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thsir retion, feebly set forth ; and that, they think,
c.:l be effectually done, only by your Honourabl-
ficuze taking into your honest consideration the thou-
sands of petitions far a Radical Reform of your Ho-
nburcble House, which hr.ve beer: signed by millions
of the unrepresented people of this nation.
And your pet;tioners will ever pray.
(Signed by order of the meeting),
JAMES WILKINSON, Chairman.
GEORGE ROGERS, Treasurer.
B. TILLY, Hon. Sec.

HALF YEARLY MEETING OF
THE CHESTER AND BIRKEI<HEAD RAIL-
WAY DIRECTORS.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, OCT. 7.

A numerous and highly respectable meeting of the
Proprietors in the Chester ant Birkenhead Railway-
was held at the Clarendon-rooms in this town, at
12 o'clock to-day, for the purpose of receiving a report
and statement of the general accounts from the opening
of the line, and transacting other important business.
The chair was occupied by HENRY DIXON, Esq., the
President of the:Board of Directors. The meeting lasted
for upwards of an hour and three quarters. and, when
contrasted with same of the former meetings of this
Company, was remarkable for the unanimity of business-
like manner in which its proceedings were conducted.
The report, which extended to considerable length,
was read by Mr. Mallaby, the Company's solicitor. The
accounts which commenced on the day the railway was
opened, the 21st of Oct. 1840, and were brought down
to the 30th of June, 1841, showed a surplus of upwards
of 5,00 e/. The average rate of fare upon the line was
14el. per pasSenger per mile—less by a halfpenny, and in
some instances a penny, than that charged upon other
lines in this country. The extreme lowness of the fares,
and the expenditure incurred in conveying passengers
across the river Mersey to and from Liverpool, were
considered as the chief causes of the com-
parative smallness of the profits ; and the Direc-
tors desired to call the attention of the Proprietors
to the latter subject, in the hope of their heing able to
abolish such an incubus. They also conceived it would
be desirable to have a tunnel formed at the Birkenhead
station, to communicate with the water-side, and thus do
away with the expenses of omnibuses for the convey-
ance of passengers thither. They thought it right
not to make any dividend on the surplus at
present for reasons of a cogent nature, which would
InOrQ particularly appear from the statement of the ac-
counts, but to pay A dividend at the next half-yearly
meeting ; and this they hoped would be the last sacrifice
which the Proprietors would have to make, on
account of the undertaking. The Directors had
taken into consideration the propriety of dispensing
with the services of their paid Treasurer,
but they had not, as yet, come to any resolution,
on the subject ; they had, moreover, turned their atten-
tion to the details of the several departments of the ex-
penditure, with a view to their diminution. It was with
feelings of gratitude that the Directors informed the
Proprietors, that although the passenger traffic had in-
creased upon the line, no accident had occurred to any
one, nor had there been any injury experience 6 by the
carriages, although the rate of travelling was equal to
that on any other line in the kingdom.
Mr. J. MonYNEaux moved the adoption of the Report.
Mr. E. GERARD seconded it, and it was carried
unanimously.
Mr. JACK now, of Birkenhead, then made a proposi-
tion to the Company to pay the sums of 24,3501. for t'Le
ferry between Liverpool and Woodside, and 5,700/. for a
new steamboat they had purchased, and to grant the right
in perpetuity to the Company to convey railway passen-
gers from Mankstown-ferry to Liverpool.
The proposition, which appeared fair and reasonable,
caused considerahle discussion, and the Proprietors em-
powered the Directors to enter into a negotiation, with a
view to its being effected.
The meeting then separated.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

(THIS EVENING.)

At the Court at Windsor, the 6.h day cf October, 1841,
present the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. It
is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council, that the Parlia-
ment be prorogued from Thursday, the seventh day of this
instant October, to 'I hursday the eleventh day of November
next.

At the Court at Windsor, the 6th day of October, 1841,
present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.—
rbis day the Right Hon. Frederick William Hervey (com-
monly called Earl Jermyn) was, by her Majesty's command,
sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and
took his place at the Board accordingly.

31E31BERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

CITY OF HEIIEFORD—Robert Pulsford, of No. 1 I, Hyde-
park-terrace, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., in the room of
Henry Hobhouse, Esq., who has accepted the Chiltern Hun-
dreds.

BOROUGH OF WILTON—The Hon. James Charles Herbert
Welbore Eliis Agar, commonly called Viscount Scmerton, in
the room of James Howard Harris, commonly called Viscount
Fit zharris, now Earl of Malmesbiliy.__

OFFICE OF ORDNAN E, Ocr. 6.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Captain and Brevet Major
J. Sinclair to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Bayly, retired on
full-pay ; Second Captain W. Greenwood to be Captain, vice
Sinclair ; First Lieutenant A. J. Taylor to be Second Captain,
vice Greenwood; Second Lieutenant A. C. S. Somerset to
be First Lieutenant, vice Taylor, Sept. 25.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire.

Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., to be Vice-Lieutenant, Oct. 5.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Glamorganshire.
E. J. Hutchins, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ? W. C.
Gwinnett, Esq., to be ditto. Sept. 28.
Commissions signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of Fifeshire.
Sir J. Halkett, Bart., to be Deputy-Lieutenant; Lieute-
nant-Colonel R. Ferguson, to be ditto ; W. Glass, Esq., to
be ditto ; M. C. W. Aytoun, Esq., to be ditto ; A. Corstor-
phine, Esq., to be ditto Balfour, Esq., to be ditto, Julys.