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Notice is hereby Given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
made to PARLIAMENT in the ensuing Session for a BILL to
authorise and enable the Company of Proprietors of the Stratford-
upon-Avon Canal Navigation, and the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol—
verhampton Railway Company, or one of them, to convey and assign..
to the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company aed to
the Great Western Railway Company, or one of them, the Strat-
ford-upon-Avon Canal, and all the lands, property, and effects,
Powers, rights, and privleges of or belonging to the said Company
of Proprietors, and the said Oxford, Woreester, and Wolverhampton
Railway Company, or either of them, in relation to or connected-
with the undertaking of the said Canal Navigation ; and to take
Powers for the vesting of the said Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, and
all the lands, property, and effects, powers, rights, and privileges
aforesaid, in the said Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Com- -
Pany and the said Great Western Railway Company, or one of them ; .
and to enable the two last-mentioned Companies, or one of them,
to take and hold the said canal, lands, property, and effects, and to
exercise and. enjoy the powers, rights, and privileges aforesaid, and
to levy tolls, rates, and duties upon or in respect of the said Canal
Navigation, and to raise a farther sum of money for the purposes
aforesaid. and, if need be, to dissolve the said Company of Proprietors
of the said Canal Navigation ; and to vary or extinguish all rights
and privileges in relation to the said Canal Navigation which would
interfere with the purposes aforesaid.
And it is also intended to insert In the said Bill such provisions as
May be deemed expedient for securing the completion of the purchase
aforesaid within a time to be limited by the said Bill.

[PRICE 515;

And it is also intended by the said Bill, so far as may bo deemed
requisite for the purposes thereof, to alter, amend, repeal, enlarge, or
extend the powers and provisions of the several Acts of Parliament
hereinafter mentioned, or some of them ; (that is to say), certain Acts
relating to the said Stratford-upon-Avon Canal Navigation, passed
respectively in the 33d, the 35th, the 39th, the 49th, the 55th, and the
57th years of the reign of King George the Third, and in
the 2d year of the reign of King George the Fourth ;
and also the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Act,
1846, and the Birmingham and Oxford Junction (Birmingham Eaten-
Men) Railway Act, 1846; and an Act passed in the 11th and 12th
y,:itra of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act to
confer additional Powers on the Great Western Railway Company
with reference to an Agreement of the 12th November, 1848, for the
purchase by them of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction, and
Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Rai:ways ;" and also
the Great Western Railway (Leamington line) Act, 11348 ; and
also the Oxford. Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Act, 1845 ;
the Oxford, Worcester, and Wblverhampton (Amendment) Act,
T 846 ; the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway (Amend-
lnent) Act, 1848; the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton
Railway (Deviation) Act. 1848 ; and also the several Acts fol-
lowing, dirently or indirectly relating to or affecting the Great
IVeitern Railway Company, which Acts (local and personal) are
distinguished in the Queen's printers' copies thereof as the 5 and 6
William IV., c. 107 ; 6 William IV., c. 36 ; 6 Wiliam IY., c. 38 ;
6 William IV.. c. 77; 6 William IV., c. 79; 1 Victoria, c. 91; 1
Viet., c. 92 ; 1 Viet.. c. 24 ; 1 Vict , c. 26 ; '2 Viet., c. 27 ; 3 Viet.,
C. 47 ; 3 and 4 Vict., c. 105 ; 4 and 5 Viet., c. 41; 5 Viet ,
Bess. 2, c. 28 ; 6 Vict., c. /10 ; 7 Vict., c. 3 ; 7 and 8 Viet..
c. 68.; 8 and 9 Viet.. c. 40 ; 8 'and 9 Viet., c. 53 ; 8 and 9
g. 155 and 9 Viet c. 156 ; 8 and 9 'Viet., c. 184 ;
8 and 9 Viet., c. 188 ; 8 and 9 Viet.. 190 ; 8 and 9
Viet., c. 191 ; 9 Vict., c. 14 ; 9 and 10 Vict., c. 166 ; 9 and 10
Vic'., C. 181 ; 9 and 10 Viet., c. 236; 9 and 10 Viet., e. 239; 9 and
10 Viet., c. 240 ; 9 and 10 Vict., c. 278 ; 9 and 10 Viet., c. 313 ; 9
and 10 Vict., c. 315 ; 9 and 10 Viet., c. 335 ; 9 ant 10 Vict.. c. 317 ;
9 and 10 Vict., c. 338; 9 and 10 V.et., c. 369; 9 and 10 Vict, c.
402 ; 10 and 11 Viet.; e. 60 ; 10 and 11 Viet., c. 72; 10 and 11
V:ct., c. 76 ; 10 and 11 Viet., c. 91 ; 10 and 11 Vict., c. 101; 10 and
11 Viet., c. 109 ; 10 and 11 Viet., c. 149 ; 10 and 41 Vict., c. 154 ;
10 and 11 Viet., c. 226 ; 10 and 11 Vict., e. 243 ; 11 and 12 Vict., C.
28 ; 11 and 12 Viet, e. 74 ; 11 and 12 Vict., c. 77 ; 11 ant 12 Viet.,
C. 82 ; 11 and 12 Vict., c. 95 ; 11 and 12 Viet., c. 135 ; 11 and 12
V et., c. 158 ; II and 12 Vict., c. 159.
Dated this 7th day of November, 1849.

BIRKENHEAD IMPROVEMENT.
(CONSOLIDATION OF ACTS AND EXTENSION OF
POWERS.)
Notice is hereby given, that APPLICATION is intended to be
Shade to PARLIAMENT, in the ensuing Session, for an ACT to
consolidate into one Act all or some of the powers and provisions of
the several Acts of Parliament following, or so r e of them, and to
repeal the said Acts —(that is to say), an Act passed in the third
Year of the reign of his late Majesty King William IV., intituled
"An Act for paving, lighting, watching, cleansing. and otherwise
Iproving the township or chapelry of Birkenhead, in
e County Palatine of Chester • and fir regulating the
Police thereof, and for establishing a market within the
Said township ; " an Act passed in the first year of the reign of
her present Majesty, intituled "Au Act to amend an Act passed in
the third year of the reign of his late Majesty King Wil-
liam IT., intituled An Act for paving, lighting. , watching,
cleansing, and otherwise improving the township or chapelry
of lirkeuhead, 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 reign of her
Present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to authorise the
Purchase of a certain ferry called Woodside Ferry, by the Commis-
sioners for the improvement of the township of chapelry 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 Commissiouers of the township of
Birkenhead, in the county o' 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 Ciaughten-cum-Grange, or one of them, in the
county of Chester ;" an Act passed in the Session of Parlia-
ment hell in the seventh year of the reign of her present
Majesty, intituled "An Act to authorise the purchase of Monks
Ferry by the Commissioners for the improvement of Birkenhead,
Claughton•cam•Orange, 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 present Majesty,
intituled" An Ast for altering, amending, an 1 enlarging the several
Acts relating to the improvement of Birkenhead, Cleughton-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 said 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, rights.'privilegee, and
disabilities of the Commissioners ; and to vest in such Commiesioners
all the property and: effects now, or at any time hereafter, be-
longing to or held in trot for the Commissioners acting in the
execution of the said recited Acts, and to coati* on such new Com-
missioners further and more effectual powers for paving, lighting,
watching, cleansing, draining, seweriug, 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 regulating the width and level of, and the mote of
laying down and constructing streets, roads, lanes, and other 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 occupiers ollandi, 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 th;,in ; and for
regulating and managing w rehouse and storehouses within the
said limits; and for appointing a fire police, aid regulating the
sews for the preventleo of the fires therein; and for licensing and
regulating the conduct of p rters, warehousemen, and other servants
and persons employe' in or about the warehouses and storehouses
BOW or hereafter to he erected w thin the sa d limits, and for tin-
Proving the sanita-y condition f the distr-c. comprised within the
said limits, and for preventing the spread of contagious diseases,
;Ind for promoting the increase of cleanliness therein, and for the erec-
t" Of Public baths and washhouses and other convsuiences within the
said district, and for the inaint-nance and reguls lion of a pace force
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
reelted Acts, and to authorise each new Commissioners 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 Adt to confer
Powers upon the said new Commissioners to purchase, lease, or
Otherwise tske 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
all 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 ssid Commissioners and
~I1"h Persons, companies, bodies politic or corporate; and it is
‘,,..-"se proposed by the said intended Act to make further pro-
for...ol the purchase by the said Commissioners of Monks
Ferry, and all the property connected therewith, contracted to- be
Ptii.ellasel by the Commissioners acting in the execution of tits said
recited Acts, and to authorise the Commissioners to grant bonds or
Mortgages for the consideration of such purchase, and to make such
bends a first charge on the said ferry and propery, and the tolls,
•te,_ata, and profits receivable in respect thereof, and to enable the
.4kenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Janction Railway Company
so receive and.hold such bonds or mortgages.
„ And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to authorise the
In to levy tolls, rates, duties, and charges upon, for, or
sti respect of the use of, all or any ferries, wharves, landing places,
crane.
and other works and conveniences at any time belonging to
them, and to alter existing tolls, rates, duties, and charges, and to
:infer, vary, or extinguish exemptions :tom payment of tolls, rates,
'We,' or charges, and at their option to enter-into, or decline enter-
'TlC into contracts to• 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
'eaanaissionen to erect a town-hall and police-conrts. and all ne-
cessary buildings and offices connected therewith, or to rent cr
poses
re such buildings as they may think suitable for any of such pur-
.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to make further
Prevision for the recovery of all or any rates, charges, expenses, or
other moneys authorised to be levied, made, charged, or received by
vtll
sald.Commissioners. and ter the regulation of or otherwise in
1;!lation
to all or any of the ferries, markets, parks, cemeteries,
tshsrees. crates, or other property, matters, or things, belonging to
dim Commissioners, and for the regulation of hackney, carriages,
snaking and
and others, within the said district, and for the
—'aing and enforcing of bye-laws in relation to all or any of the
'betters aforesaid.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to mithosise the
sinulissioners and Francis Richard Price, Esq., and his trusters, to
mate and carry into effect certain arrangements for more effectially
CO in the Commissioners the Woodside Ferry and certain lands
racted to be purchased by the Commissioners acting in the exe-
cunt
tion of the said recited Acts ; and to raise a sum of money, by the
creation of bonds or mortgages, for paying the consideration moneys
for the purchase of the said ferry and lands, and to make such bonds
long Mortgages a first charge on the said ferry, and the property be-
ling thereto or connected therewith, and the boats and vessels
_..sed or employed by the Commissioners in relation thereto, and on
tolls receivable in respect thereof; and also to enable the said
`-'Commissioners to make a portion of the said purchase moneys a first
chargeupon other lands of the said Commissioners.
And it is /Ss* proposed by the said intended Act to make
certain provisions touching the bond or mortgage debt of the
Eeilltnissi.mers, and to regulate and (if need be) to alter the
'Milts, privileges, priorities, and securities of the bondholders
?1. Mortgagees, and to authorise the bondholders or mortgagees
_
Purchase land from the Commissioners, and to surrender their
rads or mortgagees in lieu of payment of money is the considera-
re for the purchase of such land, and to mate further provision for
di-114,, 11114 the Commissioners to acquire and hold lands, and to sell or
---,Pelle of all or any of the lands vested in or belonging to them.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable the
Commissioners to raise for all or any of the purposes aforesaid a
l'iligtht-r sum of money, and to apply and appropriate such parts of
e rstes, assessments, tolls, rents, property, and revenue of the
e
. 2rsinissionets as they shall think fit, for or towards the execution
allo or any of the purposes hereinbefore mentioned ; and also to
or Veer the Commissioners to make, assess, levy, and receive all
th. ;7 of the rates, assessments, tolls, or charges now receivable by
i
a oitunissioners acting in the execution of the said recited Acts,
,01`,", to alter or vary such rates, assessments, tolls, and charges, or
tuezoefd them, and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from
PsYnnint thereof, and other rights and privileges..
this 10th day of November, 1849. .
AMBROSE WALN, Solicitor for the Bill.

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PALETOT, such novelty consisting in the adaptation of Eider Down
to the several purposes of wearing apparel, but more partichlariy in
the formation of NICOLL'S PALETOT, the original elegance and
Utility of which Is, however, faithtblly preserved.
Eiders are found in greatest numbers in Iceland and the Fern
Islands, where their beautiful and delicate down is well known to be
proof against the most severe cold, and even the small quantity
which can be compressed and concealed between the two hands, will
serve in the formation of a Paletat, which, while it has most extra-
ordinary lightness, has, nevertheless, more warmth than the finest
and thickest blanket, the great desideratum for a winter garment
being thus accomplished, namely, personal warmth without fatigue.
Public inspection is invited at MESSRS. NICOLL'S wholesale and
retail wareroonis,
114, 116, and 120, REGENT STREET, and 22, CORNHILL,
Lowon. •

THE N ICOLL is the distinguishing name given
to. a garment secured by Royal Letters Patent • from
general imitation. It has all tin advantages of Messrs. NICOLL'S
original it.vention, . the REGISTERED PALED:Yr of LLAMA
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TILE SEAL FUR PALETOT.
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the demand dces not interfere with the supply; fur it must be
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.of adaptation to the
present purpose, that of being formed into the graceful garment
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An early Inspection and purchase would, therefore, be desirable.
H., J., and D. NICOLL, 114, 116, and 120, REGENT-STREET.
and 22, CORNHILL, LONDON.

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Cornhill, London.

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THE BRITANNIA BRIDGE.
MENAI STRAITS, MONDAY AFTERNOON.—Another
misadventure in the means whereby the second great
tube was to have been moored off occurred to-day,
but with no untoward attendants. Precisely at ten
o'clock, when all persons engaged in the grand opera-
tion were at their posts, and the signals had been sent
out to the various stations, one of the great eight-
inch thick cables, reaching from the pontoons to the
opposite shore, and the duty of which was to give the
first impulse to the transport of the stupendous mass,
suddenly snapped asunder. On a minute examina-
tion of the severed cable a conclusion was come to
that the bawling line had been maliciously cut by
some miscreants. Owing to the rapidity of the tide
there was no time to cast out another cable; the pre-
caution, unfortunately, of a second rope of the same
kind, in case of casualty, not having been provided.
It was forthwith announced to the multitude that the
operation would come off tomorrow, at the same
hour.

The preliminary operations, which are necessarily
on a large scale, were unavoidably going on during
Sunday. Yesterday nothing could have been more
favourable for carrying out the great operation ;
wind, wave, and weather all concurred on the occa•
sion. There was a full flowing tide of eighteen feet,
(
to-.narrow it will be five inches less. Should the
operation not be practicable on Tuesday or Wednes-
day, it is probable it will have to be de:ayed for two
or three weeks, as the state of the tide will not be in
its favour.
Amongst the engineers present were Mr. Stephen-
son, Mr. Brunel, Mr. Rendel, Mr. Bidder, Captain
Claxton, Mr. Edwin Clark, Mr. Latimer Clark, and
Mr. Forster.
Owing to the notices which bad been previously
given to the mariners and-harbour masters that the
navigation would be stopped on Sunday and Monday,
many sail of vessels anchored below Telford's chain-
bridge, about a mile distant from that of the Brie
tannia, which, like the suspension-bridge, as well as
every houie at hand, exhibited the national colours,
at present the Straits are studded with a variety of
telegraphic signals, or letters, intended as guides
to all engaged in the various movements
of theim-
mense mass.

The important process of what is called testing the
strength of the tube has been attended with gratifying
results. Loads, equal to the weight of two or three
ordinarygoods and passenger trains have been put upon
it, when it was found that the deflection was only to
the extent of a few inches, and that even this was not
permanent. On the removal of the superincumbent
load it was restored to within a quarter of an inch.
It is calculated that the maximum weight of an ex-
traordinary railway train would give a pressure of
460 tons, distributed over the surface of each of the
tube sections of this rigid roadway, and that they are
absolutely able to bear 4,000 tons over the surface,
and 2,000 tons in the centre. A train freighted to
its full extent, and stationary in the entire tube,
would give a pressure of about six tons per square inch.
Each tube gill be always subjected to a permanent
load of half its own weight, and the permanent way
upon it, consisting of the rails and sleepers for the
trains, will be equal to about 650 tons.

THE LATE QUEEN DOWAGER.
From the Supplement to the London Gazette Extram--

cliiiary of Sunday, Dec. 2.)
MONDAY, DEC. 3.
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 3d day of
December, 1849. Present—Lord President, Lord Privy
Seal, Earl of Carlisle, Earl Grey, Lord John Russell,
Viscount Palmerston, Lord Campbell, Mr. Maule, Sir
George Grey, Bart., Sir Francis Baring, Bart , Mr.
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Whereas in the Act of Uniformity, which established
the Liturgy of the Church of England, provision is made
for such alterations in the prayers for the Royal Family
as from time to time shall become necessary and be di-
rected by lawful authority; it is thereupon this day
ordered in Council, that in tho Morning end Evening
Prayers, in the Litany, and in all other parts of the
Public Service, as well in the occasional office,' as in the
Book of Common Prayer, where the royal family is
appointed to be particularly prayed for, the words
" Adelaide the Queen Dowager" bo omitted.
And it is further ordered, that no edition of the Com-
mon Prayer be from henceforth printed but with this
amendment; and that in the mean time, and until copies
of such edition may be had, all persons, vicars, and
curates within this realm do (for the preventing of mis-
takes), with the pen, correct and amend all such prayers
in their Church books, according to the foregoing direc-
tion: and, for the better notice hereof, that this order
be forthwith printed and published, and sent to the
several parishes; and that the Right Rev. the Bishops
do take care that obedience be paid to the same accord-
ingly. C. C. GREVILLE.
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 3d day of
December, 1549. Present—Lord President, Lord Privy
Seal, Earl of Carlisle, Earl Grey, Lord John Russell'
Viscount Palmerston, Lord Campbell, Mr. Maule, Sir
George Grey, Bart., Sir Francis Baring, Bart., Mr.
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
In pursuance of an Act passed in the tenth year of her
3,faj,sty Queen Aline, and of another Act passed in the
32d year of his Majesty King George 111., wherein pro-
vision is made for praying for the Royal Family in that
part of Great Britain called Scotland; it is hereby or-
dered in Council, that henceforth every minister and
preacher shall, in his respective church, congregation,
or assembly, pray in express words—
" For her Most Sacred Majesty Queen Victoria,
the Prince Albert, Albert Prince of "%Vales, and
all the Royal Family,"
of which all persons concerned are hereby required to
take notice, and govern themselves accordingly.
C. C. GREVILLE.

GOLD AND TIIN PUBLIC FUNDS.—It is rumoured
in well-informed circles that negotiations are now pend-
ing between the Government and the Bank of England
for the reduction of the standard value of gold from
31. 17s. 63. to 34 12s. per ounce. This important mone-
tary regulation will, it is ilso said, be immediately fol-
lowed by a reduction of interest on Bank Annuities.—
The Reporter for December.

FALL OF SNOW.—On Wednesday, for the first
time, there was a slight fall of snow, at Chat, la Devon.