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• ANC FITISTErt andittdßY DIRECT R telecirAY, - via MACCLESFIELD. :Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,700,0001., in 8 , 5,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. 'moves-to/4AL COMMITTEE. • The Hon. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester and - Birmingham Continuation Railway John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Hyde Park . John Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, banker Sir John Pixie, Bart., Alderman of the City of London, Di rector of tho Peninsular and Oriental Steam Packet Com pany William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman 014.i4e City of London, late M.P. for . Oxbard, and late High "Sneriff for Hants • • James Henry Attwood, Esq., Seymour-street, Porltnan-equare George Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Cornhill John Bagshaw, Esq., Director. of the Northern and Eastern Railway • Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the East aid West of Eng land Junction . William Chadwick, Kea., Chairman of the Richmond Railway William Henry Forman, Esq., Upper Thames-street Capt. George Probyn, Bryanston-square Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng land Railway Josh. Underwood, Esq., Director of tha Commercial Bank of London William Langley Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex The Hon. Geo Browne, Lovnides-square, Belgrave-square Sir Geo. Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square Sir Henry Richardson, Chessel House, Southampton Sir William Wynne, 5, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North Wales Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway Sir G. A. Lewin, Upper Harley-street, London Sir John Hare, Langhdm-place The Mayor of Newbury, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway John Addis, Esq., of Rotherhithe, Surrey, Director of the Centre Terminus, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Office The Rev. J. Harvey Ast worth, Nev. bury . • M. W. C. Alston, Esq., Birmingham W. C. Alston, Esq., Elindori Hall Samuel Ashton, Esq., Wood Hill, Prestwich James Atty, Esq., Rugby James Bancroft, Esq., Alderman of the Borough of Manchester Henry Barlow, Esq., Highfleld, Stockport Samuel Barton,' Esq., Didsbury, Director of the Chester and Man chester Direct Railway Hugh Beaver, Esq., Manchester Thomas Brittain, Esq.., Manchester William leehnez Black, Esq., 19, Wilton-place, Beigrave-square, Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Company Joseph Browne, Esq.,- Bedford Captain Burney, R.N., Gosport William Bardgett, pig., Old Broad-street and Carshalten, Surrey, Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Company Samuel Swaim Brittair, Esq., Sheffield Charles Baker, Esq., Southampton William Bland, Esq., Brixton, Director of the North Wales Railway Thomas Brittain, Esq., Manchester George Burnam!, Esq., Sussex-square, Hyde Park William Bevan, Esq., 48, Condult-street. Bond-str North Wales Mineral Railway Jab Bell, Esq., Langhara-place, London W. E. Boyce, Esq., Alkerten, Banbury, Director of the East and West of England Railway Henry Brown, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch Robert Bramwell, Esq., Upper Thames-street William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Shef field and Manehetter Railway, and Chairman of the Direct West ern Railway George Borrett, Esq., Southampton Lieutenant-Colonel Burslem, North Rants Charles Bailey, Esq., Winchester Henry Baker, Esq., Mark-lane, London IL Burney, Esq., LL.D., port Joseph Beech, Esq., 15, G rosv enor-place George Bovill, Es q ., Mill-wall, Poplar Louis Buckland, Esq., Lloyd's and Avenue-road, St. John's-wood Robert Boman, Eeq., Donningion House, Stow-on-the-Woki, Glow eestershire W. Bailey, EN., Wolverhampton • Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Wor seater and Oxford Railway I'. F. Clossman, Esq., Mincing-lane John Chapman, Esq., Leadenhall-street, Director of the Devon and Cornwall Railway S. J. Capper, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge Edward Chapman, Esq., Strand, London, Director of the Richmond Railway Sheldon Cradock, Esq., Leicester Philip Warner Courtenay, Esq., 26, Capel-stroet, Belgraveennare Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Diseot Western Railway Francis Carleton, Req.. - James Clift, Esq., Bloomsbury-square Robert Cruickshank, Esq., Gosport John Churchill, Est e Bayswater, Director of the Manchester and Bir mingham Continuation Railway Robert Charles, Esq., 28, Endaleigh-street, Tavistock-square G. Colqnhoun, Esq.. . Director of the Worsester and South Wales Railway James Consterdine, Esq., Manchester Joseph Cragg, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury Colonel George Disbrow°, Chester-square, London William Dredge, Esq., Newbury Jetties Denis Devitre, Esq., 7, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-Kluane, Director of the North-Western Railway George Dunlop, Esq., Southampton George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield Richard Dyott, Esq., Freeford John Adcock Dixon. Esq., Burnley, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Capt. Farrington, R.N., West Cowes, Isle of Wight E. 8. Farrow, Esq., Newbury W. 9. Fltzwtlllam, Eeq., Old Broad-street, Director of the Essex and Suffolk Railway F. B. Freer, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon William Tulloch Fraser, Esq., 5, Manchester-square John Fawcett, Esq., Broom Hall, Sheffield, Director of the ("rest Western Railway J. P. Fernistone, Esq., of Hightlelds, Wolverhampton George Fernisteene, Esq., Lays Iron Works, Stourbridge W. B. Gray. Esq., Newbury Samuel Mee, Esq., Manchester Joseph Ceill, Esq., Leeds P. °IMP, Esq., Montague-place, Bryguestone -square • - William Gibb, Ewe, Manchester John Gould, Esq., Ardwick, Manchester Captain Augustus Heyman, Cadogan-square Thomas Charles Higgins, Esq., Turvey House, Bedfordshire Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgsbaston, near Birmingham, Director of the East and West and Birmingham and South Stafford shire Railways Joseph Hopgood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the East and Weet of England Railway W. H. llornby, Esq.,Blackburn George• Calvert Holland, Esq., M.D., Sheffield' John Newington Hughes, Esq. St. Michael's, Winchester William 11111, Esq., Manchester John Haddon, Esq., Director of the East and Weet of England Rail way Company Joseph Haden, Esq., iron master, Dudley David H arrison. Esq., Staley-bridge, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham and Cheshire Junction Railway T. Hodges, Esq. Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway James Herne , Lee. Clapham Common, Director of the North Lon. don Railway Company John Morerninte Eeq., North Bank, Regent's Park, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Reilerax, .re re. Meson. Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and Man *heater -Railway Theophilus Hodges, Eaq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Ge.erge Calvert Holland, Esq., M.D., Sheffield John Hyde, Esq., Manchester William Jaconab, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the East and West of England William Jerikitison, Eeq., Marlborough-square, Salford George Jones, Esq., Rolland, Bristol V. Clarke Kemball, Esq., 6, Chester-place, Hyde-park J. Kinloch. Esq. , Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director of the North Wales Railway . John Knlll, F-sq.. Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Junction Railway Charles Kelson, Esq. ' Teignmouth, Devon, Director of the Bast and West of England R ailway William Knott, Esq., 4, Adelaide-plaee. Director of the Richmond Railway M. W. King, Esq., Amblicote Hall, Stourbridge Edward Lome% Eaq., Southampton William Leo'amere Whitmore, Esq., James-street, Buckingham-gate, Directoe of the Worcester and South Wales Railway Henry Texigard. Esq., Wood-street • John letwson Lowden, Esq., Doughty-street, Director of the Rich- Mime Railway Jeines Lees, Esq.. BroekviPe, near Manchester Joseph Llegins. Esq.. Kensington, Director of the Southampton Dock Company • Captain J. H Leckie, Richmond, Surrey Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway James Lamb, Esq.. 25, Hyde Park-square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basinstoce Railway Samuel Lovell, Esq., Bedford F. Valentine Lee, 'Esq., Cheater-place, Regeat's-park William Mille, Esq., Newbury Joseph Ilawieler, Esq., Ashford-house, Staines John Melleson, Esq.. W;mbledon, Director of the Great Indian Penirsular Railway W. Dfulins, Esq.. Mansion-house-place, London, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway William Robert Mosham, Esq., M.D., Redford 'George Miller, Esq., Director of the Centre Railway Terminus Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington • Charles Musgrave. Esq., 3leirerton-hill, Leamington R. le3lughot, Esq., Birchin -lane, and Coleford John ]Marshall, Esq., Hornibrth Hall, near Leeds, late Mayor of • Norwich john Macfarlane, Esq., Director of the Sheffield Railway Thome., Markland, Esq., Mallield, Manchester • James Marshall, Esq., Brinnulgton Mount, Stockport Robert 'Millington, Esq., °nisei' House, Itetford, Nottinghamshire ' G.:Moore, Esq., St. John's Priory, Banbury Nicholas M'Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street William Nash, Esq., Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes, and Huth* Railway • Cornelia; - Sicholson, Esq., Cowan Head, Kendal, Deputy-Chairman of the York and Carlisle Railway Capts'ai Alexander Nairne, Director of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company Joseph Naden, Esq., Dudley 'Edward Norris, Esq. Manchester Robert Ogdeu, Esq., The Oaks, Manchester James Ogden, Esq., 31. D., Salford, Director of the Chester end Man chester Direct Railway P. Oldfield, Beg., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Liver pool Railway George Parbury, Eel. Russell-square, Director of the East and West of England 'Railway APsleY Pellatt, req., Director of the Staines and Richmond Railway Thomas Parker, Esq., Spring-gardens, London John Clarke Prescott, Eeq., Manchester Willful. Simpson Potter, Esq., of Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Dl re•-'l4', of the Oxford, Whitney, and Cheltenham Independent Tway Chserles.Potter, Esq., Darwen, Director of the Blackburn, Darwon, and Bolton Railway James Paxton. Esq., Rugby Richard N. Philipps, Esq., Sheffield John Perks, Esq., Wolverhampton Rlchani Barton elailipeon, Esq., Rugby N. M. Pewee; Req., South Western Steam-packet Company, Southampton Stephen Phillipe, Esq., Director of tho Whitehaven and Furness Railway Ch ea Phillips, Esq., Camberwell, Surrey wltEone Raines, Ese e , Temple, Director of the Manchester and Car lisle Railway Richard Rieke:eta, Req., Bristol George Roweemont, Esq.. 9, Chester-terrace, Regent's Park. Director of the li'orth London Junction Railway Thomas, Rolls, Esq., Bank, Chipping Norton Thomas Robinson, Esq., Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital David Roxburgh. Esq., Bloomfield-road, Maids Hill • Hartley Sager, Esq.. Ball Grove, Comae, Yorkshire Samuel Sangster, Esq . ., Brixton-hill, Director of the City Gas Corn- . -. 4 . 2:5 I'l t. Dtreetar ot the - • . pany Major Charles T. Selwyn, of the Royal Engineers, Exeter, Director of the East and West of England Junction ' l'm " Shaw, Esq., Salford John Sidebottom, Esq., Etheron-honse, Cheshire William Sidebottom, Esq., Etheron House, Cheshire David Slider, Esq. Rhodes, near Manchester Charleak/Roca*. Esq., Rhodes , Newbury Edmund Slocock, Eee;., Newbury Christopher Shapland, Eel" Bristol, Director of the Bristol and Gl oucester, South Devon, and Cornwall Railway Companie Joseph Stocks, Shibden 11 11 Halifa x, Director of the Li verpool and Leeds Direct Itallua'near W. 8.1 h". ", Esq.. Daventry w - T. Bridge Simpsau, E sq , D e - t Walter Shairp, Ea q , r Chairman of the Richmond Railway manchz,rrdens, Hyde Park E. Shawerose, John Stewart, Esq., M.P. for Lymington . Director of the East and West of Engtand Railway T. IL Sheppard, Esq., Towcester Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield Horatio Smith, Esq. Stran geways Han, M anchester W. Tebbutt, Esq., lianchester Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, Director of the London and Brighton Railway Thomas Thomson, Esq., Stratford.ou.A,,,n W. Tinker, Esq., Manchester, and Hyde, Cheshire Charles B. Flipp, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Jersey Railway Thomas Varley, Esq., Shoreten Hall, Mallon Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton Charl the e ßichmond Ras Fenton Whi ilway ting, Esq.. 13eaufort House, Strand, Di rector of Benjamin Williams, Esq.. banker, 4, Whitehall IL M. Wilcox, Esq., Hantsville, Torquay John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield. Director of the Sheffield Fire and Life Insurance Company George Whitmore, Esq., Austin-friars, Deputy Chairman of the North Kent Railway Thomas Woodharn, En, Winchester W. A. Wilkinson, 74.4., Director of the Yarmouth and Waverloy Valley Railway. DanierWatney, 'Esq., distiller, Wandsworth, Surrey W. F. Wenntr.gton, Esq:, Walsall Smith Esq., Birmingham W. D. Wills, Esq., Bristol A. EfflgLiverPool Edmund M. Wave ll , Esq., MUMS 8, Watkins, Es§., Forrest 7Z user Worksop T'C'EStili t if"E:VENIN'G, SEPTEMBER 26, 144 dent 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 from railways now in course of construction as from ethers pro jected, with every chance of success. Ai to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that the vast number of merchant vessels continually detained in the Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and 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 ; to what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire may be further developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the map will makesit manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be established between Tiverton and the Land's Eud. As between Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex tent of midland distil it, comprising rich and populous parts of So mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of railroad accommodation. Recurring - to the features of this project as a national work, ono of the greatest in point of magnitude, of ♦ital 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, wliich bore much the same relatlbri to the Birmingham and Grand Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways, he is reported to have said :—" I consider that the com munication between the metropolis and the great outports to be not a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the report of the Co►mnittee 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 e ( ere •t estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for t% aratei s, 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 ont.tif the most remunerative railways in the kingdom. Powers will he taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at four pounds per contum per annum on the deposits, and preference in the allotment of shares will he given to the proprietors of the land Pass, and to the shar e hold ers i n th e will and Exeter, and othe r ra il wa y s connec t e d withtcr roeauttghilive. the wDitiiernricechitt Western line rstoeuteln ldistilt. Applications for shares, In the form subjoined, to be addressed to the solicitors to the Company, or to the Xceretary, or to any respect able broker In town or country London, September 11, 1845. FORM OF . APPLICATION. To tho Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Itallway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 25/. each in the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21.125. 6d. per sleare thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con tract when required. Dated 1845. Name in full •.•• •• • • ••.•e••• •• . Residence-- .................... Trade or Profession Place of Business (if any) ...... Signature.... .... • ........ ........ READING AND REIGATE RAILWAY, connecting the GREAT WESTERN, SOUTH WESTERN, LONDON and BRIGHTON, and SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAYS. Provisionally registered, pursuant to 7 & 8 Viet., c. 110. Capital, £600,000 in 30,000 shares of £2O each. Deposit, £2 2s. per share. PROVISIONAL CONNITTZE. Viscount Chelsea, M.P. for Reading Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., 6, Parliament-street John Humphery, Esq., M.P., and Alderman of the City of London Sir James Carmichael, Bart., 40,_ Sussex-gardens Sir William Young, Bart., Director of the East India Company Sir James Eyre, Bart., Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Cleveland-row Daniel Mildred, Esq., Banker, Nicholas-lane Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Carlton-terrace, and Broome Hall, Dorking Daniel Watney, Esq., Wandsworth, Surrey William Strahan, Esq., banker, Strand, and Ashurst, Dorking Le Marchant Thomas, Esq., flillingbear Park. Wokingham, Berko Major David Fitzgerald, Pall-mall, and Valentla, Ireland Colonel Robert Douglas, R.A., United Service Club, Director of the Bideford and TavistoCk Railway MAjor Jelf Sharp, Twickenham, Deputy Chairman of the Thames Embankment Company Major Oliver Lindam, K. 11., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales Railway Charles Dickson Archibald. Esq., F.R.S., Rushland Hall, Lancashire, Director of the Tean and Dove :Valley Railway Major Mores Cooper, Wargrave, Berks Captain G. Evans, R.N., Headley Grove, Dorking James Garrard, Esq., Pinner, Middlesex John Leveson Gower, Esq., Bill Hill, Wokingham, Berks James Hartley, Esq., Leadenhall-street, Director of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company James Hayward, Esq., Wokingham, Berks Thomas Neale, Esq., Banker, Reigate Thomas Neale. jun., Esq., Reigate Samuel Relf, Esq., Reigate Captain Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Manchester and Direct Rugby Railways John Jackson, Esq., Upper Belgrave-place, Eaton-square Charles Johnson, Esq., Hennerton House, Berke John Keene, Esq., Director of the National Bank of Ireland John Weldale Knollys, Esq., Reading William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloucester•place, Portman-square Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick -square. David Mocatta, Esq., F.S.A., 32, Brunswick-square Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life-office Edward E. Molyneux, Esq., Inner Temple, Director of the Shrews bury and Hereford Railway John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., 80, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park Lewis Poeock, Esq., F.S.A., 29, Montague-street, Russell-square William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman of the Church of England Life Insurance Company John Southgate, Esq., Pebble Coombe, Reigate Thomas Stevenson, Esq., F.S.A., 37, Upper Grosvenor-street, Gros venor-square James Joseph Wheble, Esq., Bulmarsh Court, Reading, Berke John Wheelton, Egg., Meophain Bank, Tunbridge, Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and Leeds and Liverpool Railways William Lecluncre Whitmore, Esq., 17, James-street, Buckingham- . _ gate Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway (With power to add to their number). • ENGINEER—SamueI Hughes, Esq., C.E. SoLlurroxs—Messrs. Richards and Rogers. Reading. ux.ingitain—J . L. Roberts, ESQ. Dorking--Mark Stnallplece, Esq. Reigate—Thomas Hart, Esq. Bracknell—Charles Cave, Esq. Bagshot—John Mears, Esq. KIIIgBIOM—R. F. Bartrop, Esq. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Masterman, Peters, Mildred, and Co. Reading—Messrs. J. and C. Simonds *d Co. Reigate —Messrs. Nash and Neale. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS. - . Hugh /nnes Cameron and George Bain, Esq s ., 18, Parliament-street. sscuirrAit (pro tern )—Digby rowan, Esq. ' Temporary Offices, No. 1, Old Jewry. For particulars see the prospectus and map, which may be obtained at the temporary Offices of the Company, No. 1, Old Jewry, or from the Exeter ecmarch and Withington, Manchester ; Messrs. Solicitors, P ar liamei 3 it f a r r . y c o o r iu L s, oc il a i l ri A ni g n e g n h t an s, or Mr.the following ieiisoll Share brokers :—Messrs. Sutton and Gribble, Excha n ge , ; Mr. Nightingale, Wakefield ; London ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr. J. N. Bans, Gloucester ; Mr. Thomas ; Messrs. Pilians and Home, a h nl e and Stafford, Dublin. B pSooa i n nl g d i r e o 3 rd3 ,., i'e ß sEs ii rs w ie. son, and Bingley, Leeds Messrs. Grayson and Earle, York; Messrs. Flint and Tootal, Hull ; Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby ; Mr. W. J. Eaglesfleld, Leicester; EMdernbrsu'rgjh. I: F ea o eit V a lt 3 ; fd O es F Ssorsn AC LN P aobe L t l tr C it°n A guh T e lON FOR SHARES. 3 '7, , 1 . and f undertake to accept the same, or any less To the Provisional Conunittee nthoe Reading and Reigate Railway the deposit of 21. 2s. shares of 201. each ew C itB o olilmall.e: n t y to . mepay per share,. and all future calls thereon , and to execute the Sub. i i i n u G m tl e i l s e t r i ß e all in Tv scribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract when required. Name in full ............. Profession ........... ••. • • • ... . Residence.... • .... ........... you may appropriate r y lu ou i Reference in ffi11.............- • .. :: :: :: Dated this day of READING AN D REIGATE RAILWAY. Notice Is hereby g iv e n, that NO APPLICATIONS for SILUtES will be R ECEIVED after To-Mo intow (Wednesday), the 24th Inst. By order of the Board, DIGBY FOWELL, Secretary (pro tern.) Offices, 1, Old Jewry, Sept. 23, 1845, PART o f , WISBECH, PETERBOROUGH, and MIDLAND COUNTIES UNION RAILWAY. NGII"' (Provisionally Registered.) .apital, 300,0001., in Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. ss. per Share. No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his subscription. pSOVISIONAL COMMITTEE John Humphery, Esq: M.P., Alderman of the City of London, DI- Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Dire c t or o f Dl rector of the Central Ke nt Railwa y RaStrick's Direct Manchester Railway D. It. Ross, Esq., M.P., Director of the London and Manchester, and South Midland RafiwaYs George Denby Palmer, Esq., magistrate for the county of Norfolk, and borough of Great Grimsby ; Director of the Waveney Valley, anl Great Yarmouth, and the Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby Railways Richard Hammond, Esq., magistrate for the borough of Great Yar mouth, Director of the WAVelley Valley Railway Samuel Palmer, Esq , late Mayor of Great Yarmouth, Director of the Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby Railway John King, Esq„ Director of the Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby Railway. The Rev. 11. R. Fowler. 7, Manchester-square, Director of the London and Nottingham Railway W. A. Campbell, Esq., Director of the Wexford, Waterford, and Va lentia Railway F. Barrette, Esq., Portland-place, London Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton Railway Joseph Uaderwood, Esq., Norwich, and Blackheath Park, Kent, Di rector of the Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury W. S. Potter, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Ambrose Miller, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Cheltenham, and • Gloucester Railway 'Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Northamptom, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway . Frederick White, Egg., R.N., Sheerness, Director of the Metropolitan Junction Railway George Parbury, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury-square, London John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway Capt. Ileathorn, Director of the South Metropolitan Gas Company it. Graff, Esq., 5, Adam's-court, Old Broad-street, London ft, C.;Colmaa, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railway Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway Henry Chator, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Bridgewater and Minehead RailwayW. C. Duppa, Esq., Dire c t or o f th e Canterbury and Dovor Railway 1 William G. Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting, Surrey George It. Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk • 2 William Tulloch Fraser, Esq Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway (With power to add to their number.) BANKERS. London—The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury Wisbeelf —Messrs. Gurney, Peckover, and Co. Lynn—Messrs. Gurney, Cresswell, and Co. ENGINEERS. B. Albano, Esq., M Inst. C.E , and Win. Laxton, Esq., C.E. SOLICITOII—IngIeby Thomas Miller,' Esq., 3, .Ab c hurch-laue, Loin .___ _ bard-street, London. :SECRETARY PRO TEX.—W. 0. J. WOIIR.StOII, ESQ. This line is intended to commence at the Port of Wished), by a junction with the line of railway now forming from Lynn, and pro ceed by Thorney to Peterborough, there uniting with the brands of the London and Birmingham Railway to Northampton, and the Peterborough and Syston b ranc h o f the Midland Counties Rail w ay , forming a throu g h li ne f r ont Yarmout h , Norwich, Dereham, Swat& ham, Lynn, a n d Wisbech, to Northampton, Birm in g ham, Derb y , Nottingham, and th e w h ole of • the nor thern and western parts of England. The entire di s t ance b e i ng com pleted in about 18 miles. The Importance of thi s ra il way , though only 18 miles i n length , . will be at once se en b y an i nspect i on o f the map, when the following points will be self-evident. 1. That the port of Wisbech is the nearest sea-port for Birming- ham, Staffordshire, and the Midland districts of England. ' 2. That this line will open the whole of the manufacturing and mineral districts of the Midland Counties and the Potteries to Wis hed), the nearest port for Belgium, Holland, Germany, and the nor thern States of Europe. 3. That by the f orma ti on o f th i s li ne a direct railway ommunica- Lion will be opened b e t ween th e port of Wisbech , and t he p o r t s of Southampton, Bristol, Gloucester, and Liverpool 4. That this line will unite the Birmingham and Midland Counties system of railway with those of Norfolk, communicating with Nor wich and Yarmouth. Application for shares or prospectuses containing more detailed particulars (which must be in the usual form, and in all cases accom panied by a reference .to a banker or to a member of the Provisional Committee) may be made to the Provisional Committee, at the offices of Mr. I. T. Miller, solicitor to the Company, or the following Sharebrokers :--.3fessrs. Shewell and Son, Tokenhouse•yard ; Messrs. Lyon 2, Birchin-lane, London ; Messrs. Maim and ' Son,. Norwich Messrs. Crtiso and Son, L) nn ; Messrs. Peet and Son , Nottingham ; Mr. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. r. (, Spencer, Halifax; ainl HI, Oar; Calve:4oW, Colcisater, Paul Ferdinand Wiliest, Esq.. Aldernian of the Borough of Man chester harles James Stanley Walker, Esq., Longford House, Stretford, Alderman of Manchester, and Director of the Chester and Man chester Railway Morris Were, Esq., Moorlands, Southampton John Woodcock, Esq., banker, The Elms, ii - iga t, Director of the -- Liverpool and Bury Railway John Yorke, Esq., banker, Thrapson, Northamptonshire (With power to add to their num"). r.) BANKERS. Messrs. Masterman and Co., London. The Union Bank, Manchester . ENGINEER- IN-CRIEF. ACTING ENGINEERS. Messrs. J. B. and E. Birch, Westminster Brackstone Baker, Esq. SOLICITORS. John Bethel], Esq., King William-street, London. Messrs. Joseph and William Heron, and Messrs. Higson and Robins, Manchester That another and a more direct line of railway is necessary between the metropolis and the manufacturing districts around Manchester, is neat , fully admitted, and the question is, which is the best line to be adopted. • The above proposed railway will form the shortest and most di rect route from London to Manchester, and will therefore complete the direct communication with the metropolis at a much less expen diture of capital than by either of the projected London and Man chester lines (Remington's and Ashurst's), the actual distance to be constructed being only 73, instead of 170 to 180 miles. A carefhl preliminary survey has determined the promoters of this railway to adopt nearly a straightline from Rugby toMacclesfleld, s an increased expenditure of 200,0001. or 300,0001. judicially applied in the presentperfected state of civil engineering, and at the reduced cost of the execution of earth works, will prove in the end a far greater real economy, both to'the Company itself in the saving effected in the annual expense of working, and also, what is of more importance, to the country iu general, by accomplishing, at a much less cost, the same end proposed by an entire and distinct line from London to Manchester. These considerations have not been sufficiently kept in view by other parties who have also proposed to make a railway from Rugby to Macclesfield, but who, by deviating from the direct tract to pursue valleys and to avoid the irregularities of the face of the country, obviously lose the advantages proposed by this Company. The Parliamentary decision on the choice of the London and Brighton Railway is a parallel case, the direct line, although presenting more difficulties te,evercome, and involving a greater outlay, having been adopted by - Parliament in preference to the many competing projects, in a more or less sinuous direction, which were at that time supported in the House by very influential parties. Should it be found necessary, arrangements have been made by which additional lines of rails will be laid between Rugby and Lon don on the London and Birmingham Railway, whereby the surplus traffic northwards will be abundantly provided for. This line also possesses the singular advantage of affording the shortest and most direct route from Manchester to Southampton, Gosport, amid Portsmouth, a feature presented by no other proposed railway. By adopting the Rugby and Oxford branch of the Great Western as far as Didcot, and thence the proposed Oxford, Southamp ton, Gosport, and Portsmouth line, the distance from Manchester to Southampton will be twenty-three miles less than by any other route, and, on this account the project has been warmly supported by the Oxibrd, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Company. The deviations from a perfectly straight line between Rugby and Macclesfield to avoid high ranges of hills, ornamental parks, or valuable buildings are very slight, and the line in general offers no engineering difficulties of any magnitude. The towns snore directly interested as a local line are Nuneaton, !Buckley, Atherstone, Market Bosworth, Burton-upon-Trent, Tutbury, Ashbourne, and Leek. The Company has made arrangements with the North London Junction Railway Company, whereby it has secured the use of their siation (of the extent of six acres) in the centre of the City of London, at the bottom of Moorgate-street, which will prove of the utmost importance to this line. Amidst the many railway projects that now occupy the public mind, and involve a vast outlay of capital, It will readily be conceded that a line that will attain such important results at so small an outlay of capital, and the time required for its construction, and without interfering with any existing vested interests, must meet wi general approbation, and at the same time offer a very exeellent Inv tment for capital t T e shareholders in the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Ports mouth, in the London and Birmingham, and in the Manchester and Birmingham Railways, will have a preference in the allotment of the Shares. The deeds will provide that no call shall be made on the share holders beyond the deposit now paid, until the Act of Parliament is obtained, and power will be taken in the Act to allow 41. per cent. interest in all calls. Application for detailed prospectus, maps, and shares, may be made to the Secretary, at the Offices, 78, King William-street, City, London, and at 22, Cross-street, Manchester; and the following sharpbrokers :—Messrs. R. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, 22, North side 'Royal Exchange, London ; George Burnand, Esq., Cornhill; Messrs. Barclay, Allsop, and Co., Royal Exchange ; Messrs. Hough land, and Leese, 51, King,-street, Manchester; John Wills, Esq., Royal Bank -buildings, Liverpool ; Messrs. Wellbeloved full Oastler, Leeds ; Messrs. Edwards and Son, and W. H. Land, Esq., Bristol ; J. It, Lane, Esq., Birmingham; Messrs. Garton and Wright, Shef fteld,; J. G. Kershaw, Esq., Huddersfield ; F. C. Spencer, Esq., Halifax ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Henry Beaumont and Co., Exeter ; R. I'. Lemon, Esq., Bath ; Joseph Clark, Esq., Southampton ; and Messrs. Flint and ootal, Hull. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway Company, via Macclesfield. I request you will allot to me shares of 201. each in the capital of the above-named railway, and I will accept the same, or any less number and pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per Share, and sign .the,Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated the day of Name .•• •• •• • • Address . • • .. • . Profession .•• • • •• • • Reference • .... • • .. 1845. MANCHESTER and RUGBY DIRECT RAILWAY, via MACCLESFIELD. The Provisional Committee beg to announce, that practical Engi neer; of great experience have gone over the proposed Line, and have satisfied the Committee that the country is perfectly practi cable for railway purposes. They have likewise the satisfaction to state, that Contractors or known respectability are willing to execute the Nyhole of the works within the estimate in eighteen months, thus putting the matter of time and money beyond a doubt. 'llll — E - CHESTER AND MANCHESTER - DIRECT RAILWAY. _a Notice is hereby given, that the Parliamentary Contract and Sub scribOrs' Agreement are now lying for execution at the Company's Oftle4, No. 1, Royal Exchange Buildings, London, between the hours of Ten and Five o'clock in the day, when, upon signature of the deed, the Bankei's Receipt will be exchanged for Scrip. By order, A. BARRETT, Secretary. Sett. 12. 1846. ISM WEST COAST RAIL WAT' (Registered Provisionally.) Capital, 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. (No Subscriber to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Mark Blake, Esq., M.P., Ballinafad, Mayo Robert Dillon Browne, Esq., M.P., Glencorrib, Mayo John Patrick Somers, Esq., M.P., Sligo Sir Thomas Bernard Going Dancer, Bart., Molreeny House, Clough- Jordon, county Tipperary, Director of the Galway and Kilkenny Railway The Hon. Geoffry Browne, D.L., Wilton-crescent, London, and Castle a. AIM ....oeusier stairway Michael Gallagher, Esq., Mayor of Sligo JohnNetterville Barron, Esq., Resident Magistrate, Sanders Park, Cork • Owen Edmond Blake, Esq., J.P., Frenchfort, Galway William Butler, Esq., J.P., Bunnahow, Ennis (late High Sheriff of Clare) James F. Burke, Esq., J.P., St. Clarence, Galway Dominick Joseph Burke, Esq. J.P., Greenhill, Mayo Theobald Burke, Esq., J.P., Woodville, Mayo William Campbell, Esq., Sackville-street, and Brighton John parmichael, Esq., T.C., Rivertsca House, Cork, Director of the Cork and Killarney Railway Charles Collins, Esq., Adelaide-place,- Londol-bridge, Director of the Sottthern, Eastern, and Northern Jamaica Railway Thomas Comins, Esq., Ballybrit House, Galway Edward Deane, Esq., J.P., Curragowan, Mayo Lames Dillon, Esq., J.P., Cogue, Mayo John Dunn, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S., L. and D., Drumsna, Leitrim Thomas Edwards, Esq., King William-street, London, Director of the Direct London and Dublin Railway Robert Fiske, Esq., Chepstow, Monmouthshire Robert Graham, Esq., J.P., Dnimgoon, Fermanagh Klein; Grant, Esq., M.D., St. James's-street, Pall-mall, Director of the; Southern, Eastern, and !Northern Jamaica Railway Henry Griftith,"Esq., D.L., J.P., Port Royal, Sligo, Director of the Sligo and Shannox Radway Dean'John Hoare, Esq., Percy-street, Bedford-square Robert Hughes, Esq., Ely House, Wexford, Director of the Provin cial Bank of Ireland John erschner, Esq., Middle Temple William King, Esq., Spring-gardens, and Putney, Surrey John Knox, Esq., J.P., Greenwood Park, Mayo Joseph Myles IPDennell, Esq., J.P., Doocastle, Mayo Capt. Charles Carden Mansergh, Longraigue, Wexford, Director of thoWexford, Waterford, and:Vaientia Railway Capt.. Newton, Bruton-street, and Ltigwardin, Herbs Francis R. O'Grady, Eeq., Tavrane, Vivo Itlcilivrd O'Grady, Esq., Tavrane, Mayo John O'Hara, Esq., Raheen Gort, Treasurer, County Galway Charles Ormsby, Esq., D.L., Cummin, Sligo Robert Dudley Persse, Esq., Galway Michael Perrin, Esq., Galway Rees Price, Esq., M.D., Tyne Hall, Great Ilford, Essex Richard Cowley Polhill, Doi , Brompton, Middlesex Joseph Richardson, Esq., J.P. Summer-hill House, Clones Thoulas Seymour, Esq., J.P., Ballyinore Castle, Ballinasloo Jameis Sexton, Esq., J.P., Limerick S. W, Simcoxes, Esq., Galway Despard Taylor, Esq., Newport, Swords John Walsh, 'Esq , Castlehill, Mayo Captain George Edward Watts, ILN , Langton Grange, Darlington (With power to add to their number.) CoNSULTING ENGiNEEit—Colonel Landmann, R.E., F.A.S., ENGINEER—G. M. Lewis, C.E. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co. Seotland—Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank • Ireland—National Bank and 'Branches Provincial Bank and Branches. STANDING COUNSEL—James stonsoa CLUTOW, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Langley and Mead, Bedford-row, London. William Thomas Kelly, Esq., 16, Mountjoy-square North, Dublin, and Caatlebar, Mayo. • LOCAL AGENTS. Galway—Captain F. O'Shaughneasy Castlebar—Mr. Henry Murphy Sligo—Mr. W. C. Tithe. SzcurrAmr—Henry T. Stuart, Esq. PROSPECTUS. The object of this line of Railway is to complete the chain of coast communication, and form n connexion with lines already established or projected with reasonable hopes of success. It Will eoinmince at'or near the city of Limerick, and taking a nor therly direction, proceed through the counties ofClare, Galway, Mayo, and Sligo, terminating at Sligo, by a junction with the Sligo and Ennis killen Railway, and accommodating on its route the important cities and towns of Limerick, Ennis, Gort, Loughrea, Athenry, Monivea, Tualm, Ballinrobe, Caatlehar, Westport, Foxford, Bettina,- Kilalla, Swineford, Streamstown, and Sligo, which town being connected with the north, east, and south, by the different lines through Enniskillen, London derry, Coleraine, Belfast, Annuli, Newry, Dundalk, Drogheda, Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Valentia, Traloe, and Limerick, the establishment of this line will cause Ire land to present a completeness of locomotive communication wkieli no other country in the world enjoys. The country through which the proposed line travels is most fertile in mineral and agricultural products ; it embraces many extensive coal fields, whose advantages it will extend to all parts of Connaught and Ulster; and intersecting, as it does, so many metropolitan lines of railway, it will develops those advantages iu an equal degree to the province of Leinster. • The lead, iron, marble, and slate works on its route, will be rendered available to the most distant parts of the island, and perhaps not the least advantage, in a national peint of view, will be the establishment of an intercourse between the population of the extreme north and that of the extreme south, as well as placing the trade of, and communication with, Scotland, within the easy reach of all towns of any Importance in Ireland. Added to this the cer tainty that on the completion of the projected southern, eastern, and western lines, the noble natural harbours on the Atlantic shore of Ireland will become the British depots of American traffic, and most probably the established packet stations for postal communication between the two countries, it is impossible to over-rate the value of tlds truly national .projection. The counties which this railway traverses abundantly supply the English markets with cattle, pigs, Sce. This line, communicating with so many ports, will afford the greatest facilities for the shipping of this portion of trade, some idea of the extent of which may be formed from the fact of upwards of five hundred fairs being held annually in its immediate vicinity, among thorn, the fair of Balllnasloe, ac knowledged the greatest for sheep and cattle in the British islands. It has been ascertained that the country presents great engineering facilities for the construction of , a railway, and in communications 'Which have been received from the landowners along the line, the greatest atrxil'tyls manifested for its completion. 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. Power will be applied for in the Act—and in the meantime Is hereby given to the Committee—to alter the capital, IPnecessary; to vary or abandon any part of the line, to make branch lines, or to enter a into arrangem en t s w ith any o th er com p an y or co mpanies ; and nominate Parliamentary then firste contract directorstretant subscribers' The agreement will be ready for sign on payment of the deposits.ature It will be seen t lines, and will thusm in the plan that the railway intersects many main con siderable contribute to, and receive from them a "''' tt in Passen Front the estimates that passenger and merchandise traffic ' per cent. must bo realised on been made, a return of at least 10 Application for shares to m' the eaPttal. Sera in London and Dublin be . made in the usual farm to the Solid-. at the office of the Com a' to the Local Agents ; to the the undermentioned broltePrsny,. ;0, Old Jewry Cl...al Secretary, lane, Conihill ; Mr. D. B. joi !essrs. Martin and lleselti a ; and to ne, Finch thony Laurie, Liverpool; Messrs it Change-alle Y , Cornh Hull ; Mr. Grindrod , Mane . ill Mr. A radY and stanifort An_ ; h, ;Manor - street, Leads ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; e"rs Watson and Co. Plymouth ; Mr. T. Sandford, Exeter; 11 • Messrs. Tyeth and r. Robert All WilLs Messrs. M`Ewen and Ault, Glasgow ; Mr. Willie an, Edinburgh: deen ; Maim. Curtis and Power , Dame-street. Darnt...Gordon, Aber ' X°4 llll l Silika •t Wilou nopsetwiep may 1 14 144, " 1 Jamcs D IRE-CT 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. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street Sir Francis Duglale Astley, Bart., Ever's , - House, Pewsey, Wilts Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 10:5, Pall-mall Frederick Hodgson; Esq., M.P.-for Barnstaple; 3, Carlton Gardens Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London Ralph Neville, Esq M.P. for Windsor, Hill-street, Berkeley-square Charles Barry Ballwin, 31. P. for Totncss, 6, Parliament street Hon. Percy Evans Freka, 3, Ceigrave-square Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Companies Sir John 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 Farncomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin ster Bank, and of the Loudon, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder minster Railway Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wilson-street. Finsbury, Alderman of the City of London Edward Harrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North ampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Itailwa 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:, 33, 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, Loudon Millis Coventry, Esq.,' Whitehart-court, Lombard-street Barnet L. 'Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and George-street, Mansion House John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Boswell Middleton Jolland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Ridiag of Yorkshire Charles Robert Coleman, Eeq., Irongate Wharf William Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the Devon and Cornwall Banking Company Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-eross, Director of the South Midland Railway Martin Stutely, 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 Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Director of the Londonderry and Coleraine and the Londonderry and Ermiskillen Railways John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Insurance Company James 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., Brembelronworks, 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 Solly 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 of the Li censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company I. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company Patrick Fras. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland -place Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minorics, Director of the London and Blackwell Railway Company W. D. Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon Cuthbert Woodstock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton 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, Assistant Tithe Commissioner William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway Company Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London and Blackwell Railway Company Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director Of the St. Katherine's Dock Company William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and Luton Hoo, 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., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail way Company Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London William Congreve Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di reetor.of the Warwickshire and London Railway Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d Light Dragoons Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourue Park, Lewisham, and Trinity square, London Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottiughamshire John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyrts House, near Newbury, Barka Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks Major Kirwan, Great Pulteuey-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. Fras. Bamfylde, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bath Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts , George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming ham Railway Company R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buokingham shire Railway and Wolverton Junction Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton Rev. John Sydenham, Collampton Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Keutisbere, Collumptoa Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton Colonel Henry Duadas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton Wm. H. Holcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman of the Berks Union Banking Company William Halcomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and Dorset Bank Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berks Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Kerle Ilabertleld, Esq., Clifton, Bristol James Troup, Esq., Hastings Leamington, Director of Coventry and Leicester Railway Joseph-Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company. John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and Southampton Railway Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Wigan, end - Manchester and Southampton Railways James Ogden, M.D., Salford Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York and for the borough of - Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley" Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies" John Holford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester C. H. Jones, 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-Hole, Durham Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and Midland Railway Companies Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool Wm. B. Newbery, Esq.. Manchester, Director of the Dudley and Iron Bridge Railway Company a n 3 c hiles f fi t o b ue r rlodyf; andt ih)eiDirector Isle wto nr of C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Swindon 11 Railways Sheffiel d, Manchester Railway Company Wisbeach J B o d ah w nnd in lLv C ath a r 7 it a s i s r ig , dr. E , c3 sq lita . a , eil S hw h igt e a ffi yß. e a l an d ,k , id, D ss i Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office Wm. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Adderley Howard, Efee, Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast Railway Company Captain Bowker, R.N., Devonport H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Di rect Railway Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield reed n. of the East and West of England Railway Company terrace, Sheffield, Vs ictor of the John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and Har- Will iltnyeLcroelneolnshire Junction Railway. i li n fr , - Director of the London and York Isrea g ton a f t E e lyR Marriott, lvw a b e y Ea C s ge o h. p aAi a Lit n , John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool as Eas W t eth Li e n r c ell o4is E hi sg re " Railways William 'Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington Rev. H. A'. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire D Th a ao vi nTi d Price, Esq., Manchester Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways Henry Hubbersty, Req., Hull John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Janetion Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane Henry Sayer, Esq., Commorcial-road, TAinehouse, merchant John Mee Mathew, Es 4., Gray's Inn-square, Assistant Tithe Com miSsloner John Norton, Esq., Moat House, 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. Lefeuvre, Esq., F R.S.,Aiderman and Magistrate ofSouthampton - Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park G. B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Coventry and Leicester Railway Captain Tringham, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield (With power to add to their number). A further list of influential names will shortly appear. Beasxsxs--Messrs. Curies and Co.. Cornhill, London. JOINT SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and 11211, Bow Churchyard, London Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London Messrs. J. V. and J. T. parting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. SECRETARY—Thornss Hosier Saunders, Esq. ASSISTANT - SECRETARY—Charles J. Whalley, Esq. LOCAL AGENTS. At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq. At Troubridze and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and llodway At Bath, .Messrs. Batellelior, Ilarford, and Staunton At Bridgewater, Messrs. (1. 8. and J. It. Poole At Tiverton, T. L. T. Itende.ll, Esq., and J. A. Toms, Esq. At Truro At Penzance At Falmouth The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between London and the Land's End. In tt national point of view such a line is indispensable. With the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from its 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 280 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 it, inverts from 200,0001. to 3,000,0001. per annum. At Bris tol, before the opening of the Greta 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 3Vesteprirsd. Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached Exetdt,Witas 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 Fahnouth must be reached by railway. _ . _ The object of this prospectus is to show that no other line than the present can If timat?ly satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard to this, Its most jmyrtant eutport.“ the natural Paidcet Station of the empire." . • The present project Is distinguished by this—that it is direct: It is Is nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End. The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company having anialga mate4 with this Company, the immense local influence commanded by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company. The Direct Western availing itself of the 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, Fahnouth, St. Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the lately protk,sed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole iistaace s t fr oa7 mereo s mLondon to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles. With resrect tot than thathetralc there ertleva is upper already thu portion of the line it is niiecestt ROYAL NORTH OF SPAIN RAILWAY. The undersigned Directors, in whom the management--of the affairs of this company is now vested, deem it due to the Proprietors to state, that measures are in progress which will put the immediate and prospective advantages of this undertaking to the severest test. Should the result be such as the Directors confidently anticipate, the position of the Shareholders will be materially improved by the co-operation of parties of the highest experience in railway affairs. (Signed) WILLIAM R. COLLETT, Chairman. WILLIAM JACKSON, Deputy Chairman. JOSHUA WALMSLEY. • United Peninsular Railway Offices, Royal Exchange-buildings, 22d Sept. 1'845, THE GREAT NORTHERN and SOUTHERN DIRECT RAILWAY FROM HUDDERSFIELD TO DERBY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 1,500,0001. in 75,000 Shares of 20 7 . each. Deposit V. 2s. per Share, in compliance with the Standing Olden of . . Parliament. RANKERS. London-3fessrs. Masterman and Co. Huddersfield—The West Riding Union Banking Company. ENGINEERS. Consulting Engineer—J. U. Rastrick, Esq. Acting Engineer— SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bature and Clay, and Mr. Robert B. Robinson, Huddersfield LONDON AGENTI. Messrs. Sudlow, Sons, and Torr, 20, Chancery-lane. The object of this Railway is, in conjunction with the intended Huddersfield, Halifax, and Keighley Railway, to connect in the most direct line the important and increasing manufacturing towns of Huddersfield, Halifax, Bradford and Keighley with the Metropolis and South of England, and at the same time complete the intended chain of railway communication from Glasgow and the North, by the shortest and most direct route, with London, and from the south to Glasgow and other parts of Scotland. It is intended to commence by ajunction with the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway (for which an Act of Parliament has already been obtained), at or near Hohnfrith, and to proceed from thence through the lastmentioned place to Woodhead, and across the Manchester and Sheffield Railway there, thence to or near Athersage, Nether Padley; Froggatt, Bubnell, Bakewell, Matlock, Cromford, and to follow the course of the River Dement to its junction with the North Midland Station near to Ambergate, and from thence to Belper or Derby. The line will be about 51 miles long, and the moat direct com munication that can be formed between Glasgow, Carlisle, Settle, Skipton, Colne, Keighley, Halifax, Huddersfield (by means of the pro jected Railway), and the counties of Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, Northampton, Bedford, and London. It will open the extensive and celebrated stone quarries and coal mines of West Yorkshire, and afford an inexhaustible supply of coal and stone to the midland and southern counties, and at the same time open fresh markets for the products of the celebrated I)erby shire mines, the cost of which, from the increased facilities of direct transit to be afforded by this Railway will be materially lessened, and at the same time the markets of the manufacturing towns of West Yorkshire will be rendered infinitely more accessible for the corn, wool, cheese, and other productions of the extensive and fertile agri cultural districts of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and the south. The present route from Huddersfield to Derby is very circuitous ; It is contemplated that by the intended line a saving of sixteen miles will be effected when compared, with the Manchester and Leeds, and the North Midland. The survey of the Hue has been to a great extent completed, and correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in preparation. There are no engineering difficulties in any part of the llne which have not been repeatedly surmounted in other cases, whilst by far the greater portion of the southern part of the line will be constructed at an unusually small expense. Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at 4/. per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference in the al- lotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the Huddersfield and Sheffield, and Huddersfield, Halifax, and Keighley lines. The names of a large and influential Committee, with a detailed Prospectus, will shortly be published. All communications relative to the Line, as also applications for Shares (in the form below), accompanied by a satisfactory reference, may be made and addressed to the Solicitors, at whose office every necessary Information will be given. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Great Northern and Southern Direct Railway from Huddersfield to Derby. Gentlemen.-1 hereby request that you will allot me Shares of 201. each in the above proposed Railway ; and I hereby undertake to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per Share thereon, or any lesser number of Shares which may be alloted to me.; and I also undertake to exe cute the Parliamentary Contract and the Subscribers' Agreeement when required. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name (In Profession, trade, or occupation • • • • Residence (in full) .......... Place of business (if any) Name of referee ........ Address of referee............. . Date ..... ........ D IRECT LONDON AND EXETER RAIL WAY COMPANY, With Extension to Falmouth and Penzance. Through Hammersmith, Turnham-green, Brentford, Isleworth, Hounslow, Staines, Egham, Bagshot, Ascot, Bracknell, Binfleld, Wokingham, Kingsclere, Andover, and Salisbury ; Shaftesbury, Sherbourne, Yeovil, Crewkerne, Axminster, and Honiton, to Exeter. Capital, 3,000,000/., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 11. 7s. 6d. per Share. With power to raise 1,000,0001, more, if necessary. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vie., c. 110.) OFFICES, No. 52, EG o R inthg EiT the RLOO-PLACE, CountySREGENT-STREET, liE E F T I e W O A fil T c Office, PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the t arl of Mexborough, Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway Lord Henry Loftus, Belgrave-square Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, Bart., Montague-square, and Down-hill, Londonderry The Hon. Cecil J. Lawless, 71, Pall-mall, Director of the Great Man chester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway Colonel Sir Frederick Hankey, G.C.M.G., Queen Ann-street, Caven dish-square, Director of the lonian and Ceylon Banks, and Bor deaux, Toulouse, and Cette Railway J. R. Phillimore, Esq., LL.D., 42, Clarges-street, Chancellor of Salisbury John David Chambers, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Recorder of Salisbury Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street, Director of the County Fire-office, and South and Midlands Railway Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak Park, near Winchester, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway The lion. A. Capel, Theyden House, Essex, and Park-street, Gros venor-square Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square, Director of Man- Southampton, and Oxford Junction, Warwick and Wor cester, Shropshire Mineral, and Grand London and Dublin Ap proximation Railways William Burge, Esq., Q.C., Temple The Rev. Bourchier Wrey Savile, Oakhampton, Devon G. Thompson Jacob, Esq., Blandford, Magistrate, and Deputy-Lieu tenant for Dorset Richard Francis Roberts, Esq., Burton Bradstock - , near Bridport ki. H. nungerford, Esq., Dingley Park, Market Harborough, and Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Leicester and Bedford mammy_ • Richard Francis Power, Esq.. 73, ,Eceleston-square, and Long- Orchard, Tipperary Lieutenant-Colonel P. W. Pedlar, Mutley House, Devon Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., :Marlborough -place, St. John's-wood, Di rector of the Great Eastern and Western, and Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railways Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of th e Oxford, Southampton, an d Portsmouth Railway The Hon. Henry Savile, Dover-street A. W. Hillary, Esq., G 6, Cadogan-place W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the Oxford, South ampton, Gosport,!and Portsmouth Railway George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the London and Holyhead Railway Francis Lloyd, Esq., Temple, London, and Bingley House, Bir mingham William Thomas Davies Lhoyd, Esq., Lhoydiarth, Anglesey E. S. Blundell, Esq., Lower Seymour-street John Allen, Esq., 12, Gloucester-terrace, Kensidgton William Birmingham Costello, Esq., M.D., Wyko House, Brentiord T. Piers Healey, Esq., Elm-court, Temple William Gunston, Esq., Piccadilly - Roxburgh, Esq., 28, Blomfield-road, Maida-hill A. Abrahams, Esq., Member of the Town Council of Southampton William Lowten Jones, Esq., Wood Hall, Hilgay, Norfolk Thomas Champion, Esq., Stoke Wood House, Dorsetehire Captain T. C. Forde, Gracefield, Aslane, Dublin Captain Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, K.C.H., 9, St. James's street, St. James's-park, Di rec t or of the R.N. Australasia, British North America, and the lonian Banks, and Director of the Mutual Life Assurance Company Charles' GoVee, Esq.; City Club J. Lane, Esq:, LL.D., 'King's Bench-walk, Temple, and Koppel. street ' George Waite; Esq., Old Burlington-street, Director of the Chelten ham and Brighton RAllway COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. E. S. Blundell, Esq., 18, Lower Seymour-street Thomas DowglasseEsq., Marlborough-place, St. John's-wood, Direc tor of the Great Eastern and Western, and Manchester and Bir kenhead Continuation Railways George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the London and Holyhead Railway Colonel Sir Frederick Hankey, G.C.M.G., Queen Ann-street, Caven dish-square, Director of the lonian and Ceylon Banks, and Bor deaux, Toulouse, and Cette Railway T. Piers Healey, Esq., Elm-court, Temple A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place H. H. Hungerford, Esq., Dingley Park - , Market Harborough, and Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street, Director of the County Fire-office, and Director of the South and Midlands Railways • W. L. Pope; Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the Oxford, South ampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway Chary William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square, Director of the Manchester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction, Warwick and Worcester, Shropshire Mineral, and Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railways (With limited power to add to their number). ENGINEER —John Braithwaite, Esq., C.E., 4, Trafalgar-square. BANKERS—Messrs. Curries and Co., 29, Cornhill; London and West minster Bank, St. James's-square. SoLrcrroa—D. E. Colombine, Esq., 8, Carlton Chambers, Regent-street. Prespectuses, and plans of the line, with forms of Applications for Shares, may be had at the offices of the Company as above, and of the following Stock and Share-brokers, viz. : Messrs. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, Royal Exchange ; Messrs. Taunton and Bush, Austin Friars, London. Also, Exeter—Henry Matcher; John Langworthy ; Wilkinson and Sons Bath- J. B. Munday Leeds—Potter and Co. ; Kirk and Co. ; Ridadale and Co. Huddersfleld—William Moore and Co. Derby—Eyre and Shaw Hull—Sibary and SiMpson ; Samuel Phillip York—Grayston and Earle Wakefield—henry Dillingham Plymouth—Hopwood and Palmer Cheltenham—Hall Brothers and Cn. Newcastle-on-Tyne—W. W.' Dickinson ; R. F. Bell and Co. Birmingham—W. H. Collis Taunton—Richard Ball Shaftesbury--Raymond and Son Manchester --Myers and Birbeck ; WM. Marshall ; Cardwell! & Sons Norwich—John It. Mann and Son Edinburgh—Muurd and Co; A. W. Moffatt Bristol—Luke Arnold Coventry—John Thomas Holland Gloucester—J. M. Balme Glasgow—Messrs. H. and W. I. Thesis ; James Watson ; Thomas Gray Leicester—Williams and Sunderland Nottingham—Rovrorth and Shepperly Liverpool—Messrs. Sudlow, Brothers Halifax—H. C. Spenser Bradford, Yorkshire—W. Mason ; James Clayton Reading-B, Cowderoy Settle-Joseph Nelson The following 'gentlemen are among those appointed as Local Agents_ in furtherance of the interests of the Company, from whom Prospectuses and applications for Shares may also be obtained ; Egham—Thomas Harvey, Esq. Bagshot—John Mears, Esq. Bracknell—Charles Cave, Esq. Wokingham—Francis Soames, Esq. Salisbury —Henry Cooper, Esq. : Messrs. Foot and Radcliffe Shaftesbury- Messrs, Wills and Burridge Sherborne—George Hancock, Esq. ; Samuel Foot, Esq. Bruton—Messrs. Dyne and Son. Yeovil—George Hancock, 'Eeq. • Crewkerne—Robert Lowman, Esq. Axminster—Walter Hancock, Esq. Blandford—George Moore, Esq. • Dorchester—George Cull, jun., Esq. Bridport—S. 11. Gunimer, Esq. ; Henry B. Fox, Esq- Honiton—lsaac I. Cox, Esq. Lynn —George Platten, Esq. Lyme Regis—N. F. Waring, Esq. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee get e of.Mana nt of the Direet Louden and Exeter Gentlemen,—l request you will allot m llailway - Company. e shares of 251. each in the above railway, and I hereby undertake to except the same or such less number you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations of the Company, also to sign the necessary legal docu ments, and to pay, when required, the deposit thereof of I/. Is.. 6d. per share. Name in full ........... ..... .... ••••••• • • • • • • -• • • Prottssion (if any) and Professional Residence, in_lnll.. Reference and itesidenco in Sill • • ..... • ..... • • • • - • • • . Date..... ..... Signature of Applicant.. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • " ' • ' DIRECT LONDON and EXETER WAY. COMPANY (with Extension •to FAL3IOI7T3I anti PENZANCE.) • • Notice is hereby given, . that no farther Applications for S hares in this undertakiug.W.lll be received.after the 30th inst. By order of the Committee, D. E. COLOMBIRE, EfAltitor, 69, ReipAt-strcet, Sept. Po 18411. THE NORTHERN and SOUTHERN CONNECTING RAILWAY. (Provistonally Registered under 7 and 8 Vict., cap. 110.) Capital 900,0001., in 38 000 Shareanf cc? ..01, bo. Uniting the London and Birmingham,per Great Share. Western, the South Western, the London and Brighton, South-Eastern, and Northern and Eastern Railways, and accommodating, en route, Hertford, Hat field, St. Albans, Watford, Rickmansworth, Uxbridge, West Drayton, Colnbrook, Staines, Eghaw, Chertsey, Weybridge, Leatherhead, Dorking, and Reigate. PROVISIONAL COMMITTE. Major Adair, United Service Club, Pall-mall, E Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of the South Midland, and Birmingham and Liehtield Railways Whliam Ayrton, Esq., Abbey-square, Chester William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter, Staffordshire John Barnes, Esq., Director of the Union Bank, Chorley Wood House, Hertfordshire William Bastow,Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Railway George A. Brown, Esq., 20, Gower-street Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., M.P., Director of the Lancaster and York, Waterford and Kilkenny, and Great Munster Railway Jasper Capper, Esq., Watling-street John Castendeick, Esq., 37, Mincing-lane Walter Chamberlain, Esq., Worcester Jeremiah Clarke, Est., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's London, Manchester, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Wor cester Railways Major John T. Croft, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of the Chester and Manchester Railway, &c. William Croft, Esq., Chertsey, Surrey Thomas Clutterbuck, Esq., Red Hall, Watford Charles John Dimsdale, Esq., Essendon-place, Hertfordshire Thomas Edward Dyson, Esq., Tollpits, Hertfordshire Joseph Graham, Esq., Clapham, Surrey Hastings Green, Esq., Sion House, Kilkenny, Director of the Water ford and Kilkenny Railway Captain Hodges, 65, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the Mauritius Railway, Re. Re. Henry Jennies, Esq., Leeds Swinfen Jervis, Esq., Whitehall-place, and Darlaston Hall, Stafford shire Daniel Turton Johnson, Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of Remington's London and Manchester, the Chester and Manchester Direct, and the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's-wool, Director of the National Bank of Ireland John King, Esq., Glastonbury, and St. John's-wood, London, Direc tor of the Somersetshire Midland Railway William King, Esq., Waterloo-place, Pall anall, London, Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Company George Laishley, Esq., Clarence Lodge, Shirley, Southampton, Direc tor of the Isle of Wight, and of the Oxford, Newbury, Andover, Manchester, and Southampton Junction Railways Daniel William Lucas, Esq., Mark-lane, and Crescent Lodge, Stock well Park Horace William Meteyard, Esq., Director of Remington's London and Manchester, the Chester and Manchester Direct, and the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways Joseph Bostick Massey, Esq., Cottered, Hertfordshire, and 50, Cam bridge-terrace, Hyde Park. Captain Ogle, 44, Eaton-place, Eaton-square, London. Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Upper Hyde Park-street, Director of the Manchester, Liverpool; and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railways, Re. Hillebrant Meredith Parratt, Esq., Magistrate, Effingham House, Surrey William John Palmer, Esq., Moiewood-hill, Bengeo, Hertfordshire Rev. G. B. P. Pollen, Magistrate, Little Bookharn Rectory, Surrey W. H. Ravenhill, Esq., Pedwell House, Worcester s hi re John Rawson, Esq., Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding of York shire, and J.P., Stoney Royd, Halifax, Director of Rosamel's Great North of France Railway, of the Manchester, Liverpool, and Great North of England Union Railway, and the National Bank of Ireland J. B. Shuttieworth, Esq., Eastcheap Edward Scard, Esq., Kew, Surrey, Magistrate, Director of the Toronto and Lake Huron, and Jamaica Railways Julian Skrine, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway William 11. S .vinton, Esq., 49, Moorgate-street, and Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park Thomas Stephens, Esq., 4, Lime-street-square William Tozer, Esq , Bishopsgate-street, Director of the South Staf fordshire Junction Railway Thomas Weedon, Esq., Loudwater Mills, Hertfordshire James Whitchurch, Esq., South Cliff, Netley Abbey (With power to add to their number.) COMMITTEE OP MANAGEMENT. Joint King, Esq. George Laishley, Esq. D. W. Lucas, Esq. H. W. Meteyard, Esq. George Beard, Esq. Major Adair John Anderson, Esq. Jasper Capper, Esq. Jeremiah Clarke, Esq. Joseph Graham, Esq, D. T. Johnson, Esq. FANNERS. Messrs. Rogers, Olding, add Co., 29, Clement's-lane, London The London and County Bank Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, Manchester. ENGINEER—Joseph Gibbs, Esq. LAND AGENT—Layton Cooke, Esq. LAND SURVEYORS. W. T. Buckland, Esq. Messrs. Sanderson and Rydo. LOCAL SOLICITORS. St. Alban's, Herts—Richard Grove Lowe, Esq. Chertsey, Surrey—Richard John Cole, Esq. DOrking, Surrey—Messrs. Hart and Hart. Hartford—Edward Robert Spence, Esq. Uxbridge, Middlesex—Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge. Watford and Rickmansworth—John Sedgwiek, Esq. The object of this undertaking Is to form an unbroken link or communication with all the existing railways, by which means more particularly the Western, Southern, Eastern, South-Eastern, and South-Western parts of the kingdom may be traversed from the Northern Districts, without the necessity of making the metropolis a resting-place either for passengers or goods : and thus obviating considerable expense and great loss of thee. The length of the main line will be 62 miles, commencing at Hert ford, (which has already a branch to the North-Eastern Railway), contin lug its course by Hatfield, St. Alban's, to Watford, where it will cross the London and Birmingham Railway, from thence to Itickmansworth, Uxbridge, and West Drayton, where It will pass under the Great Western Railway, proceeding by Colebrook, (having a braneh to Windsor front the main line at Horton), cross the Thames at Staines, to Egham, Chertsey, passing into the South Western Railway at the Weybridge Station, approaching Cobham, Leather head, Dorking, and terminating at Reigate, where it will form a junction with the South-Eastern and London and Brighton Railways. The great distance front each other of the various termini of rail ways In London, has for a length of time occupied the attention of the legislature and of the interested Companies ; but the great value Of property has been an insuperable obstacle to effecting any improve ment : hence the necessity of a more direct communication from one line to another; and after careful surveys the present plan has been deeined the most efficient to meet every desideratum. For the surveys thus made, and also from a great portion of the levels already taken, there do not appear to be any engineering difficulties. The feature of the country is agricultural ; and it will open a wide field to reciprocal commerce, by exchanging the manufactures of the North with the products of the South , together wills a snore accessi ble mode of obtaining every description of foreign merchandise at reasonable'rates: _ _ _ In Consulting the'best statistical•authorities, and on the informa tion detivable from the only certain mode of obtaining the existing and fluctuating traffic on so novel a feature as this projected railway, a considerable" difficulty has necessarily presented itself in arriving at a MakitnamVf profits, but it •can with certainty be announced that *el the relourcoo of trate from the manufecttuirig diotricto, rect. proeally with the counties through which the railway is Wendel pass, the revenue upon the capital will yield at least 10 per cenri.n As the project developes itself, the most cheering patroic) manifest from influential landowners and other prciprietors de that the formation of this line is indispensable to meet the dem o f: and who have promised to give this project their undivided supPo _PA Government for a length of time have deemed it advls 3ble troops with all their materiel by railways, and the facilitie3 can he thus afforded will form a communicating medium with military depot throughout Great Britain. f ad Suffice it to state that coal, wool, timber, corn, bark, 10 ' 1 '5 t heir every variety of product or manufacture must inevitabb' f se• transit. by this railway, to meet the demands or exigencies _ e „, veral counties hitherto subjected to the impost of incalcul liedde w pcnse and delay attendant on goods at present being 014' pass through London. Soucrroes—Messrs. Miller and Carr, 4%, Eastcheap, London'od Applications for Shares to be made to Messrs. Mil l q Carr, 47, Eastelteap ; and Messrs. Johnson, Tokenhouse-yard ; and to the local solicitors, Messrs. Ilaf fT owei Hart, Dorking ; Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge, Uxbridge ; 6 b ,e's; .loin Cole, Esq., Chertsey ; Richard Grove Lowe, Esq., S.,„ t '" WO' Edward Robert Spence, Esq., Hertford ; John Sedgwick, '"'' Longden Out and ford ; and also to Mr. Crewdson, Liverpool ; Mr. S. Slaterbaries cheater; Messrs. Watson, Tootal, and Barff, Leeds; Mes n ''.. o wden , Bell and Co., Leeds; Mr. J. Wright, Birmingham • Mr. J. Hull ; and Messrs. George Edwards and Son, Bristol. tart` W. JENKINS, Secre Temporary Offices, 47, Eastcheap, London. FOR OF . To the Provisional Commit M tee of the APPLICATION Northern and hen d gout necting Railway. Shares Int 43 A Gentlerrien,—l request you to allot me The deP t 7., above undertaking ; and I hsreby undertake to pa}' 0 i ne, 61 ' upon them or any smaller number that may be allotted a t _ oo fic to execute the Parliamentary contract mkt subscr.bcrs' gr'' when required to do so. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, .• "'. Name in full ....... • • • • " • Business or profession ...• • • ''''''''' : ...• ":, Residence •.•. • . • ... .. •• • • .... "'• • ~ •• " , Date of application ••.••• • • • " ******** T HE NORTHERN AND SOU V— IEIII CONNECTING RAILWAY. ,„ thig• Notice is hereby given, that no Applications for Sharss..:l-o.Lci• Railway will be received from parties resident in London T:y, tn. uity after TIIIIRSDAY, the 25th, and elsewhere after S aTt9. 27th instant. By order of the Committee of Management , ~ „ re tie' W. JENKINS, See Temborary Offices, 47, Eastcheap, Sept. 19, 1845 PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED. ../(1,.k 1i C ORNWALL AND DEVON CE. O J ' RAILWAY, es I° a . From Exeter to Falmouth and Penzance, with brace ri „iog,, moth, Tavistock, Bideford, Barnstaple and St. Austell, fe„ssininj continuation of the London and South Western, L o ndon, °" . 11 jig' and Yeovil, and Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railivar, line from London to Exeter, Falmouth, and PRIM:MCC. , Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251 . each' el Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share, ~ beaSe D (With power to decrease the capital to 2,000,0001., should u`'' be carried out by auxiliary Companies.) i ff, PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. „, a 11 o i The Most Noble the Marquis of Winchester, Amport lie — r o ng l Chairman of the London, Salisbury, and Yeovil RailWa.,Yot The Right Honourable Earl Stanhope, F.R.S., Ch ev ening, ," .1 , The Right Henourapie Lord Vivian, Glynn, Cornwall ats , ori The Right Honourable Lord Arundell, Wardour Castle, toil l''' ,g Provisional Committee of the London, Salisbury, a nd 4 1' way Company „ tile r,c' i f The Right Honourable Lord Bridport, Cricket Lodge, e",, pla'' sional Committee of the London, Salisbury, and Yee" Company in— The Right Hon. Lord Carteret, Ampthill ‘ ,., 5 , Delp The Honourable William Ashley, Stable-yard, St. Ja cols d o, Chairman of the London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Ra ilway , ton 4. The Honourable W. E. Fitzmaurtce, M.P., Chesham-streel:o%ifer on the Provisional Committee of the London, Sallsba l l' p tea° Railway tot Sir William L. S. Trelawney, Bart., Harewood, Lord Lien ~it County of CoEsq . , rnwll C °°°l' Francis Rodd, a Trebartha Hall, High Sheriff a t he Cornwall fr r Sir Joseph Sawle G. Sawle, Bart., Penrice, Cornwall on ths,,,ii• Sir Henry Paul Seale, Bart., Mount Boon, Dartmouth, Eot or P visional Committee of the Dartmouth, Torbay, a nd eta way Compan uft 134 o Sir John Palmer y Bruce Chichester, Bart., of Arlington C t igi General Sir George Anson, G.C.8., 2, Upper Brook-stree ,0001 Sir Warwick H. Tonkin, Teignmouth, on the Provisional nd '-',, of' the Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter Railway CoMPa ... . is s John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Hylands Park C Edward W. W. Pendarves, Esq., M.P. for West CornW.-.n , of Quarter Sessions for Cornwall uar e ' or Dlo out George Moffatt, Esq., M.P., for Dartmouth, 85, Eaton- T . don, on the Provisional Committee of the Dartm AO and Exeter Railway, 1,0 , ,p ll Hamvay Plumridge, Esq., M.P. for Falmouth, Chcster•sge_ ea pc 4e l William Taylor Copeland, Esq., M.P. Lincoln's Inn-flele" , i Q 1 1 1" J. H. Tremaine, Esq., Heligan, St ' Austell, Chairman Lincoln's 1 Sessions for Cornwall „ fa" J. K. Lethbridge, Esq., Tregeare, Launpeston, Chairman.— ° ,r , Sessions for Cornwal,,cvil, O a IP" The Mayor of Exeter, ~ Chairman of the Exeter , . chester Railway Company The Mayor of Launceston The Mayor of I3odmin 11 W i lli Captain T. Vernon Anson, R.N., Lariggan, Penzance soi . or o f W. 11. Arundell, Esq., Trebursye, Cornwall, Magistrate f or CO , Edward Archer, Esq., Trelaske, Launceston, Magistrat e '"' . 00 0 T. R. Avery, Esq., Delabole, Boscastle e fle ° l William Anning, Esq., Walnut House, Exeter, on th coal, ; Committee of the Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester RailwaLso,s,r James Henry Attwood, Esq , Upper Seymour-street , Ve rt 40 Henry C. Benyon Barton, Esq., Ogwill Rouse, Devon ~.... po William Braddon, Esq., Llfton Park, Devon, magistrate for . magistrate ral"s John Braddon, Esq., Tregleith, Cornwall R. G. Bennett, Esq., Tresillian House, Truro, fOf C° John Brendon, Esq., Treniftle Cecil Nicholas Bray, Esq„ Langford-hill J. B. Yarde Buller, Esq., Holne Park, Ashburton Jlli3 S. J. Capper, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge r i rl o° Th William Chadwick, Esq., Montague-square, London , - Jai o i d or Richmond Railway Company , Pr ° John Chapman, Esq. Blackheath Park, London, on ' be ~ COI, Committee of the London, ' Salisbury, and Yeovil Raila's, t so ~s 1 The Chisholm, Chapel-street, Grosvenor-place, London, et, O visional Committee of the London, Salisbury, and V e°' Company F. F. Clossman, Esq., Mincing-lane, London of, ilt Richard Davy, Esq., Redruth, Magistrate for Cornwalll..,,elef, ES Provisional D. P. Davey, Esq., Topsham, Devon, 31agistrate for a o E Provisional Committee of the Dartmouth, T"DaY' Railway Company CI Stephen Davey, Esq., Redruth, Magistrate for Corn -01 Octavius Dunstan, Esq., Lieutenant R.N., Wadebr idg _ e ., Chair l ' Baldwin Fulford, jun., Esq., of G rea t Fulford, Dev w ' of ill the Quarter Session 0 6111° Edward Goldsmid, Esq., 41, Upp er H ar l e y-street, Globe Insurance Company visi l Wale fi‘ Day Le Grice, Esq., Goldsworthy Gurney, E Penzance, Magistrate for Co gsg 1 ., Cornwall. liq., Woodleigh, Launceorotora Edward Gard, Esq., Exeter, on the Provision -- „„ C v ,), Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway COM" Mr. Sergeant Gazelee, Cambridge-square, 1.0 11 " 11 ton 1: Edward Baring Gould, Esq., Lewtrenchard. Xell an11 0 ) 11 , Cutpl4.l.llu I/r...st, Ital. areuctuy, 1347 , 111•14, A.Agirtrate f r ~,- . i E. J. next, Esq., Trebant, Cornwall D. P. Hoblyn, Esq., Colquite, Bodinin, Magistrate for COW"' James Harvey, ram., St. Day J. D. Harris, Esq., of Hayne, Launceston itteo ply , Richard Harvey, Esq., St. Day Colonel Studhohne Hodgson, 63, Welbeck-street H. Hooper, Esq., Penhargard, Bodmin OS u. John Ilooper, Esq., Trequites House, Bodmin f autlit ie Captain Hulme, R.E., Exeter, on the Provisional CO . Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway CompanY t eii _,, Joseph Hodge, Esq., Truro ~u 1 Inas Rev. Thomas Hockin Kingdon, Pyeworthy, Devon, Devon J. S. lago, Esq., Coran Be e" Rev. William HOckin, Endellion Percival Norton Johnson, Esq., Tamar, Smelting Works , 0 0 William Peter Kempe, Esq.. Truro .1. a J. J. Kinloch, Esq„ Gloucester-road, Hyde Park, 1,0,11.0,1 pa. : 1' Provisional Committee of the London, Salisbury , an d tO way Comp no any .. t ee Charles Kelson, Esq., Teignmouth, Magistrate for :, 0,1 v o pe Provisional Committee of the Dartmouth, Torbay' Railway Company John Mastennan, jun., Esq., Banker, London William Michell, Esq., M.D., Bodmin Edward ➢litchell, Esq., Truro Captain Morsheaa, B N., Caistock H. Mallett, Esq., of Ash 4 General Napier, , John Parsons, Esq., Falmouth John Parsons, Esq., R.N., Falmouth wall rio,4 Thomas Pearse, Esq., Launceston, Magistrate of Corn pro Edward Prior, Esq., Berry Bill Villa, Brixkam, on th e Committee of the Dartmouth, Torbay, and r leta O ,IM Company 14° Captain George Probyn, Woodford, Essex, Director of th' Assurance Company Walter Radcliffe, Esq., Warleigh Hall Devon J. H. Peter, Esq., Hariyn, Padstow Rev. Charles Bahl, North Hill, Cornwall Coryndon Rowe, Esq., M D., Launceston . 1 11 ar - William Carpenter Rowe, Esq., 3, L. Ryder-street , S t ' London Rev. N. T. Royce, Dunterton Rectory, Devon 0 tP t Edward Shearm, Esq., Stratton We e Joseph Shephard, Esq., Exeter, on the Provisional COO' Exeter, Yeovil, anti Dorchester Railway Company C. B. Sawle, Esq., Penrice, Magistrate for Cornwall Rev. H. A. kitneoe , Peheale, auneeston M. C. Seton, Esq., Maida-hill, London Captain Spettigue, R.N., Falmouth John Taylor, Esq., 2, Duke-street, Adelphi, London John Taylor, jun., Esq., Cod-du, Mold John Yowler, Esq., Parnacott, Devon, Magistrate for De": 11506 Humphry Willyams, Esq., Carnanton, St. Columb, 0" 0 0/P Cornwall nal C" W. J. Watts, Esq., banker, Teignmouth, on the Provlolo nof tee of the Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter Railway C°lnr George Webber, Esq., Hexworthy House, Cornsfall Rev. George Woollocombe, Stowford Rectory, Devon • ENGINEER—Joseph Locke, Escl• RESJDENT ENGINEER—Mr. Richard Thorn.. SOLICITORS. tlOl Messrs. Bull and Tilly, Falmouth Messrs. Johnston, Farquhar, and Leech, 65, Moorgate - s t— Messrs. Ellicombes and Mr. John DRW, Ex-et er INTERIM SECRETARY—LeWIS Crombie, ESQ. BANKERS. lfessis. Masterman and Co., London bo rne :of Messrs. Willyams, Hodge, and Co., Truro and C4in c ol l o This Company originated at a Public Meeting of the of ~orviott . _ Cornwall, convened by the High Sheriff, in pursuane'o :Soo!: sitlen signed by the Lord Lieutenant and 1,600 ct . Gentry, and Freeholders of the County, held at the in Bodmin, on Thursday, the 28th August, 1845. a pe', The Meeting was held in consequence of the successimt curi a , to by the County, and rejection by Parliament, of the ii re ,:iyelo ° , ) o4 l Railway Bill, and a Bill for making a railway from Its' i d Falmouth, in continuation of the projected South Deli i „reOf f eS, from Exeter to Plymouth, pursuing only a winding en" ~' the i',,o' course along the margin of the Southern Channel, leaving o ar" area of Devonshire, Westof Exeter, and the whole of the Cornwall, The object of t the ofprese Rail nt uway ndertaking accommodatiisoto provide n. -to ,ati yre" system of railway communication for the whole a t ' in tV a peninsula ; and as tile waste of capital and time involvedvo, cuitous route by Bristol is greatly complained of, the lea( dispensable feature of the project will be to obtain the in" ot p, t ote punctual, and economical line, between London, F01 1n° c010.,°,! 1 , 10 ,, Penzance. It was this central line, westward, which OS y o P , t; of the House of Lords, on the Wilts and Somerset Ba",% n atiOijie l ' the present session, obliged the Great Western RailwaY o f Ilh t aro' pledge themselves not to oppose ; and which they sPe a , t tr y r °3 0 10 51 report "as the line which the best interests of the cool' ilia and which must eventually be carried direct to Fa lrnout of tot weste ly r port in the Channel." As far as Exeter ' that project is already in the 1 1 %,1 it, l e " London and SouthWestern"London, Sallsbur), Junction," and the " Yeovil, , Dorchester, and Exeter% a der,wat', With this strong expression from the Legislatur e,nnd 01:0' auspices, it 'may be considered that a continuou s line " id: , leo,%ter il from London, through Salisbury, to Yeovil and Exeter, 1 ,4 e co o; thirty miles shorter than the devious course Vibe gr a' to 0 ,0. Railway, is already morally secured. In order , there , ° a . 11°'0,0 0/ plete the great national project thus suggested by , Lords, it remains only to extend this direct Exeter l': . za nce,9,oi' change of gauge or terminus, direct to Falmouth and re z !„ .o ad°",dolt The saving hi actual distance thus effected between "e%tc1i,.,1 Falmouth, as compared with the Great Western and Ol ga or'i o amounts to more than fifty miles ; whilst the time f t in avoiding the passage of the Hamoaze, to say difficulties involved in that project, was estimated in tlie „ r to - t it quiries before Parliament, as equal to a saving of nettling 4 2 0 0,00 miles more. of VII I !, IV, Bearing in mind, therefore, the geographical position won ii: o d and Penzance, especially the great advantages of the fu r .. N .l o c, sO, a most westernly station for our naval and packet se`.f •, affording a most secure harbour of refuge in the even t ' n iglO' c remembering, too, that this must eventually become tit tics, ID' ~ the Mediterranean, the East and West Indies, and ittn'ws,', portance to the Admiralty and Lloyds of such a direct Iwo pod • a continuous and efficient Electric Telegraph, ca 9 . r . fd over- Th rated. rec er • l ia e central district from Exeter westward has been lijl a voi• so. surveyed, and has been found to afford a main trunk i;aitiek.oase locomotive gradients, attainable without engineering (12 1 ,0 tl ., o o ces' at a reasonable expense ; the general course being Crediton, Bow, Hatherleigh, North Tawton, Okch w ainP` eso'ol o ," ton, Camelford, Bodmin, 'St. Columb, St. Austell K an eSt r izi°' branch), Truro, and Penryn, to Falmouth ;at ton, an roe" line through West Cornwall will diverge to Chaeo"io' Camborne, Hayle (with a branch to St. Ives), tiara Z „ 01 '1 0 zance. . The strong feeling in favour of a central line, evince.,•"Cjorl.l"te: meetings and petitions from every part of the coung erc_n;ao., and West Devon ; the support of noblemen, the u l,0 16 „ mine-owners, and agriculturists, in the recent stregg:„ o ,o ti le o aci°4 rolls and strong assurance of support already receive d : c op' c oi eS " a owners and general interests along the line; an d tlic P o , i t t o rence and co-operation of the associated CoMPanntee, whose members appear in the Provisional Comm, woo,- or doubt of the successful issue of the application whiee „no° . 01 to Parliament in the next session. C 09 0 'ye s d Tile Provisional Committee reserve to themselves 001 making such alterations in the main line, or bran,. entering into such arrangements for the construction fi! , tep ee by auxiliary may be deemed adilliati° magistra s 4 1 1lit bt 50L, 11.0 1T OICCE S TE R AND LEOMINSTER RAILIVAX, via Bronward. (Registered provisionally.) Capital 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. '2s. per Share. PROVISION'AL COMMITTEE. Henry George Ward, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Great Eastern am' Western Railway Company John Barneby, Esq., M.P. ' Brockampton, Bromyard William Barneby, Esq., Clayton Park, Bromyard, Magistrate o, Herefordshire James Best, Esq., Worcester Mr. Edward Bannister, wool-merchant and wool-Manufacturer, Leo rainster William Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, London ' Walker Chamberlayne, Esq., Worcester, Royal Porcelain Mann - , factory George Beauchamp Cole, Esq., Chester-street, Grosvenor-place, D: rector of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Mr. James Coucher, wool-merchant, Worcester Henry Corufoot, Esq., Copthall-court, and Old Palace, Richmoin Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Captain Charles Dutton, Bredenbury-house, Bromyard Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's-wood, Di rector of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Henry Clarke Duppa, Esq., Quarry-house, Boughton, Morchelsea, Kent, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Com pany James Eckley, Esq., Bromyard John Freeman, Esq., Gains, Bromyard, Magistrate of Herefordshire and Worcestershire John Matthew Gutch, Esq., Banker, Worcester, Director of Wor cester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway Mr. Edwin Gardner, corn, hop, and seed merchant, Worcester E. W. Howes, Esq., Bromyard Richard Hemming, Esq., Livington, near Bromyard, and Kingsland, Leominster James Hemming, Esq., Church House, Bromyard Mr. John Hughes, wool merchant, Ciopgate, Worcester Mr. John Hood, merchant and carrier, Worcester Mr. George Hill, of the firm of Messrs. Hill and Turley, Worcester Henry James, Esq., Leominster, Mayor of Leominster John Kempson, Esq., sen., Birchey-fields House, Bromyard John Kempson, jun., Esq., Ifirchey-flelds House, Bromyard John Wheeley Lea, Esq., Vice Chairman of the Severn Navigation Company, Managing Director of the Droitwich Patent Salt Com- pa , iy, and a Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway John Lilly, Esq., Alderman of Worcester, Worcester Royal Porce lain manufactory. Edward Lloyd, Esq., Sheriff of Worcester William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton, Director of the London and Manchester Direct James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction'Railway Arthur Mann, Esq., Woburn-square, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Mr. F. H. Needham, mercnant, Worcester Mr. Powell, wine-merchant, Worcester Mr. James Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Rea and Sons, malsters, Worcester Mr. J. P. Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Rea and Sons, maltaters, Wor• tester Jas. Reeves, Esq., Cheapside and Leyton, Director of the Direct London and Manchester, and Great Manchester and Rugby, and Southampton Railway Companies James Robertson, Esq., Worcester Joseph Sturton, Esq., Munderileld House, Bromyard, and Lincoln's Inn, London. Magistrate of Hereford. James Upflll, Esq., The Green, Bromyard, Director of the Stafford shlre and Shropshire, and Dover and Bristol Railways T. P. P. Wight, Esq., Tedstone Court, Bromyard Philip Warburton, Esq., Bromyard, High Bailiff of Bromyard Philip Warburton, Gent., Bromyard John Walker, Esq., Luisley Court, Bromyard Mr. Wells, Hop-merchant, Worcester Mr. Woodward, Hop-merchant, Worcester John Henry Walsh, Esq., Worcester Mr. James Wall, Merchant and Carrier, Worcester (With power to add to their number.) CMEF ENGINEER—WiIIiam Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S. ASSISTANT ENGINEER—S. F. Griffin, Esq., C.E. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Elmelie and Preston, 47, Moorgate.street, London Henry Foley, Esq., Worcester BANKERS. London—The London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury The Commercial Bank of London. Worcester—Messrs. Farley, Lavendar, and CO. LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. W. and F. Devereaux, Bromyard John Bedford, Esq., Leominster This lino will diverge from the line of the Great Eastern and Western Railway, near Worcester, and proceeding by Brom yard, will end at Leominster, at which point it will unite with the proposed lines connecting Hereford and Shrewsbury with North Wales. The communication by railway between these important towns and the continuous hop and cider districts has been entirely left unprovided for by existing arrangements, and this line is brought forward under the auspices of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company, on the strong representations and request of a large and most influential body of the landed gentry of the neigh bourhood. The object proposed is to make a direct communication between Leominster, Bromyard, and Worcester, which latter town has always bee►► the natural market for the produce of these districts, and to af ford tile inhabitants the most direct communication with London, as compared with other lines, by upwards of 30 miles. No person will be liable for more than his deposit till the act is ob tained, and power will be applied for to allow interest at O. per cent. on all calls from the time of their respective payments, as well as to limit the liability of the shareholders to the amount of their subscrip tions. Applications for Shares, in the ann^xed form, to be made to the Provisional Committee, at the Office, 5, Gresham-street, London, or Messrs. John Shewell and Son, sharebrokers, Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, 4, Bank-buildings, and Mr. John Smith, 3, Shorter's-court, London ; Mr. John Duncuft, sharebroker, Manchester; Mr. John O'Neil, sharebroker, Manchester ; Messrs. Schultz and Carr, sharebrokers, and Messrs. Reynolds and Son, Liverpool ; Messrs. 11. and C. Beardshaw, sharebrokers, Leeds ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, sharebrokers, Bristol ; Mr. James Pearson, sharebroker, Bir mingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., sharebrokers, Brad ford ; Mr. William Miles, sharebroker, Worcester ; Mr. Robert Allan, sharebroker, Edinburgh ; Mr. William Gordon, sharebroker, Aber deen; Messrs. Black and Co., sharebrokers, Buchan-street, Glasgow; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, sharebrokers, Glasgow; and Messrs. Bruce and Symes, sharebrokers, Dublin ; of whom prospectuses may be had. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and • Leominster Railway. Gentlemen,---I request that you will allot to me shares of 20/. each in the above railway; and I hereby undertake to accept the same or any less number you may allot me, and to pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per share thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of September, 1845. Name in full •• ••••• •• • • • • Place of business or profession • •••• • • • • Business or profession ..... ........ ..... Signature ....... Name, residence, and profession of referee.. Witness ,~,