The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-25 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, TTIVIISDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25 1845.

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
DIRECT SHEFFIELD AND MACCLES-
FIELD RAILWAY,
Forming Junctions with all the great and Important Railways in
Great Britain.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 6001001., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.

This important line, commencing at the terminus of the Man-
ehester and Sheffield Railway, in the populous manufacturing town
of Sheffield, will proceed in a direct course by or through Hope,
hiathersage, Castleton, Chapel-en-le-Frith, and Whaley (the great
6,..1-port of the Potteries), to the terminus of the projected Man-
chester and Macclesfield Railway, at Macclesfield, the total length of
the line being nearly thirty miles.

This Junction stands in the very centre of the entire railway sys-
tem of England, and will complete the chain of railway communi-
cation between the riverllumber, the towns •f Sheffield and Mac-
clesfield, the Staffordshire Potteries, the Salt Fiches of Cheshire, the
City of Chester, Liverpool, and Birkenhead, Bangor-Ferry, and the
Harbour of Holyhead. All the necessary arrangements are in pro-
gress to proceed to Parliament at the ensuing session.
A detailed prospectus, containing the names of an influential Pro-
visional Committee, &c., will be published in a few days.
Meantime applications may be made to the Solicitors, Messrs.
7attarns and Fry, 62, Mark-lane, London ; and G. A. Coleman, Esq.,
New Inn, Strand. By order, _

GEORGE F. HIRE, Secretary.

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY,
Forming a connecting line between the Midland and Grand
Junction Railways, with a Branch from Derby to Ashby-do-1a -
Zouc.h.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Sir John Edmund De Beauvoir, Bart., Connaught-terrace, Hyde

Park
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-place, Regent's Park, Director
of the Eastern Counties Railway
William Simpson Potter, Esq., 7, Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Di-
rector of the Oxford, Gosport, and Southampton Railway
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Carlton House-terrace, Chairman of the
Irish North Midland Railway
James Beech, Esq., the Shawe, Staffordshire, and Brandon Hall,

Warwickshire
Barnet Laurence Phillips. Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park,
Director of' the Direct Western Railway
Valentine Knight, Esq., 3, Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park. Director
of the Dendre Valley Railway

Henry Garrett Key, Rs' q., Director of the Newport and Abagavenny
Railway _ _ _ .

Hugh Henshall Williamson, Esq., Greenway Bank, Neweastlo-under.
Lyne, Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Stafford

John Robinson, Esq., Silcoats Cottage, Wakefield, Director of the
Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland Railway, and of the Leeds, York.
and Midland Junction Railway
Stephen Hutchinson, Esq., London Gas Works, Vauxhall
Henry Cave Leahy, Esq., 5, St. James's-square, Director of the

Great Welch Junction itailWay
John Shaw, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the South Stafford.

shire Junction Railway
Daniel 3l'Mahon, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire,
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Samuel Walker, Esq., Wolverhampton. Director of the South Staf-
fordshire Junction Railway
Thomas Timmins Esq. Wolverhampton

Thomas Randle Andrews, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction Railway
William Griffiths, Esq., Park House, Wellington, Salop, Director of
the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Rail way
Herbert Broom, Esq., Kidderminster, and Essex-court, Temple
Caleb Norris, Esq., Lancaster-place, Strand, Director of the Exeter,
, Dorchester and Weymouth Railway
_ _

John Hayes, Esq., South-fields, Leicester
Charles J. Mason, Esq., Fenton, Staffordshire Potteries, Director of
the South Union and Birmingham Junction Railway
_ .

Joseph Henry, Esq., South-striet, Finsbury, Director of the London,
Hounslow, and Western Railway

Edmund Gulson, Esq., Clonmel, Ireland, Director of the Coventry,
Nuneaton, and Leicester Railway

William B. Costello, Esq., Wyke Bowe, Middlesex, Director of the
Direct London and Exeter Railway

Martin Stutly, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, Director
of the Direct Western, Dublin and Belfast, and London and South
Essex Railways.
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Iron Works, Wrexham, North
Wales, and Cannon-street, Director of the Oxford, South-
ampton, Gosport and Portsmouth, and Direct Western Railways.
Thomas Wynne, Esq., Longton, Staffordshire, Director of the South
Union and Birmingham Junction Railway
Henry Dodson, Esq., Suffolk House, Upper Tulse-hill, Director of the
Grand Junction, Great Western, and South-Western Junction

Lodge, Market Drayton, and Con-
Railways
DMiTertoer of the Manchester and Liverpool
JossealiphilLoatdnaleearWeatZdiMeE,
District Bank, and Director of the Cambrian and Grand Junction

Railway
Alfred Brodie, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square
Robert Chaplin, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Edward Mainmatt, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
. . .

John Bearlngton, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
T. S. Kirkland, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Thomas Cantrell, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
William Mathew, Esq., Staunton Harold, Lessee of the Staunton
Harold Coal, Lead, and Lime Works
Joseph Bostock, Esq., Breedon-on-Hill, Lessee of the Breedon Lime

Works
James Reeves, Esq., 150, Cheapslde, Director of the Direct London
and Manchester Railway
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Harvey Wyatt, Esq., Acton-hill, Stafford, Director of the Trent
Valley, Midlands and Grand Junction Railways, and of the Dudley,
Madeley, Brosaely, and Iron Blridge Railway - -
Benjamin Payne, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Rugby, Warwick,
and Worcester Railway, and the Leicester and Birmingham Direct
Railway
Thomas Farmer Cooke, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Rugby, War
wick, and Worcester Railway, and the Leicester and Birmingham
Direct Railway _

Jo—hnCarter, Esq., F.R.A.S., Park Lodge, Stockwell, Director of the
Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Junction Coast Railway
Joseph Carrington ilidgvray, Esq., Roehampton Lodge
Edward Tylecote, Esq., Great Heywood, Staffordshire
William Field, Esq., Rugeley, Staffordshire

Samuel tinders, Esq., Ingestre, Staffordshire, Agent to the Right

Hon. the Earl of Talbot, K.G.
R. 8. J. Winterton, Esq., Sketchley Hall, near Hinckley, a Magis-
trate of the County, Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton, and

Leicester Railway
Captain Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Director of the Direct

Western Railway
James Lamb, Esq., Hyde Park-square
James Morrison, Esq., St. Mary-at-hill, Director of the Bridgewater

and Minehead Railway
C. 11. Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montagu•street, Montagu-square
George Augustus M`Dermott, Esq., Chesterton Hall, near Newcastle-

under-Lyno
Wm. Tulloh Fraser, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square

Wm. Clode Braddon, Esq, Beg!ney-square, Brighton

George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield House, Russell-square
John Lowe, Esq., Norfolk-crescent, Hyde Park
John Griffith Frith, Esq., Chairman of the Londonderry and Colo-

raine Railway
Major. General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Loudon,
Bristol, and South Wales Railway, and- Manchester and Rugby
Railway
John Anderson, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway, and Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn Fields, Wolverhampton

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Henry Turner, Esq., Brewood Hall, Brewood, Staffordshire, Director
of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
Henry Scott, Esq., Banker, Waterford, and 17, Pall-mall
Lewis Adam's, Esq., Basford Hall, Stoke-upon-Trent

Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Banker, Leicester.
BANKERS—The Union Bank of London.
STANDING COUNSEL.
Charles Howard Whitehurst, Esq., Q.C.
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., F.S.A.
ENGINEER—J. U. Rastrick, Esq.
AcTINo ENGINEER—Robert Nicholson, Esq

SOLICITORS—Messrs. Watt. GaLsworthy, and Galiwoithy, 19, Ely
lace, Holborn
SECRETARY—SamueI StariWily, Esq.

The first line of the Grand Trunk Railway will commence at the
Loughborough station on the Midland Counties line, and pro-
ceed through the Vale of Sheepsheed, to Pegs Green Colliery,
near to the terminus of the Leicester and Swannington Rail-
way, and ftom thence through the coal-fields of Swannington
and Cole-Orton to Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It will thence proceed across
the Moira Coal-field and through the rich agricultural districts of
Seal,CliftonCampville, and Edingale, to the Birmingham and Derby
Railway, which it will cross near to Elford Park Farm, and thence
traverse the Valley of the Tame until it reaches Alrewas, where it
will form a junction with the branch of the Trent Valley line now in
progress of making. At this point it also meets the proposed South
Staffordshire line, by which means it reaches Lichfield, and by means
of one of the proposed lines it will afford commuuicatiou with Bir-
mingham.
From Loughborough the line will befurther continued to Asfordby
on the Syston and Peterborough Railway, now in progress, and by
means of this latter line, a direct intercourse will be opened with
Melton Mowbray and the various towns through which that route
passes to Peterborough.
By means of its junction with the Trent Valley line at Alrewas the
Grand Trunk reaches Colwich, and there meets the proposed North
Staffordshire line, which proceeds through the heart of the Potteries
to Newcastle-under-Lyre, Leek, and Macclesfield. By means also
of the same Trent Valley line at Alrewas the Grand Trunk pro-
ceeds through Rugeley to Stafford, thus completing its route, and
forming a connecting line between the Midland and Grand Junction
Railways. This branch of the line was formerly surveyed by
tMnart.
Rastrick, and approved of by him as a canal communication,
so
no engineering difficulties exist.
The second line of the Grand Trunk Railway will commence at the
Derby station, and taking the course of the Derby Canal proceed to
Chellaston, where there are extensive plaster-works, and thence
by Swarkestone to the river Trent, which it will cross near to
the ferry at Weston Cliffe, and so proceed to Kings Newton
and Melbourne. From the latter place it will pass by the
village of Wilson to Breedon-on-the-Hill, where there are extensive
lime-works, and thence proceed by Staunton Harold, communicat-
ing by a branch line with the lead, lime, and coal works there ;
thence by the Lount Colliery to Worthington Rough, where it will
follow the line of the Cole-Orton and Swannington Railway until its
junction with the first lino of the Grand Trunk at or near the Pegs
Green Colliery, and so proceed from thence to Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
At Asliby-de-la-Zouch the Grand Trunk forms a junction with the
proposed Nottingham and Birmingham, and with the proposed Great
Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railways. Its importance as
a line for passengers is too obvious for comment, forming as it does a
complete junction between those two great thoroughfares, the Mid-
land and Grand Junction Railways, and by its branch from Derby to
Ashby-des-la-Zoucit another complete junction between the Great
Northan and Southern lines now in progress, thus opening a direct
line of communication to all parts of the kingdom.
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alone comprise the finest quality of Kennel to a depth of seven feet,
with a super stratum of main coal to a depth of six feet. The sub-
ltllM is yet to be worked. There are beds of Kennel and main
e,)tl at Cole Orton of equal quality, though net of equal depth with
t': ,se of Staunton Harold, whilst the main coal at Swannington mi-
r • lied being, in fact, the bowl of the Leicestershire and Derbyshire
e"tal strata. It is needless to describe the beneficial results which
mast arise from this opening of the midland coal district to the Lon-
et and southern markets.
At Staunton Harold and Calks exist rich veins of lead ere, now in
f il course of working.
The properties of the Breeden, Staunton Harold, and Ticknall lime
r^ so wail known to agriculturists and others, that an extension of
t r tffie for so valuable a commodity into mire remote districts must
L of the utmost importance to the practical farmer.
In approaching the Trent, on leaving the lime district, the Grand
Trunk will fall in with most valuable quarries of millstone grit, ser-
yl.:eable for paving and building purposes, and for which a ready
in trket would be found along the line. The country also abounds
in gypsum, of which immense quantities are used in Birming-
ham and elsewhere : these markets will thus become opened for the
quarries at Chellaston.
A new and extensive outlet will also be opened for the earthenware
of Wooden Box and Griesley Potteries.
Until the Act of Parliament be obtained, the affairs will be under
the control of the Committee of Management, to whom power is
given to allot the shares and apply the funds of the Company in
payment of all proper expenses in the igrmation of the Company and
otherwise.
Power will be applied for in the Act, and in the meantime the
Committee of Management take power, to alter or extend the lines,
to make branch lines, to abandon any part of the line, to raise addi-
tional capital, and to enter into arrangements with any other Com-
pany or Companies.
Application for shares must be made to the solicitors to tke Com-
pany, Messrs. Watts, Galsworthy, and Galsworthy, 19, Ely-place,
Holborn, London ; to the Secretary, at the Offices of the Company,
3, Adelaide-place, London-bridge ; and to the following
LOCAL SOLICITORS.

Messrs, Keen and Hand, Stafford
Thomas Bolton, Esq., Wolverhampton
E. Kern Jarvis, Esq., Hinckley
Messrs. Keary and Sheppard, Stoke-upon-Trent
Thomas Piddock, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
F. J. Hamel, Esq., Tamworth
John Perks, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
Beauvoir Brock, Esq., Loughborough
Charles griesley, Esq., Lichfield
Messrs. Moore and Gregory, Leicester.
Also to the following :

BIIAREIROICERS.
London—Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill, Threadneedle-street
Messrs. Harris and Sons, 'Change-alley
Liverf,nn....„„l—ML..letrsSs'.mTo'wn-"lteeynalit°ll7hiatrciehead
Bristol—Messrs. Tate and Nash
Loads—Mr. James Jamieson and
and
j Mr. W. CrOnhalill
Messrs. Weatherburn mains.
Birmingham—Mr. J. B. Lane
Newcastle—Mr. W. W. Dickinson
Bradford—Mr. William Mason
Sheffield—Maur'. Bardwell and Sena
Hull—Mr. FrariciS Stamp
Waketleld—Mr. S.H. Armitage
Nottingham—Mr. C. Spencer
Worcester—Mr. W. Miles
York—Messrs. Graysten and Erie
Blackburn—My. Tliomas Boardman
Southampton—Mr. Joseph Clark, Jun.
EXater-3fe4srs. H. Beaumont anti Co.
Edinburg/1-.4,1r, ClittrleS Cowper, 30, St. 4.ll4reW's-square
Cheltenham—Mr. iTtiMes Stokes
Lelcester--Mesers. William and Sunderland Messrs. Eauleflold
and co.

THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS, BRIGHTON,
and HASTINGS JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
From Tunbridge Wells Direct to Hastings, with a Branch Line from
the same place to join the Brighton line at Lewes.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 750,000/., in 30,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 2/. Its. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Thomas Farnconibe, Esq.,-Alderman of London, Director of the
London and Westminster Bank
John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London, Meopham Bank, Tun-
bridge, Director of the London and County Joint-stook Bank, and
of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Major James Oliver Lindam, K.H., New-street, Dorset-square,
Chairman of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and Central Wales
Railway, and Directorof the South and Midlands Junction Railway
William Cory, Esq., Commercial-road, Lambeth, Director of the
London and County Joint-stock Bank
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Manchester-street, Manchester-square
Friderick Harrison, Esq., Beaufoy-terrace, Maida Vale, Director of
the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Life Assurance Company
Joseph Barker, Esq., Macclesfield, Cheshire
Alexander Prince, Esq., Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Shropshire
Mineral, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
William Case, Esq., Brook-street, Grosvenor-square
W. Bulkeley Glasse, Esq., 10, New-square, Lincoln's Inn, and South
Crescent, Bedferd-square
The Rev. Lewis Evans, Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, South-
wood-terrace, Highgate
Stephen Hutchinson, Esq., Bromley, Kent. Sole Proprietor of the

Bromley Gas Works
The Rev. George Kenriek, Battle, Sussex, and Regent's-square,
London
Captain George Lind, Waterloo-place, Brighton
R. Ladell, Esq., Director of the London and South Essex Railway
Henry Wardle, Esq., London and Macclesfield, Director of Reming-
ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., St. Leonard's-on-Sea, and Clifton, Bristol
George Clement, Esq., Hastings
Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Union-court, Broad-street, and Macclesfield,
Cheshire
Thomas Robinson Williams, Esq., Director of the Patent Woollen
Cloth Company
Lewis Mime, Esq., Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk
Reginald Read, Esq., M.D., St. John's-square, London
The Rev. Samuel Andrew, Wadham College, Oxford, and Highgate
(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE 01, MANAGEMENT IN LONDON.
Thomas Carlisle, Esq. R. Laden, Esq.
William Case, Esq. Major James 0. Lindham,
W. Bulkeley Glasse, Esq. Alexander Prince, Esq.
Frederick Harrison, Esq. Henry Wardle, Esq.
ENGINEER IN CHlEF.—Charles Blunt, ESQ., C.E.
STANDING COUNSEL—John WOnbrey, ESQ.
SOLICITOR—G. L. Lloyd, Esq., 49, Doughty-street, Redford-row,

London.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Scrivens and Young, Hastings
Messrs. Martin and Sons, Battle
Messrs. Barclay and King, Mayfield.
SECRETARY (pro tem.)—Henry L. Freund, Esq.
Barnum IN LONDON—The London County Joint-stock Bank.
DISTRICT NANKEEN.

The Branches of the London and County Joint-stock Bank at Tun-
bridge, Tunbridge Wells, Lewes, and Brighton
At Hastlngs:--31osars. Smith, Hllder, and Co.

The object of this Company is to effect a direct eommunication,
by railway, between Tunbridge Wells and Hastings, and also be-
tween Tunbridge Wells and Brighton.
The Hastings line (about twenty-six miles in length) will commence
at Tunbridge Wells, and run near Frant, Wadhurst, Lamberhurst,
Etchingham, Hurst Green, Robertsbridge, Whatlington, and Battle,
having its terminus at the western extremity of Hastings.
The Brighton line (about twenty-two miles in length) will com-
mence at Tunbridge Wells, and take a direct course to Brighton,
passing near Mayfield, Rotherfield, IJekfleld, Little Horsted, and
Lewes, where it will form a junction with the line, which is nearly
completed, between Lewes and Brighton.
The numerous visitors and inhabitants of the fashionable waterlog-
places of Tunbridge Wells, Brighton, and Hastings, will thus not
merely enjoy the means of rapid communication with each other ►y
railway—an advantage which ought to have been supplied to them
before this—but will also have, respectively, when the proposed line
from London to Tunbridge is formed, a continued and direct railway
to the metropolis.

The area embraced within these lines of railway Is justly remark-
able for the variety and value of its agricultural produce, being one
of the most extensive hop districts in England, and not inferior in
geeeral fertility to any part of the kingdom ; and when it is consi-
dered that the metropolis is the principal, indeed, it may almost be
said, the exclusive, market for its productions, the profits arising
from the conveyance of those productions alone must form (inde-
pendent of passenger traffic), a very large source of revenue to the
Shareholders.

Even from the already developed resources of the extensive,
wealthy, and populous districts through which the Company's lines
will run, the most encouraging estimate of results may be justly en-
tertained, and when the Hastings Dock and Harbour Company
(which has already been provislinally registered) shall have carried
into effect the proposed improvements, the line from that town to
Tunbridge Wells must become one of the most profitable in England,
as it will then be the great highway:of continental tourists. The
route from London to Paris, by Hastings and Dieppe, is decidedly
the most direct, as well as the most interesting, which a glance at the
map of Europe will satisfactorily show.

To the towns of Hastings anti St. Leonard's the greatest advan-
tages must :Larne from the establishment of a railway, bringing
them within two hours of the metropolis, and, through it, by the
groat lines of which it is the focus, connecting them with every por-
tienot the country. An immense increase In the number of their
opulent visitors must necessarily be the consequence, the climate of
that part of the coast of Sussex being universally considered equally
salubrious as the most favoured parts of Devon.
The Company have in contemplation the formation of a branch
from tte most convenient point on their Hastings line to Winchel-
sea and the town and port of Rye, or to connect that line with the
Hastings and Ashford coast .line; either of which objects can be
carried out at a very moderate expense, and must considerably in-
crease the value of the principal project.
To the Inhabitants of Lewes and Brighton, the advantages to be
derived from the Hastings line must be great. It will give increased
facilities for the transport of the produce of the districts through
which it passes, and will complete the railway communication be-
tween Canterbury, Maidstone, Chatham, Rochester, and other towns
in the county of Kent, and Brighton, Chichester, Portsmouth, South-
ampton, and other important towns in the western parts of the
country.

The existing traffic in passengers and goods (which must be ma-
terially increased by the establishment of railways) are too well
known to require a detailed statement In this prospectus, and caw-
not fail to secure to the shareholders a large interest on the capital
invested.

A preliminary survey of the country has been made, and no part of
it has been found to offer engineering difficulties of more than or-
dinary character.

The liability of the Shareholders will be limited to the amount of
their subscriptions, and in the allotment of shares a preference will
be given to landowners on the respective lines, and other parties
locally interested.

Power will be taken in the Act to allow interest at 41. per cent.
per annum, on all calls, previous to the opening of the lines.
The Provisional Committee reserve to themselves the power of
making alterations in the line or branches, and of adopting the at-
mospheric principle, if advisable. They are also determined on giv-
ing strict attention to economy in the expenditure of the capital,
and will thereby be enabled to guarantee low charges for the con-
veyance of passengers and goods, and there can be no reasonable
doubt, that when the traffic is fairly developed, the full rate of 101.
per cent. will be paid, and a surplus left for branch lines, or a reduc-
tion of tolls.

The strong feelings in favour of a direct line evinced on the part of
the public in Hastings and surrounding neighbourhood, the support
of the landowners and agriculturists, with the numerous argil strong
assurances received in favour of an independent Company; leave no
doubt of the successful issue of an application to Parliament for an
Act next session.

In order that every attention may be secured to local interests, ar-
rangements are now being made to add the names of gentlemen of
influence and property is the counties of Kent and Sussex to the
Provisional Committee.

Applications for shares, with a reference, may Ye made in the
form annexed, to the Solicitor, or to the Secretary pro. tem., at the
temporary Offices of the Company, No. 76, Basinghall-street, Lon-
don, and to the following Sharebrekers :—in London, Messrs. J. and
T. _Moron, Broad-street ; In Liverpool, B. P. Pemberton, Esq.,
Atherton-buildings ; in Manchester, Messrs. M'Lean and Dinwoodie ;
in Bristol, Messrs. Wreferd, Nicholls, and Co. ; in Leeds, Messrs.
Whalley and Thompson, Bank-street ; in Gloucester, J. N. Balme,
Esq. ; in Cheltenham, Joseph K. Baker, Esq.
_ .

To the Provisional Committee of the Tunbridge Wells, Brighton, and
Hastings Junction Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l hereby request you to allot me Shares in
the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, of
any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit
of 21. 12$. Ca. per Share thereon, and to execute the necessary deeds
when required

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PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.
LEEK and MANSFIELD RAILWAY,
forming a Junction between Boston and Holyhead, and
uniting, by a direct line, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, and Nottingham-
shire, vith the Counties of Chester, Lancaster, and Stafford.
Capital 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, Lord-Lieutenant of the county of
Monaghan
The Hon, Francis Curzon, Barrow, Derbyshire
Sir William Magnay, Batt., Alderman, and late Lord Mayor of Lon-
don ; a Director of the Great Luxembourg, and of the Direct
London and Holyhead, and Port Dyullaen Railway Companies
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of London,
Chairman of the Birkenhead, Chester, Meld, Rhuabon, and Vale of
Llangollen; and of the Great Western, Southern, and Eastern
Counties Railway Companies
Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., Rushland Han,
Lancashire, and Regent's Park, London ; Director of the South
Staffordshire, and of the Tean and Dove Valley Railway Compa-
nies ; and on the Committee of Management of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Railway Company
J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Elmswood House, Leeds, Director of the
Leicester and Bedford Railway Company
James Bowns, Esq., merchant, Mansfield
Richard Broomhead, Esq., Mansfield
Joseph Brown, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Brewash Valley Ex-
tension, and a Director of the East and West of England Junction
Railway Companies
William Chadwick, Esq., a Director of the Erewash Valley, and of
the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport,and Portsmouth Railway Com-
panies
John Chambers, Esq., the Hurst, Alfreton
John Churchill, Esq., a Director of the Manchester and Birming-
ham Continuation, and of the Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport
Railway Companies
Nathan Cooper, Esq., Mansfield
The Rev. T. L. Cursham, D.C.L., the Vicarage, Mansfield
The Rev. William Cursham, M.A., Mansfield
John Dodsley, Esq., Skegby Hall, Skegby
Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., St. John's Wood, a Director of the Great
Eastern and Western Railway Company
Robert Forman, Esq., Abbot's Hill, Derby
So:omon Foster, Esq., Mansfield
Smith Fowler, Esq., Nottingham
Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield
Frederick Hewitt, Esq., Clapham, Surrey, a Director of the Erewash
Valley Extension Railway Company
Thomas Kirkland, Esq., Mansfield
George Lawton, Esq., Ditchleys, Essex, a Director of the South Mid-
land Railway Company
Stephen Lewis, Esq., a Director of the South Wales, and of the Man-
cheater and Rugby Railway Companies
The Rev. William Linwood, M.A., Mansfield
C. Lowden, Esq., Director of the Richmond Railway Company
Mommu lch
mesintenreattn. d
E. 4, Rugby
m merchant,
chilanwat, y
George Miller, F.sq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, a Director of the
way Terminus Company
Th of the Central Rail-
an:flaneldy, and
Ambrose Moore, Esq.. a Director of the Dendre Valley Railway
Company
The Worshipful the Mayor of Nottingham
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., &c., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park ;
a Director of the Irish Great Western, and of the Northampton,
Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Companies
George Perry, Esq., Mansfield
John Pickersglll, Esq., Tavistock-square ; a Director of the Birken-
head, Chester, Mold, Rhuabon, and Vale of Llangollen, and of the
Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway Companies
The Rev. John Poole, M.A., Mansfield
J. M. Bowles, Esq., Leicester
Clement Royds, Esq., Rochdale, Chairman of the Preston and Wyre
Railway Company
Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield; a Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham Continuation, and of the Huddersfield Railway
Companies
Thomas Wakefield, Esq., Nottingham
Robert Watkins, Esq., Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square ; a Di-
rector of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth
Railway Company
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., a Director of the Erewash Valley Extension
and South Midlands Junction Railway Companies
B. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-place, Bryanstone-square ; a Di-
rector of the London and Manchester Direct Railway Company
(With power to add to their number).
COMMITTEE OF DIMICTION.
WILLIAM HUGHES HUGHES, Esq., Alderman, Chairman.
CHARLES DICKSON ARCHIBALD, Esq., Deputy-Chairman,
The Right Hon. Lord Rossmere Thomas Dowglasse, Esq.
Sir William Magnay, Bart. Frederic Hewett, Esq.
J. R. Atkinson, Esq. John Parkinson, Esq.

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Jaseph Brown, Esq.
William Chadwick, Esq.
The Rev. T. L. Cursham, D.C.L.

John Pickersgill, Esq,
Robert Watkins, Esq.

BANKERS.
The London Joint-stock Bank ; the Union Bank of London
The Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Notting-

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ham and Mansfield
North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool
Messrs. Clement Royds and Son, Rochdale
Messrs. Fowler, Gaunt, and Co., Leek and Congleton
The Ashhourn Union Bank, Ashbourn and Uttoxeter.
Erictrizzas—Messrs. J. B. and E. Birch.
SOLICITORS.
John Betheil, Esq., 78, Ring William- street
P. A. Burrell, Esq., 1, White Hart-court, Lombard-street.
Sg,carraxv—Ernest Charles Jones, Esq.
suul Nottlnghantshire PROSPECTUS.
This railway, not exceeding thirty-three miles in length, is pro-
tected fur the purpose of forming a junction between Boston and
Holyhead, and uniting by a direct line Lincolnshire, Derbyshire,
Staftbrd,
It 'wil i l enter , with the aotuales of Chester, Lancaster, and
r into competition with no one of the lines at present

existing or projected, but will materially add to the traffic of all,
and prove to them a most valuable auxiliary.
Commencing at Leek, it will form an extension of a line already
in course of construction; and, passing throughlVinster and _A shover,
at or near Mansfield, it will (mite with the Sheffield, Newark, and
Boston, the Deity, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby, and the
Nottingham and Mansfield Railways; or, should it be considered
more desirable, the point of junction may be with the Sheffield and
Lincolnshire Railway, at Rettord.

Although not possible adequately to appreciate the importance of
this line, a glance at the map will show that It perfects the communi-
cation from Bcston to Holyhead, and is called for by public necessity.
At present there is no direct canal nor even an ordinary turnpike
road for the purpose of transit of the various and inexhaustible pro-
ducts of these extensive mineral districts. On the one hand, the bulk
of the cattle and other agricultural produce of Lincolnshire and Not-
tinghamshire, and the large quantities of flour and malt made at and
near to the towns of Mansfield and Newark, find their way to the
western markets by circuitous routes, the cost and delay attending
their transmission being enormous ; and, on the other, the products
of the paint manufactories, and of the Barytes works at Ashbotume
and Cromford, and other minerals, are now sent many miles out of
the direct course in order to reach their destination.

From its junction with so many railways, and affording a direct
communication through the country from east to west, it is scarcely
possible to compute the amount of passenger traffic which may be
expected on this comparatively shortline.
Power will be taken in the Act to allow interest at the rate of 41.
per centum per annum on the deposit-money, as well as on all calls,
from the date of each payment till the opening of the line, or until a
dividend be declared ; and the liability of subscribers will be limited
by the Act of Parliament to the amount of their respective shares in
the undertaking.

Applications for sharer to be made, in the usual form, to P. A.
Burrell, Esq., solicitor, No. l, White Hart-court, Lombard-street;
and to the following Stock and Sharebrokers : viz., in London, to
Messrs. Hitchens and Harrison, IS, Threadneville-street ; Messrs. B:
and M. Boyd, 4, New Bank-buildings; T. Uzzielli, Esq., 75, Old
Broad-street ; to Messrs. Cuff and Fox, Derby ; Messrs. Chapman
and Elliott, Nottingham ; E. B. Schofield, Esq., Sheffield ; Messrs.
Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds; Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Man-
chester ; and Messrs. J. Wills and Co., Liverpool.

THE NORTHERN AND
(50NNEC TING RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered under 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.)
Capital, 900,0001., in 36,000 Shares of 2öl. each.
Deposit, V. 12s. 6d. per Share.

THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN
CONNECTING RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no Applications for Shares hi this
Railway will be received after SATURDAY, the 27th inst.
By order of the Committee of Management,
W. JENKINS, Secretary.
Temporary Offices, 47, Eastcheap, Sept. 24, 1845.

NOTTINGHAM, BIRMIN G HAM, AND
COVENTRY RAILWAY.
Uniting Warwick, Coventry, and Birmingham with Nottingham,
Newark, and Lincoln.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices—(temporary), 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Capital 420,0001., in 21,000 Shares of 201. each.
. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir John Penniston Alilbanke, Bart., Great Portland street
William Collins, Esq., M.P. for Warwick
Michael Thomas BRAS, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent

Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and
Manchester Direct Railway
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Fraser B. Henshawe, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Liverpool, 3faachester, and Newcastle Junction
Railway

Major Miller, Deputy Chairman of the South and Midlands
Junction Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, F.R.S., 15, Upper Montague-street,
Montague-square, Director of the College of Civil Engineers
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Hyde Park-place, D rector of the
Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle Junction Railway
T. E. Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square, Director of the Warwick
and Cheltenham Railway
The Hon. W. E. Fitzmaurice, M.P. for Bucks, Chosham-street,
Itelgrave. square

Henry Dann, Esq., 42, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe Railway
Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Harts, Director of
the South and Midland Junction Railway
John Clement Ruding, Esq., Director of the National Bank of

Ireland .
John Rawson, Esq. Halifax, Deputy Lieutenant for Yorkshire, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway
The Hon. Colonel Leicester Stanhope, Ashburaham House, Chairman
of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leicester
Thomas Hackett, Esq., Derby, Director of the Great Manchester and
Southampton Railway
John Sanders, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway
John Fisher, Esq., Short-hill, Nottingham, and Watling-street,
London
Captain Horatio Thomas Austin, R.N., C.B.
Nathaniel Nadin, Esq., Stapenhill, Burton-upon-Trent
Capt. Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headley Grove, Surrey
Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the Leicester and
ramworth, and Derby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby Junc-
tion Railway
Edmund Sharpe, Esq., Swandlincote, Potteries
Sheldon Craddock, Esq., Leicester
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John Gretton, Esq., inc.wer, Burton-upon-Trent
Ambrose Moore, Esq., Milk-street, Cheapside
James Arbouin, Esq., Mark-lame, Director of the London and York
Railway

Sir ltichaid Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the East India Company
I ieut.-Gcn. Taylor, Claren4on-place, Hyde Park
George Ledwell Taylor, Es 45, Hyde Park-square
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director ,Of the Derby and Crewe Railway
Matthew Gisborne, Esq., Walton Hall, Derbyshire
Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq., Imberhorne House, Sussex
John Taylor, Esq., Cross-street, City, Director of the Commercial
Bank of London
(With power to add to their number.)
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bass and Sweeting, Burton-upon-Trent.
Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 1, Exchange-bulldings,
Royal Exchange.

The London Joint-BittNolglßsa.n-k, Princes-street.
The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury, and 6, Henrietta-street,
Covent-garden
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The Burton, Uttoieter, and Ashbourne Union Banking Company,
Burton-upon-Trent, and Ashbourne.
Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby.
ACTING ENGINEER—EIijah Galloway, Esq.
This line will commence at the Long Eaten station of the Midland
Counties Railway-, and will proceed in a direct line to or near Castle
Donington, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Measham, and Market Bosworth to
Nuneaton; joining, at Market Bosworth, the Birmingham branch,
projected by the Tamworth and Leicester Company, and at Nuneaton,
the projected Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester
Railway, at the point where that line crosses the Trent Valley line.
Thus a direct communication will be formed between the important
towns of Nottingham, Newark, and Lincoln on the one side, and
Birmingham, Coventry, and Warwick on the other side, at the same
time supplying a rich mineral and agricultural district with railway
advantages.
A reference to the map will show that this railway will also com-
mand other collateral advantages.

There is no doubt that the proposed railway communication be-
tween Cheltenham and Warwick will be effected, in which case the
proposed line will fill up the railway chasm at present existing be-
tween the counties of Gloucester and Worcester, and Nottingham
and Lincoln, and thus form a direct line livm the Severn at Glouces-
ter to the Humber at Great Grimsby. An amalgamation of the Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Junction with the Grimsby Dock Company
being now determined on, a large amount of capital will be expended
in rendering Great Grimsby a port of the first importance ; and it
must be obvious that the traffic to that port, from the district south-
west of Warwick, will be vecy great.
The distance saved by the proposed line between Leamington,
Warwick, Coventry, and Nottingham will be about fourteen miles ;
and between Birmingham and Nottingham (by either of the projected
lines from Birmingham to 'Leicester) the saving will be about ten
miles. Being so much the shortest route from Birmingham to Not-
tingham and Lincoln, it must secure the traffic from Birmingham to
Nottingham, Newark, Lincoln, and the port of Great Grimsby ; and
by joining with the Erewash Valley Railway at Long Eaton. it must
command the traffic from Coventry, Warwick, and the district south
of those towns to Sheffield, Leeds, York, and the north of Eng'and
gener'uliy. It will also afford a direct communication between Not-
tingham and the district between Warwick and Worcester, by means
of the projected Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby, and the Warwick
and Worcester Railways.
The entire length of the line will be under thirty miles. The Com-
pany's Engineer has completed his preliminary survey, and has
made his report, that the character of the country through which
the line is intended to pass is unusually favourable for engineering
purposes.
It passes directly through a very productive mineral district, in-
tersecting the Leicestershire coal-fields and lime-works, and will
afford communication north and south, to the Derbyshire Potteries.
With such an assured immediate and prospective amount of traffic,
the profits on the small capital required cannot fail to be highly re-
munerative.

Powers for all wance of interest at four per cent. on the paid-up
capital will be taken, and the liability of shareholders limited to the
amount of their subscriptions.

FCES.

Route, about
By proposed
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Prospectuses may be had at the
i 9, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-:
tions for shares, addressed to tl
attended to.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES

Temporary Offices of the Company,
street, London ; where also applica-
he Provisional Committee, will be

To the'ProNqgioWal e-Om-1;11t;";Ort-h-;Notlingham, Birmingham, and

Coventry Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201.
each, in the abeve railway ; and I undertake to accept the same,
or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the
regulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to
pay when required the deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per share.
Dated this day of 1845.
Name in full . • •••••• • • • • • • •
Profession and professional residence in fall
Resßlenee nail • • ••••••••• • • • • • • • • •••• •

HRE WSBURY, WOLVERHAMPTON,
DUDLEY, and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
WM. ORMSBY GORE, M.P.. Chairman.
The Hon. ROBT. H. CLIVE, M.P.,
Deputy-Chairman.
John Benbow, Esq., MP.
W. Richford Collett, Esq., M.P.
W. Fechney Black, Esq.
James Clay, Esq.
Richard Norman, Esq.
Stephen Phillips, Esq.
Richard Smith, Esq.
' It. A. Slaney, Esq.
Sir W. Young, Bart.
In consequence of the repetition of AdvertLsements signed "Thomas
H. Smith," and an " Original Shareholder," the Committee of Ma-
nagement think it their duty to publish the names of that Commit.
tee, as the best answer to the latter anonymous writer, and to caution
the Shareholders against being misled by any statements which
might be made at any meeting called by Thomas H. Smith, of whom
the Committee of Management know nothing.
The Committee of Management take this opportunity to state, that
the surveys from Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton are nearly completed,
and that the surveys from Wolverhampton to Birmingham are being
made under the direction of a joint Committee representing this
Company, the London and Birmingham Railway Company, and the
Birmingham Canal Company, the whole under the immediate super.
iutendence of Mr. Robert Stephenson.
By order, GEO, KNOX, Secretary.
3, Moorgate-street, Sept. 22, 1845.

In super rOyal Bvo., price 12s. coloured and half-bound,
DOWER'S SCHOOL ATLAS OF MODERN
GEOGRAPHY ; exhibiting in 36 Maps the Extent and Poli-
tical Divisions of every Country on the face of the Globe, with a
copious Consulting Index for reference to the Maps.
London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen-cOrntr, Paternoster-row.

ST. ALBANS, HATFIELD, and HERTFORD
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 150,0001., in 7,500 Shares of 201. each.

Deposit 2/. 2s. per share, being 10 per cent., in pursuance of the
existing Standing Orders.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION.

WILLIAM BRADLEY, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman
Colonel W. C,• Lewis Bird, Howland-street, Fitzroy-square
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North-end llonse, Portsmouth,

Deputy-Lieutenant, Ilauts
John Downes, Esq., Bedford-place, Russell-square, Director of the
Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds
William Wilks Hill, Esq., Beeston Hall, Leeds
John Haigh, Esq., Park-square, Leeds
Major A. Hawkes, Orme-square, Bayswater, Chairman of the Ja-
maica North and South Midland Junction Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Princes-street, Bank, Director of the South
and Midlands Junction Railway
Julius Le Softer, Esq., Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square
George Smith, jun., Esq., Leeds
Colonel Sir James lfaxwell;Wallace, K.H.
ENGINEER.—Thomas Drane, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-lane, London,
Leeds and West Riding Banking Company, Leeds and Bradford.
SOLICITOR.—CharIes Wright, Esq. 27, Essex-street, Strand.
The object of this railway now submitted for public consideration,
is not only to afford accommodation .to the country proposed to be
traversed, but also to form tke first junction out of London of the
London and Birmingham and North Eastern Railways, as well as
the proposed York line at Hatfield.
A large proportion of the shares having already been engaged by
parties locally interested, applications must be made on or before the
27th instant, to the Solicitor or the Secretary, at the temporary
Office of the Company, 27, Essex-street, Strand ; or Messrs. Sutton,
Gribble, and Sutton, 22, Royal Exchange ; Messrs. Scholes and Hors-
fall, shareholders, Liverpool ; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manches-
ter ; Messrs. Smith, Knowles, and Cooke, Leeds ; or Messrs. Collin-
son and Flint, Hull ; of whom forma of application may be obtained.
LOUIS MORE, Secretary.
27, Essex-street, Strand, Sept. 18, 1845.

ST. ALBANS, HATFIELD, and HERTFORD
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Notice Is hereby given, that NO APPLICATION for Shares will
be received after the 25th instant from parties in London, and on or
after the 27th instant from parties in the country.
By order of the Committee,
LOUIS MORE, Secretary.
27, Essex-street, Strand, September 25, 1845.

CAPE of GOOD HOPE GREAT SOUTHERN
RAILWAY.

(Provisionally Registered.)

It is proposed that this line shall commence at Cape Town, and
proceed to Stellenbosch, through Caledon, and thence to the town
of Swellendam, with further Extensions to Graham's Town and Port
Elizabeth.

detailed prospectus, with a list of influential Directors, will be
published in a few days ; in the meantime any application may be
addressed to the solicitors, S. P. Hook, Esq., 11, Tokenhouse-yard ;
ar.d W. W. Oldershaw, Esq., 7, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury.

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION,
ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
(Established by Royal Charter A.D. 1720.)
TIRE INSURANCES.
NOTICE.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Pre-
miums falling due at Michaelmas will expire on the 14th day of
October next.

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LA W INTELLIGENCE.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Sept. 24.

IN RE W. HORII.

In this case an application was made to appoint assignees under
a resting order made on a creditor's petition. The party bad been
in Whitecross street prison since November, when he was arrested
on a judge's order. He was related to a noble family, and on the
death of his father, Mr. W. Hors, would become entitled to con.
siderable property. The object was to raise money to pay the ere..
ditors en property situate at Wexford, Ireland.
Mr. Nichols supported, and Mr. Dowse opposed, the application
to appoint one of the creditors mentioned as assignee.
Mr. Commissioner Pom.ocx thought the creditors would be paid
in full, and made an order as prayed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
The Lord Mayor received, on Wednesday, the following letter
from Mr. Reele, of the Excise-office in Broad-street, relative to the
person who was committed as a rogueand vagabond on Tuesday,
for having fraudulently obtained alms of the Rev. Michael Gibbs,
Vicar of Christ Church :
" May it please your Lordship,—A case is reported in the Times
of this morning relative to one George Stratford, calling himself
the legitimate sen of the present Earl of Aldborough.
" I beg leave most respectfully to state to your Lordship, that
I have had some dealings with the above person calling himself
George Stratford. Some years since he was introduced to my no-
tice by a highly respectable family residing in the north of Ireland.
The fellow had found out the friends and connexions of the pre.
sent and rightful Countess of Aldborough, whom I have had the
honour of knowing for twenty years and upwards. On telling his
tale, he passed himself off as the son of the Earl of Aldborough,
and stated that he had been discarded by his father, and after
wandering about in Belgium for some time, he had shortly before
arrived in England, for the purpose of finding employment.
" Upon his representation, and knowing a little of..the reputed
father's history, I then clothed him, raised a subscription, and
lastly procured a situation in the London Docks for him; but his
habits of idleness and lying had become so notorious, that I lost all
sight of the fellow for two or three years, until a few months back,
when he entered my office and informed me of the Earl of Aldbo-
rough's decease at Carlsbad. He then named the executors, who
were residing in Dublin, and told me that he was left 501. per
annum by his father, finally requesting the loan of a sovereign, as
he was about to leave London by the packet that day for Antwerp,
tot oin his family.
" Having before made up my mind that the fellow was nothing
short of a thorough rogue and vagabond, subsisting by his plausible
tales upon the charitably disposed in London, I desired him to leave
my office, and I then addressed letters to the Countess of Aldbo-
rough and others living in Dublin, stating the information I had
that day received, and by return of post their answers exposed the
lying device, and showed that the whole of his story from begin-
ning to end was false ; and the present Earl of Aldborough, to the
best of my information and belief, is now alive and residing at Fle-
rence.-1 have the honour to remain, your Lordship's most obe.
dient servant, " G. REELE.
" Broad.street, City, Sept. 24."
Mr. Thomas Buckland and Mr. Thomas IVindle, two gentlemen
who, in the neighi;ourhood of the Stock Exchange, after the closing
of the inner market, had addressed each other in irritating lan.
guage, and from words proceeded to blows, were brought before
the Lord Mayor by a policeman, charged with having obstructed
the pavement.
City policeman George White (24), an active officer stationed in
the vicinity of Capel-court, on account of the frequent obstructions
caused by the dealings between jobbers and " stags" and " ducks,"
and other "such small deer," observing that there was rather an
extraordinary bustle about Capel-court, went up to the spot and
saw the two gentlemen fighting. Mr. Buckland was bleeding upon
the ground, although neither of the combatants appeared to have
any other arms than those with which nature had provided them,
and the affair occasioned very great impediment to the public.
The defendants said that there had been a misunderstanding
between them of a private nature, and that their differences had
been completely accommodated.
The Loan MATOR observed, that the private misunderstandings
of gentlemen must not be allowed to interfere with the conve-
nience of the public, and fiwed each of them 20s.
Mr. George Wetenhall, the printer of " Weterihall's Stock and
Sharebrokers' List," was charged With having spat several times
in the face and upon the hat and clothes of Mr. F. R. Street, li.
!aerials to the Stock Exchange.

Mr. Street stated, that he was librarian to the Stock Exchange,
and that on Saturday last Mr. Wetenhall committed the disgusting
assault of spitting upon him seven or eight times. The offence
was perpetrated in Leadenhall.street, at a little after two o'clock,
but how to account for it witness could not at all conjecture.
Mr. Wetenhall at the same time called witness a d—d stuttering
scoundrel.
Policeman 515 said that he heard an altercation between the
gentlemen, and be saw that Mr. Street's (the complainant's) face
and hat had been spat upon ; he did not see any person spit upon
Mr. Street, but he heard Mr. Wetenhall call him a d—d scamp,
or scoundrel.

The Lone MAYOR—Did you hear Mr. Street complain of having
been spat upon ? Policeman—l did.
The Loan MAYOR—Did you hear Mr. Wetenhall deny that he
had spat upon him ? Policeman—l did not.
The LORD Mayoa— And you heard Mr. Wetenhall call him a
scamp when he complained ? Policeman—l did.

Mr. Wetenhall, who exhibited much impatience during this
brief statement of the occurrence, declared that he had never since
the day of his birth, which took place sixty years ago, done such a
thing, or contemplated such a thing, as he had been accused of.
But the fact was, that the complainant, who called himself libra-
rian to the Stock Exchange, was what was called a " stag,"
nothing but a " stag."—(Laughter.) Now he (defendant) was
publisher of the list called " Wetenhall's List," and he certainly
had received provocation to use rsugh language, and to denounce
the " stag." There were gentlemen present at the time who had
seen and heard more than the officer knew.

The LORD MAYOR—it is in evidence, that instead of denying that
you had spat upon the complainant when you were accused of hay.
ing done so, you called him by an opprobrious name.

Mr. Wetenhall—My Lord, the officer did not come up at the
commencement.

The Loan MAYOR—No, he did not see you spit upon the corn-
plainant, but he heard you aggravate the offence by using abusive
language, instead of indignantly declaring that you had never done
anything of the kind.
Mr. Wetenhall—l now deny that I spat upon him.
The LORD MAYOR-1 have no doubt upon the subject after what
I have heard, and I fine you 10s.
Mr. Wetenhall—l thank you, my Lord.
BOW-SIREET.

Yesterday a respectable-looking woman, named Shady, resid-
ing at 14, Crown street, was charged with assaulting constable
102 F.

The constable deposed that, at about 11 o'clock, the defendant,
and two other persons, were standing on the foot-way in Crown-
street, engaged in conversation, in consequence of which he re-
quested them to move on. They refused, and witness was pro-
ceeding to compel them, when the assault took place.
The defendant, whose statements were corroborated on oath by
her daughter and another young woman, who were the parties
present, said that she was merely talking to her daughter and the
other witness, opposite her own door, and without causing any
obstruction, when the constable came up and ordered them off,
and almost immediately afterwards pushed her (the defendant)
down. She complained of this ill-treatment to the inspector at the
station, but, upon the representations of the constable, was locked
up all night.
The inspector proved that such complaint was made.
Mr. TWYFORD, after remarking that the case seemed more
serious against the policeman than the defendant, gave the latter
her discharge.