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■ ►iIHE LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY. EXTENSION TO RIPON. PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS. George Hudson, Esq. M P. York William Hutt, Esq. M.P. Gibside, Durham Donald Maclean, Esq. II.P. Wilton Castle, Durham Christian Allhusen, E,q. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, director of the Newcastle upon-Tyne and North Shields Railway George Ashlin, E q. Mark lane, London James Burt, jun., Esq. Manchester, director of the Chester and Birkenhead Reilwsy William Chiltern, Est. Losiock.hall, Preston T. R. Wilson Ffrance, Esq. Raweliga-hall, Lan sa.Nre uhn Hartley, Esq Catteral-hall, Settle Jonathan Bayne, Esq. Blomfield-road, Maida-hlll, London Patrick Kilgour, Esq. Woodside, Aberdeenshire, and Hamilton. terrace, St. John's- wood, London William Nicol, E-sq. Liverpool, director of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway B. Oliveira, Erq. F.R.S., Upper Hide- street, London Francis Parker, Esq, Manchester Charles Turner, Esq., Ernie-head, Liverpool Charles Wardell, Esq. Wcstbourne.terrace, Hyde Park-gardens. London William A. S. Westoby, Esq„ Hyde park- place, Landon Nicholas Wocd, Esq. Killingwortb. Newcast e-upon-Tyne. ENGINEERS. Robert Stephenson, Esq. T. E. Harrison, Esq. SOLICITORS. : Butchcll , Kilgour, and Parsons, 47, Parliament-street, London Henry Toogood, Esq. 22, Parliament-street Messrs. Rawstone and Wilson, Preston. SECRETARY.-W. H. Ingram, Esq. The attention of the Provisional Directors having been called to the inn ortanee of making an extension to the town of Ripon, they have determined to construct a branch from a convenient point on their main line to the town of Ripon, where it will join the Leeds and ThirAc The Provisional Directors have at once consented to adopt this suggest'on, considering that this branch'will open a means of railway communication to a very rich and important district, and will afford a valuable addition to their original scheme. The country through which this line is intended to pass is ex tremely favourable, and the expected traffic will amply compensate for the additional outlay. The capital required for constructing this extension will be raised by the issue of additional shares, which will be divided amongst the holders of the Original Scrip as soon as the Directors are able to make the necessary arrangements for that purpose. By order of the Board, W. H. INGR AM, Secretary. GREAT WATERFORD, KILKENN Y, LONGFORD, AND SLIGO RAILWAY. (Registered Provisionally.) Pursuant to the 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110. Capital, 1,000,000/., - in Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Lieutenant-General the Right Hon. Lord Bloomfield, (4.C.8., Nenagh, Tipperary Lord Stephen Chichester, Ormeau, Antrim The Right Hon. Lord Edward Chichester, 15, Cheshamplace, and Oakfield, Doneg.4l, (Erector of the London and Exeter Direct Railway Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel Cameron, Dan.y.Graig, near Swan sea, Glamorganshire The Hon. Francis Henry Needham, Morne-park, Newry, director of the !Tull ant: HsAyhead, the Newry and Catlingford, and the Lincoln and Northampton Railways Sir James Douglas Hamilton Hay, Bart., Rose Croft, Surrey Sir Willem Ogilvie, Bart. Brompton Sir James Eyre, Bart. Lower Brook-street, director of the Ports mouth anti Langston Dock Company Peter, Count D'Alton, J.P. Grenanstewn, Nenagh Frederick Ledwill, Esq. J.P. Dunard, Roscrea Mlct.ao Ledwili, Esq Thurles John Parkinson, Esq. F.R.S. director of the South Midland, and Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways C. D. Archibalst, E q. F.R.S. Rutland-hall, Lancashire, and Re _gent's-park, director of the Birmingham and Lichfield Railway R.ME'ain, Esq. director of the Great County Down Railway F. Cann]. Esq. director of the Newry and Enniskillen Railway William Kirkpatrick, Esq. director of the Newry, Armagh, and Londonderry Junction t. Jeffry, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Newry and Carling ford Railway George H. Thompson, Esq. Greenwood Park, County Down Edward Ward Jackson, Esq. merchant, Liverpool, director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railway W. Douglas, Esq., merchant, Liverpool, director of the London and Edinburgh Railway J. Irvine, Esq., merchant, Liverpool, director of the Oxford and Cheltenham Railway Captain Edward Smith, R.N. Greenwich Major Wornum, Cheltenham *George Spry, Esq. Surbiton, Surrey, director of the Portsmouth and Langston Dock Comp:ny Jvisn 'M. Cottle, Esq. Leamington, director of the Direct Birming ham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway Major Arnsinek, director of the Direct Northern Railway William Gibb, Esq. Manchester, director of the Birmingham, Ox ford, Reading, and Brighton Railway John Onions, Erq. Brese'ey, Salop, ironmaster, director of the Dudley, Madely, and Broseley Railway, of the Grand Junction and Cambrian Railway, and of the London and Dublin Approxi. mation Railway a E. Sichell, Esq. Manchester, director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railway . John Boyd, Esq. magistrate, Seneschal of Newry John Thorn, Esq. Broscley, director of the Grand Junction, and London and Dublin Approximation Railways W. H. Cooper, Esq. Shrewsbury, director of the Birkenhead, Bir mingham, and Brighton Union Bailway a W. Whitehead, Esq. Manchester, director of the Direct Bir mingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway Henry Keate, Esq. Shrewsbury, director of the Lendon and Dublin Approximation Railway Alexander John Gordon, Esq. Linley Hall, West Broseley, director of the London and Dublin Approximation Railway Wilharn Birmingham Costello, Esq. Wyke House, Brentford, &vector of the Direct London and Exeter Railway Robert Medill, E•q. merchant, director of the Birkenhead, Bir mingham, and Brighton Union Railway Isaac Taylor, Esq. Monkmoor, Shropshire, director of the Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway James Millman Coley, Esq. Bridgenorth, director of the Cambrian and Grand Junction Railway Robert Baugh Blakemore, Esq. director of the Shrewsbury, Wol verhampton, and South Staffordshire Railway Richard Lambert, Esq. Leyston.hall, Sudbury, director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway Henry Dinley Cockburn, Esq. Woolwich, Kent, director of the Swansea and Loughar Railway William Henry Kt'bbel, Esq. Glebe-house, Kilby, Leicestershire John A. Layard, Esq. 40, Keppel.atreet, Russell-square, director of the Hull, Birmingham, and Swansea Junction Railway Henry S. Coleman, Esq. provisional director of the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway, and of the Direct Blanchester, Leasts, and York Railway (With power to add to their numbers.) BANKERS. London—Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co. Birmingham—Messrs. Attwoods and Spooner Manchester—The National Provincial Bank of England Liverpool—Liverpool Union Bank Dublin—Bank of Ireland and its Branches, the Provincial Bank of Ireland and its Branches, and the Royal Rank BeLfast—Northern Banking Company and its Branches CONSULTING ENGINEER—Sir John M'Neil, LL.D. and F.R.S. SOLICITORS. In London—Thomas Nias, Esq., 5, Copthall.court In Dublin—Messrs. F. G. Tinkler and Robert T. Cummins, 9, Upper Gloucester-street, and 11, D'Olier.street. PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—George Lewis Smyth, Esq. 2, Derby_ street, Parliament-street. SECRETARY—S. T. Jones, Esq. The length of this line will be 80 miles, serving as a direct main :rank connexion and continuation of two other important lines ; one in the course of formation, viz.—from Kilkenny to Waterford. and the other, the Midland Great Western Extension to Wien— of whose success next session the requirements of the country and the intrinsic excellence of that project forbid any reasonable doubt being entertained. The aggregate of the three lines will be about 170 miles, traversing, almost in a straight course, the entire centre of the island, from its principal port on the .North.wesr, to its principal port on the SoutiLeast ; Intersecting districts whose teeming fertility is proverbial even in Ireland, and opening up , I:Arees of mineral and manufacturing wealth hitherto neal , :..:red, or discredited ; because deprived of those facilities to their profitable development, whi c h i t i s the IT:Wee the present undertaking to supply. Interfering With no existirg interests, and not susceptible of being itself menaced by future schemes, the Great Waterford, Kilkenny, and Ship Railway appeals to public consideration on grounds more impars..nt than probably anything of a like nature yet breached in lre'.and. 'Without the slightest increase, the present traffic in nt restinn investment r ul o d f 'guarantee an unusually lucrative return upon h the capital called for ; and such is the pe culiar nature of the country, that the completion of the line must productivefu rnishing ean of east advantages to the nation generally, in inex haustible home supply of costly and indispensable commodities of universal consumption now circuitously imported over sert while it must a l so h o ld ou t i rres i st ibl e inducements for t he loca tion, alon g it s route, o f Br i t i s h an d f ore i gn enterprise, wealth, and s''.l 11. This is the only line in Ireland embracing the principal— almost the exclusive—seats of native coal and iron. At the southern terminus of the eighty miles about to be con •structed, coal in illimitable quantity and of the finest quality abounds ;—at the northern terminus the same may be said of Iron, though for want of the means of smelting, the ore has been turned to little or no account on the spot, and of course a market at a distance is unattainable by present modes of conveyance. The advantages of thus bringing these coal and iron mines into Juxta position need not be enumerated ; and it would be equally superfluous to dwell on the pecuniary merits of a line which, in addition to the distinguishing feature just mentioned,accemmo. dates an agricultural interest surpassing that of any area of the lame extent in Ireland. Commencing at the Watertird and Kilkenny terminus, in the latter city, the line will pass, almost midway, through the great grazing and corn-growing districts of the Queen's and King's County, Westmeath, and Longford, touching at or near all their principal towns, namely—Freshfield, Ballyragget, Durrow, Belli. nakill, Abbeyleis, Ba'leyrowan, Mountrath, Maryborough, Mount. tnellick, Purtarlington, Geashill, Tullamore, Phillipstown, beggm, Clara, Moate, Ballymahon, and Longford. The population is unwell's of (me million and a quarter, more than one-half of the inhaiNttants of the towns being engaged in trades and manufactures. Bence the passenger traffic, computed with great care, has been moderately estimated at 90,3371. per annum ; while the live stock Of the district was valued in 1841 at 3,639,035/. the conveyance of which must devolve upon this Company. A vast increase in both these items may with certainty be anticipated, for the following, among many other reasons:— Ist. By the junction at Longford with the Midland Great Wes. tern Extension, much of the produce of Sligo, now going a 354 toile voyage to Liverpool, and much wore that hardly pays the cost of rearing, because of the isolated position of that county, must come along this line, directly communicating with so fine a port as Waterford, the nearest to Bristol, and to the profitable markets of the southwest of England. All writers on the capabilities of Ire. land have enforced the necessity of throwing open Sligo to such in • tercourse a, is here offered, and the recent data of the "Times" Commissioner more than confirm the propriety of such suggestions. 2d. Being met at Longford by the Limerick and Belfast Union, which, like the majority of the Northern railways, finds a common focus at Clones, the principal markets of Ulster, Central Leinster, and the East of Munster, are rendered mutually available by this line. And, 3dly. No line of any considerable length can be constructed in , Ireland without becoming, in a greater or less degree, an auxiliary to tins line ; nor can any be projected to its material detriment, unless running from precisely Parallel terminus to terminus. the Su i tabil ity of the proposed 80 miles, for engineering pur. poses, may be gathered from the fact, that the line w ill cross both the Grand and the Royal Canals, the summit level of the former being 279, and of the latter, at Mullingar, only 322 feet above the level of the sea, and few elevations along the whole route are greater. jr Longford county, on the R oscommon and Sligo border,. the line slightly skirts Lcrigh Allen ; whil e th e M idland Great West ern Extension, immediately after, enters the valley of the Arlan*, the history of the iron-works on whose banks se long and fatally in. fluenced industrial enterprise in Ireland, though happily even there prosperity is now rapidly becomingmatno f the iron fea.Theetratohri-s di n ary abundance and unequalled exce llence district are a matter both of history a ndpresent notoriety. Ts o for smelting c-nturies ago, when cha r c oal could 6e p r ocured formed a large article of export to ridon , being prized clsdf* cables, edaswe it ow viz -0 S*gdisb and Russian iron-ousel on l y for steel, THE SrTN, LONDON, MONDA Y EVEN ING OCTOBER 20. 1815 and the like—and of treble and quadruple the value of British iron. Dr. Kane, in his invaluable volume, " The Industrial Re sources of Ireland," adduces ample reason for anticipating that the transport of coal (especially the anthracite coal of Kilkenny) into the neighbourhood of Lough Allen, and the improvements in the preparation of peat fuel, will restore the superiority in this article, which the singular richness of the mineral should secure to the locality. The reader is referred to the foregoing standard authority (second edition, 1845) for the fullest and most satistac. tory information on this point ;:and also for a complete confirmation of what has already been imperfectly glanced at, as to the results certain to spring from the contemplated railroad. Not only does the railroad about to be made by this Company couple the iron and coal works of Ireland is a direct and confirm. ous line, but the route abounds with numerous other elements of manufacturing and commercial greatness, all of which will be called into active vitality as this undertaking progresses. In estimating the magnitude of this project in its entirety, as extending from shore to shore through the heart of Ireland, It is hardly possible to exaggerate the importance of the proximity of the noble harbour of Waterford to the English coast ; and these advantages must every day increase in proportion as railway corn. munication between London and th 2 southern counties improves. A much extended Provisional Committee will shortly be pub. lished ; meanwhile the co-operation of all influential residents along the line is Invited, to whom every information will be afforded on application, personally or by letter, to the Solicitors, or at the Offices of the Company, 16, Finsbury-place;south, Lon don, where Prospectuses may be: had, and also of the following Brokers,— Mr. James Thomas Berkeley, 18, Threadneedle street, London; Messrs Lynill and Berl) n, and Mr. J. Fernyhough, Manchester; Mr. Hampson, and Messrs. Powell and Lowndes, Liverpool ; Mr. John Watson, and Mcssrs. Kirk and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Lucas and Co., Birmingham ; Messrs. Tugg and Hodgson, Hull; Mr. Peter Dixon, Glasgow; Mr. James Nicholson, and Mr. Charles Cooper, Edinburgh; Messrs. Ed wards anti Son, Bristol; Mr. W. Bolton, Stratford-on-Avon; Mr. B. Cowderoy, Reading; Messrs. Warburton and Cross land, Sheffield; Messrs. Hall Brothe►s and Company, Chel tenham; Messrs. Wilk ingson, and Mr. T. S. Sandford, Exeter; Messrs. H. S. Easty and Co., Southampton ; Messrs. Cape and Son, Derby; Mr. Charles Wikens, Northampton; Mr. Samuel Col. linsen, and Messrs. Potts and Levick, Nottingham ; Mr. Mason, Bradford, Yorkshire; Mr. Mills, Worcester; Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Plymouth ; Mr. Richard Hine, Macclesfield ; Mr. W. Crowell, Halifax ; Mr. T. Boardmen, Blackburn ; Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield ; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry ; Messrs. Bardwell and Son, Sheffield ; Mr. S. Weatherburn, Huddersfield ; Messrs. Payne and Freer, and Messrs. Windram and Son, Lei. cater; and Mr. T. R. Evans, South Mall, Cork. SOUTHERN COUNTIv C' s 3 UNION, AND BRISTOL, BATH, urn DOVER DIRECT RAILWAY, City (Entrance in Clement's-lane). 70, King Williap-st Capital It';‘ , 0,000/ 4 In 60,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 21. 125. 6d. COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION. Sir RICHARD JENKINS, G.C.B. E.T.D., Chairman WILLIAM HUGHES HUGHEg, Esq. F.A.S. F.L.S. Alderman, Deputy Chairman R. Hopkins All na tt, Esq. M.D. George Harrison, Esq. William Bradley, Esq. Frederic Hewitt, Esq. George Augustus Drown, Esq. P. Bennett Lucas, Esq. James Clitt, Esq. Colonel Nicolls Griffin Curtis Galt, Esq. Thomas S. Richards, Esq. The Committee have the gratification to announce the accession of Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.B. E.1.D., as Chairman of the Company, and of William Bradley, Esq. of Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the Direct Western Railway Company as a member of their Direction. They have also to state, the Engineer and Surveyor of the Com pany, In their reports, furnished by order twice a week, continue to give the most satisfactory assurances, which place it beyond a doubt that they will be In every respect prepared to go to Parliament in the ensuing session. NOTICE.—The Share-list closed on the 16th inst. In consequence of the extraordinary number of applications for shares in this Company, and the anxiety of the Committee to render an Impartial and fair allotment, some days must necessarily elapse before their laborious duties can be completed, immediately after which notice will by given, by advertisement, of the day on which Letters of Allotment will be issued. By order of the Board, R. H. GAI)ESDEN, Secretary. THE DIRECT EXETER, PLYMOUTH, and DEVONPORT RAILWAY. By Chudleigh, Ashburton, and Buckfastleigh. (Provisionally Registered.) Pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110. Capital, 1,000,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS. The Right Hon. Lord Graves, Thanrkes, Plymouth The Right Worshipful the Mayor of Exeter The Hen. F. H. Fitzhardinge Berkeley, M. P. John Stewart, Esq. M.P. Lieutenant-Colonel Ellis, C.B. Exeter Lieutenant-Colonel Newell, E.I.C.S. Seaton William Hole, Esq. Park, Bovey Tracey, Devon J. B. Dickenson, Esq. 55, Curzon-street, London Colonel Sir H. Bayly, Burley Villa, Lyme James Jones Tanner, Esq. Southernhay, Exeter Edward Spencer Curling, Esq. George.yard, Lombard-street George Thomas, Esq. Winchester-house, Broad-street, director of the London and Hounslow Railway Company Joseph Henry, Esq. South-street, Finsbury, director of the London and Hounslow Railway Company Francis Chambers, Esq. St. Dunstan's-hill, director of the London and Hounslow Railway Company Major Durban, Newport-house, near Exeter Sir William Twysden, Esq. Bart. director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean Railway Company Charles Tanner, Esq. Plymouth • Major Selwyn, R.E. Exeter William H. Tanner, Esq. Bedford-circus, Exeter John Eyre Kingdom, Esq. Elm Cottage, Exeter Benjamin Salter, Esq. Mount Radford, Exeter Captain Edward Foord, E.I.C.S. London George Pearse, Esq. Bradninch, Devon Major Arden, E.I.C.S Hill's-court, Exeter William Curling, Esq. Hunsdon -house, Herts Samuel Burford, Esq. merchant, Poultry.chambers, London Joseph Sayell, Esq. Exeter George Watts, Esq. Mount Radford, Exeter George Lewis Hollingsworth, Esq. Winchester.house, Broad-street and Gudstsne, Surrey Jonathan Duncan Dow, Esq. merchant, Cornhill, London George Parbury, Esq. Russell-square, director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Company Richard Gray, Esq. 5, Adam's-court, Broad-street, merchant, di. rector of the Wisbeach and Peterborough Railway Company Robert Arscott, Esq. Southernhay. Exeter Thomas Worthy, Esq. Exeter Joseph Thompson, Esq. director of the London and Brighton Rail way Company Edwin Williams, Esq. Exeter Francis Thomas Rodd, Esq. Doddiscombsleigh, Devon John Brightman, Esq. Regency.square, Brighton, chairman of the General Maritime Assurance Company William Lambert, Esq. Exeter William George Harrison, Esq. merchant, Hill-house, Tooting, and Bucklersbury John Inglis Jerdein, Esq. 153, Piccadilly, director of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway Company E. Hunt Roberts, Esq. St. Leonard's, Exeter Robert J. Trewman, Esq. Weir Cliff-cottage, near Exeter George Braund, Esq. Exeter • Captain Tanner, 1.N., Exeter Thomas Western Snell, Esq. Southernhay, director of the Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway Company Edwin Force, Esq. Exeter Major Williams, R 111., Mount Radford, Exeter Charles Hubbard, Esq. Exeter Captain Berkeley, Dix's-field, Exeter Joseph Hopgood, Esq. Exeter, director of the Liverpool and Derby Direct Railway Company Jonas Levy, Esq. 15, Tavistock- square, London James Henry Toswill, Esq. Pitt-house, Chudleigh S. T. Shairp, Esq. banker, Totnes Samuel Maunder, Esq 3, Mont-le-Grand, Exeter Sir John Osborn, Bart. Kensington William Gambier, Esq. Sacomb-park, Herts, director of the Chat. ham and Portsmouth Railway George R. Peppercorne, Esq. Bexhill, Sussex, director of the Chat.. ham and Portsmouth Railway Major William Snow, Old Cavendish street, Cavendish-square R. M. Preece, Esq. Park-square west, Regent's.pavk Captain F. Chamier, Esq. R N., Halkin-street, director of the Fampoux Railway J. M. Cottle, Esq. Leamington John Blackburn, Esq. Leeds, director of the Oxford and Chester Railway John H. Herbert, Esq. Gloucester-place, Portman-square Thomas Shepperson, Esq. Cheapaide, London Major Thomas Eales Soady, Emma.place, Stonehouse Samuel Segar Bastard, Esq. Higher Summerland, Exeter Thomas Neale, Esq. Browne's Lodge, Reigate Thomas Besley, Esq. Exeter John N. Hall, Esq. Clifton-place, Exeter J. S. Dewdney, Esq. Bedford-circus, Exeter R. T. Abraham, Esq. Heavitree W. Watson. Esq. Leamington Charles Richards, Esq. Exeter Samuel Davies, Esq. Exeter J. D. Osborn, Esq. St. Sidwells, Exeter N. W. Besley, Esq., Southernhay, Exeter Charles Justice, Esq. Collumpton It. Richards, Esq. merchant, Chudleigh - Capt. John Davies, R.N., Seaton William Estes, Esq. Mincing-lane, London George Henry Drake, Esq. Exeter (With power to add to their number.) souerroas. London—Messrs. Fyson and Curling, 3, Frederick's place, old Jewry Exeter—Thomas Floud, Esq. 5, Bedford-circus Plymouth—Messrs. Woolcomb, Square, Stephens, and Prance and A. H. Baropten,E sqrs. EN G INEERs— DevOnpOrt—ME J SSS; OLe u m n a d n l e S ECRET ARY (pro tem)—F. G. Farrant, Esq. Baldryßeer and R d LocaL AGENT--Chudleigh— Charles Langley, Esq. BANKERS. London Messrs. Currie and Co. Cornhill Exeter Messrs. Sanders and Co. Exeter Bank Messrs. Milford and Co. City Bank Devon and Cornwall Banking Company West of England and South Wales D lctrict Bank National Provincial Bank Totnes Devon and Cornwall Banking Company National Provincial Bank Plymouth —.Naval Bank Devon and Cornwall Banking Company National Provincial Bank Devonport Messrs. Hodge and Norman Devon and Cornwall Banking Company National Provincial Bank. The Direct Exeter, Plymouth, and Devonport Railway will commence at the Exeter station of the projected Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester line, and proceed direct to Chudleigh and the river Teign, where it will join the Brixham and Torbay line, thus opening a direct communication with Newton, Torquay, Paign ton, and Brixham. From the Teign it will proceed over Bovey Heathfield near the Potteries, passing the rail of the Haytor Granite Works to Ashburton and Buckfastleigh; at the latter place it will join the proposed Totnes, Buckfastleigh, and Ashbur ton Railway, and will then continue its course by South Brent, Ivy-bridge, and Plympton, to Plymouth and Devonport, bringing these important towns within five hours 01 London. The advantages offered by this line of railway are, that it is the most direct ; it will bring Chudleigh within nine miles of Exeter, and by joining, in the valley of the Teign, the Dartmouth and Tor bay Railway, will afford that very important line the shortest pos. Bible communication with Exeter and the metropolis. It is the nearest and most direct route to the important manufacturing towns of Ashburton and Buckfastleigh; and whilst affording to this large and populous manufacturing district the greatest accom modation will also open a desirable road, for either exporting or conveying into the interior the valuable slate, lime, and minerals found so abundantly around Chudleigh, Ashburton, Staverton, and Buckfastleigh. The promoters of this company, however, consider its most Im portant feature to be the direct access it affords to the Royal Arsenal and the ports of Plymouth and Devonport from the me tropolis, the city of Exeter, and the north of England, saving a distance of not less than twelve miles between Exeter and Devon port; and by the connexion of this line with the Exeter and Yeo vil Railway, effecting a further saving of thirty miles in the direc. tion of London and the counties of the eastern coast. This junc tion affords a still stronger point, it will put Plymouth and Portsmouth, the two great naval arsenals of the kingdom, in direct communication with each other, an advantage which cannot be Atmospheric Ulm are confirmed overra e test, and which no other line can offer. engineering difficulties which have beset the South Devon render _by daily experience, and thus ee the : on fealiresPT°ll;s°tersn'ationaeil itEitanaidrirecticect therefore, looking at all its Leto Admiralty, the fertil e , densely- 144, . sgrku it affords to ural districts it will traverse, the manufactures it will revive and support, the quick access it presents to Plymouth and Devonport, with a popu lation exceeding 130,000, confidently anticipate the favourable de cision of the public, and the earnest and vigorous supp9rt of the Government. It is evident this line embraces all the desiderata of a grand trunk line—viz., great public accommodation combined with safety economy, and speed. The Committee have much pleasure in stating that they have received a report from their engineers which is in all respects most satisfactory, and that the fullost arrangements have been made for applying to Parliament in the ensuing ses.ion. Offices. 5, Bedford-circus, Exeter. Applications for shares may be made to Mr. Goulding, Warn ford-court, and through all respectable brokers, in the annexed form, to the solicitors of the Company, and to the secretary. To the Provisional Committee cf Management of the Direct Exeter, Plymouth, and Devonport Railway. I request you will allot to me shares of 2bl. each in the above railway, and I undertake to accept the same, or such number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations of the Company ; also to sign the necessary legal documents, and to pay, when required, the deposit of 21. 12s. 6d. per share Name (in full) ... Profession, if any, .and Protessic,nal R e. sidence, in full Residence (in f",, ) Date Signature of Applicant Reference, with Name and Address of Referee „. Witness to Applicant's Signature Residence, &c., of Witness... ......... II ECT EXETER, PLYMOUTH, AND DEVONPORT RAILWAY. do Application for Shares in the above Railway will be received after MONDAY, the 31st instant. By order of the Committee, F. G. FARRAN r, Secretary, pro tem. 5, Bedford.circus, Exeter, Oct. 15, 1845. BUXTON, MACCLESFIELD, STOCKPORT, AND WARRINGTON R Capital 750 000/. • (Provisionally , d ..vg. , s4er€ .) in 37,500 Shares of 20/. each. Deposit 2/. 2s. (The Provi-L- onal Committee having berth before advertised, will not be repeated.) PROSPECTUS. This rgilWay is intended to form a connecting lir.k between the railways which, traversing the eastern and midland counties, ap proach Brixton ; the railway - a which from the south approach Maccles field, and the railways which communicate with Warrington, Liver pool, Birkenhead, Lancaster, and the north, Fleetwood-upon-Wyre, and Bolton, llotilhlencing at Buxton, it will pass by a route which, from actual survey by the Company's Engineer, has been reported perfectly practicable for locomotive power, through the populous and thriving manufacturing district of Bollington to Prestbury, where it will form a junction with the Macclesfield branch of the Manchester and Bir mingham Railway, thereby completing a connexioon with the popu lous boroughs of Macclesfield on the one hand, and Stockport on the other ; thence passing through Handforth and Wilmslow to Altrin cham, it will there avail itself of a communication with Manchester, by the Altrincham and Manchester branch of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, and with Warrington and Stockport, either by independent branches, or by some of the newly-projected lines, as may be arranged. It will then proceed to the Liverpool and 3lanche'ster Railway, at a point of communication between Kenyon Junction and Parkside, and thus complete, 1 y means of the existing railways, the communication with:Bolton, Lancaster, and the north, and with Fleetwood and Liverpool. The great advantages of this communication between .the south eastern and north-western districts of England, will be evident by a cursory view of the map. It will be the most direct line from Not tinghamshire, South Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and the adjoining dis tricts, to the north-western parts of England (north of Chester), and must command a considerable thorough traffic. It will also open a communication with the salt districts of Cheshire. The length of the railway and branches will be about 36 miles. There are no engineering difficulties, save in that portion of the line which lies between Buxton and Bollington, and the report of the engineer thereon is very satisfactory. The directors are happy to say, that there are'no residential proper ties interfered with ; that the line will be heartily concurred in by the landowners ; and that the country through which it passes is thickly inhabited, and would afford a revenue independent of the thorough traffic. The plans are in a state of forwardness, and will be in readiness to be lodged, in conformity with the standing orders of Parliament. A considerable portion of the capital is reserved for landed pro prietors and those locally interested. Powers will he applied for in the Act, to authorise the payment of 41. per cent. interest on the calls, until the completion of the line. Until the Act is obtained, ho shareholder is liable further than the amount of deposit, and afterwards, no further than the capital sub scribed. The Acting Committee of Provisional Directors will have full power, until the Act is obtained, to make any modification and altera tion in the proposed line—to increase or diminish the amount of ca pital—to abandon any portion of the line or branches—to propose and apply for any aduitional branches, and generally, to enter into any arrangements with any other company or companies, which, to shell Acting Committee, may appear reasonable or advisable. Application fbr Shares may be addressed to the Solicit.rs; or to the following Sharebrokers :—Mr. Joseph Fernyhough, No. 1, St. Ann's-square, Manchester; Messrs. George Baker and Son, 29, Thr.adneedle-street, London ; Messrs. Wells, Westropp, and Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street, London; Mr. Joseph Aspinall, 2, Royal Bank building., Liverpool ; Messrs. Beardshaw, Kershaw, and Forbes, 12, Park-row, Leeds; Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, and Wreford, Bristol; Mr. Robert Bean, jun., Hull; Mr. William Chapman, Nottingham; Mr. John Anderton, Bradford ; and Mr. Balme, Gloucester. And further particulars may be learnt by andication to the Pro visional Committee, at their offices, No. 1, Bank-street, St. Ann's square, Manchester.- FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Buz on, Macclesfield, Stock port, and Warrington Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me Shares of 201. cash in the above railway, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or any less number you may allot me, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of October, 1845. Name in 11111 ..... ....... ......... Place of Business or Profession •• • .••• • • Residence.• Business or Profession ...... ..... Usual Signature • • ..... • • ............ Reference • . - ..... B UXTON, MACCLESFIELD, STOCKPORT, and WARRINGTON RAILWAY. NOTICE—No applications can be received for Shares in this Railway after the 25th lust (Signed) COPPOCK and WOOLTAM, Solicitors to the Provisional Committee 1, Bank -street, St. Ann's-square, Manchester, Oct. 18, 1845. S HEFFIELD, BUXTON, LEEK, 'POT TERIES, AND CREWE RAILWAY. The Committee of Management beg to announce to the subscribers to this undertaking that the whole of the deposits have been paid, the surveys nearly completed, mad that everything will be finished in ample time to comply with the Standing Orders of Parliament, so as to enable the Committee to obtain the Act at an early period of the ensuing session. The Deeds will be ready for signature In the co urse of a few days, and the times and places where they may ho executed will be duly anneunced. JOHN J. MINSIIULL, Secretary pro tern. Leek, Oct. 20, 1845. DIRECT WESTERN RAILWAY. In reply to the numerous inquiries made of the Committee of Management, they beg to announce, that in consequence of the number of Shares applied for having exceeded one million four hun dred thousand, considerable delay has nece , sarily taken place in making the allotment, which, however, will be completed in a few days. The Committee have the satisfaction of stating that the surveys and Parliamentary- plans are in a very forward state, and that all will be ready for the next session of Parliament. Ry order, T. H. SAUNDERS, Secretary. 20, Poultry, London, 17th October, 1845. PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED, Pursuant to 7 and 8 Vict. c. 110. pORTSMOUTH AND LANGSTON RAIL WAY AND DOCK COMPANY. Capital, 2,000,000/., in shares of 251. each. Deposit 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share. No Shareholder to be liable for more than the amount of his shares. Offices, 46, Moorgate-street. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right lion. Lord Suffield, Gunton-park, Norfolk The Right Hon. Lord Pelham Clinton The Right Hon. Lord Stephen Chichester The Right Hon. Lord Edward Chichester The Hon. G. A. Hamilton Chichester, K.P. The Hon. Wm. Dawson Darner, Parkston-lodge, Poole Sir John Owen, Part. M.P. the:lion-house, Lord-Lieutenant of Pem brokeshire, Vice-Admiral of the coast, Governor of 3111 ford Haven, &c. • Sir .J. Douglas Hamilton Hay, Bart. Rose Croft, Surrey Sir Wm. Ogilvie, Bart. Brompton Sir Samuel Rayrrond Jarvis, Fair Oak-park, near Winchester, De puty-Lieutenant fur Hants Captain Sir Wm. Henry Pierson, R.N. West-house, Emsworth, Hants Sir George Rich, Lowndes -street, Belgrave-square Sir James Eyre, 11, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square Wm. Bulkeley Hughes, Esq. M.P. Plas-Coch, Anglesey, Chairman of the Welsh Midland Railway Captain C. A. Manning, Portland Castle, Resident Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Portland and Dorset Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, Northend-house, Portsmouth, Deputy-Lieutenant for Hants Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Greive, Green-park, Bath Major Charles Jasper Selwyn, Royal Engineers, Exeter, director o the Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway Captain Hulme, Royal Engineers, Exeter Daniel Tupper, Queen's Receiver, Guernsey Edward Woolmer, Esq. mayor of Exeter William Gordon, Esq. M.D. F.L.S. Hull George Spry, Esq. Surbiton, Surrey Henry Vie, Esq. Colchester, Receiver-General of Taxes for Essex and Suffolk James Macmillan, Esq. Southampton and London, director of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway John Boyd, Esq. magistrate, Newry Benjamin Collett, Esq. Grafton Manor House, Broomsgrove William Douglas, Esq. merchant, Liverpool Captain Edmund Normcott, R.N. Blackheath Francis Boyle Garty, Esq. director of the Birmingham, Oxford and Reading Junction, Hull, Great Grimsby, and Southampton Direct Railways Rev. George Ingram, Chedburgh Rectory, Suffolk John oadLahmieni James sei r ILrpdiiVloidanlanocrank,daho Junction, uaLs a ndge c e: ossonqi Railways Esq. Edge-hill, Liverpool, director of the Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester, and of the direct Liverpool,aadiiwea Liverpool a i r f e . o e director Great aE t the Bolton County unhaetl Directepn h a ,m Railways, 0 h o v r Oxford, y I l d in ner . rry K yK ir je k ua p nt a ec t ,t r it i o c us k g , Esq. director of the Revery, Armagh, and Lon- E orbeecrttlllirmed ill, Easmq..C,a:Onnaexdrerfelorn‘hrfn,rettße:hill, Shrewsbury, director of the Dl- DCBa..Opwmxtaf:oEinirdiviiiviinint,ehead,directora d t r i n i g t a l n ofda Brightonte Direct Birmingham, Railway Reading. Esq. director of the Great County wy Down Railw . Tringham. R.N. Solihull, Warwickshire ar Esq. Manchester, director of the Direct Birming ham,EßNeadi3niga,ncahnedsteß rlghditroenctitonrilowfa3the Direct Leeds and Cri, deputy-chairman of the Chester and Manches aßnaCllowle7, Esq. Bridgenorth, director of the Cambrian and 3 W i aE m i io. Liverpool e S jr a S oo lc il h Te Oxford,l Railway jacitmeraresDndmir Junction Wm. Birmingham Costello, Esq. Wyke-house, Brentford, director of the Direct London and Exeter Railway u mt nction Railway Rob. Baugh Blakemore, Esq. Director of the Shrewsbury, Wolver hampton, 11. Cooper, Esq. Shrewsbury, director of the Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway 1, Esq. director of the Newry and Enniskillen Railway and South Staffordshire Railway Alex. = • 3', director of the London and Dublin Approximation Railway F. Cari c 'il e . Geo. Gordon, Esq. Linley-hall, West Broseley, Charles Hurst, Esq. Midhurst , S us sex A. C. Jeffry, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Direct Birmingham, Ox ford, Reading, and Brighton Railway Wm. Hunter, sq. EL ea mington, director of the Direct western, and of the Direct Rugby and Manchester Railways iron-master, director of the Dud ley,John Onions, Esq, Grand Junction and ' George Gordon, Esq. E Madeley, and Broseley Railway ; cam. a t y lie London Isaac Taylor, Esq. on Brlngliam, Oxford, and Reading Railway Joh Thorn, Esq. Broseley, director of the D ro b s . h cl r e c y " S h a u ti r o Y p , and brian ; and LondonmandkmDooubrl,insAhpropproshxiirm:atdiolurndelel.eltyoaar,nlwdiviadoey B Joh Thorn, Esq. Broseley, director of t ; the Grand Junction and Cambrian , and Dublin Approximation Railway Richard Thurstield, Esq. Much Wenlock, S a lop, magistrate Robert A ndrew Riddle, Esq. Bryanstone-street Portman-square, Enfield, managing John Reginald Riddle, Esq. Bycullah House, , chairman of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway director of the Leeds and Loimdon Railway - Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol Richard Lambert, Esq. Leytori Hall, Sudbury George Henry Thompson, Esq., Greenwood Park, County Down (With power to add to their number) SOLICITORS — Messrs. Coverdale and Lee, 4, Bedford-row, London. ENGINEERS—Messrs. Rennie. SECRETARY —George N. White, Esq. 13 AMUR& London—Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Company Liverpool—Tbe Rank of Liverpool Manchester—The Bank of Manchester Birmingham—Messrs. Attwood, Spooner, and Company Leeds—The Leeds Banking Company Portsmouth—Messrs. Grant and Company. Successive Administrations, from the time of Mr. Pitt, have recog nised the importance of establish!ng at a point of the southern Coast of England, within an eligible distance from the Metropolis, a Har bour with docks and warehouses for bonding merchandise, whereby all vessels from the westward may save the delay and expense of a voyage up channel, and avoid the risk to which that tedious and dangerous navigation necessarily exposes them. The political con- siderations which originally suggested the formation of such a liar.: boor are, of course, Infinitely strengthened by tha revulution effected in - naval warfare through the agency of steam ; while the vastly im proved modes of transit between London and the provinces invest such an undertaking wi.h a commercial importance which could not have been previously anticipated. On the whole southern coast, from the Land's•end to the Nore, Langston affords the only harbour adapted to the combined purposes here indicated. Its proximity to the great naval depot of l'Ortsinblith —the unequalled excellence of its anchorage--the Capacity of its basin—the ease and safety with which, at nt all times of tide, it will be accessible to vessels of eVery btrthen, es abash its nautical supe rice ity; while with London, only G 6 miles . Nom the docks, a rapid communication is ensured by railway. The promoters have great satisfaction in annottrichut that the un dertaking has received the approval of the Lords of the Treasury, of the Board of Ordnance, and of the Woods and Porests, whose sans tlon is a guarantee for the inttinsie excellence of the ineastire on stipulations most public and naAonal grounds. A grant t Lev favour able t a o b f l t e h t e o ll th oe e k c s o h m a p s an b7n obtained, The circumstance; kttliter which the land is secured will allow of such a reductluu tn the scale of charges and the expenses of nil. nagemeat t tothpared with those of similar est ahlisbtnehts, as rnwt at once Command an extensive bligiheSs ; and the Committee feel as sured that they plaY reeeinmend the undertaking as an investment likely to preve highly remunerative. The plan inclosed with the prospectus exhibits the situation of the Intended docks and warehouses, and of the adjaCtlit localities in con^ flexion with the harbour. The arta proposed to be inclosed by the boundary wall is 220 acres, of which It 0 will be appropriated to docks, and 120 for warehouses, quays, roads, &c. Of the immense extent of the commerce for which these advan tages are available at Langston, some Idea may be acquired from the subjoined data, taken from tile official returns presented to Parlia ment during the last session Tonnage of Vessels registettd lit Porisinolith, for the year 1844, 13,623 tons t —Of toasting Vessels entering the port of London, dull g 1843, 2,r,b1,27i tons :—Of ships entering London from the colonies, during the same date, 492,805 tons :—Of vessels entering from foreign ports, during the same date, 814,592 tens I—And of general shipping, entered during the same period, 1,317,671 tons. Total, 5,539,962 tons. _ tettreet of the contemplated traffic Mid come/Merit revenues of the Cornpliny are shrliciently obVioUs to those who are at all ac quainted with the nature of the import, export, and coasting trade of the country; but to the public generally the following statement may be necessary. The inducements to shipciwners ard merchants to adopt Langston are of the strongest possible nature, for not only ate the well-known perils of the Channel altogether avoided, but the saving on a voyage up and down Channel, a distance of three hundred miles each way, would be, on a Vessel of 150 tons, 551. its 6d.; of 800 tons, 1021. 2s. ; of GOO tons, 2281. 18s. 6d., and on one of 1,060 tons, 3581. 16,._„d us ive of the saving of insurance, the difference of port charges, pilotage; light dues, seamens' wages, and various other items of expediture, familiar to every merchant and shipowner. Though it is impossible to approximate to an accurate estimate of the proportion of this vast trade likely to be secured to Langston, yet it must be evident that much of it must be secured, and that even a fractional part of it would alone constitute a very extensive busi ness. . But it will be apparent that a large proportion must be concen trated at the Langston Docks, when it is considered that a great por tion of the goods itnportedlis housed and bonded for exportation ; that such goods cannot be deposited so advantageously as at Langston, to which the privileges of a bonded port are already accorded by the Treasury ; and that thence merchandise may be re-shipped and dis patched to sea more speedily and at far less expense than any other port in the United Kingdom. In connexion with the extreme eligibility of Langston for bonded warehous, s, it should be mentioned, that by the railway to be con structed as indicated on the plan, and by railways now in operation and in the course of construction, mercantile samples may be as regularly exhibited in the offices of the London brokers, as from the East or West India Docks. By this mode of conveyance all descrip tions of light goals'may be forwarded to the metropolis, while a n.ost econcmic transit to the same destination is secured to heavy mer chandise, by the canal already opened between the harbour and the Thames. An important source of emolument may also be anticipated from the large home market in colonial produce and goods borne coastwise, now furnished by a circuitous and expensive route to the populous towns of Portsmouth, Havant, Portsea, Gosport, Fareham, and Chi chester, and the South and the South Midland countie , . Of these places Langston will naturally have the exclusive supply; and the population whose wants in the consumption of these commodities will be thus administered to, amounts to considerably upwards of one million, of whom 120,000 are engaged in trade and commerce. This result is obtained by taking merely the counties of Hants, Sussex, Wilts, and Dorset, though a much more comprehensive area may reasonably be included, as certain to participate in the advantages which Langston, of all harbours on the southern coast alone pre sents. Thus this depot for articles consumed within the limited circle described, is in itself sufficient to create a market that would warrant the construction of the proposed docks and bonded ware houses. The combined advantages of the locality for all purposes contem plated by the Company or required in a national or mercantile point of view, leave no doubt of the complete success of this great commer cial project, which, while it disturbs no existing interests, is calcu lated to develope fresh resources of the country, and stimulate indivi dual enterprise to a degree to which no mere private speculation af fords a parallel. At present, the rate of Interest is estimated at 714 per cent. ; but the most cursory analysis of the merits of this undertaking must de monstrate that such a calculation is considerably below the average of mercantile probabilities. Until an Act of Parliament be obtained, the affairs of this Com pany will be under the control of the Providonal Committee of Ma nagement, which shall have full power to effect arrangements with the projekors of this undertaking for the purchase of their interest in the site for the docks ; and to effect any other arrangements whatso ever in anywise relating to the said railway and docks. Copies of.the Prospectus and Forms of Application for Shares to had of Messrs. Coverdale and Lee, solicitors, 4, Bedford-row,London ; Messrs. Johnson, longden, and Co., 22, Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs. Lynill and Berlyn, and Mr. J. Fernyhough, Manchester; Mr. Hampson, Messrs. Powell and Lowndes, and Messrs. Neilson, Liver pool ; Mr. John Watson, Messrs. Kirk and Co., and Messrs. Ridsdale, Leeds ; Messrs. Lucas and Co. Birmingham ; Messrs. Tugg and Hodgson, Hull ; Mr. Peter Dixon, Glasgow ; Mr. James Nicholson and Mr. Charles Couper, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Camplin, Dubl.n ; Mr. T. R. Evans, (South Mall) Cork; Messrs. Edwards and Son, Bristol; Mr. W. Bolton, Stratford-on-Avon; Mr. B. Cowderoy, Reading; Messrs. Warburton and Crossland, and Messrs. Bardweli and Son, Sheffield; Messrs. Hail (Brothers) and Co. ' Cheltenham ; Messrs. Wilkingeon, and Mr. T. Sandford, Exeter ; Messrs. H. S. Easty and Co., Southampton • Messrs. Cape and Son. Derby ; Mr. Charles Wikens, Northampton; Mr. Samuel Collinson, and Messrs. Potts and Levick, Nottingham ; Mr. Mason, Bradford, Yorkshire ; Mr. Worcester; Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Plymouth; Mr. Richard Hine, Macclesfield; Mr. W. Crowell, Halifax; Mr. T. Boardman, Blackburn ; Mr. E. Armitage, Wakefield ; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry ; Mr. S. Weatherburn, Huddersfield ; Messrs. Payne and Freer, and Messrs. Windram and Son, Leicester ; and at the Company's Offices, 46, Moorgate-street, London. CEYLON RAILWAY COMPANY. The Provisional Committee have completed the allotment of shares in the capital of this Company, and they regret that in con sequence of the immense number of applications for shares from parties interested in the colony, and the limited number the Com pany had at their disposal after providing for residents In the island, they have been unable to comply with the request of many highly respectable and influential parties ; and those who do not receive allotment letters will be pleased to assign the failure of their request to the cause above. The Letters of Allotment will be issued forth- with. By order of the Board, D. I. NOAD, Secretary. 8, Broad -street -buildings, Oct. 18, 1845. CANIBRIDGE AND LINCOLN - RAILWAY. The Provisional Committee have the satisfaction of informing the Shareholders of the Company that an arrangement with the Eastern Counties Company has been entered into fir the construc tion of a line from Cambridge to York, as an extension of the northern awl eastern line. By this arrangement, the capital of the Cambridge and Lincoln Company will be represented to the extent of 1,500,000/. in the new stock of the Eastern Counties Company ; and the Provisional Com mittee propose to admit the holders of their new shares into the full participation of all the advantages of this arrangement, the expenses already incurred by the Company being equally distributed over the whole capital. By order, HENRY BARNETT, Chairman. C. P. RONEY, Secretary. 30, Great Winchester-street, 19th Oct., 1845. B IRMINGHAM AND ABERYSTWITH RAILWAY, Connecting the Sea Coast of Wales with the Midland Counties. (Provisionally Registered). A Prospectus, with an influential Provisional Committee, will be. iublished in a few days. In the meantime, any information may by obtained at the temporary Offices of the Company, No. 163, Fen church-street, London, where applications for shares, in tho usual form, may be addressed. CHARLES J. 110L3IES, EDWARD GARBETT, Joint Solicitors. WILLIAM BRENTON, IRISH GREAT WESTERN (DUBLIN t o Company will LIE for SIGNA TURE, and old Scrip offices, 19, Moo rga t e-street, London, GALWAY) RAILWAY. " t e DEEMS iII beEx o e f h this an 1 iwExchanged, ed at from Ten till Four o'clock daily , until SATURDA Y , th e 25 t h i nst. The deeds will be in Liverpool some time during the following week, of which due notice will be given. The dupli ca t e of the letters of exchange will be issued with all possible dispatch, of which parties who have not yet received such letters are requested to take notice, and to excuse the delay which has been occasioned by the strict in vestigation entered into, as to the respectability of the Scripholders. FITZSTEPHEN FRENCH, Chairman. 19, Moorgate-street, Oct. 4, 1845. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. THE DIRECT LINCOLN, GRANTHAM, AND NORTHAMPTON RAILWAY, by way of Oakhain and Market Harborough, and thence to Northampton, by the pro. jected South Midland, with extension to Gainsborough. (Provisionally llegistered.) Capital, 1,000,000/., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. (With power to increase the capital.) Liability limited to Subscription. This line will also be a feeder to the several projected lines to Great Grimsby. A detailed prospectus will shortly be published. Communications may be addressed to the Secretary, J. Browne, Esq., 7, Whitehall place, London. GENUINE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Cabinet and Horizontal Pianofortes, Table and Bed Linen, rich Cut Glass, 130 dozen of Fine Crusted Port and Sherry, and a Capital Iron Door, &c. MESSRS. DEBENHAM and STORR will SELL at their rooms, King-street, Covent-garden, on FRIDAY, the 24th October, at Eleven, UNREDEEMED PROPERTY, pledged in months prior to October, 1844, with Mr. Grant, of London-wall, Pawnbroker.—Fourpost, tent, and French bedsteads and hangings—prime goose beds, mattrases, and bedding—chests of drawers—wash stands—sets •f mahogany chairs—dining, pembroke, card, 100, and sofa tables—a noble cheval glass—chimney ;Ind pier glasses—elegant curtains—table and bed linen—large Brussels carpets and hearth rugs—fine paintings—cutlery —and other effects. May be viewed and catalogues had ou the day previous to, and morning of, sale at the offices of the Auctioneers. SOVEREI:GN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. Notice is hereby given, that no further Application for Shares in this Company can be received after TuEsner, the 28th day of Oc tober instant. —By order, _ GEORGE CUM3IING, Secretary, 5, St. James's-street, London. MTANTED, a GENTLEMAN to fill the office of SECRETARY of the LIVERPOOL STOCK EX CHANGE, who will receive a Salary of not less than 8001. per Annum, and will be required to give Security to the extent of 8,0001. Applications, accompanied by testimonials, to be addressed to D. Xeilson, Esq., Chairman of the Liverpool Stock Exchange. PUBLICATIONS. Now ready, Second Edition, with Portrait, Bvo. 125., Lof LORD HILL, Commander of the Forces. From his Journals and other Sources, supplied by his Family and Friends. By Rev. EDWIN SIDNEY. John Murray, Albemarle-street. This day, post Bvo., 2s. 6d., THE FALL of the JESUITS : being the Twenty-flfth Number of " Murray's Home and Colonial Library." John Murray, Albemarle-street. 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L'Epoque will be forwarded to English sub. scribers from Paris direct, and will be delivered in all parts of Great Britain and Ireland, subject to one halfpenny postage, to be pall at delivery. (24EORGE SAND, "Le Peche de Monsieur Antoine," a new Romance, by the celebrated Madame DUDEVANT, is now publishing in LE COURRIER DE L'EUROPE, Bohain's French Newspaper, printed in London since 1840, and con taining in its weekly number all articles of interest, literary and political, which have appeared in Paris up to the day of publication. Price 6d. stamped for post. Published by Joseph Thomas, 1, Finch-lane, Cornhill, an-I 10, Wellington-street, Strand. LORD BROUGHAM on the POLICY OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE. The following extract of a letter from Lord Brougham to a friend in France appeared on Saturday in the Obse,vateurF,ancais, a journal published in London:— " I have jest, my dear Count, received your amiable letter of the Bth curt.; and though I hope to see you be fore the middle of October, I will not leave you without an answer to the question you ask of me—a question which, in my view, is a very important one. " You wish to know whether the entente cordiale is with us a national as well as a cordial feeling. You sly you think that it is an affair between one sovereisn and another, rather than between one people and the other ; and in support of your doubts you quote the much-to-be-regretted expressions which I acknow ledge have been used by several papers among us who know nothing, and by several persons in Parlia ment who should have known better. " Do not believe a word of it, my dear Count, and do not let a single doubt remain on your mind on the sub ject. I have no hesitation in assuring you that there is nothing more certain in our policy here than the good feeling of all parties towards France, and that nothing would be more unpopular than the slightest coolness between the two Courts. " The very persons who are supposed on your side the water to be at least dispose d to the maintenance of friendly relations, are the friends of peace, and they would show themselves so if es er (which God forbid) the slightest appearance of misunderstanding should be manifested between the two Courts. Even if this feeling should only exist, as you suppose. between the two Sovereigns themselves, that would of itself be most important fi.r the good cause. 'I he great qualities of the Prince you possess, and who, happily for Europe, governs you, are well known ; and as regards our Queen, I can assure you that she has known how to attract the most profound respect, and has merited the greatest con fidence on the part of all men of any consequence here whose support :s worth anything, from the admirable talent she has shown for business, and for that firm and loyal character which is so seldom met with in princes, and still more rarely (pardon my want of gallantry) in princesses. " If you do not see in this a new pledge of good feeling, you will be of my opinion when you read the correspondence and journals of Lord S., which you will receive from the Ambassador. You will there see how much the personal prejudices of the grandfather of our Queen influenced both the exterior as well as the interior policy of this country during the whole of his lifetime. " Still I confess that my uneasiness as regards several persons in your country, men who stand high, and who are in reality not bad men, have not entirely disappeared. "I am of your opinion, and I believe that these same persons, some of whom I admire and esteem sincerely, if they were in the ministry, would never be the insti gators of a warlike policy. That is quite simple. But after having excited the mercurial spirits of Paris (ex cuse the phrase)—after having driven the café, the salons, the journalists, the half-pay officers, the agi tators, and the agitatresses (you must again forgive me) to desire war, how can we be sure that their power would be sufficient to calm the storm raised by their spirit of faction ? " It is only for the purpose of upsetting the ministry (you say) that these gentlemen preach hatred to Eng land—to that England who loves and respects France, and who has never ceased to do full justice to all her military and civil glories. But who will be the guarantee that in upsetting the ministry they shall not destroy that pacific existence which they themselves would be sorry to destroy, and which they wish only to inherit. " I can perfectly understand the project of an heir who desires the death of his predecessor in order that he may succeed to the possession of his fine house ; but when I see that same heir not only alarming the owner by cries of fire to induce him to save himself by the win dow, but also setting fire to the house, in the hope of being able to extinguish the fire after its possesor shall have broken his neck,l most certainly cannot understand the wisdom of such a project, any more than I can its morality. " If these gentlemen should succeed, and if the good intelligence should cease between our two countries, we who are the friends of peace shall not be consoled much by the reflection that the war was provoked without any such intention. " There are some of your friends to whom, if I mis take not, my ideas may be easily applied ; endeavour, I beg of you, to lead them back a little towards more healthy and more philanthropic principles. " As to what you say about Ireland, your thunderbolts of war need not reckon upon that part of our empire— nothing can be more weak than the anti-English party there. Our Government has shown itself resolved to permit no outrage of its authority there ; and we know here (a thing of which you are profoundly ignorant in France) that all these harangues and these meetings Ireland are nothing but sound and smoke. The agita tors want to get money, and the other chiefs love noise, but none of them will move a single step, and I can as sure you that no one thinks of it the least in the world. In the meanwhile our Government has done much to give contentment to the people of Ireland ; on the other hand, their priests are divided among themselves, whilst the agitators do not know now what to do. " That that country has grievances is quite true, but the greater p ar t o f th em arise f rom a b uses which egis lators know not how to remedy. These evils have their source in the social system, and in the distribution of property—evils vihich the very maddest of their agita tors themselves have never dared to attempt to touch." AMERICAN WHEAT.—n ARVEST.—The St. Louis Era says, the new crop has just commenced arriving freely; and should the upper streams continue even in their present difficult stage for navigation, we may expect to see, in the course of three or four weeks, large quantities of wheat pouring into the market ; even at this early period there are thousands of bushels of the new crop lying at the landing along the Illinois, Upper Mississippi, and Missouri, waiting shipment. All the boats which have reached this port from above fur three or four days past, have come down with as much as they could possibly get along with, and many of them, particularly those from the Missouri and Illinois, had to refuse more wheat than would have loaded them twice over in a fair stage of water. The wheat harvest has indeed been a magnificent one. From every quarter the cry is plenty; on the Missouri, Upper Mississippi, and Illinois, the average yield over the crop of last year will be fully 33 per cent. ; and in many sections of the country full 50 per cent.; add to this the superior quality of the grain, which appears to be uniformly of nearly the samequality, and there must be a great surplus ; how, when, and where it is to be disposed of, remains to be seen.— Washington Constitu.ion. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT A CORONER'S INQUEST. ---- —On Wednesday afternoon Mr. Bedford, the Coroner, held an inquest at the Rising Sun, Great Scotland-yard, respecting the death of Charles Augustus Simpson, a child about five weeks old, under the subjoined circumstances :—The parents of deceased reside in Great Scotland-yard. Mary Paskell, deceased's aunt, deposed that she had attended deceased ever since its birth, and it was a very healthy child. On Monday morning, abOut eleven o'clock, witness went out with de ceased and its mother, and got into a steam-boat from the Adelphi-stairs to London-bridge. On their return from that place deceased cried a good deal. Witness then gave the child to its mother, and as they lai:ded at the Adelphi-pier blood was seen oozing from deceased's eyes and nose. Wit ness proceeded with deceased to the Opthalmic Hospital, in Charing-cross, and on their arrival there deceased had cc ased to breathe. A warm bath was ordered, but it had no effect ; life was quite extinct. Deceased was subsequently taken to Dr. Lennard, of Craven-street, Strand, who consi dered that death had been caused by the breaking of some blood-vessel in the vicinity of the lungs. The jury was com posed of fourteen gentlemen, one of whom, by his views of the case, gave rise to the utmost confusion and uproar. The juror in question was of opinion that the medical gentleman ought to have been on the inquiry, as, in his absence, there was no evidence to show h ow deceased had come by its death. In addition to which, the necessity of a post mortem examina tion was urged, while twelve of the jury were unanimously of opinion that such a proceeding would be totally irrele vant, and not assist them the least in the decision of their verdict. After a scene of great uproar, it was ultimately de termined by the coroner sending for Dr. Lennard, who came forward and gave corroborative evidence, and at last a ver dict of " Death from natural causes" was recorded. The in quiry lasted several hours. THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE.—The statue of Sir Thomas Gresham, l'y Behnes, has, during the last few days, been fixed in the niche in front of the saw Royal Exchange, at the east end, and under the cupola. ILFRACOMBE, OCT. 18.—This delightful and roman tic watering-place has been full of company the whole summer, and has now a large influx of company; the public rooms were crowded with a fashionable audience, who were highly amused with Mr. Lover's Irish Entertainment. Then , has been a prejudice against this town as a winter residence. under the supposition that the north of Devon is unusually cold at that season, but this is rapidly wearing off; so that this pleasing spot is now likely to have two seasons, many more familiel than usual "having taken houses for the winter. Clt I P S (1 E N.-C UTIO N. Whereas, a letter c••ntaining Four SCRIP CERTIFI CATES in ti e " WORCESTER, HEREFORD, ROSS. and GLOUCESTER RAILWAY," &scribed below, which was put into the Gloucester Post-oflice, on FRIDAY, October 17, addressed " Mr. Wm. Miles, sharebtaer, Foregate.strect, Worcester," has not reached its destination, and there is every reason to b:lieve that it hrs been stolen, All persons are CAUTIONED against purchasing such Scrip, and a REWARD of TEN POUNDS will be given for any infor mation respecting it. The;e is soma reason t•, suppose that the Setif) may have reached Bristol Description of the Scrip Certiti. cates .—Five Shares, Nos. 451 to 435; Ten Shares, Nos. 25,541 to 25,550 ; Ten Share,, Nos. 25,551 to 25,560 ; Ten Scares, Nos. 25,561 to 25,570. Any information on the subject may be addressed to Messrs. Cliffs and Co., Gloucester. ELEGANT LITERARY AND PICTORIAL PRESENT. Now ready, in 1 vol. fivo., richly bound, price 31s. 6d., E VENINGS AT HAI)DON HALL. Edited by the Baroness DE CALAERELLA, And superbly embellished with 24 Steel Engravings by the First Artists, from Designs by George Cattennolei Esq. This work forals the most splendid and attractive Gift Rook that has issued from the press fur some years. 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Richard Bentiy, New Burlington-street THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE FAIRY OAK. In which Messrs. Borran', Burdini, Allen, Howell, Harley, Miss Rainfortb, Miss Fitzjawes, Miss Collett, and _Mss Helen Lane will perform. Atter which, will be repeated a New Grand Ballet Fantastique, entitled THE MARBLE MAIDEN. Duke Laurent de Medicis, M. Pichler; Prince Cosmo de Medici,, M. Petipa; Massachio, M, Albert ; Asca, in, Mdlle. Louise ; Princess Beatrice, Mdlle. Adele; the statue of Ilebe, Mdlle. Adele Dumilatre. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be performed TRE LADY OF LYONS. Claude Melnotte, Mr. Anderson; Mons. Deschappelles, Mr. James Bland; Pauline Deschappelles, Miss Helen ranch. After which, NICHOLAS FLAM. Nicolas Flam, Mr. Farren. To conclude with A CABINET QUESTION. THEATRE /MAI., ADELPHI. THIS EVENING Will be repeated 1 lIE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years Ago. In wtich Messrs. 0. Smith, Selby, Stoker; Mrs. Yates, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam will pe►for►n. To be followed by TAMING A TARTAR; or, Magic and Ma zourkaphobia. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wright, Miss Woolga-, Madame Celeste, &c, will perform. To conclude with SEEING WRIGHT. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE LAST OF TII S BRAVOES. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, F. Matthews, F. Vining, Bendtr Tar nold, and Miss Arden. After which, a New Farce, called NEXT DOOR. To be followed by a New and Original Comedietta, entitled PETER JENKINS ; or, Fibbing for a Friend. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, A. Wigan, Turner, Msadows; Mrs. Keeley and Miss Dawson. To conclude with ALADDIN and the WONDERFUL LAMP. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-ST.:a:ET. THIS EVENING Will be performed KING LEAR. King Lear, Mr. Macready Cordelia, Mrs. Stirling. After which, KATHERINE AND PETRUCHIO. NEW STRAND THEATRE, Open every EVENING.—NOVELT Y and EXTRA ATTRACTION. M. I'IIILLII'I'E will cent nue to repeat all his most popular and peculiar MAGICAL DELUSIONS, which are nightly received with the most enthusiastic approbation. The cIIIARINI FAMI:.Y arc engaged, and will appear ou the Tight Rope, and dance their cele brated Pas de Contr. Mdlle. Kopbel (on la tine des hears) will per- Orin her most popular Pas de Cat actere. To conclude with the as tounding and iLexplicable Chinese Experiments, culled the MAGIC BASINS and GRANDE MENAGERIE. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE THIS EVENING Will be revived the favourite Drama of GWYNNE VAUGHAN, Supported by Messrs. Waldron, C. Boyne, Brookes, G. Wild ; Kate Howard, &e. After which, SKETCHES IN INDIA. To conclude with THE BOYHOOD OF BACCHUS. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AM PIIITII Anil: OF ARTS. IROPRIETOR AND MANAGER, MR. W. BATTY. Continued career of success ! Spectacle extraordinary ! Magni ficent effects, peculiar scenic displays, pict rial groupings, and unique appointments, combined with interesting incidents, por traying the peculiar sagacity and high training of the Double Stud of coloured Barbs in the truly imposing II) podramatie production, entitled, THE BRIDE OF TILE .NILE, and the Lily of Memphis and The Horse of the Pyramids, in which the whole Company will appear. To which will be added, an entire change of the Arena novelties, embracing the united talents of the French and English Equestrians. The whole to conclude, each evening, with the Equestrian Melo drama, taken from the French, entitled LE COUPE GOUGE. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING - Will be performed THE ROVER'S SECRET; or, The Bridge of St. Martin's. 31. Martial, Mr. N. T. Hicks; William, Mr. H. Hughes; Clarisse, 3lrs. Henry Vining. After which, :Mous. I'LEGE and FAMILY'S extraordinary per formance on the Tight Rope. To conclude with OLIVER TWIST, supported by the whole Company. THE WEATHER.—Sur OFFICE, OCT. 20. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 46; Highest, 58; Noon, 55. BAROMETER, 30.12. WIND N.N.W.; fine sunshiny weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. .. 30 minutes after 4 f Evening .. 48 minutes after 4 ~ t ,ci , K ?, 4 4- ~. ~ N I `. v .., ...,,,,,,„ „,,,,,, 4 —, m ,,,..,, ,s.„ , :i o : ''. • -Z .' • t ro t < fCO It SECOND EDITION. I `l trientlt II ; 44'T \ Ant LONDON, MONDAY. - 005T013ER 20. 1845. There are few institutions more important 0 civilised society than a good domestic police. There are none in the heads of which the powers confided by the State are so liable to abuse. It would seem as if to the func- tions of arresting criminals and personally detecting crimes, a latitude of authority were necessary which was in itself productive, in those who exercised it, of that criminality which they are charged to take cogni zance of in others. Such a tendency is attributable, perhaps, in an equal degree to the necessarily inferior character of the class of men who will consent to become members of what may be called the "Criminal Executive." But it has been always reason ably enough presumed that in consideration of more careful selection, increased pay, and improved superintendence, the character, as well as the efficiency of a domestic police, may be certainly enhanced where it has become, from its inadequate establish:nent, very much deteriorated. Now this, precisely, is the process which was adopted on effecting the substitution of the New Police constabulary, or Metropolitan Felice, in the place of that most dilapidated of constabulary staffs— the "Old Watch" of London. Whatever objections of a constitutional nature might be, and really were, urged against Sir ROBERT PEEL'S half-military and ostenta tiously organized "gen-d'arnierie"—and they were grave ones—nothing could be excepted to the establishment, and pay; which he assigned . to it, Except, indeed, on the score of its excess. This pay since the original constitution of the force has been in creased, both to the various officers, superintendents, inspectors, &c., and the sergeants and men ;—and still more recently, the salaries of the two Commissioners were fixed at a scale which reached the utmost verge of liberality. Under these circumstances, the public has a right to expect on the part of the men the best conducted deportment and attention to their duty ; on the part of the Commissioners the most exact and careful superinten dence over all the arrangements and details of the force. But we lament to observe that the cases of flagrant delin quency on the part of constables of this well-paid, well appointed, and very favoured body seem to increase every year, both in number and character. It is a scandal to the whole body that such numerous instances of attempted extortion, subornation, pilfering, violence, and cruelty, should have to be brought tinder magisterial notice in the period of a few months, as those in which we find policemen implicated as prin cipals or accessories. A collection of such cases, care fully extracted from the reports of our district police offices and the records of the Central Criminal Court since the passing of the 10 GEo. IV., in June, 1829, would show—we are convinced—a larger aggregate of criminal offences by police-constables than could be brought against any other body constituted under equally favourable regulations and inducements for good conduct, and bearing similar proportions as to tlieir aggregate force, the relative numbers of officers and men, &c. But we do not propose, now, to enter upon any of the objections of principle, or the conside rations of policy and expediency which we could adduce as bearing on the general question of the merits or demeri ts of this scheme of police. We have merely to direct at tention to two cases that we published in our impression of Saturday last. The one (copied from the Devizes Gazette), to the effect that a man, formerly an inspector of the Wilts police, is in custody at Bath, charged with stealing a silver hammer and a cash- b x containing 801. The other is the case of a police-constable of the F di vision, charged with having absconded "from the force" with 201. received by him " in his official" capacity. This man, having apprehended a woman on susp'cion of robbing a sailor on the prteeding nigl.t, attended with the culprit at an early hour on Friday morning before the insptetor at the Bow-stre .t eta ion, sad handed over to him five 51. .13,n1c of En..datil antis. two g.dd sovereigns, and 21s. in silver, which he said he had found on the prisoner. 27, is money w cs given buck to the policeman when he brought the charge, in clue course, before the sitting magistrate ; he was ordered to return • .he Thew seaman one o f he 5/. notes to e nstae h;e3 to joist 11.M.5. Ca!edania, at Plymouth, and he was boona to return the reminder to the insP:ctor, before wh en ' he had reported the c ise—to await further proccoiegss and to be secured for the saiinr. This was - not d. On the following evening he was reperted " n"t °ll duty." The suspicions of 11;3 " superior :Oct r , " "'t r.° immediately aroused. It was ascertnined he hid 51) : scOndEd from his lodgings ; and he was soon discover" in a house of a Ike infamous character with diet in whirl] the sailar lied to to [ deride) ed 201 74- "c:e found under the bed in which he was taken, affi l he acknowledged it was part of the money he had env bezz7id. On the first of these cases. the examination of th e a t '' cused not being before us, we shall make n o fertile': comment at present, than to observe filet the iinpaKe delinquency is of a kind which has become so cone'. ° a charge of late against con3tabteary o"ficers of th : s description, that it almost ceases to shock one, as 3 assuredly would do, had not the frequency of such an nouncements neutralised the impression they ough t na. turally to produce on the public mind. On the latter case, we cannot help arriving' at the conclusion, that, in spite of all the nauseating affeetatil of military arrangement s a nd g radations of rank , whit' these police affairs always exhibit, this system of ° II ' stabulary is a very vicious and imperfect one. W hell the under-constable took charge of the monq at four or five o'clock in the m o rning, why was it a rc d . turned to him by the upper-constable, ins, of being duly e nt ere d w ith all pat ticulst‘ on the " sheet "—acknowledged in some prope r p rinto form to the under- c o ns t a bl e — an d brought forwsrd hf the upper one (i. e ., " th e su p er i or officer ") before the: magistrate, on bringing up the case for hearing i erc , hours afterwards ? To return money under suc h c i i ; minastances was at least to subject it to new ..le 9 P eli sb j; to the ultimate loss of the plundered seaman ; for .. in g delinquent, GUY, of the y division, without dres°,lt of the embezzlement he afterwards committed' °l li have innocently lost it in the very first street brow 11 1 , , which he might have been called upon to interfere on s i s way home. And then, what were the a superior °Mee r f about, when they found that this " private," in slead an d returning from the office straight to his insPee tclr ' s si o l paying over the money, according to the "g el; '" at orders" of the "service," did not apPes r „ he the station all day—to let the matter stand over til l ' le d " evening muster or parade," when he was firsterei ter en g " not on duty ?" A little alacrity and Inan a g i li e g might surely have tracked the offender to his I tt bs place long before he had chan ge d or e xpended on e ( ,ps 5/. Bank notes, the property of the sailor? It i 5 "niO1)11nel ° d to common sense that such a system of returning - found on the person of a pris o n e r t o one of th ese ° t i n e cars, is to expose him to the double danger Of OOP him to the commission of a c ri me — a nd sews' s t4e the lawless community through whose haun ts 11e is s obliged to move, to outrage a nd violence ages himself, under the impres s io n that he ca r e booty about his person during a certa in " l a tion, at least, of the day. We find ;h able,; Inspector, DODD, said, "it was the duty of a ll CO , to attend at the station-house aft e r the dil e6ll i bi charges with which they were concerned, to reP er ; e result of the examination, and to d e liver tip ehs t of property might come into their h a nd s . This oi s done withou t any express dir e cti ons from the itsF ei pree : (hay" And why do there exist no such exPr e° ,' ; „jelil tions? Is it thought that it would b e considere d cute, forsooth, to the police-constables to iss ue o pli, ' instructions, on the ground that they woul d : 0 ° a elt übt of their possibl e susceptibility' '; A 0 10 ; temptation of theft ? We are at a loss to itttg, is o o ° ease they have made out to be entitled to exemee such ordinary precautions on the part of th elt , o o4 riors. The prisoner, GUY, is st a t e d to be " A ' beet ; man of highly-respectable conn e xi ons . Ile its' been in the police force about six months, hav ing bought out of the army by hi s frie n d s ." We " l f y suspect that this statement suggests the true h i ' ° „ e iet'S many other cases of police-constable deline e pi iss ; There is too little vigilance exercised by the i C f s lifi d sioners in ascertaining th e mora l c h arac ter and ' u s • cations of candidates f o r a d m i ss i on i n t o their ``e °f 6 , or too much importance a s cr ib e d t o the suo rtri s e t s o o o ! their appearance, and, above all, to the 6 1.°i/ 1 0 11 4 of their having previously belonged " to th e "" as the reporter phrases it. COLD f We stated on Saturday that the time was s ol. settling the long-agitated question of the corn -10 : of; expressed a hope that another session would not e e s I st fered to pass without the adoption of measu r ! bie tot finally setting it at rest. Indeed it was itnit°' s 'd i e s read the sreeches made at agricultural ni ee- 0 11. independent even of Sir ROBERT PSSI:S . 03 known inclination, to come to any other cone' h ij nr it Still it is gratifying to find that a new au ti cka has been added to those which have already o Pl i e gir st - ior the authority of an active and beneficent legic.. one, it is true, who makes no pretensions to any ledge of Cabinet secrets, but who, nevertheless, 1.1.°_, so political principles and station in society, is enti tle d fullest credit—a e mean Lord ASHLEY. In a la te , Da to his constituents, the ele c tors of Dorsetahire , h is ship says, "I will seize this occasion to tole", subject of the corn-laws, and the certain result into present movement against them. It appears to lile of the their destiny is fixed ; and that the leading m en ( Or great parties in the Legislature are by no .00 4 i e s dined to their eventual aboliti o n. The debates .sensor session have left no doubt on this head : both the didates for power, and the occupants of it, aPP I. I_ tha t so much more closely than at a ny former Peri ' that most of the hearers were induced to b elieve nc iple their difference was less a matter o f P r' r i co than a question of time." This COmiticialf a strong supporter of th e se laws is sti l sel l ' e remarkable; but what follows is more remarkau shoulde as itis evident the agriculturists thenaselves--" r ose rather say the landlords—are resolved to rust ,leo with the League, and know their fate with °ll ", s eitl Now is the time to strike. Such another 00 ° e - re s o rt' , may never occur, and his Lordship' th t hey advises the landlords to consider in what icesti only can break the force of an inevitable blow. Tite l dote do it in his opinion by offering t erm s for a grautlapsien lition ; "for," says he, "you have, at thi 4 the power to offer such terms ; their is no certaiotlcrity you will retain it much longer--cur actual PresfPearfal must come to an end ; and then the wide odiiity on pressure of commercial distress, with the host the the one side, and the indifference on the othe,r%°resial great political chiefs, will l eave you, in an hour ° I e ;; This difficulty, altogether without a refuge or resouree.as is consolatory intelligence, and we may, frout t h r ito ge $ 5 as front other symptoms, regard the prop osed c ote , the great question for the ensuing session. The f soreig " the crops, and the certainty of importation ° rot ea' grain, cannot fail to have given Sir 11. r.s cL g but 11/8 easiness with regard not only to the currency', _pat peace of the community. A large ilnP drain the country of gold, and drive us t ne igh' cessity of again begging succour from o et se eibrbi bours. On the other hand, if prices coati" of and the half-starved Irish, not to sPeadrieca the poor classes in this island, a . rc i more er, ortatiothew vtle, to despair by want, the danger may be sttl i liop , on e palling. He is thus placed in a difficult Vs; weans. }oust naturally be anxicus to take every rati°l,3,,e of ii to prevent, for the future, such a concurrero frog toward circumstances. This ques tion, we lea e s th ° various quarters, occupits above all °t fi d a (l i e , attention of her MAJESTY'S MilliSterSt 13- 0 00' cision may be expected by the beginning of o . e c r op t the We have little doubt of the result. I t is 551 t oe t litls' Duke and the Premier cannot agree on the orinet 1 should be adopted, and that a split of the o'7 in the be the consequence, but we place no confide: ll e on!' rumour. The Duke knows how to obey as n t tO Sir mend: he has entrusted the reins of Geeer e . rn ,!,ase f et ROBERT PEEL—he has already yield ed to nt' h r io , al conciliating Ireland, and he will no t thwartio r co airf measure so intimately connected with h_is s ,,, or y system. and so essential to the existence of vernment. d 12tb ge, h rs We have received Madrid Journals of the llt inst. Those of the former are chiefly tilled with .s r,:, b i r th of the grand - levee held in honour of her M a ae htinir ' ed pe r; day, which was attended by at least thirteen _ e u ar ii ;tl st t eons. A general amnesty Gazette en the 12th inst. It was confident% insultaig Madrid that General BnErrox, notorious for la . La d retaa'. .J was expected to _l7„,,ted . and atrocious proclamations in Catalcaua, c.nduc , t0 . , 4 Others state that he had been dismissed, as i " a utP ritic become so insufferable that many of the officTate 9 t b3t tbs under him had refused to act. The T:ernpo 5 0 _ , Company who had received the concession ficstil:so,oo ) Iron Railway line had deposited 5,000,000 r f e or t t the fil/fO,l in the bank of San Fernando, as a security c ,ract ment of their engagements. The following ::o letter, dated Cadiz, Oct. 6, appears in the C as te l‘ /l ee., ; io pars. felucca guards costa Jupiter left this port last . col or 6 hoisted el °g tt h suit of a smuggling vessel which tire d „ Q . The commandant of the Jupiter, nevcrtheas,o, svatr, whence an English steamer immediately starts „. H ot . . 6 smug.,;ler, which sou z .)ll. refuge in the Gibraltar pu rsti n i at , discussol wee, the Spanish guards-costa; the latter was, .encouh to riech the p .rt of Cadiz. Serio two p u h s owevo , . is lay ilt b aristn on the subject b,tween the governors the us. w ii! turn lo our stenne." co the transactio4.s. took place on the Bourse or 12th. na t The Paris papers contain a variety ----i.e..-- _— without Worm. We aro glad to find aom m llig ot e, (11 inte6th,