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lOVENTRY and LEICESTER JUNCTION
RAILWAY.

COLESHILL AND BIRMINGHAM 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 offices of the Company, 3, Church-court, Old Jewry.
The original Coventry and Leicester Scrip must be produced, the de-
posit of 11. 55. 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 ILY 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-staiion through or near Hartsey,
Ripley, Codnor, Ileanor, Eastwood, Ilkeston, Trowell, Wollaton,
and Radford, to the town of Nottingham, and 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., Nottingham, 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 30,000,000 Florins Convention, equal to £3,000,000 sterling,
in 60,000 Shares of 500 florins, equal to £5O each, of which 40,000
will be allotted in England, the remainder being reserved for Con-
tinental Distribution. _

Deposit 10 Florins Convention, equal to £1 per Share.
PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS.
Henry Arrowsmith, Esq., Bayswater.
John Benson, Esq., Park-place Villa, Maida-hill.
Miles Dormer, Esq., Han's-place, Sloane-street.
Sir John Hare, Langham-place.l
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Cecil-street, Strand.
Thomas Twisden Hodges, Esq., Sandgate, Kent, and Clarendon

Hotel, Bond-street.
Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Abehurch-lane Lombard-street.

Horace William Meteyitid, Esq., Chatham-place, Blackfriars.
Major Newcomb, James-street, Buckingham-gate.
Andrew Turton Peterson, Esq., Wakefield, Yorkshire, and Guildford-

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

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

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 CR ACKANTHORPE, Esq., Newbiggin Hall, West-

morland, Chairman ,
CORNELIUS NICHOLSON, Esq., Cowan Head, Kendal, 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
Janes Clardy, Esq., Heaves Lodge, Westmorland
William Whitwell, Esq., Kendal
Henry Pease, Esq., Darlington, Director •t the Stockton and Dar•
lington Railway
John Castell Hopkins, Woodside, Darlington, Director of the Great
North of England and Stockton and Darlington Railways.
Henry Tootal, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Bit*-
.

.
Mingham Railway
John Barit, Esq., Wakefield
William Hopes, Esq., Marton House, Appleby, Director of the Man.
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chester and Birmingham Railway -
George Grant, Esq., Liverpool, Deputy-Chairman of the Grand
Junction Railway
HONORARY SECRETARY—John Whitwell, Esq., Kendal
BANKERS—Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and Co,. London.
ENGINEER IN CHIEF—J. M. Bendel, F.R.S.
Somerroas—Messrs. Mallaby, Townsend, and Newall, Liverpool
Thomas Harrison, Esq., Kendal ; and Francis Mewburu, Esq.,
Darlington.

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 l'oenrith. Diverting from this line, southward of Stainmore, a
branch will proceed through Ravenstonedale to join the Lancaster
and Carlisle Railway between Orton and Borrow Bridge. The direc-
tion of the proposed line is north-west, following the snail-coach
route from York to Carlisle, and involving the least sacrifice of
distance in connecting together the two great trunk lines of rail-
way, the eastern and western sides of the island.

The distance from Northallerton to Penrith will be sixty-one miles ;
of this fifty-five miles will be new railway, which, with the branch
to:Orton, seventeen additional miles, will form a total distance of
seventy-two miles.

The capital will be 1,500,0001., in 30,000 shares of fifty pounds
each. One-third-500,0001.—0f which is placed at the disposal of the
Lancaster and Carlisle Board, to be appropriated amongst the parties
interested in that Company. The revenue will be derived from pas-
sengers travelling from all the eastern districts of the island south of
Darlington 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
country. A better access will be made to the Lead Mines of Mid-
dleton-in-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
a "free port" to all vessels.
There are no canals in the district, and no direct competing rail-
ways. 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.
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 north.
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 or before Thursday, the
t of May, to John Whitwell, Esq., Honorary Secretary, Kendal, or
the Solicitors, as above.

A'TO DOURO RAILWAY.
Capital, 6,000 Contos of Reis (1,350,0000, hi 60,000 Shares of
100 Nlil Reis (221. 10s.) each.
Deposit, 6 MU Reis (1/. 75.) 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 engineering 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 co ijoined 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, Gracechurch-street, City.—By order,
April 28, 1845. T. M. RUSSELL, Fecretary.

PALLADIUM LIFE ASSURAifd
SOCIETY.
1, Waterloo-place, London.
DIRECTORS.
Sir John BarroW, Bait, F.R.S.' Right lion. Sir T. Fremantle,
Lori W. R. K. Douglas, F.R.S. Bart., M.P. .•
Right lion. Sir Edward Hyde Henry Harver, Esq., F.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. Bosanquet, R.N.; Jas. Buller East, Esq., M.P.;
John Young, Esq., M.P.
BANKERS—The London and Westminster Bank.
Plasm:um—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 adapted.
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, oilers the
greatest inducement to Assurers, combined' with the undoubted se-
curity of a numerous and wealthy proprietary.
ADDITIONS TO POLICIES.
The following Table shows the 4addibmis made to Policies for
1,000/., Which had been in force for Fourteen Years, to the 31st
'secember, 1838:

December, 1838 :
Age at Additions made to
com- Premiums paid in the Sum Assured in Total Sums sow
mence- the Fourteen the Fourteen payable In case of
ment. Years. Years. death.
----
10 ' £1,192 18 4 £586 6 7 £5,586 6 7
15 1,350 8 4 681 2 7 5,681 2 7
20 1,525 8 4 769 5 1 5,768 5 1
25 1,682 18 4 787 2 8 5,787 2 8
30 1,869 11 8 813 15 6 5,813 15 6
35 2,094 3 4 854 6 5 5,854 6 5 •
40 2,377 1 8 923 18 1 5,923 18 1
45 ' 2,727 1 8 1,011 2 9 6,011 2 9
50 • 3,173 6 8 1,129 15 7 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 will be declared, to the
31st December, 1845. Persons Assuring previous to that date will
have their proportion 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 GRUT, Secretary and Actuary.

.DIRECT -NORTHERN RAILWAY.
CoMmittee beg to inform the Shareholders that, not-
withstanding the adverse decision pronounced this day by the Select
Committee on the Standing Orders, it is their intention to proceed
with the case of the Direct Norther Company before the Committee
appointed for the consideration of the group of Bills in which their
scheme is included ; and they have the fullest confidence that the
superior public merits of their line, north of Lincoln, are so unques-
tionable that they will secure to the measure the assent of Parlia-
ment, if not this session, at all events in the next. The Committee
beg also to inform their Shareholders that the Tottenham and
Farringdon-street extension scheme, in which they have so material
an interest, haa to-day been passed by the Select Committee on
Standing Orders.

By order of the Committee,
AMSINK
•
Direct Northern Railway Office, 64WILLIAM, Moorgate-streeCt., Secretary.

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