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London, England, 1846-05-23 00:00:00

REDUCTION OF DUTY ON FRENCH BRANDY,

COGNAC BRANDY, like the wine from which
it is obtained, requires age for its perfection ; when old, it is
the most wholesome of spirits, but when new it is deficient in its
good and medicinal properties • while, 'lf adulterated with British
Brandy, theso valuable properties are lost, and, from a generous and
invigorating cordial, it is changed into a coarse and inflammatory
spirit.
The great difficulty of procuring good genuine old Cognac Brandy,
and the high duty charged upon it, have hitherto prevented
persons from using it ; but now that a good and genuinemany
be Obtained, and at inuch more moderate rate, it is naturaraltielteoug:
ea-
Pat great increasethe consumption. •
To nnet this demand, Mr. L. E. ISEIGNETTE has determined to
avail hiialself of his longnd intimate acquaintance with the Brand
trade as an Importer. lie holds the largest stock of Cognac Brand Y
pale and brovn, in this country, and, he accordance with the wishye;
and recommendations of his numerous friends, he has taken out a
Wholesale Dealer's Foreign License, which enables him to dispose of
it in quantities of two gallons upwards, duty paid. He pledges him-
self to sell none but the best Old Cognac Brandy, genuine as im-
ported, and carefully selected.
To those who know him, he feels assured that this pledge will be
satisfactory. To strangers, who can discriminate the soft and fla-
grant flavour of pure and matured Cognac from the coarse, ardent,
and frequently adulterated spirit until now imposed on the public, he
recommends a trial, with reliance on their judgment in favour of the
Superior quality of his Brandy.
Mr. fieignette begs also to offer to
the Public the best Hollands'
Geneva that can be imported.
in uantities not less than two Mons
Prices for Cash on delivery, q
ere

245. per Gallon for best Brown Cognac Brandy.
265. t, best Pale Ditto.
203. best Geneva (Hoßands).
A liberal allowance Ca the Trade, to whom Mr. Seignette takes the
opportunity of offering his Brandies and Geneva in bond at current
market prices.
Agents wanted
tier only,
and Country : persons of reSpectability
may apply, per letter only, at the Office,
26 and 14, MINCING-LANE, CITY.

OLD'
GOLD FLAT HORlZONTALwithengine-turned WATCHES,
enamel dials, carefully finished, cases,
jewelled in four holes, going barrel to continue the action of the
watch while winding, are offered, price six guineas. These elegant
little Watches will be found to perform very correctly, and a printed
undertaking is given, with fixed terms on which they will always
. ,
re,.•eive any attention required.
T.
sCOS SAVORY and Co. Watchmakers,
on. &c., 47, Cornhill
(seven ,loers from GracechurCh-street), Lond N.B.—Seeond-
hand WatOes purchased In "chan-----'----ge. -----------
VIrEgh"OWS, MOUSTACHES, and WHIS-
-4.41 KERB pr,4rteed in a few weeks by using an essential Spirit
I are
't fr'n. h • '* A
ro.dru,,
Aromatic Herbs, the peculiar properties ef
cent In knovrn"o'ol,- to the Inventor, and although perfectly inno-
ness of constitution, itself, will p le new Hair on bald places, caused by weak-
cent
of the human figure. hero Natutz. has not bestowed this orna-
lity and Gentry
up,llfure. It has been known to many of the Nobi-
lity
most siucerely upwards ei,'ven years, ,:une of whom the Inven-
Certainty of restoring
Hair
their attestation of its merits, in the i
strength. Its virtues are manifold—it and giving it adc:_itional lustre and
ing off or turning
gray ; a
few drops
prevents the Hair from fall-
remove the moat distressing ton the crown of the head will
tended with faintness ; and is pain that part produced by or at-
only specifies
(known to cure that disease
by the Faculty as the
de ealvans a the Hair trse of the head called Torino
applications remove' dandruff. This wonderful
off in patches) ; a lew
plained in a pamphlet, containing testimeeni discovery is fully ex-
new Hair upon bald places, entitled, ..
Three all to its regenerating
Growth and Preservation of the munaniMinutes' Advice on the
Inventor of the Aromatic Regenerator for that Muir," W. Grimstone,
Hair, and a certain preventative of headache and "h often Human
toilet pernune—bearing the Inventor's signature fainting ;also a
gate, near London. , Herbary, High-
Sold only in triangular bottles, with name, gze, &e
at 43., Is., and 115. each, Government stamp Inc," Cast thereon,
retail, by all Chemists, Draggists, and Perfttmers,
enl!olesale and
appointment and blare
special
THE FOLLOWING AGENTS FOE LONDON,
Messrs. J. and E. Atkinson, perfumers, 24, Old Bond-street.
Messrs. Fisher and Toiler, Chemists, Conduit street, Boni-street.
J. Sanger, Patent Medicine Vendor, 150, Oxford-street.
Messrs. Hannay and Co., Chemists, &c., 63, Oxford-street.
Messrs. Barclay and Son, Patent Medicine Warehouse, Farringdon-
street.
Thos Keating, Chemist, 79, St. Paul's-churchyard.
E. Edwards, Patent Medicine Warehouse, 67, St. Paul's-ehurchyard.
T. Butler, Patent Medicine Warehouse, 4, Cheapside.
Messrs. W. Sutton and Co., Patent Medicine Warehouse, Bow-
churchyard.
R. Johnston, Paten Medicine Warehouse, 68sale Druggists, 225 and
, Cornhill.
Messrs. Langtoll, Btrothers, and Scott, Whole
226, Thames-street.
ard, Wholesale Druggists, Great Trinity-
Messrs. Drew and Hayes
lane.
Messrs. Butler and Muckley, herbalists, Covent-garden.
T. Prout, Medicine Vendor, 229, Strand.
R. Hendree, Peritmer, Tichborne-street.
FOR MANCHESTER.
X. Leresche, Patent Medicine Vendor, Advertiser Office.
FOR EXETER.
Besley, Medicine Warehouse, North-street, Dev.mshire Chronicle
Office.

FOR BAN3I MT.
Potts, Medicine Vendor, Guardian Office.
FOR ENNISKILLEN, IRELAND.

R. BeTan, Chronicle Office.
FOR EDINBURGH.
Messrs. J. and R. Raimes and Co. Druggists, Sze., Leith-walk.
N.B. The Is. size contains two of the 45., and the lls. size con-
tains four times the quantity of the 4s. By forwarding a rt,St-ealCe
41.641, 76.8 d 0 121.1 eithtE OW will be returned.

LONDON AND YOIIK RAILWAY.-
The Committee of Shareholders hereby give notice that
no further Signatures to the petition can be received, nor Scrip
marked as approving of the AMALGAMATION with the EASTERN
COUNTIES COMPANY after TUESDAY next, the 26th instant.
By order of the Committee,
HENRY PHILIPPS.

4, Size-land, May 22, 1846.

ONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.
4 The Committee of Shareholders direct the attention of the
Proprietary to an advertisement, by which, it appears, the Directors
of this Company have convened a Public Meeting of the Shareholders
for Sartmwev, the 30th Instant. The Committee have confidence in
the integrity and character of the Directors, but fear they do not suf-
ficiently estimate the financial and other difficulties which will Im-
pede the construction of so large a work, and the great relief which
would arise to the Shareholders by an amalgamation with an estab-
lished dividend-paying company.
There is little doubt that a complete consolidation of interests with
the Eastern Counties Company might be effected, the liability on the
Shares thereby decreased, and their value Improved ; and that, if the
Directors were convinced It was the wish of the larger portion of
the Shareholders, they would feel it their duty to effect such an ar-
rangement.

The Committee have throughout only sought to attain this object,
and they now urge the Shareholders personally to attend at the
meeting, and if they vote for the continuance of the project to do so,
accompanied with some suitable expression of their opinion on the
advantage of amalgamation.
It is nccesslry for every proprietor, who wishes to vote at the
meeting, to attend personally with his scrip, or to entrust it to a
friend. Those proprietors who may desire to be represented by the
Committee, are requested to send their scrip, addressed to Mr. H.
Phillipps, No. 4, Size-lane, London, on or before Ttionsnait next,
when a proper receipt will be given, and the scrip returned imme-
diately after the meeting.

By order of the Committee,

4, Size-lane, -May 22, 1846.

HENRY PHILIPPS.

WEST RIDING UNION RAILWAYS.
Notice is hereby given, that in compliance with the Ses-
sional Orders of the two Rouses of Parliament, a Special Meeting
of the Holders of Scrip and Bankers' Receipts for Scrip of the West
Riding Union Railway Company will be held at the Court-house, in
Leeds, in th, county of York, on FRIDAY, the 29th day of May
instant, at Twelve o'clock at noon precisely, to consider the Bill
now in Parliament for making certain lines of railway in the West
Riding of the county of York, to be called " The West Riding Union
Railways," and to approve or disapprove of the said Bill.—Dated
this 13th day of May, 1846.

H. HOULDSWORTU, Chairman.
R. OTLEY, Secretary.
Persons attending the meeting will be required to produce the Scrip
or Banker's Receipt for Scrip of their own, and also of any other
person or persons on whose behalf they attend.
The voting paper, properlyfilled up and signed, may be transmitted,
together with the corresponding Set ip, * to any of:the following
directors, or the Secretary, who will cause the votes to be registered
accordingly, and return the Scrip after the meeting :
Henry Houltisworth, Esq., Manchester, Chairman.
William Rand, Esq., Bradford.
Edward Akroyd, Esq., Halifax.
Wm. Firth, Esq., Leeds.
Printed forms of voting papers may be had on application at the
Company's Office, Broad-street, Halifax ; Messrs. Barr, Lofthouse
and ;,Messrs.Nelsos oce Leeds ; Mr. Thomon and Mr Tolson's offices,
Bradford Fenton and Jones, Huddersfield; and the Secre-
tary's office, Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, Manchester.
To facilitate the dispatch of business at the meeting, the Secretary
will attend at the following times and places to take an account of
theA Steirllapl,iftkaxe,., intended te be produced at the meeting, and receive
the same from parties disposed to transmit through him, and at all
At Leeds, on We;
events the Scrip, &c., must be produced at the meeting.
and Nelson's office At Bradford, on Tuesday, 26th instant, at Mr. Thompson 's office ;
od:deasyd,ity2,s2thuihnsitnasntta,:athtexiCeossmrpsa. Company's office ;
From Ten to Four o'clock each day.
road-street, Halifax, 18th May,
• Or Bankers' receipts (as the case may bleu: Lofthouse
Offices, B By order, 812.406 T. LEY, Secretary.
No.

FORM OF VOTING PAPER.
WEST RIDING UNION RAILWAYS.
As the holder of the following Scrip (or Bankers' Receipts for
Scrip, as the case may be) of the West Riding Union Railways Com-
pany, I, the under-signed, approve (if disapprove, say se,) of the
Bill now in Parliament for making the proposed West Riding Union
Railways, submitted to the Special Meeting held at the Court-house,
in Leeds, on Friday, the 29th day of May, 1846, pursuant to the
Sessional Orders of Parliament.

Name (at length) .
Occupation, &c....
Reside.nce........Date .
LIST OF SCRIP ABOVE REFERRED TO.

Date of
Numbers of i Numbers of Numbers of Bankers'Receipts Total
1 Shares. 5 Shares. 10 Shares. and No. of Shares'
Shares. i
.

N.B.—Be par
proper celaiale,

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Scrip in the

THE DIRECT BOMBAY and MADRAS
RAILWAY COMPANY.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 4,500,0001., in 90,000 shares of 50/. each,

„ .
Deposit, ss. per share, being the amount limited .by the 7th and Bth
Victoria, cap. 110, with the provisions of which Act the Company
have strictly complied ; and no further call until the local surveys
have been taken and reported to the shareholders.

PROMOTER—Captain 801/CHETTE, C.E., son of the late Hon. Colonel
Bouchette, Surveyor-General for Canada.
Offices of the Company-58, Fenchurch-street.

The plans, maps, and sections of this line have been laid before the
following most distinguished and influential personages, who have all
given their approval of its importance and utility.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, IC G.
G.C.8., &c.

The Right Hon. the Earl ef Auckland, G.C.8., late Governor-General
of India. .

The Right Hon. the Earl of Ripon, President of the Board of Control
for the Affairs of India.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Dalhousie, President of the Board of
Trade.

The Right Hon Lord Metcalfe, late Governor of Madras, and Gover-
nor-General of Canada.

General Lord Aylmer, G.C.8., late Governor-General of Canada.
General Lord Strafford, G.C.8., G.C.H., late Commander-in-Chief of
the Forces in Ireland.

The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, her Majesty's Principal Secretary
of State for the Colonies.

General Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., G.C.M.G., G.C.B. F.R.S., and
M.P., late Lord High Conunissionerof the lonian Islands.

General Sir James Caldwell, K.C.B
General Carpenter, H.E.I.C.S.

. .
Colonel Sir Francis Cockburn, K.C.8., late Governor of the Bahamas.
COMMITTEE.
Major-General Moss, Honourable East India Company's Service.
Major-General Watson, C. 8., 11.E.1.C.5.
Captain Frobisher, H.E.I.C.S.

J. Hodgson, Esq., .oakhill-park, Middlesex,
Captain Gilham, Bengal Service.
H. Hadding, Esq , Hoobly, near Darwar.
Richard Lucas, Esq., Brom ey, Bucks.
W. J. Jerardjee, Esq., Madras.

Thomas Fuller, Esq., merchant, the Elms, near Loath.
(With power to add to their number).
CONSULTING ENGINEER--JOhll A. Galloway, Esq., C.E.
ENGINEERS—Captain Bouchette ; Walter P. Wade, Esq., late Royal
Engineers.
STANDING CouNsm—Her Majesty's Solicitor-General ; Alexander
Coekburn, Esq., Q.C.
BANKERS.
London—London and County Bank.
Bombay—Bank of Bombay.
Edinburgh—British Linen Company's Bank.
York and Leeds—Yorkshire Banking Company.
Hull—Hull Banking Company.
Bristol—Messrs. Stuckey and Co.
Birmingham—Birmingham and Midland Banking Company.
Southampton—Hatnpshire Banking Company.
Glasgow—Union Bank of Scotland.
Liverpool—The Liverpool Banking Company.
AGENTS.

Bombay--Messrs. Nicoll and Co. (Madras—Messrs. Binny and Co,
SECRETARY—James Ward, Esq.
PROSPECTUS.

Public attention is naturally directed to the continent of India, in
these times of speculative enterprise, as a new and unexplored field
for the investment of capital, from the conviction that the yet unde-
veloped resources of its wealth, its industry, and its productive
power, will richly and amply remunerate the speculator.
The millions who people that vast and fertile region of the globe,
only require the impulse of enterprise to call forth the almost bound-
less riches that immediately surround them ; and were they possessed
of that great artery of civilisation—railroads—the current of their
political and Industrial strength would instantly become enlarged, not
only in volume, but in richness also.

If we glance at the continent of India, we find our power mainly
concentrated on three points on the coast—Calcutta, Madras, and
Bombay, which form an irregular triangle, the base of which may
be termed Madras and Calcutta, and the apex Bombay; and the
great bulk of the wealth and physical power of India is inclosed
within that figure; therefore, it becomes a matter of the primest im-
portance to have the intersecting lines of our empire as perfect as
possible, so that our power may be felt at every point, and our in-
fluence extended to every part. From the want of this concentrative
power, India has become almost a burden to the mother country,
barely paying its executive administration in lieu of being a lucrative
possession—a wealth-yielding appendage.
To obviate this great and glaring defect in our Anglo-Indian em-
pire, it is only necessary to extend to her the same means of com-
munication that we possess at home ; to bring, in short, the great
centres of her internal power nearer to each other ; and, instead of
depending upon her rivers as lines of traffic and intercourse, she
aught to have a well-arranged network of railway extending over
her surface ; then she would increase in power, and augment in
riches.
_ .

The Direct Bombay and Madras Railway is projected to carry out,
in part, this noble scheme ; and a single glance at the map must
convince the most cautious calculator that the project is well founded,
and the line of route happily chosen to effect its purpose; as it will
intersect the most wealthy and industrious provinces of the continent
of India, the Carnatic, and the Mysore, which abound in natural
productions, in manufacturing industry, and in agricnltnral wealth.
The two great Presidencies of Madras and Bombay will be brought
within a few hours' journey of each other, and not months, as here-
tofore ; and, in lieu of vessels making a long and dangerous voyage
of some 5,400 miles half round the entire peninsula of India, their
castly cargoes may be easily conveyed to Bombay for shipment, in a
less number of hours than the voyage occupies days ; thus avoiding
all risks of damage, peculation, wear, and tear, &c., which in general
characterise these voyages. The saving of insurance will also be
immense—a matter of first-rate importance.
In a political and military point of view, the line must be of almost
incalculable importance, as it will intersect the great depots of the
East India Company, and afford at all times a ready and prompt
conveyance for troops, baggage, stores, artillery, and that cumbrous
materiel which invariably attend their march; and, above all, it will
prove of the utmost utility to the Indian Government, in the distri-
bution of their forces among the various military posts of the three
Presidencies, and for their rapid concentration on any required point,
the want of which was so distinctly shown in the late calamitous
events on the Sutlej, and the consequent fearful sacrifice of life.
The district traversed by the Direct Bombay and Madras Railway
contains upwards of 30,000,000 of inhabitants ; and the wants and
industry of this large body already yield a considerable tonnage,
al_hough in a comparative state of barbarous communication. In
the report of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, we find that the
traffic to and from that City amounts to 187,343 tons annually, con-
sisting chiefly of cotton and salt. These two items form merely a
fraction of the requirements of the Indians. Bombay is unapproach-
able except by a dangerous and expensive sea-board, and a cheap and
safe communication can alone render available her internal resources.
Cotton has now to be transported 500 miles to the coast, to reach
Bombay for shipment. A railway would naturally obviate so cir-
cuitous and expensive a route. Some idea may be formed of the de-
struction and delay occasioned by these journeys, when we state
that the cotton is carried on the backs of oxen, at the rate of 10
miles per day, which enormously augments its shipment price. The
present cost of conveyance from Nagpore to the port of shipment is
from 14/. to 271. a ton, and the charge by rail of Id a ton per mile would
amount to 4/. 3s. 4d., a considerable difference. The same facts pre-
vail in regard to silk and other commodities, which are of the first
importance to our manufacturing interests.
This line will also bring hearer to us the fine island of Ceylon, with
all its rich productions, commencing as it will at Madras, and taking in
its course Arcot, Vellore, Banglore, Oscotta, Bangalore, Sera, Dodairee,
Hurrioor, Ghittledroog, Myacunda, Anagee, Hurryhur, Shahnoor,
Hullyhall, Hoobly, Darwar, Taloor, Gohauk, Rybaugh, Meeruj, Kola-
poor, Satara, Poona, Poonah, Tulligaon, Singhur, Callianee, Basseen,
Salsette, and Bombay; thus absorbing the interests and traffic of up-
wards of 30 first-rate cities, and from 400 to 500 towns in the most
densely populated part of India, facilitating the conveyance of cotton,
coffee, tobacco, opium, sugar, silk, senna, gum, cassia, dye-woods,
hides, furs, lac, betel nut, saltpetre, spices, fire-wood, charcoal, coal,
corn, and various kinds of grain, indigo, &c., and the imports of
treasure, manufactured and other goods, salt, ice, &c.
The passenger traffic alone, according to reasonable and careful
calculation, will yield an ample per centage on tke capital raised ;
and the immense tonnage of merchandise and raw produce must
insure to the shareholders a profit beyond even the first-rate lines of
England.

The promoters of the present scheme have received intelligence
from their agents that the line presents no engineering difficulties,
and that the cost of construction must be moderate, labour being
plentiful, and the purchase of land comparatively trifling, and wood,
coal, and iron abounding in the immediate neighbourhood of the
whole line.

The management of the Company will be vested in a Board of Di-
rectors in London, in connexion with an influential branch both in
Bombay and Madras. _ _

— Care will be taken, in the act constituting the Company, that the
responsibility of the Shareholders shall be limited to the amount of
their subscriptions; and four per cent. interest will be paid upon the
capital advanced up to the time of construction. The Directors also
beg to call especial attention to the principle by which allottees in this
Company are protected florn an objectionable responsibility, by the
condition that their application for shares will not be considered
binding upon them, should they afterwards decline to pay the de-
posits requi:ed at the time specified in their letters of allotment.
A reserve of 40,000 shares will be made for India, which the pro-
jectors have much pleasure in stating will scarcely suffice for the
demand already made.
Applications for shares, in the annexed form, may be addressed to
the Secretary, at the Company's offices, 58, Fenchurch• street, and to
the undermentioned sharebrokers and agents :—Messrs. Joshua Hut-
chinson and Son, Lothbury ; Messrs. Hughson and Dobson, Frederick-
street, Edinburgh ; Mr. Edward Dickenson, Liverpool; Messrs.
Borthwick. Campbell, and Co., Glasgow; Mr. J. It. Massey, 6,
Temple-street, Birmingham ; Mr. Thomas J. Greaves, St. Ann's-
square, Manchester; Messrs. Edward Morgan and Co., Norwich ;
Messrs. Borthwick and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne; Mr. W. H. Land,
Messrs.erson
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rand.s 33ifuant set7ort,eHr
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Mr. John Caldecott, Bridge-street, Chester ; M. W. Oliphant, Perth ;
aßnrdistAolid;
3fossrs. Elsood and Harr:son, Leicester ; Mr. J. Clark, jun.,
Southamptong ; Mess s. Tyeth and Luscombe, Plymouth ; Mr. Percy
Bolger, Gardener-street, Dublin; Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter;
Mr. W. Miles, Worcester ; Messrs. White and Son, Leamington and
Warwick ; Messrs. Browne and Clarke, Coventry ; Mr. J. W. Carr,
Colchester ; Messrs. Lang and Brown, Glasgow; Messrs. Smyth and
Du Bedats, Royal Exchange, Dublin; Mr. Richard Richardson,
Halifax; Messrs Smith and Perfect, Leeds; Mr. J. Hurry, Spalding,
and Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham.
May, 13th, 1846. JAMES WARD, Secretary.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Bombay and Madras

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