The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1845

THE DIRECT LONDON and LIVERPOOL
RAIL WAY (by a Junction from Chester to Wolverhampton),
through Newport and Whitchurch.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 V,ct., c. 110.)
Capital, 1,000,01101., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
ENGINEEIL—CharIes Blunt, Esq., C.E., F.R.S.
ASSISTANT 1:1(ot/qua—William Wilkinson Wardell, C.E.
gOLICIT•2I—Thomas Gibson Brewer, Esq., 13, Gray's Inn-square
STANDING COUNSEL—WiIIiam Bolt, Big
AGINTS.
London—Thomas George Smith, Esq., 2, Warnford-court.
Liverpool—Messrs. J. B. and D. Nellsou.
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal.
Temporary Offices, 13, Gray's Inn-square.
PROSPECTUS.
_ _ .

The Chester and Wolverhampton Railway is a direct line from
London to Livarpool.

It uses the London and Birmingham Railway the whole distance
to Birmingham ; from thence it proceeds to Wolverhampton either on
the Grand Junetien or on the Wolverhampton, Dudley, and Binning-
ham Railway.
From Wolverhampton commences the new portion of railway,
passing through the rich agricultural districts of Newport and White-
church on to Chester.
At Chester it proceeds on the Chester and Birkenhead Railway on
to Birkenhead.
It is proposed to establish at Birkenhead a steans-ferry, gratis, to
Liverpool, across the Mersey, so as to unite both towns Into one.
A preference in the allotment of shares will be given to the extent
of 15,000 to the original shrreholders in the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
chester Railway Company, on their sending in their application for
the same.

A proper reservation of shares will be made for the London and
Birmingham, Chester and Birkenhead, and Warwickshire Railways,
being the railways by means of which the project now submitted to
the public is the most direct Louden and Liverpool Railway that can
be made.
A list of most influential London and Local Directors will be pub.
lished in a few days, together with a detailed list of Bankers, Agents,
&c., in the different towns on the line. In the meantime, apAications
for shares may by addressed to the Solicitor or any of the Agents o
the Company, in the following form :

DIRECT LONDON AND LIVERPOOL RIILWAT.
Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per share.
To the Provi.sional Committee of the Direct London and Lieerpoo

Railway Company.
Gentlemen,-...1 request that you will allot me shares In the
above proposed railway, and I agree to accept that or any less
number that you may please to allot me. And I undertake to pay
the deposit of N. 2s. per share on the same, and to sign the Par-
liamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, and all usual an(
necessary deeds, when required.
Dated this day of

, 1843.

Name In fa :.7..
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OL VE RHA MP TON, CHESTER, AND
BIRKENHEAD JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria, s. 110.)
Capital 1,008,0001, in 1•0,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.

The great principal on which the projectors of this lmportau
scheme have acted, is the establishment of . dir.ot nne of cortiwa-
nicatin. bot..-oc” 111an111.6110.1u anu Birkenhead, by the nearest pos-
sible route, and at the smallest possible outlay. To effect this object,
it is proposed to make use either of the Grand Junction, or the Bir-
mingham, Dudley, and Wolverhampton Railway, as far as Wolver-
hampton, and thence to throw out a new line in as straight a direction
as possible to Chester, where a junction will be formed with the rail-
way already existing between that city and Birkenhead. A most
important saving of distance will thus be effected.
It is obvious that such a scheme is fraught with eoueequenoes of
the highest possible import to the commercial interests of the reopee-
tire districts. The growing prosperity of Birkenhead even now de-
mands a more direct communication with the midland, southern,
western, and eastern counties ; and when her magnificent docks shall
be completed, and the town itself shall have arrived at its destined
greatness, this line will take a prominent position among the most
lucrative of these undertakings.
The Directors, therefore, conscious of the great traffic which flow
from the densely populated termini, propose to construct this line In
is straight a direction as possible, and thereby secure the immense '
t'irough traffic which will resort to this railway for shortness and
expedition, from the great manufacturing and agricultural districts of
Muth Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcester, Hereford-
shire, Monmouthshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Northamp-
tonshire, and in fact the whole of the eastern counties, as well as
rum London and the important districts to the south, east, and west
f themetropolis.

Irrespective of the immense population of the termini, it is evident
hat this projected line commends itself to the entire inhabitants of
M counties already referred to. The scheme also possesses this Air-
her and great advantage—that It will, in reality, form a shorter and
:Lore direct line to the neighbourhood of Liverpool and the district
L tjacent, than any which has hitherto been projected ; and by means
r the contemplated line from Chester to Holyhead, it will open the
honest possible route from London to Ireland, and thereby avoid the
!clay and inconvenience of a protracted sea voyage. A cursory inspec-
ion of the map of England, and a reference to the plan of this line wi!l
Llso show that the Trent Valley, London and Birmingham, Ulna' whore
old Gloucester, Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, as well as the
,rojected itaffordshire and Shropshire Railways, will necessarily be
valuable tributaries to this important line of railway.
The line to be constructed by this Company will commence at
Wolverhampton, and proceed through an agricultural district, by
way of Market Drayton to Chester; and although in its direct course
it may not pass through many towns of importance, the engineering
difficulties of every other route will be avoided, and powerful local
influence brought into co-operation with this Company.
In the formation of this line the extensive iron district of Lilleshall
has been especially regarded ; and by means of the facilities of
transit afforded by this Company, the ironmasters of South Stafford-
shire will be enabled to compete with the Scotch market, which they
have hitherto been unable to do in consequence of the heavy charge
for freight.
The Provisional and Managing Committee are In the course of
selection, and will be published in a few days, with other particulars.
Applications for Shares to be made to Mr. W R. Vardy, Solicitor, Is,
Finsbury-place, Finsbury-square, London ; or Mr. John iknith or
Mr. C. J. Noble, Solicitors, Birmingham.

ISLE of ELY, WISBECH, and LINCOLN
SHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 200,000/., in 8,000 Shares of 25!. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. 64. per Sham.
PROVISIONAL DIRCCTORS.

William Bradley, Esq. (Chairman), Director of the Shelllehi
Manchester, Huddersfield and Sheffield, and Direct Western Rail
way Companies, Manor Oaks, Sheffield
W. D. Christie, Esq., li.P, 3, Eccleston-street, Chester-square,
London
D. It. Ross, Esq., M.P., Great Ryder-street, St. James's, London
William Pinney, Esq., late M.P. for Lyme Regis, 3J, Berkeley-square,
London
T. Charles Harrison, Esq., F.R.S., York-terrace, Regent's-park
11. S. Bright, Esq. (firm •f Taylor, Clifford, and Bright). Hull, Director
of the Direct Western Railway Company
William Brsynton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Tainworth
Railway Company, Mentpeller-house, Cheltenham, and Sergeants'
Inn, London
C. Appleby, Esq., Director of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway
Company, Sheffield
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Director of the Direct Western Railway Com-
pany, Westbourne-house, Sheffield
John flolford, Esq., Rushplme-hall, Manchester
William Marriott, Esq., Director of the Direct Western Rallwey
Company, Attercliffe-terrace, Sheffield
C. R. Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square, London
William Thompson, Esq., Director of the Huddersfield and Sheffield
Railway Company, Sheffield
Richard Kelly, Esq., Chairman of the New Ross, Carlow and Kil-
kenny Railways, 5, Cleveland-row, St. James's, London
John Fawcett, Esq., Director of the Wakefield andllarrowgato Rail-
way Company, Sheffield
John Robson, Esq., Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lan-
cashire Railway Company, Hetton-le-Hole, Durham
Samuel Swan Brittain, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng-
land, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Railway Companies,
Sheffield
Thomas Hedley, Esq., Director of the Lancashire and North York-
shire Railway Company, Newcastle-on-Tyne
Isaac Holmes, Esq., Great George's-square, Liverpool
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Midland Railway Company, Sheffield
Captain Page, Director of the Coventry aid Leicester Railway Corn-
pail', Charlton-house, Somerton
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton Railway Company, Cambridge-street, Hyde-park,
London
John Ward, Esq., Director of the Sheffield, Rotherham, and Chester-
field Fire and Life Insurance Company, Highileld, Sheffield
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
Adderley Howard, Esq., Long Sutton, Lincolnshire
Mr. John Burrell, Long Sutton
Mr. William Fletcher, Long Sutton
Mr. Kemp Sanby, Long Sutton
Thomas Marshall, Esq., Tydd St. Mary, Lincolnshire
Robert Jot, nston, Esq., Wisbech, Manager of the National Provin-
cial Bank of England at Wisbech
Henry Hollard, Esq., Walsoken, Wisbech
John Smith, Esq., March, Manager of the National Provincial Bank
of England at March
Charles Culledge, Esq., March
Richard Atkinson, Esq., March
Mr. John Whitwell, Wisbech

(With power to add to their number).
BANKM.
Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co., Gracechurch-street, London.
National Provincial Bank of England, March, Wiebech, aad Long
Sutton.

ENGINEERS.
Messrs. J. 13. and E. Birch, Cannon-row, Westminster.
SOLICITORS.
James Coppock, Esq., 3, Cleveland-row, St. James, London.
John Bell, Esq., 28, Craven-street, Strand, London.
Thomas Steed Watson, Esq., Wisbech.
The Committee of Management beg to announce that the Allot-
ment of Shares has been made, and the letters posted.
They regret to have found it impossible to comply with the requests
of many applicants of the highest respectability.
2G, Gresham-street, September 29 L WILIAM WILDE, Secretary.
, 1845.

PRELIMINARYANNcruNcEM
RAILWAY CLUB HOUSE, CHAMBERS,
and GENERAL GOODS DEPOT COMPANY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
FREEHOLD INVESTMENT.
Capital, 300,0001., in 12,000 Shares of 251. each.

.
Deposit, 11. 7s. 6d. per Share.
(In compliance with the recent Psrliamentary Orders.)
Railways have now assumed a greater importance in the world oi
traffic and business than any public enterprise British genius has yet
contemplated, whether we consider them in a national point of view,
as tending to the advancement of trade and commerce, or as a pro-
fitable fund for the investment of capital. The many millions ex-
pended in the prosecution of existing lines ; thethaeddlaitrigoanalawmatilltititonasf
subscribed for those projected or in progress ;
interest annually paid to shareholders; and the high price of shares
(in many cases double their original costLmanifesmt
tethlaienesppuusbbhlhioccui,
should be
in these undertakings.
To protect capital so embarked, adequate
adopted to combine the convenience and safety
of
the protection and the interest of the Directors and Shareholders.
The Government have regarded the increase of railways to be so
nationally important, as to deem it expedient to create, for the pur-
pose of watching over the system, a new department of administra-
ptahratt opfhtehe et a
rG. oavnedr 1
Proprietorsnooftithaoi7veavye
sr
rt iom, has nnd. e r eld' hiits lesspo eoc ens stahrey
isnhteotrdedstsc.o-operato for the protection of their several and united

No areangement would so well effect this desirable object as a
General Union Board of the whole of the Railway Companies, re_
presented by appointed Delegates from each Direction, to meet poll-
4-slically, and establish such regulations as would tend to the general
pod.

10 facilitate this purpose, It is proposed to erect in the most central
part of the metropolis a spacious and commodious fire-proof edifice,
comprising suitable ranges of Offices for Railway Companies,*privato
Committee-rooms, a spacious Hail for Annual and General Meetings,
and an extensive range of Warehouses as a general goods depot fur
railway transit. The various departments of the proposed establish-
ment will, amongst other important and eligible appointments, include

THE RA 11. WA Y CLUB HOUSE.
The Railway Club-house will afford great convenience ; it will be
supplied with every information relating to Railways, with maps and
sectional drawings of each line, with models and plans of all im-
proved modes of construction. There will be also Publications of all
the Scientific Works on Engineering and Railway Mechanism ; the
London and Country Daily Papers ; the British and Foreign Share
Lists ; Parliamentary Notices, Reports and decisions on Railway
Bills ; a Registry Mart for the disposal of all kinds of machinery and
other railway property—locomotive engines, gear, surplus land, &c.
The Club will be open for Members connected with Railways, whe-
ther British or foreign, and such other Persons as may be recom-
mended and approved Lf by the Committee, or by ballot.
THE CHAMBERS.
The Chambers will be constructed on an improved principle, and
be supplied with office, furniture, desks, book-cases, &c. Water will
be laid on to every story—there will be a complete system of venti-
lation and heating throughout the building, and gas-lights titled to
each apartment. The whole will form one of tho most commodious
offices in the City, available fur public Companies or private in-

THE GENERAL GOODS DEPOT AND RAILWAY
WAREHOUSES.
_

These will be on a most extended scale, and established on the
same principle as the dry docks at Liverpool, which, it is presumed,
will be found most convenient for the country manufacturer, and the
export and import merchant for the warehousing or transit of home
or foreign produce. To the London merchant and metropolitan
commercial trading establishment this department will prove very
useful and economical, as goods can be forwarded to the Central
Depot, and from thence be conveyed to any of the termini of the
metropolitan railways for country destination or foreign shipment ;
or may be carefully warehoused for short or lengthened periods, and
every facility will be given to the present great railway carriers, to
whom separate departments will be assigned.
To the Railway Companies in general, inch an establishment will
be essentially useful, as every Company subscribing to the Club will
have all the convenience of an office in the centre of London, where
communication may be had with every Company throughout the
kingdom. By the adoption of this plan, a general representation of
all the railways will at once be had, whereby an effective union for
their
mutual interests will take place, and a general public good will
The whole will
be established.
be sneerintended by an efficient Comm tee of
An eligible and exteneiveg
Management.
seltev;erntlguous to the Royal Exchange,
purpome,
bftylilsealb.culated for carrying out the
Bank, and Stock Exchan
whole of the above
Vey and estimate is now being mad. b n axed upon, a careful our
y eminent surveyors who con

sider that (after allowing a liberal sum for the expense of manage-
ment) the revenue arising from the annual rental of offices let to
Railway Companies, the hire of the Public Hall and Committee-
rooms for general and private meetings, the annual subscriptions
from members of the Club, and from the general goods depot and
warehouses, and otherwise, that a return equal to the most flourish-
ing undertaking of the present day will be realised on the capital
embarked. The result of the above survey and estimate will be
published in the course of a few days.
Applications for shares to be addressed to the Provisional Com-
mittee In the annexed form, to Messrs. Cook and Humphreys, soli-
citors, No. 28, St. Swithin's-lane, London.
The following is the
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
The Railway Clab-House, Chambers, and General Goods Depot
Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 251.
each in the above Company, and I agree to accept the same, or any
less number that you may please to allot me; and I undertake to
pay the deposit, lb. 17s. 6d. per share on the same, and all future calls
thereon, and to sign the subscribers' agreement and Parliamentary
contract when required.

Name in MR ...............
Residence • • • .. • • •• .. .

Place of Business (if any) ...
Trade or Profession ... ......
Usual Signature.... • • • . • • • . .

Reference--
Name •.••••••• • • • • • • • • ..... •
Residence.— • •• • • • .•••••• • • • • • .
Trade or Profession
* Moat of the Railway Companies are now under the greatest in-
convenience for want of suitable offices. The locating them together
under one roof would afford great accommodation to each other, as
well as to the Shareholders (similar to the numerous Public Societies
whose offices are in Exeter Hall.)

CANTERBURY AND DOVER, RAILWAY.
This Company having made arrangements with the Croydon
Railway Company for an amalgamation with the recently-projected
Great Kent Atmospheric Railway, with a capital of 2,500,0001., in
100,000 Shares of 251. each, deposit SW. 10s. per Share, this is to give
notice, that HOLDERS of SCRIP in the CANTERBURY and DOVER
RAILWAY COMPANY will, if approved of, be entitled to ONE
SHARE in the GREAT KENT ATMOSPHERIC RAIL WAY
COMPANY for every Share held by them In the Canterbury and
Doter Railway Company, upon their making their deposit money
equal to tkat in the Great Kent Atmospheric Railway Company.
By order,
SANKEY and SL/DDEN,
S. P. HOOK,
Solicitors to the Company.
Sept. 29, 11145.

N.B.—Th• Croydon Railway Company guarantee, in the event of
an ♦ct not being obtained, to return the whole amount of the de
posit, less 10s. per Share.

DOVER AND BRISTOL RAILWAY.
In continuation of the South-Eastern Railway from Reigate
to Bristol, upon the narrow gauge.

(Provisionally Registered.)
The FULI, PROSPECTUS, with the NAMES of the PROVI-
SIONAL COMMITTEE, will appear on FRIDAY NEXT, and may be
obtained from the Solicitors to the Company—
Edwin Smith, Esq., Gray's Inn
Messrs. Lewis and Ford, 28, Essex-street London
Edward Burger, Esq., Bristol ; or of
Thompson, Esq., solicitor, Dover
Henry Gilbert, Esq., solicitor, Devizes
Messrs. Timbreli and Merrick, solicitors, Bradford and Trowbridge ;
And of the following Stock and Sharebrokers in London :
Messrs. Peppercorne and Co., 2, Old Broad-street
Mr. A. Sym, 9, Tokenhouse-yard
Mr. B. B. Williams, Throginorton-street.
CHARLES MARTIN, Secretary.

Offices, 12, Gray's Inn-place.

SHEFFIELD, MIDLAND, AND HULL
DIRECT RAILWAY.
(Provisionally registered pursuant to 7th and Bth Vic., c. 110.)
In 201. shares. Deposit 21. 2s.
This railway is intended to connect tke important towns of Liver-
' pool, Manchester, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and Doncaster, with the
ports of Goole and Hull, and it is proposed that it shall commence
by a junction with the Midi:tad Railway, at or near Masberough,
proceed direct to Doncaster and Goole, and form a junction with the
Hull and Selby Railway, at or Rear Howden, thus making a grand
connecting link between the western and eastern coasts, and a direct
communication between Liverpool aid Hull.
It is also intended to join the proposed London and York Railway
at Doncaster, and will be an important connexion to that great un-
dertaking.
The distance saved between Sheffield and Hull by this Line will be
upwards of 20 miles, and having a direct communication with Don-
caster, will bring the great agricultural produce of that district in
immediate connexion with Sheffield, and the manufacturing and
populous districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire.
There can be no doubt that the local, independent of any distant
traffic that may come upon the Line, will make it highly remunera-
tive to the Shareholders.
Scripholders in the London and York Railway, in their application
for Shares, will he pleased to state the same.
A detailed Prospectus, with the names of the Providlonal Com•
mittee, Engineers, &c., will be published in a few days: in the mean-
time all communications and applications for Shares, in the usual
form, may he addressed to Mr. Rayner, Mr. Fernell, or Mr. Broad-
bent, solicitors, Sheffield.
Sheffie'd, 27th September, 1845.

I•HE GREAT MANCHESTER, RUGBY, and
SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, with a DIRECT LINE
from DERBY to RUGBY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Vic., cap. 110.)
Capital 5,000,0001., in 150,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL CONIIITTISR.
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Combermere, G.C.8., G.C.H., &c.
The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton
The Right Hon. George It. Dawson
The Hon. Cecil Lawless
Thomas Bateson, Esq., M.P., Albany, and Relvoir Park, county
Londonderry
Major-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Hyde Park
Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N., K. C.B.
Edmond Turner, Esq., M.P., Truro, Cornwall
Sir John Jacob Hensler, F. R. S., F. S. A., &c., Upper Bedford.
place
Henry John Entheven, Esq., 8, Moorgate.street, Director of the
Dutch Rhenish Railway
William Watson, Esq , Directors of the Bristol and Exeter, and
William Morgan, Esq., the North Devon Railways
Anthony Dickson, Esq., Edrington House, Berwickshire, late Phy-
sician. General of Bengal
William Shadbolt, Esq., Croom's.hill, Greenwich, Chairman of the
Greenwich, and Director of the Dendre Railway
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Twyford Hall, near Derby
Frazer B. Henshaw, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman..square,
Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-
Tyne Railway
William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurloe-square, Brompton, Director
of the Jersey and South Midlands Junction Railways
Jededieh Strutt, Esq., Belper, near Derby
John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., 150, Piccadilly
David Montague, Esq., Regent's Park
John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire, Director of the Sheffield,
Buxton, Leek, and Potteries Railway
Grey Hazlerigg, Esq., West Calton Hall, Leicestershire, Director
of the South Midland Railway
Benjamin Franklin, Esq , 5, Harley-street, Cavendish-square
Jonas Wilks, Esq., Watling street, London
William Morley, Esq., Blackheath, Kent, Director of the New-
castle, Durham, and LancashireJunctioa Railway
Henry R. Doweman, Esq., Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, and 47,
Upper Bedford-place
Robert Chapman, Esq., Coomb Lodge, Hants, and Park-place,
Regent's Park
James Reeves, Esq., Cheapside, and Leytoa, Essex
John Downes, Esq., 6, Beiford.place, Russell-square
George Ashlin, Esq., Mark-lane
Alfred Rickets, Esq., merchant, Gracechurch-street
William Lee, Esq., Satis House, Rochester
W. E. Mousley, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, and Derby
John Bowring, LL.D., M.P., Director of the Bleak wall Railway
Ambrose More, Esq., Milk-street, London, and of Derby, Director
of the Dendre Railway
Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and
the South Midland Junction Railways
Charles Augustus Tulk, Esq , Totteridge park, Herta
Henry Gone, Eqq., Epsom, Surrey
James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director
of the London and Birmingham Junction Railway, and of the
Trine, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
John Weston, Esq., 28, Woburn-square
Edward Webster Bullock Webster, Esq., Hendon, Middlesex, Di-
rector of the New River Company
James Hunt, Esq., 21, Parliament-street
James Lys Seager, Esq., Director of the Welsh Midland, and
Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway
Edward Turst Carver, Esq., Forest Lodge, Tulse-hill, Director of
the North Wales and Namur and Liege Railways
William De Laanoy, Esq., 42, Guildford-street, Russell-square
Archibald F. Paull, Esq., LeadenhalLstreet, Director of the South
Wales Railway
Francis F. Jessop, Esc, Derby
William H. Allen, Esq. , Leadenhall-street
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Millbroek, Magherafelt, county Lon-
donderry
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., Mecklenburgh-square, Director of the
Derby, Sheffield, and Worcester Railway
Burton Archer Burton, Esq , Woodlands Hall, Emsworth, Hants
John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Royer, Halifax, Director of the Man-
chester, Liverpool, and Great North of England Railway
John S. Silva, Esq., Crutched.friars
Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street
Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Doctors -commons, and Hanger-lane,
Tottenham
James Peard Ley, Esq., Seaton Iron.works, Whitehaven
John Sandars, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe, and
Erewash Valley Railways
Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Oxford.squarel
Thomas Hackett, Esq., merchant, Derby
Mr. H. J. Holmes, carriage builder, Derby
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Rail.
way

Jame; Whiskin, Esq.. Director of the London and Croydon Rail.
_ way

Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth
James Gernand, Esq. , 13, Conduit.street
John Allcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Staffordshire

COMXITTIIII or isowLoomowr.
The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Ambrose Moore, Esq.
Pelham Clinton i William Watson Prole, Esq.
The Hon. Cecil Lawless I Robert Chapman, Esq.
William Watson, Esq. Archibald F. Paull, Esq.
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq. Henry R. Downman, Esq.
William Morgan, Esq.
ENGINEERS—Francis Giles, Esq. ; Alfred Giles, Esq.
Somaross—Messrs. Thompson and Debenham, Salter's Hall
Messrs. Edwards, Mason, and Edwards, $, Moorgate.street.
14XXIIRS IX LONDON—Maori. Glyn, HaMinix. Mills, and Co.
Lombard-street ; and the London Joint-stock Bank, Princes.
street.

• BANLERS IN DlRST—Messrt. Samuel Smith and Co.
Local. AGllNTs—Derby, Joseph Sale, Esq.: Ashby.de.la-Zouch,
William Dewes, Esq. ; Market Bosworth, William Cowden,
Hinckley, Edward Kern Jarvis, Esq. ; Macclesfield, Wil-
liam Norris, ; Leek. John Cruso, Esq. ; Uttoxeter, Messrs.
Welby and Flint; Southampton, Alexander F. Patterson, Esq. ;
Gosport, Robert Cruikshanks, Esq.
Application for shares may be made to the Company's
solicitors, or to the following stockbrokers :—Mr. H.
Pritchett, 14, Old Broad-street, Mr. T. C. Mundey, 17,
Royal
and Prince Exchange (eastern entrance) ; Messrs. Wells, Wes-
op, p, 75, Old Broad-street, London ; Messrs
Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Mr. J. Fern
Newbery, and Mr. John Beethom, Manchester; Messrs. Karp and
yhough, Mr. W. B.
Son, Derby; Messrs. John Huelden and Son, Mr. S. Summerfield,
and Messrs. Henry Davies and Co., and
; Messrs. G. Edwards
and Son, and Messrs. Wreford, Nichols, and Wreford, Bristol ; Mr.
CharlesChles Wickens, Northampton ; Messrs. Watson and Co., Hull ;
uel Collinson, and Messrs. Pott and Levick, Nottingham;
Messrs. Wilkinson and Sons, Exeter ; Messrs. King and Co., and
Messrs. Ridadale, Myers, and Bailey, Ede'L
Messrs. Collis and Son, Mr. dward Wilson,
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THE GREAT MANCHESTER, RUGBY, AND
SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, WITH A DIRECT
LINE FROM DERBY TO RUGBY.
Notice is hereby given that NO further APPLICATIONS for
SHARES in this Company CAR be received after SATURDAY next,
the 4th October.
Dated this 30th day of September, 1845.
By order of the Committee of Management.
THOMPSON and' DEBENHAM,
ED WARDS, MASON, and ED WARDS, Joint Solicitors. 1

GREAT INDIAN PENINSULAR
RAILWAY COMPANY.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER OF MANAGEMENT.
CHAIRMAN—The Hon. John Stuart Wortley, M.P.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—W. J. Hamilton, Esq , M.P.
Frederick Ayrton, Esq., late of the East India Company's Service
Major-General Briggs, many years employed in high political and
civil situations in India
Major Clayton, Bengal Cavalry
The Right Hon. G. R. Dawson
J. G. Frith, Esq. (firm of Frith, Wallace, and Co.), Deputy-Chair-
man of the Enniskillen and Londonderry Railway
Captain Greeley, late in civil employ in the Nizara's country
William Gladstone, Esq., firm of Thomson, Sonar, and Co.
James Briscoe Graham, Esq., late of Bombay
John Harvey, Esq., Commercial Bank of London
Swynfen Jervis, Esq., Director of the London and County Bank,
Lombard-street
John Peirse Kennard, Esq.
Robert W. Kennard, Frq., Deputy-Chairman, Northern and East-
ern Railway Company
John Malleson, Esq., Director of the Armagh and Coleraine
Railway
Major Moore, late Military Secretary, Hyderabad
Richard Paterson, Esq., Chairman of the Northern and Eastern
Railway Company
William Ambrose Shaw, Esq., many years resident in India
Major-General Trewman, Madras Establishment
Melville Wilson, Esq., Director of the Alliance Assurance.office
T. Williamson, Esq., late Revenue Commissioner of the Deccan,
Bombay

(With power to add to their number.)
CONSTJLTING ENGINEER—Robert Stephenson, Esq.
MANAGER—John Chapman, Esq.
STANDING COUNSEL—Charles Buller, Esq., M.P.
soucrroes.
Messrs. White and Borrett, 35, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London
Messrs. Ayrton and Walker, Bombay
RANKERS.

Messrs. Denison, Heywood, Kennards, and Co., London
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., London
Messrs. Arthur, Heywood., Sons, and Co., Liverpool
BANK6R9 IN BOMBAY—Bank of Bombay
AGENTS IN BOMBAY—Messrs. Nicol and Co.
The Provisional Committee have the pleasure to inform the ap-
plicants for shares in this Company, that they have received by
the last Mail, from their representatives in Bombay, advice. of the
cordial co-operation there of the most influential parties, both
European and native, in carrying out the great objects which this
Company proposes to effect.
The prospectus of the Company has been approved and adopted
in Bombay, and the Committees of the Bombay Great Eastern
Railway, and of the Indian Railway Association of Bombay, both
of local origin (the former established for making a railway from
Bombay to the foot of the Ghent., and the latter for promoting
railway communication with the interior of the peninsula upon a
more extended scale) are taking active measures for the identifi.
cation of the interests of their respective Subscribers with those of
the Great Indian Peninsular Railway Company.
It appearing also from the same advices, that the portions of the
line to accommodate the great traffic connected with the staple
trade, and port of Bombay, are most urgently wanted, the Pro-
visional Committee have it in contemplation to secure the con-
struction of those portions at the earliest possible period. With
that object, and in accordance with their annnouncement of the
24th of July last, stating that the allotment would take place after
the receipt of advice. from India, they propose to commence by
the issue of 40.000 shares of the intended capital of the Company
(a like number being now in course of allocation in India), reserv.
ing the residue fer future distribution, with a preference to holders
of original shares.
Pursuant to this altered course of procedure, parties who have
already applied for shares are at liberty to withdraw their applisa-
tions should they be so disposed, and to meet such contingency
the Provisional Committee will receive new appligs until the
Bth of o_tober next, when they will proceed to otment of
the shares.
Forms of application for shares may be had froghlessrs. White
and Borrett, the solicitors, 65, Lincoln's Inn-fleids ; and L. M.
Simon, Esq., stock and share-broker, No. 7, Wharnford-court
Throgmorton.street.
Applications must be accompanied by a relerence either to
some member of the Provisional Committee, or to a banker, or to
the solicitors or broker.
Shares, 501. each. Deposit, 21. 10s. per Share.
(Signed) JOHN STUART WORTLEY, Chairman.
Copies of portions of the advice. from India above referred to
may be seen on application to
The Solicitors and Broker, London
Messrs. Nicol, Duckworth, and Co., 1, Cook-street, Liverpool
J. Nicholson, Esq., 15, St. Ann's-square, Manchester
Messrs. Spurrier and Chaplin, 16, Paradise. streei, Birmingham
James Watson, Esq., South Frederick-street. Glasgow

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Race .course).
From unavoidable circumstances the Stewards are compelled to
POSTPONE these Races to a future opportunity, of which due
notice will be given.
By order of the Stewards,
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Hounslow Barracks, Monday night, Sept. 29, 1845.

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TO THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT LIVERYMEN OF
THE CITY OF LOMDON.
0 EN TL E MEN,
THE events of yesterday have made so grateful
an impression on me that time cannot efface, nor language
express it.
A Hall so respectable, so earnest, and sa devoted, is seldom wit-
nessed.

I thank you most cordially for this generous support, which I fbel
as a great consolation under the persecution I have endured ; and,
though rejected by a small majority of the Court of Aldermen, I do
look with an honest satisfaction to the efforts you have made in my
favour.

Trusting that we shall meet ;again under more prosperous circus•
stances,

I remain, Gentleman,
Your most obedient and faithful servant.
THOMAS WOOD,
2, Corbot-court, Gracechurch-street, Sept. 30, 1845.

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed the Grand Opera of THE BOHEMIAN GIRL,
Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison ; Arline, Miss Rainforth.
To conclude with the Grand Divertissemeit of LA BAYADERE.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed the Comedy of A CURE FOR TIIE HEART-
ACHE. Old Rapid, Mr. W. Farren ; Young Rapid, Mr. Hudson ;
Frank Oatland, Mr. Buckstone ; Jessy Oatland, Miss Julia Bennett.
After which, will bis repeated a New Comic Drains, entitled A
CABINET QUESTION.. Sir Beaumont Cressy, Mr. Brindal ;
Lionel, Mr. Howe; Rosewood, Mr. Tilbury; Tom, Mr. Buckstme ;
Miss Mortimer, Miss Telbin ; Lucy, Miss Julia Bennett.
To he followed by a New and Original Comic Drama, entitled THE
FALSE MR. POPE. Lacey, Mr. Hudson; Captain Breval, Mr.
Howe; Mr. Peter Redwing, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Breval, Miss P.
Horton ; Miss Jenny Gillett, Miss Julia Bennett; Mrs. Lacey, Mrs.
Edwin Yarnold.

To conclude with HIS LAST LEGS. O'Callaghan, Mr. Hudson ;
Rivers, ➢lr. Tilbury ; Charles Rivers, Mr. H. 801 l ; Mrs. Montague,
Mrs. W. Clifford.

Private Saxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Halt each,
Tickets and "'laces to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the boa-office
from Ten till Five o'clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESIR
THIS EVENING

Will be repeated a New Drama, entitled CLARISSE ; or, The
Merchant's Daughter. Martial, Mr. Webster ; John Cabot, Mr.
Mutiyard ; Barbillon, Mr. Wright ; Galon, Mr. Paul Bedford;
Clarisse, Madame Celeste ; Milanie, Miss Woolgar.
To be followed by SEEING WRIGHT.
After which, will be repeated, THE lIOY KING; or, Petite
Peccadillos. Louis XV., Madame Celeste; De Lauzum, %Ilse Wool-
gar. In the course of the piece, Grand Review of the Infantint
Infantry.

To conclude with PUNKS, TIIE BAGMAN.
Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the
Band, Mr. Mellon.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY,
THIS EVENING

Will be performed a New and Original Comedietta, entitled PETER
JENKINS; or, Fibbing for a Friend. Principal Characters by
Messrs. Keeley, A. Wigan, Turner, Meadows; Mrs. Y:eley and Miss
Dawson.

To be followed by a New and Original Comedy, to be called THE
GOVERNOR'S WIFE, with entirely New Scenery, Dresses, and
Appurtenances. Principal Characters by Messrs. Diddear, Keeley.
F. Mathews, F. Vining, and Collier, Miss Dawson. and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with OPEN SESAME; or, A Night with the Forty
Thieves. Characters by Messrs. Wigan, F. Mathews, Turner, Yar-
nold, and Keeley; Miss Hodson, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Fairbrother,
Miss Cirove, Mrs. Wigan, Miss Turner, Miss licks, Miss lloward,
and Mrs. Keeley,

The Box-ofliCe N open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan
from Ten till Four.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS.
PROPRIETOR AND MANAGER, MR. W. BATTY.
Approbation ! approbation! approbation ! nightly bestows its gra-
tifying meed upon the present noyel Egyptian Hypodramatic pro-
duction. Fourth Week of the gorgeous, classic, equestrian, dramatic
spectacle of THE BRIDE OF THE NILE, and The Lily of Memphis
and The Horse of the Pyramids, with new startling effects ;
twenty Tableaux, in which Egyptian Games and Chariot Rases are
introduced.

New and varied Scenes of Equitation, introducing the eombin cod
talents of the French Artistes.

The Entertainments each evening will conclude with an entice new
Afterpiece, entitled JONATHAN; or, the Man of Two Masters.
Box-ottice open from Eleven till Five. Equestrian Tuition gives.:
as usual. Acting Manager and Stage Director, Mr. T. Thompson.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed THE ROVER'S SECRET.
After which, THE QUAKER.
To conclude with TOM STARBOARD.
Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.
office, from Eleven to Irmo.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. OSBALDISTON.
THIS EVENING WILL BE PERFORMED,
THE WONDER ! A WOMAN_REEPS A SECRET. _ Don Felix,
Mr. 061mIdiston.

Atter which, FAZIO ; or, The Italian Wife.
To conclude with THE PILOT ! a Tale of the Sea.

NEW STRAND THEATRE.
PIIILLIPI'E'S SOIREES MYSTERIESUSES,
M. Philippe has the honour to announce that, in consequence
of the unprecedented success of his entertainment at the St. James's
Theatre, he has taken the New Strand Theatre, which WILL OPEN
This EVENING, September 30, for the exhibition of his
celebrated TOURS DE PHYSIQUE, and surprising feats of
MAGICAL DELUSION. The performances will be varied by the
introduction of many most attractive novelties, obtained during a
recent visit to Paris.

Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places, may be secured at the Box-office
of the Theatre, which is open from Ten till Five.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDEIS.
LAST WEEK BUT ONE.
MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and THURSDAYS,
Will be presented a Magnificent
MODELLED REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH,
The Unequalled Menagerie—Giraffe and Chimpanzee.
THE MAGNIFICENT MODEL OF VENICE,
THE PROMENADE CONCERTS,
By the unrivalled Band ofthe Establishment, conducted by Mr. Godfrey.
At Dusk will take place the most extraordinary
EXHIBITION OF FIREWORKS EVER ATTEMPTED,
Introducing a Representation of the COMET, which takes its trial
Flight from the extreme height of the Gigantic Model;
And, as a Finale, a Grew!, Royal, and Patriotic
AQUATIC TABLEAU,
Fifty-two feet in height, will be exhibited in the Centre of the Lake;
The PORTRAITS of HER MAJESTY and PRINCE ALBERT,
Surmounted by Fame, and surrounded by Emblems and
Other Devices will be Introduced.
This, combined with the Feux D'Artiflce, the Salute and Discharge o
Rockets from the Castle and surroundin Heights will form the most
BRILLIANT PYROTECHNIC DISPLAY EVER WITNESSED.
Admission, One Shilling.
Feeling the Carnivore at Half-past Four; Pelicans, &c., at Five
Concert at Half-past Five ; and Pyrotechnic Display at Eight.

THE WEATHER.—Sox OFFICE, SEPT. 30.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 47; Highest, 57; Neon, 58,
BAROMETER, 29.77.
WIND S.W.; cloudy weather.

lIIGII WATER ♦T LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 0 minutes after 1 Evening ... 20 minutes after 1

• every unprejudiced and unperverted mind must
—and we are satisfied did—believe to be a clear and
positive acquittal. The moral presumptions in this af-
fair corroborate this inference, too, in a manner singu-
larly illustrated by the fact of the connexion itself. If
that connexion with an unfortunate undertaking was a
mere error in judgment, the mistake may impugn
Mr. Alderman WOOD'S astuteness as a judge
of joint-stock companies ; but the fiercest extra
vagance of party spirit or personal enmity could
not presume to rely on such an error as a valid or moral
ground of disqualification for high municipal office. If
the connexion be said to have originated in views of
another character—in purposes of fraud or deception, or
of realising money by dishonest and unworthy means—
the justification of such a charge should be found in
the ill-gotten gains of Mr. Alderman WOOD. But one
out of the two objections started to him as a
candidate for the Mayoralty has been, that he is
too poor. Now, the direct, natural, and reasonable
conclusion is, that had he allied himself with a specula-
tion, in order to make money out of it by any means; or
that had he, having embarked in it and discovered it to
be a losing instead of a paying concern, determined
on attempting to cheat others by such unfounded re-
presentaticns as thGuld induce them to accept the trans-
fer of his interest in it on term mutually settled
between them, he would have secured to himself
at least such an amount of pecuniary compensa-
tion as might have made him some money amends (if
such amends are to be found) for his wilful sacrifice of
principle and character. But if his declaration at the
time, the result of the examination instituted into the
facts by indifferent persons, the reiterated averments of
his friends on former occasions, and the present objec-
tion that has been started by his enemies all corroborate
the fact that he lost his money by the connexion in question,
instead of acquiring that of others; that he is not wealthy
but the reverse, the result is inevitable. We are bound
to presume him culpable in no higher degree than for an
error of judgment, and that to the prejudice of his own
interests and fortune. This disposes of the case of moral
disqualification which it has been sought to set up
against him, and ought to have been allowed its full re-
action in his favour. If he have been on three former
occasions the victim of an unfounded, and, therefore,
unmaintainable imputation, that fact alone ought to
have determined,the balance of the Livery's opinion in
his favour on the fourth. He had been grossly wronged;
they ought to have now generously, although still
tardily, done him right.

With regard to the municipal disqualification of Mr.
WOOD'S not being " rich enough" for the office of Lord
Mayor, it is clearly one that neither can, nor ought to
avail in ary case of this kind. The question of fortune
thus raised is at best but one of degree. It is to be deter-
mined in ten thousand ways, according to the varying
views, it may be, of each of ten thousand different electors.
Therefore, it would be a test as absolutely impracticable
as it is theoretically superfluous. No man, not even the
bitterest of the Alderman's enemies, has attempted to say
that he is labouring under that pinching want of means,
that sordid poverty, which takes him out of the rank of
life his civic distinction and professional standing identify
him with. He is, all admit, lifted far above that pinch-
ing in competency of means that would raise the
presumption among even the most jealous elec-
toral constituency that he would be likely to
be swayed by improper appeals to his purse, or incapa-
' We of resisting the influence of temptations that are
(and falsely and cruelly enough, by the way), supposed to
be irresistible with the positively needy. He is not even
proved to be a patron of or subscriber to bubble corn-
panics or speculation, and is therefore less likely
to be unduly biassed on large questions affecting
the interests of the metropolis than other al-
dermen, for example, who carry about them, as
we have heard, railway scrip and receipts sufficent to
require their being carried about in hackney-cabs to
and from the civic courts of police and criminal law.
This being so, with what force can influential members
of the independent corporation of the greatest and most
powerful city in the world require a mere quali-
fication, far beyond any exacted by law in can-
didates for the office of their chief magistrate ? A
money qualification, vague, undefined, and indetermi-
nable—a qualification, in virtue of which the late N. M.
ROTHSCHILD ought to have been made Lord Chief
Justice, from his abundant endowment in it, if an
alderman is to be excluded from presiding in the
administration of the City's legal and municipal busi-
ness, solely by reason of his having but a limited por.
Lion of it. Mr. Alderman WOOD is, however, a man
of business, a good lawyer, an unexceptionable magis-
trate--circumstances that aggravate the injustice, the
cruelty which, we contend, have been shown to him in
this renewed exclusion of him from the chair of the Lord
Mayor. We trust he will still persevere in offering him-
self again to the Livery when the opportunity arrives ;
and we have little doubt of his success. It is hard in-
deed to have put such a necessity upon him ; but we feel
confident that justice will ultimately affirm his claim.

The French Opposition journals for years have shown
a strong disposition to excite a bad feeling between Eng-
land and France. The journal under the influence of
that warlike statesman and unfair historian, M. TRIERS,
displays occasionally great respect for England, and ap-
parent desire to remain on good terms with her, but, at
the same time, never fails to place every misunderstand-
ing between the two countries on the worst footing, and is
only restrained from using strong language in consequence
of the connexion which its patron has with the Court of
Lours PHILIPPE. Those, however, who act on the
principle of worshipping the rising sun, who court the
favour of the Duke DE NEMOURS, and still more
that of the young admiral, the Prince DE JOIN-
VILLE, are less guarded in their language, and
seem anxious to keep up a feeling of jealousy between
the two first states in the world, with the hope that on
a fitting opportunity the national antipathies might
break out into open war. This uncharitable and de
structive spirit is partly fostered, we admit, by the
hatred of Republicans and Legitimatists to the Orleans
dynasty, and by a conviction that if war should take
place, under the auspices of the NAPOLEON of peace,
France would become a republic, or be restored to the
blessed sway of the worn-out Bourbon race. We can
see neither love of country nor sound warlike policy in
such vain aspirations. The power of the united empire
is greater at present than it was at any former period.
We have few ships, it is true, in commission. We
have an army of only one to four as compared with that
of France, and with that army we have to guard and
protect numberless colonies and establishments in every
part of the globe, and besides, deduct at least one-third
to control the Irish Catholics and Orange Protestants
These are great drawbacks, but there is abundance of
money, the sinews of war, in the country. Since the last
great contest, the population has increased by several
millions ; the British army and navy have lost nothing
of their prestige by the operations in China, and the
march to Caubul and the conquest of Sinde show that
the British infantry retains the same high chracter which
it so nobly acquired in the Peninsula. France has
not gained materially since the peace, if we except
the improvement in trade, manufactures, and foreign
commerce, which has taken place in consequence of the
judicious and peaceful reig❑ of the present Monarch,
and the progress of that very improvement would be in-
stantly stopped by a collision with this country. Besides
France has still a large debt, amounting to nearly three
hundred millions sterling ; the interest is high, the re-
turns from the Customs are trifling as compared with
those of England, and the great burden of taxation,
therefore, falls upon the land and the industry of the
country. We have no wish, however, to continue the
subject, or draw a full contrast in reference to
a subject so little inviting. Our object is peace.
England can gain nothing by additional glory,
or additional conquests, and it should be the
policy of her political writers, therefore, rather to
soothe the irritability of our gallant neighbours than
to provoke them by needless jealousy and angry dis-
cussions. The London press for a long time bore pa-
tiently with the tirades in the Opposition journals, and
we can see no reason why they should change their tac-
tics. We, therefore, regret to see some indiscreet, and
what we consider unfair, remarks about the visit of the
Prince DE JOINVILLE to the Breakwater at Brighton,
and the arrival of two French steamers the other day at
Sheerness. The Prince, it is said, was observed sound-
ing some parts off the coast of Brighton, as if for the
purpose of making use of his observations at a future
period. Never was any statement less entitled to
credit. lle could not in fact judge of the
position and efficacy of the breakwater without
knowing the locality, and the supposition that be would
make use of that knowledge to bombard Brighton de-
serves only the most supreme contempt. Civilized
ec.untries in general respect towns that are not
fortified, and that possess no fleets, or other means of
annoying an enemy. To attack defenceless towns
and villages, to destroy the property of individuals
without any object but mad revenge, is repudiated by
modern warfare, and such an act would throw a stain
upon the French character which the French them-

selves would be the first to denounce. Besides, have
the French no reason to return the compliment,
by proofs of which there can be no difficulty, that
English ships-of-war have not occasionally, but regu-
larly, been employed for some time in taking soundings
on the French coast? During the summer the Pe.r-

cupine steamer, under Captain BULLOCK, visited
Boulogne almost weekly, and the intervals were

occupied in taking soundings on both OP"—
Others complain that French officers were Per'
mated to visit the docks at Portsmouth daring the St#
of Louis PHILIPPE at Windsor, and still later, al° the,
officers on board the two steamers which touched $'
indugence.
Sheerness, were allowed the same
Why the French authorities show the same civilitf
towards Englishmen, and some Englishmen, tohos, hvtetsol
they may have more reason to fear than we -
fear the Prince DE JOINVILLE. Sir Csaala 14115 s;
known to them for his deeds on the Syrian coast,
present, or at all events had been lately, at Cherbo
ossibly to judge of its means of defence, Cuglel
learn the French system of protecting forts- Wins
the attacks of ships-of-war. Neither the yes
bourg journals nor those of Paris complain of ;01
visit. We believe he has been very cordially reee'ed
by the authorities, and the only circumstance that beese
le,.e
to attract the notice of the editors of newspapers and
cirf
r
population, was the peculiarity of his dress. In
pct the French have outstripped the English /0
is
lity, and shown an example which the war party in th
country would do well to imitate.

.ob. ;
We have accounts from Madrid to the 22d Astsnt.
According to the Government journals the reports iwof
ceived from the provinces, relative to the collect° ,
the income-tax, were satisfactory; and it was underst:
that no further opposition would be made to it in. 1
capital. Madrid had been divided into two inoicirr
divisions,
for the purpose of levying the tribute will ,
ouivandrity and impartiality. The north division 7
to contain 89,870 inhabitants, and the (3°
0 the
98,357—t0tal population of Madrid, 188,227. "-a the
2balst," says a Madrid letter, " the QUEEN held, at
baptismal font, the infant dau ht r of Count 13asts14
the Ambassador of France. Agcee n like this 13°
not taken place for a long timeteanit°thYn Pallee. Trecl
Ambassador of France is equally charmed and fit°
with this gracious favour conferred upon him "11 bet

MAJESTY."
Colonel RENGIEO had been sentenced to ten
banishment in a penal settlement for having beel/1
plicated in the Alicante insurrection. This sentenc°ll°
been approve of by the QUEEN. fiSS
M. TRIERS arrived at Grenada on the 16th' an 10
well .
received by the population. Crowds collected
carious
places anxious to see the ex-Minister.
One large transaction on the Madrid Bourse St II
officially announced. The Herald° gives the an/°1111;
2,000,000 reels Three per Cents" at 32-1, id el" 6i
that is to say, 31i for cash, the closing price s'
week.

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The state of Algeria duro
ino 0
ng the absence ° of
BUGEAUD appears to excite considerable. alumbee,
in France. The public, as well as the Cu p
is
begin to see that purely military occupation ger
pensive, and productive of few useful results. `'eetaitrf
Commissioner is therefore to be sent into the e° attssi
and report faithfully to the Government on tnee_.9;.-
state of affairs. On this scheme the
" What will he see ? Simply what it will long
The se
00 osa
the Marshal's creatures to show him.
commissioner is an expedient which will deceiveeropeal
and which will simply prove that the Gev tbtt
st
wishes to gain time, or, we should rather OP been
wishes to lose more time. Has not sufficient tin: beep
already lost ? More than 250,000,000 francs hal der tbs
Presse.s
p)ose
spent in Algeria in the since of three yearealink lbe
administration of Marsha ; vEAUD, not to sr-too 0
blood which has been shed ; and what progress 'l,O pro'
made towards civilization ? It is not necessarY,s:3o to
teed to Algeria, and to travel from tille
Constantine, to discover what every'
ice of
France can clearly perceive,—the insigni6es odjet
the results on the one hand, and on thrust be
the immensity of the sacrifices." Algeria, it oterr
admitted, is a very expensive conquest, and the e otbef
went journals are not averse at finding that Isides
countries have been less successful. The Jourfia ortnid
bats, therefore, takes another opportunity 0f a cots'
that the Russian expedition in the Caucassus Pretty'
plete failure, and that the Government at SLt" resu*
burgh had misled the public with regard to te° pub:
Though we have not implicit belief in the 16°,0001
fished in that journal, we give the following 9800
the details corresponding with the statements
°at Constantinople:— aeon re
Letters from that capital, referring to sec e° v bss
from the Caucasus, announce that the
turned to its cantonments, and confirm all th
have given of the grand expedition to Dargo. "'„-tejie
whole 2°l.
has been truly disastrous. Hav' left Dargo (:1"t ere 'by
-
of July (the Russian calendar after staying R-thured„.oi
days in order to await the granda econveY tO
Sch amil, the army had but a march of three daYs Ned oh-,
the line of the Sundja and Terek. But when it, loultalt
the left bank of the Aksai itwas found that It in --a
n figa 001
impossible to continue the march without losing Scat
of the army in opening a passage for 11-...ing
and his mountaineers were • here rat- .0 '
every w la ntys
barricades of trunks of trees, and it wen, o ith
necessary to effect as many murderous assawts,b
capture of Dargo. The Russians were enenn-„ern, Rhylt
wounded, and had besides to drag twenty this
proved useless throughout the ex edition. At g
juncture the General-in-Chief decided on establish," cog:
self at an uncovered point, outside the forests, neariasere
called Chaoagal-Berdy, and the emained t-•
arm
r the Datil; clays, blockaded by the enemNevertheless,,tenso two ~t
had been found of dispatchingY.at
gof the auxiliary corps to General gl'craytea' P
the forts and cantonments of the Arg ein (1., sun% tr
of the two dispatches fortunately relhed and..
General, immediately issuing orders in all direct!onosioo:
trived to muster in two days the larger part of Ilt:•gbt bsith
and marched to the assistance of the army with,,,-1-0, /f4oa.t
talions, three squadrons, and twelvepieces c'E,llAlle
been "iirorott,e4
provisions and ammunition. Had it not
sonable arrival of this reinforcement General
ora•
might have sustained, on the same ,und, the s- eted t".
gr
when, atteillP
the Via;
as his predecessor, General Grabbe
first attack on Dargo from the Aksai. It was hy
Koisson that General Woronzoff had rnmencen°Pe" bY dad
to set be but, as is seen, he has not deemeden
it
possible „a bej
same road towards Tchirkei and Vneza naia, w,bet-Dabli!t e
started, and moreover, it has been seen by the 133.-1:pcla"
reports that he had ordered the three forts establisle-stroYo,
stopping places during his marchonwards be- alp' the
This protracted resistance, sometimes victorious ',I, en,if
invincible,, humbles the Emperor, as it were, in "-•et at to
end to it
Europe; therefore does ha wish to put an
cost by sword and fire. We may ' times e'rnsig/
in conseq colr
see, at the very beginning of next season, another
sad tb
opened, wherein the greatest efforts will be wade'
most formidable means of action displayed." Finance
It appears from the Paris journals that the of the
Minister is making preparations for a reduction
postage on letters next session, and with that v,lemw
od t°
given instructions to the French authorities au';
collect information respecting the working oftectised
ro
system in England, and the systems Pwit4
throughout Europe in general. The fe' von
is said to be the proposed plan. J11121,:d f°f
postage of 10 centimes (Id.) will be esto,'"
oA er
what is called the " Grande Banlieue," which tiottent
tends 40 leagues round Paris, comprising 7rots
Havre, Orleans, &c. This would be the I°n'estiojes
of postage. The maximum would be 50 eel/ ref'
paid by letters coming from Toulouse, Marseilles'io
pignan, &c. Intermediate prices, varying frol2l
d ituate
"r-
-50 centimes, would be required for localities 8, bat
between the Grande Banlieue and the most
frontiers. the Islll
The Queen of GREECE arrived a Venice nn 'peke of
in a French steamer. Her father, the Grand eetbet
OLDENBURG, had previously arrived there to
MAJESTY.
staeti:
The Augsburg Gazette has advices from --nos s'
nople of the 10th, which state that the 12Vt,e,ng of •
length issued the firman authorising the hnil“--
Protestant church at Jerusalem. t Tor
A good deal of business was done in the funds a wers
TONI'S on Sunday, when the Three per Cents•
quoted at 83f. 40c., and the Fives at 117 f. 60c. °g sod
LTO/TS, SEPT. 25.—Marseilles and Avignon, 09,,- ;is 013.
of September; Paris and Orleans 1 920 f. ditto; 43f ditto
Rouen, 1,055 f. ditto ; Orleans and743'
Orleans and Bordeaux, 675 f.; Montereau, 520 f. ~r,114
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILIVA.Y s'. SA,
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Sari% 2'
...
Anglo-Belgian — Luxembourg ....
0
.....
Boulogne and Amiens 123/ Namur rd Liege ••"•''
Bordeaux &Mediterran 4 Orleans and Vierzon •• 13
Bordeaux and Toulouse Orleans and Bordeaux
Do. & Cette (Espel eta) 21-A Over Yssel ........... ;;;.;
Do. (Mackenzie's) . 2,8, (Lau 3
• At Paris Lyons „
Central of Spain .. 2 Ditto (Gannerou ;
Demerara
Dendre Valley ...
.. "•• Paris and Orleans...
Dutch Rhenish ...
Dieppe & Paris June — Paris
nd
R strashurg
Dijon and Mulhouse 'Bl •••••"'i 2
(Gannsron ••Est/
East Indian
Grt Northern of France Paris and St. Qtl
(Laffitte's)
Ditto (Rosamel's)
Do. (Le Boeuf) 34%
Sambre and 3felise
and 13481 e
Do. Pepin le Ilalleur Strasbourg BL sir
limY'
Great Paris and Lyons. Toa Jurbise, •••'"
Great Western Bengal 1 dent, and Hasse
Nante6 Jamaica Junction Tours and
Do. North Midland — (Mackenzie's) .......
1)o. Extension
Jersey
Louvain and Jemeppe 4% %Vest Flanders .........
Lyons and Avignon --

s r01°.,1:

On the 10th inst., durin g ce e fito .0,
in the church of Quend (Somme), the electric it_ se,t 0.,
the bell-tower, and, reaching the beams of the vnit,h'er
to some of them ; but the congregation, and the °.'d the PA
bitants assembled by the tocsin, lent assiqance, alicioNe• a
bration °` irto
was extinguished without any great damage being the _
;0 tne de
similar accident happened on the 15th, at Dams? spire, ,he
of Oleron, where the lightning, attracted by the k 4 of liA,
stroved nearly the whole root; damaged the ilTri.i-cr
clock, and made a large breach in one of the in it hr°4
After descending into the body of the church, whe!,e.,ja foe
the windows and injured the-pulpit, the
cis Or
vent at the door. var
al
LEAGUE OPERATIONS.—There are now -Porkivg
thirty clerks employed at the Lea,ue Rooms, sv.tiobl co,
most night and day. It •s' a most forint pro/
appear.
tablishment. They are • chiefly on the reBl
Guardian. electric

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