ipswich, Colchester, and Bury, and all that portion of the kingdom a direct communication with the manufacturing districts. The distance from Bury, and consequently from all places eastward of that town to Peterborough, the point at which so many lines pass ing from the south and cast to the north and north-west converge, will by the Ely and Bury line be ten miles shorter than the route to that city by way of Cambridge. A detailed Prospectus will be issued immediately. ROOTER, and INGRAM, 68, Lincoln's Inn-fields. MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. NEW 40/. SHARES. The HOLDERS of SCRIP CERTIFICATES for the NEW 40/. SHARES in the additional Capital Stock of this Company, are re quired to transmit such certificate to the Secretary at the Company's Office at Derby, on or before SATURDAY, the 13th day of September next, with their Names, Professions, and Residences distinctly writ ten, in order that the same may be entered in the Share Register of the Company. Shareholders to whom Scrip has not been issued will be duly re gistered as they now stand in the Books of the Company ; and all Shares not claimed by the actual Holders of Scrip Certificates on or before the said 13th (lay of September, will be registered as the pro perty of the persons to whom they were originally allotted. Receipts for the Scrip will be given, and on the completion of the Registry they will be exchanged for Certificates under the Seal of the Company. GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman of the Board of Directors. JOHN ELLIS, Deputy Chairman. J. F. BELL, Secretary. By order, Derby, Aug. 19, 1845. PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STEWART. A work of great Interest, a perfect Literary and Political Cu riosity, most fascinating to the general reader, curious to the anti quarian,:and invaluable to the historian is in the Press, and will be issued as soon as the list of subscribers, which is already numerous, is completed. it is a reprint from the only copy now extant of the first Fifty-two Numbers of the 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 ti N FOR T UNA PRLN --; C th ample details, from week to week, of the striking events which took place at that time. By WILLIAM MEIKLEHAM, LL.B., Solicitor in Glasgow, and Secretary to the University, Proprietor of the Volume. 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Subscriptions will also he received in New York, by Doctor David .Scott Meikleham, M.A., of Balliol Coll., Oxford ; and by Thomas Jeffer son Man Randolph Meildeham, great-grandson of Thomas Jeffer son, President of the United States. Price, neatly bound and lettered.... • • 265. 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 halls. &c., Is graphically described, and numerous highly interesting anec dotes, showing the bewitching influence of this chivalrous adventurer on the fair sex, are interspersed throughout. Now ready, in Bvo., with Portraits, 28s. bound, D lARY AND MEMOIRS OF SOPHIA DOROTHEA. CONSORT OF GEORGE 1., Now first published from the Originals. " A work abounding in the romance of real life."—Messen,ger. " A book of marvellous revelations, establishing, beyond all doubt, the perfect innocence of the beautiful, highly-giftcd, and inhumanly treated Sophia Dorothea."—Naval and Military Gazette. " A mass of curious information upon the surject of the romantic history, the sufferings, and long imprison Lent of Sophia Dorothea, which it is hardly possible to over-rate.---John Bull. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeated the Comedy of CAPTAIN TARRADIDDLE; or, What will the World Say? Captain Tarradiddle, Mr. W. Farren ; Pye Ililary, Mr. Hudson; Mrs. Tarradiddle, Miss P. Horton. In the course of the Evening, Mr. John Parry will sing his New Song of " Young England." To be followed by USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. Webster; Wurzel, Mr. J. Bland; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett; Lady Clutter buck, Miss Carre. After which will be repeated a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES; or, Matrimonial Cha pters. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Buekstone ; Mrs. Caudle, Mrs. W. Clifford. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and vne Guinea and ft-Halt each. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office, from Ten till Five o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADF:LPHI. U.NDER TIIE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELEST. THIS EVENING Will be performed the MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. The Stranger, Madame Celeste. After which, will be rep ated a farce. in One Act, called MRS. CAUDLE ABROAD AND AT HOME. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Wilkinson; Mrs. Caudle, Mr. Wright. To be followed by a Terpsichorean Barletta, called POWDER AND BALL ; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Mr. Montgornerie Tibbs, Mr. Lambert ; Captain Kidglove, Mr. Selby ; Jacob Gerkin, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Montgomcrie Tibbs, Mrs. Frank Matthews; Sally Knobbs, Miss Woolgar. _ Prompter, Mr. Gidlot ; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY, Second Night of Two New Dramas. BY ROYAL COMMAND. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a NeweoQClWaWa,iti Three Acts, BY ROYAL COMMAND. Principal characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. Vining, 11r. Emery, Mr. Turner, Mr. Bender, and Mr. Meadows ; Miss Fairbro ther, Mrs. W.,ollidge, and Mrs. Ke , Icy. After which, an entirely New, Original , and Novel Grand Fairy BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Lea Danseuses Anglaiscs will appear. To which will be added a New Farce, entitled ENQUIRE WITHIN. Principal Characters by Mr. Meadows, Mr. Emery, Miss Arden, Mirs Grove, and Mrs. A. Wigan. To be followed by a New and Original Comedy, to be called THE GOVERNOR'S WIFE, with entirely New Scenery, Dresses, and Appurtenances. Principal Characters by Messrs. Diddear, Keeley. F. Mathews, F. Vining, and Collier, Liss Dawson and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with the " Pas de Fleurs" and the " Pas de Moisson news," from the celebrated Burlesque of CINDERELLA. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LE.-sEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. The Last Night but Three of the Company's performing this Season. THIS EVENING, Will be performed DON CAESAR DE BAZAN. Don Caesar de Bazan, Mr. Wallack ; Maritana, Miss Stanley. To which will bz added A COURT BALL IN 1740. In which will be introduced the Dances as performed at her Majesty's Bal Cos turne, with the Original Music. To be followed by THE BRIG kND. Alessandro Massaroni, Mr. Wallack ; Itubaldo, Mr. Ranoc; Ottavia, Miss Grey; Maria Grazie, Mrs. Brougham. After which, TEDDY THE TILER. Teddy Mullowny, Mr. Collins. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMi'HITII IATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. Last Week of the Summ• r Season—Last Week of the Grand Military ~p ectacle. THIS EVENING Will be performed an entirely New Grand National Spectacle, em bracing the chief features of the heroic achievements of the British Arms in Northern India, called THE CONQUEST OF SCINDE ; or, The Siege of Hyderabad. The Scenes in the Circle will be more than usually attractive, con sisting of the choicest chef d'oeuvres of the unrivalled French Equestrians. To conclude with THE WEAVER OF LYONS. Box-oftic: open from Eleven till Five. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Re-engagement of Madame Vestris and Mr. C. Matthews. THIS EVENING Will be performed USED UP. Supported by Messrs. 2. Matthews, R. Horner, Neville, Heslop, Lewis, Fredericks, Mrs. R. Homier, and Miss Martin. After which, WILY DON'T SIIE MARRY? or, The Swiss Cot tage. Natz Tieck, Mr. Charles Mathews; Lisette, Madame Vestris. To he fo'lowed by the Comic Drama of FREE AND EASY. Sir John Freeman, Mr. C. Mathews. To conclude'with MRS. CALTOLE'S CURTAIN LECTURE. Mr. Caudle, Mr. 112 slop ; Mrs. Caudle, Mr. S. Cowell. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, a: the Box o lice, from Eleven to 'Four. GRAND FETE CILAMPETIIE, In honour of the Birth-day of 11. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT, ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, THIS DAY A DAY FETE, Commencing with the May-pole and Morris Dancers ! Friar Tuck, Maid Marian, Pipe and Tabor, &c. The Magnificent Modelled Representation of EDINBURGH, un equalled Menagerie, the male Giraffe and African Chimpanzee, (exhibited for the first time.) The magnificent MODEL of VENICE, will be exhibited in a large and appropriate building lighted from the roof. An additional Military Band. Signor Romanzini will give a classical representation of the Ancient Statues, on an elevated platform. liniaturc Balloons will be discharged at intervals. One of larger dimensions will ascend from the Lake emitting Fireworks during its Ascent. The PROMENADE CONCERTS By the unrivalled Band of the Establishment. Le Petit Hercule Volsnt, the Infant Prodigy, will perform the dar ing feat of ascending and descending from the top of Edinburgh Castle across the Lake, to the Royal Institution. The Aquatic Tableau and Fireworks will be on an unprecedented scale of magnificence, including a representation of the Flight of the Comet. Admission, One Shilling.—Doors open at Ono. HIGH WATER AT LON'DON.BRIDGE THIS LAY. Morning .. 49 minutes after 7 I Evening .. 26 minutes after 8. 4 0NDON, WORCESTER, and SOUTH gTAIFFORDSUIRE RAILWAY. Called on scrip the London and Worcester, and Rugby and Oxford Railway, with extension to Dudley and Wolverhampton.) The shareholders in this Company are informed that in conse• quence of the arrangements made with the intended Buckingham shire Railway Company, an option is given to the holders of London, Worcester, and South Staffordshire shares of exchanging them for shares in the Buckinghamshire Railway, in the proportion of two Buckinghamshire Railway shares for every three London, Worcester, and South Staffordshire shares. The guarantee to be given by the London and Birmingham Rail way Company to the Buckinghamshire Railway Company will be four per cent. per annum, on the cost of construction, with half the surplus profits. All parties taking shares in the Buckinghamshire Railway Com pany must pay the full deposit thereon ; and the holders of London, Worcester, and South Staffordshire Company's shares will receive back at an early date, of which notice will be given, the residue of the deposit on such shares after payment of the Parliamentary expenses. Where the number of London, Worcester, and South Staffordshire shares (being one or two) will not admit of the allotment of Buck inghamshire shares in the proportions stated, a single share will be allotted for two London, Worcester, and South Staffordshire shares, and the deposit will be returned, subject to deduction for expenses, as aforesaid. Parties applying for Buckinghamshire shares In respect of shares in the London, Worcester, and South Staffordshire Company, of which they are not the original holders, will not be entitled to an allotment until they shall have furnished such references to their re sponsibility as shall be satisfactory to the Provisional Committee of the Buckinghamshire Railway. Pursuant to this notice, holders of scrip in the London, Worcester, and South Staffordshire Company are requested to send the same to this office for registration on or before the Bth day of September neat, with their names (written at full length) and their address and professions. HENRY MORGAN, Secretary pro tem. of the London, Worcester, and South Staffordshire Railway. 28, Waterloo-street, Birmingham. FORM OF APPLICATION. 1, the undersigned, Address ... Profession .... • • • • • • • • desire to receive Bu c ki ng h am Railway Company's shares i❑ exchange for my London, Worcester, and South Staffordshire shares (the certificates of which I enclose), in the proportions, and subject to the provisions of the notice of the Buckinghamshire Pro visional Committee of the 25th August. Note.—Specify the number of shares sent. Signature• • • • ..... • .• • • • • • . Reference SELLING OFF CARPETS. LUCK, KENT, and CUAIMING het to inform the Nobility and Gentry, as well as their friends and the pub lic, that they have REMOVED their busioesi front CARPE: , TERS' HALL, LONDON WALL, to their long-established warehouse, 4, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE, opposite Howell and James's, and to 99, HATTON-GARDEN, HOLBORN, where they trust that patronage will be continued which they have enjoyed for up wards of a century. A considerable portion of their large Stock of Brussels, Kidderminster, and other Carpeting, to be sold at a great reduction. In addition to Carpeting. they have, at their West-End Establishment, a large stock of Chintzes, Damasks, Tabornets, &c., &c., well worthy of attention. The extensive warehouse of Carpenters' Hall, with a capital Dwelling House, to be Let, with immediate possession. For par ticulars, apply to Mr. Jones, house agent, 139 a, Cheapside. CIRCULAR NOTES AND LETTERS OF CREDIT. 1 1 11 E LONDON and WESTMINSTER BANK ISSUES CIRCULAR NOTES, for the use of Travellers and Residents n the Continent. These Notes are payable at every Important place in Europe, and thus enable a traveller to vary his route without inconvenience ; no expense is incurred except the price of the stamp, and when cashed no charge is made for commission. Fur the convenience of the public, these notes may be obtained ether at the Head Office of the London and Westminster Bank, In Lothbury, or at the Branches of the Bank, viz.:- 1, St. James's-square I 4, Stratford-place, Oxford-street 213, high Holborn I 3, Wellington-street, Borough 87, High-street, Whitechapel By order of the Board, JAMES WILLIAN GILBART, General Manager. VESTIGES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION. On SATURDAY NEXT, the 30th instant, THE ATLAS NEWSPAPER will be accom panied by a GRATUITOUS SUPPLEMENT of TWELVE COLUMNS, containing an Expository Outline of the above popular Work, with a comprehensive and critical analysis of the arguments by which the extraordinary' hypotheses of the Author are supported and impugned, with their bearing upon the religious and moral inte rests of the community. Orders received by all booksellers and newsmen, and advertise ments intended for the publication must be forwarded on or before Wednesday the 27th, to insure insertion. Office, 6, Southampton-street, Strand, August 21, 1845. T HE LANCET, AUGUST 23, contains :-1. A Lecture by Liebig, on the highly remarkable Metamorphoses of Uric Acid, and the corrections which should be made in Dr. Front's Doctrines-2. A Lecture, by Professor Taylor (University Hospital), on Sub-Acute Rheumatism-3. An account of the late singular Puerperal Fever at the Paris Hospitals-4. The. Mania for Physic-taking-5. A rare Uterine Displacement -6. Oxalic Acid after Suicide-7. Peculiar Blindness ttom a Tumour in the Brain—B. Valu able Cure for Cataract, new to British Surgeons-9. Nervousness :mei Health-10. A new folvent for Caoutchouc-11. Careless Post- Mortems-12. Legal Warnings to Keepers of single Lunaties-13. The Great Question in Parliament-14. Instructive Cases at the Lon don Hospitals-15. Effective Remedy for Sleeplessness-16. Pure Surgeons unknown in the Country. Order the Lancet of any bookseller or newsvender• Price Cd, in be received by post, price 7d. THE LATE MR. E. B. CLIVE, M.P.—The will of the late Mr. Edward Bolton Clive, of Whitfield, in the county of Hereford, has been proved by his son, the Rev. Archer Clive, clerk, the sole executor. He bequeaths to his son, Mr. George Clive, 20,9001., in addition to any sum that may be payable to him out of his estates ; bequeaths to his daughter, Mrs. Wetherell, an annuity of 600/. a year, to be paid oat of his estates in England; leaves liberal legacies to his servants; and bequeaths all the residue of his real and personal estates to his eldest surviving son, the Rev. Archer Clive. He desired by his will that he might be buried in the family vault at \t'ormbridge without parade, and like any private gentleman. The a ill is dated the 24th of April, 1845, and his death oc curred on the 221 of July. In E ACQUITTED FOREIGNERS.—Sebastian de Santos, Emanuel Antonio, and Jose Antonio, the three fo reigners acquitted on the charges of piracy and murder at the recent Devon assizes, were removed from the county gaol and left Exeter on Friday last ; Santos for Liverpool, which he reached on Saturday, and will thence be conveyed to the Brazils ; and the two Antonios for London, from whence they will be sent to Oporto, by the Consul. —Devonport Indepen dent. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Ana. 26. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 50; Highest, 69; Noon, 65, BAROMETER, 29.96. WIND NV., fresh breeze, and fine clear weather. 1 _ ... , 1 ., te, ~ps,)„. i 4_...e ,:- I,de liwis 't. . ..,',,-J,--iyt Vev,'`,-.1... '''' • 0 ''i( t4,-'1'7.4- '' - 0 BT; i , , A1•••„4 .... • tdr2L.....4 \ . • ' •310> ~,,, • - 7 . ' Z 4.011 ' o _4‘o - LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1845. The extension of railway communications continues :o be the most remarkable among the improvements of our Social economy. Everything connected with this subject is on a grand and unprecedented scale : the vast ness of the capital, the extent of the staff, the working stock of machines, carriages, &c. The speed attained eight years ago by locomotive engines with any draught of luggage waggons, and carriages, passengers, and goods in their rear, might have sufficed to lodge the STEPHENSON, or the BRUNEL, the NAPIER, or the NIAUDSLAY of the day, in any of her MAJESTY'S gaols, under the statutes for the suppression of witchcraft, prior to the repealing the Act of 10th GEORGE 11. Yet, in the last eight years, we have been enabled to achieve a degree of still enhanced speed, which is scarcely less marvellous than the first successful application of steam to this species of traction. Express trains rushing from one extremity of the land to another at a speed that runs down the fleetest hare and outstrips the very birds in their onward flight (although burthened with a long striag of carriages and a hundred passengers), these might seem to be the final triumphs of human ingenuity, enterprise, and perseverance in rapidity of transit between any given points. Nevertheless, we verily believe that we arc upon the eve not only of seeing them surpassed, but replaced by motive agents and machinery still more powerful, certain, direct, and tractable in their opera tion. We feel a strong confidence that the day is not far distant at which, on many of the lines of railway that are in active working, we shall behold a signal change in all the material elements of railway locomo tion. Those huge and banner-like clouds that now roll their fuliginous volum?s, far and near, over every dis trict of country traversed by their iron lines will die, appear. The bellowing, the snorting, and hissing of the ponderous locomotives, and not less ponderous coal and water tenders, under whose wheels the whole massive framework of the railway appears to tremble, as " AJAX" or " ORIoN" thunders on his journey, will be, after a brief interval, remembered only as traditionary accom paniments to the incipient efforts of a more highly per fected and simplified system of locomotion, based on the scientific employment of common atmospheric air as the chief worker of the mechanic power to be set in motion. The " insurmountable"—" inseparable"—" hopeless" difficulties which have been so gravely predicated, hitherto, of working atmospheric railways seem at length to have followed the fate of most auguries touch ing physical impossibilities, where there is so much of knowledge, experience, capital, and spirit a-field, to en counter and to conquer them, as are now enlisted in the service of railway invention, Of course, the IP inciple of atmospheric railways must Great UESDAV EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1845. always have presented itself to the consideration of every intelligent observer as being rec•immendcd by many essential qualities that do not attach to any works moved by steam power. The economy of fuel, of ma (glittery, of labour, of wear and tear, of all the main elements, therefore, that ultimately occasion the largest sacrifices of capital in these undertakings—is the most obvious and the most signal of these recommendations in favour of railways on the atmospheric principle. Of the few perfected attempts which have been made at its practical adoption, we believe we are correct in stating that the most important is one of the Irish lines, leading directly from the sea coast to the capital—and on this it has succeeded to an extent greater than had been anti cipated for it by some of its warmest supporters. Still, there were found, in its practical details, some of those elementary difficulties and disadvantages, on the strength of which (far too readily assumed) engineers of distin guished reputation have concurred in pronouncing it to be hopeless to anticipate its general adoption. Among these the most formidable have always been regarded (we understand) the construction of the valves and pistons of adequate tenacity and strength, in conjunction with adequate facility of action and perfectness of joint 11g ;—and, the propulsion of carriages and trucks, laden, up inclined - planes. This last exertion, it has been stoutly contended, could not be accomplished by any conceivable.. application of atmospheric pressure. The results which have been arrived at, in the series of ex periments to which we alluded in our paper of Saturday last, as having been commenced for some days on the. London and Croydon atmospheric line of railway, should operate to deter all men from pronouncing, too con fidently, on the impracticability of nossil projects of me• chanical application, however startling by their boldness or their simplicity. In the late experiments, the success of which sve have already had the pleasure of announcing, the two main difficulties that we have instanced may be considered to have been finally disposed of ; and this, too, with an ease and readiness that reflect the highest credit on those who originated and devised the particular modes by which the possibility of vanquishing them might be tested. As to the first of those difficulties the exhaustion of five miles length of tube, at a barome trical pressure of 27 degrees and four lines, and the un impeded traversing of that whole extent by the piston, we take to be an experiment on a giant scale, the con clusizm of which tan leave no sort of reasonable doubt as to its prolongation throughout any extent of space that railroad purposes can require. As to the second diffi culty, it was extinguished and utterly removed by the propulsion of a carriage train, dead weight, without mo mentum or impetus of any kind, up an incline of 1 in 50. On the various accounts we have mentioned, and especially because of the saving of human life which we think we tray safely anticipate from its more extensive application to railway lines—we regard these experi ments on the atm"spheric principle with much gratitica tion. We heartily wish the individuals under whose direction and auspices it is being thus admirably ap plied every further success in their spirited endeavours, not at all doubting that they will soon be enabled tu bring their results into almost universal adoption in the practical construction and management of railways. The last advises from Madrid bring intelligence that a species of insurrection had broken out in that capital on the 19th instant, in consequence of the discontent excited among the middle and lower classes of the people by the refusal of the Queen's Ministers—the Finance Minister more especially—to make certain modifications in his new tributary system. Angry groups of people assembled in the squares and places, and the authorities having been compelled to call out the troops, several charges of cavalry were made on the people, against whom several discharges of musketry were also levelled. The garrison was under arms. Considerable reinforcements had arrived from Gua dalajara and Cuenca ; and the Captain-General had been vested with extraordinary powers, and autho thorised to declare Madrid in a state of siege, should circumstances occur to render such a proceeding neces sary. Great consternation existed among all classes, although the city was tranquil at the departure of the mail. From many circumstances we are strongly disposed ,o think this ebullition of popular feeling is by no means the termination of the hostile movement that the Spanish Minister's plan may expect to encounter. Still less is it any adequate indication of the intensity of the disgust, or the force of the passive resistance, which the tradespeople of Madrid oppose to the excessive and unjust assessments he has subjected them to, or the apportionment of his forced contributions. We fully agree with the Madrid correspondent of a morning Contemporary, that perhaps the most formidable resolution at which any large section of the Spanish people can arrive, is to oppose passive resistance to the collection of the reve nues of the Crown. The Spaniard, beyond every other European denizen, can bear and endure. His " passive resistance" does not evaporate in party excitement, or factious speeches ; nor can he be wheedled out of his settled purpose by the cajolery and clap-trap speeches of the most favourite empecinado. His resolution once taken, he seems to make it a point of honour and self-respect inflexibly to adhere to it, until either the object it proposes be accomplished, or the chances of its attainment has been risked and lost upon actual and determined contests for its attainment. We have formed this opinion on some personal knowledge and experience of the Spanish character, especially as it develops itself among the remarkable population of the metropolis of Spain. But when w•e find that the Finance Minister him self, Senor Mort, is so alarmed by the voluntary closing of shops and cessation of trading, that he makes tours of personal inspection through the city, in order to ascertain by personal inspection to what extent and in what quarters this emphatic though silent token of resistance and defiance prevails ; —when we read that many hundreds of workmen have been already discharged by their employers, on account of the anticipated pressure of the new fiscal arrange ments, we tremble for the consequences. To crown all the other disastrous aspects of affairs, NARVAEZ, to whose unprincipled ambition and unsparing cruelty Spain is already indebted for so large an aggregate of political oppressions and civil misery, has been clothed with renewed and enlarged capacities to degrade, en slave, and exasperate the unhappy country whose liber ties he has betrayed. The mournful present will be followed, we suspect, by a terrible future, and that not a distant one. Senor MON is, it seems, inflexi ble. The Madrid men are resolute. The Minister is a man of his word. The citizens are men of their purpose. The passive resistance to arbitrary and ex • cessive taxation which is announced by closed shops, disbanded establishments, and discharged workmen, has been displayed by' the same people, in precisely the same indications, where the immediate excitement has been caused by the forced military occupation of their capital by an invading army of foreigners. Those of our readers who may remember as well as we do, under what circumstances the French forces took armed pos session of Madrid in March, 1808, will not forget the terrible retribution inflicted on those forces, in Madrid, just two months afterwards (on May 2). It is earnestly to be hoped that after the bitter experience which the Spanish people have had during the last twelve years of the unproductive results of the most sanguinary tu mults and revolts to the cause of civil liberty and con stitutional results, so long as they have no leaders of tried fidelity to those ennobling and salutary principles, they will not pass from this condition just now to one of more direct collision with their military oppressors, which would only result just now in the closer rivetting of the fetters which have been imposed upon them, and the still more prodigal shedding of that blood which has been already so lavishly and vainly shed in the cause of a country still noble in its decay, still precious to them under all the sufferings they are compelled to endure from the successful traitors to its liberties and its laws. In this last intelligence from Madrid we see fresh occa sion to express the apprehensions we have long enter tained, that there is no Court of Europe at which the influence of this country, or the authority of its example, or the tendencies of its public opinion, are less felt or re sponded to than that of Madrid. Since the successful con spiracy against, and rapid downfal of, ESPARTERO, wo appear to have lost even the privilege of addressing Spain in the warning language of an old friend and a tried protector. To what is this owing, —this loss of consideration on the part of the most powerful with one of the weakest, though most arbitrary, Governments in existence ? We are compelled to believe that the cha racter and dignity of this great country cannot be ade quately upheld by our diplomatic representative there : and, indeed, we have, of late, seen by far too much of drawing. room and banquetting flirtation between the British Minister and the adventurer Naavaez, and the poor tools and creatures of his who infest the throne of the young Queen of SPAIN, rendering it inaccessible to the just complaints and remonstrances of an outraged and in sulted nation. We would rather hear our Minister to Spain blamed for a too distant deportment, than feel thus compelled to censure his too great forwardness towards a Court and Government which have earned for themselves so unenviable a reputation for perfidious ness and cruelty. News from Poland to the 12th instant has arrived. There had been an emeute in Lithuania. Several minis ters of the Greek Church had been dispatched to a vil lage in that duchy, for the purpose of converting the inhabitants. The Russian Government, in order to render their preachings more efficacious, and to quicken the perceptive faculties of the peasants as to the sup, - riorityof the Greek Church over the Roman Catholic, had placed at the orders of those reverend mi=ssionaries a de tachment of troops, consisting of an officer and forty men. The peasantry, however, enticed the Greek priests into a forest and murdered them ; and then setting fire to a barn in which the soldiers were quartered, had sur rounded it, and driven baLlk into the flames all who attempted to escape. There had occurred in the town of Luck, in Lithuania, no less than six destructive fires between the 6th and 26th of May. No intelligence has been received from Madrid of a later date than that we gave yesterday. We have received the Paris Papers of Saturday. The Moniteur announces officially the elevation to the Peerage of the following Members of the Chamber of Deputies :—Generals Viscount BONNEMAINS, Baron DURRIEU, and Baron DOGUEREAU, Count DE MONTO ZON, Baron TUPINIER, and Messrs. FULCIIIRON, GIROT DE L'ANGLADE, HARTMANN, and RAGUET LEPINE. The ifessager des Charnbres publishes an official con- tradiction of the statement which appeared in La Presse, announcing that the French troops in Algiers had received a check in the neighbourhood of Orleans- Tulle. Marshal BUGEAVD is to leave Algiers for France on the sth of September. ABD-EL-KADER is encamped on tie frontiers of Morocco, at the head of 6,000 men. The National says that a caravan of black saves, brought from the interior M Africa. were publicly put up to auction in the market of Medeah, and asks how it is that Marshal BUGEAUD tolerates such monstrous con duct in a French colony ? It appears that the journeymen sawyers of Paris have struck for wages. Several of them were arrested on Thurslay and Friday. The trial of the carpenters out on strike, before the Police Correctionelle, on a charge of conspiracy, commenced on Friday. It was expected to last over two days. On the evening of the 22d a destructive fire took place at Bordeaux, in the warehouses of M. TASTET, which contained large quantities of brandy and spirits of wine. The fire promptly communicated to the neighbouring houses, and would have been far more extensive had not the authorities succeeded in saving several warehouses, containing three thousand pieces of brandy and other spirits. The loss is estimated at 120,0001. in the tele graphic dispatch which conveyed the news of the disaster to the Government on Saturday. On the morning of the 23d, a wall of one of the burnt houses fell, and killed the commandant, adjutant, a lieutenant, and three privates of the Pompier corps. The report of the adjudication of the Grand Northern Railroad having been postponed, is officially contra dicted. The Constitutiowtel says that the Count DE MONT FORT (JEROME BONAPARTE'S son), who has spent some months at Paris, has been ordered to quit France within the period of eight days. General LARNE had returned to Faris from Morocco, where he had been as Envoy. General RAFAEL UnDANETA, Minister Plenipoten tiary and Envoy Extraordinary of the Republic of Ve nezuela at the Court of Madrid, died in Paris on the 23d inst. The Moniteur inserts, by order of the Minister of Commerce, a letter from Tangiers, dated 24th ult., which announces that the Director of the Custom• house office had published a decree of the EMPEROR, reducing by 25 per cent. the duties imposed in May last on foreign merchandise. That decree had been likewise promul gated at Mogadore, Tetuan, and Rabat. The same letter mentions that the Government had declared the sale of eggs and oranges an Imperial monopoly, and granted the privilege of exporting them, for a sum of 14,000 francs, to the son of one of the administrators of the Custom-house department. The weather continued remarkably fine. The Three per Cents. sold at TORTONI'S for 84f. 17ic. The following are the quotations of the new lines:— LYONS, AUG. 21.—Avignon and Marseilles, 1,1000, erd of August; Paris and Orleans, 1,320 f., ditto; Paris and Rouen, 1,106 f., ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 813 f., ditto; Orleans and Bordeaux, 7251., ditto. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AuG. 25. Boulogne and Amiens.. 11 . ,Orleans and Bordeaux 12 1 4 Bordeaux &Mediterran fOverYssel — 1 ,4 P Bordeaux and Toulouse ;Paris & Lyons ( L a fitte) 3% Do. and Cette 2% Ditto (Ganneron's). Central of Spain .. — 1 Ditto (Calon's).... - 2 1 % Dutch Rhenish ... B4 'Paris and Orleans.-- Dendre Valley ...... Dieppe & Paris . Junet. [Paris and Strasburg Dijon and Mulhouse ... 1 (Ganneron's) — East Indian ....- ........ 0 3 % 'Do. (Compte de L'Est) Grt Northern of France . ,Paris and St. Quentin. (Laffitte's) Ditto (Rosamel's) ... 3 , Rouen and Havre.-- 30 3 % Great Paris and Lyons. 2 1 % 3 Royal North of Spain. 2% Jamaica Junction — ;Sambre and Meuse .... 8. 3 A Do. North Midland — 'Strasbourg and Basle . Louvain and Jemeppe 5 Tours and Nantes Lyons and Avignon — , (APKenzie's) — Luxembourgh.. 2% i : Do. (Lefebvre's) ..... Namur and Liege 6% Verona and Ancona.... Orleans and Vierzon FOREIGN MAILS.— POST-OFFICE NOTICE. Yesterday the following notice relative to the depar. ture of foreign mails was posted at the Chief Office, St Martin's le Grand : PENINSULAR MAH.s.—The Royal Tar will sail from Southampton with the Peninsular mails of the 27th inst. (to-morrow). MADEIRA, BRAZIL, AND BUENOS AIRES.—Her Ma jesty's brig Crane, for the mails of the evening of the 241 of September (from Augu s t to January inclusive the paeket touches at Pernambuco and Ilthia on her outward passage to Rio Janiero, and the other six on her home ward). \Vila INDIES.—The Dee will sail from Southampton with the mails for the morning of the 2d September, f,r the British and Foreign Colonies in the West Indies (except Bermuda), Vent.zuela, Madeira, and Mexico. AMERICA. —The Britannia for the mails of the evening of the 3d September. SYDNEY AND NEW SOUTH WALES.—Tho Persian, for the mails of the evening of the Ist of September. The next mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, and India, via Southampton, will be dispatched from hence on the morning of September 3 PRINCE ALBERT'S BIRTH-DAY.—This morning the bells of the various parish churches in London ushered in the anniversary of the birth of the Consort of our beloved Queen. The guards of the third regiment assembled on the Horse Guard's pa rade before ten o'clock, and from thence proceeded to take the usual duty at St. James's Palace, where the band of that regiment played severs) beautiful pieces of music, principally the corn position of his Royal Highness. There was a very numerous and distinguished company present on the occasion. At one n'cloek the Park and Tower guns were fired in honour of the event. . ANOTHER BALLOON A36ENT BY MR. C. GREEN.— Last evening Mr. Green ascended from Cremorne Gardens, in the Royal Nassau Balloon. It was anticipated by many that, in consequence of the accident which occurred to the veteran aeronaut at Gravesend, he would not have been able to proceed on another aerial journey ; but, though suffering severely, Mr. C. Green was determined that the public should not be dis appointed, and at ten o'clock yesterday morning he was in the grounds, superintending the inflation of the balloon, which is capable of containing about 70,000 cubic feet of gas, and which was supplied from the Imperial Gas Manufactory. It was announced that the ascent would take place at six o'clock. Pre vious to that hour the wind was blowing strong from the south, and in consequence Mr. C. Green dissuaded Mrs. C. Green and two other ladies from venturing with him. Shortly after the above hour Mr. C. Green, Mr. H. Green (his brother), Mr. T. Green (his son), Mr. Littlejohn, Mr. Spencer (a solicitor), and another gentleman, entered the car, and Mr. Williams, with Messrs. G. and W. Green took their stations on the hoop. The wind having abated Mr. C. Green then, by means of the liberating iron, released the balloon from terra firma. After leaving Cremorne Gardens, it proceeded in the direction of Highgate, where it met with a more westerly current, when it went towards Essex. On coming between High Beach and Waltham Abbey, Mr. Green, perceiving a favourable oppor tunity to alight, made preparations for his descent. By this time, a great crowd of persons had collected, but the object of the veteran aeronaut being perceived by a number of policemen they hastened to his assistance, and formed a ring of the body of people collected, in the centre of which the magnificent machine was safely landed and emptied of its gaseous contents, amidst the cheers of the populase. It was then packed up, and being placed in a chaise, was taken by Mr. Green to his resi dence at Highgate. Mr. Littlejohn, who ascended with the balloon, arrived at Cremorne Gardens between twelve and one o'clock this morning, and communicated to the company the safe descent of the balloon. SHRINKING OF THE PAPER IN IMPRESSIONS OF ENGRAVINGS.—I t) the course of the evidence on the London and York Railway Bill, a very remarkable instance came to light of the effect of the shrinking of paper in impressions from capper-plates. By the deposited plans of this railway, the elevation at a particular spot, called Greenwood-place-road, appeared to be only 413 feet, while it was found by actual level. hng to be 422. Mr. James Wyld, by whom the plans were engraved, being called to explain this discrepancy, gave the following evidence :—" The copper-plate produced was en graved by him, and sheet 6of the section (the one on which Greenwood-place-road occurs) was printed from that plate. The height of Greenwood-place -road measured on the copper is 422 feet, arid on the printed copies of the section there is a contraction of about nine feet, in reference to the scale, so that the height, as shown by the copies, measures only about I 413 feet. Had often known as large an amount of contraction. He explained the mode in which contraction took place, by showing how the sheets of paper, in the damp state, after being printed on, were hung up to dry across a line. In consequence of this the gravitation of the paper prevented the horizontal contraction from being so great as the vertical. The contrac tion of paper varied very much, and was often equal to 1 in 40, and even lin 36. Witness measured the contraction of the scales and of some of the figured heights on a sheet of the sec tion printed by him and found it equa l to a b out 3 feet in 200 in the longitudinal direction, and 5 feet in 200 in the vertical direction."--Mechanics' Magazine. GALLANT CAPTURE OF A PIRATE SLAYER, , —By private -advices which we have received from the coast of Africa we leiirn that a report prevailed of a most gallant' and successful engagement on the west coast, between the boats of one of her Majesty's ships and —a large pirate slaver. The name of the vessel to which the boits belonged did not trans pire, but of the fact of the engagement,, which, though most desperate, was completely successful on the part of the gallant crews, there was not the slightest doubt. It was said that one or two of tho of distinguished themselves in tile ay • treme. ,--- MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY. QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of' Cotton at LiVerpOol yesterday were 5,000 to 6,000 bags, including 600 Egyptian.. There was no Change in prices, which were firm.-There was a quiet market for Shan s, at about previous rates. 'i n e meh of one readi-a*s at are, interested in railway matters, a suitimary of appluatillitig Utak Collated from the several advertisements that have appeared, as well as frOrti 8 totit EA. change sources, will no doubt prove useful. The subjoined meetings are appointed :-Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, Aug. 29; Brighton and Chichester, Aug. 30. ; Bristol and Exeter, Aug. 28 ; Caledonian, Aug. 27 ; Clydesdale Junc tion, Aug. 29 ; Dublin and Drogheda, Aug. 28 ; Dundee and Perth, Aug. 28 ; Eastern Counties, Aug. 28; Great Grimsby, August 27 ; Great North of England, August 28 ; London and Croydon, September 9 ; Londonderry and C,A*;!raine, September 3; Lynn and Dereham, Aug. 29 ; Manchester and Birmingham, Sept. 5 ; Manchester and Leeds, Sept. 3 ; Newcastle and Berwick, Aug. 30 ; North British, Sept. 3 ; Scottish Central, Aug. 29 ; South Eastern, Sept. 11 ; Waterford and Kilkenny, Sept. 12; West London, Sept. 3. The transfer books of the following Companies closed ;- Brighton and Chichester, from Aug. 23 to 31 ; Bristol and Exeter, from Aug. 18 to 28 ; D u bli n an d D rog h e d a , from . Aug. 18 to 28 ; Eastern Counties, from Aug. 18 to 29 ; Great North of England, from Aug. 16 to 28 ' • Great Southern and Western Ireland, f rom A ug. 23 to Sept. 20; Hull and Selby, from Aug. 19 to Sept. 2 ; London and Croydon, from Aug. 26 to Sept. 9 ; Manchester and Birmingham, from Aug. 23 to Sept. 5 ; Ditto and Leeds, from Aug. 25 to Sept. 3; North British, from Aug. 16 to Sept. 3; South EiLtern, from Aug. 22 to Sept. 11. The dividends payable are :-Birmingham and Gloucester, Sept. 1 ; Paris anti Rouen, 23t: 10c. Calls have been made upon the Belfast and Ballymena, 21. 10s., Oct. 1 ; Dublin and Belfast 2/. 10s., Sept. 10 ; Eastern Counties, New Shares, 2/., Oct. 30 ; Great Grimsby -501. Shares, 2'. ss. ; Great Southern and Western Extension, 51., Sept. 30; Croydon, 1/, Aug. 31 , Midland Great Western of Ireland, 21. lOs., Sept. 25 ; Newcastle and Darlington Brandling, Sl, Sept. 1 ; Northern and Eastern Registered, 51., Sept. 1 ; Orleans, 'fours, and Bordeaux, 2/., Aug. 30 ; Richmond, 41., Aug. 30 ; Waterford and Kilkenny, 21., Sept. 6. Notice has been given that the deed for the Boston, Stam ford, and Birmingham will lie fur signature at the Royal Hotel, on the 29th inst. The registration of scrip takes places •in the following Companies :-Bristol and Exeter, Thirds, Aug. 30; Cale donian, Oct. 1 ; Dublin and Belfast, Aug. 30; Great Southern and Western, Sept. 1 ; Hull and Selby, 25/. Shares, Sept. 30; Manchester, Sheffield and Midland, on or before September 2; Midland 401. Scrip certificate, on or before September 13 ; North British (Edinburgh and Hawick Branch), on or before September 9 ; South Wales, September 8; IVilts, Somerset, and Weymouth September 15; and York and North Midl an d E x t ens i on , August 30. The Funds have declined to-day upon the settlement of the Account, and there is an appearance of the Bear party having rather the best of it.. Consols have been 98% to 99 1 ,E for present transfer, and 99A for Account. Exchequer Bills have been at an improvement to 495. and 51e. premium. Bank Stock is worth 211 to 212, being well supported. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are marked 102% 5 / 8 , and the Three per Cents., 99% 34. For Spanish Bonds there is a flat market again, but prices are almost nominal. The Five per Cents. have been 271,, and the Passive 6g/ 4 . Columbian have been steady, at 18% %; and Brazilian, at 89%. The Equador Stock is worth 4% %. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 62% to 63; and the Four per Cents. 100% to A. Railway Shares, generally, are capitally supported. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock ..... . '2ll 212 211% 211 1 % 3 per Cent. R e d uce d 9 9%34 99% 3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 99 %. 98% 99% 99% New 3% per Cents Long Annuities toexiaireJan.lB6o 11 7-16 1 / 4 11 1 / Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1839 ..- 11 5-16 11 5-16 India Stock 271 273 India Bonds, 1,000/ Ditto under 1,0001... . Consols for Account . Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%d 49 50 51 pm. 51 Ditto 500/. Ditto Small ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent 50% 50 1 / Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela IBA% 18% Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... - Ditto, Deferred l B 3 /4 Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent - Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. - Ditto, Account .... 27 1 /s Do., 1843 - Ditto, Passive Ditto Deferred - Ditto 3 per Cent ... . ..... - - Ditto, Account - 38% Dutch, 214 per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certific lO O l / 8% 100% Equador . . 4%% 4% PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES Aberdeen Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 133 Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Bristol and Exeter 7O - - Ditto New Caledonian 0 2 4 11 1 /' Ditto Extension Cambridge and Lincoln 1%...... 3A% 3% Chester and Holyhead... 15 Cornwall Direct Northern - Dublin and Belf as t J une . 2% 7:14 Dublin and Galway... .. 2% 3 l / 41/ 3 Eastern Counties 14/. 165...... 193'81 .. Ditto New 41. 16s. - Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....5/. 13s. 4d l% ... Eastern Union 9O .... - . Ditto Extension ... 1 12 314 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto New % Shares... 5 Great South. and West. (Ireland) - Ditto Extension Great North of England..100 Great Western Ditto Half Shares 5O ll6 117% 117% Ditto Fifths Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 2 %... .. 3% 3% Hull and Selby Ditto, Quarter Shares 121/ O .__ _ Leicester and Bedflod... 225. London and Birmingtun ,Stock) 227 225 225 Do. Thirds Do. 1% Shares London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d. 10A 5 / 8 Do. New London and Brighton... 50 London and Manchester (Remington's) - . I p London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 26% 12 ... .. • Do. New l3s 4d 134% Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d - ilv. Consolidated Bths 20 Do. New London and York 2% . 6 5 / BN% London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham l% 4% ..... ....... Manchester and Leeds... 76 - Do. Quarters Manchester and Birmin. 40 Do. Quarters Do. New Quarters ... 2 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock 22s. Midland 100 Do. New Midland,Binn., Derby...loo 133 Midland Great Western (Irish) Newcastle and Darling ton Junction 25 ...... 53 52 Do. New Brandling... 10 Ne weirs, 1. , arid Berwick 1 1 4 24 Newcastle, Durham, and 18 3 % 27 1 / 2 22 1 / 4 6 3 / 4 153/4 3 % 89 1 „ 1411 29 10% 4 3 / 4 77% 2 6 I / 1% p 641 2 10!42 3 % 36 1 A 2414 Lancashire Junction 1 ........ ...... Newark and SLeffield l l /2 ...... 31 1 /,i 1 4, North British Do. New Northern and Eastern... 45 Do. Quarter Shares... 121 z l9 North Staffordshire 22s ...... 4%% p Norwich and Brandon... 14 Do~ New . Oxford and W . weester... 2% 7 ,8 % Portsmouth Direct ...... "V, 6 l / 2 1 /1 Preston and NVyre Richmond , . 1 Rugby, Worstr, & 'bring 1 Shrews., Wolverhamp., Dudley, and Birm 2i..... 5 15 : %4 •.. Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union Shrewsbury, Hereford, and Nora li Wales 2% 4% South Devon... 2O ... South Midland - 22s. South Eastern &:Dover 33/ 2s 4d... Do., No. 2. Do.. No. 3 Staines and Richmond... 1 South Wales 2% 54%...- Trent Valley 2 ..... . Trent Valley and Holy head Junction Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, 73/ i DA 5!X 2 19 and Düblin Welch Midland - /2 3.: %4 I A 3 l /2 Worcester, Shrewsbury and Crewe Union ..... 1%..... 3'% 1 / 2 3% York and Carlisle 2 3 /4 3 % York and N or th Midl and 50 lOB 107 Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25 Do. Extension FOREIGN RAILWAY. i3oulogne and Amiens.- 6 Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 tordeaux,Toulouse, and Cette - Dendre Valley 2 Dutch Rhenish East Indian ... ..... .... ss. Great North. of France (Laffitte's) Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2 Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... . 5 4% ... ...... Lyons and Avignon 2 Luxembourgh Namur and Liege Orleans and Bordeaux... 4 Over Yssel 413 s 4d O% p ['aria & Lyons, Laflitte's 2 - Pans and Lyons, Gan neron's, Paris &Lyons, (Calon's) 2 Pans and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron's) Do. (Cornpte de L'Est) 2 Peppin le Halleur ....... 4 ..... , Royal North of Spain ... 2 :•:ambre and Meuse ~... 6 West Flanders 2 - -- . MINE Real del Monte, Unregis. 42y4 LLOYIYA SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, A LIG. 26.—Wind this day at noon fresh breeze at W., and fine clear weather. WEXFORD ! AUG. 22.—51c1. John, Comlor, Miramichi. .r.r~~ LIMERICK, AUG. 23.—SId. Barney O'Donnell, Quebec. 111:1.4 AUG. 25.—Wind W.\. W., light.—Aird. Syt house, Bennet t, St. Joins, New Brunswick; Persian, ' Nova Scotia; Triune, Everett, Pugwash ; V ans ittart, ~, strdson, Quexc. YAnmourn, A t . G. 24.—The Jane, Pinthr, of Wisl has been towed into the harbour leaky, and must disc to repair. GitAvEsEND, A LTG. 24 —The Bell:and Anna, Ford, sao Bal,h!ey, 21st instant, having been in contact with tie 0 4 ' of Wlittly; crew savtql. StriELDs, UG. 23.—The Felix, Leadbroke, from worth to London, was abandoned in a sinking stated instant, oil Flam borough Head—crew saved. A br4 about 18 keels, painted with a broad blue streak, was` to go down oil Demlington, 21st instant—crew suppol"" be drowned. NARKE tNEIVS -(THIS DAY. EL.A.IE IV! SMITHrIF.T.D.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 16s to 5/ ; ditto., 5/ 4s to 5/ 8s ; fine Upland ditto., 51 103 to 5/ I : Clover Hay, 4/ 15s to 6/ 6s ; Oat Straw, 11 163 to 11 1 ' Wheat Straw. 11 18s to 2/ is per load. Trade stead)' about last week's quotations. CumatimAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/18s to 4/ 18s ful ditto, 5/ to 5/ lOs ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 123 to 5 1 ' 1 Clore Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/ 43; Oat Straw, 1116 s toll 18s ; Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ 2s per load. A fair average supply,. steady demand. WIIITECIIAPET..—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 16s to 41 16 useful ditto, 41 183 to 5/ 8s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 1 01 4 5/163; Clover Hay, 4/15s to 61 103; Oat Straw, 1/ 16s to Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 21 per load. Supply good, and ratlii7r New Meadow nay 31 to 41 12s 6d, and New 4/ to 5/ 5s per load. COLONIAL. SUGAR. —The market for British Plantation is 1 0 ,5 alteration, nearly 1,000 casks having found buyers, inebli of those sold by auction. The public sales have cone chiefly 145 casks Barbadoes, 303 casks 63 barrels St. u'i4 all of which sold at 48s to 53 s f or goo d middling grek to fine yellow Barbadoes, and 45s 6d to 50s for 4 , brown to fine greyish yellow St. Lucia, being for the Barb and the grocery sorts of Lucia rather cheaper; bta; ( strong refining qualities of the latter brought fully 0 6 9 vious value. The quantit7 of British Plantation landed week at the East and est India Docks was 263 bbd, tierces 100 barrels. There were taken for home consul' , .. 1 1 1,823 hhds 134 tierces 370 barrels. The stock in the places is 12,058 hhds 1.233 tierces 2,200 barrels. COFFEE.-893 bags Ceylon and 3,810 bags Porto Thvii auction, the former was nearly all taken in at 46s to 54 l e chiefly at 48s for ord quality. The latter partly solar went off very irregularly at 47s 6d to 62s for tine Ord to', colory quality. Para.—The quantity landed last week at the East West India Docks was 204 puns 23 hhds, and, tbdfi taken for home consumption 246 puns 62 hhds, and 1 , 99 puns 387 hhds. The stock i n th e same p l a ce is 10, 1 ' puns 1,249 hhds. IllcE.—Of 4,201 bags Bengal at auction, only abouta were disposed of at 12s to 13s 6d for mid white, which Is 4s below the prices of last week; the remainder was !ft/ wards withdrawn, although there seemed more inclinar purchase at the reduction noticed. SPICES.-600 br Malabar Per,— sold at ,ags .4.alabar Pepper only partly for good heavy shot kind, which is the former value. TALLOW.—P.T.C. is 40s 6d to 41a for ord, and 415 Du cwt for new. Town is 44s per cwt. TEA.—There is a fair demand for consumption. I S , public sales of Tea are announced for to-morrow. COAL IYZARICET. Prices per ton at the;close of the market :—Adair $ 14s; Buddle's West Hartley, 16s 9d; Chester Main, 15 1 0 01 Hasting's Hartley, 16s 6d; Holywell Main, 16s 6d; N e sol West Hartley, 16s 6d ; New Tanfield, 14s ; heugh, 14s; Ravensworth's West Hartley, 16s 6d; Ste7o, llartley, 15s ; Tanfield Moor, 16s ; To w nley, 155; t ,404 Hartley, 17s 3d ; Wylam, 15s ; Walls End Bewic,Vi Co., lis 6d; Eden Main, 17s; Walls End Belmont,,li t ioS Walls End Braddvll's Helton, 18s 3d ; Walls End PeAOl 18s 3d; Walls End Lambton, 18s; Walls End.Perefr,9l 16s 9d; Walls End Russell's Hetton, 17s 9d; Wa_;:9l Stewart's 18s 3d ; Walls End Shotton, 17s 9d ; Kelloe, 17s 9d; Walls End Adelaide Tees, 18s; Walls o o Evenwood,l6s 6d ; Walls End South Durham, 173 6 d; e0 00 End Tees, 18s ; Walls End West Tee s , 16 s 6d ; Ll4 ll 225; and Sidney's Hartley, 17s. Ships ar r i ve d, 89. PONTOP AND SOUTH SHIE S RAIL WAY. —(THIS DAY.) The general half-yearly meeting of the proprietol Railway Company was held this day at the Company Guildhall-buildings. motif M. R. B. Re,- the chair. .ennie, in the absence of Mr. Stephi The report having been read by the Secretary, $030 )111 ? that the working of th e li ne h a d b een very satisfactory, s e , 4 ..itt ii owing to several reductions, th e Di rec t ors were ena bled w. 6 4,1 that the net profit for th e h a lf- year was 10,4171. 12,10 which sum, with inter e st, was c h argea bl e upon the den," Company, amounting to 4,7571. 101., leaving, with a ~e balance of 4651. 18 3 . 3d., th e sum of 6,1' 3 6/. Os. 91 fr cable to a dividend; and the Directors, therefore, commended that a dividend of 304. a share for tbe li year be agreed t o b y t h e meet i ng. The (1013thobil coals shipped had b een 398,000 tons, being conti gi rsr,' more than the qu an ti t y i n t h e correspond i ng last ',tilt'', The charge upon th e C ompany h a d a l so b een reduct7„,6r liquidation of debt to th e amoun t of 18,0001., beari e ffri i s cent. interest ; and the Directors had also been eP i t : e i P ei reduce the intere s t up on th e mortgage d e b t o f t h e C om re d , these inemis, the annual debt of th e C om p an y wou ld be 'O f by 1,1001., which would be, in fact, so much added tt.olr income. Since the last meeting of the Company, tbe " ef) 10 ( tion which had existed so long (for upwards of a cen ie : o uti l l limiting the monthly quantities shipped by each colliery , ,..o o known as the vend, had ceased, and the immediate con e of breaking up the regulation had been a ecn", 4 ,70,_, reduction in the shipping price of coal. The re . dan t sitt course, had been severely felt by the owners of collrerte!,, the Pontop and South Shields Railway. The colliery owners, therefore, strongly urged 0 17 Company the reduction of the tolls upon the line : O l The Director s , th ere f ore, h a d had an i nter view v itf olird colliery ouner s , b u t h a d not decided u pon the cour . .:" pursued. 1 4 The report was then received and adept.d by the zneT", A desultory discussion then ensued as to the wife, offered to the coal-owners, but nothing definite was sr,itt" Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the adjourned. • DISS, BECCLES, AND YARMO.,' RAIL WAY.—(TIIIS DAY.) ” s tlY A general meeting of this Company was held this London Tavern, Alr. C. Beewicke in the chair. CO_ o6 The SECRETARY having r ea d t h e advertitement 70011 4 the meeting, laid b e f ore th e P ropr i etors t h e report coe'r,joev on the withdrawal o f th e B i ll f rom P ar li ament. Th e woe having previously agreed to return one pound to the ri l: holders in the ev e nt o f non-success, a meeting in Febr . . °l- o f . t; d released them from th a t engagement . An investigetis traffic tables having been made, it has been Ive' D ' e cre7, able, from the great advantages anticipated 10 :blte o " from the full supp or t o f t h e Y armout h to make arr angements f or a new Company, c ' , o f sh'o Waverly Valley Company, g i v i ng a preference est. t o to the shareholders of thi s Company, to the sa °3 7,e, as their present interest. They will, tbere'l", entitled to the same number of shares in e el as in the old Comp an y. Th e Di rectors, t h er efor , to 11 , o enabled to return th e sum o f 11 . 2s. 6 d . per shar e pifio present scrip hold ers , w hi c h f ar exceeds w h a t the of tb of the original deposit would have allowed, ha d agreement been entered into. ro te The report was th en a d opte d unanimously, and 8 0 0 64 thanks having been accorded to the Chairman, th e separated. a th t qfl i INCENDIARY F IRE AT FoLKINGHAM. =- "'" t bolt - o f o'clock on Sund a y morn i ng t h e i n h a bi tants of F o lking cr y to the county of Li nco l n , were su dd en l y a l arme d by asbea, " Fire," and gre a t n um b ers rose f rom t h e i r be d s and r ,, - „ 01'; th, extensive sta c k-ya r d an d p rem i ses at t h e b ac k of t 'ooo , hound Inn, occupied by Alr. Casswell, where t he k i,sten,. ll % large granary filled with oats enveloped in flames, ti' f- o ly inevitable destruction to the surrounding stacks of " ,,, e pda ti , h , in hay. Water from a neighbouring well supplied in, a ,'}jes' o l the excellent engine provided for the town by Sir & te a cote ; and to this circumstance, combined with the I let. the stacks, owing to the heavy rain which had be e be P a d without intermi s si o n f ur t wo h ours , may b e at t r ibut „ -- d l OlO nervation of property amounting in value to several its °p t pounds. The fire for a considerable period raged n o d, b oa abated fury, reflecting an immense light for miles a r ?l , happily it was confined t o th e building and the materfa frot o e dr i it. How this miochief occurred is not known, bu t s ootto circumstance of the building being locked up it is serY so pio' Ot conji ctured to have been the act of an incendiary. i t b Ot t fell upon some Irish labourers in the neighbourhood , " .1 We' some unpleasantness had t a k en pl ace a d a y or to s it th there, however, was not pr oo f sufficient to warran t , ked s i e , prehension. The al a r m was given by Thomas Burro etr i v is t. , of the New Inn tap, whi c h is contiguous to the s tar This is the second fire that has taken pla ce upon o rly b th e t same spot within a few months. LORD SEAFORD.—Prubate of the will of .--e 00 0 e l i lion. Charles Rose Baron Seaford, o f S ea f or d, in th:eret„e, of Sussex, but late of Woodend, in the same county, 'ati on the 20th instant to the executors, the R i g i "Jert a l lo f Frederick William Hervey, commonly called Ea r ' we r be and the Right Hon. Charles Viscount Canning, a P ° o W l O reserved to the Right Hun. Charles Augustus Bar ° to P r lo de Walden and Seaford, the son, and an executor., hereafter. He directs that his wife, Anne Loruliciptale, Baroness Seaford, Aril be paid in advance from t h her ittn e o f under the marriage settlement, and bequeaths for ie 6 0 diate use a legacy of 500/. ; also leaves her the ent r re sicle o , household furniture, and that she may continue t o pe Woodend ; the plate at her decease he leaves to hts. e .yboi' a ll He directs that the old Montpelier estate in Jam aic a" tbo t ti - d released from all claims prior to those of his wife, an eti; s to sums due therefrom to the Crown shall be discharg e erti,,, leaves the absolute interest in all his West India P r o 'd e his eldest son. All other his estates, real, copyhel;V: g berel de hold, at. Seaford, Woodend, Audley-square, e i li o ses r " o ta gives, devises, and bequeaths to his son, Lort: d is or be o Walden and Seaford. The personal estate in Eng iaa s e ptei n iolf under 20,000/. Th e w ill i s d a t e d th e 7th of _ 1843, signed " Seaf or d." Hi s L or d s hip died the • last, in his 74th year. r EXPLOSION AT BISIIOPNYEARMOUTII IR ONIy .t Sa ej a f a On Thursday, the 21 s t i ns t an t, an i nque st was held land, before Mr. Mayn ar d, C oroner , on view of t he youth named William Irving, who had met with bin 111e7fe der the following circumstances :—lt appeared t7 e stet i e jito Richardson and Co., the proprietors of the oth ev ,,,, i ebt' h oril' works, have lately purchased a quantity of cannonr_sof sl &c., no longer fit for naval sei vice, from the 13 7 1. P r to nance, for the purpose of melting them down to M e ro a s eill e tt iof the practice (and strict orders were given by th e foo b red the workmen that this should always be done), be iarg e ' these shells into the furnace, to break them ith , he se °LP mere ; but on Wednesday morning, contrary to ,''.„ - s ee directions, a large shell had been put into th e le* o i l it 0 , and without being carefully examined. Unfort uaa „;iistl o ee: td' part of a charge of powder, and almost ioni s e ~,tj ° plode. The furnace was blown to atoms, "' tr uck v sile; named youth, wh o was only 15 years of age' stisentPieia materials and killed on the spot. Two of the Ico tne r (h . re, Joseph Shaw an d Ed war d P o ll ar d , w h o were we ey'verl from the pla c e, were a l so ser i ous l y injured. 1h 1 . „ )., iv lar moved to Bi s h o p wearmout h I n firmary, an d now i".t. the oil' precarious stat e . H a d any ot h er person s been ne• TheJj e r nace, they must h ave b een *kill e d b y t h e e xplosion• f tee' after hearing the above facts, returned a verdict of 10 1) ; tal death." n e ia 11 ERRING FISITEPY.—WICK, A uG• 2 "*. ra ge 'dot ing has been very gcod during last week; the % / week was about 34 crabs. Thursday and Fri„a p ot fis were rather squally, and a number of the boats d i e s. t est ° sea. The averag e f or th e season w ill b e about 68 ort eng io til e , eight days cured a r e se lli ng at les. 6d. Yesterdalnl es ey A O , wire very few he rr i ngs . Though a few boats had,rhnio the average would no t b e more th an c rane. h - rfletlis, he boats are just returning when the mail clos---•'derso,• is very regular, and w ill average f rom fi v e to sin shire Advertiser 3 3 / /4 31 19 4% 7 E., 6 LA 40 6 *-% 2 33►7 2 7 3 / 4 46 214 2% 2V B o% 2 1 ,4 6, 12 %.P OA' 42 I/2 4:q 2 fEi•i' 3,1 13ANI eRIMID 't Char/a Pi - Ohara] offenc ; 1 141r. Baron 'Unit him. ~ till .:„ OItGERY. % • With fi receipt f k r. Banat 'la' 0' Brien t _t•rom the CI,I, and the re been th 4 'Mtn Provide their fund keld its sll meet] ttreet, City-t td access to ' the minute b' 4 quired to b t he withdraw tPpeared that krt of the pi to the Bank, stated in the lb atce, the m ;Tikes of the nee within I Air. O'BR Prisoner. The case, . 44 not onc MA AL LE GE 'L I an adj , 4 n t the New .7t'd forty, " %led by present in death ; but ery little L'lttlipate tl = endeavot 1111 th e face h 41 ,4 point, Iris very doi hed of Sty ' Nat*, and ! i llitt in t White la t ae railwa 1 .... 0W it could " 4 4 bren d I