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DIRECTORS.
:The * denotes a Director of the Law Life, and the t a Dlreektr •
the Legal and General Life Insurance Society.)
Bethel, Richard, Esq., Q.C.
Eigg, Edward Smith, Esq., Southampton-billings
Boodle, John, Esq., Davies-street, Berkeley•equare
• Brown, Anthony, Esq. (Chamberlain of Leaden)
Budd, Thomas William, Esq., Bedford-row
f Chiehester. J. H. R., Esq., Lincoln's Inn.
* Chisholme, William, Esq.. Lincoln's Inn-fleide
• Clarke, Thomas, Esq. (Solicitor to the Ordnance)
Cox, John, Esq., Lincoln's Inn-fields
Jortin, Lee, Esq„ Lincoln's lan-field.
Kinderley, George Herbert, Esq., Lincoln's Inn
Lee, John Benjamin, Esq., Dean's-yard, Westminster
t Lyon, James Wittit, Esq., Spring-gardens
t Rose, the Eon. Sir George (one of the Judges of the Court of
Bankruptcy and Master In Chancery)
t Simpkinson, Sir Praneis, Q.C.
* Smedley, Francis, Esq„ (High Bailiff of Westminster)
t Tatham Meaburn, Esq. Lincoln', Inn-leld.s
Tilson, Thomas, Zsq , Coleman-street
* Twigs, Horace, Esq., Q.C. (Vice-Chaneellor of Unseen!)
Tyssen, John R. D., Esq., Manor Offices, Hackney
* Tizard, William, Esq., Lincoln's Inn-fields
White, Edward, Esq. (Auditor of the Duehy of Cornwall)
Wilde, Edward Archer, Esq., College-hill
t Wing, Thomas, Esq., Gray's Inn-square.
Annum.
Bailey, Charles, Esq., Stratford-place
Beckett, Daniel Smith, Esq., Lincoln's Inn-fleida
Eroderip, Francis, Esq., Lincoln's Inn
Seadding, Zdwin Ward, Zsq., Gordon-street.
Secznarr —Edward Blake Beal, ESQ.
ARCAITECTS AND SURVITORI.
Thomas Bellamy, Esq., Charlotte-street, Bedffird-square
George Pownall, Zsq., Bedford-row.
Seiacrroxs—Messrs. Edward and Charles Harrison, IS, Bedffird-rew.
BANKERS—Mows. Contta aad Company.
The terms are in general the same as those of the other principal
insurance offices. The advantages to the insured consist in the
magnitude of the capital responsible for looms, and in the known
character of the Trustees, Directors, and Proprietary.

P. FERGUSON CAMROI7I, See.

YORK AND LANCASTER RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
The Board of Directors having seen an Advertisement in the " Times" of this day, stating that a meeting of the Sharekolders will
be held on the 9th instant, " to consider whether their interests will
not be test promoted by the Company being forthwith dissolved,"
think it necessary to inform the Shareholders that, after mature
consideration, they feel satisfied that they are best consulting the in-
terests of the Company, and also keeping faith with the public, by
prosecuting their exertions in Parliament for a Bill to construct this
undertaking (as one of great importance) until Parliament, under
their present or their contemplated measures, shall have decided on
the competing lines ; therefore, to hold a previous general meeting
of Shareholders will not only be prejudicial, but useless, inasmuch as
the position of the Company's funds and the Directors' liability for
not carrying out the trusts and objects of the settlement (against
which there can be no indemnity but by Act of Parliament or deed
under seal), would preclude the Directors from adopting or being
influenced by any resolution proceeding from a majority of the Share-
holders, however desirous the Directors may be to meet their wishes.
After this notice, the Directors can only rely upon the judgment and
discretion of the Proprietary as a safeguard against countenancing
the proceedings of disappointed speculators, or holding any meeting
adverse to the Directors.

By order of the Board.
SAMUEL HOLDS WO Secretary.
Palace Chambers, St. ,Tarnes's-street, April 7,18461;'

TO FOREIGNERS VISITING ENGLAND.
At the CABINET DE LECTURE, 67, Strand, all the most
imp(rfautt French, Italian, Spanish, Belgian, and English papers are
filed for perusal.
Terms of Subscription by the day, week, month, quarter, •r year,
can be obtained at the "Cabinet de Lecture," or will be forwarded,
on application, by letter, prepaid, addressed to the manager of the
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HOTEL TO BE LET.
TO BE LET, with immediate possession,
THE LION HOTEL, COMMERCIAL INN, and POSTING-
HOUSE ; situate in the Borough of LICO3IINgTBR, and County
of Hereford.
The House and Premises, in which a highly respectable and
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can be required for extending the present business, in all its various
branches. The flirniture, stock, and fixtures, which are of the best
description, and amounting to, from 1,0001. to 1,2001., to be taken
at a valuation, in the usual way ; and a respectable tenant will
meet with every encouragement and accommodation.
Further particulars may be obtained, either by viewing the pre-
mises, or by applying to the proprietor, who will give satisfactory
reasons for disposing of the business.

ICOLL'S PALETOT of LLAMA CLOTH
registered 6 and 7 Vic., eap. 65. Patronised by Um Prince
Consort, Prince George of Cambridge,
This oTercoat recommends itself to the Public generally by its
peculiar elasticity aid lightness, moderate price, and able defence
against the almost eonstant timidity of the climate of Great Britain.
To be had ha London only of Use Patentees, 114, itegent-street.

THE BEST ENGLISH WATCHES.
AB. SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers, No.
• 9, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank, request the atten-
tion of purchasers to their stock of London-made PATENT LEVER
WATCHES, which are manufactured by themselves in their own
house. In Silver Cases, with the Detached Escapement and Jew-
elled, the prices are Four Guineas and a Half, Six, and Eight
Guineas each ; or ii Gold Cases, Ten, Twelve, Fourteen, and Six-
teen Guineas each. The very large stock offered for selection in-
cludes every description, enabling a customer to select that which s
more particularly adapted to his own use.

DUTCH MAIL.
THE HAGUE, APRIL 6.—ln the sitting of the Second
Chamber of the States General on Saturday, the 4th of
April, the project of law, letter A, relative to the sup-
pression of the fund for agriculture, was rejected by a
majority of 45 to 13. After long debates, and a detailed
defence by his Excellency the Minister of the Interior,
the Minister then declared that he was authorised by the
King, to withdraw the other projects of law, connected
with that which bad been just discussed. His Excel-
lency then presented a note, which had become necessary
in the projects of law relative to the suppression of the
fund for the national manufactures, which is to be dis-
cussed in the sitting to-day (Monday). In the sitting of
the Second Chamber of the States General to-day, the
project of law for suppressing the fund for national ma-
nufactures, was adopted by a majority of 51 to 3.
The Chamber afterwards opened the debate,
upon the project of law for continuing the road from
the Bosch to Culemborg, which debate will be continued
this evening. In the same sitting, the general report on
the project of law relative to pensions was brought Up.
THE HAGUE, APRIL 4.—A year ago the Government
applied to the States General to be authorised to di-
minish for a time, or completely to suppress the transit
duty ; the fixed, and navigation duty levied on the
Rhine by virtue of the convention of Mayence, of the
31st of March, 1831. It was assigned, as a ground for
this application, that some States on the banks of the
Rhine had declared their readines likewise to
abolish those duties. France, Bavaria, and Baden,
were the first to set an example, from which it was
permitted to believe that all these States would perse-
vere in their liberal sentiments, but it was not so. Ba-
varia and Baden did not perform the promises
they had given, respecting the exception from
navigation duty. Accordingly, the decrees
of the 19th of March and 12th of April, which granted
in favour of those states the suppression of the fixed
duty, and a diminution of the navigation duty, have not
been carried into execution. The French Government
have given notice that it has completely suppressed all
navigation duties on the Rhine, as far as Dutch ships are
concerned, and that it expects to be treated with entire
reciprocity by the Government of the Netherlands. For
this end the Government has presented to the States
General the following project of law :
We, William IL, &c., and considering that the
French Government no longer levies any navigation duty
upon goods conveyed up the Rhine by Dutch ships, and
that no transit duty is levied in France—with the ad-
vice of the Council of State, and the sanction of the
States-General, have decreed and decree as follows :
Art. I. Goods conveyed directly to the Rhine
from the Dutch ports, in French or Dutch vessels,
or those coming from French ports to be
imported into the Netherlands directly, by the
Rhine, in French or Dutch vessels, shall be exempt
from the navigation duties in the Dutch rivers, as well
as from fixed duty, which is levied in the Netherlands
according to list A, and its exceptions 11. and 111.,
annexed to the Convention of Mayence of the 31st March,
relative to the navigation of the Rhine, modified by the
subsequent Convention between the States on the
banks of the Rhine, dated, the 15th of September, 1845,
taking such measures as we shall judge desirable to
prevent abuses.

- Art. 11. The exemption granted by the present law
shall remain in force, so long as the French Government
shall grant Dutch ships th• exemption from duties above
mentioned.

Art. 1.11. The present law shall be in
.for?e on the
third day after its promulgation in the official Journal.
We learn that the magistrates of the city of Am-
sterdam, having been consulted on the plan for forming
a harbour for steam-boats and fishing smacks at
Scheveningen, after consulting the Chamber of Com-
merce and Manufacture, have not only expressed them-
selves in the most favourable manner, but likewise stated
in the strongest terms their opinion of the advantage
which would be derived from the speedy execution of
this plan.

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