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T HE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN CONNECTING RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that no Applications for Shares in this Railway will be received from parties resident in London or its vici nity after THURSDAY, the 25th, and elsewhere after SATURDAY, the 27th instant. By order of the Committee of Management, W. JENKINS, Secretary. Temporary (Aces, 47, Eastch Sept. 19, 1845. GREAT WESTERN, BRENTFORD, and CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY, from the vicinity of West Drayton, through Hounslow, Brentford, Ham mersmith, Kensington, Chelsea, and West Waster, to the Central Terminus, near Charing-Cross. Provisionally Registered. Capital, 850,0001., in 42,500 Shares of 201. each. (Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Earl of Devon Ben:amin John Armstrong, Esq., Southall, Magistrate for Middlesex Henry Pratt Barlow, Esq., 24, Kensington-square Edward Oliver Benson, Esq., Hounslow William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Railway Junction Company Thomas Braman, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Leicester and Tani __ worth Ita Sir Archer Denman Croft, Bart., Director of the Thames Embank- ment Railway Junction Company. Major Jolla T. Croft. Deputy Chairman of the Chester and Manches- ter Railway Sir John Macpherson Brackenbury John Chevalier Cobbold, Esq., Chairman of the Eastern Union Rail- way William Cumming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park George Cooper, Esq., Brentford George James Stredwick Camden, Esq., Hounslow. Charles Downes, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway J. Fisher, Esq., Isieworth Major David Fitzgerald, Valentia, county of Kerry Captain Forbes, R.N., Forest, Windsor Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N., K.C.H. Francis Lloyd, Es 1., Director of the Toronto and Lake Huron Rail way. James Montgomery, EFq., Brentford John Bowyer Nichols, Esq., Hammersmith The Hon. Colonel Phipps, Norwood-grem William Simpson Putter, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands Railway Henry Pownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow, Chairman of the Middlesex Magistrates John F. Pownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow Colonel Reid (2d Life Guards), Bulstrode Park Thomas Berry Rowe, Esq., Brentford John Coysgarne Sim, Esq., No. 9, Clifton-place, Ilya Park-gardens Major Jett Sharp, Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Middlesex, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment Itallvvay Junction Company Henry Webb Smith, Esq., Hounslow John Stewart, Esq., M.P. Frederick Thompson, Esq., 20, Kensigton-square Robert Richard Tighe, Esq., Bank, Windsor (With power to add to their number.) ENGINSEE — Thomas Page, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Wilkinson and Cobb°id, 7, Lincoln's Inn-fields William Sim, Esq., 8, King's Bench-walk, Temple. • BANKERS. PABLIAMENTAUT AGENTS. Messrs. Hugh Innes Cameron and George Bain, 18, Parliament-street SEcarrear —Henry Horsing, Esq. At several large public meetings held In October last, at Brentford, Isleworth, and Hounslow, resolutions were unanimously passed in favour of establishing a railway communication with the metropolis, and the Gazette notices were actually published ; but the difficulty of obtaining a suitable terminus in London induced the principal promoters of this important undertaking to postpone bringing their scheme before the public. This Impediment has now been overcome, and by a proposed Junc tion with the Central Terminus awl the Thamos Embankment Rail way, parties travelling by this line will be enabled to proceed directly to the heart of the metropolis ; and by the united Railways, watch will ramify from this point, to almost every part of the country without interruption. By the intended Junction, also, with the Great Western Itailway, at or near West Drayton, and by the Intersection of the Birmingham Mailway at Kensington, these important lines will be supplied with direct access to the Central Terminus, and thence to the City, or to the Southern and Eastern Lines. The propOSed line, whi h passes through or near the extensive and populous suburbs of Pimlico, Chelsea, Brompton, Kensington, Ham mersmith, Chiswick, and Turnham-green, to the town of Brentford, and thence to Isle worth, Hounslow, and West Drayton, has received the most cordial approbation and promises of support from the great majority of the inhabitants and other parties locally interested, TWA line is singularly free from engineering difficulties; and, although there is almost a complete continuity of town and village throughout the whole distance, yet, from the care with which the line has been laid down, so as to avoid property covered with build ings, and to take advantage of open and unoccupied spaees, the value of the ground to be purchased will not be nearly so great as, from the nature of the localities, would be inferred. By the adop ticinof the At mospheric principle, or some equal l y e li g ibl e mo d e o f wili working,neotihae annoyances, inseparable from the locomotive system obviated, and the advantage of almost constant trains, so in dispensable to this densely -populated district, will be secured. 'I he populati on of the various ns to be erected o n the e,places at which stations are proposed line is not le ss th an 200 , 000 , an d t o g i ve some idea of th e l arge amount of traffic which may be calculated upon, it may be stated that the present annual Income d er i ve d f ro m y the carriage of p assengers, by omnibuses alone, amount s t o a b ove 100,000 f. ; under these circumstances, no doubt can be entertained of a very ample return for the capital required for this important work. The to it as p the reliminary Loudon, announcements of thi s undertaking have referred , Prop k ir, and Great Western Junc tion Company —a title which the s on Committee have upon firtive• consideration, altered to the. present designation, in order distinguish it from other schemes similar in name, but differing to in their proposed course. arrangement will Thu surveys of the line are completed b, made for applying to Parliamentboforlaninda.nadcrinerthye ensuing session, previously to which the plans will Commissioners of Improvement for their before the Metropolitan Applications for shares, in the subjoine,daprovalina, bet e, dressed to the Provisional Committee, at tis o e nn te mp — 7, m o a t ,,. ad , the Company, 18, Parliament-street, to the Sonrieic:iiiit°sortra-rae n br d- ok P e a r - s r7ll L c' : znentary Agents, and to the follo 6 w i,i ing , Th readneedle -stre e t ; Messrs. e-street ; Mr. H. .Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, J. Williams, 80, Old Broad-street, London Bradley and Co., Manchester; Mr. B. R. Pemberton, and Messrs. H. Davis and Co., 'Liverpool,; Mr. Luke Arnold, Bristol; Messrs. B essrs. Chantrell and ye. 'Leeds ; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York. THE CIIESTER AND MANCHESTER ‘"-• DIRECT RAILWAY. ti otice is hereby given, that the Parliamentary Contract and Sub scribers' Agreement are now lying for execution at the Company's Office, No. 1, Royal Exchange Buildings, London, betweenof the deed the hours of Ten and Five o'clock In t he da y , when, upon signature , the Banker's Receipt will be exchanged for Scrip. By order, A. BARRETT, Secretar9. Sept. 12. 1845, T ill?. NORTHERN and SOU'rELERN CONNECTING RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered under 7 and S Vlct., env. 110.) Capital 200,0001., In 36,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Shari. Uniting the London and Birmingham, Grcat Western, the South Western, the London and Brighton, South-Eastern, and Northern and Eastern Railways, and accommodating, en route, Hertlord, Hat field, St. Albans, Wattord, Rickrnausworth, Uxbridge, West Dray Lon, Colnbrook. Staines, Egtia.n, Chertsey, Weybridge, Leatherhead, DoSkil4, ADA Reigate. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Major Adair, United Servioe Club, Pall-mall, Director of the Goole and Dducaater Railway John Anderson, Esq.. Lothbery, Director attic South Midland, and Birmingham and I.kidield Railways Witham Arnold llainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter, Staffordshire Sohn Barnes, Esq., Director of the Union Basil, Chorley Wood House. Hertfordshire George A. Brown, Esq., 20, Gower street Sohn Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester, Director of the Chester and Manchester Railway Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., M.P., Director of the Lancaster and York, Waterford and Kilkenny, and Great Munster Railways Jasper Capper, Esq , Watling-street Captain James E. Carnegie, Somerset-street, Portman-square, and Bower Hall, Inverness, Director of the London. Hounslow, and Western Railway John Castendeick, Esq., 37, Mlnciag-laue Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield. Director of Remington's London, Manchester, Derbyshire, Staffordshire; and Wor cester Railways Major John T. Croft, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of the Chester and Manchester Railway, Ste. William Croft, Esq., Chertsey, Surrey Thomas Clutterbuck, Esq., Red Hall, Watford Charles John Dimsdale, Esq. Essendon-place, Hertfordshire Thomas Edward Dyson, Esq., Tollpits, Hertfordshire Jcseph Graham, Esq., Clapham, Surrey Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaaton, Birmingham, Director of the Leicester and Birmingham Railway Plastimp Green, Esq., Sion House, Kilkenny, Director of the Water ford and Kilkenny Railway F. W. Hamilton, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of the Lancaster and York and Great Monitor Railways Captain Hodges, 65, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the Mauritius Railway, &c. Henry Jennins, Esq., Leeds George Laishley, Esq., Clarence Lodge, Shirley, Southampton, Direc tor of the Isle of Wight, and of the Oxford, Newbury, Andover, Manchester, and Southampton Junction Railways John Lilly. Esq., Worcester and Pedwell, near Glastonbury, Director of the Somersetshire Midland Railway Daniel Turton Johnson, Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of Remington's London and Manchester, the Chester and Manchester Direct, and the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's-wood, Director of the National Bank of Ireland John King, Esq., Glastonbury, and St. John's-wood, London, Direc tor of the Somersetshire Midland Railway William King, Esq., Waterloo-place, Pall mall, London, Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Company Daniel William Lucas, Esq., Mark-lane, and Crescent Lodge, Stock well Park Horace William Meteyard, Esq., Director of Remington's London and Manchester, the Chester and Manchester Direct, and the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways Joseph Bostick Massey, Esq., Cottered, Hertfordshire, and 50, Cam bridge-terrace, Hyde Park. Captain Ogle, 44, Eaton-place, Eaton-square, London. Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., I.R.S. Upper Hyde Park-street, Director of the Manchester, Liverpool, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railways, &c. Hillebrant Meredith Parratt, Esq., Magistrate, Effingham House, Surrey William John Palmer, Esq., Molewood-hill, Bengeo, Hertfordshire Rcv. G. B. P. Pollen, Magistrate, Little Bookham Rectory, Surrey John Rawson, Esq., Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding of York shire, and J.P., Stoney Royd, Halifax, Director of Rosamel's Great North of France Railway, of the Manchester, Liverpool, and Great North of England Union Railway, and the National Bank of Ireland Edward Scard, Esq., Kew, Surrey, Magistrate, Director of the Toronto and Lake Huron, and JaMaica Railways William H. Swinton, Esq., 49, Moorgate-street, and Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park William Tozer, Eery , Bishopagate-street, Director of the South Staf- fbrdshire Junction Railway Thomas Weedon, Esq., Loudwatcr Mills, Hertfordshire (With power to add to their number.) COMMITTEE 0/ MANAGEMENT. 1 Joseph Graham, Esq. 1 D. T. Johnson, Esq. 1 George Laishley, Esq. D. W. Lucas, Esq. H. W. Meteyard, Esq. BANEERS. Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., 29, Clement's-lane, London The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, Manchester. ENGINEER—Joseph Gibbs, Esq. LAND AGENT—Layton Coeke, Esq. LAND SURVEYORS. W. T. Buckland, Esq. Messrs. Sanderson and Ryde. LOCAL SOLICITORS. St. Alban's, Herts—Richard Grove Lowe, Esq. Chertsey, Surrey—Richard John Cole, Esq. Dorking, Surrey—Messrs. Hart and Hart. Hertford—Edward Robert Spence, Esq. Uxbridge, Middlesex—Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge. Watford and Rickmansworth—John Sedgwick, Esq. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Miller and Carr, 47, Eastcheap, London. Applications for Shares to be made to Messrs. Miller and Carr, 47, Eastcheap ; and Messrs. Johnson, Longden and Co., Tokenhouse-yard ; and to the local solicitors, Messrs. Hart and Hart, Dorking; Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge, Uxbridge ; Richard John Cole, Esq., Chertsey ; Richard Grove Lowe, Esq., St. Alban's; Edward Robert Spence, Esq., Hertford ; John Sedgwick, Esq., Wat *el ; and also to Mr. Crewdson, Liverpool ; Mr. S. Slater, Man chester ; Messrs. Watson, Tootal, and Bard', Leeds ; Messrs. Charles ell and Co. Leeds ; Mr. J. Wright, Birmingham ; Mr. J. Bowden, 1 1; and Messrs. George Edwards and Son, Bristol. W. JENKINS, Secretary. Temporary Offices, 47, Eastcheap, London. FORM OF APPLICATION. Major Adair • John Anderson, Esq. John Burgess, Esq. Jasper Capper, Esq. Jeremiah Clarke, Esq. To the Provisional Committee of the Northern and Southern Con necting Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares in the above undertaking; and I hereby undertake to pay the deposit epon them or any smaller number that rn.ty be allotted to me, and to execute the Parliamentary contract and subscribers' agreement ►hen required to do so. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name in full Business or profession • • •• •• .. Residence . Reference •• . ......... .......... Date of application • ............. • • FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the f'rovisloaal Directors of the Great Western, Brentford, and Central Terminus Junction Railway. . GentiKnen,—l request you will allot me ehares of 201. each In the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or any lesser number that may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit of V. 2s. per share thereon, and to sip the Subscribers' Agreement and rallamentary Coatract when required. Name in full •••• • ..... •• ........ Residence • •• •• • .... • Trade or Profession Date .• ....•..• THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2q, 1845. and Southampton Railway project, a combination of advantages pre sents itself—the result of a design, to a great extent, but of contin gencies also. If it be desirable that the terminus of every railway should be situated at some commercial or populous place, in this re spect the present project is peculiarly fortunate. If Government be resolved on countenancing the shortest and most direct lines, it will be seen, by laying a rule on the map of England from Salisbury to Manchester, that a course due north and south between these places will pass very nearly through the towns mentioned in this prospectus, as being on the proposed line; and actual measurement has shown this line to be the shortest between Southampton and Manchester by 26 miles. By the construction, therefore, of little more than 60 miles of rail, as here proposed, the shortest, moat direct, and convenient communication between Manchester and Southampton will be es tablished—a line, also, however superior in position to othera pro mising similar advantages, may yet be considered as competing with none, but as an independent work, originating at Birmingham and terminating In the seaports of Weymouth, Christchurch, Poole, and Southampton. In the allotment of shares in this Company the Directors propose to give a preference to the original shareholders of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Company. Applications for prospectuses and plans may be made, and forma of application for shares had, at the Office of W. B. James, Esq., Solicitor, 5, Dasinghall-street ; and of the fallowing gentlemen:— London—Messrs. J. Peppercorns and Co., 9, Old Broad-street ; Mr. J. B. Harrison, 8, Bank Chambers ; Mr. Thomas Hanbury, 4, Angel-court. Liverpool—Messrs. Mills and Co., and Messrs. Neilson. Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. William Marshall. Hull—Messrs Collinson and Flint. Leeds—Messrs. Watson and Co. Stratford-on-Avon—Mr. William Bolton. Exeter—Mr. Thomas Sanford. Plymouth—Messrs. Heyward and Pulmer. Birmingham— Mr. Collis, and Mr. John Wright. Glasgow—Messrs. Tassie and Co. Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co., and Messrs. M'Callttm and Co. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. NORTHERN COUNTIES (ROSS, SUTHER LAND, AND CAITHNESS DIRECT RAILWAY. _ To afford the very important division of the Kingdom the benefits of railway communication, and to promote and stimulate the pro gressively increasing pastoral, agricultural, and commercial, improve ments, which of late years have made such rapid strides in these counties, it is proposed to form, under the sanction of the most influential patronage, a railway by the most direct practicable route, to connect these northern and producing districts with the southern and consuming portions of the empire. Adopting the line which may be found the shortest to Dingwall consistent with a due regard to economy in its execution and work ing, and to . the rights and interests of private parties, and from Ding wall by Navar to Bonar-bridge, the distai.ce of the county of Suther land from Inverness would be many miles shorter than by any other route. From Bonar the line would pass by Lairg, through the valleys of the Brora and of the Frie, and by Strath Helmsdale to the Thurso water; thus nearly bisecting the county of Sutherland through its length and passing into the most populous prrts of Caithness, diverging to the right and left to Wick and Thurso. A branch might be formed to connect the coast of Sutherland with the trunk line. _ _ _ . _ In Ross-shire a branch would be formed from the main line to In vergordon, and this brunch might be extended to the burgh of Train. Arrangements are being made for having the lines (the courses of which are but generally indicated above) carefully examined by ex perienced surveyors and engineers ; and as soon as data which may be relied on have been matured, a Inn prospectus, with the names of the promoters and Provisional Committee and detailed particulars, will be published. Meantime communications from parties interested in the proposed undertaking may. up to the Ist of October next, be addressed to William Mackenzie, Esq., of Muirton, W.S., by Dingwall ; Hugh Innes Cameron, Esq., Provost of Dingwall ; G. S. Taylor, Esq., Golsple ; Peter Wilson, Esq., W.S., Town Clerk of Wick ; M. Snody, Esq., Thurso ; or to Messrs. Cameron and Bain, 18, Parliament street, London. FRENCH and SWISS JUNCTION RAIL WAY, from MACON to GENEVA. Capital, 60,000,000 f. (2,400,0001.) in Shares of 500 f. (201.) each. Of which 25,000,000 fr. (1,000,000) are reserved for England. Deposit 2/. per Share. FRENCII ADMINISTRATION. Lieut.-Gen. Comte Colbert, Pair de France, Aid-de-Camp de S.A.R. Ic Duo de Nemours, President M. le Marquis de Boissy, Pair de France, Vice-President M. James Fazy, Membre du Grand Counsel Municipal de la Re publique de Geneve M. Ernest Basset, Chevalier de la Legion dlionnenr, Chef du Secre tariat du Domain Peva du Rot. M. Petry and.M. Desvoyes, Administrateurs des Chemins-de-Fer de Tours a Nantes, and de Creil a St. Quentin M. Gilbert Coubayon, Chevalier do la Legion de lionneur, Admistra teur du Chemin-de-Fer de Paris a Lyons M. T. Perrot, AdminLstrateur du Chemin de-Fer de Crell a St. Quentin. -------- ENGLISH PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. Captain Chamfer, It N., Director of the Great Paris and Lyons Railway. W. Collins, Fsq. M.P., Director of the Southampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway John Griffith Frith, Esq., Director of the Great Northern of France Railway Algernon W. B. Greville, Esq., Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway William Morley, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railway William Mountford Nurse, Esq., Director of the Union Bank Charles M. Rigg, Esq., Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway D. R. Ross, Esq., M.P., Director of the Great Northern of France Railway Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Deputy-Governor of the Union Bank, and Chairman of the Namur and Liege Railway, Chairman John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, Director of Leicester and Bedford Railway. BANKERS. In France—Messrs. Gaillard and ltampin, Paris In England—The Union Bank of London, Princes-street, Mansion House, Pall-mall East, and Argyle-street ; and its bra Aches. Er:Gum:a—Mons. Do Villeroy. SoLtcrross—Messrs. Mayhew and Son, 26, Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn-Fields. SECRETARY—J. Edersheim, Esq. This Company was constituted on the 28th of August, 1845, according to an Acte de Societe, passed before M Randier, Notary at Paris. Its object is the construction of one of the most important lines of railroad hitherto projected in France, and perhaps on the whole continent. A reference to the map will make it sufficiently apparent that, although short in itself, this line will connect, by means of the Paris and Lyons, and other French railroads, the Atlantic and Mediterranean ; as well as France, England, Belgium, and Holland with Switzerland and Italy ; and will thus complete the great Trunk 'lnce of commu nicati•n between the West and South-East of Europe. The length of the line is 120 kilometres, or 76 English miles ; it _ _ branches off from the Great Paris and Lyons Railroad at Macon, situated half way between Chalons-sur-Sayone and Lyons, at a dis tance of about 70 kilometres, or 27 English miles from each of those places, and passes through Bourg, the principal town of the depart ment De l'Aain, and by Nantua to Geneva. It had been originally intended to select either Lyons or Chalons sur-Saone as the starting•point on the western extremity, but Macon has been ultimately adopted, as the only one likely to provide the desired accommodation tor the traffic, both from the north and south, so that no apprehension need be entertained of any opposition line being started from either of the above points. The Council of the city of Geneva has lately caused the different projects for connecting its territory with the Paris and Lyons Rail road to be carefully examined, and has given its decision In favour of the Macon line ; it has moreover been universally approved of by the highest authorities in France, as being the shortest and most economical, and the one answering the wants and requirements of all parties. It is needless to speak of the immense number of travellers con tinually pouring into Switzerland, which are increasing annually, and which, no doubt, will be doubled when railway accommodation is provided for them, and when this road, as it must, becomes the main road to Italy and the East. It may, therefore, be safely as sented that the passenger traffic will be more considerable then on any other line in Franco, _ . _ With regard to merchandise, the following brief statements will demonstrate its importance. From correct statistical reports, it appears that the Imports during the last year from France into Geneva amounted to -13,269,188 kilogr. merchandise 2,139,000 litres of liquids, and 4,172,000 litres of grain and the exports to-77 5,654,522 kilogr. merchandise The former consists principally of corn, wines, oil, salt, iron, soap, glass, yarns, cotton, manufactured and colonial goods ; and the latter of wood, cattle, cheese, produce of the mountain soil, and the nume rous articles of Geneva industry. Besides the increase which the facilities of railway transit will, as in all cases, naturally produce upon the commercial intercourse between France and Switzerland, it may also be considered that the 60,000 bales of cotton which are annually imported into Switzerland via Trieste, or from Liverpool up the Rhine, must in future pass through Marseilles, up the Rhone and Saone, to Macon ; that the produce of Italy will take the same route; that Swedish irons, which now reach Geneva by an expen sive land journey through Metz, will be conveyed, with consider able economy, by the French canals and the river Saone, to Macon. This line therefore will have the advantage of advantage of adding to its own, a new and most important traffic., withdrawn from olher channels of communication. Without entering into further details, which it would not be deemed prudent to publish at the present moment, the facts which have been stated will be amply sufficient to show the immense advantages of this railway, which is held in the highest estimation by capitalists and parties interested In railway matters, both in France and Swit zerland, and supported by the most influential proprietors of the dis tricts traversed, as well as the local atehorities. Negotiations are pending, and likely to be brought to successful issue, between this Company and the Swiss Government, with regard to an extension of this line to Lausanne and Yverdun, which will connect them with the remainder of Switzerland and Germany ; and should this important concession be gained, a preference in the allot ment of shares will, of course, bo given to shareholders in this Company. The capital of the Company has been fixed at 60,000,000 of francs (or 2,400,0001.), of which 25,000,000 francs (or 1,000,000/4, are to be subscribed for in England. The English capital is divided into 50,000 shares,of 201. each, upon which a deposit of 2'. is to be paid on allotment. One month's pre vious notice will be given of all subsequent instalments, which are not to exceed 21. each. In case a lease of the line shall not be granted to this Company, the deposits will be paid back without deduction, but without interest. The English Provisional Directors will be responsible only for the deposits paid in Great Britain, and the French Provisional Directors only for those paid in France. By the statutes of the Company, all powers necessary for its due government, and .the protection of the Interests committed to their care, are given to, the Directors ; and the act of subscribing the Ap plication for Shares is, in itself, an acquiescence in such Statutes on the part of the Subscribers. The Company will be constituted a Societe Anonyme, according to the laws of France, by which it will be governed ; the responsibi lity of the Subscribers being thereby limited to the amount of their respective snbscriptions. The liability of the original Subsersbeas will extend only to five-tenths of the amount of their subscriptions ; and when that proportion is paid tip, the shares will be legally transferable, and the original subscribers discharged front further liability. The Shares will bear interest at the rate of four per cent. per annum (in lieu of dividend) on the amount paid up, from the date of the Royal Ordonnance of concession, until the opening of the whole lino. After the opening of the line, a sufficient amount will first be retained out of the net profits of the Company as a sinking fund, and, after allowing an interest of five per cent. on the Shares, the surplus will be divided in the following manner :—IB-20ths among the Shareholders, and 2-20ths to the Directors_ The Provisional Directors are invested with full powers to treat with the Government for a lease of the Railway, upon such terms as they, In their discretion, shall consider beneficial to the Company ; to tender for such lease either by public or private contract ; to fix the conditions and duration thereof; to sign and deposit the same ; to effect and regulate the deposit of the caution-money ; and to bind the Comany to the performance of the terms and conditions imposed by the Calder des Charges ; and to approve and sign the Acto de Societe, and all other necessary documents; to make any treaty, arrangement, or coalition with other companies, and to reduce proportionately the slumber of shares ; to alter or dissolve the Comany, due regard being had to the interest of the shareholders ; and generally to take such measures as they may deem expedient and may require, in order to secure the con cession of the line upon the favourable terms. No applications for shares will be attended to unless accompaniled by a first-rate reference. Applieations for shares may be made, in the annexed form, to the Secretary, at the offices of the Company, 73, Basinghall-street, London ; to the Solicitors ; or to the following Brokers and Agents : London—Messrs. John Showell and Son, 25, Tokenhouso-yard " Mr. Theodore lfzielli, 75, Old Broad-street Liverpool—Messrs. Alston and Gage Manchester—Mr. William Marshall Hull—Messrs. Collinsen and Flint Leeds—Messrs. Watson and Co. Birmingham—Mr. James Pearson Edinburgh—Messrs. Robinson and CO. Halifax—Messrs. Newburn and Blakey. a T be as r s t i n e n a a n h d a Ce and Stafford . D G l u a s b g i — w Il e i s e s r. s L r s FORM OF APPLICATION. To the English Provisional Committee of the French and Swiss • Junction Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l hereby subscribe for shares of 201. each in the Capital Stock of the above Company, upon the terms and conditions of the Prospectus; and I undertake to accept the same or any less number of shares that may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit and calls thereon when required, and to conform to the statutes of the Company. Dated this day of 1845. Name and Surname in full .......... Profession •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • Place of Residence or Address ...... Name and Address of EsteroAce IRECT WESTERN RAILWAY (Upon the Broad Gauge), From London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and Bridgewater respectively. - (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL CONRITTEE. The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the gout Mid land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London Ralph Neville, Esq , M.P. for Windsor, Hill-street, Berkeley-square Charles Barry Ballwin, M.P. for Totness, 6, Parliament-street Tim. Percy Evans Frets, 3, helgrave-square Hndd Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London Sheffield, Director of the il il h il e a til m eld ß a r n ad d ie fan Oaks, erefield and Sheffield Railway Companies Ear John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of William E ch sg es " Manchester and Manor London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin ster Bank, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder minster Railway Thomas Challis, Esq-, 32, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the City of London Edward Harrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the south Midland Railway Joseph Armitage, Esq., Miln's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park, Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and South 31Idiand Railways Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Railr, ay Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe Philip W. Courtnay, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London 31illis Coventry, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street Barnet L. • Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and George-street, Mansion Home John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Boswell, Middleton Jolland, Esq., Holderness House, near Mull, Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf William Bales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the Devon and Cornwall Banking Company Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director of the South Midland Railway Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London, Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South Essex Railways Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street, John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, I)irector of the Londonderry and Coleraine and the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railways John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Insurance Company James Renshaw, Esq., Whitchart-court, Lombard-street, and West Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Direc- tor of the Bridpoit and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railvrays Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon- _ street, London H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park George M'lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-square Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London Major White, 105, Pali-mall, London, Director of the South Midland Railway Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company Patrick Fras. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the London and Blackwell Railway Company W. D. Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon Cuthbert Woodstock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstoue-street, Portman square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension Railways George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London, Assistant Tithe Commissioner William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-squaro William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway Company Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London and Blackwell Railway Company Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lano Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R N., 11, Eaton-square Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the St. Katherine's Dock Company William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-squaro Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and Luton Hon, Bedfordshire George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles street, Berkeley-square James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor place, London Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, minty Cork, Union Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail- way Company Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London William Congreye Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d Light Dragoons Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity- square, London Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey Major-Gen. Martin mute, Marlborough -buildings, Bath Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Berke Col. Burslent, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Rev. Chas. Fras. Bamfylde, Rector of Dunkerton, near Batk 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 if the Buckingham shire Railway and Wolverton Junction Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton Rev. John Sydenham, Colinmpton Rev. It. A. Roberts, Rector Of Kentisbere, Collamptoit Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton Wm. H. Holcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman of the Barks Union Banking Company William Bale , unb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and Dorset Bank - - Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton. Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berks Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Kerle Haberfield, Esq., Clifton, Bristol. James Troup, Esq., Hastings John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director of Coventry and Leicester Railway Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and Southampton Railway Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies Joseph Nadin, Esq. , Manchester, Director of the Manchester an d a p n a c n h i o r Wigan, and Manchester and Sout h ampton Railways es" James Ogden, 3f .D., Salford Sic William Lowthrop , Hull, Magistrate for the East Ridi ng o f Y or k and for the boroug h of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barns ley" C om mittee, and Memb er of the acting Comm ittee of the " Liver pool C. H. Jones , E s q ., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders field and Sheffiel d, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford un., Esq., Hull, Director of the N a ll an d B arnsley Leed s Ch ar les Bamford, j Junction John Lillie, Escl., M a nchester, Director of Manchester an d South ampton Railway John Robson, Esq. , I letton-le-Hole, Durham Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Bi r k en h ea d, an d Midl a nd Railway Companies Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool Was. B. Newberg, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and Iron Bridge Railway Company C. Appleby, Esq., Brooinhlll, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Company Bdwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wi s b eac h , 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, Eel., upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Adderley Howard, Esq. , Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast Railway Company Captain Bowker, Devonport 11. S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Lents Di rect Railway Sheffield, Director of th e E as t an d W es t Samuel Swann Britt:sin , Esq., of England RIIIWAY Company John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and /far rowgate 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 Hamilt on, Esq., Liverpool David Price, Esq., 31auchester William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon -square, Leamington Rev. H. eV. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire Major Wormun, Clarence-square, Cheltenham Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of - the South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull John Ostler, Eq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Auction Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter -lane Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial -road, Linehouse, merchant John Moe Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Assistant Tithe Com missioner John Norton, Esq., Moat House,'Brentwood, Essex William John M`Guire, Esq., Hampton Court John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey W. J. Lefeuvre, Esq., F R.S.,Aiderman and Magistrate ofSouthanapton Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park G. B. Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Coventry and Leicester Railway Captain Tringharn, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield (With power to add to their number). A further list of influential names will shortly appear. Basitszas-31essrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill, London. JOINT SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London Mean. 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 lan-fields, London. SECSETAST—TIIOMAS Hosier Saunders, Esq. ASSISTANT-SECRETARY—CharIes J. Whalley, Eflq• AAA At Bath, T T rito. Tiverton, r b : mo t n cl e g s, Bradforde T sr a . s n L .l . l T at . LOCAL AGENTS. At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq. At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. R. Poole eeeiniodre:llErs Messrs. for, d anal, Stone li jd. Staunton d aTn ß otm o o d ne r , r E a Y s At Truro At Penzance At Falmouth The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between London and the Land's End. In a national p o i nt of view such a l i ne i s indispensable. With the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from its situation 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 280 miles of. eavy road, that place has attained its high po sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, w ith far less natural ad vantages, hes ,since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in - ereased its imp or t s from 201,0001. to 3,009,000/. per annum. At Bris tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports were declining ; since then they have very considerably iacreased. 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 extent that line to Fal mouth by way of Plymouth ; 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 th tt no other line than the present 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 L and's End. The London, Bath, and B r id gewa t e r 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 Beciwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manuitteturing dis trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frouae, Shepton Mallet, Weds (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 ling direct to the Land's End, Falm ut'i, St. Ices, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole llstance from London to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles. With 'erect to the traffic on the upper portion of the line it is Vedlen to say Wore UM that there is already thorough traffic dent to ittstify 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- Jact.d, 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 hasurance 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 ; to what extent the iaexhaustible 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 that no competing trunk line can ever be established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of railroad accommodation. _ _ Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital Importance in the event of war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet commerce of the kingdom; it may not be out of place to quote here the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the prolect 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 llristol and Exeter Railways, he is reported to have said :—"I consider that the com munication between the metropolis and the great outports to be not a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company, it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth ; and it may be further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed to interfere with that great national object. The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for wardness, and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par liament. It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be constructed at an unusually small expense ; that the undertaking will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that this will prove to be one of the most remuile:ative railways in the kingdom. Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at four pounds per centime 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 coanected 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, or to any respect able broker in town or country London, September 11, 1845. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 251. each in the above Company, aad I undertake to pay the deposit of 21.125. 6d. per skare thaaeoa, or on any less number you may appropriate to use, aad to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Coo tract when required. Dated 1845. Name in full .. • • • • • ..... • Residence ..................... Trade or Profession ............ .. Place of Business (if any) Reference ..... • .... Signature......... ..... .............. MADRID AND VALENCIA. RAILWAY, authorised by an Ordinance of her Majesty the Queen of Spain. Capital 2,400,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 201. each, Spanish reals . • (Vellon) 2,000, fr. 500. Deposit 2/. 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 Burlington-street The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beauclerk, Chesham-place, Beigrave square, a-d the Riding, Northumberland The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., 27, Regent-street Sir William Wynn, Chairman of the North Wales Railway C. Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., 6, Parliament-street; Chairman of the Paris and Strasbourg Railway Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker (Mesas. Cockburn and Co.) William COIIIIII3, Esq., M.P., Reform Club Edward Bates, Esq., Managing Director of the Angus Life Assurance Company John Capper, Esq., merchant, 1, Adelaide-place, London-bridge William Chadwick, Esq., Montagu-square, Chairman of the Rich mond Railway Gideon Colquhoun, Esq., Walmer Lodge, Avenue-road, Regent's park, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway Company William Cooper, Esq., merchant, 20, Mark-lane, and Kingwood Lodge, Dulwich Edmund F. Dayrell; Esq., 15, Old Cavendish-street, and Lillingstono Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff of Bucks, Deputy-Lieutenant of the County, Chairman of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Railway and Bridgewater and Minehead 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 John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's-wood, near London, Director _ _ of the National Bank of Ireland Wm. King, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Com pany James John 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., 1, New-street, Dorset-square, Chairman of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and Central Wales Railway, and Director of the South Midland Junction Railway Nicholas M`Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street, Director of the Man chester and Rugby Direct Railway J. B. Montefiore, Esq., 2, Winchester-buildings 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 Colonel Edward Stopford, 16, Edward-street, Portman-square, Direc tor of the Darbadoes Railway Company William Gordon Thompson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Junction S. J. Waley, Esq., 22, Devonshire-place William Lechmero Whitmore, Esq., 19, James-street, Buckingham gate, Director of the London Central Railway Terminus. BANKER. London—Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill ; Messrs. Masterman and Co., Nicholas-lane ; Messrs. Cockburn and Co., Whitehall. Madrid—Bank of Isabella 11. STANDING COUNSEL—Jacob Waley, Esq., Lincoln's Inn SOLICITORS—Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, 84, Lime-street. ICONEULTING ENGINEER—P. Prichard Bab-, Esq. SECRETALT—F. Kirkham Powell, 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 cityand port of Valencia, 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. 3. 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 fiom the com mencement of the works, of all import duties on the machniery, 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, upd upon the capital represented by the shares. 1. 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. T. 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 surveyed, it is well knowa that there is no similar district of equal extent in the kingdom which presents so few engineering difficulties. For upwards of 80 miles the ling 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 Manzanares. The line will either pass through or accommodate the most important towns in the two provinces, which will thus be brought Into rapid com munication with the capital on the ono side, a seaport on the other. This railway will be the means of supplying 3fadr:d, con.aining 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 aid 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 cwt., from which the return is estimated at .• 1,223,400 £1,291,200 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 .. .. 752,320 • Remains • • • • • . £538,880 Supposing that the present traffic will only be doubled by the railway, although experience has proved the increase to be equal to 300 and 400 per cent., there will be added • • .. • . • • • • .. 538,860 And add £1,077,760 For the transport of troops, military stores, bcc., which the Government will substitute for the conveyance by waggons .. .. • . 50,000 25 per Cent., at the least, for the Allcant trattio .. 215,952 £1,343,712 From which deduct nearly 50 per eent.formalinterumee of way, &c... 671,856 Leaving a net profit of Or of nearly 28 per cent. upon the capital. £671,856 _ . . 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 eloscly 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 will be in Spain, and It will be framed on the principle of a compania anoninm, agreeably to the commercial eode 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 oured to the shareholders. A deposit •f 21. per share is payable on allotment, and no future call will exceel 21. 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, Liyerpool ; Messrs. Wreford, and Co., Bristol ; Mr. Lea, Binning ham; Messrs. Watson, and Co. Leeds; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle , Hull; Messrs. Bu c h ana n an d Aitkin, Glasgow ; Mr. W. Gordon, Aberdeen ; Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin ; and to the Secretary, at the office, 37, Moorgate-street, London. London, Sept. 10, 1545. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Directors Ofthelkfaaridani Valencia Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 201. eazh in the above Company ; and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or any less number which you may appropriate to me, and to pay the deposit thereon of 21. per share. Dated this day of 1845. Residence .... •• • • Profession or Trade ..... ofe Business . ...... Atvrenr4 QHROPSHIRE MINERAL RAILWAY, forwing, in conjunction with other existing and projected lines, a direct communication between Liverpool, Manchester, Shef field, York and Hull, and Swansea and South Wales. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 700,0C3/., in 35,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per She"..e. - (The Deposit is in accordance with the Standing Order of the House of Commons.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. Adams, Mr. Sergeant, Stanhope-place, Hyde-park Baddeley, Thomas Bernard, Esq., Newport, Salop Barker, Joseph, Esq., Macclesfield Batson, James, Esq., Ironmaster, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway Beddoes, Thomas, Esq., Cheney Longueville, near Church Stretton Beamish, Captain, Kensington-square Blanford, Wm., Esq., Chairman of the Thames Plate Glass Company Bloor, John, Esq., Merchant, Tutbury, Staffordshire Boothby, Sir William, Bart , Ashbonrne Hall, Derbyshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and Brighton and Cheltenham Direct Railways Bull, Joseph, Esq., Snedshill Iron Works, Shropshire and Manchester Burroughs, Captain, Davies-street, Berkeley-square Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield and London, Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway Clemson, John, Esq., Red Bank, Manchester Cochrane, T. Esq., Ironmaster, Woodside Works, Wolverhampton Cox, George, Esq., Wolverhampton Davies, Thomas, Esq., Ironmaster, Goldshill, New Ironwoods Deakin, Addison, Esq., Eccleshall Downes, Thomas It. C., Esq., Munslow, near Ludlow Edwards, Edward, Esq., Iron-bridge, Shropshire Evans, Thema - , Esq., Chin, Shropshire Ewbank, Captain, Junior United Service Club Eyke, William, Esq., Stanton, Shiffnall, Shropshire Firmstone, John Parsons, Esq., Ironmaster, Highlields Works, Bil ston, Director of the South Staffordshire, Worcester, and Shrews bury Junction Fisher, &DIMS, Esq., Ironmaster, Bilston, Staffordshire Fourdrinier, George IL, Esq., Hanley, Vtaffordshlre PotterieS Frith, John Griffith, Esq., Chairman of the Coleraine and London derry Railway George, William, Esq., Weston, near Much Wenlock Griffiths, Samuel, Esq.. Wolverhampton Gregory, T. Esq., Ironmaster, West Bromwich, Staffordshire Hall, Joseph, Esq., Ironmaster, Bloomfield, Tipton, Staffordshire Hodgson, Lieutenant-Colonel, Studholme, Welbeck-street, Caven dish-square Holcombe, Charles T., Esq., Valentines, Ilford, Essex, Director of the Anglo-Belgian Railway llumphreys, William, Esq., the Rectory, Berriew, Welsh Pool, Mont gomeryshire Humphreys, John, Esq., Berriew, Welsh Pool, Montgomeryshire Humphreys, Rev. Thos., Bishop's Castle Johnson, John, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gains- _ borough Railway Jones, Robert, Esq., Strefford, near Church Stretton Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk Law, William, Esq., Woburn-place, Russell-square Leicester, Rev. Charles, J.P., Whitton Hall, Salop Loveridge, Henry, Esq., Wolverhampton Luc:cock, the Rev. T. G. M., Parsonage, Great Barr, Staffordshire Marston, Francis, Esq., J.P., Aston, Hopcsay, Salop • M`Dermott, George A., Esq., Director of the Staffordshire Potteries and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway Miller, Ambrose, Esq., Lower Thames-street, Director of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway Millington, William, Esq., Ironmaster, Summerhill Works, Tipton, Staffordshire Minton, John, Esq., Cleobury North, Shropshire Minton, J., Esq., Clifton, Bristol, Director of the Goole and Doncas ter Railway Newcombe, J. W., Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, and Langley-fields Ironworks, Dawley, Salop Plowden, William, Esq., Plowden-hall, near Bishop's Castle, and Rotherwas, near Hereford, J.P., Shropshire Potter, William Simpson, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, and Lower Thames-street, Director of the Oxford, Witney, and Chel tenham, and or the South and ➢lidlands Junction Railways Price. Francis Lysons, Esq., William-street, Blackfriars, Director of . . the Chartered Gas Ligh, and Coke Company Pulteney, Captain DonOas Kinnaird, Parliament-street, Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway Rawson, John, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of Yorkshire, Director of the Manchester, Liverpool and Great North of England Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway Ridge, Joseph Charles, Esq., merchant, Manchester Rigg, Charles M., Esq., York-place, Portman-square Riley, W. T., Esq., Ironmaster, 31illfleld Works, Bilston, Director of the Derbyshire. Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Ryton, William, Esq., Wolverhampton Shaw, William, Esq., Managing Director of the Royal Farmers' Fire awl Life Assurance Company; Director of the London and Bir mingham Extension, and Warwick and Worcester Railways Simms, William, Esq., Snedshill Ironworks, Shifinal Silyester and Jackson, Messrs., Ironmasters, Westbromwick Smalman, John, Esq., J.P., Quatford Castle, Bridgnorth, Director of the Worcester and Crewe Railway Spicer, Charles W., Esq , Portman-square, Director of the Armagh, . Coleraine, and Portrush, and Grand London and Dublin Approii: mation Railways Strad, James, Esq , Bradford, Yorkshire, Provisional Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway Summers, Thomas, Esq., Much Wenlock Swift, Henry, Esq., Eccleshall and Wootton Swift, George, Esq., Elford-hill, Eccleshall Thacker, Robert, Esq., Wolverhampton Tildesley, James, Esq, Merchant, Willenhall, Staffordshire Tudor, Samuel, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Hull, Director of the Derby, Stafford, and Uttoxeter Railway Turner, Henry, Esq., Brewood Hall, Staffordshire Underhill, George Lees, Esq., Ironmaster, Wolverhampton Wainwright, Richard, Esq., Stanway Court, Church Stretton Webster, Frank D. Bullock, Esq., Director of the New River Com pany, Brentbridge House, Hendon, Middlesex Wells, Thos., Esq., Ironmaster, Mosley Steel Works Weyman, Thomas, Esq , Purslow Hall, near Clun, Shropshire Williams, Messrs. James and Co., Ironmasters, Whittington Iron Works, near Stourbridge Wilson, Lieut.•-General Sir John, K.C.8., Bolton-street, Piccadilly and Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire Wood, Peter, Esq., merchant, Manchester Wood, William, Esq., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway Wolryche, Stephen, Esq., J.P.,Quatford Villa, near Bridgnorth, Salop Wynne, Thomas, Esq., Langton, Staffordshire Potteries, Director of the South Un!on and Birmingham Junction Railway (With power to add to their number). Applications for shaies in this Company will not be received after Monday, the 29th instant. All applications must be made upon printed forms, which, together with copies of the prospectus and maps of the line, may be obtained from the secretary ; also the solicitors, Messrs. Yarborough and Adams, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London, and Edmund Garbett, Esq., Wellington, Salop ; from the local agents—Messrs. G. and B. Anderson, Ludlow ; Thomas Weyman, Esq., Ludlow; John William Butterton, Esq., Eccleshall ; Thomas Bernard Baddeley,jun., Esq., Newport ; Edward Edwards, Esq., Church Stretton ; Gilbert Brown, Esq., Shiffnal ; Charles G. Brown, Esq., Bilston, Stafford shire ; Philip Octavins Jervis, Esq., Bishop's Castle ; Thomas Griffiths, Esq., Clun and Bishop's Castle ; Thomas Walker, Esq., Wolverhamp ton ; T. B. T. Hodgson, Esq., Birmingham ; William Harding, Esq., Burslem, Staffordshire Potteries ; and from the brokers—Messrs. Mieville and Co., Angel-court, Throgmorton-street, London ; Megan. Cameron, Cazcnove, and Taunton, Liverpool ; Messrs. Green and Old ham, Manchester ; Nathaniel Lea, Esq., Birmingham.; Messrs. Sohmes and Tripp, Bristol ; Messrs. Turley and Cooper, Leeds ; S. Senior, Esq. Sheffield ; and Messrs. Brady and Staniforth, Hull. BF girder, GEORGE BOND, Secretary. Royal Exchange-buildings, London, Sept. 22, 1645. B ARNET and NORTH METROPOLITAN JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.) Capital, 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21.25. per Share. No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Subscription THE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER, AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND SWINDON AND BtS.MINGHAM JUNCTION, Being an extension of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,200,0001., in 60,000 shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per share. PIOVINONAL COMMITTBE. Lord George gaget, Uxbridge House Major Beresford, M.P. William Bulkoley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid laud, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Riehard Price, Esq., M.P., Director of the Welsh Midland, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways David R. Ross, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, Director of the London and Manchester, and Soath and Midlands' Junction Rail ways Sir John E. De Beauvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir mingham Extension, and .Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Sir . William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director ofthe South and Midladds' Junction Railway Sir George William PresCott, Bart., Theobalds, Herta, Director of the Chester and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junc tion Railways Sir William Wynn, Maesynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, Director of the Direct Western Rail way Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London and Mancheater Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Sir William Twysden, Bart., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean Railway William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of Lon don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and London and Greenwich Railways, loc. &c. Thomas Sydney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' June lion Railways Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lon don and Westminster Bank, and Namur and Liege, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South and Midlands' jrniceen Railways Donald Maclean, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Talley Con tinuation, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Major Oliver Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberys twith, and Central Wales, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Major-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Worces ter and Crewe, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Captain James Patrick Macdougal, late Bengal Royal General Staff, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of Dean, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways, &c. Captain Alexander Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, Director of the Legal and Commercial Insurance Company, the Great Western of Bengal, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth Railway Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment Railway Richard William Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Man chester, and Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave•square, Direc tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life Insu rance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway James Clay, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Furness and White haven, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Col. Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail ways William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, Manag ing Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company, and Di rector of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Richard Carpenter, Esq , Magistrate of the County of Middlesex, Deputy-Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, Di rector of the Leicester and Bedford, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways G. W. Killett Potter, Esq., Secondary of the City of London Lieut.-General Sir Lewis Grant, K.C.8., 31, Harley-street John Jennin g s, Es q ., Elm- g rove, Hammersmith William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the Oxford, Witney and Cheltenham, and South and Midlands' Junc tion Railways Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., PALS., 8, Upper Hyde-park-street William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Britannia Life Insurance Company, and Derby and Stafford, and South and Midlands' Junc tion Railways George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manches ter Railway Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire Samuel Parish, Esq., 'Wordsley, near Stourbedge, Staffordshire John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of the Church of England Life Insurance, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director of the London and Dover, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail ways James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Cash, Esq. Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick and Wrcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, - London, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway George R. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junc tion, and Northampton and Banbury Railways William Paxton, Esq., Langford, near Bicester, Director tif the South and Midlands' Junction Railway William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street, Director of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Con tinuation Rallwa John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Vice Chairman of the Leeds and York Railway J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the Loudon and Birmingham Extension Railway Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond James Durness, Esq., Leytonstone, Essex G. N. Wright, M.A.. Coed Celyn, Denbighshire, And Lonadale-square, Islington Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway Martin Furness, Esq., Director of the. Newark and Sheffield Railway William Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York and Leeds Railway Edmund Phillips, Esq., Avon House, Melksham, Wilts, Director of the South and Midlands Junction Railway Charles Thomas Ward, Esq., Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clopton House, Stratford-on-Avon, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway • Joseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Junc tion, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways George Henry Brook, Esq., Edgulin-lodge, Huddersfield, Provisional Director of the lluddersfleld, Halifax and Bradford Union Rail way, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Captain Hitching, H.E.1.C.5., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Birmingham and Oxford, and South Midlands' Junction Railways James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, and Brandon Lodge, near Coventry, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Rail- way William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurloe-square, Brompton, Director of the Jersey, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Thomas Cleobury, Esq., 30, Sackville-street Major Walker, K.H., Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, and Alfreton, Derby, Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and South and Mid lands' Junction Railways 7. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and South and Mlllands' Junction Railways Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath, Director of the Me tropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway N. A. Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and Central Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman of the Church of England Life Insurance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Colonel Fitch, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, Tork, and Leeds Railway, Director of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Englis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby and Southampton Railway William Morley, Esq. ' Blackheath William Lee, Esq , Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and Essex and Suffolk Railways " Thomas Gooch, Esq., Director of the South ant Midlands' Junction Railway J. Harvey, Esq., Rush-hill, Surrey - . John Wh - e'elton; Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Thomas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex R. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the North Metropolitan Railway William Slark, Esq., Directoi of the Guarantee Society FrederickCollingridgei Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton Warren Stormes Hale, Esq. Gresham-street, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Grove Key, Esq. Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction, and South Midlands' Junction Railways W. Lee, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-sqtetre Robert Power, Esq., M.D., Queen-street, May-fair Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place House, Southampton, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Major Grubbe, Eastwell House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the County, and Director of the South and Midlands'Junction Railway Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways T. G. Norbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Redford Railway Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continua tion, and eouth and Midlands' Junction Railways, and of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance Company William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway John Brocke Walbancke, Esq., Directo: of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Captain Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery William Lee, Esq., Director of the Reading Railway Henry Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square William T. Thornton, Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman-square John Dennis, Esq., Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway Joseph Crockett, Esq , Alderman of Devizes, and Director of the North Wilts Banking Company, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway John Helbert Helbert, Esq., Gloucester-place, London, Director of the Leicester and Birmingham Railway Rey. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, London, Director of the Rugby and Worcester Railway William l'cppercorne, Esq., London, and Bexhill, Sussex Captain T. Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway F. Duffield, Esq., Bolton House, near Bradford Rev. F. R. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge John Barnett, Esq., Coroner for the County of Gloucester, Director of the Oxford and Cheltenham Railway William Spooner, Esq. Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the Newcastle and Liverpool Railway Alexander Prince, Esq., 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Bar net North Junction Railway James Lees, Esq., Delph, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of the Saddleworth Banking Company (With power to add to their number). BANKERS—The Commercial Bank of London. CONSULTING ENGINEER—Sir John Memel', LL.D., F.R.S. ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E. SoLterros —W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street. LOCAL AGENTS. It appears that England will be divided longitudinally by four great will become so many main trunks, intersee lines of railway, which communication with the intermediate dis tricts, with packet stations , and with sea- p ort towns. The more tug sad intersected by numerous lines, both transverse and oblique, opening rapid and ready which is also the longest, originating at Newcastle easterly of these, upott-Tyne, London, whence all places are accessible. The be said to terminate in and passing through York, Peterborough, and Qambridge, The second line, counting westward, is more tortuous, and has also a common northern terminus with This line, descending the Ere the preceding, by which its ad vantages are materially restricted wash Vale, and passing through Rugby and Oxford, becomes a South ampton line by falling into the South-Western more the most westerly, is still The third longitudinal line, er Railway at Basing stoke. de fective la design than the preceding; employing the steep and narrow railway- called the Birmingham and Gloucester as its first link, it traverses nearly In a right line the least populous and most undulating parts of Gloucester, Berks, Wilts, and Hants ; and, properly speaking, has no independent terminus. A large longitudinal section of the kingdom—the West Midland e' t p r r u n e n s e e k n n li district—a district inviting a similar species of accommodation from t trate d d ertat ioc k al ing a , dv r an a ta tb g art es, h s l t o ll n l g reza in in a s l l u i n ne p . rovided with a chief Birmingham a u e . ; and it is contemplated to remedy this deficiency by the Adopting land, Manchester, line through or near to Str , and sou s til a northern terminus of the West Mid aampton Railway, it is proposed to carry Stow, lcorthleach, Fatrrord, afford-on-Avon, thence between Moreton, merge in the South and Midlandnde line wili,beanadboSuNtii y ap sixty , m w il l e i , e , re an i d t will ele and densely peopled. At SisWgillitt, 7tnd b li tiC ia o t rll in e g S t 1 The length of the proposed r " cu ' n Rail idthistsroieutthtrearynetersreind terminus, with the. South and Midlands, by means of which it opens a tri en o t E t t eat tion hitherto su;gested with the harbours or most direct c'unluni"" church, Poole, and Southampton. At its northern terminus,Weymouth, Christ mlngham, it communicates with a series of lines, protected, ,,, B r I Q r. areas, or completed, which will form the most direct 1111,, th il at - ca - ever be constructed between the southern ports of England and rho great manufacturing districts. IX tin allia.nee at hues figlidug the Witt laid.lana, Micstialittr PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Hon. F. H. F Beriele;,lll.F.,CiidrMin,nirector of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway Company William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, also Deputy-Chairman of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway Company Sir John Osborne, Bart., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing stoke Railway Company The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch House, Henley William Wilberforce, Esq., James-street, Buckingham-gate, and Highwood House, iligh3;TOod Hill, Hendon Lieut.-Colonel Gillies, Porchester House, Bayswater William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn Major Lind3m, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales Railway Company Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., F.S.A., Director of the Colchester, Cambridge, and Harwich Junction Railway Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., M.D., Mortimer-street, Cavendish- square Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway Thomas Hemming Johnson, Esq., Older's Hall, Hendon, Middlesex Thomas Priestley, Esq., Principal of Mill Hill Grammar School, Hendon, Middlesex The Rev. H. J. Crump, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex Captain Grover, R.N. Captain John lanes, 11.C.5., Wentworth House, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex The Rev. Bartholomew Nicholls, M.A., Incumbent of St. Paul's, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex Mr. William Ward, Underhill, Barnet Mr. Bruce Johnson, Finchky William Christopher Daniel Deighton, Esq., Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, Holloway Ralph Allen Frogley, Esq., Hounslow, Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway Colonel Taylor White, Hadley-green, Barnet Abraham Scott, Esq., Hadley Priory, Barnet W. J. 31`41wire, Esq., 74, St. James's-street W. Prosser, jun., Esq., 36, New Broad-street, City James Berington, Esq., East-street, Hoxton George Freeman, Esq., Grange House, Leeds Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq., Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway Company George Godfrey, Esq., The Elms, Hutton, Essex Robert Wright Wood, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Company Alexander Prince, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing- stoke Railway Peter Graham, Esq., Angelo Villa, Gloucester-road, Regent's Park William Henry Halpin, Esq., 23, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Company Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales Railway Company J. N. Nicholay, Esq., Oxford-street John Godfrey B. Hudson, Esq., Director of the Central Terminus Railway Company Tha Rev. G. A. Walker, Alvisthorpe Parsonage, Wakefield, Direc tor of the Wakefield and Bradford Railway Company (With power to add to their number.) COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. The Hon. F. IL F. Berkeley, M.P., W. H. Halpin, Esq. Chairman Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq. William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy. Alexander Prince, Esq. Chairman George Freeman, Esq. Major Lindam, K.H. George Godfrey, Esq. Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., Robert Wright Wood, Esq. F.S.A. Charles Green, Esq. CONSULTING ENGINEER—Francis Wishaw, Esq., C.E., Brook Lodge, Ilendon. ACTING ENGINEER—J. Bailey Denton, Esq., 10, Gray's Inn-square, BANKERS—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, JOINT SOLICITORS. Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street G. P. Hill, Esq., 21A, Soho-square. LOCAL AGENTS. Henry Hammond, Esq., solicitor, Wentworth Lodge, Finchley John Hughes Esq., solicitor, Whetstone. SECRETARY (pro tem.)—A. Doull, Esq. This railway will connect the important and hitherto neglected town of Barnet with the London and Birmingham and the Great Western Railways, at or near Holsdon-green ; with the Northern and Eastern and the Eastern Counties Railway, at or near Totten ham ; and the proposed Direct London and Manchester, and the Lon don and York Railways. The line, in its course, will unite the town of Barnet with Whet stone, Totteridge, Highwood Hill, Mill Hill, Flnchley, Holder's Hill, Hendon, Burrows, Golder's Hill, Gutterhedge, Kingsbury, Neesdon, WiLsdon, Wilsdon Green. Holsdon Green, Kensall Green, Westbourne Green, Maida Hill, Kilburn, Hampstead, West End, Highgate, Crouch End, Hornsey, Muswell Hill, West Green, Tottenham, Edmonton, Chinford, Stamford 11111, Stoke Newington, Newington Green, Clap ton, Highbury, Holloway, Kingsland, Layton, Stratford, West Ham, Bow, Bromley, Bethnal Green, Limehouse, Hoaton, Homerton, Hackney, Shacklewell, Dalston, Islington, St. Pancras, Shoreditch, Blackwall, Euston-square, Paddington, Kensington, Hammersmith, Brornpton, Fulham, Chelsea, &c. ; connecting those places with the various railways named, and all those south of the river Thames. The distance from Ihe town of Barnet to the station of the London and Birmingham Railway, at Euston-square, by this route, will be 15 miles. The length of the main line, from the point of junction at Totten ham to the London and Birmingham Railway, will be 11 miles ; and the length of the branch line to Barnet, will be 4% miles. From the junction with the Birmingham Railway to Chipping Barnet, 9% miles ; from the Decoy (near Brent-street, Hendon), on the proposed Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway, to the Northern and Eastern Counties Railway, by Stamford-hill, 6% miles. There are no engineering difficulties throughout the entire distance. The line will proceed beyond the range of the Highgate and Hamp stead Hills, and the branch from the main line to Barnet will follow the valley of the river Brent to the intended station at Barnet ; thus the expense of construction will be less than any other metropolitan line of railway, for the above reason, and because it will pass through an agricultural district, avoiding all ornamental property and large collections of houses and buildings. Upon the completion of this railway, a large and daily increasing population, resident beyond the limits of the metropolitan omnibuses, will be largely benefited, and land and agricultural produce, hitherto affording an inadequate return to their cultivators, will be quad rupled in value. The ancient, populous, and once-flourishing town of Barrie, too, will now have a railway communication of its own, without depend ing upon the caprice or uncertain goodnaturc of any company who may hold out a prospect of a branch, in future times, from some of the trunk lines now contemplated. An Ample return of profit to the investments of shareholders may be safely anticipated, and will arise from' the following Bounces, amongst others : 1. From the conveyance of passengers. 2. From the carriage of goods and merchandise frem the City and Docks, &c., to the several railways which are intersected by this line, avoiding the delay and excessive cost of conveyance through London ; also from' the conveyance of cattle, &c., more particularly during the period of the large Barnet fairs. 3d. from tilt conveyance 01 coal, both inland and seaborne, fuel, .. -,.. and other commodities of general cotsum Ntion the gre at e ' cP ‘ 1 , vil. of which has long beef felt by all clrszes as a cost grleva as e ~, et The Committee of Management reserve to of adopting, upon this line, locomotive power, Or Press es Ra w guide and safety'uteels, as may he deemed exped,'en t *„. ~ romronlli• Applications for Shares In the form annexed i.; i : ." 7,,-, Offices cations from persons desirous of promoting the obj, *G -S T„ Office! thernselv( a the c!.. v.ay . pally), may be addressed to the Secretary, at the Pro VIO' ~ JO' of the Company, 59, New Len-street, Oxford-street ; t 9 1- nr• d v. Solicitors, Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, Hill, Esq., 21A, Soho-square. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. , nn olitas To the Provisional Committee of the Barnet and North I le , '4 O . Junction Railway, 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street , LO S 'hoe Of Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me leola tb 201. each in this Company, and I hereby undertake to a ,„„ i . two same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less m un I, o l* may be allotted to me ; and 1 undertake also to execute 7 t lll 1. mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when req ui. „.• • Trade or Profession .. ••..••• .. • • ••• •• -•••••••••• • • - ' •fore'" Name, Residence, and Profession or Trade an; n OSTON, NEWARK, and SHEFFI LLD 34 , RAILWAY. ell eßa~. The allotment to scripholders of the Newark and Sh way of the additional shares in this undertaking to whl.ch lb narz entitled has just taken place, and the letters will be issue I thli a do The allotment to landholders, &c., who are not seriph, Ades* m at, Newark and Sheffield Railway, hag been postponed for a 1 bri_ .. "g o os to afford the Directors more time fol• inquiry respecting tbseurgi'doci applications they have received from parties who claim a Pr* in consequence of their local interest on the line of railwity. By order, t O secre Mansfield, September 20, 1845 JOHN DENNISTON, . CORNWALL R AIL IV A PROVISIONAL COMMITTEr (All of whom are Shareholdez 3 .) JOSEPH THOMAS IREFFRY, Place,. IChairrnan• The Right Hon. the Earl of Falmouth The Right Hon. the Earl of St. Germans The Right Hon. the Earl of Morley The Right Hon. Lord Clinton The Right Hon. Lord Wodehouse The Hon. George Matthew Fortescue, Boconnoc, C orrtwall Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., M.P., Carclew, Cornwall ..1 nal CA rir Sir Anthony Buller, Pound, Devon, Member of the Pr o, mittee of the North Devon Railway Company William Tyringham Praed, Esq., M.P., Trevethow, Co nora li maloat Charles Russell, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Great W estenll'-- Company 55 04 Thomas Gill, Esq., M.P., ;Chairman of the South :,.Devon Company William G. Hayter, Esq., M.P., Director of the .Great WeSteri Railway Company Allen, John, sq., Liskeard ot t h 6 Avery, Willia E m, Esq., Member of the Provisional Ca mmittec North Devon Railway Company Sat Barlow, Frederick Pratt, Esq., Director of the Great of way Company , „ t wine' Bere, Montagu 8., Esq., Member of the Provisional C 4, the North Devon Railway Company Roger, Deeble, Esq., Plympton „ 100 1 Brown, John, Esq., Director of the Bristol and 1* let e ' Company Batten, John, Esq., Penzance Browne, William, Esq., Director of the Bristol and 2 l'o ll ' Company , • NO Western It Braginton, George, Esq., Member of the Provision: 11 1,491-in the North Devon Railway Company Broad, Robert Richards, Esq., Falmouth , ttea 4 Bastard, Richard, Esq., Member of the Provisional CoMOI the North Devon Railway Company Broad, William Richards, Esq., Mayor of Falmouth Brokenshir. Joseph, Esq., Mayor of Penryn Canyon, Clement, M.D., Mayor of Truro Came, William, Esq., Rosemundy, Cornwall Cole, Ralph, Esq„ Director of the South Devon Railway ri •A m- Ching, John, Esq., Launceston Direc tor (4 9 ' Cotesworth, Robert, Esq , St. Helen's-place, London. Direc- Royal West India Mail Steam-packet Company Daubuz, William, Esq., Killion, Cornwall Dingley, Richard, Esq., Launceston o °l Fripp, Charles 8., Esq., Director of the Bristol a.%(1 . Exeter Company Fox, Robert Were, Esq., Falmouth Fox, Alfred, Esq., Falmouth Fox, Charles, Esq., Perranarworthall, Cornwall Fox, Robert Barclay, Esq., Perranarworthall, Cornwall Fox, Thomas Were, Esq., Plymouth co:1 1 1° 1 Fox, William, Esq., Director of the South Devon 1-Milwal Gray, Robert Alexander, Esq., St. Swithin's•lane. L caredn a Gibbs, James, Esq., Chairman of the Bristol and It:xeter Company Gully, Major, Trevenen, Cornwall Gwatkin, John, Henry,e Cornwall „ 1 1,111 4 Hawker, William Esq., Director of the South. I:)ev ° ' Company of tne tette llooper, Henry, Esq., Member of the Provisional COO North Devon Railway Company Jope, William, Esq., Tremeddon, Cornwall Rekewich, Samuel Trehawke, Esq., Peamore, Devon „,„ Morgan, William, Esq, Director of the Bristol and IS.Ver• Company Michell, William, Esq., Truro Miller, Patrick, M.D., Director of the Bristol and Moe A-r Company Nelson, John, Esq , Doctors'-commons Poynter, John, Esq., Boskenna, Cornwall Pethick, Henry, M.D., Launceston Robartes, Thomas James Agar, Esq., Lanhydrock, CorialKa ll Roberts, John Coryton, Esq., Trevol, Cornwall Robinson, Philip Vyvyan, Esq., Rectory, Redruth Rogers, The Rev. Canon, Penrose, Cornwall Rogers, Captain Frederick, R.N., Mawnan, Cornwall Rundle, Robert Esq., Mayor of Devonport c e Rundle, John, , Esq., Member of the Provisional ConW ate North Devon Railway Company Wal l Of St. Anhyn, The Rev. Hender Molesworth, Clowance, etfrn St. Aubyn, Edward, Esq., Member of the Provisional C. ool ''' the North Devon Railway Company Smith, Gorge, Esq., Cambone GOP' egt ef i Shapland, e Christopher, Esq.,r Director of the Bristol and Railway Company (PC fr# Tothili, Wm., Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway Tremenheere, Seymour, Esq., Pall-mall, London Tweedy, William, Esq., Truro Vean, Cornwall Tweedy, William Memel, Esq., Alverton, Cornwall Vivian, John, Esq., Pencalenick, Cornwall Williams, Michael, Esq., Trevince, Cornwall Williams, William, Esq., Tregullow, Cornwall _flips/ Williams, John Michael, Esq., Scorrier House, Corn- gam Woolleombe, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Sou th De' w o Company Wills, William D., Esq. , Director of the Bristol and Mre terilait o f Company C o Willeocks, James C., Esq., M the North Devon Railway Company the Provision.— (With power to add to their number) . COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Treffry, Joseph Tho mas. Es Cbidringui Barlow, Frederick Pratt, E g g ; Carlyon, Clement, M.D. Came, William, Esq. Cole, Ralph, Esq. Fox, Robert Were, Esq. Fox, William, Esq. Gill, Thomas, Esq., M.P. Gwatkin, John, Esq. Gibbs, James, Esq. Miller Patrick, M.D. Robartes, Thomas James Agar, Esq. Shapland, Christopher, Esq. Smith, George, Esq. Tweedy, William Mansell, Esq. Vivian, John, Esq. Williams, Michael, Esq. Woollcombe, Thomas, Esq. ENGINEER—I. K. Brunel, Esq, RANKERS. London—Messrs. Glynn, Hallifax, and Co. Messrs. Praed and Co. od Truro and Falmouth—Messrs. Tweedy, IVilliamS. DISTRICT BANKERS. o, Falmiuth and Truro—Messrs. Ricketts, Enthoven , C o.a n d c St. Austell, Bodmin, Messrs. Robins, roster, 5n ,,7„ z Co. Liskeard, and Launceston 5 Devon and Cornwall 13a11. Launceston—Messrs. 0111 and Rundle Plymouth—Messrs. Harris and Co. SOLICITORS TO VIE comeANY. Messrs. Smith and Roberts, Truro Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitehall, Lonclol/ LOCAL SOLICITORS. Messrs. Pender, Genn, and Genn, Falmouth John Williams, Esq., Penryn Mess , s. Commins, and Son, Bodmin Messrs. Symons and Luxmore, Wadebridge Christopher Childs. Eso., Liskeard to r/ Messrs. Gurnqy and Lethbridge Cowlard, Lan ce° SECRETARY (pTO tem).—P. P. Smith, Esq., Trur o got° the In compliance with the suggestion of the Committee o f ° tbe of of Lords (the measure having previously received the san ot ` , I ) , aLa Board of Trade, and the approval of the House of Comm °° ;, l ite'74 ther and most accurate survey of the whole line of country " or , o w between Plymouth and Falmonth has been determine d 11° , reo ° ' Mr. Brunel has been instructed to carry out their Lord ships mendat ion . f „ o n io ri The construction of aline from or near Launceston, by diton to Exeter, firming. a part of the North Devon scheme.. e ' r o °, A it is proposed to give railway accommodation to the no r tu g t ri central parts of that county, has rendered It most desiraloend;Slo junction should be effect between the Corn wa ll Railway 3 7c teoc l Devon line ; Mr. Brunel has therefore been instructed t o er t survey with a view to effect this junction, and to afford dir munication with Exeter and the Nort of Devon• btoi" e rr By the proposed plan the followin h g objects will be 0 , to . .„ . ".t continuous line of railway from Penzance and Falmollo'' fll'o• mouth, and thence by the South Devon line to Exeter. . r.at ioc o o line by way of Launceston and Crediton to Exeter Frook,"; Polo ton a line through Tavistock to Plymouth, and by the N o ' "4 0 111 Railway a line through Barnstaple and 'S ou th Moiton to Bristol and Exeter line at and Taunton rioc By the connexion which Tiverto will thu n sbe formed between the a°ral', n er Railway and the South Devon, North Devon, and Res t Railways, the most complete and comprehensive system o ' l ,log r d communication will b , provided for tile West of England, gi st , P utmost amount of accommodation to all the principa l t° • s, places in the counties of Cornwall and Devon. " 1 1 In the county of Cornwall the towns of Penzance, St. 00 , zion, Hoyle, Camborne, Redruth, Falmouth, Penrylb "•%, it oes t gr i. Austell, Lostwithiel, Bodmin, Wadebridge, Liskeard. 1.4° :,,J , , o f and Torpolut, and the great mining, commercial, trading, b ' o ot 1 ; e 0 cultural parishes a'd districts of the county will have th e a th, tti, railway communication ; while the ports of St. Ives, PornotioooB Quay, and Padatow on the north coast, and Mount's Bat' , on Mevagissey, Pentuan, Charlestown, Par, Fowey, and Le-toclor south coast, will be connected with or brought within very 1n distances of the main line. also m ill f- In the laying out of the Cornwall Railway advantage , co w taken of the several local railways already formed o r nolY tD o of construction. h ttle li e '' In carrying these objects into effect the Company I ‘ l ,. ot opo i ti ot most cordial co-opera b tion and support of its associated 001 _4l ntmely, the Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter. Paril" Gloncester,"the South Devon, the North Devon , a nd West - Railways. Considerable progress has already been made in the Strff eY. A th" E OF CATAL. In order to effect the INCREAS suggested improve Pl ments and es te r e lti rl o i lf i, capital will be increased by a sum of 600,000/., by the D o r , half-shares of 25/. each, upon which a deposit of 2/. 10s. 1 " el able on allotment. These shares will be issued to the Shareholders in the Olm"„iieft.„o one half share for each share now held by them, provided ftiWia be made by them in the form and manner and within.. o ' r igill s te a. hereinafter specified. In cases where the shares were tle,t,,, t ooll t o ei allotted to them the parties must be approved of by the `;',00 0 A portion of the shares will be reserved to meet the rega l.- the various local interests. INCREASE OF DEPOSITS. t re (l° lt In consequence of the new standing orders of Parlianto n ,„fore• a deposit of 10/. per cent., instead of 5/. per cent., here gh requisite to call for the further payment of 2/. per share (al' be to poi already issued. Tile Shareholders will therefore be called the further sum of 2/. per share on the shares respective') 6r e them. iptS. Ar a(10; All holders of Scrin Certificates or of Bankers ' neel a quested to forward the same to the Secretary , o n or befol t oe the 30th day of September instant, and to state at the saolt,o, „ t, wishes with respect to new shares by letter in the form he' ,' All holders of shares not originally allotted to theh t .' o coff e g or e , trawl - nit their Scrip Certificates, on or before that daY. / 1, the benefit of their shares ; and original subsc r ib ers failing gee day to transmit their Scrip Certificates , or Bankers' Ity 0 6 ; forfeit their right to an additional number of shares. ' ac e/ 4 0 61P - Any parties wishing, to withdraw will be entitled to r to r per share, on application to the Bankers, and on &Lain' on or before the 30th day of September instant. FORM OF APPLICATION. It sl/1 To the Committee of Management of the COrtlw• --411 Company. er o of yllt 4 Gentlemen,—l herewith transmit to you Scrip Certiflce,L ,e ' O 4 t o shares (or a Banker's Rec"lpt for sh ar e s), held I)..Y,,,4".Bl;lleviefft Company, numbered as at foot ; and I reques t that lo' , e for cn me Half Shares therein, being the propor tion of T' et . paY' n ost• share as advertised ; and I undertake to make the fart" the de 01„. of 2/. per share on the first-mentioned shares, and to Ilale%ectlls.jaav of 21. 101. per half share on the said h alf shares, and to flo at new Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers Mr" required. Dated this day of 1845. Number of Scrip• • . • • • • ' *;,,II.•• • ,••• Christian and Surname in ...• ' Residence ••••••• • • • •• • • . Profession or Business ••: ...• 10 Reference.. • • • •• .. • • •• *, apply N.B. A reference is required in c ases where pers°ll' spect of shares not originally allotted to them. of t6 ; lP il Printed Forms may ha obtained from the Solicitors,,„ fOl patty, Messrs. Smith and Roberts, Trnro ; and from t!Z"ftrec'_6o: Brokers :—Messrs. Foster and Braithwaite., 68, I ad 8r0 3 ", t , 1 41 01 5 . Nres,r9. Wells, Wostron. and Prinsen, 75, Old Broad •str, ‘ e te ,se• 6 0 1 :1 :Messrs. Neilson, and Mr. Ed ward Lloyd, Liverpool ; "„ q •onelf. dale, Leeds ; Mr. Pearson, Birmingham ; Mr. Dunouftt Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow ; Mr.ao ° ' Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Plymouth. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES, To the Provisional Committee of the West Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railway. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shires of 201. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me; and 1 undertake also to execute the Parlia mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Name (in full) Residence.... • • • • • ........ • • • • • • • • • Trade or Profession .. • • • • • • Reference.................. 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