The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-23 00:00:00

No. 16,957. LONDON, SATURDAY, E

MIDDLESEX ELECTION.
The Committee for conducting the Election of Lord
ROBERT GROSVENOR sit daily at the Central Committee Rooms,
British Coffee House, Cockspar-street.
S. C. WHITBREAD, Chairman.
January 22, 1847.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JAN. 4, 1847.
THE principal OFFICERS of her MAJESTY'S
ORDNANCE, do hereby give Notice, that they are ready
to DISPOSE OF, to such persons as may be willing to tender for the
same, a quantity of OLD IRON SHOT and SHELLS, in Store at the
ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOLWICH, which havo been divided into
lots, and may be viewed upon application to the storekeeper at
that place any day (Sundays excepted) previJus to the day fixed for
the delivery of the tenders.
A Catalogue of the several lots may be obtained by persons willing
to become purchasers, at the Storekeeper's Office, Woolwich, the
Principal Storekeeper's Office at the Tower, and at the Secretary's
Office in Pall-mall, where the tenders for the whole or any number
of the said lots are to be delivered, on or before Wednesday, the 27th
instant. By order of the Board,
R. BYLIAM, Secretary.

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THE CATHOLIC, LAW, AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
(Incorporated under the 7th and Bth Viet., cap. 110.)
Capital One Million, in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
No. 8, New Coventry-street, Leicester-square, London.
TRUSTEES.
The Right lion. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Cheadle,

Staffordshire
The Right Hon. the Earl of Traqualr, Traqualr House, Peeble-

shire,-N.R.
The Right Hon. the Lord Stafford, Cossey Hall, Norfolk
A. H. Lynch, Esq., Master in Chancery, 33, Queen•square
Thomas Barnewall. Esq., 15, York-terrace, Regent's-park
Thomas Eyre, Esq., 62, Pulteney-street, Bath.

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DIRECTORS.
The Right Rev. William Morris, D.D., Acton, Middlesex
The Hon. Edward Petre, 26, Wilton-crescent
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the Hon.the E. I. Company,
and of the London Joint-Stock Bank
The Very Rev. A. Magee, D.D., Romney-terrace, Westminster
Rev. Thomas Doyle, D.D., London-road, Southwark
Henry Clark Duppa, Esq., Quarry-house, Boughton
Francis M`Donnell, Esq., Usk, Monmouthshire
James Marshall, Esq., 24, Carlton Villas, Malda Hill.
James Reade, Esq., 13, Lower Berkeley-street.
William Seymour, Esq. Montague-place, Russell-square

DESTITUTE HIGHLANDERS.
MR. WILSON begs to announce, that on
TUESDAY EVENING, January 26, at Eight o'clock, he will
give an Entertainment on the
SONGS OF THE HIGHLANDS,
In the Princess's Concert Room, Castle-street, Oxford-street, fur
the Benefit of the Destitute Highlamiers, and Natives of the
Western Isle!

Pianoforte—Mr. LAND.
The Doors will be opened at Half-pact Seven o'clock, the Enter-
ainment to commence at Eight, and terminate about Ten.

PROGRAM 3I g.
PART I.—My Heart's in the Highlands —The Maid that tends
he Goats—The Bard's Legacy—Lizzie Lindsay —Ochoin ochri, oh !
The ArGregor's Gathering—Rob Roy's Lament—Rob M'Gregor's
come again.
PART 11.--Farewell to Lochaber—Come under my plaidie—
Pbroo, phroo, my bonnie cow—Pibroch o'Donuil Dhuibh—Row weel,
my boatie, row weel—The Reel o' Tullochorum.
Reserved Seats in Front of the Platform, 3s. ; Body of the Room,
2s. ; Gallery, Is.
Tickets and Programmes may be had of Messrs. Cramer, Beale.
and Co. ; Messrs. Addison and Hodson, Regent-street ; Messrs. Duff
and Hodgson, 65, Oxford-street; and at the Doors on the evening of
performance.

BOSTON, STAMFORD, and BIRMINGHAM
RAILWAY (STAMFORD TO NV ESBECII LINE),
First Call, ii. 14s. on each reduced Shkre, msking 51. called up.
Office, 18, Abingdon-street, Westminster, Jan. 20, 1947.
Notice is hereby given, that a CALL of 11. 14s. on each reduced
Share has this day been made, and to be paid on or before MON-
DAY, Ist of March next, to any of the undermentioned Bankers.
According to the provisions of the Act of Incorporation, interest
at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. payable half-yearly, will be
allowed on the amount of deposits, commencing from the Ist of
January instant, and on all calls subsequently paid up until the rail-
way shall be completed ; but should any call remain unpaid after
the day named, interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum will be
charged thereon, and no interest 'hall accrue to the proprietor of
any share upon which any call shall be in arrgar in respect of such
share or any ether share to be holden by the same proprietor during
the period while such call shall remain unpaid.
By order of the Board,
GEORGE SAWARD, Secretary.
BANNERS.
London and County Bank, London
Messrs, Jones Loyd, Manoleester
The Bank of Liverpool
Messrs. Attwoods, Spooner, and Co., Birmingham
Messrs. Beckett and Co., Leeds.
All Shareholders wishing to pay money in anticipation of calls
will be allowed interest on the same at the rate of 5 per cent. per
annum from the date of payment.
Call letters may be obtained at the office of the Company.

LIVER-POOL, MANCHESTER, and
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY.—ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING.
Notice is hereby given that the ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY
MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this COMPANY will be
held at the Palatine Hotel, in Manchester, in the county of Lan
castor ,on the Id day or F...--nnvsny ~cat, et the hour of Eleven o'clock
in the forenoon of that day.
And notice is hereby further given, that, in aecordance with a re-
quisition signed by more than twenty shareholders in the said under
taking, holding, in the aggregate, not less than one-teuth of the
.capital of the said Company, an EXTIIAORDINARY GENERAL
MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of the said COMPANY, will
be held at the Palatine Hotel aforesaid, ou the day and year afore-
said, at Twelve o'clock at noon of the same day, or immediately on
the termination of the business of the said ordinary Meeting, for the
following purposes, namely —" To receive, consider, and decide, on
:he steps to be taken with respect to the report of Messrs. William
Gibb, George William Cram, and William Nichol, the Committee of
Investigation appointed on Saturday, the 25th day of July last, and
to determine on the propriety of reducing the number of the Directors
from twelve to six, and if thought advisable, specifically to remove
six of the present Directors.
And notice is hereby further given, that at the said last-mentioned
meeting the Directors will apply for pow.ers to proceed with, and en-
deavour to obtain, in the ensuing Session of Parliament, Acts for
alteration of Main Line and Hawes Branch, with power to purchase,
rent, or use the Northern Counties Union Railway, and amendment
of Acts relating to the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-
Tyne Junction Railway, and to the Northern Counties Union Railway
Companies ; Railway from the East Lancashire Railway near Burn-
ley, to join the Burnley Branch of the Manchester mil Leeds Rail-
w•ay, with power to sell or lease to the East Lancashire Railway
Company, or to the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company ; and
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction and
Northern Counties Union Railways Amalgamation.
And the Directors do hereby convene the said meetings accordingly.
THOS. ROBT. WILSON FRANCE, Chairman.
C. MOORE WILSON,/ Secretaries.
W. IL INGRAM,
Company's Principal Office, 31, Princess-street.
Manchester, Dec. 24, 1846.
"The Register of Transfers" will be closed, and remain so from the
19th day of January, 1847, until after the above-named meetings.
C. MOORE WILSON, 1 secretaries.
W. H. INGRAM, j

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the next
HALF YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the PRO-
PRIETORS of this COMPANY will be held in London, pursuant to
the Act of Parliament, at the Paddington Station, on THURSDAY, the
18th February next, at Twelve for One o'clock precisely. for the
election of Four Directors in the place of the same number who will
retire by rotation, and for other purposes of business. The Chair will
be taken at One o'clock precisely.
CHARLES RUSSELL, Chairman.
BAR RI NGTON, Deputy-Chairman.
The Directors retiring are re-eligible under the provisions of the
Act. The Transfer Books will be closed on and from Monday, the
Bth February, and will not be re-opened until after the said Half-
Yearly General Meeting on the 18th February, and the Dividend for
the half year ending the 31st December last, will be pail to the
Proprietors who may be registered on the Company's books when
closed

By order,
CIIAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.

January 21, 1947.

EAST ERN COUNTIES RAILWAY
COMPANY.
TWENTY-FIRST GENERAL MEETING.
Notice is hereby given that, in pursuance of the Act of Incorpora•
ton. the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETI Gof the SHARE-
HOLDERS of the COMPANY will be held at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-street, London, on TUESDAY, the 9th day of February
Next, at One o'Clock precisely, for the purpose of receiving a Report
from the Directors of the progress of the undertaking, and for the
transaction of other business.
And this Meeting is also made Special, for the purpose of submit-
ting to the Shareholders the drafts of the several Bills hereinafter
mentioned, which are about to be introduced into Parliament fu the
present session.
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to make
a Railway from the Eastern Counties Railway, near Cambridge, to
the Hertford and Wat e Branch of the Northern and Eastern Railway
with Branches.
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to make
a Railway from the Eastern Counties Railway, near Cambridge, to
the Bedford and Bletchley Railway, at or near Bedford, with

Branches.
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Com?any to make
a Railway from the Northern and Eastern Railway, at Hertford, to
the Great Northern Railway, near Hitain.
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to make
a Railway from the Eastern Counties Railway, at or near Forest-
gate station, to Southend, with Branches.
A Bill for making a railway from the Maldon, Witham, and
Braintree Railway, near Braintree to Halstead.

A Still to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to make
a railway from the Northern and Eastern Railway at Tottenham,
to or near to Guildford-street, with branches to the East and West
India Dock, and Birmingham Junction Railway.

A Rill to authorise the purchase, by the eastern Counties Rail-
way Company, of the North Woolwich Railway, and the lease of
the Pepper,Warheuses and Wiaarves of the East and West India Dock
Company, and the construction of docks in connexion with the
North Woolwich Railway.
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to make
a railway from the Syston and Peterborough Railway, in the parish
of Etton, in the county of Nerthanapton, to the Ambergate, Notting-
ham, and Boston Junction Railway, near Folkingham.
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to make
a railway from the Great Norther► Railway, near Spalding,
to the Nottingham and; Lincoln Branch of the Midland Counties
Railway.
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to make
a railway from Wisbeach to Spalding, and to construct docks at
Wisbeach in connexion therewith.
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to enlarge
their London and Stratford Stations, and to Amend seine of the Pro-
visions of the Acts relating to the Eastern Counties Railway Coin-

pany.
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to make
a Railway from the Eastern Counties Railway at West Ham to or
near the Victoria Park, with Branches to the East and West India
Docks, anti Birmingham Junction Railway.
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to make
a Railway from the Wisbeach, St. Ives, and Cambridge Junction
Railway, in the parish of Somersham, to the town of Romsey.
A Bill to authorise the purchase, by the Eastern Counties Railway
Company, of the Maldon, Witham, and Braintree Railway.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED on
SATURDAY, the 30th January, and will not be OPENED until WED•
NESDAT, the 10th F0T11317.
GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman
DAVID WADDINGTON, Deputy-Chairman.
By order,
C. P. RONEY, Secretary.

Bishops^ate Station, 22d January, 1847.
N.ll. Trie DIVIDEND for the lIALF-TEAIt, ending the 4th Ja-
nnary last, will be payable to these parties who, on the 30th January
next, shall be the Registered Proprietors in the Rooks of the
Company.

PARCEL POST COMPANY.'
Capital 30,0001., in 6,0001. Shares of 51. each,
No call beyond 21. 10s. per share to be made until after the first
Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders,
Central Depot-67, Fleet-street, London.
The Directors have the gratification to state that the preliminary
arrangements of the undertaking having been perfected, the Com-
pany will COMMENCE BUSINESS on MONDAY NEXT, the 25th
of January instant. The Board having based its arrangements upon
a resolution not to make an allotment of the shares on the capital
stock of the Company until after the actual commencement of the
business operations of the undertaking, will continue to receive ap-
plicant ns for those shares until the 28th instant, after which day the
list will be finally closed.—lty order of the Board,
E. T. GOUGIt, Secretary and Resident Manager.
67, Fleet-street, London, Jan. 18. 1847.

ROY AL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
PROFESSOR SCHCENBEIN'S GUN COTTON, and other.
Exploiive Compounds, with brilliant Experiments, LECTURED on
y Pr. It Y AN, daily at Halt past Three o'clock; and on the Evening,.
of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
The principle of the various ELECTRO.MAGNETIC TELE
GRAPHS explained daily by Professor RACIIHOFFNER, 111)Cluding
the Patent of Messrs. Cook aid Wheatstone, in use on the railways, and
the more recent Patent of Messrs. Nott and Gamble ; the various
Models explained. Magnified Specimens of DISEASED POTATOreg,
exhibited by the OXYHYDROGEN MICROSCOPE, with the DE
S ritucTivE INSECT, suppe(.ed by A. Smee, Esq., MS., to be
iha cause of the disease. . A beaustinil Series of NEW. DISSOLVING
IrIE Ws. The DIVING-lIELk and DIVER, with Experiments.
The PIIYSIOSCOPE, new CHROM.A.TROPE. &C.
Admission Is. 'Schools. half.priee.

BEARD'S COLOURED • PHOTOGRAPHIC'
PORTRAI LS are taken at
34, Parliament •street, Westminster,
85, King William-street, City, and the
Royal Polytechnic Aurtitutioni :Regent-street.
" A picture is now speedily produced at, very far, superior to any
obtained by former experiments..!—Art qtr,
" The fixing the colours sco/140 us 'as less wondorthl than :the
discovery of photography it self.'-,Mornlng Post.

WESTERN FIRE in& ItIFE IN KTRANCE.
CO M PAN
" This Company Is to be amalgartta with the NORTH of SCOT-'
LAND ASSURANCE COMPANY."
NOTICE.—The above paragraph which appeared in the "Daily;
News" of Thursday. the 14th of Jaime& instant, does not refer to
the wEsTEttyr LIFE ASSURANCE and ANNUITY SOCIETY.,
3, Parliament-street, Westminster, the Directors of which continue
t• entertain proposals fo,r every variety of Assurance and Annuity,
and, to suit the conven of parties, the Premiums may be paid
ANNUALLY, HALF-1 RLY, and QUARTERLY, or ONE-
HALF of the Annual P m is allowed to remain unpaid during.
the first seven years.

ARTHUR SCRATCHLET, Actuary and secretary.
January 22, 1847,

IM PROVE MEN r .OF TOWNS, &c.
APPLICATIONS TO PARLIAMENT FOR LOCAL BILLS.

NOTIC E.
We, HENRY HORN, of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law,
and JAMES WALKER, of Great George-street, Westminster, Civil
Engineer, having peen appointed by the Commissioners of her.
Majesty's Woods, FOrests, Land Revenues, Works and Bonding.,.
Surveying Officers under an Act passed in the tenth year of the reign
of her present Majesty, intituled " An Act for making preliminary.
inquiries in certain cases of applications for Local Acts," in so far as
the said Act relates to an intended application to Parliament for an
Act to facilitate the effectual Drainage of certain districts 'within
the Commission of Sewers &X the limits extending from. East
Moulsey, in Surrey, to havensbourne, in Kent, de herb's',
give notice that we shall attend on TIICIANDAr,. the *earth,.
day of February neat, at the Horns Tavern, Kennimpton,
at the hour of Ten o'clock in the forenoon, for the putiose'of-tuffklitg '
such local examination and survey of the District which such pro-
posed Act will affect, and of making sue!, inquiries relative to the.
provisions of the said proposed Act, and of investigating such other
matters relating thereto a; the said Commissioners have by their
order directed us to make and investigate. And we do hereby-rer
quire the promoters of the said intended work, to appear before us at
the time and place aforesaid, and to produce all such surveys, plans,.
sections, estimates, documents, and evidences as will be necessary to
support such intended application ; and we do hereby further give.
notice, that if any person or persons be desirous of being heard in
opposition to such intended application, we shall be ready to hear him
or them, and to examine any v,ltne.sses, or any plans, sections, maps,
books, or other documents relevant to our said inquiries, which they
may think tit to produce before us at tile time and place aforesaid.
As witness our hands this 31st day of December, 1846.

HENRY HORN, 2 Surveylll
JAMES WALKF.U, j °Ricers.

IFIENDRIE'S ESPRIT DE VIpLETTE,--
This admired perfume Is now in great perfection, having a
supply from the fresh bloom of the season. A variety of fashionable
and novel extracts d'odeurs. Sachet Powders, in out shilling packets.
Au miel, verbena, rose, marechale, patchouly, musk, &e.
K. ilendrie, perfumer to her MaJ.sty, 12 and 13, Tichborne-street,
Quadrant.

GEORGE LOVEJOY'S NEW SELF-ADArT-
ING PEN.

The above Patented Pen Is In every respect an improvement on
the various Pens now in use. A Specimen Card, containing Oi.e.
Dozen, with Holder, sent free, on receipt of 14 postage stamps, to
any part of the kingdom.
Aldress to GEORGE LOVEJOY, Reading.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

BRISTOL, JANUARY 22.

STOCK EXCUANGL.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter. New, 12
Great Western, Quarters, 17 IA —Ditto, New, 6N —Midland, New, 6
—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B). % p.—Shropshire Union, die.

LIVERPOOL, JANUARY 22.
STOCK ExcitAsos.—The sales are —Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire. p. ex int.— Birmingham and Oxford, 9 p.—Blackburn,
Clitheroe, &c., 1 dts.—Dundee and Perth, New, 84 p.—East Lan.
cashire, New, 2% p.—Ditto, New Scrip, 15( p.—Glasgow and
Dumfries, 1 p.—lluddersfield Canal and Railway, Extension, I.p.
—Leeds and Dewsbury, 8 p.—Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 1%
p.—London arid North-Western, 190—Ditto, New. Quarters, 11%
Ditto, Fifths, 16% p.—London:and York, 1% ton and Drifileld,
p.—Manchester and Leeds, Halves, 10% p.—Dtto.Fifths, 5 p.— Ditto,
Extension, 1 p.—Manchester and Southampton,Bs. 9d. die.—Matlock
and Midland, % p.—Midland, 401. Shares, 6 p.—North British.
Thirds (scrip), 2% p.—North Staffordshire, 2% p.—Royston god
Ilitchen, 18s. 9d. p.—Runcorn Gap, 31 % —Shrewsbury and Here-
ford, % dia.— Shrewsbury and Chester (late N. W. M.), New, 3% p.
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 134 dis.—Ditto, New, Is. 3d.
dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 1:51. 7s. 9d. Shares (A), p
Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, % dis.—South-Eastern and
Dover, Now, No. 4, p.—South Staffordshire (Trent Valley,
Midland, and Grand Junction), % p.—West Riding Union, 1% ps.—
Whitehavon and Furness, 3% dia.—Great Southern and Western;
par—Newry and Warrenpoint, 1% p.—Ulster, 13% p.
MANCHESTER, JANUARY 22,

STOCK EXCRANGE.—The sales aro—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire, p.—Birmingham and Oxford Junctlou,9 p.—Eas?Latt-
cashire, p.—Ditto, New (scrip), 1 p.—Exeter and Exmouth,
% dis.—Great Northern (Direct Northern), Registered, % dia.—•
lludderstleld and Manchester Railway and Canal, 3% c. p.—Ditto,
Thirds, 1 p.—Kendal and Windermere, 1% dls.—Leeds and Thtrsk,
2FS dis.—Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 5% c. p.— Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire. 92—North British, Extension, 13s. 3d.
p. —North Staffc,rdshire, 2% p.—Northern Counties Union, 1% 415;-
01,111 am Alliance, % p.—Sliropshire Union Railway and Canal, %
dis.--South-Eastern and Dover, 37—Ditto, -No. 4, 3-16 p.--West
Riding Union, 1 9-16 p.—York and Newcastle, Preference, 4% p.
LEEDS, JANUARY 22.

STOCK. EXCHANGE.—The SideS are—East Lancashlre, New, p.
—Ditto. New Scrip 255. 6d p.—Great Northern (late London and
York), is. 6d. p.-:Liedsi andDerbury.New Exteno.u.serfo (pink).
I.24cedir,% M
;:k7rteld, andritiratA, 111.VIVstY.Z.$40z„
Junction, I6s. p.—anches l
ter and Leeds Ext
chester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, lOs. p.—Midland. • Pro.
Terence, p.—North British, Thirds, 48s. 6d. p.—Ditto, Quarter'
Shares (late Carlisle Branch), 40s. p.—L)ltto, Extension (scrip). 1,6..
6d. p.—North Staffordshire, 3 n. p. —North-western, 9s. p.— Sheffield,
Rotherham, and Goole, ba. c. p.—West Riding Union,3%
Junction, 10s. dia.

HULL, JANUARY 22.
SToCK EXCTIANGE..—The *ales are—North British, Extension
scrip), 14s. 60. p. —Ditto, Thirds, 70s.—Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock, % p.—North-Western, Ss. 6d. p.
SHEFFIELD, JANUARY 22.
STOCK Elea ANot.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Itoeton, 7s. dis. Nianchester and Lincoln Union, has. dim.— Man
chester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, I Is. p.—Manchester,
Shef-
field, and Lincolnshire (Grimsby and Sheffield), 20/. Shares,
dis.—West Riding Union, it. 13s. 6d. p. —Leeds, Wakefield, and
Midland, I Is. 61. dis.—Shetlield, Rotherham, and Doncaster, In. p.
GLASGOW, JANUARY 21.
STOCK F,XCIIANGE.—'rho sales are—Ayr and Galloway, 418.
Caledonian, New, 465. f,l.—Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 46*.
Direct Northern ( scrip), 55s.—Dundee and Arbroath, 421. East of
Fife, 455. East Lothian Central, 465. Edinburgh and Glasgow,
Halves, 201. Edinburgh and Perth, 555. Glasgow General Terminus,
II !;,___Glasgow, Kilmarnock, mid Ayr, 351.—Ditto, Halves, No. 2,
—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 61. 4s.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock,
and Ardrossan, 6/. Ss. 6d.—tilasgow, Airdrie, and Monklancl Junc-
tion, 5t4—Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 52s.—Manchester and South-
ampton, 31s. 6d.—Scottish Central, 22'—York and Newcastle,
Preference, 71.