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_.., • pi . ‘ .. . . ''' ' ':: PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED: NV ' • ~ : i • R FAT , LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT , l, - . , RAILw4.Y. . , , - - -:i ' c .' t> i 4,l4lectiOnSAftetlig:ltasterif Cothitlei - Itailwai it Bedier3. . :•:, „ k- ,- , Distance, 120 miles. ''4 i ' ''' ; f4l , ital 2 500,0001 in I,QQ 000 Shared of MI. each. l / t r:9 > -.., -- . .., Pit al , t _ .... , --t 1 . tr ' ' Deposit 2/. 12s. 6d. per , Share; '''•----_,_ ~;, t ill'intlillt taps Standing Orders of the Home Of Commona. ;• , -...L'a .1, - ....,7%/..,• - - • - PHOVISIONAL coautrrras. "."\,..!?..... _ ._ /.-T.inle Atftrtion. Lord Dunberns i * ItarLord Stephan =abater, Changan:44lW% and Ana' and Vavy -.Club, London . •• • ' - - . .. . - 11.1/ Robert Alexander, Bart., Charles-street, manchester-gcmara • 86• William Twisden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Director .of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and,Oloueester Junction. and Erewash Valley. Extension Railways , - • the Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director o f Chepstow,-Forast of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and of the liontli and Miclia4JunetiOn, and , Wawa Midlands laailwaril Sir TOVnGsuorzi, Bart., Earl's-court, Bromptora Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of London, Di- Teeter of the Manchester and London. and of the Direst Liverpool 'pnd Leeds Railway Saptain Frederick Polhill, M.P. for Bedford - Major ;General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.11., Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Major-general Thomas Morgan, Singleton-house, Torquay Major-General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester-place, Portman &pure - . William Ackroyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge, Otler, Director of the East and West York, Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and Leeds and CarligeßailwayS . . . Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and Trent Valley Continuation Railways . Francis Simes Alliott, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Amber gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastatn Junction, and one of the Provisional Committee of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Itailway. Companies nailry . Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Watkinson liall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Midland Railway George Ashlin, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Newcastle-upon- Tyne Railway Richard Armitage, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Grimsby, Director of the Manchester and Great Grimsby, and Keighley, Halifax and Huddersfield Junction Railways The Rev. Charles Edward Armstrong, M.A., Hemsworth John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon-cottage, Bristol, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway Charles Bamford, jun. Esq., Director of the Hull and Barnsley, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-house, Broad-street, Director of the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railways . • William Banks, Esq., Honey-lane-market, Director of the Manches ter and Rugby Direct Railway, via Macclesfield _ John Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey William Fechney Black Esq, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction Railways Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's-park, Hampstead, Director of the Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Great Grimsby Railway Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq.,the Lodge, 'Upper Clapton Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle-house, Gomersall, near Leeds Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds and West Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft-house, near Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Selby Railway Dr. Brig - stock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford Janis Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln, and G: eat Luxemburg Railway Joins Illore, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley, tlic , Derby and Gainsborough, the Shropshire Mineral Railways, ite. Job Bullivant, Esq., East Retford William Butt, Esq., Sandiacre, Derbyshire • Robert Burton, Esq., merchant, Woodville, Notts James Butlin, Esq banker, West Field-house, Rugby, Director of the Rugby and Ifuntingdon and one of the Provisional Committee of the Oxford and Birmingham Junction Railway Companies Richard Biddle, Esq., merchant, Nottingham Richard Birkin, Esq., merchant, Nottingham John Fillingham Bishop, Esq., merchant, Nottingham Thomas Butt, Esq., merchant, Nottingham Richard Bradley, Esq., Grantham, Director of the Amber-gate, Not tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the Direct Western, and Isle of Ely and Lincolnshire Junction Railways John. Fowler Burbidge, Esq., Mayor of Grantham, Director of the Amber-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway • Jonathon Burton, Esq., merchant, Carrington, Nottinghamshire Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., magistrate, Hull, Director of the Rushy, Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London ' John Carter, Esq., knottingley Tininas Carter, Esq., Tanshelf, Magistrate for the Borough of Pon tefract Charles Charnock, Esq., Holmfleld-house, near Ferrybridge Millis.Coventry, Esq., Director, of the South and Midland Junction, and. Birmingham Extension Railways B. Clemento, Esq., Lowndes-square, Director of the Western Ja maica Railway Robett Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Manchester, Mid land, and Great Grimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Ax holme, and the Wisbeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junction Raiways J. Cottam, Esq., East Retford _ . _ John Cutts, Esq., Little Bardfield-hall, near Braintree, Essex James (lift, Esq., Director of the Paris and Strasburg, Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, and Mac clesfield Railways W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Henry. Sherrarci Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street John Catint, Esq., Nottingham Thomas Mark Carter, Esq., Woodgreaves-house, near Wakefield, Di rector of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct Railway George Augustus Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Oakteid, Donegal, and 1 5 , Chesham-place, Belgrave-square ' Director of tho Grand Wales Central, and London and Exeter Direct Railways William Champion, Esq., Worksop William Cheetham, Esq., merchant, Nottingham Nathan Cooper, Esq., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire Francis Dacre, Esq., Stratford, Essex George Dennis, Esq., Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys jaw- tion Railway . Joseph Dent, Esq., Ribston-hall, Wetherby, Magistrate for the North-west Riding of Yorkshire A. A. Davenport, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten sion, and Worcester Junction Railways Joseph L. Davenport, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway John Ailcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li verpool and Leeds Direct Railway Richard Dransfield, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, of the Liverpool and Le?ds Direct, and of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and .Worcester Railway Matthew Dawson, Esq , Pontefract William Dawson, Esq., (Wakefield, Director of-the Peterborough, Wisbeach, Lynn, and Boston, and the Sheffield, Wortley, Silk stono, and Wakefield Railways John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New-hall, by Neston, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Birmingham, Oxford, and Reading Railways Henry Dunn, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Manchester, Hudders field, sad Great Grimsby Railway Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey mouth Railway John Elliott, Esq., Townhead-house, Rochdale Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Managing Direc- tor of the York and Lancaster Railway . L:rosdnis FiTster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Ex- _ tension Railway Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans and Midland Junction Railway Martin Farniss, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shef- field Railway John Griffiths. Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London derry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways William Fisher. Esq., Amcotts-house, near East Retford James Fothergill, Esq.. merchant, Nottingham Richard W.Fitzpatrick, Esq., barrister-at-law,Gloncester-road, Hyde park-gardens Geur46 Gr,en, Esq., Pontefract James Gilbertson, Esq , Alderman, and Magistrate for Hertford, William Gibson, Esq., Glasgow H. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday•street, Cheapside William Gordon. Esq , 31. D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds d pirect Rail Way Henry Evan Graves, Esq., Ely Bank-lodge, Halifax John Gully, Esq., Ackworth-park, Ackworth wtiiialb Gibbs, Esq., Camberwell, Director of the South Metropolitan Cemetery Company William Gill, Esq., Richmond, Yorkshire, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Northumberland and Lancashire Railways John Godber, Esq., Hucknall Torkard, Nottingh imshire, Director of the Amber-gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction, and Nottingham and Gairshorough Railway Companies Thomas John Green, Esq., Mayor of Bedford Richard Hall, Esq., arnarvon-hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways R. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash Valley Extension and West Midland Itailvrays W. H. Halpin, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing stoke, and She Meld and Macclesfield Railways Robert Hull, Esq., M.D., Norwich Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds John George Hammack, Esq., Director of the Direct Western, and the Metropolitan Junction Railways William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lieutenant and J P for the West Riding of Yorkshire . . John Mason Hepworth, Esq., Eden-place, Ackworth, J.P. fbr the Westltidinx of Yorkshire Joshua Hepworth, Esq., Rogerthorhall, Badsworth Thomas fleelis, Eeq. , Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of th e Lance shire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire North Eastern, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways John Holmes, Esq., East Retford Robert Herries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, :Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Charles Holbrooke, Esq. Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester John Howard, Esq., Royal Foundry, Redford Thomis Haigh, Esq., Wakefield, late High Constable of Wakefield John Hardy, jun., Esq., banker, Grantham, Director of the Amber gate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway John Harris, Esq., Springfield-house, near Bedford Charles Higgins, sen., Esq., St. Cuthbert's, Bedford Geerge Higgins, Esq., Bedord The Rev. Charles Walter Hudson, Rectory, Saundby, near Gains- borough George Hurst, Esq., Bedford John Midge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and MlddloSeX. and Di— rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway Wm.Empson Jalland, Esq., HoMenaces House, near Hull, Director of the York and Hull Railway 80 , well Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness-house, near Hull, Magis trate for the East Riding of York and Borough of Hull, and Di rector of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley Railways John Jameson, Esq., Honey lane-market William Jameson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways Wm. Jones Johnson, Esq., Bedford Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet Valleys, or Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways Jeremiah Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield and Great Grimsby, Director of the Manchester and Great Grimsby, and Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways George Kippax, Esq., Ordsall-villa, near East Retford Mr. Samuel Knight, Pontefract George Lawton, Esq:, Ditchley's,Essex, Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway H. C. Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London Captain Henry Leech, Bedford Charles Denton Leech, Esq., - Bury St. Edmunds William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Direetor Of the Reading and Reigate Railway L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Western Jamaica Railway P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo and Shannon, the Ips wich and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale ROI wfty James Lamb, Ezq., 25, Hyde-park-square, Director of the Scottish Western, and the Direct Western Railways John Lart, Esq ,Wood-street, Cheap-side Jame: teeming, Esq., Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and Keighley, Halifax and Huddersfield Junction Railway Samuel Lovell, Esq., merchant, Bedford Captain J. P. Macdougall, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpool, and Isle of Man Railways John B. Mann, Esq., Leeds Thomais Ilaikett Massey, Esq., Newark-upon-Trent, and Bedford square, Hyda - -park Thomas M`Turk, Esq., Hull William Mee, Esq., East Retford W. R. Mesharn, Esq., M.D., Bedford 'Robert- 3 lellington, Esq., Ordsall-house, near East Eetford, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Willi un Moorhouse, Esq., Knottingley, a Provisional Director of the Sheffield , Barnsley, an d Wakefield Railway Peter Morrison, Fsq., Director of South and Midlands Junction, and London and Birmingham Extens ' l l l o4 l l :t a r i a i James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefrac t , ;7,4 the Borough, a Pro visional Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension and Chester Junction Railway George 31aekintosh, Esq., Upper P leymonr - street, P° rt *lan-square. John Nanwaring, Esq.. Pateley-hridge, Yorkshire York and Lancaster Railw a y . Director of the Ord Massey; Esq., Hawkes-house, 'Burnley, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the Blackburn, Chorley, and Li verpool, an Keighley; Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways 'Thomas MicklethwaKe, Esq., Wakefield '-ibarles Middleton; Esq., Nottingham-park Joseph Neal, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and SouthamptOn, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways William Joseph Nash, Esq., Bedford John Norton, Bag., 1, St. George's-square, Westminster, and Moat house, Brentw ood, Director of the Great Western Direct Rail way, , &c. • Robert Newland, Esq., KeMpson-house, BedfOrdahLve - Thomas North, Egg., Mayor of Nottingham N Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuationl and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South 'Midland and Oxford Extension Railways John Ostler, Esq., Director of the Hull and Barnsley, and Leeds and Carlisle Railwitys Robert Oxley, Esq., N.V, Pontefract George Osgood, Esq., Rayniond-buildings , Gray's Inn Charles Frederick Palgrave, Esq., Bedford Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North W. Perfect, Esq., Monkhill, near Pontefract John Phillips, Esq., 'Mayor of Pontefract George Parbury, Esq., Manstiald-house, RuSsell-Squaze William Patterson, Req., Burton Joyce, lottinghnmshire Robert Power, Tsq.; Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance Society Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and 'Vest Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways John Thomas Raworth, Fag., Director of the Leicester and Birming ham Direct, Leicester, Iron and DoYe Valley Bailways Rdward Rawlins, Esq., Bedford Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah-house, Ballsid, Managing Director of the York and Lancaster Railway James Robson, Esq., Tansheif, MagLitrate for the Borough of Pon . tefract • Frederick Redden, Esq., Bedford Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymoith Janette's, the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and the Direct Western Railway George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Bain4loy Junction, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways John Richardson, Esq. ' Director of the Wakefield and Ilarrogate, the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Thirsk Junc tion Railways Thomas Routlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railways Edward Sankey, Esq., Canterbury Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing- stoke Railway - Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet • and Blythe Valleys R a ilways J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and of the Leeds, York, and Midland Railways William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the South Midland Junction Railway, &c. &c. George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury-hall, Sheffield, Director of th; Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, 'Leeds,Diractor of the Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways Joseph Smithson, Esq, Kirkiess Mills, near Halifax John Sanders, Esq., Bedford J. W. Scriven, Esq., Throstlenest, near Otley, Director of the Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Railway Richard Shaw, Esq., Tulledge, near Burnley, Director et' the Keigh ley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway James Henry Simpson, Esq., M. 8., Pontefract Joshua Annable Skidmore, Esq., St. John's-place. Wakefield William Starkey, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Sheffield, Wort ley, Silkstone, and Wakefield, and the Leeds and York Railways William Stewart, Esq., Horbury, near Wakefield George Eaton Stanger, Esq., Nottingham Samuel Herrick Surplice, Esq., Beeston, Notts John Streets, Esq., merchant, Spring Field-house, Sandiacre, Derby- attire William Surplice, Esq., Nottingham Samuel James Sykes, Esq., Hull James Tempter, Esq., BriZton-rise, Director of the Derby, Uttoseter, and Stafford Railway Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., banker, Bedford John Best Trapp, Esq., Bedford Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull, Dl rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway Thomas Turuey, Esq., Park-lodge, near Halifax William Tudor, Esq., tipper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull Joseph Francis Tempest, Esq., F.S.A., the Mount, Ackworth Charles Vickers, Esq., Pontefract, Director of the Manchester, Hud. dersfield, and Great Grimsby Railway Wm. Watson,Esq , Daybrook, Nottinghamshire, Director of Amber gate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway Samuel Warburton, Esq., Hunslet, Leeds, Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate. Railway The Rev. Richard Whitelock, M.A., Saddieworth, Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire Joseph Whitaker, Esq., Ratusetale, Nottinghamshire William White, Esq., Bedford John Williams, Esq., M.D., Magistrate for Yorkshire, Director of the York, Hull, and East and West Riding Janction Railway Abraham Wood, Esq., Rochdale, F.R.C.S. Joseph Wyles, Esq., Grantham, Director of the Amber-gate, Not tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland-hollow, Derbyshire, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railways William Williams, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford Charles Waite, Esq., 3, Old Burlington-street, and Willesdon-house, Middlesex John Wheelton. Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford. The Rev. H. Burdett Worthington, Bedford G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed y Celva, Denbighshire, and Lonsdale square. London, Director of the Thames Valley Railway George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax George Witt, Esq., F.R.S., Direetor of the Bedford, London, and Birmingham Railway, and Aldermand of Bedford George Gillett, Esq., 2, Grsovenor-gate, Hyde-park (With power to add to their number). ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—Sir John Macneil, LL.D., and F.R.S. ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E. LONDON SOLICITORS. J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court. Owen Gray, Esq. 25, Great Tower-street. J. B. Midge, Esq. LOCAL SOLICITORS. Leeds—Charles Naylor, Esq., and Pontefract—Henry John Coleman, Esq. Rotherham—John Oxley. Esq., and John Wright Potter, Esq. East Retford—Messrs. Mee, Rigsby, and Mee. Nottingham—Messrs. Fox and Butlin. Oakham—Henry Hough, Esq. Kettering—Thomas Marshall, Esq. Bedford—Ezra Eagles, Esq. SECRETARY —J. B. Owens, Esq. PARLIAMENTARY AGENT -+J. M. Widdicorabe, Esq. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co. Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Company Doncaster 1 The Yorkshire Banking Company. Pontefract The object of this railway is to connect, in the most direct course, the important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds with the metropolis, the want of which has long been felt, and is too univer sally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under this con viction that this important undertaking, alter several minute exa minations of the country through which it will pass, has been brought forward. The proposed line will commence at the junction of the Manchester and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wakefield, and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern Coun ties Railway, at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of that Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parliament), and by thus availing itself as far as possible of the existing railways, will cemplete the most direct and least expensive trunk line, from London to Leeds, York, and Hun. It will pass in its route within an available distance of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster, Rotherham, East Redford, Nottingham, Newark, Grantham, Melton Mowbray, Oakham, and Stamford. The importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature of its course (embracing, as it does, a most extensive population within its limits), as also from the absence of any direct communication for the conveyance of passengers and merchandise. By the construction of this railway, railway communication to London will be Peterborough to Peterborough and Leicester (by means of the SySton and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and Nottingham, (by the Nottingham and Lincoln line(, and to Sheffield and Gains borough, )by the Sheffield and Gainsberough line), by a much shorter route than by any existing railways. Independently of the advantages offered to the towns in the seve ral counties through which this line will pass, the line in itself; con sidered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, Is sufficient to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic between these two places would produce such a return on the capital required, as to admit of a dividend equal to that of any railway in operation; but when it is borne in mind that a company is being formed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow with ;Leeds by means of a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no better line can be presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct communication from Glasgow and the western parts of Scotland to London, but would also connect Edinburgh and the eastern parts of Scotland, as well as Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North Midland, and Great North of England Railways) with the metropo lis, which would be considerably shorter than the accommodation offered by any other company ; and when cost of construction is con sidered, there cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given to the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway. The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a branch line with the East and West India Docks on the river Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 999 years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks, which are capable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods from all parts of the world can take place, is a most important fea ture in favour of the direct communication from the manufacturing towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway and, by branch railways to the main trunk line, through which all goods from the manufacturing districts could be conveyed at once to these warehouses for shipment, thereby avoiding the present delay and expense of cartage, and in reality establishing an almost direct and invaluable connexion between the rivers Clyde and Thames. It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties, that the w 'fits will be easy, and the gradients remarkably goad, and that it will not materially interfere with any ornamental property. The subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first deposits, until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only to the amount of their subscriptions. It is proposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and also to extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, in the event of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford. BROKERS. London—Messrs. Marton aad Hesenine, 9, Finch-lane Leeds—Messrs. Hoppa and Co. Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons Bradford—Mr. Josiah Scholefleld Edinburgh —Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square. G REAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT The Managing Com m itt ee of this Railway hereby give notice that they are now proceeding In the Allotment of the Shares in the above undertaking, and that all the Letters ofAllotment will be issued in the ensuing week. Temporary Offices, Adelaide-pl ace , J. B. OWEN, Secret ary. London-bridge. • GREAT WESTERN, l3ktis',Nll'oltD, and CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY, from the vicinity of West Drayton, through Hounslow' Brentford, Ham mersmith, Ken.sington, Chelsea, and Westminster, to a Central Terminus, near Charing-Cross. (Provisionally Registered.) Offices, 53, Charing-cross. Capital, 850,000/., in 42,500 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 28. per Share. PBOVISIONAL COMMITTSB. The Earl of Devon Vernon Abbott, Esq., 70, Gower-street Philip Anstruther, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Railway Junction Company Benjamin John Armstrong, Esq., Southall, Magistrate for Middlesex John Auldio, Esq., Noel House, Kensington Henry Pratt Barlow, Esq., 24, Kensington-squario 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 aid Tam worth Railway Sir John Macpherson Brackenbury Sir Archer Denman Croft, Bart., Director of the Thames Embank ment Railway Junction Company Major John T. Croft, Deputy Chairman a the Cheater and Manches ter Railway John Chevalier Cobb*ld,:Esq., Chairman of the Eastern 'futon Rail way Cooper , J D e a m u w n l e s Esq. , t' d e Eqw :BgeDit'exiirNcetainocfrotothrddreoßnitank, Regent's Park th E e : ennso ., ty li uth o oc u mi n K sl edi o rry w and Railway George Charle s he George n J. Fisher, Esq., Isieworth Major David Fitzgerald, 'Valenti% Captain Forbes, R.N., Forest, Windsor Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N., K.C.R. James Montgomery, Esq., Brentford John Bowyer Nichols, Esq., Hammersmith The Hon. Colonel . Phipps, Norwood-groan William Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the South an& Midi and Railway Henry Pownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow, Magistrate for Middlesex 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, Hyde Park-gardens Major Jelf Sharp, Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Middlesex, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment Railway Juaction Company Henry Webb Smith, Esq. Hounslow William Spooner, Esq., Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Railway Andrew Spottiswoede, Esq., Chairman of the Irish North Midland Glouceeter— Bristol— Railway John Stewart, Esq., M.P. Frederick Thompson, Esq., 20, Kensington-square Robert Richard Tighe, Esq., Bank, Windsor Henry Tuffuell, Esq., M.P. (With power to add to their number.) ENGINEER—Thomas Page, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. sini o Req., 8, Wilkinsonand ich eo ig,s bbo Bench -walk, incolnT'semlnpe. n i lleldS William BANKERS. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS. Messrs. Hugh Innes Cameron and George Bain, 18.Parllatnent-street. SECRETARY—Henry Moreing, Esq. Applications for shares, is the subjoined form, may be made, addressed to the Provisional Committee, at tke Offices of the Com. pany, 53, Charing-cross, to the Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents, and to the following agents and sharebrokers :—Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Glib, Threadneedle -street; Mr. 11. J. Williams, 80, Old Broad-street, London ; _Messrs. Bradley and Co., Manchester ; Mr. IC R. Pemberton, and Messrs. H. Davis and Co ., Liverpool ; Mr. Luke Arnold, Bristol; Messrs. Chantrell and Reyes, Leeds; Mesas. WU THE AVON and SEVERN VALLEY RAIL WAY, from RUGBY to GLOUCESTER, Connecting Leamington and the whole of the Midland and North Eastern Counties with Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, and the South of England. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. . . _ . . . No further call will be made until an Act of Parliament Is obtained, and no party will be liable beyond the amount of his shares. noVisiONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the Lord Beauelerc, 8, Chesham-place, Belgrave- square The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird • Pulteney, Parliament-street, London, Chairman of the York and Lancaster, and Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railways The Hon. Captain Evans Freke, Grenadier Guards, 3, Belgrave- square The Hon. Captain Evans Freke, Life Guards, 3, Belgravt-square Sir Montague John Ctiolmeley, Bart., Easton-hall, Lincolnshire Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Director of the Chepstow,:Forest of Dean, and Gloucester, and the South arid Midland Junction Railway William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., Alderman of Lon don, late M.P. for Oxford, Chairman of the Erewash Valley Ex tension, the Leek and Macclesfield, the Great Western, Southern and Eastern Counties, and of the Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, Rhaubon, and Vale of Llangollen Railways William Bradley, Esq., Manor-oaks, Shetdcld, Director of the Cam bridge and Lincoln Extension, and the Lincoln, York, and Leeds Junction Railways Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde-park-street, and Brookes' Club, St. James's, Director of the West Midland, and Manchester and Southampton Railways Villiers C. Villiers Surtees, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Railway William Lloyd Caldecot, Esq., 6, Laura-place, Bath William Breynton, Esq., Montpellier, Cheltenham, and Temple, London, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth, and other Railways H. H. Daucocks, Esq., the Manor-house, Kempley, Gloucestershire, Director of the Binningham, West Bromwich, and Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction Railways James Maurice Shipton, Esq., R.N., Wahnor-hall, near Tewkesbury, Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce at Gloucester, and Vice- Consul of Russia at that port niclutrd Hodges Carter, Esq., Gloucester, late Mayor of the City of Gloucester, and Deputy-Cairman of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Railway Samuel Hitch, Esq., M.D., Gloucester Charles F. Thornley, Esq., merchant, Bristol Cornelius Brady, Esq., Aston-house, Erciington, Warwickshiro Paris Dick, Esq., M.D., Forthampton, Tewkesbury George Smith, Esq., Prestbury, near Cheltenham Thomas Avery, Esq., Gloucester Caleb Trotter, Esq., ditto Arthur 11. Jenkins, Esq., Alderman of Gloucester Directors of the Edward L. Kendall, Esq., merchant, ditto Worcester, Here- Robert Heane, Esq., ditto ford,and Glouces- Charles Walker, Esq., ditto ter Railway Henry Fox, Esq., ditto Edward J. Woodhouse, Esq., ditto, John Ladds, Esq., AbbOt's-court, Twyning and Tewkesbury Aaron Goold Bilsome, Esq., Forest of Dean, Director of the East and We at of England, and the Worcester and South Wales Railways John George Norbury, Esq., Great Cumberland-street, Hyde-park, and Mancetter-house, Atherstone, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley, South Staifoidshlre, and boyar and Bristol Railways Kensington Lewis, Esq., Worcester-park, Surrey, and Stratford. -place, Itirector of the Midland Counties, and the Cheltenham, Ox ford, and Brighton Junction Railways William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, Director of the Leicester and Tamwortb, and South Staffordshire Junction Railways Robert H. Shomburgk, Esq., New Kensington, Surrey, Chairman of the Barbadoes General Railway George Frederic Gregory, Esq., beacombe, Cheshire, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire, the Grand Junction and Midlands Union, and D•ver and Bristol Railways John Campbell Dickers, Esq., Newhall, Cheshire, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and the Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Junction Railways • George Unett, Esq., the Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Director of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester, and Dover and Bristol Railways Walter Unett, Esq., Captain 3d Light Dragoons, Director of the Dover and Bristol, and Grand Trunk Railways Major White, Pall-mall, London, Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Lewis Hoffmann, Esq., Reading, Berkshire, and Inner Temple, London, Director of the Nottingham and South Staffordshire, and the Dover and Bristol Railways Thomas Wakefield, Esq., London, Director of the Dover and Bristol Railway Edward Augustus Lamb, Esq., Westfield, Battle, Sussex, Director *1 the Staffordshire, and Shropshire, and Dover and Bristol Railways William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham Districts, the London Bristol and South Wales Direct, the Cheltenham, Oxford, and London, the Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Railways William Caldwell, Esq., Ince-hall, Wigan, Directorof the Liverpool _ • . . _ and Leeds Direct, the Lancaster and York, and the Staffordshire Potteries Railways Henry Taylor, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and the York and Lancaster, and other Railways Charles Collins, Esq., Caldwell-hall, Worcesterehire, and Adelaide place, London-bridge, Director of the southern and Eastern, and Northern Jamaica, and the Irish West Coast Railways John Bird, Esq., Dluas Mowddy, North Wales W. H. Watts, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the Lincoln and Great Grimsby, the Dover and Bristol, and the Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction Railways Edward Shilton, Esq., Bath-cottage, Handsworth, Staffordshire George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester, and the Birmingham, Westbromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Railways _ Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the York and Lancaster, the Liverpool and Bolton Direct, . _ and the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways Henry Spicer, Esq., 28, rortrnan-square, Director of the London and Exeter, and other Railways W. Drury Holden, Esq., 10, Green-street, Grosvenor-square, and Locko-park, Derbyshire, Director of the Lichfield and Macclesfield Railway Capt. Could Charles-street, St. James's - - - - Samuel Kempson, Esq., lath.. Sutton, near Birmingham, Director of the Binningharn, Westbromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Railway Edwin Smith, Esq., 51, Great Ormond-street, London; Director of the Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railway Robert Grove, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director of the Bir .mingham, Westbromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction Railway. ENGINEER. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Lewis and Ford, 28, Essex-street, Strand, London W. IL Reece, Esq., Birmingham.; LOCAL SOLICITORS. Messrs. Beim, Rugby William Tibbits, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon Anthony Sproule,Esq., Tewkesbury. HANKEA6—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London. SECRETARY—Henry Brookes, Esq. The proposed railway will commence at Rugby, on the London and Birmingham Railway, the terminus of the Alidland Counties and Trent Valley Railways, and the paint to which several other projected railways converge, and will proceed through or near to Leamington, Warwick, Stratford-on-Avon, Evesham, Tewkesbury, and Cheltenham, to Gloucester. The length of the line will be about 56 miles. The advantages that will result from the construction of this line are numerous and highly important, and such as cannot fall to secure a very large amount of local and through traffic, and a highly-re munerative return upon the capital invested. By means of existing and proposed railways, it will form a complete chain of railway com munication between the whole of the midland and north-eastern counties ofEngland, the populous cities and towns before-named, and the southern and western districts, and thus bring Leicester, Not tingham, Newark, Lincoln, Gainsborough, Great Grimsby, and Hull, into direct communication with the favourite and fashionable spas of Leamington and Cheltenham, the richly -productive and far-famed Vale of Evesham, and the seaports of Gloucester, Bristol, Plymouth, and Falmouth, and those of South Wales. The inhabitants and visitors of the much-frequented watering places of Leamington and Cheltenham, will thus obtain a direct line between those resorts, instead of the present circuitous mute through Birmingham, affording that facility of intercommunication which has long been ardently desired ; and it will also afford the utmost fa cility of access to the innumerable visitors who, attracted as well by the beauty of the scenery as the memory of Shakspeare, annually resort to Stratford-on-Avon. To those passengers from the east and north-east, direct to Glou- Gloucester, the line from Tewkesbury, cutting off the angle of the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway to Cheltenham, will afford a great accommodation, and a saving in distance of at least eight miles, besides the delay of the stoppage at Cheltenham. At Tewkesbury it will also form a junction with the proposed line from that place to . Malvern, affording the m os t di rect communication to the numerous visitors to the magnificent scenery and invigorating atmosphere of the celebrated Malvern-hills. To the inhabitants of the ancient and populous borough of Tewkes bury, this portion of th proposed line will p rove i mmense l y advan tageous ; situated within tea miles of the important city and port of Gloucester, they have nevertheless to travel by the present railway route nearly ,twice that distance, an Inconvenience which has already materially affected the trade, and prejudiced the interests of the town. The proposed line, running, close to the town, will remove this great incon". enhance, and restore its trade to its former state of prosperity. The value of this line to the city and port of Gloucester cannot be too highly estimated, as lt will not only open to it immcnz e sources of traffic from the whole of the eastern and north-eastern counties, but will very materially lessen the distance between it and Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire, making Gloucester still more securely the nearest and most accessible outlet for the whole of that immensely productive manufacturing region , and it is impossible to conceive any project better calculated to advance the interests of Gloucester, than ono capable of effecting that object. This line will also form an important junction betweca the London and Birmingham ;and Midlands Railways, and the Bristol and Gloucester Railway, and constitute the highway for the traffic of the former, and of all tile north-eastern railways, to • the proposed Man chester and Southampton Railway at Cheltenham; and the through traffic from the latter source alone is expected to be very great.: It will thus have the effect of connecting the ports of the eastern and north-eastern with those of the western and southern coasts; of affording the most direct and convenient access from the north an T d h Sv li e n n ' will and the and east to th e vast m i nera l reg i ons of South Wales, and of opening new markets f or th e r i ch products of the fertile valleys of the Avon cestershire, in th e manu facturing towns and ports of the north. agi icultural districts of Warwickshire and Wor • nearly its whole length, th e va ll eys o f th e A von and Severn. The be easy of construction, traversing, as it does, through towns through which it will run are very populous, and the country of the richest description ; and the local traffic will consequently be very great in addition to the through traffic, which ou such a line must necessarily be very extensive. The Provisional Co•rimittee reserve to themselves the pcwer to any other company as to the whole or any part of the line, andate with rt to or extend the line, and to increase or diminish the capital accordingly, if deemed expedient. The capital proposed to be raised is 1,000,0001., is shares of 201., upon which a deposit of 21. 2s. per share must be paid upon allot ment. The liability of the subscribers will be limited by the Act to the amount of their respective subscriptions to the capital stock, and power will be applied for in the Act to allow interest at the rate of Payment until the opening of the 41. per cent.per annum on tile amount of the deposit, and upon the re lino. Agreement and the Parliamentary The Subscribers' _ to be duly executed when the bankers' receipts are ex be required.. flcates of scrip, of which due notice will be given • re spective calls, from the date of each changed for cetti persons making default in due ' execution of Agreement and Parliamentary Contract within the the Subscribers' notice, will be absolutely forfeited. time to be limited by such shares, prospectuses, and a map o f t he Fonns of application for Soliciters, or time Secretary, at from thery, at the line, may be obtained fro2B Essex-street, Strand, London, or from Offices of the Company, by reference to one of the Provi ded a attended to unless accompanied or a Banker. sional Committee, the Solicitors, _ any of the undennentionedSliarehrokers ; but no application will be New- street Birmingham—Mr. W. 11. Collis, Leamington—Mr. Eliezer Edwards, Bedford -street London—Mr. A. Sym, Tokenhouse-yard Bath—Mr. T. E. Milsom Stratford-on-Avon—Mr. William Bolton Liverpool—Messrs. Pownal and Worthington, and Mr. William Red Manchester— Mr. John Barlow; Messrs. Cardwell and Son Leeds—Messrs. Robinson and Furley Leicester—Messrs. Elgood and Harrison. THE AVON AND SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committod of the Avon - and Severn Valley Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me shares of 201. each in the above Company; and I hereby undertake to ac cept the same, or any smaller number, and to pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per share thereon, and to execute the Parliamentary Con tract and the Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of , 1845. • Name in .... Residence Place of Business .................. Trade or Profession ...... Name and Address of Referee Signature. Aizk THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNiE-SDA 'V EVEN 1, oCTOTIER 15 181.5 inson and Earle, Hull; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, • Glasgow; and Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York, of whom prospgAises may be obtained. No applications for Shares in this Company will be received which do not contain a reference to one of the Provisional Committee, the Sharebrokers, Officers of the Company, or a Banker. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. _ _ To the Provisional Directors of the Great Western, Brentibrd, an Central Terminus Junction Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 20/. 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 21. 2s. per share thereon, and to sign the Subscribers' Agreemeat and Parliamentary Contract when required. • Name in Rill ...................... Trade or Profession Date Refaenee in Mil •• • (.3 ( REAT WESTERN, BRENTFORD, and CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY. Offices, 53, Charing .cross. Cnsmissw—The EARL of DEVON. Notice Is hereby given that no further Applications for Skares in this Company will be received after SATtianAr, October lii By order, HENRY 3IOREING, Secretary. DIRECtieiNbON' POAT T' . 1 , , SMOUTH, AND CHICHEVER, AND DIRECT PORTSMOUTH AND CHATHAM RAILWAY COMPANY. The Committee of Management beg to inform the public that after SATURDAY, the 18th day of October instant, no farther applications for shares in this Company will be received, except from applicants locally interested ; and that after WEDNESDAY, the 22d day of October instant, no further applications for shares from applicants locally interested in the undertaking will be received. PONTIFEr and MOGINIE. 5, St. A w'a-octurt, Holborn. Solicitors to MIDLAND GRAND JUNCTION RAIL WAY COMPANY. NOTlCE.—Applicatlons for Shares WILL NOT ;be recelyed after TUEBDAT NETT, the 21st instant. By Order, NICHOLAS J. KEMPS, Secretary. Palace-chambers, St. James's, Oet. 14, 1845. B IRMINGHAM AND MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 909,0001., in 45,000 Shares of 2s/. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. • peovislosat COMMITTER. Sir George Prescott, Raft. The Hon. Cecil Lawless, Lynbarth, Kildare, and St. James's-street Sir Love Parry Jones Parry, Major-General, K.H., Madryn, Car narvonshire, Director of the Leicester, Bedford, and of the Direct East and West Junction Railways Sir William Twisden, Bart., Dorset-square, Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean Railway r Wm. Young, Bart , East India Director, Westhourne-street, Hyde Park-gardens, Director of the Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway Sir William Wynn, K.C.8., Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North Wales Railway Sir Henry Webb, Bart., 105, Pall-mall, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway The Sheriff of York, Director of the Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway Ayscough, Rear-Admiral, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of the Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway Adair, Major, Director of the Church of England Assurance Society, and of the Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and New town, and Indian Peninsular Railways Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's Direct LondoA and Manchester Railway Booth, John, Esq., Park-cottage, Macelesfli ld, Director of the Leeds, Iluddtrsfi dd, and Wolvsrliampton Direct, and Sheffield, Notting ham, and London Direct Railways Brookes, John, Esq., Alderman of Manchester, Director of Reming ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway Brown, Henry, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Brown, Isaac Baker, 27, Oxford-square, Hyde-park Buck, W. C., Esq. Cambridge, John, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway Chambers, Wm., Esq., Cocks Bench, Derby, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Cleobury, Thomas Mortimer, Esq., Acton, Middlesex, Director of the Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway Cook, John, the Rev., Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, Director of the Shef field, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway Croft, Major J. T. Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman, Director of Remington's Direct Lend in and Manchester Railway Crossley, John, Esq., Lumberhurst, Sussex, Director of the Sheffield, ' Nottingham, and London Direct Railway. Cumberlege, N., Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown, and Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways Dolby, J. IL, Esq., Ashby-de-'a-Zouch Dale, Major Thurston, Ashbounre, Director of the Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newton, and Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railways Daniel, R , Esq , Oakhill, Stoke-upon-Trent, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway Darlington, John, Esq., Shipley Hall, Bradford, Director of the Liver pool and Leeds Direct Railway Dewhurst, Richard, Esq., Apsiey House, Huddersfield, Director of the West Riding Union Banking Company, and Director of the West Riding Junction Railway Dent, Edward, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct Railway Dent, John, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great (Srimsby Direct Railway Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Hud dersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, hired dersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway Ellis, John, Esq., Temple Ewart, Francis, of 4, Brick-court, Temple, Director of the Great • Leeds and London Direct, Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Me tropolitan Junction Railways Fitche, George, Lieutenant-Colonel, 36, York-terrace, London, Di rector of the London and Lancaster Railway Franklin. Benjamin, Harley-street, London Garde, Richard, Esq., 16, Steven's-green, Dublin Gisborne, Henry Francis, Esq., Derby, Director of the Burton-on- Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway Grant, Daniel, Esq., Manchester, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Hammond, George, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Heneage, C., Esq., Pall-mall, Cadeley Place, Lincolnshire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway Herries, Robert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Rail vay Hind, Abraham, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield and Great Grimsby Direct Railway Holdforth, J. D., Esq., Burley, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Hushes, Hughes W., Esq., Alderman of the City of London Insleby, Joseph, Esq., Cheadle, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway Johnson, Richard William, Esq., Moorgate, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham, and Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railways Jones, Edward, Esq., Windmill-place, Ca . nberwell, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway Jones, the Rev. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Keene, John Joseph, Esq., St. John's Wood, Regent'S.Park, Di rector of the Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and New town Railways King, iVilliam, Esq., Stsphey, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and Brighton and Cheltenham Railways Knitht, Ed ward, M.D., Stafford, Director of the Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston-hall, Sudbury Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester Mackenzie, T., Esq., Duke-street, Liverpool Macmillan, James, Esq., 17, Manchester-buildings, Westminster, Di rector of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Railway M'slann, Nicholas, Esq., 50, Parliament-street M'Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Mainwaring, John, Esq., Eagle-Hall, l'ateley-bridge, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Mann, T., Esq., Chapel-cottage, Holloway Matkery, Thos., Esq., Norbury.hall, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway Meteyard, Horace W., Esq., Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Moore, Major, Anne-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Burton - on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Railway Murray, James T., Esq., George-street, Ilanover-square, Director of the Burton-upon-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newton Railway Masgrave, S., Esq. Nadin, Joseph, Esq., Stapenhill, Director of Remington's Direct Lon don and Manchester Railway Nadin, Nathaniel, E-'q., Sta:wnhill, Derbyshire, Director of Reming ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway Norton, Joseph, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Nottingham and London Direct Railway Ogle, Nathaniel, Esq., Heath-lane Lodge, Twickenham, Director of the Burton-on-Trent, Stafford, Shrewsbury, and Newtown Rail way Pulteney, Captain Douglas Kinnaird, 4, Parliament-street, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Richardson, Joseph, Esq. Riddle, Robert Andrew, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and of the Ox ford and Worcester Extension Railway Robinson, John; Esq., Silcoates-cottage, Wakefield, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct Railways Roden, T. C., Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Leeds, Hwidders field, and Wolverhampton Direct Railway. Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropton, Derbyshire, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Skidmore, J. A., Esq , St. John's, Wakefield, Director of the Great Leeds and London Direct, and Hull and Holyhead Direct Railways Smith, John, Esq., Barton-house, Ashborne, Derbyshire Smith, Thomas, Esq., M.D., Leeds, Director of the Leech; Hudders field, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways Smith, Wm., Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway Sneyd, Thomas, Esq., Belmont • Sisters, Edward Jolm, Esq., Carlton-villa, Maida-vale, Director of the Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Worcestershire Railway Stanhose, Lieutenant-Colonel Leicester, Chairman of Remington's Direct London and, Manchester Railway Trapp, Benjamin, Esq., banker, Bedford, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, London, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway Walker, Charles, Esq., Ellastone Walker, George, Esq., Wootton-park, Ashborne Waller, Major James, K.H., St. James's-square, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield, and Wolverhampton Direct, and Brighton and Cheltenham Railways Walters, James, Esq., Bakewell, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield and Wolverhampton Direct Railway Warren, Jos. Loxdale, Esq., the Lodge, Market Drayton, Salop Wardle. Henry, Esq., .Macclesfield, Director of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Welsh, Robert, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct Railway Company Weston, Thomas, Esq., Tean, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway Wilkinson, J., Esq. Wright. filmes, Esq., merchant, Derby, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffor Ist ire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway. SOLICITDR—W. Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq. ENGINEER—George Remington, Esq. SECRETARY—A. A. Flint, Esq. BANKERS—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co. LOCAL AGENT—It. H. Tarieton, Esq., Birmingham. The title of this line sufficiently and correctly explains the object of the undertaking. The Birmingham terminus will be placed in communication with all the other railways having a station in that town, and will be brought as near as practicable to its centre. Proceeding thence in a northerly direction, and on the west side of the Lichfield road, it will pass within a short distance of Sutton Coldfielii, and to Lichfield, at the latter of which places there will be a tation in communication with the projected Walsall litres. Thence crossing the Trent Valley, near King's Bromley, it will pursue the course of the Blythe Valley, or by or near to Abbots Bromley to Leigh, where it will leave the Blythe Valley, and by a short cutting reach the Tean station on Remington's London and Manchester line at the junction of the Crewe branch, or by a junc tion with whichever of the projected lines to Manchester may be adopted by Parliament. The entire length of the new line to be made will not exceed thirty-four miles, arid the whole will be carried over a most favour able country—two-thirds being a water-level. Sectfons ofa great portion of the line have been made, and the en tire Parliamentary survey will he completed by the 9th ofOctober. This railway will afford a route from Birmingham to 3fancheSter eleven miles shorter than by any existing or projected line. It will also give the best and nearest line between Huddersfield, and Bir mingham. It will also furnish a nearer and more direct route from Binning ham to the Potteries than any line made or projected by several miles, assuming any of the projected Pottery lines to have their ter mini at Colwich, on the Trent Valley, or at Stafford, on the Grand Junction Railway; thus giving to Manchester, and a.so the Pot teries, the shortest, easiest, and most direct route to Birmingham. It will also give the nearest line between Huddersfield and Birming ham and Southampton. This railway crosses the projected Leeds and Huddersfield and Wolverhampton Direct Railway. In the Blythe Valley a station will be placed, and communication effected, so as to afford to Birmingham the shortest route by many miles, with Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and the northern parts of England. In allotting shares every legi timate preference will be given to the landholders on the line. It is obvious that the projected line will afford an ample return to the shareholders. For prospectuses, shares, and every information, apply to the solicitors, W. Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter ; or at the Offices of the Company, No. 1, Moorglte, London. BROKERS. Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, New Bank-buildings Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liverpool Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds Messrs. Wellheloved and (nastier, Leeds Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull Mr. Richard Baines, Blackburn Mr. George Clark, Bradford Mr. William Mason, Bradford Mr. William Cronheim, Halifax Mr. J. W. Paibley, Gainsborough Messrs. Freeman and Son, Northampton Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York 3fessrs. Kettering and Marshall, Leeds Mr. Joseph Clark, jun. Southampton Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol Messrs Houghland and Leese, Manchester Messrs. A. Dirchail and Co., Manchester Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham • Mr. L. Weatherburn, jun., Huddersfield Messrs. Everard and Co., luddersfield Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester J. N. Balme, Gloucester Mr. C. Wool, Uttoxeter FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the " Birmingham and Manchester Direct Railway." I request you to allot me shares in the above undertaking; and I agree to pay up the deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and sign the necessary deeds when required thereto. Dated this day of , 1845. Name in full Profession or Business ........ Place of Residence Place of Business Names of Referees • • rpHE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT _IL RAILWAY, via ABINGDON; WASTAGE, 11UNGURVORD, and LUDGERSUALL. (Provisionally Registered.) capital 1,200,0001., in 48,009 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 21. 12s. Cal. per Share. PROVISIONAL CONNITTRII. The Right Hon. the Earl of Portarlington The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Dillon, Ditchley-park, Oxon The Right Hon. Lord Sutiby, Gunton-park, North Walsh= The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, the Dell, 'Windsor The Right Hon. Lord Duuboyne, Belle Hatch-house, Henley The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Darner, M.P., 6, Tilney street, Park-lane, Director of the Brighten and Cheltenham Direct Railway The Hon. Robert Gore, R.N., M.P., 21, Wilton-crescent Lieut.-Col. the Hon. J. C. Westenra, xp., 13, Conduit-street, Di rector of the East and West Junction Railway The Hon. William M. Dawson, Parkstone-lodge, Poole, Director of the Manchester and Rugby - Direct Railway The Hon. Edward Stafford Jerningham, Director of the London and N o tti ng ham Railway Sir William Drummond Stewart, Bart, Key the i3art. Manchester and L on d on R a il wa y , Direct King's Arms-yard, .Alderman of London, Sir John Director of , High Sheriff of Buckingham- Guards, Wyndham-place, E L i . es F hu Buckingham shire, D e_ c, aoyi Chairmanor e n l e l E E s g i r . i no . L fg i t i lho l i en n , g 1 i s t isn o c o n e ht s D e a (l a; r ua e sn l i lidi Fusilier Railway r Bryanston-square, Director of the Great Western Extension Atmospheric Railway ~ Southampton, Director of the Worcester, - Awe, Bryanston-square, Director Railway James 13 . of lv ß a t . l r „ ie i C e ke Williams,l Warwick, tariadl Macmillan,Eß Kent s aE g g . bsq ' y Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-gardens, Director 'of the Dover and Bristol Railway Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and Kirby Dale, Yorkshire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Direct Railway Major Graham, late Scots Greys,l6, Grove,Claphant G. B. Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Wa rw i c k s hi re . Di rec t or o f th e Coventry and Manchester Railway The gg u lt ar e e v , Il liir ß e . ct F or ndda and Ely ; Valleys Junction Bristol, and 7, Manchester volfer,thFeeltßohno, near _ - Railway James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, Vice-Chairman of the Gal way and Ennis Grand Junction Railway Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq., Grandtully-castle Robert Bell, Esq., Manor-house, Chiswick, Director of the Dover and Bristol Railway Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester Thomas Ferrand Deaden, Esq., Rochdale Charles llaigh, Esq., Rochdale Charles Welland, Esq., Liverpool James Shaw, Esq., Pendleton, Manchester The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D. ' Rector of Fulborne , Cambridgeshire Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's-wood E. S. Blundell, Esq., Director, of the 18, Lower Seymour-street Direct Lon- W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex d on an d E xe - G. W. Evans, Esq., Oldbury-terrace, Regent' s- p ark ter Railway Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, j John Allen, Esq. 12, Gloucester-terrace, Kensington Francis Roose, Esq., Upper Montague-street, Montagne-square Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Equitable and Law Life Assurance Companies, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway William Gambler, Esq., Sacombe-park, Herts Benjamin Swan, Esq., Jerinyn-street, St. James's Nehemiah John Reed, Esq., R.N., Marlborough, Direotor of the London and South Wales Direct Bolivia,' Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough Charles Finch, Esq., Fisherton, Salisbury F. Walker Botterill,-Esq., Burnley dames Paxton, Esq. M.D., director of the Rugby and Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Railways Thomas Ingham Rayner, Esq. Lilac -cottage. Blrstal, near Leeds, di rector of the Great Leeds, and London, Midland, and Thirsk, and other Railways William Doe Belcher, Esq. Mayor of Abingdon John Hyde, Esq., jun., Alderman of Abingdon John Tomkins, Esq. John Harris, Esq. Mensbera of the Town CauAwll, Abing- Thomas Copeland, Esq. too Edwin James Trendell, Esq , John King, Esq., Abingdon George Cox, Esq., Abingdon George Jackson, Esq., Abingdon John Knight, Esq., Abingdon Mr. Thomas Payne, jun., Abingdon John Aldworth, Esq., Frilford, Berke William Caudweil, Esq., Drayton, near Abingdon William Dewe, Esq., Stonehill, near Abingdon Isaac Grubb, Esq John Towle, Esq. Samuel Steane, Esq. Johnß e Richard d Weaving, i a n u g n , d E y s Esq. Charles Hickman, Esq. j Me mbers of the City Connell, Oxibrd R. C. Godfrey, Esq. J James Morrell, Esq., Deputy--Lieutenant of the county of Oxford, Director of the Londo 1 and Cheltenham Direct Railway Captain H. Strong,. Oxford, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway William Mead Warner, Esq., Oxford Daniel Hanley, Esq., Oxford John Looker, Esq., xford William Seckham, Esq., Kidlington, Oxon Charles Shillingford, Esq., Somer Town, Oxon Adin Williams, Esq., Somer Town, Oxon Mr. Wm. Miller, Oxford Mr. H. Dormer, Oxford Mr. Charles Miller, Oxford Mr. Thomas Hyde, Oxford Mr. Wm. Thompson, Oxford James Wickens, E , q., Oxford John Brightman, Esq , Regency-square, Brighton, Chairman of the Hounslow Railway David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Director of tha Eastorn and Midland Counties Railway Capt. James Edward Carnegie, Somerset-street, Portman-square, and Bower-hall, Inverness, Director of the Reading and Reigate Railway Charles Liddiard, Esq., Wantage Mr. Henry James Palmer, \Vantage Thomas Brown, Esq. West Loekinge, Berke William Stone, Esq. Charlton. Berka Malan , Barnard, Esq. Charlton, Berks Henry Hayward, Esq. Stirlings, Wantage James Staley, Esq. \Vantage Thomas Brown, Esq. Wantage Mr. Charles Hart, foundry, Wantage Mr. William Beesley, Wantage John William Palmer, Esq. Letcombe Regis, Berks Mr. J. Pottinger Palmer, Letcombe Regis, Berks John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London Docks William Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, Kent-road, Director of the Commercial and General Life Assurance Association Robert Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway John King, Esq., St. John's-wood, London, Director of the Soma setshire Midland Railway Henry Stock, Esq., Beddgelert, North Wales, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway D. T. Johnson, Esq., Aldemary-churchyard, Director of the Direct Independent London and Manchester Railway John Bloor, Esq., Tntbury, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man- cheater Railway „ T. A. Dale, Esq., Malveru-house, Cheltenham, Director of the Blr• kenhead and Holyhead Junction, and South Staffordshire and Pot. teries Railways Charles Johnston, Esq., Aldersgate-street, Director of the Lynn, Thetford, and Ipswich Railway Admiral Ayscough, Southampton, Director of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway Frederick Chamfer, Esq., R.N., Malkin -street, Beigravo-square, Director •f the Northampton and Cambridge Railway Director of the Rugby George R. rcppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, and Warwick Railway George Jackson, Esq. Abingdon George Cox, Esq., Abingdon John Knight, Esq. Abingdon Thomas Salkild, Esq. Huddersfie ld, director of the 3fanchesier, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby-, and Huddersfield and Liverpool Direct Railway J. Russell , sc seil, o E tt s , 3q.1%7 Grove ester-plEacned,-Plondrg, tin e an-square James st. John's-wood, Director of the Hull and Holyhead. and of the Bristol, Rath, and Poole Railways General Wright, Gloucester -place, Portman-square Major Henry Lyster, 9, Spring-terrace, Wandsworth -road, Drector of the Lincolnshire:and Eastern Counties Railway (With power to add to their number). ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF — S SMUeI Charles Drees, Esq. Selmmo—Messrs. Ehnslie and Preston, 47, Meorgate-st ree t, London. PARLIAMENTARY AGENT — Cadwallader F. Waddy, Esq. BANKERS. • London—The London and Westminster sank. Oxford—The London and County Bank. Salisbury—The Wilts and Dorset County Bank. Abingdon—Messrs. Henry Knapp and Co. ; and the Cennty Bank Wantage—Messrs. Henry Knapp and N ew b ury —The Berkshire Union Bank Hunger f or d—Messrs. Tanner and Pinckney. LOCAL AGENTS. Oxford—Jno. Francis Wilde, Esq. Salisbury—Stephen Hill, Esq. Abingdon—Messrs. Graham and Son Wantage—William Ormond, Esq. Hungerford and Marlborough—John Holcomb, Beg. SECRETARY —Z. Hubbersty, Esq. The imrortance of connecting remote parts of Eiigland by rail ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns and districts, can scarcely be better exemplified than by the lino which is now proposed to form a short and direct channel of Inter course between Oxford and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines now before the public will make Oxford at the north, and Salisbury at the south of the intended railroad, the central points from which various radii will diverge to the north-west, north, and north-east of the former, and t• the south and west of the latter ; and the proposed line from Cambridge to Oxford, continuing to that city the course •f railway from the north-eastern parts of the island, requires the appliance now suggested to effect a complete means of transit to the western and south-western counties. The Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway, in addition to the benefits which will be conferred upon the nation at large, by perfecting a direct line of commun!catio, be tween the north-eastern and western and south-western parts of England, will afford to the borough of Abingdon, the market towns of Wantage, Hungerford, and Ludgershall, and the adjacent villages, an important railway accommodation, of which the agricultural districts hi which they are seated stand in much need, and will provide a facility far the iuterchange of produce be tween the rural, manufacturing, and commercial population of the kingdom. The projected line will bring the Cathedral City of Salis bury into immediate connexion with the C it y and Univers ity of Oxford, combining also the advantage of a direct communicati on with the sister University of Cambridge ; thus strengthening the ecclesiastical and academical relations of the whole, whilst the com mercial prosperity of the two terminal cities must of necessity be essentially enhanced. The want of railway accommodation has long been felt to press unfairly upon the inhabitants of the important and thriving town of Abingdon. Their means and opportunities of competing with the more fortunate traders of those towns which are already provided with di rect channels of transit, are thus severoly crippled. The same remark applies in some degree to the market town of Wantage, which, as well as liungerford and Ludgershall, claims a share of the profits and advantages produced by railway traffic. g i v ing to Abingdon a direct It has therefore been determined to commence the proposed line at , po a r n t d s an m d essrs. Oxford, and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great Western Railway at Steventon, than rail road to London. By continuing the projected railway to Wantage, the same facility of transit to London will be afforded to that place; and a perfect line of road from the north-eastern counties will, by a Jane t; Gage, Messrs.an d than with the projection from Cambridge to Oxford, be produced, through the towns which have been named, Hungerford and Ludgers hall, to Salisbury, and thence to the south dis tricts. Applications for shares and prospec 3 tns ie eL s t! A be imo m n ad an e d Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street, and to the following Preeceitroker Brokers:—M essrs . 31 Evans, essrs L P O t e h p b pe tir r y c o , rriL London; d 2 o , n 0 ; l d Messrs. Reynolds and Son, Liverpool ; Mr. John Duncuft, and Mr. John O'Neil, Manchester; Messrs. A. and C. Bradshaw, and Messrs. Broad- es st te re rn et Wellbeloved and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr. James Pearson, Birmingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., Bradford; Sir. Wm. Miles, Worcester; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Sir. Thomas Sandford, Exeter ; Messrs. Easty and Sons, Southampton; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh; Messrs Black and Co., and Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow; Mr. Win. Gordon, Aberdeen ; and Messrs. Bruce and Symes, Dublin. FORM OF APPLICATION . To the Provisional Committee of the Oxford and Salisbury Direct • Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares in the above undertaking ; and I he re by a gr ee to accept the same, or any less number which may be allotted to me, and also to pay the de posits thereon, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement, Parlia mentary Contract, and all other necessary instruments, when re quired so to do. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant, • Name in fall • • ........ ReAdence • • • • • • • • • • • ' • Post Town • • ...... • • " •" • • • • • Occupation • • • • • • • • • • • ••• " ' • ........ Usual Signature • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ....... Dated .......• ..... • ...• . Almelo and Preston, 47, MoorgaW-street, Lendcni. B IRMINGH AM AND MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY COMPANY. Company's Offices, 1, Moorgate-street, London, Oct. 13, 1845. Notice is hereby given that no further Applications for Shares can received after WEDuzsDAY, the 15th instant. By order, • ♦ ♦. FLINT, Secretary. • MIDLAND GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. Connecting the Great Western, London and Birmingham, awl Direct Manchester. From Reading via Henley-on-Thames, Aylesbury, Buckingham, and Northampton. • (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 1,250,000/. in 50,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. _ _ Jahn Anderson, Esq., Princes-park, Liverpool, Director of the East ern Counties and Southend Railway William Ashcroft, Esq., Bury, Director of the Lancashire, Cheshire, and Staffordshire Railway George Alfred Beardmore, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Hull and Lincoln Direct Railway, and .Nottingaam and Peterborough Railway Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.11., Montague-place, Montague-squa-e _ - - Charles R. lligge ' Esq., 19, Bryanston-square, Director of the York and Lanclste , Railway Charles Ilicaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Licensed Victuallers ' Assurance Company John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London Docks William Bradley, Esq., Manor . Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the Direct Western Railway, and Director of the Sheffield and Man chester Railway James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broal-street, Director of the Now It ,ss, Carlow, and Kilkenny Railway G. A. Urown, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Callao and Lima Railway Jos'ph Bull, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries Railway Byrom, Big., Oldham, Director of the Oldham District, the Bir kenhead and ll , dyhead, York and Lancaster, and Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Railways Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, Director of the York and Lancaster, Rugby, Derby and Manchester, Staffordshire Potteries, and Man chester, Wigan, and Southport Railways John Channtler, Esq., Friday-street, Director of the York and Lan caster Railway Richard Clay, Esq., 1, Winchester-buildings, London, Director of the Huddersfield and Eastern Coast Railway Ephraim Cocker, Esq., White Coppice, Choriey, Director of the Black burn Chorley, and Liverpool Railway Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., - Bayswater, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway Nathaniel Cumherledge, Esq., 3, 'York-terr tee. Regent's-park, Three of the Leeds and lluddeNfleld Railway, &c. &e. Newton Crouch, Esq., 13, SouthamptOit-place, Easton-square, Di rector of the Mauritius, and the York and Lancaster Railways Thomas Ferrand Dearden, Esq., Rochdale, Director of the Stafford shire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway Peregrine Royds Dearden, Esq., Birkenhead, Liverpool J. W. De Wolf, Esq., Liverpool Miles Dormer, Esq., Hans-place, gloanc-street, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway Richard Davis, Esq., Knaresborough., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway Colonel Lothian Sheffield Dickson, Curzon-street, May-fair, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway, the York and Lancaster, Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways J. D. Ewes. Esq., Knaresborongh Benjamin Smart Fowler, Esq., Alder House, near Tamworth, Direc tor of the Leicester and Northampton Railway. The Rev. H. R. Fowler, 7, Manchester•square, Director of the South Midland Railway The lion. Percy Evans Freitc, Bel,gravd-square, Director of the Bandon and Bantry Railway . William Garrow, Esq., Great George's-square, Liverpool, Director of the Eastern Counties and Southend Junction Railway William Gibb, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire P.Vteries and Liverpool and Manehegter Direct Railway Joseph Giliham, Esq., Hargreaves-house, Oldham, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, and Huddersfield, and East and West Coasts Railways Cantain Twisltton Grave; Director of the Le7ce >ter and Tean and Dove Valley Railway Charles Haigh, Esq., Broadley Wood, Rochdale and Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway F. W. Hamilton, Esq., 59,.Gloueester-place, Portman-square, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway John Lawrence Harr;s. Esq., 4, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway John George Hammock, Esq., Essex-house, Bow-road, Director of the Direct Western Railway John Hawkins. Esq., St. James's-place. New-cross Theophilus Hodges. Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Raili'vay - John Holford, Esq., Rushohn-ball, Manchester, Director of Reming ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway Charles Holland, Esq., of Liscard Yak, Cheshire, and Liverpool John Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Westminster, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Seuthend, and the Direct Western Railways George Bolt, Esq , Willow-hill, Crumpsall, Director of the Stafford shire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway Joseph Hnpgood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the East and West of England Junction, Direct Western, and Reading, Guildford, and Reigate _Railways Adderly Howard, Esq., Long Sutton, Wisbeach, Director of the East Coast, and Direct Western Railways William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., .M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid land Railway Herbert Ingram, Esq., Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway John Charles Jack, Esq., Liverpool • Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart. Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon, Director of the Direct Western Railway Richard Kelly, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's, Chairman of the New Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny Railway Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South ard Midlands Junction Railway William Kempe, Esq., Teign Villa, Teignmouth, Directo r of tie Eastern Co , nties Junction Railway, and the Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpool Railway Thomas Kidley, Esq. M.D. Sheffield, director of the Eastern COW:- tics and Southend Junction and Direct Western Railways George Lawrie, Esq. Manchester, director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway Peter Thomas Letth, Esq., Ridge-hall, county Dublin, Ilrector of the Isle of Man Railway William Melville Lomas, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Lancashire, Cheshire and Staffordshire Junction Railway. John Lord, Esq. Standish Hall, Lancashire, director of the Stafford shire Potteries, the Liverpool and Manchester Direct, and Lanca shire, Cheshira and Stafford Junction Hallways. James Macmillan, Esq.; Southampton, Director of the Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway A. M. Macmoram. Esl., Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, Director of the East and West Junction Railway Major : General Sir Love Parry, Mardyn, Carnarvonshire Director of the North Wales Railway. Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Western Railway Edward Norris, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Direct Western Railway James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Marlborough-square, Manchester, director of the Chester and Manchester Direct, and Direct Western Rail ways Nathaniel Ogle, Esq., Heath-lane-lodge, Twickenham, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park, Di rector of the Direc , 'Western R-.31,,vay Richard William Perry, Esq., Barham Wood, near Elstree, Herts William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Rahway ' Frederick Ramsden, Esq., Seymour House, Old Strofford, Manches ter, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Railways Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Chairman of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and Director of the Sheffield and Man chester Railway, &c. J. Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah-house, Enfield, Director of the . . Direct Western Railway James Renshaw, Esq., West Heath House, Rent, Director of the Direct Western, and South Staffordshire Junction Railways R. A. Riddell, Esq., Director of the Great Western Extension Railway A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Middle Temple, London, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway Richard Rowe, Esq., Beauvoir-terrace, Maida Vale Hartley Sagar, Esq., Ball Grove, Colne, Director of the East Lan- cashire and Andale Junction Railway. William Sidebotham, Esq., Glossop, J.P. for Derbyshire, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway Edward Smith, Esq., Barnsbury Park, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway William -tudley, Esq., North Brixton, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Henry Taylo - , Esq , Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union and Oxford, Chel tenham and London Railways Joseph . Ta 3 lor, Esq., Clements lane _ Jolin Thompson, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Birkenhead and Ho lyhead, Manchester and Wigan, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Railways Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton Railway Charles F. Thornley, Esq., Eastfield House, Westbury, near Bristol, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Manchester, Sett:e, and Car isle Railways Thom9s Tehbutt, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Edward Trelfall, Manchester, Director of the Eastern Counties Junc tion and Southend Railway Sir William Twisden, Bart., Cavendish-street, Cavendish-square Joseph Underwood, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway, and Director of the Commercial Bank of London. George Walker, Esq., Manchester S. I'. Ward, Esq., Birketv,ead, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway Ayscough Wilkinson, Esq., Woodbury Downs, Director of the Waveney Valley Railway Robert Wynne Williains, Esq., 29, Bedford-place, Russell-square Thomas Wynne, Esq., Longton, Staffordshire. Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and South Union and Birmingham Junction Railways Sir William Wynne, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North Wales Railway Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., M.P., Director of the York and Lan caster Railway Edward Scard, Esq , liew•green Sampson Bridgwooll, Esq.,loughton Charles James Mason, E. 44. Fenton James Glover, Esq., Loughton, Director of the Sonth union and Bir mingham Junction Railway John Pratt, jun., Esq., Fenton William Marriott, Esq., Ottercliffe•terrace, Director of the Direct Western and the Isle of Ely, and Wisbeach and Lincolnshire Junction Railway W. H. Colles, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire, Director of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway William Holiday, Esq., Chad-valley, Edgbaston, Director of the Direct Western Railway Thomas Uptill, Esq., Edgbaston, Director of the Wolverhampton, Birkenhead and Chester Railway _ _ Thomas Boilman Upflll, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Bristol and Dover Railway C. 11. Jagger, Esq., llandsworth, Director of Vie Great Western, Southern and astern Counties, and Ipswich and Southampton Railway Richard if ortimore, Esq., Callumpton, Director of the Direct Western Railway Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton, Director ofthe Direct Western Railway John Robson, Esq., Stetton•le-Hole, Durham, Director of the Direct Western Railway Henry S. Bright, Esq , Hull, Director of the Durham and Sunderland and Direct Western Railway Robert Cook, Esq., Guisborough, Director of the Direct Western Railway C. J. Selwyn, Major Royal Engineers, Director of the Direct Western Railway ...._ _ _ George Sercombe, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Direct Western Railway (With power to add to their number). COMMITTEE OP MANAGEMENT. Benjamin Smart Fowler, Esq. William Kempe, Esq. The Rev. H. it Fowler, R. A. Riddell, Esq. William Jarron, Esq. Henry Taylor, Esq. Capt. Twirsleton Groves J. Underwood, Esq. John Holmes, Esq. M. A. Wilkinson, Esq. Richard Kelly, Esq. Thomas Wynne, Esq. (With power 'to add to their number.) CONSULTING ENGINEER—T. Urpeth Restrict, ESQ. ACTING ENGINEER.—OIiver Byrne, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, Moorgate-street J. E. Beaks, Esq., 7, John-street, Adelphi William Burdett, Esq., Manchester. LOCAL AGENTs.—Messrs. Christian and Jones, Liverpool. RANKERS. London—The Commercial Bank of London Manchester—The National Provincial Bank of England. SECRETARY— Nichs. Kempe, Esq. Company's Offices, Palace-chambers, St. James's. This railway will form, as nearly as may be practicable, a direct line from Reading, in Berkshire—one of the ost important and rapidly improving towns in the kingdom—to the large and populous town of Northampton, where it will form a junction with the Northampton and Peterborough Railway The line will proceed frorm.the Reading station of the Great Western Railway, and by the way of Henley-on-Thames, Great Mariow, West Wycombe, Aylesbury, and Buckingham, through some of the richest and most fertile districts of England, from whence vast supplies of live stock and agricultural produce are constantly fur nished to the metropolis ; and from Buckingham it will be continued direct to Blisworth and Northampton. From Blisworth a line proceeds to Wellingborough, and forms a Junction with the Direct Manchester Railway; and it Is intended that a branch shall be formed from West Wycotnbe to the station at Slough, on the Great Western Railway The proposed line with the branch will be about seventy-dye miles In length, and, it has been ascertained that it may be constructed with unusual facility, whilst, by means of the intended junctions with the Great Western Railway at Slough and Reading, with the London and Birmingham Railway at Blisworth, and the Direct Manchester Railway at Wellingborough, an uninterrupted and most desirable railway communication will be opened between Portsmouth, dos port, the Isle of Wight, Southampton, Bedford, Huntingdon, the Staffordshire Potteries, Birmingham, Derby, Leicester, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle and Berwick, and with the great manu facturing and mining districts of the north of England. The numerous parishes and districts which will be traversed by the line comprise a population of nearly 1,500,000 persons, and passing, as It will, a portion of the counties of Berke and Oxford, the whole :00 of Bue•&ingllamsli're, and by the e...lehiabe•l Vaie !„, ' U"or . unitnij with the several completed er projected TiiiheflYS mentioned, viz.:— The London and Birmingham The Greet Western The Southampton Union The South 3Pdland The Midland Counties The Northampton and Leicester The Northampton and Peterborough, and thus witk The Direct Manchester it cannot be doubted that it must prove extremely co nvenient O a r ,. beneficial to the public, and highly advantageous to the proP'lo.- The liability of the shareholders will be restri c ted by Act 1 liament to the amount of their subecriptioi.s, and ixr,i er will be t' a plied for in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum calls, from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line. Arrangements have been made that the survey sha ll be comP7',l and the plans and sections deposited in time for obtaining 01 during the ensuing session of Parliament. Applications for shares may be addressed, in the form anrexed, the undermentioned brokers, viz. :—Messrs. B. and 31. Boyd, l'oa l ,t; street, John Shewell, Esq., Threadneedle-Street, and Messrs. s 7 i ' tit , Westropp, and Prlnsep, 75, Old Broad-Street, Mr. JO" ''y„ric; .4liorter's•court, London; Messrs. Graystone and Earle, w. Mr. Thackray, HArrogate ; 31r. Joseph Nelson , Settle; Ml' 3 w. Weloh, Lancaster ; Messrs. Geddes and Drinkwater , Henry Waterton, Bank-buildings, Castle-street, L'i:eLF;ro. Mr. Peter Leicester, Messrs. Green and O ldham, i n g• Green and Lockwood, Manchester; Mr. James Pearson, ril-01 ham; Messrs. Joshua Wood and Son, Messrs. Watson alidtC.oi?,ortti, Messrs. E. King and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Brady and F Hull ; Mr. J. A. Butchart, Huddersfield ; Mr. nerve! , lialifax.;4'3i, NiLitingak, Wakefield ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson andCO. G, ford ; Mr. Luke Arnold, and Mr. George Edwards, Bristol, It. Gliddon, and Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter; 3 re ssil e . r , Fly" Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Messrs. Hopwood and P3alm poo mouth ; Mr. Robert Altan, Messrs. Hugh 3lunro and Co., I ;, ri dn gle, Kinnear, and Mr. James Pringle, Edinburgh ; Mr. W. Ger 0. Leith ; Messrs. M'Eweu and Auld, Glasgow ;. Mr. Wm' , a y Do Aberdeen ; Mr. S. A. Gloag, Perth ; of whom prospectuses had ; or to the Previsional Committee, at the offices of the Cowl'. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. on To the Provisional Committee of the Midland Grand Jun' Railway. 45i• Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me t s:c a l e i c in o t t h t e h lk a shares, r i to ke l t, idl or an a d ny Gr le a s n s d n J u u m n b et e i r on th ß a a t i l ta y y, and I hereby unesad pay the deposit of 21. 12s. Id. per share thereon, and o a t n te d d to to e; ec. "l ' el i° Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement Name in full Profession or Tracle-- -- / . Residence Place of business-- -- 1„- ---. Reference Date EICESTER and BIRMINGHAM - (iirat LWAY, with a Branch from Nuneaton to Covent r Y . Line ) (Provisionally Registered, 10th April, 164 6 .) iti otoo CHARLES HOLTE BRACEBRIDGE, Esq., The Hall, Chairman. W. CHANCE, Esq., Birmingham, Deputy The Mayor of Birmingham Richard Spooner, 'Esq.,M.P. for Birmingham, Brlcktielde, Wrner- Thomas Macaulay, Esq., Leicester Sir W. Hyde Pearson, Knight, F.R.S., Hanover-square , London Geor, e Attwood, Esq., The Laurels, Edgbaston, BirininghSod o W. W. Pearson, Esq., 5, Gloucester-terrace, Regent's Part' J. G. Norbury, Esq., Mancetter House, Atherstone S. Paines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbiston, Birmingham J. ready Payn, Esq., Birmingham E , ward Middleton, Esq., Chad-road, Edgbastou, BfrO hi g lia° illiam Freer, Esq., Atherstone V. W. Wollaston, Esq., Sheldon-hall, Hinckley F. Wollaston, Esq., Sheepy, Atherstona B. North Arnold, Esq., M.D., Atherstone W. Chance, jun., Esq., Birmingham J. Wilkes Unett, Esq., Birmingham George Turner, Esq., Birmingham 4i Thomas Davies, Esq., Birmingham of t he 6 H. F. Hunter, Esq., Kilburn-hall, Derbyshire, director Grimsby, Gainsborough, and Derby hallways William Lucy, Esq., Birmingham Tr e ' t John Davis, Esq., M.D., Coleshill a go R. Gardner, Esq., Chasley-hall, Manchester, director . ,f Valley Railway Jie lD' 7of Vogel so , Henry Tootal, Esq., Manchester, director of the Trent A lter R. C. Sharp, Esq., Brainshall.halt, Stockport, Cheshire , i j V . the North Staffordshire Railway O s° 0 Thomas Critchley, Esq., Manchester, director of the — 0 OO shire Railway +.• CIO James Walkinshaw, Esq., Old Park, Isle of Wight, DePo',. of the Mancli3ster and Southampton Railway The Hon. M. W. Nugent, Ingham Grange, near Bina Kirkley Fenton, Esq., Caldecote-hall, near Nuneaton Wm. Atkinson Gardner, Esq., 4, Cecil-street, Strand, LOP.' COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. C. Holte Bracebridge, Esq., Chairman W. Chance, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. sir W. H. Pearson, KM., F.R.S. Samuel Haines, F- 441 , -I. G. Norbury, Esq. Edward Middleton , rhos Macaulay, Esq. W. A. Gardner, EiT O 4. F. Wollaston, Esq. John Brearly las. Walkinshaw, Esq. W. W. Pearson. 11. Tootal, Esq. ENGINEER—CharIes Vignoles, Esq., F.R.S• A ' SOLICITOR—S. S. Baxter, Esq. LOCAL SOLICITORS. Leicester—Messrs. Toiler Hinckley—Messrs. Smith and Pilgrim Nuneaton—Messrs. John and George Crud." - Coventry—Messrs. Dewes and Son Birmingham—Messrs. Spencer and Rollins. an n4 The Committee of Management have the pleasure °Lai1. 1 , 6 0 , 0 to the shareholders that the surveys arc on the point 0. that the line, as chosen by their eminent engineer, 3 1 ..'„,e , reported by him to be the best and shortest practicable " Leicester and Birmingham. tax The whole scheme will be perfected in full time to '", t " with on the meeting of Parliament ; and the itnpor t t e e 0 1 1 D. ments now being made are such as warrant the CoM lo ,, ess fidently stating that the expectations of the sharehol u fully realised in the success of the line. By order, coac t°. EDWARD DANIEL. 41, Chancery-lane, Oct. 10, 1845. - .101 O P tiO CiALAIS, DUNKIRK, and BRUG ES J o ~,h TION RAILWAY, connecting the lines alrenw bets' een Bruges, Ghent, Brussels, 3 / a lines, and Antwerl2.;„ 511P CAp tal 18,750,000 francs, or 750,0001. sterling, ix i7,' 201. each. Deposit 21. per share. DIRECTORS. FRENCH AND BELGIAN. M. le Comte Friant, General et Aide-de-Camp du 1101 coper i6,l foo M. le Baron de Clarac, Proprietaire, Ancien Otllcier e ... ver de Nantes CD Cavalerie, Secretaire et Administrateur Chemin d e or pi M. Cordier, Depute. Inspecteur Divislonnaire des:Fon t e,, sees, President du Conseil d'Administration du Che ell- Cherbourg 10,it „ M. Antonio de Serradilla, Colonel d'Etat-Major . I ) ° ,l i ev M. N. T. Micard, Administrateur du Ch em i n de For et M. Collin Lefebre, Ingeneur Civil, Entrepeneur des ro e sees du Gouvernement M. r. J. wo.ye., ow rcrneur do la pr0w1.... de Ila i aa ult. -- M. Femmerman, Brussels M. J. B. Thibon, Brussels. ENGLISH. gde4lo Major-General Brooks Parbley, C. 8., HI, Rutland -gat e, , --- but!'f . ,,, William Ormsby Gore, M.l'., Chairman of the Silre ° ee l l' 01 " verhampion, Dudley, and Birmingham Railway , ""' ri , 1.1 place, and Portlington-hall, Oswestry, Salop ~,,ler" j William Bradley, Esq., Director of the Sheffield, Ashton* - 0 , and Manchester Railway &c Ah i' William Hughes Hughes, Esq., • F lerY London, Chairman of the Manchester h i est A r a"ndlerienlie.a'd, g'i old and Greenwich Raways, Bruswck-square ler l', Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman of i London, and shell „or and Middlesex, Leyton, Essex . l' ,v- Captain Thornhill Warrington, 66, Upper Berkeley .street' $9 square n 04 James Reeves, Esq., Leyton, Essex, Director of the Lot d ° chester Railway 1 91 William Petrie, EKI , King-street, Portman-square suO l ' John Inglis Jerdien, Esq., Director of the Manchester' e t JO' Southampton Railway, No. 2, Adams-court, Broad - s t •Toclo P .. Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the Birmingham end ~, way, 1, Princes-street, Bank (With power to add to their number). Si Co' BANKER 4 IN FRANCE. 10 15 BANKERS IN BELGIUM—MCSSrS. Prosper et Ben sp —. .. 1 x, , BANKERS IN ENGLAND--The London Joint Stock J 4- 1.1 1 " • CONSULTING ENGINEER—Sir John Maimed, LL.D. And ENGINEER—WiIIiain Mullingar Higgins, Esq. RgAiOg SOLICITORS—Messrs. Potter and Collingridge, 5, .-- SECRETARY—PhiIip N. Scanlan, Esq. , sije/. i COXPANY'S OFFlcss-37, Moorgate -street (E o ' . e .1119.,A This Company has been foimed for the purpose of oPea i i ts ti - o po; railway communication between Calais and Bruges , P es , ' ,upa l t 4ot o important districts of France and Belgium containing ht, above GOO,OOO inhabitants, and forming a junction lirect Railway at Bruges, which has now become the roostntr i the interior of Belgium, Germany, Prussia, and the con 110 A of the French frontier. Pro. { In laying before the public the prospectus of this P re. ;at " s , may he mentioned as o.le of its principal advantaget, gc,..toP„' reduce the passage from London to Brussels, I ,. ji twenty-four or twenty-siX hours, under the must favo",:eagitirr. a stances, and often thirty orforty, to twelve hours, re !' , te p et, ticable to make the journey with ease in one day, ail a geS of the present expense. The long, tedious, and uncert a di/ will also be avoided from Dover to Ostend, which, to t l rA e dir.gu , rally, and particularly to ladies and invalids, is e „„. pe agreeable, and often attended wi h serious c itseque u tt - i ps`,;;lo It can hardly admit of a question, that the priuC i ,i passenger traffic between the two capitals, London -;' t pe gather with the passenger traffic of the populous c"'', and 064, and Ghent, the latter being the Manchester of Belgi' ll "' out i 'oit ' D e portant towns of St. Nicholar and Tiermond, wil l be l t aP er circumstances, drawn into this channel; and anot her psnP r esi l CoM r vantage t • the public, and source of revenue to the and 05V.r found in the transmission . of the Belgian, GoluaToyer to o`o, mails, which are now conveyed by steamers from l erta intiVota at a very considerable expense, and with nitwit les s e n fonli ;,• pedition than if transmitted to Calais, a sea Pass a g e - rja lo. and usually made in two hours. to The traffic and expenditure may be fairly estimateunt From 50,000 passengers, who, according to the iee.eu,„,ootp, turns from Ostend and Antwerp, annually visit tiu , ns vo• / Ara nent and return by this route, say, from each, on •• rage, 10s. each way •• • • L in . ents • 50 , 5 For the transport of mails from the respective GuY e ' - Local traffic in goods and passengers • • • • • • • • " ..• Deduct the expenses of working the line, calculated $' sso,7 to , e rrt, 1, reb el " stl l '? Thus leaving a profit of 10% per cent. to the •••.., t he tiro every prospect of a considerable increase annual l Y_,, the ot. A has been by experience proved to be the resu on u. trr ye. 0. In operation in Belgium, as well as other countyics.,ty le ttt t , The projected railroad would pass through a p . e n r t i n g n e ar talpg of country rich in agricultural productions, Pre. neita 4 00_0 impeditnents to its construction, nor viaducts ; and the only bridges necessary won" o ottea a ote 7 e r , of a few dykes. Thus the construction would be_ f t he . 8 (.0 0_ 4 , and would reo". l b , the p d heavy expense, and its working, when completed, the og_ to cu' to nomical character; for, as experience has shown,__laut fo r tii . r ae reos able Item in working a railway is the supply of ;" the etts) • lives ; the proximity to the port of Dunkirk, and ent the Belgian coal fields, obviate this difficulty. sit enib l e to o t This line, which has been already examined u__3_ neer, will be about sixty miles in extent from nu ., Gr af! . P.,, other ; will connect in Its route the towns of Ca.a' 0 ,14 0 %0 174 Dunkirk, in France, with Furness, gium ; thus securing a very important local tram to, o f sengrrs, independent of the foreign traffic before au" bo t h/ the possibility of its paying beyond all doubt. support I)3' roil' l in e Arrangements are in progress and stronglY "PP for e btft ef the highest inflitence both in Belgium and Franceto the ter;ortionot consent of the Belgian and French Governmen ts r me,. t' e , to por t s clt and as it is so obviously advantageous to thel o ,o so h e f Nieupurt , god, 00, to encourage the formation of a line, bringiV ( IWO - 40' 0 i capitals as Brussels and London within tell I u e lite fe r i .ote rl 7l l other, and the intention of the latter to encourag i s _ itet t continuous line of railway raund the coast, little_ ., i o u f " soc h , its by the Directors in Belgium, France, and Engle r " dee o ff P roving successful. tu- „re, plo will n b t e li eve returned, ntof the ,vi tapplications exception p o r n o v o l f n g a u c o b is o u r c g e e e : Loh °L . tit tilaY u ies'" 6- exceeding ve shi. Applicati fi on for llings prospectuses and forms of Applicati" n 5, hall -street y d 's to .ffi the ceg fo . s rs c f th° so an S ecn London—Messrs. Peppereorne, Broad-street geors. Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons ; and Lockwood following the iw b o r ffl ok ce e i d PO' Liverpool—Messrs. T. Ceglan and Sorts 09 ..'"‘ Bristol—Messrs. Edwards and Co. Leeds—Thomas M. Lee, Esq., llarvey mu. Dell and Ledger Hall•—Messrs. Flint and Tootal Exeter—Thomas Sandford, Esq. Plymouth—Mes,rs. Hayward and Palmer. .........—............. R SIO-Rrg'Jane , FORM OF .APPLICATION FOR 0 To the Directors of the Calais, Dunkirk, and Drug o pp Railway. Sha re °lf Gentlemen—l request you will allot me t the 9a-ie die r o each in this Company, and I undertake to aceep 00 , , less number that may be aPotted me, and to and I undertake also to execute the Subscribers' Ag.,,,1' p ay the _ e l en t, or other document that may be necessary, when requ ir "' ~.'s I am, Gentlen.en, .•••• ~. .••••••• ... Date • • • ..... • • • • ....• .... Christian and Surname • • • . ....., .. Profession or Calling • .. : . .... , • .: .. Black; of Residence • • •" •• .......... , Reference •• • • ........ : . ... • • stack Usual Signature... • • • • ttcrlded t° e'per X.R.—To save trouble, no application will be a _ bo or , accompanied with areference to one of the directors, . broker, or mercantile house of known respectability. 130 ° A . ee is hereby giv, CALms, DUNKIRK, ASP _Air- N , ti thrther applications ~, I6tb the be rceeived in this Company after TnuasDAT, By order, SO WS' JUNCTIONti,atno RAILIVAY. __ 4.4, our" PHILIP N. SCA-V aAll ' 37, 310Orgate-street, ( et. 13,1345. n IRECT , NoRTII - ERN RAILWAY. N.J", LONDON TO YORK. The Directors beg to announce that the Allotment of new Shares has bectn completed, and that Letters of Allotment will be posted without delay. The day 6.4 r payment of deposit has been fixed for the 24th instant. By order of the Board, W. H. CLARK, Secretary. Direct Northern Raqtray Offices, 64, Moorgate-street, 14th Oct., 1845. 01{,F014K HALL WA Y.—lliss ant Co!chester, and Welk and Dercham Scrip Certificates. The Parliamentary Deed is now ready for Signature at this Ofliee, and will remain until the 3d of November, bafore which (L.y scrip holders are requested! to:sign the deed, and exchange the receipts for scrip certificates in the Norfolk Extension Stock. Hours of Attendance from Ten till Four. rty order, RICHARD TILL, Secretary. tlr i tidings, London, Oct. 14, 19 15. 1.11, it 'k r 111 b 'rtat L B L ed. tr owt ii,„