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

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' the The UNION BANK OF LONDON, as AGENTS c:ip,,ORIENTAL BA_NK,. are authorised to issue LETTERS ~•„„_u r r for any Moneys paid to them, to be repaid in Rupees, te q ,"urrent rate of exchange on the day of presentation, at the ke,_of the Oriental Batil:, - in Bombay, - Calcutta, and Colombo. of Credit may be tined at of the Branches 4 : 4 .1 " a t onal Bank of Sc obt otland, and of the any Provincial Bank of By order of the Directo-s, o n Bank W. W. SCREMGEOUR, Manager. of London, Ito. 2, Princes-street, Mansion-house. la t , PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. „ MANCHESTER, HUDDERSFIELD, ` t n.); SLEY, and GOOLE JUNCTION RAILWAY. . _ (Provisionally Registered.) - "`„,islature having, during the recent session, sanctioned the • ob"' a railway from Huddersfield to Manchester, the long-de of opening a d'rect line of railway communication. from 17 • 4i to the Port of Goole, passing through the Sadaleworth arscl on 'o ke ,„ . , • Valleys, now presents itself. "" ,1 1 3 13111 this object, it is proposed to make a railway, corn liaightt or near the station at Huddersfield of the Huddersfield e l , cster hallway, proceeding through the Kirkburton and Vull Yth„ ey e, and thence by way of, or near, Barnsley, to Goole. proposed railway, and the intended Huddersfield and Man ofr;,„allwaY, there would be then established one continuous Cir o Z, w aYs between the Irish Sea and the German Ocean, pass- Goo 4 Manchester, and connecting the two ports of Liverpool '; and also several important and populous manufacturing • '' °ll 4l have the benefit of railway communication, for which by:2 l has Yet been made by any existing Company, or pro 'Oe "ITY scheme now before the public. e 'Posed line would cross the North Midland Railway at or zOtrworth Station, opening a direct communication southwards. 14ricn of the line b e tween Huddersfield and the North Mid ,‘,l43' would pass through or neer several of the most ex- Celebrated coal •fields in Yorkshire ; and the other part afford increased means of attaining the valuable • linettingley. ktV , TY through which the line wont I pass generally is of a b e character, and presenting few (if any) engineering die? p u t a survey is now being made, and, when completed, a "tr,iospetus, with the na.nes of a most influential Provisional oth er' consisting of landowners, merelr.nts, manufacturers, be-ally interested, • will be published. In the meantime 4 tious may be made to • WILLIAM JACOMB, Esq., Solicitor, Huddersfield. Provisionally Registered. L I ' S SOMERSET, AND SOUTHAAIP ,6'III,,kt„__. fON JUNCTION RAILWAY. jOtt - '4 the English with the Bristol Channel, and forming, a - h rl , tylltnunicatioo, on the broad gtuge, between Southampton, 6„, s7h. Brstol, and every other town in the West of Eng %Wales. l 'eceipts may now be exchanged for Script Certificates, and tl • t 4 tr, 4n R lie for Signature at the, Company's Office, 26, Ore- Ik tls .6 di shortly be removed into the country, of which da De given. \4‘l,,,,_crttst .21, 1845. H. B. SHERIDAN, secretary. N ` ON HOUNSLOW, and WESTERN RAILWAY. hereby given, that NO APPLICATION'S for SHARES in m ean vrtll be received after MONDAY, ISt September. By order of the Committee, T. S. BROWN, Sec. pro. tem. k.. DERBYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE, ktid WORCESTERSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 600,0001., In 30,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 2/. 25. per Share. it PROVISION AL , COMMITTEE. im q,; , :nourable the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, i Pm ▪ oung, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street, ,lor.! 1 * - garclens gi p ' William Prescott Bart of Theobalds Serje• ant's-ihn, London • Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's London Railway Ctiri,,', l . , sq., Shelton, Staffordshire Potteries Vlbi d F. T., M.A., Cannock Messrs.,_ Rugeley h„, , lzayncs.Esq., High Sheriff of Lichfield ert, gAgflllanker, Smallwood Manor, near Uttoxeter zitt r „ r J. T., Regent-street, London, Deputy Chairman of the lei% Alenchester Railway )4 ", E.q., Uttoxeter Pellsall-hall, +atbot, Esq., Wolverhampton „ 4 t, - 9 (1 Rugeley %%Esq . ., Camioc-k. • 474:k • • R., M.A., Cannock ,_Thompson, 3lessrs., liiilston, Staffordshire k 4 lliQ:ksq., Ironworks, itough Hills, near Wolverhampton tOl, :7 Esq., Uttoxeter Esq., Wolverhampton , Wedges 31tEs, Cansiock • J. , • Esq., Darlaston 'l. Esq., Rugeley le.Y.,4 l ""'ain, Esq., Park-house, Wellington I , 4 _Matthew, Esq., Banker, Worcester 417', s, Esq., Rugeley nil, Chad EM., Director of the Leicester and Birmingham House, Edgbaston EM. Esq., Manchester, Director of Remington's London b,,iester Railway Esq., Director of the Chester and Manchester Rail „7,- ary-chnrcllyard ( Eu l t.s lia t ril William, Esq., Director of Remington's London er Railway, Moorgate, London !;$,, P,,: 0 , 1 __• ▪ P., Alton Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire i,J,..1 1 ,‘Fe, Esq. Sedgley 54n's.wo aph,Eaq., Director,of the National Bank of Ireland, Regent's-park 0 0 _7 1 ,Z , ce Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Asanrance, /‘444)4(i'vard Esq, M.D.; Stafford • Ik 4 h e lard Corbett, Esq., Wandfield Uttoxeter j„nrY, Esq., Rakeway House. Cheadle eles, Esq., Uttoxeter e,, , lchard, Esq., Uttoxeter • Wheeley, Esti., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn on l a% l , Esq., Wolverhampton el& Esq., Wednesbury k*,,M, Esq., Cheadle lt:,,V4race Wm., Eso Director of Remington's London and kirn Railway, Middle Temple, and Chatham -place 14 0 aeiel, Esq., Wolverhampton f), Esq., rtngeley _ _ N, , 55 ,l o i hs arlis, Esq., Rugeley 1 1 t , Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire k‘.11 , 6 4 1- Mee, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commissioner gitkL!ehl, Esq., Tenn Staffordshire Esq. Woodford, near Uttoxeter glas ' Kinnafrd ' oaptain Director of the Nottingham x',': 4 l Railway, Parlia ' ment-street, London Voie l Piara, Esq., Springfield House, Uttoxeter Lysways, Lichfield kti4Esq., Bilston, and Pendeford House, Wolverhampt on 4 Jainin, Esq., Wednesbury • Esq., Cnnock Esq. Cannock ihrt, Es q., Scropton, Derbyshire 'll l j2R, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire i1,,;4z?, Esq., lilore Hall, Ashbourn Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of the Teau and • Railway V. k Vere, Esq., Kensington, Middlesex S ( 4t r '' Esq., Carlton Villas, London Esq,, Holloway-place, London k tin JOr James, K.H., 15, St. James's-square, Director of the '' 7 , Tha d Manchester Railway I)a r Pas, Esq., Teen, Staffordshire ii i ' 14x• 4, Esq., Uttoxeter Wednesbury k, Ti Esq., Chetwyd House, Newport— '9nlas, Esq., Uttoxeter 1 BANKERS. t)4'jrl,: er St Olding, and Co., Clements's-lane, London Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Bank, Uttoxeter rttoieter, and Ashbourne Union Bank, Ashbourne ktivnal al provincial Bank of England, Rugsley Provincial. Bank of England, Lichfield ara. SOLICITORS. b" ) Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London '`illiain Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttometer. A N . '''° LOCAL AGENTS. 4 1Ww, J., Esq., Rugeley hoi 1 s, Esq., Wolverhampton ,' Thoma E,,,'N John, Esq., Dudley 4,,,''riton, A , Esq., Lichfield - "" , ..1. Green, Esq., Walsall _ . , - : ENGINEERS. Sir John Rennie G. Remington, Esq., C.E. 144 . - Railway 4 l4 - I , l t ': proposed between Uttoxeter and Dudley has 1 p ken at the suggestion of several influential parties, as k k (wi q 1,1 5) thout being a competing line with any railway at pre /o'rss all the advantages of several projected lines, with addi -4,ll9rdinary value. The agriculturalUxeter, in the Dove Val ))4,l:lis _the centre of a rich district, supplying al , 'tr is i si sr e kets of Dudley, Tipton, Walsall, Bilst,in, and Wednes- I s l t ‘ t ~s,, a ll lid ese di , la c te a ry ttle, m 2 e d agricultural transit produce, All tb e p b r u e t pn b s y ed a very es ' 1 ‘'lts, s 4 ntlis with Manchester, Lon ' don, and the Potteries, , 'llle y ' s krily pass to or near Uttoxeter. Already the Chur sss:ts Valley Derby and Stafford, Derby and, Crewe, Teen, Sts,' , I s s ~ North Staffordshire, Manchester Direct Inde- Ntts . Lester and Ashby lines of railway, project a station at ASIt s si ,siksSuming either of these former, or some equivalent, to ktlts'tt, Bull, be the best route from Manchester, Macclesfield, the tls.Kt v ;_ u ll, Sheffield, and the north to the mineral districts of f- t su rdshlre, and to Kidderminster, Worcester, and South bj•a t „, t he Leicester and Ashby line, which will communicate i tit Z 4'it i to 'Uttoxeter, traffic of great part of the east of ) 014 bIT 4 ab e e Uttoxeter , available for Staffeord:rliililre be e and es the ed west. eyer tkli tr i ( k a nd to Abbott's Bromley, thence to Rugeley, where les s _ntb the Trent Valley . Railway Station, by Channock the 4att7eßGisi"g d ßrok S t all i ey, tb Hedne i stord, i an l el v t d henc i : by itioi44llnrai districts an of South Railway, h Staffordsiir t e ir to ou llt l alley e ; n tii s er u e r it, til ~,, those railways that will connect the Staffordshire coal ,orcester, Ludlow, and Porthdynllaen on the south-west, L s, i `"! Merthyr Tydvil, Swansea, Heretbrd, on the west and t ti fillis s , i lset, it will unite by the nearest route the east and west Ssketlilis ;,,,. , fis., "41 fall into and cross the Trent Valley, Midlands, and itei ss et inn Railway at Walsall, and from Cannock afford direct '1 tits"n with Wolverhampton (where it will run into the 4,,44,ti Il l 'As s ogre railway) from Leeds, and Huddersfield, and the north ',.' , 4,,ltos sli ngland. isssiation on the line exceeds 300,000, and the ordinary traffic 1/4(:,,kisr u s .internal sources alone is sufficient to maintain the rail <word more than ample remuneration to the shareholders. ts r a mi tlon line (with the present immensely increasing public t ill er *a Way travelling) it is scarcely possible to compute the 'k i li this line traffic-, but it must necessarily be very great. -, It 5,,,: lvas registered, a company has been formed for ex- Vi, Ls/ s il Junction at Uttoxeter, to Huddersfield, Leeds, and s `i,rol,,,J o ,,way of Ashbourn, and by this means immense mines of Wtto ri ne, and coal of Derbyshire, the products of the paint q i t7es , it 7 .. and barytes works at Ashbourne, Cromford, &c., will ', I ; e ss ''' l with those already in work, find a ready transit to ) or,S._ Birmingham, Dudley, and Wolverhampton. The in *Lilt ss ''''''sengers, attracted by ready means of conveyance to the f o ll) , ras'"trY of Dovedale, and the High Peak, will be necessarily ki t tl ' t '' s' i l e ' r, ore, lime, and coal, abounding in the Caldon and the is 0 - iiles. will be transmitted by this line to the manufacturing \ 4111 4 ttr tafr ect ordl i s Ar e, communicationVa svie be ksl t dr we e e , n anlSou s, thWales, and Huddersfield,it will and ~ la ncll , the y nearest e yenta n to lianeb Southampton ester k i ' S 't Pl t : ( „ i ' l e ' staenrd, it mill oxetel LS . ,7 l l t y st ,4 l :eadent Line, or whatever railway should ultimately , Manchester and London, as forming the shortest route V isa:q`bliti, a line which, it is now admitted on all hands, must re u„saly reserves the right to r the additional capital to com- N4fis s iZ from Dudley to or near the Droitwich station, on the lk s 'itatt s a nd Gloucester Railway. tti Ar ns tor shares and every information to be made to IC t , T a5 , A i n°l4l Bainhrigge. Esq., Uttoxeter ; and John Owens, sks t % :,..._;.' a rgate-street, London ; and of the following share ?4,` . '', a s ars. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles, p y a ' s sir. Thomas Henry Wheeler, Worcester ; Messrs. tsli i 1 -ly sr gn Whitehead, Liverpool ; Messrs. Cameron and Com- V% 1 4 DM ; Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard r til a aeeleSfieid ; Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds; Messrs. Well -)7t ,Tho si n4 Oastler, Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ; )si,iSlts 4l 'i - loardinan, Blackburn ; Mr. George Clark, Brad ,,`‘ , Ai_ r tillam Mason, Bradford ; Mr. William Cronheim, 4114_ Is m s: Charles Spencer, Nottingham; Messni. Eyre and Oer,rie, N 3 .l Messrs. Gray stop and Erie, York ; Mr. E. H. ~,,,! . slar akefleld; . Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham; Mr. 4; 1 'A) 1 `,2 N E l e ' , inn., Southampton ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, tktti, s„ s a s sr B . Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter ; Mr. I(4t ' 1:1 0 ","' ° nI, Exeter ; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry ; k Ss,M ane gliland and Leese, Manchester; Messrs. Cardwell and 'Ss t '• Is c . l 'ett s ,ter ; Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Manchester ; Sltl , ON; i v • Uardwell and Sons, Sheffield ; Mr. W. H. Collis, Bir toss?, i1 a ,17, L. Wetherburn, jun., Huddersfield; Messrs. Everard 4, s s ,Sttersfleld ; Messrs. Payne and Freer, chinson Leicester ; Mr. ' sstrsuriburgh; Messrs. Duncan and Glasgow;Hut .rt buche and Stafford, College-green, Dublin. ' I.' ill s ~ r- - OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. 4 QI I Oxf 'anal Committee of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, 11114 ordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway. request you to allot me Shares, of 20/. each th, 4 itti ki : r ailway, and I undertake to accept the same, or such °ll may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations kled, tt'dY.; and to sign the necessary deeds, and to pay, when th i e deposit thereon of 2/. 2s. per share. oay of . 184 • Profession and professional residence in full .. • • Residence in full.• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Befe,rence •••••" " " " .• •••• • • " ~~ i~ '''~- N 16,543, PRICE sd. THE SUN is Published E VERY MORNING at FIVE O'CLOCK, i n Time for the EARLY TRAMS and TOWN DELIVERY ; a SECOND EDITION ( Evenin g Sun) is Published in Time fur the AFTERNOON TRAINS, and a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, coqaining PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that Thur. ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TO N and COUNTRY CIRCULATION at ONE CIIARGE. NOTICE is hereby given that the GUARAN TEE SOCIETY has REMOVED from 28, Poultry, to the premises lately occtipied by the London Assurance Corporation, 19, 13irchin-lane, Cornhill. . • i. I OUTII-EASTERN RAILWAY. REDUCTION OF FARES.—EXPRESS TRAINS. On and after the Ist of SEPTEMBER NEXT the fares on this line will be asfollows Between the London and the Dover and Folkestone Tettnitti Express Trains, 18s. Other Trains—First Class, 15s. ; Second Class, 10s.; Third Class, 6s. " Thejntermediate fares will be in proportion. From the same date, DAY TICKETS will be granted at the fol lowing fates : Ladon to Dover.. and Folkestone and back—Express Trains, 275. Other Trains—First Class, 225. 6d. ; Second Class, 15s. ; Third Class, 9s. To intermediate stations in proportion. Tickets issued on Saturday will be returnable on Saturday, Sun day, and Monday ; those issued on Sunday will be rettlrnable on Sunday and Monday. . - Periodical Tickets will be charged for as under:- Ist Class. 2d Class. Ist Class. 2d Class One Month ••X 9 Six Months ...E35 •• • ....f25 Two Months .... • 20.... 14 Twelve Months 50.• .. • • 35 Three Months .. 25.... • • 17 By order o: London Terminus, August 18, 1845 T UE OXFORD, SOUTHAMPTON, GOS PORT, AND PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY. IPSWICH AND BURY ST. EDMUND'S RAILWAY COMPANY. Notice is hereby given, that the FIRST ORDINARY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this Company will be held at the Offices of the Company, Brook-street, IPSWICH, on FRIDAY, the 12th day of September next, at one o'clock in the afternoon precisely, for the general purposes of business. " And notice is hereby given, that such meeting will also be held for the special purpose of increasing the number of Directors named in the Act of Incouporation to the number of fifteen, and for that purpose to elect Two Directors, and to determine the order of rota tion in which such increased number shall go out of office; and also for the special purpose of authorising the Directors to apply to Par liament in the ensuing session for an Act or. Acts of Parliament enabling this Company to construct a Railway to Norwich, diverging from the. Ipswirh mid Bury St. Edmund's Railway at, or near to, Stowmarket, with or without Branches therefrom ; and also of authorising the Directors to apply to Parliament in the ensuing session for an Act or Acts of Parliament enabling this Company to construct a Railway, in continua. tion of the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway, from Bury, to join the Northern and Eastern Railway at or near to Cambridge; with or without branches therefrom ; and also of. authorising the Directors, on behalf of the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway Company, to execute the necessary Parliamentary deeds for. the. several purposes aforesaid, and to issue such► scrip, and to adopt such measures, and make and enter into such terms and agreements, and lake such steps in reference thereto, and in furtherance thereof,. as they may deem necessary or expedient. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. A MAGNIFICENT, EXTENSIVE, and UNIQUE COLLEC TION of TROPICAL FRUITS, modelled by Mons. Grimaud during his long residence in the Isle of France, is just deposited. The ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY is Lectured upon by Professor Bachhoffner, and exhibited Daily and in the evenings. A NEW AMERICAN INVENTION, COLEMAN'S PATENT LOCOMO TIVE ENGINE, for ascending and descending inclined planes on Railways without the aid of stationary power. SWIMMING and DIVING ILLUSTRATED by the son of Captain Stevens, the ce lebrated teacher of swimming, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at Two o'clock, and on the Evenings of Tuesdays and Thursdays at half-past Eight o'clock. The other exhibitions, &c. as usual. Provisionally Registered. Capital 500,000/., in 25,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL CO3II4ITTEIL • The Hon. Hose Browne, Chairman of the Manchester and Bir mingham Continuation Railway John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Hyde-park John Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, Banker Sir. John Campbell, , Sir John Pirie, Alierman, Bart , Directors of the Peninsular and Pedro de Zulueta, Esq., Oriental Steam Packet Company B. M. Wilcox., Eq., Sir William Wynn, Chairman of the North Wales Railway Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, Rel,grdVe-square Thomas Kelly, EM., Alderman of the City of London Wisiiam Hughes Hughes, Eq., Alderman of the City of Landon, late M.P. fin - Oxford, and late High Sheriff of Humpliery, Hants John Esq., Alderman of th e City of London, anti M.P. for the Borough of Southwark The Mayor of Newbury G eo rge Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Cordial . James Henry Attwood, Esq., Seymour-street, Portman-square Charles Baker, Esq., Southampton ' James Beech, E5q.,.15, Grosvenor-place Samuel Bovill, Esq.; Southampton Sheffield, and Midland Junctio n , an d East anti W Samuel Swaim Brittain, EM., Sheffield, Di rec to r o f th e Manchester, Junctieirand Crewe Rallway W. C. Byes, EM , Banbury, Direct or o f t h e Bi rm i ng h am an d Oxfold • Ra lway Lohe.rt BarVur, Eq., Manchester , eat of England John Churchill. Efq., Bayswater, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation Railway C. it. Colman, Esq., Irentrate-wharfaad General Steam Navigation Company ; Director of the isonth.Midiand Railway illiam thatilvitt; Fztr., Chairman of th tr4cimacind Railway Samuel James Capper, Beq., Adeiaide-pLisc.—; Loudon-Wage F. F; . CloSsmann, Esq., Mincing-lane George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Midland Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-; rice. if the Board, W. O'BRIEN, Secretary, QOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. - PLEA-. k_J S URE EXCURSIONS between the Bricklayers' Arms or Dover termini, and all stations except London-bridge, at one fare there and back, every Saturday and Monday until further notice. On the above-named days excursion tickets will be issued by the following trains : Four of the Directors will, under the Act of Parliament, go otlt of office at the above meeting, but being eligible for re-election, will offer themselves accordingly. . For the convenience of Shareholders-in London, it has been deter mined to receive scrip to be registered at No. 53, Parliament-street, as well as at Ipswich, if the party sending it writes across each cer tificate his name and address, with the application for registry and' conversion, as advertised on the 2d inst. :DOWN TNAINS. 6 45 a.m 3d clan train 10 0 a.rn. Ist and 2d do. 4 0 p.m. 3d do. 5 30 p.nit.'lst and 2d do. UP TRAINS. 5 30 a.m. 3d class train 6 45 a.m. Ist and 2d do. 2 0 p.m. 3d do. 6 30 p.m. Ist and 2d do. Fsres there and hack:- Ist class, 18s thl. ; 2d class, 125.; 3d class, 7s. 4d JOHN CFIEVALLIEU COBUOLD, Chairman. By order of the Board, JAMES F. SAVNDERS, Secretary. Brook-street, Ipswich, 20th Aug., 1845. Trains calling at the Stations on the Maidstone nranch Line wiL meet the whole of the above-named Trains at Tunbridge, leaving Maidstone at 8 a.m. and 7 45 p.m. for first and second class pas sengers, and at 7 0 a.m. and 4 0 p.m. for third-class passengers, and Tunbridge for Maidstone on the arrival of all the Down Excursion Trains. : • , - JuTiction Railway William Dredge, Esq., Newbury, Berks, Alderman c,,,,t a i n Farrington, R.N., West Cowes, Isle of Wight William Henry Ferman, Esq., Upper Thames-street W. S. Fltzwilliarn, Esq., Old Eroad-street, Director of the Essex and Suffolk Railways J. Farrow, Esq., NewbUrY, Director of 'Union Bank Samuel Haines, Esq. Chad House, Edgbaston, Director of the Man chester and Thraningham Continuation Railway William Hill, Esq., Manchester John Newington Hughes, Esq., Winchester William Jacomb,E , q., Huddersfield, Director of the East and West Exclusion tickets are available only to return by the Excursion trains on the same day they are issued; or on the following Monday, when issued on the previous Saturday. N.B. Excur,lon tickets are not issued to or ftom the London bridge Terminus. By order, W. O'BRIEN, Secretary. QOUTH-EASTERN Provisionally Registered. and CONTINENTAL STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—To PARIS and the SOUTH of FRANCE.—Sea passage in less than two hours.—Shortest route, viA South-Eastern Railway, in conjunction with the Folkestone and Boulogne steamers. The celebrated new iron steam ships of the South-Eastern and Continental Steam Packet Company. QUEEN of the FRENCH, QUEEN of the BELGIANS, and PRINCESS MAUDE, now leave Folkestone and Boulogne every tide, viz., twice a day from each port. The departure of the day steamer from Folkestone is arranged so that passengers may arrive in time by the morning trains from London. For time and tide bills apply at the South-Eastern Railway-office, London-bridge; or to Mr. Faulkner, Folkestone. of England Railway J. Kinloch, Esq., Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director of the North Wales and Newry and Enniskillen Railway Edward homer, Esq., Southampton James Lees, Esq., Deputy Chairman of Union Bank, Manchester Captain James Patrick Macdougal, Brixton, Surrey, late Bengal Ge- neral Staff Captain George Prob3-n, Bryanston-square William Prescott, Esq. 111a,thester David Price, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Leeds and Bolton Railway Priaulx, Esq., of the Sonth-Western Steam Packet Company, Southampton George Parbury, Esq., Director of the East and West of England Provisionally Registered. L 0 UT H-E A STE It N . AND CONTINENTAL STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—BEST ROUTE to BELGIUM and GER MANY, viA DOVER and OSTEND.—The South-Eastern and Continental Steam-packet Company's splendid fast iron steam-ship PRINCESS MARY, carrying the English and Belgian mails, and performing the passage in four hours and a half, leaves Dover for Ostend ery Thursday and Sunday morning early, enabling tra vellers to leave Ostend by the early trains, and returns to. Dover en Tuesdays and Fridays. Railway William Watson Prole, Esq., Director of the Jersey Railway William Langley Pope, Esq., Birchin-lana and Woodford, Director of _ _ the FalmolittCand Exeter Railway Clements Royds, Esq., Chairman of the Preston and Wire Railway Major Selwyn, ILE., Director of the East and West of England • Junction ha:lway • Walter Shairp, Esq., Snssex-gardens, Hyde-park, and Austln-Mars, Director of the jObra Minirig Company Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Dublin and Departures from Dover : August 28, at 6h. A.M. I August 31, at Bh. A. 31 Luggage, parcels, &c., expeditiously forwarded. Kilkenny Railway T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Richmond Railway Edmund Slocock, Esq., Newbury Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of England For particulars — apply at the South- Eastern - Kailway-station. Lon - don -bridge ; and to John Hayward, jun., Dover. SOUT H-EASTERN RAILWAY. The Directors think it desirable to state that they sometime Sine) instructed Mr. Stephenson to prepare foi Parliament in the next scission a complete system for supplying railway communi cation with the whold of Kent. jt is proposed to provide direct lines to Tunbridge, Maidstone, Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham, Faversham, Canterbury, and Dover. The surveys have been for some weeks in progress, and the whole scheme will be very shortly in a complete state. JOHN KIRKLAND, Chairman. South-Eastern Railway-office, July 26, 1845. • • IlUilwaY • e• • Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton BANsuns —Messrs. Masterman and Co., London , ENGINES/I-IN-CHlEF—Joseph Lock, Esq. ENGINEERS—MCSSFS. J. B. and E. Birch SOLICITORS. John Bethel, Esq.. 78, King WlUlatn-street, City Messrs. Sharp and Harrison, Southampton SEcurnuty—John Dunlop, Esq. SHREWSBURY, HEREFORD, and - NORTH WALES RAILWAY. The Offices of the Company are removed from 41, Moorgate-street, to 449, West Strand, where every information may be obtained ; or of Messrs. Hunt, 10, Whitehall, solicitors to the Company. By order of the Committee of Management, CONWAY ROSE, Secretary. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, and NEW CASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY. The Committee of Management, in consequence of negotiations of Importance to the interests of this Company being still pending, have been obliged to defer the issue of the letters of allotment for a few days. By order, W. H. INGRAM, Secretary. 22, Parliament -street, London, Aug. 22, 1845. CHESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY. With a Branch to Birkenhead. (Provisioirally Registered). Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. east'. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. COMMITTEE OP MANAGEMENT. Colonel the Hen. LEICESTER STANEIOPE, Ashburnham House, London, Chairman: Major JOHN T. CROFT, Regent-street, London, Deputy Chairman David Ainsworth, Esq., Manchester Samuel Barton, Esq., Didsbury, Manchester Hugh Beaver, Esq., Manchester, and Glyn Garth, Anglesey John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester James Farsh, Esq., t..aneaster-place, London Major Ford, of Bodlondet, Carnarvonshire Lieut.-Colonel Henry Hamner, Bear-place, Berks, and 7, Devon shire-place, London Fraser B. Hemhaw, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square, London, a Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction Railway Captain Sir John It. Hilton, R.N., Isle of Wight J. Hartley Higeon, Esq., merchant, Manchester Lieutettant-Colonel liftt!elVrison, 8.E.F.R.5., Director of the College of Civil Engineers I`.. D. Johnson, Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, London John Joseph Keci,, Esq., lit. John's "Wood, London, Director of the National Provincial Bank of Ireland W. King, Esq., Director of the • Freemasons' Life Assurance Com pany George Peter Livius, Esq., the Grove House, St. Cuthbert's, and Cauldwell Priory, Bedford Horace W. Meteyard, Esq., 8.C.L., Middle Temple, and Chatham place • Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Upper Hyde Park-street, London, a Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction Railway • James Orrell, Esq., Culcheth Hall, Kenyon James Ogden, Esq, M.D., Manchester David Price, Esq., Manchester Major James Waller;K.H., st. James's-square C. J. S. Walker, Esq., Longford, near Manchester Sir George William Prescott; Bart., of Theobalds, Herts. (With power to add totheir number.) ENGINEERS. Sir John Rennie, F.R.S. George Remington, Esq., C.E. .BANKERS. Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Loridon National Provincial Bank of England, Manchester SOLICITORS. London—Messrs.Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 29, Ikloorgate street. Manchester—Messrs. Higson and Robinson, Cross-street R. B. B. Cobbett, Esq., Marsden-street. LOCAL AGENT—Chester—John Walker, Esq. The promoter's of this Railway, encouraged by the favourable sup port which has been given to the project, and in compliance with various recommendations they have received, ha-e deter Mined upon the addition of a branch - •to Birkenhead, which, although it will manifestly tend to the advantage of the Shareholders and the public, will be attended with come aratively little additional outlay. The project will still retain its chief characteristic of a direct railway, and by its connexion, near Warrington, with the Grand Junction Company, is sufficiently comprehensive, without resorting to a com plicated system of branch lines, or materially conflicting with the in terests of existing companies. The line will commence at the city of Chester, and proceed by way of Trafford, Frodsham, and Preston Brook, to. Warrington, thence by Lymm and Stretford direct to Manchester. From a point on the main line, near Frodsham, a branch will be taken to join the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, so as to 'unite Manchester in the most direct manner possible, with the docks now being formed at Bir kenhead. •- • . As Manchester, from its geographical position, is the centre of rail way communication between Scotland and the most populous dis tricts of England, so Chester, from a like cause, is the great centre of railway communication between the capitals of Ireland and of Eng land. To connect these two points by' a direct and independent line of railway must, therefore, be of the utmost importance, not only in a local point of view, but to the whole commercial intercourse of the country. This line will be the most direct route, by Holyhead, to Ireland, and will be, in all respects, by far the preferable channel of 'inter course and transit between Ireland and the great manufacturing dis tricts of England. By the railways connecting Chester with Wrex ham, Oswestry;Shrewsbury, Hereford, Gloucester, and South Wales, this will be the_ nearest route from Manchester to the south western parts of England, and to the minerals of Monmouth and Glamorganshire. The communication with Bristol, Gloucester, an Exeter will be speedy and direct. On reference to the Map, it - w" be seen that a very considerable distance will be Saved by this 'hie,' as compared with the present circuitous routes by Crewe and by Birkenhead; the former being 52 miles, and the latter 46 miles; while the proposed line is only 34 miles, saving in the one case 18 miles, and in the other 12 miles, besides the serious inconvenience, loss of time, and expense of passing through Liverpool, and crossing the water at that place. It is confidently expected that this line will 'be the precursor of another scheme, of no ordinary importance- 7 namely, to render 'heater an efficient port for large vessels. This subject was entertained by Sir John Rennie in 1835, and sub sequently, in the same year, by the late Mr. Chapman, who wrote an able report upon the capabilities of the river Dee. It was again aflt,M,A.lgN sr la atiA l i n x i m ie. r d Mr. George Remington, • . of large burden, together with docks at Chestsr, was then fully and clearly established. The entrance channel would commence at Dawpool, which is easy access (and infinitely preferab'e, in point of access and safety, to the docks at Liverpool or Birkenhead), for vessels of large burden, during eight hours every tide, both at springs and neaps ; and the All of the lock would he sufficiently low to admit vessels drawing 20 feet water to enter at all tides. This railway, therefore, in connexion with the proposed docks, will render to Chester and Manchester incalculable advantages. To the former it will restore the proper position natural to so important a city ; to the latter it will give another outlet, by sea, to the ma nufacturing districts, free of the heavy port charges, dues, and risks to which the produce is-now subject. It has not been thought advisable to combine the two objects in one company at present, but should it be found requisite, the two may hereafter be amalga mated. Merits of no ordinary degree, therefore, may fairly be claimed for this railway, whether taken in connexion with the proposed docks, eras standing alone, combining as it does all the advantages of any other lines, with this great addition, that it will be the high road to the most convenient outport of Manchester, and. will be quite inde pendent of any associations or influences that might tend to oppose the growing desire for a moans of direct and independent conimuni cation between Manchester and the port of Chester. The line has been careffilly examined. There are no difficult earth-works to be encountered ; on the contrary it will be cheap, and of easy formation. Power is reserved to the Committee to de viate from the proposed line in the vicinity of Manchester, should ulterior arrangements render it expedient. Applications for shares 'in the subjoined form, and for maps and prospectuses to be made to the Solicitors, and to the following Share orokers :—Messrs. - Shewell and Son, 25,Tokenhouse-yard; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 8, Cornhill ; and Messrs. Taunton and Bush, 26, Austin-friars, London; Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Mr. Locke, Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Thomas Leeds and Son, Henry Benton, J. B. Lock, and Samuel Slater, Manchester ; Messrs. Neilsons, Messrs. Healey, Mr. Crisp, and Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liver pool ; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, , Sheffield; Messrs. •Wellbeloved and - Gastler, Leeds; Mr. E. A. .Armitage, Wake field ; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York ; Mr. Thomas Board man, Blackburn ; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. Francis Stamp, Hull ; Mr. L. Weatherbum, Huddersfield ; Mr. Wm. Cronheita, Halifax ; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham ; Mr. Samuel Eyre, Derby ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham ; Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton ; Mr. John Thomas Holland, Coventry; Mr. William Mason, Bradford, Yorkshire ; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester ; Mr. Wm. Tomlinson, Newcastle-under-Lyne ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, Maccl6fleld ; Mr. Lea, Cheltenham ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr. William Miles, Worcester ; Messrs. Read and Nicholson, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Ross, Perth, N. 8.; and Messrs. H. and W. A. 'lassie, Glasgow. ApOications for shares must be accompanied by a reference to the Solicitors of the Cora, - ,any, the sharebrokers, or some other respell . sibie person. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway Gentlemen,--I request you to allot me Shares of 201. each in the above Railway, and I underke to accept the same, or such l e ss number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the Regula tions of the ( ompany, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to pay, when required, the deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per Share. Dated this day of 1845. NAme and Residence in full ..... ........ Profession and professional residence in fbll.. Reference .... • • • • •• • • • • • • •• • • , CHESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY. At a meeting of the Committee of Management of this under taking, held this day, it was resolved that, in order to comply with the standing orders of the House of Lords, as recently altered, it is expedient to reduce the amount of each share to 201., and to extend the number to 50,000, and that the deposit required be 25 2s. on each share, and that, in consequence of, this alteration in the amount and number of shares and the deposit required, the period within which shares must be applied for be extended to the 28th instant for the London applications, and to the 30th instant for country applications. By order, A. BARRETT, Secretary. 29, Moorgate-street, August 14, 11145 THE MIDLAND and EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY, from CAMBRIDGE, by NORTHAMPTON to WORCESTER. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.) Capital 1,500,0001., in Shares of 251. each. Deposit 1/. 7s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Alington, Rev. John, Little Barford, Bedfordshire, and Letchworth, Hertfordshire Booth, Williamson, Esq., Woodbury Hall, Cambridgeshire Bunbury, G. 8., Esq., Leamington, a Director of the Warwick and Cheltenham Railsiay Burman, William, Esq., Stratford-upon-Avon Carrington, John, Esq., St. Neots Cochrane, Hon. Horatio William Bernardo, Little Stoughton Cottle, J. M., Esq„ Leamington, Directors of the Warwick and Curtis, 8., J. E. Esq., London, 3 Cheltenham Railway Dobbs, Thomas William, Esq , The Newarke, Leicester Day, John Hill, Esq , St. Neots Day, Thomas, Esq., Wornditch, near Kimbolton Ellgood, Thomas, Esq., St. Neots Falconer, Robert, Esq., Goldington Hall, Bedfordshire Gee, William, Esq., Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire Hewlett, Thomas Bernard, Esq., Northampton, a Director of the South Midland Railway Humbley, Captain, Waterloo Cottage, Eynesbury, near St. Neot s Lange, T. F. J., Esq., Brighton Norris, Rev. Frederick, Little Gransden Onslow, Denzil, Esq., Stoughton House, near St. Neots Page, Captain, Charlton House, Somerton, a Director of the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway Parker, Francis, Esq., Albion-place, Northampton, a Director of the South Midland Railway ' Simpson, Richard IL, Esq., Long Stow Hall, Cambridgeshire St. John, tie Right Hon. Lord, Melchbourne Park, Bedfordshire Stmey, George Deane, Esq., Offord Cluney, Huntingdonshire Webb, Dr., Master of Clare Half, Cambridge Webb, Theodore Vincent, Esq., Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire Welstead, Benjamin, Esq., Kimbolton / Welstead, M., Esq., Stoneley Hall, Kimbolton (With power to add to their number.) BANSERS—Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co., London. SOLICITORS. _ _ John Chinery, Esq., Leamington, and 3, Church-court, Old Jewry 7..fLondcoi Messrs. Day, St. Neots Messrs. Harris and Sumpter, Cambridge Messrs. Umbers and Sowdon, Stratford-upon - Avon Charles Jones, Esq., Alcester. No further Applications for Shares in this Railway will be received after Tuesday Next, the 26th of August instant, except from Land owners, or parties living in the country, or locally interested, who must apply on or before Saturday, the 30th instant. In the meantime applications for prospectuses and shares may be made to the Solicitors, or to the following Sharebrokers, viz.:— Messrs. P. W: Thomas and Son, 50, Threadneedle-street, London ; Forsyth and Pritchard, or T. Crewdson, Liverpool ; Johnstone and Bradley, or S. W. Graves, Manchester ; E. Wilson, or W. Collis, Bir mingham ; White-and Son, Leamington ; George Edwards and Son, or Luke Arnold, Bristol; W. Lee, or Hall Brothers and Co., Chelten ham ; Kirk and Co., or Scott and Co., Leeds; John Doy, or Fli ,, t and Tootal, Hull; Eaglestleid, Leicester; Freeman and Son, Northampton ; John Langworthy, Exeter ; Wm. Bolton, Stratford upon-Avon, Wm. Miles, Worcester; Hugh Munro and Co.; Edin burgh ; George Brown, Glasgow; Bruce and Symes, Dublin; Brown and Clark, Coventry ; and Peet and Son, Nottlngbam. .ICNN and ELY RAILWAY COMPANY. AA The Directors beg to inform the public that they have given theme,cesary directions for applying to Parliament, in the next ses shin, for an Act to extend their railway from Wisbeeh to March, to join there the •Ely and Peterborough line of the - Eastern Counties Itailway Company, with a view of affording to the port 'of Wisbech a direct line of railway communication with the metropolis, the city of Peterborough, and all the western and south-western parts of the kingdom. W. BROWNE FOLKES, Chairman of Board of Directors, H. C. LACY, D4puty-Chairman. W. W. WILLIAMS, Secretary. 18, Great George-street, Westminster, Aug. 19, 1845. YNN and ELY, and LYNN and DEREHAM RAILWAY COMPANIES. • The Directors of these Companies have the satisfaction ot. infbrm!ng the Proprietors laid tbe Public that they have Eltsre44ls± s * rangemtuts — the" promoters of the Notting as alley and Ambergate and the Nottiniem ` Belvoir ~“ e ►ices of these Companies will be extended from Grantham to Spalding, to meet the proposed extension line (from Wisbech to Spalding) of the Lynn and Ely Company, by which means a direct line of railway communication with the northern and midland 'districts will be af forded to the port of Great Yarmouth, the city of Norwich, and the ports of-Lynn and Wisbech. By the terms of arrangement above alludeeto, the option of taking one-third part of the increased capital whieh the NOttingham Companies will require to raise for carrying out the extension has been received to the Proprietors in these Companies. W. BROWNE FOLKES, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Lynn and Ely Railway Company. H. C. LACY, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Lynn and Dereham lt'.ilway Company. W. W. WILLIAMS, Secratary. 18, George-street, Westminster, Aug. 20, 1845. CHEPSTOW, FOREST OF DEAN, AND GLOUCESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY, Through the Forest of Dean (with Branches to the Collieries, Iron Works, and Riper Severn). to join the Gloucester and Birmingham, Gloucester acid Bristol, intended Cheltenham, Oxford, and London direct, and Gloucester and Aberystwith Railways. (Registered Provisionally, according to the Act of 7 and 8 Victoria, Chap. 110.) Capital 600,0001., in 30.000 shares, of 201. each. Deposit 21.2 s per Share. No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. W. P. Andrew, Esq., Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square Joseph Bailey, Esq., ALP., Glanusk Park, Breconshire W. F. Beadon, Esq., Director of the Essex and Suffolk Railway J.ntes Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, London C. R. Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf, Director of the South Mid land Railway William Crawshay, Esq., Carfartha, Glamorganshire, and Caver sham Park, Berkshire Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., of Lillingstone Dayrell, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, and Director of the Buckinghamshire Railway Joseph Davis, Esq., Chepstow, merchant W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq„ Broad-street, London, merchant, Director of the South Midland Railway Edward Hall, Esq., Director of the South Midland and Northampton and Cheltenham Railways William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., Alderman, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, Director of the London and Greenwich Railway Company Sir W. B. Johnston, Bart, Hilton, Aberdeenshire George Lawton, Esq., Ditchleys, Essex, Director of the South Mid land Railway William Strahan, Esq., Banker, Fleet-street, London Sir William Twysden, Bart. Major White, 105, Pall Mall, Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway John Wheelton, Esq., Meophiun Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of Leicester and Bedford Railway With power to add to their number. ENGlNLEa—William Gravatt Esq , F.R.S. LONDON BANKERS. Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Co., Strand ; and Messrs. Glyn and Co. PROVINCIAL BANKERS. Messrs. Bailey, Greatrex, and Co., Monmouth and Abergavenny The' West of England and South Wales Banking Company and Pranches Messrs. Bromage and Snead, Chepstow The Monmouth and Glamorgan Banking Company and Branches Messrs. Williams and Soas, Newport. The Gloucestershire Banking Company and Branches The County of Gloucester Banking Company and Branches The National Provincial Banking Company and Branches STANDING COUNSEL—WiIIiam Hughes Hughes, Esq., Temple, London SOLICITOR—Mr. W. T. H. Phelps, Newport, Monmouthshire LONDON SoDlClToas—Messrs. a Beckett, Son, and Sympson, 7, Golden-square LOCAL SOLICITORS. Chepstow—Messrs. Baldwin and Morgan Gloucester—Messrs. Ellis, Elliott, and Swann SECRETARY—WM; Protheroe,-Esq., 10, Old JeWry-chambers, London • This railway is intended to connect the South Wales Railway at Chepstow with Gloucester, Cheltenham, and Birmingham, with the projected Cheltenham, Oxford (and London direct), Gloucester, and Aberystwith, Northampton and Cheltenham, and Manchester and Southampton Railways ; thus forming an uninterrupted line of com munication from the South of Ireland, through Fishgard and Milford in Pembrokeshire, to Gloucester, Cheltenham, Oxford, and London direct, Southampton, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and the North of England, by a less circuitous route than can be effected by any of the projected plans for crossing the Severn below Gloucester, thereby avoiding the difficulties which must necessarily be encoun tered in such an undertaking, and affording the important towns and districts upon the intended lines that accommodation which their im portance entitles them to. The whole of the traffic upon the South Wales line passing to the Eastward of Chepstow will be carried on this line ; added to which the coal and mineral traffic from the Forest of Dean (which, from the Eastern side to Gloucester, has been estimated upon authentic documents and information, at upwards of 300,000 tons ; and from the Western or Lydney and Chepstow side the same amount of traffic may safely be calculated upon), amounting to 600,000 tons per an num (the produce of the Forest alone), must be carried upon the line, independent of the local passenger traffic and an extended trade in the produce of the Forest, which will necessarily follow the facilities offered by the proposed railroad. The revenue from this source alone will give a very handsome di vidend upon the capital to be expended, which is expected will not exceed three-fourths of the intended capital. It is proposed to make branches to tit? Collieries and Iron Works in the Forest, to the present or any new Ports which may suggest themselves on the Severn ; and to make the River Wye, at Chep• stow, the port of foreign export, where vessels of any size can enter free from the dangers and difficulties attendant upon the navigation of the Severn, consequent upon the rocks and shifting sands in that river. It is intended to build a bridge across the Severn at Gloucester, which will in no way obstruct the navigation; and the proposed Gloucester and Aberystwith Company will no doubt be ready to join this Company in the expense, if they obtain their Act. The cost of the intended line frOm Chepstow to Gloucester, including the bridge at Gloucester, and the ono over the River Wye, at Chepstow, to join the South*Wales, with branches to the Collieries, Iron Works, and the Severn, is not expected to exceed 450,0001., but it is intended to provide a capital of 600,0001. to meet any contingencies which may arise. A reference to the map will show the self-evident importance of this line as essential to the perfecting the great project of the South Wales Railway Company (who have obtained their Act of Parlia ment for a railroad from Fishguard and Milford Haven to Chepstow) n connecting it with the principal railways of the kingdoms, at Gloucester, and making it the direct road to London, via Cheltenham and Oxford, for effecting which projects are now before the public with most influential support. The line is twenty-six miles in length, has no engineering difficulties; the gradients and curves are extremely good, And works light. It may with very great confidence be asserted, that there is scarcely a short line of railroad in the kingdom which offers greater advantages to the Shareholders than the present. Pro vision will be made in the Act of Parliament which will be applied for In the next Session to limit the liability of the Shareholder to the amount of his Shaies, and to allow four per cent. on the calls. Applications for Shares, in the usual form, to be made to the Solicitors, or to Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle • street, and Messrs. Backhouse and Co., No. 4, Angel Court, Throg morton-street, London; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Chelten ham ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr. Thomas Evans, Bath ; Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester ; Messrs. H. Davies and Co., Dale-street, Liverpool; Messrs. Chantrell and Boys, Leeds ; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull; and Mears. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin. BUCKINGHAMSHIRt RAILWAY, AND OXFORD AND WOLVERTON' JUNCTION. Capital 2,250,0901., in Shares of 20/. each. Deposit 2/. 10s. per Share. Registered Provisionally, pursuant to 7 and S Vie., c. 110. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, K.G. The Right Hon. Lord Nugent, Lilies, Aylesbuary, Bucks Sir John Chetwode, Bart., M.P., Chetwode Manor House, Bucks Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey, Bart., Oving Rouse, Bucks Sir Harry Verney, Bart., Claydon House, Bucks Lieutenant-General Sir James Watson, K.C.8., Wendover House, Bucks The Hon. Philip Sidney Pierrepont, Evenley Hall, Bradley, North amptonshire Edmund Francis Dwell, Esq., Aillingstone Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff of Bucks Charles John Banns Hamilton, Esq., M.P., Theme Park, Oxfordshire Rice Richard Clayton, Esq., M.P., Hedgerley Park, Backs John Deering, Esq., The Lee, Bucks - George Morgan, Esq„ Biddlesden Park, Bucks • Robert Bullock Marsham, Esq., L.L.D., Caverefield House, Ox fordshire Walter Henry Bracebridge, Esq., 3forville House, Warwickshire and Chetwode Priory, Bucks John Barnes, Esq., Chorley Wood, Herta William Osmond Hammond, Esq., St. Alban's-court, Wingham, Kent Benjamin Price, Esq., Westbury, Bucks Colonel John Hall, Life Guards' Barracks, Hyde Park, London John Newman, Esq., Brand's House, Hughenden, Bucks Thomas Newland Allen, Esq., The Vache, Chalfont, Bucks Henry Willirun Beaudlerk, Esq., 61, Chester-square, London Robert Fox, Esq., Wendover Lodge, Bucks William James Bally, Esq., Shenley House, Buck! Thomas Sands Chapman, Esq., The Park, Aston Clinton, ads Robert Marriott Freeman, Esq., Stony Stratford Backe George Parrott, Esq., Castle Farm, Buckingham Captain Edward Dewes, Buckingham Humphrey Humphreys, Esq., Buckingham William Stowe, Esq„ Buckingham William Davis, Esq., Bicester, Oxfordshire Captain William Style, R.N., Bicester, Oxfordshire John Ilorwood, Esq., Steane Park, Brackley, Northamptonshire John Henry Butterfield, Esq., Brackley William King 3lalins, Esq., Drackley Alfred Hoperaft, Esq., Brackley Charles Tawney, Esq., Oxford Richard Wootton, jun., Esq., Oxford Jonathan Samuel Browning, Esq., Oxford Henry William, Tancred, Esq., M.P., London Timothy Rhodes Cobb, Esq., Banbury, Oxon Zacharia Daniel Hunt, Esq., Aylesbury, Bucks Joseph Ashby Gillett, Esq., Banbury, Oxon George Carr Glynn, Esq., London Joseph Frederick Ledsam, Esq., Birmingham Edward Cropper, Esq., Liverpool Thomas Smith, Esq., Reigate Lodge, Surrey Thomas Young, Esq., Albany, London Ross Donelly Mangles, Esq., M.P., London Captain Constantine Richard Moorsom, R.N., Directors of the London and Birmingham Railwar Birmingham Robert. Benson, jun., Esq., Fairfield, Manchester Edw. Wm. Selby Lowndes, Esq., Winslow, Buck With power to add to their num COMMITTEE. OF MANAGEMENT. Sir Harry Verney, Bart. G. C. Glyn, Esq. The Hon. P. S. H. Pierrepont J. F. Ledsam, Eaq E. F. Dayrell, Esq. Edward Cropper, Esq. Z. D. Hunt, Esq. Thomas Smith, Esq. Captain Edward Dewes Captain C. R. Ifoorsorn, R.N. Humphrey Humphreys, Esq. Robert Benson, jun., Esq. J. lt.'Cobb, Esq. - Thomas Young, Esq. Jon. Samuel Browning,•Esq. Ross D. Mangles, Esq., M.P. With power to add to their number. ENGINEER—Robert Stephenson, Esq. BANKERS. co...r.idzim b ais iz s t r e e t London—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax,llll l .,a;q.,v, Loudon & Couuty Bank ikal.-mleArrane-- - "-messr3". - Ilartlett, Parrott, and Hearn ; the London and County it ank • _ • Banbury—Messra. Cobb and Co. ; Messrs. Gillett and Tawney Oxford—Messrs. Wootton and Co. ; the London and County Bank Meager—Messrs. Tubb. SOLICITORS Messrs. Parker, Itages, Barnwell, and 'Pwisden, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London - Mr. Samuel Carter, Birmingham, and 37, Great George•street, West- 'Master Mr. William Meyrick, 2, Furnival's Inn, Loudon Mes3rs. Rose and Messrs. Tidlal, Aylesbnry Messrs. Hearn and Nelson, and Mr. Henry Smith, Buckingham The object of this undertaking is to supply railway communication to the towns and districts lying between the London and iiirmingha.m, and the Great Wes tern Railways, glvtm; them the best means of access to the metropolis, and connecting them also with the Northern and Eastern lines of railway, as well as with Oxford and the South. The main line will commence from the London and Birmingham Railway, near Harrow, and passing to the north of Uxbridge, will proceed up the Valley by Chalfont, near Amersham and Chesham to Missenden and Wendover, and thence to Aylesbury ; from which place it will extend to Buckingham, and passing near Winslow, and approaching Brackley, will terminate by a Junction with the proposed Warwickshire and London Railway, near Banbury. . . . In addition to the line above described, it is intended also to con struct a Railway from the central station of the London and Bir mingham Railway at Wolverton to Buckingham, and thence through Bicester to Oxford; and in connexion with the line here proposed, the Bedfor.l, and London and Birmingham Company, intend to maks a connecting line between Bedford and Wolverton. The proposed Buckingham and London and Birmingham Railway. Company (for the construction of a line from Wolverton to Bicester) is amalgamated with this Company. Accurate surveys of the country have been taken by Mr. Robert Stephenson, and it has been ascertained that no engineering difficulty of importance presents itself. _ Th; undertaking has already received the sanction and support of a very large proportion of the Nobility, Gentry, and Proprietors of land through or near whose property it is intended to pass. It is proposed that these lines should be made with the co-operation, and under the direction and superintendence of the London and Birmingham Railway Company; under a lease, in perpetuity, at four per cent. per annum on the outlay, with a conditional arrange ment as to the surplus profits. It is intended to - offerthe shares in such proportion as the amount of capital will allow of, to the holders of shares in the London, Worcester and South Staffordshire Railway Company, subject to the approbation of the Committee of Management, with the exception of such as may be required for parties having local interests. BUCKLNGHAM* and 'LONDON and BIR MINGHAM RAILWAY. The public are respectfully informed that the Company for con structing the BUCKINGHAM and LONDON and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY is amalgamated with the BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY. Any partieslocally interested, who have applied for Shares in the Buckingham and London and Birmingham Company, and who may wish to take Shares in the Buckinghamshire Company, are re quested to make application on or before the 20th day of August instant, to any of the solicitors of the Buckinghamshire Railway. In consequence of the arrangements with the Buckinghamshire Railway Company, no Shares can be allotted except to parties loca uterus' 1. N ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26. CORNIIILL, LONDON. Capital X 500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This institution offers important and substantial advan tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borr)w, without ex pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid, (see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his Interests to meet other conveniences er necessity. Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The 'access and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third Bonus, varying from 30 to 75 per cent. on the premiums paid on each Policy effected on the Profit scale. EXAMPLES. i iqii Premium. , 4 !c-. Bonus 13enas in added. Cash. , t t., 21 F. g £ s. d. 1183 7 1,4191 13 5 £B7 13 5413 17 1, ! 74 3 4 1 1833 i 165 13 0 74 13 10 11 8 6 woo .1839, 138 13 6 61 1 4 3 9 210 11840 . 89 0 0 41 13 4 6 0 0 0 13 g. rs 4 c. '4 - P. 3 & , 5 •-?,9;; , • 4,' £395 11 1 346 2 296.13 4 247 4 5 The division of profits is annual, and tha next will be made in De =tabor of the present year. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX. See. PROMOTER LIFE ASSURANCE and AN NUITY COMPANY, 9, CHATHA bli d-PLEACE, BLACK FRIARS, LONDON. stashed in 1826. This Society Is supported by an ample subscribed Capital, and by a considerable accumulated premium fund. Assurances are effected at a low rate of premium, without profits, or at an Increased premium, with participation In the profits of the Office. A bonus In ready money, at the rate of fifteen per cent. on the premiums received (equivalent to a reversionary bonus of about thirty per cent.) was declared in May, 1842, on all beneficial po licies on which three annual preMiums bad been paid in the December previous. A division of the profits takes place every five years, and the holders of beneficial policies can receive their bonuses in ready money, or have them applied in augmentation of their policies, or In redaction of their future premiums. Assurers may contract to pay their Premiums either in one sum, in a given number of payments, in annual, half-yearly, or quarterly pay ments, or on the ascending or descending scale. ng Officers in the Army and Nav y on active service, goi Persons beyond afflicted with chronic and other diseases, and such as are limits of Europ., are also Assured at moderate Rates. P rospec tuses and all necessary information may be obtained at the Office. MICHAEL SWARD, Secretary. BURGESS' ESSENCE of ANCHOVIES. Warehouse, 107, STRAND, corner of the Savoy-steps, London, BURGESS and SON, being apprised of the numerous en deavours made by many persons to impose a spurious article for their make, feel it incumbent on them to request the attention of the public, in purchasing what they conceive to be the original to ob serve the Name and Address correspond with the above. The genes ral appearance of the spurious descriptions will deceive the un guarded ; and, for their detection, J. B. and Son, submit the following cautions:—tiome are in appearance at first sight, '• the genuine," but without xame or address ; some " Burgess's Essence of Anchovies," and others " Burgiss's ;" and many more without address. John Burgess and Son, having been many years honoured with such dis-, tinguished approbation, feel every sentiment of respect towards the public, and earnestly solicit them to inspect the labels previous to purchasing what they conceive to be of their make, which they hope will prevent many disappointments. BIJBGESS' NEW SAUCE, for general purposes, having given such 'great satisfaction, continues to be prepared by them, and is recom mended as a Most usefnl and convenient sauce; will keep good In all climates. Warehouse, 107, STRAND, corner of the Savoysteps, London. The Original 'Fish-sauce Warehoae The great importance and increasing prosperity of the port of Southampton requires that more extensive railway accommodation should be at once provided. According to the evidencOately given before Parliament by Mr. Ed wards, the Collector of Customs at that port, the exports have more than quadrupled during the last three years, and he expressed his conviction; that if a more direct communication with the manufac turing districts was made, the exports would increase to no less a sum than ten millions the first year afterwards. All the steamers from England to Jersey, and the Channel Islands, to Portugal, Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Malta, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and . the East and West Indies, now depart from and arrive at Southampton. • It is also the most direct and shortest course to Paris througk Havre. Large quantities of goods are now brought to it from Manchester and the manafacturing districts for export, which would be greatly increased if the means of transit were easier and less expensive, and the supply of clothing and naval stores from Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Statibrdshire, to her Majesty's dockyards and victualling stores at Portsmouth and Gosport, in addition to the export trade, is neces sarily very great, so that it is clear, that a more direct railway coin munication froM the manufacturing districts to Southampton, Gos port, and Portsmouth. Is absolutely necessary. The passing of the Oxford and Ittlgby, the Oxford, Worcester, and Welverhampteit'Acts this session, has afforded the , facilities of effect ing this communication in the most direct course. By making' the railway, which will now be constructed by this Company, from Mica, on the Great Western. Railway, where the 'Oxford Line *Militates, througti,-Stwbury,, to the ,Southanip &Po:fly' Llllrty miles, the mot llfre,.t atirtirh=;-%. , .:kum nlcation will be formed from all parts of the north of England and the manufacturing districts, to Southampton, Gosport, and Ports mouth. .... .. , The line goes tbrOugh a fivronrable country, and will be made at little cost. The traffic on it, wholly irrespective of that from Man chester and the north, will be very large. A e,oramunleation from Newbury to a -- port •is • much wanted, so that the large quantities of corn brought to that .market may be exported along the coast. A quick transit from Oxford to Winchester, to Southampton and France, and to the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth, will be secured. From Oxford railiviiys are about to he made to Cambridge, Peter borough, and Lincoln, and to Rugby, there joining the Midland and York Railways; by this meats affording the most direct and shortest road to Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Sheffield, the large cloth districts of Yorkshire, and to York and Scotland. The whole of this traffic, together with the carriage of the cutlery and and the cloth goods of Yorkshire, mutt pblealotengl goods x of clusis - ely ghe t ffi olls line, and it is quite sufficient of itself to maintain it, and to secure fpr it a large share of support, even if it had no , further claimS on public attention ; but when reference is made to the map, it will be seen that, from the Oxford and Rugby Railway, near Banbury' another railway will proceed to Birmingham, which brings that most important town several miles nearer to the port of Southampton than by the route proposed by other parties through Cheltenham. Again, from Rugby the Trent Valley and North Staffordshire Railway will carry the traffic on to Manchester, by which route the distance to Manchester less than by the same route round Cheltenham, id w is be considerably rther reduced by the Rugby and Maccles field line when made ; and as the goods coming by this line to South ampton will, for the greater part of the distance, travel over rail-. w a ys possessing a very large traffic of their own, anti which can afford to carry this extra traffic at very much lower rates than a new c ompany, whloh depends for its support entirely on such traffic, can a Southamptonai possibly do, they will be brought much cheaper by this line, than by any line which can be made between Southampton and Cheltenham. But it is of the most vital importance to the town of Southampton that this communication with the manufacturing districts should be completed in the least possible time, in order that the continuance of the foreign steam packets may be secured to that Port. This Rail way will be made and opened in twelve months after the passing of the Bill, I. e., the let of September, 1847, whereas the line, via Chel tenham, cannot be finished hi less than three years. The Railways from Yeovil and Dorsetshlre, and parts to the west ward, will join this line near Whitchurch, and bring great portion of the traffic from the west over this line to Oxford and the places beyond it. A s to the gauge there will be no difficulty. The Commission now sitting will decide that. and there is not the least doubt, but that goods will be -brought from Manchester, Birmingham, &c., in the same truck, and without any shifting throughout the whole line to the ship's side itrthe docks at Southampton and to Gosport. • —A certain number of Shares will be allotted to Shareholders in the Great Western and South Western Railways who apply for them. Applications for detailed prospectus, maps, and shares, may be made to the Secretary, at the office, 78, King William-street, City, London. PORT, AND PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY COMPANY. SOUTHAMPTON, GOS PORT, consequence of the most numerous applications that have been already received for Shares herein, no further applications can be re ceivedr WED 27th August instant. rirHeEte OXFORD,Esthe I'NJUNCTION.—His H onour t h e Vice-Chancel lor of England has this day granted an Injuncntion to restrain FREDERICK T. FOWLER from publishing certain articles pirated from the Railway Chronicle. August 22, 1845, . HE SOmwARK ELECTION. Southwark electors were h av i ng a c h a t, E---- - IT - --- Concerning the candidates —this man and that. " Pray who is the- man that you wish to succeed ?" Said one, as he touch'd on political creed. o Nay, don't pester me, sir ; I don't care a pin," Said the other, " for my part they all may get in; I only wish MOSES, or MOSES'S SON, Had entered the field, as he ought to have done ; Each one of these men would have proved on a trial, As faithful as Moleaworth, or Filcher, or Miail. If Molesworth, or Filcher, or Mien had done As much in apparel as MOSES and SON, My vote I'd have given, and tried all I could To help the good fellow—believe me I W ou ld . But now, sir, I don't care the turn of a straw, Who gains or who looses, or who may withdraw. ,, " Well done !" said the other companion, "Well done, You're a back-and -edge' Mend to E. MOSES and SON. And I'm net ;Mich surprised at the warmth you express, When I think of the service they've done you in dress. You've certainly cause to respect Messrs. MOSES, For the good which their wondertlil Dress Mart discloses. Nor do I Much wonder, on sober reflection, That you wish they were up for the Southwark ElectiOn." The New Work, entitled " The Monarch M art with full direc tions for self-measurement , may now be had application, or for warded, post free. LIST OF PRICES. 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In Silver Cases, with the Detached Escapement and Jew elled, the prices are Four Gaineas and a Half, Six, and Eight Guineas each ; or in Gold Cases, Ten, Twelve, Fourteen, and Six-. teen Guineas each. The very large stock offered for selection in cludes every description, enabling a customer to select that which is more particularly adapted to his own use. LECTURE ON THE CURRENCY. On Friday se'nnight an able lecture was delivered at the Chelmsford Institute, by Mr. Capps, on the National Currency. The lecturer commenced his address, the delivery of which occupied nearly two hours, by observing that as he believed the audience he had the honour of addressing was composed princi pally of the members of the agricultural class, he should con fine his remarks as closely as possible to the action and influ- Vt of the,currency_on the welfare of tdttlfsk'.tf,~„hp ► dt tt , t monetary system was not exclusively confined to the agricul tural portion of the community. There was a radical error or defect in our political or social system, which affected all classes of the community in their turns, though not, perhaps, all at one and the same time. He would beg them to enter upon this subject calmly and reflectively, whilst he endeavoured to take hold of some of the leading features of the case. What was it which struck an observer as the main point of the grievances of the farmer, and the great cause of his distress? It was evidently this--that after having carefully cultivated his farm to the best of his ability, the farmer could not obtain for the produce thereof a sufficient price to repay him his expenses and a living profit.—( Hear, hear.) In 18'22 the agricul tural interest called upon Parliament to mitigate by any means in its power the distress which then oppressed them ; and what was the cause of that distress? Simply, that wheat would realise only 4.39. per quarter. In 1835, a mo tion was made by Mr. Cayley, in Parliament, to inquire into the cause of agricultural distress, -when the great feature of the distress was alleged to be that wheat was only fetching 395. per quarter, which price would not afford the grower a living. And new, in 1845, what was the head and front" of their just complaints ? Precisely the same thing as before-- they could only obtain 455. a quarter for wheat. That this was the true cause of the distress might be proved by referring back to the years previous to Sir R. Peel's Currency Bill of 1819. The farmers were not distressed during the first 20 years of the present century, simply because they obtained on the average 8;;s. a quarter for their wheat, and similar prices for their other produce. But our present statesmen would have them believe, that the distress was occasioned by the extreme drought of one year, and the extreme wetness of another—the large crops of one season, which produced low prices, and the crops of others, which left the farmer nothing to sell. But they had all those diversified seasons between the years 1800 and 1819, and yet they had no genes al complaints of agricultural distress. He was aware that many landowners and farmers were apt to attribute the exceedingly low price of farm produce to the Canadian Corn Bill, and Sir R. Peel's new tariff; he did not. dispute that they had in some degree contributed to it, but lie denied that they were, that they had been the principal agents. They must recollect that wheat was 7s. a quarter cheaper then it is now. The Canada Corn Act had not then passed : in 1822 also wheat was 3s. per quarter cheaper than now, and at that time the price could not be affected by an act of legislation which did not take place until twenty years afterwards. But there was another measure of Sir Robert Peel's then in operation, which continued in operation to the present time—a measure professedly to regulate and give stability to the money of the country, and to prevent speculative business and ruinous fluctuations, while practically it had diminished and contracted the money, without in the least degree abating speculation and panic. Upon examination they would find that this was the principal cause of the low price of corn—so much so, that could they get the new tariff, and the Canada Corn Act repealed to-morrow, and could they in addi tion get Parliament to legislate as much in their favour as it had lately legislated against them, there would still be in opera tion a baneful measure, which would, whenever there was a general average crop of farm produce, effectually prevent their obtaining a fair price for it. The lecturer then proceeded to prove that the changes effected by Sir Robert Peel in the monetary system of the country, when combined. with the sys tem of taxation which prevailed, had necessarily produced the deplorable state to which the agricultural classes were reduced. He first adverted to those changes. During the first twenty years of the present century a system prevailed which permitted gold and silver to take a market price, and not to be tied down to a fixed price, as at present. It permitted the piece of geld called a guinea to fetch 275. or 28s. in the market ; and that circumstance, he contended, produced those re munerating prices for agricultural produce which caused those times to be so prosperous to the farmer. He wished them, therefore, to understand that lie attri buted the low price of farm produce, which had been so prevalent during the last 25 years, to the operation of Peel's Bill, passed in the year 1819, which fixed gold permanently at the low price of 31. 17s. 101 d. an ounce, a price too low for the present circumstances of the country ; so low, that even wheat, at 455. per quarter, was still 25 per cent. higher than go ld. ' The lecturer, after explaining the reason why gold had been fixed at that price, affirmed that this low price of gold in the general circulation of the country caused an equally low price for earn.—( Hear.) That, in fact, it had a tendency to bring wheat down as low as 345. or 355. a quarter, and that the only reason why wheat was not now 355. a quarter was, because it cost some 10s. a quarter to bring it from o th er countr i es. F or what was the inevitable result of 31. 17s. lOid. of the general paper money of the country always commandi ng an ounce of gold? Why just this—that it always commanded those things which were of the same natural values, those values being founded upon the different degrees of expense or quantity of la bour necessary to produce the same . D r . Ad am S m ith and all political economists had told them that the higglirig and bargaining of the public markets would soon find out the real values of those various productions, and that they would soon be found to eichan?e against each other in their proper proportions- according to their respective values. It became a- question, then, of great interest to the agri culturist to find out what quantity of wheat was naturally equal in valius to the ounce of gold, and it was to this point that - he would next direct their attention. He pointed out upon a table which had been prepared from the statistics of Mr Taylor, an eminent author on the curreney, that the utmost price that the price of gold. - would a ll ow for wheat. in this country, if there were average favourable seasons, was per quarter; that the natural tendency ( f the present standard price of gold was to bring down wheat to the universal average price of Ms. or: 341. per quarter , which result was only pre vented by our growing a little Jess corn than our annual con sumption ; and-that , should - wo" by our agricultural improve ments produce any considerable surplus beyond the average consumption, it was extremely probable that wheat might fall Is. a bushel lower than it was at present. The lecturer nest alluded to the amount of taxation which this country sustain( d, to show that no articles of production could be afforded at con tinental prices. Our revenue was priniipally derived from duties upon the productions of industry. It was not suf f iciently considered that-the taxes raised in this manner were fully equal to the -whole landed rental of the kingdom. Mr; 111‘Cu1lcch had estimated the landed rental at about 40,000,0001. sterling ; • now, the Excise and Custom duties alone amounted to:abo ut 37,000,000/., and w he n th e y a dd e d to this the; various : items' of local taxation which were sustained by the r occuers of -the soil, they would find that the amount - considerably exceeded the rent of the land. Yet Sir Robert Peel's currency- me a sures made no pro vision whatever for this important element of cost.--(Hear, hear.) That was the very point in which Sir Robert Peel's grand failure laid. lie had fixed gold at the same , , .. . ~q, - . 1Y: - , gi,p ---; - , a sj ~,,...../1 LOND C ff r nON 1- 4' 7 f Ti kai W 7 I)ik I j -4 4; D3' r 0.0 q2l , 9 AUGUST 25, 1845. 1 4 ( ‘x ,Y, ~_ , . , , , . i • -,.. 0 . j i _ x _ ~ . . • ..._ ~......, . , . ,-, -, . . , 4: ..Z; „, / ME% ,t -' .. IP 4 ‘., ,N, ...." • • ••• .<- gy ... \ - it .fi- 2, , , 1.,.,41 4 ,- , z A k I `.l ll 4 ' I,l i t...ten. ' ':.. . 1.,---. . 4 •-i•- , ' , Ail' ,-, • A/ / , _ .), iii,- , -,°' w ' •,-. fr - 14; • --, „,,, II , - c1i5fftp,„.:7 .. . 4 :,.‘ - -, • ~..,.' e „......,._____4? t..,,r..,..,...... Tyn. dr. "‘ ‘ , -: -ark \-- 4r. , -,-. ..: -'‘ • .54, . --.- r:7,' . .--, 44., ..' ~, -* ..,.—' - — l)7REiii.'4.' . 4 s, --- • , .. , , '-- -DIEII 41. ''.0 0. „ . .,,L"L4 . ;-- .'" . Z!:P . ''' / ~/ %~ - - s plice at, which it was current before there was any indirect taxation imposed upon the country. Gold at 31. 17s. J and wheat at 4s. 6d. per bushel, die very well 200 yeari Ago. when scarcely any indirect taxation existed; but to attempt to enforce such prices for the general products of intlestry new. would be to consign all the productive classes to unremunerated toil, if not to absolute beggary ; but more especially the agri cultural classes, who could not, in their distress, have recome to steam machinery as their manufacturing brethren could.- ; (Hear.) After some further arguments to show that the low I standard price of gold peremptorily forbade any rise in the price of wheat or other commodities, the lecturer directed attention to a machine he had very ingeniously constructed, called a currency clock, on which were shown the relative proportions in value to each other of golil, silver, wheat, and the wages of labour on the level of an annual taxation by Customs and Excise of 17,000,000/., which he showed would consist with 435. per quarter for wheat, with gold at. 31. 17s. 1041 per ounce ; with silver at ss. per ounce ; and the wages of the labourer at 7s. 6d. per week. These were the prices with which the country could prosper under an annual taxation of 17,000,0001. But as taxation increased wheat ought to rise in proportion; and that proportion he maintained, as the result of close observation, should be-that for every million of indi rect taxation per annum beyond 17,000,000/., Is. was necessary to be added to the price of the quarter o f wheat to compensate the farmer for the increased taxation he sustained.-( Hear, hear.) At the present time the indirect taxation was twenty millions beyond the seventeen millions, so 20s. were necessary to be added to the price of the quarter of wheat to remunerate the grower properly ; '2os. added to 455., the:original price with seventeem millions of taxation, would make 65a. per quarter for wheat, which he thought would commend itself to every practical farmer as being about the price whioh he felt would afford him a fair and not extravagant remuneration.--( Hear. 1 But though the wheat rose, the gold could not rise ; that was held down by the standard price of 3/. 17s. 10yl. per ounce. Here then was an absurdity, a distinction in the price of two things of equal value-one was fetching 635., the other stood at the scale of only 455. Was that asystem to be established as one which would exchange equal values fairly and upon equal terms? -( Hear, hear.) He had now to show them that this fixed, unvarying price of gold pulled down eventually the prices of all other productions front a remunerating price to its own level This was effected by the certain export of gold by the foreigner whenever, by the high price' of other things, gold became the cheapest article for hint to take in return for the goods he has sold us. The foreigner was naturally anxious to take back a return cargo; he therefore looked route! to see what would be advantageous to him to buy to sell again ; but he found wheat at 655. per quarter. " That won't do," says he, " I can get it at Datexic at :10s. ; I won's take v.heat." He looked again ; he saw iron at. 6/. per ton. " That won't do," he says again, " I .can get it a t S we d en at 41. per . .tou." But there was one article which he saw had not risen, an article too which was the easiest of any to carry away-gold. Gold has not risen with the other corn. seodities, and therefore was to him the cheapest commodity, and he took it. But, says an Englishman to this foreigner, " You ought not to refuse taking our productions at our prices, even if they are what you call high, for you have had the benee fit of bringing your goods to the same mar)iet, and obtaining similar prices for them, and after all our prices only give us a fair return for our own expenses." " That is all very well," rejoins the foreigner, " but 1 like to take the cheapest which I can find-your iron, your lead, and your wheat. are all much dearer than your gold. I like your gold best. I prefer taking your untaxed gold to your taxed articles." Away, therefore, the gold went. Suppose this operation to be continued for any length of time, what would be the ultimate result ? Why, that the c country, and consequently the Bank of England, would be dtained of its gold. So long as goods were higher than geld, geld would be chosen by the foreigner in preference to goods. -( Hear, hear.) But the Bank of England .being compelled by law always to provide gold en demand, was obliged to have recourse to energetic though destructive measures to get the gold back again into its coffers. Then came the pressure upon the productive classes, agricultural and manufactur ing. The Bank of England knew that the mate of the gold going abroad was it; comparative cheepnees, and however grieved it might feel its putting an end to a prosperous state of things induced by remunerative prices, stern necessity compelled. The Bank must have the gold hack at all hassrds, and it took measures for bringing down corn and I all other produetions, which were so much higher than the gold to the level of gold, for the Bank knew well enough that that was the only effectual method of stopping the export of gold and bringing it back to its own coffers. This was done by the Bank beginning to withdraw its supply of notes, refusing discounts, or selecting only the very highest charaeter!of bills for discount; raising the rates of interest, contracting its accommodation to country bankers, and various other methods which it hail at its command. By the use of these means the general circulating medium became contracted; everybody somehow or other found himself ahoit of money ; there was no effecting aales without submitting to a reduction in prices,and in proportion to the intensity of the pressure was the fall of prices, which fall only ceased till things were brought down as low or lower than the price at which gold was fixed. They were, therefore, placed on the horns of a dilemma-if the Bark managed to keep the gold is the country, it only did so by keeping all our produce so low in price as to ruin the agriculturists and manufacturers, because they did not get back what they had paid in taxation. On the other hand, if they got remunerating prices, and paid their workpeople for their labour, then away went time gold, and the Bank and our monetary system were both in danger of being brought to a standstill.-( Hear, hear. ) In illustration of this, the lecturer referred to the panic of 1825, which he said was a memorable lesson of the vaseillating and insecure nature of our present monetary eystem. He then proceeded to consider the causes of that panic. Sir R. Peel's Currency Bill of 1819, he said, instead of lowering prices only 4 per cent., as its abettors had prophesied, speedily pulled them down 40 or 50 per cent. Wheat, which had been 705., 80s., and 90s. per quarter, was brought down by the latter end of 181'2 to about 38s. ; meat, which had been sold for 4s. 6d. or ss. per stone, was reduced to 2s. 6d., and other things in like proportion. This unexpected reduction in the income of the sellers of commodities, without a proportionate reduction of the national debt, caused such depression and ruin, that the Ministers were alarmed, and hastened to relieve the distress by ComiuMiation"by the country bankers. The end in view was to increase the prices of goods which had fallen so low • that was what was wanted, but, as he had already shown, the prices of goods could not permanently rise without the geld leaving the country, unless gold and silver were permitted to rise in the same proportion. The Ministry were told this by persons who understood the currency, but all argument was in vain-they persisted in forcing up the prices of goods. while they kept gold down at 31. 17s. 100., and the result turned out as had been anticipated. Gold left the country-the Bank lost its stock of bullion-the nation was convulsed from end to end, and had the panic continued twenty-fou r hours longer, Mr. Iluskis son said, that a system of barter must have been resorted to. What was wanted, continued the lecturer, was a system which would let gold rise in the sante proportion as taxation raised the price of other things. If gold thus rose it would not be exported, and a pet manently remunerating price both for corn and everything else would be obtained. -( Hear, hear.; And here he would pause to inquire how, under the operation of the present depressing system, was it possible for the farmer to avoid pressing unduly on the labourer ? It was the result ne cessarily engendered by the operation of the low price system, and it could not be otherwise, unless they enabled the farmer to pay better wages by giving him better prices for his produce. It. was all very easy for gentlemen of the manufacturing dis tricts, -who counted their profits by thousands, to declaim against the low wages of the agricultural labourer, and exult ingly to point to the condition of their own work-people by way of contrast, thus taking credit to themselves for superior generosity. This, however, was a very fallacious way of look ing at the matter. If they really wished to contrast the matter fairly, let them compare the amount of wages paid with the amount of profits realised from the wages.-( Hear, hear.) But in order that gold might be able to rise in proportion to other things, they must have a kind of currency which would allow of this taking place ; they must h ave another vehicle or medium of exchange: and that could be obtained by the issue of a fixed amount of Government Ex chequer money, based upon the proceeds of the annual taxes. In such a currency as this, gold could rise ur fall like all other commodities, according to supply and demand, and in subser vience to the amount of taxation imposed upon goods. But here they dere met with what Sir Robert Peel, and those who agreed with him, thought an insuperable objection. " What," say they, " are you foolish enough to recommend that the paper currency of the country should be convertible into vote at the market price, instead of the fixed price that we have now? Pray what would your pound be ? What would your pound note mean ? This year, perhaps, gold would be 4/". an ounce, and then your one pound note would exchange in the market for a quarter of. an ounce of gold ; next year gold might be 5/. an ounce, and then your pound note, instead of being the fourth-part of an ounce of gold, would only be the fifth-part of an ounce ; and if gold were to rise to 6/. an ounce then your pound note would be Only the sixth-part of an ounce. Why, your pound would be always changing, upsetting all contracts, and alternately robbing ail debtors and creditors. I No, no ; let us have a pound which is fixed and invariable in value. Let us have a pound which will always command a certain definite quantity of gold or silver ; then we know what we are about. But if the pound is to be a thing con stantly changing in value, nobody will know what they are doing." Ile had put this question in as strong a manner as he possibly could, because, in the first place, it was an ex ceedingly prevalent one, and, secondly. because he was anxious to grapple with it in its most imposing form. The whole matter resolved itself into this simple question ought or ought not our money denomination, whether pound, dollar, shilling, or franc, to be or represent at all times and under all circumstances a certain definite (that was, an meet.- taMed and invariable) quantity of gold and silver': Sir lie Peel said it ought. He (the lecturer) humbly presumed t o sty it ought not, and joined issue with him on this point, Hi s position was, that neither in this nor any other country ought the money denominations to represent under all circumstances a fixed anti invariable quantity of gold or silver, and if they orerthree Sir Robert Peel upon this point, they, upon his own confession, overturned the whole of his currency scheme, for he' had said the whole of his measure rested upon that assumption. -( Hear, hear.) The lecturer next remarked upon the sources from which the revenue of the country was derived. Eight-tenths of it, he said, was derived from duties upon com- epee modities, and the price of them ought to depend upon the amount of taxation imposed ; for, as Mr. APCulloch had justly observed, " when taxes are placed upon commodities, their prices must rise in a corresponding proportion, otherwise the producers will not obtain their ordinary rate of profit." After same further able arguments upon the evils connected with a fixed, unvarying price of gold, the lecturer proceeded to re. mark that the system regulated the quantity of money in cir culation, not by the wants of the people and the demands of agriculture and commerce, but by the quantity of a certain foreign metal which it was probable could be procured by the Bank at the price fixed for it ; and there was no class of • persons whose interests had suffered so much from this cause as the agricultural class. In London and other great towns great facilities were afforded by bills of exchange and promissory notes, so that the pressure which would other wise be felt was relieved in a great degree by these substitutes, Rut in the country districts, where bills of exchange were almost unknown, the want of an abundant supply of circulating medium was most severely felt, The lecturer then alluded to the restrictions placed upon the issues of country bank sby tL s recent Act of Parliament; after which he said-However clear and demonstrable this subject might appear to himself and to the meeting, yet he was aware that in an assembly of thinking men to whom a difficult subject, had been for the first time brought under their consideration, that some suck thoughts as the followihg would be prevalent :-" Well, it up. pears, as far as 1 can judge, very plain anti very true; but Si E. Peel and other eminent men are of a different opinion, add I wonder why this is : they surely must see the subject in some other light, or perhaps they are acquainted with something more respecting it that has not been brought ferward by the lecturer to-day. 1 should very much like to hear a little more of what such parties as those have to say to it. I should lib* fully to undtrstand the opposite opinion, that I might be ah fairly to judge between them, for at present I have only hoaxe s one side of the ques•ien." lie (the lecturer) would tlseeefe ee to the best of his ability, and without knowingly witititoh: dt „ • anything, give them Sir R. Peel's view of the subject as St forth in his public speeches upon the questions,and the a leave them to draw a fair comparison between their view.. Sir R. Peel's view appeared at first sighs . ',rue, to o s f b :r ase tr correct and simple, and indeed it wee went, for it was wrong rather because i t . was Incomplete was el f ab necess ary straet d 1 t v o . b e eo Sir n it : . and did not embrace all thatt n sidered, than that. it was wrong Peel's philosophy of money appearrag to be embodied - in the instrument fel. • lewing reflections ;-" What is atone) ?" He " The measure of value, that is flit) answered we rise cc mite of „. 4.1 „,, 1 , , i r' ;~- <~ ~. 4 J 'i