The Sun. — London, England, 1845-09-29 00:00:00

--- PROITLAIONALLY REGISTERE D ' GREAT LE EDS AND LONDO N* DIRECT. RAILWAY, By a Junction with the lll.stern Counties ItailwaY at Bedfor a Distance, 120 mil es. Capital 2,500,0 001., in 100,000 shares of 25/. each. Deposit 21. Its. 6d. P er Share. (Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the Homo o f Commons.. PROYLIIONAL COM-MITTEE. The Right Hon. Lord Dunboy n n oro -sq e t-street ,POrtmanuare, Dlrecto. Sir William Twysden, Bart, - of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, sad Erewash Valley Extension l' ai lwaYs Sir William Bacon Johnston. Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the • Chepstow, Forest of Derma' and Gloucester Junction Railway, and of the South and Midland Junction, and West Midland Railways Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Director of the York and • Lancaster Railway F:sq., Direct or o f th e It a li an a nd Austrian, and Thomas Alexander, Trent Valley Conti-mean Railways Henry Ambler, worsted splutter and manufacturer, Watkinson Hall, near Ilalitar, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway C.g.Anderson, P., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Midland Bathyal joixn Alexander Bicknell, F.sq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of tjse Oxford and Worcester E,'xtension Railway William Raulgett, Esq., Winchester-street, Broad-street, Director of Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford, waltrays 0 :1,:lialn Banks, Esq., Honey-lane Market Jobi • Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey un Fechney Black, Esq. WJlton-place, Belgrave-wpare, Th ree for of the Italian and ..iiist:rfßn, and South and Midland Junction RaLlweys Henry 'speech Burgess, Esq., Temple's Park, Hampstead, Director of the S. itetlield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Railway Charles Rolisbury ruttier, Esq., the Lodge, Upper Clapton- Josiah B arrowes, Req., Castle House, Goeuerball, near Leeds Thomas 1 turnley, Esq., Gomeritall, near Leeds, Director of the Lends and We, t,t Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Mt tl way Samuel Bat Vnan, Esq., Croft House, sear Bradford, Director of the Liverpool a Id Leeds Direct Railway Henry Smith _Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hall and Selby Railway Joseph Browne, . Esq., Bedford Dr. Brigstock, Darby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln, atut Great Luxembourg Railway Job Bullinart, Esq., i ',est Redford William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., J.P., Hull, Director of the Rugby Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways John Carter, Esq., Knortingley Thomas Carter, Esq., Tanshelf, .7:P...f0r the Borough of Pontefract Charles Chamock, Esq., Holmßeld House, near Ferrybridge Millis Coventry, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Junction, and Birmingham Extension Railways jr, Clements, Esq., Lowndes-square, Director of the Western Jamaica Itailway J. Cottatn, Esq., Bast Redford gpix, et Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Manchester, Mid lan,.,'. and Great Gfrnsby, (iainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Axholme, and t he Wisbeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junction Railways John Cn its, Esq., Little Barfield Hall, near Braintree, Essex Jam,. CA it, Esq., Director of the Paris and Strasbourg, Southampton m ane b, ‘ :ter, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, anti Macdes- field Rii;hwaYs W. 8, Cross, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham Eaten• Henry Shera rte Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street Francis Dacre:.. Req., Stratford, Essex J. Dawson, Boi., Pontefract • John Dennis, 1:94 Director of the West Midland, and Thames Val ley Railways Joseph Dent, Esq. . Albston Hall, near Leeds, Magistrate for the North West Ridin, if of Yorkshire A. A. Davenport, EA 1., Pirector of the Oxfbrd and Worcester Exten sion, and Worceste, • Junction Railways Joseph L. Davenport. Esq.,Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Rare way John Alcock Dixon, Isq., Burnley, near Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Virect Railway Richard Dransflekt, Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and 11, tnchester, of the Liverpool and Leeds Di rect, and of the Keighley, Hatlif.tx, and Huddersfield Junction Railways Edward Doubleday, Esq., 1%'.L.5., Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey mouth Railway Lient.-Col. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Managing Direc• tor of theTork and Lancaster Railway Eraaimus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Eaten. sion hallway liolomon Foster, Esq., Manofleici, Director of the Nottingham, Mans- and Midland Junction Railway "Martin Furniss, Egg., Itansfleld, Director of the Erewash and Shef- _ field Railway John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London , • dotty and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways George Green, Esq., Pontefract ' Charles Gibson, Esq., Holland-place, Clapham .lathes Gilbertson, Esq., Hertford William;Gibson, Esq., Glasgow ll.' P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside William Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Henry Swan Graves, Esq., Ely Bank Lodge, Halifax John Gully, Esq., Ackworth Park, Ackworth Riehard Hall, Esq.,"carnarvon Hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways John Charles Hall, Esq., New Grove-street, East Redford R. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director et the Brewash Val ley Extension and West Midland Railways Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds Jolla George Hammack, Esq., Director of the Direct Western and the Metropolitan Junction Railways William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lient. and J.P. for the • West Riding of Yorkshire John Mason Hepworth, Esq., Eden-plaee, Ackworth, J.P. for the West Riding of Yorkshire Joshua Hepworth, Esq., Rogerthorpe Hall, Bedsworth Thomas Heelis, Esq., Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lan cashire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire north- Eastern, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways Robert Herries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Charles Holbrooke, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester John Holmes, Esq., Bast Redford John Midge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Direc tor of the Derby and Stafford Railway William Empeon Jalland, Esq.,Holderness House, near Hull, DI- rector of the York and Hull Railway Barwell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Ma gistrate for the East Riding of York and Borough of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley Railways John Jameson, Esq., Honey-lane Market William Janson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the Staf fordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways Joseph Jones, l:sq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and .Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq : , Director of the Blythe and Churnel Valleys, or Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways George Lawton, Esq., Ditchleys, Essex, Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway Lefahy, Esq., St. James's-square Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London Captain Henry Leech, Bedford William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director el the ReViag and Reigate Railway L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., Bread-street, Director of the Western Ja- maim Railway • P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo and Shannon, the Ipswich and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale Railways John 11. Mann, Esq., Leeds Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Newark-upon-Trent, and Bedford. square, Ilyde Park Thomas M`Turk, Esq., Hull William Moe, Esq., East Redford W. R. Mesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford Robert Mellington, sq., Ordehall House, near East Redford, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle RAilway William lloorhouse, Esq., Marine Villa. Knottingley, Provisional Director of the Sheffield, Barnsley, avid Wakefield Railway Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of South and Mldlanda' Junction, and London and Birmingham Extension Railways James Muscroft, Esq : , Pontefract, J. P. for the Borough, a Provi- aioual Director of ilia Oxford and Worcester Extension and Chester Junction, Railway Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Southampton, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways ..)Villiam Joseph Nash, Esq. Bedford John Norton, Esq., 1, St. George's-square, Westminster, and Moat House, Brentwood, Director of the Great Western Direct Railway Henry G,:rard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley and Con tinuation and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South Midland and Oxford Extension Railways Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D., Pontefract Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North William Perfect, Esq., Monkliill, near Pontefract John Phillips. Esq. Mayor of Pontefract Thofna.s Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Birming ham Direct, Leicester, Iron, and Dove Valley Railways Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Ityctillah House, Enfield, Managing Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Junction, the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and the Direct Western Railways. James Robson, Esq., Tanshelf, J. I'. for the Borough of Pontell'act George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director °rule hull and Barnsley Junc tion, and of the ttinby, Derby. and Manchester ltailways John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate, the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Thirsk Junc tion Rail wiy 'Phoning Itontlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director o. the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railways Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing. stoke Railway Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn rriery, Director of the Churnet and Blythe Valleys Railways J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and of the Leeds and York, and Midlittid Railivays William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director 'of the South Midland Junction Railway, &c., &C. George Walker Smith, Esq., Ilorbury Hall, Sheffield, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways Joseph Smithson, Esq., larkkies Mills, near Halifax James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Staftnrd Railway. Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., Banker, Bedford Itamitel Tudor, E.sq., Upper Thames-street, and Gerbals, Hull, Di. rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbals, Hull Thomas Turney, Esq., Park Lodge, near Ilelifax David Wheatcrott, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Derbyshire, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and Leicester aallways Mater-General Wright, Royal Eugineers,Giouees+-=1"-,.lhe 1. co, Portman. square William IVilii:ame, Esq., Royal Yortmiery, Bedford Charles Waite, Egg., Willesden House, Middlesex John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, tut Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Willett, gag., Bradford George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax (With power to add to their number.) ENGINEER-INCIDEF—SIr John M`tien, L.L.D., and F.R.S. Aftrima ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mulling= Higgins, Esq. LONDON SOLICITORS. J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court . Owen Gray, Esq., } 25 Great Tower-street, J. B. M ' Midge, Esq., BANKERS. L.ndon—Messrs. Rogers, Ming, and Co. Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co. The objeet of this railway is to connect, in the most direct coarse, the important and increasing manutactaring town of Leeds with the I "tmeolii, the want of which has long been felt, and is toe univer 'anY acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under this con vietion that this i mportant undertaking, after several minute exa ralnation.s of the country through which it will pees, has been brought forward. The proposed line will commence at the Junction of the Manches ter and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wake- Cod,ieand will terminate by means of a Junction with the Eastern ties Railway at Redford (to whichplace it is the intention of that Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parlia ment), and by thus availing itself es far as possible of th e ex i st i ng railways, will co mplete the most 'direct least expensive trunk Hate, from Lo n d on to Leeds, York, and Hull, It will pass In its route wi bin an available distance of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster, Rotherham, East Redford, Nottingham, Nowark, Grantham, Melton Mowbray, Oakham, and Stamford. The importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature of Its course (embrackg, as it does, a most extensive population within its litnits) AS also m the absence of any direct communication for the conveyance of passengers and merchandise. By the construction or this railway, railway oommtmleation to London will be given to Peterbor melt and Leicester (by means of the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and _Nottingham (by the Nottingham and Lincoln line), and to Sheffield and Gainsbo rough (by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much shorter toute than by any existing Railivays. • Independently of the advantages offerod to the towns in the several counties through which this Ling will pass, the Line in itself consi d2red as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, is sufficient to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic between these two places would produce such a return on the capital required. as to admit of a dividend, equal to that of any railway in operation : but when it is borne in mind, that a Company is being forined for the purpose of connecting Glasgow with Leeds by means of a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no better line can he presented to the public, as It will not only effect a direct communica tion from Glasgow and the Western parts of Scotland to London, but would also connect Edinburgh and the Eastern parts of Scotland as werrais Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North Midland, and Great North of England Railways), with the Metropolis, which would be considerably shorter than the accommodation offered by any othsr Company, and when cost of construction is considered there : IHE S CisT, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29 1845. IRISH GREAT WESTERN (DUBLIN to GALWAY) RAILWAY: The deeds of this Company will lie for signature on and after WEDNESDAY, the Ist of October, at No. 19, Moorgate-street, London, where also the new scrip may be had. The letters of allotment for the exchange of scrip are in course of issue according as the respectability of the applicants is ascertained. FITZSTEPHEN FRENCH, Chairman. September 25, 1845, DIRECT WESTERN RAILWAY (Upon the Broad Gauge), From London to the Land's-end ; with , Diverging Lines to Bath and Bridgewater respectively. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share. Offices, 20, Poultry, London. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Camperdown, Sidney-place, Bath The Viscount Maudeville,.Kimbolton-park, Hunts Lord Jamcs O'Bryen, Royal-crescent, Bath Lord William Powlett, ltath, and Downham-hall, Brandon, Suffolk General Sir John Slade, Bart., Muntys Court, Taunton Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, Somerset The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid- land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnkaple, 3, Carlton Gardens Howard Elphiustone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London Ralph Neville, Esq , M.P., Hill-street, Berkeley-square Charles Barry Ballwin, M.P., 6, Parliament-street Hon. /'ercy Evans Freka, 3, Belgrave-square Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Companies Sir Robert Price, Bart., 3f.P., Foxley, Herefordshire • Sir John Cave Brown Cave, Bart , Kenilworth, Warwickshire Sir William Young, Bart., Westbourne-green, Hyde-park, East India Director John Clark, Esq., Benefield House, near Trowbridge, Wilts, Magis trate for the counties of Wilts and Somerset Alfred Batson, Esq., Ramsbury, Wilts, and Upper Bedford-place Major Hunt Grnbbe, Eastwell House, Devizes , John Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker John Level Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker William Adair Bruce, Esq., Lansdown-crescent, Bath Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company Thomas Farncornb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Toeley-street, Alderman of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin ster Bauk, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder minster Ra ilway Thomas Challis, Esq., Enfield, Alderman of the City of London Edward Harrissou Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the South Midland Railway Joseph Armitage, Esq., Miln's Bridge House, Huddersfield, 'Deputy Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway William Gordon Thomson, Esq., a 3, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park, , Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and South Midland Railways Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe Philip W. Courtney, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London Millis Coventry, Esq., Whltehart-court, LoMbard-street Barnet L. !Philips, Req., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and George-street, Mansion Mouse Boswell. Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire Charles Robert Coleman, Eaq., Irongate Wharf William Eales, Esq., Mincing.lane, London, late Director of the Devon and Cornwall Banking Company Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director of the South Midland Railway Martin Stutoly, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London, Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South Essex Railways Francis Ede, Esq. 34, Great Winchester-street John Addis, Esq.;Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Insurance Company James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Direc tor of the Bridport and Exeter, and Goole and_Doncaster Railways Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon street, London H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park George M`lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-square Frederick Sony Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland Railway Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman if the Li censed Victualers' Fire and Life Assurance Company J. G. Haut:tack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company Patrick Fres. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the Louden and Blackwall Railway Company William Downing Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon Cuthbert Woodcock, Esq., Grove-road, North trixton Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstene-street, Portman square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension Railways George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Len don, Director of the Leicester and,Tansworth Railway Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon don, Director of the Wilts, fLornerset, and Southampton Railway Company Philip Baker, Esq., - . I ';iston-square, London, Auditor of the London and Blackwall railway Company Charles Jan,;,ts Reath, E sq., 6 , L on d on - s t ree t, M ar k-lan e Captain L. N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square Antilony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the St. Katherine Docks Company, and of the General Shipowners' Society William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton Honse, Warwickshire, and Luton 800, Bedfordshire George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles- Street, Berkeley-square - James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor- place, London Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Droinagh Castle, minty Cork, Union Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail way Company aamuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London William Congreye Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire John William Yerbury, Esq., Itolcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d Light Dragoons Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity- square, London Robert Millington ' Esq., Ordsall House, itetford, Nottinghamshire John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Berke Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks Major Kirwan, Groat Fulteney-street, Bath Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Rev Chas. Eras. Bamftylde, Rector of Dunkerten, near Bath, Magis- trate for Somerset Richard Nfortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts George Tate, Esq., Tewksbury, Director of the Bristol and Riming. barn Railway Company R. Woollen. jun., Esq., banker, Oxford, Director elite Buokligham. shiraltailway and Wolverton Junction Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon Richard Marker, Eq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton Wm. H. Holcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hangerford, Chairman of the Burks Union Banking Company William Haleomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and Dorset Bank Captain W. G,3faclean, R.N., Taunton. Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berks Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Kerle Haberileld, Esq., Clifton, Bristol James - Troup, Esq., Hastings John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director of Coventry and Leicester Railway Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester; Director of South Midland and North- ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company John Ridgeway, Esq., CauLion-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire, Director of the Manchester and Southanipton Railway James Burt, jun. ' Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and Birkenhead, and Manchester and Southampton Railways Edward,Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies Joseph Nadia, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York and fdr the borough of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley" Committee, and Member of the acting' Committee of the "Liver pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies" John Raiford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester C. H. Janes, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford Union Railway Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South ampton Railway John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hble, Durham Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, If irkenhead, arid Midland Railway Companies Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpoo Wm. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and Iron Bridge Railway Company • C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Company Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield, Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office Wm. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Adderlay Howard, Esq., Sutton Wlsbech, Director of tke East Coast Railway Company Captain Bowker, R.N., Devonport 11. S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeda Di re.qt Railway Sesnuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield Director of the Eaat and West of Ensland Railway Company John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and Har- _ rowgate Railway Company . Witliam Marriott, Esq. Attercliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the Itle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway. Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and Tork and East Lincolnshire Railways John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool David Price, Esq., Manchester William Hunter, Esq., Clarenden4einare, Leamington Rev. H. sW Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the South - Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways Henry liubbersty, Esq., Hull John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hall and Barnsley Junction Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse,- merchant John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square John Norton, Esq., Moat Mese Brentwood, Essex William John M`Guire, Esq., Hampton Court John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey W. J. Lefenvre, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate of Southampton Thomas Chas: Harrison, Esq., F 8.5., York-terrace; Regent's Park G. B. Butibury,.Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Coventry and Leicester Railway Captain Tringham, R.N., Solyindl, Warwickshire William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield The Hon. F. Byron, 21, Eaton-place William Higgins, Esq., 'Purvey, High Sheriff of Bedfordshire Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak-park, near Winchester, Deputy-Lieu tenant, and magistrate for the county of Hants William Jackson, Esq , Birkenhead, Chairman of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway E. H. Langworthy, Esq., Manchester Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman, and SheritT of London and Mid dlesex Nathaniel Gould, Esq., Barge-'yard, Bucklersbury, and Tavistock- square Edmund Lionel Welles, Esq., CifilOgan.place, and West 51oulsey, Surrey Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, and Limehouse, Director of the London Dock Company, the Marine Assurance Company, and the General Shipowner's Society William Jackson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway George F. Earle, Esq., Hull Stephen Knowles, Esq., Exeter W. Lawrence, Esq., Brixton John Learmonth, Esq., Edinburgh, Chairman of the Edinburgh and Glasgow, and North British Railway Companies Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway William Tanner, Esq., Gieat Surrey-street, Black&tars John Booth, Esq., Sherburn Grange, Durham Matthew Benjamin Robson, Esq., Whitweil Grange, Durham John Holmes, Esq., St. Jamc,'s-street, Director of the Dorchester and Weymouth Railway, and York and Lancaster Railway William G. Bernard, Esq., Clifton, Bristol Thomas Smallwood Richards, Esq., 59,Baker-street, Portman-square •lam k it les Shaw, l Horatio i E s q o s q n . , 1. 1 1 Pa„ t a_ Salford,rrral in i s am : , 3 t s .nireeheet Manchester Sunbury Henry: Wenman Newman, Esq., Bristol,' Magbitrate for that City, and ie,o T e lnity-Lieutenant and Magistrate for the county of Gloucester olden:tem House, near Hull ain Newark-hpon-Trent 11{lorneratiC400ainckPk,etElsiqja.:1Ziti:.'filbcirFgli, Director of the Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Axholme, and of the Wus* beach, Ely, and Lin colnshire Railway' • , William Ruston, Esq., Catherine-court, Trinity-equara G. Wlugrove Cooke, Esq., Temple, London C. I. Selwyn, Esq., Exeier, . _ Joseph Hopwood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter and Falmouth It a away Richard Compton, Esq., Eddington House, Hungerford, Berks, a Magistrate for the counties or Wilts arid Berks Henry Coa Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Malden, Essex The Constable of Hungerford Richard Davis, Esq., St. Helen's-place, Director of the South Midland Railway Edward Hyde Clarke, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Warwickshire and London Railway Captain William Lionel Lampert, The Highlands, Oxfordshire, and Leamington, Warwickshire Francis Burton, Esq., Milverton House, Warwickshire Captain Stewart, R.N., Leamington, Warwickshire Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director of the South Staffordahite Railway William Northage, Esq., Upper Gower-street, Bedford-square John Wodley Hughes, Esq., Gloucester, Director of the riirmingham and Bristol Railway Lewis itruce Knight Bruce, Esq., The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey Francis Cole Humbert, Esq., Oxford-street, Hyde:Park Algernon Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terracei Hyde Park John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terraCe„cllyde Park James Lamb, Egg., Hyde-park-square Richard Grouceck, Esq.,; Bow-churchyard, and Dulwich, Director of the Direct Manchester Railway J. B. Simpson, Esq., Rutland-lodge, Brixton Henry Bellerby, Esq., Sheriff of York Henry Lodi;lord, Esq., 39, Wood-street, Cheapside, Direetor of the Rugby and Macclesfield Direct Railway John Williams, Esq., Eaton-square. • Thomas Grlmsditch, Esq , M.P., 3facclesfield, Cheshire Samuel Griffiths, Esq., i'enn-fields, Wolverhampton, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway William Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton Erasmus R. Foster, Esq., Birehitt-lane William Burgett, Esq., Broad-street Peter R. Morrison, Esq., Princes-street, Bank Director of the York and Lam J T o h h o n m ß as eg lf n i a ll l e, arßjit(tidne.,uE, Esq.,sq es , e E I c nfie t i c d r , caster Raityray. Thomas Kld 3!.D., Sheffield James Sheppard, Esq., An.. White Hart-court, Lombard-street Valentine Knight, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Magistrate for Middlesex George Sercombe, Esq., Exeter John - Clampit Seicombe, Esq., Exeter William Pearce, Esq., Liverpool W. Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham Robert Henry Hurst, Esq. jun., Temple William Nash,.Esq., Caphain Common Grey Hazierlgg, Esq., West Carlton Hall, Leicester _ _ Captain Twisleton Graves, Duke-street, St.. James's, Director of the Leicester and Tean and Dove Valley Railway (With .power to add to their number). ENGINEERS IN CHIEF. Sir John Macuiell, LL.D., F.R.S. James Thomson, Esq., F.R.S.E., BAnnsas—Messrs. Curries and Co., Coruhill, London. JOINT SOLICITORS.' Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London Messrs. Haynes anti Moore, Warwick and London Messrs. J. Y, and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inu-flelds, London. SECRETARY—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq. ASSISTANT-SECRETARY—CharIeS J. Whalley, ESQ. • LOCAL SOLICITORS. At Newbury—Messrs. Godwin and Gi7tiy, and B. Pinniger, Esq. At Ramsbury—William Rowland, Esq. At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq., and John Edwards Hayward, Esq. At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway At Beth, Mesas. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton At Shepton Mallett—Francis Isaac Nalder, Esq. At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole At Exeter—William Denis Moore, Esq At Tiverton, T. L. T. Reridell, Esq , Ai - 1(1J. A. Toms, Esq. At Launcelton—Mesers. Lawrence and Pattison At Bodmin At Traro At Penzance At Falmouth—Messrs. Tresidder and Son • The object of this line is to effect ft direct communication between London and the Land's End. ' In a national point of view such a line is indispensable. With the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from it. situation at the western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of at least MO miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in creased its imports from 200,0001. t. 3,0e0,e001. per annum. At Bris tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased. The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment .for ca pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal mouth by way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must bo reached by railway. _ _ ThoobJtet of this prospectus is to show that ne ether line than the resent can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard to this, its most important eutport—" the natural Packet Station of the empire." The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is as nearly as possible a straight line from Landon to the Land's End. The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company haying amalga mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afibrd lag all the accommodation , contemplated by that Company. The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, From., Shepton Mallet, Wells (from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater), Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two miles than any existing railways between these points, and without a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St. Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole iistance from London te Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles. Wlth respect to the traffic on the upper portion of the line it is needless to sitylmore than that there is already thorough traffic suffi cient to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes tern ; that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton about 32 miles, that it will traverse rich and populous agricultural and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as well ftom railways now in course of construction as from ethers pro jected, with every chance of success. As to the traffic on the lower portion of the lino, it is evident that the vast number of merchant vessels continually detained in the Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway; and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol and Southampton ; t • what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resentrces of Devonshire may be further developed, er the genial climate of Penzance and Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the map will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltalire, now altogether destitute of rallroals i tccommodation. It em rng to the features of this ptiojOt as a national work, one of the greatest in point of magffitude, et vital importance in the event of war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet commerce of the kingdom; it may not be out of place to quote here the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley, which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways, he is reported to have said :—" I consider that the cons ratmication between the metropolis and the great outports to be not a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company, it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth ; and it may be further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed to interfere with that great national object. The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for wardness, and the whole will be ready for the next session, of Par liament. It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be constructed at an unusually small expense; that the undertaking will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways in the kingdom. Powers will be taKen in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at four pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land through which.the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected with the Direct Western district. Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary, al the Company's Offices, 20, Poultry, rctablo broker in town or country London, c o o r m t p o an th y e local solicitors, or to any re- P 20, Poultry, London , September, 1845. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway ... • Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 251. each in the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21. 12s. 6d. per share thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con tract when required. Dated 1845. Name in fall .• • • • • • • • • • • • • .. • • Residence • • • • • • • • • Trade or Profession ••• • .. • .......... Place of Business (if any) Reference • • • • • • • • • • " • • • "• • • • • • Siznature.. • • • • • • • • ....... • . THE LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEE FIELP, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE (or LEEDS WOLTERHAMPTON, and DUDLEY) DIRECT RAILWAY. (Provisionally; Registered.) Capital, 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. FROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Staffordshire Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street, Hyde-park Gardens Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theohalds, Deputy Chairman of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail way, &c. Sir William Boothhy, Bart, Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire Sir William Lowthrop, Knt., Bull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Di rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc tion Railway Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, Ashburham Douse, Chairman of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Hon. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Nottingham awl Boston Railway, Parliament-street, London, &c., Sr.O. The Sheriff of York Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's London and Manchester Railway Bright, Selim, Esq., Buxton • Barrett, H., Leeds, Director of the Kelghley, Halifax, and Hudders field Union. Railway Duck, W. C., Esq.. Leeds, uiroctor of the Leeds and York Railway Blurton,Bobert, Esq., banker, Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter, Direc tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway • Booth, John, Esq., Macclesfield Bright, Selim, Esq., Buxton Bradley, Septimus, Esq., Ashhourne, Direetor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester .„ . Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashbourne Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon don and Manchester Direct Railway Cleobury, Thomas, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton Cooke, the Rev. J., Uttoxeter, Director of the East and West Junction Railway, &c. Cooke, John, Esq., Macclesfield Cooper, John Douglas, Esq., Hohne Cottage, Ashbourne Cox, Walker, Esq., Breadsall, Derby, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley Railway Crockett, T. Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c. Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reming ton's London and Manchester Direct Railway Crossley, John, Esq., Lamberhuret, Sussex, and Uttoxoter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Cumberlege, Nathaniel, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park Dalby, John, Robert, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordthire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Dale, Major, Thurston, Ashbourne Daniel, Richard, Esq., Oak Hill, Stoke-upon-Trent Dawson, Samuel, Esq., sen., Ashbourne Dent, Edward, Esq., Westfield, Huddersfield Dent, John, Esq., Nortligate, Huddersfield Darlington, J.; Esq., Bradford Dyson, Thomas, Esq.. Well-house, Holmfirth Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford- bare, and Worcestershire Railway Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the 'Judder , - field, Sheffield, and Halifax Railway Edensor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbourne Elershaw, John, Esq., Leeds Fidler, Peter Pichott, Esq., Higgin Grange, Derbythire Fisher, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Frost, Meadows, Esq., Chester Gene. Samuel, Esq., Uttoxeter Garle, William, Esq. Uttoxeter Gilpin, awl Co., Messrs. William, Wedges Mills, Cannock , Director of the Derbyshire, StaflOrdshire, and WorcestOrshire unction Railway Gisborne, Henry Francis, Esq., Derby, Director of the Staffordshire, Leicester, and Tamworth Railway, Sec. Goddard, Thomas, Esq., Bank-house, Longton, Staffordshire Haden, Joseph, Esq., Dudley, Director of the Derbyshire, Ste ord . shire, and Vforcestereigre Junction Railway Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of the Lei cester and Birmingham Railway Harpin, John, Esq., Birk's-house, Holmfirth Hatfield, Thomas, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c. Hammond, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds . Dirnet Railway Harrison, John, Esq., Banker, Ripon, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Hartsborne, Robert James, Esq., Ashbourne Haywood, Richard Howard, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries Holdforth, Joseph Dempsey, Esq., of Burley, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Railway Herries, Robert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railway Hill, John, Esq., Derby Hirst, Abraham, Esq., York-house, Huddersfield Ingleby, Joseph, Esq., Cheadle, Staffordshire Johnson, John Goodwin, Esq., Bentley Hall, Ashbourne Johnson, D. T., Esq., Aidermary Churchyard, Director of the Ches ter and Manchester Railway Johnson, Richard Wm., Esq., Moorgato, Director of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Jones, the Rey. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire, Director of tho Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Ju nction Railway Jones, Edward, Esq., Windmill-place, Camberwell Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Kingdom, Wm. Esq., Westbourne-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the Birmingham and Manchester Direct Railway Keene, John Joseph, Esq., St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Director of the National Bank of Ireland, &e. King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance, &c. Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston Hall, Sudbury Laughton, Richard, Esq., Barrow-hill, Uttoxeter Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, James, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn Commission, &c. Marlow, Joseph, Esq., Walsall Mason, Charles James, Esq., Stafords'ilre Potteries Mason, George Miles, Esq., Wetley Abbey, Ftaffordshire Meteyard, Horace, Wm., Esq., Director of Remington's London and Manchester Railway, Middle Temple, and Chatham-place M`Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Manors, John, Esq. Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Mallard, James, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Musgrave, Simeon, Esq., Kirkstall, near Leeds, Director of the Thirst and Midland Junction Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire, Director of the . , Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Minors, John, Esq., The Parks, Uttozeter, Director of the East and West Junction Railway Mountford, Thomas John, Esq., Ashbourne Moorhousa, Joshua, Esq., Holinflrth Maskery, Thomas, Esq., I'orbury, Derbyshire Not th, Joseph, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield Norton, George, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield,Dlrector of the Lt. yerpool and Leeds Direct Railway Orton, James, Esq., Woodford, near Uttozeter, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Parkinson, John, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Ilyde-park, Dt- Director of th. Northampton, Danbury, and Cheltenham Rail. way, &a. Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield House, Uttozeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Roberts, Thomas, Esq., Manchester Robinson, John, Esq., Silcoates, Cottage, Wakefield Roden, Thomas Clarke, Esq., Birmingham Richardson, Joseph, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway - - Sant, Edward, Esti:, Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford. shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropto., .verhyshira, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, Charles, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, Thomas, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway Smith, Thomas, Esq., Illore-hall, Staffordshire, Direetor of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, William, Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of Teau and Dove Valley Railway Smith, John, Esq., Barton House, Derbyshire Smythe, John Vere, Req., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Sidney, Thomas, Esq.,alderman and Sheriff, City of London, Ditec tor of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railways Spiers, E. J., Esq., Carlton Villas, London, Director of the East and West Junction Railway Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle As- sarance Company Terry, Benjamin, Esq., Mayor of Walsall, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway, &o. Tibbits, Thomas, Esq., Norton Manor-house, Leicester Tomlinson, Thomas, Esq., Bradley Pastures, Ashbourne Toogood, Rupert, Esq , Ashbourne Tylecote, Edward, Esq., surgeon, Great Heywood, Staffordshire Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, Holloway, London, Director of the East and West Junction Railway, &c. Waller, Major, K.H., St. James's-square, Director of the Chester and Manchester Railway, &c, Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire Walters, J. T., Esq., Rugeley Watts, William Royde, Esq., Birmingham Weston, Samuel, Esq., Leeds Weston, Thomas, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Willes, George, Esq., Thagerford-park, Berkshire Williamson, Hugh Henshall, Esq., Greenway Bank, Staffordshire Potteries Williamson, Robert, Esq., Ramsdell-hall, Staffordshire Potteries Wise, Thomas, Esq., Ashbourne Witham, John, Esq., Ashboume Woolrich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood, Charles, Esq., littoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Rood William, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc tion Railway Wood, William Hurd, Esq., Ashbourne Wilkinson John, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpeol Direct Railway Wright, Thomas, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and G ainsbo rough Railway. BANKERS. Messrs. Rogers, (Ming, and Co., Clement's-lane, London Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., Coruhill, London The Burton, Uttozeter, and Ashbourne. Union Bank, Uttozeter Ditto Ditto, Ashbourne Dadley and West Bunwich Banking Co., Dudley Derbyshire Banking Co., Derby Ripen—Messrs. Terry, Harrison and Co. Bradford—The Leeds and West Riding Bank Messrs. I. and Hamilton Richardson, solicitors, Leeds SOLICITORS. John Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttozeter ENGINEERS. Sir John Rennie, F.R.S. George Remington, Esq., C.B. LOCAL AGENTS. Armishaw, J., Esq., Bugeley Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley Eggington, A., Esq., Lichfield Green, James J., Esq., Walsall. Lowe, Richard, Esq., Cheadle Floyd and Booth, Nuddersfield and Holmfirth BROKERS. Messrs. Kitching and Marshall, Leeds Messrs. Turley and Cooper, Leeds Mr. Thomas Oskwith, Ripon This line of railway, which is about sixty-flue miles In length, is intended to commence at Uttozeter (the terminus of the proposed Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway) and to proceed to Sheffield and Huddersfield. It will form a direct com munication between two of the most important manufacturing and mining districts in England, viz., South Staffordshire, Huddersfield, and Sheffield, and Rotherham in Yorkshire ; the South Staffordshire portion including Dudley, Tipton,Walsall, Bilsten, Wednesbury, and Wolverhampton. . . . . This line ;fill also open a direct railway communication between Leeds, Huddersfield, and the West Riding of Yorkshire and Kidder minster, Worcestershire, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton, and Exeter, and with Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford, Brecon, Car diff, Neath, Swansea, Llanelly, Caermarthen, Milford Haven, Fish guard, Abcrystwith, and with Port Dynullaen, the future outport for Ireland. • And also the most direct communication between Leeds and Southampton. The line will pass nearly along the Uttoxeter and Caldon Canal to a point near Prestwood, in case the canal be purchased by the pro moters of this undertaking. It will proceed through Ellaston and Mayfield to Ashbourne, thence near Dovedale, Buxton, and Chapel en-la-Frith, Woodhead and Holrafirth to Huddersfield, where it will join the Huddersfield and Leeds Railway, and so to Thirek. It will open new mines, in addition to those already in work, of lead, coal, iron ore, barytes, and carboniferous and magnesian limestone on the route, in addition to forming a direct, speedy, and cheap communica tion between the important towns above mentioned. Arrangements have been made with other companies to run into this line from Sheffield. This company reserves the right to raise additional cmital to extend the line to Leeds. • Many of the above-mentioned mineral productions are essential to the mining districts of South Staffordshire and Sheffield. The North Staffordshire and Derbyshire Limestone is much superior to that of South Staffordshire in the fluxion of iron (15 cwt. of the former being equal to a ton of the latter), and producing a bettor quality of ma terial. At present, the mode of transit is very circuitous and expen sive, the line from the Caldon Mines having to go by canal round by Etruria, Leek, and the Potteries, to the Dudley and surrounding furnaces, when, by this railway, it would be taken in a straight line to them ; and the Ashbottrne, Cromford, Worksworth, and Bakewell country would have an entirely new trade opened to them. The iron stone in the neighbourhood of Sheffield is also becoming very scarce, and great quantities are introduced from Scotland; the same scarcity exists in South Staffordshire; and the route of this line would fur nish a cheap and good supply, at present not worked, anclwithottt a market, both north and south. In addition to these great advan tages, a good local market would be opened along the agricultural and other parts of the district at present very badly supplied with lime and coal, and that of an inferior quality, and by expensive car riage. It is, therefore, next to impossible to calculate the immense traffic which would pour down this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, asd Worcestershire Junction Railway. Tho calculations which have been made show a very large profit. There are large lead and slate quarries on the line which only want an outlet like the one now contemplated to bring theta into full work. The coal is of a superior quality. There are also extensive barytes and paint-works at Ashbourne, Cromford, and other places on the line. The scenery of Derbyshire is the resort of vast numbers of tourists; and particular care will be taken, in passing of the line near Dovedale, not to interfere with or change its beautiful and romantic character. The convenience, therefore, which this line will afford must necessarily cause a great influx of passengers, both on business and pleasure. Ironstone is not se abundant in the South as in North Staffordshire, and vast quantities are sent by the tardy, circuitous, and expensive, canal company, which this and other limes of railway ,meeting at Uttoxeter will remedy. The gypsum formation runs from Staffordshire to the Hnmber, and the demand for this article for building, agricultural, and manufac turing purposes along this line will be great. The timber from the neighbourhood of the Needwood Forest, Banks, Bagots Woods, and Kingston Woods, upwards of 4,000 acres, chiefly finds its way to the Manchester market by a like objectionable route of tardy and circuitous canal convey ance ; whereas this line would open a direct, easy, and cheap communication to new markets. The line has been viewed prior to a detailed survey, and there are not more than ordinary szigmeering difficulties. In consequence of the late Parliamentary decisions, it is intended to make this line on the broad gauge principle, but the pro moters do not pledge themselves absolutely to do so. At the urgent suggestion of some of the most influential inhabi tants of Askbourue, the Committee have ordered a survey of a junc tion line to connect that town with the Derby, and with the Derby and Gainsborough and Midland Railways Applications for Shares to be made to John Owens, Esq., 8.5, Moorgate-street, London, and William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter ; and to the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles, Worcester ; Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler, Worcester; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liver pool ; Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Morris Rey nolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield • Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and dastler Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ; Mr. Thomas Boardman, Black burn ; Mr. George Clark, Bradford ; Mr. William Mason, Bradford ; Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax ; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham ; Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby ; Messrs. Graystoa and Earle, York; Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield; Messrs. Kettering and Marshall, Leeds ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham; Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton; Messrs, Tate and Nash, Bris tol ; Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter ; Mr. Thomas Sandford, - Exeter; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry; Messrs, Houghland and Leese, Manchester ; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manchester ; Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Manchester ; Messrs. T, N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield ; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr.L. Weather. ourn, jun., Huddersfield ; Messrs. Everard and Co., Huddersfield; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester ; Mr. Nicholson, Edinburgh; Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ; Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, College-green, Dublin; Mr. James Ross, Perth. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Direct Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares of 201. each in the above Railway, and I undertake to accept the same or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to pay, when required, the Deposit thereon of 2/. 2s. per Share. 'Dated this day of , 184 . Name in full . . Profession and professional residence Residence in full .. .......... . . Reference • • • • • • LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEFFIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, or LEEDS, WOLVER- HAMPTON, and DUDLEY DIRECT RAILWAY. Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares Of 20/. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. The Acting Committee of Direction have agreed: " that a Braneh Line from Ashbourne to Detty_ be adopted by this Company, and that the capital of the Company be increased from 1,700,0001. to 2,000,0001. for that purpose." JOHN OWENS, Joint WM. ARNOLD BAINBRIGGE,S Solicitors. Offices pf the Company, 1, Mooriate, Sept. 26, 1645, LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEFFIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, or LEEDS, WOLVER HAMPTON, and DUDLEY DIRECT RAILWAY. Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. Notice is hereby given, that no applications for shares in this line will be received after SATURDAY, the 4th day of October. WM. ARNOLD BAINBRIGGE, C Joint JOHN OW ENS, s Solicitors. Offices of the Company, 1, Moorgate, Sept. 26, '1845. THE LEEDSand CARLISLE or NORTHERN TRUNK RAILWAY of ENGLAND. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 2,000,0001., in 80,000 Shares of 25/. each. Deposit 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beanclerk, Cliesham-place, Be'grave square, and the Riding, Northumberland William Ackroyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge,. Otley, Director of the East and West Yorkshire, Leeds, York and Midland, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway William Ackroyd, Esq., Cookridge-grove, Leeds - George Thomas Allan, Esq., Harewood-grove, near Darlington William Hammond Ambler, En., Bishop Auckland, Director of the No vcastie, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway John Atkinson, Esq., Alderman of Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction, and of the York, Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Railway Edward Atkinson, Esq., Portland-place, Bradford, Provisional Di rector of the Leeds and York and Midland Junction Railway George Bacon, Esq., merchant, Nottingham, Director of the Not tingham and Mansfield Railway Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., Director of the Cork and Water ford Railroad Charles Bamford, Esq., Director of the York, Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Railways Thomas Dixon Barrow, Esq., Settle, Director of the Manchester, Liverpool, and Staffordshire Potteries Railway, also of the Chel tenham, Oxford, and London Junction, the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and the Keighley, Halifax, awl Huddersfield Junction hails c Edward 11. Barwell, Esq., Mayor of Northampton, and Director of the South Midland and Direct Western Railways J. Errington Bell, Esq., South Shields Thomas Bell, Esq., Leeds Robert Bendlc, Esq., Carlisle John Bowring, Esq., M.P., L.S.D., Director of the Blaskwall Railway Robert Beverley, Esq.. Quarry House, Potternewton, Leeds, Director of the Midland and Thirsk Junction Railway Edward Bilton, Esq., merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Joseph Bishop, Esq., 109, St. John's-road, Director of the Blackwell Railway Company 'William Charles Boden, Esq., Apsley Hall, Nottinghamshire, Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton, Chairman of the General Maritime Insurance-office Thomas Brown, Esq., banker, Sunderland John Brown, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Erewash Valley, and the Oxford and Southampton Railway James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Southampton, the Chester and Birkenhead Railways John Octavius Butler, Esq., ironmaster, Kirkstall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and Midland and Thirsk Junction Railways Edwin Cadman, Esq, Sheffield, Director of the Direct Western Railway Robert Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Worcester and Ches ter Railway, and of the Leeds and York Railway William Cadman, Esq., Leeds Richard Carpenter, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway William Cartledge, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol, Director of the Direct Western Benjamin Casson, Esq., Hull Samuel Cavan, Esq., Bedford-street, Liverpool William Chadwick, Esq. (Messrs. Chadwick and Co.), Leeds J. Charrctie, Esq., Park Village East, Regent's Park James Clay, Esq., Director of the Furness, and of tilt Birmingham, Dudley, and Wolverhampton Railways Thomas Collett, Esq., Leeds Thomas Coiling, Esq., Ripon G. Colquhoun, Req., Weimer Lodge, Regent's Park, London, Chair man of the Asturian Mining Company, and Director of the Man 'heater and Southampton Railway George Cowen, Esq., Dolston, near Carlisle, Director of the Mary port and Carlisle Railway Robert Cowen, Esq., Carlisle C. Cunningham, Esq., 4, Clarges-street, Piccadilly John Darlington, Esq., Shipley Hall, Managing Director of the Leeds and West Riding Bank, Bradford Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Di rector of the Bridport and Exeter, Goole and Doncaster, and Direst Western Railways William Hartley Deighton, Esq., Oatley, Provisional Director of the East and West Yorkshire Railway Richard Dransfield, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Rugby, Hali fax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Thomas Duncan, Esq., Otley Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place, Bryan stone-square, Director of the London, Manchester, Liverpool, and Leeds Direct Railway Charles Heneage Elsley, Esq., Recorder of York, Director of the York and Hull and East and West Yorkshire Railways Thomasi England, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway William Evans, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Richard Tomkin Evans, Esq., Craven-street, Manchester George Faith, Esq., Mincing-lane, Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway John Forster, Esq., Headingley, near Leeds, Director of the East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway William Foster, Esq., Settle, Director of the Manchester, Liver pool, and Staffordshire Potteries Railway ; also of the Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Junction Railway John Griffiths Frith, Esq. ' 11, Austin Friars, anti Director of the Londonderry and Coleraine Railroad James Fullalore, jun., Esq., Shakespeare-terrace, Pendleton, Man cheeter John Garthorne, Esq., Hull William Gill, Esq., Richmond, Yorkshire, Provisional Director of the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction Railway Charles Grant, Esq., 53, Fitzroy-square, London John Grant, Esq., Northampton, Director of the London and Bir mingham Extension Railway Sir Andrew Pellet Green, R.N., James's-place, Rockingham-gate George Oates Greenwood, Esq., Bradford Edmund Gwyer, Esq. ' merchant, Bristol William George Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting, and Bucklersbury John Harland, Esq., Merrick, Richmond, Yorkshire, Provisional Director of the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction Railway William Hawthorn, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Director of the Nevecastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway. Robert Hawthorn, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Director of the New castle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway William Henry Hornby, Esq., Blackburn, Chairman of the Black burn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway, and Director of the Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North Western Railway, the Manchester and Wigan Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway €ley Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton Hall, Leicestershire, Director of the South Midland, Nottingham, and Gainsborough, and the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, and other railways Charles James Heath, Esq., New London. street, City, Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby and Southampton, and Direct Western Railways Thomas Coulthard Heysham, Esq., Carlisle Captain Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Regent's Park, Director if the London and Hounslow Railway George Holmes, Esq., Hull John Holmes, Esq., Hull, Managing Director of the Hull Banking Company Thomas Holmes, Esq., Hull, Director of the Flax and Cotton Mill Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull, Director of the York, Hull, and East and West Yorkshire, the Hull and Barnsley Junction. and the Direct Western Railways Richard Ella Hutchinson, Esq., Masham, Tork John Jackson, Esq., Alderman of Leeds, Headingley-bill. near Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and Leeds and York Railwayst Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction, and York, Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Railways Thomas Kidley, Esq., M.D.,Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield, Leek, and Staffordshire Railway Edward Kipling, Esq., Darlington Francis Kipling, Esq., Darlington John Knill, Esq., London-bridge-wharf, London, Director of the Wor cester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe, the Worcester and South Wales Junction Railroad, ecc. Sc.c. James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde Park-square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Joseph Lambert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Direct Leeds and Liver pool, and Leeds and York Railways Thomas Laurence, Esq., Leadenhall-street, London, Director of the Direct Western Railway William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton, Director of the Leeds and Man chester Direct Railway George Lee, Esq., 5, St. Martin's-place, Charing-cross, Director of the Blackwell Railway Company John Lovitt, Esq.. Hull John Darnton Luccock, Esq. Alderman of Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway, &c. Captain James Macdougal, the Grove, North Brixton Lumsden Mackeson, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Reading and Reigate and Guernsey Railways, and Pier Company Captain Charles Edward Mangles, Director of the Northern and Eastern anti Blackwell Railways William Marsden, Esq., Greenwood-street, Manchester James Middleton, Esq., Knostrop, near Leeds, Director of the Mid land and Thirsk Junction Railway Michael Middleton, Esq., Darlington Robert Middleton, Esq., Deansgate, Manchester Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsell House, Retford John 11. Miners, Esq., Bedford-street, Liverpool Charles Morris, Esq., Portugal-street, Grosvenor-square, Director of ' the Bank of Australasia Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the Direct Western and South and Midland Railway Francis Morley, Esq., Merrick Park, Richmond, Yorkshire, Pro visional Director of the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction Railway Edward Munk, Esq , The Park, Nottingham, Director of the Not tingham and Mansfield Railway Christopher Musgrave, J.P.,' Milverton-hill, Leamington, Lord of the Manor of Birmingham, Director of the Leamington and Rugby, Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Manchester and Rugby Railways Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway W. Neesham, Esq., M.D., Director of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Joint-Stock Bank B. Oliveira, Esq., Upper Hyde-park-street, Director of the London and Manchester Direct Rallivay John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction, and Direct Western Railway John Parker, Esq., Shipley, near Bradford Archibald Paull, jun., Esq., Devonshire-place, Portman-square, Di rector of the London and York Railway Thomas Peacock, Esq., Bishop Auckland, Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway A. Maxwell Pickwoad, Esq., Penton Lodge, Bridport, Dorset George Richard Pyo, Esq., Ravenham, Suffolk Edward Railton, Esq., Broome Hall, Durham, Director of the New castle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway Richard Riddell, Esq , 23, Bryanstone-street, Portman-square, Direc tor of the Direct Western and the Great 'Western Extensio Railway George Robinson, En., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley June tion Railway Thomas Salkeld, Esq., Holme Hill, near Carlisle Richard Sandbach, Esq., Manchester Dennison Sanderson, Esq., Manor House, Manchester Hartley Sager, Esq., Ball's Grove, Colne George Saul, Esq., Blunstock, near Carlisle Dalton Haskell Serrell, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park, Director of the Independent London and Manchester Direct RAilway W. H. Saynaasas E.g., 24. Limo-street Samuel Sharp, Esq., Quarry House, Harperley Park, Durham, Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway John Simpson, Esq., Farm Ville Lodge, Leeds Henry Smith, Esq., The Park, Nottingham, Director of the Grand Union Railway John Spence, Esq., Otley, Director of the East and West Yorkshire, Leeds, York, and Midland Railways Robert Stanfield, jun., the Breck, near Halifax, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Joseph Stocks, Esq., Shibden Hall, Halifax, Director of the East and West Yorkshire Junction, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways Colonel Edward Stopford, 9, Manchester-square, Deputy-Chairman of the Barbadoes Railway WHliam Stords , Esq., Director of the Carlisle City and District Bank William Studely, Esq., Alfred-place, North Brixton Martin Stutely, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and South Essex Railway Villiers Charles Vilders Surtees, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Fl rector of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway William Tanner, Esq., 84, Great Surrey-street, Blackfliars, Provi sional Director of the Direct Western Railroad Thomas Tebbult, Esq., merchant, Platt-terrace, Bueholme, near Manchester Benjamin Thompson, Esq., Hull Henry Alderson Thompson, Esq., Rceth, near Richmond, Yorkshire John Thompson, Esq , Piccadilly, Manchester Thomas Thompson, Esq., Alderman of Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction, and York, Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Railways W. Gordon Thompson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director of the South Midland and Northampton, Banbury, and Chelten ham Railways. C. F. Thornby, Esq., Eaetfield House, Westbury, Bristol George William Todd, Esq. ' Stockton-on-Tees Jutnes Walkinshaw, Esq., Old Park, Isle of Wight, Deputy-Chair man of the Manchester and Southampton Railway, &c. Robert Watkins, Esq., 45, Lower Brook-street, Director of the East and West of England, Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport Railways Richard Webster, Esq., Leeds James Atkinson West, Esq., Western Lodge, Durham, Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York, and East Lincolnshire Railways John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London, Meopham Park, Tun bridge Wells J. Wightman, Esq., Director of the Cheltenham and Oxford Railway B. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square, Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway John Wilkinson, Esq., flax-spinner, Gledhow Mount, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railway William Stitt Wilson, Esq., Norwich, Director of the 3faryport and Carlisle Railway Edward Woolmer, Esq., Mayor of Exeter Smith Wormald, Esq., Tickton Orange, Beverley, Director of The York, Hull, and )cast and West Yorkshire Railways cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given to the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway. The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a branch line with the East and West India Docks on the river Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 999 years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks, which are capable Of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together 'svlth wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods from all parts of the world can take place, is a most important fea ture in favour of the direct communication from the manufacturing towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway, and by branch railways to the main trunk line, through which all goods from the whole of the manufacturing dis tricts could be conveyed - at once to these warehouses for shipment, thereby avoiding the present delay and expense of cartage, and in reality establishing an almost direct and an invaluable connexion between the rivers Clyde and Thames. It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties, that the works will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good; and that it will not materially interfere. with any ornamental property. The Subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first deposits until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only to the amount of their subscriptions. It is proposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and also to extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, in the event of that Company not prosecuting their line to Redford. Applications for Shares (in the form annex ) may be made to J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court, and Messrs. Owen Gray and Midge, 25, Great Tower-street, the joint solicitors to the Company, at the Company's temporary offices, 9, Copthall-court, London ; or to the following sharebrokers : London—Messrs. Marten and Heseltine, 9, Finch-lane Leeds—Messrs. Hoppe and Co. Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal - Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons Bradford—Mr. Josiah Scholefield Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square No application will be attended to unless accompanied by a satiF factory reference. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provistenal Committee of the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot mo Shares, of 251. each, in the above undertaking, and I undertake to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less lumber that may be allotted to me, and also to execute the Parliamentary Contract aud Subscribers' Agree ment when required. Name in hill ... • ..... •• • ..... Address in Hill ... • • .. • . • • • • . • • • Occupation .. • • • • • . • • • • • • •• Date....... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ' • • G REAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT RAILWAY. . The Committee of Management of this Railway hereby give no tice, that in consequence of the unprecedented number of applications already made for shares in this imoortant undertaking, they have determined upon rejecting all further applications made after the 29th September instant. Immediately after that day they will proceed to make the allotment of the shares and procure the execu tion of the Parliamentary contract and subscription deeds. Signed by order of the Committee, J. R. GIBSON, OWEN GRAY, Registered Solicitors. J. B. ILLIDGE, 29th September, 114.5. MADRID AND VALENCIA RAILWAY, authorised by an Ordinance of her Majesty the Queen of Spain. Capital 2,400,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 201. each, Spanish rents (VeDon) 2,000, fr. 500, of which 80,000 will bo allotted in this country. Deposit 21. per Share, reals 200, fr. 50. PROVISIONAL COMMIT'T'EE. The Most Noble the Marquis of Winchester, 27, Cavendish-square The Lord de l isle and Dudley, 16, New Burlington-street The Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor The Right Hon. Lord Chariers Beaucierk, Chesham-place, Be'grave square, and the Riding, Northumberland - . The - Riglrt Hon. George Lionel Dawson Dame, )LP., 6, Tilney-street The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., 27, Regent-street Sir William Wynn, Chairman of the North Wales It ailway C. Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., 6, Parliament-street, Chairman of the Paris and Strasbourg Railway Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker (Mesas. Cockburn and Co.) William Collins, Esq., M.P. ' Reform Club Edward Bates, Esq., Managing Director of the Argus Life Assurance Company Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Beesthorpe Hall, Newark, Netts, and 8, Great Ryder-street, St. James's John Cappee, Esq., merchant, 1, Adelaide-place, London-bridge William Chadwick, Esq., Montagu-square, Chairman of the Rich- mond Railway John Charretio, Esq., Park Village East Gideon Colquhonn, Esq., Walnier.:Lodge, Avenue-road, Regent's park, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway Company William Cooper, Esq., merchant, 20, Mark-lane, and Kingswood _ Lodge, Dulwich Edmund F. Dayrell, Esq., 15, Old Cavendish-street, and Lillingstone Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff of Bucks, Deputy-Lieutenant of the County, Chairman of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Railway and Bridgewater and Ifinehead W. EtTies, Esq., merchant, Mincing-lane, Director of the Direct Western Railway Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, Director of the London and Westminster Bank Richard Forman, Esq , Upper Thames-street James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street. , . Major Graham, 16, Grove, Clapham John Joseph Keene, Esq., St . John's-wood, near London, Director _ _ of the National Bank of Ireland Wrn. King, Esq., Director of the Freenitts+ors' Life Assurance Com- pany James John Kinloch, Esq., 21, Gloucester-road, llyde-park, Director cf the North Wales Railway Company John Knill, Esq., Fresh-wharf, Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and Crewe Railway T. Laurence, Esq., St. Mary-axe, Director of the Direot Western Railway Major James Oliver Llndam, K.H., 8, New-street, Dorset-square, Chairman of the ' Gloucester and A.berystwith and Central Wales Railway, and Director of the South Midland Junction Railway Nicholas lii`Cann, Esq., 50, rarliament-street, Director of the ifi d s i _ cheater and Rugby Direct Railway Charles Carroll Mactavish, Esq., 22, Rutland-gate J. B. Montsllore, Esq., 2, Winchester-buildings, DireciOr of the Australian Mining Company William Nicholson, Esq., Manchester, Director of tke Manchester and Rugby Railway S. P. Pratt, Esq., 55, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Rennet and Avon Canal Company _ _ George CLAyering liedriihn, Esq., Limehoklee Colonel Edward Stor.ford, 9, Mancl'Ater-square, Director et the Barbadoee Railway Company William Gordon Thompson, - Director of the South Midland Junction S. J. Waley, Esq., 22, DeTwAshire-place William Lechmere White re, Esq., 19, James-street, Buckingham gate, Director of the London Central Railway Terminus. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Carries and CO.,Coinhill ; Messrs. Masterman and Co., Nicholas-lane ; Messrs. Cockburn and Co., Whitehall. Madrid—Bank of Isabella 11. STANDING COUNSEL—Jacob Waley, Esq., Llncole's Ina SouciTozs—Messre. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, 14, Lime-street. CONSULTING ENGINRER—P. Prichard B aly EK. SECRETARY—F. Kirkham Powell, Bsq. Offices of the Company, 37, Moorgate-stroot. The present Company has been formed for the construction of a line of railway from Madrid to the city and port of Valencia, the mast central seaport on the Mediterranean. It will open out the re sources of an extensive district of country, eastward from the capital, remarkable for the richness and fertility of its soil, the varied abun dance of its productions, and the commercial spirit of its inhabitants. This railway is authorised by a special ordinance of her Majesty the Queen of Spain ; and from its vast importance as a national route of intercommunication her Majesty has been pleased to accompany the grant with all the privileges and immunities which the Crown is empowered to confer upon a railway company. Amongst these may be enumerated— 1. A lease of the line and of its branches for 99 years. 2. The gratuitous grant of such Government and corporatloa lands as may be required for the railway. 3. The free use of all timber, the property of the gtate, that may be necessary for the works, or for other purposes. 4. The exemption for ten years, to be computed from the com mencement of the works, of all import duties on the machinery, rails, and other articles requisite for the completion of the railway. 5. The entire exemption from .all national and loeal taxes that could otherwise be levied upon the railway, works, or Windings of any description, and upon the capital represented by the shares. 6. The Government is not to interfere with the Company's tariff of charges for the space of forty years from the completion of the works ; and no revision thereof is to take place on the expiration of that period that can sink the profits below 15 per cent. 7. The line is to be classed, by a special law, under the title of a " work of public utility," and as such to enjoy the royal patronage and protection, and all the pecallar privileges attached to important national undertakings. The proposed line, thus largely endowed, is about 240 miles in length, being upwards of 150 miles nearer the capital than the ports of Cadiz and the north coast of Spain, and generally nearer than any other port in the kingdom. Although it has not yet been minutely surve,ed, it is well known that there is no similar district of equal extent in the kingdom which presents so few engineering difficulties. For upwards of 80 miles the lins will traverse the almost level plain of Valencia ; and emerging from the boundaries of the province, it will follow as nearly as possible the course of the rivers which flow east and west from the central plateau in the province of Cuenca, and approach Madrid by the valley of the Manzanares. The line will either pass through or accommodate the most important towns hi the two provinces, which will thus he brought into rapid com munication with the capital OR the one side, a seaport on the other. This railway will be the means of supplying -Madrid, containing 300,000 inhabitants, entirely dependent for provisions upon the con tiguous provinces, at a cheap rate, with the rich products of the pro vinces of Valencia, which abounds in most valuable mines, and is beyond comparison the most fertile district of Spain. Valencia, bronglit by this communication within- ten hours' dis tance of the chief market of Spain, must necessarily become the port at which all vessels with supplies tbr the metropolis will unload, and the centre of the coasting‘trade along the whole sea-line from Barcelona to Gibraltar. The traffic in passengers and goods now existing between Madrid and Valencia has been correctly ascertained, showing the following results : The annual number of passengers trairel:ing between :Madrid and Valencia, and the intermediate towns, is upwards of 42,000 ; but taking that number at the present cost of conveyance by stage coaches, private carriages, galcras, and waggons, the amount will be 07,80 e The annual weight of goods conveyed betwe.c the two cities and the Intermediate localities is 4,909,091 cr. from which the return is estimated at .. .. 1,223,400 X 1,291,200 Assuming that two-tifths only of the existing charges become a source of revenue to the railway, and that the tariff be reduced considerably low the State tariff' of Belgium, there will be deducted 752,320 Remains • • • . £53 Sapporing that the present traffic will only be doablel.. ' BB° by the railway, although experience has proved the increase to be equal to 300 and 400 per cent., there will be added • • .. • • • • • • • • • • 5.f4,4•5t And add For the transport of troops, military stores, &e., which the Government will substitute for the conveyance by waggons .. .. •• •• 50,000 28 per Cent., at the least, for the Alicant traffic .. 215,97,2 £1,313,712 From which deduct nearly 50 per cent. for maintenance or way, &c. .. • • • • •. 671,356 £671,856 Leaving a net profit of Or of nearly 28 Or cent. upon the capital. The capital now proposed to be raised has been estimated, by competent authority, to be amply sufficient for the completion of the railway, including station -4, a double line for rails, and the working plant. The royal ordinance authorises the erection of an electric tele graph along the line, which will answer the double purpose of placing the railway under the special protection of the Government, and closely uniting it with all the railways that intersect the kingdom and have their common termini in Madrid, to which capital maritime and mercantile information from the Mediterranean can be instan taneously communicated. One-third of the shares are, by the terms of the concession, con ceded to Spain. The locale of the Company will be in Spain, and It will be framed on the principle of a cosnpania anonema, agreeably to the commercial code of that country._ - . _ The affairs of the Company will be conducted by a Board o f TH . rectors in London, assisted by a highly influential Committee in afddrid. The remuneration to the Directors will be made in ae.. cordance with the plan usually adopted in continental railways, and that to the Concessionaires consists of a mere contingent interest in two-twentieths of net profits, after five per cent. shall hare seen se cured to the shareholders. A deposit of 2/. per share is payable on allotment, and no future call will exceed 2/. per share, of which two months' notice at least will be given. Applications for shares, according to the subjoined form, to be ad dressed to Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, solicitors, 34, Lime street, London ; to Messrs. Hutchinson and Son, stockbrokers, Loth bury ; Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle•street ; Messrs. Johnston, and Co., Manchester ' • Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool ; Messrs.Wreford, audCo., Bristol; Mr. N. Lea, Birming ham; Messrs. Watson, and Co., Leeds; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull ; Messrs. Buchanan and' Aitkin, Glasgow ; Mr. W. Gordon, Aberdeen ; Messrs. Labertouelie and Stafford, Dublin ; and to the Secretary, at the office, 31, Moorgute -street, London. London, Sept. 10,'1545. T o o en t t l i ie en ti n re , cto irs of the OF APPLICATION. . . reque : t M yt, ad u rli wi l Valencia Railway Company. same, or any less number which yen hereby undertakco accept the each i n the above Company ; and allot me s. arcs of 201. pay the deposit thereon of Si. per shaZII appropriate to e, and to Dated this day of • 11445. Residence . ..... Procession or Trade Plat eof Business ........ Reference .. MADRID and VALENCIA RAILWAY._ No APPLICATION FOR SHARES will be received after IVEDIVESDAY, the First day of October next. By order, F. KIRKELLII FOWLER Secretary. Mt 37, Moorgate-street,_sept. F 5,1845. ...... Thomas Wynne, Esq.. Layton, Staffordshlre, 8 Union and Birmingham Junction and Holy\,head Direct 118111, Sir William Young, Bart., London, oti the lion. EngLa„ Company, and of the Lecester and TRIBITOFIA Junction 11," and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT: IVllliam Beresford, Esq., M.P., Henry Plumptre GiPP ,, ". el Chairman Joseph Underwood, Esq., Deputy Arthur Mann, Esq. Charles ( : hi aani7Aannil Bamford, ng' l :j u g n (1 .. , Esq. George Parbury, F,,(1, ~..,,. DatLrenetdosn Lupton, Esq., 318yor W. G. Beare, Esq. William Sitrpson Pott r, .0. John Yarde Buller, Esq. John Rawson, Esd• moor of W. Bradley, Esq. James Steele, YA., Carlisle W. R. Collett, Esq., M.P. Henry Cornfoot, Esq. Josep h Thompson, rsq • Richard Dutton, Esq. , BANKERS. '1 Ilenriet fa- London--Commercial Bank of L , ondon Lothlitill , 511- - street Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co. Carlisle—Messrs. J. M. Head and Co. . Halifax—Messrs. Rawson and Co. 13 0111 0 Newcastle-upon-Tyne—Newcastle-upon-Tyne Joint Company tit Darlington—Darlington District Joint-Stock Bank _,li Pt Liverpool—Messrs. Denison, Heywood, and Co. ; Comm." of Liverpool ant Bristol—West of England and South Wales District B Glasgow—Clydesdale Banking Company. SOLICITORS. S. P. Hook, Esq., 11, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothlaill toct Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, 34, Lime-street. LOCAL AGENTS. Leeds—John Shackleton, Esq. Carlisle—Messrs. Saul Cockermouth—Edward Waugh, Esq. Brampton—Messrs. Carrick and Lee Otiey—Edward Il Barrett, Esq. l'foll, ig• Richmond and Dp_rlington—Georg e - --I „ enr ao ENGINEERS—Messrs. ,; eor ge and John cont . SECRETARY—CharIes Locock Webb , el , o The Importance of establishing the most direct rartliew cation between Leeds and Carlisle, Railway, between Carlis e, G!asgow, and EdialW g _volt evident to require anything to he urged in its surfrobire,,e to The existing and projected lines of rallwq, . ;eo ded ra:' pursue a westerly or north-westerly directloArnie ' 4 1 1 ,t, bjee' benefit particu ar towns and districts, than to effect e xteld;„osT and, by means o IC's'tioey ;elf. present railway accomplishes it to the utmost poo h , Thirst i', 4 11, The line now proposed proceeds by the Leeds as oarfe. or (for which an Act has been already Abtained) 1 0 . 0 0 o c r , o ol , °Bey, Kettlewell, and Hawea, thence it Pa sses ter 5' 11 ,4 Kirby Stephen and Appleby, uniting with the Ltin c , -- proole . „';xteg• Railway near Penrith. A branch from OtleY ande le i V it toi extend to that important town the advantages In comparison with the existing lines the Leeds ATT. t coo'lr g ,,tob will effect a saving of more than forty miles ; porlo rit ll shorter than any other projected line between these .. - 0 001/ The great national and local importance of th e ofin u 41 evident. eeri t lte trP lls It affords the shortest and most direct rotate bet , ' .. 1 Ow turing metropolis of Yorkshire and the coininelo Scotland; and through the medium of the railvoir m CO is termini in Glasgow and Edinburgh, the line wit` the Otis .`" the several Scotch Trunk lines, extending front northern, western, and eastern counties. tilett`,;(a f c " The traffic in goods between Leeds and GlastPnd)Piiine dently of that with the other towns and ports in Se ° o o 4 7 o d ge, large amount ; and the facilities afforded by the scol- 4 10 necessarily attract to the -intermediate towns, 511° A istrie 9 rally, the supply of goods from the manufacturing - .40 1 '4 shire. ~,, srl t 't The distance between Leeds and London will Tru reduced by the lines already in progress throuthLt r n l er t" Leeds and Carlisle must necessarily form a Fo r n," ‘ i ~, the Railway for the traffic between London and Scotl.,„ The line will connect Hull and the Humber dire‘l7- o pett%teP A ' way Firth, a mercantile object of very considerable the ' r s.* A new and cheap mode of transit will dif°the agricultural produce of the rich vales ough t th acll i , c ,', l o de.l o ,'"A• and which produce, at present, notwithstanding I"itereten,'l, manufacturing districts, cannot be forwarded to el e rOdw for want of railway communication. A large and m in er' will be derived from the produce of the extensive r tue rto; t ' l od '- opened by the line, and the working of which 11 " h f tfol'tat instances, been rendered impracticable by the cost o and eiew all has been greatly impeded. ; ft e A survey has been made, and the Parliamentall P„-lopsre r, are in progress, and the engineers have underhas tors I~IL completed in the course of next month. Applications for shares to be addressed to O d e 7te l. Hook, Esq., 11, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury, ant N Baker and Grant, 34, Lime-street ; to Charles L° eq ual f: Secretary, at the temporary offices of the Compaal„brolte"Krts house, 33, Gresham-street; Messrs. Shelve% stae` fr oce, itte house-yard; Messrs. Taunton and Bush,sU J. toid CI4 Messrs. Watson, Tootal, and Barff, and Messrs. „ oo t Leeds ; Messrs. Tigg and odgson, Hull; S n ' Wetherell and Co., Durham ; H Mr. John Gib""i f• 't Pg.! G. Seed, St. Ann's-square, Manchester ; Messrs. 400, O r o, and Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Messrs. J. peel, stei t ,oo4 Bromley House, Nottingham ; Mr. Frederick WllllO,OO Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, and Company, Bristo l 0tit ; 61,,1. and Co., Huddersfield; William H. Morrice, 13 , 14 ,,- c atre e 'ar , Crk, jun., Southampton ; Mr. J. N. Beanie, ICit - ,;glt,NifrapA ter; Mr. Thomas Sanford, Exeter ; Mr. John " " cheater ; Mr. Pringle and Messrs. Edward M'CulltlTm fu. Edinburgh; Messrs. M'Ewen and Auld, and S e ' . gro Cockburn, Glasgow. FORM OF APPLICATION.., Aglet ° ' g 4 To.the Provisional Committee of.tke,Leeds and u 3" Trunk Railway of England. E11',,T4 1 ,- I‘ l l . Gentlemen—l request you will allot me _.,,ora ,'lte t each In the proposed Leeds and Carlisle, or 1.7 01 1" 0 po' way of England ; and I hereby untie' take to ri de 12s. 6d. per share thereon, and to execute the 118V"-' required. Dated this day of • 1845. Name in full .• • • • Trade or Professio n ''.• Residence ..... .• • e at :„..' Place of Business (. Date. ..... ..... .• • , „,,' ' Reference.... •• ••''. #OO f,SVA D IRECT NORTHERN RAI A dV, ° LONDON to YORK. bt At a MEETING of PROPRIETORS held this rt.,4,1003" Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, pursuant to public Au 1 4lr' following reports were submitted for adoption (of t l , " DIRECTORS' REPORT..„, Or r sfo t The Directors have called the shareholders e'ettfoiir , pose of submitting to them a statement of their of - gutting them as to their future proceedings. op te rei ty The Board of Trade having recommended tb! " ci es f i r' of t l of survey from London to York, composed or yr; Eastern line to Cambridge, improved by the net! "„ - eoli , e Ol e by the Tottenham and Farringdon-street Ext e ",i o or,' e tif e ,, e te; Cambridge and Lincoln line, and the northern P or , t ` i , ens ot it tv: Northern from Lincoln to York, the Directors, in ` ‘ . e ste i t „",°, discretion which the shareholders so unreservedlY ' a - oewtoe; o 1°; the meeting of 14th of February last, resolved 10,i0 ft l , e ;t ment so much only of their line as was coniPrt - eretsf e ,',g ye recommended by the Board of Trade, under the ii,";,•OlS QA¢i,,,' t decision of that Board would be supported by the accordingly did so; but certain objections to ti le deci Qli e v f i engraving departments having been taken, it Iro s ,„er t it standing orders of the House of Commons had not ne i a c tefi c.tt , and, consequently, the scheme could only be con l ' tee as a project n eoled t 'o ,ll). o; r e'ti The result was, that after a contest of unele• --- trir ' fle te - , Committee of the House of Commons negatir r- , recommended by the Board of Trade, and reportr",, at that time was the shortest and the only continnotii for „e! r, line from London to York before them. The, l itsPlri t 4,. passed the House of Commons, but was arrested o bf",, e a , t e House of Lords* by preliminary objections to tract on which it was based, which were not fins li i ie tne " it ing c of A o Parliament was prorogued. The position this s c to° an t a C o t next session will depend upon the view the part te '.i I( eta . take of the objections proved to exist, or whlek oir 10 'oine te established against them. But your Directors et! ri s 'feo ° ,o l ', P ol itt of should the promoters of that scheme take the es. v otly proceedings in Parliament on their present footiug'.,,e ll ,4 lo. • tally speaking, have no advantage when their sehe'it t s y 0 4. competition with one which, at the period wbe n „iderr t : l oc the House of Commons reported, had not been O I L' be ;ill oV.;11 , Impressed with these views, and holding it ":.„ric" o ,4op i t beyond doubt, that a new line from. London to ' O Ol O , tol fl o e tioned, irrespective of existing routes, and being c e p ol i o ~i o e t , scheme of the London and York does not satisfy t h nt aes t ,., Pw o i p t ; e t , which ought to attach to such a line, as a con t .l ll , Jo D 'et t tle , national importance, your Directors instructed y, r ill; f o l distinguished engineer of the North British Itai ll/ Thlr e t. f n' have now committed the entire charge of the e nro l ment, to examine the country between Londo n to cnsf i' e les report to them his opinion, with a view to future Po tile o clie,ol',Ae gentleman's report will be read to the meeting, 6 ' Vic P• th at f r) ii will 'perceive that he is decidedly of opinion riot opft ;01 , 4 direct line from London to York, formed by one 'well 40' e adhered to, improving it only by a further oPP,,iteo ° ticable, to the most direct and shortest line t liet 4 per admit of. „ r oe !d n , ol( In this opinion the Directors most heartily re' - o f rso s'ee pose acting upon it, by carrying out the syststo e f A t recommended. ' ti dt s nl' t"li tO o ` l ? Ti the North British, the Great North of Eng l e,„ for t „ o ce , oe e re lines which form the eastern route to Scotland , ter. i er i le shortest route from London to York is of vital 0 "; th0',,,1 0 ,, Directors think themselves justified in anticipatine,st s'oel` proposed by Mr. Miller will receive the cordial suP n r„ ee tt Lion of these Companies, as well as of the poPu ltt t north-eastern portion of Great Britain. V e, ot, In Mr. Miller's hands the Directors are cone — ti $lO, l I - off enabled to submit to Parliament a main line Wil ic io n elo I li ten miles shorter than that proposed by the 1 ,0 °41 t , which, combined with the necessary branches, amount of local accommodation. W o' o pi 4' The through traffic is every day becoming tn„, ° 7,l ! t ; ele t will be recollected that in the report of tile P ° ttO tni't tbs g itt Ir e I I t stated that " should Parliament be of opinion }, t at I ) t o i f, of the most direct line between London and VI o f th e a oC , dered as a paramount object, the integral schent,.e airt rot ite , o o „ r ern would deserve a preference. It reduces leo% 004 miles, being 42 miles shorter thaw by the e i i it e• o ', e t re' shorter than by the proposed London and York te , The Directors have used their best endedvoll etti.,..r"tto standing accounts of the Company examined anti 0 0t rltfo , gress they have made, although considerable,lo fee t ee re lO t ,ofi, to submit these accounts in detail to this meeting st; oli , i 1 ( however, enabled to state that the gross amour , . 0 so' o o pi r will be about 30s. per share, and, consequentlY, :non° as may desire to withdraw from the furthefromr°-iie ; r id, 1: o t dertaking, there will remain the sum of, say : he re t t ,fil on their original deposits of 21. 10s. per share t ( mti oef f iss, re i e' Having maturely considered all the cirecuins",‘,., ori;', e c" „IP e Directors have come to the determination that w ise owe' 00 t" an integral line from the metropolis to York on' , tio„, and under one management, ought to be resuotu- itte.oesiort, in the ensuing session of Parliament. t ee t t of t /. For tills purpose the Directors propos e that te ,,, 0. 0(T. , 4,0,00,0001. shall be divided into 160,000 oils' _ it 10, t iter,ef shareholders who may desire to conti nue tft i , ,„ dertaking being entitled, with the sanction or se" ire change their scrip certificates of 50/. each for t i r i l ie it i o ipo n 11 0 , o 0 7 eachn paying up such further sure Per s hale , oent_,' of ip ori ti fl es of the former deposit, will make up ten P r ' a de , ' c oy now required to be deposited by the stanelLng;t the f o cor , Loris. As to any shares that may remain tlie;,it o' A lf ,rie Directors after carrying Droved tis arrangentn" n ee"' ,ll".# preference to be due to app holders of tit e l'ree EN GINEER'S REPO R i t llort li t o r"of 'Sof, To the Provisional Committee of the Piree_ ctio ns o fo t . dee Gentlemen,—Having received your instr u „ o rt P t ie t X t ili country between London and York, and to r e ,", o f 0g7,,t fo o t, ie st of your proposed line of railway, with the Yl e ' ot en t ' Parliament, I lost no time in making arrnog i , e ettin,,, t o it of your instructions, and I accordingly last we e „mole do,si generally, having reference to the plans of ti l° s e " Ate' 4 'f contemplated, and I now beg to report. _ o r t sel L ef t o 4 In the outset I may remark that since . 3 .nit le! O l4 g railway between London and York was Wa tch "lo t io °' important eiretunstances have occurred wii ► ,ad o of bearing on the question, and which, to InY, l i " n „ fro ° , t sil l sOor t , pediency, if not necessity, of having as o f, o , ' o f ttlreeel the most direct which the country wili atiniLi„ a c de Since that period the railway system boo,ni t et I ,.' t e .e "tf!" and the public seem now to look forward thoutttetowel.ifnt, forming the great means of conveyance th r° ,oo f til e ,oti tt sf e° l o limited to the traffic between great cc is ti o ti o f t ft ei j r mining districts, but penetrating into eve r y 1 1° 0 00 n st ri , ,yo l is' The system when so carried out (ss t her e en peer° .10,(111 ever that it will speedily be) will create fol t :n te ly ,0 o rte traffic as will render great leading lines absotroia to e the P „de o '011.2 Vt 2, my opinion it will be inoperative public fogre t toietie s to , , te te leading lines, if they look to the West, to have them laid out as direct 0 1 ( , :4 , 0 this principle of aelon be m ore irriperatt De er a lt great leading lines from London, and , !P o o ii ' 0 ,, i er1, 0 ! north, where there is such an extent oton fi oot ramified traffic of which will centre in to Dip I t e l Metropolis by the shortest route. I a t° t° tit ic e ' el tid o eo tt g l' e; This principle has already begun to s, 1 ', to t - extent, and there is every reason to bel" bo revr,'; ii eer: in 0 1 , 1 „.eolinr, prevail generally. In carrying it out, „in tey teo t t he '10 11 0 ,0", that the local accommodation of the i, r i OW of i i to f e „eon 0 0 or to' e' altogether lost sight of—far from it ; deo, frig „„te , tt i oee as that between London and York, ti w iic alar 'of o h '', rw c eri i s7, for the sole purpose of placing some ravii„ttietlisAin flee o f to °O tt o should not be thought of, and more I_,o„intaii stcoei can he brought into immediate cmi n i e t w in ex ist to t c o means of branches or by local lines , e in .eein is thc ati t ie;„ be executed. It appears to me to b ( 7, 0 , to‘r t f„,e tt itt id It ht te l t ir o t1 ;1 with a great leading mie from L °l in ett o i t eee e sf , h je ~t o ot t 'attention to local accommodation. ricetl y t he l l reo t r` o ,el A p principle both objects autowod be inlP e 010 51' 0 o pl. it „ t ll out it would only be as ruPoraq.„. „ o ci,d c ) t oP tio to ti e the country beyond would press chartlnu c' iti teti t ,090, capital, and the local interests of S,_ o „ et? „ t oe , as England will call for accommoof; it , W7 t ere ?,, t er e tt" o f v impossible for any railway lines o f rin g tll ,. ;; es , t o , „.ei_ vj kt .0 ( traffic to attend to, without prei7 o f ertm l ' iti ot the ° IS, certain'y possible to give, by men u tit s ueb n_ h oalt ot o, _ „ros the most minute accommodation, ,Of c e ll tne the great leading measure ; and leen of the it) t"„ el efof i i,s ie , main line be made subservient to that a y terf tier hie 'OO,O a line pp lbyeas restiD te..lo din On Join. es , „ i e my opinion the line should be lan _,, et , cr ti l o ot not ,o „t r ti, e i i t t i ' v g e thi en s L d o i n re d c o t n p a ri n n d ciYploerfti,( l 3 ; u t admit of, embracing such towns UIJ °here that °r t " 10 41 / 1 that principle be included; but tv , , ,, an otes, _ i a e_ o o toe ,iffy coinmodation should be met by "i ne counT which will sooner or later cover „„ r lit !„ ta i i t o of t,t to I have looked over the plans oft" ha s , e 5.0 lo te gineers, and although it APPeo re the gel e r , to ° yet iv that time being only last year), principle, carried even ftatiter that , , open 14 Ch tl L iljtj 4 this 44 1 . 2 ,1 41 ; item' 4 11 Latin I t tp4, *ll„ k ilte Ihit4qZ • t „, t l' T~~ 11. ItZ° P. O, 7,1 t i4~i I That shar e ,, pprov e e'rg4,l7 They It Di rk ? , Pter n t/-1 T• th e 1 N • 1 T. th,