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2 PROVISI ONALLY REGISTERED. G REAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT RAILWAY. By a Junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedford. Distance, 120 miles. Capital, 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 2'. 12s. 6d. per Share. ?Lament to the Standing Orders of the Home of Commons. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne The Lord Stephen Chietester, Ormeau, Belfaitc and Arnar and Navy Club, London Sir Robert Alexander, Bart., Charles-street, Manchester-squaro Vs William Twisden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction. and Lrewash "Valley Extension Railways Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and of the South and Midland Junction, and West Midlands Thallways lr John Osborn, Bart. Earl's-court, Brompton Sir John Key, Bart., 9,king's Arms -yard, Alderman of L 07141011, Di rector of the Manchester and Loudon, and of the Direot Liverpool and Leeds Railway •aptain Frederick Polhill, M.P. for Bedford Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.11., Director of the York and Lancaiter Railway tjor-General Thomas Morgan, Singleton-house, Torquay Major-General Wright, Royal Enzineers, Gloucester-place, Portman- square Ackroyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge, Otley, Director of the East and We York, Liverpool and LeeJs Direct, and Lectli and Carlisle thillways Thomas Al,,xander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and Trent Valley Continuation Railways Francis Rimes Alliott, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Amber. gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction, and one of the Provi,:lonal Committee of the Nottingham and Galnsborough Railway Companies Henry Ambler, Esq., wonted spinner And manufa2turer, Wetkinson hail, neir Halifax, areeter of the West Yorkshire Railway, and _ _ _ Liverpool awl Lee:l3 Direct Railway . C. H. Anflorson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Dirastor of the South "Midland Railway Gorge Ashlin, T 131., Director of the Ltverpool and Neweastle-npon- Tyne Railway Mel - rani Armitage, Esq., Huddersfield And Great Grimsby, Director of the :.lfamhester and Great arlmyby, and Neighley, HaMal and Huddersfield Junction Railways The Rey. Charics Edward Arrn:itrong. lienviworth Joha Ahmander iyic tneli, Ean., Brandon-cottage, Bristol, Director of the Oxi - rd. and Worcester Extension Railway Charles Bantimi, jun., Esq., Director of the Hall and Barnsley. and Leeds and Carlisle Railways Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-huazc, Broad-street, Director of the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railways William Banks, Esq , Honey-lane-mrxket, Director of the Manches ter and Rughy Direct Railway, via Ditacclesileld John Dyng Bant,s, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey Fe,chney Black, Esq, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc tor of the Italian and Austrian, and E>outh and Midland Junction Railways Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's-park, Hampstead, Director of the Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, .Ashton-under-Lyne, And Great Grimsby Railway Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq.,the Lodge, Upper Clapton Josiah Bun - owes, Esq., Castle-house, GDmersall, mar Leeds Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Brest Riding Junction Ikaiiway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft-house, near Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct RathVeY Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Selby Railway Dr. Brigstock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Rail way Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln, and G, - eat Luxemburg Ratravay John Blore, Esq., Tutbory, Director of the Tcan and Dove Valley, the Derby and Gainsborough, the Shropshire MilleraißailwaYs, &c. Job Bullivant, Esq., East Retford William Butt, Esq., Sandiacre, Derbyshire Robert Burton, Esq., merchant, Woodville, .Notts James Butlin, Esq , banker, West Field- tome, Rugby, Director of the Rugby and Huntingdon, and one of the Provisional Committee oi 'the Oxford and Birmingham Junction. Railway Companies mo lar ,: Biddle, Esq., merchant, Nottingham Richard 1.11:7 kin, Esq., merchant, Nottingham John Fillingh,:ll2 Bishop, Esq., merchant, Nottingham Thomas Butt, E 64., merchant, Nottingham Richard Bradley, Esq., Grantham, Direct or of the Amber-gate, Not tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway William Bradley. Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the Direct Western, and Isle of Ely and Lincolnshire Junction Railways John Fowler Burbidge, Esq., Mayor of Grantham, Director of the Amber-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway Jonathan Burton, Esq., mercha nt . Carrington, Nottinghamshire Director of the 'Nottingham and Gahmborough Railway William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., magimLrate, Hull, Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Leamington, ant: of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London John Carter, Ese., Knottingley Thomas Carter, Esq., Tanshclf, Magistrate for tir Borough of Pon tefract Charles CharnocNuEsq., Holmfield-house, near Ferrybridge Millis Coventry:l'aq., Director, of the South and Midland Junction, and Birminghant Extension Railways B. Clements, Esq., Lowudes-square, Director •f the Western Ja maica Railway Robert Cook, Esq., Elainsborongh, Director of the Manchester, Mid land, and Great Cltimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Ax holtne,,end the ebeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junction ItfliWayS J. Cottam, Esq., East Retford John Cutts, Esq., Little Bardfield-hall, near Braintree, Essex s James Director of the Paris and Strasburg, Southampton, Manche li ster, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, and Mac. clesileld Railways W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Henry Sherrard. Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street John Catmt, Esq.., Ncktingham Thomas ?dark Caz ter, Esq., Woodgreaves-house, near Wakefield, Di rector of the Maqchecter, lluddersfleld, and Great Grimsby Direct Railway George Augustus 11 amilton Chichester, Esq., Oakfleld, Donegal, and 15, Chesham-plact , Belgrave-square, Director of the Grand Wales Central, and Lomtan and Exeter Direct Railways William Champion, .I":sq., Worksop Cheetham,William merchant, Nottingham Nathan Cooper, Esq, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire Francis Dacre, Esq., Stratford, Essex George Dennis, Esq., Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys Jane _ tion Railway Joseph Dent, Esq., 161111 ton-hall, Wetherby, Magistrate for the North-west Riding of Yorkshire A. A. Davenport, Esq., rirector of the Oxford and Worcester Exten sion, and Worcester Junction Railways Joseph L. Davenport, 1.:8a., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway John Alleock Di ton, Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li verpool and Leeds Direct Railway Richard Dransfield, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Hallways Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway M a tthew Dawson, Esq., Pontefract William Dawson, Esq., !Wakefield, Director of the Peterborough, Wisbeach, Lynn, and Boston, and the Sheffield, Wortley, Silk stone, and Wakefield Railways John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New-hall, by Neston, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Birmingham, Oxford, and Reading Railways Henry Dunn, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Manchester, Hudders field, aid Great Grimsby Railway Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey- mouth Railway John Elliott, Esq., Townhead-house, Rochdale Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Managing Direc tor of the York and Lancaster Railway Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Ex- tension Railway Solomon Foster, Esq., 3fansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans field, and Midland Junction Railway Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shef- field Railway John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London derry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways William Fisher, Esq., Amcotts-house, near East Retford James Fotherglll, Esq., merchant, Nottingham Richard W.Fitzpatrick, Esq., barrister-at-la,w,Gloncester-road, Hyde- park-gardens George Green, Esq., Pontefract James Gilbertson, Esq., Alderman, and Magistrate for Hertford William Gibson, Esq., Glasgow R. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneatox Railway Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapskie William Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Henry Swan Graves, Esq., Ely Bank-lodge, Halifax John Gully, Esq., Ackworth-park, Ackworth Wiliam Gibbs, Esq., Camberwell, Director of the South Metropolitan Cemetery Company William Gill, Esq., Riclnnond, Yorkshire, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Northumberland and Lancashire Railways John Godber, Esq., lincknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire, Director of the Amber-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction, and Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Companies Thomas John Green, Esq., Mayor of Bedford Richard Hall. Esq., Carnarvon-hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways R. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash Valley Extension and West Midland Railways W. H. Halpin, Esq., Director of the Ti ing Reading, and Basing stoke, and Sheßeld and Macclesfield Railways Robert Hull, Esl.. M.D., Norwich Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds John George Hammack, Esq., Director of the Direct W e stern, and the litetropO litan Junction Railways William Hepwcath, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lieutenantaad J.P. for the West RiciZng of Yorkshire John Mason Flepwm th, Esq., Eden-place, Ackworth, J.P. for th e West Riding of York sh.lre J os h u a Hepworth, Esq., B o gerthorpe-hall, Badsworth Thomas H e el s , Esq., Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lanca shire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire North Eastern, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways John Dip Imes, Esq., Eas t RetfOrd Robert ilerries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, :Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Director of the Rugby, Derby , and Charles Holbrooke, Esq. D erb y , Manchester John Howard, Esq., Royal Foundry, Redford Thotna3 Haigh, Esq., Wakefield, late High Constable of Wakefield John Hardy, jun., Esq., banker, Grantham, Director of the Amber. gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway John Harris, Esq., Springfleld-house, near Bedford Charles Higgins, sen., Esq. St. Cuthbert's, Bedford Geerge Higgins, Esq., Bedford The Rev. Charles Walter Hudson, Rectory, Saundby, near Gains- borough George Hurst, Esq., Bedford John Midge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and DI-- rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway IVm. Empson Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Director of the York and Hull Railway Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holder!) ess-house, near Hull, Magis trate for the Ea Riding of York and Borough of Hull, and Di rector of the Liverpe:d and Leef,s, and Hull and Barnsley Railways John Jameson, Esq., Honey lane-market Jameson, Egg., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct :always Win. Jones Johnson, Esq., Bedford Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thornaq Reginsll Kemp, Esq., Director of Use Blythe and Churnet ValleyS, or "Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways Jeremiah Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Grimsby, Director • of the Manchester and Great Grimsby, and Ksighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield J unction Railways George K'ppax, Esq., Ordsall-villa, near East Retford Mr. Samuel Knight, Pontefract George Lawton, Esq., Ditchley's, Essex, Director of the Chepstow, forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway IL C. Leahy, Esq., St. JallieS'S-Mllare Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London Captain Henry Leech, Bedford Charles Denton Leech, Esq., Bury St. Edmunds Williain Ley, Esq,, 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Direetor of . . _ the Reading and Reigate Railway L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Western Jartalea Ralway P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo an.i Shannon, the Ips wich and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale Railway James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde-park-square, Director of the Scottish Western, and the Direct Western Railways John 'Art, Esq., Wood-street, Cheapside Jamei - teeming, Esq., Bradford, Director cf the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and Keighley, Halifax. and Huddersfield Junction Railway Samuel Lovell, Esq., merchant, Bedford Captain J. P. Macdougall, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpool, and Isle of Man Railways John-B. Mann, Esq., Leeds Thomas ilack:At Massey, Esq., Newark•upon•Trent, and Dedrord square, Hyda-park Thomas 3PTurk, Esq., Hull Williaut Mee, Esq., East itetford W. R. Mesham, E sq ., V .D., Bedford tel,ert Mellingten, Esq Onicall-house, near East Rettbnl, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Moorhouse Eel. l a rie-ville, Knottingloy, a Provisional Director of the Sheffield, Peter, Morrison, Esq., Dlrectorruof'fls;t'i t a c t l a a t i s N l ,l3 ll k l e i n d e la id ru i ls la J il ul a c y tion, and e. Lyndon and Birmingham Extension James Museroft, Esq., Pontefract, liagistra7 , 7 Pro visional Director of the Oxford and W'orCreatthere Borough,te, sto P a r i o vi Chester Junction Railway George Mackintosh, Esq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman John- 31anwaring, Esq., Pateley-b r id ge, Yorkshire, Director- -ihe, York and Lancaster Railway Burnley, Director o f th e Liverpool Ord Massey, Esq., Hawkes-house, and Leeds Direct, the Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, and Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield .Tunction R.silways Thomas Micklethwaite, Esq., Wakefteld :iharles Middleton, Esq., Nottinghampaik Joseph Nftail, anehester, Director of the Manchester and Southampton, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways William Joseph Nash, Esq., Bedford . John Norton , Esq., eorn's-s -aare Westminster, and Moat. 1, St. „ q house, - Brolitwooa, Director of the Great Western Direct Rau. R ay, &c. Robert Newla:id, Esq., liempson-house, Bedtorabire Thewat Icorth, Lgq., 31q0r NOttiDia*Di 4 ...• • 4, THE SITN, LONDIIN, WEDNESDA EVEN f Yll, OCTOrtNit 15 1845 Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation] and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South Midland and Oxford Extension Railways John Ostler, Esq., Director of the nal and Barnsley, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D., Pontefract George Osgood, Esq., Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn Charles Frederick Palgrave, Esq., Bedford Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North W. Perfect, Esq., Monkhill, near Pontefract John Phillips, Esq., Mayor of Pontefract George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield-house, Russell-square William Patterson, Esq., Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire Robert Power, Esq., Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance Society Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Birming ham Direct, Leicester, Iron and Dove Valley Railways Edward Rawlins, Esq., Bedford Eobert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah-house, Enfield, Managing Director of the York and Lancaster Railway dames Robson, Esq., Tanglelf, Mazistrate for the Borough of Pon . tefract Fredericl Redden, Esq., Bedford Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymoath Junction, the ring, Reading, and Basinzstoke, and the Direct Western Railway Ge.orge Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Bs; ;ley Junction, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Waketeld and Harrogate, the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Thirsk Junc tion Railways _ _ . Thomas Rontlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railways . . Edward Sankey, Esq., Canterbury Henry Savaze, Esq., Director of the Irving, Beading, and Basing stoke Railway Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet and Blythe Valleys Railways J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Dlroct, and of the Leeds, York, and Midland Railways William Sloane, Esq., Wim2olo-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the South Midland Junction Railway, &c. &c. George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury-hall, Sheßixld, Director of the Liver,)ool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Lecds,Director of the Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways Joseph Smithson, Esq , Kir'Gess Mills, near Halifax John Sanders, Esq., Bedford J. W. Striven, Esq., Throatleuest, near Otley, Director of the Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Railway Richard Shaw, Esq., Tulledge, near Burnley, Director at the Eder ley, Halifax, end Huddersfield Junction Italics , * James Henry Simpson; Esq., M. 8., Pontefract Joshua Annable Skidmore, Esq., St. John's-place, Wakefield William Starkey, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Sheffield, Wort ley, Silkstone, and Wakefield, and the Lecis and York Railways Stewart, Esq., Horbury, near Wakefield George Eaton Stanger, Esq., Nottingham Samuel Herrick Surplice, Esq., Beeston, Notts John Streets, Esq., merchant, Spring Field-house, Sandlacre, Derby shire William Surplice, Esq., Nottingham Samuel James Sykes, Esq., Hull James Templer, Esq., Brixtoa-rise, Director of the Derby, trttoxcter, ant Stafford Itailtsay Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., banker, Bedford John Best Trapp. Esq., IZolforl Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull, DI- rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway Thomas Turney, Esq., Park-lodge, near Halifax William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull Joseph Francis Tempest, Esq., F.S.A., the Mount, Ackworth Charles Vickers, Esq., Pontetract, Director of the Manchester, Hud dersfield, and Great Grimsby Railway Wm. Watson,Esq , Daybrook, Nottinghamshire, Director of Amber gate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway Samuel Warburton, Esq., Hunslet, Leeds, Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway The Rev. Richard Whitelock, 3f.A.., Saddleworth, Magistrate for the West hiding of Yorkshire Joseph Whitaker, Esq., Itamselale, Nottinghamshire William White, Esq., Bedford John Williams, Esq., M.D., Magistrate for Yorkshire, Director of the York, Hull, and East and West Riding Junction Railway Abraham Wood, Esq., Rochdale, F.R.C.S. Joseph Wyles, Esq., Graotham, Director of the Amber-gate, Net ting,ham, and Boston, anti Eastern Junction Railway David Wheatcroft, Esq., llueltland-hollow, Derbyshire, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railways William Williams, Esq. Royal Foundry, Bedford Charles Waite, Esq., 3, ' Old Burlington-street, and Willesdon-house, Middlesex John Ilrheelton. Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford The ltev. H. Burdett Worthington, Bedford G. N. Wright, M.A. Coed y Celym, Denbighshire, and Lonsdale square. London, M.A., of the Thames Valley Railway George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax George Witt, Esq., 1.R.5., Director of the Bedford, London, and Birmingham Railway, and Aldermand of Bedford George Gillett, Esq., 2, Grsovenor-gate, Hyde-park (With power to add to their number). ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—Sir John Macneil, LL.D., and I.R.S. ACTING Em(amisza—William Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E. LONDON SOLICITORS. J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court. Owen Gray, Esq. 1 J. B. Midge, Esq. 25 ' Great Tower-street. LOCAL SOLICITORS. Leeds—Charles Naylor, Esq., and Pontefract--Henry John Coleman, Esq. Rotherham—John Oxlay, Esq., and John Wright Potter, Esq. East Retford—Messrs. 3lee, Rigsby, and Mee. Nottingham—Messrs. Fox and Butlin. Oakham—Henry Hough, Esq. Kettering—Thomas Marshall, Esq. Bedford—Ezra Eagles, Esq. SECRETARY —J. B. Owens, Esq. PARLIAMENTARY AGENT —J. M. Widdicombc, Eaq. BANKERS. Londsn—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co. Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Company Doncaster The Yorkshire Banking Company. Pontefract The object of this railway is to connect, in the most direct course, the impbrtant and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds with the metropolis, the want of which has long bean fdt, and is too univer sally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under this con viction that this important undertaking, aster several minute exa minations of the country through which it will pa=s, has been brought forward. Thtproposed line will commence at the jnnetion of the Manchester and Ueda, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wakefield, and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern Coun ties Railway, at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of that Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parliament), and by thus availing itself as far as possible of the ex sting railways, will complete the most direct and least expensive trunk line, from London to Leeds, York, and Ilull. It will pass in its route within an available distance of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster, Rotherham, East Redford, Nottingham, Newark, Grantham, Melton Zdowiiray, o:ahem, 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 limits), as also from the absence of any direct communication for the conveyance of passengers and merchtuidise. By the construction of this railway, railway communication to London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by means of the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and Nottingham, (by the Nottingham and Lincoln line(, and to Sheffield and Gains borough, )by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much shorter route than by any existing railways. . _ . . . . Independently of the advantages offered to the towns in the seve ral counties through which this line will pass, the line in Lisle con sidered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, is sufficient to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic between these two places would produce such a rearm 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 caw be presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct communication 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 (by the York and North Midland, and Great North of England Itailwaj a) with the metropo lis, which would be considerably shorter than the accommodation offered by any other company ; and when cost of construction is con sidered, there cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given to the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway. The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a branch line with the East and West India Docks on the river Thambs, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 999 years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks, which arc capable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, to4ctlier with wharlh adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods front all parts of the world can take place, is a most important fea ture in favour of the direct communication from the manufacturing towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway and, by branch railways to the main trunk line, through which all goods from the manufacturing districts could be conveyed at once to these warehouses for shipment, thereby avoiding the present delay and expense of cartage, and in reality establishing an almost direct and invaluable connexion between the rivers Clyde and Thames. It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties,' that the w ,rks will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good, and t lett 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 raff :uncut is obtained, and afterwards only to the amount of their subscriptions. It is ptoposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and also to extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, in the event of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford. BROKERS. London—Messrs. Marten and Heseltitia, 9, Finch-lane Leeds—Messrs. Hoppe and Co. Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons Bradford —fir. Josiah Seholefleld Edinburgh-111r. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square G REAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT RAILWAY. The Managing Com m itt ee of this Railway hereby give notice that they are now Proceeding in the Allotment of the Shares in the above undertaking, and that all the Letters of Allotment will be issued in the ensuing week. 11. Temporary Offices, Adelaide-place, J. OWEN, Secretar y . London-bridge. WE EAT WESTERN, BRN i'kuitt), and CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAI LWAY, from the vicinity of West Drayton, through Hounslow, Brentford, Ham mersmith, Kensington, Chelsea, and Westminster, to a Central Terminus, near Charing-Cross. (Provisionally Registered.) Offices, 53, Charing-cross. Capital, in 42,500 Shares of 201. each. Share. 85DO,I1e0pOolsytt 21. 2s. per PRO VISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Earl of Devon Vernon Abbott, Esq., 70, Gower-street I R I I y n sl u r u n t ct l fo r n , CEomsqp.,anDyirector of the Thames Embankment Benjamin Johu Armstrong. Esq.. Southall, Magistrate for 311dcllosek, John Auldjo, Esq., Noel House, Kensington Henry Pratt Barlow, Esq., 24, Kensington-square Edward Oliver Benson, Esq., Hounslow William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Director of the That - nos Embankment Railway Junction Company Thomas Braman, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Ireicester and Tam worth Railway Sir John Macpherson Brackenbury Sir Archer Denman Crott, Bart., Director of the Thames Ev.tbank ment Railway Junction 'Zompany Major John T. Croft, ter Railway Deputy Chairman of the Chester and Mancha- John Chevalier —bbold,:Esq., Chairman of the Bastern t r laioll Bu ll way WI:111m Cumming, Esq., Worth Bank, Regent's Park Gcerge Cooper, Esq. Brentford ' George James Stred4ick Camden, Esq., Hounslow Charles Downes, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway J. Fisher, Esq. Isleworth Major David Fitzgerald, Valentin, county of Kerry Captain Forbes, R.N., Forest, Windsor Sir Andrew Peliatt Green, 1C..C.11. James Montgo-aer,y, Esq., Bret:ll'4rd John BONVY'*2 Nichols, Esq., Hamuncrsinitle The Hon, Qtdonel Phipps, Norwood -„roan William Simpson Fitter, Esq., Director of the South and Midi wed Railway He:ary Pownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow, Magistrate for Middlesex John F. Pecnall,Es/., Spring-grove, Hounslow Colonel Reid (qd Life Guards), Bulstrode Park Thomas Be.ry Rowe, Esq., Brentford John C'Jysgarne Sim, Esq., No. 9, Clifton-place, Hyde Park-gardens M.aj•-.r Jelf Sharp, .Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Middlesex, Deouty-Chairman of the Thames Embankment Raillyay Junction Company Henry Webb Smith, Esq. Hounslow William Spooner, Es.q., Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Railway int!nw Spottiswoode, Esq., Chairman of the Irish North Midland Railway John Stewart, Esq., Frederick Thompson, Esq., 20, Kensington-square RoPort Richard Tighe, Esq., Bank, Windsor lisktry Tuffnell,Esq., M.P. (With power to add to their number.) ENOINMER—Thomas Page, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Wilkinson and Cobbold, 7, Lincoln's Inn-fieldB William Sim, Esq., 8, Kind's Bench-walk, Temp:to. RANKERS. PARLIASIENT - A -7 1 :- " AG ENT3. Messrs. Hugh Inns Cameron and Ge ll orge rialu,lB, Parliament-street. Szca-res.if—licitry Moreing, Esq. Applications for shares, la th s subjoined form, may be made, addressed to the Provisional Committee, at the Offices of the Coln pang, 53, -Charing-cross, to the Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents, and to the following agents and sharebrokcrs :--Measz s. Carter and Whitehead, 61,A, Threadneedle -street ; Mr. 11. J. Willtanix, 80, Old ..I;roact-street, London; Messrs. Bradley and Co., Manchester; Mr. IS. R. Pemberton, and Messrs. H. Davis and Co., Lieverpo. Messrs. ;3r. , Lun e LIMN, BAItQl; 2 40§10. Cilantrtil and Doyes, Leeds; insau and Earle, Hull; Mmrs. Bu,lanan and Aitken, Glasgow; and Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York, of whom prospectuses may be obtalued. No applications for Shares in this Company will be received which do not contain a reference to one of the Provisional Committee, the Sharebrokers, Officers of the Company, or a Banker. FORM OF APPLICATION FOlt SHARES. To the Provisional Directors of the Great Western, Brentford, an Central Terminus Junction Railway Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me flares of 201. each in the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or any lesser number that may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per share thereon, and to sign the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract when required. Nome in full • . •• • • •• • • •• • Residence Trade or Profession • • •• • • .. . • • . Date ... • • • • ..... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •'• • • Reference In full .. BEAT WESTERN, BRENTFORD, and CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY. Offices, 53, Charing-cross. CHAIRMAN—The EA AL of DEVON. Notice is hereby given that no further Applications for Shares in this Company will be received after SATURDAY. October 18. By ordir, HENRY ➢IOREIXO, Secretary. TUE AVON and SEVERN VALLEY RAIL WAY, from RUGBY to GLOUCESTER, Connecting' Leamington and the whole of the Midland and North Eastern Counties with Cheltenham, Gloneester, Bristol, and the South of England. ' (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,000,0001., In 50,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. No further call will he made antil au Act of Parliament is obtained, and no party will be liable beyond tin amount of his shares. PROVISIONAL COMXITTEE. The Right Hon. thCLor4l„.Be.auelerc, 8, Chegham-place, Belgrai-e- square The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pultcney, Parliament-street, London, Chairman of the York and Lancasttr, and Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railways _ . The lion. Captain Evans Freke; Grenadier Guards, 3, Belgrave- • square The Hon. Captain Evans Freke, Life Guards, 3, Belgrave-square Sir Montague John Cholmeley. Bart., Easton-hall, Lincolnshire Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Director of the Chepstow,:Forest of Dean, and Gloucester, and the South and Midland Junction Railway William Hughes Hughes, Eal., F.S.A., F.L.S., Alderman of Lon don, lath M.P. for Oxford, Chairman of the Erewash Valley Ex tension, the Leek and Macclesfield, the Great Western, Southern and Eastern Counties, and of the Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, Rhaubon and Vale of Llangollen Railways William Bradley, Esq., Manor-oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Cam bridge and Lincoln Extension, and the Lincoln, York, and Leeds Junction Railways . Benjarnin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hydepark-street, and Brookes' Club, St. James's, Dire - ztor of the West Midland, and Manchester and Southampton itailway4 Villiers C. Villiers Surtees, Est., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Director of the Newcastle, Durham, awl Lancashire Railway William Lloyd Caidecot, Esq., 6, Laura-place, Bath Breynton, Esq., Montpellier, Cheltenham, and Temple, London, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth, and other Railways IL 11. Dancocks, Esq., the Manor-house, Kempley, Gloucestershire, Director of the Blratingharn, West Bromwich, and Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction Railways James Maurice Stdpton, Esq., R.N., Walmer-hall, near Tewkesbury, Chainnan of the Chamber of Commerce at Gloucester, and Vice- Consul of Russia at that port Mehard Hodges Carter, Esq., Gloucester, late Mayor of the City of Gloucester, and Deputy-Chain - hart Of the Chepatoly, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Railway • Samuel Hitch, Esq., 31. D., Gloucester Charles F. Thornley, Esq., mereha, it, Bristol _ _ . Cornelius Brady, Warwickshire Paris Dick, Esq., M.D., Forthampton, Tewkesbury George Smith, Esq., Prestbury, near Cheltenham Thomas Avery, Esq., Gloucester Caleb Trotter, Esq., ditto Arthur 11. -Jenkins, Esq., Alderman of Gloucester Directors of the Eau - aril L. Kendall, Esq., merchant, ditto Worcester, Hare- Robert Heanc, Esq., ditto ford,and Glouces- Charles Walker, E.. q., ditto I ter Railway Henry Fox, Esq., ditto Edward -J._ Woxlhou3e, Esq., ditto, . _ _ John La. - Ids, Esq., Abbot's-coart, Twyning and Tewkesbury Aaron Gool.l Bilsome, Eiq., Forest of Dean, Director of the East and Neat of England, and the Worcester and South Wales Railways John George Norbury, Esq., Great Cumberland-street, Hyde-park, and Mancetter-houle, Atherstone, Director of the Tean and Dove South Staffordshire, and Dovor and Bristol Railways Kensington Lewis, Esq., Worcester-park, Surrey, and Stratford place, Director of the Midland Counties, and the Cheltenham, Ox ford, and Brighton Junction Railways William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sitnlaiiy, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth, and South Staffordshire Junction Railways Robert H. Shomburgk, Esq., New Kensington, Surrey, Chairman of the Barbados General Railway George Frederic Greg ory, Esq., geacombe, Cheshire, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire, the Grand Junction and Midlands Union, and Dever and Bristol Railways John Campbell Dickers, Esq., Newhall, Cheshire, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and the Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Junction Railways George Unett, Esq., the Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Director of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester, and Dover and Bristol liailw:lys Walter Unett, Esq., Captain Si Light Dragoons, Director of the Dover and Bristol, and Grand Trunk Railways Major White, Pall-mall; London, Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Lewis llC)ilinami, Esq., Berkshire, and Inner Temple, London, Director of the 'Nottingham and, South Staffordshire, and the Dover and Bristol Railways Thomas Wakefield, Esq., London, Director of the Dover and Bristol Railway Edward Augustus Lamb, Esq., Westfield, Battle, Sussex, Director e the Staffordshire, and Shropshire, and Dover and Bristol Railways William Byron); Esq., Oldham, Director cf the Oldham Districts, the London Bristol and South Wales Direct, the Cheltenham, Oxford, and London, the Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Railways William Caldwell, Esq., Ince-hall, Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the Lancaster and York, and the Staffordshire Potteries Railways Henry Taylor, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and the York and Lancaster, and other Railways Charles Collins, Esq., Caldwell-hall, Worcesterrhire, and Adelaide place, London-bridge, Director of the houthern and Eastern, and Northern Jamaica, and the Irish West Coast Railways John Bird, Esq., Dimas Mowddy, North Wales W. 11. Wat's, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the Lincoln and Great Grimsby, the Dover and Bristol, and the Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction Railways Edward Shilion, Esq., math-cottage, Ilandsworth, Staffordshire George EFivrarclx, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Binningham Lichfield, and Manchester, and the Eirmingham, Wcstbromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall ItaUways Thomas Ilyrtlin, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the York and Lancaster, the Liverpool and Bolton Direct, and the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways Henry Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square, Director or the London and Exeter, and other Railways W. Drury Holden, Esq., 10, Green-street, Grosvenor-square. and Locko-park, Derbyshire, Director of the Lichfield and Macclesfield Railway Capt. Gould, Charles-street, St. James's • Samuel Kempson, Esq., Little Sutton, near Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham, Westbrorawieh, Weduesbury, and Walsall Railway Edwin Smith, Esq., 51; Great Ormond-street, London, Director of the Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railway Robert Grove, Esq., Edgbastom, Birmingham, Director of the Bir mingham, Westbromwich, Wedneshury, and Walsall Junction Railway. ENGINEEIL SOLICITORS. Messrs. Lewis and Ford, 23, Essex-street, Strand, London W. H. Reece, Esq., Birmln,gham.; LOCAL SOLICITORS. Messrs. Ilenn, Rugby William Tibbits, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon Anthony Sproule, Esq., Tewkesbury. BAraas—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co : , Clcmcnt's-lane, London SECRETABY—IIey Brookc3, Esq. The proposed railway will commence at Rugby, on the London and Birmingham Railway, the terminus of the Midland Counties and Trent Valley Railways, and the paint to which several other projected railways converge, and will proceed through or near to Leamington, Warwick, Stratford-on-Avon, Evesham, Tewkesbury, and Cheltenham, to Gloucester. The length of the line will be. about 56 miles. The advantages that will result from the construction of this lime are numerous and highly important, and such as cannot fail to secure a very large amount of local l and through traffic, and a highly-re muneratiVo return upon the capital Invested. By means of existing anti proposed railway s, it will form a complete chain t f railway com munication between flu whole of the midland and north-eastern counties ofEngland, the populous cities and towns before-named, and the southern and western districts, and thus bring Leicester, Not tingham, Newark, Lincoln, Gainsborough, Great Grimsby, and Hull, into direct communication with the favourite and fashionable spas of Leamington and Cheltenham, the richly-prolactive and far-tamed Yale of Eirshain, and the seaports of Gloucester, Bristol, Plymouth, and Fal!nouth, and those of South Wales. The Inhabitants and visitors of the much-frequented watering places of Leamington and Cheltenham, trill thus obtain a direct line between those resorts, instead Of the present circuitous route through Birmingham, affording that facility of intercommunication which has long been ardently desired ; and it will also afford the utmost fa cility of access to the innumerable visitors who, attracted as well by the beauty of the scenery as the memory of Shakspeare, annually resn't to Stratford-on-Avon. To those passengcra from the east and north-east, direct to Glou- Gloucester, the line from Tewkesbury, cutting off the angle of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway to Chelteultam, will afford a great accommodation, and a saving in distance of at least eight miles, besides the delay of the stoppage at Cheltenham. At Tewkesbury it will also form a junctlen with the proposed line from that place to Malvern, affording the Most direct communication to the numerous visitors to the magnificent scenery and invigorating atmosphere of the celebrated Malvern -hills. To the inhabitants of the ancient and populous borough of Tewkes• bury, this portion of the proposed line will prove immensely adVarn. tageona ; situated within ten miles of the important pity and port of Gloucester, they have nevertheless to travel by the present railway route nearly twice that distance, an Inconvenience which has already materially affected the trade, and prejudiced the interests of the town, The proposed line,- running close to the town, will remove this great incon - , enienee, and restore its trade to its former state of prosperity. The valtte of this line to the city and port lit unt%W.llttr Cannot be too highly estimated, as It will not billy Open to it imment e sources of traffic from the whnle or the eastern and north-eastern counties, but will very Materially lessen the distance between It and Birmingham, Wolve r h ampton, and South StoffordshireAffifikillg Gloucester still more securely the nearest and most tleeeoibitt butlbt for the Whole of that immensely productive inatilltattlitihg region , and It is impossible to conceive any prtket better calculated to advance the interests of Gloucester ) than one capable of effecting that. object. This line will also krill an important Junction tt , ttYtta the thittion acnhdestllerirmlnghtoll :find Midlands INOWitya, Mid tie Pistol And Gloucester hail ;,.aye and .4istlttlte the hieltVity fbi t 4, NO of the former, and taall the nOrtit-Oistekit '14 . iim.,4, td the proposed Man imd Southampton fiat* 4.1 . tiehenham ; and the through traffic from the bidet' imuit'u 'ae is expected to be very great., It will tint* hot the effect of connecting the ports of the eastern w i ll t i i t t i "1,1 e d " i an neigh-e, with those of the wes tern snit Settilitin ii b,, , t,,5t2k,1 ofdti-Ing the most dircet and elniitlkibilt At iiO3 Mitt t e " u "'t new markets hien initiefal tegititil lie i%lith Wales,.and of opening sew markets Ott ghee t4oi PrlvtNets of the fertile valleys of the Avon e a e n a d tt s4 4 4 nearlytos,ns through its Vhelv.e.bletTlti,Wthilet rolll e . a y r s , A, t,.. e r i, tp . Wed'. ,O i nd tilt 41 ieffitural districts of Warwickshire and Hey{.; , 1 the m eas ar y m o fa f eturing towris and ports of the north. construction, traversing, as It dots; tlitongli of the richest deactiptien ; and the ibealPet7.a.APilittilvailill4(citiodig:te?lgteufelizu•';tillnylihbree. very great in athittinii to the through must neCtesetrlly be very extensi traffic, which on such a line The Provisional Co,nmittee reserve to themselves the power to amalgamate with any other cotnpao7 . s to tbo Whult Of alt 1' paFt bf the line, and to vary or extend the ni l ._ . : 1 fled tn Isithalii di diMffilSii the capital accordingly, tr tietliitti elifiteltelit. il,sil be ,..l : o l 7t i e n d te b te y st th a e t Atheet rate of The capital propoited Its be raised Is 1,00 0,4100 t, ht shares of 201., til tile tapital dock, and upon Which it depOgit of 21. 2s. per s7tare must N paid upon allot ment, il t i h ty eir of r e t s h p e efuc s tr u li: b is ei s ti h i et i hi h i, tle e : r e s an T lo h w e i l t ia o b f cnt per anuttni a .. . e,,os t, and upon the re -11.4 front the date ot each pay went until the opening of the 41, per will c . be applie4 spective ea ._ line. Agreement and the Parliamentary Contract will be required: to be duly executed when the bankers' receipts are ex• actih, of whigit doe notice will lie given • 'a id b y pttsuhls n't• •,, • akin"' deteult in due execution of and the depoSsta 1, t and Parliamentary Contract within the the Sts scribers' Agnomen will be absolutely forfeited. ch T an h g e ed ga f b o s r c e r e ib r e ti l ft: ntos of - i time to be ihnited bysuch notice, t eg..; Solicitors, or the Secretary, at the line, may be obtained from the i .t Strand, London, or from 2.1 Essex-street, ret , Offices of the Company, ~ - ~ kers ; but no application will be Forms of amilication fbr shares, prospectuses:; us ~. and a snap of the any or the undermentioned Shaabro f • nee to one of the Provi by a re ele attended to unless accompanied London —Mr. A. Sym, 7'okenhouse-yard Birmingham -31r. W. IL Collis, New.stroet e atonal Committee, the ."Solicitors, or a Banker. Leamington —Mr- Eliezer Edwards, Bvltbrd- str e e t et • Bath—Mr. T. E. MilzOnl Gloucester-- Bristol— Stratford-on-Avon—Mr. Bolton Liverpool—Messrs. rownal and Worthington, and Mr. Willlanl Red Manchester—Mr. John Barlow; Messrs. Cardwell and Son Leeds—Messrs. Robinson and Farley Leicester—Messrs. Elgood and Harrison. TIIE AVON AND SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Avon and Severn Valley Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me shares of 201. each in the above Company; and I hereby undertake to ac cept the same, or any smaller number, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share thereon, ay s a to execute the Parliamentary Con tract and the Subseribers:„kgreement when required. Dated this, day of , 1545. Name In full •••• .. . ....... ••• • • • • Residewe• ••• • • • • ... •.. • • • ••• • • • . . Place of Business .. • • • • • ..... .. • • • • Trade or Profession ...... ••. . • •• • . Name and Address of Referee • • • . ail it Uri. • • IRECT LONDON, PO iTSMOUTI-I, AND cuiCHESTER, AND DIRECT PORTSMOUTH AND CiIA.THAM RAILWAY COMPANY. The Committee of Management beg to Inform the public that after SATURDAY, the 13th day of October instant, no farther applications fur shares in this Company will be received, except from applicants locally interested ; And that after WEDNESDAY, the 22d day of October instant, no further applications fur shares from applicants locally interested iu the undertaking will 113 received. PONTIFF,X and MOGINIK, 0, St. A w's-court, Holborn, Solicitors to f IRECT ,NORTHERN RAILWAY. LONDON TO YORK. The Directors beg to announce that the Allotment of new Shares has been completed, and that Letters of Allotment will be postc4 without delay. The day far payment of deposit has been fixed for the 24th instant. By order of the Board, W. R. CLARK, Secretary. Direct Northern Railway Offices, 64, Moorgete-street, 14th Oct., 1645. MIDLAND GRAND JUNCTION RAIL WAY COMPANY. NOTlCE.—Applleations for Shares WILL NOT ;be received after Tux's))Ay NEXT, the 21st instant. By order, NICHOLAS J. KENIPB, Secretary. Palace-chambers, St. James's, Oct. 14, 1845. r HE OXFORD AND SILISBURY DIRECT _IL RAILWAY, via .kIitINGDON, WASTAGE, 11UNG/dItIiORD, and LUDGERSIIALL. (Provisionally Registered.) capital 1,200,0001., in 48,009 Bhares of 25/. each. Deposit V. 128. fxl. per Share. raoytotosiat. COMMITTEE. The night Hon. the Earl of Portarlington The Bight Hon. Lord Viscount Dillon, Ditchley-park, Oxon The Right Flom Jaord Sufldal 1, Gunton-park, North Walsham The Right Hon. Lord RoSSMOre, the Dell, Windsor The Fight lion. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch-house, Henley The Bight Hon. George Lionel Dawson Damn*, m.r., G, Tithey street, Park-lane, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Threct Railway The Hon. Robert Gore, R.N., M.P., 21, Wilton-crescent Lieut.-Col. the lion. J. C. Westenra, 31.1'., 13, Coadult-street, Di rector of the East and West Junction Railway The lion. William M. Dawson, Paricstone-lodge, Poole, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway The Hon. Edward Stafford jerningham, Director of the London and Nottingham Railway Sir William Drummond Stewart, Bart, - ' Sir John Key, Bart., ICJ: 's Arms-yard, Alderman of London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London Railway E. F. Dayrell, Esq., Lillingston Dayrell, High Sheriff of Butitingham shirel Chairman of the 31inehead and Bridzewater Railway Liant.-Colonel Elring Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place, Bryanston-sonare, Director of the Great Western Extension Atmospheric Railway B. B. w i ßi a .. us , E,q., Wyndham-Nate, Bryanston-square, Director of the Central Kent James Mai:mill:li, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway Froderic..,k William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-gardens, Director 'of the Dover and Bristol Railway Henry D. Erskine, I:sq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and Kirby Dale, Yore :hire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway Major 11,:t01% . , Qat3Cll Anne-street, Director of the Brighton end Cheltenlixn Direct Railway Major Graham, late Scots Greys,ls, Grove, Clapham G. B. Banbury, Esq., Leainington, Warwickshire, Director of the Coventry and Manchester Railway The .Rev. H. R. Fowler ' Felton, near Bristol, and 7, Manchester ware, Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junction Railway James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, Vice-Chairman of the Gal way and Ennis Grand Junction Railway Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq., Grandtully-castle Robert Bell, Esq., Manor-house, Chiswick, Director of the Dover and Bristol Railway Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester • Thomas Ferrand Deaden, Esq., Rochdale Charles Haigh, Esq., Rochdale Charles Welland, Esq., Liverpool James Shaw, Esq., Pendleton, Manchester The Rev.T. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulborno, Cambr id g e s hire Thomas Dowglasie, Esq., M a rlborough-place, St.l John's-wood Directors of the E. S. Blundell, Esq., 18, Lower Seymour-street Direct Lon- W. L. Pope, Lag., Woodford, Essex don and Exe- G. W. E vans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's-Park r ter Railway Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-Park, John Allen, Esq. 12, Gloucester-terrace, Kensington_ Francis loose, Esq., Upper 3lontague-street, Montagne-square Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Equitable and Law Life Assurance Companies, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway William Gambier, Esq., Sacombe-park, Herta Benjamin Swan, Esq., Jermyn-street. St. James's Nehemiah John Reed, Esq., R.N., Marlborough. Director of the London and South Wales. Direct Railway Robert Coo 's, Esq., Gainsborough Charles Finch, Esq., Fisherton, Salisbury F. Walker Botterill, Esq., Burnley James Paxton, Esq. M.D., director of the Rugby and Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Railways Thomas Ingham Rayner, Esq. Lilac -cottage, Birstal, near Leeds, di rector of the Great Leeds, and London, Midland, and Thirsk, and other Railways William Doe Belcher, Esq., Mayor of Abingdon . John Hyde, Esq., jun., Alderman of Abingdon John Tomkins, Esq. John Harris, Esq. Members of the wn To Corm% A.bing. Thomas Copeland, Esq. don Edwin James Trendell, Esq,, John King, Esq., Abingdon George Cox, Esq., Abingdon George Jackson, Esq., Abingdon John Knight, Esq., Abingdon Mr. Thomas Payne, jun., Abingdon John Ai.lworth, Esq.,Frilford, Berks William Caudwell, Esq., Drayton, near Abingdon William Dewe, Esq., Stonshill, near Abingdon Isaac Grubb. Esq John Towle, Esq. Samuel Ste:me, Esq. Members of the City Connell, Oetbrd Richani Chaundy, Esq. s Charles Hickman, Esq. John Weaving, Esq., R. C. Godfrey, Esq. J James Morrell, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Oxford, Director of the London and Cheltenham Direct Railway Captain H. Strong, Oxford, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway William Mead Warner, Esq., Oxford Daniel Hanley, Esq., Oxford John Looker, Esq., Oxford William Scckham, Esq., Kidlington, Oxon Charles Shillingford, Esq., Somer ToWn, Oxon Adin Williams, Esq., Somer Town, Oxen Mr. Wrn. Miller, Oxford Mr. H. Dormer, Oxford Mr. Charles Miller, Oxford Mr. Thomas Hyde, Oxford Mr. Wm. Thompson, Oxford James Wickens, Esq., Oxford John Brightman, Esq, Regency-square, Brighton, Chairman if the Hounslow Railway David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Director of tea Eastern and Midland Counties Railway Capt. James Edward Carnegie, Somerset-street, Portman-square, and Bower-hall, Inverness, Director of the Reading and Reigate Railway Charles Ltddlard, Esq., Wantage Mr. Henry James Palmer, Wentage Thomas Brown, Esq. West Lockinge, Berks William Stone, Esq. Charlton, Berks Rieliar i Barnard, Esq. Charlton, Berke Henry Hayward, Eeq. Stirlings, Wantage Janes Staley, Esq. Wantnee Thomas Brown, Esq. Wastage Mr. Charles Hart, foundry. Wantage Mr. William Beesley, Wantage John William Palmer, Esa. Letcambe Regis, Berks Mr. J. Pottinger Palmer, Letcombe Regis, Beets John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London Docks William Bestow Esq., Surrey-place, Kent-road, Director of the Commercial and General Life Assurance Association Robert Bastfew, Esq:, Surrey-place, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway John King, Esq., St. John's-wood, London, Director of the Sorter setshlre Midland Railway Henry Stock, Esq., Beddgelert, North Wales, Director of the Great Eastern and 'Western Railway D. T. Johnson, Esq., Ahlemary-cherchyerd, Director of the Direct Independent London and Manchester Railway John Bloor, Esq., Tatbury, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man chester Railway T. A. Dale, Esq., Malvern - house , Cheltenham, Director of the Bir kennead and 'Holyhead Junction, and South Staffordshire and Pot teries Railways Charles Johnston, Esq., Aldersgatestreet, Director of the Lynn, Thetford, and Ipswich Railway Admiral Ayscoueh, Southampton, Director of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway Frederick Chamier, Esq., R.N., Halkin-street, Belgrave-square, Director if the Northampton and Cambridge R a il wa y George R.' Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the Rugby and Warwick Railway George Jackson, Esq. Abingdon George Cox, Esq., Abingdon • John Knight, Esq. Abingdon Thomas Salkild, ER(I. Huddersfield, (Erecter of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby, and Huddersfield and Liverpool Direct 'Railway J. Russell, Esq. Gloucester - Place , Portman-square James Scott, M.D., Grove End-lodge, St. John's-wood, Director of the Hu:l and Holyhead, and of the Bristol, Bath, and Poole Railways General Wright, Gloucester -place , Portman-spare Major Henry Lyster, 9, Spring - terrace , Wandsworth-road, Drector of the Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties Railway (With power to add to their number). ENGINEER-IN-CHlEF —Samuel Charles Drees, Esq. :OLICITORS—Messrs. Elinslie and Preston, 47, aloorgate-street, London. TARLIAMENTARY AGENTB—Cis;,l73l.llad6r. F. Weddy, Big. Lonion--The London and Westminster Dank, Oxford—The London and County Bank. Salisbury—The Wilts and Dorset County Bank. Abing lon—Messrs. Henry Knapp and Co. ; and the CfMiliy Bank Wantage—Mcssrs, Henry Knapp and Ce, Ettavtmer—eThe Nnif, • illlngeribrd—Messrs. S O . 0 'Tanner n L A n G e E r N a T n s. d Pinckney. Oxford—Jno. Francis Wilde, Esq. Saliebury—Sieplampini Feel, GraliftlYi filki god Wattage—William Ormond, Esq. Hungerferil end Marlborotteh—John Holcomb, Esq. ifi4libef6th r' 1. The ini;ortancp• 6f etilliikctilid ft HlQtlt jiiirta Olt b..giiiod for rail wit?-21 1116reby conferred mien interlltediate towns and districts, can scarcely be better exemplified than by the line which I.li* propoted to form a 4port and direct channel of inter va!oal'Artil-sh'obe:ealoorecurletcl:itill:t;Cipitiahb;ll,llb.i.e;filevlielldi4leOHnitdifllBealaiiii7itiFiti€3llii;f-Y"daiegtiktet,chlitt:2attlerfhl:,;;lll af i til ll : l 6l : l4 eits 'vblhi t iinicr o esYh t the &Mkt; and tit the south and west of the latter and the pfriptiged lido eroin Cambridge to Oxrord, cotitixtting to that city the come df fdIHSA Nth 416 north=eastern parts of the island, requires the appliance note Suggested to of et a endllrele Means of transit to the western and south-western catititied. The Oxford end :zitil§bli6i Milt - fat; lit addition to the bedellt3 *Mai will tie dtinfettexi spit the nation. at Mile; hy pieftehtirik a dif+ct hilt of eliiiiiiiiiifcatton be tsritaiti ift); iitifilinitgtbfii and ilieOefit end smith -western parts of England, will atTerei to the hOrditutt if Ahittgeon, the market towns of Vantage, Ilungerford, and Ludgershall, and the adjacent villages, an important railway accommodation, of which the agricultural districts in which they are seated stand in much need, and will provide a facility for the interc han g e of p roduce be tween the rittiitiftteittfing; and Conimercial population of the kit 3t+fit. The rithienttit line 'n il! wile the cattiedfat City of Sans btify into iitunediat connaioll With the City and tiniterslty of Oxford, combining also the advantage of a direct communication with the s'ster University of Cambridge ; thus strengthening the ecclesiastical and academical relations of the whole, whilst the com mercial prosperity of the two terminal cities must of necessity be 6 6 tentItt4 etillen€4, the want of falitfak" itedoisiinixialloili lino Iting been felt to press xnfairly upon the inhabitants of the important and thriving . WWII of Abingdon. Their ineans and opportunities of competing with the more fortunate traders of those towns which are already provided with di rect channels of transit, are thus se-rerolv crippled. The same reraark appliee in elite degree to the Market Writ of Wantage, which, as well as Itunorditd and tildgefshall, elitline d snare of the profits and advantages produced by railway Mille. It has therefore been determined to commence the proposed line at Oxford, and to proceed throttgh Abingdon to the station of the Great Weston* Thiii v vity thus g iving to Abingdon a direct rail road to London. By continuing the projected railway to ',Vantage, the seine facility of transit to London will be afforded to that place; and a perfect lino of rood frara the north-eastern counties will, by a Junc tion with the projection from Cambridge to Oxford, be produced, through the towns which have been named, Ilungerford and Ludgers hall, to Salisbury, and thence to the south and western ports and dis tricts. • Applications for shares and prospectuses to be made to Messrs. Elmslte and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street, and to the following Broilers :—Messrs. i'eppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street, and Messrs. Preece and Evans Lothbury, London ; Messrs. Alston and Gage, and Messrs. Reynolds and Son, Liverpool ; Mr. John Duncuft, and Mr. nd Co., Cheltenham ; Mr. T , r3 To r l a, : ll o 4 7 l; el l l, f 3 r. la m t r ie m h . es 3 t i e i r le ; s, Messrs. A. and C. Bradshaw, and Messrs. s ß rs r . o E t hnesrtoy, anda Wellbeloved and Co., Leeds; : Messrs . Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr. James Pearson, Birmingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., Sons, Southampton; Mr. Robert Allyn, FAlnteargh ; Messrs Black and Co., and Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow; Mr. Wm. Gordon, Aberdeen; and Messrs. Bruce and Syntex, Dublin. hc,mlasVorscaensttieforr;d,3Etexssertse.r Hall, Brothers, FORM OF APPLICATION . To the Provisional Committee of the Oxford and SalLsbut7 Direct Railway. shares in the Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me above undertaking ; and I hereby agree to accept the same, or an y less number which may be allotted to me, a nd r 0.50 to pay the de posits thereon, and to execute the Subscribers' Az - recmont, Parlia mentary Contract, and all other necessary instruments, when re quired so to do. • I am, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant, same in full ••••• • • • • ........ •• . Residence • • • • • • •• • • ' • ' • • ' • Post Town • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . Occupation Reference ...... • • • " • " • • " " " " • • • • • • Usual Signature • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • Dated .• •• 41(11 4 1P ri 0 . 1 Alalie and Pty, 47,)1411405-strettil Lead. B IRMINGHAM AND MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 901,000/., in 45,000 Shares of 29/. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. raovesioNAL coMIITTEz. Sir George Prescott, !dart. The Hon. Cecil Lawless, Lynbarth, Kildare, and St. James's-street Sir Love Parry Jones Parry, Major-General, K. 11., Madryn, Car narvonslere, Director of the Leicester, Bedford, and of the Direct East and West Junction Railways Si William Twisden, Bart., Dorset-square, Director of the Chepstow and Forest of De.en Railway r Wm. Young, Bart East India Director, Westbourne-street, Hyde Park-gardens, lArector of the Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway Sir William Wynn, K.C.8., Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairmaa of the North Wales Railway Sir Henry Wenb, Bart., 105, Pall-mall, Diroctor of the York and Lancaster Railway The Sheriff of York, Director of the Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway Ayseougfr, Rear-Admiral, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of the Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway Adair, Major, Director of the Church of England Assurance Society, and of the Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and New town, and ludinn Peninsular Rallweys Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway tooth, John, Esq., Park-Jetta:7e, Matelesfl ii, Director of the Leeds, lltaidsrsilsid, and Wolv.rhampton Direct, and Sheffield, Notting ham, aid London Direct Ra'lwaya Brookes, John, Eeq., Alderman of Manchester, Director of Reming ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway Brown, Henry, Esq., Asheyele-la-Zouch, Director of Remington's Direct London and Mancisester Railway Brown, Ica tc Baker, 27, Oxford-square, Hyde-park Buck, W. C., Esq. Cambridge, John, Eeq., York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the Barton-on-Trent, Stamen Shreesbary, and Newtown Railway Chambers, Win., Esq., Cocks Bench, Derby, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Clarke. Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director, of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Cleobury, Thomas Mornmer, Esq., Acton, Middlesex, Director of the Nettingheen, and London Direct Railway Cook, John, the Rev., Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, Director of the Shef field, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway Croft, Major J. T. Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman, Director of Remington's Direct Load- n and Manchester Railway Crossley, John, Esq., Lumberhurst, Sussex, Director of the. Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway. Cumberiege, N , Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown, and Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways Dalby, J. It., Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch Dale, major Thurston, Ashbourne, Director of the Burton-on-Trent. Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newton, and Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railways Daniel, It , Esq , Oakhili, Stokenmen-Trent, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway Darlington, John, Esq., Shipley Hail, Bradford, Director of the Liver pool and Leeds Direct Railway Dewhurst, Richard, Esq., Apeiey House, Huddersfield, Director of the West Riding Union Banking Company, and Director of the West Riding Junction Railway Dent, Edward, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct Railway Dent, John, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great drimeby Direct Railway Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Tlud ders field, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, llud derstield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway Ellis, John, Esq., Temple Ewast, Francis, of 4, Brick-court, Temple, Director of the Great Leeds and London Direct, Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Me tropolitan Junction Railways Facile, George, Lieutenant-Colonel, 36, York-terrace, London, Di rector of the London and Lancaster Railway Franklin. Benjamin, Harley-street, London Garde, Richard, Esq., 16, Steven's green, Dublin . Gisborne, Henry Francis, Esq., Derby, Director of the Burton-on- Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway Grant, Daniel, Esq., Manchester, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Hammond, George, Esq., leirector of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Heneage, C., Esq., Pall-mall, Cadeley Place, Lincolnshire, Director •f the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway !Terries, Robert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Rail way Hind, Abraham, Esq., Director of the lelanchester; Huddersfield and Great Grimsby Direct 'Railway Holdterth, J. D., Esq., Burley, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Bullies, Hughes W., Esq., Alderman of the City of London Ingieby, Joseph, "Esq., Cheadle, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway Jonnson, Richard William, Esq., Moorgate, Director of the Brighton aad Cheltenham, and Remington's Direct London and Manchester , Railways Jones, Edward, Esq., Windmill-place, Ca eberwell, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway • Jones, the !Lev. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Keene, John Joseph, Esq., St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Di rectoe of the Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, awl New towantailways King, William, Esq., St.pney, Director of the Derbs shire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and Brighton and Cheltenham Railways Knight, Ed ffard, M.D., Stafford, Director of the Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston-hall, Sudbury Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester Mackenzie, T., Esq . Duke-street, Liverpool Macmillan, James, Esq., 17, Manchester-buildings, Westminster, Di rector of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Railway Me lean, Nicholas, Esq., 50, Parliament-street Me3lahon, Daniel, Eeq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Renew Mainwarine, John, Esq., Eagle-Hall, Pateley-bridge, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway M inn, T., Esq., Chapel-cottage, Holloway Maskery, Thos., Esq., 2.norbury-hall, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway Metcyard, Horace W., Esq., Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Moore, Major, Anne-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Burton - on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway Murray, James T., Esq., George-street, Hanover-square, Director of the Burton-upon-Trait, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newton Railway Musgrave, S., Esq. Nadia, Joseph, Esq., Stapenhill, Director of Remington's Direct Lon don and Manchester Railway • Nadin, Nathaniel, E-q., SlaNnhill, Derbyshire, Director of Reming ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway Norton, Joseph, Esq., Ifullerseeld, Director of the Nottingham and London Direct Railway Ogle, Nathaniel, Esq., Heath-lane Lodge, Twickenham, Director of the Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Rail way Pulteney, Captain Douglas Kinnaird, 4, Parliament-street, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Richardson, Joseph, Esq. Riddle, Robert Andrew, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and of the Ox ford and Worcester Extension Railway Robinson, John, Esq. Sllcoatcs-cottage, Wakefield, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfleid, , and Wolverhampton Direct, and Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railways Roden, T. C., Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Leeds, 'Wielders field, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway. Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropton, Derbyshire, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Skidmore, J. A., Esq , St. John's, Wakefield, Director of the Great Leeds and London Direct, and Hull and Holyhead Direct Railways Smith, John, Esq., Barton-house, Ashborne, Derbyshire Smith, Thomas, Esq., M.D., Leeds, Director of the 1 cede, Hudders field, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways Smith, Win., Eel , Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway Sneyd, Thomas, Esq., Belmont Spiers, Edward John, Esq., Carlton-villa, Mat is-vale, Director of the Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Worcestershire Railway Stnnho se, Lieutenant-Colonel Leicester, Chairman of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Trapp, Benjamin, Esq , banker, Bedford, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, London, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway Walker, Charles, Esq., Ellastone Walker, George, Esq., Wootton-park, Ashborne Waller, Major James, KM., St. James's-square, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Brighton and Cheltenham Reinvent Walters, James, Esq., Bakewell, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield and Wolverhampton Direct Railway Warren, .Tos. Loxtiali, Esq., the Lodge, Market Drayton, Salop Wardle, Henry, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's London and 3lanchester Dirt et Railway Welsh, Robert, Esq , Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct Railway Company Weston, Thomas, Esq., Team, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway Wilkinson, J., Esq. Wright. 'Moines, Esq., merchant, Derby, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffer Ist ire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway. SoLtctTDR—W. Arnold Bainbrigge, Een. ENGINEER—George Remington, Esq. SECIin`ART—A. A. Flint, Esq. BANKERS —Messrs. lideere, Oiling, and Co. LOCAL AGENT—R. 11. Tarleton, Esq., Birmingham. Tice titlo of this line sufficiently and correctly explains tile object of fife thidertaking, The Hirrillitteliftili terinlatte will be placed in communication with all the other railways having et station in that town, and will be , brought as near as practicable to its centre. Proceeding thence in a northerly direction, and on the west side of the Lichfield road, it will rate short distance of Sutton Coldfleld, and to Lichfield, at the lattef cif Whitt pieces there will be a tatlon in communication with the projected Walsell Midge Thence crossing the Trent Valley, near King's Bromley, it will pursue the course of the Blythe Valley, or by or near to Abbots Broader to Leigh, where it will leave the Blythe Valley, and by a shell etittirlff reach the Teams station on Remington's London and Manchester line fit the junction of the Crewe branch, or by a junc tion with whichever of the projected lines to Manchester may be adopted by Parliament. -The entire length of the new line to be made Will not exceed thirty-four miles, mid the whole will be carried over a most favour able country—two-thirds being a water-level. Sections ofa great portion of the line have been made, and the ex-- tire Paciainentitrs survey will be completed by the 9th ofOctober. This railway will afford a route from Birmingham to Manchester eleven miles shorter than by any existing or projected line. It will also give the best and nearest line between Huddersfield, awl Bir mingham. It will also furnish a nearer and more direct route from Birming ham to the POtterieft than any Bile made or projected by several assuming any or the projected Pottery lines to have their ter mini at (Awhile on the Trent Valley, or at Stafford, on the Grand Junetiell Reilvetly, thus giving to Manchester, and a:so the Pot teries, the shortest, eriseeet, tied most direct route to Birmingham. It will also give the nearest line between Huddersfield and Birming ham and Southampton. This railway crosses the projected Leeds and Huddersfield and Wolverhampton Direct Railway. In the Blythe Valley a station will be placed, and communication effected, so as to afford to Birmingham the Shoftest route by many miles, with Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and the northern parts of England. In allotting shares every legi timate preference will be given to the landholders on the l'ne. It is obvious that the projected line will afford an awiple return to the shareholders. For prospectuses, shares, and every information, apply to the solicitors, W. Arnold Bainbrig,ge, Esq., Uttoxeter ; or at the Offices of the COtnpany, No. 1, Moorg ite, London. BROKERS. Messrs. B. and AL Boyd, New Bank-buildings Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool Messrs. Cinneion and Co., Liverpool Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liverpool Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield Sir. James Jamieson, Leeds Messrs. Vrelibelov'ed and Oastler, Leeds Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull Mr. Richard Baines, Blackburn Mr. George Clark, Bradford Mr. William Mason, Bradford Mr. William Cronhelin, Halifax Mr. J. W. Paibley, Gainsborough Messrs. Freeman and Son, Northampton Messrs. Graystoa and Earle, York Messrs. Kettering and Marshall, Leeds Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol Messrs Houghlane and Leese, Manchester Messrs. A. Bircletli and Co., Manchester Air. W. H. Collis, Birmingham Mr. L. Weatherburn, jun., Huddersfield Messrs. Everard and Co., Huddersfield Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester J. N. Balme, Gloucester Mr. C. Wool, Uttoxeter FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the " Birmingham and Manchester Direct hallway." I request you to allot me • shares in the above undertaking; and I agree to pay up the deposit of 2!. 2s. per share, ant sign the necessary deeds when required thereto. Dated tl'as day of , 1845. Name in full ...• •••••• • • • • • Profession or Business .• • • .... Place of Residence • • • • • • • . • • • • Place of Business • • • • Names of Referees.. • • .. • • B IRMINGHAM AND MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY COMPANY. Company's Offices, 1, MoJrgate-street, London, Oct.. 13, 1845. Notice is hereby given that no further Applications for Shares can received after WEPNOWAY, theisth instant... . .„ . . By order, • A A. FLlNTLSocrotary. N ORFOLK RAI', ,VAY..-.7—Diss stml Colchester, and Wells aryl Dereham Scrip Certificates. The Parliamentary Deed is now ready for Sizna.ture at this Office, and will remain until the 3d of November, before which dey scrip hollers are requested?, to:sign the decd, and exchange the receipts for scrip certificates in the Norfolk Extension Stoelc. • Hours of Attendance- from Ten till Four. 1•;y order,. RICHARD TILL, Secretary. Ga ild!ngs, Loudon, Oct. 14, 1845. ItTIDLAND GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. Connecting the Great Western, London and Birmingham, and Direct Manchester. From Reading via Ilenley-on-Thames, Aylesbury, Buckingham, and Northampton. (Prot - 1310 illy Registered.) Capital 1,250,000/. in 50,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 21. 12s. Gd..per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Jahn Anderson, Esq., Prince:-park, Liverpool, Director of the East ern Counties and Southend Railway Willi trn Ashcroft, Esq., Bury, Director of the Lancashire, Cheshire, and Staffordshire Railway George Alfred Beardmore, Esd., Nottlnzlam, Director of the Hull and Lincoln Direct Railway, and Nottingasm ant P.iterboroagli Railway L'eutenant-gentral Sir Robert Barton, K.C.11., 3lontagne-place, . Montague-square Charles It. Big Esq., 19, Bryanston-Square, Director of the York au 1 Lancaste: Railway Charles BL , aden, Esi., Coulsden-court, Snrrey, Chairman of the Licensed Pctuallers' Assurance Company John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London Docks William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oats, Sheffield, Chairmen- of the Direct Western Railway, and Director of the Sheffield and Man chester Railway James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the New R ,ss, Carlow, and Kilkenny Ita:lway G. A. lZrown, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Callao and Lima _ Rail way 303 , 31,1 Bull, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries Railway " - - Wm. Byrom, E q., Oldham, Director of the Oldham District, the Bir kenhead and Holyllcad, York and Lancaster, and Cheltenhath, Oxford, aid London Railways Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, Director of the York and Lancaster, Derby and Manchester, Staffordshire Potteric3, and Man chester, Wd,tan, awl Southport Railways John Cha . nntler, hs4., Friday-street, Director of the York and Lan- easter Railway Richard Clay, Esq., 1, Winchester-buildings, London, Director of the Huddersfield and Eastern Coast Railway Ephraim Cocker, Eiq., White Coppice, Chorley, Director of the Black burn, Clvirley, and Llvc:rpJol Railway Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway Nathaniel Cumberleige, 3, l'ork-terr tc,c. Rczent's-park, Direc ef the Leecli and Iludder,iield Railway, R.C. fitc. Newton Crouch, Esq., 13, Southampton-place, Euston-squa7e, Dl rcctor of the Mauritius, and the York' and Lancaster Railways _ Thomas Ferrand Dearden, Esq., Rochdale, Director of the Stafford shire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway Peregrine Roy& Dearden, Esq., Birkenhead, Liverpool J. W. De Wulf, Esq , Liverp-;o1 Miles Dormer: Sloane-street, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway Itic:tard Davis, Esq., Ktnrasborongh, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Rftilway Colonel Lothiaa i•:he9l.±l,l Dickson, Curzon-street, May-fair, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway, the Yort awl Lancaster, Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct ltailways J. D. Ewe!. Esq., Knaresborough, Be;ijamin Smart Fowler, Esq., Alder House, near Tarnworth, Direc tor of the Leicester and Northampton Railway. . _ Th Itev. 11. It. _Fowler, 7, Manchester-square, Dizector of the South Midland Railway _ . _ The 'fog. I'mv - Evans Fr eke, Belgrave-square, Director of the Damian and Bantry Railway - . Garraw, Esq., Great George's-square, Liverpool, Director of the Eastern Counties and Southend Junction Railway •Tilliam GP" Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire P. teries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway Joseph Giilharn, Esq., Hargreaves-house, Oldham, Director of the Staffordidre Potteries, and Huddersfield, and East and West Coasts Railways Ca twin Twisleton Grave:, Director of the Leicester and Tean and Dovs Valley Railway Charles Haigh, Esq., Broadley Wood, Rochdale and Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway F. W.Hamilton Esq., 59, Clonreoter-place, Portman-square, Director of the, Brighton and Cheltenham Railway John Lawrence Harr.s. Esq., 4, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway John George Hammock, Esq., Essex-house, Bow-road, Director of _ . the DireaWestern Railway John HBkias, Esq., St. James's-place, NCIT-Cros, Theophilas Hodges, Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway John HoMini, Rusholm-hall, Manchester, Director of Reming- ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway Ch tries Holland, Esq , of Llscard Yak., Cheshire, and Liverpool Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Westminster, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Scuthend, and the Direct Western Railways George Holt, Esri , Willow-hill, Crumpsall, Director of the Stafford shire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway Joseph Hop good, Esq., Exeter, Director of the East and West of England Jimetion, Direct Western, and Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railways Ad,lerly Howard, Esq., Long Sutton, Wisbeach, Director of the East Coatt, and Direct Western Railways William Bulkeley lingh2s, Esq., 31. P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid- land Railway Herbert Ingram, Esq., Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway John Charles Jack, Esq., Liverpool Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart. Charles Jusit:T, Esq., Collumpton, Devon, Director of the Dlrcct Western Ralway Richard Kelly, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's, Chal - man of the New Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny Railway Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South and Midlands Junction Railway Kempe, Esq., Teign Villa, Teignmouth, Director of tho Eastern Co reties Junction Railway, and the Leeds, Fleetwoo', and Liverpool Railway Thomas Kidley, Esq. M.D. Sheffield, director of the Eastern Cour ties and Southend Junction and Direct Western Railways George Lawrie, Esq. Manchester, director of the Eastern Counties Junction awl Southend Railway Peter Thomas Legh, Esq., Ridge-hall, county Dublin, Tirector of the Isle of Man Railway William Melville Lomas, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Lancashire, Cheshire and Staffordshire Junction Railway. John Lord, Esq. Standish Hall, Lancashire, director of the Stafford shire Potterie;, the Liverpool and Ma'schester Direct, and Lauer: shire, Cheshire and Stafford Junction Railways. James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby - Lailway A. M. Miecmoram, Eel., Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, Director of the East and West Junction Railway Major-General Sir Love Parry, Marilyn, Carnarvonshire Director of the North Wales Railway. _ Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester. Director of the Direct Western Railway Edward Norris, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Direct Western Railway James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Marlborough-square, Manchester, director of the Chester and Manchester Direct, and Direct Western Rail- ways Nathaniel Ogle, Esq., Heath 7 lane-lolge, Twickenham, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway. John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park, Di rector of the Direc , Western Rdlway Richard William Perry, Esq., Barham Wood, near Elstree, Herts William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the Oxford, Witney,.and Cheltenham Rahway Frederick Ramsden, Esq., Seymour House, Old Strofford, lfanchcs- ter, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Railways _ Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Chairman of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and Director of the Sheffield and 3fan- chester Railway, &c. J. Reginald Riddell. Esq., Byeullah-house, Enfield, Director of the Direct Western Railway James Renshaw, Esq., West Heath House, Kent, Director of the Direct Western, and South Staffordshire Jur.ction Railways R. A. Riddell, Esq.,Dlrector of the Great Western Extension Railway A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Middle Temple, Loudon, Director of the Eastern Counties .Pmetion and Southend Railway Richard Rowe, Esq., Beauvoir-terrace, Malda Vale Hartley Sauer, Esq., Ball Grove, Colnc, Director of the .East Lan cashire and Aiidale Junction Railway. 1V illiam Sidebotham, Esq., Glossop, J.P. for Derbyshire, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway Edward Smith, Esq., Barnsbury Park, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway William tudley, Esq., North Brixton, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Henry Taylo - , Esq , Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the Liverpool. Preston, and North Union and Oxford, Chel tenham and London Railways .Joseph Tas lor, Esq., Clements-lane Joint Thompson, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Birkenhead and Ho lyhead,:Manchester and Wigan, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Railways JoscTlahompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton Flaitn - ay Charles F. Thornley, Esq., Eastheld lionse,Westbury, near Bristol, . . • Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Manchester, St:We, and • Car isle Railways Thomas Tebbutt, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway .- Edw,rd Trelfall, Manchester, Director or the Eastcni Counties Junc tion and Southend Railway Sir William Twisclen, Bart., Cavendish-street, Cavendish-square Joseph Underwood, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway, and Director of the Commercial Bank of London. George Walker, , Eiq., Manchester S. P. Ward, Esq., Birkenhead, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway William Ayscough Wilkinson, Esq., Woodbury Downs, Director of the Waveney Valley Railway Robert WYnne Williams, Esq., 29, Bedford-place, Russell-square Thomas 11 7 . ) - ime, Esq., Longton, Staffordshire. Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and South Union and Birmingham Junction Railways Sir William Wynue;Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North Wales Ralway Pierce Somerset Butler, Est•, M.P., Director of the York and Lan caster Railway Edward Scard, Esq , Kew-green Sampson Driftwood, Esq., Loughton Chilled James Mason, Esq.. Fenton James Glover, Esq., Loughton, Director of the South Union and Bir mingham Junction Railway John rra:t, jun., Esq., Fenton William Marxlitt, Esq., Ottercliffe- terrace, Director of the Direct western and the Isle of Ely, and Wisbeach and Lincolnshire Junction Railway W. H. Colles, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire, Director of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway William Holiday, Esq., Chad-valley, Edgbaston, Director of the Direct Western Railway Thomas Uptill, Esq., Edgbaston, Director of the Wolverhampton, Birkenhead and Chester Railway Thomas Bollinan Upfill, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Bristol ana Dover Railway C. H. Jagger, Esq., Handsworth, Director of the Great Western, Southern and Eastern Counties, and Ipswich and Southampton silway Richard Dlortimore, Esq., Callumpton;Director of the Direct Western Railway Edward Westlake, Esq., Southamptou, Director of the Direct Western Railway John Robson, Esq., Stetton•le-hole, Durham, Director of the Direct 'Western Railway Henry S. Bright, Esq i Hull, Director of the Durham and Sunderland and Direct Western Railway Robert Cook, Esq., Guisborough, Director of the Direct Western Railway C. J. Selwyn, Major Royal Engineers, Director of the Direct Western • Railway George Sercombe, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Direct Western Railway (With power to add to their number). COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT . Benjamin Smart Fowler, Esq. Will:am Kempe, Esq. The. Rev. H. It Fowler, It. A. Riddell, Esq. William Jarron, Esq. Henry Taylor, Esq. Capt. Twirsleton Groves J. Underwood, Esq. John Holmes, Esq. I M. A. Wilkinson ' Esq. Richard Kelly, Esq. Thomas Wanute, Esq. (With power to add to their number.) CONSULTING ENGINEER—T. Urpeth Rastrick, ESQ. ACTING ENGINEER.—OIiver ByIOC, ESq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 31°0:gate-street J. E. Beales, Esq., 7, John-street, Adelphi William Burdett, Esq., Man Chester. LOCAL AGENT3.—Messrs. Christian and Jones, Liverpool. - BANKERS. London—The Commercial Bank of -London Mauchester—The National Provincial Bank of England. SECRETARY— nen& J. Kempe, Esq. Company's Oiilcee, Palace-:lumbers, St. James's. This railway will form, as nearly as may be practicable, a direct line from Reading, in Ilerkshire—one of the • ost important and raaidly improving towns in the kingdom—to the large and populous town of Northampton, where it will form a junction with the Northampton and Peterborough Railway The line will proceed lacana he Reading station of the Great Western Railway, and by the way of Henley-on-Thames, Great Marlow, West Wycombe, Aylesbury, and Buckingham, through some of the richest and moat fertile districts of England, from whence vast supplies of live stock and agricultural produce are" constantly fur nished to the metropolis ; and from Buckingham it will be continued direct to Blisworth and Northampton. From Blisworth a line proceeds to WellingbOrough, and forms a Junction with the Direct Manchester Railway; and it is intended that a branch shall be formed from West Wycombe to the station at Slough, on the Great Western Railway . The proposed line with the branch will be about seventy-ilve miles in length, and it has been ascertained'-that it may be constructed with unusual facility, whilst, by means of the intended junctions with the Great Western Railway at Slough and Reading, with the London and Birmingham Railway at Illiswarth, and the Direct Manchester Railway at 'Wellingborough, an uninterrupted and most desiralde railway communication will he op tined beLgaeau Portsmouth, tf;os port, .the Isle of Wight. Southampton, BWoni, Iluntlngtlon, the Stafford:Al:lra I.)c.rby,. I.,QL , st , r, Maw:best:a, Liverpool,. Leeds, Newcastle and Berwick, and with the great manu facturing and mining districts of the north of England. • ; The numerous parishes and districts which will be traversed by the line comprise a population of nearly 1,500,000 persons, and passing, Ili it wlllos portion 4f the counties of Berke Pied OgOrd, the whole • L. and by the celebrated Vale a ...via wiei the several completed or projected railWl .V 3 un ' mentleneii, viz.:— . The London and Birmingham The Great Western The Southampton Union The South Midland The Midland: Counties The Northampton and Leicester tY The Northampton and Peterborough, and thu. The Direct Manchester it cannot beoubte I that it must prove ext remel y cony a dent and ei benctieln.l to the public, and highly aJrantageous to the pe7GPlletft The liability of the shareholders will be restrict ed by lei of rill' lbw - tent to the amount of their subecriptioLs, and pot' e: IT, all plied for in the Bill to allow interest at 4 her cent. per annu V on calls, from the *sing of the Act until the opening of the line. Arrangement., have been made that the survey shall be co.,tplell and the plans and sections deposited in time for obtaining' O n L uring the enstfne, eeseion of Pariament. it to Applications for shares may be addressed, in the form anee:te— s. the undermentioned brokers, viz. :—Messrs. B. and 31. Boyd, rAg i ,_ street, John Shelve% Esq., Threadneedle-street, and Messrs. w Westropp, and l'rinsep, 75, Old Broad-street, Mr. Jolla Shorter's-court, London; Messrs. Graystone a nd Earle, w:ee. Mr. Thackray, Harrogate; . Mr. Joseph Nelson, Settle; 31r.. A Welch, Lancaster; Messrs. Geddes and Drink w ater, fold tr. Henry Waterton, Bank-buildings, Castle-street, Liver poo r i , 31 . Mr.. Peter Leicester, Messrs. Green and Oldham, „ g „ Green and Lockwood, Manchester ; Mr. James Pearson, Dir ll ham ; Messrs. Joshua Wood and Son, Messrs. Watson and Co., 0 .. e, Messrs. E. King and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Bra d y and gtanif Hull ; Mr. J. A. Butchart, Huddersfield; Mr. Hervey, Nightingale, Wakefield ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchin son and Co., G . ford ; Mr. Luke Arnold, and Mr. George Edwards, Bristol R. Glidden, and Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter; Mes srs ' rip Brothers, and CO,, Cheltenham; M es srs. Hopwood and Palmer, via mouth ; Mr. Robert Allan, Messrs. Hugh Munro and Co. , 311 2 n a g te, Kinnear, and Mr. James Pringle, Edinburgh ; Mr. W. Pr Leith ; Messrs. M'Ewen and Autd, Glasgow ; Mr. W ,'"'" Aberdeen ; Mr. S. A. Gloal, Perth ; of whom prospectuse s had ; or to the Provisional Committee, at the offices of the CcalPaw FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Midland Grand Railway. shares of 0 1 * Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me WU , " /WI in the Midland Grand Junction Railway, and I hereby am „d to to accept that, or any less number that may be allotted to Me, tt . " G , he pay the deposit of 21. 12s. H.. per share thereon, and to executr_,A, Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement whets regal Name in full • Profession or Trade Residence— Place of busines-- --- Ti:taloa Reference Date— A IL EIC ESTER,. and 13111.1111NG HADA -"''so 0- ,4 WAY, with a leranch from Nuneaton to Coventry. 3 Line ) (Provist o OLTE BRA lollyCEß RegßlD GE,istered, lEsq., T oth Aprhell, 1Ha11,845-,,,ArstollN • camtus H) ~ Chairman. W. CHArTCF4 Esq., Birmingham, Deputy Chairra sll ' . The Mayor of Birmirgham Worce *tcr Richard Spooner, M.P. for Birmingham, Brickfields, holm s Macaulay, Esq., Leicester Sir W. Hyde Pearsou, Knight, F.R.S., Hanover-square , L Op d oa Geor e Attwood, Esq., The Laurels, Edgbaston, Dirmingiri t malca W. W. Pearson, Esq., 5, Gloucester-terrace, Regent's Par.' J. G. Norbury, Esq., Mancetter House, Atherstoue S. I , &Wes, Esq.; Chad-house, Edgbaston, Birmingham J. l ready Peyn, Esq., Birmingham El:ward Middleton, Esq., Chad-road, Edgbaston, B illiam Freer, Esq., Atherstone i". W. Wollaston, Esq , Shenton.hall, Hinckley F. Wollaston, Esq., Sheepy, Atherstona B. North Arnold, Esti , M.D., Atherstone W. Chance, jun., Esq., Birmingham J. Wilkes MIMI, Esq., Birmingham George Turner, Esq., Birmingham • t Thomas Davies, Esq., Birmingham f the rt e s H. F. Hunter,' Esq., Kilburn-hall, Derbyshire, director of Grimsby, Gainaborough, and Derby Railways William Lucy, Esq., Birmingham John Davis, Esq., M.D., Coleshill f the Tre't at R. Gardner, Esq., Chasley-hall, Manchester, director 0- Valley Railway Re V. of Henry Tootal, Esq., Manchester, director of the Trent VallecTrector R. C. Sharp, Esq., Branishall•hall, Stockport, Ches hire, the North Staffordshire Railway __,,, StAP II. Thomas•Critchley, Esq., Manchester, director of the N or. ' shire Railway James Walkiushaw, Esq., Old Park, Isle of Wight, Deputy Cl'3lll.l° ~ of the 31auchester and Southampton Railway The Hon. M. W. Nugent, Ifighara Grange, near liinckleY Kirkley Fenton, Esq., Caldecote-hall, near Nuneaton . Win. Atkinson Gardner, Esq., 4, Cecil-street, Strand , Loudon COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT C. Holte Bracebridge, Esq., Chairman W. Chance, Esq., Deputy-Chain:lan. Sir W. H. Pearson. Knt., F.R.S. Samuel Haines, Est., J. G. Norbury, -Esq. Edward Ai iddleton, rA% rhos Macaulay, Esq. W. A. Gardner, Esq' F. Wollaston, Esq. John Breariy I'a.3"° , Jas. IValkinshaw, Esq. W. W. Pearson. 144' 11. Tootal, Esq. ENGTNEEn—Charles Vignoles, Esq., F.U.S.A• SorAcrrott—S. S. Baxter, Esq. LOCAL SOLICITORS. Leicester—Messrs. Toiler • Hinckley—Messrs. Smith and Pilgrim Nuneaton—Messrs. John and George Cruddoc Coventry—Messrs. Dawes and Son Birminaham—Messrs. Spencer and Rollins. T ejoi The Committee of Management have the pleasure 0 1 3 ole t to the shareholders that the surveys are on the point of c.' s ? igo ol o r p that the line, as chosen by their eminent engineer , 2Ur• reported by him to be the best and shortest practicable oP 00 4 Lecester and scheme Birmingw haill m. be Pr °c oug c ' The whole be perfected in full time to t with on the meeting of Parliament; and the importane !Do ments now being made are such as warrant the Corninitt. fidently stating that the expectations of the shareh older' fully realised in the success of the line. By order, __ _~_~_ EDWARD DANIEL. 6°cretsl. os CIAL &Is, DUNKIRK, and BRUGES 0 0 0 TION RAILWAY, connecting the lines alrcadf ci bets' een Bruges, Ghent, Brussels, Malincs, and Antwerp' V' CAp.tal 18,750,000 francs, or 750,0001. sterling, in 37,bvw 41, Chancery-lane, Oct. 10, 1845 20/. each. Deposit 2/. per share. DIRECTORS. FRENCH AND BELGIAN. 4. M. le Comte Fr:ant, Gciieral et Aide-de-Camp do Pei Cuperic7,ol6 le Baron de Clarac, Proprietaire, Anelen Oftilc:er 'dc Cavalerie, Set retaire et Administrateur du Chemin d e 1 CD'. a Nantes et t ds M. Cordler , Depute. Inspecteur Divisionnaire des:Pon.- de 1 c sees, Presider.t du Conseil d'Administration du Chem Cherbourg o M. A Org Mntonio e Serradilla Clonel d'Etat-Maor ct osb°„,eor M. N. T. d Micard, Adininistrateur du Chemin j de Fer de . ' ts et M. Collin Lefebre, Ingeneur Civil, Entrepeneur des ro il sees du Gouvernement PO * M. P. J. Wayez, Governeur de la Province de Hainault. M. Femmerman, Brussels M. J. B. Thibon, Brussels. rY ENGLISH. " Major-General Brooks Parbley, C.B„ 18, Reiland-gat e 'barl , ,,p l ' William Ormsby Gore, M.P., Chairman of the surosz6-, yer'' verhampton, Dudley, and Birmingham Bathyal , place, and Portlins,ton-hall, Oswestry, Salop , „ unde r William Bradley, Esq., Director of the Sheffield, AO-T.''' . ," and Manchester Railway Aldcfra ,o William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., P.L.S e3"' London, Chairman of the Manchester and IlirkenD and Greenwich Railways, Brunswick-square Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman of London, and Sh er ' ort o r aniddlesex, Lun, Captain Thornhill Wa to rr ington, Essex Upper Berkeley ...street' r )iiir square 0 0 °pa James Reeves, 'Esq., Leyton, Essex, Director of the Lcnd chester Railway William Petrie, Esq , King-street, Portman-square John Inglis Jerdien, Esq., Director of the Marichasteneet Southampton Railway, :Co. 2, Adams-court, Broad 4 ,, tr iod °D Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the Birmingham a 3“ way, 1, Princes-street, Bank (With power to add to their number). 1 Co. et BANK7Jt3 IN FRANCE. ~. c i SC. ° BANKERS IN BELGIUM—Messrs. Prosper et Rene s-P- t , ft BANKEII3 IN ENGLAND—Ihe London Joint Stock ' 3 ' ‘ : - iel: °' , SOLICITORS—Messrs. Potter and Coliingridgc, 5. ,ct : 1, ) iiirm,..4 CONSULTING ENGINEER—Kr John alacneil, LL.D• a n- Ire' ExcusEea—William Mullingar Higgins, Esq. past :s s iii :i %c ali: lo id &mu:ratty—Philip N. Scanlan, Esq. COMPANY'S Orrter,s-47, Moorgate -strc• • (E' -- "' -6 This Company has been formed ior the purpose of oP 0 t tic p railway communicat!c. between Calais and Bruges , P ass e 2e lS „ 51e, important districts or France and Belgium containing o _ll l ti .ft tet above 00,000 inhabitants and forming a junction `yl 11 ° I ; .Or Railway at Bruges, which , hag now become the 111(4t ,Otto tt tt the interior of Belgium, Germany, Prussia, and the 11 ftoe of the Fteg ea id ro t It of In beforelayin the public the prospectus o f this P- t ea- or si , may be mentioned as one of ate principal ativantages'o. ocean s „, reduce the paesage from London to Brussels, °° . rft b ,t e," twenty-fair or twenty-six hours, under the me•st fav°) r ee; ' t ea'„ ft stances, and often thirty or forty, to twelve hours, re s .' ft t ts ° ,; o yitor e . ticable to make the journey with ease in one day, M s ` i - ,t rte 3 ..,; 10 ,,, of the present expetsse. The long, tedious, and un certs•eoleil f elf" will also be avoided from Dover to Ostend, which, to tr o 4 ;edi g a s rally, and particularly to ladlea and invelida, is e ~..' , o f 1. - tr agreeable, and often attended wii h serious c 7nsequeu%'t pa7,e, It can hardly admit of a question, that the Prin c e ii . stru, ft tis 6l : ' passenger traffic between the two capitals, London S t l c , ef I; t ett 1; gather with the passenger traffic of the populou s c '„, 3° 1 . , , t ° c a. and Ghent, the latter being the Manchester of Beg• . „`;' slloiolt 1# portaut towns of St. Nieholar and Tierlmontl, vr l3l '' ;ate . e' l 9a a circumstances, drawn into this channel ; and anothertoftek,',ooo4 vantage to the public, and source of revenue to the C° s ad 'osic_rist found in the eransmissien of the Belgian, Otaattet,,cr to , ,, t a c c , mile, which are now convoyed by steamers front 1••-_'000„,itej' ptsettaitvioenrytheiaoitrilfdterrartslemeii7tuedentsoa,catailadisS,eiathstetatur!ssaglietss c e } o il - k .. and usually made in two hours.. The traffic and expenditure may be fairly catan tb : e, : fti e i t::: f . e; : o,.4o I ate ( ' s ' Fr t or rn s , o f , r o . o „. o p o a s s t s e e ; n ld ge a rs nt , i sAvih,ot,,,,earcep,onriclnit„tigaitiyo the i t° coed' 0 0 neat and return by this route, say, from each, ou , .• " 1°„' o e0 rage, 10s. each way ....... . For the transport of mails from the respective, Govt . "... ••• 0 0 Local traffic in goods and passengers .• • • • • • • •• " •• ",1 1 %00 30,_,. at •• . • .....<OO O Deduct the expenses of worklugthe line, calculated ota titp et :101:1e; Thus leaving a profit of It;q4 per ecnt. to the 6 , 3l ,s;:tec o tf." c r liS every prospect of a considerable increase anenally .r th e t6' „set has been by experience proved to he the result oU ti-° . di - 1 in operation in Belgium, as well as other C o untlie s i r fixtly' r l ,r ea pry The projected railroad would pass throng' 8 I:enting 000'04 of country rich in agricultural productiong, Pr e- e ir s eei ee ppitt l e 4;ll impediments to its construction, and wculd retold be tiwoed ..co nor viaducts ; and the only bridges necessary ico,l un atte„ote ,c ,.. of a few dykes. Thus the construction would .. , t - ' the_ t ` co reg_ u o o. heavy expense, and its working, when eon a p lete , t ii C reo - t il ,c lace is to nomical character; for, as experience has : `ll°`v,l•hcoal t° ma y - acc t able item iu working a railway is the eupP:7 °•„ d the e- - one fives ; the proximity to the port of Dunkiris, s. m e in t 3 the Belgian coal fields, obviate this difficulty. aw , an e n co lti t . fi od This line, which has been already exiltut u° on e est r o tine'veir neer, will . be about sixty miles in extent frearL inic Ors io, „p -other ; will connect in US-route the towns of laf r c d 'l3l l, ( s 9 ettst.t. l ,:iog Dunkirk. in France, with Furness, Nieuports_ic ia g ° ,l to le' glum ; thus securing a very important local t f r r a: e ic ' of seng•rs, indepeudent of the foreign traffic be.° • ...-- es ,per 9o o lc e the possibility of its paying beyond all doubt. u _„,„ r ted f;,,ieleg o c; Arrangements are in progress and strongly e , p_F - fo r eo ., , i • L ; o e 0 , ; e 0 the highest influence both in Belgium and } rats tile o cer 9 .it consent of the Belgian and French GovernmeUrfi`onterci--; joiptt:i;;,s and as it is so obviously advantageous to . t_tf twe! ° „. o ce 0 , of s ctoapeitiaclosuraasgeßrtuhseseflosrnantadt!oonnecofn awliirtied,nbritenirti.ibeleits.oteic,,,ltteforittiftoeetio other, and the intention of the latter to encoutteeedoet 7„„ e lics continuous line of railway raund the cites!, 11_,:t.e,,,ofouct ", ' _ i ts s essfo l • ; I :.tis re ' b p y ro t , l_r i e ng D s ir ti te c t e o s r s s fl i l n l. Belgium, France, alld I.: u tg a l o t , "l _ . eac: „ .c.. der' v e In the event of the applications proofe a charge on o do will be returned, with the exception InsY ossi— exceeding five ihillings. ita ation hall-streete t theft of apP--;,,t0r90 °' Application co pprospectusesaannfydo,rsto.inti,cees and form London—Messrs. Peppercorneit,lige Broad-stusree.t and _ Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and So , s Lockwood andow Liverpool—Megsrs. T. Ceglau and Soca art Thistol—Messrs. Edwards and Co. _ s on, o° 4 " Leeds--Thomas M. Lee, Esq., Ilar fe i Bell and Ledger Hull—Messrs. Flint and Teotal Exeter—Thomas Sandford, Esq• eal q saltrgpeci l s- FOR .- a .ageS 2 04 FORM OF APPLICATIO. ... od ,•••-- 1 Plymouth-31es rs. Ilas•ward lld Pelmet*. To the Directors of the Calais, Dunlap , par o o o r to l , Railway. _ otte cl eats' Gentlemen--I request you will allot inu floa t th ... - snc it til l . 50 1 boitil.oke:srso.L...the sol:eilv. or:(0 od each in tics Company, and I undertake !°, „ay tile a e a:entl V less number that may be aPotted me, and . r ')'... , Agr d c. - and I s undertake also to execute the Subs, T r ' e ' qu ire . ....••"... OtherVocument that may be necessary, I,Bei lam, Gentlen.en, . ..... •.• ....., ..:. Date • • .• " .• , . , . acs c Residenc e .... .. • .• • O Reference • • • • e nded,;,...... to „3toc v Ueuta Sign3„tui3 be attepolter, N.B.—To save trouble, no neel!ea r t r . la directors, A accompanied with a reference to ono 0 e etabil itY " f 5 broker, or mercantile hou3e of known reap 13 1/C6 . 1 1 AND eIALAIS, if- PUNKIRIC, v _. e 5 - stO r t• A' ' • nii f a tO %4 ) rr Christiana f .9 l o a t 1 ii l l l., a g. 7 e : ~ ~ ......• .: .. ... :....... ... , JUNCTION RAIL'S l'catio _ las I ' be received in this Company after s 4° ily order, :I aclii(lja.Tl Villa . ' N: flee is hereby given, that no fartlhuera„,aPDPA'l,, the 16ta 87, Moorgatc-Street, (Cts la, 1 8 4 5 . . . ,- AtiLw-re, to Ay ' b orc rap Cap PQ ea r, T his line R . ' , Vat g r i n L shed. Ist Pro C °R ENI 11-'4 p r Corn REL, i,o u r , , nr T in mat, ; ltl L ttsy V4ll b e 'l°j:hi,. Cap k • C V 0 , 4,41 1 1, , 3 vlek, te t ' 4 l 111 1 4 1) 1 ,,. ( 4,:;.. 4 q 1 tt=ll,4' tr i FO h‘ h t l qkr l % 10,: 1 44 y o a t 41 141 4, 1 , 4 1 , 4 t Nd th L td " ri ikr td N e btr t Akt 4 1\ C . '‘ f l4 t, 1.1 1 Q , t 4 o qi)4 1 :1'8 tia,, •