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401 OU rll-EASTERN. RAILWAY.
The public are informed that, in consequence of the increase of
the traffic, the. Directors have conic to the resolution of making an
EXTENSIVE REDUCTION in their FARES.
Particulars will be given in a future advertisement ; but it may now
be stated; that the fares wlll be from London to Dover-Ist class, 155.,
2d class 10s., 3d class Gs., find intermediate fares in proportion.
There will also be issued Day Tickets between London and the dif-
ferent stations, and Season and Annual Tickets for the whole line.
These regulations will come into operation on the Ist of September
next, at which period also there will be additional express trains
put on. W. O'BRIEN, Secretary.

BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL-MALL
The GALLERY, with a SELECTION of PICTURES by
ANCIENT MASTERS, and those of the late Sir A.W. CALLCOTT,
R.A., and other DECEASED BRITISH ARTISTS, is OPEN daily
from Ten till Six.

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Just published, in post Bvo., price Bs. cloth,
NEW ZEALAND and ITS ABORIGINES,
being an Account of the Aborigines, Trade, and Resources of
the Colony, and the Advantages it now presents as a Field for Emi-
gration and the Investment of Capital.
By WILLIAM BROWN,
Lately a Member of the Legislative Council of New Zealand.
London : Smith, Eider, and Co., 65, Carnhill.

Adinlesion One Shilling. Catalogues One Shilling.
WILLIAM BARNARD, Keeper,

QOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. --PLEA -
LY SURE EXCURSIONS between the Bricklayers' Arms or Dover
termini, and all stations except London-bridge, at one fare there and
back, every Saturday and Monday until further notice. On the
above-named days excursion tickets will be issued by the following
trains :

DOWN TRAINS. UP TRAINS.
6 45 a.m 3d class train 5 30 a.m. 3d class train
10 0 a.m. Ist and 2d do. 6 45 a.m. Ist and 2d do.
4 0 p.m. 3d do. 2 0 p.m. 3d do.
5 30 p.m. Ist and 2d do. 6 30 p.m. Ist and 2d do.
Fares there and back :-
Ist class, 18s 6d. ; 2d class, 12s. ; 3d class, 7s. 4d.

Trains calling at the Stations on the Maidstone Branck Line will
meet the whole of the above-named Trains at Tunbridge, leaving
Maidstone at 8 a.m. and 7 45 p.m. for first and second class p.is-
sengers, and at 7 0 a.m. and 4 0 p.m. for third-class passengers, and
Tunbridge for Maidstone on the arrival of all the Down Excursion
Trains.

Excursion tickets are available only to return by the. Excursion
trains on the same day they are issued, or on the following Monday,
when issued on the previous Saturday.
N.B. Excursion tickets are not issued to or from the London-
bridge Terminus. By order, W. O'BRIEN, Secretary.

Provisionally Registered.
QOUTI-1-EA STERN and CONTINENTAL
STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—To PARIS and the SOUTH
of FRANCE.—Sea passage in less than two hours.—Shortest route,
via South-Eastern Railway, In conjunction with the Folkestone and
Boulogne steamers. 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, now leave Folkestone and Boulogne every tide, viz., twice
a day from each port. The departure of the day steamer from
Folkestone is arranged so that passengers may arrive in time by the
morning trains from London. For time and tide bills apply at the
South-Eastern Railway-oflice, London-bridge; or to Mr. Faulkner,
Folkestone.

FREEMASONS' AND GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY,

11, Waterloo-lace, Pall Mall, London.
Business is transacted in all the branches, and for all objects of
Life Assurance, Endowments, and Annuities, and to secure contin-
gent Reversions, &c.
Information and Prospectuses famished by
JOSEPH BERRIDGE, Secretary.

N ATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliamert.
This ir.stitution offers important ann substantial advan-
tages with respect both tM Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borr)w, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
ef his interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances
for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The success and increasing prosperity of the Aodety has enabled
the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third
Bonn& varying from 30 to 75 ;per cent. on the premiums paid on
each Policy effected on the Profit scale.
EXAMPLISS.

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60 1000 74 3 4 1839, 138 13 6 61 14 3 9 210 296 13 4
1840, -89 00 41 13 4 6 0 0 247 49

The dwusion of profits is annual, and the next will 14e made in De-
somber of the present year.
F. FERGUSON CAIKRQUX, Sae.

(Provisionally Registered.)
RAPERS' FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY..

Provisionally Registered.

OUTH-EASTERN AND CONTINENTAL
L STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—BEST ROUTE to BELGIUM
and GERMANY, via DOVER and OSTEND.—The South-Eastern and
Continental Steampacket Company's splendid fast iron steam-ship
PRINCESS MARY, carrying the English wad Belgian mails, and
performing the passage in four hours and a half, leaves Dover for
Ostend every Thursday and Sunday morning early, enabling tra-
vellers to leave Ostend by the early trains, and returns to Dover en
Tuesdays and Fridays.
_ . -

Head Office, Manchester.
Capital, 500,0001., in 10,000 Shares of 501. each.
Deposit, ss. per Share, as limited by the Act 7 and 8 Vic., e. 10.
PROMOTERS.
Henry Bannerman, Esq., York-street, Manchester
Robert Chadwick, Esq. (Messrs. J. and N. Philips and Co.) .
Edward Westhead, Esq., Piccadilly, Manchester
• George Horselield, Esq., George-street, Manchester
John Rylands, Esq., New High-street, Manchester
Uriah R. Cooke, Esq. (Messrs. Wells, Cooke, and Potter)
Daniel Lee, Esq. (Messrs. Wright and Lee)
William Hill, Esq. (Messrs. Smith, Hill, and Co.)
Edmund Coston, Esq. (Messrs. Todd and Coston).
Edward Jackson, Esq.,,York-ttreet, Manchester
James Carlton, Esq., Mosley-street, Manchester
William R. Callender, Esq., Mosley-street, Manchester •
Samuel Watts, Esq., Fountain-street, Manchester
Thomas s•impson, Esq., Piccadilly, Manchester
George Nelson, Esq., George-street, Manchester
William Morcon, Esq. (Messrs. James Brown and Co.)
John Allen, Esq. (Messrs. William Allen and Co.)
William Hobday, Esq. (Messrs. Oughton, Hobday, and Roberts)
James Gibb, Esq., Mosley-street, Manchester
Edward Bond, Esq. (Messrs. Holt, Bond, and Holt)
James Milne, Esq. (Messrs. Kendal, Milne, and Co.)
Thomas Parsons, Esq. (Messrs. Farmer, Cheshire, and Parsons)
Alexander Morris, Esq., St. Ann'O. square, Manchester
Joseph Watts, Esq., Deansgate, 31 anchester
Edward Blane, Esq., Deansgate, Manchester.
(With power to add to their number.)
This Company is originated on data supplied by official returns,
obtained from a majority of the leading cities and towns in the king-
dom, exhibiting an almost nominal risk in drapers' establishments,
and is based upon the principle of excluding all extra hazardous
risks ; but power is intended to be vested in the Directors to accept
(if they think proper) applications for general insurances, where the
risks can be clearly shown not to exceed that of a general draper's es-
blishment.
The effect of a preliminary canvass has been to obtain large pro-
mises of support in different districts, both •by intended insurances
and subscription tbr'shares. It is belieged, also, that (rejecting all
extra risks) the Directors will be in a coradition to materially reduce
the premiums payable for insurances.
A small portion only of the capital is intended to be called tbr, and
the proprietors are to be entitled to interest on the same, and to one-
third of the clear profits; one-third being also retained to consti-
tute a sinking fund, and ono-third distributed in bonuses amongst the
assured.:
The liability of the shareholders to be effectually limited to the
amount of their subscription to the Company, the usual protective
clause being inserted in all policies issued.
It is intended to give a preference in the allotment of shares to
parties interested in the drapery business, and an early day is ap-
pointed for the allotment.
All applications to be made in the under-mentioned form, and ad-
dressed to Messrs. Sale and Worthington, solicitors, 90, Fountain-
street; or to Messrs. Duffield, Lofthouse, and Whitworth, accountants,
12, Princes-street, Manchester.

Departures from Dover :
August 3, at Bh. 15m. A.M. August 10. at 6h. A.M.
August 7, at 10h. 30m. A.M.
Luggage, parcels. &c., expe
For particulars apply at the South-]
don-bridge; and to John Hayward, jui

,4itiously forwarded.
Eastern Railway-station, Lon-
n., Dover.

OUT H-EASTERN RAILWAY.
k. 7 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 common'.
cation with the whole 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 week's in
progress, and the whole scheme will be very shortly in a complete
state.

JOHN KIRKLAND, Chairman,
South-Eastern Railway-office, July 26, 1845.

DERBY, GAINSBOROUGH, and GREAT
GRIMSBY JUNCTION RAILWAY (by MANSFIELD),
connecting the Ports of GAINSBOROUGH, HULL, and GREAT
GRIMSBY, with GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL, and completing a
Direct Trunk Line of Railway between tho HUMBER and the
SEVERN.

Provisionally Registered. •
Capital 900,0001., in 36,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 1/. 7s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
William Drury Holden, Esq., Locko Park, Derbyshire
The Honourable Francis Curzon, Barrow Hall, Derbyshire
Jedediah Strutt, Req., Helper
Henry F. Hunter, Esq., Kllburne
James Oakes, Esq., Riddings House, Derbyshire
John Ray, Esq., Ileanor Hall, Derbyshire
Williat Saceeverel Coke, Esq., Langton Hall
Major Coke, Br, okhill Hall
Thomas Bent, Esq., M.D., Derby
Robert Forman, Esq., Abbot's 11111, Derby
Samuel Walker Cox, Esq., Breadsall
William Thomas Cox, Esq.. Spondon
Frauds Sacheverel Wilmot, Esq., Stanton Hall, Derbyshire
Henry Boden, Esq., The Field, Derby
Joseph Bourne, Esq., Denby Pottery
John Coke Fowler, Esq., Duffield Bank
Anthony Radford Stnutt, Esq., Milford
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby
Francis Jeesop, Esq., Derby
Captain Charles Holden, Nuttall Temple
William Chambers, Esq., Coxbench
Thomas Horsley, Esq., Pye Bridge, Derbyshire
Charles Holbrook, Esq., Alvaston
John Smedley, Esq., Lea Wood, Derbyshire
Joseph Wass, Esq., The Villa, Lea, Derbyshire
William Morley, Esq., Derby
John Wright, Esq., Market-place, Derby
John Hudson, Esq., Derby "
Thomas Burroughs, Esq., Derby
Robert Chadwick, Esq., Derby
Samuel Wright learn, Esq., Derby
William Taylor, Esq., Derby
William Willis Bailey, Esq., Kilburno
John Johnson, Esq., Derby
The Rev. Dr. Cursham, Mansfield Vicarage
Francis Hall, Esq., Park Hall, Notts
John Dodsley, Esq., Skegby Hall, Notts
Major Bilbie, Nettleworth Hall, Notts
Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield
Martin Furniss, Esq.' Mansfield
Richard Greenhalgh, Esq., Carr Bank, Mansfield
William Gething, Esq., Mansfield
Isaac Heywood, Esq., Mansfield
Samuel Hurt, Esq., Mansfield
Charles Lindley, Esq., Mansfield
William Sabine, Esq., Broomhill Grange
Samuel Siddon, Esq., West Bank, Mansfield
W. H. Paulson, Esq., Mansfield
George Hodgkinson, Esq., Kirkby-in-Hardwick
John Clarke, Esq., Kirkby-in-Hardwick
Richard Henry Wright, Esq., Mansfield
Thomas Bowmar, Esq., Warsop
J. Bloor, Esq. Tutbury, Staffordshire
Moses Cartwright, Esq., Stanton House
The Rev. Robert Duckle, Gainsborough
George Archer Belwood, Esq., Gainsborough
William Lister Sharpe, Esq., Gainsborough
Henry Smith, Esq., Gainsborough
W. H. Smith, Esq., Gainsborough
CONSULTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Cubltt, Esq. F.R.S.
ENGINEER—Joseph Cubitt, Esq.
SURVEYOR—Robert Bromley, Esq.
601=1.1'01m
St. George Smith, Esq., Derby
Messrs. G. and T. Walkden, Mansfield
LONDON AGENTS.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Promoters of the Drapers' Fire Insurance Company.
Gentlemen—l request you to allot me shares of 501. each in
the above Company. And I hereby undertake to accept such shares,
or any less number, and to pay the deposit and calls thereon, and
to sjgn the necessary legal documents when required. I am, gentle-
men, yours, &c.

Residence • • • •
Profession ••• ..
Reference.. • • •

John Scargill, Esq., Solicitor72,liatlor;Court, Threadneedle-street
Messrs. Capes and Stuart, Field-court, Gray's Inn.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.
Messrs. Dorrpgten, Hayward, Ellicombe, and Co., 16, Parliament-

street.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, and Messrs. Barnett,

Hoare end Co.
Derby—Samuel Smith, Esq., and Co. ; Messrs. Evans and Co. ;
Messrs. Crompton and Co. ; and the Derby and Derbyshire

Banking Company
Mansfield Messrs. Robinson and Broadhurst ; and the Nottingham
and Nottinghamshire Banking Company
Retford and Worksop—The Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank-
ing Company ; and Messrs. Foljambe and Co.
Gainsborough—Samuel Smith, Esq., and Co. ; and the Lincolnshire

and Lindsey Banking Company
Hull—Samuel Smith, Esq., and Co.
Nottingham—Samuel Smith, Esq., and Co. ; Messrs. Moore and Ro-
binson ; and the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
Company.

PROSPECTUS.
This Railway is intended to commence at or near to Derby, and
passing through the rich Mineral District of Kilburne, Denby, Coln• r
Park, and Pinxton, to proceed to Mansfield and East Retford, and
terminate at Gainsborough ; thus completing a direct trunk Line of
Railway across the kingdom from the Humber to the Severn, and
forming the nearest route that can be taken between the important
Ports of Gainsborough, Hull, Great-Grimsby and the Midland
Counties, Derby, the Potteries, Birmingham, Gloucester, Bristol, &c.
An Act of Parliament has just passed for the formation of the
Ballway from Gainsborough to Great Grimsby, with a Branch to
New Holland, opposite to Hull.
The proposed Railway from Derby to Gainsborough will proceed
in a direction not contemplated by any other Company, and will
neither compete with any existing projects, nor oppose them ; it
will traverse a country through which the want of railway com-
munication is seriously felt, and along which this project has been
most cordially received.
The traffic from local sources in the neighbourhood of Derby alone
will be immense. The conveyance of the mineral wealth of the ex-
tensive and flourishing Iron-works and Collieries between Derby and
Pinxton (a district which, for its productiveness, stands unrivalled
throughout the United Kingdom), and of Coals from the Portland
Colliery, will yield an amount of revenue which, could it be exactly
stated, would seem rather a gross exaggeration than a fact ; while
from Mansfield, celebrated for its first rate building stone, and tha
superior quality of its lime, and from the agricultural districts be-
tween Mansfield and Retford, and thence to Gainsborough, the traffic
in oilcake and tillage, barley, and other agricultural produce, will be
scarcely less important—insuring to the promoters of this under-
taking a highly remunerating income.
Independently, however, of these local sources of revenue, which
alone would amply justify the formation of the line, the through traffic,
consisting of the manufactures of Birmingham, the earthenware of
Staffordshire, and the varied produce of other towns in the Midlapd
and Western Counties, to the ports of Gainsborough, Hull, and
Great Grimsby, for exportation, with the return of timber, deals, and
other Baltic and foreign commodities, cannot fail to be most produc-
tive, whilst at the same time the proposed railroad offers to passengers
to Hull, &c., a saving of thirty miles of distance over the present route.
The Great-Grimsby Railway Company who have obtained their
Act for making the line from Gainsborough to Great Grimsby, have
made arrangements with the Dock Company there to form (under
the sancti an of an Act of the Legislature) but one concern, and they
intend to render Great Grimsby, by a large outlay of capital, a sea-
port of the first importance.
A general survey of the country has been already made, and no
engineering difficulties whatever present themselves. A line could
scarcely be found which would so little alter the features of the
country. It does not interfere with any ornamental grounds, or
existing navigation, and can be made at a comparatively small cost.
It gives the utmost accommodation to the collieries, ironworks, &c.,
near which It passes, and it does not cross any turnpike-road on a
level, a circumstance which is much to be desired. The gradients
on the line are exceedingly favourable, and it will pass through, and
near to, several excellent stone quarries, well adapted for bri ige
building, and the ballast throughout will be found on the line.
The greatest respect will be paid to the residence and domains of
the nobility and gentry in the neighbourhood through which the line
will run, in order to avoid their being prejudicially interfered With.
Power will be taken in the Act to allow interest at the rate of 4/.
per cent. per annum, on all deposits and calls until the opening of the
line, and the liability of the shareholders will be limited to the
amount of their subscriptions.
Application for shares, in the following form, accompanied by a
banker's or other satisfactory reference, may be addressed to the so-
licitors, or to the undermentioned share-brokers, from whom pros-
pectuses, &c., may be obtained.
Messrs. Earp and Son, Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, and Messrs. Cuff
and Fox, Derby; Mr. Charles Spencer, Mr. Samuel Collinson and
Mr. Frank Wakefield, Nottingham ; Mr. Henry Carr, Mansfield ;
Mr John M. Stark, Gainsborough; Messrs. Collinson and Flint,
Hull ; Messrs. T. M. Bardwell and Son, Sheffield ; Messrs. Hartley
and Ingham, and Messrs. Hebden and Parkinson, Leeds ; Messrs.
Cardwell and Sons, Mr. Duncuft, and Mr. A. Birchall, Manchester
Csthrearelte! CaonudpeArt,rF.dalirtygesh ;El%dlmr.unondgs,er9l%;
Mr. W. Collis, Birmingham; Mr. Wesley, Burton-on-Trent; Mr.
lEortxcimhaeirrie3s-allTeyhr,ogini,oonrtodonn-;
Messrs. Arthur and Henry Rawson, and Mr. Joseph Hall, Liverpool.

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FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SNARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Derby, Gainsborough and
Great Grimsby Junction Railway Company.
Gentlemen,--I request you will allot me Shares of 251.
each in the above Company ; and I hereby undertake to accept the
same, or any less number ti at may be allotted to me, and to pay
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scribers Agreement and Parliamentary Contract when required.
Dated this day of 1845.
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CENTENARY
OF THE ROMANTIC ADVENTURES OF
PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD,
STYLING HIMSELF PRINCE OF WALES

rw.A T the suggestion of some friends, and in order to
save himself a great deal of trouble, the undersigned proposes
to AT
by Subscription (the whole to be comprised in One
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THE GLASGOW COURANT,
(He being the Owner of the only Copy extant),

which was published in Glasgow during the eventful year com-
mencing with the 14th day of October, 1745, and concluding with
the 13th day of October, 1746, containing very curious extraordinary
and minute details of the movements of the
UNFORTUNATE PRINCE,

beginning with a Proclamation by
KING GEORGE THE SECOND,

to suppress the Rebellion, and going on to give an account of the.
political intrigues of Monsieur Seigneur de Boyer, the French Am-
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Parliament ; the humble Addresses of the Lords and Commons ; sun-
dry Songs or Poems, of which the following, being a part of
one of them, is a sample— '
A LOYAL SONG, WITH A CHORUS.
TUNE OF LILLIEBULLERO.
I.
0 Brother Sawney, hear you the news,
Twang 'em, we'll bang em, sand hang 'em up all,
An army's just 'coming without any shoes,
Twang 'em, we'll bang 'em, and hang 'em up all.
To arms, to anus,
Brave boys, to arms !
A true English cause for your courage cloth call,
Court, Country, and City,
Against a Banditti,
Twang 'em, we'll bang em, and hang 'em up all.
11.
The Pope sends us over a bonny brisk Lad,
Twang 'em, &c.
Who to court " English" favour wears a " Scotch" plaid,
Twang 'em, &c.
To arms, to arms,
Brave boys, to arms !
A true English cause, &c.
Containing, further,

A full history of the route of the Highland army at Carlisle, at Pres-
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' - SCOTCH CLERGY,
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that " he could raise no number of men, for a parcel of d—d Pres-
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surrender of that City and Castle; List of the Chevalier's Army;
Advice to the inhabitants of Yorkshire, by the Archbishop; Lord
Lovat's vacillating conduct ; Arrival of the Highland army in Glas-
gow, with the Prince at their head ; his departure from that city on
the 3d of January, 1746 ; Duke of Perth's Speech, advising the adven-
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(YESTERDAY.)

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PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
TUESDAY, AUG. 5.
The Lords' amendments Ito the following Bills were
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Eastern Counties Railway (Cambridge and Huntingdon Liael
Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway (Hastings, Rye. and
Ashford Extension).
Epping Railway (No. 2).

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Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway,—Report to
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South Eastern Railway (Branch to Deal, ani Extension
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South Eastern Railway (Branch to Deal and Extension of
the South Eastern, Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate
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Bolton and Leigh, Kenyon and Leigh Junction, North
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Eastern Counties Railway (Cambridge and Huntingdon Line)
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FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE LONDON DOCKS.—
On Tuesday afternoon, a fatal accident occurred in the London
Docks to David Laing, a labourer. He was engaged with
another winding up some goods, weighing about half a ton,
when the stock iron of the windlass suddenly broke, and the
handle ran round with fearful violence, striking the unfor.
tunate man on the head, by which his brains were dashed out.
His companion bad his arm and several ribs fractured, and was
removed to the London Hospital.

LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.
The following is the petition of Henry Bruce, pre-
se ited to the House of Commons on Monday night by
2i! r. -Llavves

The humble petition of II( Dry Bruce, of Mincing-
lane, merchant,

3boweth,—That a Bill is now pending before- your
inourable House, and stands for third reading this
ev using, intitled, " A Bill for making a R .ilway from
Lc ndon to York, with Branches therefrom, providing
for The counties of Hertford, Bedford, Huntingdon,
Nc rtharripton, Rutland, Nottingham, the three divisions
of the county of. Lincoln, a Railway Communication
with London and York, and with the Manufacturing
Di: :tricts of Yorkshire and Lancashire, to be called • The
Gr eat Northern Railway.' "
'J Nat your petitioner is interested against the said Bill,
and:':h as been an opponent thereof.
'''tat the report from the Committee (Group X) on
the said Bill was made to your Honourable House on
the .29th day of July last.
I.l7:hat the attention of your petitioner and his agents
was not called to the fictitious and irresponsible charac-
ter of a large portion of the subscribers to the said pro-
ject pd railway until the publication of the printed re-
por from the Select Committee of the House of Lords
on the subscription list of the Irish Great Western
Raii~vay (Dublin to Galway), and the recent exposure
of ictitieus snbscriptions to railway projects published
in t he Times journal of last week.
'll.at the agents of your petitioner thereupon, on
Th, trsday last, commenced an inquiry into the names,
ree,i domes, descriptions, and places of abode, and peen-
' niaiv responsibility of the parties to the said London
and! York Railway subscription contract.
I:7lat the subscription contract returned to your Ho-
nortr able House was five million pounds.
'.l7nat the capital to be raised by the said Bill is five
million four hundred thousand pounds.
mint on Thursday last your petitioner, by his agents.
employed fifteen persons to make personal inquiries con-
cerning the parties who appear on the said London and
Yorfk subscription contract. That the result of those
inq a iries has been the discovery by your _petitioner and
his I gents of upwards of half a million sterling of sub-
seri i •ers who appear on the said contract :feed by ficti-
tiout• names, description, or place of abode, or of' needy
per ions and paupers, or persons wholly unable to pay
their respective subscriptions.
'1 !oat your petitioner can prove the facts above stated,
and that the subscription contract contains not
only such fictitious names, and needy and indigent per-
sons: of inferior station in life, using fictitious dtscrip-
tioree and places of abode, and deeply engaged in bubble
conlpanies and gambling transactions, and utterly un-
abl a to pay the sums affixed to their respective names
in 1 he said list, but also numerous scandalous forgeries.
'Chat the following names of subscribers to the said
Le radon and York Railway subscription contract is, in
respect of their several names or descriptions, or places
of abode, fictitious. and false :

Subscribed
for.

Them, William Henry, gentleman, Crooms-hill, '
f 3reenwich, does not reside here, lives at
'Clanonbury-street or road £ 2,500
CI vske,Henry Matthew, gentleman, 84, Jermyn-
street
D sat. Philip Francis, gentleman, Saville-place 300
Griffith, George Darby, Major, 35, Lower
Grosvenor-street 5OO

IL'lliott, Robert Lillow, gentleman, 17, Upper -
Gloucester-street, Dorset-square
Guernsey, Charles, gentleman, 39, Thread-
)l( edle-street
Th aobald, John, gentleman, Finibury-square 25,000
Taylor,Francis Edward, ventleman, Bath 1,250
Gr brrett, Michael, gentleman, Ware, Herts lOO
Sl,„aekell. Wm., gentleman, Maidenhead, Berks 5,000
mes, William Charles, Esq., 22, Norfolk-

street
(Messrs. Ommeny and Co., at 22, Norfolk-
street, are agents to Jones.)
'Brown, Charles, gentleman, 30, New Bridge-
street, Blackfriars
(Is to be found here—is sub-editor to the St
James's Chroniek)
Durham, Edward James, gentleman, 90, Wat-
ling-street
Chalmick, Thomas; Clapham, warehouseman,
91, Watling-street
Downes, Thomas, merchant, 3, Tooley-street 2,000
Dawes, Henry, gentleman, Darlington-place,
Southwark
Hitchcock, George Charles, merchant, 52,
Broad. street 50,000
Sharman, Thomas, major in the army, 51, St
Mary-Axe
Bryant, James, gentleman. 108, Leadenhall-st. 1.000
Strange, John, gentleman. 108, Leadenhall-st. 1,000
Jarvis, Robert Arm4on, tailor, Commercial-road 1.000
Harris, Mary, widow. Tredegar-square, 80w... 1,900
Hamilton, Charles Thomas, M.D., 106, Craw.
ford-street
[ Paine. John Davis, architect, Lincoln's-inn-
fields 12,500
Dance, Townsend Charles, Esq., East-street,
Red-Lion -square 12,500
Badcock, Benjamin, dairyman, Storey's Gate 5OO
Porter, Thomas, Captain, R. N., United Service
Club lO,OOO
Meredith, Riehard, Captain, R.N., United Ser-
vice Club 2,500
Haines, William, Clerk in Customs, Treasury
Chambers

Haines, John, gentleman, Treasury Climbers 1,000
Crawford, Thomas Reynolds, chronometer-
maker, Charing Cross
Tioborts, Isabella, widow, Stewkley, Bucks 5,000
Vickers, Judith, widow, Neweaton, Warwick-
shire 5OO
Turner, Ellen Maria, widow, Bristol
Cog, Benjamin, accountant, 7, Dyer's-buildings,
Holborn
That your petitioner has already discovered that the
gross sum of has been subscribed on the
said subscription contract (a copy of which is deposited
in the Private Bill Office of your Honourable House), by
persons who, from their circumstances and station in
life, are utterly irresponsible, and unable to pay the
several sums subscribed by them ; viz.:—
Monday, Abraham, warehouseman, Elcom-ter-
race, North-road, Islington
Huston, Joseph, gentleman, Tibberton-square 5,000
Harryson, George, gentleman, Eden-grove,
Holloway 2,000
N.:Atage, George Swan, gentleman, York-road,

City-road
Baily, Samuel, gentleman, 35, Brudenell-place,
Iliaton
Hurley, George, news agent, St. Martin's-le-
Grand
Law, Edward, gentleman, Monkwell-street,
City lO,OOO
Barnes, George Thomas, gentleman, 48, Moor-
gate-street
Guernsey, Samuel, gentleman, Angel-court,
Throgmorton-street
Pitman, Robert Berks, gentleman, 5, Powis-
place, Great Ormond-street
Wynne, Thomas William, gentleman, Devon-
shire-place, Vauxhall 25,000
Tweddale, Thos., gentleman, St. Mary-square,
Kennington 12,500
Eagle, Ed ward, accountant, Surrey-grove,
Kent-road

Bryan, Henry George, Esq., 22, Clarence-place,
Camberwell
Green, Thomas, share agent, 16, Old Broad-
street
Auber, James, gentleman, Union-street, White-
chapel-road 1,750
Marillier, Frederick John, gentleman, Wal-
brook-buildings
Prosser, William, the younger, gentleman,
13, Windsor-terrace, Pimlico
Hadley, George, gentleman, Sloane-terrace,
Sloane-street
Haztewood, Rev. Frederick Fitzherbert, Rain-
ham, Sittingbourne lO,OOO
Mortimer, Roger, stock-broker, 7, Shorter's-
court 62,000
Filler, Edward, Esq., Ladbrook-place Not-
ting-hill
Turner, Benjamin Bockett, gentleman, 3, Step-

Spotter,Hawl:i n s
John,,
ney-green
Thomas,l3,
Thames-street
__ -
Thames-street 25,000
12,500
10,000
French. William, 12, Thames-street
Smith, John, merchant, 2, Adam-court, Old
Broad-street .
Baxter, Michael Robert, Solicitor, 40, Lincoln's-
Inn-fields 7,500
Fenn, George. 1, Staples-inn 10,009
West, Ja Les, 5, Bedford-street, Bedford-row 6,500
That your petitioner, by his agents, is still further
pursuing his inquiry into the bona fides and responsi-
bility cif the said subscription list, and that your peti-
tioner does not doubt that he shall discover numerous
other instances of similar fraud, besides those herein
specifically alleged.
That your petitioner is willing and ready forthwith to
bring forward and produce to your Honourable Rouse
unquestionable evidence in support of the allegations of
this petition.
Your petitioner, therefore, humbly prays, that the said
Bill may not pass your Honourable House until your
petitioner is afforded an opportunity of proving the alle-
gations of his said petition before a Select Committee oh
your Honourable House.
And your petitioner will ever pray, &c.
4th August, 1845. HENRY BRUCE.

In reference to this petition, the following letter ap-
peared in the Morning Herald of yesterday :
" find from the Parliamentary Papers delivered
this morning, that a petition was last night presented to
the house of Commons, from a Mr. Henry Bruce, on
the subject of the London and York Railway. To my
astonishment and indignation, I perceive that the peti-
tioner has included me in a list of subscribers to, the London

" I aa, Sir, your obedient sevant,
" CHARLES BROWN.
" New Bridge-street, London. Aug. 5."

•
CHELMSFORD AND BURY
RAILWAY.
Elsewhere we have given a notice—Aecessarily brief
from the pressure of so many meetings—of the opening
of the Railways to Ely and Norwich. 3A-ost sincerely
3.) we congrztuiate the Proprietors of the Eastern
Counties' Company and of the united Norfolle.Company
on this consummation of a great. undertak.Ag. We
trust and believe that it will add materially to tio pres-
pt•riby of the Eastern Counties' Shareholderst and
render auspicious to both parties the amalgamator= so
happily eff-eted between the Companies whose ,lines
meet. at Norwich.

It will be seen that great praise was awarded to t:le
contractors for the energy and liberality which they
have displayed during the progress ,Of the works..
Never was praise better deserved. Messrs. ,Grissell andl
Peto, and Mr. Jackson, who was associated with them
in the undertaking, have most admirably fulfilled their
part, and one Cannot, in simple justice, but echo the
mmasenclation which, on Tuesday, was so amply be-
stowed, and which, coming as it did from quarters so
highly influential, must have been as gratifying to those
who received, it as it was honourable to those who be-
stowed it.

With respect to the general question of railway com--
munication for the East Anglian districts, the route to
Norwich. via Cambridge and Ely, is circuitous undoubt-
edly—not less than 1251 miles ; and it is not to be sup-
posed that the traffic between the metropolis and such
an important place as Norwich—to say nothing of its
almost equally important sister
.town, Yarmonth—will
continue to take that course a moment after a more
direct line of communication is opened. The distance
by the }listen Counties' line to Colchester, and thence
by the Eastern Union and Eastern Union Extension 0
Norwich, will be only 113 miles, and by the Chelms-
ford and Bury, when extended to Thetford. only 110,1.
With respect to this last line, by the way, we are
glad to perceive en advertisement of " the Extension to
Thetford," which appears in our advertising columns
(for which extension an additional capital of 250,0002
i required) that "by a special arrangement with the
solicitor of the Eastern Counties' Railway, they (the
Provisional Committee of the Chelmford and Bury) are as-
sured of the concurrence of the good offices of that im-
pel tont Company in the formation of their line." There
is more good sense and sound discretion in this determi-
nation than we have been accustomed to observe in the
proceedings of the Eastern Counties' officials. It ought
clearly to be the policy of the managers of a great trunk
line liko the Eastern Counties to give every possible en-
couragement to feeders from all quarters, whether pro-
moted by parties in or out of " the House ;" for how-
ever independent in respect of management such feeders
may be at first, they are sure to be absorbed and amal-
gamated at last. And, least of all, should they be with-
held from giving such encouragement from any narrow
calculation of the gain to be made by compelling the pub-
lie to travel some dozen or half-dozen miles more by rail'
than there is any occasion for. They may rest perfectly
assured that the best line for the public will always, in
the long run, be the best also for railway proprietors.
We have always thought well of the Chelmsford and
Bury branch, and have reason to know that it is thought
equally well of by the members of the Legislature most
conversant with the traffic wants of the East Anglian
districts. The members of the Committee of the House
of Commons, to whom the Norwich Direct, and Bury
and Cambridge lines were referred, took occasion re-
peatedly to advert to the Chelmsford and Bury line
(though it was not formally before them), as being one
which was indispensable to the welfare of the commer-
cial and agricultural interests of Suffolk and Norfolk ;
and when giving the decision against the Norwich Di-
rect, Lord Bandon, the chairman, emphatically observed,
" The Committee was decidedly in favour of the Chelms-
ford and Bury scheme."—Railway Record.

LORD • MELBOURNE'S OPINION

OF SIR R. PEEL'S MINISTRY.

At the annual meeting of the Fishmongers' Company,
Lord Melbourne was presented with the freedom of the
Company, and was afterwards present at the dinner.
His health having been proposed by the Prime Warden,
and drunk with great applause—
Lord MELBOURNE rose and said—Mr. Prime Warden
and gentlemen, before I thank this Company for the
great honour which they have done me, I must express
my regret and concern that the infirm state of my health
has compelled me so ofien to decline the invitations with
which I have been honoured, and to put off for so long a
time the reception of the honour which I have at length
received this Morning, and which I highly value and
esteem.—(Hear, hear.) I assure you, gentlemen, that I
consider it a very high distinction to be enrolled among
the members of a Corporation so ancient and respectable,
and which has always been distinguished by its steady
adherence to the enlightened and constitutional
principles of civil and religious l►berty.—(Hear,
hear.) In proposing my health, the Prime Warden
has adverted, in terms highly flattering and compli-
mentary, and very gratifying to my feelings, to the Ad-
ministration of which I was the leadmg Member.—
(Hear.) That Administration is now defunct. We are
gone, as Members of and as a Government. But pars
melior nostrum is still adkne viva et superstes ; the cor-
poreal frame may be said to have expired, and to be con-
signed to the tomb, but the immortal spirit, the ignea
vis animi, is still alive, and not only alive, hut active and
efficient.—(Loud cheers.) Our principles and opinions,
our views of public affair s, still survive us.—(Renewed
cheers.) They have been adopted and acted upon by
those who replaced us, and they have been productive,
during the session of Parliament that is just about to
terminate, of more than one wise and beneficial measure
of measures which I believe to be fit and essential, to be
founded upon sound principle, based upon good example,
and which, I have the greatest hopes, will confer lasting
benefit upon the part of the empire to which they espe-
cially apply, and upon the community at large. At
the same time we all well know that these very mea-
sures have been productive, in one House of Parliament,
of much difference of opinion—that they have been the
cause of much bitter feeling, not to say malignant in-
vective, being levelled against the Right Hon. Baronet at
the head of her Majesty's Government, upon the notion
of some supposed inconsistency of these measures with
his former opinions and conduct.—(Hear, hear.) Placed
as I have been by circumstances in the position of an
antagonist and competitor to that Right Honourable
Baronet, it is natural that I should look into and ex-
amine his conduct, not with hostile jealousy or any
hostile feeling, but with care and anxiety.—•(Hear,
hear.) It is natural that I should be anxious to
learn what his conduct has been, what have
been his measures, what have been the prin-
ciples upon which they have been founded, and
what the language in which he has urged and en-
forced those principles.—(Hear, hear.) I have made
such inquiry and examination, and I think myself bound
to state, as the result of it, that I know of nothing in the
antecedent conduct of the Right Hon. Baronet which
should, in point of consistency, preclude him from bring-
ing forward either the measures which he has brought
forward, or any other measures in the same direction
which he may ...onvince his understanding or persuade
his conscience would be both expedient and conduce
to the benefit and advantage of his country.—(Loud
cheers.) Thus nnich I have thought it my duty to
say. I had intended to have said it in Parliament,
but I have never been able t 3 find an opportunity of
doing so. But, indeed, when I look at the assembly which
I have the honour of addressing, and consider how it is
composed, I do not think I am likely to find a better
opportunity of snaking this declaration than that which
is now presented to me.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I thank
you again for the honour which you have conferred upon
me. I wish von success in all your undertakings. I
know you will.undertake nothing which, while it is for
your own benefit, is not- also for the advantage of your
country ; and wishing you collectively and individually
happiness, prosperity, peace, and every earthly blessing,
I respectfully take my leave. (The noble Lord sat
down amid loud cheers.)

HERRING FISHING. I"

BERWICK, Aun. I.—The take this week has been but
very indifferent. On Saturday morning the success was
very encouraging. The highest boat 20, and all had a
few crans ; but, since, the highest take has been 12
crans, and on some nights a number of the boats did not
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part of the season a greater quantity has been taken
than we remember of. We wonder very much that none
of our Berwick boats have gone to the shoal at Dunbar,
the wind being so favourable for them. Prices this week
are rather higher to the cadgers,
.and on some mornings
as high as 20s. have been given fur it cran. We see a
vast number of French and Yarmouth luggers passing to
the north in quest of herrings.
ETEMOLJTH.—Tusday morning we had from I to 30
crans per boat. Price 14s. per cran. Wednesday most
ofr thes ;
abofa4s,
hrae tiu2r,n3e
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e;
rtahnes.highest
Thursdayt
a k ess'as a five
anc
ge-
neral fishing, from 3 to 10 crans per host,price Iss
The Norfunc Hero sailed on Tuesday, and the Willian;
and Ann sailed to-day (Thursday) for Yarmouth. with
full cargoes. Three more Yarmouth lu •
ggers and two
other vessels are waiting on cargoes. None of our boats
are engaged this season—they are all open to the best
market which offers. We have upwards of 40 boats out
here this year, besides a large number from adjacent
places. From 60 to 80 boats are here every morning.
Since the new quay was built, and the harbour deepened
and enlarged, we have great accommodation both for
boats, vessels, and curers. Our curers are all well sup-
plied with stock this season.
DuNnau.—The fishing fur this week is excellent, and
the fish of first-rate quality. There are now upwards of
150 boats in our harbour, and several French vessels.
Home curers are purchasing largely at from Ss. to 9s.
per cran. To-night (Thursday), there are upwards of
200 heath at sea, lying off between this and Cove.
isTonTit SUNDERLAND.—Our fishing on Saturday
morning last week offered well for the beginning, there
being takes of ten, fifteen, and twenty crans ; but, on
Tuesday and Wednesday mornings this week it has fallen
greatly off. highest boat five crans. Price 15s. per
cran.—Berwick Advertiser.