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ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning; Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION at ONE CIYARGE.

NORFOLK and NORWICH EIGHTH
MUSICAL FESTIVAL,
For the BENEFIT of the NORFOLK and NORWICH, WEST
NORFOLK and YARMOUTH HOSPITALS, the INSTITUTION
for INDIGENT BLIND, the DISPENSARY, and the EYE
INFIRMARY.

PATRON—THE QUEEN.
VICE-PATRONS.
The QUEEN DOWAGER,
Ills Royal Highness PRINCE ALBERT,
Her Royal Highness the DUCHESS of KENT,
His Royal Highness the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE,
PRESIDENT—The LORD WODEIIOUSE.

On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday Evenings, the 16th. 17th

and 18th of September,
GRAND 3110SCELLANEOUS CONCERTS,
_ . _

In which Will be comprised Panders "Alexander's Feast," and
Mendelsshon's " Midsummer Night's Dream."
On Wednesday Morning, September 17th,
. _ . .

A SELECTION of SACRED MUSIC, and and llaydn'a Oratorio,

" The Seasons."
On Thursday Morning, September 18th,

A SELECTION of SACRED MUSIC, and Sphor's Oratorio,
" Calvary."

On Friday Morning, Sept. 19th, Handel's Oratorio, " Messiah."
On Fl iday Evening, 1 DitESS BALL.

PRINCIPAL SINGERS—Madame Grist, Madame Caradori Allan
Niss Dolby, and Miss Poole: Signor Mario, Signor F. Lablache, Mr
Hobbs, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Machin, Mr. Bradbury, and Herr Staudigl

Leader of the Band—Mr. T. Cooke.
Conductor—Mr. Benedict.
Organ—Mr. Tilde.
Chorus Master—Mr. J. Hill.
The entire Band will consist of 40Q Performers.
The pelf mances will take place in Saint Andrew's Hall

O C A PITALISTS, SOLICITORS, &c:
It. An opportunity now offers to any person or persons who can
command from 8,000/. to 10,0001. to produce at least from 30 to 40
per cent. per annum ; or to any Solicitor who has the means of form-
ing a Company, double or treble the above amount might be em-
ployed with equal advantage. After many years' perseverance, a
Watch Escapement has been brou4,-ht.to such perfection, that all tho
detects or. the present Chronometer are removed, and a perfect
Chronometer, either for the pocket or for navigation, may be obtained
at a very trifling expense beyond an ordinary Watch. The object of
the advertiser is to secure the Patents for the Inventor, and, either
by private interest or public Company, to establish a manufactory,
and to grant licences. The first Watch made upon this principle has
been tried for eighteen months, and the most satisfactory results can
he attested.

The properties of the improvement will be explained, and every
Information given, by application to Mr. C. Collins, 6, King William-
street, City.

(Provisionally Registered.)
THE VALE OF NEATH. RAlLWAY-
contecting Swansea and Neath with the town of Merthyr
Tydvil. Length, 22 miles.
Capital, 500,0001., in 25,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Jersey
Henry John Grant, Esq., The Gnoll, Neath
Nash Vaughan Edward Vaughan, Esq., Rheola, Neath
John Bruce Pryce, Esq., Duffryn, Cardiff
Morgan Morgan, Esq., Bodwigiad, Merthyr Tydvil
John Peirse Kennard, Esq., London
Henry Thomas, Esq., Preswlfa, Neath, Vice-Chairman of the Quarter
Sessions for the county of Glamorgan
James IVittit Lyon, Esq., Miserden Park, Cirencester and Neath
Wm. Meyrick, Esq., Gwailod-y-Garth, Merthyr Tydvil
David Evans, Esq., banker, Merthyr Tydvil
Rev. Thomas Gronow, Court Herbert, Neath
James Sheppard, jun., .sq., of Ynisarwed Colliery
John Whitlock Nichoil Came, Esq., D.C.L., Dimlands House, Cow-
bridge
Edward Lewis Richards, Esq., Merthyr Tydvil
Robert Place Leyson, Esq., Neath
Michael John Michael, Esq., merchant, Swansea
Charles Lean, Esq., (Nils Avon, Taibach
Henry Jones, Esq., Heathtleld House, Cardiff
Robert Evans, Esq., merchant, Neath
Herbert Edward Evans, Esq., Eagles-bush, Neath
Wm. Weston Young, Esq., merchant, Neath
Wm. Llewellyn Powell, Esq., merchant, Taibach
Wm. Thomas, Esq., Merthyr Tydvil
William Gossage, Esq., Birmingham and Neath
William Price, EAq., Glantwrch, Swansea
Mr. William Whittington, Neath
Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq. } Directors of the Great Western
Robert Frederick Gower, Esq. Railway Company
The Viscount Villiers, M.P.
Louis Vim; Esq. Directors of the South Wales
D. A. Saunders Davies, Esq., M.P. Railway Company
David Lewis, Esq.,
Archibald F. Paull, Esq.,
Sankey Gardner, Esq., Eaglebush Foundry, Neath
Joseph Rusher, Esq., Glyn Leiros, Neath
Edward Robert Wood, Esq., Stouthall, Swansea
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER—I. K. Brunel, Esq.
BANKERS—Messrs Denison, Heywood, Kennard, and Co., 4.
Lombard-street, London.

SOLICITORS—Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitehall, London;
H. S. Coke, Esq., Neath.

Prospectuses may be had, andappliCations for shares may be ad-
dressed, in the form annexed, to the Secretary, at the offices of the
Company, 440, West Strand, London, and to the Solicitors in Lon-
don, or Nesth.
In the allotment of the shares of the Company, a preference will be
given, to parties locally interested, and to the Proprietors of Shares in
the South Wales Railway Company.
The usual power will be taken by the Act, to allow interest at
4 per cent. per annum on the amount of subscriptions paid up ; and
no subscriber will be answerable for more than the amount of his de-
posit of 2/. per share, until the Act is obtained, and then not be-
yond the amount of his subscription.
London, July 26, 1845.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Yale of Noath Railway.

Clantlemes,—l request that you will allot me shares Of
Twenty. Pounds each, in the proposed Vale of Neath Railway Com-
pany, on the terms and conditions of the Prospectus, and I under-
take to pay the deposit, and sign the necessary deeds when required.
Dated the day of 1845.
Name
Profession ••••• • • • • • •• ••• • • .
Place of 4.bode
Reference• • • •

/,ALE, of NEATH RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that NO APPLICATIONS for
Shares in this Railway will be received after Monday, the Ist of
September nest.
By order of the Committee,
FRED. G. SAUNDERS, Sec. pro tem.
449, West Strand, Loudon, August 12, 1845.

OUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
REDUCTION OF FARES.—EXPRESS TRAINS.
On and after the Ist of SEPTEMBER NEXT the fares on this
line will be as follows :
Between the London and the Dover and Folkestone Termini—
Express Trains, 18s. Other Trains—First Class, 15s. ; Second Class,
10s.; Third Class, 6s.
The intermediate fares will be in proportion.
From the same date, DAY TICKETS will be granted at the fol-
lowing fares :
London to Dover and Folkeilone and back—Express Trains, 275.
Other Trains—First Class, 22F 6d. ; • Second Class, 15s. ; Third
Class, 9s.
To intermediate stations in proportion. .
Tickets issued on Saturday will be returnable on Saturday, Sun-
day, and Monday ; those issued on Sunday will be returnable on
Sunday aad Monday. , •
Periodical Tickets will be charged for as under :
Ist Class. 2d Clas. Ist Class. 2d Class.
One Month .... 1.12"... ••. £ 9 Six Months ..£35.. • ... £25
Two Months • ..• .20 .. 14 Twelve Months 80.• •• 35
Three Months . • 25
By order -"
London Terminus, August 18, 1845.

the Board,
_ W. O'BBLEIN, Secretary,

QOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. - PLEA.
kJ SURE EXCURSIONS between the Bricklayers' Arms or Dover
termini, and all stations except London-bridge, at one fare there and
back, every Saturday and Monday until further notice. On the
above-named days excursion tickets will be issued by the following
trains :

DOWN TIIAINS.
6 45 a.m 3d class train
10 0 a.m. Ist add 2d do.
4 0 p.m. 3d do.
5 30 pan. Ist and 2d do,

UP TRAINS.
5 30 a.m. 3d class train
6 45 a.m. Ist and 2d do.
2 0 p.m. 3d do.
6 30 p.m. Ist and 2d do.

Fares there and back :1--
let class, 18s. 6d:; 2d class, 125.; 3d class, 78 4,(1..
Trains calling 'at the Stations or tilt.' 141,iaidstone BrallchLine wil.
meet the whole of the above-named Trains at Tunbridge, leaving
.Maidstone at a.m. and 745 p.m. for first and second class p4s-
sengers, and at 7 0 a.m. and 4 0 p.m. for third-class passengers, anl
Tunbridge for Maidstone on the arrival of all the Down Excursion
Trains.

Excursion ticket) arc available only to return by the Excursion
trains on the same day they are issued, or on the following Monday,
when issued on the previous Saturday.
N.B. Excur,ion tickets are not issued to or from the London-
bridge Terminus. By order, W. O'BRIEN, Secretary.

Provisionally Registered.
QOUTH-EASTERN and CONTINENTAL
►~ STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—To PARIS and the SOUTH
of FRANCE.—Sea passage in less than two hours.—Shortest route,
via South-Eastern Railway, in conjunction with the Folkestone and
Boulogne steamers. The celebrated new iron steam ships of the
South-Eastern and Continental Steam Packet Company. QUEEN of
the FRENCH, QUEEN of the BELGIANS, and PRINCESS
MAUDE, now leave Folkestone and Boulogne every tide, viz., twice
a day from each port. The departure of the day steamer from
Folkestone is arranged so that passengers may arrive in time by the
morning trains from London. For time and tide bills apply at the
South-Eastern Railway-office, London-bridge; or to Mr. Faulkner,
Folkestone.

Provisionally Registered.
QOUTII-EASTERN AND CONTINENTAL
STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—BEST ROUTE to BELGIUM
and GERMANY, vii DOVER and OSTEND.—The South-Eastern and
Continental Steam-packet Company's splendid fast iron steam-ship
PRINCESS MARY, carrying the English and Belgian mails, and
performing the passage in four hours and a half, leaves Dover for
Ostend e,,ery Thursday and Sunday morning early, enabling tra-
vellers to leave Ostend by the early trains, and returns to Dover en
Tuesdays and Fridays.

Departures from Dover :
August 2S, at 6h. A.M. I August 31, at Bh. A.M.
Luggage, parcels, &c., expeditiously forwarded.
For particulars apply at the South-Eastern Railway-station. Lon -
don-bridge ; and to John Hayward, jun., Dover.

SOUT H-EASTERN RAILWAY.
The Directors think it desirable to state that they sometime
since Instructed Mr. Stephenson to prepare for Parliament in the
next session a complete system for supplying railway communi-
cation with the whola of Kent. It is proposed to provide direct lines to
Tunbridge, Maidstone, Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham, Faversham,
Canterbury, and Dover. The surveys have been for some weeks in
progress, and the whole scheme will be very shortly in a complete
state. JOHN KIRKLAND, Chairman.

South-Eastern Railway-office, July 26, 1845

YNN and ELY RAILWAY COMPANY.
The Directors beg to inform the public that they have given
the necesary directions for applying to Parliament, in the next ses-
sion, for an Act to extend their railway from Wisbeeh to March, to
join there the Ely and Peterborough line of the Eastern Counties
Railway Company, with a view of affording to the port of Wisbech
a direct line of railway communication with the metropolis, the city
of Peterborough, and all the western and south-western parts of the
kingdom.

_
W. BROWNE FOLKES, Chairman of Board of Directors.
H. C. LACY, Deputy-Chairman.
W. W. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
18, Great George-street, Westminster, Aug. 19, 1845.

YNN and ELY, and LYNN and DEREHAM
IA RAILWAY COMPANIES.

The Directors of these Companies have the satisfaction
of informing the Proprietors and the Public that they have
entered into arrangements with the promoters of the Notting-
ham, Erewash Valley, and Amborgate and the Nottingham, Vale of
Belvoir and Grantham Railway Companies, under which the lines of
these Companies will be extended from Grantham to Spalding, to
meet the proposed extension line (from Wisbech to Spalding) of the
Lynn and Ely Company, by which means a direct line of railway
communication with the northern and midland districts will be af-
forded to the port of Great Yarmouth, the city of Norwich, and the
ports of Lynn and Wisbech. By the terms of arrangement above
alluded to, the option oltaking one-third part of the increased capital
which the Nottingham Companies will require to raise for carrying
out the extension has been reserved to the Proprietors in these
Companies.
W. BROWNE FOLKES, Chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Lynn and Ely Railway Company.
H. C. LACY, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
Lynn and Dereham It•tilway Company.
W. W. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
18, George-street, Westminster, Aug. 20, 1845.

LONDON, HOUNSLOW, and WESTERN
RAILWAY.
Notice IS hereby given, that NO APPLICATIONS for SHARES in
this Company will be received after Mammy, Ist September.
By order of the Committee,
T. S. BROWN, Soc. pro. tcm.

7, Walbrook,

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY, AND
OXFORD AND WOLVERTON JUNCTION.
Capital 2,250,000/., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 10s. per Share.
Registered Provisionally, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vie., e. 110.
PROVISIONAL comstirrys.
His Grace the Duke of Buckingham andrhandos,
The Right ;Ron. Lord Nugent, Lilies, Aylesbnary, Backs
Sir John Chetwode, Bart., M.P., Chetwode Manor House, Rucks
Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey, Bart., Oving Mouse, Bucks
Sir Harry Verney, Bart., Claydon House, Backs
Lieutenant-General Sir James Watson, K.C.8., Wendover House,
Bucks
The Hon. Philip Sidney Pierrepont, Evenley Hall, Brackley, North-
amptonshire
Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., Lillingstope Dayrell, Ducks, High
Sheriff of Backs
Charles John 'Senile Hamilton, Esq., M.P., Theme Park, Oxfordshire
Rice Richard Clayton, Esq.,
M.D., Hedgerley Park, Hacks
John Deering, Esq., The Lee, Bneke
George Morgan,
Esq. Biddleaden Park, Backs
Robert. Bullock Marsham, Esq., LL D Caversfield House, Ox-
fordshire
Walter Henry Bracebridge, Req., Norville House, Warwickshire and
Chetwode Priory, Bucks
John Barnes, Esq., Chorley Wood, Harts
William Osmond Hammond, Esq., St. Alban's-conri, Wingham, Kent
Benjamin Price, Esq., Westbury, Bucks
Colonel John Hall, Life Guards' Barracks, Hyde Park, London
John Newman, Esq., Brand's House, Hughenden, Bucks
Thomas Newland Allen, Esq., The Vache, Chalfont, Bucks
Henry William Beaucierk, Esq., 61, Chester-square, London
Robert Fox, Esq.; Wendover Lodge, Backs
William James Bally, Esq., Stanley House, Backs
Thomas Bands Chapman, Esq., The Park, Aston Clinton, twits
Robert Marriott Freeman, Esq., Stony Stratford Backs
George Parrott, Esq., Castle Farm, Buckingham
Captain Edward Dewes, Buckingham
llumphrey Humphreys, Esq., Buckingham
William Stowe, Esq., Buckingham
William Davis, Esq., Bicester, Oxfordshire
Captain William Style, R.N., Bicester, Oxfordshire
John Horwood, Esq. iiteane Park, Brackley, Northamptonshire
John Henry Butterfield, Esq. Brackley
William King Matins, Esq., Esq.,
Alfred lloperaft, Esq., Brackley
Charles Tawney, Esq., Oxford
Henry William Tancred, Esq., M.P., London
JEoienhaathrdanWSmamttl,Bjuron;nEinagg.,,EOsxqf.o,rodxfbed
Timothy Rhodes Cobb, Esq., Banbury, Oxen
Zacharia Daniel Hunt, Esq., Aylesbury, Bucks
Josephaeorge
CAashnhyGlGynillne,t, EtsEsq.
onnbury, Oxon
Joseph Frederick Ledsam, Esq., Birmingham
Edward Cropper, Esq., Liverpool
Thomas Smith, Esq., Reigate Lodge, Surrey
Thomas Young, Esq., Albany, London
Ross Donelly Mangles, Esq., ALP., London
Captain Constantine Richard Moorsom, R.N.,

Directors
of the
London
and
Birmingham
nallwar

Birmingham
Robert Benson, Bmet.issuenlb,yjuLno.,wEsndqes.,,FEasqlril„ellvd,inManchester
Edw. Wm. Selby Lowndes, Esq., Winslow, Bucki
With power to add to their nnml
COMMITTED OF MANAGEHINT,
Sir Harry Verney, Bart. G. C. Glyn, Esq
The Hon. P. S.H. Plerrepout J. F. Ledsam, Esq
E. F. Dayrell, Esq. Edward Cropper, Esq
Z. D. Hunt, Esq. Thomas smith, Esq.
Captain Edward Dewes Captain C. R. Moorsom, R.N.
Humphrey Humphreys, Esq. Robert Benson,
_inn., Esq.
J. R. Cobb, Esq. Thomas Young, Esq.
Jon. Samuel Browning, Esq. Ross D. Mangles, Esq., M.P.
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER—Robert Stephenson, Esq.
BANKSP.S.
London—Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and On., Lembard-street
Aylesbury—Messrs. Bickford and Hunt ; the London & County Bank
Buckingham—Messrs. Bartlett, Parrott, and Hearn ; the London and

County Bank
Banbury—Messrs. Cobb and Co. ; Messrs. Gillett and Tawnoy
Oxford—Messrs. Wootton and Co. ; the London and County Bank
Bieester—Messrs. Tubb.

Provisionally Registered.
WILTS, SOMERSET, AND SOUTHAMP.
TON JUNCTION RAILWAY.

Connecting the English with the Bristol Channel, and forming a
omplete communication, on the broad gauge, between Southampton,
Salisbury, Bath, Bristol, and every other town in the West of Eng-
land and South Wales.

Bankers' Receipts may now be exchanged for Script Certificates, and
the Deeds now lie for Signature at the Company's Office, 26, Gre-
sham-street, City.
The Deeds will shortly be removed into the country, of which du
notice will be given.
London, August 21, 180.

H. B. SHERIDAN, Smeary.

DISS and COLCHESTER RAILWAY.—
The Shareholders in this Railway, who have not noti-
fied their wish to subscribe for Shares in the Norfolk Extension
Capital, according to the terms proposed in the Circular dated the
21st of July, are requested to apply at the Office of the Norfolk Rail-
way Company, at Guildhall-buildings, London, on the 3d day of
September, for the return of 15s. 6d. per share, the proportion of the
Deposit on each Share returned. The scrip certificates must be left
at the Office, with the name and place of abode of the owner, for two
days prior to the payment.

By order,
RICHARD TILL, Secretary,

YLIDFAAFSBURY,
MIDLAN Ds
AND B ABRR
ANDSFOLRED

•
Provisionally Registered.
The object of this Line is to make a short and direct communica-
tion between Bradford, Cleckheaton, lieckmondwike, and Dewsbury,
with Barnsley, Sheffield, and all intermediate places to London. By
the present route from London, the Sheffield and Barnsley passengers
and goods are brought by way of Nonnanton, a distance of 123 miles
from Barnsley, and then either by Leeds to Bradford, a distance of
at least 20 miles, or by the Leeds and Manchester Line to Brighouse,
a distance of at least 20 miles, making the total distance from Barnsley
to Bradford, by Leeds, 32 miles, and by the Manchester line, 42
miles. The distance from Dewsbury to Barnsley, by the present
Railway, is 22 miles. The promoters of this line propose to com-
mence this Railway by a junction with the North Midland line, at a
point below Barnsley, to Barnsley, and from thence in a direct course
to Dewsbury, resoling to themselves the power of making the line
to Bradford through the Cleckheaton Valley, provided the West
Riding Junction and West Yorkshire amalgamated Companies do not
at the next session of Parliament apply to make that part of the line.
The lino at Dewsbury will make a junction with the Leeds and Dews-
bury Railway, West Riding Junction, and West Yorkshire
Amalgamated Scheme, and the present Manchester and Leeds Rail-
way, at or near a place called Thomhill Lees, making the distance, as
the crow flies, to be as follows :--
Barnsley to Bradford• •
Barnsley to Dewsbury • ••••• • • • • • 10 „
Barnsley to Leeds •• .. .. • ••••••• • • • • • • • 19 „
This line will, therefore, effect the following saving in distances :
To Derby, London, &c. from Bradford, about • • 11 miles.
To Barnsley from Bradford.. ••• • • ........ •• • 14 „
To Sheffield from Bradford ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 14 „
To Barnesley from Dewsbury • l2 „
To Barnsley ftom Leeds •••••.•••• • • • • • • • • • 3 ,
The proposed line, in conjunction with the Leeds and Dewsbury,'
West Riding Junction and West Yorkshire Railways, will bring, by
the shortest route, to the populous manufacturing districts between
Barnsley, Dewsbury, and Bradford, the traffic from Leicester, Derby,
London, &c.
This Railway will also open one of the richest coal districts in the
kingdom.

If the present Hull and Barnsley Junction Railway project should he
obtained, this Railway will be a direct line to Hull. And in conjunc-
tion with other projects now before the public, will be a direct line,
from Sheffield, Barnsley, Dewsbury, &c., to the North.
When the survey is completed a detailed prospectus, with the names
of the Provisional Committee, will be published. The Capital re-
quired for the undertaking to be divided into Shares of 201. each, and
two guineas deposit will then also be announced.
Applications for Shares may be made to Charles Robert Scholes,
Registered Solicitor to the Company, Dewsbury; or to Messrs. Sttd-
low, Sons, and Torr, Solicitors, 20, Chancery-lane, London.

BELGIAN EASTERN JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY, from Landen to Manage and Bralne-le-Comte, by
Jodoigne, Wavre, Genappe,lles, and Scneffe, under a Convention
for a Lease of 90 years.
Capital 850,0001., or 21,250,010 f., In 42,50 Q Shares of 201., or
500 f. each.
Deposit 21. 10s. per Share.
f theDIRECTORS.
President—Lieut.-Colonel Sir Frederick Smith, K. 11., R.E.,
• late Inspector-General of Railways
Vice-President—TheGreat
wes Viscountternnail Railway Company
.
The Marquis of M.P.,Winchester Deputy-Chairman
The Marquis of Conyngham
The Hon. William Ashley
Henry Amsinck, Esq., Secretary to the late Railway Commission
Robert Garnett, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham
Railway
Francis S. Head, Esq.
Charles Hopkinson, Esq.
(With power to add tn their number.)
BANKERS—Messrs. Charles Hopkinson and Co., Regent-street.
ENGINEER—P. Pritchard Baly, Esq.
SouctToits—Messrs. Crowdyr and Maynard.
SECRETARY—W. G. Bicknell, Esq.

-This line forms part of the railway communications projected by
air. A. Vifquain, the Belgian Engineer, extending from Landen, by
Wavre and Tervueren, to Brussels, and from Landen, by Manage, to
the French frontier.
It will commence at the town of Landon. on the Great State
Railway, between Ostend and Cologne, and will pass by the towns
ofJodoigne, Wavre, Genappe, lkivelles, and Seneffe, to Manage. It
will have a branch from Nivelles to Bralne-le-Comte, which will
connect it with the State Railway at the latter place, and thus com-
plete the communication westward with Tournay and Courtray.
This line will be brought into immediate connexion with the pro-
jected railways from Calais and Dunkirk to Lille, by means of a
railway from Tournay to Jurbise, the concession of which was passed
Into a law during the last session of the Belgian Chambers; and by a
new line from Manage to Erquelines, the law for which has also
passed, it will be connected with the proposed St. Quentin and Creil
Railway, thus forming part of a direct communication with Paris.

.....
A reference to the ;14 will show the commanding geographical
position of this line; it will form the shortest, and consequently the
cheapest, communication between the northern and north-eastern
provinces of France, and central and north-eastern Belgium on the
one side, and eastern Holland and western Germany on the other.
Its local advant-ges are not less conspicuous. It will traverse the
ecutra of Brabant, the metropolitan province of Belgium, which,
according to the Government returns, contains the unusual nnmber
of 575 persons to a square mile, and is more highly cultivated, and
pays a greater amount of taxes than any one of the nine provinces
of this industrious and densely populated country ; it will become the
highway for the vast transit of passengers and goods between the
provinces of Antwerp and Limbourg on the north-east, French Flan-
ders on the west, and Hainault on the south, which together contain
more than three millions of inhabitants.

It will touch the great coat dis'rictS of the south, which furnish
three out of the four millions of tons, the gross produce of the coal
pits of Belgium ; it will supply the Provinces of Brabant, Limbourg,
and part of the Province of Antwerp, with the Pieton Goal, which is
superior to any other in Belgium for household purposes, and will
become the line of exportation of this commodity into Holland and
Germany. It will convey from the great quarries of Arqueunes to
the populous districts of Louvain and to the country beyond, marble
and the most esteemed description of building stone that is used in
Holland and Belgium, as well as the lime and lime-stone so much
used in the latter country for agricultural and other purposes. From
Brabant it will convey to the Manufacturing Districts of Hainault
and to the Entre Sambre and Meuse, horses, cattle, and grain—to
the North-Eastern provinces the Timber of the Entre Sambre and
Meuse and the iron of Charleroi—and to the Southern provinces a
great proportion of the Deals imported at Antwerp.
A large portion of the commercial traffic between France and
Belgium, which amounts in value to upwards of Ave-and-a-half
millions sterling per annum, is at present principally carried by
land, and may therefore be fairly claimed for this central line. The
various intersecting lines which are now in course of formation
throughout Belgium, particularly in Brabant, Flanders, and Hainault,
will cause the present vast circulation of passengers and interchange
of goods to be still further developed, warranting the anticipation of
a large amount of profit, and thus placing this undertaking in the
first class of permanent investments.
A convention (to be ratified at the ensuing session of the Cham-
bers) has been concluded with the Belgian Government, under which
the Concessionaires are empowered to make the line above de-
scribed, and to hold it absolutely for the term of ninety years (to be
computed from tke period of its completion), withoat any power
of redemption by the State, and free from all rates, taxes, and
charges of every description.
Under this Convention, a preference is also granted to the Conces-
sionaries for the execution of extensions from Wavre to Tervueren on
the intended Direct State Line from Brussels to Louvain, and also
from Manage to the French frontier.
And it is stipulated that the conditions of the " Cahier des
Charges," under which the works are to be constructed, shall be the
same as those accorded to the West Flanders Railway Company,
which are deemed highly favourable.
It is now proposed to form a Company for the purpose of raising
the capital necessary to carry out this Concession.
The sum required will be 850,0001., or 21,250,000 francs, to be di-
vided into 42,500 Shares of 2el. (500 francs) each, on which a deposit,
or first instalment, of 21. 10s. per Share will be payable on allotment,
to provide the caution money, and pay the preliminary expenses, and
the cost of the Concession. A second instalment of 11. 10s. per Share
will be required within one month after the passing of the law, and a
third instalment of 2/. within three months after the day fixed for
payment of the second instalment. The other instalments, not ex-
ceeding 21. each per Share, will be required at intervals of not less
than three months, and one month's notice will be given of each call.
The sum of 850,000/. will be amply sufficient to complete the
construction of the railway (including stations, locomotives, and
other materiel) to defray the cost of the concession—to pay interest
at 3 per cent. until the line is opened throughout—and generally to
cover all outgoings usually chargeable upon capital.
In the allotment of any new shares which may be created for carry-
ing out the extensions before referred to, the Shareholders in this
Company will have the preference.

The Company will be constituted a Societe Anonyms, and the
liability of the Shareholders will be limited to the amount of their
respective subscriptions.
Notices of calls will be given by advertisement into two daily
London morning newspapers, and interest at the rate of 5 per cent,
per annum will be charged on the amount of all calls in arrear; and
if a call remain unpaid beyond twenty-eight days, the share, or
shares, will be subject to forfeiture.
Shares will be transferable after three-tenths of the amount shall
have been paid up.
Shareholders, after full payment of the amount of their shares, will
be entitled, on application, to receive certificates payable to bearer,
which will pass without transfer, like Exchequer-bills.
After the execution of the Acte de Societe, interest will be allowed
at the rate of 31. per cent, per annum on the amounts paid on shares
from the time of the several payments, up to the period of the open-
ing of the line throughout.
It is to be understood that this undertaking will be managed by
the Directors, and that every Shareholder will, by the payment of
his deposit, signify his assent to invest them with full powers to
settle with the Belgian Government the conditions of the law for
the formation of the railway, and of the Acte de Societe constituting
the Company.
After the opening of the line the profits of the Company will be
thus appropriated : A dividend of 5/. per cent. will, as a first
charge, be payable to the Shareholders. One quarter per cent. will
next be transferred to a reserve or sinking fund, to be Invested in
English Government Securities, which will redeem the capital at
the expiration of the lease. The surplus will then be divided into
twenty parts, eighteen of which will be apportioned to the Share-
holders, and the remaining two reserved for the Concessionaries.
During the construction of the railway the allowance to the
Directors is fixed at 1,5001. per annum. After its completion the
amount of their remuneration will be determined by the vote of a
general meeting.
An accountable receipt will be given to each Subscriber ou pay-
ment of his deposit, which receipt must be exchanged for Certi-
ficates of Shares at the Office of the Company within thirty
days after the first appearance of an advertisement requiring such
exchange ; such advertisement to be inserted three times in each
of two daily London morning newspapers. Non-compliance with
this condition will subject Subscribers to the forfeiture of their
deposits.
Applications for Shares may be made to the Directors, at the
temporary office of the Company, 53, Parliament-street; or through
Messrs. Crowder and Maynard, the Solicitors of the Company, 57,
Coleman-street, of whom prospectuses, with maps, and forms of ap-
plication, may be had ; and no application will be attended to unless
made in the following form :
, FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Directors of the Belgian Eastern Junction Railway.

I request you will allot to me- Shares of 201. sterling (500
francs) each, in your proposed railway, and I agree to accept such
Shares as shall be allotted to me, to pay the deposit theron, and to
execute the " Acte de Societe," and any other necessary deeds, when
required, and to conform in all respects to the statutes and regula-
tions of the Company.

Dated diy of 1845.
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