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TO SHIPOWNERS AND MASTERS.
To prevent the evasion of the Merchant Seamen's Act, 7 and 8 Vic-
toria, cap. 112, which requires merchant vessels to carry in Store
certain Medicines, the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury have
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cording
thein ownerstothelncura Admiralty scale have been shipped : in case of de-
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For directions in using the
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TH E SCALE OF MEDICINES FOR
MERCHANT VESSELS, issued by the Board of Admiralty :
with Directions for their use, and observations on the Accidents and
Diseases to which Seamen are subject. By the late CHARLES
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GLASGOW, STRATHAVEN, AND
LESMAHAGOW DIRECT RAILWAY.
Capital, 3.50,0001., in 14,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 31. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Eglinton and Winton, Chairman
Lord Belhaven and Stenton, Deputy Chairman
P. M. Stewart, Esq., M.P.
Christopher Saltmashe, Esq., Director of the London and Birming-
ham Railway
Patrick Grahame, Esq , of Llmekilns
Alexander Donnie, Esq., of Crossbasket, Director of the Scottish
Central Railway
J. P. Westhead, Esq., Chairman of the Manchester and Birmingham
Railway
David Waddington, Esq., Deputy Chairman of ditto
John Kerr, Esq., of Shields
Alex. Grahame, Esq., of Capillyl Directors of the Glasgow,Barrhead,
Alex. Allison, Esq., of Pictou j and Neilston Direct Railway
John Sligo, Esq., of Carnyle, Director of the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Railway
William Whitmore, Esq., Director of the Greenock Railway
James Tasker, Esq., Director of the Greenock and Clydesdale Junc-
tion Railways
William Gibbie, Esq., of Halburn
Alexander Hunter, Esq., W.S.
Patrick Grahame, Esq., of Robshill Directors of the Glasgow,
Andrew Brown; Esq., of Clerkhill and Kilmarnock, and Ardros-
Hillhouse san Railway
John Hamilton, Esq., of Dunfillan, Merchant, Glasgow
Donald Smith, Esq., Banker, Glasgow
James Grahame, Esq., of Fereneze, Deputy Chairman of the Glas-
gow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct Railway
(With power to add to their number.)

The British Linen Company
The Western Bank of Scotland
The London and Westminster Bank
The Uuion Bank of Manchester
The Royal Bank of Liverpool
ENGINEER—NeII Robson, Esq., St. Vincent-street, Glasgow.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Campbell and Tenuents, 40, George-square, Glasgow.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT.
G. 11. Lang, Esq., 37, Great George-street, Westminster.
This line of railway will leave the Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston
Direct Railway at a point to the west of Pollokshaws, and through
the parishes of Eastwood, Cathcart, Means, East Kilbride, Stratbaven,
and Stonehouse, into Lesmahagow•, with branches to Eaglesharu and
other important places.
The district traversed by the line is thickly peopled with inha-
bitants engaged in manufactures and agriculture, and is rich in ex-
tensive fields of freestone, limestone, coal, and clay, and black band
iron-stone, and other minerals.
The line will be about 22 miles in length, and will afford the most
direct possible communication with Glasgow, Paisley, Pert Glasgow,
Greenock, Ardrossan, and the many other towns and villages with
which it will be brought into immediate connexion, by means of the
Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct Railway, with its branches
and extensions.
It is diilleult to form a full estimate of the advantages of this line,
whether as respects passengers or minerals ; but in regard to the lat-
ter, it may be stated that at present the whole gas coal used in the
west of Scotland is brought from Lesmahagow by cartage at enor-
mous expense, and that the great Lesmahagow field, as yet not
opened up, is ascertained to be unsurpassed in the extent, the rich-
ness, and facility in working of its coal, ir•n, and ether minerals,
which, when brought into operation, will at once enrich the neigh-
bourhood of the line, and afford a handsome return to the promoters.
Applications for Shares may be made to the following Brokers,
viz. :—Messrs. Foulds and Cockburn, T. G. Buchanan, Mein, and
Cunningham, and Dennistoun and Jardine, Glasgow ; Robert Allen,
Edinburgh ; Thomas Forsyth, Liverpool ; George Harris. Manches-
ter; and Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, 4, Bank-buildings, London,
CAMPBELL and TENNENTS, 40, George-square.
Glasgow, 27th August, 1845.

WORCESTER AND SOUTH WALES
JUNCTION RAILIVAY.

The Provisional Committee hereby give notice, that no further ap-
plication for Shares in this Company can be received after Tnuas-
DAY, the 4th September.

By order,

W. BORROW, Secretary.

OVERLAND MAIL

INDIA AND CHINA.

The Overland Mail has brought intelligence from
Bombay to the 19th of July, Calcutta July 5, and China
May 15. The news is generally without interest, as no
event of importance had occurred in any part of the
British dominions in India, and the same may be said of
China. At Calcutta the exchange was brisk, large
transactions having taken place at is 1 lid, at ten
months' date. The following summary is taken from
the Bombay Times of July 19 :
Young Egypt supplies the only news of any consider-
able importance on the present occasion. A tract of
country on the Western Bank of the Indus, recently
obtained in exchange from our ally Meer Ali Moorad,
has been plundered by some of the tribes in the neigh-
bourhood, and it has been found necessary to send up a
wing of the 18th regiment of Bombay N. 1., under
Major Corsellis, for the 'purpose of suppressing the dis-
turbance. No intelligence has arrived as to the result
of the expedition ; but rumours prevailed at Kur-
rachee that reinforcements were likely to be needed,
and if this be the case, the affair must be of a more seri-
ous nature than was at first imagined. The troops sta
tioned at the outpost at Shahpore have had a successful
chase after some cattle-stealing Beloochees. From the
above it will be seen that Sinde is not i❑ the enjoyment
of complete tranquillity, and that it is not yet in a fit
state to be left to the exclusive guardianship of Captain
Brown and his police. Very great dissatisfaction has
been caused by the re-introduction of transit duties
a system of taxation denounced while practised by
the Ameers, and entirely abolished by Lord Ellen-
borough. The intelligence from the Punjaub relate
chiefly to the ravages of cholera, and the suppression of
the rebellion of Prince Peshora Singh. A design to
assassinate Raja Goolab Singh has been discovered, and
the supposed originator of the plot, after taking poison,
endeavoured, almost with his last breath, to fix the guilt
of complicity upon Sirdar Juwahir Sing, the Minister,
and Raja Lull Singh, Commander of the Forces ! The
troops still continue turbulent, and clamorous for in-
creased pay, gratuities, &c. From Caubul we learn
that Mahomed Ukhbar Khan is about to undertake a
pilgrimage to Mecca. Cholera had shown itself at
Ghuznee and Jellalabad.—There is nothing of import-
ance from the Southern Mahratta country.—The troops
at Ferozepore have suffered a good deal from cholera,
and this terrible malady has this year:afflicted almost the
whole continent of India. In the Madras Presidency, and
at Bombay, Poona, &c., its ravages have been most ex-
tensive ; the setting in of the rainy season, however, will
doubtless now relieve us entirely of this calamitous vi-
sitation.

News from China to the 15th May has been received
since our last, but it comprises nothing of particular

moment.