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London, England, 1856-03-07 00:00:00

CC NTRACT' FOR BILLET WOOD.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all persons
who may be desirous of contracting to supply

50 Stacks of BILLET %.1" ,0)),

that sealed tenders will be receivel tor the same, on or before the
13th instant, addressed to the !rector-General of Contracts, War
Department, Pail-Mall, London." _ .

Parties who may wish to tender are requested to use no form but
:hat which can be obtained from the above office.
G H NBY. pro D. G. Contracts.
War Department, Pall-mall, 6th Marcia, DOC

BANK OF DEPOSIT,
No. 3, PALL. MALL EAST, LONDON.
Establi,hed A.D., 1844.
Parties d sirens of INVE4rING :WONKY ars requested to
)xamineth- Plan of the Bank of oeposit Prospectuses and Forms
•or Opening Accennte Pent free on application.
PE "ER MORRI4ON, Maniqing Director.

BANK OF LONDON,
Threadueedle•street, and t!harina-cross.

CHAIRMAN—Sir JOHN VILLIERS SHELLEY. Bart., M.P.
VICE 'HAI MAN—JO.I N GRIFFITH FRI 11, Esq.
Current Acer.untr are received, and interest allowed on Balance'.
51. per cent. Interest is allowed on d.posits, with ill days' notice
of withdraws, on sums of 10s. end upwards.
By order.

MA rTTI w A RSH A LL, Jun., Manager.
BE 1.1-AMI SCOT I', Secretary.
Threadneedle-street. January 19, 1b•56.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
wAR wr-K RAGE:: On MONDAY. TIT SF) .Y. an.'
wEDNEsT) 4T, the 10 h. 11th, and 12th or ',larch, Return Ti, keta
fr..m Pad ingtou to Leamington or warwick will b available for
the return journey from the 10th to 2th, hicluelve.
The 9 40 a.m. Ex ,real Train from Paddington wilt be continued
direct to Warwick on e oh of the above Jays.
Paddi..gton, March sth.

ONDON and NORTH-WEST ERN
A RAILWA Y.—W'HICK RACES.—On 3}ON!)-4-7, TUES-
DAY, and ,VEDNE4DAY, the Ptli, 1 lth,-snil !2th M rch, Return
r ckets issued at the Huston-square Station, Louden, by the several
Tr ins to eamina ,n and Warwick, on the 10th, 11th. and i2th
instant, will be ayall.,ble to return from LeAmington to Lendcn on
either of thee., days. _ _

By nrder.
General Manager's Office, Eu.ston Station, sth March, 1856.

W lESBA DEN RAILWAY COMPANY .
London Agency. IR, Csnnon•street.

COUNCIL,

R. HARTLF,'Y KENNEDY, Esq., Alderman, Sheriff—President.
Cll. RL ES STOKES, Esq., London V•ce. resident.
Joseph C. Ewan, Esq.. A . r., Liverpool.
The dnre W. R4hhone, Esq., Liverpool
William vi •01, E q ( !taco', Duckworth, and Co.), LiTerpeol.
F. Valaut, Esq., London.
Thomas Green, Esq., London.

Ju!es Le.leune, Egui., Cowin% Antwerp.
Carl Kalb, Esq , bani. er. Wiesbaden.
August Ilergenkahn, Esq., Jtilge of the SaprenteCourt, Wiesbaden.

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BANKERS.
Londem—Mesars. Glyn, Mi 1., and Co.
l'aris Nissan'. de Rothschilds, Brothers.
Frankfort—Messrs M A. de Rothschild and Sons.
Eight per cent Preference, Shares.

The Comeau is prepared to receive App leatlons for Preferenee
Sores of Cl. each, hearing Rteht per Cent. inter. et, payable half.
yearly in London, Paris, or Frankm,t, at the option of the holders.
A first Instalment of 21 ner share will be payable on allotment,
the second 21. on the 31st March next, and the remaining 21. on the
314 Wks teirst... stuoiststuf these shares to he honed will nos-
ino.onol, being the amount required to open the line to
Radeshelm, opposite to Bingen.
Applications may, until the Bth March next, be made in the sub-
jnln,l form to the Company's brokers, A. 4. 11o4tdon, F.sq., 11,
Angel-cowt, Thrognaorton•street ; and Messrs. 'Gregg and 'tock-
dale. 6, Throgmorton-street ; or to the aecretary, at these eflices
This lens of preference shares was enanimously annroved at a
meeting of English sharehodiera, hell at Goildhall CoflNe-house, on
the 14th February last. The effect will he to complete and open the
line this spring, at a cost of less than 13,0001 per mile; and, as it is
a continuation of the prosperous Taunus Railway from Frankfort,
and thence reaches a conven•ent landing place oppos to Bingen, at
the point wher • the diflioulties of the Rhine navigation begin to he
most eeeto;is, there can be no doubt as to Its profitable traftle. or as
to the security offored by tile pre°• ence shares. The Rhin, Itailwa
has obt •ined the conces•don and form• d it- capital for extruding its
bee to Coble ate, and erecting a railway bilge across the Rhine at
that city. This win make the ,Vierbaden Railway the direct route
re in Co!cirn.- to Fre, kfor , and it wi I thus become the c.mnexion
between the existing trenk life aof North *lid smith :ermany, when
it is continued t• L thus en. For the present the company has
•honiht it h et, and r the eircurnst aces of tin .nciel pr :Imre, to
11 it Its exert•one o the first ni !hie profitable section. The line is
dread!, complete 1 to aloseach, Schierstein, Niederwallef,
tad Erbaeli, and the works on the i-emaining portion of the line are
so fay a v.nced as to le 4e no doubt of its prompt completion for the
sofa now sought to be raised.
By order the Council.
W. W LANISEIt, Secretary.
FORM Or ‘PPLICATIORr•
ro the Council of Administration 01 the Wie,barle.n RallwayCompany.
I gentle men.—[ reyiest that you will allot me -Eight per Cent.
i.efe,,,e, eh ire,. 61. etch in the Wiesb teen Railway Company,
end 1 acs e to accept the same or any less number that von may
allot toe. and to pay t e i stalments thereon at the dates fix ..d in
to .r adverihern-nt of the lGth February. 1956.

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