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EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. (Cambridge Line.) NORFOLK and NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL. Tickets for First and Second Class Carriages will be issued from London and Cambridge to Norwich and back, at a Fare and a Half, from Monday the 15th, to Saturday the 20th instant, returnable without Extra Charge on_the above, or either of the intervening days. Eastern Counties Railway Offices, Sept. 8, 1843, _ . THE LEEDS, HITDDEB,SFEELD, SHEF YIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE or W9LTERHAMPTON, and D UDLEY DIRECT RAILWAY.LEEDS, (Provisionally Registered). Capital 1,700,0001., , 21. 2s oo . pin 85,0 er Share Shares of 201. each. Deposit . 7TIOTISIONAL cosiairrree. The Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Staffordshire Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street, Hyde-park Gardens Sir George William Prescott, B a rt.. Theobalds, Deputy Chairman of Derbyshire, itaffordahlre, and Worcesterahire Junction Railway Sir William bloothby, Bart, Aehbourne-ha Derbyshire Sir William Lowthorp, Knt., Hull and Alga-house Scarborough, Di reler the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire June tiri Railway Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, Ashburham House, Chairman of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway The Sheriff of York Arnold, "lisps Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's London and Manche Railway Bright, Seim, Esq., Buxton Blurton, Robert, Esq., banker, Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter Direc tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Bradley, Septimus, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derby-hire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction -Railway Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashbourne Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reining toll's London and 3lenchester Direct Railway Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon don and Manchester Railway Cooke, the Rev. J., Uttoxeter, Director of the East and Weet Junction Railway, &c. Cooper, John Douglas, Esq., Milne Cottage, Ashbourne Cox, Walker, Esq., Breads all, Derby, Director of the Tean and Dove Talley Railway Crockett, T. Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestcrshi'c Junction Railway Crossley, John, Esq., Lamiserhurst, Sussex, and Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Dalby, Join, Robert , Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Dale, Major, Thurston, Ashbourne Daniel, Richard, Esq., Oak Hill, Stoke-upon-Trent Dawson, Samuel, Esq., sen., Ashbourne Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Railway Edensor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbonrne Fidler, i'oter Pichott, Esq., Higgin Grange, Derbyshire Fisher, Thomas, Esq.,, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Raifway Garbo, Samuel, Esq., Uttoxeter Garle, William, Esq. Uttoxeter Gilpin, and Co., Messrs. William, Wedges Mills, Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Haden, Joseph, Esq., Dudley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of the Lei cester and Birmingham Railway Hartshorne, Robert James, Esq., Ashbourne Hatfield, Thomas, Egg., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, See. Hill, John, Esq., Derby Jones, the Rev. J. P., 'Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Johnson, John Goodwin, Esq., Bentley Hall Aslibourne Johnson, D. T., Esq., Aidermary Churchyard, Director of the Ches ter and Manchester Railway Johnson, Richard Wm., Esq., Moorgate, Director of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Keene, John Joseph, Esq.„ St. John's Wood, Regen'ts Park, Director of the National Bank of Ireland, &c. King, William, Esq., W a t er l oo -place, Director of the Freemas on's Life Assn/ince, & c. Larrence, chard Corbett, Esq., Wandfield-hall, Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Leseetter, James, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lea, John Wheelcy, Esq., Worcester, Vice•Chaireaan of the Severn Commission, &e. Leneert, Richard, Esq., Lyston Hail, Sudbury Meteyarti, Horace, Win.. Esq., Director of Remington's London and Manchester Railway, Middle Temple, and Chatham-place M'Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Manors, John, Esq. Rugeley, Director of the D er byshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway "Jenard, James, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Minors, John, Esq., The Parks, Uttoxeter, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Mountford, Thomas John, Esq., Ashbourne Mathew, John Mee, Req., Assistant Tithe Commissioner, Director of the East and West Junction Railway, &c. Milner, William, Esq., lean, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire Junction Railway Marton, Joseph, Esq., Walsall, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Maskers - , Thomas, Esq. Norbury, Derbyshire Orton, James, Esq., Wo o dford, near Uttoxeter , Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Parkinson, John, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Ilyde-park,Rai Dl i- rec:or of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham way, Sec. Pulteney, Douglas, Kinnaird , Capt., Parl i ame nt-street, London, Di rector of the Nottingham and Boston Railway Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield Ilouse, Uttoxeter. Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, ilcoates Cottage t , Wake and W'orcesershire field Junction Railway Robinson, John, Esq., S Sant, Edward, Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropton, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway Smith, Charles, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Smith, Thomas, Esq., Blore-hall, Staffordehire, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, William, Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire, Directo r of the Derby shins, Staffordshire Railway, &c. Smith, William, Esq:, Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of Tean and Dove Valley Railway Smith, John, Esq., Barton House, Derbyshire Smythe, John Vere, Esq., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Spiers, E. J., Esq., Carlton Villas, London, Director of the East and West Junction Railway Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle As surance Company Terry, Benjamin, Esq., Mayor of Walsall, Director of the Derby shire Railway, &c. Tomlinson, Thomas, Esq., Bradley Pastures, Ashbourne Toogood, Rupert, Esq., Ashbourne Tylecote, Edward, Esq., Great Heywood, Staffordshire Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-Place, Holloway, London, Director of the East and West Junction Railway, &c. Waller, Major, KAI., St. James's -square, Director of the Chester and Manchester Railway, Sec, Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire Walters, J. T., Esq., Rugeley Weston, Thomas, Esq., Teen, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, St a ffordshire, ands orces t e rshire Junction Railway Wise, Thomas, Esq., slnie Witham, John, Esq., Ashbourne Woolrich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood, Charles, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf ford sh ce, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood William, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc tion Railway Wood, William Hurd, Esq., Ashbourne Wright, Thomas. Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsbo rough Railway COVENTRY, NUNEATON, BIRMINGHAM, • AND LEICESTER RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 840,0001., in Shares of 251. each. This Railway will connect Leicester, Birmingham, and Coventry, by the nearest practicable route; and was provisionally registered and capital subscribed long before any other scheme was projected for supplying railway accommodation to the district. COMPARATIVE TABLE OF DISTANCES. Present Proposed Distance distance. distance. saved. Leicester to Birmingham.. • . 49 .... •• .. 37 .. • • 12 Leicester to Coventry ••• • .. 31 .• • • .... 24 .•• • • 7 This line will commence at or near the Wigston station of the Midland Counties Railway, will pass by or near the manufacturing localities of Narborough, Sapcote, Earl Shilton, Burbage, and ;Hinckley, through a district most favourable for engineering purposes, to a junction with the Trent Valley at Nun eaton, thence it continues nearly due west to the Whitacre station of the Birmingham and Derby Railway, and south-west by Bedworth to the Coventry station of the London and Birmingham Company. The line will communicate with the Swanaington Railway either by means of the proposed Broughton Astley branch of the Midlands, or of a separate branch to be formed by this Company ; thereby opening the entire of the Leicestershire coal-field to the counties south-east of Leicester. The Directors, for the last few months, having used their best exertions for the interests of the Company, feel it their duty, now that the surveys, plans, and other arrangements are so far advanced, to acquaint their shareholders with the position and prospects of the undertaking. The Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton line, which received the favourable report of the Board of Trade, and was before Parliament last session, forms part of the present projected plan for connecting Leicester, Coventry, and Birmingham. The Directors have, by personal inspection, accompanied by their engineer, satisfied themselves of the remarkable facilities presented by the district for executing the greater part of the line ; and from careful investigation the Directors have the pleasure of informing the shareholders that this undertaking cannot fail to prove a profitable investment if supported by local traffic only, and with the certainty that a through traffic from the eastern and western lines, combined with the great advantages afforded by the junction with the Trent Valley for the transit of goods to and from Liverpool, Scotland, Ire land, and the United States, its importance cannot be over estimated. From the extent of population accommodated by this railway —from the convenience afforded to the trade and manufactures of the Midland Counties—from the vast mineral resources of the dis tricts traversed, and from its position in regard to other important, established, and projected railways, the Directors feel confident that it will be amply remunerative to the Shareholder, and highly advan tageous to the public. The capital has been subscribed, and the Parliamentary deeds have been executed, and the preliminary survey completed. A list of a new and highly influential local direction, and a map of the line, will be published in a few days. By order, 11. CASSIN, Secretary pro tem. Offices, 3, Church-court, Old Jewry, London, Sept. 10, 1845. Sept. 12. 1845, NOTTINGHAM, MIDLANDS, and TEAN and DOVE VALLEY UNION RAILWAY. pro- This railway Is intended to carry on the eastern branch of the posed Tean and Dove Valley Railway from a point on the Midlands Railways, at or near to Findern, in the county of Derby, to another point on the Midlands Railway, at or near to Sawley, in the same county. The line will not exceed tetimiles in length, and will, with the aid of the Midlands and Tean and Dove Valley Railway, afford a more direct communication between Nottingham and the Eastern Counties and the Staffordshire Potteries, Chester, Liverpool, Birkenhead, and Ireland, than any line either existing or projected. A prospectus, with a list of the Provisional Committee, will be pub lished In a few days. J. and J. RICIIARDSON, Burton-on-Trent,l Solicitors to the G. H. R. COX, Derby, j promoters. Burton. on-Trent, Sept. 13, 1845. a RIDGWATER and MINEHEAD JUNC - A., TION RAILWAY COMPANY, uniting the Bristol and Eng lish Channels, and forming a direct communication between the South of Ireland and Wales, with Bristol and Lo:.don, and also with the South-Eastern and Western Coasts of England, Paris, and the Channel Islands. _ (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 300,0001. in 15,000 shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. Liability expressly limited .to the amount of subscription ; and It is intended to make no further call until the Act of Parliament is obtained. ------. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE, Sir Henry Seale, Bart., Mount Boom, Dartmouth Sir John Hensler, F.R.S., Walton, near Saffron Waldron, Deputy- Lieutenant of the county of Essex Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, near Minehead, Vice-Chairman of the Somerset Quarter Sessions John Halliday, Esq., Chapel Cleeve, near blinchead,Magistrate of the county of Somerset Henry William Chichester, Esq., Rose House, Bampton, Devon R. Beaden Buller, Esq., Nether Stowey, Somerset Edwin Ley, Esq., Penzance, Cornwall The Mayor of the Town and County of Poole Richard Pinney, Esq., shipowner, Poole E. F. Dayrell, Esq., of Lillingstone Dayrell, and 15, Old Cavendish street, London, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq., Pinner's Hall, Broad-street, merchant W. Revell Vigers, Esq., 50, Russell-square, and Alderman's-walk, merchant IV. S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park James Morrison, Esq., 28, St. Mary - at - hill, mercha nt James Colhoun, Esq., 5, Half-moon-street, Piccadilly, and St. Peter's chambers, Cornhill, merchant Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury-square, and St. Bride's-wharf Anthony Mervyn Storey Maakelyne, Esq., Glanusk House, Brecon shire F. W. Green, Esq., shipowner, Cornhill W. F. Beadon, Esq., 11, John-street, Berkeley-square W. Strachan, Esq., Banker, Strand. Office-3, Alderman's-walk, New Broad-street. SOLICITORS. Messrs. 3 Beckett, Son, & Sympson, 7, Golden-square. Mr. Vaughan Prance, Nether Stowey and Bridgwater.. MANAGING DIRRCTORS. E. F. Dayrell, Esq. James Colhoun, E?q. W. R .Vigers, Esq. W. S. Potter, Esq. W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq. Samuel Pocock, Esq. W. F. Beadon, Esq. James Morrison, Esq. F. W. Green, Esq. SECRETARY—Mr. Edward Parrett. BANKERS. Messrs. Strachan and Co. ; and Messrs. Roberts and Co., London. Messrs. Stuckey and Co., Bristol, Bridgwater, and Taunton. Mcs;rs. Badcock, Taunton and Dunster. One of the principal objects this Company has in view, is a great saving of time in the journey from Ireland and South Wales to Bristol and London, by avoiding the tedious and dangerous passage of the Bristol Channel, and at the same time effecting the long sought-for communication between the English and Bristol Channels, all of which will be gained by connecting Minehead with Bridge water by a Railway, and there forming a junction with the railways already opened, and also with those now in actual progress between Bridgwater and the commodious and important port of Poole. The question of an eligible steam packet and post-office station on the Somersetshire coast for Ireland, Wales, and the Westward gene rally, from whence vessels may arrive and depart at all times, with out reference to tide, has for many years past been regarded as one of immense importance to the Government and the public. By making Minehead a post-office station, a saving of twelve hours will be effected in the delivery of letters between Ireland and the whole of the west and south of England ; and no other port on the coast of Somerset (or even on the north of Devon) will be so safe, and sheltered from all the prevailing winds. At Minehead, the proposed railway will run down on a pier, which the largest class steamers may approach, and land and embark pas sengers at ail states of the tide, and again proceed at once into the Western Ocean on their outward voyage. The public is perhaps hardly aware that, even with the present imperfect and ride arrangements for landing passengers at Weston Super-Mare, it is found that passengers from Ireland and the impor tant ports of the south of Wales save several hours by landing at that place ; where" by the proposed pier and railway from Minehead, passengers would save generally twelve hours, and very often a great deal more, on their journey to London, avoiding, besides, the dangers of the Bristol Channel. It Is not among the least striking features of this project that it foams part of a grand scheme for shortening the communication between Ireland and Wales with Jersey, Guernsey, Paris, and the Continent generally, as passengers landed at Minehead will proceed by this railway to others now in progress via Teovil and Dorchester to Poole, from which port the distance to Cherbourg is only sixty miles, thus rendering the distance from Minehead to Cherbourg easily performed in eight hours and a half; and from Cherbourg a railway is now in course of formation to Paris. The distance also to the Channel Islands is reduced in the same proportion. A powerful com pany, fully alive to the advantages of this mode of transit in prefe rence to the more tedious one via Southampton and Havre, is about to put on a line of packets between the ports of Poole and Cherbourg and the Channel Islands, thus 'shortening the route in point of time by about seventeen hours. This Company, in showing to the public the probable amount of traffic which will flow over their line, beg leave to draw attention to the following extracts, taken from a prospectus of a Company, formed under the auspices of the Chairman of the Grad Western Company, and the leading bankers and merchants of Bristol, for making a pier at, and railway from Portbury, to Bristol, and on which no further comment will be made, save that whatever applies to Portbury, ap plies with infinitely greater force to Minehead, both in the saving of time, dang 1, delay, and expense. " There are at the present time engaged in the trade with South Wales, Somersetshire, Devonshire, Cornwall, Liverpool, and Ireland, twenty-three steam-vessels of the aggregate tonnage of upwards of 6,000 tons, making rather better than fifty voyages, or 100 arrivals and departures per week on an average throughout the year. " The principal part of the traffic of the whole of these vessels con sists of passengers, whilst of their goods traffic an important portion consists of merchandise brought by, and intended for carriage on, the existing railways, from and to places on either side of Bristol. For the conduct of this traffic, every vessel will necessarily require to use the pier and railway on each occasion of departure and arrival, as the most expeditious, convenient, sine economical mode of conveying such traffic to or towards its place of destination. " The number of passengers carried by the existing steam-boats amounts to at least 200,000 per annum ; and when it is considered that the facilities afforded by the pier of starting and arriving at all times of the tide, will enable vessels which now perform but one voyage per diem, or every alternate day, to and from the nearer ports in South Wales, to make such voyages three or four times in the same day, at very trifling, if any, additional cost— th it on the voyages to Swansea, Tenby, and Ilfracombe, they will effect a saving of one-half the time now occupied, and that similar advantages will be derived by the trade with Cornwall and Ireland, it can neither be doubted that the expense of conveyance between Bristol and those places will be considerably reduced, nor that the effect of such re duction, combined with the advantage of greater certainty as to the times of departure and arrival, must have the effect of causing a great increase in the number of passengers. "A large and most valuable portion of the merchandise carried by the Cornish, Welsh, and Irish steam-beats consists of fish, poultry, eggs, vegetables, and other articles of provision ; speed and certainty in the conveyance and delivery of articles of so perishable a nature are obviously essential, and the facilities in this respect afforded by the pier are such as to secure this traffic to the undertaking. " A very considerable revenue will also be derived from the landing and carriage of Live stock brought by the Irish steam boats, which being imported fat and ready to kill, now suffer much injury from the detention of the vessels in Kingroad whilst waiting for tide." Although it is unnecessary to calculate upon the whole of this im portant and justly founded traffic, it is nevertheless impossible to over-estimate the large portion of it that will come over this line, when it is remembered that by the proposed scheme the harbour of Waterford will, by means of powerful steamers, be brought within twelve, and the ports of Dublin and Cork within fifteen hours of the terminus at Minehead, by which the danger, inconvenience, and un pleasantness of travelling by night will be altogether avoided. So also must the traffic derived from steam-boats, and on the line itself, be added, which will arise from the immense resort of persons seeking pleasure in the beautiful vicinities of Nether Stowey, Blue Anchor, Minehead, Porlock, Linton, Lyrunouth, and the far-famed Valley of Rocks and adjacent country, so aptly termed the Switzer land of England, and which only require increased facilities to be much more than even at present resorted to ; and so great is the existing traffic that, by the calculations already made, a large reve nue will be derived from this source alone. The present number of cattle sent to Bristol from Ireland alone is upwards of 150,000 head per annum, and it is only reasonable to ex pect that these will be landed at the far nearer port of Minehead, thereby creating a considerable source of revenue. The importance of this railway to the agricultural district of North Somerset is incalculable for disseminating, as manure, In every di rection the celebrated lime of Cannington Park, from which, aad also from the carrying of coal, a large revenue will arise. Memel timber brought Into the port of Poole (the harbour dues of which are very insignificant) can be unshipped, carried across by rail, and re-shipped at Minehead, at a cost of 7s. per ton less in freight, than if carried round the Landsend, exclusive of the great saving in time ; this alone will open a large trade with Wales, as vessels will bring over coals to Minehead, and take back timber, limestone, flour, mine, slates, and copper ore. The blue lias lime-stone of Watcher, so admirably adapted for aquatic banding, will also produce a conskierabl: revenue to this undertaking. The flour and provision trade, at present carried on between the mining districts of South Wales and the coast of Somerset, must ne cessarily flow over this line, and create an important feature in its revenue. Ono of the first effects of the formation of this line will be, that steam communication will be established between Minehead and the following places :—Swansea, Tenby, Milford, Neath, Haverfordwast. Pembroke, and Carmarthen, and with the whole of the South of Ireland ; and this railway, with a suitable station and wharfs, will also afford to Watchet all the advantages of which it is capable as a port. Depots for goods will be erected at the station at Combwitch Reach, where at present all the larger vessels trading to Bridgwater stop ; and it may be mentioned that 130,000 tons of coasting trade come into this port annually, exclusively of 10,000 tons of foreign trade. From the estimates prepared, it Is expected that only a portion of the proposed capital will be required to carry out the objects of this Company. rower will be reserved to allow the shareholders 41. per cent. on the paid-up capital, and also to construct branches from Minehead or Watchet to Wiveliscombe, Porlock, &c., and the extensive iron mines of Sir T. Buckler Lethbridge, Bart., which, with the slate quarries of Sir John Trevylyan, are in active workingwithin seven miles of Mine. head. From this source, as also from the copper mines of Andrew Crosse, Esq., a large revenue must arise. The landowners have been communicated with, and are most anxious for the successful carrying out of the objects of the Com pany ; nor is there reason to expect that auy Parliamentary opposi tion will be offered. The line will be twenty-five miles in length, and no engineering difficulties present themselves. Until an Act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of this Company shall be under the control of the Managing Directors, to whom power is given to allot the Shares, and to apply the ffinds of the Company in pennant of all the expenses incurred in its formation, and in the preparation of the plans and sections to be submitted to Parliament. Power will be applied for in the Act, and in the meantime is hereby given to the Managing Directors as above, to raise any additional capital, to abandon any part of the line, to make branch lines, docks, piers, wharfs, or jetties, or enter into any arrangement with any other Company or Companies, and also to nominate the first Directors of the Company. Applications for Shares, plans, prospectuses, and detailed informa tion, may be made at the Offices of the Company, No. 3, Alderman's ol walk, City, London; at the Offices of the Company'sden-squar e, L Solicitors, ondon m Messrs. a Beckett, Son , and Sympson, 7, o Mr. Vaughan Prance, Nether Stowey and Bridgwater. And of the Local Agents—Mr. William Woodland, solicitor, Taunton ; Mr. N. Pearce, solicitor, Wiviliscombe ; Mr. James Parsons, solicitor, Lang port; Messrs. Stone and Symonds, solicitors, Dorchester ; Mr. Thomas Phippard, solicitor, Wareham; Mr. M. K. Welch, solicitor, Poole ; Mr. Henry Poole, solicitor, Bristol. And of the following Stock and Share Brokers—Messrs. Tucker, Barnett, and Ellis, 11, Blechin-lane ; and Messrs. Huggings and Lang, London; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Mr. John Morcom, Bristol ; Mr. Thomas vans, Bath ; Mr. Charles O'Neil, Manchester ; Messrs. 11. Davies and Co., Liverpool; Messrs. Chantrell and Boys, Leeds; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull ; Messrs. Labertonche and Staf ford, Dublin ; Mr. Lilly, Bridgwater; and Mr. R. Ball, Taunton. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Managing Directors of the Bridgwater and 31Inehead Junc tion Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot mo Shares of 201. each in the above undertaking ; and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or any less number you may allot me, on the terms of the prospectus, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per Share, ett,ll4,lla subscribers' calls thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary contract agreement, and other deeds, when required so to do. Dated the of 1845. Name in full ........ A . ..... ••••••••••••••• Place of business ....... • • • • • •• •• •• •••• •••• •• . O Residence • • Profession or business Usual signature • • • • •• .. ••• ••:'' .. • • Name, Residence, &e., of full • • •• •• •••• EXETER, PORCHES rER, AND WEY MOUTH JUNCTION COAST RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered, pureliant to 7 and 8 Vict., cap. 110.) Capital, 1,250,0001., is 62,500 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. ',tent -General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.11., Montague-place, Mon. tague-square Jacob Bell, Esq., Laugham-place John Carter, Esq., F.R.A.S., Park Lodge, Stockwell • John Carter, Esq., Dorset-place, Portman-square John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-street, Director of the York and Lam caster Railway WI Liam Colfax, Esq., Rax House, Bridport W. S. Cross. Esq., New-court, Temple, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Refinery Newton Crouch, Esq., Southampton-place, London, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway The Hon. Miles Dormer, Hans-place, Sloane-street. Colonel Lothian Sheffield Dickson, Curzon-street, May-fair Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, C. 8., Director of the Bide ford and Tavistock Railway Peter Henry Edlin, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway Francis Ewart, Esq., Brick-court, Temple, Director of the Equity and Law Life Assurance Companies Captain S. N. Fisher. Junior United Service Club, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation Railway Major Fitzgerald, Mount Edgar, Sidmouth John Foster, Esq., Barge-3 ard, Bucklersbury The Rev. 11. Fellowes, J.P., Vicar of Sidbury Theophilus M. Gunn, E‘q., Bridport Captain Sir Andrew Pellett Green, R.N., K.C.H., James-street, Buck ingham-gate, Director of the Bank of Australasia Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, Director of the Treni Valley Continuation Railway W. Newton Harriott, Esq., Odiham, Hants Josiah Reale, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Director of the Chelmsford and Burr Railway Thomas Ileathcock, Esq., The Afermitage, Sidmouth George Price Hill, Esq., Gawanbro House, Hampstead F. B. Hoare, Esq., Lincoln's Inn John Holmes, Esq., Liverpool, and St. James's-street, Westminster, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Michael Elijah Impey, Esq., Duchess-street, Portland-place, and Lawn Cottage, Twickenham Swynfen Jerv;s, Esq., Whitehall-place, and Darlaston Han, Staf fordshire, Director of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway, and of the Bideford and Tavistock Railway Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, and Director of the Wor cester and South Wales Junction Railway, and of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway Richard Kelly, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's, Chairman of the New Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny Railways Siegerich C. Kreeft, Esq., 9, Billiter-square William Ley, Esq., Director of the Reading and Reigate Railway L. Llewellyn, Esq., Ynis Penilwch, and Graig-Avon, Glamorgan shire Robert Henry Lindham Esq., New-street, Dorset - square, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway C. W. Lovesy, jun., Esq., Charlton Kings, Cheltenham William Alexander Long, jun., Esq., Wootton-under -Edge J. 3lee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Direclor of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway Captain Mathews, R.N., Sidmouth Lodge, Sidmouth Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life In surance Company, and Director of the South aud Midland Junc tion Railway Caleb Norris, Esq., Lancaster-place George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, and Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex -gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway Robert Rea, Esq., Exeter, and Cromwell Rock, Waterford John Rawson, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of the West Riding of York shire, and J.P., Stoney Royd, Halifax, Director of Rosamel's Great Northern of France Railway, of the Manchester, Liverpool, and Great North of England Union Railway, and of the National Bank of Ireland Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London. Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway J. Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah lionse, Enfield, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq.. Bryanston-street, Portman-square, Director of the Galway and Belfast Railway .1. Carrington Ridgway, Esq., RoehamPton Lodge, Surrey W. Digby Seymour, Esq., Doughty-street, Mecklenburgh-square William Sloane Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman of the Church of England Life Insurance Company Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby house, Tottenham, Director of the South-Eastern ailway Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq.. Deputy Governor of the Union Bank of London, and Chairman of tile Irish North Midland Railway Henry Savage, Esq.. 31.8., F.R.C.S., Dorset-place, Dorset-square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway John IVheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London and 311ddlesex, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway, and of the Taw Vale Railway Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway (With p )ver to add to their number). CONSULTING ENGINEER—Sir John Macneil, LL. D., F.R.S., M.I.C.E. ENGINEERS. Messrs. Rice and Thomas Hopkins, M.I.C.E. Messrs. Gough and Roumieu. SuavExons—Messrs. Shuttleworth and Sons. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Chauntler and Westwood, 8, Gray's Inn-square Edward Strick, Esq., 10, Doughty-street. SECRETARY—D. Partie, Esq. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Martin, Stones, and Martin, Lombard-street The London and County Bank, Lombard-street Southampton—Messrs. Atherley, Fall, and Atherley Weymouth—Messrs. Mott and Pearce. LOCAL AGENTS. Weymouth—George Arden, Esq. Bridport—E. Nleholetts, Esq. Sidmouth—Edwin Church Everitt, Esq. Exeter—George William Turner, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., Cornhffi, London SOLICITORS. John Owens, Esq., 3.5, Moorgate-street, London William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter ENGINEERS. Sir John Rennie, F.R.S. George Remington, Esq., C.E. LOCAL AGENT*. Armishaw, J., Esq., Rugeley Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley Eggiugton, A. Esq., Lichfield Green, James J.. Esq., Walsall. This line of railway, which is about sixty-five miles in length, is Intended to commence at Uttoxeter (the terminus of the proposed Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway) and to proceed to Sheffield and Huddersfield. It will form a direct com munication between two of the most import tint manufacturing and mining districts in England, viz., South Staffordshire, Huddersfield, and Sheffield, and Rotherham in Yorkshire ; the South Staffordshire portion including Dadley, TrPton,Walsall, Easton, Wednesbury, and Wolverhampton. This line will also open a direct railway communication between Leeds, Huddersfield, aid the West Riding of Yorkshire and Kidder minster, Worcestershire, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton, and Exeter, and with Ludlow, Leominster, llereford, Brecon, Car diff, Neath, Swansea, Llanelly, Caermarthen, Milford Haven, Tish ri" ird, Abcrystwith, and with Porthdynllaen, the future outport for Ireland. And also the most direct communication between Leeds and Southampton. The line will pass nearly along the Uttoxeter and Caldon Canal to a point near Prestwood, in case the canal be purchased by the pro moters of this undertaking. It will proceed through Ellaston and Mayfleid to Ashbourn, thence near Dovedale, Buxton, and Chapel c 1-la-Frith, Woodhead and Hob - Mirth to Huddersfield, where it will j.iin the Huddersfield and eds Railway, and so to Thirst. It will 4 4 ',len asw mines, in additi o those already in work, of lead, coal, iron ore, barytes, and carbo roux and magnesia!' limestone on the route, in addition to forming a direct, speedy, and cheap communica tion between the important towns above mentioned. Arrangements have been made with other companies to run into this line from Sheffield. This company reserves the right to raise additional capital to extend the line to Leeds. Many of the above-mentioned mineral productions are essential to the mining districts of South Staffordshire and Sheffield. The North Staffordshire and Derbyshire Limestone is much superior to that of South Staffordshire in the fluxion of iron (15 cwt. of the former being equal to a ton of the latter), and producing a better quality of ma terial. At present, the mode of transit is very circuitous and expen sive, the line from the Caldon Mines having to go by canal round by Etrtyria, Leek, and the Potteries, to the Dudley and surrounding furnacW, when, by this railway, it would be taken in a straight line to them ; and the Ashbourne, Cromford, Worksworth, and Bakewell country would have an entirely new trade opened to them. The iron stone in the neighbourhood of Sheffield is also becoming very scarce, and great quantities are introduced from Scotland; the same scarcity exists in South Staffordshire; and the route of this line would fur nish a cheep and pod supply, at present not worked, and without a market, both north and south. In addition to these great advan tages, a good local market would be opened along the agricultural and other parts of the district at present very badly supplied with lime and cool, and that of an inferior quality, and by expensive car riage. It is, therefore, next to impossible to calculate the immense traffic which would pour down this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, aed Worcestershire Junction Railway. The calculations which have been made show a very large profit. There are large lead and slate quarries on the line which only want an outlet like the one now contemplated to bring them into full work. The coal is of a superior quality. There are also extensive barytes and paint-works at Ashbourne, Cromford, and other places on the line. The scenery of Derbyshire is the resort of vast numbers of tourists; and iarticular care will be taken, in passing of the line near Dovedale, not to interfere with or change its beautiful and romantic character. The convenience, therefore, which this line will afford must necessarily cause a great infint of passengers, both on business and pleasure. Ironstone is not so abundant in the South as In North Staffordshire, a ,c 1 vast quantities are sent by the tardy, circuitous, and expensive canal company, which this and other liues of railway meeting at Uttoxeter will remedy. The gypsum formation runs from Staffordshire to the Humber, and the demand for this article for building, agricultural, and manufae tering purposes along this line will be great. At the urgent suggestion of some of the most influential inhabi tants of Ashbourne, the Committee have ordered a survey of a junc tion line to connect that town with the Derby, and with the Derby and Gainsborough and Midland Railways The timber from the neighbourhood of the Needwood Forest Banks, Bagots Woods, and Kingston Woods, upwards of 4,000 a-res, chiefly finds its way to the Manchester market by a like objectionable route of tardy anti circuitous canal convey ance ; whereas this line would open a direct, easy, and cheap communication to new markets. The line has been viewed prior to a detailed survey, and there are not more than ordinary engineering difficulties. In consequence of the late Parliamentary decisions, it is intended to make this lino on the broad gauge principle, but the pro moters do not pledge themselves absolutely to do so. Applications for Shares to be made to John Owens, Esq., 35, This railway is Intended to commence at the east part of the city ' of Exeter, neat St. Sidwells, and after passing through Topsham, with a fork at Woodbury by Lympstone to Exmouth, wilt proceed, in an easterly direction, towards Sidmouth, and thence, near Colyton, Beer, Seaton, Axrnouth, Lyme Regis, and Charmouth, to Bridport. At Bridport the line will divide, taking the course direct to Dor chester, to join the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, and the other, passing near Bridport harbour and Abbotsbury to Weymouth. At Exeter, junctions will be formed with the Bristol and Exeter and North Devon Railways, and at Exmouth with the South Devon, by means of their steam ferry, thus makng the most direct route to Plymouth from London. Also at Dorchester and Weymouth it will bo connected with the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, as well as with the Dorchester and Southampton at Dorchester. It will be seen, on reference to the map, that by forming a June tion with the lines of coast railway that have already been con structed or commenced from Exeter westward, and from Dorchester eastward, and by following the coast as nearly as is practicable be tween its termini, this line will effectually complete a railway com munication from Dover to the Land's End, an undertaking in itself of great national importance, and likely to meet with the cordial sup port of the Government. In fixing the course which this Railway will take, it has been the careful consideration of the Promoters to project only such a .Line as will afford the greatest facility of communication to the populous and important towns and fashionable watering places which are situated on and near that part of the Coast which this Railway is particu larly meant to accommodate ; whilst, at the same time, the Agri cultural, Manufacturing, and Commercial Interests of this part of the Kingdom have been equally studied. This Line will also open such additional means of communication to the Port of Weymouth, the large Manufacturing Town and Har bour of Bridport, and the Harbour of Lyme Regis, as must even tually replace them in that high position, when compared with the other Ports of the Kingdom, which they formerly held. The Water ing Places of Exmouth, Budleigh-Salterton, Sidmouth, Charmouth, Lyme-Regis, Weymouth, &c., will be thus thrown open to every part of England and Wales, and accommodated with that facility of ac cess which they alone require to place them on an equal position with other favourite places of resort, for which the picturesque In land and bold Coast-Scenery of Devonshire and Dorsetshire is pre eminently proverbial, and justly entitles them to hold. The following extract from the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the " Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Rail way," made on the 18th of June, 1845, will show the sense enter tained by that body of the importance of a line of railway in the di rection proposed by the present Company :—" In making their re port, the Committee feel it their duty to state that the great diffi culty with them, in deciding on the Bill referred to them, had arisen from the fear they entertained whether, in allowing the Great Western Railway to come down to the sit at Wes - mouth, or even be low Yeovil, they might not be creating a difficulty as to making a railway in the most desirable manner to Falmouth, the most westerly port in the Channel." The great importance of this railway may be further estimated, from a consideration of the fact that the local population which would be benefited by its construction exceeds two hundred thousand persons. And also that Weymouth, which will be one of the termini of the line, is about to become a great National Harbour of Refuge and Packet-station, by the construction of a breakwater in Portland Roads, in accordance with the recommendation of the Government Commissioners, for which purpose a grant was made during the last session of Parliament for commencing the works. The additional population and traffic, which will thus be attracted to this port, will be very considerable. A preliminary survey has been made, and there are no peculiar engineering difficulties. The length of the main line, from Exeter to Dorchester, will be about fifty-two miles; and of the Forks, or exten sions, to Weymouth, and Exmouth, about sixteen miles ; making, in the whole, sixty-eight miles of railway. The sentiments of the landowners are favourable to the construc tion of a railway calculated, as this is, very greatly to benefit their properties, and in the allotment of shares preference will be given to the applications of persons locals - interested. Estimates of the traffic have been careftilly prepared by the pro moters of the line, from which it is evident that an ample re turn will be obtained for the investment of capital in the undertak ing. More detailed traffic tables will, however, be forthwith com piled, as required by the Committees of both Houses of Parliament. The usual power will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at 41. per cent. on the amount of deposit and calls from the passing of the Act until the completion of 'the line, and the liability ef Shareholders will be limited to the amount of their subscriptions. Moorgate-street, London, and William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter ; and to the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Mlles, Worcester ; Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler, Worcester ; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liver pool ; Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Morris Rey nolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield ; Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ; Mr. Thomas Boardman, Black burn ; Mr. George Clark, Bradford ; Mr. William Mason, Eradfoid ; Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham; M e ws. Eyre and Shaw, Derby ; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York; Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield; Mr. James Stokes, Chelten ham ; Mr. Joseph Clark,jun., Southampton ; Messrs, Tate and Nash, Btistol ; Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter ; Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter ; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry ; Messrs, Houghland and Leese, Manchester; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manchester; Messrs. A. Birchen and Co., Manchester; Messrs. T. N. !Indwell and Sons, Sheffield; Mr. W. H. Collis, BirminghamWeater- Huddersfield ; Messrs. ETerard and Co., Huddersfield; burn, Jun, 3lcssrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester; Mr. Nicholson, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ; Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, College-green, Dublin; Mr. Andrew Milligan, Birken head. Applications for copies of the prospectus, and for shares, may be made to the Secretary, at the Company's Offices, 62, Moor gate-street ; to the solicitors and local agents ; also to the fol lowing sharebrokers :—Messrs. 11. and M. Boyd, 4, New Bank buildings, and Messrs. Taunton and Bush, 26, Austin-friar!, Lon don ; Henry Vatcher, Esq., and John Langworthy, Esq., Exeter ; Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Plymouth ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol; Thomas Forsyth, Esq., Liverpool; Henry Benton, Esq., Manchester; Messrs. Rhodes, Leeds; W. H. Collis, Esq., Birming ham; Messrs. Graystone and Earle, York ; William Mason, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire; F. Stamp, Esq., Hull; Thomas Boardman, Esq., Blackburn; Messrs. John Robertson and Co., Edinburgh; Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ; and Messrs. Mewburn and Blakey, Halifax. To the Provisional Commiee of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymout Junction Coast Railway Comp an y . I request that you will apportion me Shares of 2ul. each, in the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway Company ; and I do hereby undertake to accept the same, or any lees number you may allot to me, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share and all future calls thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscri bers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of Name in .. • • • • • • • • • • • Residence • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .. Business or Profession • • • • Place of Business (if any) .. Name, Residence, and rpfeelicalort4uvree l .• FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield and South Staffordshire Direct Railway. Gentlemen, —I request you to allot me Shares of 201. each in the a bove Railway, and I undertake to accept the same or such leas number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations o f the Company, and to sign tho necessary Deeds, and to pay, when required, the De (y thereon of 21. 2s. per Share. Dated Ole Way of , 184 . Name in full ..,........ BRIDGEWATER and MINEHEAD JUNC TION RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that no Application for Shares will be en tertained, unless the same be made in the form prescribed by the Managing Directors ; and the applicants must also refer either to one of the Provisional Committee, or to some person of known respecta bility.—Dated September 12, 184.5. By or ler, Messrs. A'BECKETT, SON, and SYMPSON ; and Mr. 'VAUGHAN PRICE, Solicitors to the Company. Once, 3, Alderman's-walk, OM Broad-street. 1845, Profession and professional residence • • •• Residence in fu11....... Referance,.... 000000 otosettoiteeerea THE SUN, LONDON. SATURDAY EVEN LNG, SEPTEMBER 13, 1845. THE CHESTER AND MANCHES TER DIRECT RAILWAY. 1 Notice is hereby given, that the Parliamentary Contract and Sub scribers' Agreement are now lying for execution at the Company's Office, 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 Banker's Receipt will be exchanged for Scrip. By order, A. BARRETT. Secretary. 11) IRE CT WESTERN RAILWAY (Upon the Broad Gauge), From London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and Bridgewater t espectively. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, V. 151 s. 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 Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, an Gardens Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 10, Eaton-place, London ph Neville, Esq , 31. P. for Winclior, Hill-street, Berkeley-square Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P. for Totness, 6, Parliament-street Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Companies. Sir John 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 Faincomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin ster Bank, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder minster Railway Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, 'Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the City of London Edward Harrisson Banvell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North ampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the gouth Midland Railway Joseph Armitage, Esq., Mlln'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 - sq uare, London, Deputy Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Railvi ay Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe Philip W. Courtnay, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London Millis Coventry, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street Barnet L. 'Philips, Esq., C orn wall-terrace, Regent's Park, and George-street, Mansion louse John Wheelton, Esq., 3leopham 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 Riling of Yorkshire Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf William Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the Devon and Cornwall Banking Company Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director of Railway South Midland ailway 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 Enniskiaen 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., Whitchart-court, Lombard-street, and West Heath House, Er:th, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon street, London H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park George 31`Intosh, 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 J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company Patrick Fres. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, 311nories, Director of the London and ' Blackwell Railway Company W. D. Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon Cutchbert Woodstock, Esq., Grove-road, North-road, North Brixton Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstone-street, Portman square, Director of Tring, Reading, and Basignstoke, the Exe ter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension Railways George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, 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 rector 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., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity square, London Robert Millington, Esq., Ordeal House, Retford, Nottinghamshire John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Berks Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-Place, Bath Edward Cooper, Esq., Stavertoo, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Rev. Chas. Fres. 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. Wootton, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buckingham shire Railway and Wolverton Junction Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton Colonel Henry Dundee Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton Wm. H. lialcOnah, 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, Berke Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Berle Haberfield, Esq., Clifton, Bristol Troup, Esq., Hastings John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director of Coventry and Leicester Railway Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways John Newton 3fappin, 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, and 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., Rushohn 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 Junctkin 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 Isaaq Holmes, Esq., Liverpool Wm. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and Iron Bridge Railway Company C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Company Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways , John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield, Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office Win. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast Railway Company Captain Bowkcr, R.N., Devon Port H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the East and West of England Railway Company John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and liar rowgate Railway Company William Marriott, Esq., Att e r c liff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeac, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway. Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York and East Lincolnshire Railways John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool David Price, Esq., Manchester William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington Rev. Charles Cottle, Rector of Walton, Northamptonshire Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse, merchant John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Assistant Tithe Com missioner John Norton, Esq., Moat House, Brentwood, Essex William John 31`Guire, Esq., Hampton Court John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey W. J. Lefevre, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate of Southampton 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). BANKERS—MCSSYS. Curries and Co., Cornhill, London. JOINT SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London Messrs. Rickards and Walker. 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. SECRETARY—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq. ASSISTANT-SECRETARY--CharleS J. Whalley, Esq. LOCAL SOLICITORS ALREADY APPOINTED. At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq. At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole At Tiverton 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 a national point of view such a line is indispensable. With the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from its position 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 its imports from 200,0001. to 3,000,0001. per annum. At Bris tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased. The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways having already reached Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal mouth by way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by railway. The object of this prospectus is to show that no other line than the present can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard to this, its most important outport—" the natural Packet Station of the empire." The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End. The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company having amalga mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford ing all the accommodation contemplate d 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, Froinc, Shepton Mallet, Wells (from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater), Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two miles than an existing or projected railways between these points, and withot a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (I our 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 proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole distance from London to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles. With respect to the traffic between London and Tiverton, it is needless to say more than that there is already thorough traffic suffi cient to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes tern ; that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton about 32 miles ; that it will traverse rich and populous agricultural PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. T HE BRISTOL, BATH, and BRIDGWATER GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY, Connecting with the Great Western Railway on the one side, and on the other with the Britol and Exeter Railway, the following im portant places—Keynsham, Burnet, Markbury, Stanton Priory, Farnborough, Finsbury, High Littleton, Hallatron, Pennon, Welton, Midsummer, Norton, Radstoke, Kilmersdon, Newberry, Coleford, Elm, Frome, Leigh-upon-Mendip, Stoke-lane, Downside, Shcpton Mallet, Crosscombe, binder, the city of Wells, Coxley, Polsham, Glastonbury, Street, Walton, Ashcot, Higher and Lower Pedwell, Greinton, Shipwick, Catcot, Edgington, Moorlinch, Sutton Mallet, Chedzoy, Dinwear, and Bridgwater. It is proposed that this Grand Junction line should start from near the station of the Great Western Railway at Keynsham, and proceed by Burnet to Marksbury and Farnborough. Thence it will pass on the west side of Finsbury, and go on through the numerous and ex tensive coal works by Radford, Camerton, and Clandown, to Rad stoke. Thence to Kilmerdown, which it will skirt on the western side; and thence through Babiagton to the eastern side of Newberry, from which there will be a branch line to Frome, passing by Elm on the southern side. The main line will hold its course beside the Upper and Lower Vobstcr coal works and Goodeve's coal works, through Melcombe Wood to the southern point of Leigh-upon-Mendip. Thence it will proceed over Long Cross Bottom to the western side of Bodden, and to the eastern side of Shepton Mallet, and the western side of Downshire. Its course thence will be along the western sides of Ham, Crosseombe, and binder, to the southern point of the city of Wells. From this it will hold its'way between Corley and Coxley Ponnd to the western side of Southsay and the eastern s ide ftP sham, and so on to the weste rn side of Glastonbury, where i will cross the North-road. Thence passing Bickworthy Mill, it will skirt on the northern side, Street and Walton, pass Ashcot on the southern side, proceed on the north side of Higher Pedwell between Shipwick and Greinton, and SO on to the northern side of Moorlinch. Thence to the northern side of Sutton Mallet, then over Sutton Moor to Chedzoy, passing over Fowler's Plot, then through Dimwear to the southern side of the Bridgwater station on the Bristol and Exeter Railway, and thence 4panning, the railway into the borough of Bridgwater. The length of the main line will be about forty-three miles ; that of the branch from Newberry to Frome, four miles seven furlongs. The line has been carefully laid down after accurate investiga tions, and it presents no engineering difficulties whatsoever. There will be no tunnel or viaduct, or other costly work, and there will be no heavy cuttings or embankments. The line passes through a fer tile, rich, and populous district, and serves all the principal towns in the county of Somerset, and brings them into connexion with all the regions traversed by the Great Western and the Bristol and Exeter Railways, and with the metropolis. It is so obvious that this Grand Junction Railway must command an immense traffic in passengers, goods, and minerals, that it would be idle to dilate on the subject. A prospectus containing the list of the Provisional Committee, the amount of capital required, the number of shares to be issued, and the names of the officers, will be published in a few days, accompanied by a map of the line and the adjacent country, laid down upon the scale of one inch to a mile. EDWARD LEWIS, 7, Adam-street, Adelphi. r HE YORK, HULL, AND EAST AND WEST YORKSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY, WITH BRANCHES TO GREAT DRIFFIELD, SELBY, AND HORNSEA. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital in Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. ss. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Henry Houldsworth, Esq., Manchester Robert Gill, Esq., Mangled Woodhouse 11. W. Wickham, Esq., Kirkless Hall John Milligan Laws, Esq., Crumpsall Hall, Lance- Directors of the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company. shire Leo Schuster, Esq., Manchester Samuel Brooks, Esq., Manchester John Rhodes Ralph, Esq., Halifax Gcorga Pollard, Esq., Stannay Hull Edward Ackroyd, Esq., Halifax, Peter Fairbairn, Esq., Woodsley House, Leeds Darnton Lupton, Esq., Mayor of Leeds Directors of Charles Hencage Elsley, Esq., Recorder of York the Leeds John Darnton Luccock, Esq., Alderman of Leeds and York Robert Cadman, Esq., Sheepscar Railway. John Towlerton Leather, Esq., Leaventhorpe Hall, Francis Billam, Esq., New Hall, Otley Directors of Joseph St. John Yates, Esq., Manchester the North Jame Foulis, Esq., Trawden House, Colnc Eastern Clifton Wilkinson, Esq., Ceylon Hall, Ripley, Rallwsy. Robert Buchanan, Esq., Pontefract Directors of Ralph Creyke, Esq., Rawcliffe Hall the Wake- James Audus, Esq., Selby, and Headingley, near Leeds field, Ponte- Jeremiah Bourn Faviell, Esq., Featherstone Hall, fract, and Pontefract Goole William Moxon, Esq., Pontefract Railway Edward Harper, Esq., York, Company. Sir Henry Boynton, Bart., Burton Agnes Sir Henry Mervyn Vavasour, Bart., Melbourne Hall John Grimston, Esq., Neswick W. 11. R. Read, Esq., Hayton The Rev. John Blanchard, Middleton The Rev. Win. Blow, Goodmanham, Market Leighton The Rev. George Rudston Read, Sutton-upon - Derwent William Blanshard, Esq., York Mr. Alderman Matterson, York John Bentham, Esq., Clifton, York James Meek, jun., Esq., York W. L. Newman, Esq., York Captain Binstead, Wakefield Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull John Greesham, Esq., Alderman of Hull John Atkinson, Esq., Alderman of Hull William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., Hull Benson Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holdernesa House, Hull John Hall, Esq., Hull John Tall, Esq., Hull William E. Jalland, Esq., Hall George Barkworth, Esq., Hull George Buckton, Esq., Hull Robert Ward Gleadow, Esq., Hull John Petchell, Esq., Hull R. H. Pearson, Esq., Hull Thomas Petchell, Esq., Hull Charles Bamford, Esq., Hull John Alder, Esq., Sutton, Hull Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull William Green, Esq., Hull Thomas Horncastle, Esq., Sutton, hull Robert Kirk, Esq., Hull John Brodrick, Esq., Hull William Priest, Esq., Hull Isaac Whittaker, Esq., Hessle, Hull John Brodrick, jun., Esq., Hull Edward Huberaty, Esq., Hull Henry Francis Lockwood, Esq., Hull John Myers, Esq., mayor of Beverley Smith Wormald, Esq., Tickton Grange, Beverley John Williams, Esq., Beverley Thomas Sandwich, Esq., alderman of Beverley John Muschamp, Esq., alderman of Beverley William Hodgson, Esq., alderman of Beverley Pennock Tigar, Esq., alderman of Beverley Charles Brereton, Esq., alderman of Beverley William Brigham, Esq., Beverley James Baker Bainton, Esq., Beverley William Crosskill, Esq., Ironworks, Beverley James Mould Robinson,!Esq., Mr. Robert Crump, Mr. John Oxley, Mr. John Swatles, Mr. Thomas Stephenson, Mr. Daniel Boyes, Mr. John Robert Clark, Mr. Thomas Beaumont, Mr. William Catterson, Mr. Daniel Hall, Mr. John Duncan Dawson, Mr. Joseph Issott, Mr. Japheth Duncan, Mr. William B. Johnson, Matthias Whitehead, Esq., Selby Weighton John Adams, jun., Esq., Selby Thomas Fisher, Esq., Selby Jonathan Harrison, Esq., PocklingtOn Thomas Johnson, Esq., PockWigton • William Statter, Esq., Wakefield Henry Alcock, Esq., Alma, Skipton John Michael Barstow, Esq., Templethorpe, Leeds, and Nunthorpe, York Barnard Hartley, Esq., Halifax Robert Leighton, Esq., Goodmanham Richard mr jam J es eff i e i rs ohn on es , John Rickaby, Esq., Burlington Quay Thomas Prickett, Esq., Burlington E , Vta " rk M e ar t Ni k " e e t i John Harding, Esq., Burlington Henry Boynton. Esq., Burton Agnes Henry Woodfall, Esq., North Dalton David Anderson, Esq., Drifileld William Christopher Harrison, Esq., B ran d s b ur t on George P. tlarrison, Esq., Gembling T. W. Rivis, Esq., Market Weighton Mr. Caleb Angas, Neswick Mr. Thomas Atkinson, Driffield Mr. James Harrison, jun., Driffield Mr. Robert Ilornby, Wold Home, Driffield Mr. Washington Harrison, Driffield • Mr. William Jarratt, Driftleld Mr. Robert Holtby, Driffield Mr. Richard Botterlll, Garton Field House, Driffield Mr. Thomas Holtby, ROWS., Driffield. COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. John Gresham, Esq. The Rev. William Blow John Atkinson, Esq. Mr. Alderman Matterson John Ball, Esq. Edward Harper, Esq. John Hall, Esq. Peter Fairbairn, Esq. W. B. Carrick, Esq. William Blanshard, Esq. Mr. Alderman Brownlow Francis Billam, Esq. Mr. Alderman Thompson John Williams, Esq. John Milligan Laws, Esq. Pennock Tigar, Esq. Edward Ackroyd, Esq. W. H. Read, Esq. Ralph Creyke, Esq. Jonathan Harrison, Esq. James Audus, Esq. James Harrison, jun., Esq. J. B. Faviell, Esq. Members of the Corporation of Beverley ENGINEERS. John Hawkshaw, Esq. n h Manchester G e orge Leather, Esq. B ANKERS. cYtomarksffhel,rottoankkesin,ganCdomcopß, M y C York, Hull,and Leeds. and London. Messrs. Bower, Hutton, Hall, and Co., Beverley and Driffield. Hull Banking Company, Hull and Beverley. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Leeman and Clark, York and Beverley. Messrs. England'and Shackles, Hull. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS. Messrs. Wright, Smith, aad Shepherd, 15, Golden-square, London LOCAL AGENTS. Henry Powell, Esq., Pocklington. John Foster, Esq., „ eld. Robert Tonge, Esq.,3"" M This Line of Railway is intended to commence at the City of York by a junction with the London and York, and Leeds and York Rail ways, at or near York, and proceed by way of Pocklington, Market Weighton, and Beverley, to the Port of Hull, and there terminate at the extensive East Docks, now in course of construction, thus afford ing the shortest and most direct communication from Newcastle and the whole of the North of England, as well as from Skipton, Colne, Otley, and the northern part of Lancashire to the Port of Hull. It is also Intended to have branches from the main line at some con venient part between the towns of Market Weighton and Pockling ton westward to Selby, and eastwards to Great Driftleld, thus afford ing to a rich and very highly cultivated portion of the East-Riding, the shortest and best line for the transmission of its agricultural pro duce to the markets of Leeds , Wake field, and the consuming dis tricts, and secure the return of coals , lime, and nd mdirection s anures at for a a greasur tly reduced cost. The Committee have also gi rey of the country between Beverley and.the favourite watering places of Hornsea, with a view of giving a branch line through the richest portion of Holderness, and affording to that district a ready, expeditious, and much desired mode of transit. fhe Main Line of Railway from York to Hull will effect a very considerable saving of distance between the two termini, and give railway communication to a very extensive com and valuable district of country at present unprovided with railway accommodation ; it will also open out a direct and expeditious communication for the Dur ham and Newcastle Collieries to the port of Hull, as well as Bever ley, Market-Weighton, and Pocklington, and the several villages on the Line, and by its connexion with the intended Leeds and York, and Lancashire and Yorkshire North-Eastern Railways, give direct railway communication from the whole of North Lancashire to the port of Hull, and the terminus of the Main Line, at the East Docks, will ave a large expenditure, which, without the construction of this Line, must be incurred in the carriage of merchandise across the town. The branch lines to Great Defileld and Selby will also open out an entirely new district of country, and effect an immense saving of distance between Bridlington, Driffield, Market Weighton, Pockling ton, and a great portion of the East-Riding,and the town of Leeds, Wakefield, Manchester, and the manufacturing districts, and by the junction of the Selby branch with the London and York line at Selby, will give the most direct and expeditious communication to London and the south, from a great portion of the East-Riding, while, by its connexion with the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway, it will open out the valuable Knottingsley Lime Quarries to the agri cultural districts in Holderness and the East -Riding. They will also give the shortest and most complete line of communication from Y ork and the whole of the West -Riding to the favourite watering place of Bridlington Quay. The intended branch to Hornse,a will form a very valuable adjunct to the main line, and being the nearest watering place to both Beverley and Hull, will thus be reached by the inhabitants of the former town in a few minutes, and by those of Hull in considerably less than an hour, while this branch will also afford accommodation to the several important villages lying between Beverley and Homsea for general merchandise and agricultural produce. The great advantages which will be thus secured to the whole of the East-Riding, including the Holderness district, are apparent on reference to the Map, and arrangements have been made by which 'this line will be promoted in friendly conjuncon with other im portant railways in the West of Yorkshire and La ti ncashire. The line will have the benefit of a great through as well as local traffic, and the country is admirably adapted for railway communi cation, being nearly on a level the whole distance, and the cost of construction consequently much below the average. To prevent unnecessary trouble to parties at a distance, the public are Informed that the share capital of this Company will be confined exclusively to landowners and persons resident upon the line, or otherwise locally interested, and applications for shares from them must be addressed to the solicitors. York, 10th September, 1845. and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as well from railways now in course of construction as from others pro jected with every chance of success. As to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that the vast :number of merchant vessels continually detained in the Channel by:adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and 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 make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be iestablished between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex -1 tent of midland distri 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, one of the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance in the event of war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet commerce of the kingdom ; It !may not be out of place to quote here the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project of a direct line from London. to Liverpool through the Trent Valley, which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways, he is reported to have said :—" I consider that the com munication between the metropolis and the great outports to be not a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company, it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Fahnouth ; and it may be further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed to interfere with that great national object. The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for wardness, and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par liame :11L. •L is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no engineering ditllcultie,s in any part of the line which have not been repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be constructed at an unusually small expense ; that the undertaking will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways in the kingdom. Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at our pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected with the Direct 'Western district. Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to the solicitors to the Company or to the Secretary. London, September 11, 1845. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you:will allot me shares of 251. each in the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21. 15s. per share thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con tract when required. Dated Name in full • • • • •• ......... Residence.. .• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Trade or Profession • • • • .. •• • • •• • Place of Business (if any) • • • • • • . Referenee• • • ........... .• • • • • • • . 5ignature..............••••. ANCHESTER, SOUTHAMPTON AND POOLE RAILWAY, via CHELTENHAM, CIRENCESTER, MARLBOROUGH, and SALISBURY. (Registered Provisionally.) Capital 1,600,0001. in 64,000 Shares of 211. each. Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. CHALRMAN. Henry Charles Lacy, Esq., Kenyon House, near Manchester John Asliton, Esq., Hyde, Manchester Robert Ashton, Esq., Hyde and Manchester Thomas Neville Abdy, Esq., Albyns, Essex Edward Ackroyd, Esq., Halifax Cowling Ackroyd, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire George Anderton, Esq., Clackheaton, Yorkshire William Bayley, Esq., Lark Hill, Ashton-under-Lyne and Man. cheater William Bird Brodie, Esq., The Close, Salisbury George Watson Buck, Esq., C.E., Ardwick, Manchester John Henry Campbell, Esq., M.P., Eaton, Hampshire William Dougal Christie, Esq., M.P., Eccleston-street, Chester. square, London Robert Cadman, Esq., Sheepscar, Leeds John Chapman, Esq., Blackheath Sir Henry Calder, Bart., Sussex -place, Regent's-park Sir Edward Doughty, Bart., Upton House, Dorset John Davis, Esq., Fisherton, Delamere, Wilts. John Davis, Esq., jun., Salterton, Wilts. Sir Augustus Forster, Bart., Brownsea Castle, Dorsetshire Charles Ingram Ford, Esq., Abbey Field, Sandbach, Cheshire Lot Gardiner, Esq., Manchester Ambrose Hussey, Esq., M.l'., Salisbury John Haigh, Esq., Leeds Henry Hetley, Esq., Bulbridge House, Wilts. Richard Hetley, Esq., The Close, Salisbury Joseph llornby, Esq., Liverpool James Hatton, Esq., Broughton and Manchester Richard Hargrave, Esq., York-place, Leeds David Harrison, Esq., Manchester Charles Hardy, Esq., Low Moor, Yorkshire John Henry Jacob, Esq., The Close, Salisbury Henry Jennins, Esq., York-place, Leeds Henry Garrett Key, Esq„ Tulse Hill Captain John Milligen Laws, R.N., Crumpsall Hall, near Manchester George Ledgard, Esq., Bournemouth and Poole Richard Ledgard, Esq., Poole John Leech, Esq., Staleybridge and Manchester Edward Lacy, Esq., Surgeon, Poole John Laurie, Esq , Charles-street, St. James's-square Stephen Mills, Esq., Elston House, Wiltshire W. J. Pike, Clay Merchant, Wareham, Dorsetshire George Pain, Esq., Salisbury Thomas Carey Willard Pierce, Esq., Manchester - Lieut.-Col. Pollard, Stannary Hall, Yorkshire Edward Dyke Poore, Esq., Figheldean, Wilts Lieut.-Col. Philip Warren Pedler, Nutley House, Devonshire The Hon. Charles F. A. Ponsonby, 31. P., Canford House, Dorsetshire Alexander Powell, Esq., Hurdeott House, Wilts J. Rickman, Esq., Poole T. T. Rogers, Esq., Longflect, Dorsetshire Samuel Salter, Esq., Poole Henry James Stevens, Esq., Poole Isaac Steele, Esq., Poole Robert Slade, Esq., Poole James Slade, Esq., Parkstone, Dorsetshire John Slack, Esq., Manor House, Abbotts Langley, Hertfordshire Henry Seymour, Esq., Hanford House, Dorsetshire Charles Squarey, Esq., Salisbury John Sidebotham, Esq., Kingston Hyde, and Manchester Charles Townend, Esq., Moss-side and Manchester Benjamin Hardwicke Teals, Esq., Leeds William Tinker, Esq , Hyde and Manchester John Teather, Esq., Alstonby, Cumberland Charles Baring Wall, Esq., M.P., Norman Court, Willtsbire Henry Wickham Wickham, Esq., Kirklees Hall, Yorkshire Lamberyn Wickham Wickham, Esq., Kirklees Hall, Yorkshire Samuel Waterhouse, jun., Esq., Halifax. William Walker, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Henry Charles Lacy, Esq, John Leech, Esq. • Robert Ashton, Esq. George Pain, Esq. Ambrose Hussey, Esq. T. C. W. Pierce, Esq. Richard Hetley, Esq. Charles Squarey, Esq. David Harrison, Esq. William Tinker, Esq. John Henry Jacob, Esq. ENGINEER—Joseph Locke, Esq., C.E., F.R.S. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Hodding, Hodding and Townsend, Salisbury. Edmund Taverner, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, London. LOCAL SOLICITORS. Cirencester—Richard Mullins, Esq. Devizes—Henry Gilbert, Esq., and John Hayward, jun., Esq. Poole—Messrs. Parr and Co., and John Durant, Esq. SECRETARY—Captain John Rooper. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith Manchester and Manchester and Liverpool District Liverpool 3 Banking Company Leeds—Leeds Banking Company Salisbury—Messrs. Hetley and Co., Messrs. Brodie and Co., and The Wilts and Dorset Banking Company Poole—Messrs. Ledgard and Co. The great and important object of this undertaking is to cornice by a Railway in the most direct route, and of the least expensive character, the mail and shipping port of Southampton and the port and harbour of Poole, with Manchester, Liverpool, and the counties of Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, and Warwick shire ; in fact, with the whole of the cotton, woollen, salt, pottery, and iron manufacturing and producing districts. It is not necessary in this case to enter into the question of ex pediency or inexpediency of railway communication, the necessity and advantage of such a measure being obvious and fully admitted. This line commencing at Cheltenham, to which point railway com munication from the north already exists, proceeds to Cirencester and Marlborough, and then passing down the peopled and fertile valley of the Avon to Salisbury, meets with the railway now con structing by way of Romsey to Southampton ; thus making the dis tance to Southampton as short as by any other practicable route, and saving the construction of twenty-three miles of railway. From Salisbury it is intended, still pursuing the valley of the Avon, to eontinue the line eighteen miles to a point about three miles west of Ringwood, where, 'meeting the Southampton and Dorchester Line, It communicates with Poole and the country below as far as Dor chester and Weymouth. It is also intended to carry the line from a point on the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, about two miles south of Wimborne, by the shortest route, Ito the town and quay of Poole, entering the town on its northern side. About four miles below Marlborough it is intended to make a branch in the same course as the Kennet and Avon Canal, about eight miles long, to Devizes. It has already been stated, that it is not necessary to enter upon the question of expediency of railway communication with South ampton; but it is proper to state why the line here laid down is pre ferable to that from Marlborough by way of Ludgershall and An dover to that place. The latter is hilly, comparatively barren, and uninhabited, and consequently expensive, with very little local traffic ; and would have to depend in a commensurate degree on the through traffic for support ; it would also be necessary to make a line the whole distance, there being no existing line with which it could unite between Marlborough and Southampton. It is also open to the objection that it runs from Andover to Southampton parallel with and at a short distance ftom the South-Western line of Railway, which must necessarily leave it a very limited amount of traffic as respects that distance, even if it should not expose it to the powerful opposition of that company. On the other hand, this line passing as it does from north to south, through the heart of the county of Wilts, a distance of fifty miles, unites the whole of that county, obtains the traffic now existing between its towns, which is considerable, and affords with the aid of the branch to Devizes and the existing and projected railways, easy access from all parts of Wiltshire to the county town of Salisbury, and also to Devizes, the alternate assize town. Thus far, the greater advantages of this route as regards the line to Southampton only have been spoken of, and important as they ate with reference to the interest of the shareholders, and the accom modation of the country traversed, a further advantage, not only to the shareholders but to the public attained by this project, has yet to be stated. By the formation of eighteen miles of railway between Salisbury and Ringwood, passing by the towns of Downton and Fordingbridge, the port and harbour and the town and county of the town of Poole are brought within the operation of this comprehensive saheme. The harbour of Poole admits vessels up to 400 tons burden; and it has been confidently asserted by practical men, that by a small: outlay improvements might be made to admit ships of the largest size. There are safe and quiet mornings for vessels, with ample quays and warehouses, and the dues and charges are about one-twelfth of the ordinary charges at other ports in England. The existing local traffic alone would, it is calculated, be sufficient to pay the Shareholders a remunerating dividend on the outlay required for making the line from Salisbury to Ringwood. In the item of Potter's Clay alone there are annually shipped for the Potteries upwards of fifty thousand tons, which, after reaching Liverpool, have to be transmitted b 3 inland navigation about sixty miles to reach their destination, at a total cost for carriage of 20s. per ton—every ton of which would unquestionably be forwarded from Poole by this railway. The stone of the Isle of Purbeck, vast quantities of which are used for flagging and building purposes, would find a much more extensive and ready market In the interior of the country, if there were cheaper and more ready and convenient means of trans porting it. The announcement of this project has been hailed with the utmost satisfaction both in the north and throughout every district over which the line passes, as well as by every interest identified with it, or affected by it. Forms of application for Shares, Copies of the Prospectus, and a Map exact y according as to local position with the Index to the Ordnance Survey, and showing the line of Railway, may be obtained from the Secretary at the temporary Offices of the Company, No. Is l , Great George-street, Westminster, and 29, Princess-street, Manchester, from the respective Solicitors of the Company, and from Messt. Sutton and Gribbin, London: Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester; Messrs. Scholes and Horgan, and Richard Dawson, Esq., Liverpool; and Messrs. Ridsdale Myers and Co., Leeds. No application for Shares will be entertained unless accompanied by a reference to one of the Provisional Committee or to a party per sonally known to a member thereof, or to a Banker. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Manchester, Southampton and Poole Railway Company,lB, Great George-street, Westminster. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares in this undertaking, and I agree to accept the same or any part thereof, sub ject to the Provisions of the Subscribers' Agreement, and to execute such Agreement, or any other Agreement, and any Deed or Deeds, and to pay the Deposit when required. Dated this day of September, 1845. Residence O • • • • Profession or Business .. Reformer) . .• With LONDON AND EXETER RAIL' WAY COMPANY, T rier- With Extension to Falmouth and Penzance, through Ilan" ._ smith, Turnham Green, Brentford, Isleworth, Hounslow, Sfir.nc7, Egham, Bagshot, Ascot, Bracknell, Bind('ld, Wokinglunn, Wag; clere, Andover, and Salisbury ; Shaftesbury, Sherbourne, Iroo_l, Crewkerne, Axminster, with Branch to Cranbourne, Blauriforu. Dorchester, Bridport, Axminster, and lloniton, to Exeter each. Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 *hares of 251. 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, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO -VAC -6, Adjoining the County Fire Office. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Theß dilly,igl D - rt i rlelcotnooruorafbtlheetteirEecatrLl oofniZenxabnodro3ufauh,ciDieosvtoerr-ustaiireeNstn, s,Picca- Lord Henry Loftus, Belgrave-square Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, Bart., M e Sir and Down 10111 Sir an J d oh 3 n ran Ke ch y, ester Londonderry Director of Sir George Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, Bart., Direct, Aldermanof LiverpoolL ondo a n n , d D L i e r c e c d to s D r i o r e f c t t 1 riet arisln the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth CoMpanY The llon. Cecil J. Lawless, 71, Pall-mall Ann- street' C "P , Colonel Sir Frederick 11 ankey, G.C.M.G. , Queen „d. ven di s h-square, Director of the lon ian and Ceylon Sonia , a Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette Railway J. R. Phillimore, Esq., LL.D., 42 , Cl ar g es-street, Chancellor of $ bury John David Chambers, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Recorder of Sallsbury. Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Cli ff ord-street, Director o ld' Fire-office, and and Railway Sir County Raymond Jarvis, Fair South Oak Park, Midlands near Winchester, Director 0 the Manchester and Southampton Railway The Hon. A. Capel, Theyden House, Essex, and Park-street, 605- venor-square Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square, and of Ex , _ 4 ' l. 2 Director of Manchester, S outhampton, and Oxford Junction, i',_',,, wick and Worcester, Shropshire Mineral, and Grand Londor NII‘" Dublin Approximation Railways T.ierk G. Thompson Jacob, Esq., Blandford, Magistrate , and Deputy tenant • tenant for Dorset Richard Francis Roberts, Esq., Burton Bradstock, near I3ridport W. F. A. Delano, E.sq., 4, Chatham -place, London, and Bracknell. H. H. llungerford, Esq., Dingley Park, Market Harborough,__j , Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Leicester and Bea''' . F R clearß ailwayc : s l Fr a w n s c o i n s ' Power, ro E s s ve „ nor- , stre c e c t es on_s , Long Of' (I 73 E 1 t quare and chard, Tipperary Lieutenant-Colonel P. W. Pedlar, Maley House, Devon ~ pj.. .- Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-Place, St. John's rector of the Great Eastern and Western, and Manchester v."". Birkenhead Continuation Railways George Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Cornhill of til e Walter Sbairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway Tl.e Honourable Henry Saville, Dover-street A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place ..i Soak. W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the Wow , - ampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park 81 , Francis Lloyd, Esq., Temple, London, and Bingley House, - 'Woo., __A ham William Thomas Davies Lhoyd, Esq., Lhoydiarth, Anglesey E. S. Blundell, Esq. 18, Lower Seymour - street John Allen, Esq., 12, Gloucester-terrace, Kensington vtrent lo°. William Birmingham Costello, Esq., M.D., W y ke House, •••••- COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. George Adam, Esq., White Lion Court, Cornhill E. S. Blundell, Esq. 18, Lower Seymour-street o od Thomas Dowglasse, ' Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's -w .„'d ß 131 1 " tor of the Great Eastern and Western, and Manchester I.' kenhead Continuation Railways George Esq., Milbury-, Regent's ark , we' Colonel Sir Evans, Frederick Mulkey, terrace G.C.M.G., QueenP Ann-stre e !„d Dor dish-square, Director of the lonian and C e y lon Banks, ." 04 deaux, Toulouse, and Cette Railway H . D IL. e l r l. - un str g e e e r t f , or r d i , ccadil Esq l . , y, D p i t i i r g e le c y tor P aorfkihr arLkelectesterarboaurdougolledf-ora of Railway CC .V.' 1 , Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street, -,11'30,11,10% the County Fire-office, and Director of the South and Railways .4* a Plitli -0..0r, W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the f of ampton, Gosport, and Portmouth Railway ~,,,„ tor 0 Walter Shairp, Esq., Silt-sex-gardens, Hyde Park, ~ ,. .- e r oot Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Ra ilwa y and Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square, S f o . 10 11: . Director of Manchester, Southampton, and Oxford June:olio AP wick and Worcester, Mineral, and Grand London an d m proximation Railways , (With limited power to add to their number) . n so , ENGINEER.—John Brathwaite, Esq., C.E., 4, Triaalgair-Pi BANRERS.—Messrs. Curries and Co., 29 , Corniw' 0, Chain SOLICITOR.—D. E. Colombine, Esq., 8, Carlton Ch.-- Regent-street. +toll f ef if oft.. ._ Prospectuses, with plans of the line, and form of aPPu — n t..stre r ' shares, to be had at the offices of the Company, 52, Bege near Waterloo-place, and of the local Solicitors and Stockbrn tett/ • J A I QHROPSHIRE MINERAL RA — T — ro se ' , y forming, in conjunction with other existing and P - ter , ,- lines, a direct communication between Liverpool , M ancha, field, York, and Hull, and Swansea and South Wales. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 700,0001., in 35,000 Shares of 201. Nua l • Deposit, 21. 2s. pere. egil e II (The Deposit is in accordance with the standing Order of 0 of Commons.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE Adams, Mr. Sergeant, Stanhope-place, Hyde-park Baddeley, Thomas Bernard, Esq., Newport, Salop 1 11 ' Barker, Joseph, Esq., Macclesfield g ' Ironmaster, Batson, James, Esq., Great Bridg e, 00 Sta ordshill rector of the South Staffordshire Railway tr ett Beddoes, Thomas, Esq., Cheney Longueville, near Church S i Beamish, Captain, Kensington-square _... COP ° Dialarerd, Wm., Esq., Chairman of the Thames Plate Glass , Bioor, John Esq., Merchant, Tatbury, Suffolk Dia ricbe't Bull, Joseph, , Esq., Snedshill Iron Works, Shropshire ea f OB Burroughs, Captain, Davies-street, Berkeley-square _ mi . o f Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield and London , Dir"- Direct London and Manchester Railway Clemson, John, Esq., Red Bank, Manchester tea' - Cochrane, T. Esq., Ironmaster, Woodside Works, I'Veiverlia°P' - , , Cottam, Rev. G., M.A., Wolverhampton Cox, George, Esq., Wolverhampton Davies, Captain, J.P., Brynglass, Montgomeryshire „ 40 0de ". Davis, Thomas, Esq., Ironmaster, Goldshill, near Ir O. Deakin, Addison, Esq., Eccleshall Downes, Thomas R. C., Esq., Munslow, near Lucilorf Edwards, Edward, Esq., Iron-bridge, Shropshire Evans, Thomas, Esq , Clan, Shropshire Ewbank, Captain, Junior United Service Club fi Eyke, William, Esq., Stanton, Shiffnaii, Shropshire _ _ _ g _..,,,r1(5, Firmstone, John parsons, Staffordshire,lraer, Ilightield Iv 7 cff e : ston, Director of the South Worcester, and '''.. bury Junction ~ Fisher, James, Esq., Ironmaster, Bilston, Staffordshire George, William, Esq., Weston, near Much Wenlock Griffiths, Samuel, Esq.. Wolverhampton Gregory, T. Esq., Ironmaster, Westbromwich, Staffordshir e Hall, Joseph, Esq., Ironmaster, Bloomfield, Tipton, Stafford Holcombe, Charles T., Esq., Valentines, Ilford, Essex, D . the Anglo-Belgian Railway ~ poo f, ; Humphreys, William, Esq., the Rectory, Berrien, Web"' '-, gomeryshire Humphreys, John, Esq., Berrien, Welsh Pool, Montgo neriliV Humphreys, Rev. Thos., Bishop's Castle Jones, Robert, Esq., Strefford, near Church Strettoti _,,„ix Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston Hall, near Sudbury, Su." Law, William, Esq., Woburn-place, Russell-square Leicester, Rev. Charles, J.P., Whitton Hall, Salop Loveridge, Henry, Esq., Wolverhampton 4 ,. f r 0 14 0 . Luckock, the Rev. T. G. M., Parsonage', Great Birr, S" -- rt _t o p Marston, Francis, Esq., J.P., Aston, Hopesay, Salop ~,,,c O. Miller, Ambrose, Esq., Lower Thames-street, Director M ''" ,y, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway „ 4 Ti? Millington, William, Esq., Ironmaster, Sammerhill vg.,•°r'''' Staffordshire IP o .ll' Minton, J. Esq., Cloebury North, Shropshire ',le, • Newemnbe, J. IV., Esq., Upper Gloucester-Place, and La l ' Ironworks, Dawley, Salop ~,,tie, Plowden, William, Esq., Plowden -hall, near Bishop' s " Ot, V • Rotherwas, near Hereford, J.P. , Shrop shire Pl rec Price, Francis Lysons, Esq., William-street, BlackfriarS, to , , the Chartered Gas Light and Coke Company ife4l) Pulteney, Captain Douglas Kinnaird , Parliament-street, the Direct London and Manchester Railway Ridge, Joseph Charles, Esq., merchant, Manchester tof Rigg, Charles M., Esq., York-place, Portman-square treo,, o , , Riley, W. T. Esq., Ironmaster , Millfield Works, Bilston,_-` sp the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worc estershire Juncto' , .AC ~4 Ryton .William, Esq., Wolverhampton nale°'' P' Shaw, William, Esq., Managing D irector of the Royal , c od cud Life Assurance Company ; Director of the Londou:4 • mingham Extension, and Warwic k and Worcester Belli Simms, William, Esq., Snedshill Ironworks, Shiffnal W ick Sllvester and Jackson, Messrs., Ironmasters, West Bran' e yi Slade, the Rev. IL R., D.D., Wolverhampton AN Du SMalman, John, Esq., J.P., Quatford Castle, Bridgro— of the Worcester and Crewe Railway Spicer, Charles W., Esq , Portman-square Summers, Thomas, Esq., Much Wenlock Swift, Henry, Esq., Eccleshall and Wootton Swift, George, Esq., Elford-hill, Eccleshall Thacker, Robert, F,sq., Wolverhampton Tildesley, James, Esq., Merchant, Willenhall, StaffordshLr° Tudor, Samuel, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Hull, v . the Derby, Stafford, and Uttoxeter Railway Turner, Henry, Esq., Brewood Hall, Staffordshire Underhill, George Lees, Esq., Ironmaster, WolverhamP t . Wainwright, Richard, Esq., Stanway Court, Church Stret—,e Webster, Frank D. Bullock, Esq., Director of t he Nev' J. pany, Brentbridge'llouse, Hendon, Middlesex Wells, Thos., Esq., Ironmaster, Morley Steel Works e a Weyman, Thomas, Esq , Purslow Hall, near Clan, Shrops;ceser Wood, William, Esq., Chetwynd House , N ew p ort, SaloP, '„, the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and IVorcestershire Rad 7:,;, Wolryche, Stephen, Esq., J.P., Quatford Villa, near P' ,„ Salop m(With power to add to their lumber.) BANKERS. Messrs. Jones, Loyd and Co., Lothbury, Messrs. Cockburns and Co. 4,'Whitehall, l London ket ' , Messrs. Adams, Warren, and Co., Shrewsbury and M ar The Bilston District Banking Company, Wolverhampton ~,. The Shropshire Betaking Company, and its Branches. P' ...„. ENGINEER IN ClllEF—Samuel Clegg, Esq., C• ; ACTING ENGINEER—Francis Briscoe, Esq. ', SOLICITORS. r, o ado' s Messrs. Yarborough and Adams, Lincoln's Int Wields, E. Garbett, Esq., Wellington, Salop. LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. G. and R. Anderson, Ludlow Thomas Wcyman, Esq., Ludlow John William Butterton, Esq., Eccleshall Thomas Bernard Baddeley, Esq., jun., Newport Edward Edwards, Esq., Church Stretton Gilbert Brown, Esq., Shiffnal Charles G. Brown, Esq., Bilston, Staffordshire Philip Octavius Jervis, Esq., Bishop's Castle Thomas Griffiths, Esq., Clan and Bishop's Castle Thomas Walker, Esq., Wolverhampton T. R. Hodgson, Esq., Birmingham William Harding, Esq., Burslem, Staffordshire rOttOrl a SECRETARY —George Bond, Esq. Offices, Royal Exchange-buildings, London• "di -- ti Co- , , The line of Railway intended to be constructed by Vrtne y f rov,, will commence at or near Norton Bridge (a station 0 ' ce ed i Ato't Junction Railway), in the county of Stafford, and P rI ;0 1311 0,, thence by Eceleshall, Offiey, Norbury, Forton, NewP er , t 'tadei c , j Yq Wood, Oaken Gates, Priors Lee, Stirchley, Hawley', -.1,,' ed ,p r ,; Iron Bridge, to Coalbrook-dale; there, crossing tester and Crewe Railway," it will pass along the tdoPe.f ts es te o I li edge, by Rushbury and Eaton-under -Haywood, to Wl„,icn t i the county of Salop, where it will run into, and form n); s ee't' t i the " Shrewsbury, Hereford, and North Wales IlailwaY• . i .. c . s 01, the prop-7,1'0;4,, it, The line will traverse a rich mineral district, and will 13x prol i ', tP and extensive traffic by the carriage of coal from t ll , B o . o r, 1 4 i' ; coal-field, to a depot proposed to be formed at Wistans",efo supply of South Shropshire, part of Radnorshire and lie, meth!it, and also from whence it will be conveyed by the " Her e „, fe , t il lvle e bury, and North Wales Railway," into MontgomerYO'r4oF„f ti: neighbouring counties, where coal does not exist. It is i c t i ss ;1,4 11 A calculate the extent to which this traffic may be carri e 'eer' i r .t ° ;; direct railway communication thus opened between t he ;' , , i ' A ll A, coal-field, and the important manufacturing towns e cs ic - ,',Aci l e and Llaniclloes, the price per ton will be reduced o`, nevi es' , 0 those places, and the flannel manufacturers, - f c 4iot• ,I ing upon water power, will, by the cheapnesS eropoieeo`ot enabled to employ steam, and to extend their trade In c a prv i olgj the great demand which exists for the Welsh flannelS,,k. due o stlr to any other. The importance of this subject will W. l ' 0 0 ' with those who so often witness the bad effects upon tb e , t e r e. eel by the stoppage of the mills from an insufficiency of by , tlle seigo( A considerable amount of tonnage is now incurre , U t li til . , t e Ai o ,l shire ironmasters,f or the conveyance of lime-stone 0 " 0 1 til" - c oe 0, bourhood of Much Wenlock to the furnaces, by se c °. vii li see t Y directs water carriage, whereas the proposed railllo e_rel.o.o itnto the heart of the works, and at one-thiAl 0 'ell'ol74 By its junction with the " Grand Junction" an d li t e cee,tl l, and Shrewsbury" Railways, this line will form a dire , ~J, I' ~i, tion between Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Yorlc ''" ti t CYO Swansea and South Wales. As a jnction line alone (connecting as it will st l°l _ l'° Du rtl't je l l' ' ' e : ll .l ll l:l ways), , u large passenger traffic may be depended oP;',1 1 8 ,01 0 , 4 is conidezed that the centre of the line populated mining district, and the remainder throngsufecleo" passe s thronsii COO 1: 0 1 agricultural neighbourhood, It will be obvious that a the A A A traffic exists to pay a highly remunerative interest on 0 9 of ti capital required to be embarked. _,„rY 41 ,, The line, which will not interfere with any P"'"' ta l e ' „r mental or costly character, will not exceed 46 miles t to 0 will be constructed at much less than the average ,05 '4lO te -A • . e. . , A Such important local co-operation has been secumnasar , e l v. sition is anticipated or can be sustained against the by A e r f ori,oo l The liability of the Shareholders wiii be limited, bY d poW e d OA amount of their subscription to the capital stock ; en , e at• V - ft ,° ,9l applied for to allow interest at the rate of four err' oils , ele c t , on the amount of the deposit, and upon the furth . 011 4 0 ) date of each payment until the opening of the li, ne jtitil t 4 10 0 .40 . deposit being paid, a further call will not be MAO Aet e' Parliament shall have been obtained. htt.t ne . _,,) ii. .... Maps of the line, prospectuses, &c., are Secretary, the solicitors, the local agents, a lso the _ „ I da" " 0,( 1 ,,,e 7 to be 0-Drolor.: ~,01,, Mieville and Co., Angel-court, Throgmorton-street, nlrea t t g , l: o el o ; Cameron, Cazmoe, and Taunton, Liverpool ; 31e°5 '. 3 1 ° 5 lo r 't ham, Manchester; Nathaniel Lea, Esq., Birminglll; ; J. Se i plie ° slid and Tripp, Bristol ; Messrs. Turley and Cooper, Lee echoer' s p eed , t (,' Sheffield; Messrs. Brady and Staniforth, Hull; te,,' s atir e ocit'' for Shares (which must be on printed forms) Ins):, - xer• tt ° it will: necessary that reference be made to a "'— person of responsibility. r . 1:; 1 A4 °Lith 4 t.T.\ l ! l ' &boy 'Klet t tile Tt li , C i 141 ' 4 ,The ' a t the c'° ‘ gettie 4 ,4l i sa ga: r °: •v4isio n ta thert t Am es ° , )rte ~Raykrale" kllhi , by h l for an, t t'ke -mi ed a -> Port °f 'No ' it, q, " tat. 4; bun Th.r! anti 'otoki.' tit at , 011 e x t h owev tr ag. so U 0 42 7.. ; su r ent, rtai N n .,t Iy " i l l ntio, r ll 'f a kit 'erre, de Lai] • nil eh- Co pounce The ° , iaill 4l 4 !rorn Nam ...Ito , he ‘1 2()- I - 11 1114 es rot IN t re e h4 t th that "1",, lc. tom '! ton .; 4111tce ha albror) 1-I fo e'o lli t W s e 4 l l4. i: - ,,, 1 ui 1 s .„ At Fpm xt • " I"th _ ectin aI) Rallarr,y eor, 41 1 :he Rey . i n .atia a It - TC:4lsly - ' Eldr e d Th at froin I 4 ' in th I ) ,a ro aDe 4 , 4) t o 4 3 : 4 , '. 4 ettle f a l ha„ - e' Rhh ey , Ca rd) ' " I %iil ' wa, o ll t a lti et ~ ti n ti y _ tThip. r wr ti 4 1, 11.1)14, and 'i v`aa moved t, l - h -t thy th mitt iey ' f d th e gro at ( i ) o r n th, r Ty ' ha ti i„,Wore t e l s T - "ltsly - 'WA ' e hairt . ' iv il 'Y 11 41,01,41 y Th k 4.a t w. the b e c a m What. e4t4, • it I‘l J. Ric 411 44, Thhy the short 11 %4 ea rQst 'titt . o ' 4ll Dr, Th Cold le ng ; ,4 ;;73e Rt t ss_ Jtutf' b oia e tin t T e Tin o Zo ;test, whi worth ProP, Itaiii"4 ?ft aye no lc shortest nn Yised. I 'h I, it 4t 4 er t ,,, )441 kr, Te th e 1