Joseph Charles Goodfellow, gent., to be ensign, without purchase, v. Quartly, deceased; dated 12th October, 1845. Madras, 94th Foot.-Lieutenant Charles Augustus Daniell, from the 55th Foot, to be lieut. v. Gwynne, who exchanges; dated 10th Oct. 1845. WAR OFFICE, 17TH OCTOBER, 1845. Ensign Richard Moore Barnes, to be lieut., 62nd Foot.-Lieut. Henry Wells, to be capt. without Ensign William Lenox Ingall, to be lieut. Henry William Sibley, gent. to be ensign v. 80th Foot.-Ensign Henry George John Bowler, to be Henry Leslie Grove, gent. to be ensign v. To be Majors without purchase. Madras 84th Foot.-Capt. David Russell, v. Clarke, deceased dated 7th July, 1845. Capt. Matthew Benjamin George Reed, v. To be Capts. without purchase. Lieut. Thomas Davison, v. Russell, dated 7th July, 1845. Lieut. George Francis Harrison, v. Reed, dated 16th Sept. 1845. To be Lieuts. without purchase. Ensign Cornelius Charles Rolleston, v. To be Lieuts. by purchase. Ensign George Benjamin Vaugham Arbuckle, v. Rolleston, whose promotion by purchase has been cancelled, dated 17th Oct. 1845. Bombay, 17th Foot.-Ens. Andrew Baxter, to be lieut. without purchase, v. McPherson, deceased; dated 1st July, 1815. George Lambert, gent., to be ens., v. Baxter; dated 17th October, 1845. Ceylon Rifle Regt.-Lieut. Edward John Holworthy, to be capt. by purchase, v. Warburton, who retires; dated 17th Oct. 1845. Lieut. Thomas Leonard, from half-pay Meuron's regt., to be lieut., v. J. J. Dwyer, promoted; dated 17th Oct. 1845. 2nd Lieut. Lewis Alexander Forbes, to be 1st lieut. by purchase, v. Leonard, who retires; dated 17th Oct. 1845. 2nd Lieut. Walter Townall, to be 1st lieut. by purchase, v. Holworthy; dated 18th Oct. 1845. Charles Edward Kingsmill, gent., to be 2nd lieut. by purchase, v. Forbes; dated 17th Oct. 1845. Geddes Sansoni Twynam, gent., to be 2nd lieut. by purchase, v. Pownall; dated 18th Oct. 1845. LITERARY NOTICES. The Hindustani Manual; a Pocket Companion for those who visit India in any capacity; intended to facilitate the essential attainments of conversing with fluency, and composing with accuracy, in the most useful of all the Languages spoken in our Eastern Empire. In Two Parts. Part I.-A compendious Grammar of the Language, with Exercises on its prominent peculiarities, together with a Selection of useful Phrases, and Dialogues on familiar subjects. Part II-A Vocabulary of useful Words, English and Hindustani, shewing at the same time the difference of Idiom between the two Languages. By DUNCAN FORBES, A. M., Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland; Member of the Asiatic Society of Paris; and Professor of Oriental Languages and Literature in King's College, London. London, 1845. Wm. H. Allen and Co. WHEN We read the title-page of this neat little volume, we honestly confess that we had our misgivings respecting its contents; we thought, in short, that the author, like the lady in the play, professed too much. On examination, however, we found our suspicions to be groundless, and we now hasten to make the humblest of all possible acknowledgments,-that we were mistaken. The Hindustani Manual contains,-1st. A very plain and rational grammar of the language; exactly the sort of book a learner requires. When young men come to study the Hindustani, we may conclude that they have arrived at that age when the judgment is to be appealed to more than the memory, -when a body of general principles clearly stated is infinitely more valuable to them than a mass of crude, dry, and apparently abstruse rules. It is in this generalization of the subject that we consider the author to have been particularly successful. The substantives of the language are reduced to one general declension, and the tenses of the verb are so arranged as to be easily retained. At the same time, we give the author great credit for restoring to the tenses the plain and intelligible names by which they are characterized in Latin and other European languages, instead of the nonsensical ones attached to them in certain grammars which in our younger days we have been obliged to peruse. But instead of detailing the various sections into which this volume is divided, we shall allow Mr. Forbes to speak for himself, premising that the work is dedicated, very appropriately, to seven of his pupils, whom he thus addresses in his prefatory remarks: "Section 2 embraces only those peculiarities of Syntax of which I have, from long experience, observed learners to stand most in need. In fact, you may there recognize those very modes of expression in the use of which you were most apt to commit mistakes in your first attempts at turning English into Hindustani; these I have reduced into a series of nine or ten lessons, to most of which I have added copious Examples and Exercises in order to impress them more thoroughly on the memory. I have not deemed it necessary to touch upon those broad principles of Syntax which are the common property of all languages; besides, the work is not intended to supersede the use of larger grammars. Section 3 (from p. 31 to 42) contains a selection of familiar phrases and useful sentences, with a strict but not servilely verbal translation; this is intended for exercise on the two preceding sections; each phrase and sentence may be advantageously varied by changing the number, person, and tense of the verb, and still further by rendering each interrogative, negative, or conditional. By this means the essential principles of the Grammar will make a lasting impression on the memory, which is further confirmed by translating from English into the language. Those who doom their luckless pupils to waste weeks or months on the mere reading (or what they are pleased to call learning) of a grammar per se, without any reference to the language aimed at, ought to have come into the world many centuries back, when a puerile jargon of words without ideas passed for learning. The grammar is to be learned only through the language, and the language by means of the grammar; but to learn, or rather attempt to learn, the one without the other, is about as profitable a pursuit as the manufacturing of bricks from straw without clay, or from clay without straw,altera alterius auxilio eget.' "But to return to our MANUAL: the first three sections may be considered as the elementary part of the book, which is intended as a companion to all grammars. The first section may be advantageously perused when the student is learning the Oriental or Persi-Arabic alphabet, so that when he knows his letters he may at once commence reading and translating easy selections in the proper character, with the aid of a Vocabulary. When he has read carefully ten or twelve pages of such Selections, he may proceed to the second section, and endeavour to turn every phrase and sentence of it into the Persian character, with which by this time I suppose him to be familiar. In like manner he may transfer all the phrases in Section 3 into both the Persian and Devanagari characters: and at the same time he should endeavour to commit the whole to memory so far that when the English of any sentence is read to him, he may be able to give the Hindustani. "In the fourth section (from 42 to 62) I have given a selection of Useful Dialogues, &c. concluding with an Extract from St. Luke's Gospel in each of the two grand dialects into which the language is divided. This section is intended for further exercise, adapted to the student's more advanced progress. Each dialogue may be varied ad infinitum, and further, the student should at the same time endeavour to express himself in Hindi as well as Urdu. He may also, as an exercise, write out the whole in the Persian manuscript character, and make a Hindi version of it to be written in the Devanagari. "Part II. of the MANUAL (from p. 63 to 166) contains an extensive selection of Useful Phrases, so arranged as to serve as a reverse Vocabulary. Most of them are taken from a work printed at Calcutta several years ago, apparently with a view to teach the natives English. I have corrected numerous errors of the press, and not a few of the judgment, occurring in the Calcutta book. I have also supplied the various quantities of the vowels, as well as the essential dots, &c. of the consonants, so that the whole may be readily turned into the Persian and Devanagari characters for additional practice. The English translation of these might have been perhaps more literal, but on due consideration I have allowed them to stand as they were. It is only for a mere beginner that a literal translation is allowable, and even then it ought never to be so literal as to become un-English. Of all the bad methods of teaching, the very worst is that which takes away from the learner the necessity of thinking; any book, then, in which you are offered assistance for translating, by having presented to you word for word as it stands in the original, you ought to cast from you with disdain; it is an admirable invention to flatter the student with imaginary progress, and at the same time cloak the ignorance of the teacher. "A considerable number of the sentences in the Vocabulary are highly idiomatic, and a careful perusal of them will give you no small insight into the freedom of expression you must frequently employ in order to make yourselves understood by the natives of the East. Your words may all be truly translated, and grammatically arranged, and even then it may be bad Hindustani, as you must have frequently observed. One single example, an extreme case I confess, will tend to shew you what I here mean :-In p. 107 you have the sentence, I write in great haste to save the post,' which is to be turned into Hindustani by saying, 'The post-office is about to close, therefore I have written the letter in (great) haste.' Of course I do not imagine that you would translate the foregoing sentence literally; I merely mention it as an instance of that degree of liberty which is allowable in this department of your test. By carefully perusing the Vocabulary, then, and comparing the actual translation with the literal, you will gradually acquire a facility in expressing yourselves correctly, without adhering stiffly to the very words of the English. "I have thus, Gentlemen, stated to you the precise objects and ends I have had in view in this small publication; and I am confident that if the book be rightly studied, as pointed out above, my expectations of its utility will not be disappointed. It is, as you will perceive, intended chiefly for those who are studying the Hindustani with a view to pass a creditable examination, more particularly that part of the test which relates to composition and conversation in the language. "Those of her Majesty's liege subjects who are destined to pass a portion of their lives in India may be divided into two classes-First, the Honourable Company's Civil, Military, and Medical servants, all of whom must pass an examination in Hindustani; the second class consists of Clerical, Legal, Naval, and Mercantile gentlemen, who have probably little time or inclination to master the Oriental characters. To the latter, however, a knowledge of the language is essential; and a thorough perusal of this Manual will enable them to hold intercourse with the people of the country on the ordinary affairs of domestic life. Their stock of words will increase by practice; and, by knowing the general principles of the grammar, they will be enabled to express themselves in Hindustani like men, and not as the jargonists of by-gone days, who acquired a villanous smattering of the language, from the lowest of the natives, by the ear only, setting at defiance all the rules of grammar and propriety." To the two classes of her Majesty's subjects above mentioned we would suggest the propriety of (not subjoining, but) prefixing a still more interesting class,-the ladies of England (including Mr. Forbes's countrywomen, the ladies of Scotland), who brave the terrors of the deep to accompany those they love into the sunny regions of the East. To these we would strongly recommend the Manual; they will find the study much more easy than that of either French or Italian; and on its utility it is unnecessary to say a word. It is ungallant to say so, but in sober sadness the ladies, both English and AngloIndian, who attempt to speak Hindustani, do for the most part give utterance to a most abominable dialect. It is true, they speak fluently enough, and are understood by the class of natives whom they generally have occasion to address; even an educated native may understand them; but, in plain truth, their Hindustani is about on a par with Mrs. Sairy Gamp's English. Nor is this state of things to be wondered at, when we consider that the ladies learn the little they know of the language from their ayahs, or female attendants, whose dialect, to say the least of it, is not very lady-like. Now, if our fair visitants of the East will take the trouble to peruse the Hindustani Manual, which is all in the Roman character, they will very soon be able to express themselves with sufficient propriety to the ears of natives reared above the lowest ranks. In concluding our remarks on this work, we must not omit to notice the very small but distinct type in which it is printed. It would have been very easy to make of it a huge octavo volume, but "a great book is a great evil," more particularly in the case of young travellers. Here we have in a pocket volume (its size hardly entitles it to be called a volume) of 166 pages more useful matter than in some ponderous works of high price, which few can afford to buy, and few will be tempted to read. Calo tonantem credidimus Jovem regnare, and by the same mode of reasoning we, when we hear an author or authoress seriously put it forth as his or her matured opinion, that the miseries of Ireland, in both past and present times, are the result of misgovernment, and not of the peculiar character and temper of the people, have not the slightest shadow of a doubt that the said author or authoress claims the Sister Island as the place in which he or she first breathed this world's air. To this fault Mrs. S. C. HALL, in her great love for Ireland, inclines; indeed, her motto on the title-page, "A country ever hardly used," sufficiently prepares the reader for what is to follow. The work is, however, apart from its political character, very amusing and agreeable, written with even more than the usual power of this popular authoress, and the interest is kept up most unflaggingly to the last. We had marked several passages for extract, but our space will not allow us to make use of them; we must, however, find room for the following: In Ireland there is a habit, which, some years ago, was stronger and more general than it is at present-by which a lady was distinguished according to her husband's profession-that is to say, provided it was a "liberal" one; no woman ever thought of being called Mrs. Grocer Finnerty, or Mrs. Housepainter Grady, or Mrs. Bookseller O'Haggerty, but there was no end to the Mrs. Counsellor Kinealys, the Mrs. Captain Doyles, and the Mrs. Colonel O'Neils, while even a Mrs. Attorney Higgins was unwilling that her rank should be overlooked. This ridiculous fashion, we believe, still flourishes in almost pristine verdure and greatness at Bath. "In for a penny, in for a pound," we must secure the following little bit on board a steamer : A nursery girl, or as she desired to be considered, “a lady's maid," was fruitlessly endeavouring to do several things at once, "hushowing" in her arms a particularly cross baby, who would cry, and endeavouring to prevent a breach of the peace between an ugly cur named Jessie, and a "bowld boy," who insisted upon pulling Jessie by the tail, when nurse wanted her to come forward, by the string, which was twisted round what (figuratively) would be called her little finger. As this inconvenient group staggered along the deck, Jessie every now and then snapping at the gentlemen's toes, while young master stumbled over them, Mr. Spencer was much amused by a sort of monologue the "lady's maid" was getting through sotto voce, the wide borders of her cap flapping sail-fashion in the wind, while "the floating" of her "light English cotton" exhibited a pair of remarkably stout limbs, safely cased in black worsted stockings. "Masther Tim, Masther Tim, avick, let the baste's tale alone, dear; she's English, my darlint, and not used to do any thing she dosn't plase, jewel; not like yer own little Pincher at home, that never offered to bite anything, barring the tax-man;" then a great squall from the baby called her attention to the plunging parcel she found it hard enough to manage. "Whisht, whist, darlint, you'll disturb your mamma that's in the cabin. Oh, then, I wish from my very sowl they'd as fine cabins on shore as they have tossing on the say, just for sport. Whisht! Oh! murder, what'll I do with you in the night, at all at all, and the sixpen❜orth of barley-sugar gone already!" THE MADRAS SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY, For constructing a Railway from Negapatam and Nagore to Tanjore and Trichinopoly, in the first instance, and with power ultimately to extend the same to Calicut, on the Western Coast of India. Capital, £600,000, in 30,000 Shares of £20 each.-Deposit, 10s. per Share. TEMPORARY OFFICES,-EAST-INDIA CHAMBERS, No. 23, LEADENHALL STREET, LONDON. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Major-General MONTEITH, K.L.S., F.I.C.S., Chief Engineer, Madras Captain FRANCIS WEMYSS, Engineer, E.1.C.S., 7, Grosvenor-street West, Eaton-square Major MOORE (late Military Secretary, Hyderabad), 33, Queen Ann-street Sir JAMES ANNESLEY, E.I.C.S., Albany Colonel WILLIAM HENDERSON, E.I.C.S. (Henderson and Co.), 16, Major J. HANCOCK, E.I.C.S., Oriental Club, Hanover-square WILLIAM BRADLEY, Esq., 32, Craven-street, Strand, and Manor Oaks, R. S. SCOTT, Esq., Devonshire-place ALGERNON W. B. GREVILLE, Esq. (conditional) J. RANNI E, Esq., 5, Belgrave-place, Belgrave-square G. GUNN ING CAMPBELL, Esq., E.I.C.S., Montague-square; Oriental Club Colonel GILLIES, Porchester-house, Bayswater, and 26, Cambridge-street. Hyde-park Lieut.-Colonel LOTHIAN DICKSON, Mayfair Colonel HARMAN, K.S.E., K.C.D.I., Belgrave-street, Belgrave-square; Parthenon Club Captain C. OGLE, 44, Eaton-place JAMES COCKBURN, Esq. (firm of Cockburn and Co.), E.I.Agent, New Broad-street Captain REYNOLDS, E.I.C.S. (firm of Grindlay and Co., East-India Agents, 16, Cornhill, London) H. LEWIS, Esq., E.I.C.S., Upper Montague-street, Montague-square WILLIAM YOUNG, Esq., E.I.C.S., Bengal Establishment, 7, Westbournestreet; Oriental Club CHARLES HENNEAGE, Esq., Codeley House, Lincolnshire, and Pall- Pall-mall JAMES AUGUSTUS ST. JOHN, Esq., 9, North-bank, Regent's-park Captain GRISLEY (late in the civil employ of the Nizam's territory, India); Oriental Club SAMUEL ROHDE, Esq., 3, Crosby-square, Bishopsgate JAMES ADAIR, Esq., Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway. HAMILTON BLAIR AVANE, H.E.I.C.S., Director of the United Kingdom Office THOMAS ROBARTS THELLUSSON, 16, Hyde Park-street Solicitor-JOHN FOSTER, Esq. Agents in Madras-Messrs. BINNEY and Co. This Company has been formed for the important object of creating railway communication between the populous and opulent sea-port towns of Negapatam and Nagore to Tanjore and Trichinopoly; and, if found necessary, a branch line to Combaconum. In submitting this undertaking to the notice of the public, it will be necessary to state that the proposed line of railway is to commence at Nagore and Negapatam (which may be said to be one town), and to pass through the rich and densely-populated district of Tanjore to Trichinopoly, embracing the towns of Keveloor, Treveloor, and the city of Tanjore, and many others in its course. Engineer officers and the revenue officers connected with the district having made the most favourable reports of this line of country, and having urged the necessity of railway communication, the project will receive the warm support of the influential and commercial community of Madras and the Carnatic, and every aid and countenance which the local government can afford. To those not intimately acquainted with the locality of this line, and the advantages it holds forth, it will only be necessary to state, in order to insure public confidence in the undertaking, that the whole distance will not exceed 80 miles; that the district of Tanjore is noted and unparalleled for its fertility and riches, and is, without exception, for its extent, the most productive of any portion of our extensive colonies. This province is one of our most ancient acquisitions in the East, and a part of it, together with Negapatam, was at one time in the possession of the Dutch. It has enjoyed an uninterrupted period of peace and tranquillity ever since the rise of British power in Asia. The inhabitants have, therefore, long been accustomed to European rule, of whom a great many, and an influential class, are Christians. At both the termini of this line are great towns. At the one are Nagore and Negapatam-the principal sea-ports for the whole of the Carnatic south of Madras; at the other, Trichinopoly, the military head-quarters of the southern division of India. The shipping belonging to Nagore and Negapatam is extensive, and their trade with our Eastern settlements-Malacca, Penang, Singapore, China, and Ceylon, exceeds that of any of the coast towns, in addition to an extensive trade with Madras, Masulapatam, and the northern ports. Tanjore, the capital of the province and the seat of the rajah, through which the railway will pass, is a large and populous city-indeed the fifty miles of country from the coast to Tanjore may be compared to a garden for fertility, and are studded with towns and villages. To the westward of Tanjore the line will proceed direct to the other terminus at Trichinopoly, the military head-quarters of the southern division of India. Here the whole trade of the Carnatic, south of Arcot, centres. The great military and commercial roads from Coimbatore, Caroor, Bawany, Dindigul, Tinnevelly, Madura, Quilon, Cochin, Arcot, Vel lore, Mysore, Seringapatam, Calicut, and Paulghaut all meet at Trichinopoly. The line of railway will run nearly due east and west and parallel with the rivers Cauvery and Coleroon, which are not navigable. There are no engineering difficulties throughout the line. The country is as nearly as possible a perfect level, and neither tunnelling nor cutting will be required. There are no rivers of any consequence, or water channels, that cannot be bridged with the greatest ease and at so small an expense, that it is calculated the expense of a single line of rails will not, on an average, exceed the comparatively small sum of £6,000 per mile. The necessity of forming a branch line to Combaconum will be taken into consideration. It will also ultimately be a consideration with this Company to propose an extension of the line direct from Trichinopoly to Poonany and Calicut, or any other available port on the west coast of India; thereby opening a rapid and speedy communication across the Peninsula of India, through the great cotton-growing district of Coimbatore, in which the American system of cultivation has been extensively and successfully introduced, and connecting its most rich and populous districts by a route of only 260 miles, running through an opening of the mountains at Paulghaut-the only one along the whole range of the western ghauts from Surat, beyond Bombay, to Cape Comorin, and the only point that will not baffle perhaps all engineering skill-and thereby saving the tedious and often impracticable passage round the Peninsula and Ceylon, which, on the average of the whole year, exceeds twenty-six days. This will be accomplished in ten hours by railway communication. The whole of this line will be of easy accomplishment. The country through which it passes abounds with the finest stone; the extensive teak forests are perhaps the finest in the world. But, as before said, the immediate object of this Company is to open a communication through the rich and populous district of Tanjore, viz. from Negapatam to Trichinopoly. This small district of only eighty miles in length, contained, according to the last census taken in 1831, the almost incredible number of 1,683,460 inhabitants. The increased population of the last fourteen years, with that of the adjacent towns beyond Trichinopoly, may now be safely reckoned as considerably beyond two millions of souls-equal to the whole of Scotland, which is now being intersected even through the Highlands and over her mountains and arms of the sea by railways. The whole presidency of Madras, including Mysore, numbering nearly 20,000,000 inhabitants, will be immediately benefited by this line. The revenue which the government receives from the districts which this railroad will traverse exceeds £800,000 per annum, and is daily increasing. Besides these advantages peculiar to this line, Indian railways have many over those in England and Europe, there being no Parliamentary litigationthe land, which is chiefly government property, being given free to a Company when approved of by the local government-and labour being both cheap and plentiful. To this line no conflicting interests are opposed, there being no water communication nor any competing line of railway. Immediate steps will be taken to have the line carefully and minutely surveyed by able and experienced engineers, and the local government will be applied to for any assistance and countenance which it can legitimately afford. In the meantime the aid and services of a first-rate engineer officer of the Indian army, and one well acquainted with the Tanjore district, has been secured. A reserve of shares will be made for India, and the dividends will be paid in London and India at the current rate of exchange. A subscription contract will be prepared, to be executed by the shareholders, and application will be made for a charter of incorporation or Act of Parliament. Shareholders' liability to be limited to the amount of their shares. Power will be taken to allow four per cent. per annum on all deposits. A corresponding board of directors will be appointed in India to carry out the views of the Company, and immediate steps will be taken to prosecute the objects of the undertaking in India. It should, however, be remembered that this short and well-known line varies most considerably from some of the other grand and gigantic schemes for constructing railways many hundreds of miles in length into the interior of India. This line is short, and may be looked upon as purely a commercial and military line, running through a wellknown and civilized county-easy of execution, and therefore involving little outlay in surveys and other preliminary expenses. All communications and applications for shares to be made to John Foster, Esq. Solicitor, 66, Jermyn-street, St. James's, and to the Provisional Committee, at their temporary offices, East-India Chambers, No. 23, Leadenhallstreet, London; and of the following sharebrokers:-Messrs. B. & M. Boyd, 4, Bank-buildings; David Armstrong, Esq. Dumfries; Messrs. Robertson & Co. Edinburgh; Mr. John Clegg, Manchester; Messrs. Ludlow, Brothers, Liverpool; Messrs. Heycock and Powell, Leeds; Messrs. Buchanan & Aitken, Glasgow; Messrs. Tate & Nash, Bristol; Messrs. Brady & Co. Hull. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE WESTERN RAILWAY. Capital, 800,000l., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each. John Burgess, Esq., Manchester, late Boroughreeve Deposit, 11. 108. per Share. 5,000 Shares will be reserved for the Colony. Provisionally registered. This line has the approval of the following gentlemen connected and acquainted with the Colony, and who will act as a Provisional Committee to carry out the views of the Company :Lord Stephen Chichester, of Ormead, Antrim, Director of the London, Staines, Ascot, and Reading Railway, &c. J.R.Thompson, Esq., St. Peter's-chambers, Cornhill Harrison Watson, Esq., 2, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park George Wilson Prince, Esq., Camberwell-grove Capt. Beare, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Capt. Duncan Campbell, late Civil Commissioner at Campbell McDonald, Esq., Brunswick-sq., Brighton G. Gun Hay, Esq., Sloane-street, Director of the The Hon. William Gore, 21, Wilton-crescent, Bel- Major Selwyn, Royal Engineers, Exeter, Director of Capt. Newton, R.N., Lugwardine, Herefordshire, Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Chairman Fred. Howorth, Esq., 44, Wilton-crescent, Bel grave-square Capt. Strutt, Cranford-lodge, Middlesex, Director of George Downing Bruce, Esq., Deputy Lieutenant Capt. George Johnstone, Langharne, near Carmar-James then, Wales Frederick William Hamilton, Esq., 59, Gloucester- Capt. Charles Randall, Junior United Service Club Capt. S. N. Fisher, Junior United Service Club, William Downing Bruce, Esq., Charles-street, St. William Lobb, Esq., M.D., 12, Aldersgate-street MacMillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of Major Durban, Exeter Richard Wm. Johnson, Esq., Director of the Lon- ton's), &c. C. M. Rigg, Esq., Director of the Shropshire Mine- Colonel Cannon, Oriental Club, Director of the St. John A. Layard, Esq., Ceylon Rifles, Director of Messrs. Thomson, Watson, and Co., Bankers and W. W. Oldershaw, Esq., 7, Tokenhouse-yard. John Holford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester, It is to remedy this inconvenience, and to aid the development of the ample resources of the colony, that the new Company of the Cape of Good Hope Western Railway is formed. Oct. 20, 1845. THE DELHI, MEERUT, and LOODIANA RAILWAY.-Provisionally registered, pursuant to 7 & 8 Vict. c. 110.-Capital, £2,500,000, in 50,000 shares of £50 each.-Deposit, 5s. per share. This important line of railway is intended to fort a means of conveyance for the enormous amount of traffic of the Punjaub and North-Western Provinces with Calcutta and the East of India. A detailed prospectus, with a most influential list of directors, will shortly be issued. In the meantime, communications may be addressed to the Secretary, at the office of the Solicitors, Messrs. Hodgson and Burton, 10, Salisbury-street, Strand. CE EYLON RAILWAY COMPANY-The Provisional Committee have completed the allotment of shares in the capital of this company, and they regret that, in consequence from parties interested in the colony, and the limited of the immense number of applications for shares number the company had at their disposal, after providing for residents in the island, they have been unable to comply with the request of many highly do not receive allotment letters will be pleased to respectable and influential parties; and those who assign the failure of their request to this cause alone. The letters of allotment will be issued forthwith, D. J. NOAD, Sec. 8, Broad-street-buildings, Oct. 18, 1845. EYLON RAILWAY COM CEX. Notice is hereby given, that all de posits upon shares in this company must be paid on or before the 31st inst. The preliminary deed will lie at these offices for signature on and after Monday, the 20th inst., until further notice; and the scrip will be ready for delivery on and after Saturday, the 25th inst. The deed will not be sent into the country. D. J. NOAD, Sec. 8, Broad-street-buildings, Oct. 18, 1845. FRIEND: a Medical The line will commence at Cape Town, a flourishing sea-port, and the capital of the colony; from THE SILENT FALL DECAY, NERVOUS to accommodate the inhabitants of the densely populated villages of Stellenbosch and the Paarl (the chief wine districts), and on the other the extensive corn districts of Koeberg and Swartland, as well as the more distant location of Picquetberg, Reebecks, Kasteel, and its extensively cultivated neighbourhood. That the undertaking will be highly popular in the colony, there can be no doubt, and the arrangements can be so made as to include the increasing villages of Rondebosch, Claremont, and Wynberg. A branch will also be formed for connecting Cape Town with Simon's Bay. The general traffic will, however, consist of vast quantities of pastoral and agricultural produce. Immense numbers of cattle are also continually on transit from the interior districts, where they are reared, to Cape Town, for the use of the shipping, and the daily consumption of the inhabitants. DEBILITY, CONSTITUTIONAL WEAKNESS, The Colonial Government will doubtless be induced to afford every facility for carrying out the object of the Company, while it is reasonably anticipated that, in consequence of the great public benefit that will inevitably arise from the construction of the proposed Railroad, considerable tracts of valuable Go-written, and the valuable hints it conveys to those vernment land may be obtained along the line, which may hereafter be appropriated with great advantage to the Company. A good idea may be formed of the probable amount of traffic which will yield remuneration to the shareholders of the proposed line, by annexing the following return for the year 1844, the last that could be obtained, of the imports and exports of Cape Town : Cape Town Total Value of 211,226 5 0 467 123,929 480 123,929 58,356 12 5 665,338 9 6 Exeter. To the Provisional Committee of the Cape of Good Hope Western Railway Company. Gentlemen,-I request you allot to me Shares of 201. each in the proposed Cape of Good Hope Western Railway; and I hereby undertake to accept that or any less number, and to pay the deposit of 11. 108. per share thereon, and to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. 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Sold by RAILWAY COM LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITIES ADRAS RAILWAY COM-MADR-At a meeting of the Provisional think it their duty again to call attention to the following extracts from their prospectus first issued by the Provisional Committee: "Impressed with these views, the Provisional "Committee has been formed with the object of securing the introduction of the railway system into "the territories under the presidency of Madras. 66 "In the Minute of the Court of Directors, above "alluded to, it is stated to be their intention to depute to India a skilful engineer, to be associated "with two engineer officers in their own service, to "investigate the subject of railway communication " in India, in all its bearings; they add, that one "object of this committee will be, to suggest some "feasible line of moderate length as an experiment "for railway communication in India.' "It is probable that in no part of the East-India "Company's dominions will this object be attained "with so much ease and certainty as on the line of "road from Madras to Wallajabunggur, and the **great military station of Arcot; and it is to the construction of a railway between these points "that the operations of the present Company are ❝ proposed in the first instance to be directed, with a view to accomplish the primary object of the pre❝liminary investigation about to be undertaken by "the committee appointed by the East-India Com 66 pany. the following gentlemen were elected Managing Di- JOHN ALVES ARBUTHNOT, Esq., Chairman. N. B. Ackworth, Esq. H. S. Græme, Esq. The deed of settlement of the Company, as re- ceived letters of allotment of shares in this Company Oct. 16, 1845. J. M. HEATH, Sec. "Should the success of the first line which it is contemplated to undertake warrant the extension " of the railroad system throughout the Madras terPublished and sold by the Authors, at their resi"ritories, it is the intention of this Company to dence; also by Sherwood, Paternoster-row; Han"raise the additional capital that may be required nay, 63. Oxford-st.; Noble, Chancery-lane; Gor"to proceed in the direction of Cuddapah, Bellary, don, 146, Leadenhall-st.; Barth, Brydges-st. Coand Hyderabad, north; Mysore, Salem, and Tri-vent-garden; and all Booksellers. "chinopoly, west and south; and to connect the "remote provinces with the trunk line by branches "of less expensive construction throughout the Ma"dras territories." In the deed of settlement of the Company, power has been taken to raise, by the issue of new shares, the capital required for the construction of such railroads throughout the territories of the Madras presidency, the Mysore, and the Nizam territories towards Hyderabad, as may be approved of by the shareholders. Subsequently to the issue of the prospectus, the attention of the Directors has been attracted to a line of railway, independent of the Great Western line of communication from Madras towards Arcot, and running parallel to it, about 200 miles to the south. This line would commence at Nagore, a port of considerable importance in the province of Tanjore, and would run through Negapatam and Tanjore to the great civil and military station of Trichinopoly. 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Physician-Dr. Fraser, 62, Guildford-street, Russell This Company offers the advantages of the guarantee of an ample subscribed capital-of permission to retain one third of the first five premiums in the hands of the assured, as a debt against the policyof ascending, descending, and other scales of premiums-of participation in profits, or of as low a scale of premiums as is consistent with safety, to those who choose to forego participation in profits. AUSTRALASIA. To emigrants to the Australasian colonics, who offers the permission to proceed to and reside in any are assured for the whole term of life, the Company of those colonies without extra premium, and to pay their premiums there. For residence in New Zea land, a moderate extra pre...ium is charged. THE NORTH-AMERICAN COLONIES AND CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. No extra premium is charged for residence in any of these colonies, nor for one direct voyage out and home. INDIA, CEYLON, AND CHINA. The tables of this Company offer great advantages to persons residing in India, in either military or civil capacities, and the premiums are immediately reduced to the English scale on the return of the assured life to England for permanent residence. Premiums may be paid and claims settled in India. registered, under the title of the Nagore, Negapa- and HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.-An astounding pany, aud receive a rate of annuity much more fatam, Tanjore, and Trichinopoly Railway. This has already been done, and it is the intention of the Directors of the Madras Railway Company to take steps at a future period for raising the further capital required for this object, by the issue of such shares, in the allotment of which preference would be given to the existing shareholders in the Madras Railway Company. The Directors consider, however, that it would be premature at present to take further steps towards the construction of a second independent line until the success of the first line undertaken by them should warrant further operations. They have applied to the Court of Directors of the East-India Company, and to the Indian Government, for permission to undertake that line through the Madras territories, which is allowed to offer the greatest facilities for the construction of a railway of any in India. They have organized a company, with power to raise the capital required, for the formation of railways to any extent that may be required throughout the Madras territories, and those adjacent, to connect them with the lines formed by other companies; but, as they are persuaded that the Court of Directors of the East-India Company will not sanction the attempt to construct more than one experimental railway in each presidency in the first instance, they consider that nothing would be gained by now mapping out the Madras territories with railways, and proceeding to raise the capital for their construction. When the proper period arrives, they will be prepared to redeem their pledge to undertake all the railway constructions that may be called for in the Madras territories; and the experience acquired in constructing the first line,-from Madras to Arcot,will, they doubt not, be allowed its due weight with the Indian and Home Governments, should competion arise from the construction of other lines. By order of the Board of Directors, 6, Basinghall-street, Oct. 16, 1845. J. M. HEATH, Sec. "To Professor Holloway :-Sir, I beg to acquaint you that your Pills have effected a cure of a disorder in my liver and stomach which all the most eminent of the faculty, at home and all over the Continent, had not been able to effect; nay, not even the waters Carlsbad or Mamembad. (Signed) ALDBOROUGH.' These wonderful Pills will cure any disease of the liver or stomach. 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