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CALEDONIAN BALL.
GENTLEMEN wishing to apps
Ball in the Highland Costume, may h.
in a superior manner, and of any Clan patters
Cameron, 3, Great Ryder-street, St. James's.
N.B. Highland appointments of every desci
made to order.

THE OXFORD AND SALISB
RAILWAY.

The Committee of Management baWihe satisfaction to announce
that the requisite notices have been served on the landowners and
occupiers, and that the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference have
been regularly deposited in the Parliament-office, and Private Bill-
office, and with the Clerks of the several parishes throughout the
line. The whole of the standing orders of both Houses of Parlia-
ment have thus been fully complied with, and the Committee are
proceeding with all the necessary preparations to enable them to
present their Bill in the ensuing session.
By order of the Beard,
•
Z. HUBBERSTY, Secretary.
Moorgate-chambers, Moorgate-street, Jan. 1, 1846.

THE OXFORD and SALISBURY DIRECT
RAILWAY.
_ _

The whole of the standing orders of Parliament having been duly
flailed up to the present time, the Committee of Management con-
sider it expedient to inform their shareholders and allottees, as well
as the public at large, that, in order to ensure, as far as possible, the
patronage to which the projected line •f railway is justly entitled,
they have resolved upon a further extension of the time of payment
of deposits on shares in this Company until the 21st of January
instant. The Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract
Lie for Signature at the Offices of the Company.
By order of the Board,
Z. HUBBERSTY, Secretary.
Moorgate-chambers, Moorgate-street, Jan. 1, 1846.

THE DIRECT NORTHERN RAILWAY
COMPANY, FROM LONDON TO YORK.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
The Hon. William Ashley, Stable-yard, St. James's
Major Amsinck, 22, Upper Montagu-street, Montagu. square
William Scott Binney, Esq. 27, Bryanstone-square
William Sprott Boyd, Esq. 1, Susses-gardens, Hyde-park
John Brightman, Esq. 30, Cornhill
Samuel James Capper, Esq. 1, Adelaide-place, London-bridge
Robert Walter Carden, Esq. 61, Threadneedle-street
Edward Trust Carver, Esq. Forest-lodge, Tulse-hill
The Chisholm, 37, Chapel-street, Grosvenor-place
Lieut.-Colonel Colquhoun, R.A. Woolwich
William Morley, rsq. Blackheath
William Mountford Nurse, Esq. Kensington-gore
John Pickersgill, Esq. 8, Warnford-court
Robert Rodger, Esq. Glasgow, 30, Montagu-street, Montaga-square

- ENGINEER—John Miller, Esq. Edinburgh •
SOLIeITORS—Messrs. Johnston, Farquhar, and Leech, 65, Moorgate-

street

PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Mes;ii:Webster, 26, Great George-street,

Westminster -
SLearrAtty—Mr. W. H. Clark
Offices of the Company, 64, Moorgate-street.
)TRACT FROM REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF MA-
NAGEMENT TO THE SHAREHOLDERS, DATED THE
29TU DECEMBER, 1645.

" By the scheme promoted by the Direct Norther* Railway Com-
pany it is proposed to bring York (to the north of which city there
is a population exceeding five millions) within the distance (as mea-
sured by time), of four hours and a half from London; to reduce by
42 miles the distance now traversed by the existing means of railway
communication between those termini ; to lessen the distance as
projected by the competing plan least favourable to the public) that
of the Eastern Counties Extension by Cambridge and Lincoln) by
21% miles, and as projected by the most favourable rival scheme
(that of the London and York) by ten miles ; and yet so to reconcile
this 'result with local wants, as to place, without in any instance
sacrificing the principle of directness, every town of importance in
the districts to be served by this Company's main line nearer Lon-
don, either by means of the main line itself, or of well-devised lateral
lines, than they are by the ,theme of the London and York, which,
for the, sake of passing through certain towns, pursues a devious
route to York, thereby inflicting a serious injury on the country north
of the Humber.

" Thus the scheme of the Direct Northern Railway offers to the
North of England, and to all Scotland, advantages presented by no
other project whatever. These advantages it also immediately con.
veys to Bedford, St. Neots, Huntingdon, Peterborough, Stanford,
Grantham, Newark, Lincoln, East Retford, Sheffield, Gainsborough,
Doncaster, Pontefract, Selby, and Hull ; whilst it lessens by twenty-
eight miles the route to Leeds, the great manufacturing capital of '
Yorkshire, itself rapidly becoming the centre of an important railway
system.

" With perfectly unexceptionable gradients, that in no case ex-
ceeded I in 200, with upwards of sixty-nine miles of level on its main
line, with no works of any engineering difficulty or of peculiarly ex-
pensive execution, with only 3,900 yards of tunnelling in eight tun-
nels, with no opening or swing bridges, with only one viaduct, and
that of 500 yards, and with remarkably easy curves, the Direct North-
ern itillway, whilst its primary object is to unite in the directest
manner London and York, will at the same tune serve a rich, fertile,
and populous country, will reciprocate the advantages of easy and
inexpensive communication between the manufacturing towns of the
north and the agricultural and grazing counties of eastern and central
England, and will connect by the shortest route the south of England
and the continent of Europe with York, the north of England, and
Scotland. • •

The shareholders will observe the suggestion made by Mr. Miller,
which proposes to introduce a new element of safety, regnlarity, and
speed into railway travelling, by the conveyance of passengers. and
goods upon separate lines. This suggestion will, no doubt, receive
the consideration due to its importance in the ensuing session. •
" The Committee entirely concur with Mr. Miller in the important
bearing which the Holborn Terminus project has on the Direct
Northern. It is in effect, though under different management, an ex-
tension of that line into the heart of London. By its means the London
Terminus of the Direct Northern Railway will be immediately avail-
able for the Post-office and the City of London generally (between
Furnival's- inn and Gray's-inn-lane), and will itself form a portion
of one side of the widest thoroughfares in London, will be in the
immediate vicinity of the Courts of Law and Inns of Court, and
comes more into the heart of London, with less sacrifice of valuable
property, than any metropolitan terminus which has been suggested.
" In accordance, therefore, with Mr. Miller's recommendation,
and in pursuance of the powers entrusted to them by their proprie-
tary, the Committee have taken steps to secure control over this
project, satisfied that it affords the most central, and, at the same
time, the most accessible and least expensive London terminus.

" The Committee refer the shareholders to the map accompanying
this Report; it fully shows the course and relations of the Direct
Northern Railway, and its national character.

" Up to the 30th of November, all the standing orders of Parlia-
ment have been complied with ; and the solicitors report their per-
fect ability to fulfil all that remains to be completed within tytAime
limited by the Legislature.

" Thus prepared, and with deposits paid, and tite proper •abeds.
signed by a body of most responsible ShareholderS, the— Corn-
tilttee intend to make their application to Parliament at the earliest
possible day, confident that a project of such undoubted public utility
as the Direct Northern, in which the public service itself is deeply
interested, will there receive what it only needs to ensure its success
—a fair and impartial hearing."
The following tables, appended to the Report of the Company's
Engineer (John Miller, Esq.), will show the relative advantages of
the Direct Northern in point of distances, as comparld-witlOts
petitors for legislative sanction, and with existingri., • q• 7
ry
It may here be obseed, that the distance be Ash Vie" cross or
St. Paul's Cathedral, in London, and the centre of 'the Great Tower
of York Minster, as measured along the earth's surface, Is, according
to the Ordnance Survey, 920,108.7 feet, or very nearly 174 M miles;
and that the main line of the Direct Northern, between London and
York, is 176 miles.

Table showing Comparison of Distances by the proposed Direct
Northern Railway and by the London and York Railway.

By the Direct By the London
Northern Rail- and York Rail- Difference in
way and its way and its favour of
Branches and Branches and the Direct
existing and existing and Northern
authorised authorised Scheme.
Railways. Railways.
From London to Miles. Chains. Miles. Chains. Miles. Chains.
Hatfield- - - - 16 60 17 50 0 70
Stevenage - - - 26 74 28 6 1 12
Baldock - - - 32 13 No line to it.
Hitellin - - - - 30 70 32 0 1 70
Shefford - - - 37 40 No line to it.
Bedford - - - - 46 14 52 31 6 17
Biggleswade - - 39 40 41 21 1 16
St. Neots - - - 49 0 51 25 2 25
Huntingdon - - 58 ,4 58 61 0 57
Peterborough - - 73 47 76 0 2 33
Stamford - - - 82 28 88 4 5 56
GI-ranthain - - - 99 64 105 12 5 28
Newark - - - - 115 13 119 3 3 70
Lincoln - - - - 126 10 136 53 10 • 43
East Retford - - 135 24 137 2 1 58
Sheffield - - - 159 4 160 43 ' 1 39
Gatnsborough - - 133 73 1"46 53 12 60
Doncaster - - - 150 19 154 30 4 11
Pontefract - - 164 69 No line to it.
Wakefield - - - 173 -77 173 16
Leeds - - - - 176 77 184 6 7 9
Thome - - - - 150 0 No line to it.
Selby - - - - 163 65 172 24 8 39
Hull by Selby - - 194 65 203 24 8 39
York - - - - - I7G . 0 186 0 10 0
From Lincoln to
Doncaster - - - 34 37 34 72 0 35
Pontefract - - - 48 77 No line to it.
Wakefield •• - - 57 b 53 58 --
Leeds - - - - 61 5 68 48 7 43
Selby - - - - 47 73 52 66 4 73
Hull
York 6O Si 66 40 6 32
Sheffield - - - 43 9 48 64 5 55

CANAL RAILWAY.
With Branch from KNOWLE to HAMI
Provisionally Registerec
Capital 1,000,000,., in 50,000 Shares.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per Shar
DECTORS.
Sir John E. De Beauvoir,TlL
Bart.
William Feckney Black, Esq.
Captain Seth N. Fisher
John Freeman, Esq.
Alexander Greig, Esq.
John Grant, Esq.
William Hughes Hughes, Esq.
Thomas Hagger, Esq.
J. Douglas Hopkins, Esq.
James Morrison, Esq.
Robert Rising, Esq.
Thomas Sharp, Esq.
William Shaw, Esq.
John Wheelton, Esq.
T. Fovaux Weiss, Esq.,
BANYCIPS -
LOMOn—The London and County Bank, Lembard-street ; the
Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury
Warwick and? The Warwick and Leamington Banking Company
Leamington S The Leamington and Warwickshire Banking Company
Birmingham—Messrs. Taylor and Lloyds.
CONSULTING ENGINEERS.
Sir John Macnell, LL.D.
James Thompson, Esq., F.E.S.E.,
John U. Rastrick, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A. •
SOLICITORS.
George Weller, Esq., I, King's-road, Bedford-row, London
Messrs. Wright and Hanbury, 11, Finsbury-place South, London
George Pell, jun., Esq., Northampton and Welford.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Birmingham—Messrs. Unett and Co.
SECRETARIES.
Mr. John Hervey

kON-IN-ADEN.

of 201. each

Directors of the
Rugby, Warwick, and
Worcester, the
London
and Birmingham
Extension, and the
Warwick & Worcester
Railway
Companies.

Mr. G. H. Weller.
Offices of the Company, 15, Old Jewry-street, Ch mbers, London.
'PROSPECTUS.
The importance of this project, both national] d locally, has de-
termined its promoters to bring it before the pu at the present
moment, notwithstanding the difficulties which at t sight would
appear to stand in the way of its success.

-The title of the scheme is sufficiently explicit to put the public in
possession of its merits without a detailed statement enumerating
them.
Arrangements are in progress with the Canal Company for, its
solute purchase, purchase, the final completion of which will doubtless be ef-
fected at a very early period.
The Warwick and Birmingham Canal has, notwithstanding the
opening of the London and Birmingham Railway, yielded a dividend
of about 12 per cent. to its shareholders.
By the conversion of the canal into a railway with the benefit of a
terminus in the centre of the large town of Birmingham, a
direct railway communication will be opened with the impor-
tant towns of Leamington and Warwick, at which latter place
the proposed line will join the branch of the London and Bir-
mingham Extension Railway Company, from Warwick to Fenny
Compton; thus opening, by means of the projected lines
through Buckinghamshire, a much nearer railway communica-
tion between London and Birmingham than the present one, in addi-
tion to conferring on the very important districts through which the
Erie passes the benefit of railway accommodation, and which is not
now possessed by them.
The proposed line will be in immediate and close alliance with the
Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester, the London and Birmingham Ex-
tension, and the Warwick and Worcester Railway Companies; those
Companies having agreed to subscribe a very considerable portion of
the required capital.
The necessary plans and books of reference have been deposited,
and notices to landowners and others duly served ; so that nothing
can prevent the Company from applying to Parliameat for its Act of
Incorporation in the session of 1846.
Preference will be given in the allotment of shares to parties locally
interested, to shareholders in the Warwick and Birmingham Canal,
and the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester, the London and Birming-
ham Extension, and the Warwick and Worcester Railway Companies,
The time within which parties must apply for Shares will expire
on the 24th of January, 1846.

In the event of the application to Parliament not being made in the
session of 1846, the whole of the deposits will be Immediately re-
turned to the shareholders without any deduction for expenses or
otherwise.

Applications for Shares may be made in the undermentioned Form
to the several solicitors and secretaries of the Company.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES,

To the Directors of the Warwick and; Birmingham Canal Railway

Company.

Gentlemen,—ln consideration of your allotting me Shares
of 201. each in this undertaking, I hereby undertake to pay the de-
posit of 2/. 2s. per Share thereon, or on such lesser number of Shares
as may be allotted to me, and to* execute the necessary deeds when
thereunto required.

Usual Signature..
Name at Length................
Profession or Business ..........
Special Claim to Allotment.—
Residence.. .... ..... .
Place of Business •... •• •• ••
Data.

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By order, N. ARMSTRONG, Secretary.
South Wales Railway Office, 449, West Strand,
22d December, 180.

SOUTI-1 WALES RAILWAY.
First Call of 21.105. per share, making, with the deposit of
21. 10s., 51. paid.
Notice is hereby given, that, pursuant to a Resolution of the Board
of Directors, the Proprietors of Shares in this Company are required
to pay the sceond instalment of 21. 10s. per share, on or before the
22d day of January next, to any of the undermentioned Bankers :
London—Messrs. Glyn, Rallifax, Mills, and Co.
Liverpool—The Bank of Liverpool.
Manchester—Messrs. Jones. Loyd, and Co.
Bristol and Exeter—The West of England and South Wales Bank.
Cardiff—The National Provincial Bank of England.
Carmarthen—Messrs. David Morris and Sons.
Swansea and Neath—The Glamorganshire Banking Company.
All Calls net paid on or before the 22d January next, will be
charged with interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum.
By order,
N. ARMSTRONG, Secretary.
south Wales Railway Office, 449, West Strand, London,
December 22, 1845.

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1839 138 13 6 61 14 3
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296 13 4
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The division of profits is annual. 'and the Reit will be made in De-.
ember of the present year.

F. FERGUSON CADIROUX. 5...

THE DISSENTERS' and GENERAL LIFE
and FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that the FIFTEENTH lIALF-TRiRLY
DIVIDEND at the rate of five per cent., declared on the 7th instant,
is payable to the Shardholders, without deduction of Income Tax
at the Offices of the Company, No. 62, King William-street, London'
bridge, between the hours of Ten and Four.
By order of the Board,
THOMAS PRICE, Secretary.
Jan. 17, 1846.

NOTICE TO EQUITABLE POLICY HOLDERS.
U NITED KINGDOM. LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,

No. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.
The attention of Equitable Policy
Holders
is particularly
the HALF CREDIT SCALES of PREMIUM of this Company, by
which table the bonus to be declaredatthe neat Called
investigation, o
in
January, 1850, may be secured at a pfesent annual payment of one-
half the rates charged by other companies. In the event qf death the
sum insured will be paid less the amount ofpremiums on credit. Should
the life insured survive the declaration of the bonus, the policy may be
allowed to lapse, and the Company will renounce all claimfor the
half premiums which may be due thereon, or, in the event
beev kenteopftp
theu
bpyaryumbemineuguititugthtuatptaimy ethien
fullbadiu
phreeamlth,mthuef the age as when first policy can
accepted. The above plan, originating with the Company, was
found peculiarly advantageous at the last equitable division in 1840,
when it was largely adopted. and many of the policies then effected
are still in force, and latge bonuses have been added to them on the
scale of the following table;—
gum Assured. Time Assured. Sum added to Policy.
£5,000 .. • • • • 6 years 10 months • .. £683 6 6
5,000 ........ 6 years ..
4,000 .. • • .... 4 years •..• • • • • ...... 400 0 0
5,000 2 years .. • •
Prospectuses and every information may be obtained on application
to the:Resident Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and F. Lennox Boyd,
Esq., at the °flees, 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.

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ENSTITUTION, PARIS AND LYONS RAILWAY 4. *lir FUND LIFE AS R-
RAILWAY". .• ,". AIiCE SOCIETY,
(LAFFITTE'S COMPANY).
ar, by Dr. Ryan and I Shareholders who have not received the CIRCULAR REPORT The Committee of Management hereby give notice to these 2,p., CORNHILL, LONDON.
l NATURAL Him°. of the Directors, dated 31st December last, may be furnished with a holder of Scrip in this Company who have not cant in the same
EmpowerCeadPibytallcrcr Parliament. '
I brilliant experiments. copy, by sending to this office for it. for registration, that it cannot be received after the 15th instant.
in POTATOES will be The forms to be signed for the purpose of obtaining constituted The Committee will then proceed to declare such shares forfeited, This institution Wars important ana substantial advan-
iIIOSPLIERIC RAIL- Shares, as well as for the repayment of the surplus deposits, are now and allot the same to other parties. tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred
p„;:ewmAiitihinmonutiltptaieeixds:.
Model of which, ear- ready for delivery at this office, daily, between the hours of Eleven By order, JOHN C. NORTON, Secretary. Tpehneseasosrarfoerdfehiastar,
eonefalltheeeerasoulys:
ttwheo-
rhivredrs toot hmthe
The additions to the and Three, until the 24th inst.
[EWS, and CHROMA- 62, King William-street, City, Jan. 6, 1846. SOU T H WALES R A.ILWA Y. (see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
)PE. Submarine Ex- • of hit interests to meet other convent :flees er necessity. Assurances
loleman s NEW . for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
is is
CONTRACT FOR WORKS.
mica BELL. Among (2...1 ANNERON'S PARIS and LYONS RAIL Notice is hereby given that the Directors of the South Wales
i.'
r ascending and de- ;-- WAY COMPANY. Railway Company will receive, on WEDNESDAY, the 11th February, DIVISION OF PROFIT:4
lleetion of TROPICAL
The holders of the Bankers' Receipts, who neglected or declined to 1846, atTwelve o'Clock, at their Office, No. 449, West Strand, London, The success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled
Player, will take part sign the reciprocal engagements and who consequently were not tenders for the execution of the three several contracts, extending the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third
n from Eleven to Half- constituted Shareholders, are hereby informed, that unless they pre- -from the river Lougher, through Swansea to Neath, being a distance Bonus, varying from 39 to 73 per cent. on the premiums paid on
it the Evening.
sent the said Receipts at this Office (between the hours of Eleven and of about fourteen miles, and comprising tunnels arid a large amount each Policy effected on the Profit scale.
Three o'clock) on or before the 26th inst., in order to receive back of earth work ; likewise of several contracts in the neigh- I Half-price.
EXAMPLES.
the amount of their deposits, that they will probably be subjected to bourhood of Newport, comprehending also a tunnel and other im-
.9 Premium.
con iderabie delay and to some expense, as this office will on and portant works. Drawings and specifications will be exhibited at the
after that period be closed. respective offices of the resident Engineers at Swansea, and at New- i 72. ,?, .1 'g
pear at the above
port, on and after Monday, the sth January, 1846, and printed forms Ern
By order of the Committee,
..:4, Bonus Bonus in il i-: 5 .0 _ .
0,
have the same made,
added. Cash. -,- ,i-,- El .6. iil NM, by applying to J. W. VILLESBOISNET,} secretaries. of tender may be had at the same places, or at the Company's office 1, Is .
I I
E. FILDER, in London. As o 4
7, Tokenhouse yard, London, Jan. 17, 1846. The Directors will not consider themselves bound to accept the
160 100074 ir cI. ..,:i rp ce
.scription supplied and
lowest or any tender. They request the parties to attend at the office —i—,—_______
THE WARWICK AND BIRMINGHAM£ . £
... d 1837 £l9l 13 5 £B7 13 5 £l3 17 1 £395 11 1
of the Company in London at two o'clock on Wednesday, February
3URY DIRECT
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