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PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED. GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT RAILWAY, By a Junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedfont. Distance, 120 miles. Capital 2,500,000%., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share. (Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commode. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne Sir William Twysden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Directo. of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and Erewash Valley Extension Railways Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway, and of the South and Midland Junction, and West Midland Railways Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and Trent Valley Continuation Railways Henry Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Watkinson Hall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and Liverpool and Leeds Direot Railway C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Midland Railway John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Comae, Bristol, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-street, Broad-street, Director of the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford, Railways _ _ William Banks, Esq., Honey-lane Marked John Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Di rector of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction Railways Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's Park, Hampstead, Direetor of the Sheffield, Button, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Railway Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq., the Lodge, Upper Clapton Josiah Burrowes, Eeq., Castle House, Gorneroall, near Leeds Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds and West Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft House, near Bradfoid, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway henry Smith Bright, Bsq., Hull, Director of the Ball and Selby Railway Joeeph Browne, Beg., Bedford Dr. Brigstoek. Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manekeeter Railway - James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln, and Great Luxembourg Railway Job Bullinart, Esq., East Redford William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., J.P., Hull, Director of tke Rugby Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways John Carter, Esq., Knottingley - Thermos Carter, Esq., Tanshelf, J.Pjor the Borough of Pontefract Charles Charnock, Esq., Holmfield House, near Ferrybridge Millis Coventry, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Junction, and Birmingham Extension Railways E. Clemente, Eaq., Lowndee-equare, Director of the WesternJamalea Railway J. Cottam, Esq., East Redford Robert Coek, Req., Gainsborough, Director of the Manchester, Mid land, and Great Grimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Axholme, and the Wisbeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junction Railways John Cutts, Esq., Little Barfield Hall, near Braintree, Essex James Cliff, Esq., Director of the Paris and Strasbourg, Southampton Manchester, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, and Maccles field Railways W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Loudon and Birmingham Etxten sion Henry dherard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street Francis Deere, Esq., Stratford, Essex J. Dawson, Esq., Pontefract John Dennis, Esq., Director of the West Midland, and Thames Val ley Railways Joseph Dent, Esq., Aibston Hall, near Leeds, Magistrate for the North West Riding of Yorkshire A.. A. Davenport, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Eaten eton, and Worcester Junction Railways Joseph L. Davenport, Esq.,Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway John Alcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, near Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Richard Dranstleld, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, of the Liverpool and Leeds Di rect, and of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey mouth Railway Lieut.-Col. Fitch, sr,, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Managing Direc tor of the York and Lana.tster Railway Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten sion Railway Solomon kloster, Esq., Maneileld. Director of the Nottingham, Mans field, anti Midlen.t Junction Railway Martin Farniss, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shet field Railway John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London• derry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways Goetze Green, Esq., Pontefract Client.' Gibson, Esq., Holland-place, Clapham Jau.,ee Gilbertson, Esq., Hertford Gibson, Esq., Glasgow H . p Gripps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway Charlet Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside William Gordon, Eisq., M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Henry Sw an Graves, Esq., Ely Bank Lodge, Halifax Jolla Gully, Esq., Ackworth Park, Ackworth Richard Hall, Esq., cernarvon Hail, Stratford, Director of the Strat ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways John Charles Hall, Esq., New Grove-street, East Redford $. Hall, Ecq., Wiseton, near Bawtry r. H a ll, Eeq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash Val . le>" ExtensioM and West Midland Railways s w iss. , Hammond, Del., Leeds John C:orge Ilamiusek, Eel., Director of the Direct Western and the !et.ropolitan Junction Railways William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lieut. and J.P. for the West of Yorkshire John Miss& ilepsvorth, Esq , 1114 . e:1-place, Ackworth, J.P. for the W eat lUdini; or Yorkshire Joshua Ilepsvorlk Rogerthorpe Hall, Bedsworth Thomas Heelis, p i .i . ,„S'kipton Castle, Skiptou, Director of the Lan cashire and North .:orkshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire North - Eastern, and of the Llv'Srp )01 and Leeds Direct Railways Leeds, Director of the Liverpool Robert }terries. Esq., East.,:treet, and Leeds Direct Railway Cl u nks Holbrooke, Ley., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Ilischester Jelin tlolmes, Esq., East Redford John lilleae, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Direc tor of the Derby and Stafford Railway E M paoti Jalland, Esq., Holdernass House, near Hull, Di rector of the York and Hull Hallway Barweil Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Ma gistrate for the East Riding of York and Borough of Hull, and Director of . the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley Railways John Jameson, Esq., lleney-lane 3larket William Jameson, Esq.,• Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the Staf fordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways Joseph Joneo, ?sq., Mayor' Of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and • • " " Leeds Direct Railway Thlinas Reginald Kemp, Esq.; Director of the Blythe and Churnet V.illeys, or Macclesfield and I..;clifleld Railways Ooorhe Lawton, Esq., Ditclileys, Essex, Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester anction Railway Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-st,”eet, London Captain Henry Leech, Bedford William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director Of the iteatitsg and Reigate Railway L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., Broad-street, Director Of the Western Ja maica Railway P. li4nnett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo and Shannon, the Ipswich and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale Railways John B. Mann, Esq., Leeds Thomas Hackett Maieey, Beg , Newark-upon-Trent, and Bedford square, Hyde Park Thomas 11"fark, Esq., Hull William Mos, Esq., East Redford W. R. Mesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford Robert Melliagton, Kerb, Ordshali House, near East Redford, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Ithilway William poorhouse, Esq., Marine Villa, Knottingley, Provisional Director of the Sheffield, Barnsley, mad Wakefield Railway Teter Morrison, Esq. Director of South and Midlands' Junction, and L o ndon and Birmingham Extension Railways James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract, J. P. for the Borough, a Provi sional Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension and Chester Junction, Railway Jasoph Nadln, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Smithampton, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways .jVillifinn Joseph Nash, Esq. Bedford John Norton, Esq., 1, St. George's-square, Westminster, and Moat Holm, Brentwood, Director of the Great Western Direct Railway Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley and Con tinuation and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and Bouth Midland and Oxford Extension Railways Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D., Pontefract Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North William Perfect, Esq., Monkhill, near Pontefract John Phillips, Esq. Mayor of Pontefract Thomas Ingham Raynor. Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Birming ham Direct, Leicester, Iron, and Dove Valley Railways Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah House, Enfield, Managing Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Junction, the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and the Direct Western Railways James Robson, Esq., Tanshelf, J. P. for the Borough of Pontefract George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junc tion, and of the Rugby, Derby. and Manchester Railways John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate, the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Thirek Junc tion Railwsy Thomas Rontlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director o. the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railways Henry Savage, Eeq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing- stoke Railway Benjamin Shaw, Esti., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet and Blythe Valleys Railways J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and of the Leeds and York, and MidliOnd Railways William Sloss', Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the South Midland Junction Railway, kc., Etc. George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury hall, Sheffield, Director of tie _ _ Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Smith, Esq., ALD„ 30, North-street, Leeds, Director of Me Leeds and fork,'ind Li;erpi)ol and Leede Railways Joseph Smithson, Esq., Kirklees Mills, near Halifax James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, tatelater, and Stafford Railway. Thomas S. Trapp, Em., Banker, Bedford Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Garbsls, Hall, Di rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbala, Hall Thomas Turney, Esq., Park Lodge, near Halifax David Wheatcrott, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Derbyshire, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railways Major-General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester-place, Portman- square William Williams, Eel , Royal Foandery, Bedford Charles Waite, Esq., Willesden House, Middlesex John Wheolton, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, as Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Willett, ltsq., Bradford dleorge Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax (With power to add to their number.) Etramint-or-Cnier—Str John Ac`Neil, L.L.D., and F.R.S. AIkINO ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mnllingar Higgins, Esq. LONDON SOLICITORS. J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court Owen Gray, Esq., _ J. B. midge, Em., 3 2a, Great Tower-street, BANKERS. London-3 , les4rs. Rogers, Olding, and Co. :Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co. The object of this railway is to connect, in the most direct course, the important and increasing manuflictaring town of Leeds with the Metropolis, the want of which hes long been felt, and is toe univer sally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under this con viction that this important undertaking, after several minute exa minations of the country through which it will pass, has beta brought tbrward. The proposed line will commence at the junctio n o f th e Manclres ter and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wake field, and will ternsinate by means m of a junction with the Rastern Counties Railway at Bedford which place it is the intention of That Company to extend their line in the ensuing seesion of Parlia watt), a s n . d w b it y l oo thu m s re s.j t a o li t l i n i :: most as . far as possible of the existing railway and Hull. least expeesivo trunk Mite, from London to Leeds, York, will pass in its route wi bin an available distance of Wakefield,. Pontefract, Doncaster, Rotherham, East Redford, Nottingham, Newark, Grantham, Melton Mowbray, Oakham, and Stamford. The importance of such a line Is obvious, both front the nature of its coarse (embracing, as it does, a most extensive population within its limits) as also prom the absence of any direct co m m ni m( u ub t n t y l i c e a na t it i t o s n n for the conveyance of passengers and merchandi se . By the construction of this railway, railway London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester the Syston anti Peterborough Railway), to Newark and Nottingham (by of (by the Nottinghani and Lincoln line), and to Sheffield and Galina: rough (by the Sheffield and Gainshorough line), by a much shorter route than by any existing Railways. Independently of the advantages offered to the towns in the several mantes through which this Line will pass, the Line in itself consi tiered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, is sufficient to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic between these two places would produce such a return on the capital required. as to admit of a dividend, equal to that of any railway in operation : but when it is borne in mind, that a Company is being formed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow with Leeds by means of Is junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no better line can be presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct communica tion from ellatigow and the Western parts of Scotland to London, but would also connect Edinburgh and the Eastern parts of Scotland as well as Durham, and Newcastle (by the York and North Midland, and Great Northof England Railways), with the Metropolis, which would be coilerably shorter Man the accommodation offered by any other Company, and when cost of construction is considered there cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given to the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway. The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a branch line with the East and West India Docks on the river Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 999 years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks, which are capable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods from all parts of the world can take place, is a most important fea ture in favour of the direct communication from tile manufacturing towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway, and by branch railways to the main trunk line, through which all goods from the whole of the manufacturing dis tricts could be conveyed at once to these warehouses for shipment, thereby avoiding the present delay and expense of cartage, and in reality establishing an almost direct and an invaluable connexion between the rivers Clyde and Thames. It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties, that the works will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good, and that it will not materially interfere with any ornamental property. The Subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first deposits until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only to the amount of their subscriptions. It is proposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and also to extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, in the event of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford. Applications for Shares (in the form annexed) may be made to J. B. Gibson, Esq. ' 9, Copthall-court, and Messrs. Owen Gray and Midge, 25, Great Tower-street, the joint solicitors to the Company, at the Company's temporary offices, 9, Copthall-court, London ; or to the following sharebrokers : London--Messrs. Marten and Heseltine. 9, Finch-lane Leeds—Messrs. Hoppe and Co. Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tooted Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons Bradford—Mr. Josiah Scholefield Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square No application will be attended to unless accompanied by a satis factory reference. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Great Leeds and London Direct _ IRISH GREAT WESTERN (DUBLIN to GALWAY) RAILWAY. The deeds of this Company will lie for signature on and after WEDNESDAY, the Ist of October, at No. 19, Ifoorgate-street, London, where also the new scrip may be had. The letters of allotment for the exchange of scrip are in course of issue according as the respectability of the applicants is ascertained. FITZSTEPHEN FRZNCH, Chairman. September 25, 1845. DIRECT WESTERN RAILWAY (Upon the Broad Gauge), From London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and Bridgewater respectively. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.. Offices, 20, Poultry, London. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Camperdown, Sidney-place, Bath The Viscount Mandeville, Kimbolton-park, Hunts Lord James O'Bryen, Royal-crescent, Bath Lord William Pewlett, Bath, and Downham-hall, Brandon, Suffolk General Sir John Slade, Bart., Muntys Court, Taunton Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, Somerset The Hen. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid- - _ land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street Sir Francis Dugiale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Fewsey, Wilts Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. far Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardena Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London Ralph Neville, Esq., 31.2., Hill-street, Berkeley-square Charles Barry Baldwin, M.?., 6, Parliament-street Hen. 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, anciiiuddersileld and Sheffield Railway Companies Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P., Foxley, Herefordshire Sir John Cave Brown Cave, Bart., Kenilworth, Warwickshire Sir William Young, Bart., Westboume-green, Hyde-park, East India . _ Director John Clark, Esq., Benefield House, near Trowbridge, Wilts, Magill- Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot ma Shares, of 251. eaeh, in the above undertaking, and I undertake to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less lumber that may be allotted to me, and also to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree ment whea required. Name in full ... • ..... • • • • • • • • • • Address In full ... • • .. • • • ...... • Occupation ...... .. • . tr ate for the counties of Wilts and Somerset Alfred Batson, Esq., Itamsbury, Wilts, and Upper Bedford-place Major Hunt Grubbe, Eastwell House, Devizes John Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker John Lov - el Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker William Adair Bruce, Esq., Lansdown-crescent, Bath iiir 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 Irarncomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Toeley-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., Enfield, Alderman of the City of London Edward Harriason Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the South Midland Railway Joseph Armitage, Esq., Miln's Bridge Meuse, Heddersfleld, Deputy Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 23, Gloucester-read, Hyde Park. Director of the Northampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham, and GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT RAILWAY. The Committee of Management of this Railway hereby give no tice, that in consequence of the unprecedented number of applications already made for shares in this important undertaking, they have determined upon rejecting all • further applications made after the 29th September instant. Immediately after that day they will proceed to make the allotment of the shares and procure the execu tion of the Parliamentary contract and subscription deeds. Signed by order of the Committee, J. R. GIBSON, OVEN GRAY, Registered Selicltors. J. E. ILLIDGE, 29th September, 1545. South Midland Railways Donald Maclean, Bsq., 37, Brunswisk-square, Leaden, Deputy Chairman of the Trent Talley Continuation Railway Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe Philip W. Courtnay, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgraye-square, London Millis Coventry, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street Bamet L. "Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and George-street, Mansion Mouse Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holierness House, near Hull, Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire Charles Robert Coleman, Eeq., Irongate Wharf William Eales, Esq. Mincing.lame, London, late Director of the Devon and Cornwall Banking Company Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-crow, Director of the South Midland Railway Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London, Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South Essex Railways Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of the Central Terminus Itailway, and of the Licensed Victuallers' MADRID AND VALENCIA RAILWAY, authorised by an Ordinance of her Majesty the Queen of Spain. Capital 2,400,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 201. each, Spanish reals (Vellon) 2,000, fr. 500, of which 80,000 will be allotted in this country. Deposit 21. per Share, reels 200, fr. 50. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. The Most Noble the Marquis of Winchester, 27, Cavendish-square The Lord de l'lsle and Dudley, 16, New Burlington-street The Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beauclerk, Chesham-place, Belgrave square, and the Riding, Northumberland The Right lion. George Lionel Dawson Darner, M.P., 6, Tilney-street The lion. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., 27, Regent-street Sir William Wynn, Chairman of the North Wales Railway C. Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., 6, Parliament-street, Chairman of the Paris and Strasbourg Railway Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker (Messs. Cockburn and Co.) William Collins, Esq., M.P., Reform Club Edward Bates, Esq., Managing Director of the Argus Life Assuranee Company Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Beesthorpe Hall, Newark, Notts, and 8, Great Ryder-street, St. James's John Capper, Esq., merchant, 1, Adelaide-place, London-bridge William Chadwick, Esq., Montagu-square, Chairman of the Rich mond Railway John Charretie, Esq., Park Village East Gideon Colquhoun, Esq., Walmer Lodge, Avenue-road, Regent's park, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Hallway Company William Cooper, Esq., merchant, 20, Mark-lane, and Ringswood Lodge, Dulwich Edmund F. Dayrell, Esq., 15, Old Cavendish-street, and Lillingstone Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff of Bucks, Deputy-Lieutenant of the County, Chairman of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Railway and Bridgewater and Minehead W. Eales, Esq., merchant, Mincing-lane, Director of the Direct Western Railway Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, Director of the London and Westminster Bank Richard Forman, Esq , Upper Thames-street James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street Major Graham, 16, Grove, Clapham John Joseph Keene, Esq , St. John's-wood, near London, Director of the National Bank of Ireland Win. King, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Aseerauce Com pany James Jehn Kinloch, Esq., 21, Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director cf the North Wales Railway Company John Knill, Esq., Fresh-wharf, Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and Crewe Railway T. Laurence, Esq., St. Mary-axe, Director of the Direct Western Railway Major James Oliver Lindam, ICH., 8, New-street, Dorset-square, Chairman of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and Central Wales Railway. and Director of the South Midland Junction Railway Nicholas ll`Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street, Director of the Man chester and Rugby Direst Railway Charles Carroll Mactavish, Eel., 22, Rutland-gate J. B. Montetlore, Esq., 2, Winchester-buildings, Director of the Australian Mining Company William Nicholson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Railway S. P. Pratt, Esq., 55, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company George Clavering Redman, Esq., Limehouse Colonel Edward Stopford, 9, Manchester-square, Director of the Barbadoes Railway Company William Gordon Thompson, Esq., Direeter of the South Midland Junction S. J. Waley, Esq., 22, Devonshire-place William Lechmero Whitmore, Esq., 19, James-street, Buckingham gate, Director of the London Central Railway Tenninus. RANKERS. London—Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill ; Messrs. liaatenuan and Co., Nicholas-lane ; Messrs. Cockburn and Co., Whitehall. Madrid—Bank of Isabella 11. STANDING COUNSEL---JRCOU Waley, ESQ., Lincole's Ina Soracrroas—Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, 04, Lime-street. CONSULTING ENGINEER—P. Prichard Italy, Esq. SECRETARY—F. Kirkham lowan, Esq. Offices of the Company, 37, Moorgate-street. The present Company has been formed for the construction of a line of railway from Madrid to the cityand port of Valencia, the most central seaport on the Mediterranean. It will open out the re sources of an extensive district of country, eastward from the capital, remarkable for the richness and fertility of its soil, the varied abun dance of its productions, and the commercial spirit of its inhabitants. This railway is authorised by a special ordinance of her Majesty the Queen of Spain ; and from its vast importance as a national route of intercommunication her Majesty has been pleased to accompany the gr ,ant with all the privileges and immunities which the Crown is empos refed to confer upon a railway compels'. Amongst these may be enumeraled 1. A lease Of Ilte line and of its branches for 99 years. 2. The gratuifeus grant of such Government and corporation lands as may be required for the railway. 3. The free use of all timber, the property of the State, that may be necessary for the works, or for other purposes. 4. The exemption for ten years, to be computed from the com mencement of the wofe.s, of all import duties on the machinery, rails, and ot h er ar ti c les requisite for the completion of the railway. 5. The entire exemption from all national and local taxes that could otherwise be levied upon the railway, works, or buildings of any description, and. upon the capital represented by the shares. 6. The Government is not to interfere with the Company's tariff of charges for the space of forty years from the completion of the works ; and no revision thereof is to take place on the expiration of that period that can sink the profits below IS per cent. 7. The line is to be classed, by a special law, under the title of a " work of public utility," and as such to enjoy the royal patronage and protection, and all the peculiar privileges attached to important national undertakings. The proposed line, thus largely endowed, to about 240 miles in lesnfth, being upwards of 150 miles nearer the capital than the ports of Cadiz and the north coast of Spain, and generally nearer than any other port in the kingdom. Although it has not yet been minutely surveyed, it is well known that there is no similar district of equal extent in the kingdom which presents so few engineering difficulties. For upwards of 80 miles the One will traverse the almost level plain of Valencia ; and emerging fto,m the boundaries of the province, it will follow es nearly as possible the course of the rivers which flow east and west from the central plateau in the province of Cuenca, and approach Madrid by the valisty of the Manzanares. The line will either pass through or accommodate the most important towns in the two provinces, which will thus be brought into rapid com munication with the capital OR the one 'side, a seaport on the other. This railway will be the means of supplying Madrid, containing 300,000 inhabitants, entirely dependent for provision., upon the con tiguous provinces, at a cheap rate, with the rich products of the pro vinces of Valencia, which abounds in most valuable mlZes, and is beyond comparison the most fertile district of Spain. Valencia, brought by this communicatio n within ten hoUre dis tance of the chief market of Spain, must necessarily become Jhe port at which all vessels with supplies for the metropolis will unload, and the centre of the coasting trade along the whole sea-line front Barcelona to Gibraltar. The traffic in passengers and goods now existing between Madrid and Valencia has been correctly ascertained, showing the following results : The annual number of passengers travelling between Madrid and Valencia, and the intermediate towns, is upwards of 42,000 ; but taking that number at the present cost of conveyance by stage coaches, private '''earrlagee, galena, and waggons, the amount will be .07, 808 The annual weight of goods conveyed between the two cities and We intermediate localities is 4,900,000 cP, t.. from which the return is estimated at .. 1,223,400 Fire and Life Insurance Company James Renshaw, Esq., Wkitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West Heath House, Er:th, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway Thomas Drano, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Direc tor of th• Bridport and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railways Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, aid Cannon street, London H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park George M'lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-sqnare Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland Charles Bleaden, Esq., Couladen-court, surrey, Chairman of the Li• . . , censed Victuallers' Fire and Life .Issurance Company J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company Patrick Fras. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the Leaden and Rfackwall Railway Company William Downing Bruce, Esq., F. 8.1., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon Cuthbert Woodcock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstene-street, Portman square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension Railways George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, Leaden 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 Illackwall 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 Docks Company, and of the General Shipowners' Society William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square Charles Thomas Wards, 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., Drontagh Castle, minty Cork, Union Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail way Company Samuel Baker, Esq., Lypplat Park, Gloucestershire, and London William Congreve Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di- rector of the SVarwickshfre and London ltallway Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire John William Yerbury, Esq., Holcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d Light Dragoons Robert Main, Esq., arrensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity square, Londeu Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hernsey Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath Rey. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burin's House, near Newbury, Becks Col. Burslein, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the Connty Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the Couaty Rev Chas. Fres. Ramifylde, Rector of Dunkerten, Rear Bath, 3lagia- trate for Somerset Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Binning. hal Railway Company R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Eusklagitom shiro Railway and Wolverton Junction Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingemill, Collumpton Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentistoere, Collumpton • Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon Richard Marker, Esq., Liculin Cottage, Tiverton Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portamoath George Pearce, Req., Bradninch House, near Collumpton Wm. H. Holcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hangerford, Chairman of the Berke 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 Daizell, Esq., Wallingford, Bouts Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Kale Haberfield, Esq., Clifton, Bristol James Troup, Esq., Hastings John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director of Coventry and Leicester Railway Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland aid North. • ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester, Sheffield, and .Midland Railway Company John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway James Burt, Jun., Esq. Manchester, Director of the Chester and Birkenhead, an Manchester and Southampton Railways Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies Joseph Nadiu, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways James Ogden, Esq., 11. D., Salford Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of 'York and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the" Hull and Barnsley" Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies" John Holford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester C. 11. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax aid Bradford Union Railway Charles Bamford, jan., Esq., Hull, Director of tke Hull and Barulay Junction John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South• At Bodmin At Truro At Penzance ampton Rallw;.Y 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 1101 mes, Esq., Liyerpoo W in g, Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and Iron Bx7ldge Railway Company C. Appleby, .Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester _nailway Company Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshko Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways John Ward, Esq, .Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield, Rotherham, an d Chesterfield Life Assurance-office W m . Thompson, Esq., Uppertherpe, near Sheffield, Diroctor of the Haddersfield and Sheffield Railway Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director atlas But Coast X 1,291,290 Assuming that t -fifths only of the existi ng c h arges become a source of revenue to the railway, and that the tariff be reduced considerably below the s tate tariff of Belgium, ,`ltere will be deducted .. 752,320 Remains • • • •doubled. £539,880 Sapposing that the present ,traffic will only be xxperienee has proved th e by the railway, although' increase to be equal to 300 .td 400 per cent., there will itt• be added • • .. • • • • • • • • 648,88 t, Railway Con tpany Captain Bowke r, R.N., Devon Port H. 9. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Di rect Railway Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield Direeter of the East audWest Ofinilanaßallway Company John Fawcett, E..4•+ Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and Nan - _ reweate Railway Company William Marriott, Esq., Attercliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wlsbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway. Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York And add 2 1,077,700 For the transport of troops, minter stores , 4 e. , Which the Government will substitute for the conveyance 137 waggons .. .. • • . • ~ 50,080 25 per Cent., at the least, for the Aiies,nt traitio .. 215,952 ..... and East Li neolnshire Railways John Johnstoi to Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool David Price, 3E.sq., Manchester William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington Rev. 11. eV. C.sttle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire Major Wormultl, Clarence-square, Cheltenham Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the South Midla id and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways , Henry Hubbell ity, Esq., Hull 1 John Ostler, E: sq., Hull, Director of the Mall and Barnsley Jnnetien Henry Shaw, 1 . 15 q., Fetter-lane L , tnry Sayer, l u sq., Commercial-road, Lbriehonse, merchant Joi - Mee itiathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square John Norton, 'Esq., Moat Howse, Brentwood, Es s ex Willia it John. M`Guire, Esq., Hampton Court John G. nay Wilson, Esq., Oxford - terrace Capt. J. r. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey W. J. L., `i re, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate ef Sontharapton Thomas C. Vis. Harrison, Esq., F R.S., York-terrace, Regent's Park G. B. Runb 'try, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Coventry, ,74 L e icester Railway Captain Trio B: 4 ank R.N. ' Solyhull, Warwickshire William Jena on . ... 41 eA le, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple James Whttn ey, i.'sq., Shrewsbury Henry Paul II Arwoot:, Esq., M.D., Sheffield The Hon. F. i won 21 , Eaton -place William Higgi ria, isq., Turrey, High Sheriff of Bedfordshire Sir Raymond • l'asTts, Fair 04Vpark, near Winchester, Deputy-Lieu tenant, and magi:strop for the °minty of Hants William Jacks on, Esq, Thitenhead, Chairman e the Chester and Birkenhead Railway E. 11. Laiirvor thy, Esq., Manehsater Thomas Sidney '' DR., Alderman, and Sheriff of London and Mid dlesex Nathaniel Goul d. Eel., Barge-yard, Bucklersbury , and Tavistoek square Esq., Cadogan-place, and West MoulseY, Edmund Lionel Welles.. Surrey Eos t India-road, and Limehouse, Director of Duncan Dunbar ', Esq., the Marine Assurance Cempar.y, and lety the e e London General s ) D. a )c. po ic C w o n tn er p ,s a.' t :Y •oe , William Jackson „Esq., Shefile.'d, Director of the Goole and Doncaster £1,84t,712 From which deduct nearly 0 per cent. for maintenance of way, &c. • . .. • • • • .. • • .. 671,C5.% Leaving a net profit of „ £671,856 Or of nearly 28 per cent. upon the capital. The capital now proposed to be raised has been estimated, by competent authority, to be amply sufficient for the completion of the railway, including stations, a double line for rails, and the working plant. The royal ordinance authorises the erection of an electric tele graph along the line, which will answer the double purpose of placing the railway under the special protection of the Government, and closely uniting it with all the railways that intersect the kingdom and have their common termini in Madrid, to which capital maritime and mercantile information from the Mediterranean can be instan taneously communicated. One-third of the shares are, by the terms of the concession, con ceded to Spain. The locale of the Company will be in Spain, and it will be framed on the principle of a companies anontna, agreeably to the commercial code of that country. The affairs of the Company will be conducted by a Board of Di rectors in London, assisted by a highly influential Committee in Madrid. The remuneration to the Directors will b• made in ac cordance with the plan usually adopted in continental railways, and that to the Concessionaires consists of a mere contingent interest in two-twentieths of net profits, after five per cent. shall have been se cured to the shareholders. A deposit of 2/. per share is payable on allotment, and no future call will exceed 21. per share, of which two months' notice at least will be given. Applications for shares, according to the subjoined form, to be ad dressed to Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, solicitors, 34, Lime street, London ; to Messrs. Hutchinson and Son, stockbrokers, Loth bury ; Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle-street ; Messrs. Johnston, and Co., Manchester ; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool ; Messrs.Wreford, and Co., Bristol ; Mr. N. Lea, Birming ham; Messrs. Watson, and Co., Leeds; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull ; Messrs. Buchan and Aitkin, Glasgow ; Mr. W. Gordon, Aberdien ; ~(essrs. Labertonclie and Stafford, Dublin ; and to the Secretary, at the office, 37, Moorgste-street, London. London, Sept. 10, 1845. Railway George F. Earle, .Esq., Hull Stephen Knowles . Esq., Exeter W. Lawrence, E , it 1., Brixton John Learrnenth, 1 Esq., Edinburgh, Cflerman opanies f the Edinburgh and ta Glasgow, ui n wth British Railway Wellington 12c ss Seymour, Esq. , Montitgue-place, Russell-square, Com Director oft he: Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway William Taunt x,l ,:sq., Great Surrey-street, plackfriars John Booth, E wt • Sherburn Grange, Durham Matthew Benj snit Robson, Esq., Whitwsll Grange, Durham John Holmes, Esq.; St. Jame,'s-street, Director of the Dorchester and Weymouth 1 tailwa.-, and York and Lancaster Railway William G. Be man], Lsq., Clifton, Bristol James Shaw, I :sq., Salfors 'I , Thomas Small' wood Ricl.,ards, Esq., 59, Baker-street, Portman-square Manchester Deputy-Lieu tenant and 51. N. M'Cann, EE Kt., Parliam, .nt-street Robert Coo a t, e Henry Wenmu n Newman, }...sci., Bristol, Magistrate for that City, and tgistrate for the county of Gloucester William William Horat to Harrison, Esc', Sunbury in Jalland, Esq., . tiolderness House, mar Hull Tomas ri dn" Esq., Gainsborough . Director of the Gainsboro h t Massey, Esq., 11,, wark-upon-Trent Goole, and I d e of Ail, i ni f th e lig 0 0 e, an& ~,) le Wisbeach, Italy, and Lin colnshire Es IN 4tyi • OF APICATION'. To the Directors of FORM the Madrid and PL Valencia Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me s. arcs of 20/. each iu the above Company ; and I hereby undertaketo accept the same, or any less number which you may appropriate to I. e, and to pay the deposit thereon of 2/. per share. Dated this day of 1845. Name •• • ..... • •• • Residence . .•••••• • • • • • • • Profession or Trado Plate of Business ..... • • • • Reference • ......... MADRID and VALENCIA RAILWAy._ No APPLICATION FOR SHARES will be received after WEDNESDAY', the First day of October next. By order, F. KIRKHAM FOWLER Secretary. Office 37, Moorgate-street, Sept. 25, 1845, E SUN, LONDON, MONDA► Y EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1845. William Ruston, Esq., Catherine-court, Trinity-square G. Wiugrove Cooke, Esq., Temple, London C. I. Selwyn, Esq., Exeter Joseph Hopwood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter and Falmouth Railway Richard Compton, Esq., Eddington House, Hungerford, Berks, a Magistrate for the counties of Wilts and Barks Henry Coa Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Malden, Essex The Constable of Hungerford Richard Davis,Esq., St. Helen's-place, Director of the South Midland Railway Edward Hyde Clarke, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Warwickshire and London Railway Captain William Lionel Lampert, The Highlands, Oxfordshire, and Leamington, Warwickshire Francis Burton, Esq., Milverton House, Warwickshire Captain Stewart, R.N., Leamington, Warwickshire Samuel Haines, Esq.. Chad-house, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway . _ William Northage, Esq., Upper Gm - ver-street, Bedford-square John Wodley Hughes, Esq., Gloucester, Director of the Lirmingham and Bristol Railway Lewis Bruce Knight Bruce, Esq., The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey Francis Cole Humbert, Esq., Oxford-street, Hyde:Park Algernon Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park John Parkinson, Esq., 1.R.5., Cambridge-terrace,'Hyde Park James Lamb, Esq., Hyde-park-square Richard Grouceck, Esq.,l Bow-churchyard, and Dulwich, Director of the Direst Manchester Railway J. B. Simpson, Esq., Rutland-lodge, Brixton Henry Bellerby, Esq., Sheriff of York Henry Ledgard, Esq., 39, Wood-street, Cheapside, Director of the Rugby and Macclesfield Direct Railway John Williams, Esq., Eaton-square. Thomas Grimsditch, Esq., M.P., Macclesfield, Cheshire Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn-fields, Wolverhampton, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway William Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton Erasmus R. Foster, Esq., Birchin-lane William Bargett, Esq., Broad-street Peter R. Morrison, Esq., P r i nc es- s t ree t Bank Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Enfield, Director of the York and Lan cas"..er Railway Thomas Kidley, Esq., 3f.D., Sheffield J ame s Sheppard, Esq., jun.. White Hart-court, Lombard-street Valentine Knight, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Magistrate for Middlesex (leorge Sercombe, Esq., Exeter John Clampit Sercombe, Esq., Exeter William Pearce, Esq., Liverpool W. Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham Robert Henry Hurst, Esq., jun., Temple William Nash, Esq., Capham Common Grey Hazlerlgg, Esq., West Carlton Hall, Leicester Captain Twisieton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the Leicester and Tean and Dove Valley Railway (With power to add to their number). ENGINEERS IN CHIEF. Sir John Macniell, LL.D., F.R.S. James Thomson, Esq., F.R.S.E., M.R.I.A. BANKERS—Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill, London. JOINT SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Row Churchyard, London Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-Belds, 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. ISSISTANT-SECRETARY—CharIes J. Whalley, Esq. LOCAL SOLICITORS. At Newbury—Messrs. Godwin and Gray, and B. Pinnigor, Esq. At Ramsbury—William Rowland, Esq. At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq., And John Edwards Hayward, Esq. At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodvray At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton At Shepton Mallett—Francis Isaac Nalder, Esq. At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. g. and J. It. Poole At Exeter—William Denis 3foore, Esq. . . It Tiverton, T. L. T. Rendell, Esq., and J, A. Tome, Esq. At Launceston-3fesors. Lawrence and Pattison Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-hone, Edgbaston, Director of the Lei cester and Birmingham Railway Harpin, John, Esq., Birk's-house, Holmfirth liatfield, Thomas, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c. Hammond, :G., Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Harrison, John, Esq., Banker, Ripon, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Hartshorne, Robert James, Esq., Ashbourne Haywood, Richard Howard, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries Holdforth, Joseph Dempsey, Esq., of Burley, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Railway Herries, Robert, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railway Hill, John, Esq., Derby Hirst, Abraham, Esq., York-house, Huddersfield Ingleby, Joseph, Esq., Cheadle, Staffordshire Johnson, John Goodwin, Esq., Bentley Hall, Ashbourne Johnson, D. T., Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of the Ches ter and Manchester Railway Johnson, Richard Wm., Esq.. Meorgate, Director of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Jones, the Rev. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Jones, Edward, Esq., Windmill-place, Camberwell Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Kingdom, Wm. Esq., Westbourne-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the Birmingham and Manchester Direct Railway Keene, John Joseph, Esq., St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Director of the National Bank of Ireland, &c: King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance, &c. Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston Hall, Sudbury Laughton, Richard, Esq., Barrow-hill, Uttoxeter Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, James, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn Commission, &c. Marlow, Joseph, Esq., Walsall Mason, Charles James, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries Mason, George Miles, Esq., Wetley Abbey, Staffordshire 3feteyard, Horace, Wm., Esq., Director of Rernington's London and Manchester Railway, Middle Temple, and Chatham-place M`Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Manors, John, Esq. Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Mellard, James, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Musgrave, Simeon, Esq., Kirkstall, near Leeds, Director of the Thirst and Midland Junction Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Minors, John, Esq., The Parks, Uttoxeter, Director of the East and West Junctien Railway Mountford, Thomas John, Esq., Ashbourne lioorhouse, Joshua, Esq., Holmfirth Maskery, Thomas, Esq., Norbury, Derbyshire North, Joseph, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield Norton, George, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield,Director of the Li verpool and Leeds Direct Railway Orton, James, Esq., Woodford, near Uttoxeter, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Parkinson, John, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Ryde-park, Di- Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Rail way, &c. Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield House, Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Roberts, Thomas, Esq., Manehester Robinson. John, Esq.,lSilcoates, Cottage, Wakefield Rodeo, Thomas Clarke, Esq., Birmingham Richardson, Joseph, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway Sant, Edward, Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scroptoe, ierbyshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, Charles, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and 'Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, Thomas, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Tork Railway Smith, Thomas, Esq., Wore-hall, Staffordshire, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, William, Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of Teau and Dove Talley Railway Smith, John, Esq., Barton House, Derbyshire Smythe, John Vere, Esq., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Sidney, Thomas, lesq.,sAldennan and Sheriff, City of London, Direc tor of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railways Spiers, E. J., Esq., Carlton Villas, London, Director of the East and West Junction Railway Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle As surance Company Terry, Benjamin, Esq., Mayor of Walsall, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway, &e. Tibbits, Thomas, Esq., Norton Manor-house, Leicester Tomlinson, Thomas, Esq., Bradley Pastures, Ashbourne Toogood, Rupert, Esq , Ashbourne Tylecote, Edward, Esq., surgeon, Great Heywood, Staffordshire Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, Holloway, London, Director of the East and West Junction Railway, &c. Waller, Major, K.H., St. James's-square, Director of the Chester and Manchester Railway, &c, Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire Walters, J. T., Esq., Rugeley Watts, William Roycle, Esq., Birmingham Weston, Samuel, Esq., Leeds Weston, Thomas, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Willes, George, Esq., Thagerford-park, Berkshire Williamson, Hugh Henshall, Esq., Greenway Bank, Staffordshire Potteries Williamson, Robert, Esq., Ramsdell-hall, Staffordshire Potteries Wise, Thomas, Esq., Ashbourne Witham, John, Esq., Ashbourne Woolrich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood, Charles, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, 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 Wilkinson John, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railway Wright, Thomas, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsbo rough Railway. A.t Falmouth—Messrs. Tresidder and Son The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between Landon 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 situation at the western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since have been the principal port en 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 tkey have very considerably increased. The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal mouth by way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by railway. The object of this prospectus is to show that no ether line than the resent 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 aflbrd iag all the accommodation contemplated by that Company. The Direct Western availing itself of tile Great Western Railway so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, llunger ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells (from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater), Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two miles than any existing railways between these points, and without a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St. Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole distance from London Is Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles. 'With real - sect to the traffic on the upper portion of the line it is needless to seylmore than that there is already thorough traffic sulli cleat to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes tern : that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton about 32 miles, that it will traverse rich and populous agricultural and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as well from railways now in course of construction as from ethers pro jected, with every chance of success. 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 ; t • what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire may be further developed, er the genial climate of Penzance and Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the amount of which may be said to be without limit. A :lance at the map will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts ef 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 cut 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, bat a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the reriort 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 net hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth ; and it may be further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed to interfere with that great national object. The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and correct estimates of the expenditure and returns aro iu a state of for „.ardnees, aid the whole will be ready for the next session of Par liament. It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be constructed at an unusually small expense ; that the undertaking will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of the landow-ners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways in the kingdom. Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at four pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected with the Direct Western district. Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary, at the Company's Offices, 20, Poultry, London, or to the local solicitors, or to any re spectable broker in town or counts, 20, Poultry, London, September, 1545. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Proyisional Committee of the Direct Wester* Railway Company. Gentlemen, —I request you will allot ine shares of 251. each in the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21. 12s. Gd. per skare thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con• tract when required. Dated 1845. Name in full ........ Trade or Profession Place of Business (if any) • • • • • • .. Reference • • • • • • .. • • . • • • • • • • • ..... THE LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEF FIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE (or LEEDS WOLVERHAMPTON, and DUDLE Y) DIRECT RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Staffordshire Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Weetbourne-street, Hyde-park Gardens Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Deputy Chairman of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail way, &c. Sir William Beethby, Bart, Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire Sir William Lowthrop, Knt., Hull, and Alga-house, Scarberough, Di rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc tion Railway Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, Ashburham House, Chairman of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Hon. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Nottingham and Boston Railway, Parliament-street, London, &c., &c. The Sheriff of York Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoseter, Director of Remington's London and Manchester Railway Bright, Selim, Esq., Baxton Barrett, H., Leeds, Director of the Keighley, Halifax, and Madders- BANKERS. Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., Cornhill, London The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourno, Union Bank, Uttoxeter Ditto Ditto, Ashbourne Dudley and West Bunwich Banking Co., Dudley Derbyshire Banking Co., Derby Ripen—Messrs. Terry, Harrison and Co. Bradford—The Leeds and West Riding Bank Messrs. I. and Hamilton Richardson, solicitors, Leeds SOLICITORS. John Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter ENGINEERS. gir John Rennie, F.A.S. George Remington, Esq., C.E. LOCAL AGENTS. Armishaw, J., Esq., Rugeley Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley Eggington, A., Esq., Lichfield Green, James J., Esq., Walsall. Lowe, Richard, Esq., Cheadle Floyd and Booth, Huddersfield and Holmfirth BROKERS. Messrs. Bitching and Alarshall, Leeds Messrs. Turley and Cooper, Leeds Mr. Thomas Oskwith, Ripon field Union Railway Buck, W. C., Req., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway Biurton, Robert, Esq., banker, Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter, Direc tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Booth, John, Esq., Macclesfield Bright, Selim, Esq., Buxton Bradley, Septimus, Esq., Ashbourne, Direetor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Xailway Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashbourne Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon don and Manchester Direct Railway Cleobury, Themes, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton Cooke, the Rev. J., Uttoxeter, Director of the East and West Juaetion Railway, &c. Cooke, John, Esq., Macclesfield Cooper, John Douglas, Esq., Holme Cottage, Ashbourne Cox, Walker, Esq., Breadsall, Derby, Director of the Tem and Dove Valley Railway Crockett, T. Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire ; and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c. Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reming ton's London and Manchester Direct Railway Crossley, John, Esq., Lamberhurst, Sussex, and Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Cumberlege, Nathaniel, Ashbourne , .ii"ork-terrace, Regent's Park Dalby, John, Robert, Esq., Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Dale, Major, Thurston , A shbourne Daniel, Richard, Req., Oak Hill, Stoke-upon-Trent Dawson, Samuel, Esq., ten., Ashbourne Dent, Edward, Esq., Westfield, Huddersfield Dent, John, Esq., Northgate, Huddersfield Darlington, J., Esq., Bradford Dyson, Thomas, Esq., Well-house, Holmfirth Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Statibrd shire, and Worcestershire Railway Eastwood, Edmund , Esq. , Huddersfield Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., 111iddersfield, Director of the Hudders field, Sheffield, aild Halifax Railway Edensor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbourne Elershaw, John, Esq., Leeds Fidler, Peter Pichot t, Esq., Higgin Grange, Derby - shfro Fisher, Thomas, FA., Director of the Liverpoal awl Leeds Direct Railway Frost, Meadows, Esq., Chester Garle. Samuel, Esq., Uttoxeter Garle, William, Esq. Uttoxeter Gilpin, and Co., Messrs. William, Wedges Mills, Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Olsborne, Henry Francis, Esq., Derby, Director of the Staffordshire. Leicester, And Tamworth Railway, &c. Goddard, Thomas, Esq., Bank-house, Longton, Staffordshire Haden, Joseph, Esq., Dudley, Director of the Derbyshire, Sta ord- Pire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway 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 important manufacturing and mining districts in England, viz., South gtaffordshire, Huddersfield, and Sheffield, and Rotherham in Yorkshire ; the South Staffordshire portion including Dudley, Tipton,Walsall, Bilsten, Wednesbury, and Wolverhampton. This line will also open a direct railway communication between Leeds, Huddersfield, and the West Riding of Yorkshire and Kidder minster, Worcestershire, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton, and Exeter, and with Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford, Brecon, Car diff, Neath, Swansea, Llanelly, Caermarthen, Milford Haven, Fish guard, Aberystwith, and with Port Dynnllaen, the future outport for Ireland. And also the most direct communication between Leeds and Southampton. The line will pass nearly along the Uttoxeter and Caldon Canal to a point near Prestwood, in case the canal be purchased by the pro moters of this undertaking. It will proceed through Ellaston and Mayfield to Ashbourne, thence near Dovedale, Buxton, and Chapel en-la-Frith, Woodhead and llolmfirth to Huddersfield, where it will join the Iluddersfield and Leeds Railway, and so to Thirst. It will open new mines, in addition to those already in work, of lead, coal, iron ore, barytes, and carboniferous and magnesian limestone on the route, in addition to forming a direct, speedy, and cheap communica tion between the important towns above mentioned, Arrangements have been made with other companies to run into this line from Sheffield. This company reserves the right to raise additional capital to extend the line to Leeds. Many of the above-mentioned mineral productions are essential to the mining districts of South Staftbrds'aire 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 stud expen sive, the line from the Caldon Mines having to go by canal round by Etruria, Leek, and the Pottories, to th,e Dudley and surrounding furnaces, when, by this railway, it would be taken in a straight line, to them ; and the Ashbourne, Cromford, WorkswOrtb, and Bakers en country would have an entirely new trade opened to them. The iron stone in the neighbourhood of Sheffield is also becoming Very scarce, and great quantities are introduced from Scotland; the same scarcity exists in South Staffordshire ; and the route of this line Would fur ' nish a cheap and good supply, at ?relent 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 coal, and that of an inferior quality, and by expensive car riage. It is, therefore, next to impossible to calculate the immense traffic which would pour down this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway. The calculations which have been made show a very large peat. There are large lead awl slate quarries on the line which only want an outlet like the one now contemplated to bring theta into fall 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 acenery of Derbyshire is the resort of vast numbers of tourists ; and particular care will ise taken, in passing of the line near Dovedale, not to interfere with or change its beautiful and romantic character. The convenience, therefore, which this line will afford must necessarily cause a great influx of passengers, both on business and pleasure. Ironstone is not so abundant in the South as in North Staffordshire, and vast quantities are sent by the tardy, circuitous, and expensive canal company, which this and other lines of railway meeting at Uttoxeter will remedy. The gypsum formation runs from Staftbrdshlre to the Humber, and the demand for this article for building, agricultural, and manufac turing purposes along this line will be great. The' timber from the neighboarhood of the ifeedwood Forest, Banks, Bagots Woods, and Kingston Woods, upwards of 4,000 acres, chiefly finds its way to the Manchester market by a like objectionable route of tardy and circuitous canal convey ance ; whereas this line would open a direct, easy, and cheap communication to new markets. The line has been viewed prior to a detailed survey, and there are not more than ordinary engineering difficulties. In consequent). ofthe late Parliamentary decisions, it is intended to make this IWO on the broad gauge principle, but the pro moters do not pledge themselves absolutely to do so. At the urgeut *mg/ration of some of the most influential inhabi tants of -asalsourne, the Committee have ordered a survey of a Auc tion lie* to connect that town with OA Herby, and with the Derby and Gainsborough and Midllo4 ItutlWayS Applications for &Ives tie, be made to John Owens, Esq„ 85, Ifoorgate-street, Loo dO l l, and William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttozeter ; and tea the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs, Preece and Evans, 39, /44tIthltry Mr. Miles, Worcester; Mr. Thomas Henry wheelop,Worcester ; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liver pool ; Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Morris Rey nolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard K, Hine, Macclesfield ; Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds ; Measrs‘ Wellbeloved and ()mistier Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Titull ; Mr. Thomas Boardman, Black burn ; Mr. George Clark, Bradtbrd ; Mr. William Masao, Bradford ; Mr. William Crq4lreltu, Halifax; Mr. Charles Spencer, Rottingham; Messrs. and Skew, Derby ; Messrs. Graystoat and Earle, Yorl 1 / 4t ."..`"1*. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield.; Messrs. Kettering Ilyaarshall, Leeds ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham; Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton; Messrs, Tate and Nash, Bris tol ; Messrs. Beaumont and Laugworthy, Exeter ; Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter; Mr. J. Si Holland, Coventry; Messrs, Houghland and Leese, Manchester-; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manchester; Meters. A. Btrc;4ll and Co., Manchester; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sors, aireftleld; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr.L. Weather. ourn, pu., Huddersfield ; Messrs. Everard and Co., Huddersfield; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leigester ; Mr. Nicholson, Edinburgh; Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ; Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Collbge-zgeen, Dublin ; Mr. James Roes, Perth. FOAM OM' APPLICATION FOR ;SHARES. To the PrAvi t itOnal Committee of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Direot Railway. Cieuttenten,—l request you to allo4 xne Shares of 201. each in the above Railway, anti I undertake to accept the same or such less number as you may appropriate to tee, subject to the regulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and In pay, when required, the Deposit thereon of 2/. 2s. per Share. Dated this, day of , 184 . Name in full Profession and professional residenc-e •• . • Residence in fu11........................ Reference.. • ...... .......... LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEFFIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, or LEEDS, WOLVER HAMPTON, and DUDLEY . DIRECT RAILWAY. Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. The Acting Committee of Direction have agreed: " that a Branch Lim" from Ashbourne to Derby be adopted by this Company, and that the capital of the Company be increased from 1,700,0001. to 2,000,0001. for that purpose." JOHN OWENS, Joint WM. ARNOLD BAINBRIGGE,j Solicitors. Offices of the Company, 1, Moorgate, Sept. 26, 1845. T HE LEEDS and CARLISLE or NORTHERN TRUNK RAILWAY of ENGLAND. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 2,000,0001., in 80,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 21. 12e. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beanclerk, Chesham-place, Belgrave square, and the Riding, Northumberland William Ackroyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge, Otley, Director of the East and West Yorkshire, Leeds, York and Midland, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway William Ackroyd, Esq., Cookridge-grove, Leeds George Thomas Allan, Esq., Harewood-grove, near Darlington William Hammond Ambler, Esq., Bishop Auckland, Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway John Atkinson, Esq., Alderman of Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction, and of the York, Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Railway Edward Atkinson, Esq., Portland-place, Bradford, Provisional Di rector of the Leeds and York and Midland Junction Railway George Bacon, Esq., merchant, Nottingham, Director of the Not tingham and Mansfield Railway Vharles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., Director of the Cork and Water end Railroad Charles Bamford, Esq., Director of the York, Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Railways Thomas Dixon Barrow, Esq., Settle, Director of the Manchester, Liverpool, and Staffordshire Potteries Railway, also of the Chel tenham, Oxford, and London Junction, the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Edward H. Barwell, Esq., Mayor of Northampton, and Director of the South Midland and Direct Western Railways J. Errington Bell, Esq., South Shields Thomas Bell, Esq., Leeds Robert Bendle, Esq., Carlisle John Bowring, Esq., M.P., L.S.D., Director of the Blackwell Railway Robert Beverley, Esq., Quarry House, Potternewton, Leeds, Director of the Midland and Th , rsk Junction Railway Edward Biton, Esq., merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Joseph Bishop, Esq., 109, St. John's-road, Director of the Blackwall Railway Company William Charles Boden, Esq., Apsley Hall, Nottinghamshire, Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton, Chairman of the General Maritime Insurance-office Thomas Brown, Esq., banker, Sunderland John Brown, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Enmesh Valley, and the Oxford and Southampton Railway James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Southampton, the Chester and Birkenhead Railways John Octavius Butler, Esq., ironmaster, Kirkstall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds.and Liverpool Direct, and Midland and Thirsk Junction Railways Edwin Cadman, Earl, Sheffield, Director of the Direct Western Railway Robert Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Worcester and Ches ter Railway, and of the Leeds and York Railway William Cadman, Esq., Leeds Richard Carpenter, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway William Cartledge, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol, Director of the Direct Western Benjamin Casson, Esq., Hull Samuel Cavan, Esq., Bedford-street, Liverpool William Chadwick, Esq. (Messrs. Chadwick and Co.), Leeds J. Charretie, Esq., Park Village East, Regent's Park James Clay, Esq., Director of the Furness, and of the Eirminghani, Dudley, and Wolverhampton Railways Thomas Collett, Esq., Leeds Thomas Coiling, Esq., Ripon G. Colquhoun, Esq., Weimer Lodge, Regent's Park, London, Chair man of the Asturian Mining Company, and Director of the Man chester and Southampton Railway George Cowen, Esq., Dolston, near Carlisle. Director of the Mary port and Carlisle Railway Robert Cowen, Esq., Carlisle O. Cunningham, Esq., 4, Clarges-street, Piccadilly John Darlington, Esq., Shipley Hall, Managing Director of the Leeds and West Riding Bank, Bradford Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Di rector of the Bridport and Exeter, Goole and Doncaster, and Direst Western Railways William Hartley Deighton, Esq., Oatiey, Provisional Director of the East and West Yorkshire Railway Richard Dransfield, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Rugby, Hali fax, and Huddersfield Junetioa Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Thomas Duncan, Esq., Otley Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place, Bryan stone-square, Director of the London, Manchester, Liverpool, and Leeds Direct Railway Charles Heneage Elsley, Esq., Recorder of York, Director of the York and Hull and East and West Yorkshire Railways Thomas England, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway William Evans, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Richard Tomkin Evans, Esq., Craven-street, Manchester George Faith, Esq., Mincing-lane, Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway John Forster, Esq., Headingley, near Leeds, Director of the East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway William Foster, Esq., Settle, Director of the Manchester, Liver pool, and Staffordshire Potteries Railway ; also of the Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Junction Railway John Griffiths Frith, Esq., 11, Austin Friars, and Director of tho Londonderry and Coleraine Railroad James Fullalore, jun., Esq., Shakespeare-terrace, Pendleton, Man chester John Garthorne, Esq., Hull William Gill, Esq., Richmond, Yorkshire, Provisional Director of the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction Railway Charles Grant, Esq., 53, Fitzroy-square, London John Grant, Esq., Northampton, Director of the London and Bir mingham Extension Railway Sir Andrew Pellet Green, R.N., James's-place, Bkickingham-gate George Oates Greenwood, Esq., Bradford Edmund Gwyer, Esq. merchant, Bristol William George Ha rrison, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting, and Bucklersbury Jobs Harland, Esq., Merrick, Richmond, Yorkshire, Provisional Director of the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction Railway William Hawthorn, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway. Robert Hawthorn, Esq., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Director of the New castle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway William Henry Hornby, Esq., Blackburn, Chairman of the Black burn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway, and Director of the Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North Western Railway, the Manchester and Wigan Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Grey Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton Hall, Leicestershire, Director of the South Midland, Nottingham, and Gainsborough, and the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, and other railways Charles James Heath, Esq., New London- street, City, Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby and Southampton, and Direct Western Railways Thomas Coulthard Heysham, Esq., Carlisle Captain Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the London and Hounslow Railway George Holmes, Esq., Hull John Holmes, Esq., Hull, Managing Director of the Hull Banking Company • Thomas Holmes, Esq., Hull, Director of the Flax and Cotton Mill Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull, Director of the York, Hull, and East and West Yorkshire, the Hull and Barnsley Junction, and the Direct Western Railways Richard Ella Hutchinson, Esq., Masham, York John Jackson, Esq., Alderman of Leeds, Headingley-hill. near Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and Leeds and York Railway* Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction, and York, Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Railways Thomas Kidley, Esq., M.D.,Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield, Leek, and Staffordshire Railway Edward Kipling, Esq., Darlington Francis Kipling, Esq., Darlington John Kuill, Esq. ' London-bridge-wharf, London, Director of the Wor cester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe, the Worcester and South Wales Junctien Railroad, &c. &c. James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde Park-square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Joseph Lambert, Esq. ' Leeds, Director of the Direct Leeds and Liver pool, and Leeds and York Railways Thomas Laurence, Esq., Leadenhall-street, London, Director of the Direct Weetent Railway William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton, Director of the Leeds and Man chester Direct Railway George Lee, Esq., 5, St. Martin's-place, Charing-cross, Director of the Blackwell Railway Company John Levitt, Esq., Hull John Darnton Luccock, Esq., Alderman of Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway, &c. Captain James Macdougal, the Grove, North Brixton Lumsden Mackeson, Esq. ' Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Reading and Reigate and Guernsey Railways, and Pier Company Captain Charles Edward Mangles, Director of the Northern and Eastern and Blackwell Railways William Marsden, Esq., Greenwood-street, Manchester James Middleton, Esq., Knostrop, near Leeds, Director of the Mid land and Thirsk Junction Railway Michael Middleton, Esq., Darlington Robert Middleton, Esq., Deansgate, Manchester Robert Millington. Esq., ()Moen House, Retford John H. Miners, Esq., Bedford-street, Liverpool Charles Morris, Esq., Portugal-street, Grosvenor-square, Director of the Rank of Australasia Pete.; Morrison, Esq., Director of the Direct Western and South and Midland Railway Francis Morley, Esq., Merrick Park, Richmond , Yorkshire, Pro visional Director of the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction Railway Edward Munk, Esq., The Park, Nottingham, Director of the Not tingham and Mansfield Railway Christopher Musgrave, J.P., Milverton-hill, Leamington, Lord of the Manor of Birmingham, Director of the Leamington and Rugby, Trine, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Manchester and Rugby Railways Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway W. Neesham, Esq., M.D., Director of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Joint-Stock Bank B. Oliveira, Esq., Upper Hyde-park-street, Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction, and Direct Western Railway John Parker, Esq., Shipley, near Bradford Archibald Paull, jun., Esq., Devonshire-place, Portman-square, Di rector of the London and York Railway Thomas Peacock, Esq., Bishop Auckland, Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway A. Maxwell Pickwoad, Esq., Penton Lodge, Bridport, Dorset George Richard Pye, Esq., Ravenham, Suffolk Edward Rallion, Esq., Broome Hall, Durham, Director of the New castle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway Richard Riddell, Esq , 23, Bryanstone-street, Portman-square, Direc tor of the Direct Western and the Great Western Extensio Railway George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junc tion Railway Thomas Salkeld, Esq., Holme 11111, near Carlisle Richard Sandbach, Esq., Manchester Dennison Sanderson, Esq., Manor House, Manchester Hartley Sager, Esq., Ball's Grove, Colne George Saul, Esq., Blunstock, near Carlisle Dalton Haskell Serrell, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park, Director of the Independent London and Manchester Direct Railway W. R. Seymour, Esq., 24, Lime-street Samuel Sharp, Esq., Quarry House, Harperley Park, Durham, Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway John Simpson, Esq., Farm Ville Lodge, Leeds Henry Smith, Esq., The Park, Nottingham, Director of the Grand Union Railway John Spence, Esq., Otley, Director of the East and West Yorkshire, Leeds, York, and Midland Railways Robert Stanfield, jun., the Breck, near Halifax, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Joseph Stocks, Esq., Shibden Hall, Halifax, Director of the East and West Yorkshire Junction, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways Colonel Edward Stopford, 9, Manchester-square, Deputy-Chairman of the Barbadoes Railway William Stords, Esq., Director of the Carlisle City and District Bank William Studely, Esq., Alfred-place, North Brixton Martin Stutely, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and South Essex Railway Villiers Charles Villiers Surtees, Esq. ' Newcastle-upon-Tyne, TA rector of the Newcastle,Durh am, and Lancashire Junction Railway William Tanner, Esq., 84, Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars, Provi sional Director of the Direct Western Railroad Thomas Tebbutt, Esq., merchant, Platt-terrace, Busholme, near Manchester Benjamin Thompson, Esq., Hull Henry Alderson Thompson, Esq., Reeth, near Richmond, Yorkshire John Thompson, Esq., Piccadilly, Manchester Thomas Thompson, Esq., Alderman of Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction, and York, Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Railways W. Gordon Thompson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde -park, Director of the South Midland and Northampton, Banbury, and Chelten ham Railways. C. F. Thornby, Esq., Eastfleld House, Westbury, Bristol George William Todd, Esq., Stockton-on-Tees James Walkinshaw, Esq., Old Park, Isle of Wight, Deputy-Chair man of the Manchester and Southampton Railway, &c. Robert Watkins, Esq., 45, Lower Brook-street, Director of the East and West of England, Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport Railways Richard Webster, Esq., Leeds James Atkinson West, Esq., Western Lodge, Durham, Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York, and East Lincolnshire Railways John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London, Meopham Park, Tun bridge Wells J. Wightman, Esq., Director of the Cheltenham and Oxford Railway B. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-place, Bryanston-square, Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway John Wilkinson, Esq., flax-spinner, Gledhow Mount, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railway William Stitt Wilson, Esq., Norwich, Director of the Maryport and Carlisle Railway Edward Woolmer, Esq., Mayor of Exeter Smith Wormald, Esq., Tickton Grange, Beverley, Director of the York, Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Railways ....... ..--.-..........--..—.-.-.......,............+......- Sost k Thomas Wynne, Esq.. Layton, Staffordshire, Director of ihe , Union and Birmingham Junction, and Holyhead Direct .„ ji Sir William Young, Bart., London, Director of tho lion. Elit, 1 1"; Company, and of the Leicester and Tamworth Junction As."-• and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. William Beresford, Esq., M.P., Henry Plumptrs GiPP S, f ,cr: 0 a Chairman Manton Lupton, Es 4., ~ s." Joseph Underwood, Esq., Deputy Leeds W C ill h i a am irin Anni an ng, Esq. Arthur Mann, Esq. Joseph Middleton, Esq. Charles Bamford, jun., Esq. George Parbury, Esq. „,,,,. W Joh . u G. Y ß a ear rde e' B Esq uilei, Esq. William Simpson Potter , row John Rawson, Esq. _,,,, Of W. Bradley, Esq. James Steele, EN.. g'v - W. It. Collett, Esq., M.P. Carlisle Henry Cornfoot, Esq. Joseph Thompson, EScl• Richard Dutton, Esq. KERS. 1/O f'ita. ,ondon, LothburY, And lAN] London—Commercial Bank of I street Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co. C ar li s l e —Messrs. J. M. Head and Co. Halifax—Messrs. Nawson and Co. Neweastle-upon-Tyne--Newe,astie-up on-Tyne Joint-Sto gy' Company Darlington—Darlington District Joint-Stock Bank ero i,a 1 0 Liverpool—Messrs. Denison, Heywood, and Co. ; COl nin of Liverpool t llMi ll ' Bristol—West of England and So uth Wales Metric Glasgow—Clydesdale Banking Company. SOLICITORS. S. P. Hook, Esq., 11, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbal Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, 34, Lime-street. LOCAL AGENTS. Leeds—John Shackleton, Esq. Carlisle—Messrs. Saul Cockermouth—E d wa rd Waugh, Esq. Brampton—Messrs. Carrick and Lee Otley—Edward Barrett, Esq. „ vo n, fail. Richmond and Darlington —George ," „ enn i. ENGINERRS—Messrs. l±eorge and John ..!,.”. _liii, SE c "ET Azt--C harl es Locock Webb , r',', l _,„,„ t ett7.o The importance of establishing the stoat direct roa';;Jcsiekloi'olf, cation between Leeds and Carlisle, and, by Edinbur gh, 1. 1 th° Railway, between Carlis:e, Glasgow, and . 01 ,1 cl; evident to require anything to be urged in its stlPP ° l; a irsbire' t or 0 The existing and projected lines of railway in intended Its pursue a westerly or north-westerly direction, sz e 't tide object. benefit partieu!ar towns 'and districts, than to effee..,., tent ~n 0 present railway accomplishes it to the utmost Possw?r T i i irslt Itn to Tke line now proposed proceeds by the Leeds and w boter v or (for which an' Act has been already obtained) t hrougl i l id ° ool Otley, Kettlewell, and Hawes, thence it P.- As ter 5 A n Kirby Stephen and Appleby, uniting with the Lanc to 13° ' af° ;;; Iin t . Railway near Penrith. A branch from Ode) . f the n acle o ,n, extend to that important town the advantages ° d carhll s orob i l In comparison with the existing lines the Leeds Ol d 0 f e coo terv o! , will effect a saving of mote than forty mile ; I ° lo portan t fi ll 1 . 4 shorter than any other projected line between the!! r ojlr/sl The great national and local importance of we , o urs; evident. tblo roan r betire eti OP' ir It affords the shortest and most direct routa., ye w si ye ill , , turing metropolis of Yorkshire and the 009 ' . .. .:00 1 s 11 ,,rted ' Scotland; and through the medium of the ranss_ iii .' - pe cowi ti o ts ti e termini in Glasgow and Edinburgh, the 11 11 1 1 " - tle s ' . ~e the several Scotch Trunk lines, extending u"-- ~ (is our - : ' ,.., northern, western, and eastern counties. . ~,,,,or done Of , i ':o The traffic M goods between Leeds and OlSotltew" c d iitle ",,, dently of that with the other towas and ports il„' - '; p os s ,),,,d o i, large amount ; and the facilities afforded bY "" fi - d to t ° ,.., hi l'''r necessarily attract to the intermediate toiThs ur i , l ii digy - ..1 ,, rally, the supply of goods from the manufact tee , be fel r `' s 0 0 0 .. : shire. The distance between Leeds and London 'oi' - 0 11; Trw' reduced by the lines already in progress throug li or V tlea s t - .4 7. - Leeds and Carlisle must necessarily form A P.,d. , i l l tile Railway for the traffic between London and Sc.. c - t ly 1 "_,„, 1 ee,0 The line will connect Hull and the Humber thl i r ripor - e itev, way Firth, a mercantile object of very consideralla for triune ps.!„-, A new and cheap mode of transit will be obtalle, t ile 0 0 %in 7 i , agricultural produce of the rich vales through Wnhe de,„ ln o, o go and which produce, at present, notwithstandlob o dilie'olo w it tl manufacturing districts, cannot be forwarded to brie pr r ot td jou:„ for want of railway communication. A larg e SD , a1i5 e ... 1. 0 ,i 0 710 will be derived from the produce of the exlenso b ow i on opened by the line, and the working of which 1,3 et , tra m :of instances, been rendered impracticable by the cos a sec ti . „ all has been greatly impeded. olsas sin h oo t - A survey has beenmade, and the Parliamentarit,.o to ,-* f, .6. 1 , are in progress, and the engineers have undertB' r s, completed in the course of next month. licit ° 50, 1 7, Applications for shares to be addressed to _,, ti l Mot.:1,1o, l ice' Hook, Esq., 11, Tokenhouse-yard, LothburY, ''',.. oo oeX.,'; 51 1' Or Baker and Grant, 34, Lime-street ;to Charle s .`:, Gull* no; Secretary, at the temporary offices of the ColnOAbro„. l ' 1:,,, P 00i. house, 33, Gresham-street ; Messrs. Shewell, s t 'j ij c (Pa• r.,,,r1 00 house-yard ; Messrs. Taunton and Bush, Au s J . : 07; L'.' O Messrs. Watson, Tootal, and Barff, and Meos il : I,l,..ettis ' D O Leeds ; Messrs. Trigg and Hodgson, Ilull!bboo, vic le o , 6 Wetherell and Co., Durham ; Mr. John G 1,,, T.f . ,„a Poi G. Seed, St. Ann's-square, Manchester 11 .„I:So S 'on 09 :44 and Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Messrs. J. . 1 - ,iehtly ` i,ner Bromley House, Nottingham ; Mr. Frederick IS 1; Jobs ; / 4 ,.. Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, and CompanY , , Drig n9so li ' llri ,et: and Co., Huddersfield ; William H. I.lorrice,,m- 00,7, Ce'.:on," Clark, jun., Southampton ; Mr. J. N. 1351nge , '''" VIC' Co' or - ha 1 01 14; ter; Mr. Thomas Sanford, Exeter ; Mr. . ,„„thtal IV.• cheater ; Mr. Pringle and Messrs. Edward lia '-'"" esSrs' Edinburgh; Messrs. IPEwen and Auld, an d 31 ` d Cockburn, Glasgow. , r To the Provisional C FoOmßiniMttOeeFofAjPireL,LleediCATalOndSA C . 01 01e,;' . ,,,of tii Trunk Railway of Englas s "' ' 7 9:. o f , Gentlemen—l request you will allot Me ~,,,thers i d O Or each in the proposed Leeds and Carlisle , _ Or 11 , t ile ~14 1 way of England ; and I hereby under like to PL'Aceengi 12s. 6d . per share thereon, and to execute th e pv required. Dated this day of „.. 1845. Name in fall ” " ' Trade or Pro ) „ Residence • • (it Place of Blloin °— •••• Date. .• ••• •• • ~_• • Reference.• At y It 00 , Ail ) . D IRECT NORTHERN o,4i 11° LONDON to YORIC• 0.1 , ,d0ew At a MEETING of PROPRIETORS uh my il a Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, pursuant to P following reports were submitted for adoption' tb el' DIRECTORS' REPOl“'„iitilc 0 4 The Directors have called the shareholder. _7O - 0' 4 0 ,4 pose of submitting to them a statement of the" oo tit',o suiting them as to their future proceedings. 8 09, ,,prtf,10 The Board of Trade having recommended ''" of ,1 0 , 4 of survey from London to York, compose d o ft t5,,'!,;0,710 17 a t1#, Eastern line to Cambridge, improved by then i tsl l A 00 by the Tottenham and Farringdon-street poriweicsll7lir Cambridge and Lincoln line, and the norther a io tp r oi r O ,O l Northern from Lincoln to York, the Directors' rte iz,;lo discretion which the shareholders so unreserl 1 ,, A i0 the meeting of 14th of February last, resoir e fir iso, 44 7- ment so much only of their line as was c0a1'.0,1010111,0% the recommended by the Board of Trade, under t oe teV i en yr decision of that Board would be supported by ;Pe de ciilic a olt . accordingly did so ; but certain objections i t ` t ) eo , engraving departments having been taken. ',, o tll!yrt A standing orders of the House of Commons lied 'OO ,O 01 7 d OS, and, consequently, the scheme could only 0. tee as a project _ eo pi tio e of The result was, that after a contest of 1 111e ifecl.,,, {0,0' 1 ;11, 1 Committee of the House of Commons Ileg a- r ted'itkofi i ,4, recommended by the Board of Trade, and reP t e t ool l fo r f reA'oit at that time was the shortest and the only c 0 The 13 o p line from London to York before them. ,• e d passed the House of Commons, but was arre s : o House of Lords by preliminary objections:ooo4o 044, tract on which it was based, which were ne l , o er. Pnove Parliament was prorogued. The position t' i 'i r ties- t 4 next session will depend upon the view the _,P b teil i t o teir rd . take of the objections proved to exist, or ^.„ ire ( Op." established against them. But your Dires,„ o ,7risk ° to/ should the promoters of that scheme take I.l "',,tjego 1 0 1,' proceedings in Parliament on their present fuvo t el l 4 l o e cally speaking, have no advantage when tbedfoen 4d if / 0 / 0 "; competition with one which, at the perio d „„,, col* the House of Commons reported, had not uv" - , it . l e, o o. Impressed with these views, and holdine f , to I „ i iitr G e t beyond doubt, that a new line from Linu le "jog Boned, irrespective of existing routes, and l'e„ 091118 ~ scheme of the London and York does not sm e ` oo olr - Ki vr",' which ought to attach to such a line, as a fe d Oa ' e";;) national importance, your Directors • instru c Ane e ft, distinguished engineer of the North British ttio have now committed the entire charge 4 0 00 t ocrif,t? ment, to examine the country between 1 ' tio i P a report to them his opinion, with a view to re ia , tk e , , ,, c;, l gentleman's report will be read to the 4,n e, OO th s o oriV will , :perceive that he is decidedly of 01 11 " - ,o C r odo , direct line from London to York, formed by opP ,4 ) adhered to, improving it only by a fart"' t wits .40 ,1 ticable, to the most direct and shortest line it, Tie' * 1 admit of. °lie g riw tiq 9 In this opinion the Directors moat heart t o J. pose acting upon it, by carrying out the sla t , n o,',„t/' 0 o" recommended. . r og l " . rop, o c , ' Ti the North British, the Great North, - ! id, t e. l lines which form the eastern route to Setnia to d 1,0 01 1, 01 ' shortest route from London to York is of ti l ci potlori Directors think themselves justified in a n ..,Atel Woe .4"/ proposed by Mr. Miller will receive the CO" n on * fro ton of these Companies, as well as of the P a ' 1 015 l t , / north-eastern portion of Great Britain. ,gde a cil oll" • In Mr. Miller's hands the Directors arc,,eivld,o 'AO ), enabled to submit to Parliament a main 01 ; fo1";il ten miles shorter than that proposed by di which, combined with the necessary b ran 4 , 4) lia( P/C. amount of local accommodation. __ bi g 1 10 :0,1 e 0 ,, tc , ,, The through traffic is every day bee o 7.iii will be recollected that in the report 01 to wn „ 00,0 t,C stated that " should Parliament •be of oP of the most direct line between London an die tes e 0, 0 0 4 dered as a paramount object, the integra l ac es i t o ting ern would deserve a preference. It re' l ; io 0 .0 10 1:; r 4 miles, being 42 miles shorter than -fork t 01,1 , 44 shorter than by the proposed London an d deollei'nei v , The Directors have used their best end i .. ed %j ot el d• standing accounts of the Company exam " 104 11 0 1 11 :40,,, P r - ? ; 4 grees they have made, although considers eet ioP o reP co r e f ; to submit these accounts in detail to this m o un t to 000 however, enabled to state that the gros s t 0 0tii .44 % i ec A to 1 0 ,1, 0 0 4 i will be about 30s. per share, and, conL t ecl i t or 1 7 V 4 0 .4 ',9. as may desire to withdraw from the 1 1 "; 3 , r`, ofrore i P dertaking, there will-remain the sum 0 f , 4, 1 i re ie ct otic e i:/ , 3 I on their original deposits of 21. 10s. Perf,„oo t ile 0° Al Having maturely considered all the c"; t hat oe ,/ Directors have come to the deterMillidl o rit o e e d ref aft an integral line from the metropolis W and under one management, ought t o be tee fe 4 51 , I. Of, , in the ensuing session of Parliament . tea . , fo, o f o yl For this purpose the Directors proP OA 4s Z i'pr o tep A /I 4,000,0001. shall be divided into 160,"r ti o shareholders who may desire to conl o o 01 10 1 1A 0 ve, 0 1 dertaking being entitled, with the sail% t t ti o r ,;; , c 4 change their scrip certificates of 501. eA c . di xe each, on paying up such further sum Pe r ;; per 00 100 of the former deposit, will make uP 14 4 , n ding,t tiV. o ctlP now required to be deposited by the 07 ,4 1 i „ po i; Loris. As to any shares that mar re;oue.,e;po - after carrying out this arr al of preference to be due to approved holders t T o o t c 011 4 j 4; ENGINEER'S lt fftlf.f,,tl A „, to l ,,yrrlo f To the-Provisional Committee of t ll ` to it 0 :01 1 :0S 1 R Gentlemen, -Having received your d toof t o e a 0 ,4 2 , country between London and York. 'O w vie` e ili A o ol l , S o oi of your proposed line of railway, wit b ar ray es to ,f Parliament, I lost no time in mitkiniLt svcs - t tll ° 1 1, 0 :0; your instructions, and I aecordineli th A 018 0 4 ,0 01 , 071 generally, having reference to the Pit a o ur !At or i po ° . 1 1 ' 1 contemplated, and I now beg to re1 101 ':'„ o i tlr o ;' In the outset I may remark that 0 . " 44 11.,,n01' A 0 railway between London and York 'Ft', J.K important circumstances have occur' o %l l ' o o l ' ' bearing on the question, and whicb, , ,,. i s A it Or' A JA' 4 ; 0 40;4 pediency, if not necessity, of hal/into iclie v occA t. t ue' e c , 4o ti the most direct which the country Y a o t s ystern i 0 00 ow Since that period the railway ferw o oro u a P i p tr e ,o ) and the public seem now to look at o a o forming the great means of celiveY,t 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 re, limited to the traffic between fires ever e verJ eri i... o 0 1 ,0.4 mining districts, but penetrating i nto t ots O d ell The system when so carried V cro ote ote. o teroj ever that it will speedily be) 'il M ito es at ° proM ie 11',4 traffic as will render great leading 00 the o utsoo. for • my opinion it will be imperative to , l o 4 .oo_,,depe leading lines, if they look to the Pn, 4o .it c;,"; _400 . 1 terest, to have them laid more itsliniperitto'pep;ii.s, r this principle of action be o end f o° ol o W. A great leading lines from Lond o _4, te ot 0 tit s , O r . north, where there is such an cent orl '4 11 0 ,4 1 ramified traffic of which will c ac ted tot 0 ,0 4 o f ; metropolis by the shortest r0ute ... .," o to w ee ~,,efs;i • This principle has alreadY ,seen to b a „ Dot', extent, and there is every re," 0 0 " c ou0 1 ,,101i of Ijie prevail generally. In carrims' the ho t "'601 1 _ 0 11 . 4, that the local accomModa r ie n ,, it ; dell!! too''l) , ' altogether lost sight of-far 11.tec;i4t, 01 :00 1 e: 10 ,0 'te e , or i; as that between London and „ ro c PA' amid" or:Otene• for the sole purpose of placing ' 4 , m oos 11,ion tt elsg e r should not be thought of, A e- connior in to s . o ° 4 , „,, o diate eit tlly can be brought into iral" tines , le "i po. means of branches or by loca to son. tor ge o ule A SA t Se'. be executed. It appears to misfit Loaa g a l: to ol?, with a great leading line ocil"liTioo. , e.e tty -thedo,ol,4 attention to local acconan tui peri - uld b e r e re" - la' oil I 'o'll o . principle both objects wo _ flor a tie o te t o out it would only be would '''',' r ess tb' eji Ari the country beyond ea r to 5u,, 00 s(?_ 0 capital, and the local inte_r ceocoaio do v n w . a t t orL' id 6 0 ,0 as England will call . for g d ;ci e ng rne'licA trod g P e Ar t el impossible for any railway nro.ju traffic to attend to, without r ows o cti pow D otie f i, lye, hi al bet s oil A on e o v o 4 l o ol' certainly possible to g ea tion, t of o t ) 4 the most minute accomroe an d leas o f 0 1 0 i P t e tile great leading measta t I nt to tlf 0 1 4 oot WWI main line be made subscryi!;l.4e of o n t ' t .ol4 ec t, Plpe v oa:,. Applying this direct Prirl,“rork., y o its e, 0 0 , e, a line between London alr,„ to ld c7oo le O v vi : my opinion the line shuocnlti.....;ns r e „ thA r o l i a nt admit of, em bracing_ u s.,_ l ; v "bot A b v S td that principle be Inc' . n e et et by . 1 ;A: c oon as , „II Y commodation should n e _. cov er W!, o or y n e l' oe et d ip e which will sooner or 1 • -,1c,,, 10tt i ot 4 eeroti_ I have looked over t . l l . ek, pe ars t ee g e ei xo r 4! pgrtinneceirspl,e,ancdarairieTtoeuer year), *at time being only 101'1' r:her thset op LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEFFIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, or LEEDS, WOLVER HAMPTON, and DUDLEY DIRECT RAILWAY. Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. Notice is hereby given, that no applications for shares in this line will be received after SATURDAY, the 4th day of October. WM. ARNOLD BAINBRIGGE, / Joint JOHN OWENS, j Solicitors. Offices of the Company, 1, Moorgate, Sept. 26, 1846. -~ s tir i. t LOIIi ~,,,,, Tha teeth krry ThE l it t, Credi t ti,e4 ‘ll , e l 411ttir ) 14 I tek t harl /eh It 4 1 . 4 Clot to e , *her . 1 t. ttr e , 14„