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WREXHAM, NANTWICH, and CREWE JUNCTION RAILWAY. . . (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 450,000/., in 22,500 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. 6d. per Share. TiIIorPORAItY OFFICES—Henblas-street, Wrexham. PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS. Townshend Ilainwaring, Esq., Marchwiel Hall, M.P. for the Den. b'ghehire Boroughs Sir Ralph Pcndlebury, Knight, Mersey Bank, Heaton North, Stockport, Director of the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway The Worshipful the Mayor of Macclesfield R. Humphreys Jones, Esq., Willow-house, Wrexham, Recorder of Holt, Denbighshire Bullock, Joseph, Esq., Congleten, Cheshire Byrom, William, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Liverpool and Preston, and North Union Railways Dicker, J. Campbell, Esq., New Hall, Neston, Cheshire, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and the Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways Duncan, James, Esq., Liverpool, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, the Liverpool and Preston, and North Union Junction, and the Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways Edgworth, Thomas, Esq., Wrexham Fechan, Wrexham Foulkes, John, Esq., Ashfield, Wrexham, Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and the Manchester and Birkenhead Con tinuation, and Holyhead Junction Railways Gillham, Joseph, Esq., Hargreaves-house, Oldham, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and the Staffordshire Pot teries and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways Gough, Richard, Esq., South Sea Colliery, Wrexham, and Pepper-street, Chester Kenrick, Samuel, Esq., banker, Wrexham, Director of the Man.. Mester and Birkenhead Continuation, and Mole, Ruabon, and North Wales Railways ityrke, James, Was-coed, Wrexham Lewis, George, Esq., Wrexham, Director of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and Mold, Ruabon, and North Wales Railways McDermott, George Augustus, Esq., Chesterton.hall, Stafford shire, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways Motto, W. R. Standish, Esq , Lincoln's. Inn-fiAds, London Overend, J., Esq., Bentham, Lancashire, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, the Liverpool and Preston, the North Union Junction, and the Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways Perrott, Samuel, Esq., Liverpool, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction Railways Poyser, Charles, Esq., Summer-hill, Wrexham Radish, Joseph, Esq., Liverpool, Director of the Staffordshire Pot. teries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways Seed, Joseph, Esq., Lancaster, Director of the Staffordshire Pot. teries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways Thompson, John, Esq., Frwd Works, near Wrexham, and Wigan, Lancashire, Director of the Bolton and Wigan, the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the Liverpool and Preston, and the North Union Junction Railways Thompson, Richard, Esq , Stansty Hall, Wrexham, Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway Watts, Thomas Itchenor, Esq., Macclesfield, Chcallitv, sate Di rector of the Churnet Valley Railway, and Director of the South Union or Manchester, Potteries, and London Railway Williamson, J. S., Esq., Ramsdell-hall, Lawton, Cheshire taGiWith 'lower to ati so thoir NEERS--iriessri. andel( and Brunton. RANKERS. London—Sir J, W. Lubbock, Bart., and Co. Liverpool—The North and South Wales Bank. ➢Manchester—The Manchester and Salford Bank. Wrexham—Samuel Kenrick, Esq. JOINT SOLICITORS. William Jones, Esq. Wrexham. John Dcvereux Pugh, Esq. LONDON AGENTS. Messrs. Raimondi and Gooday, 14, South.square, Gray's Inn. Messrs. Evans, and Barnes, 6, South-square, Gray's Inn. LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. Edleston and Edleston, Nantwich. SECRETARY, pro tem—John Devereux Pugh, Esq. This line is intended to be made from Wrexham, through Holt and Nantwich to Crewe. Its length will be about 23 miles, and it will be a direct communication between the most populous district of North Wales, and one of the most valuable mineral fields in the kingdom ; and Crewe and the manufacturing districts of Cheshire, Lancashire, Stafford shire, and Yorkshire, being a nearer route than any now existing or contemplated, by upwards of 12 miles. It is satisfac torily proved by the evidence of persons best qualified to give a correct opinion on the subject, that the district of Wrexham (even exclusive of what may be called the Ruabon district) possesses in exhaustible supplies of coal, ironstone, lime, and lead, of the best quality; the extent of the coal-field is about eight miles long by two broad, and the limestone is of much greater extent; the ver tical section of coal presents 14 successive strata of coal, of which 10 are workable; these strata give 40 feet 6 inches of solid coal, supposing there to be 15 cwt. of coal to the cubic yard, and deduct ing one.tenth for old workings, and one.third for waste, faults, kc., there remains 18,817,920 tons of coal in a square mile.—(See Evidence given before Parliament on the North Wales Mineral Railway Bill.) The value of the ironstone in the whole area of 16 miles is esti mated at 35,400,9941. The importance of connecting this wealthy district with the towns beferc named is too obvious to require a moment's comment. By means of the cheap and expeditious transit provided by this line, the coke manufactured in the neighbeurhcod of Wrexham (which is proved to be superior to any other, see evi dence before mentioned) will be conveyed to Crewe, for the supply of the numerous railways centering at that place, at one.third the present price ; the revenue to be derived from this source must be immense. The whole district through which this line will pass is now supplied with coal, coke, lime, and slates from the mines and quarries in the neighbourhood of Wrexham at a very high price, in consequence of the carriage being so expensive. The average prices (per ton) of coal, coke, and lime, at Nantwlch and Crewe, exclusive of carriage, are as follows : At Nantwich, Coal Coke „ Lime At Crewe, Coal „ Coke „ Lime This railway will afford the means of supplying coal, lime, and coke at one-third the above prices. Among the multifarious railway schemes now before the public, the most legitimate and also the most likely to yield a fair remu. nerative return on the outlay, are the traverse railways projected with the object of supplying the existing want of railway transit The lino will 'sat int,illns; nick any u• propcat, namental character, and will be constructed at much less than the average cost. The Provisional Directors have no reason to expect any effectual opposition to a treasure so obviously beneficial both to the public and the landed proprietors, and so powerfully supported by those best qualified to form an opinion of its merits. With respect to engineering, the line presents no difficulty whatever, the gradients are very easy, and the earth-work light. The usual power will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest, at 41. per cent. per annum, on the deposits as well as upon all future calls from the date of the passing of the Act until the opening of the railway, and no shareholder will be liable beyond the amount of his subscription. In the allotment of shares preference will be given, to a certain extent, to the proprietors of land through which the line will pass, and to shareholders in the Manchester and Birmingham, the Man. cheater and Birmingham Continuation, the North Wales Mineral, and the Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways. Applications for shares must be made in the annexed form to the solicitors, or to the following sharebrokers —Mr. Langton, Ex change-court, Exchange-street East, Liverpool ; Messrs. Cameron, Cazenove, and Taunton, Liverpool; Mr. Thomas Moxon, jun., 69 Old Broactstreet, London ; Mr. W. G. Seed, 15, St. Ann's-square, Manchester; Mr. Nathaniel Lea, Birmingham; and Messrs. Standish and Bleckett, Leeds ; of whom prospectuses and maps of the line may be obtained. Applicants for shares, who are personally known to the Pro. visional Directors, are requested to refer to one of such Directors; all other applicants will be required to give a refence to some banker, or other person of known respectability. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Wrexham, Nantwich, and Crewe Junction Railway Company. Gentlemen,— I hereby request that you will allot me Shares of 20/. each, in the above proposed railway, and I hereby under take to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. 6d. per Share thereon, or any lesser number of Shares which may be allotted to me; and I also undertake to execute the Parliamentary Contract, and the Sub scribers' Agreement when required. I am, Gentlemen, your cbedient servant, Name (in full).. Profession, Trade, or Occupation Residence (in full) Place of Business (if any) Date Name of Referee .. Address of Referee rril 14: SHEFFIELD, WORTLEY, SILK. STOAT, AND WAKEFIELD RAILWAY. (Registered Provisionally.) Capital 500,000/. in 20,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share. PROTISIONAL DIRECTORS. J. W. B. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood House, Leeds, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway William' Alexander, Esq., M.D., Halifax, Director of the Liver pool add Leeds Direct, and the Midland and Think Railways Joseph Austin, Esq., Headingley Hill, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and the Leeds and York Railways W. P. Bradshaw, Esq., Woodthorpe Hall, Sandal Magna, Wakefield Charles Bamford, jun, Esq., Hull, Director of the Direct Western Railway William Broadhurst, Eeq. , Weafichl-terracte, Micalcid Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways Alexander Brown, Esq., Headingley, Leeds Isaac Burkill, Esq., Highfield-cottage, Beeston, Leeds Wm. Clifford, Esq., Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties Railway Robt. Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway Joseph Cis' ke, Esq., Sherburn, Ferrybridge John Priston Cutts, Esq., Sheffield John H. Coates, Esq., Wakefield John Alcock Dixon, Esq., Habergham Eaves, Burnley, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Wm. Dawson, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Peterborough, Lynn, Wisbeach, and Boston Railway . John Egginton, Esq., a Magistrate of the Borough of Hen Thomas England, Esq., Headingley, Leeds, Director of the West Junction and the Leeds and York Railways Robert John Ellershaw, Esq., Leeds Ephraim Slsworth, Esq., Sandford-house, Kirkstall, near Leeds Gearge Earle, Esq Hull Mil Fawcett, Esq., Broomhall, Sheffield, Director of the Wake fi id and Harrogate Junction, the Liverpool and Leeds Direct and the Direct Western Railways Wm. Gresham, Esq., Alderman of the City of Lincoln Aulustus G. Greaves, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway Joseph Gill, Esq., Potter Newton, near Leeds Frederick Hattersley, Esq., West House, Bradford cnert Henries, Esq., Leeds William Wilkes Hill, Esq., Beeston, near Leeds John Hall, Esq., Hull, Director of the York and Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Junction Railways William Hutchinson, Esq, Broomhall, Sheffield, Director of the Great Grimsby, Sheffield, the Potteries, and Grand Junction Railway Hong Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield, Director of the Wake.. field and Harrogate J unct i on, and the Direct Western Railways J. H astings Ingham, Riding trate of the West Martin-house, near Skipton, a M ag i s- John Heard, Esq , Alderman of Nottingham, Director of the Lon don end Nottingham Railwa y Thomas Herbert, E sq ., Alderman of Nottingham Thomas Molmes, Esq., Hull Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull, Director of the Direct Western Railway John Jackson, Esq., Alderman of Leeds, Dire ctor of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and the Leeds and Yorkßailways Thomas Jessop, Esq., Claremont.place, Sheffield Sydney Jessop, Esq., Manchester Charles Locke, Esq., Shapethorpe_house, Wakefield, Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate Junction Railway James Martin, Esq., Wakefield James Joseph M'Swiney, Sandal Magna, Wakefield, Director of the Wakefield 3.11.1 Harrogate Junction, the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and the Leeds, York, azd Midland Railways ,?e heel Lotnit. At.gieid THE SUN, LONDON, MONDA. Y EVEN ING, OCTOBER 6 18t GREAT WESTERN, BRE NTFO RD, and CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY, from the vicinity of West Drayton, through Hounslow, Brentford, Ham mersmith, Kensington, Chelsea, and Westminster, to a Central Terminus, near Charing-Cross. (Provisionally Registered.) Offices, 53, Charing-cross. Capital, 850,000/., i❑ 42,500 Shares of 20/. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Earl of Devon Vernon Abbott, Esq., 70, Gower-street Philip Anstruther, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Railway Junction Company Benjamin John Armstrong, Esq., Southall, Magistrate for Middlesex John Auldjo, Esq., Noel House, Kensington Henry i'ratt Barlow, Esq., 24, Kensington-square Edward Oliver Benson ' Esq., Hounslow William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Director of this Thames Embankment Railway Junction Company Thomas Bramall, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Luhcester and Tam-. worth Railway Sir John Macpbersos Brackenbury Sir Archer Denman Croft, Bart., Director of the Thames Embank ment Railway Junction Company Major John T. Croft, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and Manches. ter Railway John Chevalier Cobbold, Esq., Chairman of the Eastern Union Rail. way . Wl:liam Cumming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park George Cooper, Esq., Brantford George Jaynes Stredwick Camden, Esq., Hounslow Charles Downes, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway J. Fisher, Esq., Isleworth Major David Fitzgerald, Valentia, ootmty of Kerry Captain Forbes, IC.N., Forest, Windsor Sir Andrew PoHatt Green, R.N., K.C.H. Francis Lloyd, Esq., Beaufort-lodge, Chelsea James Montgomery, Esq., Brantford John Bowyer Nichols, Esq., Hammersmith The Hon. Colonel Phipps, Norwood-gram William Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands Railway Henry Pownall, Esq., Spring-Vova Hounslow, Magistrates for Middlesex John F. Pownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow Colonel Reid (2,1 Life Guards), Bulstrode Park Thomas Berry Rowe, Esq., Brentford John Coysgarne Sim, Esq., No. 9, Clifton-place, Hyde Park-grardens Major Jelf Sharp, Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Middlesex, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment Railway Junction Company Henry Webb Smith, Esq., Hounslow William Spooner, Esq., Director of the Liverpool, 3lanchaster, and Newcastle Railway Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Chairman of tho Irish North Midland Railway John Stewart, Esq., M.P. Frederick Thompson, Esq., 20, Kensington-sqaare Robert Richard Tighe, Esq., Bank, Windsor henry Tuffnell, Esq., M.P. (With power to add to their number.) ENGINEER—Thomas Page, Esq. SOLICITORS. MVssri. Wilkinson and Cobbold, 7, Lincoln's Inn-flelds William him,Epsq.mA, ~B , Kt Eh N i gT ' A s . l l:nA c G l i-E I NN - r sa lk. , Temple. RANKERS. A Messrs. Hugh Dines Cameron and' George Hain,lB,Parliament-stroe' SECRETARY — Henry Moreing, Esq. Applications for shares, In the subjoined form, may be made, KW-K. 4 teAgil'AVOY,"g .” , ,,, fr i,,,rsaaParlianaentary Agents, and to the following agents and sharebrokers :--Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, 61 1 ,6, Threadneedle-street ; Mr. H. J. Williams, 80, 01(1 Broad-street, London ; Messrs. Bradley and Co., Manchester ; Mr. B. It. Pemberton, and Messrs. 11. Davis and Co., Liverpool; Mr. Luke Arnold, Bristol; Messrs. Chantrell and Boyes, Leeds ; Messrs. Wil kinson and Earle, Hull; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow; and Messrs. Graystou and Earle, York, of whom prospectuses may be obtained. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the rrovisional Directors of the Great Western, Brentford, and Central Terminus Junction Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 201. each In the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or any lesser number that may he allotted to me, to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share thereon, and to sign the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract when required. Name in • • •• •• • • •• •• Residence •. • ..... Trade or Profession Date Reference in GREAT WESTERN, BRENTFORD, and CENTR TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY. No applications for Shares iu this Company will be received which do not contain a reference to one of the Provisional Committee, the Sharebrokers, Officers of the Company, or a Banker. By order, HENRY 310REING, Secretary. 53, Charing-cross, Sept. 30,1845. MANCHESTER, MIDLAND, AND GREAT GRIMSBY JUNCTION RAILWAY,' via ROTHERHAM. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 800,0001., in 32,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, I/. 7s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Captain Laws, R.N., Crumpsall-hall, Manchester Joseph Hegan, Esq., Liverpool (Directors of the London and York Railway) George Crosland, Esq., Huddersfield Joseph Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield ( Directors of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway) Robert Bucliannan, Esq., M.D., Pontefract, Chairman William Moxon, Esi , Pontefract James Audus, Esq., Headingly, near Leeds (Directors of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway) William Butcher, Esq., the Master Cutler of Sheffield E. B. Beaumont, Esq., Finningley-park (Directors of the Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Hud. dersfield, and Goole Railway) John Burgess, Esq., Itoroughreeve of Manchester John Holtbrd, Esq., Rusholme-house, Manchester Lott Gardiner, Esq., merchant, Manchester Edward Connell, Esq., Leaf-square, Manchester Mr. Alderman Burd, merchant, Manchester James Consterdin, , , Esq., merchant, Manchester Cephas Howard, Esq., J.P., Brinnlngton-hall, Stockport William Bayley, Esq., Larkinll, Staleybridge, Cheshire P. England, Esq., Huddersfield John Smith, Esq., Welton Garth, near Hull John Wood, Esq., Glossop, Derbyshire Vincent Corbett, Esq., Outhwaite-hall, Wottley Thomas Chambers, Esq., Chapeltown ,J. B. Greaves, Esq., Ecelesfleld William Hall, Esq., Royds-moor, near Penistone Wilson Overend, Esq., J.P., Sheffield Henry Walker, Esq., J.P., Clifton-house, Rotherham Robert Bentley, Esq., Rotherham Robert Youuge, Esq., Sheffield G. W. Chambers, Esq., Clough-house, near Rotherham - J. G. Clarke, Esq., Masbro'-hall George Knowles, Esq., ironmaster, Rotherham Henry Wilkinson, Esq., Endeliffe-hall, Sheffield C. S. R. :Sandford, Esq., North Field-house, Rotherham James Yates, Esq., Effingham Works, Masborough John Aldred, Esq., Rotherham Thomas Wheatley, Esq., corn merchant, South-grove, Rotherham Samuel S. lirittain, Esq., Sheffield James Hodgson, Esq., Rotherham Mills 4olin.Ths . ksTwelp.s., l .7nrmwttlnilintiwrkw4,._ Benjamin Badger, Esq., barrister-at-law, Rotherham Henry Thomas, Esq., Sheffield John Nightingale, Esq., Grcave of the Feoffees of Rotherham Charles Sandford, Esq., Plicenix ironworks, Rotherham Robert John Bentley, Esq., Eastwood-house, Rotherham George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield Alexander Grant, Esq., steel rofiner, Rotherham E. J. Heseltine, Esq., Rotherham E. L. Sidebotham, Esq., J.P., Aston-hall Rev. Geo. Chandler, J.P., Treeton Rectory John Green, Esq., Sheffield John Hall, Esq., Kiveton-park, near Rotherham R. C. Hoyle, Esq., Aughton-hall, near Rotherham Robert Fisher, Esq., Maltby George Ridge, Esq., Sheffield Thomas Dyson, Esq., Braithwell Manor-holm William Broughton, Esq., Dairy John Bradley, Esq., Blyth Joseph Taylor, Esq., Newington James Cross, Esq., Gringley Charles Cross, Esq., Glentworth-heath, 'ear Gainsborough William Wells, Esq., West Stockwith, near Gainsborougk Henry Smith, Esq., Gainsborough Henry Ethcrington Smith, Esq., J.P., Gainsborough William Lister Sharp, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough Rev. Robert Hackle, Gainsborough Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough Francis A. I.owe, Esq., Gainsborough John William Pashley, Esq., merchant, Gai ns b oroug h Frederick W. Fleck, .Esq., wharfinger Gainsborou g h Thomas Adwick Farmer, Esq., iron mercha n t , G a i ns b orough Henry Halt, Esq., wharfinger, Gainsborough R. D. Fretwell, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough Robert Pinder Moxon, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough H. Robinson, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough John Hughes, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough. Edward Watson, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough. ENGINEEW — John Braithwaite, Esq. SECRETARY—Mr. Francis Parker, Rotherham. BANKEAS—Sheffieldfil eld and Rotherham Banking Company, Rotherham, The object of this undertaking is to connect the Sheffield and Man chester—Huddersfield and Sheffield — Midland and Great Grimsby Railways —the porta of Liverpool and Birkenhead on the western, and Great Grimsby on the eastern coast, affording accommodation to all the important intervening manufacturing and agricultural dis tricts—in fact, to open the shortest and most direst communication between the eastern and western counties of England. It is pro posed to commence at Wortley and run to the Midland at or near Masbrough, affording all outlet north and south, and thence for ward to Gain.sbormigh. There are abutting on the west end of the line the West Riding of Yorkshire and Lancashire, with a Population of 2,221,988—and on the east end Nottlughanashire and North Lincolnshire, with a popu lation of 431,485. Under any circumstances, the intercourse between two such masses of population must be great; but in this case It is much beyond the average from the different character of the country, and the pursuits of the inhabitants at th e two termini — Lancashire and Yorkshire having redundant supp lies of while Nottinghamshire a n d on the former counties fo of- ; coal, ironstone, lime, an d ' supplies of corn and cattle to L m t hi ne t n s o u l f e pn ru r e e d e t and ds o d—usiaeonefda send te . e na r d y r etdt their s ee ip e re r ilnpadtrel large e b t the Yorkshire and Lancashire markets. The traffic in goods and passengers between such important and mutually dependent districts must be unusually great. A glance at the map of England will show that the proposed line will be, as nearly as may be, a straight one. A circuitous line is an evil, and opposed to public policy. The public suffer by being de tained a longer time—by travelling a longer distance—and by paying a larger fare than is necessary—and the proprietors suffer by being exposed to the risk, or rather to the certainty of their property being destroyed at some future period by the competition ora shorterand more direct line. Sir Robert Peel, is his place in Parliamerit, on the 15th of March, 1845, upon this point said—" Tole would make no re ference to any indiviaual railway schemes, but he thought they ought to look forward to the result of mechanical improvements as applied to those schemes, and they might depend upon It (speaking of ulti mate results) that the shortest lines would be preferred.—(Hear, hear.) The tendency of the improvements which were almost daily introduced, was decidedly in favourof the shortest lines." It may also be observed that the Board of Trade, is their detailed report, in reference to that part of the line from Rotherham to Gainsbrough (which was submitted for consideration as a distinct scheme), state it to be " decidedly preferable to the Sheffield and Lincolnshire or the Sheffield branch of the London and York ;" and that " it affords a better connexion also with the import an t market town of Rotherham, and avith the North Midland Railway, and gives as direct a communication as could be desired with Gales borough and Lincoln." While so favourable an opinion is expressed upon this portion of the line, it may also be fairly granted to the extension from Rother ham to Wortley. By the Sheffield and Manchester, and the Sheffield and Rotherham Railways, the distance from Wortley to Rotherham is 1434 miles, which by the proposed ex tension will be reduced to 9. That portion of the line will also open out one of the best coal-fields in England, with inex haustible supplies of Park-gate and Silkstone coals—besides the green Moor Quarries at Wortley, containing very superior stone far paving and building purposes—while at Thorncliffe and Chapel Town, there are already most extensive ironworks in active ope ration. At Rotherham and Masborough—and in the immediate neighbourhood—there are large iron and steel works, and other manufactories, requiring qualities of coal and ironstone, from which at present they are almost excluded, on account of the heavy carriage. Rotherham is the great cattle market of Yorkshire, and likewise an important corn market, and one of the objects sought to be attained by the promoters of this undertaking is the shortest route from the manufacturing to the agricultural districts—and from the agricultural to the great markets of Yorkshire, and the consuming districts westward. It will accommodate also the traffic of the localities through which it passes, and possesses the peculiar feature of following, as near as possible, the old route in which the stream of traffic, and especially passengers, has hithorto be en accusto med to flow. The district between Rotherham and Gainsborough is destitute of coal, and there is no canal or railway from which it can be supplied, excepting by a very circuitous route—ill fact, the supply between Rotherham and 13aw try is entirely carted along the turnpike-road. The celebrated grindstones at Wiekersley, with an immense quantity of the finest freestone, from. the far-famed Roche Abbey Quarries, might also be sent—the former to Sheffield. Manchester, and Bir mingham—and the latter to every part of the kingdom, were an easier and cheaper mode of transit established. It is needless to remark' that any line of railway commanding the advantages referred to, and connecting Lancashire and West Yorkshire, with the Trent and the Humber, must prove a very ample investment for capital; indeed, the returns of the existing traffic are highly satisfactory. Surveys have been taken, and the landowners generally are favourable to the project. The length of the line is about thirty-five and a half miles. the r There will he a clause in the Act of Parliament, limiti n g the liabi • lity of each s h are h o ld er t o th e amoun t for which he may subscribe, and power will be taken to allow interest at the rate of 4 per cent. per an the obtaining of the Act until the completion o f th e ra il wa y. E y annum uponSubscribers' the paid-up e e Agreement, authority tal en ca t,pifrom will be given to the Pro visonai Directors to vary or alter the line, or to enter into any arrangement which they may think expedient, previous to applying to Parliament in the ensuing session. The Directors congratulate the shareholders upon their very satis factory position, having secured the valuable co-operation and assistance of several influential companies. W. F. HOYLE. C. 14, COWARD, Otheltun Oct. 2,19!5, Joseph Ogdin March, Esq., Beech-grove, Leeds George Peel, Esq., Horbury, near Wakefield, Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate Junction, and the Bradford, Wake field, and Midland Railways Sidney Roberts, Esq., Sheffield John Robinson, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, near Wakefild, Director of the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland, and the Leeds, York, and Midland Railways E. W. Rudgard, Esq., Lincoln Edward Rook, Esq., King-street, Leeds James Reffit, Esq., Leeds Edward Spence, Esq., Tilworth, near Hull, Director of the York. shire and Glasgow and the Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick Rail ways Thomas Sidney, Esq., Sheriff and Alderman of London Edw. Sidebottom, Esq., Piedwick-hall, Sandal Magna, Wakefield 'Benjamin Smith, Esq., Duckmanton• lodge, near Chesterfield, Di rector of the North Derbyshire Union, and the Sheffield, Bux. ton, Leek, and Potteries Railway Richard Sully, Esq., Sandon-place, Sheffield William Starkey, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Leeds, York, and Midland Railways Thomas Burdett Turton, Esq., Alderman of Sheffield John Tall, Esq., Hull John Taylor, Esq., Belle Vue.terrace, Hull, Director of the Direct Western Railway George Turton, Esq., Bagden-lodge, Clayton West, near Hudders. field, Director of the Bristol and Dove Railway Joseph Turton, Esq., Brook-hill, Sheffield Edward Vickers, Esq., Firs-hill, Sheffield Benjamin Vickers, Esq., West Cliffe, Sheffield James Wall, Esq., Osgathorpe-hills, Sheffield, a Director of the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Joseph Wood, Esq., Sandal, near Wakefield, a Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate Junction Railway George Walker, Esq., Osgathorpe Cottage, Sheffield George Wall, Esq., Woodside, Sheffield Rev. George Atkinson Walker, Alverthorpe, near Wakefield, Di rector of the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland, the Leeds, York, and Midland, and the Gloucester, Aberystwlth, and Central Wales Railways John Ward, Esq., Machon Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Direct Western Railway ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF. —John Urpeth Rastrick, Esq., F. R. S., London. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Upton and Clapham, Leeds Messrs. Smith and Wightman, Sheffield BANKERS, London : Sir Richard Carr Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co. Leeds : Messrs. Beckett and Co. Sheffield : The Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company Wakefield : Messrs. Leatham, Tew, and Co. Barnsley : The Wakefield and Barnsley Union Banking Company. SECRIITARY.—Henry Jubb, Esq. The main line of this railway will be about fifteen miles in length. Commencing at the Wortley Station, on the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, it will pass through the town of Silkston, and near to Dodworth, accommodating the whole of that ♦aluable mining district with the most ready outlet for its celebrated coal to all parts of the kingdom. It proceeds by Darton, Chapelthorpe, and Sandal to —l--.l* —ln cnester, and the newly projected railways to Leeds and Harrogate, and to Pontefract and Goole. The inhabitants of Barnsley will also be accommodated by a branch to that town, from the main line, giving them direct and ...inunloetuin with the north and south. The distance from Leeds to Sheffield by this line, and its con nexions northwards, will be only thirty-two miles ; by the present route it is thirty-eight miles. The distance from Wakefield to Sheffield by this line will be only twenty-three miles ; it is now, by way of Normanton, thirty-one miles ; and by way of Oakenshaw, twenty-eight miles, between two and three of which are by omni bus. Besides this saving of actual distance, the tedious stoppages at Masborough and Normanton, the delays of which are often equal to twenty miles of travelling, will be avoided, A careful survey has been made, by an experienced surveyor, who reports that the line from Wakefield to Silkston will run with easy gradients nearly on the surface of the ground for the greater part of the way; and that the only work of any mag nitude will be a tunnel, about six hundred yards long, at Woolley. common, which will occasion in the approach to it from Wake field an ascending gradient of 1 in 108. The works between Silkston and Wortley are of a heavier character, but in no part will the gradient be more than 1 in 112. The ruling gradielit will be about 1 in 180. This undertaking, in connexion with other railways, is in tended to accomplish the following very important objects :—First, a direct line of communication between London and Leeds, the Northern Counties and Scotland. Secondly, the opening of the extensive and valuable coal-fields of Silkston, Dodworth, Barns.. ley, and the adjacent districts, to the manufacturing and other towns of Yorkshire, the ports of Hull, Selby, Goole, Great Grimsby, and Boston, and also to the Metropolis, and the Mid land, and Western counties. Thirdly, the accommodation of the inhabitants of the places through which this railway will pass, with those facilities of conveyance for passengers, of which, from the almost entire absence of good roads, as well as railways, they have hitherto been destitute. An examination of the Map will show how well these objects will be attained by means of this railway. At its northern termi nus, Wakefield, it will be connected with the Leeds and Manches - ter Railway, continued to the Midland and the lines extending from it to the north and east, with the projected Wakefield and Harrogate and Wakefield and Leeds lines (the latter a branch of the Leeds and Dewsbury from Churwell), and through it with the Leeds and Thirsk, the Leeds and Bradford, and other railways, to the northwest and Scotland. And at Wortley, its southern terminus, it will be connected with the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, the projected Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, and the Sheffield and Lincolnshire lines, the Sheffield and Great Grimsby Railway, the projected Sheffield and Chesterfield Railway, and the •arious new projects from Sheffield to the northern parts of Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and the west. The quantity of coal which this railway will make directly accessible to all parts of the kingdom may be estimated from the following statements given In evidence before a Committees of the House of Commons :—The township of Barnsley contains 2,010 acres of coal bed, Barughs 5,080 acres, Dodworth, 6,219 acres, Silkston, 4,040 acres. The quantity of coal in the Silkston main alone is thirty.seven millions three hundred and fourteen thou sand tons, and the quantity likely to be raised from the entire dis• trict through which the railway will pass, is not less than seventy. eight millions of tons. Pits nay be sunk close by the railway, and will require only an engine to lift the coals perpendicularly, and pout them into the trucks. In addition to this, an opportunity will be afforded of turning to better account a bed of ironstone underlying a space of 5,080 acres. nr ii ,:t) in fr riiliVriulT: and all . intermediate towns to the north and east, and westward to Glossop, Ashton, Manchester, Stock port, and other towns in Cheshire, that the owners of this valu able mineral would be able successfully to compete with those of Durham and Lancashire. The inexhaustible mineral traffic which will thus be developed —the means which this railway will afford of improved transit be. tween Leeds and Sheffield, so long a desideratum to the inhabitants of these, the two largest towns in Yorkshire—the opening of direct railway communication with Barnsley, from which that important manufacturing town has hitherto been excluded—its con nexion with the line projected to Harrogate, whither so many thousands of visitors annually resort in pur suit of health and pleasure, constitute a summary of advantages which cannot fail to recommend this project to public favour and support. It is calculated that the traffic in minerals alone will yield a lucrative return to the Shareholders; while the extraordinary increase of travelling which every ad ditional facility creates, and the surprising influx of trade which every new railway brings to the district through which it passes, adding largely to the profits of the undertaking, render it pro bable that the advantages which will actually be realised by this project will exceed the most sanguine expectations of its pro. moters. Applications for Shares may be made, in the subjoined form, to the Solicitors ; and also to Messrs, Ridsdale, Myers, and Bailey, Messrs. Smith and Perfect, Messrs. John Everard Upton, Share. brokers, Leeds; Messrs. Ridsdale and Rogers, Sharebrokers, Wakefield; Messrs. Garton and Wright, Mr. George Eadon, jun., and Mr. John May, Sharebrokers, Sheffield; Messrs. C. Wilkin.. son and Earle, Sharebrokers, Hull; and Messrs. Peet and Son, Sharebrokers, Nottingham. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Sheffield, Wortley,Silkston, and Wakefluld Railway Company. Gentlemen,—.4 request you to allot to me shares of 25!. each in the above-named Company, and I undertake to accept the same, or such less number as you may appropriate to me, sub ject to the regulations of the Company, to execute the Parlia mentary Contract and the Subscribers' Agreement, and to pay, when required, the deposit of 2/. 12s. 6d. per share. _ _ _ I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name (in full) Profession, trade, or occupation , Residence (in full) Place of business (if any) , Name and address of Referee , Date T HE SHEFFIELD, WORTLEY, SILKSTON, and WAKEFIELD RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that no further APPLICATIONS for SHARES in this COMPANY can be received after THURSDAY, the 9th day of October instant, immediately after which the al. lotment will take place. By Order, HENRY JUBB, Secretary. 111:1E DIRECT LONDON, PORTSMOUTH, AND CiiictiEsTEß, AND DIRECT PORTSMOUTH AND CHATHAM RAILWAY, via REIGATE. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital. 1,700.000 r., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL comurrrEs. The Right Hon. the Earl of Egmont, of Cowdray Park, Sussex Colonel George Wyndham, of Petworth House, so u " The lion. and Bey. L. Vernon Harcourt. of West Dean, Sussex The Right Hon. Lord de Lisle, of Penshurst, Kent The Right Hon. Lord Pelham Clinton, of Carleton Villas, Maida-hill The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, of the Dell, Windsor Sir Charles Hon. Charl Roberte sWllliaGmorTe, 3fp. Taylor, Bart., of 21, Wilton-crescent.ofHollycoinbel House, Sussest- Th The Hon. William M. The Hon. Stafford Jei 3 7 1 1 i m g r , a ß v r o o o u - s a r e t Brook-street; Dorset rn The Hon. Percy ' Freke,DawB", Poole Sir William East India llamYoung Company. , Bar t.,7Westbourne-street, Hyde Park, Director ot u Sir James Eyre, of 11, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square Sir James Carmichael, Bart., of 40, Sussex -gardens Sir Robert Schomburgh, of New Kingston. Surrey Howard Elphiastone, Esq., M.P., of Eaton-place, Director k of t ? Direct Western Railway Company, the Thames Emb an Inca Company, &c. William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid land Railway Robert Wynne Williams, Esq., Director of the Nottingham and Gains. borough Railway Lee Steere, Esq., of Jey's Park, Surrey Captain Charles Shirley, of Midhurst, Sussex Lieut.-Colonel Eden, 1, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., of Broom Hall, Surrey Admiral John Ayscough, of Prospect -place House, Southampton Launcelot Archer Burton, Esq., of Woodlands, Emsworth, Hants Charles Dixon. Esq., of Stanstead Park, Sussex Archibald Douglas Stewart, of Bruton -street E. T. Dayrell, Esq., 15, Old Cavendish-street, High Sheriff of Buck inghamshire Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, of North-end House, Portsmouth, Deputy-Lieutenant for Hants Major Snow, of 4, Old Cavendish-street The Rev. Henry Garrett Newland, of Westbenrne Rectory, Sussex Francis Lysons Price, Esq., of Sydenham, Kent, Director of the Shropshiri Mineral Railway James Beech. Esq., of Brandon Hall, Warwickshire George Grantham, Esq., of ilareombe-place, Sussex Charles Hurst, Esq., of Midhurst, Sussex George Harrison:Esq., F.S.A., Director of the Hull and Holyhead Frederick Clarkson, Esq., of Tottenham, - 1 Directors of Robert Chapman, Esq., of 1, Park-place, Regent's the Great Park, Manchester William Watson Prole, Esq., of Thurlow-square, Railway Brompton, Company John Weston, Esq., 28, IVobnrngssquare, Director of the Great Man chester Railway Thomas Chitty, Esq., of 8, Upper Gower-street, Barrister-at-Lair, Director of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway Company John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Boyd, Halifax, Deputy-Lieutenant for the West Piding of Yorkshire James Reeves, Esq., Leyton, Essex John Kopper, Esq., of Ifold House, Surrey Stephen Louden, Esq., of Lindfleld, Sussex George Barker, Esq., of Stlllaud, Sussex James Hitchins, Esq., of Lincoln, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway Company T L sa e h il u s easl Po ßS coi f, k le , , E r s sq q.., , o o f f 'A n i e o i n g t a a t g e, ue; u s r tre re e y t, Russell-square Esq., of Reigate, Surrey s a.s uss e e m ,, cre ThT24lhoonminCtuaja-NBOc'alv.E-lee.s'sfEl,"Esogsf.q%C.J.-uaolni;lll,dloalirdihilueilliglat,He, Surreyl Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S rs , of Great Surrey-street, Director of the Rugby, Warwick. and Worcester Railway WI tx , . Dopozan nictious,A r roydou. Surrey, Director of the ntara Hardysq.,F• pany Orn John Davidson. Esq., of Trotton-house, near 311dhurst Edmund Sadler, Esq., of Itepton, Sussex Anthony Dickson, Esq., of Edrington-house, near Berwick-on-Tweed Joseph Eade, Esq., of Clapham-common William Watson, Esq., of Burn-grove, Roxburghshire, Director of Bristol and Exeter Railway Company Samuel Brown, Esq., of Clapham Joseph Sicales,,Esq., of 3, Dunster-court, Mincing-lane, and Upper Clopton John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., of 30, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the Reading and Reigate Railway John llelbert dielbert, Esq., of Gloucester-place, Director of the Lei cester and.Birmingharn Railway Company Charles Thomas 'Wards, Esq., of Clopton house, Stratford-on-Avon, Director of the Warwick and London Railway Company Captain William Cousins, of Compton-street, Brunswick-square, Di rector of the Doncaster and Goole Railway Company Captain Frederick Chamicr, of Halkin-street, Belgrave-square, Di rector of the Fampoux and Hazebrouck Railway John Barnett, Esq., of Cheltenham, Coroner of the county cf Glou cester John Moreton Cottle, Esq., of Leamington, Director of the Coventry and Birmingham Railway Company John Brightman, Esq., of Regency-square, Brighton, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Company William Spooner, Esq., of Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the Newcastle and Liverpool Railway Company Alexander Greig, Esq., of Lowndes-street, Itelgrave-square, Director of the Rugby, Warwick, MA Worcester Railway Captain Trophimus Hodges, of 63, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Company George Parbury, Esq., of 37, Itttssell-square, Director of the Manches ter and Rugby Railway Company George R. Peppercorns, Esq., of Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway Company Thomas Henry Evans, Esq.. of Lothbury, Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway Company Benjamin Franklin, Esq., of 5, Marley-stmet Rev. F. 11. Hall, A.D., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridgeshire Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire W. Woode, Esq., of Chilgrove, Sussex Henry Morley, Esq. of Midhurst, Sussex William Gambier, Req.,? Sacombe Park, Herta C. A. Tulk, Esq., of Totteridge Park, llerts James Peard Ley, Esq., Seyton Ironworks, Whitehaven John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., of 150, Piccadilly H. R. Downnian, Esq., of 47, Upper Bedford-place, Director of the Cambrian and Grand Junction Railway David Mountague, Esq., of Regent's-park W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Ludgate•hill, Director of the Wavener Valley Railway Company James Gernon, Esq., Director of the London and. Nottingham Rail way Company James Macmillon, Esq., Southampton Rev. Cecil Greene, A.M., of Midhurst Rev. Charles Edward Twyford, of Trotton Rectory, Sussex Major James Adair, Director of the Church of England Insurance Company Captain Charles Frederick Parkinson, of Manchester, Director of the Manchester snd Southampton Railway, Managing Director of the West Lancashire Railway, and of the Manchester, Wigan, and Southport Railway Robert Sykes, Esq., of Manchester, Director of the Clitheroe Junc tion Railway John Clark Prescott, ;Esq., of Manchester, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport Railway, and of the Macclesfield and Ruzby Railway Henry Farrington, Beg., of Manchester, Director of the Wigan and Southport Railway, and of the York and Lancaster Railway Josephus Hurney Iligson, Esq., of Manchester, Director of the Chester And Manchester Direct Railway, and of the Manchester aad Rugby Railway n 9R>'o~f~"~Sirec".f London and 31anche'ster Railway, and of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Janction Railway Thomas Townend, Esq., of the Polygon, Manchester, Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway John Burgess, Esq., of Manchester, Boroughreeve of Manchester, Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway Company, and of the 3lancheeter, Burnley, Settle, and Carlisle llirec Railway James Shaw, Esq., of Salford, Lancashire, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Railway Edward Parrott, Esq., of the Suttons. Romtbrd John George Hammond, Esq., Essex-house, Bow, Director of the Direct Western Railway Joseph Bishop, Esq., Director of the Blackwell Railway Phillip Baker, Esq., Euston-square Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Twyford-hall, Derby John Webster, Esq., 35, Mecklenburgh-square, Director of the Great Grimsby, and Lincoln Railway The names of other noblemen and gentlemen will appear in a further advertisement, whose support has been promised to the ma dertaking. COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Samuel Brown, Esq. Edward Parratt, Esq. Frederick Clarkson, Esq. Win. B. Hughes, Esq., M.P. Robert Chapman, Esq. Robert Wynne Williams, Esq. Joseph Scales, Esq. H. R. Downman, Esq. John Parkinson, Esq. David Montague, Esq. ENGINEERS—Messrs. Drayson, of No. 2, Palace-yard, Westminster. SOLICITORS TO THE COMPANY—Messrs. I'ontifex and Moginie, 5. SI Andrew's-court, Holborn-hill, London. Bionezas —The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. Rhoades and Greene, solicitors, Chichester Thomas Hart, Esq., solicitor, Reigate William Minchin, Esq., solicitor, Portsea and Portsmouth Thomas Hill, Esq., solicitor, Chatham Daniel Smart, Esq., solicitor, Einsworth Edwin Albery, Esq., solicitor, Midhurst Thomas Holmes Bosworth, Esq., solicitor, Westerham. SECRETARY—Mr. John C. Sommers. In submitting this undertaking to the public, the promoters are influenced no less by a conviction of its importance as a direct con necting line between the important towns of Chichester and Ports mouth and the metropolis, than by its grand national importance in affording a direct communication between the two great military and naval arsenals of Great B itain —Portsmouth and Chatham. The projected undertaking, by proceeding to the two termini at Chichester and Portsmouth, will extend the facilities of communica tion with the coast branches of railways along the south of England, connecting itself with Brighton to the eastward, and Southampton towards the west. By the main line falling into the Brighton Rail way the advantage of two termini in London will be secured—the one at the Bricklayers' Arms, and the other at London-bridge—the latter of which, from its proximity to the Custom llouse, and the several docks on the Thames, is acknowledged to be the best position for a London terminus for merchandise of all descriptions. The line of railway intended to be constructed by this Company will commence at or near the Redhill station near Reigate, on the Lon don and Brighton Railway, a distance of 21 miles from London bridge. In its course to Portsmouth it will pass through or near Reigate, Newdigate, Ockley, Ewhurst, Rudgwick, Cranley, Alfold, Billinghurst, Wisborough-green, Plaistow, Haslemere, Chiddingfold, North _lltapel, Kirdford, Petworth, Midhurst, Chilgrove, Stoughton, Raoton, Westbourne, and Emsworth, at or near which last-mentioned place this projected li .e will join the Chichesterand Portsmouth Rail way to Portsmouth. A branch is proposed to be made from Dorking to join the main line at or near Cape!. By this course the entire distance to travel between London and Portsmouth will be abridged to 73 miles, a distance considerably shortar than that by which any line hitherto projected betweet London and Portsmouth has proposed to pass, and also pursuing a route more populous and pro,ltictive than any hitherto presented to- public notice. It will involve the construction of only 45 miles of railway to complete the course between the Redhill station (near Reigate) and Einsworth. From London to Reigate by the London and Brighton __ll*ro,k , Lit. to vu mute of MIS company is From the paint near Ernsworth to Portsmouth by the Chichester and Portsmouth Railway is ........ .. . 7 „ Total distance from London to Portsmouth •• • • 73 miles. Front Chilgrovc a lino of seven miles will be constructed, and which will, place Chichester in direct communication with London. The distance between Chichester and London by this route will be 6'2 miles, and trains will run direct between London and Chichester. In/tie - inch as the existing line of railway to Dover branches off from the London and Brighton Railroad at Reigate, this projected line will open up a conununication by railroad between Portsmouth and Dover. From an inspection of the map, it will be seen that the Redhill station, near Reigate, lies nearly in a direct line between Ports mouth and:Chatham, and in pursuing the line of communication be tween the last-mentioned naval and military depot, this line will pass through or nearlo the towns of Bletchingley, Godston, Limpsfield, Westerham, Seven Oaks, Ightbant, Town Mailing, Wsotham, Off ham, Snodland, Lower Hailing, and Wouldham. The distance between Chatham and Reigate will involve the making of 31 miles of railroad, and the line of railroad between Portsmouth and Chatham•will extent over 82 miles. To the naval and military establishments of this kingdom the construction of this projected lino will afford the most important fa cilities in the transit of troops, stores, baggage, &c., diminishing the tardy course of communication which at present necessarily exists between Portsmouth and Chatham, at present usually extend • ing over the space of two days, and placing them in that direct com munication with each other which, in two hours, or thereabouts, will enable the journey between them to be made. The formation of a direct line of railway between Portsmouth and! Chatham will afford the opportunity of establishing, by an electric telegraphic, that celerity of communication so important to be obtained between places of national importance. The warm support of the principal landowners on the greater part of the line is pledged to this undertaking. The Provisional Committee abstain from making any special re ferenee to the contemplated profit to result from carrying into effect this undertaking, feeling convinced that the extent of traffic through the populous and rich districts over which this line and its branches are projected to pass is sufficiently known, anti is decisive of the Inutility of all comment in that respect. Applications for shares, In the form given below, to be mad to the Solicitors and Local Agents, or to any of the following Brokers :—Messrs. R. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, Royal Exchange, London; Messrs. Peppercorne and Co., No. 2, Old Broad.street, London ; Mr. 11. Pritchett, of No. 74, Old Broad -street ; Messrs. Neilson, sharebrokers, Liverpool ; John Duncuft, Esq., sharebroker, Manchester ; Mr. R. M`Ewen, 18, St. Ann's-street, Manchester ; John Watson, Esq., sharebroker, Leeds ; Messrs. Ridsdale, Myers, and Bailey, brokers, Leeds ; Messrs. Schultz and Carr, brokers, Li verpool; Messrs. Hope and Rastrick, brokers, Manchester; Messrs. Tyeth and Luscombe, stockbrokers, Plymouth ; George Edwards and Son, Bristol ; Messrs. Watson and Co., Hull ; Messrs. Pott and Levick, Nottingham ; and Messrs. Collie and Son, Birmingham. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARER. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct London, Portsmouth, and Chichester, and Direct Portsmouth and Chatham Railway Company. I request you will allot to me shares of 201. each in the above named Company, and I !hereby undertake to accept the same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the de posit of 21. 2s. on email such share, and to exeout e th e P arliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement as may be re qu i re d of me. Dated this day of 1845. Usual signature ...... Name in fu11..... • Profession or Trade Residence.. Place of Business (If any) .............. Reference • • . ..... .•. . Residence of Reference ...... • • ........ N.B. No application will be attended to except with a reference to a banker, or from an applicant referring to, and who is known by coins of the Provisional Committee. or the solicitors, or local agents. UDLEY and BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION RAILWAY In continuation of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Rail way. BROAD AND NARROW GUAGE. Capital, 200,0001., in 10,003 Shares of 20/. each. Deposit 21. 59. per Share. Committee will appear in a few (Qs ; (Provi sionally Registered.) A prospectus of this undertakinr, with the names of a Pro v i s i ona for shares may Le addressed t o October 3, 1845. in the menntftne applications F. T. ELGIE, Solicitor, Worcater JOHN BOLTON, Solicitor, Dudley. LONDON and NOTTINGHAM RAILWAY Connecting London, Nottingham, Sheffield, and Leeds. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vict. c. 110.) Capital 1,500,000/., in 7 , an ""' • -,,,, O:Shares of 201. each. Depo sit 21. 2 s. per Sh are . (In corn Plianeewith the Standing Orders of the Houses of Parliament.) COMMITTEE OF MA RAGEMENT. Sir George G. De Hochepied Rev. Henry Robert Fowler, Deputy Ch ' airman. I - ,spent, Bart. Chairman. William Bradley, Esq., Sheffield James (lemon, Esq. Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq, Joseph B William Hannay, Esq.raithwaite, Esq. Thomas Wakefield, Esq. James Brand, Esq. Edmund Francis Dayrell, Ea % Capt. Adamson Geo rge P ar k er S amuel Parsons, Esq. Lieutenant-Colonel Elrington William Edmond Ferrers, Esq. William R a i nes, Esq. ZNGINEzz.IN-Cum-o. l arles Hutton G regory, Esq., C.B. ACTING ENGINEER" —Nathaniel Briant, Esq., C.E. f TANDING CocU.IsEL—Mr. Sergeant Clarke. B OLIC'TORS. Messrs. Birch and 7Brarnah, Great IVlncheeter-street Mcssrg. Forbes ane Drake, War nford-court Messrs. Freeth Rawson, Nottingham. LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. 1 'arker and Smith, Sheffield C. S. Busl iy, Esq., Chesterfield. PAILIAMENTABY:AGENT, —Messrs. Gregory, Faulimner, and Co., 11, j'arllament-street. BANKERS. Messrs. Roberts, Curtis, laid Co., 15, Lombard-street, London Messrs. Moore and Ro Oinson, Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham The Sheffield and Dallscmsbire Banking Company, Sheffield. f , ECRETART, PR D TE I / 1 .-Mr. William R. Drake. Offices of the Comp iny; No. 8, Warnford-court, London. No further application s shares in this Company will be received after MONDAY, the Gt' a day of October next, except f rom parties locally interested in it ,albi fk le, from whom applications will be received np to WEDNESDAY, v, Bth day of October next. Copies of the pro, mcctus, with forms of application. may be had at the offices of the Company ; Messrs. Edward Ellis and Co., 53, Threadneedle-str and of the foli ect, London; of the Solicitors and Local Agents; 'owing persons:—Messrs. Stocklsy and Thompson, Solicitors, Lie `Chester; - ' a l Messrs. Johnson, Bradley, and Co., Share brokers, Mar erl-- ' Mr. Guy Sharebroker, York; Mr. A. Brand, Sharebrokt,Mr. ' Charles Cowper, Sharebroker, St. Andrewir -, Glasgow; Aberg, ,-square, Edinburg, , ; Messrs. Allardyce and Jopp, Brokers, , Perth; Messrs. Bruce and Symes, 1 ~,,.,. 404; Alexander Scott, Ze, • RiCsdale, of Leeds. "'"'4ll4sokers, Dublin ; and'afeeirs, . of Management, I Br or „ ord. of tile Committee . T, . DitAX.E I Rattan , . . ~ •,' WlLlaim A . '' ~~~• ,r CHELMSFORD AND BURY RAILWAY. The Committee have the satisfaction of informing 1112 Share holders, that the whole of the capital has been subscribed, that the engineers and surveyors have for several weeks past been engaged upon the line, and that the surveys for Parliamentary purposes aro nearly completed. The su!,scription and Parliamentary contract have been executed by nearly the whole of the London Shareholders, and will remain at the Company's Offices until Saturday, the 4th instant. They w:11 afterwards lie at the following places for the signatures of the coun try subscribers, viz.:—' At the Oftiees of W. 11. Collis, Esq., Sharebroker, Birmingham, on Monday, the 6th instant At the ()Meet: of Thomas Forsyth, Esq., Sharebroker, 1, - Exchange. buildings, Liverpool, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 7th and MI instant. At the Offices of Henry Benton, Esq., Sharebroker, Cross-street Manchester, on Thursday and Friday, the Pitt and 10th Instant. At the Offices of Messrs. Rhodes, Sharebrokers, 13, Albion-street Leeds, on Saturday and Monday, the 11th awl 13th instant. At the 01lices of F. Stamp, Esq., Hull, on Tuesday and Wednesday the 14th and 15:11 instant. At the Offices or )leers. John Robertson and Co., Sharebrolters, Royal Exchange, Edinburgh, on Friday and Saturday, the 17th and 18th instant ; awl At the Offices of Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Sharcibrokers, 67, St. Vincent-street, Glasgow, on Monday and Tuesday, the 20th and 21st instant, each day, from Ten to Four o'clock. By order, DAVID BORTIE, Secretary Company's Offices, 61, 3loorgate-street, Oct. 2, 1843. THE LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEF FIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE (or LEEDS WOLVERHAMPTON, and DUDLE i) DIRECT RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 2,000,000/., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. ACTING COMMITTEE OF DIRECTORS. Chairman—The 'Right llon. Earl of SUREWSBUItY, Alton Towers, Stanrdshint Vice-Chairman—Sir GEORG - Zl - 61 7 1'aSCOTT, Bart., Theobahrs, Hefts Right Hon. Lord Ingestrie, M.P., Iliompton-park, and Ingestrie-hull Staffordshire Sir Win. Boothby, Bart., Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire Colonel the lion. Leicester Stanhope, Ashbourne-house, Chelsea Hon. Capt. Douglas K. Pultamey, Partlament-street, Chelsea Henry Arnold, Esq., Uttoxeter Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield John Bobert Dalby, Esq., Ashbourne Samuel Dawson, sen., Esq., Ashbourne Robert Juts. Hartshorne, Esq., Ashbourne Richard Wm. Johnson, Esq., Moorgate John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's-wood, Regent's-park Win. King, Esq., 29, _Moorgate-street Nathaniel Cumberlege, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park Horace Meteyard, Esq., Chatham-place, Blacktriars Win. Smith, Esq., Clifton, .Derbysliire Major Waller, K. 11., St. James's-square. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. The Right Hon. the Earl ofShrewsbury, Alton Towers, Staffordshire The Right Hon. Lord Ingestrie, M.P. Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street, Hyde-park Gardens Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Deputy Chairmai of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail way, &c. Sir William Boethby, Bart, Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire Sir William Lowthrop, Kilt., Hull, 50,1 Alga-house, Scarborough, Di- RUC. tion Railway Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, Ashburham House, Chairman of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway The Sheriff of York 'Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Relaington's London and Manchester Railway Benwell, George, Esq , Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Blurton, Robert, Esq., banker, Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter, Direc tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c. Bright, Selim, Esq., Buxton Bradley, Septimus, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashbourne Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon don and Manchester Direct Railway Cooke, the Rev. J., Uttoxeter, Director of the East and WestJunctlon Railway, Sec. Cooper, John Douglas, juu., Esq., Rohn° Cottage, Ashbourne Cox, Walker, Esq., Breadsall, Derby, Director of the Tean and Dave Valley Railway Crockett, T. Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c. Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reming ton's London and Manchester Direct Railway Crossley, John, Esq., Lamberhurst, Sussex, and Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Dolby, John, Robert, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Dale, Major, Thurston, Ashbourne Dawson, Samuel, Esq., sen., Ashbourne Dewhurt, Richard, Esq., Apsley-house, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds and West Junction Railway, &c. Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford :shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Edensor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbourne Fidler, Peter Pichott, Esq., Higgin Grange, Derbyshire Fisher, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct - Railway Garle, Samuel, Esq., Uttoxeter Garle, William, Esq. 'Uttoxeter Gilpin, and Co., Messrs. William, Wedges Mills, Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Haden, Joseph, Esq., Dudley, Director if the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of Lei cester and Birmingham Railway Hartshorne, Robert James, Esq., Ashbourne Hartshorne, Thomas, Esq.; Silkmoor-house, near Staffora Hatfield, Thomas, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &e. Hill, John, Esq., Derby Jones, the Rev. J. P., Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Johnson, John Goodwin, Esq., Bentley Hall, Ashbourne Johnson, D. T., Esq., Aldennary Churchyard, Director of the Ches• ter and Manchester Railway Johnson, Richard Wm., Esq., Moorgate, Director of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director if th e D er by s hi re , Staffordshire, and orcester Junction Railway Keene, John Joseph, Esq., St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Director of the National Bank of Ireland, &c. King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance, &c. Lawrence, Richard Corbett, Esq., Wandfield-hall, Uttoleter, Direc tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, James, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn Commission, &c. Meteyard, Horace, Wm., Esq., Director of Remington's London and Manchester Railway, Middle Templeoansligtedi'brtlitrVeroysture m 'ArthettisidtKaind'Wecestershire Junction Railway Manors, John, Esq. Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Mellard, James, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Minors, John, Esq., The Parks, Uttoxeter, Director of the East and West Junction Railway .Mathew, John Mee, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commissioner, Director of the East and West Junction Railway Milner, William, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Mountford, Thomas John, Esq., Ashbourne Martin, Joseph, Esq., Walsall, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c. Maskery, Thomas, Esq., Norbury, Derbyshire Orton, James, Esq., Woodford, near Uttoxeter, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Parkinson, John, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, Di. Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Rail way, &e. Pulteney, Douglas Kinnaird, Captain, Director of the Nottingham and Boston Railway, Parliament-street, London, &c., &c. Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield House, Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Robinson, John, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, Wakefield Sant, Edward, Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropro,,, .uerbyshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestarshire Junction Railway Smith, Charles, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, Thomas, Esq., Blore-hall, Staffordshire, Director of the Der byshire, Stafford hire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, William, Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of Tean and Dove Valley Railway Smith, John, Esq., Barton House, Derbyshire Smythe, John Vere, rsq., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Spiers, E. J., Esq., Carlton Villas, London, Director of the East and West Junction allway Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle As surance Company Terry, Benjamin, Esq., Mayor of Walsall, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway, See. Tomlinson; Thomas, Esq., Bradley Pastures, Ashbourne Toogood, Rupert, Esq , Ashbourne Tylecote, Edward, Esq., surgeon, Great Heywood, Staffordshire Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, Holloway, London, Director of the East and West Junction Railway, &c. Waller, Major, K.H., St. James's-square, Director of the Chester and Manchester Railway, tke, Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire Walters, J. T., Esq., Rugeley Welsh, Robert, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway Weston, Thomas, Esq., Tease, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wice, Thomas, Esq., Ashbourne Witham, John, Esq., Ashbourne Woolrich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood, Charles, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood William, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc tion Railway Wood, William Hurd, Esq., Ashbourne Wright, Thomas, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Ciainsho ro ugh Railway. BANKERS. Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lace, Lando* Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., Corn/All, London SOLICITORS. John Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-streot, London William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Irttozeter SBCIIETLEY--R. Shelton Mackenzie, D.C.L. ENGINEERS. Sir John Rennie, F.R.S. George Remington, Esq., C.E. LOCAL AGENTS. Armishmr, J., Esq., Rugeley Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton► Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley Eggington, A., Esq., Lichfield Green, James J., Esq., Walsall. This line of railway, which is about sixty-five miles in length, is intended to commence at Uttoxeter (the terminus of the proposed Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway) and to proceed to Sheffield and Huddersfield. It will farm a direct com munication between two of the most import sot manufacturing and mining districts in England, viz., South Staffordshire, Huddersfield, and Sheffield, and Rotherham In Yorkshire ; the South Staffordshire portion including Dudley, Tipton,Walsall, Bilston, Wednesbury, and Wolverhampton. This line will also open a direct railway communication between Leeds, Huddersfield, and the West Riding of Yorkshire and Kidder minster, Worcestershire, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton, and Exeter, and with Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford, Brecon. Car diff, Neath, Swansea, Lianelly, Caermarthen, Milford Haven, Fish guard, Aberystwith, and with Port Dynnllaen, the future outport for Ireland. And also the most direct communication between Leeds and Southampton. The line will pass nearly along the Uttoxeter and Caldon Canal to a point near Prestwood, In case the canal be purchased by the pro- Inciters of this undertaking. It will proceed through Ellaston and Mayfield to Ashbourne, thence near Dovedale, Buxton, and Chapel en-la-Frith, Woodhead and Holinfirth to Huddersfield, where it will join the Huddersfield anti Leeds Railway, and so to Thirsk. It will open new mines, in addition to those already in work, of lead, coal, iron ore, barytes, and carboniferous and magnesian limestone on the route, in addition to forming a direct, speedy, and cheap communica tion between the important towns above mentioned. Arrangements have been made with other companies to run into this line from Sheffield. This company reserves the right to raise additional capital to extend the line to Leeds. Many of the above-mentioned mineral productions are essential to the mining districts of South Staffordshire and Sheffield. The North Staffordshire and Derbyshire Limestone is much superior to that of South Staffordshire in the fluxion of iron (15 cwt. of the former being equal to a ton of the latter), and producing a better quality of ma terial. At present, the mode of transit is very circuitous and expen sive, the line from the Caldon Mines having to go by canal round by Etruria, Leek, and the Potteries, to the Dudley and surrounding furnaces, when, by this railway, it would be taken in a straight line to them ; and the Ashbourne, Cromford, Worksworth, and Bakewell country would have an entirely new trade opened to them. The iron stone in the neighbourhood of Sheffield is also becoming very scarce, and great quantities are Introduced from Scotland; the same scarcity exists in South Staffordshire; and the route of this line would fur nish a cheap and good supply, at present not worked, and without a market, boils north and south. In addition to these great advan tages, a good local market would be opened along the agricultural and other parts of the district at present very badly supplied with lime and coal, and that of an inferior quality, and by expensive car riage. It is, therefore, next to impossible to calculate the immense traffic which would pour down this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, as d Wore r, tershlre Junction Railway. The calculations which have been made show a very large profit. There are large lead and slate quarries on the line which only want an outlet like the one now contemplated to bring them into fill work. The coal is of a superior quality. '~~- There are also extensive barytes and paint-works at Ashbourne, Cromford, and other places on the line. The scenery of Derbyshire is the resort of vast numbers of tourists; and particular care will be taken, in passing of the line near Dovedale, not to interfere with or change its beautiful and romantic character. The convenience, therefOre, which this line will afford must necessarily cause a great influx of passengers, both on business and pleasure. Ironstone Is not so abundant in the South as in North Staffordshire, and vast quantities are sent by the tardy, circuitous. and expensive canal company, which this and other lines of railway meeting* at Uttoxeler will remedy. The gypsum formation runs from Staffordshire to the Humber, and the demand for this article for building, agricultural, and manufac turing purposes along this line will be great. The. timber from the neighbourhood of the Needwood Forest, Banks, fagots Woods, and Kingston Woods, upwards of 4,000 acres, chiefly finds its way to the Manchester market by a like objectionable route of tardy and circuitous canal convey ance ; whereas this line would open a direct, easy, and cheap communication to new markets. The line has been viewed prior to a detailed survey, and there art not snore than ordinary engineering difficulties. In consequence of the late Parliamentary decisions, it is intended to snake this line on the broad gauge principle, but the pro moters do not pledge themselves absolutely to do so. At the urgent suggestion of some of the most influentiat misabi tants cf Ashbourne, the Committee have ordered a survey of a Jesse thou to connect that town with Derby, and with the Derby and Gainsborough and Midland Railways Applications for Shares to be made to John Owens, Esq., 3.5, Moorgate-street, London, and William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter ; and to the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury ;; Mr. Miles, Worcester ; Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler, Worcester; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liver pool ; Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Morris Rey nolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield ; Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds ; Messrs. W e llb e l ove d and Oastler Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ; Mr. Thomas Boardman, Black burn ; Mr. George Clark, Bradford ; Mr. William Mason, Bradford ; Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham; Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby ; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York; Mr. E. 11. Armitage, Wakefield; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham ; Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton; Messrs, Tate and Nash, Bs is tol ; Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter ; Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry; Messrs, Houghland and Leese, Manchester; Messrs. Carawe and Sons, Manchester Messrs. A. fireball and Co., Manchester; Messrs. T. N. BardweL and Sons, Sheffield; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr.L. Weather ourn, jun., Huddersfield ; Messrs. Everard and Co., Hudderstlold; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester; Mr. Nicholson, Edinisurgh Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ; Messrs. Labertouehe and. Stafford, College-green, Dublin. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield and South Staffordshire Direct Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shores of 201. each in the above Railway, and I undertake to accept the same or such loss number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to pay, when required, the Deposit thereon •f 2/. 2s. per Share. Dated this day of , 184 . Name In full.. • . • • • . -•• • • .• Profession and professional residence..... Residence in full.. • • • ..... • • • • • • LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEFFIELD, and SOUTH STAFfORDSHIRE, or LEEDS, WOLVER HAMPTON, and DUDLEY DIRECT RAILWAY. Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. The Acting Committee of Direction have agreed " that a Branch ...in. nvu. 112,11114JU1 - rFurtity ins tiauptea ny Tnro uoinininy, UUU that the capital of the Company be increased from 1,700,0001. to 2,000,0001. for that purpose." /3y order, R. SHELTOIT 3fACKENZIE, Secretary. LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEFFIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, or LEEDS, WOLVER HAMPTON, and DUDLEY DIRECT RAILWAY. Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. Notice is hereby given, that no applications for shares in thi line `Will be received after SATURDAY, the 4th day of October. By order, 31. MIIELTON MACKENZIE, Secretary. Offices of the Company, 1, Moorgate Sept. 26, 1845. DIRECT WESTERN RAILWAY (Upon the Broad Gauge), From London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and Bridgewater respectively. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 8,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. les. 6d. per Share. Offices, 20, Poultry, London. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Camperdown, Sidney-place, Bath The Viscount Mandeville, Kimbolton-park, Hants Lord James O'Bryen, Royal-crescent, Bath Lord William Powlett, Bath, and Downham-hall, Brandon, Suffolk General Sir John Slade, Bart., Muntys Court, Taunton Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, Somerset The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts Sir Henry Webbe, Bait., 105, Pall-mall Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London Ralph Neville, Esq., M.P., Hill-street, Berkeley-square Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P., 6, Parliament-street Hon. Percy Evans Enke, 3, Belgrave-square Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Companies Sir Robert Price, Bart., 111 P Foxier. Herefordshire Sir John Cave Brown Cave Part. Kenilworth, Warwickshire Sir William Young, Bart., Westbosuam -green, Hyde-park, East India Director John Clark, Esq., Bellefield Haase, near Trowbridge, Wilts, Magis trate for the counties of Wilts and Somerset Alfred . Batson, Esq., Ramabury, Wilts, and Upper Bedford-place Major Hunt Grubbe, Eastwell House, Devizes John Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker John Level Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker William Adair Bruce, Esq., Lansdown-crescent, Bath Sir John Key, Bart_, 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company Thomas 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 Leedom, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder minster Railway Thomas Challis, Esq., Enfield, 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. ' Miln's Bridge Mouse, Huddersfield, Deputy Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloncester-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 Ran ay Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe Philip W. Courtney, 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 Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Null, Deputy Lieutenant and Ma;istrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf Devon and dernv;:til Banking Com — pani - ' — ---- :fttarles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cress, Dire c t or o f the South Midland Railway Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London, Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South Essex Railways Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Insurance Company James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West Heath House, EtSth, 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, aid Cannon street, London H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park George M'lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-square Frederick Scaly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland Railway Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsclen-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company Patrick Fres. Johnston, Req., Great Cumberland-place Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the London and Blackwell Railway Company William Downing Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon Cuthbert Woodcock, 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 William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon don, Director of the Leicester and Tainworth Railway Richard Harris Purcell, Req., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway Company Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London and Blackwell Railway Company Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane Captain E. N. Trowbridge,, R.N., 11, Eaton-square Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the St. Katherine Docks Company, and of the General Shipowners' Society' William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and Luton Roo, 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., Lypplat Park, Gloucestershire, and London William Congreve Russell, Esq. ' Leamington, Warwickshire, Di rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway Menry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d Light Dragoons Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity square, London Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hernsey Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Barlyns House, near Newbury, Barks Col. Bursiem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath 4.e v. 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. Bamffylde, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bath, Magis trate for Somerset Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming ham Railway Company E. Wootton, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buckingham shire Railway and Wolverton Junction • Richard Afortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton Rev. John Sydenham, Collampton Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton Wm. H. Halcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman of the Berke Union Banking Company William Haleomb, 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 Kuria Haberfield, Esq., Clifton. Bristol James Troup, Esq., Hastings John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director of Coventry and Leicester Railway Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North sunpton, 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 Bnrt, jun. ' Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and Birkenhead. and Manchester and Southampton Railways Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct London and Manchester ' and North Cheshire Railway Companies Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford Sir William Lowthrop, Hall, Magistrate for the East Riding ofrork 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 Ifolford, Esq., Rushohn Hail, Manchester C. N. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford Union Railway Charters Bamford, jun„ Hag., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South ampton Railway John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Durham Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and Midland Railway Companies balm Holmes, Xsq., Liverpoo Was. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and Iron Bridge Railway Company C: Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Company Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeaeh, and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield, Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office Wm. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director Of the Bad Coast Railway Company Captain Bowker, Deyonport _ ' H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds 1/1. rect Railway Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield Director of the East an ' l4 of England Railway Company John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield an lig' rowgatc Railway Company William Marriott, Esq., ..ittereliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of t ill Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway. Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and Yo , " and East Lincolnshire Railways John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool David Price., Esq., Manchester William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington Rev. H. dr. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham Edward Hall, Esq., Westhank House, Macelegfleld, Dirc tor of t he South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junetl.l Heury Shaw, Esq., letter-lane Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehense, merchant John Mae Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square john Norton, Esq., Moat Homage, Brentwood, Essex William John lUGuire, Esq., Hampton Court John Gray Wilson, Esq. Oxford-terrace Capt. I. P. Macdougall, Grove, North Brixton, Surrey W. J. Lefeuvre, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate of South amid k Thomas Chas. Harilaon, Esq., U.S., York-terrace, llegoe' j r t g • G. B. Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director Coventry and Leicester Railway Captain Tringhans, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury Henry rani Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield The Hon. F. Byron, 21, Eaton-place William Higgins, Esq., Turvey, High Sheriff of Bedfordshire Lisr Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak-park, near Winchester, DoPe t r tenant, and magistrate for the county of Hants ter William Jackson, Esq , Birkenhead, Chairman of the C het Birkenhead Railway • E. H. Langworthy, Esq., Manchester Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman, and Sheriff of London end /lid. dlesex eiste4. Nathaniel Gould, Esq., Barge-yard, Backlersbury, and TA square 31 001 ' Edmund Lionel Welles, Esq., Cadogan-place, and We st Surrey Duncan Duar, Esq., Est India-road, and Limehoase, Director the London nb Dock Comp a any, the Marine Asturance Colorer': the General Shipowner's Society peactial 4 William Jackson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Goole a nd Railway George F. Earle, Esq., Hull , Stephen Knowles, Esq., Exeter W. Lawrence, Esq., Brixton IWO and John Lear month, Esq., Edinburgh, Chairman of the Edie . Glasgow, and North British Railway Companies ell - e osrei Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., Montague-place , Director of the Rugby, - Derby, and Manchester ltailwaY William Tanner, Esq., Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars John Booth, Esq., Sherburn Grange, Durham perils° • 'Ol Matthew Benjamin Robson, Esq., Whitwell Grange, hes titr John Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Director of the Dore. Weymouth Railway, and York and Lancaster Railway William G. Bernard, Esq., Clifton, Bristol an 44alt. Thomas Smallwood Richards, Esq., 59,Baker-street, Portal Russ James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Manchester sed N. 31`Cann, Esq., Parliament-street t CRY' Henry Wenman Newman, Esq., Bristol, Magistrateforthe_,ter Deputy-Lieutenant and Magistrate for the county a William Horatio Ilarrioon, Esq., SimbllTY William Ernpson Jaliand, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull • Thomas Racket Massey, Esq., Newark-upon-Trent b °r°agla. - Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the C a n, n d Lie Goole, and Isle of Axholme, and of the Wisbeach. cal ashire Railways William Ruston, Esq., Catherine-court, Trinity-Yqua re G. Wingrove Cooke, Esq., Temple, London C. I. Selwyn, Esq., Exeter OW Joseph Hopwood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter as Railway Der ks4 Richard Compton, Esq., Eddington House, Hunge— Magistrate for the counties, of Wilts and Berks Henry Coa Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Malden, Essex „ A ofidien d Richard Davis, Esq., St. Helen's-place, Director of th e See " - Eailway Dir eeicW Edward Hyde Clarke Esq. Leamington, Warwicksh ire ' the Warwickshire and London Railway The Constable of Hungerford ~,eadahlre ! . Captain William Lionel Lampert, The Highlands, • • Leamington, Warwickshire Francis Burton, Esq., Milverton House, Warwickshir e Captain Stewart, R.N., Leamington, Warwickshire ,_„.„ pire lW Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, BirMingea"" of the South Staffordshire Railway d eausr e William Northage, Esq., Upper Gower-street, Bedford-s 4 John Wodley Hughes, Esq., Gloucester, Director of the m - and Bristol Railway te • Lewis Bruce Knight Bruce, Esq., The Priory, RoehaMP Vi lierrit Francis Cole Humbert, Esq., Oxford-street, Hyde;rark Algernon Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park pet John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hy de for James Lamb, Esq., Hyde-park-square Ir ec D Richard Groucock, Bow-churchyard, an d Dalwie l4 of the Direct Manchester Railway J. B. Simpson, Esq., Rutland lodge, Brixton tbe Henry Belierby, Esq„ Sheriff of York Direct Henry Ledgard, Esq., 39, Wood-street, Cheapside, i Rugby and Macclesfield Direct Railway John Williams, Esq., Eaton-square. Thomas Grimsditch, Esq , M.P., Macclesfield, Cheshire i der , Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn-fields, Wolverhampton , P" Liverpool and Leeds Railway William Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton Erasmus R. Foster, Esq., Birchin-lane William Bargett, Esq., Broad-street Peter R. Morrison, Esq., Princes-street, Bank d D ar Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester York a n John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Enfield, Director of the caster Railway Thomas Kidley, Esq., M.D., Sheffield ~ „t ree t _ te James Sheppard, Esq., jun.. White Hart-court, Lombsur ',Diger' Valentine Knight, Esq ., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's I'm I'. for Middlesex George Sercombe, Esq., Exeter John Clampit Sercombe, Esq., Exeter William Pearce, Esq., Liverpool W. Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Robert Henry Hurst, Esq., jun., Temple William Nash, Esq., Capham Common 00 )I Grey Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton Hall, Leicester ~..def Captain Twisleton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, Leicester amid Tean and Dove Valley Railway (With power to mid to their inunber) . ENGINEERS IN MET. Sir John Macrae% LL.D., F.R.S. James Thomson, Esq., F.R.S.E., BANSERS—.Messrs. CUI TICS and Co., Cornhin, ...- JOINT SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard. 1 1 ' 1 10 • Messrs. Riekards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fie",,7 SecaerAar—Thomas Hosier Saunders , IL I* ASSISTANT-SECRETARY—CharIes J. WhalleY , • LOCAL SOLICITORS. r At Newbury—Messrs. Godwin and Gray, and B. l'inn ige" At Ramshury—William Rowland, Esq. 1111‘414 At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq., a nd John Edwards - At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone. and Rodnal _ ALL Rhaafeßatitaislistlii& Vilia r kardt d r,ln ita* At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole At Exeter—William Denis Moore, Esq. At Tiverton, T. L. T. Rendell, Esq., and J. A. Tont% 01. At Lauuceston—Messrs. Lawrence and Pattisen At Bodmin At Truro At Penzanee M ee. At Falmouth-Messr. Tresidder and Son , ioli The object of this l i nes te elieet a direct contran i° SO London and the Land's End. w age' , t t til e In a national point of view such a line is indisP , to tioe oee! the advaatago of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from it- _,,L ° logi,ais of western extremity of the kingdom, would nndoubt . "idesn a lpr have been the principal port on that coast. With til d OS e!_f a t Si' at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attain nittlo s i , ir sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far le ntattf, ISIIr vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Weate“,;ol. )t b' creased its imports from 200,0001. t e 3,060,600/. per a n ' the 1 o d, tol, before the opening of the Great Western Raiii"::: „Wet,. se: were declining ; since then they have very considerabm _ a nt wA r es. The merits of a line to the Land's End as an inv sn. vii .., o d pital, it was not left to the present Company to iti , c °ler ad/ !, fet Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having '-treline ``' pose Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend tha, t , latts bi mouth by way of Plymouth; and various ether P ll9- reac t Pr e p t he Set on foot on the conviction that Falntoutk MO railway. t/ 11$ rd ether lin° eg'j The object of this prospectus is to show that ne au ,: iv , o ; r• resent can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the opu s et int" to this, its most important eutport-" the natural ra'..... iti. The present project is distinguished by the empiro." ir 0..,,,i, as nearly as possible a straight line from Lendon to tlicvto34' a n o l,l The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company ba , cell' l ‘lire e mated with this Company, the immense inthie tl '• t of a ,c a rd' local wee . , by them will now contribute to the great national o J .. , , o u • line ; while means have been taken for securing the trat7 y. _ .. ,, , 51 ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Coln,Prit P",.,, ger The Direct Western availing itself of the Great 'S i f s „,, It ° (lir so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near liew' i l i - ic turT:d bY ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the inaT be cart' O s trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line " 11 ' m a lict , 4,l9 , this-that it 10.0,...,,,,, jr,,,, Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Sliepton .....3/44.0e.,a0 (from which another diverging line will he taken to P t ' i i i ir , ‘,st Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by 4 . 1)° , u : And " I (as!! miles than any existing railways between these potn'',',,iifest it 1 , a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter t..,, iai ica c, st• leased to the Great Western) is traversed to TivertolVaimea : t o proposed to carry this lice direct te the Land's Bud. ' oes thg og el. lately istar i c p e ro f p re o i s n ed L l o ir do b n y t a t s; a F y . i t Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty .", it , ths_ ii o. With reseect to the traffic OR the up/ w t . parties •,.` tr olit! ,', , ,e. needless to say more than that there is already ir t orellt; vireo erica cleat to justify tke construction of this porde* o r t n to li itar Al tern ; that t it will shorten the distance from L o sdo u , gt ic.., a s about 32 miles, that it will traverse rich and popule I, :( tran' a re and manufacturing districts, and receive a large a saving of oboe ';' aia iis.. o l, well tom railways now in course of construction Falmouth, oath, and crectisg_ jot ,. ~, ., .i , 0 t 0 111 ide ll• tb. Jected, with every chance of success. tt is If in As to the trailic on the lower portion of the line, ..; iti oned t p . the vast number of merchant vessels continuallY •_,,,,, j0 g tl a d S. Channel by adverse winds, would effect an imincnsv ':." sm itli! ,',;(i; insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at r 4 . 1. t i,j,; r t fort/ once transmitting them to their destination by elezvisweicli 0 7,, Ol t and therefore-without speculating on the extent to, Ba d se i mi t ote on either side of the great promontory of the Land tt - 0 ., of .... 0 31tIt means of this railroad, attract the commerce resPee t _l'a e ral 7 .o tre 1 and Southampton ; t o what extent the inexhaustible 7.1. pain,; jia, of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resoarel ro ot ra rer. Mount's nay, "thee Montpellier if England," nay be further developed, er the genial climate of ~i rge r 1. , ,,,j A tion of winter visitants-it is obvious that this line 1 ! to ,,,,inu_ t ea az,,,_ratt.nist ;the, , . t traffic both in goods and passengers, amount of which may be said to be without limit. 1 11, 0 „au !i i ,,,,ee . map will make it manifest that no competing trunt d. Ag 1, ; 00 eS established betweea Tiverton and the Land's 4 1 1 0 01 , 1 4 1 , o f Ili Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map ''.. t .os Pt" lotit• tent of midland district, comprising rick and PePl o r des of niersetshire, Dorsetshire, aid Wiltshire, sew el t. g e „.. a e railroad accommodating. , ii o ara , v - e i pt li. Recurring to the features of this project as a n nti. ,, ' , ' 'is tO d e ritJ - ' t the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital InsPort":eol a nd P of, war, and of almost incalculable advrattage to Cle g " foe to clu.'...rayeb commerce of the kingdom; It may from it a s it::: terz::::.,,sertob: net be out of } Lace o r til , e; a aell the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Slie t ",',. Vett; Ofal d . if a direct line from London te LiverpOel through 1 1 jai " sr; pet which bore much the same relatios to the tilren n f ia tol O, clef' Janction that this bears to the Great Western and!isder that t t e pa 0 0 0 Railwaye, he is reported to have said :-" I W I ; ()u teri , ' ~, of 01 ,„ nunication betweea the metropolis and the grel t " ii - a i teces' l f ;ria t ',.• a question ofhours, but a question aminates." 0 op i n ion i, ei woe s , particular line, Parliament has already expressed r o t , And /S ' , o lxllji report of the Committee on the Wilts, Seiner` r, ,,ao3 dg e it 1 4 line, which was promoted by the Great -Wester*, ,a te Pl o t % of i i it was stated that that Company had been reen' r t , site ;.. 3in tev: ri net hereafter to oppose a direct line te ial_r n ,"„, o sth t'',. etre' farther ebserred, that a proposed line from 1-1 -7'.',l i o t t 1 ." i a ted• .s . was last session rejected, en the ground that I , .. .„?1_ t far to iaterfere with that great national object- extent e . 'ate • yAr' The survey el tke line kaa bees. to a grea___t ara is a ... of ' correct estimates of the expenditure and retartf .... a t aeset - 0 wardaess, aid the whole will be ready ter the •'- r ' *lto liameit. .bat se"' e at r i f state It is sufficient , as te these points, here •• - bleb nif f . ott I to% engineering difficulties In any part of the line : lra , r ot or talt constructed at an unusually small repeatedly surnmanted la ether cases:xit,leliaistet;htwtatrollic:„lretrimptglot:tol,l will meet with the eordial support, coacurrenert.d ~, :r 5 , ,,,, la the landowners, and that the Directors are ia , "" tiva 10 0 " a t this will prove te be one if the nest reatonerg iste reSt :4 kingdom. t 41 ,0, 1 1 Pr eie a li d Powers will be takes in the Act of Parliatvelm A Its, - ' ,i• tb- l os four pounds per centrum per annum on the de l ror ietorl de o in , c a in the elletmeut of shares will be gives ti a th e : , i relle , c ove Need to through which the line will pass, and t! in: r t M e lZ scic. dorto_pftcic: Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, an d et with the Direct Western district. Applications for shares, in the form Sable' ...• at t° to An. a.cretew or the solicitors to tli.e Company, or to the •-•-- -ecttorS , Offices, 20, Poultry, London, or to the local ..., spectable broker in town or country 20, Poultry, London, September, 184 E, a , a iitesi LICAT IaI. tali''' . FORM OF.APP . e t, freS 4 01° To the Provisional Committee of the Dire of 251 ' t2s. 6d ' CompallY• shar e s 0 ti. - p ie, Gentlemen,-I request you will allot M• the dep osit 'an d° ° c o' the above Company, and I undertake to PaY ..„,,, aplor °- eu tarf per share thereon, or on any less number y 1 ra aisni and to execute the Subscribers' Agreemen t 0 .5 1 1 _...•' tract when required. Dated 164 5 • .• Name in full •• • • • • .•• • • ~.. • • •• •• Residence •••• • • • • •• • ... • . ... • • " Trade or Profession_•_...,)• • Place of Easiness (if ant) • Reference • • • • • • • • • ' • Signature._:. • • • - - WA Y ) ticelviltsithhbe'rdeiebvyc'rgreinvegnilinYthaesEttonSßoArrfTurEll:ac:lSTd:D l G l • (Provisionally Registered.) for slo es A s o his Company will be PPl"ti°nsf October, ill' T. U. 0. 1 .- T : ol3°' received after TllreDAlt, the Ith o secreorp, powtry, Undo, Oet, 1, lill :,~'"'