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London, England, 1846-01-31 00:00:00

No. 16,681. LONDON, SATURDAY IVI ORNING

MIDLAND RA ILWAY.
The Midland Railway Company are prepared to receiva
LOkNS on SECURITY of their DEBENTURES, for periods of
Three, Five, or Seven Years, in sums of not less than 1,0001. each,
at interest after the rate of 41. per cent. per annum, papable halt
yearly.

Applications to be made to the Secretary, at the Company's
Office, Derby.

By order,
January 28, 1846.

J. F. BELL, Secretary.

NORTH WALES RAILWAY
z GENERAL MEETING. _

Notice is hereby gi;;;;&t7lheo;llaary er Half-yearly GENE-
RAL MEETING of the SWAREHOLDERS of the North Wales
Railway Company will be held at the LONDON TAVERN, Bishops-
gate-street, in the City of London, on THURSDAY, the 26th day of
February next, at One o'clock in the afternoon precisely, for the
transaction of the ordinary business of the Company, in pursuance of
the North Wales Railway Act, 1845, and of the other general Acts of
Parliament relating to railways.
And notice is hereby further given, that the Books for the Regis-
tration of Transfers will be closed on and after the 16th day of
February next, until such half-yearly general meeting shall have
been held. _ _

By order of the Board,
JOHN MARRINER, Secretary
2, Guildhall Chambers, Basinghall-street, Jan. 29, 1845.

THE DIRECT NORTHERN RAILWAY
COMPANY, FROM LONDON TO YORK.

COMMITTER 0? MANAGEMENT.
The Hon. William Ashley, Stable-yard, St. James's •
Major Amsinck, 22, Upper Montagu-street, Montagu•. square
William Scott Binney, Esq. 27, Bryanstole-square
William Sprott Boyd, Esq. 1, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park
John Brightman, Esq. 30, Cornhill
Samuel James Capper, Esq. 1, Adelaide-place, London-bridge
Robert Walter Carden, Esq. 61, I hreadneodle-street
Edward Trust Carver, Esq. Forest-lodge, Tulse-hill
The Chisholm, 37, Chapel-street, Gros- enor-place
Lieut.-Colonel Colquhoun, R.A. Woolwich
William Morley, Esq. Blackheath
William Mountford Nurse, Esq. Kensington-gore
John tickersgill, Esq. S, Warnford-court
Robert Rodger, Esq. Glasgow, 30, Montagu-street, Montage-square

ENGINEER—John Miller, Esq. Edinburgh
Swacrron--Messrs. Johnston, Farquhar, and Leech, 65, lgoorgate-

street

PARLIAMENTAIy AGENTS—Mess7;:ii;ebster, 26, Great George-street

. .
Westminster
SLCRETAILY Mr. W. 11. Clark
Ofsces of the Company, 61, Moorgate-street.

EXTRACT FROM REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF MA-
NAGEMENT TO THE SHAREHOLDERS, DATED THE
29m DECEMSEIt, 1845.
" By the scheme promoted by the Direct Northern Railway Com-
pany it is proposed to bring York (to the n-rth of which city there
is a population exceeding five millions) within the dicta ce (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 termite ; 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 prtkjected 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 bre by the cheat° 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, Stamford,z
Grantham, Newark, Lincoln, East Retford, Sheffield, Gainsborongh,
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-
ceedei 1 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, atm
that of 500 yards, and with remarkably easy curves, the Direct North-
ern It iilway, whilst its primary object is to unite in the directest
manner London and York, will at the same time serve a rich, fertile,
and populous country, will reciprocate the advantages of easy and
inexp.aisive 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'
aid the continent of Europe with York, the north of England, and
Scotland.
The shareholders will observe the suggestion mode by Mr. Miller,
which proposes to introduce a new element of safety, regularity, and
speed into ralway 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.
feet ability to fulfil ail that remains tube completed within the time
limited by the Legislature.
" Thus prepared, ant with deposits paid, and the proper deeds
signed by a body of most responsible Shareholders, the Com-
mittee 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 compared with its com-
petitors for legislative sanction, and with existing lines.
It may here be observed, that the distance between the cross of
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 17414 miles ;
an 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.

ALLIANCE BUILDING and INVESTMENT
SOCIETY.—On MESBAN'S PLAN.
Enrolled under Act 6 and 7 Wm. IV., cap. 32.
Shares 130/. Monthly Payments 12s. per Share. Entrance Fee 2s. 6d.
A Pubilc Meeting will be held at EXETER HALL on MONDAY
EVENING next, Feb. 2, at Seven o'clock precisely, to explain the
principles of, and advantages offered, by this Society, and to enrol
members thereof.
Other Public Meetings will be held during the month at the follow-
ing places, for the same purpose, and at the same hour :
Cadogan Literary and Scientific Institution, Sloane-street, Chelsea,
Monday, Feb. 9.
Fitzroy Rooms, Little Portland-street, Portland-place, Monday,
Feb. 16.
George Hotel, Aldermanbury, Monday, Feb. 23.
By Order of the Board,
E.B. MESBAN, Manager, 6, Fleming-street, Kingsland-road.
J. POCKNELL, Secretary, 11, Artillery-place West, Bunhill-row.
Of whom prospectuses may be obtained.
N.B. Fixed Law Charges.

C OMPRESSED AIR ENGINE COMPANY.
• (Proviiionally Registered.)
No. 5, Pall-mall East, London.
Capital 400,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 10/. each.
Deposit IL Is. per Share.
TRUSTEES. •
Kenyon S. Parker, Esq., Q.C. Lincoln's Inn
Frederick Squire, Esq., 1, Pali-mall East.
DIRECTORS.
Sir James Carmichael, Bart., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park
Charles Farebrother, Esq., Alderman, Lancaster-place, and Meat-
house, Stockwell
Lieut.-Colonel W. Fendail, Sevenhampton, Andoversford, Glouces-
tershire
Miles Miley, Esq., Phillimore-place, Kensington
Joseph Wilkinson, Esq., St. Mildred's-court, City
Thomas Earnshaw, EBq., Tulse-hill
(With power to add to their number).
CONSULTING ENGINEER AND PATENTEE—Arthur Parsey, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Henry Wickens, Esq., Old Burlington-street
Alex. F. C. Ridgway, Esq., Leicester-square.
BANKERS—Messrs. Ransom and Company, I, Pall-mall East.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Davies and Son, 21, Warwick-street, Regent-street.
SECRETARY—D. E. Austin, Esq.
This Company has been formed for the purpose of obtaining from
the patentee the benefit of the patent right of his invention in Great
Britain and its colonies, by means of licenses, for its use.
By the present patent condensed air is applied in the most simple
manner, so as to obtain an uniformly-regulated motive power, per-
fectly controllable, and capable of being instantly increased or de-
creased at pleasure, and is applicable in all cases where steam power
is now employed.. • -
Prospectuses and every information, with cards to view the work-
ing model, can be obtained from, and applications for shares in the
usual form made to,. the Secretary, at the Company's Offices, No. 5,
Pall-mall East, London, and Messrs. Davies and Son, Solicitors, 21,
Warwick-street, Regent-street. •

MECEIPS -DESKS, WORK BOXES, and
TEA CHESTS, No. 4, Leadenhall-street, combine all that
is superb and cheap, with the most approved patterns, invented by
himself, and manufactured on his own premises ; where may be seen
some of the richest specimens in the world of PAPIER MACHE
Goods, Dressing Caws, Bagatelle Tables, Ivory Chessmen and
Chess Boards, rich Card Cases, Tables, and, in fact, everything for
the work table and dressing toilet, displayed in a style of elegance
not surpassed by any in this kingdom. Mechi is the sole and original
inventor of the Castellated Tooth Brushes, Magi€ Strop and Paste,
the peculiar Steel Razor, the•cushioned Bagatelle Tables, and various
improvements in portable Desks and Dressing Cases combined.

TO MASTERS OF COLLEGES, SCHOOLS, &e., &c.
MESSRS. LONGMAN and CO.'S ANNUAL
CATALOGUE of COLLEGE and SCHOOL BOOKS and
EDUCATIONAL WORKS for 1846, containing about Three Hundred
New and Established Works in all branches of Scholastic Literature,
may be had, Gratis, of all Booksellers in Town or Country; or a
copy will be forwarded, free of postage, to any person applying for
the Catalogue to Messrs. Longman and Co., 30, Paternoster-row,
London.

• Published This Day, Byo., No. 2., price lialt-a•Crown, of
THE PLOUGH : a Journal of Agricultural and
Rural Affairs.

CONTENTS:-

The Plough—Prince Albert's Ox—Rotaria Cymo, or the Rotation
of Crops; by Professor Donaldson—Philosophy of Agriculture (con-
tinued)—On the general Management of Sheep in Enclosed or Ara-
ble :Land—On Cultivation—Account of an Ayrshire Bullock—Dr.
Lyon Playfair's Lectures upon the Disease of the Potato—On French
Agriculture—Reviews —Cheap Roofing—General Intelligence—Agri-
cultural Report—Calendar of Farming Operations for February—
Calendar of Horticulture for February—Meteorology of January—
Markets, Railway Share Lists, &c. &c.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman'.

rpHE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
1. for FEBIttrARY, price 2s. 6d., contains :
.. .

Servia—Her RevolUtion and Present State. Money Matters ; or,
Stories of Gold.—No. IL—The Poor Doctor. Miscellanea Mystica.
—No. 11. All Pacha and Eminah. A Peep at the Mysteries of the
Heidelberg Students. Song.—By Robert Gillillan. Instability.—
From the Spanish. Words for Music.—By a Dreamer. The Hand-
book of Spain. Tke Travels of the Leaf.—From the French. Poet-
ical Remains of the late Mrs. James Gray.—No. VI. Captivity and
Adventures of Joseph Pitts, an English Slave in Algiers.—Conclusion.
The Watchers of Earth.—By a Dreamer. Carlyle's Cromwell. The
Late Crisis.

Dublin : William Curry, jun. and Co. ; W. S. Orr and Co., London
and all Booksellers.

TO RAILWAY PROPRIETORS AND SHAREHOLDERS.
MESSRS. WICKHAM and CO., Share
Auctioneers, inform their friends and the public, that their
PUBLIC SALES OF RAILWAY SHARES, &c., are held every
MONDAY and THURSDAY, at the HALL OF COMMERCE,
Threadneedle•street, London, to which place, or to the office of the
Asictioneers, 28, Threadneedle-street, all favours and instructions are
equested to be addressed.

All
Scrip and Share Certificates must be forwarded to or deposited
at the office of the Auctioneers, as above, at least the day preceding
the day of public sale, and advices of the result of the sales will be
forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds imme-
diately disposed of according to instructions.
SCALE or CnAnum.—Under 20!., Is. per share; under 50/., is. 6d.,
mder 100!., 2s. 6d. ; and 6s. for all above.

NICOLL'S PALETOT, registered 6 and 7 Vic.,
cap. 65, is patronised by the Prince Consort, Prince George
of Cambridge, kc., and is generally acknowledged to excel all other
great seats. The cloth is made of Llama Wool, known to be porens,
yet naturally repellant of rain.
In the neighbourhood of the extensive Warerooms, 114, Regent-
street, a few small shops are se far unprincipled as to assume•a
similarity of name, intending to impose upon strangers sonic trashy
substitute. Messrs. Nicoll think it due to their own reputation thus
to caution the public, and to suggest that a copy of the Address be
preserved ; and they further offer a Reward of Fifty Pounds for the
detection of a Positive Infringement.
Black Llama Cloth, from its soft elastic nature, is well adapted for
Evening Dress Coats—to be had only of the Patentees.
Each correct registered Paletot Is starved in the lining "H. J. and
D. Nicoll, lit Regent-street, London."

TONBS'S DEMULCENT COUGH 140-
u ZENGES, the best remedy ever discovered. Persons afflicted
with cough, asthma, dinleulty of breathing, consumption, or other
4iseases or derangement of the respiratory organs, will experience
immediate relief, and derive permanent benefit, by the use of
JONES'S DE(ULCENT COUGH LOZENGES, which are so eftica
dons, that they will cut short the most violent paroxysms of cough-
ing, and are so agreeable to the palate that they may be eaten
as a confection.

Sold by the proprietor, Peter Jones, operative chemist, 11, Norton-
folgate, Blshopsgate-street. London, in boxes Is. 1%d., and in tins at
2s. )d. each, duty included ; and by most ehesnists and patent medi—
cine vendors in town and oonntry.

Wholesale Agents—Barclay and Son, Y
St. Paul's Churchyard.

Xdwards,

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RAILWAY SR kRI; MARKETS.
MANCHESTER, JAN. 29.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are —Belfast, Ballymena, &c., % 'die.
—Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, New, par—Direct Northern, 34
dis.—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, % p. —Glas-
gow and Dumfries, % dis.—Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., 1% p.
—Grand Union, % p.—Huddersfleld and Manchester Railway
and Canal, 6% p.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 5-16 p.—
Leicester and Birmingham, % dis. —Liverpool and Bury, 16% p.
Ditto, New Shares, 3% p.—Liverpool, Preston, Manchester, and
Southport, % p.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 1%
p.—Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction,
dis.—Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenths, 3% p.—Ditto, Exten-
sion, 4 p. - Northumberland and Lancashire, dis.—Preston and
Wyre, Halves, 4% p.—Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 2 p.—
Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, % dis.—Trent Valley, 15% P.

LEEDS, JAN. 29.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are —Great Grimsby and Sheffield,
9 —Ditto, Extensions, 6s. p.—lludderstield and Manchester, p.
—Leeds and Bradford, 52 cash —Leeds and Dewsbury, 16%—New-
castle and Berwick, 21% cash —North British, 24% —Ditto, New
Carlisle Branch, 3%—Trent Valley, 15% p.—Wakefield, Pontefract,
and Goole, New, 7% p.—London and Portsmouth, 4% —London
and York, 4% —Sheffield and Lincoln, 3%—Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston, 4 4 —West Ridffig Union, 6 % —Bradford, Wakefield,
and Midland, 13s. dia.—Buckinghamshire (fate Rugby), ss. p.—
Clitheroe Junction, 2%—Essex and Suffolk, 10s. dls.—Lancashire
and North Yorkshire, par Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North
Eastern, 10s. dis.—Leeds and York, 12s. 6d. dis. —Leeds, Wakefield,
and Midland, 2s. 6d. dis.—Leicester and Bedford, 7s 6d. p. —Man-
cheater, Buxton, and Midland, 21s. p. —North Western, 2% —South
Midland, I% p.