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London, England, 1846-05-20 00:00:00

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NATIONAL TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.
The Annual Meeting will be held in Exeter Hall, on Tunas-
DAT EVENING, at Six o'clock • the Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY
M.P., in the chair. Tickets for the Platform and the Central Seats
may be obtained at the Society's Of 39, Moorgatc-street, City.

rIFIHE NEW ASYLUM for INFANT OR-
PHANS, STAMFORD-HILL. For Orphans under Eight Years
of Age, without distinction of sex, place, or religious connexion.
The SECOND ANNIVERSARY DINNER of this Charity will be
held at the London Tavern, Blshopsgate-street, on WEDNESDAY, the
27th of May.
The Right Hon. Lord-Viscount MORPETH, M.P., in the Chair.

SOCIETY 01? PAINTERS IN WATER
COLOURS.
The FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL EXHIBITION is NOW
OPEN, at their Gallery, 5, Pall-mall East, each day, from Nine
till Dusk. . _

Admittance, One Shilling. Catalogue, Sixpence.
J. W. WRIGHT, Sec.

pEARD'S IMPROVED PHOTOGRAPHIC
PORTRAITS, so highly eulogised by all the leading journals,
are TAKEN' DAILY, from Nine to Six, at 34, Parliament-street,
Westminster; 85, King William-street, City; and the Royal Poly-
technic Institution, Regent-street.
" The brilliancy and warmth of tone gained by the Patentee's
new method of colouring, add materially to the excellency of the
portrait."
" The portrait stands out in bold relief, clear, round, and life-like."
Licenses to practice the invention in !London, or the Provinces,
granted by Mr. Beard (sole patentee of the Daguerreotype), 85, King
William-street, City.

TO GENTLEMEN VISITING LONDON.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN READING
ROOMS, 67, STRAND. At the above Rooms all the most
important English, French, Italian, Spanish, Belgian, and German
newspapers can be perused daily, and are regularly flied. Terms of
subscription—Each sitting, 2d. ; by the week, Is. 6d. ; month, ss. ;
quarter, 13s. ; year, 425.
Further information can be obtained on application, or by address-
ing, prepaid, to the Manager of the Cabinet de Lecture, 67, Strand,
opposite the Adelphi Theatre.

QEE THE DAILY NEWS of JUNE 1.
Daily News Office, Whitefriars.

UNIVERSAL GAS LIGHT COMPANY.
Capital 100,0001., in 5,000 Shares of 201. per Share.
Deposit, 10s. per 1001. Shares, in accordance with the Act.
Provisionally Registered.
Under the Management of a Proivisional Committee,
With power to add from the General Committee.
CONSULTING ENGlNEER—Professor Ryan, M.D., L.L.D., Royal Naval
College, Portsmouth, and Royal Polytechnic Institution.
ENGINEER—Mr. Robert Cordon, Nottingham.
BANKERS—The London and County Joint Stock Bank.
SOLICITOR—J. F. W. Fesemneyer, 23, Bedford-row.
SECRETARY— Mr. Gabriel Kenyon.
Offices of the Company, No. 11, Old Jewry:chambers, City.
The Company have great pleasure in announcing to the Public,
that since issuing their laat„Advertisements, they have availed them-
selves of the opportunity of testing, by practical operations the
utility and applicability of their Apparatus for Manufacturing Gas
on the Premises of the Consumer, and they feel great pleasure in
stating that it has!lbeen adopted by the Birmingham, North Midland,
and Midland Railway Companies, and is now in active use at the
following Railway Stations :
Tring Station, Birmingham Line.
Methley Station, North Midland Line.
Kegworth Station, Midland Line.
At which places it has been used with the utmost success, both as.
regards the Station and Signal Lights, producing in point of bril-
liancy and steadiness a most powerful light.
The Apparatus has also been used at various Lace Mills and Factories,
situate at Nottingham, Derby, and elsewhere, giving the greatest
satisfaction.
Theflill particulars whereof, and the purposes to which the inven-
tion is applicable, are embodied in the Company's Prospectus, which
may be obtained of the Solicitor, and at the Company's Offices.
In carrying out thislnventiOn, the Company hold out to the Share-
holders a return upon their capital of about 501. per cent. In stating
this return at so large an amount of profit, it will be borne in mind
that this Company have not to contend with any of the heavy ex-
penses to which other Gas Light Companies are subjected, such as
large establishments for the manufacture of Gas, the erection and
working of furnaces, steam-engines, laying down, taking up and re-
pairing of pipes, poor-rates, &c.i&e.
To bring this valuable patent and profitable invention into opera-
tion, it is proposed to form a Company by raising the sum of 100,000/.
in 5,000 shares of 201. each.
A deposit of two shillings per share to be paid to the Bankers of
the Company, for which a receipt will be given, exchangeable for the
certificate of the Company entitling the holder to an allotment of
shares.
The Management of the Company to be under the guidance of a
Board of Directors; and, when formed, a General Meeting to he
held to approve the Deed of Settlement now drawn up under the
advice of Counsel.
Applications for shares, in the usual form, to be made to, and
further particulars obtained from, the Solicitor to the Company, and
also of the Secretary, at the Company's Offices.

UNIVERSAL GAS LIGHT COMPANY.
The ALLOTMENT of SHARES will take place on MONDAY,
the Ist day of June next, at the Company's Offices, No. 11, Old
Jewry Chambers, City.

Novelties of extreme interest and information at the
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
Scenes in.the OREGON TERRITORY form a part of an en-
tirely NEW SERIES of DISSOLVING VIEWS. PORTRAITS of
the most Distinguished Men in the SIKH GOVERNMENT and
ARMY of LAHORE, magnified by the OPAQUE MICROSCOPE ;
also, Portraits of Sir Henry Ifardinge, Sir Robert and Lady Sale. The
PHYSIOSCOPE and CIIROMATROPE, with new and beautiful
variations. The most interesting of the Novelties at work are
MACINTOSH'S ROTARY ENGINE, COLEMAN'S PATENT
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE for ascending and descending Inclined
Planes, FARRELL'S ARCIIIMEDIAN RAILWAY, an ENVE-
LOPE CUTTING MACHINE, WOOD'S NEW PATENT STEAM-
ENGINE GOVERNOR, and the ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.
Experiments with the DIVING BELL and DIVER. Lectures on
CHEMISTRY and .NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, with brilliant ex-
periments.

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Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price.
A brief Description of the Oregon Territory, from )Totes by a Nine
Years' Resident, presented to the Visitors. ,

FASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY
A A SPECIAL TRAIN of First and Second Class Carriages
WILL LEAVE CAMBRIDGE for London, calling at the following
Stations, on THURSDAY, the 21st instant, for the accommodation of
parties attending the AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION SOCIETY'S
MEETING:— .

From Cambridge 9 0 A.M. I Newport ••••...... 935 A.M.
Chesterford 920 „ Bishop's Stortford 10 0 „
Wonden 930 „ Harlow'•••• ..•••• 10 15 „

Duo in London about 11 15 ♦.M.
By order, C. P. RONEY, Secretary.
Offices, Shoreditch, May 180846.

AXHOLME, GAINSBOROUGH, GOOLE,
AND YORK AND NOR ni MIDLAND JUNCTION RAIL-

WAY.

In pursuance of the resolutions of Parliament a MEETING of the
SCRIPHOLDERS of this Company will be held at the White Hart
Inn, at Gainsborough, in the county of Lincoln, on SATIIRDAY, the
Stith day of May, 1846, at Twelve o'clock -at noon precisely, for the
purpose of giving their sanction or otberwise 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,. 1546. CEO. HUDSON, Chairman. •
UNBLANE, DOUNE, and CAILA.NDER
RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of the sessional orders of
the Homes of Parliament, a MEETING of the HOLDERS of
SCRIP, or of BANKERS' RECEIPTS for SCRIP of this COM-
PANY, will be held within Kinross's Inn, Dunblane, upon TUESDAY,
the 26th day of May, 1846, at Twelve o'clock at noon, when the pro-
posed Bill to empower the said Company to construct the said rail-
way will be submitted to the consideration of the meeting, and a vote
taken in the said Bill in the manner required by the said orders.

Dunblane, May 6, 1846.

JOHN STIRLING, Chairman.
THOS. BARTY,
JAMES J. STIRLING,} Secretaries.

FIIAAST DEREHAM AND NORWICH RAIL-
WAY BILL.
Notice is hereby given, that a MEETING of the SCRIPTIOLDERS
in the above Company will be held pursuant to the Resolutions of
Parliament, at the Company's Offices, Mitchell's-court, Norwich, on
SATURDAY, the 23d day of May instant, at Ten o'clock in the Fore-
noon precisely, for the purpose of expressing their approval or non-
approval of the Bill.
EDWARD WILLETT,
Chairman of the Committees of Management.
Norwich, May 7, 1846.

QCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given that a SPECIAL MEETING is to be
held on THURSDAY, the 28th day of May current, at One o'clock after-
noon, within Gibb's Royal Hotel, Princes-street, Edinburgh, of the
HOLDERS of SCRIP PROPOSED to be CONVERTED into NEW
SHARES or STOCK of the SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY
COMPANY, and which has been issused in respect of the under-
takings contemplated by the Bills undermentioned, at which Meeting
copies of the following Bills will be submitted for the consideration
and approval of such Shareholders, viz. :-
1. A Bill to enable the Scottish Central Railway Company to make
a branch railway to Crieff, in the county of Perth.
2. A Bill to enable the Scottish Central Railway Company to make
a branch railway by Alloa Ferry to Tillicoultry.
3. A Bill to enable the Scottish Central Railway Company tomake
a branch' railway to Denny, in the county of Stirling. And
4. A Bill to enable the Scottish Centralßallway Company to make
certain terminal branches and other works at the city of Perth.
By order of the Directors,
BREADALBANE Chairman.
Perth, May 4, 1846. ROBERT D. KER, Secretary.

EXETER, YEOVIL, and DORCHESTER
RAILWAY.
In compliance with the sessional orders of the two Houses of Par-
liament, a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the HOLDERS of
SCRIP and of BANKERS' RECEIPTS for SCRIP of this Company,
will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, London, on
SATURDAY, the 30th of May, 1846, at Ten o'clock in the morning,
when a copy of the Bill now before Parliament, entitled a Bill for
making Railways from Exeter to Yeovil and to West Mitten, to
connect the same with Dorchester, with branches, to be called " The
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway," will 'be submitted for the
consideration and approval of such meeting.
And notice is hereby given, that all persons attending such meet-
ing will be required to give their names and addresses, with the
names and addresses of the owners of the scrip or bankers' receipts,
which may be produced by them at such meeting, and to permit the
numbers and details thereof to be taken down in writing, before the
votes can be received.

A form of voting papers may be had on application to the Secre-
tary, at the Offices of the Company, as below.
Dated this 19th day of May, 1846.
By order of the Committee,
JOHN CLENCH, Secretary.
33, Parliament-street, Westminster.

THE LEEDS AND THIRSIC RAILWAY
COMPANY BRANCHES AND EXTENSION'S.
Notice is hereby given that, in pursuance of the Resolutions and
Standing- Orders of Parliament, a Meeting of the Holders of Scrip
or of Bankers' Receipts for Scrip of the Company, for the Shares
Issued for the Branches and Extensions, will be held at the
Court House in Leeds, in the county of York, on TnuasDAY, the 28th
day of May instant, at One o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose
of giving or withholding their sanction to the further pro ceding
with
the followihg Bills, -at present before Parliament, the preambles of
which have been declared proved, that is to say :
Ist. A Bill to enable the Leeds and Thirsk Railway Company
to make certain deviations in the line of the Saint Helen's branch of
the said Railway.
2nd. A Bill to enable the Leeds and Think Railway Company to
extend their railway over the river Nidd at ICnaresberough, and for
other purposes.
3rd. A Bill for making a branch or extension railway from the
Leeds and Thirsk Railway, near Wath, in the county of York, to or
to communicate with Hartlepool, lu the county of Durham, with
branches therefrom. •
By order, SAMUEL SMILES, Secretary.
_ _

Leeds, May I r, 1846.
N.B. The holders of Scrip or Bankers' Receipts for Scrip must
produce those documents at the Meeting; and it is requested that
each Proprietor will, at the same time, hand in a statement of the
numbers and amount of his Scrip or Receipts, with his name and
address in full written on such statement, in order to facilitate the
taking of the votes, and to save the time of the Meeting. Forms
for this purpose may be had on application at the Offices of the Com-
pany, 5, South Parade, Leeds.

IBOSTON, STAMFORD, and BIRMING-
HAM RAILWAY (STAMFORD to WISBEAOH).
At a Special General Meeting of the Shareholders of this Company,
held at the Offices of the Company, No. 18, Abingdon-street, West-
minster, on Saturday, the 16th day of May, at Two o'clock precisely,
convened pursuant to the resolutions of the House of Commons, at
which Thomas Macaulay, Esq , Deputy-Chairman, presided;
It was unanimously resolved,
lst..That this Meeting of Holders of Scrip, and Bankers' Receipts
representing Scrip, in the proposed Boston, Stamford, and Birming-
ham Railway Company, convened and constituted conformably to
the Sessional Orders of the Houses of Lords and Commons, having
had submitted to them a copy of the Bill now before Parliament, for
incorporating the said Company, do approve thereof, and do autho-
rise the Directors to prosecute the same in the present session of Par-
liament.

2nd. That the Chairman or • -.,r;uos..t.i4hemoxicttOft of the
Com 1 papy,,;-affelinfigt4,o in affix their respective sig-
nsturtslo tho said Bill, and to any certificate of the holding of this
Meeting which the forms of Parliament may require.

3rd. That the thanks of the Shareholders are due to the Chairman
and Committee of Management of this undertaking, for the zeal, abi-
lity, honesty, integrity, and perseverance with which they have pro-
secuted It, and which promise to realise its early and complete
success.

THOMAS MACAULAY, Chairman.
Also proposed and carried unanimously,
That the thanks of the Meeting be given to the Chairman for his
services to-day. _ _

By order,
S. S. BAXTER, Solicitor.
EDWARD DANIEL, Secretary.
Any information the Shareholders may desire respecting the pre-
sent position and prospect of the Company, may be obtained upon
application to the Solicitor or the SeerctarY, at the °dices of the
Company. M
18, Abingdon-street, Westminster, ay 18, 184 G.

LONDON, SALISBURY, AND YEOVIL
JUNCTION RAILWAy.

In pursuance of the sessional ordcA of the two Houses of Parlia-
ment, a special General Meeting of the Holders of Scrip and of
Bankers' Receipts for: Scrip of this Company will be held at tho
London Tavern, in Bishopsgate-street, London, on SATURDAY, the
30th of May instant, at twelve o'clock at noon precisely, when copies
of the following Bills, new before Parliament, will be submitted to
the consideration of the meeting :

A Bill for making a railway from the London and South-Western
Railway, near Basingstoke, by Salisbury, to Sutton Bingham, in the
county of Somerset, with a branch to the town of Yeovil, to be called
the " London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Junction Railway."
A Bill for making a railway from Salisbury to Sutton Bingham, in
the county of Somerset, with a branch to the town of Yeovil, to be
called the "London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Junction Railway."
And notice is hereby given, that all persons attending such meeting
will be requiied to give their names and addresses, with the names
and addresses of the owners of the scrip or bankers' receipts which
may be produced by them at such meeting, and to perrnit the numbers
and details thereof to be taken down in writing before the votes can
be received.
A fonn of voting paper may be had on application to the secretary,
at the offices of the Company, as below.—Dated this 16th May, 1846.
By order of the Committee,
L. CROMBIE, Secretary.
4, Old Palace-yard, Westminster.

LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, and NEW-
CASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY COM-
PANY.
Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Holders of Scrip, or
Bankers' Receipts for Scrip, or deposits paid in respect of shares in the
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway
Company, will be held at the Palatine Hotel, Manchester, on
THURSDAY, the 21st instant, at twelve o'clock at noon precisely, at
which meeting a Bill, now before Parliament, and which has received
the sanction of the Committee of the House of Commons, for making
a railway from the extension of the Leeds and Bradford Railway
to the Richmond branch of the Great North of England Railway,
with a branch from Aysgarth to Hawes by this Company, in con-
junction with the Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway Com-
pany, will be submitted to the consideration and approval of the
holders of such Scrip or Bankers' Receipts.
All holders of Scrip, or Bankers' Receipts, as aforesaid, are earnestly
requested to attend the meeting, when they will be required to ex-
hibit their Scrip, or Bankers' Receipts, attached together ; and in order
to facilitate the business of the meeting, and for the purpose of
having their votes correctly recorded, they must likewise forward
to the Secretary, with as little delay as possible, their names and ad-
dresses, with the denoting numbers and arnountof their Scrip or
Bankers' Receipts, according to a form which may be obtained at the
Company's offices.
Those holders of Scrip, or Bankers' Receipts, who cannot attend the
meeting, but who wish to record their votes in favour of the under-
taking, may effect that object by forwarding their Scrip, or Bankers'
Receipts, three days previous to the meeting, addressed to the Secre-
tary, at 22, Parliament-street, Westminster, who will return the
same, after the meeting, in such manner as they may direct.

CHRISTIAN ALEIIUSEN, Chairman.
W. IL INGRAM, Secretary.
22, Parliament-street, Westminster, May 12, 1846.

T ,ANCASIIIRE and NORTH YORKSHIRE
■RAILWAY COMPANY.
_ _ _

xotiee is hereby given, that a Meeting of the Holders of Scrip or
Bankers' Receipts for Scrip, or deposits paid in respect of shares in the
Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway Company, will bo held at
the Palatine Hotel, Manchester, on THURSDAY, the 21st instant, at
Twelve o'clock at noon precisely, at which meeting a Bill, now before
?ornament, and which has received the sanction of the Committee of
the llouse of Commons, for making a railway from the extension of
the Leeds and Bradford Railway, to the Richmond branch of the
Great North of England Railway, with a branch from Aysgarth to
Hawes, by this Company, in conjunction with the Liverpool, Man-
chester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway Company, will
be submitted to the consideration and approval of the holders of such
Scrip and Bankers' Receipts.
All Holders of Scrip or Bankers'
Receipts, as aforesaid, are
earnestly requested to attend the meeting, where they will be re-
quired to exhibit their Scrip, or Bankers' Receipts, attached together.
And in order to facilitate the business of the meetin.,-,,, and for the
purposes of having their votes correctly recorded, they must likewise
forward to the Secretary, with as little delay as possible, their names
and addresses, with the denoting numbers, and amount of their Scrip
or Bankers' Receipts, according to a form,
the Company's Offices. which may be obtained at

Those Holders of Scrip or Bankers' Receipts, who cannot attend
the meeting, but who wish to record their votes in favour of the un-
dertaking*, may effect that object by forwarding their Scrip or
Bankers' Receipts, three days previous tO the meeting, addressed to
the Secretary, 31, Princess-street, Manchester, who will return the
same to them after the meeting, in such manner as they may direct.
FRANCIS BILLAM, Chairman.
C. MOORE WILSON, Secretary.
31, Princess• street, Manchester, May 12, 1846.

•IVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEW-
./ CASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION, and LANCASHIRE
and NORTH YORKSHIRE RAILWAYS.—NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN, that a joint Meeting of the Holders of Scrip, and of Bankers'
Receipts for Scrip, or deposits paid in respect of shares in the above
undertaking, will be held at the PALATINE HOTEL, MANCHES-
TER, on THURSDAY, the 21st instant, at One o'clock precisely, at
which meeting a Bill now before Parliament, and which has received
the sanction of the Committee of the House of Commons, for making
a railway from the extension of the Leeds and Bradford Railway, to
the Richmond Branch of the Great North of England Railway, with
a branch from Aysgarth to Ilawes, by the Liverpool and Manchester
and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway Company, and the
Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway Company, and for uniting
the two Companies, for the purpose of constructing the same, will be
submitted to the consideration, and approved of the holders of such
Scrip and Bankers' Receipts in the said two Companies.
All holders of scrip and banker's receipts in both the above Com-
panies as aforesaid, are earnestly requested to attend the Meeting,
where they will be required to exhibit their Scrip or Bankers' Receipts
attached together, in order to entitle them to vote.
All further particulars will be found in the foregoing advertise-
ments relating to the said two Companies.
Of the Liverpool, Man-
CHRISTIAN ALLHUSEN, Chairman, chester, and Newcastl-
e 11. INGRAM, Secretary, (upon - Tyne Junction
Railway Company.
•
FRANCIS BILLAM Of the Lancashire and, Chairman, North Yorkshire Rail-
C. MOORE WILSON, Secretary, way Company.
Parliamentary Offlocs, 22, Parliament-street, Westialns
May 12, 1546-