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NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNIIILL LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured
has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
feiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the uremiums paid (see Table) ;
also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in-
terests to meet other conveniences or necessity.
Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible
rates

lONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
J NOTICE.—The Directors, with the view of affording further
accommodation to the public, have appointed several additional
trains and accelerated others.
These alterations, of which full particulars are given in the Time
Bills, which may be had on application at all the Stations, will take
effect on the Ist of June nexßt.
y order,
It. CREED, Secretary.
Office, Eueon-station, May 25, 1846.

.4FASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
OPENING of the FOREST GATE, CHESHUNT, and
RYE HOUSE STATIONS, and ALTERATION of TRAINS.
The arrangements for the Trains, commencing the 31st instant,
may be ascertained by reference to the Time Bills, which can be had
at all Stations, or at any of the Coach Officcs in connexion with the
Cempany. By order,
C. P. RONEY, Secretary.
Shoreditch Station, 26sh May, 1846.

DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The remarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society
has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare
a fourth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid
on each Policy effected on the Front scale.
EXAMPLES.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
Bonus Bonus in g. 2 -9 Assured
4 Premium added. Cash.
,! 71 2 may WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS.—EXCITRSION MAINS.
P Borrow. A Train of Open Carriages will start for Cambridge on MONDAY
Monavisio next, at 7 30 Am., and return from Cambridge at G

A Train of Open Carriages will start for Cambridge on MONDAY
MoRNING next, at 7 30 A.m., and return from Cambridge at 6 P.M..
performing each journey in about two hours and twenty minutes.
Fare for the double journey, Five Shillings.
A Train for Colchester at 9 30, A.M., returning at 7 30 P.M., per-
forming each journey in about two hours. Fare for the double
journey, Four Shillings and Sixpence.
An Open Carriage Excursion Train will also leave Colchester for
London at 645 A.M., returning from London at 6 30' P.M: Fare,
Four Shillings and Sixpence.
By order,
Shoreditch Station, May 26, 1846.

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601000 74 3 4 1
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40
1841

,L£2l7 15 1 £l6O 0 11X16 0 4£445 0 0
192 3 0 87 1 4,, 13 10 2, 395 11 1
165 11 10 74 1 9 11 3 34G 2 3
141 7 6 54 010 718 10 296 13 4
11l 6 81 49 10 0 710 4 247 4 5

The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in
December of the present year.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary.

C. P. RONEY, Secretary.

ROYAL-EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
OFFICE, ROYAL EXCHANGE.
Tha COURT of DIRECTORS of the CORPORATION of the
ROYAL-EXCHANGE ASSURANCE do hereby give notice, that
their TRANSFER-BOOKS will be SHUT from TUESDAY the 2d
of June next, to TUESDAY the 7th of July following, and that a
General Court of the said Corporation will be holden at their
Office at the Royal-Exchange, on WEDNESDAY, the 17th of June
next, at Twelve o'clock at noon, to consider of a dividend.
ALEXANDER GREEN, Secretary.
Mny 20th, 1846. •

ASHBURTON, NEWTON, AND • SOUTH
DEVON RAILWAY COMPANY.
Notice Is hereby given that a SPECIAL MEETING of the Holders
of Scrip, or of Banker's receipts for Scrip, of this Company will be
held, in compliance with the sessional orders of both Houses of Par-
liament, at the GOlden Lion Inn, in Ashburton, on MONDAY, the
eighth day' of June next, at Twelve o'clock at noon, when a copy of
the Bill for making the said railway will be submitted for the consi-
deration and approval of such meeting.
Ashburton, Mayl6, 1846. ROBERT TUCKER Solicitors of the
GEORGE • CAUNTER Company.

TkIE DERBY and OAKS.—In this our fickle
climate be ever cautious. It may be a drizzle or a down
right pour, a sunshine gentle or fierce, or a road clouded by dust ; yet
have.with you at all times, but then especially, the REGISTERED
PALETOT of Llama Cloth, a very light gentlemanly over-coat,
which can be had only of the Patentees, 11., J., and D. NICOLL,
114, Regent street, or their New Warereoms, 22, Coruhill, opposite
the south entrance of the Royal Exchange, one door from Change-
alley.

I)ERBYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE, and
WORCESTERSHIRE JUNCTION 'RAILWAY COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING
of the HOLDERS of SCRIP; or of BANKERS' RECEIPTS for
such, in this Company, will be 'held in the house of Mr. Thomas
Masters, commonly called the Talbot Arms Inn, Rugeley, in the
county of Stafford, on SATURDAY, the 6th day of June next, at
Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, for the purpose of having submitted
to them a copy of the Bill now pending in Parliament to authorise
the construction of a railway, to be called the " Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway," and for approving the
same, or otherwise.

G
REAT WE STERN RAILWAY,
The DIRECTORS of this COMPANY arc ready to receive
TENDERS for LOANS of MONEY, in sums of not less than 1,0001.
for a period of live or seven years, on the security of mortgage de-
bentures, bearing interest at the rate of four per cent. per annum,
payable half yearly.
Applications may be made to the undersigned, at the Railway
Office, Paddington station.
CHARLES A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.

Dated this 25th day of May, 1846.
IL S. tfACICENZIE, Secretary,
1, Moorgate, London.

AXHOLATE, G-AINSBOROUGH, GOOLE,
AND YORK AND NORM MIDLAND JUNCTION RAIL-

MIDLAND RAILWAY.
(EREWASH VALLEY LINE.)
CALL FOR A THIRD INSTALMENT OF 51. PER SHARE,
(MAKING 121. 10s. PAID.)
Derby, May 21, 1846.
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WAY.
In pursuance of the resolutions of Parliament a MEETING of the
SCR IPHOLDERS of this Company will be held at the White Hart
Inn, at Gainsborough, in the county of Lincoln, on SATURDAY, the
nth day of May, 1846, at Twelve o'clock at noon precisely, for the
purpose of giving their sanction or otherwise to the further prose-
cution of the Bill now before Parliament in relation to this under-
taking, at which meeting a copy of such Bill will be submitted to the
consideration of the Scripholders.
And notice is hereby further given that all Scripholders attending
the said meeting will be required to produce their scrip, in order that
the numbers thereof, and the names of such Scripholders may be duly
registered.
Dated 12th May, 1846.

Noticeis hereby given, that a further CALL of 51. per Share on the
Shares in the EREWASII VALLEY RAILWAY has been this day
made, payable on the 20th day of June next at any of the under-
mentioned Bankers, viz. : _

Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co . London.
The Birmingham Banking Company, Birmingham.
Pares' Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester.
Messrs. Crompton, Newton, and Co., Derby.
The Royal Bank of Scotland, Glasgow.
And that Interest at five per annum will be charged by the res-
pective Bankers on all Calls not paid on the above-mentioned day,
until the time of payment.
Interest after the rate of four per cent. per annum will be allowed
on sums paid in anticipation of future Calls, and Proprietors desirous
of making such payments are requested to apply to the Secretary.
The Books kept for the Registration of Transfers of the said
Shares will be closed on TUESDAY, the 9th day of June, and will
remain so until after the 20th, the day appointed for payment of the
said Call.
A Circular will be sent to each Proprietor previously to the date of
payment, which must be deposited with the Bankers.
GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman of the Board of Directors.
JOHN ELLIS, Deputy-Chairman.
By order, J. F. BELL, Secretary.

GEO. HUDSON, Chairman

VSTATERFORD, WEXFORD, WICKLOW,
and DUBLIN RAILWAY.
At a MEETING of SCRIPHOLDERS, and of BANKERS' RE-
CEIPTS representing scrip, held in piltsuance of the sessional
orders of Parliament, on Monday, the 25th instant, at the Great
Western Railway Company's Offices at Paddington,
The Earl of COURTOWN in the chair ;
It was moved by Lord Viscount DuNcANNos, M.P., seconded by

bIABLER RUSSELL, Esq., M.P., and
Resolved—That this Meeting of Holders of Scrip and Bankers'
Receipts representing Scrip in the proposed Waterford, Wexford,
Wicklow. and Dublin Railway Company, convened and constituted
conformably to the sessional orders of the Houses of Lords and Com-
mons, having had submitted to them copies of the Bill now before
Parliament for incorporating the said Company. do approve thereof,
and do authorise and request the Directors to prosecute the same in
the present session, and to introduce or to submit to the introduction
therein, of such alterations and additional provisions as they shall
deem expedient or conducive to the success of the undertaking and
the interests of the Shareholders ; and that the chairman of this
meeting and the solicitors of the Company be authorised and re-
quested to affix their respective signatures to the said Bill, and to
any certificate of the due holding of this meeting, which the forms of
Parliament may require.
Amount of Scrip represented at the meeting 38,532
Assenting to third reading of the Bill. • • • 30,002
Dissenting .. • . • . • • • • • • • • • ......... • . • • 8,530
Total . • • • .. • . —38,532
CO URTOWN, Chairman.

MIDLAND RAILWAY.
(EXTENSION LINES.)

s NEW 40/. SHARES.
CALL FOR A FIF 711 INSTALMENT OF 6/. PER SHIRE
(MAKING 24/. PER SHARE PAID.)
Derby, May 21, 1846,
Notice Is hereby given, that a further CALL of Si. per Share on the
40/. Shares in this Company, has been this day made, payable on the
20th day of June next, at any of the undermentioned bankers, viz.:—
Messrs. Glyn, llalifax, Mills and Co., London.
The Birmingham Banking Company, Birmingham.
Pares' Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester.
Mess,s. Crompton, Newton and Co., Derby.
The Royal Bank f Scotland, Glasgow.
And that interest at 5 per cent. per annum will be charged by the
respective Bankers on all Calls not paid on the above mentioned day
until the time of payment.
Interest after the rate of 4/. per cent. per annum will be allowed
on sums paid in i nticipation of future Calls, and Proprietors desirous
of making such payments are requested to apply to the Secretary.
The books kept for the registration of Transfers of the said 40/.
Shares will be closed on TUESDAY, the 9th day of June, and will re-
main so until after the 20th, the day appointed for the payment of the
said Call.
A circular will be sent to each Proprietor previously to the date of
payment, which must be deposited with the Bankers.
GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman of the Board of Directors.
JOHN ELL IS, Deputy Chairman.
By order, J. F. BELL, Seccetary.

The Earl of Courtown having vacated the Chair, and Colonel
Acton, M.P., being called thereto, it was moved by Ronrar BEAK-
STON SMITH, Esq., seconded by Sir SAMUEL HaNcocs, and resolved
unanimously—
That the best thanks of this Meeting be given to the Earl of Cour-
town for his courteous, able, and impartial conduct in the chair.

TEAN and DOVE VALLEY and EASTERN
and WESTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY.
The Directors have the pleasure to announce that their arrange-
ments for winding up the affairs of the Company have met with the
cordial approval of a large majority of the Shareholders, who have
accordingly received a return of 12s. 6d. per share, pursuant to the
advertisement dated the 13th ultimo.
It is requested, therefore, that all outstanding Scrip be forwarded
to the Company's offices, at Burton-upon-Trent, on or before the
31st Instant. The amount of the return of Its. 6d. per share will be
forwarded to the remaining Shareholders within one week after-
wards, together with a Certificate of their being entitled to the re-
turn of a further sum on winding up the affairs of thetornpany.
The necessary Forms for sending in the Scrip may be obtained
from the Secretary.
I'arties sending Scrip are advised to register their Letters.
A statement of the affairs of the Company will be laid before the
Shareholders as early as practicable.
By order of the Board,
JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Secretary.
Burton-on-Trent, May 11, 1846.

rrEAN and DOVE VALLEY and EASTERN
and WESTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY.
It is requested that all accounts against this Company be Imme-
diately sent to the Company's offices, at Burton-upon-Trent.
By order of the Board,
JOSEPH RICHARDSON, Secretary.
Burton-on-Trent, May 11, 1846.

,400 K OUT FOR THE " DERBY ERA."—
GRATIS, next Saturday.

1111 E RACIEST, RICHEST, and RAREST,
ACCOUNT of the EPSOM DOINGS in the "DERBY

ERA."

THIRTY ENGRAVINGS, GRATIS, IN THE
" DERBY ERA."

SIGHT ILLUSTRATED PAGES, GRATIS,

in the " DERBY ERA."

- -
ALBERT SMITH an I RIDDLESWORTH
will write the " DERBY ERA."

HERRING, CRO WQUILL, PHIZ,
HENDERSON, GILBERT, and LAN DELLS, will Illus-
trate the " DERBY ERA." - _

HETHER YOU GO TO Tin,: DERBY
or no, look out for the " DERBY ERA."

VERY NEWSMAN IN THE • WORLD
will supply the " DERBY ERA" Gratis with the " ERA"
Weekly NewspapOffier, Price Sixpence.
ce, 3, Catharine-street, Strand.

ATIONAL UNIFORMITY OF GAUGE.
1.1 An Article on National Uniformity of Gauge appears In
FRASER'S MAGAZINE, June 1.
G. W. Nickisson, 215, Regent-street.

Now ready, Third Edition, price 3d.,
NARROW GAUGE SPEEDIER THAN
BROAD GAUGE RAILWAYS, as WELL as CHEAPER.
By HERBERT S. MELVILLE, Esq.
London ; W. Stephenson, 12 and 13, Parliament•street, and all
Booksellers.

Now ready for distribution, a fifth edition, price One Penny,
A- RAILWAY TRAVELLER'S REASONS
for ADOPTING UNIFORMITY of GAUGE.

Stated In a Letter to I. K. iniJNEL,iscIT
Joseph Cundall, 12, Old Bond-street.

Just published, Second Edition, price 6d.,
ALL ACIES of the BROKEN GAUGE.
Mr. Lushington's Arguments in favour of the Broad Gauge.

and Breaks of Gauge refuted ; beinga-Re;cy tothe Remarks of
a late Fellow of Tinitx College, Cambridge, on the report of the Gauge
Commissioners.

By a FELLOW of TWO ROYAL SOCIETIES.
London: John Oliivier, 59, Pall-mall.

NATIONAL UNIFORMITY OF GAUGE

'n a few days, in one vol. imperial Svo., second edition, enlarged,

price ss. cloth lettered,
THE HISTORY AND ,ROSPECTS OF
THE RAILWAY SYSTEM.
Illustrated by the Evidence given before the Gauge Commission.
By SAMUEL SIDNEY, Author of " Bristol a Free Fort," &c.

With a Map,

London : Edmonds, 154, Strand ; and Vacher, Parliament-street.

IMPORTANT to HOLDERS of SCRIP and
BANKERS' RECEIPTS In the BANDON and BANTRY
RAILWAY COMPANY.

Recollectthat on SATURDAY next, the 30th inst., the meeting of this
Company, under the sessional orders, will be held in London, and that
this will be the only opportunity afforded you of releasing yourselves
from responsibility and litigation, and of forcing a winding-up and
return of your deposits. Partici sending the scrip or bankers' re-
ceipts by Friday's post in registered letters, with a fee of 10s. by
money order, will have their wishes attended to at the meeting by
the undersigned, and the scrip will be returned by ➢fonday's post,
and parties who may send their scrip, &c , to a friend or agent can
have the assistance of the undersigned at the meeting on payment of

a fee of 7s. 64. in each case.
26th May, 1846.

IVM. LEAIfY,
4, Angel-court, London.

E AST DERE HAM AND NORWICH
RAILWAY.
The Provisional Committee of the above Company regret to an-
nounce to the Scripholders, that from circumstances totally unex-
pected and unprecedented, the Bill has been lost in the Committee
of the House of Commons.
The Committee will take steps without delay for arranging the
accounts of the Company, and will make their report thereon to the
Scripholders as soon as possible.
EDWARD WILLETT, Chairman.
JOHN C. NORTON, Secretary.
Mitchell's-court, Norwich, May 28, 1846.
N.B. All persons having any claim upon the above Company are
requested to furnish the particulars thereof to the Secretary, within
ten days from this date, that the same may be examined and dis-
charged.

PORTRAITS, Landscapes, Copies of Paintings,
&c., by the Agency of Light. —3lr. BEARD'S recent improve-
ments in the DAGUERREOTYPE INVENTION have been honoured
with the following, among other notices, by the leading public
journals:—" We witnessed with great gratification the improvements
Mr. Beard has lately effected."—Morning Herald. " The portraits
are now fixed on the plate in all their natural hues of colour."—Bri-
tannia. "They exhibit a degree of boldness, and stand out with a
relief greatly desiderated in all the earlier specimens."—The Times.
" The fidelity of the likeness is wonderful, and the effect imparted by
Mr. Beard's new process of colouring is extremely beam iful."—Critic.
"As family portraits these miniatures are invaluable."—Church and
State Gazette.
Portraits taken daily from 9 till 6, and licenses to exercise the in-
vention in London or the provinces granted by Mr. Beard, 85, King
William-street, City; 34, Parliament-street; and the Royal Poly-
technic Institution.

EARLY HAY HARVEST.-RICK CLOTHS,
with Poles, Follies, and Lines, complete.
"No farmers houhl be without a good rick cloth, for it is
Certainly one of the most useful things he can have OR his pre-
mises."—Gardener's Gazette.
Rick Cloths, both New and Second-hand, at a reasonable cost,
at BENJAMIN EDGINGTON'S, 2, Duke-street, Southwark.
Early application will ensure prompt attention. A Warehouse at
203, Piccadilly. Marquees, Tents, Flags, Netting and Bunting for
Fruit Trees, Railway Truck Covers, &c.

TO SCHOOLS.—HOLIDAY LETTERS.
THE HAIR-LINE POINTED PENS.
These Pens are now universally acknowledged to be um-ivalled,
the up-stroke is so fine as to be hardly perceptible, while from the
fiexibibity of the metal, and perfect finish of the Pen, a fine and
regular down stroke is insured. There are three kinds, Broad,
Medium, and Fine Points, which are sold in boxes of a gross each,
price 55., at Relic and Fletcher':, Cloak-lane.

Z 4 HEFFIELD PLATE for the DINNER
A-7 TABLE.—The Catalogue or Prices, with Drawing's of Silver
Plated Dish Covers, Vegetable or Curry Dishes, and other requisites
for the dinner table, is published, and may he had gratis, or Ivill
be sent, postage free, to any part of Great Britain, Ireland, or the
colonies.

__...,....
TipCOX SAVORY and Co., 47, Cornhill, London, seven doors
frem)Gracechurch-street.

01, ISRGESS'S NEW SAUCE, for general
l),pur-
poses, having gained such great approbation, and the demand
br it continuing to increase, JOHN BURGESS and SON beg most
respectfully to offer thus their best acknowledgments to the Public
for their liberal patronage of the same ; its utility and great conveni-
ence in all climates have recommended it to the most distinguished
oreign connections, who have all spoken highly in its recommenda-
tion. It is prepared by them only ; and for preventing disappoint-
ment to families, all possible care has been resorted to, by each
bottle being sealed on the cork with their firm and address, as well
as each label having their signature, without which it cannot be
genuine.
JOHN BURGESS and SON'S long-established and much-esteemed
ESSENCE of ANCHOVIES continues to be prepared by them after
the same manner that has given the greatest satisfaction for many
years.
Warehouse, 107, Strand, corner of Savoy Steps, London.