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GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY, forming a connecting line between the Midland Counties and Grand Junction Railways. Capital, 1,000,0001., in 500,000 Shares of 201. each Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. (Provisionally Registered.) CHAIRMAN OF THE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Sir JOHN E. DE BEAUVOIR, Bart. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN. WILLIAM SIMPSON POTTER, Esq. COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. William SiMson Potter, Esq. 1, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park Valeetine Lee, Esq. Chester-place, Regent's park Stephen Hutchison, Esq. London Gas Wofts, Vauxhall Merin Stuteley, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-Park Alfred Brodie, Fsq. Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square Daniel Al•Mahon, Esq. Wolverhampton Herbert Br' om, Esq. Essex-court, Temple John Carter, Esq. F.R.A.S. Park -lodge, Stockwell Edward Mamatt, Esq. Ashby-de 4a-Zonch James Morrison, Esq., St. Mary-at-Hill Valentine Knight, Esq. 3, Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park Charles Henry Rogers Harrison, Esq. Upper Montagu-street, Mon talim-equare Barnet Lawrence Phillips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park Tohn Thompson, Esq.. Great St. Helen's, Bread-street. BANKER'S—The Union Bank of London and its Branches. ExotriEmi—John Urpetia Rastrick, Esq. ACTING ENGINEEA7RObUt Nicholson, Esq. Sotamoas---3fessrs. Watts, Galsworthy, and Galsworthy, 19, Ely- place, Holborn, Notice is hirreby given that the SHARE LIST is CLOSED. The inquiries preceding allotments are being proceeded with as speedily as the vast number of applications received will allow. By order, W. STANWAY, Secretary. a, Adelaide-place, London-bridge. THE GRAND JUNCTION and MIDLANDS UNION RAILWAY, connecting Stafford and the rot teriea, via Burton-upon-Trent, with Derby, Nottingham, and the Z _lst ern Conntie4. Capital, 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. Ye subscriber to be liable beyond the amount of his subscription, and no call to be made until the Act is obtained. PROVffiIONAJ OICKITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Chestcrileld The Right Hon. the Lord Viscount Combermers The Right Hon. the Lord Viscount Ingestre, M.P. The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton The Right Hon. G. R. Dawson The Hon. Cecil Lawless Sir Arthur De Capel Broke, Bart. Lieutcnant-General Sir John Wilson, K.C.B. Thomas North, Esq., Mayor of Nottingham Fred. Ricketts, Esq., London, Director of the Great Western Railway Thomas Wakefield, Esq., Nottingham, ?Directors or the Notting- ham and Gainsborough David Wheatcroft, Esq., Nottingham, Railway James Sutton, Esq., Shardlow-hall, Derbyshire John Moor, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire, Director of the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, and Potteries Railway Will!am R. Collett, Esq., M.P., St. James's-square James Cliff,rd, Esq., Broughton House, Derbyshire Francis Hall, Esq., Park Hall, Nottingham, Chairman of the Notting ham, Mansfield, and Midlands Junction Railway Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., Chilton-hall George Frederick Gregory, Esq., Seacombe, Managing Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway William Eaton Mousley, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, and Derby H. J. Enthoven, Esq., London F. P. Barlow, Esq., London, Director of the Great Western Railway Francis Parker, Esq., Manchester, Director of the London and York Railway George Emery, Esq., London, Director of the Waterford and Kil kenny Railway William Watson, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Archibald F. Paull, Esq., London, Director of the South Wales Rail- way William Morgan, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Gloucester Rail- way James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, Director of the South Midland Railway Wm. Watson Prole, Esq.,lDirectors of the Great Manchester, Robert Chapman, Esq., Rugby, and Southampton Railway Anthony Dickson, Esq., Edrington House, Berwickshire Sheldon Crad•ck, Esq., Leicester Ambrose Moore, Esq., London and Derby William Johnson, Esq., Rickerscote, near Stafford Joseph Ward, Esq., Milford Villa, near Stafford George Russell Eaton, Esq., Cavendish Bridge, near Derby James Upflll, Esq., Bromyard, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway Matthew Gaunt, Esq. J.P. Highfleld-house, Staffordshire, Director of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway Thomas Hartshorne, Esq. Silkmore-house, Staffordshire Edward Knight, Esq. M.D. Stafford, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway William Charles Woodroffe, Esq. Haywood Abbey, Staffordshire Charles Dawson, Esq. Stafford and Abbots-Bromley, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. LORD VISCOUNT INGSESTRE, Chairman. F. P. Barlow, Esq. Archibald F. Paull, Esq. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton IF. Ricketts, Esq. W. Morgan, Esq. I W. Watson, Esq. W. W. Prole. Esq. ENGINEER—E. J. Maude, Esq. C.E. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Edwards, Mason, and Edwards, 8, Moorgate-street, and 8, Delahay-street, Westminster. LOCAL AGENTS. Nottlngham—Samuel Maples, Esq. Burton-upon-Trent—John ThornewM, Esq. Stafford—Messrs. Bennet and Bowen BANKERS. London—Messrs Denison, Heywood, Kennard, and Co., Lombard-street Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co. Borten-upon-Trent—Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourn Union Bank Stafford—Messrs. Stevenson, Salt, and Co. The proposed railway is intended to commence on the Trent Valley Railway near Stafford, and proceeding thence in an easterly lirectlon, to pass through, or near to, Tixall, Haywood, Colwich, and Abbott's Bromley, to the rapidly-increasing town of Burton-upon- Trent, where it will run into the Birmingham and Derby Railway, forming the shortest and best practicable route from Stafford to Derby. Leaving the Birmingham and Derby Railway at Burton upon-Trent, it will proceed along the valley of-the Trent by Repton, Swarkestone, and Shardlow, to the Midland Counties Railway at the point where that railway forms ajunction with the Derby and Not tingham Railway ; and thus, by means of these and other railways in progress, form a complete line of railway communication between the central towns of Stafford, Derby, Nottingham, Lincoln, Leices ter, Peterborough, and Boston, on the east, and Shrewsbury, Ches ter, and Holyhead, North Wales, and Ireland, on the west. This railway will, therefore, form the only connecting link re quired in the great chain of railway communication from east and west through the heart of the kingdom, uniting the shores of the German Ocean on the east with those of the Irish Sea on the west, and traversing in its course the rich agricultural districts of the eastern, midland, and western counties, and accommodating the important, and populous manufacturing towns of Stafford, Derby, Nottingham, Lei cester, and Shrewsbury. But another most important advantage that will 'result from the formation of this line will consist in the fact of its affording, in connexion with the proposed South Union, or Manchester and Potteries Railway, by far the shortest and best route between Derby, Nottingham, Newark, Lincoln, Peterborough, Leicester, and Loughborough, and the extensive and populous dis tricts of the Staffordshire Potteries, Macclesfield, Stockport, and Manchester. By the proposed line the distance between Nottingham and Derby and Manchester will be at least from 15 to 20 miles less than by the present circuitous route by Sheffield. The traffic on this line must necessarily be equal, if not superior, to that of any line in the district. The length of the line will be about 33 miles, through a country presenting no difficulties of more than an ordinary kind for Its con struction. The capital proposed to be raised is 600,0001., in shares of 201. each, upon which a deposit of 21. 2s. per share must be paid upon the allotment. No call will be made until the Act is obtained, and no subscriber will be liable beyond the amount of his deposit until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his subscription ; and the usual power will be taken to allow interest at four per cent. from the time of payment upon each call until the opening of th• The Subscribers' Agreement and the Parliamentary Contract must be executed when the bankers' receipts are exchanged for scrip cer tificates, of which 14 days' notice will be given ; and the deposits paid by any party making default in the execution of those deeds will be forfeited. GRAND JUNCTION and MIDLANDS UNION RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that no further Applications for Shares win be received. , . . By order of the Committee, W. A. ROSS, Secretary. 1, Royal Exchange Bnildings, 11th October, 1845. THE DIRECT LONDON, PORTSMOUTH, ♦ND CHICHESTER, AND DIRECT PORTAMOUTIL AND CHATHAM RAILWAY, via REIGATE. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,900,0001., in 95,000 Shares of 20/. mak. Deposit, 21. 2s. per share. 'PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right son. the Earl of Egmont, of Cowdray Park, Sussex Colonel George Wyndham, of Petworth House, Sussex The Hon. and Rev. L. Vernon Harcourt, of West Dean, Sussex The Right Hon. Lord do Lisle and Dudley, of Penshurst, Kent The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beauclerk, 16, King-street, St. James's The Right Hon. Lord Pelham Clinton, of Carleton Villas, Heide. hill Tho Right lion. Lord Rossmore, of the Dell, Windsor Fir Charles William Taylor, Bart., of Hollycombe House, Sussex The Hon. Robert Gore, M.P., of 21, Wilton -crescent sir William Wynn, Knight of the Bath, Governor of Sandown Fort, Isle of Wight The Hon. William M. Dawson, Poole Lodge, Dorset The lion. Percy Freke, 3, Belgrave-square The Hon. Stafford Jerningham, Brook-street' Sir William Young, Bart., 7 Westbourne-street, Hyde Park, Director of the East India Company Sir James Eyre, of 11, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square Sir Robert Schomburgk, of New Kingston, Surrey Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Carlton Club, and Plas Cosh, Angelsea, Chairman of the Welsh Midland Railway of , of tke Howard Elphinstons Eq., M.P., Direct Western Railway Company, Eaton-place Director the Thames Exiba ant Company, &c. Charles Dixon, Esq., of Stanstead Park, Sussex Lee Steers, Esq., of Jay's Park, Surrey Contain Charles Shirley, of Midhurst, Sussex Lieut.-Colonel Eden, 1, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., of Broom Hall, Surrey Admiral John Ayscough, of Prospect-place House, Southampton William Leyland Woods, Esq., of Chilgrove, Sussex Launcelot Archer-Burton, Esq., of Woodlands, Emsworth, Manta Rev. John Pannel, Aldsworth House, Sussex R. tiingliam Newland, Esq., Boveysand, Plymouth Colonel Forbes, R.A., Scofield House, Emsworth Archibald Douglas Stewart, of Bruton-street E. T. Dayrell, Esq., 15, Old Cavendish-street, High Sheriff of Buck inghwnshiro Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, of North-end House, Portsmouth, Deputy-Lieutenant for Hants The Rev. Henry Garrett Newland, of Westbourne Rectory, Sussex Francis Lysons Price, Esq., of ilydenham, Kent, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway, and Director of the Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company James Beech, Esq., of Brandon Hall, Warwickshire George Grantham, Esq., of Barcombe-place, Sussex William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., of 16, James-street, Bucking ham-gate Charles Hurst, Esq., of Midhurst, Sussex George Harrison, Esq., F.S.A., 7, Harleyford-place, Kennington Frederick Clarkson, Esq., of Tottenham, Directors of Robert Chapman, Esq., of 1, Park-place, Regent's the Great Park, Manchester William Watson Prole, Esq., of Thurlow-square, Railway Brampton, Company Thomas Chitty, Esq., of 9, 'Upper Gower-street John Napper, Esq., of Ifold House, Sussex Stephen Lowdell, Esq., of Lindfielel, Sussex Thomas Stevenson, Esq., 37, Upper Grosvenor-street James Hitchina, Esq., of Lincoln, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway Company George Baker, Esq., of Stillanol, Sussex Jelinger Cookson Symonds, Esq., Radnage, Bucks Harmaduke Hart Hart, Esq., Totterislge-park, Hefts William Ley, Esq., Durrant-house, Bideford Lewis Pocock, Esq., of Montagae-street, Russell-square Thomas Neale, Esq., of Reigate, Surrey Samuel Relf, ESq., of Reigate, Surrey Thomas Neale, Esq., jun., of Reigate, Surrey John Lucas, Esq., of Varndall-hill, Haslemere Thomas Bowles, Esq., of Midhurst, Sussex Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., of Great Surrey-street, Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway William Hardy, Esq., F.S.A., of Croydon, Surrey, Director of tke Metropolitan Junction Company John Davidson, Esq., of Trotton-hrase,near Midhurst Edmund Sadler, EN" Pof Be ton Sussex Anthony Dickson, fa Esq., l ofEdrington-house, near Ber wiek-en , Tweed Joseph Bade, Esq., o W il liam Watson, Esq., of l h rum -c° gr m o rn ve n , Roxburghahlre, Director of the Arista)! and Exeter Rail w ay - Company Samoel Brown, Es q ., o f Cl apha m Joseph Scales ' Es q'' o f 3 . D \ 0 r - court, Mincing-lane, and II Clapton pp John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., of 30, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the Reading and Rei gate r Bedford-place, Director Robert Wynne Williams, Esti_ of 29 , Railway L Company of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Company Crarie Lloyd, Esq., of 7, Lower Brook-street,rpany Director of the Nottingham and Boston Railway pany ' Robert Still, Esq., of Wood Vale, Norwood, Surrey, and o s m , New% Lincoln's Inn square, John Heltrert Helbert, Esq., of Gloucester-place, Director of the Lei cester and Birmingham Railway Company Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., of Cloptoc House, Stratford-en-Avert, Director of the Warwick and London Railway Company Captain William Cousins, of Compton-street, Brtnswick-squavo, Di rector of the Doncaster and Goole Railway Company Captain Frederick Chamfer, of Halkin-street, Belgrave-square, Di rector of the Fampoux and Hazebrouck Railway John Barnett, Esq., of Cheltenham, Coroner of the county of Glou cester John Moreton Cottle. Dui., of Leamington, Director of the Coventry and Birminghana Railway Company Sohn Brightman, Eso., of RogcnOY-Squara, 13righton, Director of the Lsotls and Carlisle RodlWay Company, RC. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVE NI NG. OCTOBER 14 1845. D IRECT SHEFFIELD and MACCLESFIELD RAILWAY. No further Applications for Shares can be received. The Allot ment will take place immediately, and the letters be issued in a few days. By order, GEORGE P. ItIRE, Secretary. Gresham-street (late Lad-lane), Oct. 14, 1845. QOUTH . MIDLAND, or LEICESTER NORTHAMPTON, BEDFORD, and II LTNTINGDON RAILWAY. (Registered Provisionally.) Capital, 2,000,0001., in Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. COMMITTEE OF DIEECTION. GEORGE HUDSON, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Midland Railway Company, Chairman John Ellis, Esq., Beaumont Leys, Leicester gir Oswald Mosley, Bart., Rolleston Hall, Burton upon-Trent Sir Isaac Morley, Doncaster John Waddingham, Esq., Leeds William Evans Hutchinson, Esq., Leicester . Edmund Peel, Esq., Bone-hill House, Fazeley ' Ralkes Currie, Esq., M.P. for Northampton The lion. C. P. Villiers, M.P. Edward Harrison Barwell, Esq., Northampton William Gordon Thompson, Esq., 33, Glouoeeter road, Hyde Park-gardens, London Josh. Knight, Esq., Leicester. ENOINZER.—Robert Stephenson, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Berridge and Macaulay, Leicester Messrs. N. Stevens and Fearon, 1, Gray's Inn-square, Lonilo T. B. B. Stevens, Esq., Tamworth. RANKERS. Messrs. Carrie and Co., London Fare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester The Union Bank, Northampton Sicarrasv—George Newton Browne, Esq. Orncas—The Midland Railway Station, Leicester. Directors if the Midland Railway Company Directors of the South Midland Railway Company The shareholders of tke South Midland Railway Company are In formed that arrangements have been ms.de by the Committee of Management with the Board of Directors of the Midland Railway Company for carrying out the original South Midland line with the important additions of a line to Bedford and a branch to Huntingdon, the whole being consolidated in one undertaking, and placed ender the management of a joint Board of Direction composed of members of the Boards of the two Companies. The objects, therefore, embraced by the present undertaking are 1. A direct line from Leicester by way of Market Harborough to Northampton, being :he original South Midland 2. A line diverging therefrom at Market Yarborough, and passing by way of Kettering to Bedford ; and 3. A branch from the last-mentioned line, at or near Kettering, to Huntingdon. The capital at present belonging to the South Midland Company will form a portion of the consolidated capital (the remainder being contributed by the Midland Railway Company); and in order to com ply with the Standing Orders of the House of Lords, as recently altered, it is necessary that the deposit of 11. 2s. already paid on the South Midland shares should be increased to 21. 2s. It is also neces sary that the scrip should be called in and re-issued, and new Parlia mentary deeds executed. The shareholders in the South Midland Company are therefore re quired to pay, on or before the 25th day of October next, the further sum of 11. per share on the shares respectively held by them, and for this purpose to deposit with the Secretary, at the Company's offices, Leicester, the scrip now held by them, together wittran for registry and exchange in the annexed form, on or before the 18th day of October next. The requisite order to one of the Company's bankers to rece've the increased deposit will be issued within three days after the registry of the scrip, and on the production of the bankdrs' receipt and the execution of the new Parliamentary contract, the iiew scrip' der. titlcates will be issued. All scrip in respect of which the shareholders shall fail to take the necessary steps for payment of the required deposit within the specified period will be forfeited. Forms +Nf application for registry and exchange of scrip may he ob tained by applying to the Secretary, at the Company's offices. GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman, G. N. BROWSE, Secretary. Leicester, Sept. 30, 1845. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR REGISTRY AND EXCHANGE OF SCRIP. Tip the Committee of Direction of the South Midland, or Leisester, Northampton, Redford, and Huntindon Railway Company. Gentlemen,---I herewith transmit scrip for shares in the South Midland, Northampton. and Lerdester Railway Company, in respect of which I request yen to issue me new scrip in the above Company, awl I agree to pay the further deposit of 1/. per share on or before the 25th day of October instant, and to execute the new rar lismentary- Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of 1845. Name in fall ••• • .• inscription ... • tAr itiat ess in 113,11• • Itllb itito”l igedb,p in usiz . OSA, spAtsat. T HE GRANJ LONDON AND DUBLIN ATIMOXIIII,TI UN RAILWAY. Xastrick's Line, Provisionally Registered pur•ua:tt to 7th and litla Victoria, eitp. 110, sec. 4.) Designed to avoid the present circultons route, and so effect a very considerable saving, both of time and distance, between the two capitals of England and Ireland, running in a direct lino from Len don to Bangor and Holyhead, through Shrewsbury, and touching or accommodating in its route the tbllowing towns and places, namely, Rickinansworth, Chesham, Wendover, Aylesbury, Bicester, Dod .irgton, Banbury, Kineton, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, Alces :er, Broms,grove, Worcester, Kidderminster, Bridgnorth. Wonlock, hroseley, Coalbrookdale, >hrewsbury, Llan-y-mynech, Welchpool, mwestry, Llangollen, Llanrahaladr, ➢lochnant, Corwea. Pentre voelas, Capel Cerrig, Bangor, and Holyhead. Capital 6,000,0001., in 120,000 ihares of $Ol, each, Deposit 5/. ss. per Share. Temporary offices of the Company, 4, Groat Winchester-street London. niovisioNAL COMMITTAL . The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Conabanaere, Q.C.8., G.Q.M. Lord Viscount Mandeville Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P. Hon. Captain Fenton Evan Freke, 13elgraye-sqnare, Director of the Bandon and Bantry Railway Hon. Geoffrey Browne, Castle Margaret, County Mayo, Ireland Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway Sir Robert Hurray, Bart., Ardley Bury, Herts, Diroctor of the Oxford and Cambridge Ra►ilwa►y Sir Henry Winston Marron, Esq., Bart., M.P., Belmont, Ireland General Sir John F. Fitzgerald, K.C.11., Montague-street, Bryan. ston-square Col. Sir Duncan Af'Dougal, X.C.8., Eaton-square Roar-Admiral Sir Sainsbury Davenwt, K.C.11., Braman-hall Cheshire, and Weedon-luill, Bucks Sir J. Gaspard Le 3farchant, K.C.H., Cork Major-General Sir Lore Parry, Madryn Park, Carnarvon, Director of the North Wales Railway Col. Sir F. Hankey, Diroctor of Ile Direct London and Exeter Railway Sir George Rieh, Director of the Oxford. Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Brigadier-General (Or Henry Pynu. Clifford-street, Director of the London and Exeter Railway Sir James Pitcairn, Cork Sir James Eyre, Lower Brook-street Rear-Admiral Ross, C. 8., Mount Wise, Devoapert Thomas Whitmore, Esq., Apley Park, Deputy-Lieutenant of the County of Salop _ John Meredith, Esq., Hasbori Park. Magistrate for the Counties of Worcester and Salop Major-General Henry Rowdier, Sidney-terraee, Cork Captain Robert Peel Dawson, Upper rosvenor-street, and Castle- dawson, Ireland George Henry Dashwoocl, Esq., M.P., Wok. Wycomb-park, Bucks E. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square Jeremiah Filcher, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Dublin and Armagh Inland Railway the O'Gorman Mahon, Makonberg, County of Clare, Ireland Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., Bovine, King's County, Ireland, Director of the Cork and Waterford Railway The O'Mooro, Choghan Castle, High sheriff of this County of Ros- csammon Robert Hart, Esq., Dripehill-lodge, Worcester, Director of the Wor cester, Ludlow, and Tenbury, and the Great North and Soutk Wales Railways W. Hutchins, Esq., Llsaintfried-court, Monmouthshire Ckarles William Spicer, Esq., Portman-square, Director of the Ir . magh, Coleraine, and Portrush, Dublin and Armagh Inland, • Shropshire Mineral, and Direct London and Exeter Railways The Rev. C. Leicester, Whitton-hall, Magistrate for the County of Salop, Vice-Chairman of the Shropshire Mineral Railway Charles Fox, Esq., D.L., Rutland-square, Dublin. Director of the Dublin and Armagh Inland Railway William Johnson Neale, Esq., Temple Thomas Meyer Carvick. Esq., Highwood, Director of the Dublin and Armagh Railway William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., Director of the Dublikaid Gal way Railway, &c. George A. Brown, Esq., Director of the Calla* and Lima Railway William Seymour, Esq, Montague-place, Russell-square William John Macguire, Esq., Hampton Court, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Bristol Railway Pooley Shuldam Henry, D.D., C•inmissiener of the National Board of Education and Charitable Bequests, Ireland Christopher Wallis Popham, Esq., Trevarno, Cornwall, Mester of the Strabane Ship Canal Company. Robert John Lattey, Esq., Claremont-place, Grow. End-road, St John's Wood. William Ayscough Wilkinson, Esq., Woodbury Down, Middlesex, Director of the Wayeney Valley, Great Yarmouth, and Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush Railways Colonel Edward Nichols, R.M., Shooter's-kill and Coleraine, Direc tor of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Pertrush. and Sligo, and Shan non Railways Griffin Curter Galt, Esq., Charles-street, Manchester-square, Direc tor of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portruch. and Sligo and Shan non Railways Captain James Wood, R.M. Woolwich William Justin O'Driscoll, Esq., banker, Dublin Richard Edward Arden, Esq., Bedford-square, Director if the Dub _ . _ _ lin and Armagh Inland Railway Captain Rodgers, Cloyenedon-house, Loughs% Ireland John Stewart, Esq., Portman-square, Director of the Marine In surance Office Joseph Crag:, Esq., Queen -square, Bloomsbury John Andersen, Esq., Director of the South Midland Junction Rail way, &c. J. Freese, Esq., Old House, Shrewsbury G. Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton-hall, Leicestershire, Director of the Rugby and Huntingdon Railway, &c. J. M`Millas, Esq., Director of the Worcester, Rugby, and Warwick Railway - - J. Bright, Esq., M.D., Cambridge-square, London Colonel Pereira, Bengal Artillery, Great Coram-street W. Clement, Esq., Shrewsbury Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, and County Cork, Director of the Direct Western, Isle of Ely, and Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railways. Robert Remmett, Esq., Victoria-square, Grosvenor-place, Direotor of the Sovereign Insurance Office, &a. Thomas Gresham, Esq., Raheny Park, Dublin, Director of the Dun dalk and Enniskillen, and Irish North Midland Railways F. W. Heath, Esq., Armagh P. F. Pole, Esq., St. John's Grove-house, County Cork George Stevens, Esq., Oak Lodge, High Beach, Essex Edmund Mathew, Esq., Somerset-street, Forbinlt-square Thomas Dowglasse, -Esq., Marlbereugh-place, St. John's Weed, Di _ _ rector of the Direct London and Exeter Railway Major David Fitzgerald, Valentia, Ireland Wm. Sprott Boyd, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's Thomas Gulliver, Esq., Bloxham, near Banbury, Oxon, Director of the Northampton and Banbury, and Oxford and Witney Railways Wm. Gulliver, Esq., Swallcliff, near Banbury, Oxon Captain Julius Newell, R.N., United Service Club Captain Bradshaw, R.N., Hatherley-place, Cheltenham's Col. Cairnes, C. 8., Coleraine Edward King, Esq., Blackthorne, Oxfordshire Wra. H. Spicer, Esq., Portman-square George Beauclerc, Esq., Grosvenor-street West, Grosvenor-place Robert A. Riddell, Esq., Bryanston-street, Portman-square, Director of the Great Leeds and London Railway J. A. Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension, and Chester Janction Railways Major Humphreys, Miltown-house, Strabane, Ireland Capt. Thos. P. Newton, Bruton-street, Berkeley .square, and Lugwar dine, Herefordvhire,; Director of the Isle of Man, and Irish West Coast Railways The Mayor of Bridgnorth Benjamin Watts, Esq., Alderman of the Bormegh of Bridgnerth Thomas Glass, Esq. t Members of the Corporation of Bridg- Josiah Minton Giese, Esq. north Edward Richard Pratt, Esq. Samuel Ridley, Esq., Rridgnorth Edmund Riley,i Esq., Bridgnorth Henry Cane Leahy, St. James's-square, Direeter of the Sheffield, Buxton, Derby, and Manchester Railway E. S. Blundell, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square, Direc tor of the London and Exeter Railway Richard Fisher, Esq., Alcester Lodge, Warwick, Director of the War wickshire and London Extension and Worcester Junction Railway James Whitehouse, Esq., Ipsley Court, Warwick James Reading, Esq., Redditch, Worcestershire, manufacttrer George Hollyoake, Esq., Redditch. Worcestershire Christopher Royston, Esq., Redditch, Worcestershire John Onions, Esq., Broseley, ironmaster, &c., Director of the Stour kridge,Madeley, Ironbridge, and Broseley, and the Grand June ion and Cambrian Railways n Thorn, Esq., Whitehall, Broseley, Director of the Stearbridge, Madeley, Ironbridge, and Broseley, and the Grand Junction and Cambrian Railways Alexander John Gordon, Esq., Linley Hall neer Bromley Thomas Deighton, Esq., Bridgaorth Joseph Southwell, Esq. Bridgnorth, Manufacturers Willlain Southwell, Esq. William Cele, Esq., Bicester Edward Deaking, Esq., Bicester Horace Townsend, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant, Woodside, Coanty Cork W D. Freeman, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant, Castle Cor, County Cerk St. John Jeffrey, Esq., J.P., Blarney Castle, County Cork Pierce Purcell, Esq., Altemira, County Cork James Smith Barry, Esq., Lota Lodge, Cork Edward Dean Freeman, Esq.. Sandfleld, county Cork J. H. Bainbridge, Esq., Bear Forest, Mallow St. John Galway, M.D., Mallow George Washington Brazier Crearb, Esq., J.P. Creagh-castle John Carmichael, Esq., Rieerston - house, Ctek, Director of the Cork and Bandon, and Bandon and Bantry Railways P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Manchester-street, Manchester-square, Director of the Ipswich and Southampton, and Sligo and Shannon Railways W. O'Driscoll, Esq., Cliften, near Bristol The Rev. William Wilson, 8.D., Over Worton, near Deddhigton, Oxon Charles Faulkner, Esq., F.G.S., Deddington, Oxfordshire Lieutenant-Colonel Cruttenden, Balincollig William Coppiager, Esq., Barry's-tour/ W. Items, Esq., J.P., Tiamore, Cork William D. Whitehouse, Esq., Studley, Warwickshire, Director of the Warwickshire and London Extension, and Worcester Junction Railways George Wyman, Esq., Aleester, Warwickshire William Henry Rough, Eaq., Temple, Director of the Metropolitan Junction Company Edward Power, Esq., Eccleston-terrace, Eaton-square, Director of the Ipswich and Southampton Railway Colonel Henry Duadas Campbell, North-end-house, Portsmouth, Deputy-Lieutenant of the Comity of Hants, Director of the Direct Western Railway William lorns, Esq., Bloxham Henry Watsos, Esq., High Sheriff of the City of Limerick Robert Baugh Blakemore, Esq., Shrewsbury, Director of the Shrews bury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Railway . • • Henry Keats, Esq., liihrewsbury 1 Directors of the Birmin g h am ai d Isaac Taylor, Esq., ditto, Brighton Railway Major-General Turner, Commander of the Cork District Lieut-Colonel Westropp, J.T., Cork Major North Ludlow Beamish, 1.R.5., Ballincurrig, 'ear Dtiglas, Cork Joseph Leycester, Esq., Cork Matthew I'ierrpoint, Esq., Crow's Nest, Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Worcester, and Director of the Rugby, Derby, Man chester, and Welsh Midlas , l Railways John Rowlands, Esq., Tallyyin, Aterienetb. Director of tke Great - North and South Wales Railway George Paul, Esq., banker, 217, Strand Morgan Culhane, Esq., M.D., Worthing, Sussex Charles Thelluson, Esq., Sommer-lodge, Worthing, Sussex James Thomas Thompson, Esq., 33, Gloacester-road, Hyde Park gardens John Green, Esq., Hales Owen. magistrate for the county of Worcester George Gun Hay, Esq., 127, Sloane-street, Director of the Medical Invalid Insurance Office J. M. Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn, Director of the Derbyshire, . cester, and Stafford, and Direct Western Railway Joseph FarmerlEsq., Mayor of Bewdley John Bedoe, Esq., merchant, Bewdley Tames F. Sugrue, Esq., merchant, Cork Wm. John O'Connell, Esq., 32, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square John Mathew, Esq.. Gray's Inn-sqaare, London Colonel G. Fitch, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and the Tork and Lancaster Railways W. Wyse, Esq., The Manor, Waterford W. K. Rodgers, Esq., late High Sherif of the batty of Cork, and Di rector of the Cork and Passage Railway Pierce Nagle, Esq., Anakissy, Doneralle, London George Hall, Esq., Bridgnorth John Phillips, Esq., Bridgnorth William Lumley Perrier, Esq., Bellaire, Cork Joel Smith, Esq., -, Walsal, Staffordshire Edward Canning, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon Thomas Ashmead Perry, Esq., Stratf or d_ on _A vem Samuel Hayward, Esq., New Town Cottage, Stratford-on-Avon (With power to add to their number). COUNSEL IN IINGLAND. Mr. Sergeant Allen, Sergeant's Inn ; W alter M'Griger, Esq., Lin coln's-Inn. COUNSEL IN IRELAND—Joseph Napier, Esq., Q.C. ENGINEER IN CHIEF—J. U. BASITICk, Bg. ACTING ENGINEERS. W. Maekenele, Esq., C.E. ; J. W. Baealgette, Beg., C.E. SOLICITORS. In London—Messrs. Ogle and Tennghusband, 4, Great Winchester street, London In Ireland—John Canning, Bssi., el, Nor* (treat Geerje•street, Dublin. RANYINDI. Messrs. Masterman, ?eters, and Co. the ;Landon and Westminster Bank. SECRETARIES IN Etc:adorn —H. Newell, Esq., and Henry Cowper, E:q. SECRETARY IN IRELAND—Frederick Frauds Pole, En., SI, North Great George-street, Dublin. PARLIAMINTAIT AtliNTg. liugh Innes Cameron and George Bain. Bagre., Is, Parliament street, London. I. It. L. Walt=ley, Esq., North-street, Westminster. PROSPECTUS. The imperative necessity, alike in a social, commercial, or political point of view, for drawing as closely together as possible the capitals •f England and Ireland, has suggested the formation of the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railway, —a line, the value of which it is difficult te ever estimate, since it will be found t• take a nearly direct course from tha English 'metropolis to Holyhead. It will pass through or near the populous and noble county town of Shropshire (as ye tunprovided with railway communication), and will traverse along its whole extent districts second in wealth, re sources, trade, and commerce, to none in the empire ; bringing them mom nearly and Immediately is contact with London and Dublin, than has hitherto Teen tiv,r,ght possible. This project is wholly in dependent of any other line already before the public, and as it possesses national advantages wh!ch nose can surpass, must, when Carried gait, become, wr.:43ov texcapticm the most important railway eireankitaln. 012 h of the Int objects fettle Cetavfaly wil; lto tb obt4 a ifoit William SPOener, Esq., of Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the Newcastle and Liverpool Railway Company Alexander Greig, Esq., of Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway Captain Tzophimus Hodges, ef 65, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Part, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Company George Parbnry, Esq., of 37, Rassell-square, Director of the Manches ter and Rugby Railway Company Thomas Henry Evans, Esq., of Lothbury, Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway Company Benjamin Franklin, Esq., of 5, Harley-street Rev. F. N. Hall, P.D., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridgeshire Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire Henry Morley, Esq., of Midhurst, Sussex C. A. Tulk, Esq., of Totteridge Park, Herta James Peard Ley, Esq., Seyton Ironworks, Whitehaven John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., of 150, Piccadilly Colonel Nicholls, Shooters-hill, Woolwich Griffin Curtis Galt, Esq., Charles-street, Manchester-square P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., 8, Manchester-street, Manchester-square Rev. William Watkins, of Chichester, Rector of Racton Abraham Duke, Esq., Chichester C. D. Archibald, Esq., F.R.S., York-terrace, Regent's-park John Weston, Esq., 28, Woburn-square Joseph Bulkeley Johnson, Esq., of 10, Coleman-street, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries Railway H. R. Downman, Esq., of 47, Upper Bedford-place, Director of the Cambrian and Grand Junction Railway David Mountague, Esq., of Regent's-park W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Ludgate-hill, Director of the Waveney Valley Railway Company James Gernon, Esq., of 13, Conduit-street, Director of the Londia and Nottingham Railway Company James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton Rev. Cecil Greene, A.M. of Midhurst Rev. Charles Edward T wyford, of Trotton Rectory, Sussex Major James Adair, Director of the Church of England Insurance Company Captain Charles Frederick Parkinson, of Manchester, Directer ef the Manchester and Southampton Railway, Managing Director of the West Lancashire Railway, and of the Manchester, Wigan, and Southport Railway Robert Sykes, Esq., of Manchester, Director of the Clitheroe Junc tion Railway John Clark Prescott, Esq., of Manchester, Director of the Oxford, Southampten, and Gosport Railway, and if the Macclesfield sad Rugby Rail way Henry Farrington, Esq., of Manchester, Director of the Wigan and Southport Railway, and of the York and Lancaster Railway Josephus Harney Iligson, Esq., of Manchester, Director of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway, and of the Manchester and Rugby Railway Rev. H. R. Fowler, 7, Manchester-square James Brand, Esq, 9, New Broad-street, City Edward Chapman, Esq., Gibson-square, Islington E. T. Grundy, Esq., Rusholme, near Manchester Thomas B. Sands, Esq., the Hamlet, Liverpool Daniel Grant, Esq., ef Springside, Bury, Lancaster, Director of Rens ington's Direct London and Manchester Railway, and if the Liverpool, Manchester, and Neweastle-upon-'ry - ne Junction Railway Thomas Townend, Esq., of the Polygon, Manchester, Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway John Burgess, Esq., of Manchester, Boroughreeve of Manchester, Director ef the Lendon and Manchester Direct Railway Company, and of the Manchester, Burnley, Settle, and Carlisle Direct Railway James Shaw, Esq., of Salford, Lancashire, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Railway George Ashlin, Esq., 50, Mark-lane Edward Parrett, Esq., Sutton, Romford Rev. W. S. Richards, of Terwick Rectory, near Midhurst John Amos, Esq., of Willow Bank, Lower Broughton, Manchester John Stoveld, Esq., Stedham Hall, near Midhurst Captain Ewbank, jun., United Service Club, Director of the Shrop shire Mineral Railway Company John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire, Director of the Shropshire Kineral Railway Company, and the Staffordshire Midland Junction J. W. Newcombe, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, and Langley-field Iron-works, Dawley, Salop Frank D. Bullock Webster, Esq., Brentbridge House, Hendon, Mid dlesex, Director of the New River Company Charles Halsted, Esq., Chichester Colonel Sir R. Doherty, Senior United Service Club, Sub-Governor of St. Vincent's Major O'Doherty, King-street, St. James's Captain Hozeaton, R.N., 7, Stafford-street, Albemarle-street William Birmingham Costello, Esq., Wyke House, Isleworth, Direc tor of the London and Exeter Railway Company Stephen Knowles, Esq., Bridge-street, Exeter, Director of the Exeter, Topsham, and Exmouth Railway Henry Paxton, Esq., West Dean, Chichester Andrew Clark, Esq., of Adelaide -place and Camberwell, Deputy Chairman of the Licensed Victuallers' and General Fire and Life Assurance Company John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New Hall, Cheshire, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead, the Staffordshire Potteries Railway Company, &c. Charles Waite, Esq., 3, Old Burlington-street, and Wellesden, Mid dlesex Edward Bold, Esq., 3lillbrook, Southampton Mr. John Biflin, Chichester Edward Leach, Esq., Chichester James Lersingham Jellicoe, Esq., 5. Wimpole-street Major Croft, Chichester Thomas Sanctuary, Esq., Kidlington, Oxfordshire Allen Duke, Esq., Chichester, surgeon Mr. William Norman, Chichester Mr. William Brooks, Chichester Mr. James Athey, Chichester J. A. Burness, Esq., 64, Comhill Caleb Norris, Esq., Lancaster-place, Strand, Director of Windsor, Slough, and Staines Railway Company Captain Patrick Alexander Reynolds, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park Captain F. Bayly Wardroper, Baker-street, Portman-square John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Royd, Halifax, Deputy-Lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire James Reeves, Esq., Leyton, Essex John George Hammack, Esq. Essex House, Bow, Director of the Direct Western Railway Joseph Bishop, Esq. Director of the Blackwell Railway Pnilip Baker, Esq. Euston-square John Webster, Esq. 35, Mecklenburg-square, Director of the Great Grimsby and Lincoln Railway Major Cocker, Junior United Service Club The names of other noblemen and gentlemen will appear In a further advertisement, whose support has been promised to the un dertaking. COMMITTEE or MANAGEMENT. Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Chairman Robert Chapman, Esq., Vice-Chairman Samuel Brown, Esq. Wm. B. Hughes, Esq., M.P. Joseph Scales, Esq. H. R. Downman, Esq. John Parkinson, Esq. David Montague, Esq. Edward Parratt, Esq. Thomas Stevenson, Esq. NANKEEN. London—The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury Chichester—Messrs. Dendy, Comper and Co., and The London and County Banking Company Rochester—Messrs. Day and Nicholson Riegate —Messrs. Nash and Neale Portsmouth and Portsea—National and Provincial Rank of England, and Messrs. Grants, Gilman and Long Manchester and Liverpool—The Manchester and Liverpool Dis trict Bank Petworth—John Stoveid. Esq. ENGINEERS—MeSgrS. Drays° n, - of 2, Palace-yard, Westminster. SOLICITORS TO Tux COMPANY—Messrs. rontifex and lloginie, 6. St. Andrew's-court, Holborn-hill, London. - - LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. Rhoades and Greene, solicitors, Chichester Thomas Hart, Esq., solicitor, Reigate William Minchin, Esq., solicitor. Portsea and Portsmouth Thomas Hill, Esq., solicitor, Chatham Daniel Smart, Esq., solicitor, Emsworth Edwin Albery, Esq., solicitor, Midhurst Thomas Holmes Bosworth, Esq., solicitor, Westerhans. William Kin, Esq., Godalming Arthur Daintry, Esq., Petworth SECRETARY—Mr. John C. Sommers. In subhaitting this undertaking to the public, the promoters are influenced no less by a conviction of its importance as a direct con necting line between the important towns of Chichester and Ports mouth and the metropolis, than by its grand national importance in affording a direct communication between the two great naval aid military arsenals of Great Biltain —Portsmouth and Chatham. The projected undertaking', by proceeding to the two termini at Chichester and Portsmouth, will extend the facilities of communica• tion with the coast branches of railways along the south of England, connecting itself with Brighton to the eastward, and Southampton towards the west. By the main line falling into the Brighton Rail way the advantage of two termini in London will be secured—the one at the Bricklayers' Arms, and the other at London-bridge—the latter of which, from its proximity to the Custom Howse, and the several docks on the Thames, is acknowledged to be the best position for a London terminus for merchandise of all descriptions. The line of railway intended to be constructed by this Company will commence at or near the Redhill station near Reigate, on the Lon don and Brighton Railway, a distance of 21 miles front London bridge. _ _ In its course to Portsmouth it will pass through or near Reigate, Newdlgate, Capel, Ockley, Ewhurst, Rtigwick, Cranley, Alfold, 11111inghurst, Wisborough-green, Plaistow, Haslemere, Chiddingfeld, North Chapel, Kirdford, Petworth, Midhurst, Chilgrove, Stoughton, Racton, Westbourne, and Emsworth, at or near which last •mentioned place this projected line will join the Chichester and Portsmouth Rail way- to Portsmouth. At the earnest recommendation of some of the principal land owners, branches are proposed to be made to Godalming and Peters field. The branch to Godalming will he from a point in the main line between Plaistow and North Chapel ; and the branch from Petersflsld will join the main line at a point between Ilidhurst and Bepton. These extensions of this undertaking have rendered an in crease necessary in the amount of the capital originally fixed on ; but from the increased accommodation which these branches will afford, the promoters of the undertaking feel confident that a com mensurate profit will result to the shareholder. A branch is proposed to bo made from Dorking to join Le main line at or near Capel. By this course the entire distance to travel between London and Portsmouth will be abridged to 73 miles, a distance considerably shorter than that by which any line hitherto projected between London and Portsmouth has proposed t• pass, and also pursuing a route more populous and productive than any hitherto presented to public notice. It will involve the construction of only 45 miles of railway to complete the course between the Redhill station (near Reigate) and Emsworth. From London to Reigate by the London and Brighton Railroad is .....................• .• • • .............. 21 miles. The junction to be mad. by this Company is From the point near Emswerth to Portsmouth by the Chichester and Portsmouth Railway is .. Total distance from London to Portsmouth.. ••.. .• .. 73 miles. From Chllgrove a line of seven miles will be constructed, and which will place Chichester in direct communication with London. The distance between Chichester and London by this route will be 62 miles. Trains will run direct between London and Chichester, without stopping at Chilgrove. Inasmuch as the existing line of railway to Dover branches off item the London and Brighton Railroad at Reigate, this projected Hite will open up a communication by ra il road between Ports mouth And Dover. From an inspection of the map, it will be seen that the Redhill station, near Reigate, lies nearly in a direct line between Po mouth and Chatham, and in pursuing the line of communication to the last-mentioned naval and military depot, this line win, through or near to the towns of Bletehingley, Godston, Lirnpelletd, Westerham, Seven Oaks, Ightham, Town Melling, Wrotham, Oty. ham, Snodland, Lower Hailing , a nd Weuldh am. the v i B l 2 ne monfeo railroad between Portsmouth and The distance between Chatham and Reigate will involve th e making of 31 m c i l l i e a s th o a f m ral w l • To the naval and military establishments of this kin g do m the construction of this projected line will afford the most important fa cilities in the transit of troops, stores , baggage, k c. c., diminishin g fir e d it ' t e a n n a d o over the tardy course of communication which at present necessarily exists between Portsmouth and Chatham, at present usuall y extend ing over the space of two days, and placing com munication with each ether whieh, in two hours, or thereabout, will enable the journey between them to be made. The formation of a direct line of railway between Portsmouth and Chatham will afford the opportunity of establishing , by the electric telegraph, that celerity of communication so important to be obtained between places of national importance. The warm support of the principal landowners en the seater part of the line is pledged to this undertaking. The Previsional Committee abstain from making any special re ference to the contemplated profit to result from carrying into effect this undertaking, feeling convinced that the extent of traffic through the populous and rich districts over which this line and its branches are projected to pass is sufficiently known, and is decisive of the inutility of all comment in that respect. Applications for the shares, in the form given below, to be made to the Solicitors and Local Agents, or to any of the following Brokers :—Messrs. R. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, Royal Exchange, London ; Mr. PI. Pritchett, of No. 74, Old Broad-street ; Mr. Munday, I, Royal Exchange-buildings ; Messrs. Neilson, sharebrokers, Liverpool ; John Dunettft, Esq., sharebroker, Manchester; Mr. R. M'Ewen, IS, St. Ann's-street, M anchester ; John Watson, Esq., sharebroker, Leeds ; Messrs. Ridsdale, My ers , and Bailey, brokers, Leeds ; Messrs. Schultz and Carr, brokers, Li verpool; Messrs. Hope and Rastrick, brokers, Manchester Measec Tyeth and Luscombe, stockbrokers, Plymouth:; Messrs. George Ed wards and Son, Bristol ; Messrs. Watson and Co., Hull ; Messrs. Pott and Leviek, Nottingham ; and Messrs. Collis and Son, Birmingham. FORM OF APPLICATIONS FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct London, PertsmOuth, and Chichester, and Direct Portsmouth and Chatham Railway Company. shares et 501. each in the I request you wilt allot to me above named Company, and I !hereby undertake to accept the same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the de posit of 21. Ss. on each such share, and to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement as may be required of lie. Dated this day of 1845. Usual signature ...... .............. Profession or Trade • • • • • • • Place of Business (if any) Reference ...• ••..• • • • ••• • . •• .. Residence of Reference N.B. No appli ca ti on will be attended to except with a reference to a wm ba e nker, or fro m an applicant referring to. and who is known by of the Provisional Committee-or the solicitors, or local Melts. Jam, IITRECT LONDON, CHICHESTER PORTSMOUTH, AND 4WD 111 "MC T PORTSMOUTH AND to tothrin th blic that after CHATHAM RAILWAY COMPANY. The Committee of Management bee SATI7XDAY, the 18th day of October instant, poi ,:" T tr er applications for shares in this Company will be received, except from "w ean ,. locally interested ; and that after WanszsDAY, the 22 , 1 October instant, , h 0 Willer applications for shares trona applicants locally intereslett in ilitilAdertaking will be received. • • ItONITFEX and Idoctuar. 5, St Altdr;*i.etnizt, Holborn, gOttirs.to nOVER and BRISTOL RAILWAY in continuation of the South-Eastern Railway, from Reigate •o Bristol. Upon the Narrow Gauge. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,500,0001., in 75,000 Shares, of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. paovistortax. COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Warwick, Warwick Castle The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor the Right non. Lord Charles Beauclerc, Chesham-placO, Belgrave square The Right Hon. Lord Suffield, Gunton-park, Norfolk The Right. Hon. Lord Sussex Lennox, Piccadilly The Right Hon. Lord Alfred Paget, M.P., Uxbridge Home Count Bathyany, Audiey-square The Hon. William M. Dawson, Parkstone Lodge, Poole, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway The Hon. Edward Stafford Jerningham, Director of the London and Nottingham Vailway Lieut.-Col. the Ilon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Director of the East and West Junction Railway, and of the Brighton and Cheltenham Di rect Railway The Right Worshipful the Mayor of Bristol George Woodruffe Franklyn, Esq. } Late Mayors of Bristol John Kerie Haberfield, Esq. Major-General W. Innes, C.D., Bath Sir William B. Johnston, Bart., Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Railway Admiral Ayscough, Prospect-place-house, Southampton, Director of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, and South and Midland Railway Ldmiral Sir George Sartorius, Director of the Direct Northern, Eastern, and Western Junction Railway Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Director -of the York and Lancaster Railway William Collins, Esq., M.P., Warwick Colonel Edward Stopford, 9, Manchester-square ♦. K. Baker, Esq., Longford-house, Cheltenham Directors of the John W. Hughes, Esq., Gloucester Bristol and Bir- George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, minghtuu Railway The Worshipful the Mayor of Dever The Won hlpful the Mayor of Bath The Worshipful the Mayor of Delizes William Kay, Esq M.D., Clifton Thomas Camplin, Esq. director of the Argus Aldermen of Bristol Life Assurance Company . . John George 31ogg, Es.l. Manor-house, Farrington, Gurney, near Bristol, Magistrate far the county of Somerset William Kingsrnill, Esq. Sidmonton, Hants, Magistrate and Deputy lieutenant of the county of Southampton John Bates, Esq. Bristol, director of the West of England Bank John Hippesley, Esq. Stone Easton, near Bath, Magistrate for the county of Somerset James Crang, Esq., Timsbury, near Members of the Provisional Bristol Committee of the Bath, Robert Francis Wright, Esq, Wells, and Exeter Junctioi James Perrins, Esq. Temple Cloud, Railway near Bristol Edmund Flßingham King, Esq., banker, Grantham, Director of the Vale of Belvoir Railway Philip Jones, Esq., merchant, Keynsham and Bristol Lieut.-Colonel William Swinton, Bath Francis Yerbury, Esq., Bath, and Belcome-house, Bradford, Wilts J. H. Wadham Pigott Smyth Pigott. Zsq., Brockley-hall, Som reel shire Daniel Naval*, Esq. Edward Poole, Esq. Town Councillors of Doves William Henry Payn, Esq. Edward Seward, Esq., The Rev. Just Henry Alt, Enford, Wilts, Director of the Manches ter, Southampton, and Poole Railway Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., Rusland-hall, Lancashire, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood-house, Leeds, Director of the Lancashire and North Yorkshire, and North Eastern Railways George Addison, Esq., Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leede Direct Railway John Anderson, Esq., London, Director of the Tring, Readlag, and Basingstoke Railway Joseph Acton, Esq., J.P., Wigan, Direeter of the Manchester and Wigan Railway William Ascroft, Esq., the Willows, Bury, Director of the Stafford shire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway Joseph Austin, Esq., Heddingley-hill, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway William Ackroyd, Esq., Westbonrne Lodge, Ottley, Yorkshire, 1): rector of the East and West Yorkshire, the Midlands and Thirek Junction, and Leeds and Tork and Midland Junction James Beech, Esq., Grosvenor-place, and Brandon, Warwickshire, Director of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire, Director of the South Union William Gabbett Beare, Esq., Porchester-place, Connaught-square, Director of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway Sohn Boulton, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham, Lich fold, and Manchester Railway Thomas Byrom, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manchester and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railways George Brown, Esq., Twining-park, Worcestershire Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool aid Leeds Direct Railway Robert Bell, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Junction, and London and Nottingham Railways Robert S. Butterfield, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Lukeßutler, Esq., Alderman, Dublin, Director, of_ the Galway and Kilkenny, and Cork and Waterford Railways - William Clode Braddon, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton Chrlstepher Bentham, Esq., Birkenhead, Director of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, and of the North and South Wales Bank William Byrom . ,_ Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham Districts, the Liverpool,..Preston, and North Union Junction, and the Birken head and Holyhead Junction Railways Joseph Charies.Cohen, Esq., merchant, Birmingham John James Conway, Esq., Liverpool John Carmichael, Esq., Cork, Director of the Cork and Waterford Railway William Henry Collis, Esq., flandsworth, Staffordshire, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway Thomas Cocksey, Esq., Atherton and Bolton, Director of the Han cheater and Wigan Railway William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., Hull, Director of the Rugby, War wick, and Leamington Railway William Clifford Esq Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern - Counties Railway William Caldwell, Esq., Alderman, Ince-hall, Wigan, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway Henry Coe Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Essex, Directrs. of the Man chester, Oxford, and Southampton Junction Railway John Townshsnd Compton, Esq., Wedhampton, Wilts, Director ef the Manchester, Southampton, and Poole Railway Captain F. Chamfer, Halkin-street, Itelgraye-square, Director of the Fampoux and flazebrouck Railway Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse Bradford, Magistrate for Wilts and Somerset John Campbell Dickers, Esq., New Hall, Weston, Cheshire, Director of the Rirkenheasi and Holyhead, and the Rugby, Derby, and Man chester Railways Seignley Thomas Cuthbert, Esq., Clifton Thomas Davies, Esq., the Austin, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Di rector of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway W. T. S. Daniel, Esq., Recorder of Ipswich Miles Dormer, Esq., 'London, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Coast Railway John Doughill, Esq., Lockwood, Huddersfield Joseph Dawson, Esq., merchant, Lambeth Thomas H. Evans, Esq., Mayor of Carnarvon Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and Kirby Dale, Yorkshire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham, Director oft e Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the LiTerpool and Leeds Direct Railway William Edwards, Esq., Aston Furnaces, Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway Francis Ewalt Esq., Temple, Director of the Great Leeds and Lon don Direct, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Rail ways Captain Gustavus Evans, R.N., Ileadly-groTo, Reigate John Finnis, Esq. ' merchant, Dover Charles Fitzgerald, Esq., Charles-street, at. James's, Director of the London and Nottingham Railway Webster Flockton, Esq., Weybridge, Surrey Bell Fletcher, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway _ _ Thomas FORlott Powell. Esq., lith Lancers, Lucan-house, Ripon, Yorkshire Benjamin Franklin, Esq., 6, Harley-street, Cavendish-u:lam Di rector •f tho Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway William Tulloh Fraser, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director •f the Dorking, Brighton, and Arundel Railway Charles Hay Frewen, Esq. ' Brickwall, Northiam, Sussex William Fitzgibbon, Esq., 21, Cambridge-street, Connaught-square, Director of the Cork and Passage and Cork And Bandon Railways Major Grubbe, Eastwell-house, magistrate for Wilts William Gambier, Esq.,Sacombe-park, Hertz Cl;; Gould, Charles-street, St. James's George Frederick Gregory, Esq., Seacombe, Cheshire, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway !Teary Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the South Stafford shire Junction, the Derby and Crewe, the Macclesfield and Lich field, end the Leicester and Tamworth Railways John Griffith Frith, Esq., merchant, Austin-friars, Chairman of the Londonderry and Coleraine Railway James Gernon, Esq., Conduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, Manchester, Oxford, and South ampton, and Cheltenham and Brighton Railways William, Gatliff, Esq., merchant, Leeds, Director of the West York shire Railway Joseph Gill, Esq , Potter Newton Mount, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York and Midland Junction Railway John Hall, Esq., Mull, Director of the Hull and York Railway William Holliday,. Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Director of the Birmingham, Lichfield. and Manchester Railway Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth and South Staffordshire Junction Railways William Wilkes Hill, Esq., Beeston Hall, Leeds Lewis Hoffman, -Eta., Temple, Director of the Nottingham and South Staffordshire Railway James Inglis, Esq., M.D., Halifax, Director of the Manchester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction, and the London, Holyhead, and Fortdynllaen Railways Junction, Surrey, Director of th e ction, and the Lynn, John Johnson, Esq., R.N., Birmingham Worcester-park , Brightenc ester beach, and Peterborough and Midland Counties' Railways Kensington John Lowe, Esq., Norfolk Crescent, Hyde -park e ln li gt en . li n am L , ew o l lr E d El and William Phillips Lamb, Esq., Ockham House, Sussex Edward Augustus Lamb, Esq., Westfield, Battle, Sussex, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway Damton LuTton, Esq , Potter Newton Hall, Mayor of Leeds, Direc tor of the Leeds and York, and Wakefield and Bradford Railways Sir William Lowthrop, Knt., Hull, Director of the Leeds, Hudders field, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Direct Railway John Lord, Esq., Standish Hall, Lancashire, Director of the Black burn, Chorlex, Wigan. and North Union Junction Railway, and of the Staffordshire Potteries, and Manchester and Liverpool Direct Railway James Lamb, Esq., 35, Hyde Park-square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Rowland Mackenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Railways Thomas Gibbon Moneypenny, Esq., Hole-park, Rolvenden, Kent Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the Brighton and Chel tenham Direct Railway James Joseph M'Swiney, Esq., Sandal View, Wakefield, Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway 3. Mee Mathew, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commissioner, Director of Ike Worcestershire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire Railway Captain Macdougall, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Read ing, Guildford, and Reigate Railway John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetter-house, Atherstone, Director of the Teen and Dove Valley, and South Staffordshire Junction Railways Joseph Norton, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield, Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford Union Railway, and the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway George Parburf, E 8.1., Mansfield House, Russell-square, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway W i l lia m nd Peppe lway rcorns. Esq.. Bexhill, Susarox, Director of the West Rai Captain Thomas Ross, 58, Porch ester-terrace,Director of the Direct Northern, Eastern, and Western Junction Railway William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the London and Nettin - Alexander Prince, Esq., London, Director of the Cheltenham,g Ox ford, and Brighton Railway harn Railway George Ewing Scott, Esq. Stoke Bishop, near Bristol Thomas Stocker, Ra Eilsqway lves, Director of th e Wisbeack Ives, and Cambridge Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-tense, Director O f the Lynn, Wisbeach, Peterborough, &C., Railway William Spooner, Esq., London, Director of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool, Manchester, and New castle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway Henry Scott, Esq., 17, Pall-mall S. B. Sichell, Esq., merchant, Bradford, Director of the Leeds, Tork, and Midland Junction Railway George Turner, Esq., Hunton Hill, Erdington, Director of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway Henry Taylor, Res.,Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manche s t er and Wigan, an the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Haueddersfield Manchester, Junction Railways Wm Geor i g a e m Turt• Tink n er , Southampton, and Poole Railway George Thomas Thompson, Bsq., Dover, Coroner ter the Cinqns g E g iq. B , ag Co d n e oc n I, °d l g ir e hts C , la D y i t r o ec n t W or es o t i Ports John Thompson, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, Director of the Birkhen head and Holyhead Railway, of the Manchester and Wigan Rail way. and Liverpool, Presto n , an d N or th U n ion Junction Railway John Taylor, Esq., Bull, Director of th e Li nc olnshire and Eastern Counties Railway ames Upfill, Esq., The Green, Herefordshire, Direeter of the Staf fordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway 3eorge Unett, Esq., The Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Direc tor of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway, and the Lynn, Wisbsach, and Peterborough Railway Thomas Rolman trpfill, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the EirMIXE. ham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing stoke Railway Walter Unett, Esq., Captain 3d Light Dragoons, Maidstone, Director of the Nottingham and South Staffordshire, and the Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough Railways Reyden Watts, Esq., M.D.. Birmingham, Metter of the sagas Lincoln. Louth, and Great Grimsby Railway W akifieltr Esi;:-Londen,'Director of the Nottin g ha m and 144. 1 m al ll:4rluiNtlift.rdsal• Ok umacia :Tiir. ltail ltirm as w4 ttw. o41 Y han4 Director of ektefFilishire gati 'lnitial. Eel.) VoYet 1 .. _ .. ....; ~. John Wheelten, Esq., Meopham Bank, near Tunbridge, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Sir William White, Director of he Stafford, Uttoxeter, and Derby Railway J. W. Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe-house, Wilts, Capt. 3d. Light Dra goons, Director of the Direct Western Railway. Lodge Morris Murray Prior, Esq., 19th Lancers, Coventry, Director of the Dublin, Tullamore, and Parsonstown Railway Edward Knight, Esq., 31. D., Stafford, Director of the Grand Junction and Midlands' Union Railway William Henry Skaltou, Esq., Shadwell, near Leeds Charles William Reynolds, Esq., Captain 16th Lancers, 3laldstone, Director of the Worcester, Warwick and Rugby Railway Thomas 13ramall, Elm., Mayor of Tamworth, Deputy Chaiman of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway Richard Hughes, Esq. ' Stafford, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway Henry Wenman Newman, Esq., Thornbury-park, near Bristol, De puty-Lieutenant of Gloucesterschire, and magistrate of Gloucester shire and Bristol. Charles Bales, Esq., Richmond-court, Clifton David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Liverpool, Man chester, and Warrington, and the Worcester and Leominster Baßway Benjamin Swan, Esq.. Weymouth and Jermyn-street Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., Lillingston Dayrell, High Sheriff of Bucks, and Director of the 31inehead and Bridgewater Railway John James Rippon, Esq., Ealing, Middlesex, Director of the Bir mingham, Westbromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall Junction Railway Stephen Mills, Esq., Elstone-house, Wilts Major Buttenshaw, Bath John Ellershaw, Esq., Grove-house, Searcroft, near Leeds Major W. James, Saltford-house, near Bath, Magistrate far Somer. setshire Robert Bell, Esq., Norris Castle, Isle of Wight. Samuel Perrin', Esq., Temple Cloud, near Bristol CONSULTING ENGINEER— Ann,. ENGINEER —Edgard James Maude, Esq., C.D. RANKERS. Londes—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.; the Union lank Rristal..-Stuckey's Banking Company Bath—West of England and South Wales District Bank Bradford and Trowbridge—The Wilts aad Dorset Banking Company Dever—Messrs. Latham and Co. JOINT SOLICITORS. Edwin Smith, Esq. and Messm Lewis aad Ford, London ; Edwa r Barges, Esq., Bristol. . LOCAL IrOLICITORS. G. F. Thompson, Esq., Dever ; Henry Gilbert, Esq., Devizes; W It. Reece, Esq., Birmingham ; Messrs. Timbrall and 31eyrick Bradford and Trowbridge ; Messrs. Taylor, Kamp, and Kingston Bath ; Joseph Charles Shebbeare, Esq., Basingstoke Messrs. Hoffman and Son, Reading Thomas Lamb, Esq , Andover Messrs. J. and W. Rees Mogg, Cholyre% near Beth PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—Cadwallader F. Waslay, ESQ. SEcurrAair--Charles Martin, Esq. This Company has been formed for the purpose of constructing a line in continuation of the South-Eastern Railway at Reigate, whereby a direct junction will be effected between the whole of the south-eastern coast, including the port and harbour of Dover and the several port 4 and towns of Southampton, Gosport, Fortstnouth, and Bristol ; and, by means of the Bristol and Birmingham Railway, wit k Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham, Blanchester, Liverpool, and the north of England. From its proximity to the Continent, the pert of Dover will always be the most accessible point of the English coast; an expeditious communication therefore between that and the other ports, harbours, and inland:towns of the United Kingdom, must necessarily be regarded as a great national advantage. Dover is at present the chief port of embarkation for Calais, Boulogne, Ostend, and other continental towns, and the vast numbers already resorting there both on business and pleasure, will be im measurably increased when the railways of France, Belgium, Hol land, and Germany are fully brought into operation. In addition to which, the Government Commissioners having selected Dever as a Harbour of Refuge, and recommended the outlay them • of 1,500,0001., it cannot fail of becoming a place of the greatest resort for the shipping and commercial interests of the eine try, and perhaps the most important town on the southern coast. In every point of view, therefore, whether for national security, or for travelling excursions, or the invaluable interests of our shipping and commerce, the paramount importance of a cheaper, more conve nient, and accelerated intercourse between this great port and all parts of the kingdom, must be sufficiently obvious. This the pro moters fully anticipate will be attained by the proposed railway, which will form a portion of a grand trunk line, completing this chain of railway communication upon the narrow gauge between the south-eastern coast, and Bristol and the western, northern, and mid land counties. The lime will commence at the terminus of the South-Eastern Rail way at Reigate, proceed thence by Dorking, Godalming, Farnham, and Odiham to the Basingstoke station, en the South-Western Rail way. It will then proceed by Andover towards Devizes, Trow bridge, and Bradford, with a branch to Bath, and pursuing its course through the Somersotshire coal-field, throwing off a branch towards Radstock into the heart of the collieries, terminate in a junction with the Bristol and Birmingham Railway at Bristol. By its course through Dorking, Godalming, Farnham, and Odi ham, it will supply the railway accommodation so much required by those towns, and connect the rich and fertile hop districts of Surrey, Kent, and South Hants, and afford the means of conveyance of their produce to the great Hop-fair at Weyhill. By its junction with the contemplated " Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway," it will afford to the inhabitants of Reading, Oxford, and to the midland counties generally, t h e best and shortest mute to the Continent, as well as to Worthing, Hastings, Brighton, and the other watering-places in Sussex and Kent; and a vast increase of e w f illN England accomplished bythe visitors will undoubtedly be attracted to those places from the interior by accomthmisodanatdiotnhe proposed railway from Beading.and facilities for travelling which By its intersection of the South-Western Railway at Basingstoke, and of the proposed Manchester and Southampton Railway farther west, the present line will connect Dover towards the south, with Southampton (the packet station for the East and West Indies, &c.), Gosport, and Portsmouth, and towards the north, with Cheltenham, Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool, also with Shrewsbury, Chester, and Holyhead, and in fact with the whole of North and South Wales. _ _ At Basingstoke, also, this line will join the proposed London, Salis bury, and Yeovil Railway, and throw open to Dover and the south eastern counties the populous and wealthy cities of Salisbury and Exeter, the rich agricultural counties of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, and Devon, the ports of Plymouth, DCYollpOrt, and Falmouth, and the mineral regions of Cornwall. To Devizes, Trowbridge, Bradford, and Bath, and the other towns in the vicinity of its course, the benefit which this line will confer cannot be too highly estimated; to the coal districts of Somerset shire it will open large and constant markets both in Bristol and to the south and east, while to the inhabitants of Bristol especially, con necting its channel with the Straits of Dover and the Downs, pro viding a perfect line for telegraphic communication, and securing to them the whole of the trade between the south-east of England and the west and south of Ireland, it seems difficult, considering the enor mous traffic which must necessarily flow to that city, to conceive a project more deserving of their cordial support. In the memorable Parliamentary contest last session between two great rival companies, the Legislature for the first time admitted that principle of competition with existing interests which was claimed by the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Company for the protection and benefit of the public; and it is with no fear of the result that the promoters of the present undertaking invite attention to one distinguishing feature it contains, viz., that by the construction of the line from Bristol to Basingstoke, the Sox Tunnel will be avoided, and a new and independent communication will be established between Bristol and London, by a shorter line on the narrow gauge than by the devious course of the Great Western, inde pendently of all the advantages of the proposed central station at Hungerford-bridge, and the convenient access to the Thames both there and at Nine Elms, over the distant and inconvenient station of the Great Western at Paddington. In length the proposed line will be nearly 110 miles (assuming this Company to have the construction of that portion between Reigate and Dorking, for which plans have been deposited by the South- Eastern Company)—the country through which it passes does not present any engineering difficulties of moment, nor will any resi dential er ornamental property be interfered with except under an imperative necessity. A reserve of shares will be made for landowners on the line, and the Committee also retain to themselves the power to vary the course of the line with reference to any arrangements with existing interests and projected lines that may be considered advantageous to the shareholders. The capital proposed to be raised is 1 ,500,0001., in 75,000 shares of 201. each, with a deposit of 21. 2s. per share, to be paid on allotment. Power will be taken by the Act to allow interest, at 41. per cent. per annum, upon all deposits and subscriptions until the opening of the line, and no subscriber shall be answerable for more than the amount of his deposit until the Act has been ebtained, And then not beyond the amount of his subscription. The Subscribers' Agreement and the Parliamentary Contract will be ready for execution, and the scrip issued immediately upon pay ment of the deposits. Applications for shares must be addressed to the Secretary, at the Offices of the Company, No. 12, Gray's Inn-place, only ; but no appli cation will be attended to unless accompanied by a reference to a member of the Provisional Committee, one of the solicitors to the Company, or a banker. Copies of the prospectus and form of application for shares may be obtained at the offices of the Company, or of Messrs. Peppercorne, Old Broad-street ; Mr. Sym, 9, Tokenhouse-yard ; and Mr. B. E. Wil liams, Throgmorton-street, stock and sharebrokers, London. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Do ver an d B ristol Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 2SI. each in this Company, and I agree to accept the same, or any smaller number which may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit thereon, and execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of Name in full •••••• • . •• • ..... _. _ _ Occupation or Profession. . • .. • • • • Residence...... Reference • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1845. I central and accessible terminus in London, and Farringdon-street has been fixed upon for that purpose. It is proposed to make a tunnel from that point to the Great Western station, from whence the line will be continued In as direct a course as possible to Holyhead In its progress it will pass through or near to the following towns : —Rickmanqworth, Chesham, Weialover, and Aylesbury; it will then proceed to within a short distance of Bicester and Detidington, and from thence to Banbury ; it will touch upon lineton or Kingtovin, thence proceed onward to Stratford-on-Avon, approach within a short distance of Warwick, Alcester, anti Worcester, where it will cross the Birmingham and Gloucester Railroad near to Bromsgrove, and proceeding thence to Kidderminster, Britli,nierth, and Wenlock, near to Broseley and Coalbrookdale, will enter the Vale of the Severn, which it will traverse to Shrewsbury; it will thence con tinue its route up the course of the Severn, and passing into the Vale of the River Vyruwy, will proceed to Llan-y-mynech, Llaurhaladr, and aloclinant, accommodating Welchpool, Oswestry, and Llangollen. At this point there are three passes, which have been inspected, and it remains for the engineer to select one as an entrance or passage into the Vale of the River Dee, when the line will proceed round by Corwen into the Vale of the River Alwen, , from whence it will run nearly parallel with the great Holyhead Mail-coach-road, by Pentre voelas to Capel Cerrig, it will thea descend the Vale of Plant Fr;mcon to Bangor and Holyhead. This line will in its progress feed, and be also fed by the most consi siderable railroads of the kingdom, particularly those of the Great Western ; the Birmingham, Gloucester, aid Bristol; the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ; the London and Birmingham ; and the South Staffordshire Railway. As this last line will connect Dudley, Bilston, Wednesbury, Walsall, and Lichfield with the Derby Railway and the Grand Junction Railway, it would be superfluous to expatiate on the advantages of bring ing all those important centres of the coal and iron trade and other traffic, and the vast coal and iron fields of Shropshire into dose intercourse, and thus establishing the cheapest and quickest Means of transit between the minerals of Shropshire and the furnaces of Staffordshire, and the markets of Dublin, London, anti Birmingham. The success of the undertaking is secured beyofiii a doubt, by the obvious fact that it will net only bring the richest mineral and manufacturing portions of England much nearer to the two capitals, but it will open for the carriage of the valuable pro duce of these districts 'the intermediate country not at present pos sessed of any direct line of railway communication. On the other hand, the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railway will glye to London aid the neighbourhood of Birmingham a route to Dublin shorter by nearly seventy miles than that of any other exist ing railroad ; and finally, enable travellers to complete the entire distance in tea hours. It will also ensure two mail deliveries in the day. Up to the point where the line approaches Corwen, no engineering difficulties are presented. At Corwen a deviation from the straight line may be requisite to avoid tunnelling, after which a straight line will be resumed to Bangor, where that already in construction will be adopted for the rest of the route to Holyhead ; or, if found de sirable, power will be taken in the Bill to continue an independent line by Beaumaris to Holyhead. After a ca.reful investigation of the traffic arising fern passengers, the conveyance of mineral and agricultural produce, and the direct transmission of the mails, the Directors fed warranted in anticipating a return of at least ten per cent. on the capital invested. A treaty is in progress with a Steam Navigation Company to run powerful steamers between the harbours of Holyhead and Kingston on the arrival of the trains, so that passengers and merchandise may be booked throughout from London to Dublin, including all the inter mediate stations, and be thus enabled to complete the entire distance in ten hours, without the inconvenience so painfully felt of changing from the conveyance of one proprietary to that of another. The railways new in active progress in Ireland, running from Dublin north and south throughout the heart of the island, render it self evident that the chain of cemntunication between the sister countries Is, by this present undertaking, rendered at once complete and intimate to the last degree. As the leading aim of this Company is to save time and distance, every attention of the Direetors, and every advancement in science wilt be made available to gain the utmost possible amount of speed, com patible with safety, the lines being formed expressly for thia end ; while, finally, the very lowest rate of fares will be adopted for both passengers and traffic, and the pnblic will find in the improvement of the inferior carriages, and some additional comforts fir those of the first class, that the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Rail way will be placed in advance if any other now existing, and is all its details will be rendered worthy an enterprise se national in its character. Application will be made for a Bill to incorporate the Company early in the next session. The usual power will be taken by the Act to allow interest at 41. per cent. per a.rium on the amount of the subscriptions paid ap ; and no subscriber will be answerable for more than the amount of his deposit math the Act be obtained, and then not beyond the aliment of his subscription. Applications for Shares may be made, in the subjoined form, to the following Solicitors, Brokers, and Agents:—Messrs. Cameron and Balms, IS, Parliament-street, London ; Mr. Roger Mortimer, Throgmorton-street, London; B. R. Pemberton, Esq., Atherton buildings, Mr. Wm. Kerl, and Messrs. Schultz and Carr, Liverpool ; Mr.. J. It. Lane, Birmingham ; James Jamieson, Esq., Leeds ; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manchester; Mr. James Butchart, Huddersfield; Messrs. J. and J. Kimpster, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Mr. Hervey, Halifax ; Wm. Lee, Esq., Cheltenham ; R. P. Clark, Esq., Bristol ; Messrs. Graystone and arl,York ; Henry Beaumont, Esq., Exeter; Messrs. Munro and Co., 44, George-street, Edinburgh; Charles C•uper, Esq., 1, Parkside-street, Edin-burgh ; James Jardine, Esq., Glasgow; Wm. Oliphant, Esq., Perth; and Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin. FOAM OF APPLICATION'. To the Preyisional Directors of the Grand London and Dublin _Approxhnation Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will a'lot me - - shares of 501. each the above undertaking, and I hereby agree to accept the same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Name in MI Residen: e — Profession or Business Reference (two or more) Witness And his Address PROSPECTUS OF THE R HONDDA and ELY VALLEYS JUNCTION RAILWAY, GLAMORGINSHIRE. , (Provisionally Registered.) Promoted with Ike sanction and support of the Right lion. the lief of Dunraven. capital, 200,0001., In 10,000 Shares of' 201. each. Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. riscionnt Adare, M.P., Dunraven Castle, Glamorgan Crawshaw Bailey, Esq., Den-works, Nantyglo Sir Robert Price, dart., M.P., Foxley, lerefordshlre Sir John Osborn, Bart., Fulham, Director of the Great Leeds aid London Direct Railway Sir Wm. Bacon Johnston. Bart., Parthenon Club, London, Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Railway Sir Wm. Twysden, 41, Dorset-street, Portmau-square Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Radnorshire Sir William Wynn, Mass Newydd, Chairman of the Neal Wales Railway lames G. Barrett, Esq., Ross, Herefordshire Henry A. Bruce, Esq., DutTryn souse, Cardif William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, iiheffeld, Direstor of the Wet field and Manchester Railway Charles Richard Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanston-square John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham, Kent Thomas Chitty, Esq., Director of the Rugby and Worcester Railway The Rev. James Cozens, Tug Plwm , Glamorganshire Edward Co:ton, Esq., 20, Keppel-street, Russell-square, Director of the Commereial Bank Nicol Came, Esq., D.C.L., Dimland's-house, Cowbridge, Director of . , the Vale of Neath Railway Captain Dawson, R.N., Barnes, Currey, Dlrester sof the Cambridge and Lincoln Extension Railway George Dennis, Esq., Director of the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway William Edmondes, Esq., of Cowbridge, Glamorganshire Thomas H. Evans, Mayor of Carnareon, Director of the Rugby and Worcester Railway The Rev. H. R. Fowler, Felton, near Bristol, and ice. 7, Manehester- square Rev. Thomas Granow, 29, Brompton-square and Court Rerbert, near Neath, Director of the Vale of Neath Railway Captain Hewitt, Tyr Mab El:is, Glamorganshire Windsor H. Humphreys, Esq., Garth Hall, Glamorganshiro Jahn J. Barris, Esq., Treverig, Glamorganshire John Hopkins, Esq., Lillely, Glamorganshire William Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway John Ingles Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Man•heater, Rugby, and Southampton Railway Taro Clarke Kemball, Esq. Hyde-park-gardens, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Richard Kelly, Esq., Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Griffith Llewellyn, Esq., Baglan Hall, Glamorganshire William Llewellyn, Esq., Director of the Bridgeni Branch of the National Provincial Bank of England James Mackirdy, Esq., City of London Clab James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Chepstow and roma of Dean Railway Thomas Morris, Esq., of Newport, Monmouthshire Leyshon Morgan, Esq., Lower Tremains, Bridgend, Glariorgansisire Samuel P. Pratt, Esq., F.R.S., Bath, and No. 55, Liacala's Inn- fields, Director of the Kennet and Avon Canal William Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park George B. Pye, Esq., Lavenharn, Suffolk Evan Prichard, Esq., Collenna House, Glamorganshira James Brown, Esq. of Ten Ddu, near Bridgend Richard Fowler Rickards, Esq., Lantrissent House, Glamorganshiro James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Randall, Esq., Old Castle, Bridgend, Glamorganshire Richard Lewis Reece, Esq., County Coroner, Cardiff Edward Scard, Esq., of Kew Green, Surrey, and Garth Nall, Glamor ganshi re Henry James, Esq., Finsbury-square, London Robert Wright, Esq., Lons"ale-square, Middlesex, aad Bread-street hill, London, Director of the Greet Trinidad Railway John Williams, Esq., Furnival's Inn, London, and Lianfihangel, Denbighshire _ Joseph Underwood, Esq., the Hall, Blackheath, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway Company, and Di rector 0( the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. • - (With power to add to their number). ISANAGINS VISCOUNT AD Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P. William Bradley, Est. John Randall, Esq. The Rev. Thomas Gronow James Morrison, Esq. William Simpson Potter, Esq. Nichol Came, D.C.L. Richard Lewis Reece, Esq. (With power to add to their nuraber.) STANDING COUNSEL—Edward Lewis Richafds, Esq., Middle Temple SOLICITOR—W. B. James, Esq., 8, Basinghall-etreat, Londe.. BANKERS. Commercial Bank of London National Provincial Bank, Bridgend and Cardif. Messrs. Towgood and Co., Cardiff. ENGINEER—CharIes Edward Bernard, Esq. SECRETARY—John Petherick, Esq., pro tem. COMMITTEE. )ARE, Chairman. Captain W. J. Dawson, R.lf. Crawshay Bailey, Esq. Griffith Llewellyn, Esq. Richard Kelly, Esq. The Rer. H. R. Fowler Samuel R. Pratt, Esq. Henry James, Esq. This Railway is projected for the purpose of uniting the Rhondda and Ely Yanks, with the South Wales Railway, at a few miles dis tance from the Port of Cardiff; and to open a new mineral district, one of the richest and most important in South Wales, which is at present without the means of transit fir its immense and valuable products. It will pass through the central portion of the great coal-field of Glatiorganshire, where iron-stone also abounds with the coal in im mense quantities, and laying, geologically speaking, nearly fiat, and, obtainable, for the most part, by proper levels. The coal in addition to its being of excellent quality for iron making, as is proved at Mer thyr and Aberdare, is also, like that of those districts, if the very best description for steam purposes, being nearly smokeless, although inflammable, indeed so pre-eminently is the superiority of tkis de scription if coal established for steam purposes over any other, that the demand for it far exceeds the supply, and promises, accord ing to the *pinion of the mist eminent marine engineers, to super sede all others for purposes of steam navigation. This source of traffic alone will afford a handsome return for the capital invested, as kas been demonstrated in every instance where even tram-roads er canals have been constructed to open the mineral resources of ether less promising Tallies in Wales than the Rhondda, which is cele brated for the abundance, quality, and facility of obtaining its pro ductions. An inexhaustible supply of limestone (so necessary for the manu facture of iron and for agricultural purposes) may be obtained by means of this Railway, much nearer and cheaper than by any ether lino. _ . This line will afford to the increasing population of the rich vales of Ely and Rhondda a mach desired communication with the great market town and port of Cardiff, front whence, at present, they may be said to be almost excluded. It is intended that the line shall commence at Blaen Rhondda, the head of the Rhondda Valley, and preceed down by a natural pass between the bills at Ffrwd Amwe, a distance of eight miles, where it will enter the Ely Valley and proceed down (a further distance of six miles) to Lanelay-bridge, near Lantrissent, and there join the South Wales Railway, thus opening a communication under the most advantageous circumstances as to distance, with all the ports in the Bristol channel. A pfeliminary survey has already ban made by competent par ties, and it is found that the country admits of highly favourable gradients, so much so that it is confidently anticipated that the works will be executed very considerably under the advertised ca pital. The landowners along the line are favourable to tkis undertaking, and the names of many influential proprietors will be found on tke Provisional Committee. No Subscriber will be answerable beyond the amount of his de posit until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his subscription. Until an Act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of this Company shall be under the control of the Managing Directors, to whom power is given to allot the Shares, and to apply the funds of the Company in payment of all the expenses incurred in its forma tion, and in the preparation of the plans and sections to be submitted to Parliament. Power will be applied for in the Act (and in the meantime is hereby given to the Managing* Directors as above), to raise any addi tional capital, to extend or abandon any part of the line, to make branch lines, or enter into any arrangements, by amalgamation or otherwise, with any other company or companies, and also to nOnli nstte the first Directors of the Company. - • In the allottanent of Shares, a preference will be even to landowners on the lint and other reties locally interested. rrOfletitavil and gars mg lie 40 a and sn'VtitTall tt ox Ne u l *rib: et t tth! . _. ef,P 4 ' • shares may be addressed in the form annex .•d to, - .V. B. JOS i g., • Solicitor, 19, Northumberland-street, Stra id; to W. I. lo net t lere 4 Solicitor, Bridgend, Glamorgafishire ; an I to the undernia , e„ of Brokers ; but no application for Shares w.ll rece ive the aft o ez r:00 the Committee, unless accompanied by a reference to one ' of the Provisional Committee, Solicitors, or the Engineer o :',..4. • London-Messrs. John Showell and Son, 2a, Toke' hous e- I s ' " Messrs. J. Peppercorne and Ce.. 2, Old laved -Bevy" ~ Liverpool-Messrs. Beultt and Co. Manche- ter-Messrs. Houghland and Leese Leeds-Mess s. John Young and Co. Bristol Luks Arnold, Eq.; Messrs. Talte and Nash Birmin , ham-Mr. Collis Sheffie7d-Messrs. Bardwell and Sens. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. „aura To the Provisional Committee of .the Rhondda and Ell Junction Railway. sand R Gentlemz n,-I request that you will allet to me each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the selt e e witoi pay the del osit thereon, or upon any less number that may iw trig to ma ; 311. d I also undertake to execute the Parliamenta r r' and firtbscribers' Agreement when required. •• •••'"' Name in full •.•.••• • • ' • ' '' .. ." ...... • .. Residence • • • • • • • • • • • • ... a " •••• - Trade or Profession • • .• •• •• ....,.• Re.:rence with ) ddress• • • • •• • Date of Applicat , en •••• • • • • 7;,.....-.1 RHONDDA AND ELY VAL LEYS . - JUNCTION RAILWAY. —, be rsre i°4 No farther applications for shares in this C. mpanY a'"" - after FRIDAY, the 10th instant. • By order, ee eteil• JOHN PETHERICE, a 19. Northumberland -street, Strand, October 3, 1845. _____< y FLY and BURY - ST. EMI UNDS RAII-I".`btel'. 4 In consequence of the great number of applications for 0 ' f I ,t. 1 1 in this Company which are daily received from all cult to ttleoll. country, the Provisional Directors feel it necessary to c 0,, to i .1 tion of the Public to the following Clause in the ProsPe el ee j re terms of which they will, in allotting the shares, be conV e.* strictly to adhere :- stl ° " As, under arrangements entered into with the Lyono33nie ,, Ely and ;Huntingdon, and Lynn and Dercham Railwathe hold a large proportion of the capital has been appropriated to re s 0 ., of shares in those Companies, a very limited nu mber of ', 1 ,`, t 0 P is at the disposal of the Provisional Directors, and no aePS oa fte ll' shares therefore cm be attended to, except from Part ies terested and of the highest respectability. By order, pro ten , L. F. EDWAIII22 : ---Secre lerl 13' UG 1 WTORCEST R ER AILI I B t VARWICK e and , (Previsionally'Registered.) t ISis' ll; Offices, 5, Gresham str et, Bank. London, Ilth Oetobe i w ill_ The Parliamentary Contract and Subscriber* Agreein e t l on ed, P r for execution, on the days and at the places underfn ee „ 3 --- Ai tween the hours of eleven o'clock A.M., and four o'clo c t.e'fata to r In London, at the offices of the Company, from t '" 0 1 18th of October, both inclusive. real, 1444 At Worcester, at the offices of the Company, on the •- 0 15th of October. A 1101 041 e At Droitwich, at the offices of Messrs. Cartier all- - ' ell the 16th of October. an IS At Warwick, at the offices of Mr. A. E. Field, solicitor, to of October. ~, a At Leamington, at the offices of Mr. A. S. Field, solicit"' 000- 18th and 20th October. OW' At Rugby, at the offices of Mr. W. F. W ra tislaw, sol ,tot en 21st October. l4O l'i ticb et ' At Leeds, at the Scarborough Hotel. on the 13th an i6t e O' a. At 'Manchester, at the Albion Hotel, on the 15th an, ,: t i i Ootl o ora At Liverpool, at the Adelphi Hotel, on the 17th and „V - 2 10t 0 '* At Glasgow, at the Wellington Hotel, on the 20th an d „,.. „ t , At Edinburgh, at the Royal Hotel, 22d and 23.1 0ctw',, ,....... ... .. t, ety• JOHN HUC,HES, `-'" STS. • s ) '' LANCASHIRE, CHESHIRE, AN D FORD:SHIRE JUNCTION RAILWA Y. (Provisionally Registered.) diapital, 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 20/. raell' Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. z Ol PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. I , o tUer ie , William Ascroft, Esq. director of the Staffordshir e - et" Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway ._,, A rot' Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, director of the Stafforaa"- ae and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway ~i ro n. i , o atc l William Croudson, Esq.', Alderman for the borough of 7;0" , tor of the Staffordshire Potteries and Liverpool an lop' Direct Railway . • o'' r Ow r William Caldwell, Esq Ince Hall, Wigan, director 0.„..ier.„,.0 &hire Potteries and Liverpool and Manchester Direct 0 ,7,:e rot' John Dewhurst, Esq., Preston, director of the Staffords° or and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway „ 0-0 1 s 1/. 35 01. Colonel Robert Douglas, Esq., United Service Club, ....,,, i n. don, director of the Staffordshire Potteries and Liver' 40 1 cheater Direct Railway of ': ,6 direc t P'' Joseph Gillharn, Esq., Hargreaves-house, Oldham , he ad • Staffordshire • Potteries and Liverpool and Man e " ar . Railway ,„, o r i 11 ,111.a, William Gibb, Esq., Victoria-park, Manchester, diree'""er i l . " V' fordshire l'otteries and Liverpool and Maachester t i o ira" , Charles llaigh, Esq., Manchester, a director of the SO ' ,4 0 4 teries and Liverpool and Manchester Direct ltailars , . * es ter rite John Belford, Esq., Rusholnae-hall, Manchester , di, ee ter , r Staffordshire Potteries and Liverpool and 3 la nc* O f ,: Railway ° t or of, t •i 'll ,cx i George Molt, Esq., Willow-hall, Crumpsall, a diree„ - ,. ° .,,et -, • fordahire Potteries and Liverpool and Manchester •' - ',.`..;0 0 ~ t John Lord, Esq., Standish-hall, Wigan, &director of the `r . 4 rv. ' Potteries and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Raul f, Christopher Morris, Esq., Wigan, director of the Sta , F O , • teries and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway or o f Polg • Thema Morris, Esq., Fairhurst-hall. Wigan, dire ct ir ect S 0; • fordshire Potteries and Liverpool and Manchester li oc ian l zo • C. Randall, Esq., Manchester, a director of the Slle ll ,trai 4 cheater Railway, and Staffordshire Potteries and - 4 tot`i Manchester Direct Rail le e ire , rd, P Frederick Ramsden, Esq., wa Se y ymour-hones, Old Tra.potef , . the Staffordshire Potteries and Liverpool, and M C re tiV Railway .-: • • -, r asbir e A . John Thompson, Esq., Wigan, director of the Staff o vt att and Liverpool and Manchester Direct RailwaY Aspire i Henry Taylor, Esq., Wigan, director of the Stafford and Liverpool and Manchester Direct RailwaY 5Sb I William Burdett, Esq., Warrington of the William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, director field and Manchester Railway to* eoo Henßellerb, Es.,eriff of York , ry -01, William Byrom, Esq., ~managing director of the Lire ,pll*of jo tn n d u lLor r th Union Junction Railway m ierr ,or F ~ Tutbury, director of the Shropshir e ' cg Richard M. Baddeley, Esq., Hanley, Staffordshire direct" ~,,, Edwin Cadman, Esq., Westbourne-house, Sheffield , 0 11 i Direct Western Railway . ro . run 0 . Captain James E. Carnegie, Somerset-house, o pt" director of the Reading and Reigate Railway ~o TA „Jar James Clarkson, Esq., Cheetham-hill, director of t" • V" 0 0 caster Railway o p Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield, director of Re m te. 0 4 l and Manchester Direct Railway . 1 Peregrine Royds Dearden, Esq., Birkenhead ~ V ije Jonathan Dunn, Esq., ameaster, director of 14 '' A a Preston, and Lancaster and Carlisle Rs , t , 5/ l e.,' .. e ei ct • William Fenton, Esq., Meadoweroft, Rochdale 0 ( :' ,114 . ' t Samuel Giles; Esq., merchant, Manchester, direei r efe c ” and Macclesfield, the Manchester and Rue ) ) railways r 5 ' A. • Robert Holt, Esq. ' Crescent, Rochdale vd ooei William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Inner Temeler F.L.S., 0 d 141 r &c. John Huut, Esq., merchant, Manchester 0 0010 ~,, , William Jackson, Esq., Sheffield, director of e• - ' caster Railway mtca WO Sir John Key, Bart., alderman of London and Ch- - 1 ..‘i ,f, 1 William Melvtle Lomas, Esq., merchant, LiverP ° WO''' . . Sir William Magn, al of London 4 James Macmillan, ay Esq., derman Southa m pt on , director °f tile 001, V Warwick, and Itugby Railway • • I I ' l ' el , r 55 Edward Morris, Esq., Cho ley, a director of the ,czt u Direct, and Other railways SOP .31 4 James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford, director of t he ol 0 31 i ,i , Rugby Direct Railway .- Cha nw 'S 11) The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, London, _,,,e0 0 e t. York and Lancaster Railway, and director of Rem - t o and Manchester Direct Railway the }Val / Richard Raywood, Esq., Barnsley, director of - . I ,js , Bradford Railway „ h ater ~,,a, ` James Shaw, Eirq., Pendleton, director of the I.l o ' -- th e ' Direct Railway mre tor °( ~,st Henry Stock, Esq., Beddgelert, Carnarvon, - a'4 Eastern and Western Railway .1 '4 , ' 0 1 - cfr , T. A. Ward, Esq., Town Regent of Sheffield „,,, Chai r ed 4 Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Pall-mall, London, DeP"'" A ster - t a t ' York and Lancaster, arra a director of the Lane ~,,it• Railways a l ' 0 wretelh oi David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, -- „tor 1 the Nottingham and Gainsboreugh Railway , too , dire' 1 ,,,, Edmund Woodward, Esq., Gilnough-house, B c ' l ~17 Blackburn, Bolton, and Liverpool RailwaY ~,J, 0 0 " 00' Proctor Walker, Esq., Preston, director of the ri e- un' y AI Direct and other Railways a he nce* Charles James Stanley Walker, Esq., Longfor ", o3 aa'aP.A. director of the Chester and Manchester Direct l u elc, t- o ter' CONSULTING ENGINEER-George Watson ". re ece SURVEYORS-Messrs . Ncians and Lawton , '''' JOINT SOLICITORS. . Messrs. Dearden and Molesworth. sq et eriel i William Burdett, E. 9/1 Company's Offices, 6, Marsden-street , .. . BANNERS. London-The Commercial Bank of Lonelono e nt Manchester-The National and Provincial •"-' „tt° Rochdale -Messrs. Fentons and Roby. la t e '' o rfi l ' Dint a I PROSPECTUS. A t s Pforn t° c, ea f• This important line of railway will commen„, e ,' e t ' o n * to„".,tric, r ," a Manchester and Bolton Railway, between l'"' an d •r ' a l l'A 010 running :hence in a direct line through WorsleY, m aocb a i tie,,,,,ll 4 point on the Manchester South Junction and .`",,,,` Dere to rtoeo ": 1 with which it will form a junction, to Chea dle ' - an d non with ,00 with the alacclesfield -branch - of the Mancliestci tro ical: oi p 0 ". Railway, by which 11184 V 5- a direct railway co, st • tall ° 0 I opened with Macclesfield and the various lines " r ede, l ' oun' r ely"le r to terminate there. ACO re The greet advantages to be derived from 1 wil t a s s, _.• Chead nlY e a lie OW tween Bolton and Altrinchani, and via „ not °wi os re will at once be seen on reference to the mar' , An a pro.", r elOolif t o arul channel communication between:exis ting i - o f cure' pt , 01-0 also as supplying the link wanting in 'the chat' lat . ; , Cate, p ot at iv ir tion between Bolton, Blackburn, and a ve, r Y the cent re oe g re ibe te i pulous manufacturing districts and towns e 'r; o tterle e ' oral rci e ia. county of Lancaster, with the Staffordshire . cons ecet o d p o f districts, Birmingham, and the metropolis, ata,,.. f oing 0 10 P 0 /, termediate places in the lines of the varlet?, v:a the t i l od e railways between Manchester, Macclesfield, •*- w o oto e ti.f , southern portion of the kingdom. i s , that the O pe rt, An important feature in this undertalsdng_n u p t 0.0 0,1 0 .4, ~, by me ws of existing and projected line . ev i• Ware r , i l t i i r e (1 , 7,4 agricultural and manufactnring population . c V _ llO , 1, e co l ej r 0 , , fordshire, and Cheshire, a direct co unn,V i S e o n t.• . 4 0 ,10 ; 0 . ,a Blackpool, and the other watering - Pla ce ' ' 4l 'l o f the P':;el u ... '''. cashire, it will likewise form a Edinburgcontinuoath_7ooo, ~ lines from London (via Macclesfield) I t ,the P' - , br aj o e' -tte" a ' either by Fleetwood-upon-Wyre, 0 ".' d ne- 0 -10, t e. Carlisle lines. field and The saving of distance between IJaccles delsYs ill 31- 0 ,4. el ti important, whilst the great, but unavoidable 1 0 -II in incurred in passing through the different tern.- , ir il tl. t it le' will be obviated. ' • rfoo ig, tha t t ios 0 5, oic Another important feature in this ente a rP. , ine, an co t ~ r te so ton ally affect any existing or contempl ?ea ' with other „P r° •„, -1 .• 0117c0 11 -4 able, by uniting itself with them, and wilnicrease te_i•--, oa, 0 0 ,. lines now in the course of formation, to ri a gov. s 10 Ad el to a considerable extent, both in passengers ,a , can not , Or means of establishing a principle of reciproerta , site co riz o, % t - P I , injure any existing interests. „„. o ebouring cl ot a df elti c 40:1 To the town of Bolton, and its .. - e - m porta ete d or a i t it is obvious this line will secure the otterin ere P re ig ell I le ,, DeL e riz 4 its connexion with existing lines, and d _ , , , th „t wp oo d o Inl r ol , r til be ad e" gets a nd g to rio e_ l , re eril„.o/ centre there. It need hardly tages, a most important traffic for pass upon, independent of which, as the line e : i nee se , i a P od s ,, e l , ll : t e nr -l ' e # : so , difficulties, or other obstacles of imPort' ~ the mos. be on t 0 an expense far below the ordinary averai, , rode (2 n o l io a e r o , to the capitalist is offered. 0 ca n shall bA ct of l'ef, pe r 4 The deeds will provide that n 01 th e allO r 00; holders beyond the deposit now paid on e Act to io nio o ,„ t obtained, amid power will be b e in g olio the 'arie. lo ' rye , ' Ar e tli e interest on all calls. „ e 1.., A certain number of shares will e ...!, end tob. xer :e and others having local interests in th 0" mar be re -I °o' the interests of this company. does ... la OA' o at, Applications for shares and pros o Pe the eollow__„( o el-c subjoined form to the solicitors, 01 t d ruilo y,Wa." - lei ,ler if• st ' London-Messrs. Fields, Son, an morton-street Manchester-Me,ssrs. Green and Oldham; and ef ' • Liverpool -Messrs. Geddes and Du George Bolton-Mr. J. Gorton Id inn* Rochdale-Mr. Jonathan Nei--, inn* Warrington-Mr. James Cawley Leeds-Messrs. Standish and IT 0 04 Preston-Mr. Wren tal keti 'gra We' Hull-Messrs. Flint and Y OO - __,.. _ -- . It- - .oh York-Messrs. Graystone and,.Lar." TION V°ll. " ir e ' r'--- CD' FORM OF AMR-A, the Lanc-f,: Itall waJ To the Provisional Committee__ or iction O re s o e4l Staffordshir e J w ill a ll m e i berebY ill alip t O len. Gentlemen-I request that you s .,_., end , all her ref sharea of 201. each in the above r n"";',i ) mea t° oto .. . accept the same, or any less number there'll' and t" req uirea ••* ‘.• the deposit of 21. 2s. per share ' anent vlla tar)' contract and subscribers agre l eo, ... .... i00..., . Dated MU day of l o tt o in na l ,„ o * a or Pr''' S- , • • „.. ,;3/ rue ab0u:.....• "...;;001 1 ,,, Ko ade oro fesso sa u d Pr ° ~• " • .., Business e ° ; r aeuce• ..• " ' r e i t; Non e, r ,„. •• • SA refer ee .. and that CITIRB , ...AY. 00 0 e eirl l ---- CHE,..7-- ~,,,k o n one er t o L ANCASHIRE , ,uNcTiolc leas io sog yors; o oe, A it ha . re the P er and 5 d irect it ''',o FORDSHIRE o The Provisional Committee ,their eng tne ed in e _ vi per . t 0, they have received the rePorl iu ni e t oll Prel ene,adlo,o•loAttegirot ;If is highly satisfactorY. ' The connexion vil' il ''; iro y, ter-stege!, _ el '''' b Altrinchain (Preserving 1° Potteries 11 ' „ ta ut adrit tPv 00' unite with the Staffordshir e the most licP.•„inectett. ... „ o f , 4 place, and thereby sacurc alous dis tric" c nCasb lre an td e s c ;9oi ll ' to Belton, tett to the PeP ap d East Of Sher .f rl burn, Derives, and Bolton, , inutt ner tio o list wiz lal lCt* In consequence 6 ) morons applications alread y ei of the limiterec. _,ved, lia' c l ose d i n , & few days. pgc r ojt_ waLam St..„ ZIE .A.WO. 0419:r if, IfiDa • -_ -