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T HE ' SOUTH and MIDLANDS JUNCTION, and BICESTER, SWINDON, MARLBOROUGH, DEVIZEH, and SALISBURY RAILWAY, with Branches to POOLE and SOUTHAMPTON. - Capita, 1,280,0001., in 64,000 shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. 6d. per share. (proyligalally registered, according to 7th and Bth Vie., c. 110. PROVISIONAL CONMITTIN. The Ron. Captain William Gore, Director of the Great Western of Bengal Railway. William Bulkeley Httghas , Esq, M.P., Clsairman of the Welsh Mid land Railway Bictuerd Price, 7A n., M.P., Director of the Welsh Midland Rana's, David R. Ross, Eaq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, and Director of London and Manchester Railway Sir John E. do Beauvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir mingham Extension Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theebalds, Herta, Director of the Chaster and 3 fanehester Direct Railway Sir William Hyde Pearson, Hanover-square Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of tke London 'and Manchester Direct Railway Sir William Wynn, 3facsynewadd. Chairman of the North Wales Railway Sir John Hare, Bart., Langham-place, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, Bart.. Director of the Direct Western Railway Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place Mouse, Southampton Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., Lillingstone Dayrell, Bucks, High ' Sheriff of the County, and Director of the Bucks and Oxford and Wolverton Junction Railway Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway Themes Parncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lon don and Westminster Bank, and Namur and Liege Railway John Kinuersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London The Mayor of Buckingham Donald Maclean, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Valley Con tinuation Major Oliver Lindam, Chairman of the Gleuceater, Aberys tvrith and Central Wales Rail wa y Richard Hartley Kennedy, Ewe, Chairman of the Coventry and Leicester and Warwick and Cheltenham Railways Archibald Spens, Esq., Manor House, Invereske, Director of the Warwick and Cheltenham Junction Railway, and of the Great Western of Bengal James Brancher, Esq., Chairman of the Liverpool and Bury and Manchester and Bolton Railways Major Morse Cooper, Director of the Great Western of Bengal Railway Captain James Patriek M`Doughall, late Bengal Royal General Staff, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of Dean, tic., Railway Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the Waveney Valley and Great Yarmouth Railway George Lawton, Esq„ Ditchley, Essex, Director of the Manchester and Birkenhead Contluation, and South Midlands Railway William James Bailey, Esq., Shenley House, Bucks, Director of the Bucks Railway Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation Peter Morrison, Eaq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life Insu rance Company Richard Weaviside, Esq., Director of the Great Luxemburg Railway Joseph Gill, Esq., Chapel Tuwn, Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds Railway James Clay, Req., Brompton, Director of the Furness and White haven Railway Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton Railway William Fichney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrare-square, Direc tor of the Italian and Austrian Railway William Cole, Esq., Bicester, Oxon, Director of the Wilts and Berke Canal William Slam, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, and Ma naging Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company Major-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway Richard Carpenter, Esq., Magistrate of the county of Middlesex, De puty Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, and Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway John Stewart, Esq., Portman-square, Director of the But Indian Railway Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and Birmingham Exteasion Major Grubbs, Eastwell House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the county Edmund Phillips, Esq., Avon House, Melkshaus, Wilts Captain Edward Dewey, Buckingham, Director of the Bucks and Ox ford and Wolverton Junction Railway Charles Thomas Ward, Esq.; Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clapton House, Stratford -on-Avon Joseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, and Hudderafield and Sheffield Junc tion Railway George Henry Brook, Esq., Edgulin Lodge, Huddersfield, Provisional Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford Union Railway Vero Clarke KembaO, Esq., Chester-place, Hyde Park-gardens John Heibert Helbert, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, and Brandon Lodge, near Coventry, Director of the South Midland Railway Wm. Watson Prole, Esq., Tburloe-square, Brompton, Director of the Jersey Railway Edward Deakins, Esq., Bicester, Director of the Wilts and Berks Canal Frederick James Hall, Req., Torrington-square, and .Alfeeton, Derby, Director of the Treat Valley Continuation Major Waller, K.H., Director of the London sad Manchester Direct Railway Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway Joseph Creekett, Esq., Alderman of Devizes, and Director of the North Wilts Banking Company Colonel Fitch, York-terrace, Regent's Park Joseph Underwood, Esq., the Hall, Blackheath, Director of the Me tropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Company , W. A. Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and Central Wales Railway William Marriott Freeman, Esq., Stoney Stratford, Bueka, Director of the Bucks Railway William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman of the Church of England Life Insurance Company Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, .York, • and Leeds Railway, and Director of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance Company Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern Railway Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Direetor of the Warwick and Worcester Railway Colonel Olivier, the Manor House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the County, and Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Rail way William Turner, Bsq., Shipton-on-Chnrwell, Oxon T. C. Norbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director of the London and Dover Railway Themes Gooch, Esq., Director of the Fidelity Guarantee Society Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continua tion Railway, and of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance Company John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of the Church of England Life Insurance The Rev. Henry John Possand, rector of Shepton, rector of Cherwell W. P. Courtenay, Esq., Temple, Director of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance Company John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London. and Director of the Legal and Commercial Insurance Company William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park. Director of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighten William Singleton, Esq., Chapel Town, Leeds, Director Of the Lin coln, York, and Leeds Railway Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London George Robert Colman, Esq., Director of the South Midland, and Northampton and Banbury Railways John Brocke Walbanke, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway John Fagan, Esq., Gloucester-road, Old Brompton Erasmus It. Forster, Esq. Director of the Brit ann i a Lif e I nsurance Company, and Derby and Stafford Railway William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street, Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway (With power to add to their number.) BANNERS. London—The Commercial Bank, Lothbury Bicester—Messrs. Tubb and Co. Woodstock—Messrs. Gillett and Tawney Witney—The London and County Bank - Devizes—Messrs. Hughes and Co., and the North Wilts Banking Companp CONSULTING INGTNIIRS. Sir John Macneill, LL.D. and F.R.S. James Thomson, Esq., F.R.S E. and 31. - R.I.A. ACTING Erroirraza—William Mullingar Higgins, Egg. SOLIcITos—W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street, London. Locar. Aemers—Devizes, J. W. Wall, Esq ; Bicester, W. C. Tur ner, Esq. ; Woodstock, Benjamin Hollow; Salisbury, Messrs. Foot and Radcliffe. Originating at Bicester, by a junction 'with the Oxford and Cam bridge line through Wolverton, in connexion with the Eastern Coun ties, the South and Midlands Junction will afford facility of inter coarse with the metropolis in one direction, with Stafford, the Pot teries, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester in the other ; near Woodstock, close to which the projected line will pass, the Oxford and Rugby and Oxford and Worcester Railways cross, presenting opportunities of entering the two great railway arteries of the king dom—the Great Western and the London and Birmingham, the for mer at Dudcot, the latter at Rugby. Proceeding to the manufacturing town of Witney, a line is crossed communicating with the Stroudwater district of manufactures by the Oxford and Cheltenham Railway, thence the projected line trends di rectly S.W., leaving Bampton to the east, until it reaches Lechlade, a town seated at the efflux of the Thames and Severn navigation with the River Thames, and where a considerable entrepot for mer chandise is established. Keeping within easy distances of Farringdon, Cricklade, and High worth, it reaches Swindon, a rapidly improving vicinity. At this principal station, where the broad gauge is crossed, the Gloucester and Cheltenham line falls into the Great Western. The intersection of the South and Midland Junction with the Great Western at Swindon opens a most extensive and valuable communi cation with London eastward; Bristol, Bath, Gloucester, Chelten ham, Stroud,' westward ; and, by the Gloucester and Aberyatwith projected line, with the whole of North and South Wales. Applications for prospectuses, plans, may be made, and forms of ap plication 5, Basinghall-street ; also of Henry Smith, Esq., solicitor, Backing ham ; and of the following gentlemen: — London—Messrs. J. Peppercorae and Co. 9, Old B roa d- s t ree t ; Mr. W. B. Harrison, 8, Bank-chambe rs ; 3er.Thos.llanbury. 4, Angel court. Liverpool—Messrs. Mills and Co., and Messrs. Nelson. Manchester—Messrs. Honghland and Leese, and Mr. Wm. Marshall Mall—Messrs. Colllnson and Flint Leeds—Messrs. Watson and Co. Stratford-on-Avon—Mr. William Bolton Exeter—Mr, Thomas Sanford Plymouth —Messrs. Heyward and Palmer Birmingham—Mr. Collis, and Mr. John Wright. Glasgow—Messrs. Tassie and Co. Edinburgh —Messrs. Robertson and Co., and Messrs. 3feCulluns and Co. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the South and Midlands Junction Railway. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of 201. each in this Company, an d I undertake to accept the same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parliamentary contract and Subecribers' agreement when required. Name in inn Residence... Trade or profession Reference • • • ..• . • Address of Referee I OUTII and MIDLANDS JUNCTIO N and BICESTER, SWINDON,_MA : Iip3OROUGH, and DEVIZHS RAILWAY. The Committee of Management announce to the public that no applications for Shares In this undertaking can be received after WEDNESDAY, the 10th inst., immediately after which the Committee will proceed to make the allotment. Those applicants who do not receive letters of allotment will be pleased to consider that it has been found impossible to comply with their requests. By order, W. B. James, Solicitor to the Company. 6, Baslnghall-street. Dated, Sept. 5, 1843 ILKENNY, CARLOW, and WICKLOW RAILWAY COMPANY. Offices, 449, West Strand, London. The Committee of Management of the above Company have the satisfaction of stating that the Clonmel and Kilkenny Railway Com pany has been united with this Company, and it is now intended to make application to Parliament, in the ensuing session, for powers to construct a line of railway from Clonmel to Kilkenny, Carlow, and Wicklow, whereby the former important cities will be brought Into direct railway communication with the metropolis of Ireland by the nearest route. Negotiations are also In progress with the Waterford and Kilkenny Company, who obtained their Act of Parliament last session, for securing the support and co-operation of that Company to the undertaking, which It is confidently anticipated will terminate satis factorily. A reference to the official traffic map of the railway Commis ilioners will show the great extent of the traffic between the several towns on the line, and the prospect of its proving highly remunera tive to the shareholders. The requisite capital having been already subscribed for, the allot ment of shares will be proceeded with forthwith ; and as the project had received the unqualified approbation of the landed proprietors along the line, and is warmly supported by the English Great Western, the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway Companies, and the other Irish Companies In connexion with that in terest, a portion cf the Directors of the Great Western Company forming part of the Committee of Management, the sanction of Par liament to the measure may be most confidently anticipated. Applicants for shares in either Company, before their amalgama tion are at liberty to withdraw the same, if they desire to do so, before Monday, the 15th of September, until which time applications for shares in the Clonmel, Kilkenny, Carlow, and Wicklow Company, will be received, addressed to the Secretary, at the Company's office , ' 449, West Strand, London. The capital of the Company will be augmented to 1,500,0001., in 75,000 shares of 201. each, upon which a deposit of 21. will be re quired, to meet the new standing orders of Parliament. The designation of the Company will be changed to the " CIO el, Ilikenay, Carlow, and Wicklow Railway Comp any. " By order, lIICiL4.RD M, MUGGERIDGE, Secretary. Sept. 8, 1843. R UGBY, DERBY, and MANCHESTER RAILWAY. OBSERVATIONS ON THE REPORT OF MR. CHARLES BLOUNT, ENGINEER TO THE COMPANY. The Provisional. Committee find, by reference to the engineer's preliminary report, that the tunnels upon the line, as laid down for the Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railway, are by no means of the ordinary length or occurrence in lines of this magnitude, and that the earth works throughout are not of great difficulty or extent ; the gradients are easy, and, in many parts of the line, extending to entire districts, of a nature exceedingly favourable for the construction of railways for goods and passenger traffic at high velocities. The direction of the line, taken integrally from Rugby to Maccles field, or Manchester inclusive, or between any intermediate points, is remarkably free from a circuitous or tortuous character, and it happens most felicitously that a line so arterially important in a national point of view, and so certainly to become the great high road between the metropolis and the largest manufacturing towns and districts of the king dom, is so free from contingent difficulty of all kinds ; while it actually passes through every important townand place situate upon the old high road between the metropolis and the part of the kingdom referred to, pre serving at the same time the strict integrity of a perfectly distinct and independent line, of between seventy and eighty miles in extent considered as a through line, as well as in its local character as a railway between any intermediate points of the line adopted : this principle has been so faithfhlly followed out as to render these por tions of the line of themselves amply remunerative when considered with regard to local traffic alone; for example, any such portion of the entire line as shall be executed between Rugby and Derby, or Derby and Ashbourne, would be found presenting returns upon the capital expended in the formation of the line, amply remunerative for the capital expended on the districts to which they refer. In short, it may be announced as a fact that the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway presents the extraordinary feature that any part of its line between any two of its termini would return a profit as a local line ; that, combined, they will form a highly profitable chain of communication ; and that almost the whole of the returns for the direct Manchester traffic, both of goods and passengers, to London may be set down as profit. It can hardly be wondered at that this unique and happy result should follow as a matter of course, when we consider that the old high roads (the direction of which, in a general sense, may be said to be the index line of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway) were made for, existed for, and maintained the whole commercial intercommunication of the country through which they passed. But the constructors of the existing and projected railways having little regard to this intercommunication of the intermediate points of their termini, have laid down their lines not sufficiently in the vicinity of these through lines or high roads, and have therefore divested and destroyed the local traffic of each individual district. To restore, therefore, the original balance of traffic and intercom munication between each terminus of this important line, in its ori ginal and natural direction—taking, at the same time the towns, districts, places, and population—has been the object of the promoters of this measure ; and a special and laborious inquiry by the en gineer, Mr. Charles Blount, has been devoted to this point. The argument which that gentleman 'adduces for maintaining the principle of going directly through the towns or places proposed to be served by the construction of a railway may be described as fol lows—viz., that in the construction of the old high roads, in what ever part of this kingdom, the engineers who laid them out of neces sity kept in view the shortest possible route lines presenting the easiest inclinations, and lines, which, in all cases, without exception, were directed through the towns presenting the greatest population, and having consequently the greatest need of an easy and a rapid means of intercommunication. Reference to the best maps of this kingdom will exhibit the population, and in consequence the manu facturing districts actually on such lines of common high roads. It might - be matter of curious rather than useful inquiry to ascertain how far the towns and places may have enlarged or followed the thread of the direction, or whether their existence and their necessi ties had been consulted actually in the original construction of the roads. The inferences are clear, therefore, that a line of railway which can preserve its own integrity as a through line for goods or pas sengers traffic, and also preserve at the same moment the shortest and most direct course between its starting point and its extremity, while it at the same time maintains its same value and relationship between the intermediate places, is manifestly the line to be adopted. Such a line is the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway. There are but two efficient reasons (and those are most question able) for diverting a main or a trunk line from the lay or dispositions of the towns, or the want 9 or exigencies of the districta. These may be said to be—that the line presents engineering difficulty in the con struction ; for more uniform or better gradients and less costly works, or otherwise, in an engineering sense, possess some extraordinary ad vantages; or it may be that the second position to which we have referred shall justify the diversion of the line by reason that it will greatly, or to an important extent, shorten the distance between the two great termini. When, therefore, we find a project laying claim to a district simply because it possesses one solitary feature (save that it may be for a few miles, of no very important number, the short over lines of communication already existing, or over others projected in the same direction), studiously pursuing and threading the long-established stream of population, of manufactures, agricul tural and other produce of every kind, it becomts matter of serious and grave inquiry whether a few miles extra in a line of such extent as the one projected between the metropolis and the town of Man chester, but which avoids and sacrifices the moral and commercial Interests enumerated, be considered as therefore presenting any real claim to the support of the great communities so largely and so va riously interested in this great question. In times when the means of intercommunication were confined to canals and common roads alone, a saving of eight or ten miles in a run or count of from 100 to 200 miles was certainly a matter of sufficient importance to justify the old road and canal engineers in adopting a deviation from the greatprinepleswhich we have laid down as having formed the base or index line of all their operations. The physical re volution which railways, in their construction, have worked upon the commercial relations of this country, anti the well-being and the so cial conditions of the people, may not Inaptly be said to carry with it its own great means of proving and carrying out In actual practi ce the seemingly anomalous position of the furthest way about the nearest. A short proof of this position of our argument is, that a small deviation from the direct course to meet and to serve great ends is proved to be elementally no objection, time, in fact, being consi dered as annihilating the position of distance. We have used this argument as telling decidedly in favour of those who:may require its ass is tancelto carry out the relative or other advan tages of projected lines, rather than that it affords us any otherserviceS beyond a general exposition of the false theory and the equally false practice which characterises the maps of our existent railways. A refe rence to that portion of the engineer's report on the line of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway, which treats of the distances rela tively considered,or the entire distance as a through line, exhibits, to the great satisfaction ofthe Provisional Committee, and to the public lo cally interested, and to those to whom his engineering labours and deductions have been submitted, a considerable saving of distance in the through line and in the oue or two most important points upon the line locally of vast commercial importance, a saving of several miles, and to use the expressions of his report, not less distin uished for its careful and elaborate research than for the satisfactor y g and happy results therein so indisputably worked out :---..The Rugby, portant and Manchester Railway Passes through everyt portant town between Rugby and Derby, Derby and Manchester, the n 5 ; the l e ading towns, termini, or places of the railway ; eon_ on nects with those and other towns direct railway traverses the richest mineral, agricultural, and commerci a l of f of yet intac th t e a c s o a un thro ties u t g hr h o l u in g e h , an wh d ic ie h d it ie p t a h s i s c e d s y ; e a h n e d rt p er re t s h erv en es an it ; t the Rugby, Derby, and M anc h es t er propos vr ed . d ß ir . ec sc t OT lineAf s r: e nt re L ta ogo e n toManchester." Railway Company. September 5,1845. TIH E SUN, i 4010 - Obi, MONDAY MURNING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1845. 63, 3foorgate-street, Sept. 6, 1345, ISLE OF ELY, WISBECH, AND LINCOLN SHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 200,0001., in 8,000 shares of 251. each. Deposit 21. 158, per share. PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS. William Bradley, Esq., (Chairman), Director of the Sheffield aid Manchester, Huddersfield and Sheffield, and Direct Western Railway Companies, Manor Oaks, Sheffield W. D. Christie, Esq., M.P., Deputy Chairman of the Shrewsbury, Hereford, and North Wales Railway Company, Eceleston-street, Belgrave-square, London D. R. Ross Esq., M.P., Great Ryder-street, St. James's, London Win. Pinney, Esq., late M.P. for Lyme Regis, 30, Berkeley-square, London T. Charles Harrison, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's -park M. S. Bright, Esq. (firm of Taylor, Clifford, and Bright), Director of the Direct Western Railway Company, Hull William Breynton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway Company, Montpelier House, Cheltenham, and Sergeants' Inn, London C. Appleby, Esq., Director of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Company, Sheffield Edwin Cadman, Esq., Director of the Direct Western Railway , Com pany, Westbourne House, Sheffield John Holford, Esq., Ru.sholme Hall, Manchester William Marriott, Esq., Director of the Direct Western Railway Company, Attercllffe-terrace, Sheffield C. R. Biggs, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square, London William Thompson, Esq., Director of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Company, Sheffield Richard Kelly, Esq., Chairman of the New Roas, Carlow, and Kil kenny Railways, 5, Cleveland-row, St. James's, London John Fawcett, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate Rail way Company, Sheffield John Robson, Esq., Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lan cashire Railway Company, Hetton-le-hole, Durham Samuel Swan Brittain, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng land, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Railway Companies, Sheffield Thomas Hedley, Esq., Director of the Lancashire and North York shire Railway Company, Newcastle-on-Tyne Isaac Holmes, Esq., Great George's-square, Liverpool John Newton Mappin, Es.l., Director of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company, Sheffield Captain Page, Director of the Coventry and Leioester, South Staf fordshire Junction, Warwick and Cheltenham, and Midland and Eastern Counties Railway Companies, Charlton House, Somerton Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway Company, Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, London John Ward, Esq., Director of Sheffield, Rotherham, and Chesterfield Fire and Life Insurance Company, Highfleld, Sheffield (With power to add to their number.) BANKIRS. Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co., Gracechurch-street, London National Provincial Bank of England, March, Wiabeeb, and Long Sutton PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. r HE MAN JFIESTER, HUDDERSFIELD, BARNSLEY, and GOOLE JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) The Legislature having, during the recent session, sanctioned the making of a railway from Huddersfield to Manchester, the long-de sired object of opening a direct line of railway communication, from Manchester to the Port of Goole, passing through the Saddleworth and Marsden Valleys, now presents itself. To accomplish this object, it is proposed to make a railway, CO7l. mencing at or near the station at Huddersfield of the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway, proceeding through the Kirkburton and Shelley Valleys, and thence by way of, or near, Barnsley, to Goole. By thi proposed railway, and the intended Huddersfield and Man chester Railway, there would be then established one continuous line of railways between the Irish Sea and the German Ocean, pass ing through Manchester, and connecting the two ports of Liverpool and Goole ; and also several important and populous manufacturing districts would have the benefit of railway communication, for which no provision has yet been made by any existing Company, or pro posed by any scheme now before the public. The proposed line would cross the 'North Midland Railway at or near Cudworth Station, opening a direct communication southwards. The Portion of the line between Huddersfield and the North Mid land Railway would pass through or near several of the most ex tensive and celebrated coalfields in Yorkshire ; and the other part of the line would afford increased means of attaining the valuable limestone of Knottingley. The country through which the line woul 1 pus generally is of a favourable character, and presenting few (if any) engineering diffi culties ; but a survey is now being made, and, when completed, a detailed Prospectus, with the names of a most influential Provisional Committee, consisting of landowners, merchants, manufacturers, and others locally interested, will be publLshed. In the meantime communications may be made to WILLIAM JACOMB, Esq., Solicitor, Huddersfield. SHREWSBURY, HEREFORD, and NORTH WALES RAILWAY COMPANY. COMMITTEE OF Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P. Chairman MANAGEMENT. W. D. Christie, Esq., M.P., Deputy Chairman W. G. Hayter, Esq., M.P., Director of the Great Western Railway Company J. H. Levin, Esq. E. E. Molyneux, Esq. A. T. T. Peterson, Esq. • David Pugh, Esq. C. Temple, Esq., Q.C. W. Tothill, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway Company L. Yigurs, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway Company Offices, 449, West Strand. SOLICITORS—Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitehall. The Committee of Management have determined, with the powers given them by the deed of the Company, to relinquish the branch from Ludlow to Newtown, which will form a necessary part of the Worcester and Port Dynllaen line projected by the Great Western Railway Company, and to reduce their proposed capital from 1,250,0001. to 1,000,0001. As the new standing order of the House of Lords will require 10 per ce it. of the proposed capital to be deposited, the Committee have also determined, in order to obviate the necessity of a further call on Shareholders before going to Parliament, to distribute the capital into shares of 251., deposit 21. 12s. 6d. ; allowing holders of the pre sent 501. shares to receive twice as many 251. shares, or any smaller number they may wish (subject to approval of the names by the Committee where their shares were not originally allotted to them), or if any should wish to withdraw, returning them the deposits of 21. 15s. per share which have been paid up. All holders of scrip certificates, or of bankers' receipts, are requested to forward the same to the Secretary on or before SATURDAY, the 20th of September, and to state at the same time their wishes with respect to new Shares, by letter in the form below. All holders of Shares not originally allotted to them, failing to transmit their scrip certifi cates on or before that day, will forfeit all benefit of their Shares, and. original Shareholders, failing by the same day to transmit their scrip certificates or bankers' receipts, will forfeit their right to an additional number of Shares. Where the scrip certificates or bankers' receipts are forwarded by .post, the letter should be registered at the post office ; the Secretary will acknowledge their receipt. The Shrewsbury and Hereford line will be made In cordial co operation with the Great Western and South Wales Companit s ; and the Cora.mitteo are happy to be able to announce that the surveys are being actively proceeded with. Sln, —I hereby transmit scrip certificates of the Shrewsbury, Here ford, and North Wales Railway Company, Nos. , [or a banker's receipt for shares,] and I desire to have 25/. 'shares in the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Company, under taking to pay the additional sum required to make a deposit of 2/. 12s. 6d. on each of these shares, and to sign the subscribers' agreement and Parliamentary contract when required, [or, to receive back the deposits which have been paid.] Usual signature .................. Name in full Profession or Business ..... Reference • - • .. [N.B. A reference is required only i n cases w h ere persons apply in respect of Shares not originally allotted to them ; but in those cases is indispensable.] SOLICITORS. James Coppock, 3, Cleveland-row, St. Jamee's John Bell, 28, Craven-street, Strand Thomas Steed Watson, Wisbech The Provisional Directors beg to announce that they are proceed ing with the allotment, but that in consequence of the great number of applications for Shares and their determination to pursue the strictest investigation into the responsibility of the applicants, the Letters of Allotment will not be issued for a few days. WILLIAM IVILDE, Secretary. September 6, 1845. R UGBY, DERBY, AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY, THROUGH LEEK. (Provisionally registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Vie., c. 110.) Capital, 1,500,000/. in 60,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit U. 7s. 6d. per Share. In deference to the representations of a deputation from Leek, it has been decided that the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway shall pass through Leek, In place of a branch, as originally designed and advertised. The Rugby, Derby, and Manchester R tilway is a direct line from London to Manchester, coming from London to Rugby, along the London and Birmingham line, and proceeding from Rugby by Hinck ley, through Market Bosworth, and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, to Derby, thence to Ashbourne, by Leek, to Macclesfield, and along the Mac clesfield and Stockport, and Stockport and Manchester Railways into Manchester. A branch to Buxton is in contemplation. The principle of this railway is to obtain a direct through line be tween some of the most important districts in the kingdom with the least possible amount of new railway, and consequently the smallest expenditure of capital. It - will all° 'establish the shortest direct communication between Derby and London, Sheffield and London, and between all the towns on the North Midland Railway and London. The Manchester, Derby, and Rugby Railway will open a direct communication between Manchester and Derby, and will consider ably shorten the distance between Manchester and Nottingham and Manchester and Leicester. The line from Derby to Rugby will establish the direct communi cation from that town to London, which has been so long considered desirable by the inhabitants. The same will apply to Sheffield, when the Sheffield and Chester field branch of the North Midland Railway is made. THE GREAT ADVANTAGES of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway through Leek over the other projects into Manchester, among others, are— First, That there are only seventy-five miles of railway to be made, in place of one hundred and eighty-nine. Secondly, That it is a more direct line from London to Manchester than even tha proposed direct lines. Thirdly, That it Interferes with no existing railway property or vested interests. Fourthly, That it passes through a district rich in manufactures, agriculture, and minerals, but which—more especially as regards its agricultural produce, and a convenient system of intercommunication for the conveyance of that agricultural produce, to supply the large manufacturing towns in the vicinity—has been hitherto left totally without railway communication. Fifthly, That it passes through the towns In its route, In place of avoiding them. Sixthly, That the whole line of railway from Rugby to Manchester will be completed and in working order within ten months from the passing of the Act of Parliament. Seventhly, That the maps, plans, estimates, and other documents required by the standing orders of Parliament, will be lodged with the Parish Clerks, the Clerks of the Peace for the Counties, and the Parliamentary offices, on the 10th day of November next, being twenty days within the thne required by the regulations of Parlia ment. The Report of the Engineer of the Company is already completed, and will be made public In a few days, upon which a further and full prospectus, with the names of the Provisional Directors, will be published. In the meantime, communications may be addressed to Thomas George Smith, Esq., 2, Warnford-court, Throgrnorton-street; Edward Ashworth, Esq., Manchester ; Messrs. J. B. and D. Neilson, Liver pool ; John Fox, Esq., Solicitor, Thomas Jones, Esq., the Company's Agent, Ashbourne ; E. Kern Jervis, Esq., Solicitor, Hinckley ; G. Greaves, Esq., and John Moss, Esq., Solicitor, Derby ; Messrs. Crossley and Sudlow, Manchester ; and to the Company's Solicitor, Thomas Gibson Brewer, Esq., 13, Gray's-inn-square. WILLIAM It. SCOTT, Scretary. GREAT NORTH OF FRANCE RAIL- ELY and BURY ST. EDMUNDS RAILWAY. WAY. Company is in u. course c .onuation for the construction (ROSAMEL'S COMPAYT.) of a RAILWAY from the City of ELY to the Town of BURY ST. A paragraph having appeared in the French *N - awspapars stating EDMUNDS. that this Company is about to form itself into a Company for the The Line will commence :by a JunCtiol at Ely with the Eistern purpose of Tendering for the Paris and Lyons Railway, and the Eng- aunties, Lynn and Ely, and Ely and Huntingdon Railways, and lish Provisional Committee having in consequence received numerous *illterminate at Bury by a Junction with the Ipswich and Bury applications from the Shareholders, think it necessary to state that it Railway. is not their intention to form a Company for the Line in question. Its object is to preserve the mercantile connexion which has for E. L. DE PREZ, Secretary. generations subsisted between the county of Suffolk, the town of Bury, and the Port of Lynn, and to afford to Ipswich, Colchester, and Bury, and all that portion of the kingdom, a direct communica tion With the manufacturing districts. The distance from Bury, and consequently from all places eastward of that tewn to Peterborough—the point at which so many Lines pass ing from the south and east to the north and north-west converge— will, by the Ely and Bury Line, be ten miles shorter than the route to that City by way of Cambridge. A detailed Prospectus will be issued immediately. ROOPEIt, BIRCH, and INGRAM, 63, Lincoln's Inn-fields. ISLE OF AXITOLAIE, GAINSBOROUGH, AND GOOLE RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that the Subscription List was slosed yes terday according to the previous advertisements, and no further ap plications can, under any circumstances, be now received. SCOTT and TAHOURDIN, Folicitm, the Company. September 5,:184 i, NORTHERN LINE of FRANCE, with its BRANCHES. DECCAN—LEBEUF'S COMPANY. The Provisional Committee beg to acquaint the Shareholders, that they have entered into an arrangement with the Company formed under the Messrs. Rothschild, to tender for this Line, by which the Shareholders of Deccan-Lebeurs Company will be entitled to Shares in the Messrs. Rothschild's Company, in the proportion of one for every ten held in this Company, and that there is no distinction between the Shares of the main line and the two branches. All are alike entitled to the same proportion. And upon the presentation at this office on and after the 12th instant of the Banker's receipts of Lebeurs Company, or of the counterpart of the reciprocal engage ments, a certificate will be given in exchange thereof for the number of Rothschild's shares to which they will be entitled, together with thirteen-twentieths of the deposit-money paid on Deccan-Lebeurs shares, the remaining seven twentieth's having been lodged with Messrs. Rothschills, being a deposit of £5 required by that Com pany, and a fur.her payment of £2, to meet the first call after the a ijudication. in all £7 per share. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street, _ By Order of the Committee, 7, Tokonhouse-yard, London, E. FILDER, Secretary. 6th September, 1845. WORCESTER, WARWICK, and RUGBY RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 900,0001., in 45,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share, Offices, No. 6, GI esham-street, Bank. PROVISIONAL COMMITTFE. Henry George Ward, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company David Robert Ross, Esq., M.P., Belfast, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company George Allies, Esq., Alderman of Worce s t er, Cwm Celyn Iron Works Richard Ashton, sq., White Lion Court, Cornhill, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Walter Chamberlain, Esq„ Worcester Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company George Beauchamp Cole, Esq., Chester-street, Grosvenor-place, Di rector of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Copthall-court, and Old Palace. Richmond, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Mr. George Cox, Glove Manufacturer, Worcester Mr. James Coucher, Wool Merchant, Worcester Th o o f m th as e D G o re w a g t la E s aa se t , ero Esq a ., a M d Warlebarteero Railway '-place, John's Wood, Director Henry Clarke Duppa, Esq., Quarry House, Bonghton Winchilsea, Kent, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Com pany George Farley, Esq., Henwick House, and Crowle, Worcestershire, banker, Worcester Mr. J. Firkins, of the firm of Firkins and Co., glove manufacturers, glove factors; and hop merchants, Wo cester Henry Grasett, Esq., Chesham-street, Belgrave-square Mr. Edwin Gardener, corn, hop, and seed merchant, Worcester John Matthew Clutch, Esq., banker, Worcester Mr. John Hood, merchant and carrier, Worcester John Hall, Esq., merchant, Worcester Frederick Hall, Esq., merchant, Worcester Charles Hastings, M.D., Alderman of Worcester Johe Wheeley Lee, Esq„ Vice-Chairman of the Severn Navigation Company, Manager of the Droitwich Patent Salt Company, and a Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company John Lilly, Esq., Alderman of Worcester, Worcester Royal Porcelain Manufactory Mr. Thomas Lucy, Albion Steam Flour Mills, Worcester, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton Arthur Mann, Esq., Woburn-square, Director of th e G rea t E as t ern and Western Railway Company Mr. F. H. Needham, merchant, Worcester, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Mr. Powell, wine merchant, Worcester John Pumphrey, Esq., Droitwich Mr. James Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Rea and Sons, Malsters, Worcester Mr. J. P. Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Rea and Son, Malsters, Wor cester James Reeves, Esq., Cheapside, and Leyton, Director o f th e Di rect London and Man c h e ster Railway Company. Timothy Steward, Esq., Higham Lodge, Norwich Mtn Tolley, Esq., Westford, Droitwi.th Mr. Wells, Hop Merchant, Worcester Mr. Woodward, Hop Merchant, Worcester John Henry Walsh, Esq., Worcester Mr. James Wall, Merchant and Carrier, Worcester. With power to add to their number. CHIEF ENGINEER. William Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S. ASSISTANT ENGINEER. S. F. Griffin. Esq., C.E. emactivaa. Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street, London. Henry Foley, Esq., Worcester. BANKERS. London—The London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury. Worcester—Mess. Z j s e s e . t e The Commercial Bank of London. Gauge Commis sioners, will be construct e d on th e Broad Gauge inciple, will corn all, mence at the Worcester St a ti on o f th e Great Eastern and Western Railway, and, proce e di ng b y Re d d i tc h and Henley-in-Arden, will f touch Warwick and L eamington, an d en d at Rugby, the terminus o Farley,to the decision Lavender, of and the Co. This f the Midland Counti es R a i lway and o f t h e proposed Rugby and Hunt ingdon Junction R a il way. It will communi c a te with Droitwich, Studley, Alcester, and Stratford-on-Avon. At Warwick, it will unite with the Birmingham and Oxford Junc tion Railway, the W arwick and Chelten h am R a il wa y, an d the Lou - don, Warwick, L eam i ngton, and Kidderm i ns t er Railway , and at Rugby, with the London and Birmingham, the Midland Counties, and the projected Rugby and Iluntingdon Junction Railways, The country through which it will pass, is thickly populated, and of the richest description. It presents no engineering difficulties, and from its population, its manufactures, and agricultural produce, it possesses sources of such abundant traffic as to render it highly re munerative to the Capitalists. The object proposed is to complete the line of railway communica tion between the Western, Midland, and Eastern portions 'of the Kingdom, and a glance at the Map of England will show that this will be effected in the most direct manner by the present line ; touch ing, as it will, at one of its termini, a railway running direct from Swansea to Worcester, and at the other, the projected line from Rugby to Huntingdon —from which point a railway communication has been already provided By means of this Railway, the manufactures of all the towns and Le agricultural produce of the country contained within its range, ; well as the Ports on the Eastern and North-Eastern Coast, will have opened to them a direct and unbroken communication with the great and densely-populated mineral fields of New South Wales, as well as the markets of the markets of the Northern portion of the principality. The advantages of a direct railway carriage over the more tedious process of carriage by water, to say, mothing of the economy in saving the expense, as well as the damage incident to many kinds of goods by the frequent transhipment required by the latter, are too obvious to demand more than this slight allusion. To the population; along the line as well as to the Midland and Northern portions of the kingdom, this undertaking will present the most direct communication with those towns of fashionable resort— Leamington and Cheltenham. To the inhabitants of Leamington and Warwick, it will open the most direct communication with the Worcester, it will open the markets of the Eastern portions of the city of Worcester and South Wales, whilst to the inhabitants of country. The Shareholders In the several railways proposed to be joined or intersected, will have a preference in the allotment of shares In this undertaking. No person will be liable for more than his deposit till the Act is obtained, and power will be applied for to allow interest at four pounds per centum on all calls from the time of their respective payments, and to limit the liability of the shareholders to the amount of their subscription. Aplications for shares in the annexed form to be made to the sharebrokers, Tokenhouse-yard ; 5 , Gresham-street, London, or Manchester; Mr. John O'Neil, Schultz and Carr, sharebrokers, sharebroker,Messrs.3rr Provisional jJohn hjnhr c n3u o in i se m teef tihNt:teees sharebroker, Manchester, and iti the s oss o rn ifi s Liverpool ; Messrs. IL and C. Bradshaw, sharebrokers, Leeds ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, sharebrokers, Bristol ; Mr. James Pearson, sharebroker, Birmingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., sharebrokers, Bradford ; Mr. William Miles, sharebroker, Wor cester; Mr. Robert Allan, sharebroker, Edinburgh; Mr. William Gordon, sharebroker, Aberdeen; Mr. Andrew Brand, sharebroker, Glasgow ; and Messrs. Bruce and Symes, sharebrokers, Dublin ; of whom Prospectuses may be had. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me Shares of 201. each in the above-named Company, and I h ere b y un d ertake to pay the Deposit thereon, and to execute the nec essary D ee d s when required. Name M full .. . .. ...• • . • Profession or Trade .• •••• •• •' Residence... ........ Place of Busin ess (if any) ..... Date...... ................... Reference.. • ..... Signature. Witnesg Offices, No. 4, CharlotterTlitisisiponnHoßseic ItIVTTEIISIATsERMEAII, WAY, FROM MILlt RIVER TO MONTEGO BAY, Railway, taking i ts gradation upon ground tkat has hitherto coT s P teo a y n ma y iu , a w bi i e ll, ad i fditthioonsetoatthporese plete the circuit of the not been taken up by any projecting is' sent t nu td c o too n f t bj e e m a ci t a l ar r a i t e ai e e d a o b au e nt e a d. rr w i ll l e d foraln m o effe 7 e_ 7t --- IrOspectuaeswlthfull particulars will be issued in a few days, in he mean time any information may be obtained by applying to JAMES WA ItD, Secretary. APPLICATIONS LIMITED TO SATURDAY, the 13th INSTANT. CALLAO and LIMA and PACIFIC COAST RAILWAY. Capita 25 0,000/., in 25,000 Shares of 101. each. Deposit 11., to be returnable in full if the Callao and Lima line be not carried into effect. DIRECTOR& Sir W. P. De Bathe, Bart. J. C. Hamilton, Esq. Robert Passenger, Esq, Sir George Rick William Richardson, Esq . a. A. Brown, Esq. BANKERS — London Joint-Stock Bank SOLICITOR — WiIIiatn Bevan, Esq. SECRETART--Mr. George 'Upton. Offices, No. 6, Old Jewry ; where Prospectuses may be had, and Applications with References are to be addressed; also to Boyle, Low, Pim, and Co., Dublin ; Pownall and Worthington, Liverpool; J O'Neill, Manchester; Jamieson, Leeds; Phillips, Hull; Pringle Edinburgh ; Smith, Glasgow ; Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Hopwood and Palmer, Plymouth; Holland, Coventry; Balms. Gloucester. TO CAPITALISTS, SOLICITORS, &c. An opportunity now offers to any person or persons who can command from 8,0001. to 10,0001. to produce at least from 30 to 40 per cent. per annum ; or to any Solicitor who has the means of form ing a Company, double or treble the above amount might be em ployed with equal advantage. After many years' perseverance, a Watch Escapement has been brought to such perfection, that all the defects of the present Chronometer are removed, and a perfect Chronometer, either for the pocket or for navigation, may be obtained at a very trifling expense beyond an ordinary Watch. The object of the advertiser is to secure the Patents for the Inventor, and, either by private interest or public Company, to establish a manufactory, and to grant licencis. The first Watch made upon this principle has been tried for eighteen months, and the most satisfactory results can be attested. The properties of the improvement will be explained, and every information given, by application to Mr. C. Collins, 6, King William_ street, City. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDO/f, SEPT. 6.—Wind E.N.E., moderate and fine. DEAL, SETT. s. —Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Knickerbocker, Korter, Alexandria (U.S.). Arrd. from the river and sid., Raymond, M'Kay, Madras; Chamois,‘Brooks, Pernambuco ; Saxon, Deane, Boston. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. s. —Wind E.S.E., moderate.—Arrd. Anlaby, Cape of Good Hope ; Seymour, Lima ; Mountaineer, Demerara; Ocean Queen, St. roomingo ; Mannela, Havan nah ; Zante, Tobasco ; Europe, Farlier. New York ; Gover nor Hall, Ellen, and Miracle, Quebec; Olive Branch, Prince Edward Island. Sld. Adam Smith, and British Queen, Ken nedy, St. Thomas's; Parthian, Allen, Virginia; Rosalama, Buckley, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Sophia, Peach, ditto; Laurel, Karster, Quebec. Off port, Elizabeth, Radcliff, Lima; John and Amazon, Quebec; Earl of Afar, Captain Ross, and Schiedam. SUNDERLAND, SEPT. 4.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Grinder, Hindmarsh, Prince Edward Island ; Herum, Fox, Quebec ; Cornelius, Handford, ditto ; Eliza Clark, ditto. HULL, SEPT. s.—Wind N.N.E.—A rrd. Fergus, Martin, Quebec ; Thomas Rowell, Robertson, Quebec. WEXFORD, SEPT. 4.—The Seaflower, Codd, from Glouces ter, fouled her anchor in the harbour to-day, and sunk in shallow water ; cargo expected to be saved with partial damage. BELFAST, SEPT. 3.—A vessel, apparently a. brig, aban doned, with nothing but her bowsprit standing; fourvessels near her, one of which had a boat on the wreck, was passed 13th ult., lat, 46, lon. 46, by the Nelson Village, arrived here. MIDDLESEX REGISTRATION. The agents of hte Liberal party state that the ensuing revision for the county o Middlesex will be the strongest ever contested since the pass ng of the Reform Bill. They announce that the " free traders" have put on the lists no fewer than 834 new claims, and that they have made the unprecedented number of 2,124 objections to voters in the Conservative interest. The agents for the Coassrvative party have served only 858 objections, and put in 274 claims. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, SEPT. 5. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 48; llighest, 58; Noon, 58, BAROMETER, 30.23. WIND E. ; morning, slight rain ; afternoon, fine sun. shiny weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 34 minutes after 5 1 Evening .. 56 minutes after 5 To be had at all the Libraries. P OPUL AR NE W NOVEL g Just published by 31r. Colburn. LOVE and MESMERISM. By lIORACE SMITH, Esq., Author of " Bratubletye House," &c. 3 vols. The STORY of a ROYAL FA'VOURITE. By Mrs. GORE. 3 vols. COUNT KONIGSMARK. An Historical Romance. By Captain FREDERIC CHAMIER, R.N. 3 vas. IV. • The WHITE SLAVE, and the RUSSIAN PRINCE. By the Anther of " Revelations of Russia." 3 vols. V SELF; or, THE - WORLD AS V. IT GOES. By the Author of "Cecil." Second Edition, 3 vols. MAIDS of HONOUR ; a Tale of VI the court of George I. 3 vols. —.... VII. STRITHERN; a Story of the Present Day. By the COUNTESS of BLESSINGTON. DE ROMAN • ' or, the Court ( Conspirator. An Historical Re. mance. By EUVENE SUE. Author of the " Mysteries of Paris,' &c. 3 vols. By the AUTHOR of " HIGHWAYS and BYWAYS." Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols. post Svo., with a Fine Portrait of the Author, ILIHE MASTER PASSION, And OTHER TALES and SKETCHES, By THOMAS COLLEY GRATTAN, Esq., Author of" Highways and Byways," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW WORK. BY THE AUTHOR 05' " THE IMPRO VISA TORE. Now Ready at all the Libraries, in Three Vols., post 8 vo., • T. LIFE IN DENMARK, AND ONLY A FIDDLER, From the Danish. By MARY HOWITT. " One of the most interesting works which has issued from the press for years. Its pictures of Danish life are most natural and most admirable ; its descriptions of scenery, its touches of truth in character and incident, its exquisite drawing of children and chil dren's minds, its naivete and lively sallies, its world-wisdom and imaginativeness all briefly set before us, as if in flashes of light and in telleet, possess so entire a charm, that we do not for a moment hesi tate to say, that this is a book which will affbrd the utmost gratifica tion to every class of readers, and deserve a place among the most sterling works of fiction that ever were produced."—Literary Gazette. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESS2E, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeated PAST AND PRESENT. Marquis de St. Victor, Mr. Stuart; Count de Florville, Mr. 11. Holl ; Julian de St. Victor, Miss Julia Bennett; Larose, Mr. W. Farren ; Marchioness de St. Victor, Mrs. E. Yarnold. In the course of the Evening, Mr. John Parry will sing his New Song of " Young England." To be ibllowed by HIS LAST LEGS. O'Callaghan, Mr. Hudson ; Rivers, Mr. Tilbury ; Charles Rivers, Mr. H. Moll ; Mrs. Montague, Mrs. W. Clifford. After which will be repeated a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled MILS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES; or, Matrimonial Chap ters. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Bueksione ; Mrs t Caudle, Mrs. W. Clifford. Private Loxes, Two Guiness and One Guinea and a-Halt each. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office Mom Ten till Five o'clock. , THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTF. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled CLARISSE • or, The Merchant's Daughter. Martial, Mr. Webster ; John Cabot, Mr. Munyard ; Barbillon, Mr. Wright ; Galon, Mr. Paul Bedford; Clarisse, Madame Celeste; Milanie, Miss Woolgar. After which, will be repeated, THE B)Y KING; or, Petite Peccadillos. Louis XV., Madame Celeste; De Lauzum, Miss Wool gar. In the eourse of the piece, Grand Review of the Infantine Infantry. To be followed by a farce. In One Act, called MRS. CAUDLE ABROAD AND AT HOME. Mr. Candle, Mr. Wilkinson; Mrs. Candle, Mr. Wright. Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the Band, Mr. Mellon. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Comic Drama, entitled BY ROYAL COMMAND. Principal characters by Mr. Diddear, Mr. Vining, fir. Emery, Mr. Turner, Mr: Bender, and Mr. Meadows; Miss Fairbre ther, airs. Woollidge, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, a New and Original Comedietta, entitled PETER JENKINS; or, Fibbing for a Friend. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, A. Wigan, Turner, Meadows; Mrs. Keeley and Miss Dawson. To be followed by a New and Original Comedy, to be called THE GOVERNOR'S WIFE, with entirely New Scenery, Dresses, and Appurtenances. Principal Characters by Messrs. Diddear, Keeley. F. Mathews, F. Vining, and Collier, liss Dawson. and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled LUCK'S ALL. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Diddear, Keeley, Meadows, Kin- Lech, and 'I urner ; Miss Hicks, and Mrs. A. Wigan. The Box-office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan from Ten till Four. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AAIPIIITIV- ATRE OF ARTS. PROPRIETOR AND MANAGER, MR. W. BA.TTI Extraordinary success of the new gorgeous spectacle, in twenty magnificent Tableaux, entitled THE BRIDE OF THE NILE; or, The Lily of Memphis and The Horse of the Pyramids, which is allowed by the public press to eclipse all former productions, both in magnificence and effects, and nightly hailed with the most tumultuous applause. Second Week of Mr. Denvil in his successful personation of Olynthus. Second Week of the re-engagement of M. Tournaire's unequalled Troupe, who will tntroduce new and popular Scenes in the Cirque Olympique. The whole eoncluding with a Laughable Farce. Box-ottic: open from Eleven till Five. Equestrian Tuition given as usual. Acting Manager and Stage Director, Mr. T. Thompson. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Positively the last Six Nights of Madame Vestris and Mr. C. Mathews. THIS EVENING Will he performed THE CAPTAIN OF THE WATCH. Viscount de Ligny, Mr. C. Mathews ; Baron Vanderpotter, Ur. Neville ; Kris tina, Mrs. 11. Hughes ; Katryn, Miss Martin. . . After which, BEAUTY' AND THE BEAST. Beauty, Madame Vestris; Beast, Mr. Binge; John Qt:111, Mr. C. Mathews. To he fo lowed by the Comic Drama of FREE AND EASY. Sir Jahn Freeman, Mr. C. Mathews. To conclude with a New Melodrama, entitled GALE BREEZELY ; or, The Tale of a Tar. Mr. Allsorts, Mr. Ileslop; Gale Breezely, Mr. N. T. nicks; Morns, Mrs. Henry Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Bea. office, from Eleven to Vour. The present Magnificent Representation can only be seen during the few remaining Weeks of the Season. THIRD WEEK OF THE COMET. The Brilliancy of the Pyrotechnic Finale exceeds all imagination! The Day-light View of the Colossal Pictorial Representation, suggested By HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT, Is hailed with Universal Approbation. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. ON MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and THURSDAYS, Will be presented a Magnificent MODELLED REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH, The Pride of Scotland and'of Scotchmen. The Unequalled 3lenagerie—Giraffe and Chimpanzee. THE MAGNIFICEN I MODEL OF VENICE, Shelving with the greatest accuracy every portion of that far-famed City; this wonderflil Work of Art occupied seven years in completion, and cost 2,000/. THE PROMENADE CONCERTS, 1 By the unrivalled Band ofthe Establishment, conducted by Mr. Godfrey. At Dusk will take place the most extraordinary EXHIBITION OF FIREWORKS EVER ATTEMPTED, Introducing aßepresentation of the COMET, which takes its Arial Flight from the extreme height of the Gigantic Model; • And, as a Finale, a Grand, Royal, and Patriotic TABLEU, Flity-two feet in height, wiII AQUATIC be exhibited din the Centre of the Lake ; The PORTRAITS of HER MAJESTY and PRINCE ALBERT, Surmounted by Fame, and surrounded by Emblems and Other Devices will be introduced. This, combined with the Feux D'Artifice, the Salute and Discharge of Rockets from the Castle and surrounding Heights will form the most BRILLIANT PYROTECHNIC DISPLAY EVER WITNESSED. The Tableau designed and executed by Mr. Danson. Pyrotechnist, Mr. Southby. Admission, One Shilling. Feeding the Carnivore at Half-past Four; Pelicans, &c., at Five ; Concert at Half-past Five ; and Pyrotechnic Display at a Quarter past Eight. On Wednesday, Sept. 17, the Royal South London Floricultural Society will hold their Last Flower Show of the Season on the same extensive and Liberal scale which has characterised preceding Shows, and which has stamped them to be equal to any in the Kingdom. --- people, for their being restrained any longer in a pacific attitude towards other nations—and this more particu• larly. We, t 4,0, would implore our own Government to lay r,flections of this nature to their own hearts; and not to relax in that course of vigilant superintendence and improvement which has beep commenced, we readily admit, in many of the most important of our Executive Departments, but which, if carried out to a point short of timely completion, may even now prove but failures. Among the still uneffected, but indispenable, measures _ . required to give its due efiieit , ncy to the most essential arm of the national service—our Navy—we must still complain, and we urgently complain, that no system has yet been .rganised of the nature we have so often dis cussed for securing a present complement, and retaining in all future times an adequate supply, of able seamen, by the establishment of a half-pay or allowance list for that purpose. We lament to and, that in acting on the suggestions of the Commission upon Harbours of Refuge, nothing has yet been done to develop the noble capaci ties of the harbour of Seaford, or to render the natural facilities of the road of Dungeness more available and extensive for similar purposes. We must also express the disappointment, in which we believe the public largely participate, that profes sional men of the highest authority and experience, loudly announce at the still undigested and un combined results of the various experiments which have been made on the improvement of the construction of war-steamers, and the archit€cture and armament of men-of-war, with a view to the attain ment of the best sailing properties, and the most effec tive gunnery with the heaviest metal. The attention and energy of the Admiralty still require, we fear, to be acted upon by a " pressure from without." The election for the borough of Southwark will be decided on Thursday next, according to the announce ment of the High Bailiff, and we therefore take the op portunity of saying a few words to the Liberal candidates. Mr. PILCHER belongs to a party for which the electors of this borough have, on many occasions, expressed by their votes a manifest dislike ; he professes, it is true, some liberal principles, but general pro fessions, all know, seldom bear the test of experience, and should he be returned, he will, beyond all doubt, vote with the men whose mea sures their present consistent Member, as well as the late Mr. Wool), so often opposed. Should Sir WILLIAM MoLEsworera and Mr. MALL persist in going to the poll, they will play into the hands of the Tories, and the votes of the Memburs for Southwark in Parliament will, in all probability, be neu , ralised. In other words, Southwark will be unrepresented for all useful purposes, and the ho nest, liberal, and radical constituency, will not be one whit better off than the corrupt elecstors of disgraced Sudbury. The supporters of the liberal candidates know to a certainty which has the best chance, indeed, there can be no doubt on the subject, and for the sake of obtaining a candidate that professes most of their political views, would it not be better to sacrifice one in order to keep out their enemy ? The result of the elections at Man chester and Durham ought to be a warning and teach the Radicals, that so far from opposing Toryism, they are lending by their obstinacy the most effectual support to its obnoxious tenets. Mr. FEARG , US O'CONNOR, as if to add to the mischief, advocates the claims of the weaker party, thereby doing everything n his power to return a Tory. We do not blame him for putting forth his peculiar opinio . 2is on all suitable oc casions—we do not even suspect tOr a moment that he would prefer PILCHER to MoLlisworern, but we blame him for want of tact and prudence, and for endangering the Liberal cause by encouraging dissension among its friends. Cannot he perceive what joy this dissension causes among all the enemies of liberty and reform, and how gratified these oppressors of the people are in seeing some well-meaning, but injudicious, opponent throwing the apple of discord among Reformers, and thereby in suring their own triumph ? Let us 11 cape, however, that the honest electors will not be misled, and that South wark will not be subjected to the d=isgrace which now attaches to not a few free constituenci:es. Accounts have been received from Madrid to the 29th ult., when the city was perfectly tranquil. Letters from Saragossa also announce that the att Nzlpted resistance to the payment of the new tax had aeon unsuccessful and order had been completely restoi•ed. The QUEEN was expected at Pampeluna on the 2d inst,, and the French Princes on the 4th. In refere; ire to this inter view the Tionpo says !—" Whatever may be its object and result—whether it be the Count TRA_PANI or Count MONTEMOLIN who is to divide with Mo NTES the honours of that city—it is at least certain that i ;awards the mid dle of next month the Court will have 'sturned to Ma drid ; and those fears entertained by t he most prudent and cautious men, will not be realised. Such at least is our opinion, and as such we express it loy:),Ily and forcibly. The marriage will not have taken place: there will be no VILUMA. Mini,try ; nor, in a word, will any of those things happen which some persons of our r arious parties prognosticated." No business was done on the Madrid' :Bourse on the 29th ult. The Paris papers contain no politic•il article 3 of the slightest importance. We were wlad to find that two of the most violent of them have taken up subjects of a more useful character. The P re.vse has com menced a series of articles on the liberty of the sub ject, which, in France, appears to :be of the very by the face nrSWerCil. ^7r:l!(, - (1, as these pleepert to e tit e seventeen of the French and ce fuer of the E1e,..;- lish crews fell in this attack. The French journals can not, or will not, understand how this disparity of loss can have occurred. They seem to be incapable of so much elevation of sentiment as to attribute it to a most unnatural, but a generous ardour on the part of their own sailors, to distinguish their bravery and re.,:olution under the very unusual circumstances of being associated with ours in a descent upon a common enemy. They seem equally oblivious of the fact that the governor of one of their own colonic; having directed or organised the expedition, in all probability assigned the post of honour, that is of danger, to those who bore the flag of France. But the speculations of these journalists on the disaster which has been sustained at Tamatave ought not to be without their fruits. They should suggest matter to us of very grave reflection. No one who is aware of the extensive circulation of the Debars, to say nothing of the talent with which the Paris Colortutionnel is written, or of the general ability and widely-diffused sale of other French papers, devoted to the same hostile depreciation of Eng land, her power, her resources, her strength, her policy, and the motives which it suits their purposes to attribute to that policy,—whether the subject of their anitnad versions be one of European or Asiatic interest—of the march of events in America or in Afriea ;—no one acquainted with these facts, or giving due weight to these considerations, can doubt that that portion of the French nation, to whom these exciting appeals are so mis chievously addressed, comprehends a very numerous, energetic, unscrupulous, and excitable community. The Debuts, which accurately understands the necessity of sustaining this excitement by providing, from time to time, fresh pabulum for its support, has now seized upon Hong-Kong, with the double purpose of gratify ing the community we allude to with the contemplation of the pleasing result that our acquisition has already proved, and continues to be, the grave of thousands of our gallant countrymen, and of insinuating that we are already on the point of providing ourselves with some far more eligible settlement on the Chinese coasts. But the notion it suggests of the grounds on which we shall " compel" the grant of it from the EMPEROR'S Govern ment is too eminently French not to be specially no ticed. It is said, it would therefore be necessary for them to obtain from the Chinese Government either a new concession of the sovereignty of the island, or to find an opportunity of exacting it. Some imprudent attacks on the part of the Chinese population, like that which took place at Macao on the person of Mr. DAVIS, the English Commissioner, or that at Canton on Messrs. MONTGOMERY MARTIN and STAUNTOIT, and for which the English have, perhaps designedly, deferred demanding reparation, may pro bably, in case of need, furnish the opportunity which they are seeking. In the meantime they are expending a great deal of money at Chusan, and are laying the foundations of a durable establishment." Now this is precisely the sort of claim founded on an ex post facto statement of past_injuries for which the claim of compensation has been postponed, that the French authorities have acted on at Otaheite and in Morocco, at Monte Video, in Mexico, and on the Sene gal. But it is a little too much to assume that Great Britain would condescend to imitate a system of dis ingenuous policy that has already received the con demnation of all Europe. In what we have thus written, however, of the extra vagant excesses to which the anti• English party in France is pushed by its credulous animosi,y, we desire to excite no contemptuous disregard for such manifesta tions. On the contrary, that party, we repeat, is nu merous, able, arLpowerful. Strong as the Government of M. GUIZOT may be to uphold the cause of peace, and of established institutions—vigorou s and provi dent as is the character of the KING of the Fitrscii, no man can foresee at what moment the vicissitudes of political administration, the issue of party cabals and intrigues, and the course of nature may deprive the world of the guarantees it now possesses, in a wise KING and 2n intelligent Minister at the head of the French . _ ..", , :4•C . - \ • ,41 kro . : , 11 4 0 ,4 01 41,6V;;.,g" , • M 0 I , t 2 .2 ,7i t soolso. ci3eq 4 Z PIT By order of the Committee of Management, CONWAY ROSE, Secretary. 449, West Strand, Sept. Ist, 1845 PROSPECTUS OF I'HE QHROPSHIRE MINERAL RAILWAY, forming, in conjunction with other existing and projected ines, a direct communication between Liverpool, Manchester, Shef field, York, and Hull, and Swansea and South Wales. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 700,0001., In 35,00 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s, per Share. (The Deposit is in accordance with the Standing Order of the House of Commons.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Adams, Mr. Sergeant, Stanhope-place, Hyde-park Ba.deley, Thomas Bernard, Esq., Newport, Salop Barker, Joseph, Esq., Macclesfield Beddoes, Thomas, Esq., Cheney Longueville, near Church Stretton Beamish, Captain, Kensington-square Bull, Joshua, Esq., Snedshill Iron Works Burrowes, Captain, Davies-street, Berkeley-street . Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield and London, Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway Clark, C., Esq., Ironmaster, Shakespeare Foundry, Wolverhampton Clemson, John, Esq., Red Bank, Manchester Deakin, Addison, Esq., Eccleshall Downes, Thomas R. C., Esq., Munslow, near Ludlow Edwards, Edward, Esq., Iron-bridge, Shropshire Evans, Thomas, Esq., Clun, Shropshire Ewbank, Captain, Junior United Service Club Eyke, William, Esq., Stanton, Shropshire Firmstone, John Parsons, Esq., Ironmaster, Highflelds Works, Bil ston, Director of the South Staffordshire, Worcester, and Shrews bury Junction George, William, Esq., Weston, near Much Wenlock Griffiths, Samuel, Esq.. Wolverhampton Hall, Joseph, Esq., Iron-master, Bloomfield, Tipton, Staffordshire Holcombe, Charles T., Esq., Valentines, Ilford, Essex, Director of the Anglo-Belgian Railway Humphreys, William, Esq., the Rectory, Denim, Welsh Pool, Mont gomeryshire Humphreys, John, Esq., Berriew, Welsh Pool, Montgomeryshire Humphreys, Rev. Thos., Bishop's Castle Jones, Robert, Esq., Strefford, near Church Stretton Law, William, Esq., Woburn-place, Russell-square Leicester, Rev. Charles, J.P. Whitton Hall, Salop Loveridge, Henry, Esq., Wolverhampton Marston, Francis, Esq., J.P., Aston, Hopesay, Salop Miller, Ambrose, Esq., Lower Thames-street, Director of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway Minton, John, Esq., Cloebury North, Shropshire Newcombe, J. W., Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, and Langley-fields Ironworks, Dawley, Salop Plowden, William, Esq., Plowden-hall, near Bishop' s C astle, and Rotherwas, near Her eford, J.P., Shropshire Pulteney, Captain Douglas Kinnaird, Parliament-street, Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway Rigg, Charles M., Esq., York-place, Portman-square Riley, W. T. Esq., Ironmaster, 'Winfield Works, Bilsto n , Di rector of the Derbyshire Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Uyton, William, Esq., Wolverhampton Shaw, William, Esq., Director of the Farmers' Assurance Company; the Manchester and Birmingham Extension Railway; Warwick and Worcester; and Midland Junction Railways Simms, William, Esq., Snedshill Ironworks, Shiffnal Slade, the Rev. IL R., D.D., Wolverhampton Sinalman, John, Esq., J.P., ;Quatford Castle, Bridgnorth, Director of the Worcester and Crews Railway Spicer, Charles W., Esq , Portman-square Summers, Thomas, Esq., Much Wenlock Swift, Henry, Esq., Eccleshall and Wootton Swift, George, Esq., Eiford-hill, Eccleshall Thacker, Robert, Esq., Wolverhampton Tildesley, James, Esq., Merchant, Willenhall, Staffordshire Tudor, Samuel, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Hull, Director of the Derby, Stafford, and Uttoxeter Railway Turner, Henry, Esq., Brewbod Hall, Staffordshire Underhill, George Lees, Esq., Iron-master, Wolverhampton Wainwright, Richard, Esq., Stanway Hall, Church Stretton Wayne, the Rev. W. H., Vicar of Much Wenlock Webster, Frank D, Bullock, Esq., Director of the New River Com pany, Brentbridge House, Hendon, Middlesex Wells, Thos., Esq., Iron-master, Moxley Steel Works Weyman, Thomas, Esq , Purslow Hall, near Clun, Shropshire Wood, William, Esq., Chetwyhd House, Newport, Salop, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway Wolryche, Stephen, Esq., J.P., Quatford Villa, near Bridgnorth, Salop (With power to add to their number.) BANKERS. Messrs. Jonas Loyd and Co. Lothbury, Messrs. Cockburns and C0. ,4, Whitehall, Messrs. Adams, Warren, and Co., Shrewsbury and Market Drayton The Bilston District Banking Company, Wolverhampton The Shropshire Banking Company, and its Branches. ENGINEER IN CHlEF—Samuel Clegg, Esq., C.E. ACTING ENGINEER—Francis Briscoe, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Yarborough and Adams, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London E. Garbett, Esq., Wellington, Salop. LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. G. and R. Anderson, Ludlow Thomas Weyman, Esq., Ludlow John William Butterton, Esq., Eccleshall Thomas Bernard Baddeley, Esq., jun., Newport Edward Edwards, Esq., Church Stretton Gilbert Brown, Esq., Shiffnal Philip Octavius Jervis, Esq., Bishop's Castle Thomas Griffiths, Esq., Clun and Bishop's Castle Thomas Walker, Esq., Wolverhampton J. R. Hodgson, Esq., Birmingham M. H. Williams, Esq., Bridgnorth. SECRETARY—George Bond, Esq. Offices, Royal Exchange-buildings, London. The line of Railway intended to be constructed by this Company will commence at or near Norton Bridge (a station of the Grand Junction Railway), in the county of Stafford, and proceed from thence by Eccleshall, Offiey, Norbury, Forton, Newport, Dormington Wood, Oaken Gates, Priors Lee, Stirchley, Dawley, Madeley, and Iron Bridge, to Coalbrook-dale; there, crossing the proposed " Wor cester and Crewe Railway," it will pass along the slope of Wenlock edge, by Rushbury and Eaton-under-Haywood, to Wistanstow, in the county of Salop, where it will run into, and form a junction with the " Shrewsbury, Hereford, and North Wales Railway." The line will traverse a rich mineral district, and will have a secure and extensive traffic by the carriage of coal from the Shropshire coal-field, to a depot proposed to bo formed at Wistanstow, for the supply of South Shropshire, part of Radnorshire and Herefordshire, and also from whence it will be conveyed by the "Hereford, Shrews bury, and North Wales Railway," into Montgomeryshire and the neighbouring counties, where coal does not exist. It is impossible to calculate the extent to which this traffic may be carried, as by the direct railway communication thus opened between the Shropshire coal-field, and the important manufacturing towns of Newtown and Llanidloes, the price per ton will be reduced one-half at those places, and the • flannel manufacturers, now depend ing upon water power, will, by the cheapness of coal, be enabled to employ steam, and to extend their trade in proportion to the great demand which exists for the Welsh flannels, in preference to any other. The importance of this subject will have its due weight with those who so often witness the bad effects upon the trade, caused by the stoppage of the mills from an insufficiency of water. A considerable amount of tonnage is now incurred by the Shrop shire ironmasters, for the conveyance of lime-stone from the neigh bourhood of Much W,nlock to the furnaces, by several transits of land and water carriage, whereas the proposed railway will convey it direct Into the heart of the works, and at one-third of the expense. By its junction with the " Grand Junction" and the " Hereford and Shrewsbury" Railways, this line will form a direct communica tion between Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, York and Hull, and Swansea and South Wales. As a Junction line alone (connecting as it will such important rail ways), a large passenger traffic may be depended upon, but when it is considered that the centre of the line passes through a densely populated mining district, and the remainder through a thriving agricultural neighbourhood, it will be obvious that a sufficient local traffic exists to pay a highly remunerative interest on the amount of capital required to be embarked. The T line, which will not Interfere with any property of an orna mental or costly character, will not exceed 46 miles in length, and will be constructed at much less than the average cost. The co-operation of the principal landowners on the line has been secured, and no opposition is anticipated or can be sustained against the measure. The liability of the Shareholders will be limited, by the Act, to the amount of their subscription to the capital stock ; and power will be applied for to allow interest at the rata of four per cent. per annum on the amount of the deposit, and upon the further calls, from the date of each payment until the opening of the line ; and the first deposit being paid, a further call will not be made until the Act of Parliament shall have been obtained. Maps of the line, prospectuses, &c., are to be obtained from the I §. l ot e r e w r t l a b r e y, n t e h e e e s solicitors t androre reference local en c 4 a b g o e in n t a s 4 ; e to t o w a l whom k a e l also s a o p li p c li i c to a r ti:n or s Shares (Willett must be on p r i n t e d f orms) may be addressed ; and person of responsibility. 114 o,rninix :Iflt LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1P45, We do not think it necessary to put our readers upon heir guard against the exaggerated spirit in which those articles that we have extracted from some of the French journals, on the subje-ct of the affair at Tamatave, on the coasts of Madagascar, are written. The hatred of England—that hatred which is sure to be produced in un generous minds by the recollection of p.tst defeats on the part of their own country, and of extreme moderation in victory upon ours—is the rankling passion to which the Constithtionnel (and, we are sorry to add, the Jourta4 des Debut; of late) are constantly appealing. It is that demon, ever jealous of the increasing respect and friend ship which the two great rivals on the theatre of human civilization and political grandeur are reciprocally mani festing for one another, as the lapse of years rolls back the epoch of their last destructive contests, which is incessantly invoked by the unprincipled writers of a party that cannot hope for influence or power in the direction of public affairs in France, excep t in a season of wars abroad and tumultuous factions at home. To the Moloch-worship of this Evit, ONE the political fanatics we speak of would freely sacrifice, if the strong arm of the law, and the yet stronger restraint of public opinion did not chain down their turbulent activity, all that is great and estimable in France and in England ; and in the very first instance, that good understanding be: tween the two Governments in the maintenance of which the peace and happiness of Europe and of the world at large aro so deeply interested. We will not do so much honour to the rancorous speculations in which the political jealousy of these writers has been lately in dulging on the event of the attack on Tamatave by a joint force of English and French sailors as to re-quote them. That attack resulted, it is well known, in a virtual discomfiture of their European assailants by the native Alalgachees, whose intre pidity availed itself to the full of all the advan tages by which it was aided—a position of remark able strength, well improved, excellently fortified, and defended by numbers very far exceeding those of their assailants, with cannon that seem to have been v, ell served. The disparity of the loss respectively sustained by the French and the English crews, united in this conjoint operation (on the merits or misma nagement of which it is impossible to pronounce any opinion in the absence of official accounts and docu mentg) has suppiied the motive of a whole chorus of grumblers, accusers, and bellicose malcontents in the French newspapers. But their indignation and their . . insinuations, their suspicions and their irascibility, are alike too ridiculous to be gravely dealt with or seriously , 0 10 smallest amoun t 't nal • e t, that ale OtW neitirer demies itio t ';isonable 001; nor the rank or s t at i on of the n la g ist lO by whom a warrant may be issued. The a ccuser select the comm i tt i ng magistrate, who has the Poc-oelifl' only of arresting him, but of confining Lin' secs V ' and forbiddi ng a ll i ntercourse between him °loll family for an indefinite period. We doubt the s , ment. The Charter did not leave the Ebert,' e t ot subject in such an undefined state ; and we c ci fidently believe that no magistrate ca n 1 ,,0 mit to prison, without a limited period fixed for the trial of the accused. The N a fond ; plains of the mod e o f appointing persons to Gov ery offices, on the ground th a t a man accord i 'g t o the P reo 0, practice cannot o bt a i n a G overnment s i tuat i o n tint es , l ,e' has gone through a regular course of study a t the versity. We beliave the practice prevails onli iit rence to certain appointments for which, of course , a ,o; able degree of i ns t ruct i on i s necessary. H owe ver, ' o il are laudable endeavours, and it will be gratifying t° l y l these rabid journ a l s di rect i ng attent i on ra ther t ° o l social evils o f F rance t h an eternally meddling vittboii affairs of their nei g hb ours . I t appears from the °cot journals th a t a di v i s i on o f French troops, under the tj A mend of Colonel Sr. 'ARNAUD, had made another e a t 0 0: upon a body of Arabs, who had taken refuge, l ike , i ; at Dahra, i n a cavern, b ut it had been OnTeg: in a more humane manner. Two dispatches, da te ' r all giers, Aug. 15 an d 19 , h a d b een received from olfrfiy! &CEA UD, stating th e p art i cu l ars. In the re port 15th the Marshal gives an account of a successlui 9 ' 4 1 made by a French force under Colonel DE ST. Attii)! on the 7th, on t h e S c h er iff Boua-Afaza, who wn"" t o. head of 200 cava l ry an d some i nfantry. The was completely defeated. The Scheriff escaped difficulty. His brother, one of his officers, and 0 1: 0 of his cava l ry were kill ed. On the Bt h Ce ST. ARNAUD received information that the energy sboo ll retired in a great measure to their caverns. g ri eh i , losing an instant he proceeded to blockade ""1 The report says :—" At sevon in lhe evening t it A e lo ti vestment was complete ; in this operation we 14 ' 010 11 soldiers wounded. There were, it is said, in th e 'di toes a hundred armed men. The various surat n°- i r' made up to the departure of the courier had hf ea i y . ceived with insult and the firing of muskets." In t lY report of the 19th th e M ars h a l says— " The siege e"tyl grottoes of Sbehas has been less distressing tif fl ott, of the Ouled-Risks ; wo were able to devote muc h - , 0 1 time, as the column of Colonel DE SAINT ABNA V :OI isolated, and wa s no t requ i re d to as7ist in anY o r operations. The ex pl os i on o f a m i ne killed a feff.h* sons ; the rest, alar me d a t our i ncessant pro em: sa capitulated. Our soldiers, always humane, d id 1 ,0 show less activity i n extract i ng these unfnrt°io wretches than th e y h a d s h own i n la b our i ng to 6- them to surrender." The report goes on to stat e l ,4 on the 13th, Lieut.. C o l one l D 'A LTONVILLE, at the'it of 600 men, made a forced march of eight lengt w e i t night, to fall upon the Scheriff, who had retreated tepl, rocks near the se a , i n th e country of the °LILO Youness. He again 'escaped, with one of his wiVl o i an inaccessible rock, abandoned by all his me n ' ,a leaving his tents and flocks, and the whole of his 19:4 The same chief, how ever , soon a f ter l e f t his h" Ji t io place, and appeared a t th e h ea d o f 400 h orseme n 111 4 territory of the Beni Z augzougs . Th e G overno r °I lianah dispatched some cavalry in pursuit of the P r o and also two companies of infantry to su pport the k valry. Th e f ormer , h owever, h av i ng rather i nca uth/ ti bi advanced, were suddenly attacked by 300 mounted and obliged to retrace their steps, with the loss 01 killed, three wounded, and four horses. Ol t The following are miscellaneous extracts groin papers : 0' At Eu, on T ues d a y, th e Ki ng , w i t h the Quee n 01401Prin1 five o'clock, ..kdelaide, walked in the park from half-past th r et io o attended by the Minister of Public i n9 tro f GenerejscAtlialin and d'Houdetot, and M. Brahaut, one ° Majesty's orderly officers. f " Prince Jerome Napoleon has left Paris , Accordinf v d .o . report mentioned by the Gazette de Frae ,he r aft promise before his departure that the law of pro e scriptio eo 2o the Bonaparte family shall be revoked, or considerably' nfor " The Duke d'Aumlle left the Chateau de Belfort Ovard day for Pamp e l una . Hi s return i s announced for the 9tt.eiP'" the absence of the Prince, Major General Tallandie com" The IVeser Gaz e tte publish es a letter from Dell' i t l ttl* which it is sated that the Mini s t er o f F ore i g n A ff a ill , country intends to go to England and Austria, with the o r t of obtaining from the Earl of Aberdeen and Prince .ig e nich the guarantee of the unity of the Danish monarchy the succession to the throne. " The Cologne Gazette gives accounts from Tiflis tetl t : , 3d ult., accordi n g t o w h ic h the Russians, after their succ e l l Dargo, were s o muc h h arassed by the enem a nd exper; L ejt y, so many priva t i ons, t h at Count Woronzuff was compehl",/ order a reheat to the R uss i an terr i tory, No intelligen'so this kind appears, however, to have been received from other quarter. The Leipsie Gazette publishes a royal degree ieril meetings and associations in Saxony, having an avowed " J O guised politic a l c bj ce t, as b e i ng contrary to the resolut i o n n i e Federal Diet o f J. i l v 5, 1832.-Th e l ate meetings for the i 0 cussion of the new G erman C at h o li c Ch urch quest i on hale is stated, rendered this notice necessary." t. tt•l 4 On the Paris Bourse the Th ree per C ents. closed 111 e, 50c. ; the Five per C en t s . 1221. 10 c. ; Orleans Ball Shares, 1,3171. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,120 f. • Havre, 915 E e Avignon, 1,082 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 8171. 50e d Borde l s l 4 o . 721 f. 25c ; Boulogne, 630 f.; Troyes an d M onterea u w i 50c. ; Basle, 2861. 25c.; Spanish Acti ves , 3q ; ditto I per Cents., 38L ; ditto Passives, 61. .1 The following are the quot a ti ons f or the new linty /' Paris and Lyons (Laffitte), 37f . 50c. premium is" (Calon), 12f. 50c. ; ditto (Ganneron), 151.50 e. ; ditto (tlio' sonniere), 121. 50c. ; .Northe rn Li ne (Lafitte), 85E ; fob (Rosamel), 41f. 50c.; ditto (Pepin Lehalleur), 33f.; ~,o ) r (De,can, Lebeuf), 301.; Paris and Strasburg (Gannelfi 15f. ; ditto (Hinguerlot), 171. 50c. ' • ditto (Bechet) 'fours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 201. ; ditto (Drouilll i fj 71. 50c.; ditto (O'Neill), 121. 50c.; ditto (L e f ev re), . I '4 Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 50f. ; d i tto (LecollP 4 t o 20f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 171. 50c.; Bortilf,; and Cette (Mackenzie), 6f. 50c. ; ditto (Espeleta) I to ) Creil and St. Q uen ti n (Kysaens), 61. 50c; ditto (Care ix .; 10f. ; ditto (Colbert), 61. r; Charleroy (Kysacns), 57E ,? ; 11) Maubeuge (Kysaens),2f. oe. ; Dijon and Mulh ouse (o'.„,' o s sf. ; ditto (All egry ), 2 f .; D i eppe (Sellieres), 45f.; (Delamarre), 9f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT O S LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Slim 5. Anglo-Belgian Orleans and Vierzon Boulogne and Amiens lll6 Orleans and Bordeaux L. Bordeaux &Mediterran - OverY sse l ....... ....... Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 1 / 1 Paris & Lyons (Lafitte) Do. and Cette Ditto (Ganneron's). " Central of Spain... - Ditt o (C a l on ' s ) .... q Dendre Valley ... 2% Paris and 0r1ean5...... Dutch Rhenish ... Dieppe & Paris Juliet. - Paris and Strasburg 4 Dijon and Mulhouse - (cranneron's)... East Indian Grt Northern of France Paris and St. Quentin. (Laffitte's) Ditto (Rosamel's) 3% Royal North of Spain. Do. Peppin le Halleur 5 S am b re an d M euse .... ° Great Paris and Lyons. 24 Strasbourg and Basle . Jamaica Junction - Tours and Nantes Do. North - (M‘K enzie's) Louvain and Jemeppe.. 5 1 / 2 Do. (Lefebvre's) Lyons and Avignon.... 3 1 / 8 V erona and Ancona 3 Luxembourg .. 3 4 West Flanders Namur and Liege 61;21 MANCHESTER And ,BIRAINGH.A3I RAILWAY. TO THR EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—My att en ti on was t h e ot h er day arrested by a ea-; ment in Th e S un o f t h e 28 t h u l t, regarding the Manehes te o and Birmingham Railway. I have cut out of the paper, a rl attach hereto, the article alluded to. It says : " We are inf o r me d th at no ra il way i n the country eshibita so large an increase of traffic as the Man c h es t er an d Birrniagi ham line. The receipt s o f th e l ast two weeks, as compa re with the corresponding period of last year, are as follows 1845. 1844. Week ending August 8 £4,453 £3,035 Ditto 15 I have referred to the official returns, and find that the al/ quoted returns are i ncorrect . Th e rece i pts Bth August,lB44 should be 3,6351., an d t h e rece i pts 15t h August, 1844, shot be 3,5321. This gives an increase on the first quoted wee" at the rate (dropping fractions) of 23 per cent., and on th e second week about 19 per cent. Allow me, by way of contrast, and for the information o a r your informant, a n d th roug h hi m t h e public, to direct his ati their attention to anot h er, as yet comparatively little ILE.°o railway—l mean th e P reston and Wyre—leading to the flour i s h' ing port of Fl ee t woo d . I t i s only 19 miles long, and the M a chester and Birmingham is 31, or nearly d ou bl e t h e l e ngth' The receipts of the Preston and Wyre for the last month ha t '' been as follow, a n d I d e f y your i n f ormant to point out ano ther railway in the ki ng d om w h ere the increase has been go great _ et Week ending 1845. 1844. Incre aseßent.c July , 18 £9o2 ... £565 July 2i 823 ... 565 August 1 ..... 1,077 ... 552 August 8 1,091 ... 597 ...... 494 ... 83 August 15 August 22 ... 1,212 ... 741 I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A PROPRIETOR IN THE PRESTON A- 1110 • .WYRE RAILWAY. Inverness, Sept. 2, 1845. Mr. George Robins's beautiful Marine "Villa, which t faces the Duke of Devonshire's (and luckily has a south-o e ,, s , t aspect instead of an easterly wind to contend witir), is to be . I ,: e on lease, unfurnished, but we happen to know that within i ' d last few days he was heard to say he would furnish it splendid or moderately (as it might be required), but not for ale sr period than three or five years. He would not like to let it i t ' d a season, and then find all the gold taken off the giwyertnet: and this would be the ca se if it i s to b e f urn i shed, as he is u'op sirous to do. The fou r or e i g h t sta ll s and double co ach- h ot tf : at the rear is an a d van t age t h at very few at Kerap Town °- 0 boast of.—Brighton Herald. JOSEPH LOUIS PAPINEAU.— The distinguished Speaker of the H ouse o f A ssem b ly of Lower Canada, ', e v Kingstown y es t er d ay morn i ng, for Liverpool, whet b e this 0 % ernb,rks on h oar d th e B r i tann i a, Boston steamer, at route to Montreal. Thi s ill us t r i ous patr i ot spent a few da .ya wit h friends in our met ro p o li s , prev i ous to hi s return t o Isis oat i° land, after an absence of eight years. The amnest,,v,which env bled him to return to Canada was granted two years ago, bet" remained a voluntary exil e till f am il y a ff a i rs of i mp artance , per,Ltively demanded his presence in America.- ..Freenias Journal. ACCIDENT BY WINDOW -CLEANING.— On Fr ia , gi a l s morning, between eight and n i ne o'clock, Jane thateaw, o servant in the employ of Mrs. Hayter, a lady residing . 4 Hamilton-place, Edgware roa d, was stan di ng out s i de the ble first-floor window, cleaning it, when her head turn ix)g giciY% e fell into the back area, a height of twenty feet, 1 ay which sustained so severe a concussion of the brain that s sot aq y hoe are given of her recovery. A`i • ko ] Ilt iel 8 Der India Co b lisc .4x. c h bit bit . h iltie ] 4 razi BID Ale Did taate bi t Ely ai G rant Great (Ir tit Great Great 801 Tri W,