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London, England, 1847-02-10 00:00:00

CONTRACT FOR WHOLE WHEATEN MEAL.
4—P-14)ARTAIENT OF THE CO3IPTROLLER FOR VICTUALLING
AND TRANSPORT SERVICES,
Somerset-place, Feb. 9, BC.
THE COMMISSIONERS for executing the
Office of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the United Kingdom
Of Greet Britain and Ireland, do hereby give notice that on Tunas-
bay, the 11 th instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat
• I"th such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for Supplying and
Delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford,
2•6111 SACKS of WHOLE WHEATEN MEAL.
A Sample of the Meal, and the Conditions of the Contract, may be
On at the said Office. No Tender will be received after One o'clock,
04 the Day of Treaty, nor ally noticed, urdess the,party attends, or an
agent lot him duly alLthorised in writing.
E've•zy Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Adml-
- and bear in the left hand corner the words " Tender for
” and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, secom.-
titled by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to
conic bound with the pers,on tendering, in the sum of 251.. per cent.
on the value, for the due performance of the Contract.

STEAM. via the CAPE to MADRAS, CAL-
ci3TrA; PENANG, SINGAPORE, and HONG-KONG,
• "„.."'llZ at the CAPE, 3ta CRITICS and CEYLON.
44_ • Peninsular and Oriental Steam liavigation Company intend
W.spateh their Steam Ships.
"POTTINGER." of 1,400 Tons, 500 horse power, Feb. 16.
The accommodation for passengers is of a very superior deserip-
-11°a• The Cabin fittings, together o itli bedding, linen, and every
4,4Sbilte are provided at the Company's expense, The rates of Pas-
saF t are, to the Cape; 601.; to the Mauritius, 75/. ; t • Calcutta, 841.,
+Wading a handsome ta!)le, wines, &c., and every expense.
Fer piens and further particulars, apply at the Company's Offices,
"A. St, Mary Axe, London.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
PROFESSOR SCHCENBEIN'S GUN COTTON, and other
Explosive Compounds, with brilliant Experiments, LECTURED on
Dr. RYAN, daily at Half-past Three o'clock; aid on the Evening,
Ot Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
The principle of tile various EL 12CTRO-MAGNETIC TELE
GRAPHS exPlaintif daily by Professor BACHHOFFItER, including
the Patent of M ',Aare. Cook aid Wheatstone, In use on the railways, and
th,.* more re,,ent Patent of Messrs. Nott and Gamble ; the various
.11164.12 okplained. Magnified Specimens of DISEASED POTATOES,
exhiblied by the OXYHYDROGEN MICROSCOPE, with the DE-
-B„,DUTIVE LITSECT, supposed by A. Sane, Esq., F.A.S., to be
lag tease of the disease. A beautiful Series of NEW DISSOLVING
EI:EVIS. The DIVING-BELL and DIVER, with Experiments.
rem PIITSIOSCOPE, new CHROMATROPE, kg.

A.driilssion Is. Scheel., kalf-price.

THE BENEVOLENT INSTITUTE for the
TREATMENT and CURE ofSTRICTURE of the URETHRA,
and all DISEASES of the GENITO-ORINARY ORGANS.

Surgeon, F. B. COUItTENAY,
This Institute founded, and partly supported by subscriptions, and
Placed under the supervision of a Committee of Subscribers, offers to
1. _be industrious classes, IN ALL CASES, TIIE GRATUITOUS
of an able and experienced Surgeon, and, in some cases,
atedicines also free of expense. The guarantees for uniform, humane,
And skilful treatment, which such an Institute affords, will, it is
hoped, induce the afflicted humbler classes to seek its aid, and
thereby avoid the waste of pecuniary means, and the risk to We
they are sure to incur, by applying for surgical, or medical, relief to
Ignorant and unprincipled quacks, and nostrum•vendors.
Applicants for relict must apply at the Surgery adjoining the
Surgeon's private residence, 2, Chandos•street, Cavendish-square.

'PASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
-.C.1 At the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the
SHAREHOLDERS of the COMPANY, held in pursuance of public
advertisement at the London Tavern, Bishopegate-street, on Tues-
dal'. the 9th February, 1847,
The following resolutions were proposed, seconded, and unaaimoasly
'carried:—

_illat:the common Seal of the Company be affixed to the Registered
-List of 'Shareholders here produced.
That the Report of the Directors now read, and the accounts an-
nexed thereto, be adopted and printed, and circulated amongst the
roPrietors, and that the lltrldend be paid on and after the 23d Feb-
'WY next.

That George Hudson, Esq., M,T.
Thomas Gibbes, Esq.
Richard Harrison, Esq., and
Charles Hood, Esq.
bete-elected Directors of this Company.
And the Meeting having been made Special,
It was also unanimously resolved—
That this Meeting do approve of
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to make
Railway from the Eastern Counties Railway, near Cambridge, to
the Hertford and Ware Branch of the Northern and Eastern Rail-
*Ay, with Branches.
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to make
all Eastern
r_waY from the Counties Railway near Cambridge, to
the zedford rAnd Bletchley Railway, at or near iledford with branches.
ratßill tz, enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to make a
war/ from the Northern and Eastern Railway, at Hertford, to the
(are...t Northern Railway near Ilitchin.
e,n% Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to make a
'4leraY 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
-olintree Railway, near Baintree to Halstead.
% Bill to authorise the purchase, by the Eastern Counties Rail-
lfty Company, of the North Woolwich Railway Company, and the
ease of the pepper warehouses and wharves of the East and West
media Dock Company, and the construction of docks in connexion
with the North Woolwich Railway.
A Bin to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to make
railway- from the Syston and Peterborough Railway, in the parish
oY Etton, in the county of Northampton, to the Ambergate, Notting-
%las and Boston Junction Railway near Folkinghain.
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company. to make
It railway from the Great Northern Railway near Spalding) to the
Nottingham and Lincoln 'ranch of the Midland Counties Railway.
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Rail's ay Company to make
a railway from Wisbech to Spalding, and to construct docks at Wis-
bech in connexion therewith.
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to en-
large their t ondon and Stratford Stations, and to amend some cf the
:;Provisions of the Acts relating to the Eastern Counties Railway
Com paillyn.
Bto enable the Easter' Counties Railway Company to make
a railway from the Eastern Counties Railway at West Earn to or
hear the Victoria Park, with branches to the East and West India
bed,* and Birmingham Junction Railway.
A Bill to enable the Eastern Counties =awls.,
%railway from the Wisbech, St. Ives, and Cambridge Junction Rail-
WV, in the parish of Somersham, to the town of Ramsey.
A Bill to authorise the purchase by the Eastern Counties Railway
Company of the Maldon, Witham, and Braintree Railway.
That the cordial and grateful thanks of the meeting be given to
t;eo,,, rile Hudson, Erq., M P., the Chairman; to David Waddington,
the Deputy-Chairman ; and to the Board of Directors of this
'°,llPany, for their unremitting exertions to establish the property of
~
um proprietors upon a secure basis, and to render this Company
Inn's exteathely mend to the public and beneficial to the slant-
%Older*, By order,
GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman.
DAVID WADDIN.,TON, Depaty•Claairman.
C. P. RONEY, Secretary.
niehoPagate Station, Feb. 9,1347.

DIRECT BOMBAY AND MADRAS RAIL-
WAY.
The Shareholders are respectfully informed by the Board of Di-
-rectors, that the person styling himself Captain Bouchette is not, and
barer WU, a registered promoter of the Direct Bombay and Madras
itBnwaY. He has been dismissed from the appointment of engineer
to the line, and the Directors hare resolutely repudiated his exorbi-
tant claims on the funds of the Shareholders.
By order of the Board, JAMES WARD, Secretary,
58, Fenchurch-street, Feb. 6, 1847.

NORTHERN COUNTIES UNION
RAILWAY COMPANY.
,--.N°tlce is heresy given, that the ordinary HALF-YEARLY
'..ETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this COMPANY will be
held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, in the city of London,
-on Wszonstmay, the 24th of February next, at the hour of Twelve
for Half-past Twelve o'clock, upon general business, when the Report
of the Directors will be submitted for their approval.
And notice is hereby further given, that at the said Meeting, pur-
suant to notice already published, and in compliance with the Stand-
ing Orders of the House of Lords, the Bill, for which a petition is
already deposited, to enable the Northern Counties Union Railway
Company to make certain regulations in their railway in the parishes
of kysgarth and Wensley, in the North Riding of the county of
York, will be submitted to the approval of the Shgreholders.
CHARLES LOCOCK WEBB, Secretary.
WM. BERESFORD, Chairman.

The Register of Transfers Will be closed, and remain so, from the
12th day of February until the 24th day of February, 1847, both
daYs inclusive.

CHAS. LOCOCIC WEBB, Secretary.
Dated, Company's Micas, 1, Poet's-corner, Westminster,
February 3, 1847.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY
HALF-YEARLY ORDINARY MEETING.
The Half-yearly Ordinary Meeting of the Shareholders of this
Company will be held at the Company's Offices, 61, Moorgate-street,
I.oation, on WEDNESDAY, the 10th day of February next, at one
6'eleck precise,.
SPECIAL MEETING.
And notice is hereby given, that an Extraordinary, 'or Special
General Meeting of the Shareholders of this Company will be held
at theCompan) 's Offices, 61, Moorgate-street, London, oa the said
vrednesday, the 10th day of February, next, at Half-past One o'Clock
Prsall, to approve of the Bill to be submitted to Parliament in the
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"Rang peuion, for extending the Line of the Chester and Holyhead
Hallway at Chester, and Holyhead respectively—for authorising eer-
Lain alterations in the levels of the said railway, and for empowering
the Company to subscribe towards the construction of a Harbour at
11•17 head, and to purchase, hire, and use Steam-boats.
And also to approve of a Bill to be submitted to Parliament in the
tainting, session for making a Railway from Mold, in the county of
tO join the Chester and Holyhead Railway in the parish of
Hawardea, in the same county, with branches, to be called " The
)4old Railway."
The Register of Transfers will be closed from the 31st of January
Wail after the meeting.
By order, GEORGE KING, Secretary.
61, Meorgate-street, London, January 6. 1547.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
The Directors of this Company are ready to RECEIVE
TENDERS f,r LOAN of MONEY, in sums of not less than
`Mel. for a period of five, seven, or ton years, on the security of
mortgage debentures, bearing Intermit at the rate of 4/. 10, per cent.
Par annam, payable half-yearly.
.APPlieations may be made to the undersipaL at the Railway-
°meat Paddington Station.
CHARLES A. SAUNDERA, Secretary.

CORNWALL RAILWAY.
!FIRST CALL of :21. 10s. per share, per aOl. share, and
11.55. per Half or 51. Share.
Notice is hereby given, that the Directors have made a CALL of
21. 10e. per SOl. Share, and of 11. ss. per Half or 251. Share, payable
on or. before MONDAY. the First day of March next. The Share-
holders are required to pay such Call accordingly to any of the
undermentioned Bankers, namely :

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Truro,
rsimouth, /Memos. TWEEDY, WILLIAMS, and Co.
Rtdr
adelisrs. GLYN, HALLIFAX, and Co.
London, 'Messrs. PRAED, FANE, and Co.
Interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum will be charged on
the above Call after the First day of March next, until such call be
Paid.•fly order of the Directors,
J. T. TREFFRY, Chairman.

Dated Truro, 2d Feb., 1847.
Interest will be allowed at the rate of 41. per cent. per annum on
be Whole amount paid up, from the date of payment. No Share-
Bolder Is entitled to transfer his shares until he shall have paid the
Can.

ci.ORN WALL RAI LWAY.
HALF-YEARLY ORDINARY MEETING.
‘,.Notice is hereby given that the lIALF-YEARLY ORDINARY
:of the Shareholders in the Cornwall Railway Company
~11 be held at the Assembly Room, at Truro, on Ttlnner, the 23d
day of February next, at One o'clock precisely,
The Transfer Books will be closed on the 9th day of February
next, and will not be opened until after the salt Half-yearly Ordi-
EarY Meeting.
Notice is hereby further given, that after the business of the said
have ordinary meeting on the 231 day of February next shall
"nTe been transacted; the meeting will be made SPECIAL, at which
meeting there will be submitted to the Proprietors present, for their
approval, a draft of a certain Bill proposed to be introduced into
Parliament in this Session, with the title and for the purposes follow-
-I..ng, that is to say :—" A Bill to authorise an alteration in the Line of
the Cornwall Railway, and to amend the Act relating thereto, and
for other purposes.'

J. T. TREFFRY, Chairman.
W. IL BOND, Secretary.
Cornwall Railway Office, Truro, Jan. 20, 1847. •

52
A NEW DISCOVERY IN TEETH., Fleet-street.
MR. HOWARD, Surgeon Dentist, 52, Fleet-
Street, has introduced an ENTIRELY NEW DESCRIP-
TION of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or
ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be
distinguished from the originals by the closest observer; they will
never change colour or decay, and will be found very superior to any
teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction
of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve
•••('Oll that arc loose. ,•.71(l is to and
niaatication ; and, that Mr. fluwara's improvement may be within
reach of tho most economical, he has fixed his charges at the lowest
o Possible. Decayed teeth rendered sound and useful to raastlea-
, Thstrstrest. At Some thus Ten till rive.