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London, England, 1847-01-23 00:00:00

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11[IDDLESEX ELECTION.
The Committee for conducting the Election. of Lord
ROBERT GROSVENOR sit daily at the Central Committee Rooms,
British Coffee House, Cockspur-strect. ,
S. C. WHITBREAD, Chairman.
January 22, 1847.

• OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JAN. 4, 1647.
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 ATZSENAL, WOOLWICH, which have 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 Wedneiday, the 27th
instant. • By order of the hoard,
.It. BYHAM, Secretary.

THE CATHOLIC, LAW, AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE. CO3IPANY.
(Incorporated under the 7th and ilth Vict., cap. 110.)
Capital One Million, in 50,600 Shares of 201. each.
No. 5, New Coventry-street, Leicester-square, London.
TRUSTEES.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Cheadle,
Staffordshire
The Right Hon. the Earl of Traquair, Traquair House, Feeble-
shire, N.B.
The Right Hon. the Lord Stafford, Cossey Hall, Norfolk
A. H. Lynch, Esq., 31a.iter in Chancery-, 33, Queen-square
Thomas Barnewall, Esq., 15, York-terrace, Regent's-park
Thomas Eyre, Esq., 62, Pulteney-street, -Bath.
DIRECTORS. •
The Right Rev. William Morris, D.D., Acton, Middlesex
The Hon. Edward Petro, 26, Wilton-crescent
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.e.8., Director of the lion.the E. I. Company,
and of the London Joint-Stock Bank •
The Very Rev. A. Magee, D.D., Romney-terrace, Westminster
Rev. Thomas Doyle, LLD., London-road, Southwark
Henry Clark Duppa, Esq., Quarry-house, Boughton
Francis M`Donnell, Esq., Usk, Monmouthshire
James Marshall, Esq., 24, Carlton Villas, Militia Hill.
James Reade, Esq., 13 Lower Berkeley-street.
William Seymour, Esq. Montague-place, Russell-square
• • AUDITORS. - -
Edmund Jerningliam, Esq. 1. . Wellington Rots Seymour, ESq.
CONSULTING PLlTsicieN—James Copland, M.D., F.R.S., 5, Old
Burlington-street.
Cousuvritio SURGEON—WiIIiam Teevan, Esq., 23, Bryanstone-square
England STANDING COUNSEL.
3tr. Sergeant Shee, Sergeants' Inn
Edmond Beales, Esq., Stone-buildings, Lincoln's Inn
Ireland—Sir Colman O'Loghlen, Bart., Merrion-square, Dublin.
SOLICITORS.
England—Messrs. Norris and Sons, 2, Bedford-row, London
Ireland—Messrs. P. and D. Mahony, 23, William-street, Dublin.
CONSULTING ACTUARY—WiIIiam Lewis, Esq.
BANKERS.
The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury ; the London Joint-
Stock Bank, 61, Pall-mall
SEcarraav—William Norris, Esq.
The general business of the Company comprises essurances on
lives in every form ; the purchase of life interests, and reversions ;
the sale of immediate and deferred annuities; the endowment of
widows and children ; and the advance of money upon real property,
upon approved and undoubted personal securities.
The Company gives three-fourths of the profits to those assuring
on the profit scale, and one-fourth to the Proprietors. The first di-
vision of profits to take place at the expiration of seven years.
Should any person assuring in the Company die before the expira-
tion of the seven years, his representatives will nevertheless be en-
titled to the proportionate share of profits due at the time of decease,
payable upon the distribution of profits. Interest,at the rate of 4 per
cent. per annum will also be allowed to the proprietors on the Aid-
up capital.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26 CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured
las, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
&tare of the Policy, two-thirds of the premiums paid (sso Table) ;
also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in-
crests to meet other conveniences or necessity.
Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible
ates.

DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The remarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society
has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare
:ourth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid
on each Policy effected on the Profit scale.
EXAMPLES.

01:1,,..g ',,11
>. ri2 '''4 Bonus Bonus in ati i Assured
F.: Premium. 2 g
ay
ai et - added. Cash. EE , m
:-. 0 e. Borrow.
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-- -- -- --
7 1837 £217 15 I£loo 011 £l6 0 4 £445 0 0
.0 Xs. d. 1838 192 3 0 87 1 4 13 10 21 395 11 1
01000 3 4 1839 165 11 10; 74 1 9 11 3 1 316 2 3
1 1840 116 7 6, 54 010 718 10 296 13 4
1841 111 6 8,1
49 10 01 710 4 247 4 5

The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in
Pmember of the present year.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX. Secretary.

THE INDASSIAURANCE
COMPANY AND LONDON LIFE
,
17, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Richard Hartley Kennedy, Esq ,Chairman
George William Anderson, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Invalid Lives assured ; also—
Select Lives—including the Lives of Naval and Military Officers
proceeding to or resident in India, or other parts of the world.
Indian rates of premium much lower than in any existing Com-
pany.
.Assurances affected daily, on application at the Office.
A half-premium (not half Credit) table for select lives, whereby
half the amount of premium only is required to be paid during the
first seven years. The unpaid half-premiums do not constitute a debt,
therefore no interest can be charged, or auy reduction made, when
the policy becomes a claim.
GEORGE N. WRIGHT, M.A., Manager.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.— 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London : 97,
George-street, Edinburgh: 12, St. Vincent-place, Glasgow ; 4, Col-
ege-green, Dublin. Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.
In 1841, the Company added a bonus of 2 per cent. per annum on
the sum assured to all policies of the participating class, from the
time they were effected. Parties wishing to secure the benefit of the
next division of profits in 1848 should make immediate application.
When the Insurance is for life, only one half the Annual Premium
need be paid for the first 5 years.
Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident
Director, E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., No. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall,
London, where Prospectuses, &c., may be had.

STEAM via the CAPE to MADRAS, CAL-
CIITTA, PENANG. SINGAPORE, and HONG-KONG,
calling at the C APE, DIACRITICS and CEYLON.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company intend
to eispateh their Steam Ships.
PEKIN," of 1,000 Tons, 400 horse power, 30th January.
..rOTTINGER." of 1,400 Tons, 500 horse power, sth February.
The accommodation for passengers are of a very superior descrip-
tion. The Cabin fittings, together with bedding, linen, and every
requisite arc provided at the Company's expense, The rates of pas-
sage are, to the Cape, 60/. ; to the Mauritius, 751. ; to Calcutta, 841.,
Including a handsome table, wines, &c., and every expense.
For plans and further particulars, apply at the Company's Offices,
51, St, Mary Axe, London.

TO THE TEA-DRINKERS throughout the
KINGDOM.
Aa much has been said and written advocating a Reduction of the
present high rate of the Tea Duties, we will endeavour to show the
present market value of TEAS, which the public now well know, on
all dcseriptions, pay a duty of 2s. 21q d. upon every pound.

DESTITUTE HIGHLANDERS.
mR. WILSON begs to ,apnoupee, that on
TUESDAY EVENING, January 26, at Eight o'clock, he will
give an Entertainment on ihe,
SONGS OF THE HIGHLANDS,
In the Princess's Concert BOOM, Castle-street, Oxford-street, for
tin Benefit of the Destitute Highlanders, and Natives of the
Western Isle?.

Pianororte—Mr. LAND.
The Doors will be opened at Half-pait Seven o'clock, the Enter-
tainment to commence at Eight, and terminate about Ten.
PROGRA7.I M
PART I.—My Heart's in the Highlands —The Maid that tends,
the Goats—The Bard's Legacy—Lizzie Lindsay —Ochoin ochri, oh
—The M'Grcgor's Gathering—Rob Roy's Lament—Rob M`Gregor's
come again.
PART IL—Farewell to Lochaber —Come under my plaidie—
Pbroo, phroo, my bonnie cow—Pibroch o'Douttil Dhuibh—Row weel,
my boatie, row weel—The Reel o' Tullochzorum.
Reserved Seats Front of the Platform, 3s. ; Body of the Room,
2s. ; Gallery, Is.
Tickets and Programmes may be had of Messrs. Cramer, 'Beare,
and Co. ; Messrs. Addison and Hodson, Regent-street ; Messrs. Duff
and Hodgson, 65, Oxford-street; and at the Doors 411 the evening of
performance.

BOSTON, STAMFORD, and BIRMINGHAM
RAILWAY (STAMFORD TO WISBECII
First Call, 1/. 14s. on each reduced Share, tusking 51. called tip.
Office, 18, Abingdon-street, Westminster,' Jan. 20, 1847.
Notice is' hereby given, that a CALL of H. 14s. on each reduced
Share has this day been made, and to be paid on or before Mom- •
D1...415t of March next, to any of the undermentioned. Bankers.
According to the provisions of the Act of lacorporation, interest
at the rate of 5. per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly, will be
alloweh 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 rata of 5 per cent per annum will be
charged thereon, and no Interest shall accrue to 'the proprietor of
any share upon which any call shall be in arrear, irk Tespect of such
share or ally other share to be holden by the same.proprietor during
the period while such call shall remain unpaid. • •
By Fth*of the WAAL,
• GBORGrIA.I9-AitD, Secreta-y.

BANKERS.
London and County Bank, London
Messrs, Jones Loyd, Manchester
The Bank of Liverpool
Messrs. Attwoods, Spooner, and Co., Birmingham

. Messrs. Beckett and Co., Leeds.
All Shateholders wishing -to pay money in anticipation of calls
will he 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.

LIVERPOOL, 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
caster ,nn the 2d day of FEBRUARY next, at the hour of Eleven o'clock
in the forenoon of that day.
And notice is hereby further given, that, in accordance with a re-
quisition signed by more than twenty shareholders in the said under
taking, holding, in the aggregate, not less than one .tenth of the
capitall3,erFETlNGel
a aotf
tt t
iheoef
ptraidhaela
SHAREHOLDERStiCompany,eu
ete
al
n aforesaid,E Xrof the
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 ilarther given, that at the said last-mentioned
meeting the Directors will apply for powers 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 nse the Northern Coantics 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 and Leeds Rail-
way, 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. H. 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,/ Secretaries.
W. H. INGRAM,

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 fur 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.
BARRINGTON, Deputy-Chairman.
The Directors retiring are re-eligible under the provisions of the
Act. The Transfer Books will be closed on and from Monday, tho
Bth February, and will not be re-opened until after tho said Half-
Yearly General Meeting on the 18th February, and the Dividend for
the half year ending the 31st December last, will be paid to the
Proprietors who may be registered on the Company's books when
closed.

By order,
CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.

January 21, 1947,

EAST ERN COUNTIES RAILWAY
com PANT.
TWENTY•FIRST GENERAL MEETING.
Notice is hereby given that, in pursuance of the Act of Incorpora-
tion, the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the SHARE-
HOLDERS of the COMPANY will be held at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-street, London, ow TUESDAY, the 9th day of February
Neat, 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 arc about to be introduced into Parliament in 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 Ware Branch of the Northern and Eastern Railway
with Branches.
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to make
a Railway front 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 Company to make
a Railway from the Northern and Eastern Railway, at Hertford, to
the Great Northern Railway, near Hitcbin.
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 snaking a railway from the Maldon, Witham, and
Braintree Railway, near Braintree to Halstead.
A Bill 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 Bill to authorise the purchase, by the Eastern Counties Rail-
way Company, of the North Woolwich Railway, and the lease of
the Pepper,Warhonses and Wharves 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 Northampton, to the Ambergate, Notting-
ham, and Boston Junction Railway, near Folkingham.
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to snake
a railway from the Great Northern 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
li
artssbliewag
in from
connexion
Vxiisobn teachheretowiSth.palding, and to construct docks at
v
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to enlarge
their London and Stratford Stations, and to Amend some of the Pro-
visions of the Acts relating to the Eastern Counties Railway Coin-

patty.
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, and 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 Smnersham, to the town of Romsey.
A Bill to authorise the purchase, by the Eastern Counties Hallway
Company, of the Malden, Witham, and Braintree Railway.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED on
SATURDAY, the 30th Jamiary, and will not be OPENED until WED-
NESDAY, the 10th February.
GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman.
DAVID WADDINGTON, Deputy-Chairman.
By order,

C. P. RONEY, Secretary.
Bishopsgate Station, 22d January, 1847.
N.B. The DIVIDEND for the HALF-YEAR, ending the 4th Ja-
nnary last, will be payable to those parties who, on the 30th January
next, shall be the Registered Proprietors in the Books of the
Company.

PARCEL POST COMPANY.
Capital 30,0001., in 6,0001. Shares of 51. each,
No eall 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-
plicati na for those shares until the 28th instant, after which day the
list will be finally closed.—By order of the Board,
E. T. GOUGH, Secretary and Resident Manager.
67, Fleet-street, London, Jan. 18. 1847.

HJ. and D. NICOLL, Registered Paletot
• Manufacturers and Tailors to their Royal Highnesses
Prince Albert, Prince George of Cambridge, kis Grace the Duke of
Wellington. &c., beg respectfully to announce that the celebrated '
Llama Cloth is made by them also in warmer substances to suit the
approaching season. The above firm with confidence anticipate that
this introduction will receive from the public an equal approval with
the well-known gentlemanly light overcoat, called the Registered Pa-
letot, for summer wear, which is already honoured with the constant
patronage of all that seek an unaffected gentlemanly appearance.
It is respectfully suggested that moderate prices are strictly main-
tained for every article of dress, supplied at either of their London
establishments, viz., 114, Regent-street, and 22, Cornhlll.
The Registered Paletots, 6th and 7th Vic., cap. 65, of both the
winter and summer substances, are kept ready, in every colour, for
immediate wear ; these can only be obtained in the metropolis as
above, and of their recognised agents in the chief provincial cities of
the United Kingdom ; also of the principal Stores in the United
State's, British India, and America ; but in Bombay, only of Messrs.
IVaghorn and Co , and at Liverpool, of Messrs. Dawbarn and Son.

DREDGE'S HEAL-ALL, or celebrated EM-
iBROCATION, has long been known throughout the West of
England, as the most efficacious Remedy for Rheumatism, Lumbago.
Pains in the Limbs and Numbness, Sciatic and Paralytic Affection;
Face-ach, Sprains and Bruises, Burns and Scalds, Spasms and
Cramp, Stiffness of the Joints or Neck, Frozen Limbs, Chilblains be-
fore they are broken. It is likewise an infallible Cure for that dangerous
disorder the Quinsey or Sore Throat, in which it was never known to
fail after a few hours' application.
iaer
Observe—That none can be genuine unless the Stamp affixed to
each bottle contains the name and address of Barclay and Sys, Nis
95, Farrlngdon-street, who have purchased the property this
avaluableo f articleford the executors
and sold retail, by iau respectable Medicine 'Venders inpm Dredge,
towa anti
retapri olfs.thi% inventor,d and 2 William
oun try.

- .
NORTON'S TRULY VALUABLE CAMO-
- MILE PILLS, FOR INDIGESTION, &c.
These Pills are a pure extract of camomile flowers, prepared by a
peculiar process, by which all the medicinal properties of rather more
than one ounce of the flowers are concentrated into four moderate.
sized pills, They are m!ld in operation, and have proved wonder-
fully successful in removing every sympton of indigestion, sick head-
ache, loss of appetite, giddiness, heartburn, costiveness, eruptions of
sufferedvftin
socoeul
dghi alli
from
rvwbohoih:
tic,
which
: to
Bnai
tkd
adiegtietfrnlhssteiselohidoer.ait,
the skin, and all complaints arising from a disordered state of the
cli4estive organs ; they require no alteration of diet, and their opera-
tions will he found so beneficial in giving tone to the stomach, regu-
lating the bowels, and in promoting a.healthy habit, as fully to eon-
ileir
several greaty e
the smallest weeks perfectly recovered, which is a convincing proof that in
arust,llhltay;e.rbeyr, othnesirwuhsoe,hianvea
smallest compass is contained the largest quantity of the tonic
principlehr of so peculiar a nature as to pervade the whole system,
2tsh.,adn.d,
asthrdenfitsh..each,
the
CAUTION.-130kingdom.in every town in
sure to ask for "Norton's Norton's rills," awl. 40 not per-
suaded to purchase au imitation.

•
110 YAL POLYTECHNIC _INSTITUTION.
PROFESSOR SCHCENBEIN'S GUN COTTON', -and other
Explosive Compounds., with brilliant Experiments, L'ECTURED on
y Br. RYAN, daily at Half past Three o'clock; and on the r.vening'
of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. ' •
The principle of the various ELECTRO-MAGNETIC TELE' •
GRAPHS explained daily by Professor BACIIHOFFN Eli, including
the Patent of Xlessrs. Cook and Wheatstone, in use on the railways, and
the more recent Patent of Messrs. Nott and Gamble ; the "TaTi°Ps
Models explained, Magnified Specimens of DISEASED POTATOES,
exhibited by the OXYIIYDROGEN IC ROSt."'OP E, art th the DI,-
S CRUCTIVE INSECT, supposed by A. Smee,
Esq , F.R.S., to be
the cause of the disease. A beautiful Series of NEW DISSOLVING
VIEWS. The DIVING-BELL and DIVER, With EiperirriOts.
The PHYSIOSCOPE, new CH ROMATROPE, &e.. "&c.
Admission Is. Schools, half-price.

WARD'S COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHIC
FORTRAT I'S are taken at
34, Parliament •street, Westminster,
85, Kin"- William-street, City, and the
Royal Polytechnic Institution, Rekent.street.
" A picture is now speedily produced far, very far, superior to any
obtained by former experimauts."—Art Union.-
" The fixing the coloiars seems to us no less wonderftd than the
discovery of photography itself."—Morning Post:

WESTERN FIRE and LIFE. IN surtAxa
co MPANY.
" This Company is to be amalgamated with the VORTHafl3eot-
LAND ASSURANCE COMPANY."
NOTICE.--Tho above paragraph, which appealed in the " MIRY
NewS" of Thursday, the 14th of January instant, does not refer to
the WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE and ANNUITY sperETT,
3, Parliament-street; Westminster, the Directors of which continue
to entertain proposals for every variety of Assurance and-AnnußY,
and, to suit the convenience of parties, the Premiums may be paid
ANNUALLY, HAW-YEARLY, and QUARTERLY, or ON-5.-
HALF of the Annual Premium. is allowed to remain unpaid 'during
the first seven years.
ARTHUR SCRATCIILEY, Actuary and SecretilrY-
January 22, 1847,

IMPROVEMENT OF TOWNS, &C.
APPLICATIONS TO PARLIAMENT FOR LOCAL HILLS.
• NOTICE.
We, HENRY HORN, .of the Middle Temple, Barrisfer-at-Law,
and JAMES WALKER, of Great George-street, Westminster, Civil
Engineer, having 14een appointed by , the Commissioners •of her
Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land-Revenues, Works and -Buildings,
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 gases of, applications fog Local Atte," in so far as
the said Ad fellifia to an intended application to Parliament for an
Act to facilitate the effectual Drainage of certain districts within
the Commission. of Sewers fur the limits extending from East
Aroulsey, in Surrey, to Vavansbourne, in "Kent, do hereby
give notice that we shall attend on Trmasnar, the fourth
day of February next, at the Horns Tavern, Kennington,
at the hour of Ten o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of making
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 as the said Commissioners have by their
order directed us to make and investigate. And we do hereby re-
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 applicationove shall be ready to hearhim
or them, and to examine any Witnesses, or any plans, sections, maps,
books, or other documents relevant to our said inquiries, which they
may think fit to produce before us at the time and place aforesaid.
As witness our hands this 31st day of December, 1846.
HENRY HORN, Surveying
JAMES WALKER,
.1 1 Officers.

RENDRIE'S ESPRIT DE VIOLETTE.-
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 one shilling packets.
Au miel, verbena, rose, marechale, patchouly, musk, &e.
R. Hendrie, perfumer to her Majesty, 12 and 13, Tichborne-street,
Quadrant.

GEORGE LOVEJOY'S NEW SELF-ADAPT-
ING PEN.
The above Patented Pen is in every respect an improvement on
the various Pens now in use. A Specimen Card, containing One
Dozen, with Holder, sent free, on receipt of 14 postage stamps, to
any part of the kingdom.
Address to GEORGE LOVEJOY, Reading.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, JANtriwir 22.
STOCK Excuswax.—The sales arc—Bristol and Exeter, New, 12—
Great Western, Quarters, 174—Ditto, New, 6% —Midland, New, 6
—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (II), % p.—Shropshire Union, % dis.
LIVERPOOL, JANUARY 22.
Srocic EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire, % p. ex int.— Birmingham and Oxford, 9 p.—Blackburn,
Clithcroe, &c., 1 dis.—Dundee and Perth, New, 8 p.—East Lan-
cashire, New, 2% p.—Ditto, New Scrip, 1 4 p.—Glas;ow :tad
Dumfries, 1 p.—Hudderstield Canal and Railway, Extension, Ip.
—Leeds and Dewsbury, 8 p.—Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 1%
p.—London and North-Western, 190—Ditto, New,
la Qualton rters
and , 11%
Ditto, Fifths, 16% p.—London;and York, 1% p.— B Driftield,
p.—Manchester and Leeds, Halves, 10% p.—Dtto Fifths, 5 p. -- Ditto,
Extension, 1 p.—Manchester and Southampton, Bs. 9d. dis.—Matlock
and Midland, p.—Midland, 401. Shares. 6 p.—North British,
Thirds (scrip), 214 p. —North Staffordshire, 29i p.—Royston and
Hitchen, 18s. 9d. p.—Runcorn Gap, .31% —Shrewsbury and Here-
ford, 4 dis.—Shrewsbury and Chester (late N. W. M.), New, 214 p.
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 1% dis.—Ditto, New, Is. 3d.
dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 151. 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), 3A p.—West Riding Union, 11,4 p.—
Whitehavon and Furness, 31,4 dis.—Great Southern and Western,
par—Newry and WmarANrenepHoiEnst,Tlatp;
J—AUNulsAteßry,
2132.% p.
_

STOCK EXCKANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire, M p.—Birmingham and Oxford Junctlon,9 p.—East Lan-
cashire, 2M p.—Ditto, New (scrip), 1% p.—Exeter and Exmouth,
dis.—Great Northern (Direct Northern), Registered, IA dig.—
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 3,4 c. p.—Ditto,
Thirds, 1 p.—Kendal and Windermere, 1% dis.—Leeds and Thirsk,
dis.—Manchester and Leees, Fifths, *4 c. p.— Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 92—North British, Extension, 13s. 3d.
p.—North Staffordshire, 2% p.—Northern Counties Union, 1% dis.—
Oldham Alliance, % p.—Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, %
dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 37—Ditto. No. 4,3-1 G p.—West
Riding Union, 1 9-16 p.—York and Newcastle, Preference, 4% p.
LEEDS, JANUARY 22:

STocx sales are—East Lancashire, New,
—Ditto, New Scrip, 255. 6d p. —Great Northern (late London and
York), Is. 6d. p.—Leeds, and Dewshury,New Extensions Scrip (pink),
245. p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 2% dis.—Ditto, Preference, 245. p.—
Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 11s. 6d. dis.—Malton and Driffield
Junction, 16s. p.—Manchester and Leeds EXteIISiODS, 20s. Ma
Pre-
n-
chester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 10s. p.—Midltuid.
ference, 44 p.—North British, Thirds, 465. 6d. p.—Ditto, Quarter
Shares (late Carlisle Branch), 40s. p. —Ditto, Extension (scrip). 155.
6d. p.—North Staffordshire, 3 n. p.—North-Western, 9s.
Rotherham, and Goole, ss. c.p.—West Riding Union,334
Junction, 10s. dis p.— Sheffield,Wharfdale

HULL, JANUARY 22.
STOCK EXCIIANGE..—The sales are—North British, Extensand
ion
,scrip), 14s. 6d. p.—Ditto, Thirds, 70s.—Manchester, Buxton,
Matlock, % p.—Norths-AVEeFstkelrnE,LBDs., 6j ARdA.Npu.
STOCK EICHANON.—The sales are—Ambergale, Nottingham, and
T' 22.
Boston, 7s. dis. —Manchester and Lincoln Union, ids. dis.an
ehester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 11s. p.—Manclicster, Shef-
field, and Lincolnshire (Grimsby and Sheffield), '2O/. Shares, 1%
dis.—West Riding Union, li. 13s. 6d. p. Leeds, Wakefield, and
Midland, 11s. 6d. cils.-f-Shoffield, Roth erham, and Doncaster, Is. p.

GLASGOW, JANUAXT 21.
STOCK EXCOANOK.—The sales are—Ayr and Galloway, 418.
Caledonian, New. 465. 6d.— Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 46e.
Direct Northern (scrip), 55s.—Dundee and Arbroath, 421. —East of
Fife, 45s.—Enst Lothian Central, 465. Edinburgh and Glasgow,
Halves, 201. Edinburgh and Perth, 553. Glasgow General Terminus.
11 !fi—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 351.—Ditto, Halves, No. 2,
—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 61. 4s.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock,
and Ardrossan, 6/. Bs. 6d.—Glasgow,
then, s%—Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 52a.—Manchester and South-
ampton, 31s. 6d.—Scottish Central, 29Ii—yo rk and Newcastle,
Preference, 71. Airdrie, and Monkland Jutic-

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last night's Gazette.)
In Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32. for
the Week ending on Saturday, the 16th day of January, 1847.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

tiotes i55ued........ 27,225,335

£27,225,335

Government debt • • 11,0-1,100
Other securities •• • • 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 11,356,60
Silver bullion .• •• .. 1,868 667

£27,225,335
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
,1847.

Dated the 21st day of January,

BANKING D.
Proprietors' capital .• 14,553,000
Rest .• •.• • •• •• • • 3,551,483
Public deposits (in-
eluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-
ings-banks, and Di-
vidcnd ACCOLUIIS)• • :.,034,189
3ther deposits •• • • 10,339,726
Seyon day and other
bills. ...... •••• • • 998i950

£ 31.477,348

o ErAATMEN T.

Dattd th 6 21st day ofJanuary,

Government securi-
ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) • • 12,757,326
Other securities •• • • 14,450,711
Notes ..... • • .... 6,545,95
Gold and silver coin • • 723,346

£31,477,348
1847.
NI. MARSHALL, Chtof Cashier.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, JAN, 20.—The accounts received from the MM. ]
try this morning arc frightful. Famine and pestilence are I,
now ravaging every corner of the land. Human. beings
huddled together in dozens, and literally- rotting in their
cabins, of fever and dysentery, are to be
In seen in
Ulster every parish
and hamlet in three of the provinces. the p
are not quite so badly off; but even there they are rapidly
approaching the condition of their unfortunate countrymen
in the south and west.
In Waterford there aro one thousand
theand thirty-three
unfortunates in the poor-house, and slime lst of Decem-
ber, according to the statement of Dr. Mac -esy, there
have
been seventy-five deaths! a from another guardian's account
the weekly deaths averagedll and 12 to 16,
In Ardmore seventye persons have been starved to
death within the last month, and as many more have died of
want in Tramore and Dungarvon.
The landlords—notwitht•tanding all the black oar of
" the leading journal"—are doing theirh duty how__ , y
On Friday. next thept
.) 0 the
people. County meetings, called bye Lieutenants, are in
rh, e co. ''
course of general vganisation.County
Tipperary meets at Nenagh, " To consider the unfortunate
of the principal townPs at ing
State of the Country, and to petition Parliament
Limerick, Waterford, Wexford, and Leitrim, are
to do the same, and in many
cities requisitions, having a 3imilar object in view a and
course of signature. re in
of our present umnhfolerht
NON-TILLAGE OF TIIE LAND,
has taken-
Among the worst evils
tion is the apathy, amounting, to despair. , tmate pos.
possession of the small farmers. The Tipperar
Y Vindi t
of this day states that from very many dietrict ca or
miles apart, we learn that farming operations 8 several
cont.
great measure suspended ; and from what we wit confines in a
selves, we confess we believe these statements to our-
rally correct. Small farmers cannot till because they
be our-
rally
seed, and because they cannot purchase it; ley have
mers cannot procure labourers sufficient for hair lage far-
bfcause they cannot give them wages and food h purposes,
'he entire machinery by which business was heretoforeeretofore.
ducted has gone wrong; and we only fear that
t core.
ducted
worse for the future, should not an effort it must be
ately made to have the land cultivated. be immedi-
INDIAN MEAL.
The Cork Constitution states that an
Victoria Ante • gentleman
American
named Cherri, who arrived at the VI • can
Hotel
offered to supply Indian meal to any amount, re on Sunday,
delivered to within three months, wind and
to be
milting, at 121. per ton. He offered the house weather per •
London, as security for the fulfilment of his of Barings, of
WRECK OF THE SlRlUS.—(ADontract.
PARTICULARS.) TIONAL

BALLYCOTTON, Mosany.—We are sorry to say that the
anticipation relating to the breaking up of the Sirius has
proved too true, for she was by this morning's tide literally
smashed into small pieces, and not a vestige of her frame-
work, hull, rigging, or spars now remain together. The
only object discernible on the rock where she went to
pieces is the boiler and part of the engine, which has as yet
resisted the lashing of the waves. There is, however,
melancholy evidence to point out the unfortunate locality of