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RN, orrr Lan, Cl'ail° T et ; th e o t u n tou a it' br°l36 ✓ion , • yopP i i•-streete sq. 00 0 t: s tate orang tthe act i n 00 be mat La ". r, 3fer l e , l 9l ",cese,: form' Leeds Leeds ; P;; J T , ingli n°; As l el ,rl4 °. ire`, , Iresses. c°uth e, ; gyres w t- try t ' e '' il y 10 1 ' c ' ot# Lill tnu ..• nesi 301 ,i OCIS . O P if OleA, fa' cap' N'ortu" I " f th e P rtli ol :r an d 9' e- A rw' too isoatiop e et, iston ion Ito Pi re fbe Lirlll3o wa ceP Ir. he ) 1 ' o f ad, D irector " Ivo' ' ll4 o o' l ' of the n 6• 31'- " e 4 ". ctOr •- q.lsliire ,ter tri‘ - s C I ,O c , 11 , sod ttr l• P i"' 5 oojclgel r 5 ei ter .„0 ,4 o , r or of t pe D l' to re, _sq ,e, raY orP,,, 0 r o te. ter it or' , 3 ' re°:11014'1 )Tr y Tra, or Of 0 :4 r of °iv. „Ife r f6 ' Afe rth gO rl''' ~ pot P t 3P”. 1 •)I•'' clio" , s tet ) erg 3l ;' t : c iTS 4' 4111P°t.i°6 P ROVISIONALLY REGISTERED. G RE AT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT RAILWAY. a Junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedford. . Distance, 120 miles. Mal, 2 ,100,000/ e in 100,1,00 Shares of 251. each Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share. Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons. 111 , 1 ' Bight llon. Lord D yn PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Lord Stephen Chid ester, Ormeau, Belfast, and Army and Navy Club Loud • m_giifittebbeert Alexander, Bart., Charles-street, Manchester-square "• eliam Twisden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Director Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and „,_ „ _e w ash Valley Extension Pailway-s "e- illiarn Bacon Johnston Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the ehePstow, 'Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and of the e , gojuth and Midland Junction, and West, Midlands Railways seitrr Tit Os one Bart., Earl's -court, Brompton the° IC e3', Bart., Director of the Manchester and London, and of C aptain Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railway 11.4PPlin Frederick Polhill, M.P. for Bedford -valor-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Director of the York and L i ancast er Railway k a . : jor-Geffer a l Thomas Morgan, Singleton-house, Torquay r-G eneral Wright Royal Engineers, Gloucester-place, Portman.. square Ackroyd, Esq , Westbourne Lodge, Otley, Director of the • and M'esst York,. Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and Leeds and vbCoarlisle Railways Tr in p i as „ Alekander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and Nee," Continuation Railways Slimes Alliott, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Amber nteate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction, and one of ibL ro s vi e s o i n o i n p a a l n e le o s mmittee of the Nottingham and Gainsborough eury Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Watkinson -1111, bear Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and ▪ Le sci., eds Direct Railway • E Upper Clapton, Director of the South Midland r Iti Te e n e liz y Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Newcastle-upon :11114 Armitage, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Grimsby, Director .e M anchester and G reat Grimsbee and Keighiey, Halifax and Theteeertersfield Junction Railways Jee... - "v. Charles Edward Armstrong, M.A., Hemsworth - -e tt e)eeander Esq., - Brandon-cottage, Bristol, Director of (144 yxford and Worcester Extension Railway Le e e e s Eaenford, Jun., Esq., Director of the Hull and Barnsley, and 8 C arlisle Railways Lard tt Es h ter hoose Broad-street, Director of te ael ileal' ge 'q" ne es lan and Austrian, and the Derby, lUttoxeter, and Stafford W.dliaralrnit, Esq , Honey-lane-market, Director of the Manches- Johe Ru g b y Direct Railway, via Macclesfield 'Wee, Yee Banks , Esq., Stockwell, Surrey ter Feehney Black, Esq, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Diree ka the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction Ile sr v eees elae l e",: e ,aeh Burgess, Esq., Temple's-park, Hampstead Director of Gre.b"le, Doncaster, and Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lune, and Great eharle Y Joievislisalisbury Butler, Esq.,the Lodge, Upper Clapton 11,0 elaaEsq., Castle-house, Gomersall, near Leeds Leeds Lee '"rnleY, Esq., Gemersall, near Leeds, Director of the est Ri ding Junction Railway, and of th e Liverpool and Leeds e Railway Eee7%l Brpool a atem an, Es Leeds q., Direct Croft-house Railw a, y near Bradford, Director of the e 7 nd .87nith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Selby J sal " e e°ek, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester e way J - qh ktie g "le, Esq., Bedford Itad Liee oln rand ' Esq., 9, New B roa d- s t ree t , Director of the Cambridge ,le . Ri ere , and Gre a t L uxemburg Railway ,e 'e , th e Dee,' Earle Tutbu r y, Di rector of the Teen and Dove Valley, ll and Gainsboreugh, the Shropshire Mineral Railways, &c. 41117 ant E It ee ,ale t ett sq., East Retford J ai , I% lie ete „' Esq.,„ Sandiacre, Derbyshire r , sqe merchant, Woodville, Notts eLeelt, Esq banker, West Field-house, Rugby, Director of Wel l "bee' and duntingdon, and one of the Provisional Committee p4h OXf eard E je l i rd and Birmingham Junction Railway Companies 40.,gatel 1 1ire , merchant, Nottingham Flinn - -I L Esq., merchant, Nottingham peejaas EugtlttaM Bishop, Esq., merchant, Nottingham e'ar e r ,,e, N., merchant, Nottingham liekleue,aurin.oEssq., Grantham, Direetorof tp a e ilw Am ay ber-gate, Not liZetradw,tsgton,3,lnadnor Eastern a Junction lisSheffield, Chairman of the Direct p e rn . ie ; and Isle of Ely and Lincolnshire Junction Railways 44 0e / ,',;: e r Burbidge Es q Mayor of Grantham, Director of the • Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction %a \ th, I C4 l 4 ei n o lll l rtr m, Esq., merchant. Carrington, Nottinghamshire k4, ttyl tai the Not n' and Gaillsb°magi l ilail D w i a rLtor of the bie te a u , s 7 l . ,l Carrick, Esq., magistrate, Hull, I.7 et R e i he " v ielt, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds 14;41•ar Challis Ys C arter E -sq., Alderman of London Comer ,:r e ttae e sq., Knottingley Y ar Zt el., Esq., Taushelf, Magistrate for the Borough of Pon kill4N%erre, n°e -, Esq. Helmfield-house, near Ferrybridge eke 1 1r :t 4 t E sq., Director, of the South and Midland Junction, leeelteeetsegelaut Extension Railways keZea "'see lowndes-square, Director of the Western Ja ee e ec ,e_ay ape G r p Gainsborough, Director of the Manchester, Mid- J. sem + a t Grimsby, Gainshorough, Goole, and Isle of Ax kte :wtaOt ay s th e Wisbeach, of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junction E Ja, Coq; t !'le East Retford 'tre, Little Bar field-hall, near Braintree, Essex eeie.'aches Es eeeesee Director of the Paris and Strasburg, Southampton, - "ltid ". alid Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, and Mee t. S, c Rees ee3 , B - 4 )4-1 14,1 8 1 : 1. , 0:4 4 ' 8 ( . 1.. Director of the London and Birmingham lelCaeetrabril Coleman, Es Crown-court, Old Broad-street lee„eetle Nottinehturin" te7.... a rler. Esq 7 Woodgreaves-house, near Wakefield, Di 'way ala neliester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct . t...l.4.eeetus Hamilton Chichester, Efq., Oakfleld, Donegal, and d ; apd-piaee, Belgrave-square, Director of the Grand Wales ee Chant London and Exeter Direct Railways „Ekle Worksop r resq., merchant, Nottingham eete. 'r °q•, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire eeke ei e e. g., Stratford, Essex p Es q. , Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys June e : 1: 'tta fle e a y B owie Ribston-hall Wetherby, Magistrate for the e...NeeWee ' ee - "'ling of Yorkshire ' t r ' (l le - e rt ' Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Eaten ehe t), reester Junction Railways eh a ace e l i port, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, 0,11,,,ze0t hodsbilay , Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li eksle,,ylreesfiod D E irect R 11 D a alt w on aY Huddersfield, Director of the 14-.4 c4 1 11 : )Y . and M s a g n . c ' hester, Of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, .04righley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway /1- e 447 :Net e e d r a :' Esq., F.L.S., Director of the Rugby, Warwick, -aailway 1 7 18 4, a , 4 , 1 ete " e n ' Esq., Pontefract Chin, and Boston, and the Sheffield, Wortley, silk , krt e Netseesk erl eld Railways • ess aeleeker, Esq , New-hall, by Neston, Director of the t e Rule:le e Bolyhea.d, and the Birmingham, Oxford, a n d E es (4 e N t a Gre 'tl e' u l V riln aketleld, Director of the Manchester, Madders- Es q s'bY Railway Dorchester,and -wey • ailwa,. Director of the Exeter, t, - t . se, o i tt, t 4 q;4 , h,.'„ o tnhead-house, Rochdale it e et o s e iee eri t eT ; e n Y ork-terrace, n ß w ernt's-park, Managing IDiree ""tee7seiltatjwr' Esq., c e a Director of the y Oxford and Worcester Ex k‘9'l,ri dY kPti„ 4 114 tg q. k , Fu,, ich an „ ansfied, Director of the Nottingham. Nana see, /t ,'" 1 88 ' , unction Railway q 'the e ' 8%, Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shei -1,1;411NY? c _rale Esq, Austin-friars, Chairman of the London te'Pe ?„, P eier e e - ne, an Leeds and Carlisle Railways le'eaesee'eineeekle Ameotts-house, near East Retford 'eeetei.rde 4l/e,s gill, merchant, Nottingham barrister-at-law,Gloecester-road, Hyde- • ( ei r4 a, eeee e e ler/ e0 arle Pontefract lq' lt elee ll ee E sq , Alderman, and Magistrate for Hertford ,re, tt, ts Glasgow Director of time Coventry and Nuneaton Railway 1 1 '4; 4 1); 4 „ E', 1:8 0, Friday-street, Cheapside ee„ ee 'eet F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and re in ite qr aib eey e t e,. tti 'v l s e N., Ely Bank-lodge, Halifax e e eet e ,els, E"e„ ek werth-park, Ackworth tire C oeZ; u araberwell, Director of the South Meta , ipolitan N‘le g a„ l ' Eel Z. Voee t eed yeet',Jechniond, Yorkshire, Director of the Leeds and %Oen Esq L i nnlberlalid and Lancashire Railways 1/44,seioi.er.est etucknall Torkard, Nottiogh qnshire. Director of eLeteestne, -.Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern 'unction, 074 4'll' Gree ancl „Gahaborough Railway Companies eV,kr4l ' r-sq., Mayor of Bedford ,'ar narvon-hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat -0:1. Eg,i \;,,r,c.u_nztion, and Worth Woolwich Railways r,7ton, near Bawtry e v i teetie'e t eiesi oie '-A., Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash s ee n, E.,. eed West Midland Railways nr Director of the Tring, Reading, and easing pie "'lel( and t eli sei eeri e m., Macclesfield Railways ele . eZ t e e /Ted, Es ' - ' ,1 7 , 1'i1 - , orwich 1 4. 'D 'IlLe iitin e a ck, ed' Director of the Direct Western, and l e els:l'lN ',unction Rag., ~,144,1144trstd1,47ng,,Osqr..L.Ponterracty, a Deputy-Lieutenant And J.P. e h ill /1 ;411, 0m Yorkshire 61.. rore s e li Esqe Eden-place, Ackworth, Jel,e. for the frip 1 , 1:e r e hg, h e;el 4 rti - -Not e s , eelptotei C h as ° tle e ,Sto l3 n ad , Director of the Lance seeieri„elof T . or kshire, Lancashire and Yorkshi re N or th NNleee"tees e E sa " telveßerpo tf ol and Leeds Direct Railways ord dt,„, East-street. Leeds, Director of the Liverpool 4 It e. ltt 0,4 .ailway 47'eti 'Wi e r 'eke Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and N i ce E sq. eN;leekh, E' Royal Foundry, Redford eis'elt e ete e "eee Wakefield, late High Constable of Wakefield r,ekeertleteel'sqe ba'alter, Grantham, Director of the Amber and . ston, and Eastern Junction Railway Letli;1 18 8, gen"' I .e l efleld-liouse, near Bedford " e ` e e'r• l k% E se e 'Age St. Cuthbert's, Bedford '"Veli 'Aies - l e e Bedford " alter Hudson, Rectory, Saundby, near Galn..e -o'4l, I le t e,P-sq Of ,4 4 . 1 edfOrd */{ 'ate s tee, bere„.Sheri of London and Middlesex, and DI-- 7e-ti Jele tn e d an,d Stafford Railway :ktt ,klet,u 4 nd Holdeniess Home, near Hull, Director ,k i te toi : te eto e i " tiailway Vee. Wth:,Eavt a e, l e n ,d , Esq., Holderness-house, near Hull, Maids eleeeee.:eing of York and Borough of Hull, and Di eenee'lete.,7'kted Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley Railways seeeeeel ee 'on, ey iane-market ?,•"- 70/..." -Age Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the Nh,„ ' r ies, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct heelaee k tre ce ee'e e a . ele Bedford . 1 1.-a Bet ' 3 ' or Of "text ay Bull, and Director of the Liverpool and tit I* k enip E , -is sq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet „ e ei re N ees e E, el and Lichfield Railways eere!eetieeeteeeeetiuddersfield and Great Grimsby, Director .-eNN'Aeeet:lttee.',;° Great GriIIISbY, and Keighley, Halifax, and ,k/e;itet,:qatt7:(ii7,o434ll:tcahllll:vefi,3l:la.a,Enseiirse.,East Retford e e . /. or b tie ontefraet Director of the Chepstow, re, e. 4 ._eite e, e, loueester Junction Railway • ", lie r q Jano s , ary egg, E. 8-square e t ete etit e „ eerie Berl Wa tling-street, London 1 - , ee c h t ,ford 4( le 40 Bury St Edmunds ttm eeoucester 1 e gate, i tanw - 2 ) ace, Portman-square, Director of eee Clera y Broad -street, Director of the Western eelikete q 'tee, `4 l"Le S ottie"ge tele , ector of the Sligo ant Shannon, the Iles '. "kettle F. e t , / e 25 1 7 , and the Cork Passage and Kinsale the etYde- Di' p a rk - square, Director of the Scottish t 7 tioe_ str _ , teem Railways t ip 9heN)side t, E „. Director of the Liverpool and Leeds ee•ei s ee, ree rei Telex and Huddersfield Junction Railway \!ll4ettite. i ee4lou eee, 'Vet, Bedford 1 % , lie c a, F e e alit! Lielr-erove, North 'Brixton, Director of the ies,', 4 "eh. bias eea s er Poal, and Isle of Man Railways Oise' .rea, ey e‘it,4e, ea i 4 ' New ark•upon-Trent, and Bedford •"l't t:4l lldi th,,tojiNg /- amt R L_ 1 11, , 4.1) ,ektbrd ' A p idedrord 4 t ( 4l , k 4 ,1 (1 4 1., 0111,,,„ k i Raij'' - i°ase, near East Retford, Director MarZ Y 'rtZ 4 4 1 ,1 t tm ersq Larusle;:lautai:i fvnaoktet.ifinete3;iat Railway hiri Director °f teSion OUG Railwaysll etihtid,tvhaey`gx;,,,rAdi aagnisdtriNvorfcoerstthere Extension a, at d 4 1411e ' BlTdigoeu,riaotrreet,•rPeo,rtDmaiet-tsoqruoaie the Nk94Es,? , ter te" es.it„l'ateley- EBi . r ec , l , r aevi tll l 'es' l s k elie • ealit e je , the le .ueeseeßurnley Director of the Liverpool „„:„,,,‘_Jurn, Cheney, and Liverpool, and 114 .4 4 di e E.e. se_rsfleld Junction Railways / r4 ;e t e kei e ' s q., ee e Le v akelleld k e ,4 , i s ;:ees e 4 , fel' Ilance"nghatn-Park h t„.ster, Director of the Manchester and Aire t4n4 Ese . ''',l`; and Carlisle Railways at. ""Q. ter ' ' r ge s 'eettar ector Of eeR , Westminster, anl Moat -‘4l) the Great Western Direct Rail ' -k nell • °a-balltle, Bedfordshire ~_ Thomas North, Esq., Mayor of Nottingham Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South Midland and Oxford Extension Railways John Ostler, Esq., Director of the Hall and Barnsley, and Leeds and Carlisl, Railways Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D., Pontefract George Osgood, Esq., Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn Charles Frederick Palgrave, Esq., Bedford Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North John Phillips, Esq., Mayor of Pontefract George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield-house, Russell-square William Patterson, Esq., Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire Robert Power, Esq., Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance Society Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Birming ham Direct, Leicester, Iron and Dove Valley Railways Edward Rawlins, Esq., Bedford Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah-house, Enfield, Managing Director of the York and Lancaster Railway James Robson, Esq., Tansheif, Magistrate for the Borough of Pon tefract Frederick Redden, Esq., Bedford Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weynioath Junction, the 'i ring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and the Direct Western Railway George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate, the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Thirsk Junc tion Railways Thomas Routlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of tke Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railways Edward Sankey, Esq., Canterbury Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing stoke Railway Benjamin Thaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet and Blythe Valleys Railways J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and of the Leeds, York, and Midland Railways William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Ca ,•endish-square, Director of the South Midland Junction Railway, &c. &c. George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury-hall, Sheffield, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Leeds,Director of the Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways Joseph Smithson, Esq , Kirkless Mills, near Halifax John Sanders, Esq., Bedford J. W. Scriven, Esq., Throstlenest, near Otley„ Director of the Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Railway Richard Shaw, Esq., Tulledge, near Burnley, Director of the Keigh ley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway James Henry Simpson, Esq., 31.8., Pontefract Joshua Annable Skidmore, Esq. St. John's-place, Wakefield William Starkey, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Sheffield, Wort. ley, Silkatone, and Wakefield, and the Leeds and York Railways William Stewart, Esq., Horbury, near Wakefield George Eaton Stanger, Esq., Nottingham Samuel Herrick Surplice, Esq., Beeston, Notts John Streets, Esq., merchant, Spring Field-house, Sandiacre, Derby. shire William Surplice, Esq., Nottingham Samuel James Sykes, Esq., Hall James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railway Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., banker, Bedford John Best Trapp. Esq., Redford Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull, Di rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway Thomas Turney, Esq., Park-lodge, near Halifax William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull Joseph Francis Tempest, ESq., F.S.A., the Mount, Ackworth Charles Vickers, Esq., Pontefract, Director of the Manchester, Hud dersfield, and Great Grimsby Railway Wm. Watson,Esq , Daybrook, Nottinghamshire, Director of Amber gate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway Samuel Warburton, Esq., Hunslet, Leeds, Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway The Rev. Richard Whitelock, M.A., Saddlewortli, Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire Joseph Whitaker, Esq., Ramsdale, Nottingnamshire William White, Esq., Bedford John Williams, Esq., M.D., Magistrate for Yorkshire, Director of the York, Hull, and East and West Riding Junction Railway Abraham Wood, Esq., Rochdale, F.R.C.S. Joseph Wyles, Esq., Grantham, Director of the Amber-gate, Net tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway David •Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland-Hollow, Derbyshire, Director of the Rugby, Kerby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railways William Williams, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford Charles Waite, Esq., Willesdon-house, Middlesex John Wheelton. Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Director of the' Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford The Rev. H. Burdett Worthington, Bedford G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed y Celt' n, Denbighshire, and Lonsdale square, London, Director of the Thames Valley Railway George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax (With power to add to their number). ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—Sir John Macneil, LL.D., and P.B.S. ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E. LONDON SOLICITORS. J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court. Owen Gray, Esq. 25, Great Tower-street. J. B. Midge, Esq. MANCHESTER AND RUGBY DIRECT RAILWAY, via MACCLESFIELD. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 1,700,0001., in 85,0.0 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the Yarmouth and Wavemey Val ley Railway Daniel Watney, Esq., Wandsworth, Surrey, distiller W. F. Wennington, Esq., 'Walsall Sm:th Whilock, Esq., Birmingham W. D. Wills, Esq., Bristol ' Alexander H. Wylie, Esq., Liverpool Edmund M. Wavell, Esq., Halifax S. Watkins, Esq., Forest-hill, near Worksop COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. William Chadwick, Esq., Chairman I.tobert Watkins, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. The Hon. Howe Browne. John Bagshaw, Esq. Sir John Pirle, Bart. Joseph Brown, Esq. John Attwood, Esq., M.p. T. Bridge Simpson, Esq. James Henry Attwood, Esq. Daniel Watney, Esq. John Itiasterman, Esq. James Horne, Esq. Wm. Hughes Hughes, Esq., Al- James Lees, Esq. derman William Hill, Esq. George Adam, Esq. George Parbury, Esq. The Right Hon. Lord Ingestre, M.P. The Hon. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation Railway John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Hyde Park John Masterman, Esq., Nicholas .lane, Lombard-street, banker Sir John Pine, Bart., Alderman of the City of London, Direc tor of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam-packet Company William Hughes Hughes, Esq , Alderman of the City of Lon don, late M.P. for Oxford, and late High Sheriff for Hants James Henry Attwood, Esq., Seymour-street, Portman-square George Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Cornhill • ' John Bagshaw, Esq., Director of the Northern - and Eastern , Railway Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng land Junction Wiliam Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway William Henry Forman, Esq., Upper Thames-street Captain George Probyn, Bryanston-square Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng- ; land Railway Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the Commercial Bank a; of London William Langley Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, A The Hon. George Browne, Lowndes-square, Belgrave-Square Sir George Rich, 43, Lowndes-Street, Belgrave-square Sir Henry Richardson, Chessel-house, Southampton Sir William Wynne, 5, Suffolk-street, 'Pall-mall, Chairman of the North Wales Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway Sir G. A.Lewin, Upper Harley-street, London Sir John Hare, Langliam-place Sir William Massey Stanley, Bart., Horton-hall, Cheshire The Mayor of Newbury, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway John Addis, Esq., of Rotherhithe, Surrey, Director of the Central Terminus, and of this Lincensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Office The Rev. J. Harvey Ashworth, Newbury M. W. C. Alston, Esq., Birmingham W. C. Alston, Esq., Ehridon Hall Samuel Ashton, Esq., Wood Hill, Prestwich James Atty, Esq., Rugby James Bancroft, Esq., Alderman ef the Borough of Manchester Henry Barlow, Esq., Richfield, Stockport Samuel Barton, Esq., Didsbury, Director of the Chester and Man chester Direct Railway Hugh Beaver, Erg.. Manchester William Fechnez Mack. Esq., 19, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Di rector of the Italian and Austrian Railway Company Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford Captain Burney, MN., Gosport William Bardgett, Esq., Old Broad-street, and Carshalton, Surrey, Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Company Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffilid Charles Baker, Esq., Southampton William Bland, Esq., Brixton, Director of the North Wales Railway Themes Brittain, Esq., Manchester George Burnand, Esq., Sussex-square, Hyde-park William Bevan, Esq., 48, Conduit-street, Bond-street,Director of the North Wales Mineral Railway Jacob Bell, Esq., Langham-place, London W. E. Boyes, Esq., Alkerton, Banbury, Director of East and West of England Railway Henry Brown, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch Robert Bramwell, Esq., Upper Thames-street William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Shef field and Manchester Railway, and Chairman of the Direct Western Railway George Eorrett, Esq., Southampton Lieutenant-Colonel Burslem, North Hants Charles Bailey, Esq., Winchester Henry Baker, Esq., 79, Mark-lane 11. Burney, Esq., LL.D., Gosport . • Jo eph Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place George Bovill, Esq., Mill-wall, Poplar Louis Buckland, Esq., Lloyds, and Avenge-road, St. John's wood Robert Beman, Esq., Donnington House, Stow-on-the-Wold, Glou cestershire W. Bailey, Esq., Wolverhampton J. B. Byron, Esq., Director of the Richmond Railway. F. F. Clossman, Esq., Mincing-lane John Chapman, Esq., Leadenhall-street, Director of the Devon and Cornwall Railway S. J. Capper, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge Edward Chapman, Esq., Strand, London, Director of the Richmond Railway Sheldon Cradock, Esq., Leicester . • Philip Warner Courtenay, Esq., 26, Capel-street, Belgrave-square Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Direst Western Rail way Francis Carleton, Esq. James Clift, Esq., Bloomsbury-square Robert Cruickshank, Esq., Gosport John Churchill, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation Railway Robert Charles, Esq., 23, Endsleigh-street, Tavistock-square G. Colquhoun, Esq., Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway James Consterdine, Esq., Manchester Joseph Cragg, Faq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury Colonel George Disbrowe, Chester-square, London William Dredge, Esq., Newbury James Denis Devitre, Esq., 7, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square Director of the North-Western Railway George Dunlop, Esq., Southampton George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield Richard Dyott, Esq., Freeford John Alcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Conut Eyre, Director of the South-Western Railway Vincent Eyre, Esq., Director of the South-Western Railway Captain Farrington, R.N., West Cowes, Ile of Wight E. S. Farrow, Esq., Newbury W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq., Old Bread-street, Director of the Essex and Suffolk Railway F. B. Freer, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon William Tu:loch Fraser, Esq., 5, Manchester-square John Fawcett, Esq., Broom Hall, Sheffield, Director of the Great Western Railway J. P. Firmstone, Esq., of Ilighfields, Wolverhampton George Firmstone, Esq., Lays Ironworks, Stourbridge W. E. Gray, Esq., Newbury Samuel Giles, Esq., Manchester Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds H. P. Gipps, Esq., Montague-place, Bryanston-square William Gibh, Esq., Manchester John Gould, Esq., Ardwick, Manchester Captain Augustus Heyman, Cadogan-squaro Thomas Charles Higgins, Esq., Turvey-house, Bedfordshire Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, near Birmingham, Director of the East and West, and Birmingham South Stafford shire Railway Joseph Hopgood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the East and West of England Railway W. H. Hornby, Esq., Blackburn John Hamp, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent John Smith Hamp, Esq., Catton, Burton-upon-Trent George Calvert Holland, Esq., M.P., Sheffield John Newington Hughes, Esq., St. Michael's, Winchester William Hill, Esq., Manchester John Hadeon, Esq., Director of the East and West of England Rail way Company Joseph Haden, Esq., ironmaster, Dudley David Harrison, Esq., Staley-bridge, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham and Cheshire Junction Railway James Rome, Esq., Clapham-common, Director of the North Lon don Railway Company John Hemming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park. Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway T. A. Hall, Esq., Ashtleld-house, Newcastle, Staffordshire Frederick Hewett, Esq., Clapham, Surrey J. H. Higeon, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and Man chester Railway T. Hodges, Esq , Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway George Calvert Holland; Esq., M.P., Sheffield John Hyde,Esq., Manchester William Jacomb, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the East and West of England Railway William Jenkinson, Esq., Marlborough-square, Salford George Jonel, Esq., Pedland, 11-is'ata V. Clark Kemball, Esq., 6, CI e•ter-place, Hyde-park J. Kinloch. Esq., Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director of the North Wales Railway John Knill, Esq„ Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Junction Railway Charles Kelson, Esq., Teignmouth, Devon, Direetor of the East and West of England Railway William Knott, Esq., 4, Adelaide-place, Director of the Richmond Railway M. W. King, Esq., Amblicote-hall, Stourbridge Edward Lomer, Esq., Southampton William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., James-street, Buckingham -gate, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway Henry Ledgard, Esq , Wood-street John Dawson Lowden, Esq., Doughty-street, Director of the Rich mond Railway James Lees, Esq., Brookville, near Manchester Joseph Liggins, Esq., Kensington, Director of the Southampton Dock Company Captain J. H. Leckie, Richmond, Surrey Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway James Lamb, Esq , 25, Hyde-park-square; Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Samuel Lovell, Esq., Bedford F. Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-place, Regent's-park William Mills, Esq., Newbury Joseph Maunder, Esq., Ashford-house, Staines John Malleeon, Esq., Wimbledon, Director of the Great Indian Pe ninsular Railway William Malins, Esq ' Mansion-house-place, London, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway William Robert Mesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford George Miller, Esq., Director of the Central Railway Terminus Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington Charles Musgrave, Esq., Melverton Hill, Leamington R. F. Mushet, Esq., Birchin-lane and Coleford John Marshall, Esq., Hornforth Hall, near Leeds, late Mayor of Norwich John Macfarlane, Esq., Director of the Sheffield Railway Thomas Markland, Esq., Maltield. Manchester - James Marshall, Esq., Brinnuigton Mount, Stockport Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire G. Moore, Esq., St. John's Priory, Banbury Nicholas M'Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street William Nash, Esq., Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway Cornelius Nicholson, Esq., Cowan Head, Kendal, Deputy-Chairman of the York and Carlisle Railway Captain Alexander Nairn., Director of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company Joseph Naden, Esq., Dudley Edward Norris, Esq., Manchester Robert Ogden, Esq., The Oaks, Manchester James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford, Director of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway P. Oldfield, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Liverpool Railway George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the East and West of England Railway Apsley Pellet, Esq., Director of the Staines and Richmond Railway Thomas Parker, Esq., Spring-gardens, London John Clarke Prescott, Esq., Manchester William Simpson Potter, Esq., of Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Dime tor ofthe Oxford, Witney and Cheltenham Independent Railway Charles Potter, Esq., Darwen, Director of the Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway James Paxton, Esq., Rugby Richard N. Philipps, Esq., Sheffield John, Perks, Esq., Wolverhampton Richard Burton Phillipeon, Esq., Rugby N. M. Priaulx, Esq., South-Western Steam Packet Company, South ampton Stephen Phillips, Esq., Director of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway Charles Phillips, Esq., Camberwell, Surrey John Thomas Price, Esq., Heald Grove, Manchester William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the Manchester and Car lisle Railway Richard Ricketts, Esq., Bristol George Rongemont, Esq., 9, Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the North London Junction Railway Thomas Rolls, Esq., Bank, Chipping Norton Thomas Robinson, Esq., Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital David Roxburgh. Esq., Bloomfield-road, Maida-hill Hartley Sager, Esq., Ball Grove, Colne, Yorkshire Samuel Sangster, Esq., Brixton-hill, Director of the City Gm Com pany Major Charles T. Selwyn, of the Royal Engineers, Exeter, Director of the East and West of England Junction James Shaw, Esq., Salford John Sidebottom, Esq., Harewood-lodge, Cheshire William Sidebottom, Esq., Etherton-house, Cheshire David Siltzer, Esq.. Rhodes, near Manchester Charles Slocock, Req., Newbury Edmund Slocock, Esq., Newbury Christopher Shapland, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Bristol and Glou cester, South Devon and Cornwall Railway Companies Joseph Stocks, Esq., Shibden Nall, near Halifax, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway W. Senhouse, Esq., Daventry T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Richmond Railway Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park John Stewart, Esq., M.P. for Lymington, Director of the East a n d West of England T. H. Sheppard, Esq , Towcester Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield Horatio Smith, Esq., Strangeways Hall, Manchester W. Tebbutt, Esq., Manchester Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, Director of the London and Brighton Railway Thomas Thomson, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon 'W. Tinker, Esq., Manchester, and Hyde, Cheshire Charles B. Fripp, Esq , Bristol, Director of the Jersey Railway Thomas Varley, Esq., Shorsten Hall, Mahon Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton Charles Fenton Whiting, Esq., Beaufort House, Strand, Director of the Richmond Railway Benjamin Williams, Esq., Banker, 4, Whitehall B. M. Wilcox, Esq., Hantsville, Torquay • John Ward, Each, Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Shef field Fire and Life Insurance Company George Whitmore, Esq., Austin-friars, Deputy-Chairman of the North Kent Railway Paul Ferdinand Willert, Esq., Alderman of the Borough of Man chester Charles James Stanley Walker, Esq., Longford-house, Stretford, Alderman of Manchester, and Director of the Chester and Man chester Railway Morris Were, Esq.; Moorlands, Southampton John Woodcock, Esq. ' banker, the Elms, Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Bury Railway Company John Yorke, Esq., banker, Thrapston, Nerilimnptonshire Thomas Woodham, Esq., Winchester BANKERS. Messrs. Masterman and Co., London. The Union Bank, Manchester. ENGINEERS. Messrs. J. B. an d E. Birch, Westminster Brackstone Baker, Esq., C.E. gOLICITORS. John Bethel!, Esq., King William-street, London Messrs Joseph and Wiliam Heron, and Messrs. Rigs= Robins, Manchester. LOCAL AGENTS. At Leek—Th max Heathcote Hacker, Esq. At Burton-upon -Trent—John Perks, Eso. THE MANCHESTER and RUGBY DIRECT RAILWAY COMPANY is , 19, Birchin-lane London. The Allotment of Shares completed, and the , Letters of Allot ment will be issued forthwith. The Directors regret, from the numerous Applications for Shares, they are compelled to omit very many most influential persons. By order, JOHN DUNLOP, Secretary. riCHE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIR E C T JL RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, IVANTAGE, HUNGERFORD, and LUDGERSHALL. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 1,200,0001., in 48,008 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hen. the Earl of Portarlington The Right Hon. Lard Viscount Dillon, Ditchley-park, Oxon The Right Hon. Lord Suffield, Gunton-park, North Walsham The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch-house, Henley The Right Hon. Lord A. Conyngham, Mickleham-hall, Dorking The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Darner, M.P. 6, Tilney street, Park-lane, Dir ec t or of the Brighten and Cheltenham Direct Railway The Right floa. Robert Gore, R.N., M.P., 21, Wilton-crescent Lieut.-Col. the Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P. 13, Conduit-street, Di rector of the East and W es t Junction Railway The Hon. William M. Dawson, Parkstone-lodge, Poole, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway The Hon. Edward Stafford Jerningham, Director of the London and Nottingham Railway Sir William Drummond Stewart, Bart. Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London Railway E. F. Dayrell, Esq., Liffingston Dayrell, High Sheriff of Buckingham shire, Chairman of the Minehead and Bridgewater Railway Lieut.-Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square, Director of the Great Western Extension Atmospheric Railway B. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square, Director of the Central Kent Railway James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-gardens, Director of the Dover and Bristol Railway Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and Kirby Dale, Yorkshire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway Major J. T. Croft, 15, Regent-street, Vice-Chairman of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Direct Railway Major Graham, late Scots Greys,l6, Grove, Clapham G. B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshi re , Di rec t or o f th e Coventry and Manchester Railway The Rev. H. R. Fowler, Felton, near Bristol, and 7, Manchester square, Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junction Railway James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, Vice-Chairman of the Gal way and Ennis Grand Junction Railway Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq., Grandtully-castle Robert Bell, Esq., Manor-house, Chiswick, Director of the Dover and Bristol Railway • Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester Thomas Ferrand Deaden, Esq., Rochdale Charles Haigh, Esq., Rochdale Charles Welland, Esq., Liverpool James Shaw, Esq., Pendleton, Manchester The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulborne, Cambridgeshire Thomas Dowglase, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's-wood Directors of the E. S. Blundell, Esq., 18, Lower Seymour-street Direct Lon- W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex don and Exe- G. W. Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's -park ter Railway Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, John Allen, Esq., 12, Gloucester -place, Kensington Francis Roose, Esq., Upper Montague-street, Montague-square Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Equitable and Law Life Assurance Companies, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway William Gambier, Esq., Sacombe-park, Hells Benjamin Swan, Esq., Jermyn-street, St. James's Nehemiah John Reed, Esq., R.N., Marlborough, Di rec t or o f the London and South Wales Direct Railway Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough Charles Finch, Esq., Fisherton, Salisbury Mayor of Abingdon John y d D e o . e E t i e , c j h u e n r , John Tomkins, Esq. J Wili n iam ll John Harris, Esq. ,Aerman of Abingdon Esq., l Members of the Town Council, Abinff' Thomas Copeland, Esq. don Edwin James Trendell, Esq., John King, Esq., Abingdon John Aldworth, Esq., Frilford, Berks Mr. Thomas Payne, Jun., Abingdon William Caudwell, Esq., Drayton, near Abingdon William Dewe, Esq., Stonehill, near Abingdon Isaac Grubb, Esq John Towle, Esq. Samuel Steen°, Esq. Members of the City Council, Oxford Richard Chaundy, Esq, Charles Hickman, Esq. John Weaving, Esq., R. C. Godfrey, Esq. James Morrell, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Oxford, a Justice of the Peace for Oxon and Berks, and Director of the Lon don and Cheltenham Direct Railway Captain M. Strong, Manager of the London and County Bank, Ox ford and Wor,e.,,er Extension Railway. William Mead Warner, Esq., Oxford Daniel Hanley, Esq., Oxford John Looker, Esq., Oxford William Seckham, Esq., Kidlington, Oxon Mr. Charles Shillingford, wine -merchant, Sourer Town, Oxon Mr. A. Williams, Somer Town, Oxon Mr. Wm. Miller, Oxford Mr. John Price, Oxford Mr. H. Hitchcock, chemist, Oxford Mr. John Alden, Oxford Mr. H. Dormer, Oxford Mr. R. Smith, Oxford Mr. Charles Miller, Oxford Mr. Joseph Steele, Oxford Mr. Thomas Hyde, Oxford Mr. Wm. Thompson, Oxford Mr. R. T. Jones, Oxford Jonathan Fiske, Esq., Oxford C. Vincent, Esq., Oxford Mr. Jno. Birt, Oxford Mr. C. Lipscomb, Binsey, Berks Mr. Jno. Franklin, Cumner, Barks James Wickens, E-q., Oxford John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton, Chairman of the Hounslow Railway David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Eastern and Midland Counties Railway F. Walker Botterill, Esq., Bu rn l ey Capt. James Edward Carnegie, Somerset-street, Portman-square. and Bower-hall, Inverness, Director of the Reading and Reigate Railway Charles Liddiard, Esq., Wa n t age Mr. Henry James Palmer, Wantage John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London Docks William Bestow, Esq., Surrey-place, Kent-road, Director of the Commercial and General Life Assurance Association Robert Bastow, Esq., Surrey -place, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway John King, Esq., St. John's-wood, London, Director of the Somer. setshlre Midland Railway Henry Stock, Esq., 1 3eddgelert, North Wales, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway D. T. Johnson, Esq. Alderrary-churchyard, Director of the Direct Independent London and Manchester Railway John Bluer, Esq., Tutbury, Ditector of the Rugby, Derby, and Man chester Railway T. A. Dale, Esq., Malvern-house, Cheltenham, Director of the Bir kenhead and Holyhead Junction, and South Staffordshire and Pot teries Railways Charles Johnston, Esq., Aldersgate-street, Director of the Lynn, Thetford, and Ipswich Railway Admiral Ayscough, Southampton, Director of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway Frederick Chamier, Esq., R.N., Malkin-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the Northampton and Cambridge Railway George R. Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the Rugby and Warwick Railway (With power to add to their number). ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF —Samuel Charles Brees, Esq. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street, LOCAL SOLICITORS. Leeds—Charles Naylor, Esq., and Pontefract—Henry John Coleman, Esq. Rotherham—John Oxley. Esq., and John Wright Potter, Esq, East Retford--Meesra. Mee, Digsby, and Mee. Nottingharn—Mesrs. Fox and Butlin. Oakham—Henry Hough, Esq. Kettering—Thomas Marshall, Esq. Bedford—Ezra Eagles, Esq. SECRETARY-J. B. Owen, Esq. PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—J. M. Widdicombe, Esq. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co. Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Company Doncaster i The Yorkshire Banking Company. Pontefract The object of this railway is to connect, in the most direct course, the important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds with the metropolis, the want of which has long been felt, and is too univer sally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under this con viction that this important undertaking, a. ter several minute exa minations of the country through which it will pass, has been brought forward. The proposed line will commence at the jnnction of the Manchester and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wakefield, and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern Coun ties .Railway, at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of that Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parliament), and by thus availing itself as far as possible of the existing railways, will complete the most direct and least expensive trunk line, from London to Leeds, York, and Hull. It will pass in its route within an available distance of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster, Rotherham, East Redford, Nottingham, Newark, Grantham, Melton Mowbray, Oakham, and Stamford. The importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature of its cow se (embracing, as it does, a most extensive population within its limits), as also from the absence of any direct communication for the conveyance of passengers and merchandise. By the construction of this railway, railway communication to London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by means of the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and Nottingham, (by the Nottingham and Lincoln line(, and to Sheffield and Gains borough, )by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much shorter route than by any existing railways. Independently of the advantages offered to the towns in the seve ral counties through which this line will pass, the line in itself, con sidered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, is sufficient to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic between these two places would produce such a rctura on the capital required, as to admit of a dividend equal to that of any railway in operation; but when it is borne in mind that a company is being formed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow and Leeds by means of a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no better line can be presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct communication from Glasgow and the western parts of ,_-cotland to London, but would also connect Edinburgh aA the eastern parts of Scotland, as well as Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North Midland, and Great No:th of England Railway s) with the metropo lis, which would be considerably shorter thaa the accommodation offered by any other company ; and when cost of construction is con sidered, there cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given to the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway. The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a branch line with the East and West India Docks on the river Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 999 years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks, which are capable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods from all parts of the world can take place, is a most important fea ture in favour of the direct communication from the manufacturing towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway and, by branch railways to the main trunk line, through which•all goods from the manufacturing districts could be conveyed at once to these warehouses for shipment, thereby avoiding the present delay and expense of cartage, and in reality establishing an almost direct and invaluable connexion between the•rivers Clyde and Thames. It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties, that the w 'its will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good, and that it will not materially interfere with any ornamental property. The subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first deposits, until an Act of Parlament is obtained, and afterwards only to the amount of their subscriptions. It is proposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and also to extend the line to Itertri,rd on the Eastern Counties line, in the event of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford. BROKERS. London—Messrs. Marten and Hesenine, 9, Finch-lane Leeds—Messrs. Hopps and Co. Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons Bradford—Mr. Josiah Scholefield Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's- square. London. PARLIAMENTARY AGENT —Cadwallader F. Waddy, ESQ. BANKERS. London—The London aad Westminster Bank. Oxford—The London and County Bank. Salisbury—The Wilts and Dorset County Bank. Abingdon—Messrs. Henry Knapp and Co. Wastage—Messrs. Henry Knapp and Co. Newbury—The Berkshire Union Bank Hungerford—Messrs. Tanner and Pinckney. LOCAL ACENTS. Oxford—George P. Heater, Esq., Town Clerk, and Jno. Francis Wilde, Esq. 'Salisbury—Stephen Hill, Esq. Abingdon—Messrs. Graham and Son Wantage—William Ormond, Esq. Hungerford and Marlborough—John Holcomb, Esq. SECRETARY—Z. Hubbersty, Esq. The importance of connecting remote parts of England by rail ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns and districts, can scarcely be better exemplified than by the line which is Low proposed to form a short and direct channel of inter course between Oxford and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines now before the public will make Oxford at the north, and Salisbury at the south of the intended railroad, the central points from Which various radii will diverge to the north-west, north, and north-east of the former, and to the south and west of the latter • and th e propo pe s p ei l ri a railwaylnlnc e e i from,:fts suggested gn a gi m et it r ee i d d n g ot e r to toh effect-e 0 axsftoearrdn, coupletscaornt continuing of ittnhgeeatil island, da f transit rcai requirest ttl to w t t h h e r N a vestera ar,i • otith-western counties. G REAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT RAILWAY. The Managing Committee of this Railway hereby give notice that they are now proceeding in the Allotment of the Shares in the above undertaking, and that all the Letters of Allotment will be issued in the ensuing week. J. B. OWEN, Secretary. Temporary Offices, Adelaide.place, London-brilge. LYNN, WISBECH, and PETERBOROUGH, MIDLAND COUNTIES, and BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. At a numerous and most highly respectable and influential meeting of the hankers, merchants, tradesmen, and other inhabitants of the borough of King's Lynn, Norfolk, held in the Guild-hall, on Monday, October 6, 1845. The Worshipful the MAYOR in the Chair, A deputation from •• the Lynn, Wished), and Peterborough, Midland Counties and Birmingham Junction Railway Company," together with the solicitor and engineer, having attended this meet hig and explained the intended objects of the Company, it was re solved, without a di. - entient voice, " That the proposed Lynn, Wisbech, and Peterborough Railway, is entirely uncalled for by the wants of the district, and therefore utterly undeserving the support of the town of Lynn." The Mayor having left the chair, it was unanimously resolved, " That the thanks of the meeting be given to the Mayor for his able and impartial conduct in the chair." Tito Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway, in addition to the benefits which will be conferred upon the nation at large, by preferring a direct line of commun i cation be tween the north-eastern and western and south-western parts of England, will afford to the borough of Abingdon, the market towns of Wantage, Hungerford, and Ludgershall, and the adjacent villages, an important railway accommodation, of which the agricultural districts in which they are seated stand in much need, and will provide a facility for the interchange of produce be tween the rural, manufacturing, and commercial p opulation of the whole, whilst the kingdom. The projected line will bring the Cath e d ral City of Salis bury into immediate connexion wi t h the City and Univ ers it y of Oxford, combining also the advantage of a dir ec t communication with the sister University of C ambrid ge ; thus strengthe n i ng t h e The want o railwaaccomdation com mercial ecclesiastical p r academical oesnph a e n ar d iiltcyed. ofthe twrelations terminal cities the taunt of necessity be essentially unfairly upon f the inhabitants ofthe Las long be en f elt to press impel taut and thriving town of Abingdon. liter means and opportunities of competing with the more fortunate traders of those towns which ere already provided with di rect channels of transit, are thus severely crippled. The same remark applies in some degree to the market town of Wantage, which, as well as Hungerford and Ludgershall , claims a share of the profits p u r l oi b e s c aterdorradiedlwta that place ;' the and to that to Wantage e and advantages produced by railway t r a ff ic. It has therefore been determined to commence th e proposed line at Oxford, and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of th e G reat Western Railway at Steventon , thus g ivin g to Abingdon a dir ec t rail roadme to facilitye nd London. *. t, r ß s s y sitto continuing r, a perfect line of road from the north-eastern counties will, by a Junc tionOambrid e to with the projection from g Oxford, be p ro d uced, through the towns which have be en named, Hungerford and Lodgers hall, to Salisbury, and thence to the s outh a nd western ports a n d dis tricts. Applications for shares and prospectuses to be made to Messrs. Elntslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street, and to the following Brokers :—Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street, and Messrs. Preece and Evans, Lothbury, London ; Messrs. Alston and Gage, and Messrs. Reynolds and Son, Liverpool ; Mr. John Duncuft, and Mr. John O'Neil, Manchester; Messrs. A. and C. Bradshaw, and Messrs. Wellbeloved and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr. James Pearson, Birmingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., Bradford; Mr. Wm. Miles, Worcester ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham; Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter ; Messrs. Easty and Sons, Southampton; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh; Messrs Black and Co., and Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgo w; mr. Wm. Gordon; Aberdeen • an d Messrs. Bruce and Symes, Dubli n. ' FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway. SPALDING AND BRANDON JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 500,0001., in 25,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share Adam Duff, Esq. Captain Tyndale Directors of the Norfolk Railway Company Captain IVardell, Sir George Larpent, Bart. } Directors of the Grand Union Railway Wynn Ellis, Esq., M.P. (Nottingham) Company Thomas Wakefield, Esq., BANKERS—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, and Co. EitTGINERES—Robert Stephenson, Esq. ; Charles Vignola., Esq. ; George Parker Bidder, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Capes and Stuart, Field-court, Gray's Inn. SECRETARIES—Richard Till, Esq. ; Alfred Beeston, Esq. Company's Offices, 78, Cornhill, London. PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS. This line is projected by the Norfolk Railway Company and the Grand Union Railway Company, and It will form a connecting link between those two lines. ' Leaving the station of the Norfolk Company at Brandon, the line proceeds via Downham Market to Wisbech, and from thence to Spald ing, being a distance •f about 40 miles. At the latter town it joins the Grand Union Railway, which continues via Grantham to Not tingham, thus completing a direct and independent line of communi cation between Yarmouth and Norwich, and Nottingham and the manufacturing districts. The distance between the termini will be as short by the proposed route as by the Lynn and Ely and Lynn and Dereham lines; whilst the traffic between Nottingham. Yarmouth, and Norwich, and the central, west, and south parts of Norfolk, the north of Cambridge shire, and the counties of Suffolk and Essex, being under the control of friendly Companies, will be secured for this undertaking. Estimates for the traffic are in course of preparation. In the mean time it may ba stated that, from the data already furnished respecting some of the important loca•ities through which the line passes, added to the fact that it forms part of a direct course of railway communi cation between Manchester and the surrounding manufacturing dis tricts, and the ports of Yarmouth and Lynn, there is no doubt an ample remuneration will be secured for the shareholders. Satisfactory arrangements have been made with the Eastern Counties Railway Company in reference to that portion of the line between Wisbech and Spalding, which has been agreed to be leased by them from the Wisbech and St. Ives Company. If the Wisbech and St. Ives Company succeed in their application to Parliament, the line to be made by this Company will be limited to that part between Wisbech and Brandon ; and in either case the two Companies promoting this line have agreed to take a lease of it at a rental equal to 4 per cent. on the outlay, and a moiety of the sur plus profits. In the allotment of Shares preference will be given to the share holders of the Norfolk and Grand Union Railway Companies. the par li d a e a Z Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares in the above undertaking; and I hereby ag r ee t o accept the same, or a n y ple(s)ssitnautmhebreerown,hlacnhdmtoayexbeccaullteottthede stoubnascibe e ; an r d s, e p n mentary Contract, and all other necessary instruments, wh en re quired so to do. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant, Name in full ... Residence.... Post Town „ Occupation .. „ .. •. • • • Reference .. Usual Signature ... ...... • "Elmilla tug presto% 47, moorgats-street, London. Applications to be addressed to Richard Till, Esq., Norfolk Rail way Company, Guildhall-buildings ; or to Alfred Beeat•n, Esq., 7S, Cornhl 1, THE SUN, LOND'O _ N,SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11 -- "ITANCHESTER, HUDDERSFIELD, AND GREAT GRIMSBY DIRECT RAILWAY, via BARNS LEY AND DONCASTER. (Registered Provisionally.) Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 207. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. (In compliance with the Standing Orders of Parliament.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Lord William Paget, Uxbridge House, London, M.P. Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashbourne Hall, Derbyshire Sir John P. 31illaanke, Bart , Milldam° Hall, Yorkshire Sir William Twysden, Bart., Dorset-street, Dorset-square Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London The Mayor of Doncaster William Brook, Esq., Giedholdt, Huddersfield, J.P. John Sutcliffe, Esq., Huddersfield, J.P. John Harpin, Esq., House, Holmfirth, J.P. John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Rhoyd, Halifax, J.P. The Rev. Richard Ihitelock, M.A., Saddleworth, J.P. James Lees, f.eq., Delph Lodge, Saddleworth, J.P. William Alexander, Esq., Halifax, M.D., Director of the Midland and Thirsk, and other Railways James George Atkinson, Esq., Wakefield, M.D. Richard Arinitage, Esq., Fenay Lodge, Huddersfield, timbermerchant Joseph Allin, Esq., Wakefield John Allison, Esq., Huddersfield I J v o i s l e li p a h m A G tk re in e s n o Ar n, Esq., Lake ak E e sq Lod , George Addison, Esq., Hall Field, Bradford Spring-gardens, W g a -g k a eild srd e e l n, Huddersfield J S o p h ea n ic ß er . C As oo p k in A ai s i l , rl E in s e, q., E b s a q i. . , , is S t an er- d a to t- ft la G w ro , T v e e m o p re l e a , r L E o p n n d n o rt a h Henry Ambler, Esq., Watkinson-house, near Halifax Thomas Ayre, Esq., Barnsley Joseph Birley, Esq., Alderman, Doncaster, late Mayor of Doncaster The Rev. John Birkett, M.A., Laceby Rectory, near Brigg John Berwick, Esq., Scawby-grove, near Brigg William Bealby, Esq., Kellield, near Epworth William Charles Boden, Esq., Apsley Hall, Nottingham, Director of the Nottingham and Bedford, and Nottingham and Gainsborough Railways Thomas Beaumont, Esq., Bradford, Deputy-Chairman of the Mid land and Thirsk Junction Railway William Bayley, Esq., Lark Hall, near Ashton-under-Lyne Benjamin Bradshaw, Upperthong, Ilohnfirth George Bann, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railways John Fillinghouse Bishop, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Grand Union, Nottingham and Mansfield, and Nottingham and Gainsbo rough Railways George Bacon, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Joseph Beaumont, jun., Esq., Clare Hill, Huddersfield Griffith Briscoe, Esq., Doncaster William Bent, Esq., Reyd-house, Huddersfield, merchant John Bennett, Esq., Belgrave-terrace, Huddersfield, merchant James Bates, Esq., Winney Bank, Holmfirth Benjamin Becley, Esq., Holmfirth Richard Bettye, Esq., Holmfirth, drysalter John Bellingham, Esq., Wakefield Joseph Brook, Esq., Stamp-office, Huddersfield Edward Lennox Boyd, Esq., Pall-mall, London, Director of the United Kingdom Life Assurance-office Robert Blow, Esq., Grimsby, merchant John Blow, Esq., Grimsby, merchant William Bingley, Esq., Ellersley-lodge, near Penistone James Bottomley, Esq., Greenfield-house, Saddleworth, merchant Christopher Lonsdale, Bradley, Esq., Richmond William Cooper, Esq., Doncaster Samuel Cartledge, Esq., Mapperley. near Nottingham, Deputy- Chairman of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway William Cartledge, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Nottingham and Ambergate, Nottingham and Mansfield, Nottingham and Gainsborough, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways T. M. Carter, Woolgreaves, Wakefield John Cowburn, Esq., Settle, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway William James Clarke, Esq., Huddersfield William Carter, Esq., Kirkburton, manufacturer William Chambers, Esq., Doncaster, corn-factor John Cordeux, Esq., Barnsley Thomas Scales Cordeux Esq., Barnsley Thomas Cope, Esq , Barnsley Joseph Clarke, Esq., Sherburn, near Ferry-bridge, and Harborough house, near Barnsley Robert Cooke, Esq., M.D., Gaiusborongh Henry Dalton, Esq., Hull and Grimsby, merchant William Dawson, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Sheffield, Wort ley, Silkstone, and Wakefield Railway Henry Dunn, Esq., Wakefield William Dryden, Esq., Hull Joseph Dransfield, Esq., Mold Green, Huddersfield, merchant Richard Dransfield, Esq., West-place, Dalton, Huddersfield, mer chant, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and the Liverpool and Leeds Railways Thomas Dyson, Esq., Welihouse, Holmfirth, manufacturer John Dent, Esq., Huddersfield, merchant John Dougill, Esq., Lockwood, near Huddersfield, Director of the Dover and Bristol Railway Edward Dent, Esq., Huddersfield, merchant George Dyson, Esq., Huddersfield, wool merchant Richard Dewhirst, Esq., Apsiey House, Huddersfield Thomas Dowse, Esq., Skelmanthorpe, near Penistone Isaac Dewhirst, Mount Pleasant, °vendee, near Halifax, worsted spinner John Dean, Esq., Spring-gardens, Manchester, merchant Francis Duffield, Esq., Bolton-honse, near Bradford Peter East, Esq., West Carr-house, near Epworth Joshua Eastwood, Esq., Meltham, near Huddersfield, cotton spinner John Elliott, Esq., Town Head-house, Rochdale Edward Ellis, Esq., Kirkburton. manufacturer John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Railways Joseph Eastwood, Esq., Meltham, near Huddersfield, cotton spinner Mark Faviel, Esq., Amcotts Lodge, Lincolnshire Frederick Fisher, Esq., Westfield-house, Doncaster J. L. Fernandez, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway Charles Gervas, Esq., Wrcot, near Epworth Francis Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Directors of the Nottingham merchant and South St affordsh ire June- George Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, tion, and Nottingham and merchant Gainsborough Railways Joseph Gillham, Esq., Hargreaves House, Oldham, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, and Birkenh ea d and Holyhead Junction Railways A. G. Greaves, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man chester Railway William Gill, Esq., Richmond, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Northumberland and Lancashire Junction Railways Joseph Gill, Esq., Potternewton Mount, near Leeds, merchant, Di rector of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Railways William Greenwood, Esq., Huddersfield Joseph Gartside Esq., Osseo, near Wakefield, dyer William Gartside, Esq., Ossett, near Wakefield, dyer Abraham Hirst, Esq., York House, Huddersfield, wool merchant John Hannah Esq., Finthorpe, Huddersfield, merchant, Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford Union Railway Samuel Hall Esq., Doncaster, merchant William Harrison, Esq., Stanningley, near Leeds, merchant Edward Ilolgate, Esq., Sturton, near Brigg 11. P. Harwood, Esq., Sheffield, ,1.D., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway John Haigh, Esq., Leeds, merchant, Director of the Manchester, Southampton, and Poole Railway John Hardcastle, Esq., West Field House, Wakefield, Director of the Wakefield and Barnsley Union Banking Company Captain John L. Hulme, R.E., Director of the Yeovil and Dorchester, and of the Cornwall and Devon Central Railway Thomas Anderson Hanson, Esq., stuff merchant,Bradford Wm. Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, J.P. John Horsfall, Esq.. Wakefield George Hinchliffe, Esq., Nab, Holmfirth, merchant John Holdsworth, Esq., Shaw Lodge, Halifax. merchant David Hinehcliff, Esq. Marble Hail, Holmfirth, merchant Edward Lake Hesp, isq., Huddersfield George Hirst, Esq., Digley Mills, Holmfirth, manufacturer Joseph Hirst, Esq., Wilshaw Cottage, Menham, woollen manufac turer John Haigh, Esq., Wood Royd House, near Huddersfield, coal mer chant, Director of the Midland and Think Railway George Armitage Haigh, Esq., Gynn View, near Huddersfield, coal merchant, Director of the Midland and Thirsk Hallway Charles Hirst, Esq., Clare Hill, Huddersfield, woodstapler Thomas Haigh, Esq., Royds Hall, near Huddersfield William Hincheliff, Esq., Holmfirth, merchant John Haigh, Esq., Shelley Hill Top, near Penistone William Haigh, Esq., Gynn Cottage, near Huddersfield, merchant T. Hastings Ingham, Esq., Marton-house, neer Skipton, J.P., Di rector of the Clitheroe Junction, and Lancashire and North York shire Railways John Hudson, Esq., Hull, merchant .7.7 Michael ahj noluinen saJ u n c tio n , inoR D , ii 8 1 ang sib Esq.,son, E l s q v a merchant efield John Kinnersley Ho o p er , E sq. , Ald erman o f L on d on James Hepper, Esq., Shipley-hall, near Bradford d E L s ti li on al , ff H ax oly M hea l d, iEsq and ., HLancashireo Director of oyfnithleaeNnoßaurth Railways d s South Thomas Ingieby , Esq., L aw kl an d-h a ll , near S ettle, Director of the Northumberland ve ,on imfirth Junction, North Western, Clitherce Junction, and Liverpool a n d L ee d s Direct Railways Thomas Ibbetson, Esq., B en t' s -h ouse, Huddersfield Thomas Charles Jackson, Esq., Doncaster, banker Thomas Johnson, Esq., Alderman of Doncaster Joseph Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway Jere Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield, timber-merchant Thomas Kilner, Esq., Carr-house, Huddersfield, merchant William Kibler, Esq., Belgrave-house, Huddersfield, oil merchant John Knowles, jun., Esq., Trafford Bank-house, Manchester, merchant John Lancaster, Esq., Huddersfield James Campey Laycock, Esq , Huddersfield Wm. Livingstone, Esq., Huddersfield, merchant Julies Lowenthal, Esq., Huddersfield, wool merchant Charles Locke, Esq., Snapethorpe House, Wakefield, Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway Joseph Lambert, Esq., Leeds, merchant, Director of the Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways William Lockwood, Esq Spring Villa, Holmfirth, woollen manufac turer Charles Lockwood, Esq., Doncaster Edward Lees, Esq., Honky, near Huddersfield Joshua Littiewood, Esq., Dam-house, Holmfirth Henry Ludolph, Esq., Headingley, near Leeds, wool merchant Henry F. Lockwood, Esq., F.S.A., Hull Edward Lancaster, Esq., larnsley James Leslie, Esq., llull, merchant William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton John Littlewood, Esq., Armthorp, near Doncaster Frederic Marsland, Esq., Birch-hall, near Manchester Sidney Morehouse, Esq., Morecroft, Holmfirth, Director of the Hali fax, Huddersfield, and Bradford Railway Joshua Moorheuse, Esq., Holiastirth, Director of the Leeds, Hudders field, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway William Heywood Morris, Esq., Doncaster, merchant Robert Milv, Esq., Doncaster John Morley, Esq , Eustoft Hall, near Crowle Luke Marsden, L'sq., Huddersfield Rowland Hill APKenzie, Esq., M.D., Mortimer-street, Cavendish square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, Chelten ham, Oxford, and other Railways Henry James Morehouse, Esq. Stoney Bank, Holmfirth Thomas Mellor, Esq., Spring Esq., Holmfirth, manufacturer Joseph Moorhouse, sq., Holmfirth William L. Moffat, Esq., Doncaster Benjamin Mieklethwait, Esq., Billingley, near Barnsley John Earnshaw Morehouse, Esq., Springbottom, Holmfirth John Joseph Moody, Esq., Edgley, near Stockport John Maw, Esq., Doncaster, Director of the Doncaster and Gods Railway William Micklesthwait, Esq., Keresforth, near Barnsley Thomas North, Esq., Mayor of Nottingham, Chairman of the Not tingham and Gainsborough Railway John Nall, Esq., Ashby, near Brigg William Newmarch, Esq., Great Grimsby, merchant William Naylor, Esq., Leeds Edward Nicholson, Esq., Doncaster Robert Norfolk, Esq., Louth, Lincolnshire John Nowell, Esq., Farnley-wood, near Huddersfield Thomas Nowell, Esq., Dalton, near Huddersfield, merchant George Peel, Esq., Horbury, near Wakefield, Director of the Wake field and llarrogate Railway Lewis Pocock, Esq., F.S.A., Montagu-street, Russell-square, London Albert Pilling, Esq., Wheat House, Huddersfield, merchant Charles Pitchforth, Esq., Boothroyd Park, Halifax Captain William Rawson, Doncaster Thomas Redmaine, Esq., Taitlands, near Settle, Director of the North We ;tern, Clitheroe Junction, and Manchester, Liverpool, and Great North of England Railways Henry Rolling, Esq., Oxspring, near Penistone John Robinson, Esq., Silcoats Cottage, Wakefield, Director of the Wakefield, Bradford, and Midland, and other Railways Ceorge Robinson, Esq., Huddersfield James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, London John Robinson, Esq., Henley, near Huddersfield Wright Rhodes, Esq., Springfield-hou,e, Kirkburton Samuel Routledge, Esq., Huddersfield, dyer J. W. Roberts, Esq., Fernley Tyas, near Huddersfield The Rev. Thomas Skipworth, Belton Rectory, near Epsworth William Skipworth, Esq., South Kelsal-house, near Brigg Robert Stone, Esq., Doncaster William Stockit, Esq., Doncaster Bentley Shaw, Esq., Woodfleid-house, Huddersfield William Shaw, Esq., Wentbridge, near Pontefract Edmund Smith, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Yorkshire and Glasgow Railway William Statter, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Bradford, Wake field, and Midlands, Wakefield and Harrogate, and York, Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Junction Railways William Starkey, Esq.. Wakefield, Director of the Leeds, York, and Midlands, and Sheffield, Wortley, and Silkstone Railways Matthew Sykes, Esq., Miln-row, near Huddersfield William Shaw, Esq.,Bottom-hall, near Huddersfield, merchant Benjamin Ledger Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield, merchant Thomas Salkeld, Esq., Huddersfield, merchant John Shaw, Esq., Lockwood, near Huddersfield, merchant William Shaw, sq., Lockwood, near Huddersfield, merchant S. E. Sichel, Esq., Bradford, merchant, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool. and the Leeds, York, and Midland Railways Foster Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield, merchant James Shaw, Esq., Priest Royd House, Huddersfield, merchant David Sykes, Esq., Marsh, near Huddersfield, raerchant David Smirthwaite, Esq., Wakefield John Annable Skidmore, Esq.. St. John's, Wakefield William Sheardown, jun., Esq., Doncaster J W oh il n lia S m rn Robert Torr, Esq., Alderman, Doncaster B a r E ar s q t , E 3 st n , n i r g b b l a w n y . ,_ i n e a g r e, I n V e a a k r efl eld Nottingham and Gainsborough Railways William Turnbull, Esq., Huddersfield, M.D. " Esq., Davy Greave; Sheffield, Managing Director of Edwin Unwin, • the Sheffield Gas Company William Taylor, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Grand Union, and Henry Unwio, Esq., Orchard-place, Sheffield Brad ford Charles Vickers; Esq., Pontefract John Batley Wrigley, Esq., Croft House, Netherton, near Huddersfield William Steel, Esq., Bradford 6.. ~. 0 t a $4 - 2 o . 4 4 •ci Y/ ~A~L/ 1845. Major-General Wright, R.E., Gloucester-place, Portman •square, London Joseph Wrigley, Esq., Huddersfield, merchant James Walker, Esq , Leeds Thomas Cockhill Wrigley, Esq., Huddersfield, merchant Robert Welsh, Esq., Huddersfield, merchant, Director of the Leeds and West it ding Junction Railway The Rev. Eldred Woodland, Holme-bridge Parsonage, near Holmfirth George Hudswell Westerman, Esq., Sandal-grove, Wakefield. wool merchant, Director of the Leed4, York, and Midland Railway David Wheateroft, Esq., Duckland Hollow, Wiper, Director of the Birmingham and Leicester, and other Railways J. Webster, Esq., Doncaster Francis Wragg, Esq., Doncaster Abraham Wood, Esq., Rochdale William Ward, Esq., Welton, near Hull, merchant IVillia:n Roden Watts, Esq., St. Philip's-square, Birmingham, M.D. Smith Worrnald, Esq., Tipton•Grange, Beverley, Director of the Leeds and York Railway Edward Woolmer, Esq., Mayor of Exeter, Chairman of the Exeter and Dorchester Railway Wm. Walker, Esq., Longwood, near Huddersfield, merchant Messrs. Arthur William Goodwin, John Hutchinson, Francis Ingram, Jonathan Allison, Members of the Corpora. J. Rogerson, tiers of Doncaster John Armstrong, William Carlton, Thomas Webb, COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. John Sutcliffe, Esq., Chairman J. E. Mercy, Esq., Mayor of Doncaster, Deputy-Chairman John Harpin, Esq. Joseph Birley, Esq. Abraham Hirst, Esq. Frederick Fisher, Esq. John Hannah, Esq. W. 11. Morris, Esq. Sidney Morehouse, Esq. Edmund Smith, Esq. Joshua Moorhouse, Esq. Bentley Shaw, Esq. (With power to add to their number.) BANKERS. London—Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co. Huddersfield—The Halifax and Huddersfield Banking Company Doncaster—Sir W. Cooke, Bart., and Co. Messrs. Latham, Tew, and Co. The Yorkshire Banking Company ENGINEERS. ENGINEERS IN CHIEF—Sic John M`Neill, L.L.D., F.R.S. James Thompson, Esq., F.R.S.E. an] M.R.S.A. ACTING ENGINEER—W. Billington, Esq., C.E. Soracrroas—Messrs. Floyd and Booth, Huddersfield. LONDON AGENTS—Messrs. Sudlow, Sons, and Torr, 20, Chancery-lane. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Sudlow and K.lngdon, 6,' New Palace-yard. LOCAL AGENTS. Edward Sheardown, Esq., Doncaster C. T. Mence, Esq., Barnsley John Drainsfield, Esq., Penistone G. H Capes, Esq., Epworth Robert Owston, Esq., Brigg. Prospectuses with plans of the line, and any further information, may be obtained on application, at the offices of the solicitors, and of their London and local alents ; and applications for shares (for a limited time only), in the :brnt annexed, accompanied with satisfac tory references, may also be addressed to them, or to any of the following Brokers, viz.—Messrs. Hill, Fawcett and Hill, Thread needle-street, London; David Kinnear, Edinburgh; Lloyd and Price, Liverpool ; Cardwell and Sons, Manchester; I. N. Balme, Gloucester ; Wellbeloved and Go., Bell and Ledger, Leeds ; Garton and Wright, Sheffield; J. Crawshaw, Doncaster; J. Tee, Jun., Barnsley ; Geor e Bowiby, Hull ; Charles Claye, Halifax ; John Craig, Skipton ; John Gibbons, Settle ; F. G. and C. C. Cros s l e y, Bradford ; Henry Bellingham, Wakefield ; George Tinker, Holm firth ; Wilson and Hellawell, Wl:Bain Moore and Co., John Gatliff and Co., Fred. Turner, B. Casson, Chas. Fitton, J. H. T ay l or , an d Thomas Parratt and 0.. Huddersfield. FORM 0:e APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Manches'er, Hudderfield, and Great Grimsby D'rect Railway Company. I request that you will allot to me shares of 20/.each in the above undertaking ; and I agree to accept the same, or any less number that may be alloited to me, and also to pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per share thereon ; and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, when required Dated the day of 1815 Name (in full) • Residence •••• • • • .... •• • • Trade or Profession •• . .•• • • . Reference . • • MANCHESTER, HUDDERSFIELD, AND GREAT GRIMSBY DIRECT RAILWAY. (Registered Provisionally.) Notice is hereby given, that in consequence of the immense nnmber of Applications for Shares already received, no further Ap plications will be entertained, except from landowners, after SATURDAY, the 11th day of October instant. Huddersfield, Oct. 1. FLOYD and BOOTH, Solicitors. THE BIRMINGHAM, NOTTINGHAM GAINSBOROUGH, AND HULL RAILWAY. Capital 1,200,0001., in 60,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21.25. per Share. (Provisionally Registered, ptn snant to 7 and 8 Wet., Cap. 110.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Combermere The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Ingestrie, M.P. The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beanelerk, Chesham-place, Belgrave square The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton The Right Hon. Lord E Chichester The Right Hon. Lord Stephen Chichester The Right Hon. George It. Dawson The lion. Frederick Byron The Hon. Captain Percy Evans Freke, 3, Beigrave-square The Hon. Cecil Lawless Sir James D. H. Hay, Bart., Rose Croft, Surrey Sir William Lowthorp, Hull William It. Collett, Esq., M.P. Thomas Bateson, Esq., M.P. George Frederick Muntz, Esq., M.P. W. H. Allen, Esq., Leadenhall-street John Aston, Esq., Birmingham Joseph Ayre, Esq., Hull Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway James Beech, Esq., Brandon-lodge, Warwick John Moore, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Beesthorpc-hall, Notts William Breaks ' Esq., Cork-street, Burlington-gardens Major Frederick Brownlow, United Service Club William Chance, jun., Esq., merchant, Birmingham Robert Chapman, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand Junc tion Railway George A. Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Chesent-place, Belgrave square Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Doctors'-commons • Henry Crane, Esq., Wolverhampton Anthony Dickson, Esq., Edringtou-hense, Berwickshire Henry It. Dow numn, Esq., Director of the Cambirau and Grand Junction Railway Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East Ind.a-road, Director of the London Dock Company Henry John Enthoven, Esq., Director of the Dutch Rhenish Railway Benjamin Franklin, Esq., Harley-street, Cavendish-square Thomas Hartshorne, Esq., Silkmoor-house, Stafford Charles James Heath, Esq., London Frazer B. Henshaw, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester and Southampton Railway James Peard Ley, Esq., Seaton Ironworks, Whitehaven Samuel Wilfred Lac: e, Esq., Sandhill-house, Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway William Mathews, Esq., Edgbeston and Corbyna-hall Ironworks, Director of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Oxford-square Robert Marsden Massey, Esq., Oxford-:quare David Montague, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester and South ampton Railway William Morgan, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Gloucester Railway W. E. Mousley, Esq., Lincoln's Inn and Derby P. H. Muntz, Esq., Director of the South Staffordshire and Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railways Francis Parker, Esq., Manchester Archibald F. Paull, Esq., Director of the South Wales Rail wa y William Watson Prole, sq., Thurlow-square, Brompton, Director of the Grand Junction and Midlands Uni.n Railway John Gibson Reeves, Esq., Birmingham Theophilus Richards, Esq., Birmingham Frederick Ricketts, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway John Shaw, Esq., Wolverhampton Chtzles Shaw, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway James Sutton, Esq., Shardlow-hall, Derbyshire Henry Symonds, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway Thomas Timmins, Esq., Wolverhampton Charles Augustus fulk, Esq., Totteridge-park, Hants Samuel Walker, Esq., Ablow-house, Wolverhampton, Director of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway William Watson, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway John Webster, Esq., 35, Mecklenburgh-square, Director of the Great Grimsby and Lincoln Railway Henry Wright, Esq., Director 'of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and eouthanmton Railway Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., Chilton-hall, Suffolk, and 39 Grosvenor-place (With power to add to their number). SOLICITORS. Messrs. Edwards, Mason, and Edwards, .8, Moorgate-street, and De lahay-street, Westminster ; and Messrs. Motteram and Knowles, Birmingham. ENGINEER IN CHIEF—Sir John Rennie, E.R.S. ACTING ENGINEER—W. H. Pardon, Esq. BANKERS. Teh Commercial Bank of London ; and The Birmingham: Banking Company. LOCAL AGENTS. Nottingham—Samuel Maples, Esq. Burton-upon• Trent - Edward Hart Has t. OFFICES—No. I, Royal Exchange-buildings, London ; and 36, Upper Temple street, Birmingham. It is proposed by this Company to establish a direct line of commu nication between Birmingham, Nottingham, Gainsborough, and Hull, at the smallest outlay of capital, and with the least possible injury to existing interests. To effect this object, use will be made of existing or projected lines, as far as practicable, and the chain of communica tion will be completed by throwing out new lines, where requisite. Commencing at Birmingham, it is proposed to ILC the Birmingham and Derby Railway as far as Whitacre, whence a new line, about 29 miles in length, will be made, passing through Ashhy-de-la-Zouch and Castle Donnlngton, to the Long Eaton or Sawley Station on the Mid land Counties Railway The communication being thus perfect to Nottingham, it will be carried forward as far as Gainsborough, either by the proposed Not tingham and Gainsborough Railway, or by a line springing out of the line from Nottingham to Lincoln, for which an Act was obtained by the Midland Counties Company during the last session of Parliament. From Gainsborough this railway will proceed to Barton-on-the- Humber, or New Holland, in the immediate vicinity of Hull, thereby rendering complete arid entire the chain of communication between Birmingham and Hull. By this project the advantages will result to the public of a Direct line from Birmingham to Nottingham, Birmingham to Gainsborough, and from Birmingham to Hull; mia by means of the proposed South Staffordshire Junction Railway, and the intended extension to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, a direct line from Wolverhampton to Nottingham, and the other towns already enu merated. The support of several companies will be enlisted in favour of the line, which, together with its own merits, will ensure its success la Parliament. As a considerable portion of the line of communication is already made, or in progress, the time required for the completion of this great national undertaking will be materially shortened. Independently of the advantages to be derived by a direct commu nication between the important seaport of Hull and the mining and manufacturing districts of Warwickshire and Staffordshire, a large traffic in timber, corn, metals, &c., may be confidently expected. The revenue of the Company, in addition, will be derived from the great thorough traffic from Birmingham and the midland counties to Nottingham and Gainsborough, and the immense traffic from Bir mingham to Hull, the:port at which the exports are shipped to Ham burgh, the German States, and the North of Europe ; and from the conveyance of merchandise, agricultural produce, and cattle from the Southern, western, and midland counties. A preference will be given in the allotment of shares to landowners on the line, and other local proprietors, as well a s t o di rectors and shareholders in railways interested in supporting this undertaking. No subscriber will be liable beyond the amount of the deposit until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his subscription. The usual power will be taken to allow interest at the rate of four per cent. from the time of payment upon each call until the opening of the line. No applications will be attended to without a reference to a member of the Committee, a banker, or the solicitors to this Company. The Subscribers Agreement and Parliamentary Contract must be executed when the bankers' receipts are exchanged for scrip certifi cates, of which due notice will be given ; and the deposits paid by any party making default in the execution of those deeds will be for felted. Plans and prospectuses, with forms of applications for shares, may be had of the Solicitors, and of the following Stock and Sharebrokers, viz.:—Messrs. Wells, Westropp, and Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street; Mr. H. Pritchett, 1, Royal Exchange-buildings; Messrs. nitelains and Harrison, 18, Threadneedle-street ; and Messrs. Peppercorne and Son, 2, Old Broad-street, London ; Messrs. Gardiner and heap, Manchester; M. Williams, and Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, ; Messrs.it Messrs. Watson and Co., and Mr. Samuel Phi llips, Davies and Son, Liverpoor;Messrs. Ithisdaolte, Myers, and Co., Leeds; Messrs. Earp and Son, Derby ; Messrs. , P efor tand Leviek, Notting. Bristol ; Mr. Collis, ham ; Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, and Wr and Mr. James Robinson Lane, Birmingham._ FORM OF APPLICATIO N " . To the Provisional Committee of the Birmingham, Nottingham, Gainsborough, and Hull Railway Campany. I request you will a llot me shares of 201. each, in the capi tal of the above-named Railway ; and I will accept the same, os n umber, and pay the the deposit of 2 /. 2 8. per share, and s a i n gi; the y e Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of 1845. Name in full ••7• — • •.•••• • .. • • . Place of Business or Profession... Residence .... Wade or Profession • ••• • • • Bignattue • • . • • • ..... .. .. • Name, Residence ••• • . •• • • and Profession ..•• . • • • of Referee • • • • • • • THE . HIRAM GAINSBOROUGH, AND HULL RAILWAY. No Application for Shares in this Company can be received after MONDAY, the 20th instant • EDWARDS, MASON, and EDWARDS, 8, Moorgate-street. MOTTERAM and KNOWLES, Birmingham. Oct. 10, 1845. , i =_: -~ ~, ~~" s ~\~ it: 3 1 - -4-- r WORCESTER, WARIVICK4,- and RUGBY, RAILWAY COMPANY. (Previsionally Registered.) \ oeit: Offices, 5, Gresham-str. et, Bank. London, IHI ber„TBls 4 2 At :4 The Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' AW4eetneitt%Wfil'ne for execution, on the days and at the places undermentioned, be tween the hours of eleven o'clock A.M., and four o'clock P.M. : In London, at the offices of the Company, from the 13th to the 18th of October, both inclusive. At Worcester, at the offices of the Company, on the 13th, 14th, and 55th of October. -At Droitivich, at the offices of Messrs. Curtler and Holyoake, on the 16th of October. At Warwick, at the offices of Mr. A. S. Field, solicitor; on the 17th of October. At Leamington, at the offices of Mr. A. S. Field, solicitor, on the 18th and 20th October. At Rugby, at the offices of Mr. W. F. Wratislaw, solicitor, on the 21st October. . At Leeds, at the Scarborough Hotel, on the 13th and 14th October. At Manchester, at the Albion Hotel, on the 15th and 16th October. At Liverpool, at the Adelphi Hotel, on the 17th and 18th October. At Glasgow, et the Wellington Hotel, on the 20th and 2lstOctober. At Edinburgh, at the Royal Hotel, 22d and 23d October. JOIIN HUGHES, Secretary. PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED. MANCHESTER, ASHTON- UNDER-LYN, STALYBRIDGE, and NORTH DERBYSHIRE RAILWAY. Capital 1,000,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 25/. each. Deposit 2/. 12s. Gd. per Share. As repuired by the Standing Orders of the House of Lords. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. John White, Esq., J.P., Park Hall, Hayfield John Wood, Esq., Glossop William Sidebottom, Esq , J.P., Etherow-house, Cheshire John Shuttlen•orth, Esq., J.P., Hathersage, Derbyshire William Tinker, Esq., Hyde, Provisional Managing Director of the West Midland Railway Henry Wardle, Esq., J.P., Macclesfield, Provisional Managing Di rector of the Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway James Foulds, Esq., J. P., Trawden-house, Director of the North Yorkshire Railway James Sidebottom, Esq., Manor-house, Hollingworth Robert Shepley, Esq., Marple Abel Harrison, Esq., Staley - bridge John Sidebottom, Esq., J.P., liarewood-lodge, Provisional Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway John Yates, Esq., Rock-house, New Mills John Wood, jun. Esq., Glossop Richard Redfern, Esq., Retiro, Oldham, Provisional Director of the Manchester and Oldham District Railway John Cook, Esq., Macclesfield, Provisional Director of the Sheffield. Nottingham, and London Direct Railway Richard Bennett, Esq., New Mills Francis Sumner, Esq., Primrose-bank, Glossop William Henry Turner, Esq., the Cliffe, Mellor William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Provisional Director of the Birken head, Holyhead, and Mold Junction Railway Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield, Provisional Director of the Lon don and Manchester Direct (Remington's Line) Railway James Ingham, Esq., New Mills Thomas Chadwick, Esq., Chadwick-place, Regent-road James Potter, Req., Oldham, Provisional Director of the Oldham Dis trict Railway John Booth, Esq., Macclesfield, Provisional Director of the London and 'Manchester Direct Railway (Remington's Line) Charles Lucas, Esq., Hay field Thomas Ward, Esq., Macclesfield Joseph Buckley, Esq., Oldham, Provisional Director of the Oldham District Rail way James Yates, Esq., New Mills. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Thompson and Jepson, Glossop Messrs. Edward and 11. William Bennett, Manchester The promoters of this undertak'ng contemplate, as their first object, to supply a very populous and rapidly-increasing manufacturing dis trict with the advantages which will be afforded by the intended lino of railway, and which have long been sought for. The line will diverge from the Sheffield and Manchester Railway at or near Dukinfield, taking its course near the densely populated and extensive manufacturing districts of Newton, Hyde, Compstall, and Marple, passing thence near New Mills, Hayfield, Whaley -bridge, and Chapel-en-le-Frith (with a short branch to Buxton), it will follow the course of the valley of the Del Arent, and to a point at or near Helper, where it is proposed to join the Great Midland and also the West Midland Railways. By the construction of this railway, a saving of twenty miles will be effected over any other line in existence between the manufacturing districts of Oldhani, Rochdale, Ashton, Staley, New ion, and Hyde, with their population of 300,0 0, and the favourite places of resor6, Buxton, Matlock, and the picturesque scenery of IS orth Derbyshire. The minerals of Derbyshire, with which the country abounds, will, by the proposed line of railway, be brought into more extensive use, and at a much cheaper rate in the manufacturing districts. The saving distance between Manchester and Derby with the eastern coast will be fifty-lour miles. The line has been carefully examined, and with the greatly-ha- proved facilities for the construction and working of railways, a good line may be made at an average cost. The local traffic alone will pay eight per cent. on the cost of con struction. Negotiations are now in progress with important companies which there is every reason to believe will be satisfactorily con cluded ; if so, they will render this the most complete project that haS been offered to the public. Applications for shares, of which there is only a limited number at disposal of the Provisional Committee, may be made in the subjoined form to the solicitors and to the undermentioned brokers :—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Messrs. Johnson, Braeley, and Walker, and Mr. Thomas Ellison, Manchester. A more detailed prospectus, with the complete list of the Prooi• sional Committee, will be Issued shortly. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Manchester, Ashton-under- Line, Stalybridge, and North Derbyshire Railway Company. Gentlemen,--I request you will allot me shares of 251. each In the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of kJ. 10s. per share thereon, or on any less number you may appro priate to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parlia mentary Contract when required. Dated 1845. Name at iuil length .. ............. Trade or Profession Place of Business (if any) Reference.... • ................... (PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.) PROSPECTUS OF THE KENT and ESSEX UNION RAILWAY, connecting the Southern Coast of Essex with Dover and the Continent, via Sheerness, Faversham, and Canterbury, with a Junc tion Line to Herne Bay, Margate, Ramsgate, and Deal. Capital 550,0001., in 27,500 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE 01' MANAGEMENT. With power to add to their number. John Brotigh, Esq., Herne Bay George Burge, Esq., Herne Bay Johu Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester, Director of His London and Manchester Railway Thomas Camplin, Esq., Herne Bay, and Alderman of Bristol Edward B. Davis, Esq., Rochester Lewis Levy, Esq., Tavistock-square John Wheeley Lea, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn Commission The lion. Capt. Douglas Kinnaird Palteney, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway Rev. D. Robinson, Brompton Edward Sherman, Esq., St. Martin's-le-Grand. ENGINEER—WiIIiam Tierney Clark, Esq., M.I.C.E. and F.R.S. SURVEYOR—J. M. Davey, Esq. Rscrszns—Union Hank of London, Princes-street and Pall-mall East. SOLICITORS. George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden-square William Rogers, Esq., 1, Moorgate, London James White. Esq., Canterbury. Temporary Offlees of the Compsliy, 34, Coleman-street. - This railway will commence at Sheerness in conjunction with a short steam-ferry communication from a point at or near to South end, on the opposite , Essex coast, and wilt proceed from Sheerness by Qneenborough to Faversham, where it will form a junction with one of the proposed lines from London by that town to Canterbury and Dover. The integral line will be continued from Faversham to or near to Herne Bay,: and from thence to the South-Eastern Extension Railway (now being made), at a point near Sarr, and will then pro ceed on that line direct to Ramsgate eastwards, and direct to Deal south-eastwards. From a point between Herne Bay and Sarr the line will also be carried by a short extension to Margate. By this project Margate will be placed within 75 mites of the me- I s i , n instead u g o h f m F o a r v e er ti s t h a an n , 0 0 at , l a y s h a i e t h p r e l a s c e e n , it a w n i d l t in h , t t t h o o e , L b o 3; d tro ire p c o t li don lines. The important town of Ramsgate, now so extensively connected with continental communication, will also be thus afforded a much nearer overland route to London ; and Deal, Ramsgate, Margate, Herne Bay, Sheerness, Chatham, Rochester, Gravesend, Woolwich, Greenwich, and London, will all be placed in immediate or easy con nexion upon one continuous line of railway. By means also of this undertaking, in conjunctim with the exist ing and projected railways proceeding to the south coast of Essex, the whole of the passengers and traffic from Liverpool, Manchester,, Leeds, Hull, York, and the Northern, the Midland, and the Eastern Counties, will be conveyed to Dover and the Conti nent via Sheerness, in preference to a lengthened and cir cuitous route through the !metropolis, whereby the journey will be shortened more than 50 miles, travelling expenses will be curtailed, and the serious inconvenience and delay of transhipment and con veyance from sone part of London to another wholly avoided. A glance at the map also will show the Immense advantage which the metropolis itself will enjoy by its being thus altbrded other routes to the coast of Kent. The millions who annually seek pleasure in excursions to Gravesend, Sheerness, Southend, Herne Bay, Margate, Itamsgate, Deal, and Dover, will have a choice of different routes. They may proceed by railway, on the Essex side of the Thames, to the Thames Haven, Tilbury Fort, or Southend—pass over to Sheer ness by water, and thence proceed direct by this railway —or they may reach Sheerness wholly by water, and then avoid the sea —or, may pass at once from London, on the Surrey side of the Thames, to Sheerness, Herne Bay, Margate, and Ramsgate, by railway in a direct line, consuming only about two hours in the journey, and may vary their pleasure by going in one direction and returning by another. Independently of the vast multitudes who will thus seek health and recreation, the importance, as a national object, of connecting al l the above-mentioned towns, find giving a direct line from Sheerness to Dover, together with the immense existing traffic in the direction of the undertaking, and the great increase which the improved and enlarged modes of communication throughout: Kent will occasion, must be too apparent to need ftather observation; and the Commit tee, from careful Inquiry, feel confidence in stating that no scheme of railway has yet been offered to public attention combining greater public and private advantages. About thirty-six miles of new railway only will embrace all the above important objects—viz., from Sheerness to Faversham 12 miles. Faversham to Herne Bay • • ............... Thenceto Sarr •• • • • ..... ....................• The extension to Margate • ....... ........... • • 36 The country has already been preliminary surveyed, and found to be exceedingly favourable. Indeed, it is almost a dead flat from Faversham to Margate. The landed proprietors are not only willing but desirous that the undertaking should be accomplished, and it is at the request of many of them that the promoters have determined on prosecuting it. The Committee reserve the power of making branches to Canter bury and to Deal, if circumstances shout l hereafter render it ad visable. The liability of the shareholders will be restricted to the amount of their subscriptions, and power will be applied for in the 13111 to allow interest, at 4 per cent. per annum on all calls, from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line. Applications for prospectuses, maps, and shares , offi c m es a , y 34 b , e the solicitors or secretary, at the temporary C(mileazdnealtio street, or at No. 2, Hercules-passage, City; brok ersluad the following share - : Mr. Miles, Worcester d Co. Liverpool Mr. Cameron an 3 3 1 1 e r r Thomas s.Tow it e y n r a y n , Wheeler, awiil hc Worcester r fl e i t e e ,. p r Id Leeds Mr. James Jamieson, Mr. 3lr. R3liocl7airds Reynolds, Messrs. Wellhe ' k Stamp, Hull Mr. Frederic I 3 j l i ii v cc erP l:s o ri l e loved and Oastler, Leeds fo ß rd lackburn Mr. Win. Mason, Wm. Cronhelin, Halifax Mr. K M r r GeorgeTh°ui s C ß lar:t rdi , i3 Bla n d f ' o rd rSapnei d ie s e h r, aw, Nottingham perby M ess rs. Gra) Mr. - James -ton and Earle, York E. H. Armitage, Wakefield 3 3 r f e r ; s Charles rs.r, e Air.3es srs Stokes, Kettering andCheltenham Marshall, Leeds Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter Mr. J. S. Rolland, Coventry Messrs. Iloughland and Leese, Manchester Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Manchester Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham Mr. L. Weatherburn, jun., Huddersfield Messrs. Everard and Co., Huddersfield Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester Mr. Nicholson, Edinburgh Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, College-green, Dublin Mr. James Ross, Perth. To the Provisional Committee of the Kent and Essex Union Railway. I request you will tillot me shares in the proposed Kent and Essex Union Railway, and I agree to take all swell shares, or so many as may be alloted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and to execute tile Parliamentary' Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required so to do. Name Description - Resider ce— Date -- Reference to KENT and ESSEX UNION RAILWAY. No ihrther Applications for Shares will be received atter FRIDAY NEXT, the 17th of October instant. C. W. WALLACE, Secretary pro tent, 34, Coleman-street, London, Oct. *, ... 1. SQ• is 4• sq. 1., t 94. Esq. ! bal. t 1