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Joseph Allen, Esq
Charles H. Ashley, Esq.
George Borradaile, Esq.
Captain Joseph Dudman.
Henry Eyre, Esq.
With power to add to their 1111100 r.
BANKERS—Messrs. Glynn, IfallitaX, Mills, and Co.
ENGINEERS—Sir John Ramie and H. H. Price, Esq.
ARCHITECT and SURVEYOR—him D. Paine, Esq., 57, Lincoln's-
inn-Fields.
SOLICITOR--Henry Hoppe, Esq.. Sun-street, Cornhill.
SECRETARY-.--tt, li. Powell, Esq.
Office of the Company, 4, Barge-yard, Bucklersbury.
The Westminster and Deptford Railway is intended to com-
mence from the foot of Westminster-bridge, en the Surrey side ;
whence after a very slight curve, to avoid interfering with the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury's ground., it will proceed in a straight line to
the northern border of Kennington Common, and thence, via
Camberwell and Peckham, intersecting and joining in its course the
London and Croydon Railway, to join the London and Greenwich
Railway at the Deptford depot.
The Westminster and Deptford Railway will thus form the
nearest and most direct communication between the Western and
South-Western districts of the Metropolis, and the populous and
wealthy districts of Greenwich, Woolwich, Blackheath, Deptford,
Kennington, Camberwell, Peckham, Dulwich, Croydon, and their
vicinities. It will afford to the inhabitants of Clapham, Brixton,
&c., increased facilities of conveyance, by a junction near the end
of the Vassal-road, or at Kennington. It will become the great
Western entrance to London of all the Railways about to be con-
structed South and South-east of the Metropolis ; and, by means
of a short Railway about to be made from the London and
Greenwich Railway to Deptford Pier, it will form by far the
nearest and most direct communication between the Thames at
Deptford and the-Thytmes-at Wertlinsterbridge,-thereby avoiding
a long and dangerous intermediate navigation.
The Prospectus of this Company is now ready for delivery.
The Shares will bo allocated under the superintendence of the
Directors. Applications for Prospectuses and for printed Forms of
Application for Shares to be made at the Company's and Solicitor's
offices; and also at the offices of E. H. Browne, Esq., No. 12,
Angel-court, Throgmorton-street.
For the convenience of parties residing on the line, Prospectuses and
Maps may be obtained at Prockter's Hotel, Westminster-road ; the
Mitre Tavern, Stangate ; the Horns Tavern Kennington ; the Golden
Lion, Camberwell-green ; Red Cow, Peckham ; the Green Man
Hotel, Blackheath ; the Greyhound Hotel, Greenwich ; and the
White Swan, High-street, Deptford.
The following Form of Application only will be received :
" To the Committee of the Westminster and Deptford Railway
Company.
" Gentlemen,—l request to become a Subscriber for 50/.
Shares in the above undertaking, and agree to take such number as
may be allotted to me, and to pay the Deposit of 21. per Share, to be
at the disposal of the Committee for all such expenses as they may
deem necessary to promote the objects of the Company; and I un-
dertake to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree-
ment when required so to do.
" I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant."
N.B. The Christian and Sirname, with date and address, to be
signed by the applicant.
No applications will be receives after this day, and those parties
who have already applied for Shares are requested to renew their
applications according to the above form.

WESTMINSTER AND DEPTFORD
RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that in consequence of the applications
which have been already made for Shares in the above undertaking
having much exceeded the expectations of the Committee, they
deem it necessary to restrict the time originally allowed for such
applications to Twelve o'clock this day, after which time no furthe
applications can possibly be received.
By order of the Committee,
J. H. POWELL, Sec.

•
ELIGIBLE INVESTMENTS.
PO be peremptorily SOLD, with the approba-
tion of Sir GIFFIN WILSON, Knt., one of the Masters of the
Court of Chancery, in pursuance of an Order of the said Court, made
in the causes of the Reverend William Ashmead Pruen and another,
plaintiffs, and George Osborne and others, defendants ; and the
said William Ashmead Pruen and another, plaintiffs, and William
Wilcox and others, defendants, in several lots, at the Angel Inn,
in Alcester, in the County of Warwick, on TUESDAY, the 24th
day of May, 1836, at Twelve o'Clock at Noon precisely.
The highly valuable FREEHOLD, LIFEHOLD, and LEASE-
HOLD ESTATES, comprising several FARMS, containing up-
wards of 1,900 A. of LAID, being the Estates of the late John
Wilcox Osborne, Esq., situate at Little Alne, in the Parish of
Aston Cantlow, and at Bidford, in the County of Warwick, and at
Kineton, Cropthorne, and Chadwick, in the County of Worcester.
The Estate at Little Alne comprises upwards of 700 A. of Land ;
that at Bidford upwards of 58A. ; that at Kineton upwards of 7A. ;
that at Cropthorne upwards of 560 A. ; and that at Chadwick nearly
600 A. ; also Three Life Policies, two for 1,2001. each, granted by
the Provident Life Office in October, 1809 ; and one for 500/.,
granted by the Globe Insurance Company, in March, 1819.
Particulars and conditions may be had, after the 30th day of April
inst„ at the Chambers of the said Master, in Southampton-build-
ings, Chancery-lane, London ;of Messrs. Helder, Solicitors, 17,
Clement's Inn, London; of Messrs. Fuller and Saltwell, Solicitors,
Carlton Chambers, Regent-street, London ; of Messrs. Mayhew
and Johnson, Solicitors, Carey-street, London ; of Messrs. Austin
and Hobson, Solicitors, Raymond's-buildings, London ; of Mr.
Wratislaw, Solicitor, Rugby ; of Mr. Palmer, Solicitor, Birming-
ham ; of Messrs. Oldaker, Solicitors, Pershore ; and of Air.
Woodward, Land Agent, Birlingham, near Pershore.

lESSUAGES in CHELTENHAM, GLOUCESTERSHIRE;
SHARES in the WILTS and BERK S CANAL.
110 BE peremptorily SOLD, with the approba-
tion of Sir GIFFIN WILSON, Knt., one of the Masters of the
Court of Chancery, in pursuance of an Order of the said Court,
made in the causes of the Reverend William Ashmead Pruen and
another, plaintiffs, and George Osborne and others, defendants ;
and the said William Ashmead Pruen and another, plaintiff, and
William Wilcox and others, defendants, at the Royal Hotel, in
Cheltenham, on SATURDAY the 21st day of May 1836, at
Twelve o'Clock at noon precisely,:
Several MESSUAGES, being Nos. 121, 132. and 361, in
High-street ; Nos 2 and 10, in Portland-street ; and Nos. 15, 44,
52, 53, 54, and 55, in Rutland-street, all in the Town of Chelten-
ham ; also fourteen and a quarter shares in the Wilts and Berks
Canal Navigations.
Particulars and conditions may be had, after the 30th day of
April next, at the Chambers of the said Master, in Southampton
Buildings, Chancery-lane, London ; of Messrs. Helder, Solici-
tors, No. 17, Clements-inn, London ;of Messrs. Fuller and Salt-
well Solicitors, Carlton-chambers, Regent-street, London ; of
Messrs. Mayhew and Johnson, Solicitors, Carey-street, London ;
of Messrs. Austin and Hobson, Solicitors, Raymonds-buildings,
London ; of Mr. Wratislaw, Solicitor, Rugby ; of Mr. Palmer,
Solicitor, Birmingham ; of Messrs. Oldaker, Solicitors, Pershore ;
and of Mr. Woodward, Land-Agent, Birlingham, near Pershore.

RESOLUTIONS on the WITHDRAWMENT
of the MINISTERS and DEPUTIES of the PRESBY-
TERIAN DENOMINATION, from the General Bodies of. M-
inisters and Deputies of the Three Denominations.
At an AGGREGATE MEETING of MINISTERS and
DEPUTIES of the PRESBYTERIAN DENOMINATION,
n and about London and Westminster, and of the Committee and
other Members of " the Association of English Presbyterians and
others, holding the right of the free and unlimited exercise of
private judgment in matters of Religion, and of full Christian
Communion on the great principle of the Divine Mission of our
Lord, without any other Doctrinal Test whatever," held at Dr.
Williams's Library, Red Cross-street, London, on the sth day of
March, 183'i.

RICHARD POTTER, Esq., M.P., in the Chair,
The following Resolutions of the Body of Ministers of the Presby-
terian Denomination, in and about London, were read :
" At an Extraordinary Meeting of the Body of Presbyterian Mi-
nisters, specially convened to take into consideration the necessity
of this Body withdrawing from the two other of the Three Bodies
constituting the General Body of the Ministers of the Three De-
nominations, residing in and about the Cities of London and
Westminster, held at Dr. Williams's Library, Red Cross-street,
on the 4th of March, 1836,
" The Rev. JOSEPH HUTTON, LL.D. in the Chair,
" Resolved,—That this Body, being one of the Three Bodies
which constitute the General Body of Protestant Dissenting Mi-
nisters of the Three Denominations in and about the Cities of
London and Westminster, feels itself impelled, at the present
crisis, to take prompt and decisive measures for the assertion of
its independence and the preservation of its rights and privileges.
" That the Three Bodies of Protest ant Dissenting Ministers
formed themselves into an United Body, upwards of a century
ago, for the maintenance and extension of civil and religious
liberty, upon the understanding and engagement that the Bodies
should not call in question or interfere with each other's religious
opinions and doctrines; the only terms of association, with regard
to individual members of the respective Bodies, being their standing
accepted and approved' in their several denominations.
" That, notwithstanding known differences of judgment in re-
ligious matters between the Three Bodies, and, in some instances,
between the members of the same Body, the Catholic principle of
the Union was, for a very long period, sacredly observed, and the
United Body consequently proceeded in peace and harmony, and
by their cordial co-operation rendered eminent services to the
cause of religious liberty; the Presbyterian Body being certainly
not behind the two others in zeal and exertion.

" That we lament that, within these few years, the Catholic
principle of union has been infringed, by allowed reference, at
general meetings and in public proceedings, to doctrinal differences
subsisting between the Bodies, and th members of the same
Body, accompanied by reflections and insinuations, to the prejudice
particularly of the Presbyterian Body.
" That we record with pain, that at the last election of the
Secretary to the General Body, a most valuable and universally
respected member of this Body, who had by the suffrages of the
United Body filled the secretaryship for seven years, with such
punctuality, diligence, and ability as procured for him the warm
thanks, often repeated, of the whole Body, was set aside, on the
ground, openly alleged, and even declared in print, of his religious
views on points of doctrine, and those of the Body to rvhich he
belongs, not being consonant to those of the majority of the Three
Denominations.
" That we perceive with feelings of deep regret the same spirit
of intolerance and exclusion in the resolution of the Antipwdo-
baptist Body, not to admit to membership hereafter any ministers,
though hitherto eligible, who shall not profess certain articles of
religious belief; and in the subsequent determination of the Gene-
ral Body, upon the appeal of the aggrieved party, to take no mea-
sure for the relief of ministers who may be thus proscribed for con-
science sake.

" That our serious attention has been also, and of necessity,
drawn to various public proceedings of individuals and parties of
the two other denominations; proceedings notoriously assisted by
certain leading ministers of one at least of those denominations,—
openly applauded by others,—and approved, it is apprehended, by
the greater part of them,—the object or sure tendency of which is
to degrade the English Presbyterians in public estimation? to tie-

prive them of rights atid.ptivileges until this period never disputed,
ittid bVeri to revive agd.hist theta; by means of legal technicalities,
the penal statutes; which thf wisdmii and jiistice of the legiSlature
had t'epealed, to the Otititifitetidn and joy of all enlightetied'rtten ih
the hatinfi, and so far to thrust them out of the pale of civil
protection. "
That, contemplating theta , . .
prOceedings and Various indications
of the disposititill Of the majority of the Members of the United
Body of Ministers, we cannot entertain a doubt that it is the wish
and purpose of such majority eventually to exclude the Presbyterian
Body from the Union, or to make its relative position such as no
religious body, alive to its own dignity, could consent to occupy.
" That, therefore, We feel it to be an imperative though painful
duty,—imposed upon us equally by regard to our own character as
Protestant Dissenting Ministers, who hold it to be one of the in-
alienable rights of conscience, that no man shall, without his own
consent, be answerable to another for his honest judgment upon the
sense of the Holy Scriptures, by respect for the memory of those
that went before us and laid the foundation of our freedom, and by
regard to the welfare of those that shall come after us,-.-to with-
draw as a Body from an Union, the compact of which has been
violated, and in which we can pee no prospect of equal and peaceful
co-operation, or of real and effective service to the interests of re-
ligious liberty :—our regret, however, is lessened by the pleasing
reflection that the original purpose of the Union has been, in great
part, accomplished by the extension of the liberties of Protestant
Dissenters, under the sway of the august Family now upon the
Throne of these Realms,—and by the conviction that, fur what
remains to be desired for the complete emancipation of conicietioe,
we are justified by recent experience in placing entire confidence in
his Majesty's present enlightened and liberal Government, which
voluntary proffers from the Throne concessions to religious freedom
which our fathers prayed for with faint hopes of success.
" In declaring, as we now do, the Union of the Ministers of the
Three Denominations dissolved, and in resolving to proceed here-
after in our single capacity as the Presbyterian Body of Ministers,
unless an alteration in the spirit of the Bodies with which we were
lately associated should make reunion practicable and desirable,—
we disavow all angry and hostile feelin s --we tender to the two
ether denominations, w ose Members we, ai indivi-
duals, are and still hope to be United in the bonds of Christian
esteem, our sincere wishes for their usefulness in the cause of free-
dom, truth and virtue ;—we preserve our sincere disposition to co-
operate individually with the members of the other denominations
in works of charity, in so far as doctrinal distinctions are kept out of
sight, and all pasties meet on terms of equality and amity;—and
conscious that we have done nothing as a body to provoke this un-
happy separation, but, on the contrary, have attempted everything
in our power to resist and retard it, we are willing to abide by the
judgment of moderate and candid men in the Two other Bodies,
of the Protestant Dissenters throughout the kingdom, of our coun-
trymen at large, and of posterity, upon this our deliberate and
solemn act."
And the following Resolutions, received from a Meeting of the
Deputies of the Presbyterian Denomination, were also read :
" At a Meeting of the Deputies of Congregations of the Presby-
terian Denomination, (appointed in January last to form
part of the general Body of Deputies of the Protestant Dis-
senters of the Three Denominations in and about London,)
held the sth day of March, 1836,
" JAMES GIBSON, Esq., in the Chair,
" Resolved,
" That the Union of the Body of London Minisetrs, and that also
of the Deputies of the Three Denominations of Protestant Dissen-
ters, were formed more than a hundred years ago, and have, till
lately, been uniformly considered to be based and conducted on the
footing of the perfect independence and equality of each denomina-
tion,—to have for their object the promotion of the broad and ack-
nowledged principle of Nonconformity,—and to have no reference
whatever to doctrinal opinions, distinctions, or qualifications.
" That before and at the time of the formation of these volun-
tary associations, the English Dissenters of the Presbyterian Deno-
mination had publicly asserted, and have ever since maintained, the
principle of perfect freedom of investigation in matters of religion, and
of resistance to every species of restraint upon or interference with
a complete liberty of action upon the results of such investigation.
" That, in the earliest period of these associations, and down to
the present time, the result of this principle of action among the
Presbyterians has been, that many of their Ministers and Laymen
have, from time to time, adopted doctrinal !opinions differing more
or less widely from the Calvinistic standard.
" That notwithstanding such known diversity of opinion, and
the departure of the English Presbyterians in many particular!,
from those forms of church discipline in which their name origi-
nated, the identity and succession of their ministers and congrega-
tions have been, on all occasions, formally and officially recognised
by the other constituent parts of the bodies with winch they have
been connected.

" That this Meeting laments to have witnessed, within a short
period, (and particularly since the establishment of the civil and
social rights of Protestant Dissenters by the repeal of the Corpora-
tion and Test Acts,) a continued and obvious disposition on the
part of many members of the other denominations to act upon ex-
clusive distinctions,—subversive of the equality and independence
of such portions of the aggregate Dissenting Societies as do not co-
incide with the doctrinal creed of the majority,—hostile to the prin-
ciples on which they have combined their efforts and contributions,
--and constantly tending to the depression and degradation of the
Presbyterian denomination in particular.
" That open challenge has of late been repeatedly and publicly
made of the title and identity of the ministers and congregations
hitherto invariably recognised as composing the Presbytrian De-
nomination ; and that legal proceedings have been successfully in-
stituted by Dissenters, founded on the denial of such title and
identity, and seeking to inflict tho forfeiture and transfer of the
endowments now held by Presbyterians, as the penalty for the ex-
ercise of their conscientious privileges as Christians and Protestant
Dissenters.

" That this adoption of proceedings operating as restraints upon
the Christian liberty of congregations of another denomination is,
in the opinion of this Meeting, wholly at variance with the princi-
ples which occasioned and justified the separation of Nonconformists
from an established church ;—that such proceedings are mainly
founded on inferences drawn from penal laws long since repealed,
and which it is the duty of every consistent Dissenter to condemn
and disregard;—that the consequences of their successful prosecu-
tion are personally vexatious and oppressive, in the highest degree,
to those who have, for a long course of years, peaceably occupied
the foundations of their ancestors ;—and that the injury is deeply
aggravated by the attempt thus made to fix upon those ancestors
exclusive intents, repugnant to their known principles of action,
and opposed to the honest and consistent tenor of their lives and
characters.

" That the establishment of the legal principles thus invoked
against Dissenters by their brethren, strikes at the root of that
Protestant liberty for the attainment of which their forefathers
made their noblest sacrifices to conscience ; and tends to convert
every chapel, though founded for free and independent worship, into
a petty establishment ; more objectionable than one connected with
the State,—both in PRINCIPLE, because it is the work of men
who profess to be free,—and in PRACTICE, because the State pos-
sesses the power and means of improvement in its institutions,
while, on the other hand, the Dissenting trusts are to be doomed to
continue perpetual and invariable.

" That the community of feeling and principle which has been
formerly assumed to characterize the associations of Protestant
Dissenters being thus disturbed,—the freedom for which the Pres-
byterians have sought protection in such associations being attacked
by those with whom they associated for mutual protection ;—and it
being plainly necessary that they should direct their energies and
resources towards their own defence, not provided for elsewhere ;
this Meeting cannot but consider it useless and undesirable that
the body to which they belong, should continue outwardly to main-
tain a connection which has ceased to have a common or consistent
object, and which tends rather to strengthen an influence that ex-
perience shows may not improbably be directed against themselves.
" That the deputies present, therefore, while they respect the
characters and principles of many of those with whom they have so
long co-operated, and while they greatly lament the necessity for
the present proceeding, feel themselves imperatively called upon,—
in conformity with the example of their respected Ministers, and
with the prevalent feeling of their Country Brethren,—to ithdraw
from the Deputies of the other two denominations, and, in so doing,
to co-operate in the formation of a new union, founded on enlarged
and consistent views, and directed to the maintenance of the great
essential principles of Protestantism.
" That this determination be forthwith communicated to the
Chairman of the General Body of Deputies, and to the Aggregate
Meeting of English Presbyterian Dissenters now about to be held."
And it was thereupon Resolved, in and by the Aggregate
' Meetinff
That this Meeting approves of the separate Resolutions of the
two bodies of Ministers and Deputies of the Presbyterian Denomi-
nation now read, and of the determination which those Resolutions
convey and explain.
That the existing Associations of Ministers and of Deputies of
the Three Denominations being so far dissolved by the withdraw-
. .

ments communicated to and approved of by this Meting, it is ex-
pedient that such Ministers and Deputies should concur with the
English Presbyterian Association in • maturing an effective Union,
which shall have for its object the protection and promotion of their
civil rights and interests, and shall be open to all those who are de-
sirous of concurring in the consistent practical assertion of the great
principles of Nonconformity.
RICHARD POTTER, Chairman.

Kairon gnothi—Fugit hors.
A Belief in the existence of the fountain of youth,
from which those who bathed in its waters gained a pristine
energy, was among the speculations of the 15th century ;
it will, how.
ever, serve as no inapt type of the revivifying powers of art and medicine.
Those who, early victim, to a morbid imagination, have sought fatally to
anticipate the purposes cf nature, and have consequently lapsed into a
state which brings with it weakened capabilities and clouded hopes, may
by timely application to professional treatment, regain those first, noblest,
and best of powers that have been compromised by the criminal propensi-
ties of "guilty solitude," the progress of which is marked by the " lYm-
pliatica somnia" of Pliny, attended with bodily weakness and mental
apathy. We may indulge a natural exultation in referring to our daily
correspondence with grateful and convalescent patients, not confined to
ur own country, but diffused over the whole world. For twenty-five
years has our peculiar treatment in cases of Nervous Debility proved emi-
nently successful, and we have hitherto resisted the earnest solicitations
of our patients to publish their cases in a public address: the following,
however, has been so urgently pressed upon us by a medical friend, that
we have yielded to an importunity sufficiently excusable by the gratitude
it evinces:—

" Dear Sirs—My fondest hopes are realized! Accept my most heart-
felt thanks; words are inadequate to express my unbounded gratitude.
May you long live to reap the rich reward of your 1 'hours in the treat-
ment of that class of diseases which have hitherto baffled the skill of your
medical brethren.

"
in some, Yours, most sincerely, L. II."
There are many disorders of the generative system (which, when com-
pared with the above, may be termed subordinate) that are consequent
upon the too free and indiscriminate indulgence of the passions, exhi-
bitingdebility from excess, in others, the relaxing effects of a
tropical climate, and in many, indeed in how many, the various maladies
which afflict the student, the misanthrope, the gay, the dissipated, and the
libertine. In all these cases our practice, which embraces every grade in
society, from the man of rank to him of the humblest sphere, has been
uniformly successful; and as secresy belongs to our profession, the most
delicate and diffident may apply without fear or hesitation.
MESSRS. GOSS and Co. are to be consulted every day at their resi-
dence; and Patients in the remotest parts of the cour.try can be treated
successfully
ss fully on transmitting their report, which will be immediately an.
swered ; these must contain a remittance for Advice and Medicine. de-
scribing minutely the case, which can be forwarded to any part of the
world, however distant. No difficulty can occur, as the Medicines will be
securely packed, and carefully protected from observation.
GOSS and CO. (M. It. C. Surgeons),
7, Lancaster-place, Strand, London.
Just published (twenty.first edition)-Ist. The JEGIS cf LIFE, a fami-
liar commentary on the above Diseases.-2d. HYGEIA NA, addressed
exclusively to the female Sex.-3d. The SYPHILIST, a Treatise on
Lues Venerca, Gonorrhcea, &c.
May be had at 23, Paternoster-row, London; 12. Calton street, FAllP-
burgh ; 89, Trongate, Glasgow ; 72, Grafton-street, Dublin.