The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORINING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1845.

YNN, WISBEACH, PETERBOROUGH,
"'LAND '1 • and JUNCTIO:..c
RAILWAY COMPA N X

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 325,0001., in 15,000 Shares of 201. each,
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. Lord.-6;Or"g7Y;gW,liieCiC;i of the Rugby, Derby,

and Manchester Railway Company
The Hon. W. M. Dawson, Director of the Dublin, Tullamore and

Parsonstown Railway
The llon. Edward Stafford Jerningham, Tonbridge Castle, Ton-

bridge
Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P., Cadogan-place, Belgrave-square
Frederick Seymour, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton
Hugh Seymour, Esq., 5, Carlton-terrace
Henry Erskine, Esq., 95, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and Kirby

Dixie, Yorkshire -
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick
R. H. Fowler, Esq., Manchester• square, Chairman of the Galway

and Ennis lails;ay, &c., &c., &c.
James Gernon, Esq.. 13, Conduit-street, Bond-street. Deputy Chair-
man of the Galway and Ennis Railway Company
John George Norbury, Esq., 3, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, and
of Mancester House, Atherstone, Director of the Boston, Stam-
ford, and Birmingham, and other Railway Companies
William Horatio Harrison, Esq , Sunbury, Director of the South

Staffordshire Railway
R. H. Bigge, Esq., Bryanstone-square
Major Lindam, K.H., 8, New-street, Dorset-Square, Chairman of the
Tring, Reading and Basingstoke Railway
Alexander Prince, Esq., 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields; Director of the
Tring, Reading and Basingstoke Railway
Thomas George Smith, Esq., Doughty-street, Ifecklenburgh-square ;
Director of the Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railway
William Holt, Esq., Inner Temple, and the Elms, Watford, Herta
A. A. Fry, Esq., Temple, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
&fester Railway
K. Lewis. Esq., Stratford-place, and Worcester Park, Surrey
George Thomas Smith, Esq., Oakham, Rutlandshire
J. F. Raworth, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Leicester and Bir-
mingham Direct Railway Company
Samuel Wells, Esq., Fire Office, Ely, Registrar of the Corporation of
Bedford Level, and Clerk to the Commissioners of the river Nene
(With power to add to their number.)
The object of this Company is to form a communication between
tits extensive ports of Lynn and Wisbeach, and the manufacturing
Midland counties of 'England, by means of a direct railway from
Lynn, through Wisbeach to Peterborough, completing the line from
the Eastern coast of England to Northampton, and Lincoln and Bir-
mingham. The inhabitants of Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough
will then enjoy the advantage of a cheap and direct intercommuni-
cation between their respective towns, while the important com-
mercial interests connected with the manufacturing and export
trades between the Midland Counties and the eastern parts of the
coast, will have very valuable additional facilities afforded them.
This line will not interfere with either of the proposed lines to
Wisbeach, as those lines will proceed towards London, through
Huntingdon, St. Ives, and Ely ; while this line is intended to
afford the means of direct communication with all the manufacturing
and midland districts.
It has also this pre-eminent advantage, that it runs through what
may be justly termed, the Belgic portion of England, upon the banks
of the river Nene, on a dead level.
The ports of Lynn and Wisbeach export more corn from the corn-
growing districts in the fens, than any two ports in the three
kingdoms ; while the imports of coal, timber, stone, and merchandise
of every description, into the inland and midland districts, mast
prove a source of great profit to the proposed line.
A detailed prospectus, with a further list of the Provisional Com-
mittee, will be published in the course of a few days ; in the interim,
applications for shares may be addressed to William Andrews, Esq.,
at the offices of the Company, 41, Moorgate-street ; or to Thomas
George Smith, Esq., 2, Warnford-court, Throgmorton-street, London
41, Moorgate-street, Sept., 17, 1845.

WELSH SOUTH MIDLAND, or CHEP-
STOW, FOREST OF DEAN, AND GLOUCESTER
JUNCTION EXTENSION RAILWAY.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital 900,000/., in 45,000 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
No Sharehokler to be liable beyond the amount of his Share.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE,

The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore '
The Right Hon. Col. Dawson
Danner, M.P.
The Hon. C. Pelham Villiers, M.P.I
_ _ _

William Hughes Hughes, Alder•
man of London
Col. Hugh Caldwell
George Lawton, Esq.

W. I'. Andrew, Esq.
C. R. Coleman, Esq.
Joseph Davies, Esq.
John Wheelton, Esq.
George Hall, Esq.
Major White
Captain J. P. Macdougal
William Shelford Fitzwilliam, Esq
William Frederick Beadon, Esq.
Hartley Kennedy, Esq.
James Beech, Esq.

The Hon. Robert Gore, M.P.
The Hon. Col. Westenra, M.P.
Sir Henry Hunleke, Bart.
Sir Henry Webb, Bart.
Sir William Twysden, Bart.
Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart.
Sir Henry Seale, Bart
William Collins, Esq., M.P.
Thomas Gill, Esq., M.P.
Edmund Dayrell, Esq., High
Sheriff of Buckinghamshire.
William Strahan, Esq.
(With power to add to their number.)
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Edward Francis Dayrell, Esq., Major White
Chairman W. P. Andrew, E.
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart.
Sir William Twysden, Bart.
Edward Hall, Esq.

C. It. Coleman, Esq.
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq.
W. F. Beadon, Esq.
ENGINEER.
William Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S.
LONDON BANKERS.
Messrs. Glynn and Co. ; and-Messrs. Stratum, Paul, and Co., Strand

PROVINCIAL BANKERS.
Messrs. Bromage and Co„ Chepstow
Messrs. Bailey, Greatrex, and Co., Monmouth
Messrs. Williams and Sons, Newport
The West of England Banking Company and Branches
The Monmouth and Glamorgan Banking Company and Branches
The National Provincial Banking Company and Branches
The Gloucestershire Banking Company and Branches
The County of Gloucester Banking Company and Branches.

SOLICITORS.
Mr. W. T. H. Phelps, Newport. Monmouthshire
Messrs. A'Beckett, Son, and Sympson, Y, Golden-square, London

LOCAL AGENTS.
ChepstowMessrs. Baldwin and Morgan, Solicitors
Gloucester—Messrs. Ellis, Elliott, and Co., Solicitors
SECRETAR.T.
Mr, William Prothero, 10, Old Jewry Chambers, London.

This Line will join the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester
Junction Railway at Chepstow, and extend westward near to
Piercifield, the far-famed Windeliff, and Tintern Abbey, to the towns
of Usk and Pontypool, and over the centre of the great iron and cal
Iconnectsh
more llerthand rreeTtyadnvdil Cardiff—thusEalmostbestrradiagrhetwLiitnhe—by
means o
of
the railways already made and projected between those immensely
populous districts, and the centre of the kingdom and London, by
means of which the journey by land will be shortened between the
metropolis and this great seat of industry to four sad a half, and
between Newport and Cardiff to five hours, which at present, even by
the aid of existing railways, cannot be performed in less than ft ow
ten to twelve hours.
It will he found by reference to the official census of 1831 and
1841, that the average increase of population of the county of Mon-
mouth exceeded that of any other county in England or Wales ; this
fact is referred to as illustrative of the rising importance of the
country through which this railway is intended to pass, and of
the very large passenger traffic which may reasonably be calculated
upon.
The town of Usk, with Ragland, and the rich agricultural district
for many miles around, are supplied by carts from the vicinity of
Pontypool with coal and lime, which are there obtained at a cheap
rate, and inretum cattle and provisions of all kinds, hay, corn, and
pit timber to an enormous extent, are sent to the iron works and
collieries, where the consumption is immense. This traffic alone
must necessarily ensure a considerable revenue to the Company, in-
dependent of the great traffic from the manufactured iron, fire
bricks, and paving stone, which Is of snperior quality, and in great
abundance. The present cost of conveying and delivering iron and
tin plates from the works to London, including transit to the port,
shipping charges, freight, and insurance, amounts to little less than
20s. per ton, whilst by this railway, and those it is intended to join,
the average cost at the rate usually charged for such goods on rail-
ways will effect a saving of at least 25 per cent., and be conveyed
within twenty-four hours, instead of the average voyage round the
Land's End of three, and not unfrequently six weeks, and with the
very important.advantage of delivering the iron free from rust,
which is unavoidable on a sea voyage, in small bars more particu-
larly, causing a deterioration of from 15s. to 20s. per ton at least.
This railway, by means of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and
Gloucester Junction, and the Birmingham and Gloucester Railways,
will open Birmingham as a market for the manufactured iron of
South Wales, from which it has been in a measure excluded, from
the difficult and expensive transit by the River Severn and Canals.
Large quantities of iron ore, known as " Hmmatete ore." is imported
into Wales, from Lancashire, Cumberland, Devon, and Cornwall; whilst
ore of a similar quality, and equal productiveness for iron making,
exists in abundance in the Forest of Dean, and may be raised and
delivered from thence by means of this and the Chepstow, Forest of
Dean, and
Gloucester Junction Railway to the different iron works
in Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire at an average of from 25 to 30
per cent. less than it costs at present, and at the same time leave a
handsome remuneration to the Railway Companies.
The Committee of Management have gone very carefully into
estimates of the goods traffic especially, and they feel justified in
expressing a
decided opinion that the revenue from this source alone
will yield 5 per cent. on the proposed capital of the Company, in
addition to the revenue to be derived from the other traffic.
This Railway will pass close to, and within a few miles of, all the
iron and tin works of Monmouthshire, and the principal part of
those in Glamorganshire ; and the following short statistic of the
extent of those stupendous undertakings will give an idea of the vast
importance of the present project. The iron and tin works com-
mence at Pontypool, and are-
1. The Pontymoile Tin and Iron Works of Capel Hanbury Leigh,

Esq.
2. The Blaendare Iron and Coal Works of R. J. Blewitt, Esq

M.P.
3. The extensive Tin Works of Messrs. Conway, Messrs. Pother•
gill, and Messrs. Jenkins
4. The Pentwyn, Golonos, and Varteg Iron Works and Rolling
Mills of Messrs. Williams
5. The British Iron Company
6. The Blaenavon Iron Company
7. The Nantylylo, Messrs. Bally, Brothers
8. The Coalbrooke Vale, Messrs. Brewer
9. The Cwn Celya and Bleina Company •
to. The Beaufort, Messrs. Bally, Brothers
11. The Ebbw Vale, Messrs. Darby
12. The Victoria Company
13. The Abbercarne, Pontymister, and Tydee Tin Works, Messrs,
Lewis
14. The Tredegar Iron Company
15. The Shirhowey, Messrs. Darby
16. The Rhymney and Bute Company
17. The Dowlais Iron Works, Sir John Guest, Bart., M.P., and
Company
18. Carfartha. Wm. Crawshay, Esq.
And added to which, in the vicinity, are the extensive works and
collieries in the Aberdare Valley.
And on either side of the intended railway are collieries raising
and vending about one million and a half tons of coal per anum,
which it is not unreasonable to expect will be greatly extended, by
the facilities offered through the intended railway.
In the districts of Merthyr, Aberdare, and westward, there exists
an inexhaustible abundauce of a peculiar description of coal, which,
though inflammable, is nearly smokeless, and is found to be superior
in quality for steam purposes to any yet known. In the London
market it meets with a ready sale at 30 per cent. higher than any of
the best north country Hartley's ' • and notwithstanding the high
price, so highly is it esteemed, that the present importation amounts
to nearly 100,000 tons per annum. This coal for the most part is
brought from a distance of 24 miles, and shipped at Cardiff, from
whence freights to London have averaged from 10s. to lls. per ton
during the past year; but so uncertain is the supply to the metropo-
lis, owing to the scarcity of ships on the Welsh coast, and the long
and precarious navigation round the Land's End, that many who are
anxious to adopt their engine grates for its use, are deterred from
the too great uncertainty which exists against obtaining a regular
and constant supply ; these difficulties will be entirely superseded by
the proposed railway, and those it is intended to join, with the great
additional advantage and impetus to increased use and consumption,
that it may be delivered to the consumer at from 2s. to 3s. per ton
less price than at present. Under such circumstances, it will not
appear unreasonable to those unacquainted with the trade, to expect
that the consumption in the metropolis alone will be increased four-
fold, whilst a new-found trade will be opened out with Chepstow,
Gloucester, Cheltenham, Witney, Oxford, and the numerous inter-
mediate towns to London, where steam coal is used.
It has been considered more judicious to form a separate Company
for the Extension line from Chepstow to the Taff Vale, than to alter
the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway
Company at present, but powers are proposed to be taken for uniting
the two Companies hereafter, with the assent of their respective
Boards of Direction.
Preference will be given to those locally interested, and to the
holders of Shares in the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester
Junction Railway.
A reference to the map will show the importance of this line as
forming a direct line of railway communication between the great
mineral district of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, with the
heart of the Kingdom and London.
It may confidently be stated that in connexion with the Chep-
stow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway, there is
not a line of railroad in the Kingdom which offers greater advan-
tages to the Shareholders than the present. Provision will be made
in the Act of Parliament which will be applied for in the next ses-
sion to limit the liability of the Shareholder to the amount of his
shares , and to allow four per cent. on the calls.
Until an Act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of this
Company shall be under the control of the Managing Directors, to
whom power is given to allot the Shares, and to apply the funds of
the Company in payment of all the expenses incurred in its forma-
tion, and in the preparation of the Plans and Sections submitted to
Parliament.
rower will be applied for in the Act (and in the meantime is
hereby given to the Managing Directors as above), to raise any addi-
tional capital, to extend or abandon any branch of the line, to make
branch lines, or ente into any arrangements, by amalgamation or
otherwise, with any other company or companies, and also to nomi-
nate the first Directors of the Company.
Applications for Shares, in the form annexed, to be made to the
Solicitors, or to Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle Street,
and Messrs. Backhouse and Co., No. 4, Angel Court, Throgmorton
Street, London ;—Messrs. Hal, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ;
Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; —Mr. Thomas Evans, Bath;—
Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester ;—Messrs. H. Davies
and Co., Dale Street, Liverpool ;—Messrs. Chantrell and Boys, Leeds ;
—Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull ;—and Messrs. Labertouche and
Stafford, Dublin.
Forest of Dean, and Glouces-
To the Provisional Committee of the Welsh South Midland or Chep-
stow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway Extension.
shares of 201. each, in
t h
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ter Junction Extension Railway; and I do hereby undertake to ac-
ger tin Awe, or any loot &lumber yal way allot inol to pay the

deposit of 2/. 2s. per share, and all future calls thereon, and to sign
the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when re..

Dated this day of 1845.
Name in full..
Residence ... • ..... ......, ........
Business or Profession • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Name, Residence, and Profession of Referee •
Usual Signature of Applicant .. .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • " •

►rHE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT
JIL RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, WANTAGE, HUNGERFORD,
and LUDGERSHALL„

_
(Provisionally registered.)
Capitall,2oo,oool., in 48,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit 2/. 15s. per Share.
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
The importance of connecting remote parts of E,.gland by Rail-
ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns
and districts, can scarcely be better exemplified than by the Line
which is bow proppsed to form a short and direct channel of inter-
course between Oxford and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines
now before the public will make Oxford at the north, and Salisbury
at the south of the intended Railroad the central points from which
various radii will diverge to the northwest, north, and north-east of
the former, and to the east, south, and west of the latter; and the
proposed Line from Cambridge to Oxford, continuing to that city the
co.;rse of Railway from the north-eastern parts of the island, requires
the appliance now suggested to effect a complete means of transit to
the western and south-western counties.

The Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway, in addition to
the benefits which will be conferred upon the nation at
large, by preferring a direct line of commun!cation be-
tween the north-eastern and western and south-western
parts of England, will afford to the borouch of Abingdon,
the market towns of Vantage, Hungerfora, and Ludgershall, and
the adjacent villages, an important railway accommodation, of which
the agricultural districts in which they are seated stand in much
need, and will provide a facility for the interchange of produce be-
tween the rural, manufacturing, and commercial population of the
kingdom.

The want of railway accommodation has long been felt to press
unfairly upon the inhabitants of the important and thriving town of
Abingdon. Their means and opportunities of competing with the more
fortunate traders of those towns which are already provided with di-
rect channels of transit, are thus severely crippled. The same remark
applies in some degree to the market town of Vantage, which, as
well as Hungerford and Ludgershall, claims a share of the profits
and advantages produced by railway traffic.
It has therefore been determined to commence the proposed line at
Oxford, and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great
Western Railway at Steventon, thus giving to Abingd n a direct rail-
road to London. By continuing the projected railway to Wantage, the
same facility of transit to London will be afforded to that place ; and
a perfect line of road from the north-eastern counties will, by a junc-
tion with the projection from Cambridge to Oxford, be produced,
through the towns which have been named, Hungerford and Ludgers-
hall to Salisbury, and thence to tke south and western ports and dis-
tricts.

A map of the line, and a statistical report of the whole country
intended to be traversed, Is in course of preparation, and with the
names of an influential provisional Committee, will very shortly
be published. In the meantime, further information may be ob-
tained from Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street,
London, solicitors to the undertaking, to whom, at present, applica-
tion for shares may be made.

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AREVIEW of BAPTIST W. NOEL'S
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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public at largo, are re-
ipeetfully informed that this Establishment WILL OPEN for the
SEASOM, on SATURDAY NEXT, SEPTEMBER 27th, 1845, on
which occasion will be THE
THE E rmNCHANTRESS.

Ramir, Mr. Borrani ; Nuguez, Mr. H. Horiicastle; Duke d'Aquila,
Mr. Weiss ; Don Sylvio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Doctor Mathanasius,
Mr. Halley ; Stella, Miss Romer.
After the Opera, will be produced a New Grand Ballet Fantastique,
entitled THE MARBLE MAIDEN. Duke Laurent de Medicis, M.
Pichler; Prince Cosmo de Medicii, M. Petipa; Massachio, H, Albert ;
Ascetic., Mdlle. Louise ; Princess Beatrice, Mdlle. Adele; the Statue
o 4 Hebe, Mdlle. Adele Dumilatre.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated the celebrated Comedy of KING O'NEIL ; or, The
Irish Brigade. Louis the XV., Mr. Howe ; Duke de Richelieu, Mr.
H. Holl ; Captain O'Neil, Mr. Hudson; General Count Dillon, Mr.
Stuart; Countess Dillon, Mrs. W. Clifford: Marehioness de Cler-
mont, Miss Julia Bennett; Duchess de Malay, Miss Telbin.
After which, will be produced a New Comic Drama, entitled A
CABINET QUESTION. Sir Beaumont Cressy, Mr. Brindal ;
Lionel, Mr. Howe; Rosewood, Mr. Tilbury; Tom, Mr. Buckstane ;
Miss Mortimer, Miss Telbin ; Lucy, Miss Julia Bennett.
To he followed by a New and Original Comic Drama, entitled THE
FALSE MR. POPE. Lacey, Mr. Hudson; Captain Breval, Mr.
Howe; Mr. Peter Redwing, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Breval, Miss P.
Horton ; Miss Jenny Gillett, Miss Julia Bennett; Mrs. Lacey, Mrs.
Edwin Yarnold.
To conclude with HIS LAST LEGS. O'Callaghan, Mr. Hudson;
Rivers, Mr. Tilbury ; Charles Rivers, Mr. H. Holl ; Mrs. Montague,
Mrs. W. Clifford.
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Halt each,
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office
from Ten till Five o'clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CEL2IB3 E
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled CLARISSE ; or, The
Merchant's Daughter. Martial. Mr. Webster; John Cabot, Mr.
Munyard ; Barbillon, Mr. Wright ; Galon, Mr. Paul Bedford;
Clarisse, Madame Celeste ; Milanie, Miss Woolgar.
After which, will be repeated, THE B )1( KING; or, Petite
Peccadillos. Louis XV., Madame Celeste; Do Lauzum, Miss Wool-
gar. In the course of the piece, Grand Review of the Infantini
Infantry.
To be followed by a farce. in One Act, called MRS. CAUDLE
ABROAD AND AT HOME. Mr. Candle, Mr. Wilkinson; Mrs.
Candle, Mr. Wright.
Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the
Band, Mr. Mellon.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY.
Immense Attraction of " Open Sesame ; or, a Night with the Forty
Thieves"—Great Success of " Peter Jenkins."
THIS EVENING
Will be performed a New and Original Comedietta, entitled PETER
JENKINS ; or, Fibbing for a Friend. Principal Characters by
Messrs. Keeley, A. Wigan, Turner, Meadows; Mrs. Keeley and Miss
Dawson.
To be followed by a New and Original Comedy, to be called THE
GOVERNOR'S WIFE, with entirely New Scenery, Dresses, and
Appurtenances. Principal Characters by Messrs. Diddear, Keeley.
F. Mathews, F. Vining, and Collier, Miss Dawson. and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with OPEN SESAME ; or, A Night with the Forty
Thieves. Characters by Messrs. Wigan, F. Mathews, Turner, Yar-
nold, and Keeley ;
Miss Grove, Mrs. Wigan, Miss Turner, Miss Hicks, Miss Howard,
and Mrs. Keeley, Miss Hodson, Mrs. NVoollidge, Miss Fairbrother,
The Box-office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan
from Ten till Four.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
PROPRIETOR AND MANAGER, MR. W. BATTY.
Approbation ! approbation! approbation I nightly bestows its gra-
tifying meed upon the present novel Egyptian Hypodramatic pro-
duction. Fourth Week of the gorgeous, classic, equestrian, dramatic
spectacle of THE BRIDE OF THE NILE, and The Lily of Memphis
and The Horse of the Pyramids, with new startling effects ;
twenty Tableaux, in which Egyptian Games and Chariot Races are
introduced.
New and varied Scenes of Equitation, introducing the combined
talents of the French Artistes.
The Entertainments each evening will conclude with an entire new
Afterpiece, entitled JONATHAN ; or, the Man of Two Masters.
Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Equestrian Tuition given
as usual. Acting Manager and Stage Director, I►ir. T. Thompson.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed Shakspeare's Tragedy of MACBETH, with
Locke's Original Music. Macbeth, Mr. H. Hughes; Macduff, Mr.
N. T. Hicks; Banquo, Mr. Fredericks; Duncan, Mr. Heslop ; Lady
Macbeth, Mrs. H. Vining; Hecate, Mr. Leffler.
To be followed by LES PETITES DANSEUSES ANGLAISES
(under the direction of Mr. Frampton) in their celebrated " Pas de
Fieurs," and " Pas des Moissoneurs ;" in the course of which, a " Pas
deSinq," and a " Pas de Fantastique."
To conclude with a new Nautical Drama, entitled lOM STAR-
BOARD ; or, Nancy, the Seaman's Pride. Supported by th' entire
strength of the Company.
Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Bea-
alike, from Eleven to Your.

LAST WEEK BUT ONE.
FIFTH WEEK OF THE COMET.
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and THURSDAYS,
Will be presented a Magnificent
MODELLED REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH,
The Unequalled Menagerie—Giraffe and Chimpanzee.
THE MAGNIFICENC MODEL OF VENICE,
THE PROMENADE CONCERTS,
By the unrivalled Band of the Establishment, conducted by Mr. Godfrey.
At Dusk will take place the most extraordinary
EXHIBITION OF FIREWORKS EVER ATTEMPTED,
Introducing a Representation of the COMET, which takes its AErial
Flight from the extreme height of the Gigantic Model;
And, as a
AQUA Finale,
TIC GrandTABLE, RoyAU al, and Patriotic
,
Fifty-two feet in height, will be exhibited in the Centre of the Lake ;
The PORTRAITS of HER MAJESTY and PRINCE ALBERT,
Surmounted by Fame, and surrounded by Emblems and
Other Devices will be introduced.
This, combined with the Feux D'Artiflce, the Salute and Discharge of
Rockets from the Castle and surrounding Heights will form the most
BRILLIANT PYROTECHNIC DISPLAY EVER WITNESSED.
Admission, One Shilling.
Pelicans, &c., at
Feg the Carßivora Half-past Four ;
Conceedinrt at Hal past Fivat e ; and Pyrotechnic Display at Eight. Five

by the whole of the Liberal party of all shades of
politics, and supported, too, by net a few of
his own adherents. Possibly he thought the Alaynooth
question, the Irish Colleges Bill, and the new tariff quite
enough, for one session, and did not wish to presume too
much on the pliancy of the agricultural repre-
sentatives. Possibly, also, he saw that the tide
was turning, that the landlords, who complained
of low prices for wheat, and every' other species of grain,
were beginning to open their eyes to the folly and wicked-
ness of monopoly, and that, in a very brief period, they
would be 'more willingly led into the right path. We are,
therefore, not disposed to pass strictures on his dilatory
conduct, partly because he had a very obstinate class to deal
with, and partly because he had fairly begun the free trade
system, by reducing the duties on many necessaries of life,
and thereby could exhibit to them facts which no reasoning,
no bigotry, no blindness, in short, could gainsay. Some of
these facts are already admitted by the monopolists, and they
gaze at them as at the works of an enchanter. While
the sliding scale has been preserved in all its integrity, while
American flour and Odessa wheat are all but prohibited by
its absurd regulations, while the landlords have been relieved
of many taxes, and the agricultural farmers have no reason
to complain that they are more burdened by the income-tax
than others, are they in a prosperous condition? Has the
sliding scale benefited them? Are they not, on the con-
trary, convinced that it has done them incalculable mischief,
that it has prevented leases—that it has not raised the price
of grain, or, if raised it at all, only fur the
benefit of corn-dealers and corn-speculators, and that there
can be no security for them till the whole question is
thoroughly investigated, and such a settlement adopted as
shall prevent all further legislation on the subject. Even these
facts, conclusive as they are, give only one view of the case.
When the impost on foreign cattle was reduced, a
universal terror'seized the graziers ; the apostate PEEL had
ruined them ; the country would be inundated with oxen, and
sheep, and calves, from Belgium, and Holland,
_and Pruhsia,
and even Spain ; butchers' meat would be sold at half the
usual price, and agricultural shows—even the Great Smith-
field Cattle Show—would soon be numbered among
the things that were. What has been the result ?
Though foreign cattle have been imported to
an extent hitherto unknown, though some fifteen
thousand head of cattle, independent of sheep and other
animals for consumption, have been imported within the
year from only one country, the price of butchers' meat has
been rising, and is now too high fur the use of all that portion
of the working classes who are not in full and good employment.
Corn has fallen with a high duty, and cattle have risen with
a low duty—a 'duty, in fact, so small, that it can hardly be
taken into account when calculating the value of a pound
weight. Cannot the farmers, or rather the selfish land-
owners, see the real cause? It is nothing else than the pros-
perity of the manufacturing districts, the best market, after
all, for our agricultural produce. Little more bread is
used now than when times were worse, because
without bread or potatoes, the prices of which
mutually affect each other, the very lowest population could
not subsist ; but when trade revives, when the British manu-
facturers can compete with foreigners, nay, undersell them,
the wages of the labourer are raised, and he is enabled to pur-
chase animal food, from which in poverty he is totally de-
barred. This is the real secret of the high price of butchers' meat,
and it is, therefore, needless to attribute it to deficiency of
fodder, or to any other cause. It rises because there is a
demand for it, and that demand is caused entirely by that
prosperity which the advocates of monopoly, if they had
their way, would entirely destroy. The landed interest
cannot prosper when the manufacturing classes are depressed,
and the wel!-being of both is as intimately connected as
cause and effect. The more provident and sensible Tories
begin to see the question in its proper light. Corn-law
associations have become like country meetings, a " farce."
The League at every agricultural meeting is more praised
than blamed; nay, the very landlords themselves, witness
Captain Rous and others:. are calling out for a radical
change. The time, in fact, has arrived, and we doubt not Sir
ROBERT PEEL will make good use of the opportunity next
session.

We have received the Madrid journals of the 13th and 14th
inst., from which we learn that the QUEEN arrived rather
unexpectedly in the capital on the evening of the 13th, about
seven o'clock. The guns of course were fired, to the great
alarm of the inhabitants, who believed another outbreak had
taken place, but on learning the cause, they flocked in great
crowds to the Palace, to welcome her MAJESTY'S return. All
the Ministers next day proceeded to Court, to pay their
respects to the QUEEN, and remained a long time in con-
ference with her MAJESTY. NARVAEZ is indisposed. On his
arrival all the military bands gave him a long serenade.
M. TRIERS has left Madrid for Grenada, in the diligence.
The Ileraldo states that a conspiracy has been discovered at
Alieant, organised by a cousin of ZURBANO, but it was
crushed by the vigilance of the autbotities. Several persons
had in consequence been arrested. No businen was done on
the Bourse on Saturday, the 13th.

According to some of the Paris papers, an association of a
most diabolical character had just been discovered in the
cantons of Neufchatel, in Switzerland. It is said to be the
work of" Young Germany," and has for its objects the over-
throw of religion and royalty, by the dissemination of atheis-

tical doctrines and the murder of sovereigns. The Counier
Swisse, of the 16th, published in the Pays de Vaud, gives the

following account of this new club, which we are inclined to
think is much exaggerated Some arrests recently made
in a small town of the canton of Neufchatel, and the avowals

obtained of the individuals thus captured, have led to the de-
tection of a vast plot organised in Switzerland by the members
of Young Germany' association. The present centre of the as-
sociation is Lausanne, but Berne, Zurich, Bale, Geneva, and
24 other minor towns, have lodges of the same conspirators.
It is also affirmtd that there are German clubs connected

with the society in several towns of France, including Stras-
_ -

burg and Marseilles. The object of the association, as is
clearly proved by the writings and correspondence of the
leaders, and the disclosures just obtained, is to effect the sub-

version of the religious, political, and social organisation Of
Germany, and, successively, that of the other states of Eu-

rope, by the preaching of atheism, the gradual demoralisa-
tion of the people, and, if need be, the assassination of public
functionaries. The principal leaders are HERMAIIN DOLLEKE,

of Erfurt, a public teacher in the canton of Vaud, and formerly
a teacher of languages in Neufchatel ; MAX HOFFMANN, a Ba-

varian pharmacian ; WILHELM Kum, late editor of a German
anarchic paper, called the Journal of the Clubs, and who is
not only surnamed by the men of his party 'Robespierre,' but
also adds that name to his signature; Junius STANDAW, of
Gotha, professor of German at the College of Chaux-de-

Fonds, in Neufchatel. This adventurer has been arrested
there, and expelled, with four of his associates, from the ter-

ritory of the Swiss confederacy, where he had lived as an
emigrant for five years past The authorities have been
ustly alarmed at the active :and crafty perseverance with
which these propagandists have enlisted under their banner
a considerable number of the twenty to twenty-five thousand
German workmen established in the several cantons of
Switzerland. MARR'S hideous journal had latterly procured
as many as five hundred subscribers among them.'
The domestic intelligence in the Paris papers is not of much
interest. Conservatism, however, appears to be the order of the
day. Nearly all the late elections have gone in favour of the
Gurzur Ministry, and even the Radical city of Lyons is
following the example.
M. DESPREZ, a Conservative, has just been elected Deputy
by the third college of that place in the room of M.FuLcanioN,
raised to the Peerage. He had a majority of 142 votes. M.
ETIENNE BLANC, one of his opponents, had 25, and M. CESAR
BERTHOLON, the other candidate 10. The Royal Family con-
tinue their excursions in the environs of Eu and Treport. The
KING, from all accounts, takes much exercise. On Thursday his
Majesty, with the Queen, Madame Adelaide, the Duchess
d'Aumale, the Prince and Princess of Saxe Coburg Gotha,
the young Prince of Wurtemburg, and the Prince and
Princess de Salerno, accompanied by the Minister of the
Marine, General d'Houdetot, Colonel Dumas, the Marquisses
de Strada and Brancaccio, the Prefect of the Seine Inferieure,
Baron Fain, MM. Fontaine and de Cailleux, two orderly
officers, and several ladies of the Court, went in carriages to
Trdport. The royal party went on to the fort to enjoy the
view of the sea, which was greatly agitated. At two
o'clock they returned to the Palace, which his MAJESTY soon
after again left in a carriage, attended by General d'Houde-
tot, and MM. Courtois d'Hurbal and Brabant, and drove
in the park as far as Mancheville and the plain of
Etalande till half-past five o'clock. The KING, according
to the Courrier etc Nantes, has ordered to be built in the yards
at Indret a small yacht, of so light a draught of water that
it may be able to enter any of the ports of Normandy. She
is to be called the Passe Porto'tt. When her Majesty of
ENGLAND therefore again visits Trdport, she will have no
occasion to land in a bathing machine. The Duke DE MONT-
PENstErt, on leaving Greece, is to perform quarantine at
Malta, and thence proceed to Naples. The following are
extracts from the continental papers
The Augsburg (Mules quotes a letter of the 11th, from Berlin,
stating that, according to accounts received there from St. Petersburg,
the Emperor Nicholas, after inspecting his fleet in the Black Sea,
intended to take a voyage in the Mediterranean, and join the Empress,
should she prolong her stay in Sicily. Colonel Wolff, who brought
the news of the capture of Dargo, was immediately promoted to the
rank of general, and attached to the suite of the Empress.
" We learn from Posen that the Catholic inhabitants of that city
have sent a deputation to Berlin, with a petition to the King of
Prussia, for the appointment of a Commission to investigate the
causes of the serious disturbances which occurred at Posen on the
28th and 29th July.
" A Constantinople letter of the 3d informs us that the Grand
Admiral Halil Pacha is appointed Minister of Commerce, Mustapha
Nuri Pacha, Governor of Brussa, and Said Pacha, who has long lived
retired, is named a member of the Council of the Empire.
" The Grand Duke and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg
arrived at Vienna on the 12th, on their way to Trieste, to receive
the Queen of Greece. Prince Ferdinand of Coburg, and his son were
expected at Vienna, from which place they would set out for Loadon
and Lisbon."
On the Paris Bourse on Saturday the Three per Cents.
were at 841. ; the New Loan, 84f. 10c. ; the Five per Cents.,
118 c. 25c ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,282f.50c. ; Rouen,
I,loof. ; Havre, 907 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 1,055 f. ; Vierzon, 780 f. ;
Bordeaux, 712 f. 50c. ; Boulogne, 652 f. 50c. ; Troyes and
Montereau, 526 f, 25c. ; Basle, 288 f. 75c.; Spanish Three per
Cents. 39 ; ditto, Domestic Debt, 31.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :-
Paris and Lyons (Laffitte), 27f. 50c. premium ; ditto
(Calon), 10f. ; ditto (Ganernon), 15f. ; ditto (Lapinsonniere)
6f. 50c. ; Northern Line (Laffitte), 82f. 50c. ditto (Rosamel),
411. 50c; ditto (Rothschild), 347 f. 50c.; ditto (Pepin Le-
halleur), 301. ; ditto (Decan Lebeuf), 32f. 50c. ; Paris and
Strasburg ( Ganneron), 15f. 25c. ; ditto (Hinguerlot),l3l. 50c.ci
ditto (Bechet), 61. 50c. ; ditto (Isot), 9f. 50c. ; Tours
oane
Nantes (Mackenzie), 17f. 50c. ; ditto (Drouillard), 6f. ;
ditto (O'Neill), 17f. ; ditto (Lefevre), 10f. ; Lyons. and(c g-
non (Talearbiootn)d,ai3es)f.,
pagnie Pil (dlMtatcoken ;Ten),
;9f.di;tt°Bor(dLeceau°xinaten)d Clestfie;
4(Kf
3750sace.n;od,it6tEo (sEoes.7ldeittat)o
, (Carette), 101.; 161. 25c.; Creil
dittoand St(o.CQierubentt,
in)
3f. 50c. ; Charleroi (Ki3dsaAelnusih),aus4en2f.(os,oiscre.iii)M2acubseouc. ge;
(Kysaens), sf. ; Dijon Fuld
ditto (Allegry), 2f. 50c. ; Dieppe (Sellieres), 47f. 50c. ;
Caen (Delamarre), 6f. ; Fampoux, 25f.
MARSEILLES, SEPT. 16.-Marseilles and Avignon, 1,070 f. ;
Boulogne, 6721. 60c. ; Vierzon, 805 f. ; Orleans and Bordeaux,
722 f. 50c.
LYONS, SErr. 17.-Marseilles and Avignon, 1,060 f., end
of Sept. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,281 t pull and Rotten,

1,106 f. ditto ; Orleans and
532 f. ditto.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOR

LONDON STOCK Eli
Anglo-Belgian
Boulogne and Amiens ll%
Bordeaux &Mediterran
Bordeaux and Toulouse
Do. & Cette (Espelete)
Do. (Mackenzie's)
Central of Spain
Dendre Valley 214
Dutch Rhenish
Dieppe & Paris Juliet —
Dijon and Mulhouse
East Indian
Grt Northern of France

(Laffitte's)
Ditto (Rosamel's)
Do. (Le Boeuf )
Do. Peppin le Halleur --
Great Paris and Lyons. 214
Great Western Bengal
Jamaica Junction
Do. North Midland —
Jersey
Louvain and Jemeppe —
Lyons and Avignon —
Luxembourg

Vierzon, 785 f. ; Montereau,

SIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
CHANGE, SEPT. 20.

Namur and Liege 6l/s
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bordeaux 14
Over Yssel
Paris & Lyons (Lafitte) 3
Ditto (Ganneron's).
Ditto (Calon's) 2%
Paris and 0r1ean5......
Paris and Rouen .
Paris and Strasburg
(Ganneron's) ...... 2%
r• (Compte de L'Est)
Paris and St. Quentin.
Rouen and Havre--
Royal North of Spain. 2%
Sambre and Meuse .... 8
Strasbourg and Basle . 11
Tournay,Jurbise, Lan-
dent, and Hasselt...
Tours and Nantes
(M'Kenzie's)

Do. (Lefebvire's)
Verona and Ancona —
West Flanders

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Mr. Bunn commences the winter campaign here on Saturday,
with a corps operatigue and chcerographigue, such as no other English
theatre can beast. He retains the services of all the operatic nota-
bilities of last season, including the " Enchantress" Anna Thillon, whilst
In every department the operatic strength of the company has been
increased by new engagements. Among these the most prominent,
certainly, is that of Mdlle. Jenny Lind, the prima donna of the Impe-
rial Theatre, Berlin, who, in the opinion of the dilettanti, may fairly dis-
pute *ith Leutzer the right to the title of Nightingale of Germany.
We are glad to see this lady's name appear in the list of the
Drury company, for we believe that attempts have been made
to prevent her appearing there, which attempts it would appear,.
have not succeeded any better than they deserve. The engagement
of this lady speaks well not only for the taste, but for the tact and
diplomacy of the manager of Old Drury. H. Phillips, who has
just returned from Ameriea, also joins the Drury company, as
does Allen of the Princess's. This last engagement is, perhaps, the
most important that Mr. Bunn has made. His operatic corps
was last season very weak in tenors. He wanted a musician-like
tenor, as contradistinguished from a mere singer of ballads : in Allen
he has secured one of the most tasteful singers, and accomplished
musicians of the day—one who thoroughly understands and is capable
of doing full justice to the compositions of the great Italian masters.
Wallace, whose performance at concerts during the last season have
acquired for him a high name in the musical world, and of whose
talents as a composer Fame speaks highly, has a new opera, which
will be produced during the present season, and which has excited
the greatest expectations; and Benedict will also produce a new grand
opera during the course of the season. Negotiations have also been
entered into with Meyerbeer for the production of his opera, The
Camp of Silesia, and Donizetti for a new opera of which Scribe is
to write the libretto. In the Ballet department we are to have Adele
Dumilatre, Plunkett, and Mademoiselle Flora Fabbir, a
young lady who possesses a high continental reputation
but who is as yet new to the English public. An engagement has
also been entered into 'with the Risleys and *lth Wieland. These
latter engagements will give the' ballet directors an opportunity of
introducing great variety into this species of entertainment—an op-
portunity of which MM. Albert and Barrez will, no doubt, know how
to avail themselves. It is not often that a ballet director has such
talent at his command as those of the Risleys, father and sons.
Among the novelties promised in this department are La Filk de
Marbre, a new ballet composed expressly for Drury-lane, by MM.
St. George and Albert, the music by Adolphe Adam, and the ballet
whick is now drawing all Paris to the Academic, and which has in
fact been the saving of that theatre, and of M. Leon Fillet, its direc-
tor, entitled Le Diable a qualm. Schira is musical director, Tuily
chorus master, and Harley stage-manager. The scenic department
is under the direction of Grieve, and the general management under
that Bunn himself—Bon Voyage ! Mr. Bunn, may no unforseen ill-
nesses of principal performers derange your plans, but may you be
able fully and fairly to carry out your programme, and then your
season cannot but be a most successful one.

THE EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON

(From a Second Edition of the Devonport Telegraph of Saturday.)
The St. Vincent, 120, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Hyde
Parker, C. 8., arrived in the Sound this morning, at about half-past
one o'clock. The Gallant Admiral, we regret to state, is still con-
fined to his cabin. The Queen and Albion closely followed, these
ships (with the Trafalgar) forming the weather line of the fleet ; the
latter, however, did not arrive until the leward line (consisting of
the Canopus, Rodney, Superb, and Vanguard) had anchored—all
before four o'clock, the Trafalgar not anchoring until half-past six.
The Gallant Admiral Sir Samuel Pym, K.C.8., will here supersede
Admiral Parker, and the squa iron will in a few days, wind permitting,
proceed on a further cruise of six weeks, at the close of which they
return to this port.