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'WREXHAM, NANTWICH, and CREWE JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 450,0001., in 22,500 Shares of 20/. each. Deposit, 21. `23. 6d. per Share. TEMPORARY OFFICES—Henblas-street, Wrexham. PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS. To xnshend )lainwaring, Esq., Marchwiel Hall, M.P. for the Den t) ghshirc Boroughs ;iv Ralph Pendlebury, Knight, Mersey Bank, Heaton Norris, Stockport, Director of the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway The Worshipful the Mayor of Macclesfield R. Humphreys Jones, Esq., Willow-house, Wrexham, Recorder of Holt, Denbighshire B II ock, Joseph, Esq., Congleton, Cheshire fl,rom, William, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Liverpool and Preston, and North Union Railways Dicker, J. Campbell, Esq., New Hall, Neston, Cheshire, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and the Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways ancan, James, Esq., Liverpool, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, the Liverpool anti Preston, and North Union Junction, and the Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways Fdgworth, Thomas, Esq., Wrexham Fechan, Wrexham fpulkes, John, Esq., Ashfie!d, Wrexham, Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and the Manchester and Birkenhead Con tinuation, and Holyhead Junction Railways illhatn, Joseph, Esq., Hargreaves-house, Oldham, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and the Staffordshire Pot • teries and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways Gough, Richard, Esq., South Sea Colliery, Wrexham, and Pepper-street, Chester 'Kenrick, Samuel, Esq., banker, Wrexham, Director of the Man cheater and Birkenhead Continuation, and Mole, Ruabon, and , North Wales Railways ":yrke, James, Glas-coed, Wrexham Lewis, George, Esq., Wrexham, Director of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and Mold, Rusbon, and North Wales Railways %fe.Dermott, George Augustus, Esq., Chesterton-hall, Stafford shire, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways :,rotte, W. R. Standish, Esq , Lincoln's. Inn-fi Ids, London I verend, J., Esq., Bentham, Lancashire, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, the Liverpool and Preston, the North Union Junction, and the Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool . and Manchester Direct Railways s'errott, Samuel, Esq., Liverpool, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction Railways ?oyser, Charles, Esq., Summer-hill, Wrexham Redish, Joseph, Esq:, Liverpool, Director of the Staffordshire Pot teries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways seed, Joseph, Esq:, Lancaster, Director of the Staffordshire Pot. teries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways Thompson, John, Esq., Frwd Works; near Wrexham, and Wigan, Lancashire, Director of the Bolton and Wigan, the Birkenhead , and Holyhead Junction, the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the Liverpool and Preston, and the North Union Junction Railways Thompson, Richard, Esq , Stansty Hall, Wrexham, Director of the Trent Volley Continuation Railway Watts, Thomas Itchenor, Esq., Macclesfield, Cheshire, late Di. rector of the Churnet Valley Railway, and Director of the South Union or Manchester, Potteries, and London Railway Williamson, J. S., Esq., Ramsdell-hall, Lawton, Cheshire (With power to add to their number.) ENGINEERS—Messrs. Gandell and Brunton. RANKERS. London—Sir J, W. Lubbock, Bart., and Co. Liverpool—The North and South Wales Bank. Manchester—The Manchester and Salford Bank. Wrexham—Samuel Kenrick, Esq. JOINT SOLICITORS. William Jones, Esq. 1 Wrexham. John Dcvereux Pugh, Esq. LONDON AGENTS. Messrs. Raimondi and Gooday, 14, South.square, Gray's Inn. Messrs. Evans, and Barnes, 6, South.square, Gray's Inn. LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. Edleston and Edleston, Nantwich. SECRETARY, pro tern—John Devereux Pugh, Esq. This line is intended to be made from Wrexham, through Holt an 1 Nantwich to Crewe. Its length will be about 23 miles, and it will be a direct communication between the most populous district of North Wales, and one of the most valuable mineral fields in the kingdom ; and Crewe and the rnanufac'uring districts of Cheshire, Lancashire, Stafford. shire, and Yorkshire, being a nearer route than any now existing or contemplated, by upwards of 12 miles. It is satisfac torily proved by the evidence of persons best qualified to give a correct opinion on the subject, that the district of Wrexham (even exclusive of what may be called the Ruabon district) possesses in exhaustible supplies of coal, ironstone, lime, and lead, of the best quality; the extent of the coal-field is about eight miles long by two broad, and the limestone is of much greater extent ; the ver tical section of coal presents 14 successive strata of coal, of which 10 are workable; these strata give 40 feet 6 inches of solid coal, upposing there to be 15 cwt. of coal to the cubic yard, and deduct ing one-tenth for old workings, and one.third for waste, faults, , <e., there remains 18,817,920 tons of coal in a square mile.—(See Evidence given before Parliament on the North Wales Mineral statlway Bill.) The value of the ironstone in the whole area of 16 miles is esti. -lated at 33,400,994/. The importance of connecting this wealthy :strict with the towns befors named is too obvious to require a •:,oment's comment. By means of the cheap and expeditious transit provided by this line, the coke manufactured in the neighbourhood of Wrexham (which is proved to be superior to any other, see evi ,:ence before mentioned) will be conveyed to Crewe, for the supply f the numerous railways centering at that place, at one-third the , resent price; the revenue to be derived from this source must be m,r•ense. The whole district through which this line will pass is , ow supplied with coal, coke, lime, and slates from the mines and aiarries in the neighbourhood of Wrexham at a very high price, in -ansequence of the carriage being so expensive. The average ~riees (per ton) of coal, coke, and lime, at Nantwich and Crewe, , xclusive of carriage, are as follows : At Nantwich, Coal ........ 9s. 2d. Coke ... ' l3 4 Lime At Crewe, Coal ,f Coke „ Lime This railway will afford the means of supplying coal, lime, and coke at one-third the above prices. Among the multifarious railway schemes now before the public, the most legitimate and also the most likely to yield a fair remu. iterative return on the outlay, are the traverse railways projected with the object of supplying the existing want of railway transit across the country. The line will not interfere with any parks or property of an or namental character, and will be constructed at much less than the trerage cost. The Provisional Directors have no reason to expect any effectual opposition to a measure so obviously beneficial both to the public and the landed proprietors, and so powerfully supported by those best qualified to form as opinion of its merits. With respect to engineering, the line presents no difficulty whatever, the gradients are very easy, and the earth-work light. The usual power will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest, at 4/. per cent. per annum, on the deposits as well as upon all future calls from the date of the passing of the Act until the opening of the railway, and no shareholder will be liable beyond the amount of his subscription. In the allotment of shares preference will be given, to a certain extent, to the proprietors of land through which the line will pass, and to shareholders in the Manchester and Birmingham, the Man chester and Birmingham Continuation, the North Wales Mineral, and the Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways. _ _ Applications for shares must be made in the annexed form to the solicitors, or to (he following shsrebrokers —Mr. Langton, Ex change.court, Exchange-street East, Liverpool ; Messrs. Cameron, Cazenove, aiid Tkunton, Liverpool; Mr. Thomas Moxon, jun., 69 Old 13road2strept, London; Mr. W. G. Seed, 15, St. Ann's-square, Manchester ; Mr. Nathaniel Lea, Birmingham ; and Messrs. Standish and Bleekett, Leeds ; of whom prospectuses and maps of the line may be obtained. Applicants for, shares, who are personally known to the Pro_ visional Directors, are reqiiested to refer to one of such Directors; all other applicants will be. required to give a refence to some banker, or other person - of-known respectability. FOR hi OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Wrexham, Nantwich, and Crewe Junction Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l hereby request that you will allot me Shares of 20/. each, in the above proposed railway, and I hereby under take to pay the deposit of 21. 2e. 6d. per Share thereon, or any 'e4ser ilumbn* of Shares .which may be allotted to me; and I also widertake to execute the Parliamentary Contract, and the Sub , cribers' Agreement when required. I am, Gentlemen, your cbedient servant, Name (in fu11).. ... Profession, Trade, or Occupation • Residence (in full) Place of Business (if any) Date Name of Referee Address of Referee [ I S HEFFIE L I), WORT LEY, SILK ^L STON, AND WAKEFIELD RAILWAY. (Registered Provisionally.) Capital 500,000/. in 20,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS. J. W. 11. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood House, Leeds, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Halifax, Director of the Liver- William Alexander, Esq., M.D. , p ml end Leeds Direct, and the Midland and Think Railways seph Austin, Esq., Headingley Hill, Leeds, Di rector of the Railways Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and the Lee ds and York w. P. Bradshaw, Esq., Woodthorpe Hall, Sandal Magna, Wakefield ;lades Bamford, jun, Esq , Hull, Director of the Direct Western Railway Xi.liam Broadhurst, Esq., Westfield terrace, Sheffield henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways 'tlexarwer Blown, Esq., Headingley, Leeds Isaac Burkill, Esq., Highfield-cottage, Beeston, Leeds Wm. Clifford, Esq . Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties Railway Robt. Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway Joseph Clarke, Esq., Sherburn, Ferrybridge John Priston Cutts, Esq.. Sheffield John H. Coates, Esq., Wakefield John Alcock Dixon', Esq., Habergham Eaves, Burnley, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Win. Dawson, Esq , Wakefield, Director of the Peterborough, Lynn, Wisbeach, and Boston Railway John Egginton, Esq., a Magistrate of the Barough of Hull Thomas England, Esq., Headingley, Leeds, Director of the West Junction and the Leeds and York Railways "'obert John Ellershaw, Esq., Leeds Ep rairn Elsworth, Esq., Sandford house, Kirkstall, near Leeds Ge rge Earle, Esq , Hull jo la Fawcett, Esq., Broomhall, Sheffield, Director of the Wake tivld and Harrogate Junction, the Liverpool and Leeds Direct and the Direct Western Railways W a Gresham, Esq., Alderman of the City of Lincoln Au ;usius G. Greaves, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway Jo eph Gill, Esq., ]'otter Newton, near Leeds 're lerick Hatteraley, Esq., West House, Bradford itobe , t Herries, Esq., Leeds William Wilkes Hill, Esq., Beeston, near Leeds John Hall, Esq., Hull. Director of the York and Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Junction Railways William Hutchinson, Esq , Broomhall, Sheffield, Director of the Great Grimsby, Sheffield, the Potteries, and Grand Junction Railway Henry Paul Harwood, Esq" M.D , She ffi eld, Director of the Wake field and Harrogate Junction, and the Direct Western Railways 3. Hastings Ingham, Esq., Martin.house, near Skipton, a Magis trate of the West Riding John Heard, Esq , Alderman of Nottingham, Director of the Lon. don and Nottingham Railway Thomas Herbert, Esq., Alderman of Nottingham Thomas Holmes, Esq., Hull lenry Hubberaty, Esq., Hull, Dir ec t or of the Direct Western Railway John Jackson, EST, Alderman of Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and the Leeds and York Railways Ti °lnas Jessop, Eaq., Claremont-place, Sheffield , ydney Jessop, Esq., Manchester Charles Locke, Esq., Shapethorpe-house, Wakefield, Director of the Wakefield snd Harrogate Junction Railway Times Martin, Esq., Wakefield .lames Joseph M‘Swiney, Esq., Sandal Magna, Wakefield, Director of re Wakefield and Harrogate Junction, the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and the Leeds, York, and Midland ii4ilways .Th - ctmt Eq., the Mount, shchasld THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 6 1845 GREAT WESTERN, BRENTFORD, and CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY, from the vicinity of West Drayton, through Hounslow, Brentford, Ham mersmith, Kensington, Chelsea, and Westminster, to a Central Terminus, near Charing-Cross. (Provisionally Registered.) Offices, 53, Charing-cross. Capital, 850,c00/., in 42,500 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. Is. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Earl of Devon Vernon Abbott, Esq., 70, Gower-street Philip Anstruther, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Railway Junction Company Benjamin John Armstrong, Esq., Southall, Magistrate for Middlesex John Anlcijo, Esq., Noel House, Kensington Henry Pratt Barlow, Esq., 24, Kensington-square Edward Oliver Benson, Esq., Hounslow William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Railway Junction Company Thomas Bramall, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Leicester ant Tam- worth Railway Sir John Macpherson Brackenbury Sir Archer Denman Croft, Bart., Director of the Thames Eubank. ment Railway Junction Company Major John T. Croft, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and Manche& ter Railway John Chevalier Cobbold, Esq., Chairman of the Eastern Union Rail• way Wniam Cumming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park George Cooper, Esq., BrentiOrd George James Stredwick Camden, Esq., Hounslow Charles Downes, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway J. Fisher, Esq., Isleworth Major David Fitzgerald, Valentia, county of Kerry Captain Forbes, It N., Forest, Windsor Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N., K C.H. Francis Lloyd, Esq., Beaufort-lodge, Chelsea James Montgomery, Esq., Brentford John Bowyer Nichols, Esq., Hammersmith The Hon. Colp;iel Phipps, Norwood-green William SiMpson Potter, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands Railway Henry I'ownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow, Magistrates for Middlesex John F. Pownill, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow Colonel Reid (2d Life Guards), Buistrode Park Thomas Berry Rowe, Esq., Brentford John Coysganie Sim, Esq., No. 9, Clifton-place, Hyde Park-gardens Major Jelf Sharp, Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant lbr Middlesex, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment Railway Junction Company Henry Webb Smith, Esq., Hounslow William Spooner, Esq., Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Railway Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Chairman of the Irish North Midland Railway John Stewart, Esq., M.P. Frederick Thompson, Esq., 20, Kensington-square Robert Richard Tighe, Esq., Bank, Windsor Henry Tuft - mil, Esq., M.P. (With power to add to their number.) ENGINEER—Thomas Page, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Wilkinson and Cobbold, 7, Lincoln's Inn-fields William Sim, Esq., 8, King's Bench-walk, Temple. BANKERS. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS. Messrs. Hugh Innes Cameron and George Bain,lB,Parliament-street. SECRETARY—Henry Noreing, Esq. Applications for shares, in the subjoined form, may be made, addressed to the Provisiotlid Committee, at tke Offices of the Com pany, 53, Charing-cross, to the Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents, and to the following agents and sharebrokers :--Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, 6l Threadneedle-street; Mr. H. J. Williams, 80, Old Broad-street, London ; Messrs. Bradley and Co., Manchester ; Mr. B. R. Pemberton, and Messrs. 11. Davis and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Luke Arnold, Bristol; Messrs. Chantrell and Boyes, Leeds ; Messrs. Wil kinson and Earle, Hull; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow; and Messrs. Graystou and Earle, York, of whom prospectuses may be obtained. Joseph Ogdin March, Esq., Beech.grove, Leeds George Peel, Esq., Horbury, near Wakefield, Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate Junction, and the Bradford, Wake field, and Midland Railways Sidney Roberts, Esq., Sheffield John Robinson, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, near Wakefild, Director of the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland, and the Leeds, York, and Midland Railways E. W. Rudgard, Esq., Lincoln Edward Rook, Esq., King-street, Leeds James Reffit, Esq., Leeds Edward Spence, Esq., Tilworth, near Hull, Director of the York. shire and Glasgow and the Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick Rail ways Thomas Sidney, Esq., Sheriff and Alderman of London Edw. Sidebottom. Esq., Piedwick-hall, Sandal Magna, Wakefield Benjamin Smith, Esq., Duckmauton• lodge, near Chesterfield, Di rector of the North Derbyshire Union, and the Sheffield, Bux. ton, Leek, and Potteries Railway Richard Sully, Eiq , Sandon-place, Sheffield William Starkey, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Leeds, York, asal Midland Railways Thomas Burdett Turton, Esq., Alderman of Sheffield John Tall, Esq., Hull John Taylor, Esq., Belle Vue terrace, Hull, Director of the Direct Western Railway George Turtoa, Esq., Bagden.lodge, Clayton West, near Hudders. field, Director of the Bristol and Dove Railway Joseph Turton, E,q., Brook-hill, Sheffield Edward Vickers, Esq., Firs-hill, Sheffield Benjamin Vickers, Esq., %Vest Cliff; Sheffield James Wall, Esq Osgathorpe-hills, Sheffield, a Director of the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Joserh Wood, Esq., Sandal, near Wakefield, a Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate Junction Railway George Walker, Esq., Ovgathorpe Cottage, Sheffield George Wall, E,q., Woodside, Sheffield Rev. George Atkinson Walker, Alverthorpe, near Wakefield, Di rector of the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland, the Leeds, York, and Midland, and the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales Railways John Ward, Esq., Machon Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Direct Western Railway ENGINEELIN.CHIEP-John Urpeth Rastrick, En, F. R.S., London. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Upton and Clapham, Leeds Messrs. Smith and Wightman, Sheffield BANKERS. London Sir Richard Carr Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co. Leeds : Messrs. Beckett and Co. Sheffield : The Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company Wakefield : Messrs. Leatham, Tew, and Co. Barnsley : The Wakefield and Barnsley Union Banking Company. SECRETARY. —Henry Jubb, Esq, The main line of this railway will be about fifteen miles in length. Commencing at the Wortley Station, on the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, it will pass through the town of Silkstou, and near to _Dodworth, accommodatiag the whole of that valuable mining district with the most ready outlet for its celebrated coal to all parts of the kingdom. It proceeds by Darton, Chapelthorpe, and• Sandal, to Wakefield, where it will join the Leeds and Man. chester, and the newly projected railways to Leeds and Harrogate, and to Pontefract and Goole. The inhabitants of Barnsley will also be accommodated by a branch to that town, from the main line, giving them direct and easy communicistion with the north and south. The distance from Leeds to Suffield by this line, and its con nexions northwards, will be only thirty.two miles; by the present route it is thirty-eight miles. The distance from Wakefield to Sheffield by this line will be only twenty-three miles ; it is now, by way of Normanton, thirty.one miles ; and by way of Oakenshaw, twenty-eight miles, between two and three of which are by mud. bus. Besides this saving of actual distance, the tedious stoppages at Masborough and Normanton, the delays of which are often equal to twenty miles of travelling, will be avoided, A careful survey has been made, by an experienced surveyor, who reports that the line from Wakefield to Siikston will run with easy gradients nearly on the surface of the ground for the greater part of the way ; and that the only work of any mag nitude will be a tunnel, about six hundred yards long, at Woolley. common, which will occasion in the approach to it from Wake field an ascending gradient of 1 in 108. The works between Silkston and Wortley are of a heavier character, but in no part will the gradient be more than 1 in 112. The ruling gradient will be about 1 in 180. This undertaking, in connexion with other railways, is in tended to accomplish the following very important objects :—First, a direct line of communication between London and Leeds, the Northern Counties and Scotland. Secondly, the opening of the extensive and valuable coal-fields of Silkston, Dodworth, Barns. ley, and the adjacent districts, to the manufacturing and other towns of Yorkshire, the ports of Hell, Selby, Goole, Great Grimsby, and Boston, and also to the Metropolis, and the Mid land, and Western counties. Thirdly, the accommodation of the inhabitants of the places through which this railway will pass, with those facilities of conveyance for passengers, of which, from the almost entire absence of good roads, as well as railways, they have hitherto been destitute. An examination of the Map will show how well these objects will be attained by means of this railway. At its northern termi. nus, Wakefield. it will be connected with the Leeds and Manches ter Railway, continued to the Midland and the lines extending from it to the north and east, with the projected Wakefield and Harrogate and Wakefield and Leeds lines (the latter a branch of the Leeds and Dewsbury from Churwell), and through it with the Leeds and Thirsk, the Leeds and Bradford, and other railways, to the north-west and Scotland. And at Wortley, its southern 'errninus, it will be connected with the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, the projected Manchester, Midland, and Great Giimsbv, and the Sheffield and Lincolnshire lines, the Sheffield and Great Grimsby Railway, the projected Sheffield and Chesterfield Railway, and the various new projects from Sheffield to the northern parts of Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and the west. The quantity of coal which this railway will make directly accessible to all parts of the kingdom may be estimated from the following statements given in evidence before a Committees of the House of Commons :—The township of Barnsley contains 2,010 acres of coal bed, Barughs 5,080 acres, Dodworth, 6,219 acres, Silkston, 4,040 acres. The quantity of coal in the Silkston main alone is thirty.seven millions three hundred and fourteen thou sand tons, and the quantity likely to be raised from the entire dis trict through which the railway will pass, is not less than seventy• eight millions of tons. Pits raay be sunk close by the railway, and will require only an engine to lift the coals perpendicularly, and pour them into the trucks. In addition to this, an opportunity will be afforded of turning to better account a bed of ironstone underlying a space of 5,080 acres. The construction of this railway would so cheapen the transit of coal to York, Hull, and all intermediate towns to the north and east, and westward to Glossop, Ashton, Manchester, Stock port, and other towns in Cheshire, that the owners of this ♦alu. able mineral would be able successfully to compete with those of Durham and Lancashire. The inexhaustible mineral traffic which will thus be developed —the means which this railway will afford of improved transit be. tween Leeds and Sheffield, so long a desideratum to the inhabitants of these, the two largest towns in Yorkshire—the opening of direct railway communication with Barnsley, from which that important manufacturing town has hither o been excluded—its con. nexion with the line projected to Harrogate, whither so many thousands of visitors annually resort in pur. suit of health and pleasure, constitute a summary of advantages which cannot fail to recommend this project to public favour and support. It is calculated that the traffic in minerals alone will yield a lucrative return to the Shareholders ; while the extraordinary increase of travelling which every ad ditional facility creates, and the surprising influx of trade which every new railway brings to the district through which it passes, adding largely to the profits of the undertaking, render it pro bable that the advantages which will actually be realised by this project will exceed the most sanguine expectations of its pro. moters. Applications for Shares may be made, in the subjoined form, to the Solicitors ; and also to Messrs, Ridsdale, Myers, and Bailey, Messrs. Smith and Perfect, Messrs. John Everard Upton, Share. brokers, Leeds; Messrs. Ridsdale and Rogers, Sharebrokers, Wakefield; Messrs. Garton and Wright, Mr. George Eadon,jun., and Mr. John May, Sharebrokers, Sheffield ; Messrs. C. Wilkin. son and Earle, Sharebrokers, Hull; and Messrs. Peet and Son, Sharebrokers, Nottingham. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Sheffield, Wortley, Silkston, and Wakefield Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot to me shares of 25/. each in the above.named Company, and I undertake to accept the same, or such less number as you may appropriate to me, sub ject to the regulations of the Company, to execute the Parlia mentary Contract and the Subscribers' Agreement, and to pay, when required, the deposit of 2/ 12s. 6d. per share. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name (in full) ~, Profession, trade, or occupation Residence (in full) Place of business (if any).. ..... Name and address of Referee Date T HE SHEFFIELD, VORTLEY, SILKSTON. and WAKEFIELD RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that no further APPLICATIONS for SHARES in this COMPANY can be received after THURSDAY, the 9th day of October instant, immediately after which the al lotment will take place. By Order, HENRY JUBB, Secretary. THE DIRECT LONDON, PORTSMOUTH, (Pr AND CH ICHESTER, AND DIRECT PORTS3IOUTH AND CHATHAM R AILWAY, via REIGATE. Capital, I '7°"ovisionally Registered.) ~ in 8 5,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISION/LI. COMMITTLE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Egmont, of Cowdray Park, Sussex Colonel George Wyndham, of Petworth House, Sussex Tile Hon. and 11ev. L. Vernon Harcourt, of West Dean, Sussex The Right Hon. Lord de Lisle, of Penshurst, Kent Tile Right Hon. Lord Pelham Clinton, of Carleton Villas, Metals- hill The Right lion. Lord Ressmore, of the Dell, Windsor Sir Charles William Taylor, Bart., of Hollycombe House, Sussex The lion. Robert Gore, M.P. , of 21, Wilto n - crescent The ht . Stafford llain J M e rni ngh M. Dawson, alll, B o P o oleek st ree L odge, Dorset The The Hon. Percy i're lt ke a ' rt 3, B 7 e t l i g re r s a go - u s r (l l7e a - r s e Sir William Young, treet, Hyde Park, Director of the East India Company Sir .lames Eyre, of 11, Brook-street, Grosvenor-squaredis Sir James Carmichael, Bart. , of 40, Sir Robert Schomburgli, of New KingsSut ofEaton-place, Director of the Howard Elphiestone, Esq., M.P., s ol e i, xga Surrey r e ! Direct Western Railway Company, the Thames Embankment Company, &c. William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., land Railway M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid - Robert Wynne Williams, Esq., Director of tile Nottingham and Gains borough Railway Lee Steere, Esq., of Jey's Park, Surrey Captain Charles Shirley, of Midhurst, Sussex Lieut.-Colonel Eden, I, Lowndes-street, Itelgrave-square Andrew Spottiswoodc, Esq., of Broom Hall, Surrey Admiral John Ayscough, of Prospect-place House, Southampton Launcelot Archer Burton, Esq., of Woodlands, Emsworth, Halite Charles Dixon, Esq., of Statistead Paris, Sussex Archibald Douglas Stewart, of Bruton-street E. T. Dayrell, Esq., 14, Old Cavendish-street, High Sheriff of Buck inghamshire Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, of North-end House, Portsmouth, Deputy-Lieutenant for Hants Major Snow, of 4, Old Cavendish-street The Rev. Henry Garrett Newland, of Westheurne Rectory, Sussex Francis Lysons Price, Esq., of Sydenharn, Kent, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway James Beech, Esq., of Brandon Hall, Warwickshire George Grantham, Esq., of llarcombe-place, Sussex Charles Hurst, Esq., of Mielhurst, Sussex George Harrisen,:Esq., F.S.A., Director of the Hull and Holyhead Frederick Clarkson, Esq., of Tottenham, s Directors of Robert Chapman, Esq., of 1, Park-place, Regent's I the Great } Park, Manchester William Watson Prole, Esq., of Thurlow-squared Railway Brampton, J Company John Weston, Esq., 28, Woburn-square, Director of the Great Man chester Railway Thomas Chitty, Esq., of 8, tipper Gower-street, Barrister-at-Law, Director of thoTtininAham and Leicester Railway Company John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Royd, Halifax, Deputy-Lieutenant for the West siding of Yorkshire James Reeves, Esq., Leyte'', Essex John rapper, Esq., f Hold House, Surrey Stephen Loudell, Esq., of Lindileld, Sussex George Barker, Esq., of Stilland, Sussex James Ilitchins, Esq., of Lincoln, Director of the Manchester and Swithampton hallway Company L Thsa e rn w . i un s eas l:ocoe nNeelat. k e, Pocock, Esq., o o f f A ß lo ci n g t a ti t g e t , te s - u st r r r e e e y t, Russell-square Esq., of Reigate Surre y Thomas Neale, E sq ., j un., of Reiga t e,Reigate, Surrey John Lucas, of EleBsq,.,Ewi . o Varrtf Itliaidlih-huirslLifaslemere Thomas Row';‘' Sussex Surrey-street, Director of Edward Doubtlay, E sq ., F.L.S , o the Rugby, arwick. and Worcester Railway F.S.A., of Croydon Matropolligt julttiVll CompanySnrrey, Director of the John Davidson. Esq., of Trottowhouse,near 311dhurst Edmund Sadler, Esq., of Bepton, Sussex Anthony Dickson, Esq., of Edrington-house, near Berwick-on-Tweed Joseph Eade, Esq., of Clapham-common William Watson, Esq., of Burn-grove, Roxburghshire, Director of Bristol anti Exeter Railway Company Samuel Brown, Esq., of Clapham Joseph Scales, Esq., of 3, Dunster-court, Mincing-lane, and Upper Clapton John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., of 30, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of tho Reading and Reigate Railway John Helbert Helbert, Esq., of Gloucester-place, Director of the Lel- cester and Birmingham Railway Company Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., of Clopton House, Stratford-on-Avon. Director of the Warwick and London Railway Company Captain William Cousins, of Compton-street, Brunswick-square, Di- rector of the Doncaster and Goole Railway Company Captain Frederick Chamler, of Ilalkin-street, Itelgrave-square, Di rector of the Fampoux and Hazebrouck Railway John Barnett, Esq., of Cheltenham, Coroner of the county cf Glou- _ tester John Moreton Cottle, Esq., of Leamington, Director of the Cov,:ntx y and Birmingham Railway Company John Brightman, Esq., of Regency-square, Brighton, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Company William Spooner, Esq., of Chapel-‘treet, Belg,rave-square, Director d the Newcastle and Liverpool Railway Company Alexander Greig, Esq., of Lowndes-street, itelgrave-square, Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway Captain Troplihnits Hodges, of 65, Connaught-terrace, Hy - de Park, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Company George Parbury, Esq., of 37, Russell-square, Director of the Manches ter and Rugby Railway Company George R. Peppercorns, Esq., of Ilexhill, Sussex, Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway Company Thomas Henry Evans, Esq.. of Lothbury, Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway Company Benjamin Franklin, Esq., of 5, Harley-street Rev. F. H. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridgeshire Rev. Thomas I'rice, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire W. Woode, Esq., of Chilgrove, Sussex Henry Morley, Esq., of Midhurst, Sussex William Gambier, Esq., Sacombe Park, llerts C. A. Tulk, Esq., of Totteridge lark, llerts James I'enrd Ley, Esq., Seyton Ironworks, Whitehaven John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., of 150, Piccadilly H. R. Downman, Esq., of 47, Upper Bedford-place, Director of the Cambrian and Grand .Junction Railway MIA 1 Mountague, Esq., of Regent's-park W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Ludgate hill, Director of the Wavenc, Valley Railway Company James Gernon, Esq., Director of the London and Nottingham Rall- _ way Company James Macmillon, Esq., Southampton Rev. Cecil Greene, A.M., of Midhurst Rev. Charles Edward Twyford, of Trotton Rectory, Sussex Major James Adair, Director of the Church of England Insurance Company Captain Chinks Frederick Parkinson, of Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway, Managing Director of the West Lawashire Railway, and of the Manchester, Wigan, and Southport Railway Robert Sykes, Esq., of Manchester, Director of the Clitheroe Junc tion Railway John Clark Prescott, ;Esq., of Manchester, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport Railway, and of the Macclesfield and Ruby Railway Henry Farrington, Esq., of Manchester, Director of the Wigan and Southport Railway, and of the York and Lancaster Railway Josephus Hume) , Iligson. Esq., of Manchester, Director of the Chester And Manchester Direct Railway, and of the Manchester and Rugby Railway _ • _ Daniel Grant, Esq., of Springside, Bury, Lancaster, Director of Rein ington's Direct London and Manchester Railway, and of the Liverpool, Manchester, and 2s - ewcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway Thomas Townend, 'Esq., of the Polygon, Manchester, Director of the London and Man••hester Direct Railway John Burgess, Esq., of Manchester, Borotighreeve of Manchester, Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway Company, and of the Manchester, Burnley, Settle, and Carlisle Direct Railway James Shaw, Esq., of Salford, Lancashire, Director of the Manchester and Rugby !railway Edward Parrett, Esq., of the Suttons, Romford John George Hammond, Esq., Essex-house, Bow, Director of iho Direct Western Railway Joseph Bishop, Esq., Director of the Blackwell Railway Phillip Baker, Esq., Euston-square Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Twyford-hall, Derby John Webster, Esq., 35, Mecklenburgh-square, Director of the Great Grimsby, and Lincoln Railway The names of other noblemen and gentlemen will appear in a further advertisement, whose support has been promised to the un dertaking. • • COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Samuel Brown, Esq. Edward Parratt, Esq. Frederick Clarkfon, Esq. Wm. B. Hughes, Esq., M.P. Robert Chapman, Esq. Robert Wynne Williams, Esq. Joseph Scales, Esq. 11. R. I)ownnian, Esq. . Join; Parkinson, Esq. I David Montague, Esq. ENGINEERS—Messrs. Drayson, of No. 2, Palace-yard, Wegminster. SOLICITORS To THE COMPANY—Messrs. Pontifex and Moginie, 5, St. Andrew's-court, Holborn-hill, London. BANKERS —The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. Rhoades and Greene, solicitors, Chichester Thomas Hart, Esq., solicitor, Reigate William Minclitn, Esq.. solicitor. Portsea and Portsmouth Thomas Hill, Esq., solicitor, Chatham Daniel Smart, Esq., solicitor, Emsworth. Edwin Albery, Esq.. solicitor, Midhurst Thomas Holmes Bosworth, Esq., solicitor, Westerham. SECRETARY —Mr. John C. Sommers. In submitting this undertaking to the public, the promoters are influenced no leas bj , a conviction of its importance as a direct con necting line between the important towns of Chichester aiml Ports mouth and the metropolis, than by its grand national importance in affording a direct communication between the two great military and naval arsenals of Great B stain —Portsmouth and Chatham. The projected undertaking, by proceeding to the two termini at Chichester and Portsmouth, will extend the facilities of communica• non with the coast branches of railways along the south of England, connecting itself with Brighton to the eastward, and Southampton towards the west. By the main line falling into the Brighton Rail way lh.• advantage of two termini in London will be secured—the one at the Bricklayers' Arms, and the other at London•bridge—the latter of which, front its proximity to the Custom Ilouse, and the several docks on the Thames, is acknowledged to be the best position for a London terminus for merchandise of ali descriptions. 'I he line of railway intended to be constructed by this Company will commence at or near the Redhill station near Reigate, on the Lon don and Brighton Railway, a distance of 21 miles from London bridge. Ll its course to Portsmouth it will pass through or near Reigate, Newdigate, Cupel, Ockley, Ewhurst, Rudgwick, Cranky, Alfold, Billinghurst, Wisborough-green, Plaistow, Haslemere, Chiddingfold, North Chapel, Kirdford, Petworth, Midhurst, Chilgrore, Stoughton, Ractom Wcstbourne, and Emsworth, at or near which last -mentioned place this projectedli e will join the Chichester and Portsmouth Rail way tt Portsmouth. A branch is proposed to be made from Dorking to join the main line, at or near Capel. this course the entire distance to travel between London and Portsmouth will he abridged to 73 miles, a distance considerably shorter than that by which any line hitherto projected betweet London and Port.nionth has proposed to pass, and also pursuing a mute more populous and productive than any hitherto presented to public notice. It will involve the construction of only 45 miles of railway to complete the course between the Redhill station (near Reigate) and Emsworth. from London to Reigate by the London and Brighton Railroad is . .. The Junction to be made by this Company is .. From the paint near Emsworth to Portsmouth by the Chichester and Portsmouth Railway is ... • • . ... 7 „ Total distance from London to Portsmouth • ... •.• • • • 73 miles. From Chilarove a line of seven miles will be constructed, and which will place Chichester in direct communication with London. The distance between Chichester and London by this route will be 6'2 miles, and trains willtim direct between London and Chichester. Inamuch as the existing line of railway to Dover branches off tom the London and Brighton Railroad at Reigate, this projected line will open up a communication by railroad between Portsmouth and Dover. From an inspection of the map, it will be seen that the Redidll station. near Reigate, lies nearly in a direct line between Ports mouth anrChatham, and in pursuing the line of communication be tween the last-mentioned naval and military depot, this line will pass through or near to the towns of Illetehing,ley, Godston, Lhnpsfleld, Westerham, Seven Oaks, Ightham, Town Mailing, Wxotham, Oft= ham, Snodland, Lower Hailing, and Wouldham. The distance between Chatham and Reigate will involve the making of 31 miles of railroad, and the line of railroad between Portsmouth and Chatham will exteni over 82 miles. To the naval and military establishments of this kingdom the construction of this projected lima will afford the most important fa cilities in the transit of troops, stores, baggage, &c., diminishing the tardy course of communication which at present necessarily exists between Portsmouth and Chatham, at present usually extend ing over the spacc of two days, and placing them in that direct com munication with each other which, in two hours, or thereabouts, will enable the journey between them to be made. The formation of a direct line of rail way between Portsmouth and' Chatham will afford the opportunity of establishing, by an electric telegraphic, that celerity of communication so important to be obtained between places of national importance. The warm support of the principal landowners on the greater part of the 'lira is pledged to this undertaking. . . . . . _ . - The Provisional Committee abstain from making any special re ference to the contemplated profit to result from carrying into effect this undertaking, feeling convinced that the extent of traffic through the populous and rich districts over which this line and its branches are projected to pass is sufficiently known, and is decisive of the inutility of all comment in that respect. . . Applications for shares, in the form given below, to be mad to the Solicitors and Local Agents, or to any of the following Brokers :—Messrs. It. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, Royal Exchange, London ; Messrs. Peppercorne and Co., No. 2, Old Broad.street, London ; Mr. 11. Pritchett, of No. 74, Old Broad-street ; Messrs. Neilson, sharebrokers, Liverpool ; John Duncuft, Esq., sharebroker, Manchester ; Mr. It. M'Ewen, 18, St. Ann's-street, Manchester ; John Watson, Esq., sharebroker, Leeds ; Messrs. Ridsdale; Myers, an d Bailey, brokers, Leeds ; Messrs. Schultz and Carr, brokers, Li verpool; Messrs. Hope and Rastrick, brokers, Manchester; Messrs. Tyeth and Luscombe, stockbrokers, Plymouth ; George Edwards and Son, Bristol ; Messrs. Waison and Co., 11011 ; Messrs. Pott an d Levick, Nottingham ; and Messrs. Collis and Son, Birmingham. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct London, Portsmouth, and Chichester, and Direct Portsmouth and Chatham Railway Company. _ - - I request you will allot to me shares of 20/. each in the above named Company, and I Thereby undertake to accept the same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the de posit of 2/. 2s. on each such share, and to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement as may be required of me. Dated this day of 1845. Usual signature .. Name in • • • • • • Profession or Trade .................... Residence •• • • • • • • • • .• • • • ... Place of Business (if any - ) Reference .. Residence ot Reference ...... • N.B. No application will be attended to except with a reference to a banker, or from an applicant referring to, and who is known by some of the Provisional Committee, or the solicitors, or local agents. D UDLEY and BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION RAILWAY In continuation of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway. BROAD AND NARROW GUAGE. Capital, 200,0001., in 10,004 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. ss, per Share. (Provisionally Registered.) A prospectus of this undertaking, with the names of a Provisiona Committee will appear in a few drys ; in the meantime applications for shares may be addressed to F. T. ELGIE, Solicitor, Worcester October 3, 1845, JOHN BOLTON, Solicitor, Dudley. LONDON and NOTTINGHAM RAILWAY Connecting London, Nottingham, Sheffield, and Leeds. (Provisionally Reelistered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vict. c. 110.) Capital 1,500,000/., in 75,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. (In compliance with the Standing Orders of the Houses of Parliament.) COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. SIT George 0. De Ilochepled Larpent, Bart., Chairman. Rev. Henry Robert Fowler, Deputy Chairman. William Bradley, Esq., Sheffield James Gernon, Es q . Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq. William Hannay, Esq. Joseph Braithwaite, Esq. Thomas Wakefield, Esq. James Brand, Esq. Capt. Adamson George Parker Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq. Samuel Parsons, Esq. William Raines, Esq. s4cl harles Hutton Gregory, Esq., C.E. —Nathaniel Briant, Esq.,C.E. William Lieutenant-Colonel s E‘jiidcsmTEloEsnitG : .e r lHN i rE t s i_ c t En o TANDING Coc SSEL—Mr. SQrgeant Clarke. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Birch and Bramah, Great Winchester -street 3fessrs. Forbes and Drake, Warnford-court Messrs. Freeth and Rawson, Nottingham. LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. Parker and Smith, Sheffield C. S. Busby, Esq., Chesterfield. PARLIAMENTAATAGENTS—Messrs. Gregory, Faulkener, and Co., 11 , Parliament-street. BANKERS. Messrs. Roberts, Curtis, and Co., 15, Lombard-street, London Messrs. Moore and Robinson, .Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham The Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield. SECRETARY, TAO TEM.-Mr. William R. Drake. Offices of the Company, No. 8, Warnford-court, London. No further application for shares In this Company will be received after MONDAY, the 6th day of October next, except from parties locally interested in the line, from whom applications will be received np tq WEDNESDAY. the Bth day of October next. Copies of the prospectus, with forms of application. may be had at the offices of the Company ; Messrs. Edward Ellis and Co., 53, Threadneedle-street, London ; of the Soliclors and Local Agents ; and of the following persons :—Messrs. Stockley and Thompson, Solicitors, Liverpool; Messrs. Johnson, Bradley, and Co., Share brokers, Manchester ; Mr, Guy, Sharebroker, York ; Mr. A. Brand, Sharebroker, Glasgow; Mr. Charles Cowper, Sharebroker, St. Andrew's-square, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Allardyce and Jopp, Brokers, Aberdeen; Alexander Scott, Esq., Perth; Messrs. lime and Symes, Sharebrokers, Dublin; and Messrs. Riesdale, of Leeds. By owlet . Cf the Committee of Management, WILLIAM R. D4OIBE, Seeretay. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Directors of the Great Western, Brentford, and Central Terminus Junction Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 201. each in the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or any lesser number that may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share thereon, and to sign the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Co:itract when required. Name in full • Residence .. Trade or Profession ... Date . . Reference in ...... . GREAT WESTERN, BRENTFORD, and CENTR tL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY. No applications for Shares in this Company will be received which do not contain a reference to one of the Provisional Committee, the Sharebrokers, Officers of the Company, or a Banker. By order, HENRY. MOREING, Secretary. 53, Charing-cross, Sept. 30,1815. MANCHESTER, MIDLAND, AND GREAT GRIMSBY JUNCTION RAILWAY, via ROTHERHAM. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 800,0001., in 32,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, IL 7s. Gd. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Captain Laws, R.N., Crumpsall-hall, Manchester Joseph Began, Esq., Liverpool ( Directors of the London and York Railway) George Crosland, Esq., Huddersfield Joseph Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield ( irectors of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway) Robert Buchannan, Esq., M.D., Pontefract, Chairman William Moxon, Esq , Pontefract ,James Audus, Esq., Headingly, near Leeds (Directors of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway) William Butcher, Esq., the Master Cutler ofSheffield E. B. Beaumont, Esq., Finningley-park (Directors of the Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Bud , dersfield, and Goole Railway) John Burgess, Esq., Boroughrccve of Manchester John Bolffird, Esq., Rusholme-house, Manchester Lott Gardiner, Esq., merchant, Manchester Edward Connell, Esq., Leaf-square, Manchester Mr. Alderman Burd, merchant, Manchester James Con terdin Esq., merchant, Manchester Cephas [lnward, Esq., J.P., Brinnington-hall, Stockport William Bayley, Esq., Larkhill, Staleybridge, Cheshire P. England, Esq., Hudderptield John Smith, Esq., Welton Garth, near Hull John Wood, Esq., Glossop, Derbyshire Vincent Corbett, Esq., Outhwaite-hall, Wortley Thomas Chambers, Esq., Chapeltown J. B. Greaves, Esq., Ecelesfield William Hall, Esq., Royds-moor, near Penistono Wilson Overend, Esq., J.P., Sheffield Henry Walker, Esq., J.P., Clifton-house, Rotherham Robert Bentley, Esq., Rotherham Robert Younge, Esq., Sheffield G. W. Chambers, Esq., Clough-house, near Rotherham J. G. Clarke, Esq., Masbro'-hall George Knowles, Esq., ironmaster, Rotherham Henry Wilkinson, Esq., Endelitre-hall, Sheffield C. S. R. Sandford, Esq., North Field-house, Rotherham James Yates, Esq., Effingham Works, Masborough John Aldred, Esq., Rotherham Thomas Wheatley, Esq., corn merchant, South-grove, Rotherham Samuel S. Brittain, Esq., Sheffield James Hodgson, Esq., Rotherham Mills John Brown, Esq., ironmaster, Rotherham William Owen, Esq., Pluenix Ironworks, Rotherham Benjamin Badger, Esq., barrister-at-law, Rotherham Henry Thomas, Esq., Sheffield John Nightingale, Esq., Greave of the Feoffees of Rotherham Charles Sandford, Esq., Phoenix ironworks, Rotherham Robert John Bentley, Esq., Eastwood-house, Rotherham George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield Alexander Grant, Esq., steel r. finer, Rotherham E. J. Heseltine, Esq., RCherham E. L. Sidebotham, Esq., J.P:, Aston-hall Rev. Geo. Chandler, J.P., Treetop Rectory .John Green, Esq., Sheffield John Hall, Esq.. Kiveton-park, near Rotherham R. C. Boyle, Esq., Aughton-hall, near Rotherham Robert Fisher, Esq., Maltby George Ridge, Esq., Sheffield Thomas Dyson, Esq., Braithwell Manor-house William Broughton, Esq., Hairy John Bradley, Esq., Blyth Joseph Taylor, Esq., Newington James Cross, Esq., Gringley Charles Cross, Esq., Glentworth-heath, near Gainsborough William Wells, Esq., West Stockwith, near Gainsborough. Henry Smith, Esq., Gainsborough' Gainsborough Gainsborough tv l Robertev. : t L I s e t r Deh Lister sharp, e t k, S ( l E : ,E 0 merchant,rsqot. Gainsborough .P. Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough Francis A. Lowe, Esq., Gainsborough John William Pashley. Esq., merchant, Gainsborough Frederick W. Fleck, Esq., whartinger Gainsborough Thomas Adwick Farmer, Esq., iron merchant, Gainsborough Henry HAI, Esq., wharfinger, Gainsborough R. D. Fretwell, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough Robert Pinder Moxon, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough H. Robinson, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough John Hughes, Esq., Merchant, Gainsborough. Edward Watson, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough. ENGINEER — John Braithwaite, Esq. SECRETARY_)fr. Francis Parker, Rotherham. BANKERS—Sheffield and Rotherham Banking Company, Rotherham. The object of this undertaking is to connect the Sheffield and Man chester—Huddersfield and Sheffield—Midland and Great Grimsby Railways —the ports of Liverpool and Birkenhead on the western, and Great Grimsby on the eastern coast, affording accommodation to all the important intervening manufacturing and agricultural dis tricts—in fact, to opal the shortest and most direst communication between the eastern and western counties of England. It is pro posed to commence at Wortley and run to the Midland at or near Masbrough, affording au outlet north and south,- and thence for- It , e t ,11 with west a e n p d . p o u f t a h t o line t: 2 11 , e 22 11. 1 " , e 9 5 5 t 8 1 - 11 d a n d g o o n f ward to Gainsborough. yo Th rks e h re ire ar a e nr a i b L u a tt n i the east end Nottinghamshire and North Lincolnshire, with a popu lation of 431,485. Under any circumstances, the intercourse between two such masses of population must be great; but in this case It is much beyond the average from the different character of th e country, and the pursuits of the inhabitants at the two termini—Lancashire and Yorkshire having redundant supplies of coal, ironstone, lime, and m nufactured goods of every description, while Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire and the east are dependent on the former counties for these productions—and send their large supplies of corn and cattle to the Yorkshire and Lancashire markets. The traffic in goods and passengers between such important and mutually dependent districts must be unusually great. A glance at the map of England will show that the proposed line will be, as nearly as may be, a straight one. A circuitous line is an evil, and opposed to public policy. The public suffer by being de tained a longer time—by travelling a longer distance—and by paying a larger fare than is necessary—and the proprietors suffer by being exposed to the risk, or rather to the certainty of their property being destroyed at some future period by the competition of a shorter and more direct line. Sir Robert Peel, in his place In Parliament, on the 15th of March, 1845, upon this point said—" Ile would make no re ference to any indiviaual railway schemes, but he thought they ought to look ferward to the result of mechanical improvements as applied to those schemes, and they might depend upon it (speaking of ulti mate results) that the shortest lines would be preferred.—(Hear, hear.) The tendency of the improvements which were almost daily introduced, was decidedly in - favour of the shortest lines." It may also be observed that the Board of Trade, in their detailed report, in reference to that part of the line from Rotherham to Gainsbrough (which was submitted for consideration as a distinct scheme), state it to be " decidedly preferable to the Sheffield and Lincolnshire or the Sheffield branch of the London and York ;" and that " It affords a better connexion also with the important market town of Rotherham, and with the North Midland Railway, and gives as direct a communication as could be desired with Gains borough and Lincoln." While so favourable an opinion is expressed upon this portion of the line, it may also be fairly granted to the extension ll'om Rother ham to Wortley. By the Sheffield and Manchester, and the Sheffield and Rotherham Railways, the distance from Wortley . to Rotherham is 11% miles, which by the proposed ex tension will be reduced to 9. That portion of the line will also open out one of the best coal-fields in England, with inex= : haustible supplies of Park-gate and Silkstone coals—besides the green Moor Quarries at Wortley, containing very superior stone for paving and building purposes—while at Thorncliffe and Chapel Town, there are already most extensive ironworks in active ope ration. At Rotherham and Masborongh — and in the immediate neighbourhood—there are large iron and steel works, and other manufactories, requiring qualities of coal and ironstone, from which at present they are almost excluded, on account of the heavy carriage. Rotherham is the great cattle market of Yorkshire, and likewise an important corn market, and one of the objects sought to be attained by the promoters of this undertaking is the shortest route from the manufacturing to the agricultural districts —and front the agricultural to the great markets of Yorkshire, and the consuming districts westward. It will accommodate also the traffic of the localities through which it passes, and possesses the peculiar feature of following, as near as possible, the old route in which the stream of traffic, and especially passengers, has hitherto been accustomed to flow. The district between Rotherham and Gainsborough is destitute of coal, and there is no canal or railway from which it can be supplied, excepting by a very circuitous route—in fact, the supply between Rotherham and Bawtry is entirely carted along the turnpike-road. The celebrated grindstones at Wickereley, with an immense quantity of the finest freestone, from the far-famed Roche Abbey Quarries, might also be sent—the former to Sheffield, Manchester, and Bir mingham—and the latter to every part of the kingdom, were an easier and cheaper mode of transit established. It is needless to remarkl that any line of railway commanding the advantages referred to, and connecting Lancashire and West Yorkshire, with the Trent and the Humber, must prove a very ample investment for capital; indeed, the returns of the existing traffic are highly satisfactory. Surveys have been taken, and the landowners generally are favourable to the project. The length of the line is about thirty-five and a half miles. There will be a clause in the Act of Parliament, limiting the Halol. lity of each shareholder to the amount for which he may subscribe, and power will be taken to allow interest at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum upon the patd-Up capital, from the obtaining of the Act until the completion of the railway. By the Subscribers' Agreement, authority will be given to the Pro visonal Directors to vary or alter the line, or to enter into any arrangement which they may think expedient, previous to applying to Parliament in the ensuing session. The Directors congratulate the shareholders upon their very satis factory position, having secured the valuable co-operation and Assistance of several influential companies. W. F. HOYLE,. C. L. coyi , Ax , ,olicitorib ptisulaars Oct, 2, leo., CHELMSFORD AND BURY RAILWAY. The Committee have the satisfaction of informing the Share holders, that the whole of the capital has been subscribed, that the engineers and surveyors have for several weeks past been engaged upon the line, and that the surveys for Parliamentary purposes are nearly completed. The subscription and Parliamentary contract have been executed by nearly the whole of the London Shareholders, and will remain at the Company's Offices until Saturday, the 4th instant. They will afterwards lie at the following places for the sgnatures of the coun try subscribers, viz.:— At the Offices of W. 11. Coils, Esq., Sharebroker, Birmingham, on Monday, the 6th instant A the Offices of Thomas Forsyth, Esq., Sharebroker, 1, Exchange buildings, Liverpool, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the ith and Bth instant. At the Offices of Henry Benton, Esq., Sharebroker, Cross-street, Manchester, on Thursday and Friday, the 9th and lath instant. At the Offices of Messrs. Rhodos, Sharebrokers, 13, Albion-street, Leeds, on Saturday ,lid Monday, the 11th and 13th instant. At the Oflkes of F. Stamp, Esq., llull, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 14th and 13th instant. At the Offices of Messrs. John Robertson and Co., Sharebrokers, Royal Exchange, Edinburgh, on Friday and Saturdsy, the 17th and 18th instant ; and At the Offices of Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Sharebrokers, 67, St. Vincent-street, Glasgow, on Monday and Tuesday, the 20th and 21st instant, each day, from Ten to Four o'clock. By order, DAVID BORTIE, Secretary, Company's Offices, GI, Moorgate-street, Oct. 2, 1845. THE LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEF FIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE (or LEEDS WOLVERHAMPTON, and DLTDLE 1) DIRECT RAILWAY. (Provisionally- Itegistered.) Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. AC FING COMMITTEE OF DIRECTORS, Chairman—The Right lion. EarIof . SHREWSBURY, Alton Towers, Stafr.rdshire Vice-Chairman —Sir GEORGE W3l PRESCOTT, Bart., Theobahrs, Ilerts IL4ht Hon. Lord Ingestrie, M.P.,Broinpton-park, and Ingestrie-hall Staffordshire Sir Win. Boothby, Bart., Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire Colonel the lion. Leicester Stanhope, Ashbourne-house, Chelsea Hon. Capt. Douglas K. i'ulteney, Parliament-street, Chelsea Henry Arnold, Esq., Uttozeter Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield John Robert Dalby, Esq., Ashbourne Samuel Dawson, sen., Esq., Ashbourne Robert Jas. Hartshorne, Esq., Ashbourne Richard Wm. Johnson, Esq., Moorgate John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's-wood, Regent's-park Wm. King, Esq., 29, Moorgate-street Nathaniel Cumberlege, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park Horace Meteyard, Esq., Chatham-place, Blackiriars Wm. Smith, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire Major Wallew, K. 11., St. James's-square. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of ShrmvsbuTy,Alton Towers, Staffordshire The Right Hon. Lord Ingestrie, M.P. Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westboume-street, Hyde-park Gardens Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Deputy Chairman of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail way, &c. Sir William Boothby, Bart, Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire Sir- William Lowthrop, Knt., hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Di rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc tion Railway • Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, Ashburham House, Chairman of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway The Sheriff of York Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's London and Manchester Railway - Benwell, George, Esq , Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Blurton, Robert, Esq., banker, Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter, Direc • for of. the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c. Bright, Selim, Esq., Buxton Bradley, Septimus, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashbourne Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon don and Manchester Direct Railway Cooke, the Rev. J., Uttoxeter, Director of the East and West Junction Railway, &c. Cooper, John Douglas, jup., Esq., Moline Cottage, Ashbourne Cox, Walker, Esq., Breadsall, Derby, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley Railway Crockett, T. Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c, Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reming ton's London and Manchester Direct Railway Crossley, John, Esq., Lambcrhurst, Sussex, and Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Dalby, John, Robert, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Dale, Major, Thurston, Ashbourne Dawscin, Samuel, Esq., sen., Ashbourne Dewhurt, Richard, E,q., Apsley-house, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds and West Junction Railway, &c. Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire -Junction Railway E - densor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbourne Fidler, Peter Pichott, Esq., Iliggin Grange, Derbyshire Fisher, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Garle, Samuel, Esq., Uttoxeter Garle, William, Esq. Uttoxeter Gilpin, and Co., Messrs. William, Wedges Mills, Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Haden, Joseph, Esq., Dudley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shit e, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of Lei cester and Birmingham Railway Hartshorne, Robert James, Esq., Ashbourne Hartshorne, Thomas, Esq., Silkmoor-house, near Staff= Hatfield, Thomas, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c. Hill, John, Esq., Derby ' Jones, the Itev. J. P., 'Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Johnsoh, John Goodwin, Esq., Bentley Hall, Ashbourne Johnson, D. T., Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of the Ches ter and Manchester Railway Johnson, Richard Wm., Esq., Moorgate, Director of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Knight. Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway .Keene, John Joseph, Esq., St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Director of the National Bank of Ireland, &c. King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance, &c. Lawrence, Richard Corbett, Esq., Wandfleld-hall, Uttoxeter, Direc tor of 'the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, James, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire,- and 'Worcestershire Junction Railway Lea, Joists Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn Commission, &c. Meteyard, Horace, Wm.. Esq., Director of Remington's London and Manchester Railway, Middle Temple, and Chatham-place Dl'Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire Staflordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Manors, John, Esq. Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Diehard, James, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Slinors, John, Esq., The Parks, Uttoxeter, Director of the East and %Vest Junction Railway Mathew, John 3lee, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commissioner, Director of the East and West Junction Railway Milner, William, Esq., Team Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Mountford, Thomas John, Esq., Ashbourne Martin, Joseph, Esq., Walsall, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c. Maskery, Thomas, Esq. Norbury, Derbyshire Orton, James, Esq., Wc:odford, near Uttoxeter, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Parkinson, John, Esq., F.R.S., CanThridge-terrace, I.lyde-park, Di- Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Rail way, &c. Ptilteney, Douglas Kinnaird, Captain, Director of the Nottingham and Boston Railway, Parliament-street, London, &c., &c. Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield House, Uttoxeter. Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Robinson, John, ECq., Silcoates Cottage, Wakefield Sant, Edward, Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropton, .uerbyshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, Chhrles, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, Thomas, Esq., Biore-hall, Staffordshire, Director of the Der byshire, Stafford hire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, William, Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of Teen and Dove Valley Railway Smith, John, Esq., Barton House, Derbyshire Smythe, John Vete, Esq., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Spiers, E. J., Esq., Carlton Villas, Loudon, Director of the East and West Junction Railway Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle As surance CoMpany Terry, Benjamin, Esq., Mayor of Walsall, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway, &e. Tomlinson, Thomas, Esq., Bradley Pastures, Ashbourne Toogood, Rupert, Esq , shbourne • Tylecote, Edward, Esq., surgeon, Great Heywood, Staffordshire Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, Holloway, London, Director of the East and West Junction Railway, &c. . Waller Major, K.H., St. - James's-square, Director of the Chester and Manchester Railway, &c, Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire Waiters, J. T., Esq., Rug-ley Welsh. Robert, ESq., Huddersfield, Director of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway Weston, Thomas, Esq., Teen, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wise, Thomas; Bag., Ashbourne Witham, John, Esq., Ashbottrne Woolrich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood, Charles, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood William, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc tion Railway Wood, William Hard, Esq., Ashbourne Wright, Thomas, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsbo ro ugh Railway. BANKERS. Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., Cornhill, London SOLICITORS. John Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter SECRETART—R. Shelton Mackenzie, D.C.L. ENGINEEES. Sir John Rennie, F.R.S. George Remington, Esq., C.E. LOCAL ♦GENTS. Armishaw, J., Esq., Rageley Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley Eggington, A., Esq., Lichfield Green, James J., Esq., Walsall. This line of railway, which is about sixty-five miles in length, is intended to commence at Uttoxeter (the terminus of the proposed Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway) and to proceed to Sheffield and Huddersfield. It will form a direct com munication between two of the most important manufacturing and mining districts in England, viz., South Staffordshire, Huddersfield, and Sheffield, and Rotherham in Yorkshire ; the South Staffordshire portion including Dudley, Tipton,Waball, Bibton, Wednesbury, and Wolverhampton. This line will also open a direct railway communication between Leeds, Huddersfield, and the West Riding of Yorkshire and Kidder minster, Worcestershire, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton, and Exeter, and with Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford, Brecon, Car diff, Neath, Swansea, Llanelly, Caermartheu, Milford Haven, Fish guard, Aberystwith, and with Port Dynnßeen, the future outport for Ireland. And also the most direct communication betweex Leeds and Southampton. The line will pass nearly along the Uttoxeter and Caldon Canal to a point near Prestwood, in case the canal be purchased by the pro moters of this undertaking. It will probeed through Ellaston and Mayfield to Ashbourne, thence near Dovedale, Buxton, and Chapel en-la-Frith, Woodhead and Holmfirth to Huddersfield, where it will join the Huddersfield and Leeds Railway, and so to Thirsk. It will open new mines, in addition to those already in work, of lead, coal, iron ore, barytes, and carboniferous and magmeslan limestone on the route, in addition to forming a direct, speedy, and cheap communica tion between the important towns above mentioned. Arrangements have been made with other companies to run Into this line from Sheffield. This company reserves the right to raise additional capital to extend the line to Leeds. Many of the above-mentioned Mineral productions are essential to the mining districts of South Staffordshire and Sheffield. The North Staffordshire and Derbyshire Limestone is much superior to that of South Staffordshire in the fluxion of iron (15 cwt. of the former being equal to a ton of the latter), and producing a better quality of ma terial. At present, the mode of transit is very circuitous and expen ' sive, the line from the Caldon Mines having to go by canal round by Etruria, Leek, and the Potteries, to the Dudley and surrounding furnaces, when, by this railway, it would be taken in a straight line to them ; and the Ashbourne, Cromford, Worksworth, and Bakewell country would have an entirely new trade opened to them. The iron stone in the neighbourhood of Sheffield is also becoming very seance, and great quantities are introduced from Scotland; the same scarcity exists in South Staffordshire ; and the route of this line would fur nish a cheap and good supply, at present not worked, and without a market, both north and south. In addition to these great advan tages, a good local market would be opened along the agricultnnil and other parts of the district at present very badly supplied with lime and coal, and that of an inferior quality, and by expensive car riage. It is, therefore, next to impossible to calculate the immense traffic which would pour down this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, aF d Wore 2 tershire Junction Railway. - The calculations which have been made shoW a very large profit. There are large lead and slate quarries on the linewhieh only want an outlet like the one now contemplated to bring them lntq fall work. The coal is of a superior gnat?, There are also extensive barytes and paint-works at Ashbourne, Cromford, and other places on the line. The scenery of Derbyshire is the resort of vast numbers of tourists; and particular care will be taken, in passing of the line near Dovedale, not to interfere with or change its beautiful and romantic character. The convenience, therefore, which this line will afford must necessarily cause a great influx of passengers, both on business and pleasure. Ironstone is not so abundant in the South as in North Staffordshire, and vast quantities are sent by the tardy, circuitous, and expensive canal company; which this and other limes of railway meeting at Uttoxeter will remedy. The gypsum formation runs from Staffordshire to the Humber, and the demand for this article for building; agricultural, and manufac turing purposes along this line will be great. The timber from the neighbourhood of the Needwood Forest, Banks, fagots Woods, and Kingston Woods, upwards of 4,000 acres, chiefly finds its way to the Manchester market by a like objectionable route of tartly and circuitous canal convey ance ; whereas this line would open a direct, easy, and cheap Communication to new markets. The line has been viewed prior to a detailed survey, and there are not more than ordinary engineering difficulties. In consequence of the late Parliamentary decisions, it is intended to make this line on the broad gauge principle, but the pro moters do not pledge themselves absolutely to do so. At the urgent suggestion of some of the most influential inhabi tants of Ashbourne, the Committee have ordered a survey of a junc tion to comicct that town with Derby, and with the Derby and Gainsborough and Midland Railways Applications for Shares to be made to John Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London, and William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter; and to the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. l'reece and Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles, Worcester; Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler, Worcester; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liver pool ; Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Morris Rey nolds, Liverpool ; Mr. . Richard E. Hine Macclesfield ; Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ; Mr. Thomas Boardman, Black burn ; Mr. George Clark, Bradford ; Mr. William Mason, Bradford ; Mr. William Crenhelm, Halifax; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham; Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby ; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York ; Mr. E. 11. Armitage, Wakefield ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham ; Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton; Messrs, Tate and Nash, Bi is lol • Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter ; Mr. Th omas Sandford, Exeter; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry; Messrs, Iloughland and Leese, Manchester ; Messrs. Cardwe and Sons, Manchester Messrs. A. fireball and Co., Manchester; Messrs. T. N. Bardwel and Sons, Sheffield; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr.L. Weather sum, jun., Huddersfield ; Messrs. Everard and Co., Huddersfield; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester; Mr. Nicholson, Edinburgh Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ; Messrs. Labertouchc and Stafford, College-green, Dublin. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield and South Staffordshire Direct Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares of 20!. eaei in the above Railway, and I undertake to accept the same or sucb less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to pay, when required, the Deposit thereon of 2/. 2s. per Share. Dated this day of , 184 . Name in 11111...... • • • • .. • • • • • • • - . ..... Profession and professional residence Residence in full LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEFFIELD, and SOUTH STAFTORDSHIRE, or LEEDS, SOLVER HAMPTON, and DUDLEY DIRECT RAILWAY. Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. The Acting Committee of Direction have agreed " that a Brand , Line from Ashbourne to Derby be adopted by this Company, nisi that the capital of the Company be increased from 1,700,0001. to 2,000,0001. for that purpose." By order, R. SHELTOIT MACKENZIE, Secretary. LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEFFIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, or LEEDS, WOLVER HAMPTON, and DUDLEY DIRECT RAILWAY. Capital, 2,000,0001., In 100,000 Shares of 20/. each. Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. Notice is hereby given, tina no applications for slutree in al line will be received after SATURDAY, the 4th day of October. By order, IL SHELTON MACKENZIE, Secretary. Offices of the Company, I, Moorgate Sept. 26, 1845. DIR ECT WESTERN RAILWAY • (Upon the Broad Gauge), From London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and Bridgewater respectively. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 3,000,000/., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. Pls. 6d. per Share. Offices, 20, Poultry, London. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. • The Right Hon. the Earl of Camperdown, Sidney-place, Bath The Viscount Mandeville, Kimbolton-park, Hunts Lord James O'Bryen, Royal-crescent, Bath Lord William Powlett, Bath, and Downham-hall, Brandon, Suffolk General Sir John Slade, Bart., Muntys Court, Taunton Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, Somerset The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London Ralph Neville, Esq , M.P., Hill-street, Berkeley-square Charles Barry Ballwin, M.P., 6, Parliament-street Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Companies Sir Robert Priee,'Bart., M P Feelay. Herefordshire Sir John Cave Brown Cave Part Kenilworth, Warwickshire Sir William Young, Bart., westheuree greet]. Hyde-park, East India Director John Clark, Esq., Bellefleld Horse, near Trowbridge, Wilts, Magis 'trate for the counties of Wilts and Somerset Alfred Batson, Esq., Ramsbury, Wilts, and Upper Bedford-place Major Hunt Grubte, Eastwell House, Devizes John Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker John Level Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker William Adair Bruce, Esq., Lansdown-crescent, Bath Sir John Key, Bart , 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of London, Director of the Direct Manchester and Loudon and Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tolley-street, Alderman of the City of London; and Director of the London and Westmin ster Bank, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder minster Railway Thomas Challis, Esq., Enfield, Alderman of the City of London Edward Harrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the South Midland Railway Joseph Armitage, Esq., Miln's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park, Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and South Midland Railways Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Rails\ ay Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe Philip W. Courtney, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London Millis Coventry, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street Barnet L. Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and George-street, Mansion House Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq-, Holderness House, near Hull, Deputy Lieutenant and Ma;istrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf William Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the Devon and Cornwall Banking Company Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cress, Director of the South Midland Railway Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London, Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, aid the South Essex Railways Francis'Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of the. Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Vi c t ua ll ers ' Fire and Life Insurance Company James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West Heath House, Er.th, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Diree• tor of the Bridport and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railways Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, aid Cannon street, London H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park George M'lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-square Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland Railway Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company Patrick Fras. Johnston, Eeq., Great Cumberland-place Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the Loudon and Blackwell Railway Company William Downing Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon Cethbert Woodcock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstone-street, Portman square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension Railways George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway Company Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London and Blackwell Railway Company Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-sane Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the St. Katherine Docks Company, and of the General Shipowners' Society' William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles street, Berkeley-square James Beech, Esq., Braudon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor place, London Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Drotnagh Castle, county Cork, Union Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of - the Killarney Junction Rail way Company Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London William Congreve Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di rector of the Warwickshire an London Railway Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d Light Dragoons Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Park ; Lewisham. and Trinity square, London Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Herb Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath Isev. Dr. Godftey, Grosvenor-place, Bath Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Rev Chas. Fras. Bamffylde, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bath, Magis trate for Somerset Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming ham Railway. Company R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buckinghtun shire Railway and Wolverton Junction Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingemill, Collumpton Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton Wm. H. Halcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman of the Berks Union Banking Company William Halnomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and Dorset Bank Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berke Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Merle Haber - field, Esq., Clifton, Bristol James Troup, Esq., Hastings John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director of Coventry and Leicester Railway Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway James Burt, jun. Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and Birkenhead, and Manchester and Southampton Railways Edward Norris, Esq., Clair - vino, Manchester, Director of the Direct London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies Joseph Nadir, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the Hull and Barnsley" Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies" John Holford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Madders aeld and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford Union Railway Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction , John Lillie, Esq., Manchester,•Director of Manchester and South aMpton Railway . John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Durham • Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and Midland Railway Companies • lean Holmes, Esq., Llverpoo WM. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and Iron Bridge Railway Company C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Company Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Mal:mach, and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways John Wahl, Esq:, MaChin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield, Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office Wen. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wlsboch, Director of the East Coast Railway Company Capt4ll3 Bowker, . Delonport.. _ H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool end .. rect Railway inalo Samuel Swann Britt ain, Esq., She ffi eld Direct or of the Eat of England Railway Company a 0. John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield sa t rowgaMarriott,y Com pan sr ''' William Esq., Attey rc liff-t e rrace, Sheffield, Director Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railitai . n. , 0 Thomas tn.'etherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and East Lincolnshire Railways John Johnstone II amilton, Esq., Liverpool David Price, Esq., Manchester William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington Etcv. 11. W. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptons hire Major IVornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham of i t ' Diyeard Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield. sri tef South Midland and the Northampton and C helteuham Henry Hubbersty, Es., Hull Je 04.1 John Ostler, Esq., Hul q l, Director of the Hull an d Barnett/ Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane hea Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse, merc John Moe Mathew, Esq., Gray's Lon-square Cohn Norton. Esq., Moat Howse, Brentwood, Essex William John M`Guire, Esq., Hampton Court John Gray Wil.on, Esq., Oxford-terrace Capt. J. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, ,Surrel W. J. Lefeavre, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate :3 o f 3out p lut , ThiP t T i vt a Thomas Chas. Ilartoti, Esq., F R.S., of G. B. Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Die'` Coventry and Leicester Railway Captain Tringham, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire • William Jonsen Neale, Esq., King's Bench-vralk, Temple James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury puul "" wood, Er M.D., Sheffield • Henry Paul Ham, ~ Esq., —., 0“-- T -- he Hon. F. Byron, 21, Eaton-place W - :- , r illiam Higgins, Esq., Turvey, High Sheriff of Bodfords Wner.dy Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak-park, near Winch ester. 1)0 di tenant, and magistrate for the county of Hants „,,,,ter - William Jackson, Esq , Birkenhead, Chairman of OA '-'' Birkenhead Railway Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman, . P d. E. H. Langworthy, Esq., Manchester ow t• (Rolex d TA Nathaniel Gould. Esq., Barge-yard, BucklersburY, An square it 3101416 Edmund Lionel Welles, Esq., Cadogan-place, and. W e ,r Surrey pirec t n Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, anl Linrehottse, _,,, r the London Dock Company, the Marine ABilirAliCe C011,24' the General Shipowner's Society d D' D William Jackson, Esq., Shetlle!d, Director of the Goole sin and Sileriff of London sfia Hallway George F. Earle, Esq., Hull Stephen Knowles, Esq., Exeter oteg b 'll W. Lawrence, Esq., Brixton John Learmonth, Esq., Edinburgh, Chairman of the R: 0000 ' , Glasgow, and North British Railway Companies g •• • Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., 31ontague - p lacer. Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester IT._ William Tanner, Esq., Great Surrey-street, Blackmer John Booth, Esq., Sherburn Grange, Durham . 0 r0 01 ;', Matthew Benjamin Robson, Esq., Whitvvell Grange , m— , John Holmes, Esq., St. Jame i's-street, Directo r of the_ sv, Weymouth Railway, and York and Lancast er Roll!' J William G. Bernard, Esq., Clifton, Bristol 1'0 241 Thomas Smallwood Richards, Esq., 59, Baker-street, ro James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Manchester $ O4 a t CI f N. M'Cann, Esq., Parliament-street te for t h ceg fe Henry Wellman Newman, Esq., Bristol, Magistra , atoa Deputy-Lieutenant and Magistrate for the county 0 ' William Horatio Harrison Esq., Sunbury ~.. 11011 William Empson Jalland, Esq., Holderness House , no "" at ,, Thomas Racket Massey, Esq., Newark-upon - Tr ent ~xolTve• Robert Cook, Esq., Galnsborough, Director of the I: I t A Goole, and Isle of Axholme, and of the Wisbeach' c Ji as hi re Railwas are William Ruston, Es y q., Catherine-court, Trinity -giu .A G. Wingrove Cooke, Esq., Temple, London j s lo* Selwyn, Esq., Exeter .., ter en - r Joseph Hopwood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the DO B e th Railway ... At ... TO Richard Compton, Esq., Eddington House, no n . josp i Magistrate for the counties of Wilts and Berke Henry Coa Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Malden, E" e t t e PO .i Richard Davis, Esq., St. Helen's-place, Directo r of • _or Du" .Railway . • - Edward Hyde Clarke Esq., Leamington; W0rW 14.1111.4 0 1 the Warwickshire and London Railway The Constable of Hungerfoid °lf° rdO , Captain William Lionel Lampert, The Highlan der Leamington, Warwickshire ekshi r. p i, Francis Burton, Esq., Milverton House, Warwl Captain Stewart, R.N., Leamington, Wa r wickshir e , 0610 0 Samuel Haines, Esq.. Chad-house, Edgbaston , DIM" of the South Staffordshire Railway 014 1° .AfOrd - .0 1 William Hugh Upper Gower-street, IS-- ‘ 0 0 v- ~ John Wodleyes, Esq., Gloucester, Director °' LI ON and Wt oo Bristol Railway Rli an'A Lewis Bruce Knight Bruce, Esq., The Priory,. ~„,. Francis Cole Humbert, Esq., Oxford-street, H l Y l ; d e e e f :ir d it e r o ~f Algernon Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, 1 ' ) ve James Lamb, Esq., Hyde-park-square and uloia' Richard Groucock, Esq., Bow-churchyard, j) of the Direct Manchester Railway • t 0 J. B. Simpson; Esq., Rutland-lodge, Brixton T"r o Henry Bellerby, Esq., Sheriff of York .i. ._ Henry Ledgard, Esq., 39, Wood-street, Cher i ' Rugby and Macclesfield Direct Railway o ° John Williams, Esq., Eaton-square. „,...bire ter Thomas Grimsditch,Esq , 31.1'., Macclesfield, t',„ Do- Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn - fields , Welverhalnlw' Liverpool and Leeds Railway William Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester Edward Westlake, sq., Southampton Erasmus It. Foster, Esq., Birchin-lane William Bargctt, Esq., B•oad-street •11 4 V _ Peter R. Morrison, Esq., Princes-street, Bank Thomas Miller, Jun. Esq., Leicester of o rt John Reginald Ridde ' ll, Esq., Enfield, Director the caster Railway te t Thomas Kidley, Esq., M.D., Sheffield L reb 3t" P i° James Sheppard, Esq., jun., White Hart-court, rotl4 Valentine Knight, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Iteg ula" for Middlesex George Sercombe, Esq., Exeter _ . .. John Clampit Scrcombe, Esq., Exeter William Pearce, Esq., Liverpool __.inellO g W. Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birt..— Robert Henry Hurst, Esq., jun., Temple i It" William Nash, Esq., Capham Common _.„,.dtor v Grey Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton Hall, LeiceStq o pu• Captain Twisleton Graves, Duke-street, St. Jain°. ' Leicester and Tean and Dove Valley Railway . (With power to add to their minim , ENGINEERS IN CHIEF. Sir John Mamiell, LL.D., F.R.S• t og.l;: a o; . James Thomson, Esq., F. 8.5. 8, 1 r i g BANKERS—Messrs. Cul ries and Co;,.Coriu.' d °l JOINT SOLICITORS. D0 4 1,001, Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow ChurchYa, Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn -p' ask' Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and Londo% o lds , ' • Mesirs: J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's lan_, SECRETARY—Thomas Hosier Seund e Lk, ASSISTANT-SECRETARY—CharIes J • l LOCAL SOLICITORS. pia aig sot At Newbury—Messrs. Godwin and Gray, and D . ` 10 0+ At Rainsliury—William Rowland, Esq. 311° At Devizes Henry Gilbert, Esq., and John Edwalosf At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and At Bath, Messrs. Batchellor, Harford, and Stauniv' At Shepton _Hallett—Francis Isaac Nalder, Esq. At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole At Exeter—William Denis Moore, Esq. At Tiverton, T. L. T. Rendell, Esq., and J. A. 14*" ' 94' At Launceidon—Messrs. Lawrence and l'attben At Bodmin At Truro At Penzance At Falmouth—Messrs. Tresidder and Son estio lgsii° The object of this line is to effect a direct WO 01.!. e t .„ London and the Land's End. I diel° ' In a national point of view such a line is ' n t oii°lolll, the advaetage of a direct railroad, Fahnouth, r0, 91 ,,ted 1 / 4 00!;ie, western extremity of the kingdom, would till" ° ,, t ' eel P o 101if' have been the principal port on that coast. Wit;',,,etel ' fle tsy,; , :" at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has g e .' 2 ' t . lefii s 9llel' sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, t vantages, has, since the opening of the South - rr creased its imports from 200,0001. to 3,01/0, 80 ° 1 „' e ti r telP . t cre * ,ef tol, before the opening of the Great Western 'ltd were declining; since then they have very cefunt;.o o-, jl ll- -1 0 7 The merits of a line to the Land's End as „ecr• pital, it was not left to the present Company to L."; . 3 11 16 „" e t Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway hav in ' t het nly` e j o, Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend „o ra t set as foot on the conviction that Falmout h in totech mouth ,by way of Plymouth ; and various other P . V ee T ' 0 ° 4; 1 rai The fo tner o object of this prospectus is to show that no` _mo gteo° resent can ultimately satisfy the exigencies o f th iT.oeit' to this, its most important outport-4. t h e natura l _l, s th The present e emire." .A I g project is distinguished by this — til the sLeg as nearly as possible a straight line from Londo n ` ° t . The London, Bath, and Bridgewater CoinPal„,ece " o ( l • ese' mated with this Company, the Immense local 1 ,"ottjeel•_,Or by them will now contribute to the great nation ;r oc!' o t. line ; while means have been taken for secttring tir opi rsa,;, Pre fug all the accommodation contemplated by that ; wresig' 1 1 ?; The Direct Western availing itself of the Cir g t ie wha,P.,.tar l .l ll 4 so rar as Reading; pursues its course by or near -_,,, 0 fe 3- o rf , t er; ford, Great liedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the pe ooe t ve e; trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging lin g : o n 3t eie g .f g t Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, FrOltle, SheP to pri ff ol o ,o , ; (from which another diverging line will be take n 0 00 , 4 0 ais le Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by „iote , ,oes l li, t miles than • any existing 'railways between these itleoel o , ; „ a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and x-e gO - n, reo g it ° I ,. leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tivc fie t er t oe proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's Z ; ',, t elle, g o tee di esii, Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about s e tt o orig , lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, arid g ,". s heat !Ai", OoA ilistance from London to Fahnoutb, a saving of 0. ee ode e ct t off With reseect to the traffic on the upper 9 o rea jeer tots needless to say more than that there is alrendyth r t he ; 1 or cient to justify the construction of this Porti ° V;idoa tern : that - it will shorten the distance IMO elen g of are r about 32 miles, that it will traverse rich and rP,„ t eit s olo" ; and manufacturing districts, and receive a largo 00 10 , 10. well from railways now in course of construction jected, with every chance of success. „it is ef ;'; As to the traffic on the lower portion a the d ietA, o l) o o the vast number 'of merchant vessels continualgo #. O O - 'e, Channel by adverse winds, would effect an illu n at rein i o g , poo insurance and time, by discharging their cargoe a can s er, co oneo t ee itth transmitting he eoeumgtr great pa o their proamot ngt. ryn destination tohfe to t d o slo,, d o f: a r 51 1•4 uses •flec tiv7; et af means of this railroad, attract the commerce rep',, ie n er o _, •_ and Sonthampton ;t o what extent the luexhaff 'ires of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural re- 4 0 7. of rc r - g et may be further developed, or the genia l cli Tteact a Tic ° 0, t o Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," a. , tta e t t o tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this L ei aro te 4 ,ce e r . , traffic both in goods and passengers, from its • r_, t , c lef _ t ee; amount of which may be said to be without li t f r u i j ok iitie m r ot s map will abet it manifest that andmei pid• el r e ( established ween Tiverton the Land _ O. AD Taunton and Reading, an iespection of tile mfi . p ) 7 . 4,' w es t. Potlr tent of midland district, comprising rich and 1 11 7 ge the .0 mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, s gvr 4, oi railroad acg to t commodation. nooce „ t ig°4 ia ° ge e eif g Recurrinhe features of this ilreiee , rt tee s ec s the' greatest in point of magnitude, of v ital ilaP;liio geoe r o rr . i war, and of almost incalculable advantage out or pics commerce of the kin,gdom; it may not be , )olsiattiee e ta 4.lr7 e f the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. tee read eee., of a direct line from Loudon to Liverpool 01'0,0001:i which bore much the same relation to the 0 , ; ll o ' d itrisT o t r ie Junction that this bears to the Great Western... o .oler orts.tooilto;o Railways, he is reported to have said :--` „.„et 0 6 1,01 0 ;ri 0 ,0 in between the metropolis and the o rate rf ito ; , to o 4 , a question of hours, but a question of minutes. „, iut -04„ . ..554 particular line, Parliament has already exPr es 'n ' esiste g°", C °l : r i te L report of the Committee on the -Wilts, Son]; rt tlf , ?1,0014; e i . 1 1 1; line, which was promoted by the Great Wei .. t e e qu ieed t g o e it was stated that that Company had been.,,,% ; outik , at to I ..pr mot hereafter to oppose a direct line to e ea further observed, that a proposed line from taiga to j, was last session rejected, on the grou nd . that to T i h nt e e s r u fe rv re ey w o lt f li tu t c ha li t n g e r i e t a n t s b n o tt n ion to al correct estimates of the expenditure and relefe_ . 7 o ,et $` o .; # waedness, and the whole will be ready for to that th e 1 14 llameat. stet . h toi c ! °A ll l$ l , It is sufficient, as to these points, here _ ,oro g irtv it ia engineering difficulties in any part of the Ir the fiest4 o w e. re do repeatedly surmounted is other cases ; .; infit I c eeer c t iat t oe sobgjete.4.....exatrltiosol:,;lo/0.: constructed at an unusually small exPe i lr r ' ello o, on d ; a sser will meet with the cordial support, coact are fastifiede'rooef the landownera, and that the Directors eret lf ter e 'd c aul) o e this will prove to be one of the Most r to stioie o d kingdom. . to the P r "hareb °l eee ° ifon Powers thoaullnodt w sm i p l e i l b t e coe t fn a st k iul e atn n r in e f t y h in e l nl be e c u g o i f v f'f_i t r u l te i a o : a 1, 7 1). e t g ri ' to 6 t i s ct , i r t r o i tl to and ey otho e railer 4„, through which the line will Pass, Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, an" to 10 , op Are if with the Direct Western district. d, the C° the A so pp l l t i c c i a to ti rs ons to f t o h r e s c ha o r m e p s, an it y i , ll o i r e loeal g° - Offices, 20, Poultry, London, or to the spectable broker in town or country c tee" A.-- e € • 00. 20, Poultry, September,LontlFono,RoF rifiL4,5.,,...ct wee To the Provisional Committee of the I t ae bare ° • Company. 0- o ,oet cer the d eu p S roll u 'teri the above Company, and nd mber you ma"elee per share thereon, or on any less nu cement a. and to execute the Subscribers' e.irr Gentlemen,—l request Iyuou w ert ill a a k l e lo t t o o p ie ay el e c t - _ on tfoontiniesSlVreta6ghoarot 0 tract when required. 1845. Dated le in full ........... • • , - ▪ •• • Nam- - Residence • • • • • • • ' '. • • .• •- .• , . Trade or Profession • ••••••)•....• • ~ Place of Business (if 6 " „ •• •• ~..j• Reference• • • .... •'' • .. Signature.. •• •••• •• • f i•ts 1 " IRECT WESTER ovlos • 0 with diverging lines to BATH and BRIT) N ItAl.j'lt r 0 10 9 1* (Provisionally Registered.) , 0 ,0 fo 7 ;,:f ts •e_, Not,cc is hereby given, that no further Appic4n. ofOcs- • this Cenipany will berecetved after TussDAY, helng, T. U. 5A1341147 ' 2A l'Oeiri, London, Oct. 1, 18* - TRE ttp el, tik , e It 41. 4 . k r 2 b , k;;;