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HARWICH DOCKS, AND BIRMINGHAM AND CENTRAL ENGLAND RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) oMcee, No. 1, Guildhall Chambers, Basinghall-street Capital, 1,400,0001., in 70,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. John BarweU, Esq., Norwich John Blunt, Esq., 6, Upper Bedford-place, Russell-square, Director of the London Docks Company Captain W. G. Beare, Porchester-place, Connaught-square Gideon Colquhoun, Esq., Walmer Lodge, Avenue.road, Regent's• park Thomas Deane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Torquay, Devon, Director of the Goole and Doncaster, and Bridport and Exeter Railway Sir George Dunbar, Bart., Hempriggs, Caithness The'Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Bell Hatch House, Henley.on- Thames, Oxfordshire Captain Evans, R.N., United Service Club William Evans, Esq., 3, Chesham-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the Great Luxemburg Railway John Griffith Frith, Esq., 11, Austin-friars, Director of the Great Northern of France Railway William Ounston, Esq., 127, Piccadilly Sir John Hare, 5, Langham.place, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension and Chester Junction Railways Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple John Hodgson, Esq., Sunderland House, Halifax, Director of the West Riding Junction Railway William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, Deputy-Lieutenant, and J. P. of the County of York William Huntriu, Esq., Halifax, Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway James Inglis, Esq., M.D., Halifax, Director of the Direct London, Holyhead, and Portdynllaen Railway John Jennings, Esq., Elm-grove, Hammersmith, Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway Sir William Johnstone, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire Joshua King, Esq., East Bergbolt, Suffolk George Lawton, Esq., Ditchleys, Essex James H. Leckie, Esq., Richmond Charles Lyall, Esq., Westbourne.terrace, Hyde.park Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., 8, Upper Hyde.park-street, Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway Sir John Pirie, Bart, Alderman of London Captain Parkinson, Polygon, Ardwick, Manchester, Director of the Trent Valley, Midland, and Grand Junctions Railway Harry Purkis 9 • Eaq Sturner Halstead, Essex David Pollock, Eaq., Q.C. and F.R.S., 20, Montague-street, Russell- square Lewis Pocock, Esq., F.R.S., «9, Montague-street, Russell square, Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway John Purkis, Esq., Sturmer-hall, Clare, Suffolk William Langley Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex David Roxburgh, Esq., Maida.hill Williams Adams Smith, Esq., PalLmall Andrew Spottiswoode, E,q., 17, Carlton.house terrace, Deputy. Governor of the Union Bank of London Foster Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield Joseph Somes, Esq., shipowner, London James Tracy, Esq., Great Winchester-street, London Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Director of the York and Lancaster Railway James Walkinshaw, Esq., Old Park, Isle of Wight, Deputy. Chairman of the Manchester and Southampton Railway John Wheelton, Esq., Neopham House, Tonbridge Wells Frederick Young, Esq., Bromley, Middlesex (With power to add to their number). C 3NSULTING ENGINE ea—John Braithwaite, Vsq., C.E. SOLICITORS FOR MR Doors—MOSSIB. Lyon, Barnes, and Ellis, 7 Spring Gardens. JOIN? SOLICITORS PeR THE RAILWAY. Messrs. George and Charles Pollock, 19, Great George street, Westminrer Messrs. Fyson and Co., 3, Frederick-place, Old Jewry. BANKERS—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, and Mills iECRETARY-W. SCOtt, ESQ. This railway will commence at the port of Harwich, and proceed from thence to a junction with the London and Birmingham Rail way at or near Blisworth, or to such other point as may be agreed upon by the engineers of the two Companies; and the Provisional Committee have the satisfaction of stating, that they have received the assurance of the London and Birmingham Company that their Board is favourable to the undertaking. The importance of the port of Harwich, as being the only safe harbour along the east coast of England, has not failed to attract the especial attention of Government; and the following short ex tract from the very able report of Captain Washington, one of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the most eligible situations for Harbours of Refuge, shows the great importance which is at tached by G'.vernment to its improvement : " It is well to bear in mind what this port was during the last war, and what it must again become for another North Sea fleet. It was from Harwich that the Hollesley Bay fleet was always watered by transports; it was here that all vessels, from a frigate downwards, in case of need, came for a partial refit at the naval yard still in existence; here no less than sixty ships of war hav been built, fifteen of which were two-deckers, while the tonnage of the vessels employed in the North Sea fishery belonging to Harwich, a few years since, was estimated at 3,000 tons, employ ! ng 500 hardy seamen. These considerations alone would more than justify any small outlay to preserve this port from further damage. but in addition it should be remembered, that this may shortly become the packet station for all our mail communications with northern and central Europe; that as soon as the railroad already open to Colchester is completed to Harwich, letters dispatched from the General Post office might be delivered in three hours direct on board the mail steam.packet, lying waiting alongside the pier; that passengers could walk on board, and in less than a quarter of an hour be clear out at sea, in all weathers, and at all times of the tide, and sixty miles ahead, even in fine weather, of those mailed at the same time in London, which would probably make the difference of a whole tide in arriving off Ostend or the Brielle, or other bar harbours, while in northeasterly gales and fogs steamers would often make their passage before those starting from London could get clear of the shoals and currents of the deep gulph which forms the estuary of the Thames ; in proof of which, twenty-eight steamers, carrying mails, in spite of strict orders to the contrary, have been compelled to put into this port for fuel, or to land their mails, after contending for upwards of twenty-four hours against strong head-winds, which prevented their making their voyage. " Under these points of view, then, but chiefly as a packet_ station for all northern and central Europe, the preservation of this port appears to be of national importance." On referenee to the map it will be seen that the railway, besides accommodating the important and populous districts through which it will pass (as yet uprovided with railway accommodation), opens up, by means of exi,f ing and projected lines, direct communication between the port °ilia. wieh, and every part of England;—by the Eastern Counties Railway, direct with London ;—by its connexion at Blisworth with the London and Birmingham Railway, with all the manufacturing districts of Staffordshire ;—from the same point, by means of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham line, with the west of England; and, by the South Midland, and Midland Counties Railways, with all the northern and manufac turing towns. It may not be generally known that Harwich is nearer than Hull to the Elbe by forty miles, whilst its situation, as regards the opposite ports of Holland, places it in immediate communication with all the railroads of Germany—being nearer, even than London, to Rotterdam and the adjacent ports by one hundred miles. Regarding Harwich, therefore, as a packet-station, a harbour of refuge, and the most commodious port for all northern and central Europe, it is scarcely possible to estimate, too highly, the value of the present undertaking, whether viewed as a great national work, sr as a commercial speculation. A Parliamentary grant having been made for the improvement and preservation of H.srwich Harbour, it is the intention of this Company to assist in carrying out the objects of the Government by the construction of docks, which, in connexion with the railway, will adapt the port of Harwich for that extensive commercial and passenger traffic to which its situation, combined with other ad vantages, appear so peculiarly to entitle it; and the Provisional Committee have the satisfaction of stating that, intending to carry out the plan for the docks in such a manner as may obtain the sanction of the Government, they have, after consulting with Messrs. Walker and Burgess, requested those gentlemen to furnish them with plans and estimates for the docks, which they have un dertaken to supply forthwith. Power will be taken in the Act to allow four per cent. interest on the deposits until the completion of the line. A limited number of shares will be reserved for parties having a local interest on the line ; for foreign Chambers of Commerce commercially benefited by the undertaking; and also for the London and Birmingham, the Eastern Counties, and Eastern Union Railway Companies. No application for shares, unless accompanied by a reference to a member of the Provisional Committee, the solicitors, or brokers of the Company, or other responsible parties, will be attended to. Applications for shares, in the annexed form, may be made to the Secretary, at the offices of the Company, No. 1, Guildhall Cham. hers, Basinghall street; to the Solicitors ; or to the following Stock and Sharebrokers, from whom copies of the prospectus and map may be obtained :—Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle. street ; Messrs. Backhouse and Co., 4, Angel-court, Throgmorten. street ; Messrs. Ewart and Bell, 3, Copthall Chambers, London; Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester; H. Davies and Co.. Liverpool; Messrs. Chantrell and Boyes, Leeds; Wilkinson and Earle, Hull; Mr. James Hervey, Halifax; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow; and Messrs. Labertouch and Stafford, Dublin. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Harwich Docks, and ham and Central England Railway. Gentlemen,--1 request that you will allot me shares of 20/. each in the Harwich Docks, and Birmingham and Central England Railway; and 1 do hereby undertake to accept the same, or any less number you may allot me, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Sub scribers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of 1845. Usual Signature Name in full Residence Business or Profession ... Date of application Name, Residence, and Profession of Referee ... THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS, BRIGHTON, and HASTINGS JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY, From Tunbridge Wells direct to Hastings, with a Branch Line from the same place to join the Brighton Line at Lewes. (BLUNT'S LINE.) (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 750,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 25/. each. Deposit, 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTRE. The Hon. A. F. Berkeley, Berkeley-house, Spring-gardens Major James Oliver Lindham, K.H., New street, Dorset square, Chairman of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and Central Wales Railway, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway William Cory, Esq., Commercial.road, Lambeth, Director of the London and County Joint-Stock Bank The Mayor of Hastings Francis Smith, Esq., banker, Hastings Henry Weston, Esq., Newick, Sussex Lieutenant- Colonel Coffin, Landlord, Wilts P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Mancheater.street, Manchester-square, Director of the Leeds and London Direct, and Ipswich and Southampton Railways Frederick Harrison, Esq., Beaufoy.terrace, Maida Vale, Director of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Life Assurance Company Joseph Barker, Esq., Macclesfield, Cheshire Alexander Prince, Esq., Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Wftiverhampton, Director of the Shrop shire Mineral, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways William Case, Esq., Brook-street, Grosvenor-square W. Bulkeley Glasse, Esq., 10, New-square, Lincoln's Inn, and South-crescent, Bedford- square The Rev Lewis Evans, Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and Southwood terrace, Highgate Stephen Hutchison, Esq., Bromley, Kent, sole Proprietor of the Bromley Gas Works The Rev. George Kendrick, Battle, Sussex, and Regent's-square London Captain George Lind, Waterloo-place, Brighton R. Laden, Esq., Director of the Chelmsford and Bury Railway Henry Wardle, Esq., London and Macclesfield, Director of Re mington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Director of the Direct Western, and the Leeds and Carlisle Direct Railways, Waterloo Villa, Clifton, Bristol, and 6, Hyde Park-place, West, London George Clement, Esq., Hastings. Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Union-court, Broad-street, and Maccles field, Cheshire, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Til Captain Charles M. M. Wright, R.N. Edward Holttum, magistrate of the City of Canterbury Thomas Robinson Williams, Esq., Director of the Patent Woollen Cloth Company Reginald Read, Esq., M D., St. John's-square, London The Rev. Samuel Andrew, Lincoln College, Oxford, and Highgate John Kerschner, Esq., Middle Temple Augustus L. Lobach, Esq., Brook-street, Grosvenor.square, and Sidmouth, Devon William Eccles, Esq., Old Broad-street, London Lewis Mame, Esq., Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk William Downing Bruce, Esq., 18, Charles-street, St. James's. square, Director of the Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpoil, and Direct Western Railways Abraham Betteridge, Esq., Devonshire-terrace, Camden-villas, Director of the Great Grimsby, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway Edward Whitfield, Esq., M.D., Marine-parade, Brighton George Simpson, Esq., Bedford-street, Bedford.square, Director oi the Sligo, Donegal, Tyrone, Londonderry, and Belfast Junction Railway Captain C. H. Whitfield, Arundel-street, London, Director of the South London Suburban Railway James Renshaw, Esq., Erith, Kent, Merchant, 3, White Hart court, Lombard street, Director of the South Stafford Railway John Britten, Esq., Basinghall.street, Member of the Corporation of London Dr. William Wilson, 3, Devonport-street, Sussex-square Rees Price, Esq., Tyne Hall, Great Ilford, Essex, Director of the Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Junction Railway Robert Hancorne, Esq., 4, Euston-square, Director of the Hereford and Merthyr Tydvil Railway. Henry Kirk, Esq , Gloucester-place, Dorset-square. Henry James Meller, Esq., Clifford's Inn. James Cockell, Esq., Bernard-street, Russell-square. Aldbor• ..h Henniker, Esq., Gray's Inn and Copthorne Bank, Suss Willo Marshall Smithson, Esq., Canterbury, Director of the Dov •nd Canterbury, and Bristol and Dover Railways Edward Wootton, Esq., Magistrate of the City of Canterbury Nathaniel Jonas Maynard, Esq., Magistrate of the City of Canter bury PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT, ]4IDI.AND 1 COUNTIES RAILWAY. From Nottingham to Syston, (Provisionally Registered.) JUNCTION ~ A prospectus , " with the names of a most Influential Committee, and other details, will appear in a few days. The line will connect the Pontefract, Doncaster, Worksop, and Mansfield Junction, with the South Midland Railway. SOLICITORS. William Unwin, Esq, ; William 'tickley, Esq. Sheffield. LONDON AGENTS. Messrs. Thompson and Debenham, Salters'-hall, St. Swithin's-lane. rtELnt 'NARY ANNOUNCEMENT. (Registered Provisionally). D IRECT licISEPENDENT - . KENT, SUR REY, AND SUSSEX UNION RAILWAY. Capital 1,500,000, in 75,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21 2s. per Share. PROSPECTUS OF THE Temporary Offices —Queen•stieet Cha'mbers, Queen-street, Cheapside John Pont, Esq., Canterbury, Director of the Bristol and Dover Railway David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland-hollow, Derbyshire Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsdon-court, Surrey Quintin Burns Hair, Esq., Tunbridge Wells Andrew Clark, Esq., Southwark Dr. William Birmingham Costello A. A. Fry, Esq., Temple, Director •f the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway Edward Horatio Day, Esq., Brixton.hill COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. CHAIRMAN—Thomas Carlisle, Esq. DEPUTY-CHAlRMAN—Frederick Harrison, Esq. A. Betteridge, Esq. William Case, Esq. Stephen Hutchinson, Esq. P. Bennett Lucas, Esq. Alexander Prince, Esq. Reginald Read, Esq. R. Laden, Esq. Francis Smith, Esq. Major James 0. Llndham, K.H. Henry Wardle, Esq. ENGINELR—CharIes Blunt, Esq., C.E. STANDING CDUNSEL—John WOubrey, Esq. SOLICITOR—U. 3. Lloyd, Esq., 49, Doughty-street, Bedford.row, London. LOCAL SOLICITORS. Messrs. Ser;vens and Young, Hastings Messrs. Martin and Sons, Battle Messrs. Barclay and King, Mayfleld W. D. Cooper, Esq., Lewes Robert Walker. Esq., Canterbury Messrs. Carnell and Gorham, Tonbridge. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Jones and Walmsley. BANKERS IN LONDON. The London and County Joint-Stock Bank Sir John William Lubbock, Bart., and Co. DISTRICT RANKERS. The Branches of the London and County Joint-Stock Bank al Tunbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Lewes, and Brighton. At Halting—Messrs. Suzan, Hilder, and Co. SECRETARY—Henry L. Freund, EN. This line (which will be constructed on the atmospheric principle, without a tunnel, or the possibility of collisions), is intended to com mence in the Borough, near London-bridge, taking a direct course to Camberwell, where it will divide, and take the following routes, viz. :—The Kent branch, through the populous parishes of Peckham, l'eckham Rye, Lewisham, Bromley, Orpington,Chelsfleld, Shoreham, Otford, Kempsing, Seal, Wrotham, Town Malting, East Mailing, Ditton to Maidstone; the Surrey and Sussex branch, through Brix ton, Brixton-hill, Clapham, lialham-hill, Tooting, Mitcham, Mor den, Cheam, Ewell, Epsom, near Leatherhead, Headley, Mickleham, Dorking, Capel, Reaper, Wareham, Horsham, Nuthurst, West Grin stead, Asharst, Enfield, Wiston, Steyning, Bramber, Lancing, Somp. ling, Broadwater, and on to Worthing. It is also intended that power be applied for in the Act of Parlia ment to construct branch lines from Wrotham to Sevenoaks, from Peckham-rye to Dulwich and Norwood, and from Clapham to the South-Western Railway, thereby accomplishing the most desired ob ject of giving that company a City terminus. It is satisfactory to find, from strict calculations, that the passen ger traffic alone arising from the densely-populated parishes through which this line will pass (hitherto unsupplied by railway) will give this a decided advantage over all other projects, and secure a profit able return. The names of a most influential and powerful Com mittee, together with the plans and prospectuses, entering fully into detail, will be published in a few days. In the meantime, applica tions for shares, forms, and other information, may be obtained of the solicitors, Messrs. Garrett and Co., Queen-street-chambers, Queen street, Cheapside, London ; or to Mr. M. Coston (broker), 5, Bank chambers, Lothbury, London. SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING OCTOBER 23. 1845. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON, BRISTOL, AND SOUTH WALES' DIRECT. MARLBOROUGH, Ocr. 21.—A public meeting of the inhabi• tants of the borough of Marlborough, convened by George May, Esq , the mayor, in compliance with a requisition very numerously signed, was held yesterday, at the Town-hall, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means to be adopted for promoting the proposed line. The Company was represented by N. Giles, Esq., the Rev. Sir Erasmus Wilson, Bart., rector of Marlborough, General Parlby, and other members of the Direction ; and there was also present a large assemblage of the landowners, gentry, and inhabitants of the district. Mr. REEVE was voted to the chair, and in opening the proceedings of the day, observed that it was on all sides ad mitted to be most desirable that a direct communication by railway should be accomplished between Marlborough and the other towns on the old western line and London; and when a bond fide proposal was brought forward to effect that great object, it was incumbent on them all . to put their shoulders to the wheel, and endeavour to carry it. The line proposed was undoubtedly a good line for Marlborough, for it gave it a direct communication with the metropolis; and, what was equally important, with Bath, Bristol, and the whole of South Wales. One railway had been already pro posed which would afford to Marlborough a communication with Manchester and Southampton—the Direct Manchester and Southampton, which would cross Marlborough, and which at a previous meeting had met with unanimous sup port—he meant the Direct London and Southampton line. And if they obtained the two lines—the cross line and the direct line— the town would be very well off and its former prosperity would return. The Rev. Sir E. Wii..soia then rose to move the first resolu tion. If the inhabitants. of Marlborough felt sufficiently the advantages of railway communication, to induce them to give their cordial assent to the Manchester and Southamp ton, how much more strongly must they be impressed with the advantages of the present scheme, which gave to the inhabitants of Marlborough the benefit of a direct railway communication with the metropolis? The London Bristol, and South Wales line spoke for itself. It commenced in London, passed on by the Great Western line as far as Hungerford; from thence it proceeded to Marl borough; thence to Caine, having between these two towns a short branch to Devizes.—(Hear, hear.) From Caine the line would go on to Chippenham, where again it united with with the Great Western, which it crossed ; from thence it proceeded, by way of Chipping Sudbury, to the Aust-passage, which it was proposed to cross by a bridge, and, upon the other side it would unite itself with the South Wales line, which was the line of communication between London, and, in fact, England and Ireland. The Great Western Railway, having taken its course round by Swindon, instead of adhering more closely to the old coach road, had left the towns of Hungerford, Marlborough, Caine, and Devizes to take care of themselves—the line of communication between them and the metropolis on the one hand, and Bristol and Bath on the other, having been cut off. In the last session of Parliament a Bill had been passed for constructing a branch line from the Great Western to Newbury, but Parliament, in granting that line, insisted that it should be carried on as far as Hunger ford. The present scheme, however, did not propose to stop the - e, but completely to fill up the gap the Great Western Company had left, and to extend the advantages of railway accommodation to Marlborough, Hungerford, Caine; and Devizes (Hear, hear.) It was to take the direct and old-established line of communication between Bristol, Bath, and London, and it was the only one proposed that came near the town of Marlborough.—(Hear, hear.) No other company had come forward to supply the country, and comp!y with the wishes of the people of that town, and he wished to impress upon them, that any proposal to give railway accommodation to Marlborough on the part of any company which might henceforth be made, would not have the same claim upon the attention of those locally interested, as if it had been made before. In this age of railways, any town in the kingdom, however flourishing, it might be, must, if it had not the advantage of direct railway communication with London, soon sink into nothingness. He had, on a recent occasion, told Lord Bruce that if a line were constructed which should place Marlborough on a fair footing with other towns in the kingdom in this respect, it would live, but without it, it must sink into the position of a petty village.—(Hear, hear.) Caine was circumstanced similarly to Marlborough, and, at a meeting held in that town on the previous day, resolutions in favour of the proposed line were unanimously agreed to ) The direct communica tion the line would give from and to Bristol was most im portant, as it would bring the traders from that port direct to the markets of Wilts and Berks, without their being compelled to go many miles round for railway accommoda as at present. One tradesman of Caine would contribute alone 1,500/. a year, taking the estimate on his present trade; but, looking at the beneficial change which direct railway accommodation would certainly occasion, he did not doubt that he would be enabled to bring traffic to the line to double that amount. Coal was a most important item of household expenditure, especially to the poor, and by means of this railway they would be enabled to bring up coals from thence to Marlborough at an expence for carriage, as ho was told, of only 2s. a ton.—(Hear, hear.) As was suggested to him by a gentleman in the room, they might be delivered for 13s. 4d. a ton. Mr. REID, of Marlborough, offered to contract for any quantity of coals, provided the railway was made, at 13s. 4d. a ton delivered. Sir E. WiLsost—The proposed line was almost _perfectly straight from the Aust. passage to the junction at Reading. The Welsh traffic would, doubtless, take the shorter and more direct line, and it followed, therefore, that that traffic would come to the South Wales line. It was supposed by some that the Aust- passage was an impracticable project. But the bridge across that passage was now to be erected by the Liverpool and Bristol Junction Railway Company, who had subscribed the money for it, and who would carry it into effect. The bridge was neither to be a chain nor a swing bridge, but a fixed bridge, in every way sufficient for the purpose of railway traffic. The member for Bristol, Captain Berkeley, was with them. He was, in fact, their deputy-chairman ; and they might reasonably conclude that they had with them the interest of the Berkeley family; and yesterday, at Caine, they had the declaration of Lard Shelburne, that finding his constituents in favour of the line, he would support it. They had not yet heard that the two members for Aylesbury had declared in favour of it ; but he trusted that when they should be made ac quaintedwith the statement of Lord Shelburne, and the general wish of their constituents, that they would follow the Noble Lord's example. They had a right to assume that Lord Shel burne's declaration embodied also the sentiments of the Mar quis of Lansdowne, and if the members for Marlborough and the Marquis of Aylesbury would attend in like mad ner to the wishes and requirements of their constituents and their tenantry, there would be three influential supporters of the bill in either House, and it would, without doubt, be carried—(Hear, hear). One of their members was the Vice- Chamberlain to the Queen, and the other was a Lord of the Treasury; and with their support, together with that of the friends they could command, the line must be carried. Many of the most important land-owners on the line had also expressed themselves in favour of the line. There was, therefore, nothing to alarm the promoters of the scheme: they proposed the shortest and most direct line from London to the Fishguard 'and Pembroke docks; they had the money ready to carry it out. The worthy baronet concluded by moving the resolution. T. HALCOMBE, Esq., seconded the resolution. General PARLBY also spoke in favour of the line. Tmastas Soirrit, Esq., supported the resolution, and was sure the. House of Commons could never commit so gross an injustice to the inhabitants of Marlborough as to refuse its assent to a body of capitalists carrying out a work of such great national benefit. • The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. HAYWOOD the son of the agent of the Marquis of Aylesbury, said that his father was unavoidably absent from the meeting, but he felt great interest in the question, and he was enabled to assure them that the Marquis was most anxious to serve Marlborough ' • Lord Bruce and Lord Ernest had also the same feeling, and he was sure they would sup port any scheme which, on consideration, they might con cider calculated to benefit the neighbourhood.: Mr. HARRIS, of Caine, complained of the great loss he and other traders suffered from the absence of direct railway accommodation, and the insufficiency of the accommodation afforded by the Great Western Railway. Ile had seen the steward of the Marquis of Lansdowne that day, and was in formed by him that the noble lord would support any line that would benefit the inhabitants of the locality, and tend to the public good. A resolution, expressing the approbation of the meeting in the proposed scheme was passed, and petitions to both Houses were adopted in favour of the Bill. HUNGEMPORD.-A similar meeting was afterwards held at the Town-hall at Hungerford, at which D. Allen, Esq., the mayor, presided. Sir Erasmus Wilson fully explained the merits of the proposed line, and the great benefit it would confer upon Hungerford, Marlborough, and the other towns through which it would pass. Resolutions pledging the meeting to support the line were passed, and petitions to both Houses of Parliament in its favour were unanimously agreed to—Earl Caernarvcn and Lord Craven to be requested to support the one to the Lords, and the county members the petition to the Commons. consider the expediency of accepting that offer, tFe company separated without transacting any busi ness. Much inquiry has been made as to what will be done respecting the new 40/. shares issued last year for making the extension to Bishop Auckland, and improving the main line. It is stated, in well-informed circles, that should Mr. Hudson purchase the railway, the new shares will be called in, and the deposit money of '2/. each, with interest, paid to the holders of the scrip. A rumour prevails in the town, that a formidable opposition will be raised amongst the shareholders to selling the line at 301., or even 33/. 6s. 8d per share. It is proposed, we understand, to carry . the London and Manchester Direct from Battle-bridge to Farringdon-street, on the atmospheric system, so as to obviate the inconvenience of noise and smoke. The heading in the Kingston-hill Tunnel, on the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings line, has been carried through during the past week. Arrangements, it is understood, are in course of completion between the Great Eastern and Western, who propose to run a line on the broad gauge from Yarmouth to Swansea, with another powerful company already established on the broad gauge system, for providing complete railway accommodation to the entire south of Wales. A deputation, headed by Mr. Ward, M.l'., is now en route for Wales, with the view of ex plaining the advantages of the line to the ironmasters and mineral merchants of the district. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. THE EilffEbTLigbblX, --- dii - ANTHAM, AND NORTHAMPTON RAILWAY, by way of Oakhain and Market Harborough, and thence to Northampton, by the pro• jetted South Midland, with extension to Gainsborough. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 20/. each. Deposit, 21.25. per Share. (With power to increase the capital.) Liability limited to Subscription. This line will also be a feeder to the several projected lines to Great Grimsby. A detailed prospectus will shortly be published. Communications may be addressed to the Secretary, J. Browne, Esq., 7, Whitehall place, London. TILE LEICESTER, MELTON MOWBRAY, and SPALDING JUNCTION RAILWAY, giving, with other formed and projected lines, the nearest route from Birmingham, Coventry, and Leicester to the Eastern Coast, and a communication from Birmingham, via Nuneaton, Leicester, and Melton Mowbray, to Spalding. (Provisionally Registered.) Offices, 4, Trafalgar-square, Charing-cross. Capital 500,0001., in 25,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. Wynn Ellis, Esq. M.P. for Leicester, director of the Brandon and Spalding Railway William Corbet Smith, Esq. Bittleswell-hall, High Sheriff of Leices tershire The Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P. Chairman of the Northampton, Ban bury, and Cheltenham Railway The Hon. Major C. Napier, Rugby, director of the Peterborough and Nottingham Railway General Johnson, M.P. William Collins, Esq. M.P. Ralph Etwall, Esq. M.P. Thomas Wakefield. Esq. Nottingham, director of the Brandon and Spalding Railway Matthew Gisborne, Esq. Walton-hall, Derbyshire Joseph Ellis, Esq. Glenfield-lodge, Leicester Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.B. director of the East India Company Sir Edwin Pearson, F.R.S. Gloucester-terrace, Regent's-park Ambrose Moore, Esq. Milk-street, Cheapside Josiah Wilson, Esq. Stamford-hill George Meek, Esq. Russell-square Jobn Clement Ruding, Esq. director of the National Bank of Ireland Francis Valentine Lee, Esq. director of the Eastern Counties Railway Richard Heaviside, Esq. Brighton William Ettwall, Esq. Longstock-down, near Stockbridge, director of the Southampton and Manchester Railway William Shadbolt, Esq. chairman of the Greenwich Railway Com pany T. E. Bigge, Esq. Bryanstone-square Captain Gustavus Evans, R.N. Headley-grove, Surrey, director of the Nottingham. Birmingham, and Coventry Railway Valentine Knight, Esq. Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park Samuel Kempson, Esq. Little Sutton, Sutton Coldlicid, Warwick- shire Frederick Pearson, :Esq. Piccadilly Fraser B. Henshaw, Esq. Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square, director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Manchester Railway W. A. Wilkinson, Esq. Woodberry Down, Stoke Newington, director of the Erewash Valley Railway Herbert Ingram: Esq. Swinshead-abbey, Lincolnshire John Tathan Banks, Esq. warden and magis trate of Louth, Lincolnshire William Gresham, Esq. Aderman of Lin- Provisional Directors coin of the Great GrimS- Samuel Trought, Esq. Louth, Lincolnshire by, Louth. and Lin- William Ward, Esq. M. U. Horlicastie colu Railway. Edwin Cadman, Esq. Westbourne-house, Sheffield, director of the Isle of Ely, Wis beach, and Lincoln Railway The Rev. J. B. Hildebrand, rector of Saxby, near Melton-Mowbray, Leicestershire John Thomas Raworth, Esq. Leicester, provisional director of the South Union Railway Nathaniel C. Stone, Esq. Rowley-fields, near Leicester John Eames, Esq. Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq. Imberhorne-house, Sussex, director of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Railway John Smith Mansfield, Esq. Essex-court, Temple Charles Hance, Esq. Alexander-square, Brompton Thomas Bridges, Esq. Marwood-hill, Devonshire Thomas Bent, Esq. M.D. Derby Douglas Fox, Esq. Derby John D. Cooper, Esq. Ashhourne, Derbyshire, director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway Henry F. Gisborne, Esq. Derby, director of the Tatnworth and Lei cester, Coventry and Nuneaton Railway John Ilamp, Esq. Cation, Derbyshire Joshua Harding, Esq. Rosiiston, Derbyshire Nathaniel Nadin, Esq. Stapenhill, Derbyshire J. Nadin, coal proprietor, Newhall and Swadlincote Collieries, Derby- shire R Sherratt Tomlinson, Esq. Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire Charles James Mason, Esq. Fenton, Staffordshire J 05.1% Nunneley, Esq Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire William Little, Esq. Peterborough, director of the Peterborough and Nottingham Railway I. P. Bainbrigge, Esq. Derby, director of the Derby and Crewe Rail way J. C. Williams, Esq. M.D. Nottingham Henry Smith, Esq. Gainsborough William Lister Sharp, Esq. Gainsborough, director of the Derby and Great Grimsby, and of the Cambridge and Lincoln Extension Railway. COMMITTEE OP MANAGEMENT. Chairn an—Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P. Deputy-Chairman—Josiah Wilson, Esq Thomas Wakefield, Esq. Ambrose Moore, Esq. Francis Valentine Lee, Esq. John D. Cooper, jun., Esq. CONSULTING ENGINEER—CharIes Fox, Esq. ENGINEER—John Hughes, Esq. The London Joint-Stock Bank, BAN KERS. Princes-street Messrs. Pa'ets and Kirby, Leicester Pare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Melton-Mowbray The Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Company, Spalding Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby The Burton Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent. SoLimo/is—Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Cole. man-street ; Abraham Bass, Esq. Burton-upon-Trent. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS —Messrs. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Coates, Parlizment-street. SECRETARY—WiIIiaM Ranyard, Esq. John Smith Mansfield, Esq. George Meek, Esq. Capt. Gnstavui Evans, R.N. The first object of this line is to connect the town of Birmingham Coventry, and Leicester, with the eastern coast by the nearest route , and to supply All important link of communication betwe en th e town ' of Spalding and the eastern coast with the Western and 311dland districts. Commencing at the Spalding station of the Norwich, Dereham, Lynn, and Holbeach Railways, the line will proceed by Bourn, Witham, Castle Bytham, South Wytham, and Wymondham, to a point on the Syston and Peterborough line of railway near Melton- Mowbray, thus forming, by the Syston and Peterborough and Mid land Counties Railway, an almost direct route to Leicester, and thence to Coventry and Birmingham by the proposed Coventry, Nuneaton, Leicester, and Birmingham Railway. The projected line will form the most direct communication be t. ten the eastern and midi and districts of the kingdom, and will, by means of the proposed lines across the county of Leicester, via Bur ton-upon-Trent, to Stafford, bring the markets of Lincoln, Norfolk, Shropshire, and North Wales, nearer to each other by many miles than any other line of railway_ It will form, with other projected railways, an almost direct line across the kingdom, from Yarmouth, via Norwich, oil the east, to Aherystwith, via Newton and Shrewsbury, on the west. The entire length will not exceed thirty miles. There is no tunnel ling, cutting, or embanking of any importance necessary ; the line from Bourn to Spalding, a distance of about twelve miles, is very level, and may be constructed at a small cost. It will secure the advantages of railway communication to a tract of country at present destitute of this accommodation, besides open• ing out sources of trade undeveloped for want of the means of transit. The central midland districts have felt greatly: the want of direct communication with the coast; and this line will at once supply the deficiency to the greater part of Staffordshire and Leicestershire. It will afford a transit for the Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Lei cestershire coal into districts heretofore entirely dependent upon supply from the north at high prices: it will also secure the advan tages of an unlimited supply of lime from the Leicestershire works, to the agricultural districts of Lincoln, which are at present only supplied at very high rates; and, in return traffic, the midland dis tricts will obtain the advantage of a direct transit for the stock and agricultural produce of Lincolnshire and Norfolk. Several proposed lines of railway converge at Spalding., which is the nearest point on the eastern coast for the midland counties, and connected by the River Welland with the German Ocean. The proposed capital will be sufficient for the construction of the necessary works and every subsequent expense ; and the income derivable from the traffic in passengers between Birmingham, Co ventry, Leicester, Derby, Melton, Spalding, and Boston, the trans port of corn, cattle, and other produce of tlto great agricultural districts through which the line passes to the principal consuming districts, and of coals, lime, and staple commodities for the inland districts, will be sufficiently ample to warrant the outlay. The Parliamentary surveys have been commenced, and are now in active progress, and contracts have been entered into which en sure sufficient time for compliance with the standing orders. Forms of application for shares, plans, and prospectuses may be had of the Solicitors ; also at the offices of the Company, 4, Tra falgar-square, Charing-cross, where applications for shares, accom panied by respectable references, may be addressed to the Provi sional Committee. In royal Bvo., price 4s. 6d. each volume, in embossed cloth, A._.IHAMBE RS' ED INBUIIGH JOURNAL. Three Volumes, New Series, consisting of Familiar Sketches, Moral Essays, Poetry, Tales, Biographic Sketches, and Miscellaneous Articles of Instruction and Entertainment, suited for every class of readers. London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen-corner, Paternoster-row. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Leicester, Melton Mowbray, and Spalding Junction Railway. gentlemen,-1 request you to allot me shares of 201. ea h in the above railway ; and I undertake' to accept the same, or su h less number as you may appropriate to me subject to the re guwtions cf the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to Par when required the deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per share. Dated this day of , 1845. Name in full Profession and Professional Residence Residence in ftill• • • • • • • • ........ Rtfereiw..... - ;... . IMPORTANT REDUCTION. CHAMBERS' EDINBURGH JOURNAL First Series, in complete Sets, Twelve Volumes bound in Six with general consulting Index, REDUCED to FOUR GUINEAS. London: Wm. S . Orr and Co., Amen-corner, Paternoster-row. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—LADY B— AND HOLLO WAY'S PILLS.—Lady B—, the wife of a distinguished Lord, was, a few weeks since, so alarmingly ill, occasioned by a disorder in the liver and stomach, as to induce her physicians to disclose to the Honourable Mr. L—, her Ladyship's son . in-law, that they entertained but little hopes of her recovery. In this state, and unbeknown to her medical attendants, she was strongly advised to try Holloway's celebrated Pills, which she took for only three weeks, when she found herself as well as ever she was in her life. The accuracy of this extraordinary statement can be proved beyond all doubt. Sold at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London, and byall medicine-sellers throughout the civilised world. No MORE GUANO AT IC HABOE.—The following has been handed to us by parties connected with a respect able house, who have every opportunity of acquiring accu rate information on the subject alluded to :—" We were ex tremely. surprised to observe, in the Falmouth Reporter, of Friday, a statement made by the master of the Rover, ar rived from Ichaboe, that a deposit of guano had been found there under the rock, amounting to 40,000 tons. This state ment is so truly ridiculous as scarcely to deserve notice, were it not that parties who are not intimately acquainted with Ichaboe might be inclined to place some reliance on it, and, per haps, send out vessels in addition to the many already disap pointed of obtaining cargoes of guano at that place. Having just returned from the coast, we give the statement of the master of the Rover the most unqualified contradiction, and can produce, if necessary, fifty credible persons to corrobo rate our opinion. Ichaboe, in February last, was everywhere laid bare to the primitive granatic rock of which it is formed, and under which it is evidently impossible that any deposit could be found; moreover, we have just seen a letter from a highly respectable shipmaster, who left Ichaboe fur the Cape of Good Hope in ballast, subsequent to the Rover, who says there is literally no guano left on Ichaboe except a small quantity of such rubbish, mixed with sand, as is en tirely unfit for shipment. It is very much to be regretted that the editor of the Nautical Magazine has been so far imposed upon as to publish in the October number an ac count of imaginary places where guano still exists on the south-west coast of Africa. We have personally examined most minutely, as well as hundreds of others, the localities pointed out in that work, and can most positively assert that no guano exists anywhere on the coast, from Little Fish Bay to the Cape of Good Hope.— Liverpool Albion. STAI E or TRADE.—The depression in the market, which we noticed on Wednesday last, continues without di minution, and in cases where business has been dose, lower prices have been submitted to, both for goods and yarn.— ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, Oar. 20.—We have had a dull market. The business transacted has been limited, but prices have undergone no change. The wool market has had the same character—little doing, but prices stativnary.—Mancheater Guardian, FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Independent Kent, Surrey, and Sussex Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 201. each in the above Company, and I undertake to accept the same, or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regu lations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to pay when required the deposit thereon of 21. 23. per share. Dated this day of 1845. _ _ _ Name and Residence in full - Profession and Professional Residence .... Reference • • • • • ............ ....... Usual Signatures LANCASHIRE, CHESHIRE, and STAF FORDSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. C. Randall, Esq. Manchester, a director of the Sheffield andi Manchester Railway Edwin Ward Jackson, Esq. Edge-hill, Liverpool William Gibb, Esq. Victoria-park, Manchester Henry Taylor, Esq. Wigan- John Dewhurst, Esq. Standish-hall, Wigan John Lord, Esq. Standish-hall, Wigan Wm. Caldwell, Esq. Ince-hall, Wigan WM: Croudson, Esq. alderman of the borough of Wigan Thomas Byrom, Esq. Wigan Wm. Ascroft, Esq. Bury Charles Haigh, Esq. Manchester John Holfurd, Esq. Rusholme-hall, Manchester George Holt, Esq. Willow-hill, Crumpsall Thomas Ingleby, Esq. Lawklan4-hall, Settle Christopher Morris, Esq. Wigan Thomas Morris, Esq. Fairhurst-hall, Wigan Frederick Rains(len, Esq. Seymour-house, Old Trafford John Thompson, Esq. Wigan Colonel Robert Douglas, United Service Club, Pall-mall, London Joseph William, Esq. Hargreaves-house, Oldham, W. -H.-Hornby, Esq. Blackburn I Directo the Charles Potter, Esq. Darwen Adam Roxburgh, Esq. Know Mills, Entwistle S burn, Eccles Shorrock, Esq. cotton spinner, Over Darwen wen, Thomas Eccles, Esq. cotton spinner, Lower Darwen Railway. Bolton Edward Woodward, Esq. Giinough-house, Bolton, a director of the Blackburn, Bolton, and Liverpool Railway John Langshaw, Esq. the Hollins, Bolton John Fletcher, Esq. Vale-bank, Bolton Harold Potter, Esq. Darwen William Gray, Esq. Wheat-field, Bolton Jeremiah Clarke, Esq. Macclesfield, a director of Remington's Lon don and Manchester Direct Railway Charles James Stanley Walker, Esq. Longford-house, Altrincham, a director of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway Proctor Walker, Esq. Preston, a director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and other Railways David Whcatcroft, Esq Buckland-hollow, Alfreton, a director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Sir Henry Webb, Bart. Pall-mall, London, deputy-chairman of the York and Lancaster, and a director of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway s T. A. Ward, Esq. Town Regent of Sheffield Jonathan Dunn, Esq. Lancaster, a director of the Lancaster and Preston, and Lancaster and Carlisle Railways William Fenton, Esq. Meadowcroft, Rochdale James Gidlow, Esq. New-hall, Ince Samuel Giles, Esq. merchant, Manchester, a director of the Sheffield and Macclesfield, the Manchester and Rugby Direct, and other Railways Robert Holt, Esq. Crescent, Rochdale William Hughes Hughes, Esq. Inner Temple, London, F.S.A. F.L.S. &c. Jokn Hunt, Esq. merchant, Manchester William Jackson, Esq. Sheffield, a director. of the Gods and Doncas ter Railway Sir John Key, Bart, alderman of London, and Cheltenham William Melville Lomas, Esq. merchant, Liverpool Sir William Magnay, alderman of London William Burdett, Esq. Warrington William Bradley, Esq. Manor-oaks, Sheffield, a director of the Shef field and Manchester Railway Henry Bellerby, Esq. Sheriff of York William Byrom, Esq. a managing director of the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junctioa Railway John Blorr, Esq. Tutbury, a director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway Richard M. Baddeley, Esq. Hanley, Staffordshire Edwin Cadman, Esq. Westbourne-house, Sheffield, a director of the York and Lancaster Railway James Clarkson, Esq. Cheetham-hill, a director of the York and Lan caster Railway Peregrine Royds Dearden, Esq. Birkenhead Edmund Vernon Mackinnon, Esq. Lieutenant of her Majesty's 6th Dragoon Guards, Manchester James Macmillan, Esq. Southampton, a director of the Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway Edward Morris, Esq. West-cottage, Chorley, a director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and other Railways James Ogden, Esq. M.D. Salford, a director of tile Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway Richard Raywood, Esq... Barnsley, a director of the Wakefield and Bradford Railway James Shaw, Esq. Pendleton, a director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway Henry Stock, Esq. Beddgelert, Carnarvon, a director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway. CONSULTING ENGINEER—George Watson Buck, Esq. SURVEYORS—Messrs. Nevins and Lawton, Manchester. JOINT SOLICITORS. William Burdett, Esq. / Company's offices, 6, Marsden- Messrs. Dearden and Molesworth street, Manchester. SOLICITORS AT BOLTON—Messrs. Winder and Broadbent. SECRETARY—W. B. Harrison, Esq: BANKERS. London —The Commercial Bank of London Manchester—The National Provincial Bank Bolton—Messrs. Horneastle, Cross, and Co. Rochdale—Messrs. Feutons and Roby. ors of Black , Dar and PROSPECTUS. This important line of railway will commence at a point on the Manchester and Bolton Railway, between Bolton and Farnworth, running thence in a direct line through Worsley and Patricroft to a point on the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway, with which it will form a junction, to Cheadle, where it will unite with the Macclesield branch of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, by which means a direct railway communication will be opened with Macclesfield, and the various lines of railway proposed to terminate there. The great advantage to be derived from a communication between Bolton and Altrinchans, and via Clheadle with Macclesfield, will at once be seen on reference to the map, not only as a feeder and chan nel of communication between existing and projected lines, but also as supplying the link wanting in the chain of direct communication between Bolton, Blackburn, and a very large extent of the populous manufacturing districts and towns of the central part of the county of Lancaster, with the Staffordshire Potteries, the great iron dis tricts, Birmingham, and the metropolis, and consequently the inter mediate plac,s in the lines of the various existing and projected railways between Manchester, Maccitsfield, and the whole of the southern portion of the kingdom. An important feature in this undertaking is, that whilst it will, by means of existing and projecting lines, open up to the immense agri cultural and manufacturing population of Warwickshire, Stafford shire, and Cheshire, a direct communication with Southport, Black pool, and the cther watering-places situate on the coast of Lanca shire; it will likewise form a continuation of the proposed direct lines from London (via Macclesfield) to Edinburgh and Glasgow, either by Fleetwood upon Wyre, or by the Lancaster and Carlisle . The saving of distance between Macclesfield and Bolton being im portant, whilst the great but unavoidable delays which must be in curred in passing through the different termini in Manchester will be obviated. . . . Another important feature in this enterprise is, that it will not materially affect any existing or contemplated lines, and that It will be able, by uniting itself with them,. and with o th er pro j ecte d lines, and lines now in the course of formation, to increase their mu tual traffic to a considerable extent both in passengers and goods ; and being the means of establishing a principle of reciprocity, cannot in any manner injure any existing interests. To the town of Bolton and its neighbouring extensive coal fields, it is obvious this line will secure the most important advan tages by its connexion with existing lines, and others projected which will centre there. It need hardly be added that with all these advantages, a most Important traffic for passengers and goods may be relied upon, independent of which, as the line itself presents no engineering difficulties, or other obstacles of importance, and will be executed at an expense far below the ordinary average, the most ample security to the capitalist is offered. The deeds will provide that no call shall be made on the share holders beyond the deposit now paid until the Act of Parliament is obtained, and power will be reserved in the Act to allow 4/. per cent. Interest on all calls. A certain number of shares will be reserved for the landowners and others having local interests in the line, and who are friendly to the interests of this Company. SHEFFIELD, WEST RIDING, AND MID LANDS JUNCTION RAILWAY. Prospectuses and plans, with forms of application, are now ready for delivery at the Offices of the Company, 11, Sergeant's Inn, Fleet. street, London. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY OF FRANCE. AFFITE'S COMPANY.) The holders of English allotments who have not received the Circular Report of the Directors, dated 17th instant, may receive a copy of it by applying at the office, No. 62, King William-street, City. The forms are ready, which require to be signed for the pur pose of receiving the constituted shares, together with the amount of the surplus of the deposits. 18th October, 184 a. ED. AIME, Sec. PUBLICATIONS r ir H E RAJL INT A y EXPRESS, SlXPENCE, Pl P tr ß is lC C E orrespotidei The ice— Money Market— (ittp(t)anitnaiD K ns . °. lrigival 'ulteney—Engineering Miracles —Th e Hudson Alms houses—Mammoth Newspapers—" Provisional" Esquires—Subma rine Railways—Reiningti.n's and Rastrick's Amalgamation —Rail roads in India—Home, Foreign, and Colonial Railway News—Hud soniana, &c. Office for advertisements, 11, Wellington-street North. On Thursday next Will be Published, Part 1., price 8 (containing the Five Num bers for November) and No. I. price 14d. HARPE'S LUN.DON MAGAZINE: a Journal L_ of ENTERTAINMENT and INSTRUCTION for GENERAL READING. The First Part. containing 80 pages, large Bvo size, of Original and Selected Articles, besides Illustrations drawn or engraved by Scott, Dalziel, Meadows, Franklin, Branston, Townsend, &c., may he obtained of the Publisher, T. B. Sha r p e, 15, Skinne r - street, Snow-hill, or of any Bookseller or Nevvsvender throughout the kingdom. NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES, In three volumes, price It. I Is. 6d., CIITHA OF THE FOREST. By the Author of " Lord Dacre of Gilsland," " Rodenhurst," &c. London: E. Churton, 26 Holies-street. Edinburgh: Bell and Brad fute. Dublin : J. Cumming. BOSTON, CrRANTHAM, LEICESTER, and MIDLAND COUNTIES___ JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. (Provisionally Registered.) Offices-5, Guildhall Chambers, Rasinghall-street Capital, 800,C00/., in 40,000 Shares of 20./. each. Deposit, V. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE, Wm. Corbett Smith, Esq., Bitteswell-hall, High Sheriff of Leices tershire John summerscales, Esq., Sheriff of Lincoln Sir Wm. Wynn, Suffolk-street, I ' ol Chairman of the North Wales Railway Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, 1 3elgrave-square, Director of the Oxtbrd, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Sir George Wm. Prescott, Bart., Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Major i Gen, Sir Love Parry, Madryn, Carnarvonshire, Director of the North Wales Railway Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Sharavogue, Roscrea Honourable Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street, London, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway Rear-Admiral Ayscough, Southampton, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway Lieutenant-Colonel Elrington, Scotch. Fusilier Guards, 12, Wynd ham-place, Directoi of the Leeds and Liverpool Railway Lieutenant-Colonel Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the South and Midland Railway Adamthwaite, John, Esq., Oakhill, Teen, Staffordshire Allen, George Charles, Esq., East Shiltori, Leicestershire, Director of the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway Atkinson, J. 8., Esq., Elmwood House, Leeds, Director of the Lei cester and Bedford Railway Bell, Robert, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick, Director of the Direct East and West Junction Railway Bland, William, Esq., 11, Park-terrace, Brixton-road, Director of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire, and the North Wales Railways Betts, William, Esq„ Bevols Mount, Southampton Browne, Joseph, Esq., Bedford, Director of the East and West of England Junction Railway Burd, John, Esq., Alderman, Manchester Caldecott, William Lloyd, Esq., Laura-place, Bath Carver, Edward Turst, Esq., Forest-lodge, Tulse-hill, Director of the North Wales, and the Namur and Liege Railways Cooke, T. F., Esq., Leicester Collett, Benjamin, Esq., Manor House, Bromsgrove Croft, Major J. T., Regent-street, Piccadilly, D e p u ty-Ch a irman of the Chester and Manchester Railway Cumberlege, Nathaniel, Esq., Director of the Direct East and West Junction Railway Dalby, John, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway Eales, William, Esq., Mincing-lane, London, Director of the Direct Hanover-square, Vice-Chairman Western, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways Gillham, Joseph, Esq , Hargreaves Mouse, Oldham, Director of the G e o r f n t o h n e , J G . e , I E I T s q a y . , and 12, C E o u n o d i u s it-stet Railway re, Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction Railway Graves, Captain Twisleton, Director of the Leicester, Tean and Dove Railway Grey, Hazelrigg, Esq., Carlton-hall, Leicester Heneage, Charles, Esq., Cadeby-heuse, Lincolnshire Holmes. Isaac, Esq., Liverpool Hungerford, H. H., Esq., Dingley-park, Leicestershire Kebbel, W. H., Esq., Glebe-house, Kilby, Leicester Knight, Joseph, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Midland Counties, Leicester, and Bedford Railways Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston-hall, Sudbury, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Laurie, George, Esq., Manchester 3facmoran, A. M., Esq., 58, Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, Director of the Direct East and West Junction Railway Mann, A., Esq., Denver-hall, Norfolk, Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction Railway Maunder, Joseph, Esq., Liverpool, Director of the Rugby and Man chester Direct Railway Meteyard, Horace Wm., Esq., 8.C.L., London, Director of Reming ton's London and Manchester Railway Miller, Thomas, jun., Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Bir mingham and Leicester Railway Mosse, R., Esq., Princes-street, Great George-street Parker, Francis, Esq., Northampton, Director of the South Midland Railway Parkinson, John, Esq Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-park, Director -ef the South Midland Railway Payne, Benjamin, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Birming ham and Leicester Railway Ramsey, J., Esq., Bushey House, Herts Reword), J., Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway Shaw, Joseph, Esq., York-place, Huddersfield, Director of the East and West of England Junction Railway Shaw, George; Esq., M.D., Leicester Spiers, E. 1., Esq., Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Stone, Nathaniel C., Esq., Rawley-flelds, near Leicester, Director of the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway Sagar, Hartley, Esq., Ball's Grove, Colne, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railways Threlfall, Edward, Esq., Regent Road Mills, Manchester, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway Tebbutt, Thomas, Evi., Rush°lm, Manchester, Director of the . _ Rugby and Manchester, and Le( Williams, B. 8., Esq., 70, Portl and Liverpool, Leicester and Ta eds and Carlisle Railways land-place, Director of the Leeds =worth Railways. , COMMITTEE OF Sir George Wm. Prescott, Bart. Sir George Rich Sir William Wynn Lieut.-Colonel Elringten Grey, Hazierigg, Esq. Thos. Mortimer Cleobury, Esq. Robert Bell, Esq. B. Collett, Esq. Major Croft Nathaniel Cumberlege, Esq. J. Dalby, Esq. MANAGEMENT. Charles Ileneage, Esq. Joseph Knight, Esq. Richard Lambert, Esq. Horace Wm. Metcyard, Esq, A. M. Macmoran, Esq. R. Mosse, Esq. John Parkinson, Esq. G. Parsons, Esq. I. Ramsay, Esq. J. Raworth, Esq. Major Waller BANKERS. Messrs. Rogors, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London Messrs. Garflt, Clapon, and Co., Boston Messrs. Kewney and King, Grantham Pare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leloester and Melton Mowbray. ENGINEER—C. Nixon, Esq. SOLICITOR—J. A. J. Macgregor, Esq., 26, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall London. LOCAL SOLICITORS. Messrs. Manners and Son, Grantham, and Messrs. Millington and Renick, Boston. • SEcarrany—George Farrer, Esq. PARLIAMENTARY AGENT--Cadwalier F. Waddy, ES.I, The object of this line of railway is to connect, by a direct route, the important town and seaport or Boston with the centre of Eng land, by way of Grantham and - Melton Mowbray, where it will join the Syston and Peterborough branch of the Midland Counties Railway. By this railway, which will be about forty-four miles in length, and laid through a country nearly level, it is intended to pass by or near Swinlshead, Donington, Folkingham, Grantham, Stoke, Roch ford, and Melton Mowbray. It is evident that this line will be of great convenience and utility, by affording to a part of the country at present deprived of it the advantage of railway communication with the counties of Rutlandshire, Leicestershire, Northampton shire, Warwickshire, &c., and thus connecting the agricultural districts of Lincolnshire with the manufacturing parts of England, affording to the latter an easy and accessible means of export for their manufactures. It is unnecessary to enlarge upon the advantages which will arise from this railway, which passes through one of the richest and most fertile parts of England. The population is dense, and a glance at the map will show that this line is well laid out, not only for the direct traffic from Leicester and the intermediate places to Boston, but also for the general traffic which will ue brought to this line by the several railways which will be connected with it. ....... In the allotment of shares, holders in the Midland Counties Rail way will receive a preference, Lind reservation will be made for the landed interests aloug the line, whose concurrence and assistance is fully relied on by the promoters, by whom most of the influential landholders have been canvassed ; and, in order to prevent unneces sary trouble, no other applications will be recdved except those wherein reference is made to a member of the Provisional Commit • tee, to the Solicitors or Bankers, or the following Sharebrokers, from whom prospectuses and plans may be obtained:— ' Messrs Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, Royal Exchange Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury, L on d on Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool Mr. Keil, 20, Atherton-buaPngs, Liverpool Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds Mr. Frederick Stamp, hull Mr. Geo. Clark, Bradford Mr. Wm. Cronhelm, Halifax . Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby Messrs. Grayston and Erie, York Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Manchester Messrs. T. N. Bardsvell and Sons, Sheffi e ld Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham . Mr. L. Wetherbur n, j un., Huddersfi eld Mr. It. Rozzell, Leicest er Messrs. Payne and Freer , Leicester Mr. James Duncan and 79, Princes-street, Edi n b urg h Hutchinson, Glas gow Messrs. Labertouche a nd Stafford, College -green Dublin. FORINI OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Boston, Grantham, Leicester. and Midland Counties Junction Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of 20/. each in the above proposed railway ; and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share thereon, or any less number you may ap propriate to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and rar liamentary Contract when required. Dated this day of 1845. Residence• • • • • • •• • • •• •• .• •• • • Trade or Profession .. • • ....„ Reference• • • • •••• - - OFFICE OF THE GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY. New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, Loudon, Oct. 22, 1845. I do hereby give notice that, pursuant to the Bth By-law of this Company, FRANCIS WITHAM, Esq. the present k H E R L D LS I , VO E L sq L . ASTON, ALEXANDER jONI, Esq. Auditors, have severally given me notice In writing of their intention to stand for the office of Auditor at the Election, which will take plac • at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand, in the county of Middlesex, on TUESDAY, the 4th day of November next. By order, CHARLES BURLS, Secretary. SELLING OFF CARPETS. LUCK, KENT, and CUMMING beg to inform the Nobility and Gentry, as well as their friends and the pub lic, that they have REMOVED their business from CARPENTERS' HALL, LONDON WALL, to their long-established warehouse, 4, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE, opposite Dowell and James's, and to 98, HATTON-GARDEN, lIOLBORN, where they trust that patronage will be continued which they have enjoyed for up wards of a century. A considera!gle portion of their large Stock et Brussels, Kidderminster, and other Carpeting, to he 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. RAILWAY STREETS. The question of adapting railway viaducts to street traffic, so as to improve instead of deteriorate the property they pass over, and diminish the cost of their construction by the pro ceeds of new building frontages, will receive, it is conceived. a practical solution in the experiment about to be tried on a grand scale by the Thames Embankment and Railway Junc tion Company. The object of this Company is to form a through communication with the railways entering the me tropolis from the east and west, and to connect them, by a rail way bridge, with the lines approaching the Thames from the north and south. One part of this object it is proposed to effect by a railway embankment between Hunger ford-market and Blackfriars-bridge, where the river is broad and shallow; but it was left open for consideration, on the formation of the Company, whether the railway, in passing to the east of Blackfriars-bridge, should continue in front of the wharves, or, leaving the river at that point, proceed behind the wharves, in a line parallel with them, between Thames-street and Cannon-street, to the Blackwall Railway, at or war the Minories. The latter course has at last been determined upon, after a careful survey of the two lines, with a view to their comparative cost, the wharf line involving expensive constructions, and unlimited demands for compensation, and the upper line a large original outlay, but a certain return of about two-thirds the amount by the sale of ground rents. It is intended, therefore, to form between the Minories and Blackfriars-bridge—through a mass of property, some por tions of it costly, but the greater part - of so inferior a cha racter that it is styled the " back slums" of the City—a new street, nearly as wide and as straight as Oxford. street, with a railway viaduct for atmospheric carriages in the middle, constructed with cast iron girders, supported by co lumns along the side pavement, resembling those of the Quadrant. A model of the viaduct and proposed new buildings on either side, has been prepared for public inspec tion, and Messrs. Bridges and Mason, the solicitors of the Company, have already commenced serving the necessary notices for the property to be purchased. The new street, which will give a frontage to Doctors'- commons, and open a view of St. Paul's from the south, will, in connexion with the embankment line, if carried out as intended, form one of the main arteries of the metropolis. It would appear, as described, to take the most direct as well as the most agreeable course from east to west, even for foot passengers ; end passengers by the railway, we are told, will reach the Bank in five minutes from Charing-cross, or the sea at Southend within an hour and a half. The chief City station will be immediately at the back of the statue of King William, ficing London-bridge ; but it is intended to have a station for omnibus traffic every five hundred yards throughout the line. The architectural ele vations of the railway embankment, in reference especially to its ornamental effect in passing the Temple-gardens, will be supplied by Mr. Barry. DURHAM AND SUNDERLAND.—On Monday the proprie tors of this undertaking met, Pursuaot to adjournment, in the Commisioners' room at the Exchange-buildings, Sunder land. Mr. C. Bramwell, Chairman of the Directors, presided, but in consequence of the offer made by Mr. Hudson, on behalf of the Newcastle and Darlington Railway Com pany, to purchase the line, and a special meeting having been called for the 3d of November to SCOTCEI LINES. DUNDEE AND STRATHMORE JUNCTION.—The Directors of the Dundee and Perth, and Dundee and Newtyle, have come to the following arrangements for improving the Newtyle line:-1. The Dundee and Perth Railway Company agree to lease the Dundee and Newtyle Railway and works and plant in perpetuity, and thereupon to guarantee to the present shareholders of the Dundee and Newtyle Railway an annual dividend of one per cent. upon the amount of their capital stock, not exceeding 115,0001. 2. That the capital of the Dundee and Strathmore Junction Railway shall be 100,000/., divided into shares of 251. each. 3. That 1,000 shares of the stock of the said company shall be placed at the disposal-ef the Directors of the Dundee and Newtyle Railway Company, and the remainder of the shares shall be placed at the disposal of the Directors of the Dundee and Perth Railway Company. 4. That the new line shall be worked by the Dundee and Perth Railway Company, at a rate to be fixed upon by a neutral party, mutually chosen by the Directors of the Dun dee and Perth and Dundee and Newtyle Railway Companies. 5. That after deducting the guaranteed rate of one per cent. on the stock of the Dundee and Newtyle Railway Company, and the working expenses, &c., the balance of the free revenue shall be applied, in the first place, in paying a dividend of six per cent. to the holders of the new stock; and in the second place the surplus shall be divided amongst the holders of the original stock of the Dundee and Newtyle Railway. 6. That early meetings of the shareholders of the Dundee and Perth, and Dundee and Newtyle Railway Corn • panies, shall be called for receiving the reports of the Directors of the respective companies in regard to the present arrange ments, and for confirming the same. ABERDEENSHIRE CANAL.—Arrangements, we understand, are now completed for the purchase of this canal by the pro moters of the Great North of Scotland Railway. This ac quisition will be of great importance to that undertaking; while the district, hitherto accommodated by the canal, will have no reason to regret the substitution of a railway for all their present or prospective wants. EDINBURGH, QUEENSFERRY, AND PERTH.—At a meeting of the trustees of the Queenaferry, held on Saturday, it was unanimously agreed to lease the ferry to this railway com pany for ninety nine years, at the nominal rent of five shil lings, upon the condition of their taking all the debts and responsibilities of the trust. Two branches or extensions, in addition to the line as originally planned, are intended to be included in the Bill; one to go round the west side of Loch Leven, keeping the towns of Kinross and Milnathort on the main line, and the other from South Queensferry to Ratho, on the line of the Edinburgh and Glasg.•w. At this point, it is understood, the Caledonian Railway will join it, and thereby secure a direct passage to the north, besides that by the Scottish Central, near Falkirk. IRISH LINES. The Ulster Railway Company have advertised for tenders for loans, in sums of not less than 1,000/. each, at 4 per cent. NEW NORTHERN.—A railway is projected to join Bally castle with the Belfast and Coleraine Junction, by way of Dervock and Ballymoney. This line would encourage the working of the only coal-beds in county Anti im. The Belfast and Ballymena Company have advertised for contracts for larch or Scotch fir sleepers. ULSTER EXTENSION.—BELFAST TO DUBLIN, BY BAN BRIDGE TO NEWRY.—It will be in the recollection of our readers that at the last general meeting of the proprietors of the Ulster Railway Company, resolutions were adopted authorising the Board of Directors to take the necessary steps for extending their line by way of Banbridge to Newry and Dublin, and to make such arrangements in relation to it, with the committee of the Newry, Banbridge, and Belfast Junction Railway Company, as they might deem expedient. We are gratified to be able to state that an agreement was on Wednesday entered into between the committee of the Directors of the Ulster Railway Company and the managing committee of the Newry, Banbridge, and Belfast Company, settling the terms upon which the project of the latter com pany is to be carried on, under the direction of the Ulster Company, as an extension of their line under the above title. CONTINENTAL LINES. MAYENCE Alcp LUDWIGSHAFEN.—MAYENCE, OCT. 10.— The first getterameeting of the shareholders took place here the day before yesterday. Nearly the whole of the share holders were present. The zeal and attention with which the Provisional Committee had transacted the affairs of the com pany was highly lauded. All hindrance in the way of its construction have been removed, and everything is ready for its commencement. The expenses hitherto also have been exceedingly small, for even the interest of the 50,000 florins placed at the disposal of the committee has hardly been ex pended. ST. PETERSBURGII, MOSCOW, AND WARSAW.—It is said that the Emperor purposes not only to connect Warsaw by a branch line with the trunk line at present in construction from St. Petersburg to Moscow, but also to extend it to the Odessa, so that the trade of Poland will extend itself to the Black and Caspian seas. _ _ . GREAT NORTIIERN LINE.—The council of administration has been finally constituted. The following are the names : —The Baron James de Rothschild, Vice-Admiral Rosamel, Philippe Hottinguer, Charles Laffitte, Pepin Lehalleur, Adolphe d'Eichtal, Emile Pereire, Auguste Thurnevsseii, Marc Caillard the elder, Delebecque, Gouin, Duke de Galiera, Jameson, Edward Blount, Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, Jules Mallett, Duke de Monchy, Marquis Da lon, Francis Baring, Thomas Baring, Jahn Moss, Baron Lionel de Rothschild, John Masterman, W. Chaplin, F. Mills, T. 0. Powles, Weguelin. The Baron James de Roths child is the president, and M. Delebecque the vice-president. In conformity with the 27th article of the statute, the general management has been delegated to a committee of five— namely, MM. Philippe Hottinguer, Emilie Pereire, Auguste Thurneyssen, the Marquiss Delon, and Marc Coine the elder. The committee will have the management of all affairs; there will be no directors. The capital of the com pany has been fixed at 200 millions of francs, divided into 400,000 shares of 500 francs each. The extent of calls upon the shareholders for the construction of the works is not to exceed 375 per share, without a unanimous resolution to the contrary by the shareholders. The first instalment of 125 francs per share has been effected by the original subscribers, producing a sum of 50 millions of francs, of which sum 20 millions have been reimbursed to the Treasury for their ad vances. A further sum of four millions of francs has been lodged as a guarantee for carrying out the works of the branch lines from Lille to Calais and to Dunkirk, which are to be immediately carried into execution by the company. The advances made by the Chambers, for the execution of the line fr..m Paris to Lille and to Valenciennes, amount to 90 millions of francs, which sum, according to the decree of the 15th July, ought to be reimbursed in five payments; the first, in a sum of 20 millions, has already been made, and the remainder is to be returned in four annual payments commencing January, 1847, of 17,500,000 francs each. The ci:mpany further will have to expend a sum of 20 millions of francs in perfecting the branch lines from Lille to Calais and Dunkirk ; to meet this outlay there remains to the company a sum of 3U millions out of the 50 millions they have re ceived. This suns will be more than sufficient to meet the necessary outlay for this and the succeeding year; therefore, according to this statement, there will be no occasion for a further call upon the shareholders for a period of fifteen months, that is, when the next instalment will become due to the State in 1847. NAMUR AND LIEGE.—Mr. Rennie, the engineer who has been engaged in tracing out the plans for the above line, has been occupied for several days in putting the works into active operation. The Minister of Public Works has been .put in possession of the plans, &c., for that portion com prised between Seraing and the bridge of Val Benoit. CIIARIEROY AND ERQUELINOES.—The President of the Council of Administration, M. Gordales paid a visit lately to the Chateau de Misericorde, near Marchiennes-au-Pont, fur the purpose of pressing forward the works which are being carried on there. THE POTATO MURRAIN NEAR MANCHESTER.—We ave made inquiries of intelligent agriculturists and scientific riends, who have visited different districts in this immediate neighbourhood, and the result is a conviction that the dis ease exists here, though as yet in a very modified form. It is, however, exceedingly difficult to arrive at any precise conclusion at present, for a great quantity of potatoes in this neighbourhood are not yet gathered, and it is found that the murrain is later in making its appearance in some places than others. An intelligent friend, who has extended his inquiries in every direction around Manchester within a few miles, informs us that he believes the murrain to be more or less in every district in the neighbourhood, except in that about Cheetham-hill, which exemption he supposes to be owing to its very light and sandy soil. Indeed, the potatoes on the light, dry soils, are generally more free from murrain than those on the cold, heavy lands. Careful microscopic observation has led several scientific gentlemen here to the belief that the disease is the same as that de- scribed by Professor Morren, in a communication to the Brussels paper the Independance, as having nearly destroyed the potato crop of Belgium, and which the Professor de scribes as a fungus of the genus botrydis (from a Greek word, signifying a cluster). We have heard of two experi ments which suggest several important considerations. It was found in one case that sound potatoes, after a week's contact with unsound ones, rapidly developed the fungous appearance. In another instance a potato, in an advanced stage of the disease, was carefully kept in a dry place for a week, and this appeared to stop all further decomposition. In order to test it still further, the same potato was put down into wet earth for ten days, and even this renewal of great moisture did not appear to cause the further spread of the disease. There is some difficulty in determining whether the brown fungus which overspreads the potato is the disease itself, or a natural consequence of previously existing disease. Professor Lindley, Dr. Lankester, and other botanical and physiological authorities, are of opinion that no parasitic fungus ever attacks a healthy vegetable structure : that disease must previously have commenced before fungus could find a habi'at. The practical importance of this question may be thus stated :—lf the disease is caused by the fungus, then the potato may be liable to it to any time, and for several seasons successively. If the fungus is not the cause, but a natural consequence of disease, then in dry and genial seasons there is no reason to apprehend the ravages of this murrain.—Manchester Guardian. _ MAN KILLED.—FIDELITY OF ins DOG.---Thursday morning, about half-past four o'clock, a labouring man, who had lately come from Edinburgh, where he had been working at the North British Railway, unfortunately met with his death by the falling of a brick-kiln near to Port Eglinton, Gorbals. It appears that the deceased, whose body is at present in the Gorbals Police. office, had laid himself down to sleep near the kiln where the accident occurred. He is a stout young man, and is dressed in mole skin jacket and trousers, with strong shoes, and red thibet handkerchief. He had with him a bundle contain ing wearing apparel, and 9s. 9d. in silver and copper. A remarkable incident connected with the above occurrence was the fidelity and sagacity exhibited by a dog belonging to the deceased. After the accident by which the poor man was literally buried among the bricks, the faithful animal used every exertion to aid the wolrmen to extricate the body. and would not leave the spot afterwards until taken away by force. Since the above was written, we learn that the deceased was named James Brown, and belonged to Ayr shire. He left Edinburgh on Wednesday, and intended 604 to Dlearni iln nun 41610.—Glavow Argus. DUTCH PAPERS. SPEECH OF THE KING OF HOLLAND. bit TIIE HAGUE Octr. 20.—This day, at one o'clo c "' t b e it Majesty the King left, the Palace, accompanied e hY salute Royal Highnesses the Princes, and a brilliant staff. A, of artillery announced his Majesty's departure. be, the received with every mark of respect and affection 19).10 multitude collected on the way. Oa arriving at the paled of the States-General, the King was received by d a eputs t o of the Members of the two Chambers, and i U tr U dated int ( ' t he assembly. is Majesty having placed himself hef °l.B throne, delivered the following speech : " NOBLE M , ID MIGITTY LORDS,— tha t 62° "I am happy to be able to announce to you ~ general situation of the country continues to present fe"- able appe Netherlands have not ceased to maintain gnu relations with foreign Powers. 6, The visit which I have paid to her Majesty the Que e d ri er et . England will contribute,lht,pe, to consolidate the go:4;111,e standing which exists between the two countries anda,ree Governments. For my part, I shall retain the most able impression of the welcome which I received on that ‘ 1 _,, (1 army and navy continues to merit approbation 140 commendation for their conduct and good discipline. trans-marine possessions enjoy the benefit of thet most, .ci t ' ar y plete tranquillity; they feel, at the same time, he .ton' influence of the high rice of their productions. dog The Administration proceeds with order an d regt in the direction of the internal affairs of the country...ctio " The development and improvement of public lot' is an object of constant solici da tude. " Notwithstand s ing the ngers with which weltirtoell threatened last winter, by the sudden thaws a nd the e_,AO ordinary rise of our rivers, our dikes and hydraulic 17,;.4 have been preserved by the goodness of Provide nce fro disasters. „„ 4 1 to _. e. " Besides the continuance of the works for th e of communication by sea and land, the construction op t o ways is prosecuted with activity, without any ehnrge public revenue. ev ' e ' r A in la t u h dle e ah exee sp u ir ti i o t n of of en im teg r rie t s ant m w a o n r i k fe s sts fo i r tse lf no ore gro d . embanking. „ A e " Commerce and manufactures have given this 1- - factory results. . ea t To prevent the misfortune arising from the defict boo of one of the most important articles of feed, Ina s % 90 11 already been taken, and in concert with you theY wilt be extended. By the aid of those measures, in on. ) „ a ,see l with the charitable spirit which characterises the ne" - ti o which has never failed, and by the progres-ive teef f works for the employment of the indigent classes, '_. co oi hope to obtain an alleviation of the fatal consequeLor this ca'amity. The reports which have reached my ."5 jar ment on the crop of some other agricultural produ ct° tify this hope. o ld P er " Use has been made, as far as circumstances w° mit, of the means agreed to for the restoration of ° .t. ": • tary system. If the legislative measures which tuvbt; duction of the new coinage require, and which w ill „, I pt before you with as little delay as possible, be 10709 they may be carried into effect at the beginning year. sto, 4 " The operation for reducing the interest of the Ottasfei debt is drawing to a close. The scrupulous Wet,' which has been shown in fulfilling the obligation eo,n to til a by the voluntary loan, has especially contributea..l eisr prompt and favourable issue of this important finane2; frot ration. The nation will reap the greatest advant, O P, the generous sacrifice which it has imposed on iteet " the engagement of the State. • s " The constant increase of the public revenue le ci t ground of satisfaction. "Two p ro j ec t s of law finally to regulate the OA„pO,, the current year, and to determine the means for u n 0' will be another proof that the finances are nom 7 ° 4 regulated, but in a favourable situation. " The attention of my Government is cons , ' on the improvement of the excise laws, as r a ., s ub e o c : from the presentation of some projects of law on t ilt & toll ' The law on the pensions of civil officer* t ec t, e v, others connected with the system adopted on thi s en, fe be brought forward during the session. bo • The grant of a pecuniary indemnity to those t , suffered by the inundations, ordered by the inil it : r (oeg A e j " ' neers in north Brabant, Zealand, and Limburg, "as te ' t o sired, but was, at the same time, of a delic 3 re oy difficult nature. I hope that you will be the more for ra s e assist in the mode which will be proposed to Y_„ ° ' - t off hating this matter, as it appears completely to oso interested, without the necessity of employing e nary means. pt " Several projects of law for the revisal of the .. po' f the penal code will be presented during the ispe s e- o l lini i : drawing up these projects of law, regard has 1 4 t i tt the observations communicated to the Governor to 14 last session. 4 1 , 114 t" 04: " Several other proposals are ready, or soon 1, 0 successively laid before you. I hope that this T i isysollS case with a final project of law on the cominilvi a 'Sit' l ' well as new regulations respecting the charitable tsl and the game -l law, aw. i sat'' " Projects of s : founded on Article Cof the 's' ow' law, will be laid before you as soon as possible. t rod 0 0 ' " Speaking of the fundamental law, and refle ° “7 lOg S! has passed, I cannot refrain from again expres s „;e7 . nion that the revival of the fundamental 10 4 -- itiollsiedt by itself, is essentially subordinate to a deep 00 ore: necessity. Hitherto no such conviction has tm a t w il a be but I repeat the assurance that, as soon as it s'",,, e it vi pressed on my mind, I shall not hesitate to Pr o proposal to your High Mightinesses. well M " There is another point on which I Ivo ,ad a moment. r y t 0 . , " From a circumstance which it is not neeessa'd( s ea' I the speech with which I opened the last ses sion by al l to the usage hitherto adopted) was not follow ed dress in answer it. . / would not to consider this silence as a motive foired'ata ing from coming among you •, but this event bas il to •' make reflections, the result of which I think I oug" od municate to you. "The fundamental law says that the session, _ 613 : 1 0 ! 0 , 1 , 1 1 1 opened by the King in person, or by his commissl?:o9,.:4 does not say that the States-General shall return7o °7! to the speech delivered on the occasion. Custom ost ' hitherto served as a rule. 11 1 ' 5 ' . al "I will not examine whether this rtfe is really 1 e a I ii ,, with the pi ineiples of our constitution. ;Neither o f th e se iel t t i h m e e a n s ts su o ra f n t c h e e re th p a r t e l se h n i t g a ha• e s s a o l f ued the ex peessiou ° . soo v he "The project of an address in tion tells me that it would be better that the speee 'I, i 1 throne should not have an answer. the nation; but !T o ol •. nnsWer to accompanied with difficulties inherent on the tnll;tesPs.if° S tij l ° subject itself. The discussion, as " Perierl‘ t° JO proved, may give rise without necessit , : f ose s i se diversity of opinion which it is difficult wholly to . 0 us a ble the very beginning of the session the examills%lcsallillse address leads to debates which consumes rou e ce ° • floe ° tie time, and at the same time have an unhappy ID ~, further course of the session. io e s crb ti. st ° t wh"anoubmavuest, said,ho wlevdeor,nfoutllyinueaundersintaanndylayt'io orfesttii'lltdice; impede the competency, or even the expresalo iOt e to as' sires of your High Mightinesses. I have n0 . _1 1t ..". s od w ith than to communicate to you my way of thit ls l,o; coa' sure your assembly that your silence will not on 00 th no unfavourable interpretation on my part, h ilt ' •0 ° I trary, will be fully appreciated by me. ses s el ; & -thia 0 10 " It now only remains for me, on °patio..., to btg,..,. esl the States-General, to implore the Alnlighl s b it r o oms to bestow his wisdom on the nation, of W i e r- .4ativ' s t es ter perienced so many proofs, in order that the g' o . t es ti p ea thus seconded in its labours may find the T, ' fil isfo r tre o • as bs sa means, with the aid of Heaven, to avoid , 4,4 t . P ; Wit,. , 1 , 3 , from the country, and to increase and eon s . () urea 4 ., prosperity of this kingdom, which is so l a v o f t h e benefits of Providence." . The King has appointed Mr. H. R. TlPPrestaelit States-General. alb COURT CIRCtiLA-it• ace oeo and PI gig i b bi WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen_„ . R o es We , . a walked in the grounds this forenoon. 1 1 ' 5 — eo rnlss i , V e afterwards took the diversion of shooting. V ar sivi°' P s Prince Nicholas Esterhazy and the Earl of . ssus erie• o d di' attended by Mr. G. E. Anson and Colonel ~% P f ; j eit e so, royal party returned at two o'clock. 1-11. 2 ss e-gr l l i s is° l ? s . Prince walked out this afternoon in the ple'' he esr'•s *l '' Her Majesty the Queen Dowager attended s da ,. 1 1 4 04 ing prayers in St. George's Chapel Royal to- day I ` l 4 jau wes- •ding countess Barrington and the Earl of Denbigh on her Majesty. 01 ri pees r ul t r s ilio e at All the Royal Family were taken fer Royal 0 ° • e and walking exercise this morning. Their ~,e r e w th ai e l,kh P ien ri g n isi c i n e , r ocithe l i sa Pales fatne r nd andooi afternoon. the reb i P o n r e i n s ce s s Bor st sere e t a Jt arrived d E e d le th te e r E °l4 0f 4 ;0 1 1 Castle, on a visit' to the Queen The Earl of Elardwicke has . suCc o ee f as the Lord in Waiting to her Majesty. „,d 0 th s e r 0 0 7, The Dowager Lady Lyttelton has ret,ur 1 . 1 ,,, - ,jude "t s eof t , The royal dinner circle this evening it's" I : gasi s , SEW Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Al l e , ‘ , ll ,l e e, and ll° Baroness de Speth, Colosel Sir George ,-,•'-' „,.. General Wemyss. sinsw e . A military band was in attendance duc hig t he CA"' a A 1 '0%°4 ..1 111 ----------" ou 0 ip Majesty's private band afterwards attended in so Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps inte evie, c olic Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had at lu'' the Chancellor of the Exchequer Yes-terdaYs se Tae' residence in Downing-street. • torn si The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert ar rived Ilia "fi day night. 0 0 101 0 fro terv ie° D m is t p h a e tc G b o ea vern we o r r e of re s ce ou ly th ed A - yesterdayustraija. at t d b e in yer The Earl of Powis and Lord Jocelyn ha .. terday with the Chancellor of the Exc_ ...... hecl ue " 0 ' e___.•••■•••••••"1""."---- •.: ° 120C I' SP QUEEN VICTORIA- sciLV . •of A cit , s e THE NORTH-EAST COAST OF -A to t he tr e " ' The mercantile public are much Dublin Steam-packet Company for the t Pu" e' ttle 0 5'a t . they have been at in ascertaining the - bet I ) o t ° hitherto unknown danger. ers , on ast kind' The Queen Victoria, one of their steam on k se from Dublin to Liverpool, when off the . _ s s roe ,s • w as ~,e Anglesea, on the 24th of last N. struc.st I ' l ' „ in rcurns.- cuveyl3 p n o o rted ne was to tlahiedAddomwnirainityth, ewchhoaorrt o a si s I.e Q u es n o ut did be vessels to go and search for it : but 1 ' n shore covesoi indetbrute•-nble a.nticione_of 01:: correctly ascertained, therefore the bein,sis had step o o n n l y it, s t the c k bearingsth e ro c k of and t h d e a m m d l e a g r re te e:d d sA e hercd.c i e i r - o a f t i t t ° 7: r s a I I d i ct i: t r° B o : l not successful in finding it. CoroPallYallteP- of assured there was a rock in that loc _ hi , . 0 _ 1 04 under the command of Captain Buck, " s " eas eh f o rd o? The Directors of the City of Dublinai ono ,* chljt: „-es so4 l a u " ceee ded 'be ' 461. te r .rt'oeY„,i„;tain v .- the v • 0 l ' j e w d er the n T' ...e. 1 - 0 1 . ' th e the Queen Victoria when she s t rettieaiLisit,einoid offetet voicsovillree,ti the e e ro r gr ck ea to t p be er s s i e t v u e a r t a e n d c n e, eu h r e t c h o e rn u p ( l ) a it ter a , o ; l3 ,:t, Aanci d n: t i g re : roi s o oit :res mßoa.aenrrkli.is't'„ so It aHs e h tl a oe d ft uttbeh three buoys a eu t ot.o l v o s w finn to 4 0 ,0, s t u P s ys this search was also re r a e g p a o h r s t , and, sent b one g o a f ccorn th p pe i r n r i t e ed r_' a i r n, tho u g`Lher° 1 . th ° was no difficulty in finding the ro ck a _td were li°7 le dgeo.i; had been chafed from their m oorin o e c a:,,, ac kne h " e o iler seen. The Admiralty have now tI law : t of the " Cemaes Mill one quarter of a_p ebxeaisrtie n n ga ce fr o e f m th it is :_ " pinnacle of rook,"(,nodpegn`veaeics,temiyo fitierroa: con, bearing S.E. three-quarters S. p ea bearing S. of Henborth Point ill ° • to Vic de " High water mark (w en wt.: Beacon, S.W. half." coincidence that the us vii, het "" It is rather a strange uovn _,. on "Kemlyn Mill touching the eastern end do with should have struck this uuk r°"' ' __---:,,,,. ------ ASE yr w' --------- - FOR THE RE MAIND _,,. SEE THE SUPPLEOP'" usa44 London : Printed and Published by MUSD° 1°So• 101 No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun ()kat co o Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in so Niddlasex, Thursday, October 23, 180. 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