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London, England, 1824-12-27 00:00:00

sty- Attendance is given daily at the said Offices, for the Asstr
ranee of Buildings, Goods, Itlerchandizes, and. Ships in liarboue
in Dock, or while building, from Loss or Damage by Fire ; and
also for the Assurance of, and granting Annuities on, Lives.
N.B.—Fire Policies will be issued, free of Expense, to the As-
sured, where the Annual Premium amounts to 6s. or upwards.

LONDON NORTIIERN RAIL-ROAD COMPANY.
THE advantages of a speedy, cheap, and certain
communication between the great Towns in the Manufac-
turing Districts of England and the Metropolis have at all times
attracted public attention. The beneficial influence of such a com-
munication, improved to its utmost degree of perfection, upon
those main sources of Great Britain's wealth and power, her ma-
nufactures, and her commerce both foreign and domestic, is too
obvious to need any comment or illustration. Various modes of
conveyance for goods or passengers, possessing respectively their
peculiar advantages, have accordingly from time to time been de-
vised, and have contended for 4 prelerence with much benefit to
the community.
The principle of extending such communication by the means of
Rail-roads, has already, in a multitude of instances, undergone the
test of experiment, and its superior utility, under many circum-
stances of inevitable occurrence, is sufficiently established. Both
the 'principle and practice, however, by the progress of science, have
been receiving and still admit of improvement.
In proposing, therefore, to open and facilitate upon this princi-
ple, a more commodious intercourse between the Metropolis and
important Towns and Districts to the Northwards, to the distance
of Manchester and Ilull : " The London Northern Rail-Iload
Company" do not proceed upon speculative and uncertain grounds.
To facilitate and increase that intercourse, and also that with the
Intermediate important towns of Birmingham, Macclesfield, Derby,
Nottingham, Leicester, and Northampton, and that of the great ma-
nufacturing district between Manchester and Hull, thus affording the
opportunity for useful extension by branchq from the main line,
will be admitted to be an object well deserving public support, and
consistent with the policy entertained by the most enlightened
members of our Government and Legislature, in affording the
greatest possible encouragensent to Commercial Fatterprize, and to
the free circulation of Capital.
The Promoters of the London Northern Itail.road, although not
the earliest in that career of public improvement, have directed
their view to the increased prosperity of the Metropolis, and of
places with which its intercourse is of primary importance.
The London Board of Direction is appointed, and consists of the
following Gentlemen :

CHATIIMAN.
GEORGE H
DEPUTY
Pascoe Garxszu., Esq.
Lewis 1.40 TD, Esq.

Ll 3 B E (Cr, Esq.
:ITAIRMEN.
IJOHN SMITH, Esq. M. P.
EDWA&D OVA►EFIELD, Esq.

DIRI

James Evan BaMie, Esq.
Francis Baring, Esq.
Edward Ellice, Eq. M.P.
Lyndon Evelyn, Esq. M.P.
be Robert Farquhar, Bart.
Charles David Gordon, Esq.

:TORS.
IJohn Irving, Esq. M.P.
George W. Norman, Esq.
Frederick Pigou, Esq.
Thomas Richardson, Esq.
►ames Warre, Esq.
William Williams, Esq. M.P.

And these have the power, and are instructed to select Seven
other Directors to be added to their number from the Districts con-
tiguous to the pi ojected lines of Rail-road.

AUDITORS.

Simon M,Gillivray, E•q.
Edward Goldonid, E.

.1 Iticbard Hart Davis, Esq. M.P.P.
Joseph Fry, Esq.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, Mansion House-place.
And Sir James Pentane Dulane, Himmet, Greufell, and Scott,

Lombard-street.
Nathaniel Hibbert, Esq. Standing Counsel.
William Vizard, Esq. Solicitow.
George Stephenson, Esq. Engineer.

The Capital of the Company will be two millions five hundred
thousand pounds, divided into twenty-five thousand Shares, of one
bundled pounds each.
An instalment of one pound per Share is required to be paid
forthwith into the hands of the Banters to the Company, to the ac-
count Of the Directors ; and no further instalment will he called for
until a detailed Plan, with Surveys, and a Draft of a Bill to he sub-
mitted to Parliament, be Lid before the Subset liters.
The remaining sum of £99 per Share will be called for from time
to time, at the discretion of the Board of Direction : but no call
will be made upon less than twenty-one days' notice.
It is proposed to commence the necessary Surveys without de-
lay, and that every exertion shall be made to be ready for an appli-
cation to Parliament early in the Session which will succeed that
now approaching.
Of the Shares, a liberal proportion will be reserved for those in
the line of the proposed Rail-roads who ntay be inclined to become
Subscribers, and the Board will readily attend to any communica-
tions from the country which may be directed to the most advan-
tageous execution of the plan.
It has already been declared, that offers for Shares, addressed,
post paid, to the Chairman, at the Old London Tavel n, in Bishops-
gate-street, will he received until the Ist January. A further time
will be allowed for receiving Subscriptions from the country, and
the Board of Direction will, as, early as possible, take all the oilers
Ifito consideration.

(Signed) GEORGE HIBBERT, Chair=

TWO OF £30,000 IN ONE DAY.
lan Day of the Year, and Last-of the Lottery.
lIAZARD and Co. respectfully inform the Public,
that TWO Prizes of ,E 50,000, and ALL the other Capital*,
must be drawn FRIDAY, Dec. 51, yd.
2 Prizes of £50,000
1,000
2 500
10 200, iftc.

NO BLANKS! As every Number is sure of £5 at least.
Tickets and Shares are selling by HAZARD and Co. at their old-
establidted and fortunate Offices, Royal Exchange Gate ; 26, Corn-
hill ; and 324, Oxford-street, end of Regent-street ; who have sold
Prizes of £20,000 and £7.0,000 in the last Two Months.

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