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London, England, 1845-10-04 00:00:00

THE DIRECT WEST-END AND CROYDON
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
800,0001.,
Capital,
ix 40,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir James Andersen, Knt., M.D., New Burlington-street ; Director
of the Hereford and Mehr Tydvil Railway
Lieut.-General Sir R. Barton, K.C.8., 2 Montagu-place, Montagu-
square ; Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Major Beresfonl, M.P., 77, Pall-mall ; Chairman of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and Director of the Tean and Dove Valley, and West
Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railways
Charles R Higge, Esq., 10, Bryanston-square; Director of the Great •
Grimsby, LL ,
Horneastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway
William Bland, Esq., Brixton ; Director of the North Wales, and
Richmond and ;Vest-end Junction Railways
William Blanchard, Esq., York; Chairman of the Liberty of Ripon
Quarter Sessions, and Director of the York, Hull, and East and
West Yorkshire Junction Railway
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield ; Chairman of the Isle
of Ely Railway, and Director of the Manchester and Sheffield
Railway
Alfred Brodie, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square; Direc-
tor of the Grand Trunk Railway
Thomaswdpirineßyrom,
WPreston,to
igasn;n Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
, and North Union Junction Railways
Westbourne House, Sheffield, Director of the
Direct
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Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
ECadman,andßirmingham,
Liverpool,i. Esq..:s
William Caldwell, Esq., Inca Hall, near Wigan, Lancashire ; Direc-
tor of the Manchester, Derby, and Rugby, and Leeds and Liver-
pool Direct Railways
John Castendieck, Esq., Lewisham, Kent
John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-steet, London ; Director of the
Chelmsford and Bury, and York and Lancaster Railways
Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London ; Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Richard Clark, Esq., Farnham, Hants
George Clive Esq. Sanderstead, near Croydon
Esq., Bayswater; Director of the Ambergate,
Benjamin Clive,
'Esq., Manor House, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire;
Director of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kiddermin-
ster; and Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railways
White Hart-court, Lombard-street ; Director
Extension and Great Leeds and London
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Charles R. Dodd, Esq., North Brixton
Lieutenant-Colonel Lothian Dickson, Curzon-street, May. fair ; Direc •
tor, of the Reading and Reigate Junction Railway'
Miles* Dormer, Esq., Hans-place, Sloane-street ; Director of the
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, United Service Club;
Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway
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DaßteillwEaby
Francis Ewart.betts, Esq., Mincing-lane ; Director of the Direct Western
Brick-court, Temple; Director of the Equity
and Law Life Assurance Company, and of the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymouth Railway
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London ; Director
of the London and Westminster Bank, and Director of the London
Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway
Edmund Aldam Fawcett, Esq., London, Derby, and Nottingham
Captain S. 31, Fisher, Junior United Service Club ; Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Junction, and Bideford and
Tavistoek Railways
Robert Fisher, Esq., Hlghbury Park, Director of the Trent Valley
Continuation Railway
The Rev. H. R. Fowler, Manchester-square ; Director of the Direct
Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Henry Glynn, Esq , Temple
F. W. Hamilton, Esq., 59, Gloucester-place, Portman-square; Di-
rector of the York and Lancaster Railway
C. J. Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square;
Director of the Grand Trunk Railway
George R. Harrison, Esq., Harlingford-place, Kennington ; Director
of the Grand Trunk Railway
Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn-square; Director of the Chelmsford
and Bury Railway
Lawrence Hayworth, Esq.' Yew Tree, Liverpool
A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place ; Director of the Direct Exe-
ter Railway
John Holford, Esq., Rusholm-hall, Manchester ; Director of the York
and Lancaster Railway
John Holmes, Esq., 88, St. James's-street ; Director of the York and
Lancaster, and Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
land ; and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of London,
Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and
London and Greenwich Railways
John Kynnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London ; Director of
the London and Manchester Direct Railway
Herbert Ingram, Esq., 128, Strand, and Swineshead Abbey, Lincoln-
shire; Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, and
Eastern Junction Railway
Slegerieh C. Kreeft, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth Junction Coast Railway
Richard Kelly, Esq., 6, Cleveland-row; Chairman of the New Ross,
Carlow, and Kilkenny, and Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln
Extension Railway
Sir J. Key, Bart., Alderman of London ; Director of the London and
Manchester Direct Railway
William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton ; Director of the London and Man-
chester and Direct Western Railways
William Alexander Long, jun., Esq., Kingswood House, Wootton-
under-Edge ; Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway
William Margetson, Esq., Streatham-hill, Brixton
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., 4, Gray's Inn-square ; Director of the Direct
Western Railway
Thomas Morris, Esq., Fairhurst Hall, near Wigan ; Director of the
Blackburn, Charley, And Liverpool, and Leeds and Liverpool
Direct Railways
James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean
and Rhonda and Ely Valleys Junction Railway
Horatio Nelson, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth Railway
G. Parbury, Esq., Russell-square; Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham Railway
W. Simpson Potter, Esq , Sussex-gardens ; Director of the Grand
Trunk, the Oxford and Witney, and Reading and Reigate Junction
Railways
Samuel P. Pratt, Esq., F.R.S., Bath, and 55, Lincoln's-inn-fields ;
Director of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company, and York and
Lancaster Railway
George Richard Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk
Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square ; Director of the
Metropolitan Railways Junction Company, and of the London,
Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah House, Enfield, Middlesex ;
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
R. A. Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square • Director
of the Trine, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Oxford and Worcester
Extension Railways
A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Middle Temple, London; Director of
the 'treat Western Extension Atmospheric Railway
Richard Rowe, Esq., Beaufoy-terrace, Maida Vale
11. Savaje, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square ; Director of the West
31idiand; Manchester, and Southampton Railway
William Shid ey, Esq., Alfred-place, Brixton ; Director of the Great
Grimsby, Louth, Herncastle, Lincoln, and .Midland Junction
Rail ways
Timothy Steward, Esq., Heigbam Lodge, near Norwich
Edward H. 0. Scott, Esq., Hoe Garden House, Plym xith; Director
of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymoth Railway
Thomas Sydney, Esq., Alderman of Locdon ; and Director of the
Reading and Reigate Junction Railway
Henry Taylor, Esq , Wigan ; Director of the Leeds and Liverpool
Direct, Manchester and Wigan, and Leeds and Liverpool, Preston,
and North Union Railways
Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath Park ; Director of
the Direct London and Manchester, and Leeds and Liverpool Direct
Railways
'lrPeacltl-Wmesalitern Railways
Robert Watkins, Esq., 45, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square ;
Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport, and Liverpool
and Derby Railways
London ; Director of the
SSlirrYTioilreikontrnayla'sdlNl-LVeaboonbellaasj:teatorrnt; Bart., 105,
Bart., Walling Wells, Nottingham
Thomas Williams, Esq., Belgrave-street, Belgrave-square
Sir William Wynn, Maesynewadd, and Suffolk-place, Pall-mall ;
Chairman of the North Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction
Railways

(With power to add to their number.)
BANEERS.—The Commercial Bank of London.
CONSULTING ENGINEER.
Sir John Macneil, L.L.D., FRS MICE
ACTING ENGINEERS,
Messrs. R. and T. llopkitis,M.l.C.E.; 3[essrs.Gough and Rournieu, C.E.
Stißweecats.—Messrs. Shuttleworth and Sons.
sOLIcIToRs.
Messrs. Chauntler and Westwood, 8, Gray's Inn-square.
SECRETARY—J. L. Cotton, Esq.
The principal objects of the scheme are-Ist. To remedy the evils
of delay and inconvenience to which parties are, at the present time,
necessarily subjected in proceeding from the west end of the metro-
polis to Croydon, or the most distant places on the South-Eastern
and London and Brighton Railways, as well as the several sea ports
(at present wholly with-
proved means for the bl-
and packet-stations on the coasts of Kent and Sussex; and 2d. To
:IT:polls, and with each other.
supply to the nutnerous and wealthy inhabitants of the district
ttoehurrteohrua:inll through
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metropolis,
Commencing at the intended terminus of the South-Western Rail-
way, at Hungerford or Waterloo-bridge, the line will take the most
practicable route to Kennington, from thence it will follow as near as
possible the old turnpike road, Passing through or near to the
wealthy and populous districts of Stockwell, Clapham, Brixton,
Tulle-hill, Streatham, Norwood, Beulah, and Thornton-heath, effect-
ing a junction at Croydon with the several existing or projected
lines from that place.
It is also proposed to form a branch or branches from the neigh-
bourhood of Streatham to Mitcham and Tooting, and thus to extend
to those places, and their respective neighbourhoods, the advantages
of a direct railway communication with the metropolis.
A great portion of the traffic in passengers and goods upon the
Brighton and Dover lines is supplied from the west-end of London
and the Birmingham and Great Western Railways. The necessity
of proceeding to the station at London-bridge, and by the present
circuitous route to Croydon, is a serious and unnecessary inconveni-
ence, entailing additional expense and delay. The removing of this
long-felt grievance is a leading object with the promoters of the pre-
sent undertaking. They deem it right, however, to observe, in lay-
ing this scheme before the public, that they have no desire to inter-
fere with existing railway Interests, further than is absolutely indis-
pensable, but that on the other hand it will be their object to yield
assistance to, and in return endeavour to secure it, from each com-
pany with which this line may ultimately be connected.
A glance at the map will show, that as a branch or arm of the
London and Brighton Railway, this undertaking completes a straight
line of communication from the west end of London to Croydon,
Reigate, and Brighton, and renders the ports of Dover and Folke-
stone, as well as the several places on the South-Eastern line, more
easily accessible from that part of the metropolis.
The great amount of traffic at the present time upon the roads be-
tween Croydon, Mitcham, Tooting, Re., and London, proves at once
that the existing railway facilities do not at all meet the exigencies
of the mass of population to whom this line will be available.
The population who reside upon or in the immediate neighbour-
hood of the proposed line, independent of the metropolis, and between
the intended termini, exceeds 100,000, whose wants are almost
wholly supplied from the London markets, Re., and who have, at
the present time, no mode of conveyance but upon the turnpike
road. In the transit of building materials, corn, coal, lime, and
other heavy goods, frogs the warehouses and wharfs on the banks of
the Thames, and for marketable produce in each direction, this line
must become to them particularly useful and convenient.
Some idea may be formed of the local necessity of this railway
when it is known that the number ofpassengers who avail themselves
of the accommodation afforded by the several omnibuses and other
public vehicles, running upon the turnpike-road, have been two,
tained to exceed 2,600 daily. An equal number (at least) proceed
by private and other conveyances. Of foot passengers, although
no accurate estimate can be formed of them, it is considered that
they at least number four times that of passengers who travel by con-
veyance. The tonnage of goods it is calculated will be in full pro-
portion to the receipt from passengers.
Experience has fully proved, that on however liberal a scale the
probability of future traffic in the transit of goods and passengers has
been judged, almost every line of railway has, upon its completion,
vastly exceeded the calculated amount. There are, however, in this
instance, reasons for supposing that the extended facilities of com-
munication will cause more than an ordinary increase in the con-
veyance of passengers. The country which the line of railway will
open is singularly picturesque and beautiful, and in addition to the
adntired districts of Brixton and Streatham, the long-favoured and
much-frequented Beulah and Norwood will be placed within easy
access, and become more than ever, objects of interest and delight
to the visitor and resident of the metropolis.
There can therefore be little doubt but that the present line must
become aprotitable and eligible scheme for the investment of capital.
The promoters of this undertaking have pleasure in announcing
that it is approved of, ant will be generally supported by local in-
fluence. They have caused a partial survey to be made, which will
be completed shortly, and they have the assurance of their engineers
that there are not more than ordinary difficulties to contend with.
The liability of the shareholders will be restricted, by Act of Portia-
merit. to the amount of their subscriptions; and power will be applied
for 14 the Bijj tA alielv interest at 41! per Pent, per annum on all calls
from the passing et' the Act until the opening of the line.
Applications tbr further information, prospectuses, and shares (in
the form annexed), may he addressed to the Solicitors; to the Secre-
tary, at the offices of the Company, No. 34, Gracechurch-street ; or
to the following Brokers :—viz., 31essrs. 34. and M. Boyd, Princes-
street ; Mr. 11. J. Williams, 80, Old Broad-street; Messrs. Greystone
and EftrN York ; Mr. Antheny Laurie, LiverPOol ; Messrs. Cardwell
and Co., and Mr. Henry Benton, Manchester ; Mr. James Pearson,
Birmingham ; Messrs. Watson and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Brady and
Stainforth, Hull • Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Mr. Thomas Sand-
ford, Exeter ; Mr. James Pringle, Edinburgh.
FORM OF APPLICATION FQR SHARES'
To the Provisional Committee orth6 TilrectNest-End and Croydon

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Gentlemen irtallway:
,—I request you- will allot me Shares of 201.
each in the above railway, upon which or upon any less number that
may be allotted to me, I hereby agree to pay the deposit, and to
execute the Parliamentary Contract arid the flUbserlbers' Agreement
when required to do so. "

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FRANKFORT-ON- TFE-MAINE, SEPT. 14.--Ronge en
tered our city to day on his way to Stuttgardt, in a car-
riage garlanded with flowers, and followed byre train o+
from sixteen to twenty travelling carriages.!
_.susands
upon thousands of people awaited his re--
gates of the city, rind accomy him with a ceaseless
a . ..real before the
succession of visin
s sothe "essthouse, where he alighted.
The rejoicing, shouts, ancf hurrahs of the multitude be
came there so deafening, that Range at length appeared
at a window of a second story of an adjoining house,
whence he gave a short address to the waiting mass
of human beings, expressive of his heartfelt gratitude for
the extraordinary reception he had met with ; his regret
that his necessarily short stay precluded his replying to
it as he wished ; and his intention of soon returnine. to
Frankfort for a longer period. Soon after eleven o'clock
A.m., he drove off towards Stuttgardt, but such was the
pressure of the crowd, as to compel passing through the
streets at a funeral pace, and it was not without difficulty
that numbers were prevented actually stopping the car-
riage for the purpose of touching the reformer's person !
THE GERMAN CATHOLIC SYNOD IN STUTTGARDT.—
The Wirtemberg Government having refused the German
Catholics the use of a church to hold their conference in
(though such bad been granted them by theecclesiastical
, authorities), on the ground that a public celebration of
Divine worship in a building belonging to the Esta-
blished Church would be tantamount to a recognition of
them as a religious body, for which indeed they have ap-
plied, but have not yet obtained, they have been directed
to hold their proposed meetings either in a private build-
ing, or, as hitherto, in one of the churches belonging to
the reformed (or Genevese) congregation. " Hitherto,"
says the Allgemeine Zeitung, in reference to this
denial, " the interest felt by the lay public in the new
sect was comparatively trifling, but now, all at once,
an eager desire seems to have arisen, and petitions in
favour or their toleration come in from all quarters, a
fact which very evidently proves that a religious move-
ment can by no system of resistance be so effectually
rendered harmless as by leaving it a free and unhindered
course •, for so coon as either, with or without founda-
tion, the idea of arbitrary suppression is spread abroad,
the German phlegm gives place to eager sympathy, and
the almost expiring lamp of public interest is instantly
re-fanned into a flame. A petition, to which 2,000 sig-
natures are already appended, has been presented by
Lutheran citizens of Stuttgardt, praying that one of their
churches may be granted to the use of their German
Catholic brethren."
STUTTGARDT, SEPT. 13.—A. considerable number of
deputies to the German Catholic Synod were present
today at Divine service, at which Kirbler presided, in
the reformed church, hich was festively hung with
flowers, and, although cards of admission alone pro-
cured entrance, filled to overflowing. The communion
plate, presented to the new congregation by some
Lutheran well-wisher in this city, was used for
the first time on this occasion. The meetings on the
morning and afternoon of the 14th, as well as this morn-
ing's meeting, were private, at which, among other pre-
liminary business, presaes and secretaries for the ensuing
council were elected; but the meeting of this afternoon,
which assembled at three o'clock in the ball of the Sil-
berburg, kindly granted by the Directors of the Museum
Society, was public, and numerously attended by per-
son s of both sexes and all confessions.
Twenty-four delegates, many of whom act as proxies
for several congregations, were present, as well as
deputies from London and Rotterdam, who, of course,
were more in the character of listeners than actual
members of this Rhenise synod. The next meeting is
appointed to take place in Frankfort, where many
points respecting church government and a more ex-
tended organisation, which were on this occasion brought
under consideration, will he more definitively settled.
THEINER AND THE SILESIAN REFORM.—The long-
expected work by which this celebrated theologian was
to avow and defend his adhesion to the German Catholics
has at last begun to be laid before the public, and con-
tains a justification of the reform m ovement by a con-
nected authentification of the incurable abuses which
have taken root in the Roman Catholic Church, and the
hopelessness of obtaining from the Pope or Roman
priesthood, as now constituted, any concession of
a more rational church service. Theiner, as is well
known, has laid down his office in the Roman Ca
tholic Church, and addresses this work (the first part
of which is now before us) to his former parishioners,
under the title of " Efforts at Reform in the Catholic
Church"—a circular letter, addressed flr;t to the congre
gations of Polsnitz, Grussen, and Hundsfeld, and next to
all Catholic Christians who regard the revelation of
Jesus Christ as eternal and saving truth. Without
any unnecessary parade of learning, Theiner details
the abuses and unchristian system which hare obtained
in the Church he has left. We hear, too, that he
had early withdrawn everything like polemics from
his pulpit and private instruction, seeking by a simple
exhibition of purer doctrines to stimulate and satisfy
the spiritual wants of his flock, and uniting in these
efforts with a small but zealous portion of the Si
lesian clergy, until the pertinacious refusal of his eccle-
siastical superiors to listen to any proposal for a
purification of either ritual or doctrine compelled him
to relinquish office in a church where he was called on
to preach and teach observances and dogmas which
neither his reason nor his conscience approved. The
abuses so often alluded to are stated by Theiner in
much the usual manner, yet with constant refe-
rence to the previous struggles of enlightened
priests and princes for reform in the Roman Ca-
tholic Church. He is more diffuse in stating his views
in regatd to the position occupied, whether by the
priesthood or by orthodox Catholics at large, in re-
gard to the state, as well as on the subject of mixed
marriages. He displays simply, but effectively, the con-
tradictions Which Rome has constantly submitted to, and
cannot avoid by her laws against heretics, and adduces
many terrific examples of the means employed by " the
Church," to obtain an accession of di.-ciples.
BRESLAW, SEPT. 12.—The people in Uper Silesia are,
by ceaseless excitement, stirred up to such a degree of
fanaticism, that it is much to be feared very energetic
measures will speedily be called for. Under such cir-
cumstances alone is it comprehensible, that those
lawless disturbers of the peace at Tarnowitz who are
now under confinement and examination for tumultuous
proceedings should be termed by the Silesian (Roman
Catholic) Church Journal, the "firm principled citizens,"
or that the same paper should sound its pecans over the
infamous attack on Rouge's life. But what then shall we
say to attempts being made not only to obtain from the
King the liberation without trial of these turbulent
spirits, but to actual subscriptions being now raised
to meet the fines which, it is anticipated, may pro-
bably be levied upon them as the due reward of
their delinquency. It is, however, to be hoped that,
as is credibly reported, measures are in preparation
which will prove the time is not yet come in Prussia
when the open avowal of religious conviction involves
danger of one's life ; and even the above-named journal
may perhaps learn that an open defence of illegal pro-
cedings is not admissible in our days ; and, conse-
quently, repent having so prematurely shown its colours.
Meanwhile, the Dissenters from Rome are increasing.
not only in Breslaw, where one-fourth of the Catholic
population (reckoned at about 30,000) has joined the
sect, but throughout the whole province. Congregations
have lately established at Sprottau and Auras, and seve-
ral other places, such as Sagan, Frankenstein, and even
Patchkan, are expected speedily to follow the example.
TSERLOHN, SEPT. 10.— The late Roman Catholic
priest, Briedenbach, of Strutt, a man of distinguished
oratorical powers, and possessed not only of the love of
his parishioners, but of the respect and esteem of his
ghostly superiors, having very recently forsaken the
Roman for the German Catholic Church, has accepted
a call to preside over that branch of it which exists
here, and was received to-day in a really magnificent
manner. The discharge of nearly thirty pieces of
ordnance, and a cot Sege of above ten thousand persons,
whose vivas rent the air, hailed his approach to the
city. The German Catholic cause has obtained by the ac-
quisition of Breidenbach a powerful support, not merely
in Iserholm, but through the surrounding district, where
many congregations exist, and more are in contempla-
tion. A new one was definitively organised on the 7th
instant, in our neighbouring town, Hagen.—Elberfeld
Zeitung.
MAYENCE, SEPT. 6.—Our Bishop has deemed it his
duty to announce to his clergy the apostacy of one of
their brethren, the late Dean Winter, in Alzei, from the
Roman Catholic Church. The exhortations and admo-
nitions with which the notification is accompanied are
singularly mild, and whilst they are exhorted to pray for
the restoration of their erring brother to the bossm of
the true Church, the new Catholic sect to which he has
joined himself- is adverted to in much more moderate
terms than in the ban lately published by the Bishop of
Fulda.
EICHSTADT (BAVARIA), SEPT. 12.—The establishment
of this bishopric, which has now existed 1,100 years,
was celebrated here on the 7th inst. The whole city,
but more particularly the cathedral, was festively
adorned, the choir being entirely covered with a new
carpet 286 feet square, embroidered by the ladies
of Eichstadt and other places throughout the bishopric.
The solemn proce=sion of the reliques of St. Willibach
and St Walburga was joined by the Archbishop of Mun-
chen Freising, the Bishops of Augsburgh, Spiers, Wurz-
barg, Regensburg, and Eichstadt, and an immense num-
ber from this city and neighbourhood.
BOHEMIAN FRONTIERS, SEPT. 10.—Some time since
a society was formed in the Leitmeritz diocese, under
the immediate patronage of its bishop, in honour of "the
immaculate heart of the Virgin Mary," to which the in.
ferior clergy as a body, and their most zealous adherents,
have given their support. But Bishop Rifle has recently
come forward with a new evidence of his zeal, by com-
manding the introduction of so-called "spiritual exer-
cises," in which a majority of the clergy and consider.
able numbers of the more devout among the laity take
part. The members of this godly society were convened
in Leitmeritz the beginning of this month, for the pur-
pose of spending eight days consecutively in the
said spiritual exercises, among which, and cer-
tainly not the least remarkable, is the subjecting
themselves voluntarily to a severe mutual scourging!
Total silence is imposed on them during the whole period
of their being together ; and strict fasting, except a
light soup for supper, as well as every species of bodily
convenience or recreation are forbidden.
HaenEesrAni, SEPT. &.—The day before yesterday,
Pastor Willig, lately Catholic priest in Hamburgh,
arrived here by invitation of the Roman dissidente of this
place, and celebrated Divine service in the Holy Ghost
Church, at which, hesides the members of the new com-
munity, very many Roman Catholics and from 600 to
800 Protestants were present. The German Cathol.
cs
have, it seems, given a re tiler call to Wilirg to remain
as their pastor, which, howver, he has not definitively
accepted, but promised to return after his visit to Berlin
and Leipzic, and spend some months here.
BERLIN, SEPT. 14.—Some journals lat-ly circulated
,
the highlYsimProbßble intelligence that the question of
religious diffeiehees was to come before the Diet ; we
believe ourselves warranted in giving the following as a
better founded statement ;--In consequence of arrange-

MANREIM, SEPT. 29.—Messrs. Ronge and Donran,
and their travelling companions have just arrived here.
They were met by a joyous crowd at the railway
tation, who accompanied them into the town. The au-
thorities, however, would not permit M. Ronge and his
partisans to enter the church. The police also refused
permission for M. Ronge to hold an assembly of the
German Catholics at the theatre. In consequence of this
refusal the proprietor of the theatre invited the tra-
vellers to his own house.
A letter from Heidelberg states that while Ronge was
in that city, the chiefs of the German Catholic c mmu-
nity were cited before the municipal authorities, who
signified to them that unless they would guarantee the
observance of the decrees issued relative to M. Ronge, he
would be ordered to quit the town.

STRAND THEATRE.
M. Philippe, the neatest, the cleverest, the most gen-
tlemanly of necromancers, has taken this delightful little
snuggery, and fitted it up as a Temple of Magic, and
during the whole of this week he has been surprising
crowded audiences by his delightful and really wonder-
rul performances. All our readers have doubtless read
of the delightful doings at the Carnival at Naples, and
have longed to enjoy the luxury of being pelted with
delicious bonbons, let them go to the Strand Theatre ; it
;s every night acarnival there ; you have music and lights,
and wit (Mr. Philippe is a most geat-lenaanly and witty
actor, as well as a great magician) and wine (his
Liqueristo furnishes the most delicious wines and liquers)
and beat of all showers of the most delicious bonbons,
which could not but be honoured with the high approval
of even her sweet-loving Majesty of Spain herself.
M. Philippe is seen to even greater advantage at the
Strand than he was at the St. James's. The theatre is
not so deep or so narrow—the audience is nearer the
stage, and they are able to observe more narrowly, and
to watch every step in the progress of a trick, and thus
the talent of the necromancer is more thoroughly appre-
ciated. The performances, too, are over at a reasonable
hour (half-past ten), a most desirable thing where chil-
dren are part of the audience; and at the present moment
there is not an amusement in London to which it is a
greater treat to take children than to M. Philippe's
Soirees Mysteriemses. Take it for all in all the Strand
Theatre is now one of the plesantest evening lounges in
the metropolis.

A SEASONABLE WORD ON
RAILWAYS.
By Mr. Punch.
At a dinner given by the Directors of the Diddlesex
Junction Railway to one another out of the funds of the
Company,—Fitz James de la Pluche, Esq., chairman,—
Punch, Esq., vice-chairman,—the latter gentleman deli-
vered the following speech, in reply to a complimentary
oration from the distinguished President :
" Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,—The manner in
which you have drank my health is most gratifying to
me. I won't say that tears choke my utterance,' as
O'Connell did, upon a solemn occasion, the other day.
Humbug and hypocrisy will not pass for honest emotion
in England, and never can be welcome to honest men.
Gentlemen, I drink all your good healths in return.—
(Cheers.)
"There was a talk last week of an Order in Council
to prohibit the further issue of railroad prospectuses, on
the plea that there were too many now on hand, and
that it was imp.ssible for Parliament to discuss those
schemes already extant in the course of next session.
" Mr. Punch is inclined to be of the opinion of the
Order in Council, for various cogent rLasons.
"In the first place—do we wish to be the death of the
House of Commons? If we work them with bills as we
did last session, every one, except a few of the tough
ones, will expire. Fancy a House composed of Hume
and Peel, for instance, whom nothing can kill—old Joe,
with his stupid figures of Arithmetic, and Bob, with his
incomparably stupider figures of speech. (Sensation
dans Paucbtoire.)
" Secondly,—and this is even a more important rea-
son than the former—although some of you, my dear
brethren, don't care a jot whether the House of Com-
mons is dead or alive, yet your own interests will pro-
bably affect you sincerely. Men and shareholders, you
have already signed your deeds, pocketed your premiums,
and the scheme being agreed to by Parliament, com-
mitted yourselves to the finishing of your respective un-
dertakings within a certain space of say three years.
" Look, my dears, at the number of schemes now on
the list ! I can't stop to count them—l can't tell the
number of deeds I myself have signed—(the number of
applications I myself have made—(Great applause)
but oh, my dear brother-shareholders, which among you
will not agree with me, that there is as much money to
pay as this great country can conveniently fork out;
that there is as much to do as our labourers possibly can
do; and that it will be well to get that done before we
engage ourselves farther?
" Parliament binds you to execute your contracts in a
certain short period of years, or months almost. You
nitist, have the iron in that time, and do you think the
ironniaters will spare you ? You must have the labour
performed, and where are the hands to do it ? Work-
men will ben such request for the next three years,
that the hest profession for younger sons will be the
pickaxe and shovel. Navies may dictate their own
terms—at least until the Companies are bankrupt, when
there will be no labour, nor wages, nor railroads at all.
It will boa qad day 'wlien capitalists, and ironmasters,
and work Men, sit looking at each other, after the general
smash that our haste for speculation has occasioned.—
(Profound attention.)
" Therefore, dearly belAverl, I shall in my place in
Parliament, or if cr.,174g1 to attend the council-board ofany
SovelAßt'approve of a mild check upon railroad

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