The Sun. — London, England, 1845-09-29 00:00:00

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED. G REAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT.' RAILWAY, By a Junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedforl. Distance, 120 miles. Capital 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Sharee of fa each. Deposit 21. 12e. 6d. per Share. (Poignant to the Standing Orders of the Rouse of Connoolto. , VIOTISIONAL COMMITTZB. The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne Sir William Twysden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gi once stel g J u un are ction , Dir , eci and . Erewash Valley Extension Railways Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway, s.n d of the South and Midland Junction, and West .M idlan d Railways Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director Of the Italian and Austrian, and Trent Valley Continuation Railways Henry Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Watkinson Hall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the Smith Midland Railway John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-street, Broad-street, Director of the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford, Railways William Banks, Esq., Honey-lane Markel John Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-Square, Di rector of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction Railways Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's Park, Hampstead, Director of the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Railway Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq., the Lodge, Upper Clapton Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle House, Gomersall, near Leeds Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds and West Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft House, 'ear Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Nall and Selby Railway Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford Dr. 13rigstock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln, and Great Luxembourg Railway Job Bullinart, Esq., East Redford William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., J.P., Hull, Director of the Rugby Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways John Carter, Esq., Knottingley Thomas Carter, Esq., Tanshelf, J.P.Jor the Borough of Pontefract Charles Charnock, Esq., Holmfield House, near Ferrybridge Millis Coventry, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Junction, and Birmingham Extension Railways B. Clements, Esq., Lowndes-equare, Director of the Westerndiusiaisa Railway J. Cottam, Esq., East Redford Robert Cook. Esq., Gainsboreugh, Director of the Manchester, Mid land, and Great Grimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Axholme, and the Wisbeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junctionitailways John Cutts, Esq., Little Barfield Hall, near Braintree, Essex James Clift, Esq., director of the Parts and Strasbourg, Southampton Manchester, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, and Maccles field Railways W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Loudon and Birmingham Eaten. sion Henry Sherard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street Francis Dacre, Esq., Stratford, Essex J. Dawson, Esq., Pontefract John Dennis, Esq., Director of the West Midland, and Thames Val ley Railways Joseph Dent, Esq., A.lbston Hall, near Leeds, Magistrate for the North West Riding of Yorkshire A. A. Davenport, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten sion, and Worcester Junction Railways Joseph L. Davenport, Esq.,Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway John Alcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, near Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Richard Dransteld, Esq., Dalton, l!uddersfleld, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, of the Liverpool and Leeds Di rect, and of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey mouth Railway Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Managing Direc tor of the York and Lancaster Railway Bram:nue Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten sion Railway Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans field, and Midland Junction Railway Martin Ferules, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shot field Railway John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London derry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways George Green, Esq., Pontefract Charles Gibson, Esq., Holland-place, Clapham James Gilbertson, Esq., Hertford William Gibson, Esq., Glasgow H. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside William Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Henry Swan Graves, Esq., Ely Bank Lodge, Halifax Joha Gully, Esq., Ackworth Park, Ackworth Richard Hall, Esq.,',Carnarron Hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways " John Charles Hall, Esq., New Grove-street, East Redford R. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry S. C. Hall, Esq., Y.S.A.. Inner Temple, Director et the Erewash Tal ley Extension, and West Midland Railways Samuel Hammond. Esq., Leeds Joha George Hammack, Esq., Director of the Direct Western and the Metropolitan Junction Railways William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lieut. and J.P. fbr the West Riding of Yorkshire John Mason Hepworth, Esq., Edea-place, Ackworth, J.P. for the West Riding of Yorkshire Joshua Hepworth, Esq., Rogerthorpe Hall, Bedsworth Thomas Heells , ' Esq. Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director o f th e Lan cashire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire sad Yorkshire North- Eastern, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways Robert Berries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Charles Holbrooke, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester John Holmes, Esq., Mast Redford John Illldge , Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Direc tor of the Derby and Stafford Railway William Empson Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, user Hull, Di rector of the York and Hull Railway Barwell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness Home, near Hull, Ma gistrate for the East Riding of York and Borough of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley Railways John Jameson, Esq., Honey-lane Market William Jameson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the Staf fbrdshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the I erpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet Valleys, or Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways George Lawton, Esq., Ditchleys, Essex, Director of Una Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square Moses Edward Legg, Esq.. Watling-street, London Captain Henry Leech, - Bedford William Ley, Esq. ' 40, Gloucester-place, P or t man - square , Director of the Reading and Reigate Railway L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Western Ja maica Railway P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo and Shannon, the Ipswich and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale Railways John B. Mann, Esq., Leeds Thomas Hackett Massey, Req., Newark-upon-Trent, gial Bedford square, Hyde Park Thomas 'Murk, Esq., Hull William Mee, Esq., East Redford W. R. Mesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford Robert Mellington, Fiq ., Ordshall House, near East Redford, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway William Sfoorho'ose, Esq., Marine Villa, Knottingley, Provisional Director of the Sheffield, Barnsley, and Wakefield Railway Peter Morrieon, Esq., Director of South and Midlands' Junction, and London and Birmingham Extension Railways James ›auscroft, Esq., Pontefract, J. P. for the Borough, a Previ sional Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension and Chester .I , anctioii, Railway Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Southampton, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways William Joseph Nash, Esq. Bedford John Norton, Esq. 1, St. George's-square, Westminster, and Moat House, Brentwood, Director otths Great Western Direct Railway Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley and Con tinuation and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South Midland and Oxford Extension Railways Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D., Ponteftact Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North William Perfect, Esq., Monkbill, near Pontefract John Phillips, Esq. Mayor of Pontefract Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., "Bridal, 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 DOTS Valley Railways Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway John Reginald Riddll, Esq., Bycullah House, Enfield, Managing Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Junction, the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and the Direct Western Railways James Itobson, Esq., Tanshelf, J. P. for the Borough of Pontefract George Robinson, Esq., Ilull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junc tion, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate, the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Think Junc tion Railway Thomas itontlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director o. the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railways Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing stoke Railway Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet and Blythe Valleys Railways J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of tho Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and of the Leeds and York, and Midland Railways William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the South Midland Junction Railway, &c., &C. George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury Hall, Sheffield, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., $O, North-street, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways Joseph Smithson, Esq., Kirklees Mills, near Halifax James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, Uttaxster. and Stafford Railway. Thomas S. Trapp, Eaq., Banker, Bedford Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbais, Hall, Di rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and GOrbals. Hull Thomas Turney, Esq., Park Lodge, near Halifax David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckiand Hollow, Derbyshire, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railways Major-General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester-plaCo, Portman square William Williams, Esq., Royal Poandery, Bedford Charles Waite, Esq., Willesden House, MiddleseX John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex. an Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax (With power to add to their number.) ENGINZIIII-is.CNIRF—SIr John M'Nell, L.L.D., and P.R.S. ACTING Emu/gm—William Mallingar Higgins, L•NDON SOLICITORS. J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-coitrt Owen Gray. Esq., za Great Tower-street. J. B. Illidgs, Esq., } RANKERS. London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co. Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co. The object of this railway is to connect, in the moat direct coarse, The important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds with the Metropolis, the want of which has long been felt, and is too univer o_fllY a cknowledged to need any comment, and it i s un d er thi s con 7,etion that this important undertaking, after several minute exit 12kin dons of the c oun t r y th roug h w hi ch it will pass, has beta brought IQrw a excl. Th • proposed line will commence at the junction of the Manches ter and Leede field, and win , and York and North Midland Railways, near Wake- Coents Railwa y inate by means of a junction with the Eastern that Company te at Bedford to which place it is the intention of ), and by th_extent their line in the ensuing session of Parlia ment railways, win ,ritii t i v itself as far as possible of the existing Unto, from London to De e e most direct and leant expetialve trunk hin an available diet an t e York, and Hull. It will pass in Its route ' wi 1 . 1 1,0 et. of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster, Rotherham, East Redford Mowbray, Oat Stamf ord tingham, Newark, Grantham, Melton The importance of such a lire . is obvious, both from the nature of its course (embracing, as I abl e most extensive population within its limits) as also from t hec a e of any direct communication for the conveyance of passenger, and merchandise By the construction of this railway -aes—a nd (bY Not aa ti a ng ana ham of London will be given to Peterborough . 'se the syston and Peterborough Railway), to New (by the Nottingham and Lincoln line), and to Sh ar effi k Old and (3i ham rough (by the Sheffield and Gainsborough 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 Lino will pass, th e Li ne In itself consi dered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, is sufficient to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic between these two places would produce such a return on the capital required. as to admit of a dividend, equal to that of any railway in operation : but when it is borne in mind, that a Company is being lbrmed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow with Leeds by means of a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no better line can be presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct communica tion from Glasgow and the Western parts of Scotland to London, but would also connect Edinburgh and the Eastern parts of Scotland as Well as Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North Midland, and Great North of England Railways), with the Metropolis, which would be considerably shorter than the accommodation offered by any ether Company, And when cost of construction Ls considered there THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1845. IRISH GREAT WESTERN (DUBLIN) to (4AL RAILWAY. 'I lie dect of this Comp.tn7 wilt lie for signature on and after WEDNL.,DAI, cf d't 19, Moorgate-street, London, where also the new scrip may be had. The letters of allotment for the exchange of scrip are in course of issue according as the respectability of the applicants is ascertained. FITZSTEPHEN FRENCH, Chairman. Rnsterrt, Esq., Carhcr!na-enkrt, Trinity-sqttarc wi..grovc Cooke, t London I. SeT _' - e, L q., Ex , t(r 'Esc; , Director of the Exeter and Fal 11111 l Railway Richard Compton, Esq., Eddington House, Hungerford, Berke, a Magistrato for the counties of Wilts aid Berks Henry Coa Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Malden, Essex The Constable of Hungerford Richard Davis, Esq., St. Helen's-place, Director of the South Midland Railway Edward Hyde Clarke, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Warwickshire and London Railway Captain William Lionel Lampert, The Highlands, Oxfordshire, and Leamington, Warwickshire Francis Burton, Esq., Milverton House, Warwickshire Captain Stewart, R.N., Leamington, Warwickshire Samuel Haines, Esq.. Chad-house, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director of the South Staffordshit e Railway ;C'q~ ,, a, F-17.11,10, E q., Cli*l-house, Ecigbaaton, Dire. 2 i3.rinY.ng„ll.un Rally:ay . Esq., Bin.'.4-houB-, ilohntlrth : : T.? Director of the Derbyshire, Stu , oreestersidreJuuetioa Rahway, &c. Hammond, ;G., Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Harrison, John, Esq , Banker, Ripon, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Hartshorne, Robert James, Esq., Ashbourne Haywood, Richard Howard, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries Holtiforth, Joseph Dempsey, Esq., of Burley, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Railway Herries, Robert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railway Hill, John, Esq., Derby Hirst, Abraham, Esq., York-house, Huddersfield Ingleby, Joseph, Esq., Cheadle, Staffordshire Johnson, John Goodwin, Esq., Bentley Hall, Ashbourne Johnson, D. T., Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of the Ches• ter and Manchester Railway Johnson, Richard Wm., Esq., Moorgate, Director of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Jones, the Rev. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Jones, Edward, Esq., Windmill-place, Camberwell Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Kingdom, Win. Esq., Westbourne-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the Birmingham and Manchester Direct Railway Keene, John Joseph, Esq.„ St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Director of the National Bank of Ireland, &e. King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance, &c. Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston Hall, Sudbury Laughton, Richard, Esq., Barrow-hill, Uttoxeter Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, James, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn Commission, Ste. Marlow, Joseph, Esq., Walsall Mason, Charles James, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries Mason, George Miles, Esq., Wetley Abbey, ,S...tatfordshire Meteyard, Borace, Wm., Esq., Director of Remington's London and Manchester Railway, Middle Temple, and Chatham-place M`Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the. Derbyshire Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Manors, John, Esq. Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Meilard, James, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Musgrave, Simeon, Esq., Kirkstall, near Leeds, Director of the Thirsk and Midland Junction Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Minors, John, Esq., The Parks, Uttoxeter, Director of the East and West Junction Railway Mountford, Thomas John, Esq., Ashbourne Moorhouse, Joshua, Esq., Holmtirth Maskery, Thomas, Esq., Norbury, Derbyshire North, Joseph, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield Norton, George, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfleld,Director of the Li verpool and Leeds Direct Railway Orton, James, Esq., Woodford, near Uttoxeter, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Parkinson, John, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Wyde-park, Di- Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Rail way, &e. Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield House, Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Roberts, Thomas, Esq., Manchester Robinson, John, Esq.,"Silcoates, Cottage, Wakefield Roden, Thomas Clarke, Esq., Birmingham Richardson, Joseph, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway Sant, Edward, Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropto, I,erbyshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, Charles, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, Thomas, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway Smith, Thomas, Esq., Blore-hall, Staffordshire, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, William, Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of Teen and Dove Valley Railway Smith, John, Esq., Barton House, Derbyshire Smythe, John Vere, Esq., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Sidney, Thomas, Esq.,,klderman and Sheriff, City of London, Direc tor of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railways Spiers, E. J., Esq., Carlton Villas, London, Director of the East and West Junction Railway Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle As surance Company Terry, Benjamin, Esq., Mayor of Walsall, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway, &e. Tibbits, Thomas, Esq., Norton Manor-house, Leicester Tomlinson, Thomas, Esq., Bradley Pastures, Ashbourne Toogood, Rupert, Esq , Ashbourne Tylecote, Edward, Esq., surgeon, Great Heywood, Staffordshire Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, Holloway, London, Director of the East and West Junction Railway, &c. Wailer, Major, K.H., St. James's-square, Director of the Chester and Manchester Railway, &c, Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire Walters, J. T., Esq. ' Rugeley Watts, William Royde, Esq., Birmingham Weston, Samuel, Esq., Leeds Weston, Thomas, Esq., Teen, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Willes, George, Esq., Thagerford-park, Berkshire Williamson, Hugh Henshall, Esq.. Greenway Bank, Staffordshire Potteries Williamson, Robert, Esq., Ramsdell-hall, Staffordshire Potteries Wise, Thomas, Esq., Ashbourne Witham, John, Esq., Ashbourne Woolrich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood, Charles, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood William, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc tion Railway Wood, William Hurd, Esq., Ashbourne Wilkinson John, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railway Wright, Thomas, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsbo rough Railway, Rn pi September 25, 1843. D IRECT WESTERN RAILWAY (Upon the Broad Gauge), )'rom Lend= to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and Bridgewater respectively. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 3,000,0001., In 120,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share. Offices, 20, Poultry, London. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Camperdown, Sidney-place, Bath The Viscount Mandeville, Kirnbolton-park, Hunts Lord James O'Bryen, Royal-crescent, Bath Lord William Powlett, Bath, and Downham-hall, Brandon, Suffolk General Sir John Slade, Ban., 3luntys Court, Taunton Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, Somerset The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens Howard Elpliinstone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, Loudon Ralph Neville, Esq., M.P., Hill-street, Berkeley-square Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P., 6, Parliament-street Hon. Percy Evans Freke„ 3, Belgrave-square Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Companies Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P., Foxley, Herefordshire Sir John Cave Brown Cave, Bart., Kenilworth, Warwickshire Sir William Young, Bart., Westbourne-green, Hyde-park, East India Director John Clark, Esq., Bellefield House, near Trowbridge, Wilts, Magis trate for the counties of Wilts and Somerset Alfred Batson, Esq., Ramsbury, Wilts, and Upper Bedford-place Major Hunt Grubbe, Eastwell House, Devizes John Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker John Lovel Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker William Adair Bruce, Esq., Lansdown-crescent, Bath air John Key, Bart , 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Teoley-street, Alderman of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin ster Bank, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder minster Railway Thomas Challis, Esq., Enfield, Alderman of the City of London Edward Harrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the South Midland Railway Joseph Armitage, Esq., Miln's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road. Hyde Park, Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and South Midland Railways Donald Maclean, Esq., $7, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway Thomas Lawrence, Esq.. 3, St. Mary Axe Philip W. Courtney, Esq. Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London Millis Coventry, Esq., Esq., Lombard-street Barnet L. !Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and George-street, Mansion Mouse Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf William Eales, Esq., Mincing.lane, London, late Director of the Devon and Cornwall Banking Company Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director of the South Midland Railway Martin Stately, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London, Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, amid the South Essex Railways Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Insurance Company James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West Heath House, Er.th, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Direc tor of the Bridport and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railways Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon street, London 11. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park George 31'Intosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-sqaare Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-read, Regent's Park, London Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland Railway Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company I. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company Patrick Fras. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the Leaden and Blackwell Railway Company William Downing Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon Cuthbert Woodcock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstone-street, Portman square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension Railways George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30,, Pall-mall, London William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Chelteaham, and Temple, Lon don, Director of the Leicester and Tamwerth Railway Richard Barris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway Company Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, Loudon, Auditor of the London and Blackwell Railway Company Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the St. Katherine Docks Company, and of the General Shipowners' Society' William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire George Payne, Esq., Snlby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles street, Berkeley-square James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor place, London Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Droinagh Castle, county Cork, Union Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail way Company Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London William Congreve Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di rector of the Warwickshire an London Railway Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain Sd Light Dragoons Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity- Name, London Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire John Giliyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Berks Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place. Bath Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Rev Chas. Fras. Bamffylde, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bath, Magis trate for Somerset Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming ham Railway Company R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buekiagliam shire Railway and Wolverton Junction Richard Mortimore, Fsq., Kingsmill, Collumpton Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Keutisbere, ColluMptoX Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton Colonel Henry Dundee Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton Wm. H. Halcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman of the Barks Union Banking Company William Halcomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and Dorset Bank Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, !Wks Thomas Carlisle, Esq.. Clifton, Bristol John Kerle Haberfield, Esq., Clifton, Bristol James Troup, Esq., Hastings John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John 3forford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director of Coventry and Leicester Railway Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland aid North ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and Birkenhead, and Manchester and Southampton Railways Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies Joseph Kadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley' Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies" John Holford. Esq., Itusholm Hall. Manchester C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Rudders William -*orthage, Esq., Upper Gower-street, Bedford- square John Walley Hughes,. Esq., Gloucester, Director of the Birmingham and Bristol Railway Lewis Bruce Knight Bruce, Esq., The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey Francis Cole Humbert, Esq., Oxford-street, Hyde:Park Algernon Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park James Lamb, Esq., Hyde-park-square Ri c h ar d Groucock, Esq.,l Bow-churchyard, and Dulwich, Director of the Direct Manchester Railway J. B. Simpson, Esq., Rutland-lodge, Brixton Henry Bellerty, Esq., Sheriff of York Henry Ledgard, Esq., 39, Wood-street, Cheapside, Director of the Rugby and Macclesfleld Direct Railway John Williams, Esq., Eaton-square. Thomas Grimsditch, Esq , M.P., Macclesfield, Cheshire Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn-fields, Wolverhampton, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway William Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton Erasmus It. Foster, Esq., Birchin-lano William Bargett, Esq., Broad-street Peter It. Morrison, Esq., Princes-street, Bank Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Enfield, Director of the York and Lan caster Railway Thomas Kidley, Esq., M.D., Sheffield James Sheppard, Esq., jun.. White Hart-court, Lombard-street Valentine Knight, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Magistrate for Middlesex George Sercombe, Esq., Exeter John Clampit Sercombe, Esq., Exeter William Pearce, Esq. Liverpool W. Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham Robert Henry Hurst, Esq., jun., Temple William Nash, Esq., Capham Common Grey Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton Hall, Leicester Captain Twisleton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the Leicester arid Tean and Dove Valley Railway (With power to add to their number). ENGINEERS IN CHIEF. Sir John Macr.iell, LL.D., F.R.S. James Thomson, Esq., F.R.S.E., M.R.I.A. BANKERS—Messrs. Cut rise and Co., Cornhill, London. JOINT SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. SECRETARY—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq. Asstsw4T-Szearreat--Charles J. Whalley, Esq. LOCAL SOLICITORS. At Newbury—Messrs. Godwin and Gray, and B. Phudger, Esq. At Ramsbury—Willlain Rowland, Esq. At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq., and John Edwards Hayward, Esq. At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton At Shepton Mallett—Francis Isaac ti alder, Esq. At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole At Exeter—William Denis Moore, Esq. At Tiverton, T. L. T. Rendell, Esq., and J. A. Toms, Esq. At Launcelton—Messrs. Lawrence and Pattisen At Bodmin ♦t Truro At Penzane4 At Falmouth—Messrs. Tresidder and Son The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between L•ndon and the Land's End. In a national point of view such a line is indispensable. With the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from its situatioa at the western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of at least 230 mifes of heavy road, that place has attained its high po sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in- creased its imports from 200,0001. to 2,000,0001. per annum. At Bris tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased. The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal mouth by way of Ply - mouth ; and various other projects have been set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by railway. The object of this prospectus is to show that ne other line than the resent can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard to this, its most important eutport—" the natural Packet Station of the empire." The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End. The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company having amalga mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company. The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frotne, Shepton Mallet, Wells (from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater), Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two miles than any existing railways between these points, and without a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St. Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole ilstan - Ce irom London to Falmouth, a saying of about ninety miles, With respect to the traffic on the upper portion of the line it b needless to sayfinore than that there is already thorough traffic suffi cient to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes- tern : that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton about 32 miles, that it will traverse rich and populous agricultural and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as well from railways now in course of construction as from ethers pro jected, with every chance of success. As to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that the vast number of merchant vessels continually detained in the Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway; and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol and Southampton ; t • what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire may be further developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the map will make it manifest tat no competing trunk line can ever be established between Tiveaten and the Land's End. As between Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So mersetehire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of railroad accommodation. Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance in the event of war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet commerce of the kingdom; it may not be out of place to quote here the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley, which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways, he is reported to have said :—" I consider that the com munication between the metropolis and the great o u tports to be not a question of hours, but a question ef minutes." Of the necessity of this particular line, Parliament hat already expressed an opinion ; for in the report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company, 1 it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth ; and it may be further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth points, be ready was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed to iatorfere with that great national object. The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and correct estimates of the expenditure anti f r o e r tu t rn he s n a e rz t ii n i a u s io ta n te of of p f a o r r : here to state that there are 110 engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been expense ; that the undertaking repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be Par liament. T s n' etand sufficient, t h ase whole tethese will concurrence, and co-operation of the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that will meet iatht thean cuonrudisalualsltyipspm?ratll this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways in the kingdom. Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at four pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected with the Direct Western district. Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to the solicitors to the Company - , or to the Secretary, at the Company's Offices, 20, Poultry, London, or to the local solicitors, or to any re spectable broker in town or country 20, Poultry, London, September, 1145, FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway Company. BANKERS. Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., Cornhill, London The Burton, Uttometer, and Ashbourne, Union Bank, ITttoireter Ditto Ditto, Ashbourne Dudley and West Bunwich Banking Co., Dudley Derbyshire Banking Co., Derby Ripen—Mess re. Terry, Harrison and Co. Bradford—The Leeds and West Riding Bank Messrs. I. and Hamilton Richardson, solicitors, Leeds SOLICITORS. John Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttozeter ENGINEERS. Sir John Rennie, F.E.S. George Remington, Esq., C.E. LOCAL ►GENTS. Armishaw, J., Esq., Itugeley Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley Eggington, A., Esq., Lichfield Green, James J., Esq., Walsall. Lowe, Richard, Esq., Cheadle Floyd and Booth, Huddersfield and HolnifirtS BROKERS. Messrs. Kitching and Alarshall, Leeds Messrs. Turley an I Cooper, Leeds Mr. Thomas Oskwith, Ripon This line of railway, which is about sixty-five miles in length, is intended to commence at Uttoxeter (the terminus of the proposed Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway) and to proceed to Sheffield and Huddersfield. It will form a direct com munication between two of the most important manufacturin. , and mining districts in England, viz., South Staffordshire, Huddersfield, and Sheffield, and Rotherham in Yorkshire ; the South Staffordshire portion including Dudley, Tipton,Walsall, Bilston, Wednesbury, and Wolverhampton. This line will also open a direct railway communication between Leeds, Huddersfield, and the West Riding of Yorkshire and Kidder minster, Worcestershire, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton, and Exeter, and with Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford, Brecon, Car diff, Neath, Swansea, Llanelly, Caermarthen, Milford Haven, Fish guard, Aberystwith, and with Porthdynllaen, the future outport for Ireland. And also the most direct communication between Leeds and Southampton. The line will pass nearly along the Uttoxeter and Caldon Canal to a point near Prestwood, in case the canal be purchased by the pro moters of this undertaking. It will proceed through Ellaston and Mayfield to Ashbourne. thence near Dovedale, Buxton, and Chapel en-la-Frith, Woodhead and llolmfirth to Huddersfield, where it will join the Muddersfleld and Leeds Railway, and so to Thirsk. It will open new mines, in addition to those already in work, of lead, coal, iron ore, barytes, and carboniferous and magnesian limestone on the route, in addition to forming a direct, speedy. and cheap communica tion between the important towns above mentioned. Arrangements have been made with other companies to run into this line from Sheffield. This company reserves the right to raise additional capital to extend the line to Leeds. Many of the above-mentioned mineral productions are essential to the mining districts of South Staffordshire and Sheffield. The North Staffordshire and Derbyshire Limestone is much superior to that of South Staffordshire in the fluxion of iron (15 cwt. of the former being equal to a ton of the latter), and producing a better quality of ma terial. At present, the mode of transit is very circuitous and expen sive, the line from the Caldon Mines having to go by canal round by Etruria, Leek, and the Potteries, to the Dudley and surrounding furnaces, when, by this railway, it would be taken in a straight line to them ; and the Ashbourne, Cromford, Worksworth, and Bakewell country would have an entirely new trade opened to them. The iron stone in the neighbourhood of Sheffield is also becoming very scarce, and great quantities are introduced from Scotland; the same scarcity exists in South Staffordshire; and the route of this line would fur nish a cheap and good supply, at present not worked, and without a market, both north and south. In addition to these great advan tages, a good local market would be opened along the agricultural and other parts of the district at present very badly supplied with _ . _ _ . . field and Sheffield, and Director of Cue Halifax. and Bradford Union Railway Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South- Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 25/. each in the above Company, avid I undertake to pay the deposit of 21. 12s. 6d. per share thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con• tract when required. Dated ampton Railway John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Durham Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and Midland Railway Companies Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpoo Wm. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and Iron Bride Railway Company C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Company Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield, Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office Win. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the Huddersfield and Shffield Railway Adderley Howard,Xsq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of tke East Coast Railway Company Captain Bowker, R.N., Devonport H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Di rect Railway Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield Director of the East and West of England Railway Company John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield aid Har rosvgate Railway Company William Marriott, Esq., Attercliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway. Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York and East Lincolnshire Railways John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool David Price, Esq., Manchester William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington Rev. 11. W. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways Henry Hubberaty, Esq., Hull John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Janctioa Jl ll : e hn n nr r y ym S sea l e i y a 3 w e E tEh s v q , .. c F Eo e sm itqt Gray's i t ya e 3 - ro l a n d n , -s L q i u m a e r h e ouse, merchant Whn Norton, Esq., Moat Hows e , Brentwood, Essex illiam John M'Guire, Esq., Hampton Court John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey W. J. Lefeuvre, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate ofSouthanipton Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., F R.S., York-terrace, Regent's Park G. B. Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Coventry and Leicester Railway Captain Tringham, R.N., Solyhall, Warwickshire William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench -walk, Temple James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield The Hon. F. Byron, 21, Eaton-place William Higgins, Esq., Turvey, High Sheriff of Bedfordshire Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak-park, near Winchester, Deputy-Lieu tenant, and magistrate for the county of Hants William Jackson, Esq , Birkenhead, Chairman of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway 1 Sheriff of Lond on and T E h . o H in . a L s a s n i gs n vo ey rt , h E y s , qEspqm., Alderman, ant x Nathaniel Gould, Esq., Barge-yard, Bucklersbury, and Tavistock square Edmund Lionel Welles, Esq., Cadogan-place, and West Moulsey, Surrey Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, and Limehouse, Director of the London Dock Company, the Marine Assurance Company, and the General Shipowner's Society William Jackson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway George F. Earle, Esq., Hull Stephen Knowles, Esq., Exeter W. Lawrence, Esq., Brixton John Learmonth, Esq., Edinburgh, Chairman of the Edinburgh an d Glasgow, and North British Railway Companies Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway William Tanner, Esq., Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars John Booth, Esq., Sherburn Grange, Durham Matthew Benjamin Robson, Esq., Whitwall Grange, Durham John Holmes, Esq., St. Jame,'s-street, Director of the Dorchester and 1845. Name in full • ...... • .. Trade or Profession place of Business (if any) lime and coal, and that of an inferior quality, and by expensive car riage. It is, therefore, next to impossible to calculate the immease traffic which would pour down this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, sad Worcestershire Junction Railway. The calculations which have been made show a very large profit. There are large lead and slate quarries on the line which only want an outlet like the one now contemplated to bring them into full work. The coal is of a superior quality. THE LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEF FIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE (or LEEDS WOLVERHAMPTON, and DUDLEY) DIRECT RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. The Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Staffordshire Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street, Hyde-park Gardens Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Deputy Chairman of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail way, &c. Sir William Boothby, Bart, Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire Sir William Lowthrop, Kilt., Hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Di rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc tion Railway Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, Ashburham House, Chairman of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Hon. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Nottingham and Boston Railway, Parliament-street, London, &c., dcc. The Sheriff of York Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's London and Manchester Railway Bright, Selim, Esq., Buxton Barrett, 11., Leeds, Director of the Keighley, Halifax, and Rudders. field Union Railway Buck, W. C., Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway Blurton, Robert, Esq., banker, Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter, Direc tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Booth, John, Esq., Macclesfield Bright, Selim, Esq., Buxton Bradley, Septimus, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashbourne Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon don and Manchester Direct Railway Cleobury, Thomas, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton Cooke, the Rev. J., Uttoxeter, Director of the East and WestJuaction Railway, Ike. Cooke, John, Esq., Macclesfield Cooper, John Douglas, Esq., Holtne Cottage, Ashbourne Cox, Walker, Esq., Breadsall, Derby, Director of the Teaa and Dove Valley Railway Crockett, T. Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, dcc. Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reming ton's London and Manchester Direct Railway Crossley, John, Esq., Lamberhurst, Sussex, and Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Cumberlege, Nathaniel, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park Dolby, John, Robert, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Dale, Major, Thurston, Ashbourne Daniel, Richard, Esq., Oak Hill, Stoke-upon-Trent Dawson, Samuel, Esq., sen., Ashbourno Dent, Edward, Esq., Westfield, Huddersfield Dint, John, Esq., Norlhgate, Huddersfield Darlington, J., Esq., Bradford Dyson, Thomas, Esq., Well-house, Holmfirth Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Railway Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the ladders field, Sheffield, and Halifax Railway Edensor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbourne Elershaw, John, Esq., Leeds Fidler, Peter Pichott, Esq., Higgin Grange, Derbyshire Fisher, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Frost, Meadows, Esq., Chester Garle. Samuel, Esq., Uttoxeter Garle, William, Esq. Uttoxeter Gilpin, and Co., Messrs. William, Wedges Mills, Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Gisborne, Henry Francis, Esq., Derby, Director of the Staffordshire, There are also extensive barytes and paint-works at Ashbourne, Cromford, and other places on the line. The scenery of Derbyshire is the resort of vast numbers of tourists; and particular care will be taken, in passing of the line near Dovedale, not to interfere with or change its beautiful and romantic character. The convenience, therefore, which this line will afford must necessarily cause a great influx of passengers, both on business and pleasure. . _ Ironstone is not so abundant in the South as in North Staffordshire, and vast quantities are sent by the tardy, circuitous, and expensive canal company, which this and other lines of railway meeting at Uttoxeter will remedy. The gypsum formation runs from Staffordshire to the Humber, and the demand for this article for building, agricultural, and manufac turing purposes along this line will be great. The timber from the neighbourhood of the Needwood Forest Banks, Bagots Woods, and Kingston Woods, upwards of 4,000 acres, chiefly finds its way to the Manchester market by a like objectionable route of tardy and circuitous canal convey ance ; whereas this line would open a direct, easy, and cheap communication to new markets. The line has been viewed prior to a detailed survey, and there are not more than ordinary engineering difficulties. In consequence of the late Parliamentary decisions, it is intended to make this line on the broad gauge principle, but the pro moters do not pledge themselves absolutely to do so. It the urgent suggestion of some of the most influential inhabi tants of Askbourne, the Committee have ordered a survey of a junc tion lisle to connect that town with the Derby, and with the Derby and Gainsborough and Midland Railways Applications for Shares to be made to John Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London, and William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter ; and to the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles, Worcester; Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler, Worcester; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liver pool ; Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Morris Rey nolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield ; Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ; Mr. Thomas Boardman, Black burn ; Mr. George Clark, Bradford ; Mr. William Mason, Bradford ; Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham; Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby; Messrs. Graystoa and Earle, York; Mr. E. 11. Armitage, Wakefield ; Messrs. Kettering and Marshall, Leeds ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham; Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton; Messrs, Tate and Nash, Bits tol • Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter ; Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry; Messrs, Houghland and Leese, Manchester; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manchester; Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Manchester; Messrs. T. N. Bardvvell and Sons, Sheffield; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr.L. Weather sum, jun., Huddersfield; Messrs. Everard and Co., Huddersfield; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester; Mr. Nicholson, Edinburgh; Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ; Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, College-green, Dublin; Mr. James Ross, Perth. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Direct Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares of 281. each In the above RaDway, and I undertake to accept the same or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations of the Company, and Le sign the necessary Deeds, and to pay, when required, the Deposit theroll of 2/. 2s. per Share. Dated this day of , 184 . Name iri NI • • • • • • • • - . . Profession and professional residence • .... Residence in full. • • • • . • • • • • • Reference • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .. Weymouth Railway, and York and Lancaster Railway William G. Bernard, Esq., Clifton, Bristol Thomas Smallwood Richards, Esq., 59, Baker-street, Portmitn-square James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Manchester N. M`Cann, Esq., Parliament-street . I Henry LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEFFIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, or LEEDS, WOLVER HAMPTON, and DUDLEY DIRECT RAILWAY. Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit. 21. 2s. per Share. The Acting Committee of Direction h ave agreed; " that a Branch Line from Ashbourne io Derby be adopted by this Company, and that the capital of the Company be increased from 1,700,0001. to 2,000,0001. for that purpose." JOHN OWENS, Joint WM. ARNOLD BAINBRIGGEJ Solicitors. 'Aces 9f the Company, 1, Monate, Sept. 26,1846. Wenman Newman, Esq., Bristol, Magistrate for that City, and Deputy-Lieutenant and Magistrate for the county of Gloucester William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury William Empson Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull Thomas Racket Massey, Esq., Newark-upon-Trent Robert Cook, Esq., Gatnsborough, Director of the Gain.sborough, Goole. arid Isle of Axil°late, and of the Wisbeach, Ely, and Lin colnehire Railways Leicester, And Tamworth Railway, &e. Goddard, Thomas, Esq., Bank-house, Longton, Staffordshlro Baden, Joseph, Esq., Dudley, Director of the Derbyshire, St 4 ord. shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway EEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SIIEFFIELD, .RA nal SOT wOLVER HAMPTON-, all HS STAFFORDSHIRE, o DUDLEY DIRECT RAH Capital, 2,0110,(10:,/., in t S , wr.,l of ',fr.!. cacti. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. Notice is hereby given, that no applications for shares in this line will be received after SATURDAY, the 4th day of October. WM. ARNOLD BAINBRIGGE, t Joist JOHN OWENS, S Solicitors. Offices of the Company, 1, M oorga t e , S e pt. 26, 1845. TH 4 IX D S and CARLISLE or NORTHERN TRUNK RAILWAY of ENGLAND. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 2,000,0001., in 80,000 Shares of MI. each. Deposit 2k 12s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. Lo r d Charles Beauclerk, Chesham-place, Belgrave square, and the Riding, Northumberland William Ackroyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge, Otley, Director of the East and West Yorkshire, Leeds, York and Midland, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway William Ackroyd, Esq., Cookridgo-grove, Leeds George Thomas Allan, Esq., Harewoed-grove, near Darlington William Hammond Ambler, Esq., Bishop Auckland, Direetor of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway John Atkinson, Esq., Alderman of Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction, and of the York, Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Railways Edward Atkinson, Esq., Portland-place, Bradford, Provisional Di rector of the Leeds and York and Midland Junction Railway (jeorge Bacon, Esq., merchant, Nottingham, Director of the Not tingham and Mansfield Railway Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., Director of the Cork and Water ford Railroad Charles Bamford, Esq., Director of the York, Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Railways Thomas Dixon Barrow, Esq., Settle, Director of the Manchester, Liverpool, and Staffordshire Potteries Railway, also of the Chel tenham, Oxford, and London Junction, the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways Edward H. Harwell, Esq., Mayor of Northampton, and Director of the South Midland and Direct Western Railways J. Errington Bell, Esq., South Shields Thomas Bell, Esq., Leeds Robert Bendle, Esq., Carlisle John Eowring, Esq., M.P. L.S.D., Director of the Blackwell Railway Robert Beverley, Esq., Quarry House, Potternewton, Leeds, Director of the Midland and Thirsk Junction Railway Edward Hilton, Esq., merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Joseph Bishop, Esq., 109, St. John's-road, Director of the Blackwell Railway Company William Charles Boden, Esq., Apaley Hall, Nottinghamshire, Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton, Chairman of the General Maritime Insurance-office Thomas Brown, Esq., banker, Sunderland John Brown, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Erewash Valley, and the Oxford and Southampton Railway James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Southampton, the Chester and Birkenhead Railways John Octevius Butler, Esq., ironmaster, Kirkstall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and Midland and Thirsk Junction Railways Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Direct Western Railway Robert Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Worcester and Ches ter Railway, and of the Leeds and York Railway William Cadman, Esq., Leeds Richard Carpenter, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway William Cartledge, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol, Director of the Direct Western Benjamie Casson, Esq., Hull Samuel Cavan, Esq., Bedford-street, Liverpool William Chadwick, Esq. (Messrs. Chadwick and Co.), Leeds J. Charretie, Esq., Park Village East, Regent's Park James Clay, Esq., Director of the Furness, and of the Birmingham, Dudley, and Wolverhampton Railways Thomas Collett, Esq., Leeds Thomas Coiling, Esq., Ripon Colquhoun, Esq., Weimer Lodge, Regent's Park, London, Chair man of the Asturian Mining Company, and Director of the Man chester and Southampton Railway George Cowen, Esq., Doleton, near Carlisle, Director of the Mary port and Carlisle Railway Robert Cowen, Esq., Carlisle C. Cunningham, Esq., 4, Clarges-street, Piccadilly John Darlington, Esq., Shipley Hall, Managing Director of the Leeds and West Riding Bank, Bradford Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Di rector of the Bridport and Exeter, Goole and Doncaster, and Direct Western Railways William Hartley Deighton, Esq., Oatiey, Provisional Director of the East and West Yorkshire Railway Richard Dransileld, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Rugby, Hali fax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Thomas Duncan, Esq., Otley Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place, Bryan stone-square, Director of the London, Manchester, Liverpool, and Leeds Direct Railway Charles Heneage Elsley, Esq., Recorder of York, Director of the York and Hull and East and West Yorkshire Railways Thomas England, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway William Evans, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Richard Tomkin Evans, Esq., Craven-street, Manchester George Faith, Esq., Mincing-lane, Director of the London, Hounslow, mid Western Railway John Forster, Esq., Headingley, near Leeds, Director of the East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway William Foster, Esq., Settle, Director of the Manchester, Liver pool, and Staffordshire Potteries Railway ; also of the Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Junction Railway John Griffiths Frith, Esq., 11, Austin Friars, and Director of the Londonderry and Coleraine Railroad James Fullalore, jun., Esq., Shakespeare-terrace, Pendleton, Man chester John Garthorne, Esq., Hull William Gill, Esq., Richmond, Yorkshire, Provisional Director of the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction Railway Charles Grant, Esq., 53, Fitzroy-square, L on d on John Grant, Esq., Northampton, Director of the London and Bir mingham Extension Railway Sir Andrew Pellet Green, R.N., James's-place, Buckingham-gate George Oates Greenwood, Esq., Bradford Edmund Gwyer, Esq., merchant, Bristol William George Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting, and Bucklersbury John Harland, Esq., Merrick, Richmond, 'Yorkshire, Provisional Director of the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction Railway William Hawthorn, Esq., Newcastle-upo a-Tyne, Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway. Robert Hawthorn, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Director of the New castle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway William Henry Hornby, Esq., Blackburn, Chairman of the Black burn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway, a'ad Director of the Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North Western Railway, the Manchester and Wigan Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Grey Nazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton Heil, Leicestershire, Director of the South Midland, Nottingham, and Gainsborough, and the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, and other railways Charles James Heath, Esq., New London. street, City Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby and Southampton, and Direct Western Railways Thomas Coulthard Heysham, Esq., Carlisle Captain Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the London and Hounslow Railway George Holmes, Esq., Hull John Holmes, Esq., Hull, Managing Director of the Hull Banking Company Thomas Holmes, Esq., Hull, Director of the Flax anti Cotton Mill Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull, Director of the York, Hull, and East and West Yorkshire, the Hull and Barnaley Junction, and the Direct Western Railways Richard Ella Hutchinson, Esq., 14fitsham, York John Jackson, Esq., Alderman of Leeds, Headingley-hill, near Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and Leeds and York Railways' Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction, and York, .Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Railways Thomas Ridley, Esq., M.D.,Sheftleld, Director of the Sheffield, Leek, and Staffordshire Railway Edward Kipling, Esq., Darlington Francis Kipling, Esq., Darlington John Knill, Esq., London-bridge-wharf, London, Director of the Wor cester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe, the Worcester and South Wales Junction Railroad, &c. &c. James Lamb, Esq., 55, Hyde Park-square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Joseph Lambert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Direst Leeds and Liver pool, and Leeds and York Railways Thomas Laurence, Esq., Leadenhall-street, London, Director of the Direct Wooten' Railway William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton, Director Of the Leeds and Man chester Direct Railway George Lee, Esq., 5, St. Martin's-place, Marto g-cross, Director of the Blackwell Railway Company _ _ John Lovitt, Esq., Hull - John Darnton Luccock, Esq., Alderman ce Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway, Ik. Captain James Macdougal, the Grove, North Brixton Lumsden Mackeson, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Di ref:dor of the Reading and Reigate and Guernsey Railways, and Pier Company Captain Charles Edward Mangles, Director of the Northern and Eastern and Blackwell Railways William Marsden, Esq., Greenwood-street, Manchester James Middleton, Esq., Knostrop, near Leeds, Director of the Mid land and Thirsk Junction Railway Michael Middleton, Esq., Darlington Robert Middleton, Esq., Deansgate, Manc'hester Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsell House. B ARIA John H. Miners, Esq., Bedford-street, Livqtrpe, e i Charles Morris, Esq., Portugal-street, Gr Os, enor-square, Director of the Bank of Australasia Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the Di met Western and South and Midland Railway Francis Morley, Esq., !derrick Park, .IftiOtmond, Yorkshire, Pro visional Director of the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction Railway Edward Munk, Esq., The Park, Nottioghaf n, Director of the Not tingham and Mansfield Railway Christopher Musgrave, J.P., Milverton hill, Leamington, Lord of the Manor of Birmingham, Director of the Leamington and Rugby, Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and. Manchester and Rugby Railways Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway W. Neesham, Esq., M.D., Director of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Joint-Stock Bank B. Oliveira, Esq., Upper Hyde-park-steeet , Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the 'Mull and Barnsley Junction, and Direct Western Railway John Parker, Esq., Shipley, near Bradfo rd. Archibald Paull, jun., Esq.. Devonshire- •place, Portman-square, Di rector of the London and York Railway Thomas Peacock, Esq., Bishop Auckland' Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction RaP away A. Maxwell Pickwoad. Esq., Penton Lot - ige, Bridport, Dorset George Richard Pye, Esq., Ravenham, S affolk Edward Railton, Esq., Broome Hall, Durham, Director of the New castle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway Richard Riddell, Esq , 23, Bryan.stone-street, Portman-square, Direc tor of the Direct Western and the Great Western Extensio Railway George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junc tion Railway Thomas Salkeld, Esq., Holme Hill, near Cal able Richard Sandhach, Esq., Manchester Dennison Sanderson, Esq., Manor House, Xa,nchester Hartley Sager, Esq., Ball's Grove, Coins George Saul, Esq., Blunstock, near Carlisle Dalton Haskell Serrell, Esq., North Ban'X, Regent's Park, Director of the Independent London and Manche etc r Direct Railway W. R. Seymour, Esq., 24, Lime-street Samuel Sharp, Esq., Quarry House, I Terley Park, Durham, Director of the Newcastle, Durham, at id Lancashire Junction Railway John Simpson, Esq., Farm Ville Lodge, Leers Henry Smith, Esq., The Park, Nottinghnu; Director o f th e G ran d Union Railway John Spence, Esq., Otley, Director of the lea st and West Yorkshire, Leeds, York, and Midland Railways Robert Stansfleld, jun., the Breck, near IL Sfax, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Joseph Stocks, Esq., Shibden Hall, Halifax. , Director of the East and West Yorkshire Junetlon, and Live rpool and Leeds Direct Railways Colonel Edward Stopford, 9, Manchester-fiqt tare, Deputy-Chairman of the Birbadoes Railway William Stordy, Esq., Director of the Carib') e City and District Bank William Studely, Esq., Alfred-place, Nort h' Brixton Martin Stutely, Esq., Cambridge-terrace. egent's-park, Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and South Essex Railway Villiers Charles Vilders Surtees, Esq., N cwcastle-upon-Tyne, Ti rector of the Newcastle, DuP , am, and L: Ire cashire Junction Railway William Tanner, Esq., 84, Great Surrey- !t; reet, Blackfriars, Provi sional Director of the Direct Western It at' troad Thomas Te And, Esq., merchant, Plat t-lerrace, Busholme, near Mancbes • er Benjamin Thompson, Esq., Hull Henry Alderson Thompson, Esq., 'teeth, I ten r Richmond, Yorkshire John Thompson, Esq., Piccadilly, Manch,lst er Thomas Thompson, Esq., A.dennan of Btu! 1, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction, and York, Hat! d, and East and West Yorkshire it ailways W. Gordon Thompson, Esq., 33, Gloucester- rev td , Hyde•park, Director of the South Midland and Northampton,. 'Banbury, and Chelten ham Railways. C. F. Thornby, Esq., Eastfleld House, West in) ry, Bristol George William Todd, Esq. ' Stockton-on-T( :es James Walkinshaw, Esq., Old Park, Isle of Wight, Deputy-Chair man of the Manchester and Southampton P &c. Robert Watkins, Esq., 45, LoWer Brook-ft! ee t, Director of the East and West of England, Oxford, Southampb in, and Gosport Railways Richard Webster, Esq., Leeds James Atkinson West, Esq., Western Lodge„ Durham, Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire J at tction Railway Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director c f the London and York, and East Lincolnshire Railways John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London,. feopham Park, Tun- - '‘ bridge Wells J. Wightman, Esq., Director of the Chelteni tan t and Oxford Railway B. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-place, Bra 'am ;ton-square, Director of the London and Manchester Direct Rail sea y, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway John Wilkinson, Esq., flax-spinner, Gledhow Mount, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct R away William Stitt Wilson, Esq., Norwich, Director of the Maryport and ' Carlisle Railway Edward Woolmer, Esq., Mayor of Exeter Smith Wormald, Esq., Tickton Grange, 1381 , 811 ley, Director of the York, Hull, and Beast and West Yorkshiro ,rays cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given to the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway. The fa , :t. of the Eastern Counties Eallw,y being connected by a branch line with the !7:tsz In :la I) , 5 cit tlc river Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 95.9 years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks, which are capable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods from all parts of the world can take place, is a most important fea ture in favour of the direct ofmmtmicatiod 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 whole of the manufacturing dis tricts 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 an invaluable connexion between the rivers Clyde and Thames. It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties, that the works will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good, and that it will not materially interfere with any ornamental property. The Subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first deposits until an Act of Parliament Is obtained, sad afterwards only to the amount of their subscriptions. It is proposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and also to extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, in the event of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford. Applications for Shares (in the form annexed) may be made to J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court, and Messrs. Owen Gray and Illidge, 25, Great Tower-street, the joint solicitors to the Company, at the Company's temporary offices, 9, Copthall-court, London ; or to the following sharebrokers : London—Messrs. Marten and Heseltine, 9, Fiaoh-lane i Leeds—Messrs. Hoppe and Co. Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and SoU Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Bons Bradford—Mr. Josiah Scholefleld Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square N. application will be attended to unless accompanied by a satis factory reference. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHIRES. To the Provisional Committee of the Great Leeds and Londe' Direct Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares, of 2.51. each, in the above undertaking, and I undertake to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me, and also to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree ment when required. Address in fall ... • • ...... • ..... Occupation ..... .......... Reference.. ...... •••••• • • • • • • G REAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT RAILWAY. The Committee of Management of this Railway hereby give No tice, that in consequence of the unprecedented number of applications already made for shares in this important undertaking, they have determined upon rejecting all further applications made after the 2,th September instant. Immediately after that day they will proceed to make the allotment of the shares and procure the execu tion of the Parliamentary contract and subscription deeds. signed by order of the Committee, J.. R. GIBSON, OWEN GRAY, /Registered Solicitors. J. B. ILLIDGE, 29th September. 1245. MADRID AND VALENCIA RAILWAY, authorised by an Ordinanee of her Majesty the Queen of Spain. Capital it,400,000/., in 120,000 Shares of 201. each, Spanish reals (Vellon) 2,000, fr. 500, of which 80,000 will be allotted in this country. _ _ Deposit 21. per Share, reals 200, fr. 50. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Most Noble the Marquis of Winchester, 27, Cavendish-square The Lord de l'lsle and Dudley, 16, New Burllngton-street The Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beauclerk, Chesham-place, Beigrave square, and the Riding, Northumberland The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Darner, 31. P., 6, Tilney-street The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., 27, Regent-street Sir William Wynn, Chairman of the North Wales Railway C. Barry Baldn in, Esq., M.P., 6, Parliament-street, Chairman of the Paris and Strasbourg Railway Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker (Mesas. Cockburn and Co.) William Collins, Esq., M.P., Reform Club Edward Bates, Esq., Managing Director of the Argus Life Assurance Company Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Beesthorpe Hall, Newark, Netts. and 8, Great Ryder-street, St. James's John Capper, Esq., merchant, 1, Adelaide-place, London-bridge William Chadwick, Esq., Montagu-square, Chairman of the Rich mond Railway John Charretie, Esq., Park Village East Gideon Colquhoun, Esq., Weimer: Lodge, Avenue-road, Regent's park, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway Company William Cooper, Esq., merchant, 20, Mark-lane, and Klngswood Lodge, Dulwich Edmund F. Dayrell, Esq., 15, Old Cavendish-street, and Lillingstone Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff of Bucks, Deputy-Lieutenant of the County, Chairman of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Railway and Bridgewater and 3finehead W. Eales, Esq., merchant, Mincing-lane, Director of the Direct Western Railway Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, Director of the London and Westminster Bank Richard Forman, Esq , Upper Thames-street James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street Major Graham, 16, Grove, Clapham John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's-woed, near London, Director of the National Bank of Ireland Wm. King, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Com pany James J.hn Kinloch, Esq., 21, Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director of the North Wales Railway Company John Knill, Esq., Fresh-wharf, Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and Crewe Railway T. Laurence, Esq., St. Mary-axe, Director of the Direct Western Railway Major James Oliver Lindam, K.H., 8, New-street, Dorset-square, Chairman of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and Central Wales Railway, and Director of the South Midland Junction Railway Nicholas 31`Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street, Director of the Man chester and Rugby Direct Railway Charles Carroll Mactavish, Esq., 22, Rutland-gate J. B. Monteflore, Esq., 2, Winchester-buildings, Director of the Australian Mining Company William Nicholson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Railway S. P. Pratt, Esq., 55, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company George Clavering Redman, Esq., Limehouse _ _ _ Colonel Edward Stopford, 9, Manchester-square, Director of the Barbadoes Railway Company William Gordon Thompson, Esq., Director of tho South Midland Junction S. J. Wale'', Esq., 22, Devonshire-place William Lectuner. Whitmore, Esq., 19, James-street, Rockingham. gate, Director of the London Central Railway Terminus. lANKMU. London—Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhlli ; Messrs. Masternsan and Co., Nicholas-lane; Messrs. Cockburn and Ca., Whitehall. Madrid—Bank of Isabella 11. STANDING Cot Nsm—daeob Waley, Esq., Lincela's Ina SouciToas—Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, $4, Lime-street. CONSULTING ENGINEEN—P. Prichard Baly, Ern, SECRETARY—F. Kirkham lows% Esq. Offices of the Company, 37, Moorgate-street. The present Company has been formed for the construction of a line of railway from Madrid to the city and port of Talencia, the most central seaport on the Mediterranean. It will open out the re sources of an extensive district of country, eastward from the capital, remarkable for the richness and fertility of its soil, the varied abun dance of its productions, and the commercial spirit of its inhabitants. This railway is authorised by a special ordinance of her Majesty the Queen of Spain ; and from its vast importance as a national route of intercommunication her Majesty has been pleased to accompany the grant with all the privileges and immunities which the Crown is empowered to confer upon a railway company. Amongst these may be enumerated— 1. A lease of the line and of its branches for 99 years. 2. The gratuitous grant of such Government and corporation lands as may be required for the railway. S. The free use of all timber, the property of the state, that may be necessary for the works, or for other purposes. 4. The exemption for ten years, to be computed from the com mencement of the works, of all import duties on the machinery, rails, and other articles requisite for the completion of the railway. 5. The entire exemption from all national and local taxes that could otherwise be levied upon the railway, works, or buildings of any description, and upon the capital represented by the shares. 6. The Government is not to interfere with the Company's tariff of charges for the space of forty years from the completion of the works ; and no revision thereof is to take place on the expiration of that period that can sink the profits below 15 per cent. 7. The line is to be classed, by a special law, under the title of a " work of public utility," and as such to enjoy the royal patronage and protection, and all the peculiar privileges attached to important national undertakings. The proposed line, thus largely endowed, is about 240 miles in length, being upwards of 150 miles nearer the capital than the ports of Cadiz and the north coast of Spain, and generally nearer than any other port in the kingdom. Although it has not yet been minutely survey ed, it is well known that there is no similar district of equal extent in the kingdom which presents so few engineering difficulties. For upwards of 80 miles the line will traverse the almost level plain of Valencia ; and emerging from ._ the boundaries of the province, it will follow as nearly as possible the course of the rivers which flow east and west from the central plateau in the province of Cuenca, and approach Madrid by the valley of the 3fanzanares. The line will either pass through or accommodate the most important towns in the two provinces, which will thus he brought into rapid com munication with the capital on the one side, a seaport on the other. — This railway will be the means of supplying Madrid, containing 300,000 inhabitants, entirely dependent for provisions upon the con tiguous provinces, at a cheap rate, with the rich products of the pro vinces of Valencia, which abounds in most valuable mines, and is beyond comparison the most fertile district of Spain. Valencia, brought by this communication within ten hours' dis tance of the chief market of Spain, must necessarily become the port at which all vessels with supplies for the metropolis will unload, and the centre of the coasting trade along the 'whole sea-line from Barcelona to Gibraltar. _ _ The traffic in passengers and goods now existing between Madrid and Valencia has been correctly ascertained, showing the following results : The annual number of passengers travelling between Madrid and Valencia, and the intermediate towns, is upwards of 42,000 ; but taking that number at the present cost of conveyance by stage coaches, private — carriages, galeras, and waggons, the amount will be £67,800 The annual weight of goods conveyed between the two cities and the intermediate localities is 4,900,000 cY •. from which the return is estimated at Assuming that two fifths only of the existing charges become a source of revenue to the railway, and that the tariff be reduced considerably below the state tariff of Belgium, there will be deducted .. .. .. 1,223,400 £1,291,200 752,320 Rem .. Supposing that the present trafficains will only be „ doubled X 531,830 . by the railway, although experience has proved the increase to be equal to 300 and 400 per cent., there will be added i.id,SCl. And add £1,077,760 For the transport of troeps, military stores, &e., which the Government will substitute for the conveyance by waggons .. .. .. .. .. 46 per Cent., at the least, for the Al'cant trail* 50,000 215,962 £1,343,712 From which deduct nearly 40 per cent. for maintenance of way, &c. • • • • • • .. .. .. •• 671,856 £671,856 Leaving a net profit of Or of nearly 28 per cent. upon the capital. The capital now proposed to be raised has been estimated, by competent authority, to be amply sufficient for the completion of the railway, including stations, a double line for rails, and the working plant. The royal ordinance authorises the erection of an electric tele graph along the line, which will answer the double purpose of placing the railway under the special protection of the Government, and closely uniting it with all the railways that intersect the kingdom and have their common termini in Madrid, to which capital maritime and mercantile information from the Mediterranean can be instan taneously communicated. One-third of the shares are, by the terms of the concession, con. ceded to Spain. _ The locale of the Company win be in Spain, and It will be framed on the principle of a cempania amminics, agreeably to the commercial code of that country. The affairs of the Company will be conducted by a Board of Di rectors in London, assisted by a highly influential Committee in Madrid. The remuneration to the Directors will be made in ac cordance with the plan usually adopted in continental railways, and that to the Concessionaires consists of a mere contingent interest in two-twentieths of net profits, after five per cent. shall have been se cured to the shareholders. A deposit of 21. per share is payable on allotment, and no future call will exceed 2/. per share, of which two months' notice at least will be given. Applications for shares, according to the subjoined form, to be ad dressed to Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, solicitors, 34, Lime street, London ; to Messrs. Hutchinson and Son, stockbrokers, Loth bury ; Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle•street ; Messrs. Johnston, and Co., Manchester ; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool ; Messrs.Wreford, and Co., Bristol; Mr. N. Lea, Birming ham ; Messrs. Watson, and Co., Leeds; Messrs. Wilkinso 1 and Earle, Hull; Messrs. Buchanan and .Atkin, Glasgow; Mr. W. Gordon, Aberdeen ; Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin ; and to the Secretary, at the office, 37, Moorgute-street, London. London, Sept. 10, 1845. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Directors of the Madrid and Valencia Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me s. ares of 20/. each in the above Company ; and I hereby undertaketa accept the sa pa m y e ;h o e r n t.y tlessthanueemnbeorrww. per hi are. you may appropriate to t. e, and to Dated this day of 1845. Name •• • ..... •• • " • Residence .... —••••• , • • • • Profession or Trade • • ..... Plus of Business .... •• • Reference MADRID and VALENCIA. RAILWAY.— No APPLICATION FOR SHARES will be received WZDN EsDA T, the First day of October ne x t. after )3y ordcr, F. KIRKAA3I FOWLER Secretary. Offlo 37,1toorgate-street, Sept. 25,1845. r.rzytt, ;hair J I)ireotor of clic t ilolytirad Nrect n)11 ,, ,T; ..... n.oi. East and Liverpool and L. cct ab s COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. William Beresford, Esq., M.P.,ill enr y Plumptre Gippg , Chairman I Darnton Lupton, Esq., idisr" Joseph Underwood, Esq., Deputy Chairman William Anning, Esq. Charles Bamford, jun., Esq. W. G. Beare, Esq. Johu Yarde Buller, Esq. W. Bradley, EN. W. R. Collett, Esq., Henry Cornfoot, ksq. Richard Dutton, Esq. Leeds Arthur Mann, En. Joseph Middleton, Esq. George Parbury, Esq. William Simpson Potter, Esq. John Rawson, E9q. James Steele, E sq ., - gayer of Carlisle J ose ph Thompson, Esq. NANxisas. London—Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury, and 116_,.,,rietto- street Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co. Carlisle—Messrs. J. 3L Head and Co. Hifax—Messrs. Ran and Co. kid Nealwcastle-upon-Tyne—wso Newcastie-npon- T yne Joint-Stock Bav Company . Darlington—Darlington District Joint-Stock Bank , rot Liverpool—Messrs. Denison, Heywood, and Co. ; Commercia. of Liverpool Bristol—West of England and South Wales District Bank Glasgow—Clydesdale Banking Company. SOLICITORS. S. P. Hook, Esq., 11, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbu r y Messrs. Keddellßaker, and Grant, 34, Lime-street. LOCAL AGENTS. Leeds—John Shackleton, Esq. Carlisle—Messrs. Saul Cockermouth—Edward Waugh, Esq. Brampton—Messrs. Carrick and Lee Otley—Edward Barrett, Esq. Richmond and Darlington—George Al 11 8 ", Esq ' ENGINEERS—Messrs. .:eorge and John Rennie SEcarreity—Charles Lecock Webb, Esq. The importance importance of establishing the most direct railway_,a ed cation between Leeds and Carlisle, and, by m eans of the Railway, between Carlisle, Glasgow , and Edinburgh' .0 evident to require anything to be urged in its support. 100 The existing and projected lines of railway in York L o d i rob e to pursue a westerly or north-westerly direction , a re intend;),,, The benefit particu ar towns and districts, than to eff ect this teat. present railway accomplishes it to the utmost p ossible ex e.„,11011 The line now proposed proceeds by the Leeds and Thirsic f daie to (for which an Act has been already obtained) up ha h ric o . h est Otley, Kettlewell, and Hawes, thence it passes thr° u g Kirby Stephen and Appleby, uniting with the Lancaster al! ‘ord wet Railway near Penrith. A branch from Otley to Bra,,. ° 4 l er t a xing• extend to that important town the advantages of the aY In comparison with the existing lines the Leeds and Carlisin;,,,•,,,,Dif will effect a saving of more than forty miles ; shorter than any other piojected line between these intria lai l w ill b• The great national ar,d local importance of the railvre.' evident. the of arid it is co t i c ' e c ri ;iiil. It affords the shortest and most direct route between troP°' - .r peed ° A li ! turing metropolis of Yorkshire and the commercial in e ha „ th!i• Scotland; and through the medium of the railways w hich termini in Glasgow and Edinburgh, the line will be colan. - : ., to the several Scotch Trunk lines, extending northern, western,eastern Counties. e ( "Pe T n ; The traffic Jr. goo. Is between Leeds and Glasgow -lone (of le,ll dently of that with tb e other towns andports Scotland ) roe Rill large large amount ; and the facilities afforded by the proao geire necessarily attract to the intermediate towns, and to Scoth i ; o yofiV rally, the supply of goods from the manufacturing dist ricts shire. The distance between Leeds and London will be very d"-e t, „/ reduced by the lines already in progress through Parham the Tru tt= these en,. Leeds and Carlisle must necessarily form a portion of Railway for the traillc between London and Scotland. with the The line will connect Hull and the Humber directly e. we way Firth, a mercantile object of very considerable impels A new and cheap mode of transit will be obtained for th'f—, „oseg; agricultural produce of the rich vales through which the 117dlitoti and which produce, at present, notwithstanding the d em i ' l i t manerfacturing distrhata, cannot be forwarded to the dilr e ! . !4& tra";: for want of railway communication. A large and Pr° ll "'„, dotric' e will be derived frorn the produce of the extensive miner soi° opened by the line, And the working of which has hitherto_ and , instances, been rendered impracticable by the cost of trams all has been greatly impeded. s ec ti l A survey has been made, and the Parliamentary Plans and th ere in progress, and the engineers have undertaken to - completed in the course of next month. S s - Applications for shares to be addressed to the Solicit° get ld Hook, Esq., 11, Tok enhouse-yard, Lothbury, and 3le s t r' , e . bb, 4 e . : Baker and Grant, 34., Lime-street ; to Charles Locock ft_ Secretary, at the ten iporary offices of the Company, Guiliii`2 , Tote', house, 33, Gresham -street ; Messrs. Shewell, stockbroknopri• house - yard; Messrs. Taunton and Bush, Austin 11 101 , 4 11; Messrs. Watson, Tootal, and Barff, and Messrs. J. at, Cl O 4 - r • Leeds ; Messrs. Trigg and Hodgson, Hull; 1i10"7.,:t0e ; Wetherell and Co., Durham • Mr. John Gibbon ~rnjcte'- r ,' G. Seed, St. Ann's-square, Manchester ; Messrs. • - ri d roti_" , t and Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Messrs. J. Peel, Son,, , ~3 n t ort: :g Bromley House, Nottingham ; Mr. Frederick 'W illiam Arglre Messrs. Wreford, Nichoi'is, and Company, Bristol ; J ohn . J oie L and Co., Huddersfield William 11. Morrice, Blackburn:64oos, Clark, jun., Southampthn ; Mr. J. N. Bente, ter; Mr. Thomas Sirlford, Exeter ; Mr. John 'Wrigh t :, conilta chester ; Mr. Pringle and Messrs. Edward M'Cullum an yo 14 4 ' Edinburgh ; Messrs. M'Ewen and Auld, and MOW' Cockburn, Glasgow.. VORM OF APPLICATION. op To the Provisional Committee of the Leeds and Carlisle, f 9 57 ' Trunk Railway of England. res Gentlemen—l request you will allot me T r ot 21. King-streeleto, C each In the proposed Leeds and Carlisle, or Northern, o it o' ho o way of England ; and. I hereby mule' take to pay the _,,leeds 12s. 6d. per share thereon, and to execute the necessary required. Dated this day of 1845. Name in full • • •• •• •• " —...• '' ,•• Trade or Profession Residence ............... • '...• Place of Business (If Date..... Reference ....-::: ~•''' ...: ir- D IRECT NORTHERN RAILWA Y Jori LONDON to YORK. ebe Lontbe At a MEETING of PROPRIETORS held this daY, at oerlt Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, pursuant to public ad'al s,— following reports were submitted for adoption : p er, DIRECTORS' REPORT. The Directors have called the shareholders togethe r lur e d c° n . pose of submitting to them a statement of their Affa ir ' vie suiting them as to their future proceedings. 11;1 The Board of Trade having recommended the adopti,ortvo of survey from London to York, composed of the 14 ' ° _, Eastern line to Cambridge, improved by the new tertnill"_a4 o _ e t by the Tottenham and Farringdon-street Extension,,,stDo D,.etDo Cambridge and Lincoln line, and the northern portion ° t v ise °.„' Northern from Lincoln to York, the Directors, in the es,' to tOvio• discretion which the shareholders so unreservedly vested to to l' o co e the meeting of 14th of February last, resolved to submi t 0 0 ment so much only of their line as was comprised hi 00 tifi t oei recommended by the Board of Trade, under the impress: a 40,1 decision of that Board would be supported by the Legisla re. t ' „ r ing t he accordingly did so ; but certain objections to the eflhJ% tiO l i otili engraving departments having been taken, it was decide l ied .„.,it• standing orders of the House of Commons had not been con i i l a ) cool' and, consequently, the scheme could only be c onsidered 0,6 tee as a project 1, dluo o° Tne result was, tbiat after a contest of unexampl... et abie,hot Committee of the :House of Commons negatived th,,e, e „ - a r e t. „ . jell t recommended by the Board of Trade, and reported in ut ,dell e "..at ° at that time was the shortest and the only continuous and t b t , psi , line from London to York before them. The Bill for t 0 , 5 01 0 . passed the House of Commons, but was arrested in its Prelgotiee beg House of Lords by preliminary objections to the silbs et e 'aof! . oo tract on which it was based, which were net fi nally disP e ' e y at' o sl ° Parliament was prorogued. The position this schem e it, be next session will depend upon the view the parties prolu_,o tai take of the objections proved to exist, or which it is low that ea r established against them. But your Directors are oaf ised,should the promoters of that scheme take the risk of 011 ' riot°, proceedings in Parliament on their present footing, thel ‘ , l rea gni ee of tally speaking, have no advantage when their scheme ls' sat oit t , o , competition with one which, at the period when the tlielo the House of Commons reported, had not been consideredo',", se t e' Impressed with these views, and holding it to be n ot he t ie beyond doubt, that a new line from London to York W', d 00 ;0 00 dotted, irrespective of existing routes, and being contine'conciltr'est scheme of the London and York does not satisfy the ma in, of which ought to attach to such a line, as a communie 34 „ - gille r ' t hei national importance, your Directors instructed Mr. Jo hi ' w olli „ o ft' distinguished engineer of the North British Railway , dee d tO have now committed the entire charge of the enginee r ' h, of d yor 0 ment, to examine the country between London an he re report to them his opinion, with a view to future proeen ba rell e o f 0 gentleman's report will be read to the meeting, and the%Deitle 4 De will perceive that he is decidedly of opinion that th e 0 ' pow or direct line from London to York, formed by one ComP uttf 'Dere P„ia adhered to, improving it only by a further approach 0,,e00 ticable, to the most direct and shortest line that eirculliS w- 0. admit of. na t bef ete itl In this opinion the Directors most heartily concur , a pose acting upon it, by carrying out the system o f r ail e ns. - recommended. me t he sod a te To the North British, the Great North of Englan d' 400 lines which form the eastern route to Scotland, the forru" o4 af, shortest route from London to York is of vital intno ti T t e t he .,,o g il r ... - .h 0l; Directors think themselves justi fi ed in anticipating and proposed by Mr. Miller will receive the cordial support n o of tion of these Companies, as well as of the population go t ' ? _Alt north-eastern portion of Great Britain. that thef In Mr. Miller's hands the Directors are confident _,, be at od enabled to submit to Parliament a main line which o°l l'oti t ', o ter ten miles shorter than that proposed by the London auj e gl . " which, combined with the necessary branches, will gi v e a i t amount of local accommodation. tau' it °o44 The through traffic is every day becoming more iroPl o de • „doll will be recollected that in the report of the Board of ‘ , 5 50U_'401 - stated that " should Parliament be of opinion that the ,tr et, ect he rats of the most direct line between London and York ough t dered as a paramount object, the integral scheme of the to , 914 ern would deserve a preference. It reduces the distallte, miles, being 42 miles shorter than by the existing row ot , shorter than by the proposed London and York line. 41 p eg The Directors have used their best endedvours to llareicr„t the standing accounts of the Company examined and settled, ited tb gress they have made, although considerable, has not Pet.ttnirleotor°;fed to submit these accounts in detail to this meeting . The ' n o ille , oes° however, enabled to state that the gross amount of exP, e will be about 30s. per share, and, consequently, to sue , . _ f 0 0 , 40 as may desire to withdraw from the further prosecutiono.uner dertaking, there will remain the sum of, say from 175, to ed. " e, t o , on their original deposits of 21. 10s. per share to be retu r _r ehe O s . et e l Having maturely considered all the circcumstances 0! ":", ter Directors have come to the determination that the 0rig 0 2,7 g r in rF t lt an integral line from the metropolis to York on the the' - ',..ede u s Al fee` f and under one management, ought to be resumed P in the ensuing session of Parliament. nired For this purpose the Directors propose that the re 4,,,/. to aell t i ita efi , 4,000,0001. shall be divided into 160,000 shares of in ,efi, shareholders who may desire to continue their interfeseors,,,"("2st dertaking being entitled, with the sanction of the P il ha res ; I A change their scrip certificates of 50/. each for two rievr t s be each, on paying up such Ifther sum per share as, with a t be of the former deposit, w ill make tip ten per cent. ur ea , 1 1° „/ tfi e now required to be deposited by the standing orders 0„„00.1 Lords. As to , any shares that may remain at t he colt s ' Directors after carrying out this arrangement, they "oath preference to be due to approved holders of the prese nt OP Os ENGINEER'S REPORT. l e . 0 0 To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Norther e xa m e pilli to Gentlemen,—Having received your instructions W oe d iog et country between Lynam' York , aria to report t° _, 3 ; pro cee d:lg °-), of your proposed line of railway, with the view of again _ a ntf., Parliament, I lost no time in making arrangements illi cit t he ?"01 1 .7 your instructions, and I accordingly last week exami n e as tjn of generally, having reference to the plans of the whole 1111 contemplated, and I now beg to report. ,„, a for o ve In the outset I may remark that since your sche.,,aon,.sten railway between London and York was laid out last a nt o{ t es important circumstances have occurred which have t he bearing on the question, and which, to my mind, sh",7_aon pediency, if not necessity, of having as a li ne front id° a° theSinost direct which the country will admit of. _ c o o dt Jo , m the railway system h a s taken a r tae and the public seem now to look forward to that nit the 5 0 forming the great means of conveyance throughou irafec tur,7 , limited to the traffic between great towns and In r u bite W e t 0 , 101 mining districts, but penetrating into every corne r n _ se dolt.°_r. The system when so carried out (as there is 0 7; 00 t ol 7 0 tr 2 ever that it will speedily be) will create such au t l ll eae assr.f i ' t hrele traffic as will render great leading lines absolutely.oe___ ef fa ir _ vit o ea.' opinion it will be imperative on the pronto: f: d th e n ; ti e IT, leading lines, if they look to the public advantag lan ,es:"tli o ln t t c o , terest, to have them laid out as direct as iy.s c i: this principle of aedon be more imperatively lied. be f° oe r to t i ot erd t 0 0: great leading lines from London, and espe c i ally ountry h eier a e ee o north, where there is such an extent of c ountry main ' s° oie ramified tra ffi c of which will centre in the nltn" o ° o l metropolis by the shortest route. on t ip c o° This principle has already begun to be acte d , C ot , D e extent, and there is every reason to believe th,t_ 1150woult!„01 prevail generally. In carrying it out, hove* et „ tr eed r e h e that the local accommodation of the country t,l_q ba t direct ; t ee altogether lost sight of—far from it ; but I thin o f the -inn - 0 0 as that between London and York, the deviatio,,tl,';, t o Suet' s fo h r ou th ld e sole not pbourptonsoenogfnptlaoct,inagnsdoimneorpeaprtairtcuilcaoriatrothe rii_ocnerta.l.oo9 her e llu e to can be brought into immediate connexiol! w ith Astence 0 1 to 0 7 ; 0 0 means of branches or by local lines, either in e' t ' a et teiti rt Pii i be executed. It appears to me to be in vain _,_ the no - o n ° - ..eie e , with a great leading line from London to:v e il: m ele e Das ecille 9o cti ) 1 attention to local accommodation. In a i , i ta i n ed, wid e e t , t!:; principle both objects would be imperfectly at the g reat ,oil tu out it would only be as a temporary mee.sur m e -- _ - _. direc i t ire s is the country beyond would press for the rich _fr .d po p a l , it 11' 0 g1 ,4 1 acaspEitnagl,lonanddwtthlle o l o o li cal fo i r nte a r o e o s o t tn is mofodsuatclhoiat4;ll 4 ;11 e. hi impossible for any railway lines to give it, , Lil t e' l l i t i a r ve ng u i b t s T ita rf rt I fro ie f o traffic to attend to, without prejudicing . a nd S _ a Alla o f te certain'y possible to give, by means of bra be gilt: obje ct the most minute accommodation, but suc h hog tt 1 - 0 01 0 the great leading measure ; and least of the branche • 0 that;t ~1 main line be made subservient to that of , ,eria it ) to thine Applying this direct principle (it Ira a 3 4 1 a t o nce pi e 00. 1 0 % 1 0° 0 c , a line between London and York, yw' direct ue ap l ' b et/ . 1 0 my opinion the line should be laid out as can the dene , t _ at p admit of, embracing such towns only a or by tile t e h om at in p od rin a c t ir o l n e your line l a out '_ s be ho i , n il e d lt b ld e e m d ; et b b u y t where that ca nno t net ett 0:1 dire occi eeu whlicnhavweilllosookoonderovoorrlatnteerpcloovnesrotfhe cou ntry o o f il„ tn _ ea t o t tn ie e _ y c o an . p g rt in n e nt ers pie r o d ar t e h d o e u v g e h n it fta a tn p o p r ea t rs nan te tn h e a a v g e en.r.er ai to lde ni a o that time being only last year), yet it Pin,"— 1 4 11 : " . eb Y eci tzo c a r tc( :;h: a h l Se up o4 44 ge") 1 4 4 ted t t i o 4 to Yq Be " D 4414 to pt ' in„r l, tr e , 41 Z 4 ed t i h 4 i t , 4 tbe pr, u., LyNt( r in t 1 4 - 81, 4 811 1 th e 844 4 . 4 , t btr, l n4l e anq t ,„ 4 , Nth t r to , x t t4 r„: „, 4 N he r :t4tel I )4 4( iltir e 61 NI (I art li: q 4, 14 ' 4 4 11 1 c, 'kJ 44,„i 4/ 4 tr he .1' 1 48 41.4441 •~ . ,_ T o tilt 1