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London, England, 1846-04-14 00:00:00

tirect City South Union Atmospheric Railway Corn

pany.
Thames Tunnel and Metropolitan Suburban Junction
Railway Company.
Manchester Di-tract Circle and Lancashire and Cheshire
Junction Railway Company.
Atmospheric Rapid Mail Conveyance Company.
Great Ind, penden tL(lndon, Birmingham, Manchester,
and Liverpool Direct Railway Company.
United Iron and Railway Extension Company.
Paddington and Saint Albans Railway Company.
Dublin Coal Ship Company.
Railway Contracts Company,
Royal Irish Railroad Carriage Company.
East of England Locomotive Engine Building Com-

pany.
Patriot Association.
Mal !bar and Commands' Coasts Junction Railway Com.

pang.
Somersetbhire Lighting Company.
Devonshire Lighting Company.
Law Chambers Society of Ireland.
Norwich Church of England Burial GrounclCompany.
British Patent Naphtha Company.
Union Joint stock Building Company.
Hibernian Coal and Peat Consumers' Company.
Liverpool Stock-Exchange Building Company.
Draining and Flooring Tile Pottery and Brick Manufac-

- turing Company.
Great Metropolitan Artesian Water Company.
England Life and Invalid Hazard Assurance Company.
Grand European Mining and Manufacturing Iron Com-
pany.
Miniature World, or Grand National Association.
Grand National Association for the Profitable Employ-
ment of Capital, Skill, and Labour in Trade, Com-
' merce, and Agriculture.
Dublin Omnibus Conveyance Company.
South London Newspaper Company.
Patent Fibre Manufacturing Company.
National Investment and Benevolent Land Association,
for the Encouragement of Agricultural Labourers and
Small Farmers.
Adelaide Railway Company.
West Kent Hop Company.
Central Union to the North of England Railway Com-
pany.
Hereford Cottage Association.
Litherland Land Company.
National Philanthropic Investment Company.
Senator's Screw Ship Company.
This disposes of section No. 1, of companies " pro-
visionally" registered in 1845—amounting to 1,520.
Section 2 professes to give a list of companies, 57 in
number, " completely " registered during the same
period, and amongst these figure
The Manchester Bonding Warehousing Company.
The Ipswich Paper Mills Company.
The Victoria Park Cemetery.
The Patent Fuel Company.
The Patent Cork-cutting Company.
Section 3 informs us that there have been no cases
during the year in which application has been made for
the entercement of penalties for failure to register, and
result of the proceedings thereon.
Section 4 gives a list of those provisionally, but not
completely registered during 1.45. It is principally a
recapitulation of the previous list, and gives a total of
1,484. Amongst its originalities are:—The Provincial ,
and Foreign Water Company. the British National
Brewing Company, the Tollesbury Oyster Company, the
General Post-office and Great Metropolitan Junction,
the Great European Railways Company, the Great Bri-
tish Advertising Company.
Sect. 5 affirms that no change has been made during
the year in the return of the regulations made by the
Committee of the Privy Council for Trade with regard to
the returns required to be made by companies.
Sect. 6 consists of a return of persons appointed to the
office of registrar of joint stock companies, and other
officers and clerks, with their salaries, &e., 1845. From
this it appears that there is-1. George Taylor, for-
merly first clerk, appointed assistant-registrar, " with a
salary the same as formerly returned." 2. George Craw-
ford, appointed assistant-registrar for Ireland, in the
room of Ponsonby Arthur Moore, resigned at a salary
of 2001. 3. Stephen Pritch ird, appointed clerk in the
room of John Young Jameson, deceased, at a salary
of 801.
Sect. 8 furnishes a return of the amount of all fees paid
at the offices for the Registration of Joint-stock Com-
panies, pursuant to the Act 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110, during
the year 1845. It is as follows :
FEES AT THE HEAD OFFICE IN LONDON.
X. s. d.
Quarter from Ist January to 31st March 463 11 9
I Ist April to 30th June 1,609 7 3
ff Ist July to 30th September 4,032 19 5
•• Ist October to 31st December 3,750 1 4

Total

£9,857 19 9

FEES AT HEAD OFFICE IN DrBLIN.
Quarter from Ist January to 31st 11a-ch 57 11 3
Ist April to 30th June 65 16 7
Ist July to 30th September l5l 12 3
19 Ist October to 31st December 230 0 9

Total

. .E 505 0 9
9.857 19 9

Total

...£10,363 0 6

The fee on capital of companies completely registered
is at the rate of Is. for every 1,000/. in the case of pro-
visionally registered companies, and 6d. for every 1,0001.
in the case of companies registered as existing.
Section 8 says that no change has been m tde in the
return of the scale of fees appointed by the Lords of the
Treasury for the services to be performed by the Re-
gistrar, anti of the respective amounts of such tees.
Section 9 states ihat no ea-es in which companies
have failed to appoint auditors, and of th.- proceedings
taken thereon during the year, have come within the
knowledge of the Registrar.
Section 11, the return of the number of bankruptcies
of joint-stock companies, and of the amount of the debts
and assets of such companies, gives the name of the
Forth Marine Assurance Company (date of fiat, 2,1 July,
1845), but states that the amount of debts and liabilities
have not yet been ascertained.—Chronicle.

BRIGHTON, LEWES, AND HASTINGS.—SUBSIDENCE
OF THE PRESTON VIADUCT.—This viaduct consists of
27 arches, and it crosses the turnpike-road from London
to Brighton, near the Brighton terminus. It has been
finished several weeks, and the principal portion of the
wooden centres supporting the arches taken away. On
Saturday morning the men engaged in ballasting the
line over the viaduct discovered symptoms of the middle
arch, which crosses the turnpike-road, having given way.
Workmen were immediately employed in placing timber
to support the arch. It was found to have sunk a foot
or eighteen inches, and will have to be taken down and
rebuilt. This arch was of wider span than the o'hers,
and was the only elliptic arch in the viaduct. Some
persons ascribe its subsidence to its being built in that
form, but it is more probably owing to the continued
wet weather, as another of the arches has since been
found to be cracked. They will have both to be taken
down and rebuilt. The line was to have been opened
in May, but in consequence of this untoward event the
opening most be deferred probably for six weeks or two
months. Thousands of persons visited the spot yester-
day, it being within a mile of Brighton.
WINDINGS UP.—The i hareholders in the following
companies have called meetings, to be held during the
current week, to consider the propriety of forthwith
winding up their affairs :—Taw Vale Extension ; Lan-
cashire, Yorkshire, and North-Eastern; Leeds and York;
Wrexham, Nantwich, and Crewe Junction ; 80-ton,
Newark, and Sheffield ; London, Bristol, and South
Wales Direct ; East Coast ; Central Devon ; London,
Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster ; Wexford,
Waterford, and Valentia; North Staffordshire; Chester
and Manchester Direct • Direct Birmingham and Lei-
cester ; Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ; Du,)lin,
Belfast, and Coleraine ; British and Irish Union (Dum-
fries to Portpatrick).
From our official returns (gays the Railway Chronicle)
it appears t hat the amount of traffic for the last week, on
nearly 1,800 miles of railway, was 124,0731., thus ac-
couoted for:-59,516/. for the conveyance of passengers
only ,• 33,2611. lot. the carriage of goods ; and a re-
mainder of 31,296/. for passengers and goods together,
not respectively apportioned; being an increase over the
corresponding week of last year of 24,3571. (To ren-
der this comparison fair, the opening of new lines should
be credited in the calculation as included.)
, . VALE ow NRATH.—A meeting of the inhabitants of

Aberdare was held at the Town-hall last week, to peti-
tion Parliament in favour of the immediate passing of the
Vale of Neath Railway Bill. A resolution was adopted
to the effect that the proposed line would prove of meal -
eatable benefit to Aberdare and its neighbourhood, from
the connexion it would establish between it and Merthyr
and Hirwain ; and still more advantageous from the
facilities it would afford of cheap and rapid communica-
tion with Neath snd Swansea, and other important
towns to the west of Neath. A petition to the House of
Commons in favour of the line was adopted, and en-
trusted to Sir John Guest, M.P., for presentation.
CORK AND WATERFORD.—A meeting of the Exeter
shareholders in
this undertaking is to be held forthwith,
Mr. C. Hubbard in the chair, to consider the propriety of
winding up the affairs of this Company.

ay with

Lord and Lady Palmerston dined yester
Marshal Sebastiani.—Galignani's Messenger.
UNCLE SAM TERMINATING THE " JOINT OCCEr•
PANCY."—The New York Herali has a pictorial device o
Uncle Sam painting a new sign and name for the " Oregon
Dispensary," and underneath is printed, "Uncle Sam, chief
partner in the late firm of Sam and Bull, announces to the
world that he is resolved to set up business in Oregon for
himself, and terminate the joint occupancy which has here-
fore existed. Gentlemen having adverse claims to the ter-
ritory, will please step up to the War Department and
receive payment in powder and ball. He believes himself
fully capable of giving perfect satisfaction to all such cus-
tomers. His chief clerk, Mr. Polk, will attend to the matter."
DETERMINED SUlClDE.—Yesterday morning, between
ten and eleven o'clock. a determined suicide was committed
by James Branch, a groom in the service of Candon, Esq.,
of Little Chelsea. The unfortunate man had, on Saturday,
received warning from his master to quit his service in a
month. Afterwards he stated to his fellow-servants that he
was fearful his master would not give him a character, and
he appeared much dejected. Yesterday morning he received
orders to bring the horse and gig from the stables to the
house, and, having been gone a considerable time, the foot-
man was se to the stable to know the cause. On entering
the stables, bnt e discovered the groom suspended by a rope to
i sometimes
moentei m ofes
a beam, quite dead.
those outlying border parishes c _
shepherdther e are AN ORTHODOX DocAnwhoelrde
•• h h
with his old dog, at the pans c urc ,
was a regular attender,
more quadrnpeds than bipeds hurch on a Sabbath-day
His
down to the disruption. But at that evenful era he quitted
dog,
the Establishment, and joined the Free Church.
however, no friend to newfangled highflying notions, coald
by no me ns be persuaded to change, but, while his master
trudges every Sunday to hear the minister of his choice, away
he trots doggedly to the place and the preacher be has been
' accustomed to.—Border Watch.