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LEC:TION of Mr. JEIMI,IIAft cips to eanwiittttlat6
the electors on the favourable returns they have received from the
Various district Committees of the state of their canvass. They
trust that tlx friends of Mr. Pileher will not relax in their endeavours,
and the result will be his return to Parliament as the representative
for the ancient Borough of Southwark.
J. ELDIN.MOULDEN, Secretary.
Aug. 27, 1845.

CLOSING OF THE PRESENT EXHIBITION.
BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL-MALL,
The GALLERY, with a SELECTION of PICTURES by
ANCIENT MASTERS, and those of the late Sir A. W. CALLCOTT,
and other DECEASED BRITISH ARTISTS, is OPEN daily
trom Ten in the Morning till Six in the Evening, and will be Closed
Oa Saturday, September 6.
Admission One Shilling. Catalogues One Shilling.
B ARNARD, Keeper.

-R OPAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
A MAGNIFICENT, EXTENSIVE, and UNIQUE COLLEC-
TION of TROPICAL FRUITS, modelled by Mons. Grimaud during
long residence in the Isle of France, is just deposited.
• ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY is Lectured upon by Professor
achhoffner, and exhibited Daily and in the evenings. A NEW
AMERICAN INVENTION, COLEMAN'S PATENT LOCOMO-
TIVE ENGINE, for ascending and descending inclined planes on
Railways without the aid of stationary power. SWIM3II7, G and
DIVING ILLUSTRATED by the son of Captain Stevens, the ce-
lebrated teacher of" swimming, on M ndays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays, at Two o'clock, and on the Evenings of Tuesdays and
Thursdays at half-past Eight o'clock. The other exhibitions, &c.
usual. . _

Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price.

WILTS, SOMERSET, and WEYMOUTH
RAILWAY.
Capital 1,500,0001., in Shares of 501. each.
The Act for the Incorporatkin of this Company having received
the Royal Assent, the HOLDERS of SCRIP. CERTIFICATES are
requested to make immediate application to be REGISTERED for
their respective Shares in this undertaking; which application (upon
a printed form provided for the purpose), together wills the Scrip
Certificates, must be trans.citted to this office on or before the 15th
Of September.
An official receipt will be given on the deposit of the Scrip, which
receipt will be afterwards exchanged for the sealed certificates, with
Its little delay as the preparation of the same may require ; and due
notice will be given when the sealed certificates will be ready for
delivery.
Shares in respect of which no application for registry shall be
Made on or before the above date will be registered in the name of
the original Subscriber, after which no share can be passed other-
Wise than by formal transfer under the provisions of the Act.
By order of the Board,
C. A. SAUNDERS.
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway Offices,
449, West Strand, London, August 5, 1445.
Interest will be allowed at the rate of 41. per cent. per annum on
the deposit and calls until the completion of the line, when the divi-
dends will be provided for under the arrangement with the Great
Western Railway Company, who have guaranteed 41. per cent. per
annum on the paid-up capital, with a proportionate increase, as
stipulated in the terms of the said guarantee.

RUGBY, DERBY, AND MANCHESTER
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally registered, pursuant to 7th and BthsVierverllo.)
Capital, 1,500,0001. in 60,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 11. 75. 6d. per Share.
The Rugby, Derby, and Manchester R alway is a direct line from
London to Manchester, coming from London to Rugby, along the
London and Birmingham line, and proceeding from Rugby by Hinck-
ley, through Market Bosworth, and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, to Derby,
thence to Ashbourne and Macclesfield, and along the Macclesfield
and Stockport and Stockport and Manchester Railways, into
Manchester.
Branches to Leake and Buxton are in contemplation.
The principle of this railway is to obtain a direct through line be-
tween some of the most important districts in the kingdom with the
least possible amount of new railway, and consequently the smallest
expenditure of capital.
It will also establish the shortest direct communication between
Derby and London, Sheffield and London, and between all the towns
on the North Midland Railway and London.
The Manchester, Derby, and Rugby Railway will open a direct
communication between Manchester and Derby, and will consider-
ably shorten the diStance between Manchester and Nottingham and
Manchester and Leicester. •
The line from Derby to Rugby will establish the direct communi-
cation from that town to London, which has been so long considered
desirable by the inhabitants.
The same will apply to Sheffield, when the Sheffield and Chester-
field branch of the North Midland Railway is made.
THE GREAT ADVANTAGES
Of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway over the other pro-
jects into Manchester, among others, are—
First, That there are only seventy-five miles of railway to be
Made, in place of one hundred and eighty-nine.
Secondly, That it is a more direct line from London to Manchester
than even the proposed direct lines.
Thirdly, That it interferes with no existing railway property or
Vested interests.
Fourthly, That it passes through a district rich in manufactures,
agriculture, and minerals, but which—more especially as regards its
agricultural produce, and a convenient system of intercommunication
for the conveyance of that agricultural produce, to supply the large
Maw, -ac-uring towns in the vicinity—has been hitherto left totally
'Witham railway communication.
Ftfts‘ly, That it passes through the towns in its route, in place of
avokai4 them.
Sixthly, That the whole line of railway from Rugby to Manchester
Will be completed and in working order within ten months from the
Passing of the Act of Parliament.
Seventhly, That the maps, plans, estimates, and other documents
required by the standing orders of Parliament, will be lodged with
the Parish Clerks, the Clerks of the Peace for the Counties, and the
Parliamentary offices, on the 10th day of November next, being
twenty days within the time required by the regulations of Parlia-
ment.
The Report of the Engineer of the Company is already completed,
and will be made public in a few days, upon which a further and full
Prospectus, with the names of the Provisional Directory, will be
Published.
In the meantime communications may be addressed to Thomas
'George Smith, Esq., 2, Warnford-court, Throgmorton-street; Edward
Ashworth, Esq., anchester ; Messrs. J. B. and D. Neilson, 'Liver-
Pool; and to the Company's Solicitor,
THOMAS GIBSON BREWER, Esq., 13, Gray's-inn-square.

TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY.
Company's Offices, 68, George-street, Manchester, August
21, 1845.
CONTRACT FOR SLEEPERS.
The Directors of the Trent Valley Railway Company will meet at
These offices on SaTuanav, the 13th of September next, at Two
o'clock, for the purpose of receiving TENDERS for SLEEPERS, of
the quality and in the quantity following :—The number required
Will be about 200,000. They are to be of good sound Baltic timber,
from tither Memel or Dantzic, to be cut diagonally, so as to make
either two or four sleepers, from a square balk. No balk or log to be
less than either 934 :inches or 1334 inches square before it is sawn
either into two or four sleepers, and no sleeper to be less than 9 feet
in length. The logs to be straight and square, and the diagonal cut
Made true. Each sleeper to be sawn, or otherwise brought to a
parallel breadth on its face, of not less than 12 inches, so as to leave
,Le edges at right angle. to tho
ihay be seen at the offices oftho Company's engineers, Great George-
street, Westminster. Any sleeper not agreeing with the foregoing
descrition will not be received. It will be required that the sleepers
be delivered on the banks of the Oxford, Staffordshire, and Worces-
ter, Birmingham, Coventry, Trent and Mersey, and Oxford and
Worcestershire Canals, or of any of them, in such proportions, and
at such points, as may from time to time be directed. The deliveries
to commence on the Ist of January, 1846, and to be continued uni-
formly at the rate of twenty thousand per month, until the whole
number is delivered. The Directors do not bind themselves to
Accept the lowest tender. Security will be required for the due ful-
diluent of the contract, the names and address of the proposed
sureties being annexed to the tender. Payments will be made by
bankers' draft at two months for each month's delivery, if approved
by the engineer ; any faulty or defective sleepers which may be
found being deducted from the subsequent payments, Parties wish-
ing to offer any other description of sleeper are at liberty to tender,
describing its form and dimensions, the name of .the wood, and
whence it will be obtained. Tenders must be delivered on or before
the day, and previously to the hour, above named, addressed to the
Secretary of the Company, and endorsed " Tender for Sleepers."
By order,
E. J. CLEATHER, Secretary.

THE MACCLESFIELD and LICHFIELD, or
CHURNET and BLYTHE JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Being the shortest possible route between London and Manchester,
In connexion with existing Railways.
Provisionally Registered.
Capital, 1Dep05,250,000/.1. 128. 63. in 50, shares of 251. each.
it 2000 per share.
In compliance with the Standing Order of the House of Lords.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right lion. the Earl of Dartmouth, Sandwell Park, Staffordshire
The Right Hon. Lord Begot, Blithfleld Hall, Staffordshire
The Hon. William Begot, M.P., St. James's-square, London
Sir E. D. Scott, Bart., Great Barr Hall, Staffordshire
IL C. Meynell Ingrain, Esq., Hoarcross Hall, Staffordshire
John Newton Lane, Esq., King's Bromley Manor
William Drury Holden, Esq., Lecko Park, Derbyshire
W. C. Townsend, Esq., Recorder of Macclesfield
E. B. Levett, Esq., Milford Hall, Lichfield •
Matthew Gaunt, Esq., Ilighfield House, near Leek
John Sleigh, Esq., Leek
Samuel Phillips, Esq., Leek
Thomas Osborne Bateman, Esq., Chaddesden Moor, Derby
T. Kirkpatrick Hall, Esq., Holly Bush, Staffordshire
Josiah Gaunt, Esq., Horton Hall, near Leek
Thomas George Lomax, Esq., Lichfield
J. L. Warren, Esq., Consall Hall, and the Lodge, Market Drayton
Michael Tumor, Esq., Brereton, Rugeley
Edward Baylis, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, London.
Charles C. Higgins, Esq., Abbots Bromley
John Towgoed, Esq., 64, Chancery-lane, London
James Ileygate, Esq., M.D., Derby
James Palmer, Esq., the Close, Lichfield
Thomas Tumor, Esq., Abbots Bromley
Thomas Henry Baylis, Esq., Inner Temple, London
Thomas Finchet Maddock, Esq., Chester
Benjamin Shaw, Esq.. Kilburn Priory
Robert Ronald, Esq., Derby
The Rev. James Rostock, Cliffe Park, Staffordshire
Thomas P. Bainbridge, Esq., Derby
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Abchurch-lane, London
John Gaunt, Banker, Leek
John Challenor, Gentleman, Overton
Richard Cutting, Gentleman, Leek
Josiah Gaunt, sen.
Hugh Sleigh,
Lilley Ellis,,
John Russell,
Samuel Clowes,
Thomas Carr,
John Ward,
James Ridout,
Robert HammersleY, Silk Dyer, Leek
John Vernon, Cork Manufacturer, Uttoxeter
John Minors, Esq., Parks Cottage, Uttoxeter
Thomas Rowley, Esq., M.D., Lichfield
Randall Bradbunae, Esq., Ediall House, Lichfield
Joseph Webb, Esq., Lichfield
William Butcher, Coach Manufacturer, Lichfield.

Silk Manufacturers, Leek

This line will commence at the. terminus of the Manchester and
Birmingham Railway at Macclesfield, and passing by the Rudyard
reservoir to Leek, will proceed by the Churnet Valley to Conseil,
thence close to Cheadle, and Tean, and by Uttoxeter, Bagots Woods
and Abbots Bromley down the Blythe, to a point on the Trent Valley
Railway, near Lichfield, communicating there with one of the pro-
posed lines from Dudley and Walsall.
A glance at the map will show that this will be the most
direct
reet
line for the London and Manchester traffic; uniting those two
termiaby the shortest practicable route in connexion with existing
railways. It will also completely accommodate the local traffic and
manufactures, and open several extensive coal fields and some thou-
sand acres of wood land for the supply of Manchester, the Pottthe periro-
es,
and other great marts of the kingdom. Together, too, with
posed line from Derby to Crewe, it will afford a transit from the
Eastern Counties and Derby to Manchester, and give every accom-
modation to the Potteries.
This line is, in its principal features, much the same asthat already
approved of by the Board of Trade, and partially abandoned by the
Churnet Valley Company—will be scarcely 47 miles in length, and
Passing through the centre of the district, does not interfere with the
Grand Jugetion, or any other existing railway. It is material to re-
mark, that it is even more direct than the Churnet Valley as formerly
,projected to Tamwortli, and is free from the formidable opposition of
the landed interest, and the engineering difficulties consequent on the
route by Racester and Marchington. Itbrought forward must be observedby, and is
also that
it is the only railway which has been
under the control of, the landowners and manufacturers of theghurnet
and Blythe Valley districts.
The co-operation of most of the principal landowners, from near
llttoxeter to near Lichfield, having been obtained, and there being
no competing lines projected through that district, this portion of the
line may be considered as secure.
CONSULTING ENGINEER Joseph Locke, Esq., F.R.S.
BANKERS.

London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
Manchester—The Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, and
Brandies
Lichfield—Messrs. Palmer and Greene
Leek—Messrg. Fowler and Gaunts
Uttoxeter—Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Bank
Derby--Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company
SECRETARY, PRO TEM.—Mr:Challinor, Solicitor, Leek.
Applications for Shares, accompanied by a Banker's or other re-
sPeetable reference, to be addressed to the Secretary, and the Share-
brokers, of Whom plans, prospectuses, and further particulars may be
obtained.
Shareholders in the Manchester and Birmingham, Trent Valle
hy, or
London and Birmingham Railway Companies, applying for Sares,
will be good enough to Otte they are such Shareholders.
üblished.
N.B. The names of the Sci3leitors &c ,will shortly be p

FORA! OF APPLICATION' FOR sIIAREs•
To the Provisional Committee of the Macclesfield and Lich-
Uhl, or Chuniet and Blythe Junctions ilwayf Companachy.,
Gentlemen:—I request you to allot me res o 26/. e
in'ibe above rajway, and I undertake to accept the same or such
le;a number as yd.: may appropriate tome, +subject to the regulation de-,
of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and pay the s
Posit thereoat of 21. IU 6d. per share when required..
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