The Sun. — London, England, 1845-10-08 00:00:00

PIIIIE GRAND LONDON AND DUBLIN A PPROXIMATION RAILWAY. Itastrick'm Line. 4.11 Y Registered pursuant to 7th and Sth Victoria, cad. 110, tatonDbite,tlgnr,tet ay.old the present circuitous route, and so effect a v e r y s • ;lvaig, both of time and distance, between the two Maud and Irelamd, running in a direct line from Lon • Awl Holyhead, through Shrewsbury, and touching ..t• 1100,..i5.r0 :::_4'71°21-sa(t;irtbguri,ll-1, t , he following towns and places, namely, t", 7 Clisham, Wendover, Aylesbury, Biccster, Dod- Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, Alces resele,., Worcester, Kidderminster, Bridgnorth, Wenlock, hrewsbury, Llan-v-mynech, Welchpool, Lla ngollen, Llanrahaladr, Mochnant, Corwen, P e nt re - R ei Cerrig, Bangor, and Holyh ea d. katpital 6 ,000,000/., in 120,000 Shares of 501. each. ~ P orary _ Deposit . 59. per Share. ° races of the Com s/ pany, 4, Great Winchester-street, London. The h i t om iFht PROVIMONAL COMMITTEE llonittoidrdevi Viscount Combennere, G.C.H. 144.4 'Viscount B°ll. G eoffrey 40 11. Ci n a " Hamilton, M.P. ~Evan Freke, Belgrave-aquare, Director of the k u :t Geoffrey • nut try Railway n. rowne, Castle Man•aret County Mayo, Ireland kr th e y vaglas Ki nnaird Pulteney, e Parliament -street, Chairman of koh l s a t _ an d Lancaster R a il way /Q v (7 lur ge it• Bar t" Ailey Bury Herta Directoref the Oxford anTh rid enry tai a way sir 'T !n.: ton Barron, E sq ., Bart., MY., Belmont, Ireland e 4.4. 14 ' 1 1 . - r sq uare d F. E. Fitz gera ld , K.C.8., Montague-street, Bryan- Si D uncan M Rouge] KC B Eaton-square re,7,7 4n 1 T..rSaltisbury 15 - 11;et7port, C. 8., K.C.11., Bramall-hall, eedon-hall, Bucks * • pard Le Merchant K.C.H Cork •, r•, 4t th '" )," 4l g -ortk Lo ve airy, Madryu Park, Carnarvou, Director trteK7• ir p . eies ailen,Lebeer:GaeinTa:LeY,vaGy.C.M.G., Director of the Direct London and torlotnittliiliv:YDirector of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Sirr,tlander.al Si Henry Pynn, Clifford-street, Director of the k.xeter Ra i , -tte airn, Cork lway Adon'!!• !! Lower Brook-street wi:7, lt ° l B, C. 8., M ount Wise, Devonport JCinty triore lit _. Apley Park, Deputy-Lieutenant of the *a' -.Ater e<lith' and asborn Part, Magistrate for the Counties of c E Salop Il 14441 4,, Lh obe a rt i Ilpenry Rowdier, Sidney-terrace, Cork e 'tn ""n• eel Dawson, Upper Grosvenor-street, and Castle trtto,enryJ. 1 1 ) 1 .. 4 7,"w00d, Esq., M.P., West Wycomb-park, Bucks ' 4 'l4 Wyndham -place, Bryanston-square n b, Pll er, E lq.. Russell-square, Director of the Dublin and CheZ tll , an d Railway ?lahon, Diahonberg, County of Clare, Ireland 14-7.etorV,llaldwin, Esq. MY., Bovine, King's County, Ireland, 0 .2 . 110 0 re t r i ,!e Cork and 'Waterford Railway A.Z4A I ' 'lloglian Castle, High Sheriff of the County of Roe- Et • L4,11 0‘ , (1 , , - ripshill-lodge, Worcester, Director of the Wor 41teln ", and Tenbury, and the Groat North and South pr" i V • . al., Ll saintfried-caurt, Monmouthshire S .ll s, 1 Color Spicer, Esq., Portman-square, Director of the Ar 71,1,"'Pthire and Portmh, Dublin and Armagh Inland, L in eral, and Direct s London and Exeter Railways Whitton -hall, Magistrate for the County of r irinan of the Shropshire Mineral Railway / taliZr am Asti D .L., Rutland-square, Dublin, Director of the Tho t43 ‘ Joh, i ' so r ol n ~sgb. Inland Railway pteih 'eale, Esq. Temple k ' ar viek dc l " g E Ili hwood, Director of the Dublin and ,*4l. Jech ai r n iwa Y rse,,Whitmore, Esq., Director of the Dublin and Gal /111111:4A S e, 31T wn ,' Director of the Callao and Lima Railway It e !sse rie ",lin;t,4% B :l2_ 3 l__ontague-place, Russell-square ► e Esq. Hampton Court, Director of the Wilts, I'o,4'74st:a Itristol'Railw'ay Cl ?L1 of E ci ,!? l _cl, Ira Henry, D.D., Commissioner of the National ,tb e - s w.":,,4,1:0n and Charitable Bequests, Ireland 40 , 4- 4010 Popham Esq., Trevarno, Cornwall, Director of J 1 Joh la SNP Canal Latt e Company. 'eed. Y , Esq., Claremont-placo, Grove End-road, St. - A wry Of Wilkinson, Esq. Woodbury Down, Middlesex, C tlpp4t :. l le, „idber, Waveney Valley, ' Great Yarmouth, and Armagh, •4" 4 ,,, ' , aro N., °rt ,ru•sit Railways cwi4p R.M., Shooter's-hill and Coleraine, Dime- Nth, 'c!'illen34'sli, Coleraine, and Portrush, and Sligo, and Shan ukrti it v._ e - fle Ar no „' „--.4., Charles-street, Manchester-square, Direc -I,:teizi7i wa ys "gil, Coleraine, and Portrush, and Sligo and Shan 4Zel Wo o d , R 1 7;1 E4 tin Woolwich 4 iroci riscoll, Esq., banker, Dublin 4 1' ,411 1 441 4 rina At 'ien, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the Dub ,teka ltoe_glynland Railway Lou hall Ireland IZ t• ,h ( ~ a ( -)f nee 'al ' , Portman-square, Director of the Marine In *, C olsonut. , 0 k e 7 Queen-square, Bloomsbury (;. Director of the South Midland Junetion Rail- Ntt e i' 01 ~4 e b, re, x.„ !House, Shrewsbury and ti ‘ l *. west Carlton-hall, Leicestershire, Director of the 4 •-t,l b Rallway,&c 1110, - -"ta Director of the Worcester, Rugby, and Warwick v° 4 lP I.; Cambridge -square, London ent, ..engal Artillery, Great Comm-street Ha '' s q•• cm, r Shrewsbury P:A r „ ark, cell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, and ooreerse.t 'rector of the Direct Western, Isle of Ely, and !_and Southampton Railways. C"lth 'll 4 ,erel gn ; tAq., Victoria-square, Grosvenor-place, Director of )41k ~wtsl4,4rance Office, &c. 1 ,.11;" Ralieny Park, Dublin, Director of the Dun . .? atk „ .411 en, and Irish and North Midland Railway E5r,,,1,7 Armagh Ti l a ntr,t ten 4, John's Grove-house, County Cork ~7_atthe ; El., Oak Lodge, High Beach, Essex )( k • Somerset -street, Portman-square Dl' t-sq., Marlborough-place St. John's Wood, Di 114k Fit rect London and Exeter Railway kth r,),tt hoyzdeeraid, Valentia, Ireland 't.,Ea<l., Cleveland-row, St. James's Bloxham near Banbury, Oxon, Director of ' An d Banbury and Oxford and Witney Railways i:Ab ne S wallcliff, near Banbury, Oxon C: °l. ' t,. l. "'t*, 4 : 4 1 hate w t i ' s ,Y.N., United Service Club ` 4 l),Pn "*.., Hatherley-place, Cheltenham *,,,*4 4 1 4 (!,13 a‘gistrate, Wenlock t ( Mere! (4 4. _ g t 4 Iq . Alta e. 44 4 P,t;.' l ackthorne, Oxfordshire • N.,lere, -r ortinan-square I,dell Bq., Grosvenor-street West, Grosvenor-place BrYanston-street, 14 It, 11, t. -‘. and London Railway Portman-square, Director (•„ 0 ' t. ;1 44 - ntee te.._ rt ;tll.randon Cottage, Bristol, Director of the Oxford 11 " T IMM, and Chester Junction Railways 3111 town-house, Strabane, Ireland k'nOforj.Vell, Ilruton-street, Berkeley-square, and Lugwar i-4.4 Ny e Director of the Isle of Man, and Irish West 4 4. of 1 4, 4 4, ,11 , 4 Pidg no _, A (4 1in ,'', tan itn , l', Alderman of the Borough of Bridgnorth n kb , r4 wut i Eg q• Members of the Corporation of Bridg e. -1 4 e tan, north • aq ' 4 411 ( ‘ -en, 0' Eng. B ridgnorth t ) Zatiy , ridgnorth t);, 44,1 tby, • J aMes's-square, Director of the Sheffield, 1„ .6 4 14 p, p .sr , na Manchester Railway Sti;`'ad o 4' Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square, Direc ,,eljn::r, E4.4l,E,iteter Railway to,„!,lLester Lodge, Warwick, Director of the War -1447, aol ui , 'Vat Extension and Worcester Junction Railway qL, Oh ' q eY Court, Warwick 1 4 r e t n_Ake, e dditch, Worcestershire, manufacturer u tit: 4 4l,,„Ysto o ac t i Redditch. Worcestershire '8,14 Redditchh, )Vorcestershire 4't a, celey r°seleY, ironmager &c., Director of the Stour 'lo4.l,-o:oattb.rfti_runnabilti.„J.Rgyes, and Bre ' seley, and the Grand June -1,1,414,444,N4 itro-n:ebnciwpeit_elia.ll, l3roseley, Director of the Stourbridge, a 144 r 4 ,4 ilw aym • and Broseley, and the Grand Junction and 1 t ~ i ithto uoid E ,„O- l'ell . Linley Hall near Broseley ) ' a kia S Nt• s 'dagnorth 11•11%., (!4,,,411, E EZi Hridgnorth, Manufacturers f) ( ' . 1 4 4 14 4 41, HI cester P Hicester Nn ian Deputy-Lieutenant, Woodside, County Esq,,s - , ePti tY - Lieutenant, Castle Cor, County Cork 4 i'4lch ~' tag : •P, Blarney Castle, County Cork kb, Ati varr y .: ~'ternira, County Cork 4 1; 1, i7itik ro Pre eei Zeci.• Lota Lodge, Cork 11 t Egg.. Sandfleld, county Cork t tre y. „'41., Rear Forest Mallow 1,.(441,4411111ngt411)., Mallow )1 44 41, Creagh, Esq., J.P Creagh-castle "ity.„ . 4tt :aeo n '4(1; R iverston-hous, Cork, '' Director of the or',neits: ar k' Bandon and Bantry Railways 'he /488., Manchester -street, Manchester-square, en and Southampton, and Sligo and Shannon eor na • 11,41 E aq 1 .17, 1 4 t "'Ron, near Bristol 4i lll ' 4 4 8.D., Over Worton, near Deddligton. Otr, ( : , 1 1 , 0i 1 541 • Deddington, Oxfordshire 44. 7 i , • ,Balincollig tQ nn, hi a- e nnurt '4lUreiTt",,e' s cl., e i4tud o i r e k • Warwickshire Director of ,INk t. li* hnt h- London Exten 3 sion, and Worcester ' Junction ) _. 4 ' 411 4 4 4 1 '1,1 , ...cester, 'Warwickshire C •i+l, Temple, Director of the Metropolitan 4 1 ' 11 an 41, d South ecle ston-terrace Eaton-square, Director of 11,,,„"4417Lie,;',Haka,,,,1nnt0n Railway' :ith(an:).Pbell, North-end -house, Portsmouth, Nll,. l 4 lZrt r County of Hants, Director of the Direct 4 4 4,‘7, P.aq gh Sheri INC IT of the City of Limerick 1, 14 :1 - 4 1 4 1$1:: 1 :; 4 , P n' t c ,", r h e : E ~ Shrewsbury, Director of the Shrews tiNt,,,,ettki.• Shrew-8:', South . Staffordshire Railway jr 1 ,' , 1 4 , "utY/ Directors of the Birmingham and „ X, el It"tite r Brighton Railway lt!rk 11 111 . ' 2 4 ` m olitiand *Dh tiai o er of the Cork District Cork 4 N -Ye tat, ...lab, Fats., Ballincurrig, near Douglas, t 4) ts • Es q .to, l 'at,: p tit volut , , Cork 4 , ,';:ceate'r.s€l.. Crow's Nest, Deputy-Lieutenant of the N I k i r :1 Director of the Rugby, Derby, Man -80449., na Railways w. aes a_ 3 1erionetli, Director of the Great 'l4l (It'p4laneklaallker"al2!w.„ ay 4 * ,A t strand 1:1, N.. Worthing, Sussex oi l eZ tti Zt Rate':olner-lodee, Worthing, Sussex " w ell, magistrate for the county of Esq.' 35, Gloucester -road, Hyde Park -4 4 7 1 %.11 .. ie n di 12,, Sloa ne - street, Director of the Medical Ph, Ste,7 l .` , •• I:4't or- AryNe, ?Yd. vm-ector or rue veiu ysnire, rc t: onn Western Railway 4 k tal s t,:,. gehant, Cork ik1,1,` 4 4 ra.„..:',1-TPPer Seymour-street Portmaa-square \ 'l4 tk).,,!tk 4 " Ir eetiip" `iin-sqUare London c,b, 4 4,1 (. 4.er, 1„.. 1(1 1.41- wrn - „,of the Rug"by. Derby, and Manchester, 'AZ ' M ay " or L er ▪ Tli:l e rtfla nt li eWdiey kl. 411 0 r, ir' ew dley ,slid Ili ' I 1. 41 41): art. , rid P assa beriff of the county of Cork, and Di ., al London 4 '44 '`kt., i t ulakissy tßi ner hy l a e}, - L - )1, 444 'erri 41411 °I'th ( Wit er ' Dowerl., Bellaire Cork `44t Al ien Do t ,:: add to diet'. number). C, ttrt ' Serge,t%':' ENGLAND. 11 .1• l an ; Walter M‘Grigor, Esq., Lin , *4 41 . 1 4, eketiz -e a la et,,,-"ss,eph Napier, Esq., Q.C. 474% Rastrick, Esq. 1_ At 1 2 ;1 : Lc c E ..Noinen ns. 7:l l t l e ra. 0.1 _4.. Bazalgette, Esq., C-E• 4 4414 ,1111 • e y kTr°lB . °44lkusband, 4, Great Winchester- 14 1 4 1 04 44 444 g, te,,, „, .•, North Great George-street, 1 / 4 41 , NI 4 :1 1 4 43 / 4 ' r t ' tar 4 ' l'etere, ItU A d '43s , 4" " t_ ,t4tO L , • the London and Westminster N 4 'e ▪ Ite, 4 red eri e x 441., and Henry Cowper, RI q. 1,,,,, 5 _P4 4 . 1. , ),0, 14 111. antis Pole, Esq., 51, North 1 1• - ", 1 Z.e. ' r oe a t ;', l lo ( txT An .,„ A . 44N, Esqrs., 18, ieorg e eN Ts• Westminster. Parliamen t- I P • ati n for s ejl . - nospEcAijjT 41.4 4 4 alik e in LS ' l 'Oh r 'latia" X a , el - B°Cial commercial, or political lrt nlyt t o 0Pr0xi,,,,-uZgested the foa-;mltsi F 1 41 1e„ 111 1 A has . °BI Y toXether s o i n bl o e f th th e e ca G p r i a ttis d . 1 04, re... -An., ov er •eation Rat ni t e fr o , estinint_ lway,-a line, the value of the,s_tng'-'l,4oB,lllmeeetirtolpovilllisbetofHouenid to take a ▪ i ts -Pre vi zl a noble county town of iN sO „44,..14:41,t ke n , Z tent d4t 1 7 1 4 % It hr lnd eo whol e " With yhead. It c ommunication), and non,i districts second in wealth, re -14 it. L. N or 4 ro b et eqia te ,':.. to In the empire ; bring them 0... 4 ati 0 n 3" oti n eontaet 4, 1 le r Posy, With London and Dublin, e tl •4 o4le ac ,it .ft eirea(t T ea h n is s p u r r o p j m ec s t is wholly in ,es before the public, and as it eke'eLPtlionn,° ie most important railway when eta m, ~ and 4 1 / 4 t • tid e ,c ha t por ,n -as - ondon r °n VanY will be to obrtlriousis, a to rt el f ru4‘,n, - 1 " Point to r t he Great Western 'IN ,„„ TriEß ° ' ° 0 5/11 ?nri far i o r v ier± ar o ' t e I ,f 1, 0 1 : t I :loN tl e' 4 cotoleft be. t he fi r ed bi t 0 5 some t. the robe r 0 r et so b e . o o oe. 'Ol e 1 Vi e ': Woo co' the , , 11 toir, pre dell I , l ' Orr ssing fe vising, he tov i" •-qo k r s&? .. 1 01 , : ••• tl 4e ' .111 •-() 11' 8 d It c ft If ttel ~„d 1 0 1, ar e .tie s is a l ":_ c lio , to O L t - tp reso r It ratitor s e be ° n i t' tilt' ng pa,' to ~qr THE StiN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 1845. station, from whence the line will be continued in as direct a course as possible to Holyhead In its progress it will pass through or near to the following towns : — Rickmsmsworth, Chesham, Wendover, and Aylesbury; it will then proceed to within a short distance of Bieester and Deshlington, and from thence to Banbury ; it will touch upon Kineton or Kingtown, thence proceed onward to Stratford-on-Avon, approach within a short distance of Warwick, Alcester, and 'Worcester, where it will cross the Birmingham and Gloucester Railroad near to Bromsgrove, and proceeding thence to Kidderminster, Bridgnorth, and Wenlock, near to Broseley and Coalbrookdale, will enter the Vale of the Severn, which it will traverse to Shrewsbury; it will thence con tinue its route up the course of the Severn, and passing into the Vale of the River Vyruwy, will proceed to Llan-y-mynech, Llaurhaladr, and Mochnant, accommodating Welchpool, Oswestry, and Llangollen. At this point there are three passes, which have been inspected, and it remains for the engineer to select one as an entrance or passage into the Vale of the River Dee, when the line will proceed round by Corer into the Vale of the River Alwen, from whence it will run nearly parallel with the great Holyhead Mail-coach-road, by Pentre voelas to Capel Cerrig, it will then descend the Vale of Nant Francon to Bangor and Holyhead. This line will in its progress feed, and be also fed by the most consi siderable railroads of the kingdom, particularly those of the Great Western ; the Birmingham, Gloucester, and Bristol; the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolves hampton ; the London and Birmingham ; and the South Staffordshire Railway. As this last line will connect Dudley, Bilston, Wednesbury, Walsall, and Lichfield with the Derby Railway and the Grand Junction Railway, it would be superfluous to expatiate on the advantages of bring ing all those important centres of the coal and iron trade and other traffic, and the vast coal and iron fields of Shropshire into close intercourse, and thus establishing the cheapest and quickest means of transit between the minerals of Shropshire and the furnaces of Staffordshire, and the markets of Dublin, London, and Birmingham. The success of the undertaking is secured beyond a doubt, by the obvious fact that it will not only bring the richest mineral and manufacturing portions of England much nearer to the two capitals, but it will open for the carriage of the valuable pro duce of these districts the intermediate country not at present pos sessed of any direct line of railway communication. On the other hand, the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railway will give to London an the neighbourhood of Birmingham a route to Dublin shorter by nearly seventy miles than that of any other exist ing railroad ; and finally, enable travellers to complete the entire distance in ten hours. It will also ensure two mail deliveries in the day. Up to the point where the line approaches Corwen, no engineering difficulties are presented. At Conran a deviation from the straight line may be requisite to avoid tunnelling, after which a straight line will be resumed to Bangor, where that already in construction will he adopted for the rest of the route to Holyhead ; or, if found de sirable, power will be taken in the Bill to continue an independent line by Beaumaris to Holyhead. Atter a careful investigation of the traffic arising from passengers, the conveyance of mineral and agricultural produce, and the direct transmission of the mails, the Directors fed warranted in anticipating a return of at least ten per cent. on the capital invested. A treaty is in progress with a Steam Navigation Company to run powerful steamers between the harbours of Holyhead and Kingston on the arrival of the trains, so that passengers and merchandise may be booked throughout from London to Dublin, including all the inter mediate stations, and be thus enabled'to complete the entire distance in ten hours, without the inconvenience so painfully felt of changing from the conveyance of one proprietary to that of another. The railways now in active progress in Ireland, running from Dublin north and south throughout the heart of the island, render it self evident that the chain of communication between the sister countries is, by this present undertaking, rendered at once complete and intimate to the last degree. As the leading aim of this Company is is save time and distance, every attention of the Directors, and every advancement in science wilt be made available to gain the utmost possible amount of speed, com patible with safety, the lines being formed expressly for this end ; while, finally, the very lowest rate of fares will he adopted for both passengers and traffic, and the pnblic will find in the improvement of the inferior carriages, and some additional comforts for those of the first class, that the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Rail way will be placed in advance of any other now existing, and in all its details will be rendered worthy an enterprise so national in its character. Application will be made for a Bill to incorporate the Company early in the next session. The usual power will be taken by the Act to allow interest at 4/. per cent. per a , nuin on the amount of the subscriptions paid up; and no subscriber will be answerable for more than the amount of his deposit until the Act be obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his subscription. Applications for Shares may be made, in the subjoined form, to the following Solicitors, Brokers, and Agents :—Mr. Roger Mortimer, Throgmorton-street, London; B. R. Pemberton, Esq., Atherton buildings, Mr. Wm. Kerl, and Messrs. Schultz and Carr, Liverpool; Mr. J. R. Lane, Birmingham ; James Jamieson, Esq., Leeds ; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manchester; Mr. James Butchart, Huddersfield; Messrs. J. and J. Kimpster, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Mr. Hervey, Halifax ; Wm. Lee, Esq., Cheltenham ; R. P. Clark, Esq., Bristol ; Messrs. Graystone and Earl, York; Henry Beaumont, Esq., Exeter; Messrs. Munro and Co., 44, George-street, Edinburgh; Charles Couper, Esq., 1, Parkside-street, Edin-burgh ; James Jardine, Esq., Glasgow; Wm. Oliphant, Esq., Perth ; Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin ; and Messrs. Cameron and Bains, 18, Parliament street, London. PROSPECTUS OF THE R HONDDA and ELY VALLEYS JUNCTION RAILWAY, GLAMORGANSHIRE. . . (Provisionally Registered.) Promoted with the sanction and support of the Right Hon. the Earl . _ of Dunraven. lapital, 200,0001., in 10,000 Shares of 201. each, Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. Liverpool—Messrs. BoUltt and Co. Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese Leeds—Messrs. John Young and Co. Bristol Luke Arnold, Esq.; Messrs. Taite and Nash Birmingham—Mr. Collis Sheffield—Messrs. Bardwell and Sons. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SIIAr.E.S. To the Provisional Committee of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junction Railway. Gentlemen,—l 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 ma ; and I also undertake to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Name in full • • • • • • . • •• • • • • • • • • • • •• • • Residence •••••• • • • • • • ...... ••• • • •• • Trade or Profession .... • • • ..... • • • • • • Reference with ft ddress • • • • • • Date of Applicab rut .... ••••• • • • • •• •• RHONDDA AND ELY VALLEYS JUNCTION RAILWAY. No farther applications for shares In this Company can be received after FRIDAY, the 10th instant. By order, JOHN PETHERICK, Secretary. 5. Rasinghall-street, 3d October, 1845. MIDLAND GRAND JUNCTION RA ILWAY. Connecting the Great Western, London and Birmingham, and Direct Manchester. From Reading via Henley-on-Thames, Aylesbury, Buckingham, and Northampton. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 1,250,0001. in 5 0 ,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 2/. 12s. Gd. per Share. NORWICH and DEREHAM DIRECT The PROVISIONCOMMITTEE announce to the shareholders and the public that they have. concluded a most satisfactory arrange ment with the Norfolk Company, by which the interests of the two Companies have Income identical. The line will be made as ori ginally projected, and in conjunqion with the Lynn and Denham Railway, and the projected railway from Derehiun to Wells, the best possible accommodation will be supplied to the - entire district of West Norfolk. Norwich, Oct. 2, 1845, EDWARD WILLETT, Chairman. GRAND JUNCTION, GREAT WESTERN, and SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY JUNCTION. Completing the Line from London to Birmingham and Liverpoo l by the shortest route. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 1 ,200,000/., in £O,OOO shares of 201. each. Deposit 2/. 2s. per share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Sir W Young, Bart., Director of the Honourable East Inlia Company Major-General l•arlby, Itutiand-gale, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway Mr. John Ayres, Princes Risborough Rev. John Samuel Barron, Parsonage, Mal, Justice of the Peace for Bucks W Bean, Esq., Tulse-hill, Director of the Erewash Valley Continua tion Railway C. Bigge, Esq., Bryanston-square, Director of the Irish North Mid land Railway Charles Richard Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanston• square, Director of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway, and Isle of Ely, Wis beach, and Lincolnshire Railway Joseph Bishop, , Crescent, Minori es , Di rec t or o f the Black wall Railway Borton, Esq., Blackthorn° William W. Botterill, Swallow lions Burnley David Beyan, Esq., Northampton James Brand, Esq., Oli Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge Lincoln, and Great Luxemburgh Railway James Burness, Esq., Leyton, Essex, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, and Oxford and Worcester Extension and Chester June Lion Railways Messrs. Butler and Son, Wycombe Rev. George Chetwode, Chilton-house, Vicar of Chilton, and Justice of the Peace for Bucks and Oxon Thomas Camplin, Esq., Ilearne-bay, Director of the Argus Office Edward Turst Carver, Esq., Forest Lodge, Tulse-hill, Director the North Wales and Namur and Liege Railways R. Chapman, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby and Southampton Railways Edward Chapman, Esq., Gibson-square Rev. W. Cleobury, Parsonage, Piddington, Justice of the Peace for Bucks Frederick Colingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Rrompton Win. Davis, Esq., Bicester, J.P. for Bucks and Oxen Thomas Dawson, Esq., Bicester William Delf, Esq., St. Mary's, Beccies Henry Dodson, Esq., Suffolk House, Tuise-hill, Director of the Grand Trunk Railway Mr. Win. Dossett, Princes Risborough Samuel Douglass, Esq., Doctors'-commons Rev. Gregory Lempster Dryden, Vicarage, Ambrosden John Edmonds, Esq., Princes Risborough Captain Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headly Grove, near Dorking, Di rector of the Reading and Reigate Railway Henry Farrar, Esq., Princes Risborough Joseph Forster, Esq., Blunt's Hall, Witham, Essex, Director of the Mahlon and Braintree Railway Rev H. R. Fowler; 7, Manchester-square, London, Director of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway, and Deputy-Chairman of the London and Nottingham Railway James Furness, Esq., Newland-cottage, Wycombe John George, Esq., Bicester Charles Goodwin, Esq., Battersea, Director of the London and Wind sor Railway Rev. C. E. Gray, Rectory, Princes Risborongh Edmund Tertius Grundy, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Cam bridge and Lincoln, and Oxford, Newbury, Andover, Manchester and Southampton Railways Warren Stormes Hale, Esq., Gresham-street J. G. Hammock, Esq., Essex House, Chairman of the Ratcliffe Gas Company, and Director of the Direct Western Railway George Harman, Esq., Alderman of Wycombe Thomas Humfrey, Esq., Brill Joseph Hunt, Esq., Mayor of Wycombe Wm. Jackson, Esq., Justice of the Peace for Wycomb e John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., 150, Piccadilly, Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of the City of Loudon, Paragon Streatham Henry Garrett Key, Esq., Tulse-hill, Director of the Merefersi, New port and Abergavenny Railway Edward King, Esq., Blackthorne Wm. King, Esq., Ambrosden Thomas Knight, Esq., Brill Captain A. L. Kuper, C. 8., R.N., Plymstock, Devon W. Kuper. Esq., Camberwell, Director of Leeds, York, and 111,11antis' Junction Railway Alfred Lane, Esq., Alderman of Wycombe Joseph Littlehales, Esq., Shaulston /Lowland M'Kenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, Diree for of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, of the Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton, and the Great Western Extension Railway Companies John Meads, Esq., Brill The Rev. W. E. Partridge, Horsendon-house, Risborough, Rector of Horsendon, Vicar of Illmire, and Magistrate for the county of Bucks ALISB URY a n d SWINDON EXTENSTO N L of the WILTS, SOMERSET, and SOUTHAMPTON JUNC TION RAILWAY. l'rovistmnplly register:A On the Broad Gauge. From Salisbury, by Amesbury, the Vale of Avon, and Marlborough, to Swindon, fonuing a direct line of railway through Cheltenham and Gloucester, to Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool. Capital 700,0001., in 28,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 21. 12s. Oct. per Share. COMMITTOE OF MANAGEMENT. John Bagsharr, Esq., Chairman of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Junction Railway, and Director of the Northern and Eastern, and Eastern Counties Railway Companies, London William .Bradle,F, r Esli., .Deptni - --chairtuan siptist Wiltoznerzei, • and Southampton Junction Railway, and Director of the S' afield . and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Compa nies, Manor Oaks, Sheffield William Bardgett, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and South ampton Junction Railway, and the Italian and Austrian Railway Companies, London. George Hunt, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southamp ton Junction Itailway..Company, banker, Southampton • William James Le Feuvre, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Junction Railway Company, Alderman and Magistrate, Southampton Edward Lomer, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and South atnpton Railway Company, merchant, Southampton William John M'Gwire, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Junction Railway Company, Hampton Court, London Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, um! Southampton Junction Railway Company,' London George Rougemont, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Junction Railway, and of the Paris and Caca Railway Companies, London J. Stewart, Esq., M.P., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and South ampton Junction Railway, and of the Paris and Caen and Northern of France Railway Companies, London Edwin Cadman, Esq., Director of the Wilts, Somerset, mid South. ampton Junction Railway Company, Westbourne-house, Sheffield Miles Coventry, Esq , Mark-lane, London, Director of the Wills, So well:el, and Southampton Jti.ction Railway Company BANKERS. Messrs. Roberts, Curtis, and Co., London - The Hampshire Bank, Southampton. JOINT SOLICITORS. James Coppock, Esq., 3, Cleveland-row, St. James's John Bell, Esq., Craven-street, London W. H. Moberley, Esq , Southampton. ACTING ENGINEERS —3les , rf. Birch, Cannon-row, London. LOCAL SOLICITORS. C. W. Squarey, Esq., Salisbury John Pyke, Esq. ' Marlborough Messrs. Crowdy, Swindon. The Directors of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Junction Railway Company, having completed the whole of their arrange ments, and having been compelled to refuse at least three-fourths 01 the applications for shares in their line, have had their attention forcibly and repeatedly called to the necessity of a direct communi cation between Salisbury and Swindon, the station on the Great Western Railway, by which the most direct and remunerative con nexion will be formed between Southampton and Manchester. The advantages, in point of speed, to be derived from the broad gauge, as al o the superiority of the gradients obtained by the rout( of the Valey of the Avon, together with the importance of placieg the city of Salisbury on the main trunk line from the north to South ampton, must insure to this undertaking the sanction of the Legis lature and the local support of the towns and districts through which the line will past Besides fo:ming a direct communication with the great manufac turing towns in the north, the Salisbury and Swindon Extension wir make a complete line of railway between Southampton, Salisbury. and all parts of North and South Wales. After most mature deliberation, the Directors have resolved to re commend to their shareholders and the public the immediate carry ing out of a railway to effect the above otject, which will be most desirable as a completion to their own line, and highly advantageo►s In a pecuniary sense and on public grounds. They have directed all the necessary surveys to be made, so as to apply to Parliament in the ensuing session, at the same time as the Wilts, Somerset, Southampton Junction Railway, with a view to the ultimate amal• gamation of both lines under one management. In the allotment of shares, preference will be given to the holders: of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Junction Railway shares, as also to parties locally interested, due regard being at the same time had to public interest ; and every original shareholder in that line may, on production of his scrip certificate, receive an allotment of a similar number of Salisbury and Swindon Extension shares. The holders of Great Western, and of Wilts, Somerset, and Wey mouth shares, will also have a preference. Applications may be made, in the following form, to the Previsions: Committee, at the Offices of the Company, 26, Gresham-street, the solicitors, the local agents, or to the principal brokers in town and country, QALISBURY and SWINDON EXTENSION L. 3 of the WILTS, SOMERSET, and SOUTHAMPTON JUNC TION RAILWAY (On the Broad Gauge), From Salisbury, by Amesbury, the Vale of Avon, and Marlborough, to Swindon, forming a direct line of railway through Cheltenham and Gloucester to Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool. (Provisionally Registered.) In consequence of the enormous quantity of Applications for Shares in this Company, notice is hereby given that the List will be CLOSED cm FUIDAT NEXT, the lOth instant, when the Allotment will be immediately proceeded with. _ _ _ H. B. SHERIDAN, Secretary. 26, Gresham-street, London, Oct. 6, 1845. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Directors of the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 50/. each in this undertaking, and I hereby agree to accept the same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Name In full Resklen-e Profession or Business Reference (two or more) Witness And his Address PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. viscount Mare, M.P., Dunraven Castle, Glamorgan Crawshaw Bailey, Esq., Iron-works, Nantyglo Sir Robert Price, Bart . , Foxley, Herefordshire Sir John Osborn, Bart., Fulham, Director of the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway Sir Wm. Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, London, Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Railway Sir Win. Twysden, 41, Dorset-street, Portman-square Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Radnorshire Sir William Wynn, Maes Eewyeld, Chairman of the North Wales Railway lames G. Barrett, Esq., Ross, Herefordshire Henry A. Bruce, Esq., Duffryn Mouse, Cardif William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Shef field and Manchester Railway Charles Richard Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanston-square John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham, Kent Thomas Chitty, Esq., Director of the Rugby and Worcester Railway The Rev. James Cozens, Ynys Plwm, Glamorganshire Edward Cotton, Esq., St. James's-square and Kenilworth, Director of the Commercial Bank Nicol Came, Esq., D.C.L., Dimland's-house, Cowbridge, Director of the Vale of Neath Railway Captain Dawson, R.N., Barnes, Surrey, Direeter ef the Cambridge and Lincoln Extension Railway George Dennis, Esq., Director of the Great Leeds and London Direst Railway Richard Dutton, Esq., Director el the South and Midlands' Junction Railway William Edmondes, Esq., ef Cowbridge, Glamorganshire Thomas H. Evans, Mayor of Carnarvon, Director of the Rugby and Worcester Railway The Rev. H. R. Fowler, Felton, near Bristol, and Mc 7, Manchester square The Rev. Thomas Gronow, 29, Bromptmt-square Captain Hewitt, Tyr Mab Ellis, Glamorganshire Windsor 11. Humphreys, Esq., Garth Hall, Glamorganshire John J. Harris, Esq., Treverig, Glamorganshire John Hopkins, Esq , Killely, Glamorganshire William Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, and Director of tile South and Midlands' Junction Railway John Ingles Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway Tero Clarke Kemball, Esq., Hyde-park-gardens, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Richard Kelly, Esq., Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Griffith Llewellyn, Esq., Baglan Hall, Giamorganshire William Llewellyn, Esq., Director of the Bridgend Branch of the National Provincial Bank of England James Mackirdy, Esq., City of London Club James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean Railway Thomas Morris, Esq., of Newport, Monmouthshire Leyshon Morgan, Esq., Lower Tremains, Bridgend, Glamorganshire Samuel P. Pratt, Esq., F.R.S., Bath, and No. 55, Lincoln's Inn- fields, Director of the Kennet and Aran Canal William Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park George B. Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk Evan Prichard, Esq., Collenna House, Glamorganshire James Brown, Esq., if Tin Ddu, near Bridgend Richard Fowler Rickards, Esq., Lantrissent House, Glamorganshire James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Randall, Esq., Old Castle, Bridgend, Glamorganshire Richard Lewis Reece, Esq., County Coroner, Cardiff Edward Scard, Esq., of Kew Green, Surrey, and Garth Hall, Glamor ganshire Henry James, Esq., Finsbury-square, London Robert Wright, Esq., Lonsdale-square, Middlesex, and Bread-street hill, London, Director of the Great Trinidad Railway John Williams, Esq., Furnival's Inn, London, and Llanfiliangel, Denbighshire Joseph Underwood, Esq., the Hall, Blackheath, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway Company, and Di rector of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. (With power to add to their number). MANAGING COMMITTEE. VISCOUNT ADARE, Chairman. Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P. Captain W. J. Dawson, R.N. William Bradley, Esq. Crawshay Bailey, Esq. John Randall, Esq. Griffith Llewellyn, Esq. The Rev. Thomas Gronow Richard Kelly, Esq. James Morrison, Esq. The Rev. H. R. Fowler William Simpson Potter, Esq. Samael R. Pratt, Esq. Nichol Carne, D.C.L. Henry James, Esq. Richard Lewis Reece, Esq, (With power to add to their number.) STANDIXO COUNSEL—Edward Lewis Richards, Esq., Middle Temple. SolaraTon—W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street, London. BANKERS. Commercial Bank of London National Provincial Bank, Bridgend and Cardiff. Messrs. Towgood and Co., Cardiff. ENGINEER—CharIes Edward Bernard, Esq. SEciIETARY—John Petherick, Esq., pro tern. This Railway is projected for the purpose of uniting the Rhondda and Ely Vallies, with the South Wales Railway, at a few miles dis• tame from the Port of Cardiff; and to open a new mineral district, one of the richest and most important in South Wales, which is at present without the means of transit for its immense and valuable products. It will pass through the central portion of the great coal-field of Glamorganshire, where iron-stone also abounds with the coal is Im mense quantities, and laying, geologically speaking, nearly flat, and, obtainable, for the most part, by proper levels. The coal in addition to its being of excellent quality for iron snaking, as is proved at Mer thyr and Aberdare, is also, like that of those districts, of the very bcat, thr steam purposes, being nearly smokeless, although Inflammable, indeed so pre-eminently is the superiority of this de scription of coal established for steam purposes over any other, that the slarnand for it far exceeds the supply, and promises, accord ing to the opinion of the most eminent marine engineers, to super sede all others for purposes of steam navigation. This source of traffic alone will afford a handsome return for the capital invested, as has been demonstrated in every instance where even tram-roads or Calais have been constrUetsci to open the mineral resources of other less promising Tallies in Wales than the Rhondda, which is cele brated for am abundance, quality, and facility of obtaining its pro ductions. In inexhaustible atimgy of limestone (so necessary for the manu facture of iron and for agrignitural purposes) may be obtained by means of this Railway, much 'firer and cheaper than by any other This line will afford to the increasing POPlatitioa of the rich vales of Ely and Rhondda a much desired communication with the great market town and port of Cardiff, front whence, at present, they may be said to be almost excluded• It is intended that the line shalt commence at Blaen Rhondda, the head of the Rhondda Valley, and proceed down by a natural pass between the hills at Ffrwd Amws, a dietaries of sight miles, where it will enter the Ely Valley and proceed dowa (a farther distance of six miles) to Lanelay-bridge, near Lantrissent, and then) join the South Wales Railway, thus opening 4 communication under the pipit advantageous eirciunstances as to distauec, with all the ports in the Bristol channel. A preliminary survey has already been made by competent par ties, and it is found that the country admits of highly favourable gradients, so much so that It Is confidently anticipated that the works will be executed very considerably under the advertised ca pital. The landowners along the line are favourable to MIS Madertakinv, and the names of many influential proprietors will be found on the Provisional Committee. No Subscriber will be answerable beyond the amount of his de• posit until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his subscription. Until an Ast of Parliament shall be obtained, the antra of this Company shall be under the control of the Managing Directors, to whom . power Is given to allot the Shang, and to apply the film& of the Company In payment of all the expenses incurred in its forma tion. and in the preparation of the plans and sections to be submitted to Parliament. Power will be applied for In the Act (and in Use meantime is hereby given to the Managing Directors as above), to raise any addi tional capital, to extend or abandon any part of the line, to make branch lines, or enter into any arrangements, by amalgamation or otherwise, with any other company or companies, and also to nomi nate the first Directors of the Company. In the allottment of Shares, a preference will be given to landowners on the line and other parties locally interested. -.....- Prospectuses and Maps may - be had of, and applications for Shares may be addressed in the form annexed to, W. B. James, Esq., Solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street, London; to W. Morgan, Esry., Solicitor, Bridgend, Ulamorzanshire ; and to the undermentioned Brokers ; but no application for Shares will receive the attention of the Committee, unless accompanied by a reference to one or more of the Provisional Committee, Solicitors, or the Engineers:— Loudon—Messrs. John Shewell and Son, 25, Tokenhouse-yard. " Messrs. J. Peppercorne and Co., 2, Old Broad-street. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Salisbury and Swindon Exten. sion of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Junction Railway. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares in the above railway, and I agree to accept that or any less number that you may please to allot me, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21. 12s. 6d. per share on the same, and to sign the Subscribers' Agreement and the Parlimentary Contract when required. Dated this day 1845. Name in full • • • • ............ • • • .. • • Residence ...... ....... ....... Place of Business (If any) • • • • • • Trade or Profession ... .......... Reference . . Usual Signature ..... ......... No. .... • • .. Fives Srlp (if any) held by me.—The Wilts, No. ........ Tens Somerset and Sonthampton Junction No. Twenties Railway. 11. B. SHERIDAN, Secretary, London, Aug. 30, 1845. 26, Gresham-street, City. PROSPECTUS OF THE BRIGHTON, LEWES, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, GRAVESEND, and EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY, with a branch from or near Wroth= to Chatham. Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of :201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110) PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. Sir John Key, Bart. Alderman, Director of the Exeter, Dorches. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE, .ieutenant-General Montague-place, Montague-square Jahn Anderson, Esq., Princes-park, Liverpool, Director of the East ern Counties and Southend Railway Charles It. Iligge, Esq., 19, Bryauston-square, Director ,of the York and Lancaster Railway Charles Bleaden, Esq. ' Coulsdeu - court, Surrey, Chairman of the Licensed Victuallers' Assurance Company John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London Docks William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the Direct Western Railway, and Director of the Sheffield and Man chester Railway - James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the New R ass, Carlow, and Kilkenny Railway G. A. Brown, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Callao and Lima Railway Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries Railway Captain James Edward Carnegie, Somerset street, Portman-square, and Bower-hall, Inverness, Director of the Reading and Reigate Railway John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-street, Director of the York and Lan caster Railway Richard Clay, Esq., 1, Winchester-buildings, L on d on , Di rec t or o f th e Huddersfield and Eastern Coast Railway Ephraim Cocker, Esq., White Coppice, Chorley, Director of the Black burn, Chorley, and Liverpool Railway Newton Crouch, Esq., 13, Southampton-place, Euston-square, Di rector of the Mauritius, and the York and Lancaster Railways Thomas Ferrand Dearden, Esq., Rochdale, Director of the Stafford shire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway Peregrine Royds Dearden, Esq., Birkenhead, Liverpool Miles Dormer, Esq., Hans-place, Sloane-street, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway Richard Davis, Esq., Knaresborough, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway Colonel Lothian Sheffield Dickson, Curzon-street, May-fair, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway, the York and Lancaster, Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways Benjamin Smart Fowler, Esq., Alder House, near Tamworth, Direc tor of the Leicester and Northampton Railway. The Rev. H. It. Fowler, 7, Manchester-square, Director of the South Midland Railway The Hon. Percy Evans Freke, Belgrave-square, Director of the Bandon and Bantry Railway William Garrow, Esq., Great George's-square, Liverpool, Director of the Eastern Counties anti Southend Junctions Railway William Gibb, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway Joseph Gillham, Esq., Hargreaves-house, Oldham, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, and Huddersfield, and East and West Coasts Railways Captain To - isleton Graves, Director of the Leicester and Tears and DOV 3 Valley Railway Charles Haigh, Esq., Broadley Wood, Rochdale and Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway F. W. Hamilton, Esq., 59, Gloucester-place, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway John Lawrence Harris, Esq., 4, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway John Hawkins, Esq., St. James's-place, New-cross Theophilus Hodges, Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway John Holford, Esq., Rusholm-hall, Manchester, Director of Reming ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway Charles Holland, Esq., of Liscard Vale, Cheshire, and Liverpool John Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Westminster, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend, and the Direct Western Railways George Holt, Esq , Willow-hill, Crumpsall, Director of the Stafford shire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid land Railway John Charles Jack, Esq., Liverpool Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart. Richard Kelly, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's, Chairman of the New Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny Railway Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South and Midlands Junction Railway Charles Kelson, Esq., J.P., banker, Teignmonth, Director ofthe Dart mouth and Exeter, and Ashburton and Newton Railways William Kempe, Esq., Teign Villa, Teignmouth, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction Railway, and the Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpool Railway , Peter Thomas Legh, Esq., Ridge-hall, county Dublin, Eirector of the Isle of Man Railway James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway Edward Norris, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Direct Western Railway Nathaniel Ogle, Esq., Heath-lane-lodge, Twickenham, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Richard William Perry, Esq., Barham Wood, near Elstree, Herts William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Ral.way Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Chairman of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and Director of the Sheffield and Man chester Railway, &c. J. Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah-house, Enfield, Director of the Direct Western Railway R. A. Riddell, Esq., Director of the Great Western Extension Railway A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Middle Temple, London, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway Richard Rowe, Esq., Beauvoir-terrace, Maida Vale William Sidebotham, Esq., Glossop, J.P. for Derbyshire, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway Edward Smith, Esq., 13arnsbury Park, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway William Studley, Esq., North Brixton, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton Railway Charles F. Thornley, Esq., Eastfleld House, Westbury, near Bristol, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Manchester, Settle, and Car isle Railways Sir Warwick Hele Tonkin, J.P., Teignmouth, Director of the London Salisbury, Yeovil, and Exeter, the Dartmouth and Exeter, and Ashburton and Newton Railways. Thomas T►bbutt, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Sir William Twisden, Bart., Cavendish-street, Cavendish-square Joseph Underwood, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway, and Director of the Commercial Bank of London. Charles Waite, Esq.,Willesden, Director of the Great Western, East ern Counties, and Ipswich and Southampton Railways George Walker, Esq., Manchester Major White, 105, Pall-mall, Director of the South Midland Railway Mathew Wyatt, Esq., Upper Hyde-park-street, Director of the London, Salisbury, Yeovil, and Exeter, and Ashburton and Newton Railways William Ayscough Wilkinson, Esq., Woodbury Downs, Director of the Waveney Valley Railway Robert Wynne Williams, Esq., 29, Bedford-place, Russell-square Thomas Wynne, Esq., Longton, Staffordshire, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and South Union a.ndliirrningharn Junction Railways Sir William Wynne, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North Wales Railway Wm. Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham District, the Bir kenhead and Holyhead, York and Lancaster, and Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Railways Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, Director of the York and Lancaster, Rugby, Derby and anchester, Staffordshire Potteries, and Man chester, Wigan, and Southport Railways John Lord, Esq., Standish-hall, Lancashire, Director of the Staf fordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester Direct, and Lan cashire, Cheshire, and Staffordshire Junction Railways Henry Taylor, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, Liverpool, Preston. and North Union, Rugby, Derby, and Manchester and Oxford, Cheltenham and London Railways John Thompson, Esq., Frood Ironworks, near Wrexham, and Wigan, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead, Manchester and Wigan, Liverpool, Preston, and North Union, and Dover and Bristol Railways Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southand Railway Herbert Ingram, Esq., Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway George Laurie, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway (With power to add to their number). CONSULTING ENGINEER—T. Urpeth Rastrick, ESQ. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Eimslie and Preston, Moorgate-street J. E. Beales, Esq., 7, John-street, Adelphi William Burdett, Esq., Manchester. BANKERS. London—The Commercial Bank of London Manchester—The National Provincial Bank of England. SECRETARY—Nichs. J. Kempe, Esq. Company's Offices, Palace-chambers, St. James's. This railway will form, as nearly as may be practicable, a direct line from Reading, in Berkshire—one of the ost important and rapidly improving towns in the kingdom—to the large and populous town of Northampton, where it will form a junction with the Northampton and Peterborough Railway The line will proceed from the Reading station of the Great Western Railway, and by the way of Henley-ou-Thames, Great Marlow, West Wycombe, Aylesbury, and Buckingham, through some of the richest and most fertile districts of England, from whence vast supplies of live stock and agricultural produce are constantly fur nished to the metropolis; and from Buckingham it will be continued direct to Blisworth and Northampton. From Blisworth a line proceeds to Wellingborough, and forms a Junction with the Direct Manchester Railway ; and it is intended that a branch shall be formed from West Wycombe to the station at Slough, on the Great Western Railway The proposed line with the branch will be about seventy-Ave miles in length, and it has been ascertained that it may be constructed with unusual facility, whilst, by means of the intended junctions with the Great Western Railway at Slough and Reading, with the London and Birmingham Railway at Blisworth, and the Direct Manchester Railway at - Wellingborough, an uninterrupted and most desirable railway communication will be opened between Portsmouth, Gos port, the Isle of Wight. Southampton, Bedford, Huntingdon, the Birmingham, Dorby, assaaenester, L S Leeds, Newcastle and Berwick, and with the great mann a!roprodosllp PnftDri.., manu facturing and mining districts of the north of 1: ngland. The numerous parishes and districts which will be traversed by the line comprise a population of nearly 1,500,000 persons, and passing, as it will, a p ,rtion of the counties of Barks and Oxford, the whole of Buckinghamshire, and by the celebrated Vale of Aylesbury, and uniting with the several completed or projected railways under mentioned, viz.:— The London and Birmingham The Great Western The Southampton Union The South Midland The Midland Counties The Northampton and Leicester The Northampton and Peterborough, and thus with The Direct Manchester it cannot be doubted that it must prove extremely convenient and beneficial to the public, and highly advantageous to the proprietors. The liability of the shareholders will be restricted by Act of Par liament to the amount of their subscriptions, and power will be ap plied for in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum on all calls, from the passing of the Act until the opening of the Hue. Arrangements have been made that the survey shall be completed, and the plans and sections deposited in time for obtaining an Act during the ensuing session of Parliament. Applications for shares may be addressed, in the form annexed, to the undermentioned brokers, viz. :—Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, Princes street, John Showell, Esq., Threadneedle-street, and Messrs. Wells, Westropp, and Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street, London; Messrs. Gray stone and Earle, York ; Mr. Thackray, Harrogate ; Mr. Joseph Nel son, Settle; Mr. W. Welch, Lancaster; Messrs. Geddes and Drink water, and Mr. Henry Waterton, Bank-buildings,. Castle-street, Messrs. Christian and Tomes, Harrington--srreet, Liverpool ; Mr. Peter Leicester, Messrs. Green and Oldham, Messrs. Green and Lockwood, Manchester; Mr. James Pearson, ?tinning ham ; Messrs. Joshua Wood and Son, Messrs. Watson and Co., and Masers. E. King and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Brady and gtaniforth, Hull 1 arr. J. A. Butchart, Huddersfield; Mr. Hervey, Halifax; Mr. Nightingale, Wakefield; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., Brad ford ; Mr. Luke Arnold, and Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Mr. G. B. Gliddon, and Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter; Mes srs . H all, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Ply mouth 1 Mr. Robert Allan, Messrs. Hugh Munro and Co., M r. D av i d Kinnear, and Mr. James Pringle, Edinburgh ; Mr. W. Pringle, Leith ; Messrs. M'Ewen and Auld, Glasgow ; Mr. Wm. Gordon, Aberdeen ; Mr. S. A. Gleag, Perth ; of whom prospectuses may be had ; or to the Provisional Committee, at the offices of the Company. Wm. Paxton, Esq., Langford Farm Lewis Pocock, Esq., F.S.A., Montague-street, Russell-square, Di rector of the Argus Insurance Company, and the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway G. W. K. Potter, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, Alexander Prince, Esq., Lincoln's Inn-fields John Prestage, Esq., Wycombe W. W. Prole, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton, Director of the Jersey Railway S. 11. Powell, Esq., Brixton, Director of the Leeds, York, and Mid lands' Junction Railway Win. Reynolds, Esq., Ambrosden Robert Shedden, Esq., Torr Abbey, Devon, Director of the South- Western Railway, and Deputy-Lieutenant for the county of Devon E. R. Simmonds, Esq., Gloucester Lodge, Croydon William Slack, Esq., Crickelwood, Director of the Guarantee Society John Southgate, Esq., Pebble Coombe, Dorking, Director of the Reading and Reigate Railway John Southgate, Jun., Esq., Old Change, London Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Broom Hall, near Dorking, Deputy Governor of the Union Bank of Loudon, Chairman of the Irish Midland Railway Mr. James Stratton, Princes Risborough William H. Terrell, Esq., Lincoln's Inn-fields Edward Hughes Thorpe, Esq., Bicester Tredwell, Esq., Piddington Charles Frederick Thornley. Esq., Westbury, near Bristol William Walker, Esq., Eldon-terrace, Leeds Captain F. Beyly Wardroper, H.C.S., Director of the Hlrmingham Extension Railway Walter White, Esq., Fitzroy-square, Director of the London and Winds Railway Wm. White, Esq., Blackheath, Director of the Central Kent Comity Railway W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Woodbury Down, Director of the Waveney Valley and Great Yarmouth Railway Robert Winslow, Esq., Princes Rlsborough Robert Winslow, Jun., Esq., Princes Risborough Thomas Wragg, Esq., Boarstall (With power to add to their number.) James Brand, Esq. MANAGING _COMMITTEE. H. Garrett Key, E. W. Kuper, Esq. „ B. H. Powell, Esti. John.% v Le . w v % s:), P i ti o et, e h oc g ak. Esq.te , B Emi sq • • F-Sdk Henry Tuna. Carer, Esq. E. Chapman, Esq. Henry Dodson, Esq. Samuel Douglas, Esq. E. T. Grundy, Esq. John Inglis Jerdeln, Esq. (With limited power to add to their number.) ENGINEERS. Sir John Macneill, LL.D., F.R.S. James Thomson, Esq., F.R.s.E., SOLICITORS. Messrs. Roy, Blunt, and Johnstone, Lothbury George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden-square. RANKERS. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, Lombard-street The Union Bank of London Messrs. Cockburn and Co., Whitehall Maidenhead—Messrs. Stephens, Blandy and Co. Wycombe—Messrs. Wheeler and Sons Bicester—Messrs. Tubb Thame—Thomas Stone, Esq. LOCAL AGENTS. Maidenhead—James Smith, Esq. High Wycombe and Princes Risborou g h—Charles Harman, Esq. liicestet—Richard Maley, Esq. Oxford—John Looker, Esq. Windsor—C. S. \routes, Esq. HONORARY SECRETARY, pro. tem.—John Southgate. Jun. , Bsq. Offices of the Company-2, Charlotte-row, Mansion HOUSS. The great importance of the above line of railway, not exco actin) 64 miles in length, will be immediately seen by referring to the map. It commences at the Farnborough station of the South-Westernßall way, crossing the Great Western Bie between Slough and Maiden head, and terminates on the Oxford and Rugby line of railway at Heyford, beyond Oxford, on the route to Birmingham, accommo dating in its course, Bracknell, Sunning-hill,Bagshot, Ascot, Windsor, Great Marlow, High Wycombe, Princes Risborough. Theme, Bicester, and many other places at present without railway communication. It will form the most direct route from London to Banbury , War wick, and Birmingham, and by the Grand Junction Railway to Man_ chester, Liverpool, Lancaster , and Carlisle, and by the Caledonian Railway to Glasgow and Edinburgh ; also from Crewe to Chester, y the Great W estern Birkenhead, Birkenhead, and Holyhead, thus opening the most direct communica tion with Dublin. It will also by the branch to Woodstock, in connexion with the Cheltenham and Oxford line, form the most direct route to S out h Wales, Waterford, and the south of Ireland, as well as by th e Ox ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line to 'Worcester, and c ome _ quently to all the central portion of Wales , thus forming the shortest route to all Wales and Ireland. The length of this line will not excee d 64 miles, and it will save an average distance of 14 miles to each of t he bef ore - mentioned pl aces, RasawaalPya.red with difficulties, and that the land is the least valuable of any in the mull: out t i h s e fee r t o o u r t y e n to ow etete traversedthet there are no engi neer i ng tics through which this line is intended to pass, avoiding, as it does, parks and ornamental property. To the advantages offered to the above places ' by saving about fourteen miles in the transits to London, must be added that of con necting them with the South - W estern and the Re ading and Reigate lines, affording passengers an o pp ortunity of proc eeding to South ampton, Portsmouth, Isle of W i g ht, Dover, Brighten, and a l l adja: cent places, without the necessity ef passing t hrough the thereby saving much time and inconvenience.metropolis, It will be seen from the foregoing facts that the formation of this line will afford very great advantages to nearly all parts of England, Scotland, Wales, and Irelan d, as it will materiall y f acilitate the d e ' livery of their many market able p roducts by o p eni ng , u a__,.ier and more direct route to London. It is not, therefore, too much: c 7 l to ex_ pect that, independently of a great local traffic. there w i ll be also an immense through traffic brought on thisline, which must pay at least 10 per cent. on the capit al required. This is manifest, as th e construction of the line will not cost 20,0001. per Mile, while the London and Birmingham Railw a y cost 53,0001. per mile, up on w h ich 15 per cent. enormous outlay it continues to hay Shareholders in the Grand Junction, Great Western, South Western, Oxford and Rugby, Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhamp ton, and Birmingham and Oxfor d Junction Railwa y s will have a pre ference in the allotment of shares after parties locally interested. The deeds will provide that no ball shall be t act of ade the share holders beyond the deposit now paid, until the Act of the shall be obtained ; and power will be taken in the Aet to allow f ont . per cent. interest on all calls until the line be completed, which, from the nature of the ground t o be gone over, is no t expected t o exceed two years. The Committee have decided,with ' in compliance the suggestions of landowners of groat influence, to form branches from the Than te station on the proposed main line to Oxford and Aylesbury, thereby establishing a dtwootteasasusa lcat i o n between those important piae j Application fir starts =ay be °made, in the an nexed form, t o the following sharebrekers :—London : Mr. W. West, C apel _ couri , Mr. Benjamin ituukin, Tokenbouse-yard , Mr. M. L . Pritchard and Mr. Branokner, Liverpool ; Messrs. Cardwell and :Sons, Messrs. Green and Oldham, and Messrs. Gardiner and Heap, Manchester; Messrs. Potter and Smith, Leeds ; Mr. Andrew Moffat, Edin burgh ; Messrs. Bruce and Spines, Dublin ; Messrs. Graydon. and Earle, York ; Messrs. Sohines and Tripp, Bristol; Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Plymouth ; Mr. T. Sandf ord , Exeter ; Ar r . J. Wright, Birmingham ; Messrs. Sihary and Sim pson, Hull ; M r . Isaac Ironside, Sheeld ; Memr4* Mann and Son, N orwich ; Mr: ffi Joseph Ivey Baker, Cheltenham ; to the Secretary, at the offices of the Company ; Messrs. Roy, Blunt, and Johnstone, Lothbury ; George Smith, Esq., solicitor, No. 24, Golden - square ; and t o Mr. A. Brand, Glasgow - To the Provisional Committee of the Grand Junction, Groat Western, and South-Western Railway Junction Company, Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares hi the above Company, and I agree to take all such shares, or so many as may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and to exe cute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required so to do. _ Delieription ......... Restdenc,e •• ..... pate •• ........ .. Aelerenco to • ter, and Weymouth Railway John Saddington, Esq., Mayor of Gravesend Medhurat Troughton, Esq., Alderman of Gravesend Thomas Pallister, Esq., Alderman of Gravesend Mr. -- Tisdell, Councillor of Gravesend Jeremiah Rosher, Esq., Rosherville, near Gravesend John Brough, E'q., Herne Bay John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester, Director of the London and Manchester Railway Thomas Camplin, Esq., Herne Bay W. A. Campbell, Esq , Wanstead.park Col. Fitch, York.terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the South and Midlands Junction Railway Charles Goodwin, Esq., Battersea James Harmer, Esq.. Ingress Abbey, Greenhithe, Kent William Kuper, Esq., Director of the Grand Junction, Great Western, and South Western Railway T. R. Kemp, Esq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet Valley, and Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways John Kerschner, Esq., Middle Temple•lane Edward Lacey, Esq., St. I'aul'a•churchyard, and Gravesend Jonas Levy, Esq., 55, Tavistock-square H. C. Leahy, Esq., St. James's •square, Director of the Direct Bir mingham and Brighton, and Gteat Welsh Junction Railway R. H. Lewis, Esq., 12, Upper Moutague.street, Director of the Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Railway John Wheeley Lea, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Se. vern Commission The Hon. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway Edmund Pallister, Esq., Gravesend S. H. Powell, Esq., Director of the Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Railway R. A. Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square E. R. Simmons, Esq., Gloucester Lodge, Croydon Walter White, Esq., Fitzroy.square, Director of the London and Windsor Railway J. D. Williams, Esq., Milton.street, Dorset.square (With power to add to their numbers). COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Sir John Key, Bart. The Mayor of Gravesend I S W . m l-1 . . Powell, Esq . . Es E' q q. . John Brough, Esq. I Walter White, Esq. John Kerschner, Esq. (With power to add to their number). NANILIe. Messrs. Rogers, Oldi ng, and C0., 1C Clement's-lane ; Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., Charing-cross. At Lewes—Messrs. Molyneux, Whitfield and Co. Cowsulanio EtwiNzEits—Sir John Macneil and James Thom. son, Esq. ENGINEER --Wm. Laxton, Esq., C.E. Soucrroa IN L ONDON —George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden-square. LOCAL SOLICITORS. Messrs. Coombe and Sharland, Town.hall, Gravesend Messrs. J. and E. Blaker, Lewes. The object of this undertaking is to open a direct line of rail way to connect the Northern, Eastern, and South Essex Railways, by means of a steam ferry from Tilbury Fort to Gravesend, with Tunbridge Wells, Lewes, and Brighton. It is contemplated to proceed from the Eastern Counties Rail way at or near Harlow station to Tilbury, crossing the river by a steam floating.bridge to Gravesend, passing by Wrotham to Tunbridge, thence by the South• Eastern Railway to Tunbridge Wells, passing Uckfield to Lewes, anti thence joining the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway to Brighton. An inspection of the map will clearly show the great import ance of this railway, whether considered in a local or national point of ♦iew, forming as it will a most useful chain of local com munication for the fertile and populous tracts through which it parses. It will bring the Northern and Eastern Counties, the mouth of the Thames, and North Kent, into direct communication, by way of Brighton, with Dieppe and Havre, and thus form, in con. junction with the railways now in progress on the Continent, the shortest possible route to Paris and the Mediterranean. By this railway the large population of the North Eastern Coun ties, numbering nearly two millions, will have a direct and easy communication with the whole of the populous and important oounties of Kent and Sussex, without going round to London, and thereby avoiding the inconvenience arising from the unconnected lines north and south of the metropolis. The utility of this line to the naval and military service, both in times of peace and war, for the conveyance of troops and stores, is evident. With the existing railways, and those now in progress in Kent and Sussex, a most complete system of local communication will be effected ; and as such, the project has been received with the most distinguished approbation and pledges of support from the principal proprietors along the line, and the Corporation of Gravesend have promised their entire sanction to, and will cordially support it. The ground has been carefully surveyed, and found to present no difficulties to the formation of a good working line. The existing local traffic has been ascertained to be amply suf. ficient to fulfil the requirements of the undertaking; but a large accession of valuable traffic cannot fail to be the result of the increased accommodation thus afforded to the public, and rendering the undertaking one of the most important as well as productive lines of railway. in that part of the country. The Committee reserve power to themselves to form a branch from Wrotham to Chatham. The liability of the shareholders will be restricted by Act of Parliament to the amount of their subscriptions, and power will be applied for in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent, per annum on all calls, from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line. Applications for prospectuses, and also for shares, may be ad dressed in the form annexed to George Smith, Esq., Solicitor, '24, Golden-square; Messrs. Coombe and Sharland, 'rown.hall, Graves end ; Messrs. J. and E. Maker, Lewes ; and also to the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Field, Son, and Bayley, Warnford-court, Throgmorton-street, London ; Messrs. Harris and Sons, Change alley, London; Messrs. S. R. and R. Healy, Liverpool ; Messrs. Gardiner and Heap, Manchester; Mr. Isaac Ironside, Sheffield ; Messrs. E. C. Hopps and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Plymouth; Mr. J. B. Mundy, Bath; Mr. A. Moffatt, Edinburgh.- To the Provisional Committee of the Brighton, Lewes, Tunbridge Walls, Gravesend, and Eastern Counties Railway. I request that you will allot me shares In the proposed Brighton, Lewes, Tunbridge Wells, Gravesend, and Eastern Coun. ties Railway ; and I agree to take all such shares, or so many as may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when re quired 13 to do. Name Description Residence Date Reference to FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the P;ovisional Committee of the Midland Grand Junction Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me shares of 25/. each in the Midland Grand Junction Railway, and ! hereby undertake to accept that, or any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay tile dapotit Of 2t. 125.. d. per share thereon, and to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required, Name in full Profession or Trade Residence Me. of business Reference— =~"~ PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED. THE SOU'Ill COUN riES UNION, and BRISTOL, BATH, and DOVER DIRECT RAILWAY COMPANY. Capital 1,500,0001, in 50,000 Shares of 25/. each. Deposit 21. 15s. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. The Right Hon. the Earl of Uxbridge Viscount Mandeville Lord Dunboyne rid Albert Denison Conyngham, K.C.11 , Director of the Gal way and Ennis Grand Junction Railway eHon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgiave.square, Director of the Direct Western Railway, &c. Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., East India House, Director of the East India Company, and Dendre Valley Railway Sir John Hare, FS. A., 11, Lsngliam-place, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railways, &c. Sir Gco. Rich, Lowndes-square, Belgrave-square, Director of the Reading, Guildford and Reigate, and the Callao, Linea, and Pacific Coast Railways Sir Wm. 'I wysden, Dorset-street, Portman-square Wm. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F S. A. F.L S., &c, Ahlerrnsn of Lon. don, Chairman of the Leek and Mansfield, of the Erewash of the Great Western, Southern and Eastern, and of the Birken head, Chester, Mold, Rhuabon, and Vale of Llangollen Railways The Boroughreeve of Manchester, John Burgess, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct and Independent Railway The Mayor of Whitchurch, Hants Win. Shadbolt. Esq., Croom'a-liiil, Greenwich, Chairman of the London and Greenwich, and Director of the Dendre Valley Railways Algernon W. B. Greville, Eq., Cambridge terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railway Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Mariborough-place, St. John's wood, Di rector of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railways F. W. Hamilton, Esq., Gloucesterailace, Portman-square, Director of the . York and Lancaster Railway P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Manchester st cet, Manchester-square, Director of the Leeds and London Direct, the Sligo and Shannon, the Ipswich and Southampton, and the Cork, Passage, and Kin. sale Railways John Mee Mathew, Esq., Mecklenburgh square, Director of the East and West Junction, the Darby, Sheffield and Worcester, the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railways, &c. William J. M Guira, Hamieen.court, Director of the Direct Western, and of the Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railways Thomas Kidley, Esq., MD , Sheffield, Director of the Direct Bir mingham, Oxford, 11, asling, and Brighton Railway, &c. Thomas Shaw, Esq., Northampton, Director of the South Mid land, and the Great Western, Southern and Eastern Counties Railways Joseph Shaw, Esq., York.place, Huddersfield, Director of the Manchester and Blikenhead Continuation, and the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Railways Charles Henry Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montague street, Montague square, Director of the Grand Trunk, and the Direct West-End and Croydon Railways Valentine Knight, Esq., Cornwall terrace, Director of the Great Western, Southern and Eastern Counties, and the Dendre Valley Railways Geo. Harrison, Esq., Director of the Grand Trunk, and of the Hull and Holyhead Railways C. Preston, E , q., Hereford road, Bayswater, and Blackmore, Essex Col. Nicolls, Shooter's-hill, Director of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, and the Sligo and Shannon Railways Griffin Curtis Galt, Esq., Charles-street, Manchester-square, Di rector of the Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, and the Sligo and Shannon Railways Edwin Cadman, Esq., merchant, Sheffield, Director of the Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brigt.ton Railway George Maberly, Esq., Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square John Alcock Dixon. Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., 150, Piccadilly, Director of the Great Man. hester, Rugby, and Southampton, and the West Midland, Manchester and Southampton Railways Lieut.. Col. Fitch, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the York and Lancaster, and of the Oxford, Worcester, and Chester Junction Railways James Clift, Esq , 30, Bloomsbury-square, Director of the Paris and Strasburg, the Metropolitan Railways Junction, the South ampton, Manchester, and Oxford Railways, &c. George Lawton, Esq., Ditchley's-hall, Brentwood, Essex, Director of the South Midland, and of the Great Western, Southern, and Eastern Counties Railways John Kerle Haberfield, Esq., late Mayor of Bristol Win. Birmingham Costello, Esq., M.D., Wyke-house, Brentford, Director of the Direct London and Exeter Railway Alford Brodie, Esq., Director of the Grand Trunk and Direct Weat.end and Croydon Railways Richard H. A Ilnatt, Esq , M. D., F. S.A., Parliament-street, Whitehall Edward Waley. Esq., Portland-place Major David Fitzgerald, Valentia, Ireland, Director of the Shef. field, Nottingham, and London Direct Railway Francis Newbery, Esq., Ifingston Villa, Clifton Joseph Graham, Esq , Clapham, Director of the Northern and Southern Connecting Railway George Augustus Brown, Esq., 20, Gower-street, Bedford-square, Director of the Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast Railway Knowlton Wilson, Esq., M.D., Sheffield Daniel Turton Johnson, Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of the Northern and Southern Connecting, of Remington's Lon don and Manchester, of the Chester and Manchester Direct, and of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways Thomas Wynne, Esq., Longton, Staffordshire, Director of the South Union and Birmingham Junction of the Holyhead Direct, and of the Leeds and Carlisle Railways Hugh John Smerdon, Esq., Christow, Devonshire, Director of the Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter Railway William aches, Esq., Old Broad-street, Director of the Great Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln and Midland Junction Railway Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq, North terrace, Brompton, Middle sex, Director of the Thames Valley and Hounslow Railway, &c. Horace William Meteyar.i, Esq., Director of the Northern and Southern Connecting, of Remington's London and Manchester, the Chester and Manchester Direct, and the Derbyshire, Sta. fordshire, and Worcestershire Railways John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's Wood, Chairman of the Cork and Fermoy Direct, and Deputy-Chairman of the Leeds and Huddersfield Railways, &c. Major Adair, Pall.mall, Director of the Central Sardinian, and the Northern and Southern Connecting Railways Lieut.-Col. Cruttenden, ILA , Director of the Gloucester, Aberyst with and Central Wales Railway . Geo. Jones, Esq., M.R.S., F S.V., 13, George-street, Hanover square, Director of the London and Windsor Railway Abraham Bettridge, Esq., Devonshire-terrace, Director of the Great Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln and Midland Junc tion, and the Metropolitan Railways Junction, &c. Fred. Ramsden, Esq., Seymour House, Old Trafford, Manchester, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction; the Lon don and Holyhead Direct, and the Sheffield and Macclesfield Railways, Ac. O g d e n, Esq., M.D., Salford, Director of the Manchester and Chester Direct Railway James Atkinson West, Esq., Western Lodge, Durham, Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire; the Manchester, Liver pool, and Great North of England; the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries and Crewe ; and the Wear Dock Railways, &c. S a muel Giles, Esq., merchant, Manchester, Director of the Man chester and Rugby Direct, and Shef f ield and Macclesfield Direct Railways, &c. Robert Passenger, Esq., Union-street, Borough, Director of the Callao, Lima, and Pacific Coast Railway, and the Royal Mines ' of Cobre Association Colonel Campbell Dalrymple, George-street, Westminster, Direc tor Of the City and West-end Railway Wm. King, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct Line (Remington's) John Miller, Esq., St. John's-wood.grove Robt. Fynn, Esq., emple, Director of the Cheltenham, Ox. ford, and Brighton Junction Railway, &c. Stephen Henry Lee, Esq , Dalston, Director of the City of London Life Assurance Society, &c. John King, Esq., Grove-road, St. John's Wood, Director of the Somersetshire Midland Railway, &c. Captain Trophimus Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway, &c. John Emmet, Esq., Ovenden Grange, Halifax, Director of the Halifax Fire and Life Insurance Company John Hodson, Esq., Sunderland-house, Halifax, Director of the Manchester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction Railway Joseph Gillham, Esq., Hargreaves-house, Oldham, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and the Manchester and Southampton Railways Wm. Hunter, Esq., Clarendon.square, Leamington Sam. Douglass, Esq., Doctor's-commons, Director of the Grand Junction, Great Western, and South. Western Railway General Bacon, Rusham.house, Egham, Director of the Royal Portuguese Railways Company Charles Roger Dodd, Esq., North Brixton, Director of the Great Welsh Central Railway Richard Geddes, Esq., Newcastle-uponsTyne Captain John Harrison Bowker, R.N., Newcastle-upon-Tyne Ambrose Moore, Esq., Milk-street, Cheapside Frederick)Hewitt, Esq., Clapham, Director of the Erewash Valley Extension of the Leek and Mansfield, and of the Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, Rhuabon, and Vale of Llangollen Railways Lieutenant-Colonel Macalister, K. H., Loppe Cottage, Axminster, Magistrate of the County, and Director of the Yeovil, Exeter, and Dorchester, and of the Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter Railways Thomas S. Richards, Esq , Baker-street, Portman.square, Director of the Great Western, Southern and Eastern Counties, and the Leek and Mansfield Railways, &c. John Kemp Devonshire, Esq., Riverdale Villa, Hampton, Director of the London, Bristol, and South Wales Direct Railway Robert Chapman, Esq., Park-place, Regent's-park, Director of the Great Manchester and Southampton Railway llenry Parkes, Esq., Ferriby, near Hull N. M'Cann, Esq., Parliament-street, Director of the Liverpool and Derby, the Direct Manchester and Rugby, the Sheffield and Nottingham, the Brighton and Cheltenham, and the Burton-on. Trent Railways James Oliff Griffiths, Esq , Temple and Aylesbury Martin Stutelv, Esq , Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the Direct Western and Grand Trunk Railways John Levitt, Esq., Hull Geo. Robinson, Esq., Hull Robt. Middleton, Else , Manchester Wm. Middleton, Esq., Manchester Henry Smyth, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Grand Union Railway Sam. Cavan, Esq., Liverpool Edmund Gwyer, Esq., Bristol Richard Dransfield, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby, the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, the Great Northern and Southern Direct, the Keighly, Halifax, and Huddersfield Railways Jere Key, Esq , Huddersfield, Director of the Great Northern and Southern Direct and the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Railways Joseph Brooke, jun., Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Great Northern and Southern Direct Railway Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton Hall; Leicestershire Henry Newcombe, Esq., Hardingaton, Northampton John Grant, Esq., Northampton G. Holmes, Esq., Hull Swynfen Jervis, Esq., Whitehall-place (leorge Laishley, Esq., Southampton Charles Shaw, Esq., Birmingham, Deputy.Chalrman of the Direct Birmingham and Leicester, and Director of the Bristol and Bir mingham Railways Cleorge Simpson, Esq., Bedford.square, Director of the Sligo, Donegal, Tyrone, and Belfast Junction, and Middlesex and Surrey Junction Railways John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury, Direc m to . rofthe Nor thern and Southern Conecting, and the South Mid la nd B i rm ingh a m and Lichfield Railways Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of the N ort h ern and Connecting, of Remington' s L on d on and Manchester, at ut dt i h w e rn Derbyshire, Saflbrdshire, and Worcester Railways Fdward Scard, Esq., Kew, Magistrate of Middlesex, and Director of the Northern and Southern Connecting Ralway ;aptain M. Gambier, Upper Seymour-street, Portinan-sqUare I din B. Shuttleworth, Esq., Ilisrley-place, Harley -street Julius Lowenthal, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Hudders field, Manchester, and Great Grimsby Direct Railway Wm. Thomas Jackson, Esq., Tasicaster, Director of the East and West Yorkshire, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways Min Ostler, Esq , Hull W. Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman of the Church of England Life Assurance Company, and Director of th Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Junction Coast Rail ways Name of Town, Rroniley Sevenoaks Tonbridge Maidstone Charing AsWont Dartford- .. Gravesend Rochester Chatham .. Faversham Canterbury Deal ....: Dover ... Branches will be constructed, if hereafter considered requisite, but the mails line to be laid down by the Company will be considerably less than 100 miles, throughdut which the strongest encouragement and support have been manifested towards this railway by the landed proprietors, many of whom have determined to invest capital in the undertaking ; and the engineer's report precludes any apprehen sion of engineering difficulties; the publication, however, of the ex actness of the route is necessarily delayed for a few days, in con sequence of some important negotiations now pending with ano ther Company. The great public utility and commercial advan tages of railway communication between the important places and ports which it is now contemplated to unite must be at once ap preciated by reference to a map of the country. The usual power rill be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest, at four per cent. per annum, on the amount of (IP:posit and calls from the passing of the Act until the cornpletirr, of th e line, and the liabity of the shareholders will be limited tr.', the amount of their subscriplion Applications for shares (which must be necessarily restricted in consequence of the immense number that have already been applied for under guarantee of persons of the highest respectability) with prospectuses and plans, to be made to the secretary, at the offices of the Company; to J D. 'Wells, Esq , 13, George-street, Mansion-house, and to the following sharebrokers :,--S. H. Ellis, Esq., 17, Throgmorton street ; L. H. Haste wood, Esq, Angel-court, Throgmorton street; and I'. C. Mundey, Esq., 17, Royal Exchange. At Liverpool, Messrs. Schultz and Carr, Messrs. Da% ies and Co., H. W. Lucas, Esq., and John Wi.ls, Esq ; Manchester, Messrs. Ho ß ug ra n d la ie n;sl . andah Leese, Messrs. Lynil and B er l yn, M essrs. Johnsen, Walker, Messrs. O'Neil and Nusworthy, Messrs. N2r, Gar. diner, and Heap, John Dunmit, Esq. ; Birmingham, J. R. Lane, Esq., W. H. Collis, Esq. ; Bristol., Messrs. Tate and Nash, Messrs. George Edwards and &in, and W. H. Land, Esq. ; Bath, R. P. Lemon, Esq., Th':.,nas Evans, Esq , and J. B. Mundy, Esq. ; Halifax, F. C. Spencer, Esq , and J ames Hurry, Esq.; Southampton, Joseph Clarke, jun., Esq. Exeter, ssrs. nd H. Beaumont and Co. ; C heltenham, Messrs Hall Brothe r s , a Co. ; Hull, Messrs. Flint and Toots!, Messrs. Charles Wilkinson and Earle; Huddersfield, Messrs. John Gatliff and Co. and John Butchart, Esq.; Leeds, Messrs. Wellbeloved, Bar wick and Co., Messrs. J. and G. Rhodes, Messrs. Read, Broadbent and Co., and James Jamieson, Esq.; Suffield, Messrs. Garton and Wright; York, Messrs. Grayston and Earle; Newcastle-upon- Tyne, Messrs. Kimpster ; Coventry, Messrs. Browne and Clarke, and John T. Holland, Esq.; Dewsbury, John Brooke.ii.F7F.iy;mß:auetkh-. burn, Thomas Boardman, E sq , J atnes Senior, Esq. ; Worcester, William Miles, Esq. ; Bridg e w a t er , Ed ward Lilly, E Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer ; Leamington, T. W. Powell, Esq.; Burton-on-Trent, W. Wisby, Esq. ; Leicester, Messrs. Payne sad Freer ; Stratford-on-Avon, W. Bolton, Esq. , Taunton, Richard Ball, Esq. ; Edinburgh, Charles Caliper, Esq ; Dublin, Messrs. Bruce and Symes. N.B. The last day for the reception of applications will be Sued at an unusually early period. LOCAL AGENTS. Basingstoke—Messrs. Cole, Lamb, and Brooks Bath—Messrs. Mant and Harvey Bristol—Matthew Perkins, Esq. Devizes—Messrs. Wall and Hanbury Farnham—B. Nichols, Esq. Rawkhurst Messrs. Beecham and Upperton Hungerford and Marlborough —John Halcomb, Esq. Melksham—Messrs. Moule and Gore Newbury—Robert Baker, Esq. and Messrs Bunny and Son Reading—Rupert Clarke, Esq. Trowbridge—John Brent, Esq. Whitchurch, Hants—Thomas Phin, Esq. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Southern Counties Union and Bristol, Bath, and. Dover D.rect Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares ot 251. each, in this Railway, and I undertake to accept the same, or any less number you may appropriate to me, to pay the deposit of 21. 15s per Share, and all future calls thereon, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract wheno required, Dated this day of , 1845. I am Gentl emen, your obedient servant, Usual mode of Signature Name in full Profession, Trade, or Occupation Residence and Place of Business Name and Address of Referee in full GREAT KENT A TMOSPH Elt IC RAILWAY. Promoted in conjunction with the London and Croydon Railway Company. The line has the approval ofthe following Noblemen and Gentian -tea of the county:— The Right Hon. Earl Stanhope, Chevening Park The Right Hon. Earl Amherst, Km,le The light Hon. Lord Monson, Chart Lodge, Seal The Right lion. John Charles 'terries, St. Julien's The Right Hon. S. It. Luehington, Norton -court, Pavers!Mt Gir Richard Henry Charles Itycrott, Bart., F.verlands Sir John William Lubbock, Bart., High Elms J. P. Atkins, Esq., Halstead-place Edward Drake Brockman, Esq., the Paddock, llrthe Baldwin Duppa, Esq., llollinknourne Iluirae H. C. Duppa, Esq., (lung Rouse, Boughtoa Byron Edward Duppa Esq., llollingbourne Robert Gordon, Esq., ILN., Sevetioaks crst Henry , r l ies (I) l l,a i i tegtreihield!lseE,tiEs Esq., ‘, B si r bi a r l ,i tr iguel u T r l : l l , Tunbridgenear Toibri dgo W. Lambard, Esq., Beet:tumid George Warde Norman, Esq., Bromley-common Evan Neporm, Esq., Captain R.N., Sevenoaks Charles Hobert Carter Tetley, Esq., River Head house l'ott, Esq., Brumley Rev. James Sutcliffe, linockholt John Savage, Esq., Jenn!ags, near Maidstone Rev. John Thomas Witgress, River Head John Ward, Eso., Holwood Samuel N. 'Ward, Esq., Baston John Vnll,e Gipps,elt on E , sq E .7 H ., 0 3 w Ie l o e p tt l e nun Bank, Tunbridge. George Sharstead, near Faversh am Edmund Burrell Flume°, ES9., COMMITTER OF MANAGEMENT. ay Company costa Wheler,o ., t , te n r . den-place , near Charing R Ed ev Wa C rd ha l r 'ri le ce. Esq., s l ai i i l d ok t..; i r t o L do e t o t u ß n a t i 3 l , w . Six Gent e ea/Er—William Cubitt, Esq., F . R .S. ENGINEER Six Direc i to m rs ei o i f t t o h b e e L s o o n e d c oLi ACTING ENGINEERS • —John Wright Esq. ; Messrs. S h errard and Hall. SOLICITORS-3lessrs. Burcheletl, Westm ur , inster Kilgo, and Parson, 47, P ar li ament. stre LOCAL SOLICITORS. John Monktol, Maidstone Austen and Ilolcroft, Sevenoaks Jeffries and Bathurst, Faversham Sankey and Sladden, Canterbury Latter, Bromley. Kennet and ion} Thompson Dover Mercer and Edwards, Deal. SECRETARIES—R. S. Young, Esq., and Edward W. Cobb, Esq. The advantages which will result to the public from the adoption of these lines may be reduced to the following tabular form . jourily I Time Distance °e,occupiedFaros by ordi nary from 111 trains. London. I by r ordinary Ist 2d 3d i trains. w Cass. Class. 'Clam. • L. in. about 20 O 40 O 50 0 1 21 1 27 O 20 O 40 O b 0 O BO 1 25 1 30 2 0 2 0 Minimum number of ordinary trains daily. S. d. I s. t i. i 1 1 0 9 28 1 9 38 2 5 46 3 0 60 4 0 69 4 6 1 9 - 1 2 2 8 1 r. - , 3S 2 5 3 9 .2 6 6 9 cur .6 7 . .61 5 0 9 9 '6 6 I 991 6 6 12 each Wdy; and second and third. class ear rages with 59% .. 75y, .. at least two-thirds of that number. _ Note.--By special and fast trains the time oecupled will be considerably shorter. 47, Partlament-street, London. Oct. 6, 1546. Johu James Garrard, Esq., Queen-square, Brist,l Samuel Garlick, Esq., Park-square, Leeds Rev. J. D'Arcy Irvine, Bristol Cuthbert Johnson, Esq., Avenue-road, Reeent's-park James Goren, Esq., The Priory, Battersea Rev. Francis Thornburgh, Kingswood, Wilts James Yearsley, Esq., Saville-row, Piccadilly Alfred Parker, Esq., Park-road, Regent's -park James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Manchester, Dire:dor of the Manches ter, Liverpool, and Great North of England ; of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire; and of the Bolton and Bury Railway! The Hon. Geoffrey Browne Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull Captain James Wood, R.M., Woolwich, Director of the Dublin Approximation Atmospheric Railway Lieut-General Lomax, Bristol Benjamin Casson, Esq., Hull John Holmes, Esq., Hull Richard Hands, Esq., Coventry, Director of the Birmingham West Branch, Wednesbury, and Walsall Railway Thomas Ferrand Dearden, Esq., Coroner, Rochdale, Lancashire Charles Ralph Broadley, Esq , Roel dale James Clarkson, Esq., Cheetham Hill, Manchester Wm. Nicholson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Rugby and Manchester, via Macclesfi,ld R t I Nay J. J. Godfrey, Esq , Liverpool J. H. al`Mation, E. q., Limerick, D. ctor of the Cheltenham, Ox. ford, and Brighton Junction, and the Galway and Ennis Grand Junction Railways Henry Clayton, Esq., Clairva.ix Castle, Darlington, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, ai.d tt:e Hull and Holyhead Rail ways Robert Bourne, Esq., Parliament at eet, Whitehall Henry Creaser, Esq., Barnes William Bousfield, Esq., Colebrook -terrace John Yearsley, Esq, merchant, renclitlic.i.str,et James Robertson, Esq., Director of (lie %VW et. .1 r, Ware i‘k and Rugby, and Leominster Ralksat s John Batley Wrigley, Esq ,Croft_lit use, near Htell,r,..field, Director of the Manchester, Liu Idea - Add, and Great Grimsby Direct Railways Samuel Deshayes Saunders, Esq., Ivy.cottage, Syncorobe- hill, Bath George Barons Nottlicote, Esq., Someiset• court, Sumersetshire, Director of the Somersetshire Midlarid Railway Thomas Dixon Burrow, Esq., Settle, Y, ikshire George Watts, Esq., Mount Radford, Exeter, Director of the Exeter and Exmouth, the Great Western Extension, and the Direct Exeter, Plymouth, and Devonport Railways William Henry Samwell George, Esq., Exmouth Edward Greaves, Esq., Leeds John Bowes, Esq., Hull, Director of the Itugby, Leamington, and Warwick Railway Thomas Frederick Hewitt, Eq , Hull, Director of tha Hull and Holyhead Railway William Priest, Esq., Hull, Director of the York and Hull, and the East and West Yorkshire Junction Railways Thomas Holmes, Esq„ Hull Benjamin Willeher, Esq., Waterloo-place, Pall-mall Richard Power, Esq., 73, Euston-square, and Long Orchard, Tipperary William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction, and Metropolitan Railways Junction Rail ways Arthur Haymes, Esq., Leamington Henry Chaytor, Esq„ Erechtheum Club Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Worcester, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway Joseph Brook, jun., Esq., Huttekrstield Julian Skrine, Esq., Linsfleld-house, Cambridge, Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln, and the Northern and Southern Con necting Railways Rev. G. M. D'Arcy Irvine, LL.D., Redcliffe-parade, Bristol John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby,' and Southampton, the Shropshire Mineral, the London and Holyhead Direct, the Liverpocl and Derby Direct, the London and Liverpool Direst, and the Derby and Gainsborough Railways, &c. William James Ire, Esq., Northampton-square, Director of the Rugby, Swindon, and Weymouth Railway Edward Gaubert, Park-villa, Richmond, Director of the Rugby, Swindon, and Weymouth Railway. (With power to add to their number.) BANXEas—The London Joint-Stock Bank, 5, Princes street, Bank, and 69, Pall-mall. ACTING ENGINEER—Henry Renton, Esq, C.E. SOLICITOR—J. D. Wells, Esq., No. 13, George-street, Manion. house. SECRETARY—B. H. Gadcsden, Esq. OFFICES—No. 70, King William-street, Mansion-house, and No. 13, George-street, Mansion.house, The object of the promoters of this Company is to form a direct line of railway, from Bristol and Bath to Dover; and thus, in effect, unite, connect, or reciprocate with, all the existing . and projected lines of railway in the south and south.west and west of England, as well also as form a complete communication with Ireland and all the western and Welsh railways, and most of those in the northern and great manufacturing districts, by which passengers and goods to and from Folkestone and Dover, France and Belgium, may be conveyed without the necessity of passing through the me tropolis. 21 8 3 /.i miles [l% SOUTH MIDLAND AND, NORTH- UNION- R A I LMT. aleistered. This important line (Provision of railway is ly intended )to open a direct commu nication from Staffordshire and the Midland Counties (passing through the Potteries) to the extensive manufacturing town of Sheffield, by means of which it will form the most direct transit for traffic, and the manufactures of all the principal towns, and the agricultural and mineral produce of the country contained within its range. The principal object of this railway is, that it will bring the prin cipality of Wales int o i mmed i ate connexion with the Midland Coun ties, and will form a continuous trunk line from the north-cast to the south-west parts of the kingdom. To the capitalist this undertaking presents a highly beneficial source of remunerative profit, and to the population of the south west midland and northern portions of the kingdom most important advantages. • The prospectus, with the names of the Provisional Committee, will be issuedin a few days; in the meantime applications for shares in the usual form may he addreased to the Secretary, at the offices of the Company, '23, Finsbury -place North ; or to the solicitor, S. Ren dall, Esq , Clement's Inn, London. Oct. 6, 1545.