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CHRISTMAS lIOLIDAYS.
ROYAL POD YTECHNIC INSTITUTION,
Lectures for this period of the year, by Dr. Ryan and
Professor Bachoffnor Ln CHEMBTRY and NATURAL PHILO-
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A Lecture on the PREVALENT DISEASE in POTATOES will *e
slivered by Dr. Ryan, and also on the ATMOSPHERIC RAIL-
WAY, by Professor Bachoffner, a Working Model of which, car-
rying several persons, is exhibited daily. The additions to the
OPAQUE MICROSCOPE, DISSOLVING VIEWS, and CHRO3IA-
TROPE are very effective. The PHYSIOSCOPE. Submarine Ex-
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the various additions to the Working Models is (:,"oleinan's NEW
AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE, for ascending and de-
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Admission, One Shilling. Scheele, Half-price.

HOTEL and TAVERN-KEEPERS' PROVI-
DENT INSTITUTION-.
The SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY DINNER of this INSTITU-
TION will be held at the London Coffee-House, Ludgate-hill, on
WEDNESDAY, the 14th instant,
The Right lion. the LORD MAYOR In the Chair.
Tickets 21s. each, to be had of the Stewards ; at the bar of the
London Coffee-house ; and at the Crown Hotel, Craven-street, Strand.
Dinner on table at Five o'clock precisely.
STEI'N. EDWD. TAPSTER, Hon. Sec.
Craven hotel, 2d ,January, 1846.

KING'S HEAD INN, COVENTRY.
Conducted by JAMES WILLIAMSON.
TO COMMERCIAL GENTLEMEN.
J. IV. takes the present opportunity of thanking his numerous
Commercial Friends for their liberal support for the last five years,
and trusts, by strict attention to their comforts, he shall receive a
continuance of their favours.
To Commercial Gentlemen generally, J. W. begs most respectfully
to observe, he has made arrangements to receive an increased number
of commercial guests, assuring them his best endeavours shall not be
wanting to render their visit to the King's Head at all times de-
sirable. _ _ _

Large Rooms convenient for the exhibition of stock.
Post-horses, Flys, and Gigs, always ready, at moderate charger,
Agent to the London and Birmingham Railway.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY, _

26, COB.NITILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
. _

Empowered by Act of Parliameat.
instituuen orrers important auu .Att v
tages with respect both te Life Assurances aid Deferred Aimaities:
The assured has, on all occasions, the power to bornw, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of ki3 interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances
fir terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.

DIVISION OF PROFIT';.
The s access and increasing prosperity of the Society lens enabled
the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third
Bonus, varying from 30 to 75 .per cent. on the premiums paid on
each Policy effected on the Profit scale.

FBA 11fPLISS.

PreNAM. Bonus Banas in
g i added. Cash.
, .

1337 £l9l 13 it 87
601000 74 3 4
1838 165 13 0 74
1839 133 13 6 61
1840 89 0 0 41

E. a
Fi 5
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13 51.E13 17 1
13 101 11 8 6
14 31 9 210
13 4j 6 • •

:4;2„

rX395 Il 1
346 2 3
29e 13 4
247 4 5

WITH PROFITS. WITHOUT PROFITS. _
Age. Annual Premium. Aga. Annual Premium.
20 £1 17 1 20 £1 10 3
25 2 2 1 25 1 14 11
30 2 8 2 30 2 0 7
35 2 15 2 35 2 7 0
40 3 4 0 40 2 14 3
45 3 15 6 45 3 6 6
50 4 11 8 50 4 1 8
55 59 7 I 55 50 5

No extra Premium is charged for residence
North American Colonies, or at the Cape of G,

Peculiar facilities are afforded for the asst
persons proceeding to or residing in the East I

in the Australasian or

)od Hope.
arance of the lives of
Indies.

Premiums may be paid, and claims settled,
East Indies, by indorsement of the policy.
Immediate and Deferred Annuities are granted by the Company
on very favourable terms, and it is a peculiar feature in its constitu-
tion that Annuitants participate in the profits.
The following are specimens of the rates of annuities granted for
every 1001. sunk :

in Australasia and the

Male Female Male Female
I Age. Lives. Lives. Age. Lives. Lives.
35 £7 1 5 £6 13 5 65 £l2 12 0 £lO 19 0
45 7 18 1 7 4 9 75 18 9 2 16 3 5
55 913 0 88 9 80 125 8 9 20 2 7

Prospectuses, with Tables, Forms of Proposal for the purcha,e of
an Annuity or for making an Assurance, and every information,
may be obtained by application at the Office of the Company.
E. ItYLEY, Actuary and Secretary.

UNIVE RSAL GAS-LIGHT COMPANY.
lIJJ PRELIMINARY. ANNOUNCEMENT.
Capital 100,0001., in 5,000 Shares of 201. per Share.
Deposit 10s. per 1001. Shares, In accordance with the let.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Under the Management of a Previsional Committee.

CoNST7yrizto CnEssurr—i'rofeesor Ryan, M.D., LL.D., Royal Col-
lege, Portsmouth, and Royal Polytechnic Institution.
num:DEN—Henry Francis, Esq., Patentee, 40, Elizabeth-street,

Eaton-square.
IS Artrzsa—Sir Claude Scott, Bart., and Co.
BoLICITott—J. F. W. Fesenmeyer, Esq., 23, Bedford-row.
SECRETARY—Mr. William NiChol3oll.

Offices of the Company and Working Factories, 159, Drury-lane.
The Company is farmed for the purpose if carrying out, more ef-
fectuallywleottreii working, and bringing into general nut, an invention se-
cured for an improved manufacture of gas.
euted bby letters
The apparatus is so portable it can be fitted up on any descrip-
tion of building, even at a kitchen range, without affecting the do-
mestic arrangements, and the fire used in ordinary in generating the
gas will be ample to produce steam for warming the most extensive
premises.
The most eminent engineers and chemists unite in opinion that
the invention is not only practicable and free from smell or annoy-
ance, but by this valuable patent is secured the manufacture of a
pure and superior gas, not only on new, but sound, scientific, chemical,
and mechanical principles, which have been hitherto overlooked in
the common modes of manufacture ; besides, this gas possesses more
of the illuminating power, and will burn longer, than that now in use,
in the proportion of 40 per cent. in favour of the invention.
The patent method 4 pplicable to lighting generally, but more
especially small towns, villages, lighthouses, colleges, churches, dock-
yards, theatres, public offices, prisons, barracks, railway stations,
nil umfactories, printing-offices, madhouses, hospitals, and schoels,
Stc., and warming the buildings, without extra expense.
The benefits which would accrue to lighthouses, dockyards, and
numerous localities, where the ordinary gas cannot be conveyed
without the formation of many new Acts and Companies, or at im-
mense expense, would be sufficient to obtain for this Company the
most prominent and prosperous position.
The great saving to the consumer, the small portion of room requi-
site for the erection of the apparatus, the simplicity of its working,
a price which will defy comp
and the brilliancy of the gas, will insure the adoption of the invention
throughout the kingdom i and although the public can be supplied at
hold out to those disposed to become etheab
aCompanyt shareholders
can confidently
eturn up o n
their capital of not less than fifty elder e
The Company being far advanid'erw7int»
registered, to take contracts immedi:stely. in a situation, when fully
Applications for shares, in the usual ferm, to
further particulars obtained of, the Solicitor, and alsottivi:eadse to, and
Secretary,
at the Company's offices, where may be seen the apparatus at work,
and the brilliancy of the gas exemplified.
TO FLOOR-CLOTH MANUFACTURERS,
pAygn-STAINERS, and WHOLESALE CABINET-
MAKERS, &c. first-rate connexion with Up-
An• I Traveller, who has a ,
experience( .
holsterers, and takes his journlos twice a year . through the Eastern,
Midland, and Northern Counties, aml ,Scotland, is open to an en-
gagement with a respectable house in either of the above lines, ill
conjunction with a house he has represented for many years.
Address (post paid) to H. M., Cathedral Coffee-house, St. Paul's

CANDLES at CLARK'S REDUCED PRICES.
Palace Wax Candles (finest wax mwla), Is. 11d. per lb. ;
Orient Wax, is. 9d. • Transparent Wax, Is. 6d. ; Queen's Sperma-
ceti, is. Rd. ; Sperm Is. ad. and Is. 2d. ; Clark's Royal Wax, Is. ;
Patent Sperin, Is. , Clark's Solar, superior to all composite, 10d. ;
Kitchen Candles (six months old), 514 d. Yellow Soap, 395. 485.,
and Clark's Superb Soap, 58s. per 1121b5.; Muttled, 565. per 1121bs. ;
Sweet Almond, Ls. 9d. per lb. ; Orient Rose, Is. 9d. ; Old Brown
Windsor, Is., the finest, Is. Rd. ; Royal Musk Windsor, 2s. ; Scented
Curd, Bd. Sperm Oil, 6s. 3d. and 6s. 9d. per gal:on ; Clark's Patent
Sperm only 55.; Solar, 3s. 4d. At CLARK'S Old-established Candle
and Immense Lanni Deease wrpot, 447 it, e
down WEST STRAss.D.
Pl addreN

JONES'S DEMULCENT COUGH LO-
ZENGES, the best remedy ever discovered. Persons afflicted
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as a confection.
Sold by the proprietor, Peter Jones, operative chemist, l i, Norton-
folgate, Bishopegate-street, London, in boxes Is. 1%c1., and in tini at
2s. Ji. each, duty included ; and by meat chemists and patent medi-
cine vendors in town and country.

ACROSTIC addresed to MR. GRIMSTONE,
ein,is ON HIS INCOMPARABLE EYE SNUFF.
G ifted of men, who by thy wondrous art,
B ne
everyco nt
ie .
i m iclime,lilai:tnahsrr,aoaungdli
roarsagai everyn,
part,
I n Europe's wide and civilised domain ;
M ds otw Asida n
S tretching from Afric's broad and scorching shores
T o where the mighty Niagara
0h ! here accept this tributary lay •
N or deem that I can ever well repay,
E geept in gratitude sincere, profound,
'S uch wondrous benefits I so long have found.
E 'en from the moment I was led to try
Y OUT marv'llous SNUFF, the SAVIOUR OF THE EYE!
E ace, health, and comfort, now attend my day.
S afe from the lamp's bewild'ring dazzling blaze,
N or dreading e'en the Sun's zoo burning rays.
U nfit, in former days, for much employ,
F acing, not seeing : now, indeed, my joy,
F ree and unbounded, thrives without alloy 1
Sept., 1845. J. M. g.
Observe—The gigantic balance of all, the Public Press ! eulogise
this excellent compound of British Herbs. The reader will remem-
ber that this celebrated Eye Snuff has been before the Public up-
wards of thirty-three years, advancing in the favour of all who use
it. This odoriferous Snuff is sold loose at 6dand. perthe ounce, or in Canis-
her
ters bearing the above Royal Authority, sanction of
Majesty's Lords of the Treasury on each canister, at Bd., le. 3d.,
as. 4d., 4s. 4d., Ss., and 15s. 6d. each, by all Tobacconists, Merchants,
and others. This Eye Snuff is exported in white stone canisters to
all quarters of the globe. A liberal discount allowed to Merchants,
Shippers, Agents, and others, on taking large quantities.
Look well to the Signature of the Inventor, W. GRIMSTOXE,
434, OXFORD STREET, and 24, I:ZING STREET, LONG ACRE,
LONDON.
..* For the convenience of Tobacconists, Grocers, and others who
sell this herbaceous Eye Snuff loose, and wish to have it in large
' quantities, they can be now supplied vrith canisters lontalning ten
pounds, or upwards, if required.
: sending a Post Mee Order for St, t se. 4d. Ater will ~
ret. 4,. . with full particulars, postage laoludad,.*ld sci,n initcr:
P' ''".r,p,

CRIPPLE GATE WARD WITHIN.
At a Meeting of the Inhabitanfs, holden:at the George Hall,
Aldermanbury, pursuant to a resolution passed at the Wardmote,
held on the 24th of December last,
THOMAS CHALLIS, Esq., Alderman of the Ward, in the Chair ;
It was moved by Mr. CASH; seconded by Mr. ISENNOCH ; and re-

solved,

That this meeting views with deep concern the unsettled state of
the country, arising chiefly (as it believes), from the pernicious ope-
ration of the present corn-law, which holds out delusive hopes to the
agriculturist, cripples commercial enterprise, introduces a system of
gambling into the ordinary business of life, which is alike destruc-
tive to morals and legitimate trade, induces a precarious supply, en-
hances the price of food, and is not oily oppressive to the poor, but
also subversive of the best interests of the vast majority of the popu-
lation.

It was moved by Mr. DEWAR ; seconded by Mr. STRODE, Jun. ; and

carried unanimously,
That the direful effects of the present corn-law, set forth in the
foregoing resolution, render its immediate and unconditional repeal
essential to the prosperity of the people and the peace and safety of
the kingdom.
It was mooved by Mr. HOOLE ; seconded by Mr. LAST ; and carried

unanimously,
That petitions to the Houses of Lords and Commons be prepared,
founded on the foregoing resolutions. That Lord Radnor be re-
quested to present the petition to the Lords, and Lord J. Russell that
to the Commons ; and that the other representatives of the city of
London be desired to support the prayer of the petition.
It was moved by ➢ir. B. BROWN ; seconded by Mr. BERNARD ; and

carried unanimously,
That the thanks of this meeting be given t.) Mr. James Crocker, for
generously granting the use of the George Hall free of expense.
It was moved by Mr. SAMUEL MORLEY ; seconded by Mr. Deputy

PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH
COURT of CHANCERY, made in a cause of LYNE against
LYNE, the Creditors of PHILIP LYNE, late of Westbourne, in the
county of Sussex, Esquire (who died in the month of November,
1840), are, on or before the 12th day of February next, to come in
and prove their debts before Sir GIFFIN WILSON, one of the Masters
of the said Court, at his Chambers, in Southampton-buildings, Chan-
cery-lane, London, or, in default thereof, they will be peremptorily
excluded the benefit of the ;said Decree.
W. and E. DYNE, 61, Lincoln's Inn-fields,
Plaintiff's Solicitors.

PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH
COURT of CHANCERY, made In a cause of HAMMER
against HAMMER, the Creditors of GEORGE HAMMER, formerly
of Jubilee-street, Mile-end-road, in the county of Middlesex, and late
of Bethnal-green, in the same county, master mariner, of the ship
Sussex, trading to the South Seas, and who died at Mile-end afore-
said in the month of May, 1844, are, on or before the 12th day of
February next, to come in and prove their debts before Sir GIFFIN
WILSON, one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers, in
Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London, or in default thereof
they will be excluded the benefit of the said Decree.
LOFTY, POTTER, and SON, Plaintiff's Solicitors,
36, King-street, Cheapside.
sth January, 1846.

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CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.
ALLOTMENT OF NEW SHARES.
In complianoo with the wishes of Shareholders who have not been
able to go to the places named in the Letters of Allotment, the Com-
pany's bankers are authorised to receive deposits till the 10th inst.
inclusive, and the Deeds will Lie for Signature at the Company's
effete, 122, Princes-street, Edinburgh, anl 124, St. Vincent-street,
Glasgow, on the 7th, iith, 9th, and 10th instant ; and 28, Par-
Ilament-strect, London, on the 9ih, 10th, 12th, and 13th instant,
from Eleven, A.M., till Four, P.m.
Parties sending powers of attorney will please to remember to have
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may name,•as their attorney, David Rankine, the secretary ; when
sent to London, Robert Weems, Parliamentary agent.
By order,

D. RANKINE, Secretary,

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

METROPOLITAN JUNCTIONS.

An adjourned meeting of' the Shareholders of the
Metropolitan Junctions Railway Company was,held yes-
terday, at the offices of the Company, in Clement's-lane,
for the purpose of considering the result of the negotia-
tions for an amalgamation with the Northern and
Southern Connecting Company, and to determine what
steps ought to be adopted in the present position and
state of the affairs of the Company.
The meeting was called for one, and shortly after that
hour Major CROFT, the Chairman of the Board of Ma-
nagement, took the chair. Ho said the business of the
rnApt;nn hp,l hmt.” 0,-,,,,,..5%nnArl by thsk•"^i-- " ••e, mg. a resomA9n pa .at last kg; uireepp•
UMW lode wriiteiito every member Or the Provisional 1
Committee, calling upon them to pay up their deposits
upon the shares they had applied for and had had allotted
to them, and then the answers which had been received
to such applications.

Mr. Giii. •JONES suggested that as there were only
twelve gentlemen present to represent a Company whose
capital exceeded two millions, they had better wait a
short while longer to allow of other shareholders
attending.
The CHAIRMAN said, at the breaking up of the last
meeting, several Shareholders requested that the ad-
journed meeting might be held punctually at one, be-
cause it was a great inconvenience for men of business
to attend at that hour, and then to be kept waiting for
a considerable time.

Mr. JONES asked if the vote of the gentlemen present
was to be taken as final ?

The CHAIRMAN replied that all he could say was that
if the Shareholders would not attend, it was not the
fault of the Directors, but it placed them in an unplea-
sant position.
Mr. SHIRKS said he never beard of the last meeting
till after it had taken place, and then it was by accident
that he saw it reported in the papers. 'The Directors
ought to do more than advertise these meetings. They
ought tl forward notices of them to every Shareholder.
He had never seen their Company mentioned in a news-
paper, except in Spilleman's list in the Times.
Ultimately it was agreed that the business should be
delayed for half an hour. At the expiration of that
time the attendance of Shareholders had become more
numerous, and the Chairman requested the Secretary to
read the answers to the applications he had previously
alluded to.

The first was from Mr. Thomas Lawrance, of Saint
Mary Axe, who denied ever having applied for shares
in the Company, and declared that his name had been
placed on the Provisional Committee without his know-
ledge or consent.

The next was from Mr. Brown, of Windsor, who said
he had paid the deposits on his shares, amounting to
525/., and requesting to know when he could sign the
contract deed.

The next was from Mr. Humfreys, of 68, Old Broad-
street, who requested to have his name immediately
withdrawn from the Provisional Committee.
Mr. JONES asked who this gentleman was ?
The SECRETARY replied that Mr. Humfreys was the
father of their former solicitor, and he was allotted 200
shares at the request of his son.
The next was from Lieutenant White, of her Ma-
jesty's ship Ocean, who expressed his inability to pay
the deposits at present.

The next was from Mr. William Harding, of Croydon,
who said he was unable to accept more than ten shares,
and he was ready and willing to pay upon that number.
The next was from Mr. Charles Butler, who declared
that he had long ceased to be a committeeman, and had
never accepted any shares.
The SECRETARY said it was true Mr. Butler was not
one of the Managing Committee, but he had never with-
drawn his name from the Provisional Committee. Mr.
Butler, moreover, had attended some of the preliminary
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allowing Provisional Committeemen to act at tiles., meet-
ings who had formally accepted shares.
The last letter was from Mr. Butler, solicitor, of
Furnival's Inn, who stated that Mr. Horne,
Mr. Bowyer, and Mr. Phillips, were willing to pay
upon their shares if the undertaking were carried out,
or to bear their share of the expenses if it were not.
The SECRETARY said these were the only replies he
had received to 128 applications.
Mr. C. GREEN wished to know how many of the
Provisional Committee had paid the deposits upon their
shares ?

The CHAIRMAN replied that out of 130 only 16 had
paid. This, however, was exclusive of the Managing
Committee. The next business to be brought before
them was the minutes of the proceedings which the Sub-
Committee had taken for negotiating an ainalzamation
with the Northern and Southern Connecting Company,
which, with their permission, the secretary would read.
From these minutes it appeared that the negotiation
had resulted in an offer from the Northern and Southern
Connecting Company to amalgamate, provided it was
effected upon tee basis that three Metropolitan Junction
shares, upon which a call of 12s. per share should be
made, were equal to one share in the other Company.
The CHAIRMAN said the Managing Directors had re-
turned no answer to this offer, preferring rather to
leave it to be done by that meeting. He might state,
however, that about an hour ago a member of the Pro-
visional Committee of the Northern and Southern Con-
necting Company assured him that the Company was
not in such a position as to induce him to recommend
them to amalgamate with it.
Mr. KEMP, one of the Directors, said the opposite
Company had represented that they had 30,0001., but
their plans were not lodged till Monday, the Ist o De-
cember, while they had duly lodged their plans on the
29th of November, but had only 10,0001. left to go on
with. Now, if the promoters of the Northern and South-
ern Company had been deceiving them in the negotia-
tion, no language could be used sufficiently strong to
denounce such duplicity. They ought to ascertain who
the Shareholders of the Company were, and get them to
unite in obtaining that which they could not do if sepa-
rated. Their line was a good one, the plans were most
perfect, and if the Northern and Southern Company
would aid them with 30,0001., it would be the best scheme
that could be brought before Parliament. If, however,
the Northern and Southern Company failed them, there
was the South-Eastern and the Northern and Eastern
Companies, who he had not the slightest doubt would be
most ready to assist them.
Mr. VETCHER, of Exeter, submitted to the meeting
whether it would not be better to break up the Company
at once than spend the little they had left. The South-
Eastern Company would have enough to do next ses-
sion to get out of their own difficulties, without taking
up those of any other Company ; and if he was not
mistaken, the Northern and Eastern was in the same
position. At the last meeting it was stated that the
receipts were 28,0001. and the expenditure 17,0001., and
he for one thought, if this were a true state of the ac-
counts, they were most unsatisfactory.
Mr. KEMP said the sums stated at the previous meet-
ing were erroneous. The receipts it had been ascer-
tained were 17,0001., and the expenditure only 10,000/.
Now, was it worth their while to sacrifice the valuable
property they had purchased for this 10,000/., because
they were not in a position to carry out a whim of the
House of Commons ?
Mr. VETCHER said the Directors appeared to be in
doubt altogether about the accounts; and how any set of
men—how any secretary or solicitor—could carry on a
concern of that magnitude, and not know the exact
amount of their liabilities, be was at a loss to understand.
He could not trust them any longer, and he should move
that the Company be dissolved.
Mr. CHARLES GREENE seconded the motion, and said
he was induced to do so from a thorough distrust of the
parties into whose hands their affairs had fallen. Was
it not the fact that some of the funds had been appro-
priated to buying up the allotment letters and scrip of
their own line ?
The CHAIRMAN replied that such certainly was the
case, but at the time it was done it was a very common
thing, and the course was appl uded. He had since
ascertained that it was a bad system, and he would never
give his consent to it again. The shares were bought
with a view of benefiting the Company, and the Directors
could derive no interest from the purchase.
Mr. GEO. JONES moved an amendment, to the effect
that a Committee of Shareholders should be appointed
to negotiate with the shareholders in the Northern and
Southern Connecting Conan), and see if an amalga-
mation favourable to both parties could not be brought
about.
Mr. PAYNE seconded the amendment, and it was
ultimately carried by a very large majority.
The Committee was then appointed, and, at the request
of the Chairman, authorised to investigate the accounts
of the Company.
Mr. GREENE wished to know what they intended to
do with the defaulting Directors were they to be
freed from all liabilities ?

The CIIAIRMAN was as anxious as arly one that the
Provisional Committee should pay up, but he wanted to
know how they could reach a provisional committee-
man ? They could only proceed against him by filing
a bill in equity, but that could not be done without the
consent of every shareholder.

••- • .
Mr. GREENE said there was no help for them but by
exposing the defaulters. Some of them had the reputation
of being respectable men, but he did not think they
would keep it long.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting broke up, after a very protracted sitting.
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SOUTH-EASTEIIN iriCiaRTH KENT.
Last night a meeting of the rate-payers of St. George
the Martyr, Southwark, was held in the church urn
parish, through their surveyor, should assent, dissent, or
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- Mr. Churchwarden HOULE took the chair.
Mr. ANDERSON, the surveyor, said, that as the subject
was one of the greatest importance to the parish, taking,
as the two lines would, so great a portion of it, he felt
bound to take the opinion of the inhabitants. He had
seen a great number of the inhabitants whose property
would be affected by the proposed extension of the South
Eastern line ; and they were unanimousty opposed to it.
What did the Company propose ? why to carry an arch
across from the present terminus to the other side, which
would have the effect of driving all the respectable in-
habitants from that part of the parish. With regard to
the other lines, it was alleged that the objections would
he got rid of—but at what expense ? why, by carrying
a viaduct in an oblique direction from Layton-buildings
to Red Cross-street ; the arch or viaduct was to be 29
feet high, but from its position the inhabitants would
have but a dead wall to look at. Trade was already bad
in the High-street, and the proposed plan would com-
pletely ruin it.
Mr. PICKFORD, of the Old Kent-road, said that he had
considerable prcperty in the Borough, and as long as it
was in his power he should offer every opposition to the
North Kent line ; for he was fully satisfied that where-
7771rer a railway came it
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Mr. HOWARD thought that the hest con rse to adopt
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for a considerable 'engin of time ame u a
tee appointed to oppose the further extension of the
South-Eastern. It was said that when the terminus
came to the Bricklayer's Arms, that it would increase
the trade, but the reverse was the case ; as far as the
inhabitants were locally concerned, they were deter-
mined to oppose the measure.
Mr. KNIGHTON said he had heard a great deal said
against the extension of railways, but no one spoke in
favour of them. Now he considered they were of the
utmost advantage to the public. They created trade.—
(Cries of " No, no.") Was any person present who
was prepared to say that, wherever there was a terminus,
that trade did not exist?—(Cries of " Yes, yes.") Ha
was certain they were a benefit, and that they would
beautify the parish.—(" Oh, oh.")
It was agreed to, with but one dissentient, that the
surveyor, on the part of the parish, should return to the
application a dissent.

LEEDS, JAN. 5.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-London and Croydon,
22-Sheffield ana Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. 3, 74-
East Lancashire, No. 2 (late Acerington) 114-Great
Grimsby and Shffield, 11-Ditto, Extensions, p.-Leeds
and Bradford. 57-Leeds and Dewsbury, 20!/-Ditto, New
Shares, n -Liverpool and Bury, 27-North British, New
Carlisle Branch, 31. Bs. 6d.-Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton, 164-London and Portsmouth, 15s. p.-Lon-
don and York, 434-Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 34--
Direct Northern, 2%-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 5
-Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, par-West Riding
Union, 7 -East Lincolnshire, 3-Essex and Suffolk, 2s.
6d. dis.-Grand Union, % p.-Lancashire and North York-
shire, 20s p.-Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North Ea4ern,
3s. dis.-Leeds and Liverpool Direct, 2s. 6d. dis.-Leeds
and York, par-Leicester and Bedford, 225. 6d. p.-Liver-
pool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 44-Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 24 p.-Manchester and
Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 2s. 6d. p.-
Northumberland and Lancashire Junction, 7s. dis.-North
Western, 3/. 145.-Nottingham and Boston, 17s. 6d. p.-
Nottingham and Grantham, 17s. 6d. p.-Shropshire Union.
2s. 6d. p.-South Midlands, p.-Wakefield and Brad-
ford, 3s. 6d. p.-Wakefield and Harrogate, 16s. p.-York-
shire and Glasgow Union, 24.
YORK, JAN. 5.
STOCK EXCHANGE.---The sales are-York and North Mid-
land Extension, 411/2-Newcastle and Berwick, 20-North
British, New Carlisle Branch, 3A-London and York. 43j4
-Axholine, `24-Darby and Gainsborough, 1/. Is.-Grand
Union, 21i-Great Grimsby, Louth, &c., 1/. 142. 6d.-Lan-
cashire and North Yorkshire, 3,76-Leicester and Bedford,
2/. 75.-Leicester, Tamworth
Trent Valley Jtmction, 27;1-Manchester, Buxton, Matlock,
and Midland, 479-North Staffordshire, 61. Is.-York and
Carlisle, 314.