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London, England, 1856-06-07 00:00:00

FRENCH EXHIBITION.

THE THIRD ANNUAL EXHIBITION of
PAINTINGS by Modern Artists of Um FRENCH SCHOOL.
is NOW OPEN at the Gallary, 121, PALL-MALL Admittance,
One Shilling; Season Tickets, Five Shillings ; catalogue, Six-
pence. B. FRODsHAM, Secretary.

BY COMMAND.--Mr. GORDON
CUMMING'S ENTERTAINMENT, as represented on
the morning of Thursday, May 8, 1+550, by command, before his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and his Royal Highness
Prince Alfred, will be repeated every Evening (except Saturday)
at Eight. Morning representation every Saturday at Three
o'clock. Mr. Gordon Cumming personally describes the beau-
tifully painted DIORAMA, which places before the beholder the
Lion Hunter's startling encounters with the stupendous,
curious, and beautiful animals witch roam the mighty solitudes
of the FAR INTERIOR of SOUTH AFRICA. Piano by Mr.
Harries Wilson. Admission, Is.; Reserved Seats, 26.; stalls
(which may be taken without extra charge from eleven to four
daily), 3s. ChiLiren half-price to the Reserved Seats.— 232,
PICCADILLY.

DK. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM,
4, Coventry.street, Leicester-square.
Open (for gentlemen only), horn Ten till Ten, containing
upwards of one thousand models and preparations, illutartating
every part of the human frarne in health and disease, the race of
&c. Lectures are delivered at Twelve, Two, Four, and
Halt past Seven, by Dr. G. Ssx-rom, F'.R.G.S ; and a New and
Highly Interesting Series of Lectures is now in course of
delivery by Or, KAHN, at Half-past Eight Every Evening.—
Admission, One Shilling.

ASCOT RACES. CHIFNEV:•3 P RLDIG-
TIONS for the Ascot Races and Northumber.and Plate
will be given in the TURF COMMISSIONER of Monday next,
price 6d.—Office, 291, strand, London. A copy forwazdfiti ore
receipt of seven postage stamps.

THE PRESS.

DIRECT ROUTE TO 1ND7.1.

THE EUPHRATES VALLEY RAILWAY
COMPANY. LIMITED.
(Faom THE MEDITERRANEAN TO THE PERSIAN GULF.)
Offices - Gresham-house, Old Broad-atreet.
To be Incorporated by Act of Parliament.
Capital, 1.000,0001., in WOO Shares of 201. each.

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A portion of the shares to be reserved fur Turkey and India.
The Directors feel assured of obtaining a concession from the
Ottoman Government, with a guarantee of six per ceut. per
annum as a minimum dividend on the capital of the company
fur 9 l years.
Deposit, Two Shillings per share.
CHLIRMAN—W. P. ANDREW, Eeq., i 6, Moutaiu-square, Chair-
man of the Scinde Railway Company.
DIRECTORS.
Philip Anstruther, Esq., late Secretary to Government, Ceylon
Harry Borradaile, Esq., Hadley, Barnet, late Bombay Civil
Service
Alexander Deanon, Esq., 6, Adam's-court,'Old Broad-street
Barrow H. Ellis, Esq.. lute Assistant Commissioner, Scinde
Captain R. Kington Finnimore, late Commissary of Ordnance,
Kurraehee and Hydrabad, Smite
Captain H. B. Lynch, C. 8., 1.N., late commanding on Euphrates
and Tigris
Sir T. Herbert Maddock, M.P., late Deputy-Governor of Bengal
and Director of the Sciude Railway Company
Major J. A. Moore, F.R.S., 19, Portland-place, ex-Director of the
lion. East India Company, and Director of the Provincial
Bank of England
Francis Horsley Robinson, Esq., Liandogo Priory, and Queen-
street, Mayfair, late Chairman B 'lad of Revenue, Upper India,
and Director of the Seinde Railway Company
Thomas Williams, Esq., Director of the Scinde and other
Railway Companies
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Major-General Chesney, R.A., D.C.L.,
F.R.S . avid F.R.G.S.

ENGINEER-INCHIEF--Sir John Macneill, LL.D.,F.R.S.
AUDITORS—Lieut.-Colonel H. B. Henderson, late Officiating
Military Auditor-Generai, Bengal; Harry G. Gordoli, Esq.,
Chairman of the Oriental Bank Cot poration
AOENTS IN SYRIA AND MEBOPOTAILIA—Messrs. Stephen Lynch
and Co.
&omits—Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Maltby, Robinson, and Jackson
SECRETARY - L. White Raeburn, Esq.
This Company is established to connect the Mediterranean
and the Persian Gulf by a railway from the ancient poi tof
Sellucia by Antioch and Aleppo, to Ja'berCastle on the Eu-
phrates, of eighty miles in length. and afterwards from thence by
other towns to Bagdad, and on to the head of the Persian Gulf.
Thence by steamers communication will be established with all
parts of ludia.
From ai rangements now in progress. it is intended to carry
the electric wire along the Euphrates Valley, and connect the
Telegraphic system of Europe with that of India.
The country through which it is proposed to carry the railway
was, by command of his Majesty William IV., examined and
surveyed, with the view to the introduction of improved means
of transit, by that distinguished officer Major General Chesney,
R.A. and F.R S., who reports that there are no serious difficul.
ties to contend with; and subsequent scientific investigations
under Captain Lynch, C. 8., and Commander Campbell, both of
the Indian Navy, have confirmed the accuracy of General Ches-
ney's opinion.
The effect of the proposed contract to be entered into between
the Sublime Porte and this Company will be, that the Ottoman
Government guarantee a minimum dividend on the capital le-
vired at e l.er cent. per annum for 99 years.
Tr.e Ottoman Government grant a lease of the land necessary
for the Railway and works for 99 years, free of charge.
On the opening of the Line, all net profits exceeding the rate
of dividend guaranteed are to go to the Ottoman Government in
liquidation of the dividends they hive advanced. When this
a,:vance is repaid the entire surplus goes to the Shareholders.
At the expiration of 99 years, the land with the Railway and
works pertaining thereto, will become the property of the Otto.
man Government, who will at the same Guie purt.hase the rod
ling stock at a valuation to be settled by arbitration.
The Ottoman Government guarantee the Company against
all competition from works of &similar character, and grant the
right of land, woods, !Meats, and quarries, the property of the
State, at a certain distance at each side of the line.
It is only proposed at present to execute the first section,
about 80 miles of railroa i, from the ancient port of Seleucia on
the Mediterranean, to Ja'ber Castle cn the Euphrates; below
which point there is water communication by the Euphrates and
Tigris to the Persian Gulf.
or. John Laird, of Birkenhead, has undertaken to supply the
Sublime Porte with steamers to I.ll:igate the Euphrates, capable
of carrying a large amount of passengers and merchandise, at a
good rate of speed.
A steam route being thus established between the Mediterra-
nean Sea and the Persian Gulf, the shortest and most rapid
means of communication between the capitals and emporia of
the West and East would be at once open for political and coin.
mei Mal purposes. The future sections of the line will be gra-
dually carried down the valley of the Euphrates, from the tight
bark oppos to Ja'ber Castle to Pliumsaii, the ancient Thapas-
cus. Crossing into Mesopotamia at this suitable place, the
railway will be carried along the valley by Anah and Hit to the
environs of Bagdad, and thence by Babylon and fi Ilah to the
confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris at Kurnah, where there
is sufficient depth of water for the largest steamers, with a
branch line by Schuster to the Persian Gulf; or Bussorah, 97
miles nearer the head of the Persian Culf than Kumla], where
an exten:ive trade is already established, and where there is
ample accommodation for equate-rigged ships of large tonnage.
The traffic by the existing route of the Red Sea must always
be confined to large and powerful steam vessels, being impeded
by rocky islands. onral reefs, and the nature of the prevailing
winds, whereas in the Persian Gulf there are no physical ob-
structions whatever to its free navigation by vessels of all
classes.

The importance of the Euphrates as a second and more expe-
ditious route to our Indian possessiona is daily forcing itself
upon the public mind, and as the whole of Northern India and
Cemral Asia, from the banks of the Oxus to the gates of Delhi,
will shortly have an outlet to the sea by the Scinde Railway from
ilydrabad to Kurrachee, relieving commerce from the dangers
and delays of tie Delta of the Indus, such a route would seem
to become imperative.
The counti les to be traversed by the railway are rich in mine-
rals, but have as yet been only partially explored with a view to
their development.

This enterprise possesses, in the opinion of those personally
acquainted with the country and its resources, all the tlem,nts
of a highly remunerative character.
lat.—From the country presenting great facilities for the con•
struction of a tails ay, being a succession of extensive plains
traversed by low hill,. between Antioch and Aleppo, and from
Aleppo to Ja'ber Castle, a distance of $9 wiles. a perfect level.
2nfi.—From the neighbouring mines of Mat ash having supplied
iron of excellent quality to the Euphrates expedition. From an
inexhaustible supply of timbal of the finest quality for bui!ding
purposes, sleepsire, &c., being obtainable from the forests near
the old port (Seleucla) wad Scandemn, and from there being alto

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large quarries of stone on different parts of the line, with an
abundant supply of bitumen and timber for fuel.
3rd.—From the first section of the line being a moderate
length, and complete in itself, having a port on the ?deuiterra.
mean at one end, and a terminus on the Euphrates at the other.
4th.—From the line from seteucia to Ja'ber Castle, forming of
necessity the most important portion of any system of improved
transit, which shall follow the course of the valleys of the Eu.
phrates and Tigris.
flth.—From the country below Ja'ber Castle to the head of
the Persian Gulf affording every facility for the extension of the

6th —From the clearly proved statistical returns of the former
trade and commerce of the country. its vast natural resources
and manufactures, and the extensive transit trade which was
formerly carried on between China, India, Persia, Armenia, and
Arabia, with Europe, and especially with Great Britain, which
has been greatly diminished by political causes, but which would
speedily be revived ; and from the convivion that the commerce
tat Great Britain with Central Asia, Chinsokc., instead of seek-
ing, as at present, a costly and circuitous route by the Volga
and the Caspian, would return to its natural, its more direct, and
its most ancient channel.
From the obvious political and commercial importance of
this the most direct route to our Indian possessions, the
Directors have reason to believe that they will receive from her
Majesty's Government std the lionoureble East India Company
that countenance and co operation, which is evbential to the
carrying out, with success, a means or communication which
woad reduce the time occupied in the journey by nearly one.
half between this country• and its empire in the East.
The deposit to be paid ou allotment of shares will be 2s. per
share, being after the rate of 10s. per cent., the amount pre-
scribed by the Act 7 and d Vic., cap. 110.
No call will be made until the concession has been secured by
the finnan of the Sultan, at.d the other airaugementa contem-
plated by the directors completed.

FORM UP APPLICATION ?on SNARLS.
To the Directors of the Euphrates Valley Railway Company !
(Limited).
I request you will allot to me Shares in the Capital
of the above-named Company, and I hereby engage to accept the
sam or any less number, on the terms of the Prospectus, and
to pay the amount thereof, and sign the Deed of incorporation
as and when required by the Directors, mud subject to their
rules and regulations.
Name (in full)
Occupation

Addrens and data
hereres

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MELO,SRICGAEL
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(13)oinGgslaOadithic-cAnLes
horn 'I he Tempest), having been most successfully received,
will be given at the REGENT GALLERY; 69, Regent-street,
every evtniug at eight o'clock (Saturdays exceptee), and on
Saturday afternoons at 3 o'clock. Mr. Geo•ge tiucklaud will be
assisted is the vocal portion of the Entertainment by Miss Clad
Fraser.—Adunasiou Ss., 25., and Dress Stalls 3e. Box-otlice open
from 11 till 4.

I)AIaNi.:RSHIP.—A Finn engaged in the
1 Irish wool trmie, and with a large established connection,
are willing to admit, as PARTNER, a Gentleman having at
command a sum of 3,0001., required to extend the business of the
house. Principals only treated with, to whom the books of the
firm will be open for inspection. Communications to be ad-
dressed R 6, care of Mr. H. Greenwood, 18, Canning-place,
Liverpool.

hEANE'S TABLE fLEßY—celebrated
I_,l fur more than 1.;0 years—nuintAins an unrivalled reouta-
tiull fur eheaptieas and nrei•rete quality.—DEANE, DRAY, and
CO. (opening to the Alonuineut), Lundon•bndge. Eatablianed
A.D. 1700.

TEETH. —By her Majesty's Royal Letters
Patent.
THE PATENT PNEUMATIC PALATE,
for the Construction of Armin:nil Teeth.—Mesere. Mt.n.IURIDGE
and DAVIS, surgeuu•Deuubts to the Royal Family, 1., Old
llw•lington•street. Bouil-etreei, Patentees of the sell-sustaining
principle of fixing Artificial Teeth.— I'NbUMATILI
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rent physicians and suigeous of England and the principal
cities of the Continent, woo constantly favour them with their
distinguished recommendations, anti who consider their system
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nrniness and security in the mouth is attained, and the patient
enabled to properly perform the important operation of mastica-
tion, which is most essential to health It also renders the ar-
ticulation clear and distinct, and the unpleasant whistling so
long complained of impossible.—Thia to public ap akers is in-
valuable.

Messrs. MOGGRIDGE and DAVIS, Surgeon-Dentists to
the Royal Family, No. 13, OLD BUSLINUTON-STBEET,,
BON D-J I I:EET.

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Specially rewarded for its purity and efficacy by the Govern-
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OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS:

THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR OF HOLLAND.

1 have the h.•uour of bringing to your knowledge that it has
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(Signed) VAN Dita REIM.
To Dr. De Jongh at the Hague.

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