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'PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
H. C-ilaY, Esq. D. Maclean Esq.
• Esq, Lieut.-CoL 'Moody, R. E.
s.a.nn Harman, Esq. Thomas S. Robinson, Esql
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With power to add to their number.
- ENGINEER—J. U. Rastrick, Esq.
IcEßS—Messrs. Ladbroke and Co., London; Surrey, Kent,
,nand Sussex Branch Bank, and Henty and Co., Horsham.
tierroes—Sweet, Sutton, Thurlow, and Ewens, Basinghall-
street, London; G. and 11. Faithful, Brighton.
Szcateraity—Mr. H. Dean.
lath Railway, only 10 miles in length, commences at the
'Pe mile of iiie London and Brighton Railway, in the parish of
and runs through Charlwood, Crawley, Held, Beetling,
-gd Rusper, and terminates in the town of Horsham.
The nature of the country through which the Railway passes
7 ,agricultural, :the land not of kvery valuable description; and
"lough it terminates in the centre of the town of Horsham, it
destroys but few buildings.
The gradients are favourable, the steepest being33o feet,
°LI° feet in a mile. The works are light, the deepest cutting
4- exceeding 24 feet; the heaviest embankment not exceeding
refs3°fet, and these only occur in one place. The works upon the
ntler of the line are easy, several miles running upon the
s ef the ground.
kn,;"" agriculturalfimportance of the town of Horsham is well
;:flt, and such as fully to entitle it to the conveniences and ad-
alttgel af
, a Railway communication with the metropolis; and,
towatr,,,,it is not intended to carry this Railway beyond the
nig nersham, yet it will ensure the traffic of the surroundlia
This trafficavas fully investigated before the Par-
liors-litary Committee on the rejected Brighton Line, by way of
to ben'am., and the result fully proved the pecuniary advantages
whop derived from a proper Line of Railway to Horsham ;
_l,
ais remembered that the present project accomplisher, by
R0),21,1aY or 10 miles, all that could have been obtained forpublic
eixu-j,''are and West Sussex by a Railway of 30 miles, the
fro,:nt fail to be convinced that an ample return will be derived
re the capital expended in this undertaking.
kittProvisionalC In-
Submitting this Railway to.the public, the o
ae call the particular attenticn of the proprietors of thel
btotitton Line to the vast increase of traffic which will thus ie
oPon their Railway, which must be conducive to the
tee -•'1`11 of that Company, and render this undertaking one do-
:pg of their cordial support.,
the requisite Parliamentary notices have been given, and
el,. Pans deposited, for an application to Parliament is the
The
Session.
2001-11 Provisional Committee have stated the Capital to be
Ttoh.e,ooov
La/r.is;e,bfueteltihneis considerably exceeds the estimated coats
Unglit"aTe adopted this course to meet any contingency that
fully satisfied that a traffic can be shown
a much greater outlay. The Deposit of 31. per Share
Intieint7. in consequence of the new Standing Orders of Par-
All •
joizedaPplications for Shares must be made by letter in the sub-
easy bef°,.rrn (Post paid), to the Solicitors (of whom Prospectuses
tem Had), and no such application will be reeeiced after Ss-
, aY, the 16th instant.
e4:dne, January 25, 1839.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE LONDON AND HOR-
SHAM RAILWAY COMPANY.
Gentlemen,
eertitTintlest to become a Subscriber fir Shares in this un-
te tfle, g, and ree to take such Shares as shall. be !Bet
Pro, and to Pay the Deposit thereon, in conformity with the
exeePeetus dated London 'the 25th of January, 1839, and to
wh
flute the Parliamentar Contract and Subscribers' Agreement
* shall be requiredyso to do.
• The cbl.aT, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
sizwea ristian and Surnames, with Date and Address, to be
nY the Applicant ]

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fixed into the cavity of the ear is soft and easy, and not more percep-
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whisper at a public assembly is heard with distinctness.
The same name of Voice Conductor," quoted from the Messrs.
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having a large pair of horns projecting from the ears; besides which
the serious inflammation they cause, and a buzzing noise in the head.
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SALE OF SUPERIOR WINES.
MR. GEORGE ROBINS is instructed to
offer to unreserved SALE by AUCTION at his Great
Rooms in Covent Garden, on SATURDAY, February 23d, at
Twelve,
A CELLER, including some remarkable fine WINES, the
property of a Gentleman high in his official vocation, from whose
private cellars they will be delivered. It comprehends •
SIX THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED BOTTLES,
in which will be included
3,600 Bottles of Sherry, pale, brown, and gold,
650 Ditto of East India Sherry.
245 Ditto of very old Amontelado Sherry.
1,250 Ditto of fine Old Port, from three to five years in bottle,
Thompson and Croft's Shipping.
320 Ditto of excellent East India Madeira.
350 Ditto of Moselle, Hock, Claret, and Champagne.
Mr. Robins ventures to state to his friends that it is an op-
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Samples may be obtained direct from the tellers, ten days
antecedent to the sale, by application to Mr. George Robin's
offices, Covent Garden.

Captain,Marryat denies that he has accepted the
command of the Brazilian Navy, or that it was ever offered to him.

LETTER OF TURPIN, THE HIGHWAYMAN.-
The Doncaster Gazette states that the accompanying letter of the
celebrated Turpin is now in the possession of Richard Littlewood,
Esq., of Cantley, near Doncaster, having been handed down in the
family since about the year 1730. The story related by the father
is as follows :—Mr. Littlewood's grandfather at that time occupied
the farm at Nether Cantley, new the home farm of John Walbanke
Childers, F,sq. Early one morning, a labourer in his employ, on
going into one of the barns to thrash, a short distance from the
homestead, found a piece of paper, on which he said was some
writing, and on giving it into his master's hand, Mr. Littlewood
began to read, " I, William Turpin, highwayman," the man quietly
exclaimed, Hey, master, what has Turpin been here?" which
caused Mr. Littlewood to refrain reading any more, and endeavour
to draw the man's attention from the subject. On afterwards look-
ing round the barn, he observed the marks of a horse having entered
it, which induced him to order the man not to thrash there again fur
a day or two. Turpin was very much in the habit of frequenting
the neighbourhood of Cantley, and particularly a wood about three
miles from the village called Gate-wood. The same Mr. Littlewood
had seen him more than once on the open commons; and on one
occasion was very near him, mounted on a beautiful grey mare. It
will be observed that Turpin signs his name William, though he is
generally known by the name of Dick Turpin. He was hanged at
York ia the year 1739. The following is a verbatim copy of the
letter :—" I, William Turpin, was drove in here by stress of weather
and fear of being discovered but I desire of you dear friend, you who
belongs this Barn, not to make any discovery of any body being
for

here, for I am forced to stay in this neighbourhood a considerable

time, and shall not do much more mischief than I have done you
this Night to any body hereabouts. you perhaps have heard that
is a . . .

there great reward offered for taking me, but let not that make you

endeavour to seek my ruin who means you no harm, perhaps I may
be forced to lye another Night."
GOING
What is ,
TO CHURCH.—s`
bow
the pupil of a medical friend of ours one morning to his master, on
their way to a place of worship, " what is the use of going to church
when
you only hear the same thing over again?" " What is the
use," replied the master, of breakfasting, dining, and supping every
day, when you only eat the same sort of things over again ?"—The
Churchman. _ _ _

PRUDENT STIPULATION.—An elderly maiden
lady, with a pride above being dependant upon wealthier relations,
retired daily to her chamber to pray for "a comfortable competency,"
which' she always explained in these words, and with a more ele_
vated voice:—" And lest, 0 Lord, thou shculdst not understand
what I mean, I mean four hundred a-year, paid quarterly.—" Black.
wood.

Most of our readers, probably unversed in the dry
technicalities of legal phraseology, may have no accurate
idea of what is, or rather was, intended by the terms
" Writ of Right ;" and may therefore have no kind
of sympathy in the feeling of something like mournful
retrospection with which we prefix thereto the mono-
syllable " last." To them it will be interesting to learn
that among the oldest forms of our law there ex:sted a
proceeding—inte educed into this country by the Nor-
man Conqueror, but having descended from an age so
remote, that of its origin historic research has disco.-
vered no memorial—that this proceeding, thus derived
from an unknown antiquity, was provided for the deci-
sion, among other cases, of questions between two rival
claimants to real property, and that the manner in which
the Gothic :barbarism "of our ancestors tried these
" writs of right," as they were called, was " by battel,"
according to the following description, furnished by the
old chroniclers of those times. The "tenant," that is, the
holder of the disputed property, and the " demandant"
or the new claimant--appointed champions, who, on a cer-
tain day, came into a space of ground sixty feet square, en-
closed with lists ; en one side a Court erected for the
Judges of the Common Pleas, who. attended in their
scarlet robes, and a Bar for the Learned Sergeants of
411 e law. The Court sat at sunrise, and proclamation
being made for the parties, their champions were intro-
duced by two knights in coats of armour, with red san-
dals, bare-legged from the knee downwards, hare-headed,
and with arms bare to the elbow's: - The weapons allowed
them were batons, or staves, of an ell long, and a four-
cornered leather target : so that death rarely ensued in
their combats. They then swore each to the truth of
the cause they undertook, and took an oath against
sorcery and enchantment,—" Hear this,ye Justices, that
I have this day neither cat, drunk, nor have upon me
bone, stone, ne grass, nor any enchantment, sorcery, ne
witchcraft whereby the law of God may be abused, or
the law of the devil exalted. So help me God and his
Saints." The " battel" then began, and the combatants
were bound to fight "till the stars appeared in the
evening:" and if the champion of the " tenant" could re-
tain his ground till then,he was allowed to have supported
his right ;.if either party yielded, that is, cried " craven"
tt ith that fatal word his cause was lost, and the recreant
champion was for ever disgraced. The piety and wis-
dom of our ancient English Legislators soon displaced
this remnant of Pagan superstition, and substituted for
the " trial by battel" the " grand assize." This form
of proceeding, however, introduced by Henry 11., was
only an alternative for the other, and the barbarous
mode which was, so lately as the reign of Elizabeth—
indeed we are not sure but it was much later—demanded
and granted, and which certainly was not by law abolished
till comparatively a recent period. By the substituted
proceeding the Sheriff summoned four " Knights," who
selected twelve others, to try with them, as " Knights
recognitors," the " grand assize." With the progress
of time, a " march of intellect" advanced, which eventually-
swept away altogether this relic of old English law, as
too "clumsy" and inconvenient" for the proud "spirit of
the age," and last session a legislative enactment pro-
nounced the doom of its abolition without a dissentient
voice, but with at least a few regretful sighs from those
who, like us, cling with reverentiel attachment to such
legacies from our ancestors ; and though our reason
might yield a reluctant acquiescence to the cold demands
of modern " improvement," it was with a melancholy
feeling of regret at the destruction of this venerable
memorial of the olden time that we witnessed the trial
of the last " Writ of Right."
The circumstances of the trial itself vested it with
no ordinary interest. They were really romantic. The
possessor of an immense estate : the lord of a princely
revenue : which from father to son had for three gene-
rations been transmitted in the uninterrupted line of in-
heritance, was suddenly disturbed by a rival claim—
within a few hours of the expiration of the sixty years
beyond which the law barred any such pretension—set
up by—a poor, unknown, unfriended, mariner ! The
strange novelty of the case excited interest, and enlisted
on the side of the claimant a host of eager allies, who
enabled him to carry on the process of litigatioc for
several years, till the last, the solemn appeal, was made
to this ancient form of trial, and in the Common Pleas,
at Westminster, was the " Grand Assize," to be held.
Throngs of curious spectators flocked to behold the
last exhibition of that mode of legal investigation, which
an amended jurisprudence had substituted for the fierce
championship of barbarous times, and which was now in its
turn to be sacrificed as unworthy of the refinement of the
19th century. As though to do honour to the obse-
quies of this antique vestige of the past, there was en
almost unparalleled array of legal taleni. engaged in the
contest, and a spectacle of intellectual gladiatorship
which was rarely surpassed. There were on one side—
to advocate the tenant's right—the authority, the learn-
ing, the experience of the Attorney-General, the bold-
ness and dexterity of Wilde, the acuteness and never
sleeping watchfulness of Kel'y ; and to support the
demandant's claim, were the persuasive eloquence of
Talfourd, and the penetrating acumen, the varied and
splendid abilities of Follett.
For the case of the tenant deeds, and other unques-
tionable documents, were put in, which clearly traced
the history of the estate, from the first owner, a learned
sergeant of the law, in the reign of Charles 11., to
his grandson, who, not knowing his heir-at-
law, bequeathed it to a friend in the event of the
heir not coming forward. The heir did not ap-
pear, and the lineal descendant of the legatee
now held the estate. Every one looked with intense
anxiety for the demandant's case, to hear how, through
the lapse of centuries, he could trace his connection with
the original possessor. His case was opened by Talfourd,
who, in those musical accents in which lie delivers the
enthusiastic poetry of his eloquence, first paid " the pas-
sing tribute of a sigh " to the memory of that ancient
relic of the English jurisprudence which had ruthlessly
been consigned to destruction, and then detailed the in-
tricate and lengthened genealogy whereby the claimant's
ancestry was traced up to a time contemporaneous with
the original owner's possession of the estate, then car-
ried upwards in the ascending line till it reached the
common forefathers of both, among the obscure shep-
herds of North Wales ; and, lastly, descended to the
founder of the disputed inheritance.

Numerous were the links required to fill up this long
arid complicated chain of ancestry, the absence of any
one of which would have broken the connection of the
whole. Never was the slow progress of legal demon-
stration watched with more lynx•eyed vigilance, and sub-
jected to a severer scrutiny. There were deeds ransacked
from dusty receptacles of ancient records almost illegible
from antiquity, and there were parish registers," the short
but simple annals of the poor "—eagerly sought for and
joyfully discovered amidst the long undisturbed memo-
rials of village churches, and many of those intermina-
ble pedigrees, wherein the tenacious "pride of birth,"
so characteristic of the ancient Britons, delights to
track out an illustrious descent—through the Lloyds and
Llewellyns of many generations, by means of the faint
glimmering of traditionary light, or the scattered scraps
of imperfect information, sedulously gleaned from for-
gotten monuments or obscure inscriptions,—to periods
when the fabulous mingles with and veils the historical ;
and there were aged, but hale and hearty men, venera-
ble gray haired patriarchs, who bad been brought from
the rural retirement of a century to tax their feeble
memories for incidents which bygone generations had
witnessed. At last, from all these multiform sources,
there was constructed a foundation on which to bsse
the claimant's alleged heirship. But then did the
counsel for the " tenant" resolve to strike one
bold and unexpected blow at one of the principal
links in the lengthened chain of genealogical evi-
dence, and they impeached the credibility of one
of the most important of those silent testimonials
which had been gathered from the muniments of a re-
mote hamlet—bringing forward witnesses who declared
a deed, on which hung the whole line of ancestral
descent, to have been forged. And then it was that
the acute penetration and consummate skill which have
gained Sir NV m. Follett such deserved admiration for
an almost matchless talent in the eliciting of evidence—
were put to the severest test ; rising, as he did, with
the full conviction that on the result of his cross-exami-
nation of the chief of these witnesses, produced, as they
had been, at the eleventh hour, and with no longer
notice for preparation than was afforded by their short
examination in chief—depended altogether the in-
terests of his persevering and hitherto unsuccessful
client. Upon his brow were visibly depicted, along with
the intensest anxiety, the most profound thought and
the firmest resolution. The witness seemed to shrink
from the coming contest, in which ho would have to
struggle with this great advocate on behalf of the testi-
mony lie had just given. A series of questions
were put to him—so subtle in their nature, so
artfully connected, and in such rapid succession that,
though a man of education and ability, the effect was
anon apparent in
his momentarily increasing bewilder-
ment ; and this, let it be observed, without anything
like browbeating or menacing ; artifices to which this
accomplished counsellor never descends ; but simply
and entirely through the force of a superior intellect
grappling with a lesser mind, involving it in labyrinths
of subtle interrogatories as to the reasons of the opi-
nions which had been expressed ; and hurrying it along
through a maze of quickly-following inquiries, amidst
which it was soon hopelessly entangled, canting the
strength of grasp and clearness of perception to keep
op with its powerful and acute antagonist, till at
length, when the self-possession of the witness was

* The well-know❑ case of Davis v. Lowndes" which was
so fully reported in " The Sun" at the time it was tried
(after the term before last).