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Cardire' tN VALLET PION FOR S ' the Avon 7ompanY• vill allot tome '; and I liesebis,.;„?. mber, and execute the ire ,j tent when re o r of ace • ...... ~..• )f Business •• ' 3r Profession ..4.jette and Address DIRECT U• i ' l ren that PAO, after Tat•Es" the Comlllt E DIRE CTS ovisionalln' a ot 00 Shares or. • per Share. !ositarrrEE• ,m Clinton, u / I pton Rail .0 , 8 ie-halt, Tor, fines, Yorl l , l . l tl E: e K, director id Dadingtol,L.h`oriz a •- a t-law, all and 10.— ,tingharn s, Yorkshirepi , the Bull 0" 2 , tear Leeds of IT Gomersall, n purr lireetor of the „,.kshire 071 'a m, L.,. 4, f lb, director °Ate and Reig° war Leeds. ,hull -'kLi n calnsliir a4 p „ righani .-ell Nal ,r of the „: 0 00- r a the S. W jte I anor, Corkshire. olusW ° h e meld, W°lll4 rough to r y of 11 . 61 , 1 1. d, P iirton ill hailtity-city-boast'' c oIO ottage , LUI 11 tall, neat' in the -1..110,f1' hall, ilea' ittll ,ork'o' -house, h ?As Thy, Liv e or' n 02/: r ,4^ - 09' ark, a n d 00 0 ,c d e ark, a n 6° . 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Of ' wor ,e dikei 3sce ti r" rlo f cr ti t irn ( 41 ' 1 , era been ob at iol La s terlo l lne f .1; enter t e nt o f 1 I a°l .o` 4 Pr I r 3s P l i f i f er e f e a ted• th eir 13 .1„ r ef not pect 3 / I ' 4 , o r ; j; her Iflflt a ocl 0 01 I and fn,sarleiooooA S ' I.° O i ; !'• to''‘ ieed°,: rch ren C ,p 9. T. 0 ' 6 15 ' l lifeSsr s ' S' in an d Co. Londo n ' - - Fa° yo, Jun'' g Li sc 1 1.0,0110► / tted t° ° le° °' I r ca ag bare' AST*— 180 , „ 4,./ .• .. 6ss ion • 0 .. „.. •••* „.•1.0 ttßlG HTo 4 , aospfcgs E O S F THE TUN - BRIDGE JNn,... ELLS, GRAVESEND, and EASTERN COUN h T m IE to chatt;trar.ulq RAILWAY, with a branch from or near Wm, a Ca?ital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Sh are . (Ptertiionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and $ Vie., c. 110.) tit b„ „ PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. *TC' 4 ‘ 1 7, Bart. Alderman, Director of the Exeter, Dorebes do, te r. and IVeymouth Railway ,„ , . , x,_ •ktclirgton, Esq., Mayor of Gravesend i'7nurst Troughto n, Alderman of Gravesend ti ' l kas Pal ister, Esq., Alderman of Gravesend j:;' ---- T,sdell, Councillor of Gravesend jo-herrintiala Rosher, Esq., Rosherville, near Gravesend 4 t h ! su n, Esq., Herne Bay ~,a'''el Clmberlege, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director ii.,7 The Leids and Huddersfield Railway -"urliss and Cleobury, Esq., Acton, Middlesex, Director of the Sheffi , I 401 24 „ 4 - d and Nottingham Railway Company Johr i i l . urti nier, Esq., Peppingford Park, Maresfield . _/ , ,, l ur ge , s i Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester, Director of the 1. 40 on arcl Manchester Railway ‘,;, 'Zs . cCarr plin, Esq., Herne Bay cilo.artl,74G:rnmiritbeonii::::: Wanstead-park yv ~ °° d . win, Esq., Battersea Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director 4,4 the Yor( and Lancaster Railway Company liTi ll el i H arm l', Esq., Ingress Abbey, Greenhithe, Kent „, W a , 'n , I "Perr Esq., Director of the Grand Junction, Great 1 . , It k e rn, tad South Western Railway Arid „;_ernr, Esq., Director of the . Blythe and Churriet Valley, Jolt C4eel3lield and Lichfield Railways tle„. o c'e er, Esq., Middle Temple-lane toriall;"'eeY, Esq., St. Paul's-churchyard, and Gravesend .4 ' Leah 14c1 5r T '• tock square 1 1 tn- 42 - 7,, h ,Y' E':(;•, '' S ' t...T:nr u e s s's-s - quare, Director of the Direct Bir ' 11, / 4 -- "' 4nd Brighton, and Great Welsh Junction Railway „ e helt : k i' ' Esq., 12, Upper Montague-street, Director of the ' l '4 Ue,...ar; Oxford, and Brighton Railway . ' he'll 7 L E Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Se- The e'' ' C oln • . ea' Esq., b Mission ...o n ~ rk • Rain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the t gteu " Lan - • k Ad I v eaater Railway lit t, Lo.iter, E' , l Gravesend t.4b4rittZe,ll. Esq., Director of the Leeds, York, and Midland v. .tailway 4 .41 'lle t \\, Esq ' Gloucester Lodge, Croydon J 1V41,,,',ite. E, q ., Fitzroy-square, Director of the London and . 4 i, Riilway - 44 441 3, Esq., Milton.street, Dorset.square I.With power to add to their number). Si r j, COMMITTEE OP MANAGEMENT. The y jhn Rey, Bart. Wm. Kuper, Esq. iJ h h - ,: 7 4 of Gravesend John Kerschner, Esq. ) 'l.° ,gb, Powell, F.sq. . el"b urY, Esq. ' W. White, Esq. ~With power to add to their number). ri, to JU ger '. NKERS. Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane Messrs. Cocks, f t , At I /3i dduiph, and Ce., Charing : cross. , n.7" - -Messrs Molyneux, Whitfield and C.. "GlNEees Sir John Macneil and James Thom son, Esq. 41 . 1 ep r0 IN P•XciNEER Wm. Laxton, Esq., C.E. Loxnex--George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden.square. / tossr, LOCAL SOLICITORS. th e • ,00rribe and Sharland, To wn .h a ll , G ravesen d 4, en i: et st s• J. and E . Blaker, Lewes. 4 7 th err)*from is undertaking is to open a direct line of rall- T 4, 4 4 nh ect the Northern Eastern, and South Essex Railways, (I4 bri d °I ge v‘, a st eam f Tilbury Fort to Gravesend, with 1114 to n ,. ell ', Lewes, and Brighton. T:ltat or to proceed from the Eastern Counties R i a y i e l ; e, tt -r hc;r Harlow station to Tilbury, crossing the h m r t. Ohridg, noating.bridge to Gravesend, passing by Wrot a 12, 141 , "'thee by the South• Eastern Railway to Tunbridge "1 ,,g Uckfield to Lewes, and thence joining the Brighton, 4 4 hl':'4,;',;"ings Railway to Brighton. ' Pi II O' the Yi will clearly show the great import- S N , ' 'ort t vie 's ttilway, tvh m et a her considered in a local or national lorr o i n g as it will a most useful chain of local .cohm it - h " f or the fertile and populous tracts through wh ic 7 , *11 1 e rip g the Northern and Eastern Counties, the mouth of arzl North Kent, into direct communication, by % 4i oti 4"ht°,. With Dieppe and Havre, and thus form, in con. )l' e tt p o - ...! the railways now in progress on the Continent, the /44 route to Paris and the Mediterranean. „, L ; b,,,;ai. 1 way the large population of the North Eastern Ceun. :„%le:ir.lng nearly two millions, will have a direct and easy `R Hof .k " w ith the whole of the populous and important d krit:> and Sussex, without going round to London, an 4orth an the inconvenience arising from the unconnected titd tt " of the metropolis. of r , ea Y ee sr this line to the naval and military service, both is ‘'t• an d War, for the conveyance of troops and stores, kq tt li th I ttNk e "isting railways, and those now i n pr ogress i n K en t ir in and as st Co mplete system of local comm un i ca ti on wi ll b e such, the projeet has been received with the most firaobation and dg .s of support from the principal al o Gravesend have 11: 4 the. entiret line, and the Corporation of tro esa t' to, and will cordially support it. und 11 eeat~es h as been carefully surveyed, and found to present tothe formation of a good working line. ''tt, t ri e , a traffic has been ascertained to be amply_ suf e _ 1!' 4 t,.. °4 of UJdt the r equirements of the undertaking; but a large , 4,,,:h.sal_ua .traffie cannot fail to be the result of the 4i,ilttaktn-"'orlotion thus afforded to the public, and rendering ( 1 4 g 34 e of the most important as well as productive tc,„ wco,„4?: that Part of the country. p ct i'tqlia,,,tte', reserve power to themselves te form a breech htr t° Chatham "filt or the shareholders will be restricted by Act of t o th e - a mount of their subscriptions, and power will be NiA / ,.r , i1 11 , '0 Lill to allow interest at 4 per cent, per annum l en ttiN!ati nit h° Passing of the Act until the opening of the h i e th t I f for prospectuses, and also for shares, , t II annexed to George Smith, Esq., Solicitor, may 24, essrs. Coombe and Sharland, to, 'qr s . • r.ar.er, ',ewes ; anu also f llowing t sars. Field, Son, and Bayley, Warnford.court, Nbl44ll',!tre=t, London; . Messrs. Harris and Sons, Change- Att doe an d Ur, L Pritchard,. Liverpool ; Messrs. I,l;'! ;He ap, H. Man . chester ; Mr. Isaac Ironside, Ot a ti ' ga E;l,l 4s and Brooke, Leeds; Messrs. H iN si f p n w ir o at ad t, 1 114 h 'gh ' ; Mr. J. B. Mundy, Bath ; Mr. A. Woi r t'vie ! t eti l t , l 2 Q Committee of the Brighton, Lewes, Tunbridge 1 4 ,1ht n - tt ' E t t r 1, 4 :,.. 411 (1, and Eastern Counties Junction Railway. ‘k ti Yoti will allot me kt• lk b • shares in the proposed n ridge Wells, Gravesend, and Eastern Counties d a Y ; and I agree to take all such shares, or so many as 4• 4. 1 .14 4 e ' r t° tne, and to pay the deposit thereon, and to execute ' to d o. / Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when re- Name Description Residence Date 11V1 . ) <<4i EC 14 - 7, 1:?11114C LONDON and HAS TING S el HARBOUR, PIER, and DOCK COMPANY, ' 8 to t wag to the town and port of Rye, and from Tun 'evres. 4 1)4 I (Provisiolly Regisred.) C 4 1,000,0301., in 50,000 Sha te res of 201. each. L. al • 041_ Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. s—L New Apelphi Chambers, J o hn-st ree t, Adelphi, r °s- New London. s q. PROvlslorat. COMMITTEE. i n. - Irkstall, near Leeds, dire c t or o f th e I s l e o f El y , s lF , 9 l nshire Junction Ni e l litw r , l an l c ytl i so ne k o e i n n , si r i i i e r a e r J W .n i e s t b io ea n ch, director of the Isle of t u i o Wisbsach, director of the Huntingdon and t,,, e ftteg o 4 l tallway r-sq. (German Wheatcroft and Sons), Belper k,ltritZXte ns Z Gainsborough, director of the Cambridge and Y4 l ,"ic tsq fr ot letton, Durham, Director of the Direct Western tones Railway Company lb I,,Pir I ,' , Jun. Esq. Knaresboreugh IN i e , E s Jun. ..... 1 , 4 Ivr Salford,manchester, director of the Direct Chester t,' a ,`,l_rri Railways ~ ,,'el,,,rrt , „3.Luobson, Esq. Sherburn Grange, Durham : o earden, Esq. Rochdale, director of the Stafford .iteb„;• P and Liverpool Railway Company B,a r kinson, Ardwick, Ma nc h es t er , di rec t or o f th e Man elker"atYampton Railway Company \,3 , 44 1er, J.P. Manchester, director of the Rugby and an d Direct Chester and M anc h es t er Railway Cora kr."lter47l Es 0 :)1,4 13 , es sv ci. M.D. Salford, directo r o f th e Y or k an d Man estern Railway Companies 4 'ol 11.1 t Esq. York-place, Manchester, director of the Man 144j,f,,srkrionn, and Southport Railway Company al z)ga, EEsq. Cheetham-hill, Manchester )014'111(104%s% Rusholine-hall, Manchester, director of Reining -1)-;4sttangitZT1 Manchester Railway ali„,l, Req. Rusholme-hall, Manchester, director of „,...utavth Railway 1 4 1 q I s tag a , (l. Clair' vine Manor, Manchester, director of Direct nehester Railway Company Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, aid Levant , 1 10, 1 " , k,rti, Vac? 4- 1 -Iri bt , i 74. Charges-street, Piccadilly, and Frederick-place, "kt l'a . N t ? t ,L' t E s s el• Mincing-lane, London tttl.k t 8,„ Pha n , q;Aru erlinlde, Falmouth ,;ai f. , :sq. 3, Cam , bridge-street, Hyde-park Esq. Gresham-street, director of the Oxford .„.-atension ,CV.er c o ',,,f - sq. managing director of the British and Foreign Vltv,,(dit i !k l itit.,7,s c ' 'eq. director of the South and Midlands Junction dge, Esq - , f l e n lyrtane-square, Fleet-street rompton be Cullman, Esq. director of the South Midlands NI -( 11 - an k alb ttkll ktb e, Esq. director of South Midlands tk e ",, l ar , lt '' ) okes Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Hyde-park 1 . 1 h oet eL 'sci. Cricklewood, Middlesex, director of the Gua lehkhara3; (!o lt director of the Birmingham and London Ex er , Patty W" a vis, b, Q.% sq. Addington-row, Camberwell, director of the it t avia p"uuction Railway 111„ Itzg,erald Pall-mall, and Valentia, Ireland, director of 01 ,4 k tk l l w an d Reiga ' te, and Great London and Dublin Approxi- N, sq,'(ll jOf n 1 Caldwell, Esq. Boundary-house, St. John's-wood, Ormskirk and Preston Railway itthret t vig 3 , , uvish, Esq. 11, Rutland-gate, Kensington Sel• merchant and shipowner, Great Winchester !irrns, Of the Ilarrisley and Goole Railway 11111b,,,Twa rt ''11• Bed , ford-place, Ras sell-square t7,!4b 1 Co t s q. ortman-square, director of the Thames Em- Llv 'l 't o ' Nern anY ‘l,O f t e Barnes, Surrey, and Mincing-lane, City, di lirnrthern and Southern, and the Grand Trunk Ran t,' .4 0 Wer, t o r re sq. Lois Orchard, and Eccleston-squar e Vl t4 344 .ughan Castle, hi g h s h er iff o f R oscommon, director of .„ c kli w t're,i ,e `,..'°lalon and Dublin Approximation R a il wa y I + w ' 4 4 4 3' ri ck, l'. 13q. director of the Manchester and Southampton Naa, llo Esq. Hyde-house, Battersea ,111y''x-sq. Hastings, director of Direct Western R a il wa y "f 4 k, h crle, ; . ', ll l 4l i i t ki abq , 1,4 q. 'Tremado, director of Direct London and Holy lt,,,lS_DrotctT3'nlhien Railway, and Slate Quarries, Ffestiniog Yd Esq. Cleveland TOW, director of Thames Ein- Vagq~att Swansea Railway tit t .r , !, I s Doctors'-commons 11l Lsq. Knaresborough 41„ .4.1g emP, Esq. Ka up town, Brighton. N JOLITTEE CP MANAGEMENT. "ill' 'LZgerald I James Troup, Esq. ere an ki „.. IMer, Esq. I Warren Stormes Hale, Esq. f,„ ytultps, Esq. I William Shark, Esq. tbbets, I William Pritchard, Esq. A (Wits power to add to their number.) Itta n CONSULTING ENGINEER. . r4 IGINEERS—W. Rider, Esq. ; Mr. George Smith. SOLICITORS. ke4BrB . Potter and Collingridge, Basinghall-street. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS. At ' kit's. Cameron and Bain, is, Parliament-street, 1 A SECR ZTARY—Thomas A. Corlett, Esq. . 1 ) ,1 1 . 401 . 1, 14 - i , NizErts —London and Westminster Bank. 1 1,2t t Yt tn . l , oll cf this Company has originatel with gentlemen %,„ .tve local interests, for the purpose of effecting direct s 4 : , 4 tl i tite - " elL i a iunication between London and Hastings, using a pOr §,llthas,, 4, B; ' s tillg railways to complete the most direct trunk line, ',lBtri,t t in extending railway accommodation in the south. and w:11 be the only direct li ne under local manage ,l4lt.4clll.• London and Hastings." The line will be constructed titer with atmospheric power or locomotive steam "( ~„a n ti - " a y be pt'oved to be most advantageous previous to the (AC aY bein " 1) ' 4 Pro g • 4 W S posed to make a line of railway from Tunbridge 1 48' a11(1 8 and Brighton, by a junction with the coast line at li t i t 10110,;!'"! open lines of communication with the populous teltrb}: . o Kent and the southern coast. Zo fired Contempli t d to establish a branch to the town and 2 . r 0 to connect the Direct Hastings line with the Hastings Coast IWO or which an Act was obtained last session. "ntleitants of Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone, Rochester, Reference to - i ., ,.._ - :, . . ....„.01.00111 1 %,.....M..........-- - , . __ s . - 5..—........ , , -, . _ .....__ _ :..... - ---- " - ' ....,---- "Noide, - - --...,;--,...---- ,_...—.. .....- . - , -. -- - - —..."--,—.......... __ ---- - ---.- ---- - - .... k ii . .-v‘ -....— - • - - -- - - -- ::-..,' ~ EVENING oCTOTIRR 16, THE NTITN /. , ii ONI % 130kr TI:TURSnAv_ Chatham, Sheerness, Gravesend, &c., it will afford direct and speedy access to Hastings, Brighton, Eastbourne, Wortaing, and the neigh bouring seaports, as well as the eastern and western parts of Sussex. To the inhabitants of Hastings and St. Leonard's, the advantages to be derived from the formation of this line will be evident. Bringing the metropolis within a two hours' journey, it must of ne cessity greatly increase the already well-established reputation of those justly celebrated watering-places, and bring to them an In creased number of visitors, who are now deterred from residing there by reason of the absence of railway accommodation. To the inhabitants of Lewes and Brighton, the advantages are pro portionately great. Passing as the proposed line will do through a great agricultural district, it will give Increased facilities for the transport of the produce of those districts. _ _ _ GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY, forming a connecting line between the Grand Junction, And Trent Valley and Midland Counties Railways. (Registered Provisionally.) Capital, 1,000,0001., in 500,000 Shares of 201. each Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. CHAIRMAN OF THE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Sir JOHN E. DE BEAUVOIR, Bart. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN. WILLIAM SIMPSON POTTER, Esq. BANKERS—The Union Bank of London. ENGINEER--JOhil Urpetk Rastrick, ESQ. ACTING ENGINEER—Robert Nicholson, Esq. Solaciross—Met srs. Watts, Galsworthy, and Galsworthy, 19, Ely .. In 1806, that eminent engineer, the late Mr. John Rennie, pro jected a harbour and dock at Hastings; and, subsequently Mr. Cubitt, C.E., and Mr. Brooks, C.E., surveyed the coast, and projected harbours in the same situation ; there can be no doubt a considerable portion of continental traffic must pass from Hastings to the opposite ports on the French coast, the direct line between London and Paris being through Hastings, The existing trade and fishery of Hastings is ample to pay five per cent. on the coast of the harbour, pier, and dock, and the natural result of such accommodation opposite so many ports on the French coast, must be that of threefold increase. Strict attention to economy will be given in the expenditure of the Capital, thereby guaranteeing to the putlic low charges for the con veya Kis of pasen;ers and goods ; and there can be no reasonable doubt, that when the traffic is fairly developed, the full rate of tcn r cent. will be paid, and a surplus left for branch lines, or a reduc tion of fares. place, Holborn. This line of railway commences at Ashfordby, on the Syston and Peterborough Railw4 - , and proceeds to Loughborough, on the Mid land Counties Railway - , and thence through the Vale of Sheepshead to Peg's Green Collier - ?, near to the terminus of the Leicester and Swannington Railway,: and thence through the coal-fields of Swannington and Cole Orton to Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It will then proceed across to Moira coal field, and through the rich agricultural districts of Seal, Clifton, Campvillc, And Edingale, to the Birmingham and Derby Railway, and thence proceed to join the Trent Valley Railway, thus completing the route to ginfrord. At Alrewas it forms a junction with the South Staffordshire line, by that means reaching Lichfield. By the junction with the Trent Valley, and by means of the North Staffordshire line, it will afford a direct communication with the Potteries, Newcastle-under-Lyne, Leek, and Macclesfield. This railway will supply the link in the great chain of central com munication, east and west, and has met with great local support. By order, In drawing attent'on to the merits of:this undertaking, it should be observed, that the formation of a trunk line between the metropolis and Hastings, one:of the most hea'thy and fashionable watering places in the kingdom, which is increasing in estimation the more its valuable resources are developed, in addition to the formation of a harbour, pier, and dock—the great improvement in steam naviga tion—the establishment of railways between Paris and the ports on the French coast opposite Hastings, " render this one of the most toportant, as well as direct lines of communication, between London and Paris," as reference to the map will clearly point out. There are no engineering difficulties ; and the lines are under survey, for the purpose of depositing plans, &c., previous to the en suing session of Parliament. The liability of the shareholders will be limited to the amount of their subscriptions, and in allotment of shares a preference will be given to landowners on the respective Fnes ; and power will be se cured is the Act to allow four per cent. on paid-up capital previous to opetivg the lines. Peocnectuses and plans of the line, with forms of applications for shares; illaY be had at the solicitors, at the temporary Offices of the Company, ~ . nd at the following Sharebrokers : London—J. pates and Co., Founders'-hall J. STANWAY, 3, Adelaide-place. The surveys, &c., will be completed to enable the Company to pro ceed to Parliament in the ensuing session. Liverpool—T. t': `glair and Sons Hull—Flint and ; E. Brady and Co. Exeter—Thomas &Wilford Plymouth—Hayward eul Palmer Birmingham—John Wrielt ; J. Collis Glasgow—Buchanan and AN:in Edinburgh—Robertson and Co. ; 11PCItlium and CO, Norwich—Charles S. Gilman _ _ _ Einddeisfiefd— Wilton and Hellawell ; John Gatliff and Co. Worcester—Thomas Henry Wheeler Bristol—Wreford, Nicht,Bit, and Co. Halifax—James Hervey Bradford, Yorkshire—Knowles, Cooke, and Smith; Thomas Haigh and Co. Barnsley—John Tee, jun, York—William Sotheran Sheffield—Garton and Wright Leeds—Smith, Knowles, and Cooke ; C. Bell, Beverley, and Co. ; Read, Broadbent, and Co. ; John Goodman Manchester—William Jenkinson ; Cardwell and Sons; Peter Leicester. FORM OF APPLICATION, To the Provisional Committee of the Direct London and Hastings Railway, Harbour, Pier, and Dock Company. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of 201. each in the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or any less number that may he allotted me, and to pay the deposit thereon ; and I undertake also to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Name in full ...................... •• .• Profession or Business (if any),l and Address of the same j • ***** Residence in full ...... ••.. • ...... .• • •• Referee.. .. Address of Referee .... Signature of App1icant................... PONTEFRACT, WORKSOP, and MANSr FIELD JUNCTION RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that no further Applications for Shares its this Company will be received after SATURDAY, the 18th inst., anti that no attention can be paid to any which are not accompanied by a reference to Bankers, members of the Committee, or the Solicitors to the undertaking J. N. SPELLER, Hon. Sec. I, Royal Exchange-buildings, Oct. 13. JONTEFRACT, DONCASTER, WORKSOP and MANSFIELD JUNCTION RAILWAY. TO SURVEYORS, A liberal remuneration will be given to competent Surveyors will ing to be employed on the surveynow proceeding on this line. Imme diate application to be made to the Secretary, at the offices, I, Royal Exchange-buildings, London ; the :Engineers, Sir J. Macneill an 4 Thompson, Whitehall-place; or of Messrs. Unwin and Bickley, Soli cit ors, Sheffield. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. MIDLAND JUNCTION From Nottingham to Syston. (Provisionally Registered.) RAILWAY; A prospectus, n ith‘the names of a most influential Committee, an other (Mails, will appear in a few days. The line will connect th Pontefract, Doncaster, Worksop, and Mansfield Junction with th South Midland Railway. SOLICITORS. William Unwin, Esq. Sheffield. William Maley, Esq. LONDON AGENTS—Messrs. Thompson and Debenham, Salters'-halli St. Swithiii's-lane. GREAT WELSH CENTRAL RAILWAYS Applicants for Shares are requested to take notice, that all the Letters of Allotment will be transmitted by post on to-morrow (Tututsnay, October 16th, 1845), and that TUESDAY, the 21st instant will be the last day for receiving deposits. H. HERBERT DOWNMAN, Secretary. 9, Clement's-lane, Oct. 15, 1845. (PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.) I PROSPECTUS OF THE KENT and ESSEX UNION RAILWAY) connecting the Southern Coast of Essex with Dover and the! Continent, via Sheerness, Faversham, and Canterbury, with a June.: tion Line to Herne Bay, Margate, Itamsgate, and Deal. Capital 550,0001., in 27,500 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. FEOVIIIONAL COMMITTEE OP MANAGEMENT. With power to add to their number. John Brough, Esq., Herne Bay George Burge, Esq., Herne hay John Burgess, Esq., Borough;eeve of Manchester, Director of the London and Manchester Railway Thomas Camplin, Esq., Herne Bay, and Alderman of Bristol Edward B. Davis, Esq., Rochester Lewis Levy, Esq., Tavistock-square John Whe;ley Ce;., Esq., Wor - Cester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn _ . _ . _ ... Commission The Hon. Capt. Douglas Kinnard Pulteney, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway Rev. D. Robinson, Brompton Edward Sherman, Esq., at. Martin's-le-Grand. ENOINEER--William Tierney Clark, Esq., M.I.C.E. and Fit.g. SURVEYOR—J. M. Davey, Esq. BANKERS—Union Uank of London, Princes:Area and Pall-mall East. SOLICITORS. George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden-square William Rogers, Esq., 1, Moorgate, London James White, Esq., Canterbury. Temporary Offices of the Company ; 34, Coleman street. This railway will commence at Sheerness in conjunction with a short steam-ferry communication from a point at or near to South end, on the opposite Essex coast, and will proceed from Sheerness by Queenborough to Faversham, where it will form a junction with one of the proposed lines from London by that town to Canterbury and Dover. The integral line will be continued from Faversham to or near to Herne Bay, and from thence to the South-Eastern Extension Railway (now being made), at a point near Sarr, and will then pro teed on that line direct to Ramsgate eastwards, and direct to Veal south-eastwards. From a point between Herne Bay and Sarr the line will also be carried by a short extension to Margate. By this project Margee will be placed within 75 miles of the me tropolis, instead of more than 100, as at present, and tha', too, by a direct line through Faversham, at which place it will meet the Lon don lines. The important town of Ramsgate, now so extensively connected with continental communication, will also be thus afforded a much nearer overland route to London ; and Deal, Ramsgate, Margate, Herne Bay, Sheerness, Chatham, Rochester, Gravesend, Woolwich, Greenwich, and London, will all be placed in immediate or easy con nexion upon one continuous line of railway. By means also of this undertaking, in conjunction with the exist ing and projected railways proceeding to the south coast of Essex, the whole of the passengers and traffic from Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Hull, York, and the Northern, the Midland, and the Eastern Counties, will be conveyed to Dover and the Conti nent via Sheerness, in preference to a lengthened and cir cuitous route through the ',metropolis, whereby the journey will be shortened more than 50 miles, travelling expenses will be curtailed, and the serious inconvenience and delay of transhipment and con veyance from one part of London to another wholly avoided. A glance at the map also will show the immense advantage which the metropolis itself will enjoy by its being thus afforded other routes to the coast of Kent. The millions who annually seek pleasure in excursions to Gravesend, Sheerness, Southend, Herne Bay, Margate, llamsgate, Deal, and Dover, will have a choice of different routes. They may proceed by railway, on the Essex side of the Thames, to the Thames Haven, Tilbury Fort, or Southend—pass over to Sheer ness by water, and thence proceed direct by this railway--or they may reach Sheerness wholly by water, and then avoid the sea—or, may pass at once from London, on the Surrey side of the Thames, to Sheerness, Herne Bay, Margate, and Ramsgate, by railway in a direct line, consuming only about two hours in the journey, and may vary their pleasure by going in one direction and returning by another. Independently of the vast multitudes who will thus seek health and recreation, the importance, as a national object, of connecting all the above-mentioned towns, !and giving a direct line from Sheerness to Dover, together with the immense existing traffic in the direction of the undertaking, and the great increase which the improved and enlarged modes of communication throughout Kent will occasion, must be too apparent to need fhrther observation; and the Commit tee, from careful inquiry, feel confidence in stating that no scheme of railway has yet been offered to public attention combining greater public and private advantages. About thirty-six miles of new railway only will embrace all the above important objects—viz., from Sheerness to Faversham about• •• • •• • • .. • • ••• • • • • ..... • •••• .. • • • • • • • ... • 12 miles. Faversham to Herne Bay ........ —••— Thence to Sarr .... .•• .................. The extension to Margate .. The country has already been preliminary surveyed, and Nund to be exceedingly favourable. Indeed, it is almost a dead fiat from Faversham to Margate. The landed proprietors are not only 'willing but desirous that the undertaking should be accomplished, and it is at the request of many of them that the promoters have determined on prosecuting it. The Committee reserve the power of making branches to Canter bury and to Deal, if circumstances shoul I hereafter render It ad visable. The liability of the shareholders will be restricted to the amount of their subscriptions, and power will be applied for in the Bill t• allow interest, at 4 per cent. per annum on all calls, from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line. Applications for prospectuses, maps, and shares, may be made to the solicitors or secretary, at the temporary offices, 34, Coleman street, or at No. 2, Hercules-passage, City ; and the following share brokers : Mr. Miles, Worcester Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler, Worcester Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool Messrs. Cameron and Co. Liverpool Mr. Morris Reynolds, Liverpool Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds • Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull Mr. Thomas Boardman, Blackburn Mr. George Clark, Bradford Mr. Wm. Mason, Bradford Mr. Wm. Cronhelm, Halifax Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham Messrs. Eyre arid Shaw, Derby Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield Messrs. Kettering and Marshall, Leeds Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Manchester Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Manchester Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham Mr. L. Weatherburn ' jun., Huddersfield Messrs. Everard and Co., Huddersfield • Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester Mr. Nicholson, Edinburgh Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, College-green, Dublin 31r. James Ross, Perth. To the Provisional Committee of the Kent and Essex Union Railway. I request you will allot me shares in the proposed Kent and Essex Union Railway, and I agree to take all such shares, or so many as may be alloted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required so to do Name Description Residence• Date Reference to WENTand ESSEX UNION RAILWAY. No further Applications for Shares will be received •after FRIDAY NEXT, the 17th of Octrther instant. C. W. WALLACE, Secretary pro tem. 34 , Co lcman-street, Londcu, Oct. V, 1845. G RAND TRUNK RAILWAY. forming a connecting line between the Midland and Grand Junction Itallways. Notice is hereby given, that the Letters of Allotment are posted, and the Committee of Management beg to state that they have been compelled, in consequence of the immense number of applicants, to limit the Allotments in all cases, and entirely to pass over many ap plications which they would otherwise have been pleased to attend to. By order, SAMUEL STANWAY, Secretary. QOUTH. WALES RAILWAY, Notice is hereby given, that the FIRST ORDINARY MEET ING of the Proprietors of the South Wales Railway Company will be held at the Great Western Railway Station, Paddington, on Fatoor, the 31st day of October instant, at One o'clock in the after nowt, for the purposes of business required by Acts of Parliament to be transacted at a General Meeting of the Company, and also for the purpose of giving authority to the Directors, with respect to any agreements with other Companies, and applications to Parliament, which they may think it expedient to make In the ensuing session, and generally fur other matters. C. RUSSELL, Chairman. N. ARMSTRONG, Secretary, South Wales Railway-office, 449, West Strand, London, Oct. 14, 1845. LYONS AND AVIGNON RAILWAY, with a Branch to Grenoble. (COMPAGNIE ODIOT.) Capital 4,400,000/., in 220,000 Shares of 201. each. The half of which is subscribed for in France. Deposit, 2/. per Share, to provide the usual caution money required by the Freii , th Government, beyond which no further call will be made, unless :ids Company should obtain the concession, in de- M. Odiot, Paris, (1 0 :'Ismith to the King of the French, and Director fault of which the 2/. 701 1 be returned without deduction. Dm(Zoas IN FRANCE. of the Northern Railroad (RoSZ , nel) Baron Devaux du Cher, Paris, Maitre des Requites au Conseil d'Etat, and Director of the Northern Railroad (Rommel) M. Dollfus, Paris, Manufacturer a Mulhouse, Haut Rhone M. Guerin, Paris, Administrateur de Messageries, and Director of the Northern Railroad (Rosamel) M. G. Halphm, Paris, Negotiant 3f,Pilet, Paris, Negociant, Judge of the Tribunal of Commerce, and Director of the Northern Railroad (Rosarnel) If,Robillard, Entrepreneur de Roulage, and Director of the Northern Railroad (Rosamel) M. Tallaudisr, Banquisr, Paris IN ENGLAND. Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P. The Hon. Captain Carnegie, R.N., M.P. William Corry, Esq., Director of the London and County Joint-Stock Bank James Gerard, Esq., London William Hawes, Esq., Chairman of the London and County Joint. Stock Bank Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. John Richards, Esq., 5, Devonshire-square, London John Stewart, Esq., 31. P. CALAIS, DUNK I RK, AND BRUGES JUNCTION RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that no further applications for shares wlll be received in this Company after THURSDAY, the 16th instant. By order,- - PHILIP N. SCANLAN, Secretary 37, 111-oorgatc-street, Oct. 13, 1845. r HE BIRMINGHAM, NOTTINGHAM 4 GAINS1191IOLT(III, AND num, RATTIVAt. Capital 1, ?0 1 9 : , : 0 :0 0 0 0 us / t i c i l.o 6 2, o :l ,s bep OO le.: S ise h lh i v i a re r e s of /. each. Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet., Cap. 110.) (Provisionay PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. ant Ingestrie, 'eauclerk, Cheshani-placa, Belgrave- The Right Hon. Lord v. The Right Hon. Lord Vise.. The Right lion. Lord Charles square ' The Right Hon. Lord Thomas P e lh am Chu ~on The Right lion. Lord E Chichester The Right Hon. Lord Stephen Chichester The Right lion. George R. Dawson Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P., Birmingham The Hon. Captain Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square The lion. Cecil Lawless Sir James D. H. Hay, Bart., Rose Croft, Surrey Sir William Lowthorp, Hull William R. Collett, Esq., M.P. Thomas Bateson, Esq., M.P. George Frederick Muntz, Esq., M.P. W. H. Allen, Esq., Leadenhall-street John Aston, Esq., Birmingham Joseph Ayre, Esq., Hull nederick Pratt Barlow, Esq., Director of the Great Western it4IIWW James Beech, Esq., Brandon-lodge, Warwick John Bloore, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Beesthorpc-hall, Notts William Broaks, Esq., Cork-street, Burlington-gardens Major Frederick Brownlow, United Service Club William Chance, jun., Esq., merchant, Birmingham Robert Chapman, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand Junc tion Railway George A. Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Chesent-place, Belgrave square Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Doctors'-commons Henry Crane, Esq., Wolverhampton Anthony Dickson, Esq., Edrington-house, Berwickshire Henry R. I)ownman, Esq., Director of the Cambiran and Grand Junction Railway Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, Director of *be London Dock Company Henry John Enthoven, Esq., Director of the Dutch Rhenish Railway Benjamin Franklin, Esq., Harley-street, Cavendish-square Thomas Hartshorne, Esq., Silkmoon house, Stafford Charles James Heath, Esq., London Frazer B. Henshaw, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester and Southampton Railway Samuel Kenrick, Esq., Handsworth-hall, Staffordshire James Peard Ley, Esq., Seaton Ironworks, Whitehavea Samuel Wilfred Lucas, Esq., Sandhill-house, Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway William Mathews, Esq., Edgbaston and Corbyns-hall Ironworks, Director of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Oxford-sq-:are Robert Marsden Massey, Esq., Oxford-square David Montague, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester and South ' ampton Railway William Morgan, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Gloucester Railway P. H. Muntz, Esq., Director of the South Staffordshire and Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railways Francis Parker, Esq., Manchester Archibald F. Paul, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway John Brearley Payn, Esq., Birmingham William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brampton, Director of the Grand Junction and Midlands Union Railway John G.bson Reeves, Esq., Birmingham Theophilns Richards, Esq., Birmingham Frederick Ricketts, Esq., I arector of the Great Western Railway John Shaw, Esq., Wolverhampton Charles Shaw, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Great Western Railway James Sutton, Esq., Shardlow-hall, Derbyshire Wolverhampton, Director of s ri a e m n Thomasu'.ye lSymonds, 1v Walker, er Timmins, E E E:s , D Aw t °..rector o o t f i s Wolverhampton t e h , e Charles Augustus ulk, Esq., Totterhlge-park, Hants the South Staffordshire Junction Railway William Watson, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway John Webster, Esq., 35, Meeklenburgh-square, Director of the Great Grimsby and Lincoln Railway Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railw. ty Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., Chilton-hall, Suff o lk, an d 32 Grosvenor-place _ _ _ (With power to add to their number). SOLICITORS. Messrs. Edwards, Mason, and Edwards, 8, Moorg a t e - street, and De. Ishay-street, Westminster ; and . Messrs. Motteram and Knowles, Birmingham. ENGINEER IN CIIIEF—SIT John Rennie, F.R.S. ACTING ENGINEER—N. H. Purdon, Esq. BANKERS. The Commercial Bank of London ; and The Birmingham Banking Company. LOCAL AGENTS. Nottingham—Samuel Maples, Esq. Burton-upon-Trent— SECRETARY—Edward Hart Hart, Esq. OFFICES—NO. 1, Royal Exchange-buildings, London; and 36, Upper Temple street, Birmingham. It is proposed by this Company to establish a direct line of commu nication between Birmingham, Nottingham, Gainsborough, and Hull, at the smallest outlay of capital, and with the least possible injury to existing interests. To effect this object, use will be made of existing or projected lines, as far as practicable, and the chain of communica tion will be completed by throwing out new lines, where requisite. Commencing at Birmingham, it is proposed to use the Birmingham and Derby Railway as far as Whitacre, whence a new line, about 29 miles in length, will be made, passing through Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Castle Donnington, to the Long Eaton or Sawley Station on the Mid land Counties Railway The communication being thus perfect to Nottingham, it will be carried forward as far as Gainsborough, either by the proposed Not tingham and Gainsborough Railway, or by a line springing out of the line from Nottingham to Lincoln, for which an Act was obtained by the Midland Counties Company during the last session of Parliament. From Gainsborough this railway will proceed to Barton - on-the- -... Humber, or New Holland, in the Immediate vicinity of Hull, thereby rendering complete and entire the chain of communication between Birmingham and Hull. By this project the advantages will result to the public of a Direct line from Birmingham to Nottingham, Birmingham to Gainsborough, and from Birmingham to Hull; and by means of the proposed South Staffordshire Junction Railway, and the intended extension to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, a direct line from Wolverhampton to Nottingham, and the other towns already enu merated. The support of several companies will be enlisted in favour of the Hue, which, together with its own merits, will ensure its success in Parliament. As a considerable portion of the line of communication is already made, or in progress, the time required for the completion of this great national undertaking will be materially shortened. Independently of the advantages to be derived by a direct commu nication between the important seaport of Hull and the misting and manufacturing districts of Warwickshire and Staffordshire, a large traffic in timber, corn, metals, &c., may be confidently expected. The revenue of the Company, in addition, will be derived from the great thorough traffic from Birmingham and the midland counties to Nottingham and Gainsborough, and the immense traffic from Bir mingham to Hull, the'port at which the exports are shipped to "bun burgh, the German States, and the North of Europe ; and from the conveyance of merchandise, agricultural produce, and cattle from the Southern, western, and midland counties. A preference will be given in the allotment of shares to landowners on the line, and other local proprietors, as well as to directors and shareholders in railways interested in supporting this undertaking. No subscriber will be liable beyond the amount of the deposit until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his subscription. The usual power will be taken to allow interest at the rate of four per cent. from the time of payment upon each call until the opening of the line. No applications will be attended to without a reference to a member of the Committee, a banker, or the solicitors to this Company. The Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract must be executed when the bankers' receipts are exchanged for scrip certifi cates, cf which due notice will be given ; and the deposits paid by any party making default in the execution of those deeds will be for feited. C Sir George Wm. Prescott SIMITTZE OF Mr George Rich SIP IVlii4ol Wynn Lieut.:Colonel Elrington Lleut.-Celonel Fitch E, T, Carver, Esq. R. Collett, Esq, Major Croft Nathaniel Cumberlege, Esq. J. Dalby, Esq. Charles Heneage, Esq. Joseph Knight,. ' NANAGEktpa, Itlo4l Lambert. Esq. A. DPI, Maernoran, Ear floraee Wm. Mete; ark, Esq. It. Mosso, E sq. John Parlda%),.. S. Parsor,: Es( 7 : J. rtar rari. xsay, J. i . t alvorth, Esq. Nr :tior 'Waller j ll l4s. ltf_Zaimer Cleobury, E sq . i tobert Bell, Esq. BANKEss. . 131 744r5. Rogers, biding, and Co., ClemenVg-lane, London Messrs. Gardt, Clapon, and Co., Boston Messrs. Kenney and King, Grantham Pare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester and Melton Mowbray. ENGINExa,—C. Esq. SOLICITOR—J. A. J. Macgregor, Nixon. Esq., 26, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, London. LOCAL SOLICITOUS. Messrs. Manners and Son, Grantham Messrs. 3lillington and Kenrick, h Boston. SECRETARY—George Farrer, Esq. The object of this line of railway is to connect, by a direct route, the Important town and seaport of Boston with the centre of Eng land, by way of Grantham and Melton Mowbray, where it will join the Syston and Peterborough branch of the Midland Counties Railway. It is unnecessary to enlarge upon the advantages which will arise from this railway, which passes through one of the richest and most fertile parts of England. The population is dense, and a glance at the snap will show that this line is well laid out, net only for the direct traffic from Leicester and the intermediate places to Boston, but also for the general traffic which will be brought to this line by the several railways which will be connected with it. By this railway, which will be about forty-four miles in length, and laid through a country nearly level, it is intended to pass by or near Swineshead, Donington, Folkingham, Grantham, Stoke, Roch ford, and Melton Mowbray. It is evident that this line will be of great convenience and utility, by affording to a part of the country at present deprived of it the advantage of railway communication with the counties e( Rutlandshire, Leicestershire, Northampton shire, Warwiekshire, &c., and thus connecting the agrkulturai districts of Lincolnshire with the manufacturing parts of England, affording to the latter an easy and accessible means of export for their manufactures. In the allotment of shares, holders in the Midland Counties Rail way will receive a preference, and reservation will be made for the landed interests along the line, whose concurrence and assistance is fully relied on by the promoters, by whom most of the influential landholders have been canvassed ; and, in order to prevent unnes sary trouble, no other applications will be received except those NI, herein reference is made to a slumber of the Provisional Commit tee, to the Solicitors or Bankers, or the following Sharebrokers, from whom prospectuses and plans may be obtained:— Messrs Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, Royal Exchange Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury, London Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool Mr. Keel, 20, Atherton-buildings, Liverpool Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds Mr. Frederick stamp, Hull Mr. Geo. Clark, Bradford Mr. Wm. Cronhelin, Halifax Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham Messrs. Eyre and Slsaw, Derby • Messrs. Graystou and Erie, York Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Manchester Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield Mr. W. 11. Collis, Birmingham Mr. L. Wetherburn, jun., Huddersfield Mr. R. Rozzell, Leicester Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester Mr. James Pringle, 79, Princes-street, Edinburgh Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, College-green, Dublin FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Boston, Grantham, Leicester, and Midland Counties Junction Railway Company. Gentlemen —I request that you wi l l a ll ot me shares of M. each in the above proposed railway ; and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share thereon, or any less number you may ap propriate to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Par liamentary Contract when required. Dated this day of 1845. Name .• ...... •••• • • • ....... .......... ... ...... Residence...... ...• .. • • ..... Trade or Profession .•• • • •• ...... • • • • .. Reference.. Plans and prospectuses, with forms of applications for shares, may be had of the Solicitors, and of the following Stock and Sharebrokers, viz. :—Messrs. Wells, Wcstropp, and Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street ; Mr. H. Pritchett, I, Royal Exchange-buildings; Messrs. Hitchins and Harrison, IS, Threldneedle-street ; and Messrs. Peppercorne and Son, 2, Old Broad-street, London ; Messrs. Gardiner and Heap, Charles M. Williams, and Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester; Messrs. Watson and Co., and Mr. Samuel Phillips, Hull ; Messrs. Davies and Son, Liverpool ;Messrs. Ridsdale, Myers, and Co., Leeds; Messrs. Earp and Son, Derby ; Messrs. Pott and Levick, Notting ham ; Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, and WretOrd, Bristol ; Mr. Collis, and Mr. James Robinson Lane, Birmingham. NOTICE. AI IDLAND GRAND JUNCTION RAIL WAY COMPANY. Applications for Shares will not be received after TUESDAY next, the 21st instant. By order, NICHOLAS J. KEMPE, Secretary. Palace Chambers, st. James's, Oct. 14, 1845. T HE EXETER, DORCHESTER, and WEY- H JUNCTION COAST RAI The Committee MOUT of Management inform the AppIi LWAY. cants for Shares In this line that the letters of allotment have been issued, and that the number of applicants has been go great as to prevent their complying with the wishes of many most respectable parties. The Committee, therefore, trust that this will be deemed a sufficient excuse to all applicants who have not received allotments. ROBERT ANDREW RIDDELL, Chairman. By order of the Board, FRANCIS CREW, Secretary. Company s Offices, 62, Moorgate-street, Oct. 10, 1545. EXETER, DORCHESTER, AND WEY MOUTH JUNCTION COAST RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that the Parliamentary Contract and Sub scribers' Agreement will be ready for signature on and after FRIDAY, the 17th instant, at the Company's Offices, 62, 3loorgate-street ; and that Scrip Certificates will be granted at the same time hi ex changefo: th 3 B ukers' receipts. By order of the Bo ar d, Oct. FRANCIS CREW, Secretary. E XETER, DORCHESTER, and WEYMOUTH JUNCTION COAST RAILWAY. The Committee of Management have much pleasure in apprisin the shareholders that the s urveys, which are in very active progress,g will soon be completed, and that every other necessary step is being taken to ensure the application to Parliament for a Bill in the ensuing session. _ ROBERT ANDREW RIDDELL, Chairman. FRANCIS CREW, Secretary. Offices of the Company, 62, lloorgate-sired, 15th Oct., 1845. PROVISIONALLY irtrorsTnnED. A THLONE AND SLIGO JUNCTION RAILWAY (Being an Extension of the Dublin and Galway Railway). FIRST DIVISION—ATHLONE TO ROSCOMMON. Capital 200,0001., in 10,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. per Share. No shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares. MANAGING COMMITTEE. Fitzstephen French, Esq. M.P., Chairman Right Hon. Lord De Freyne William Ormsby Gore. Esq. M.P. The Dean of Elphin Hugh Barten, Esq. Straffen, county Kildare Sir Joseph Burke, Bart. Fairfield John Vance, Esq. Merrion-square, Dublin Robert Henry French, Esq. Rutland :square, Dublin Hamilton Gorges, Esq. Leeson-street _ _ Henry Maunsell; Esq. Landsend, county Dublin Richard Burton, Esq. county Dublin John Parkinson, Esq. F.R.S. 80, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park Wm. Lechmere Whitmore, Esq. the Grove, Stanmorc, Middlesex Patrick Alexander Reynolds, Esq. 23, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, and 16, Conditil John Campbell, Esq. Danestleld, county Du rd in Directors of the Irish Great Daniel H. Ferrell, Esq. Beechwood R. Pennefather Lloyd, Esq. Her- Western, Dublin to Galway bert-place, Dublin, _ _ ENGINEER—Sir John Macneill, LL.D. F.R.S. BANKERS. The London Joint Stock Bank, Princess-street, London Messrs. Barned and Co. Liverpool The Bank of Irelaad, and the National Bank of Ireland, and their Branches. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Barrington, Son and Co., 10, Ely-place, Dublin Mr. Peter M`Keogh, 5, Belvidere-place, Dublin Messrs. Fladgate, Young, and Jackson 12, Essez-street, Strand, London. PARLIAMENTARY AGENT. William Bryden, Esq. 4, New Palace-yard, Westminster. SECRETARY—Robert Plunkett, 48, Dame-street, Dublin. LONDON AGENT—James Bryden, Esq. 19, Moorgate-street, London The many and important commercial advantages presented by a junction line of railway between the north and south of Ireland, give the promoters of the projected line from Athlone to Sligo, with a branch to Ballina, the most unqualified confidence in its success. The proposed line, as regards both public interest and private speculation, will very much surpass any other that has been pro jected from Sligo to Dublin—first uniting with the Dublin and Galway at Athlone, it will pass in a direct line to Sligo, having a branch to Ballina, thereby affording runway communication to the great fair and market towns in the counties of Roscommon, Mayo, and Sligo, aed ter minating at the important seaport and garrison town of Sligo, where it will also unite with the line to Enniskillen, and thus form a junc tion between the northern, southern, and western lines, opening a continuous and the most direct railway communication bttween the great commercial and manufacturing towns of the pro vince of Ulster, and the cities of Cork, Limerick, Waterford, and Kilkenny, and with Galway, and the other large towns and seaports In the south-east and west of Ireland, and also giving to the coun ties of Sligo, Mayo, and Roscommon, a line of railway to the me tropolis. The Athlone and Sligo Junction will receive the full support of the Directors of the Great Southern and Western, and the Dublin and Galway Railway Companies. Forty miles of the Great Souihern and Western Railway from Dublin to Portarlington are nearly com pleted, and will be opened to the public in June next. At this advanced period of the year the difficulty of complying strictly with the standing orders of Parliament renders it advisable to undertake, in the first instance, but one division of the line, viz., that from Athlone to Roscommon, being a distance of twenty English miles; for which purpose a capital of no more than 200,0001. will be required. The line from Athlone to Sligo is but seventy-two miles in length. It will pass through or near the towns of Knockcroghery (at a hich the second largest sheep fair in Ireland is held), Atlileague, Mount Talbot, Rafter, Roscommon (one of the largest inland markets in Ireland), Lanestiorough, Elphin, Croatian (celebrated fair town), Frenchpark, Boyle. Castlerea, Ballaghadereen, Ballyinote, Tubber corry, Colooney, liallisodare, to Sligo. Tke preliminary surveys have been made, and the engineer, Sir John Macneill, reports very fa vourably upon the gradients and facilities of construction. Advantages so important as those referred to cannot fall of giving the greatest encouragement to a line of railway which must, from passenger-traffic alone, return an ample per centage on the outlay of capital. It should also be borne in wind that the proposed junction line will not only give to the north of Ireland direct and immediate rail way communication with the south, east, and west, but will like wise open to the great manufacturing towns of Scotland similar ac commodation. Railways having the advantage of foreign traffic as an auxiliary, are always the most profitable—no projected line could be more op portunely circumstanced in that respect than the proposed Grand Junction, forming, as it will, a link between the northern and southern railways, it must, independently of local resources, have a constant stream of passenger -traffic from the parent lines at either end, and eventually be found one of the most profitable, as well as the most useful, undertakings in Ireland. Few lines of railway are possessed of greater local advantages. Sligo, a considerable and rising seaport town on the N. W. coast at the one extreme, supplies the whole of the interior, as far as Athlone, with the products of the Western World. Its fisheries and that of the neighbouring coast are among the best in Ireland. The salmon fishery at &Una, and the deep sea-fishing of Sligo and Inver Bays would alone yield considerable revenue. Athlone, at the other terminus, is a garrison -town of the greatest import ance, in the very centre of Ireland, from whence it must be an ob ject to have railway communication with the garrisons of Boyle and Sligo; there cannot therefore be a doubt of the line obtaining the entire support of the Government. Roscommon is one of the most fertile counties in Ireland ; it abounds in agricultural and mineral produce, and has a population of 253,591 inhabitants, Its great fairs are well known—their staple, the finest horses, horned cattle, sheep, and pigs, in the United King dom, will be conveyed by this line to the Dublin and k glish markets ; and while the farmer will thus have a ready and cheap means of transport for his stock to the best markets, he will, in like manner, be enabled to supply liiinTelf with young stock from the fairs of the south, east, and west. Large quantities of bacon are cured annually in the towns of Roscommon, Ca.stlerea, Boyle, &c., and it only requires the advantage of railway communication to develop the many industrial resources of the county. Application for shares to be made to the secretary, 48, DRUM street, Dublin ; and Messrs. Laurence, Cazenove and Pearce, Auction Mart, London. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. ATHLONE AND r-LIGO JUNCTION RAILWAY. First Division—Athlone to Rosconunon. Capital, 200,0001., in Shams of 20/. each. Pint Deposit, 2/. per Share. _ _ . No shareholder to be liable bey;md the amount of his shares. ... _ _ Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me shares in this undertaking ; and I agree to take the same, or such of them as may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit of 2/. per share thereon, and sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. • Dated this day of 1545. Name• . Residence • ......... • . • ..... , . ....... Profession or Occupation.. Refrence t Yams ** " •"'•• ' • ' • Address " " • • • • •• • • • • • • • • To the Provisional Committee, 48, Dame-street, Dublin. I 4 ~elj - th e ........___,.. Stone, Nathaniel C. Evi., R awlay-Acids, near Leicester, Director a: 'F' - tiND Dlrect Birmingham and Leicester Railway xr• _ ', UN'TIES JUNCTION RAILM TAY COM. Sagar, Hartley', Esq., 110 , 1 . 0 Grove, Coble, Director of the Leeds A-- ' 9 - pAsy , -"LAND CO ... 111 D °Sl'°. '. ------"" GRANT7IIII.I, LER, ,z, Cr.: i., and Carlisle, ani the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railways Threliall, Edward, Esq., Regent Road 31ills, Manchester, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway Tebbutt, Thomas, Esq., Rushohn, 3fanchester, Director of the Rugby and Manchester, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways Williams, B. 8., Esq., 70, Portland-place, Director of NO Lee& and Liverpool, Leicest er and Tamworth Railways, rovisionally Registered.) Offlees--5, (P Guildhall-chambers,:Basinghall-street. Capital, 8 00.0001., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. In Consequence of the numerous Applications for Shares in the above railway, no further application can be received after WEDNES DAY, -the 225 of October instant, when the lists will be finally closed for al/ atment. D. 9.1 .ed the 14th October, 1845. A. J. MACGREGOR, Solicitor to the Company. 5, Guildhall-chambes, BaAiglill-ctrect. T HE HUDDERSFIELD AND FAST AND WEST COASTS DIRECT RAILWA. NOTlCE.—Appliaations for Shar es in this Company continuing to be nmde, notwithstanding the previous notice that the time for re cePving the same would expire on the 9th instant ; the public is relpectfully informed, that such subsequent applications cannot be ern ertalned. the allotment of the shares, the landowners on the line, and par ties locally interested, will have the preference, and great care will: be taken to distlbute the remainder to persons most likely to ben alit the undertaking. Ite Committee will allot the shares with all practicable dispatch, but from the very great number of applications (exceeding twenty tiu es the required amount), the requisite inquiries will necessarily cau sea short delay. By J. S. DOB ON eSec,rd Secretary pro tern. BZuddersfield, Oct o b er 1 3, 1845. IRISH GREAT WESTERN RALLWAY DUBLIN TO GALWAY. Branch to Tuam, Castlebar, and Westport. (Registered Provisionally.) Capital, 660,000/., in 33,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 2/. per Share. *** No Subscriber to be liable beyond his Shares. FitZstephen French, Es MANAGING COMMITTEE. q. M.P. Sir John Burke, Marble-hill Dennis Kirwan, Esq. Castie-Hackett, Tuam Daniel H. Farrell, Esq. Beechwood, Roscommon Henry Ilaunsell, Esq. L an d sen d , County Dublin I Di rec t ors of the Richard Burton, Esq. } Dublin and Gal- James Apjohn, Es q . M . D . P rofessor in the Engi- way I alPs av neering School, T.C.D. Morgan Delvin Nugent, Esq. 4, Grove-hill, Cam berwell, London, J John Parkinson, Esq. F.R.S. 80, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park Wm. Lechmere Whitmore, the Grove, Staumorc, Middlesex Patrick Alexander Reynolds, Esq. 23, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, and 16, Cornhill Sir Joseph Burke, Glinsk, Bart. Sir Samuel O'Malley, Kilboyne-house, Bart. D.L. Mattin S. Kirwan, Esq. Blindwell, Tuam, D L. Charles Henry Cromie, Esq. Annefield, Hollymount. PaovisrobrAL SEcitErsar—Thomas Kirwan, Esq. LOICDON AGENT—James Bryden, Esq. 19, Meorgate-street. BANKERS. The Royal Bank The London and Dublin Bank The National Bank of Ireland, and Branches Messrs. Glynn and Company, London The Royal Bank of Scotland. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Barrington, Son, and co., 10, Ely-place, Dublin • ' Messrs. E. and.P..Nolan, No. 3, Inn's-quay, Dublin. ENGINEER. Sir John Macneill, No. 27, Rutland-square North, Dublin. PARLIAMENTARY AGENT. 1 W. Bryden, Esq. No. 4, New Palace-yard, Westminster. Office of the Company, No. 48, Dame-street, Dublin. This line is undertaken by the promoters of the Irish Great Western Railway, in consequence of the very generally-expressed wish of the nobility, gentry, and inhabitants of the county of Mayo, a id of the northern division of the county of Galway, districts as yet untouched by railway projects. It is proposed that it shalt leave the, trunk line at Loughrea, a p o i n t w hi ch will facilitate cornmuniiii tion equally from the North of Connaught to the port of Gal Way, on the west; and to Balllnasloe, Athlone, and Dublin, on. the east. From Loughrea the lino will be carried by Tuam to Castlebar, , and Westport, and will afford accommodation to the towns utf Athenry. Monivea, Castle-Blakeney, Mount Bellew, Moylough, Dunmore, Tuam, Hollymount, Ballinrobe, Claremorris, the assize town of Castlebar, and Westport. The two counties, Mayo and. Galway, more immediately interested in the formation of this railway, contain a population, amounting (according to the census of 1841) to 811,810 persons. The counties comprise a district, with respect to which Sir John Burgoyne, the Chief Commissioner of Public Works in Ireland, on his examination before a Committee of the House of Commons, stated it as his opinion that he " did not know any county where traffic would be more likely to be created." This mast is pro vided with convenient harbours, and abounds with the most valu able Ilsh. It is intended next year to take steps to extend this line to Balling and Sligo. With respect to the construction of the line, the engineer, Sir John Macneill, thus writes : " TUAM AND CASTLEBAIVRAILWAY, WITIPA BRANCH TO WESTPORT. " This line leaves the Irish Great Western Railway near Loughrea, at a distance of 112 miles from Dublin, and 20 from Galway. It runs thence in a north-westerly direction, passing at the Bth mile, near Athenry, and at the 12th, near Monivca, and at the 24th mile, it arrives at the town of Tuam. It reaches Hollymount at the dis tance of 39 miles from Loughrea, and passing Ballyglass, accom plishes the distance to Castlebar by a line of 56 miles in length. From near this town it is proposed to carry a branch 10 miles long, to the rising town of Westport, situated on Crew Bay, which contains a series of most excellent harbours. " This line will pass through a country which presents no engi neering difficulties, and where the levels are most favourable, and by means of the Irish . Great Western Railway, and the Great Southern and Western Railway and its Branches, will afford a direct communication from the cast, south, and south-east of Ireland, to the north-west. "JOHN MACNEILL." A separate Bill will, of course, be sought for this branch, but the Provisional Management will be placed in the hands of a section of the Provisional Committee of the Irish Great Western Company, with the addition of some gentlemen of local influence and station, whereby the expense will be considerably reduced, and unity of action secured in the conduct of the two undertakings. The capital required will be 660,0007., to be divided into 33,000 shares of 201. each, with a deposit of 21. per share. A portion of these have already been placed at the disposal of the shareholders in the Irish Great Western Railway ; and applications for the re mainder, made according to the subjoined form, will be received until the 25th of October instant. Applications for shares to be made to the Solicitor, Secretary, or to James Hayden, Esq., 19, Moorgate-street, London. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Irish Great Western Railway, Branch to Tuam, Castlebar, and Westport. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me shares, at 201. each, in the Branch to Tuam, Castlebar, and Westport ; and I under trite to act a s )t the sane, or auy lesser number you may allot me, pay the deposit thereon, and execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name and Surname in full . . Residence in full . • • • • • • • • .. Occupation• • • ......... ..... ........... Name, Residence, and Profeselon of a Referee Date••••• ..• •••• T HE BELGIAN GRAND juNc RAILWAY COMPANY. Capital, 1,750,0001., in 87,500 Shares of 20/. each. Deposit, 2/. per Share. DIRECTORS. Sir John Nicoll Robert Campbell, K.C.11. Deputy-Chairman of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Chairman Henry Bainbridge, Esq. banker. Frederick Francois Clossmann, Esq. Chairman or the Great Luxem bourg Railway Company William Shelford Fitzwilliam, Esq. Director of the Essex and Suffolk Railway Company John Howell, Esq. Director of the Liverpool, Ormsklrk. and Preston Railway Company BA NEERS. In London—Messrs. Puget, Bainbridges and Co., St. Paul's Church yard. In Liverpool—The Commercial Bank of Liverpool. In Brussels—The Societe Generale. SoucTOßS—Messrs. Lawrence and Plews, Bucklersbury. ENGINEEtts—Sir John Macniell, L.L.D. F.R.S. and James Thompson Esq. F.It.S.E. BELGIAN ENGINEER—Mons. Desire Joseph Marchal. SECEETART—H. C. Hastings, Esq. The Directors have for some time past been in direct communica tien with the Belgian Government, and they have entered into a preliminary arrangement, under date of the 27th of September, 1845, with the Minister of public Works, by which the Minister grants to them the preference for the concession of a railway, to be called the "Grand Junction," and engages to conclude with the Directors a provisional contract, previously to submitting the " Projet de loi " for royal approbation, and also to apply for the sanction of the Legis lature. The valuable and important ironworks of Couvin will also, under the same agreement, be ceded to the Company. The Belgian Grand Junction Railway will directly connect the provinces of Brabant, Hainault, Liege, Limbourg, aad Namur, with each other, and with the Government lines of railway, as also with the several lines of Liege and Namur, Landen and Hasselt, Louvain and Jetheppe, Sambre and Meuse, and the Great Luxembourg Mons. Marchal, the eminent Belgian engineer, has carefally sur veyed the line, and has deposited the necessary plans, sections, and estimates with the Belgian Government. Mr. James Thomson, one of the Company's engineers, has also gone over the line, and reports most favourably upon the peculiar facilities for the construction of the railway, and the entire absence of all engineering difficulties. The Citairma; and two of the Directors have carefully traversed the whole of the line, and have received the most positive assur ances of support from the local authorities and landed proprietors. The provinces which the railway will unite were found by the census of 1844 to comprise a population of 2,188,551, and the dis tricts which it will traverse are situated in the heart of Belgium, and comprise an area of 165 square miles. The entire length of the Belgian Grand Junction Railway will be 102 English miles. This portion of the country is emphatically termed the Granary of Belgium, and, in addition to its vast agricultural produce, is rich in ironstone, lead, marble, stone, and slate quarries. It has also nume rous distilleries, extensive breweries, ironworks, and large manufac tories of porcelain, glass, paper, Beetroot, sugar, gunpowder, &c. The great coal-fields of Charleroi and Liege, which are the most ex tensive in Belgium, will, by means of this line, be enabled to supply all parts of the kingdom at a very reduced rate. The Government lines already completed, as well as the several private lines now in course of construction, will necessarily be the feeders to the Grand Junction line, as it will unite with the whole of them, and will traverse a district destitute of all water communica tion, and very imperfectly supplied with roads ; whilst the invariable rule of the Belgian Government not to permit any competing lines, must necessarily ensure to this Company the entire traffic of the country through which this line will pass. Tables, calculat: I with reference to the pre sent amount of traffic, have been carefully and accurately prepared ; and, upon the improbable as sumption that there will be no increase when the Grand Junction Railway is constructed, the shareholders would even then receive a large interest on their capital. But, as in all cases, and more parti cularly in Belgium, increased facilities of communication have been accompanied by a great increase of traffic, there can be no doubt that the Grand Junction Railway Company will pay a considerable dividend to the shareholders. The expanse of construction, and the subsequent expenses of work ing the line, are very much less than in English railways ; and it is an Important feature that the enormous outlay incidents to a Parlia mentary contest in England is avoided. A considerable saving will also be effected in the cost of iron, and of the locomotive engines and traffic material, which will be manufac tured at the Couvin works; and the Company have, therefore, the peculiar advantage of being independent of a supply from any other quarter, and free from the delay and disappointment consequent upon the present increased demand. The grant will be for ninety years, and the Act will provide that the railway shall, for the whole term, be exempt from all rates and charges whatsoever, whether local or national. By the law of Belgium, this Company will be constituted a Societe Anonyme, and the liability of each shareholder will be limited to the amount of his respective shares. A second payment of 2/. per share will be required one month after the Concession shall have been ratified by the Directors, and the subsequent calls will be made at such periods as the Directors may determine. An accountable receipt will be given to each subscriber on payment of his deposit, which receipt must be exchanged for certificates for shares, at the office of the Company, within twenty-one days after the first appearance of an advertisement requiring such exchange ; such advertisement to be inserted once in the London Gazette, and three times in each of two daily Morning London newspapers. The non-compliance with this condition will entail on the subscriber the forfeiture of his deposits. Notice of calls will be given by advertisement in the London Ga zette, and two daily Morning i.ondon newspapers; and if ally call on any share shall remain unpaid for twenty-one days after the day named, the share shall become absolutely - forfeited. Interest at the rate of 41. per cent. per annum will be paid upon the amount of capital paid up, such it - terest to b calculated from the time of obtaining the Act of the Legislature until th 4 opening of the line. All points of detail will, under the terms of the Convention and Act, he settled between the Belgian Government and the Directors; and it is one of the conditions on which the shares will he appor tioned and accepted, that the subscribers confide to the Directors full power to make such arrangement with the Belgian Government with respect to any alterations or modifications of the line, and of the terms of the grant, as they may think expedient for the furtherance of the interests of the Company. Applications for shares, in the subjoined form, to be made to the Secretary, at the Company's Offices, No. 64, Old Broad-street ; to Messrs. Lawrance and l'lews, Solicitors, Bucklershury ; and to the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Thread needle-street, London ; Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Man chester ; Messrs. 11. Davies and Co., Liverpool ; Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, and Co , Bristol ; Messrs. Chantrell and Boles, Leeds ; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, mull ; and Aberdeen; B uchanan and Aitken, Glasgow ; Messrs. Oswald, George, d Co., Messrs. babertonehe and Stafford, Dublin; a nd M essrs. Dowling and Bowden, Edinburgh. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the Belgian Grand Junction Railway. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of 201. each In the Belgian Grand Junction Railway Company; and I agree to accept such shares, or any smaller humber you may allot to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and to execute the deed of settlement, and all other necessary deeds, when required. Dated the day of 1845. Signature, with Christian Name, at full length . • ... • • • • • • • Profession, Trade, or other Description.... Reference, with Christian and Surname, and Address ... ............. DUTCH HANOVERIAN R L WAY COMPANY. Capital 1 ,100,000/.. in 60,000 Shares of 201. each, or'francs 500, or florins p. b. 240. (By Royal Concession, dated 13th August, 1845. A portion tf tl Shares will be reserved for distribution abroad.) D The Right Hon. th e E ar l of Essex William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the Direct Western Railway Company, director of the Sheffield, Manchester, York, and Lancashire, &c. &c. Joseph Bishop, of the Minories, London, merchant, director of the London and Blackwall Railway, Direct Western Railway, Smiler s.tshire and North Devon, &c. &c. Charles Collins, Esq. Caldwell Castle, Worcestershire, director of the Louden and Dublin, Direct London and Gravesend, &c. &c. Thomas Edwards. Esq. of Bethel-place, Camberwell, director of the London and DubEn Direct Railway, London and Gravesend, &c. &e. Frederick William Hamilton, 50, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Esq.. director of the York and Lancaster, Sheffield, Nottingham, and London Direct, &c. &c. George Lee, Crutched-friars, London, merchant, director Qf the London and Blackwall Railway, Bridgwater and North Devon, &e. &e. Nathaniel Ogle, Esq. of Heath-lane-lodge, Twickenham, director of the York and Lancaster, Sheffield, Nottingham, and London, Bir mingham, Manchester Direct, &c. &c. RANKERS. Messrs. 3 fasterrnan and Co. Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street Messrs. Ransom and Co. Pall-mall. SOLICITORS. 11. Richards, Esq. 7, Chandos-street, Cavendish-square, Solicitor for the Founders and Foreign Directors. F. T. Gell, Esq. Carlton Chambers, 8, Regent-street, Solicitor for the Company. This Company will be established for the construction of the rail - way and canals specified in the concession from Zwoll, the capital of the province of Overyssell, as far as Gronengue, crossing the province of Drenthe, from Gronengue. There will be one branch, in the di rection of the Ems, to the port of Dellzyl, and another to the fron tiers of Hanover. The whole of the line will be completed in two years, and the cost will not exceed 6,0001. per mile. Applications for shares to be made to the solicitors ; to J. H. Ellis, stockbroker, 17, Throgmorton-street ; or at the Offices, 6, King Wil. liam-street, City. SARACEN'S _HEAD TAVERN AND HOTEL, SNOW- HILL, LONDON, JOSEPH NEEDHAM, late of Teigh Rutland, begs to inform Families, Commercial Gentlemen, and other:4 visiting town, that he has taken and enteret upon the above Old• E stablished Hotel and Tavern, late in the occupation of Mrs. Caro Duo Mayo. In soliciting the patronage of his friends and the public generally, J. N. assures them that no attention shall be wanting on his part t render the house worthy the high character it has always sustaint it for choice 'Wines and Spirits of the first quality. Particular care wu' ut use lied-rooms, which. have undergone a thorough repair; and J. N. feels assured that ona trial only will be sufficientto afford satisfaction and ensure support. _ . TO SADDLE AND HARNESS MAKERS, AYOUNG MAN, who ha s serve d hi s appren ticeship to the above business, and who can command 500/., wishes to enter a respectable house as junior partner or foreman. The advertiser is willing to undertake an active part in the business, having worked several years at it since the expiration of his ap prenticeship. Respectable references will be given and required. For Butlict• particulars, apply to E. Barron, Esq., Solicitor, Bloomsbury square. _ _ I OFFICE OF THE GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY, New Bridge-street, Blackfrlars, London, Oct . 11, 1845. Notice is hereby given, that a HALF-YEARLY GENERAT, COURT of the PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY will be held on TUESDAY, the 4th day of November next, at Eleven o'clock in ti Forenoon, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, in the county of Middlesex; and that for seven days previously the Half-yearly Accounts of the Company will be open to the inspection of the Pro prietors, oo an order signed by three of the Directors. Notice is hereby also given, that at the same meeting the annual election of auditors will take place, and should a ballot be required, it will continue open for four hours from its commencement. Ry order, CHARLES BURLS, Secretary. N.B. The Chair will he taken at Twelve o'clock precisely, and none but Proprietors admitted. CLARK'S ROYAL WAX CANDLE. IMMENSE SALE. Only One Shilling per lORtneli - 1ei;1roal Candles, and their IN , - sitive superiority is established. Thousands consume ttern, and not a dissenting voice ! They snuff themselves, are bard as alabaste - , pure as wax, and cheap as common tallow candles, is their true cha racter. " Their equal is unknown." " Their superiors will never come.* Composite, and all such inferior candles, aro defied. None but Palace;Wax bear a semblance of equality. To prevent imposition, C. and Co. attach a Gold Label to every packet, without which none are genuine, at Clark's General Oil and Candle Lamp Depot, 447, West Strand. Please write down address. The new light always burning for inspection. Licenses granted to Country Agents. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Birmingham, Nottingham, Gainsborough, and Hull Railway Campany. I request you will allot me shares of 201. each, in the capi tal of the above-named Railway; and I will accept the same, os any less number, and pay the the deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of 1845. Name in full ...... Place of Business or Profession. Residence • • • • • •• • Trade or Profession ........... Signature .. Name, Residence,. .......... and Profession • . • of Referee • T HE BIRMIN GHAM, NOTTINGHAM, GAINSBOROUGH, AND HULL RAILWAY. No Application for Shares in this Company can be received after MONDAY, the 20th instant. EDWARDS, MASON, and EDWARDS, 8, Moorgate-street MOTTERAM and KNOWLES, Birmingham. Oct. 10, 1845. PROSPECTUS OF THE BOSTON, GRANTHAM, LEICESTER, and MIDLAND COUNTIES JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. (Provisionally Registered.) Offices-5, Guildhall Chambers, Basinghall-street. Capital, 800.0001., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Wrn. Corbett Smith, Esq., Bitteswell_hall, High Sheriff of Leices tershire John Summerscales, Esq., Sh er iff of Lincoln Sir Win. Wynn, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North Wales Railway Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, Relgrave-square, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Major-Gen. Sir Love Parry, Madry ,n, Carnarvonshire Director of the North Wales Railway Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Sharavogue, Roscrea Honourable Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pftlteney, Parliament-street, London, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway Rear-Admiral Ayscough, Southampton, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway Lieutenant-Colonel Elrington, Scotch Fusilier Guards, 12, Wynd ham-place, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Railway Lieutenant-Colonel Fitch, 36, Y or k-t errace, Regent's -park, Director of the South and Midland Railway Adamthwaite, John, Esq., Oakhill, Teen, Stafforeishire Allen, George Charles, Esq., East Shilton, Leicestershire, Director of the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway Atkinson, J. 8., Esq., Elmwood House, Leeds, Director of the Lei cester and Bedford Railway Bell, Robert, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick, Director of the Direct East and West Junction Railway Bland, William, Esq., 11, Park-terrace, Brixton -road, Director of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire, and the North Wales Railways Betts, William, Esq„ Bevois Mount, Southampton Browne, Joseph, Esq., Bedford, Director of the East and West of England Junction Railway Burd, John, Esq., Alderman, Manchester Caldecott, William Lloyd, Esq., Laura-place, Bath Carver, Edward Turst , Esq. , Forest - lodge, Tulse-hill, Dir ec t or o f th e North Wales, and the Namur and Liege Rail ways Cooke, T. F., Esq.' Leicester Collett, Benjamin, Esq., Manor House, Bromsgsoye Croft, Major J. T., Regent-street, Piccadill y, Deputy-Chairman of the Chester and Manchester Railway Cumberlege, Nathaniel, Esq., Director of the Direct East and West Junction Railway Dalby, John, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway Eales, William, Esq., Mincing-lane, Lotdon, Director of the Direct Western, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways Gernon, J., Earl., 12, Condult-street, Hanover- square, Vice-Chairman of the Gal•s , . ay and Ennis Railway Gillham, Joseph, Esq Hargreaves House, Oldham, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction Railway Graves, Captain Twisleton, Director of the Leicester, Tean and Dove Valley Railw Hazelrigg, Grey, Esq., Carlton-hall, Leicester eneage, Charles, Esq., Cadehy-house, Lincolnshire H . , 'Esq., Dingley-park, Sfarleet Harborough Holmes, Isaac, Esq. Liverpool Glebe-house, Kility, Leicester Ilungerford, Kebbel, W. IL, Esq., Knight, Joseph, E ssi ., Leicester, Direct or o f the Midland Counties, Leicester, and Bedford Railways Lambert, Richard, Esq. , Ly ston- h all, Sudbury, Dire c t or o f th e Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Laurie, George, Esq., Manchester Macmoran, A. M., Esq., 58, Cambridge-street, Hyde -park, Director of the Direct East and West Junction Railway, Mann, A., Esq., Denver-hall, Norfolk, Director of the Liverpool, Joseph, Esq., Liverpool Manchester, and Newcastle Junction Railway Maunder, ,Director of th e R ugby and Man chester Direct Railway Meteyard, Horace Wm., Esq., 8.C.L., London, Director of Reming ton's London and Manchester Railway Miller, Thomas, jun. , Esq., Leicester, Di rec t or of tlie Direct Bir mingham and Leicester Railway Mosse, R. 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The profane eye of the Frank is not held worthy (-f a sight of the saered place ; but the Bakschich unprof, les us, and whilst the negotiation still p'nds, a Jew advanees, and places his hand upon his forehead with a peculiar movement, and seems to say, " I lay my forehead humbly in the dust of your feet ; and then he offers his services in his case ; if not for slaves, then for shawls, if not `'or shawls, still for tobacco ; strictly faithful to the offici .us, trafficing spirit of his nation. Franks, however, may not purchase slaves ; it is a privilege that belongs to the Turks exclusively. Now we enter eagerly, filled w ith curiosity and expectation, a paradise of houris. The place itself is - not very inviting, an irregular space sur rounded by damp galleries. In these galleries sit the salesmen with coffee and chibouque, the overseers, the purchasers, and the simply curious ; and in the mire me, dark, low chambers, which have a door and grated e in dow opening to the galleries, are kept the noble wares. One group is placed in the middle of the court for inspection, or rather, seated, for they are squatted upon mats as usual. Let us contemp!ate them. Oh horror ! dreadful revolting sight ! Semi:ion your whole faculty of imagination ! Picture to you! self Ni misters; and you still fail to conceive such objects as yon negresses, from whom your outraged eye recoils with loathing. But the Georgians, the Circassians ; the kee nest woman in the world—where they are? Not there. No; dearest brother, the white slaves are kept separate in Tophana; thence they are conducted to the harem fur inspection, and only by greatest favour, and under e pe cial escort, can you be admitted to a view of them. Here are only blacks, and with the monstrous spectacle you must fain content yourself. There they sit. A coarse gray garment envelopes the figure, coloured glass rings eecir cle the wrists, coloured glass beads the neck; the hair is cut short. You are struck first with the depressed fore head squeezed over the eyebrows, as in the Cretians; then with the large, rolling, inexpressive eye; then, with the nose, innocent of a bridge, a great misshapen mass; then, with the mouth, and the frightful animal formation of projecting jawbone, and gaping, black lips (red lips on the Moor is an European fancy which reality does not sanction); then, with the long figured, apelik e h an d s , and hideous colourless nails; then with the meagre :.pine dle-shanks and projecting heel; then the most of all with the incredible animalism of the whole thing, form an ex pression combined. The colour varies. Here it is bright black, there somewhat brown ; and here, again, greyish. They give out no sign of life ; they stare at us with the same unconscious gaze that they fix upon each other. A purchaser approaches, examines them, women-buyers make their remarks upon them. They aro indifferent to all. They are measured in their length and breadth, like a bale of goods ' • scanned, tried in their hands, hips, feet, teeth, like a horse ; they submit to everything without dislike, without anger, without sorrow. It is much that the exhibition proceeds with decency, that is a t o a s i s de y , t h t e h i e r so - garments, -called d i e t z i T h y r ; e t a h o e h c f r r e o a m t u t r h e d es neck k m t (Io w la i y ) to the calf of the I( g. Now they are selected, bit for, cheapened ; do buyer and seller agree, the slave departs with her master and mistress ; do they not, she seat.; her self again upon the mat, unconcerned about her fate, Say, brother, how do you like it ? I honestly confese that, in the vt hole proceeding. nothing so shocked me :lathe. creatures' hideousness ; and that the majestic king vul ture ;3t Schonbrunn inspired me with more compasioi fur his captivity than I feel for the slavery of these m , fellow-mortals I ask myself internally, "Is it p -sails' that a Sappho, an Aspasia, a Mary Stuart, and otht miracles of mind and beauty, can be made of the sart sex as these ?" And, with- great coefidence, I ;maw( " No." For a woman without intelligence is no longs a woman, but, alas 1 I have no more appropriate wot —a mute, and this contains too much of tenth-rue aat caressing for my meaning ; she becomes simply to fesnelle. • Place in your mind such a negress by tl e sit' of an Aspasia, and you may perceive, as inteesely as. is possible for you to perceive it, how far asunder lie 0 human families , how wide the gu lf w hi ch separates tw such beings. We are all of du- t, and to dust e e she return ; but, for the few years which I have to live, 11111 truly grateful to my Creator that it has pleased Hi to vouchsa"e me a dusty ieteeument that is et lea: white !—Letters from the Orient. ----- ARTIFICIAL STONE.—At Augsburgh, an ardtitec Herr Alois Steiermann, has invented an artificial stoi, which, for solidity, is said to surpass the best free-st,ne, one-third its cost, and to which any form can be given i the manufacture. It is composed of river -sand, clay, and cement whose composition is the author's secret... It li been 'submitted - 1n the proof of air, pressure, and fire, ai resists them all. The King of Bavaia has given his medal of civil merit to Herr Steiermann, fo this us,fal vention. BANKERS London—The London and County Joint-Stock Bank, 21, Lombard- street Liverpool—Messrs. Leyland and Bullins, CONSiIL JUDICIABE—AIphonse Pinkie, Avocat a la Cour Royale tie Paris, SOLICITORS—Edwards, Mason, and Edwards, 8, 3foorgate-street. This railroad forms the completion of the great trunk line through France, uniting the British Channel with the Mediterranean Sea, the line from Avignon to Marseilles, being in the course of construction by the French Government. Applications for shares to be made at the Office of the Company, No. 13, Old Jewry Chambers ; at the solicitors, Messrs. Edwards, Mason, and Edwards, 8, 3foorgate-street ; Messrs. W. and H. P. Cox, sharebrokers, 16, Throgmorton-street ; Messrs. Taunton and Bush, sharebrokers, Austin-friars ; Messrs. Duncuft, sharebrokers, Manchester; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, sharebrokers, Liver pool ; Mr. T. Buchanan, sharebroker, Glasgow. riALAIS, DUNKIRK, and-BRUGES JUNC t TION RAILWAY, connecting the lines already in operation between Bruges, Ghent, Brussels, Malines, and Antwerp. Capital 18,750,000 francs, or 750,0001. sterling, in 37,500 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. per share. DIRECTORS. FRENCH AND BELGIAN. M. Is Comte Friant, General et Aide-de-Camp du Rol M. le Baron de Clarac, Proprietaire, Ancien Officier Superieur de Cavalerie, Secretaire et Adtninistrateur du Chemin de For de Tours a Nantes M. Cordier, Depute. Inspecteur Divisionnaire des Ponta et Chaus sees, President du Conseil d'Administratlon du Chemin de Fer de Cherbourg M. Antonio de Serradilla, Colonel d'Etat-Major M. N. T. Micard, .Administrateur du Chemin de Fer de Strasbourg at PAH. ImPtive Ineeneur Civil. Entrepeneur des Ponta et Chaos sees du uouveniement M. P. J. Wayez, Governeur de la Province de llainault, Brussels M. Femmerman, Brussels M. J. B. Thibon, Brussels. ENGLISH Major-General Brooks Parbley, C.B. 18, Rutland-gate, Hyde-park William Ormsby Gore, M.P., Chairman of the Shrewsbury, Wol verhampton, Dudley, and Birmingham Railway, 66, Portland place, and Portlington-hall, Oswestry, Salop William Bradley, Esq., Director of the Sheffield, Ashton- under-Lyne and Manchester Railway William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S , &c., Alderman of London, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead, and London and Greenwich Railways, Brunswick-square Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman of London, and Sheriff of London and Middlesex, Leyton, Essex Captain Thornhill 'Warrington, 66, Upper Berkeley-street, Portman- square James Reeves, Esq., Leyton, Essex, Director of the London and Man chester Railway William Petrie, Esq., King-street, Portman-square John Inglis Jerdien, Esq., Director of the Manchester, Rugby, and Etouthampton Railway, No. 2, Adams-court, Broad-street Peter liforrison, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and London Rail way, I, Princes-street, Bank (With power to add to their number). BANKERS IN FRANCE. BANKERS lai BELGIUM—Messrs. Prosper et Rena Spitaels at CO. BANKED IN irtaGLAND — The London Joint St ock Bank. C O NSULTING ENCINEERS ir John Macneil, LL . D . and F.R.S. ENGlNEER—WilliamMullingar Higgins, Esq. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Potter and Collingridge, A Basinghall-street. SECRETARY —Philip N. Scanlan, Esq. COMPANY'S OFFICES-37, Moorgate-street (East Side). gPaaspsohpigulation through of This Company, has been for med for the p ur pose of opening at line of h railway n c t m om d s c tricts a o t r i o F s r a b r e i e t e w a e e n n d C B a e l i g La m n d e . B n r t u at i s :, above 600,000 inhabitants , an d formin g a junction with the State Railway at Bruges, which has now become the most direct route to the interior of Belgium, Germany, Prussia, and the countries east of the French frontier. In laying before the public the prospectus of this proposed line, it may be mentioned as one of its principal advantages, that it will reduce the passage from London to Brussels, now occupying twenty-four or twenty-six hours, under the most favourable circum stances, and often thirty or forty, to twelve hours, rendering it prac ticable to make the journey with ease in one day, and at two-thirds of the present expense. The long, tedious, and uncertain sea voyage will also be avoided from Dover to Ostend, which, to travellers gene rally, and particularly to ladies and invalids, is exceedingly dis agreeable, and often attended with serious consequences. It can hardly admit of a question, that the principal part of the passenger traffic between the two capitals, London sad Brussels, to gether with the passenger traffic of the populous cities of Antwerp, and Ghent, the latter being the Manchester of Belgium, and the im portant towns of St. Nicholar and Tierlmond, will be, under these circumstances, drawn into this channel; and another important ad vantage t• the public, and source of revenue to the Company, will be found in the transmission of the Belgian, German, and Prussian mails, which are now conveyed by steamers from Dover to Ostend, at a very considerable expense, and with much less certainty and ex pedition than if transmitted to Calais, a sea passage of only 24 miles, and usually made in two hours. The traffic and expenditure may be fairly estimated as follows : From 50,000 passengers, who, according to the recent re turns from Ostend and Antwerp, annually visit the Conti nent and return by this route, say, from each, on an ave rage, 10s. each way .... ••.. . • . •••••• • • • • • „ X,50,000 For the transport of mails from the respective Governments 10,000 Local traffic in goods and passengers • • • • • • • 50,000 £llO,OOO Deduct the expenses of working the line, calculated at •• .. 30,000 £BO,OOO Thus leaving a profit of 10% per cent. to the shareholders, with every prospect of a considerable increase annually in the traffic, as has been by experience proved to be the result on all the other lines in operation in Belgium, as well as other countries. The projected railroad would pass through a perfectly level tract of country rich in agricultural productions, presenting no natural impediments to its construction, and would require neither tunnels nor viaducts ; and the only bridges necessary would be the spanning of a few dykes. Thus the construction would be unattended with heavy expense, and its working, when completed, of the same eco nomical character; for, as experience has shown, the most consider able item its working a railway is the supply of coal for the locomo-, tives ; the proximity to the port of Dunkirk, and the easy access to the Belgian coal fields, obviate this difficulty. This line, which has been already examined by an eminent engi neer, will be about sixty miles in extent from one extremity to the other ; will connect in its route the towns of Calais, Gravelines, and Dunkirk, in France, with Furness, Nieuport, and Bruges, in Bel gium ; thus securing a very important local traffic in goods and pas sengers, independent of the foreign traffic before alluded to, placing the possibility of its paying beyond all doubt. Arrangements are in progress and strongly supported by persons of the highest influence both in Belgium and France for obtaining the consent of the Belgian and Freneh Governments to the above line ; and as it is so obviously advantageous to the former Government to encourage the formation of a line, bringing two such important capitals as Brussels and I.ondon within ten hours distance of each other, and the intention of the latter to encourage the formation of a continuous line of railway raund the coast, little doubt is entertained by the Directors in Belgium, France, and England, of such applications proving successful. . In the event of the applications proving unsuccessful, the deposits will be returned, with the exception of a charge on each share, not exceeding five shillings. Application for prospectuses and forms of application may be made at the Company's offices, and the offices of the solicitors, 5, Basing- hall-street ; and to the following brokers : London—Messrs. Peppercorrie, Broad street Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons ; and Messrs. Green and Lockwood Liverpool—Messrs. T. Coglan and Sons Bristol—Messrs. Edwards and Co. Leeds —Thomas 31. Lee, Erg., Harvey Mirfin, Esq., and Messrs. Bell and Ledger Hull , —Messrs. Flint and Tootal Exeter—Thomas Sandford, Esq. _ - - Plymouth—Mes ra. Hayward and Palmer. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the Calais, Dunkirk, and Bruges Junction Railway. Gentlemen—l request you will allot me Shares of 201. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same or any less number that may be allotted me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and I undertake also to execute the Subscribers' Agreement, or any other document that may be necessary, when required. I am, Gentlemen, Date • .. ..... ....... ..... Christian and Surname Profession or Calling ...... Place of Residence • • . Reference • • • • . Usual Signature ..... N.B.—To save trouble, no application will to attended to unless accompanied with areference to one ofthe director :, a banker, Stock broker, or mercantile house of known respectability. tic= 4 UNITING-DUN. WISBECH, and ST. IVES I IL 'UNION RAILWAY. No Applications for Shares in this Company will be received after 12 o'clock at noon on SATURDAY, the 18th instant. The Letters of Al lotment will be posted as early as possible. Those applicants who do not receive letters of allotment, must at tribute it to the vast number of applications, and the limited number of shares. WILLIAM WILDE, Secretary. 26, Gresham-street, 15th Oct., 1845. _~ 3 - ~~