The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1865.

HEATH AND BRECON RAILWAY.
(New Railway in Swansea Valley—Further Capital—
Narrow Gauge on portions of South Wales and Swansea
Harbour Railways—Powers over those Railways—
Traffic Arrangement—Amendment of Acts.)
NOTICE A HEREBY GIVEN, That application is
intended to be made to Parliament, in the next Session,
for an Act for the following purposes, or some of them,
that is to say,
To enable the Neath and Brecon Railway Company,
(hereinafter called "the Company,") to make and main-
tain the following railway, with all proper and necessary
stations, works, and conveniences, connected therewith,
that is to say,
A railway commencing at a point about 220 yards, mea-
suring the same in a south-westerly direction from the
road over the Swansea Canal, leading to Ynistawe farm-
house, and terminating in the town and franchise of Swan-
sea, in the parish of Swansea ; at or near the southern termi-
nus of the Swansea Canal; and which intended railway
will pass from, in, through, or into the parishes and places of
Llangefelach and St. John-juxta-Swansea, and the town aud
franchise of Swansea, all in the county of Glamorgan.
And it is intended by the said Act to confer upon the
Company all necessary powers for effecting the purposes,
or some of the purposes, following (that is to say),
To deviate laterally from the lines of the intended works
to the extent shown on the plans hereinafter mentioned,
and also to deviate vertically from the levels shown on the
sections hereinafter mentioned.

To cross, stop up, alter, or divert, for the purposes of the
Act, and either temporarily or permanently, any turnpike
or other roads, highways, footpaths, streets, railways,
tramways, canals, aqueducts, streams, rivers, bridges,
sewers, drains, ways, and watercourses, within or adjoin-
ing to the aforesaid parishes and places, or any of them.
To purchase by compulsion and by agreement, lands,
houses, and hereditaments, for the purposes of the intended
works and of the Act, and to vary or extinguish any rights
or privileges connected with such lands, houses, and here-
ditaments ; to levy tolls, rates, and duties, upon or in re-
spect of the said intended railway and works ; to alter the
tolls, rates, and duties which the Company, and the other
Companies hereinafter mentioned, are authorised to take on
their respective lines; and to confer, vary, or extinguish
exemptions from the payment of such tolls, rates, and
duties. _ .

To raise additional capital for the purposes of the in-
tended Act, and for the general purposes of their under-
taking, by the creation of new, ordinary, or preference
shares, and by borrowing.
To lay down and maintain additional rails in, upon, and
over the South Wales Railway, between the point about 3
miles and 4 furlongs, where the intended railway crosses
the end of the canal-sidings of the said South Wales Rail-
way and the termini of that Railway at Swansea, and also
in, upon, and over such portion of the Swansea Harbour
Railway as does not already consist of mixed gauge, and
in, upon, and over the terminal and other stations, sidings,
works, and conveniences connected with those portions of
railway respectively, so as to adapt the same to the passage
of, and user by, rolling stock on the narrow gauge as well
as on the broad gauge.
And it is also intended by the said Act to empower the
Company, and the Great Western Railway Company, the
Vale of Neath Railway Company, the Swansea Vale Rail-
way Company,
i and the Llanelly Railway and Dock Com-
pany, to enter into and carry into effect contracts, agree-
ments, and arrangements for or with reference to the
maintenance, working, use, and management, by either of
the contracting Companies, of the railways, tramroads, and
works of the other of them, or any part thereof, and with
reference to the regulation ; management, and transmission
of the traffic thereon, the collection, payment, division, ap-
propriation, and distribution of the olls and other income
and profits arising therefrom ; the employment of officers
and servants, and the rents, payments, allowances, and
considerations, annual, periodical, or in gross, to be paid or
made by either of the contracting parties to the other or
others of them, and any incidental matters.
The intended Act will empower the Company, and all
Companies and persons using their authorised or intended
railways, or any part thereof, to run over, work, and use
with their engines, carriages, and waggons, and for the
purposes of traffic of every description, upon rates, pay-
ments, terms, and conditions, to be prescribed by the Act,
or (failing agreement) settled by arbitration, the following
railways and portion of railway, viz., the Swansea Harbour
Railway; so much of the South Wales. Railway as is
situate between the intended crossing before described and
the terminus thereof at Swansea, and the junction with
the Swansea Harbour Railway ; the Llanelly Railway
and Dock Company (Swansea Lines, Dock Branch) and
Extension to Mumbles ; the Vale of Neath, Swansea and
Neath Railway, the Swansea Vale Railway, and the
Oystermouth Railway; together with all terminal and other
stations, sidings, warehouses, buildings, booking and other
offices, approaches, watering-places, sheds, standing-room
for engines, shipping places, machinery, works and con-
veniences, water supplies, telegraph signals, and machi-
nery, in and upon those railways and portion of railway re-
spectively, and to require the Companies and persons own-
ing and working the said railways and portion of railway
respectively, to afford and render all facilities and services
for the purposes aforesaid.
And it is proposed, so far as may bo necessary for all
or any of the purposes of the intended Act, to alter,
amend, extend, vary, and enlarge or repeal, all or some
of the powers and provisions of the several local and
personal Acts of Parliament following, or some of them,
viz., 25 and 26 Vic., cap. 193 ; 26 and 27 Vic., cap. 130 :
and 27 and 28 Vic., cap. 316, relating to the Neath and
Brecon Railway ; 9 and 10 Vic. cap. 341, and all other
Acts relating to the Vale of Neath Railway Company ; 18
and 19 Vic., cap. 60 • 19 and 20 Vic., cap. 95 ; 22 Vic., cap.
2 • and 24 and 25 Vic., cap. 162, relating to the Swansea
Vale Railway ; 5 and 6 Will. IV, cap. 107 ; and 26 and 27
Vic., cap. 168 ; and all other Acts relating to the Great
Western Railway Company; 44 George the Third, cap.
55, relating to the Oystermouth Railway, or tramroad ;
the Llanelly Railway and Dock Act, 1853, and all other
Acts relating to the Llanelly Railway and Dock Company ;
and the Swansea Harbour Act, 1854, and any other Acts
relating to the Swansea Harbour Trustees and their under-
takings.
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And it is also proposed to incorporate, in the said Act,
all or some of the provisions of "The Companies Clauses
Consolidation Act, 1845," " The Companies Clauses Act,
1863," " The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,"
" The Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts Amendment Act,
1860," " The Railway Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,"
and "The Railways Clauses Act, 1863."
Duplicate plans and sections of the intended railway and
workss with a book of reference to such plans, and a copy of
this Notice, as published in the London Gazette, together
with a published map having the lines of railway deli-
neated thereon, will bo deposited, on or before the
30th November, in the present year, with the Clerk
of the Peace for the county of Glamorgan, at his
Office in Cardiff ; and a copy of so much of the said
plans, sections, and book of reference as relates to each of
the parishes in or through which the said railway and
works will be made, together with a copy of the said
Gazette. Notice will be deposited, on or before the 30th
day of November, in the present year, with the Parish
Clerk of each such parish, at his residence, and as regards
any extra-parochial place, with the Parish Clerk of some
immediately-adjoining parish, at his residence.
Printed copies of the intended Act will be deposited in
the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons, on or
before the 23d day of December next.
Dated this sixteenth day of November, 1865.
JAMES KEMP THORNE,
Neath, Solicitor.
WILLIAM BELL,
26, Duke-street, Westminster,
Parliamentary Agent.

STODARE.-256Ta REPRESENTATION.—
MEd FRE OF MYSTERY, EGYPTIAN HALL.

MARVELS in MAGIC and VENTRILOQUISM.—Great
sensation created by the SPHINX: a Mystnry; the IN-
S TANTANEOUS GROWTH of FLOWER TREES, and
the real INDIAN BASK r TRICK, as only performed by
Colonel STODARE.

Every evening at 8 ; Wednesday and Saturday at 3. Stalls
at Mitchell's. Old Bond•street, and Box-office, Egyptian
Ball. Admission, ls., 25.; stalls, 3s.

"Almost miraculous."—Vide Times, April 18, 18(5.

eiHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall,
Piccadilly.—The only original and veritable legitimate
CHRISTY MINSTRELS Ever; Night at 8, Wednesdays and
Saturdays at 3 and 8, retaining all the specialties and old
favourites who originally created the reputation of the Com-
pany. Fauteuils, 55.; stalls, 3s ; unreserved seats, 2s. ; gal-
lery,
Is. Tickets at Austin's, 28, Piccadilly.--Manager, Mr.
Frederick Burgess.

T H X F O R D.
6, OXFORD STREET, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).

THE MARKET GIRLS byJ.
Offenbach, and a New CANTATA, by 3leyerbeer, wi.l be
performed by Misses Russell, Barrie, Walmealey, Tyrell,
Ellen Reid, Madame Maria, and ➢liss Fitz Henry ; Messrs.
A. St. Albyn, Husk, Evans, W. Williams, and Senors Tivoli
and Spagnoll, with full Band and Chorus, THIS EVENING.

CANTERBURY HALL.
ENTIRE CHANGE OF ENFERTAINSIENT.

New Operatic Selections, Ballets, arc ; Burlesque Comedy,
, by all the most accomplished artistes, including Arthur
Lloyd, Mrs. and Mr. Randall, Mons. Alexandre, Messrs.
Duriah and Davies, thettisteva Dashwood, 0., Stu., EVERY
F VENING.

The New Fntertainment for CHRISTMAS, entitled RI
TUM TI TUM, will eclipse everything yet produced.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
Baker-street.
NEW ADDITIONS.—FuII length Portrait Models of the
late LORD PALMERSTON, PRESIDENT JOHNSON,
and GENERAL GRANT.
Open from 11 a.m. till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Children under 10, half-price ;
Extra Rooms, Sixpence.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
Piceadilli.—GßAND CASINO and MUSICAL PRO-
MENADE is NOW OPEN for the Season.

Musical Director, M. LUIGI CURTL
Manager, Mons. GARNET.

The Band plays nightly Selections from the most eminent
Composers.
Doors open at half-past 8 o'clock; close five minutes to 12
o'clock.

Admission to Promenade, One Shilling.

THE WELLINGTON, ST. JAMES'S-STREET.
Set DINNERS served, at five minutes' notice, from Four to
Nine p.m., at 2s. 6d., 3s 6d., 4s. 6d , and 78. each.
ELEGANT SALOON DINING ROOMS,
for Ladies and Families.
Prices on the "Carte" moderate.
Private Rooms for Large or Small Partier.
Reading, Smoking, and Billiard Rooms.

BREAKFASTS and LUNCHEONS.
D. CAMERON.
Entrances-160, Piccadilly, and 49, St. James's-str:ct.

STARCH MANUFACTURERS
TO H. R. H. THE PRINCESS OP WALES.
GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH,
Used in the Royal Laundry,

AND AWARDED TIIE PRIZE MEDAL, 1862.
Sold by all Grocers, Chandlers, &c. &o.
WOTHERSPOON and CO., Glasgow and London.

TEETH, 2s. 6d. each.—ESKELL and SONS'
improvements in the construction of AR 1 IFICIAL
T tETII enable them to make and fit in from One to a Set,
in a few hours, without springs or wires, and without ex-
tractions, upon the principle of self-adhesion, painless and
perfect. Guaranteed, or no fee accepted. Sets, 4! ; stop-
pings, 2s. ad.; extractions, ls.; and the same moderate fixed
prices throughout. Punctuality in all appcintments, and
constant daily attendance from Nine to Eight o'clock. Their
Treatise on the Teeth, with printed terms, and all consulta-
tions free, on application to ESKELL and SONS, 13, rich-
borne-street, Quadrant. Note the address.

NOTHING ThIPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and
mostusef ul invention of the day, AGUA AMARELLt.
Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., Bull Wharf, Ro-
therhithe, London, Perfumers to her Majesty, respect-
fully offer to the public this truly marvellous fluid. which
gradually restores tne human hair to its pristine hue—no
matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the
properties of dyes ' it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the
system, and when the hair is once restored one application
per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one g tunes per
bottle, or in half bottles, lOs. 61. Testimonials from artistes
of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted re-
spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John
Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal
Highness the Princess of lales.

RUPTURE'S.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(PERFT;,'TED AND EXHIBITED IN TILE GREAT
KXIIIBITIONS OF ISSI AND 1,382), is allowed by upwards Of
Two iiur_dred Medical Gentlemen to oe the most effective
nvention in the curative treatment of 11 E It. N 1 A.
The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects,
is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the
body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the
Sloc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease
Ind closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn
during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the
truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the dr-
am-al erence of the body, two inches below the hips, being
sent to the manufacturer,
Mr. WHITE, 228, Piocadilly.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. bd., and 31s. Bd. Postage, Is.
Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. Bd. Postage, is Bd.
An Umbilical Truss, 425. ands2s. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d.

Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Poet-
office, Piccadilly.

NEW PATENT
ELASTIC STOCKINGS,
KNEE-CAPS, Am, for Varicose Veins and all cases ot
Veaknees and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, das. They are
porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on
like an ordinary stocking. Price is. 6c1., 76. 6c1., 10s., to 16s.
eLdh. Postage 6d.

JOllisi WHITE. Manufacturer. 228. Mud'llT.

NOTICE.-THE BRITISH ARMY AND
NAVY REVIEW for JANUARY, t 866, will be pub-
lished by Mr. Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.
Price One Shi ling.
8, New Burlingtor.-street, Dee. 4, 1665.

EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS will be in
EVERYBODY'S HANDS, and in EVERYBODY'S
MOUTH EVERYWHERE, on the 20th December.
London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.

Just published, price Oct., sent by post for seven stamps,
11,11VIMEL'S ALMANACK for 1866, richly
illustrated and delightfully perfumed. An accept-
able present to friends at home and abroad. Sold by all the
trade.—RI3IMEL, Perfumer to 11.11.11. the Princess of
Wales, 98, Strand; 12R, Regent-street; and 24, Cornhill,
London; and 17, Boulevard des Italicns, Paris,

ROYAL NAVAL, MILITARY, and
GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY (Esta-
blished A.D. 1837. under Royal Patronage), 17, Waterleo-
place, London, tz.W.
ARTHUR R. lINHILTON, Secretary.
Agents wantet in towns not yet represented.

WINSLOW HALL, Winslow, Bucks, having
been recently opened and fitted with requisites for
the care and comfort of the INSANE. the proprietor, Dr.
BOISRAGON, announces that he has transferred his Estab-
lishment from Birmingham to the above desirable residence,
easily accessible, and distant from London about an hour
and a-half by the London and North-Western line, and fitty
minutes from Oxford. Attached to the mansion, situated on
a sandy soil, and commanding an extensive and pleasing
prospect, are garden, meadow, plantation, and recreation
grounds. For terms and forms of admission address the
proprietor.

CHOC OLATE.-MENIER'S FRENCH.

CHOCOLAT-MENIER, for Breakfast.

CHOCOLAT-DENIER is pure, wholesome, and
delicious.

MENIER'S FRENCH CHOCOLATE.
Warehouse, 23. Henrietta-street, Covent-garden.
Sold everywhere.

DEFRIES and SONS beg to call the special
to • attention of Merchants and the Trade to their
NEW PATENT ASTRA BURNER,
With Circular Wick,
which for simplicity of construction, great brilliancy of light,
perfect combustion. and its entire freedom from heat, sur-
passes everything that has yet been introduced.

A STRA LAMPS can be obtained from the
1114:TROPOLITAN LIGHT COMPANY, 4t7, Strand,
and from all Ironmongers and Lamp Warehouses in Town
and Country; and the Patentee, 16 and 17, Commercial-
street, WhitechapeL

ASTRA, PETROLEUM, and KEROSINE
LAMPS on SHOW. (New Designs.)

ASTRA (Patent)
5),e,,,, for MINERAL

AS TR A LAM P.—Five Hundred NEW
PATTERNS for the Season now on Show.

TABLE GLASS. ENGRAVED AND CUT.
T DEF RIES and SONS,
P.! • 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-STREET.

TAVERN AND HOTEL GLASS.
Newest Patterns, Correct Measure.
JDEFRIES and SONS,
• 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET.

ALEXANDRA DINNER SERVICES,
For 12 Persons, XL 18s. 6d.
BREAKFAST and TEA SERVICES
•In great variety, £1 Is.
T DEFRIES and SONS,
tl • 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-bTREET.

CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS,
In the Grecian and Venetian Designs.
T DEFRIES and SONS,
• 16 and 17, CO SIDIERCIAL-ST REET.

BRONZED AND ORMOLU CHANDELIERS,
New designs, for the Dining-room.
JDEFRIES and S ONS,
• 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET.

CRYSTAL LAMPS AND WALL LIGHTS
(Regiatercd) for India.
tDEFRIES and SONS,
• 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET.

CLUB, MESS, AND FURNISHING ORDERS
for the above Goods promptly executed.
Works—LONDON and BIRMINGHAM.
T DEFRIES and SONS,
16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET.

T DEFRIES and SONS
ti • Supply Merch :nts with Pattern Books Free.

QPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in
ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHAR IDES 0 IL. which speedily
produces whiskers and thickens hair. 3s. 6d, ss. 6d., and Ms.
M..; sent free for 54, 84, and 141 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248,
High Holborn, London.

WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured
in one day by using ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO.
This preparation gradually dissolves the corn in a few hours,
removing the very root. Price 4s , sent by post for 60 stamps.
—248, High Holborn, London.

ITAIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn,
London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls
Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold
at 3s. 6d., bs. 6d., and 10s. 6d. ; sent free for 51, 81, and 144
stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, is. 6d.. or 20 stamps.

GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.—
ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour
immediately it is used. It is permanent, and perfectly na-
tural in effen. Price 3s. ed , ss. 6J.. and 10s. ed. ; sent by
post for 54, E 4, and 144 stamps.

HAIR DESTROYER, 248, High Holborn,
London.—ALEX.`,ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes
without effect to the skin, superfluous hair from the face.
neck, and arms. 3s. 6d., 55. 6d.. and 10s. Od. ; sent the same
day as ordered by post for 54, 81, and 144 stamps.