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Ile I ~-= C ~~ MANCHESTER and RUGBY DIRECT RAILWAY, via MACCLESFIELD. _Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,700,0001., In 85,000 Shales of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The lion. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester ruid Birmingham Continuation Railway i John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Hyde Park a M John asterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street , banker Sir John Pirie. Bart., Alderman of the City of London, Di- 0 rector of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Packet Com- ar PanY William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, late M.P. for Oxford, and late High Sheriff for Monts James Henry Attwood, Esq., Seymour-street, Portman-Square Ode e rge Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Cornhill John Bagshaw, Esq., Director of the Northern and Eastern Railway Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng- land Junction William Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway William Henry Forman, Esq., tipper Thames-street Capt. George Probyn, Bryanston-square Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng . 74-E 0, 9 c.--. 1.1 , ~1 0 land Railway • • • Josh. Underwood, Esq., Director of the Commercial Bank of London William Langley Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex The Hon. Geo. Browne, Lowndes-square, Belgrave-square Sir Geo. Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square Sir Henry Richardson, Chessel House, Southampton Sir William Wynne, 5, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North Wales Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway Sir G. A. Lewin, Upper Harley-street, London Sir John Hare, Langham-place The Mayor of Newbury, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway John Addis. Esq., of Rotkerhithe, Surrey, Director of the Centra Terminus, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Office The Rev. J. Harvey Alit worth, Nei. bury M. W. C. Alston, Egg., Birmingham W. C. Alston, Esq, Elmdon Hall Samuel Ashton, Esq., Wood Hill. Prestwich James Atty, Esq., Rugby James Bancroft, Esq., Alderman of the Borough of Manchester Henry Barlow, Esq., Hightleld, Stockport Samuel Barton, Esq., Didsbury, Director of the Chester and Man chester Direct Railway Hugh Beaver, Esq., Manchester Thomas Brittain, Esq., Manchester William Fechnez Black, Esq., 19, Wilton-place, Belgrave-tiquare, Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Company Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford Captain Burney, Gosport William Bardgett, Esq., Old Broad-street and Carshalten, Surrey, Director of the Italian and Ausirian Railway Company Samuel Swann Brittair, , Esq., Sheffield Charles Baker, Esq., Southampton William Bland, Esq., Brixton, Director of the North Wales Railway Thomas Brittain, Esq., Manchester George Burnand, Esq., Sussex-square, Hyde Park 1 1 11111 am Bevan, Esq., 48, Conduit-street. Bond-street, Director of the North Wales Mineral Railway Jacob Bell, Esq. ' Langham-place, London W. E. Boyes, Esq„ Alkerton, Banbury, Direetor of the East and West of England Railway Henry Brown, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch Robert Bramwell, Esq., Upper Thames-street William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Shef field and Manchester Railway, and Chairman of the Direct West ern Railway George Borrett, Esq., Southampton Lieutenant-Colonel Burslem, North Hants Charles Bailey, Esq., Winchester Henry Baker, Esq., Mark-lane, London E. Burney, Esq., Gosport Joseph Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place George Bovill, Esq., Mill-wall, Poplar Louis Buckland, Esq., Lloyd's, and Avenue-road, St. Joha'S-wood Robert Beman, Esq., Donnington House, Stow-on-the-Wold, Glou cestershire W. Bailey, Esq., Wolverhampton Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Wor cester and Oxford Railway F. F. Clossman, Esq., Mb - Acing-lane John Chapman, Esq., Leadenhall-street, Director of the Devon and Cornwall Railway S. X. Capper, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge Edward Chapman, Esq., Strand, London, Director of the Richmond Railway Sheldon Cradock, Esq., Leicester Philip Warner Courteney, Esq., 26, Capel-street, Belgrave-square Edwin Cadman. Esq., Sheffield. Director of the Direct Western Railway Francis Carleton, Esq. James Clift, Esq., Bloomsbury-square Robert Cruickshank, Esq., Gosport John Churchill Esq. , Bayswater, Director of the Manchester and Bir- • —_ mingham Contimmtlen Railway Robert Charles, Esq., 23, Endsleigh-street, Tavistock-squire G. Colquhoun, Esq., Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway James Consterdine, Esq., Manchester Joseph Cragg, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury Colonel George Disbrowe, Chester-square, London William Dredge, Esq., Newbury James Denis Devitre, Esq., 7, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, Director of the North-Western Railway George Dunlop, Esq., Southampton George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield Richard Dyott, Esq., Freeford _ _ John Alcock Dizor. - Esq., Burnley, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Capt. Farrington, R.N., West Cowes, Isle of Wight E. S. Farrow, Esq., Newbury W. S. Fitzvrilliam, Esq., Old Broad-street, Director of the Essex and Suffolk Railway P. B. Freer, Esq., Stratfbrd-on-Avon William Tulloch Fraser, Esq., 5, Manchester-square Jahn Fawcett, Esq., Broom Hall, Sheffield, Director of the Great Western Railway J. P. Fernistone, Esq., of Highfields, Wolverhampton George Fernistone, Esq., Lays Iron Works, Stourbridge W. E. Gray, Esq„ Newbury Samuel Giles, 'Esq., Manchester Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds H. P. Gipps, Esq., Mootague-place, Bryanstene -square William Gibb, Esq., Manchester John Gould, Esq., Ardwick, Manchester Captain Augustus Heyman, Cadogan-square Thomas Charles Higgins, Esq., Turvey House, Bedfordshire Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgsbaston, near Birmingham, Director of the East and Weat and Birmingham and South Stafford shire Railways 4040 9 11110 14100 d, Esq., Exeter, Director of the East and West of England Railway W. H. Hornby, Esq.,Blackburn George Calvert Holland, Esq., M.D., Sheffield' John Newington Hughes, Esq. St. Michael's, Winchester William Hill, Esq., Manchester John Haddon, Esq., Director of the East and West of England Rail way Company Joseph Haden, Esq., iron master, Dudley David Harrison, Esq., Staley-bridge, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham and Cheshire Junction Railway I'. Hodges, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway James Home, Esq., Clapham Common, Director of the North Lon don Railway Company John Memming, Es -4., North Bank, Regent's Park, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway T. A. Hall, Esq., Ashtleld House, Newcastle, Staffordshire Frederick Fltwitt, Esq., Clapham, Surrey J. H. Micron, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and Man chester Railway Theopiallus Hodges, Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, Director Of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway George Calvert Holland, Esq., M.D.. Sheffield John Hyde, Esq., Manchester William Jacomb, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the East and Wart of England William Jenkinson, Esq., Marlborongh-sqUare, Salford George Jones, Esq., Redland, Bristol V. Clarke Kemball, Esq., 6, Chester-place, Hyde-park J. Kinloch, Esq., Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director of the Forth Wales Railway John Knill, Esq., Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Junction Railway Charles 'Cason, Esq., Teignmouth, Devon, Director of the East and West of England Railway William Knott, Esq., 4, Adelaide-place, Director of the Richmond Railway M. W. King, Esq.. Amblicote Hall, Stourbridge Edward Lomer, Esq., Southampton William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., James-street, Buckingham-gate. Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway Henry Ledgard, Esq., Wood-street John Dawson Lowden, Esq., Doughty-street, Director of the Rich- _ mood Railway James Lees, Esq., Brockville, near Manchester Joseph Liggins, Esq., Kensington, Director of the Southampton Dock Company Captain J. II Leckie, Richmond, Surrey Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway James Lamb, Esq., 23, Hyde Park-square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basinstoke Railway Samuel Lovell, Esq., Bedford _ _ F. Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-plaee, Regent's-park William Mills, Esq., Newbury Joseph Maunder, Esq., Ashford-house, Staines John Alalleson, Esq., Wimbledon, Director of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway W. Malins, Esq., Mansion-house-place, London, Director of the South Staffordshire 'Railway William Robert Mesham, Esq., M.D., Redford George Miller, F.sq., Director of the Centre Railway TerminnS Charles Mani:, Esq., Leamington Charles Mtregrave, Esq., Melverton-hill, Leamington 11. Y. Musliet, Esq., Birchln•lane, and Coleford John Marshall, Esq., Hornforth Hall, near Leeds, late Mayor of Norwich John Macfarlane, Esq., Director of the Sheffield Railway Thomas Markland, Esq., Malfield, Manchester James Marshall, Esq., Brinnulgton Mount, Stockport Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford,Nottinghfunshire O.!Moore, Esq., St. John's Priory, Banbury Nicholas AP - Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street Villliarn I; ash, Esq., Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway Cornelius Nicholson, Esq., Cowan Head, Kendal, Deputy-Chairman of the York and Carlisle Railway Captain Alexander Nairne, Director of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company Joseph Naden, Esq., Dudley Edward Norris, Esq. Manchester Robert Ogden, Esq., The Oaks, Manchester James Ogden, Esq. M.D., Salford, Director of the Chester and Man chester Direct Ra ilway P. Oldfield, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Liver pool Railway George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the East and. West of England Railway Apsley Pellatt, Esq., Director of the Staines and Richmond Railway Thomas Parker, Esq., Spring-gardens, London John Clarke Prescott, Esq., Manchester William Simpson Potter, Esq., of Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Di rector of the Oxford, Whitney, and Cheltenham Independent Railway Charles Potter, Esq., Darwen, Director of the Blackburn, Darwens and Bolton Hallway James Paxton, Esq., Rugby Richard N. Philipps, L'sq., Sheffield John Perks, Esq., Wolverhampton Richard Burton Philllpson, Esq., Rugby N. M. Prianix, Req., South Western Steam-packet Company, Southampton Stephen Phillips, Esq., Director of the Whitehaven and FurnesS Railway Charles Phillips, Esq., Camberwell, Surrey William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the Manchester and Car. lisle Railway • Richard Ricketts, Esq., Bristol George Rougemont, E'eq., 9, Cheater-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the North London Junction Railway Thomas Rolls, Esq., Bank, Chipping Morten Thomas Robinson, Esq., Charles-street, Md David Roxburgh, Esq., Bloomfield-road, Maids Hill Hartley Sager, Esq.. Ball Grove, Colne, Yorkshire Samuel Sangster, Esq., - pany Brixton-hill, Director of the City Gas Com dajor Charles T. Selwyn, of the Royal Engineer'', Exeter, Director of the East and West of England Junction James Shaw, Esq., Salford John Sidebottorn, Esq., Etheron-house. Cheshire William Sldebottom, Esq., Etheron House, Cheshire D avid Silzer, Esq., Rhodes, near Manchester Charles Slocock, Esq., Newbury Edmund Slocock, Esq, Newbury Christopher Shapland, sq , Bristol, Director of the Bristol and Gloucester, South Devon,and Cornwall Railway C om p an i e s Joseph Stocks, Esq., Se en. verpool and Leeds D irect itait al t i t , near Halifax, Director of the La- W. Senhouse, Esq., Daven*.ry w Y T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy Chairman i i of the Richmond Walter Shairp, s,,,,scx_garden E. Shaweross, Esq., x anchester Esq.. for Lymington, , yde Park John Stewart, Director of the East and West of England Iti.ilway T. 11. Sheppard. Esc._ Toweester Joseph Shaw, Es q ., Huddersfield Horatio Smith, Re q ., strange wck , irs hall, Man c h es t er W. Tebbutt, Esq., Manchester Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-sr London and Brighton Railway eet, Bedf ord-row, Dir of the Thomas Thomson, Esq., Stratford-on -Avon W. Tinker, Esq., Manchester, and Hyde, Cheshire Charles B. Fripp, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Jersey Railway Thomas Varley, Esq., Shorsten Hall, Melton Edward Westlake, Tr,sq., Southampton Charles Ric Fen hmond ton Whiting, Esq., Beaufort House, Strand, Direct or o f the Railway Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker, 4, Whitehall B. M. Wilcox, Esq., Hantsville, Torquay John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield Firs and Life Insurance Company George Whitmore, Esq., Austin-Wars, Deputy Chairman of the North Kent Railway Thomas Woodham, Esq., Winchester W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the .Yarmouth and Wavarley r k Valley Railway : Daniel Watney, Esq., distiller, Wandsworth, Surrey N. F. Wennington, Esq., Walsall Smith Willock, Esq., Birmingham W. D. Wills, Esq., Bristol A. X. Wylie, Esq. Liver pool 7 .7e— Edmtual Waveil, Haft jrntking, Eag., Fvrrel Bul, near Wiirksrp Paul Ferdinand Willert, Esq., Alderman of the Borough of Man chester Charles James Stanley Walker, Esq., Longford House, Stretford, Alderman of Manchester, and Director of the Chester and Man chester Railway Morris Were, Esq., Moorlands, Southampton John Woodcock, Esq. ' banker, The Elms, Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Bury Railway John Yorke, Esq., banker, Thrapson, Northamptonshire (With power to add to their number.) BANKERS. Messrs. 3lasterman and Co., London. The Union Bank, Manchester ENGINZER•IN-CHIEF. ACTING ENGINEERS. Messrs. J. B. and E. Birch, Westminster Braekstone Baker, Esq. SOLICITORS. John Bethel, Esq., King William-street, London. Messrs. Joseph and William Heron, and Messrs. Hlgson and Robins, Manchester That another and a more direct line of railway is necessary between the metropolis and the manufacturing districts around Manchester, is now fully admitted, and the question is, which is the best line to be adopted. The above proposed railway will form the shortest and most di rect route from London to Manchester, and will therefore complete the direct communication with the metropolis at a much less expen diture of capital than by either of the projected London and Man chester lines (Remington's and Ashurst's), the actual distance to be constructed being only 73, instead of 170 to 180 miles. A careful preliminary survey has determined the promoters of this railway to adopt nearly a straight line from Rugby to Macclesfield, s an increased expenditure of 200,0001. or 300,0001. judicially applied in the present perfected state of civil engineering, and at the reduced cost of the execution of earth works, will prove in the end a far greater real economy, both to the Company Itself in the saving effected in the annual expense of working, and also, what is of more importance, to the country in general, by accomplishing, at a much less cost, the same end proposed by an entire and distinct line from London to Manchester. These considerations have not been sufficiently kept in view by other parties who have also proposed to make a railway from Rugby to Macclesfield, but who, by deviating from the direct tract to pursue valleys and to avoid the irregularities of the face of the country, obviously lose the advantages proposed by this Company. The Parliamentary decision on the choice of the London and Brighton Railway is a parallel case, the direct line, although presenting more difficulties to overcome, and Involving a greater outlay, having been adopted by Parliament in preference to the many competing projects, in a more or less sinuous direction, which were at that time supported in the House by very influential parties. Should it be found necessary, arrangements have been made by which additional lines of rails will be laid between Rugby and Lon don on the London and Birmingham Railway, whereby the surplus traffic northwards will be abundantly provided for. This line also possesses the singular advantage of affording the shortest and most direct route from Manchester to Southampton, Gosportaid Portsmouth, a feature presented by no other proposed railway. . By adopting the Rugby and Oxford branch of the Great Western as far as Didcot, and thence the proposed Oxford, Southamp ton, Gosport, and Portsmouth line, the distance from Manchester to Southampton will be twenty-three miles less than by any other route, and on this account the project has been warmly supported by the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Company. The de zdations from a perfectly straight line between Rugby and Macclesfield to avoid high ranges of hills, ornamental parks, or valuable buildings are very slight, and the line in general offers no engineering difficcdties of any magnitude. The towns more directly interested as a local line are Nuneaton, Hinckley, Atherstone, Market Bosworth, Burton-upon-Trent, Tutbury, Ashbourne, and Leek. The Company has made arrangerbents with the North London Junction Railway Company, whereby it has secured the use of their station (of the extent of six acres) in the centre of the City of London, at the bottom of Moorgate-street, which will prove of the utmost importance to this line. Amidst the many railway projects that now occupy the public mind, and involve a vast outlay of capital, it will readily be conceded that a line that will attain such important results at so small an outlay of capital, and the time required for its construction, and without interfering with any existing vested interests, must meet with general approbation, and at the same time offer a very excellent investment for capital The shareholders in the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Ports mouth, in the London and Birmingham, and in the Manchester and Birmingham Railways, will have a preference in the allotment of the shares. The deeds will provide that no call shall be made on the share holders beyond the deposit now paid, until the Act of Parliament is obtained, and power will be taken in the Act to allow 41. per cent. interest in all calls. Application for detailed prospectus, maps, and shares, may be made to the Secretary, at tie Offices, 78, King William-street, City, London, and at 22, Cross-street, Manchester; and the following sharebrokers :—Messrs. R. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, 22, North side Royal Exchange, London ; George Bumand, Esq., Comhill; Messrs. Barclay, Alison, and Co., Royal Exchange ; Messrs. Hough land and Leese, 51, King-street, Manchester; John Wills, Esq., Royal Bank -buildings, Liverpool ; Messrs. Wellbeloved an I Oastler, Leeds ; Messrs. Edwards and Son, and W. H. Land, Esq., Bristol ; J. R. Lane, Esq., Birmingham ; Messrs. Garton and Wright, Shef field ; J. G. Kershaw, Esq., Huddersfield ; F. C. Spencer, Esq., Halifax ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Henry Beaumont and Co., Exeter ; R. P. Lemon, Esq., Bath ; Joseph Clark, Esq., Southam M pton ; andAPPLICATIO Messrs. and Tootal, Hull. FOR OF N. To the Provisional Committee of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway Company, via Macclesfield. I request you will allot to me shares of 201. each in the capital of the above-named railway, and I will accept the same, or any less number and pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per Share, and sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated the day of Name ••• 000000 •••••••••• Address . •••• . • • .••••• • • • • . Profession .OO Reference •. • ... •• .. .......... . ! MANCHESTER. and RUGBY DIRECT RAILWAY, via MACCLESFIELD. The Provisional Committee beg to announce, that practical Engi neers of great experience have gone over the proposed Line, and have setisiled the Committee that the country is perfectly practi cable for railway purposes. They have likewise the satisfaction to state, that Contractors of known respectability are willing to execute the whole of the works within the estimate in eighteen months, thus putting the matter of time and money beyond a doubt. THE CHESTER AND MANCHESTER DIRECT RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that the Parliamentary Contract and Sub scribers' Agreement are now lying for execution at the Company's 011 lee, No. 1, Royal Exchange Buildings, Loudon, between the hours of Ten and Five o'clock in the day, when, upon signature of the deed, tke Banker's Receipt will be exchanged for Scrip. By order, A. BARRETT, Secretary. Sept. 12. 1845. I RISH WEST COAST RAILWAY•I (Registered Provisionally.) Capital, 2,500,0001., In 100,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. WO Subscriber to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTICR. Mark Blake, Esq., M.P., Ballinafad, Mayo Robert Dillon Browne, Esq., M.P., Glencorrib, Mayo John Patrick Somers, Esq., M.P., Sligo Sir Thomas Bernard Going Dancer, Bart., Modreeny House, Clough jordon, county Tipperary, Director of the Galway and Kilkenny Railway The Hon. Geoffry Browne, D.L., Wilton-crescent, London, and Castle M‘Garrett, Mayo The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street, Whitehall, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway Michael Gallagher, Esq., Mayor of Sligo John Netterville Barron, Esq., Resident Magistrate, Sanders Park, Cork Owen Edmond Blake, Esq., J.P., Frenchfort, Galway William Butler, Esq., J.P., Bunnahow, Ennis (late High Sheriff of Clare) James F. Burke, Esq., J.P., St. Clarence, Galway Ddminick Joseph Burke, Esq., J.P., Greenhill, Mayo Theobald Burke, Esq., J.P., Woodville, Mayo William Campbell, Esq., Sackville-street, and Brighton John Carmichael, Esq., T.C., Rivertson House, Cork, Director of the Cork and Killarney Railway Charles Collins, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge, Director of the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Jamaica Railway Thomas Comins, Esq., Ballybrit House, Galway Edward Deane, Esq., J.P., Curragowan, Mayo James Dillon, Esq., J.P., Cogne, Mayo John Dunn, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S., L. and D., Drumsna, Leitrim Thomas Edwards, Esq., King William-street, London, Director of the Direct London and Dublin Railway Robert Fiske, Esq., Chepstow, Monmouthshire Robert Graham, Esq., J.P., Drumgoon, Fermanagh Klein Grant, Esq., M.D., St. James's-street, Pall-mall, Director of the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Jamaica Railway Henry Griffith, Esq., D.L., J.P., Port Royal, Sligo, Director of the Sligo and Shannon Railway Dean John Hoare, Esq., Percy-street, Bedford-square Robert Hughes, Esq., Ely House, Wexford, Director of the Provin cial Bank of Ireland John Kerschner, Esq., Middle Temple William King, Esq., Spring-gardens, and Putney, Surrey John Knox, Esq., J.P., Greenwood Park, Mayo Joseph Myles M‘Dennell, Esq., J.P.,Doocastle, Mayo Capt. Charles Carden Mansergh, ngraigne, Wexford, Director of the Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia Railway Capt. Newton, Bruton-street, and Lugwardin, llerts Francis R. O'Grady, Esq., Tavrane, Mayo Richard O'Grady, Esq. Tavrane, Mayo John O'Hara, Esq., Ratteen Gert, Treasurer, County Galway Charles Ormsby, Esq., D.L., Cummin, Sligo Robert Dudley Persse, Esq., Galway Michael Perrin, Esq., Gigtvray Bees Price, Esq., M.D.,Tyne Hall, Great Ilford, Essex y- Richard CowleP Polhill, Esq , Brompton, Middlesex Joseph Richardson, Esq., J.P. Summer-hill House, Clones Thomas Seymour, Esq., J.P., Ballymore Castle, Ballinasloe James Sexton, Esq., J.P., Limerick S. W. Simcoxes, Esq., Galway Despard Taylor, Esq., Newport, Swords John Walsh, Esq , Castlehill, Mayo Captain George Edward Watts, R.N., Langton Grange, Darlington (With power to add to their number.) CONSULTING Ennui - emu--Colonel Landmann, R.E., F.A.S., ENGINEER—G. M. Lewis, C.E. BANKERS. LondOn—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co. Scotland—Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank Ireland—National Bank and Branches Provincial Bank and Branches. STANDING COUNSEL—James Monson Carrow, ESC'. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Langley and Mead, Bedford-row, London. William Thomas Kelly, Esq., 16, Mountjoy-square North, Dublin, and Castlebar, Mayo. LOCAL AGENTS. Galway—Captain F. O'Shaughnesey Castlebar—Mr. Henry Murphy Sligo—Mr. W. C. Tutte. liznarrAsic—Henry T. Stuart, Esq. PROSPECTUS. The object of this line of Railway is to complete the chain of coast communication, and form a connexion with lines already established Or projected with reasonable hopes of success. It will commence at or near the city of Limerick, and taking a nor therly direction, proceed through the counties ofClare, Galway, Mayo, and Sligo, terminating at Sligo, by a junction with the Sligo and Ennis killen Railway, and accommodating on its route they,portant cities and towns of Limerick, Ennis , Gort, Loughrea, Athenr Monives., Team, Ballinrobe, Castlebar, Westport, Foxford, Bettina, Kilalla, Swineford, Streamstown, and Sligo, which town being connected with the north, east, and south, by the different lines through Enniskillen, Landon. derry, Coleraine, Belfast, Arm a g h, Newry, Dundalk, Drogheda, Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Valentia, Tralee, and Limerick, the establishment of this line will cause Ire land to present a completeness of locomotive communication which no other country in the world enjoys. The country through which the proposed line travels is most fertile in mineral and agricultural products; it embraces many extensive coal fields, whose advantages it will extend to all parts of Connaught and Ulster; and intersecting, as it does, so many metropolitan lines of railway, it will develops those advantages in an equal degree to the province of Leinster. The lead, iron, marble, and slate works on its route, will be rendered available to the most distant parts of the island, and perhaps not the least advantage, in a national point of view, will be the establlshment of an intercourse between the population of the extreme north and that of the extreme south, as well as placing the trade of, and communication with, Scotland, within the easy reach of all towns of any importance in Ireland. Added to this the cer tainty that on the completion of the projected southern, eastern, and western lines, the noble natural harbours on the Atlantic shore of Ireland will become the British depots of American traffic, and most probably the established packet stations for postal communication between the two countries,. it is impossible to over-rate the value of this truly national projection. The counties which this railway traverses abundantly supply the English markets with cattle, pigs, &c. This line, communicating with so many ports, will afford the greatest facilities for the shipping of this portion of trade, some idea of the extent of which may be formed from the fact of upwards of five hundred fairs being held annually in its immediate vicinity, among them, the fair of Ballinasloe, ac knowledged the greatest for sheep and cattle in the British islands. It has been ascertained that the country presents great engineering facilities for the construction of a railway, and in communications which have been received from the landowners along the line, the greatest anxiety is manifested for its completion. The subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first deposits until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only to the amount of their subscriptions. Power will be applied for in the Act—and in the meantime Is lserebvary t i no ieft min to ate th th e e C fl om rst ni d i l t r t e e c e-- tor t ß o of al t t h e e r the eom capital , , if necessary; to into ab arrangementsa ndonaii y part wth of the line, to make branch lines, or ready for for signature Parliamentary . contract an enterotherd s ubsc ri b e rs' b e s o e m r b p e a r n s y , or ag r c e o e m m p e a n n i t es w ;andw i ll bo It will be seen from t payment of the deposits. the plan that the rail wa y i n t ersec t s man y ma i n lines, and will thus eon me to, and r ece i ve f rom them a con siderablelin Passenger and mer c h an di se traffic. es that ha ve b een made, a return of at least 10 rro th a e m e o st u i n ni t a t made in the usual fcrm to per cent. must be realised on th Old Jewry Ch :teliar ca pi tal . Agents ; to the tonAppilnicLatoinoanofnoranshdapreusbtloinbe. the Solid 13Crookners'a'7,Me?; a t h t thee undermentioned offi c office of the and Wills, Adinburgh ; Secretary, ma ambers ; and lane, Cornhill ; Mr. D. B. Major, Change -alley, martin and lleseltins, cto thon Laurie, Liverpool ; Messrs. Brady l i i!l e- l ' T " ilr . ; M F r Hull; Mr. 8. Grindrod, Manchester ; ta r % -- vir - Leeds ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Ty a a ". and Co., Plymouth ; Mr. T. Sandford, Exeter; Mr. Robert Ala n , Messrs. M'Ewei and Auld, Glasgow; Mr. Willi dean; Messrs. Cantle and Power, Dame-street, Dublin 1 17, 0* J Aber- Morgan, C ork. of wkom Pcoopectnue may be bA4. "lulu* D IRE CT WESTERN RAILWjAY (Upon the Broad Gauge), From London to the Land's-end ; with Di - .•erginz Lines to Bath and Bridgewater respectively. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. e.t.a. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, PeWsey, Wilts Sir Henry Webbe, Bart. 105, Pall-mall Frederick Hodgson, Esq., au. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London Ralph Neville, Esq., M.P. for Windsor, Hill-street, Berkeley-square Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P. for Totness, 6, Parliament-street Hon. Percy Evans Freks, 3, Belgrave-square Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London William. Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Companies Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin ster Bank, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder minster Railway Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the City of London Edward Harrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the South Midland Railway Joseph Armitage, Esq., Mills's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park, Director of the Northampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham, and South Midland Railways Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe Philip W. Courtnay, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London Millis Coventry, Esq.,' Whitehart-court, Lombard-street Barnet L. ;Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and George-street, Mansion House John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Hank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Boswell Middleton Jolland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf William Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the Devon and Cornwall Banking Company Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-oroes, Director of the South Midland Railway Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London, Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South Essex Railways Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Director of the Londonderry and Coleraine and the ondonderry and Enniskillen Railways John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Insurance Company James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Direc tor of the Bridport and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railways Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon- street, London - - H. G. Atkinson, Esq., 17poer Gloucester-place, Regent's Park George M'lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-square Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland Railway Charles Bleaden, Esq., CouLsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company 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 London and Blackwall Railway Company W. D. Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon Cuthbert Woodstock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstone-street, Portman square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension Railways George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London, Assistant Tithe Commissioner William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway Richard Harris Purcell, Eeq., 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 Blackwall Railway Company Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen -square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the St. Katherine's Dock Company William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belg,rave-square Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles- street, Berkeley-square James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor place, London Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail way Company Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London William Congreve Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d Light Dragoons Robert Main, Esq.. Ravensboume Park, Lewisham, and Trinity square, London Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire John GlHyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Barks Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Rev. Chas. Fras. Bamfyide, Rector of Dunkerton, near Rath Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming- ham Railway Company R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buckingham. shire Railway and Wolverton Junction Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton Colonel Henry Duadas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton Wm. H. Holcomb, Esq., Chilton, liungerford, Chairman of the Berks Union Banking Company William Holcomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and Dorset Bank Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton Robert Parsons. Esq., Taunton John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berks Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Kerle Haberfield, Esq., Clifton, Bristol James Troup, DK., Hastings John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director of Coventry and Leicester Railway Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways John Newton Mappin, Esq. Sheffield, Director of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and Southampton Railway Edward Norris. Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct Lta4ou and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies Joseph! Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways James Ogden, M.D., Salford Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley" Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies" John Holford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford Union Railway Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director •f Manchester and South- ampton Railway John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Durham Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and Midland Railway Companies Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool Wm. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and Iron Bridge Railway Company C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheflield and Manchester Railway Company Bdwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield, Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office Wm. Thompson, Esq., Upperthdrpe, near Sheffield, Director of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of tie East Coast Railway Company Captain Bowker, R.N., Devonport H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Di rect Railway Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffl9l .. Dlfe3tsr of the East and West of England Railway Company John Fawcett, Esi., Sheffield, Director of tie Wig old and Har rdevgate Railway Company William Marriott, Esq., Atterclltr-terrace, Sheffield, Direct,; of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Rae, y. Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York and East Lincolnshire Railways John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool David Price, Esq., Manchester William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamingteit Rev. H. W. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of . the South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenha m R a i lways John Henry os H t luebrb Esq.,r s ty Hull,Esq.,Director H ul of the Hull and B arns l ey Junetten l Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehonse, merchant John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Assistant Tithe Com missioner John Norton, Esq., Moat House,'Brentwood, Essex William John M`Guire, Esq., Hampton Court John Gray Wilson, Esq., Ox ford-terrace Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey W. J. Lefenvre, Esq., F R.S.,Alderman and Magistrate of Southampton Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park G. B. Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Coventry and Leicester Railway Captain Triugham, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire William Jenson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield (With power to add to their number). A further list of influential names will shortly appear. Bantams—Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill, London. JOINT SOLICITOS.S. Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London , ck Li a n n e d ol i n .o ,s n i d u o n n teids, Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London J. Har ting, 24 , London. m at e els rs ra . . Haynes v . a. c a t n j d . Moore, THar Secazzasy—Thomas Hosier Saunders Esq. AJOISTANT-SECRETAIIII—CharIes J. Whatl ey, Esq. LOCAL AGENTS. At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq. At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole At Tiverton, T. L. T. Rendell, Esq., and J. A. Tome, Esq. At Truro At Penzance At Falmouth The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between London and the Land's End. In 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 on that coast. With the advantage of at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in creased its imports from 200,0001. to 3,000,0001. per annum. At Bris tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased. The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great Western and Bristol and Exeter 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 es ether line than the ?resent can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard Io this, its most important outport—" the natuidd 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 traflie and afford ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company. The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging lino 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 those points, and without a ,„. t t n w n i nd itt7 . ::: F se r e o ed i t ia Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is .1 propo sed lves, aid rn c,rr to p° me c rzLaletdheo,l London being directgeFalmouth, shortert o b t a h y e saay L boi a nu n gt d o ' e faxa E bot n y d umll , t Falmouth, St. li to ne th by o way tran o o f o P n lym te ut u h p , p a w nd p e o ff rti ec o ti n ng of th in e th u e ne w i h t ol i e s ne,Aiwi to my tam, than tutwere auvwciy tiumust esntriuscettyllanmilattle:h.: Icleat 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 ; to what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire may be further developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a t ra ffic both In goods and passengers, from Its western terminus, the amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the map will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of railroad accommodation. Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance in the event of war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet commerce of the kingdom; it 'may not be out of place to quote here the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley, which bore much the same relatM to the Birmingham and Grand Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways, he is reported to have said : I consider that the com munication between the metropolis and the great outports to be not a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company, it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself not hereafter to oppose a direct lino 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. Tke survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and cm rey t estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for w aresto34, and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par liament. It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be constructed at an unusually small expense ; that the undertaking will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways in the kingdom. Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at four pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the laud 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, or to any respect able broker in town or country London, September 11, 1845. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway that' great‘nY, Company. Ge - ,..riTne.--ik request you will allot me shares of 251. each in sad I undertake to pay the deposit of 21.125. 6d. pc. O. o f it n, or on any less number you may appropriate to me, a.ine zee,— 1 , the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con tract when required. Dated 1845. Name in full ........ ....... Residence ...... . Trade or Profession ...... ............ Place of Business (if any) .... Reference.. • • • • • • ...... • • • • • • • • • • • READING AND REIGATE RAILWAY, connecting the GREAT WESTERN, SOUTH WESTERN, LONDON and BRIGHTON, and SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAYS. Provisionally registered, pursuant to 7 & 8 Vict., c. 110. Capital, £600,000 in 30,000 shares of £2O each. Deposit, £2 2s. per share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Visceunt Chelsea, M.P. for Reading Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., 6, Parliament-street John Humphery, Esq., M.P., and Alderman of the City of London Sir James Carmichael, Bart., 40, Sussex-gardens Sir William Young, Bart., Director of the East India Company SirJamesspEroyTte,Bßoyadrt;, Esq., Low Cleveland-row Daniel Grosvenor-square William Daniel Mildred, Esq., Banker, Nicholas-lane Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Carlton-terrace, and Broome Hall, Dorking Daniel Watney, Esq., Wandsworth, Surrey William Strahan, Esq., banker, Strand, and Ashurst, Dorking Le Marchant Thomas, Esq., Itillingbear Park, Wokingham, Berke Major David Fitzgerald, Pall-mall, and Valentia, Ireland Colonel Robert Douglas, R.A., United Service Club, Director of the Bideford and Tavistock Railway Major Jelf Sharp, Twickenham, Deputy Chairman of the Thames Embankment Company Major Oliver Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystivith, and Central Wales Railway Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., F.R.S., Rushland Hall, Lancashire, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley Railway Major Morse Cooper, Wargrave, Berks Captain G. Evans, TIN., Headley Grove, Dorking James Garrard, Esq., Pinner, Middlesex John Leveson Gower, Esq., Bill Hill, Wokingham, Berks James Hartley, Esq., Leadenhall-street, Director of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company James Hayward, Esq., Wokingham, Berks Thomas Neale, Esq., Banker, Reigate Thomas Neale, jun., Esq., Reigate Samuel Relf, Esq., Reigate Captain Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Manchester and Direct Rugby Railways John Jackson, Esq., Upper Belgrave-place, Eaton-square Charles Johnson, Esq., Hennerton House, Berks John Keene, Esq., Director of the National Bank of Ireland John Weldale linollys, Esq., Reading William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square David Mocatta, Esq., F.S.A., 32, Brunswick-square Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life-office Edward E. Molyneux, Esq., Inner Temple, Director of the Shrews bury and Hereford Railway John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., 80, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park Lewis Pocock, Esq., F.S.A., 29, Montague-street, Russell-square William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman of the Church of England Life Insurance Company John Southgate, Esq., Pebble Coombe, Reigate Thomas Stevenson, Esq., F.S.A., 37, Upper Grosvenor-street, Gros- venor-square James Joseph Wheble, Esq., Bu'marsh Court, Reading, Berks John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and Leeds and Liverpool Railways William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., 17, James-street, Buckingham. gate Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway (With power to add to their number). ENGINEER —SamueI Hughes, Esq., C.E. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Richards and Rogers, Reading. LOCAL AGENTS. Wokingham—J. L. Roberts, Esq. Dorking—Mark Smallpiece, Esq. Reigate—Thomas Hart, Esq. Bracknell—Charles Cave, Esq. Bagshot—John Mears, Esq. Kingston—R. F. Bartrop, Esq. BANKERS. London—Messrs• Masterman, Peters, Mildred, and Co. Reading—Messrs. J. and C. Simonds and Co. Reigate—Messrs• Nash and Neale. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS. m tn p s a a n n y d , z . p l , , which may be obtained Old Jewry, or from the Hugh nines Cameron and George Bain, Esqs., 18, Parliament-street. SECRETARY (pro tern )—Digby Fowell, Esq. Temporary Offices, No. 1, Old Jewry. Solicitors, Parliamentary or Local Agents, or the following Share brokers :—Messrs. Sutton and Gribble, Exchange, London ; Messrs. at r th o e r Tate and Nash, Bristol ;Gloucester ; Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter ; Mr. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. Nelson, Liver tpeartmplocuralaryrs Ill; M e ssrs. Newmarch and Withington, Manchester ; Messrs. Bingley, Rawson, and Bingley, Leeds ; Mr. Nightingale, Wakefield ; Messrs. Grayson and Earle, York; Messrs. Flint and Tootal, Hull; O s m ee ne th a Messrs. Eyrc and Shaw, Derby ; Mr. W. J. Eaglesfield, Leicester • P e et and Son, Nottingham ; Messrs. Pillans and Messrs. J. PHome, Edinburg , Edinburgh • an d Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Reading and Reigate Railway Company. allot me G en tlemen, —I request you will shares of 201. each in this Railway, and I undertake to accept the same, or any less number you may appropriate to me, to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and all future calls thereon, and to execute the Sub scribers Agreement and Parliamentary Contract when required. 184 Dated this day.::)f Name in full ... • • • • • • • •.. ..... Profession ............. Reference to fifi1.................... : : REowmpticieNbei'GßyheorrAedber REIGATE RAILWAY. that NO APPLICATIONS for fter To-Ifoazow (Wednesday), the g 2 -------"---1;T I 3 4 H th AR Ins ENS t A . DIGBY FOWELL, Secretary (p ro t em .) Sept. 23, 1845 . Offices, 1, Old Jewry, RECEIVEDo:i' ' t h e an ; Board, PORT of WISB CH, PETERBOROUGII, BiRmiNG HAm, and bIIDLAND COUNTIES UNION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 300,0001., in Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. ss. per Share. No shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his subscription. rsovistorikr.commiTTEE. John Humphery, Esq. — , - M.P., Alderman of the City of London, Di rector Esq ., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Director of Rastrick's Direct Man chester Railway D. R. Ross, Esq., M.P. , D irector of the London and Manchester, and Thomas s of ia t n h e e y, C an t r al Kent Railway South Midland Railways George Danby Esq., magistrate for the county of Norfolk, and borough of Great G rimsb y ; Director of the Vraveney Valley, and Great Yarmouth, and the Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby Railways Richard Hammond, Esq., magistrate for the borough of Great Yar mouth, Director of the Waveney Valley Railway Samuel Palmer, Esq., late Mayor of Great Yarmouth, Director of the Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby - Railway John King, Esq„ Director of the Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby Railway. The Rev. H. R. Fowler. 7, Manchester-square, Director of the London and Nottingham Railway W. A. Campbell, Esq., ➢►rector of the Wexford, Waterford, and Va lentia Railway F. Barretto, Esq., Portland-place, London Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton Railway Joseph Underwood, Esq., Norwich, and Blackheath Park, Kent, Di rector of the Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury W. S. Potter, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Ambrose Miller, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Cheltenham, and 'Gloucester Railway Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Northamptom,Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Frederick White, Esq., R.N., Sheerness, Director of the Metropolitan Junction Railway George Parbury, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury-square, London John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway Capt. Heathorn, Director of the South Metropolitan Gas Company R. Gray, Esq., 5, Adam's-court, Old Broad-street, London E.C. Colman, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Rail way Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway Henry Chator, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Bridgewater and Minehead Railway W. C. Duppa, Esq., Director of the Canterbury and Dovor Railway William G. Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting, Surrey George R. Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk William Tulloch Fraser, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway (With power :o add to their number.) BANYERS• London—The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury Wisbech—Messrs. Gurney, Peckover, and Co. Lynn-. Messrs. Gurney, Creswell, and Co. ENGINEERS. B. Albano, Esq., M Inst. C.E , and Wm. La xton, Esq., C.E. SOLlClTOB.—lnglebyThomas Miller, Esq. 3, Ab c hurch-lane, Lom bard-street, London. SECRETARY PRO TEM.—W. O. J. Wollaston, Esq. This line is intended to commence at the Port of Wisbech, by a junction with the line of railway now forming from Lynn, and pro ceed by Thorney to Peterborough, there uniting with the branch of the London and Birmingham Railway to Northampton, and the Peterborough and Syston branch of the Midland Counties Railway, forming a through line from Yarmouth, Norwich, Dercham, Swaff ham, Lynn, and Wisbech, to Northampton, Birmingham, Derby, theh n Nottingham, and the whole of the northern a nd western parts of England. The entire distance being completed in about 1$ miles. The importance of this railway, though only 18 miles in length, will be at once seen by an i n spection of the map , w hen the followin g points will be self-evident. l at et the a re port of Wisbech Holland,h e port for nearest se a-port for Birming ham, Staffordshire, and th e Midl a nd districts of Eng land. 2. That this line w ill open th e w hole of the ma nufacturin g and e the mineral districts of th e Midl an d Counties and the Potteries to Wis bech,thern States of Europe. 3. That by the formation of this line a direct railway ommunica tion will be opened between the port of Wisbech, and the ports of Southampton, Bristol, Gloucester, and Liverpool. 4. That this line will unite the Birmingham and Midland Counties system of railway with those of Norfolk, communicating with Nor wich and Yarmouth. Application for shares or prospectuses containing more detailed particulars (which must be in the usual form, and in all cases accom panied by a reference to a banker or to a membe r of the Provisional Committee) may be made to the Provisional Committee, at the offices of Mr. I. T. Miller, solicitor to the Comp an y , or the following Sharebrokers :—Messra. Shewell and Son, To keuhouse yard ; Messrs. Lyon, 2, Birchin-lane, London ; Messr s. Mann and Son , Norwich ; Messrs. Cruso and Son, L 3 nn; Messrs. Peet cer and Son, Nottingham ti ; Mr. Collis, Birmingham • Mr. F. 0. Spen, Halifax ; an Hr. Darr, Culyer4treet, Coictiester. IIOYAL NORTH OF SPAIN RAILWAY. The undersigned Directors, in whom the mane.gern +.f the affairs of this company is now vested, deem it due to the Proprietors to state, that measures are in progress which will put the immediate and prospective advantages of this undertaking to the severest test. Should the result be such as the Directors confidently anticipate, the position of the Shareholders will be materially improved by the co-operation of parties of the highest experience in railway affairs. (Signed) WILLIAM It. COLLETT, Chairman. WILLIAM JACKSON, Deputy Chairman. JOSHUA WALMSLEY. United Peninsular Railway Offices, Royal Exchange-buildings, 22d Sept. 1845. THE GREAT NORTHERN and SOUTHERN DIRECT RAILWAY FROM HUDDERSFIELD TO DERBY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 1,500,0001. in 75,003 Shares of 20'. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share, in compliance with the Standing Cndas cf Parliament. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Masterman and Co. Huddersfield—The West Riding Union Banking Company. ENGINEERS. Consulting Engineer—J. U. Rastrick, Esq. Acting Engineer— SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bature and Clay, and Mr. Robert B. Robinson, Huddersfield. LONDON AGENTS. Messrs. Sudlow, Sons, and Torr, 20, Chancery-lane. The object of this Railway is, in conjunction with the intended Huddersfield, Halifax, and Keighley Railway, to connect in the most direct line the important and increasing manufacturing towns of Huddersfield, Halifax, Bradford and Keighler with the Metropolis and South of England, and at the same time complete the intended chain of railway communication from Glasgow and the North, by the shortest and most direct route, with London, and from the south to Glasgow and other parts of Scotland. It is intended to commence by a junction with the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway (for which an Act of Parliament has already been obtained), at or near Holmfrith, and to proceed from thence through the lastmentioned place to Woodhead, and across the Manchester and Sheffield Railway there, thence to or near Athersage, Nether Padley, Froggatt, Bubnell, Bakewell, Matlock, Cromford, and to follow the eourse of the River Derwent to iM junction with the North Midland Station near to Ambergate, and from thence to Belper or Derby. The line will be about 51 miles long, and the most direct com munication that can be formed between Glasgow, Carlisle, Settle, Skipton, Colne, Keighley, Halifax, Huddersfield (by means of the pro jected Railway), and the counties of Derby, Wottingham, Leicester, Northampton, Bedford, and London. It will open the extensive and celebrated stone quarries and coal mines of West Yorkshire, and afford an inexhaustible supply of coal and stone to the midland and southern counties, and at the same time open fresh markets for the products of the celebrated Derby shire mines, the cost of which, from the increased facilities ofdirect transit to be afforded by this Railway will be materially lessened, and at the same time the markets of the manufacturing towns of West Yorkshire will be rendered infinitely more accessible for the corn, wool, cheese, and other productions of the extensive and fertile agri cultural districts of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and the south. The present route from Huddersfield to Derby is very circuitous ; it is contemplated that by the intended line a saving of sixteen miles will be effected when compared with the Manchester and Leeds, and the North Midland. The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in preparation. There are no engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been repeatedly surmounted in other cases, whilst by far the greater portion of the southern part of the line will be constructed at an unusually small expense. Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at 41. per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference in the al lotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the Huddersfield and Sheffield, and Huddersfield, Halifax, and Keighley lines. The names of a large and influential Committee, with a detailed Prospectus, will shortly be published. All communications relative to the Line, as also applications for Shares (in the form below), accompanied by a satisfactory reference, may be made and addressed to the Solicitors, at whose office every necessary information will be given. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES To the Provisional Committee of the Great Northern and Southern Direct Railway from Huddersfield to Derby. Gentlemen,—l hereby request that you will allot me Shares of 201. each in the above proposed Railway ; and I hereby undertake to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per Share thereon, or any lesser number of Shares which may be alloted to me ; and I also undertake to exe cute the Parliamentary Contract and the Subscribers' Agreeement when required I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name (in full) ..... Profession, trade, or occupation...... Residence (in full) .... . ...... Place of business (if any) ............ Name of referee .... .......... Address of referee.... .... Date .... D IRECT LONDON AND EXETER RAIL WAY COMPANY, With Extension to Falmouth and Penzance. Through Hammersmith, Turnham-green, Brentford, Isleworth, Hounslow, Staines, Egham, Bagshot, Ascot, Bracknell, Binfleld, Wokingham, Kingsclere, Andover, and Salisbury ; Shaftesbury, Sherbourne, Yeovil, Crewkerne, Axminster, and Honiton, to Exeter. Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 11. 7s. 6d. per Share. With power to raise 1,000,0001. more, if necessary. (provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110.) OFFICE!!, No. 52, REGENT-STREET, WATERLOO-PLACE, Adjoining the County Fire Offlee. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Mexborough, Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway Lord Henry Loftus, Belgrave-square Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, Bart., Montague-square, and Down-hill, Londonderry The Hon. Cecil J. Lawless, 71, Pall-mall, Director of the Great Man chester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway Colonel Sir Frederick Hankey, G.C.M.G., Queen Ann-street, Caven dish-square, Director of the lonian and Ceylon Banks, and Bor deaux, Toulouse, and'Cette Railway J. R. Phillimore, Esq., LL.D., 42, Clarges-street, Chancellor of Salisbury John David Chambers, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Recorder of Salisbury Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street, Director of the County Fire-office, and South and Midlands Railway Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak Park, near Winchester, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway The Hon. A. Capel, Theyden blouse, Essex, and Park-street, Gros venor-square Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square, Director of Man chester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction, Warwick and Wor cester, Shropshire Mineral, and Grand London and Dublin Ap proximation Railways William Burge, Esq., Q.C., Temple The Rev. Bourchier Wrey Savile, Oakhampton, Devon G. Thompson Jacob, Esq., Blaudford, Magistrate, and Deputy-Lieu tenant for Dorset Richard Francis Roberts, Esq., Burton Bradstock, near Bridport H. H. Hungerford, Esq., Dingley Park, Market Harborough, and Dover-street, Piccadily, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Francis Dawson, Esq., Grosvenor-street Richard Francis Power, Esq.. 73, Eccleston-square, and. Long- Orchard, Tipperary Lieutenant-Colonel P. W. Pedlar, Mutley House, Devon Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's-wood, Di rector of the Great Eastern and Western, and Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railways Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway The Hon. Henry Savile, Dover-street A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the Oxford, South ampton, Gosport4and Portsmouth Railway George Evans, Esq., Milburpterrace, Regent's Park, Director of the London and Holyhead Railway Francis Lloyd, Esq., Temple, London, and Bingley House, Bir mingham William Thomas Davies Lhoyd, Esq., Lhoydiarth, Anglesey E. S. Blundell, Esq., Lower Seymour-street John Allen, Esq., 12, Gloucester-terrace, Kensington William Birmingham Costello, Esq., M.D., Wyke House, Brantford T. Piers Healey, Esq., Elm-court, Temple William Gunston, Esq., Piccadilly Itoxburgh, Esq., 28, Blomfleld-road, 111 aids-hill A. Abrahams, Es q ., Member of the Town Council of Southampton William Lowten Jones, Esq., Wood Hall, Hilgay, Norfolk Thomas Champion, Esq., Stoke Wood House, Dorsetshire Captain T. C. Forde, Gracefleld, Aslane, Dublin Captain Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N., K.C.H., 9, St. James's street, St. James's-park, Director of the Australasia, British North America, and the lonian Banks, and Director of the Mutual Life Assurance Company Charles Gover, Esq., City Club J. Lane, Esq., LL.D , King's Bench-walk, Temple, ani Keppel. street - George Waite, Esq., Old Burlington-street, Director of the Chelteti• ham and Brighton Railway COMMITTEE es' MANAGEMENT. E. S. Blundell, Esq., 18, Lower Seymour-street Thothas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's-woad, Direc tor of the Great Eastern and Western, and Manchester and Bir kenhead Continuation Railways George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the London and Holyhead Railway Colonel Sir Frederick Hankey, G.C.M.G., Queen Inn-street, Caven dish-square, Director of the lonian and Ceylon Banks, and Bor deaux, Toulouse, and Cette Railway T. Piers Healey, Esq., Elm-court, Temple A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place H. H. Hungerford, Esq., Dingley Park, Market Harborough, and Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street, Director of the County Fire-office, and Director of the South and Midlands Railways W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director Of the Oxford, South ampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the - Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square, Director of the Manchester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction, Warwick and Worcester, Shropshire Mineral, and Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railways (With limited power to add to their number). ENGINEER —John Braithwaite, Esq., C.E., 4, Trafalgar-square. ' BANKERS —Messrs. Curries and Co. 29, Cornhill ; London and West minster Bank, St:James's-square. SOLICITOZ—D. E. Colombine, Esq., 8, Carlton Chamhers, Regent-street. Prospectuses, and plans of the line, with forms of Applications for Shares, may be had at the offices of the Company as above, and of the following Stock arid Share-brokers, viz. : Messrs. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, Royal Exchange; Messrs. Taunton and Bush, Austin Friars, London. Also, Exeter—Henry Vatcher ; John Langworthy ; Wilkinson and Sons Bath -J. B. Munday Leeds—Potter and Co. ; Kirk and Co. ; Ridsdale and Co. Huddersfield—William Moore and Co. Derby—Eyre and Shaw Hull—Sibary and Simpson ; Samuel Phillip York—Grayston and Earle Wakefield—Henry Billingham Plymouth—Hopwood and Palmer Cheltenham—Hall Brothers and Co. Newcastle-on-Tyne—W. W. Dickinson ; R. F. Bell and Co. Birmingham—W. H. Collis Taunton—Richard Ball Shaftesbury—Raymond and Son Manchester—Myers and Birbeck ; Wm. Marshall ; Cardwelll & Sons Norwich—John R. Mann and Son Edinburgh—Muurd and Co; A. W. Moffatt Bristol—Luke Arnold Coventry—John Thomas Holland Gloucester—J. M. Balms Glasgow—Messrs. H. and W. A. Ta.ssie ; James Watson ; Thomas Gray Leicester—Williams and Sunderland Nottingham—Roworth and Shepperly Liverpool—Messrs. Sudlow, Brothers Halifax—H. C. Spenser Bradford, Yorkshire—W. Mason ; James Clayton Reading—B. Cowderoy Settle—Joseph Nelson The following gentlemen are among those appointed as Local Agents in furtherance of the interests of the Company, from whom Prospectuses and applications for Shares may also be obtained : Egharn—Thomas Ilarvey, Esq. Bagshot—John Mears, Esq. Bracknell —Charles Cave, Esq. Wokingham—Francis Soames, Esq. Salisbury —Henry Cooper, Esq. ; Messrs. Foot and Radcliffe Shaftesbury—Messrs. Wills and Burridge Sherborne—George Hancock, Esq. ; Samuel Foot, Esq. Bruton—Messrs. Dyne and Son. Yeovil—George Hancock, Evq. Crewkerne—Robert Lowman, Esq. Axminster—Walter Hancock, Esq. Blandford—George Moore, Esq. Dorchester—George Cull, jun., Esq. Brldport—S. H. Gummer, Esq. ; Henry B. Fox, Esq. Honiton—lsaac I. Cox, Esq. Lynn—George Platten, Esq. Lyme Regis—N. F. Waring, Esq. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of Management of the Direet London and Exeter Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will a llot me shares of 251. each in the above railway, and I hereby undertake to accept the Game or such less nnmber you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations of the Company, also to sign the necessary legal dom. Ments, and to pay, when required, the deposit thereof of 11. 7s. 6d. per share. Name in flill ••••••••• • • • • • • ************* ••••• • • • • • Profession (if any) and Professional Residence, in fall Date.. ** Reference and Residence in MU • • • . ***** ......., ....., ** Signature of Applicant • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • DIRECT LONDON and EXETER RAIL WAY COMPANY (with Extension to FALMOUTH and PENZANCE.) Notice is hereby given, that no further Applications for Shwas in this undertaking will be received after the 30th inst. By order of the Committee, D. E. COLOMBINE. Solicitor. 82, NOVOM-street, Sept. 20.1846. WOR CE STER AND LEOMINSTER Y, via Bromyard. (Registered provisionally.) Capital 600,000/., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Henry Ceorge Ward, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company John Barneby, Esq., M.P., Brockampton, Bromyard William Barneby, Esq., Clayton Park, Bromyard, Magistrate of Herefordshire James Best, Esq., Worcester Mr. Edward Bannister, wool-merchant and wool-manufacturer, Leo minster William Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, London Walker Chamberlayne, Esq., Worcester, Royal Porcelain Manu fae tory George Beauchamp Cole, Esq., Chester-street, Grosvenor-place, Dl rector of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Mr. James Coucher, wool-merchant, Worcester Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Copthall-court, and Old Palace, Richmond, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Captain Charles Dutton, Bredenbury-house, Bromyard Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's-wood, Di rector of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Henry Clarke Duppa, Esq., Quarry-house, Boughton, Morchelsea, Kett, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Com pany James Eckley, Esq., Bromyard John Freeman, Esq., Gains, Bromyard, Magistrate of Herefordshire and Worcestershire John Matthew Gatch, Esq., Banker, Worcester, Director of Wor cester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway Mr. Edwin Gardner, corn, hop, and seed merchant, Worcester E. W. Howes, Esq., Bromyard Richard Hemming, Esq., Livington, near Bromyard, and Kingsland, Leominster James Hemming, Esq., Church House, Bromyard Mr. John Hughes, wool merchant, Clopgate, Worcester Mr. John Hood, merchant and carrier, Worcester Mr. George Hill, of the firm of Messrs. Hill and Turley, Worcester Henry James, Esq., Leominster, Mayor of Leominster John Kempson, Esq., sen., Birchey-fields House, Bromyard John Kempson, jun., Esq., Ilirchey-fields House, Bromyard John Wheeley Lea, Esq., Vice Chairman of the Severn Navigation Company, Managing Director of the Droitwich Patent Salt Corn pa,ly, and a Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway John Lilly, Esq., Alderman of Worcester, Worcester Royal Porce lain manufactory. Edward Lloyd, Esq., Sheriff of Worcester William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton, Director of the London and Manchester Direct James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway Arthur Mann, Esq., Woburn-square, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Mr. F. H. Needham, mercnant, Worcester Mr. Powell, wine -merchant, Worcester Mr. James Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Rea and Sons, malsters, Worcester Mr. J. P. Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Rea and Sons, maltsters, Wor cester Jas. Reeves, Esq., Cheapside and Leyton, Director of the Direct London and Manchester, , and Great Manchester and Rugby, and Southampton Railway Companies James Robertson, Esq., Worcester Joseph Sturton, Esq. Munderfield House, Bromyard, and Lincoln's Inn, London, Magistrate of Hereford. James Uptill, Esq., The Green, Bromyard, Dire c to r o f th e Stafford shire and Shropshire, and Dover and Bristol Railways T. P. P. Wight, Esq., Tedstone Court, Bromyard • Philip Warburton, Esq., Bromyard, High Bailiff of Bromyard Philip Warburton, Gent., Bromyard John Walker, Esq., Luisley Court; Bromyard Mr. Wells, Hop-merchant, Worcester Mr. Woodward, Hop-merchant, Worcester John Henry Walsh, Esq., Worcester Mr. James Wall, Merchant and Carrier, Worcester (With power to add to their number.) CHIEF ENGINEER—WiIIIam Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S. ASSISTANT ENGINEER—S. F. Griffin, Esq., C.E. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate.street, London Henry Foley, Esq., Worcester BANKERS. _ London—The London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury The Commercial Bank of London. Worcester—Messrs. Farley, Lavendar, and Co. LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. W. and F. Devereaux, Bromyard John Bedford, Esq., Leominster This line will diverge from the line of the Great Eastern and Western Railway, near Worcester, and proceeding by Brom yard, will end at Leominster, at which point it will unite with the proposed lines connecting Hereford and Shrewsbury with North Wales. The communication by railway between these important towns and the continuous hop and cider districts has been entirely left unprovided for by existing arrangements, and this line is brought forward under the auspices of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company, on the strong representations and request pf a large and most influential body of the landed gentry of the neigh bourhood. The object proposed is to make a direct communication between Leominster, Bromyard, and Worcester, which latter town has always been the natural market for the produce of these districts, and to af ford the inhabitants the most direct communication with London, as compared with other lines, by upwards of 30 miles. No person will be liable for more than his deposit till the act is ob tained, and power will be applied for to allow interest at 4/. per cent. on all calls from the time of their respective payments, as well as to limit the liability of the shareholders to the amount of their subscrip tions. Applications for Shares, in the ann^xed form, to be made to the Provisional Committee, at the Office, 5, Gresham-street, London, or Messrs. John Sheweli and Son, sharebrokers, Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, 4, Bank-buildings, and Mr. John Smith, 3, Shorter's-court, London ; Mr. John Duncuft, sharebroker, Manchester; Mr. John O'Neil, sharebroker, Manchester ; Messrs. Schnitz and Carr, sharebrokers, and Messrs. Reynolds and Son, Liverpool; Messrs. H. and C. Beardshaw, sharebrokers, Leeds; Messrs. Tate and Nash, sharebrokers, Bristol ; Mr. James Pearson, sharebroker, Bir mingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., sharebrokers, Brad ford ; Mr. William Miles, sharebroker, Worcester ; Mr. Robert Allan, sharebroker, Edinburgh ; Mr. William Gordon, sharebroker, Aber deen ; Messrs. Black and Co., sharebrokers, Buchan-street, Glasgow ; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, sharebrokers, Glasgow; and Messrs. Bruce and Byrnes, sharebrokers, Dublin ; of whom prospectuses may be had. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Leominster Railway. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to Mae shares of 201. each in the above railway; and I hereby undertake to accept the same or any less number you may allot me, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of September, 1845. Name in full ..... .... Place of business or profession .... • • • • • • • • Re5idence........... • • . Business or profession • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Signature •• • . Name, residence, and profession of referee• • Witness T HE NORTHERN and SOUTHERN CONNECTING RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered under 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.) Capital 900,0001., in 36,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share. Uniting the London and Birmingham, Great Western, the South Western, the London and Brighton, South-Eastern, and Northern and Eastern Railways, and accommodating, en route, Hertford, Hat field, St. Albans, Watford, Rickmansworth, Uxbridge, West Drayton, Colnbrook, Staines, Egham, Chertsey, Weybridge, Leatherhead, Dorking, and Reigate. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Major Adair, United Service Club, Pall-mall, Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of the South Midland, and Birmingham and Lichfield Railways William Ayrton, Esq., Abbey-square, Chester William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter, Staffordshire John Barnes, Esq., Director of the Union Bank, Chorley Wood House, Hertfordshire William Bastow, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Railway George A. Brown, Esq., 20, Gower-street Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., M.P., Director of the Lancaster and York, Waterford and Kilkenny, and Great Munster Railways Jasper Capper, Esq , Watling-street John Castendeick, Esq., 37, Mincing-lane Walter Chamberlain, Esq., Worcester Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's London, Manchester, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Wor cester Railways Major John T. Croft, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of the Chester and Manchester Railway, &c. William Croft, Esq., Chertsey, Surrey Thomas Clutterbuck, Esq., Red Hall, Watford Charles John Dimsdale, Esq., Esseudon-place, Hertfordshire Thomas Edward Dyson, Esq., Tollpits, Hertfordshire Joseph Graham, Esq., Clapham, Surrey Hastings Green, Esq., Sion House, Kilkenny, Director of the Water ford and Kilkenny Railway Captain Hodges, 65, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the Mauritius Railway, &c. &C. Henry Jennins, Esq., Leeds Swinfen Jervis, Esq., Whitehall-place, and Darlaston Hall, Stafford shire Daniel Turton Johnson, Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of Remington's London and Manchester, the Chester and Manchester Direct, and the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's-wood, Director of the National Bank of Ireland John King, Esq., Glastonbury, and St. John's •wood, London, Direc tor of the Somersetshire Midland Railway William King, Esq., Waterloo-place, Pall mall, London, Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Company George Laishley, Esq., Clarence Lodge, Shirley, Southampton, Direc tor of the Isle of Wight, and of th e O x f or d, N ew b ury , Andover, Manchester, and Southampton Junction Railways Daniel William Lucas, Esq., Mark-lane, and Crescent Lodge, Stock well Park Horace William Meteyard, Esq., Director of Remington's London and Manchester, the Chester and Manchester Direct, and the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways Joseph Bostick Massey, Esq., Cottered, Hertfordshire, and 50, Cam bridge-terrace, Hyde Park. Captain Ogle, 44, Eaton-place, Eaton-square, London. Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Upper Hyde Park-street, Director of the Manchester, Liverpool, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railways, &c. Hillebrant Meredith Parratt, Esq., Magistrate, Effingham House, Surrey William John Palmer, Esq., Molewood-hill, Bengeo, Hertfordshire Key. G. B. P. Pollen, Magistrate, Little Bookham Rectory, Surrey W. 11. Ravenhill, Esq., Pedwell Honse, Worcestershire John Rawson, Esq., Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding of York shire, and J.P., Stoney Royd, Halifax, Director of Rosamel's Great North of France Railway, of the Manchester, Liverpool, and Great North of England Union Railway, and the National Bank of Ireland J. B. Shuttleworth, Esq., Eastcheap Edward Scard, Esq., Kew, Surrey, Magistrate, Director of the Toronto and Lake Huron, and Jamaica Railways Julian Skrine, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway i William H. Swinton, Esq., 49, Moorgate -street, and Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park Thomas Stephens, Esq., 4, Lime-street-square William Tozer, Esq , Bishopsgate-street, Director of the South Staf fordshire Junction Railway Thomas Weedon, Esq., Loudwater Mills, Hertfordshire James Whitchurch, Esq., South Cliff, Netley Abbey (With power to add to their number.) COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. John King, Esq. George Laishley, Esq. D. W. Lucas, Esq. H. W. Meteyard, Esq. George Scard, Esq. Major Adair John Anderson, Esq. Jasper Capper, Esq. Jeremiah Clarke, Esq. Joseph Graham, Esq. D. T. Johnson, Esq. - - - BANKERS. Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., 29, Clement's-lane, London The London and County Bank Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, Manchester. ENGINEER—Joseph Gibbs, Esq. LAND AGENT—Layton Cooke, Esq. LAND SURVEYORS. W. T. Buckland, Esq. Messrs. Sanderson and Ryde. LOCAL SOLICITORS. St. Alban's, Herts—Richard Grove Lowe, Esq. Chertsey, Surrey—Richard John Cole, Esq. Dorking, Surrey—Messrs. Hart and Hart. Hertford—Edward Robert Spence, Esq. Uxbridge, Middlesex—Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge. Watford and Rickmansworth—John Sedgwick, Esq. The object of this undertaking is to form an unbroken link or communication with all the existing railways, by which means more particularly the Western, Southern, Eastern, South-Eastern, and South-Western parts of the kingdom may be traversed from the Northern Districts, without the necessity of making the metropolis a resting-place either for passengers or goods : and thus obviating considerable expense and great loss of time. The length of the main line will be 62 allies, commencing at Hert ford, (which has already a branch to the North-Eastern Railway), continuing its course by Hatfield, St. Alban's, to Watford, where it will cross the London and Birmingham Railway, from thence to Rickmansworth, Uxbridge, and West Drayton, where It will pass under the Great Western Railway, proceeding by Colnbrook, (having a braneh to Windsor from the main line at Horton), cross the Thames at Staines, to Egham, Chertsey, passing into the South Western Railway at the Weybridge Station, approaching Cobham, Leather head, Dorking, and terminating at Reigate, where it will form a junction with the South-Eastern and London and Brighton Railways. The great distance from each other of the• various termini of rail ways in London, has for a length of time occupied the attention of the legislature and of the interested Companies ; but the great value of property has been an insuperable obstacle to - effecting any improve ment : hence the necessity of a more direct communication from one line to another; and after careful surveys the present plan has been deemed the most efficient to meet every desideratum. For the surveys thus made, and also from a great portion of the levels already taken, there do not appear to be any engineering difficulties. The feature of the country is agricultural ; and it will open a wide field to reciprocal commerce, by exchanging the maaufactures of the North with the products of the South , together with a more accessi ble mode of obtaining every description of foreign merchandise at reasonable rates. . . In consulting the best statistical authorities, and on the informa tion derivable from the only certain mode of obtaining the existing and fluctuatinglraffic on so novel a featuL e as this projected railway, a considerable difficulty has necessarily presented itself in arriving at a maximum of profits, but it can with certainty be announced that trora the resources of traffic from the nituattfacturing districts, reci- D Cal l tllital, (4 whi la p r kn alic Itou t Sot , . . 's Intend(' t• • procally with the counties through which the railway . 4./ 34e!ti As th, projea developes itself, the most cif Ili' i • tors deo manifest from influential landowners and other proprle dema nds, that the formation of this line is indispensable to meet the and who have promised to give this project their undivided sulP Government for a length of time have deemed it advisable troops with all their materiel by railways, and the Will% i v e ,',: e l can be thus afforded will form a communicating mediu m w , military depot throughout Great Britain. Ins` Suffice it to state that coal, wdol, timber, corn, bark, rT i l id their every variety of product or manufacture must inevitably. transit b this railway, to meet the demands or exigeneits veral cou y nties hitherto subjected to the impost of incalculni?Le den t° pense and delay attendant on goods at present being comp el,. pass through London. London . / SOLICITORS-Messrs. Miller and Carr, 47, Eastcheap , an. Applications for Shares to be made to Messrs. MI", Carr, 47, Eastcheap ; and Messrs. Johnson, Longden art and TokenhOuse-yard ; and to the local solicitors, Messrs. iebard ; I MO Hart, Dorking ; Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge, 'Uxbridge ' John Cole, Esq., Chertsey ; Richard Grove Lowe, Esq. , St- ot. Edward Robert Spence, Esq., Hertford ; John Sedgwick, yslr ford ; and also to Mr. Crewdson, Liverpool ; Mr. S. Slatert....,lo chester ; Messrs. Watson, Tootal, and Barff, Leeds ; Messrs;°,7o, Bell and Co., Leeds ; Mr. J. Wright, Birmingham • Mr• Hull; anti Messrs. George Edwards and Son, Bristol. _ t o W. JENKINS, See" Temporary Offices, 47, Eastcheap, London. FORM OF APPLICATION. CO V To the Provisional Committee of the Northern and Sorb" - fleeting Railway. in Ili' Shares sorii Gentlemen,-I request you to allot me ~,e de, above undertaking ; and I hereby undertake to pay ‘" a a nt upon them or any smaller number that may be allotted to .. . 0 01e to execute the Parliamentary contract and subscribers' agree when required to do so. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, •• •••••• Name in full .. ...... .......... • • •• • • Business or profession .... • • ..... ••••• • • • " Reference ...... ", Date of application THE NORTHERN AND SOU T HER - CONNECTING RAILWAY. la Notice is hereby given, that no Applications for Shams „ 11 0 f, Railway will be received from parties resident in London °' TITO !, " 44 nity after THURSDAY, the 25th, and elsewhere after S.& , 27th instant. By order of the Committee of Management' Seeret‘b• W. JENKINS , Temporary Offices, 47, Eastcheap, Sept. 19, 1845. PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED. - CORNWALL AND DEVON Ms RAILWAY, to Or hes in From Exeter to Falmouth and Penzance, with braise,. moth, Tavistock, Bideford, Barnstaple and St. Austell, l; / ; • bilir, continuation of the London and South Western, London , dire and Yeovil, and Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railways' line from London to Exeter, Falmouth, and Penzance. Capital, 3,000,000/., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each' Deposit, 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share, rnS ° (With power to decrease the capital to 2,000,000/., should the be carried out by auxiliary Companies.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. oSet 11 107 The Most Noble the Marquis of Winchester, Amport Ho Coo p Chairman of the London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Railway The Right Honourable Earl Stanhope, F.R.S., Chevening, Her ins The Right Henouraple Lord Vivian, Glynn, Cornwall ~A , „O , cn The Right Honourable Lord Arunell, Wardour Castle , ".„.„„oln ? " . Provisional Committee of the London, Salisbury, and I' way Company on th_ d rf° l/ The Right Honourable Lord Bridport, Cricket Lodge , e.ce s sional Committee of the London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Company rells tf , The Right Hon. Lord Carteret, Ampthill James AO/ The Honourable William Ashley, Stable-yard, St. conlro, Chairman of the London, Salisbury, and Yeovil RailWaYl The Honourable W. E. Fitzmaurtce, M.P., Cheshatn -stre et, a yeo' on the Provisional Committee of the London, Salisbury , u° • Railway A , g rit 0 Sir William L. S. Trelawney. Bart., Harewood, Lord Ll emw- ,Of County of Cornwall the CCO4 Francis Rodd, Esq., Trebartha Hall, High Sheriff of -- Cornwall Sir Joseph Sawle G. Sawle, Bart., Penrice, Cornwall tbef Sir Henry Paul Seale, Bart., Mount Boon, Dartmouth, 7eter visional Committee of the Dartmouth, Torbay, an d 00 way Company Sir Pmer Bruce Bart., of A r lingtonCo int ' Pe General Sir al George .Anson, Chichester G.C.8., , 2, Upper Brook-stret,oolittt. Sir Warwick H. Tonkin, Teignmouth, on the Provisi onal of the Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter Railway Comps John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Hylands Park a as° Edward W. W. Pendarves, Esq., M.P. for West CornW of Quarter Sessions for Cornwall ~,,,; George Moffatt, Esq., M.P., for Dartmouth, 85, Eaton-sg'• Tor don, on the Provisional Committee of the Dartmouttl, and Exeter Railway ar e, °0 Hanway Plumridge, Esq., M.P. for Falmouth, Chester -o n e William Taylor Copeland, Esq., M.P., Lincoln's Inn-ileide'ra'd J. 11. Tremaine, Esq., Heligan, St. Austell, Chairma n O tt Sessions for Cornwall . Qs' J. K. Lethbridge, Esq., Tregeare, Launceston, Chairm an °-- A ptr Sessions for Cornwall '' The Mayor of Exeter, Chairman of the Exeter, T e ' - chester Railway Company The Mayor of Launceston The Mayor of Bodmin Ifs " Captain T. Vernon Anson, R.N., Lariggan, Penzance 00,0 W. H. Arundell, Esq., Trebursye, Cornwall, Magistrate for „or Edward Archer, Esq., Trelaske, Launceston, Magistrate fc ' t nJ T. It. Aver, Esq., Delabole, Boscastle proe ic ;n l William Anning, Esq., Walnut House, Exeter, on the c0 01f.,0 Committee of the Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railwallo,o4lo, James Henry Attwood, Esq , Upper Seymour-street, Pe rt A 0 Henry C. Benyon Barton, Esq., Ogwill Rouse, Devon ve i William Braddon, Esq., Lifton Park, Devon, magistrate for 1 John Braddon, Esq., Tregleith, Cornwall Coln' R. G. Bennett, Esq., Tresillian House, Truro, magistra te '- John Brewton, Esq., Treniffie Cecil Nicholas Bray, Esq„ Langford-hill J. B. Yarde Buller, Esq., Holm Park, Ashburton fO t S. J. Capper, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge ° William Chadwick, Esq., Montague-square, London, u." '- , 10° Richmond Railway Company pro lls ta t John Chapman, Esq., Blackheath Park, London, on t he , collo' Committee of the London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ROW% the',/s/ The Chisholm, Chapel-street, Grosvenor-place, London, oar' visional Committee of the London, Salisbury, and Ye e Company F. F. Clossman, Esq., Mincing-lane, London to t r Richard Davy, Esq., Redruth, Magistrate for CorrivraL l . e cer• °etc D. P. Davey, Esq.Topsham, Devon, Magistrate for J.,',00 ES Provisional Committee of the Dartmouth, Torbay, Railway Company Stephen Davey, Esq., Redruth, Magistrate for Cornlc an . Oetavius Dunstan, Esq., Lieutenant R.N., Wadebridge Baldwin Fulford, jun., Esq., of Great Fulford, Devon, the Quarter Session Edward Goldsmid, Esq., 41, Upper Harley-street, Globe Insurance Co m p any Day Le Grice, Esq., Penzance, e istratEP Pl Goldsworthy Gurney, Magistrate for Co 31 s Esq., Woodleigh, Launcenw' Cornwall. ttee e Edward Gard, Esq., Exeter, on th Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway Provisional.ne,°°llll waY Cowl' Mr. Sergeant Gazelee, Cambridge-square, London A Edward Baring Gould, Esq., Lewtreocnara. okehan l P oM , Captain Heat, R.N. Tredethy, Bodmin, Magistrate for CO F. J. Heat, Esq., R.N., Cornwall D. P. Hoblyn, Esq., Colquite, Bodmin, Magistrate for Corn James Harvey, Esq., St. Day J. D. Harris, Esq., of Hayne, Launceston Richard Harvey, Esq., St. Day Colonel Studholme Hodgson, 63, Welbeck-street • H. Hooper, Esq., Penhargard, Bodmin Of ° John Hooper, Esq., Trequites House, Bodmin Mitt° ' Captain Hulme, R.E. Exeter, on the Provisional C orn Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway CompanY Joseph Hedge, Esq., Truro Rev. Thomas Hockn Kingdon, Pyeworthy, Devon , in" tr Devon J. S. lago, Esq., Coran Rev. William Hockln, Endellion Se a Percival Norton Johnson, EN., Tamar, Smelting Wo rp-, in- William Peter Kempe, Esq.. Truro • •• „adon , l - J. J. Kinloch, EN., Gloucester-road, Hyde Park, ireo - , Provisional Committee of the London, SalisburY, an d 'P oo way Company Charles Kelson, Esq., Teignmouth, Magistrate for De ed or Provisional Committee of the Dartmouth, TorbaY , Railway Company John Masterman, jun., Esq., Banker, London William Michell, Esq., 31. D., Bodmin Edward Mitchell, Esq., Truro Captain Morshead, R.N. ' Calstock H. Mallett, Esq., of Ash General Napier, H.E.I.C.S. John Parsons, Esq., Falmouth John Parsons, Esq., R.N., Falmouth all OR t i f Thomas Pearce, Esq.. Launceston, Magistrate of Corns/ pro Edward Prior, Esq., Berry Hill Villa, trixham, on the Committee of the Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exet e r Comany the Captain p George Probyn, Woodford, Essex, Director M Assurance Company Walter Radcliffe, Esq., Warleigh Hall Devon J. H. Peter, Esq., Harlyn, Padstow Rev. Charles Redd, North Hill, Cornwall Coryndon Rowe, Esq., M.D., Launceston Jin nt William Carpenter Rowe, Esq., 3, L. Ryder-street, -* London Rev. N. T. Royce, Dunterton Rectory, Devote o Edward Shearm, Esq., Stratton Joseph Shephard, Esq., Exeter, on the Provisional Co o.- Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway Company C. B. Sawle, Esq., Penrice, Magistrate for Cornwall Rev. H. A. Simcoe, Peheale, Launceston M. C. Seton, Esq., Maida-hill, London Captain Spettigue, R.N., Falmouth John Taylor, Esq., 2, Duke-street, Adelphl, London John Taylor, jun., Esq., Cod-dd, Mold toe John Vowler, Esq., Parnacott, Devon, Magistrate for De Humphry Willyams, Esq., Carnanton, St. Colurnb , M ag ,„,d otl ° Cornwall W. J. Watts, Esq., banker, Teignmouth, on the Prov , ., i nsaro tee of the Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter Railway ~ George Webber, Esq., Hexworthy House, Cornwall Rev. George Woollocombe, Stowford Rectory, Devon ENGINEER-Joseph Locke, Esq. RESIDENT ENGINEER-Mr. Richard ThOIDAa SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bull and Tilly, Falmouth _4, p- - Messrs. Johnston, Farquhar, and Leech, 65, Moorgate - n ti '" Eeter' Messrs. Ellicombes and Mr. John Daw, INTERIM SECRETARY-Lewis Crucible, Esrl• BANKERS. Messrs. Masterman and Co., London _ bo res , o t Messrs. Willyams, Hodge, and Co., Truro and Cs " Co ari' This Company originated at a Public Meeting of the 0 7., r‘,7 l - 4, , Cornwall, convened by the High Sheriff, in pursualleieie :9114,1, sitien signed by the Lord Lieutenant and 1,600 a t 'oire Gentry, and Freeholders of the County, held at the ~oOt t in Bodmin, on Thursday, the 28th August, 1843. A .,,i opr The Meeting was held in consequence of the succe.!!" - e 4 Co , ni . / by the County, and rejection by Parliament, of the " re i nyill e ,e‘o' o c Railway Bill, and a Bill for making a railway froln '",.„ 7, ) rios Falmouth, in continuation of the projected South P e ‘, T i pre' gt e from Exeter to Plymouth, pursuing only a winding the v t.l • course along the margin of the Southern Channel, lert v W,% col t pl area of Devonshire, West of Exeter, and the whole of 1•"" P e OS Cornwall, destitute of Railway accommodation. e ( ir The object of the present undertaking is to Prav id tuiS j j e 4 , system of railway communication for the whole of 1 1 0 . , , peninsula ; and as the waste of capital and time involve"3„g o i cuitous route by Bristol is greatly complained of, the lea r oos t ir dispensable feature of the project will be to obtain thL o atli, , ' l O punctual, and economical line, between London , Fa Con' Penzance. It was this central line, westward, which the of the House of Lords, on the Wilts and Somerset Ra n ,-. 0 01 0 44, the present session, obliged the Great Western RailwaY,' - 'd , 014 pledge themselves not to oppose ; and which they SPea n l' trY r e " " report "as the line which the best interests of the con 0 , pi) and which must eventually be carried direct to Falai° ,el w estrly por in the Channl." ds . 0 0 the T i rol As e far as t Exeter, that e project is already in London and South Western,"London, Salisbur* co wl Junction," and the " Yeovil, Dorchester, and Exeter', „ i der l o'lo With this strong expression from the Legislature, anu a tD- 0 , auspices, it may be considered that a continuous line no ieso front London, through Salisbury, to Yeovil and Exetel',_ ...a , f t l o thirty miles shorter than the devious course orthe Railway, is already morally secured. In order, theregeretfl.o.llo;o° plete the great national project thus suggested by Line, , , Lords, it remains only to extend this direct Ex eter „ en gall; o , 0 o f, change of gauge or terminus, direct to Falmouth and mir".„o The saving in actual distance thus effected betivecq s ofe:;ec t t t Falmouth, as compared with the Great Western and l ogo Sav 9, ot amounts to more than fifty miles ; whilst the time _of o f A avoiding the passage of the Ilamoaze, to say nothilie 0040 difficulties involved in that project, was estimated 1 ' en or I A ll w gullies before Parliament, as equal to a saving of ` e sp . o' o o miles more. Bearing in mind, therefore, the geographical positi ° ° .,/ f e r r , ° •0' 54 .,1 and Penzance, especially the great advantages of the for2i c e, 9" 0 most westernly station for our naval and packet . o f WA r i / . , 0 , affording a most secure harbour of reftige in the event, I'lo, • 1 30 remembering, too, that this must eventually become ' er ica , . grip the Mediterranean, the East and West Indies, and An'„ n ili , Aiw portance to the Admiralty and Lloyds of such a direct has"" ft , a continuous and efficient Electric TelegraPli , 0 ,1 over-rated. reee rt i a 0 1 The central district from Exeter westward has bee,i e, ; surveyed, and has been found to afford a main trunk . ;f 4 l : l t icel il ,peo' locomotive gradients, attainable without engineering ri e . 0 r , oo c at a reasonable expense ; the general course being 11 ton, c Crediton, Bow, Hatherleigh, North Tawton, OkehrilnYy ton, Camelford, Bodmin, St. Colurnb, St. Austell /4,4 branch), Truro, and Penryn, to Falmouth ; at T rn „„ r T i te, line through West Cornwall will diverge to Chaee"„. oo , P' 1,1 i; Cambome, Ilayle (with a branch to St. Ives), Ma r "' ,0i ) zance. d.,4, The strong feeling in favour of a central lint, e vt° , of e' ri meetings and petitions from every part of the eoun,'; ' ,, rne l twa' and West Devon ; the support of noblemen, magistrar , e lel i r, mine-owners, and agriculturists, in the recent strugg i n t i on; Or o roils and strong assurance of support already reedy ° h oo.riY ‘ , 10 , e S e owners and general interests along the line ; and th e vie 11 ; e rence and co-operation of the associated CoinPu u ncee• ( i 4 1 whose members appear in the Provisional COn l M) o eili 0 0 ( doubt of the successful issue of the application wi n° to Parliament in the next session. 6to The Provisional Committee reserve to themselvello, cin„. making such alterations in the main line, or branc h • entering into such arrangements for the constructi a b e t by auxlijary Companies, as may Ire deemed advi THE SUN, LONDON, 1 4 ITESDAY M:6kNING. SEPTEMBER 28, 1845. re t