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I ~. 7 / -~~- V THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1845. D ;RECT WESTERN RAILWAY (Upon the Broad Gauge), From London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and Bridgewater respectively. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 3,900,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.. Offices, 20, Poultry, London. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. The Right Hon. the Earl of Camperdown, Sidney-place, Bath The Viscount Mandeville, Kimbolton-park, Hants Lord James O'Bryen, Royal-crescent, Bath Lord William Powlett, Bath, and Downham-hall, Brandon, Suffolk General Sir John Slade, Bart., Muntys Court, Taunton Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, Somerset The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street Sir-Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London Ralph Neville. Esq., M.P., Hill-street, Berkeley-square Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P., 6, Parliament-street Hon. Percy Evans Freke. 3, Belgrave-square Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London Wllllam Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Companies Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P. Raley. Herefordshire Sir John Cave Brown Care Bart Rexilworth, Warwickshire Sir William Young, Bart., Wvstbourae•green, Hyde-park, East India Director John Clark, Esq., Benefield House, near Trowbridge, Wilts, Magis trate for the counties of Wilts and Somerset Alfred Batson. Esq., Ramsbury, Wilts, and Upper Bedford-place Major Hunt Gmbbe, Eastwell House, Devizes Jolla Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker John Love! Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker William Adair Bruce, Esq., Lansdown-crescent, Bath Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company Thomas Paraconstr, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Teeley-street, Alderman of MS City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin fifes Bask. and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder asinsMr Railway Thomas Challis, Esq., Enfield, Alderman of the City of London Edward if arrimon Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairmaa of the North ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the Soak Midland Railway _ Joseph ♦rmitage, Esq., Miler's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West .Riding of Yorkshire. Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Hallway William Gordon Thomson, Emu, 33, Gloticester-read, Hyde Park, Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham. and Sontk Midland Railways Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Branswiek-stiaare, Loadsn, Depaty . „ Clairman of tko Trent Valley Continnation Railway Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Nary Axe Philip W. Courtney, Eeq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London Millis Coventry, Esq., Whitekart-court, Lombard-street Barnet L. 'Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, aid (George-street, Ilansion Mouse Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderne,ss Rouse, near Null, Deputy Lieutenant and Ilalistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irougate Wharf William Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the Devon and Cornwell Ranking Company h.arlea Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-eress, Director of the South Midland Railway Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park. London. Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South Essex Railways Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street John Addis, E sq., totherhithe and Mark lane, Loudest, Director of the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Insurance Co►apany tames Renshaw, Esq., Wkitehart-coart, Lombard-street, and West Heath House, Er.th, Kent, Director of the south iitalfertishire Railway Thomas I)rane, Esq., Pall-mall, and tit. Mary Chard:, Doyen, Direc tor of the Bridport and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railways Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brentlx) Ironworks, Wrexkam, aid Ciumon- street, London - 11. G. Atkinson, Esq., tipper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park George M`lntash, Eq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-sqltare Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland Railway Charl-4 Bleaden, Esq., Couladen-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li- ceased Tictalthers' Fire and Life assurance Company J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the Licensed Victuallers' Firs and Life Assurance Company Patrick Eras. Johnston, E 1., Great Cumberland-place Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Miuorics, Director of the Leaden and Railway Company Willtampowiling Brue.o, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Ckarles-street, St. James's, _ and Ripon Cuthbert Woodcock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, ltryanstone-street, Portman square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and His Great Western Extension Railways George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London 11-tgan, Esq. 60, LW:ex-street, PortinAn-square William Itreynton, i4q., Montpelier, Cheltc,tham, and Temple, Lon don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway Richard Har - is Purcell, Esq., Cianiaridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon don, Director o the Wilts, Eotnerset, and Southampton Railway Company Philip Rater, Esq., En3ton-square, London, Auditor of the Louden and I I okwall Railway Coindany Charles James Heath, Esq., 1, London-street, Mark-lane Captain E. N. Trowbridge, M.N., 11, Eaton-equare Anthony Ridley, Big , Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the St. Katherine Docks Company, and of the General *hipowners' Society William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-plocie, Be!grave-square cliarles Thoinas IViirde,Eel., Clodton House, Warwickshire, and • . Luton Ilex, Bedfordshire (; e e.rge Payne, Esq., Sun) , Hal!, Northarapten.shire, and Cliarles sti, 't, Berkeley-square Jaxnee.'eoch, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor ptaro. London lilt:1101ga itiipot Loader, Esq., Droinai;ll Castle, ciunty Cork, Union Club, Traalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail way C. is,auy Samuel Baker, Eel., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and Lon , '•n Congreve Russell, Esq., Le.onington, Warwickshire, DI- router of the Warwickshire and Lendon ttailway /Leary Lradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire John Wllll.tra Yerbury, Esl., Ilelconabu House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d Light Dragoons Snbext Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity- Loatiets rebel. Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, 144forri, Nottinghamshire Jelin Gill,rttt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hernsey Major-sten. Martin White, Misrlboroiwii-buildings, Bath rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyus House, near Newbury, Becks Col. Burstein, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath ittitv. Dr. Godn - ey, Grosvenor-place, Bath littward Cooper, P.sq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Henry Tougood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the • Cty nev Cbas. Fras. BluntVide, Rector of Dunkarten, near Bath, Magls- trate , for Somerset inobard MorthuOre, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts Georje Tetc, Esq., Tewkesbury, Dinkttor of the Bristol and Birraidg- Itain sllll%ray Company jt. Wootten, jun., Dui, Banker, Oxford, Director •f the Buckingham• . . Airs nalla l way and Wolverton Junction Meagre' Ifortimore, Fsq., Kingsoirlll, CoHampton Itev. John Sydeuham, Collutuptou Iter. ILA. Roberts, Rector of Keutiskere, Collar's/ston Charles Justiee, Esq., Colluinpton, Devon itiebard Marker, Esq., tirculin Cottage, Tiverton Colonel Henry I)undas Campbell, North End House, Portsmetttl George Pearce, Esq., liradni itch lieut.!, near Collumpton Wm. 11. Macomb, Esq., Chilton, Ifingerford, Chairman of the Berke Voles Banking Company William Haleomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilte and Dorset Bank Captain W. C. Maclean, R.N., Taunt's Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunter John Dalzoll, Esq., Wallingford, Perks Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Kees liabertelti, Esq., Clifton, Bristol lamas Troup, Esq., Hastings John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol hhn Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Direator of Coventry and Leicester Railway I osepk Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland aid Nortis- &tampion, iiaubary and Cheltenham Railways John Newton Mapptn, Esq., Sheffield, Direetor of Use Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Statorishire, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway James Ilurt, jun., Esq.. Manchester, Director of the Chester and Birkenhead. and Manchester and Southampton Railways Bdward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direet London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies Joseph Kadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley" Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies" John Holford, Esq., Rushohn Hall, Manchester C. IL Jones, Esq., kladderstleld, Deputy Chairman of the /ladders told and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax aid Bradford Union Railway Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Bull, Director of the Hall and Barnsley Junction John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Direetor of Manehester and South- ampton Railway John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Durham Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and Midland Railway Companies /sane Holmes, Rsq., Liverpoo Wm. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and Iron Bridge Railway Company C. Appleby, EM., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manehester Railway Company Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeack, and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways John Ward, Esq. ' Machin Bank, Sheffield, Di rec t or o f th e Sh e ffi e ld, Rotherham, anil Chesterfield Life Assurance-office Wm. Thompson, Esq., Uppertherpe, near Sheffield, Director et the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of tke East Coast Railway Company Captain Bowker, It. NL, Devonport U. S. Bright, ICsq., Hull, Director •f the Liverpool and Leeds Di• reet Railway Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield Direct or of the East and West of England Railway Company Jehn Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director if the Wakefield and Bar rewgate Railway Company William Marriott, Esq., Attereliff-terraee, Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway. Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York and East Lincolnshire Railways John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., LiTerpeel David Price, Esq., Manchester William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-sqaare, Leamington Roy. H. vst. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire Major Wormun, Clarence-square, Cheltenham Edward Nall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways Henry Habbersty, Esq., Hull John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Nall and Barnsley Junction Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-read, Limehease, merchant John Moe Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square Jelin Norton, Esq., Moat Noise, Brentwood, Essex William John M'Guire, Esq., Hampton Court John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxibrd-terrace Copt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey W. J. Lefeuvre, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate ofSeuthampton Thomas qua.. Ibux;Juit, Esq., F York-terrace, Regent's Park G. B. Rebury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Coventry and Leleester Railway captain Tringhans, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire William Jenson Neale, Esq., Ring's Bench-walk, Temple Janes Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury Henry rani Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield The Hon. F. Byron, 21, Eaton-place William Higgins, Esq., Turvey, High Sheriff of Bedfordshire Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak-park, near Winchester, Deputy-Lieu tenant, and magistrate for the county of Hants William Jackson, Esq , Birkenhead, Chairman of the Cheater and Birkenhead Railway E. H. Langworthy, Esq., Manchester Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman, and Sheriff of London and Mid- dlesex _ - Nathaniel Gould, Esq., Barge-yard, Backlersbury, and Taristook- square Rdmund Lionel Welles, Esq., Cadogan-place, and West 3lonloop, Surrey Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, an I Llmehouse, Director of the London Dock Company, the Marine Assurance Company, and the General Shipowner's Society William Jackson, Esq Si fll ` 1 ~ ea ,Director of the Railway George P. Earle, Esq., Hull Stephen. Knowles, Esq., Ex e t e r Lawrence, joh „ Brixten " '''` unn( mth, E ' sa. Edinburgh, Chairman of the Edlnlytirgh and Glasgow, and North British Railway Companies Wellington Hots Montague-place, Russell-square, Director of the I t m t.g . b , y_, r u p ea 'e t rl : y Bq , and Manchester Railway William 'Tuner, -street, Blackfriars Req., E Kherimrn GruAlT" John Booth, Matthew Benjamin Robson, Grange, Durham John Holmes, Esq., St. Jame 's -street, Director WeymouthWeymouthßailway, and Yo r k and reeLancasterrolftlilewp° ay rthester and William G. Bernard, Esq , Clifton, Bristol 59,1 take r -street, Po r t man-square Thomas Smallwood Rich irs, Jalles Shaw, Esq., Sal:"ord, l Manchester N. M`Cann, Esq. Parnt Went-street Henry IVeninan Esq., Esq., Bristol, Magistrate for that City, a Depnly-Liculcaant and Magistrate for the county of Gloucesternd William ii , watio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury William Empson Jalland, Esq., Iloitioniess House, near H u ll Thomas thicket Massey, Esq., Newark-upon-Trent Robert Cook; Esq.,' Gainsborough, Dirccior of the Gainsborough, Goole, 'and Isle'tif Axholmc, anti of the Wiebeach, Ely and ia l i_ e tin thireltailways William Ruston, Esq:, Cath , .:rine-court, Trinity-square G. Wingrove COW, Esq., Temple, London C. I. Selwyn, Esq:, Exeter Joseph Hopwood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter and Falmouth Rail way Richard Compton, Esq., Ethrmgton House, Hungerford, Barks, a als;istrate for the counties of Wilts and Berks Henry Coa Coupe, Goldliangcr, Malden, Essex Richard Davis, Esq., St. Helen's-place, Director of the South gicliand Tway Edward Hyde Clarke Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Warwickshire a4d London Railway The Constable of Hungerford Captain Wiliam Lionel Lampert, The Highlands, Oxfordshire, and Leamington, Warwickshire Francis Burton, Esq., 3filverton House, Warwickshire Captain Stewart, R.N., Leamington, Warwickshire Samuel Haines, Esq.. Chad-house, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director _ _ . of the South Stafiordshit e Railway William Northage, Esq., Upper Gower-street, Bedford-square John Wodley Hughes, Esq., Gloucester, Director of the Birmingham and Bristol Railway Lewis Bruce Knight Brace, Esq., The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey Francis Cole Humbert, Esq., Oxford-street; Hyde Algernon Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park James Lamb, Esq., Hyde-park-square It'chard Grolicoci: lisq.,(Bow-churchyard, and Dulwich, Director of the Direct Manchester Railway J. B. Simpson, Bsq., Rutland-ledge, Brixton Henry BeDerby, Esq„ Sheriff of York Henry Ledgard, Esq., 39, Wood-street, Cheapside, Director of the Rugby and Miceleiffield Direct Railway - John Williams, Esq., Eaton-square. Thomas Grimsditch, Esq., M.P., Macclesfield, Cheshire Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn-fields, Wolverhampton, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway Wfilians Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton Erasmus R. Foster, ESei,, Birchin-lane William Bargett, Broad-street Peter It. Morrison, Esq., Princes-street, Bank Thomas Miller, Jun., Esq., Leicester John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Enfield, Director of the York and Lan- caster Railway Thomas Kidley, Esq., M.D., Sheffield James Sheppard, Esq., jun.. White Hart-court, Lombard-street Valentine Knight, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Magistrate for Middlesex fleorge Sercombe, Esq., Exeter John Clampit Sercombe, Esq., Exeter William Pearce, Esq., Liverpool W. Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham _ . Robert Henry Hurst, Esq., jun; Temple William Nash, Esq., Capham Common Grey Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton Hall, Leicester Captain Twisleton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the Leicester and Tean and Dove Valley Railway (With power to add to their number). ENSINERRS IN SHIRR. Sir John Macnlell, LL.D., F.R.S. James Thomsen, Esq., F.R.S.E., 3f.R.1.A. Esxratio--Messrs. Cturies and Co., Cornhill, London. JOINT SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London _ _ Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and Louden Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. SIICRETARY—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq. ASSISTANT-SECRETARY —Charles J. Whalley, Esq. LOCAL SOLICITORS. At Newbury—Messrs. Godwin and Gray, and 8.1'111111240, Esq. At Ramstairy—William Rowland, Esq. At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq., and John Edwards Hayward, Esq. At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stelae and Rodway At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton At Shepton Mallett—Francis Isaac Nalder, Esq. At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole At Exeter—William Denis Moore, Esq. At Tiverton, T. L. T. Ronde% Esq., and J. A. Tomo, Esq. At Laanceston—Messrs. Lawrence and Pattisen At Bodmin ♦t Truro It Penzance At Falmouth—Messrs. Tresidder and Son The object of this line is to effect a direct aimanimaiention between London and the Land's End. In a national point of view such a line is indispensable. With the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from its situation at the western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in creased its imports from 200,0001. to 3,0110,600/. per annum. At Bris tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased. The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal mouth by way of Plytnouth; and various ether projects have been set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by railway. The object of this prospectus is to show that no ether line than the resent can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the couatry in regard to this, its most important outport—" the natural Packet Station of the empire." The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End. The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company having amalga mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct >line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford ing all the aecomniodation contemplated by that Company. The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will lse carried by Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells (from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater), Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two miles than any existing railways between these points, and without a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St. Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the wnule instance from London to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles. With reseect to the trafllc on the upper portioa of the lino it is needless to say mote than that there is already thorough traffic suffi cient to justifY the coustrection of this portion of the Direct Wes tern : that it will shorten the distance trout London to Tiverton about 32 miles, that it will traverse rich and populous agricultural and manufacturing districts, and receive a large ameant of Bottle as well from rallways!now iu course of construction as film ellen pre jected, with every chance of success. Is to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it is erident that the vast number of merchant vessels coati:many detained In the Channel `dy adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at once transmitting them to their destination by mauls of this railway; and therefure—withont speculating on the extent to which the purls on either side of the great promontory of the Land's Bad may, by means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectivsly of Bristol and Southampton ; t e what extent the inexhattatible mineral wealth of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire may be farther developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the amount of which may be said to be without limit. 0 glance at the map will make it manliest that uo competing trunk line can ever be established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex tent of midland distrist, comprising rich and populous parts of So inersetshire, Doraetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of railroad accommodation. Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital haportance in the event of war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet commerce of the kingdom; It may net be oat of place to quote here the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project of a direct lino from London to Liverpool through the Treat Valley, which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways, he is reported to hove said :—"I consider that the com munication between the metreaolis and the groat oatperts to be not a question of hours, bat a euestien of ininatc." Of the necessity of this particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company, it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth ; and it may be farther observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Yalecouth was last session rejected, on the groaud that it might he sapposed to interfere with that great aaticial object. The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of Mr wardaess, and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par liament. It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be constructed at au unusually small expense ; that the undertaking will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-eperation of the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways it the kingdom. Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at four pounds per centuna per annum on the deposits, and preference ha the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected with the Direct Weston' district. Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary, at the Company's Offices, 20, Poultry, London, or to the local solicitors, or to any re spectable broker in town or country 20, Poultry, London, September, 1245. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the ProTisional Committee of the Direct Western railway Company. . . Gentlemen,—l request you willallOt is shares of 25/. each is the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21.125. 6d. per share thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreeraent aid Parliamentary Coa. tract when required. Dated 1845. Residence• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Trade or Profession .... .. • • • • • • • • • • Place of Basineas (if any) • • • • • • .. • • DIRECT WESTERN RAIL WAY, with diverging lines to BATH and BRIDGWATER. (Provisionally Registered.) Notice is hereby given, that no further Applications for Shares in this Company will be received after TUESDAY. the 7th of October, inst. T. H. SAUNDERS, Secretary. 20, Poultry, London, Oct. 1, 1845. THE DIRECT LONDON, PORTSMOUTH, AND CHICHESTER, AND DIRECT PORTSMOUTH AND CHATHAM RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) VIA REIGATE. Capital, 1,700,000/., in 85,000 Shares of 20/. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PSOVISIONAL COMMITTHE. The Right lion. the Earl of Egmont, of Cowdray Park, Sussex Colonel George Wyndham, of Petworth House, Sussex The Hon. and Rev. L. Vernon Harcourt, of West Dean, Sussex The Right Hon. Lord de Lisle, of Penshinst, Kent The Right Hon. Lord Pelham Clinton, of Carleton Villas, Maida.lllll The Right lion. Lord Ressmore, of the Dell, Windsor Sir Charles William Taylor, Bart., of Hollyeombe House, Sussex The Hon. Robert Gore, M.P., of 21, Wilton-crescent The Hon. William M. Dawson, Poole Lodge, Dorset The Hon. Stafford Jerningham, Brook-street: The Hon. Percy Freke, 3, Beigrave-square Sir William Young, Bart., 7 Westbourne-street, Hydo ?ark, Director of the East India Company Sir James Eyre, of 11, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square Sir James Carmichael, Bart., of 40, Sussex-gardens Sir... Robert Schomburgh, of New Kingston, Surrey Howard Elphinstone, 14sq., M.P., of Eaton -place, Director of the Direct Western Railway Company, the Thames Embankment Company, &c. • William liulkeloy Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid land Railway Robert Wynne Williams, Esq., Director of the Nottington and Gains borough Railway Lee Stecre, Esq., of Jay's Park, Surrey Captain Charles Shirley, of Midhurst, Sussex Lieut.-Colonel Eden, 1, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., of Broom Hall, Surrey Admiral John Ayscough, of Prospect-place House, Southampton Lancelot Archer Burton, Esq., of Woodlands, Emsworth, Hants Charles Dixon, Esq., of Stanstead Park, Sussex Archibald Douglas Stewart, of Itruton-street E. T. Dayrell, Esq., 15, Old Cavendish-street, High Sheriff of Buck inghamshire Colonel Henry Dindas Campbell, of North-end House, Portsmouth, Deputy-Lieutenant for Hants Major Snow, of 4, Old Cavendish-street The Rev. Henry Garrett Newland, of Weetbeurne Rectory, Sussex Francis Lysons Price, Esq., of Sydenham, Kent, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway James Beech, Esq., of Brandon Hall, Warwickshire George Grantham, Esq., of Barcombe-place, Sussex Charles Hurst, Esq., of Midhurst, Sussex George Harrison, Esq., F.S.A., 7, Harleyford-place, Kennington Frederick Clarkson, Esq., of Tottenham, Directors of Robert Chapman, Esq., of I, Park-place, Regent's the Great Park, }Manchester William Watson Prole, Esq., of Thurlow-squared Railway Brampton, J Company Thomas Chitty, Esq., of 8, Upper Gower-street, Barrister-at-Law, Director of the Birminrhain and Leicester Railway Company John Napper, Esq., of Ifold House, Surrey Stephen Loudell, Esq., of Lindfleid, Sussex George Barker, Esq., of Stilland, Sussex James Hitchins, Esq., of Lincoln, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway Company Lewis Pocock, Esq of Montague-street, Russell-square Thomas Neale, Esq., of Reigate, Surrey Samuel Eel!, Esq., of Rulgate, Surrey Thomas Peale, jun., of Reigate, Surrey John Lucas, Esq., of Van elan-101, Haelemere Thomas Bowles, Esq , of Midhurst, Sussex Wittrieolporlll"!bnYub'ledaY, Esq., F.L.S., of Great Surrey-street, Director of .i N ti V n e e r: i v u l , c : k c . ,o a n nd pa l , V iy orcester Railway ilardr, Esq. F.S.A. , of Croydon, Surrey, Director of Me- John Davidson Faul ., of Trotton-hou.se,near Midhurst Edmund Sadler, sq., of Beaton Anthony Dickson, Esq., Edrl Sussn gton t house, near Ber w i c k-up o n- Joseph Watson,V ci Escl " E o s f q C l apham of rCn!gmros-grove, Roxburghshire, Director of Bristol and Exeter Railway Company Samuel Brown, Esq., of Clapham Joseph Scales, Esq ,of 3, Dunster-court, Mincing-lane, and Uppes ' Clapton John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., of 30, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the Readini and Reigate Railway Company John Helbert Helbert, Esq., of Gloucester-place, Director of the Lei caster and Birmingham ailway Company Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., of Clopton House, Stratford-on-Avon, Director of the Warwick and London Ridlway Company Captain William Cousins, of Compton-street, Brunswick-square, Di rector of the Doncaster and Goole Railway Company Captain Frederick Chamfer, of Halkin-street, Belgrave-square, Di rector of the Fampoux and Hazebreuck Railway John Barnett, Esq., of Cheltenham, Coroner of the county of Glou cester John 3foreton Cottle, Esq., of Leamington, Director of the Coventry and Birmingham Railway Company John Brightman, Esq., of Regency-square, Brighton, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Company William Spooner, Esq., of Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the Newcastle and Liverpool Railway Company Aleiander Greig, Esq., of Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the Rugby, Warwick, MA Worcester Railway Captain Trophinrus Hodges, of 65, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Company George Parbury, Esq., of 37, Russell-square, Director of the Mandl:tes ter and Rugby Railway Company George R. Peppercorne, Esq., of Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway Company Thomas Henry Evans, Esq., of Lothbury, Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway Company Benjamin Franklin, Esq., of 3, Harley-street Rev. F. H. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridgeshire Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire W. Woode, Esq., of Chilgrove, Sussex Henry Morley, Esq., of Midhurst, Sussex William Gambier, Esq., Sacombe Park, Herts C. A. Tulk, Esq., of Totteridge Park, Herta James Peard Ley, Esq., Seyton Ironworks, Whitehavea John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., 150, Piccadilly H. R. bowman, Esq., of 47, Upper Bedford-place, Director of the Cambrian and Grand Junction Railway David Mountague, Esq., of Regent's-park W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Ludgate•hill, Director of the Waveney Valley Railway Company James Gernon, Esq., Director of the London and Nottingham Rail way Company James Macmillon, Esq., Southampton Rev. Cecil Greene, A.M. of Midhurst Rev. Charles Edward Tlyford, of Trotton Rectory, Sussex Major James Adair, Director of Church of England Insurance Company Captain Charles Frederick Parkinson, of Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway, Managing Director of the West Lancashire Railway, and of the Manchester, Wigan, and Southport Railway Robert Sykes, Esq., of Manchester. Director of Clitheroe Junction Railway John Clark Prescott, Esq., of Manchester, Director of Oxford, South ampton, and Gosport Railway, and of Macclesfield and Rugby Railway Henry Farrington, Esq.. of Manchester, Director of Wigan and Southport Railway, and of York and Lancaster Railway Josephus Hurney Higson, Esq., of Manchester, Director of Chester and Manchester Direct Railway, and of Manchester and Rugby Railway Daniel Grant, Esq., of Springside, Bury, Lancaster, Director of Rem ington's Direct London and Manchester Railway, and of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Janetion Railway Thomas Townend, Esq., of the Polygon, Manchester, Director of London and Manchester Direct Railway Join Burgess, Esq., of Manchester, Boroughreeve of Manchester, Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway Company, and of the Manchester, Burnley, Settle, and Carlisle Direct Railway James Shaw, Esq., of Salford, Lancashire, Director of the 3fanchester and Rugby !railway Edward Parrett, Esq., of the Sutton'. Romford John George Hammond, Esq., Essex-house, Bow, Director of the Direct Western Railway Joseph Bishop, Esq., Director of the Blackvrall Railway Phillip Baker, Esq., Easton-square Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Twyford-hall, Derby John Webster, Esq., 35, Meeklenburgh-square, Director of the Great Grimsby, and Lincoln Railway The names of other noblemen and gentlemen will appear In a thither advertisement, whose support has been promised to the un dertaking. COMMITTEE Or MANAGEMENT. Samuel Brown, Esq. Edward Parrott, Esq. Frederick Clarkson, Esq. Wm. B. Hughes, Esq., M.P. Robert Chapman, Esq. Robert Wynne Williams, Esq. Joseph. Scales, Esq. IL R. Downman, Esq. _John Parkinson, Esq. David Montague, Esq. ENGINEERS—Messrs. Drayson, of No. 2, Palace-yard, Westminster. SOLICITORS TO THE COMPANY—Messrs. POIIIireX and Moginlo, b, St. Andrew's-court, Holborn, London. BANKERS—The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. Rhoades and Greene, solicitors, Chichester Thomas Hart, Esq., solicitor, Reigate William Minchin, Esq., solicitor. Portsea and Portsmouth Thomas Hill, Esq., solicitor, Chatham Daniel Smart, Esq., solicitor, Emsworth Edwin Aldbery, Esq., solicitor, Midhurst Thomas Holmes Bosworth, Esq., solicitor, Westerham. T HE CHESTER AND MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY. The Shares in this Railway having been allotted to all Deposits duly paid, the Committee of Management have much pleasure in in forming their Shareholders that the Parliamentary surveys are pro gressing to their entire satisfaction, and that every care is being taken to insure compliance with the standing orders on going before Parliament. By order, _ O. BARRETT, Secretary. 1, Royal Exchange-buildings, London, Sept. 27, 1845. R UGBY, WARWICK, and WORCESTER RAILWAY. The Directors, in consequence of their recoiling daily applications for shares in this Company, announce that the list was finally closed on Saturday last, and that no further applications can be entertained By order, September 2Gth, 1845. GEO. H. WELLER, Secretary. RUGBY, WARWICK, and WORCESTER L AY. The Directors in reply RAI to the numerous applications on the subject, beg to Inform the public that the shares in this Company are now in course of allotment, and that they, the Directors, intend issuing the letters of allotment so soon as the requisite examination has taken place into the application for shares. By order, September 27, 1845. GEO. IL WELLER, Secretary. RUGBY, WARWICK, AND WORCESTER RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 900,0001., in 45,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. At a meeting of the Provisional Committee, numerously attended, convened by circular, and held at the Oftlees of the Company, No. I. Guildhall-chambers, Basingnall-street, London, the 30th September, 1845, W. H . HUGHES, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., in the Chair, The following resolutions were adopted : Resolved,—That the Prospectus issued as that of the Provisional Committee be now approved and adopted. Resolved,—That the following gentlemen do constitute the Com mittee of Management:— William Frederick Bowdon, Esq Thomas Farmer Cooke, Esq. Peter Colston, jun., Esq. Edward Doubleday, Esq. John Freeman, Esq. Alexander Greig, Esq. Mr. Alderman Hughes Hughes Thomas Bagger, Esq. John Haddon, Esq. Richard Parry Jones, Esq. E. W. Morris, Esq. Resolved,—That the following be appointed the Bankers of the Company : The London and Westminster Bank In London. The L011:1011 and County flanking Company,l The Northamptonshire Banking Company, at Northampton. Messrs. Butlin and Son, at Rugby. The Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, at Leamington, Warwick, and South= Messrs. Berwick and Co., at Worcester. The Committee have great pleasure in informing time public of the extraordinary support this Company has received, and they regret that, in consequence of the number of applicants for.shar..s in this undertaking, many highly respectable and influential claims must unavoidably be unsatisfied. The allotment is now being proceeded with, and the letters will be issued in. the course of a week ; thqse parties, therefore, who do not receive letters, must be pleased to accept the above as the apology of the Committee. By order, Gull ti l leal - Chautbers, Basingimall!strEe°ei, llls.tloVcEtroteEr,Rl,BS4esc.retary. ~m James Morrison, Esq. Cornelius Nicholson, Esq, Benjamin Payne, Esq. Robert Rising, Esq. Thomas Sharp, Esq. Joseph Satchel!, Esq. John Wheelton, Esq. Edward IVaddelove, Esq. Edward Welch, Esq. John Woolston, jun., Esq N ORTH LONDON JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY, 8, Finsbury-place South. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.) Capital,' 1,300,0001., in 65,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21.25. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMIUTIIIIE. - John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Chairman James Home, 'Reg:, F.R.S., Clapham Common, Deputy-Clutlrman Sir John Edward De Beanvoly, Bart., London James lienry Attwood, Esq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square John Bagshaw, Esq., uloucester-place, Portman-square Richard Bethell, Esq., Queen's Counsel, Lauderdale House, Highgate George Bishop, Esq., South Villa, Inner Circle, Regent's Park Augustus Bosanquet, Esq., Osidge, Southgate Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway George Woodreffe Franklyn, Esq , Clifton, Bristol W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.L.S., Alderman of the City of London Henry Morton, Esq., Biddick, Durham George Parbnry, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation Railway Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P., 39, St. James's-place George Rougemont, Esq., 14, Broad-street-buildings Nicholas Wood, Esq., Kellingworth, Newcastle-on-Tyne. tors in London and Dublin ; to the Loeal Agents ; to the Secretary, at the office of the Company, 10, Old Jewry Chambers ; to Seoble Willesford, Esq., Castle-street, Exeter ; and to the undermentioned brokers :—Messrs. Martin and lieseltine, Finch-lane, Cornhill ; Mr. D. B. Major, Change-alley, Cornhill ; Mr. Anthony Laurie, Liver pool ; Messrs. Brady and Staniforth, Manor-street, Hull ; Mr. S. Grindrod, Manchester ; Messrs. Watson and Co., Le.xls ; Mr. eieorge Edwards, Bristol ; Mr. John Balms, Gloucester ; Messrs. Tyetla and Wills, Plymouth ; Mr. T. Sandfbrd, Exeter; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh; Messrs. M'Ewen and Auld, Glasgow; Mr. William Gor don, Aberdeen ; Messrs. Curtis and Power, Dame-street, Dublin ; Mr. James Morgan, Cork. of whom Prospectuses may be had. G AINSBOROUGH AND NOTTINGHAM RAILWAY. (THE TRENT LINE.) (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 300,0301., in Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. . _ This important line of ritilway, commencing at the port of Gainsborough. is intended to pass along the Trent flat by Sturton-le-Steeple, North Leverton, South Leverton, Treswell, Bampton, Laneham, Dunham, Bagnal, Fleetborough, Marn ham, Normanton, Grassthorpe, Sutton-upon-Trent, Carlton, Cromwell, Norwell, Bathley, North Muskham, Little Carlton, Kelliam, to Newark, with a connecting branch from KeWarn to Averham, thence by the Midlands Extension line of the Notting ham and Lincoln Railway to Nottingham, by the existing Midlands branch, making the total distance to Nottingham thirty-nine miles, thus effecting, by twenty-four miles of new railway, a direct line from Gainsborough to Nottingham, which will connect Derby, Bir mingham, Gloucester, and the West of England generally, with Hull and Great Grimsby. The object of the promoters of this rail way is to afford the existing interests an opportunity of uniting to secure the immense traffic which exists along this line in its original and legitimate course, via Newark-upon-Trent to Nottingham. They propose no unfair interference with the rights and properties of vested companies, but by cutting off the angles and curves of the Aver, render the route the most direct, economical, and speedy of any railway that can be made. It is free from any engineering difficulty or obstruction, and its cost of construction will be less by at least one-third than that of sty other competing company. The merits of the line want no extrinsic patronage from distant parties, but will command a high station amongst the best railway projects of the day. It will stand the test of public scrutiny as well as the Parlia mentary ordeal. prospectus and plan are in progress, and will be ready for de livery in a few days, with a most influential Committee of parties locally interested ; and in the meantime further particulars may be bad of the Joint Solicitors, G. P.:111ll, Esq., 21 ♦, Soho-square, and J. T. Sanders, Esq., 11, Gray's Inn-square ; at the temporary offices of the Company, 11, Gray's Inn-square, where all communications are to be addressed. G. P. HILL, Esq., Solicitors. J. T. SANDERS, Esq., NORTH-WESTERN TRUNK RAILWAY, FROM CREWE DIRECT TO GLOUCESTER, passing through the Towns of Market-Drayton, Newport, Shiffnal, Kidder minster, Wereester, and Tewkesbury, with a branch from Newport to Wellington, forming the shortest and most desirable Communica tion between Liverpool, Manchester. and the Northern Parts of England and Gloucester and the Bristol Channel. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,250,6001., in 62,500 Shares of 201. each. ;Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. . . iligekv la aseordanCeWitlithe Standing Orders of the Hone of Commons.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, 4, Parliament-street, White. hall, Chairman of the York aid Lancaster Railway Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashbeurn Hall, Derbyshire, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway Sir Henry Webb, Bad., Pall-mall, Director of the York and Lan- caster Railway Major White, Pall•mall. Director of the South Midland and North ampton and Banbury Railways The Rev. Charles Leicester, of Whitton Hall, Shropshire, Magistrate for Shropshire, and Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway John Bloor, Bag., Tutbury, Staffordshire, Director of the Stafford shire Potteries and Manchester and Liverpool Railway, and of the Derby and Manchester and Shropshire Mineral Railways John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetter House, Atherstone, Director of tke Leicester and Bedford and Shropshire Mineral .... .. Railways Jeremiah Clarke, Escl., Macclesfield and London, Director of the Direst London and Manchester and Shropshire Mineral Railways Clement Tabor, Esq., Corahill, London, and Rayne, Essex, Director of the London and County Bank. of the National Loan Fund Assurance Company, and of the Direct London and Holyhead Railway. Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Abehurch-lane, Londoi, Director of the Chelmsford and Bury Railway thomas Bernard Baddeley, Esq., Newport, Salop, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway Alexander Brodie Cochrane, jun., Esq , iroumaster, Holly Hall, sear Dudley, Director of the Dudley, Madeley, and Broseley Railway George H. Fourdrinler, Esq., Hanley, Staffordshire Potteries, Diree ter of the Shropshire Mineral Railway John Benson, Esq., Park-place Villa, Maida-hill, London, Director of the London and Holyhead Railway William Shaw, Esq., Managing Director of the Royal Farmers' Fire and Life Assurance Company, Director of the London and Bir- lank= Extension, and Warwick and Worcester Railways Richard Lambert, Esq., Lyston Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk, Director •f the Cork and Fermoy Direct Railway Ambrose Miller, Esq., Lower Thames-street, and Upper Bedford place, Russell-square, Leudon, Director of the Oxford, Wltney, and Cheltenham Railway William Millington, Esq., irontnaster, Summerhill Works, Tipton, Staffordshire, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway William Holmes, Esq., St. George's-terrace, Kensington, and Kentish- town William Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, and Lower Thames-street, Director of the South and Midlands June- thou Railway Thomas Lamle Murray, Esq., George-street, Hanover-square, DI- rector of itosamen Great Northern Railway, of the National Bank of Ireland, and of the Shropshire Mineral Railway John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Boyd, near Halifax, Magistrate, and Deputy-Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and Director of the Manchester, Liverpool, and great North of Eugland Union Railway, of the Shropshire Mineral Railway, and of the National Bank of Ireland Joseph Charles Ridge, Esq., merchant, Manchester, Director of the London, Holyhead, and Portdynilsen Railway William Toilet(neon Riley, Esq., Millfl•ld Works, Bilston, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire Pot teries and Manchester and Liverpool, and of the Shropshire Mineral Railway James Stead, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Shropshire ➢lineral Railways Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Hull, Director of the Derby, Uttozeter, and Stafford Railway William Wood, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di rector of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and of the Derbyshire _ . Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways Edward Edwards, Esq., Ironbridge, Shropshire, Director of the Direct London and Ilolyhead, and of the Dudley, Madeley, and Rro.eley Railways Rev. Matthew Yatman Starkie, Rector of Rushbury, near Church Stretton, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway Sitarles Merritt Rigg, Esq., M.D., York-place, Portman-square, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway Rev. Thomas Humphreys, Bishops Castle, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway James M‘Millan, Esq., Manchester-buildings, Westminster George Young, Esq., Riley House, Longton, Staffordshire Potteries Sampson Bridgwood, Esq., Spratsiade House, Longton Williau Ottey, Esq., Longton John Ashwell, Esq., Longton, Director of the Nottingham and Gains borough, and Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester Railways . William George, Esq., Weston, near Mneh-Wenlock Thomas Goddard, Esq., Bank House, Longton, Staffordshire Potteries Thomas Weaver Lewty, Esq., Wilden Ironworks, near Stourport, Director of the Dudley, Madeley, and Broseley Railway. Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Medford-row, London, Director of the London and Brighton, Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire, and Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railways William Heatrell Dowse, Esq., Chancery-lane, London and Johnson, Bsq., Derby, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway. astd of the Derby, Galnaborougls, and (treat Grimsby William Dutton, Esq., Tlttensor 'Villa, Stone, Staffordshire, and Ebury-stxeet, Eaton-square, Director of the Direst London and Holyhead Railway George Cowen, Esq., Dalston, near Carlisle, Director of the London and HolyheUd Railway Robert Foreman, Esq., Abbott's Hill, Derby, Director of the Teen and Dove Valley Railway Joseph Gilham, Esq., Hargreaves House, Oldham, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway Peter Wood, Esq., merchant, Manchester, Director of the Shrop shire Mineral Railway George Swift, Esq., Elford Hill, Beeleshall, Director of the Shrop shire 'Mineral Railway John Robertson, Esq., 6t. Mary's-buildings, Glasgow A. W. B. Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the Great Eastern and Western, and Barbadoes General Railways. William White Coleman, Esq., Banbury, Oxfordshire Barnes Austin, Esq., Banbury William Calees, Esq., Banbury ZANICIRS. Messrs. Rogers, Oldiag, and Co., Clement's-lane, London The London and County Bank, Lombard-street, London Messrs. Adams, Warren, and Co., Shrewsbury and Market Drayton The Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall _ . . . _ The National Provincial Bank of England, liewport and Gloucester Mews. Farley and Turner, Kidderminster Messrs. Farley, Lavender, and Co., Worcester The GloaceeterShire Banking Company, Worcester and Tewkesbury ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—SEIRIIeI Clegg, Esq., C.B. SOLICITORS. Ingleby Thomas Miller, Esq., 3, Abchureh-lane, London Edmund Garbott, Esq., Wellington, Salop William Brinton, Esq., Kidderminster Gilbert Brown, Esq., Shiffnal. LOCAL AGENTS. Henry Hine, Esq., Liverpool William Burdett, Esq., Manchester John Brampton, Esq., Worcester Charles G. Brown, Esq., Bllston Thomas Griffin, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire Potteries Thomas Bernard Baddeley, junior, Esq.. Newport William Harding, Esq., Burslem Henry Saban, Esq., Stafford. SECRETARY—J. Stevens, Esq. Temporary Offices, 3, Abchnrch-lane, London. This line of railway will commence at the junction of the Man skeeter aid Birmingham, Chester and Crewe, and Grand Junction Railways, at Crewe, in the county of Cheater, and proceed from thence through or near the towns of Market Drayton, Newport, and Shiffnal, in Shropshire, thence through the flourishing town of Kid derminster, to Worcester and Tewkesbury, and to the Bristol Rail way at Gloucester. By this means it will form the most direct route from Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Hall, and Chester to the important ports of Gloucester aid Bristol, indeed the most direct line from the north of England to the Bristol Channel. It will also, Is conjunction wtih the proposed Hereford and Worcester, and Swan sea, Merthyr-Tydvil, and Hereford Railways, form the most advan tageous route from Swansea and the iron distrieta of South Wales, to Liverpool, Manchester, and Null. The line will cress the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway at Shiffnal, and the Shropshire Mineral Railway and the Trent Talley Union at the thriving town of Newport. It will form a junction with the two latter railways at Newport, whereby persons and lug gage may be conveyed to Stafford, Derby, the midland counties, Staffordshire Potteries, Sheffield, and Hull; and, in addition to the carriage of heavy goods from Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester, and Kidderminster, to Manchester, Liverpool, the whole of the north of Ragland, and Scotland—will secure a large passenger traffie in the district through which it passes. A branch will be made from New port to the important torn of Wellington. The proposed railway will be about 87 miles in length, and be tween the two termini of Crewe and Gloucester, will save in distance at least 20 miles, and the journey can be accomplished, at the pre sent rapid rate of travelling, in cheat two hours. This project as a junction line, connects itself with some of the most important rail ways In the kingdom. It also skirts the large, extensive, and densely populated iron districts of Shropshire and Staffordshire, and in its course passes through a rich agricultural country. It mast, there fbre, be &pylon' that there will be a sufficient tratfie to pay a high rate of interest on the capital required. There are no engineering difficulties in the country through which the line is intended to pass, the whole being nearly oa a level, and ou reference to the map of country, taken from the Ordnance survey, which accompanies the prospectus, the line will appear straight, and will at the same time show the superior advantages it possesses, and that it eaanot be surpassed by any existing or projected lines between the same termini. It will not interfere with any ornamental property, and to tunnel ling will be required. Application is intended to be made, in the ensuing session of Par liament, for a direct line of railway (of which a survey has been made) from Southampton to Kidderminster, and by which a ready comunuticationwill be afforded to the most southern parts of England. The liabilities of tke Sharehelders will be limited to the amount et their subscriptions, and interest will be allowed on the deposits and fUrtler calls, from the date of the several payments to the opening et the line. Prospeetuses, with maps and forms of application for shares, cam be had from the Secretary on application at the temporary offices of the Company, 3, Abehurch-lane, London ; from the Solicitors and Looal Agents; also from the following Brokers, viz.:—Messrs. Lyon, 2, Birchin-lane, London ; Mr. Andreff Milligan, 2, Lord-street, Bir kenhead; Mr. E. 11. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. W. Whitseore, St. George, Liverpool; Messrs. Sohmes and Tripp, Bristol; Messrs. Turley and Cooper, Leeds ; and Messrs. Green and Oldham, Man chester; to whom applications for shares may be addressed. It will be necessary that reference be made to a Banker, Solloltor, or permit of responsibility. NORTH WESTERN TRUNK RAILWAY, PROM CREWE DIRECT TO GLOUCESTER, Passing through the Towns of Market-Drayton, Newport, Shiffual, Kidderminster, Worcester, and Twkesbury, forming the shortest and most desirable communication between Liverpool, Manchester, and the northern parts of England and the Bristol Channel. (Provisionally Registered.) Crpital 1,250,0001., in 62,500 Shares of 20/. ceob. Deposit, 21. 2s. per share. Being in accordance With the Standing Orders of the House of COIIIIIIOIIB, Gentlamen,—l request you to allot me Shares in the North- Western Trunk Railway; and I undertake to pay the Deposit et 2/. as., and all further calls upon the same, or such lesser 'lumber as you may allot to mo, and to execute the Subscribers' Agroement and the Parliamentary Contract when called upon to do so. Dated this day of 1841. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient humble servant, Christianand Surname in inn:. Profession ........... . Re5idence...................... Reference •• • • •... •• ............ Residence of Referee.... ........ To the Provisional Directors of the North-Western Trunk Railway, 3, Abohurch•laue, London. MANCHESTER AND RUGBY DIRECT RAILWAY, via MACCLESFIELD. (Provisionally Registered.) . Capital 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The lion. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester and- e Birmingham Continuation Railway a John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Hyde Park John Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, banker Sir John Pirie, Bart., Alderman of the City of London, Direc tor of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam-packet Company 2 °,°., William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman of the City of Lon- g g den, late M.P. for Oxf o rd, an d l a t e High Sheriff for Hants a. im :.: James Henry Attwood, Esq., Seymour- s t ree t, Portman-square .5 S George Adam, Esq., White Lion-cou r t, C orn hill c. t. ~,2 John Bagshaw, Esq., Director of the Northern and Eastern r 4 4 4 Railway Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng- land Junction A t Wildam Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway ° . 0 ;,.; William Henry Forman, Upper Thames-street •. , g Captain George Probyn, Bryanston-square w • Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng- Z land Railway Joseph Underwood, Esq., Di rec t or o f t h e C ommerc i al Bank t of London A William Langley Pope, Esq. Woodford, Essex, .- q The Hon. George Browne, L ' ovendes-square, Belgrave-square Sir George Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square Sir Henry Richardson, Chessel-house, Southampton Sir William Wynne, 5, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North Wales Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway Sir G. A.Lewin, Upper Harley-street, London Sir John Hare, Langham-place The Mayor of Newbury, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway John Addis, Esq., of Rotherhithe, Surrey, Director of the Central Terminus, and of the Lincensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Office The Rev. J. Harvey Ashworth, Newbury M. W. C. Alston, Esq., Birmingham W. C. Alston, Esq., Elmdon Hall Samuel Ashton, Esq., Wood Hill, Prestwich James Atty, Esq., Rugby James Bancroft, Esq., Alderman of the Borough of Manchester Henry Barlow, Esq., Highfield, Stockport Samuel Barton, Esq., Didsbury, Director of the Ch es t er an d Man chester Direct Raiway Hugh Beaver, Erq., Manchester William Fechnez Black. Esq., 19, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Di rector of the Italian and Austrian Railway Company Joseph Brown, Esq., Bedford Captain Burney, R.N., Gosport William Bardgett, Esq., Old Broad-street, and Carshalton, Surrey, Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Company Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield Charles Baker, Esq., Southampton William Bland, Esq., Brixton, Director of the North Wales Railway Tt4onai Brittain, Esq., Manchester George Burnand, Esq., Sussex-square, Hyde-park William Bevan, Esq., 48, Conduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the North Wales Mineral Railway Jacob Bell, Esq., Langham-place, London W. E. Boyes, Esq., Alkerton, Banbury, Director of East and West of England Railway Henry Brown, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch Robert Bramwell, Esq., Upper Thames-street William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Shef field and Manchester Railway, and Chairman of the Direct Western Railway George Borrett, Esq., Southampton Lieutenant-Colonel Burslem, North Hants Charles Bailey, Esq., Winchester Henry Baker, Esq., 79, Mark-lane H. Burnly, Esq., LL.D., Gosport Jceeph Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place George Bovill, Esq., Mill-wall, Poplar Louis Buckland, Esq., Lloyds, and Avenue-road, St. John's wood Robert Berrien, Esq., Donnington House, Stow-on-the-Wold, Glou cestershire W. Bailey, Esq., Wolverhampton F. F. Clossman, Esq., Mincing-lane John Chapman, Esq., Leadenhall-street, Director of the Devon and Cornwall Railway S. J. Capper, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge Edward Chapman, Esq., Strand, London, Director of the Richmond Railway Sheldon Cradock, Esq., Leicester Philip Warner Courtenay, FAO., 26, Capel-street, Belgrave-square Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Direct Western Rail way Francis Carleton, Esq. James Clift, Esq., Bloomsbury-square Robert Cruickshank, Esq., Gosport John Churchill, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation Railway Robert Charles, Esq., 23, Endsleigh-street, Tavistock-square G. Colquiroun, Esq., Director .of the Worcester and South Wale. Railway James Consterdine, Esq., Manchester Joseph Cragg, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury Colonel George Disbrowe, Chester-square, London William Dredge, Esq., Newbury James Denis Devitre, Esq., 7, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square Director of the North-Western Railway George Dunlop, Esq., Southampton George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield Richard Dyott, Esq., Freefbrd John Alcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Captain Farrington, R.N., West Cowes, Isle of Wight E. S. Farrow, Esq., Newbury W. S. Fitzwilliarn, Esq., Old Bread-street, Director of the Essex and Suffolk Railway F. B. Freer, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon William Tullooh Fraser, Esq., 5, Manchester-square John Fawcett, Esq., Broom Hall, Sheffield, Director of the Great Western Railway J. P. Fernistone, Esq., of Ilighfields, Wolverhampton George Fernistone, Esq., Lays Ironworks, Stourbridge W:E. Gray, Esq., Newbury Samuel Giles, Egg., Manchester Joseph OM, Esq., Leeds IT, P, Gipps, Esq., Montague-place, Bryanston-square William Cibb, Esq., Manchester John Gould, Esq., Ardwlck, Manchester Captain Augustus Heyman, Cadogan-square Thomas Charles Higgins, Esq., Turvey-house, Bedfordshire Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, near Birmingham, Director of the East and West, and Birmingham South Stafford shire Railway Joseph Hopgood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the East and West of England Railway W. H. Hornby, Esq., Blackburn George Calvert Holland, Esq., M.D., Sheffield John Newington Hughes, Esq., St. Michael's, Winchester William 11111, Esq., Manchester John Haddon, Esq., Director of the East and West of England Rail way Company Joseph Haden, Esq., ironmaster, Dudley David Harrison, Esq., Staley-bridge, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham and Cheshire Junction Railway T. Hodges, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway James Horne, Esq.,! Clapham-common, Director of the North Lon don Railway Company John Hemming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway T. A. Hall, Esq., Ashfleld-house, Newcastle, Staffordshire Frederick Hewett, Esq., Clapham, Surrey J. H. Higson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and Man chester Railway T. Hodges, Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway George Calvert Holland, Esq., M.D., Sheffield John Hyde, Esq., Manchester William Jacomb, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Rut and West of England Railway William Jenkinson, Esq., Marlhorough-square, Salford George Jones, Esq., Rediand, Bristol V. Clark Kemball, Esq., 6, Chester-place, Hyde-park J. Kinloch, Esq., Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director of the North Wales Railway John Knill, Esq„ Thaes-street, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Junction Railway Charles Kelson, Esq. Teignmouth, Devon, Director of the East and West of England Railway William Knott, Esq., 4, Adelaide-place, Director of the Richmond Railway H. W. King, Esq., Amblicote-hall, Stourbridge Edward homer, Esq., Southampton William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., James-street, Buckingham-gate, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway Henry Ledgard, Esq., Wood-street John Dawson Lowden, Esq., Doughty-street, Director of the Rich mond Railway James Lees, Esq ., Brookville, near Mancheste r Joseph Ligg ins, Esq., Kensington, Director of the Southampton Dock • Company Captain J. H. Leckie, Richmond, Surrey Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde-park-square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Samuel Lovell, Esq., Bedford F. Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-place, Regent's-park William Mills, Esq., Newbury Joseph Maunder, Esq., Ashford-house, Staines John Malleson, Esq., Wimbledon, Director of the Great Indian Pe ninsular Railway William Malins, Esq . Mansion-house-place, London, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway William Robert Mesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford George Miller, Esq., Director of the Central Railway Terminus Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington Charles Musgrave, Esq., Melverton Hill, Leamington R. F. Musket, Esq., Birchin-lane and Coleford John Marshall, Esq., Homforth Hall, near Leeds, late Mayor of Norwich John Macfarlane, Esq., Director of the Sheffield Railway Thomas Markland, Esq., Malfield, Manchester James Marshall, Esq., Brinnnigton Mount, Stockport Robert Millington, Esq,, Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire G. Moore, Esq., St. John's Priory, Banbury Nicholas M'Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street William Nash, Esq., Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway Cornelius Nicholson, Req., Cowan Head, Kendal, Deputy-Chairman of the York and Carlisle Railway Captain Alexander Nairn*, Director of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company Joseph Naden, Esq., Dudley Edward Norris, Esq., Manchester Robert Ogden, Esq., The Oaks, Manchester James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford, Director of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway P. Oldfield, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Liverpool Railway Count Eyre, Director of the South-Western Railway Vincent Eyre, Director of the South-Western Railway George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the East and West of England Railway Apsley Pellet, Esq., Director of the Staines and Richmond Railway Thomas Parker, Esq., Spring-gardens, London John Clarke Prescott, Esq., Manchester William Simpson Potter, Esq., of Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Direc tor of the Oxford, Witney and Cheltenham Independent Railway ', Charles Potter, Esq., Darwen, Director of the Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway James Paxton, Esq., Rugby Richard N. Philipps, Esq., Sheffield John, Perks, Esq., Wolverhampton Richard Burton Phillipson, Esq., Rugby N. M. Priaulx, Esq., South-Western Steam Packet Company, South ampton Stephen Phillips, Esq., Director of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway Charles Phillips, Esq., Camberwell, Surrey John Thomas Price, Esq., Heald Grove, Manchester William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the Manchester and Car lisle Railway Richard Ricketts, Esq., Bristol George Rougemont, Esq., 9, Chester-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the North London Junction Railway Thomas Rolls, Esq., Bank, Chipping Norton Thomas Robinson, Esq., Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital David Roxburgh, Esq. Bloomfield-read, Maids-hill Hartley Sager, Esq., Ran Grove, Colne, Yorkshire Samuel Sangster, Esq., Brixton-hill, Director of the City Gas Com pany Major Charles T. Selwyn, of the Royal Engineers, Exeter, Direetcc of the East and West of England Junction James Shaw, Esq., Salford John Sidebottom, Esq., Harewood-lodge, Cheshire William Sidebottom, Esq., Etherton-house, Cheshire David giltzer, Esq.. Rhodes, near Manchester • Charles Slocock, Esq., Newbury Edmund Slocock, Esq., Newbury Christopher Shapland, Req., Bt istol, Director of the Bristol and Glou cester, South Devon and Cornwall Railway Companies Joseph Stocks, Esq., Shibden Hull, near Halifax, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway W. Senhouse, Esq., Daventry T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Richmond Railway Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park John Stewart, Esq., M.P. for Lymington, Director of the East and West of England Railway T. 11. Sheppard, Esq., Towcester Joseph Shaw Esq., Huddersfield lloratiO Snalth, Esq., Strangeways Hall, Manchester W, Tehbutt, Esq., Manchester Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, Director of the London and Brighton Railway Thomas Thomson, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon W, Tinker, Esq., Manchester, and Hyde, Cheshire ( harks B. Fripp, Esq , Bristol, Director of the Jersey Railway Thomas Varley, Esq., Shorsten Ilan, Melton Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton Charles Penton A biting, Esq., Beaufort House, Strand, Director of the Richmond Railway ' Benjamin Williams, Esq., Banker, 4, Whitehall B. M. Wilcox, Esq., Hantsville Torquay John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Shef field Fire and Life Insurance Company George Whitmore, Esq., Austin-friars, Deputy-Chairman of the North Kent Railway Thomas Woodham, Esq., Winchester W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the Yarmouth and Wavettey Val ley Railway Daniel Watney, Esq., Wandsworth, Surrey, distiller W. F. Warrington, Esq., Walsall Smith Whilock, Esq., Birmingham IV, D. Wills, Esq., ristol Alexander H. Wylie, Esq., Liverpool Edmund M. Wavell, Esq., Halifax S. Watkins, Esq., Forest-hill, near Worksop Paul Ferdinand Willert, Esq., Alderman of the Borough of Man chester Charles James Staley Walker, Esq., Longford-house, Stretford SECRETART—Mr. RAM C. Sommers. In submitting this undertaking to the public, the promoters are influenced no less by a conviction of Its importance as a direct cols necting ling between the important towns of Chichester and Ports mouth and the metropolis, than by its grand national importance in affording a direct communication between the two great military and naval arsenals of Great 11 itain.—Portsmouth and Ckatham. The projected undertaking, by proceeding to the two termini it Chichester and Portsmouth. will extend the facilities of communica• tion with the coast branches of railways along the south of England. connecting itself with Brighton to the eastward, and Southampton towards the west. By the main line falling into the Brighton Rail way tip, advantage of two termini in London will be secured—the one at the Bricklayers' Arms, and the other at London-bridge—the latter of Which, from Its proximity to the Custom House, and the several docks on the Thames, is acknowledged to be Ike best position for a London terminus for merchandise of au descriptions. The line of railway intended to be constructed by this Company will commence at or near the Redhill station near Reigate, on the Lon don and Brighton Railway, a distance of 21 miles from Loudest bridge. Its course to Portsmouth it will pass through or near Reigate, Newdigate, Cupel, Ockley, Ewhurst, Rudgwick, Cranley, ....Wok'. Wlsborough-green, Plaistow, Ilaslemere, Chiddingtold, North Chapel, Kidford, Petforth, Chulgrove, Stoughton Racton, Westbourne, and Emsworth, at or near which last -mentioned pl .ce this projectedll -e will join the Chich sterand Portsmouth Rail way to Portsmouth. A branch is proposed to be made from Dorking to join the main line at or near Capel. By this course the entire distance to traTel betw, en London and Portsmouth will be abridged to 73 miles, a distance considerably shorter than that by which any line hitherto projected betweet London and Port-mouth has proposed to pass, and also pursuing e route more populous and proiluctlve than any hitherto presented to public notice. It will Involve the construction of only 45 miles of railway to complete the course between the Redlaill station (near Reigate) and Emsworth. from London to Reigate by the London and Brighten Railroad is .... •.•• • • • . .•. ...... . . . . . ........ . ..... . 21 miles. The junction to be made by,this Company is ............ 45 . From the point near Emsworth to Portsmouth by the Chichester and Portsmouth Railway is ............... 7 ~ Total distance from London to Portsmouth.- •. • . 73 miles. From Chilgrove a line of seven miles will be constructed, and which will place Chichester in direct communication with London. The distance between Chichester and London by this route will be 62 miles, and trains will run direct between London and Chichester. Inasmuch as the existing line of railway to Dover branches off from the London and Brighton Railroad at Reigate, this projected line will open up a communication by railroad between Portsmouth and Dover. _ . _ From an inspection of the map, it will be seen that the Rodbill station, near Reigate, lies nearly in a direct line between Ports mouth and Chatham, and in punsulng the line of commanicatien to the last-mentioned naval and mints'' , depot, this line will pass through or near the towns of Bletchingley, Godaton, Limpsfleld, Westerham, Seven Oaks, Ightliam, Town Malliag, Ninths/la, Of ham, Snodland, Lower Hailing, and Woodham. The distance between Chatham and Reigate will involve the making of 31 miles of railroad, and the line of railroad between Portsmouth and Chatham will exten.l over 82 miles. _ To •the naval and military establishments ;of this kingdom the construction of this projected line will afford the most important fa cilities in the transit of troops, stores, baggage, ice. Sce., diminishing the tardy oourso of communication which at present neeessarily exists between Portsmouth and Chatham, at present usually extend ing over the space of two days, and placing them in that direct com munication with each other which, in two hours, or thereabouts, will enable the journey between them to be made. The formation of of a direct line of railway between Portsmouth and Chatham will afford the opportunity of establishing, by the electrio telegraphic, that celerity of communication so important to be obtained between places of national importance. The warm support of the principal landowners on the greater part of the lino is pledged to this undertaking. The Provisional Committee abstain from making any special re ference to the contemplate t profit to result from carrying into effect this undertaking, feeling convinced that the extent of traffic three& the populous and rich districts ever which this line and its branches are projected to pass is sufficiently known, and is decisive of the Inutility of all comment in that respect. Applications for the shares, in the form given below, to be made to the Solicitors and Local Agents, or to any of the following Brokers :—Messrs. R. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, Royal Exchange, London ; Messrs. Peppercorns and Co., No. 2, Old Broad-street, London ; Mr. H. Pritchett, of N.. 74, Old Broad-street ; Messrs. Neilson, sharebrokers, Liverpool ; John Duncuft, Esq., sharebroker, Manchester ; Mr. R. ll'Ewen, 18, St. Ann's-street, Manchester ; John Watson, Esq., sharebroker, Leeds ; Messrs. Rldsdale, Myers, and Bailey, brokers, Leeds ; Messrs. Schultz and Carr, brokers, Li verpool ; Messrs. Hope and Rastrick, brokers, Manchester ; Messrs. Tyeth and Luscotnbe, stockbrokers, Plymouth ; George Edwards and Son, Bristol ; Messrs. Watson and Co., Hull ; Messrs. Pott and Levick, Nottingham ; and Messrs. Collis and Son, Birmingham. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHAREIi, To the Provisional Committee of the Direct London, Portsmouth, and Chichester, and Direct Portsmouth and Chatham Railway Company. I requesi that you will allot to me shares et 201. eaek in the aboYe named Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or any less number that may be allotted to me. and to pay the de posit of 21. 2s. on each share, and to execute the Parliamentary Con tract and Subscribers' Agreement as may be required of me. Dated this day of 18*. Usual signature •• .. .••• • • • Name in fu11.... ..... ......• .• ..... . Prefessioa er Trade ... ....• ••• • • • Residence Place of Business (If any) • . • • • • •• Reference . Residence of Reference ...... •• . .. • • • • N.B. No application will be attended to except with a reference to a banker, or from an applicant referring to, and who is known b y some of the Provisional Committee. or the solicitors, or local agests. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills and Co., London Bank of Liverpool The Union Bank, Manchester. ENGLINERR — George Parker Bidder, Esq., H.1.C.8. AucurrEcx—Robert Abraham, Esq., Torrington-street, Russell-square. SOLICITOR—John Bothell, Esq., 78, King William-street, City. SBCIMTABY—Harry - Buriard Farnall, Esq. The Provisional Committee of the North London Junction Rail way Company have great satisfaction in informing their subscribers that negotiations are now pending between the Previsional Commit tee of this Company and the Directors of the Railways north of tke Thames of such a character as to assure them that the City terminus of this Company will form the Grand Terminus of all the City traffic north of London. To effect this important object, an area of 10 acres of ground (the southern boundary of which is within 600 yards of the Bank of England) has been most carefully surveyed and valued, and the re port of the architect and engineer is of so favourable a character as to have induced the Provisional Committee is determine on purchasing the entire site, and it has, therefore, been resolved by them to in crease the capital of this Company to 1,300,0001. The I'rOTISIOURI Committee consider it of paramount importance to secure within the limits of their City terminus, the amplest and most complete accommodation for the traffic of each of the railway companies who may co-operate with them, an object which will be effected by opening the very extensive and 'valuable space of ground alluded to, within the centre of the City of London. In conjunction with this enlarged plan, it is intended to anbrate that of a branch line to the present station of the Eastern Counties Railway in Shorediteh, which will effect an entire junction between the eastern and western parts of the metropolis ; and at the same time afford a direct communication between the whole of the rail ways, which reach London to the north of the Thames, and give hill development to each of their schemes by creating for them a common centre within the heart of the metropolis. Indepbndently, therefore, of the almost incalculable local trent which the position of their City terminus wilt ensure to this Com pany. will be added that of those companies also who will eventually co-operate with the North London Junction Railway Company, and the perfection of a project of no ordinary magnitude and importance will be realised throughout the whole of this short but very valuable line of railway. lithocaphle sketch now publishing will accurately define the entire district through which this Company proposes to run this line; by this mews the most casual observer will be enabled to ascertain that the environs of London, north' of the Thames, will be placed in immediate communication with the City ; while the dense popu lation of the City will enjoy a facPity of connexion with its suburban localities, necessarily affording it the greatest accommodation. With such important local reeourcen, therefore, together with the vast traffic on which the shareholders of this Company have a right to rely for profit, a large amount of revenae may be fairly and justly anticipated, Hilly commensurate with the outlay of the proposed capital. That revenue will be derived thus : The daily passenger traffic on the Great Western amounts to 3,345, one-half of which reaches the City. The London and Bir mingham amounts to 4,322 daily, two-thirds of which reach the City. The Eastern Counties amounts to 2,406 persons daily, half of whom pass to the West-end of London. The omnibus traffic daily is 30,894 passengers, two-thirds of which may be given to the City. Passengers from the suburban districts reaching the City, now un accommodated by any railway, are estimated at 4,000 daily. From these sources the folowing products are derived:— Per An Pass mixers from the Great Western and Birmingham Rail- way, at Gd. each.. •• • • • • • • •• • • • - • • • • • • • • • • - • • . •. 4;52,423 Passenzers from the Eastern Counties to the City terminus of this Company, at 3d. each .•••• • • • • • ..... •••••• • • • • • 12,061 Omnibus passengers' traffic, at 61. each, as taken at present... ...... .•••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ........ 137,329 142,206 tons of goods and parcels pan annually from the Great Western and the London and Birmingham Rail ways into the City, at au average cost of carriage of 34. 6d. per ton throughout. For the carriage of these goods and parcels, therefore, at the reduced cost of 2s. 6ti. per ton, a revenue may bo derived of ••• • .. From the carriage of goods, parcels, and mails, bringing iu to the Eastern Counties Railway Company a revenue of 40,000/. a year, may be derived Um sum of .... •• • . 10,000 The total of their calculations amounts t 0.... £280,289 Deduct 40 per cont. for workers' expenses . . £168,174 Idotimatei Rental to bereeelvel frown other Campusles fur the use of Terminus . • £198,174 Being a revenue of more than 15 per amt. on a eapital of 1,360,0001. The capital, as now extended, will be divided into 65,000 shares of 201. each, upon which a deposit of 21. is. per share will be payable forthwith. _ . A portion of the shares will be allotted to parties locally interested. The remainder will be distributed amongst the present shareholders and the public generally, upon application being made by them in a manlier hereinafter mentioned. _ _ _ The Directors, in compliance with the advice of their Parlia mentary Agents, deem it expedient, in consequence of the recent standing crd rs of the house of Lords, to require a cleposi of 10/. per cent. The shareholders are, therefore, requested, in order to carry this arrangement into effect, to deposit their scrip certificate with the Secretary, on or before the let of October next, in exchange for which they will obtain a certificate upon which the bankers of the Company will receive the amount of the difference payable, and, upon producing the receipt and signing the new Parliamestarypeeds, fresh scrip will be delivered to them. Applications for prospectuses, maps, and shares, may be made to the secretary, at the Offices, No. V, Finsbury-place South, and the following sharebrokers : Messrs. E. Sutton, Cribb's, and Sutton, 22, North-side. Royal Exchange, London Messrs. Capel, Cuerton, and Lawford, 3, Royal Exclumge George Baroand, Esq , Certain' Messrs. Houghland and Leese, 61, King-street, Manshester William Marshall, Esq., Bank-buildings, Manchester William Haynes, Esq., Manchester Jahn Wells, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings, Liverpool Messrs. Wellbeloved and Gustier, Leads Messrs. Edwards and Son, and W. H. Land, Esq., - Bristol J. H. Lan., Esq., Birmingham Messrs. Garton and Wright, Sheffield J. 0 Kershaw, Esq., Huddersfield V. C. Spencer, Esq , Halifax Messrs. Henry Beaumont and Co., Exeter E. P. Lemon, Esq., Rath. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF SCRIP. To the Secretary of the North London4unctiou Railway Company. Sir,—l herewith transmit toyou scrip certificates of shares held by mo in this Company numsersd as at foot, and I undertake to make the further payment of 14s, 6d. per Clare on the said shares, forth with, and to execute the new Parlituneutery Coutraet and Subeeribers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of 1845. Christian and surname is flill•••••••••••. Business or Profession •• • • FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHIRES. To the Proeisional Committee of the North London Janetlon Railway Company, I request you will allot to lee shares of 201. each in the capital of the above-named railway, and I will accept the wise or any less number, and pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement what re. qui rCd. Dated the day of 184 i. Christian and surname in full .. • • • . Businaae or Prefeesion A.ddre55............... ........... • • IRIS COAST RAILWAY !' WtST CO (Registered Provisionally.) impital, 11,610,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 2bl. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. (N• Sabsoriber to be liable beyond the amount of his Butte/0 PSOVISIONAL COMXITTHIL Mark Blake, Esq., M.P., Ballinafad, Maya Robert Dillon Browne, Esq., m.p., Gleacorrib, May. John Patrick Somers, Esq., M.P., m g , blr Thomas Bernard Going Dancer, Bart., 3fodreeny Howe, Clough- Jordon, county Tipperary, Director of the Galway and Kilkenny Railway The Hon. Geoffry Browne, D.L., Wiltoa-ereseent, London, and Castle M'Garrett, Mayo The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street, Whitehall Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway the Right Hon. John Ladaveze Arabin, Lord Mayor of D u bli n Michael Gallagher, Esq.. Mayor of tinge Owoa Edmond Blake , Esq. , J.P., y'renehtb-. Galway James F. Burke, Esq. , J.P., St. Clarence, Galway D o minick Joseph Burke, Esq., J.P., Greenhill, Ma y • JechonrkNetterville Barron, REL.. Resident Magi s tr a t e , g an d ers P ar k . Theobald Burke, Esq., J.P., Woodome, may . William Campbell, Esq., Sackeille-street, and Bright.. Jelin Carmichael, Esq., T.C., Rieertsen House, Cork, Meeker of the Cork and Killarney Railway and Northern JAMAICA Railway Charles Collins, Esq., Adelaide-place, Londea-bridge, Director of the Eastern, lallybrit House, Galway by Weston, Cheshire, Dino trdhecDrnoem,ane Esq., J.P., Cirragowan, May. Thomas E James Dillon, Esq., J.P., Cogue, Mayo Bohn C of a t m h p e b gng " by ie , k D er er E by s , g a g n N d ewlleall, Ma nch ester R.illway John Dunn, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S., L. and D., Dramatis, Leitrim Thomas Edwards, Esq., King William-street, London, D irector of*. Direct London and Dublin Railway Robert Fiske, Esq., Chepstow, Monmenthshire Robert Graham, Esq., J.P., Drumgoon, Fermanagh Klein Grant, Esq. M.D., St. James's-street, Pall-mall. Director of the Southern, Eastern, aid Northern Jai - taloa Railway Henry Griffith, Esq., D.L., J.P., Port Royal, Sligo, Direct.: of the Sligo and Shannon Railway W. A. Hill, Esq., Lonsdale-sqnstre, Deplty-Chairman of the Glouces• ter and Aberystwith Railway Dean John Hoare, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square Edward Hoare, Esq., J.P., Perey-street, Bedford-square :Director of the Great Welsh Central Railway, &o. T. Hodges, Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway, Ere. Robert Hughes, Req., Ely House, Wexford, Director of the Preela cial Bank of Ireland John Kerschner, Esq., Middle Temple William King, Esq., Spring-gardens, and Putney, Sum, J•ba Knox, Esq., J.P., Greenwood Park, May. Joseph Myles M'Donnell, Esq., J.P., Deoeastie, May. Rowland 11. Mackenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Great Wes tern Extension Railways - Capt. cnarlee Carden Maneergh, Lengraigu., Wexford. Direetor of the Wexford, Waterford, and *alenas. Railway Cyttraipiis t.eNeßw O'Grady, mdßruy, xpq., ton-street,,arnadnej: ustro ugwardin, Herbs Richard O'Grady, Esq.,:Mayo John O'Hara, Esq., Rakeen Gort, Treasurer, County Galway Charles Ormsby, Esq., D.L., Cumnsin, Sligo Robert Dudley Persse, Esq., Galway Michael Perrin, Esq., Galway Rees Price, Esq., M.D. Tyne Hall, Great Ilford, Essex Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq , Brompton, Middlesex Jesoph Itiehardson, Esq., J.P. Summer-hill House, Clones George Rutledge, Esq., J.P. B ra bazon Park, Mayo Thomas Seymour, Esq., J.P., Ballymore Castle, Ballinasloe James Sexton, Esq., J.P., Limarick John Sainsbnry, Esq., Kensington James Shirreffs, Esq , M.D., Liverpool-road, Islington Despard Taylor, Esq., Newport, Swords C jo a h p i t i al l n Va i l l sh eo ' rg Esq eld ' wCaarsdnehilWailtsMs Mayo , La ngten Grange, Darlitigtok Edward West, Esq., Weston Hill, Surrey (With power to add to their number.) Cetxstst.sizr• Estorusza—Colonel Landmanu, R. 8., F.A.S., ENGINEER—G. 11. Lewia, Cal. RANKERS. Londos—Messrs. Prescott, Grote, and Co. Scotland—Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank Ireland—National Bank and Branehes Provincial Bank and Branches. STANDING COUNSEL—James Monson Carrow, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Langley and Mead, Bedford-row, London. William Thomas Kelly, Esq., 18, Motuitjoy-square North, Dublin, and Castlobar Mayo. LORAL AGENTS. Cork--James Morgan, Esq., 4, Patrick's-quay Tralee and Killarney—John F. Eager, Esq. Limerick—David Fitzgerald, Esq., George-street Ennis—J. B. Knox, Esq. Galway—Francis O'Shaughnessy, Esq. Castlebar—James Conry, Esq. Sligo—Mr. W. C. Tuite. SECRETARY—Henry T. Stuart, Esq. PROSPECTUS. The object of this line of Railway is to complete the chain of coast communication, and form a connexion with lines already established or projected with reasonable hopes of success. It will commence at or near the city of Limerick , and taking a nor therly direction, proceed through the conntiesof l C :n lar ni e s , l G n a ion liay L , o 3l nd a c y n o l. , and Sligo, terminating at Sligo, by a junction with the Sligs and B mils klllea Railway, and accommodating on Itsre u te the important dti es and towns of Limerick, Ennis, Gort, Loughrea , Athenry, lifonivea, Tuani, Ballinrobe, Castlebar, Westport, Foxford , Ballina, Mona, Swineford, Streamstown, and Sligo, which town being connected w ith the north, east, and south, by the different lines through derry, Coleraine, Belfast, Armagh, Newry , D undalk , Drogheda, Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Tal eu tl a, Tratee, and Limerick, the establishment of this line will cause Ire land to present a completeness of locomotive communication which no other country in the world enjoys. Application for shares t 0 be made iu the usual t mi to the Spud- Alderman of Manchester, and Director of the Ch tster And chester Railway Morris Were, Esq., Moorlands, Southampton Director 0f ti'd John Woodcock, Esq., banker, the Elms, IMO, Liverpool and Burßailway Company John York, Esq., banker, Thrapston, Northamptonshire J. B. Byron, Esq., Director of the Richmond Railway. COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. William Chadwick, Esq., Chairman Robert Watkins, Esq., Deputy-Chai rman. .. The lion. Howe Browne. John Bagehavr , at Sir John Pixie, Bart. Joseph Browne, r,....:,.n. John Attwood, Esq. M.P. T. Bridge Size Peon, '''"' James Henry AttwOod, Esq. Daniel WatneY, Ems' John Masterman, Esq. James Horne, Egg. Wm. Hughes Hughes, Esq., Al- James Lees, Esq' derman William Hill, rAh• George Adam, Esq. George ParburY, Esq• - . BANEERS. Messrs. Masterman and Co., Lenden- The Union Bank, Manchester. ENGINEERS. Messrs. J. B. and E. Birch, Westmhslter Buckstone Baker, Esq., C.E. SOLICITORS. John Bethell, Esq., King William-street, London o g losi Messrs. Joseph and William Heron, and Areas - Robins, Manchester. „ eset os That another and a more direct line of salvias sro ssi between the metropolis and the manufacturing district: lo ,E l tlis cheater is now fully admitted, and the quest ion 10,—w t sre l line to be adopted ? shor test and O leo us The above proposed railway will form the c op su s route from London to Manchester, and will , therefore,_ sysodi direct communication with the metropolis a t a retch le ` y r o ohe of capital than by either of the projected London An u s to De ys i lines (Remington's and Ashurst's), the actual distasooe structed being only seventy-three,insteadof one-hundred of l iilB to one-hundred and eighty miles. r oote r ', 011, A careful preliminary survey has determined the gaccer railway to adopt nearly a straight line from Ru sss gbY, P ; u siciou l f r ios, as an increased expenditure of 200,0001. or 300,~ engin e 's. 111 plied, in the present perfected state of the science of co. ill and at the reduced cost of the execution of earthrror 021;0,104;n, the end a far greater real economy, both to the COmps, Y . , 1 ,`„ , I t , saving effected in the annual expense of working', su a t : p ossiolfdhtjaci'os of more importance to the country in general, bf s , s ea l s a much less cost, the same end proposed, by an o n " . „. These con from London to Manchester. pt 19 00 1 considerations have not been sufficiently -e- foga s r. t o re other parties who have also proposed to make a t t oe to Macclesfield, but who, by deviating from the dine 0 ,,,,, c sue valleys, and to avoid the irregularities of the face of .0 obviously lose the advantages proposed by this Coale _f l Y Lo rloS The Parliamentary decision on tile choice of ul e Alt soua st k, re Brighton Railway is a parallel case; the direct line , _. o teres. senting more difficulties to overcome, and involving :,!!, „ Acre ,t having been adopted by Parliament in preference t peting projects in a more or less sinuous directioUs % s tirs. b! that time supported in the House by very influential e lgeo ois. La u Should it be found necessary, arrangements fle ri ' va se 1 0 40 which additional lines of rails will be laid between ;'O3, the 0" don, on the London and Birmingham Railway, Wi le ~„, tile traffic northwards will be abundantly provided for. _, a goraels o is This line also possesses the singular advantage , u s ' Eo utlal a 0 ; 0 04 shortest and most direct route from 3lanchester t 0 other • r s sre!' Gosport, and Portsmouth, a feature presented by a sh „s rbs,,s. railway. By adopting the Rugby and Oxford re e l d ls ' or ford, siser Western as far as Didcot, and thence the PraP °s Asc . fra' a b y ampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth line, the dist to s cheater to Southampton will be twenty-three Inilo be ic en sisu,hiugal other route, and on this account the project ha s , Fortene' test ported by the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, el" sp , gull of way Company. The deviations from a perfectly straight line be iue — n oj Macclesfield to avoid high ranges of hills, ar ia ` es end °,,,,1l valuable buildings, are very slight, and the line in g _ to re eei s s, engineering difficulties of any magnitude. Tile town' Atte' sli d spackle'' , o res , interested as a local line are Nuneaton , s Ashbe Market Bosworth, Burton-upon-Trent, Tutbury, c ode' Leek. „ Y i o The Company has ;made arrangements With athe o f IF Junction Railway Company, whereby it has s ecure ets centre of We of P‘ station (of the extent of six acres), in the sole will P u slo don, at the bottom of Moorgate-street, which most importance to this line. IP P eale' ..call is Amidst the many railway projects that o ... esrT id its le ss ot; mind and involve a vast outlay of capital, it will ' that a line that will attain such important results atn sad sae s lay of capital, and the time required for its construe. 1 tir _ s ol m ust Itte e ' t S' interfering with any existing vested interests, __ ss asti 'approbation, and at the same time offer a veil e" -- A soft"; for capital. rf, and 17. The shareholders in the Oxford, Southarapton,r/P°. 3fssclissoolreutel mouth, in the London and Birmingham, and 10 t ,,, s lio Birmingham Railways, will have a preferenc e la " Or shares. made on O a sli et i' s• The deeds will provide that no call shall be _ sre sbila r e or, ers beyod the deposit now paid, until the Act us ~ per tained, and power will be taken in the Act to all ". re I). als terest in all calls. , „bares , . an. .tsee • s os Applications for detailed prospectus, maps' s vglialu" fel made to the Secretary, at the Offices, 78, King " d tea ap, . 2,, London, and at 22, Cross-street, Dfanchester satto.! Sharebrokers :—Messrs. R. Sutton, Dribble, all. Esq., goo ; Side, Royal Exchange, London ; George Burn sfesul,' l , P s . ; Messrs. Barclay, All op, and Co. Roya l Exchange Weboss! land and Leese, 51, King-street, Manchester; J ° .`.s sad sr sS: Royal Bank Buildings, Liverpool ; Messrs. Wellbelorps, sae Leeds ; Messrs. Edwards and Son, alai W. a d ' an o J. R. Lane, Esq., Birmingham ; Messrs. Garton W ei eels t r peg field ; J. G. Kershaw, Esq., Huddersfield go% CO . llfax ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenhittili .%sos,„:>s, mont and Co., Exeter; R. P. Lemon, Esq.. L da • s.ef Esq., Southampton ; and Messrs. Flint and Toolf.S. DOP T HEMANCHESTER and RV OI3 „ id . get RAILWAY COMPANY, via Dracclesue will bs t , , Ar A certain number of the shares in this ComPol'oo. Goslo pe' o " tioned te the scripholders pan the Oxford, Sou tha ll° OK' vetjh Portsmouth Railway Compy, those geatlemen octosirs, duce their scrip, between the 3d and 7th WsstarePlsell? the places below mentioned, will have their Ks?' At 19 , , 5t 0s proportionate number reserved in this Companj lane, Cornhill ; or at 22, Cross-street, Manchester ;,.--,,,,burr; Harrison, Southampton ; Mr. Godwin, solicitor, t's Aud Cestgrid as Bailey and Wickham, Winchester ; Dressy!. Will a; VA ,51. 9 ; 31r. pool ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds; esu sses, s tst Messrs. Garton and Wright, Sheffield ; Mr. wi to ml• field ; Mr. Spencer, Halifax ; Mr. Lemon, Be th ' Tootal, Manchester. T $ DIRECT LONDON AND EXE. p . no vt„e• 0!" WAY, with Extension to Falmouth s s{r ed is s ha /W No further application for shares can - est" ob ls taking. s „uself 041 The Committee of Management are now' es' asp sise the duties of allotment, but deem it necessall te, s " A r s sroulLrow in advanceorder to prevent disappointment, 1 . sot mous number of persons who have applied for sliSre'od, one-tenth of even bona applications can be entertwu By order of the Committee, D. E. COLOMBINB , J OLINS S T T y O E K R E m S A , HO , LanLdlN GSWOIg, u ss- - 6, Great Winchester-street, Broad-street , Sept. 30, 1845. sitlSPisf HEFFIELD, ROTHERHAM 13 ''s Goo s 15..7 WAKEFIELD, HUDDERSFIELD, an d oat fr t ) (Passing through and giving the fullest wean s of tr fields' of of the Barnsley, Silkstone, and Mortornief ore r (Provisionally Registered.).Rs. I ss, pe Capital, in Shares of 251. each. Deposit , 21 ' PROVISIONAL COMMITTE I. The Master Cutler of Sheffield Sir George Armytage, Bart., Kirkles Hall Sir John L. L. Kaye, Bart., Denby Grange Godfrey Wentworth, Esq., Woolley Park Edward B. Beaumont, Esq., Finningley Park „ss Charles John Branding, Esq., Middleton Leas" Charles Winn, Esq., Nostell Priory Edward Tew, Esq., Crofton Hall Henry Anthony Littledale, Esq., Bolton-hall • ," Richard Thomas Lee, Grove-hall, Pontefract Ralph Creyke, Esq., Rawcliffe-hall Henry Holdsworth, Esq., Manchester .•• Henry Wickham Wickham, Esq., Low-moor J. M. Laws, Esq., R.N., Crumpsall-hall Robert Gill, Esq., Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts J. R. Ralph, Esq., Halifax Joseph Hogan, Esq., Liverpool George Anderton, Esq., Cleckheatorl Wan. Ash, Esq., Wakefield • Edwd. Ackroyd, Esq., Halifax James Audus, Esq., Headingley John Aldred, Esq., Wellgate-house, Rotherhans John Barb, Esq., Wakefield John Brackenridge, Esq., Bretton-10dge Thomas Bayldon, Esq., Hollinghurst Joseph Brook, Esq., Green Head, Huddersfie ld Samuel Butcher, Esq., Endeliffe, Sheffield .„,,, s horlel °l Robert John Bentley, Esq., Eastwood-house, I'l-- Henry Briggs, Esq., Overton John Bentham, Esq., Clifton, York Robert Buchanan, Esq., M.P., Pontefract Capt. Binstead, R.N., Wakefield Benjamin Badger, Esq., barrister-at-law, Roth erbe ra John C. D. Charlesworth, Esq., Chapelthorpe-u Joseph Charlesworth, Esq., Lofthouse-hous e William Eden Cass, Esq., Goole David Cass, Esq., Goole Richard Clay, Ewe, Goole Thomas Chambers, Esq., Chapeltown sti dgeld George Chambers, Esq., High Green-house, • John Cordeux, Esq., Barnsley Thos. S. Cordeux, Esq., Barnsley Thos. Cope, Esq., Barnsley Jonathan Gurney, Esq., Barnsley William Dandison, Esq., wine merchant, lien Alexander Dixon, Esq., Cleckheatou George Ellis, Esq., Fingley House Joseph Fletcher, Esq., Goole Jeremiah Bourn Faviell, Esq., Featherstone lA° William Gill, Esq., Burley Hall John Green, Esq., Sheffield Bernard Hartley, Esq., Milnthorp William Haxworth, Esq. Barnsley Edward Harper, Esq., York James Hodgson, Esq., Rotherham John Lister, Esq., Goole John Lees, Esq., Staleybridge Aaron Lees, Esq., Vissitt Manor, Wakefield sssleY Edward Meynell, Esq., Wakefield William Micklethwaite, Esq., William Moorhouse, Esq., Knottingley William Moxon, Esq., Pontefract Robert Nodes Newton, Esq., Barnsley David Nesbit, Esq., Chapeltown Ironworks Heresforth Ilan, 1304 Richard Patten, East., Goole, Collector of Crtilto"" George Birks Piggott, Esq., Barnsley John Birs, Esq., Barnsley Edward Parker, Esq., Barnsley a pro Ricks rel Pope, Esq., L ower Thames-street, °NOD- John Buckingham Pope, Esq., Cliffe-house, Crls. Colonel Pollard, Stannary-hall, Halifax Henry Richardson, Esq., Barnsley Thomas Richardson, Esq., Barnsley James Russe l l , Esq., High Royd-house, Barr' sle George Lowes Ridley, Esq., Banks-hall Willam Rand, Esq., Bradford °6 Charles Samuel Robert Sanford, Esq., e‘ e • - iei(lo Joshua Smithson, Esq., Wakefield Walter Steed, Esq., Leeds John Sykes Esq. Sheffield eheillel d William Smith, Esq., barrister-at-law , Willia Smith Esq., Barnes-hall, Shefileldsheireld George m Walker , Smith, Req., the HorburY, Hamer Stansfeld, Esq., Leeds !e9 Thomas Taylor, Esq., Dodworth, near Barna Thomas Edward Taylor, Esq., Barnsley John Twibell, Esq., Barnsley Samuel Thorpe, Esq., Barnsley The Rev. Henry Torre, Thornhill Rectory Henry Wormed, Esq., Wakefield Joseph Wood, Esq., Woolley Moor 11. B. Wake, Esq., Goole ol d Henry Wilkinson, Esq., Endcliffe-hall, Y.Thereset Thomas Wheatley, Esq., South-grove, Ka"' Mathias Whitehead, Esq., Selby William Walker, Esq., Bradford Robert Young, Esq„ Sheffield James Yeunes, e Esq., Barbott Hall, Itutb e grest .l- , $. 4 " COMMITTER OP )IA John Orees:Pl. The Master Cutler of Sheffield „ so n Le; fo soa s lo. Godfrey Wentworth, Esq. r Ralph Creyke, Esq. TWO' rots ir0 0 9 4 , Edward Tew, Esq. Georg e 11• 1 ., .4.1 John Earff, Esq. jer eolnisrP e sll 4 epew J. M. Laws, Esq., R.N. Eds"„'stro aa isas p 4. James Audus, Esq. Josef" m ite, John Brackenridge, Esq. .µ n • t os Dr. Buchanan E Jwar George Chambers, Esq. ENG INSBR: Jo h n Hawksha s George Leather, s's s cavElar i ;%,tselti WHeilinryiamHFolot,,TlEere:ll,slq‘: saeflie_rdroottro4 BANKERB• Le eas AP „doll The Yorkshire Banking Compal'Ys d lbe The Sheffield Union Bank, Sheltie. o w. a* Messrs. Cunliffe and Brooks, C Dcfpall4octleb" Messrs. Leathern, Tew, an d Messrs. Beckett and Co. , Leeds. 12 ' s owcrron - yorx Messrs. Leeman and Clark,. no old gt,e Messrs. Atkinson, Dibb, ol e o, s otb! John 3farsden, Esq., Wa k . c o r s ight. ofle: o f i f s ' _squarel ierc paf t ' t se r t . vr o c ie ty PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.--Idessrs' yorei ° j; it' A o sseSoks • S li penc er 4 : c olle t; ° j o fli Ogie SECRITAR It Y S : —G gr d . e The object of this undertaking is .s_„ fro trad e 1 ss and Rotherham, as the chief seat o!:trisiding.:ne ec"tors;rlo:o!'s the other principal towns of the it e s ' s aSsr ° ;sole e re bye, open the important mineral fields of _ sto le s o j oss d connexion, on the one hand, with the t , L i d, tilSo IStae oo s of;‘) which surround it, and, on the other , ^ ocso nii;olt e o! to rl os s i , lines are laid out in such a way " r, e nd t itY tile eO r t ,ll' ,/ most effectual and economical man" r w ith tw o o laS i ti all the principal towns with each othe_s es ton tit goo o pt t ps communication to complete their conereodel O,O s of til e siel" se c kingdom. The local support siec ts to f oir si t s" with the district insures that these o .s t d are. , , 01 and will serve thereby, la an ernine o os stil l o oSs of Parliament to the undertaking. .s,„s sor I The whole capital is already subscrosseo, the exception of such portion as is r w line, and persons locally interested. L