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T ILE GRANO LONDON AND DUBLIN A IPROXIMA.TION RAILWAY. Rastrick's Line. Provisionally RegisLered pursuant to 7th and Sth Victoria, cap. 110, sec. 4.) . - . Designed to avoid the present circuitous route, and so effect a very considerable saving, both of time and distance, between the two capitals of England and Ireland, running in a direct line from Lon don to Bangor and Holyhead, through Shrewsbury, and touching or accommodating in its route the following towns and places, namely, Rickmansveorth, Chesharn, iVendover, Aylesbury, Bicester, Dod dington, Banbury, Kineton, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, Alces ter, liromsgrove, Worcester, Kidderminster, Bridgnorth, Wenlock, Broseley, Coalbrookdale, :•hrewshury, Llan-y-raynech, Weichpool, Oswestry, Llangollen, Llanrahaladr, Mochnant, Corwen, Pentre- Wein, Capel Cerrig, Bangor, and Holyhead. Capital 6,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 501. each. Deposit 51. 55. per Share. Temporary offices of the Company, 4, Great Winohester-street, London. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Combermere, G.C.8., G.C.H. Lord Viscount Mandeville Lord Claud Hamilton, 31. P. Hon. Captain Fenton Evan Freke, Belgrave-square, Director of the Bandon and Bantry Railway Hon. Geoffrey Browne, Castle Margaret, County Mayo, Ireland lion. Douglas; Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway Sir Robert Murray, Bart., Ardley Bury, Herta, Director of the Oxford and Cambridge Railway Sir Henry Winston Bar ron, Esq., Bart., M.P., Belmont, Ireland General Sir John F. Fitzgerald, K.C.8., Montague-street, Bryan ston-square Col. Sir Duncan Dl'Dougal, K.C.8., Eaton-square Rear-Admiral Sir Salusbury Davenport, C. 8., K.C.H., Bramall-hall, Cheshire, and Weedon-hall, Bucks Sir J. Gaspard Le Merchant, K.C.H., Cork Major-General Sir Love Parry, Madryn Park, Carnarvon, Director of the North Wales Railway Col. Sir F. liankey, G.C.M.G., Director of the Direct London and Exeter Railway Sir George Rich, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynu, Clifford-street, Director of the London and Exeter Railway Sir James Pitcairn, Cork Sir Janes Eyre, Lower Brook-street Rear-Admiral Ross, C. 8., Mount Wise, Delrollpirt Thomas Whitmore, Esq., Apley Park, Deputy-Lieutenant of the County of Salop . John Meredith, Esq., Unshorn Park, Magistrate for the Counties of Worcester and Salop Major-General Henry Bowdler, Sidney-terrace, Cork Captain Robert Peel Dawson, Upper Grosvenor-street, and Castle dawson, Ireland George Henry Dashwood, Esq., M.P., West Wycomb-park, Bucks B. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-Place, Bryanston-square Jeremiah Filcher, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Dublin and Armagh Inland Railway The O'Gorman Mahon, Mahonberg, County of Clare, Ireland Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., Bovine, King's County, Ireland, Director of the Cork and Waterford Railway The O'Moore, Cheghan Castle, High S heriff of the County of Roe common Robert Hart, Esq., Dripshill-lodge, Worcester, Director of the Wet , eester, Ludlow, and Tenbury, and the Great North and Soutk Wales Railways W. Hutchins, Esq., Ll sa intfried-ceurt, Monmouthshire Charles William S picer, Esq., Portman-square, Director of the Ar magh, Coleraine, and. Portrush, Dublin and Armagh Inland, Shropshire Mineral, and Direct London and Exeter Railways of The Rev. C. Leicester, Whitton-hall, Magistrate for the County Salop, Tice-Chairman of the Shropshire Mineral Railway Charles Fox, Esq D.L., Rutland-square, Dublin, Dir e c tor of the Dublin and Arn;agh Inland Railway William Johnson Neale, Esq., Temple Thomas Meyer Carvick, Esq., Highwood, Director of the Dublin and Armagh Railway William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., Director of the Dublin and Gal way Railway, &c. George A. Brown, Esq., Director of the Callao and Lima Railway -William Seymour, Esq, Monutgue-place, Russell-square William John Macguire. Esq., Hampton Court, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Bristol Railway Rev. I'ooley Shuldarn Henry, D.D., Commissioner of the National Board Af Education and Charitable Bequests, Ireland Christopher Wallis Popham, Esq., Trevarno, Cornwall, Director of the Strabane Ship Canal Company. Robert John Lattoy, Esq., Claremont-place, Grove End-road, St. John's Wood. William Ayscough Wilkinson, Esq., Woodbury Down, Middlesex, Director of the Waveney Valley, Great Yarmouth, and Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush Railways Colonel Edward Nichols, R.M. Shooter's-hill and Coleraine, Direc tor of the Armagh, Coleraine, , and Pertrush, and Sligo, and Shan non Railways Griffin Curtis Galt, E., Charles-street, Manchester-square, Direc tor of the Armagh, sq Coleraine, and Portrush, and Sligo and Shan non Railways Captain James Wood, R.M., Woolwich William Justin O'Driscoll, Esq., banker, Dublin Richard Edward Arden, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the Dub lin and Armagh Inland Railway Captain Rodgers, Clovenedon-house, Loughall, Ireland John Stewart, Esq., Portman-square,, Director of the Marine In surance Office Joseph Cragg, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury John Anderson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Junction Rail way, ice. J. Freeme, Esq., Old House, Shrewsbury G. Ilazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton-hall, Leicestershire, Director of the Rugby and Huntingdon Railway, &c. J. 31 6 3linan, Esq., Director of the Worcester, Rugby, and Warwick Railway J. Bright, Esq., M.D., Cambridge-square, London C o l on el Pereira, Bengal Artillery, Great Ceram street W. Clement, Esq., Shrewsbury Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, and County Cork, Director of the Direct Western, Isle of Ely, and Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railways. Robert Remmett, Esq., Victoria-square, Grosvenor-place, Director of the Sovereign Insurance Office, Scc. Thomas Gresham, Esq., Raheny Park, Dublin, Director of the Dun dalk and Enniskillen, and Irish North Midland Railways F. W. Heath, Esq., Annagh F. F. Pole, Esq., St. John's Grove-house, County Cork George Stevens, Esq., Oak Lodge, High Beach, Essex Edmund Mathew, Esq., Somerset-street, Portman-square Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlberough-place, St. John's Wood, Di rector of the Direct London and Exeter Railway Major David Fitzgerald, Valentia, Ireland Wm. Sprott Boyd, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's Thomas Gulliver, Esq., Bloxham, near Banbury, Oxon, Director of the Northampton and Banbury, and Oxford and Witney Railways Wm. Gulliver, Esq., Swallcliff, near Banbury, Oxon Captain Julius Newell, R.N., United Service Club Captain Bradshaw, R.N., Hatherley-place, Cheltenham J. Brooks, Esq., Magistrate, Wenlock Col. Cairnes, C. 8., Coleraine Edward King, Esq., Bla,ckthorne, Oxfordshire Wm. 11. Spicer, Esq., Portman-square George Beauclerc, Esq., Grosvenor-street West, Grosvenor-place Robert A. Riddell, Esq., Bryanston-street, Portman-square, Director of the Great Feeds and London Railway J. A. Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director ef the Oxford and Worcester Extension, and Chester Junction Railways Major Humphreys, Miltown-house, Strabane, Ireland Capt. This, P. Newton, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, and Lugwar dine, II trefordehlre, - , Director of the Isle of Man, and Irish West Coast Railways The Mayor of Bridgnorth Benj imin Watts, Esq., Alderman of the Borough of Bridgnorth Thomas Glase, Fsq. /Members of the Corporation of Bridg - Josiah Minton Glase, Esq. IlOrth Edward Richard Pratt, Esq. Samuel Mdloy, Esq., Bridgnorth Edmund Ridley, Esq., Bridgnorth Henry Cane Leahy, St. James's-square, Direetor of the Sheffield, Buxton, Derby, and Manchester Railway E. S. Blundell, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square, Direc tor of the London and Exeter Railway Richard Fisher, Esq., Alceater Lodge, Warwick, Director of the War wickehi:e and London Extension and Worcester Junction Railway James Whitehouse, Esq., Ipaley Court, Warwick James Reading, Esq., Redditch, Worcestershire, manufacturer George Hollyoake, Esq., Redditch. Worcestershire Christopher Royston, Esq., Redditch, Worcestershire John Onions, Esq., Broseley, ironmaster, Etc., Director of the Stour ) tiegc,Madeley, Ironbridge, and Broseley, and the Grand June and Cambrian Railways nThorn, Esq., Whitehall, Broseley, Director et the Stourbridge, 2dadeley, Ironbridge, and Broseley, and the Grand Junction and CamLrian Railways Alexa der John Got don, Esq., Linley Hall near Broseley Thomas Deighton, Esq., Bridgnorth Joseph Southwell, Esq. 1 Bridgnorth, Manufacturers William Southwell, Esq. William Cole, Esq., Bicester Edward Deaking, Esq., Bicester Horace Townsend, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant, Woodside, County Cork E. D. Freeman, Esq. , Deputy-Lieutenant, Castle Cor, County Cerk St. John Jeffrey, Esq., J.P., Blarney Castle, County Cork Fierce Purcel, Esq., Altemira, County Cork J a mes Smith Barry, Esq., Lota Lodge Cork Edward Dean Freeman, Esq.. Sandf eld, county Cork J. H. Bainisridge, Esq., Bear Forest, Mallow St. John Galwey, M.D., Mallow George Washington Brazier Creagh, Esq., J.P., Creagh-eastle J o h n Carmichael, Esq., Riverston-house, Cork, Director of the Cork and Bandon, and Bandon and Bantry Railways P. Bennett Lucas , Esq., Manchester-street, Manchester-square, Director of the Ipswich aid Southampton, and Sligo and Shannon Railways W. 11. O'Driazoll, Esq., Clifton, near Bristol The Rev. William Wilson, 8.D., Over Worton, near Deddington, Oxon Charles Faulkner, Esq., F.G.S., Deddington, Oxfordshire Lieutenant-Colonel Cruttendel. Balincolllg William Coppiuger, Esq., Barry's-court W. Reeves, Esq., J.P., Tramore, Cork William D. Whitehouse, Esq., Studley, Warwickshire, Director of the Warwickshire and London Extension, and Worcester Junction Railways George Wyman, Esq., Alcester, Warwickshire William Henry Rough, Esq., Temple, Director of the Metropolitan Junction Company Edward Fewer, Esq., Eccleston-terrace, Eaton-square, Director of the Ipswich and Southampton Railway Colonel Henry Duidas Campbell, North-end-house, Portsmouth, pcputy-Lieutenent of the Couuty of Hants, Director of the Direct Western Railway W illi am Torus, Esq., Bloxham Esq., High Sheriff of the City of Limerick Henry Watson, e, Esq., bury, Shrewsbury, Director of the Shrews- Robert Baugh Blakemor Wolverham pton, and South Staffordshire Railway Henry' Keate, Esq., Shrewsbury Directors of the Birmingham aid Brighton Railway Isaac Taylor, Esq., ditto,' Dlajor-General Turner, Commander of the Cork District Lieut.-Colonel Westropp, J.P., Cork Major North L udlow Bearish, BalllncurriS, Rear DaSlas, Cork J ose ph Leycester, Esq., Cork Matthew Pierrpoint, Esq., Crow's Nest, Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Worcester, and Director of the Rugby, Derby, Man chester, and Welsh Midler' 1 Railways John Rowlands, Esq., Tallyllin, Merioneth, Director of the Great North and South Wales Railway George Paul, Esq., banker, 217, Strand Morgan Culhane, Esq., M.D., Worthing, Sussex Charles Thelluson, Esq., Summer -lodge, Worthing, Sassex James Thomas Thompson, Esq., a 5, Gloucester-read, Hyde Park gardens John Green, Esq., Hales Owen, magistrate for the county of Worcester George Gun Hay, Esq., 127, Sloane-street, Director of the Medical I nva lid Insurance Office J. M. Mathew, andsGra' Inn, Director of the Derbyshire . Wor cester, and Stafford, Direct Western Railway Joseph Farmer,fEsq., Mayor of Bewdley John Bedoe, Esq., merchant, Bewdley James F. Sugrue, Esq. , merchant, Cork Wm. John O'Connell, Esq., 32 Inn- Upper Seymeurstreet, Portmait- square e J o hn Mathew, Esq.. Gray's square, London Colonel G. Fitch, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and the York and Lancaster Railways W. Wyse, Esq., The Manor, Waterford W. K. Rodgers, Esq., late High Sherif of the eonnty:of Cerk, and Di rector of the Cork and Passage Railway Pierce Nagle, Esq., Anakis, Doneraile, London George Hall, Esq., Bridgnosyrth John Phillips, Esq., Bridgnorth William Lumley Perrier, Esq. Bellaire, Cork Joel Smith, Esq., —, Weisel, Staffordshire Edward Canning, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon .Thomas Ashinead Perry, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon .Samuel Hayward, Esq., New Town Cottage, Stratford-on-Avon (With power to add to their number). COUNSEL IN ENGLAND. Mr. Sergeant Allen, Sergeant's Inn ; Walter M'Grlgor, Esq., Lin., coin's-Inn. CorNsia. IN InsTAND--Joseph 11 - Apter, Esq., Q.C. ENGINEER. IN CHIEF—J. U. Rastrick, Esq. ACTING ENGINBERS. IT. Mackenzie, Esq., C.E. ; J. W. Bazalgette, Esq., C.E. SOLICITORS. _ . In London—Messrs. Ogle and Toanghusband, 4, Cheat Winchester street, London In Ireland—John Cunning, Eeq., il, North great George-street, Dublin. BANKERS. Messrs. Mastermaa, Peters, and Co. ; the London and Westminster Bank. %IECRET ARIES IN ENGLAND—II. Esq., and Henry Cowper, E gecarrAar IN IRELAND—Frederick Fraacis role, Esq., SI, North Great George-street, Dublin. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTII. Hugh Inner Cameron and George Bain, EsqrS., 111, radiomen street, London. J. it. L. Wairnsley, Esq., North-street, Westminster. PROSPECTUS. The imperative necessity, alike iu a social, commercial, or political point of view, for drawing as closely together as possible the capitals of England and Ireland, has suggest.' the formation of the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railway, —a line, the value of which it is difficult to over estimate, since it will be found to take a nearly direct course from the English metropolis to Holyhead. It will pass through or near the populous and no'slo county town of Shropshire (as yet unprovided with ra il way communication), and will traverse along its whole extent districts second in wealth, re sources, trade, and commerce, to none in the empire ; bringing them more nearly and immediately in contact with London and Dublin, than has hitherto been thought possible. This project is wholly in dependent of any other line already before theurpullic,an must , he d when si n t posSeSSer'ilationat advantages which none can sur p ass , p carried opt„ become , without exception, t h e moa t i m portant railway afearßlitalt PROSPECTUS OF THE R HONDDA and ELY VALLEYS JUNCTION RAILWAY, GLAIIIORGANSIIIRE. (Provisionally Registered.) Pronsited with the sanction and support of the Right Hsi. the Earl of Dunrayen. Capital, 200,0001., In 10,000 Shares of M. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. fiscount Adam, M.P., Dunraven Castle, Glamorgan Crawshaw Bailey, Esq., Don-works, Nantyglo Sir Robert Price, Bart ., M.P., Foxlay, lerefordshire Sir John Osborn, Bart., Fulham, Director of the Great Leeds aid London Direct Railway Sir Wm. Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, London, Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Railway Sir Wm. TwysJen, 41, Dorset-street, Portman-square Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Radnorshire Sir William Wynn, Macs Newydd, Chairmait of the /forth Wales Railway Tames G. Barrett, Esq., Ross, Herefordshire Henry ♦. Bruce, Esq., Duffryn Rouse, Cardiff William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, iiheflield, Direetor of the filhef- geld and Manchester Railway Charles Richard Rigge, Esq., 19, Bryansten-square John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham, Kent Thomas Chitty, Esq., Director •f the Rugby and Woreester Railway The Rev. James Cozens, 'furl Plwm, Cilarnorganshiro E4ward Cotton, Esq., 20, Koppel-street, Russell-square, Director of the Commercial Bank - - - Nicol Came, Esq., D.C.L., Dimiand's-house, Cowbridge, Director of the Vale of Neath Railway Captain Dawson, R.N., Barnes, surrey, Direeter of the Cambridge . . and Lincoln Extension Railway George Dennis, Esq., Director of the Great Leeds and London Direci Railway _ • Richard Duttin, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway William Edmondes, Esq., of Cowbridge, Glamorganshire Thomas H. Evans, Mayor of Camarvon, Director of the Rugby and _ Worcester Railway The Rev. H. R. Fowler, Felon, near Bristol, and No. 7, Manchester square Rev. Thomas Granow, 29, Brompton•square and Court Herbert, near Neath, Director of the Vale of Neath Railway Captain Hewitt, Tyr Mato Ellis, Glamorganshire Windsor H. Humphreys, Esq., Garth Hall, Glamorganshiro Jelin J. liarris, Esq., Treverlg, Glaraorganshire John Hopkins, Esq., illlely, Glamorganshlre William Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, and Director of . . . the South and Midlands' Junction Railway John Ingles Jerdein, Esq., Director ethe Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway 'Vero Clarke Kemball, Esq., Hyde-park-gardens, Director et the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Richard Kelly, Esq., Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Griffith Llewellyn, Esq., Baglan Hall, Glamorganshire William Llewellyn, Esq., Director of the Bridgend Branch of the National Provincial Bank of England James Diacklrdy, Esq., City of London Club James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean Railway Thomas ',fortis, Esq., of Newport, Monmouthshire Leyshon Morgan, Esq., Lower Tremains, Bridgend, Glaraorganshire Samuel P. Pratt, Esq., F.R.S., Bath, and No. 55, Liacela's Inu fields, Director of the Kennet and Avon Canal William Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park Cenrge B. Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk A - van Prichard, Esq., Collenna House, Glamorganshire James Brown, Esq., of Ten Ddu, near Bridgend Richard Fowler Rickards, Esq., Lantrissent House, Glamorganshire James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Randall, Esq., Old Castle, Bridgend, Glamorganshire Richard Lewis Reece, Esq., County Coroner, Cardiff Edward Scard, Esq., of Kew Green, Surrey, and Garth Nall, Glamor gaushire Nenry James, Esq., Finsbury-square, London Robert Wright, Esq., Lonsdale-square, Middlesex, and Bread-street hill, London, Director of the Great Trinidad Railway John Williams, Esq., Furnival's Inn, London, and Llanflhangel, Denbighshire Joseph Underwood, Esq., the Hall, Blackheath, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway Company, and Di rector of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. (With power to add to their number). MANAGING COMMITTEE. VISCOUNT ADARE, Chairman. Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P. Captain W. J. Dawson, R.N. William Bradley, Esq. Crawshay Bailey, Esq. John Randall, Esq. Griffith Llewellyn, Esq. The Rev. Thomas Gronow Richard Kelly, Esq. James Morrison, Esq. The Rev. 11. R. Fowler William Simpson Potter, Esq. Samuel It. Pratt, Esq. Nichol Came, D.C.L. Henry James, Esq. Richard Lewis Reece, Esq. (With power to add to their number.) STRADING CorrNsEL—Edward Lewis Richards, Esq., Middle Temple. SOLICITOR—W. E. James, Esq., 6, Basinghall-street, Londe*. BANICEBB. Comletrcial Bank of Loudon National Provincial Bank, Bridgend and Cardiff. Messrs. Towgood and Co., Cardiff. ENGINEER—CharIes Edward Bernard, Esq. SECBETany—John Petherick, Esq., pro tern. This Railway Is projected for the purpose of a uniting t a fen the Rhondda which and Eiy Vallies, with the South Wales Railway, dis tance film the Port of Cardiff; and to open a new rt mineral district, is at mil" ono of the richest and most important in South Wale s , present without the means of tra nsit for its immens e and valuable products. It will pawthrough the central portion of the great coal-Reid of Glarnorganshire, where iron - stone also abounds with the coa l in im mense quantities, and laying , geo lo g icall y s p eaking, nearly flat, and, obtainable, for the most part, by proper levels. The coal in addition to its being of excellent quality for iron making, as is proved at Dler thyr and Aberdare, is also, like that of those districts, of the very best description for steam purposes, being nearly smokeless, although inflammable, indeed so pre-eminently is the superiority of this de scription of coal established for steam purposes over any other, that the demand for it far exceeds the supply, and promises, accord ing to the opinion of the most eminent marine engineers, to super sede all others for purposes of steam navigation. This source of traffic alone will afford a handsome return for the capital invested, as Vas been demonstrated in every instance where even tram-roads or canals have been constructed to open the mineral resources of other leg t promising Tallies in Wales than the Rhondda, which i s cele b ed for the abundance, quality, and facility of obtaining its pro ductions. An inexhaustible supply of limestone (so necessary for the manu facture of iron and for agricultural purposes) may be obtained by means of this Railway, much nearer and cheaper than by any other line. This line will afford to the increasing population of the rich Tales of Ely and Rhondda a mach desired communication with the great market town aid port of Cardiff, front whence, at present, they nay be said to be almost excluded. It is intended that the line shall commence at Bitten Rhondda, the head of the Rhondda Valley, and proceed down by a natural pass between the hills at Ifrwd Amws, a distance of eight miles, where it will enter the Ely Valley and proceed down (a further distance of six miles) to Lanelay-bridge, near Lantrissent, and there join the South Wales Railway, thus opening a communication under the most advantageous circumstances as to distance, with all the ports in the Bristol channel. A preliminary survey has already been reads by competent par ties, and it is found that the country admits of highly favourable gradients, so much so that it is confidently anticipated that the works will be executed very coaslierably under the advertised ca pita]. The landowners along the line are favourable to this undertaking, and the names of many influential proprietors will be found on the Provisional Committee. No Subscriber will be answerable beyond the amount of his de posit until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount et his subscription. Until an At of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of this Company shall be under th• control of the Managing Directors, to whom power is given to allot the Shares, and to apply the funds of the Company In payment of all the expenses incurred in its forma tion, and in the preparation of the plans aid sections to be su►mitted to Parliament. Powerwillbe applied for in the Act (and in the meantime is hereby given to the Managing Directors as above), to raise any addi tional capital, to extend or abandon any part of the line, to make branch lines, or enter into any arrangements, by amalgamation or otherwise, with any other company or companies, and also to nomi nate the first Directors of the Company. In the allottment of Shares, a preference will be given to landowners on the line and other Parties locally interested. had et and. applicationa for Proopectuses and Mar may be Shares may be addressed In the form annexed to, 7'. B. James, Esq., Solicitor, 19, Northumberland-street, Strand; to W. Morgan, Esq., Solicitor, Bridgend, Glamorganshire ; and to the undermentioned Brokers ; but no application for Shares will receive the attention of the Committee, unless accompanied by a reference to one or more of the Provisional Committee, Solicitors, or the Engineers:— London—Messrs. John Shewell and Son, 25, Tokenhouse-yard. " Messrs. J. Peppercorne and Co., 2, Old Broad-street. Liverpool—Messrs. Beultt and Co. Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese Leeds—Messrs. John Young and Co. Bristol Luke Arnold, Esq. ; Messrs. Tette and Nash Birmingham—Mr. Collis Sheffield—Messrs. Bardwell and Sons. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junction Railway, Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot tome shares of 201. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to in. ; and I also undertake to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Name in Nll • • • • • • • • • • Residence • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .... Trade or Profession ••••• • • • •• •, • , Reference with / ddrees Date of Applicaton •• . ...... VALLEYS R HONDDA AND ELY JUNCTION RAILWAY No fltrther applications for shares in this Company can be received after Fntrwr, the 10th instant. By order, JOHN PETHERICK, Secretary. 19. Northumberland-street, Strand, October 3, 1845. T HE DIRECT WEST-END AND CROYDON RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 800,0001., is 40,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Sham. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Sir James Anderson, M. R. I. A., New Burlington-street ; Director of the Hereford and Merthr Tydvil Railway John Byng Banks, Esq., Lansdown-road, Stockwell, Director of the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway James Bailey, Esq., Highbury-park, Director of the Sligo, Donegal, Tyrone, Londonderry, and Belfast Junction, and of the Scar borough, Whitby, Stockton-on-Tees, and Newcastle and York _ _ Junction Railways William Banks, Esq., 4, Honey lane, Director of the Manchester and Rugby, and great Leeds and London Railways Lieut.-General Sir R. Barton, K.C.8., 2 Montagu-place, Montage square, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Major Beresford, M.P., 77, Pall-mall ; Chairman of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Director of the Tean and Dove Valley. and West Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railways Charles R. Bigge, Esq., 10, Bryanston-square; Director of the Great Grimsby, Lcuth, Itorncastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway William Bland, Esq., Brixton ; Director of the North Wales, and Richmond and West-end Junction Railways William Blanchard, Esq., York; Chairman of the Liberty of Ripon Quarter Sessions, and Director of the York. Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield ; Chairman of the Isle of Ely Railway, and Director of the Manchester and Sheffield Railway William Broackes, Esq., M.D., Cork-street, Burlington-gardens, Director of the Direct London and Liverpool, and Bristol and Dover Railways Alfred Brodie, Esq , Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square Direc tor of the Grand Trnnk Railway Isaac Baker Brown, Esq , Oxford-square, Hyde-park, Director of the Bristol and Dover Direc' Junction Railway Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan ; Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railways Edwin Cadman, Esq., Weatbourne House, Sheffield, Director of the Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway William Caldwell, Esq., Ince Hall, near Wigan, Lancashire ; Direc tor of the Manchester, Derby, and Rugby, and Leeds and Liver pool Direct Railways William Carr, Esq., Blackheath-park John Carter, Esq., F.It.A.S., Park Lodge, Stockwell, Director of the Grand Trunk Railway E. Turst Carver, Esq., Forest Lodge. Tulse-hill, Director of the Direct Birmingham, Oxford, and Brighton Railway John Castendieck, Esq., Lewisham, Kant John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-steet, London ; Director of the Chelmsford and Bury, and York and Lancaster Railways Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London ; Director of the Direct Western Railway Richard Clark, Esq., Farnham, Hants . _ George Clive, isq.:ganderstead, near Croydon, Director of the Chel tenham, Oxford, and London Junction Railway Benjamin Collett, Esq., Manor House, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire; Director of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kiddermin ster; and Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railways Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Bayswater; Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway Millis Coventry, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-street ; Director of the Birmingham Extension and Great Leeds and London Direct Railways Lieutenant-Colonel Lothian Dickson, Curzon-street, Mayfair; Direc tor of the Reading and Reigate Junction Railway Charles R. Dodd, Esq., North Brix.ton, Director of the Great Welsh Central Railway, of the Bath, Bristol, and Dover Railway, of the Hull and Holyhead Railway, &c. Miles Dormer, Esq., Hans-place, Sloane-street ; Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, United Service Club; Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway . Daniel Ebbetta, Esq., Mincing-lane ; Director of the Direct Western Railway Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place, Bryan ston-square, Director of the London and Manchester, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways Francis Ewart, Esq., Brick-court, Temple; Director of the Great Leeds and London Direct, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey mouth Railways Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London ; Director of the London and Westminster Bank, and Director of the London Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway Edmund Aldam Fawcett, Esq., London, Derby, and Nottingham Robert Fisher, Esq., Highbury Park, Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway The Rev. H. it. Fowler, Manchester-square ; Director of the Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway George Gamble, Req., Gainsborough, Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Francis Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Henry Glynn, Esq , Garden-court, Temple F. W. Hamilton, Esq., 59, Gloucester-place, Portman-square; Di rector of the York and Lancaster Railway C. H. Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square; Director of the Grand Trunk Railway George R. Harrison, Esq., Harlingford-place, Kennington ; Director of the Grand Trunk Railway William Hay, Esq., 19, Clifford-street, Bocd-street. Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn-square; Director of the Chelmsford and Bury Railway Lawrence Hayworth, Esq., Yew Tree, Liverpool. A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place ; Director of the Direct Exe ter Railway John Holford, Esq., Rusholm-hall, Manchester ; Director of the York and Lancaster Railway John Holmes, Esq., 88, St. James's-street ; Director of the York and Lancaster, and Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway W. Hughes Hughes, F.sq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of London, Chairman of the Manchester and, Birkenhead Continuation, and London and Greenwich Railways Stephen Hutchinson. Esq.. London Gas-works, Vauxhall, Director of the Grand Trunk Railway John Kynnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London ; Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway Herbert Ingram, Esq., 198, Strand, and Swineshead Abbey, Lincoln shire ; Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway John Jameson, Esq., St. George's-place, Brixton, Director of the Great Leeds and London Direct, and of the Cumberland Union Railways Slegerich C. Kreeft, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Junction Coast Railway Richard Kelly, Esq., 6, Cleveland-row; Chairman of the New Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny, and Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln Extension Railways Sir J. Key, Bart., Alderman of London ; Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway Valentine Knight, Esq., 3, Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the Direct Western. Dendre Valley, and Grand Trunk Railway William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton; Director of the London and Man- . . chester and Direct Western Railways William Alexander Long, jun., Esq., Kingswood House, Wootton under-Edge ; Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway Sir WillianrMagnay, Bart., Alderman of Loneon, Chairman of the Great Grimsby, Louth, Horncestle, Lincoln and Midland Junction, and Director of the Leicester aid Tamworth Railways William Margetson, Esq., Streatham-hill, Brixton J. Mee Mathew, Esq., 4, Gray's Inn-square; Director of the Direct Western Railway James M'Miiler, Esq., Southampton James Meaburn, Esq. G r ove-hill, Camberwell Thomas Morris, Esq.;Fairhurst Hall, near Wigan ; Director of the Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, and Leeds and Liverpool Esq., Director of the Chepstow aid Forest of Dean Direct Railways James Morrison, and Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junction Railway Horatio Nelson, Esq Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey mouth Railway G. Parbury, Esq., Russell-square; Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens ; Director of the Grand Trunk, the Oxford and Witney, and Reading and Reigate Junction Railways Samuel P. Pratt, Esq., F.R.S., Bath, and 55, Li nco l n ' s -i nn -fi e ld s ; Director of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company, and York and Lancaster Railway George Richard Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk Lewis Pocock, Esq., F.S.A., Montagu-square, Director of the South ampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction and Brighton and Chel tenham Direct Railways Sir George Rich, Lowndes-streot, BelgraTe-square ; Director of the Metropolitan Railways Junction Company, and of the London, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah House, Enfield, Middlesex ; Director of the York and Lancaster Railway R. A. Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square ; Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Oxford and Worcester Extension Railways James Reid, Esq. Director of the Metropolitan Railways Junction Cempacy A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq. Middle Temple, London; Director of the Great Western Extension Atmospheric Railway Richard Rowe, Esq., Beanfoy-terrace, Maida Vale H. Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square ; Director of the West Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railway William Stud'ey, Esq., Alfred-place, Brixton ; Director of the Great Grimsby, Louth, Horncastie, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railways Martin Stately, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, Direct Western, and Grand Trunk Railways Timothy Steward, Esq., Heigham Lodge, near Norwich Edward H. 0. Scott, Esq., Hoe Garden House, Plymouth; Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway Henry Taylor, Esq , Wigan ; Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, Manchester and Wigan, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Railway , . James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Great Leeds and London, and Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railways Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath Park ; Director of the Direct London and Manchester, and Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railways Robert Watkins, Esq., Augusta-house, Worthing, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport, and Liverpool and Derby Railways - Sir Henry Webb, Bart., 105, Pall-mall, London ; Director of the York and Lancaster, and Direct Western Railways Sir Thomas Woollasten White, Bart., Walling Well., Nottingham Thomas Williams, Esq., Beigrave-street, Belgrave-square W. S. Wilson, Esq., Norwich, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Marynort and Carlisle Railways Sir William Wynn. Maesynewadd, and Suffolk-place, Pall-mall ; Chairman of the North Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways BAN mit s h_pz h e som r e t o o TT a Nm d G d ezr t c o NialG t i h N e il l a r Ena n k. um of bE. n ) ion. Sir John Macneil, L.L.D., F.R.S., MIX .E., ACTING ENGINEERS. Messrs. R. and T. Ro Sllao pkina,M.l.C.E.; Ifessrs.Gough and Romnieu, Messrs Messrs. Chauntler and ie . cs i StTwhouoodutitl7B7Gthraayn: Inn-square. -84 . nare. SxourrAsy—J. L. Cotton, Esq. The principal objects of the schema are—let. To remedy the evils 1 , of delay and inconvenience to which parties are, at the present time, p r oceeding from th e wes t en d o f th e metro polisnec ess t ar o i c ly ro s y u d b o je n e , t o e r dn the i most distant places on the South-Eastern as well as the several sea ports y lt c i n n t h and bt Sussex;mtof the ed district2d . To and London and Brighton Railways, ter t m he m m u e s t o ro f p throughgain,pdpl packet-stations w o h t the numerous the ont intendede and e° ln a , wealthy ewail:itthnss (at metropolis, and with each other. the South-Western Rail way,present wholly with out railway accommodation), a greatly improved means for the at Hungerford or Waterloo-bridge, the line will take the most in terchange practicable route to Kennington, from thence it will follow as near as possible the old turnpike Commencing °r ° °m at m the uni c i ttienßd withe road, passing through or near to the wealthy and populous districts of Stockwell, Clapham, Brixton, Tulse-hill, Streatham, Norwood, Beulah, and Thornton-heath, effect ing a junction at Croydon with the several existing or projected lines from that place. It is also proposed to form a branch or branches from the neigh bourhood of Streatham to Mitcham and Tooting, and thus to extend to those places, and their respective neighbourhoods, the advantages of a direct railway communication with the metropolis. A great portion of the traffic in passengers and goods upon the Brighton and Dover lines is supplied from the west-end of London and the Birmingham and Great western Railways. The necessity of proceeding to the station at London -bridge, and by the present circuitous route to Croydon, is a serious and unnecessary inconveni ence, entailing additional expense and delay. The removal of this long-felt grievance is a leading object with the promoters of the pre sent undertaking. They deem it right, however, to observe, in lay ing this scheme before the public, that they have no desire to inter fere with existing railway interests, further than is absolutely indis pensable, but that on the other hand it will be their object to yield assistance to, and in return endeavour to secure it, from each com pany with which this line 'may ultimately be connected. A glance at the map show that as a branch or arm of the London and Brighton R allway, this undertaking cc,mp.letes a straight line of communication, from the west end of Londa, to Croydon, Reigate, and Brightcm, and renders the ports of Don 'r and Folke stone, as well as tbr.l several places on the South-Eastg, na line, more easily accessible from that part of the metropolis. • at am t ont of traffic nt the present time upon ti 'lO roads be - THE SUN, LONDON, SATU RDA Y EVEN ING OCTOBER 11, 1845. tween Croydon, Mitcham, Tooting, &c., and London. proves at once that the existing railway facilities do not at all meet the exigencies of the mass of population to whom this line will be available. The population who reside upon or in the immediate neighbour hood of the proposed line, independent of the metropolis, and be iween the intended termini, exceeds 100,000, whose wants are almost wholly supplied from the London markets, &c., and who have, at the present time, no mode of conveyance but upon the turnpike road. In the transit of building materials, corn, coal, lime, and other heavy goods, from the warehouses and wharfs on the banks of the Thames, and for marketable produce in each direction, this line must become to them particularly useful and convenient. Some idea may be formed of the local necessity of this railway, when it is known that the number ofpassengers who avail themselves of the accommodation afforded by the several omnibuses and other public vehicles, running upon the turnpike-road, have been ascer tained to exceed 2,600 daily. Au equal number (at least) proceed by private and other conveyances. Of foot passengers, although no accurate estimate Gan be formed of them, it is considered; that they at least number four times that of passengers who travel by con veyance. The tonnage of goods it is calculated will be in full pro portion to the receipt from passengers. Experi e nce has fully proved, that on however liberal a scale the probability of future traffic in the transit of goods and passengers has been judged, almost every line cf railway has, upon its completion, vastly exceeded the calculated amount. There are, however, in this instance, reasons for supposing that the extended facilities of com munication will cause more than an ordinary increase in the con veyance of passengers. The country which the line of railway will open is singularly picturesque and beautiful, and in addition to the admired districts of Brixton and Streatham, the long-favoured and much-frequented Beulah and Norwood vdil he placed within easy access, and become more than ever, objects of interest and delight to the visitor and resident of the metropolis. There can therefbre be little doubt but that the present line must become a profitable and eligible scheme for the investment of capital. The promoters of this undertaking have pleasure in announcing that it is approved of, ant will he generally supported by local' in fluence. They have caused a partial survey to be made, which will be completed shortly, and they have the assurance of their engineers that there are not more than ordinary difficulties to contend with. The liability of the shareholders will be restricted, by Act of Parlia meat, to the amount of their subscriptions; and power will be applied for in the Bill to allow interest at 41. p e r cen t. p er annum oa all calls from passing of the Act until the o p en i ng o f th e li ne . Applications for further information, prospectuses, and shares (in he form annexed), may he addressed to the Solicitors; to the Secre tary, at the offices of the Company, No. 34, Gracechurch-street ; or to the following Brokers :—viz., Messrs. lit. and M. B , yd, Princes street; Mr. H. J. Williams, 80, Old Broad-street; Messrs. Greystone and Earle, York; Mr. Anthony Laurie, Liverpool ; Messrs. Cardwell and Co., and Mr. Henry Benton, Manchester ; Mr. J ames Pearson, Messrs. Watson and C o .. L ee d s ; M essrs. 14 i d y an d Mr. George Edwards, B r i s t o l ; M r . Th omas S au d. fSßetairrindi,nfiE°nxrgrhehtemrll;ul3ll;r. James Pringle, Edinburgh ; Mr. J. W. Carr, Col chester, FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct West-End and Croydon Railway, Ctentlemon,—l request you will allot me Shares of 201. each in the above railway, upon which or upon any less number that may be allotted to me, I hereby agree to pay the deposit, and to execute the parliamentary Contract and the Subscribers' Agreement when required to do so. Name ••• • • ..• •• • • ****** .• •••••• • • Residence.. • • • • • • • • • • •• • ... Profession or Trade (If any) •.•• • • .• Place of Ittoiness (If any) .. • • .... . Reference . • •••• •• • . Date . • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • •• . WORCESTER I _, IL.WARWICK,AND RUGBY RCOMPANY.. (Provisionally Registered.) Offices, 5, Gresham-street, Bank. London, October 8, 1845, The Allotment of Shares in the Stock of this Company has been completed, and the Letters of Alletmeni: have been posted this day. The Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement will lie for execution at the Offices of the Company, between the hours of 11 o'clock, A.M., and 4 o'clock, P.m. JOHN HUGHES, Secretary. BRIGHTON, L LEWE C S T , R/INLIDvAYTONBRIDGE (HALLETT'S LINE.) Capital, 351,0001., in 17,500 Shares of 201. each, Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. ( erovisionally Registered.) (Shareholders not to be liable beyond the amount of their Shares.) One of the first objects of this Company will be to obtain a most central and accessible terminus in London, and Farringdon-street has been fixed upon for that purpose. It is proposed to make a tunnel from that point to the Great Western station, from whence the line will be continued in as direct a course as possible to Holyhead In its progress it will pass through or near to the following towns: —Rickmansworth, Chesham, Wendover, and Aylesbury ; it will then proceed to within a short distance of Bicester and Deddington, and from thence to Banbury ; it will touch upon Kineton or Kingtown, thence proceed onward to Stratford-on-Avon, approach within a short distance of Warwick, Alcester, and Worcester, where it will cross the Birmingham aid Gloucester Railroad near to litromsgrove, ana proceeding thence to Kidderminster, Bridgnorth, and Wenlock, near to Broseley and Coalbrookdale, will enter the Vale of the Severn, which it will traverse to Shrewsbury ; it will thence con tinue its route up the course of the Severn, and passing into the Vale of the River Vyrnwy, will proceed to Llan-y-mynech, Llanrhaladr, and Mschnant, accommodating Welchpool, Oswestry, and Llangellex. At this point there are three passes, which have been inspected, and it remains for the engineer to select one as an entrance or passage into the Vale of the River Dee, when the line will proceed round by Corwen into the Vale of the River Alwen, from whence it will run nearly parallel with the great Holyhead Mail-coach-road, by Pentre voelas to Capel Cerrig, it will then descend the Vale of Plant Francon to Bangor and Holyhead. This line will in its progress feed, and be also fed by the most cond.. siderable railroads of the kingdom, particularly those of the Great Western ; the Birmingham, Gloucester, aid Bristol; the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ; the London and Birmingham ; and the South Staffordshire Railway. As this last line will connect Dudley, Bilston, Wednesbuy, Walsall, and Lichfield with the Derby Railway and the Grand Junction Railway, it would be superfluous to expatiate on the advantages of bring ing all those important centres of the coal and iron trade and other traffic, and the vast coal and iron fields of Shropshire into close intercourse, and thus establishing the cheapest and quickest means of transit between the minerals of Shropshire and the furnaces of Staffordshire, and the markets of Dublin, London, and Birmingham. The success of the undertaking is secured beyond a doubt, by the obvious fact that it will net only bring the richest mineral and manufacturing portions of England much nearer to the two capitals, but It will open for the carriage of the valuable pro duce of these districts the intermediate country not at present pos sessed of any direct line of railway communication. On the other hand, the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railway will give to London and the neighbourhood of Birmingham a route to Dublin shorter by nearly seventy miles than that of any other exist ing railroad ; and finally, enable travellers to complete the entire distance in ten hours. It will also ensure two mall deliveries in the day. Ilp to the point where the line approaches Corwen, no engineering difficulties are presented. At Corwen a deviation from the straight line may be requisite to avoid tunnelling, after which a straight line will be resumed to Bangor, where that already is construction will be adopted for the rest of the route to Holyhead ; or, if found de sirable, power will be taken in the Bill to continue an independent line by Beaumaris to Holyhead. After a careful investigation of the traffic arising from passengers, the conveyance of mineral and agricultural produce, and the direct transmission of the mails, the Directors fet-1 warranted in anticipating a return of at least ten per cent. on the capital invested. A treaty is in progress with a Steam Navigation Company to run powerful steamers between the harbours of Holyhead and Kingston on the arrival of the trains, so that passengers and merchandise may be booked throughout from London to Dublin, including all the inter mediate stations, and be thus enabled to complete the entire distance in ten hours, without the inconvenience so painfully felt of changing from the conveyance of ens proprietary to that of another. The railways new in active progress in Ireland, running from Dublin north and south throughout the heart of the island, render it self evident that the chain of communication between the sister countries is, by this present undertaking, rendered at once complete and intimate to the last degree. As the leading aim of this Company is to save time and distance, every attention of the Directors, and every advancement in science will be made available to gain the utmost possible amount of speed, com patible with safety, the lines being formed expressly for this end ; while, finally, the very lowest rate of fares will he adopted for both passengers and traffic, and the pnblic will find in the improvement of the Inferior carriages, and some additional comforts for those of the first class, that the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Rail way will be placed in advance of any other now existing, and Ia all its details will be rendered worthy an enterprise so national in its character. Application will be made for a Bill to incorporate the Company early in the next session. The usual power will be taken by the Act to allow interest at 41. per cent. per annum on the amount of the subscriptions paid tip ; aad no subscriber will be answerable for more than the amount of his deposit until the Act be obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his subscription. Applications for Shares may be made, in the subjoined form, to the following Solicitors, Brokers, and Agents :—Messrs. Cameron and Bains, IS, Parliament-street, London ; Mr. Roger Mortimer, Throgmorton-street, London ; B. R. Pemberton, Esq., Atherton buildings, Mr. Wm. Kerl, and Messrs. Schultz and Carr, Liverpool ; Mr. J. R. Lane, Birmingham ; James Jamieson, Esq., Leeds ; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manchester; Mr. James Butchart, Huddersfield; Messrs. J. and J. Kimpster, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Mr. Hervey, Halifax ; Wm. Lee, Esq., Cheltenham ; It. P. Clark, Esq., Bristol ; Messrs. Graystone and Earl,York; Henry Beaumont, Esq., Exeter; Messrs. Munro and Co., 44, George-street, Edinburgh ; Charles Ceuper, Esq. 1, Parkside-street , Edin - b ur g h ; James Jardine, Es q ., Glasgow ; Wm. Oliphant, Esq., Perth ; and Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin. FORM OF APPLICATION, To the Previsional Directors of the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of .501. each the above undertaking, and I hereby agree to accept the same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Name in fnli Residenre— Profession or Business Reference (two or more) Witness Aud his Address PIOVISIONAL COISIMITTSE, The Most Hon. the Marquis of Bristol, Ickworth-hall, Suffolk, and • Brighton, Sussex Lord Alfred Ilervey, M.P. for Brighton, Sussex Frederick Seymour, Esq., Kerspt Town, Brighton Howard Elpkinstone, Esq., M.P. for Lewes Sir George Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Hertz Sir William Magnay, Bart., London Mr. Alderman Farncomb, London Edwin James, Esq., The Nunnery, Horsham, Sussex George Rennie, Esq., Director of the Commereial Bank, London. Valentine Lee, Esq.. Director of the Eastern Counties Railway Richard Wellesley Rothman, Esq., Albany, London Bunford Samuel, Esq., Poultry Chambers Captain Dawson, R.N., Barnes, Surrey Robert Mutrie, Esq., Walling-street, London Richard Dutton, Esq. Herne 11111, Surrey John James, Esq., Secondary of London, 34, Brunswick-square Benjamin Webster, Esq., Old BFORVIOR W. H. Covey, Esq., Charing-cross James Reeves, Esq., Leyton, Essex W. S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Brie raTk Stephen Lowden, Esq., Lewes John Langford, Esq., Lewes Charles Henry Chitty, Esq., Lewes. Josepk Underwood, Esq., Blackheath Seymour Conway, Esq., Kennington, Surrey G. W. Wright, Esq., Cocci Celyn, Denbighshire PROVISIONAL COMMITTER OF GENTLEMEN LOCALLY INTERESTED IN THE LINE -- --- John Villiers Shelley, Esq., Marestleld Park Alexander Donavan, Esq.Friunpfield Park, Sussex Alexander Donavan, jun., Esq., Frampfleld Park, Sussex George Donovan, Esq., Buckham - hill George Molyneux, Esq., Banker, Lewes John Baker Stepeley, Esq., Hamsell-place, Rothertleld Robert Fry, Esq., Welches, Rotherfield Thomas Radford, Esq., Uckfleld John Kenward, Esq., Uckfleld Nelson Kenward, Esq., Uckfleld William Kenward, Esq., Uckfleld Russell Gray, Esq., Barcomb John Hillman, Esq., Lewes William Cole, Esq., Newhaven Thomas Wisden, Esq., Brighton Edward Churchill, Esq., Tonbridge Walls Alexander Wright, Esq., Worthing, Sussex E. W. Morris, Esq., Pembury, near Tonbridge Wells George Robert Paul, Esq., Worthing, Sussex William 11. Lidbetter, Esq., Tonbridge Wells John Smith, Esq., Framptield, Sussex. Charles Thellusson, Esq., Sunmer-lodge, Worthing J, Hunter, Esq., Montagae•house, Tonbridge-wells Edward H. Baldock, Esq., 5, Hyde Park-place. William Edwin Baxter, Esq., Lewes Edward Beard, Esq., Lewes John Taylor Hallett, Fsq., Uckfleld COMMITTEE OP MANAGEMENT. CIIAIHMAN.—Lord Alfred Harvey, H.P. Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P. John Kenward, Esq. John Villiers Shelley, Esq. Thomas Wisden, Esq. Sit' George Prescott, Bart. Edward Churchill, Esq. Edwin James, Esq. , William Hallett, Esq. Valentine Lee, Esq. Alexander Wright, Esq. George Rennie, Esq. Stephen Lowdeli, Esq. W. S. Potter Esq. Edward Beard, Esq. James Reeves, Esq. John James, Esq. George Molyneux, Esq. Richard Dutton, Esq. Frederick Seymour, Esq. William H. Lidbetter, Esq, E sx ENGINEER — William Rennie,illiamHallett, F a ae R i S t, " Esq. , c C.E. tc ACTING N w •LICITOB—W. B. James, Esq., 4, Basinghall-street. SzcirrAnY—F. H. Nalder, Esq. Balocints. Commercial Bank, Lothbury. Messrs. Molynoux and Co., Lew es an d T on b r id ge W e ll s. LOCAL AGENT& RobertWllliamFroorlehmilanl e EEsI-, Solicit or, T on b r i dge Wellsll, Rag., Lewes Benjamin Hall, Esq., Buxted Ledge, near Uckfleld. This railway is projected to form a direct communication between Brighton and Tonbridge Wells. It will commence at a point of junction with the Brighton and Lewes Railway at the town of Lewes, and proceeding by tke Valley of the Ouse, pass by Uckfleld and Rotherfield, thence following the valley to Groombridge, proceed to Tonbridge Wells, and there form a junction with the Tonbridge Wells branch of the South-Eastern Railway. The length of the line will be about twenty-two miles. The neces sity and advantages of this line of railway are sell-evident—it will connect Brighton immediately with the populous and fashionable neighbourhood of Tonbridge Wells, and more mediately it will con nect Southampton, Portsmouth, Chichester, and the ports of the e we stern coast of Sussex , with the important towns of Maidstone, Canterbury, and Dover; th us e ff ec ting the shortest and most rapid communication between Dover and Southampton. Th e internal commun i cat i on The following towns and populous villages a r e i n con stant trading Cgberhetattwaleli greatly n m , desired Kentßochester, andobject Sussex o fthewill b thus rendered complete. communication with Lewes and Brighton, and will be accommodated by this line :—Barcombe, Ringmer, Isfield, Little llorsted, Uckfleld Alaresfield, Frampfield, East lloathly, Mayfield, Withyham,Wadhurst, Newhaven, and Harbou r, Waldron, Fietching, Buxted, Rotherfleld, L am b e rhurst, Frant, Ticehurst , Groombridge, Ilartfield, Ashurat. The existing local tra f fic will thus be alone sufficient to prove highly remunerative, exclusive of the great passenger and goods traffic that must of necessity flow into this course as soon as the ne of preparation. The preliminary surveys have been com ccoesusanery accomm odation is afforded. D etailed traffic tables are in pleted, and no difficulties, engineering or otherwise, present them selyes, but, on the contrary, tills railway will be of facile construc tion, and easy gradients The landowners generally are favourable to this line, to which tkey have pledged their support. The usual power will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at the Tate of 4 per cent. on all paid-up calls from the passing of the Act until the completion of the line, and the liabi ity of the shareholders will be limited to the amount of the subscription. Until an Act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of this Company will be under the control of the Committee of Management for the time being, to whom power is given to allot the shares, and to apply the funds of the Company in payment of all the expenses incurred in its formation, and in the preparation of the plans and sections to be submitted to Parliament. Power will be applied for in the Act, and in the meantime is hereby given to the Committee of Management, as above, to raise any ad ditional capital, to abandon any part of the line, to make branch lines, or enter into any arrangements with any other company or companies, and also to nominate the first Directors of ;he Company. Applications for copies of the prospectus and shares, in tke usual form, may be made to.the promoter, William Hallett, Esq., Brighton; C0.,01d Broad-street ; to W. B. James, Esq. , London ; to W. P. Hell , Es q . . Lewes ; to Robert Foreman. Esq., Tonbridge Wells; and to F. H. Haider, Esq., Secretary, 83, Basinghall - stree t ; and to the following Stockb r o k e rs : Messrs. Peppercorne and Messrs. Hill, Faw cett, and Hill, Threadneedle-street; John Willman, Esq., Capel court ; and to the Bankers o f the C o mpany. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. . . To the Provisional Committee of the Brighton, Lewes, and Toubridge Wells Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l hereby request yon to allot - me shares in the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, er any less number that 'nay he allotted to roe, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share thereon, and to execute the necessary deeds whex required. NAM) ••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • Profession or Business (if any) .. • Reference.... •• ... ....... ....... B RIGHTON, LEWES, AND TONBRIDGE WELLS DIRECT RAILWAY. (HALLETT'S LINE.) At a very large meeting of the owners of property and inhabi tants of the town of Uckflehl and its vicinity, held at the Maiden's Head Hotel, on Friday, the 3d October, 1345, the following resolutions were moved and seconded, and with one dissentient only. Present, the Rev. EDWARD TURNER, Rector of Maresileld, in the chair ; Rev. John Underwood Rev. Henry Hoare R. C. gtreatfleld, Esq. Wm. Morgan, Esq. W. H. Lidbetter, Esq. John Smith, Esq. Mr. A. Cheats Robert Frey, Esq. Humphrey Noble, Esq. Edward Olive, Esq. Holman, Esq. rev. J. Simpson Charles Prince, Esq. Dr. Vincent John Newnham, Esq. W. Balduck, Esq. J. Radford, Esq. A. Donavan, Esq. Mr. T. Wallis Wickens, Esq. J. Markwick, Esq. E. Kinnard, Esq. Captain Hurder, R.N. G. S. Benham, Esq. Proposed by THOMAS RADFORD, W. Law, Esq. Paddington, Esq. Mr. Colgate A. Kinward, Esq. Mr. Richardson Mr. 0. Tanner Mr. Sage Mr. C. Prince, jun. Mr. Foster Mr. Green Mr. Turner Mr. Reed Mr. Cameron Mr. Best Mr. Monk Mr. Bonnier Mr. R. Markwick Mr. Coke Captain Mackay Mr. Glasier Mr. Rake Hart, Esq. Mr. Mortimer. 1 Esq. ; and seconded by th e Rey. is of opinion JOHN UNDERWOOD --- RIl d seconded by MT. Resolved—That it is highly desirable that railway cernmualcatlon be established between Brighton , Lew es, and Tonbridge Wells; that it should be as direct as the nature of t he country will admit of; and t i li ,ro at po U s c e k d fie b id y sh n ou r l N d a b ir e pLlathceßdETTEsßu,clEl tsrunkline. NEwNium— the course that his projected line will take , Resolved—That, having beard a stat ement from Mr. Hallett of that such line is well calculated to accommo date the town of Uckfield and its vicinity, and pledge themselves to afford tkeir assistance to ensure its completion. t his meeting Proposed by Mr. WALLts, and seconded liry Mr. PRINCE, Resolved—That a petition from the landowners and inhabitants of Uckfleld be presented to Parliament in sUpport of such line, and the County Members be requested to advocate it. (Signed) EDWARD TURNER, Chairman. Moved by GEORGE SPENCER BENHAM, EMI. ; and seconded by BEN JAMIN HALL, Esq.— - That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Rev. E. Turner for his impartial conduct in the chair BRIGHTON, LEWES, ASD TONBRIDGE WELLS DIRECT RAILWAY. (HALLETT'S LINE.) No further applications for shares In this Company can be re_ celved - alter Friday the 10th instant. • By,Orcler, , 5, &singllBl.l4treet. Oct. 4, 1845. F. 11. l'TA l 4 ) at,ttoretary, • inOVER and BRISTOL RAILWAY, in continuation of the South-Eastern Railway, from Reigate to Bristol. Upon the Narrow Gauge. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,500,0001, in 75,000 Shares, of 201. each. Deposit, El. 2s. per Share. PEOVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor Fhe Right Eon. Lord Charles Beauclerc, Chesham-place, Belgrave • square The Right. Hon. Lord Sussex Lennox, Piccadilly ord Alfred Paget, M.P., Uxbridge House Count 13athyany, Audley-square The Hon. William M. Dawson, Parkstone Lodge, Poole, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway The Hon. Edward Stafford Jerniugham, Director of the London and Nottingham Railway Lieut.-Col. the Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Director of the East and West Junction Railway, and of the Brighton and Cheltenham Di rect Railway Sir William B. Johnston, Bart., Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Railway Admiral Ayscough, Prospect-place-house, Southampton, Director of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, and South and Midland Railway Admiral Sir George Sartorius, Director of the Direct Northern, Eastern, and Western Junction Railway Sir Henry Webb, Bart.., Director of the 'Fork and Lancaster Railway William Collins, Esq., M.P., Warwick Colonel Edward Stopford, 9, Manchester-square A. K. Baker, Esq., Longford-house, Cheltenham Directors of the Bristol and Bir mingham Railway John Geor g I e V T . I t e s s q , , E T s q e w . , k G e l s o b u u c r y e s e r The Worshipful the Mayor of Dover The Worshipful the Mayor of Bath Henry Butcher, Esq., the Mayor of Devizes Daniel Nazer, Esq. Edward Poole, Esq. Town Councillors of Dover William Henry Payn, Esq. Edward Seward, Esq., The Rev. Just Henry Alt, Enford, Wilts, Director of the Manches ter, Southampton, and Poole Railway Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., Rusland-hall, Lancashire, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway J. R. W. Atkinson * Esq., Elmwood-house, Leeds, Director of the Lancashire and North Yorkshire, and North Eastern Railways George Addison, Esq., Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway John Anderson, Esq., London, Director of the Tying, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Joseph Acton, Esq., J.P., Wigan, Director of the Manchester and Wigan Railway William Ascroft, Esq., the Willows, Bury, Director of the Stafford shire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway Joseph Austin, Esq., Ileddingley-hill, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway William Ackroyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge, Ottley, Yorkshire, Di rector of the East and West Yorkshire, the Midlands and Thirsk Junction, and Leeds and York and Midland Junction • James Beech, Esq., Grosvenor-place, and Brandon, Warwickshire, . . Director of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire, Director of the South Union William Gabbett Beare, Esq., Dorchester-place, Connaught-square, Director of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway John Boulton, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham, Lich- field, and Manchester Railway Thomas Byrom, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manchester and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railways George Brown, Esq., Twining-park, Worcestershire Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Robert Bell, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick, Director of the Great Easters and Western Junction, and London and Nottingham Railways Robert S. Butterfield, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Luke Butler, Esq., Alderman, Dublin, Director if the Galway and Kilkenny, and Cork and Waterford Railways William Clods Braddon, Esq., Regency-square, Rrigistoi Christopher Bentham, Esq , Birkenhead, Director of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, and of the North and South Wales Bank William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham Districts, the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction, and the Birken head and Holyhead Junction Railways Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, Director of the Central Kent Railway Joseph Charles Cohen, Esq., merchant, Birmingham John James Conway, Esq., Liverpool John Carmichael, Esq., Cork, Director of the Cork and Waterford Railway William Henry Collis, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway Thomas Cocksey, Esq., Atherton and Bolton, Director of the Man chester and Wigan Railway William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., Hull, Director of the Rugby, War wick, and Leamington Railway William Clifford, Esq , Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties Railway William Caldwell, Esq., Alderman, Ince-hall, Wigan, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway Henry Coe Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Essex, Director of the Man , cheater, Oxford, and Southampton Junction Railway John Townshend Compton, Esq., Wedhampton, Wilts, Director of the Manchester, Southampton, and Poole Railway Captain F. Chamier, Halkin-street,' Belgrave-square, Director of the Fampoux and Ilazebrouck Railway Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse Bradford, Magistrate for Wilts and Somerset John Campbell Dickers, Esq., New Hall, Neston, Cheshire, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Rugby, Derby, and Man chester Railways Seignley Thomas Cuthbert, Esq. Cli ft on Thomas Davies, Esq., the Instills, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Di rector of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway W. T. S. Daniel, Esq., Recorder of Ipswich Miles Dormer, Esq., London, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Coast Railway John Doughill, Esq., Lockwood, Huddersfield Joseph Dowson, Esq., merchant, Lambeth Thomas 11. Evans, Esq., Mayor of Caniarvon Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount•street, Grosvenor-square, and Kirby Dale, Yorkshire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham, Director of th e Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway William Edwards, Esq., Aston Furnaces, Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Great Leeds and Lou den Direct, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Rail ways Captain Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headly-grove, Reigate John Finn's, Esq., merchant, Dover Charles Fitzgerald, Esq., Charles-street, St. James's, Director of the London and Nottingham Railway Webster Flockton, Esq., Weybridge, Surrey Bell Fletcher, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway 1 hoinas Folliott Powell, Esq., Esq., 16th Lancers, Lucan-house, Ripon, Yorkshire Benjamin Franklin, Esq., 5, Harley-street, Cavendish-square, Di rector of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway William Tulloh Fraser, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of the Dorking, Brighton, and Arundel Railway Charles Hay Frewen, Esq., Brickwall, .Northlam, Sussex William Fitzgibbon Esq., 21, Cambridge-street, Connaught - square , Director of the Fitzgibbon, and Passage and Cork and Bandon Railways Major Grubbe, Eastwell-house, magistrate for Wilts William Gambier, Esq., Sacombc-park, Herts Captain Gould, Charles-street, St. James's George Frederick Gregory, Esq., Seacombe, Cheshire, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the South Stafford shire Junction, the Derby and Crewe, the Macclesfield cud Lich field, and the Leicester and Tamworth Railways John Griffith Frith, Esq., merchant, Austin-friars, Chairman of the Londonderry and Coleraine Railway James Gernon, Esq., Coaduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, Manchester, Oxford, and South ampton, and Cheltenham and Brighton Railways William, Gatliff, Esq., merchant, Leeds, Director of the West 'fork- shire Railway Joseph Gill, Esq , Potter Newton ➢Bunt, Leeds,Director of the Leeds and York and Midland Junction Railway John Hall, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and York Railway William Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Director of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway Samuel Baines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, Direetor of the Leicester aid Tamworth Railway William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth and South Staffordshire Junction Railways William 'Wilkes Hill, Esq., Beeston Hall, Leeds Lewis Hofiman, Esq., Temple, Director of the Nottingham and South Staffordshire Railway James Inglis, Esq., M.D., Halifax, Director of the Manchester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction, and the Loadon, Holyhead, and Portdynllaen Railways John Johnson, Esq., R.N., Birmingham Kersington Lewis, Esq., Worcester -park, Surrey, Director of the Cheltenham, Oxford and Brighton Junction, and the Lynn, Wit beach, and Peterborough and Midland Counties' Railways John Lowe, Esq., Norfolk Crescent, Hyde-park William Phillips Lamb, Esq., Ockham House, Sussex Edward Augustus Lamb, Esq., Westfield, Battle, Sussex, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway Darnton Lurton, Esq , Potter Newton Hall, Mayor of Leeds, Direc tor of the Leeds and York, and Wakefield and Bradford Railways Sir William Lowthrop, Knt., Hull, Director of the Leeds, Hudders field, Shefeld, and South Staffordshire Direct Railway John Lord, I:sq., Standish Hall, Lancashire, Director of tke Black burn, Chorley, Wigan, and North Union Junction Railway, and of the Staffordshire Potteries, and Manchester and Liverpool Direct Railway James Lamb, Esq., 35, Hyde Park-square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Rowland Mackenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-squai e, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Railways Thomas Gibbon itloneypenny, Esq., Hole-park, Rolvenden, Kent Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the Brighton and Chel tenham Direct Railway James Joseph M'Swiney, Esq., Sandal View, Wakefield, Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway J. Mee Mathew, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commissioner, Director of the Worcestershire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire Railway Captain Macdougall, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Read ing, Guildford, and Reigate Railway John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetter-house, Atberstone, Director of the Teen and Dove Valley, and South Staffordshire Junction Railways Joseph Norton, Esq. Clayton West, Huddersfield, Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford Union Railway, and the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway Captain Thomas Ross, bB, Porchester-terrace, Director of the Di- Northern, Eastern, and Western Junction Railway George Parbnry, Esq., Mansfield House, Russell-square, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway William Peppercome, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Direetor of the West Midland Railway William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the London and Netting- Alexander Prince, Esq., London, Director of the Cheltenham, Ox ford, and Brighton Railway hat' Railway George Ewing Scott, Esq., Stoke Bishop, sear Bristol Thomas Stocker, Esq., St. Ives, Director of the Wisbeack, St. Ives, and Cambridge Railway Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-terrace, Director of the Lynn, Wisbeach, Peterborough, &c., Railway William Spooner, Esq., London, Director of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool, Manchester, and New castle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway Henry Scott, Esq., 17, Pall-mall S. E. Sichell, Esq., merchant, Bradford, Director of the Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Railway George Turner, Esq., Bunton llill, Erdingtem Director of the Smith Staffordshire Junction Railway Henry Taylor, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manobester and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railways George Turton, Esq., Bagden Lodge, Clayton West, Huddersfield William Tinker, Esq., Conock, Wilts, Director of the Manchester, Southampton, and Poole Railway George Thomas Thompson, Esq., Dover, Coroner for the Cinque Ports ohn Thompson, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, Director of the Birkhen head and Holyhead Railway, of the Manchester and Wigan Rail ' way, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railway John Taylor, Esq., Mull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties Railway James Upfill, Esq., Th e Green, Herefordshire, Director of the Staf fordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway George Unett, Esq., The Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Direc tor of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway, and the Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railway Thomas Bolman Upflll, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birming ham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Easing stoke Railway Walter Unett, Esq., Captain 3d Light Dragoons, Maidstone, Director of the Nottingham and South Staffordshire, and the Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railways William Boyden Watts, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby Railway Thomas Wakefield, Esq., London, Director of the Nottingham and South Staffordshire Railway Smith Whileck, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway Robert William Watson, Esq., Dover John Wheelton, Esau, Meopham Bank, near Tunbridge, Direelsor of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Sir William White, Director of the Stafford, Uttoxeter, and Derby Railway J. W. Yerbury, Esq., Beleombe-house, Wilts, Capt. 3d. Light Dra goons, Director of the Direct Western Railway. Lodge Morris Murray Prior, Esq., 19th Lancers, Coventry, Director of the Dublin, Tullamore, and Parsonstown Railway Edward Knight, E5q.,711.D. Stafford, Director of the Grand Junction and Midlands' Union Railway Henry William Skelton, Esq., Shadwell, near Leeds Charles William Reynolds, Esq., Captain IGth Lancers, Maidstone, Director of the Worcester, Warwick and Rugby Railway Thomas Bramall, Esq., Mayor of Tamworth, Deputy Chaiman of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway Richard Hughes, Esq. ' Stafford, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire. Junction Railway Henry Wenman Newman, Esq., Thornbury-park, near Bristol, De puty-Lieutenant of Gloucestersishire, and mlgistrate of Glcueester shire and Bristol. J. Davis, Esq., Loxley, Warwickshire John Kerle Haterfleld, Esq., Clifton, late Mayor of Bristol Charles Eales, Esq., Richmond-court, Clifton David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Director of tl Liveraocl, Man cheater, and Warrington, and the Worcester and Lsoninster Railway MaJor Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the L'onden. and Not; thaslum Maw EA R VALLEY CONTRACTEOR THE EXECUTIONRALI W A O W RK A S. Y. The Directors are desirous of Letting by Tender the Making and Completing the entire Works of the above Railway, with the exee tion of finding Rails and Chairs for the Permanent Way. Length line about twelve miles. The plans and specifications may be seen at the office of Mr. John Dixon, Civil Engineer, Darlington, on and after Monday, the 20th day of October next; and Tenders must be sent into Mr. Thomas M'Nay, the Secretary, at the Company's office in Darlington, on or before Monday, the 3d of November. GEORGE H. WILKINSON, Ckairman. Wear Valley Railway-office, Darlington, Sept. 22, 184 i. I 4 ONDON EXCHANGE OF SCRIP. AND NORWICH DIRECT RAILWAY, With WEST ESSEX, LYNN, and YARMOUTH EXTENSION, through DUSMOW and BURY ST. EDMUNDS, with a BRANCII to NEWMARKET. PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS. Lord Alfred Hervey, M.P. for Brighton, Ickworth-park Captain the Hon. E. T. Wodehouse, R.N., Witten Sir H. E. Sunbury, 13.7. rt., Great Barton Hall Sir W. Foster, Bart.. Mayor of Norwich W. II Windham, Esq., Fellbrigg Hall, Cr. me: James Bunbury Blake, Esq., Thurston Lodge 6. Y. Denyon, Esq., Denston-park G. W. Gent, Esq„ Moyen's-park T. Neville Abily, Esq., Albyn's Charles Raikes, Esq., Walthamstow W. Whitaker Maitland, Esq., Loughton Hall. The holders of the Old Scrip Certificates of the London and Nor wich Direct Railway may exchange them for New Scrip Certificates in the above Company, by delivering up such Old Certificates to Messrs. Currie and Co., 29, Cornhill, the bankers of the Company, or to the bankers in Bury St. Edmunds, and paying to them the additional 5 per cent., or 11. per Share, required by the recent standing order of Parliament; upon which receipts will be given for such Certificates delivered up and money paid, to be exchanged for new Scrip Certificates (in which the sum of 2/. on account of each Share will be acknowledged to have been re ceived) after execution of the Subscribers' Agreement and Parlia mentary Contract by the person named in each receipt, as intending to execute those Deeds. For the convenience of Scripholders living at a distance, or wbo may, from other causes, be unable to attend in London, the Old Scrip may be delivered up, and the money paid by agents, although the Deeds must afterwards be executed by the persons named in the receipts, as proposing to sign. Due notice will be given of the time for closing this offer, which will be as soon as a fair degree of publicity can have been given to it. Applications for shares, in the usual form, may be forwarded to me, at Bury St. Edmund's, or to Messrs. Wade and Pennington, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry; T. Bisgood, Esq., 36, Carey-street, Lincoln's Ina-fields; W. T. Wade, Esq., Great Dunmow ; 11. Sams, Esq., Clare ; H. W. Jackson, Esq., Haverhill; I. H. Holmes, Esq., Bury St. Edmund's ; and C. S. Gilman, Esq., Norwich. F. K. EAGLE, Secretary. :FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. I request that you will allot to me shares of 201. each in the West Essex and Yarmouth and Lynn Extensions of the London and Norwich Direct Railway Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit of 21. per share thereon, and to execute the Subscri bers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract. Residence • • .. •. • • .. • • • • • • •• • • • • • • Addition or Occupation .. • • • • • • • • • • Reference •• - ••••• wa. The Company reserve the right of carrying the lines entirely through upon the atesosheric principle, if found expedient. S HREWSBURY AND TRENT VALLEY UNION RAILWAY. Company's Offices, 68, George•street, Manchester, October 3d, 1845. The Committee of Management of the Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union Railway Company having this day unanimously re solved, that it is expedient that this undertaking Fhould be combined with the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company, and that for this purpose the Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union Railway Company should be dissolved and its affairs wound up ; Notice is hereby given, that scrip holders must forward their scrip to these offices on or before the 31st October instant, and signify in the annexed form, their election either to receive back their deposit, which, in that event, will be returned to them without deduction for past expenses, ( , r to take in exchange for the scrip of the Shrews bury and Trent Valley Union Company, a corresponding number of Shares In the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company. Parties who shall so elect may receive back their deposits forthwith, on depositing their scrip. Parties who elect to take shares in the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company, may, in like manner, on depositing their scrip, obtain a letter of allotment for a coresponding number of shares in the new Company, which allotment will be forwarded to original allottees immediately after the scrip shall have been deposited, and in other cases so soon as the Directors shall be satisfied of the suffi ciency of the depositors. Parties who shall fail to send in their scrip and notify their wishes on or before the 31st October, will be considered as having elected to receive back their deposits. The Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement of the New Company, together with a Deed of Release, will lie for signa ture on and after Monday, the 13th October instant ;—in Manches ter, at No. 58, George-street, and in London, at a place to be here after named ; and the scrip of the New Company will be issuable immediately after the deeds shall have been executed. HENRY TOOTAL, Deputy Chairman, R. FOSS, Secretary. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional - Committee of the Shrewsbury' and Tren Valley Union Railway Company. Gentlemen,—llcrewith are Scrip ibr shares iu the Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union Railway, in respect of which I request you* to cause to be allotted to me a corresponding number of shares in the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company, and I agree to pay such deposit, and execute such deeds and agreements as may be required iu respect of such new allotment. Date• • .. ..... • • • • Name in full Description ... • • • • • • • • • • Address in full . • • • • • • • • • • • Reference ... • • ...... • • • • • • • • • " • • This form must be tilled up in the handwriting of the applicant. * Partiq declining to take shares in the nug • Company, can substi tute the allowing for the reKaainder cf the 1 of uppbOntiOn--." To Mourne tho amount of the deposit thoreon,_" _ ar' GREAT WESTERN", sou rII E RS , to EASTERN COUNTIES; or IPSWICH and SOO* TiN RAILWAY. _ . (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 1,800,0001., in 90,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share. COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION. William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., Alderman, C William Fechney Black, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Sir John Edmond de Beauvoir, Samuel Haines, Esq. Bart. Sir John Hare, F.S.A. The Rev. George Newenham J GR o L lin gregr M erl o ° l a l l a iNnYt° / 18 ;:c Wright, M.A. T. S. Richards, Esq. John Burgess, Esq. Thomas Shaw, ESq• Richard Carpenter, Esq. John Grant, Esq. John Weehlto jß n o , :be isq. Robert TVh:ttlkinPinssi°j. 64 Ek.' 4F:. BA NEERS. • th orn London—Barnett, Mares, and Co., 62, Lombard-street, .1,0 mercial Bank of London, 6, Lothbury ; and the Unto"' London Rochdale—Messrs. Clement Royds, and Son Manchester—The Union Bank of Manchester. Liverpool—The North and South Wales Bank. Birmingham—The Birmingham Banking Company. itibsao Northampton—The Northampton Banking Company and CONSULTING ENGINEERS. Sir John M'Neil, LL.D , F.R.S., James Thomson, Esq., V.R.S.E., 31 . 11-1 " 1. ENGINEERS. 'William B. Prichard, Esq., C.B. William Thomson, Esq., C.E. • JOINT SOLICITORS. John Bethell, Esq., 78, King William-street, City, Loll‘oril*cc", Tod ° Peter A. Burrell, Esq., 1, White-hart-court, Lombard -fit SECRETARY—WiIIiam Arch2r Graham , Egq•ctate tit so The Committee of Direction have the satisfactio n to -rsuitgerac Parliamentary surveys are in active progress, and that a in the ` s, have been concluded for securing application for an ac t 0 suing Session of Parliament. Applications for plans, prospectuses, and shares , Ili, (o p , to the Company's Solicitors, Local Agents, an d , ter eion ing Share-brokers :—Messrs. Barclay, Allsop, andt'i:„ change-buildings, London ; Messrs. Houghlaad and Lel; g on' T ' l 4 , street, and Messrs. Marshall and Co , : Manchester ; I‘O rr , Ali Esq., Barnard-buildings, Liverpool ; Messrs. Dicks alio is; Sal street, and Messrs. Wellbe'oved, Barwick, and Co., Le: ui; sad Wilkinson and Earle, Hull ; J. R. Lane, EIGI., W. Powell, Esq., 2, Wellington-street, Leamington. N.Y. All persons not affixing their place of abode, as" p all place of business if any, to their applications for shared , s. attended to, the Act of Parliament requiring both addreo FORM OF APPLICATION. „sutler,' Ti the Provisional Committee if the Great Western , l'„-,iy. pi, Eastern Counties, or Ipswich and Southampton Iso. the Pi, I tequest that you will allot to me share , tit sal t ‘ v rj g 414 proposed Railway, and I will accept the same, or l and pay the deposit thereon, and sign the Parliaineto," and Subscribers' Agreerneat when required so to do. Dated this day . 1845. Christian and Surname in roll „..)„ Professioa or Business •• " If Address and Place of Bus iness Usual Signature .. • • • • •• Reference.... ....... . • • •• Address of Referee Offices, 5, Gresham-street, Guildhai REAT WESTERN, SOUTHERS,sorfiF \3 l l - EASTERN COUNTIES, OR IPSWICH AS P in A3IPTON" RAILWAY. 4lutr e ' • 01 ' Notice is hereby given, that no further Applicabons .4 14 t this undertaking will he received after TUESDAY Next, I'," By order, W. A. GRAII I24 • 5, Gresham-street, Guildhall, Oct. 8, 1845. O' . 16 WORCESTER AND MERTHYR T JUNCTION RAILWAY. 0 (Provis'onally Registered, pursuant to 7 and Vict.,l.• 11 Capital, 800,6001., in 40,000 Shares of 201. O n " Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COM)IITTER. I ,‘ Sir William Wynn, Maesynewydd, Chairman of the p I. Railway 'seri '1 William Chadwick, Esq., Montagu-square, Director of the fol tb Wales Railway, and Chairman of the Worces ter nn Wales Junction ro p, , A 0 Gideon Colquhoun, Esq., Walmer-lodge, Avon -I n- :4or gent's-park, Director of the Manchester and Sn"' 1 Railway A Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London ,rorce - ter ' 1 John Knill, Esq., Thame.i•-street, Director of the " ! j oing . I Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., 19, James-street, ham-gate f p- 041 1; Henry Plumtre Gipps, Esq., Montagu-place, Bryang-nniiif- Director of the Trent Valley and Holyhead Junct ion 3 ajor-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London Pi rdt' l Thomas B. Simpson, Esq., Rutland-lodge, Bristoth 0 ( 0 of the NOrth Wales Railway, and Deputy -Chairnw Worcester and South Wales Junction - John Purchas, Esq., Upton Bishop, near Ross J John Tanner, Esq., M.D., Ledbury illiam Barnes, Esq., Foregate-street, Worcester ~,,rcer George Alfred Ellis Wall, Esq., Cross-house, nea r v and Worthy park, Hampshire John Hemming, ENV, North-bank, Regent's-park. John Crawfurd, Esq., Blackbrook, Abergayenny Philip Matthews, Esq., Burton Court, near Ross . t" Samuel Higgins, Esq., Berrow Court, Worcestershire,roor William Nichoshon. Esq., Manchester, Director of the ' Ktor 'Rug Bland, w • William by Esq , 11, Park-terrace, Brixton road' Pi- North Wales Railway Stephen Phillips, Esq., Director of the Whitehav en Railwayill James Brand, Esq., New Broad-street, Director of )1° 11`' shire Railway Thomas Baylis, Esq., F.S.A., Pryors-bank, Fulham o f O e Henry Garrett Key, Esq., Tulse-hill, Brixton, Director _ _ mouthshire Railway Joseph Gillman Barrett, Esq., Rocs , - WO James Upflll, Esq., The Green, Bromyard,Herefor ds- , t r William Candler, Esq., Newland Com t, near Worcester ntec„,, l, James Chamberlain, Esq., Green-hill, Worcester irfip?', at Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.ti., 8, Upper Hyde-pork's d of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle, Hyde-parka 1 Liverpool Direct Railways Of tl tot irk Charles Grant, Esq., Fitzroy-square ~, John Jennings, Esq., Elm-grove, Hammersmith, ', Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Railways Paul Prosser, Esq., Galway, Herefordshire, Ross William Dew, Esq., Southwell Court, Ross ' Thomas Wathen, Esq., Trevose, Ross Il e WllliamCary Cox, Esq., Ross --- V IPO, D. A. R Saunders, Esq., Hill-house, Ledbury An d I a P o' fordshire Matthew Stephens White, Esq., Trepenkonnett, MO S ter SP Ellis Lee Sanders, E•q., Ross, Director of the IVore 6 ,gf' Wales Junction Railway Itr t of tl ' . / Thomas Woodall, Esq., Bonin, near Ross, Director ~ and South Wales Junction Railway of t °l, John Hall, Esq., iron merchant, Worcester, Direc tor 4 and South Wales Junction Railway vl i, Thomas Whittlesey Purchas. Esq., Ross Fr Lawson Cape, Esq., M.D., Brook-street, H an over -IVl narc' ..., the Worcester and South Wales Junction RailwaY ~,pli`', ~, Lieut.-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.B. 2, Montaglit', anstone-square, Director of the York and Lancaster ;IV James Vickers, Esq., Mark-lane, Director of the ler and Armagh, Coleraine, and Kilrush Railways William Farmer, Esq., Worcester 'V l' George {Vinton's, Esq., Longdon, near Tewkesburi, n mi o ,' t pc Samuel Homfray, Esq., Bedwelty-house, Tredegar . L r ,:tof P , William Thomas, Esq., Court, Merthyr Tydvil, Dit`'' ...6 of Neath Railway tas' y Thomas Evans, Esq., Dowlais Ironworks, Director of Railway o rlt Thomas Brown, Esq., Ebbw Vale and Sirhowy Iron' , 11, David William James, Esq., Merthyr Tydvil An 0 ~ mer , tar Benjamin Martin, Esq., Pen-y-Darren iron works, n ate Morgan Morgan, Esq., Bodweigad, Merthyr Tydvil' Vale of Neath Railway William Meyrick, jun., Esq., Merthyr Tydvil , 14. ,1'41 Edward Purchas, Esq., Yuis-y-gored, Aberdare. , 8. 1.,,•' CONSULTING ENGINEER—CharIes Vignolles, Esaa 3 .4' I,C , ENGINEERS—Messrs. S. and T. Hopkin s ' . BANKERS. The London and Westminster Bank, L o thburY, s od Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, Biddulph, and CO., (.13 Messrs. Webb and Co., Ledbury Messrs. Morgan, Hoskins and Co., Ross Messrs. Berwick, Lechmere, and Co., Worcester The National Provincial Bank, Gloucester o,avensio Messrs. Baileys, Graterex, and Williams, Ab ere 'Tred e , Monmouth and Glamorgan Banking Compa n y' ' P 1 , V Messrs. Wilkins and Co., Merthyr Tydvil- SOLICITORS. rhiir ot-l ? Messrs. Gilbert, Hooke, Street, and Gutteres, Charles G. Jones, Esq., 11, Grays's Inn-square ..,,, Messrs. J. and F. Higgins and Chamberlain, L ed LOCAL AGENTS. AO Messrs. Hydes and Tymbs, Wer e Messrs. Edwards, Ross a ILI . , Messrs. Gabb and Secretan, Aberk,: e '' av SECRETARY (pro tem.)—William Borrovi . o ptli nti v Offices of the Company, 7, Walb r° ,400°,, - 0-‘4 f the iti'; pli' r. This railway will commence at the station 0 ,tiell, v., paie,,," , r Hereford and Worcester and South Wales Jo ° Lvoi o , f v.; rf,'',4. ceeding through a rich agricultural district, n ow t - ce ' ' te re s ` r hen ~,j0 fP accommodation. to Ahergavenny, and from ,„0•0 , i c• Nant-y-Glo; Tredegar, Ebbw Vale, Rumney, and , i ii ,ts; • 4 .ooi ci , Tydvil, at which place it will join the Taff Yale it ' 101 oe, , e t tance will not exceed 40 miles. 4 0 lifte ,l o 6 d i f i rt ir . On reference to the map it will be seen that i i a'S oi 0 ,f, ' tion with the proposed Worcester and South 1 natle ti cese* ~ , 0 Ledbury, Malvern, and Ross, will perfecta 0° OW di or , ,,r, communication from Merthyr Tydvil to Londo n ' ,„ e fill. o o° mingham, South Staffordshire, and the north. ~..„ aw' o pes l Le t ',,- The population of Merthyr, and the surroun o T r t i voty'',oo: ‘ : exceeds 120,000, and this line will place it in iiii Viand ',t In i rir the'.agricultural counties of Monmouth, Hereforo,,reate ,h l' i ,ili,, , The line *ill be laid down so as to render tite t t' i taline lia' dation to the principal ironworks in the distri n ot her ifi ce 0 4 will pass, and a saving of ten miles over a ny „ otter P ,D o' „,,tl l effected between Merthyr and Worcester, an d aob f and east of that city. mai ' e 0 o f - • e der ii tsg 0 Arrangements are in progress with the Were,' misli t0 t ,, ,,,ct Junction Railway Company, for the modes] to l i ' c e o f _,Cir' Companies. s _,.., on at ~c , 00,0,04 Applicants for shares who are personallY r'''' re fer ;,,, s I,' the Provisional Committee, are requested t:'''_ to !,;;,, is Committee ; all other applicants will be reeloo`" - 0 ., pew" 0P: 0 0 to some banker, or other person of known re s r Jaae„ t ',4lr,ii° or the town from which the application is Innu - ivale° t iis ' e I", Holders of scrip la the Worcester and Sotnh ,re , la a ti 1 3,1„ ), way will be entitled to an equal number of s il i withltell,oo,,,, upon making application in the usual form, a n " o Of 13 %,) 01 . 0 Ah hereafter specified; subject, however, lathe case ,..ro pti re gil t 4 the shares were not originally allotted, to the s l i Y neret ° ~st 10 , visional Committee, and all such persons Mo s ` isfe ° 'ff t ie rence according to the best below. to 4 ,llo' l i d ili lilt o te The usual power will aken by the Act „,, n pA . . t , per cent. per annum on the amount of subscriPr,,,e4/0".4 P .- „1 Subscriber will be answerable for more than th o _r be fe+' 4 i . 5 posit until the Act is obtained, and then ° ~ors ' ° oll ° ;f' scription. the 11 ; t'te f ' Prospectuses and plans may be obtained of _lstess,A. , O ,C, agents, and of the following sharebrokerS,•_iford, „, , ; oi er , e , 14 ., Scott, Throgmorton-street, •London; John t't; eo rS• t i ii ,jl3,ii , Messrs. Ridsdale, Myers, and Bailey, Leeds; ,`:, mid _ a iol : nove, and Taunton, Liverpooel ; Messrs. Gre i ratbs: „die" I cheater ; Messrs. Sohmes and Tripp, Bristo ; ~,, ..5..• it? Birmingham; Mr. William Miles, Worcester ''' ~. t ' Glasgow ; and Mr. 13alme, Gloucester. ~s . „ sibili e rtl i f ,01 , FORM OF APPLICATION Ful`... r aud ' 0 ,0 0 1 Ili To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester 8 11 . 60 I P, Junction Railvray. , ton , , tic al c , Gentlemen,—l request you will allot Me ~..„011 ".,, iD: e , .o. each in the proposed Worcester and 31erthir "pd r e 7 toy 5 pe e p' way, and I undertake to accept the sain e ,'„ mloo_ l o_o ,l, thereon, or upon any lesser number that may ton t prean''' payment to he made within the time Haute ~,, wan. - ~, and I undertake to execute the Agreeme ntan" l '' ' tract when required. day °f / Dated this Name Residence ____,.__ • Description ---- id , Reference --- ~.. Usual Signature lot TI V ,0 1 id ...- ERT P.I Vi sc it il :: WORCESTER AND M y . At a Public Meet j irg jnbn rt; lve i r'' h s ° tO ld" to 'tji neighbourhood of Merthyr, held Purso - ~5 a t Yi 1 ~c A t e ti C o T f lOtrie RA.lLff,•.4_,,t; o r , t 9 11 , e ,„i1i c t , ,,,, , t '' Castle Hotel, this 3d day October o'lo from the *Worcester and South Wales . Juncti on .. „, i o ~.e ic DAVID W. JAMES, Esel., hav in g been "" ford 1 P ° A Eaq" '':.' NS , ''' (A V Chai, ..,,istrat,es4,, ‘,s: It was moved by Witaxasi Trloat r , ____„,„„ 1,..,va , to p 0 a," of Glamorgan, and seconded by rim" 15 Ito il ' o f ,4s -- rs° i! sfra c `ti til o *All ironworks— du g, tile r -- o cl o f tb ,014 " That In the opinion of this Mc% ', worces te os pecOld OW way from Merthyr-Tydfil to Pin ' ~, in the Fr _ lo ud .‘i, 4_ , A Junction Railway at Ross, as set fort! ,, ,,_ s‘ , Is b e?' ,0110 1 '" e te' e f t a "4 cester and Merthyr-Tydfil Junction lf , 1, !:• 0 ", el .. Du 1 e to I " r us s tr lei to promote the prosperity of this tow m of railwaY and tb ~t l o_,, as it will perfect a main trunk 'lnc e tng l a tal„ id.,'dtelV iniugham, London, and the nortlit,,, b i a dist!on'iitootriolert, ~ advantageous outlet for the minerals 4 0, , °f 3' e SO " ,irt# ' ' of the counties, 11 O f the agricultural productions _ ee ..,,,, ,4 ..a , 1 , 0 . and Worcester ; therefore this 3t l. „ iv . 1 ' ou-• • vale b` or - led unan in „,,bo• pea ~,) its strenuous support.” — Ca ll N E of r , " wr is, pi' r It was moved by Tuomes Boon' , __ ,„ 1 , Oa Cn ° o 4i f . lc 11110,1 0 V, darran Ironworks — eeting befront ` the In' tasifr Ironworks, and seconded by HE:4::tiroeona,:: fo.ree_ tioitio to, "That the thanks of this M t this Meet ing 'f; u t rcii s .,,,i, d to the Me - .. Sai" r 1 E m s i g tiee a , n fo d r the information they have afforde Aai jun etioa ode j their -o posed Worcester and Merthyr-Tythe ...AP sec,- 10 unanimously. Gentlemenattendance of a The Chairman having vacated„.„ „ w ore, • rtny r, mot to e It was moved by THOMAS vi -,,,,,, of - I 't e , tie Ch anise 0 WILLIAM DAVIES , ..-' ':,,,,,, r i IO . ~, by AC .e f this Meeting b e ~;_carrie" siN " That the thanks o in the Chair. T X Y 1, 4 able and impartial conduct _ , _ ... ,.,. / 11 0 tiO ~, the C liair ' reg., an ci fo r AND JAI13:111 JUNCTION „„. that n o, W ORCESTER RAl rsiritY. no AO; 14 ' can be receiv 50 0 Shares in this CompanySafi a The Provisional Coin nitiee give.7lif- er T, ab t m ardef0....... e October. r ., , • 7, Walbrb* COO le"' G^ eisitnl 4 heir n , A Co'n kr. 'b ur C apita' °ne-hair 14 r 4 Pro t'hArnbe/ 011 t inter Rant .44e rail v, od tkt' t t k4, 41 t NI .44 1 0 , tkieqw Benjamin Swan, Esq.. Weymouth and Jermyn-stroet Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., Liilingston Dayrell, High Sheriff of Bucks, and Director of the Minehead and Bridgewater Railway Robert Bell, Esq., Norris Castle, Isle of Wight. John Granville Dewes, Esq., Loxley, Warwickshire CONSULTING E NGINEEIL— Immo ENGINEER—Edward James Maude, Esq., C.E. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Rog.rs, Olding, and Co.; the Union Bank ltristol—Stuckey's Rankin Company Bradford and Trowbridge—The Wilts and Dorset Banking Company Dover—Messrs. Latham and Co. JOINT SOLICITORS. Edwin Smith, Esq., and Messrs. Lewis and Ford, London ; Edwar Barges, Esq., Bristol. LOCAL SOLICITORS G. F. Thompson, Esq., Dover ; Henry Gilbert, Esq., Devizes; W. Reece, Esq., Birmingham ; Messrs. Timbrell and Meyrick, Bradford 1111 d Trowbridge; Messrs. Taylor, Kemp, and Kingston, Bath; Joseph Charles Shetheare, Esq., Basingstoke Messrs. Timbrell and Merrick, Bradford and Trowbridge Messrs. Taylor, Kemp, and Kingston, Bath. PARLIAMENTARY AGENT CadWaliatier F. Waddy, Esq. SECRETARY—CharIes Martin, Esq. _ . _ This Company has been formed for the purpose of constructing a - . line in continuation of the South-Eastern Railway at Reigate, whereby a direct junction will he effected between the whole of the south-eastern coast, including the port and harbour of Dover and the several ports and towns of Southampton, Gosport, Portsmouth, and Bristol ; and, by means of the Bristol and Birmingham Railway, with Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and the north of England. From its proximity to the Continent, the port of Dover will always be the most accessible point of tho English coast; an expeditious communication therefore between that and the other ports, harbours, and inland towns of the United Kingdom, must necessarily - e regarded as a great national advantage. . . Dover is at present the chief port of embarkation for Calais, Boulogne, Ostend, and other continental town; and the vast numbers already resorting there both on business and pleasure, will be im measurably increased when the railways of France, Belgium, Hol land, and Germany are fully brought into operation. In addition to which, the Government Commissioners having selected Dover as a Harbour of Refuge, and recommended the outlay tkero • of 1,500,0001., it cannot fail of becoming a place of the greatest resort for the_shipping and commercial interests of the coun try, a d perhaps the most important town on the southern coast. In every point of view, therefore, whether for national security, sr for travelling excursions, or the invaluable interests of our shipping and commerce, the paramount importance of a cheaper, more conve nient, and accelerated intercourse between this great port and all parts of the kingdom, must be sufficiently obvious. This the pro moters fully anticipate will be attained by the proposed railway, which will form a portion of a grand trunk line, completing toe chain of railway communication upon the narrow gauge between the south-eastern coast, and Bristol and the western, northern, and mid land counties. The litoawill commence at the terminus of the South-Eastern Rail way at Reigate, proceed thence by Dorking, Gedalming, Farnham, and Odiham to the Basings;oke station, on the South-Western Rail way. It will then proceed by Andover towards Devizes, Trow bridge, and Bradford, with a branch to Bath, and pursuing its course through the Somersetshire coal-field, throwing off a branch towards Itadstock int* the heart of the collieries, terminate in ajunction with the Bristol and Birmingham Railway at Bristol. By its course through. Dorking, Godalming, Farnham, and Odi ham, it will supply the railway accommodation so much required by those towns, and connect the rich and fertile hop districts of Surrey, Kent, and South Hants, and afford the means of conveyance of their produce to the great Flop-fair at Ntreyhill. By its junction with the contemplated " Reading, Guildford, and Retiateliallway," it will afford to the inhabitants of Reading, Oxford, and to the midland counties generally, the best and shortest route to the Continent, as well as to Worthing, Hastings, Brighton, and the other watering-places in Sussex and Kent ; and a vast increase of ♦isitors will undoubtedly be attracted to those places from the interior of England by the accommodation and facilities for travelling which will be accomplished by this and the proposed railway from Reading. By its intersection of the South-Western Railway at Basingstoke, and of the proposed Manchester and Southampton Railway further west, the present line will connect Dover towards the south, with Southampton (the packet station for the East and West Indies, &c.), Gosport, and Portsmouth, and towards the north, with Cheltenham, Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool, also with Shrewsbury, Chester, and Holyhead, and in fact with the whole of North and South Wales. At Basingstoke, also, this line will join the proposed London, Salis bury, and Yeovil Railway, and throw open to Dever and the south eastern counties the populous aed wealthy cities of Salisbury and Exeter, thu rich agricultural counties' of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, and Devon, the p,rts of Plymouth, Devonport, and Falmouth, and the mineral regions Cornwall. To Devizes, Trowbridge, Bradford, and Bath, and the other towns in the vicinity of its course, the benefit which this line will confer cannot he too highly estimated ; to the coal districts of Somerset shire it will open large and constant markets both in Bristol and to the south and east, while to the inhabitants of Bristol especially, con necting its channel with the Straits of Dover and the Downs, pro viding a perfect line for telegraphic communication, and securing to them the whole of the trade between the south-east of England and the west and south of Ireland, it seems difficult, considering the enor mous traffic which must necessarily flow to that city, to conceive a project more deserving of their cordial support. In the memorable Parliamentary contest last session between two great rival companies, the Legislature for the first time admitted that principle of competition with existing Interests which was claimed by the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Company for the protection and benefit of the public ; and it is with no fear of the result that the promoters of the present undertaking invite attention to one distinguishing feature it contains, viz., that by the construction of the line from Bristol to Basingstoke, the Box Tunnel will be avoided, and a new and independent communication will be established between Bristol and London, by a shorter line on the narrow gauge than by the devious course of the Great Western, inde pendently of all the advantages of the proposed central station at Hungerford-bridge, and the convenient access to the Thames both there and at Nine Elms, over the distant and inconvenient station of the Great Western at Paddington. . . In length the proposed line will be nearly 110 miles (assuming this Company to have the construction of that portion between Reigate and Dorking, for which plans have been deposited by the South- Eastern Company)—the country through which it passes does not present any engineering difficulties of moment, nor will any resi dential or ornamental property be interfered with except under an it pera t ive necessity. A reserve of shares will be made for landowners on the line, and the Committee also retain to themselves the power to vary the course of the line with reference to any arrangements with existing interests and projected lines that may be considered advantageous to the shareholders. The capital proposed to he raised is 1,500,000 f., in 75,000 shares of 201. each, with a deposit of 2/. 28. per share, to be paid on allotment. Power will be taken by the Act to allow interest, at 4/. per cent. per annum, upon all deposits and subscriptions until the opening of the line, and no subscriber shall be answerable for more than the amount of his deposit until the Act has been obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his subscription. The Subscribers' a greement and the Parliamentary Contract will be ready for execution, and the scrip issued Immediately upon pay ment of the deposits. Applications for shares must be addressed to the Secretary, at the Offices of the Company, No. 12, Gray's Inn-place, only ; but n ) appli cation will be attended to unless accompanied by a reference to a member of the Provisional Committee, one of the solicitors to the Company, or a banker. Copies of the prospectus and form of application for shares may be obtained at the offices of the Company, or of Messrs. Peppercorne, Old Broad-street ; Mr. Sym, 9, Tokenhouse-yard ; and Mr. B. B. Wil liams, Throgmorton-street, stock and sharebrokers, London. POKY OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. - To the Provisional Committee of the Dover and Bristol Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 20/. each In this Company, and I agree to accept the same, or any smaller number which may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit thereon and execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreemen when required Dated this day of Name in full .... Occupation or Pr0fe55i0n.......... Residence.... Reference• ••• • • 1845. HOVER AND BRISTOL RAILWAY. No Application 3 for Shares can be received after 310NDAY, the 13th day of October, instant, except from, parties resident in the country or locally interested, by whom applications may be made until Wednesday, the 15th instant. By order, CHARLES MARTIN, Secretary. 12, Gray's Inn-place, 7 Oct., 1845.