The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-14 00:00:00

ORLEANS AND BOADEAUX
RAILWAY.

The main features of this undertaking are as
follows :

The present proposal of the Company embraces the
whole distance from Orleans to Bordeaux, 295 miles'
passing by the populous cities and towns of Blois,
Amboise, Tours, Chatelleroult, Poictiers, Angoulen3e,
and Labourne, to Bordeaux.
Tire works to be executed, at the cost of the State,
on the portion between Orleans and Tours, are ahead/
so far advanced, that in the hands of this Compaq
that important extension of the Paris and Orleans
Railway could be opened to the public in the snmoler
of 1845, with an expenditure of not more than 51. Per
share on the whole capital.
The Company is re-constituted for this purpose'
The statutes of the Paris and Rouen and the Rouen
and Havre Companies have been adopted, so far 0
they are applicable to this Company.
The Minister of Public Works, in the name of the
State, engages to pay for the land, and compensation
to landowners; to execute the earthwork, maaoar4
stations, workshops, police stations, and buildings °,l,
every description ;—in shsrt, to make the line, an
its dependencies, up to formation level, be the co"
what it may ; to maintain the earthwork for one year'
the masonry for two years, and the buildings for five
years, after delivery to the Company.
The Company have only to provide, lay, and ballast
the permanent way, fence off the railway, supply
locomotive and carrying stock, work the line, an
°
maintain it during the term of their lease. To these
alone their liability extends.
The State is to participate equally in the nett profits
of the Company, after 10 per cent. to the shareholder
upon the capital expended, namely, 9 per cent. diva'
Bend, and 1 per cent. sinking fund.
.• The right of the State so to participate in the nett_,
profits does not arise until after the first five years °`
the opening of the line throughout to Bordeaux.
This will give to the Company about twelve year'
of undivided enjoyment of the nett profits of the sec'
tion between Orleans and Tours.
The Company are required to surrender the Per'
manent way and its dependencies, at the expiration
of the term, without compensation, but are to be par
the actual value of their carrying stock, materials,
and stores, either by the Government or the oe7
lessees, within three months after the term of their
lease shall have expired. —Railway Chronicle.

MEDICAL TESTIMONIAL—SIGHT AND
HEARING.
est*
From T. J. Pettigrew, Surgeon, F.R.S. to ,-- v -#reet,
S. and B. Solomons, opticians, 39, Albemarle-ai ing
Piccadilly,—Gentlemen, I have no hesitation in relle
of
to your inquiry as to the results obtained by the
abit
your Improved Spectacles ; being in the constant," „,
of reading and writing for many hours together by
light, it is but justice to say that your newly invented
Spectacle Lenses have afforded me the greatest comfort.
When I employed the ordinary pebbles, I never failed to
experience in the morning a great irritation in the eyes-
Since I have used your admirable glasses I suffer from
no inconvenience or the kind, and my vision is much im-
proved. I shall ever feel grateful to my good friend,
Dr. Blundell for having drawn my attention to the sub-
ject.—Believe me to be yours, very respectfully. T. J.
PETTIGREW, 8, Saville row. Also, newly invented
Acromatic Waistcoat-pocket Telescopes and Opera'
glasses of the same kind of Lenses.--Every kind of Te-
lescope of larger size and increasing powers for shooting+
sea purposes, and upon stand for astronomical observa-
tions the powers are so great and the lenses so bright
and brilliant that minute objects at an extraordinary °is'
tance is brought completely under the eyes. Sportsmen
tourists, and sea-side visitors will indeed here have g"
great treat. Acoustic instruments of every descripti°ll
for deafness. Caution.—Messrs. S. & B. Solomons, opt"
clans and aurists, are not in any way connected with
person of the same name in their immediate neighbour
hood, nor in any part of the country. To prevent Ong'
takes, be cautious, and observe—Only to be had at 39'
Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel.
We can state now, from unquestionable authority',
that it has been decided by Government that the port °I
Weymouth is to form one of the harbours of relive
about to be established in the Channel, and that abre"
water will be built extending from the eastern part of
the Island of Portland to a length sufficient to secure.i:
protection for the shipping interest, as well reercanti;
as naval. This national undertaking will, we hear, if
on a grand scale, and being about the centre position ol
the Channel, will be a most efficient harbour of refug
between the two large naval depots of Plymouth Out
Portsmouth. It is expected the proprietors of the Gra;
Western Railroad will promptly avail themselves of this
favourable circumstance for laying down a line froth
d
Bristol and Bath, through the most advantageous all,
convenient track of country to Weymouth, as no don
this latter port, from its peculiar apt locality, and becont;
iiig a general depot for shipping, will be hereafter tbi
chief entrepot and link for commercial connection an
transition, through the medium of the Channel Islands,
from the midland counties of England to the Continent'
—Sherborne Journal

BIRTHS.
On the 10th inst., the lady of T. B. Charlton, Esq., of
well, Notts, of a daughter.
On the 29th of July, at Wereloo, Ceylon, the lady of F. 13'
Templer, Esq., of a son.
On the sth inst., at the Vicarage, Granborough, Warwick-
shire, the wife of the Rev. W. J. Wise, of a daughter.
On the 9th int t., at Bowdell, Sussex, the lady of Cap"
Chester, 90th Light Infantry, of a daughter.
On the 10th inst., the lady of John C. Cole, Esq., of uPor
Bedford-place, of a son.
On the 10th inst., at Buccleuch-terrace, Upper Clapton, the
lady of John Jones, Esq., surgeon, of a daughter.
tard'
On the 11th inst., at Eaton-place, the lady of J. Bas
Esq., Royal Horse Guards, of a son.
On the 10th inst., in Myddleton-square, Mrs. John C°..
head, of a daughter.
On the 11th inst., Mrs. Lawrence Engstrom, of York- street/
Portman-square, of a daughter.
On the 11th inst , in Oxford-street, the wife of Mr.
Churton, of Holies-street, of a daughter.
vAt Horsendon House, Bucks, the lady of the Rev. I'‘
•
Partridge, of a daughter, still-born.

MARRIED.
On the 13th of July, at Rondebosch, Cape of Good Wit
Fitzjames Edward Watt, Esq., Deputy-Assistant Collo
sary-General to the Forces, to Catherine, eldest daughter of
Charles Stuart Pillans, Esq., of Rosebank.
On the sth inst., at Wandsbeck Church, in Holsteil,
James Capel, Esq., of Fitzroy-square, to Miss Elizabeth
Cundy, of the same place.
On the 9th inst., at St. Mary-le-Strand, Charles 110
bery, Esq., son o the late Captain Hollingbery, Northian'
Sussex, to Anne, only daughter of Mr. Tuck, Strand.
On the 10th inst., at Faringdon, Berks, John Robinson:
late of Gray's Inn-square, to Mary, daughter of Richer
Wheeler Crowdy, Esq., of the former place.
On the 10th inst., at Tissington, Derbyshire, the Ref. 1/",
Fayrer, Incumbent of Emmanuel Church, Camberwell, to
Frances, youngest daughter of the late W. Fletcher, Dom''
Tissington.
On the 10th inst., at the Friends' Meeting-house, Darling'
ton, Robert Barclay Fox, of Perran, Cornwall, to Jane Gur-
ney, daughter of the late J. .Backhouse, of Polam.hill, Dar-
lington.

DIED.
llef
On the 12th inst., at No. 10, Claremont-place, Penton
Miss Cowley, in the 74th year of her age. fromf On the 20th ult., at Paletta, Malta, on her return
Palestine, Sophia, wife of Amede Augustus Comti de Tort:
On the 4th inst., at Amble House, Northumberland, Ige'i,.,
Matilda, infant daughter of T. Browne, Esq.
On the sth inst., at Margate, George Frederick Du Pas
quier, Esq., of Thistle-grove, Old Brompton, and of the Or
nance-office, Pall-mall.
On the 9th inst., at Knowle Lodge, Hampstead, -I°/1°
Alexander Thwaites, Esq.
On the 9th inst., at Moorcroft House, Hillingdon, Ann,
widow of the late Janice Stilwell, Esq.
On the 10th inst, at Lower Tooting, Peter Dorman
On the 10th inst., William Addams. Esq , of WapPigedsia
On the 10th in ill Brvanston-street; the Rev. Tre•--
Lovell. Rector of St. Luke';, Middlesex. verr
On the 10th inst., at Lansdown-terrance, Frederick Oh
Esq., aged 29.
of the
On the 10th inst., at Saville-row, Anna, the wife k
Rev. Robert Synge, Rector of Walwyn's Castle, Pembro-
s
shire, and sister of Sir W. Webb Follett, M.P., her Majesre,
Attorney-General..

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