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MESSRS. NICOLL, REGENT-STREET.-
In England, or from France and Germany, the best talent
in cutting, workmanship, and materials, are secured for the use of
gentlemen by this dim, who combine excellence with economy, as
illustrated in the PATENT TWO GUINEA PALETOT, sold in the
country and colonies by their recognised Agents, but in London
ONLY at 22, CORNIIILL, and the principal depot in the centre of
REGENT-STREET, viz., Nos. 114, 116, 118, and 120.

THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.-
At the Twelfth pm lic drawing, on the 17th inst., in Free-
mason's Halt, amongst all the uncompleted sharehilders not pre-
viously entitled by drawing or by seniority, the following 89 rights
of choice on the society's estate were drawn:-
Shares Nos. 6265, 266, 6267. grouped; 552, 5567, 1574, 3871,
3872, 3873, grouped; 1656, 16 7, 1658, grouped; 29,3, 2974, grouped;
1281, 1282, 1406. ovuped ; 4806, 1557; 2888, 2889, 2890, grouped;
691; 3581, 3582, 3583, grouped; e 45, 4678, 3762, 4279, 4571, 3556,
3905; 2863, 2864, 2865, grouped; 559. 6143; 2984, 2985. grouped;
5929 ;16 9, 161• grouped , 4913, 3934; 7 52, 7053, grouped ; 3200,
3202, grouped ; 4569, 4570, grouped 1130, 1131, grouped ; 510, 1220,
6011, 4345 ; 3059, 3060, 3061, grouped; 1 i 20, 6483, 3156, 5727 ; 4383,
438 i, grouped ; 6843, 6389, 3945, 6644. 1878, 5535, 5810, 5353, 6781,
1501, 3074, 3118, grouped ; 4779, 4780, grouped ; 6524, 1644 ; 5601,
5602, 5603, grouped.
The following numbers, 1679, 2413, 5546, and 2452, were also
drawn ; but the hold, s thereof being in arrear, lose the benefit of
this drawing.
The tbilowing 45 share members will also be placed on the order of
right by seniority of membership:-
Nos. 388. 475, 476, 477, 478, 480, 481, 483, 485, *486, 487, 489, 490,
491, 492, 493, 494, 495, 496, 497, 500, 501, 503, 505, 506, 507, 508,
509, 511. 512, 513, 514 515, 516, 518, 519, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526,
529, 531. 532, and 533.
The Th►rteenth Public Drawing is fixed for Thursday, December
15th, at three o'clock, at the Freemason's Hall, Great Queen-street,
being the Fall Quarterly General Meeting, and the Annual Meetimr
of the Member', to receive the report and statement of accounts of
the Executive Committee, and for general purposes.
All shares taken before the final numbers be deposited in the
wheel, cn the 15th of Dk.cemser, will participate in the advantages
of this drawing. For prosp.•ctuses, rules, plans of the estates, and
shares, application may be made to the agents sr members in town
and country, or at the Offices, 33, Norfolk-street, strand, London, to
CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary.

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GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, BERKS
AND HANTS, &c.
(BRANCH to CONNECT the BERKS and HANTS RAILWAY
with the MAIN LINE of the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY,
near READI.G; FURTHER POWmIRS for COMPLETION of
the WILTS, SOMERSET, and WEYMOUTH RAILWAY ;
ALTERATION of TOLLS ; INCREASE of CAPITAL; AMEND-
MENT of ACTS.)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That application is in-
tended to be made to Parliament in the next Session, for
an Act to enable the Great Western Railway Company to
make and mat taln a connecting line of railway between
the Great Western Railway, at or near the distance-post
thereon denotim 36% miles from London, in the parish of
Tilehurst, in the county of Berks, and the Berks and Hants
line of the Gr at We Aem Railway, at or near the dis
tance-post on the said Berks and Bents line, denoting 36% nines
from London, in the parish of St. Marys, Reading, in the same county,
which said intended railway will be situate within the parishes of
Tilehurst and -t. Mary's, ir eadine, in the county of Berks:
And it is intended by such act to ena,le the Great Western Rail.
way Company to purchase lands and buildings by compulsion or
agreement, for the purposes of the railway and works so proposed
to be constructed as aforesaid; and also to pu chase, compulsorily,
and use for the purioses of their railway, certain other lands
adjoining their railway and lyng near to and on the north side of
the Reading station, and on the west side of the Caversham road,
in the parishes of Saint Mary's, Reading, and Saint Lawrence,
Reading, in the county of Berks, or one of them; and also to enable
such company to levy tolls, rates, and duties for and in respect of
the said intended railway and works, and to grant exemptions
from such tolls, rates, and duties :

And it is intended by such act to extend the time for the com-
pletion of the railways between Frome and Weymouth, and between
Warminster and Salisbury, authorised by the Wilts, Somerset, and
Weymouth Railway Act, 1845, and the Wilts, Somerset, and Wey-
.. out h wa) Deviation Act, 1847; and also to revive the powers tor
the compul, ory purchase of certain of the lands required for,and for the
completion of, the following railways, and the stations, works, and
conveniences connected therewith, or some of them : (that is to say)
So much of the railway authorised by the Wilts, -omerset,
and Weymouth Railway Amendment Act, 1846, and the Wilts,
Somerset, and Weymouth Railway Deviation Act, 1847, as lies
between a point at or near Kingston House, in the parish of
Bradford, in the county of Wilts, and the line of the Great Wes-
tern Railway near the village, in the parish of Bathampton,
in the county of Somerset; which railway will pass through and
into the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial places of
Bradford, Winsley, Westwood, and Limpley Stolle, in the county of
Wilts, and Fre-htord, Monk ton, Combe, Claverton, and
Bathampton, in the aunty of Somerset and so much of the rail-
way authorised by the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway
Act. 1845, and the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway
Amendment Act, 846, as lies between the village of Holt, in the
county of Wilts, and a point at or near the stables of the tear Inn,
in the town of Devizes, in the same county; which railway wit;
pas, through or into the several parishes. townships, an i extra-pa-
rochial places of Bradford, Broughton Gifford, %I elksham, Se..end
Rowde, Poulshot. Pottenie, and Saint John the Baptist, Devizes, in
th.• said county of Wilts:
And it is intended by such act to vary, repeal, or extinguish all
existing rights eir privileges in any manner connected with the lands
and buildings proposed to be purchased or taken, or which would in
any mariner impede or interfere with the construction, maintenance,
or use of the said railway and works; and to confer other rights and
privileges :
. . .

- And it tt intended by such act to alter, divert, or stop up all turn-
pike and other ro ids, railways, tramways, aqueducts, canals,
streams, and river., witoin or adjoining to the aforesaid parishes, or
any of them, with which it may be necessary to interfere in the
construction of the ,aid ,ailway and works :

And notice is hereby given, that maps, plans, ant sections of the
railway, land, and works, first hereinbe,Ore described, together with
books of reference to such plans, and also a copy of this notice as pith-
fished in the London • azeae, wilt be deposited on beiore the 30th day, f
November, in the present year, with the Clerk of the Peace for the
county of iterks, at his office in Abingdon; and notice is hereby
gives, that maps, plans. and sec. ions of the railways, the powers for
the purchase of land for an., for the construction of which are pro-
posed to be revived, togetie_r with books of reference to such plans,
and also a copy of this notice as published in the London Gazette,
will be deposited on or bel'ere the 30th day of November, in the
present year, with the Clerk of the Peace for the County of
Wilts, at his office at Wilton, in the seine county, and with the
Clerk of the Peace for the county of Somerset, at his office at Wells,
in the said county; and that a copy of so much of the said plans,
sections, and books of reference as relates to each of the parishes in
or through which the said railways, Inds, and works respectively,
are, or will be situated; and also a copy of the said Gazette notice,
will be deposited on or before the 30th day of November, in the pre-
sent year, with the Parish Clerk of each such parish, at his residence;
And it is also intended by such act to enable the Great Western
Railw ty Company to apply to the .mrposes thereof or some of them,
such portion of their corporate funds as they shall think expedient;
and to raise a fart. er sum of money by the creation and issue of
new shares in their undertaking, either with or without preference
or priority in the payment of interest or dividends, and by borrowing
on in,,rtgage or bond :
And it is also proposed by the said intended act to alter the
tolls, rates, and charges now leviable or d -mendable upon the
Great Western Railway or some part or parts thereof, and to
authorise the levying of other tolls, rates, and charges upon the said
railway; and to alter, amend, extend, and in part repeal certain of
the provisions of the Acts affecting the Great Western Railway Com •
patty hereinafter mentione.t, relative to toe levying of tolls rates,
and charges upon, or in respect of, the use of the Great Western
Railway and the traffic thereon, and to the conduct and manage-
ment or such traffic:

-Ind it is also proposed, for the several purposes aforesaid, to alter,
amend, and extend, if need be, all or some of the powers and pro-
visions of the several acts following, or some of them. directly
or indirectly relating to or affecting the Great Western Railway
Company : (that is to say) Lo •al and Personal Acts. 5 & 6
William IV., cap. 107; 6 William IV., cops. 36. 38, 77, & 79; 1
Victoria, caps. 91 & 92 (1837), and 24 & 26 (1834) ; 2 Victoria, cap.
27 ; 3 Victoria, cap. 47 ; 3 & 4 Victoria, cap. 105 ; 4 & 5 Victo la,
cap. 41 ; 5 Victoria, Sess. 2, cap. 28 ; 6 Victoria, cap. 10; 7 Victoria,
cap. 3 ; 7 & 8 Victoria. cap. 68 ; 8 & 9 Victoria, caps. 40, 53, 155, 156,
184,188, 190, & 191; 9 Victoria, cap. 14; 9 & 10 Victoria, caps 166, 181,
236, 239, 240, 278, 313, 315, 335, 337, 338, 369, & 402 ; .0 & i 1 Vic-
toria, caps. 68, 72, 76, 91, 101, 109, 149,154,226, & 242 ; 11 & 12 Vic-
toria, c.ps. 28, 59, 74, 77, 82, 95, 130, 131, 133, 135, 158, and 159 ;
13 Victoria, caps. 6 & 7 ; 13 and 14 Victoria, caps. 44, 58, & 110 ; 14
and 15 Victoria, car's. 48 &81 ; 15 & 16 Victoria, caps. 125, 133,
140, 145, 147, and 168 ; 16 & 17 Victoria, caps. 121, 153, 175, &
212:

- And Notice Is hereby further Given, That on or before the 31st
day of December next, printed copies of the intended bill will be
deposited in the Private RH Office of the HouSe of Commons.
Dated the 10th day of November, 1853.
W. 0. & W. HUNT.
OSBORNE, WARD, & Co.

cap. 107; 6 William IV., caps. 36, 38, 77, and 79; 1 Victoria, CaPS.
' 91 and 92 (1837), and 24 and 26 (1838) ; 2 Victoria, cap. 27 ; 3 Vic-
toria, cap. 47; 3 and 4 Victoria. cap. 105 ; 4 and 5 Victoria, cap:4l;
! 5 Victoria, seas. 2, cap. 2s ' • 6 Victoria, cap. 10 ; 7 Victoria, cap. 3 ;
! 7 and 9 Victoria, cap. 68 ; 8 and 9 Victdria, tas9. 40, 53, 155, 156,
' 184, 188, 190, and 191 ; 9 Victoria, cap. 14 ; 9 and '0 Victoria, cans.
166, 181, 236, 239, 240, 278, 313, 315, 335, 337, 333, 369, and 402 ;
10 and 11 Victoria, caps. 60, 72, 76, 91, 101, 109, 149. 154, 226, and
242; 11 and 12 Victoria. caps. 28, 59, 74, 77. 82, 95, 130, 131, 133,
135, 158, and 159 ; 13 Victoria, caps. 6 and 7;,13 and 4 5 ictoen,
caps. 44, 98, and 110 ; 14 sad 15 Victoria, calf'. 48 and 81 ; 15 and
16 Victoria, caps. 125, 133, P.O. 115, IAI,-and 168 ; and 16 and 17
Victoria. caps. 121, 153, 175, and 212: also the acts relating to the
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway Company : (that is to say)
local and p.:sonal acts, 9 and 10 Victoria, caps. 307 and 308 ; 10 and
11 Victoria, caps 80; 12 and 13 Victoria, cap 85; and 15 and 16
Victoria, cap. 165: also the acts relating to the Shrewsbury and
Chester Railway Company : (that is to say) local and personal acts,
7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 99; and 8 and 9 Victoria. caps. 42 and 115 ;
9 and 10 Victoria, caps. 250, 251. 274, and 275; 10 and-11 Victoria,
cap. 144; 12 and 13 Victoria cap. 55 : 14 and 15 Victoria, cap. 131 ;
and 15 and 16 Victoria, cap. 146,
And Notii'e is hereby also Given, That on or before the 3 ist day of
in
netcie Private Billelmnext,p Olßce of therintedcopiesoHt
othuseeitoitrecndomeil Commons
Dated be deposited
Dated the 10th day of November, 1853.

W. O. and W. HUNT.
R. and W. G. ROY.
W. H. BROWN.
LORDALE & PEELE

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAIL-
W t.Y COMPANY AND MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY.
(POWERS FOR AMALGAMATION, AND FOR TRAFFIC OR

WORKING ARRANGEMENTS).

NOTICE IC HEREBY GIVEN, That application is intended to be
made to Parliament in the ensuing session for an act to unite and
amalgamate or to authorise the union and amalgamation, from and
after such period, nad upon such terms and conditions as may have
vb
de
edn orfor m
byay the hereaftersaid
intendedb e agreed
act,up upon, ,tobre as
London prescribedbaebdN North-Western
rtb oivtoers perroo.
and the Midland Ra'lway Companies, and for the union and consoli-
d ttion, or to authorise agreements for the union and consolidation,
into one undertaking of the several undertaking; of such companies,
may
so that all the lands, tenements, and hereditaments, property, estate,
effects, rights, powers, privileges, and authorities of what nature or kind
soever, and whether with reference to the levying of tolls, rates, and
duties, the purchasing lands and buildings by compulsion or agree-
ment, the construction of wo ks, or renting or purchasing the under-
takings of other companies, or otherwise, vested in and belonging
to, or exercised at,d enjoyed, or exerciseable by the said companies,
severally or jointly, at the time of the said amalgamation, may be
vested in and belong to, and be exercised and enjoyed, and be exer-
ciseable by such one united and amalgamated company, under each
corporate name or style as may be provided by the said intended act,
or as may be agreed upon between the said companies :
And it is proposed by the said intended act to make all necessary
and proper provisions for, or to authorise the entering into agree-
ments for regulating, fixing, and determining the capital stock and
borrowing powers of such united and amalgamated company, and
the rights, privileges, preferences, aid priorities of the different
classes of shareholders in the said companies in the cast I stock of
the united anti amalgamated company, and for the fulfilment by such
united and amalgamated company of all contracts, azreements,
a rangernerts, or liabilities entered into by the said companies, and
in existence and capable of taking effect at the period of such union
ant amalgamation:

And it is also proposed by the said intended act to provide for
the renewal or liquidation of the mortgage or bo,.d debts of the said
compa,d.s, an 1 for the security of the holders of such mortgages or
bonds, and also fcr th future election of directors and regulation of
meetings of shareholder; of and in such united and amalgamated
company, and also for altering and varying the tolls, rates, and duties
leviable by the said companies, or either of them, from and after the
date of such union and consolidation :

And it is proposed by the said intended act to empower the said
companies, or their respective boards of directors, to enter into, exe-
cute, and carry into eff ct any contracts, agreements, or arrame-
ments 10T or with reference to the maintenance, repairs, supervision,
working and use by each or either of those companies of the rail-
ways, canals, works, or undertaking belonging to. authorised to be
constructed by, or in the possession of the other of them, or any part
thereof, either solely or jointly with the other of such companies, or
with any other company or companies, party or parties, and for or
with reference to the accotrunodation, collecLion, transmission, de-
livery. management, regulation, and interchange ef the traffic thereon,
and far or with reference to the tolls, rates, and duties to be taken
thereon and in respect thereof, and the collection, appropriation, ap-
portionment and distr bution of such tolls, rates duties, and other
income and profits arising from the railways, canals, works, or un-
dertaking comprised in such contract agreement, or arrangement,
and also for or with reference to the supply, provision, repairs, and
nse of rolling sto,k, the employment, remuneration, and dismissal
of officers and servants, and for or with reference to the exercise and
enjoyment by each or either of the said companiesof all or any of the
rights, privbeges, and powers of the other of them, either solely or
jointly with the other of such companies ; and to enable either ofthe
said companies to levy tolls or rates upon the railways or canals be-
longing to, in possession of, or authorised to be constructed by the
other of them, and if necessary or expedient, to alter the tolls or rates
now leviable upon those railways or canals, or any of them :
And it is also proposed by the said intended act to take powers
for the appointment by either of the said companies of directors of
the other of such companies, and to enable the said companies,
jointly or either of them severally to appoint committees for the pur-
-1 poses of such contracts, agreements, and arrangements as afore-
said :

And it is also proposed by the said intended act to alter, amend,
extend, enlarge, or to repeal all or some of the power, and provisions
of the several acts of Parliament or .ome of theca following, relating
to the London and North-Western Railway company (that is to say):
An act passed in the Session of Parliament held in tue ninth and
tenth years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An act
to consolidate the London and Birmingham Grand Junction and
Manchester and Birmingham Railway Companies;" and the several
other act, distinguished in the Queen's printers' copies f the 10..al
and personal acts as Bth and 9th Vic., chapters 36. 37, 43, 105, 111,
112, 123, 156, and 198 9th Vic., chapter 67 ; 9th and 10th Vic.,
chapters 80, 82, 152, 182, 192, 193, 231, 232, 233, 244, 248, 259, 261,
262, 269, 300, 309, 322, 323, 324, 328,1[331, 359, 368, 369, 380, and
396 ; 10th and 11th Vic., chapters 73, 107, 114, 118, 120, 121, 132,
139, 159, 161, 178, 188, 228, 236. 270, 278, and 294: 11th and 12th
"Vic., chapters, 58, 60, and 130 ; 12th rad 13th Vic., chapter 74 ; 13th
and 14th Vic., chapter 36 ; 14th Vic., chapter 23 ; 14th and 15th Vic.,
chapter 94 ; 15th Vic., chapters 93 and 105 ; and 16th and 17th V c.,
chapters 97, 110, 157, 160, 161. 205, 216, and 222; and also of the
following Acts of Parliament relating to the Midland Railway Com-
pany (that is to say): local and personal acts, 7th and Bth Vic.,
chapters 18 and 59 ; Bth and 9th Vic , chapters 38, 49, 56, 90, and
181 ; 9th and 10th Vic., chaptors 51, 102, 156, 157, 163,203, 243, 254,
255, 272, 3 g, 311, 326, and 310 ; 10th and Ilth Tic., chapters 122,
135, 150,191, 214, 215, and 270 ; h and 12th Vic., chapters 21, 88,
and 131 ; 14111 ant 15th Vic., chapters 57, 88, and 113 ; 15th Vic.,
chapter 98 ; 16th Vic., chapter 33 ; and 16th and .7th Vic., chapter
108.

And Notice is hereby further given, that on or before the thirty-
first day of December next, printed conies of the bill for effecting
the objects specified in the notice, will ba deposited in the Private
Bill-office of the House of Commons.
Dated this 11th day of November, 1853.
BERRIDGE, MACAULAY, and MORRIS,
Leicester.
S. CARTER,
SWIF and WAGSTAFF, SoMiters.
32, Great George-street,
Westminster.