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14 ONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.
Offices, 7, Lothbury, London, Nov. 12, 1845.
TO THE SHAREHOLDERS.
Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of the standing orders of
Parliament, which require Subscription Contracts to be signed after
the last day for presenting petitions in the previous sessions, the
holders of London and York and Bawtry Branch Scrip Certificates
are required to send the same to the offices of the Company for
registry, with name and address in Dill, legibly written on the back
of each certificate, on or before the 29th day of November instant,
in a letter, properly filled up and signed, and. in the form subjoined ;
in which they are also requested to intimate, if they desire to take
the quantity of Extension Shares to which (subject to the approval
of the' Committee of Direction) they are entitled (or any less num-
ber), in proportion of ONE Extension Share of 251. for THREE of
the Old 501. Shares.
The Deeds will Lie for Signature as follows, viz.:—
London—At the Offices of the Company, No. 7, Lothbury, from the
9th to the 31st December, between the hours of eleven and four
Liverpool—At the Office of John Howard, Esq.
Manchester-At the Royal Hotel
Leeds—At the Office of Messrs. Atkinson, Dibb, and 7•.,C1'
Reiland
York—At the Office of Messrs. Leeman and Clark .=
linil—At the Office of Messrs. Frost and Moss G
Lincoln—At the 0111 c: ,of Richard Carline, Esq. .8 8
Sheffield—At the Office of Messrs. Wilson, Young, and 1.- A 'el
Pierson
Glasgow—At the Black Bull Hotel a
irto73 Edinburgh—At the Royal Hotel, Princes-street
Newcastle—At the Office of George William Cram, Esq.
Birmingham—At the Office of Messrs. Spurrier and Chaplin Ei
Bristol—At the Office of Messrs. Isaac Cooke and Sons a
And Notice is further given, that in those cases in which Share-
holders neglect to send in their Scrip Certificates for Registry, or
neglect to execute the aforesaid new Subscription Contract in con-
formity with the stipulations of the Subscribers' Agreement, and as
required by the Standing Orders of Parliament, within the respec-
tive periods aforesaid, the Directors will proceed to re-allot the
Shares, and issue new Scrip Certificates to other parties.
And Notice is farther given, that all parties desirous of executing
the New Subscription Contract by Power of Attorney, may be sup-
plied with forms on application at the Offices of the Company, and
on the previous payment of the sum of 305., the cost only of the
proper stamp.
Dated ibis 12th 'day of November, 1845.
• • By order,
' (Signed) J. R. MOWATT, Sec.
FORM OF LETTER.
To the Secretary of the London and York Railway.
Sir,—l herewith transmit to you for registration, Scrip Certificates
as at foot, representing Shares in the London and York
Railway ; and I request that you will allot to me Ex-
tension Shares of 251 each, (to which as the holder of the en-
closed Old Shares, in the proportion of ONE for every THREE, as
advertised, I am entitled), and I undertake to pay the deposit of
2/. 10s. per Share on the said Extension Shares, and to execute the
Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement in respect
thereof when required
Dated this

locally interested, or residing on the line, in the allotment of shares.
The prospectus may be obtained, and applications made for shares,
to the Secretary of the Great Western Railway Company, at the
London office of the Company, 449, West Strand, or at the Padding-
ton or Bristol stations, or may be addressed to the care of any of the
Bankers and Solicitors.—Unexceptionable references must be given
when parties applying for shares are not personally known, or locally
interested in the line.

BIR MING HAM AND MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management of the above Railway, being as-
sured by their engineer that the plans, surveys, &c., will be ready,
in accordance with the standing orders of Parliament, beg to inform
the applicants for shares that it is not their intention to send out
their Letters of Allotment until the plans, &c., aro deposited and the
necessary orders of the House complied with.
1, Moorgate, Nov. 6By order, A. A. FLINT, Secretary.

PARIS AND LYONS RAILWAY.

(GANNBRON'S COMPANY.)
With reference to the advertisements issued under date of the
6th instant, requiring the *Shareholders in this Company to deposit
their Bankers' Receipts on or before the 18th inst., and subsequently
to sign for the documents to be issued in exchange ; further notice
is hereby given, that the aforesaid receipts must be lodged, and the
reciprocal engagements executed at latest, on the 25th instant, it
being absolutely indispensable that the Register of the Shares shall
be lodged in Paris by the sth prcximo, in preparation for the ad-
judication of the line, which has been definitively fixed for the 20th
of December.

By order of the committee,
WILLIAM VILLESBOINET,/ Secretaries.
EDWARD FILDER,
7, Tokenhouse-yard, London, 17th November.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY, AND
OXFORD AND BLETCHLEY JUNCTION.
WARWICKSHIRE AND LONDON RAILWAY.
The deeds of these Companies will lie for signature at the follow-
ing places, viz. :
Derby—At the Midland Hotel, on Monday, the 17th of November.
Leeds=Scarborough Hotel, Tuesday, 18th of Yovembqfc.
York—Black Swan, Wednesdey, 19th November.
Hull—The George Inn, Thursday, the 20th of November.
Worcester—At the Offices of Messrs. Hyde and Tymbs, solicitors,
on Saturday, the 22d of November.
Bath—At the White Lion, on Monday, the 24th of November.
From Ten till Four each day.
WYNDHAM HARDING,
Secretary of the above-named Companies.
Euston Railway Station, Nov. 10, 1845.

day of 1845.
Christian and Surname In full ......
Residence • . • ....................
Name and Address of Referee
Applicant's usual Signature

LIST OF SCRIP ENCLOSED

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Scrip of Fifty Shares, each ----- Shares Total.
II Twenty „ „ ‘,..
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Ten
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One
Note--,The Shareholders 'will observe that all applications ' for
Extension Scrip must be made at the same time that the Old Scrip
Certificates are sent in for registry, and in the foregoing form (Printed
copies of which may be obtained at No. 7, Lothbury, and of all the
Bankers of the Company).
Parties will be informed by return of post of the safe receipt of
their Scrip.

FXETER GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Being a Line between Yeovil and Exeter, and between
Bridport and Exeter, with Branches to Sidmouth and Chard.
Capital, 1,300,0001., in Shares of 50/. each.
Deposit, 51. per Share.
'Provisionally Registered pursuant to Act 7th and Bth Victoria,

cap. 110.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Earl of Devon, Powderham Castle, Devon
The Earl of lichester, Melbury House, Dorset
The Earl Digby, Sherborne Castle, Dorset
The Earl of Falmouth, Tregothaßn Castle, Truro
Lord Portman, Bryanston House, Dorset
Lord De Manley, Canford, Dorset
The Viscount Courtenay, M.P.
Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., M.P., F.R.S.
Sir Lawrence Vaughan Palk, Bart.
Major-Gen. Sir Dudley St. Leger Hill, C.B,
John Attwood, Esq., M.P.
Alex. D. W. Baillie Cochrane, DK., M.P.
Thomas Gill, Esq.; M.P.
Thomas Alexander Mitchell, Esq., M.P.
Charles B. Sheridan, Esq., M.P.
Henry C. Sturt, Esq., M.P.
Charles Russell, Esq., M.P
Wan. Goodenough Hayter, Esq., M.P.
Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq. Directors of the Great
George Jones, Esq. Western Railway
Edward Wheler Mills, Esq.
Company
W. Tothill, Esq.,
Ralph Barnes, Esq.
John Batten, jun., Esq.
William Battiscombe, Esq.
William R. Bayley, Esq.
J. Wentworth Buller, Esq.
Henry Champernowne, Esq.
John Worthy Colson, Esq.
G. H. Cutler, Esq.
John Edye,
George Sydenhain Fursdon, Esq.
Robert Gordon, Esq.
John Gould, Esq.
Joseph Gundry, Esq.
Samuel Bowden Gundry, Esq.
William Eustace Gundry, Esq.
M. Gutteres, Esq.
Arthur H. Holdsworth, Esq.
Henry Hooper, Esq.
William Hooper, Esq.
Thomas Collins Hounsell, Esq.
G. G. Kekewich, Esq.
Samuel Trehawke Kekewich, Esq.
Emanuel Lousada, Esq.
Charles Herbert Mallock, Esq.
John Newberry, Esq.
Thomas Cordell Newberry, Esq.
Henry Stafford Northcote, Esq.
Lawrence Palk, Esq.
Henry Patteson, Esq.
Joseph Player, Esq.
Benjamin Salter, Esq.
Thomas C. Sanders, Esq.
George Sharland, Esq.
Joseph Shepkrd, Esq.
Ilttmpnry w eid, Esq.
J. C. Wilcocks, Esq.
Michael Williams, Esq.
• Thomas Woollcombe, Esq.
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER—I. K. Brunel, Esq.
BANKERS.

Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co., Lonibard-strect, London
National Provisional Bank •
Messrs. Sanders and Co. Exeter
Messrs. Milford and Co.,
Messrs. Hoeft and Lott, Honiton
Messrs. S. and W. E. Gundry, Bridport
Messrs. E. and J. B atten, Yeovil
Stuckey's'Banking Company, Chard and Crewkerne
Messrs. Eliot and Co., Weymouth.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitehall, London
Messrs. Osbornes, Ward, and Co., Bristol
Charles Brutton, Esq.
Messrs. Kennaway7and Buckingham Exeter
Messrs. Saunders and Kitson
C. H. Turner, Esq. Exeter
Messrs. Templer and Son Bridport
G. D. O'Kelly Templer, Esq. Lyme Regis
Messrs. Newman and Lyon, Yeovil
F. Coleridge, Esq.. Ottery, St. Mary.
OFFICES IN LONDON-449, West Strand, and Paddington Station.
PROSPECTUS.
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The object of the proposed undertaking is to unite the city of Exeter
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tion from the metropolis, through EXeter to the important seaports and
harbours in the British Channel, as well as cotnpleting the chair'
of south coast communication from the potta of foyer, Portsmouth,
and Southampton, to Exeter, Plymouth, and Falmouth.
Between Yeovil and Westbury, the Wilts, Somerset, arid Wey,
mouth Railway will form the main line of comnianictititiii, at Which
latter place it will join a proposed extendiOri of the Berks and Hants
Railway from Hungerford, carried through the Pewsey Valley, as
shown more distinctly in the accompanying plan. The Berks and
Hants, and the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth BIM hate already
passed, and those lines are under construction. The Great Western
Railway Company Till apply for the extension from Hungerford to
Westbury, only thirty-five milts, in the approaching session.
The line of the Exeter Great Western Railway is intended to eella-
mence at a distance of about three miles from Exeter, by a juaction
with the Bristol and Exeter Railway at Stoke Canon, and proceed-
ing thence by Ottery Saint Mary and Honiton, will pass into the
Valley of the Axe at Axminster. From that place, the main line, in
one direction, will continue along the same valley, passing within
about three miles of Chard (which town it is proposed to connect
with the main line by a short branch), and through Crewkerne, to-
wards Yeovil, near to which town it will join the Wilts, Somerset,
and Weymouth Railway. From Axminster, the main line, in the
other direction, will proceed near to Lyme Regis, and thence to
Uridport, where it will also join the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
Railway, leading towards Dorchester and the coast line to South-
ampton.
The fashionable watering-place of Sidmouth will be made acces-
sible to 'visitors from London and all parts of the country, by a branch
to that place from Ottery Saint Mary.
. By reference to the map, it will bo seen how effectually this line
will supply the only link wanting to complete the continuity of the
South Coast Lines, and will afford the best means for an entire
through traffic from Cornwall and Devon 'to the different ports of
Lyme, Bridport, Weymouth, Poole, Southampton, Portsmouth,
Shoreham, Brighton, Hastings, Dover and Ramsgate.
It is also a very important feature in the undertaking, which is
now submitted to the public, that it gives railway communication to
a line of country hitherto unsupplied with this essential means of in-
tercourse with the surrounding districts ; many towns of importance
w!ll have the benefit of local intercommunication, besides being
placed on a main and direct line of transit between the metropolis
and the most valuable seaports on the southern coast of England.
The inhabitants of the city of Exeter, and of all places beyond it,
will be brought to a reduced distance of 177 miles between Exeter
and London, instead of 194 miles, the whole being worked uninter-
ruptedly by one Company, on the same gauge, and on a line superior
to any that can be carried for the same object; in any other direc-
tion, whether considered with reference to the shorter new line re-
quired to be constructed, or to the comparatively easy gradients that
can be obtained at a reasonable coat.
Under these circumstances there can be no doubt that this raill`ray
will not only confer incalculable benefits •on the districts through
which it is intended to pass, and generally on the mineral and agri-
cultural produce of Devon and Cornwall, but will coal',ace to the vast
national object of rendering the harbours of Plrr ,nth and Falmouth
most serviceable for every purpose of comm`l:ece, more easily acces-
sible for the arrival and dispatch of fore'
.gn mails and passengers,
avoiding the delays and dangers of Ch7.4nnel navigation, and an case
' of war, contributing to the security of British property, whether at
sea or on shore.
A mere glance at the map -,eill satisfy every inquirer of the com-
posses', over an unusally large amount of export
and
passengers or in goods, independently
omfanthd this
import
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of the country itself, which are known to be
very great.
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One importan+,
thee high price necessarily paid for land canaa4k lhailt-
ocoinnglal,,cecivryoluthntwob;.,
much the consumption by a large class of trio tia
who Itr.ast he greatly benefited by reduced cost of totmt by railway.
The district from which coal may be brought is ti theneighbourhood
Of. Radstock, in Somersetshire, to which tilation,
direct from the pit's mouth on to the,
Somerset, and Weymouth Railway Phr:e a branch of the Wilt.%
o-Tlends, and bring the coals
The interests of the landed pro* rioters have been eamuited tiridfigh-
out the line, and it is confidently line of railway.
believed, frera the airong local sup-
port it has received, that the legislature 'will sanction this measure
without hesitation.
Is is agreed that the -
:me shall be worked by the Great Western
under a lease, as inthe case of the Wilts, omer-
S set, and Weym, •
PAillway Company.
..,,,,auyth"Railway ; in consideration of which, the Great
a Company have undertaken to guarantee to the
an ' .ars four yer cent. per annum upon the paid-up capital, with
.ocrease of one-half per cent., in proportion to any dividend of one
per cent.. upon their own stock, exceediag eight per cent., which in-
crease shall be payable to the proprietors of the Exeter Great
Western Railway Company, in addition to the guaranteed rate ; and
the Great Western Railway Company are to become responsible for
pWr oe ps tr
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all the preliminary expenses, in case the Act shall not be obtained
within the two next sessions of Parliament.
The capital will be raised in 26,000 shares of 501. each, upon which
a deposit of 5/. per share will be paid upon subscriptions, and no
further call will be made previously to obtaining the Act of Incor-
poration.
Interest at four per cent. per annum will be allowed, after the Act
shall have passed, on the deposit; and on all paid-up calls during the
construction of the line, and until the dividends are provided for,
under the guarantee of the Great Western Railway Company.
The notices are already given, and. the plans and books of re-
ference will be deposited in time for the Act to be applied for at the
meeting of Parliament. If the Act should not be obtained, as before
mentioned, the deposit will be paid back to the proprietors, brit with-
ont interest.
A decided preference will be given to landowners and to parties,

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THE YARMOUTH MURDER.
(From the Cambridge Advertiser.)
The following is the copy of a statement made by Mrs.
Dick, before the Mayor, relative to the murder of the late
Mrs. Candler :
" The information of Sarah Dick, wife of John Dick, taken
the 25th day of October, 184,5, before William Hurry Palmer,
Esq., Mayor (now deputy), who deposeth as follows :—About
three weeks after the trial for the murder of Harriet Candler,
I met with Samuel Parham at the top of the Market-row,
on the pavement in the Market-place near Mr. Fenn's in the
forenoon about 11. o'clock; he stopped me and said, how do
you do? I said I don't know you. He said, Yarham, and said
do either of these men interfere with you, either Royall,
Hall, or Mapes? I replied, not so much with me as they did
with the girl (meaning my daughter). I said do they inter-
fere with you? He said as they knowed better. I said that
if it had been me that you said so much, I would have given
it to you well when I got out, if I had to go to gaol for it
seven years. He again said they knowed better, and I got
upon the road way to come away, and made answer, you are
either the murderer yourself or you know well who did it;
he touched me on the shoulder and said stop Ler and I'll tell
you all :about it. I said Ido not want to hear it; he again
said I'll tell you all about it. I said well what do you say
about it. He then said he was not so much to blame as Hall,
Royall, and Mapes. He said they heard Mrs. Candler had got
money, and they never would let him rest, but always
wanted him to let them in, and they had heard that Mr.
Catchpole was going to the ngel, and they wanted to be in
that night, and he made a bargain with them not for to
meddle with her, but to go in when she went for the beer;
for sometimes she would be out a quarter of an hour; they
were not to touch her—to use her badly—but to get the
money—so they came, and he was to let them in ; they came
at first between 10 and 11 to the back door, and she was
going about, and the shop was not shut in, so Royall watched
about till very near 11, till she went for the beer, he let them
in, and there was a deal of drinking in the Swan, and noise,
and he told them to go into the bed-room first, the money
was always there. She came in sooner than what she
generally did, and he said, he and the boy Mapes and Hall
were in her bed-room, and he had a candle in his hand and
Royall was at the back of the counter, and when they
heard her he put the candle out and sat down on the bed and
did not know what to do, and sat for a few minutes, and Mrs.
Candler sat down at the fire-side, and Royall moved at the
back of the counter and she came out and asked Royal,
what he wanted. I know you, says she, and he said he
wanted half an ounce of tobacco. She turned round to get
Ithe tobacco, and he struck her; then the others they came
out, and Hall had a pair of pincers in his hand, and he beat
her about the head, and they left her lying till they had got
all the money, as they expected, and he (Yarham) and
Mapes went into the bed-room again, and Jigger nailed up
something over the lights and shut the door, and they all
sought the money. He said they might have long sought a
hammer, for it was Jigger's pincers that did it—anybody
might have seen that it was no hammer—so they got all the
money, as. they expected, and were going away, and they
looked at the old woman and they thought she was dead, and
they listened to hear if any one was passing or repassing ;
and Mapes went out first and went across the street to a girl
or a woman; so then they all three (Yarham, Royall, and
Hall) came out together, and they three went up the Black
' Swan-row, and Mapes and the woman followed ; and the
woman hearing a great noise in the Swan went in there and
called for something, to see who was there, and she ' said
there was a deal of the Angel men drinking there, and were
happy enough, for the words they made use of were, let us
have another pot, some old must pay for it that never
saw it. Then they all went to hide the money, and they
met different people they knew, and when they got across
the market they saw one of the policemen, which proved to
be Layton ; so Jigger went round the fish-market and into
his father's house, and the others made on with the money.
Then he heard a noise like a whistle somewhere about the
Bleach, and he told them to goon and hide it, for his house
was sure to be searched, and to give him a signal when they
had hid it. Then he went home, and he heard Mrs. Candler
moaning, and he went in to see, for he was afraid for she
surely knew them all, and the lard knife was laying when he
went in ; and she turned her eyes upon him, and he cut her
throat, and she put. her hand to grip the knife; and that was
the way her poor hand was cut. I told him then that he
was the murderer himself, and he said 'No, it was Hall,
and Royall beat her so with the pinchers that she could not
have lived.' And I said, ' Did not Mapes meddle
with her ? ' ' and he said, 'No ' • he only plundered
the house.' And I told him he ought to have
spoken the truth at first, and things would have been
different. He then told me to say nothing about it, because i
that his solicitors told him that they wanted to fetch me in
it, that I had done it with him. I forgot to say that Yarham,
after cutting her throat, said that he went up stairs and
washed his hands, and he was much put about, and that his
wife had had leeches on but was not to say sick, but was
down the next morning apparently well, whether it was from
agitation or not he could not tell, and that when Royall came
to give the signal he (Yarham) threw the window up, but he
could not see him, but came down stairs and looked out at
the front passage after him, and be saw him going past John-
son's shop, and the policeman Waller coming down towards
him (Yarham), but they did not speak to each other, and he
(Yarham) went in again. He said he let his master in, but
he did not say anything to him. Some one then spoke to
Yarham, and they went away together. I have not seen
Yarham since to speak to.

" The PC mark of SARAH DICK."
The above extraordinary statement was made, but the
Mayor declined administering an oath. It is much to be
feared that it will not prove available to the conviction of the
murderer.

THE CORN QUESTION.
The Constitutionnel, speaking of the prevailing scarcity,
observes---" The difference in the harvests from one year to
another are decidedly not so considerable now as formerly.
The progress made in agriculture has done away with a vast
number of those causes which formerly comprised the
harvests. The falling off formerly was one-third, one-half,
and even two• thirds of the quantity requisite for consump-
tion, and the last century shows the most afflicting souvenirs
• ittigres ec but since that period the produce of corn has
had more than one rea y -0-I,larVMt;ltirttifttettibra4l2oll-

The falling off of 20 or 25 per cent., although very con-
siderable, certaii:ly does not bespeak a famine. Was the
deficiency to be equally divided among the consumers they
would not undergo any very serious deprivation ; but un-
fortunately such is not the case. The high price of
bread does not diminish the consumption of the
higher classes, and scarcely alters that of the middle classes,
so that the deficiency falls almost entirely upon the lower
classes, and the deficiency, instead of being at the rate of
25 per cent., is augmented to at least 40 or 45 per cent. This
difference is enormous for stomachs accustomed to a food, a
large quantity of which contains in reality but little nourish-
ment, and as the misery increases, the physical powers
diminish in a proportionate ratio. The difference in the
consumption of food in different countries, under the same
latitude, is very remarkable. In England the consump-
tion of corn is 220 kilogrammes each person in the year.
In Russia it is 400 ; in France, 200 ; in Bavaria, 220; in
Saxony, 160; in Austria, 145. It is somewhat singular
that the consumption of the article salt should follow in
nearly the same progression as that of bread. In Austria,
for instance, the consumption is 5 kilogrammes per head; in
Bavaria it is 9, and in England 11. The quantity is even
more considerable in Russia. This fact completely de-
strays the assertion which has frequently been made,
that vegetable nourishment requires more salt to make
it wholesome than animal food. In England, where the
consumption of meat is 31 kilogrammes per head, three times
the quantity of salt is requisite, as in Austria, where the
consumption is only 14 kilogrammes. The same observa-
tion will apply to Bavaria, where the consumption of meat
is 22 kilogrammes per head per annum. The greatest con-
sumption of meat is in Munich; it is said to be 115 kilo-
grammes per
.head, and is almost equal to that of bread.
The consumption of beer is also greater there than in any
place else. It is, indeed, something extraordinary, being
800 quarts per head per annum, and is consequently four
times greater than that of England. Now that a famine
threatens Bavaria, the deprivations which the people will
have to submit to, and how much the inhabitants of the
capital will have to reduce their wants, real or imaginary,
may be easily conceived. The Austrians are probably the
most sober people of the Continent, yet they are nowise de-
ficient in physical strength. The preceding details prove
that the problem of subsistencies has been, up to the present
period, but very imperfectly studied, notwithstanding that
it is the question of ali others in which the human race is
moat interested."
Emancipation (a Brussels journal) contains the fol-
lowing account of the measures taken to meet the scarcity
in Belgium;—" The Central Board of Relief held a meeting
at the Hotel de ilia on the 11th instant. Upon the propo-
sition of M. Schueri;:ans, president of the sub-committee,
the following propositions were
.agreed upon with regard to
that sub-committee :--‘ The .lists of labourers and other
persons who shall be admitted 1:.? make purchases in the
depots of the Board shall be drawn ql bye the committees of
charity of each parish by the societies oi beneficence, by the
manufacturers and shopkeepers. For this :nurse set forms
of lists shall be addressed with the least ptosible delay to
those respective parties. There shall be deliv:red
for to the
persons admitted to malts purchases in the
depots cards numbered, and bearing the name of the
aesaid
person coming to effect such purchases, the nature
of his calliug, his residence, the number of persons cob-1-
posing his family, and the disposition of article 15 of the
organic regulation. They shall moreover be stamped with
the seal of the Board (article 11 of the organic regula-
tion).' The cards shall be withdrawn by the sub-committee
entrusted with their deliverance when it shall be found that
they have become useless, or when they shall be made
.a
bad use of ; and upon being returned they shall lose their
value. The lists and the number of cards distributed and
withdrawn, shall be communicated to the Central Board
at each of its sittings. The six members of the corn;
mittee shall exercise a continual surveillance, visiting ana,
controlling the office of inscriptions by turns once ever),
week. They shall assemble at the Hotel
ai
Friday at six o'clock in the evening, upon p
1 f
.. the
3f., and such as shall arrive beyond the hour
forfeit IP
The money thus forfeited to be placed at the dispose o
Board. Upon the proposition of M. Boe.ts d'Hamer, secre-
tary to the second committee entrusted with
the making the ne-
cessary purchases, the Board decided upon _
quantity of the articles which the
the d
bearers of card.s might be
nature and
allowed to purchase. The following.. was maim of the
Board in that respect ;--4.Every two days for each person
one loaf weighing one kilogramme. Each person weekly
seven kilogrammes of potatoes, or seven tickets for a quart of
(the Board decided that by way of trial it would
sale every day soup made
from meat). Children between the ages of three and twelve
scoallupseetaochllie made and offered for
years to be allowed half the above quantity. Weekly for
every fifty kilogrammes of buck wheat bread. The
Board, moreover,
decided upon the proposition of the sub-
committee—J. That it would apply to txovernment, in order
to obtain the free transport, or at a very low charge by the
Government riulroads, by the canal of Charleroy, or any
other means, the purchases of grain, &c., which it might be
necessary to make. 2. That it would demand of the college
of burgomasters And sheriffs authority to purchase, at the
lowest possible pt ice, the corn, rice, potatoes, &c., in such
quantities as might be deemed necessary by the sub-com-
mittee, the said qua.ntities, however, to be approved of by
the college in conformity with article 6 of the organic regu-
lations. 3. That it would demand permission to have the
supplies of butter and coals, which might be deemed necessary
offered to public adjudication."

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colo-
nial-office for the Governors of the Mauritius, Ceylon, and
Hong-Kong.

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