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SOLICITOR—(S. L. 49, Doughty-street, Redford-row,

London.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Scrivens and Young, Hastings
Messrs. Martin and Sons, Battle
Messrs. Barclay and King, Mayfield.
SECRETARY (pro tem.)—Henry L. Freund, Esq.
BANKERS IN LONDON—The London County Joint-stock Bank.
DISTRICT BANKERS. _ .

The Branches of the London and County Joint-stock Bank at Tun•

bridge, Tunbridge Wells, Lewes, and Brighton
At Hastings—Messrs. Smith, Hilder, and Co.
The object of this Company is to effect a direct communication,
by railway, between Tunbridge Wells and Hastings, and also be-
tween Tunbridge Wells and Brighton.

The Hasting; line (about twenty-six miles in length) will commence
at Tunbridge Wells, and run near Frant, Wadhurst, Lamberhnrst,
Etchingham, Hurst Green, Robertsbridge, Whatlington, and Battle,
having its terminus at the western extremity of Hastings.
The Brighton line (about twenty-two miles in length) will com-
mence at Tunbridge Wells, and take a direct course to Brighton,
passing near Mayfield, Botherfield, Uckfield, Little Horsted, and
Lewes, where it will form a junction with the line, which is nearly
completed, between Lewes and Brighton.
The numerous visitors and inhabitants of the fashionable watering-
places of Tunbridge Wells, Brighton, and Hastings, will thus not
merely enjoy the means of rapid communication with each other by
railway—au advantage which ought to have been supplied to them
before this—but will also have, respectively, when the proposed line
from London to Tunbridge is formed, a continued and direct railway
to the metropolis.
The area embraced within these lines of railway is justly remark-
able for the variety and value of its agricultural produce, being one
of the most extensive hop districts in England, and not inferior in
general fertility to any part of the kingdom ; and when it is consi-
dered that the metropolis is the principal, indeed, it may almost be
said, the exclusive, market for its productions, the profits arising
from the conveyance of those productions alone must form (inde-
pendent of passenger traffic), a very large source of revenue to the
Shareholders.

Even from the already developed resources of the extensive,
wealthy, and populous districts through which the Company's lines
will run, the most encouraging estimate of results may be justly en-
tertained, and when the Hastings Dock and Harbour Company
(which has already been provisionally registered) shall have carried

into effect the proposed improvements, the line from that town to
Tunbridge Wells mast become one of the most profitable in England,
as it will then be the great highway:of continental tourists. The
route from London to Paris, by Hastings and Dieppe, is decidedly
the most direct, as well as the mostinteresting, which a glance at the
map of Europe will satisfactorily show.
To the towns of Hastings and St. Leonard's the greatest advan-
tages must acctrue from the establishment of a railway, bringing
them within two hours of the metropolis, and, through it, by the
great lines of which it is the focus, connecting them with every por-
tion of the country. Au immense increase in the number of their
opulent visitors must necessarily be the consequence, the climate of
that part of the coast of Sussex being universally considered equally
salubrious as the most favoured parts of Devon.
The Company have in contemplation the formation of a branch
from the most convenient point on their Hastings line to Winchel-
sea and the town and port of Rye, or to connect that line with the
Hastings and Ashford coast line; either of which objects can be
carried out at a very moderate expense, and must conslierably in-
crease the value of the principal project.
To the inhabitants of Lewes and Brighton, the advantages to be
derived from the Hastings line must be great. It will give increased
facilities for the transport of the produce of the districts through
which it passes, and will complete the railway communication be-
tween Canterbury, Maidstone, Chatham, Rochester, and other towns
_ _ _ _

in the county of Kent, and Brighton, Chichester, Portsmouth, South-
ampton, and other important towns in the western parts of the
country.
The existing traffic in passengers and goods (which must be ma-
terially increased by the establishment of railways) are too well
known to require a detailed statement In this prospectus, and can-
not fail to secure to the shareholders a large interest on the capital
invested.

A preliminary survey of the country has been made, and no part of
it has been found to offer engineering difficulties of more than or-
dinary character.
The liability of the Shareholders will be limited to the amount of
their subscriptions, and in the allotment of shares a preference will
be given to landowners on the respective lines, and other parties
locally interested.
Power will be taken in the Act to allow interest at 41. per cent.
per annum, on all calls, previous to the opening of the lines.
The Provisional Committee reserve to themselves the power of
making alterations in the line or branches, and of adopting the at-
mospheric principle, if advisable. They are also determined on giv-
ing strict attention to economy in the expenditure of the capital,
and will thereby be enabled to guarantee low charges for the con-
veyance of passengers and goods, and there can be no reasonable
doubt, that when the traffic Is fairly developed, the fall rate of 10/.
per cont. will be paid, and a surplus left for branch lines, or a reduc-
tion of tolls. _ . .

The strong feelings in favour of a direct line evinced on the part of
the public in Hastings and surrounding neighbourhood, the support
of the landowners arnl agriculturists, with the numerous and strong
assurances received In favour of au independent Company, leave no
doubt of the successful issue of an application to Parliament for an
Act next session. _ . .

...
In order that every attention may be secured to local interests, ar-
rangements are now being made to add the names of gentlemen of
influence and property in the counties of Kent and Sussex to the
Provisional Committee.
Applications for shares, with a• reference, may be made in the
form annexed, to the Solicitor, or to the Secretary pro. tem., at the
temporary Offices of the Company, No. 76, Basinghall-street, Lon-
don, and to the following Sharebrokers :—in London, Messrs. J. and
T. Moxon, Broad-street; In Liverpool, B. P. Pemberton, Esq.,
Atherton-buildings ; in Manchester, Messrs. M`Lean and Dinwoodie ;
in Bristol, Messrs. Wrelerd, Nicholls, and Co. ; in Leeds, Messrs.
Whalley and Thompson, Bank-street ; in Gloueester, J. N. Balme,
Esq. ; in Cheltenham, Joseph K. Baker, Esq.
To the Provisional Committee of the Tunbridge Wells, Brighton, and
Hastings Junction Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l hereby request you to allot me Shares in
the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, of
any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit
of 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share thereon, and to execute the necessary deeds
when required

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THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN
CONNECTING RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no Applications for Shares In this
Railway will be received after SATURDAY, the 27th inst.
By order of the Committee of Management,
W. JENKINS, Secretary.
Temporary Offices, 47, Eastcheap, Sept. 24, 1845.

NOTTINGHAM, BIR MIN GRAM, AND
COVENTRY RAILWAY.
Uniting Warwick, Coventry, and Birmingham with Nottingham,
Newark, and Lincoln.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices —(temporary), 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Capital 420,0001., in 21,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Sir John Penniston Milbanke, Bart., Great Portland. street
William Collins, Esq., M.P. for Warwick
Michael Thomas Bass, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent
Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and

Manchester Direct Railway
Fraser B. Ilenshawe, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Liyerpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction
Railway
Major Waller, KM., Deputy Chairman of the South and Midlands

Junction Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, F.R.S., 15, 'Upper Montague-street,
Montague-square, Director of the College of Civil Engineers
Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Hyde Park-place, D rector of the
Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle Junction Railway
T. E. Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square, Director of the Warwick
and Cheltenham Railway
The Hon. W. E. Fitzinaurice, M.P. for Bucks, Chasham-street,

13e1grave•square
Fleury Dann, Esq., 42, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the
Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe Railway _ _ _

Sir George William. Prescott, Bart., Theobithis, Harts, Director of

the South and Midland Junction Railway
John Clement Ruding, Esq., Director of the National Bank of

Ireland
John Rawson, Esq., Halifax, Deputy Lieutenant for Yorkshire, and
Director of the Lverpool and Leeds Railway
The Hon. Colonel Leicester Stanhope, Ashburaham House, Chairman
of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway
John Thomas R.tworth, Esq., Leicester
Thomas Hackett, Esq., Derby, Director of the Great Manchester and
Southampton Railway
John Sandars, Esq., Darby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway
John Fisher, Esq., Short-hill, Nottingham, and Watling-street,

London
Captain Horatio Thomas Austin, R.N., C.B.
Nathamiel Nadin, Esq., Stapenhill, Burton-upon-Trent

Capt. Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headley Grove, Surrey
Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the Leicester and
Tamworth, and Derby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby Junc-
tion Railway
Edmund Sharpe, Esq., Swandlincote, Potteries •
Sheldon Craddock, Esq., Leicester

John Gretton, Esq., brewer, Burton-upon-Trent
Ambrose Moore, Esq., Milk-street, Cheapside

James-Arbouln, Esq., Mark-lase, Director of the London and York
Railway
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the East India Company
Lieut.-Gen. Taylor, Clarendon-place, Hyde Park

George Ledwell Taylor, Esq., 45, Hyde Park-square
Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and CreWe Railway
Matthew Gisborne, Esq., Walton Hall, Derbyshire
Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq., Imberhorne House, Sussex
John Taylor, Esq., Cross-street, City, Director of the Commercial
(With power to add tgo,
Bthaertironnu_umpboenr:T)
Bank of London
somerroes.
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Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Burton-upon-Trent.
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BANKERS.
The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street.
The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury, and 6, Henrietta-street,
Covent-garden.

The Burton, Uttoxeter, and A.shtetune—Union Banking Company,
Burton-upon-Trent, and .4shbourne.
Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby.
ACTING ENGINEER—EIijah Galloway, Esq.
This line will commence at the Long Eaton station of the Midland
Counties Railway, and will proceed in a direct line to or near Castle
Donington, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, --eas-NI h
anl, and Market Bosworth to
Nuneaton ; joining, at Market Bosworth, the Birmingham branch,
projected by tho Tamworth and Leicester Company, and at Nuneaton,
the projected Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester
Railway, at the point where that line crosses the Trent Valley line.
Thus a direct communication will be formed between the important
towns of Nottingham, Newark, and Lincoln on the one side, and
Birmingham, Coventry, and Warwick on the other side, at the same
time supplying a rich mineral and agricultural district with railway
advantages.
A reference to the map will show that this railway will also com-
mand other collateral advantages.
There is no doubt that the proposed railway commnnication be-
tween Cheltenham and Warwick will be effected, in which case the
of up
Gloucestertlie railway
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and Lincoln, and thus form a direct line from the Severn at Glouces-
ter to the Humber at Great Grimsby. An amalgamation of the Great
tpwroren proposed line
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Grimsby and Sheffield Junction with the Grimsby Dock Company
being now determined on, a large amount of capital will be expended
in rendering Great Grimsby a port of the first importance ; and it
must he obvious that the traffic to that port, from the district south-
west of Warwick, will be vecy great.
Tile distance saved by the proposed line between Leamington,
Warwick, Coventry, and Nottingham will be about fourteen miles ;
and between Birmingham and Nottingham (by either of the projected
lines from Birmingham to Leicester) the saving will be about ten
miles. Being so much the shortest route from Birmingham to Not-
tingham and Lincoln, it must secure the traffic from Birmingham to
Nottingham, Newark, Lincoln, and the port of Great Grimsby ; and
by joining with the Erewash Valley Railway at Long Eaton, it must
command the traffic from Coventry, Warwick, and the district south
of those towns to Sheffield, Leeds, York, and the north of England
generally. It will also afford a direct communication between Not-
tingham and the district between Warwick and Worcester, by means
of the projected Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby, and the Warwick
and Worcester Railways.
The entire length of the line will be under thirty miles. The Com-
pany's Engineer has completed his preliminary survey, and has
made his report, that the character of the country through which
the line is intended to pass is unusually favourable for engineering
purposes.
It passes directly through a very productive mineral district, in-
tersecting the Leicestershire coal-fields and lime-works, and will
afford communication north and south, to the Derbyshire Potteries.
With such an assured immediate and prospective amount of traffic,
the profits on the small capital required cannot fail to be highly re-
munerative. '

Powers for allowance of interest at four per cent. on the paid-up
capital will be taken, and the liability of shareholders limited to the
amount of their subscriptions.
TABLE OF DISTANCES.

Present Distances. About By proposed
3111 es Rout', about Saving
•••••••••••.. . *
Warwick to Nottingham, by
Hampton and Derby ••• • • ... 723) S 17%
Warwick to Nottingham, by 54
Rugby and Leicester .. ..... . 673 C.
13%
Warwick to Lincoln . ..... —.. 10331 00 13%
Coventry to Nottingham ...... 58% 45 13%
Coventry to Lincoln .......... • • .... • • • •
Birmingham t.) Nqttingham ...• 57 47 10
Birmingham to Lincoln ........ • • .• • • • • • • • • • •
Cheltenham to Nottingham, by
Birmingham and Derby .... .. 103 92 11

Prospectuses may be had at the Temporary Offices of the Company,
i 9, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street, London; where also applica-
tions for shares, addressed to the 'Provisional Committee, will be
attended to.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and

Coventry Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201.
each, in the abeve railway ; and I undertake to accept the same,
'or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the
regulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to
pay when required the deposit thereon of V. 23. per share.
Dated this day of 1845.
NAMC in full .. • '''''''''''''' ••• • •
Profession and professional residence in full
Residence te tbli •• • • •• • • •• " • • • • • • •• • • •

SH RE WSBUR Y, WOLVE RHAMPTON,
DUDLEY, and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
WM. ORMSBY GORE, ALP., Chairman.
The Hon. ROUT. H. CLIVE, ALP., Deputy-Chairman.
John Benbow, Esq., MP.
W. Richfbrd Collett, Esq., M.P.
W. Fechney Black, Esq.
James Clay, Esq.
Richard Norman, Esq.
Stephen Phillips, Esq.
Richard Smith, Esq.
R. A. Slaney, Esq.
Sir W. Young, Bart.
In consequence of the repetition ofAdvertisements signed "Thomas
H. Smith," and an " Original Shareholder," the Committee of Ma.
nagement think it their duty to publish the names of .that Commit-
tee, as the best answer to the latter anonymous writer, and to caution
the Shareholders against being misled by any statements which
might be made at any meeting called by Thomas 11. Smith, of whom
the Committee of Management know nothing.
The Committee of Management take this opportunity to state, that
the surveys from Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton are nearly completed,
and that the surveys from Wolverhampton to Birmingham are being
made under the direction of a joint Committee representing this
Company, the London and Birmingham Railway Company, and the
Birmingham Canal Company, the whole under the immediate super-
intendence of Mr. Robert Stephenson.
By order, GEO, KNOX, Secretary,
3, Moorgate-street, Sept. 22, 1845.
• • •

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
INSOLVENT DEBTW?S' COURI; Sept. 24.

IN RE W. 110113.

In this case an application was made to appoint assignees under
a vesting order made,on a creditor's petition. The party had been
in Whitecross street prison since November, when he was arrested
on a judge's order. He was related to a noble family, ar.d on the
death of his father, Mr. W. Hore, would become entitiel to con-
siderable property. The abject was to raise money to pay the cre-
ditors on property situate at Wexford, Ireland.
Mr. Nichols supported, and Mr. Dowse opposed, the application
to appoint one of the creditors mentioned as assignee.
Mr. Commissioner PoLLocx thought the creditors would be paid
in full, and made an order as prayed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

The Lord Mayor received, on Wednesday, the following letter
from Mr. Reele, of the Excise-office in Broad-street, relative to the
person who was committed as a rogue and vagabond on Tuesday,
for having fraudulently obtained alms of the Rev. Michael Gibbs,
Vicar of Christ Church :

" May it please your Lordship,—A case is reported in the Times
of this morning relative to one George Stratford, calling himself
the legitimate son of the present Earl of Aldborough.
" I beg leave most respectfully to state to your Lordship, that
I have had some deaAngs with the above person calling himself
George Stratford. Some years since he was introduced to my no.
tice by a highly respectable family residing in the north of Ireland.
The fellow had found out the friends and connexions of the pre-
sent and rightful Countess of Aldborough, whom I have had the
honour of knowing for twenty years and upwards. On telling his
talc, he passed himself off as the son of the Earl of Aldborough,
and stated that he had been discarded by his father, and after
wandering about in Belgium for some time, he had shortly before
arrived in England, for the purpose of finding employment.
" Upon his representation, and knowing a little of the reputed
father's history, I then clothed him, raised a subscription, and
lastly procured a situation in the London Docks for him; but his
habits of idleness and lying had become so notorious, that I lost all
sight of the fellow for two or three years, until a few months back,
when he entered my office and informed me of the Earl of Aldbo-
rough's decease at Carlsbad. He then named the executors, who
were residing in Dublin, and told me that he was left 501. per
annum by his father, finally requesting the loan of a sovereign, as
he was about to leave London by the packet that day for Antwerp,
toj oin his family.

" Having before made up my mind that the fellow was nothing
short of a thorough rogue and vagabond, subsisting by his plausible
tales upon the charitably disposed in London, I desired him to leave
my office, and I then addressed letters to the Countess of Aldbo-
rough and others living in Dublin, stating the information I had
that day received, and by return of post their answers exposed the
lying device, and showed that the whole of his story from begin-
ning to end was false ; and the present Earl of Aldborough, to the
best of my infi.rmation and belief, is now alive and residing at Flo-
rence.—l have the honour to remain, your Lordship's most obe-
dient servant, " G. REELE.
" Broad-street, City, Sept. 94."
Mr. Thomas Buckland and Mr. Thomas Windle, two gentlemen
who, in the neighbourhood of the Stock Exchange, after the closing
of the inner market, had addressed each other in irritating lan-
guage, end from words proceeded to blows, were brought before
the Lord Mayor by a policeman, charged with having obstructed
the pavement.
City policeman George White (24), an active officer stationed in
the vicinity of Capel.court, on account of the frequent obstructions
caused by the dealings between jobbers and " stags" and " ducks,''
and other "such small deer," observing that there was rather an
extraordinary bustle about Cepel•court, went up to the spot and
saw the two gentlemen fighting. Mr. Buckland was bleeding upon
the ground, although neither of the combatants appeared to have
any other arms than those with which nature had provided them,
and the affair occasioned very great impediment to the public.
" • - '

The defendants Faid that there had been a misunderstanding
between them of a private nature, and that their differences had
been completely accommodated.
The Loan MAYOR. observed, that the private misunderstandings
of gentlemen must not be allowed to interfere with the conve-
nience of the public, and fined each of thew 20s.
Mr. George Wetenhall, the printer of " Wctenhall's Stock and
Sharebrokers' List," was charged with having spat several times
in the face and upon the hat and clothes of Mr, F. R. Street, li.
bruin to the Stock Exchange.