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THEAdjouined PUBLIC MEETING to promote
the CLOSING of SHOPS at SEVEN O'CLOCK,
Is unavoidably POSTPONED till WEDNESDAY EVEN-
LEG, the 18th instant, at the Music Hall, Bold-street.--
Chair to be taken at Seven o'clock precisely.
THOMAS SANDS, Mayor.
Town_hau,
Sept. 9, 1844.

LEEDS AND LIVERPOOLCANAL & DOUGLAS

NAVIGATION.
NTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the next GE-
NERAL ASSEMBLY of the COMPANY of
.c,,PRIETORS of the CANAL NAVIGATION from
l'i.,LbS to LIVERPOOL, and DOUGLAS NAVIGA-
TION, Will be held, at the ADELPIII HOTEL, in LIVER-
,(:)(3I,, in the county palatine of Lancaster, on FRIDAY,
the 20th day of September next, at Eleven o'clock in the
-Forenoon when and where the Proprietors, by themselves
or their Proxies, are requested to attend.
By order,
SAMUEL HAILSTONE, Law Clerk.
Yorkshire, 29th August, 1844.

T° NOTICE TO MARINERS.
prevent Damage being done to the Sea-Wall for
tr, the New intended Docks, North Shore, SEVEN
Thousand
are placed, Ten Yards from the Wall and One
Feet Apart. Any Person making fast to them
or breaking them adrift will be proceeded against by
JOHN ASKEW, Water-bailiff.
Water Bailiff"s Office, 7th September, 1844.

f,„,r,. Just Published, Price One Shilling,
AGRICULTURE ; ITS PRACTICE WITH PROFIT,
u _ Elucidated in a Contrast of Oriental and British
sa.ges : in a Correspondence with the Royal Agricultural
Society
of England. By HENRY NEWNH AM.
London • Publ.-bed by ROAKE and \TARTY, 31, Strand.
THE ---1-2--
---- LIVERPOOL, O3INISKIRK, AND PRESTON
TUERAILWAY.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE GIVE NO-
TICE, that no APPLICATIONS for SHARES will
be received after THURSDAY next, the 12th instant.
8 WILLIAM FIELDEN, Chairman.
-________, Echange-alley, Liverpool, sth Sept., 1844.

GAINS
BOROUGH, SHEFFIELD, AND CHES-
TERFIELD RAILWAY.
CAPITALSHX9ig;rOeO NirNDIISROOO9MT: OF £5O
EACH.
DEPOSIT, £:3PER SHARE.

VISIONAL COMMITTEE.
t,Tni • Jno. Ba Pe
1 It°aW e , Esq., The Oaks, Sheffield.
I3e;',!°lo. gverend, Esq., Sheffield.
Burdekin, Esq., Sheffield.
ichard Bayley, Esq., Castle Dyke, Sheffield.
1/44°enr,11as Creswick, Esq., Ecclesall Grange, Sheffield.
si—e°l7 Wilson, Esq., Westbrook, Sheffield.
'ly Houldsworth, Esq., Chairman of the Manchester
and Leeds Railway Company.
William Entwisle, Esq., M.P., Deputy-Chairman of the
Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, and a Di-
rector of the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston Railway
Company.
Robert Gill, Esq., Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts, a Di-
rector of the Manchester and Leeds, and of the
Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston Railway Companies.
Leo Schuester, Esq., a Director of the Manchester and
Leeds, and of the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston
Railway Companies.
Captain Laws, R.N , Crumpsall Hall, Lancashire.
Thomas Clark, Esq.,. Mayor of Chesterfield.
Edward Humble, Esq., Renishaw, Derbyshire.
Samuel Butcher, Esq., Endcliffe, Sheffield.
Thomas Ellin,
jun., Esq., Sheffield.
~.tleneyWilkinson, Esq., Endcliffe tlall,Skeffield.
Robert Younge, Esq., Greystones, Sheffield.
Thomas
Haywood, Esq., Hooton Levet, Maltby.
-suornasDyson, Esq.,BraithwellManor House,Yorkshire.
Thomas Didsbury, Esq., Rotherham.
Charles Frederick Younge, Esq., Sheffield.
James Willis Dixon, Esq., Broom Lodge, Sheffield.
John 'enrY Jubb. ESCI., Broornhill, Sheffield.
Sansorn, Esq., Moor Lodge, Sheffield.
John Green, Esq., Neepsend, Sheffield.
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield.
Richard Ellison, Esq., Sudbrooke Holme, Lincoln,
Chairman of the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston
Railway.
The Rev. H.W. Sibtborpe, Washingborough,l Directors
Lincoln, I of the
Edward Fowler, Esq., Lincoln, Wake-
T. M. Keyworth, Esq., Lincoln, field,
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln,
Col. Cracroft, Hackthorn Hall, Lincoln, I &Boston
Weston Cracroft, Esq., Hackthorn, J Railway.
With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER.
William Cubitt, Esq., F.R.S.
BANKERS.
Sheffield ...... The Sheffield and Rotherham Banking
Company ; the Sheffield and Retford
Bank.
Gainsborough S Messrs. Smith, Ellison, and Co.
Chesterfiel▪
d.... The Chesterfield and Derbyshire Banking
Roston... Company.
Ilawtry • • Messrs. Gee and Co.
The Yorkshire Banking Company.
,Manchester Messrs. Cunliffe. Brookes, and Co.
a..oodon Messrs. Cunliffe, Brookes, and Co_. •,
Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co. ; the
London and Westminster Bank.
THE object of this undertaking is to construct the mtost
.
direct and perfect LINE OF RAILWAY from
,he
°wn and Port of GAIN SBOROUGH, through SH EX-
,,LD, to the Station of the Midland ailway. at
"'"ESTERFIELD, thereby effecting a morel expeditious
asiltd
_economical communication b. etween Gainsborough,
:enaeld, and the Midland Counties on the one hand, and
eoelinds,
also"a Sheffield and the Metropolis on the other ; and,
, to bring into immediate contact the whole of Lin-
r
hal:: and the Eastern Counties, with the important
anuiactuuritnznanned. Mineral Districts of Sheffield, Dron-
thTbe Line will commence at Chesterfield, pass through
teel,;l4Portant Mineral Districts of Unstone and Dron-
it through Sheffield, and thence by Canklow, (where
ie'ds,ea over the Midland Railway,) Whiston. Maltby,
laso7llll, and Ba try to Gainsborough, near which last-
troceel Town it wwill'unit.e with the projected Wakefield,
torch,. no and Boston Railway, the promoters of which
beet
sanction and of the prr:isent under.taking,
"etiCP'tina. as it will inconjunction with their Line, the
e ~. I
.'"eatio most comprehensive system o.f
.Railway commu
abi a
f re an, between the Agricultural Districts of Lincoln-
aeolrie ",..the Eastern Counties,. and the populous Manu-
The Il'ovirns of Yorkshire and Lancashire
cot* distance between Chesterfield and Sheffield (and
fo (Plena all places South and South 'West of the
threnleer TowYn)will by this Line be 10 miles less than by
thust'resent tedious and circuitous route via Masbrough
distane
eff:cti• ng a saving of nearly one-half of the whole
betwee in the existing Lines of
Railway
communication
e those two Towns.
under distance from Gainsborough to Sheffield will be
44e10.!hirty.miles, which is less by several miles than by
those 'eller
Towns. lone which has yet been proposed to unite
21? fact, no shorter Line can be had ; moreover, it can-
11be surpassed, if equalled, by any other in the excel-
of its gradients or the lightness of the works that
be required in its construction.
. o the inhabitants of and Owners of Property in Lin-
colnshire, and the Eastern Counties
Vay is of paramount importance,
ag. generally, rwilt a ,furnish
to
tl-
them, at a greatly diminished cost, -s ample supply of
Coal of the best quality for all purposes, the Line passing
for sixteen miles of its length through a rich and almost
inexhaustible Coal Field ; whilst to the Inhabitants of
Gainsborough and Boston, in particular, it must prove
highly advantageous, as furnishing (along with the Wake-
!'eld Lincoln, and Boston Line) an immense accession of
business to the Shipping Interests of those Ports.
lt is almost superfluous to point out the great advan-
tagesh of, and the necessity which exists for a rapid and
ee eat) mode of transit between the agricultural and the
the districts which will be effected by this and
Zle Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston Railway, in the most
.taPlete and effectual manner, as the Agriculturists of
• l'rth Nottinghamshire. Lincolnshire, and of the Eastern
to_tin.ties, will thus be able to transmit their produce at a
i,tlY diminished Cost, direct to the consumers. The
tronvei will traverse a District which is not immediately
freedded with any navigable River or Canal, hence its
mateal from the competition of and interference with
heti Conveyance, and it is entirely divested of all ob-
rnent°ll3n the score of interfering with Parks and orna-
C.L.lirounds and Residences.
this Vassenger traffic, which must necessarily come on
when • will be great ; this will be at once apparent
notis,3,;ta borne in mind that independently of alt other
"ct th'nees, fourteen Daily Coache are r.equired to con-
ollece°tnit,e traffieof the District, which this Railway will
ate
The vrell-knowri and. extensive Quarries
---tv toe Abbe and WickersPy, are in immeaterc,so-
allow the 1,•
be te ine ; the Stone of the forimienreisp universallypo se sn
theo prpass all other for Build•
tiforetaanttttrerinaage
fi, 'arability whilst the latter furnish nearly allc
fief and •;8g Ston?.s 'used in the Manufactories of Shei-
he e Vicinity
of e Stock will, of itself, form an im-
„, in the traffic, inasmuch as at least 5000 head
aster-e,a.nd. 100,000 sheep' are annually sent from the
siistricts to the market at Rotherham alone.
thempa Careful estimate of traffic on data accurately taken,
that rome
that a pro ters feel themselves fully warranted in stating
vie Ora fit °f at least £8 per Cent. will be realised on
orkin-P4ed Capital, after allowing £4O per Cent. for
b, The
ew rlPenses. '
-Ps()'it of £3 per Share is to be paid on the allot-
,,ouste, ,_b.ares, and the
oft- of Subsciibers will, of
.r theiruceitnited by the Act Parliament to the amount
t_Applier_Pective Shares.
---"tuestet'ons for Shares in the Forms below given aren
(t.-souu,t.? h‘e_made to Messrs. WILSON, YOUNGE, and
• °yinur Mr- DIXON Solicitors, Sheffield ; or to
teristra.gliS. harebrokers Duricuff, Manchester ;
d,"; m and G. Towgood, 33, Throgmorton-street,
.0 essrsREYNOLDS and SONS, and
ses tit; • WILLIAM
*Leed, ALL, Liverpool ; Messrs. H. and C. Beard-
,3„r; Jaole.;; Messrs. Moore and Gatliffe, Huddersfield ;
and. B:s_riarvey, Halifax ; Messrs. Beaumont, Kenne-
80u 11,41°,L,,a, Bradford and Leeds • or to Messrs. Col-
t'toittvicl,,m,,, °r Messrs. Trigg and Hodson, Hull.
s re
in th 'west APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
11_ e Gai_ you will secure to me Shares
,rn the rgahorough, Sheffield. and Chesterfield Railway,
poFh Shar'eetrarns of the Prospectus. And I agree to take
tracts 4'4' taw
sernay be allotted to me, and to pay the De-
Red s.arne, and execute the Parliamentary Con-
bateal oscribers' Agreement when required.
1844.

Name.
Residence.
n.
Trade or Professio
- Provi•,:o 131 Committee of the Gainshro',
4elted, and Chesterfield Ittilway.

LES SOIREES POLKA.
JIHE principal difficulty in the POLKA is not so much
the acquiring its various movements, as the Dancing
it in combination; to obviate which, Mr. JAMES R.
PALMER purposes holding a WEEKLY SOIREE, for the
advantage of parties uho have acquired the Dance prac-
tising it together.
To commence in the course of the present Month.
27, SOHO-STREET, Sept. 5, 1844.