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ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL niEr THREE PAPERS, ' Morning, Noon, and Night, thereby insmring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE.

LINCOLN" AND WAKEFIELD RAILWAY.
Subscribed Capital, 750,0001., in 15,000 Shares of 501. ea+.
Deposit, 51. per Share.
PROVISIONAL CONMITIEE.
Charle. P. Grenfell, Esq., London.
Thomas Houldsworth, Esq., M.P., London.
-William Marshall, Esq., Porwortham Hall, Preston.
Joseph Hegan, Esq., Liverpool.
Robert Gill, Esq., Mansfield, Woodhouse, Notts.
H. Honldsworth, Esq., Manchester.
Captain Laws, R.N., Manchester.
Leo Schuster, Esq., Manchester.
William Entwistle, Esq., London.
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER—Thomas L. Gooch, Esq.
BANKERS—Messrs. Cunliffes and Brooks, London and Manchester.

Soucrroas—Messrs. Brackenbetry and Lewis, Mancheste4
This Line, of 54 miles in length, is intended to connect the *mat
productive agricultural district of Lincolnshire, and the towns of
Lincoln, Gainsborough and Doncaster, with Wakefield, the principal
corn and cattle market for the manufacturing population of Yorkshire
and Lancashire, and with the series of large and important towns
bordering upon the line of the Manchester and Leeds Railway t innug,h-
out its entire course. The country into which this line will extend
having never possessed the advantages ofrailway communication with
the chief market for its produce, which has been thus compelled to
make use of a circuitous and tardy conveyance, this undertaking will
at once remove many of those difficulties with which the home-grown
corn of that neighbourhood has hitherto contended in maintaining its
ground, even in its own market, against the importation of foreign
grain ; at the same time that it offers in return the means of, rapid
and cheap carriage of coal, coke, stone, salt, and lime, more especially
of the two latter articles, to a very large extent, for agricultural pur-
poses, at a reduction of probably not less than 50 per cent. of their
present price. By this means a return cargo would be assured for all
vessels employed in the conveyance of agricultural produce to Gains-
borough and Lincoln. I
As regards passenger trafile, a considerable intercourse already
exists between the several towns on the proposed line, as H4Cll as
with Wakefield and the manufacturing districts, and there can be
no doubt that a similar increase to that which has always reliulted
from an improved and rapid communication, may be justly antici-
pated.
These views being confined exclusively to the traffic peculiarly be-
longing to the locality of this line, it is unnecessary to enter into spe-
culative considerations as to. the probability of any extension of the
Railway system in that important portion of the kingdom.
After a survey of the country through which the line passes, the
engineer has reported to the Committee that the works will be of easy
"construction and inexperalvw, and the gfadients of a.norrfavoirable
character ; the latter is especially a matter of paramount importance
to the economical working of the very large goods traffic that will
naturally flow upon this line. This object will be still further sciettred
by an arrangement with the Manchester and Leeds Company for
working this line In conjunction with: their own, which will be a suf-
ficient guarantee that this important item of railway expenditure will
be. reduced to a very moderate amount.
A more legitimate project cannot be contemplated than this, which
so intimately connects the productive industry of the farmer with the
constant and growing demand of a rapidly increasing manufacturing
population..
The deposit to be paid on the allotment of the Shares, and on the
production of the banker's receipt for the same, scrip will be delivered.
Applicationt . for Shares may be made in . the annexed form ad-
dressed to the Secretary of the Provisional Committee, No. 9,1 New
Palace-yard, Westminster :
To THE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE LINCOLN AND *ARE-
- FIELD RAILWAY COMPANY
I request you will allot me shares in the prqposed
Lincoln and Wakefield Railway, and I agree to take such shares as
may be alloted to me, and pay the deposit of the same, and eXecute
the Parliamentary contracts and the subscribers' agreements, when
required to do so. Name Of
Description
Residence
• Date of application
No. 9, New Palace-yard, Westminster, Feb. 19, 1844.

PARIS AND STRASBURGH RAILWAY
Total Capital, 60,000,000 Francs.
To be divided into 120,000 Shares of 500 f. each.
An Amount not exceeding a moiety of the same, tO be raised
hn
England, in 201. Shares.
LONDON COMMITTEE.
WILLIAM THOMPSON, Esq., Alderman, M P.
CHARLES BARRY BALDWIN, Esq., M.P.
JOHN CROSTHWAITE, Esq., Liverpool.
. WILLIAM SAMPSON, Esq., London.
T. M. WEGITELIN, Esq„ London.
R. W. KENgARD Esq., London.-
PARIS COMMITTEE.
Le Comte de MOLE; PreSident, Pair de France.
Le Marechal Comte GERARD, Pair de -France.
Mons. de CHEVANDIER, Pair de France....
Mons. ETIENNE, Pair.de France.... -
Mons. MAGNIER de MAISONEUVE, Depute, de Bas Rhin.
Mons. GANNERON, Banquier, Depute, 'de la Seine.
Mons. de L'ESPEE, Depute, de la Meurthe.
Mons. ETIENNE, fils; Depute; de la Meuse. •
BANKERS IN LONDON.
Messrs. DENISON, HEYIVOOD, KENNARDS, and Co.
Sir CLAUDE SCOTT, Bart., and CO.
BANKERS IN LIVERPOOL.
Messrs. LEYLAND, BULLINS and Co.
BANKERS TN PARIS.
Messrs. GANNERON et Compaigne.
GENERAL ADVANTAGES.
The limited investment of British capital in the construction of
Railways in France has hitherto been attended with both success and-
profit. The proposal, therefore, to establish a railway communica-
tion between the French capital and Strasburg, the point of depar-
ture to and from Germany, must command public attention and con-
fidence; more particularly when it can be shown that peculiar faci-
lities are afforded by the French Government, and that those risks •
and expenses will be obviated, which, to so great an extent, affect si-
milar undertakings in England.
BENEFITS PECULIAR TO FRENCII RAILWAY INVEST-
MENTS.
Conformably to the Law of the 11th June, 1842, the French Go-
vernment have resolved on the formation of a railway from Paris to
Strasburg. It is necessary to state that, by the terms of that law,
the land will be purchased, and the earthworks, tunnels, bridges, sta-
tiens, &c., will be executed 'by the Government, at their own ex-
pense and risk. A lease of the line for working will be made' to
.the
Company, whose investment will be limited, to the ballasting of the
rotui, the supplying and laying down of the rails, and providing the
engines, carriages, &c. The ratification of this lease, the duration of
the grant, the conditions of working, and the tariff of rates will be the
matter of a special law.
COMPARATIVE ABSENCE OF RISK.
All the advantages of railway investment will thus be secured to
the Shareholders without those risks involved- in the purchase of
land, and errors in the estimate of cost, which have so frequently oc-
curred in similar undertakings in England.' The only object of consi-
deration will be the conditions to be obtained from the Trench
vernment for the working of the line, and there era safftelent data to
convince the Provisional Directors that favourable terms will be
granted to the proposed. company.
RATIFICATION OF TIIE LEASE.
Negotiations have already been entered into for a Leaie, and it will
be the endeavour of the Provisional Directors to secure its immediate
confirmation by the Government, which they have every reason to
anticipate will be ratified by law during the present session of the
French Chambers.
IMPORTANCE OF THE LINE.
It will be perceived that the line now proposed, from Paris to Stras-
burg, passing through Meaux, Chalons, and Nancy, must establish
an international communication, traversing the riohest and most
industrious provinces of France, and commercially uniting England,
by the port of Havre and the French metropolis, with Austria, Ba-
varia, the manufacturing province of Alsace, Switzerland, and the
Rhine ; bringing into readier and closer intercourse, not only France
and Germany, but Great Britain and the whole Continent, the city
of Strasburg being'already the point of departure for travellers from
and to the Germanic Provinces, and the point to which the national
railways of Germany are intended to converge.
RESOURCES OF THE COUNTRY TO BE TRAVERSED—PRO-
BABLE EXTENT OF TRAFFIC.
No doubt can exist as to the great extent of traffic to be anticipated
from the construction of this line. The report of M. Correard, an
eminent civil engineer, which will be deposited at the office of the !
Company for reference, has been obtained, and in this it is announced
that the agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing resources
cf the provinces bordering or within easy distance of the line, are
those of fifteen of the richest provinces'in France—viz., Seine, Seine
et Oise, Seine et Marne, Aisne, Ardennes,Marne, Aube, Haute-Marne,
Meuse, Moselle, Meurthe, Vosges, Haute-Saone, Haut-Rhin, and Bas-
Rhin, abounding in forests, mines, collieries, iron works, mills, and
factories, as well as in rich vineyards, and various agricultural pro-
ductions. All of these provinces import much of what they consume,
.and have abundant surplui produce to export. The interme-
diate traffic on this route is considered to be greater than
in any other part of France, the total annual trade being estimated
at 100,000 French tons between Strasburg and Paris ; while that
between and among the various localites enumerated embraces
double this amount. The total population is about six milliions and
a quarter, and the total land revenue 320,000,000 f., or 12,800,0001.,
double that of the whole kingdom of Belgium.
PRELIMINARY CONDITIONS' OF INVESTMENT.
The amount of capital intended to be raised at present is
60,000,000 f., or 2,400,0001., in nearly equal parts, in England and
France. The_depart-td-be 50f. or 2/. ;on payment of which receipts
will be granted by the respective bankers of the Company, to be
exchanged for certificates of shares at the Company's Office in Lon-
don, when the -contract shall be ratified. The remaining instalments
will only be called for at intervals of not less than three calendar
months, at the rate of 21. each ; the first instalment not to be called
for sooner than three months after the passing of the law constituting
the Company. After full pajrment of the amount due in.respect of
his shares, each Shareholder will have the option of receiving cer•
tificates-payable to bearer.
- INTEREST AND PROFIT ON INSTALMENTS .
The instalments will bear interest at 4 per cent. from the date of
the passing of the law, until the Company shall be in full operation ;
and such Shareholders as may pay their calls in London will be en-
titled to any profit accruing from the assumed exchange at 25f. per 11.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITIES.
The privileges of a Societe Anonyme will be secured to the Corn-
panY by a Royal Ordinance, which will limit the liabilities of the
proprietors to the amount of their subscription, as inlhe incorporated
railways of England, and the statutes of the Paris and Rouen, and
Rouen and Havre Railway, which have beep proved -to work well,
will be, as far as practicable, adopted in the constitution of the
Company.

MANAGEMENT OF THE COMPANY.
The executive management of the Company will he conducted by a
Bitting in Parts, attended by an English resident
director, and their proceedings will he regularly communicated to the
English directors, who will have the privilege of voting by proxy.
An office will be established in London for the transfer of shares, the
payment of dividends, and, the furnishing of information IQ the
Proprietors.

APPROPRIATION OF PROFITS.
After the opening of the line, the profits, at each declaration of
dividend, will he thus appropriated. An allowance of 5,0001. per
annum to be made to the Directors, including the remuneration of
the English resident Director, and after payment of a dividend to
the Shareholders of five per cent., one per cent. will be reserved as
a sinking fund ; or, instead of this allowance of 5,0001., the Directors
may, at their option, claim one-twentieth of the remainder, after
the above dividend and reservation. The surplus to be again di-
vided into twentieths ; eighteen twentieths to be apportioned to the
Shareholders.
CASE P and the remaining to the projectors.
PROVISION IN OP THE

GREAT SOUTHERN and WESTERN
RAILWAY.

FIRST DIVISION from DUBLIN to CASHEL,
With a BRANCH to ATIIY and CARLOW.
- - Length, 123 Statute Miles.
Capital, One Million Sterling, in 20,000 Shares at 501. each.
No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his subscription.

Deposit, 21. 10a. per Share.
Future calls not to exceed 21. 10s. per Share, at intervals of not
less than Three Months, until after the commencement of the works,
the progress of which will regulate the amount of the subsequent calls
PROVISIONAL
PETER PURCELI
The Earl of Devon
Lord Monteagle
Edward Divett, Esq., M.P.

COMMITTEE.
Esq., Chairman.
John Ennis, Esq.
Peter Eckerslcy, Esq.
R. R. Guinness, Esq.
ThomaS Hutton, Esq.
William llaughton, Esq.
Thomas Mooney, Esq.
Edward M'Donnell, Esq.
James Perry, Esq.
Sir. David Roche, Bart., M.P.
David Henry Sherrard, Esq. •
Richard Williams, Esq.

James Hartley, Esq.
Edward Can, Esq. •
Simeon H. Hardy, Esq.
Sir Edward Borough, Bart

Sir John Burke, Bart.
Sir Thomas Butler, Bart.
Alderman Joseph Boyce.

Richard Cane, Esq
George Carr, Esq.
ENGINEEI---John Macneill, LL.D., F.R.S.
Sommoits—Barrington, Son, and Co., Dublin; and Fladgate,
Young, and Jackson, London.
SEcarraar—William Taylor, Esq.t Office, 4, College-green.
DUBLIN BatatEas—The Bank of Ireland.

ENGLISH BANKERS—GIyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co, 67, Lombard-
street, London; The Manchester and Salfar. Bank, Manchester;

The Bank of Liverpool, Liverpodl.
The traffic which exists between Dublin and the south and south-
western districts of Ireland, fully justifies the construction of a main
trunk line of railway from Dublin to Cashel, with a branch to Athy
and Carlow. From this main trunk the country is most favourable
for branches to Cloarnel, Limerick, and Galway, and of being exten-
ded to Cork, as pointed out in the Report of Mr. ➢facneill. -
The country to be traversed is singularly favourable for the con-
struction of a railway, and, with a slight variation, is the line recom-
mended by the Government Commissioners in their Report, present-
ing no difficulties or obstacles of any kind, and requiring but little
cutting or embanking, which enables the Engineer to pledge himself
that the cost will not exceed 1,300,0001. for the entire work, including
stations, carrying establishment, &c.. complete, being at the rate of
11,0001. per mile.
From Mr. 'Macneill's great professional experience, and from the
successful and economical manner in which he has just brought the
Thlblin and Drogheda Railway works to a completion within his es-
timate, the Committee has every confidence that the calculations fur-
nished by him for the present work will be found snilicient. It is
fortunate that the nature of the country through which the line is to
be made is such, that, in the event of the atmospheric principle of
transit being found from experience to be preferable to that of loco-
motive engines, it may be applied to this Railway without -any In-
convenience or disadvantage, as no deeper cuttings or embankments
would be required for the locomotive, than would be prudent or desir-
able for the atmospheric principle.
The traffic is probably not exceeded on any line of equal extent in
the United Kingdom at present unoccupied by a railway, and holds
out very great inducements for the investment of capital. The re-
turns on which the calculation of traffic is founded, are taken Nom
those published by the Railway Commissioners, and which, by a
subiequent Inquiry, are found to be considerably underrated.
Give ir-yearly income of £182,000
From which deduct maintenance and-
working at 40 per cent .

73,000

Leaving a profit 0f...... £109,000 per ann

Which, on a capital of One Million, and a loan of £300,000, would
give a dividend of 94 per cent. It is to be observed, that any amount
obtained by loan from Government, thereby lessening the extent of
capital to be called up, must necessarily be attended by an increase
of dividend to the subscribers.
Application for shares to be made to the Secretary, at the office,
No. 4, College-green, and to Messrs. Richard Williams and Sons,
Dublin; to Messrs. John Railton and Son, Manchester; Mr. James
Pearson, Birmingham ; and to Mr. George King, Secretary to the
Chester and Holyhead Railway Company, 62, Moorgate-street,
London.

FLOOR-CLOTH, well seasoned, at 2s. 4d. the
yard square, cut to any size. Passage and Stair ditto, cheap
Carpets and Druggets, at BURNES and CO.'S, Piazza, Covent-gar;
den. Upwards of 400 patterns in Tweeds and Doeskins cheap, for
Trousers.

wILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAIN-

MUSIC MALL, STORE-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE.
THIS EVENING, March 4, at Eight O'clock,
Mr. Wilson will give
A NICHT WP BURNS.
Pianoforte, Mr. LAND.
PART I.—Handsome Nell—Tibble, I ha'e seen the day —Toting
Peggy blooms, oar bonniest lass—Behind yon hills where Lugar flows
—Duncan Gray earn' here to woo—My heart is a-breaking, dear
Tittie---Seots, wha ha'e wi' Wallace bled.

PART ll.—The gloomy night is gathering fast—A man's a man for
a' that--Of a' the airts the wind can blaw—The Dell's awa wr the
Exciseman—Robin's awa.

In the Press, the SONGS in MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
Front Seats, 2a. 6d. ; Back Seats, 2s. ; Private Boxes for Six, 155.;
for Eight, 11. , Programmes and Tickets may be, had at the ➢fusic-
shops. and at the Music-hall.
Mr. WILSON will, in the course ofthe season, produce the foUow-
ing, which he has had same time in prepardtion :—Jacobite Relics—
Wandering Willie's Wallet—The Jarneses of Smitland—The Wallace
and the Brace—A Maiver Jamie Hogg.

LONDON, EDINBURGH, and DUBLIN
LIFE ASSURANCE. COMPANY,
3, Charlotte-row, )(mutest-house, and:lB, Chancery-lane, London.

DIRECTORS.

KENNETT KINGSFORD; Esq., Chairman.
BENJAMIN IFILL, Esq.. Deputy Chairman.
Alexander Anderson, Esq. James Hartley, Esq.
John Atkins, Esq. John M'Cluftle, Esq. •
James Bidden, Esq. John Maclean Lee, Esq.
Captain F. Brandreth. J—Marmadake Rosseter, Esq.

•YDITOAS.
li. IL Camas, Esq. I Robert E. Alison, Esq.
MEDICAL ADVlSER—Marshall Hall, M.D., F.R.S., L. and E.
SzcarrasY---John Emerson, Esq.
Somermas—Messrs. Palmer, France, and Palmer.

• THIS IS TIIR ONLY COMPANY who are bound by their deed
of constitution not to dispute any policy, unless they can prove that
it was obtained by fraudulent misrepresentation ; the great aim and
object having been to render Life Policies COMPLETE SECURI-
TIES and NEGOTIABLE DOCUMENTS, which shall ewe their
value to the certa►nty of the contracts upon which they are founded,
and be independent of the liberality or caprice of those who shall be
in the management of the affairs of the Company when the claims
arise ; and for this purpose the Company have, by a clause in their
deed of constitution, imhealtatingly deprived themselves of the
power of objecting to Ili,' pricy, unless they undertake to prove that
it was obtained from them by fraudul,:at misrepresentation. The
regulations common to all other Life Companies, which make the
validity of assurance contracts dependent upon the perfect correct-
ness of the many statements required from a proposer for a Life
Policy, and which have given rise to almost all the questions which
have been argued in the Courts, nod to many extra-judicial com-
promises, are thus entirely abrogated ; and nothing hut fraud, proved
to have been committed against them, can vitiate a policy granted by
this Company.
THIS IS TIER ONLY COMPANY from whom the assured on the
mutual principle, receive the whole of the mutual accumulations,
and also a guarantee from the Shareholders for the sums assured.
THIS IS THE ONLY COMPANY who bind themselves to pay

the sums in the policies, although the debts for which they were
effected shall have been liquidated before the claims arise. The
Company considering It only just towards the assured that where
premiums have been paid for assuring a given amount, that amount
should be paid; and they undertake.to do so without reference to
the state of the accounting between the assured and his debtor.
THIS IS ALMOST THE ONLY COMPANY who grant in favour
of creditors whole world policies, whereby the debt is secured,
although the debtor should go beyond the limits of Europe.
The premiums calculated according to the Carlisle Tables, are
lower than usual upon young lives, where participation in the profits
is not required ; and for short assurances, which, at the option of the
assured, may be continued for life, the rates are as low as a due re-
gard to complete security will permit.
TRIENNIAL ASCENDING SCALE TO ASSURE £lOO.

PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, 50, REGENT-
STREET, FEB. 15, 1844.

BONUSES DECLARED, 529,3061. 17s. 7d.
Notice is hereby given, that all persons who hold Policies in this
Office, bearing date prior to the year 1834, may receive the -present
value of the Bonuses which have been added to their Policies, upon
application at the Head Office, or to the Agents tifrough whom the
Policies were issued. •

GEORGE BEAUMONT, Actuary.

N R NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
A.
Capital 4500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.

The many novel and varied advantages bestowed by this Institu-
tion, both in its life assurance and deferred annuity departments, par-
ticularly the power to borrow two-thirds of premiums without ex-
pense or forfeiture—the great reduction of rates on short policies—
the option of selecting benefits and converting policies so as best to
salt the interest or necessity or the policy-holder during life, as well
as to afford the full benefit to his family at death, and annual division
of profits, have already been so well appreciated by the public, that
the Society's great success and growing prosperity enabled the Di-
rectors, at their General Meeting in May last; to add to each policy
on the profit scale a bonus averaging fifty-five per cent. on the
amount already invested; and this bonus, according to an equitable
scale, may either be paid in cash, er applied in redaction of future
premiums.

AGE.I 20
.1 30 I 40 1 50 1 GO I 70 / 88
Prem.' 1 11 01 2 2 ei 2 17 11 4 2 01 8 10 9110 18 8119 1 8

ALTERNATIVE.

Two-thirds, only, of the even rates, whether for select or diseased
lives, or for the risks of foreign climates, may be paid down, and the
balance, with interest at 4 per cent. deducted from sum • ssure 1.
FOREIGN, AND MILITARY AND NAVAL INSURANCE.
Distinct classification of places, Recording to salubrity of climate; a
specific price for any particular place, or fora voyage or voyages.
Officers whose destinations are not known, covered to all parts of
the world at a small but Axed extra ra'e of premum. •
GEO. FARREN , Risident Director.

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