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lOVENTRY and LEICESTER JUNCTION
I RAILWAY

COLESHILL AND EXTENSION,

The Scrip for the Extension Branch will be ready for delivery on
and after SATURDAY NEXT, the 26th inst., between Twelve and Four
each day, at the emcee of the Company, 3, Church-court, Old Jewry-.
The original Coventry and Leicester Scrip must be produced, the de-
lasit of 11. ss. per share paid, and the usual deeds signed by the
holders of the Coventry and Leicester Scrip at the time of the de-
livery. By order, HENRY CASSIN, Secretary.
April 24, 1845.

GRAND UNION EXTENSION RAILWAY.
An Extension of the GRAND UNION RAILW kY is deter-
mined upon, from Nottingham to the Terminus of the intended
Manchester and Buxton Railway, at Amber Gate. The line will
traverse the Great Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire coal-field, run-
ning from the Amber Gate-sta'ion through or near Hartsey,
Ripley, Codnor, Heanor, Eastwood, Ilkeston, Trowel', Wollaton,
and Radford, to the town of Nottingham, sad thus passing through
a densely populated district, inexhaustible in its mineral resources,
and from whence an immense degree of local traffic must be de-
rived, it will complete by its junction with the Grand Union and
the Manchester and Buxton lines, a direct communication between
the eastern and north-western parts of the Kingdom. As this line
was originally a part of the plan contemplated by the promoters of
the Grand Union Railway, and was merely postponed until it should
be ascertained that the Manchester and Buxton Company would
carry out their scheme of extension to Amber Gate, a preference
will be given, in the allotment of shares, to the holders of shares in
the Grand Union Railway.
A Provisional Committee is formed, and a detailed prospectus will
be issued in a few days ; and in the meantime, communications
may be made to the Provisional Committee, through their Solici-
tors, Messrs. W. and S. Parsons, jun., Nottinghzuri, of whom further
information may be obtained.
26th April, 1845.
THE GREAT MEDITERRANEAN AND
ADRIATIC JUNCTION RAILWAY,

Connecting the Cities of GENOA, TURIN, MILAN, and VENICE ;
and completing the COMMUNICATION between the MEDITER-
RANEAN SEA and the GULF of VENICE.

Capital 30‘01/o.ooo,Florins Couvontion. opal tc £3,000,000 stetlinA.
in 50,000 Shares or 40: equal to £5O each. of which 40,000
will be !I-Hotted in P.ngland, the remainder beifig reserved for Con-
.

tinental Distribution.
Deposit 10 Florins Convention, equal to per Share.
TROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
Henry Arrowsmith, Esq., Bayswater.

JoujileMon, Esq., Park-place Villa, Maida-hill.
Miles Dormer, Esq., Han's-place, Sloane-street.

Sir John Hare, Lang ham-place..
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Cecil-street, Strand.
Thomas Twisden Hodges, ELK., Sandgate, Kent, and Clarendon

Hotel, Bond-street. -
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Abe/lurch-lane, Lombard-street.
Horace William Meteyatd, Esq., Cliatham-place, Blackfriars.

Major Newcomb, James-street, Buckingham-gate.
Andrew Turton Peterson, Esq., Wakefield, Yorkshire, and Guildford.

street, Russell-square.
Edward Sherman Polkinghorne, Esq., 12, Clement's-lane, Lombard.
street.

With power to add to their number.
ENGINEERS.
• Sir John Maeneil; William Henry Smith, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Edwin Smith, Esq., Gray's Inn ; Messrs. Lewis and Ford, 28.
Essex-street, Strand.

BANKERS.
The Union Bank of' London, Moorgate-street, Pall-mall East,
Argyll-place ; Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement ;
London and Dublin Bank, Dublin, and its Branches.

SECRETARY—John Rat hbone, Esq.
Applications for Shares mustbe addressed to the offices of the Com-
pany, 4, Coleman-street, London ; to the solicitors ; or to the follow-
ing brokers, of whom prospectuses, printed forms, and every in-
formation may be obtained :—London—Messrs. Carden and White-
head, Threadneedle-street ; Liverpool—Mr. Thomas Crewdson, Mr.
Thomas Forsyth ; Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons ; York—
Messrr. Grayson and Earle ; Huddersfield—Mr. L. Weatherburn ;
Newcastle—Mr. W. Fordyce ; Wakefield—Mr. Thomas Cuttle, Mr.
* H. Army-tage ; Bradford—Messrs. Hutchinsen and Co.; Blackburn
—Mr. Thomas Boardman ; Bristol—Messrs. Tate and Nash, Mr.
Luke Arnold; Exeter—Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy ; Derby
—Mr. Samuel Eyre ; Coventry—Mr. J. T. Collard ; Edinburgh—
Mr. A. Moffatt ; Messrs. Thomas Farquharson and Co. ; Glasgow—
Messrs. Duncan and Hutchison ; Leeds—Mr. James Jamieson ;
Ilnli—Mr. Francis Stamp, Messrs. Alsop and Son; Birmingham—
Mr. W. H. Collis.
4, Coleman-street, London, April 25, 1845.

`TREAT MEDITERRANEAN AND
tkW ADRIATIC JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
Capital, 30,000,000 florins convention, or £3,000,000 sterling in
60,000 shares of X... 50 each.
Deposit 10 florins c,onvention,"or £1 per share.
The Provisional Directors having after mature consideration and
with a view to place the Company upon a firmer basis, resolved to
Increase the amount of deposit to ld. per share,—Nottcc is hereby
given that all parties who have applied for shares, will be required to
renew their applications for the same according to the forms now
settled, which may be obtained at the office of the Company, or from
the Solicitors or Agents to the Company. The very large number of
applicants for sharesin this Company necessarily precludes the Pro-
visional Directors from communicating by means of letter with each
individual, and compels them to adopt the medium of an advertise-
ment.
JOHN RATHBONE, Secretary.
4, Coleman-street, 25th April, 1845.

EAST LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY,
(Registered Provisienally,)
From BOSTON to GREAT GRI3IsBY, by WAINFLEET,
SPILSBY, ALFORD, and LOUTH,
Under the sanction of the following Noblemen and Gentlemen,
Proprietors of Estates in or otherwise connected with East Lin-
colnshire.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Yarborough •
The Right Hon. Lord Willoughby D'Eresby
Lord Worsley, M.P. for North Lincolnshire
Lieut.-Colonel Sir Edward Brackenbury, Skendleby
R. A. Christopher, Esq., M.P. for North Lincolnshire
Christopher Tumor, Esq„ M.P. for South Lincolnshire
Edward ITeneage, Esq., M.P. for Great Grimsby
George Tornline, Esq., Riby Grove
Robertiryner, Esq., Gautby
Banks Stanhope, Esq., Revesby Park
Colonel Cracroft, Hackthorn
Weston Cracroft, Hackthorn
Joseph Livesey, Esq., Sturton Hall
The Rev. R. Phelps, D.D., Sydney-Sussex College, Cambridge
Richard Ellison, Esq., Sudbrook Hall
The Rev. Humphrey Waldo Sibthorp, Washingberough
G. M. Alington, Esq., Swinhop House
H. Rogers, Esq., Stagenhoe Park, Herts
Thomas Gee, Esq., Brothertoft
The Rev. W. Smyth, Elkington
G. W. Maddison, Esq., Partney
W. T. Weifitt, Esq., Manby
A.A. Wallis, Esq., Healing
W. Loft, Esq., Trusthorpe
The Mayor of Louth
Thomas Wise, Esq., banker, Boston
Samuel Vissey, Esq., Halton Holegate
Capital 600,0001, in 24,000 Shares, of 251. each.
Deposit 11. ss. per Share.
COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION.
The Right Hon. C. T. D'Eyncourt, M.P., Bayons Manor
George F. Heneagc, Esq., Hainton Hall
Richard Thorold, Esq Weelsby House, Lincolnshire
Charles John Henry Mundy, Esq., Enderby, near Spilsby
Edmund Becket Denison, Esq., M.P., Directors of
Francis Mowatt, Esq., the London and
George Hussey Packe, Esq., York Railway
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Company.
Directors of the
Michael Ellison, Esq., The Farm, Sheffield, Great Grimsby &
James Wall, Esq., Osgathorpe Hill, Sheffield, Sheffield Junction
Railway.

ENGINEERS.
Joseph Gibbs, Esq. ; John Fowler, Esq.
BANNERS.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., London.
Messrs. Gail% Claypons, and Co., Boston and Louth
Messrs. Smith, Ellison, and Co., Lincoln.
SOLICITORS

Kilgour, and Parson, 47, Parliament-
street,
Barker, Rose, and Norton Baxter, 36, Great-
George-street,
liollway and Harwood, Boston and Spilsby

,Solicitors to
the London and
York Railway
Company.

Pye and Waite, Louth
W. H. Daubncy, Grimsby.
Szcarrear (pro tem.)-31r. Thomas Reynolds, Office, 7, Lothbury.
This Line of Railway is projected for the purpose as well of esta-
blishing a communication by railway along the coast of an important
maritime district, as of affording to the rich grazing and agricultural
divisions of the county of Lincoln a more cheap and ready access to
the London and Yorkshire markets, and of completing the eastern
chain of railway communication through this important county.
The advantages offered to the graziers and cattle traders of dhat
part of Lincolnshire which supplies both the London and Yorkshire
markets with so large a proportion of fat stock, and to the towns of
Louth, Wainfleet, Alford, and Spilsby, by providing a more certain
and ready transit for manufactured goods and articles of merchan-
dise, cannot he estimated too highly.
The productive districts around these towns would also fully partici-
pate in the advantages of this communication with the manufacturing
and large consuming towns of Yorkshire, to which nearly the entire
produce of corn and wool from such districts is now transmitted by a
water carriage, so tedious, expensive, and uncertain of delivery, as
materially to depress the price of produce in the markets of these
towns, and to place such produce at great disadvantage as compared
with that of other markets possessing greater facilities of transit.
A very oonsiderable return-traffic in coals from the Yorkshire
coal-fields would be obtained, and this article of absolute necessity,
at present supplied to the population of this part of the country, at an
expense seriously increased by the difficulties of carriage, would be
afforded at a greatly reduced price.
Independently of these local advantages, it is impossible to over-
rate those of a more general, and even national character, connected
with the projected improvements of the port of Great Grimsby, the
locality of which (at the mouth of V.-. e Humber) affords facilities su-
perior to any other port with reference to the Baltic and Itamburgh
trades, or to the mails between London and the Northern Continental
ports. '
In the article of fish alone (In the transit of which every hour's
delay is of so much importance), it is calculated that a great pro-
portion of the supply from the Northern Seas would necessarily be
transmitted to the metropolis through this line.
The line has also the important advantage cf the cordial approval
and support of the principal landed proprietors through whose estates
it will pass.
Time country is peculiarly favourable, and the cheap construction,
and the excellent gradients of the line, will permit of its being worked
at as low a cost as any in the kingdom.
The Committee of Direction have authority to increase or reduce
the Capital, and generally to adopt such measures as they may think
necessary for obtaining the requisite Parliamentary powers to form a
Company for the construction of the entire railway, or any portion
thereof, with such branches and extensions as they may hereafter
find expedient, and to apply the deposits in discharge of any liabilities
which they may incur under the general powers vested in them for
the prosecution of the undertaking.
No Shares will be allotted except to parties giving satisfactory re-
ferences, and such applications to be addressed to the Secretary or
Solicitors.
To prevent trouble to all parties, no other applications will be
attended to.
Application for Shares to be made to the solicitors according to the
subjoined form :

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Directors of the East Lincolnshire Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you will insert my name as a Sub-
scriber for Shares in the East Lincolnshire Railway Com-
pany, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or any smaller
number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposits thereon,
and to execute the Parliamentary contract and Subscribers' agree-
ment, as and when required.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,

Name • • •
Trade or Profession (if any) • •
Residence

Date

Reference• •

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hitherto attained but by experienced persons in the use of astrono-
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An explanatory paper, with their publication, forwarded free, upon
inclosing 4 postage stamps. Price 4/. 10s.
74, Cornhill.

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PROSPECTUS OF THE
YORK and CARLISLE, and DURHAM,
WESTMORLAND, and LANCASHIRE JUNCTION
RAILWAY. Capital £1,500,000, in 30,000 Shares of £5O each.
Deposit £2 15s. per Share. Provisionally Registered, pursuant to
Act 7 and 8 Victoria, c. 110.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
WILLIAM CRACKANTHORPE, Esq., Newbiggin Hall, West-

morland, Chairman
CORNELIUS NICHOLSON, Esq., Cowan Head, Eendal, Director
of the Caledonian and Lancaster and Carlisle Railways, De,
Duty Chairman
Henry Howard, Esq., Greystoke Castle, Westmorland, Director of the

Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
Major Maclean, Carlisle, Director of the Lancaster and Carlisle Rail-

way
Joseph Salkeld, Esq., Croft House, Penrith
Jarres Ga. dy, Esq., Heaves Lodge, Westmorland
William Whitwell, Esq., Kendal
Henry Pease, Esq., Darlington, Director oaf the Stockton and Dar-

lington Railway . • "
Henry Tootal, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Bir-

Mingham Railway •
John Barg, Esq., Wakefield
William Hopes, Esq., Marton House, Appleby, Director of the Man-

chester and BirMingharn Railway
George Grant, Esq., Liverpool, Deputy-Chairman of the Grand'
Junction Railway
HONORARY SECRETARY —John I'Vhitwell, Esq., Kendal
BANKERS—Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and Co., London.
ENGINEER IN CHIEF—J. M. Bendel, Esq., F.R.S.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Mallaby, Townsend, and Nowa, Liverpool
Thomas llarrison, Esq., Kendal ; and Francis Mewburn, Esq.,
Darlington. f

The proposed line is intended to commence at a point on the Great
North of England Railway, near Northallerton, taking part of the;
branch line to Richmond, now before Parliament, and diverging from+
it a short distance east of its terminus, thence following
.the south
side of the Tees Valley, up the Greta, over the line of the ancient
Roman way to Brough, forward within a short distance of Kirkby
Stephen, through the rich valley of the Eden, by way of Appleby,
and to join the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway near to Clifton, south
-of Manta- - Ilriverting Cora- Thtt'Thie, Southwaid of Stationore, tr
branch will proceed through Ravenstonedaie to join the Lancaster;
and Carlisle Railway between Orton and Borrow Bridge. The direc-
tion of the proposed line is north-west, following the mail-coach
route from York to Carlisle, and involving the lemt sacrifice of
distance in connecting together the two great trunk lines of rail-I,
way, the eastern and western sides of the island.
The distance from Northallerton to Penritla will be sixty-one miles ;
of this fifty-five miles will be new railway, which, with the branch ~
to:Orion, seventeen additionad miles, will form a total distance of;
seventy-two miles.
The capital will be 1,500,00 a, in 30,000 shares of fifty pounds I
each. One-third-500,0001.—0f which is placed at the disposal of the I
Lancaster and Carlisle Board, to be appropriated amongst the parties
interested in that Company. Thcrrevenue will be derived from pas-
sengers travelling from all the eastern districts of the island south of
Darlingtori to Scotland, and from the counties of Durham and Nor-
thumberland to Lancashire, and the west of England, and Ireland.
In addition to the proceeds from passengers and goods, a very large
income will accrue from the extensive mineral resources of the I
country. , A better access will be made to tha Lead Mines of Mid-
dleten-M-Teesdale, and to those in Westmorland.. The line will
run near a large district of iron-stone, and become the channel for
the coal of Durham to pass into East Cumberland, Westmorland, ;
the north-west of Yorkshire, and Lancashire north of the Wyre. It
will form a junction between the Baltic ports of the Wear and the
Tees and the western ports of Lancaster, Fleetwood, and Liverpool.
To increase the traffic to these large importing harbours, new docks
are now making at Hartlepool, and the Tees river has been declared i
a " free port" to all vessels.
There are no canals in the district, and no direct competing rail-
wars. The local traffic is now conveyed by carts, while the through
traffic is conveyed from Manchester to Newcastle by York on the
one hand, or by Carlisle on the other. Stainmore is the route for the
agricultural produce of Cumberland passing into the colliery and
mining districts of Durham.
The general traffic has been estimated to yield an adequate return ,
for the proposed capital.
For the purpose of securing the coal trade a Branch will be made !
from West Auckland to the line between Greta Bridge and Bowes. i
This Branch will connect Barnard Castle with the Coal District as
well as give to that town a road to the south-west and to the forth.
At West Auckland the Durham coal-field is already open in every ,
direction by railways already formed.
The usual clause will be Inserted in the Act, for limiting the liability
of Shareholders to the amount of their respective Shares.
Application for Shares to be made, on rt. before Thursday, the
t of May, to John Whitwell, Esq., Honorary Secretary, Kendal, or
the Solicitors, as above.

IRMINGHAM and OXFORD JUNCTION
1 3 RAILWAY, with a DIVERGING LINE through STRAT-
FORD-ON-AVON, to unite with the MORETON•IN-MARSH
RAILWAY.
Capital £600,000, in Shares of £2O each. . •
Deposit, £2 per Share.
Provisionally Registered pursuant to Act 7th and Bth Vic., c. 110.
movisioNAL COMMITTEE.
The Mayor of Birmingham
John Adams, Esq., Sergeant-at-Law, London
J. T. Alston, Esq., Liverpool
W. C. Alston, Esq., Elmdon Hall, near Birming/MM
John Aston, Es-., Birmingham
Robert James Atty, Esq., Ingon Grange, Stratford-on-Avon
F. P. Barlow, Esq., London
Matthew P. W. Boulton, Esq., Great TcW Park, Oxon
Charles Oldlield Bowles, Esq., .North Aston Park
W. E. Boyes,•Esq., Alkerton, near Banbury
James Butlin, Esq., Westfield House, near Rugby
C. H. Corbett, Esq., Adminton
Walter Cowan, Esq., Offchurch Bray, near Leamington
John Crosthwilite, Esq., Liverpool
Sir George Dashwood, Bart., Kirtlington-park, Oxon
William Dickens, Esq., Cherrington, near Shipston
Rev. John Ellis, Wooton, Ilenly-in-Arden
Edmund Darby Ford, Esq., Stratford-on. Avon
John Branston Freer, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
J. Gardiner, Esq., Southam
Darwin Galion, Esq., Edstone Hall, near Stratford-On-Avoll
Robertson Gladstone, Esq., Liverpool
John Griffith, ESq., Alveston, near Stratford-on-Avon
J. Haddon, Esq., Leamington
Wm.-Judd 'larding, Esq., Baraszi House, near Stratieri-ets-A.,
Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., Liverpool
Captain Hitching, Idicote House, near Shipston •
Charles Lawrence, Esq., Liverpool
John Lecbmere, Esq., Steeple Aston
George Lucy, Esq., Charlecote Park, near Stratford-on-Avon
Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington
William Marshall, Esq., Husbands' Bosworth, Leicestershire
William Mathews, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham
J. W. Miles, Esq., Bristol
Rev. Richard Morris, Eatington, near Stratford-on-Avon
John Moss, Esq., Liverpool
P. H. Muntz, Esq., Birmingham
Rev. Charles Palmer, Lighthome
J. G. Reeves, Esq„ Birmingham
John Rich, Esq., Bearley
John Reckell, Esq., Bath
Francis Rufford, Esq., Bellbroughton, near Stourbridge
Charles Russell, Esq., M.P., London
Charles Shaw, Esq., Birmingham
Major-Gendal Smith, Rugby
Gustavus Thomas Smith, Esq., Goldicote, near Stratford-on-Avon
John Staunton, Esq., Tidmington, near Shipston
Samuel Edward Steward, Esq., Leamington
Thomas Thomson, Esq., M.D., Mayor of Stratford-on-Avon
T. H. Thorne, Esq., Leamington
Rev. Henry Townsend, Honnington, near Shipston
Geo. Richard Walker, Esq., Heathfleld House, Bletchington, Oxon
Charles Woodmass, Esq., Avonhurst, near Stratford-on-Avon
[With power to add to their number.]
BANKERS. •

London—Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co.
Birmingham—Messrs. Attwood, Spooner, and Co. ; the Birming-
ham Banking Company.
Bristol—Messrs. Miles, Harford and Co.
Leamington' and Warwick—The Leamington Priers and War-
wickshire Banking Company ; the Warwick and Leamington
Banking Company
Liverpool—Messrs. Moss and Co.
Stratford-on-Avon—The Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking
Company.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Patterson, Haymes, and Banbury, Leamington
and Warwick ; W. 0. Hunt, Esq., and C. Stevens, Esq., 10, White-
hall, London; Messrs. Clay and Swift, Liverpool.

The object of this undertaking is to establish the most direct and
efficient railway communication that can be formed between Bir-
mingham and Oxford, connecting by the shortest possible route the
whole of the Lancashire manufacturing districts and sealy-Tts with
the south of England and its long line of coast in the British Channel.
The existing lines afford but a very imperfect and circuitous com-
munication through London, and it is singular that the competing
lines of railway now before the public do not supply the deficiency or
provide for the objects now contemplated. 'Under these circum-
stances, there can be no doubt that this railway will confer essential
benefits on the districts through which it is intended to pass, as well
as on the commercial and industrious classes of the north, and a very
cursory inspection of the map will satisfy the inquirer that the line is
so peculiarly situate as to command an unusually large amount of
through traffic, independent of its local resources, which are very great.
It cannot fail to be observed, that the Birmingham and Oxford
Junction will save a considerable distance on the route towards the
coast, besides furnishing to Warwick and Leamington the most
direct railway communication for the traffic between those places
and Oxford, Reading, &c., while the cheapness of construction and
excellence of the gradients will enable the Company to convey pas-
sengers and goods at very low rates, such as would not remunerate
an expensive line, but which are calculated to afford an ample return
for the small capital required for this undertaking.
The railway will commence by a connexion with the Grand Junc-
tion Railway at Birmingham, and proceeding in nearly a straight
line by Warwick and Leamington, fall into the intended Oxford and
Rugby line, near Fenny Compton ; the entire distance from Birming-
ham to Oxford will thus be about 62 miles.
The Stratford-on Avon line, which will be constructed simultane-
ously with the line by Warwick and Leamington, will join the main
railway at or near to Kingswood. From Stratford-on-Avon to More-
ton-in-the-Marsh, by an improvement of the existing railway, a dis-
tance of 14 miles, the communication through Stratfbrd will be com-
plete to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line, and the
Oxford, Reading, and the South of England.
It is confidently believed that this extension of the Oxford line to
the Grand Junction Railway at Birmingham, taking Leamington and
Warwick in its course, will furnish such strong corroborative proof
of the public importance and necessity of the Oxford and Rugby line
(now promoted by the Great Western Company) as to ensuie its
success in Parliament. If the broad gauge should be adopted, ar-
rangements have been made with the Great Western Company to
rim dispatch trains between London and Birmingham in less than
three hours, and also to provide, at low rates, means of conveyance
for every description of traffic, whether of passengers, carriages,
horses, cattle, or merchandise and minerals.
The Provisional Committee, however, promote this measure as one
of great national importance, and do not intend it to be contingent in
any degree on the success or failure of the Oxford and Rugby Railway,
but they will be guided in the final selection of the line, in the prin-
ciple of construction, and in the mode of working it, by the evidence
which may be adduced during the present session, and by the result
of the applications now before Parliament, as far as they may appear
consistent with the experience still to be obtained on the relative
merits of the systems.
They need only add, in conclusion, that if the Oxford and Rugby
line is successful, the capital of 600,000/. will be ample, as the country
has been carefully examined. No engineering difficulties exist, and
there will be no tunnel throughout the line.
The landed interests affected by the proposed railway are very
favourable, and the Bill will be applied for in the next session of
Parliament.
As numerous applicationS for Shares in this Company continue to be
received, notwithstanding the notice of allotment advertised on the
Ist instant, the Provisional Committee take this opportunity to state
to the parties making the same, that their requests cannot be com-
plied with.
449, West Strand, London, April 28, 1845.

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A LTO D OUR 0 RAILWAY.
L 1 Capital, 6,000 Contos of Reis (1,350,000/.), in 60,000 Shares of
100 Mil Reis (221. 10s.) each.
Deposit, 6 Mil Reis (11. 7a.) per Share.
This Line, formed under the highest patronage both in Portugal
and this country, will immediately connect the harbour of Oporto
with the entire wine district.
Following the Valley of the Douro, no engineers rr difficulties pre-
sent themselves—a fact satisfactorily ascertained by preliminary
surveys.
Even from existing satistical returns the traffic of this route will
amply repay investment, and, when conjoined with the increase
which has invariably attended the introduction of railway transit,
will ensure a far greater return than any project of the day.
Prospectuses will shortly be issued. In the meantime, applications
for Shares may be made at the temporary offices of the Company,
95, Oracechurch-street, City.—By order, •
April 28, 1845. T. M. RUSSELL, Secretary.
LIFE ASSURANCE
,TY.

P ALLADIUM
SOCII
7, Waterloo-pl
DIREC

>lace, London.

Sir John Barrow, Bart., F.R.S.; ---lught Hon. Sir T. Fremantle,
Lord W. R. K. Douglas, F.R.S. Bart., M P.
Right Hon. .Sir Edward Hyde Henry Harvey, Esq., I.R.S.
East, Bart., F.R.S. James Murray, Esq.
Charles Elliott, Esq., F.R.S. Samuel Skinner, Esq.
Joseph Esdaile, Esq. P. Maxwell Stewart, Esq., M.P.
Sir William Young, Bart.
AUDITORS—Capt. C. J. Bosanguet, Jas. Buller East, Esq., Mr.;
John Young, Esq., M.P.
Bewanas—The London and Westminster Bank.
PHYSICIAN—Seth Thompson, M.D.
The TWENTIETH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING ,of this
Society was held on the 10th of April last, when a highly satisfac-
tory REPORT was laid before the Proprietors and Policy Holders,
and unanimously adopted.
The Public will see the advantage of selecting, in so important a
matter as Life Assurance, a well-established office, which, from its
continued prosperity, and its large additions to policies, offers the
greatest inducement to Assurers, combined with the undoubted se-
(nutty of a numerous and wealthy prcps3etary. ,
APOIT;YJNS TO POLICIES. ' • -
The following Table shows the additions made to Policies for
5,0001., which had been in force for Fourteen Years, to the 31st
December, 1938:

Age at
COM-
menee-
ment.

40

50

Premiums paid in
the Fourteen
Years.

£1,192 18 4
1,350 8 4
1,525 8 4
. 1,682 18 4
1,869 11 8
2,094 3 4
2,377 1 8
2,727 1 8
3,173 6 8

Additions made to
the Sum Assured In
the Fourteen
Years.

Z 586 6 7
681 2 7
768 5 1
787 2 8
813 15 6.
854 6 5
923 18 1
1,011 2 9
1,129 15 7

Total Sums now
)ayable in case of
death.

£5,586 6 7
.5,681 2 7
5,768 5 1
5,787 2 8
5,813 15 6
5,854 6 5
5,923 18 1
6,011 2 9
6,129 15
_7

A bonus of Four-fifths, or Eighty per Cent. of the estimated pro-
fits is added to Policies entitled, every seventh year; or an equiva-
lent reduction made in future Premiums.
The Third Septennial Division of Profits wits be declared, to the
31st December, 1845. Persons Assuring previous to that date will
have their propot lion of profit appropriated.
Parties travelling in Europe, by sea or land, In time of peace, are
not charged any extra premium.
Applications for Agencies in places where none are established to
be addressed to the Secretary.
NICHOLAS (MUT, Secretary and Actuary.

ursrrED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
TEMPORARY OFFICES DURING THE ALTERATIONS,
No. 28, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE, LONDON.
Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.
DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED.
This Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords the most
perfect security in a large paid-up Capital, and in the groat success
which has attended it since its commencement in 1834, its ANNUAL
INCOME being UPWARDS of 72,0001.
In 1841 the Company declared an addition to the Shareholders of
one-half of their Stock, and also added a Bonus of 21. per cent. per
annum, on the Sum Insured to all Policies of the Participating Class
from the time they weie effected-
The Bonus added to ollcies from March, 1834, to December 31,
1840, is as follows :
Sum Time Sam added Sum Time Sum added
Assured. Assured. to Policy. Assured. Assured. to Policy.
£5OOO 6 yrs. 10 mths. £683 6 8 £5OOO 4 years £4OO
5000 6 years 600 0 0 5000 2 years 200
The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and
only one-half need be paid for the first Five Years, where the Insur-
ance is for Life.
Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident
Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., of No. 28,
Regent-street, Iterloo-place,
RGU ANY
London.

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In addition ,_ !red have
_
the security of the Company's income of nearly 60,0001. per annum,
yearly increasing, and an accarmilatir.g Assurance Fund invested in
Government and other available securities, of considerably larger
amount than the estimated lisbtliti,,; ..IVN, ..'unif,Any
The rates of premium Are rcdorM 4... i-
vort. Atil,l4
with tq• security of the Assured_ ant._
..
b* in ..effeet. itilinZ-il3 8Yea206110).--
cerfain Bonus without risk, in lieu or the des..
delusive prospect of a periodical division of Profits.

pf he(

ANNUAL PREMIUM TO ASSUAN £lOO.

Regent-street, Waterloo-place,
ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
EMPOWERED by PARLIAMENT,
39, THROGMORTON-STREET, BANK.
Esq., AidennanT Chairman.
5 and 6 Will- IV, c. 76.
THOMAS FARNCOMB.
WILLIAM LEI?, Esrl', Deputy Chairman.
Richard E. Arden, Esq. James Chit, Esq. .
William Banbury, Esq. Rupert Ingleby, Esq.
Edward Bates, Esq, Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman.
Thomas Camplin, Esq. Jeremiah Pilchsr, Esq.
spEci4Lnitd:nACT of
John Mnphery, Esq., AldermAri, Lewis Pocock, Esq.
M.P.
Pntsiciaw—Dr. Jeaftesson, 2, Finsbury-square.
SuiczoN—W. Coulson, Esq., 2, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
CossuLrisio AcTUillY—Professor Bail, of King's College.
LOW RATES OF PREMIUM.
In addition to the subscribed Capital of 300 000/ , the Assured hay!