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inches forward, and 23 fat 1 inch abaft. The ship was thus I Browne, Joseph, Esq., Bedford, Director of the East and West of
trimmed; and she is now gone out to try with the still ; England Junction Railway
deeply loaded ships, having only two months' biscuit; so that` Burd, John,
&arvldeecrol,dNwVaillridaTursLltoycL Esq., Laura-place,l Bath
Esq., Alderman, Manchester
if the cruise extends any considerable time, she must bc
North Wales, and the NI
provisioned from the other ships, and reduced to beg her inuer and Lifetie
bread. Now what a farce all this is. Is, then, mere sailing Cooke, T. F., Esq., Leicester TRleisle.hia:le, Director of the
for a race, without regard to efficacy as a man-of-war, the Collett, Benjamin, Esq., Manor House, Bromsgrovc
object in view in the building of ships for the service of Croft, Major J. T., Regent-street, Piccadilly, Deputy-Chairman of
the country ? What could you have done in the late war the Chester and Manchester Railway
Cumberlege, Nathani l EDirect East and West
with a fleet of ships possessing the reported fine qualities of Junction tallwa e ' eq.' Director
of
the
D
the Vanguard? Plainly, very little. But, suppose, being Dalby, John, Esq?,-Ashbourne, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
thus lightened, the Vanguard should outsell the whole Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway
squadron, what then? Why she will have won the cup by Eales, William, Esq., Mincing-lane, London, Director of the Direct
a species cf Navy- office jockeyship—by carrying a great Western, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
'
spread of sail, with comparatively- little resistance—the great Gernon J., Es 12, Conduit-.treet Hanover-square Vice-Chairman
of the' Galway and Ennis Railway-
secret of her reported success in the Mediterranean. We Gillham, Joseph, Esq , Hargreaves Rouse, Oldham, Director of the
here see the practical and sound policy of the Admiralty; in Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction Railway
bringing such ships and reports to the bar of justice, the Hazeirigg, Grey, Esq., Carlton-hall, Leicester
truth has come out. It is important to remark, that if we Heneage, Charles, Esq., Cadeby-house, Lincolnshire
had to choose between a good ship at a light trim, and a Kebbel,ele '1,117 aU: Esq.,s Ldlyeebrep-hooluse, Kilby, Leicester
good ship at a deep trim, we should certainly for the service Knight, Joseph, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Midland Counties,
of the count!), select the latter, and for this reason :—That Leicester, and Bedford Railways
in sending ships on foreign stations it is absolutely requi ate Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston-hall, Sudbury, Director of the
to stow them full of stores and provisions, and the more they Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestel-shire Junction Railway
can carry the better. If the ships get lighter by the expen- Laurie,_acino , George,
..
3y s ry. , Manchester
ie
Esq., 58, C b idge-street, Hyde-park, Director
diture or stores, it is easy to make them deeper; but you can I'l
of the Direct Ea' East nd West Junctionr Railway
find no shift to compensate the inefficiency of a ship deeply Mann, A., Esq., Denver-hall, Norfolk, Director of the Liverpool,
immersed. Manchester, and Newcastle Junction Railway
We referred on a former occasion to the late Parliamen- Maunder, Joseph, Esq., Liverpool, Director of the Rugby and Man-
tary return to "two orders of the House of Commons, June cheater Direct Railway
26, and July 27, 1845," as being a document with-mt a mLten3,,s a
London, Horaceand
I 1 'm.,
Railway m Esq., 8.C.L., London, Director of Reming-
signature, and containing fallacies of a very absurd kind, Miller, Thomas, jun., Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Bir-
and which we mean, for the information of our readers, from mingharn and Leicester Railway
time to time to expose. The Vanguard is included in this Morse, R., Esq., Princess-street, Great George-street
return. First, she is said to have cost only 62,115/. ; whilst Packe, C. Hussey, Esq., Keythorpe Hall, Lincolnshire
the Clarence and Thunderer are ' said to have cost from Parker, Francis, Esq., Northampton, Director of the South Midland
72,0001. to 76,000/. Now, it will be found, that in the build-
Paßrleatin'svoany, John, Esq , Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
ing of the Vanguard at Pembroke, means were resorted to of the South Midland Railway
to keep down the cost, unusual on similar occasions ; Payne, Benjamin, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Birming-
labourers were employed at 2s. per diem, to do the work ham and Leicester Railway
usually performed by shipwrights at 4s. or 4s. 6d. ; and it is Ramsey, J., Esq., Bushey House, Herta
well known that the expense and difference in quality of Raeweodrre,ieJecterErelh,Leeicester, Director of the Direct Birmingham
materials employed in the construction of the Vanguard
Shaw, Joseph, Esq., York-place, Huddersfield, Director of the East
were greatly in favour of the constructor's supposed econo- and West of England Junction Railway
mical system ; and this ship was built with a view to show the Shaw, George, Esq., M.D., Leicester
accuracy of this system. Now, it is a curious fact, that in the Splers, E. 1., Esq,. Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Dockyard returns from the Vanguard, instead of the official Worcestershire Junction Railway
document of expenses being signed by all the principal offi- Stone, Nathaniel C.,ngham and Leicester Railway Esq., Rawley-fields, near Leicester, Director of
cers of the Pembroke- yard, as is customary, it was only signed the
Sugar, Hartley, Esq., Ball's Grove, Colne, Director of the Leeds
by one of them, and that one a partisan of the surveyor. It arid Carlisle, and the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railways
was actually, proved, that instead of this ship being built at a Threefall, Edward, Esq., Regent Road Mills, Manchester, Director of
less cost than the Clarence, she virtually cost 5,0001. more. the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
We come now to the return in this precious Parliamentary Tibbutt, Thomas, Esq., Rusholm, Manchester, Director of the
document relative to her flotation. By this we find, at page 3, Rugby fi
William tlierali, le'lh3olffi'llase,hesegter,iandeer
Leeds
and Carlisle Railways
that the draught of water by construction drawing is to be 23 Ws, E.
33
Esq., 70,
of the London and York Railway
~ sq.„ Portland-place, Director of the Leeds
feet forward, and 24 feet abaft, with a height of midship port and Liverpool, Leicester and Tamworth Railways.
of 7 feet; and in page 2 we find, by return from Spithead, BANKERS.
she swam 23 feet 7 inches, and 21 feet 5 inches, stored for 12 Messrs. Rogers, Olding, an.l Co., Clement's-lane, London
months, having a midship port of 7 feet 1 inch. Here, then, Messrs. Garin, Clapon, and Co., Boston
the ship swam 7 inches deeper forward, and 5 inches deeper Messrs. Kewney and King, Grantham
Pare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester and • Melton
abaft ; notwithstanding which, her midship port is actually, Mowbray.
one inch higher. Oh, wonderful ship ! Oh, heavenly con-
structors ! We ne'er may look upon your like again. So
much for the Vanguard.
Come we now to Superb. The Superb was built at Pem-
broke in 1842 ; and, not content with the most perfect of all
perfect ships, her predecessor the Vanguard, her constructors
made a considerable alteration in the form of the stem, by
which her buoyancy was increased forward, without any
corresponding alteration in the after body—of course down
she went by the stern, as might have been anticipated. On
fitting out this ship at Plymouth, in November, 1843, under
Captain Cory, she was found very deficient in displace-
ment, and would not take her stores to the draught of
water intended—so much so, that it was found requisite
to put on an additional quantity of copper; she was docked
previously to fitting out, and then sent round to Portsmouth
to join the experimental fleet. On arriving at Portsmouth,
however, she was ordered, from some unknown crotchet
of the surveyor's department, to be docked again, and
very great pains were taken to prepare her for the -forth-
coming trials. She went to sea under very hopeful
expectations, and she returned to Plymouth Sound, ac-
knowledged to have sailed even worse than the Vanguard.
An order is now sent, dated September 23, to put her on
the same low diet as Vanguard, and bring her to the light
jockey trim—a plain admission of her incapacity as a deep
ship; but no sooner is this effected, than she is withdrawn
from the fleet and sent to Portsmouth to be again taken
into dock and stowed under the express directions of the sur-
veyor. Can anything be more absurd or monstrous than such
a state of things? Here are two ships, supposed to be the
,finest in the world, which are only to be sailed by. certain
persons, at a certain draught of water, and which require such
a delicate trim, that to destroy their sailing, it is only requi-
site to fit them for general service. There is not upon the
records of the Admiralty, we will venture to say, an instance
of a ship docked three times within 10 months merely for ex-
perimental sailing.
It was alleged, in explanation of the bad sailing of the
Superb, that.the copper on the bottom was foul, and some
weeds were exhibited brought up by an apparatus put under
the ship ; but with how little reason this excuse for docking
the ship can be maintained, we leave our readers to judge,
from the following extract from a morning paper of Thursday
last, and which we suppose would not have appeared without
sufficient authority :
" The Superb, 80, Captain A. L. Cory, went into Ports-
mouth Harbour on Tuesday, and into dock all standing yes-
terday. Her men are hulked on board the Victorious; her
copper was perfectly clean and in excellent order, not a
wrinkle or swell to be seen, it having been only flattened
down about sixteen weeks back. So soon as the water was
clear from the dock men were set on to rip off the copper.
She will be fresh caulked and coppered. What ether process
she will undergo we cannot tell, but it is understood the
shipwrights and caulkers are to work early and late to get
her ready to come out of dock to-morrow. The officers be-
longing to her do not know auy reason for this ship coming
into dock. She did not leak, her copper was clean and
nearly new."
Had the Trafalgar been taken into dock, we should not
have been surprised, because the copper f that ship was
very much covered with weed, as is well known, and she
had not, previously to the cruise, had the advantage of
recent docking, common to all the . other ships of the squa-
dron. These operations on the productions of the inspired
school of shipbuilding requisite to their perfect success, may
be considered very trifling ; but they are, at the same time,
very costly. _

ENGINZER—C. Nixon, Esq.
SOLICITOR—J. A. J. Macgregor, Esq., 26, Suffolk-street, Fall-mall,
London.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Manners and Son, Grantham
Messrs. Millington and Kenrick, Boston.
SEcitErAux—George Farrer, Esq.

The object of this line of railway is to connect, by a direct route,
the Important town and seaport of Boston with the centre of Eng-
land, by way of Grantham and Melton Mowbray, where it will join
the Syston and Peterborough branch of the Midland Counties Railway.
It is unnecessary to enlarge upon the advantages which will arise
from this railway, which passes through one of the richest and
most fertile parts of England. The population is dense, and a
glance at ,the snap will show that this line is well laid ont, not
only for the direct traffic from Leicester and the intermediate
places to Boston, but also for the general traffic which will ue
brought to this line by the several railways which will be connected
with it. _ _

By this railway, which will be about forty-four miles in length,
and laid through a country nearly level, it is intended to pass by or
near Swinlshead, Doniugton, Folkingham, Grantham, Stoke, Rock-
ford, and Melton Mowbray. It is evident that this line will be o
great convenience and utility-, by affording to a part of the country
at present deprived of it the advantage of railway communication
with the counties of Rutlandshire, Leicestershire, Northampton-
shire, Warwickshire, &c., and thus connecting the agricultural
districts of Lincolnshire with the manufacturing parts of England,
affording to the latter an easy and accessible means of export for
their manufactures.

In the allotment of shares, holders in the Midland Counties Rail-
way will receive a preference, and reservation will be made for the
landed interests along the line, whose concurrence and assistance is
fully relied on by the promoters, by whom most of the influential
landholders have been canvassed ; and, in order to prevent unnes-
sary trouble, no other applications will be received except those
wherein reference is made to a member of the Provisional Commit-
tee, to the Solicitors or Bankers, or the following Sharelarokers,
from whom prospectuses and plans may be obtained :
Messrs Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, Royal Exchange
Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbnry, London
Messrs. Townley and Whiteehead, Liverpool
Mr. Keel, 20, Atherton-buildings, Liverpool
Messrs. Welibeloved and Oastler, Leeds
Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull
Mr. Geo. Clark, Bradford
Mr. Wm. Cranhelm, Halifax
Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham
Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby
Messrs. Grayston and Erle, York
Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield
Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol
Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Manchester
Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield
Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham
Mr. L. Wetherburn, jun., Huddersfield
Mr. R. Rozzell, Leicester
Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester
Mr. James Pringle, 79, Princes-street, Edinburgh
Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow
Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, College-green, Dublin
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Committee of the Boston, Grantham, Leicester,
and Midland Counties Junction Railway Company.

Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of
201. each in the above proposed railway ; and I undertake to pay the
deposit of 21. 2s. per share thereon, or any less number you may ap-
propriate to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Par-
liamentary Contract when required.
Dated this day of

1845.

Name •• •• •• ••• ..... ••••
Residence..
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Reference..

SALISBURY and SWINDON EXTENSION
of the WILTS, SOMERSET, and SOUTHAMPTON JUNC-
TION RAILWAY.

On the Broad Gauge.
Provisionally, Registered.
LOCAL COMMITTEE.
Ambrose Goddard, Esq., The Lawn, Swindon
John Browne, Esq., Chisledon, Swindon
Rev. Edward Duke, Lake-house, near Amesbury
Edward Purnell, Esq., Amesbury
Charles Dew, Esq., Salisbury
Robert Squarey, Esq., magistrate, Salisbury
George Bracher, Esq., Salisbury
Newell Vicary Squiary, Esq., Salisbury
William Blaclunore, Esq.. Town Councillor, city of Salisbury
From Salisbury, by Amesbury, the Vale of Avon, and Marlborough,
to Swindon, forming a direct line of railway through Cheltenham
and Gloucester, to Birmingham, 31anchester, and Liverpool.
Capital 700,0001., in 28,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDBXT.—KIRKCUDBRIGHT, OCT.
4.—A melancholy loss of life occurred here on the night of Tues-
day, or early on the morning of Wednesday last. Robert Cun.
ninghatn, of Linkens, occupying the farm of Nether Boreland,
off the town of Kirkcudbright, having been in the parish of Borgue
in the course of, Tuesday, taking sheep to grass parks there, took
his seat in Forrest's coach, from Newten-Stewart, about Barber-
row, in Bourge. On the coach crossing the ferry at Kirkcud-
bright, he was requested to keep his seat, but he declined, came off
the coach, saying—" No, no; I don't wish to be drowned in a
coach (alluding to a recent accident which occurred at the ferry);
when lam drowned, I shall be drowned on my feet." He crossed
the ferry, went to the inn at which the coach stopped, paid his
fare, and, in company with a friend, walked out of town as far as
the Millburn on his way home, when his friend parted with him,
and bade him good night. This might be about 10 o'clock. There
are reasons for believing that he was seen about an hour later
by Robert Hannah, the post runner from Tarff-bridge, about half a
mile out of town, at 11 o'clock ; but from this hour no further
trace of him cambe had till about half-past five on Wednesday
morning, when his body was found lying in the dock at Kirkiud.
bright, on its back on the sand, the tide having receded from the
spot two hours at least before the body was found. We under.
stand that as soon as the accident was known, the superintendent
of police instituted an investigation into the circumstances of the
case, and requested Dr. Shand to examine the body, who reported
that death must have been occasioned by drowning, there being no
external marks of his having sustained any injury. From further
inquiries it has been ascertained that cries of a shrill and urgent
nature were heard in the direction of the dock, about twenty
minutes before two o'clock, at which time it is supposed the gen-
tleman, unfortunately, under the impression that he had left his
horse at Castlesod, retraced his steps to Kirkcudbright, with the
view of re-crossing the ferry, and the night being very dark, missed
his way, and stepped over the quay, which is quite unprotected, and
fell into the dock. The accident is more to be regretted, that it
might have been prevented had our municipal authorities taken
the necessary and called-for precaution of putting a fence-chain
round the dock—a precaution more especially called for, as the
dock is right in the way of the ferry-boat, which is in demand at
all hours of time, night as well as day. We only hope that this
accident, with the previous one already referred to, will induce the
authorities to adopt Immediate measures, both as regards the
dock and the ferry, to secure the safety of the public to an extent
which has net hitherto been obtained, however loudly called for.—
Dumfries Courier.
THE THOROUGHFARE-PHOBIA.—A new disease has
within the last few months become very prevalent in the metro-
polis : and as no name has yet been given to it, we honour it with
the appellation of the Thoroughfare.phobia. It consists of a very
dangerous stoppage, preventing the free circulation of the blood of
commerce through the veins and arteries of the metropolis.
Fleet-street has been seized in this shocking way several times
during the present year; and Piccadilly, which we thought had
just got over a very long attack, has suffered a serious relapse
within the last week or two. We really begin to tremble for the
very existence of the City, when we see these awful symptoms of
a general breaking-up beginning to show themselves in all
quarters of the metropolis. If the suburban roads, which are
called the lungs of London, should be taken in the same way, suffo-
cation would be the inevitable censequence.—Punch.

John Bagshaw, Esq., Chairman of the Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton Junction Railway, and Director of the Northam and
Eastern, and Eastern Counties Railway Companies, London
William Bradley, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Wilts, Somerset,
and Southampton Junction Railway, and Director of the Sheffield
and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Compa-
nies, Manor Oaks, Sheffield
William Bardgett, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and South-
ampton JUnction Railway, and the, Italian and Austrian Railway
Companies, London.
George Hunt, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Soathamp••
ton Junction Railway Company, banker, Southampton
William James Le Feuvre, Esq., D hector of the Wilts, Somerset,
and Southampton Junction Rail way Company, Alderman and

Magistrate, Southampton
Edward Lomer, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and South-

ampton Railway Company, merchant, Southampton
William John M`Gwire, Esq., DireCtor of the Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton Junction. Railway Company, Hampton Court,
London
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and

Southampton JunctiOn Ralfway Company, London
George Rougemont, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton Junction Railway„ and of the Paris and Caen
Railway Companies, London
J. Stewart, Esq., M.P., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and South-
ampton Junction Railway, and 'DC the Paris and Caen and Northern
of France Railway Companies, ondon
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, mid South.
ampton Junction Railway Compsily, Westbourne-house, Sheffield
Miles Coventry, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southamp
ton Junction Railway Company, White Hart-court, Lombard- street
London.

BANLISILS.
Messrs. Robarts, Curti a, and Co., London
The Hampshire Bank, Southampton.
JOINT SOL ICITORS.
James Coppock, Esq., 3, Cleveland-row, SI James's
John Bell, Esq.. Craven-street, London
W. H. Moberley, Esq., Southampton.
ACTING ENGINEERS—Messrs.. Birch, Cannon-row, London.
LOCAL WYLICITORS.
C. W. Squarey, Esq., Salisbury
John Pyke, Esq., Marlborough
Messrs. Crowdy, Swindon.
The Directors of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Junction
Railway Company, having completed the whole of their arrange-
ments, and having been compelled to refuse at least three-fourths of
the applications for shares in their line, have had their attention
forcibly and repeatedly called to f be necessity of a direct communi-
cation between Salisbury and Swindon, the station on the Great
Western Railway, by which the most direct and remunerative con-
nexion will be formed between .9outhampton and Manchester.
The advantages, in point of lipeed, to be derived from the broad
gauge, as also the superiority of the gradients obtained by the rout(
of the Valley of the Avon, togeth e:r with the importance of placing the
city of Salisbury on the main trunk line from the north to South-
ampton, must insure to this undertaking the sanction of the Legis-
lature and the local support of the towns and districts through which

ROCIIESTER PETTY SESSIONS.—The mother of

the line will pass. .
Besides forming a direct cominunication with the great manufac-
turing towns in the north, the 4-. alisbury and Swindon Extension will
make a complete line of railway between Southampton, Salisbury,
and all parts of North and SOutli.:Wales.
After most mature deliberatical, the Directors have resolved to re-
commend to their shareholders :And the public the Immediate carry-
ing out of a railway to effect the above ol4ject, which will be most
desirable as a completion to their own line, and highly advantageous
in a pecuniary sense and on puttAic grounds. They have directed all
the necessary surveys to be made, so as to apply to Parliament in
the ensuing session, at the sarrie time as the Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton Junction Railwi ty, with a view to the ultimate amal-
gamation of both lines under i me management.
In the allotment of shares, preference will be given to the holders
of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Junction Railway shares,
1 as also to parties locally interested, due regard being at the same
time had to public interest; anid every original shareholder in that
line may, on production of his scrip certificate, receive an allotment
of a similar number of Salist.ury and Swindon Extension shares.
The holders of Great Westi.wn, and of Wilts, Somerset, and Wey-
mouth shares, will also have a preference. .

the boy MeHans, who was sentenced to pay Iss. for stealing a few
walnuts valued at 6d., the property of Sir John Marshall, at Gill-

Ingham, and whose case appeared in the London journals last week,
entered the court, and said that the money had been given her by
a gentleman named Underwood, at Gillingham, for the purpose of
releasing her son from going to prison. It appeared also that some
humane gentleman sent to the county court a post-office order for
the amount, and other sums had been forwarded for 'the same
benevolent object. The money was accordingly paid, and the
discharge made out.

By the death of the Rev. Dr. Perkins three livings,
in the county and diocese have become vacant, viz., the Vicarage
of Dawlish, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter; the Rectory of
3lamhead, in the gift of Sir Robert Newman, Bart. ; and the
Rectory of St. Lawrence, in this city, in the gift of the Crown.—
Western Luminary.

Applications may be made, in the following form, to the Provisional
Committee, at the Offices of 'the Company, 26, Gresham-street, the
solicitors, the local agents, ot• to the principal brokers in tow* and
Country.