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• NOVEMBER 29, 1849.
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OND ON DER RY AND COLERAINE
RAILWAY.—COMPLETION of RAILWAY, and CON•
STRUCTION of BRANCH to NE WTOWNLIMANADY ; EX
TENSION of TIME for PURCHASE of LANDS on a Por.ion of
the Main Line, ant AMENDMENT of ACTS.
Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intenlecl to be
made to PARLIAMENT, in the ensuing Session, for an ACT to
enable the Londbuderry and Coleraine Railway Company to cons-
te the Line of the Londonderry aid Coleraine Railway, and that
the portions thereof watch it is proposed to construct, und, r the
powers of the said intende4 Act, will respectively commence and
terrinate as follows—that is to say, the first portion thereof will
commence at or near the bridge over the River Foyle at London-
derry, at a waarf belonging to the Irish Society, L,ndon, Sir
Ito:ttrt Alexander Ferguson, Bart., and the said Company, or some
or one of them, situate in the townland of Clooney, and parish
of Clontiermot,, in the city and co Alt). of Londonderr-, nuns-
bere 1 2 on the plans referred to i s the Act authorising the
construction of the sal 1 railway, and also on the plans deposite t
as hereinafter mentlo ad, and pass from the .ce in, th ough, or
int r the several parishes, townlands, extra-parochial and other
places followL g—that is to say, the townlands o' Clooney
and Cab, In the said parish of Clondennott, and the shore of the
river Foyle, all in the said city and county of Londonderry, and
terminate by a junction with the railway, as already constructed,at
or near the extremity of Rosses gay, on the shore of the river Foyle
aforesaid ; and the second portion thereof will commence by a junc-
tion with the railway, as already constructed, in the townland of
Freehall Watson and parish of Duaboe, in the said city and county
of Londonderry, in a field belonging to the Bishop of Derry and Sir
Henry Hervey Bruce, Bart., and now its the occupation of John
Watson, the elder, numbered 26 on the plans authorising the construc-
tion of the said railway, and 5 on the plans deposited as hereinafter

mentioned, and pass Irons thence in, through, or into the parishes,
townlands, extra-parochial and other places following —that that is to
say, the townlands of Frechall Watson, Bo.;town, Liffock, Bally-
woollen. Grangebeg, Pottagh, Grangemore, Banbrook Lower, and
Farranlester, and the shores of the River Bann, all in the parish of
Dunboc, in tile said city and county of Londonderry, and the town-
lands of liiilcranny-, Ballycairm and Waterside, and the shores of the
River Bann, in the parish of Killowen, in the said city and county of
Londonderry, and wilt terminate in the said townland of Waterside,
near the town of Coleraine, in a fiel t belonging to the Ciothworkers'
Company, and now in the: occupation of Captain Rich, numbered
55 on the plans authorising the construction of the said railway, and
25 on the plans deposited as hereinafter mentioned.
And also to make new and additional Depots or Stations, with all
proper works, approaches, and conveniences connoctcd therewith, in
the several parishes, townlands, and other places aforesaid, or some
of them.

And it is also intended by the said Act to enable the said Company
to construct a Branch Railway- to Newtownlimavady in the said
city and county of Londonderry, commencing by a junction with the
main line of railway, as at present authorised, to be made at or near
the River Broharris, on certain land reclaimed from Lough Foyle,
belonging to the Irish Society, and the executors or the mortgagees of
John Robertson, deceased, and numbered 3 on the plans referred to
in the Act authorising the construction of the said Branch Railway,
and 1 one on the plans deposited as hereinafter mentioned, passing
from thence ia , through, or into the several parishes, townlands,
extra-parochial and other places following that is to say, the re-
claimed land known as Robertson's Reclamation, the townlands of
Broglasco, Broighter, Back, Lomond, Burnally, Lower Corndale,
Upper Corndale, Ardnargle, and Driunballydonaghy, in the parish of
Tarnlaghtllnlaitan, and the townlands of Rathbradybeg otherwise
Newtownlimayady and Killane, in the parish of Drumaeho.se, all in
the said city and county of Londonderry.
And it is intended by such Act to take powers to alter, or divert,
or stop up all turnpike and other roads, railways, tramways, aque-
ducts, pipes, sewers, cana s, basins, streams, and rivers, within the
aforesaid parishes, townlands, extra-parochial and other places, or
any of them, with which it may be necessary to interfere for the
purposes aforesaid.
And it is further proposed by the said intended Act to purchase, by
compulsion or agreement, lands and houses for the purposes aforesaid,
and also to levy tolls, rates, and duties in respect of the use of the sad
works, and to grant certain exemptions from such rates, tolls, and
duties. . . . _ .

And it is also proposed to vary or extinguish all existing rights and
privileges connected with the lands proposed to be purchased or In-
terfered with, or which would in any manner impede or interfere
with the objec's aforesaid, or any of them, and to confer other rights
and privi'eges.
And notice is hereby further given, that maps, plans, and sections,
describing the line and levels of the said intended works, and the
lands to he taken for the purposes thereof, respectively, together
with a book of reference to such plans, containing the names of the
owners and 1 sees and of the occupiers of such lands, and also a copy
of this notice, and a published snap, with tae line of railway de-
lineated thereon and showing its ge-eral course and direction, will
be deposited on or heron the 30th day of November, 1849, with the
Clerk of the Peace for the city and county of Londonderry, at his
office in Londonderry; and a copy of so much of such plans,
sections, and book of reference, as relates to the several parishes in
or through which the said intended woks are proposed to be made,
together with copies of this notice, will be deposited on or before the
said 30th day of November with the clerk of the union within which
such parishes respectively are included.
And for the purposes aforesaid, it is intended to alter, amend, a.•,el
enlar; e the powers and provisions of the several Acts following, re-
lating to the " Londonderry and Coleraine Railway Company ;" that
is to say, " The Londonderry and Coleraine Railway Act, 18i4," and
" The Londonderry and Coleraine Railway Act Amendment and
Deviation, 1348."
And It is also Intended to extend the time limited by the said Acts,
or either of them, or by " The Lauds Clauses Consul dation Act,
1845," incorporated therewith respectively, for the compulsory pur-
chase of the lands within the several parishes, townlands, and extra-
parochial places following—that is to say, the land now in course of
reclamation by the undertake s thereof, or the said Londonderry and
Coleraine Railway Company, situate on the eastern shore of Lough
Foyle, the townlancis of Tullyverry, laughatavale, Coolagh, Carrick-
hugh, Tullymaine, and Walworth, in the parish of Faughanvale, the
townlands of Walworth and Ballykelly, in the parish of Tamlaghfin-
lagan, the reclaimed land on the said eastern shore of Lough Foyle,
known as Robertson's Reclamation, the bed and shores of the River
Roc, the townlands of Scetchtewn, Carrowreagh, Minearny, Clagan,
Drumnahay, Oughtymoyle, flallymultimber, Tamlaght,
Duncrum, Cloo,ey, Gortmore, Aughil, Craig, Woodtown, Re-
none and Umbra, In the parish of Tamlaghtard, or Magiligan, all iu
the said city and county of Londonderry, for the purposes of the rail-
way and works thereby authorised to be constructed.
Dated this sth day of November, 1849.
TIMOTIIIfYRRELL, Guildhall, London.
SAMUEL L. CR k.WFORD, Londonderry.

2,IRKENHEAD DOCK TRusrEEs.
(EXTENSION of TIME for COMPLET:ON of WORKS
and Exercise of certain Powers ; Regulations as to Construction of
Sea or Wharf Wall and other Works ; Levyinz Additional Rates,
and Alteration of Birkenhead Dock and Liverpool Dock Rates, and
Amendment of Acts.)
Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
made to PARLIAMENT in the ensuing Session for an ACT to
alter, emend, extend, and enlarge, and to reoeal some of the
powers, restrictions, and proviAions of the several Acts of Parlia-
ment following, or some of them, relating to the Birkenhead Docks;
(that is to say), Local and Personal, 7th and Bth Viet., cap. 79;
Bth and 9th Viet , cap. 4 ; 10th and 11th Viet., caps. 264 and 265;

11th and I 2th Viet., cap. 141.
And it is proposed by the said intended Act to extend the
periods limited by the said recited Acts, or some of them, for
the completion of the works by suet Acts authorised, and to
authorise vessels, thoeeh of greater burden than 200 tons, to
resort to and use, either permanently or for an extended period,
the tidal or coasters basin at Woodside, and the entrance or passage
thereto referred to in the said recited Acts, for the purpose of passing
into or out of Wallasey Pool end the Docks communicating there-
with ; and to alter or repeal such of the provisions and restrictions
of the said Act 10th and 11th Vict., cap. 264, as limit the period
during which such vessels may resort to and use the said tidal or
coasters basin, and as provide for, or in any manner relate to, the
closing of the said.entrasce or passage, and the discontinuance of the
use thereof ; and also to repeal such of the powers and restrictions
of the same Act as provide for the suspension of certain of the
powers of the said Act until all the moneys raise 1 under the
authority and for the purposes of the said Act 7th and eith
Viet., cap. 79, and not expended for the purposes of such
last-mentioned Act, should have been replaced and made
available for the objects for which the same_ were origi-
nally raised, or until security should have been riven to
the satisfaction of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods,
Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, that such moneys
would be repaid and re-Instated and expended, as in tire. said Act
10th and 11th Vict., cap 264, is provided ; and also to postpone the
operation of such of the provisions of the said Acts, or some of
them, as direct that iu certain events therein specified the land,
soil, and shore belonging to or claimed by her Majesty, and which
shall have been granted, taken, or used for the purposes of the said
Acts, shall revert to her Majesty, her heirs and successors.
And it is proposed by the said intended Act to alter or vary the
tolls, rates, or duties payable for or in respect of the use of the docks,
basins, wharfs, and other works and conveniences belonging to the
said trustees; and to alter the mode of assessing such tolls, rates, or
duties, and to authorise the levying and imposition of new and addi-
tional tolls, rates, and duties upon vessels or otherwise for or in
respect of the use of the docks, basins, wharfs, sheds, gridirons,
works, and conveniences belonging to the said trustees, and to confer
exemptions from the payment of tolls, rates, and duties. And also
to empower the said trustees to construct gridirons in or near to the
Woodside basin.
And it is also proposed by the stild intended Act to alter or divert
the line or course of a portion of the sea or wharf wall by the said
recited Acts, or some or one of them, authorised to be constructed
at the north side of Wallasey Pool, such diversion or alteration to
commence at or near a certain creek of :he said Pool numbered 24,
in the township of Poulton-cum -Seacombe, in the parish of Wal-
lasey, in the county of Chester, on the plans referred to in the second
recited Act, and to terminate at or near a certain land called the
Neff, numbered 31, in the said township and parish on the said
plans.
And is is also proposed by the said intended Act to empower the
said Trustees to contract and agree with the Commissioners of her
Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings,
for the purchase, lease, or grant of all or any part of the soil or
shore of Wallasey Pool and of the River Mersey, adjoining or near
to the said Pool, to which her Majesty, in right of her Crown, may
for the time being be, or claim to be, entitled ; and also to contract
and agree with all or any other persons or corporations having, or
claiming, any estate, right, or interest in the said soil
or shore, or any part thereof, for the purchase, lease, or grant
thereof, and to authorise the said Commissioners, and all
such other persons and corporations, to convey, lease,
or grant the same to the said Trustees, and, further
to empower the said Trustees to sell, lease, or grant all or any part
of the said soil or shore which may have been so acquired by them,
and which shall be within or to the westward of the site of the in-
tended embankment across WallaserPool, mentioned in the tit st-
recited Act, to all or any of the owners of, or persons interested in,
the land or ground immediately abutting upon the said soil or shore,
and to empower such owners or other persons to purchase or take
leases of the same : and also to empower the said trustees to convey,
lease, or, grant to any person or persons all or any part of the said
soil or shore which shall be on the outside or to the eastward of the
said intended embankment, and to raise money on the security of
the said soil or shore or any part thereof.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to alter the pro-
visions contained in the said recited Acts, or some of them, with
respect to the construction of the sea or wharf walls thereby autho-
rised, and to empower the owners of any land fronting Wallasey Pool
to construct from time to time so much of the said sea or wharf
walls as shall front their said lands respectively, subject to such con-
ditions and restrictions as shall be provided by the said intended
Act, or as shall be mutually agreed upon between the said Trustees
and such respective ownersS
And Notice is hereby farther given, that plans and sections of
the said Intended alteration or diversion of the said sea or wharf
wall!,
notice, a
li,togethes ishrpwubitlhaed in th
bookofe,
reference to such plans, and a copy of
this
Loudon Gazette," will be deposited
on or before the 3 th day of November, in the present year, with
the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Chester, at his office at
Chester, anl with the Parish Clerk of the pariah of Wallasey at his
residence.
And it is further proposed by the said intended Act to alter or
vary the exisring tolls, rates, dues, or duties, or some of them,
now payable to.the Trustees of the 'Liverpool Docks, for the pur-
poses of exempting and to exempt from the payment of such toll.,
rates, dues, and duties, all vessels (and the cargoes of such
vessels, which shall discharge any of their cargoes in the River
Mersey, and shall afterwards enter the Birkenhead Docks, or
any of the basins connected therewith, for the purpose
of discharging, the residue of their cargoes therein, and
shall not enter or use the docks or basins belonging to the
Trustees of the Liverpool Docks for the purpose of discharging
any part of their cargoes therein, and for such purpose to repeal,
wholly or in part, or to alter, amend, explain, extend, and enlarge
some of the powers and provisions contained in the Acts following,
relating to the Docks and Harbour of Liverpool, or some of them ;
(that is to say), Acts passed respectively in the eighth year of the
reign of Queen Anne, in the third year of the reign of King George
the First, in the eleventh year of the reign of King George the Se-
cond, in the second, twenty-fifth, thirty•ninth, fifty-first, fifty-third,
and fifty-ninth years of the reign of King George the Third, respec-
tively; in the sixth year, and two several Acts passed in the ninth
year of the reign of King George the Fourth, and Acts passed respec-
tively in the session held in the eleventh year of the said last-men-
tioned reign, and in the first year of the reign of King William the
Fourth ; ant in the fourth, and in the sixth and seventh, and in the
seventh and eighth, and in the eighth, and in the ninth and tenth,
and in the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign..of her present
Majesty.
Dated this 12th day of November, 1849.
AMBROSE WALN, Solicitor for the Bill.

BIRKENHEAD IMPROVEMENT.
(CONSOLIDATION OF ACTS AND EXTENSION OF
POWERS.)
Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
made to PARLIAMENT, in the ensuing Session, for an ACT to
consolidate Into one Act all or some of the cowers and provisions of
the several Acts of Parliament following, or so re of them, and to
repeal the said Acts—(thst is to say), an Act passed in the third
year of the reign of his late Majesty King William IV., ',diluted
"An Act for paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, and otherwise
improving the township or chapelry of Birkenhead, in
the County Palatine of Chester ; and for regulating the
police thereof, and for establishing a market within the
sand township ; " an Act passed in the first year of the reign of
her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to amend an Act passed in
the third year of the reign of his late Majesty King Wil-
liasa IV., imitated 'An Act for paving, lighting, watching,
cleansing, and otherwise Improving the township or chapelry
of Birkenhead, in the County Palatine of Chester; and for regula-
ting the police thereof, and for establishing a market within the
said township ;' " an Act passed in the fifth year of the 11 Iv of her
present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to authorise the
purchase of a certain ferry called Woodside Ferry,.,by the Commis-
sisners for the improvement of the township of chary of Birken-
head. in the County Palatine of Chester, and for amending the
Improvement Acts for the said township ;" an Act passed in the
sixth year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled "An Act
for extending the powers of the Commissioners of the township of
Birkenhead, in the county or Chester, and for including the town-
ship of Claughton-cum-Grange, and part of the township of Oxton,
in the same county, within their jurisdiction ;" another Act passed
in the same year, intituled " An Act for establishing a cemetery in
Birkenhead and Clanghton-cum-Grange, or one of them, in the
county of Chester;" an Act passed in the Sesslon of Parlia-
ment held in the seventh year of the reign of her present
Majesty, intittaed "An Act to authorise the purchase of Monks
Ferry by the Commissioners for the improvement of Birkenhead,
Claughton-cum-Grange, and part of Oxton, in the county of Chester,
and for amending the Acts relating to the said Commissioners ;" and
an Act passed in the ninth year of the reign of her resent Majesty,
intituled" An Ast for altering, amending, and enlsrging the several
Acts relating to the improvement of Birkenhead, - Clssughton-cum-
Grange, and part of Oxton, in the county of Chester," And to ap-
point and incorporate a body of Commissioners for carrying into
effect the objects and purposes of the said Acts and the'sabi intended
Act; and to alter the present qualification of Commissioners and
Voters, and the scale of voting, at the election of Commissioners;
and otherwise to amend the existing mode ofelecting Commissioners,
and the provisions of the sail existing Acts relating to the constitu-
tion of the Commissioners, and the powers, silents, privileges, and
disabilities of the Commissioners ; and to vest in such Commissioners
all the property and effects now, or at any time hereafter, be-
longing to or held in tru t for the Commissioners acting in the
execution of the said recited Acts, and to confer on such new Com-
missioners further and more effectual powers for paving, lighting,
watching, cleansing, draining, sewering, and otherwise improving
the public and private streets, lanes, passages, and places within the
limits of the said recited Acts; and for removing and preventing
projections, obstructions, annoyances, and nuisances within such
limits; and for rc;ulating the width and level of, and the mode of
laying down and constructing streets, roads, lanes, and oilier public
and private ways and places within the same ; and for regulating
and directing the construction or erection of houses, ware-
houses, manufactories, workshops, privies, ash pits, cesspools,
sewers (both public and private), and other buildings within
the limits of the said Acts ; and for charging upon and re-
covering from the owners and oesuplers of lands, houses and ware-
houses, or some of them, the whole or part of the expenses attend-
ing the several and matters aforesaid or some of thsm ; and for
regulating and managing w•rehouses and storehouses within the
said limits ; and for appointing a fire police, and regulating the
cams, for the prevention of the fires therein; and for licensing and
regulating the conduct of p gters, warehousemen, and other servants
and persons ensployet in or about the warehouses and storehouses
now or hereafter to be erected w thin t'me as d limits and for im-
prsving the sanitasy condition f the distrlc: comprised within the
sad limits, and for preventing the spread of Contagious diseases,
and for promoting the increase of cleanliness therein, and for the erec-
lon,of public baths and wash houses and other conveniences within the
said district, and for the maintenance and regulation of tspolice fore,
therein. And also to confer on the said Commissioners such or the like
powers as are now vested in the Commissioners acting in the execution
of the said recited Acts with reference to the construction, mainte-
nance, and regulation of burial-grounds Within the limits of the said
recited Acts, and to authorise such new Coramissioners to sell or.
lease the whole or part of any such burial-grounds, or of the lands
authorised to be purchased for the purposes thereof, to any joint-
stock or other company, person, or corporation who may be able to
purchase or hold the same.
And it is further proposed by the said intended Act to confer
powers upon the said new Commissioners to purchase, lease, or
otherwise tike and hold all or any ferries or rights of ferry across or
over the River Mersey, and to enable all persons, companies, bodies
politic or corporate, being the owners of or having any interest in
any such ferries or rights of ferry,. to sell, lease, and transfer the
same to the Commissioners upon such terms and conditions as may
be mutually agreed upon between the said Commissioners and
such persons, companies, bodies politic or corporate; and it is
also proposed by the said intended Act to make further pro-
vision for the purchase by the said Commissioners of Monks
Ferry, and all the property connected therewith, contracted to be
purchase I by the Commissioners acting in the execution of the said
recited Acts, and to authorise the Commissioners to grant bonds or
mortgages for the consideration of such purchase, and to make such
bonds a first charge on the said ferry and property, and the tolls,
rents, and profits receivable in respect thereof, and to enable the
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Company
to receive and hold such bonds or mortgages.
And it Is also proposed by the said intended Act to authorise the
Commissioners to levy tolls, rates, duties, and charges uson, for, or
In respect of the use of, all or any ferries, wharves, landing places,
cranes, and other works and conveniences at any time belonging to
them, and to alter existing tolls, rates, duties, and charges, and to
confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from payment of tolls, rates,
duties, or charges, and at their option to enter into, or decline en er-
ing into, contracts esr the use of all or any of their ferries with any
person or persons, or body or bodies politic or corporate.
And it Is also proposed by the said intended Act to authorise the
Commissioners to erect a town-hall and police-courts, and all ne-
cessary buildings and offices connected therewith, or to rent or
hire such buildings as they may think suitable for-any of such pur-
poses.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to make further
provision for the recovery of all or any rates, charges, expenses, or
other moneys authorised to he levied, made, charged, or received by
the said Commissioners, and tor the regulation of or otherwise in
relation to all or any of the ferries, markets, parks, cemeteries,
whsrves, cram s, or other property, matters, or things, belsnging to
the Commissioners, and for the regulation of hackney carriages,
drivers, porters, and others, within the said district, and for the
making anti enforcing of bye-laws in relation to all or any of the
matters aforesaid.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to autlicrise the
Commissioners and Francis Richard Price, Esq., and his truste. a, to
make and carry into effect certain arrangements for more elTecinally
vesting in the Commissioners the Woodside Ferry and certain lands
contracted to be purchased by the Comm listoners acting in tits exe-
cution of the said recited Acts; and to raise a sum of money, by the
creation of bonds or mortsages, for paying the consideration moneys
for the purhase of the said ferry and lds, and to make such od
or mortgasces a first charge on the aid ferry, and the propertbyn be-
s
longing thereto or connected therewith, and the boats and vessels
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Commissioners to make a portion of the said purchase moneys a first
eltarge upon other lands of the said Commissioners.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to make
certain provisions touching the bond or mortgage debt of the
Comnalssieners, and to regulate and (If geed be) to alter the
rights, privileges, priorities, and securities of the bondholders
or mortgagees, and to authorise the bondholders or mortgagees
to purchase land from the Commissioners, and to surrender their
bonds or mortgagees in lieu of payment of money as the considers-
- lion for the purchase of such land, and to make floater provision for
enraging the Commissioners to acquire and hold lands, mid to sell or
dispose of all or any of the lands vested in or belonging to them.
And It is also proposed by the said intended &et to enalido the
Commissioners to raise fur all or any of the purposes aforesaid a
furtin r sum of money, and to apply and appropriate such parts of
the rates, assessments, tolls, rents, property, and revenue of the
Commissioners as they shall think fit, for or towards the execution
of all or any of the purposes hcroinbefore mentioned ; and also to
empower the Commissioners to make, assess, levy, and receive all
or any of the rates, assessments, tolls, or charges now receivable by
the Commissioners acting in the execution of the'saiti recited Acts,
and to alter or vary such rates, assessments, tolls, and charges, or
some of them, and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from
the payment thereof, and other rights and privileges.
Dated this 10th day of November, 1849.
AMBROSE WALN, Solicitor for the Bill.

GLASGOW, GARNICIRIi, and COATBRIDGE
and CALEDONIAN RAILWAYS (AMENDMENT of
ACTS) BILL.
Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
made to PARLIAMENT. in the ensuing Session, for leave to bring
in a BILL to render the Lien provided to the Glasgow, Garnkirk,
and Coatbridge Railway Company, by the Act after mentioned,
more effectual and more readily available, and to alter,
amend, and cut rge the powers and provisions of the said Act,
and, so tar as necessary, to repeal the same, viz., the Act passed
in the ninth and tenth years of the reign of her present
Majesty, and intituled, "An Act to effectuate 'the sale, by the
Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge, Railway Company, of the said
Railway to the Caledonian Railway Company, and other purposes
cenirzeted therewith," or some of. the powers and provisions of the
Bed Act; and also, so far as necessary for these purposes, to alter,
amend, and enlarge the powers and provisions of the following
Acts, relating to the Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Railway
Compahy, formerly the Garnkirk • and Glasgow Railway Company,
or some of them, viz., 7 Geo. IV., c. 103 ; 7 and 8 Geo. IV., c. 88 ; 1 1
Geo. IV. and 1 Will. IV., c. 125 ; 1 and. 2 Vict., c. 60 ; 7 and 8 Vict.,
c. 87 ; and 8 and 9 Vict., c. 31; and of the following Acts relating to
the Caledonian Railway Company, or some of them, vis., 8 and 9
Vict ,c. 162; 9 and 10 Viet., c. 130, 929, 249, 314, 379, 395 ; 10
' Viet. c. 22, 23 24 ; 10 and 11 Viet., c. 75, 82. 168, 16), 172, 237 ;
11 and 12 Viet., c. 73, 78, 121 ; and 12 and 13 Viet., c. 67, 90.
ROB. LAMOND, Solicitor, Glasgow.
RICHARDSON, CONNELL, and LOCH,
Parliamentary Agents, Westminster.
16th November, 1849.

RAILWAY TR kVELLING between LON-
DON and CORK.
The public is respectfully Informed that arrangements have been
completed between the London and North-Western Company, the
Chester and Holyhead Company, and the Great Southern and
Western (of Ireland) Company, whereby passengers, oil and after'
the Ist of December next, may book themselves from London to
Cork, and Cora to London, at one fare, viz.:—
First Class 1.3 15 0
Second Class
The tickets will be available for three days from the date of issue,
and the holders can, if they think proper, break the journey at Ban-
gor, Holyhead, or Dublin.
The route will be by the London and North-Western Railway to
Chester, the Chester and Holyhead Railway and Packets, the
Dublin and Kingston Railway, and the Great Southern and Western
Railway to Cork.
If the passenger leaves the railway short of Cork he will in
charged the difference between the reduced and the full ordinary
fares.
By order, WM. TAYLOR, Secretary.
Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland,
Offices, Kingsbridge Terminus, Dublin, Nov. 24, 1849.

LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN
RAIL NAY.
The following ALTERATIONS in the TRAINS will take place
on and after Ist December next.
The 10 30 a.m Train from London will be dispatched at 10 15
a.m. _ . .

The 11 a.m. Train from London will be dispatched at 12 noon.
The 5 p.m. Express Train from London will proceed to the North,
via Birmingham, instead of the Trent Valley line; leaving Birming-
ham at 8 10 p.m.
The 7 35 p.m. Express, and 8 20 p.m. Trains from Birmingham to
Stafford will be discontinued.
The 2 p.m. Train from Northampton to Peterborough will be dis-
patched at 3 p.m. ,
The 6 20 p.m. Train from Rugby to London will be discontinued.
The 6 45 p.m. Train from Aylesbury to Watford will be dispatched
at 6 30 p.m.
The 5 45 p.m. Train from Birmingham to London will be dis-
patched at 5 30 p.m.
The 5 p.m. Express Train from-Liverpool to London will proceed,
via Birmingham, instead of the_Trent Valley line, leaving Birming-
ham at 8 p.m.
The 6 30 p.m. Train from Wolverhampton to Birmingham will be
discontinued.
The 11 45 p.m. Train from Bedford will be dispatched at 12 15
noon.
The 2 15 p.m. Train from Leamington to Coventry will be dis-
patched at 3 p.m.
The 7 5 p.m. Express Train from Leamington to Coventry will be
dispatched at 6 55.
Passengers by the Down 5 p.m. Express to Birmingham can pro-
ceed to various minor stations between Birmingham and Bescet, and
also to Lichfield, by the SouttrStafferdshire Train.
On Christmas-day, Sunday Trains only will run on the London
and North-Western Railway.
By order, MARK HUISII.
General Manager's Odic% Euston Station, Nos. 26, 1849.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.
LOANS ON DEBENTURES.
The Directors of this Company are prepared to receive (under the
powers of their Act of Parliament) Tenders for Loans of Money on
security of Debentures, bearing interest at the rate of Five per Cent.
per Annum, the Interest payable half-yearly, YIZ., 10th January and
10th July.
Tenders, stating amount and term of years for which it is pro-
posed to be Lent, to be addressed to the Secretary, Euston Station,
London.

By order,
ANDREW GIFFORD, Secretary,
Eu 41913 Stattoo, November 1, 184

NORTH KENT RAILWAY CONTINUA-
TION
(from STROOD through CANTERBURY to DEAL
and DOVER, with BRANCHES TO MAIDSTONE, SHEERNESS,
FAYRRSHAM, and CHILHAM, and a LOOP LINE FROM
GREENWICH to WOOLWICH).
Notice is hereby' given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
made to PARLIAMENT in the ensuing Session for an ACT to ate
thorise the construction and maintenance, by Commissioners here-
inafter referred to, of the main 'lee of railway and branch railways
hereinafter mentioned, with all proper works and appurtenances
connected therewith, that is to say, a main line of railway to com-
mence at or near the southern mouth of the tunnel of the North
Kent Railway, in the parish of Frindsbury, at or near Strood, and
terminating in the parishes of St. Mary the Virgin and St. James the
Apostle, or one of them, at Dover, at or over the upper part of a
twainplace
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Margaret's, Rochester, and terminating by a junction with the
line of the South-Eastern Railway Company, at s r near their ter-
minus at Msidstone ; also a branch diverging from the said main
line at a point shown on the same plans, situate in the parish of
Bobbing, and terminating at a point shown on the same plans at
Mile Town, Sheerness, la the parish of Minster; also a branch di-
verging from the said main line at a point shown on the same plans,
situate in the parish of Preston, and terminating at a point shown
on the same plans, situate in the parish of Faversham ; also a g
branch diverging from the said main line at a point shown on the
same plans, and situate near Lower Emsden, in the parish of
Chartism, and terminating by a junction with the line of the South-
Eestern Railway Company at their station at Chilham ; also a loop
line of railway diverging from the London and Greenwich Railway
at a point shown on the same plans situate in the parish of Green-
WWI, and terns llf tet I dit at a point
atiheprlloiaonewaeinshoirtlolisn:tfiona
following,
eoprlsaesenvs in the parish
of Woolwich, whiCh said main line of railway, branches, andloop line
Wtoiwnnbeshlpureapl nci'etrtrpai-spsafrroocinhi
that is to say, Frindsbury, Strood, Saint Margaret'ensrs,aleßOpicahrteli'sseitlir,
Wolditani, Durham, Aylesford, Allington, Maidstone, Chatham,
Grange, Gillingham, Rainhanr, Upchurch Newington, Bobbing;
Iwad-, Queenborougle Minster; Milton, Sittingbourne, Tonge,
Bapchild, Tcyriliam, Stone, Norton, Ospringe, Faversham, Preston,
Selling, Boughton-under-Blears; Dunkirk,Chilham, Chartham, Than-
nington, Bridge, Beaksbourne, Patricksbourne, Adisham, Ickham
with the chapelry of Well, Barham, Kingston, Womenswoald, Kings-
ton, Nannington, Barfreston, Eythorne, Waldershare, Tilmanstone,
Northbourne, Little Mongham, Great Mongharn, Sholden, Saint
Leonard, Deal, Womenswould, Sibertsvrould ,otherwise Shepherd's-
well, Coldred, Lydden, Ewel otherwise Temple Ewel, River, Buck-
land, Charlton, Saint James the Apostle, Dover, and Saint Mary the
Virgin,
—all is tDheevceorutnGtyreoefnKweicnht,;Cahnadrlstoanin-
Itle Marylt
Canterbury, in the county of the city of Canterbury.
And it is also intended by the said Bill to take powers to stop up,
t-W
alter, or divert, either temporarily or permanently, all turnpike and
other roads and highways, railways, tramroads, aqueducts, canals,
streams, and rivers within the several parishes, townships, and extra-
parochial and other places before-mentioned, or any of them, which
it may be necessary or expedient to stop up, alter, or divert, by reason
of the construction of the said intended works, or any of them.
And it is also intended by the said Bill to provide for the appoint-
ment of Commissioners for the purpose ef carrying the said under-
taking into effect, and to take powers for the purchase of land and
houses fer the purposes thereof, by compulsion and also by agree-
ment, and to vary, repeal, or extinguish all existing rights and pri-
vileges M any manner connected with such lands and houses, or
which would in any wise impede or interfere with the construction,
maintenance, and use of the said intended railways and works, or
any of theta, and to confer other rights and privileges ; and also
power to enable the said Commissioners to levy tolls, rates, alai du-
ties on:or for the use of the same railways and works, or any of them,
and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions fl'eni such tolls, rates,
or duties, and to authorise the said Commissioners to raise money
on the credit of the said tolls, rates, .and duties, and on the credit
of the said railways and works, for the purposes of the undertak-
ing. And als t powers enabling the said Commissioners and any
company, public body, or persons, to -enter into mutual contracts and
arrangements for the construction or maintenance or working of
the said railways and other works or any of them ; and also powers
enabing the said Commissioners or their assigns to use the portion of
the railway of the South-Eastern Railway Company lying between
Strood and London ; and also powers enabling the said Commis-
sioners and the said South-Eastern Railway Company to enter into
and carry into effect any contracts and arrangements for the use
and working of any of the lines of railway proposed to be autho-
rised as heteinbefore mentioned, and also of the line of railway of
the said Company between Strood and London ; and also powers
1 enabling the South-Eastern Railway Company to advance and lend
oat of the capital such Company is already authorised to raise or
borrow any sum to the said Commissioners for the purposes afore-
said or any of them.
And notice is herby further given, that duplicate plans and sec-
tions of the proposed railways and works, together with books of
reference to such plans, and a published map with the lines of rail-
waythe.,dLeloinnedlottVGtahzeerteote,t, and
willbaceel
public inspection with
the Clerk of the Peace esr the county of Kent, at his °lice, at
Maidstone, in the same comity, and with the Clerk of the Peace
for the county of the city of Canterbury, at his office, at Canterbury,
copy
depositedo f
this
h foris notice, as publishel
on or before the 30th day of this present month of November; and
that on or before the same day a copy of so much of the said plans
and sections as relates to each parish in or through which the said
railways and works are intended to be made, together with a book
of reference thereto, and a copy of this notice as published in the
" London Gazette," . will be deposited with the parish clerk of each
such parish at his place of abode, and in the case of any extra-pa-
rochial place with the parish clerk of some perish immediately join-
ing thereto, at his place of abode.
And notice is hereby further given, that it is intended by the said
Bill (so far as may be necessary for the purposes thereof) to alter,
amend, extend, and enlarge, or repeal the powers and provisions of
the several Acts of Parliament relating to the South-Eastern Rail-
way, or some of them; that is to say, Local and Personal Acts, 6th
Wm. IV., cap. 75; let Vic., cap. 93; 2d Vic., cap. 42; 2d and 3d
Vie., cap. 79 ; 3d Vic., cap. 46 ; sth Vie., cap. 3 ; 6th and 7th Vic.
cap. 51 cap. 52, and cap. 62 ; 7th Vic., cap. 25 ; 7th and Bth Vie.,
cap. 69 and cap. 91 ; Bth and 9th Vie., cap. 167, cap. 186, cap. 197,
and cap. 200 ; 9th Vic., cap. 55, cep. 56, and cap. 64 ; 9th and 10th
Vic., cap. 305 and cap. 339 ; 10th and 11th Vic., cap. 104, cap. 230
and cap. 276.—Dated the 10th day of November, 1849.

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Richard E. Arden, Esq. J. llumphery, Esq., Aid., M.P.
William Banbury, Esq. Rupert Inglessy, Esq.
Edward Bates, Esq. Thomas Kelly, Esq., mdermai,
Thomas Camplin, Esq. Jeremiah Pitcher, Esq.
lames Clift, Esq. Lewis Pocock, Esq.
A.unrrons—Professor Hall, M.A. ; J. B. Shuttleworth, E 1541.
PHYSICIAN—Dr. Jeatfreson, 2 Finsbury-square.
SURGEON—W. Coulson, Esq., 2, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
CONSULTING ACTUlRT—Professor Hall, M.A., of King's College.
STANDING COUNSEL—Sir JOllll 1401-Dilly, M.P., Solicitor-General.
S;otaciTott —William Fisher, Esq., 19, Doughty-street.
ADVANTAGES OF ASSURING WITII THIS COMPANY.
In addition to a large subscribed capital, Policy holders hale the
security of an Assurance Fund of more than a Quarter of a
Million, and an annual Income approaching 70,0001. a year, arising
from the issue of 6,509 Policies.
IiONUS, Olt PROFIT I3R.kNCII.
Parsons Assuring on the Bonus system will be annually entitled
to 80 per cent. of the profits on this branch (after payment of five
yearly Premiums) ; and the profit assigned to each Policy may be
added to th 2 sum assured, or applied in reduction of the Annual pre-
mium.

ra.EMarmil TO •fiuoua• £lOO.

Age. I One Year. /seven Y ears.i

WHOLN TEHM.

20 £• 17 8 £0 19 1
30 1 1 8 1 2 7
40 1 5 0 1 9 9
59 1 14 1 1 19 19
60 3 2 4 117 0

I.' With Profits. Without Pr•fttr.
.£1 15 10 X 1 11 10
265 2 0 7
JI 0 7 2 14 10
4 6 8 4 011
6 12 9 1 0 10

One-half of the " Whole Term" Premium may remain on credit
for seven years, or sae-third of the Premium may remain for life as a
debt upon the policy at 3 per cent., er may be paid off at any time
without notice.

Claims paid in on• month after proofs have been approved.
Loans upon approved security.
The medical officers attend every day at Tbrogmorton-street at a
quarter before two o'clock, at fall-mall at a quarter before three.
E. BATES, Resident Director.

SEA, FIRE, LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE.
Established by Act of Parliament,
31, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capitalloo,oool., in Shares of 20s. each, to be paid in fall on allotment,
bearing a guaranteed interest of 5 per cent. in perpetuity (irrespective
of further dividends) upon the paid-up capital.
Application for Shares to be addressed to the Directors at the
Officee of the Society. Marine, Fire, and Life Assurances granted
on the most liberal terms.
Immediate and Deferred Annuities granted on terms especially
advantageous for investment of capital.
By order,
AUG. COLLINGUIDGE, Managing Director.

METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS. - According to
the last report of the Commissioners of Woods and
Forests the amount of purchase money paid by them for
property required for the metropolitan improvements is
727,968/.. comprising the following items:—ln the line
from Oxford-street to Holborn, 290,3271. 4s. 10d.; in the
line from Bow-street to Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury,
96,4010. lls ; in the line from the London Docks to
Spitaltields Church, 139,3411. ss. 6d.; in the line from
Coventry-street to Long-acre, 179,6431. 3s. Bd.; and in
the line from East Smithfield to liosemery•lane, 22,2471.
151 ; making the total 727,9681.
Primtor,e-hill—the solace of the weary artizan,
three years paled, is yet naked! Why not expend only
one one hundred pound note in adorning with flowers, and
shrubs, and forest trees, this only possible airy resource
for the indiglnt, pent. up, Sunday• emancipated son or
daughter of labour? It will not only gratify but
humanize the million, as the contemplation of floral
nature can soften neglected minds, and raise their souls
to rational devotion. Possibly, like other appeals to
officials, this may be spurned; and, rot being an employe,
it may even bo said—" What is that to thee:" neverthe-
less, again it is repeated, on the principle that what con •
cerns the public is everybody's business, and of the oft-
repeated maxim, " Nihil alienuni mihi puto qui sit," 3x.—
Builder.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the West India colonies,
Dispatches were also received yesterday at the Co-
lonial-office, from the Governor of Cape Coast Castle,

[PRICE 'SD.

AMERICAN NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.
By the royal mail steam-ship Hibernia, Captain
Stone, we have advices from New York to the 14th,
and Halifax to the 17th inst.
The Cambria, hence, arrived at Boston on the 10th,
and the America, at Halifax, on the 15th inst.
The IVest India mail steam-ship Dee arrived at
Mobile on the sth inst.

The steam-ship Empire City reached New York on
the 10th inst., with late intelligence from Cali'oraia.
She left Chagres on the 29th ult., and Kingston,
Jamaica, on the 4th inst. She had on freight to New
York about 750,000 dollars' worth of gold-dust.
The royal mail steam-ship Tay arrived at Chagres
on the 28th ult., and left on the evening of the 30th
for Carthagena,with the mails and bullion from South
America. Thence she sailed, and reached Kingston
on the Ist inst.

The annexation meeting appointed to take place at
Montreal came off on the Bth inst., without causing
any disturbance.
the advices from California extend to the Ist ult.
From various newspapers we extract the most inte-
resting items relative to the condition of the country,
the yield of gold, &c.:—
" Discoveries have been mada which almost induce us
to believe that the whole country, from San Diego to
Cape Mendocino, from the Pacific to the topmost ridge of
the Nevada, and heaven knows how much turther east-
ward, has been completely seasoned and spiced with the
yellow grains. News reached San Francisco of a large
placer' having been found on Trinity River—a stream
which rises in the Coast Range and empties into the
Pacific opposite the head of the Sacramento valley.
The story was soon verified by intelligence from tLe
diggings on the American Fork, which stated that the
diggers were leaving in large bodies for the Trinity
placer. where men were said to wash out 100 dolls. a
day. It is bost to receive the stories of gold-digging,
even here, with a grain of allowance, but the main fact
is true. I lately saw a letter from a merchant in Sacra-
mento city to his partner in San Francisco, in which he
says—' There is good news from Trinity river; gold is
very plenty, and provisions scarce. We shall make a

great raise on the loads I have sent there.'
" Near the Mission of San Antonio, situated among
the Coast Mountains, sixty miles south of this, a wash-
ing of considerable richness has been discoven.d. At
the last accounts, a number of people were working
there, with fair success, and traders are beginning to
send their teams in that direction. Gold is said to exist
in small quantities near the Mission of Carmel, only four
miles from this town, and, in fact, there is every geolo-
gical indication of it. That San Francisco itself is built
on a placer, I urn well satisfied. To my certain know-
ledge, boys have picked 4 dolls. and 5 dolls. in a few
hours from clay dug 30 feet below the surface, in sink-
ing a weal. The story of Mr. .Harrison, the collector,
having found gold in the adobes of the Custom-house, is
something more than a good joke. But by far the most
magnificent discovery is that recently made upon the
ranche of Colonel Fremont, on the Mariposas River. It
is nothing less than a vein of gold in the solid rock—a
bona fide mine, the first which has been found in Cali-
fornia. Whether it was first detected by a party of
Sonotnaus or by the company which Colonel Fremont
organized last spring, and which has since been work-
ing in the same locality, is a disputed point, though
I believe the credit is due to the latter. At any rate
the gold is there, and in an extraordinary abundance.
I saw some specimens which were in Colonel Fre-
mont's possession. The stone is a reddish quartz, tilled
with rich veins of gold, and far surpassing the speci-
mens brought from North Carolina and Georgia. Some
stones picked up on the top of the quartz strata, without
prticular selection, yielded 2 oz. of gold to every 251 b.
Colonel Fremont informed me that the vein had been
traced for more than a mile. The thickness on the
surface is two feet, gradually widening as it descends,
and showing larger particles of gold. The dip down-
wards is only about 20 degrees, so that the mine can be
worked with little expense. These are the particulars
first given me when the discovery was announced.
Still more astonishing facts have just come to light. A
geologist, sent out to examine the place, arrived here
last night. Ile reports having traced the vein a distance
of two leagues, with an average breadth of 150 feet. At
one extremity of the mine he found large quantities of
native silver, which he calculates will fully pay the ex
penes of setting up machinery and working it. The
ranche upon which it is situated was purchased by Col.
Fremont in 1546 from Alvarado, former governor of
the territory. It was then considered Eearly worthless,
and Colonel Fremont only took it at the moment of
leaving the country, because disappointed in obtaining
another property. The discovery has made a great
sensation throughout the country; yet it is but the first
of many such. The Sierra Neveda is pierced in every
part with these priceless veins, which Nill produce gold
for centuries after every spot of earth from base to sum-
mit shag have barn turned over and washed out.

"So much for thc gold. In other respects the country
is tolerably quiet ; speculation in lots, though still
going on, having assumed a more cautious character.
Sun Francisco, Stockton, Sacramento City, and San
Jose still maintain their value. Benicia lots are rather
dull, and have slightly fallen, while Colonel Stevenson's
New-York of-the Pacific, with its awkward and absurd
title, does not seem to be thought of. A town named
Vernon, at the mouth of Feather River, is rising rapidly,
to notice, and another is said to be springing up on Tri-
nity River. Many persons have made large fortunes by
buying up lots at a lucky time and selling them still
more luckily. A case was told me of a young man who
last fall borrowed money enough to pay his passage from
the Sandwich Islands to San Francisco, and who is now
on his way home with 80,000 dolls. made in this manner.
Three or tour gentlemen, who came up in the Panama,
have already made 20,000 dolls. by similar operations.
A friend of mine, who shipped lumber from New
York, to the amount of 1,000 dolls., sold it here
for 14,000 dolls. Houses which cost 300 dolls. cell
readily for 3.000 dolls., and the demand is con-
stantly increasing. At least 75 houses have been
imported from Canton, and are put up by
.C.hinese
carpenters. Nearly all the chairs in private families are
of Chinese manufacture, and there are two restaurants
in the town kept by Rang-sung and Wang-tong, where
very palatable chow chow, curry, and tarts, are served
up by the Celestials. Washing is still 8 dolls. a dozen,
and the constquence is large quantities of soiled linen
are sent to the antipodes to be purifid. A vessel just
in from Canton brought 250 dozen, which were sent out
a few months ago; another from Sandwich ',lands
brought 100 dozen, and the practice is now becoming
general. Sin Francisco is, iu fact, more metropolitan
cu its character than any other port in the world. Its
trade with all parts of the Pacific is rapidly increasing.
The overland emigration is pouring into the country In
a full tide. The reports which reached here of distress
on the routes, and the certainty that many of the emi-
grants would need aid before reaching the settlements,
caused a public movement in favour of raising sup-
plies to send out on the routes. Private individuals
and companies contributed largely, and General Riley,
on being applied to, promptly gave a carte blanche to
Major Canley and Captain Kane, of the Q.M. depart-
ment, to furnish all the assistance in their power.
Several hundred pack mules, under the charge of
competent officers, have been sent to Vallecitos, at
the edge of the great desert, and to the sink of Hum•
boldt's river, in the great bason, the places where emi-
grants will most require aide. Word has reached us
that many waggons have stopped at the latter place,
unable to proceed further. I have heard of no such
distress on the northern route as on the southern. The
emigrants in the north, so far as I learn, have not been
molested by the Indians, while the hostilities of the
Yumas and Maricopas, at the Colorado crossing, have
already cost the companies on the Gila the loss of seve•
cal lives.

" As to prices, all mining tools are high, as are also
all articles upon which labour has been performed here.
Picks, 5 dolls.; pans, 5 dolls.; cradles for washing gold,
three feet long, worth 2 dolls. in the States, sell here for
40 dolls.; flour from 8 dolls. to 10 dolls. per hundred ;
pork, 50 dolls. per hundred ; coffee, 18 dolls.; board,
21 dolls. per week, or 1 doll. 50c. per meal, with
the privilege of bleeping under the nearest tree unoccu-
pied. At the mines, sixty miles distant, prices are
doubled, and of some things trebled ; brandy, 2 dolls.
per bottle. At the mines they are making on an average
an ounce of gold per day. One man who arrived here
this month niade in two weeks 25,000 dolls., and has
gone to San Francisco to take passage to the States.
Labour is in proportion to the produce of the mines,
ranging from 18 dolls. to 8 dolls. per day.
" Vessels continue to arrive at San Francisco from the
United States. When I left there, two weeks ago, 102
vessels had arrived out of the 250 which sailed from
different ports in the United States during the winter
and spring. Sir ce then they are beginning to crowd in
more rapidly. I was this morning informed, though not
from the most reliable authority, that 45 had arrived in
two days. The harbour presents for miles an unbroken
forest of masts—ships from every nation and country lie
here, idle and worthless, with no prospect of ever leaving
—many must go down at their anchor, for there are
not men enough unemployed to work the 20th part of
them. The }nen will leave; there is no way of detaining
them fur duty on board; the naval force has. been
weakened by desertion, tint' there is no humantn effort or
possibility to pievent the 'custom' of deserting. C,33..
minder Jones has barely force enough on board to form
a crew, much less to tender assistance to merchantmen.
i
There are yet scores of vessels n port that have been
months endeavouring to discharge—some have no con-
signees, others too many—many have captains, while
numbers are without them, and without use for the com-
modity. Wu have many converted into storehouses,
hotels, lodging-houses, and hospitals. This is the only
place in the world where Jack forgets the sanctity of the
forecastle."
The New York Herald gives a less favourable view
of the intelligence from the mines. It says—
" The intelligence from California is interesting, but
by no means so faveurable as generally anticipated.
The Oregon, at Panama, from San Francisco, brought
about 400,000 dolls. on freight, and the passengers have
about 200,000 dolls. in their trunks. This makes a
total of about 4,000,000 dolls. received from the gold
mines of California. Our advicea from San Fraucicco

are to the Ist of October. The digging season at that
time was nearly over, and the miners were ,flocking into
n Francisco in large numbers, on their way to the At-
lantic ports. We learn that steamers for Panama, which
are to kayo California during the next four months,
have been already filled up, and that tickets command a
large premium. It appears by this that there is as much
anxiety to get away from as to got to San Francisco.
The miners hare not made out so well this season as they
did last, or as they expected. It is estimated that about
100,000 have gone in the mines this season, and that the
average product of gold dust has not been more than 4
dolls. per head."
The convention at Monterey was still in session.
It had been agreed to prohibit slavery, though free
negroes were not to be permitted to enter the state.
Pueblo San Jose had been agreed upon as the seat of
Government. The right of suffrage was to be ex-
temded to all free white male citizens of the United
States, after six months' residence in the state.
Banks of discount were to be prohibited, and banks
of deposit were to be strictly protected. The boun-
dary agreed upon includes all Alta California, but an
effort would be made to confine it to the Sierra Ne-
vada on the east. 'lle districts had been arranged in
the following order ;-1. San Diego, Los Angelos,
Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo; 2 Monterey
and San Francisco; 3. San Joe and Sonoma;
4. Sacramento and San Joaquin.
The Legislature was appointed to convene in De-
cember next to elect senators to Congress, and to
proceed to the complete formation of the State Go-
vernment.

A dispute had arisen between the Government of
the Sandwich Islands and the French Consul, M.
Dillon. This gentleman had for some time been at
loggerheads with the Government. The arrival of
a French frigate and a war steamer at Honolulu in-
duced M. Dillon to make certain demands upon the
Government, threatening them with force in case of
non compliance. The demands, as near as we can
learn, were—

" 1. A reduction of duties on brandies and liquers of
one-halt of all such duties as have been collected since
1846. 2. The same rights to Catholics and their schools
as are granted to Protestants. 3. The repeal of a law
which compels whale ships importing liquor for sale to
pay port charges. 4. The remission of a fine imposed
upon some captain of a whale ship. There were some
minor demands relative to redress and satisfaction for in-
dignities and insults offered to the French republic."
These demands were made, and three days allowed
for the Government to complyl or refuse. The King
being absent, the Admiral waited until his return,
when the Government, refusing to comply with the
demands, the French troops landed and took possession
of the fort. No resistance being offered, the French
spiked and threw from the ramparts the guns of the
fort, destroyed the ammunition and public stores, and
took possession of all the Hawaiian vessels that were in
port. The Hawaiian flag was lowered and the French
hoisted. After the quiet possession of the fort
for three days the French abandoned it,
and retired on board their vessels, which
shortly afterwards left the port, taking with
them M. Dillon and family, who intended returning
to France via New York. The British Consul-
General and the American Consul protested against
the action of the French forces; the former offered
his services as mediator, but was refused. The
general impresion was that M. Dillon had exceeded
his powers.