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CONTRACT 3, B.

The Excavation and Formation of the Earthwork•, and the Con-
struction of all Bridget, Culverts, and other Masonry, and the
entire completion (excepting the Materials for, and the forming
the permanent way) of that portion of the Railway extending
from the end of Contract 2, B, to the Boundary-fence between
Nos. 21 and 24, in the parish of Bridgwater, a distance of about
6i miles.

-The Earthwork in Contracts 1, B, and 2, IS, consi,,ts principally
of the formation of a Causeway of from 1 to 4 feet in height, the
materials being obtained from the side ditches ; and,i n Contract 3,
B, it is of the same description, with the exception of a short
cutting at Puriton, of about 150,000 cube yards.
CONTRACT 4, B.
The Erection of a Bridge of 100 feet span, across the River
Parret, at a short distance above the town of Bridgwater.
Drawings and Specifications of the above Works will be exhi-
oited at the Engineer's Office, Coronation-road, Bristol, and at the
Clarence Hotel, Bridgewater, on and after Monday, the 14th of
May next.
Printed Forms of Tender may be had at the same places, and
at the Company's Offices, Broad-street, Bristol.
The Directors will mt consider themselves bound to accept the
lowest Tender, and they expect the several parties to attend at the
Office, in Broad-street, Bristol, at Twelve o'Clock on the said 29th
day of May. J. B. BADHAM,
Bristol and Exeter Railway Of Secretary.
30, Broad-street, April 17, 1833.

IVIANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM
EXTENSION RAILWAY.

ENGINEER—GEORGE STEPHENSON, ESQ.
ACTING ENGINEER—GEORGE PARKER BIDDER, ESQ.
Capital, £1,100,000, in Shares of £7O each.

Deposit, £3. 10s. per Share.
In the Report made to the Meeting of Shareholders of the Manchester
and Birmingham Railway Company on the 2d of April last, it was stated
that the required notices had been given of an intended application to
Parliament, in the next session, for an Act to authorise the construc-
tion of a Railway, commencing by a junction with the line of the Man-
chester and Birmingham Railway, near Stone, and terminating by a
junction with the London and Birmingham Railway, at Rugby; and
further, of a Branch Railway out of the proposed new main line, to
Wichnor, in Staffordshire, there uniting with the Derby and Birming-
ham Railway.

The length of the proposed new main line, is 54 miles and 67 chains;
of the branch, 7 miles and 56 chains.

The gradients are of a remarkably favourable kind.
The object of the new main line is to afford to the traffic of Manches-
ter and its district, and of the various towns interested in the line of
the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, a direct route to London,
avoiding the circuitous course of Birmingham ; and whilst this object
will be attained, so as to gave in the distance between Stone and Rugby
twelve miles, and to effect a further saving of power, which, in fact, is
a saving of distance, the railway will pass through the towns of Stone,
Rugeley, and Tainworth, and near Lichfield—places which have not at
present, and cannot otherwise have, any railway communication.

The object of the proposed branch uniting with the Derby and Bir-
mingham Railway, is to open a communication by railway between
Manchester and the eastern counties of England.

The estimate for the construction of the proposed Railway and branch
Is 1,045,0001., or 16,0701. per mile.

A Company is now formed for the purpose of -carrying out this
undertaking.
The Provisional Directors are the present Directors of the Manches-
ter and Birmingham Railway Company, and such shareholders in the
latter Company as may think fit to require it, will be admitted share.
holders in the new Company.
The Shares have been fixed at the same amount as in the Manchester
and Birmingham Company, namely, 701. per share.
These arrangements are intended, and other arrangements are in
progress, to afford facilities for an early amalgamation of the new Com-
pany and the present Manchester and Birmingham Company.
The Shares will very shortly be allotted, and applications for them are
requested to be made (postage free) on or before the let day of May
next, in the form annexed.

WHEELER, Solicitor,

ManAmster, April, 1838.
Form of Application for Shares.
MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM EXTENSION RAILWAY,
To the Provisional Directors,
Gentlemen,—l beg to apply for Shares in the above Company;
and I undertake, on receiving notice of the allotment, to pay the de-
posit of Si. 10s. per Share in respect thereof, or of such of them as
may be granted to me, and to execute, whenever required, the Par.
liamentary undertaking and subscribers' agreement.—Dated the
day of , 1838.

Your obedient servant,

Name.
Place of abode
Profession or business .
To be addressed to
" The Secretary of the Manchester and Birmingham Extension
Railway Company, 23, Bond-street, Manchester."

PROTESTANT SOCIETY for the PRO-
TECTION of RELIGIOUS LIBERFFY.
At a MEETING of the COMMITTEE, held at the King's
Head Tavern, Poultry London, May 7, 1838,

J. 13. BROWN, Esq.; L.L.D., in'the Chair,

It was unanimously resolved,
1. That the experience of the past year, replete with intolerant and
cruel persecutions—a survey of the present situation of England, Scot-
land, Ireland, and our Colonies, as to highly important matters affecting
the religious freedom of the people—a consideration of the grave and
vital questions now depending as to the abolition of Church-rates, as to
the abuses of the new Poor-law system, prejudicial to religious liberty,
and as to the contemplated establishment of National Education under
the control of the State; as well as of the many grievances, annoying
and degrading to Dissenters, that have too long and haplessly existed ;
and a conviction that there is abroad an High Church and interested
feeling, combined and operating, and with revived and fearful energy,
against the momentous principle, that perfect civil equality should be
enjoyed by all religious denominations ; while that great principle is not
sufficiently understood, recognized, and enforced—co-operate in demon.
strating to this Committee that no diminution should occur in the vigi-
lance and zeal of those to whom that principle is shear ; but that their
union, resources, and efforts, should be much, and strenuously, and
promptly increased.

2. That understanding measures have been devised to promote that
result, in which this Committee would gladly concur, and learning that
to-morrow a Public Meeting will be held at the City of London Tavern,
on the main and immediate subject of the Abolition of Church-rates, it
appears to this Committee, that, under such circumstances, their
twenty-seventh Anniversary Meeting, announced for Saturday next,
would not be advantageously held, and that it shall be therefore post-
poned : —but that if an enlarged and efficient system should not be ar-
ranged—or if any local oppressions, or public abuses, hostile to the
rights of conscience in any part of the empire or the world, should re.
quire their special attention, this Committee either alone, or in con.
junction with the liberal and pious friends of the oppressed in any region
or state, will, as before, be prepared to struggle for the redress of their
wrongs; and to promote that triumph of knowledge and justice, of
liberty and of equal rights, which their hearts always will cherish, and
their judgments will ever approve.

JOHN WILKS, Hon. Sec.

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