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DIRECT WESTERN RAILWAY (Upon the Broad Gauge), From London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and Bridgewater respectively. (Provisionally 11?.gistered.) Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Stare. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Hon. Charles Pelhstm Villiers,Drector of the South Mid land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's Director of the suth md.. land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-Street Sir Francis Ougdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilt* sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 10, Eaton-place, London Ralph Neville, Esq , M.P. for Windsor, Hill-street, Berkeley-sqnstie Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P. for Totness, 6, Parliament-street Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Companies Sir John Rey, Bart , 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin ster Bank, and of the Loudon, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder minster Railway Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the City of London Edward Harrissou Harwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the south Midland Railway Joseph Armitage, Esq., Mitres Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park, Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and South Midland Railways Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-mare, London, Deputy Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe Philip W. Courtnay, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London Millis Coventry, Esq.,' Whitehart-court, Lombard-street Barnet L. Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and George-street, Mansion House John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Rent, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Boswell Middleton Joßand, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Deputy Lieutenant and Ma , ;istrate for the East Riding of Yorlshire Charles Robert Coleman, Eat., Irongate Wharf Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the Devon and 6ornw 7 all Banking Company Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director of the South Midland Railway Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London, Dig e •tor of the Dublin, Belfast, and Colerains, and the South Essex Railways Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Director of the Londonderry and Coleraine and the Londonderry and Enniskinen Railways John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Insurance Company James Rmshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Direc tor of the liridport and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railways Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon- street, London H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Tipper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park George M'lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-sqnare Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland Railway Charin Bleaden, Esq., Conladen-court, Surrey, Chairman of the LI- censed Vletuallers' . iire and Life Assurance Company J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company Patrick Fras. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the London and Illackwall Railway Company W. D. Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Itipon Cuthbert Woodstock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton 'Oben Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstene-street, Portrnam square, Director of Tring, Reading, and Basignstoke, the Exe ter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension Railways George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, Landon, Assistant Tithe Commissioner - William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Len don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway Richard Harris Purcell, E:q., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway Company Philip Baker, Esq., Ruston-square, London, Auditor of the London and Blackwell Railway Company Charles James Heath, Esq. ' 6, London-street, Mark - lane Captain E. N. Trowbridge, 11-N., 11, Eaton-square Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen -square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the St. Katherine's Dock Company William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-squaro Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and Luton 1100, Bedfordshire George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall , Northa m p tonshire, and Charles- street, Berkeley-square James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor. place, London Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, ciunty Cork, Union Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail way Company Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London William Congreve Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire John William Yerbury, Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d Light Dragoons Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity square, London Robert IFfillinvon, Esq., Ordsall House, Betford, .Nottinghamshire John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, liornsey Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Berks Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath 1 Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath Eiward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Retry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Rev. Chat. Fras. Bamfylde, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bath Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts Geo - g Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birraing . ha n Railway Company B. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buckingham. shire Railway and Wolverton Junction Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton Ch tries Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon Richard Marker, Esq., 'Bream Cottage, Tiverton Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton Wm. H. Macomb, Esq., Chilton, Ilungeribrd, Chairman of the limits Union Banking Company William Haleomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and Dorset Bank Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berks Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Kerle Haberfield, Esq., Clifton, Bristol James Troup, Esq., Hastings John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director of Coventry and Leicester Railway Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of .the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and Southampton Railway Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies Joseph Nadirs, Eel., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways Janies Ogden, M.D., Salford Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley" Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the " Liver pooland Leeds Direct Railway Companies" John Holford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders field and Sheffield, ant Direetor of the Halifax awl Bradford Union Railway Director of the Na Ch a rles Bamford, jun., Esq., ?lull, Fall and Barnsley Junction John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South ampton Railway John Robson, Req., Iletton-le-Bole, Durham Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and Midland Railway Companies Isaac Holmes , Esq., Liverpool ',rm. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and Iron Bridge Railway Company C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and M an chester Hallway Company Elwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbertch, and Lincolnshire Hal Nay, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways John Ward, Eel., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield, Rothorhain, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office Wm. Thomps,m, Eel., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Ad lerley Howard, Eel., Sutton Wisbcch, Director of the East Coast Railway - Company Captain Bowker, R Hull Devonport H. S. Bright, Esq. , Samuel Swann Brlttain, Esq., Sheffield, Directar of the East and West of England Railway Company John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and Mar rowgate Railway Company William Marriott, Esq., Attercllff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeacli, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway. Thomas Wetherell, Eel., Lincoln, Director of the London and York and East Lincolnshire Railways John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool David Price, Esq., Manchester William Hunter, Earl., Clarendon-agnate, Leamingtan Rev. H. iv. Cottle, Sgtor of Walton, Northamptonshire Major Woman], Clarence-square, Cheltenham E I - .vard Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the South Midland and the N or thampton and Cheltenham Railways Henry Habbersty, Es 1., Hull John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction Hairy Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lana eary Sayer, Esa., Commercial-road, Llmahonse, merchant Assistant Tithe Corn- J 1•1 Mae M tthevr, Eq., Gray's Inn-square, r ii winner Join Norton, Esq., Moat House,-Brentwood, Essex W.lliara John M`Guire, Esq., Hampton Court .J* in Gray Wilson, Esq. Oxford-terrace Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Grove, North Brixton, Surrey W. J. Lefeuvre, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate of Southampton Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park G. B. Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Coventry and Leicester Railway Captain Tringham, Solyhull, Warwickshire Whjiam Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield (With power to add to their number). BANKERS—Messrs. Cutries and Co., Cornhill, London. JOINT SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London Messrs. Rickards and Walker. 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting", 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London, SECRETART—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq. Assisx ANT-SEcar r Aar --Charles J. Whalley, Esq. LOCAL AGENTS. At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq. At Tronbrid;re and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole At Tiverton, T. L. T. Bendel', Esq At Truro anti J. A. Toms, ESQ. At Penzance At Falmouth The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between London and the Land's End. In a national po i nt of view d such a line is indispensable. With the advantage of a direct western extremit y of the railmad,Falmouth, from its position at the kingdom,o would undoubtedly long since have been the p r i nc i pal port that coast. With the advantage of at least ISO mil es o f heavy road, pine, has attained its high po sition as a Packet St at i on. ampton, with far less natural ad vantages, has, since the openingio to f the South-Wester n R a il way, in creased its imports from 200 mo -)0 0,0001. per annum. At Bris tol, before the open i ng of the G reatWestern Railway, End as an i nvestment for the imports were declining ; sinc e t h en they have The merits of a lin e t o the Land's very considerablytmerea."4. ca pital, it was not left to the present Con to discover. Th e Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having having already reached Exeter, it has been in cont;emapnidativoaarito extend that line to pat_ thu ;us other projects have been mouth by way of Plymouth set on foot on the convicti on railway. . ; u s of must be reached by The object of this prospectus is to shertliat no other li ne than the present can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard to this, its most important outport—" the natural Packet Station .f the empire." The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It Is as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End. The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Comp any having am alga.. a : mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company. The Direct Western availing Itself of the (treat Western Railway so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger.. ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells (from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater), Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two miles than any existing or projected railways between these points, and without a. tunnel. Prom Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now leased to the Great Western) Is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St. Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the Istelyproposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, lathe whole distance from London to Falmouth, a saving of - about ninety miles. With respect to the traffic between London and Tiverton, it is needless to say more than that there Is already thorough traffic mei tv juitify t/19 contraction of this portion of the Direct Wee- BARNET and NORTH MET ROPOL ITAN JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.) Capital, 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21.25. per Share. No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Subscription PROVISION AL COMMITTEE. The Hon. F. TLF Berkeley, M.P., Chairman, Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway Company William Alfred Hill, EVE., Deputy-Chairman, also Deputy-Chairman of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway Company Sir John Osborne, Bart., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing stoke Railway Company The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belly Hatch House, Henley William Wilberforce, Esq., James-street, Buckingham-gate, and Highwood House, Ilighwod Hill, Ilendon Lieut.-Colonel Gillies, Porchester House, Bayswater William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn Major Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales Railway Company Henry lieckley Richardson, Esq., F.S.A., Director of the Colchester, Cambridge, awl Harwich Junction Railway Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., M.D., Mortimer-street, Cavendish square • Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway Thomas Hemming Johnson, Esq., Older's Hall, Hendon, Middlesex Thomas Priestley, Esq., Principal of Min Hill Grammar School, llendon, Middlesex The Rev. H. J. Crump, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex Captain Grover, R.N. Captain John Innes, H.C.S., Wentworth House, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex The Rev. Bartholomew Nicholls, M.A., Incumbent of St. Paul's, Milt Hill, Hendon, Middlesex Mr. William Ward, Underhill, Barnet Mr. Bruce Johnson, Finchley William Christopher Daniel Deighton, Esq., Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, Holloway Ralph Allen Frogley, Esq., Hounslow, Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway Colonel Taylor White, Hadley-green, Barnet Abraham Scott, Esq., Hadley Priory, Barnet W. J. M`Gwire, Esq , 74, St. James's-street W. Prosser, jun., Esq., 36, New Broad-street, City Janes Berington, Esq., East-street, Hoxton George Freeman, Esq., Grange House, Leeds Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq., Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway Company George Godfrey, Esq., The Elms, Hutton, Essex Robert Wright Wood, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Company Alexander Prince, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing stoke Rtilway Peter Graham, Esq., Angelo Villa, Gloucester-road, Regent's Park William Henry Halpin, Esq., 23, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Company Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales Railway Company .1. N. Nicholay, Esq., Oxford-street John Godfrey B. Hudson, Esq., Director of the Central Terminus Railway Company The Rev. 0. A. Walker, Altisthorpe Parsonage. Wakefield, Direc tor of the Wakefield and Bradford Railway Company (With power to add to their number.) COMMITTEE Or MANAGEMENT. The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., W. 11. Halpin, Esq. Chairman Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq. William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy- Alexander Prince, Esq. Chairman George Freeman, Esq. Major Lindam, K.H. George Godfrey, Esq. Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., Robert Wright Wool, Esq. F.S.A. !Charles Green, Esq. CONSULTING ENGINEER—Francis Wishaw, Esq., C.E., Brook Lodge, llendon. ACTING ENGINEER—J. Bailey Denton, Esq., 10, Gray's Inn-square. Be:cams—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, JOINT SOLICITORS. Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street G. P. 11111, Esq., 21e, Soho-square. LOCAL AGENTS. Henry Hammond, Esq., solicitor, Wentworth Lodge, Finchley John Hughes, Esq., solicitor, Whetstone. SECRETARY (pro tem.)—A. Doull, Esq. This railway will connect the important and hitherto neglected town of Barnet with the London and Birmingham and the Great Western Railways, at or near Holsdon-green ; with the Northern and Eastern and the Eastern Counties Railway, at or near Totten- ham ; and the proposed Direct London and Manchester, and the Lon don and York Railways. The line, in Its course, will unite the town of Barnet with Nhe il t l, - stone, Totteridge, Highwood Hill, Mill Hill, Finchley, Hm oer,s V Hill, Hendon, Bu-rows, Golder's Hill, Gutterhedge, Kingsbury, Neesdon, Wilsdon, IVils:lon Green. Holsdon Green, Kensall Green, Westbourne Green, Maids Hill, Kilburn, Hampstead, West End, Highgate, Crouch End, Hornsey, Muswell Hill, West Green, Tottenham, Edmonton, Chinford, Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington, _Newington Green, Clap ton, Highbury, Holloway, Kingsland, Layton, Stratford, West Ham, Bromley, Bethnal Green, Limehouse, Heaton, Homerton, Hackney, Shacklewell, Dalston, Islington, St. Pancras, Shoreditch, Illackwall, Euston-square Paddington, Kensington, Hammersmi th, Brompton, Fulham, Chelsea, &c. ; connecting those places with the various railways named, and all those south of the river Thames. The distance from the town of Barnet to the station of the London and Birmingham Railway, at Euston square, by this route, will be 15 miles. The length of the main line, from the point of Junction at Totten ham to the Londan and Birmingham Railway, will be 11 miles ; and the length of the branch line to Barnet, will be 4% miles. From the junction with the Illrinlngharn Railway to Chipping B trued, 9% miles; from the Decay (near Brent-street, Hendon), on the proposed Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway, to the Nortnern and Eastern Counties Railway, by Stamford-hill, 614 miies There are no engineering difficulties throughout the entire distance. The line will proceed beyond the range of the Highgate and Hamp stead Hills, and the branch from the main line to Barnet will follow the valley of the river Brent to the intended station at Barnet ; thus the expense of construction will be less than any other metropolitan line of railway, for the above reason, and because it will pass through an agricultural district, avoiding all ornamental property and large collections of houses and buildings. Upon the completion of this railway, a large and daily-increasing population, resident beyond the limits of the metropolitan omnibuses, will be largely benefited, and land and agricultural produce, hitherto affording an inadequate return to their cultivators, will be quad rupled in value. The ancient, populous, and once-flonrishing town of Barnet, too, will now have a railway communication of its own, without depend ing upon the caprice or uncertain goodnature of any company who may hold out a prospect of a branch, in future times, from some of the trunk lines now contemplated. An ample return of profit to the investments of shareholders may be safely anticipated, and will arise from the following sources, amongst others : this of f conveyance through 1. From the conveyanco of paSseillerS• from the City and 2. From the carriage of goods and merchandise line, avoidi ng t h e d e l ay an d excess i ve co st more particularly London ; also fro m th e conveyance o f cattle,&e., Docks, 8 4 . : ., t o th e severa l ra il wa y s which are intersected by during the period of the large Barnet fairs. 3,1. F rom the conveyance of coal, both inland and seaborne, fuel, eatexpense and other c ommodities of general consumption, the g Management,_. r of whichch has long been felt by all c l asses as a mos t gr i ev ous es 11 . r The Committ ee of Management reserve to themselves the pone of adoptin g , upon this line, locomotive power, or Presser's Railway guide and safety wheels, as m ay b e deemed expedient. Applications for Shares in the form annexed (and communi cations from p e rsons desirous of promoting the objects of the Corn pany), may Ebe addressed to th e S ecretary, at the Provisional Offices Solicitors, i, and G. P. of the Compd ward any, 59, NP.ilans, ewm an - street, Oxford -street • to the Joint BBL Esq., 21A, Soho square. Esq., 59, Newman -street, ItantrxititrtV-s:lLtruoapolitan II Committee joefAtr IlNarnFe? --------_ To the Prov F is O io lt n l a Junction Railway, 59, Newman-street, Oxford -street Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me ' • s of r ha t e 201. each in this Company, and I he re b y undertake to a S cce sainc., and to pay the deposit thereon, or up on any let p the ,' number th a may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parlia t mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Name In full .. .... • ..... Residence Trade or Profession .. • . . • .• • Name, Residence, and Profession or Trade of Referee Date I. 00 .11 .. ell /019 0 • . TIIE tUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER LO, 1845. B OSTON, NEWARK, and SHEFFIELD RAILWAY. The allotment to ecripholders of the Newark and Sheffield Rail way of the additional shares in this undertaking to which they are entitled has just taken Nice, and the letters will be issued this week. The allotment to landholders, &c., who are not scripholders of the Newark and Sheffield Railway, has been postponed for a fortnight, to afford the Directors more time for inquiry respecting the numerous applications they have received from parties who claim a preference in consequence of their local interest on the line of railway. By order, JOHN DENNISTON, Secretary. Mansfield, September 20, 1845. LONDON, WARWICK, LEAMIMGTON, and KIDDERMINSTER RAILWAY COMPANY. (ProvisionallyKegistered.) Notice is hereby given, that the Parliamentary Contract and nab scribers' Agreement will lie for signature on the days and at the place -8 under-mentioned, between the hours of Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, and Two o'clock in the Afternoon. At Northampton, at the George Inn, on Monday, the 22d of Sep tember instant. At Daventry, at the office of E. S. Burton, Esq., solicitor, on Tues day, the 23d of September instant. At Warwick, at the office of Messrs. Haynes and Moore, So licitors, on Wednesday, the 24th of September instant. At Birmingham, at the George Inn, Digbeth, on Thursday, the 25th of September Instant. At Redditeh, at the office of E. Browning, Esq., solicitor, on Fri day, the 26th of September instant. At Cheltenham, at the Fleece Hotel, on Saturday, the 27th of September instant. At Kidderminster, at the office of Messrs. Boycot and Lucy, so licitors, on Monday, the 29th of September instant. At Liverpool, at the Albion Hotel, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 30th of September instant, and Ist of October next. At Glasgow, at P. W. Dixon, Esq.'s, office, on Friday, the 3d of October next. At Edinburgh, at the Royal Hotel, on Saturday, the 4th of Oc tober next RIXON and SON, Registered Sclicitors to the Company, 20, Jewry-street, London. Dated September 16, 1845. CORNWALL RAILWAY. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE (All of whom are Shareholders.) JOSEPH THOMAS TREFFRY, Place, Chairman. The Right Hon. the Earl of Falmouth The Right Hon. the Earl of St. Germans The Right lion. the Earl of Morley The Right Hon. Lord Clinton The Right Hon. Lord Wodehouse The Hon. George Matthew Fortescue, Tioconnoc, Cornwall Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., M.P., Carclew, Cornwall Sir Anthony Buller, Pound, Devon, Member of the Provisional Com• mittee of the North Devon Railway Company William Tyringham Praed, Esq., M.P., Trevethow, Cornwall Charles Russell, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Great Western Railway Company Thomas Gill, Esq., M.P., !Chairman of the South Devon Railway Company William G. Hayter, Esq., M.P., Director of the Great Western Railway Company Allen, John, Esq., Liskeard Avery, William, Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of the North Devon Railway Company Barlow, Frederick Pratt, Esq., Director of the Great Western Rail way Company Bere, Montagu 8., Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of the North Devon Rail! ray Company Boger, Deeble, Esq., Plympton Brown, John, Esq., Director of the* Bristol and Exeter Railway Company Batten, John, Esq., Penzance Browne, William, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company Braginton, George, Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of the North D won Railway Company Broad, Robert Richards, Esq., Falmouth Bastard, Richard, Esq. Member of the Provisional Committee of the North Devon Railway Company Broad, William Richards , Esq.; Mayor of Falmouth Brokenshir, Joseph, Esq., Mayor of Penryn Carlyon. Clement, M.D., Mayor of Truro Carne, William, Esq., Rosemundy, Cornwall Cole, Ralph, Esq, Director of the South Devon Railway Company Ching, John, Esq., Launceston Cotesworth, Robert, Esq., St. Helen's-place, London, Director of the Royal West India Mail Steam-packet Company Daubuz, William, Esq., Killion, Cornwall Dingley, Richard, Esq., Launceston Fripp, Charles 8., Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company Fox, Robert Were, Esq., Falmouth Fox, Alfred, Esq., Falmouth Fox, Charles, Esq., Perranarworthall, Cornwall Fox, Robert Barclay. Esq., Perranarworthall, Cornwall Fox, Thomas Were, Esq , Plymouth Fox, William, Esq., Director of the Smith Devon Railway Company Gray, Robert Alexander, Esq., St. Swithin's -lane. London Gibbs, James, Esq., Chairman of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company Gully, Major, Trevenen, Cornwall Gwatkin, John, Esq , Parc-Behan, Cot awall Hawker, William Henry, Esq., Director of the South Devon Railway Company Hooper, Henry, Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of the North Pevon Railway Company Jope, William, Esq., Tremeddon, Cornwall Kekewich, Samuel Trehawke, Esq., Peamore, Devon .. Morgan, William, Esq, Director of the Bristol and Exeter way Company . Michell, William, Eel., Truro Miller, Patrick, M.D., Director of the Bristol and Exete - lway, Company Nelson, John, Esq , Doctors'-commons Paynter, John, Esq., Boskenna, Cornwall Pethick, Henry, )1.D., Launceston Robartes, Thomas James Agar, Esq., Lanhydrock, Cornwall Roberts, John Coryton, Esq., Trevol, Cornwall Robinson, Philip Vyvyan, Esq.• Rectory, Redruth Rogers, The Rev. Canon, Penrose, Cornwall Rogers, Captain Frederick, R.N., Mawnan, Cornwall Rundle, Robert, Esq., Mayor of Devonport Rundle, John, Esq.. Member of the Provisional Committee of the North Devon Railway Company St. Auhyn, The Rev. Hender Molesworth, Clowance, Cornwall St. Auhyn, Edward, Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of the North Devon Railway Company • Smith, George, Esq., Camb - erne Shapland, Christopher, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Gloucester Railway Company Tothill, Wm., Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway Company Tremenbeere, Seymour, Esq., Pall-mall, London Tweedy, William, Esq., Truro Veen, Cornwall Tweedy, William Manse% Esq., Alverton. Cornwall Vivian, John, Esq., Pencaleniek, Cornwall Williams, Michael, Esq., Trevinee, Cornwall Williams, William, Esq., Tregollow, Cornwall Williams, John Memel, Esq., Scorner House, Cornwall Woollcombe, Thomas, Esq., Director of the South Devon Railway Company Wills, William D., Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company Willeocks, James C.. Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of the North Devon Railway Company (With power to add to their number). COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Treffry, Joseph Thomas Esq., Chairman Barlow, Frederick Pratt, Esq. Carlyon, Clement, M.D. Came, William, Esq. Cole, Ralph, Esq. Fox, Robert Were,'Esq. Fox, William, Esq. Gill, Thomas, Esq., M.P. Owatkin, John, Esq. Gibbs, James, Esq. Miller Patrick, M.D. Robartes, Thomas James Agar, Esq. Shapland, Christopher, Esq. Smith, George, Esq. . . . . Tweedy, William Mansell, Esq. Vivian, John, ESQ. Williams, Michael, Esq. Woollcombe, Thomas, Esq. ENGIN - exit—l. K. Brunel, Esq , F.R.S. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Glynn, llallifax, and Co. Messrs. Praed and Co. Truro and Falmouth—Messrs. Tweedy, Williams, and Co. DISTRICT BANKERS. Falmouth and Truro—Messrs. Ricketts, Enthoven, and Co. St. Austell, Bodmin, 1 Mesam. Robins, roster, and Co. Liskeard, and Launceston 3 Devon and Cornwall Banking Co. Lannceston —Messrs. Gill and Rundle Plymouth—Messrs. Harris and Co. SOLICITORS TO THE COMPANY. Messrs. Smith and Roberts, Truro Messrs. W. 0. and W. Hunt, 10, Whitehall, London LOCAL SOLICITORS. Messrs. render, Genn, and Genn, Falmouth John Williams, Esq., Penryn Mess. - s. Commins, and Son, Bodmin Messrs. Syr9onA and Luxmore, Wadebridge Christopher Childs, Esn., Liskeard • Messrs. Gurney and Lethbridze Cowlard, LanCeStOla SECRETARY (pro tem).—P. P. Smith, Esq., Truro in compliance with the suggestion of the Committee of the Abuse of Lords (the measure having previously received the sanction of the Board of Trade, and the approval of the House of Commons), a fur ther and most accurate survey of the whole line of country traversed between Plymouth and Falmouth has been determined upon, and Mr. Brunel has been instructed to carry out their Lordships' recom mendation. - The construction of a line from or near Launceston, by way of ere- Jliton to Exeter, forming a part of the North Devon scheme, by which it is proposed to give railway accommodation to the northern and central parts of that county, has rendered it most desirable that a Junction should he effected between the Cornwall Railway and North Devon line; Mr. Brunel has therefore been instructed to extend his survey with a view to effect this junction, and to afford direct com munication with Exeter and the North of Devon. . . ..... By the nroposed plan the following objects will he obtained—a continuous line of railway from Penzance and Falmonnth to Ply mouth, and thence by the South Devon line to Exeter. A direct line by way of Launceston and Crediton to Exeter. From Launces ton a line through Tavistock to Plymouth, and hy7the North Devon Railway a line through Barnstaple and South 3folton to join the Bristol anl Exeter line at Tiverton and Taunton. By the connexion which will thus be formed between the Cornwall Railway and the South Devon, North Devon, and West Cornwall Railways, the most complete and comprehensive system of railway communication will h • provided for the West of England, giving the utmost amount of accommodation to all the principal towns and places in the counties of Cornwall and Devon. In the county of Cornwall the towns of Penzance, St. Ives, Mara zion, Hayle, Camhorne, Beth - nth. Falmouth, Penryn, Truro, St. Austell. Lostwithiel, Bodmin, Wadebridye, Liskeard, Launceston, and Torpoint, and the great mining, commercial. trading, and agri cultural parishes a d districts of the county will have the benefit of railway communication ; while the ports of St. Ives, Portreath, New Quay, and Padstow on the north coast. and Mount's Bay. Falmouth, Mevagissey, Pentuan, Charlestown, Par, Fowey. and Looe on the south coast, will he connected with or brought within very moderate distances of the main line. In the laving ont of the. Cornwall Railway advantage' will also he taken of the several local railways already formed or now in course of construction. In carrying these ohjects Into effect the Company will have the most cordial co-operation and support of its associated Companies. nlmely, the Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, Bristol and Gloucester, the South Devon, the North Devon, and West Cornwall Railways. Considerable progress has already been made in the survey. INCREASF. OF CAPITAL. In order to effect the suzgested improvements and extension the capital will he increased by a stun of 600,0001., by the creation of half-shares of 25f. each, upon which a deposit of 2/. 10s. will be pay able on allotment. These shares will be issued to the Shareholders in the proportion of one half share for each share now held by them, provided application be made by them in the form and manner and within the time hereinafter specified. Tn eases where the shares were not originally allotted to them the parties must he approved of by the Committer,. A portion of the shares will be reserved to meet the requirements of the various local Interests. THE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER, AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND SWINDON AND BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION, Being an extension c' the South and Midlands' Junction Railway. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,200,0001., in 60,000 shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per share. PROVISIONAL COMMIIPTEE. Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House Major Beresford, M.P. William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of t' Welsh Mid land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Director of the Welsh Midland, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways David R. Ross, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, Director of the London and Manchester, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail ways Sir John E. De Beauvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir mingham Extension, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Sir George William Prescott, Bart, Theobalds, Herta, Director of the Chester and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' June-. tion Railways Sir William Wynn, Maesynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Brigad!ei -General Sir Henry Pynn, Director of the Direct Western Railway gir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Sir William Twysden, Bart., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean Railway William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c. Alderman of Lon don, Chairman of the Ma nchester an d Birkenhead Continuation, and London and Greenwich Railways, &c. &c. Thomas Sydney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Director of the London and 31aneaester Direct, and South. and Midlands' Junc tion Railways Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lon don and Westminster Bank, and Namur and Liege, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Donald Maclean, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Valley Con tinuation, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Major Oliver Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberys twith, and Central Wales, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Major-General I'arlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Worcae ter and Crewe, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Captain James Patrick Macdougal, late Bengal Royal General Staff, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of Dean, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways, &c. Captain Alexander Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, Director of the Legal and Commercial Insurance Company, the Great Western of Bengal, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth Railway Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment Railway Richard William Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Man chester, and Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life Insu rance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway James Clay, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Furness and White haven, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Col. Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail ways William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, Manag ing Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company, and Di rector of tile South and Midlands' Junction Railway Richard Carpenter, Esq , Magistrate of the County of Middlesex, Deputy-Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, Di rector of the Leicester and Bedford, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways G. W. Killett Potter, Esq., Secondary of the City of London Lieut.-General Sir Lewis Grant, K.C.8., 31, Harley-street John Jennings, Esq., Elm-grove, Hammersmith William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the Oxford, Witney and Cheltenham, and South and Midlands' Junc tion Railways Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde-park-street William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Britannia Life Insurance Company, and Derby and Stafford, and South and Midlands' Junc tion Railways George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Diiector of the Manahestet and Birmingham Railway Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manches ter Railway Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbr dge, Stafterdshire John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of the Church of England L'fe Insurance, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director of the London and Dover, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Ja•res Reeves, Esq , Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Cash, Esq. Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and Soath and Midlands' Junction Railways John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway George R. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junc tion, and Northampton and Banbury Railways William Paxton, Esq., Langford, near Bicester, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street, Director of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Con tinuation vailway John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Vice Chairman of the Lees and York Railway J. 1). Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond James Durness, Esq., Leytonstone, Essex G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed Celyn, Denbighshire, and Lonsdale-square, Islington Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway Martin Furness, Esq., Director of the Newark and Sheffield Railway William Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York and Leeds Railway Edmund Phillips, Esq., Avon House, Molksham, Wilts, Director of the South and Midlands Junction Railway Charles Thomas Ward, Esq., Luton lion, Beds, and Clopton 'House, Stratford-on-Avon, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Joseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Junc tion, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways George Henry Brook, Esq., Edgulin-lodge, Huddersfield, Provisional Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax and Bradford Union Rail way, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Captain Hitchins, H.E.1.C.5., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Birmingham and Oxford, and South Midlands' Junction Railways James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor -place, and Brandon Lodge, near Esq., Thurloe-square, Brompton, Director of Coventry, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Rail way h and Midlands' Junction Railways Esq., 30, Sackyille-street Thomas Cleobury, Major Walker, K.H., Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways William e Jersey, rlsle'ayt,soanndPsrooluet, Frederick James Esq , Torrington-sauare, and Alfreton, Derby, Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and South and Mid lands' Junction Railways g. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and n tion Railways The Hall Black Joseph Underwood, Esq., , heath, Director of the Me tropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Company, and Director of the South Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman idiands' Junction Railway Director of the Gloucester ' gland Life Insurance Company, and Director sod Aberystwith and Central Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways South n o A u d. th mH a i I n L d E a sq l 11 a ud i s ; of the South Colonel Fitch, York -terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the South moEielfsEqMidlands' Junction Railway Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds r of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance Railway, Director Williamoa fnthe Church i S d l l o a a il ii d c 81 , the Company, and Director of South and Midlands' Junction Railway dale, Director of the South-[;astern Captain C. W. Junction Railway astern and South Esq., Linco s Inn, Director of the Warwick and Frederick Jones, Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Manchester, Jolla Englis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, mon Railway Rugby and Southa Blackheath William Morley, Esq., , Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and and Midlands'Trunction • William Lee, Esq Essex and Suffolk Railways Th oma s Gooch, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway hill, Surrey J. Harvey, Esq. , Rush . E. Highgate, Middlesex Th omas Collingri John Wheelton, Esq., Director of tne Leicester and Bedford R a il w a „, ,sq irector oft W. A. Wilkinson , Esq., Dhe South and Nlidlar. 0.: Junction Railway R. H. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the C. Waite, North Metropolitan Railway Director of the Guarantee Society William Shark, Esq., Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton Frederick Collingridge , Gresham-street, Director of the Oxford Warren Stormes Hale, Esq. Thomassou Esq., Willesden; Middlesex and Worcester Extension Kingsmill Grove Key, Esq. Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction, and Brades, near Birmingham ter-plae, Portman -square W. Lee, Esq., Glouces Queen -street, Mal-fair Robert Power, Esq. M.D., Prospect-place House, Southampton, Director Admiral J. Ay-scoug ' h, lidlands' Junction Railway of the South and 3 Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton. and th YMaitedlsanidius'nJt:scqt.lo'n Railways South and Midlands' Junction Railways Major Grubbe, Eastwell House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the County, and Director o f the South and Midlands'Junction Railway Captain Seth N. Fisher, Dire ctor of the Warwick and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junc tion Railways T. G. Norbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester an Bedford Railway Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent d Valley Continua tion, and s oath and Midlands Junction Railways, and of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance Company William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway John Brocke Wallvicke, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Captain Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery William Lee,Esq.„ Director of the Readirg Railway Henry Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square William T. Thornton, Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman-square John Dennis, Esq., Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway Joseph Crockett, Esq , Alderman of Deyizes, and Director of the North Wilts Banking Company, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway John Halbert Halbert, F.sq., Gloucester-Place, London, Director of the Leicester and Birmingham Railway Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, London, Director of the Rugby and Worcester Railway William Peppercorne, Esq., London, and Bexhill, Sussex Captain T. Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Ilyde-park, Director of the John Barn e tt, E sq., C oroner for t h e C oun ty Leeds and Carlisle Rail w ay F. Duffield, Esq., Bolto n H o use, near Bradford Rev- F. R. Ilall,-D.D., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge of tile Oxford an d Ch e l ten h am R a il w ay William Spooner, Esq Chapel-street, Belg, rave -square, Director of the Newcastle and Esq., Railway o f Gloucester, Director Alexander prince, Esq., 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Bar- CONSUL II T A IL KE E RS— NGI II NE net North Junction ailway James Lees, Esq., Dolph, —elPh, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of the Saddleworth Banking Company (With power to ad:: to their number). r 11 LL D. F.R.S. Commerciale za__sir joi,n ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C..•• SOLICITOR—W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street. i.sß.a2seitneof, Lon.don; It appears that England will lines of r a be A d c h E i N de T d s. ion a.lway, which will become so many main trunks, intersec ing and itlongitudinally by four great inters by numerous lines, both transverse and oblique, opening rapid and ready communication with t he intermediate dis tricts, with packet stations, and sv w i t h s ea -port tons. The more easterly of these, which is also the longest , o ri g inating at Newcastle upon. Tyne, and passing through York, Peterborough, and Cambridge, may be said to terminate in London, whence all places are accessible. The second line, counting westward, is more tortuous, and has also a common northern terminus with the preceding, by which its ad vantages are materially restricted. This lin e, descending the Ere wash Vale, an d passing through Rugby and Oxford, becomes a South ampton line by falling into the South-Western Railway at Basing stoke. The third longit u di na l li ne , or the most wester l y , is still more de fective In design than the preceding ; employing the steep and narrow railway called the Birmingham and Gloucester as its first link, it traverses nearly Ina right line the least populous and most undulating parts of Glou ces t er , B er k s , Wilt s , and Hants ; and, properly speaking, has no independent terminus. A large lon g it u di na l sec ti on of the kingdorn—the West Midland district—a district inviting a similar species of accommodatin from concentrated local ad v a n t age s, still remains unProvided with o a chief trunk line ; and it is c on t em plated to remedy this deficiency by the present undertaking, or a fourth longitudinal line. Adopting Birmingham as a northern terminus of the West Mid land, Manchester, and Southampton Railway,.it is proposed carry a line through or near to Stratford-on-Avon, thence between Moreton, Stow, liorthlcach, Fairford, Cricklade, and Swindon, where it will merge in the South and Midlands' Junction Rsilway. The len n gth of the proposed line will be about sixty miles, and the district traversed by it is gently undulating, and desely At its southern terminus, Swindon, it becomes identical with ih^ South and Midlands, by means of which it opens a most direct connn unihrist ca tion hitherto suggested with the harb ours of Weymnath, C church, Poole, and S.asthampton. At its northern terminus, Bir mingham, it communicates with a serie s of lines, projected, in pro gress, or completed, which will form the most direct line that and the can ever be constructed between the southern ports ol great manufacturing districts. • lie alum gi Dog gamin the wouttglod, Manclinter Ind Southampton Railway project, a combination of advantages prc sents itself—the result of a design, to a great extent, but of contin gencies also. If ii, be desirable that the terminus of every railway should be situated at some commercial or populous place, in this re spect the present project Is peculiarly fortunate. If Government be resolved on countenancing the shortest and most direct lines, it will be seen, by laying a rule on the map of Engl nd from Salisbury to Manchester, that a course due north and south between these places will pass very nearly through the towns mentioned in this prospectus, as being on the proposed line ; and actual measurement has shown this line to be the shortest between Southampton and Manchester by 26 miles. By the construction, therefore, of little more than GO miles of rail, as here proposed, the shortest, most direct, and convenient communication between Manchester and Southampton will be es tablished--a line, also, however superior in. position to others pro mising similar advantages, may yet be considered as competing with none, but as an independent work, originating at Birmingham find terminating in the seaports of Weymouth, Christchurch, Poole, and Southampton. In the allotniOnt of shares in this Company the Directors propose to give a preference .to the original shareholders of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Company. Applications for prospectuses anti plans may bo made, and forms of application for shares had, at the Office of W. B. James, Esq., Solicitor, 5, Basin.4hall-street ; and of the following gentlemen : Londoa—Alessrs. J. Peppercorne and Co., 9, Old Broad-street; Mr. J. B. Harrison, 8, Bank Chambers ; Mr. Thomas Hanbury, 4, Angel-court. Liverpool—Messrs. Mills and Co., and Messrs. Neilson. Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. William Marshall. Hull—Messrs CoHinson and Flint. Leeds—Messrs: Watson and Co. Stratford-on.Avon—Mr. William Bolton. Exeter—Mr. Thomas Sanford. Plymouth—Messrs. Heyward and Puliner Birmingham— Mr. Collis, and Mr. John Wright. Glasgow—Meters Tassie and Co. Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co., and Messrs. M'Callum and Co. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the West Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railway. Gentlemen,--I request that you will allot to me Shares of 20/. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parlia mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Name (in fu11)... ....... ............ Residence Trade or Profession ..... ........ Reference • • • • • • • Address of Referee.............. Date PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED. G REAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT RAI [MAY, By a Junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedford. _ __ Distance, 120 miles. Capital 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share. (Pursuant to the Standing Orders of phe House of Commons.) L IVERPOOL AND BURY RAILWAY. CONTRACT FOR s LEEPEPF. he DIRECTORS rte READY ts) RECEIVE TENDERS for the SUPPLY of RAILWAY SLEEPERS, conformab'e Specifications to be seen at the Company's Offices, 33, Dale-sire::, Liverpool ; or at the Office of Sir John Macneill and James Thompson, 9, Wh!Zeln 'l place, London. Offers to be forwarded to the Secretary, up to the Ist Novem ber next. By order, JOHN S. lIERON, Secretary. Liverpool and Bury Railway Office, 33, Dale-stmet, Liverpool, Gth September, 1845. 31 1DLAND AND IL TIIIRSK JUNCTION ILA (Provisionally Registered.) Notice is hereby given, that no further Application for Shares in this undertaking can be received after TUESDAY, the 23d day of September instant, By order, DUNNING and STAWMAN,} Solicitort CHARLES CLOUGH, REMINGTON'S LINE, T HE LONDON AND MANCHESTER DIRECT INDEPENDENT RAILWAY. The COMMITTEE of MANAGEMENT hereby give notice that one part of the PARLIAMENTARY CONTRACT and SUB SCRIBERV AGREEMENT will LIE for EXECUTION, and Scrip Certificates will be Issued to the Subscribers In exchange for the Bankers' Receipts, at the places and times mentioned below : Bath—At the York Hotel, on Tuesday, the 23d day of September instant. Bristol—At the Bush Hotel, on Wednesday, the 24th day of Sep- tember instant. Worcester—At the Star Hotel, on Friday, the 2GL'a day of Septem• ber instant. Blrmin,gham—At Dee's Royal Hotel, on Saturday, the 27th day of September instant. Lichfield—At the Swan Inn, on Monday, the 29th day of September instant. Leicester—At the Three Crowns Inn, on Tuesday, the 30th day of 1 September instant. Bedford—At the Company's Office in the High-street, on Thursday, the 24 day of October next. Uttoxeter—At the Offices of William Arnold Bainbridge, Esq., Soli citor, en Tuesday, the 234 day of September instant. Burto.i-upon-Trent -- At the Offices of Messrs. Bass and Sweting, Solicitors, on Wednesday, the 24th day of September instant. Ashby-de-la-Zouch—At the Offices of Edward M. Green, Esq., So licitor, on Thursday, the 25th day of September instant. Cheadle—At the Offices of Richard Lowe, Esq., Solicitor, on Satur day, the 27th day of September instant. Leek—At the Offices of Thomas Redfern, Esq., Solicitor, on Monday, the 29th day of September instaist. Macclesfield—At the Offices of Messrs. Parrott, Colville, and May, Solicitors, on Tuesday, the 30th day of September instant, and Wednesday, the Ist day of October next. Manchester—At the Offices of the Company, St. Ann's-square, on Thursday and Friday, the 24 and 3d days of October next. Derby—At the Offices of Henry Mosley, Esq., Solicitor, on Tuesday, the 23d clay of September instant. Leeds—At the Royal Hotel, on Wednesday, the 24th day of Septem ber instant. Hull—At the Victoria Hotel, on Friday, the 26th day of September instant. Edinburgh—At the London Hotel, on Tuesday, the 30th day of Sep- tember instant. Glasgow—At the London Hotel, on Thursday, the 2d day of Oc tober next. Liverpool—At the Adelphi Hotel, on Monday, the 6th day of October next. By order, H. W. MATTHEWS, secretary, tern i that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton about 32 miles that it will traverse rich and populous agricultural and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as well from railways now in course of construction as from ethers pro jected, with e\ ery chance of success. As to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that the vast number of merchant vessels continually detained in the Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and a) once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway; and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol and Southampton ; to what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire may be further developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a traffic both in goods anti passengers, from its western terminus, the amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the map will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex tent of midland distrizt, comprising rich and populous parts of So mersetshire, Dorsetahire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of railroad accommodation. Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance in the event of war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet commerce of the kingdom ; it may not be out of place to quote here the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley, which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways, he is reported to have said :—" I consider that the com munication between the metropolis and the great outports to be not a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company, it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth ; and it may be further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed to interfere with that great national object. The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for wardness, and the whole will be ready for the next session ef Par liament. It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be constructed at an unusually small expense ; that the undertaking will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, anti co-operation of the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways in the kingdom. Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at four pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected with the Direct Western district. Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary, or to any respect able broker in town or country London, September 11, 1845. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway Company. Gentlemen,--I request you will allot me shares of 251. each In the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21. I2s. 6d per skare thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con. tract when required Dated 1845. Name in full •••••••••••••••••• Residence • • • • • • • • • • • ....... • ..... • • Trade or Profession • • • • • . •• • • • • •• • • Place of Business (if any) • • • • • • .. • • Reference • ...... •• .. •. • • • • • • ••• • • • Signature.. • • ............ • DIRECT LONDON AND EXETER RAIL WAY COMPANY, With Extension to Falmouth and Penzance. Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 11. 7s. 6d. per Share. With power to raise 1,000,0001. more, if necessary. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110.) OFFICES, No. 52, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE, Adjoining the County Fire Office. COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. E. S. Blundell, Esq., it, Lower Seymour - street Thomas Dowglas.se, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's-woed,Direc tor of the Great Eastern and Western, and Manchester and Bir kenhead Continuation Railways George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the London and Holyhead Railway Colonel Sir Frederick Ilankey, Queen Ann-street, Caven dish-square, Director of the lonian and Ceylon Banks, and Bor deaux, Toulouse, and Cette Railway T. Piers Healey, Esq., Elm-court, Temple A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Carlogan-place H. H. Ilungerford, Esq., Dingley Park, Market Harborongh, and Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Brigadier-General Sir henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street, Director of the County Fire-office, and Director of the South and Midlands Railways W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the Oxford, South ampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Walter Shairp, Esq., Su,sex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square, and of Exeter, Director of the Manchester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction, Warwick and Worcester, Shropshire Mineral, and Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railways (With limited power to add to their number). ENGINEER. —John Brathwaite, Esq., C.E., 4, Trafalgar-square. B INEERS.—Messrs. Curries and Co., 29, Cornhill ; London and West minster Bank, St. James's square. SOLICITOR.—D. E. Colombine, Esq., 8, Carlton Chambers, Regent-street. Prospectuses and plans may be had at the Company's office, 52, Regent-street, and of all the local Solicitors and Agents. INCREASE OF DEPOSITS. In consequence of the new standing orders of Parliament requiring a deposit of 101. per cent., instead of 51. per cent., as heretofore, it is requisite to call fn the further payment of 2/. per share on the shares already issued. The Shareholders will therefore be called upon to pay the further sum of 2 1 . per share on the shares respectively held by . them. All holders of Scrip Certificates or of Bankers' Receipts, are re quested to forward the same to the Secretary, on nr before Tuesday, the 30th day of September instant, and to state at the same time their wishes with respect to new shares by letter in the form below. All holders of shares not originally allotted to them, failing to tran mit their Scrip Certificates, on or before that day, will forfeit all benefit of their shares ; and original subscribers failing by the same day to transmit their Serin Certificates, or Pankers' Receipts, will forfeit their right to an additional number of shares. Any parties wishing to withdraw, will he entitled to receive 2ns. per share, on annliention to the Rankers, and on giving up ther Scrips on or before the 30th day or September instant. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Comm'ttee of Management of the Cornwall Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l herewith transmit to you Scrip Certificates of shares (or a Banker's Recnipt for shares), held by me in this Company, numbered as at foot ; and I request that you will allot to me Half Shares therein, being the proportion of one for every share as advertised ; and I undertake to make the further payment of 2/. per share on the first-mentioned shares, and to pay the deposit of 21. 10s. per half share on the said half shares, and to execute the new Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of 1845. Number of Scrip. .. •••••••••••• Christian and Surname In fu11.......... N.R. A reference i!; Residence ••••••••••••• . • • • • • • • • .• Profession or Business .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • lerinir ße ed fe i t r i e c n a c s e es . re spect of . ..._. . e _ shares o not originally allotted to them. vi . , - , l :!nV es i sr. lyy be obtai ned BrolArs Sm i th t-- . sl,:ssrs. m„,.... Well.. _ wee r t xter and Braitl Mesr. 'Neilson, and 4 .' . u V . where ... . p . e ; s . o . n . ; .a . p . p . l y . • .1 n " ..• from the Solicitors of the Com ,and Roberts, Truro ; and from the following matte, 6R, ( ild Broad-street, and I Prlnsep, 75, Old Broad-street, L x ndon ; dale, Leeds ; Mr. Pearson, Elwrmar Lloyd, Liverpool; Messrs. Bids- Messrs. Buchanan and Altken, tigham ; Mr. Duncuft , Manchester ; Wane HorTood and pilaw; In Glasg°w ; lit. Goes, Bristol ; and Mouth. WORCESTER, WARWICK, and RUGBY RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 900,0001., in 45,000 Shares of 201. each Deposit, 21. 23. per Share, Offices, No. 5, Gresham-street, Bank. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Henry George Ward Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Great Eastern and. Western Railway Company Sir William Smith, Bart., Cardiston House, Worcester George Allies, Esq , Alderman of Worcester, Cwm Celyn Ironworks Richard Ashton, Esq., White Lion-courtr, Cornhill William Bestow, Esq., Surrey-place, London Robert Bestow, Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of the Greet Easiest and Western Railway James Barker, Esq., Severn's Stoke, Worcester Charks Blealen, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge, and Coulsden Court, Surrey John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Walter Chamberlain, Esq„ Worcester Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company George Beauchamp Cole, Esq., Chester street, Grosvenor-place, Di rector of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Mr. Jeremiah Clarke, of Macclesfield, Merchant, Director of the Lon and Manchester Direct Mr. William Clay Mr. James Coucher, Wool Merchant, Worcester Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Copthall-court, and Old Palace. Richmond, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Mr. George Cox, Glove Manufacturer, Worcester Edward Henry Cole, Esq„ Monasterwin, Kildare Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlbro'-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company henry Clarke Duppa, Esq., Quarry House, Boughton Winchilsea, Kent, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Com pany Francis Davis, Pershore Thomas Davies. Esq., Powick, Worcester George Ellins, Esq., salt manufacturer, Droitwich George 1 nglish, Esq., needle manufacturer, Feckenham, Redditch John English, Esq , needle manufacturer, Feckenham, Redditch George Farley, Esq., Renwick House, and Crowle, Worcestershire, banker, Worcester Mr. J. Firkins, of the firm of Firkins and Co., glove manufacturers and hop merchants Henry Grasett, Esq., Chesham-street, Belgrave-square John Matthew Gutch, Esq., banker, Worcester Mr. Edwin Gardener, corn, hop, and seed merchant, Worcester Mr John Hughes, wool merchant, Clop-gate, Worcester Mr. John Hood, merchant and carrier, Worcester John Hall, Esq., merchant, Worcester Joseph Hall, Esq., Alderman and Mggistrate of Worcester Edmund Herhert, Esq., Powick. Worcester Henry Herbert, Esq., Powick, Wsrcester Mr. George Hill, of the firm of Messr. Hill and Turley, Worcester T. C. Hill, Esq., Pwllddw Coliiery, Blaenavon James James, Esq., Swansea William Laurence, Esq., Brixton, Director of the London and Man chester Direct Railway • William Lionel Lampet, Esq., The Highlands, Oxfordshire, Deputy- Lieutenant or that county, and Warwick-place, Leamington John Whecley Lea, Esq., Vice-Chairman of the Severn Navigation Company, Managing Director of the Droitwich Pateut Salt Com pany, tad a Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company John Lilly, Esq., Alderman of Worcester, Worcester Royal Porcelain Manufactory Mr. Lloyd Mr. Thomas Lucy, Albion Steam Flour Mills, Worcester James Macmillan, h:sq., Southampton, Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway Arthur Mann, Esq., Woburn-square, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Amos Middleton, Esq., M.D., Leamington William Middleton, Esq., Lansdowne-place, Leamington Henry Moss, Esq., Severn Bank, Worcester William Moore, Esq., Elm Bank, Powick, Worcester John Morton, Esq., Wick, Worcester J. B. Morgan, Esq., The Terrace, Powick, Worcester C. B. Morgan, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Russell-square, London Robe; Nuttall, Esq., Kempsey House, Worcester J. C. Nutt, Esq., Hallow, Worcester Mr. F. H. Needham, merchant, Worcester Richard Pope, Esq., Camberwell Mr. Powell, wine merchant, Worcester John Pumphrey, Esq., Droitwich 3lr. James Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Ilea and Sons, Maltsters, Worcester Mr. d . P. Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Rea and Son, Maltsters, Wor cester James Reeves, Esq., Cheapside, and Leyton, Director of the Direct London and Manchester and Great Manchester and Rugby and Southampton Railway Companies Messrs. James Smith and Sons, Needle Manufacturers, Astwood Bank, Redditch James Robertson, Esq., Worcester Joseph Rusher, Esq., Glyn Leiros, Neath Messrs. Smith, Innes, and Co., Iron Foundry, Leamington T. G. Smith, Esq., Mayor of Droitwich J. B. Spedding, Esq., Mines Royal Copper Company, London and Neath Captain Stewart, R.N., Bertre-terrace, Leamington Timothy Steward, Esq., Higham Lodge, Norwich Henry Stock, Esq., Beddgelert, Carnarvonshire Me. John Stone, Worcester S. 11. Steele, Esq., Abergavenny Thomas Thould, Esq., Irapney Lodge, Droitwich Magistrates of Droitwich Thomas Tompkins, Esq., Droitwich William Trentham, Esq., Leamington John Twamley, Esq., Warwick George S. Trower, Esq., St. Mary-at-Hill, and St James's-place, St. James's John Tolley, Esq., Westford, Magistrate of Droitwich Samuel Tombs, jun., Esq., Town Clerk of Droitwich James Upfill, Esq., Tile Green, Bromyard, a Director of the Stafford shire and Shropshire, and Dover and Bristol Railways Mr. Wells, Hop Merchant, Worcester John Hunt Wilson, Esq., Pershore Mr. Woodward, Hoe Merchant, Worcester John Henry Walsh, Esq., Worcester Mr. James Wall, Merchant and Carrier, Worcester • Mr. John Webb, Worcester John Webb, Esq., Needle Manufacturer, Feckenham, Redditch Thomas Webb, Esq., Needle Manufacturer, Feckenham, Redditch Benjamin B. Williams, Esq., 37, Throgmorton-street, and Bryan stone-square, London With power to add to their number. MEP ENGINEER. William Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S. ASSISTANT ENGINEER. S. F. Griffin, Esq., C.E SOLICITORS. Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street, London. Henry Foley, Esq., Worcester. BANEERS. London—The London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury. The Commercial Bank of London. Worcester—Messrs. Farley, Lavender, and Co. LOCAL AGENTS. Droitwich—Messrs. Curtler and Holyoake Warwick and Leamington—A. S. Field, Esq. Rugby—W. F. Wratislaw, Esq. SECRETARY—John Hughes, Esq. This Line, which, subject to the decision of the Gauge Commis sioners, will be constructed on the Broad Gauge winciple, will com mence at the Worcester Station of the Great Eastern and Western Railway, and, proceeding by Redditch and Henley-in-Arden, will tcuch Warwick and Leamington, and end at Rugby, the terminus of the Midland Counties Railway and of the proposed Rugby and Hunt ingdon Junction Railway. It will communicate with Droitwich, Studley, Alcester, and Stratford-on-Avon. At Warwick, it will unite with the Birmingham and Oxford Junc tion Railway, the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway, and the Lon don, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway ; and at Rugby, with the London and Birmingham, the Midland Counties, and the projected Rugby and Huntingdon Junction Railways. The country through which it will pass, is thickly populated, and of the richest description. It presents no engineering difficulties, and from its population, its manufactures, and agricultural produce, it possesses sources of sueh abundant traffic as to render it highly re munerative to the capitalists. The object proposed is to complete the line of railway communica tion between the Western, Midland, and Eastern portions of the Kingdom, and a glance at the Map of England will show that this will be effected in the most direct manner by the present line ; touch ing, as it will, at one of its termini, a railway running direct from Swansea to Worcester, and at the other, the projected line from Rugby to Huntingdon —from which point a railway communication has been already provided. By means of this Railway, the manufactures of all the towns and the agricultural produce of the country contained within its range, as well as the Ports on the Eastern and North-Eastern Coast, will have opened to them a direct and unbroken communication with the great and densely-populated mineral fields of South Wales, as well as Pie markets of the Northern portion of the principality. To the population along the line as well as to the Midland and Northern portions of he kingdom, this undertaking will present the most direct communication with those towns of fashionable resort— Leamington and Cheltenham. To the inhabitants of Leamington and Was wick, it will open the most direct communication with the city of Worcester and South Wales, whilst to the inhabitants of Worcester, it will open the markets of the Eastern portions of the country. The Shareholders in the several railways proposed to be joined or intersected, will have a preference in the allotment of shares in this undertaking. No person will be liable for more than his deposit till the Act is obtained, and power will be applied for to allow interest at four pounds per centum on all calls from the time of their respective payments, and to limit the liability of the shareholders to the amount of their subscription. . _ Applications for shares in the annexed form to he made to the Provisional Committee, at the office, 5, Gresham-street, London, or to Messrs. John Shewell and Son, sharebrokers, Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, 4, Bank-buildings, and Mr. John Smith, 3, Shorter's-court, London; Mr. John Duncuft, sharebroker, Man chester ; Mr. John O'Neil, sharebroker, Manchester ; Messrs. Schultz and Carr, sharebrokers, and Messrs. Reyno'ds and Son, Liverpool ; Messrs. H. and C. Beardshaw, sharebrokers, Leeds; Messrs. Tate and Nash, sharebrokers, Bristol ; Mr. James Pearson, sharebroker Birmingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., sharebrokers, Bradford ; Mr. William Miles, sharebroker, Worcester; Mr. Robert Allan, sharebroker, Edinburgh; Mr. William Gordon, sharebroker, Aberdeen ; Messrs. Black and Co., sharebrokers, Buchan-street, Glasgow; and Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, sharebrokers, Clas • gow ; Messrs. Bruce and Symes, sharebrokers, Dublin; of whom prospectuses may be had. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To. the Provisional Committee of the Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway Company. Gentlemen,— . l request ion will allot to me shares of 201. each in the above-named Coml.any, and I here•hy undertake to pay the Deposit thereon, and to execute the necessary I athen required Namein full •• • • ..... .. ............. Place of Business f.r Profession... .•• • . • Signature .. • • . • • • •• Name, Residence, and Profession of Referee SS • • .41 , 0, - '• .• • 00000 •• •• •• •• eliCe• es! 0.21.1 1 .61,0 PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT, VLY and WISBEACH DIRECT RAILWAY, ‘.4 through Littlefort, Welney, Upwell, and Outwoll ; to corn nience at the City of Ely, where it will form a junction with the Eastern Counties and Norfolk Railways, and proceed from thence to the important Town and Port of Wisbeach. (Registered Provisionally.) Capital, 250,0001., in 12,500 Sharer of 201. each. Deposit, 21. per Share. Distance, Twenty-four Miles. This railway will be the nearest route from London to Wisbeach. Prospectuses, with the names of the ProVisional Committee, and other particulars of this important branch of railway, will he pub lished with as little delay as practicable. In the meantime, ap. ilea tions for shares may be addressed to HENRY F. RICIIARDSON, Esq., Solicitor to the Promoters, 36, Coleman-street, London. PRESENT PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE, ;The names of a further Provisional Committee will be published in a few days.) The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne Sir William Twysden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and Erewash Valley Extension Railways _ _ . . Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway, of the South and Midland Junction, and West Midland Railways • Major-General Sir Robert Barton,K.C.ll., Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and Trent Valley Continuation Railways C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Midland . - Railway - John Byng Ranks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey William Ilardgett, Esq., Winchester-street, Broad-street, Director of the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford, Railways William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Bel rave-square, Di rector of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction Millways Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten• sion Railway John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London. Berry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways Hienry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's Park, Hampstead, Director of the Shemeld, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Railway _ _ _ Charles Sallsbury Butler, Esq., the Lodge, Upper Clapton Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle House, Cromerall, near Leeds James Bateman, Esq., Park House, near Bradford William Banks, Esq., Honey-lane Market Thomas Burnley, Esq., (Thum - sail, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds and %Vest Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Henry Sherard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street W. S. Cross, Esq., I)irector of the London and Birmingham Exten sion Fr*ncis nacre, Esq., Strat'ord, Essex Samuel Bateman, Esq„ Croft House, near Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway John Alcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, near Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway R. Davenport, Esq., Alverston, near Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway A. A.. Davenport, Esq., Eastwood, Notts Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans field, and Midland Junction Railway Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shef field Railway H. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railways Francis Bennett Goldney, Esq., Manor House, Brixton, Director of the Derby, IJttoxeter, and Stafford, and Direct Manchester (Ras trick's line) Railways Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapsids William GatlliY, Esq., 12, Park-place, Leeds, Director of the West Yorkshire and Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railways William Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Charles Gibson, Esq., Rolland-place, Clapham Robert Mercies, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds Richard Hargrave, Esq., York-place, Leeds S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash Val ley Extensiou and West Midland Railways Thomas Heelis, Esq., Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lan cashire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire North- Eastern, and of the Liverp Nal and Leeds Direct Railways John 'Midge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Direc tor of the Derby and Stafford Railway William Empson Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Di lorekr n a e n s House,d Borough ne o a f r Hull, u 3f an a d - B ag r r e i ws e t t er o iai r t e of f o t rile Middletont Yheor East intadn Riding of d H Hull Railway Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley Railways Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Henry Jennings, Esq., Park-place, Leeds, Director of the Manches ter, Southampton, and Poole, and Bradford and Wakefield Railways Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley and Con tinuation and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South Midland and Oxford Extension Railways Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., J.P., Hull, Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Selby Railway Thomas Rogers, Esq., Laura-place, Bradford, Director of the Liver pool and Leeds Direct Railway John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Byeullah House, Enfield, Managing Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Junction, the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and the Direct Western Railways - George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury Hall, Sheffield, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbals, Hull, Di rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbals, Hull Thomas Smith, Esq., 31. D., 30, North-street, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways James Templed*, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, . . _ . and Stafford Railway. James Robinson, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet and Blythe Valleys Railways George Turner, Esq., Hunton-hill, near Birmingham, Director of the South Staffordshire, and Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railways. ENGINEER-IN.CHIEF—Sir John M'Neil, L.L.D., and F.R.S. ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq. LONDON SOLICITORS. J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court Owen Gray, Esq., } J. B. Illidge, Esq., 25 , Great Tower-street, BANKERS. London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co. Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co The object of this railway is to connect, in the most direct coarse, the important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds with the Metropolis, the want of which has long been felt, and is too univer sally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under this cod viction that this important undertaking, after several minute exa minations of the country through which it will pass, has been brought forward. The proposed line will commence at the junction of the Manche - ter and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wake field, and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of that Company to extend their line in the ensuing cession of Parlia ment), and by thus availing itself as far as possible of the existing railways, will complete the most direct and least expensive trunk line, from London to Leeds, York, and Hull. It will pass in its route within an available distance of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster, Rotherham, East Redford, Nottingham, Newark, Grantham, Melton Mowbray, Oakham, and Stamford. The importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature of its course (embracing, as it does, a most extensive population within its limits) as also from the absence of any direct communication for the conveyance of passengers and merchandise. By the construction of this railway, railway communication to London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by means of the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newaut and Nottingham (by the Nottingham and Lincoln line), and to Sheffield and Gainsbo rough (by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much shorter route than by any existing Railways. Independently of the advantages offered to the towns in the several counties through which this Line will pass, the Line in itselfconsi dered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, Is sufficient to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic between these two places would produce such a return on the capital required, as to admit of a dividend, equal to that of any railway in operation : but when it is borne in mind, that a Company is being formed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow with Leeds by means of a junction with tho York and Carlisle Railway, no better line can be presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct communica tion from Glasgow and the Western parts of Scotland to London, but would also connect Edinburgh and the Eastern parts of Scotland as well as Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North Midland, and Great North of England Railways), with the Metropolis, which would be considerably shorter than the accommodation offered by any other Company, and when cost of construction is considered, there cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given to the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway. The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a branch line with the East and West India Docks on the river Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 999 years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks, which are capable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods from all parts of the world can take place, is a most important fea ture in favour of the direct communication from the manufacturing towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway, and by branch railways to the main trunk line, through which all goodt from the whole of the manufacturing dis tricts could be conveyed at once to these warehouses for shipment, thereby avoiding the present delay and expense of cartage, and in reality establishing an almost direct and an invaluable connexion between the rivers Clyde and Thames. It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties, that the works will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good, and that it will not materially interfere with any ornamental property. The Subscribers will he held liable only to the extent of their first deposits until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only to the amount of their subscriptions. It is proposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of t he line, and a so to extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, in the event of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford. Applications for Shares (in the form annexed) may be made to J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court, and Messrs. Owen Gray and Illidge, 25, Great Tower-street, the joint solicitors to the Company, at the Company's temporary offices, 9, Copthall-court, London. No application will be attended to unless accompanied by a satis factory reference. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway. Gentlemen,—l request yon will alict me Shares, of 251. each, in the above undertaking*, and 1 u 'der:Ake to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number tha t ma y be allotted to me, and also to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree. meut when required tltll •• • , • Ad tress in full ........ .• • oc,upatiou ...........: •. .. .... . . • .. • . ..... ••••• ftfirenc4 ..... .„. ,„, „ an .1 GREAT M ANCIIESTER, MMLAN GRIMSBY JUNCTION RA EWA .."-• , nee will be Tii, ShAreholde77 are respeeti'ully informed that ~ tt'All en-. • give': - ,viih the Parliamentary Contract and Str)sul , ns' for execution by the Shareholders, at the i - ollowin; ~ :t.k I ,'„, o :'„ri A undermentioned days, between the 'mum of Ten a la ''''' ' -'2 ' when the Bankers' Receipts may be excham:ed for S I,a• a 20th Lverpoot —Adelphl Hotel, Friday and .S ., t l' , Iqh Am ur( a . ~ September. d 2 3 d a y, 22d an Manchester—Moseley. Arms, Monday and TuesC ditto. , IA , 2 40 Bradford—Mr. Mason's Office, Sharebroker, 'W. aes —: ' ditto. Huddersfield—Mr. Moore's Office, Thursday, 25th , til to. .A-g-r-cenil 1110 Leeds—Royal Hotel, Friday and Saturday, 2.;th and 2i London—Castle and Falcon, Aldersgate-street, T. tie days September, and Wednesday, lst October. FRANCIS PARKER, St cr etary. Rotherham, Sept. 13, 1845. tit ditto3.o ItiOTTINGHAM, EREWASH V A L 14.1C AMBER GATE, AND MANCHESTER RAI! AS .20 ;, 4 5. 6=p:thy's Offices, Nottingham, Sept. 0 14 I;re -7!he Committee of Management of the NOM' 20 0 % in : t to' wash Valley, Amber Gate, and Manchester Rally ray CO'-I,een have to. apprise their shareholders that an arrange ] cent has concluded tar the amalgamation of this Company h the , ham, Vale of Belvoir, and Grantham and .No,tinghai and °L Railway Comaiea. And that arrangements have also been entered int a for the p ci u s l chase of the Nottingham and Grantham Canals, upon tt r: bel ief/ to the several Companies. the Se The details of the arrangement by which shares ;A bl iir on, Corni4any will be appropriated to shareholders of the .Notis Erewi.sh Paley, Amber Gate, and Manchester Railway Con Va" n"i exchs ngc for shares now held by them, will be ittlju.sted end C O; ideated o The Directors do not doubt that an agreement, ern' Jracir stttuted ten.led, and rich a field of enterprise, in which the ne' ply-cot body 1;111 have the co-operation of the landed propriutary of rn biar shire, .Nottinghamshire, and Lincolnshire, and a powerful 'e"--„eljoil Bon of canal companies, and of the railway interests et ,1 " - therewith, willhavetde entire satisfac:ion of Cteir sharehm ed ,ll __ n • TAOS. BISHOP, Vice-CI taito"-. JNO. GOUGH, hears tar. r. TV UT FIN GFTA M, VA LE of 13.EL 1 /0 1. 1 11 GRANTIIAAI RAILWAY. 10' Company's Offices, Nottingham, ,Sept. 18, 03c1 - The Committee of Management of the Notting,h am, Vale ', ba re. volt*, and Granthamßailway Company, have to app rise Ihci!,,,,for holders that an arrangement has been concluded r: the anuit-or Hon of this Company with the _Nottingham, Erewa a h Va1fe3",.4,011 Gate, ant Manchester, and Nottingham and ',Boston Companies. p a!' And that arrangements have elsa been entered into for -eficll chase of the Nottingham and Grantham Canals, up , m terms b° 39 to the several Companks. COW The detsils of the arrangement by which shares. in the J`Ze vale pany will be appropriated to shareholders in the ;:faitting,lnO s s oreg of Belvoir, and Grantham lla!lway Company, in ex chanze fer d e lal• now hell by them, will be adjusted and commusticab 311 will iota ‘0 The Directors do not doubt that an aqrcanittnt. eoibra cil i l tu ted tended aM rich a field of enterprise, in which the' n ewly -61 pahr body will have the co-operation of the landed pr opt shire, Nottinghamshire, and Lincolnshire, and a pc.wset l.o :,, r ests tion of canal companies, and of the leading ra ']way ja f tht U connexion therewith, will have the entire sa tisfat :thin ° shareholders. Ilra y. THOS. BISHOP, Vi ce -C- 31 THOS. JACKSOH - , Se N OTTINGH ANL arid BOSTON Et. NIL' 4, 4 % Company's Offices, Nottingham, S, pt. 181 Boston The Committee of Management of the Notting , is In a n l.l, t Railway Company have to apprise their share! ad idols this arrangement has been concluded for the amalgams:tite f "'I Alen: pony with the Nottingham, Erewash Valley, Amber ( late, 1007 ebester, and Nottingham, Vale of Belvoir, and Gr 4n tha' Com And panies. ,• the P r. that arrangements have also been entered .111 ') chase of the Nottingham and Grantham Canals, by lit te rins be. Vale of Belvoir, awl Grantham Railway Companles,, non neficial to the several Companies. fiery Cd . The details of the arrangement by which shares tin the -,- pany will be appropriated to shareholders in the Yiottinge3-tbeoh Boston Railway Company. in exchange for shares wow held I ' l will be wijusted and communicated without delay. ..,„. ett The DireCtors do not doubt that an agreement . braci"b„ s tito, tended and rich a field of enterprise, in which the tie ,%IY -c° *,:perb• Y. body will have the co-operation of the landed pro, )1 atarY et shire, Nottinghamshire, and Lincolnshire; and a r Trial coo' tion of canal companies, and of the leading railway flexion therewith, will have the entire satisfactie is the holders. ro, Me an ' JNO. RAWSO N : • - -a B. BROUGH, he •rateta r j 13,0V G"' ISLE OF AXHOLME, GAINS r S l ' and GOOLE RAILWAY, WITH EXTENS 101 s. • rs TO (Provisionally Registered.) , sc ribe „. 7 03 The Letters of Allotment having been issued, t" he tyle ; „t requested to pay their deposits on or before SA:.. rec e 'A. instant, to any of the following' bankers, by whom ti Prln*-irds will be given, in exchange for which scrip will hi t• afte l. " o `,, of . ... in terest i s r l s l,lo , procincti so 6 vered (as mentioned in the letters of allotment), 0.: c rtific Ite of execution of the Parliamentary Co tit ract plO l scribers' Agreement, which may be signed at the tn. n3s m,ationed in the letters. BANKERS. - 63 Dran.ll London—The London and Westminster Bank, a lo ok Lincoln and Gainsborough—The Lincoln and Li' ad SO' Goole—Tire York City and County Bank Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co. Liverpool—Messrs. Moss and Co. Doncaster—Sir W. Cooke, Burt., and Co. Manchester—The Manchester and Salford Bank Hull—Messrs. Harrison, Watson, and Co. , n tbe The Provisional Committee beg respectively to init • -- nt tba• A t ve rous applicants who have not received letters of allot n i t if , of it great demand for shares in this Company, and the no regard to the claims of parties locally interested, 7na y e '— impossible to com ly with their ap;dications. SCOTT and TAIIOURDIN, 25, Lincoln's Inn-fie id si Se." R. DAWSON, Epsworth, Dated 18th Sept., 1845. 131RMINGHAMAND I.IGJI F l° RAlLWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 300,0001., in 15,000 Shares of 20/. e BC . ordc r ' 1 1 4 Deposit 2/. 2s. per share, in accordance with the F•ta be the Houses of Lords and Commons to No call to be made until the Act is obtained —and no S answerable beyond the Amount of his Sabsel IPl' PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. li tl i e ( o .h . ti F rd re S d p e o ri o c n k er 3 , l E ni , L: E M s . q P .: f l o i r a l ,. l i fortni iil gl n Birmingham jilt The itlglit Worshipful the Mayor of Birmi ngham t oyords h John Wilks Unett, Esq., The Woodlat d George Lanett, ,un E itu s ilso q drln . s , ;;C T nNe h , te e lEtwr f sa . q a mi t: Tau r s e et l m,. s s stior jelc, „ S hire S ' ? a l ibetiotatiornsg,' 6Cee,o's m.:::,-. .. if or ' - w o r t h et.' ~ Dire' J W o i l l ' l n i a o m ft j h a e e Godfrey i, ° o °Meld .„..,h, par.. 9 for errace, l'" , '„, n if, George Turner, Esq., Hunton Hill, Erdington, Warwic — I t i pi ‘' tor of the South Staffordshire a n d the SouthamPto 4 - Railways Thomas Welch, Esq., Birmingham _,., ks pire it at , Charles Machin, Esq., Blythe House, Erdington, Wtir Raab '...,„, 0 0-i- R. Fowler, Esq., Manchester-square, London, and r"` 0 1 Bristol l'O"` lop, Samuel Phillips, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's oalc i ••• , t a Levant House, St. Helen's-place, London, merchant ,„0"), W. L. Whitmore, Esq., Director of the Great We ster the 'Worcester and South Wales Railways Thos. Davies, Esq., The Austens, Handsworth, Stafford Id O re David Barnett, Esq., merchant, Birmingham 3 ' Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, Birt,tini th Smith Whilock, Esq., Birmingham • John Boulton, Esq., Birmingham Bell Elcock Fletcher, Esq., M.D., Birmingham Thomas Bollman Updl, Esq. Birmingham Edward Rabone, Esq., Smethwick Hall, Staffordshire Or re t ' Major Moore, Director of the Great Italian lt,lilsvay sec Henry Coe Cope, Esq., Hungerford Park, Wilts, Milit AO at l lO William Holli day, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Tlirmi/As 5i 4106 T. R. Wright, Esq„ Northampton, Director of the Ste . , ~, Railway , n a 1 !' William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Director of the Leica.b:olo , worth, Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Jutted( AO J. T. Walters, Esq., Rugeley t atr!,Aeli W. Drury Holden, Esq., 10, Green-street, Grosyclwr-AiSqaccW- Locke Park Derbyshire, Director of the Lichfield and Railw - 3 , John Kernpe Devonshire, Esq., River Dale Villa, Ham O a- A fid William Boyden Watts, Esq., Birmingham t da• We' J. Mee Mathews, Esq., Director of the Derbyshire, Stat. oi Manchester Railway Theophilus Richards, Esq., Edghaston, near Birminglio n , Thomas Pemberton, Esq.,Wharstone House, near _ 4 O Capt. M'Dougal, Fir Grove, North Brixton &.* John Anderson, Esq., Honourable East India Con3P 3l, 00 10 Euston-place, Enston-square, London Sir William White, Director of the Church of Englsne Company CO ' Griffith Frill), Esq., Director of the Londonderry &c., Bze. John Johnson, Captain, Edcbaston, Birmingham i ce George Edwards, Esq., Blnningham 6 1 ° I1 Hercules Hales Duncocks, Esq., Manor House, NeMl3sa" tershire William Edwards, Esq., Aston, near Birmingham John George Norbury, Esq., Manchester House, Ather st °n*il" tor of the Tean and Dove Valley and South Staffordshir e Geo. Frederick Gregory, Esq., Seacomhe, Cheshire dsDire James Russell, Esq., Endwood Court, HantlAworth, Staffo r Thomas E. Davies, Esq., Bellefield House, near Pirmingh3 f oO John Ilussell, Esq., riandsworth, Staffordshire kof ° Lieutenant-Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Pil e ,' e edo Manchester, Sonthampton, and Oxford Junction, 1961 Liverpool Railw Joshua Horton, Es ay q , i'Etna Iron-works, Sraethwick, Staff °rd')llre Richard Underh ill, Esq., Birmingham De ter ;01 It. B. Williams, Esq., Director of the London and Manc."ciS rect, the Leicester and Tamworth Junction, and the *" Liverpool Railway Companies (With power to add to their number.) ACTING ENGINEER.—B. J. Maude, Esq., ex" JOINT SOLICITORS. _ _ .7. Graham, Esq., GO, Moorgate-street, LOndon• 4 0, Richard Ford, Esq., 28, Essex-street, Strand , Lon` jsi , et• LOCAL AGENTS. P . Birmingham—W. H. Reece, Esq., New-street ; and Esq., New-street. BANKERS. Messrs. Spooner, AtiiVot;d7and Co., London. Messrs. Attwood, Spooner, and Co., Binninglr'' bt This short but very important Line of Railwliy ‘t :II carPl the neaz,st pohlt on the Trent Valley Railway to the C it ..it i en sl° field, and rroceed through a rich and populous country, bY Sutton Coldficid, and Erdington, to the town of BirminghaT• 4. so` ol , The length of the Line will be only about sixteen glance at the map will suffice to show the very niimer%loa.';o9 tages which this Railway offers. The projected ,4 South way," from Manchester, joins or falls into the Trent Vitl ie- ney lust below Lichfield, and, proceeding along the Trent ,3„At d 1 t n ° via Tamworth and Rugby, will form the shortest and route from Manchester to Landon, but will leave Birminglr ttiro— west, which can only be reached by the circuitous route 0, Tamworth, a distance of twenty-five miles. t O c te ti The proposed Birmingham and Lichfield Rally: Ay will 0 re,—epraieitiio tension of the South Union, North Staffordshire, and other tlO Railways, from Lichfield in a direct Line to Birmingba n %tite te , save no less than nine miles in the twenty-five, and c on a 1 ye" shortest andbast ne between Manchester and Birmin.gh'" t vised. • aricc4b As to the returns to be expected for the capital 0 0 . „ ,rocit If sufficient to mention, that in addition to the very large in '? y' lll ` hag from the local passenger and goods traffic (the lat ter 0 ota," very great, as most of the agricultural supplies of Birtn i ,"„ i l t al emporium of the Midland Counties, and its densely poPu""ofoliid: bourhood, are derived from the vicinities of, and must Pa' barn f ID Line), every passenger direct from Manchester to Ilia tang necessarily proceed along the projected Railway, should 0 a tji• lines from Manchester to Lichfield be made. ne AC This line will also form the nearest route from r ef o r North to Birmingham. 0 Pgri' The Capital proposed to be raised is 300,0001., in 15,0 a to Do ,ef 4 201. each. A deposit of 2 1 . 2 s. per Share will be no , upon the allotment, to the credit of the Directors with " 01,t'' of the Company. 'w e" e t t No call will be made until the Act of Parliamen t shall I per . ti efi• and power will to taken in the Act to allow Interes t at f raP r olil ° per annum, upon the amount of each call, from the date °owe until the opening of the line, and Subscribers will not he le beyond the amount of their Shares. „„ , fr aco„ The Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary shall contain a clause empowering the Directors to arnal,'" telo any other Railway now formed, or to be formed, to p alt Branch Lines, or transfer, mortgage, or dispose of the Pe'ra pa dertaking for the benefit of the Company, as they may afioge" will he ready on the day fixed for the payment of del o ' ot cp",tda t • he required to he executed when the bankers' receipts ar e „ for certificates of Scrip ; and the shares of any SuWe.,t'' default in the execution of those deeds within the for t or A which fourteen days' notice will be given, will be absolut ~,Jcoall?,/tD• No application for shares can be attended to, nniesg on e by a reference to a member of the Provisional Commit tee 0 6 • Solicitors, Agents, or a Banker. Sr Forms of application for shares, copies of the p ros paces map of the line, may be obtained at the temporary tors try Company, 60, Moorgate-strect, London ; from the 0 -•tol t er , i, Local Agents ; from Mr. B. B. Williams, 17, Throgr„,:i ; London ; Mr. W. H. Collis, 104, New-street, Birming Ludlow, Brothers ; and Messrs. Pownall and Worthier 01 _d N . 0 0 ,, g 5 pool ; Mr. John Barlow, Manchester ; Messrs. Robins() Leeds ; Mr. Thomas Evans, Milsom-street, Bath ; s" and Harrison, Leicester. * BIRMINGHAM AND LICHFIELD RAIL—WA). A e FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARS. d .10 To the Provisional Committee of the Birmingham° g v 0 ' 5 Railway Company. siotfe so aex Gelikmen,—T rt you will allot tne .I' , ° AD° each Intle above CoComptny; and I ur. , lertake to aceeP t ,, 1 41 ete' 'such ;mailer number as inoy b e y allotted to me, and, share er o eNceute I Parlialnentary c , ,ntraet wl.en require, posit. ..atit)ll 1t1 .U.1• Residence •• . ••••• • " • ' ..•• ' .• ' Profession or Business • • • • Reference ......... Addrelis .. •• • " U' it P , Ptyy 141tto!t!..nsioGnto°fugt 9 17 k ktr . l : i zi p n a e i r l a i i eu d i i a ,: rt! 15, 0 V j cwrY 1 11E etiEB'l l'h^r t h' A gr ,, e .Z _at are 4:: . 11 p h i; e 93 : l .l .Exo : Itecei t pM 7 .12, 1345. BY of 1 1 °Et. rtiAArin . oac , cHE] is mces, No. 191 1 ,,, Se hereby giv( n o 4,1.1 be sent ni T,„(,, , anLe ' l j t• edlleSd p„„ 81.1 Lqktons witi c a Pr' Total 64 0, ,, fie Th!i Cant Ikta t a i l ( 7 l ' hertield 'mthe r , , „ '"e ' astlei reee' k'st? 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