ttaitfefatiu THE ALTAR, THRONE, AND LAND WE LIVE IN. N° 624. WORCESTER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1846. PRICE 5D. EXTRAORDINARY CURES BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT. A Wonderful Cure of dreadful Ulcerous Sores in the Face and Leg, in Prince Edward Island. The Truth of this Statement was duly attested before a Magistrate. IHUGH MACDONAT. D, of Lot 55, in King's County, do • hereby declare that a most wonderful preservation of my life has been effected by the use of Holloway's Pills and Oint- ment ; and I furthermore declare that I was very much afflicted with Ulcerous Sores in my Face and Leg; so severe was my complaint, that the greater part of my nose and the roof of my mouth was eaten away, and my leg had three large ulcers on it, and that I applied to several medical gentlemen, who prescribed for me, but I found no relief. My strength was rapidly failing every day, and the malady on the increase; when I was induced to try Holloway's Medicines. After taking two or three boxes, I experienced so much relief, and found the progress of the disease was so much arrested, that I was enabled to resume my ordinary labours in the field. The sores which were so disagreeable and repulsive to behold are now nearly all healed. Having received such truly beneficial aid, I feel myself bound to express my gratitude to the person by whose means I have thus been restored from the pitiable and miserable state I was in; and for the sake of humanity make known my case, that others similarly situated might be believed. ( Signed) HUGH MACDONALD. This declaration made before me, at Bay Fortune, the 3rd day of September, 1845. JOSEPH COFFIN, Justice of the Peace. The above case of Hugh Macdonald, of Lot 55, came person, ally under my observation; and when he first applied to me to get some of the medicines I thought his case utterly hopeless, and told him that his malady had got such hold that it was only throwing hi3 money away to use them. He however persisted in trying them, and to my astonishment, I find what t- e has aforesaid stated to be perfectly correct, and consider the case to be a most wonderful cure. ( Signed) WILLIAM UNDERHAY, Bay Fortune. A Cure, of Ringworm of Four Years Sta? iding. Copy of a Letter from Mrs. Grace Moro, 6, Hemlock Court, Carey Street, London, 6th November, 1845. To Professor HOLLOWAY. SIB,— About four years ago my little girl caught the Ring- worm, and although I . have ever since had advice from many doctors, and tried every means to get rid of it, yet I was unable to do so. About three weeks ago I was induced to try some of your Pills and Ointment, and I am most happy to say the result has been a perfect cure. ( Signed) GRACE MORO. mm* Skin Diseases, peculiar to any part of the Globe, may be effectually Cured by the use of these celebrated Medicines. Cure of a Desperate Case of Erysipelas. Copy of a Letter from Mr. Joseph Gildon, jun., a Farmer, East Kent, near Spilsby, Lincolnshire, 8th April, 1846. To Professor HOLLOWAY. SIR,— I have the gratification to announce to you a most wonderful cure wrought upon myself, by the use of your Oint- ment and Pills. I had a severe attack of Erysipelas in my right foot, which extended along my ankle, and was attended with swelling and inflammation to an alarming degree, insomuch that I was unable to move without the use of crutches. I con- sulted a very eminent Physician, besides other medical men, but to no purpose. At last I tried your Ointment and Pills, when, strange to say, in less than two weeks the swelling and inflammation gradually subsided to such a degree that I was enabled to pursue my daily avocation, to the utter surprise and amazement of those who were acquainted with my case, seeing that I was cured so quickly. I and my family are well known here, as my father holds his farm under the Rev. J. Spencer, Rector of our parish. ( Signed) JOSEPH GILDON. The Testimony of Dr. Bright, of Ely Place, Holborn, as to the Extraordinary Power of Holloway's Ointment in the Cure of Ulcerated Sores. Extract of a Letter from the above celebrated Physician. To Professor HOLLOWAY. SIR,— I think it but an act of justice to inform you that I have tried your Ointment in several old cases of Ulcerated Sore Legs, which for a considerable time had resisted every kind of treatment, but which were afterwards effectually cured by its use. In the treatment of Bad Breasts I have also found your Ointment of the greatest service. Indeed, from my practical knowledge, I conceive it to be a most invaluable remedy. ( Signed) RICHARD BRIGHT, M. D. HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT will Cure any cases of Bad Legs, Ulcerous Sores, Bad Breasts, Sore Nipples, Cancers, Tumours, Swellings, Contracted or Stiff Joints, Gout, Rheu- matism, Lumbago, Burns, Scalds, Chilblains, Chapped Hands and Lips, Bunions, Soft Corns, Piles, the bite of Moschettoes, Sand Flies, Chiego Foot, Yaws, Coco Bay, and all Skin Diseases common to Europe, or to the East and West Indies, or other tropical climes. HOLLOWAY'S PILL'S should be taken in most instances when using the Ointment, in order to purify the blood and invigorate the system. N. B. Directions for the guidance of Patients in every Disorder are affixed to each Pot. ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE OF CONSTITUTIONAL OR ACQUIRED DEBILITIES OF THE GENERATIVE SYSTEM. " THE SILENT FRIEND," NINETEENTH EDITION. Price 2s. 6d., and sent free to any part of the United Kingdom, in a Sealed Envelope, from tlie Establishment, on receipt of 3s. 6d. in Postage Stamps. AMEDICAL WORK on the INFIRMITIES OF THE GENERATIVE SYSTEM, in both sexes; 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 REPllO- DUCTIVE POWERS; WITH MEANS OP RKSTORATION; the des- tructive effects of Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Strictures, and Secondary Symptoms are explained in a familiar manner; the Work is EMBELLISHED WITH TEN FINE COLOcRED ENGRAV- INGS, on Steel, representing the deleterious influence of Mercury on the skin, by eruptions on the head, face, and body; with APPROVED MODE OF CURB for both sexes : followed by Observations on the Obligations of MARRIAGE, and healthy perpetuity; with directions ibr the removal of certain Disqualifications; the whole Eointed out to suffering humanity as a " SILENT FRIEND," to e . consulted without exposure, and with assured confidence of succcss BY R.'& L. 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Part I. of this Work is particularly addressed to those who are prevented from forming a Matrimonial Alliance, through 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. Part II. treats perspicuously upon those forms of diseases, either in their primary or secondary state, arising from infection, stowing 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, are innocent but equal particip ators. THE CORDIAL BALM OF SYlllACUM f Is a gentle stimulant and renovator of the impaired functions o life, and is exclusively directed to the course 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 of their system, » nd fallen into a state of chronic debility, by 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 weak- ness, sexual debility, obstinate gleets, excesses, irregularity, obstructions of certain evacuations, total impotency aud barren- ness, are effectually removed by this invaluable medicine. Price lis., or four at Us. in one bottle l'or3Js. by whicii lis. are saved. The £ b cases of Syriacum or Concentrated Detersive Essence can only be had at 19, 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 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 bluod; 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 1 Is , 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 vital organs of existence. To those suffering from the consequences which this disease may have left behind in the form of SECONDARY SYMPTOMS, eruptions of the skin, blotches on the head and face, ulcerations and enlargement of ihe 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 found 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 on the responsibilities of mat'imony, 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, for 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 pure. Messrs. PERRY expect, when consulted by letter, the usual Fee of One Pound, addressed to the London Establishment, with- out which no notice whatever can be taken of the communication. Persons are requested to be as minute as possible in the detail of their cases, as to the duration of the complaint, the symptoms, age, habits of living, and general occupation. 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DEIGHTON, Journal Office Kidderminster... THOS. PENNELL, Bookseller. Where may be had the " SILENT FRIEND." FOR CHILDREN CUTTING THEIR TEETH. MRS. JOHNSON'S AMERICAN SOOTHING SYRUP This infallible Remedy has preserved hun- dreds of Children when thought past recovery from Convul sions arising from painful dentitition. As soon as the Syrup is rubbed on the Gums, the Child will be relieved, the Gums cooled, and the inflammation reduced. It is as innocent as efficacious, tending to produce the Teeth with ease ; and so pleasant, that no Child will refuse to let its Gums be rubbed with it. When infants are at the age of four months, the Syrup should be rubbed on the Gums; and Parents should never be without the Syrup in the Nursery where there are young children; for if a Child wakes in the night with pains in the Gums, the Syrup immediately gives ease; thereby pre- venting Convulsions, Fevers, & c. The great success of this Medicine during the last 25 years has induced unprincipled per- sons to imitate it, under the name of American Soothing Syrup, and copying parts of Mrs. Johnson's Bills, fee. Parents will, therefore, be very particular to ask for JOHNSON'S AMEBICAN SOOTHING SYRUP, and to notice that the names BARCLAY and SONS, 95, Farringdon Street, London, to whom Mrs. Johnson has sold the recipe), are on the Stamp affixed to each Bottle. RAMAGE'S CONCENTRATED COMPOUND SOLUTION OF IRON. fT^ HE well- knowii tonic properties of Iton have made 1 it a medicine df daily application in all cases of debility produced by a poor aOd impoverished state of the blood. THE SYMPTOMS by which the state of the system is known are the following :— 1General weakness, languor, inapti- ude to exertion, loss df appetite, imperfect digestion, flatulence, after taking food, a feeble action of the heart, palpitation on the slightest exertion, cold hands and feet, irregular action of the bowels, and severe headaches. THE EFFECT of this Preparation of Iron is to act as a permanent Tonic, By strengthening and invigorating the stomach and digestive organs, the appetite is not only increased, but the food taken is properly digested, the blood is made in better quality and larger quantity, thereby the action of the heart is increased, jendering the pulse fuller and stronger, augmenting the temperature of the body, and improving the tone of the muscular fibre. This Medicine is much assisted by using RAMAGE'S LAXATIVE PILLS at the same time. Sold in Bottles, at 4s. 6d. each, Wholesale and Retail, by the Proprietor's appointment, at JOHN SANGER'S, 150, Oxford Street, and may be procured of Mrs. Deighton, High Street, Worcester, and all respectable Medicine Venders throughout the country. WEBB'S AFRICAN POMATUM, FOP RINGWORM & c. THI< 3 eimnlp h, lt effectual remedy has raised itself . 1. . e sale, solely by its extraordinary powers into an extensiv, t[ ie Impetigo or Ringworm, which of rapidly destroying other parts ofthe body. It is perfectly appears on the head a hag constantly cured where all Medical mtan^ l'vefaTled'Vhis^ urn has also been found most efficacious in the cure ° f Scald Head, Shingles, and in removing Warts Pimples and other diseases caused from worms, or insects'in the human'^ in; it will also extirpate those disfigure- ments to the face called Grubs or Black Worms. Sold in Pots, 2s. 9d. each. And HARRISON'S PILE LOZENGES, ( an internal applica- tion). This cheap and easy Remedy has had the sanction of so many years' experience, that it is needless to enlarge on its superior efficacy. It may be proper, however, to mention, that it is perfectly harmless to the most tender constitution; and pregnant women may take it with the utmost safety, as it has never yet been known to fail of success. Sold at 2s. 6d. per Packet. Also THOMAS'S UNGUENTUM, or Ointment for the Piles. ( An external application.) May be used where the Piles are more external; it has been long used with unvarying success, and never fails in allaying inflammation and pain, quickly diloUiSin?^ sHar! 3? rWholesale agent Mr J. SANGER, 150, Oxford Street, a'ld , be Poured of Mrs. De. ghton, High Street, Worcester anda11 respectable Medicine Vendets throughout the countr^* ~ FRAMPToS'S PILL OF HEALTH, HP HE manifold advantages to the Heads of Families I from the possession of a Medicine of known efficacy, that may be resorted to w" h confidence, and used with success in cases of temporary sickness, occurring in families, more or less, every day, are so obvious to all, that no question can be raised of its importance to every householder in the kingdom. From among numerous testimonials, the following is respectfully submitted :— , _ " To Mr. Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London. " No. 5, David- street, Regent- road, Manchester, 3 « March 12,1842. " Sir,— I have much satisfaction in communicating to you the result of my experience after repeated trials of FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and I feel it but justice to state, that in the course of many years' trial of various Aperient Medicines, I have never found results at once so salutary and efficient in the relief of the system from redundant bile, & c. & c., with so little inconvenience; I am, therefore, warranted in declaring that they supply to me a means long wanting of being able to recommend to families, schools, and especially mercantile men, whether at the desk or on the road, a most valuable resource in an occasional medicine. And I shall take credit to myself if, in giving this testimony, I am the means of making Frampton's Pills more generally known and appreciated. is f am, Sir, respectfully yours, " WILLIAM SMITH." The unnrecedented * ale of these Pills' arising from the earnest JnmrnEns of t^ many thousands who have derived ecommenddtionsof J lengthened comment un- benefit from their us » J B ^ ^^ T- T^ nkS fs Hah e, but for Bilious and Liver Complaints, with^ heir weh known attendants, Bilious and Sick Heid- ache, Pain and Oppression" ^ als, Giddiness, Dizziness, Singing Noise in Head and Ears, Drowsiness, Heartburn, Loss of Appetite, Wind, Spasms, & c. Two or three doses will convince the afflicted of their salutary effects. The stomach will speedily regain its strength ; a healthy action of the Liver, Bowels, and Kidneys, will rapidly take place; and instead of listlessness, heat, pains, and jaun- diced appearance, strength, activity, and renewed health, ex- tending to good old age, will be the result of taking taking this medicine, according to the directions accompanying each box. Sold by T. Prout, 229, Strand, London, price Is. l£ d. and 2s. 9d. per box; also 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, Bridg- north • Kendall, Stratford ; and by the Venders of Medicines Ask'for'FRAMPT0N'S^ PILL^ OF HEALTH, and observe the name and address Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London,' on the Government Stamp. ON NERVOUS AND GENERAITVE DISEASES. 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- tions for its perfect restoration, addressed to those suffering from nervous debility or mental irritation, followed by observa- tions on 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. Phillip, South Castle- street, Liverpool; Cooke, Chronicle Office, OXFORD ; Smith, Rose Crescent, and at the Office of the Independent Press, CAMBRIDGE; Clancv, 6, Bedford- row, Dublin; and sold in A SEALED ENVELOPE, by all Booksellers. 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 applicable 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 developes the treatment of a class of painful maladies which has loo 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 consequenee 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, ( id, in postage stamps. WORCESTER IMPROVEMENT. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session for an Act for better paving, lighting, watching, cleans- ing, and otherwise regulating and improving the City and Municipal Borough of Worcester, and the several streets, lanes, roads, paths, ways, courts, passages, and 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, and 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 for 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. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVER- HAM PTON RAILWAY. ( NO. 1.) EXTENSIONS AND AMENDMENT. Railways from Cheltenham, to Evesham, and to a point on the Stratford- on- Avon Branch of the said Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton 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 Sherborne- 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 2 on the said plans of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, which said intended railway 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, Evesham, All Saints Evesham, Saint Lawrence Evesham, Bengeworth, Saint Peter Bengeworth, Hampton, Charlton, Haslor, Upper Haslor, Great Hampton, Little Hampton, Cropthorne, 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, Dumbleton, Aston Somerville, Childswickham, Beckford, Didcot, 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, Brockhampton, 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 Honeybourne, 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 Pebworth, 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 be situate within the several parishes, townships, and extra- parochial 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- parochial or other places, or any of them, with which it may be necessary to interfere in the construction ofthe 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 ofthe said railways and works, and to grant exemptions from such 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 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 tlie 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 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, 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- pany, and to the several railways now forming part of the under- taking ofthe Great Western Railway Company that is to say, an Act ofthe 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 reign cap. 77; an Act of the first year of the reign of Her present Majesty, cap. 91; 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 ofthe 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 ofthe 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 sameyears of the same reign, cap. 191; andan Act of the ninth year of the same reign, cap. 14; and an Act of the ninth and tenthyears of the same reign, cap. 369. And notice is hereby further given, that maps, plans, and sections ofthe said intended railways and works, together with books of reference to such plans, containing the names ofthe owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers ofthe 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 1 County of Worcester, at his office in the city of Worcester; 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 pro- posed 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. Nov. 1846. W. O. and W. HUNT, 10, Whitehall. ffOf^ PIDCOCK, J Worcester. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON RAILWAY, ( NO. 2.) EXTENSIONS AND AMENDMENT. Proposed Railway from Stourbridge to Dudley, and to Halesowen, with 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 tlie construction and mainten- ance by the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company, ofthe 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 ofthe Right Honourable the Eatl of Stamford and Warrington, in the occupation of Mr. William Foster, adjoining the Stourbridge Canal, in the hamlet of Amblecote, in the parish of Oldswinford, in the county of Stafford, near to the town of Stourbridge, in 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 Haden'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 bs made, in a certain meadow in 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 Halesowen, in the county of Worcester, numbered 70 on the plans of the last 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, Woollescote, Upper Swinford, Hungry Hill, Stamber Mill, Hay Green, the Lye, Christ- church Lye, Lye Waste, the Hayes, Netherend, Brettell Town, Saltbrook End, Two Lanes' End, Cradley, Lower Cradley, 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, Lomey 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 Swinfoid, 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 authorized 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 Perry and Job Yardley, in the township of the Lye, in the said parish of Oldswinford, in the said county of VVorcester, 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. Aud also another railway, commencing at a point on the line ofthe said Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, as at present authorized to be made, at or near the one mile and fifth furlong, as marked on the said plans thereof, in or near a piece of land numbered 62 on the said plans, in the township and palish of Wolverhampton aforesaid, and terminating by a junction with the line of the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, 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 mentioucd 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 North Western Railway at the bridge over the Cannock road, in the townshipiof 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, 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 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 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 un 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 to the several railways now forming part 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 ofthe 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 ofthe same reign, chapter 27; an Act ofthe third and fourth years of the same reign, cap. 105; an Act of the fifth year ofthe same reign, session 2, chapter 28; an Act ofthe sixth year of the same reign, chapter 10; an Act ofthe 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 ofthe eighth and ninth years of the same reign, chapter 188 ; an Act ofthe eighth aud 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 the 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 ot November instant, with the parish clerk of each such parish, at iiis residence. W. O. and W. HUNT, 10, Whitehall. BEDFORD & PIDCOCK, F T. ELGIE, November, 1846. Worcester. MIDLAND RAILWAY. WORCESTER, HEREFORD, MALVERN, AND CHELTENHAM LINES, WITH A BRANCH TO LEDBURY. Proposed Extension by the Midland 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. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that APPLICA- TION is intended to be made to Parliament, in thejnext 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 « nd 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 31st year of the reign of his present Majesty, entitled 1 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 10th 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 ci 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 0f them, within the liberties of the city of Hereford, the properly of John Arkwrighr, Esq., now or late in the occupa- tion of Richard Hayling, 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 Winlip. atHi gaint Martin, in the county of Worcester; Saint Martin, Saint Clement, Saint Michael, Saint Michael in Bed- warding Wick Episcopi, Claines, Whistones otherwise Whit- Pitchcroft otherwise Pitchcroft Ham, Saint George, uidbury, Saint Peter otherwise Saint Peter the Great, and Saint J° h" 0, herwise Saint John in Bedwardine, partly in the countv ot Woi- cester an( j partiy jn the city of Worcester and county of the same city; Saint Alban, Saint Oswald, Blockhouse otherwise Blockhouse Fields otherwise Saint Paul, Saint Michael otherwise Saint Michael in Bedvvardine, Saint Helen, Saint Andrew, Saint Nicholas, The Butts, College Precincts All Saints, Saint Clement, township of Saint John in Bedwarl dine otherwise Saint John Hen wick, Saint Swithin, Saint Paul in the city of Worcester and county of the same city ; Wick boPurn° Ppi'„ rBroadheath' Broadmore Green, Northwick, Bar- Batten\ Whittington, Battenhall, Middle Battenhall, Lower Upper , fal1' UPPer Battenhall, Outbounds of Saint John, Wick, wise BrVlck' Lower Wick, Rushwick, Leigh, Bransford other- Braces a" dsford5 LeiSh Sinton, Braces Leigh otherwise Leigh Otherwi UPPer Howsell, Lower Howsell, Sherridge, Sandlin Powick? e Sanhn, Brockamin, Hill End, Link End, Lane End, Great ' Woodsfield, Clevelode otherwise Cleveload. Malvern, Sainf lVIalvern5 Chapelry of Saint Peter, Newland, Newland MZ IM?' 8' Malvern Link, Cotheridge, Housen, Otherton, otherwise Maddresfield, Hallow, Grimley, r* ' « ! • cuin Hallow, Saint James's Mathon, Saint Matthias's in ' n the county of Worcester, or some of them; Mathon, in me Counties of Worcester and Hereford, or one or both of them ; and Colwall, Evesbatch, Cradlev, Cowley, Cowley Ga^ e Cradley East, Cradley West, Vine's End, Coddington, Bosburv Netherley, Catley, Upleadon and Catlev, Upland otherwise Upl leadon, Ledbury, Leadon and Haffield, Wall Hills, Mitchell and Netherton, Wellington, Munsley, Stapeley, Parkhold, Pixley, Canon Froome, Bishops Froome, Castle Froome, Ashperton, lutley, Parrington, Stretton Grandsome otherwise Stretton Grandisome, Egleton otherwise Eggleton, Yarkhill, Washington, Monkhide, Withington, Westhide, Weston Beggard otherwise Weston Baggard, Stoke Edith, Dormington, Bartestree, Wool Hope, Fovvnhope, Mordiford, Lugwardine, Hampton Bishop, lupsley, Ocle Pyechard otherwise Ocle Pychard otherwise Ocle Pitchard, Much Cowarne, Morton Jeffries, Stoke Lacv. Ullingswick, Felton, Preston Wynn, Sutton Saint Nicholas sutton Saint Michael, Shelwick, Burcot, Moreton on Luff. I ivprenL ) Visterstone, Vend and Venn Vauld, Fromanton' thp. rn.. i) cle> Amberiey, Pipe and Lyde, or some of them, in Tunsw ?, of Hereford, Hampton otherwise Hampton Bishop, John otL ' Shelwick, Huntington, Hereford, and Saint Owen i ™ e Saint John the Baptist, Saint Peter, Saint and SaF Saints> Vineyard, Saint Martin, Lower Bullingham, , Nicholas> or some of them, partly in the city of ™ ? r within the liberties thereof, and partly in the Louiny Hereford, or one of them. inttnL* Branch Railway, diverging from the line of the said mienuea main Ra, iway, 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- lsed to be made by an Act passed in 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 tne parish of Holmer aforesaid, which said Branch Railway and Works will be made wholly in the said parish of Holmer in thecounty. af Jlfirefij^ d. ^ _ . And also a Branch Railway, diverginglVom 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 nL° i « hP< T1,1 be made in or Pass fh) m' through, or into the several inuuin< r townshlPs> a" d extra- parochial and other places fol- SiS V^? at H 10 say Livers Ocle, Ullingswick, Marden, anHl » ? int Michael, Sutton Saint Nicholas, Holmer, and Pipe A° r S° me ° f them'in the COUNTY of Hereford, wifh nV° make and maintaitl a Railway or Branch Railway, thA Mil hecessary Works connected therewith, diverging from ine sdia hrst- mentioned intended Line, in or near to a certain held forming part of the Grange Farm, belonging to Thomas Hey wood, Esquire, in the occupation of John Acton, near to South field, in the parish of Bosbury, in the county of Ilereterd, 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 Wetherton, 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 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 J" nctlon 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, Queenhill, Uckingham, Holdfast, Ripple, Kyall, Uckingshaw otherwise Okinghall otherwise Uckinshall, in the county of Worcester, or some of them; Puckrup, Iwyning otherwise Twining, Tewkesbury, The Mythe, Pamington, Aston- upon- Carrant otherwise Aston- on- Carron, Walton 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 belong to John Dowding, 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, St. 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 ju nction 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 say :— Bishop's Cleeve, Southam and Brockhampton, Woodmancote, Gotherington, Stbke Orchard, Brockington, 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, aewers, 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 piart 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, and 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 Rail- 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 ofthe 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, 1846; 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. Dated this sixth day of November, 1846. PARKER, HAYES, BARNWELL, and. TWISDEN, London, ) BERRIDGE and MACAULAY, Leicester, ^. Solicitors. S. CARTER, Birmingham. f T. F. ADDISON, Gloucester, ^ IRELAND. Thers is a wholesome paucity of offences and outbreaks reported in the Irish papers of the past week, and tranquility appears to reign throughout the country in a degree most gratifying after the exhibitions which have recently been witnessed. It seems now to be generally admitted that the dearth has been greatly over- rated, and that the " famine" question has, like all Irish questions, been distorted and magnified by the natural grandiloquence of the Irish character and by another peculiarity of the people which we need not name. The Northern Whig— one of the alarmist rather than the non- alarmist journals— says, " The opinion gains ground that the general pressure from the scarcity of food will be less than had be apprehended ;" while the Cork Constitution fairly calls out, beware of the impostors ! After alluding to the bands of labourers who paraded the city, asking for charity, and occasionally making incursions on the bread shop, and to the doors of relief committees beset by crowds of men clamorous for employment, it proceeds to remark that persons anxious to give employment, " cannot get them to accept it" 1— " A gentleman came into town yesterday from the neighbour- hood of Carrigadrohid. He saw, as usual, numbers of idlers loitering about it. He offered them work at Is. 6d. a day, but they refused it.. He inquired the reason, and the only one that they could offer was, that they had not had sufficient food to enable them to do a day's work. Their condition was not likely to improve, nor their strength to increase by standing there idle, but idle they preferred standing nevertheless. A Ef. nHp. man frag^ Glamire, ww- are informed, offered 2s. some rlflvs acrn hut inns mvinhlA M t, V J... .. ... J I. J • . miKaic uiiurtueu, uuerea 2S. some days ago, but was unable to tempt them, even at that price, and had ultimately to get some of the labourers ftom the roads ia his own neighbourhood." The idea of a faming winter is fading away. The latest accounts state that " corn and provisions of all kinds are becoming more abundant, and, greatly to the satisfaction of all parties save one, the speculators and hoarders are likely to be the sufferers in the combination to uphold the market prices of food beyond their natural level." The following brief extracts from the Irish papers show a thriving state of things " The operative masons and carpenters of Galway have given notice that they will not work under 4s. a- day. " The National Club have raised upwards of £ 3000 for the Irish poor. " Numbers of vessels are now arriving at Cork with Indian corn, which is selling there at £ 10. 15s. per ton." The usual weekly meeting of the Repeal Association was held on Monday last in the Conciliation Hall. After a little Parliamentary business, Mr. O'Connell said he was prepared to bring up his report on the disunion existing amongst Repealers, and in doing so wished to say that no man was more anxious than he was that the friends of Ireland should be joined hand in hand to restore to her her Parliament; but he believed it was impossible, for it would be seen by the report he was about reading that the question between the Old and Young Ireland parties was, in point of fact, should the Association adopt the the doctrine of " physical force" or not ?—( Cheers.)— The learned gentleman then proceeded to read the report, which was of great length, and by no means interesting, and set forth the various points at issue between the Old and Young Ireland parties.— The rent was announced as £ 54. 18s. 9d. The statement in the Dublin Evening Mail that O'Connell had announced that the Repeal Association was indebted to him about £ 600 has not been contradicted by any of the repeal party. Even the agitator did not notice it at the Association meeting on Monday last, above noticed. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. INDIA. Despatches in anticipation of the Overland Mails from both Bombay and Calcutta have arrived. The dates are from Calcutta to the 8th, and from Bombay to the 15th of October. The Bombay mails of the 15th October bring important intelligence. The British troops in the north- western provinces of India are in movement, in consequence ofthe difficulties in which the new Maharajah, Gholab Singh, is placed. In con- formity with the provisions of the treaties of last March, he, during some months, has endeavoured to obtain possession of the Vale of Cashmere; but he has encountered unexpected opposition from Sheik Emaum- ood- Deen, the son of one o his old confederates, who has governed that district during many years. The Sheik has raised the standard of resistance to Gholab: the latter sent a force to reduce him, but the Cashmerian mountaineers beat Gholab's forces and slew the commander. Sheik Emaum- ood- Deen has assumed the title of Emir- ool- Moomenin, and has attempted to make it a religious war against the Sikhs, whether under Gholab or under the Lahore Government. The Mahommedan tribes in the neighbourhood appear disposed to support the Emir- ool- Moomenin. Cashmere is known as a most remarkable tract to the north, westward of the Punjaub. It is healthy and fertile, and the inhabitants have long been celebrated for their industry. The extent of Cashmere is about 120 miles in length and 70 in breadth. It was annexed to the Dooranee empire by Ahmed Shah in 1752, and in 1819 Runjeet Singh subdued it by intrigues, and governed it by Mahommedans; after the defeat of the Sikhs in March last, it was ordered to form a part of the kingdom which the Governor- General conferred on Gholab Singh. The Vale of Cashmere has seven passes, through which it may be entered; they are scarcely passable for even horses. The son of the old Governor may seize these passes, and defy Gholab during the winter months, that is, until May next. While thus embarrassed by his new and refractory subjects, Gholab applied to the British authorities, and they have sent a force ef 6,000 men, under General Wheeler, from the Jullunder Doab to occupy Gholab's eapital, while he proceeds with all his forces to put the rebellion down. To render the matter more singular, the British have persuaded the Government of Lahore to aid Gholab by despatching 10,000 to the passes of Cashmere. The son of the old Sikh Emaum- ood- Deen, who was long a servant of the Lahore Government, is supposed to be influenced by intrigues set on foot to injure Gholab, who is hated for his treachery, by the Government of Lahore. There is no doubt of the double defeat of Gholab, and the latest intelligence is that the Emir is making preparations to resist, and that the British are about to move towards Cashmere. The winter is a fearful season in the passes, and it is apprehended that but little can be done in them until May next, if the Emir makes the anticipated resistance. The Nazim of Moultan, a Hindoo, who farmed that district from Runjeet Singh, is also causing trouble to the Lahore Government, and refuses to receive their troops into his forts. At the end of last year when ordered to have 60,000 men ready to oppose Sir Charles Napier, he coolly told the Lahore rulers that he would not, for he preferred the English rule to theirs. It is therefore supposed that Sir Charles Napier will ere long have to move troops up the Indus towards Bhawulpor< i, and perhaps even to take possession of Moultan, which is the great entrepot for trade with Affghanistan and all the surrounding districts. Scinde is tranquil and healthy. Sir C. Napier remains at Kurrachee. The withdrawal of some of the native regiments was spoken of. Her Majesty's 17th regiment was about to have volunteers taken from it, and then to embavk for Bombay and afterwards for England. A bloody revolution has taken plare at Katmandoo, the capital of one of the most powerful Inuian States. Nepaul has long been notorious for its fierce wild inhabitants. The paramour of the Queen of that country was assassinated by a faction : he was a man of low birth and habits. To avenge his death she procured the massacre of the Prims Minister, and of THE W O R C E S T E R S H I R E GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 141, 1 846. hundreds of other influential persons. She is the second wife of the Maharajah, and she is jealous of his eldest son by a former marriage. Her husband has fled, and there is a prospect of more carnage in that wretched country. The Nizam's dominions present the usual picture of inextricable confusion, arising from bad financial arrangements- There was much anxiety about the new Governor of Bombay, who was expected without much delay. Sir David Pollock, the new Chief Justice had arrived, but would not take the oaths until the departure of his predecessor, Sir H. Roper, on the 2nd of November. CHINA. The resolute and dissolute mob of Canton have been even more than usually busy in keeping alive a malignant feeling towards foreigners, and fears have been entertained that they might lead to another outbreak ; but hitherto the demonstra- tion has been confined to most flagrant threats against the Fankwai, in the shape of placards plentifully posted in the neighbourhood of the factories— a species of warfare to which the Chinese are addicted, and with which, fortunately, they generally rest satisfied. Lately, they seem seriously to have designed more serious doings, but could not succeed in enlist- ing the people of the suburbs in the cause. These manifesta- tions of popular feeling have, however, made the British Consul at Canton, and the Governor of Hong Kong, bestir them- selves, and not only have Chinese soldiers been stationed in the quarters usually frequented by foreigners, but the Wol- verene has been stationed as close to the factories as practicable. So long as that vessel and the Nemesis steamer remain there, no apprehension need be entertained of any attack upon the oreigners. The China Mail narrates a very important case, involving nice questions of international law and personal liberty within the British dominions. It is said that the parties aggrieved are about to seek redress in the English courts ot justice. Since the publication of the facts, the specially- appointed Magistrate at Macao, Senhor Paiva, has admitted the parties accused to bail. It is said that a great deal of sickness prevails in that portion of the fleet which has returned from Borneo, and on board the Agincourt especially, where a large portion of the crew is laid up with fever. FRANCE. The Moniteur publishes still further favourable accounts of the reduced price ol corn in the several markets of France. Considerable sums had been drawn out of the ^ avinu's* Banks of Paris on the 22nd * nd 23rd, amounting to 852, OUUf., while the deposits we. e only 572,894f. The pre, actions for ihe expedin. iii to Bourdon arid Madagascar had leeu suspended. The Kiny ol he Belgians was expected in Paris at the close of the present week. SPAIN. The Madrid papers of the 18ili mention that 31 ladies of hiyh rank were to receive the decoraiion ot Maria Louisa, as a remembrancer of the Royal marriages. On the 17th the theatre of Cruz was honouied with the visit of the Queen and her august Consort. The Tiempo charges the Government with employing unlawful means among the electors at Cordova, with the view of preventing the return of Senor Pacheco, the opposition leader. The authorities ot Toledo are accused of similar atrocities. Mr. Cobden, we are informed by the Espanol, had been feasted in several of the provinces of Spain ; but the grand banquet of all came off at Cadiz, where Mr. Cobden delivered a long speech in support of his Free Trade principles. SEMPER LODGE, NO. 772 FIDELIS WORCESTER. AFESTIVAL TO COMMEMORATE THE OPENING OF THIS LODGE will be holden on MONDAY, the 7th day of DECEMBER, at the REIN DEER HOTEL AND FREEMASONS' TAVERN, when uhe Company of the Brethren of Worcester and the surrounding district is earnestly requested. Brethren who intend to be present will be kind enough, if resident in the neighbourhood, to secure Tickets at the Bar of the Hotel, on or before Thursday, the 3rd ^ December; and those residing at a distance, willplease to intimate their intention by Letter, QJ^ addressed " Mr. Burnidge, Rein Deer Hotel, Worcester." The Lodge will be opened for Business at Two o'Clock, and the Banquet served at Four. By Command of the W. M. Tickets, including Dinner, Dessert, a Bottle of Wine, and attendance, 10s. 6aL Rein Deer Hotel and Freemasons' Tavern, November 26, 1846. Brethren are requested to appear in their full Masonic Clothing. MATH ON AND COL WALL, WORCESTERSHIRE & HEREFORDSHIRE. EXCELLENT COPPICING AND POLLARDS. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, BY JOSEPH BIRD, At the Horse and Groom Inn, at COLWALL, on Wednesday, the 2nd day of December, 1846, between the hours of one and two o'clock in the afternoon, according to conditions to be then produced ; LOT 1. rpHE fallage of part of MATHON PARK JL WOOD STORES, marked Red, containing about 5A. 3R. 19P., including in it 188 capital Double and Treble Stores. LOT 2 The fallage of part of the SAME WOOD STORES, marked White, containing about 5A. 2R. 37P., including in it 247 capital Double and Treble Stores. LOT 3,— The fallage of HALL FIELD COPPICE STORES, marked White, containing about 7A. 2R. 10P., including in it 150 capital Double and Treble Stores, and very good ASH and OAK Underwood. LOT 4 The fallage of the ASH now standing in the Ash Plantation above HALL FIELD COPPICE, about one Acre. LOT 5— 50 POLLARDS, numbered from 1 to 50, on the BROCKBURY FARM, Colwall. LOT 6— 50 POLLARDS, numbered from 51 to 100, on the same Farm as Lot 5. For a view of the Woods apply to William Urry, of Colwall Green ; and for further particulars to the Auctioneer, at Led- bury ; or to J. P. Sturge and Son, Surveyors, Broad Street, Bristol. CITY IMPROVEMENT IN FRONT OF ALL SAINTS' CHURCH. A MOUNT of Sums already advertised COUNTY. Right Hon. Earl Beauchamp Right Hon. Lord Ward B. B Mrs. Hartshorne, Silkemore, Staffordshire George Farley Esq., llenwick House James Williams, Esq., Malvern Rev. W. E. Wall — Moore, Esq., Elm Bank Mrs. Barry Domville, Powick - tiiss llaynes, Powick Court Mr. Davis, Powick John Rtad, Esq., ditto William Laslett, Esq J. VV. Huddleston, Esq., Oxford Circuit Mrs. Munnings, Albert Villa, Malvern liev. C. T. H. Baumgarten, ditto Mr. McCann, ditto Thos. Bury, Esq., Abbotsford, Stockton Fleming St. John, Esq Rev. W. Godfrey, Bredicot ( second subscription)... E. T. Perrott, Esq., Stratford- oa- Avon C. Willoughby Osborne, Esq., Hawford IN THE CITY. Mr. John Stallard Miss Goodman, Britannia Square ( omitted in former lists) Mr. Robert Allies Mr. J. Clifton Mrs. Slade Nash Mrs. St. John Miss Shapland Messrs. Eaton and Son Messrs. Bell and Hall, Guildhall Mr. Edward Webb, St. Andrews Mr. J. Garmstone Mr. Wm. Cowell Mr. C. G. H. St. Pattrick Mr. Bevington, Britannia Square Capt. Gordon Mr. H. Southwell BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD IUNCTION RAILWAY AMENDMENT. s. d. 1052 0 0 10 10 0 10 0 0 15 0 0 ft 5 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 3 0 e 2 2 0 0 10 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 3 3 0 1 1 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 10 6 PUBLIC BAKERY. SECOND PUBLIC MEETING. THE Worshipful the Mayor, in pursuance of a written requisition from the Inhabitants, has granted the use of the Guildhall for a PUBLIC MEETING to be held on Monday, the 30ih day of November instant, to further discuss MR. PRATT'S SYSTEM OF BREAD MAKING, and to carry out the same as a PUBLIC MEASURE at his intended Bakery. The Chair will be taken at One o'Clock, p. m. Worcester, Nov. 25th, 1846. PUBLIC LECTURE ON THE FINE ARTS. APUBLIC LECTURE will be delivered at the ASSEMBLY ROOM, GUILDHALL, on MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30th, 1846, at Seven o'Clock, BY GEORGE WALLIS, ESQ., Late Principal Master of the Manchester School of Design, ON THE FINE ARTS, AND THEIR APPLICATION TO INDUSTRIAL PURPOSES. SYLLABUS. Introduction,— The importance of Fine Art to a commercial People.— Its moral, social, and intellectual influence The progress of a People indicated by their excellence therein.— Its application to industrial purposes.— The distinctive difference between Industrial and Fine Art Their identity in principle Their difference in practice Imitation— Re- production.— Invention.— The advancement of Popular Taste.— The univer- sality of the question Building and Furnishing Trades.— The commercial value of the Arts in a wealth- producing sense Raw materials.— Worked materials.— Artistic materials— The Porcelain Manufacture more dependent on Art than the Silk, Woollen, or Cotton Manufacture.— The serious nature of the question of Art- Education increased by commercial freedom Continental rivalry Taste as a marketable commodity— Manufacturers.— Artists.— Artisans.— An Address to the Art- Student.— Conclusion : an Appeal to the Manufacturer. Tickets to be had gratis on application to H. Whiting, High Street, or 31 r. Grainger, Bookseller, Foregate. VINCENT COOKE HAVING been solicited by a Lady to write an" Advertisement, TO LET, a RURAL COTTAGE, Ready Furnished, and finding himself, like Schcenbein's Gun Cotton, irresistibly ignited with the explosive necessity of obedience, or as by the fairy- like touch of magic invocation, he, with that saccharine, plastic elasticity, naturally attendant on a susceptible nervous sensibility, instantaneously gave life to the following " soul stirring" and merry mode of communicating to his Friends and the Public the pleasing information that he was in the possession of the honour of a Lady's commission :— TO LET, A Posy- clad Cottage, of modern erection, With comforts replete, no scope for objection, All " in print'''' the interior! so cleanly and airy, Must have sprung from the touch of some fine fingered Fairy ; With Lawn, and good Garden, producing fine Fruit, * Twould be a dull soul this place failed to suit. With Bed Chambers four, and others for dressing; With Closets for stores, when your appetite's pressing ; A Drawing Room spacious, another to dine in, According to taste, to take water or wine in ; With Pump, Pantry, Cellar, Back Kitchen and Front, With Coach House and Stable, if you're nerved for the Hunt. The distance from Worcester ' twixt two and three miles, And Ladies may get there unannoyed by rude stiles ! Locality pleasing in high state of tillage, Salubrious air, close to Powick, that sweet village. The Church a short distance from this winning spot, jVo excuse for your absence, whether frosty or hot. Now to finish its picture and illumine its looks, It is Furnished in style! from the Famed Vincent Cooke's! For Terms and Particulars apply to VINCENT COOKE, ( POET AND) GENERAL FURNITURE DEALER, 27, LOWESMOOR, WORCESTER, Who affectionately and respectfully invites the whole Family of Man, in every Season, to PARTAKE of his Festival of FURNITURE, at which Festival the most luxurious and fastidious appetites may be gratified, dull tastes animated, and elevated tastes enchanted! every department of this Banquet of EMBELLISHMENT and UTILITY having in their com- pound an infusion of living Poetic Fire! which, in due Seasons, will blaze forth to receive the applauding nods and smiles of the refined, the brilliant, and the beautiful! And to close this Flourish with a dash, There's nothing like the Ready Cash ! ! SEVERN NAVIGATION COMMISSION. MORTGAGE LOANS. THE Commissioners for improving the Naviga- tion of the River Severn are prepared to receive further Loans for any Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding £ 5,000, to be secured by Mortgage on the Tolls of the said Undertaking, and by the Guarantee of the Company of Proprietors of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Navigation, under the Act 6 Victoria, cap. 5. Particulars may be obtained from Mr. Waters, Clerk to the Commission, at the Office of the Commission, Worcester. Foregate Street, Nov. 19th, 1846. SWEEP FOR THE DERBY, 1847. JAMES TURNER, the DUKE of- YORK, LITTLE ANGEL STREET, Worcester, begs to inform his Friends and the Public that he has a SWEEP OPEN for the DERBY. TWO HORSES EACH. 90 Subscribers at 10s.— 1st. Horse, 2nd. Horse, 3rd. Horse, £ 30; £ 10; £ b. All the Money is divided. Prizes go with the Stakes DRAWN FIRST OF JANUARY. ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE. IN MONTHLY VOLUMES. In the Press, a Seventh Edition, of THE HISTORY OF EUROPE, FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE FRENCH R, S VOLUTION TO THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, BY ARCHIBALD ALISON, F. R. S. This Edition will be handsomely printed in Crown Octavo ; the First Volume to be Published on the 24th of December, and the remaining Volumes Monthly. PRICE SIX SHILLINGS EACH. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, 45, George Street, Edin- burgh, and 37 Paternoster Row, London. £ 1153 16 6 Further Subscriptions to aid this important undertaking are earnestly solicited, now that the funds have so far advanced as to make success certain; those, therefore, who have hitherto dispaired of success, and withheld their subscriptions, it is hoped will generously come forward to accelerate the comple- tion of the required sum. It is respectfully requested that promised Subcriptions may be paid to the Treasurers, at the Old Bank, as soon as convenient. *** There will be a Meeting of the Committee on Monday next, November 30th, at Eleven o'Clock, at the Guildhall. ST. ANDREWS CHURCH. ON SUNDAY NEXT, NOV. 29th, 1846, TWO SERMONS will be preached by the REV. H. J. HASTINGS, M. A., Rector of Areley Kings; after which COLLECTIONS will be made for the support of the SUNDAY SCHOOLS connected with the Parish. %* Divine Service will commence at Eleven o'Clock in the Morning and a Quarter- past Six in the Evening. ( pi- There is no Fund for the support of these Schools beyond what is derived from the Annual Collections. CHARITY FOR THE RELIEF OF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF CLERGYMEN IN THE ARCHDEACONRY OF WORCESTER. npHE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the J 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 Charity. Worcester, November 18th, 1846. WORCESTER DIOCESAN ASSOCIATION, IN AID OF THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. THE ANNUAL MEETING of the above ASSO- CIATION is appointed to be held at the GUILDHALL, in the City of WORCESTER, on MONDAY, the 7th of DECEMBER next. The Chair will be taken at Half- past Two o'Clock. T. L. WHEELER, Secretary and Treasurer. Worcester, November 18th, 1846. WORCESTER SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. rpHE Committee of the above Society respectfully X 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, PI ERPOIN 1- 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 the Band Mr. J. H. D'EGVILLE. Piano- Forte Mr. J. BOULCOTT. Assistant Organist of Worcester Cathedral. Conductor Mr. DONE, Organist of the Cathedral. • f* 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. Subscribers of £\. Is. a- year are entitled to three Tickets for each Concert, and those of 10s. a year to one ; and all Sub- scribers have the privilege of joining in the Rehearsals. Any further information will be given by Mr. Baxter, Hon. Sec., Bath Road. THEATRE - ROYAL, WORCESTER. FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY. HENRY RUSSELL, FROM AMERICA, Composer of Woodman, spare that Tree— The Ivy Green— The Old Arm Chair— The Maniac— I'm Afloat— The Ship on Fire Some love to Roam— The Gamblers Wife, S( c., WILL HAVE THE HONOUR OF GIVING HIS VOCAL ENTERTAINMENT, Interspersed with Anecdotes illustrative of Negro Life and Character, on WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, at the THEATRE. MR. RUSSELL will introduce a selection of his latest Compositions, including Lord Byron's celebrated 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, 6d. each. BOXES, 2s. 6d.; PIT, Is. ; GALLERY, 6d. WORCESTER SUBSCRIPTION BALL. THE THIRD SUBSCRIPTION BALL will take place at the Guildhall Assembly Room, on THURSDAY EVENING, December 10th, 1846; under most distinguished Patronage. Tickets— Gentlemen, 7s; Ladies, 6s.; including refresh- ments. The Refreshments will be supplied by Mr. Hambler; and a celebrated Quadrille Band of twelve performers, by Mr. W. H. Hopkins. Tickets to be had at Deighton's and Stratford's Libraries, and at Mr. Hambler's, High Street. Dancing to commence at Nine o'clock precisely. WORCESTER COUNTY GAOL. PERSONS wishing to supply this GAOL with MEAT, COAL, and POTATOES, and JUDGES' HOUSE with COAL, for the ensuing THREE MONTHS, must leave their Tenders, at the Gaol, enclosed in a sealed cover, marked " Tender," and addressed " Ity the Visiting Magistrates," on or before Twelve o'Clock on Saturday, the 28th November instant. All Gaol Bills must be delivered, addressed to me, at my Office in the Gaol, on the said 28th November, ( made up as nearly as possible to that date,) or they will not be allowed at the next Sessions. By Order of the Visiting Magistrates, B. L. STABLE, Governor. In consequence of the great difficulty which has been expe- rienced in getting the Accounts sent in, it has been deter- mined by the Visiting Justices that persons neglecting to furnish their Bills after this notice shall not be again employed to supply the Prison for Twelve Months. November 17th, 1846. Proposed Deviation of the Line of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, from Warwick to Whitnash, and from Whitnash to Harbwry, 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 t'o 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, aud 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 of 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 of them, that is to say, Whitnash, Radford Semele, and Har- bury, in the 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 tuunel 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, tramvtays, 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 bo 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, ou or before the thirtieth day 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 on or before the thirtieth day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty. six, with the parish clerk of each such parish, at bis 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 also 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 canal 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, aud to raise capital for the purpose. And 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, 39tb, 49th, 55th, and 57th years of His" late Majesty King Georgo 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 6lh 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 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, Romsley, Hunnington, Lapal, Langley Walloxall, AVoriey Wigorn, Hawn, Hill, Lutley, Hasbury, and Cakemore, in the county of Worcester; and Rowley Regis, Kingswinford, Old- swinford, Amblecote, Smethwick, Harborne and West 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 held, 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- mtntioned 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- ships, and extra- parochial or other places following, or some of them, that is to say, Oldswinford, 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, and 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 1st 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 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 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 Companies, 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 into 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 them, 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 lease, 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 aloresaid, or to becorn e holders of shares or capital stock, in sucii 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 Acts hereinafter mentioned, ielat- ingto the Great Western Railway Company, or whereby powers are conferred on the Great Western Railway Company, and whicn 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 1st Victoria, cap. 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 9; h 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 third year ot the Reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, chapter 36; An Act of the sixth year of the same Reign, chapter 79 ; An Act of the 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. and 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 Oxfoiid Junction Railway, as 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 office 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- Hili, 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 tuch 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 nccessary 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 rights 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 aforesaid, 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 said 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 thereto, 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, ametid, 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 Victorii, cap. 27, the 5th Victoria, session 2, cap. 28, the 6th Victoria, cap. 10, the 7th Victoria, cap. 3, the 8ch anil 9th Victoria, cap. 40, the 8th aud 9th Victoria, cap, 183, 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. 36; An Act of the 6th year of the same Reign, cap. 79; Au 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 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 Marchester 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 Com- pany, 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- ising 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, 368, 369, and 39d. Dated this seventh day of November, 1846. WORTHINGTON, EAltLE, and BERRY, Manchester. BROOK and FREEMAN, Huddersfield. ATKINSON, DIBB, and BOLLAND, Leeds. E. L. HESP, 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, » ... d 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 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 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 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 rate*, 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, xManchester. 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 Railw 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 po wer to al ter, 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 Com j any, 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 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 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 Morigage 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 of the said new Company, and also to convert the capital and shares of the said Amalgamated Company, 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 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 J unction 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 EUesmere and Viscount Brackley, or other the person 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 of 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 41 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 " 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, 243, 261, 269, 309, 328, 331, 359, 368, 369, and 396. Dated this fifth day of November, 1846. SLATER & HEELIS, Solicitors. WORCESTERSHIRE HUNT. DINNER TO THE HON. DUDLEY WARD. FT1HE GENTLEMEN connected with the WOR- JL 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. R. 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. tn- A FIXTURE, near the CITY, will be named for the following day FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS and UPWARDS per annum to be realized with about £ 150, or a propor- tionate greater income, by embarking a larger capital. The management of the business is a sinecure— it is entirely devoid of risk, all transactions being for cash— success is certain— the occupation is extremely gentlemanly, being a wholesale business. The Advertiser is embarking a large capital in the under- taking. and will continue to do so; he will therefore have no difficulty in verifying the above facts at an interview. Applicants must reside in any county they may select in England or Wales, or in our Colonies or Channel Isles. Direct, A. B. 15, Frances- street, Waterloo- road. THE WORCESTERSHIRE GUARDIAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1 846. STOCKS.— At 2 o'cl. FRI. SAT. 1 MON'. TCES. WITD. THURS Bank Stock 206 206 206 205 205 3 per Cent. Red Ann. 93 i 93& 93* 93 J 3 per Cent Cons 914 94j ' 9H 94s 94* 94 i Cons, for Account.... 91 § 9JJ 94J 9i$ 94J 3j per Cent. 1818 3 per Cent. Red —— : New 3J per Cent 95j 95i 95ft 95| 95 § 3 per Cent. 1826 — —— Bank Long Ann India Stock 9S 9;, 9 i lOj 257 257t 258 India Bonds 18 p • 22 p 22 P Excheq. Bills 11 p| 11 r 12 p 12 P 12 r 11 V FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1846. —-— LAST WORDS OF LORD RUSSEL ON THE SCAFFOLD. 111 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 1 am heartily sorry that " so many Protestants give their helping hand to it." Urged by some imaginary encouragement supposed to have beep given by Lord John Russell in his answer to a deputa- tion which waited on his lordship some weeks since, praying for the immediate opening of the ports, no less than four deputations with similar petitions waited on the " First Lord" on Saturday last, at the Treasury office. The memorials, which had been adopted at public meetings held in the course of the week, had for their object the " calling on Government to open the ports to the admission of corn, duty free, from foreign countries." The deputations consisted, at his lordship's request, of three gentlemen from each of the four places of meeting. Their names were Mr Charles Cochrane, the Rev. Mr. Stoddart, Dr. Bird, Mr. Ellis, Mr. Ramsey, Mr. Savage, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Knighton, and Mr. Low. The speakers were the Rev. Mr. Stoddart, Mr. Cochrane, Mr. Campbell, and Dr. Bird, and each hairing said his say, Lord John Russell replied— " I do not feel called on to make any observation on the matter to which the memorials which have just been pre- sented relate. With regard to the observations which have fallen from Mr. Cochrane, as to what he represents me to have said on meeting a deputation a short time ago, 1 am not sure whether his recollection of the words which I then used be quite correct. My meaning on that occasion was, that if I saw an ' extraordinary necessity,' I would at once resort to the use of extraordinary powers to meet that necessity, and afterwards would vindicate, at the proper time and in the proper place, the course which 1 felt it my duty to pursue." Mr. Cochrane begged to have an elucidation from his lord- ship of what constituted " urgent necessity," but he was cut short by Lord John Russell rising and declaring that" he had no further explanation to offer." Mr. Knighton and Mr. Stevens then urged the existence of great distress in South- wark to their own knowledge, to which Lord John Russell replied that " the object of the memorial was distinct from the question of general suffering, for which he felt deeply, and regretted that he was not able to remedy it," and then the deputations withdrew. THE COURT.— Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the Royal children are now sojourning at Osborne House, Isle of Wight. Sir W. C. Corirington, Bart., M. P., has arrived in town from Doddin » ton Park, Gloucestershire, and is on the eve of departing for the West Indies to visit his estates. The Hon. Baronet is to return to England early in February. Major- General Brotherton, it is understood, will be the Inspector- General of Cavalry, in the room of Lieutenant- General Lygon. A Noble Earl, who has been twice married, is about, it is said, to be married to a wealthy widow. It is asserted that the lady has a fortune little short of £ 20,000 per annum. It is rumoured that a marriage is about to take place between the accomplished daughter of General William Napier, and P. J. Miles, Esq., M. P. for Bristol. The Count de Montemoltn, or, as he is called by his adherents, his Majesty Charles Luis King de jure of Spain, arrived in the metropolis on Sunday night. His Royal Highness travelled under the strictest incognito, and was accompanied only by General Montenegro, and his private secretary, Don Romualdo Mon. The Marquis di Villa Franca Duke di Medina Sidonia arrived in London a few days since. DINNER TO HON. DUDLEY WARD.— We remind our sporting readers and all who take an interest in the welfare of the Worcestershire Hunt, that the dinuer to the Hon. Dudley Ward takes place on Monday next, at the Star and Garter Hotel, in this city. The hounds meet on Tuesday at Crowle. THE BAR.— John Coucher Dent, Esq., B. A., of Mag- dalen College, Oxford, and John Best, Esq., of St. Peer's College, Cambridge, B. A., eldest son of William Butler Best, Esq., Kidderminster, were on Friday called to the bar by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. PREFERMENTS.— The Rev. William Crump, M. A., has been appointed to the Perpetual Curacy of Rowley Regis, in this county, vacant by the demise of the Rev. T. Massey ; patron, the Lord Chancellor.— The Lord Bishop of Lich- field has appointed the Rev. W. Gordon, Incumbent of Christ Church, Birmingham, to the Rural Deanery of West Bromwich.— Tbe Rev. Joseph Dudley, M. A., to the Rectory of Sarnesfield, Herefordshire. The Venerable Walter Augustus Shirley, Archdeacon of Derby, has been appointed to the bishopric of Sodor and Man, vacant by the translation of the Right Rev. Dr. Thomas Short to the see of St. Asaph. We h~ ve been informed, on good authority, that the question of the Welsh bishoprics is satisfactorily arranged— that the two Welsh sees are to be preserved, and that the see of Manchester is, nevertheless, to be erected immediately. It is in confirmation of this report that the see of St. Asaph has already been filled up by the translation of the late Bishop of Man, and that the see of Man is also just filled.— The Guardian. ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH.— Our advertising columns announce that on Sunday next two sermons will be preached at this church, by the Rev. H. J. Hastings, on behalf of the Sunday Schools. We trust that on account of the well- known poverty of this parish, and the great utility of these schools, they will be supported by every well- wisher to such institutions. ALL SAINTS' IMPROVEMENT.— We are glad to observe that the promoters of this most desirable improvement, namely, the removal of the old buildings in front of All Saints' Church, are prosecuting the object vigorously, and will unquestionably succeed. In the mean time we again most earnestly recommend the subject of the improvement to public attention and support. Another list of subscrip- tions appears in our advertising columns : the amount now collected, it will be seen, is £ 1153. The committee meet on Monday at the Guildhall. THE FINE ARTS.— It will be seen by our advertising columns, that George Wallis, Esq., has announced a lecture on the Fine Arts, to be delivered at the Guildhall, on Monday evening next. Mr. Wallis will, in the course of his lecture, address some remarks on the Porcelain manufacture especially. WORCESTER INFIRMARY.— The sum of £ 50, less the duty, has been paid to the treasurers of this institution, by the executors of the late J. F. Lavender, Esq., in con- formity with the will of that gentleman. CONCERTS,— We would remind our musical readers, that on Wednesday next Mr. Russell pays another visit to this city, and that on Thursday, the last for the present season of the Worcester Harmonic Concerts, will take place at the City and County Library, when the oratorio of Saul will be per- formed. It is said that Jullien will pay another visit to Wor- cester in the course of the ensuing month. MR. PEARSALL'S ENTERTAINMENTS.— Mr. Pearsali, of Her Majesty's Ancient Concerts, gave a musical entertain- ment at tho George Hotel, Bewdley, on Friday evening last, to a highly respectable company, under the patronage of the Dowager Lady Winnington, and Thomas J. Lankester, Esq., the Mayor. Mr. Pearsall's efforts to please were highly suc- cessful; and his announcement, at the conclusion, that he hoped at some future period to have the pleasure of again appearing before a Bewdley audience, elicited hearty tokens of approval. Mr. Pearsall gave a musical entertainment at Kidder- minster on the previous evening. BALLS.— The Bewdley Ball will take place, as usual, at the George Hotel, on Tuesday, the 29th of December next, under the distinguished patronage of the nobility and gentry of the county. The Stourpoat annual assembly is fixed to be held at the Swan Hotel, on the 7th of January. The Worcester subscription assembly, of which parti- culars will be found in our advertising columns, takes place on Thursday, the 10th of December; the Upton Ball in the Christmas week; the Pershore Bachelors' Ball on Thurs- day next; the Kidderminster annual ball on the 12th of January; the Tenbury ball in the last week in December; and the Birmingham Hospital ball on the 7th of January. FREEMASONRY.— It will be seen by advertisement else- where that a masonic festival, in commemoration of the institution of the new lodge, " Semper Fidelis," will be held at the Rein Deer Inn, in this city, on Monday week. BATHS AND WASH - HOUSES FOR WORCESTER.— The Committee appointed by the Town Council last week met on Thursday, and again by adjournment on Monday last, when between 50 and 60 gentlemen, to whom letters of invitation had been addressed for the purpose, were present. Various suggestions were made and discussed; but the parties from whom the Committee chiefly expected informa- tion not being prepared to furnish it, owing to the shortness of the notice, it was determined to adjourn, and previous to the next meeting a set of inquiries calculated to elicit the desired information, will be prepared, and answers to these will be solicited from the persons best qualified by their local knowledge or experience. These questions will be directed to ascertain the number of persons likely to avail themselves of the Baths and Wash- houses, so that adequate provision may be made, and some standard, by which to regulate the extent and means of the establishment, ascer- tained. It having been stated that Worcester was the first borough which adopted the new Act, the Times contradicts the statement. It has already been adopted by the boroughs of Birmingham, Leeds, Stockport, and Bath, as well as the metropolitan parishes of St. Martin- in- the- Fieldsand Mary- lebonc. The parishes of St. George, Hanover- square, Paddiiigton, St. James, Piccadilly, and St. Andrew, Holborn, will probably be soon added to the list, as well as Exeter and other boroughs. ROBBERY IN NEW STREET.— During divine service, on Sunday last, some thieves entered the shop of Mr. Beedom, baker, New Street, by forcing open the door, and stole £ 3 in copper money. The door being discovered open by some of the neighbours, their suspicions were aroused that all was not right, and they entered the shop, when the thieves escaped through the back premises, aud have not since been heard of, though strong suspicions are entertained of the guilty parties. EVESHAM LITERARY INSTITUTION.— The annual con- versazione of the members of this institution was held one evening last week, when, after tea, Mr. May delivered an address to the meeting. Mr. Gmntley Berkeley has written to Mr. Visger, apologising for the intemperate language employed in the letters recently published in the Guardian, as having been written by him to Mr. Visger. THE BISHOP OF NEWFOUNDLAND.— The Bishop OF Newfoundland, who is now on a short visit to this country from his diocese, delivered on Tuesday, an address in Queen's College- hall, Oxford, to the members of the College, of which his Lord- ship was formerly a Fellow, narrating his proceedings in his diocese since his departure frop England two years ago. His object in visiting England at present is to procure assistance to enable him to carry on the great work of Christianizing that long- neglected and truly destitute colony, and more particularly to repair the losses occasioned by the late calamitous fire. The natives everywhere received the Bishop with the utmost cordiality, and are most anxious to avail themselves of instruction and of the benefits of spiritual superintendence. Nothing is wanted for the work but zealous and devoted men, whom the Bishop is most anxious to take out with him, but their hearts must be in their work ; and they will meet with warm and affectionate hearts to welcome them, even on that iron- bound and inhospitable shore. The Bishop was just two days in advance of that dread- ful storm which had nearly overwhelmed the Great Western. THE PUBLIC BAKERY QUESTION.— We have given ( see page 4) as full a report of the proceedings of the public meeting held at the Guildhall, on Monday, as the nature of the business will admit of, in order that the public may be put in possession of the merits of the case. It will be seen that no resolution was adopted at the meeting, the object of which was the eliciting of facts bearing upon the question. Another meeting however is advertised ( see page 2) to be held on Monday next, at the same place, for the purpose of " further discussing Mr. Pratt's system of bread making, and to carry out the same as a public measure." WANTON MISCHIEF.— We hear that some mischievous individuals have been amusing themselves lately in breaking off gate- handle3, & c., in Britannia- square, St. John's, and the suburbs of this city. The police are on the look- out for the perpetrators, and are not without hopes that they will be detected. SERIOUS ACCIDENT. — On Saturday evening last, about six o'clock, an accident of a most serious nature occurred to the " boots" of the Rein Deer Hotel, in this city. He was instructed by the ostler to lead a horse to the Swan with Two Necks, in New Street, which had been engaged from Mr. Calder to perform a journey during the day; but instead of leading it, he imprudently got upon its back, and in proceeding through the Corn Market it became alarmed by a cart touching it, which caused it to start off at full speed along New Street, into Sidbury, when, in consequence of the man having no command over it from its having on simply a halter, it came fearfully in contact with a heavily laden cart and horses, striking its head violently, and throwing the man completely over the cart, breaking his leg in two places below the knee, also the bridge of his nose, and bruising him severely on various parts of his body. He was immediately taken to the Infirmary, where he is now lying. ATTEMPTED BURGLARIES.— Between three and four o'clock on Thursday morning last, as Capt. White, who had just arrived by the mail train from Birmingham, was proceed- ing over Worcester bridge towards his residence near Pit- maston, he perceived four men apparently engaged in trying the door of the rectifying house of Mr. F. E. Williams, on the North- parade. He immediately walked down towards them, but ou hearing him approach, they took to flight, leav- ing behind them a crow bar and other housebreaking im- plements. In the morning, when the door was opened, several lucifer matches were found underneath it. On Tuesday night an attempt was made to enter two houses upon Ilenwick Hill, but it is supposed the burglars were disturbed by the barking of a dog. There has been visiting in this city since the steeple chases a notorious gang of professional " cracksmen," who have on former occasions marked the period of their visit by suudry depredations, and we would recommend all our fellow citizens to look well to their fastenings. UPTON UNION.— The Poor Law Commissioners, contrary to general expectations, have confirmed the Guardians' appointment of Mr. Marsh as one of the surgeons to the Union. The Commissioners in " deference to the wishes of the Guardians," sanction the appointment provisionally for six months, at the end of which time they say " the Guardians will have had a further opportunity of judging of Mr. Marsh's fitness for performing his duties, and of his attention to them." STOURBRIDGE DISPENSARY.— At a meeting of the subscribers to this institution, held on Tuesday, Mr. Freer was elected surgeon to the Dispensary in the room of Mr. Belts resigned. BEWDLEY.— FINDING OF THE BODY OF MR. CRESS- WELL.— The fact of Mr. Cresswell, of Bewdley, having be^ n for some weeks past missing from his native town has been noticed iu all the local papers, and it was feared that he had committed suicide. We have now to add that on Saturday ast the body of the missing man was found in the Severn , about two miles below Bewdley Bridge, and immediately removed to the Bridge Inn, Stourport, where an inquest was held on Monday afternoon, before Mr. Hughes and a respectable jury. On his person was found a purse con- taining one sovereign, two half- crowns, four shillings, two sixpenny pieces, and a gilt farthing; also a pocket- book con- taining some papers, likewise a pair of spectacles.— Thomas Rogers, of Shrewsbury, waterman, deposed that he was going down the river Severn, on Saturday last, with a barge, when he discovered the body of a man floating on the water, and got it out, and fetched Mr. Jefferys, constable of Bewdley, to view the body, who identified it as that of Mr. Cresswell, of Bewdley, and it was removed to the Bridge Inn, Stourport. Jt was about half way between Bewdley and Stourport where the body was found Benjamin Jefferys, constable of Bewdley, deposed that the deceeased had been missing sines the 19th of October. Witness found papers upon him bearing his name. His trousers were turned inside outwards. He considered the deceased was of unsound mind for two or three weeks before he was missing, The day he was missed he made applications in various parts of Bewdley for lodgings, but no one would take him in E. Godfrey, of the Black Boy public- house, Wribben- hall, deposed that he knew the deceased, who lived at his house for four or five months before he was missing. He appeared well . till within the last three weeks, when witness thought he appeared strange in his manner Thomas Farringdon, of Bewdley Green, deposed that he met the deceased on the 19th of October last, between Kidderminster and Bewdley ; his waist- coat and trousers were turned inside out. He saw him again about half- past eight the same evening with a buudle and an umbrella in his hand ; he was not seen afterwards till his body was found as before described. The jury returned an open verdict of " Found drowned."— After the inquest the body was removed to the Black Boy Inn, Wribbenhall, at the request of J. Beddoe, Esq., of Bewdley, who undertook, out of respect to the deceased, to have him decently interred in Wribbenhall churchyard. THE LATE FIRE AT ALLSBOROUGH HILL,— The Farmers' Insurance Office, through their agent, Mr. Lunn, have distributed £ 10, and the trustees of tbe Earl Coventry £ 10, amongst the men, women, and children who assisted in extin- guishing the late fire at Allsborough Hill, near Pershore. FATAL ACCIDENT.— A few days ago a man named Lea, whilst engaged in repairing the chimney of a'house belonging to Mr. Cobley, at Cleveload, fell to the ground, and received a fracture of the skull, with concussion of the brain. He was removed to the Worcester Infirmary, when he expired yesterday. An inquest was held oil the body this morning, before J. B. Hyde, Esq., coroner, when the facts above detailed having been given in evidence a verdict of " Accidental death" was returned. ILLEGAL WEIGHTS.— At the Pershore Petty Sessions on Tuesday last, before C. E. Hauford, F. Eyston, J. Y. Bed- ford, and F. Holland, Esqrs., William Webb, of Westmancote, tailor, was fined £ 3; William Webb, of Westmancote, grocer, 10s.; William White, of Kinsham, £ 2; George Jones, of Bredon, £ 1; and William Jeynes, of Weslmancote, £ 2, for having severally had light and unjust weights iu their possession. BROMSGROVE PETTY SESSIONS.— At the sitting of the Magistrates at Bromsgrove on Tuesday last, Ann Smith, servant to Mr. II. Bullingham, butcher, of that town, was committed for trial on a charge of stealing some books, writing paper, and a quantity of sealing wax, the property of Mr. R. J. Salter, of Leamington. Mr. Salter rented a house next door to Mr. Bullingham, for the purpose of selling his stock of books aud sLationery.— Joseph Bailey, of Catshill, was fined £ 1 including costs, for assaulting Mr. J. G. Strain. CHESS.— We understand that F. W. Knight, Esq., M. P., has consented to take the office of president of the Chess Club now being established in Kidderminster, and that the hon. gentleman has subscribed £ 5 towards the expenses necessarily attending the formation of such a society. POTATOES.— Potatoes are selling in Ludlow ( of the finest quality) at Is. 3d. and Is. 4d. per peck. THE BANK ROBBERY AT MESSRS. ROGERS'.— On Wednesday, from information that has recently been obtained, which it is expected will throw some li^ ht on this mysterious affair, the offer of a reward of £ 3,000, together with her Majesty's pardon, was renewed. REDUCTION OF THE DUTIES ON TEA.— On Wednesday last an important meeting of the Liverpool merchants was held at Liverpool, the Mayor in the chair, the object being to obtain a reduction of the duties on tea The leading merchants of all parties took part in the proceedings, and altogether it was a most influential gathering of the leading traders of that most important commercial emporium. GLOUCESTERSHIRE AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.— Yesterday, the fourteenth anniversary meeting of the above association, established for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, was held at Gloucester. J. W. Walters, Esq., having been called to the chair, the Chairman said the Committee ot the association had met the day before and made a few alterations in the rules of the body. The alterations were then read and confirmed, after which tiie prizes were declared. The exhibition ot stock on this occasion was very well sustained in all its classes; indeed, there was some of the very first l lood in the kingdom in short horns and Herefords, amongst which was a bull- calf belonging to Earl Ducie. This animal is symmetry itself, and considered one of the most perfect ever bred, of fine appearance, a splendid specimen of the short- horn Durham breed, and was reared at his Lordship's farming establishment at Tortworth Court. Another extraordinary animal was a yearling heifer, bred and exhibited by W. Luvrence, Esq., of Sherdington Park, Gloucestershire, only one year and four months old, and as large as an ordinary cow. Mr. D. S. Hayvvard's short- horn fat cow, exhibited as extra stock, was much admired. A beautiful stock was also exhibited by Mr. Wm. Perry, of Monklands, Herefordshire, consisting of a bull, cow, and their produce— a young yearling bull, of the Hereford breed. KIDDERMINSTER, NOV. 26.— The market was rather brisk, and prices may be quoted as follows: — Wheat, Gs. Sd. to 7s. lOd; malting barley, 5s. 2d. to 5s. 8d. per bushel. WORCESTER HAY MARKET, NOV. 21.— Best old hay, per ton, £ 3 to 3s. ; new hay, ,£ 3 ; straw, £ 1. 15s, to £ i. A good deal otfered. aud dull sale at the above prices. BIRMINGHAM, NOV. 24.— Best hay, £ 4 per ton; inferior ditto, £ 3 5s ; straw, £}. 12s, tid, ; clover, £ 3 ; packing straw, £ 3, 5s. Hocai MailfcMp EtmiUgence, This is the last week in which notices of intended applica- tions to Parliament in the next session for extending railway communication can be published in the newspapers, and after this week our columns will be free from this incumbrance. The number of new bills to be applied for will be about 250: Herapath estimates them at— say 280. But it is to be observed, that these are mainly made up of amalgama- tions, leases, and branch lines, there being but a very small sprinkling of trunks. The deposits of plans and books of reference must be made by Monday next, the 30th November. The railway share market is heavy, and the tendency down- wards; the following are the quotations: the £ 5 call on Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton's was paid on Friday last:— Share £. 100 25 20 50 20 100 50 25 20 20 Stock Aver. « 40 Stock 20 20 50 25 25 20 50 20 Railways. Birm., Wolv,, and Dudley .. Birmingham and Gloucester.. Do. New ( issued 7 » dis.) Birmingham and Oxford June. Bristol aad 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, Bail, and Chel. Ox., Wor., & Wolverhampton Shrew., Wolv.,& S. Staf. Jun. Shrewsbury and Birmingham Shropshire Union South Wales Welsh Midland Paid. Closing Business Prices. Done. £. 42s. 5& pm 53 pm 100 127 — 129 127$ 17t 30 — 32 2 6{— 6J pm 8J 30 19 — 21 pm 42s. — f dis 85 40 — 45 pm 50 25 — 27 pm 75 i 10 7 — 8 pm 17* 20 9i— 10$ pm 22s. — dis 100 191 — 193 192 41.6.10 62 — 64 62J 40 72 — 74 100 121 — 123 122 42s, - 35 3* pm 0 J— i dis 17* 5i— 4J dis 125 2* 3 li pm a 42s. i— i dis i dis 5 — li dis n 1J— li dis It is said that Major- General Pasley has ceased to be the Government inspector of railways, and that Capt. Coddington, deputy inspector, will probably succeed him. CAMBRIAN GRAND JUNCTION.— On Tuesday some of the shareholders, convened by advertisement, met to consider the present state of this company, at the office of Mr. Tripp, No. 2, Adelaide- place, London- bridge, but from the small attendance it was thought advisable to adjourn the meeting. THE ALLEGED BRIBERY OF A RAILWAY OFFICIAL.— The Railway Times, in giving the paragraph from the Sunday limes, relative to the attempted bribery of a railway official, noticed in our last, appends " fudge" at the end, whilst the Railway Record says that Mr. C. A. Saunders, Secretary of the Great Western Railway, is the official referred to. The Railway Chronicle says that the idea of Mr. Saunders' retire- ment from the Great Western Railway Company has been mooted, that a sum has been talked of as a proper con- sideration for his past services, and that the report has originated from that circumstance. On the other hand an offer for £ 25,000 was, it is said, made to Mr. S. if he would lend his services to bring about a reconciliation between the company with which he was connected and the London and North- Western Company. According to a statement in Bradshaw's Railway Gazette, immediately on recovering from the surprise and agitation into which he was cast by this offer, Mr. Saunders " waited upon the chairman and an active director of his company, and informed them of tho circum- stance. The three gentlemen then sought to obtain on inter- view with the chairman of the company said to be privy to the offer, and thus ail opportunity of meeting the gentleman implicated was obtained. On the question being directly put, some little demur was made to give an answer, but ulti- mately the questioned party admitted that he had authorized the mutual friend to make the proposal, and that he was one of a number of gentlemen who were willing to subscribe the sum mentioned to effect the purpose they had in view, viz., the retirement into private lite of the individual whom they considered a systematic bar to the accomplishment of their designs. The two gentlemen connected with the Great Western then left, and thus the matter rests for the present." The Editor of Bradshaw's thinks " it would be better for the interests of all parties concerned that it should be forgotten." LIABILITIES OF PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE- MEN.— In the Court of Common Pleas, on Friday, rules nisi were granted in two cases, in which verdicts had been given against Pro- visional Committee- men. The one was in tho case of Parratt v. King, in connection with the Tonbridge and Rye Harbour Direct Railway; and the other that of Sliaw v. Clarkson, in the London, Portsmouth, and Chichester Railway. In the Secondaries Court, Mr. Barnett, a printer, got a verdict for £ 112 against Mr. Nawte, one of the Provisional Directors of the Jamaica Southern and Eastern Railway. INFANT EDUCATION IN BIRMINGHAM.— A public meet- ing, numerously and highly respectably attended, was held in Birmingham on Friday evening, the Right Hon. Lord Calthorpe in the chair, for the purpose of promoting the establishment of infant schools in that borough, under the charge of the parochial clergy, but open to the younger children of ail, without distinction. Among the gentlemen present were— the Hon. F. Gough, G. F. Muntz, Esq., M. P., Richard Spooner, Esq., M. P., T. Lane, Esq., High Bailiff, the Hon. aud Rev. G. M. Yorke, Rector of St. Phillip's, the Venerable Archdeacon Spooner, the Rev. John Gaibett, Rural Dean, & c. & c., and many of the clergy and respectable inhabitants of the borough. Several good speeches were delivered, and an association was formed with the object above embraced. The Lord Bishop of Worcester was fixed ou as the patron of the association ; Lord Calthorpe, presi- dent; and the following were requested to become vicc presideiits :— The Right Hon. Earl Howe, the Earl of Brad- lord, the Right Hon. Tord Lyttelton, the Hon. Frederick Gough, the Hon. Members for the Borough, W. S. Dugdale, Esq., M P., C. B. Adderley, Esq., M. P., C. N. Newdegate, Esq., M. P., and M. D. Hill, Esq., the Recorder of Bir- mingham ; Messrs. Whateley were appointed solicitors ; and the Rev. George S. Bull and W. Chauce, jun., Esq., general secretaries of the association. Contributions to the amount of upwards of £ 1,100 were announced iu the room. Among the donors are the Queen Dowager £ 50, and the Bishop of Worcester £ 10. Messrs. Attwoods, Spooner, and Co. subscribe £ 200. LONDON DAY- MAIL TO LEDBURY.— The postmaster- general has complied with the application of certain memo- rials at Gloucester, and has granted a day- mail between that city, Newent, and Ledbury. The mail now runs daily ( Sundays excepted) leaving Gloucester with the London day bags at half- past three in the afternoon, and returning in the morning at a qusrter before eleven, leaving Ledbury at eight. SUDDEN DEATH.— An elderly woman, named Charlotte Connop, aged about 70, who resided at Almelcy, Hereford- shire, expired very suddenly on Friday night last. She had retired to bed in her usual good health, and shortly afterwards called to her son and daughter- in law to take her a light, which tliey did, and in about an hour after- wards she was a corpse. Iu consequence of a communica- tion from the Rev. William Edwards, Vicar of Aimeley, to Nicholas Lanwarne, Esq., of Hereford, coroner, the latter did not deem an inquest necessary, and granted a permissive warrant for the body of deceased to be buried. The Rev. Gentleman declared in his letter that there were no suspicious circumstances attendant upon the death of deceased, and stated it to be his opinion that she died of apoplexy.— Hereford Journal. SINGULAR CASE.— The following case was brought before Thomas Deighton, Esq., Mayor, and a full Bench of Magistrates, at the last Petty Sessions for Bridgnorih : The governor of St. Leonard's workhouse brought up a woman named Wall, alias Pritchard, who had become chargeable to the parish. The governor stated that about 18 years back Pritchard, her first husband, was transported ; that in about four years he returned, and found his wife married to another man; he also got married again, and was now living at Wolverhampton with the second wife. Mrs. Pritchard, who had married a man named Wall for her second husband, had six children by him, and he died about a year and a half ago ; he wished to know if the first husband, Pritchard, who was still living, was not bound by law to support the woman and children. The case was of such a singular description, that it was left over for consideration. INDIA SALT MONOPOLY.— We understand that no fewer than nine memorials have been forwarded to the Indian authorities against the salt monopoly. They emanate from commercial bodies in Worcester, Chester, Blackburn, Manchester, and Liverpool. General public meetings are about to be held in some other towns on the same subject. ANOTHER COLLIERY EXPLOSION.— On Monday last a dreadful explosion of fire- damp took place at Harvey's Coppeil Colliery, near Staudish, Lancashire, by which eight lives have been lost. It seems that the man whose business it was to renew tke fires below omitted to do so, at three o'clock iu the morning, and in cousequence of their going out, fire- damp accumulated. When he went down at six o'clock, for the purpose of relighting them, an explosion took place. Three mea were killed, several were seriously hurt, aud it is apprehended that five others in a different part of the mine have also been killed. STATE OF TRADE.— MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.— The market for cloth has become unsually fiat here, and up to the momeut of writing there is no chance of auy improve- ment to- day. The large buyers seem not to know what course to pursue, especially as there does not appear to be auy prospect of a further rise in the staple, and auy change therefore will, it is fancied, be downwards for cloth. Our printers are tolerably busy, and likely from appearances so to continue for a while. The silk trade is very depressed, ami without immediate prospect of improvement. The dvers also are uot more employed than of late. Yarns are saleable at a slight reduction. FRENCH CATTLE.— Within the past few weeks the steam ships runuiug between Boulogne and London, have brought a lew head of cattle, generally comprising from 10 to 15 heifers, and two or three head of horned cattle; but an iucrease has taken place in ihem this week to an exteut which has caused a vast amount of surprise to those who were not prepared for such an influx from that quarter; the steamer Emerald, haviug brought, in addition to some packages of live plants and vegetables, 22 cases of poultry and 36 sacks of potatoes; 20 heifers, 51 sheep, 22 lambs, 2 calves, and 17 cows, the production of France. Nothing like this, from France, has before taken place. The exportation has caused quite an emeute at Boulogne, and on Wednesday there was a riot, on some 25 cows and a lot of potatoes being put on board a ship bound for London. The Mayor was oniy saved from the mob by the arrival of the National Guard. SPURIOUS COIN.—- The public should be on their guard against the passers of bad money. A number of bad half- sovereigns, composed of a sort of metal resembling zinc, and gilded by the electro- plating process, are now in circulation. They are not easily to be detected by the ring, and they are well executed. The deficiency of their weight, however, immediately shows they are counterfeit. 2auj HimUigence. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, TUESDAY, Nov. 24. THE QUEEN V. FERRAND, M. P.— CRIMINAL INFORMATION. On a former day during the present term, Sir Frederick Thesiger obtained a rule, calling upon Wm. Busfeild Ferrand, Esq., M. P., to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against him for libels reflecting on the conduct of Mr. Lewis one of the Poor Law Commissioners, and Mr. Mott, an Assistant Commissioner. The alleged libels were contained in two letters published by the defendant in the Times news- paper, commenting on the evidence taken before a select com- mittee of the House of Commons, on the Poor Laws. Mr. Martin, Q. C., with whom was Mr. Bovill, this morning showed. cause against the rule, and contended at great length that it ought to be discharged. There was no proof of malice on the part of the defendant, but, on the contrary, that he was of opinion what he published was true and correct. Sir Frederick Thesiger ( with whom was Mr. Peacock) appeared in support of the rule. Lord Denman said the Court was unanimous in opinion that there was no justification whatever for the publication of Mr. Ferrand, reflecting on the conduct of Mr. Lewis and other public officers. The rule for a criminai information must there- fore be made absolute. BAIL COURT, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 25. IN RE HAYNES. Mr. Whitmore applied for a certiorari to remove the deposi- tions taken before the Coroner for Worcestershire in a case wherein a verdict of manslaughter had been returned against Haynes, who was a mine- bailiff in that county, in consequence of the late accident at Oldbury, which had happened in a mine by which 19 unfortunate persons had lost their lives. He had also to move that Haynes, upon surrendering himself to take his trial, be admitted to bail. He swears in his affidavit that he wished to show that this circumstance was but a pure accident, or, if not, that the great loss of life was owing to the incaution of those persons that were in the mine. The coroner had no power to admit to bail, and he stated that a serious injury would be done to him if he were to be sent to gaol.— Rule granted; to be made returnable at chambers. WORCESTER ( COUNTY) PETTY SESSIONS SHIREHALL, TUESDAY, NOV. 24. Magistrates present— The Rev. J. Foley, Rev. J. Pearson, J. Williams, F. E. Williams, and T. G. Curtler, Esqrs. POACHING— CHARGE AGAINST A POLICEMAN— Wil- liam Coombs, one of the County Police, was charged with setting gins upon lands of the Rev. J. R. Berkeley, of Cotheridge. Richard„ Whitlock, gamekeeper to Mr. Berkeley, deposed, that having found some gins in a hedge on the 14th November, he watched the hedge, and saw the defendant walk up the hedge, about 12 o'clock at noon; he was dressed in policeman's clothes; witness then accused him of setting the wires, and defendant offered him ( witness) and his fellow- keeper some money not to mention it, and he then showed them some gins set in the grass. Mr. Pullen, who appeared for defendant, severely cross- examined this witness, who was very reluctant in answering the questions put to him. Mr. Walcot appeared for the prosecution. John Kinnaird, under- keeper to Mr. Berkeley, deposed that he saw the defendant walking by the side of the hedge ; he stooped down repeatedly, and looked into the hedge ; witness then went up to defendant, who turned back with him and showed him several gins in the hedge. Mr. Pullen then addressed the Bench for the defendant, contending that the charge was brought against his client out of malice for his having, on a former occasion, laid an informa- tion against a friend of the complainant; that it was not pro- bable a respectable man like the defendant would be poaching in the middle of the day, in his policeman's clothes, and in a situation where he could be seen miles distant. The Magistrates, however, considered the case proved, and convicted him in the full penalty of 5/. and costs. [ We should mention that on the information being laid against Coombs, he was suspended by the Chief Constable, and that on his conviction he was immediately dismissed the force. The accused is an old sergeant of marines, and on his discharge in May last received a good character, on the strength of which he was elected into the Worcestershire Constabulary ] SHORT WEIGHTS— George Rawlings, an itinerant coal- dealer, was fined 10s. and 9s. 6d. expenses, for having unjust scales in his possession. CITY POLICE. GUILDHALL, MONDAY. AN INCORRIGIBLE.— Thomas Roberts, who was brought up on Saturday, charged with begging iti the streets, but was dis- charged conditionally on his immediately quitting the town, and was escorted beyond the city boundary by a policeman, was again brought up, having no sooner got rid of his official guide than he returned to his old trade; and being found shortly after begging in the New Road, he was taken to the station- house, and this morning sent down for 14 days' hard labour, and promised another 14 days' if again found begging in the city. UTTERING BASE COIN.— Joseph Beech, remanded from Thursday, as stated in our last, on a charge of uttering base coin, was again brought up, and the Mint determining to prosecute, he was fully committed to take his trial at the next sessions. ASSAULT A boatman named Bradley was charged with a cowardly assault upon a poor imbecile man well known about the streets of this city as '' Tim," on Saturday last. Policeman Wheeler stated that Tim came running up to him with his mouth bleeding, and said a man had been ill- using him at the Falcon Inn, Broad Street; and on making enquiries there a man named Bradley who was sitting in the kitchen admitted the assault, and said he would serve him the same again or any one else that took his part. The Bench determined to protect the poor fellow, who is shamefully ill- used by the boys of this city, and sentenced Bradley to aline of o6., and 9s. Gd. expenses, or 7 days' imprisonment, which latter alternative he adopted. Edward JVoodward, charged by the governor of the W orcester Union with absconding from the workhouse, and taking with him the Union clothes, was sentenced to 14 days' imprisoument in the house of correction. THURSDAY. A poor half- s'. arvcd looking fellow, who gave his name Wm. Rowley, was brought up in custody of policeman Wheeler, charged with breaking a pane oTglass in the shop window of Mr. Rouse, confectioner, of High- street. It seems the accused was observed in the act of breaking Mr. Rouse's window, and that he took two pork pies therefrom, which he immediately commenced making a meal of. Ia his defence he declared that he had been driven to the act by hunger, and Mr. Rouse declining to prosecute for the felony, the man was summarily convicted, and ordered to pay a fine of 4s. damage, and 7s. 6d. costs : in default of payment he was sent down to the city gaol for a month's hard labour. Harriet Miner, a woman of the town, and a very old offender, was sent down to Mr. Griffiths' establishment for fourteen days, for creating a disturbance in the streets on Wednesday night. THIS DAY ( FRIDAY.) John Tyler, a butcher's boy, was brought up by the police on a charge of stealing a terrier dog belonging to Mr. R. Till, butcher ; but Mr. Till declining to prosecute, the lad was dis charged. CHURCH RATES Warrants of distress were issued against Mr. T. Bullingham and Messrs, Hardy and Padmore, for levying the amount of a certain church rate for St. Peter's parish, which they declined to pay on " conscientious scruples." TENBURY PETTY SESSIONS. TUESDAY, NOV. 24. Before the Rev. C. Turner, T. E. M. Holland, and J. W. Joyce. STEALING POTATOES.— Mr. Maylett, of Kyre, charged Phillip Potter with stealing a quantity of potatoes growing on his farm, and the case being proved the Magistrates fined the accused 2s. 6d., with lis. 6d. costs, and 4D., the value of the potatoes. EVADING TOLL.— Mr. Davis, farmer, of Sutton, was sum- moned by Wm. Bond, toll- gate keeper, for an evasion of toll, and was convicted in a fine of £ 1, including costs, together with the toll, Is. REPAIR OF ROADS.— Mr. Thomas Davis, the road surveyor for the parish of Sutton, was summoned at the instance of Mr. Green, farmer, of that parish, for allowing a certain road in the above parish to be in bad repair. This case hinges on a question of liability, the parish maintaining that they are not liable to the repairs of the road in question; and accordingly an adjourn- ment of the case took place, in order that in the mean time the parish might take steps to ascertain their liability. NEGLECT OF SERVICE.— John Badham was charged with leaving the service of his master, Mr. Pritchard, farmer, of Eastham ; and John Phillips was brought up on a similar charge at the instance of his master, Mr. Jos. Webb, of Hanley Child. Both cases were dismissed. ASSAULTS.— Thomas Powell was charged with assaulting John Griffiths, at Bockleton; and Joseph fVinwood was charged with an assault on John Winwood, at Mambie. The parties were allowed to arrange their differences out of court. THE STOURBRIDGE CRICKET CLUB.— TESTIMONIAL TO F. T. RUFFORD, ESQ — We stated in a recent number of the Guardian that the members of the Stourbridge Cricket Club had resolved to present to F. T. Rufford, Esq., of Prescott House, a testimonial of the respect entertained towards him for his valuable services in connection with the club, and Wednes- day last was the day appointed for this purpose. The event was celebrated by a dinner at the Talbot Inn, Stourbridge, which was attended by a numerous and highly respectable company, between seventy and eighty being present on the occasion. The testimonial, which is of extremely handsome design, and perfectly symmetrical proportions, represents a Discobolus, or ancient quoit- thrower, in the attitude of throwing the discus. It is of frosted silver, on a stand of ebony. The modelling ( which is perfect) is by Baily ; and the execution by Messrs. Hunt and Roskill, ( late Storr and Mortimer,) of New Bond Street, London. It bears the following inscription : — PRESENTED TO FRANCIS TONGUE RUFFORD, ESQ., BY THE STOURBRIDGE CRICKET CLUB. NOVEMBER 25, 1846. On the reverse is Mr. Rufford's crest, finely executed. The total value of the testimonial is between £ 80 and £ 100. The dinner was provided by the worthy landlord, Mr. Brooks, in his usually excellent style, and gave general satisfaction. The chair was taken by the Lord Lieutenant of the county, Lord Lyttelton, who was supported on the right by F. T. Rufford, Esq., and on the left by W. Trow, Esq. Captain Hickman ably officiated as vice- president Among the company present we noticed Francis Rufford, Esq., George Grazebrook, Esq., R. L. Freer, Esq., J. Wrajjge, Esq., Dr. Dudley, G. H. Biggs, Esq., J. L. Hobbs, Esq., W. Waldron, Esq., T. Waldron, Esq., & c., & c. After dinner, the usual preliminary toasts having been given from the chair, Lord Lyttelton proposed the health of Mr. Rufford, in doing which he observed that the game of cricket was one of which this country might well be proud— a game which was almost essentially peculiar to England. In proof of this he had read of some of our countrymen abroad getting up games of the kind, which they termed " playing with all the world," but which, however, had been all attended with only one issue. He believed the game of cricket to be not only the most skilful and salubrious, but also the most elevating, harmless, and innocent that could be devised. It had, therefore, been a matter of great rejoicing to him to find that this noble game was creating an interest in their own neighbourhood. The Noble Lord concluded by presenting the plate to Mr. Rufford in the name of the subscribers amidst the most enthusiastic cheering. Mr. Rufford replied in suitable terms, and other toasts were given, the meeting keeping up the con- viviality of the occasion until a late hour. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. ACCIDENT ON THE EAST LANCASHIRE.— On Monday a very serious accident occurred on this line to the train which left Rawtenstall at 2 p. m. On reaching a bridge which crosses the Irwell, at Spring- side, Ramsbottom, the engine went off the rails. It is said that there is an acute curve at this place, and there being pieces of wood fixed along the rails to keep the engine on, one of them had given way, and consequently the flange of the engine wheels came iu contact with it, and threw the engine off the line with fearful violence. There were only five carriages attached to the engine, all of which were thrown off the rails. Fortunately, however, the accident occurred in a deep cutting. Several of the passengers were severely injured. One man had one of his feet cut off near the arch of the foot, and the other dreadfully lacerated. A policeman, who was a passenger, was also seriously injured ; it is said one of his legs was taken off, and the other much bruised. A third passenger was also much bruised, and a report was circulated that a fourth was killed. Three of the carriages were broken to pieces, and the engine and- tender much damaged. DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH- WESTERN.— On Tuesday morning a collision took place on the Manchester and Birmingham portion of the London and North- Western Railway, at Stockport, of a serious character, but fortunately attended with no loss of life. The forty minutes past nine o'clock train had just passed over the lofty viaduct which crosses the Mersey at Stockport, when the engine came in collision with a coal train. One of Lord Vernon's trains, it seems, had passed the shunts to get upon the London ( or up line), about nine minutes to ten o'clock, when the superintendent of the Stockport station stopped it, and told the engineer that the train from Manchester was due in a minute or two, and advised him to back upon the down line until it had passed. The engineer had proceeded to do so, aud the whole of the carriages had cleared the up line, when the passenger train arrived, and came in collision with the tender and engine. The collision was dreadful, causing the engines of the two trains to rear up almost on end, and fall off the line. Several of the passengers were severely bruised and injured, and one had three teeth broken. They were all conveyed to the Stockport Infirmary, a very short distance from the spot, and had their wounds attended to. The engineer and guard of the coal train had both jumped off their engine before the collision, . and escaped unhurt. Charles Winterbottom, the driver of the passenger train, jumped off, and had his ankle sprained, and John Fox, the stoker, bad his foot caught between the engine and tender, and slightly hurt. ALARMING ACCIDENT ON THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW. — On Friday niglit an occurrence of a very serious character took place on this railway. The half- past eight o'clock train from Edinburgh having reached the Winchburgh cut, the engine suddenly came into violent collision with a mass of rock which had slipped down the southern embankment and fallen upon the line. The effect was to throw the engine across both rails, and produce a fearful concussion of the carriages. The engine was dashed to pieces, and several of the carriages damaged; but we are happy to say that none of the passengers suffered injury. The driver and stoker were thrown off the engine, and escaped with some sligh bruises. The ten o'clock train from Edinburgh brought on the passengers who had left Glasgow at eight o'clock, a total interruption of the communication having been caused by the accident. ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.— Yesterday week the train due at 6.40 p. m. ran ofl' the line about a quarter of a mile on the Rugby side of. LHlesthorpe; it again got on the rails at the crossings at Ullesthorpe, but, some of the waggons having got injured, tore up the rails for a dis- tance of more than half a mile, which caused about 30 waggons to be thrown off, and completely obstructed both lines of rail. The damage the Midland Company will sustain must amount to some thousands— upwards of 20 waggons are a complete wreck, and goods to an immense value completely damaged, consisting of hops, tea, fruit, hogsheads of gin, wine, brandy, & c. By the united exertions of the Midland Company's servants, they were enabled by daybreak on Friday morning to clear one line of rails so as to allow the trains to pass. EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH- EASTERN.— On Wednesday night, between the hours of nine and ten, an accident of a most remarkable character took place upon the South- Eastern Railway. At about the time before stated the servants of the company were suddenly alarmed at seeing an engine and tender proceeding up the line at a most furious speed; there being no whistle sounded, as is invariably the case on the train approaching, the parties at the terminus became apprehensive that something had happened to the driver or stoker of what they believed to be the train from Brighton or Dover. The engine continued to dash along the line at a most furious rate until it arrived at the end of the metal tramway, when it struck the breaks at the station with the most fearful violence, which completely smashed the springs, the engine, and tender, causing a noise like the explosion of a piece of ordnance. The engine and tender, it appears, started from New- cross; but whether any one out of mischief turned the steam on, could not then be ascertained. William Darts, fireman in the company's service, was yester- day ( Thursday) taken before the Magistrates at Greenwich, and committed for a month to the House of Correction, for having left his engine without coutroul while the steam was getting up, and which was the cause of the accident. FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER. Gauzes Constantine, Aixa fafonnes, Siam crapes, Mousselines Luisa Fernanda bareges HaydCe, with organdys, tulles, & c-, are the fashionable materials of full dre3s; for walking and negligt plaids of every dimension, checked foulards, taffetas ckinois in stripes or waves ; taffetas mauves shot with lilac, green taffetas shot with a different tint of the same colour, and p'derines of two contrasting colours, are all much worn. In silk materials the corsages are frequently made with the corsage open in frapl. having collar and revers turned back and confined by pattes of gimp, or even simple cord; others are tight and close to the throat, with two deep revers confined at the bottom by branden- bourgs and tassels, which reach to the bottom of the skirt. Neglige dresses are without point, and when they close behind have narrow ceintures and buckles : they may also have revers from the shoulders to the waist, and ladies wishing to wear high corsages in evening dress, have the revers covered with lace. Fur at this season is used to ornament dresses as much as for out- door costume. Chinchilla and sables are the most fashionable furs this season. Mantelets and visiles of chinchilla are very elegant. Manieaux, mantelets, chatelaines, visites pardesbus, are all now in request with the newer styles, the rouliere, the Garrick, Manteau Grec, Infanta, and Moorish. The bonnets most approved have the forms a little spread, and rather deep at the ears, forming a circle round the face and hair. Black velvet bonnets are almost confined to the promenade. The more elegant ones are of plain coloured velvets ; many of emerald green are lined with a lighter shade of green. All shades of grey are fashionable, with ornaments in cerise colour. Capotes a coulisses of satin are trimmed with velours epingle. Ostrich feathers are much worn, but not long, merely the tips. Coloured lace is also used corresponding to the colour of the bonnet, a fauchon of velvet, the same as the bonnet, edged with black or white lace is pretty on neglige bonnets. Capotes of satin are onamented with biais ot velvet; dark bonnets are often lined with pale colours. Caps of the Pompadour style, the Genevieve, the Marguerite, the Fauchon are fashionable. Hats of satin, and velvet, and historical coiffures are in favour ; pretty little coiffures, merely ornamenting the top of the head are made of gold ribbon and black lace. The most novel style are the pointes, or half squares, biais de fichees of application lace. & c., intended to imitate the coiffures of the age of Marie Steuart. They are also used for bonnets of either satin or velvet, covering the crown, the corners uniting by a bunch of flowers, or nee mis of ribbon— From the " London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashions." COMPENSATION FOR INJURIES BY RAILWAY ACCI- DENTS.— Two writs of inquiry were heard last week at the Shire Hall, Warwick, before the Sheriff of the county, to assess damages IU actions brought against the North Western Railway Company, for compensation for injuries received by a collision at Coventry, on the 2nd of June, 1845. The plaintiff's were Mr- Haywood, attorney, of Birmingham, and his wife. Judgment had beeu allowed to go by default in both cases. The first action was for the injuries sustained by Mis. Haywood. It appears from the evidence that Mrs; Haywood was a passenger from Leamington to Birmingham, that the accident occurred whilst the train was waiting at the Coventry station, and was caused by the negligence of the man who had the charge of the points. There were two collisions ; the carriage in which Mrs. Haywood was seated bounded twice in the air, and she was thrown with great violence from side to side of the carriage; her face was lacerated, and she received several severe contusions, from the effects of which she has not yet recovered. The only punishment the Railway Compauy inflicted on the man who caused the disaster was the suspension of his pay for seventeen days, and a severe censure. The damages were laid at £ 500. After counsel had been heard on both sides, the jury found a verdict for £ 300., with 40s. costs. In the second case, in which Mr. Haywood alone was the plaintiff, to recover expenses to which he had necessarily been put by the illness of his wife, such as medical attendance, travelling, & e., a verdict was taken for the plaintiff, by consent, for £ 70., with 40s. costs.— Yesterday, in the Court of Queen's Bench, Mr. Shillibar recovered of the Eastern Counties Railway Com- pany the sum of £ 500, for damages sustained by the iracture of his jaw, concussion of the brain, and other injuries occasioned by an accident on that line of railway twelve months since. DREADFUL FIRE AT GRAVESEND.— Early on Friday morning last, the town of Gravesend was the scene of another calamity, consuming no fewer than forty houses and numerous other buildings. Singular to say, its locality is the same as the former fires. West- street, extending along the water side from near the Town- pier to the Rosherville Gardens. The fire was first observed from a body of smoke hovering over the premises adjacent to the Pier Hotel, at the corner of West Street. The flames soon burst forth with such violence as to light up the whole town and the opposite shore, creating a general alarm. The inmates having been got out in safety, steps were taken to bring the corporation engines, which were soon on the spot, into operation ; but the defective state of the water mains, enabled the flames to extend themselves to the buildings on each side. The Mayor and several of the Town Council arrived within a quarter of an hour after the discovery. The military at Tilbury Fort had previously been mustered by the commanding officer of that fortress, who, with every promptitude, forwarded them to the assistance of the towns- people. Their efforts, however, were of little avail in stopping the conflagration; for at least four hours the wind, which was blowing a violent gale, completely baffled their operations, and increased the magnitude of the fire to a frightful degree. From the south side of West- street, the fire raged upwards, in the direction of the centre of the town, destroying in its course a great number of low dwelling houses, principally tenanted by poor fishermen, hawkers, labourers, & c. The distress that ensued amongst them in their endeavours to save their lives and their trifling chattels, was of the most poignant character. No check to the fire was effected until after a lapse of six hours. With respect to the origin, suspicions are euteitained that it was not the renult of accident. The chief bulk of the property is insured. ^ porting. NEWPORT PAGNEL STEEPLE CHASES. FRIDAY. A Handicap Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., with 100 added; the second to save his stake, and the winner to pay 25 sovs. towards expenses. Gentlemen riding, qualified as for the Aristocrat Steeple Chase, allowed 51b. Four miles. Lord Strathmore's Switcher, 12st. 61b ( Owner) 1 Mr. Tilbury's Culverthorpe, list. 61b..... ( Mr. Rowlands) 2 Mr. Pemberton ni: Latitat, lOst. 121b. ( Mr. Bevill) 3 Saucepan, Discount, Christopher North, Peter Simple, and twelva others started, but were not placed. Bettting.— 4 to I agst Switcher, 5 to 1 agst Discount, 7 to 1 agst Latitat, 8 to 1 each agst Peter Simple and Saucepan, 12 to ] agst Culverthorpe, 15 to 1 agst Amazon, and 20 to 1 agst Sir William. At starting Christopher North took the lead, closely followed by Discount— the others close up. This order was maintained for about two miles, when Switcher and Culverthorpe gradually improved their positions, and at the last fence had become the leading horses; here, however, Culverthorpe stumbled, and Switcher ran in a gallant winner by half a length ; Latitat beaten for a second place by a length, and Discount about the same distance for thi d. Water Lilly fell at the first fence, and Saucepan, Peter Simple, and two or three others at the brook, M'Donough being very much injured. A Steeple Chase of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added; 12st. each. The winner to be sold for 200 sovs. ; if entered to be sold for 150J., allowed 7lb.; if for 100/., 141b.; and allowances if for less. Gentlemen riding, qualified as for the Aristocrat Steeple Chase, allowed 51bs. Four miles. Mr. Lambden's Carlow, 100/ ( Oliver) 1 Mr. G. Higgins's The Pope, 1002 ( Mr. Bevil) 2 Mr. Liddel's Profligate, 1002..... ( Mr. Rowland) 3 Six others started, but were not placed: — Betting.— 2 to 1 agst Carlow. Won easily by two lengths. Eugene Sue beaten a length for third place. HASLINGTON ( CHESHIRE,) ANNUAL COURSING MEETING. WEDNESDAY, Nov, 25, 1846. Stewards.— Messrs. Woolf, Bellyse, Axden, and Brindley, Judge.— J. S. Hodgson, Esq. The Welcome Stakes, for sixteen dogs, open to all England, at three guineas each, w as won by Mr. Webb's r. b. Flirt, by Marquis — Coquette, Mr. Eddlestone's bk. d. Bold Heart, by Early Doomed — Treasure, running up. The Stake for eight puppies, of 1845, was won by Mr. Armstrong's blk.. and w. d. Maltster, by Standish's Streamer — Beeswing. Mr# Kirby's blk. and w. d. Twist, by Twist — Fly, running up. HUNTING APPOINTMENT. THE WORCESTERSHIRE HOUNDS.-^ half- past ten. Tuesday Dec. 1 Crowle. Friday — 4 Bromsgrove Lickey, Tuesday _ 8 Westwood. Friday — 11 Brockeridge Common. LORD KEDESDALE'S HOUNDS.-^< half- past ten, Saturday Nov. 28 Blenheim. Monday — 30 Heythrop. Wednesday Dec. 2 Adlestrop House. Friday _ 4 Tangiey. Saturday — 5 KiddingtonGate. THE HEREFORDSHIRE HOUNDS.— At half- patt ten. Tuesday Dec. I Berrington; Friday — 4 Ferrystone. THE LEDBURY HOUNDS,—. 4/ half- past ten. Monday Nov. 30 Somers Arms. Eastnoi Friday Dec. 4 The Kennel. THE LUDLOW HOUNDS.— At ten. Tuesday Dec. I Buckaall Wood. THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS.— At half- past ten. Saturday Nov. 28 Goldicote. Monday — 30 Edstone House. Tuesday Dec. 1 Weston House. Thursday — 3 Grandborough. Friday _ 4 Wroxton New Inn. Saturday — 5 Wimpstone Bridge.- THE ALBRIGHTON HOUNDS.— At half- past ten. Saturday Nov. 28 The Kennels. Monday _ 30 Himley. Thursday Dec. 3 Flashbrook. Saturday — 5 Brineton. THE ATHERSTONE HOUNDS,— At Eleven. Saturday Nov. 28 Ratby Boroughs; THE SHROPSHIRE HOUNDS.-^ a quarter before Eleven. Monday Nov. 30 Chipnal Wood. Wednesday Dec, 2 Clietwynd Park. Fnday — 4 Crudgington Gate. Monuay — 7 Sundorne Castle. Wednesday — 9 Stapleton,, Friday — 11 Clorerley. BIRTHS. Nov. 19, at High- park, near this city, the lady of the Rev. Edward Wakeman, of a son. Nov. 21, at her residence, 8, Sussex Square, London, the lady of Capt. Moorsom, of a son. Nov. 22, in Foregate Street, in this city, Mrs. Taunton, of a son. Nov. 23, at Dewsall Vicarage, Herefordshire, the lady of the Rev. Thomas Phillipps, of a daughter. Nov. 24, at No. 21, Royal Crescent, Bath, the lady of Wm. Kevill Davies, Esq., of Croft Castle, Herefordshire, of a daughter. Nov. 25, at Plymouth, the lady of W. T. Mainprise, Esq., R. N., of a son. MARRIAGES. Nov. 14, at Christ Church, Cork, by the Rev. W. C. William- son, Vicar, Mr. Wm. Matthews, of Bristol, to Miss Ella Harris, late of Bromyard. Nov. 18, at the office of the Superintendent Registrar, Ledbury, Mr. James Gumary, to Miss Leah Whiting, both of Woolhope. Nov. 18, at Sheriff- hales, Staffordshire, Mr. John Adney, of Rowton, Shropshire, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late M r. G. Pace, of Shifnal. Nov. 19, at Martley, by the Rev. N. L. Davis, Mr. John George Boraston, only son of Mr. John Boraston, of Sutton, Kidderminster, to Mary, fourth daughter of Mr. Nathaniel Anith^ Horsham. Martley. Nov. 19, at Feckenham, by theTCev. James Beesley, Mr. Joseph Partridge, of Shra. vley, to Mary Anne, only daughter of Mr. J. Fortman, of the former place. Nov. 22, at the parish church, Kidderminster, Mr. Charles Allcock, cabinet- maker, of Stourbridge, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Godfrey, of Heathy Mill, near the former town. N ov. 22, at St. Nicholas Church, Mr. Thomas Dawson carpenter, to Mary, second daughter of Mr. John Lippitt, fly proprietor, both of this city. Nov. 23, at Oldswinford Church, by the Rev. C. Craufurd, Mr. G. W. Prescot, of Stourb- idge, law stationer, to Martha, eldest daughter of Mr. B. Penney, grocer, of the same place. Nov. 24, at St. Paul's Church, Wilton Place, London, Henry Herries Creed, Esq., eldest son of the Rev. H. K. Creed, of Corse, Gloucestershire, to Frances, youngest daughter of the late William Grasett, Esq., of Ovenden House, Seven- oaks, Kent. Nov. 26, at St. Nicholas Church, by the Rev. W. H. Havergal, William Hartshorn, son of Jabez Allies, Esq., of Lower Wick, to Fanny, third daughter of the late Mr. Edward Unsworth Green, wine merchant, of this city. DEATHS. Sept. 28, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States of America, aged 30, deeply regretted, Mr. Benjamin Wright Bancks, the beloved son of Mr. C. Bancks, of Wribbenh& ll. Nov. 18, at the White House, Kyrewood, near Tenbury, sincerely regretted by her friends, Decima Sayer, youngest daughter of the late Thomas Sayer, Esq., of the Highwood, in the county of Hereford. Nov. 18, at Lady wood Lane, Edgbaston, Mary, relict of Robert Keating, Esq., of the Middle Temple, and" for several years editor of the Times newspaper. Nov. 19, at Gloucester, deeply regretted by his family and friends, aged 62, Mr. Wm. Jeffs, Governor of the city prison. N ov. 19, Mr. John Cutler, of the Hagley Road, Stourbridge, aged 40 years. Nov. 20, at Far Forest, Bewdley, Mr. George Palmer, aged 82. Nov. 21, at his lodgings, Corn Market, in this city, Mr. C. Crook Foster, aged 24, second son of Mr. Thomas Foster, jeweller, Tiverton, Devonshire. Nov. 23, at Cheltenham, Catherine, relict of Robert Cham- berlain, Esq., late of the Bengal Civil Service. Nov. 23, at Wribbenhall, near Bewdley, Mrs. Huxley, the belove J wife of Mr. John Huxley, in the 75th year of her age. Nov. 23, at Gloucester, aged 33, Joseph Heath, Esq., late of Settle, Yorkshire. Nov. 24, aged 33, Mr. John Hopkins, jun., of Quay Street, in this city. Nov. 24, at his residence, Worcester Street, Kidderminster, deeply regretted by his family and friends, Mr. Daniel Moore, aged 75 years. Nov. 24, after a short illness, Mr. Thomas White, Bridge Street, Evesham, much and deservedly lamented. Nov. 25, at Ombersley, Mr. Pardoe, shoemaker, aged 90. Nov. 25, at Warwick, Lucy, relict of the late Pye Chavasse, Esq., of Great Malvern, in this county. SECOND EDITION Saturday Morning, November 28. STOCKS.— Bank Stock, 206; 3 per Cent. Red. 93f; 3 per Cent. Con., 95; New 3J per Cent., 95j ; Cons, for Acct., 9a § ; Long Annuities, 9 § ; India Stock, 256J ; India Bonds, —; £ 1,100 Excheq. Bills, 8. CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY At this day's market English Wheat ruled steady at the rates of Monday. A similar remark applies to free foreign, but the transactions were not extensive. There was less inquiry for bonded for France, as many of their markets have been more quiet and somewhat cheaper. The demand for Barley was fully adequate to the supply; and although no advance could be realised, still late rates were well supported. Malt unaltered in value, but Beans and Peas a dull sale at firmer prices. There was a fair arrival of Irish Oats this week, and a few coasting vessels, but the supply only trilling of foreign. The sale still contracted, but prices rather improved. Indian corn still meets an extensive inquiry for Ireland, and held fully Is. higher. SMITHFIELD, FRIDAY— The supply of beasts on offer to- day were extensive, and the attendance of buyers small, the beef trade was dull. The numbers of home- fed sheep small, at barely Monday's quotations. The supply of calves limited. Little business done in pigs at late rates:— Beef, 2s. 4d. to 4s. 2d. ; Mutton, 3s. 8d. to 5s. 4d.; Veal, 3s. 8d. to 4s. ed.; Pork, 3s. 8d. to 4s. 81. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. John Brett, Luton, Bedfordshire, sheep- salesman. Saul Samuel and VValtei Samuel, Birmingham, woollen- drapers. BANKRUPTS. Alexander Russell, Ashford, Kent, saddler. John Bickertou, Luton, Bedfordshire, plait- dealer, John Borer, Exmouth- street, Clerkenwell, grocer; John Garratt, Copenhagen- house, Islington, licensed- victualler. William Crosling, Billerieuy, Essex, linen- draper. Abraham Huddleston, Boston, Yorkshire, farmer. John Mintorn Vaughan, Bristol, builder. Richard Nichols, jun., New- street, Birmingham, bookseller. Samuel George Burton, Sidmoutb, Devon, gas manufacturer. William Uawthorne, Liverpool, cabinet- maker, Peter Jones and Edward Everett, Liverpool, joiners. f 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 139, 1 8 4 6 . CON AM ORE. Love was ever a martyr; Bred in sorrow, born in pain; Tossed about in troubled waters; By a scornful arrow slain. Wherefore, then, O fairest lady, Bid me sing of love again? I was young, and I was dreaming, When a burning Vision came, Lighted up mine eyes with passion, Touched my cheeks with crimson shame; Smote my heart that shrunk and trembled, Till it burst abroad in flame. Long the Vision seemed to linger; Then without a smile or sound, Passed beyond my humble region, Like the sun when staward bound, Glorious, but content with having Cast a glory on the ground. Now I dwell within the shadows, And the Dream that shone of yore Lighteth up another passion— Lingereth on another shore; Leaving Love, that was the martyr, Master still, for evermore ! BARRY CORNWALL. VARIETIES. RATHER DOUBTFUL.— An old woman was asked what she thought of one of her neighbours of the name of Jones, and, with a knowing look replied:—" Why I don't like to say anything about my neighbours, but, as to Mr. Jones, some- times I think, and then again I don't know— but after all I rather guess he'll turn out to be a good deal such a sort of a man as I take him to be!" AN IRISH RUSE.— I engaged a chaise at Galway to con- duct me some few miles into the country, and had not proceeded far, when it pulled up at the foot of a hill, and the driver coming to the door opened it. " What are you at, man 1 This isn't where 1 ordered you to stop !* said I. " Whisht! your honour, whisht 1" ejaculated Paddy, " I'm only desaving the baste! If I bang the door he'll think you're out, and ' 11 cut up the hill like a divil 1" The Baltimore Clipper says, a few days since a jolly son of the ocean was about being put on board an outward- bound ship, for which he had previously entered, when he asked leave to have another run up town. Being informed that he could not be permitted to go, as the ship was about sailing, he sung out to a man on the wharf, an entire stranger to him, *' Here my friend," throwing him a silver dollar, " spend that for me— I'll do as much for you another time." Jack never gave up while there was a shot in the locker. THE GRANDILOQUENT IN WRITING.— Magnificent words, and the pomp and procession of stately sentences, may accompany genius, but are not always, nor frequently called out by it. The voice ought not to be perpetually, nor much, elevated in the ethic and didactic, nor to roll sonorous, as if it issued from a mask in the theatre. The horses in the plains under Troy are not always kicking and neighing ; nor is the dust always raised in whirlwinds on the banks of Simos and Lamandes; nor are the ramparts always in a blaze. Hector lowered his helmet to the infant of Andromache, and Achilles to the embraces of Briseis. I do not blame the prose writer who opens his bosom occasionally to a breath of poetry; neither, on the contrary, can I praise the gait of that pedes- trian who lifts up his legs as high on a bare heath as in a corn field. HAPPINESS.— How few know the real sources of happiness, and of those that know, how few rightly apply them. Are not riches often nothing but the most chilling and heart- rending poverty. Gold, silver, precious apparel, costly furniture, superb ornaments, and gaudy equipage; the applause of men, the dignities of station, and the emoluments of office— are only valuable in proportion as they are beheld through the distorted medium of public fancy or opinion. They are not necessary, nor are they ever adapted to give permanent tranquillity, much less delight to the soul; and after they have been enjoyed awhile, they become insipid, ordinary, if not distasteful. That which at the distance appeared so precious, estimable, and blissful, when approached, dwindles and fades. Bring a poor man to a table of delicacies, invest an ignoble man with honour, give respect to a despised person, for the present moment you surround them with scenes of pleasure and delight; but time and custom will soon wear off this content and pleasure, so that they shall be compelled to acknowledge that they were equally happy in their former estate. Yet every man has within himself the source of happiness. UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. — ELECTION OF LORD RECTOR.— The election for the office of Lord Rector of this University took place last week. Although the gross poll shows a majority for the Conservative candidate, the venerable " Wordsworth, still, by the forms of election, the choice has fallen on Lord J. Russell. The alumni of the University are divided into four separate nations, and by the majority of nations the election is decided. We now subjoin a state of the votes, taken from the Whig committee :— WORDSWORTH. Natio Glottiana 81 Londoniana .... 20 Transforthana .. 28 Rothseiana ...... 83 RUSSELL. Natio Glottiana 69 Londoniana .... 32 Transforthana .. 30 Rothseiana .... 60 212 191 Leaving on the gross poll a majority for Wordsworth of 21. It will be observed, however, that in consequence of there being two nations in favour of Mr. Wordsworth, and two for Lord J^ Russell, the casting vote devolved upon the Vice Rector, Dr. Nichol, Professor of Astronomy, who gave it in favour of Lord John Russell. It was generally believed that Lord J. Russell would not accept the office in the anomalous posi- tion in which he is placed, but to the surprise of every one, letters from Scotland announce that his lordship has accepted the office bestowed upon him under such mortifying cir- cumstances 1 MARRIAGES AND CHRISTENINGS WITHOUT FEE.— In consequence of the autborities of the parish of St. John, Clerkenwell, having discovered that numbers of the poorer classes inhabiting that district were living together without regard to either of the above ceremonies, and bringing up their children in the same way, notice has been given ( their excuse being that they are unable to pay the fees) that on Advent and Whit Sundays christenings would be performed gratuitously, and marriages on the first Monday in December and May. CHARLES MATHEWS AND THE TAILOR.— In the Sheriffs' Court, on Thursday, an action was brought by Mr. Woolf, a tailor, against Mr. C. Mathews, the well- known comedian. The claim was for £ 40, on a dishonoured promissory note, and £ 11 on an I O U, with £ 2 for goods sold. The defendant allowed judgment to go by default. Witnesses were called, who proved the handwriting of the defendant, and the delivery of the goods. The Jury thereupon gave a verdict for the amount claimed. DRIED FRUITS.— A vessel named the White Mouse, recently arrived at the port of Liverpool, from Smyrna, had the very large quantity of 14,017 packages of tigs, and 2,300 packages of raisins on board, being an entire cargo of these fruits, the produce of Turkey, or of the Turkish dominions in Asia Minor; and another vessel arrived also at Liverpool from the same Turkish port, brought 13,633 packages of figs, and 1,373 packages of raisins and other productions ; the mention of which two single importations, will show the extent to which they continue to be carried. THE AMERICAN MAMMOTH MORTAR.— The great gun lately cast at Boston was fired a few times by way of trial during the last month. Shells 12 inches in diameter, and 1801bs. iu weight, were thrown various distances, according to the elevation and charge used. With a charge of 20lbs. of powder, at an elevation of 22 degrees, a shell was thrown miles, and buried itself deep in the earth on its fall. A ricochet shot was tried with 201bs. charge and 71bs. in the shell. It dashed through and over the water at an awful rate, and exploded at a distance of about ' wo miles, throwing the fragments several hundred yards in evtry direction. The regular service charge is 251b., which, at a due elevation, will project the shell something between 3J and 4 miles. THE LADY POACHER.— We hear that the information for poaching against the Duchess of Marlborough has been defeated on a technical point of law. The statute, not looking to a violation of its provisions by females, only introduces the masculine gender " he," and therefore " she," the duchess, escapes its operation. DANGER OF EXPERIMENTS WITH GUN COTTON.— On Sunday evening last an accident occurred to James Richard- son, a young gentleman residing in Besborough- terrace, Pimlico, while making experiments with gun cotton. Richard- eon and several other young men were in the kitchen of the above house, and had a quantity of gun cotton. They were firing it from a pistol loaded with ball through a board fixed at the other side of the room. The board, not being securely fixed, fell upon a table and capsized the candle upon the gun cotton. The whole instantly exploded, blowing out the win- dows, and when a light was procured Richardson was found lying on the floor with his face frightfully burned. A surgeon was immediately sent for, and upon examining Richardson he pronounced the sight of his right eye to be totally destroyed. DEATH FROM GODFREY'S CORDIAL.— An inquest has just been held in London, on view of the body of Michael Monaghan, a child nine weeks old, who lived with his parents in Henry Edward- street. It appeared that when he was about three weeks old he was seized with a fit of screeching, and that his mother got a pennyworth of Godfrey's Cordial, and gave him a teaspoonful of it. Ever since that time she had leen in the habit of giving him a pennyworth every week, tut never gave him more than about a teaspoonful at a time. Last week she gave the deceased a teaspoonful, and from that time until five o'clock the next evening the child never awoke out of sleep. When he did awake at last, he appeared quite drowsy, and on Sunday evening he died. Mr. Patrick Kelly, surgeon, was of opinion that he died from the effects of some narcotic. A teaspoonful of Godfrey's Cordial would contain a drop and a half of laudanum. He considered that a most injudicious quantity to have been given. The Jury returned a verdict of " Chance- medley," thus reducing the offence fcelow manslaughter. FRIGHTFUL CASE OF STABBING.— Another of those • unfortunate collisions in which the use of the knife has been resorted to, with, we fear, too great a probability of a fatal result, took place at Liverpool, on Tuesday. The particulars are as follows :— At one o'clock in the morning the attention of the police was drawn to a squabble between two seafaring men in South Castle- street. When they came up it was found that one of the men was stabbed in the belly. The other was immediately arrested, and on him was found a large broad- pointed clasp- knife. The injured man was conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where he now lies iu a precarious state. The wound, from which his bowels were protruding is about two inches long. His name is Charles Wimslow, and he has recently arrived from St. JohD, N. B., in tha Champion, of Liverpool. THE KEMPSEY BAKERY. On Monday last, in pursuance of notice published in last week's Guardian, a public meeting of the citizens of Worcester was held at the Guildhall in this city, " to explain the prin- ciples of the intended bakery at Kempsey, and to consider the propriety of its being a public one." The meeting was convened for one o'clock, shortly after which hour the Mayor having entered the Court, the business of the day commenced. At this time the Crown Court of the Guildhall was filled by tradesmen and mechanics, the millers and bakers mustering in large numbers. As time passed on, reinforcements assem- bled in the hall, and there was a cry at one time raised for an adjournment to the body of the hall, which step, however, the Mayor rightly judged was entirely unnecessary. The Mayor, having taken his seat, addressed a few words to the assembled citizens on the object of the meeting. He observed that Mr. Pratt, the originator of the Kempsey New Bakery, having waited upon him for the purpose of obtaining his couutenance and support in bis undertaking, he had deemed the matter of such vital importance, both as regarded individuals and the public, that he had expressed a desire to know what might be the sentiments of the general body of citizens, and accordingly, at the request of Mr. Pratt, he had convened the present meeting. He trusted that whatever discussion might ensue on the matter before them, it would he carried on with fairness to all parties. ( Hear, hear.) He then called uppn Mr. Pratt to " explain the principles of the intended bakery at Kempsey." Mr. Pratt then rose, and introducing his subject with a few brief preliminary observations, proceeded to read the follow- ing circular, issued by him in March last, calling public attention to the cheaper and improyed manufacture of bread for the people. " To Capitalists, Philanthropists, and Others, interested in obtaining Cheap Pood for the People. " The great and comprehensive measuie of Free Trade now before parliament, particularly that part of it relating to corn, and the anticipated dearth occasioned by the failure of the potatoe crop, present and future, has suggested to the writer the propriety of at once directing public attention to the estab- lishment of an Association for the better and cheaper manufac- turing of Bread. " In the great article of man's consumption, the progress of improvement has been slow : it is therefore thought that the time is come when the system suggested might be tried with profit to capitalists, and advantage to the world at large. " The writer therefore solicits an attentive perusal and inves- tigation of his pian for the manufacturing of Bread by the new Motive Power from the grain direct; and if approved, is prepared to enter upon the erection of a Model Machine in any town or city, on the advancement of the requisite capital— about five thousand pounds. [ Then follows a relation of some experiments and facts proving the power of the atmosphere when intercepted. The circular thus concluded:—] " Numerous facts might be related to prove that a power is created by intercepting the atmosphere, which is called ' the power of attraction,' and which the writer claims as the base of the new Motive Power enforced in his Pamphlet, and noticed in the Year- book of Facts for 1846, first article. " For further particulars apply to Mr. Henry Pratt, 3, Wellington, Road, Coldharbour Lane, Camberwell." Mr. Pratt proceeded to state that he had sent this circular to the Times and other papers, and to Mr. Cobden. It had also fallen into the hands of a gentleman in Staffordshire, who had called his attention to the property at Kempsey for sale as offering an eligible site for a baking establishment. It was afterwards arranged to build the shell of a bakery on this property, and then appeal to the public on the subject. His attention was at this time drawn to the proceedings of the London Society of Arts, which society had offered prizes for the best inventions of mixtures of materials for making a wholesome bread in substitution of wheaten flour, Ke there- upon submitted a paper to the Society of Arts on this subject, accompanying it with specimens of wholesome, nutritious, and palateable bread at a low price. Mr. Pratt then pro- ceeded to read the paper which he submitted to the Society of Arts, but which we cannot afford space for entire. We therefore extract the chief points— those which created discussion. He commenced by asserting that bread could not be conveniently, economically, nor properly prepared with certainty, on a small scale, with the materials obtained from vendors of bread- stuffs in the metropolis. He then pro- ceeded :— " Of the materials suggested by the Society, namely,' sago, rye, wheat, maize, barley, beans, peas, oats, rice, beetroot, parsnips,' & c., more than twenty years experience at home and abroad convince me that sound red lammas wheat in this country is by far the most economical of these grains, as a standard grain for food; not altogether because it contains a great amount of gluten, but because it keeps better, and entails no more expense in the manipulation and distribution than the inferior grains. These are cogent reasons why it ought to form the basis of food in large towns. A system of operations have, however, made it anything but the staff of life; and though the inferior grains make nutritious bread— fermented or unfer- mented— still they form only a small portion of our daily food. " In the first place, the present system of grinding wheat and dressing it ( and this system has very lately been applied to Indian corn) deserves particular notice, for no invention of a mere ' mixture of materials' would be complete under the present system of grinding and dressing so fine." He then proceeded to illustrate his position, but these remarks would be more pertinent in a report of a scientific lecture, than of a speech delivered at a mixed public meeting. Mr. Pratt then remarked, " I hope, Mr. Mayor, that no miller or baker will take offence at what I am about to read. I can assure your worship that, in the prosecution of this subject, I am actuated by no ill feeling towards the ttade, but I consider it my duty to look at the matter in a national point of view." He then read the following extract from his paper sent in to the Society of Arts:— " Another bad practice, which has made wheat anything but the staff of life, is putting alum into flour and bread. If this unlawful act was confined to the ordinary baker, there might be some excuse, for he has been driven to it by the miller grinding the unprepared and inferior damp wheats so fine, and also in his endeavour to give his customers a iarge~ Tvhite loaf from these inferior materials. But this sad bad practise of aluming the staff of life is not confined to the baker. The miller uses it also ! It is contended that a little alum is no harm, and that it stiffens the raw and clammy nature of poor soft flour. But it is not required for prepared granulated flour, nor is so much common salt necessary, nor acids. These things irritate the stomach, which causes hunger, and they enable the bread to hold water, which favours decomposition, after it is baked. If all the best wheat is to be used up for high priced bread, it becomes a very grave subject indeed— a public matter— a work of necessity— to adopt the best modes for con- verting the inferior grains into a wholesome, nutritious, and palatable bread, to be sold at a low price, " These things point to a great mistake which appears to have been made in the domestic economy of our large manu- facturing towns, namely, dividing the operation of bread making into two distinct and separate trades. This division prevents that economical preparation, that proper manipula- tion, and that variety of bread, which an amalgamation of these two trades would so easily effect. It would be extending these introductory remarks to an inconvenient length to point out to the Society the losses and the injury inflicted, not only on the public, but on the millers and bakers themselves, by their roundabout operations. As a body, neither millers nor bakers are wealthy nor healthy, while a large portion are the greatest slaves in the nation: nevertheless, the dough is imperfectly kneaded, and the bread held up to a high price." Mr. Pratt then said, as to the slavery part of the business, he would read to the meeting a memorial, addressed to Sir R. Peel in May last. This memorial set foith that the operative bakers were working 18 hours per diem, at the average wages of 9s. a week. He continued :— " It has long been a disputed question whether fermented or unfermented bread is the most wholesome food ; but as this depends upon so many circumstances, it is a question that can never be answered correctly, because both are necessary under ordinary circumstances. Man requires change; it is natural. To refuse stimulants is to live out of nature. * * * « » " The primary simple principle, then, for converting grain into sweet and soluble bread, maybe likened to the ripening of fruit; but this ripening process is not merely confined to any one of the processes, but goes on progressivly from the begin- ning to the end— from drying the grain to baking the bread, when it ceases. The only raw materials necessary are hops, grain, and soft water. This progressive principle of ripening the grain and dough is so certain on the great scale, that I have found it the best way to make ' wholesome, nutritious, and palatable bread.' But it is probable that the acids and other peculiar properties of the fruits of the earth may be so concen- trated and applied, without the destruction of any portion of grain by fermentation. For though fermented bread has been very aptly called the staff of life, it represents, or ought to represent, the fruits and palms of tropical countries, which Linnteus thought was the first abode of our species, making man essentially palmivorous. " To carry out this principle with economy, it is necessary, in the first place, to apply the large amount of heat which radiates from bakers' ovens, to dry the grain, and also to furnish power to grind it, and to knead it on the spot, that the bread may be of any quality, and sold at a low price. The grain having been prepared and reduced to flour, some of the strong granulated kind, mixed with other qualities, is scalded with hop water. This paste, or thick bitter gruel, remains in a warm compart- ment, to cool slowly to 100 degrees, then one- fourth of old ferment is added. In about six hours this new ferment will be ready. To one- fouith of this liquor add progressively three- fourths of warm soft water, about 100 degrees, with flour at 70 degrees, commencing with one- twelfth of the water, then one- fifth, then one- third, and then the remainder. The pro- duction of this vinous batter will take about three hours, and after about three hours more employed in kneading and preparing, it will be ready for the oven. The temperature and fermentation is regulated by adding every now and then flour, or flour and water. This is nearly the routine of manipulation employed on the specimens of bread sent to the Society, and nearly the same I established on a grand scale in the city of Kingston, Jamaica, more than six years ago, with surprising success. There, the natural heat of the water and the flour was sufficient. This is a brief outline of the progressive principle of making fermented bread. The details may be varied to suit every climate. Common salt is not absolutely necessary." Mr. Pratt then proceeded to remark on the preparation of maize, which required a different treatment. He continued :— " As to the greater yield or weight of bread from any material by this or that process, requires care and judgment to decide correctly. If soft be used— if the fermentation be kept in check if the stimulating products are well kneaded and rubbed into the flour— if the oven is not too hot, and the dough arranged so as to present a large surface to the heat for fully one hour, the bread will be distinguished by luscious nutty flavour, and the increase will be 33^ per cent., w hi h agrees with Pliny's statement; but if maizej rice, or sago, are steamed or boiled, and mixed with wheaten flour and fermented, the increase sometimes amounts to 50 per cent., and wheaten flour made into puddings sometimes absorbs its own weight of water. But it will be impossible to carry out any of these plans to benefit the public by the machinery now used. The common people have not time nor means nor ovens to make their own bread ; the baker's charge for baking alone costs from 2d. to ' id. per peck, being about 5s. and 8s. per quarter. Then there is yeast, the waste, and the risk of spoiling all. " It is now more than twenty years since 1 was first tor- mented with the difficulties about making bread, and for more than 10 years I have been convinced that the nation would be greatly enriched if millers and bakers were amalgamated. The time is now near when this important domestic arrangement will be effected. The vast importance of the subject has caused me to wait patiently, and it is gratifying that this circumstance offers a legitimate way to bring mytplans into notice in due season." Mr. Pratt concluded the reading of his paper delivered to the Society of Arts by detailing the results of certain experiments for testing the superiority of rain water over spring water for making bread. He then proceeded to explain the principles of the power applied in his bakery, from a review of a lecture delivered by him on this subject, which review was published in the Railway Record, a pup or which at first opposed him, but subsequently admitted the feasibility of his plans. We cannot undertake to reprint this review, which would be unin- telligible to most of our readers not thoroughly versed in mechanics, and without illustrations would be intelligible to none. In the course of the reading of this article the Mayor inquired whether he could not give some more familiar expla- nation of his principle than what ho was giving, which he confessed he could not himself understand,, but Mr. Pratt preferred reading the review of the Railway Record. Having at length finished this part of his subject, Mr. Pratt went on to state that he had had some bread shown him by an old woman ( at Kempsey, we understood), who sold it at sixpence per loaf. He found that the loaf weighed 31bs., so that the price was twopence per lb. This he said left a profit to the miller, or baker, or both, of no less than 24s. per quarter. He had seen some bread at a shop in this city ( Mr. Lingbam's) which was undoubtedly good bread, but this was not the sort of bread served out to the poor, who were obliged to eat a very inferior sort. He contended that the only means of having the " staff of life" produced as a wholesome and nutritious food at a cheap rate was by the establishment of a public bakery under the management of gentlemen of character, and so arranged that a per centage not exceediug 10 per cent, should be taken by the shareholders. It was the first duty of every head of a family to economise and purify their supply of bread, and if this were a duty in families, how much more so was it a duty in the head of a state or of a city. ( Cheers.) He maintained that the great mass of the people were not consuming bread of such good quality as they ought to have provided for them, and that to remedy this evil it was necessary to have a public bakery established on the principles which he advocated, the chief advantages of which were thus set out in the pro- spectus :— " 1st. A new motive power, comparatively costless and per- fectly safe, will be applied to grind the Grain and knead the Dough. " 2nd. The waste heat lost in making Bread will be applied to furnish power, and also to d « 7 and prepare the Grain. " 3rd. An improved mode of making fermented Bread, by which simple machinery can be brought into action. " 4th. The expense of ro? indabout machinery and sacks, waste of Flour and many othe^ things, which now make Bread scarce and dear, will be saved When this subject was mooted, he had thought it his duty to wait upon the Bishop of the diocese and the Mayor of this city, to obtain their sanction to his proceedings if possible. The Bishop said he could not give his sanction to a measure which would entail ruin upon any class— alluding to the bakers, and knowing that l » is Lordship's resolution would influence that of very man* of the higher classes, he had addressed the following letter to his Lordship :— " Kempsey near Worcester, Nov. 12th, 1846. « My Lord,— When I cal'ed uPon y° ur, Lordship a week ago you stated that you could not sanction the establishment of the Public Bakery, on the groUIld tl) at 14 would rum the bakers. The promoters can fully appreciate your Lordship's objections, but conceive that inventions and labour— saving machines, may be adopted without inflicting ruinous injury on existing interests. If, in the present undertaking, Society be benefitted by the goodness and cheapness of Bread, it would be easy to lay by a portion ofthe savings to form a fund for compensating those whom it might injure. In the present stage ofthe pro- rppdinoc it wnnlil he Dremafure t0 offer arrangemeut in ceeaings 11 wouiu De preHia! rinci j b to acknowled it detail for carrying out this ], direction seems to be a step in the righ. . Br£ a'd a]] ow me t that . " tAs ? Vroofot the value of * f he ^ urpose of ' j j in Jamaica, where I went mci; e Jalmost the0nly food used! The the army with bread, it becamthe neighbourhood of Kingston, consumption of the army, in flour per ^ ek . bin before the was only about 40 bairels oijg monthsno less a quantity than concern had been established , , , , c v ,, 700 barrels of flour per week was baked for the Publlc and tr°" As a guarantee to the public' and especially to the poorer part of it, that the present undertaking shall be free from the evils of speculation, it is almost absolutely necessary to secure the patronage and countenance of the Clergy and Gentry. Should your Lordship refuse, and should this refusal influence the Clergy and Gentry a great bot< h to Society, and especially to the poorer part of Society, may be lost. The project will be car- ried out, but if it be not made a public matter how are we to prevent the evils of speculation ? « Without troubling your Lordship with further observations on this important subject, the promoters hope, that after this explanation, your Loidship will become the Patron. " I am, my Lord, " Your Lordship's most obedient Servant, " HENRY PRATT. " To the Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Worcester, •< Hartlebury Ca* tle" His Lordship, however, delink any interference in the matter, on the ground that he never meddled with any joint stock company's affairs. He then waited on the Mayor, who now presided at that meeting, and who said he thought there would be great difficulty in arranging the compensation to be awarded to parties injure4 m the, r tradeS> but he ( Mr' Pratt) urged the necessity of making the attempt, and hence the present meeting was decided on- He had now nothing more to add, but should be haPPy to hear any remarks on his statement from any one preset- Mr. Pratt then resumed his seat. Mr. Lingham ( maltster and baker) said there was one very important part of the business proposed by Mr. Pratt which he was anxious to see carried out. He would suggest that the proposed compensation to the bakers be paid beforehand. ( Hear and laughter.) It, however, struck him very forcibly that this was a matter which should be left for private specu- lation, and that it had no claim upon the public. Mr. Pratt had said that he had constructed the shell of the building, and it appeared to him ( Mr. Lingham) that he was now e^ eaittg^ to them for the kernel. ( A laugh.) He thought the interests of the public, and the poor especially, would be greatly injured by the carrying out of the proposed large bakery, for it would be the means of closing the small baking establishments, where the public were in the habit not only of baking their iudividual batches of bread— for a great many families made their own broad— but also their puddings and pies. Mr. Lucy ( miller) addre.= sed a few observations to the meeting, urging that if this bakei7 were established, it would be found iu the end that tlie Public were no gainers by it. He illustrated the BirmingHam Un, on Mills as a case in point. This large establishnient sold bread al the same rates as the general body of baliers- tHea,'> hear-) As to the alleged improvement of kne; ldinS machinery, there was very little, if any, saving in the Plan> as had been proved by his ( Mr. Lucy's) brother, who had a machine for that purpose. The Mayor here observed that he hoped Mr. Pratt would excuse him, but it appeared to him that he ( Mr. Pratt) had not so fully explained the principles and alleged advan- tages of his proposition as to ask for a vote of approval from that meeting. He hoped liis fellow- citizens would believe him sincere in his wishes for their welfare, and for the welfare of the working classes in particular, but he thought they had had no comparison made of the prices of bread under the new system compared with the old, so as to warrant them in affirming the principles of Mr. Pratt. He had come to that meeting pre- pared, if he heard good reasons given that the poor would be benefitted, to give his humble aid to the undertaking; but he wished the meeting to pause before they gave their support to a manufactory carried on at a distance of four miles from their city. If Mr. Pratt was in possession of a principle by which they would bo enabled to obtain cheap bread, he should like to have some comparison made of present prices with the rates to be charged at his establishment. All who were acquainted with these matter? were well aware that the costs of management of these concerns were very heavy, and wouid have to be taken into account. He would like to know, if this were a beneficial measure, why they should not have the immediate advantage of it by its introduction into the city, instead of being four miles distant, which must add to the costs of the establishment. As yet, too, he had heard no arguments in favour of the new bakery being a public one, and he thought, with the Lord Bishop, that the matter of compensation required a great deal of consideration. Under all the circumstances, however, he still adhered to this principle, that if it was to the interest of the masses of the people that the principles of Mr. Pratt should be carried out the private interests of individuals must give way. ( Cheers.) Mr. Jones ( baker) complained that Mr. Pratt had misre- presented the price of bread as at 2d. per lb. Now, he knew as well as he ( Mr. Jones) did, that the price of good family bread was 6^( 2. for 41b., while for the best white bread it was only 7d. per 41b. loaf. Mr. Arrowsmitli said he was anxious to address a few words to the Mayor. He had only come into the Hall at the close of Mr. Pratt's speech, and he was sorry to hear him ( the Mayor) take that decided part in the proceedings which he had done. But for that circumstance, he ( Mr. Arrow- smith) would have been mute on this occasion, but seeing the Mayor become— though not intentionally, he was sure— a kind of partisan, he did feel that he ( the Mayor) was rather outstepping his duty in directing the meeting as to what they ought to do. ( Hear and cheers.) He had heard him ( the Mayor) say that this undertaking, if carried out, must have considerable effect upon parties in the trade; but he ( Mr. Arrowsmith) contended that they had no business to interfere if it were so. It must be that in all public matters of this sort, individual interests must suffer. After some further remarks, in the course of which the speaker instanced the " glorious principle of Free Trade" as having been obstructed in consequence of the opposition of individual interests, Mr. Arrowsmith said he should be exceedingly sorry to see the interests of the bakers injured; but if the working classes were to be benefitted by this measure, it was their bounden duty to give it their aid, for that class were the least regarded, & c., & c.—[ See report of Mr. Arrowsmith's spccch, delivered on the " Baths and Was'nhouses" question, at tlio Town Council meeting last week.] The Mayor said that as long us he had the honour to occupy his present position in ihe city of Worcester, he should do what he considered his duty, irrespective of any opinion which Mr. Arrowsmith might hold on the subject. Mr. Jones here rose again, and said— Mr. Arrowsmith came into the Court just as Mr. Pratt finished his speech, and his blood was in that warm state that he scarce knew whether he stood on his head or his heels. [ This speech was followed by some vehement groans from a large body of men in the hall, intermingled with cries of " workhouse," & c.] When order had in some degree been restored, the Mayor called on Mr. Pratt to reply to what had been advanced by the other speakers. Mr. Pratt again addressed the meeting. With reference to what had fallen from Mr. Lingiiaiu, he deprecated the system of family bakings in public ovens. As to the allegations of Mr. Lucy, he denied that the Birmingham bakeries were public establishments in the sense in which he proposed to make the bakery at Kempsey. The Birmingham Union Mills was established for private profit. The shares were originally 1/. each, and now bore a premium of 51. As to what had fallen from the Mayor as to the distance of the new bakery from Worcester, he said that the Kerapsey establish- ment was not intended to supply Worcester, but was meant for a model for larger undertakings. Mr. Jones' prejudice against the undertaking was so great, that nothing entered into his head but what was on his own side. (" Hear," cheers and groans; with a cry " the same with Mr. Pratt.") He then addressed a few remarks to the meeting on the subject of compensation. A person here called for the samples of bread made by Mr. Pratt, which were produced, and amidst some disorder distri- buted about tho hall, some parties whose dinner hour had been procrastinated calling for cheese. They may have gone on to the beer and pudding had not the Mayor restored order by asking whether it was the intention of any person to move any resolution. No one appearing prepared with a resolution, and Mr. Pratt stating that he had not asked any one to move any resolution upon his statement, Mr. Lingham said he had a motion to make, which he was sure would meet the approbation of all parties. He meant that the thanks of the meeting be given to the Mayor for his conduct in the chair.—- Carried by acclamation. Mr. Arrowsmith observed at this stage of the proceedings, that in the remarks which he had made a short time since he did not mean any disrespect to any person. He maintained, however, that he had a right to express his sentiments, and he always had, and always would, assert that light at any public meeting which he might attend. The Mayor, in closing the proceedings, said the meeting had been called for the purpose of obtaining information for guiding their opinions. He had taken the liberty of making certain observations to the meeting, but he did not think that the strictures which these observations had called forth were by any means warranted. The meeting then broke up, after three cheers had been given for tlie Mayor. THE OLD BURY EXPLOSION. CLOSE OF THE INQUIRY. The coroner's inquest on the bodies of the deceased miners killed by the explosion at Oidbury, under circumstances men- tioned in our last, terminated on Tuesday last. The coroner's jury re- assembled, according to arrangement, on Friday morning, at the Talbot Hotel, Oidbury, when the inquiry was resumed before G. Hinchliffe, Esq. The coroner opened the business by reading the foilowing'letter from the Secretary of State, which he had received that morning .— " Whitehall, November 19, 1846. " Sir,— I am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey to inform you that his attention has been drawn to the inquest on the bodies of the unfortunate persons who lost their lives by the recent explosion in Mr. Parker's colliery at Rowley. Sir George Grey thinks that information bearing on the subject, which may be useful in the inquiry, is to be found in the enclosed Report on the subject of the explosion which took place at the Haswell Collieries, in September, 1844; and Sir George Grey will be glad to be informed whether the precautions recommended in the enclosed Report appear to have been observed in Mr. Parker's colliery.— I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " S. M. PHILLIPPS." " G. Hinchlifte, Esq., Coroner, Oidbury, Birmingham." Extracts from the report alluded to in the above letter were next read, when one of the jurors remarked that he did not think that report could assist or guide them much, as it had reference to an accident which happened in the North of England, and the pits there were conducted on a different plan to those in Staffordshire, and the remedies contained in the document could not be applied to whatever errors existed in their own coal pits. Mr. Hinchliffe concurred in the remarks made by the juror and also observed that he was very glad that Government had determined upon taking up the subject; and he sincerely hoped that means would speedily be devised for preventing such truly awful accidents in future. After the examination of two miners, whose evidence was similar to what has been already separated, Mr. Haines, of Great Bridge, mine surveyor, deposed that he had surveyed Mr. Parker's mine, and superintended the working of the pit for six years. The plan he then produced was a correct one of the under- ground workings of the pit. He thought every means had been taken to prevent an explosion in the mine. Mr. Parker had expended not less than 300/. in making a gate road, in order that it might be the more secure from fire damp. Sand was generally used in the pit for making the dams, and they appeared to him to be secure; about six boat loads had been used during the last five years. In some parts of the mine sulphur existed, but not to any great extent, and other parts were free from it. The Coroner, at this stage of the proceedings, adjourned the inquiry to Tuesday, when a verdict of " accidental death" was returned; but at the same time, the jury censured Mr. Haines, the ground bailiff, on account of the imperfect ventillation of the gaol. On Monday afternoon the inquest on the bodies of James Shakespeare and Joseph Smith, was resumed at the Cottage Spring, Dudley. The first witness examined was John Holland, son of Job Holland, one of the unfortunate deceased, but nothing more than what he slated on Wednesday, at Oidbury, was elicited. Edward Foley, a collier, proved the existance of sulphur fn the pit. John Northam.— About twelve months ago I worked at Mr. Parker's colliery for five weeks. The pit was so exposed lo evils that I left it on that account. Sometimes when at work the sulphur existed to such an extent that when a lot of coals were about being pulled down, the men were obliged to put out all the candles. The mine wanted air. The pit was the worst in respect to air- heading I ever worked in. It is better, in my opinion, to have the air by gate- roads than by air- headings. John Shaw examined, says— I worked at Mr. Parker's pit about one year and three- quarters, and left about three months ago. I have been a miner all my life. I left the pit on account of the sulphur and damp existing, which made me unwell. Mr. Silas Elwell said— J am a mine surveyor. By the direc- tion of this inquest 1 have examined Mr. Parker's pit this morning. I have made a sketch of the workings, which I now produce. I latched to a point where the air was carried across a gate- road by an air trow, at about forty yards distance from the bottom. That air is carried across to the other side of the gate- road. It is a very common thing to put in trows. They are used in all collieries, but my opinion is they are inefficient. This trow is about one foot nine inches square, and carries the whole of the air which passes into the work. The air heading goes about 20 yards further and then opens into it. The air head is driven as those are in most collieries, and my opinion is they are too narrow, and not so much space in them as there ought to be. Since we were down in the pit on Friday last the air heading has been cleaned, and there is now a greater quantity of air in consequence. I was not enabled to make a minute survey on Friday. Whether the air headings have been cleaned to enable me to go down I cannot say. I went then up the gate- road into the workings, and there was air which passed round into the back- stall. I saw no gas in any part of the workings. In the second gateway, where the air passes by the shaft, there is a straight stall of work goes up. There is no air headings carried within 120 yards of the back of the stall. The colliery had been worked further out, but had been dammed up, I find Mr. Parker's colliery had been worked as collieries of a similar description, both as respects the gate- roads and the air heading, but the latter should have been carried 120 feet further. I think the pit might have been worked so as to prevent any great explosion of sulphur. In the first place, the air heading is defective, by being too narrow ; it should have been carried on the south side of the gate- road, up to the back, and in fact wider the whole way. I think the point in which the wind is frequently causes the sulphur to accumulate. The ground bailiff is the person who generally has the management of the pit. Mr. Brittle, mining engineer, Mr. Yardley, and Mr. Richards, were examined, and they deposed that there was not sufficient ventilation in that part of the pit where the accident occurred. Mr. Haines, the engineer of Mr. Parker's pit was called, and stated that no complaint had been made to him of the want of ventilation in the pit; and that the crop in which the accident happened was nearly exhausted, and had been ventilated by a gate- road, but, since they dammed out the old working the communication there had been cut off; but, in the work in question there was only work which would occupy the men two weeks more. He could not tell the cause of the explosion, unless it was caused by the shut coming down. The Coroner briefly addressed the Jury; after which they returned a verdict that the deceased came by their death by burning, caused by the neglect of the ground bailiff, Mr. Thos. Haines, against whom they added a verdict of Manslaughter. DEATH OF CAPT. WYNDHAM ALIAS WELLESLEY.— This individual, who will be recognised as the famous swindler who defrauded numerous banks by means of fraudulent cheques, it has just been discovered died in June iast, while] making a tour of the Wye. J- t appears that on his doings being made known he departed into Wales, and took with him a young female. The character he assumed was that of a lover of the picturesque, and he and his companion started on the romantic tour of the Wye, which they pursued together for some distance, when the gentleman, while fishing in the above beautiful river, caught a violent cold, and was compelled to take to bed at an inn. A. medical man was sent for, who at once informed the supposed wife that her husband's condition was hopeless, and that he was, in fact, on the very point of death. The female thereupon acknowledged that she was not a wife, and that her male companion was an entire stranger to her till they had encountered each other a few weeks previously in London, and that she did not know who he was or who were his relatives. The fears of the physician were soon realized— the stranger tourist died almost immediately, and on examining his luggage in order to ascertain who his friends were, that the mournful event of his demise might be communicated to them, there were found the engraved copperplates of two address cards, in the well- known names of Wyndham and Wellesley, together with an itinerary of the various towns and places which he had visited, with the names of the different bankers, & c., which had honoured his fraudulent cheques. We believe the search also afforded information as to his real name and connexions ; aud we deeply regret that our tale should have to include the very melancholy incident that on the circumstances of his death being communicated to his sister, the effect was most seriously injurious to her feelings, and she also died within a fortnight. We are also given to understand that the real name of the deceased swindler was Page; that be was of very respectable connections in the neighbouring county of Hereford, where lie has a brother living in affluent circumstances and of high reputation ; and that the deceased was formerly in the army, which accounts for his assuming so well the military character. King's Evil, or Scrofula, effectually cured by Hollowarfs Ointment and Pills.— Very lately some of the most surprising cures in this terrible complaint have been made by the power- ful virtues of these universal medicines. If space would admit, the particulars of some few cases would, no doubt, astonish our medical men ; suffice it to say, that many who had been cripplo for years have been restored to the use of their limbs, their wouuds being completely healed; while perfect health, by means of the pills, is the portion or blessing of all who have been so fortuuate to use these admirable medicines. SLEEP.— The Poet Young says, " Sleep is great Nature's second course— the balm of hurt minds." Johnson says, " It is the parenthesis of human woe." Sleep being thus appre- ciated by mankind, how desirous ought we to be that all should trauquilly enjoy " sweet repose," the general obstruction to which is through an unhealthy action of the liver or other viscera. A little attention to the " young disease," by having recourse to a mild aperieut, often produces the most salutary effect, and for such purpose Frampton's Pill of Health stands prominent in public opinion. iEuUum in ilaiuo. Some of the London papers stats that Government is about to settle £ 1,000 a- year on tha Duchess of Inverness. The Observer however says the Queen has presented to the Duchess of Inverness a pension on the I'rivy Purse, and there will therefore be no addition to the Pension List. A correspondent of the Times, states that it is intended to place the Wellington statue on a pedestal, in the area opposite the Horse Guards. Venison, imported whole from Hamburgh, was offering in Hull shambles, on Tuesday, at 6d. per lb. for the fore parts and Is. for haunches. On Monday evening a masked ball was given at Blackheath Hill, neir London, in a cavern 180 feet below the surface. In this ball- room 1,500 persons assembled, and kept up their amusements with spirit until aay- break. Sir F. Goodricke killed last week, at Claremont, Norfolk, 2,458 head of game, 1,000 of which were pheasants. The Town Council of Sunderland have ordered a rate of one half- penny in the pound on the property in the borough, to sustain the expenses connected with the formation of a public museum, which is placed under the direction of a committee of the council. The East India company are now exporting large quantities of Loudon porter to the Indian presidencies, one consignment alone being 1,21: 3 hogsheads, or 60,448 gallons. From some papers j ust issued, we learn that that the Committee of the New Houses of Parliament have received an assurance from the architect that the House will be in a lit state for the occupation of the Lords at the opening of the session next year. More than 20 persons have been committed to Bodmin gaol, for plundereng from the brig Samaritan and her cargo washed in by the sea, wrecked off St. Eval, near l'adstow, during the late gales. The Small Debts' Act will come into operation the first week in January. The hurricane of last Friday it appears extended to Liverpool, where a good deal of damage was done to the shipping, but no lives were lost. A few days ago, a young Irishman was landed at Liverpool, from one of the Urogheda boats in a most exhausted state, the effect of sea. sickness, and died shortly afterwards. Death resulted from conges- tion of the lungs, produced by excessive sickness. Tha inquiry into the cases of malt stealing in Berkshire, is still proceeding at Abingdon, and it is said that other parties implicated are about to be apprehended. A number of omnibuses have started from between the Bank and Brompton, at the exceeding low fare of 2d., being considerably less than one halfpenny per mile. The total amount subscribed in London for the relief of the suffer- ing'poor iu Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland up to Saturday last, was £ 3,270. tis. lOd. A public washliouse with baths, for the use of the poor, has been just opened in Milk Street, Cheltenham, at the cost of £ 1,500. Mo less than £ 700 has been contributed by one lady, Mrs. Becker, of Green Park. A new borough gaol -< Leeds is estimated to cost £ 40,000, Within the last two months, the silver currency in Ireland has been increased £ 100,000. In Waterfoid, the Society of Friends have agreed with a butcher to supply 7941b. of beef weekly, to be made into soup for gratuitous distribution. The Empeior of Russia has created a regiment, to be called the Chasseurs of the Caucasus. Thoy are armed aud accoutred expiessly for mountain warfare. The Jersey News says that about eighty tons of potatoes are shipping daily from that island to England. According to Mr. Wise, the American Minister in Brazil, 64,000 slaves were imported from Africa last year, and 5,000 since the month of August, all in American bottoms. Prince Adalbertt, son of the King of Bavaria, serves as a private soldier in the Cuirassiers. He lately performed sentinel duty in front of the barracks, The famous iron bridge at Sunderland has been made toll free. Since the opening in 1796, a profit of £ 79,666 has been realised from the tolls. Not less than 40,000 leeches have been seized in Paris as unfit for medical use. - The number of students, English as well as Irish, admitted into the Dublin University this year greatly exceeds that of any former year. Several sermons have recently been preached in the Town Hall of Kelso, by a boy ten years of age. It has been proposed to call the new planet, the Arago. Meetings are being held all through Germany to concert measures for providing cheap food for the poorer classes of the population. Capt. M. F. Berkeley, C. B., has been appointed naval aide- de- camp to the Queen. There are forty- six Irish- bred horses engaged for the Leger, Derbv, and Oaks, of 1817. A fox, in attempting to cross the Whitstable Railway, was ran down, aud its head completely severed from its body. At the Poole Borough Sessions, the Sheriff presented to the Recorder a pair of white gloves, in commemoration of its being a maiden sessions. flflritttUiirai intelligence* ON THE IMPOLICY OF DISCONTINUING THE GROWTH OF POTATOES. To the Editor of the Worcestershire Guardian. Sir,— I promised, as early as convenient, to send you the result of the experiment of leaving the tops on the late sorts of potatoes. All that has been written and said about cutting off the tops to check the disease and insure sound bulbs, is absurd aud fallacious. Most assuredly it checks their growth, and that is all that it does do; those who did it this season will not repeat it another. The potatoes on which I allowed the tops to remain were sounder, larger, and better boilers than those from which I removed them. It. is now quite certain that the newest varieties are the best. The old Rush- ford Blue, that has been so long grown in this part of the country, has degenerated very much indeed, and cannot again be planted with any degree of certainty. The red, a fashionable potatoe in the west of England, failed altogether with us, and many of the most delicate varieties are gone. The white potatoes, of which there are several excellent varieties, and Phillips's Blues, stand better than any other; the latter in appearance resemble the Worcester Silk, and partake very much of the nature of the Rushford, only that tliev present a smoother surface and are of a deeper colour. I am con- vinced that the more lime and the less manure that is applied to the land, for potatoes, the better. The proprietors of allot ment ground will do wisely to present their tenants with a little lime next season, for nothing is more suitable to the potatoe. The idea of discontinuing the growth of this valuable esculent because it has failed the iast two years, is too pre- posterous to be entertained for a moment. We might just as well discontinue the growth of turnips, swedes, and even cucumbers, for they have been similarly affected, although not to the extent of the former. None but the hardier sorts of potatoes must be planted, and that much earlier than is usually done— say in March, instead of the latter end of April or beginning of May, as is too frequently the case. Those potatoes that were planted early this year are a fair crop, and but little injured, even supposing the frosts should check the early planted, which is seldom the case. Depend upon it, more are injured by late planting from the drought than by the frosts of April. It is said that, about 80 years ago, the potatoes were affected in the same way they have been the last two years, but that after the third year they suffered no more. Let us hope that it may be so again, for whatever substitute you may introduce on the working man's table, rest assured that nothing will please and satisfy him so well as a few smoking hot mealy potatoes. 11 is all very well for those that have abundance of other things, to recommend peas, swedes, and mangle- wurzel, but it is not so easy to change the taste of a nation long accustomed to one kind of food. Let us trust to an over- ruling Providence, and I have little fear that the scourge will pass over, and that the poor man « ill again be comforted by a sight and taste of that vegetable which none of us can dispense with, and which to him this season is so great a luxury. Yours faithfully, Wick, Nov. 21st. H. HUDSON, JUN. BROMYARD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The following are the returns made of the report of the judges on the best managed samples of Hops and the best Swede turnips :— HOPS. LETTER. RECOMMENDATIONS. NAME OF DRYER. A. J. Barneby, Esq., Brockhamptou, Thomas Perkins. B. Mr. Redfern, Horton, James Price. C. Mr. P. W. Taylor, Bromyard, Thomas Bruton. D. J. Kempson, Esq., Birchyfields, John Patten. F. Mr. Connop, Westington, Thomas Lilwall. G. Mr. R. llicketts, Bromyard, Wm. Griffiths. H. Mr. Edwards, Hodgsbatch, John Gittus. I. Mr. John Bennet and Mr. John Oakley, Bromyard, Thomas Tyler. J. Mr. Cave, Rowdeu Job Inksman. K. Miss Haudy, Woodend, William Pugh. BEST MANAGED SAMPLES. 1st to B ; 2ad to K; 3rd to J; 4th to C. ^ Judges— Mr. W. Wheeler and Mr. Woodward, Worcester. SWEDE TURNIPS. 1st prize— Mr. William Berriman, Newton. 2nd do.— Mr. T. D. Edwards, Hogsbatch; Mr. Thomas Berriman, Brookhouse, much commended. Judges— Mr. E. Burrow, Wolferlow; Mr. J. Mutlow, Paunton ; Mr. Richard Heming, Church House. HOPS. WORCESTER, November 27.— Prices may be called firm for fine and choice; but brown and iuferior are heavy, and 2s. per quarter lower since the announcement of the duty. At iast Saturday's market there was a steady demand for hops of every description, and prices are Is. to 2s. above the quotations of the previous Saturday. The best samples, how- ever, still have the call. The number of pockets weighed on Saturday was 224, and in the week 114 pockets passed the scales. BOROUGH, NOV. 23.— Prices remain stationary, at last quotations. There has been some demand for Sussex, while the other kinds are neglected. Farnhams, 105s. to 136s.; Country, 100s. to 120s.; Mid. Kent, 90s. to 110s; Wealds, 80s. to 90s.; Essex, 90s. to 126s.; Sussex, 76s. to 82s.; Worcester, low, 63s. to 70s.; Do. General Class, 75s. to 88s.; Do. very choice, 90s. to 92s. FAIRS IN THE ENSUING WEEK. Worcestershire.— Kidderminster, Mon.; Tenbury, Thurs. Gloucestershire.— Dursley, Fri.; Coleford, Sat. Herefordshire.— Hereford, Wed. Shropshire.— Wenlock, Fri. Warwickshire.— Brandon, Mon.; Alcester, Tues,; Atherstone, Fri. f^ orttcuUure » OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. CONSERVATORIES, STOVE, & c.— The winter- blooming Cor- rses, Epacrises, Polygalas, Acacias, Pimeleas, & c., will now begin to make a charming addition to the other inmates ofthe Conservatory. Take care to give every attention to judicious watering, more especially to such as the Epacrises; it will not do to trust this process to inexperienced or neglectful workmen. Stove and Orchids : Continue former directions— hardening growths, and endeavouring to promote a quiet atmosphere, somewhat dry. Keep down all unnatural night heat.— Mixed Greenhouse: Let all bulbs arousing from their lethargic state, such as the Amaryllis tribes, the Lachenalia, Oxalis, with others, have very moderate supplies of water until the leaves are some- what expanded. Keep down all decaying leaves, and observe the utmost cleanliness. If any of the stock appear too much crowded, endeavour to weed out inferior or half- hardy things, transferring them to the pits or frames, or in case of severe need, to a shed or outhouse, provided they are of the hard- leaved class, or decidedly deciduous.— Cold Pits or Frames : Give ail the air possible, day and night; barely keeping out slight, frost. Do not give water until the inmates actually flag, and then in the morning of a fine day. KITCHEN GARDEN FORCING.— Give air all night to those in pits, and withhold entirely all root watering or syringing until January.— Vineries: Where forcing has actually commenced, let the wood be frequently moistened by the syringe. Proceed with much steadiness and caution for two or three weeks, giving the sap time to apportion itself in an equable way. —^ Late Grapes : Use fire- heat every morning, if only for two hour3; leave a little back air, and also a front current all night unless the atmosphere out of doors is overcharged with humidity. — Peaches: Proceed with the same circumspection here as in the vinery; the principles at the commencement of forcing are few and simple. FLORISTS' FLOWERS.— Beds of choice Pansies ought to be protected, and in mild weather traps should be set for snails, which even at this season of the year will cause great detriment to plauts. — Polyanthuses'. Perhaps the best bloom of these beautiful spring flowers which we have of late years seen, was grown in a pit facing the north- east ( built of turves cut from a pasture field) and planted in a compost of decayed leaves, loam, and sheep manure; the plants during the spring months were robust in the extreme, and the bloom of first- rate excel- lence— Carnations, Picotees, and Auriculas must be kept clean, and the pots not allowed to get soddened with wet: in fact, the less water the better, compatible with health. KITCHEN GARDEN AND ORCHARD.— Some early- frame Radishes may be sown in a week or so. Plant Kidney Pota- toes on raised beds ; soil them six ioches deep, and sow early Radishes on the surface immediately: the straw covering necessary protects both crops at once— Gardeners' Chronicle. agricultural anQ mtjsr iftiarfceta. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK- LANE, MONDAY, NOV. 23. , At this day's market there was a fair show of English wheat, which made readily fully Is. per qr. over the rates of this day se'nnight. Free foreign realised extreme rates, without advance; and all the bonded offering found buyers for export. Flour firm. Malt slow. Barley of middling quality scarcely sold so freely ; the finest malting made last week's rates, and grinding must be noted the turn dearer. Beans and peas steady without alteration in value. Oats met a moderate demand, and the show of samples being less by the landing of several cargoes, enabled sellers to obtain the prices of Monday Wheat, Essex, Kent, & Suffolk Red White Lincolnshire & York- shire Red White Scotch White ; . . Irish - White - Baf7ley. Essex and Kent, Norfolk and Suffolk Malting t Distilling Chevalier Grinding • Irish, Distilling- Grinding • Rye, Distilling Grinding • Malt, Norfolk & Suffolk Brown * Per qr. 60 to 66 66 69 - 61 Per Malt Kingston and Ware 71 Brown - - . 63 Oats, Lincolnshire and Yorksh ire, Feed - 25 Pota. and Poland - 30 S « otch - - . gg Devonshire and Welsh 24 Londonderry, Newry, and Clonuiel ditto - 26 Limerick and Sligo - 27 Cork and Waterford - 25 Black White- Galway Extra Beans, Tick - Harrow and Small Peas, Essex, Boilers Blue - - - Grey, Maple, & Hog Extra - - 25 - 21 - 24 - 42 - 44 - 57 - 62 - 40 - 45 qr. s. 76 67 27 33 32 27 28 29 26 29 23 26 40 46 62 45 47 WEDNESDAY, NOV. 25. Atthis day s market there was but a slender attendance of buyers anu nttte Du^ iness transacted. The few sales of wheat, however l. Uly suppor » ed the rates of Monday. Bonded was still enquired alter tor expc, rtation- Barley sold slowly although the quantity on f r ^ vf Since last market day about half- a- dozen cargoes 01 Irish oats have come to hand; but the supplies from our own coast, and foreign, were very small. Factors held for 6d to Is per quarter advance, which buyers resisted, although disposed to pur- chase more freely at previous curiency. In other grain there was a retail consumptive demand, without any change in value. IMPERIAL AVERAGES. Average Price of Com, per Imperial quarter, for the Weekendw Wheat November 14. Barley ."'.'.". I Oats .... 26s 9d I Beans .... 46s lOd AggregatUa M' Hje " • 423 4d | Peas .... Ms lOd Wheat Barley ... Wheat ..., Barley,... e Average ofthe Six Weeks which regulates the Duty. 60s Gd j Oats .... 26s 3d I Beans .... 45s * 8d 41s Id | Rye . .. 39s 8d | Peas .... 49s 2d Duty on Foreign Corn. 4s Od 1 Oats Is 6d I Beans .... 2s 0d 2s Od ( Rye .... 2s Od | Peas .... 2s Od The fleman 1 SEEU MARKET, Nov. 23. continuance oifor-, li," Seedi; lkeS s, Uil conUuues heaTJ'. owing to the couiinudiice of ) mid weather, and prices were with difficulty sup- ported ; lnueeij, in some instances, lower rates were accepted for all quantities. Foreign cakes have fallen 5s, and the same may be said ot rape cakes. Foreign linseed is in moderate request, at late ratf-?" i, arct> ls of Petersburgh, of middling quality, have sold at 47s bd to 48a. Rapeseed— with English and foreign— was heavy at previous quotations. Clover, red Eng. cwt., 46s to 48s; white 44s to 46s; foreign, ltd, 44s to 46s; white, 44s to 50s; Carrawav, 43s to 44s; Linseed for sowing 55s to 60s ; Linseed cakes ( English), per 1,000 £ 13 0S to £ 14 Cs ; foreign, £ 9 to £ 11. WOOL MARKETS. LONDON, Nov, 23.— The imports of wool last week were on a limited scale— they did not exceed 300 packages. Privately, very little business was done in any kind of wool, and prices were with difficulty supported. The public sales commenced oil Wednesday last. ' WAKEFIELD— Buyers, having bought rather more freely for the previous ween( have laid in stock for a time, which has occasioned NH<. EPVWPRPNVAS P » i'chasers this week, and less has been done, and prices weie iHia| tered for either short or long wool. Aloaea — The rThere has btena considerable business done in Scotch," 198 bai* ml, orts of forel= u th' 3 week have been 1,009 bales ; ^ p^ i'he general dulness of trade continues, and have no nvllnf , n; the manufacturers cannot replace the goods at the piesent pricesand the sales that too;. place efen chiefly made t0 „ accumulations of stocks— in yarns, there is no change woriu nonet, i, ut t) leSpimier3 are curtailing their productions, and f, s . e- v. """ a from buying, the stock of wool iu the market is uiminismug, the growers having no inducement to send further supplies. SM1THFIELD CATTLE MARKET. Nov. 23. There were on offer to- day, about 300 beasts, 650 sheep and calves from abroad, in middling condition. With home- fed beasts there was but a moderate supply. The few prime Scots commanded a very ready sale, at prices lully equal to those obtained on this day se'nnight; but the middling and inferior breeds— were very dull, and somewhat lower. The numbers of sheep were moderately extensive, and of prime quality. The best old Downs sold at late rates ; but all other breeds were quite 2d per 81bs. lower. In calves only a limited business was done at last week's prices. The pork trade was dull, at late figures. PRICKS PER STONE OF 8LBS. TO SINK THE OFFAL. Inferior Beasts 2 6 2 8 Second quality ditto 2 10 3 2 Prime large Oxen .... 3 4 3 8 Prime Scots, & c 3 10 4 2 Inferior Sheep 4 2 4 6 Second quality ditto 4 2 4 6 Coarse- woolleit ditto 4 8 4 10 Prime Southdt, wn __ 5 0 5 4 Prime Southdown in s d s d wool 0 0 0 0 Lamb 0 0 0 U Large coarse Calves 3 8 4 2 Prime small ditto .... 4 4 4 8 Suckling Calves, each 18 0 30 2 Large Hogs 3 8 4 8 Small Porkers 4 6 4 8 Qr. old store pigs, each 16s a 19 ^ SUPPLY AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT, Beasts, 3667 ( sheep 25) 360 jCalvea> 79 jPigs 315 WORCESTER, Nov. 27. Onr market c, n Saturday was shortly supplied with English wheat, and it sold at a^ advance of fully Is. per qr., but no improvement could be noticed0n foreign. Barley was likewise Is. per qr. dearer ; oats dull, but lfcwer prices were not submitted to ; beans Is. per qr. cheaper; peas much less inquired for. s d s d Wheat, white 7 6 7 8 New 0 0 0 0 Foreign 0 0 0 0 Wheat, red 7 0 7 6 New 0 0 0 0 Foreign 0 0 0 0 Barley, grinding 4 0 4 6 Ditto new Malting.. 5 0 5 9 Malt 8 6 9 0 Old Oats, English .. 4 3 4 6 New ditto 4 0 4 3 Old Oats, Irish 3 9 New Oats, Irish 3 9 Beans, old, English .. 6 4 Ditto, Foreign .... 5 8 Ditto new, English .. 6 0 Peas, Feed 5 10 Boilers, white 7 0 8 0 Vetches, Winter .... 6 0 7 0 ditto, Spring 0 0 0 0 Rye, new 5 0 6 0 INSPECTOR'S WEEKLY RETURN OF CORN SOLD. Total ( juan. Av. per qr. I Total quan. Av. perqr. Wheat 698qis 6 6u. £ 2 17 5 j Rye ... Oqr." 0 bu.£ 0 " 0 0 I 18 5i Beans . . 42 ' ~ " * Barley 5086 Oats. . 0 0 0 0 0 { Peas 2 5 1 2 13 7J COUNTRY MARKETS. BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 25.— During the present week the English wheat offering sold readily at an advance of Is to Is 6d per quarter, and on barley a similar improvement was realised. In oats more doing at former prices. Few transactions reported in beans or peas. — Averages: Wheat, 2,451 qrs. 1 bush., 58s 8Jd; barley, 431 qrs., 44s ; oats, 105 qrs. 0 bush., 29s 2Jd ; beans, 21 qrs. 48s 8Jd; peas, 43qrs. 4 bush., 46s 8jd: GLOUCESTER, Nov. 21.— The supply of English wheat was more liberal, but all the good qualities found ready buyers at an advance of fully Is per qr. Foreign samples were firmly held at last week's rates. Malting barley was more in demand, and the turn dearer; grinding qualities unaltered, Oats and beans were a dull sale at barely former rates.— Averages: Wheat, 273 qrs. 4 bush., 57s 3d; barley, 288 qrs , 37s 5d; oats, 141 qrs., 29s lOd; beans, 60 qrs ' 43s 9d. HEREFORD, Nov. 21.— Wheat ( old) 7s 3d to 7s 6d; barley, ( new) 5s Od to 5s 6d; beans ( old) 6s ; peas, ( new) 6s Od ; oats, 3s 6d to 4s 6d. SHREWSBURY, Nov. 21.— Wheat, 5s lOd to 7s 6d; barley, 4s 5d to 5s Id; oats 11 score lOlbs. 15s to 21s per bag ; beans per bag 12 score, 23s to 25s; peas, 11 score and lOlbs,, 20s to 21s; malt, per imperial bushel. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 24.— Wheat sold better to- day, and a small advance made upon some qualities. Flour has improved Is. per barrel, and considerable business transacted in bonded parcels. Indian corn in fair retail demand, the holders giving way about 2s. per qr. from the closing quotations of Friday. Oats and oatmeal in very slow request and rather cheaper. In other articles no material alteration. tocltoent and Bankrupt Hie0teter* FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20. BANKRUPTS. Samuel York, Cambridge, upholsterer. Edwin Bryant, Lime- street- square, merchant. John Vamey, Clement's- inn- piissage, grocer. Servais Janmr, Frith- street, Soho, cabinet maker. John and William Fayrer, Nutlord- place, Edgeware- road, cabinet makers. Alexander Denholme, Queen- street, Stepney, lmen- drapjr. Thomas Sanderson, Leeds, corn- factor. John Anderton, Bradford, Yorkshire, stock- broker. John Bowker Dunkerley, Chorltou- upon- Medlock, Lancashire, ^ Charles Thomas, late of Llandinam, but now of Llivior, Mont- gomeryshire, urocer. Mary Lewi* Wait, late of Park- place, Clifton, Bristol, boarding- housekeeper. Richard Lea, Bewdley, Worcestershire, surgeon. William Ostler, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, grocer. George Atkinson, Bradford, joiner. . William Carpeudale, Kingston- upon- Hull, jeweller. Charles Borer, Elliott's- row, Lower- road, Islington, grocer. Charles Goodwin, Great Guildford- street, Southwark, cement manufacturer. , . Thomas Hall, Romsey Extra, Southamptonshire, common brewer. Francis Perry jun„ Austin- friars, City, merchant. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24. BANKRUPTS Henry Newton, Northumberland- street, Strand, chemrst. Francis Clark, George- street, Adelphi, jewel case maker. Joseph Gass, Colchester, draper. Samuel Garrod, Church- street, Hackney, surgeon. David Worthington, West Ham, Essex, genera! shopkeeper. James Smith, Edmonton, brewer. John Green, Greenwich, lodging housekeeper. Joseph Coles, Strand, tobacconist. Henry Flower, North buildings, Finsbury- circus, publisher; William Clay and James Clay, Halifax, woollen manulactureri. James May, Redruth, Cornwall, stationer. James W7alton, Leeds, tailor. Richard Ciipps Llioyds, Liverpool, painter. James Ford, Birmingham, hosier. Joseph Nicholls, Edgbaston, Warwickshire, stonemason. Thomas Lewis, Newcastle- upon- Tyne, hosier. Printed and Published for the Proprietor, at the Office No. 5 Avenue, Cross, in the Parish of Saint Nicholas, in tht Borough of Worcester, by FRANCIS PARSONS ENGLAND Printer, residing ai No 52, Moor Street, Tything of Whistoms, in the Borough of Worcester. Saturday, November 28, 1846,