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THE COLOSSEUM, Regent's-park.—This mag-
nificent Establishment, eulogised by the press as a fairy palace
of erchantment, has acquired a celebrity unparalleled in the history
of c xhibitions, from its intellectual, instructive, and artistical
Attractions. Open Daily from Ten till Six. Admittance 3s.
Children, Half-price. The Stalactite Caverns : " the most magnificent
or the 'Armies which Nature has butt for herself in the regions
of ieight"—ls,extra, The whole designed by Mr. Bradwell.

COLOSSEUM.—LOND-ON NIGHT.—This
‘._} extraordinary panorama has excited universal interest and
astonishment, as the most marvellous and stupendous work of art
ever exhibited in the world—the bright silver moon, twinkling stars,
fleecy clouds, rippling waters, &c., render the illusion perfect. The
Museum of Sculpture brilliantly illuminated, Mont Blanc, Caverns,
&c., forming a promenade perfectly unique. Open from 8 till 11.
Admittance to the whole ss. ; children, half-price. Family tickets
for four persons and upwards, 4s. each, may be had at the principal
music shops.

NATIONAL .LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This institution offers important and sukstantild advan-
tages with respect both tA Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assured has, on all occasions, the power to bore rat, without ea-
penn or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(seo table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of his interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances
fbr terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The success and increasing prominrity of the Society has enabled
the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third
Bonus, varying from 30 to 75 'per cent. on the premiums paid on
each Policy effected on the Profit scale.
EXAMPLES

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The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in De-
zember of the prevent year.

F. FERGUSON CAMROUX. See.

VICTORIA LIFE A
- No. 18, KING_WILLI

SURANCE COMPANY,
JAM-STREET, CITY.

Sir JAMES DUKE, Alderman, M.P., Chairman.
BENJAMIN HAWES, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Benjamin Barnard, Esq. Thomas Nesbitt, Esq.
Charles Baldwin, Esq. John Nolloth, Esq.
B. Donn), Esq., Ie.R.S. Charles Phillips, Esq.
Aaron Goldsmid, Esq. Major-General Robertson
James Law Jones, Esq. Daniel Sutton, Esq.
John Knill, Esq. O'B. B. Woolsey, Esq.
The attention of Assurers is particularly directed to the detailed
Prospectuses of this Company. Assurances can be effected on a pro-
fit or non-profit scale, and for short periods at a very moderate rate.
When on the life of Another, the Policy may be rendered secure, not-
withstanding the life assured may go out of the limits of Europe,
without the necessary permission of the Directors having been pre-
viously obtained—this Plan makes a Policy an absolute security.
Credit of half the premiums for the first five years allowed en Poli-
cies effected for the whole term of life.

Advances are made to Assurers on real or undoubted personal se-
curity, for terms of years, repayable by instalments.
WILLIAM RATRAY, Actuary and Secretary.

THE PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL
BENEFIT ASSOCIATION and BENEVOLENT FUND.
42, Moorgate-street, London.
TRUSTEES.
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. I W. G. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, jun., Esq. Baron L. de Rothschild.
TREASURER .OF THE BENEVOLENT FUND—John Abel Smith,
Esq., M.P.
Forms of proposal for mutual life assurance to meet every contin-
gency, annuities, endowments, loans, &c., the fourth Annual Report,
and every information may be had at the Offices, where donations
and subscriptions to the Benevolent Fund are received.
GEORGE THOMAS, Chairman.
N.B. An Abstract of the Proceedings at the Election of An-
nuitants, and at the Dinner on 28th May last, may be had on ap-
plication.

WATC HES by WEBSTER and SON
Chronometer Makers to the Lords of the Admiralty and
the East India Company.
Webster and Son's manufactory has continued in Cornhill 134
years, where may be seleeted from one of the most extensive
Stocks in London every description of superior manufacture in
Chronometers, Watches, and Clocks, finished under their immediate
inspection on the premises, and at the lowest prices consistent with
security for the maintenance of that reputation for superior work-
manship which has distinguished their house for so many years.
Compensated duplex and lever watches, to counteract the variations
of temperature, upon the principle of their chronometers, to which
Government awarded the prizes three years in succession ; small
elegant lever and horizontal watches in gold cases, engraved or
engine-turned for ladies or gentlemen ; small fiat silver detached
lever and horizontal watches, for youths, at very moderate prices;
marine and pocket chronometers, new and second-hand ; ornamental
and every description of clocks ; regulators upon the most approved
principles. Superior workmen are employed upon the premises in
the repairing department for English and foreign work. The utmost
value allowed for old watches in exchange.
WEBSTER and SON'S Publication, with their Equation Table for
the Present Year, will be sent free on the receipt of 4 postage stamps.
A large selection of fine Second-hand Watches at very low prices.
74, Cornhill.

lILVER SUPERSEDED, and those corrosive
and injuriou I Metals, called Nickel and German Silver, sup-
planted by the introduction of a new and perfectly matchless
ALBATA PLATE.

C. WATSON, 41 and 42, Barbican, and 16, Norton Folgate, aided by
a person of Science in the amalgamation of Metals, has succeeded in
bringing to Public Notice the most beautiful Article ever yet offered;
possessing all the richness of Silver in appearance, with all its dura-
bility and hardness—with its perfect sweetness in use, undergoing, as
it does, a Chemical Process, by which, all that is nauseous in mixed
Metals is entirely extracted—resisting all Acids—may be cleaned as
silver, and is manufactured into every Article for the Table and
Sideboard :

Fiddle.
Table Spoons and Forks, 16s. 6d. doz
Desert Ditto ...... 12s. 6d.
Tea 5p00n5............ ss. 6d.
Sugar Tongs

Threaded.
301.
255.
12s. 6d.
3s.

King's.
355.
28s.
13s. 6ct.
3s. 6d.

C. WATSON begs the Public will undeistand that. this Metal is
peculiarly his own, and that Silver is not mere different from Gold
than his metal is from all others—on its intrinsic merit alone he
wishes it to be tested, and from the daily increasing eulogiums he re-
ceives, he is convinced that nothing can prevent its becoming an
article of universal wear.

C. Watson's handsomely Illustrated Catalogue and Price Currant
is just published, and Families whe regard economy and elegance
should possess themselves of this useful Book, which may be had
Gratis, and Post Free, from the above Address.

THE ROYAL ASYLUM of the ST. ANN'S
SOCIETY, maintaining, clothing, and educating the Children
of those once in prosperity, orphans or not, and of every nation, by
voluntary contributions.
At the Half-yearly General Court and Election of Children into
this Society's Royal Asylum, holden at the London Tavern this day,
JOHN JOHNSON, Esq., Alderman, V.P., in the Chair,
The following were declared the Successful Candidates, viz.:—

BOYS.
GiThert, James.. •• • • 3768 Grainger, A. H. A... 2501
Taylor, Charles • • .... 3241 Papprill, Henry •• • • • • 2436
liens, Alfred . • • • • 2978 Richardson, Geo. R. 2154
Farmer, Edward J. • • 2664 Williamson, Jno. F. • • 2093
Murch, Geo. . ..... . ..... .. 306

GIRLS.
Ed .yards, Louisa N. . • 5021 1 Taylor, Mary •
Seers, Emily.. • • • • ••• • • • .... 4248

4540

The, following :child, having polled the highest number of votes
whiht a candidate, was also declared elected, under the new rule :

Twinch, Sarah • • ..... • .. • ... 4182 -
Thanks were voted unanimously to the Scrutineers and to the
Chairman. E. T. LEES, Secretary.
Charlotte-row, Mansion House, August 14, 1845.

ito YAL POL Y IC 6Tiru 1:10i
The experiment of FREEZING WATER in a RED-HOT
CRUCIBLE is shown by Dr. Ryan, in his Lecture on the CAUSES
of EXPLOSIONS in STEAM-BOILERS, Daily at Half-past Three,
and on the Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at Nine
o'clock. The ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY is Lectured upon by
Professor Bachhoffner, and exhibited Daily and in the evenings. A
NEW AMERICAN INVENTION, COLEMAN'S PATENT LOCO-
MOTIVE ENGINE, for ascending and descending inclined planes on
Railways without the aid of stationary power, is exhibited in a work-
ing model. SWIMMI G and DIVING ILLUSTRATED by the
son of Captain Stevens, the [celebrated teacher of swimming, on
M..ndays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, atTwo o'clock, and on the
Evenings of Tuesdays and Thursdays at half-past Eight o'clock.
The other exhibitions, &c. as usual.

HREWSBURY, HEREFORD, and NORTH
WALES RAILWAY.
The OFFICES of the Company are REMOVED to No. 449,
WEST STRAND.
Auguit 14

C. ROSE, Secretary.

IREG"I LONDON AND EXETER RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.
[WITH EXTENSION HEREAFTER TO FALMOUTH.]
Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares, of 251. each.
Deposit 1/. 7s. 6d. per Share.
With power to raise 1,000,0001. more, if necessary.
(I'rovi sionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110.)
OFFICES, No. 52, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE,
Adjoining the County Assurance Company.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Mexborough, Dover-street, Piccadilly,
Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway.
The Right lion. Viscount Sidmouth, Ottery, Devon
Lord Henry Loftus, Belgrave-square
Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, Bart., Montague-square, and Down-hill,
Londonderry
J. R. Phillimore, Esq., LL.D., 42, Clarges-street, Chancellor of Salis-
bury
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 12, Clifford-street
Sir George Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
The Hon. A. Capel, Theyden House, Essex, and Park-street, Grosve-
nor-square
Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square
G. Thompson Jacob, Esq , Blandford, Magistrate,' and Deputy Lieu-
tenant for Dorset
W. F. A. Delane, Esq., Bracknell
H. H. Hungerford, Esq., Dingley Park, Market Harborough, and
Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director
.of the Leicester and Bedford
Railway
Francis Dawson, Esq., Grosvenor-street
Richard Francis Power, Esq., 73, Eccleston-square, and Long-
Orchard, Tipperary
Lieutenant-Colonel P. W. Pedlar, Motley House, Devon
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's Wood
The Hen. Henry Savile, Dover-street
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66,.Cadogan-place
W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex
George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park
Francis Lloyd, Esq., Bingley House, Birmingham
William Thomas Davies Lhoyd, Esq., Anglesey
John Lyall, Esq., Chelsea
E. S. Blundell, Esq., 18, Lower Seymour-street
John Penhall, Esq., Springfield, Wandsworth-road
John Allen, Esq., Gloucester-terrace, Kensington.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
John Allen, Esq., Gloucester-terrace, Kensington
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's Wood
George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place
John Lyall, Esq., Chelsea
John I'enhall, Esq., Springfield
W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street
Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square
(With limited power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER—John Braithwaite, Esq., 4, Trafalgar-square, Engineer
of the Eastern Counties Railway
BANKERS—Messrs. Currie and Co., 29, Comhill
SOLICITOR—D. E. Colombine, Esq., 8, Carlton Chambers, Regent-street
The object of this Company is to establish a railway from London to
Exeter direct, through Salisbury and other considerable towns, hither-
to deprived of that great improvement of the age. The most impor-
tant feature, however, of this undertaking will be, that it will establish
an uninterrupted, direct, and s,leedy communication between the me-
tropolis and our largest maritime ports—Plymouth and Portsmouth,
and thus form an immediate transit to the extreme part of the west
of England. To the shipping interest, both at home and abroad, this
facility will be of the utmost importance, and if war should unfortu-
nately arise, the advantages of such a line are evidt nt.
The Committee feel the importance of the duty imposed upon
them, and rely with confidence on the success of the undertaking,
possessing, as it does, the strongest claims for support, whether as a
permanent and judicious investment of capital, or as a great national
undertaking. It is not intended to comment on the various railway
schemes partially affecting the line the Committee propose should be
adopted, further than to observe, that none of them have been based
upon a sufficiently comprehensive view to afford " a direct organic
communication" with the metropolis : and Itis apparent that an en-
tire line, under the management of one Company, is far preferable
to any other communication now available or projected. I his line of
railway is offered to the public as affording not only an independent
and direct intercourse between the metropolis, Exeter, and the va-
rious important towns upon it, but will effect a saving of thirty miles
and upwards, in,the circuitous and expensive route by Bristol.
The opinion of Sir Robert Peel is particularly applicable to this
project—that the tendency of the improvements which are almost
daily introduced, was decidedly in favour of the shortest and most
direct lines ; and it is deserving of remark, that when the Wilts and
Somerset Railway Bill (which has lately received the royal sanction)
was before Parliament, Its projectors were required to pledge them-
selves that they should not offer hereafter any impediment to a direct
line to Falmouth, being precisely such an undertaking aa the one now
proposed, thereby proving the importance attached by Parliament to
direct communications, and the London and York having obtained
the consent of the House of Commons to their Bill, after a prolonged
opposition, sho,vs the weight attached to direct independent railways.
It is proposed that this railway shall take its course between the
Great Western and the South-Western, as tar as Kingsclere—though
it will not in any way interfere with those lines—and is the course
actually suggested by the Board of Trade in its Fourth Report,
see. 42, by which an opening was made in this very line, stating that
there is nothing in the present settlement of existing railways to
prevem.t a shorter or competing line to Exeter being brought forward.
The Direct London and Exeter Company intend to form their ter-
minus in the most central part of London which can be obtained. It
will be in the immediate vicinity of Sloane-street and Knightsbridge.
It is also intended that this Company shall join the railway projected
to cross the Thames, and thus effect an immediate connexion with a
central terminus at Hungerford-bridge.
From the London terminus the line will branch off to or near
Hammersmith, Turnham-green, Brentford, Isleworth, Hounslow,
Staines Egham, Bagshot, Ascot, Bracknell, Binfield, Wokingham,
Kingsclere, Andover, and Salisbury ; Shaftesbury, Sherbourne,
Yeovil, Crewkeme, Axminster, or from Salisbury to Cranbourne,
Blandford, Dorchester, Bridport, Axminster, and Honiton, to Exeter.
The line chosen was nearly the one adopted by the Romans ; and
as they, whenever practicable, adopted the straight line, the Com-
mittee intend, as nearly as possible, following their example. This
road was also the old mail coach line, until the circuitous course of
the Great Western, in the infancy of railway traffic, diverted the
travelling from it.
The line of this railway will pass through Staines, as before ob-
served; and it is proposed to form a branch to Windsor, it being re-
presented that that mode of immediate communication with the
metropolis will be most congenial to the inhabitants of that town and
its vicinity. The Committee are, therefore, desirous of accomplish-
ing that object, and invite the immediate and active co-operation
of the landholders and inhabitants of Windsor to this part of their
scheme especially.
To the sporting world, also, this undertaking offers a desideratum
which has long been felt; It is calculated the number of persons
annually visiting Ascot and Egham Races exceeds 250,000; this line
will pass in the immediate vicinity of these race-courses; and near
Ascot a handsome and commodious station will be erected for the ac-
commodation of the public. The traffic tables which are now in
course of preparation will, when completed, be published ; but from
the official returns, and other sources which have come within the
Committee's cognisance, a very ample interest for the capital neces-
sary fur this undertaking is shown, and as the traffic, from the great
accommodation this railway will afford to every description of pro-
perty in the district through which it will pass, will be greatly in-
creased, so also will be the financial returns.
The rejection of the mu before Parliament of the Plymouth and
Falmouth line, induces the Committee to propose an immediate ex-
tension of the direct line from Exeter to Falmouth. Prospectuses for
this extension will be published as soon as the plans and surveys are
matured, and in the allotment of shares for this part of the line pre-
ference will be given to the original holders of shares in the Direct
London and Exeter Company, and the landowners on the Falmouth
line. _ _ _

The entire line has been partially surveyed, and the essential bene-
fit arising from avoiding the elbow of Bristol been ascertained beyond
a doubt. The plans, sections, and books of reference will be ready
within the time prescribed by the Standing Orders of Parliament,
and application will be made for a Bill to incorporate the Company
early in the next session. The usual power will be taken by the
Act to allow interest at 41. per cent. per annum, after passing the Act,
on the amount of the subscriptions paid up, and that no subscriber
shall be answerable for more than the amount of his deposit until the
Act he obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his sub-
scription.
In case Parliament should not sanction the present undertaking,
which every active moans will be taken to secure, the money de-
posited, deducting the necessary expenses attending the projection,
will be returned to the shareholders.
The Committee have been in communication with many influential
landowners on the line, from whom promises of support have been
obtained, and earnestly invite the co-operation and assistance of all
parties holding property upon it, desirous of furthering the object In
view, whose names, it is requested, may be communicated to the
Committee or to the solicitor to the Company forthwith.
Prospectuses, with forms of applications for shares, may be had
at the offices of the company as above, and of the following stock and
sharebrokers—viz
Messrs. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, Royal Exchange, London, also
John Langworthy, Exeter; J. B. Monday, Bath; Potter and Co.,
and Ridsdale and Co., Leeds ; Wm, Moore and Co.' Huddersfield ;
Eyre and Shaw, Derby ; Sibary and Simpson, Hull; Grayston and
Earle, York ; Henry Billingham, Wakefield ; Hopwood and Palmer,
Plymouth ; Hall, Brothers and Co., Cheltenham ; W. W. Dickinson,
Newcastle-on-Tyne ; W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Myers and Birkbeck,
Wm. Marshall, and Cardwell and Sons, Manchester; Muurd and
Co., Edinburgh ; John R. Mann and Son, Norwich ; A. W. Moffatt,
Edinburgh ; Luke Arnold, Bristol ; John Thomas Holland, Coventry;
James Watson, and Thomas Gray, Glasgow ; Roworth and Shepperly,
Nottingham ; Thomas Crewdson, Liverpool.
The following gentlemen arc among those appointed as Local
Agents, in furtherance of the interests of the company, from whom
prospectuses and applications far shares may also be obtained :
Eghain— Thomas Harvey, Esq. Yeovil—George Hancock, Esq.
Bagshot—John Mears, Esq. Crewkerne—Robt. Lowman, Esq.
Bracknell—Charles Cave, Esq. Blandford— George Moooe, Esq.
Wokingham—FrancisSoames,Esq. 13ridport—S. 11. Gummer, Esq.,
Salisbury—Henry Cooper, Esq. and Henry B. Fox, Esq.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct London and Exeter
Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me Shares, of
251. each, in the above Railway, and I undertake to accept the same,
or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the
regulations of the Company, also to sign the necessary legal docu-
ments, and to pay, when required, the deposit thereof of I/. 7s. 6d.
per share

Name in full ...... •••• • • ..
Profession (if any) and professional residence in full
Residence in full..
Reference.. ..

Date • • • •
Signature of applicant •••• • • • .....
Witness • •

DERBY, UTTOXETER, AND STAFFORD
RAILWAY COMPANY.
The Provisional Committee beg to acquaint the supporters of the
above undertaking that, in consequence of the very numerous appli-
cations for Shares, it will require further consideration before they
can be allotted, and to give time for applications from parties locally
interested, the Committee have resolved to postpone the allotment
until the 25th of August.

OWEN' GRAY, Sec. pro. tern.

cIOVENTRY, NUNEA VON, BIRMINGHAM,
rs,_,l and LEICESTER RAILWAY.--The PARLIAMENTARY
CONTRACT and SUBSCRIBERS' AGREEMENT will lie for SIG-
NATURE at the Company's Offices, 3, Church-court,Old Jewry, until
MONDAY NEXT, the 18th instant, between the hours of Ten and
Four, when new scrip certificates will be delivered in exchange for
the Secretary's receipt given on the deposit of the old scrip.
August 13, 1845.

By or-der,
HENRY CASSIN, Secretary.

LEICESTER and TAMWORTH JUNCTION
RAILWAY COMPANY.
Capital, 400,0001. in 20,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
Provisiona_lly. Regi..steredoyipsuTorsNuAain DIRECTORS.
tto7thand Bth Victoria, c. 110.
pit

Chairman—Edmund Peel, Esq.;6l;Crmal—of the Trent Valley
Railway
Deputy Chairman—Thomas Bramall, Esq., Mayor of Tamworth,
Director of the South Midland Railway
Robert Gardner, Esq.
John Ridgeway, Esq. Directors of the Trent Valley Railway
James Ilibbert Wanklyn, Esq.
The Hon. Captail Carnegie, M.P.
James Walkinshaw, Esq.,
Richard Greene, Esq., Directors of the Trent Valley, Midlands,
Harvey Wyatt, Esq., and Grand Junction Railway
Captain Parkinson,
The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, Berkeley.square
Sir William Magnay, Bart., Alderman of London
Sir William Young, Bart., Director of the East India Company
Chas. Dickson Archibald, Esq., F.R.S , F.S.A., Regent's Park
The Hon. Captain Hotham, R.N., Chairman of the Brighton and

Chichester Railway -
The Mayor of Lichfield
Thomas George Lomax, Esq., magistrate, Lichfield •
James Grlgnon, Esq., Charles-strePt is-t. James's-square -
James Renshaw, Esq., Lombard-street, London
Benjamin Collett, Esq., Grafton Manor House, Bromsgrove
William Lltratio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury
Captain R. Page, Charlton House, near Somerton
Henry Francis Gisbome, Esq„ Derby
B. S. Fowler, Esq., Tamworth, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Shi• ley Palmer, Esq., M.D., Tamworth
E. B. Hamel, Esq., Tamworth
Thomas Barge, jun., Esq., Director of the Manchester and South-
ampton Railway
John Ilarff, Esq., Director of the London and York Railway
Charles R. Jackson, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Southamp-
ton Railway
Thomas Critchley, Esq., Director of the North Staffordshire Railway
James Durham, Esq., Director of the Shrewsbury and Trent Valley
Union Railway
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Southampton
Railway
M. V. Bass, Esq., Burton-on-Trent
John Barker, Esq., Ludley Bank, near Manchester
Thamas Hamilton, Esq., Victoria Park, Manchester
Robert A. Kennedy, Esq., Manchester
James Atherton, Esq., Swinton Park, near Eccles
William Atkinson Gardner, Esq., London
Joseph Bond, Esq., Polesworth, near Tamworth
Major Bamford, Wilnecote, near Tamworth
Robert Hanbury, Esq., Bole Hall, Tamworth
Samuel Robey, Esq., Alvecote Priory, Tamworth
John Francis Woody, Esq., Moat House, Tamworth
John Mott, Esq., The Close, Lichfield
John Perks, Esq., Iron-master, Wolverhampton
Henry Crane, Esq., Wolverhampton
John Dove Harris, Leicester
William Cox, Esq., Derby and Tamworth
William Breynton, Esq., London
CONSULTING ENGINEER—Robert Stephenson, Esq.
SECRETARY—J. E. Rathbone, Esq.
SOLICITORS,

Messrs. Maples, Pearse, Stevens, and Maples, Frederick's-place, Old
Jewry, London
Felix John Hamel, Esq., Tamworth
Messrs. Dyott and Son, Lichfield

BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Glynn, Hallifax, Mills and Co., Lombard-street
Messrs. Rogers, Olding and Co., Clement's-lane
Leicester—The National Provincial Bank of England
Tamworth— The National Provincial Bank of England
Lichfield—Messrs.ralmer and Greene
Manchester—The Manchester and Salford Bank

This line of railway is intended to connect Leicester and the Mid-
land Counties with the mining districts of South Staffordshire, and to
open a direct communication with the Staffordshire Potteries and
the great towns of Liverpool and Manchester.
It will commence at Leicester, and running through or near to
Market Bosworth, will join the Trent Valley Railway near its inter-
section with the Birmingham and Derby Railway at Tamworth,
affording from thence a direct communication by way of Lichfield,
to Walsall, Wolverhampton; Dudley, &c.; and thence by the Grand
Junction and North Staffordshire Railways to Liverpool, Manchester,
and the Potteries. _

The most direct through traffic will be conveyed by this Line from
Leicester to the important Railway points of Tamworth and Lich-
field, and consequently the nearest access will be obtained to the
immensely populated Iron and Coal Districts of South Staffordshire,
the Western Counties of England, and the great shipping town of
Liverpool.
The length of the line will be about 24 miles. It has been care-
fully surveyed, and reported to be well adapted to form an excellent
and direct communication between Leicester and Tamworth, at lean
than the ordinary expense of construction.

The Capital intended to be raised is 400,0001., divided into 20,000
Shares of 201. each ; a deposit of 21. 2s. per Share will be required to
be paid upon the allotment, to the credit of the Directors, in account
with the Bankers of the Company.
The Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement will be
required to be duly executed, when the Banker's receipts are ex-
changed for Scrip Certificates, of which due notice will be given ;
and the Deposits paid by parties making default in the execution of
the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement within the
time limited, will be absolutely forfeited.
A preference will be given in the allotment of the Shares to parties
locally interested in the Line, and to Shareholders in the Trent
Valley Railway.
Applications for Shares may be addressed to the Secretary, at the
Company's Offices, 4, Colemal-street, London; to the Solicitors; to
Messrs. Aston and Scott, stock brokers, Throgmorton-street, and
Messrs. Oswin and Co., Angel-court, London ; Mr. Collis, New-
street, Birmingham ; Messrs. Sudlow, Brothers, Liverpool ; Mr.
John Barlow, and Messrs. Cardwell and Son, Manchester ; Messrs.
Robinson, Turlay, and Co., and Messrs. R. B. Watson and Co. Leeds ;
Mesa's. Brady and Staniforth, and Messrs. Flint and Co., Hall;
Messrs. Payne and Freer, and Messrs. Elgood and Harrison, Lei-
cester ; Messrs. Eyre and Son, Derby ; and Messrs Sohmes and Tripp,
Bristol.
No applications will be attended to unless accompanied by a re-
ference to a member of the Provisional Committee, one of the solici-
tors, or a Banker.

CLONMEL AND KILKENNY RAILWAY.
The Provisional Committee have received the following im-
portant resolution, in support of the line from the Grand Jury of the
County of the City of Kilkenny.
We, the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Kilkenny having
considered the leading features of the projected line of railway be-
tween this town and Clomnel, beg leave to testify our warmest ap-
proval of it, and strongly recommend it to the consideration of the
Legislature as a line which must confer the greatest benefits on the
rich and populous country which it intersects, as well as on the seve-
ralit Passes and accommodates.
-"e alsoct as a most valuable auxiliary to the con-
templatedtrowns throughlri ofeifeasrdth h
rail project
ivrhaojye In the south and south-west of Ireland.
(Signed) HENRY LLOYD, Foreman,

Fer self and Fellows.
Grand Jury Room, Kilkenny, July
24, 1845.

BmmiNGHAD: 1p 0
sai
tn
21 OperX:Oarolt: JUNCTION
RAILWAY,
With a DIVERGING LINE through STRATFORD-ON-AVON, to
UNITE with the MORETON-IN-MARSH RAILWAY.
Capital 600, in Shares of 201. each.
Provisionally Registered, puruant to Act 7th and Bth Vict., c. 110.
Offices, 449, West Strand.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Mayor of Birmingham •
LaWqq.., Sergeant-at-
1 London
Liverpool
, Elmdon Hall, near Birmingham
John Aston, Esq., Birmingham
Robert James Atty, Esq., Ingon Grange, Stratford-on-Avon
F. P. Barlow, Esq., London
Matthew P. W. Boulton, Esq., Great Tew Park, Oxon
John.iJ.
W.
TC.
Alston,Adams,Aisto E EsE s q .
Colonel Charles Oldfield Bowles, North Aston Park
W. E. Boyce, Esq., Alkerton, near Banbury
James Butlin, Esq., Westfield House, near Rugby
C. IL Corbitt, Esq., Adminton
w alter Cowan, Esq., Offchurch Bray, near Leamington
John Crosthwaite, Esq., Liverpool
Dickens, Esq., Cherrington, near Shipston
Rev. John Ellis, Wooton, Henley-in-Arden
Edmund Darby Ford, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
John Branston Freer, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
J. Gardiner, Esq., Southern
Darwin Galton, Esq., Edstone Hall, near Stratford-on-Avon
Robertson Gladstone, Esq., Liverpool
SWirill Gi:m cirge
Pashwwd'
Bart., Birtington Park, Oxon
J. Haddon, Esq., Leamington
W. Judd 'larding, Esq., Bart Rouse, near Stratford-on-Avon
Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., Liverpool
Captain Hitchins, Idlicote House, near Shipston
Charles Lawrence, Esq., Liverpool
John Lechmere, Esq., Steeple Aston
Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington
William Marshall, Esq., Husbands' Bosworth, Leicestershire
William Mathews, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham
J. W. Miles, Esq., Bristol
Rev. Richard Morris, Eatington, near Stratford-on-Avon
John Moss, Esq., Liverpool
P. H. Muntz, Esq., Birmingham
Rev. Charles Palmier, Lighthorne
J. G. Reeves, Esq , Birmingham
John Rich, Esq., Bearley
John Roskell, Esq., Bath
Francis Rufford, Esq.,
Bellbroughton, near Stourbridge
Charles Russell, Esq., M.
Charles Shaw, Esq., Birmingham
Major-General Smith, Rugby
Gustavus T. Smith, Esq., Goldicote, near
Leamington Stratford-on-
Gustavus
Samuel Edward Steward, Esq.,
near Shipston
Heathfield-house, Bie
Thomas Thomson, Esq., m r..,DLondon
Mayor
of Stratford-on-Avon
T. 11. Thorne, Esq., Leamington
Rev. Henry Townsend, Rennington,
George Richard Walker, Esq.,tchingion, Oxon
Charles Woodmass, Esq., Avonhurst, near Stratford-on-Avon.
(With power to add to their number.)
BOARD OF MANAGEMENT.
J. T. Alston, Esq. J. W. Miles, Esq.
Joh i Moss, Esq.
F. P. Barlow, Esq. P. H. Muntz, Esq.
J. B. Freer, Esq. F. Rufford, Fsq.
Robertson Gladstone, Esq. C. Russell, Esq., xi,
J. Haddon, Esq.
Charles Lawrence, Esq. Chas. Shaw, Esq.!
W. Mathews, Esq.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co., London
Messrs. Attwood, Spooner, and Co., Birmingham
The Birmingham Banking Company, Birmingham
Messrs. Miles, Harford, and Co., Bristol
The Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, and
the Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, Leamington

and Warwick
Messrs. Moss and Co., Liverpool.
The Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Company, Stratford-on
Avon

soLicrroas.
Messrs Patterson, Haymes, and Hanbury, Leamington and Warwick
W. O. Hunt, Esq., and Charles Stevens, Esq., No. 10, Whitehall,

London
Messrs. Clay and Swift, Liverpool.
In congratulating the Sharehelders ou the issue of the late contest
active in
l'a
measures
Parliament,
liament,
are beingtheComm itteeof Management beg to announce that
adopted
to forward the surveys and plans,
and prepare for the ensuing session. . The success of the Oxford and
Rugby Railway has confirmed the Directors in the view they enter-
tained when they first brought to the notice of the Public the merits
of a line direct from Birmingham to Oxford, and leaves little roam
to doubt that Parliament will grant this important continuation, thus
connecting the whole north of the kingdom and
Birmingham, with
the south-western districts.
It is intended to make the most convenient ntations for the various
towns on the line that circumstances will admit, connecting the line
at Birmingham with that of the Grand Junction Company, By this
means an uninterrupted transit will be effected from Birmingham
through Oxford to every part of the South and to London.
Looking to the very peculiar Position of this line, the cheapness
of its construction, and the great traffic that must inevitably flow to
it from its connecting and central situation, tke Provisional Directors
have every confidence that the undertaking will be one of more than
ordinary profit to the proprietors.
By order of the Board,
449, West Strand, Aug. 13, 1845.

Provisionally Registered.
WILTS, SOMERSET, AND SOUTHAMP-
TON JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Connecting the English with the Bristol Channel, and forming a
complete communication, on the broad gauge, between Southampton,
Salisbury, Rath, Bristol, and every other town in the West of Eng-
land and South Wales.
The Shares are now allotted, and the Letters of allotment posted.
The Directors beg to express their regret that in consequence of
the immense uumber of applications they have not been able to at-
tend to all, but hope, that those parties who may not receive letters
will therefore consider that they have been unable to comply with
their request

H. B. SHERIDAN.; Secretary.
26, Gresham-street, London, Aug. 13, 1845. _

WILTS, SOMERSET, AND WEYMOUTiI
RAILWAY.

The Act for the Incorporation of this Company having received the
Royal Assent, Notice is hereby given, that the Holders of Scrip Cer-
tificates are required to make immediate application to be registered
for their respective Shares in this undertaking; and that such appli-
cations, together with the Scrip Certificates, must be transmitted to
this office on or before the lath of September.
A printed form of application is provided for the above purpose,
and may be had on application.
An official receipt will be given on the deposit of the Scrip, which
receipt will be afterwards exchanged for the sealed certificates with
as little delay as the preparation of the same may require ; and due
notice will be given when the sealed Certificates will be ready for de-
livery. •
Shares in respect of which no application for registry shall be made
on or before the above date will be registered in the name of the ori-
ginal Subscriber, after which no Share can be passed otherwise than
by formal transfer under the provisions of the Act.
By order of the Board,
C. A. SAUNDERS.
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway Offices,
449, West Strand, London, Aug. 5, 1845.

CHESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT
RAILWAY.
With a Branch to Birkenhead.
(Provisionally Registered).
Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Colonel the Hon. LEICESTER STANHOPE, Ashburnham House,
London, Chairman
Major JOHN T. CROFT, Regent-street, London, Deputy Chairman
David Ainsworth, Esq., Manchester
Samuel Barton, Esq., Dldsbury, Manchester
Hugh beaver, Esq., Manchester, and Glya Garth, Anglesey
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester
James Farish, Esq., Lancaster-place, London
Major Ford, of Bolondet, Carnarvonshire
Lieut.-Colonel Henry Harmer, Bear-place, Berks, and 7, Devon-
shire-place, London
Fraser B. Henshaw, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
London, a Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle
Junction Railway
Captain Sir John R. Hilton, R.N., Isle of Wight
J. Harney lligson, Esq., merchant, Manchester
Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, 8.E.F.R.5., Director of the College
of Civil Engineers
T. D. Johnson, Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, London
John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's Wood, London, Director of the
National Provincial Bank of Ireland ,
W. King, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Com-
pany
George Peter Livius, Esq., the Grove House, St. Cuthbert's, and
Cauldwell Priory, Bedford
W. Horace Meteyard, Esq., 8.C.L., Middle Temple, and Chatham-
place
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Upper Hyde Park-street, London, a
Director of the Liveepool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction
Railway
James Orrell, Esq., Culcheth Hall, Kenyon
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Manchester
lsavid Price, Esq., Manchester
Major James Waller, K.H., St. James's-square
C. J. S. Walker, Esq., Longford, near Manchester
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEERS.
Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
George Remington, Esq., C.E.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., London
National Provincial Bank of England, Manchester
SOLICITORS.
London—Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 29, Moorgate-
street ; John Owens, Esq., 3.5, Moorgate-street.
Manchester—Messrs. Higson and Robinson, Cross-street ; It. B. B.
Cobbett, Esq., Marsden-street.
LOCAL AGENT.
Chester—John Walker, Esq.

The promoters of this Railway, encouraged by the favourable sup-
port which has been given to the project, and in compliance with the
various recommendations they have received, ha7e determined upon
the addition of a branch to Birkenhead, which, although it will
manifestly tend to the advantage of the Shareholders and the public,
will be attended with comparatively little additional outlay. The
project will still retain its chief characteristic of a direct railway,
and by its connexion, near Warrington' with the Grand Junction
Company, is sufficiently comprehensive, without resorting to a com-
plicated system of branch lines, or materially conflicting with the in-
terests of existing companies.
The line will commence at the city of Chester, and proceed by way
of Trafford, Frodsham, and Preston Brook, to Warrington, thence
by Lymm and Stretford direct to Manchester. From a point on the
main line, near Frodsham, a branch will be taken to join the Chester
and Birkenhead Railway, so as to unite Manchester in the most
direct manner possible, with the docks now being formed at Bir-
kenhead.

As Manchester, from its geographical position, Is the centre of rail-
way communication between Scotland and the most populous dis-
tricts of England, so Chester, from a like cause, is the great centre of
railway communication between the capitals of Ireland and of Eng-
land. To connect these two points by a direct and independent line
of railway must, therefore, be of the utmost importance, not only in
a local point of view, but to the whole commercial intercourse of the
country.

Thisline will be the most direct route, by Holyhead, to Ireland,
and will be, in all respects, by far the preferable channel of inter-
course and transit between Ireland and the great manufacturing dis-
tricts of England. By the railways connecting Chester with Wrex-
ham, Oswestry, Shrewsbury, llereford, Gloucester, and South Wales,
this will be the nearest route from Manchester to the south-western
parts of England, and to the mineral districts of Monmouth and
Glamorganshire. The communication with Bristol, Gloucester, and
Exeter will be speedy and direct. On reference to the map, it will
be seen that a very considerable distance will be saved by this line,
as compared with the present circuitous routes by Crewe and by
Birkenhead ; the former being 52 miles, and the latter 46 miles,
while the proposed line is only 34 miles, saving in the one case 18
miles, and in the other 12 miles, besides the serious inconvenience, loss
of time, and expense of passing through Liverpool, and crossing the
water at that place.
It is confidently expected that this line will be the precursor of
another scheme, of no ordinary importance—namely, to render
Chester an efficient port for large vessels.
This subject was entertained by Sir John Rennie in 1835, and sub-
sequently, in the same year, by the late Mr. Chapman, who wrote an
able report upon the capabilities of the river Dee. It was again
investigated, in 1837, by Sir John Rennie and Mr. George Remington,
and the practicability of forming a good navigable channel for vessels
of large burden, together with docks at Chester, was then fully and
clearly established.
The entrance channel would commence at Dawpool. which is easy
of access (and infinitely preferab'e, in point of access and safety, to
the docks at Liverpool or Birkenhead), for vessels of large burden,
during eight hours every tide, both at springs and neaps ; and the
call of the lock would be sufficiently low to admit vessels drawing 20
feet water to enter at all tides.

This railway, therefore, in connexion with the proposed docks,
will render to Chester and Manchester incalculable advantages. To
the former it will restore the proper position natural to so important
a city ; to the latter it will give another outlet, by sea, to the ma-
nufacturing districts, free of the heavy port charges, dues, and
risks to which the produce is now subject. It has not been thought
advisable to combine the two objects in one company at present,
but should it be found requisite, the two may hereafter be amalga-
mated. - - . - -

Merits of no ordinary degree, therefore, may fairly be claimed for
this railway, whether taken in connexion with the proposed docks,
or as standing alone, combining as it does all the advantages of any
other lines, with this great addition, that it will be the high road to
the most convenient outport of Manchester, and will be quite inde-
pendent of any associations or influences that might tend to oppose
the growing desire for a means of direct and independent communi-
cation between Manchester and the port of Chester.
The line has been carefully examined. There are no difficult
earth-works to be encountered ; on the contrary it will be cheap,
and of easy formation. Power is reserved to the Committee to de-
viate from the proposed line in the vicinity of Manchester, should
ulterior arrangements render it expedient.
Applications for shares, prospectuses, and plans to be made in the
usual form,
Applications for shares in the usual form, and for prospectuses
&c., to be made at the 3ffices of the Company; or to the Solicitors,
and to the following Sharebrokerl :—Messrs. Shewell and Son, 25,
Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 8, Cornhill ; Messrs.
Taunton and Bush, 26, Austin-friars, London; Messrs. Houghland
and Leese, Mr. Locke, and Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Manchester ;
Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liverpool; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons,
Sheffield ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds ; Mr. E. A. Armi-
tage, Wakefield ; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York ; Mr. Thomas
Boardman, Blackburn ; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. Francis
Stamp, Hull ; Mr. L. Weatherburn, Huddersfield ; Mr. Wm.
Cronhelm, Halifax ; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham ; Mr.
Samuel Eyre, Derby ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham ; Mr. Joseph
Clark, jun., Southampton ; Mr. John Thomas Holland, Coventry;
Mr. William Mason, Bradford, Yorkshire ; Messrs. Payne and Freer,
Leicester ; Mr. Wm. Tomkinson, Newcastle-under-Lyre ; Mr.
Richard E. Hide, Macclesfield ; Mr. Lea, Cheltenham ; Messrs.
Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr. William Miles, Worcester ; Messrs.
Reed and Nicholson, Edinburgh; Messrs. Ross, Perth, N. 8.; and
Messrs. H. and W. A. Tassie, Glasgow. . .

Applications for shares must be accompanied by a reference to the
Solicitors of the Company, the sharebrokers, or, some other respon-
sibee person.

CHESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT
RAILWAY. with a Branch to Birkenhead.—At the Albion
Hotel, Manchester, Bth August, 1845, at a MEETING of the PRO-
VISIONAL COMMITTEE of this Company,
GEORGE PETER LIVIUS, Esq., in the Chair,
Resolved,—That with a view to carry out the project of a direct
railway from Chester to Manchester, with a branch line to Birken-
head, as announced in the prospectus already published, the follow-
ing gentlemen be appointed a Committee of Management, with power
to add to their number :
Colonel Stanhope Colonel Hutchinson
Dayid Ainsworth, Esq. D. T. Johnson, Esq.
Samuel Barton, Esq. John Joseph Keene, Esq.
Hugh Reaver, Esq. William King, Esq.
John Burgess, Fsq. George Peter Livius, Esq.
Major Croft Horace William Meteyard, Esq.
James Farish, Esq. Benjamin Oliveira, Esq,
Major Ford James Ogden, Esq., M.D.
Frazer B. Renshaw, Esq. James Orrell, Esq.
Sir John Hilton Major Waller
J. Harney Higson, Esq. C. I. S. Walker
Resolved,—That no application for shares be received after Mon-
day, the 18th of August instant, except from parties locally interested
in the line, and that the time for receiving applications from such
parties be extended to Thursday, the 21st instant, after which day
no applications for shares be received from any parties.
Resolved—That these resolutions be advertised in the London and
provincial ne tyspapers.

GEORGE PETER LIVIUS, Chairman.

C HESTER and MANCHESTER DIRECT
RAILWAY.
At a meeting of the Committee of Management of this under-
taking, held this day, it was resolved that, in order to comply with
the Standing Orders of the House of Lords, as recently altered, it is
expedient to reduce the amount of each Share to 201., and to extend
the number to 50,000, and that the deposit required be 21. 2s. on
each Share ; and that in consequence of this alteration in the amount
and number of Shares, and the deposit required, the period within
which Shares must be applied for be extended to the 28th instant
for the London applications, and to the 30th instant for country
applications. (By order)
A. BARRETT, Secretary.
29, Moorgate-street, 14th August, 1845.

CENTENARY OF THE ROMANTIC
ADVENTURES OF
PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD, styling himsalf the Prince of
Wales ;
And a Peep into Glasgow one Hundred Years ago.
Orders for the Volume, consisting of Fifty-two Numbers, and ex-
tending to 212 pages, will be received by the Subscriber, personally,
at his Writing-chambers, 72, Wilson-street, or by letter, post-paid.
WILLIAM MEIKLEIIAM, Solicitor, Glasgow,
at present at the Tavistock Hotel.

Orders will also be received in Glasgow, by John Smith and Son,
booksellers and stationers ; in Edinburgh, by Messrs. Bell and Brad-
fute, W, Blackwood and Sons, A. and C. Black, and W. Ritchie, Lon-
don Bible Warehouse; in Aberdeen, by George and Robert King ;
in Dundee, by Frederick Shaw ; in Perth, by R. Morrison ; in Fal-
kirk, by Archibald Johnstone ; in Paisley, by Alexander Gardner ;
in Inverness, by Kenneth Douglas; in Ayr, by John Dick; and is
Kilmarnock, by James M'Kie. In England—ln Liverpool, by
Wareing Webb; and in London, by Messrs. Longman and Co., Pa-
ternoster-row.
Price, neatly bound and lettered.... • • 20s. ss. paid at subscription.
Stitched in sheets • • • • •
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aN futureS I'E
advertisementl iE D e
agni,E,eXnTinE
üblie , Ire Informed that the Directors have come to the
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Q 0 lif TIC-EASTERN RAILWAY.
far` will be from London to Dov'er--lst class, 155.,
TI ON
;inbtuhteiltrinFaAßy
nEoSw.
2d class 10s., ; lti class Cs., and intermediate fares in proportion.
There will ask* o be UMW Day Tickets between London and the dif-
ferent stations, t Lnd Seasoil And Annual Tiskets for the wll'ole line.
These regu' Ati ons will come into operatillorn.
07131 the Ist o:eS'Zaern.:.ber
next, at will, at period also there will be additional express trains
put on.
bepsartattieedu,ltagt t the
ri.?solutiTolnieol
Iritakvililrrt'be..

QOUTI 7-EASTERN RAILWAY. - PLEA-
SURE 1 VECURSIONS between the Bricklayers' Arms or Dover
termini, and alt stations except London-bridge, at one fare there and
back, every 54 viday and Monday until further notice. On the
above-named cla Y excursion tickets will be issued by the following
_ .

.. --
DOWN 'Z'-RAINS.
, )I,gS. 6d. ; 2d class, 125.; 3d class, 7s. 4d.
UP TRAINS.
6 45 ?at 3d clkt,s; train 5 30 a.m. 3d class train
140
00
p.m.
6 45 a.m. Ist and 2d do.
3d de.
7. Ist and 2d do.
2 0 p.m. 3d do.
5 30 p.m. 1. 't ant l 2d do. 6 30 p.m. Ist and 2d do.
Fares there and back :
i Stations on the Maidstone Branch Line wil
meet the whOls of th 3 above-named Trains at Tunbridge, leaving
Maidstone at 8 a.m. sun 7:1: P.m. for first an..l second class pas-
sengers, and at 7 0 a.m. a. ^a OP. fur third-clam passengers, and
Tunbridge, for Maidstone 00 the arrival of all the DOwn Excursion
TrainS Calling at t. 4, '
Trains.
EXCUTSIOIP ticket', an`, avallabi.: only to return by the .Excursion
trains on the same day they are issiltxl, or on the following Monday,
when issued on the previous Saturday.
N.B. Excursion tickets are not issued fo or from the Loli'don-
bridge Terminus. By order, W. O'BRIEN, Secretary.
4

Provisionally Registered.
QOM:kb-EASTERN and CONTINENTAL
►, STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—To PARIS and the SOUTH
of FRANC;•—Sea passage in less than two hours.—Shortest route,
via.South-Eastern Railway, in conjunction with the Folkestone and
Boulogne stAtianers. The celebrated new iron steam ships of the
South-Eastern! and Continental Steam Packet Company. QUEEN of
the FRENCH,. QUEEN of the BELGIANS, and PRINCESS
MAUDE, nosy leave Folkestone and Boulogne every tide, viz., twice
a day &Om ea rh port. The departure of the day steamer from
Folkestone if Arranged iv, that passengers may arrive in time by the
morning trains from Loldon. For time and tide bills apply at the
South-Eastern Ra.'.lWay-oWee, London-bridge; or to Mr. Faulkner,
Folkestone.

Pratlsiona!ly Registered.
OUTH-EASTERN AND CONTINENTAL
S
STEAM-PACKET COMPAITY.—BEST ROUTE !'0 BELGIUM
and GERMANY, via DOVER and OR TEND.—The Soul h- ~T.lstern and
Continental Steam-packet Companri iiplendid fast iron siNun-snip
PRINCESS MARY, carrying the Eng and Belgian and
performing the passage in four hours cod half, leaves Dove,' for
Ostend every Thursday and Sunday morning early, enabling t:4-
yellers to leave Ostend by the early trains, and rohirns to Dover en'
Tuesdays and Fridays.
Departures from Dover :
August 17, at Bh. A.M. August 28, at 611. A.M.
August 21, atllh. 15m. A.M. August 31, at Bh. A.M.
August 24, at 6h. A.M.
Luggage, parcels, &c., expeditiously forwarded.
For particulars apply at the South-Eastern Railway-station, Lo -
don-bridge ; and to John Hayward, jun., Dover.
- -

SQ OIJTH-EASTERN RAILW AY.
The Directors think it desirable to state that they sometime
since instructed Mr, Stephenson to prepare for Parliament in the
next session a complete system for supplying railway communi-
cation with the whola of Kent. It is proposed to provide direct lines to
Tunbridge, Maidstone, Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham, Faversham,
Canterbury, and Dover. The surveys have been for some weeks In
progress, and the whole scheme will be very shortly in a complete
state. JOIN KIRKLAND, Chairman.
South-Eastern Railway-office, July 26, 1845.

'(`HE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAIL-
-11
WAY COMPANY have caused surveys to be made of the
country between Weedon and Northampton, with the view of apply-
ing to Parliament in the next session for powers to make a direct
communication by railway between their main line at Weedon and
the Peterborough line at Northampton, in connexion with the in-
tended line from Weedon to Kidderminster.
Dated 11th August, 1845.

LONDON, HOUNSLOW, and WESTERN
RAILWAY.
Capital £700,000 in 28,000 Shares of £25 each.
Deposit £1 7s. 6d. per Share.
[Provisionally Registered.]
Detailed Prospectuses with statement of Traffic, and Maps of the
Line, with Forms of Application for Shares, may be obtained at the
Company's Offices, 7, Walbrook, and of the Solicitors, Messrs. T.
and D. Harrison, 5, Walbrook ; and S. P. B. Hook, Esq., 11, Token-
house-yard ; or the Sharebrokers, J. H. Golding, Esq., 10, Warn-
ford-court; Messrs. Taunton and Bush, 26, Austin-friars ; and Messrs.
Shewell, Tokenhouse-yard, to whom applications for Shares may be
made. T. S. BROWN, Secretary pro. tern.
7, Walbrook.

CEIELMSFORD and BURY RAILWAY, by
Braintree, Bocking, Halstead, Sudbury, Melford, and Laven-
ham. EXTENSION TO THETFORD.
_Further Capital 250,0001., in 10,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 1/. 7s. 6d. per Share.
(Provisionally Registered.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Honourable Charles Petre, Bury St. Edmund's
Sir John Page Wood, Bart., Glazenwood House, Essex
Sir John Waisham, Bury St. Edmund's
Colonel T. F. Addison, Chilton Lodge, Sudbury
J. T. Baines, Esq., Belwoods, Stisted, Essex
N. C. Barnardiston, Esq., The Ryes, Sudbury
John Benson, Esq., 3laida Hill, West, London
Thomas Bridgman, Esq., Mayor of Bury
The Rev. Edward Bull, Pentlow Rectory
Samuel Courtauld, Esq., Foley House, Bocking
John Chauntier, Esq., Friday-street, London
It. Chevalier Cream, Esq., M.D., Bury St. Edmund's
The Rev. J. W. Donaldson, M.A., Bury St. Edmund's
John Edmunds, Esq., Sudbury and London
Robert Emmett, Esq., Peckham
J. P. Everard, Esq., Bury St. Edmund's
George Fyson, Esq., Bury St. Edmund's
Charles Godwin, Esq. 4, White Lion-court, Comhill, London, and
Lee-lane, Kent
J. F. S. Gooday, Esq., Sudbury
J. C. Gooday, Esq., Sudbury and London
Major George Darby Griffith, Bury St. Edmund's
Thomas Greenwood, Esq., Chelmsford
R. E. Greenwood, Esq., Bank, Halstead
George Haycock, Esq., Chelmsford

Robert Cieere Halford, Esq., Boreham
Josiah Ileale, Esq., Gray's Inn
Edward Head, Esq., Bury St. Edmund's
John llnbbard, Esq., Sible Hedingham
Thomas Jennings, Esq., Sible Hedingham, Essex
B. Jennings, Esq., Bury St. Edmunds
W. B. King, Esq., Bank, Sudbury
T. R. Kemp, Esq., Abchurch-lane
Richard Ladell, Esq.; Claremont-place, London
The Rev. Thomas Ludbey, Cranham Rectory, Essex
Mr. Sergeant Manning, Recorder of Sudbury
Tohn Naylor, Esq., Bury St. Edmund's
Onley Savill Onley, Esq., Stisted Hall, Essex
Charles George Parker, Esq., Chelmsford
J. Parker, Esq., Chelmsford
John Dixon Piper, Esq., Chelmsford
John Dixon Piper, Esq., Colne Engaine, Essex
Dr. Ranking, Bury St. Edmund's
John Ridley, Esq., Bury St. Edmund's
Joseph Sewell, Esq., Halstead
Robert F. Stedman, Esq., Sudbury
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Charles Walter, Esq., The Howe, Halstead
Thomas White, Esq., Manor House, Weathersfleld, Essex.
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER IN CGIEF--JOhil Miller, Esq., F.R.S.E.
ACTING ENGINEER-11.W. Thomson, ESQ.
BANKERS.

London—Glyn, liallifax, and Co., Lombard-street; Brown, Janson,
and Co., Abchurch-lane
Chelmsford and Braintree—Sparrow and Co.
Halstead—London and County Bank
Sudbury—Messrs. Alexander and Co.
Bury—Messrs. Oakes, Bevan, and Co.
Liverpool—Bank of Liverpool.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Chauntler and Westwood, Gray's Inn-square.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Braintree—Messrs. Cunnington, Veley, and Cunningtou
Halstead—D. Sewell, Esq., and G. P. Arden, Esq.
Sudbury—Messrs. Stedman
Long Melford—Richard Ahnack, Esq.
Bury St. Edmund's—J. W. lon, Esq.
SECRETARY—David Bartle, Esq.

Since the formation of the Company for making this railway, and
the allotment of the Shares for that part of the line between Chelms-
ford and Bury, the practicability, paramount importance, and supe-
rior advantages of its plan lave been so unequivocally recognised by
the Board of Trade, and by the Committee of the House of Commons
for the railways of Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, that the Provisional
Committee have determined to now, at once, adopt the extension of
their line, originally projected, from Bury to join the Norwich and
Brandon line at Thetford; thereby to complete the shortest and best
communication between London and Norwich, in the direction of the
old road, through all the chief central towns of Essex and Suffolk,
and at the same time to open a very direct communication with the
great trunk lines of the north and west.
For these important objects, to be secured by an extension of only
12 miles, to connect Bury St. Edmund's and Thetford, the Provisional
Committee propose to increase the capital 250,0001., by the issue of
10,000 additional shares; and, for full particulars of the entire plan,
refer to their original prospectus. "
The Chelmsford and Bury line not having been projected in time to
bring it before Parliament in the present session in a substantive form,
it has been but imperfectly, and merely incidentally, in opposing other
lines, that its merits could be at all brought under the notice of the
Board of Trade or of the Committee of the House ; but the strong
impression made, notwithstanding, lie its favour, is obviously appa-
rent, both in the reports of the one and in the decisions of the other.
The Board of Trade, in stating the considerations upon which it ad-
vised the rejection of the Norwich Direct line, reported (March 4th,
1845) that "It is necessary to advert to a railway called theChelms-
ford
and Bury Railway, projected, but not brought before Parliament,
the plan, and section, and traffic tables of which have been submitted
to the Board of Trade. This railway appears to us to accommodate a
more populous district than that intended to be traversed by the
London and Norwich Direct Railway. Its section shows that it
may be done at a moderate cost ;" (while) "there is a strong local
feeling In its favour, evinced by the memorials which have been re-
ceived by the Board of Trade from the inhabitants of Braintree,
Halstead, Sudbury, and other places between Chelmsford and Bury."
The Committee of the House of Commons have since not only
rejected the Norwich Direct and Bury and Cambridge lines, but the
Chairman (Lord Sandon), previous to giving a decision against the
Norwich Direct, took occasion to observe that "the Committee was
decidedly in favour of the Chelmsford and Bury scheme."

To these public testimonials in favour of the Chelmsford and
Bury line, the Provisional Committee have the satisfaction of
aiding, that by a special arrangement with the solicitor of the
Eastern Counties Railway, they are assured of the concurrence and
good offices of that important Company in the formation of their line.
In allotting their original Shares, the Provisional Committee ne-
cessarily rejected numerous applications, of which it may be pre-
sumed that a considerable number were from parties as highly re-
spectable as any of those to whom Shares could then be given ; and
in the distribution of the additional Shares a reasonable preference
will be given to original applicants, as well as to original Share-
holders.

Applications for Shares, in the annexed form, may be made to
the Secretary, at the Company's Offices, 61, Moorgate-street, Lon-
don ; to the Solicitors, or any of the Local Agents ; or to the fol-
lowing brokers :—Messrs. Sheppard and Son, Threadneedle-street,
London; Mr. Thomas Forsyth and Messrs. Pownall and Worthing-
ton, Liverpool; Mr. Henry Benton, Manchester; Messrs. Rhodes and
Messrs. Redadale and Co., Leeds; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York
Messrs. Henry Beaumont and Co., Exeter; Mr. James Butchart, Hud-
dersfield; Mr. W. Mason, Bradford, Yorkshire; Mr. F. Stamp, Hull;
Mr. Thomas Boardman, Blackburn; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birming-
ham ; Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ; and Messrs. John
Robertson and Co., Edinburgh ; of whom prospectuses and further
information can be obtained.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
TO THE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE CHEL3ISFORD
AND BURY RAILWAY CO MPANY.
Shares in the above Com-
Gentlemen,—Please allot me
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thereon, and also to execute the Parliamentary contract and Sub-
scribers' agreement, when required.
Dated this day of
1843.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant,

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CFLELMSFORD and BURY RAILWAY.—
lJ is hereby given, that no hither application for Shares
willbe entertained alter Saturday, 23rd inst.
By Order,
DAVID BARTIE, Secretary.
Company's Offices, 61, Moorgate-street,
15th August, IMS.