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D IRECT WESTERN RAILWAY (Upon the Broad Gauge), From London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and Bridgewater respectively. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, V. 12s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMXITTRE. The non. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director cf the South Mid land Railway, Brookes' Club. st..Tames'F-street Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 10, Eaton-place, London Ralph Neville, Esq., M.P. for Windsor, Hill-street, Berkeley-square Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P. for Totness, 6, Parliament-street Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square Thomas Nugent Vatuffistn, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks. Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Companies Sir John Key, Bert., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin ster Bank. and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder minster Railway Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the City of London Edward Harrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the South Midland Railway Joseph Armitage, Esq., Miln's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, Chairman of Me Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park, Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and South Midland Railways Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe Philip W. Courtney, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London Millis Coventry, Esq.; Whitehart-court, Lombard-street Barnet L. !Philips, Esq.. Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and George-street, Mansion House John Wheelton, Est d lf f eoPhani Bank , Tunbridge, Kent. Director of the Leicester and ord Railway Boswell Middleton Jolland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull. Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire Charles Robert Coleman, MI., Irongate Wharf William Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the Devon and Cornwall Banking Company Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director of the South Midland Railway Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London, Director of the Dublin. Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South Essex Railways Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Director of the Londonderry and Coleraine and the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railways John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of the Central Terminus ,Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Insurance Company James Renshaw, Esq., Wititehart-court. Lombard-street, and West ' Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Dimes tor of the Brtdport and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railways Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon street, London H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park George 3Plntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-square Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland Railway Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company Patrick Fres. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the Louden and Illackwall Railway Company W. D. Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon Cethhert Woodstock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstone-street, Portman square, Director of Tring, Reading, and Basignstoke, the Exe ter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension Railways George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London, Assistant Tithe Commissioner William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway Richard Harris Purcell, Req., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway Company Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London and Blackwall Railway Company Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the St. Katherine's Dock Company William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles street, Berkeley-square James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor. place, London Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail way Company Samuel Raker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London William Congreve Russell, Esq. Leamington, Warwickshire, Di rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire John William Yerbury, Esq., Beicorabe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d Light Dragoons Robert Main, Esq., Ravenabourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity square, London Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey Najor-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath Rev. T, Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Berks Col. Bursienl, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Rev. Chas. Fras. Bamfylde, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bath Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts Georg.t Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming ham Railway Company R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buckingham shire Railway and Wolverton Junction Richard Mortimore, Esq., KingsMUl, Colhlmpton • Rev. John Sydenham, Collnuipton Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Cellumpton Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Coilumpton Win. H. Holcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman of the Berks Union Banking Company William Halcomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and Dorset Bank Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berke Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Kerle Haberfield, Esq., Clifton, Bristol James Troup, Esq., Hastings • John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director of Coventry and Leicester Railway Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North. ampton, Banbury - and Cheltenham Railways John .Newton Mappin, Esq. Sheffield, Director of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway James Burt, Jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and Southampton Railway Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways James Ogden, 31. D., Salford Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the "Hull and Barnsley" Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the " Liver pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies" John Holford, Esq., Rusholm Hail, Manchester C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradtbrd Union Railway Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hall, Director of the Hall and 'Barnsley Junction John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South. ampton Railway John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Durham Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and Midland Railway Companies Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool Win. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and Iron-Bridge Railway Company C„tppleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Company Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield, Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office Wm, Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast Railway Company Captain Bowker, R.N., Devonport H. al. Bright, Esq., Hull Samuel Ssvann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the East and West of England Railway Company John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and Har rowgate Railway Company William Marriott, Elul., Attercliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the I s l e of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway. Thomas Wetherell, Eel., Lincoln, Director of the London and York and East Lincolnshire Railways John Johnstone Hamiltanonchester, Esq., Liverpool David Price, Esq., M William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington Rev. H. tV. Cottle, Rector of Walton, Northamptonshire Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of ithe South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways Henry Hnbhersty, Esq., Hull John 0-tier, Rag., Hull, Director of the Hall and Barnsley Junction Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse, merchant John Mee Mathew, Es q., Gray's Inn-square, Assistant Tithe Com missioner John Norton, Esq., Moat Hoase, , Brentwood, Essex William John M'Guire, Esq., Hampton Court John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey W. J. Lefenvre, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate of Southampton Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., York-terrace, Regent'i Park G. B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Coventry and Leicester Railway Captain Tringham, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield (With power to add to their number). BA/mess—Messrs. Cut ries and Co., Cornhill, London. JOINT SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London Messrs. Ricis/trds and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. SECRETARY — Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq. ASSISTANT-BECRETARY — CharIes J. Whalley, Esq„ LOCAL AGENTS. At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq. At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton • At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole At Tiverton; T. L. T. Bendel], Esq., and J, A. Toms, Esq. At Truro At Penzance At Falmouth The object of this line is to effect A direct communication between London and the Land's End. In a nati ona l po i nt of v i ew suc h a line is indispensable. With the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from its position at the western extremity o f t h e ki ngdom, wou ld un d ou btedly long since have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po sition ,a,essi,ahPl:4l,c, ksient,Setathti:n. Southampton, with far less natural ad creasiid . Opening of the South-Western Railway, in creased before ts the mp 4e r ti frongulorrhe°°r, I to 3 000 0001 per annUnt. At Brie 'were declining ;since then they The merits of a line to the I Y tn a7 Great Weste ' rn Railway, the imports e very considerably increased. pm:, it was not left. to the present End as an investment for ca- Western , and Bristol and Exeter Railway to discover. The Great Exeter, it has been in c oemplati:, lw" having already reached ,a n r. to extend that line to Fal irrnallstho, the , r projects have. been •Annall by way of Plymouth. and set on foot on the conviction that railway. nita Inner 1 fc . li•liM by The object of this prospectus is to show that no ether li ne t h an the present can ultimately satisfy' the exigenci es of the country in regard to this, its most import an t outport .. the nat ura l Packet Station of the empire." The present proJeet is distinguished by this—that it Is direct. It is AS nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End, The London, Bath, and Brid gewater Company having ama lg am mated with this Company, the immense local influenc e comm by them will now contribute to the great national object of a a d n ir d e e c d t line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company. The Direct Western availing Itself of the Great Western Railway so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells '(from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater), Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two miles than any existing or projected railways between these points, a n d w i thout a tunnel. rom Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St. Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole distance from London to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miler, With respoct to the trete between London and Tiverton, it is n eedless to say more than that there is already thorough j)tratilir te•y°d- in/l ee cleat to justify the construction of this portion o f it THE stlN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1845. B OSTON, NEWARK, and SHEFFIELD RAILWAY. The allotment to scripholders of the Newark and Sheffield Rail way of the additional shares in this undertaking to which they are entitled has just taken place, and the letters will be issued this week. The allotment to landholders, &c., who are not scripholders of the Newark and Sheffield Railway, has been postponed for a fortnight, to afford the Directors more time for inquiry respecting the numerous applications they have received from parties who claim a preference in consequence of their local interest on the lino of =Ulna'. By order,JOl DENNISTON, Secretary. Mansfield, September 20, 1845. LONDON, WARWICK, LEAMIMGTON, and KIDDERMINSTER RAILWAY COMPANY. (Provisionally Registered.) Notice Is hereby given, that the Parliamentary Contract and sub scribers' Agreement will lie for signature on the days and at the places under-mentioned, between the hours of Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, and Two o'clock in the Afternoon. At Northampton, at the George Inn, on Monday, the 22d of Sep tember instant. At Daventry, at the office of E. S. Burton, Esq., solicitor, on Tues day, the 23d of September instant. At Warwick, at the office of Messrs. Haynes and Moore, So licitors, on Wednesday, the 24th of September instant. At Birmingham, at the George Inn, Digbeth, on Thursday, the 25th of September instant. At Redditch, at the office of E. Browning, Esq., solicitor, on Fri day, the 26th of September instant. At Cheltenham, at the Fleece Hotel, on Saturday, the 27th of September instant. At Kidderminster, at the office of Messrs. Boycot and Luey, so licitors, on Monday, the 29th of September instant. At Liverpool, at the Albion Hotel, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 30th of September instant, and Ist of October next. At Glasgow, at P. W. Dixon, Esq.'s, office, on Friday, the 3d of October next. At Edinburgh, at the Royal Hotel, on Saturday, the 4th of Oc tober next. RIXON and SON, Registered Solicitors to the Company, 20, Jewry-street, London. Dated September 16, 1845. CORNWALL RAILWAY: movistoreAL comNITTEII (All of whom are Shareholders.) JOSEPH THOMAS TREFFRY, Place, Chairman. The Right Hon. the Earl of Falmouth The Right Hon. the Earl of St. Germans The Right lion. the Earl of Morley The Right Hon. Lord Clinton The Right Hon. Lord Wodehouse The Hon. George Matthew Fortescue, Boconnoe, Cornwall Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., M.P., Carclew, Cornwall Sir Anthony Buller, Pound, Devon, Member of the Provisional Com mittee of the North Devon Railway Company William Tyringham Preed, Esq., M.P., Trevethow, Cornwall Charles Russell, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Great Western Railway Company Thomas Gill, Esq., M.P., :Chairman of the South Devon Railway Company William G. Hayter, Esq., M.P., Director of the Great Western Railway Company Allen, John, Esq. ' Liskeard Avery, William, Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of the North Devon Railway Company Barlow, Frederick Pratt. Esq., Director of the Great Western Rail way Company Bore, Montagu 8., Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of the North Devon Railway Company Boger, Deehle, Esq., Plympton Brown, John, Esq., Director of the:Bristol and .Exeter Railway Company Batten, John, Esq., Penzance Browne, William, Esn., Director Of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company Braginton, George, Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of the North Devon Railway Company Broad, Robert Richards, Esq., Falmouth Bastard, Richard, Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of the North Devon Railway Company Broad, William Richards, Esq., Mayor of Falmouth Brokenshir. Joseph, Esq., Mayor of Penryn Carlyon, Clement, M.D. Mayor of Truro Came, William, Esq., R osemundy, Cornwall Cole, Ralph, Esq„ Director of the South Devon Railway Company Ching, John, Esq., Launceston Cotesworth, Robert, Esq., St. Helen's-place, London, Director of the Royal West India Mail Steam-packet Company Daubnz, William, Esq., Killion, Cornwall Dingley, Richard, Esq., Launceston Fripp, Charles 8., Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company Fox, Robert Were, Esq., Falmouth Fox, Alfred, Esq., Falmouth Fox, Charles, Esq., Perranarworthall, Cornwall Fox, Robert Barclay, Esq., Perranarworthall, Cornwall Fox, Thomas Were, Esq., Plymouth Fox, William, Esq., Director of the South Devon Railway Company Gray, Robert Alexander, Esq., St. Swithin's4ane. London Gibbs, James, Esq., Chairman of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company Gully, Major, Trevenen, Cornwall Gwatkin, John, Esq., Parc-Behan, Cornwall Hawker, William Henry, Esq., Director of the South Devon Railway Company Hooper, Henry, Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of the North Devon Railway Company .Tope, William, Esq., Tremeddon, Cornwall Kekewich, Samuel Trehawke, Esq., Peamore, Devon Morgan, William, Esq, Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company Michell, William, Esq., Truro Miller, Patrick, M.D., Director of the Bristol and Exeter:Railway Company Nelson, John, Esq , Doctors'-commons Poynter, John, Esq, Boskenna, Cornwall Pethick, Henry, M.D., Launceston Robartes, Thomas James Agar, Esq., Lanhydrock, Cornwall Roberts, John Coryton, Esq., Trevol, Cornwall .VCYvYanoann,'PEeMerOsle77Ct4orrynw, Red , th R R og ob e in rs so , n ih P e l ß ril e i v p Rogers, Captain Frederick, R.N. Newnan, Cornwall Rundle, Robert, Esq., Mayor of R.N., Rundle, John, Esq.. Member of the Provisional Committee of the North Devon Railway Company St. Anbyn, The Rev. Hender Molesworth,'Clowance, Cornwall ' St. Aubyn, Edward, Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of the North Devon Railway Company Smith, George, Esq., Cambeme Shapland, Christopher, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Gloucester Railway Company Tothill, Wm., Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway Company Tremeaheere, Seymour, Esq., Pall-mall, London Tweedy, William, Esq., Truro Vean, Cornwall Tweedy, William Manse!, Esq., Alverton, Cornwall Vivian, John, Esq., Pencalenick, Cornwall Williams, Michael, Esq., Trevince, Cornwall Williams, William, Esq., Tregullow, Cornwall Williams, John Michael, Esq., Scorrier House, Cornwall Woollcombe, Thomas, Esq., Director of the South Devon Railway Company Wills, William D., Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company Willcocks, James C., Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of the North Devon Railway Company (With power to add to their number). COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Treffry, Joseph Thomas. Esq., Chairman Barlow, Frederick Pratt, Esq. Carlyon. Clement, M.D. Came, William, Esq. Cole, Ralph, Fell. Fox, Robert Were;Esq. Fox, William, Esq. Gill, Thomas, Esq., M.P. Gwatkin, John, Esq. Gibbs, James, Esq. Miller Patrick, M.D. Robartes, Thomas James Mar, Esq. Shapland, Christopher, Esq. Smith, George, Esq. Tweedy, William Mansell, Esq. Vivian, John, Esq. Williams, Michael, Esq. Woolleombe, Thomas, Esq. ENGINEER—I. R. Brunel. Esq , F.R.S. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Glynn, Hallifax, and Co. Messrs. Praed and Co. Tram and Falmouth—Messrs. Tweedy, Williams, and Co. DISTRICT RANKERS. Falmouth and Truro—Messrs. Ricketts, Enthoven, and Co. St. Austell, Bodmin, it Messrs. Robins, Foster, and Co. Liskeard, and Launceston 5 Devon and Cornwall Banking Co Launceston—Messrs. Gill and Rundle Plymouth—Messrs. Harris and Co. . SOLICITORS TO TEE COMPANY. Messrs. Smith and Roberts. Truro Messrs. W. O. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitehall, London LOCAL SOLICITORS. Messrs. Pender, Genn, and Genn, Falmouth John Williams, Esq., Penryn Messrs. Commins, and Son, Bodmin Messrs. Syrsons and Luxmore, Wadebridge Christopher Childs. Eso., Liskeard Messrs. Gurney and Lethbridge Cowlard, Lanceston SECRETARY (pro tem).—P. P. Smith, Esq., Truro Tn compliance with the snegestion of the Committee of the Home of Lords (the measure having previously received the sanction of the Board of Trade, and the approval of the House of Commons), a fbr ther and most accurate survey of the whole line of country traversed between Plymouth and Falmouth has been determined upon, and Mr. Brunel has been instructed to carry out:their Lordships' recom mendation. . The construction of a line from or near Launceston, by way of Cre diton forming a part of the North Devon schem e , b y which itis to Exeter,proposedt to give railway accommodation to the northern and central parts of that county, has rendered it most desirable that a function should he effected between the Cornwall Railway and North Devon line ; Mr. Brunel has therefore been instructed to extend his survey with a view to effect this junction, and to afford direct com mitniCation with Exeter and the North of Devon. By the proposed plan the following objects will be obtained—a continuous line of railway from Penzance and Falmounth to Ply mouth, and thence by the South Devon line to Exeter. A direct line by way of Launceston and Crediton to Exeter. From Launces ton a line through Tavistock to Plymouth, and by'the North Devon Railway a line through Barnstaple and South Molton to join the Bristol and Exeter line at Tiverton and Taunton. By the connexion which will thus be formed between the Cornwall Railway and the South Devon, North Devon, and West Cornwall Railways, the most complete and comprehensive system of railway communication will b provided for the West of England, giving the utmost amount of accommodation to all the principal towns and places in the counties of Cornwall and Devon. e c b o ri m dg m c e , etarrdad, in T iz .a , u a n n e d es a t e o : ri n le Camborne, Redruth., Falmouth, P enryn, Truro, St. In the county of Cornwall the towns of Penzance, St . I ves, Mara .Azintonst,Telollrpo,lay d cultural parishes a d districts of the county w ill h ave the benefit of nd the railway communication ; while the ports of St. I ves, Portreath, New Li7t , t.wa , Tt gr ° e d a m t in m . In l i V n ad g. Quay, and Padstow on the north coast, and Mount's Bay, Falmouth, Mevagisscy, Pentuan, Charlestown, Par, Fowey, and Looe on the south coast, will be connected with or brought within very moderate distances of the main hoe. In the laying out of the Cornwall Railway advantage' will also he taken of the several local railways already formed or now in course of construction. Tn earryintr these (Weds into effect the Company will have th e most cordial co - opera ti on and support of its associated Companies, namely, the Great Western, the. Bristol and Exeter, Bristol and Gloucester, the South Devon, the North Devon, and West Cornwall Railways. Considerable progress has already been made in the survey. INCREASE OF CAPITAL. Tn ord e r t o effect the suggested improvements and extension the capital will be increased by a sum of 600,0001., by the creation of half-shares of 251. each, upon which a deposit of 21. 10s. will be pay able on allotment. These shares will he issued to the Shareholders in the proportion of one half share for each share now held by them, provided application he made by them in the form and manner and within the time hereinafter specified. In cases where the shares were not originally allotted to them the parties must he approved of by the Comraittca. A portion of the shares will be reserved to meet the requirements of the various local interests. INCREASE OF DEPOSITS. 111 consequence of the new standing orders of Parliament requirin,,, a deposit of 10/.,per cent., Instead of 5/.• per cent., as heretofore, it is requisite to call for the further payment of 21. per share on the shares aireade isgueti. The Shareholders will therefor e be ca l led u p on to pa v the farther stun of 2/. per share on the shares respectively held by ATI holders of Scrip Certificates or of Rankers' Receipts, are re rynested to forward the same to the Secretary, on or before Tuesday, the 30th day of September Instant, and to state at the same time their wishes with respect to new shares by letter in the form below. All holders of shares not originally allotted to them, failing to trap mit their Scrip Certificates, on or before that day, will forfeit all benefit of their shares ; and original subscribers failing by the-Siime day to transmit their Scrip Certlfkates, or Bankers' Receipts,. will forfeit their eight to it additional number of shares. - Any parties wishing to withdraw, will he entitled to receive 20i, per share, on application to the Bankers, and on giving up Hier Scrips on or before the 30th day of September instant. FORM OF APPLICATION.' To the Committee of Management of the Cornwall Railway Company. ' Gentlemen,—l herewith transmit to you Scrip Certificates of shares (or a Banker's Rec.ipt for shares), held by me in this Company, numbered as at foot; and r request that you will allot to me Half Shares therein, being the proportion of one for every share as advertised ; and I undertake to make the further payment of 2/. per share on the first-mentioned shares, and to pay the deposit of 2/. 10s. per half share on the said half shares, and to execute the new Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of 1845. Number of Scrip-- .. • .............. Christian and Surname in fu11.......... Residence .... ' • " Profession or Business ••••••• • • • • • • • Reference.... ... •• . N.B. A reference is required in cases where persons apply in re spect of shares not originally allotted to them. Printed Forms may be obtained from the Solicitors of the Com pany, Messrs. Smith and Roberts, Truro ; and from the following Brokers : — Messrs. Foster and Braithwaite, 68, (old Broad-street, and am?. Leeds. zwholar4 n t a r n o d p r , A. an Etß d kdeirmw P n ri ;ai n rnod s g e l hm p La , lamo l y s w;d , ~, „ Old Lafr I. v ß rDe; rig unl - f t s ; t : r Messrs.Be3 e r ea t Broad-street, Bristol e chole n ;sn d ta tn r s : Messrs. l r, , T 1 1 :1 i : 1 ' , , W a. ande Pearson, Messrs. Re ' l°4 and Palmer Plymouth, - , HE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER, T AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND SWINDON AND BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION, Being an extension of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,200,000/., in 60,000 shares of 201. each. Deposit 2/. 2s. per share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE, Lord Gem7,e Paget, Uxbridge 1.10U2C 3lrlor Br...resford, M.P. William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Webh Mid land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Director of the Welsh Midland, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways David R. Ross, Esq., M.P., Chairman of th e B e lf as t, Di rec t or o f th e London and Manchester, and Soath and Midlands' Junction Rail ways Sir John E. De Beauvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir mingham Extension, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Herta, Director of the Chester and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junc tion Railways Sir William . Wynn, Maesynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Brigadlei -General Sir Henry Pynn, Director of the Direct Western Railway Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Sir William Twysden, Bart., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean Railway William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., Re., Alderman of Lon don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and London and Greenwich Railways, Sac. See. Thomas Sydney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Director of the London and 31aneliester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junc tion Railways Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lon don and Westminster Bank, and Namur and Liege, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Donald Maclean, Esq., Deputy-Chairrnan of the Trent Valley Con tinuation, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Major Oliver Lindam, K. 11., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberys twith, and Central Wales, and Director of the South and Midland? Junction Railways Major-General Pariby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Worces ter and Crewe, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Captain James Patrick Macdougal, late Bengal Royal General Staff, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of Dean, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways, Re. Captain Alexander Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, Director of the Legal and Commercial Insurance Company, the Great Western of Bengal, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth Railway Major Jell Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment Railway Richard William Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Man chester, and Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life Insu rance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway James Clay, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Furness and White haven, and South and Midland? Junction Railways Col. Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail ways William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, Manag ing Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company, and Dl rector of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Richard Carpenter, Esq , Magistrate of the County of Middlesex, Deputy-Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, Di rector of the Leicester and Bedford, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways C. W. Killett Potter, Esq., Secondary of the City of London Lieut.-General Sir Lewis Grant, K.C.8., 31, Harley-street John Jennings, Esq., Elm-grove, Hammersmith William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the Oxford, Witney and Cheltenham, and South and Midlands' Junc tion Railways Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde-park-street William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Britannia Life Insurance George Parbury, E Company, and Derby an d S tafford, an d S ou th an d Midl an d s ' Junc tion Railways • and Birmingham R a il way Daniel Penton Johns on , E sq., D i rector o f the London an d Manches terthe Railway Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbridge, Staffordshire John Anderson; Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of the Church of England Life Insurance, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director of the London and Dover, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Cash, Esq. Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London, Director of the South and Midlands ' Junction Railway George R. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Jim tion, and Northampton and Banbury Railways William Paxton, Esq., Langford, near, Bicester, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street, Director of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Con tinuation Railway John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Vice Chairman of the Leeds and York Railway J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond James Durness, Esq., Leytonstone, Essex G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed Celyn, Denbighshire, and Lonsdale-square, Islington Stephen Lewis. Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway Martin Furness, Esq., Director of the Newark and Sheffield Railway William Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York and Leeds Railway Edmund Phillips, Esq., Avon House, Mclksham, Wilts, Director of the South and Midlands Junction Railway Charles Thomas Ward, Esq., Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clopton House, Stratford-on-Avon, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Joseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Junc tion, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways George Henry Brook, Esq., Edgulin-lodge, Huddersfield, Provisional Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax. and Bradford Union Rail way, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Captain Ilitchins, H.E.1.C.5., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Birmingham and Oxford, and South Midlands' Junction Railways James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, and Brandon Lodge, near Coventry, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Rail way William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurloe-square, Brompton, Director of the Jersey, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Thomas Cleobury, Esq., 31), Sackville-street Eaq., Torrington-square, and AI freton, Derby, Major Walker, Director of the London and Manchester Direct, t Valley Continuation, and South and Mid and S'outh and Midlands' Junction Railways The Hall, Blackheath, Director of the Me lFrederickjanirdesc,t jourJnaocitfilioteshnelTlarlil.n, Railways I. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways • •Insurance Company, and Director of the London anti Birmingham Extension Company, and Director of the South and MI • 'dlands' Junction Railway W. A. Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and Regent's -park, Director of the South Central Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Jo t s r e o ri p h ol li i t i ai l t er l7l iEsq" Esq., NVimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman William Sloane, of the Church of England Life Insurance Company, and Director L j e u g n a e l ti an on d nal Co lw m a m y ercial Life Insurance CO and Midlands' Junction Railway Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Englis Jerdein, Esq., Direqear of the Great Manchester, Railway ,okCntle So Fitch,u th Director al York-terrace, rk t of f i T Midlands' a the e Rugby and Rug Southampton Railway William Morley, Esq., Blackheath William Lee, Esq Director of the Grave sen d and Rochester, and Essex and Suffolk Railways Thomas Gooch, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Esq., Rush-hill, Surrey J. Harvey, John IVheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway • , EM., Highgate, Middlesex Thomas Colhngridi,e , W. A. Wilki n son ; Esq., Director ofthe South and Midlands' Junction Railway C. Waite, Esq.. Willesd en, Middlesex R. Wood, E s q., Lodge-Place, St. John's Wood, Director of the North Metropolitan Railway William Shirk, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurlovr-square, Brompton Warren Stormes Hale, Esq. Gresham-street, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Kingsmill Grove Key, Esq. Braises, near Birmingha m Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction, and South Midlands' Junction Railways W. Lee, Esq., Gloucester -place, Portman-square R o b er t P ower , Esq., M.D., Queen-street, May-fair Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place House. Southampton, Di rec t or of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways • Major Grubbe, Eastwell House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the County, and Director of the South and Midlands'Junction Railway Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junetion.Railways T. P. Norbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continua tion, and •• outh and Midlands' Junction Railways, and of the Legal and Commercial Life Insarance Company William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway John Brocke Walbancke, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Captain Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery Williani Lee, Esq., Director of the Reading Railway Henry Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square William T. Thornton, Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman-square John Dennis, Esq., Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway Joseph Crockett, Esq , Alderman of Devizes, and Director of the North Wilts Banking Company, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway John Halbert Helbert, Esq., Gloucester-place, London, Director of the Leicester and Birmingham Railway Rev. Thomas Price, Rector 01 Ilanrothel, Herefordshire Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, London, Director of the Rugby and Worcester Railway William Peppercorne, Eaq., London, and Bexhill, Sussex Captain T. Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway F. Duffield, Esq., Bolton House, near Bradford Rev. F. R. H a ll,D.D., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge John Barnett, Esq., Coroner for the County of Gloucester, Director of the Oxford and Cheltenham Railway William Spooner, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the Newcastle and Liverpool Railway Alexander Prince, Esq., 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Bar- Het . North Junction Railway James Lees, Esq., Delph,'Saddleworth, near 'Manchester, Director of the Saililleworth flanking Company (With pewer to add to tilsir number). • 11ANK rats—Tire Commercial Bank of London. F.R.Q. CoNst'I.TING ENGINEER—Sir John Maim,it I; •D., ArriNG ENGlNEElt—Willidlll Mnllingar Iligditts, Esq., C.E. SoLterrou—W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basingliall-street. L AGENTS. fourgr eat lines appears that England wi QV II AL be divided longitudinally by lines of railway, which will become so many main trunks, intersee in,. and interisected by tierous IM • b o th transverse and oblique i opening rapid Mid r eady • commumeat ion with,the intermediate dis. trb•t-, with pa:cket stations, and with sea-port towns. Till more ea , q , rly a these, which is also the longest, originating at Newcastle• npon.:Tyne, and P ,,, sire4 through York, Pe terburou tgli, and ("am bridge, may be to terminate in London, whence all places are accessible The second line, r countin ,, westward, is more toituous, and has alsc a coitimon northern terminits with the preceding, by which Its a d' vantages are Materially restricted. This line, descending the Ere wash Vale, and passing throw 1 and Oxford, becomes a South amptong 1 Rug by at Basing line by falling into the South-Western Railway stoke. The third longitudinal line, or the most westerly, is still more de fective in design than the preceding ; employing the steep and narrow railway called the Birmingham and Gloucester as its first link, it traverses nearly in a right line the least populous and most undulating parts of Gloucester, Berks, Wilts, and Hants ; and,properly speaking, has no Independ ent terminus. A large lon g it u di nal section of the k i ng d o m—lhe West Midland district—a district Inviting a s i m il ar s pecies of accommodation from concentrated local advanta ges , s till re mains unprovided with a chief trunk line ; and it I s contemplated to reme dy this deficiency by the present undertakin g, or a fourth longitudinal line. Adopting Birmingham as a nor th ern terminus of the West Mid land, Manchester, and Southampton Railway, it is prop osed to carr y a line through or near to Stratf or d- on -Avon, thence between Moreton, Stow, Northleach, Falrford, Cricklade, and Swindon, where it will merge In the South and Midlands' Junction Railway. The length of the proposed line will be about sixty miles, and the district traversed by it is gently undulating and densely peopled. At its southern terminus, Swindon, it becomes identical with the South and Midlands, by means of which it opens a most direct communica tion hitherto suggested with the harbours of Weymouth; Christ church, Poole, and S uthampton. At its northern terminus, Gir mingham, it communicates with a series of lines, Protected, in pro gress, Or completed, which will f or m the most direct l ine that c an ever be constructed between the southern ports of England and the great manufacturing districts. In the alliance of lines tbrtaing the West Itfidlettd. Manchester and Southampton Railway project, a combination of advantages pre sents itself—the result of a design, to a great extent, but of 6ontin ' gencies also. If it be desirable that the terminus of every railway should be situated at some commercial or populous place, in this re spect the present project is peculiarly fortunate. If Government be resolved on countenancing the shortest and most direct lines, it will be seen, by laying a rule on the map of England from Salisbury to Manchester, that a course due north and south between these places will pass very nearly through the towns mentioned in this prospectm, as being on the proposed line; and actual measurement has shown this line to be the shortest between Southampton and Manchester by 26 miles. By the construction, therefore, of little more than 60 miles of rail, as here proposed, the shortest, most direct, and convenient communication between Manchester and Southampton will be es tablished—a line, also, however superior in pe.ition to others pro mising similar advantages, may yet be considered as competing with none, but as an independent work, originating at Birmingham Ilnd terminating in the seaports of Weymouth, Christchurch, Poole, and Southampton. In the allotMent of shares in this Company the Directors propose to give a preference to the original shareholders of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Company. Applications for prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms of application for shares had, at the Office of W. B. James, Esq., Solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street ; and of the following gentlemen:— London—Messrs. J. Peppercorne and Co., 9, Old Broad-street ; Mr. J. B. Harrison, 8, Bank Chambers ; Mr. Thomas Banbury, 4, Angel-court. Liverpool—Messrs. Mills and Co., and Messrs. Neilson. Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. William Marshall. Hull—Messrs Collinson and Flint. Leeds—Messrs. Watson and Co. Stratford-on-Avon—Mr. William Bolton. Exeter—Mr. Thomas Sanford. Plymouth—Messrs. Heyward and Pulmer Birmingham— Mr. Collis, and Mr. John Wright. Glasgow—Messrs. Tassie and Co. Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co., and Messrs. M'Callum and Co. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the West Midland—Manchester, and Southampton Railway. • Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of 201. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parlia mentary Contrast and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Residence. ..... • • • • • • ......... • • • • • Trade or Profession • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Reference— • • • •• • • Address of Referee.. • .... •• • • • . Date PRELIMINARY. ANNOUNCEMENT. LILY and WISBEACH DIRECT RAILWAY, 11 through Littlefort, Welney, Upwell, and Outwell ;to com mence at the City of Ely, where it will form a junction with the Eastern Counties and Norfolk Railways, and proceed from thence to the important Town and Port of \Visbeach. (Registered Provisionally.) Capital, 250,000/., in 12,500 Sharer 0(201. each. Deposit, 21. per Share. Distance, Twenty-four Miles. This railway will be the nearest route from London to Wisbeach. Prospectuses, with the names of the Provisional Committee, and other particulars of this important branch of railway, will be pub lished with as little delay as practicable. In the meantime, aprlica tions for shares may be addressed to HENRY F. RICHARDSON, Esq., Solicitor to the Promoters, 36, Coleman-street, London. PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED. G REAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT RAILWAY, By a Junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Redford. Distance, 120 miles. Capital 2,500,000/., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 21. 12e. Gd. per Share. (Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.) LIVERPOOL AND BURY RAILWAY. CONTRACT FOR U.,EEPERS. he DIRECTORS are READY to RECEIVE TENDERS for the SUPPLY of RAILWAY SLEEPERS, conformable to Specifications to be seen at the Company's Offices, 33, Dale-street, Liverpool ; or at the Office of Sir John Macneill and James Thompson, 9, Whitehall place, Loudon. Offers to be forwarded to the Secretary, up to the Ist Novem ber next. By order, JOHN S. HEROIC, Secretary Liverpool and Bury Railway Office, 33, Dale-street, Liverpool, 6th September, 1845. MIDLAND AND THIRSK JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Notice is hereby given, that no further Application for Shares in this undertaking can be received after TUESDAY, the 23d day of leptember instant, By order, DUNNING and STAWMAN,} Solicitors. CHARLES CLOUGH, REMINGTON'S LINE. T HE LONDON AND MANCHESTER DIRECT INDEPENDENT RAILWAY. The COMMITTEE of MANAGEMENT hereby give notice that one part of the PARLIAMENTARY CONTRACT and SUB SCRIBERS' AGREEMENT will LIE for EXECUTION, and Scrip Certificates will be issued to the Subscribers in exchange for the Bankers' Receipts, at the places and times mentioned below : Bath—At the York Hotel, on Tuesday, the 23d day of September instant. Bristol—At the Bush Hotel, on Wednesday, the 24th day of Sep tember instant. Worcester—At the Star Hotel, on Friday, the 26th day of Septem ber instant. Birmingham—At Dee's Royal Hotel, on Saturday, the 27th day of September instant. Lichfield—At the Swan Inn, on Monday, the 29th day of September instant. Leicester—At the Three Crowns Inn, on Tuesday, the 30th day of September instant. Bedford—At the Company's Office in the High-street, on Thursday, the 2d day of October next. Uttoxeter—At the Offices of William Arnold Bainbridge, Esq., Soli citor, en Tuesday, the 23d day of September instant. Burton-upon-Trent—At the Offices of Messrs. Bass and Sweting, Solicitors, on Wednesday, the 24th day of September instant. Ashby-de-la-Zouch—At the Offices of Edward M. Green, Esq., So licitor, on Thursday, the 25th day of September instant. Cheadle—At the Offices of Richard Lowe, Esq,, Solicitor, on Satur day, the 27th day of September instant. Leek—At the Offices of Thomas Redfern, Esq., Solicitor, on Monday, the 29th day of September instant. Macclesfield—At the Offices of Messrs. Parrott, Colville, and May, Solicitors, on Tuesday, the 30th day of September instant, and Wednesday, the Ist day of October next. Manchester—At the Offices of the Company, St. Ann's-square, on Thursday and Friday, the 2d and 3d days of October next. Derby—At the Offices of Henry Mosley, Esq., Solicitor, on Tuesday, the 23d day of September Instant. Leeds—At the Royal Hotel, on Wednesday, the 24th day of Septem ber instant. Hull—At the Victoria Hotel, on Friday, the 26th day of September instant. Edinburgh—At the London Hotel, on Tuesday, the 30th day of Sep tember instant. Glasgow—At the London Hotel, on Thursday, the 2d day of Oc tober next. Liverpool—At the Adelphi Hotel, on Monday, the 6th day of October next. By order, H. W. MATTHEWS, secretary. j ORCE STER, WARWICK, and RUGBY RA ILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 900,000/., in 45,000 Shares of 201. each Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share, Offices, No. 5, Gresham-street, Bank. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Henry George Ward, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Sir William Smith, Bart., Cardiston House, Worcester George Allies, Esq., Alderman of Worcester, Cwm Celyn Ironworks Richard Ashton, Esq., White Lion-courtr, Cornhill William Bestow, Esq., Surrey-place, London Robert Bestow, Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of the Great Eastern and Western Railway James Barker, Esq., Severn's Stoke, Worcester Charles Bleaden, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge, and Coulsden Court, Surrey John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Walter Chamberlain, Esq„ Worcester Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company George Beauchamp Cole, Esq., Chester-street, Grosvenor-place, Di rector of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Mr. Jeremiah Clarke, of Macclesfield, Merchant, Director of the Lon and Manchester Direct Mr. William Clay Mr. James Coucher, Wool Merchant, Worcester Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Copthall-court, and Old Palace, Richmond, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Mr. George Cox, Glove Manufacturer, Worcester Edward Henry Cole, Esq„ Monasterwin, Kildare Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlbro'-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Henry Clarke Duppa, Esq., Quarry House, Boughton Winchilsea, Kent, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Com pany Francis Davis, Pershore Thomas Davies, Esq., Powick, Worcester George Mins, Esq., salt manufacturer, Droitwich George English, Esq., needle manufacturer, Feckenham, Redditch John English, Esq , needle manufacturer, Feckenham, Itedditch George Farley, Esq., Henwick House, and Crowle, Worcestershire, banker, Worcester Mr. J. Firkins, of the firm of Firkins and Co., glove manufacturers and hop merchants Henry Grasett, Esq., Chesham-street. Belgrave-square John Matthew Gutch, Esq., banker, Worcester Mr. Edwin Gardener, corn, hop, and seed merchant, Worcester Mr John Hughes, wool merchant, Clop-gate, Worcester Mr. John Hood, merchant and carrier, Worcester John Hall, Esq., merchant, Worcester Joseph Hall, Esq., Alderman and Mggistrate of Worcester Edmund Herbert, Esq., Powick, Worcester Henry Herbert, Esq., Powick, Worcester Mr. George Hill, of the firm of Messr. Hill and Turley, Worcester T. C. Hill, Esq., Pwllddw Colliery, Blaenavon James James, Esq., Swansea William Laurence, Esq., Brixton, Director of the London and Man chester Direct Railway William Lionel Lampet, Esq., The Highlands, Oxfordshire, Deputy- Lieutenant of that county, and Warwick-place, Leamington /oho Wheeley Lea, Esq., Vice-Chairman of the Severn Navigation Company, Managing Director of the Droitwich Patent Salt Com pany, and a Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company John Lilly, Esq., Alderman of Worcester, Worcester Royal Porcelain Manufactory Mr. Lloyd Mr. Thomas Lucy, Albion Steam Flour Mills, Worcester James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway Arthur Mann, Esq., Woburn-square, Director •of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Amos Middleton, Esq., M.D., Leamington William Middleton, Esq., Lansdowne-place, Leamington Henry Moss, Esq., Severn Bank, Worcester William Moore, Esq., Elm Bank, Powick, Worcester John Morton, Esq., Wick, Worcester J. B. Morgan, Esq., The Terrace, Powick, Worcester B. Morgan, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Russell-square, London Robert Nuttall, Esq., Kempsey House, Worcester J. C. Nott, Esq., Hallow, Worcester Mr. F. H. Needham, merchant, Worcester Richard Pope, Esq., Camberwell Mr. Powell, wine merchant, Worcester John Pumphrey, Esq., Droitwich Mr. James Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Rea and Sons, Maltsters, Worcester Mr. J. P. Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Rea and Son, Maltsters, Wor cester James Reeves, Esq. Cheapside, and Leyton, Director of the Direct London and Manchester and Great Manchester and Rugby and Southampton Railway Companies Messrs. James Smith and Sons, Needle Manufacturers, Astwood Bank, Redditch James Robertson, Esq., Worcester Joseph Rusher, Esq., Glyn Leiros, Neath Messrs. Smith, Inns, and Co., Iron Foundry, Leamington T. G. Smith, Esq., Mayor of Droitwich J. B. Spedding, Esq., Mines Royal Copper Company, London and Neath Captain Stewart, R.N., Bertre-terrace, Leamington Timothy Steward, Esq., Higham Lodge, Norwich Henry Stock, Esq., Beddgelert, Carnarvonshire Mr. John Stone, Worcester S. H. Steele, Esq., Abergavenny Thomas Thould, Esq., Impney Lodge, Droitwich Magistrates of Droitwich Thomas Tompkins, Esq., Droitwich William Trentham, Esq., Leamington John TwamleY, Esq., Warwick George S. Trower, Esq., St. Mary-at-Hill, and St. James's-place, St. James's John Tolley, Esq., Westford, Magistrate of Droitwich Samuel Tombs, jun., Esq. Town Clerk of Droitwich James Upflll, Esq., The Green, Bromyard, a Director of the Stafford shire and Shropshire, and Dover and Bristol Railways Mr. Wells, Hop Merchant, Worcester John Hunt Wilson, Esq., Pershore Mr. Woodward, Hop Merchant, Worcester John Henry Walsh, Esq., Worcester Mr. James Wall, Merchant and Carrier, Worcester Mr. John Webb, Worcester John Webb, Esq., Needle Manufacturer, Feckenham, Redditch Thomas Webb, Esq., Needle Manufacturer, Feckenham, Redditch Benjamin B. Williams, Esq., 27, Thrograorton-street, and Bryan stone-square, London With power to add to their number. CRIES' ENGINEER. William Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S. ASSISTANT ENGINEER. S. F. Griffin, Esq., C.E SOLICITORS. Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street, London Henry Foley, Esq., Worcester. BANKERS. London—The London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury. The Commercial Bank of London. Worcester—Messrs. Farley, Lavender, and Co. LOCAL ♦GENTS. - Droltwich—Messrs. Curtler and Holyoake Warwick and Leamington—A. S. Field, Esq. Rugby—W. F. Wratislaw, Esq. SECRETARY—John Hughes, Esq. This Line, which, subject to the decision of the Gauge Commis sioners, will be constructed on the Broad Gauge principle, will com mence at the Worcester Station of the Great Eastern and Western Railway, and, proceeding by Redditch and Henley-in-Arden, will tcuch Warwick and Leamington, and end at Rugby, the terminus of the Midland Counties Railway and of the proposed Rugby and Hunt ingdon Junction Railway. It will communicate with Droitwich, Studley, Alcester, and Stratford-on-Avon. At IVarwiek, it will unite with the Birmingham and Oxford Junc tion Railway, the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway, and the Lon don, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway ; and at Rugby, with the London and Birmingham, the Midland Counties, and the projected Rugby and Huntingdon Junction Railways. The country through which it will pass, is thickly populated, and of the richest description. It presents no engineering difficulties, and from its population, its manufactures, and agricultural produce, it possesses sources of such abundant traffic as to render it highly re munerative to the capitalists. The object proposed is to complete the line of railway communica tion between the Western, Midland, and Eastern portions of the Kingdom, and a glance at the Map of England will show that this will be effected in the most direct manner by the present line ; touch ing, as it will, at one of its termini, a railway running direct from Swansea to Worcester, and at the other, the projected line from Rugby to Huntingdon —from which point a railway communication has been already provided. By means of this Railway, the manufactures of all the towns and the agricultural produce of the country contained within its range, as well as the Ports on the Eastern and North-Eastern Coast, will have opened to - them a direct and unbroken communication with the great and densely-populated mineral fields of South Wales, as well as the markets of the Northern portion of the principality. To the line as well as to the Midland and Northern thether P n;o P rt nl io a n fi r r of -al° h n e g kingdom, this undertaking will present the most direct communication with those towns of fashionable resort— Leamington and Cheltenham. To the inhabitants of Leamington and War wick, it will open the most direct communication with the city of Worcester and South Wales, whilst to the inhabitants of Worcester, it will open the markets of the Eastern portions of the country, The Shareholders in the several railways proposed to be joined or intersected, will have a preference iu the allotment of shares in this undertaking. No person will be liable for more than his deposit till the Act is obtained, and power will be applied for to allow interest at four pounds per centum on all calls from the time of their respective payments, and to limit the liability of the shareholders to the amount of their subscription. Applications for shares in the annexed form to be made to the Provisional Committee, at the office, 5, Gresham-street, London, or to 31essrs. John Sbewell and Son, sharebrokers, Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, 4, Bank-buildings, and Mr. John Smith, 3, Shorter's-court, London; Mr. John Duncuft, sharebroker, Man chester ; Mr. John O'Neil, sharebroker, Manchester ; Messrs. Schultz and Carr, sharebrokers, and Messrs. Reyno!ds and Son, Liverpool ; Messrs. H. and C. Beardshaw, sharebrokers, Leeds; Messrs. Tate and Nash, sharebrokers, Bristol; Mr. James Pearson, sharebroker Birmingham ;' Messrs' Samuel Hutchinson and Co., sharebrokers, Bradford ; .Mr. William Miles, sharebroker, Worcester; Mr. Robert Allan, sharebroker, Edinburgh; Mr. William Gordon, sharebroker, Aberdeen ; Messrs. Black and Co., sharebrokers, Buchan-street, Glasgow; and Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, sharebrokers, Glas gow ; Messrs. Bruce and Symes, sharebrokers, Dublin; of whom prospectuses may be had. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l' request you will allot to me Shares of 201. each in the above-named Company, and I hereby undertake to My the Deposit thereon, and to execute the necessary Deeds when required. Name hi full ....... . Placeso. 100.111. -, sa I'roii-s,l OO Resider. , • • - - . Signature .. Name, Residency, aiot I , n of RefeVe‘ • .• •• •• 1% ituess ..... •• .. •• .. .•• •".. • . . ite.lidelicc •• • • . tern : that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton about 32 miles that it will traverse rich and populous agricultural and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of tratlic as well from railways now in course of construction as from kothers pro jected, with every chance of success. As to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that the vast number of merchant vessels continually detained in the Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railt - cis; and therefore—,-without speculating on the extent to which the ports on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol and Southampton ; to what extent the haexhaustiblemineral wealth of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agriculturar resources of Devonshire may be thither developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the snap will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex tent of midland distrist, comprising rich and populous parts of So mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of railroad accommodation. Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance In the event of war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet commerce of the kingdom ; it !may not be out of place to quote here the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley, which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways, he is reported to have said :—"I consider that the com munication between the metropolis and the great outports to be not a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company, it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth ; and it may be further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed to interfere will that great national object. The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are In a state of for wardness, and Ike whole will be ready for the next session ef Par liament. It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be constructed at an unusually small expense ; that the undertaking will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of the landowners, and that the Directors are Justified in asserting that this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways in the kingdom. Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at four pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders In the Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected with the Direct Western district. ♦pplications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary, or to any respect able broker in town or country London, September 11, 1845. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway Company Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 251. each in the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 2/. 12s. 6d. per skare thereon, or ou any less number you may appropriate to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con tract when required. Dated 1845. !Caine in full Residence .. . • Trade or Profession Place of Business (if any) ........ Signature ... • • • •• • • D IRECT LONDON AND EXETER RAIL WAY COMPANY, With Extension to Falmouth and Penzance. Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 25/. each. Deposit, 11. 7s. 6d. per Share. With power to raise 1,000,0001. more, if necessary. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110.) OFFICES, No. 52, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE, Adjoining the County Fire Office. COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. E. D S. Blundell,owg.Ere. Esq., Marlborough-place , .,lB,LowerSour-ste Seymour-street e Thomas St. John's-wood, Direc tor of the Great Eastern and Western, and Manchester and Bir kenhead Continuation Railways George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the London and Holyhead Railway Colonel Sir Frederick Hankey, G.C.M.G., Queen Ann-street, Caven dish-square, Director of the lonian and Ceylon Banks, and Bor deaux, Toulouse, and Cette Railway T. Piers Healey, Esq., Elm-court, Temple A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, - Cadogan-place H. H. Hungerford, Esq., Dingley Park, Market Harborough, and Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street, Director of the County Fire-office, and Director of the South and Midlands Railways W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the Oxford, South ampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square, and of Exeter, Director of the Manchester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction, Warwick and Worcester, Shropshire Mineral, and Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railways (With limited power to add to their number). Exatissza..--John Brathwaite, Esq., C.E., 4, Trafalgar-square. BANKERS.—Messrs. Curries and Co., 29, Cornhill ; London and West minster Bank, St. James's square. SOLICITOL—D. E. Colombine, Esq., 8, Carlton Chambers, Regent-street. Prospectuses and plans may be had at the Company's office, 52, Regent-street, and of all the local Solicitors and Agents. BARNET and NORTH METROPOLITAN JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and fitly Victoria, cap. 110.) Capital, 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21.25. per Share. No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Subscription PROVISIONAL. COMMITTEE. The Hon. F. H. F Berkeley, M.P., Chairman, Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway Company William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, also Deputy-Chairman of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway Company Sir John Osborne, Bart., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing stoke Railway Company The Right lion. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch House, Henley William Wilberforce, Esq., James - street, Buckingham-gate, and Highwood House, Highwod Hill, Hendon Lieut.-Colonel Glides, Porchester House, Bayswater William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn Major Lindam, K. 11., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales Railway Company Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., F.S.A., Director of the Colchester, Cambridge, and Harwich Junction Railway Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., M.D., Mortimer-street, Cavendish square Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway Thomas Hemming Johnson, Esq., Older's Hall, Hendon, Middlesex Thomas Priestley, Esq., Principal of Mill lIW Grammar School, Hendon, Middlesex The Rev. H. J. Crump, Mill Hill, !Tendon, Middlesex Captain Grover, R.N. Captain John Inns, H.C.S., Wentworth House, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex The Rev. Bartholomew Nicholls, M.A., Incumbent of St. Paul's, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex Mr. William Ward, Underhill, Barnet Mr. Bruce Johnson, Finchley William Christopher Daniel Deighton, Esq., Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, Holloway Ralph Allen Frogley, Esq., Hounslow , Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway Colonel Taylor White, Hadley-green, Barnet Abraham Scott, Esq., Hadley Priory, Barnet W. J. M'Gwire, Esq., 74, St. James's-street W. Prosser, jun., Esq., 36, New Broad-street, City - James Berington, Esq., East-street, Hoxton George Freeman, Esq., Grange House, Leeds Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq., Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway Company George Godfrey, Esq., The Elms, Hutton, Essex Robert Wright Wood, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Company Alexander Prince, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing stoke Railway Peter Graham, Esq., Angelo Villa, Gloucester-read, Regent's Park William Henry Halpin, Esq., 23, Grafton-street, Fitzroy•square Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Company. Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales Railway Company J. N. Nicholay, Esq., Oxford-street John Godfrey B. Hudson, Esq., Director of th e C entral Terminus Railway Company The Rev. G. A. Walker, Alvisthorpe Parson age , Wakefield, Direc tor of the, Wakefield and. Bradford Railway Company (With power to add to their number.) COMMITTEE OP MANAGEMENT. The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., W. H. Halpin, Esq. Chairman Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq. William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy- Alexander Prince, Esq. Chairman George Freeman, Esq. Major Lindam, K.H. George Godfrey, Esq. Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., Robert Wright Wood, Esq. F.S.A. Charles Green, Esq. CONSULTING ENGINEER—Francis Wishaw, ESq., C.E., Brook Lodge, Hendon. ACTING ENGINEER—J. Bailey Denton, Esq., 10, Gray's Inn-square. BANKERS - ---MCSSYS. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, JOINT SOLICITORS. Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street G. P. Hill, Esq., 21a, Soho-square. LOCAL AGENTS. Henry Hammond, Esq., solicitor, Wentworth Lodge, Finchley John Hughes, Esq., solicitor, Whetstone. SECRETARY (pro tem.)—A. Doull, Esq. Great This railway will connect th e i mportant and hitherto thene gI ct ed town of Barnet with the Londo n an d Birmingham d Western Railways, Sit or near Holsdon- green ; with the Northern and Eastern and the Eastern Cou n ti es R a il way, at or nearTotten ham ; and the proposed Direct London and Manchester, and the Lon etiwolditehr'Whs 114-111. ood will i tu d lit m e i t l h l e Hi t l o l, wn yt o n f B ehle arn y, Holder's Lon don and T lline, e r in its r o u a l gr y hs e s w . The nnde, on,e on Burrows, Golder's 11111, Outterhedge, Ki ngs b ury, N sd - s H to e Wilsdon. Wilsdon Green , Holsdon Green, Kensall Green, westpoe urne , Green, Maida Hill, Kilburn, Hampstead , West End, Highgate, Crouch End, Hornsey, Muswell Hill , West Green , Tottenham, Edmonton, Ciinford, Statnibrd Hill, Stoke Newington, Newington Green, Clap ton, HighburY, Holloway, Kingsland, Layton, Stratford, West Bow, Bromley, Bethnal Green, Limehouse, Hoxton, 'Somerton, Ihickney, Shacklewell, Dalston, Isiington, St. Pancras, Shoretlitch, Blackwall, Euston-square, Pat4dington, Kensington, litunmerscaith. Brompton, Fulham, Chelsea, &e. ; connecting those places with the and all those south of tie river Thames. va r ri h o e us di r s a ta ll n w c a e y fr s onammtedhetown of Barnet to the station of the London and Birmingham Railway, at Euston-square, by this route, will be I S miles. The length Of the main line, from the point of junction at Totten ham to the London and Birmingham Railway, will be 11 miles ; and the length of the branch line to Barnet, will be 4% miles. From the junction with the Birmingham Railway to Chipping Barnet, 9% miles ; from the Decoy (near Brent-street, Hendon), on the proposed Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway, to the Northern and Eastern Counties Railway, by Stamford-hill, 644 miles. There are no engineering difficulties throughout the entire distance. The line will proceed beyond the range of the Highgate and Hamp stead Hills, and the branch from the main line to Barnet will follow the valley of the river Brent to the Intended station at Barnet ; thus the expense of construction will be less than any other metropolitan line of railway, for the above reason, and because it will pass through au agricultural district, avoiding all ornamental property and large collections of houses anti buildings. Upon the completion of this railway, a large and daily-increasing ;copulation, resident beyond the limits or the metropolitan oninibuses, will be largely benefited, and land and agricultural produce, hitherto atibraling an inadequate return to their cultivators, will be quad rupled in value. The ancient, populous, and once-flourishing town of Barnet, too, 'will now have a railway communication of its own, without depend ing upon the caprice or uncertain goodnature of any company who may hold out a prospect of a branch, in future times, from some of the trunk lines now contemplated. An ample return of profit to tile investments of shareholders may he safely anticipated, and will arise from the following sources, amongst others :- 1. the convevande of passengers. 2. Front the carriage of goods and merchandise frein the City anti Docks, &e., to the several railways which are intersected by this line, avoiding -the-delay and excessive cost of conveyance through London ; also from the conveyance of cattle, &e., more particularly during the period of the large Burnet fairs: - 3d. From the conveyance of coal, both inland and seaborne, fuel, and other commodities of general consumption, the great expanse of which has long been felt by all c lasses as a most grievous evil. The Committee of Management reserve to themselves-the power eels, as may of adopting, upon this line, e,locomotive power, or Presser's Railway guide and saf e t y WI , be deemed expedient. Aavlications - Solicitors cano__ ham persons r ns Stutres in the form annexed (and communi desirous of promoting the objects of the Com p tn yl' m ay be Oxford-street ; to the Joint addressed the to the Secretary, at the Provisional OffiCes E (l, 4(l 6 l. 9 At i N t n e s w FFillE , sq., 21s, g o h o „, kmr 4 . sq., 59, Newman-street, and G. P. _. FORM OF FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway, a 9, Newman -street Oxford-street, London. Gentlemen,—l request that yen will allot to rne Shares of 201. each in this Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon /my less number that may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to exectite the Parlia mentary Contract and Subset-lbws' Agreement when required. RName In hill .......... „ ... ............... ...... Tesidence... ...... ..... . .... . .. ......... ..... ... rade or Profession ......................... ...... Name, Residence, and Prof ess i on or Trade or It Date., .. • .., •.•••••••• .• .. •• ..... .•• oe ... • ...... PRESENT PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. (The names of a further Provisional Committee will be published in a few days.) The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne Sir William Twysden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and Erewash Valley Extension Railways Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway, of the South and Midland Junction, and West Midland Railways Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and Trent Valley Continuation Railways C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton. Director of the South Midland Railway John Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-street, Broad-street, Director of the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford, Railways William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Di rector of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction Railways Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten sion Railway John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London derry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's Park, Hampstead, Director of the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Railway Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq., the Lodge, Upper Cl a pt on Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle House, Gemersall, near Leeds James Bateman, Esq., Park House. near Bradford William Banks, Esq., Honey-lane Market Thomas Burnley-, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds and West Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Henry Sherard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham Exten sion Francis Dacre, Esq., Strat'oni, Essex Samuel Bateman, Esq„ Croft House. near Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway John Alcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, near Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway R. Davenport, Esq., Alversten, near Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway A. A. Davenport, Esq., Eastwood, Notts Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans field, and Midland Junction Railway Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shef field Railway H. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway Peter Morrison, sq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railways Francis Bennett Goldney, Esq., Manor House, Brixton. Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford, and Direct Manchester (Ras trick's line) Railways Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside William Gatliff, Esq., 12, Park-place, Leeds, Director of the West Yorkshire and Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railways William Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway • Charles Gibson, Esq., Holland-place, Clapham Robert Herries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds Richard Hargrave, Esq., York-place, Leeds g. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash Val ley Extension and West Midland Railways Thomas Heelis, Esq., Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lan cashire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire North- Eastern, and of the Liverp3ol and Leeds Direct Railways John !Ridge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Direc tor of the Derby and Stafford Railway William Empson Jalland, Esq., Holderuess House, near Hull, Di rector of the York and Hull Railway Barwell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Ma gistrate for the East !tiding of York and Borough of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley Railways Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Henry Jennings, Esq., Park-place, Leeds, Director of the Manches ter, Southampton, and Poole, and Bradford and Wakefield Railways Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley and Con tinuation and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South Midland and Oxford Extension Railways Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., J.P., Hull, Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Selby Railway Thomas Rogers, Esq., Laura-place, Bradford, Director of the Liver pool and Leeds Direct Railway John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah House, Enfield, Managing Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Junction, the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and the Direct Western Railways George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury Hall, Sheffield, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street. and Gorbals, Hull, Di rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbals, Hull Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railway. James Robinson, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet and Blythe Valleys Railways George Turner, Esq., Hunton-hill, near Birmingham, Director of the South Staffordshire, and Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railways. ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—Sir John M'Neil, L.L.D., and F.R.S. ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq. LONDON SOLICITORS. J. H. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court Owen Gray, Esq., 25, Great Tower-street, J. B. Midge, Esq., RANKERS. London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co. Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co. 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, after several minute exa minations of the country through which it will pass, has been brought forward. The proposed line will commence at the junction of the Manche - ier and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wake field, and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of that CoMpany to extend their line in the ensuing cession of Parlia ment), 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 course (embracing; as it does, a most extensive population within its lirnits).as aiso from the absence of any direct communication for the convekance 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 Gainsbo rough (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 several counties through which this Line will pass, the Line in itself consi dered 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 return 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 with 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 communica tion from Glasgow and the Western parts of Scotland to London, but would also connect Edinburgh and the Eastern parts of Scotland as well as Durham and Newcastle Or the York and North Midland, and Great North of England Railways), with the Metropolis, which would be considerably shorter than the accommodation offered by any other Company, and when cost of construction is considered, there cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given to the Great Leeds amid 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 offerel by the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway, and by branch railways to time main trunk line, through which all goods front-the *hole of the manufacturing dis tricts could be conveyed at once tmi these warehouses for shipment, thereby avoiding the present delay and expense of cartage, and in reality establishing an almost direct and an invaluable connexion between the rivers Clyde and Thames. It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties, that the works 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 Parliament 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 a'so to extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, in the event of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford. Applications for Shares (in the form annexed) may be made to J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court, and Messrs. Owen Gray and Illidge, 25, Great Tower-street, the joint solicitors to the Company, at the Company' s t emporary off i ces, '9 , Copthall-oogrti London, No application will be attended to unless accompanied by a satis factory reference. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Great Leeds and London Direct Rilway: Gentleinen,—l request y ou will allot me Shares, of 251. each, in the above undertaking, and I undertake to pay the deposit thereon, or upon a n y l ess num b er th a t may be allotted to me, and also to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Kubscribers' Agree ment when required. Name in full . ...... Ad•lress la full ... • • Occupation ......... • ••• • • • Date Referiline• • ..• r MANCHESTER, MIDLAND, and GR-Vi° GRIMSBY JUNCTION RAILWA. I . The Shareholders are respectfully informed that ° attendan c nenie nt given with the Parliamentary Contract and Subscrib ers nu tip fur execution by the Shareholders, at the following I ,l .l l s_`Zycleel , undermentioned days, between the hours of Ten and ft" when the Bankers' Receipts may be exchanged for Sail , an d 251 Liverpool—Adelphi Hotel, Friday and Saturday', 19°1 September. vt il2o Manchester—Moseley Arms, Monday and Tuesday, ditto. 10, 20 Bradford—Mr. Mason's Office, Sharebroker, W enne°— ditto. Huddersfleld—Mr. Moore's Office, Thursday, 25th dithl diticL„ Leeds—Royal Hotel, Friday and Saturday, 26th and 27t London—Castle and Falcon, Aldersgate-street, Tuesday' September, and Wednesday, Ist October. O CP Rotherham, Sept. 13, 1845. FRANCIS PARSER , S ect' VALL ° NOTTINGHAM, EREWASH • . AMBER GATE, AND MANCHESTER RAILI," 1845, Company's Offices, Nottingham, Sept. I,3tu ' n C e ; The Committee of Management of the Notti ngiuD o:ge , wash Talley, Amber Gate, and Manchester Railway have to apprise their shareholders that an arrangement 0; concluded for the amalgamation of this Company with 11) ,, e n ' cli3°' ham, Vale of Belvoir, and Grantham and Nottiughou' • Railway Comaies. And that ar p ran n gements have also been entered into g tr b oeS chase of the Nottingham and Grantham Canals, upon tern , ' se f to the several Companies. IS t be lo o The details of the arrangement by which share s vo itio4 Company will be appropriated to shareholders of the Erewash Valey, Amber Gate, and Manchester Railway ~od Douro exchange fox shares now held by them, will be adjusted an nicated without delay. ' Neacing,"%l9 The Directors do not doubt that an agreement, ern. — nso tended and rich a field of enterprise, in which the no , ,of ",0! body will have the co-operation of the landed propricia% coln e c shire, Nottinghamshire, and Lincolnshire, and a Power—coline tion of canal companies, and of the railway Interests in , therewith, will have the entire satisfaction of their sharcra.ool. TAOS. BISHOP, Yice - _, JNO. GOUGH, secret,„,., NOTTINGHAM, VALE of BELV•-• n Ise so' 05 , GRANTHAM RAILWAY. a.nt. ' Company's Offices, Nottingham, ve le 0„p The Committee or Management of the Nottingham , ' The ir s' „ i r voir, and Grantham Railway Company, have to appris e `:; D algfr,e holders that an arrangement has been concluded for tion of this Company with the Nottingham, Erewash Vo le ' Gate, and Manchester, and Nottingham and ItO t°n Co mpanies. t> 4 And that arrangements have also been entered into forb chase of the Nottingham and Grantham Canals, npon terms to the several Companies. the 0 11 The details of the arrangement by which shares in - „„a55i1 , ,,,,t1 pany will be appropriated to shareholders in the 1Cot",'"; or sry,y of Belvoir, and Grantham Railway Company, in exchang e o ut a e ,s , now held by them, will be adjuited and communicated ifl a '" cie g so The Directors do not doubt that an agreement ra l ; r 4o o i tended and rich a field of enterprise, in which the new'Y ofv • orY 0 10 1 body will have the co-operation of the landed proPric r f e i col 1 ,1 shire, Nottinghamshire, and Lincolnshire, and a Pow e i D yerp i ytit Boa of canal companies, and of the leading railwaf of connexion therewith, will have thO entire satisfactio.. • shareholders. •,..-Cllo° THOS. BISHOP, 14 to y, THOS. JACKSON, N ll l ' OTTINGHAM and BOSTON R AIL ig 0 14 Company's Offices, Nottingham, SeP t ' e nill t sl o The Committee of Management of the Nottingham Railway Company have to apprise their shareholde...;.o arrangement has been concluded for the amalgarnatio n f pany with the Nottingham, Erewash Valley, Amber G . r„, cheater, and Nottingham, Vale of Belvoir, and Grantham fr t : 1 11; 0 Companies. And that arrangements have also been entered iniv i iettl . t, De' chase of the Nottingham and Grantham Canals, by o° , o ter' Vale of Belvoir, and Grantham Railway Companies, nr" 01 neficial to the several Companies. The ao", The details of the arrangement by which shares in tm pany will be appropriated to shareholders in the 1 0 `7 1 ,, Of' Boston Railway Company. in exchange for shares now will be adjusted and communicated without delay ~,,, e i The Directors do not doubt that an agreement . ein br . B 7o,,c itu D ' tended and rich a field of enterprise, in which the new l Y, body will have the co-operation of the landed proprieMn 1 co° 111 cor veep shire, Nottinghamshire, and Lincolnshire ; and Pm .„ r ests tion of canal companies, and of the leading railway nexion therewith, will have the entire satisfaction of holders. B. ° HR R OU K II B° , N s ee' Creutel.- 00 1 ISLE OF AXHOLME, GAINSBOII°,..IO and GOOLE RAILWAY, WITH EXTENSIO N T 0 ..4 (Provisionally Registered.) c„.,scripill i The Letters of Allotment having been issued, the Do, tb: 0 ,11 4 requested to pay their deposits on or before SATVlD' e m l e d instant, to any of the following bankers, by whom a PL7010 45 , will be given, in exchange for which scrip will be °_,,"" ac tioa pir vered (as mentioned in the letters of allotment), on pro., 01,01 c,rtiflcate of execution of the Parliamentary Contrit e " 01 scribers' Agreement, which may be signed at the times mentioned in the letters. 111 1 IVO BANKRS. London—The London and Wes t minster Bank, and i - tg jpa- Lincoln and Gainsborough—The Lincoln and LindscY Goole—The York City and County Bank Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co. Liverpool—Messrs. Moss and Co. Doncaster—Sir W. Cooke, Bart., and Co. Manchester—The Manchester and Salford Bank nil o r, Hull—Messrs. Harrison, Watson, and Co. , the • t t , The Provisional Committee beg respectively to inform rous applicants who have ,not received letters of allotal e t' t , of S JI I great demand for shares in this Company, and the necessico+ de re regard to the claims of parties locally interested, have r impossible to corn ly with their applications. SCOTT and TAHOURDIN, 25, Lincoln's Inn-fleld4l S'sP" ton H. DAWSON, Epsworth, Dated 18th Sept., 1845. F .- - IO BIRMINGHAM AND LIG RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 300,0001., in 15,000 Shares of 20/. eac . ,..., 11 ' OP" Deposit 2/. 2s. per share, in acco r d ance with the stanw"' 4 .1 0 the Houses of Lords and Commons. fi ber No call to be made until the Act i s o bt a i ne d —and no S u flop, answerable beyond the Amount of his SubscriP" PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Richard Spooner, E.e., 11I.1'. for Birmingham Geo. Frederick manta, Esq., M.P. for Birmingham The W Right Worshipful the Mayor of Birmingham Stenl4—.4lll4, Laurels, Ha H l an an d d s s w , o S r m th e , tr o r, o ' r dsalre tGeorgee unknsetUt.nEetsqt,.,Eph. ,The e William Jacot, Esq., New H am' Sutton Colfield H yde-par k ' John Godfrey Hudson, EER; St . ! tor of the London Central Term Georg e's-terrace' Comeelington,Nlawicks o,,Pri; George Turner, Esq., Hunton Hill, e's-terre., ton an tor of the South Staffordshire and the southaraP Railways Thomas Welch, Esq., Birmingham 51'‘' Charles Machin, Esq., Blythe House, Erdington, warwic.,,oo R. Fowler, Esq., Manchester-square, London, and P Bristol Lo ed° Samuel Phillips, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's park, F , Levant House, St. Helen's-place, London, merchant ,s 11 ), W. L. Whitmore, Esq., Director of the Great Western the Worcester ad South Wales Railways " Thos. Davies, Esq., n The Austens, Handsworth, Staffordshire David Barnett, Esq., merchant, Birmingham 120 Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, Birminif Smith Whilock, Esq., Birmingham John Boulton, Esq., Birmingham Bell Elcock Fletcher, Esq., M.D., Birmingham Thomas Bollman Upfll, Esq. Birmingham Edward Rabone, Esq., Smethwick Hall, Staffordshire " se Major Moore, Director of the Great I n di an Railway , Henry Coe Cope, Esq., Hungerford Park, Wilts, Dill at Hyderabad hea l •jloi tt William Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Ed g b as t on , BirMing o T. R. Wright, Esq„ Northampt on, Di rector of th e S° Snd Railway f v / Wworth , illiam Horatioam Harrison, Esq., Director of the Leiceste Southpt on, Manchester, and Oxford Junctionvi J. T. Walters, Esq., Rugeley „are' „il nee W. Drury Holden, Esq., 10, Green-str ee t, Grosvelle, Afgee 1 0v Locke Park Derbyshire ; Director o f th e Li c hfi e ld and Railway John Kempe Devonshire, Esq., Riv e r Dale Villa, Hampt on William Hoyden Watts, Esq., Birmingham fford al ' il6 J. Mee Mathews, Esq., Director of th e D er b ys hi re , Ste Manchester Railway Theophilus Richards, Esq., Edgbaston, near Birmingham hale Thomas Pemberton, Esq., Wharstone House, near 13 1 rm w " Capt. M`Dougai, Fir Grove, North Brixton Se p John Anderson, Esq., Honourable East India Comp ore Euston-place, Euston-square, London ;old I P'uf Sir William White, Di rec t or o f the Church of Englan d e Company Griffith Frith, Esq., Director of the Londonderry an d C Railway, &c., &c. John Johnson, Captain, R.N., Edgbaston, Birmingham George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham 0 1° Hercules Hailes Duncocks, Esq., Manor House, KemPe e Y' tershire William Edwards, Esq., A s t on , near Bi rmingham tie, Pita John George Norbury, Esq., Manchester House, AtherS te- aiir tor of the Tean and Do ve Valley and South Staffordshir e '— Geo. Frederick Gregory, Esq., Seacombe, Cheshire 010 , tames Russell, Esq. Endwood Court, Handsworth, Sta lia, ?,00 Thomas E. Davies, Esq., Benefield Bowe, near itirmingu Johnltussell, Esq., Mandsworth, Staffordshire to Lieutenant-Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, D. , r, ee v ds Manchester, Southampton, and Oxford J unc ti on , and Liverpool Railway rd oife Joshua Horton, Esq., "Etna Iron-works, Smethwick, Stag ° pfr Richard Underhill, Esq., Birmingham ho tel R. B. Williams, Esq., Director of the London and MAW els rect, the Leicester and Tamworth Junction, and the 14 Liverpool Railway Companies (With power to add to their number.) ACTING ENGINEER.—E. J. Maude, Esq., C.r.” JOINT SOLICITORS. J. Graham, Esq., 60, Moorgate-street, London. ~„", Richard Ford, Esq., 28, Essex-stre e t, St ran d, Lou"' err LOCAL AGENTS. Ja g Birmingham—W, H. Reece, Esq., New-street ; and C. 0 Esq., New-street. BANKERS. Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co., London. Messrs. Attwood, Spooner, and Co., Birminghlw" A t laceetr This short but very important Line of Railway will c°`" of L ' e. the nearest point on the Trent Valley Railway to the Citlhoste" field, and proceed throu g h a r i c h an d populous country, by 0 Sutton Coldfield, and Erdington, to the town of Birmingint ra „,; s , The length of the Line will b e on l y a b out sixteen In" '" glance at the map will suffice to show the very nu merou s 117 g, tages which this Railway offers. The projected " South IT vail 1 :0 way," from Manchester, joins or f a ll s i n t o th e Trent Valle., yip 4 just below Lichfield, and, proceedi ng a l ong th e Trent os y t til dire via Tamworth and Rugby, will form the shortest and - m „ oa route from Manchester to Landon, but will l eave Binningh 3- t iire' west, which can only be reached by the circuitous route Tamworth, a distance of twenty-five miles. will free 'l ett The proposed Birmingham and Lichfield Railway e r c,j tension of the South Union, North Staffordshire, and other I)_.a Railways, from Lichfield in a direct Line to Birmingham , to ; I ' save no less than nine miles in the twenty-five, and eons"' ,ret ~ shortest and,a ne between Manchester and Birmingliat h wised. As to the returns to be expe c ted f or th e cap it a l embar/t _A7 it aril; sufficient to mention, that in addition to the very large in c °, whic n i uo lug from the local passe nger an d goo d s t raff i c (the latter 0 . pi, very great, as most of the agricultural supplies of Birrning b i o ei‘o emporium of the Midland Cou n ti es , an d it s densely pont/ 11 1 0 a I ,;s bourhood, are derived from the vici n iti es o f, an d mus t pa,,,"„ r o le: D a Line), every passenger direct from M anc h es t er t o Birminge"„ of necessarily proceed along the projected R a il wa y, s h ou ld eithe r lines from Manchester to Lichfield be made. D A air This line will also form the nearest rou t e f rom Der lV , r North to Birmingham. P fd b The Capital proposed to be raised is 300,0001 ., in 15,000 S Do p 201. each. A deposit of 21. 2s. per Share will be required i ci ntt oo upon the allotment, to the credit of the Directors with tile; of the Company. • „ No call will be made until the Act of P ar li amen t s hall be r ce• t and power will be taken in the Act to a ll ow I n t eres t at 41. Pe_ si 9e ll . per annum, upon the amount of each c a ll, f rom th e d a te of P w ' er obl ° until the opening of the line, and Subscribers will not be B°' plc beyond the amount of their Shares. The Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contrile t ',:o ' ' 3 „ tP , shall contain a clause empowering the Directors to amalgam,,. 010", any other Railway now formed, or to be formed, to extend " 0 Branch Lines, or transfer, mortgage, or dispose of the pr es ' p roP e 4 dertaking for the benefit of the Company, as they may dee 1n ,,,,(1 1. !„i will be ready on the day fixed for the payment of deposit, c al i og`i be required to be executed when the bankers' receipts are e 2 ' if olO o f for certificates of Scrip ; and the shar e s o f any S u bscriber , default in the execution of those deeds within the time 111 ; o rfel u i.i1 which fourteen days' notice will be given, will b e absolutely r poll i uo No application for shares can be attended t o , u nless ite ccij e by a reference to a member of the Provisional Committee, n $ Solicitors, Agents, or a Banker. tug , ITV Forms of application for shares, copies of the pros Pee,„ o , _4l map of the line, may be obtained at the temporary eff l "" p • 11 ` t Company, 60, Moorgate - street, London ; from the Solicitor ~.ree Local Agents ; from Mr. B. B. Williams, 17, Thrc'grlorton.islesso, London ; Mr. W. H. Collis, 104, New-street, Birmingham Ludlow, Brothers ; and Messrs. Pownall and Worthingl e Teor/ j) ei pool ; Mr. John Barlow, Manchester ; M essrs. R o bi ns on all OP" Leeds ; Mr. Thomas Evans, 31 1 1s0111 -street, Bath ; Mess rs ' and Harrison, Leicester. BIRMINGHAM AND LICHFIELD RAILWA Y. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR MARE& L i c hfiel d the Provisi on al Committee of the Birmingham and 1 ' Railway Company. Q t r Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Share:o , e, each in the above Company; and I und er t a k e t o acc ept the the 6,", such smaller number as may be allotted to me, and to Pl,riDe" posit of `,/. 2s. per share thereon, a n d t o execu t e the Sa qp.l I. ..riia , i.elitary contract when required. Profession or Busiii,s, • . 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