THE ALTAR, THRONE, AND LAND WE LIVE IN. N°- 623. WORCESTER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1846. PRICE 5d. WORCESTER IMPROVEMENT. "\ T OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is J_\ ''. tended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Ses^ im. tor an Act for better paving, lighting, watching, cleans, in- and otherwise regulating and improving the City and Municipal Borough of Worcester, and the several streets, lanes, roads, paths, ways, courts, passages, a> id other places, lying and being within the said City and Municipal Borough, and for widening and altering the present and making and opening new streets, ways, and communications, and for making and maintaining drains, sewers, and watercourses, and improving the existing drains, sewers, ar. d watercourses, and removing and preventing encroachments, nuisances, annoyances, and obstructions within the said City and Municipal Borough aforesaid; and also for constructing and maintaining covered cesspools or other receptacles or depositories for the purpose of collecting the filth, manure, and suillage, in the said City and Municipal Borough aforesaid; and powers will also be applied for in the said Act authorizing the sale of such manure and suillage, and the application of the proceeds arising therefrom in reduction of the rates and duties hereinafter mentioned : and powers will also be applied for in the said Act for enabling the Commissioners to be named in the said intended Act to purchase, by compulsion or otherwise, all such lands and houses, tenements and hereditaments within the said City and Municipal Borough as may be necessary for the purposes afore- said, and to vary, repeal, or extinguish any existing rights and privileges connected with the lands and houses, tenements and hereditaments proposed to be taken ; and powers will also be applied for in the said Act to authorize the levying of rates, assessments, and duties upon the owners and occupiers of property within the said City or Municipal Borough, and to alter any existing rates, assessments, and duties, and to confer, vary or extinguish exemptions from the payment of rates, assessments or duties, and other rights and privileges, and also the raising of money by mortgage or otherwise upon the security of the said rates, assessments, and duties, for the pur- pose of carrying into effect all or any of the objects aforesaid; and it is also intended that the said Act shall contain all the powers and provisions usually inserted in Acts of a similar description, or which may be deemed necessary or expedient l'or carrying into effect the objects and purposes before men- tioned. Dated this tenth day of November, 1846. H. M. DANIEL, Solicitor, Pierpoint Street, Worcester. MESSRS. BULMER AND DURNFORD, 44, Parliament Street. London, Agents. LEOMINSTER CANAL NAVIGATION SALE. -] VT OTICE is hereby fiven, that an application is in- IN tended to be made to Parliament in the next Session for leave to bring in a Bill or Bills to repeal, alter, amend, or en- large the powers and provisions of the several Acts following, that is to say- an Act passed in the thirty- first year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Third, intituled, " An Act for makin" and maintaining a Navigable Canal from Kington, in the County of Hereford, by or through Leominster, to join the river Severn, near Stourport Bridge, in the County ol Wor- cester " And also an Act passed in the thirty- sixth year of the reien ' of his said Majesty King George the Third, intituled, « An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Leor lin- ster Canal Navigation to finish and complete the same. Also, an Act passed in the forty- third year of the reign of his said Maiestv Kin" George the Third, intituled, « An Act for enabling the Company of Proprietors of the Leominster Canal to raise Monev to discharge their Debts and to complete the Canal, and for explaining and amending the Acts for making and main- taining the said Canal, and for granting to the said Company further and other powers." Also, an Act passed in the seventh vear of the reign of his Majesty King George the Fourth, inti- tuled " An Act for enabling the Company of Proprietors of the Leominster Canal to raise further sums of Money to discharge their Debts and to complete the Canal, and lor amending the Acts for making and maintaining the said Canal, and lor grant- ing to the said Companv further and other powers." And also to alter, amend, or enlarge " The Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Act, 1846." And it is intended by the said Bill or Bills to obtain powers to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Leominster Canal Navigation to sell and transfer, or to demise aud lease the same, and all the Machines, Vessels, Wharfs, Quays, Houses, Ware- houses, Toll- houses, Watch- houses, Railways, Landing- places, Reservoirs, Works, Goods, Property, and Effects, Lands, Tene- ments and Hereditaments, connected or used therewith, or belonging thereto, or any part or parts thereof, and the Tolls, Rates and Duties, payable in respect thereof, and the powers, rights' and privileges of such Company of Proprietors, to the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Company ; and to sell, trans- fer, demise, or lease, to any other person or persons who may be willing to purchase the same, certain Houses, Lands, and Pre- mises situate and being within the Borough of LEOMINSTER, belonging to the said Company of Proprietors, if the same shall not be purchased by the said Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Company, and to wind up the affairs and make arrangements for the liquidation of the debts of the said Canal Company, and to dissolve the same Company; Also to enable the said Shrews- bury and Hereford Railway Company to purchase or take on lease the said Canal Navigation, and all Houses, Lands, Tene- ments, Property, Goods, Effects, and Works, or any part or parts thereof, and to take Tolls, Rates, and Duties upon or in respect thereof, and to alter existing Tolls, Rates, and Duties, and to confer, vary, and extinguish exemptions irom Payment of Tolls, Rates, or Duties, and other rights and privileges, and to exercise all the powers, rights, and privileges of the said Canal Company in reference thereto, and to vest the same Canal Navigation and Works absolutely in the said Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Company. Also, to enable the said Shrews- bury and Hereford Railway Company to stop up, or otherwise discontinue, all or any portion or portions of the said Leomin- ster Canal Navigation and Works, and to re- sell the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments, so to be purchased by them And powers will also be applied for in the said Bill to vary or extinguish all existing rights and privileges in any manner connected with the said Canal Navigation, or with the Lands and Buildings, Property, Goods, and Effects, belonging thereto ; and more especially the provisions in the said Acts requiring that before the sale and disposal of any Premises, Lands, i ene- ment-, and Hereditaments, belonging to the said Company of Proprietors, the same should be first offered for sale to the owners of the adjoining land, and to confer other powers, rights, and privileges iii relation thereto, and other rights and privileges on the said Companies, respectively and generally to enable the said Companies respectively to enter into and carry out such agreements and arrangements for effecting the several objects aforesaid as may be considered expedient or necessary ; which said Canal and Works are situate in, or are authorised to be made within, the several Parishes, Townships, and extra- parochial and other places following, or some of them, that is to say,— Kington, Titley, Staunton- upon- Arrow, Pembridge, Shobdon, Kingsland, Eyton, Leominster Borough, Leominster Out- parish, Kimbolton, Stockton, Eye, Luston, Eye Moreton and Ashton, Orleton, Brimfield, Richard's Castle, Woofferton, and Little Hereford, in the County of Hereford; Richard's Castle, Burford, Nash, Boraston otherwise Buraston, and Neen Sollars, otherwise Neen Sollers, in the County of Salop ; Knigh- ton- upon- Teem, otherwise Knighton- upon- Team, Lindridge, M amble, Stockton, Bay ton, Pensax, Rock, Ablierley, Arley Kings, Lower Areley, otherwise Areley Regis, Mitton, Stour- port, Kidderminster and Kidderminster Foreign, in the County of Worcester. Dated this Third Day of November, One ihousand Eight Hundred and Forty- Six. MILNES & SALE, Solicitors, Leominster. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVER- HAM PTON RAILWAY. ( NO. 1.) EXTENSIONS AND AMENDMENT. Railways from Cheltenham to Evesham, and to a point on the Strut ford- on- Avon Branch of the said Oxford, Worcester, and IVolverhampton Railway- Amendment of Acts. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is intended to be made to Parliament, in the ensuing session, for an Act to authorise the construction and main- tenance by the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Rail, way Company, of the railways hereinafter described, with all proper works, approaches, and conveniences connected therewith respectively, that is to say, A railway commencing by a Junction with the proposed line of railway from Cheltenham to Oxford, in or near a piece of garden ground between St. Ann's Cottage and Sherbome- place, in the parish of Cheltenham, in the county of Gloucester, and terminating by a Junction with the line of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, as at present author- ized to be made, by means of two short forks diverging near such intended Junction, one thereof terminating in or near a certain field, in the parish of Saint Lawrence, Evesham, in the county of Worcester, numbered 7 on the plans referred to in " The Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Act, 1845," and situate adjoining a certain road leading from the Evesham and Worcester turnpike- road into Broad- street and Bewdley- street, in the town of Evesham, and the other fork thereof terminating in or near a certain close or property in the said parish of Saint Lawrence Evesham, numbered t on the said plans of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, which said intended railway and the woiks connected therewith, will pass from, in, through, or into, or be situate within the several parishes, townships, and extra- parochial, or other places following, or some of them, that is to say, Evesham, All Saints Evesham, Saint Lawrence Evesham, Bengeworth, Saint Peter Bengeworth, Hampton, Charlton, Haslor, Upper Haslor, Great Hampton, Little Hampton, Croptborne, Wick- hamford, Elmley Castle, Kersoe, Netherton, Sedgberrow, Little Washbourne, Overbury, and Alston, in the county of Worcester, Hinton- on- the- Green, Ashton- under- hill, Grafton, Dunibleton, Aston Somerville, Chiidswickham, Beckford, pidcot, Great Washbourne, Alderton, Dixton, Stanley Pont- large, Gretton, Oxendon or Oxenton, Wolstone or Woolstone, Gotherington. Prescot or Prescott, Pardon Hill, Bishop's Cleeve, Woodmancote. Southam, Brockhamptou, Prestbury, Charlton Kings, Alstone, and Cheltenham, in the county of Gloucester. And another railway, diverging from the line of the said Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, as at present authorised to be made at or near a certain field or property, in the parish of Church tloneybourne, in the said county of Worcester, numbered 6, on the said plans of such last- men- tioned railway, and terminating by a junction with the Stratford- on- Avon branch of the said Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver- hampton Railway, as authorised to be made by an Act passed in the last session of Parliament, in or near a certain close or property, situate in the hamlet or township of Broadmarston, in the parish of Pebwoi th, in the county of Gloucester, numbered 17 on the plans of such last- mentioned branch railway, referred to in the said last- mentioned Act, and which said last- mentioned intended railway, and the works connected therewith, will pass from, in, through, or into, or t> e situate within the several parishes, tiwnships, and extra- paiochial or other places following, that is to say, Church Honeybourne, in the county of Worcester, and Pebworth and Broad Marston, in the county of Gloucester. And it is also intended by such Act to take power to alter, divert, or stop up, whether temporarily or permanently, all turnpike and other roads, railways, tramways, aqueducts, canals, streams, and rivers within or adjoining to the aforesaid parishes, townships, and extra- porochial or other places, or any of them, with which it may be necessary to interfere in the construction of the said intended railways and works. And it is further intended by such Act to vary, repeal, or extinguish all existing rights or privileges in any manner con- nected with the lands proposed to be purchased or taken, or which would in any manner impede or interfere with the con- struction, maintenance, or use of the said intended railways and works, and to confer other rights and privileges. And it is also intended by such Act to take powers for the purchase of lands and houses, by compulsion or agreement, for the purposes of the said railways and works, and for levying tolls, rates, and duties, in respect of the use of the said railways and works, aud to grant exemptions from such tolls, rates, and duties. And it is further intended by such Act to cnnble the said Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company to sell, or let, or transfer the said intended railways and works, or any of them, or any part thereof respectively, and all or any powers of such company, in connection therewith, or in relation thereto respectively, to the Great Western Railway Company, and to enable such last- mentioned company to purchase or rent, or construct the said intended railways and works, or any of them, or any part thereof respectively, and to exercise such powers or any of them, and also to raise and contribute funds for or to- wards the construction, maintenance, and use of the said in- tended railways and works, and generally to enter into and carry into effect such arrangements in reference thereto as may be mutually agreed on between the said two companies. And it is further intended by such Act to enable the said Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company to raise money for the purposes aforesaid, and it is also intended to alter, repeal, amend anil enlarge, so far as may be necessary, the powers and provisions of the following Acts relating to the said Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company, that is to say, " The Oxford Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Act, 1845," and an Act passed in the last session of Parliament, entitled " An Act to authorize certain extensions of the line of the Oxford Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, and to amend the Act relating thereto," and the following Acts relating to the Great Western Railway Com- any, and to the several railways now foiming part of the under- taking of the Great Western Railway Company that is to say, an Act of the third year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, cap. 36; an Act of the fifth and sixth years of the same reign, cap. 107; an Act of the sixth year of the same reign, cap. 38 ; an Act of the same year of the same reign cap. 79; an Act passed in the same year of the same reiga cap. 77; an Act of the first year of the reign of Her present Majesty, cap. < J1; an Act of the same year of the same reign, cap. 92; an Act of the same year of the same reign, cap. 24; an Act of the second year of the same reign, cap. 27; an Act of the third and fourth years of the same reign cap 105; an Act of the fifth year of the same reign, session 2, cap. 28 ; an Act of the sixth year of the same reign, cap. 10; an Act of the seventh year of the same reign, cap. 3; an Act of the eighth and ninth years of the same reign, cap. 40; an Act of the same years of the same reign, cap. 188; an Act of the same years of the same reign cap. 156; an Act of the same yea: s of the same reign, cap. 191; and an Act of the ninth year of the same xeign, cap. 14 ; and an Act of the ninth and tenth years of the same reign, cap. 369. And notice is hereby further given, that maps, plans, and sections of the said intended railways and works, together with books of reference to such plans, containing the names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of the lands proposed to be taken for the purposes of the said intended railways and works, will be deposited on or before the thirtieth day of November in the present year, with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Gloucester, at his office in Gloucester, and with the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Worcester, at his office in the city of Worcester ; and tha„ a copy of so much of the said plans, sections, and books of reference, as relates to each of the parishes in oi through which the said intended railways and works are pro. posed to be made will be deposited on or before the said thirtieth day of November instant, » vith the parish clerk of each such parish at his residence. Nov. 1846. W. O. and W. HUNT, 10, Whitehall. BEDFORD and PIDCOCK, ) F. T. ELGIE, $ which would in any manner impede or interfere with the con- struction, maintenance, or use of the said intended railways and works, and to confer other rights and privileges. And it is also intended by such Act to confer on the said Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company, powers for the purchase of lands and houses, by compulsion or agreement, for the purposes of the said intended railways and works, and for levying tolls, rates, and duties in respect thereof, and to grant exemptions from tolls, rates, and duties. And it is further intended by such Act to enable the said Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company, to sell, or let, or transfer the said intended railways, and works, or any of them, or any part thereof respectively, and all or any powers of such Company in connexion therewith, or in relation thereto respectively, to the Great Western Railway Company, and to enable such last- mentioned Company to purchase, or rent, or construct the same, or any of them, or any part thereof respectively, and to exercise such powers or any of them, and also to raise and contribute funds for or towards the construc- tion, maintenance, and use of the said intended railways and works, and generally to enter into and carry into effect such arrangements in reference thereto, as may be mutually agreed on between the said two Companies. And it is further intended by such Act to enable the said Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company to raise money for the purposes aforesaid, and to alter, repeal, amend, and enlarge, so far as may be necessary, the powers and provisions of the following Acts relating to the said Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company, viz-, " The Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Act, 1845;' and an Act passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled " An Act to authorize certain extensions of the line of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, and to amend the Act relating thereto," and the following Acts relat- ing to the said Great " Western Railway Company, and io the several railways now forming pait of the undertaking of the Great Western Railway Company, viz., an Act of the third year of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, chapter 36; an Act of the fifth and sixth years of the same reign, cap. 107; an Act of the sixth year of the same reign, chapter 38 ; an Act of the sixth year of the same reign, chapter 77 ; an Act of the same year of the same reign, cap. 79 ; an Act of the first year of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter 91; an Act of the same year of the same reign, chapter 92 ; an Act of the same year of the same reign, chapter 24; an Act of the second year of the same reign, chapter 27; an Act of the third and fourth years of the same reign, cap. 105 ; an Act of the fifth year of the same reign, session 2, chapter 28 ; an Act of the sixth year of the same reign, chapter 10; an Act of the seventh year of the same reign, chapter 3; an Act of the eighth and ninth years of the same reign, chapter 40; an Act of the eighth and ninth years of the same reign, cap. 156; an Act of the eighth and ninth years of the same reign, chapter 188; an Act of the eighth and ninth years of the same reign, chapter 191; and an Act of the ninth year of the same reign, chapter 14 ; and an Act of the ninth and tenth years of the same reign, chapter 369. And notice is hereby further given, that maps, plans, and sections of the said intended railways and works, together with books of reference to such plans, containing the names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees and occu- piers of the lands proposed to be taken for the purposes afore- said, will be deposited, on or before the thirtieth day of November, in the present year, with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Worcester, at his office in the city of Worcester, and with the Clerk of the Peace for t he County of Stafford, at his office in the town of Stafford; and that a copy of so much of the said plans, sections, and books of reference as relates to each of the parishes in or through which the said intended railways and works are proposed to be made, will be deposited, on or before the said thirtieth day of November instant, with the parish clerk of each such parish, at his residence. W. O. and W. HUNT, 10, Whitehall. BEDFORD & PIDCOCK,; F. T. ELGIE, Worcester. November, 1846. Worcester. OXFORD, W O E C E S T E il, AND WOLV E RH AM PTON RAILWAY, ( NO. 2). EXTENSIONS AND AMENDMENT. Proposed Railways from Stourbridge to Dudley, and to Halesowen, loi'th Railways diverging therefrom to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Station at Stourbridge, and to Messrs. Kings' Clay Works; also Deviation and Extension at Wolverhampton. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing session, for an Act to authorize the construction and mainten- ance by the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company, of the railways hereinafter described, with all proper works, approaches, and conveniences connected therewith, that is to say. A railway commencing in or near to a certain field belonging to the trustees of the Right Honourable the Earl of Stamfordatid Warrington, iu the occupation of Mr. William Foster, adjoining the Stourbridge Canal, in the hamlet of Aniblecote, in the parish of Gldswinford, in the county of Stafford, near to the town of Stourbridge, ia the county of Wor- cester, proceeding thence to a point at or near a certain piece of arable land belonging to Ann Eliza Haden, in the occupation of Lucy Tibbitts and Edwin Tibbitts, near to lladen's Cross, in the parish of Rowley Regis, in the county of Stafford, and thence by means of two different lines, one thereof terminating by a junction with the line of the said Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, as at present authorized to be made, in a certain meadow iu the parish of Dudley, in the county of Worcester, numbered 82 on the plans of the said Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, referred to in " the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Act, 1845," and the other terminating by a junction with the line of the Birmingham and Bristol Branch Railway from King's Norton to Halesowen, as at present authorized to be made in or near a certain field situate in the parish of il: le. sowen, in the county of Worcester, numbered 70 on the plans of the kst- men- tioned Branch Railway referred to in the Act authorizing the construction thereof, which said intended railway or railways-, and the works connected therewith, will pass from, in, through, or into, or be situate within the several parishes, townships, and extra- parochial or other places following, or some of them, that is to say, Oldswinford, Stourbridge, Wooilescote, Upper Swinford, ff if 111: 11 iV'lill Uni? { Ifi. nxi i L r> I 1 '. rp hri^ L Over End, Gosty Hill, Northfield Road, Darby End, Wind- mill End, Netherton, St. Andrew Netherton, Bumble Hole, Baptist End, Cinder Bank, Dixon's Green, Blower's Green, Dudley, Haysitch, Hawn, Hill, Lutley, Hasbury, Cakemore, and Halesowen, in the county of Worcester; Amblecote, Oldswinford, Kingswinford, Lomsy Town, Cradley Heath, Gosty Hill, Dudley Wood, Rowley, Rowley Regis, Reddall Hill, Old Hill, and Windmill End. in the county of Stafford. Also a Railway diverging from the said first- mentioned intended railway, commencing in or near a certain field, called Rushgrove, belonging to the Reverend Edward Unwin, in the occupation of Mr. Francis Tongue Rufford, situate in the township of Upper Swinford, in the parish of Oldswinford, in the county of Worcester, and passing through the townships of Upper Swinford and Stourbridge, in the said parish of Old- swinford, to the main line of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, as at present authorised to be made, and terminating by a junction therewith at the intended Stourbridge Station of the said last- mentioned railway, in a certain field in the township of Stourbridge aforesaid, num- bered 17 on the said plans of the said last- mentioned railway. And another railway, diverging from the said first- mentioned intended railway in or near a piece of land belonging to the Reverend James Bromley and others, Trustees of Christ Church Lye, in the occupation of William Peiry and Job Yardley, in the township of the Lye, in the said parish of Oldswinford, in the said county of Worcester, and terminating at or near the Brick Works of Messrs. Joseph King and William King, in the said township of the Lye, in the said parish of Old Swinsford, in the said county of Worcester, adjoining to the turnpike road leading from Pedmore to Dudley, and which said last mentioned intended railway and the works connected therewith, will be wholly situate within the said township of the Lye, in the said parish of Oldswinford, in the county of Worcester aforesaid. And another railway, commencing at a point on the line of the said Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, as at present authorized to be made, at or near the end of the seventh furlong, as marked on the said plans thereof, in or near a piece of land, numbered 33 on the said plans, in the township and parish of Wolverhampton, in the county of Stafford, and terminating by a junction with the London and North Western Railway, at or near the bridge of the said railway, over the road to Showell Farm, in the township and parish of Bushbury, in the said county of Stafford, about a mile northward of the Wolverhampton Station of the said London and North Western Railway; and which said last- mentioned intended railway, and the works connected there- with, will pass from, in, through, or into, or be situate within the parishes, townships, and extra- parochial or other places following, or some of them ; that is to say, Bushbury, Wolver- hampton, and Wednesfield, in the county of Stafford. And also another railway, commencing at a point on the line of the said Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, a3 at present authorized to be made, at or near the one mils and fifth furlong, as marked on the said plans thereof, in or near a piece of land numbered 62 011 the said plans, in the township and parish of Wolverhampton aforesaid, and terminating by a junction with the line of the Birmingham, YVolverhampton, and Stour Valley Railway, as at present authorized to be made at Walsall street or road in the aforesaid township and parish of Wolverhampton, numbered 45 on the said plans of the said Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, which said last mentioned intended railway, and the works connected therewith, will be wholly situate within the said township and parish of Wolverhampton, in the said county of Stafford. And it is also intended by the said Act to authorize and empower the said Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company, to abandon the formation of so much of their said railway as at present authorized to be made, as extends from the said seventh furlong of the said railway, as marked on the said plans thereof, to the London and Ncith West ern Railway at the bridge over the Cannock road, in the township of Wednesfield, in the parish of Wolverhampton, in the county of Stafford. And it is also intended by such Act to take powers to alter, divert, or stop up, whether temporarily or permanently, all turnpike and other roads, railways, tramways, aqueducts, cana'is, streams and rivers, within or adjoining to the aforesaid parishes, townships, and extra parochial or other places, or any of them with which it may be necessary to interfere in the construction of the said intended railways and works. And it is further intended by such Act to vary, repeal, or extinguish all existing rights or privileges in any manner con- nected with the lands proposed to be purchased or taken, or MIDLAND RAILWAY. WORCESTER, HEREFORD, MALVERN, AND CHELTENHAM LINES, WITH A BRANCH TO LEDBURY. Proposed Extension by the Midlatid Railway Company from Worcester to Hereford, with Branches to Ledbury, Malvern, Ashchurch, and Cheltenham, with power to Purchase or make arrangements with the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal and Company, and Junc- tions with the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that APPLICA- _ TION is intended to be made to Parliament, in the next Session, for leave to bring in a Bill to alter, amend, and enlarge the powers and provisions of the several Acts following, that is to say :— An Act passed in the 31st year of the reign of his Majesty King George the 3rd, entitled " An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the City of Hereford to the City of Gloucester, with a collateral Cut from the same to the town of Newent, in the county of Gloucester." An Act passed in the 33rd year of the same reign, entitled " An Act to vary and extend the Line of the Canal authorised to be made by an Act passed in the 3lst year of the reign of his present Majesty, entitled ' An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the City of Hereford to the City" of Gloucester, with a collateral Cut from the same to the town of Newent, in the county of Gloucester;' and to amend the said Act." And an Act passed in the 2nd year of the reign of her present Majesty, entitled " An Act for enabling the Company of Proprietors of the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Navigation to raise a further sum of money, and for amending the Acts relating thereto." And also, the several Acts herein" after mentioned relating to the Midland Railway Company, or some of them, that is to say :— An Act passed in the 7th year of the reign of her present Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled " An Act to consolidate the North Midland, Midland Counties, and Birmingham and Derby Junction Railways;" and also, the Local and Personal Acts, 8th and 9th Victoria, chapters, 49 56. and 90; Local and Personal Acts, 9th and lOch Victoria, chap- ters 51, 102, 156, 157,163, 203, 243, 254, 255, 311,326, and 340; in which said Bill it is intended to apply for powers to enable the Midland Railway Company to make'and maintain the fol- lowing Railways and Branch Railways, with all necessary Stations, erections, bridges, wharfs, warehouses, communica- tions, and other works connected therewith and approaches thereto, that is to say :— A Railway commencing near to a certain bridge over the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, called " Black Pole Bridge," in the parish of Claines, in the county of Worcester, where it is also intended to form a junc- tion with the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, and terminating in or near to a certain field or piece of ground adjoining a certain road or lane called Friar Street or Albert Street, in the parishes of Saint Peter and Saint John the Baptist, or one of them, within the liberties of the city of Hereford, the property of John Arkwright, Esq., now or late in the occupa- tion of Richard Hay ling, as under- tenant to George Townsend, which said Railway and Works will be made in or pass from, through, or into the several parishes, townships, and extra- parochial and other places following, or some of them, that is to say:— Claines, Astwood, Hindlip otherwise Henlip otherwise Hinllp, and Saint Martin, in the county of Worcester; Saint Martin, Saint Clement, Saint Michael, Saint Michael in Bed- wardine, Wick Episcopi, Claines, Whistones otherwise Whit- stones, Pitchcroft otherwise Pitchcroft Ham, Saint George, Oldbury, Saint Peter otherwise Saint Peter the Great, and Saint John otherwise Saint John in Bedwardine, partly in the county of Worcester and partly in the city of \ Vrorcester and county of the same city; Saint Alban, Saint Oswald, Blockhouse otherwise Blockhouse Fields otherwise Saint Paul, Saint Michael otherwise Saint Michael in Bedwardine, Saint Helen, Saint Andrew, Saint Nicholas, The Butts, College Precincts, All Saints, Saint Clement, township of Saint John in Bedwar- dine otherwise Saint John Henwick, Saint Swithin, Saint Paul, in the city of Worcester and county of the same city; Wick Episcopi, Broadheath, Broadmore Green, Northwick, Bar- bourne, Whittmgton, Battenhall, Middle Battenhall, Lower Battenhall, Upper Battenhall, Outboundsof Saint John, Wick, Upper Wick, Lower Wick, Rushwick, Leigh, Bransforcl other- wise Brandsford, Leigh Sinton, Braces Leigh otherwise Leigh Braces, Upper Howsell, Lower Howsell, Sherridge, Sandlin otherwise Sanlin, Brockamin, Hill End, Link End, Lane End, Powick, Woodsiield, Clevelode otherwise Cleveload, Malvern, Great Malvern, Chapelry of Saint Peter, Newland, Newland Saint Mary's, Malvern Link, Cotheridge, Housen, Otherton, Madresfield otherwise Maddresfield, Hallow, Grimley, Grimley cum Hallow, Saint James's Mathon, Saint Matthias's Leigh, in the county of Worcester, or some of them ; Mathon, in the counties of Worcester and Hereford, or one or both of them ; and Col wall, Evesbatch, Cradley, Cowley, Cowley Gate, Cradley East, Cradley West, Vine's End, Coddington, Bosbury, Netherley, Catley, Upleadon and Catley, Upland otherwise Up- leadon, Ledbury, Leadon and Haffield, Wall Hills, Mitchell and Netherton, Wellington, Munsley, Stapeley, Parkhold, Pixley, Canon Froome, Bishops Froome, Castle Froome, Ashperton, Putley, Tarrington, Stretton Grandsome otherwise Stretton Grandisome, Egletonotherwise Eggletcn, Yarkhill, Washington, Monkhide, Withington, Westhide, Weston Beggard otherwise Weston Baggard, Stoke Edith, Dormington, Bartestree, Wool Hope, Fownhope, Mordiford, Lugwardine, Hampton Bi hop, Tupsley, Ocle Pyechard otherwise Ocle Pychard otherwise Ocle Pitchard, Much Cowarne, Morton Jeffries, Stoke Lacy, Ullingswick, Felton, Preston Wynn, Sutton Saint Nicholas, Sutton Saint Michael, Shehvick, Burcot, Moreton on Lug, Marden, Wisterstone, Vend and Venn Vauld, Fromanton, Livers Ocle, Amberley, Pipe and Lyde, or some of them, in the County of Hereford, Hampton otherwise Hampton Bishop, Tupsley, Holmer, Shelwick, Huntington, Hereford, and Saint John otherwise Saint John the Baptist, Saint Peter, Saint Owen, All Saints, Vineyard, Saint Martin, Lower Bullingham, and Saint Nicholas, or some of them, partly in the city of Hereford, or within the liberties thereof, and partly in the county of Hereford, or one of them. And a Branch Railway, diverging from the line of the said intended main Railway, and commencing at or near a cottage and garden, the property of Edward Spencer, and now in the occupation of William Powell, at or near Shelwick, in the parish of Holmer, in the county of Hereford, and terminating by a junction with the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, as author- ised to be made by an Act passed iti the last Session of Parlia- ment, at or near certain fields, the property of George Terry, Esquire, in the occupation of William Badham, near Shelwick, in the parish of Holmer aforesaid, which said Branch Railway and Works will be made wholly in the said parish of Holmer in the county of Hereford. And also a Branch Railway, diverging from the line of the said intended main Railway, commencing at or near the aque- duct over the River Lugg, in the extra- parochial part of Livers, Ocle, or in the parish of Ullingswick, in the county of Hereford, or one of them, and terminating by a Junction with the Shrews- bury and Hereford Railway, as authorised to be made by an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, at or near a certain field, the property of the President and Governors of Guy's Hospital, and now in the occupation of Peter Burlton, and near to the boundary of the parishes of Pipe and Lyde, and Marden, in the said county of Hereford, which said Branch Railway and Works will be made in or pass from, through, or into the several parishes, townships, and extra parochial and other places fol- lowing, that is to say :— Livers Ocle, Ullingswick, Marden, Sutton Saint Michael, Sutton Saint Nicholas, Holmer, and Pipe and Lyde, or some of them, in the county of Hereford. Also, to make and maintain a Railway or Branch Railway, with all necessary Works connected therewith, diverging from the said first- mentioned intended Line, in or near to a certain field forming part of the Grange Farm, belonging to Thomas Hey wood, Esquire, in the occupation of John Acton, near to Southfield, * in the parish of Bosbury, in the county of Hereford, and terminating at or near to the Canal Wharf, on the Ledbury and Ross Turnpike Road, near to the turnpike gate called the New Street Turnpike, in the parish of Led- bury, in the county of Hereford, which said last- mentioned Railway and Works will be made in or pass from, through, or into the several parishes, townships, and extra- parochial and other places following, that is to say :— Coddington, Bosbury, Munsley, Stapeley, Ledbury, Ledbury Denizen, Borough of Ledbury, Ledbury Forren, Leddon otherwise Leadon and Haffield, Wellington, Parkhold, Wall Hills, Mitchell and Netherton, Eastnor, Upleadon, Catley, Upleadon and Catley, Colwall, Donnington, or some of them, in the county of Here- ford ; and also a connecting Branch, to unite the last- mentioned intended Railway with the said first- mentioned intended Rail- way, commencing near Priors Court in the said parish of Ledbury and terminating in the said parish of Bosbury near Stapeley Wharf, and passing through the said parishes of Ledbury and Bosbury. Also to make and maintain a Railway or Branch Railway, with all proper Works and conveniences connected therewith, and approaches thereto, diverging from the said first- mentioned intended Line, in or near to a certain field belonging or reputed to belong to William Longworth, now or late in the occupation of James Warner, and nearly adjacent to the dwelling- house now or late of the said William Longworth. in the parish of Leigh, in the county of Worcester, and terminating by a double junction with the Birmingham and Gloucester Line of the Midland Railway, near the Ashchurch Station, in the parish of Ashchurch, in the county of Gloucester, one of such junctions being in the township of Northway and Newton, in the parish of Ashchurch, and the other in the township of Fiddington and Natton, in the same parish ; which said last- mentioned Rail- way and Works will be made in or pass from, through, or into the several parishes, townships, and extra- parochial, and other places following, or some of them, that is to say :— Mathon, partly in the county of Worcester and partly in the county of Hereford; Leigh, Leigh Sinton, Upper Howsell, Lower Howsell, the Link, Great Malvern, Barnard's Green, Little Malvern, Malvern Wells, Chapelry of Newland, Madresfield otherwise Maddresfield, Saint Matthias's Leigh, Saint James's Mathon, Hanley Castle, Upper Hanley, Lower Hanley, Saint Peter in Hanley Castle, Welland, Castle Morton, Upton- on- Severn, Longdon, Queerihill, Uckingham, Holdfast, Ripple, Ryail, Uckingshaw otherwise Okinghall otherwise Uckingshall, in" the county of Worcester, or some of them; Puckrup, Twyning otherwise Twining, Tewkesbury, The Mythe, Pamington, Aston- upon- Carrant otherwise Aston- on- Carron, VValton Cardiff, Fiddington and Natton, Bishops Cleeve, Stoke Orchard, Treddington, and Ashchurch, in the county of Glou- cester, or some of them. And also a short Branch Railway, to connect the said last- mentioned intended Railway with the said first- mentioned intended Railway, diverging from the said last- mentioned intended Railway, in the said parish of Leigh, in the county of Worcester, at a place called The Link, near a certain cottage, now or late in the occupation of Elizabeth Bayliss and Thomas Witney, or one of them, adjoining to the turnpike road there leading from Worcester to Great Malvern, and terminating in the same parish of Leigh, near to a certain dwelling- house called The Pales, belonging or reputed to beljng to JohnDowding, and now or late in the occupation of Thomas Anney, and passing from, through, or into the parishes, townships, and places of Leigh, Leigh Sinton, Saint Matthias's Leigh, Saint James's Mathon, Upper Howsell, Lower Howsell, The Link, or some of them, all in the county of Worcester. Also, to make and maintain a Railway or Branch Railway, with all proper Works and conveniences connected therewith, and approaches thereto, to commence by a junction with the Birmingham and Gloucester Line of the Midland Railway, at or near the mile- post thereon denoting the distance of 43 miles and a quarter from Birmingham, in the hamlet or township of Southam and Brockhampton, in the parish of Bishop's Cleeve, in the county of Gloucester, and to terminate at or near to a close now or late occupied by Thomas Gilley Perry, near to and on the south side of Upper Alstone Mill, in the tithing or hamlet of Alstone otherwise Arlestone, in the parish of Cheltenham, in the county of Gloucester, where it. is also intended to form a junction with the existing Cheltenham and Swindon Line of the Great Western Railway, which said last- mentioned intended Railway and Works will be made in, or pass from, through, or into the several parishes, townships, and extra- parochial and other places following, that is to sayBishop's Cleeve, Southam and Brockhampton, Woodmancote, Gotherington, Stoke Orchard, Brockingtoti, Prestbury, Overton, Noverton, Swindon, Cheltenham, Town of Cheltenham, Alstone other- wise Arlestone, Arle, Westall, Naunton, and Sandford, or some of them, in the county of Gloucester. And it is also intended to apply for powers to make lateral deviations from the line of the said Railways, Branch Railways, and Works, to the extent, or within the limits to be defined upon the plans hereinafter mentioned ; and also to cross, divert, alter, or stop up, whether temporarily or permanently, all such turnpike roads, parish roads, streets, and other highways, streams, canals, sewers, pipes, navigable rivers, navigations, bridges, railways, and tramroads, within the said parishes, townships, extra- parochial, and other places aforesaid, or some of them, as it may be necessary to divert, alter, or stop up, for the purposes of the said Railways, Branch Railways, and Works, or any of them And it is further intended by such Act to take powers for enabling the Midland Railway Company to purchase or take on lease and hold, and to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Navigation to sell or lease and transfer to the said Midland Railway Company the Canal of the said Company of Proprietors, and all Branch Canals, Cuts, Railways, Tramways, houses, lands, wharfs, warehouses, and other hereditaments, and the goods, property, and effects, and other works and conveniences connected there- with, or any part thereof, together with the powers, rights, and privileges of the said Company of Proprietors, and the capital, stock, and shares, debts, liabilities, engagements, and under- takings, of the said Company of Proprietors, and for enabling the said Midland Railway Company to exercise and enjoy all such rights, powers, and privileges as may be so transferred to them, and also for converting and appropriating all or any part of the said Canal, Branches, Cuts, Railways, Tramways, lands, hereditaments, and other Works, for the purposes of the said proposed Railway and Works, in such manner as the said Midland Railway Company shall deem expedient, and for enabling such Company to stop up and otherwise discontinue the use of all or any part of the said Canal and other Works, or the Branches thereof, and to alter, vary_ and extinguish the tolls, rates, and duties payable to the said Company of Proprietors, and to vary or extinguish all existing powers, rights, and privileges, in any manner connected with the said Canal, or the lands, grounds, hereditaments, works, and con- veniences thereto belonging, and to enable the said Companies respectively to enter into any contracts, agreements, and arrangements, ana to carry into effect all such contracts, agree- ments, and arrangements as may be expedient or necessary in reference to the objects and purposes aforesaid, and for the compulsory purchase of lands and houses which may be required for the purposes of the said Railways, Branch Hail- ways, and Works, or any of them, and to vary or extinguish all rights and privileges in any manner connected with the lands and houses proposed to be taken for the purposes afore, said, and also to levy tolls, rates, or duties upon or in respect of the said Railways, Branch Railways, and Works, and to alter existing tolls, rates, or duties, and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from the payment of tolls, rates, and duties, and other rights and privileges, and to enable the said Midland Railway Company to raise any necessary sum of money for all or any of the purposes aforesaid. And Notice is hereby further given, that maps and plans of the said Railways, Branch Railways, and Works, and also a duplicate of such plans, and a section and duplicate thereof, together with books of reference thereto, and also a published map, with the lines of railway delineated thereon, will be deposited for public inspection with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Worcester, at his office at Worcester; also with the Clerk of the Peace for the city of Worcester and county of the same city, at his office at Worcester ; also with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Gloucester, at his office at Glou- cester ; and also with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Hereford, at his office at Hereford ; on or before the 30th day of November, 1816 ; and on or before the said 30th day of November, 1846, a copy of so much of the plans and sections as relates to each parish in or through which the said Rail- ways, Branch Railways, and Works are intended to be made, together with a book of reference thereto, will be deposited with the Parish Clerk of each such parish, at his place of abode. ASTONISHING OF HOLLOW AY'S EFFICACY P I L L S. The Testimony of a Clergyman vouching to Eleven Cases of Cures by these wonderful Pills. Extract of a Letter from the Rev. Geo. Prior, Curate of Mevagh Letter Kenny, Carrigart, Ireland, 10th January, 1846. To Professor HOLLOWAY. SIR,— I send you a crude list of some eleven cases, all cured by the use of your Pills. I cannot exactly give you a professional name to the various complaints, but this I know, some of them baffled the skill of Derry and this County. In a previous letter this gentleman states as follows:— Within a short distance of my house resides a small farmer, who for more than twenty years has been in a bad state of health ; Mrs. Prior gave him a box of the Pills, which did him so much good that I heard him say, for twenty years past he never ate his food or enjoyed it so much as since taking your Pills. ( Signed) GEORGE PRIOR. %* The above reverend and pious gentleman purchased some pounds worth of the Pills for the benefit of his poor parishioners. Bad Digestion, with extreme Weakness and Debility— an Extraordinary Cure. Mr. T. GARDINER, of No, 9, Brown Street, Grosvenor Square, had heen in a very bad state of health for a long time, suffering much from a distended Stomach, very impaired Digestion, with constant pains in his Chest, was extremely nervous, and so greatly debilitated as scarcely able to walk one hundred yards : during the long period of his declining health he had the advice of four of the most eminent physicians, besides five surgeons of the greatest celebrity in London, from whose aid he derived no benefit whatever, at last he had recourse to Holloway's Pills, which he declares effected a perfect cure in a very short time, and that he is now as strong and vigorous as ever he was in his life. This being so extraordinary a case, may lead many persons almost to doubt this statement, it might therefore be necessary to say that Mr. Gardiner is a broker and well known. Cure of a Confirmed Asthma, accompanied with great Debility. Extract of a Letter from John Thompson, Esq., Proprietor of the Armagh Guardian, Armagh, 17th April, 1846 To Professor HOLLOWAY. SIR,— There is at present living in this city a Serjeant, who had been for many years in the Army at Cabul, in the East Indies, from whence he returned in September last. On his way here, from the change of weather of a tropical to a moist climate, he caught a very violent cold, which produced a con- firmed case of Asthma. In December last he commenced taking your Pills, and by the use of two lis. boxes, with two 4s. 6d. pots of your Ointment well rubbed into his breast, he is I am happy to say, not only quite cured of the Asthma, but is also become so strong and vigorous, that he informeed me yesterday he could now run round the Mall, with any person in the city, and that he never got any medicine equal to your Pills and Ointment. (. Signed) J. THOMPSON. The Earl of Aldborough cured of a Liver and Stomach Complaint. Extract of a Letter from His Lordship, dated Villa Messina, Leghorn, 21st February, 1845. To Professor HOLLOWAY. SIR,— Various circumstances prevented the possibility of my thanking you before this time for your politeness in sending me your Pills as you did. I now take this opportu- nity of sending you an order for the amount, and, at the same time, to add that your Pills have effected a cure of a disorder in my Liver and Stomach, which all the most eminent of the Faculty at home, and all over the Continent, had not been able to effect; nay ! not even the waters of Carlsbad and Marienbad. I wish to have another Box and a Pot of the Ointment, in case any of my family should ever require either ® Your most obliged and obedient Servant, ( Signed) ALDBOROUGH. The mighty powers of these extraordinary Pills will do wonders in any of the following Complaints :— Ague Female irregularities Retention of urine Asthmas Fevers of all kinds Sore Throats WORCESTER COUNTY GAOL. 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Just published, A MEDICAL WORK, in a sealed Envelope, at 3s., and sent, post paid, for 3s. 6d. MANHOOD; the Causes of its Premature Decline, with plain direc- i tions for its perfect restoration, addressed to those suffering from nervous debility or mental irritation, followed by observa- tions 011 MARRIAGE, NERVOUSNESS, and the treatment of Diseases of the generative system, illustrated with cases, & c. By J. L. CURTIS and Co., Consulting Surgeons, 7, FRITH STREET, SOHO SQUARE, London. TWENTY- NINTH THOUSAND. Published by the Authors, and may be had at their Residence , also sold by Strange, 21, Paternoster- row; Hannay, 63; Oxford- street; Mann, 39, Cornhill, London; Guest, 51, Bull- street, Birmingham; Allen, Long- row, Nottingham; T. Sowler, 4, St. Anne's- square, Manchester; G. 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ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE OF CONSTITUTIONAL OR ACQUIRED DEBILITIES OF THE GENERATIVE SYSTEM. " THE SILENT FRIEN D," NINETEENTH EDITION. Price 2s. 6d., and sent free to any part of the United Kingdom, in a Sealed Envelope, from the " Establishment, 011 receipt of 3s. 6d. in Postage Stamps. MEDICAL WORK on the INFIRMITIES OF A Dated this sixth day of November, 1046. PARKER, HAYES, BARNWELL, and TWISDEN, London, / BERRIDGE and MACAULAY, Leicester, \ Solicitors, S. CARTER, Birmingham, ^ T. F. ADDISON, Gloucester ) jk N Additional and Important Evidence of the Salutary /$ L Effects of BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS, from Mr. Samuel Dixon, of Kingscliffe, Northamptonshire. " Kingscliffe, Northamptonshire, March 14, 4846. " To Mr. Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London. " Sir,— I feel it a duty which I owe to yourself and the public to inform you of the great benefit which I have derived by taking Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills. During several years I was frequently aid up by attacks of gout, being unable to attend to business for months at a time. I had often been advised to try Blair's Pills, bet it was not until a friend pressed them upon me that I was induced to take them, and from which I found speedy relief. This is several years ago, but I continue to take them whenever an attack comes on, and am thereby enabled quickly to resume my business. " I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, " SAMUEL DIXON. The above testimonial exhibits the never- failing effects of this valuable medicine, which affords to the afflicted with gout, rheumatism, lumbago, sciatica, and all analogous complaints, speedy and certain relief. Among the many discoveries that characterise the present age, none have contributed so much to the comfort and ease of the community, nor conferred such a boon upon suffering humanity, as the important discovery of BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS, the efficacy of which has been tested by the approval and recommendation of many of the greatest men of our day. They are effective for Gout and Rheumatism, in all its various forms, including sciatica, lum- bago, pains in the head and face, frequently treated as tooth- ache, & c. They require neither confinement nor attention of any kind, and invariably prevent the disease attacking the stomach, brain, or other vital par- Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London ; and by his appointment by Stratford, Deighton, Anderson, and Lea and Perrins, Worcester; May, Evesham; Maund, and Haines, Bromsgrove; Pennell, Kidderminster; Morris, Bewdley; Williams, Stourport; Hollier, Dudley; Wright, and Anthony, Hereford; Nicholas, and Lake, Bridgnorth; Kendall, Strat- ford ; and all respectable Medicine Venders throughout the United Kingdom. Price 2s. 9d. per box. Ask for Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, and observe the name and address of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," impressed upon the Government Stamp affixed to each Box of the Genuine Medicine. REVIEWS OF THE WORK. MANHOOD. By J. L. CURTIS and Co. ( Strange.)— In this age of pretension, when the privileges of the true are constantly usurped by the false and the ignorant, it is difficult to afford the sufferer from nervous debility, the unerring means of judg- ment where to seek relief. The authors of this work have obviated the difficulty. Their long experience and reputation in the treatment of these painful diseases is the patent's guarantee, and well deserves for the work its immense circulation.— Era. The numberless instances daily occurring wherein affection of the lungs, putting on all the outward appearances of con- sumption— which, however, when traced to their source, are found to result from certain baneful habits— fully prove that the principle of the division of labour is nowhere more appplicable than in medical practice ; and we feel no hesitation, in saying, that there is no member of society by whom the book will not be found useful, whether such person hold the relation of a parent, a preceptor, or a clergyman Sun, evening paper. To the married, as well as the unmarried, this little work affords consolation and cure in peculiar cases, and we are doing a service to society in recommending it to general notice.— Essex and Herts Mercury. CURTIS ON MANHOOD. ( Strange.)— A perusal of this work will easily distinguish its talented authors from the host of medical writers whose pretensions to cure all diseases are daily so indecently thrust before the public. Having for many years been the standard work on these diseases, its originality is apparent, and its perusal breathes consolation and hope to the mind of the patient.— Naval and Military Gazette. CURTIS ON MANHOOD should be in the hands of youth and old age. It is a medical publication, ably written, and develope3 the treatment of a class of painful maladies which has too long been the prey of the illiterate and designing— United Service Gazette. Messrs. CURTIS and Co. are to be consulted daily at their residence, No. 7, FRITH STREET, SOHO SQUARE. LONDON. ' Country Patients are requested to be as minute as possible in the detail of their cases. The communication must be accom< panied by the usual consultation fee of £ 1, and in all cases the most inviolable secrecy may be relied on. CAUTION. In consequence of the numerous complaints made to the Authors by Patients who have been induced to purchase spu- rious copies of this work, advertised by illiterate pretenders, under titles imitating as closely as possible the word " MAN- HOOD," PATIENTS are informed they can have this work forwarded them, by initial or otherwise, to any address, DIRECT from the Author's Residence, on remitting 3s. 6s. in postage Stamps. being an Enquiry into the concealed cause that destroys physical energy, and the ability of manhood, ere vigour has established her empire; with observations on the baneful effects of SOLITARY INDULGENCE and INFECTION; Local and Constitutional WEAKNESS, NERVOUS IRRITATION, CONSUMPTION and on the partial or total EXTINCTION OF THE REPRO- DUCTIVE POWERS; WITH MEANS OF RESTORATION ; the ttis- trnctive effects of Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Strictures. and Secondary Symptoms are explained in a familiar manner; the Work is EMBELLISHED WITH TEN FINE COLOURED ENGRAV- INGS, on Steel, representing the deleterious influence of Mercurv on the skin, by eruptions 011 the head, face, and body ; with APPROVED MODE OF CUBE for both sexes ; followed by Observations on the Obligations of MARRIAGE, aud healthy perpetuity ; with direc- tions for the removal of certain Disqualifications; the whole pointed out to suffering humanity as a " SILENT FRIEND," to be consulted without exposure, and with assured confidence of BY II.' & L. 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Part I. of this Work is particularly addressed to those who are prevented from forming a Matrimonial Alliance, tliroage fear of certain disqualifications for the discharge of the sacred obligations of marriage, and to the thoughtless youth, whose follies, ( to speak mildly,) have entailed upon him debility, and disfiguring disease in their worst forms; therefore the Silent Friend will be found an available introduction to the means of perfect and secret restora- tion to Manhood. Fart II. treats perspicuously upon those forms of diseases, either in their primary or secondary state, arising from infection, showing how numbers, who through temporary remissness or fastidious feeling, neglect to obtain competent medical aid, entail upon themselves years of misery and suffering, and of which ulti- mately those dearest to them, a> re innocent but equal participators. THE CORDIAL BALM OF SYRIACUM Is a gentle stimulant and renovator of the impaired functions of life, and is exclusively directed to the cure of such complaints as arise from a disorganization of the Generative System, whether constitutional or acquired, loss of sexual power, and debility arising from syphilis : and is calculated to afford decided relief to those who by early Indulgence in solitary habits have weakened the powers ol their system, and fallen into a state of chronic debility, ' oy which the constitution is left in a deplorable state, and that nervous mentality kept up which places the individual in a state of anxiety for the remainder of life. Constitutional weakness, sexual debility, obstinate gleets, excesses, irregularity, obstructions of certain evacuations, total impotency and barrenness, are effectually removed by this invaluable medicine, price lis., or four at lis. in one Bottle for 33s., by which lis. are saved. The cases of Syriacum or Concentrated Detersive Essence can only be had at 1!), Berners Street, Oxford Street, London ; whereby there is a saving of £ 1. 12s., and the Patient is entitled to receive advice without a fee, which advantage is applicable only to those who remit £ 5 for a packet. A minute detail of the case is necessary. THE CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE, AN ANTI- SYPHILITIC REMEDY for searching out and purifying the diseased humours of the blood ; conveying its active principles throughout the body, even penetrating the minutest vessels, removing all corruptions and contaminations, and impurities from the vital stream,— eradicating the morbid virus ; and radically expelling it through the skin. Price lis. or four bottles in one for 33s., by which lis. is saved also in £ 5 cases, to be had only at the London Establishment. VENEREAL CONTAMINATION, if not at first eradicated, will often remain secretly lurking in the system for years, and, although for a while undiscovered, at length break out upon the unhappy indi- vidual in its most dreadful forms ; or else, unseen, internally endanger the very vital organs of existence. To those suffering from the conscquences which this disease may have left behind in the form of SECONDAKY SYMPTOMS, eruptions of the skin, blotches on the head and face, ulcerations and enlargement of the throat tonsils, and threatened destruction of the nose, palate, & c., nodes on the shin bones, or any of those painful affections arising from the dangerous effects of the indiscriminate use of mercury, or the evils of an imperfect cure, the CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE will be fonnd to be attended with the most astonishing effects in checking the ravages of the disorder, removing all scorbutic com- plaints, and effectually re- establishing the health of the constitu- tion. To persons entering upoii the responsibilities of matrimony, and who ever had the misfortune during their more youthful days to be affected with any form of these diseases, a previous course of this medicine is highly essential and of the greatest importance, as more serious affections are visited upon an innocent wife and offspring, from a want of these simple precautions, than perhaps half the world is aware of ; for, it must be remembered, where the fountain is polluted, the streams that flow from it cannot be pu re. Messrs. PERRY expect, when consulted by letter, the usua Fee of One Pound, addressed to the London Establishment, with- out which no notice whatever can be taken of the communication. Patients are requested to be as ininnte as possible in the detail of their cases, as to the duration of the complaint, the symptoms, age, iiaLdts of living, and general occupation. 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Medicine Venders can be supplied by most of the Wholesale Patent Medicine Houses in London, Agent for Worcester A.- DEIGHTON, Journal Office. Kidderminster... THOS. PENNELL, Bookseller. Where mav be had the " SILENT FKIEND." IRELAND. The Archbishop of Dublin ( Dr. Whately) has fixed this day ( Friday, the 20th Nov.) to be observed throughput Ireland as a day of public humiliation and prayer, in reference to the scarcity in Ireland. His Grace considers it most important that the sacrament of the Lord's Supper should he adminis- tered, and that in the sermon the congregation should be shown how to view aud meet the calamity, and in particular should be guarded against " presuming to pronounce that those of their neighbours who are special sufferers are neces- sarily objects of Divine displeasure." He wishes the congre- gation to be warned against desponding, and such of them as are not likely to be personal sufferers against regarding the exemption as any sign of being special favourites of heaven. The latest accounts from this country state that the public works are progressing so rapidly, that new presentment sessions must speedily be held to afford other means of employment; and the gentry, becoming alarmed at the heavy taxation, are exerting themselves very strenuously to make arrangements for drainage and other productive works, on such a scale as to absorb all the destitute persons requiring employment. Still, there are some very painful reports of destitution; and even in this severe season, emigration is in progress from some western ports. The following extracts from Irish papers afford a pretty fair illustration of the conduct of the Irish people under their afflictions:— THE GUN TRADE FLOURISHING.—" Of all trades a- going" the gun trade in Tipperary is the best. The mariet is brisk, and prices moderate. Every man is licensed to shoot, and human game appears to get the preference. From all quarters we learn that " the fowlers" are out early and late, and every man has either a handy detonator, or one of the old stock ia good order. How long will such a state of things be permitted to exist 1— Tipperary Constitution. IRISH POVERTY AND WILLINGNESS TO LABOUR.— It appears by a semi- official statement that the number of persons receiving employment through the Board of Works was 150,000. But even these are not permitted , to work unmolested. At Mallow the Magistrates have determined to call in the military to protect such of the people as are willing to work. 250 labourers, earning some Is. 6d. a day, others Is. 8d., were actually driven off the road by a band of miscre- ants acting under some mischievous delusion.- The readiness to combine for any mischievous or irrationally selfish pur- pose, is strikingly illustrated in the Irish correspondence of j the Times. A person in Mallow took a contract for 1000 wheelbarrows. No sooner was this known than the carpenters advanced their price for working up the materials from 2s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. 5 the smiths in like manner raised their charges; so that the contractor, if he had not been able to call in some country carpenters, would have been compelled to pay 14s. for what was worth 10s. This, too, in a period of great privation, and when the object for which the contract was given was purely a charitable one. THE " FINE PEASANTRY."— A short while ago, the Swallow steamer, whilst on her passage from Limerick to Tralee, with a cargo of meal to relieve the wants of the desti- tute people, was driven on shore by a strong gale. An officer of the Shannon squadron thus describes the conduct of the peasantry of the neighbourhood where she is beached:- At the time of writing this the Swallow is still on shore, although the Pluto, Alban, and a party from the Madagascar are getting, all ready to set her afloat. The copper has been stripped and carried off by the very honest peasantry, and the marines and sailors have been plundered in a most shameful way. As a sign of the times, the Lieutenant who has the direction of getting the Swalloiv off, employed thirty men at Is. per diem, fourpence more than the standing wuges. He required on Friday two hundred more to get the vessel off'; the Magistrate kindly got the men; they were only required for half an hour, and were to be paid the Is. per diem for their half- hour's work, when just as they had manned the purchase- fall a miserable, half- starved fellow stepped out and said, ' Captain, what will you give us?' When he was told they were to receive the Is., he gave a regular Irish howl, dropped the fall, and rushed off, exclaiming, ' Bad cess to the soul of the man that would work for that; they cannot do without us, boys, let us be off,' and off they went, leaving the thirty that were there before. The tide had fallen, and there remained the Swallow. This is a sample of the starving people." Cotighs, Colds, Asthmas, and Wheezings on the Chest cured by Holloway's Pills.— When no other medicine will afford the least relief in Coughs and Colds, Holloways ' Pills will almost immediaiely effect a cure in any case however desperate; and, what is more extraordinary, Asthmas and Wheezings, even if of several years' standing, may be completely got rid of by following the directions which accompany each box of this celebrated medicine. Many who were nearly at death's door, not being able to lie down in their beds, fearing to be choked with phlegm, have had, by their means, asthmatic complaints so effectually eradicated that not the least symptoms remained. Mr. Youatt, in one of his orations to- the members of the Veterinary College, observes—" that by the improvements in modern chemistry, the medical profession are enabled success- fully to treat diseases which were previously supposed was not within the reach of medicine." This trutfy has been manifested for many years, but in no instance of greater importance to mankind than by the discovery of Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills. THE WORCESTERSHIRE GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 137, 1 846. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION OF FIRE- DAMP AT OLDBURY. At an early hour on Tuesday morning another of these mining explosions which have of late been of such frequent occurrence and attended with such fatal results took place at Rounds' Green New Colliery, situated at Newberry Lane, near Oldburv. The facts connccted with this awful calamity may be briefly stated, and will be found afterwards more minutely detailed in the subjoined report of the proceedings at the coroner's inquest. It appears that between five and six o'clock of the morning in question some of the men at work in the mine descended into the pit. They were accompanied by the manager and the " doggy," followed by others— in all 25 men and boys. It was the business of the person employed under the manager to ascertain the state of the atmosphere ; but whether he did so or not on this occasion does not appear. A short time after the descent of the men, the manager ( Mr. Holland,) discovered that some parts of the mine were tilled with sulphur, and he cautioned his son not to proceed further in the direction in which the mine " rose." The young man, at that moment, turned into a new gate " road," apart from the infected atmosphere. In less than three minutes after- wards he was startled by the report of an explosion, which, according to his own words, deprived him of his hearing, the candle he held in his hand was extinguished, and he was left in total darkness. So powerful, too, was the effect of the vapour that he with difficulty preserved himself from suffoca- tion. After a few minutes he succeeded in groping his way to the shaft of the pit. Assistance was also rendered from the surface as speedily as possible, and on examining the mine the scene which presented itself was appalling. Bodies blackened and burnt were scattered in all directions, 16 were immediately removed up the shaft dead, three died within an hour after- wards, and another is not expected to survive. The consterna- tion which this sad accident has created in the neighbourhood it is needless to describe. Parents are left childless, and children rendered orphans. An accident so fatal as this may led to some further inquiry, as to whether the most effectual means are in existence to prevent their recurrence, and w hether those means are efficiently carried out. THE INQUEST. An inquest upon the bodies of four of the unfortunate men commenced on Wednesday, before Mr. George llinchliffe, coroner, at the Talbot Inn, Old bury. A most respectable jury was impannelled, and deep interest was excited in the proceedings. At the commencement of the inquiry, the coroner expressed the difficulty he experienced in obtaining evidence relating to the cause of the sad accident they were met to investigate. The " butty" and " doggy" were both killed. Three- and- twenty men went down the pit; of that number 19 were already dead; and, of the four surviving, one was severely burnt. The coroner, addressing the reporters of the public press, observed that, with a view to their, as well as to public con venience, he would classify the cases brought before the jury that morning. The same evidence would apply to each case; those reserved after that day's investigation would require evidence only as to personal identity. The cases he then intended to take were those of Joseph Troth, Jacob Boden, John Windmill, and Samuel Boden. The jury being sworn, proceeded to view the bodies of the four unfortunate men above named, which were scorched and dreadfully disfigured. Harriet Latimer.— I am a married woman, and live in Old- bury. I knew Joseph Troth. He was a miner and worked in Mr. Parker's pit in Newburry Lane, Oldbury. 1 saw him brought home yesterday morning. His body was dreadfully burnt. I am sure it was the body of Joseph Troth. The witness gave the same evidence with regard to the identity of and injuries to the two Bodens aud Windmill. Thomas Royle.— I live at Brown's- green, and am banksman at Mr. Parker's coal- pit at Newberry- lane, Oldbury. 1 was there when the men went down in the pit yesterday morning. The first men went down about half- past five o'clock. I was Troth, Windmill, and the two Bodens go down about six o'clock. I saw Holland, the " butty," go down the pit, but whether it was efore or after the four men named went down, I don't know. He generally went down with them ; that was his general practice. Joseph Smith was the " doggy" of the pit, and under- manager under Holland. He generally went down before Holland in the morning, and he went down before him about half- an- hour yesterday. Twenty- five men went down the pit on that occasion. Mr. Thomas Haines was the ground bailiff of the works. It was not his business to attend regularly and go down the pit. I knew nothing of the accident unt 1 after the explosion. Mr. Haines went down several times afterwards. A little before seven o'clock I heard a great noise, as if gunpowder had gone off, and the fire showed itself at the top of the pit. In consequence of seeing the flames, I made an alarm immediately, aud several men came from a stone pit adjoining. When they came we got the ropes on as soon as • we could, and some men went down; and, amongst others, I recollect the four persons respecting whom this inquiry is instituted were brought up. Some of the men who went down to assist the sufferers were brought up insensible. Sixteen men were brought up dead out of the pit; five others were seriously injured, and four escaped unhurt. Three out of the five seriously injured have died since. I can't say whether or not the " doggy" took down the safety- lamp yesterday morn- ing. Sometimes he did and sometimes he did not. There are usually safety- lamps in the pit, but sometimes they are brought out to be cleaned. By a Juror.— There were no peoplo working in the pit the night before. Sometimes they do work at night. I have not heard for the last two months of any complaints that sulphur was in the pits. The men have not, to my knowledge, within the last few months been at play on account of sulphur being in the pits. I have been banksman for eight years there. A Juryman here observed that several men had been burnt in that pit before, but it unquestionably was only liable to explosion like all other pits. John Holland.—- I am a miner, and worked in the pit at Newbury- lane. My father, Job Holland, was the butty, and lost his life by the explosion He had been manager lor the last two years. Joseph Smith was his manager or " doggy" for the last two years. About a quarter past six o'clock yester- day morning I and my father went down the pit in the same skip. Most of the men had then gone down. All the men and boys had gone down except Thomas Morris, and he being too late to go down with the others, the skip was sent up the shaft for him. The " doggy" generally goes down the pit first after the men who take care of the horses. Two men go down for that purpose. Coroner.— The questions I am about to ask are very impor- tant ; answer them carefully. Witness. — When my father and I went down, my father went into the workings and I stopped at the bottom of the shaft. In about tea minutes 1 went up the New Gate- road to put down some rails. My father afterward* came to me with his waist- coat off, ready for working. He said, " John, don't you go up the crop, for there is sulphur in it." The crop is where the mine rises. When he said that, he ( my father) went away in the directiou of the men at work in the pit. After he was gone, in about three or four minutes I heard the explosion. It took my hearing away, and I was all in darkness. I saw no rush of fire. I can give no further account, but I thought I should have been suffocated by the sulphur. The explosion blew my candle out, and I fought my way in the dark to within 15 or 20 yards of the bottom of the shaft. Thomas Morris and Thompson came up to me afterwards and told me that the skip and the lope had been blown out of the pit. The first thing I afterwards saw was a lamp brought down the drawing shaft of the pit. It was then discovered that several of the men and boys were killed, and amongst them my father, the " butty," and the " doggy," Joseph Smith. I remained in the pit until they were all taken out but two, and then I went up the shaft. Coroner Now, Holland, is the safety lamp used every morning in the pit ? Witness It is. It is the duty of the " doggy" to use it. There are two lamps in the pit; but I don't know whether the " doggy" used them yesterday morning or not. The men were at work in the pit the night before. By a Juror.— I believe the dams between the old and new works were put in properly, and perfectly safe. We never came in connection with neighbouring pits. Royle, the banksman, was here recalled, and stated that four skips of coal had been drawn up after the men went down, and before the explosion took piece. The Coroner, upon inquiry, understood that the inquest upon two of the bodies at Dudley had been adjourned, and other inquests having to be held the same afternoon at various distances, said he should adjourn the present inquiry until to- morrow. The bodies of the unfortunate sufferers lie in three counties, so that there will be three separate inquests. NEW COIN.— FIVE SOVEREIGN PIECES.— Some five sovereign pieces have lately been struck by Mr. Wyon, and though as yet but in the hands of a few of the authorities, they stand as portion of the coin of the realm ; but whether they will be called out for general use, the Government have not decided. This gold piece is considered to be the most perfect of coins. . In point of size, it bears resemblance to a crown piece, but otherwise it is much neater in detail. The obverse displays a representation of her Majesty, and the reverse the figure of her Majesty as Una, guarded by the lion ( standard of England), and holding the sceptre. It may be well, pe- haps, to inform the public, who must for some time back L ive noticed the absence of the figure of St. George from the new crown pieces, that such emblem has been entirely discontinued. SECOND EDITION. Saturday Morning, November 21. STOCKS.— Bank Stock, 236; 3 per Cent. Red. 934; 3 per Cent. Con., 94f ; New SJ per Cent., 95j ; Cons, for Acet., 91s; Long Annuities, 9j ; India Stock, — ; India Bone's, — : £ 1,000 Excueq. Bills, ll. CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY At this day's market the Wheat trade ruled very firm. English readily brought Monday's prices, and a fair extent of business wa3 " also trans- acted in free foreign, millers taking more freely of fine qualities, and for inferior an increased demand for shipment to Ireland. Bonded also in good request for France; Barley held firmly, but buyers took sparingly at previous currency. Oats slow of sale, and steady in demand ; but the same disinclination to buy Irish still exists as reported of late. In other grain there was pot much passing, but. no change of value prcceptible. SHITIIFIELD, FRIDAY.— The arrivals from abroad were .43 beasts, 1140 sheep, and 22 calves. A fair supply of sheep at Monday's currency. Very little business done in calves at late rates. The pork trade was dull, yet previous figures were well supportedBeef, 2s. 6d. to 4s. 2d. ; Mutton, 4s. 2d. to 5s. 4d. ; Veal, 3s. 8d. to 4s. 8d. ; Pork, 3s. 8d. to : 3. 8J. BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY AMENDMENT. BANKRUPTS. Samuel York, Cambridge, upholsterer. Edwin Bryant, Lime- street- square, merchant. John Varney, Clement's- inn- p; ssa>; e, grocer. Servais Jamar, Frith- street, Solio, cabinet maker. John and William Fayrer, Nutford- piace, Edgeware- road, cabinet makers. Alexauder Denholme, Queen- street, Stepney, linen- draper. • Thomas Sanderson, Leeds, coin- factor. John Anderton, Bradford, Yorkshire, stock- broker. John Bowker Dunkerley, Chorlton- upon- Medlock, Lancashire, draper. . Charles Thomas, late of Llandinam, but now of Llivior, Mont- gomeryshire, grocer. Mary Lewis Wait, late of Park- place, Clifton, Bristol, loarding- housekeeper, Richard Lea, Bewdley, Worcestershire, surgeon. William Ostler, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, grocer. George Atkinson, Bradfoid, joiner. " William Carpeudale, Kingston- upon- Hull, jeweller. """' Charles Borer, Elliott's- row, Lower- road, Islington, grocer. Charles Goodwin, Great Guildford- street, Soutlnvark, cement jBanufactnrer. Thomas Hall, Romsey Extra, Southaraptonshire, common brewer, francis Perry jun,, Austin- f: iars,| City, merchant, Proposed Deviation of the Line of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, from Warwick to Whitnash, and from Whitnash to Harbury, and Purchase of the Stratford- upon- Avon Canal Navigation. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing session for an Act to authorize the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company to abandon the formation of a portion of their railway as now authorized to be made, and to make the following new lines of railway in lieu thereof, that is to say, a railway to commence in a field situated in the parish of Saint Mary, Warwick, and numbered 5 on the plan of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, referred to in " the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Act, 1846," which plan is deposited at the office of the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Warwick, and to terminate in a field situated in the parish of Whitnash, in the same county, and numbered 24 on the said plan, and which new or substituted line of railway will pass from, in, through, or into, or be situated within the several parishes, townships, and extra- parochial or other places following, or some of them, that is to say, Saint Mary Warwick; Saint Nicholas Warwick; Milverton, Leamington- Priors, Whitnash, and RadfordSemele, in the county ot Warwick. And also a railway to commence at the northern end of a field, situated in the parish of Whitnash aforesaid, and numbered 376, on the said plan ; and to terminate in a field situated in the parish of Harbury, in the county of Warwick, and numbered 74 on the said plan ; and which last- mentioned new or substituted line of railway will pass from, in, through, or into, or be situate within the several parishes, townships, and extra- parochial or other places following, or some ol them, that is to say, Whitnash, Radford Seuiele, and Har- bury, in tlie said county of Warwick. And it is also intended, by such Act to authorize the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company to construct in, or by means of, open cutting, such portion of their railway in the parish of Harbury, in the county of Warwick, as is marked as a tunnel on the sections of the said railway referred to in " the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Act, 1846." And it is also intended, by such Act, to take power to stop up, alter, or divert, all turnpike and other roads, railways, tramways, aqueducts, canals, streams, and rivers, within or adjoining to the aforesaid parishes, townships, and extra- parochial or other places, or any of them with which it may be necessary to interfere, in the construction of the said intended works. And it is further intended, by such Act, to vary, repeal, or extinguish all existing rights or privileges, in any manner connected with the lands proposed to be purchased or taken, or which would impede or interfere with the construction, maintenance, or use of the said intended works, and to confer other rights and privileges. And it is also intended, by such Act, to take powers for the purchase of lands and houses, by compulsion, for the pur- poses thereof; and for levying tolls, rates, and duties, in respect of the use of the said intended works, and to grant such exemptions from such tolls, rates, and duties, as may be deemed expedient. And notice is hereby further given, that a map, plan, and section, shewing the direction, line, and levels of the said intended new or altered lines, and a plan and section of the said portion of railway proposed to be made by open cutting as aforesaid, together with books of reference to such plans containing the names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees, or reputed lessees, and occupiers of the lands, proposed to be taken for the purposes of the said intended works, will be deposited, for public inspection, on or before the thirtieth dav of November one thousand eight hundred and forty- six, with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Warwick, at his office in Stratford- upon- Avon; and that a copy of so much of the said plans, sections, and books of reference as relates to each of the parishes in or through which the said intended works are proposed to be made will be deposited ou or before the thirtieth day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty- six, with the parish clerk of each such parish, at his place of abode. And it is further intended, by such Act, to enable the Bir- mingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company to purchase and acquire, and al> o to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Stratford- upon Avon Canal Navigation and the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company, or one of them, to sell and transfer to, and vest in the said Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company, the Stratford- upon- Avon Canal Navigation, and other the works, lands, property, and effects connected or held or enjoyed therewith, and all or any of the powers, rights, and privileges relating thereto; and to enable the said Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company, to exercise such powers or any of them ; and also to raise funds for or towards the purchase, maintenance, and use of the said canal, navigation, and works, and if need be, to dissolve the said Company of Pro- prietors, and to vary or extinguish all rights or privileges of the shareholders, mortgagees, mortgagees of tolls, or others interested in the said catial navigation, which would or might interfere with or impede the objects aforesaid. And by the said intended Act, it is further proposed to empower the Great Western Railway Company to subscribe or contribute towards the formation of the works and com- pletion of the purchase which may be thereby authorized as well as towards the construction of the said Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, and to raise capital for the purpose. Aud it is further proposed to authorize the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company to sell or lease their undertaking, and their powers, rights, and privileges, in rela- tion thereto, to the Great Western Railway Company; and also to empower the Great Western Railway Company to purchase or rent such undertaking, and to exercise the powers of the said Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company, in relation thereto, and to raise capital for the purpose," or to authorize the amalgamation of the undertakings and capital stocks of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, and of the Great Western Railway Companies. And it is also intended for the purposes of the said intended Act, to increase the capital of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company, and to alter, amend, and enlarge the powers and provisions of " the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Act, 1846;" of " the Birmingham and Oxford Junction, ( Birmingham Extension) Railway Act, 1846;" of " the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Act, 1845;" of another Act relating to the last- mentioned Railway, passed in the last Session of Parliament, of the several Acts relating to the said Stratford- upon- Avon Canal Navigation, passed respectively in the 33rd, 35th, 39th, 49th, 55th, and 57th years of His" late Majesty King George the Third, and the 2nd year of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, and of the several Acts hereinafter mentioned relating to the Great Western Railway Company, or whereby powers are con- ferred on the said Great Western Railway Company, and which Acts are distinguished in the Que en's printer's copies thereof as follows, that is to say, the 5th and 6th William the Fourth, cap. 107; the 6tli William the Fourth, cap. 38; the 6th William the Fourth, cap. 77; the 1st Victoria, cap. 91; the 1st Victoria cap. 92; the 1st Victoria, cap. 24; the 2nd Victoria, cap. 27; the 5th Victoria, session 2nd, cap. 28; the 6th Victoria, cap. 10; the 7th Victoria, cap. 3; the 8th and 9th Victoria, cap. 40; the 8th and 9th Victoria, cap. 188 the 8th and 9th Victoria, cap. 191 ; and the 9th Victoria cap. 14. And also the Acts relating to the West London Railway which bear date as follows:— An Act of the 3rd year of the reign of his late Majesty King William the 4th, cap. 36; An Act of the 6th year of the same reign, cap. 79; An Act of the 3rd and 4th year of the reign of Her present Majesty, cap. 105; An Act of the 8th and 9th year of the same reign, cap. 156; and an Act of the 9th and 10th year of the same reign 369. Dated the seventh day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty- six. W. O. and W. HUNT, 10, Whitehall. J. W. and G. WHATELEY, Birmingham. BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND DUDLEY RAILWAY ACT ( STOURBRIDGE AND WEST BROM- WICH LINE). Proposed Railway from Stourbridge to the Birmingham Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway, in the parish of West Bromwich; additional Land at Birmingham; and power of Transfer to, or Amalgamation with the Great Western Railway Company. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the next session for an Act to alter, amend, and enlarge, the powers and provisions of " the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway Act, 1846;" and to enable the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway Company to make and maintain a railway, together with all necessary stations, erections, bridges, wharfs, warehouses, communications, and other works connected there- with, such railway to commence in the Hamlet of Amblecote in the parish of Oldswinford and in the county of Stafford in a field belonging to the trustees of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, occupied by Mr. William Foster, adjoining the Stourbridge Canal, and near to the town of Stourbridge, and to terminate by a junction with the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway, as the same is now authorized to be made, in a field, situated in the parish of West Bromwich, in the county of Stafford, numbered 20 on the plan of the last- mentioned railway, referred to in " the Birmingham, Wolver- hampton, and Dudley Railway Act, 1846," and deposited at the office of the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Stafford, which said intended railway and works will be made in, or pass from, through, or into the several parishes, town- ships, and extra- parochial or other places following, or some of them, that is to say, Oldswinford, Stourbridge, Woollescote, Upper Swinford, The Lye, Christchurch Lye, Lye Waste, Cradley, Lower Cradley, Overend, Netherend, Dudley, Dudley Wood, Halesowen, Oldbury, Worlev, Ridgeacre, Illey, Ilomsley, Hunnington, Lapal, Langley Walioxall, Worley Wigorn, Hawn, Hill, Lutley, Hasbury, and Cakemore, in the county of Worcester; and Rowley Regis, Kingswinford, Old- swinford, Amblecote, Smethwick, Harborne and vYest Brom- wich, in the county of Stafford. And also a short connecting line of railway, from and out of the said intended railway, to commence in a field, called Rush- grove, belonging to the Rev. Edward Unwin, in the occupation of Mr. Francis Tongue Rufford, situate in the township of Upper Swinford, in the parish of Old Swinford, in the county of Worcester, and to terminate by a junction with the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, as now authorized to be made, in a field situated in the township of Stourbridge, in the county of Worcester, and numbered 17 on the plan of the last- mentioned railway, referred to in the Oxford; Wor- cester, and Wolverhampton Railway Act, 1845, and deposited at the office of the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Stafford ; which said intended connecting line of railway will be made in, or pass from, through, or into the several parishes, town- » hips, and extra- parochial or other places following, or some of them, that is to say, Oldswiuford, Upper Swinford, and Stour- bridge, in the county of Worcester. And also a short connecting line of railway to commence from and out of the first- described intended railway, at a point at or near to a certain Charcoal Blacking Mill situated in Union Street, Spon Lane, in the said parish of West Brom- wich, and occupied by Mr. William Hadley, and to terminate at or near to Spon House, in the said parish of West Brom- wich, by a junction there with the Birmingham, Wolver- hampton, and Dudley Railway, as now authorized to be made; which last- described connecting line of railway and works will be made wholly in the said parish of West Bromwich, in the county of Stafford. And it is also intended to take powers by the said intended Act to make lateral deviations from the line of the said intended railways and works to the extent or within the limits defined upon the plans hereinafter mentioned. And also to enable the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway Company to purchase, by compulsion, certain houses, buildings, lands, and hereditaments adjoining to Con- stitution- hill, and lying between Henrietta- street, and North- wood- street, in the borough and parish of Birmingham, for the purpose of providing additional station- room, for the accommodation of the public. And also to cross, divert, alter, or stop up, whether tempo- rarily or permanently, all such turnpike roads, parish roads, streets, and other highways, streams, canals, sewers, pipes, navigations, bridges, railways, and tramroads, within the parishes, townships, extra parochial, and other places aforesaid, or some of them, as it may be necessary to cross, divert, alter, or stop up for the purposes of the said intended railways and works. And notice is hereby further given, that a plan of the said intended railways and works, and also a duplicate of such plan, and a section and duplicate thereof; and also a plan and duplicate plan of the lands, aud hereditaments adjoining to Constitution- hill, so intended to be taken as aforesaid, together with books of reference to such plans, and also a published map, with the line of the said intended railways, delineated thereon, will be deposited for public inspection, with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Worcester, at his office at Worcester, and with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Stafford, at his office at Stafford, and with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Warwick, at his office at Stratford- upon- Avon on or before the thirtieth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and forty- six, and on or before the same day, a copy of so much of the said plans and section as relates to each parish, in or through which the said intended railways and works are intended to be made, and within which the said lands and hereditaments are situated, together with a book of reference thereto, will be deposited with the parish clerk of each such parish, at his place of abode. And it is proposed to take powers by the said intended Act, to increase the capital of the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway Company, and for the compulsory purchase of lands and houses, and to vary or extinguish all rights and privileges in any manner connected with the lands and houses proposed to be taken for the purposes aforesaid, and also to levy tolls, rates, or duties upon or in respect of the said intended railways and works, and to alter existing tolls, rates, or duties, and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from the payment of tolls, rates, and duties, and other rights and privileges. And it is also proposed to empower by the said intended Act the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway Com- pany to lease, sell, or transfer their undertaking, or any part of the same, or the tolls thereof, to the Great Western Railway Company, and to delegate to the said last- mentioned company the execution of all, or any of the powers now vested in the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway Company, or to be vested in them by the said intended Act, and to authorize the Great Western Railway Company, to take shares in, and subscribe for, or towards the making, main- taining, working, and using the undertaking of the Birming- ham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway Company, or any part thereof, or to purchase, take on lease, rent, work, or construct the same, or any part of the same, and to take tolls and duties upon, or in respect thereof, or to guarantee to the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway Company, such interest or profit upon their outlay as may be agreed upon, or to authorize the amalgamation of the Birmingham, Wol- verhampton, and Dudley Railway Company, and the capital stock thereof, with the Great Western Railway Company, and the capital stock thereof, and to enable the Great Western Rail- way Company to raise money by shares, mortgage, or otherwise, for the purposes aforesaid, or some of them. And for carrying into effect all or any of the above objects it is intended to apply for powers to alter, amend, extend, and enlarge the pro- visions of the several Acts hereinafter mentioned relating to the Great Western Railway Company, and to the several railways forming part of the undertaking of that Company, and which Acts are distinguished in the Queen's printer's copies thereof, as follows, that is to say, the 5th and 6th William the Fourth, cap. 107; the 6th William the Fourth, cap. 38 ; the 6th William the Fourth, cap. 77; the 1st Victoria, cap. 91 ; the Ist Victoria, cap. 92 ; the 1st Victoria, cap. 24; the 2d Victoria, cap. 27; the 5th Victoria, sess. 2, cap. 28; the 6th Victoria, cap. 10; the 7th Victoria, cap. 3 ; the 8th and 9th Victoria, cap. 40 ; the 8th and 9th Victoria, cap. 188; the Bth and 9th Victoria, cap. 191; and the 9th Victoria, cap. 14. And also the Acts relating to the West London Railway which bear date as follows, An Act of the 3d year of the reign of his late Majesty King William the 4th cap. 36; An Act of the 6th year of the same reign cap. 79; An Act of the 3d and 4th year of the reign of her present Majesty cap. 105 ; An Act of the 8th and 9th year of the same reign cap. 156; And an Act of the 9th and 10th year of the same reign cap. 369. Dated this 7th day of November 1846. W. O. and W. HUNT, 10, Whitehall. J. W. and G. WHATELEY, Birmingham. BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION, AND BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND DUDLEY RAILWAYS AMALGAMA- TION. Proposed Amalgamation of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction, and Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway Companifs, with power of Transfer to, or Amalgamation with, the Great Western Railway Company. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing session, for an Act to consolidate and to amend, and enlarge the powers and provisions of an Act, passed in the last session of Parliament, called " The Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Act, 1846;" also of an Act, passed in the same session of Parliament, called " The Birmingham and Oxford Junction ( Birmingham Extension) Railway Act, 1846;" and also of another Act, passed in the same session, called " The Birming- ham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway Act, 1846 ;" and to authorise the union and consolidation, into one undertaking, of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway, and any railways or other works which may be authorized to be carried info effect by the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company, and the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway Company, or either of them, by any Act or Acts to be passed in the next session of Parliament, and to authorize the union and consolidation of the respective capitals, stocks, shares, property, and effects, of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company, and the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway Company, and to vest in one company the said railways and works respectively, and all the capital stock, shares, property, and effects, and all the powers and privileges now vested in the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company, and the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway Company respectively, or either of thfcm, or which may be vested in them, or either of them, by any Act or Acts to be passed in the next session of Parliament, and to authorize the incorporation of a new company, to be formed of the last mentioned two companies. And it is further proposed, by the said intended Act, to enable the Company, so intended to be incorporated, to levy tolls, rates, and duties upon, or in respect of, the said Railways and Works ; and it is also proposed, by the said intended Act, to alter the tolls, rates, or duties now authorized to be demanded and taken upon the Birmingham and Oxford Junc- tion Railway, and the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway, and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from the payment of such tolls, rates, or duties, and other rights and privileges. And it is also proposed, by the said intended Act, to empower the company, so intended to be thereby incorporated, to lea> e, sell, or transfer the before mentioned railways and works authorized, or to be authorized, as aforesaid, or any part of the same, or the tolls thereof, to the Great Western Railway Company; and also to enable the Great Western Railway Company to purchase or rent the same, and to carry into execution all or any of such powers of the several Acts relating to the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, and the Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley- Railway, and of any Act or Acts to be passed in the next session of Parlia- ment relative thereto, as may become vested in the company so to be incorporated; and to raise additional capital for the purposes aforesaid, or to become holders of shares or capital stock, in such undertaking, or to authorise the amalgamation of the said united company, and the capital stock thereof, with the Great Western Railway Company, and the capital stock thereof. And, for carrying into effect all or any of the above objects, it is intended to alter, amend, extend, and enlarge the powers and provisions of the several Act* hereinafter mentioned, re) at » ingto the Great Western Railway Company, or whereby powers are conferred on the Great Western Railway Company, and which Acts are distinguished in the Queen's printers' copies thereof, as follows, that is to say, the 5th and 6th William the Fourth, cap. 107, the 6th William the Fourth, cap. 38, the 6th William the Fourth, cap. 77, the 1st Victoria, cap. 91, the 1st Victoria, cap. 92, the Ist Victoria, cap. 24, the 2d Victoria, cap 27, the 5th Victoria, sess. 2, cap. 28, the 6th Victoria, cap. 10, the 7th Victoria, cap. 3, the 8th and 9th Victoria, cap. 40, the 8th and 9th Victoria, cap. 138, the 8th aud 9th Victoria, cap. 191, and the 9th Victoria, cap. 14. And also the Acts relating to the West London Railway, which bear date as follows : An Act of the third year of the Reign of iiis late Majesty King William the Fourth, chapter 30 ; An Act of the sixth year of the same Reign, chapter 79 ; An Act oft. be third and fourth year of the Reign of her present Majesty, chapter 105; An Act of the eighth and ninth year of the same Reign, chapter 156; And an Act of the ninth and tenth year of the same Reign, chapter 369. Dated this 7th day of November, 1846. W. O. and W. HUNT, 10, Whitehall. J. W. aud G. WHATELEY, Birmingham. BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY. ( WARWICK AND STRATFORD LINE.) Proposed Railway, from the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, at Warwick, to Stratford- upon- Avon, with powers of Sale or Lease to, or Amalgama- tion with, the Great Western Railway Company. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing session, tor an Act, to authorize the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company to make and maintain a railway with all proper works, approaches, and conveniences connected there- with, commencing from and out of the line of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, nz the same is now authorized to be made, in a field, situated in the parish of Saint Mary Warwick, and numbered 5, on the plan of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway referred to in the Act relating thereto, and deposited at the otBce of the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Warwick, and terminating by a junction with the Stratford- upon- Avon Branch of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, as the same is now authorized to be made, in a field, situated in the parish of Old Stratford, in the county of Warwick, and numbered 31 on the plan of the said last mentioned branch railway referred to in the Act relating thereto, and deposited at the office of the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Warwick, which intended railway, and other works connected therewith, will pass from, in, through, or into, or be situate within the several parishes, townships, and extra- parochial or other places following, or some of them, that is to say, Saint Mary Warwick, Budbrook, Longbridge, Hampton. on* the- Hill, Sherbourne, Fulbroke, Barford, Hampton Lucy, Charlecote, Wasperton, Alveston, Tiddington, Snitterfield, Old Stratford, Borough of Stratford- upon- Avon, Bishopton, Shottery, Clopton, and Welcombe, in the county of Warwick. And it is also intended, by such Act, to take power to alter or divert all turnpike and other roads, railways, tramways, streets, aqueducts, canals, streams, and rivers, within or adjoining to the aforesaid parishes, townships, and extra- parochial or other places, or any of them, with which it may be necessary to interfere in the construction of the said intended railway and works. And it is further intended, by such Act, to vary, repeal, or extinguish all existing rights or privileges in any manner con- nected with the lands proposed to be purchased or taken, or which would impede or interfere with the construction, main- tenance, or use of the said intended railway and works, and to confer other right3 and privileges. And notice is hereby further given, that a map, plan, and section, shewing the direction, line, and levels of the said intended railway and works, together with a book of reference to such plan, containing the names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of the lands proposed to be taken for the purposes afoiesaid, will be deposited, for public inspection, on or before the thirtieth day of November 1846, with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Warwick, at his office, in Stratford- upon- Avon; and that a copy of so much of the said plan, section, and book of reference, as relates to each of the parishes in or through which the said intended railway and works are intended to be made, will be deposited, on or before the said thirtieth day of November, with the parish clerk of each such parish, at his residence. And it is also intended, by such Act, to take powers for the purchase of lands and houses, by compulsion or agreement, for the purposes thereof, and for levying tolls, rates, and duties in respect of the use of the said intended railway and works, and to grant such exemptions from such tolls, rates, and duties as may be deemed expedient; and by the sjid intended Act, it is further proposed to empower the Great Western Railway Company to subscribe or contribute towards the formation of the works which may be thereby authorized, as well as to the construction of the said Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, and to raise capital for the purpose ; and it is further proposed to authorise the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company to sell or lease the undertaking which they are or may be authorized to carry into effect, and their powers, rights, and privileges in relation thereto, to the Great Western Railway Company ; and also to empower the Great Western Railway Company to purchase or rent such undertaking, and to exercise the powers of the said Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company in relation thsreto, and to raise capital for the purpose, or to authorise the amalgamation of the undertakings, and capital stocks of the said two companies ; and for the purpose of the said intended Act, it is intended to increase the capital of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company, and to alter, amend, extend, and enlarge the powers and provisions of " the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Act, 1846," and " the Birmingham and Oxford Junction ( Birmingham Extension) Railway Act, 1846," and the several Acts, hereinafter mentioned, relating to the Great Western Railway Company, or whereby powers are conferred on the said Great Western Railway Company, and which Acts are distinguished in the Queen's printer's copies thereof, as follows, that is to say, the 5th and 6th William the Fourth, cap. 107, the 6th William the Fourth, cap. 38, the 6th William the Fourth, cap. 77, the 1st Victoria, cap. 91, the 1st Victoria, cap. 92, the 1st Victoria, cap. 24, the 2nd Victoria, cap. 27, the 5th Victoria, session 2, cap. 28, the 6th Victoria, cap. 10, the 7th Victoria, cap. 3, the 8th and 9th Victoria, cap 40, the 8th aud 9th Victoria, cap, 188, the 8th and 9th Victoria, cap. 191, and the 9th Victoria, cap. 14. And also the Acts relating to the West London Railway, which bear date as follows: An Act of the 3d year of the Reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, cap. 30; An Act of the 6th year of the same Reign, cap. 79; An Act of the 3d and 4th year of the Reign of her present Majesty, cap. 105 ; An Act of the 8th and 9th year of the same Reign, cap. 156; And an Act of the 9: h and 10th year of the same Reign, cap. 369. Dated the 7th day of November, 1846. W. O. and W. HUNT, 10, Whitehall, J. W. and G. WHATELEY, Birmingham. LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. Lease and Pui chase of the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, and the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the next session, for an Act to enable the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal Company, and the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway Company, respectively, to demise or lease for any term or number of years, and also to sell, dispose of, and absolutely make over to the London and North Western Railway Corn- piny, and to enable the said London and North Western Railway Company to accept a lease of, and to purchase and take the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, and the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway, or either of them, and any branch, extension, or other railways or works belonging to, or which may be authorized to be carried into effect by the said companies, respectively, by any Act or Acts already passed, or to be passed in the next Session of Parliament, and all the property and effects of, and all powers, rights, and privileges belonging to, or hereafter to belong, to the said Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal Company, and to the said Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway Company respec- tively, and to have, use, exercise, and enjoy, all such powers, rights, and privileges, and to disincorporate'the said last- men- tioned companies respectively, or either of them, and to amalgamate the said companies, and each or either of them, with and into the said London and North Western Railway Company, and to enable the said London and North Western Railway Company, and the said other companies respectively, or some of them, to amalgamate and consolidate themselves ( with and subject to all the rights, powers, privileges, liabilities, engagements, undertakings, property, and effects of the same companies respectively) into one company to be incorporated for that purpose. And it is proposed by the said Act to obtain power to alter, vary, and regulate the rates, tolls, and duties, at present demandable or receivable, for the use of the said several rail- ways and canal respectively, and to enable the said amalga- mated company, or the said new company, so to be incoporated to levy and receive the same, or other tolls, rates, or duties in or upon, or in respect of the said several railways and canal, or the said consolidated undertaking respectively, and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from payment of tolls, rates, or duties, and other rights and privileges, and to extend and make, applicable to the said amalgamated companies, or the said new company, and to all the property, works, matters, and things belonging thereto, or connected therewith respectively, all or some of the powers and provisions of the several Acts herein- after mentioned relating to the said several companies respec- tively, and also to obtain such other powers and authorities as may be requisite or expedient for better effecting the several purposes aforesaid. And it is also intended by the said Act to obtain powers to enable the said London and'North Western Railway Company, and the said amalgamated companies, or the said new company, to raise money by the creation of new or additional shares in the said London and North Western Railway Company, or in the said amalgamated companies, or in the said new company, or by mortgage, or otherwise, as well for adjusting and equal- izing and effecting the arrangements or otherwise, for the purposes of the said amalgamation or consolidation, as also for the general purposes of the said amalgamated companies, or of the said new company, and also to convert the capital and shares of the said amalgamated companies, or of the said new company, or any part or parts thereof into stock. And it is intended by such Act to enable the said several companies, or any of them, to enter into such mutual arrange- ments as may be necessary or expedient, for carrying out the objects aforesaid, or any of them, and also to carry into effect, and confirm any agreements or arrangements made, or here- after to be made between the said several companies, or any of them, for or in respect of the traffic passing, or which may pass on the lines or works of such several companies, or any or either of them, and with respect to the use and occupation of such railways and canal respectively, or any of them, or to the passage of traffic to, from, and along the same, or any of them, and to the tolls, rates, and duties payable in respect thereof. And it is intended by the said Act, to alter, amend, extend, and enlarge some of the powers and provisions of the Hudders- field and Manchester Railway and Canal Act, 1845, the Hud- dersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal ( Huddersfield Diversion and Cooper Bridge Branch) Act, 1846. The Hud- dersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal ( Oldham Branch) Act, 1846. The Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway Act, 1845, and the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester ( Devia- tions and Branches) Railway Act, 1846; and also of an Act passed in the session held in the 9th and 10th years of the reign of her present Majesty, intitutled, an Act to consolidate the London and Birmingham Grand Junction and Manchester and Birmingham Railway Companies; and also the several Acts relating to the said London and Birmingham Grand Junction and Manchester and Birmingham Railways, or the London and North Western Railway, or some of them, that is to say, local and personal Act 8th and 9th Victoria, cap. 156, and local and personal Acts 9th and 10th Victoria, cap. 67, 80, 82, 152, 182, 184,193, 231, 232, 233, 244, 248, 261, 269, 309, 328, 331, 359, 366,369, and 39o. ' Dated this seventh day of November, 1846. WORTHINGTON, EARLE, and BERRY, Manchester. BROOK and FREEMAN, Huddersfield. ATKINSON, DIBB, and BOLLAND, Leeds. E. L. IIESP, Huddersfield. SLATER and HEELIS, Manchester. LONDON AND NORTH- WESTERN RAILWAY. ( Lease and Purchase of the Huddersfield and Man- chester Railway and Canal.) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is intended to be made to Parliament, in the next session, for an Act " o enable the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal Company, to demise or lease for any term or number of years, u>. d also to sell, dispose of, and absolutely make over to the London and North- Western Railway Company, atia to enable the said London and North- Western Railway Company to accept a lease of, and to purchase and take the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, and any Branch, Exten- sion, or other Railways or Works belonging to, or which may be authorized to be carried into effect by the said Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal Company, by any Act or Acts already passed, or to be passed in the next session of Parliament, and all the property and effects of, and all powers, rights, and privileges belonging to, or hereafter to belong to the said company, and to have, use, exercise, and enjoy all such powers, rights, and privileges, and to disincorporate the said last- mentioned Cownany, and to amalgamate the said Company with and into the said London and North- Western Railway Company, and to enable the said London and North- Western Railway Company, and the said Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal Company respectively to amal- gamate and consolidate themselves with and subject to all the rights, powers, privileges, liabilities, engagements, undertak- ings, property, and effects of the same Companies respectively into one Company, to be incorporated for that purpose. And it is proposed by the said Act to obtain power to alter, vary, and regulate the rates, tolls, and duties at present demandable or receivable for the use of the said several Rail- ways and Canal respectively, and to enable the said amalga- mated Company, or the said new Company, so to be incorpo- rated, to levy and receive the same, or other tolls, rates, or duties, in or upon, or in respect of the said several Railways and Canal, or the said consolidated undertaking respectively, and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from payment of tolls, rates, or duties, and other rights and privileges, and to extend and make applicable to the said amalgamated Company, or the said new Company, and to all the property, works, matters, and things belonging thereto, or connected therewith respectively, all or some of the powers and provisions of the several Acts hereinafter mentioned relating to the said Com- panies respectively, and also to obtain such other powers and authorities as may be requisite or expedient for better effecting the several purposes aforesaid. And it is also intended by the said Act to obtain powers to enable the said London and North- Western Railway Company, and the said amalgamated Company, or the said new Company, to raise money by the creation of new or additional shares in the said London and North- Western Railway Company, or in the said amalgamated Company, or in the said new Company, or by mortgage, or otherwise, as well for adjusting and equaliz- ing and effecting the arrangements, or otherwise for the pur- poses of the said amalgamation or consolidation, as also for the general purposes of the said amalgamated Company, or of the said new Company, and also to convert the capital and shares of the said amalgamated Company, or of the said new Com- pany, or any part or parts thereof into stock. And it is intended by such Act to enable the said Companies respectively, to enter into such mutual arrangements as may be necessary or expedient for carrying out the objects afore- said, or any of them, and also to carry into effect and confirm any agreements or arrangements made, or hereafter to be made, between the said Companies, for or in respect of the traffic passing, or which may pass, on the lines or works of such Companies, or either of them, and with respect to the use and occupation of such Railways and Canal respectively, or any of them, or to the passage of traffic to, from, and along the same, or any of them, and to the tolls, rates, and duties payable in respect thereof. And it is intended by the said Act to alter, amend, extend, and enlarge some of the powers and provisions of the Hudders- field and Manchester Railway and Canal Act 1845, the Hud- dersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal ( Huddersfield diversion and Cooper Bridge Branch) Act 1846, and the Hud- dersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal ( Oldham Branch) Act 1846, and also of an Act passed in the session held in the 9th and 10th years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled, an Act to consolidate the London and Birmingham Grand Junction and Manchester and Birmingham Railway Com- panies, and also the several Acts relating to the said London and Birmingham Grand Junction and Manchester and Bir- mingham Railways, or the London and North- Western Rail- way, or some of them, that is to say, local and personal Act 8th and 9th Victoria, cap. 156, and local and personal Acts 9th and 10th Victoria, cap 67, 80, 82, 152, 182, 184, 193, 231, 232, 233, 244, 248, 261, 269, 309, 328, 331, 359, 368, 369, and 396. Dated this 7th day of November, 1846. WORTHINGTON, EARLE, & BERRY, Manchester. BROOK & FREEMAN, Huddersfield. SLATER & HEELIS, Manchester. LONDON AND NORTH - WESTERN RAILWAY. ( Lease and Purchase of the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway.) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the next session, for an Act to enable " The Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway Company to demise or lease for any term or number of years, and also to sell, dispose of, and absolutely make over to the London and North Western Railway Company, and to enable the said London and North Western Railway Company to accept a lease of and to purchase and take the Leeds, Dews- bury, and Manchester Railway, and any branch, extension, or other Railvt ays or Works belonging to, or which may be authorised to be carried into effect by the said Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway Company, by any Act or Acts already passed or to be passed in the next session of Parliament, and all the property and effects of, and all powers, rights, and privi- leges, belonging to or hereafter to belong to the said Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway Company, and to have use, exercise, and enjoy all such powers, rights, and privileges, and to disincorporate the said last- mentioned Company, and to amalgamate the said Company with and into the said London and North Western Railway Company, and to enable the said London and North Western Railway Company and the said Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway Company to amal- gamate and consolidate themselves with and subject to all the rights, powers, privileges, liabilities, engagements, undertak- ings, property and effects of the same Companies respectively, into one Company, to be incorporated for that purpose. And it is proposed by the said Act to obtain power to alter, vary, and regulate the rates, tolls, and duties at present demandable or receivable for the use of the said several Railways respectively, and to enable the said amalgamated Company, or the said new Company, so to be incorporated, to levy and receive the same, or other tolls, rates, or duties, in or upon or in respect of the said several Railways, or the said consolidated undertaking respectively, and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from payment of tolls, rates, or duties, and other rights and privileges4 and to extend and make applicable to the said amalgamated Company, or the said new Company, and to all the property, works, matters, and things belonging thereto, or connected therewith respectively, all or some of the powers and provisions of the several acts hereinafter mentioned, relating to the said Companies respectively, and also to obtain such other powers and authorities as may be requisite or expedient for better effecting the several purposes aforesaid. And it is also intended by the said Act to obtain powers to enable the said London and North Western Railway Company and the said Amalgamated Company, or the said new Company to raise money by the creation of new or additional shares in the said London and North Western Railway Company, or in the said Amalgamated Company, or in the said new Company, or by Mortgage or otherwise, as well for adjusting and equal- izing and effecting the arrangements or otherwise, for the purpose of the said amalgamation or consolidation, as also for the general purposes of the said Amalgamated Company, or j of the said new Company, and also to convert the capital and j shares of the said Amalgamated Company, or of the said new Company, or any part or parts thereof into stock. I And it is intended by such Act, to enable the said Com- ! panies respectively, to enter into such mutual arrangements as : may be necessary or expedient for carrying out the objects aforesaid, or any of them ; and also to carry into effect, and confirm any agreements or arrangements made, or hereafter to be made between the said Companies, for or in respect of the traffic passing, or which may pass on the lines or works of such Companies, or either of them, and with respect to the use and occupation of such Railways respectively, or any of them, or to the passage of traffic to, from, and along the same, or any of them, and to the tolls, rates, and duties, payable in respect thereof. And it is intended by the said Act to alter, amend, extend, and enlarge some of the powers and provisions of the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway Act, 1845, and the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Deviations and Branches Railway Act, 1846 ; and also of an Act passed in the Session held in the ninth and tenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled " An Act to consolidate the London and Birmingham, Grand Junction, and Manchester and Birmingham Railway Companies; and also the several acts relating to the said London and Birmingham Grand Junction and Manchester and Birmingham Railways, or the London and North Western Railway, or some of them, that is to say, local and personal Act 8th and 9th Victoria, cap. 156, and local and personal Acts 9th and 10th Victoria, cap. 67, 80, 82, 152, 182, 184, 193, 231, 232,233,244,248,261,269, 309, 328, 331, 359, 368, 369, and 396. Dated this 7th day of November, 1846. ATKINSON, DIBB, and BOLLAND, Leeds. E. L- HESP, Huddersfield. SLATER and HEELIS, Manchester. LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Purchase of the Earl of Ellesmere's Interest in the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the next session, for an Act to enable the Right Honourable Francis Egerton,^ Earl of Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley, or other the persorfF or persons who, during the life or after the death of the said Earl may be possessed for the time being, by operation of law, or by bequest of the share or interest of the said Earl, in the capital ot the said Manchester, South Junction, and Altrincham Railway Company, to sell and transfer to the London and North Western Railway Company all or any part or parts of the estate, share or shares, and interest of the said Earl, or such other person or persons as aforesaid, in the said Manchester, South Junction, and Altrincham Railway, and all or any of the rights, powers, and privileges vested in the said Earl by " the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway Act 1845." And to enable the said London and North Western Railway Company to purchase all or any such estate, share or shares, an interest, and to use and exercise such rights, powers, and privileges, in the same mariner as the same are now held, used, and exercised by the said Earl, or in such other manner as parliament may sanction. And notice is hereby further given, that for the purposes aforesaid, it is proposed by the said intended Act to authorise the said London and North Western Railway Company to raise a further sum of money, and also to alter, amend, and enlarge some of the powers and provisions of " the Manchester, South Junction, and Altrincham Railway Act, 1845;" also of an Act passed in the session held in the 9th and 10th years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled u An Act to consoli- date the London and Birmingham, Grand Junction, and Man- chester and Birmingham Railway Companies;" and also the several Acts relating to the said London and Birmingham, Grand Junction, and Manchester and Birmingham Railways, or the London and North Western Railway, or some of them, that is to say, local and personal Act 8th and 9th Victoria, cap. 156, and local and personal Acts 9th and 10th Victoria, cap. 67, 80, 82, 152, 182, 184, 193, 231, 232, 233, 244, 248, 261, 269. 309, 328, 331, 359, 368, 369, and 396. Dated this fifth day of November, 1846. SLATER & HEELIS, Solicitors. PUBLIC BAKERY. By permission of the Worshipful the Mayor, APUBLIC MEETING will be held in the GUILD- HALL, Worcester, on MONDAY next, the 23rd day of NOVEMBER inst., at One o'Clock P. M., to explain the principles of the intended Bakery at Kempsey, and to consider the propriety of its being a Public one. Millers, Bakers, and all Persons interested, are particularly requested to attend. Worcester, 17th Nov., 1846. WORCESTERSHIRE HUNT. DINNER TO THE HON. DUDLEY WARD. THE GENTLEMEN connected with the WOR- CESTERSHIRE HUNT have invited the HON. DUDLEY WARD, the new Master of the Hounds, to DINE with them, at the STAR AND GARTER HOTEL, at Six o'Clock on MONDAY, the 30th November. The RIGHT HON. LORD LYTTELTON, the Lord Lieutenant, has kindly volunteered to take the Chair, and SIR WILLIAM SMITH, Bart., and J. It. COOKES, ESQ., will officiate as Vice- Presidents. Gentlemen desirous of participating in this mark of respect are requested to send their Names as early as possible to Mr. Chamberlain, at the Star. Worcester, Nov. 13th, 1846. 03- A FIXTURE, near the CITY, will be named for the following day Genteel HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, comprisiny lofty Mahogany Four- post and other Bedsteads, with Moreen Hangings; excellent Feather Beds and Bed- ding, Horse Hair Mattresses, Scroll- frame Dressing Glasses, Mahogany Chests of Drawers and Ward- robe, Easy Chairs, Mahogany Cheffioneer, Centre and other Tables, a superb PIEIl GLASS, in costly frame ; Brussels and other CARPETS, capital Eight- day Clock, in Mahogany Case; Wardrobe of BED arid TABLE LINEN; handsome Dinner Service, neat China and rich Cut Glass, Plated Goods, a very interesting and clever Portrait, by SIR THOMAS LA WRENCE, at the age of 13; a few fine Prints; a small selection of Books, and other Effects, at RONKSWOOD COTTAGE, near Worcester; TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY HOBBS & SON, ON the Premises, on THURSDAY and FRIDAY the 26th and 27th days of November, at ten for eleven o'clock precisely, by direction of the Administratrix of HENRY CLIFTON, Esq., deceased. KEMPSEY. VALUABLE COPYHOLD ESTATE. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY W. HIGGS, { Unless previously disposed of by Private Contract, of which due notice will be given,) On Wednesday, the 25th day of November, 1846, at the Unicorn Inn, Broad Street, Worcester, at four o'clock in the evening, in one or more Lots, as may be agreed upon at the time of sale, and subject to conditions to be then produced; ALL that verv ELIGIBLE ESTATE, situate at HATFIELD, partly in the Hamlet of NORTON JUXTA KEMPSEY, and partly the Parish of KEMPSEY. in the County of Worcester, comprising a substantial- built and convenient FARM HOUSE of recent erection, with Barn, Stable, Cider House, Piggeries, Cow- shed, Fold Yard, and Appurtenances; together with 45A. OR. 32P., ( more or less,) of very fertile ARABLE and MEADOW LAND, divided into convenient Enclosures, and in a good state of cultivation : also, FOUR COTTAGES, under Two Roofs, and GAR- DENS, containing 1 Rood and 38 Perches, ( more or less) the whole forming a most compact and desirable Estate. The Homestead and Lands are now occupied by Miss Susan Griffiths; and the Cottages, by Widow Checketts, James Dabis, Thomas Church, and — Foster. The situation of the Property is very pleasant, the Neigh- bourhood respectable, and the distance from Worcester three and a half miles. It is Copyhold, under the Lord Bishop of Worcester, for Four good Lives, subject to a moderate Chief Rent and Land- tax. To view the Estate, apply on the Premises; and for further particulars, to Messrs. Higgins and Chamberlain, Solicitors, Ledbury; John Parker, Esq., Solicitor, or the Auctioneer, both of Worcester. OLD VICTORIA HOUSE, FOREGATE STREET, WORCESTER. CONTINUATION OF CHINA & GLASS SALE, BY J. MATTHEWS. rTAHE Public are respectfully informed that the 1 above SALE BY AUCTION will be continued EVERY EVENING, at Six o'clock, as usual, until the whole extensive and very useful Stock is disposed of. The remaining Stock consists of upwards of Thirty Dinner Services, in rich Ironstone China, Earthenware, & c., and an immense number of Dessert, Tea, and Breakfast Services, Toilet Sets, & c., well worthy the attention of intending pur- chasers, & c. N. B.— J. M. begs to acquaint those Families who cannot conveniently attend the Evening Sales, that they may be accomodated by PRIVATE CONTRACT each day, from Eleven o'Clock in the Morning until Four o'clock in the Afternoon. HEREFORDSHIRE. OAK, ASH, ELM, & POPLAR TIMBER AND COPPICING, Growing on the HOPE- END ESTATE, near Ledbury, on WOEFIELDS ESTATE, Coddington, on the GRANGE ESTATE, Bosbury, and on the UPPER and LOWER COURT ESTATES, Munsley; FOR SALE BY AUCTION, BY ROBERT JONES, At the Royal Oak Inn, Ledbury, on Thursday, the 26th of November, 1846, at four o'clock in the afternoon precisely, in the following Lots, and subject to conditions then to be produced :— LOT 1. rpiIIRTY excellent ASH TREES, numbered JL with Red Paint consecutively 1 to 30, growing in two Meadows, called The Birches and Great Road Gate, near Hope- end Lodge. LOT 2— EIGHTEEN ditto ASH TREES, also numbered 1 to 18, growing in a Meadow called Gay Piece, adjoining the Turnpike Road, and near to Lot 1. LOT 3. - THIRTY- FOUR prime ASH TREES, also num- bered 1 to 34, and 1 BIRCH, numbered 1, growing in Hope- end Upper Park. LOT 4.— TWELVE ditto ASH TREES, also numbered 1 to 12, growing on two pieces of Land called Preece's and Cavington, adjoining the Road leading from Petty France to Hope- end Farm. LOT 5— FIFTY- FOUR ASH TREES and POLES, also numbered 1 to 54, growing near the School, and on Hope- end Farm. LOT 6.— TWENTY OAK TREES, also numbered 1 to 20, commencing No. 1 in the Gay Piece and ending No. 20 in Preece's aforesaid. LOT 7-— TWENTY- THREE OAK TREES, also num- bered 1 to 23, growing on Hope- end Farm. LOT 8.— The FALL AGE of a parcel of COPPICE WOOD, about Three- quarters of an Acre, adjoining the Road, near Petty France, consisting of excellent Ash and other Poles of good growth; Stores marked with Red Paint. LOT 9.— EIGHTEEN ELM TREES, numbered with Red Paint consecutively 1 to 18, growing on Woefiejds Estate, near the Road leading from the Homestead to the Blacksmith's Shop. LOT 10.— SIXTEEN ELM TREES, also numbered 1 to 16, on the said Estate, growing at the top of and near to the Coppice at Field Gate Field. LOT II.— SIX ASH and ONE POPLAR TREE, also numbered i to 7, growing near the last two Lots. LOT 12— THIRTY- FIVE CAPITAL OAK TREES, also numbered 1 to 35, growing on the said Estate, in the Shop Field and on Lands adjoining. LOT 13.— THIRTY- SIX OAK TREES, also numbered 1 to 36, growing on the said Estate, in the Meadow near the Homestead, and on other Lands. LOT 14— TWENTY- SEVEN OAK TREES, also num- bered 1 to 27, and ONE ASH TREE, numbered 1, growing on the lower part of the said Estate, near to Scotland. LOT 15.— FORTY- SIX POPLAR TREES and POLES, numbered with Red Paint consecutively 1 to 46 on the Grange Estate, together with FIFTY- SIX DITTO POLES, growing in two small Coppices. LOT 16.— The FALLAGE of a parcel of COPPICE WOOD, about Half- an- Acre, on the said Estate, consisting of Ash and Alder Hop- poles, 2 small Oak and 2 Ash Trees. LOT 17— THIRTY ELM TREES, numbered with Red Paint consecutively 1 to 30, growing on Munsley Lower Court Estate. LOT 18.— THIRTY- TWO ELM TREES, also numbered 1 to 32, growing on the Upper and Lower Court Estates, Munsley. This Timber is of a useful description, sound, and good quality. The greater part of the Ash is of large dimensions, and very fine; also part of the Elm, and many of the Oaks, are of large dimensions, fit for Naval or other first- rate purposes, is very advantageously situate for conversion and delivery, being on good Roads, and the main part of it within two miles of the Hereford and Gloucester Canal. 03* Mr. William Kendrick, the occupier, will, on application, show the Lots on Woefields; Mr. John Acton, the occupier, will show the Lots on the Grange; Mr. Thomas Gibbs, at Munsley Lower Court, will show the Elm there, and James Lewis, the Woodward, at Sidings, near Hope- end, will show the first 8 Lots, of whom particulars may be known, or of the Auctioneer, Ledbury. WORCESTER SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. TT1HE Committee of the above Society respectfully J. inform the Subscribers and the Public, that the Fourth and last CONCERT of the present Season will take place at the Large Room of the CITY and COUNTY LIBRARY, PIERPOINT- STREET. on THURSDAY, the 3rd day of DECEMBER, 1846, when will be performed HANDEL'S sublime ORATORIO OF SAUL. The Band and Chorus will number nearly One Hundred Performers. Leader of tl, e Band Mr. J. H. D'EGVILLE. Piano- Forte Mr. J. BOULCOTT. Assistant Organist of Worcester Cathedral, Conductor Mr. DONE, Organist of the Cathedral. ",* Tickets of Admission, 2s. 6d- each, to be had at Mr. Stratford's, Mrs. Deighton's, and Mr. Marsden's Libraries; and of Leicester and Sons. THEATRE - ROYAL, WORCESTER. FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY. HENRY RUSSELL, FROM AMERICA, Composer of Woodman, spare that Tree— The Ivy Green— The Old Ann Chair— The Maniac— I'm Afloat— The Ship on Fire— Some love to Roam— The Gambler's Wife, <$ c., WILL HAVE THE HONOUR OF GIVING HIS V O C A L ENTE R TAINMEN T, Interspersed with Anecdotes illustrative of Negro Life and Character, on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, at the THEATRE, Mil. RUSSELL will introduce a selection of his latest Compositions, including Lord Byron's celebrated Poem, MAZEPPA,— THERE'S A GOOD TIME COMING, BOYS,— I'M AFLOAT,— THE PAUPER'S DRIVE,— THE DREAM OK THE REVELLER,— LITTLE FOOLS AND GREAT ONES,— THE LIFE BOAT, — THE WIFE'S DREAM,— THE IDIOT BOY, — THE OLD CHURCH BELL,— THE MAIN TRUCK,— THE LIFE BOAT THE BOATMEN OF THE OHIO. Together with his celebrated Scenas of THE MANIAC,— THE SHIP ON FIRE,— THE GAMBLER'S WIFE, & c. Programmes and Tickets may be obtained at Stratford's Library, of Mrs. Deighton, and at the Door. Doors open at Half- past Seven ; Concert to commence at Eight precisely. Books of the Words, Gd. each. BOXES, 2s. 6d.; PIT, Is. ; GALLERY, 6d. CHARITY FOR THE RELIEF OF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF CLERGYMEN IN THE ARCHDEACONRY OF WORCESTER. THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of ( he SUBSCRIBERS to this CHARITY will be held at the GUILDHALL, in the City of WORCESTER, on MONDAY,,, the 7th of DECEMBER next. The RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE will take the Chair at TWO o'Clock. ALLEN WHEELER, Treasurer of the ( hirity. Worcester, November 18th, 1845. THE WORCESTERSHIRE GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1846. STOCKS.— At 2o'el. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red Ann. 3 per Cent Cons Cons, for Account.... 3j perCent. 1818 .... 3 per Cent. Red New 3J per Cent 3 per Cent. 1826 Bank Long Ann India Stock India Bonds Excheq. Bills FRI. 201 I 94| 94 I SAT. 93J 94 § 94£ MON. 2051 931 91* TL'ES. 2051 931 91J m WED. 931 91 § 94J THURS 206 931 94 J 94| 95 § 95J 95| 95' 95| 951 91 257 9S 255 9J 257 95 18 P 9 P 95 11 P 10 P 12 P 11 P 11 P FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1846. LAST NVORDS OF LORD RUSSEL ON THE SCAFFOLD. "/ did believe, and do still, that Popery is breaking in upon " this nation, and those who advance it will stop at nothing " to carry on their designs; and I am heartily sorry that " so many Protestants give their helping hand to it." WE have been favoured with a copy of the Report of the Committee to the Members of the Health of Towns Association, on Lord LINCOLN'S Sewerage and Drainage Bill, which, as our readers may probably remember, was last Session abandoned by its noble parent. The report before us is a pamphlet of some 120 or 130 pages in length ; and as we have only had time briefly to glance over its contents, we cannot do more with it, at present than direct attention to one or two of its salient points ; and one of the first points which strikes us, in the cursory view we have been enabled to take of the report, is the somewhat singular fact that the first portion of the pamphlet appears to have been prepared for publication before the abandonment of Lord LINCOLN'S Bill; for the second section of the report assumes that this bill con- tains the expression of the matured opinion of the Government as to the remedies which it deems expedient to propose to the legislature for the removal or mitigation of existing evils in the sanatory condition of the people. It is also evident from the extravagant and unmerited eulogies lavished in the 14th section upon Sir James GRAHAM, that this portion of the report was prepared during the ascendancy of Sir Robert PEEL'S administra- tion ; whilst, towards the end of the pamphlet, we are informed, or led to infer, that the present Government contemplate the introduction of a large and efficient sanatory measure, of which Lord LINCOLN'S Bill will probably be taken as the basis. There is here a want of perspicuity of arrangement, and a degree of confusion, which at the first blush - tend to mystify the reader, and to distract his attention from the more immediate and import- ant object of the report: this want of clearness, however, does not affect the vital importance of the subject. The report enters at some length upon an examination of Lord LINCOLN'S Bill, candidly admitting its merits, and forcibly pointing out its defects; one of the chief of which is its proposal to give the superintendence of the Act to the Home Secretary, for whose time there is an incessant and importunate demand, and who is always completely overwhelmed with business. The Marquis of NORMANBY, in his place in the House of Lords, in July, 1844, stated his opinion that " some central super- intending authority will have to be created, referring, if necessary, to the executive government, but having the same sort of powers with reference to local bodies intrusted with the execution of the details of these measures ( hat the Poor- Law Commissioners have with the Boards of Guardians." Undoubtedly some central supervising authority will be required; but we think the noble Marquis's illustration singularly ill- chosen and infelicitous; for of all the public authorities established in this realm the Poor- Law Commissioners are unquestionably the most unpopular, being looked upon throughout the country with a feeling of distrust and dislike amounting almost to detestation. The report before us suggests, in pre- ference to the plan either of Lord LINCOLN or Lord NORMANBY, that the whole superintending auihority should be placed in the Privy Council, because the Privy Council might delegate one or more of their body to pay special, constant, and public attention to the matter. We have not space to foliosv the report through the various topics connected with sanatory improvement, such as sewerage, the supply of water, the noxious effect of cesspools, ventilation, the removal of nuisances, the injurious operation of the window duties, & c.; but we shall have future opportunities of considering all these questions separately, as the whole question will doubt- less form the subject of a comprehensive Bill in the next session of Parliament. Meantime we close our present notice with an extract, from the report, of the opinion of the Committee with regard to the merits and defects of Lord LINCOLN'S Bill:— From the best attention then which your Committee have been able to give this subject, they are of opinion that the sound provisions of this bill are the following :— 1. The general enactment, that the supply of water, the sewerage, the drainage, the cleansing, and the paving of towns, including the suburbs, shall all be placed under one and the same authority ( § 5): < 1. The appointment of a Government Inspector ( Ibid.): 3. The appointment of an Inspector of Nuisances: 4. The appointment of Local Boards of Commissioners for carrying out the provisions of the Act in their respective districts ( Ibid.) • 5. The preparation or the local examination of surveys, plans, and esiimates, by competent and responsible officers, before any works are undertaken ( Ibid.): 6. The publication of these surveys, plans, and estimate?, with expository reports for local distribution, in order that the proposed works may be thoroughly canvassed by ail parties interested in them before they are commenced ( Ibid.): 7. The execution and maintenance of all works by contract; the performance of the contracts to be supervised by paid and responsible local officers ( Ibid.) : 8. The appointment in districts of medical officers of health. The errors and defects of the bill appear to your Committee to be:— 1. The limitation of the Act to England and Wales, to the exclusion of the metropolis even of England, and to the total exclusion of Ireland and Scotland, without providing for the immediate preparation of a survey and plan of the metropolis, and a report as to the special measures applicable to the metropolis, to Ireland, and to Scotland ( § 8 et seq): 2. The omission to create a central superintending authority in subordination to the executive government, invested with the same sort of powers with reference to the local boards intrusted with the execution of the details of the Act, that the Poor Law Commissioners have with the Boards of Guardians ; instead of this, giving the entire superintend- ence of the Act to the Secretary of State for the Home Department ( § 12 et seq.) : 3. The omission to take adequate powers for compelling the Boards of Local Commissioners duly to execute the Act ( 17): 4. The creation of a new, complex, and needless machinery for electing Boards of Commissioners, instead of adopting the mode of electing Boards of Guardians now in use througiiout the Poor Law Unions, which is found in practice to work perfectly well ( 19) : 5. Investing the Boards of Commissioners with powers to execute works, instead of renderiug their functions entirely and strictly ministerial and supervising, and neglecting positively to restrict by an express enactment their duties to acts of this class ( 20 et seq.— 31 et seq.): 6. The omission to prohibit by a sufficiently stringent enact- ment Boards of Commissioners from commencing any works without having caused plans and estimates to be prepared by their own surveyor, and without having obtained for these plans and estimates the sanction of the Inspector ( 30 el seq.) 7. The omission to secure by sufficiently stringent enactments that all works whatsoever shall be executed only by con- tract upon open tenders, aud shall be maintained in repair for terms of years ( 37 et seq.) ; and that the contractor shall be bound to undertake any extraordinary works at a fixed remuneration ( 4l) : 8. The omission to provide facilities for the formation of public companies for carrying out by contract the provi- sions of the Act ( 42 et seq') 9. The omission to make sufficient provision for raising the necessary capital for the execution of large sanatory improvements; namely, by loan raised on the security of a special rate to be levied on the properties in the several localities, the principal and interest to be repaid by annual instalments within a limited number of years ( 44 et seq.) : 10. Fixing the cost on owners, whereas it ought to be placed on occupiers ( 51 et seq.) : 11. Neglecting to provide in the manner above recommended, that the expense remain a charge upon the several pro- perties, unless the owners prefer to pay the cost in the first instance ( 45 et seq.) : 12. Neglecting to make it compulsory on water companies to give the public a constant instead of an intermittent supply, and to deliver it in all cases at as high a pressure as is practicable ( 56 et seq.) : 13. Neglecting to make it compulsory on water companies either to filter the water or to provide a sufficient area of depositing bed ( 80 ct seq.): 14. The omission absolutely to forbid the construction of cesspools in all new dwellings, and to provide for the compulsory removal of all existing cesspools as soon as the general introduction of sewers and drains, combined with an adequate supply of water, shall have rendered the universal adoption of the water closet apparatus practicable ( 83 et seq.): ;| 5. Neglecting the entire subject of ventilation, one of funda- mental imporlance in a sanatory measure ( 89 etseq.): 16. The omission to give adequate powers to the Com- missioners to remove, under the direction of the Inspector and the District Officer of Health, any house or houses which may be so situated as to render a street a cul- de- sac, preventing the possibility of a current of air passing through it; and, the further omission to give power to the same authorities to raise money for opening thoroughfares, and for the construction and maintenance of public walks ( 101). 17. The omission to provide for the removal of nuisance^ arising from manufactories in towns and populous districts ( 105) : 18. The omission to provide for the removal of the smoke nuisance ( 107 et seq.) : 19. Neglecting in reference to the medical officer of health to make provision for the performance of his primary and essential duties; namely, the verification of the fact as well as of the cause of death, the correct registration of both, and the personal examination on the spot of the sanatory circumstances under which death takes place ( 118 et seq.): 20. The omission to make any modification iti the mode of assessment of the window- duties, though a principle of assessment has been pointed out by the adoption of which the revenue need lose nothing, while great facilities would be afforded for the better construction of dwelling- houses, and for the freer admission to them of light and air ( 151 et seq.) : If the provisious enumerated § 168, are passed into a law, and if the errors and omissions pointed out § 169, are corrected and supplied, this Act will, in the opinion of your Committee, form one of the most comprehensive, efficient, and beneficent statutes ever enacted by any legislature in any age or country. Its direct effect will be the renovation of the physical strength and vigour of the people, and an augmentation of their means of subsistence, first, by increasing aud sus: aining their working power, and secondly, by diminishing the sum at present ex- pended on sickness, orphanage, and premature decrepitude; and ultimately, a large addition to their longevity: while indirectly but not less certainly it will promote their intellectual, moral, and social improvement. Your Committee, therefore, earnestly request the attention of the members of the Association and of the public generally to the facts and conclusions now stated, and they respectfully submit them to the consideration of the Government and of the Legislature. In connection with the foregoing subject is a matter which at the present moment is exciting considerable interest and some uneasiness in this city : we allude to the intentions of the promoters of some of the new lines of railway intended to be brought into this city, to carry their lines ever a portion of the Pitchcroft property. Now, we have learned to look upon Pitchcroft Ham as the natural park and play- ground of Worcester— a place of recreation for rich and for poor— in fact, the " lungs," as our contemporaries have denominated it, of" the faithful city." One of the most pleasing sights which our city affoids is the spectacle presented on this common arena on a bright summer or autumnal evening, when the hours of business ( which, as regards many of the middle and working classes have been latterly curtailed,) have drawn to a close, is the congregation of hundreds of the youth and manhood of Worcester for recreation upon Pitchcroft Ham. To have this fair spot, the arena of all our manly and athletic sports, converted into a depot for hissing and fuming steam- engines, or cut up and dis- figured by mounds of naked soil, and lines of railway, would, we think, be one of the direst afflctions which could visit us, and this we are sure must be the feeling of a large majority of our fellow citizens. This subject was incidentally alluded to on Monday last, at the adjourned meeting of the Worcester Town Council, when Mr. Aldeinian CHALK obtained an order instructing the Town Clerk to write to the solicitors of the Railway Companies which propose to apply in the next Session of Parliament for acts to bring new lines of railway into this city, requesting to be furnished with copies of their maps and plans, in order to ascertain in what way the proposed lines would pass through Worces- ter, with the view of co- operating with the companies if their plans were unobjectionable, and of opposing them if otherwise. Should it be found on examination that either of the proposed new lines is intended to cut up Pitchcroft, or to cross Foregate Street, ( as is alleged) in an unseemly manner, the projectors may safety calculate upon the opposition of the city of Worcester to their schemes. For, while it is undoubtedly the interest of all parties to encourage as much as possible all projects for increasing our present scanty means of railway transit at the same time the destruction of our fairest streets, or above all, of our public places of recreation should, and we are sure would, be strenuously opposed by every citizen of Worcester. PUBLIC BATHS AND WASH- HOUSES.— Our Town Council report ( p. 4) contains a resolution adopted by that body, for carrying into operation, as regards this city, the Act of last Session, for the establishment of public baths and wash- houses. The subject is one of vital importance, and we sincerely trust that the hope expressed at the meeting, that the matter would be followed up with perseverance, will not be disappointed- We have frequently expressed our anxiety on this subject, and our conviction of its importance, as affecting the public health and public morals, and we now add here a schedule attached to the new Act, by which the charges to be made are to be regulated we do this to show that the benefits to be conferred will be within the reach of all except the totally destitute:— " Baths for the labouring classes, supplied with clean water for every bather, or for several children bathing together:—- For one person above eight years old, including the use of one clean towel, cold bath one penny; warm bath twopence. " For several children, not exceeding four, including the use of one clean towel for every child; cold bath twopence ; warm bath fourpence. " Wash- houses for the labouring classes, supplied with con- veniences for washing and drying clothes and other articles :— For the use by one person of one washing- tub or trough, or one pair of washing- tubs or troughs, for one hour only iti any one day, one penny , for two consecutive hours only in any one day, threepence. Such charges to include the use of the drying apparatus for drying all the articles washed. The time occupied in drying not to be included in the hour or two hours. A fraction of an hour, exceeding five minutes, to be reckoned one hour. " Open bathing places, where several persons bathe in the same water; for one person, one half- penny." THE COURT.— On Wednesday her Majesty and the Court left Windsor for the Isle of Wight. Tiie Queen was accompanied by the Prince Consort and the Royal children. It is supposed that the Court will not be absent from Windsor'Castle more than a fortnight or three weeks, three or four days of which will be occupied by the intended Royal visit to Arundel Castle. In the future progresses of her Majesty from Windsor Castle to Slough, en route to London by the Great Western Railway, her Majesty intends to dispense with the usual military escort. The planting of several thousands of trees, consisting of oak, elm, and chesnut, will shortly take place upon the grounds around Osborne House, and at Barton, under the immediate superintendence of her Majesty and Prince Albert. The Queen has, on the nomination of Lord Foley, appointed George Kitson, Esq., one of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, vice Piatt, retired.— Gazette. A Cabinet Council was held on Monday afternoon at the Foreign Office. The Ministers present were, Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir Morpeth B. Macaulav, and the Marquis of Clanricarde. The Lord Chancellor subsequently joined his colleagues. The Council sat two hours. Lord Ward has arrived at Mivart's Hotel, from Witley Court. The Noble Lord has deferred his departure for the continent for a brief period, but his stud is about to leave for Rome, and his Lordship will pass the winter either at Rome or Naples . The Earl of Liverpool has arrived at Pitchford Hall, Shropshire, from Buxted Park. The Earl of Ellenborough has been entertaining a succession of visitors, at Southam House. The Hon. R. H. and Lady Harriet Clive and Misses Clive have arrived at Oakley Park, from Alnwick Castle. Major- General Brotherton, it is understood, will be the Inspector- General of Cavalry, in the room of Lieutenant- General Lygon. Among the arrivals during the week at Cheltenham, we notice the names of the Hon. J. Coventry and the Hon. and Rev. T. Coventry. PREFERMENTS.— The Rev. J. G. Watts, M. A., Curate of Ledbury, has been presented by the Dean and Chapter of Hereford," to the Vicarage of Shinfield and Swallowfield, in the county of Berks.— The Rev. Edward George Child, B. A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Cleobury Mortimer, Salop. Patron, W. L. Childe, Esq.— Value, £ 448. ST. GEORGE'S SUNDAY SCHOOLS.— On Sunday last two sermons were preached in St. George's Church, in the morning by the Rev. B. Davies, minister of that church, and in the evening by the Rev. B. Williams, chaplain to the Watermen's Church, and perpetual curate of Bispham, Lancashire, when the sum of £ 32 was collected on behalf of the Sunday and daily schools belonging to the above church. CLERGYMEN'S WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' CHARITY.— It will be seen by notice in our advertising columns that the annual meeting of subscribers to the charity for the relief of Widows and Orphans of Clergymen in the archdeaconry of Worcester will be held at the Guildhall, in this city, on Monday, the 7th Dec. next. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Worcester will take the chair. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.— We understand that the annual meeting of the Worcester Diocesan Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge will be held after the Clergymen's Widows' and Orphans' meeting as above. W. H. Cooke, Esq., Barrister- at- law, of the Oxford Circuit, was appointed by the Very Rev. the Dean and Canons of Hereford Cathedral, at their audit on Thursday last, to the office of Counsellor to the Church, in the room of the late Sir Charles Wetherell. THE SEVERN FISHERIES A very large quantity of salmon have been seen on their way up the Severn and Teme to the spawning grounds in the higher portions of the rivers, and the weir at Powick has again been the scene of fruitless endeavours on the part of this fine fish to make head against a serious obstacle to their progress. fc'The officers of the Fisheries' Association connected with this and the adjoining counties have, as usual, been actively on the look out to guard the teeming fish from the attacks of the poacher and illegal fisherman. The fishermen of the Severn, however, appear to have entirely suspended operations, and to have become convinced of the necessity of leaving the salmon undisturbed at this critical period. We are glad to hear that an appeal is now being made by the Association to the wealthier inhabitants in the neighbour- hood of the putt fisheries between Gloucester aud Bristol for pecuniary assistance; and if those gentlemen will only consider for a moment the numerous advantages which that district will reap from a due protection of the river, we should think they would not hesitate to afford it. It may be of service to the cause for us to repeat that any information having reference to illegal fishing, or the possession of salmon during fence time, should be given to Mr. H. George, secretary of the Association, at the Guildhall, or Mr, Read, conservator, Sidbury, Worcester. We find the following interesting intelligence with reference to the state of the Severn about Shrewsbury, in Eddowes, ( Salopian) Journal of last week:—" The favourable appear- ance our river presents at present, as regards the increase of its fish, is most gratifying. Salmon are constantly seen leaping, both above and below the town. The next season promises to be a most abundant harvest, both to the fisher- men and the public generally. Great praise is due to those parties of the Association who have taken an active part in prosecuting so laudable an object, and preserving our noble stream from lawless depredations. It is not the salmon alone that have increased, but every other kind that the Severn produces. There are few streams in the United Kingdom that furnish so abundantly the varieties of excellent fish that are good for food, and also affording diversion to the angler. It is a matter of great surprise that a river like this should have remained so many years without protection, even as a matter of public economy ; but we are happy to say that under its present management it is again returning to its original abundant condition. The grayling, in par- ticular, as well as the salmon, are very much upon the increase, and many a good dish of that queen of fresh- water fish lias rewarded the experienced angler during the past season. If the Association continue their exertions a little longer, this river will ( as a grayling stream) be second to none in the kingdom, and will be the means of bringing numbers from a distance to the town, for the purpose of angling, to the great benefit of its inhabitants at large." The Shrewsbury Fisheries Association held its annual meeting yesterday week. The sub- committee in making their third annual report, state that—" The reports from all quarters of the increase of fish of all descriptions are most satisfactory. The take of salmon, considering the shortness of nets and other absurd restrictions under the present laws, has been greater than ill the previous years, especially towards the latter end of the season, when an unusually large run was observed, and the river, consequently, is now amply stocked with breeding fish, probably to a greater extent than has been known in modern times." With reference to the failure of the Salmon Fisheries Bill, the report has the following :—" The sub committee regret to announce the withdrawal of the new bill for the regulation of the fisheries, in the late session of Parliament, in consequence of disagree- ment respecting certain clauses affecting putts and traps, but they have pleasure in stating that the central committee at Worcester are determined to persevere in their efforts to obtain it in the forthcoming session; and from the interest which appears to be springing up in all classes of the com- munity throughout the kingdom for so desirable an object as that of placing all rivers under proper regulations, ( the extra- ordinary good effects of which are so prominently visible in the Scotch fisheries,) there can be no doubt but that the measure will ultimately be carried, probably in a better and more practical form, from the experience and information which time has afforded." We need scarcely remind our readers that the cause of the withdrawal of this bill was the fact of Lord Clive insisting upon the insertion of a clause which would stultify its whole effect by legalizing the worst practices. The real cause of the withdrawal of the bill seems either to be misunderstood or misrepresented by the Shrewsbury sub committee. THE NEW MAYOR.— On Sunday last ( being the first Sunday after election), in conformity with one of those ancient customs which have been handed down to us from time immemorial, the newly elected Mayor of the " faithful city" attended Divine service at the Cathedral, accompanied by the Aldermen and Councillors, and other officers of the Corporation. Mr. Elgie issued invitations not only to the Corporation but to a large number of his private friends, to breakfast with him at the Guildhall, and thence to accom- pany him in procession to the Cathedral. At the time appointed about seventy gentlemen arrived at the Guildhall, and after paying their respects to the Mayor, sat down to a most elegant and costly repast, provided in the usual style of that excellent cuisinier, Hambler. The chaplain was the Rev. John Garvey, Vicar of Hough- on- the- Hill, Lincolnshire, who said grace; and after breakfast had been concluded, the body corporate and guests united and walked in pro- cession, headed by the usual insignia, to the Cathedral, where they were met by the Dean and the other authorities, who accompanied them up to the choir. The services of the day were read by the Rev. R. Seymour, Rector of Kinwarton, and Honorary Canon of the Cathedral. The ser mon was preached by Canon Wood, from John 5, 44—" How can ye believe which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh alone." At the close of the service the Corporation and other friends of the Mayor returned in the same order to the Guildhall. It was remarked thas there was a larger attendance of scarlet gowns on Sunday than had ever been observed to assemble together on such occasions. CHARITY TRUSTEES.— At a meeting of the Trustees of the Worcester Charities, held at the Guildhall, yesterday, J. Williams, Esq., in the chair, the tenders of Mr. Saunders aud Mr. Wallers, for making 66 coats, to be given on Saint Thomas's- day, from Nash's aud Thorpe's charities, were accepted. The sum of £ 20. 5s. 6d. was voted to the church- wardens of the city parishes, in the usual proportions, for the purchase of bread to be given to the poor on Saint Thomas's- day. The sum of £ 21 ( maiden money) was voted to be distributed in tickets of 2s. each on St. Thomas's- day. The sum of £ 25 was also voted to be distributed in like manner on St. Thomas's- day, and the sum of £ 76 ( audit money) was voted to be distributed in like manner on the same day. It was ordered that no person receive more than one ticket from the aggregate of the above charities, and that persons qualified for coats must be 50 years of age, and not pensionersj paupers, nor iumates of almshouses. HARMONIC SOCIETY'S CONCERT.— We have just received the announcement of the fourth concert, ( the last for the present season) to be given by this Society, at the City and County Hall on Thursday, the 3rd December next, which will be found in our advertising columns. We have only space this week to call the attention of our musical readers to the arrangement. MR. RUSSELL'S ENTERTAINMENT.— It will be seen by announcement in our advertising columns, that Mr. Henry Russell is about to pay another visit to this city for one night only ( Wednesday, Dec. 2), when he will again introduce to a Worcester audience a selection of his latest compositions. We are sure, from the delight expressed by the audience on Mr. Russell's former visit to Worcester, that he may again calculate ou a crowded house. The entertainment will be given at the Theatre. Mr. Henry Gardiner Hood has been promoted from the Forth, W. I. R. M. S. ship, to the Teviot, Captain Boxer. His appointment went out by the Severn on the I7tli, to join his ship at St. Thomas, West Indies. HIUH SHERIFF OF WORCESTERSHIRE.— In our list of the persons nominated for Sheriffs given last week, we stated that the gentlemen nominated for this county were " Edward Gresley, of Chambers Court, Esq.," and three others. This should have been " Edward Gresley, Stone." The error arose from a mistake made in the transcription of the names into the Times, from which we extracted our list. We regret to say that our venerable and excellent neighbour, Sir Anthony Lechmere, Bart., has been lately suffering so severely from indisposition as to excite much anxiety amongst those around him for the result. Mr. John Stallard, Solicitor, has been appointed Under Sheriff for this city for the ensuing year. DEATH OF MR. NICHOLSON.— We stated in our last that Mr. Nicholson, solicitor, late of this city, but recently employed in the office of Mr. Hair, attorney, of Kidder- minster, had met with his death by falling from his horse near Dudley. An inquest has been held on the body before W. Robinson, Esq., Coroner, when from the evidence adduced it appeared that death had been caused by con- cussion of the brain from the fall. It appeared that Mr. Nicholson had been attending a sale at Dudley Wood, and there became much intoxicated, which was the cause of his falling from his horse. He was picked up by Daniel Baker, a constable, who took him to his own house, but thinking his insensibility arose entirely from intoxication, he did not procure any surgical assistance. Mr. Fisher, surgeon, was, however, called in shortly before he died, and in his evidence before the Coroner lie stated that if he had been called in earlier he could not have saved the life of the deceased. DEATH OF MR. ALSAGER, THE OFFICIAL ASSIGNEE.— This gentleman expired on Sunday, after a few days' illness. An inquest was held upon the body on Monday morning, iu consequence of reports in circulation, at the deceased's resi- dence, Queen- square, Bloomsbury, when the Jury returned a verd ct" that lie had died of wounds inflicted upon his throat by liis own hand, but in what state of mind he was in at the lime there is no evidence before the Jury." PUBLIC BAKERY.— It will be seen by an advertisement in another column, that a public meeting, by permission of the Mayor, will be held in the Guildhall on Monday next, at which the subject of a public bakery, as propounded by Mr. Pratt, whose scheme and plans we have before noticed, will be discussed. Mr. Pratt will attend and explain his peculiar machinery, as well as his process and system of bread- making. PERSHORE BACHELORS' BALL.— The gallant bachelors of Pershore are again on the qui vive, and preparations are already talked of for another reunion intended to come up to, if not to surpass, all the former doings of the gallants of Pershore and the country round. The time and place of meeting are Dec. 3, at the Three Tuns Hotel, as usual. Wednesday's papers thus announce the affair :—" The well- known liberality displayed on former occasions will be fully borne out this year. Preparations are being made on a most splendid scale, including all the delicacies of the season, with a profusion of that exhilarating beverage Champagne— indeed a rich treat is in store for those who are fortunate enough to receive invites." UPTON BALL.— We understand that the Upton- on- Severn Annual Ball is intended to be held in the Christmas week, under the usual distinguished patronage. acta! ilailtuap EuteiUgence. There has been a good share of business done in railway shares during the past week, and the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton's have advanced from last week's quotations at 5- dis. to 3|. The following are last night's quotations in London, of shares iu local undertakings :—• Share j £, 100 25 20 50 20 100 50 25 20 20 Stock Aver. 40 Stock 20 20 50 25 25 20 50 20 Railways. Birmingham and Dudley .... Birmingham and Gloucester.. Do. New ( issued 7| dis.) Birmingham and Oxford June. Bristol aud Gloucester Buckinghamshire Great Western Do. Half Shares Do. Quarter Shares Do. Fifths Leicester and Birmingham .. London and North Western.. London and South Western.. Manchester and Birmingham. Midland North Staffordshire Northampton, Ban. and Chel. Ox., Wor., & Wolverhampton Shrew., Wolv., & S. Staf. Juu. Shrewsbury and Birmingham Shropshire Union South Wales Welsh Midland. Paid. Closing Prices. Business Done. £. 42s. 6 pm 6 pm 100 128 — 130 171 30 — 32 2 6 — 61 pm 91 30 20 — 22 pm 42s. — a ths 85 51 — 54 pm 135 50 28 — 30 pm 79 10 9 — 10 pm! 181 20 U — 12 pm 100 196 — 198 197 41.6.10 68 — 651 40 74 — 76 100 127 42s, - Si 3j pm 2 j — 1 dis m — 31 dis 85 n 3 15 pm 4f 42s. 1 _ 5 dis a dis 5 — 1$ dis 4 21 13 — lj dis A large number of the notices of application to Parliament for next session will be for extensions of railway accommo- dation already existing, Of the notices published for this district, three only will affect this city directly ; these are the following propositions :— 1. The Worcester and Hereford line with branches to Cheltenham, & c., promoted by the Midland Company. 2. The Shropshire Union Company's line from Shrewsbury to this city, and 3. The revived Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow scheme of last session. The Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Company's proposed extensions are for making a line from Stourbridge to Dudley and Halesowen, diverging therefrom to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway ; and also a devia- tion and extension at Wolverhampton. The same Company proposes lines from Cheltenham to Evesham, and to a point on the Stratford- on- Avon branch of the main line. In the same locality will run the Rugby and Leamington line, iu connection with the London and North- Western Company. The Birmingham aud Oxford Junction Company propose to make a branch from their line at Warwick, and termiuate by a junction with the Stratford- upon- Avon branch of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway; also to make sundry deviations. The Birmingham, Wolverham pton, and Dudley Company propose further accommodation for that portion of the district; for it is contemplated to make a line from the hamlet of Amblecote, in the parish of Old Swinford, near Stourbridge, to Westbromwich, and also a short line from Rushgrove in Upper Swinford, to a terminus in connection with the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line; aud also a line from Spon Lane, Westbromwich, to Spon House, where it is to terminate by another junction. This line is to be amalgamated with the Birmingham and Oxford Junction, and both are to be transferred to the Great Western. A great number of extensions are proposed for the Stafford- shire and Shropshire district, which will doubtless in a very few years be completely cut up with railways, for the purpose of creating a speedy means of transit for the vast and im- portant mineral stores of that part of the country. We should observe here that there are proposed to be four branches to the line from Shrewsbury to Worcester, viz., to the Shrews- bury and Birmingham Railway, at Coaibrookdale, to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway, in the parish of Madeley, to Kidderminster, and to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, at Worcester, the latter being merely a short branch to form a junction between the two lines. ACCIDENT AT THE RAILWAY WORKS.— On Monday last, as one of the men engaged on the works of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, near this city, was driving a horse at the " tip," he caught his foot in the rail, and before he could extricate it the waggons came down and smashed his foot and heel. He was taken ot the Infirmary. DUDLEY PETTY SESSIONS.— On Tuesday last the following cases were heard before C. Cartwright, C. H. Molineux, and J. Roberts, Esqrs-:— George Morgan was charged by George Whitehouse with stealing a bull- dog from him. Fined 5s., with £ 2., the value of the dog, and 14s. 6: 1. costs; or to be committed for two months.— Robert Hill was fined £ 5, or two months' imprisonment, for an assault upon Mr. Charles Fleetwood Hewett.— Eliza Mason was fined 2s. 6d. and costs, or 21 days' imprisonment, for assaulting Maria Whitmore, on the7th November.— J. Brooks was charged by Joseph Woodhall with leaving his employ without giving 14 days' notice, in accordance with an agreement. Committed for one month's hard labour. BROMYARD PETTY SESSIONS.— At a Petty Sessions held at Bromyard on Monday last, Magistrates present— John Freeman ( Chairman) and William Barneby, Esqrs., the Revds. T. E. M. Holland, W. B. Kempson, and W. Cooke, the following cases were adjudicated:— James Smith appeared to answer the complaint of Ann Chandler, both of Sheep- street, Bromyard, for having, on the 11th instant, assaulted her by throwing stones and clods at her, and for abusing her. Fined 2s. 6d., with 8s. 6d. costs; allowed a week to pay, or fourteen days' confinement.— Mr. Morris, of Newbury, was summoned by the parish officers of the above parish for neglecting or refusing to pay £ 7. 4s. for poor- rates. The whole of the defendants effects being in the hands of the Sheriff, the case was adjourned till that day three weeks.— Nathaniel and Thirza Colhent, two children, appeared iu answer to a summons for having taken six turnips from a field, the property of Mr. Mytton. The Chairman reprimanded them, and discharged them on paying 7s. 6d. costs. COST OF THE LATE EVESHAM ELECTION.— It is ascer- tained that the visit of Lord Marcus Hill to Evesham, in July last, and his consequent return, including fees and all other expenses, did not exceed £ 58. How TO WALK THE STREETS.— At the late Plymouth Sessions, the Mayor alluded to the very awkward mode of walking in the streets pursued by the good people of the town and neighbourhood of Plymouth. His worship said that if foot passengers were always to keep their right hand to the wall, as was done in London and other places, there would be no difficulty in getting along the streets, but as it was, persons were frequently put to the greatest inconvenience by the clumsiness and awkwardness of others. To prevent the occurrence of this— keep your own side— your right hand to the wall. [ It would be a very great accommodation to pedestrians in the streets of Worcester if a rule similar to that adopted in London, Birmingham, and some other large towns for walking the streets could be here acted upon. It is notorious to all who have the misfor- tune to pass through our streets on a market day, that the greatest annoyances are experienced by the rude jostling of persons who persist in rolling about the pavement as though they were in the middle of a common, and utterly regardless of the convenience of other persons either male or female. On market days, and at certain periods of each day, when people are more numerous in our streets than at others, it is a common thing to see ladies jostled into the kennel for want of a decent respect for the common courtesies of civilized life. We have alluded to this subject on a former occasion : could nut the Mayor issue a recom- mendation to the citizens to keep always to their right in walking the streets ?] ATTORNEYS.— In the Bail Court on Tuesday no less than 69 gentlemen took the oaths, on their admission to practice as attorneys. At the annual distribution of prizes at Queen's College, Birmingham, Mr. George Dunn, son of Mr. Dunn, of Led- bury, received the second prize, and an honorary certificate for proficiency in Materia Medica and Therapeutics. THE WEATHER.— After an unusually long succession of easterly winds for this season of the year, and which seemed to have the peculiar property of engendering a general influenza, the weather broke up on Wednesday, and yesterday we had a sharp thunder storm which lasted about half an hour. The electric discharges appeared to be in our immediate vicinity. The storm of yesterday has been followed by a violent hurricane to- day which has lashed the Severn into an unwonted state of agitation so far inland. After this we may look for some frost. The recent interregnum of dry weather afforded an excellent time for sowing grain, and the farmers have, con- sequently, been very busy. We are happy to announce that C. N. Nevvdegate, Esq., M. P., is very nearly recovered from the effects of his late accident. A ROMANCE.— A Colonel of Dragoons is on friendly relations with a family in the neighbourhood of his quarters. In the interchange of civilities an orderly is often employed. The orderly, being a fine- looking soldier, finds favour in the eyes of the fair daughter of the house, as he gallops up to the door each day. Stolen glances are exchanged. The young lady now herself brings down the answers to the notes, messages, & c. Little conversations ensue— the con- versations lead to interviews— interviews to confessions and vows— and the confessions and vows to elopement and marriage. The Colonel is astonished— the parents storm— and the orderly- corporal is deprived of his " stripes" for prolonged absence. Denouement.— The orderly appears in his real character; he is the son of a gentleman of high respectability in England ; the young couple will be possessed of a competency— a commission is to be procured for the soldier- husband— parents are reconciled— all parties are pleased— and true love is rewarded! Our readers will wonder why we have been giving these extracts from the note- book of some writer of vaudeville or comedietta; but, unless we are misinformed, the play has recently been acted in real life— the scene, Edinburgh ; and the time, October, 1846.— Editiburgh Journal. SMUGGLING.— A sailor was on Monday fined at the Police- court, Liverpool, in the mitigated penalty of £ 25 for smuggling two gallons of whiskey on board of one of the Dublin government mail steam ships. The full penalty is £ 100. STATE OF TRADE.— MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.— We have no improvement in this market. The demand for both cloth and yarn remains very limited; and what sales are effected are at lower aud unsettled rates. The advices, per Cambria, lead to the conclusion that cotton must decline. The weather had been highly favourable for picking. In the Savannah the yield would be the finest and largest ever known. CITY POLICE. GUILDHALL, SATURDAY, NOV. 14. James Downes was committed for trial for stealing three pheasants, the property of Mr. Banks, High Street, under circumstances detailed in another part of this paper. THE HOP STEALING CASE.— John Farr, who has been several times remanded, was again brought up for re- exami- nation. There was no further evidence against him, and he was committed to take his trial for receiving the property, knowing it to have been stolen.— Mr. Rea applied to put in bail on behalf of the prisoner. The Magistrates agreed, and the prisoner was at once admitted to bail. Henry Bishop, remanded from Thursday, in last week, was charged with stealing part of a copper tea urn, and other articles, the property of Edwin Sprague, blacksmith, of St. John's. The prisoner had been in the employ of Mr. Sprague, and had sold the articles to Mrs. Ottey, in Powick- lane, a dealer in marine stores.— Committed for trial. Walter Corbett, who had been remanded on a charge of absconding from the wrorkhouse, and taking with him a pair of shoes, which he had disposed of, was committed for two calendar months' hard labour under the Workhouse Act. MONDAY. The Magistrates' Office this morning presented the unusual appearance of not a single case for adjudication. WEDNESDAY. STEALING A PIGEON. — A respectable- looking artisan named Coninsby Harwood, was brought up on a remand, charged by John King, copper- plate printer, with stealing from his house at Catherine Place, in the London Road, a tumbler pigeon, on the night of Sunday last. The evidence against Harwood was that King had seen him ( though by a somewhat questionable light) " on the tiles " of the out- house over which the pigeon, with several others was cooped on the night in question; also that he had previously wished to purchase the pigeon from King. He was discharged. THURSDAY. SMASHING.— An athletic looking man, giving his name as Joseph Beech, apparently about 50 years of age, but who stated himself to be 72, was charged with uttering a counterfeit half- crown, at the Falcon Inn, in Broad- street, about half- past six o'clock on Wednesday evening. Elizabeth Hubbard, who is servant at the Falcon, deposed that the prisoner came into the Falcon between six and seven on last Wednesday night, and called for half- a- quartern of gin, which she supplied him with, and for which he tendered half- a- crown in payment. She gave the money to her master, who expressed his opinion that it was not a good one, and requested her to point out who she had taken it from. She did so, and her master then refused to take the coin, when the prisoner immediately tendered Is. in good money. The landlord subsequently called in Policeman Dunk, who was on duty near the Falcon at the time, and gave the money to him. Dunk then searched the prisoner, and found five counterfeit half- crowns upon him, about 40s. in silver, and Is. 5d. in copper, of good money. Dunk then took him to the station- house. The prisoner said, when taken, that he came from Cheltenham, but this morning he stated to the Magis trates that he came from the Staffordshire Potteries. He made no defence, and was remanded till Monday, in order to ascertain whether the Mint would prosecute. ^ porting, CAMPDEN PETTY SESSIONS. WEDNESDAY, Nov. 18. Present C. Holland Corbett and Robert Cooper, Esqrs., and Rev. Robert Jarrett. ASSAULT. — George Finch, and four other lads, were charged with having assaulted Henry Bate, by pelting him with turnips, at the parish of Weston Subedge, on the 1st inst. On cross- examination by Mr. Kettle, it turned out that the assault, if any, took place in the adjoining parish of Aston Subedge ; and this being deemed a fatal variance, the summons was dismissed. OBSTRUCTION.— Robert Merryman was summoned, on the information of Mr. VV. T. L. Travers, under the 3rd. Geo. IV., cap. 126, sec. 121, to answer a complaint of having, on the 15th instant, laid a quantity of mortar on the turnpike road, near the footpath, in the High Street of Cainpden. into which mortar Mr. Travers, his wife, and sister fell, in the dark, to the destruction of their garments.— Fined 5s., and 8s. 6d. costs. MASTER AND SERVANT— The Court was filled to over flowing to hear the arguments on an important question between some of the " navies" employed on the Mickleton portion of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Rail way, and Messrs. Gale and Warden, the contractors. Sixteen summonses had been issued, and the first case heard was that of John Wheeler, who claimed 1/, 10s. for six days' work on shaft No. 6. Mr. Kettle appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Travers for the defendants. Robert Williams, a sub- contractor, proved that he proposed to undertake the shaft at 51, bl. a yard, but finding the work very difficult, and the price much too low, he told Mr. Gale that he must give up the work, when Mr. Gale said, " Very well; if you cannot take the pit at the price, let the work go on, and I'll pay the men;" that he ( Williams) thenceforth considered himself to be merely the overlooker of Gale and Warden ; that the sums claimed by the several applicants were still due to them, and had not been received by witness, who had not signed any written contract. It appears that Gale and Warden had paid some of the men 3s. each ; but it was contended that this was not a payment ou account of wages but simply a gift. For the complainants, Mr. Kettle submitted that Gale and Warden had elected to treat the men as their labourers, and were bound by their promise to pay. Mr. Travers contended that the promise was to pay the debt of another, and ought to have been in writing. He also urged that the case did not fall within the provisions of 20th Geo. 11., cap. 19, sec. 1 ; but, after the examination of several witnesses for the defendants, and hearing Mr. Kettle in reply, the Bench made an order for payment of the sum claimed. Mr. Travers, then, consented that the other cases should be considered as heard, and decided in the same way ; but would consult with his clients as to disputing the validity of tiie orders. CAPTURE OF AN OLD OFFENDER.— On Saturday last James Downes, an individual well known to our police as an inveterate poacher, was taken before our City Magistrates, at the Guildhall, charged with stealiug three pheasants from Mr. Banks's, fruiterer, High- street, on Friday night It appears that he had been engaged that evening ir a poaching excursion in the preserves of Robert Berkeley Esq., of Spetchley ; and was surprised by the keepers> with his gun and several pheasants in his possession, but from some unexplained cause he had not been detained, but was allowed to depart, minus his gun and game. On arriving in Worcester, after so unsuccessful an excursion, he went to Mr Garratt's, which is next door to Mr. Banks's, on some pretended errand, and in so doing passed through an adjoining passage in which Mr. Banks hangs his game. This no doubt he had calculated upon. Shortly after he was gone the game was missed. Mr. Garratt stated that between eight and nine o'clock on Friday night, he heard a loud knocking at his shop door, which was shut up, and he sent his servant round to see what was the matter, when he found the prisoner at the door, who stated that lie had a message to deliver to Mr. Garratt, and accompanied his servant round to the back part of Mr. Garratt's house. Mr. G. then saw bim clear off his premises, and shortly after Mr. Garratt went into Mr. Banks's shop, and while conversing on common- place matters stated the circumstance of the prisoner knocking at his door, and then accompanying his servant through his ( Mr. Banks's) passage ; this caused Mrs. Banks to look at her game, and she then found that she had lost three pheasants, the head of one remaining in the string where it had been hung up. Information was then given to the police, and Policeman Doughty went ki pursuit of the prisoner, and found him at the White Lion public- house, at the back of Lowesmoor wharf, and charged him with the robbery, when he denied having been near Mr. Banks's; he took him into custody, and attempted to search the prisoner, who resisted violently, and said he had nothing in his pocket but a handkerchief, but when brought out of the house he said he had a hen pheasant. While Doughty was conveying his man to the station- house, and when they were near Lowesmoor bridge, by the side of the canal, the prisoner pulled a pheasant out of his pocket, and tore it to pieces, and threw it into the canal, and said " I'm d— d if you shall have the bird : you're not going to serve me the same trick as you did with the hares, some of you," alluding to a previous transaction he had been engaged in. When they had gone a little further he pulled out another bird, and served it the same as the first, using similar words. When Doughty had got his man to the station- house, he immediately returned to the place where the birds had been torn to pieces, to search for them, and found the whole of the pieces, with the exception of the head, tail, and leg of one of them, which was found by Lowe, watchman of Lowesmaor wharf, next morning. The headless pheasant was compared with the head left in the string at Mr. Banks's, and found to correspond exactly. The prisoner's defence was that the pheasants were his own, and that lie had shot them that evening. He was committed to take his trial at the next Quarter Sessions. Mr. Grantley Berkeley attended the examinations, for the purpose of preferring a charge of poaching, at Spetchley, against the prisoner, should he have escaped punishment for the theft at Mr. Banks's- SUDDEN DEATHS.— A poor woman named Mary Hudson, a washerwoman, residing at Wood's Green, Warn- don, died very suddenly, on Saturday evening last. Her husband had been to Worcester, and on his return home he found her on the floor in her bed- room, apparently dead. She was 76 years of age. Mr. Hughes held an inquest on the body, at the Virgin's Tavern, New Town, on Tuesday last, when a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God" was returned. A poor woman of the name of Iiubury wife of James Rubury, a joiner, residing in Raven Lane, Ludlow, was in the habit of taking in washing, and on Monday last she was engaged wash- ing all the day, up to about six o'clock in the evening, when she complained of being unwell, and said she would go to bed ; she, however, laid down in her clothes, thinking she should be better. Her husband was from home at the time, but was sent for by her son; she was then a little better, and her husband returned to the Crown Inn, where he was engaged as an occa- sional waiter, but he did not stop more than a few minutes before he returned home again, when he found his wife much worse, and immediately sent for medical assistance, but in less than half an hour she was a corpse. The deceased was a remarkably strong, healthy woman, about 51 years of age— John Trumble, aged 67, a pauper in the Upton Union Workhouse, was found dead in bed on Tuesday morning last. He went to bed the night before in his usual health. Mr. Hughes held an inquest on the body at the Workhouse yesterday, when a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God" was returned. CHILD BURNT.— Mr. Hyde held an inquest on Wed- nesday last on the body of a little girl named Batchelor, aged 2 years, the daughter of a poor widow residing in St. Clement's parish, who, during the temporary absence of her mother on Monday, was so dreadfully burnt that she died on the next day. — Verdict accordingly. SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE. — On the thatch of a stable on the premises of Mr. Holmes, of Pinvin, near Per- shore, a potato had accidentally been placed, which took root in the thatch, and has produced seventeen good sized and perfectly sound tubers, which Mr Holmes intends to preserve for seed. It is worthy of remark that the thatch upon which these potatos grew is not at all decayed. LONGVEITY.— The following are the last five deaths registered in the Bewdley district. The parties were all resi- dents of the borough of Bev/ dley. and we give their names on account of the great age they respectively attained: — Age. Died, Oct. 20, Hannah Tylor 89 ,, Nov. 5, James Wilmott .. r 91 „ Nov. 7, Robert Pardoe 78 „ Nov. 12, Martha Gardner 66 „ Nov. 15, George Potter 85 NEWPORT PAGNELL STEEPLE CHASES. The Newport Pagnell meeting commenced yesterday ( Thursday) under the stewardship of George Payne and P. P. Rolt, Esqrs. The following: is a return of the sport:— A Free Handicap Hurdle Race of 50 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 * ovs. each; the winner to pay 5 sovs. to the fund; the second horse to save his stake. Gentlemen riding, qualified as for the Aristocrat Steeple Chase, allowed 51bs. Two miles, over four flights of hurdles. Captain Gambier's The Red Lancer, list. 61b ( Captain Little) 1 Mr. Oakey's b. m. Valeria, lOst. 71b 3 Mr. Evans' Red Streak, lOst. 131b 3 Captain Campbell's Crcesus, list. 121b 0 Mr. Smith's c. m. Miriam, list. 81b 0 Mr. Mares' Spectator, list. 21b 0 Mr. Elmore's gr. h. Everton, lOst. 131b 0 Earl of Strathmore's Secundus, lOst. 121b 0 Mr. Hall's Trafalgar lOst. 101b 0 Mr. Hankin3' Teresa, lOst. 71b 0 Sir H. Bruce's Evergreen, lOst. 71b 0 Mr. Markham's Tom Boy, lOst. 61b O Mr. Hugh Smith ns Elimea, 9st. 81b 0 Mr. Battams' ch. g. Sir Harry Smith, 9st. 41b 0 A severe race, A Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, 10 forfeit. 12st. each: the second horse to save his stake. A winner of any steeple chase of the value of 250 sovs. including his own stake, 7tbs.; of two, lOlbs. extra. The horses to have been the property, for two month* previous to the day of naming, of members, or " sons of members," of either Crockford's, Brook's, White's, Boodle's, Arthur's, Army and Navy, Eglinton Park, Croxton Park, Bibury, Oakley, Leamingf- ton, or Herts Hunt Clubs, or of Officers on full pay in the Army or Navy, and to be ridden by the same; any horse having won the Newport Pagnell, Liverpool, Hereford, Swindon, Worcester, Leamington, Cheltenham, Warwick, Coventry, or any handicap in England, of the value of 350 sovs., not allowed to start. Mr. Cooper's Little John ( Captain Broadley) 1 Captain W. Peel ns ch. g. The Return 2 Captain Gambier's Resolution 3 Earl of Strathmore's Eugene Sue . 4 Captain Boyd's Mahomet O Won in a canter, by three lengths. HUNTING APPOINTMENT. THE WORCESTERSHIRE HOUNDS.—^ half- past ten. Tuesday Nov. 24 Shrawiey Wood. Friday — 27 Bredon Hill. LORD REDESD ALE'S HOUNDS.— half- past ten, Saturday Nov. 21 Wilcot. Monday — 23 Chapel House. Wednesday.,,.,. rp"- u^-"-' 1 Friday Saturday 25 Tar Wood. — 27 New Barn. — 28 Blenheim, THE HEREFORDSHIRE HOUNDS.— At half- past ten. Monday Nov. 23 Canon Froome Wharf. Thuisday — 26 Westhide Village. Saturday — 28 England's Gate. Tuesday Dec. 1 Berringtou. Friday — 4 Perrystone. THE LEDBURY HOUNDS.-^ half- past ten. Monday Nov. 23 Stanley Hill Turnpike Fiiday — 27 The 8th Milestone ou Tewkesbury Road. THE LUDLOW HOUNDS.— At ten. Wednesday Nov. 25 Oaker, I Saturday — 28 Dinehope; Tuesday Dec. 1 Bucknall Wood,, THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS.— At half- past ten. Saturday Nov. 21 Red Hill. Monday — 23 Tile Hill. Tuesday — 24 Mitford Bridge Thursday — 26 Wellesbourne. Friday — 27 Church Tysoe. Saturday — 28 ........ Goldicote. THE ALBRIGKTON HOUNDS At ten. Saturday Nor. 21 Bell, TongNorton, Monday — 23 Somerford. — 26 — 28 Seighford. The Kennels. Total 409 Thursday Saturday THE ATI1ERSTONE HOUNDS,— At Eleven. Saturday Nov. 21 Coombe Abbey. Monday — 23 Harrow Gate. Wednesday — 25 Wharton Village. Friday — 27 Ham's Hall. Saturday. — 28 Ratby Borough. THE SHROPSHIRE HOUNDS— At a quarter before Eleven. Monday Nov. 23 Acton lteynald. Wednesday — 25 Child's Ercall. Friday — 5: 7 Itowton Castle. • Monday........ — 30 Chipnal Wood. ' Wednesday Dec. 2 Cuetwynd Park. Friday — 4 ........ Crudgmgtou Gate. Monday — 7 Sundorne Castle. Wednesday — a Stapleton. Friday — 11 Clorerley. THE UNITED PACK.— At nine. Tuesday Nov. 24 Roman Bank. Saturday — 28 Marsh Brook. WILLIAM SCOTT, THE JOCKEY— Mr. William Scott presents in his proper person, one of the most successful of jockeys' and of the most eccentric of owners, the turf has produced for a long day. In the latter character, especially in this age of studied insi- pidity, he comes out with greater effect than when only " the rider out" to the great northern firm. A simple enumeration, hovrever of his chief victories while in partnership with his brother, will show that William Scott must always rank amongst the best and luckiest disciples of the cap and jacket. Some will say that the great secret in his horsemanship was in being constantly put upon the picked horses of a fashionable stable ; while others, with more justice will give due allowance to that great power, fine judgment, and ar'tistio elegance which were wont so generally to distinguish his riding. The sum- up of his success, extending over a period of rather more than twenty years, comes, even if we must split the difference between luck and merit, to this rarely- equalled result:— Four Derb> s: in 1832, for Mr. Ridsdale, on St. Giles: in 1835, for Mr. Bowes, ou Muudig; in i8I2, for Colonel Anson, on Attila; and ia 1813, for Mr. Bowes, on Cotherstone. Three Oaks: in 1836 for himself and brother, on Cyprian ; in 1838, for Lord Chesterfield" on Industry ; and in 1841, lor Lord Westminster, on Ghuznee. Nine St. Legers : in 1821, for Mr. Powlett, on Jack Spigott; in 1825, for Mr. Watt, on Memuon; in 1828, for Mr. l'etre, on The Colonel - iu 1829, for Mr. Petre, on liowton; in 1830, for Loid Chesterfield" on Don John ; in 1832, for Major Yarburgh, ou Charles XII. ; in 1840 for Lord Westminster, on Launeelot; in 1841, for Lord Westminster* on Satirisl; aud in 1640, on Sir Tatton Sykes, for himself—- Neio Sporting Magazine, LEAMINGTON STEEPLE CHASE,— The Leamington annual steeple chases are fixed to take place on Wednesday, the 2d of December next. For the Royal Leamington Hunt Stakes there are thirty- one horses entered ; and twenty for the open handicap. - General average prices of Grain, - erial— General weekly average : — Wheat oats, 26s. 9d,; rye, 42s. 4d.; beaas' CORN AVERAGES. week ending Nov. 19. Imperial— — Wheat" 61s. 5d; barley, 44s. 6d.; nats afia Q, i • aa . » * 46s. lOd.; peas, 50s. lOd. KIDDERMINSTER, NOV. 19.— Wheat 6s. lOd. to7s. 8d.; malting barley, 5s. 2d. to 5s. 8d. per bushel. WORCESTER HAY MARKET, NOV. 14.— Best old hay pev ton, £ 2.17s. Od. to £ 3; new hay, £ 1. 15s to £ i. 17s, 6d: ; straw/ BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 17.— Best hay, £ 4 per ton; inferior ditto, £ 3 ; straw, £ 2. 12s. 6d.; clover, £ 3 ; packing straw* £ 2. 5s. ' BIRTHS. Nov, 14, in Grosvenor Street, Lady Norreys, of a son. Nov. 15, at Lynn, Shropshire, the wife of J. Worralf, Esq. of a son and heir. ' MARRIAGES. Nov. 5, at Blockley, by the Kev. M. Coyle, Mr. J. Kern schoolmaster, to Martha, daughter of Mr. J. Figgures, both of the same place. Nov. 10, at Leominster, by the Rev. C. W. Robinson, M A Curate, Mr. Richard Yapp, of the Town Farm, Middleton^ on- the- Hill, to Miss Catharine Moore, of the Hundred in ths parish of Kimbolton. ' Nov. 12, at Claines, by the Rev. J. Palmer, Mr. Jos. Miles of Astwood, Claines, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr* Joseph Ward, of Lowesmoor, in this city. Nov. 12, by the Rev. H. W, Cookes, Rector of Astley, Mr. James Taylor, of the former place, to Mrs. Ankins, late of Holt* whose united ages amount to 145. ' Nov. 12, at the parish church, Alveston, near Stratfori- on- Avon, by the Rev. C. Griffin, Rector of Haselor, Mr. Henry Amaziah Parritt, of Alveston, to Hannah, eldest daughter of Mr. John Reeve, of the same place. Nov. 12, at Llanarth Chapel, according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church, by the Right Rev. Dr. Brown, Bishop of South Wales, and afterwards at the parish church of Llan- over, by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of St. David's, John Arthur Jones Esq., eldest son of John Jones, Esq., and the Lady Harriet Jones, of Llanarth Court, and Treowen, in the county- of Monmouth, to Augusta Charlotte Elizabeth, only child of Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., of Llanover Court and Abercarne in the same county. * Nov. 13, at Charlton, Kent, by the Rev. Arthur Drummoad Henry Sewell, Esq., of Upton, in this county, fourth son ol Russell Sewell, Esq., of Little Oakley Hall, Essex, to Charlotte only daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Wood, Vicar of CropweU Bishop and Wysall, Nottinghamshire. Nov. 16, at Leominster, by the Rev. C. W. Robinson, M. A. Curate, Mr. James Davis, Officer of Excise, of Bath, to Miss Eleanor Peake, of South Street, Leominster. Nov. 19, at Dodderhill, Droitwich, by the Rev. John Jackson M. A., Vicar, Robert Smyth, Esq., The Slopes, Monkstovvn* near Dublin, to Jane, second daughter of Benjamin BradLey Esq., Bootle, near Liverpool. DEATHS. Nov. 6, at Bromyard Down, Mr. Thomas Perkins, formerlv a respectable farmer at Harpley. Nov. 7, Mr. John Done, of Lulsley, aged, 70, much regretted by his family and friends. Nov, 8, at his son's residence, in Oxford Street, Leamington, Mr. Samuel Johnson, in the 97th year of his age, formerly of Pershore. Nov. 10, at his father's residence, Kinnersley, aged 27, Mr. George Williams, only surviving son of Mr. Thomas Williams, trainer. * Nov. 10, in Mill Street, Ludlow, in the 78th year of her age, Anne Maria, relict of Mr. C. J. Heighington, of her Majesty's Customs, London. Nov. 11, at Bromsgrove, Mr. Wm. Owen, aged 62, late master of the Bronisgrove Uniou Workhouse. Nov. 11, at the Lying- in Hospital, Birmingham, William Henry Thomas, eldest son of Mr. Marsh, surgeon, of Upton-* upon- Severn. He was in his 18th year. Nov. 12, at Leamington, John Walter Sherer, Esq., late of the Bengal Civil Service, Nov. 12, at Leamington, the Rev. Henry Corrie, M. A. Rector of Kettering, Northamptonshire. Nov. 13, deeply regretted, Mr, James Mills, Broadlieath Hallow, in the 27th year of his age. Nov. 14, after a long illness, at the house of his brother- in- law, Mr. Wilkinson, at Kingswinford, Mr. John Stringer- formerly clerk to the late Mr. Benj. Shaw, solicitor, Dudley. * Nov. 14, Elisabeth, the wife of the Rev. Iltid Thomas, " of Leamington. * Nov. 14, Louisa, third daughter of Mr. Thomas Cullis, of Newport Street, in this city, after three days illness, aged & years— Also on the 15th, aged ten months, Alfred, fourth son of the above, after a few hours illness. Nov. 15, Mrs. Samuel Daniel, of Angel Street, in this city fn her 77th year. * Nov. 15, aged 17, Emma, daughter of Mr. Dovey, of Tallow Hill, in this city. Nov, 15, Mr. Wheeler, of the Cross Inn, Kingswinford. Nov. 16, Mr. David Williams, aged 60, for upwurd3 of forty years head waiter at tho Star and Garter Hotel, highly respected. Lately, at Westhope, Herefordshire, Mr. Henry Francis Plevy, druggist, of Sidbury, in this city, third son of the late Mr, John Plevy, of the first- named place. WORCESTER INFIRMARY, Nov. 20. Physician and Surgeon for the week, Dr. Maiden and Mr Carden. For the ensuing week, Dr. Hastings and Mr. Sheppard. In- Patients. | Out- Patients. Admitted, 17.— Discharged, 10. | Admitted, 20.— Discharged 10* In the House, 100. ACCIDENTS.— Ann Williams, fractured arm ; Ednas Williams wounds; Hugh Morgan, were scalds; Hiury James, sprained aakl^ T H E W O R C E S T E R S H I R E G U A R D I A N , S A T U R D A Y , DECEMBER 21, 1 8 4 6 . THE SONG OF AUTUMN. BY E. G. ADAMS. I scatter plenty o'er the laud; I reap the yellow corn; Mine is the joyous " harvest home," And mine the hunter's horn; The full round moon Will look down soon, On fields all closely shorn. I bid the swallows wing their flight To climes beyond the sea; The nightingle, by day or night, Singeth no song to me, For I send the blast That flyeth fast To strip the forest tree. But first I tinge its quiv'ring leaves With crimson and with gold, And cover it as with a robe Itight glorious to behold; Then out I call— " Pride hath a fall!" And it standeth bare and cold. I shake the rattling nuts to earth, 1 cast the acorns down, With fir- cones strew the forest walks ; And when I chance to frown, The mightiest tree, Submissively, Boweth his stately crown. The apple, with its ruddy streak, Is mine, and mine the pear; And the ripe clusters of the vine Are plucked, and ready, where Lie purple plums For him who comes In my rich feast to share. I wreathe my brows with nodding hops ; My robe is ' broidered o'er With silver threads of gossamers; And never monarch wore More rich attire, Nor could desire Of treasures, greater store. WORCESTER TOWN COUNCIL. VARIETIES. Two gentlemen, a few days ago, took a boat at Blackfriar's- bridge, to go to the Tower. One of them asked the other, Wlio sat beside him, if he could tell him what countryman the waterman was! He replied, he could not. " Then," said his friend, " I can; he is a JEto man." A cockney being told the above, said, " the pun was wherry good." What kind of a face should an auctioneer have ?— A face that is for- bidding. To PREVENT ROT IN POTATOES.— Eat them before they begin to decay. THE SMITH AND FERRERS ROMANCE. A bulky pamphlet has just issued from the press which is likely to be read by the lovers of romantic gossip with con- siderable avidity. It is nothing less than a long narrative from Miss Smith, the young lady who sued Earl Ferrers for damages for breach of promise, of the rise and progress of her love passages with the Earl. The authoress dates from Syerscote Manor, Warwickshire, the place of her retirement, and appends her name in formal signature at the close of her statement. She says, having in some measure recovered from the dreadful shock consequent on the unexpected and unfortunate termina- tion of the trial, she deems it a duly to herself and her family to lay before the public a plain statement of facts, with replies to the chief points in the speech of Sir Frederick Thesiger. She then proceeds at ouce with her narrative, stating, that in 1839 Viscount Tamwortii resided with the Curate of Austrey, at which time he was seventeen years old, and she fourteen. They became acquainted, and he professed for her an ardent attachment, which she really and ardently returned. When she was subsequently sent to school, she was broken- hearted at the departure. Lord Tamworth was shortly afterwards removed from Austrey. " He returned home," says Miss Smith, " in the year 1842, and the month after his return I met with a gentleman, who addressed me as Earl Ferrers, and whom, from my recollection of Viscount Tainworth's coun- tenance, I believed to be him. He asked me, reproachfully, if I did not remember him? I replied that I did, that I " was perfectly satisfied. He was in deep mourning, and mentioned the death of his grandfather. He told me he had never for- gotten me, and was now come for the purpose of assuring me how much he loved me, and to know if I retained my former feelings for him. My reply was, that I did. He expressed his delight— his satisfaction ; and swore nothing earthly should prevent our union." The basis of the defence is, that if the person thus spoken of was not Lord Ferrers, he was an im- postor who cruelly and wickedly personated him, and led her on from folly to folly. In providing herself with an alternative, however, she does not profess to believe that she was the dupe of a third party; on the contrary, she goes into a varied and plausible statement, and shrewd argument, to show that such could not have been the case. Having defended the character of her younger sister, Miss Smith proceeds to vindicate herself, displaying great earnestness and considerable tact and ingenuity. The extreme cleverness of this pamphlet ( considering the age and sex of the writer) tells against as well as for Miss Smith ; for while it makes out a strong case in her favour, it affords evidence of an ability fo do so, provided she was armed with the necessary knowledge of the facts the forgeries deposed to. The capability to imitate the handwriting of tho Noble Lord is another sort of gift altogether, upon which no stranger can pretend to offer an opinion. Though she admits that it is possible she may have been the victim of an imposition, of which Lord Ferrers was not cognizant, she pretty significantly maintains that it - was he who duped her. In noticing Miss Smith's pamphlet, the Britannia says it is a curiosity, and may take its place among the monstrosities of literature. " Her talent," continues our contemporary, " it must be admitted was severely taxed. I was," she says, " urged to write the next two letters from a circumstance communicated to me bv a then intimate friend. She stated that Lord Ferrers was not only engaged to the daughter of an eminent Chancery lawyer, but that it was even thought probable that he would marry a common girl at Stafford, whom he was then noticing. My object in writing this letter was to try if it were possible that this might be true; for if his Lordship could entertain an affec- tion for so many at once, my plot for convincing him of his infidelity might be successful; hence the assertion that the letter came from one unknown to him." She goes on to state that Earl Ferrers, when she saw him next, mentioned those letters to her, and told her he had used them to light his pipe with. Hence, she says, she had no scruple in affirming they never had existence. AN HISTORICAL CHARACTER.— Died, in August last, in the vicinity of Baton Rouge, says the Boston Mail, Madame Majocchi, wife of the witness in the famous trial of Queen Caroline, of" non mi recordo" memory— mother of the Italian opera performer known in New York and elsewhere as Madame Majocchi Vatellina. Majocchi found England too hot for him after the trial of tho Queen ; but it was not known to what part of the world he betook himself. By the above we presume he is still living in the United States. THE GREAT BRITAIN.— We understand that Mr. Bremner, of Wick, civil engineer, at the request of the underwriters concerned iu this monster steam- ship, now stranded at Dundrum- bay, has visited aud reported jointly with Mr. Alexander Bremner of Liverpool, upon the present state and position of this vessel, together with the best means for the prevention of further damage, and finally as to the practicability of taking her off. We hear that the report of these gentlemen is to the effect that this strong vessel has as yet received comparatively little injury; that means may be used for beaching the vessel, by keeping the stern to the sea until next season, and that then it will be perfectly practicable to take her off the strand. At present the tide flows and ebbs regularly in this magnificent vessel, which sits nearly upright on the rock which forms the substratum of the rock at Dundrum- bay, and the officers and crew are still on board. To meet the exposed nature of the bay and the great length of the vessel, the Messrs Bremner have proposed powerful tackling, whereby to breach the vessel in stormy weather, and a peculiarly original and ingenious construction of timber over the stern, resting at the top on the vessel and on the rock at the bottom, and strongly braced diagonally with chain cables therefrom to the midships. This is intended to act at once as a break- water, a support to the overhanging stern, and as a means of keeping the vessel end to the sea. With these means, which have been sanctioned by the board of directors, and are now being carried into execution 011 this iron mammoth, the strong probability is that the vessel will be preserved entire in her present precarious position, and be got off early next year by these gentlemen.— Glasgow Chronicle. THK AFRICAN EXPEDITION. — Letters have been received announcing that the expedition got up and sent out last year by Mr. Jamieson, of Liverpool, and others, for the purpose of exploring the Niger, with a view to developing the commercial resources of Africa, has again failed. This is the second failure. The following letter explains the reason of the unfortunate result:— Liverpool, 9th Nov., 1846. Sir,— It is with extreme sorrow I have to communicate to you unfavourable intelligence of the Ethiope steamer, and the consequent relinquishment of her re- ascent of the Niger. Captain Becrolt and Dr. King write, that when upon the Gaboon river, the vessel's boilers suddenly gave way ; and that, although the engineer succeeded m repairing them, so as to complete the exploration of that river, they afterwards burst so frequently as to render it altogether unsafe to hatard another ascent of the Niger with them. Accordingly, the vessel has been laid up at Fernando Po, under care of Capt. Becroft; and Dr. King is on his way to England. Upon his arrival, a state- ment of particulars and accounts shall be prepared; and after having been submitted to the committee of subscribers in Liverpool for examination, they shall be laid before you, with the view to a call on subscriptions, so far, and also to obtain your opinion as to the further prosecution of the enterprise. I may here add, that the Gaboon river was lound to be of no importance as a highway to the interior,— not being navigable farther than the tide ascended ; say, some 40 or 60 miles. Sincerely regretting these untoward circum- stances, I remain, sir, your most obedient servant, ROBERT JAMIESON. EARLY CLOSINC.— The Times concludes an article on early closing by a strong recommendation that its advocates should obtain an Act of Parliament for its enforcement. After ridiculing the idea that" moral suasion," sermons, and lecture rooms enn be made available, it adds—" Now, we would humbly suggest that, after all, an Act of Parliament would be the most short and certain mode of effectuating the pro- posed object. It would be universal in its operation. It would admit of no partial exceptions or favouritisms. It would be binding upon all. It would be, we think, desired by all who hope to be benefitted by the change. There is more eloquence in a penal clause imposing a fine of five pounds than in the graceful eloquence of Lord John Manners, or the historical resumes of Dr. Vaughan. No man would resist it often or resist it long." This may be very true, but it is an interfer- ence with the regulations of trade which Parliament is not likely to sanction, The adjourned annual meeting of this body was held on Monday last, the Mayor, F. T. Elgie, Esq., in the chair, and there being present 23 members of the body, The Town Clerk's annual report made up from the Chap- lain's and Visiting Magistrates' Reports, as to the state of the City Gaol, was read aud ordered to be signed by the Mayor, and forwarded to the Secretary of State in the usual way. ANNUAL EXPENDITURE.— The Town Clerk read the state- ment of receipts and expenditure of the Corporation, for the year ending 30th August last, which was also ordered to be transmitted to the Secretary of State. It appeared from this statement that the expenditure of the Corporation for the year amounted to £ 6723, and some odd shillings, and that there was a balance of £ 202. 14s. 9d. due to the Treasurer on the 30th August. Amongst the items of expenditure were the following:— Police, £ 1189, prosecuting felons, £ 1048, Coro- ner, £ 85, Municipal Elections, £ 31. The amount levied in city rates was £ 2089. APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES.—- The Council then pro ceeded to make the annual appointment of committees. Mr. Thompson proposed that in each committee the two oldest members should retire. Mr. Jones suggested that the four principal committees, the Watch Committee, the Finance, the Markets, and the Assessment Committees, should have eleven or twelve persons upon each of them, aud that these committees should be made up of a proportion of members from the several wards. This was agreed to, and the following were appointed. WATCH COMMITTEE. — The Mayor and Chamberlain, Aldermen Lewis, II. Evans, and Chalk Councillors Arrowsmith, Harding, Anderson, Lingham, E. Webb, J. J ones, Burlingham, Bevington, Grainger. FINANCE.— The Mayor and Chamberlain, Aldermen Chalk, Padmore, and Helm, Councillors Turley, Bedford, J. W. Lea, J. Stallard, Read, Wood, J. Jones, Firkins, Sparkes. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS TREATING COMMITTEE.— On this committee coming before the Council, it was stated in reply to questions put, that the committee had not met for two years; but as Mr. Alderman Thompson said that if they met now " they would have a great deal to say," the committee was. appointed as follows:— The Mayor, Alderman Thompson, and Councillors E. Evans, Hughes, Davis, Burlingham, and Turley. CATTLE MARKET COMMITTEE.-— The Mayor, Aldermen Thompson, and Chalk, Councillors Lea, Daniel, Hood, E. Webb, Sparkes, Lingham, J. Jones, Davis, Read, and Stallard. OTUER MARKETS.— The Mayor, Aldermen Helm, Padmore, and Allies, Councillors Ward, J. Jones, Bedford, Sanders, Abell, Wall, Burlingham, J. Jones, Bevington, and Hughes. SURVEY BUILDINGS AND PROPERTY COMMITTEE.— These committees were amalgamated, anu the following were appointed:— The Mayor, Aldermen Thompson, Allies, and E. Evans, Councillors Arrowsmith, Harding, Bedford, Cowell, Price, J. Chamberlain, Edgcombe, Grainger, and Bevington. RAILWAYS.— The Mayor, Aldermen Lewis, Helm, Chalk, and E. Evans, Councillors Bedford, Lea, Lingham, Arrow- smith, Bevington, and Burlingham. HIGHWAYS, FOOTWAYS, NUISANCES, AND OBSTRUCTIONS.— On this committee being appointed, Mr. Alderman Thompson begged to declare off; he " had had quite enough of the Highways, Footways, Nuisances, and Obstructions." The Council, however, with one voice, declared Mr. Thompson re- elected. The following were appointed:— The Mayor, Alder- man Thompson, and Councillors Hood, Turley, Cowell, Stal- lard, and J. Hughes. QUAY AND ESPLANADE.— The members of this committee were re- elected. ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE.— The Mayor, Aldermen E. Evans, and Padmore, Councillors Arrowsmith, Lingham, Grainger, Ward, Bevington, Soulhan, J. Jones, Hood, Cowell, Stallard, and E. Webb. The Committees having been appointed, the followingreport was produced. ASSESSMENT.— Mr, Stallard produced this report, which recommended a new assessment of each parish, to be verified on oath by the Churchwardens of each parish, and Mr. Stal- lard accordingly moved a resolution to that effect. The return to be made to the City Magistrates in Petty Sessions assem- bled on the 4th December next. Mr. Jones suggested that a little more time bo allowed for making this assessment, and it was arranged that the return should be made on the 18th December, instead of the 4th. Mr. Bedford thought no prac- tical good would be obtained by this resolution, and Mr. Harding and Mr. Davis declared it was impossible to make a correct estimate such as was required to be verified upon oath. The result of this resolution would be simply a return similar to what the Council was already in possession of. The report however was received and adopted with the amendment above noted. PUBLIC BATHS AND WASH- HOUSES.— Mr. Arrowsmith rose to address the Council on his promised motion on this subject. He commenced by congratulating the Council on the fact that of late the condition of the working classes of the community had received the attention of their more wealthy neighbours, and the aristocracy of the country; whereas until very recently this class was only regarded as beasts of bur- then, and as contributors to the wealth and comfort of others. Among the valuable means for improving the social condition of this class, was the establishment of public baths and wash- houses ; and he proceeded to show from reports, and other statistics, that the establishment of these concerns had tended to great benefit in the short time which had elapsed since the experiments had been commenced. Mr. Arrowsmith having concluded this part of his subject, called the attention of the Council to the recent Act which empowered them to establish public baths, borrow money on security of the borough fund, appoint officers, & c., & c. He then moved— " That this Council, considering the establishment of public baths and wash- houses in populous cities, as eminently calcu- lated, by promoting cleanliness among the population, to improve their health and comfort, does hereby resolve to avail itself of the provisions of the Act 9 and 10 Vic., chap. 74, intituled ' An Act to encourage the establishment of public baths and wash- houses,' and to provide, with as little delay as possible, for the establishment of such valuable institutions within the city of Worcester, for which purpose the proximity of the Severn affords great facility." Mr. Arrowsmith mentioned that Alderman Hastings would have seconded this resolution, but that professional engage- ments had prevented his attendance. Mr. Sheriff Webb said he had much pleasure in seconding Mr. Arrowsmith's resolution. It had often been remarked that cleanliness was next to godliness, but he considered clean- liness was a part of godliness, for they never found good moral principles in a man of filthy habits. He spoke of the necessity of establishing public baths and wash- houses tliie city, from his own observation, and stated that in one house in his parish ( St. Andrew's,) he had found a family con sisting of a man and his wife, three daughters, and two sons living in two small apartments, one above and one below stairs. He had taken one of the daughters into his factory, but could not keep her in consequence of the dirty habits engendered by living in such a state. Mr. Alderman Thompson said the object he had in rising 011 this occasion was to endeavour to restore to his native city that which they had lost— he meant a safe and convenient bathing place. This had been afforded to them by the river Severn, until it had been deepened by the late improvements which rendered it very unsafe for bathers. He however held in his hand a plan by which a safe bathing place might be restored to the inhabitants. Mr, Thompson was proceeding to explain his plan when several members of the Council expressed an opinion that the proper time for submitting it would be in committee. Mr. Thompson accordingly sat down. Mr. Arrowsmith's motion having been carried nem. con. a committee consisting of the following was appointed to carry it out— Aldermen Thompson, Hastings, and Chalk, Council lors Turley, Lea, Bedford, Lingham, Stallard, Burlingham Jones, Firkins, Bevington, Arrowsmith, and E. Webb. Mr. Bedford said he could not allow the present opportunity to pass without tendering his individual thanks to Mr. Arrow smith for the trouble which he had taken in collecting for the present purpose the facts which he had detailed to the Council. Many attempts had from time to time been made to establish public baths in connection with this city, but hitherto they had all failed. He hoped that the gentlemen who now brought the matter forward would persevere in their object. ( Hear, hear.) ALL- SAINTS' IMPROVEMENTS.— Mr. Lingham presented a memorial to the Council from the Rector and Churchwardens of All- Saints', praying them to instruct the Treasurer of the Borough Fund to repay to them the sum of £ 248 received of the Trustees of the proposed All- Saints' improvement in the month of De- ceinber, 1844, in order that the sum may be applied to the improvements contemplated at the present time Mr. Lingham thereupon moved that the sum be refunded as prayed. Mr. Davis seconded the motion, and said he hoped the Council would see the propriety of refunding the money, which they all knew was originally intended to be applied for this purpose. Alderman Thompson— They'll do no such thing, sir, ( Laughter.) The Mayor asked the Town Clerk whether they could legall refund the money. The Town Clerk replied in the negative. The money was placed in the hands of the Trustees to be applied to the pur poses of improving All- Saints' parish, but in the event of certain period being allowed to elapse, it was to fall into the Borough Fund. That term had elapsed, and the money there fore fell into the Borough fund. Mr. Joseph Jones said that under these circumstances they could sympathize with All- Saints' parish, but they could not help them. Mr. Davis, as a parishioner of All- Saints', was very much obliged for such sympathy he was sure. The matter then dropped for the present. RAILWAYS.— Alderman Chalk moved a resolution to the effect that, as several railway projects were intended to come through this city, the Town Clerk be directed to write to the secretaries of the Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow, and Shropshire Union, Companies, requesting to have copies of their maps and plans, to see in what way the proposed lines would pass through Worcester, and with the view of co- operat- ing with those companies if their plans were unobjectionable, but of opposing them if they should cut up property which might be avoided. Aiderman LEWIS seconded the motion, and it was carried. The Mayor said he feared it would be too late now to propose any alterations in railway plans: the titne for depositing the plans and sections was too near at hand. After some discussion, in the course of which Mr. Davis and Mr. Harding deprecated any attempt to stop railway enterprise in connection with this city, the motion was passed. A renewal of some Corporation property having been settle.!, the meeting broke up after a sitting of upwards of two hours. 5 fitmiiigence. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, MONDAY, NOV. 16. THE QUEEN V- THE REV. JOSIAH BARTLETT, CLERK This was a criminal information which had been filed against the defendant at the instance of a Mr. Tozer and his wile, for having written to Mrs. Tozer a letter in which he stated that he had been solicited by Mrs. Tozer, who was the sister of his ( Mr. Bartlett's) own wife, to have an adulterous intercourse with her. The circumstances of the case were stated at great length in this paper at the time when the rule nisi for the criminal information was obtained. When the period arrived for showing cause against the rule, Mr. Serjeant Wilkins, upon the part of the rev. defendant, made what was now called an abject apology, and it was believed at that time that the case would be no further heard of in public. The rule was, how- ever, made absolute, and the cause came on for trial in the usual way at the late assizes for Hereford,' when the defendant was found guilty of the charge imputed by the information. He was now brought up for judgment, upon the motion of Sir Frederick Thesiger, who made an eloquent address to the Court in aggravation of damages. The defendant addressed the Court, in mitigation, in his own person ; and affidavits were put in and read at great length upon both sides of the case. Amongst the documents presented in this manner was a letter addressed by the rev. gentleman to his own wife, the object of which was stated to be to reiterate and reinforce his charge. The letter, however, having been inspected by their Lordships, appeared to be of too disgusting a character to be read before the public, and the particular terms of which it was composed did accordingly not transpire. The affidavits upon both sides having been read, The rev. defendant addressed the Court, and stated that the conduct of which complaint had been made was the result of the provocation which he had received from the prosecutors, who had come clandestinely into his neighbourhood, and taken away his wife, of whose society he had been deprived con- tinually from that time to the present. Sir F. Thesiger, upon the part of the prosecution, contended that the conduct of the rev. defendant upon the present occa- sion was an aggravation of the scandalous course which he had already pursued. The assertion that he had been deprived of the society of his wife before the commission of the offence was falsified by a fact which appeared upon the affidavits, namely, that before the writing of the libel complained of he had written to his wife declaring it to be his determination to separate from her for ever. He ( Sir F. Thesiger) wished that he could find in the defendant's conduct any sufficient evidence to prove that his mind was insane; for although, in such circumstance, he would still be an object of apprehension, he would also be an object of commiseration. But, although his reason was disturbed, the disturbance was the consequence of malignant passions whose operation was guided by cunning and veiled by hypocrisy, and his conduct throughout the whole of this most painful transaction was such as to show that he deserved to receive a considerable amount of punishment at the hands of the Court. After a short consultation upon the Bench, Mr. Justice Coleridge addressed the defendant, and having stated the principal facts of the case, went on to observe that the conduct of Mr. and Mrs. Tozer before the publication of the libel was periectly justified by the antecedent conduct of Mr. Bartlett himself to his own wife, upon whose part and for whose protection Mr. and Mrs. Tozer very naturally interfered. But even if their conduct had been of a different character, neither that circumstance nor any other could justify the writing of such a letter as that which had been written by Mr. Bartlett to Mrs. Tozer. The conduct of Mrs. Tozer in showing that letter to her husband was such as might be expected from an innocent wife, and such as must have been anticipated by the defendant himself, and it was impossible to measure the amount of misery which a letter of such a nature must produce upon being communicated to the husband. The defendant, after his counsel had apologized for the libel, had publicly repudiated the counsel's authority to make the apology, and had again renewed the odious imputation upon Mrs. Tozer, in a letter communicated to the newspapers of the locality in which he lived. He also threatened that if Mrs. Tozer came into the box at the trial, she would be directly questioned as to the guilt imputed to her in the libel. She had, notwithstanding uch threat, presented herself for examination, and had done everything which it was possible for an innocent woman to do for the purpose of repelling an unfounded insinuation upon her character, whilst the defendant had manifested the same cunning and malice throughout. With regard to the letter which had been put in and not read, his Lordship observed, that although the Court had thought proper to spare the public the p3in and contamination of hearing it, yet it was due to Mrs. Tozer to say that although the subject of the letter was to produce in the mind of the defendant's wife an impression of the guilt of her sister Mrs. Tozer, yet there was nothing in that letter to justify such a conclusion. In the whole course of his ( Mr. Justice Coleridge's) experience, he had never witnessed it private libel more malicious than the present, the guilt of which was aggravated by the fact of the defendant's being a clergyman, in whose person, indeed, it might be said that the church itself was dishonoured. It was, however, useless to attempt any further to make any impression upon the moral sense of a person who could look, as he stated that he did look, upon such conduct as that of which he had been guilty only in the light of an imprudence. That task he ( Mr. Justice Cole, ridge? would leave to another tribunal. The duty of this Court at present was to pronounce the sentence which the conduct of the defendant had deserved, and which was, that he be im- prisoned in the Queen's Prison for two years, and at the end of that time enter into his own recognizance in £ 1000, to keep the peace to all her Majesty's subjects, and especially to Mr. and Mrs. Tozer, for the term of five years. jBiiitum in IJarfco. It has been calculated that there are at the present time about 400 new churches in course of erection in England. A rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against the Medical Times, for an article reflecting on the conduct of Mr. Wakley, as coroner, in the military flogging at Hounslow, has been granted by the Queen's Bench. The Board of Ordnance has rejected the proposal for the use of Schonbein's gun cotton in the British array. Two steamers on Windermere have had a most successful season, the proprietors having received a very handsome dividend upon their capital. A few days since, while a Mr. Harris, of Bristol, was cutting hi3 toe- nails he let the knife slip, and drew blood; mortification and lock- jaw ensued, and he died. The next celebration of the Eton Montem, which will take place in May, 1847, will probably be the last, as the beads of the school are said to have resolved upon abolishing it. Mr. Yardley, barrister of the Oxford Circuit, has been appointed to succeed the late Mr. Bond, as a police magistrate. A medical correspondent of the Athenceum calls attention to the injurious effects of water kept in leaden cisterns. The English squadron has entered the Tagus, to await the issue of affairs in Portugal. It is estimated that the repair of the bridges washed away by the recent inundations in France, will cost about £ 2,000,000, In the neighbourhood of Chester a blackbird's nest was lately discovered, with three eggs in it. A root of parsnip was taken up this week in the garden belonging to Mr. Charles Jackson, of Avenham, which measureed the extraor- dinary length of 4 feet 9 inches.— Preston Pilot. The Queen and Prince Albert have directed the sum of £ 20 to be presented in the name of the Prince of Wales in aid of the Truro Branch of the British and Foreign Sailors' Society. The Earl of Ellesmere has been elected Lord Rector of the Uni- versity of Aberdeen for the ensuing year. The subscriptions to the Cobden testimonial 111 Manchester and the surrounding district now amount to above £ 50,000, or fully one- half of the whole sum which, at the outset, it was expected would be raised as a national tribute. The aggregate amount of the fund is now about £ 77,000. The sale of gun- cotton in Bavaria has been prohibited by the Government, on the ground that, as it cannot by its appearance be distinguished from ordinary cotton, its sale may give rise to accidents, A gentleman, complaining of the scarcity and proportionate inso- lence of female servants iu Port Philip, mentioned that eight of these " helps" were married out of his service in the same number of months.— Port Philip Patriot. Galvanism can be carried 1280,000 miles in the short space of half a second of time, or ten times round this earth. Potatoes were first planted in the vicinity of Edinburgh in 1714, In 1814 indications of decay first made their appearance. A creature very similar to the onrang- outang, but bigger, bolder, and more man- like, is said to exist in the mountains beyond Western- port, in Australia Felix. It is believed, that on the completion of the railways from Lon- don to Edinburgh, a mail train will run the entire distance in ten hours. Notice is given of intention to apply to Parliament in the next session for leave to bring in a bill for a new bridge over the l'hame8 from Essex- street to Dowson's- wharf on the opposite shore;— and for a market at or near the south end of the proposed bridge. Ibrahim Pasha has sent two of his sons lo England to be educated. They are placed under the care of the President of the Pestalozzian School, at Worksop, On Wednesday the play of the Trafalgar- square fountains was suspended during the cleansing of the basins. When the water was drawn off many eels were discovered, Mr. Peet, an Irish barrister, a Quaker, took the affirmation in lieu of the oath, on his admission last week, before Mr, Justice Perrin, in the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin. This is the second Quaker who has been called to the Irish bar. The new planet is about 3,200,000,000 English miles from the sun, and about 5,100,000,000 from the earth. Its diameter is 50,000 miles I agricultural fiittelligence. VALE OF EVESHAM AGRICULTURAL REPORT. AN AGED BIRD.— A magpie died on the 5th of this month, which has been in the possession of Mr. James Hagger, of Great Chestcrford, for 19 years. It was taken from the nest when young, and it would call all the neighbours and children by their names.—- Cambridge Chronicle, SALARIES OF THE JUDGES OF THE COURTS OF EQUITY AND LAW.— The Learned Judges of the several Courts of Equity and Law hae resumed their labours on the com- mencement of Michaelmas Term. There are twenty- two Judges of the superior Courts in England, whose salaries amount to £ 123,577 a year. The five Judges of the Court of Chancery are paid £ 33,000. The Lord Chancellor has £ 10,000, Master of the Rolls, £ 7,000, Vice- Chancellor of England, £ 6,000 and the two Vice- Chancellors, Knight Bruce and Wigram, £ 5,000. The six Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench are paid £ 32,000. The Lord Chief Justice has £ 8,000, and the Puisne Judges £ 5,000 each. The six Judges of the Court of Common Pleas have similar sums, as also the six Judges of the Court of Exchequer, with the exception of the Chief Baron, who has a salary of £ 7,000. The Judge of the Court of Admiralty has £ 4,000, and the average emoluments of tho Judge of the Prerogative Court amount to £ 3,577, making the number 22, and the united salaries £ 123,577. UNIFORM RECEIPT STAMP TAX.— A gentleman in London has been impressing upon the Government, through the newspapers and by means of a pamphlet, that an uniform rate of one penny stamp tax upon all receipts and bankers' checks, in lieu of Ihe present rates, would increase the revenue, and put an end to much heart- burning. The general evasion of duty on receipts which prevails at the present time, is the great motive for the proposed alteration, and some facts of past years are adduced to show that a larger revenue would be the probable result of a moderate tax. A DUCHESS MADE AMENABLE TO THE GAME LAWS.— It will be in the recollection of our readers that a paragraph in the papers recently announced that the Duke of Marlborough was accompanied in a shooting excursion by his lately- married Duchess, and that the hitter personally took part in the amuse- ment of the day, and with her own hand killed several head of game. Of the fact there is, we apprehend, no doubt; but it has been followed up by consequences little apprehended at the time. Informations, it would seem, have been lodged against the Duchess for shooting without a licence. It is sup- posed that this unusual step, which if followed up must in all probability lead to a conviction, has been adopted in retalia- tion for some severe measures recently taken by the Duke to punish certain trespassers upon his manorial rights.— Britannia. A NOVELTY IN THE STREETS OF LONDON,— Seats similar to those in the parks are now placed, for tho use of the public, beneath the row of trees on the foot pavement in Piccadilly. THE MALT STEALING, & c., AT ABINGDON. — The inquiry into this extraordinary case, which is still progressing, has been much enhanced in interest within the last few days, by the arrest of two highly respectable brewers of Oxford, named Miller and Evans, who are now in custody, and under examination with the other prisoners. The following are the names of the prisoners:— Benjamin Blagrove, 50, Joseph Edney, 65, James Edney, 30, John Seymour, 45, William Pead, 24, George Bowler, 34, Joseph Dutton, 24, John Hazell, 23, Charles Trinder, 30, John Huggins, 39, May In Huggins, 40, George Heycroft, 34, William Hazell, 60, Richard Jones, 35, George Peck, 22, Thomas Prior, 30, and Thomas Giles, 40, are charged as the stealers; and William Miller, 31, Joei Evans, 40, aud William Westbrook, 34, as the receivers. The examination, which commenced on the 1st of October, originated in a somewhat singular manner, affording another proof how " strange events from little causes spring." Some time in September a farmer named Badcock, addressed Mr. Fowler, maltster, of Abingdon, and congratulated him on the extensive business he was doing. Fowler replied that he believed ho had his share. Badcock rejoined, he should think more than his share to be at work all night, and sending malt out at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning. Fowler expressed his ignorance of such a fact, when Badcock toid him that he had himself seen his horse and cart out at that early hour, with two of his men. This circumstance caused inquiries to be made, the result of which was that Blagrove was identified as one of the men who had been seen with She cart, and he was taken into custody, when lie made statements which led to the detection of other persons, his confederates in crime, and to the exposure of as extraordinary a case of plunder carried on without detection for the long space of six years as was ever presented before a court of justice. Blagrove is what is called a general dealer. Jones and 1' ead were confidential servants to Miss Spenlove, a wealthy lady, who has a large malting- house and brewery; the Edneys and Trinder being in the employ of Mr. Fowler. It appears that large quantities of malt, hops, and coals, were taken from the premises and consigned to Blagrove, who, with the assistance of the other prisoners, always managed to dispose of them, sometimes by removing the property in boats down the river in the dead of the night, taking it away in hired carts, or conveying it to some hiding place until opportunity occurred to more profitably dispose of it. Blagrove purchased from time to time the silence and assistance of his subordinates by money, but it would seem did not find his chieftainship to be of a very enviable kind, as he was continually threatened by the one or the other unless ho yielded to their pecuniary demands. Strange and almost incredible as it may seem, Blagrove 011 several occasions absolutely had the impudence and hardihood to sell the very property which he had stolen at the current marketable price to the parties of whom it had been stolen. Upwards of 40 witnesses have been examined at great length, but the above is an outline of the case, which is now nearly brought to a conclusion, as far as regards the preliminary inquiry. IMMENSE TAKE OF HERRINGS. 1— A few days ago a fishing lugger was towed into Yarmouth, with the enormous quautity of 25 lasts and 9,500 herrings on board, which were caught off that coast in about a week. Each last of fish contains 10,000 herrings, or 13,200 short tale, 132 being sold for each hundred ; the cargo of the lugger therefore amounts to the prodigious number of 342,542 herrings, valued at near £ 400. The same boat brought in nearly 15 lasts about 12 days previous. Such a sight, even in Yarmouth, is rarely seen, for not only was almost every part of the boat filled, but a vast quantity was stowed on the decks, bringing her gun wale to within a few inches of the water, and fortunately the weather was very fine, or they must have thrown a considerable quantity overboard, HORRIBLE SUICIDE IN LONDON.— Very consider- able excitement prevailed on Monday in Bridgewater- square, Barbican, in consequence of a dreadful case of self- destruction committed the previous night by a gentleman named Benjamin Crootes, who resided at No. 7 in the square. It appears that the deceased until very recently held a lucra- tive situation at Hartner and Pearson's, distillers, Red- cross- street, Cripplegate, but having left that house, he had entered into business on his own account, and was erecting a distillery a few miles from town. During the last week or two a marked change had taken place in his manner. On Sunday night, between ten and eleven o'clock, whilst his daughter was iu one of the lower rooms, she was alarmed at hearing a heavy fall in the apartment in which her father was. She immediately repaired to the spot, when an awful spectacle presented itself: her unfortunate parent was found ou the floor, with a frightful wound at the lower part of the body, which he had inflicted by plunging a sword into himself. A medical gentleman was promptly in attendance, but not iu time to render any assis- tance, for death speedily terminated the sufferings of the deceased. It appears that to accomplish his object the deceased had first cut himself over the bowels, and afterwards placed the handle of the sword on the floor, and then thrown himself on to the point of the blade. INCENDIARY FIRE.— A very extensive fire was dis- covered on Suuday night in Friar- lane Chapel, Nottingham, which was evidently the work of an incendiary. About eleven o'clock Mr. Hebb, hair- dresser, of Swinton, was on his way home, and 011 passing tho chapel he perceived volumes of smoke coming out of the windows ; he cried out, " Fire," and in a few minutes the firemen, with an engine, were upon the spot, and drawing a fire- plug in the street, the engine was in play in five minutes after their arrival. In an hour the flames were subdued, and the interior of the chapel being entered by breaking open the door, the pulpit was found to he entirely destroyed, the gallery and organ extensively burnt, and the wood floor on which tho pulpit stood, the reading desk, and several pews altogether destroyed and reduced to nshes. The firemen remained in the chapel inspecting all its parts, to discover, if possible, the cause of this disaster, supposing all to be safe, when, at a quarter before three, a second fire broke out in a pew in the north- west corner of the chapel, which had evidently been smouldering for hours, the articles burning not being of a very combustible nature. This part was occupied by Mr. Cripps, who was elected mayor a week ago, and had cushions on the seats covered with crimson velvet, stuffed with wool, and there had been placed in one corner a cushion brought from the reading desk in an ignited state, on which was placed a boss or two, no doubt under the expectation that these would fire and cartmrtmieate wdth the woodwork, and so set the whole chapel in a blaze. This second fire, however, was discovered, and put out before much mischief had been done in this part of the building. It was discovered that the vestry had been ransacked, nearly a bottle of wine in a cupboard had been drunk, a cash- box broken open, and the vestry door left wide open. Against an outer door leading to the street, which was locked, a chair had been placed, and feet marks upon the wall and on the top of the door were seen, proving the way taken by the party doing the mischief to make his escape; in short, the whole of tho circumstances proved that the fire had been the work of an incendiary. The building is very handsome, erected at great cost, and had a fine toned organ in it, which is seriously injured. What amount of damage has been done cannot yet be properly estimated; it must, however, take several hundred pounds to repair the mischief. " A TERRIBLE POSITION."— With this heading there has been published the following paragraph in several pro- vincial papers:—" As a train was proceeding through the tunnel on the Leicester and Swannington railway, on Thurs day week, in the direction of the latter place, one " of the chains which connect the carriages broke, and left a number of the carriages behind. Another train left the Leicester station about a quarter of an hour after that which stopped in the tunnel had started thence, so that the passengers in the latter expected every minute tohave a collision with that which was following them. Their agitation and feeling of approachin danger were heightened by their hearing the noise of an engine drawing near, while they were unable to judge whether it was iu the front or the rear of them. In a few minutes their state of awful uncertainty gave way to a senso of security; for the engine which had gone on returned to take the train forwards. Had the delay existed five minutes longer, the collision between the following train and the carriages would have been terrible, and the sacrifice of life certain." It seems entirely to have escaped the observation of the writer of the above paragraph that the passengers might have avoided all danger by leaving their places in the carriages left on the line. THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT FAMPOUX.— The Correc tional Tribunal of Lisle, which has been occupied for five days with the trial of four persons, accused of being concerned in causing, from want of care, the railway catastrophe at Fampoux, delivered its judgment on Saturday. The persons accused were Alexandre Petiet, working engineer, aged 33, of Paris; Joseph Hovelt, inspector of the first class, aged 37 years, also residing at Paris; Alexandre Dutliout, 26 years and Antoin Boin, both engine- men, of Lisle. The evidence brought forward has added nothing whatever to the circum stances already known ; and it will be seen by the following judgment, delivered by the Court after half an hour's delibera- tion, that the cause of the accident still lies involved in the greatest mystery :—" Whereas it appears from the evidence that on July 8, 1846, a train of " 28 carriages from Paris drawn by two locomotives, having gone off the rails at Fampoux, and separated in consequence of the rupture of the traction bars, was precipitated from an earthwork into a deep marsh, where 14 persons perished, the greater number by submersion, aud several others were hurt, five of them severely; and whereas the catastrophe of Fampoux has con sequently for its immediate cause a going off the rails; but whereas the cause of this going off tho rails has, notwith- standing all the efforts of justice and the'tributes of scientific research, still remained enveloped in conjectures, most of which are irreconcilable with each other, and which exclude all idea of culpability, the Court acquits all the persons accused, and without costs." FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY.— On Saturday night a fatal accident occurred on this line, at Luddon Foot station, by which one of the guards, named William Worthington, lost his life. It appears that about dusk a luggage train, on its way to Leeds, stopped at the station to detach some waggons, which had just been done, when another luggage train came up in the same direction, and, there being no signal up, ran into the first with fearful violence. The unfortunate guard was on the last truck, which was shattered to pieces, and he was killed on the spot. His head, when found, was several yards from the body, which was fast under the wheels of the engine. The engine was destroyed, and several of the waggons were broken to pieces, and others seriously damaged. ATTEMPTED ENORMOUS BRIBERY OF A RAILWAY OFFI- CIAL.— The Sunday Times says that " some singular disclosures are likely to occur respecting an attempt to bribe a railway official, of high standing, to betray the interests of his com- pany. We are in a position to state that the sum offered was £ 25,000 ! The offer was, however, rejected with indignation.'' To this the Morning Herald adds—" The terms offered were ' £ 20,000 or £ 25,000, to purchase the gentleman an estate, and enable him to retire.' We are in possession of the whole facts of the case, and know that the party who made the offer had a narrow chance of being thrown out of the window, and having his neck broken, by the official to whom the insulting and scandalous offer was made." FOREIGN RECIPROCITY.— The Zollverein was said to be the offspring of our Corn Laws, and sure to expire when these laws should be repealed. Tho Zollverein has not died, and will not die; and the first step by which it signalises its. gratitude for the repeal of our Corn Laws is the imposition of an additional duty of 50 per cent, upon the previous heavy duty on our cotton yarn, and a multiplication twelve- fold of the previous duty upon our linen yarn. Is this the proposed imitation of our liberal commercial policy 1 Several months have now elapsed since I sent you a report, but as the busy time has now arrived when the mother earth must receive the seed that is to furnish food and sustenance for our teeming millions, a few hints as to the best descrip- tion of wheat for planting, & c., may not be altogether unin- teresting to your agricultural readers. The question, and an important one, too, is. what is the best and most productive wheat for planting I After four years' trial, permit me to say that I have found the red cluster for spring and autumn more productive and certain than any other. It is a good miller's wheat, sufficiently long in the straw, and very hardy. The long continuance of wet weather, contrary to the predictions of our weather prophets, delayed the planting of wheat, but within the last nine days a very considerable quantity has been put in under the most favourable circumstances: in fact. a more busy time was never known. On some of the large farms four or five drills, with skims and scutiiers, have been ncessantly at work. Should the present fine weathercontinue a few days longer, the great bulk of the wheat planting of the Vale of Evesham will be finished. The pastures and young clovers are full of keep, and the early planted vetches and rye are growing away most luxuriantly. The swedish turnips have improved wonderfully the last month, and although some few fields are slightly injured by the blight, others are very good indeed. Common turnips are most excellent, particularly the tankard and red Norfolk which are unusually largo and fine. The epidemic from which the cattle were suffering in Julv has almost disappeared from this part of the country. Mutton and beef command high prices, and stock of all descriptions is scarce and dear, A considerable quan- tity of wheat has been brought to market the last month, some of the small farmers having thrashed nearly two- thirds of their last year's crop ; millers appear less anxious to purchase, and from the pressure of samples 011 the market, prices have given way. Bran and pollards are selling well, and pig feed of all descriptions is very dear, so much so that few are bold enough to continue feeding more than what they may posi- tively require for themselves. The potatoes are mostly got up: the average does not exceed 60 to 80 bushels per acre, of these a fifth are damaged. Few of the poor have more than a month's consumption left. The poor will require especial help this winter: soup and coal clubs are all very well in their way, and cannot be too highly recommended, but they only offer temporary relief. Employment is the surest and best way of affording permanent assistance to the poor man. By united effort it is possible that all may have em- ployment; and now that agricultural produce bears a good price, an additional hand or two for the winter months cannot make much difference in the expenses of a farm, and even where it involves a personal sacrifice, remember, " He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord." Nov. 14. II. BROMSGROVE FARMERS' CLUB.— The annual ploughing match of the Bromsgrove Farmers' Club took place on Tues- day last, at the Fox Walks Farm, Grafton Manor, by the permission of Mr. Thomas Harris. The quantity to be ploughed by each plough was a quarter of an acre. The entry was as under: LINE WHEEL PLOUGHS. John Holmes. Daniel Holmes. Thomas Hill. Robert Heynes. G. F. Iddins, Esq. John Buddley. John Buddley. Boys. John Juston. Thomas Southall. John Williis. John Griffin. George Goldsbury. Thomas Brookes. Masters. Ploughmen. John Holmes. Thomas Brookes. Thomas Harris. Timothy Barber. Thomas Harris. Charles Eaves. Charles Smith. William Watton. LINE HAND PLOUGHS. John Davis. William Mander. Edmund Holmes. Edmund Prescott. G. O. PLOUGHS. James Parsons. William Nicholls. John Daffbrn. Thomas Shsrpe. The prizes were awarded as follows, by the Judges, Mr. Joseph Creswell, of Barnesley Hall; Mr. James Heywood, Hanbury ; and Mr. Thomas Saunders, Hanbury:— Line wheel ploughs: 1st prize, 1/., to Timothy Barber; 2nd, 10s., Thomas Brookes. — Line hand ploughs : 1st prize, R, to John Davis ; 2nd, 10s., to Edmund Holmes G. O. ploughs: ist prize, 1/., to Thos. Sharpe; 2nd, 10s., to James Parsons.— After the ploughing, which was very creditably performed, the party adjourned to the Fox Walks House, where an excellent cold collation was laid out, and to which Mr. Harris's numerous friends did ample justice. In the evening the club dined at the Golden Cross Inn, Bromsgrove, Robert Heynes, Esq., in the chair, and among others present were Messrs. T. Harris, E. Price, B. Maund, Joseph Creswell, W. Parkes, John Holmes, Thomas Hill, and many others. The usual loyal and agricultural toasts were given, and the party broke up, highly delighted with the proceedings of the day. REPEAL OF THE MALT TAX. MEETING OF THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE AGRICULTURISTS. A meeting of the Gloucestershire agriculturists was held at Cirencester on Monday, for the purpose of forming an asso- ciation having for its object the abolition of the malt tax. The Hon. James Legge Dutton was called to the chair. He ( Mr. Dutton), after explaining the object of the meeting, proceeded to say that it was hard one protective tax should be taken off and others continued. Daniel Bowly, Esq., said he asked for the repeal of the malt tax as an act of justice. He would ask no boon or favour from the Government. He would call upon the Liberals, and all who professed Free- trade doctrines, to support the repeal of the Malt- tax. He would say to all the world that the Malt- tax with a free trade in corn was unjust. Mr. Peter Matthews, a tenant farmer, was satisfied that the Malt- tax was the most oppressive tax in the statute book. It pressed entirely on the labouring population. Government thought proper to reduce the duty 011 brandy, and yet they were quite regardless of and forgot the men who did the work. Great advantage would accrue to the farmers by the abolition of the tax. He hoped, therefore, that they would not cease to agitate until the object was attained. Captain Goodwyn said that it was admitted on ail hands that the Malt- tax was an oppressive tax. Many influential gentlemen who were satisfied of the injustice of the tax had absented themselves from this meeting because they were afraid the amount could not be spared from the revenue. But the duty created by increased consumption would make up for the supposed loss in the revenue. The Rev. R. W. Huntley, after a few introductory remarks, said that beer was absolutely necessary to the existence of a poor man. If used temperately, it was requisite as a matter of sustenance. The present tax denied the poor man any beer in his own house. The state said, you are not in a position to drink beer, therefore you shall not have any. ( Shame.) Let us look to the morals of the labouring population. The labourer is compelled to go to a beer- house, where he meets with loose companions, with whom perhaps he wastes his week's pay, and thereby impoverishes his family besides exhibiting a vicious example. The Malt- tax was unjust to both the farmer and the labourer. The Marquis of Worcester next proceeded briefly to address the meeting. The question had been asked, how were we to make up the deficiency in the revenue if the Malt- tax were repealed I He replied, let the foreigner pay for us. The Acts of the last session would lead to the supposition that the Corn- laws would be repealed in 1849— not without a struggle, however. The greatest possible benefit that could be conferred ou the agriculturist would be to allow him to use his own barley for malt. ( Cheers.) After a few remarks from several other gentlemen, sub- scriptions were entered into, and the meeting separated. A meeting was held at Burford, Oxfordshire, on Saturday, to consider the Repeal of the Malt Tax. The attendance, which consisted entirely of farmers, was numerous ; and the resolutions, which embodied a determination to agitate the question, until the impost was repealed, were carried una- nimously. A society, called the Burford Anti- Malt- Tax Society, was formed, and subscriptions opened to assist in carrying on the movement. Mr. C. Large, of Broadwell, an influential tenant farmer, was in the chair. & 0tictUiural ant? otljer Plarftete. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK- LANE, MONDAY, NOV. 16. A fair average quantity of free foreign wheat on show. Fine dry samples were in fair demand, at late rates, yet the business actually transacted was comparatively small. In all other kinds next to nothing wag passing. There was a scanty supply of English barley, but the show of foreign was large. As a very small portion oLthe latter was lit for malting purposes, the best qualities were held effect- ually at extreme figures : but grinding and distilling sorts commanded very little attention, at last week's prices. Owing to the unusually high rates demanded for malt, the sales for that article was slow, yet the holders did not submit to lower figures. A good supply of foreign oats; yet there were no supplies from Ireland, and those from our own coasts small, the oat trade was steady, at late rates, the sale for beans slow, at previous figures. Foreign peas were somewhat lower. I11 flour next to nothing doing. Per qr. Per qr. Wheat, Essex, Kent, & 0. a. Suffolk Red 60 to 66 White 66 69 Lincolnshire & York- shire Red 57 60 White - - - 63 66 Scotch - 55 59 White - 56 64 Irish - - - - 53 56 White 51 60 Barley, Essex and Kent, Norfolk and Suffolk Malting - 42 46 Distilling 40 43 Chevalier 44 50 Grinding - - - 34 38 Irish, Distilling - 35 38 Grinding - - - 30 34 Rye, Distilling 38 40 Grinding - 36 38 Malt, Norfolk & Suffolk 69 74 Brown • 61 63 Malt Kingston and Ware 71 Brown - - - 03 Oats, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, Feed - 25 Pota. and Poland - 30 Ssotch - - - as Devonshire and Welsh 24 Londonderry, Newry, and Clonmel ditto - 26 Limerick and Sligo - 27 Cork and Waterford - 25 Black White- - - - 25 Galway - - .21 Extra - - .24 Beans, Tick - - - 42 Harrow and Small - 41 Peas, Essex, Boilers - 57 Blue - - - - 62 Grey, Maple, St Hog - 40 Extra - - . .45 WEDNESDAY, NOV. 18. 76 67 27 33 32 27 28 29 26 29 23 26 45 46 62 82 45 47 At this day's market the few samples of English wheat readily brought the rates of Monday. In free foreign there was more busi- ness passing at firm prices, and in addition to a good French demand for bonded, there was also more enquiry for Belgian. Barley sold slowly, and the turn in favour of buyers. A moderate supply of oats at previous currency. In other grain there was a limited consump. tive demand, without any quotable change in value. IMPERIAL AVERAGES. Average Price of Corn, per Imperial Quarter, for the Week end in 3 November 7. Wheat .... 62s 3d | Oats .... 27s 3d I Beans .... 4Gs 6d Barley .... 4- Js 3d j Rye .... 41s 5d | Peas .... 50s lid Aggregate Average of the Six Weeks which regulates the Duty. Wheat 59s 3d I Oats 25s lOd I Beans . 45s " a Barley .... 39s 9d j Rye . . 38s Gd | Peas .... 48s 3d Duty on Foreign Corn, Wheat .... 4s Od I Oats .... Is 6d I Beans . Barley.... 2s Od | Rye .... 2s Od | Peas 2s SEED MARKET, Nov. 16. Although there was not quite so much activity in the demand for English linseed cakes, a good business was doing, at full prices. Foreign cakes dull, and somewhat lower. The same may be suid o i rape- cakes. Linseed heavy, and may be purchased 011 lower terms. Riga and Archangel 44s. to 45s. per qr. ltapeseed steady, at extreme currencies. In all other articles, the transactions were but moderate at previous quotations, Clover, red Eng. cwt., 46s to 48s- white' 44s to 40s; foreign, red, 44s to 46s; white, 44s to 50s; Ca'rraway' 43s to 44s; Linseed for sowing 55s to 60s : Linseed cakes I English \ per 1,000 £ 13 0s to £ 14 Cs ; foreign, £ 9 to £ 11. 1 ^ " WOOL MARKETS. LONDON, NOV. 16.— The imports of wool last week, were about 800 packages, chiefly from Odessa. Public sales are announced for the 25th aud following days; but the quantity to be offered thereat will be comparatively small. Privately, very little business was done and prices were with difficulty supported. LIVERPOOL — Foreign wool was iu good request durin" the week and the business reported very considerable; prices were very firm* but still there was ou nearly all sales heavy lots to the importer. A fair business was done in Alpacas. A little more inquiry for Scotch but there was no confidence to purchase freely at present prices. LEEDS.— Foreign : No change to report in the foreign wool trade this week, either regards sales or prices. English : Sales of English wool have not varied materially fur the last few weeks. They were very small, aud confined to the supply of the immediate requirements of the manufacturers. Prices nominally the same as last week. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET, Nov. 16. At this day's market there were ou show to- day, 600 beasts, 1,5S0 sheep, and 15 calves from abroad, in middling condition. Nearly the whole found buyers, at full prices. From our own grazing districts the bullock droves were season- ably large, but of very middling quality. The primest beasts commanded a very steady sale, at, in some instances, a trifle more money,— the best Scots readily producing 4s 2d per 81bs.; but all other breeds were very dull, and the turn lower. Although the numbers of sheep were on the increase, the mutton trade was very steady, at fully, but at nothing quotable beyond, last week's prices. In calves, a fair amount of business was trausac ted, at our quotations. The pork trade was slow, yet prices were supported. PRICES PEE STONE OF 8LBS. TO UNK THE OFFAL. d Inferior Beasts 2 8 2 10 Second quality ditto 3 0 3 2 Prime large Oxen .... 3 4 3 8 Prime Scots, & c 3 10 4 2 Inferior Sheep 4 2 4 4 Second quality ditto 4 6 4 8 Coarse- woolled ditto 4 10 5 0 Prime Southdown .. 5 0 5 2 Prime Southdown in s wool 0 Lamb 0 Large coarse Calves 3 Prime small ditto 4 Suckling Calves, each 18 Large Hogs 3 Small Porkers 4 0 30 8 4 6 4 Qr. old store pigs, each I63 a 18 SUPPLY AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts, 4,065 | Sheep 25,330 | Calves, 22 | Pigs 313 HOPS. WORCESTER, Nov. 20.— Prices have become firm again and at our market last Saturday, best samples were rated a little higher, and all sorts scarce and in good demand. From the general tone of the market, there is every prospect of Jiefter prices yet being obtained. . There was not a single load of hops brought to- market - on Saturday last, - and the few weighed were most of . them those left unsold on the previous market day. Weighed on Saturday, new, 159; during the week, new", 107, old, 12. BOROUGH, Nov. IFI.— Selected parcels of hops are in fair request, at full prices; but all other qualities are extremely dull, and, to effect sales, a decline of from 2s. to 3s. per cwt. must be submitted to. Per cwt. Sussex pockets ........ £ 3 14s. to £ 4 4s. Weald of Kent £ 4 0s. to £ 4 10s. Mid and East Kent .... £ 4 ] 0s. to £ 6 6s. FAIRS IN THE ENSUING WEEK. Gloucestershire.— Moreton- in- Marsli, Tues.; Littledean, Thurs. Gloucester, Sat. Herefordshire.— Pembridge, Mon. Shropshire.— Clunn, Mon. ; Shiffnal, Mon.; Wem, Mon.; Woore Thurs. ; Church Stretton, Thurs. Warwickshire.— Rugby, Mon. WORCESTER, Nov. 20. At our market on Saturday the wheat trade ruled dull, and to effect sales lower prices must have been submitted to ; but as holders were generally firm, very little changed hands. Barley maintained its value, with an improved demand. Oats met a slow sale, and rather lower prices were submitted to. Peas still enquired' for. Beans Is per qr. cheaper. Wheat, white New Foreign Wheat, red New Foreign Barley, grinding Ditto new Malting .. Malt Old Oats, English .. New ditto INSPECTOR'S s d s d 8 d s d 7 4 7 6 Old Oats, Irish 4 0 4 3 0 0 0 0 New Oats, Irish 4 0 4 3 0 0 0 0 Beans, old, English . 6 4 6 8 7 0 7 4 Ditto, Foreign 5 8 6 0 0 0 0 0 Ditto new, English . 6 0 C 2 0 0 0 0 Peas, Feed . 6 0 6 6 4 6 4 8 Boilers, white 7 0 8 6 5 6 5 9 Vetches, Winter ... 7 0 7 2 8 6 9 0 ditto, Spring . 0 0 0 0 4 6 4 9 Rye, new . 5 0 5 6 4 6 4 9 Total quan. Av. perqr. Wheat G97;|: s 7 6u. £ 2 17 10J Barley 342 1 2 1 Gj Oats. .150 0 1 10 0 WEEKLY RETURN OF I *;- T- • Rye CORN SOLD. Beans Peas Totalquan. Av. perqr. . Oqr. 0 bu.£ 0 0 0 10 7 2 10 8 .13 4 2 5 4 COUNTRY MARKETS. BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 18. — During the present week there has been more disposition to buy wheat, and Is per qr. advance obtained ou fine English, which realised 7s 6.1 to 7s 8d per 621bs. Malting barley could only be disposed of by submitting to a reduction. Grinding supported it3 value. Beans dull at former rates. Oats were disposed of at Is per qr. less money.— Averages : Wheat, 2,101 qrs. 5 bush., 59s 5jjd ; barley, 317 qrs., 41s l| d ; oats, 14qrs. 2 bush., 28s 7id ; beans, 253 qrs. 4 bush., 50s 2d; peas, 51 qrs. 6 bush.. 62s 10^ 1: STOURBRIDGE, Nov. 13.— Wheat to day was heavy; white Is. to 2s. per qr. lower. Barley was heavy, and to effect sales Is. perqr. decline was submitted to. Beans and peas firm. No transactions in vetches. GLOUCESTER, Nov. 14.— No alteration in the value of wheat nt this day's market, though in some instances rather less money may have been taken, the market closed very firm, and the supply of English aamples was not sufficient to meet the wants of the buyers. Barley and beans unaltered in value. Oats a dull sale, and 6d to Is per qr. lower.— Averages : Wheat, 245 qrs, 58s 5d; barley, 216 qrs,, 37s ; oats, 193 qrs., 27s ; beans, 85 qrs , 40s 10J. HEREFORD, Nov. 14.- Wheat ( old) 6sl0d to 7s 3d; barley, ( new) 5s Od to 5s 6d; beans ( old) Cs ; peas, ( new) 6s 0d ; oats, 3s Gd to 4s 6d. SHREWSBURY, Nov. 14.— Wheat, 5s 6d to 7s Gd ; barley, 4s 3d to 5s Id; oats 11 score lOlbs. 15s to 21s per bag ; beans per bag 12 score, 23s to 25s; peas, II score and lOlbs,, 20s to 21s; malt, per imperial bushel. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 17.— There was a dull market to- day, wheat and flour at the reduction of Friday, and other articles much the same as on that day, except Indian corn, which was pressed for sale, and being without buyers, holders accepted 4s to 5s per qr. less than was current in the retail sales of this day week. fgorticuiture* OPERATIONS FOR TIIE WEEK. STOVE, kc.— Flower Forcing Pit.< Now the leaves are falling fast, it will be easy for those who have a pit at liberty to make it up for flower forcing, The leaves should have a portion of well wrought dung mixed w ith them, if to spare ; this will bring the leaves into perfect action immediately. About nine inches of tan may be placed over the leaves in order to facilitate the plunging. Let the glass have a thorough cleaning. As soon as this completed, flowers for forcing;, if in proper condition, may be intioduced immediately. The Hyacinths and Narcissi, potted in September, may now be introduced successively in small quantities to this pit, when the buds are two inches Ions;. They should be plunged overhead at the front or darkest part of the pit, covering them four inches with old tan. KITCHEN GARDEN FORCING.— Pines: Keep a high temperature during sunshine, but be very moderate at night, and during dark weather. Syringing may now be almost entirely dispensed with, provided plenty of atmospheric moisture can be supplied. A little through the stems of the fruiters once a week will, however, prove beneficial. KITCHEN GARDEN AND ORCHARD.— As full grown Coleworts turned into head, are rather impatient of frost in a severe winter, place them near the frame ground as thickly as they can lay together. See that Mint, Sorrel, & c , is potted for forcing. Plant Shallots on raised beds; dig plenty of manure in, burying it deep, and surround the bulbs with sand 011 raised drills, putting the bulb just overhead. Get some straw covers or old lights on the prime Parsley bed, for fear of snow ; also on the Normandy Cress. FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES,— All things liable to injury from severe weather, aud which are requisite for another year, should be got under protection without delay. Shch as Fuchsias, Lobelias, Pelargoniums, Shrubby Calceolarias, Salvias, Tigridias, & c., will require this treatment. A lean- to shed is a very good place; and plants with a ball of earth dried on them, after the man- ner of Dahlias, will keep very well here plunged in coal- ashes, with the addition of an old niat and a little straw over the shed during very severe weather. Esisottmit ana laanlvrupt tusteter. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13. BANKRUPTS. William Dunn, Vine- street, Piccadilly, victualler. Henry Power, Salford, Somersetshire, innkeeper. John Henry Bedford, Bristol, artists' colourman, Joseph lliudmarsh, Liverpool, woollen- draper. David Levi, Birmingham, licensed- victualler. Henry Gouldesbrough, Lower Broughton, Manchester, share- broker. George Benjamin Franklin, Shrewsbury, Salop, printer. George Burgess, Ramsgate, coachmaker. Cornelius Stalks, jun., Southampton, builder. Alexander Henderson, Old Burlington- street, tailor. Edward Hopewell and Anthony Thacker, Leadenhall- street, out- fitters. Thomas Marsh, Camomile- streot, Bishopsgate- street, City, cabinet- manufacturer. Saul Charles Aaron, Brighton, auctioneer. William Everton, Bunhill- row, St. Luke's, tanner. Richard liatning, Fetter- lane, City, surgeon. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17 BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Thomas Smith, John- street, Blackfriars- road, hackne}' man. BANKRUPTS Thomas Lambert I'owell, Romsey, Hampshire, cabinet- maker. William Hodges, Kingsgate- street, Holborn, cloth worker. Richard Kent Payne, Brighton, grocer. JohnDodgsou and George Bradbury, Bishopsgate- street Without, ironmongers. William Reeves, liorseferry- road, Limehouse, live stock dealer. Robert Mann, Huntingdon, chemist. John Eckstein, High- street, Notting- hiil, ironmonger. William Rolfe, Ley ton , corn dealer. James Churchyard, Brixton, carpenter, Alexander Augustus Mackay and Nathaniel James White Holt, St. llelen's- plaei-, Bishopsgate- street, merchants, Stephen Woodgate, Camberwell, auctioneer, John Maiston, Birmingham, surgeon. William Hunter, Ilainford, Lancashire, manager of a quarry. John Thomas, Cwrabaeh, Glamorganshire, builder. David Gostick, Keighley, Yorkshire, grocer. Robert Parkinson, jun., Leeds, stock broker. John Knight, Birmingham, timber merchant. Henry Leonard, Cheltenham, ironmonger. Charles Taylor, Mirfield, Yorkshire, common brewer. Henry James Palmer, Wantage, Berkshire, grocer. James UUathome, Brixton- road, Surrey, builder. Printed and Published for the Proprietor, at the Office No. 5 Avenue, Cross, in the Parish of Saint Nicholas, in the Borough of Worcester, by FRANCIS PARSONS" ENGLAND Printer, residing at No 52, Moor Street, Tything of Whistones, in the Borough of Worcester. Saturday, November 21, 1846. Advertisements and Orders received by the following Agents : LONDON :— Mr. Barker, 33, Pleet- street; Messrs. Newton & Co. 2, Warwick Square; Mr. G. Re3' nell ,42, Chancery Lane; Mr. Deacon 3, Walbrook, near the Mansion House ; Mr. Joseph Thomas 1, Finch Lane, Cornliill ; Mr. Hammond 27, Lombard- street, Mr. C. Mitchell, 8, Red Lion- court, Fleet- street; and Messrs. Lewis and Lowe, 3, Castle Court, Birchin Lane, Cornhili. Birmingham Mr. Wood. Bewdley, Mr. Danks. Bromsgrove, Mr. Maund. Broadway, Mr. J. Tustins, jun. Blockley, Mr. J. G. Edge. Chipping Campden, Mr. W. Greenhouse. Chaddesley Corbett, Mr. R. Brook, Post Office. Droitwich, Mrs. Green. Dudley, Mr. Danks. Evesham, Mr. Pearc. e. Hereford, Mr. Parker, Kidderminster, Mr. Pennell. Ledbury, Mi. Bagster. Leominster, Mr. Burlton. Malvern, M r. Lamb. Pershore, Mrs. Laugher Redditch, Mr. Osborne. Ross, Mr. Farror. Slourbrtdge, Mr. Hemming, Stourport, Mr. Williams Mr. Wheeldon. Tenk& ti Mr. B. Home. Tewkesbury, Mr. Bennet Upton, Mr. J. Okeil.