The Sun. — London, England, 1845-10-04 00:00:00

MIPO_ . ... , lar ty. re cta THE EASTERN COUNTIES EXTENSION Cpa/ld CAMBRIDGE and WORCESTER DIRECT RAILWAY, le.oesinJridgd through Bedford, Blisworth, Fenny Compton ,. Strat -07"!e. n 'Avon, to Worcester, connecting the Eastern and North k7ls C•nnties with North and South Wales, South Staffordshire, re, Shropshire, Gloucestershire, Bristol, the West of England, the Midland Countie. ( Registered.) Capital o 1,000,0001., in 50, y 000 Shares of 201. each. L1044_1141 Anderson, Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. EsPqaiortsioNAL DIRECTORS. V: unite Lee, Esq., Directorsef the Eastern Counties Railway _ V.Horry Webb, Bart., Pall-mall, London 'Z.:General Sir Love Jones Love Parry, Bart., 11.C.13., c i. IviinrYn-Parlt, Caernarvonshire ,5,'',,,11 Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., ir.c., Alderman i `l."-isndo Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead g Goan,.'s°,tinuation, and a Director of the Chepstow, Forest of r a o and Gloucester Junction ;. the Oxford, Southampton, 1: t, and Ports ti • the North London Junction ; and p . th. ,_ . mou i,. c.,,,_,02i0n and Greenwich Railway Companies o ' ,, fin NI. illiarn Cousins, Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railways J srnesi3,,,, ,_ ti n..l„,"`' e n, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, London, and Bran- 2 Rail ‘J.,ige, Wa rwickshire, Director of the South Midland t r lt ,r: ' l " ;?:i e n °al l'anY 'Mats Ni rs . "s , Esq. The Shrubbery, Worcestershire V \d"na' i -- " 00 , isq., Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn, Pro -1 Director of the Bridgewater and Minehead Railway ki ru ' lP an k Y ., 4 John 1141.—..scough, Southampton .c, cvt . rvniman, F.sq., Regency-square, Brighton Th".: l 4 n C hal nier, l ialkin•street West, Bolgrave-square, London . Thon l a :, ( i, l p i tY, Esq., 8, Upper Gower-street, London of Caer- 4., k ll e ar, on ' 1 rY Evans, Esq., 30, Lothbury, and Mayor .6. t'sdor Grelg, Esq., n wivib!,atts ' 14, 4 11 ° e Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, 2 li ,11 4 ,_ _ belt llelbert, Esq., Upp9r Gloucester-street, London ul ...., eppercorn°, Esq., Old Broad-street, and D - p lir w ii l mArrey, ben, . 1411 BoothbY, Bart., Ashby-hall, Derbyshire, Director of the 4_3 , shire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire Junction, and of the Si r 1,,Z1,,! Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Ra D w ir ay of i1`,1,1.8;11 Lowthrop, Hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, ec s tor . of th ` Leeds, H uddersfield, Sheffield, and South , Iria Itch.' bqbysiiire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction laalr, Nriso* ' t osaP nn a 'i'i -. 4 4 , Lirector of the Church of England Assurance J• .1V F B tri , Nen, J ain „ Bridges a.. Y. 11, e a , Es q., -street, City y T Paris and London t dg' IQta as. Esq tittoxet r Director of the Derbyshire, Staf- Vt r e, and iv a a West Janet or.cestersbire Junction, and of the Direet East and brooks John fen Railways 11, 1 „"s la rec i p, Alderman of Manchester, Director of Reming h,an, Ti as ondon and Manchester Railway Silsoe Ja i -r n 'apti-, Alderma n o f B e df or d lita 'Nor Boroughreeve, St. James's-square, Manchester, kitstt, John Direct London and Manchester Railway 1k k ,:4 1 , Jo, N., Cheltenham C k i7k, e .. E 4 sq., Boroughreeve of Manchester ( \lti4 ra, Sir F S " 13 3, Fenchurch-street g - ae•s, Dover , e a , • ter t( , l ,,a ._sq., 'York-terrace, Reent's-park le or alld k"" , , Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lond a4,, eesters,,_eenester, and of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, an ax,a t gotith _ Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, jiti%lfordshire Railways ~_b e rbyt h ir eu g laa, Esq., Home-cottage, Ashbourne, Director of t tf i'Y Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Ran k.% 'al ~ m a . of th e Jor, 15, Regent-street, Piccadilly, Deputy Chair relby,hh._ kagester and Manchester Railway, and Director of the ji7lB, Ra`a,etaffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, of the- Ot o ,,eet t a ;l t a rstield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the thi ‘ t et, ai„, ta a .. tl :West Junction Railways Sl4 and V o 7'_ } - 4 (1., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford- Cook , ,!1•1, tershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, lon'.,,lti Staffordshire Railways _ tad and ttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford .lan„Sheflieia'estershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Hudders- N 4 "an lt, h " , and South Staffordshire Direct East and West a oa‘ , aoh, , aYs tark' a a tad et, Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Direct c4p,ater, lianchester Railway n Ox f ; S q• 4 ttl e kanA e ' Goldhangers, Maldon, Essex, Director of the %au- Es ester, and Southampton Junction Railway Delp ) Itan„aita, L eamington, Director of the Coventry and Lei 14r, R,, Y ,_ t4, l4 hir e, ,'' ‘ a•drt, Esq., Ashbourne, Derbyshire, Director of the v ars eda, ijatfordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of auderindeld, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Rail htiadlttier, T h Ashbourne, Director of the Leeds, Hudders ,tyrelq Ti .4 40 - l-lara, th atla South Staffordshire Railway ii,,„" a .._ ll ight Hon., M.P., Tilney-street, Park-lane for Bea . Wm', Parkstone-lodge, Poole •,, , ttr l , l is ""elv, Esq., Liliugstone . Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff 1 1 Erskine re tan, Ashby-de-la-Zouch trek, Ca!'nbridge Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square ~,,Yok a lone; e reY Evans, 3, Belgrave-square "aboa i t aa I.an e t ' °r ge, 36, York-terrace, London, Director of the nrylster Railway CL 1,11 ti t 11 a ,1 Ts rancia, Esq., Derby, Director of the Staffordshire, - , cll Ran_ --I Yorth, and Derby and Crewe, Macclesfield and oah„ ways Jai Laitaatnit„, _ a t* , d,„ _ hanker, Worcester, Director of Remington's and and Manchester, of the Direct East and West 1 INla t l a l Rau ut the Derby s hi re, Staffordshire and Worcester ( 'ott, h ? ' Willie n 7 43l , I'4 l io n , , Salcombe- ark Bedfordshire halt; 11°1t e, P Itk ati te, ch ar , ' ' 4 9, rt Conduit-street 1 1 44 t ag, Cadeby-h ouse , Lincolnshire ken an d Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of the Di ,,estph, est Junction Railway ironmaster, Dudley, Director of the Derby lttora4,lleld, s 7, t re, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, com c ' it ';eha, 'Meld, and South Staffordshire Railwas ti.„.411,14`1, Manchester, Director of Remington's Direct 44gli a ate b elt aenester, of the Direct East and West Junction, 44 .er 44 Yablre, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction 011ek‘cire G eneral Post-office , and Southampton - row, 'tr tilrector of Remington's Direct London and Man -41'4471.1 oh' -sq., Director of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Potteries kl Ls a „ IC.II I -t eeer a - "city, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Stsacttiersliiii;r..c.,_and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and I( 4 ,:if k m • "Be, -aedford, Director of Remington's Direct London am , ; , sv. ,! , anway a4`,!N l ,ntiti 1 , , v., Hector of Fulbourne, Cambridge bire:(l., 13 ritanniaSFoundry, • Bedford, Director of Re -144.1.144. th, London and Manchester Railway 1.1, 41 ,1n tt ; 4 .p ?n• Edward 4li t 4, t ii: 4l lon Vicarage , Cheadle, Staffordshire , Director of t i t h eat, 411a1,irct London an Manchester, and of the Leeds, k;:agilam,kfard hire, and South Staffordshire, and of the Derby int:atra i t are, and Worcestershire Direct Junction Railways -tal.,W aterloo-place,Director of Freemasons' Life As )! th o ° l ct _ 1 11! g. 4 Pls <a m a se., St. John's Wood, Regent's-park, Director ka4 la d ta y Bank of Ireland, and Chester and Manchester ii Slia t r:4, *a ri d ' I teafo r a D Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire, --4 t, i 4t o t e ' i,l l , l l verces . i ' ershire Jun cti?n, and of the Leeds, Hud- L, „ Ist South Staffordshire Railways xeter, of 4 1 11 . 4 aa ; n; vo rcester Utt s o hire Junc D tion irector Railwathy e Derbyshire, tt 'ednesbury Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford ry, 1 , hire Junction Railway R akeway-house, Cheadle, Director of Reming so„?,n and Manchester, of the Leeds, Huddersfield, a,,;" 4 11, WoreaL Staffordshire, and of the Derbyshire, Stafford ttitellohm'ltarshire uction Parliament-streets ßaila liN dt sap i ,,, k .,Q44n., 50, n lalar fi sl .'ntreet, Cavendish-square. Director of the b ir er ace wii allvr ay n:Vlond o ,., lla n' , Esq., Chatham-place, Director of Renal ug orcesT and Manchester, of the Derbyshire, Stafford -4C44, a,..,...erSbire Junction, of the Leeds, Huddersfield 4 t .ar tn ticl oFiata Staffordshire, of the Direct East and West a Rt "e Chester and Manchester Direct Railwa y s k l tr 'd4 i 4 efile'i d l tiln, Staffordshire. Director of the Leeds, I.l9d and Routh Staffordshire, and of the Derbyshire, Ik a tat \.'allial,.r,gaorcester Junction Railways 11 4 t4 flai atlea a i • , sq., 16 Geo e-street, Hanover-square, Director hp„, g o Lo a , ' rg ,1, 'VI, kph Assurance Company 'tt Ta tCq atantlope-street May-fair s Gala t a; nr, l4 er, 11 , ng, Surrey I, l sa' a tdNr4talts at en ” Higham Grange, Leicestershire Oka tgq r :Y. Esq., Dudley tt, tnch„,_ Clairville, Director of Remington's Direct Lon 111,7, 11 ' ( ilor s ,l",r Railway 11410,41.Lks,iteV, !qt.. Theobald'a Harts 11 11 4't ' ll airy •Lattrothel, Herefo'rdshire R.: 4 411 1 :4n ;,d'tl', A shby-de-la-Zouch, Director of Remington's asr,„„re Manchester Railway the Dell, Windsor 11 Cs?, Pen deford-house Wolverhampton, and Millfield kas., 4, j•eir,, °lt, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and I,,Zilor d t s une tian, and of the Shropshire Mineral Railways Wakatiaeid,Silcoates-ctage, Wakefield, Director of the At' 4 ll' 4 +4 y ork and Midlands; of the Stockton, North, and 114 4'' 4 '4 ' l kutl and Midlands' Junction ; Leeds, Huddersfield, 1 Staffordshire Railways tsr4',St• James's-square Ch' r t zwlal Foundry, Bedford, Director of Bernina -44,• 4 4 1 a a pp and Manchester Railway 1 4 t ard It° h s etc.!. t 41.. B all edford way , Director of Remington's Direct h t ie. -a agte r ' rt lry, ri f i . } J l 3l. and C.S., Bedford, Proprietor of the a4,;...1aha_11ah..,a,.. 'rector of Remington's Direct London and Al' Pa tahCambridge, Director of the Cambridge and Lin -I.ot 4ta day' gtr. V h ' B l , Clift 4 4 9 ,.aat id r 0 ,4 ey o a „near Ashbeurne, Director of the Tean t 'dre a ua "?.•aY ; of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Railway • of the Leeds, Huddersfield. liZh ll itst.t ''cl South e .` l° n -ut, • d ' E t • o • r shire Railway; and of the Direct as gh , ra• t , , Fro gnall lilore Ashbourne, Director of the Leeds, J,...e(inliiardailir;alA, and South St a ff or d s hi re, and of the Derby gt,ti worcestershire Junction Railwas k t 1 10 1! 12,44,1ert:r1ton Villas Maids Vale, Paddington, If uelL r rs ai Te r i d d a , h rd e effi tta ll , 3 4 lr i c la t tina 3 , til a a Leeds ''Uth Ysrk a el n d d , an Worcestershireu t St f ketatr_atitaor I.Yeetor of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, i t .l4,,*hit e shire, and of the Derbyshire,Staffordshire, and t tt , iaa,„ „anetioa Raibra.,B itiPt,llll'at)taloa%taa., hanker 1 /y itt e tt t laa, s ta m ane _ Bedford, Director of Remington's totitt„ ,n ter Railway ad r ,t l r t e as banker, Bedford Director of Remington's eld 11„ lanchester, Railway t r AZead;ht i , Itollo way. to ~ re, P ace London, Director of the Derby- 4 nemttal-ar_ohenit,aael Worcestershire Junction, of the Leeds, t and South Staffordshire, and of the Direct 1 1 t's"an Railways a 'al , q• Great Haywood, Staffordshire, Director of 1 1/. 4 Stafiord die raf „, shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and age„;_ , T., via, Sheffield, and South Sterfordshire Rail akThlatkP., Trar a (1 . : 4 1er, C ., I ; p s a o r r e k Ater t,;10 St...Tames's t ud d James's-square ed t Eaella.rn, tilt:cat of the Hayes, Bakewell, Derre ary h Meld, and South Staffordshire V ll4 bilm"a 4.1 " Itacel t:k`le anehester s ea ., fiel d , Director of Remington's Direct , 4 0 , netio a ana Derbyshire. Staffordshire, and Wor ateaft.ter dims -Leounam Bank e 1 !on ord, and Tonbridge, Director of the allw aya Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Glou bWitiltet:,titanker, 4, Whitehall tlt:etioltr,/horwuWorcestirlens,:liliarY' aara ik lga, ;ct1, 0 4 1 „ 1 , Royal Foundry, Bedford Director of Re ar Ee bire, 'a ta 7fe w w " i n an 4 Manchester Railway' Director of the Derbyshire, Star -44414, , are Junction Railways ' t 4 a, Sta fr _!acel o dt an. Staffordshire, Director of the Leeds, rSorCaetsliterS s t h a i ff re °rd J a u hi nc r ti e' on an ß d ai o lw f Il at t4 s r ~ 4 1 t 1 44 1 4:, 'l4o'l, andgliro "133., Chetw Railways Der so_pshire 311 d-house, Newport, Salop, Dl a,:taattaffor,iBuar,itand of the Leeds, Huddersfield, uttoketer, a llwaYs • c‘,• aha g,arshir, Ju ; etto ector of the Derbyshire, Stafford ttka4till, Jho,;Lata , St af r orciett n, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, g 1.8 0 re Railways • lito atlfora •. Uopton rmek. sterna " louse, Stratford-on -Avon, and sterna-bill, Surrey. tNoirsamis. , elin F R a (' ' °r ge Retai n t ',„ • and %., b jid;,,,„ l ' 3 lrg e„ )1 4x1fr i :' Egc l , C.E. 60 ., Whitehall Siltt.taktt'Otlyte-il-.....l'.rir:T;rtern and tatltlt The can"tharoptonshire Banking Company. C ettiP an i . g t an, Priors and Warwickshire Banking At ati .1, 41 0, 4 0, Walt , H rt er soraciaoßs 4 Nl ' ' P 4 ,1 rn°l(l ' Esq 3 1, t 5, Im a •• styeoiden-square li` aq.. Jo, rgate-et •'44411. Patterson h anllgton kit c a'atet L°c at• Aetb r 1 441 , er :m oan TS. mac es n,llaarnes ConlP'tatleaY7Naol.24, Moorgate-street. - - a - n al d ihnr Bo : s , and Gardner °f the t tet ktu -t th in g at 0 1 0 2 'Y th'•agt t „, a nibria g PROSPECT uo th ‘4,1 r‘tiorti4z th ittki ,etltailwayr wh 44 •• •et • e, which h •• h '4o la' ° alliari ", the 11" now become the traffic vp4l. opth4o it will% thisline ' will of railway intended to be 14 al, e ra: al litZ ln ighaa i erc las at u nea rthe Illisworth Station of the 1 Proceed to Bedford, there ' ii n er . e it will communicate with k liti l itaa d ' l nti..: Oxfo rd el beron- 1 and / tu fa e , it will then proceed west ti.,l,!(l. ri bi t a tZa, tlitr e j oini al± , _ line at or near Fenny Compton, tT ert ta i:ain t h t a t eo liha rn, 'ttio...taeeproposed line from Warwick r a nd ursa th rou " ti se . r. Bristl, and the West of 414 ter111111til:at'" .aester, the line will go di- Ina treot contro of traffic for the mineral and manufacturing districts of South Staffordshire, shropshire, and North and South Wales. This proposed line does not interfere with any existing railways, and presenting, as it does, an unbroken line between two great centres of traffic, the importance of the undertaking needs no further comment. Negotiations have bean entered into with the Eastern COUR ties Railway Company, by which their support and co-operation will be ensured for obtaining the line now proposed. An arrangement has also been made with the proposed Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Company, which this line will join at Al cester, and by means of which the Eastern Counties' traffic will pro ceed to Worcester. Power will be reserved to the Directors to amalgamate with any other existing or projecting Companies, or to vary the line. Appll,:ation for shares may be made to the Secretary, and to the following Sharebrokers, .of whom prospectuses, with maps of the line. may be obtained :—London—Messrs. Peppercorn and Co., 2, Old Broad-street; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury:; Messrs. Boyd. Birmingham—Mr. W. H. Collis. Blackburn—Mr. Thomas Boardman. Bradford—Mr. George' Clark ; Messrs. Tate and Nash. Cheltenham—Mr. James Stokes. Coventry—Mr. J. S.. holland. Derby—Messrs. Eyre and Shaw. Dublin—Messrs. La bertouche and Stafford. Edinburgh—James Pringle, Esq., 79, Princes-street ; Messrs. Beaumont and Langworihy Glasgow— Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson. Halifax Mr. W. Cronhelm. Huddersfield—Messrs. Everard and Co. Hull—Mr. Frederick Stamp. Leeds—Messrs Wellbeloved and Oastler. Leicester—Messrs. Payne and Freer. Liverpoul—Messrs. Townley and Whitehead ; Messrs. Cameron and Co. ; Mr. Morris Reynolds. Macclesfield—Mr. Richer dE. Hine. Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons; Messrs. A. Birchall and Co. ; Mr. Charles O'Neil. Nottingham—Mr. Charles Spencer. Sheffield—Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons. South ampton—Mr. Joseph Clark, jun. Wakefield—Mr. E. H. Armitage. Worcester—Mr.Miles. York—Messrs. Grayston and Earle. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Eastern Counties Extension, and Cambridge and Worcester Railway, Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares, of 201. each, in the above railway ; and I undertake to accept the same, or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regu lations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to pay when required the deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per share. Dated this day of , 1845, Name, in full .. .. • • • • • • Profession and Professional Residence iu full. Private Residence in full .. .. • • • • Usual 5ignature.............. Residence .. . .. . • • • • • • • • • And Profession of Referee .. • • .• • • Offices, 34, Moorgate-street, DIRECT LONDON AND LIVERPOOL RAILWAY, By a Junction from Chester to Wolverhampton, through Newport and Whitchurch. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and S Viet., cap. 110.) Capital 1,000,000/., in 50,001 Shares of 20/. each. Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right non. Lord Dunboyno, Belle Hatch-house, Henly-on- Thames The Hon. H. F. Berkeley, M.P. 6, Spring-gardens Sir John P. Millbanke, Bart., Hllidane-hall, Yorkshire Sir William Young, Hart., Westbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, a Di rector of the East India Company, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway Company Sir William Twysden, Bart., a Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean and Gloucester Junction Railway Sir John J. Hanaler, Saffron Walden, Essex, Deputy-Lieutenant of Essex, and a Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Rail way ompany Sir James Eyre, 11, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square George Frederick Mintz, Esq., M.P., Ley-hall, Staffordshire Wynne Ellis, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Leicester and Bedford, and a Director of the Grand Union and several other Railways Thomas North, Esq., Mayor of Nottingham John Parkinson, Esq , F.R.S., 80, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park ; a Director of the Irish Great Western, the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways - Thomas Stevenson, Esq., F.S.A., 37, Upper Grosvenor-street, Hyde park; a Director of the Irish Great Western, the Reading and Rei gate, and Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Crown; East Worcestershire; Deputy- Lieutenant of the county of Worcester, and a Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway Lieut.-Col. Dillies, Porchester-house, Bayswater Rear-Admiral John Wight, Teignmouth, Devon _ James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, London, and of Windsor; Director of the Great Leeds and London Ap proximation • Major-General Wright, R.E., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of the Great Leeds and London Approximation William Chance, Esq., Spring Grove, Birmingham ; Deputy Chair man of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, Director of the Trent Valley Midlands, the Manchester and Southampton Junc tion, and Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., M.D., a Director of the Hudders field and East and West Coast Direct, and of the Thames Valley Railways William Shaw. Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham Ex tension, and Worcester and Warwick Railways William Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square ; a Director of the Grand London and Dublin Approximation, the Southamp ton, Manchester and Oxford Junction, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways Alexander Prince, Esq., 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, a Director of the Tring, Reading, Basingstoke and Barnet, and North Metropolitan Railways, and one of the Provisional Committee of the West Mid land, Manchester, and Southampton Railway Dr. William Wilson, R.N., Cob Croft, Dartford Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., Conservative Club, London, a Di- • _ _ rector of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway Francis Ewart, Esq., 4, Brick-court, Temple, a Director of the Great . _ Leeds and London Railway James Witham, Esq., Eaton-square, a Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Derbyshire, a Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway Joseph Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon-cottage, Bristol, a Di rector of the Oxford and Worcester Extension and Chester Junction Railway William Holt, Esq., Great Corana•street , and The Elms, Watford, a Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manckester, and Lynn, Wis- _ • beach and PeterborOngb Railways _ Joseph W. Moore, Esq., Landon-lodge, Avenue -road, Regent's-park William Pople, Esq., Stanhope-street, Regent's-park Captain Seth Fisher, Junior United Service Club David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, a member of the Provisional Committee of the Midland and Eastern Counties Railway Josiah Beale, Esq., 3, Gray's Inn-square, a Director of the Exeter, Dorchester and Weymouth Railway George Wilson, Esq., Director of the Great Wester* Extension Railway Janie' Ellis, Esq., Ravenswood•house, Bromley, Kent George Worgen, Esq., a Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway W, Stuart Farquharson, Esq., D.C.L., Springfield-house, Honiton, Devon ; on the Provisional Committee of the Great Western Ex- tension Railway Captain W. Cousens, R.N., a Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway George Lawton, Esq., Ditchleys, Essex, Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway John Hervey, Esq., Elliott-house, Blackheath Captain Mangler, Saffron Walden, Essex Francis Ingram, Esq., St. John's-wood-terrace Samuel Smith, Esq., Southampton-buildings ; a Director of the Chel tenham, Oxford, and Brighton Junction Railway Charles Green, Esq., Baker-street, Portman-square; a Director of the Cheltenham and Aberystwith Railway Thomas George Smith, Esq., Doughty•street, Meeklenburgh-square ; a Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and of the Lynn, Wisbeach. and Peterborough Railways Stanhope Dawson, Esq., Cookham, Berks W. A. Hill, Esq., Lonsdale-square ; Deputy Chairman of the Glon- cester and Aberystwith Railway - William Henry Halpin, Esq., Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square ; a Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway John Harrison, Esq., Eastbourne, Kent ; a Director of the Chelten ham, Oxford, and Brighton Junction Railway - Wight, Esq., Marylebone-street, London ; a Director of the Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Junction Railway Nicholas M`Cann, Esq., Parliament-street Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington Major Adair, United Service Club, a Director of the Goole and Don- - aster Railway Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., a Director of the Great Leeds and London ; Dudley, Madely, and Iron-bridge ; Hull and Lincoln ; Nottingham and Birmingham ; and Lincolnshire and Eastern Conn- ties Junction Railways Thomas Hemsley, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire; a Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway John Robinson, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, roar Wakefield, a Director of tha Rugby, Derby, and Manchester; Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland ; and Leeds and York ; and Midland Junction Railways John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, a Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway Samuel Simpson Esq., the Greaves, Lancaster; a Director of the _. . . — . Manchester and Leeds Direct, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Man chester Railways James J. SPSwiney, Esq., Sandal View, near Wakefield ; a Director of the Rugby, Derby and Manchester; the Sheffield, Barnsley and Wakefield; Wakefield and IHarrowgate ; and Whitby, Pickering, Thirsk and Great North of * England Railways Edward Lucas, Esq., Mount-street, Birmingham; a Director of the Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railway John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New Hall, by Neston, Cheshire ; Direc tor of the Birkenhead and Holyhead, and of the Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railways _ . James Consterdine, Esq ~ Rosin Hall, Manchester ; a magistrate and a Director of the Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railway John Groom, Esq. ; Member of the Town Council, Northampton, and a Director of the Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railway . . James Osborne, Esq., AsEbiurne, Derbyshire; a Director of the Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railway T. S. Richards, Esq., 59, Baker-street, Portman-square ; a Director of the Great Western, Southern and Eastern Comities Railways Henry Orion, Esq., King's Newton, Derbyshire ; a Director of the Rugby, Derby and Manchester H. Brigstock, Esq., M.D., Derby ; a Director of the Derby, Uttexeter and Stafford, and of the Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railway Charles Milnes, Esq., Dale-house, Matlock. Derbyshire, a Director of the Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railway Themes Byrom, Esq., Wigan, a Director of York and Lancaster, Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the Keighley, Halifax and Hudders field Junction, and the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways William Byrom Esq., Oldham Henry George Gascoyne, Esq., Lee-hall, Rugeley, Staffordshire, a Di rector of the Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railway John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leicester, a Director of the Leicester and Birmingham, the London, Bristol and South Wales, and the Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railways William Atkinson Gardner, Esq., Vice-Chairman of the Midland Union, Director of the Preston, Fleetwood and Wyre, Leicester and Birmingham, and Great Northern and Southern Railways John Grant Morris, Esq., merchant, Liverpool Perry Dicken, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch; a Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway Samuel Dawson, jun., Esq , Walton-bank, Ashbourne; a Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway F. R. Hodgson, Esq., Oakley, near Manchester; a Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway William Caldwell, Esq., Ince Hall, Wigan ; alderman of the borough of Wigan, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the Staf fordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester Direct, and Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railways Henry Ts, lor, Esq., Wigan, a Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the York and Lancaster, the Eastern, Western and Southern, or Ipswich and Southampton, Reigate. the Halifax and Hudders field, Liverpool, Preston and Nor tn Union Junction, Staffordshire l'efaexies and Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railways Richard Dr:wield, Esq., West-place, Dalton, Huddersfield ; a Direc tor of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction, and Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railways A. Inderwick, Esq., Brompton, Middlesex ; a Director of the Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railway John Bond, Esq., Nuneaton, Warwickshire, and Howland-street, London . James COekell, Esq., Bernard-street, Russell-square Arthur Davenport, Esq., Eastwood, Nottinghamshire T. FOlllottPoivell,Esq;;Hastings , a Director of the Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railway --. Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Pen-fields, Wolverhampton; a Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Railway: _ _ _ _ _ George Clarke, Esq., itusholm-park, near Manchester, and Wynd ham-house, Brighton, a Director of the Rugby, Derby and Man chester Railway C. Kelly Cooper, Esq., Ashbourne, a Director of tho Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railway Ostler,John Esq., Hull, a Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man chester ailway Joseph Lancelot Davonport, Esq., Derby, a Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway Edward 31amrestt, Esc, Ashily-de-la-Zouch, a Director of the Rug by, Derby and Manchester Railway T. Hastings Ingham, Esq., Marton-house, near Skipton, a magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and a Director of the Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway Company John Bainbrigge Storey, Esq., Lockington-hall, Leicestershire, a Di rector of the Rugby, Derby and Manchester Railway George Robinson, Esq., Hull ; a Drector of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and other Railways R. D. Goodwin, Esq., Ashbourne ; a Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway (With power to add to their nutter). ENGINEER—CharIes Blunt, Esq., C.E. ARCHITECTS. Frederick J. C. Parkinson, Esq. I William Wilkinson Wardell, Esq, SOLICITOR TO THE COAIPANY.—Thomas Gibson Brewer, Esq., 13, Gray's Inn-square. STANDING COUNSEL.—WiIIIRM HOU, Esq. _ COUNTRY Soticrroas--Liverpool : Messrs. Littledale and Bards well. Birmingham : Messrs. Spurrier and Chaplin. Manchester Messrs. Crossley and Sudlow, PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—Thomas Baker, Esq.. Spring-gardens. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Masterman, Peters, Mildred, and Co. Birmingham—The Birmingham Banking Company Liverpool—The Royal Bank. AGENTS. London—Thomas George Smith, Esq., 2, Warnford-court Birmingham—J. R. Lana, Esq., Waterloo-street Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal Edinburgh—Messrs. Stewart and Murray Leicester—Messrs. Ellgood and Harrison. TEMPORARY OFFICES-13, Gray's Inn-square, London. - • PROSPECTUS. The Direct London and Liverpool Railway is also. a Direct Liver pool and Birmingham Railway •It uses the London and Birmingham Railway the whole distance to Birmingham. From thence it proceeds to Wolverhampton either on the Grand Junction, or on the Wolverhampton, Dudley and Bir mingham Railway. From Wolverhampton commences the new portion of railway, consisting of 55 miles only, and passing through Newport and Whit church, on to Chester, • At Chester the Direct London and Liverpool Railway proceeds on the Chester and Birkenhead Railway to Birkenhead It is Proposed to e; ttablish at Birkenhead a: steam ferry gratis to Liverpool ac: oss the 1, tersey, so as to unite both towns into one. This railway has the .advantage of passing through the towns on its route, without maternity increasing the distance. The principle of the Direct London and Liverpool Railway, as in the case of the Rugby, Derby and Manchesterßailway, is to obtain a direct through line ketwean some of the most populous districts in the kingdom, with the leas t possible, and consequently the smallest expenditure of capital, The Direct London and 17,iverpool Railway opens up an entirely new district, at the same tim a that it interferes but slightly with ex isting railway interests. The maps, plans, estimates, and other documents required by the standing orders of Parliament, will be lodged with theparish clerks, the clerks of the peace for the counties, and the Parliamentary offices, on the 24th day of November, being six days within the timq required by the regulations of Parliament. A preference in the allotment of hares will be given to the extent of 15,000, to the original shareholders in the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway Company, on their sending in their applications for the same. A proper reservation of shares will be made for the London and Birmingham, Chester and Birkenhead. and Warwickshire Railways, being the railways by means of which the project now submitted to the public is the most direct London and Liverpool railway that can be made. As the applications are exceedingly numerous, a very early day will be made for closing the lists. In the meantime, applications for shares may be addressed to the Solicitors, or any of the agents of the Company in the following form : FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. Direct London and Liverpool Railway. Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Loudon and Liverpool Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares, in the above proposed Railway. and I agree to accept that, or any less number that you may please to allot to me, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per share on the same, and to sign the Parlia mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, and all usual and necessary deeds when required. Dated this day of 184 L Name in full .. • • • .... • ...... • • • Residence ... • • .... •.•••• • • • • • • Trade or Profemion . Place of Business .. • • • • • • • • .. • • Reference in full.. • • • • • • int an" " d co , jail.,anv-der Fir'lli horn, No J. N. 13 ' • ilo 9 ' dtn“ • r oe ne ; na id and 3lr• A Wees Ea.t anu f vie ea 0 or an , of he lleM i , act, and'u any) kST 0 re nt nura ? r APPli c .'" ber or nitaur , /3, Solidtor' A.1 14° 10.; :oria, cap Arecto , ny g o tern ;nglio d ova,' of the 0:11 0° ' of t he I" ,rector 0 t r 00 and lug ga ilivili f •ect°' nclies"r l uare, De v°° ‘°- ;outi l 0100 „, of '” -ector isrect°` ctor 1 vri otoll t And Well e 5 ' 34 4nd end id I '4' l ira :It , ofe roan', illo-,, ,, , nJ ' 0 I 06 ) ocoi rolot ly , o' ti i rlet:1,„; i g " i of r, r ,bo3ll ole 1 .111 .4 1 . 1 " dire, uni"" let s nP y o f t ric•-• 0o the 0 0., ;v• tb . ies "WO ,10pileb 1° ) 1" tb i to °T4 0 011, WO' 0 6/ 01 ) wet , 564, • itou bYet cool- ~.- rHE *lraq, LON DON, sATURDA rMORNING. OCTORER 4 1845. NOTICE D IRECT LONDON - AND LIVERPOOL RAI LWAY. In consequence of the numerous Applications for Shares in the above Railway already reeeived, no further applications can be re ceived after FRIDAY NEXT, the 10th of October instant,!when the Lists will be finally closed for Allotment, T. G. BREWER, Solicitor, 13, Gray's-inn-square, London. 3rd October, 1845. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. T HE HUDDERSFIELD and LIVERPOOL DIRECT RAILWAY, By Rochdale, Bury, and Bolton, forming the shortest practicable roue from Liverpool to Leeds, Hull, and Goole. (Provisionally'Registered.) Capital 1,250,0001., in 62,500 Shares of 20/. each. Deposit 21.125. per Share. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, ‘nd Co. Huddersfield—The Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany. SOLICITORS. Mr. William Barker, New-street, Huddersfield, Messrs. Brook and Freeman, The object of this undertaking is to form a continuous line of rail way from Leeds to Liverpool, by extending the lines already made, or sanctioned by Parliament, from their respective termini at Hud dersfield, in Yorkshire, and Bury, in Lancashire, through the inter vening country between Huddersfield and Bury, for which extension a line of railway only 25 miles in length is requisite. The proposed line will commence at the Huddersfield station, between which place and Leeds Parliament has already sanctioned the tormation of rail ways, and from Huddersfield the proposed line will proceed by way of Hillhouse, Birchencliffe, and Lindley, and thence along the valley between Stainland and Greetland, through Bat Usland, the Vale of Ripponden, and by Rochdale to Bury, in Lancashire, where it will join the terminus of the Liverpool and Bury line of railway. In addition to completing a direct communication from Liverpool to Leeds, Hull, and Goole by the shortest practicable route, and by a much smaller outlay of capital than by'any other proposed line, it will provide for a large and important manufacturing population, hitherto without the advantage of railway accommodation, an outlet to the south by means of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway, and to Manchester and North and South Lancashire by the railways above mentioned, and by the Leeds and Manchester Railway, by a proposed junction therewith at Rochdale. This line when completed will, in addition to the advantages which it presents as a through line, pass through a succession of valleys thickly studded with mills and manufactories, consuming a large quantity of raw materials and coal, all of which are brought from a distance, and transmitting to other districts the produce of their in dustry, for which purposes a line of railway has become absolutely necessary, and there can be no doubt that an ample return will be realised for the outlay of capital required. The distance between Huddersfield and Rochdale by the present line of railway is thirty miles, which by the proposed railway will be reduced to seventeen miles. The Provisional Committee reserve to themselves the right of en tering into any arrangements with existing railway companies that may appear desirable. And power will be taken by the Act of Par liament to allow interest to the shareholders at the rate of 4/. per cent. per annum on the amounts paid on their shares from the respective times of payment to the times of opening the railway. Applications for shares may be addressed, in the subjoined form, to any of the undermentioned Sharebrokers, viz.—Messrs. Hill, Fawcett and Hill, Threadneedle-street, London; Mr. David Kinnear, Edin burgh ; Messrs. W. Moore and Co., Messrs. J. Gatliff and Co., Messrs. Wilson and Hellawell, Mr. Thomas Parrett, lilr. Frederick Turner, Messrs. John Atkinson and Co., Messrs. Tempest and Co., Messrs. Mooney and Hickes, Huddersfield ; Messrs. John Young and Co., Mr. C. E. Langdon, Leeds ; Mr. Hervey, Mr. Charles Clay, Messrs. Crowther and Brook, Halifax ; Mr. John Brooke, Dewsbury ; Messrs. Cameron, Bagenove, and Taunton, Messrs. Lloyd and Price, Liver pool ; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, and Messrs. Lynnill and Berlyn, Manchester ; or to the Solicitors to the Company. The names of a highly-respectable and Influential Provisional Committee will be published in a few days. Huddersfield. Oct. 1, 1.45. FORM OF 'APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Huddersfield and Liverpool Direct Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of 201. each in this undertaking, and I engage to accept the same or any less number that you may allot to me, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and to sign the Parliamentary contract and subscribers' agreement when required. Dated the day of 1845. Name in itill Residence. ....... Profession or Trade (if any) ............ Place of Business (if any) Reference .•• . • E LY and BURY ST. EDMUNDS RAILWAY. (Registered Provisionally.) Liability limited to the amount of the Subscription. Capital 200,0001., 11110.000 Shares of 201. Deposit (to comply with the standing orders of Parliament) 2/. 2s, _ per Share. Length of line, twenty-four miles. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Sir W. Browne Folkes, Bart., Hillington-hall, Norfolk, Chairman of the Lynn and Ely Railway Company Francis Cresswell, Esq., Lynn, Director of the Lynn and Ely Rail- way Company William Everard, Esq., Lynn, ditto William Seppings, Esq . Lynn, ditto ' Henry C. Lacy, Esq., Kenyon-house, Manchester, Chairman of the Ely and Huntingdon Railway Company Frederick Ingle, Esq., ;Lynn, Director of the Ely and Huntingdon Railway Company Henry Champion Partridge, Esq., Snare-hill House, Norfolk, ditto Edward Self, Esq., Lynn, ditto Henry C. Lacy, Esq., Kenyon-house, Manchester, Chairman of the Lynn and Dereham Railway Company Thomas Neville Alxly, Esq., Albyns, Essex, Director of the Lynn and Dereham Railway Cpmpany Sir H. Roddam Calder, Bart., Sussex-place, Regent's-park, ditto Joseph Bridgwell Whiting, sq., Lynn, ditto Sir H. E. Bunbury, Bart., Barton, near Bury William D. Christie, Esq., M.?., Ecclestone-street, Chester-square The Worshipful the Mayor of Lynn Joseph Andrews, Esq., Nildenhall, Suffolk Robert Ashton, Esq., Hyde, Manchester Wyrloy Birch, Esq., Wretham-hall, Norfolk James Bowker, Esq., Lynn Charles Burckam, Esq., Lynn Thomas A. Carter, Esq., Lynn William Clifton, Esq., Lynn Frederick Edwards, Esq., Barnham, Suffolk William Edwards, Esq., Framlingham, Suffolk Mr. Thomas Ellington, merchant, Barton, Suffolk Mr. Richard Ellington, merchant, Barton, Suffolk Mr. Philip Fuller, merchant, Barton-mills, Suffolk John Turner Hales, Esq., Herringswell, Suffolk George Gataker, Esq., Mildenhall, Suffolk William Lowten Jones, Esq., Woodhall, Hilgay, Norfolk E. B. Manning, Esq., Lynn Thomas Carey Willard Pierce, Esq., Manchester Charles Neville-Rolfe, Esq., Sedgeford-hall, Norfolk William Ship, Esq., Lynn Mr. Philip Smith, merchant, Soham, Ely Mr. Thomas Steel, Tuddenham, Suffolk John Teather, Esq., Alstonby, Cumberland John Wayte, Esq., M.D., Lynn William Layton, Esq., Wood House, Ely William Tinker, Esq., Hyde, Manchester Thomas Waller, Esq., The Rookery, Eyke, Suffolk. PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS. Henry Charles Lacy, Esq., Chairman Sir Henry Roddam Calder, Bart. Thomas Neville, Abdy, Esq. William Everard, Esq. Frederick Ingle, Esq. Henry Champion Partridge, Esq. J. B. Whiting, Esq. ENGINEERS. J. U. Rastrick, Esq., 1.R.5., F.S.A., C.E. J. S. Valentine, Esq., C.E. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Goodwin, Partridge, and Williams, Lynn Messrs. Isaacson and Son, Mildenhall Messrs. Rooper, Birch, and Ingram, 68, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London BANKERS. Messrs. Curries and Ce., Cornhtll Messrs. Everards and Co., Lynn Messrs. Gurneys and Co., Lynn Messrs. Oakes, Bevan, and Co., Bury St. Edmunds SECRETARY (pro tem.)—L. F. Edwards Esq. PROSPECTUS. - - This railway will commence by a junction with the lines of the Eastern Counties, the Lynn and Ely, and the Ely and Huntingdon, Railways, at the city of Ely, and proceed thence, via Mildenhall, to Bury St. Edmunds, forming there a junction with the railway from that town to Ipswich, now in course of construction. The town of Bury St. Edmunds and the adjacent districts, and all the country through which the line will pass, have for generations drawn their supply of coals, timber, deals, wine, oil-cake, tar, flag stones, and other general merchandise, from the port of Lynn, and have transmitted thither their own corn, flour, wool, fruit, and other agricultural produce, for shipment to the northern markets. While the proposed line will affect the local object of presort in; the mercantile connexion that has so long subsisted between the county of Suffolk and the port of Lynn, it will effect the national one of affording to the ports of Ipswick and Harwich, and the im portant towns of Colchester and Bary St. Edmunds, a direct com munication with Lancashire, Yorkshire, and the north, and, by means of the Ely and Huntingdon, and the proposed Rugby and Huntingdon Railways, with Birmingham and the west. From these sources a most ample return on the capital required for the undertaking may be confidently relied on. The line is singularly easy of construction, the estimated cost. in cluding every contingency, being little above 8,000/. per mile ; it will not interfere with ornamental grounds of any kind, and it is not anticipated that any opposition will be offered by the landowners. The Provisional Directors are to be at liberty to take all such measures as they may deem requisite for obtaining the necessary powers to construct the line or any part thereof, with such branches, extensions, or alterations, as they shall be advised to adopt ; and for such powers, or any of them, they are to have power to increase the amount of the capital, to lease or sell the line to, or amalgamate the same with, the Lynn and Ely, Ely and Huntingdon, and Lynn and Dereham Railway Companies, or any or either of them, or any other company or companies. _ It is proposed to raise the capital by issuing 10,000 shares of 201. each, a deposit of 2/. 2s. per share (in compliance with the Standing Orders of Parliament) to be paid on allotment. There will be an interval of two months between the calls, and not more than 5/. per share will be called (or at one time. A Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract, in such form and with such clauses as the Provisional Directors may think right, will lie for signature at the offices of the Solicitors, in London and Lynn, on payment of the deposit. Arrangements will be made for transmitting the deeds to the principal provincial towns in or near which the shareholders may reside, due notice whereof will be sent to every shareholder by post. As under arrangements entered into with the Lynn and Ely, Ely and Huntingdon, and Lynn and Dereham, Railway Companies, a large proportion of the capital has been appropriated to the holders of shares in those companies, a very limited number of shares only is at the disposal of the Provisional Directors, and no application for shares, therefore, can be attended to, except from parties locally interested and of the highest respectability, by whom applica tions may be made, in the annexed form, on or before the I 3th October, 1845, to the Secretary, at the Company's Offices, Lynn, Norfolk, or to the respective solicitors ; no application, however, can in any case be attended to unless accompanied by a reference to one of the Provisional Committee, or to the Solicitors or Bankers of the Company. To the Provisional Committee of the Ely and Bury St. Edmunds Railway. I request you to allot me shares of 201. each in the above undertaking, and I hereby engage to accept the same, or any less number which may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree ment when required. Dated like day of 1845. Name In Hill •• • •• • • • ••••• • • • .• Private Residence • • • ....... • Business or Profession (if any) . • • , Place of Business •• • ••• • • • • • •• • • • • Name of Referee .• .. • • .. • • • • .. • • • • Address of Referee .• WOLVERHAMPTON, CHESTER, AND BIRKENHEAD JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria, c. 110.) Capital, 1,000,000/., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 2/, 2s. per Share. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. The great principle on which the projectors of this important scheme have acted, is the establishment of a direct line of communi cation between B rmingham and Birkenhead, by the nearest possible route, and at the smallest possible outlay. To effect this object, it is proposed to make use either of the Grand Junction, or the Birming ham, Dudley, and Wolverhampton Railway, as far as Wolverhamp ton, and thence to throw out a new line in as straight a direction as possible to Chester, where a junction will be thrilled with the railway already existing between that city and Birkenhead. A most impor tant saving of distance will thus be effected. - It is obvious that such a scheme is fraught with consequences of the highest possible import to the commercial in:erests of the respec tive districts. The growing prosperity of Birkenhead even now demands a more direct communication with the Midland, Southern, Western, and Eastern Counties ; and when her magnificent docks shall Ise completed, and the town itself shall have arrived at Its des tint d greatness, this line will take a prominent position among the most lucrative of these undertakings. The Directors, therefore, conscious of the great traffic which will flow from the densely populated termini, propose to construct this line in as straight a direction as possible, and thereby secure the im mense through traffic which will resort to this railway for shortness and expedition, frem the great manufacturing and agricultural dis= tricts of South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire. Worces tershire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Leicestershire, Nottingham shire, Northamptonshire, and in fact the whole of the Eastern Counties, as well as from London and the important districts_to the South, East, and West of the Metropolis. Irrespective of the immense population of the termini, it is evident that this projected line commends itself to the entire inhabitants of the counties already referred to. The scheme also possesses this further and great advantage—that it will, in reality, form a shorter and more direct line to the neighbourhood of Liverpool and the dis trict adjacent, than any which has hitherto been protected ; and by means of the contemplated line from Chester to Holyhead, it will open the shortest possible route from London to Ireland, and thereby avoid the delay and inconvenience of a protracted sea voyage. A cursory inspection of the map of England and a reference to the plan of this line will also show that the Trent Valley, London and Birmingham, Birmingham and Gloucester, Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, as iv 11 as the projected Staffordshire and Shrop shire Railways, will necessarily be valuable tributaries to this Im portant lined railway. The line to be constructed by this Company will commence at Wolverhampton, and proceed through an agricultural district, by way of Market Drayton to Chester, and although in its direct course it may not pass through many towns of importance, the engineering difficulties of every other route will be avoided, and powerful local in fluence brought into co-operation with this Company. In the formation of this ine the extensive iron district of Lilies hall has been especially regarded ; and by means of the facilities of transit afforded by this Company, the iron-masters ofSouth Stafford shire will be enabled to compete with the Scotch market, which they have hitherto been unable to do in consequence of the heavy charges fi.r freight. The Provisional and Managing Committee are in the course of se lection, and will be published in a few days, with other particulars. Applications for Shares to be made to Mr. W. S. Vardy, solicitor, 18, Finsbury-place, Finsbury-square, London ; or Mr. John Smith or Mr. C J. Noble, solicitors, Birmingham. MANCHESTER, HU DDERSFIELD, AND GREAT GRIMSBY DIRECT RAILWAY, via BARNS LEY AND DONCASTER. (Registered Provisionally.) Capital, 1,000,000/., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. (In compliance with the Standing Orders of Parliament.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Lord William Paget, Uxbridge House, London, M.P. Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashbourne Hall, Derbyshire Sir John P. Milbanke, Bart , Halidane Hall, Yorkshire Sir William Twysden, Bart., Dorset-street, Dorset-square Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London The Mayor of Doncaster William Brook, Esq., Gledholdt, Huddersfield, J.P. John Sutcliffe, Esq ' Huddersfield, J.P. John Harpin, Esq., Birks House, Helmfirth, J.P. John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Rhoyd, Halifax, J.P. The Rev. Richard Whitelock, M.A., Saddieworth, J.P. James Lees, Nsq., Delph Lodge, Saddleworth, J.P. William Alexander, Esq., Halifax, M.D., Director of the Midland and Thirsk, and other Railways James George Atkinson, Esq., Wakefield, M.D. Richard Armitage, Esq., Fenny. Lodge, Huddersfield, timber merchant Joseph Allin, Esq., Wakefield John Allison, Esq., Huddersfield Joseph Atkinson, Esq., Lake Lodge, Wakefield William Green Armytage, Esq., Spring-gardens, Huddersfield George Addison, Esq., Hall Field, Bradford Spencer Cook Ashline, Esq., Sandtoft Grove, near Epworth Thomas Ayre, Esq., Barnsley Joseph Birl y, Esq., Alderman, Doncaster, late Mayor of Doncaster The Rev. John Birkett, M.A., Laceby Rectory, near Brigg John Berwick, Esq., Scawby-grove, near Brigg William Bealby, Esq., Kelfield, near Epworth William Charles Boden, Esq., Apsley Hall, Nottingham, Director of the Nottingham and Bedford, and Nottingham and Gainsborough Railways Thomas Beaumont, Esq., Bradford, Deputy-Chairman of the Mid land and Thrisk Junction Railway HoluMrth Director g of the Nottin g h am an d William Bayley, Esq., Lark Hall, near Ashton-under-Lyne Georgeßenjam Bann,Bradshaw,n Esg., NEsq., Nottingham,il , Gainsborough Railways John Fillinghouse Bishop. Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Grand Union, Nottingham and Mansfield, and Nottingham and Gainsbo rough Railways George Bacon, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Joseph Beaumont, jun., Esq., Clare Hill, Huddersfield Griffith Briscoe, Esq., Doncaster William Bent, Esq., Royd-house, Huddersfield, merchant J.comhnes te BBetantes , tt, E E sq„ sq.,wßieinngreay Bank, ve-t Holmfirth tarr ce,Hudderstield, merchant Benjamin Beeley, Esq., Holmfirth Richard Battye, Esq., Holmfirth, drysalter John Bellingham, Esq., Wakefield Joseph Brook, Esq., Stamp-office, Huddersfield Edward Lennox Boyd, Esq., Pall-mall, London, Director of the United Kingdom Assurance-office Robert Blow, Esq., Grimsby, merchant John Blow, Esq., Grimsby, merchant William Cooper, Esq., Doncaster Samuel Cartledge, Esq., Mapperley.' near Nottingham, Deputy- Chairman of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway William Cartledge, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Nottingham and Ambergate, Nottingham and Mansfield, Nottingham and Gainsborough, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways T. M. Carter, Woolgreaves, Wakefield John Cowburn, Esq., Settle, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway William James Clarke, Esq., Huddersfield William Carter, Esq., Kirkburton, manufacturer William Chambers, Esq., Doncaster, corn-factor Henry Dalton, Esq., Hull and Grimsby, merchant William Dawson, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Sheffield, Wort ley, Silkstone, and Wakefield Railway Henry Dunn, Esq., Wakefield William Dryden, Esq., Hull Joseph Dransfield, Esq., Mold Green, Huddersfield, merchant Richard Dransfield, Esq., West-place, Dalton, Huddersfield, mer chant, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and the Liverpool and Leeds Railways Thomas Dyson. Esq., Wellhouse. Holinfirth. manufacturer John Dent, Esq., Huddersfield, merchant John Dougill, Esq., Lockwood, near Huddersfield, Director of the Dover and Bristol Railway Edward Dent; Esq., Huddersfield, merchant George Dyson, Esq., Huddersfield, wool merchant Richard Dewhirst, Esq., Apsley House, Huddersfield Thomas Dowse, Esq., Skelmanthorpe, near Penistone Isaac Dewhirst, Mount Pleasant, Ovendee, near Halifax, worsted spinner John Dean, Esq., Spring-gardens, Manchester, merchant Peter East, Esq., Wcst Carr-house, near Epworth Joshua Eastwood, Esq., Meltham, near Huddersfield, cotton spinner John Elliott, Esq., Town Head-house, Rochdale Edward Ellis, Esq., Kirkburton, manufacturer John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director .of the Liverpool and Leeds, and KeighleY, Halifax, and Huddersfield Railways Joseph Eastwood, Esq., Meltham, near Huddersfield, cotton spinner Mark nixie], Esq., Amcotts Lodge, Lincolnshire Frederick Fisher, Esq., Westfield-house, Doncaster J. L. Fernandez, Esq., Wakefield, Director of. the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway Charles Gervas, Esq.. Wrcot, near Epworth Directors of the Nottingham and Francis Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, merchant South Stafford- George Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, merchant, shire N Junction, and Nottingham and Gainsbo rough Railways Joseph Gillham, Esq., Hargreaves House, Oldham, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, and Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction Railways A. G. Grcaves, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man chester Railway William Gill, Esq., Richmond, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Northumberland and Lancashire Junction Railways Joseph Gill, Esq., Potternewton Mount, near Leeds, merchant, Di rector of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Railways William Greenwood, Esq., Huddersfield Joseph Gartside, Esq., Ossett, near Wakefield, dyer William Gartside, Esq., Ossett, near Wakefield, dyer Abraham Hirst, Esq., York House, Huddersfield, w ool merchant John Hannah, Esq., Finthorpe, Huddersfield, merchant, Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford Union Railway Samuel Hall Esq., Doncaster, merchant William Harrison, Esq., Stanningley, near Leeds, merchant Edward Reigate, Esq., Sturton, near . Brigg H. P. Harwood, Esq., Sheffield, &1.D., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway John Haigh, Esq., Leeds, merchant, Director of the Manchester, Southampton, and Poole Railway - John Hat dcastle, Esq., West Field House, Wakefield, Director of the Wakefield and Barnsley Union Banking Company Captain John L. Hulme, R.E., Director of the Yeovil and Dorchester, and or the Cornwall and Devon Central Railway Thomas Anderson Hanson, Esq.. stuff merchant, Bradford Wm. Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, J.P. John llorsfall, Esq., Wakefield George Hinchliffe, Esq., Nab, IR.lmfirth, merchant John Holdsworth, Esq., Shaw Lodge, Halifax. merchant David Hinchcliff, Esq., Marble Hall, Holmflrth, merchant Edward Lake llesp, Esq., Huddersfield George Hirst, Esq., Digley Mills, Holmflrth, manufacturer Joseph Hirst, Esq., Wilshaw Cottage, Meltham, woollen manufac turer John ilaigh, Esq., Wood Royd House, near Huddersfield, coal mer chant, Director of tile Midland and Thirsk Railway George Armitage Haigh, Esq., Gynn View, near Iluddeisfield, coal merchant, Director of the Midland and Thirsk Railway Charles Hirst, Esq., Clare Hill, Huddersfield, woodstapler Thomas Haigh, Esq., Royds Hall, near Huddersfield William Hinckcliff, Esq., Holmflrth, merchant John Haigh, Esq., Shelley Hill Top, near Penistone William Haigh, Esq., Gynn Cottage, near Huddersfield, merchant T. Hastings Ingham, Esq., Marton-house, neer Shipton, J.P., Di rector of the Clitheroe Junction, and Lancashire and North York shire Railways James Ingliss, Esq.. Halifax, M.D., Director of the North and South Junction, and London; Holyhead, and Portdynllaen Railways Thomas Ingleby, Esq., Lawkland-hall, near Settle, Director of the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction, North Western, Clitheroe Junction, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways Thomas Ibbetson, Esq., Bent's-house, Huddersfield Thomas Iveson, Esq., Holmflrth emide, merchant i ant merchant Charles Jackson, Esq., Doncaster, banker Thomas Johnson, Esq., Alderman of Doncaster Joseph Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Hudd ers fi e ld and Sheffield Junction Railway Jere TWi Kaye, holimaams KK, Bc(,al Huddersfield, grrra.l,re timber-merc hant Carr-house, oe,use Huddersfield,iludHuddersfield, si John Knowles, Jun., Esq., Trafford Bank-house, Manchester. merchant John Lancaster, Esq., Huddersfield James Campey Laycock, Esq , Huddersfield Wm. Charles Locke, Esq., Snapethorpe House , Wakefield, Dire c t or of the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway Livingstone,LowenthaL Esq.,Esq Huddersfield, nuddersneid, merchantwool merchant Julies Joseph Lambert, Esq., Leeds, merchant, Director of the Leeds and Tork, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways William Lockwood, Esq., Spring Villa, Holmflrth, woollen manufac turer Charles Lockwood, Esq., Doncaster Edward Joshua Henry L L u ri C te l t o el leBp' Esq., s° E qd s Esq.,ll.ln Horsley, n mn g e l -a e hr y ° , llli n s ue e d' a di 1 r elsmfi Leeds, ef:r td h w wool merchant Henry F. Lockwood, Esq., F.S.A., Hull Edward Lancaster, Esq., Barnsley Frederic Marsland, Esq., Birch-hall, near Manchester Sidney Morehouse, Esq., Morecroft, Holmflrth. Director of the Hall fax, Huddersfield, and Bradford Railway Joshua Moorhouse, Esq., Holmflrth, Director of the Leeds, Hudders field, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway William Heywood Morris, Esq., Doncaster, merchant Robert Milner, Esq., Doncaster John Morley, 3,iarsden E , E sq sq , .nas iu to d f d t e fall, near Crowle Luke Rowland Hill M'Kenzie, Esq., M D., Mortimer-street, Cavendish square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, Chelten ham, Oxford, and other Railways lienry Mellor, Esq., jarn ie e l sM r oreho nguSsper'iEsq&ttaSt°gne7 BankHolmfirth Thomas Holmflrth, manufacturer Joseph Moorhouse, Esq., Holmflrth John Maw, Esq., Doncaster, Director of the Doncaster and Goole Railway William Micklesthwait, Esq., Keresforth, near Barnsley Thomas North, Esq., Mayor of Nottingham, Chairman of the Not tingham and Gainsborough Railway John Nall, Esq., Ashby, near Brigg Edward Nicholson, Esq., Doncaster Robert Norfolk, Esq., Louth, Lincolnshire • John Nowell, Esq. Farnley-wood, near Huddersfield Thomas Nowell, Earl., Dalton, near Huddersfield, merchant George Peel, Esq., Horbury, near Wakefield, Director of the Wake field and Harrogate Railway Lewis Pocock, Esq., F.S.A., Montagu-street , Russell-square, London Albert Pilling, Esq., Wheat House, Huddersfield, merchant Charles Pitchforth, Eact., Boothroyd Park, Halifax Captain William Ra*son, Doncaster Themas Redmaine, Esq., Taitlauds, near Settle, Director of the North Western, Clitheroe Junction, and Manchester, Liverpool, and Great North of England RallwaYs JohnHenryßobinson,Rolling, E s q s . q , .0 x s s rl e o n ats near Cottage, P eni s t one Wakefield , Wakefield, Bradford, and Midland, and other Railways George Robinson, Esq., Huddersfield Director et the Wright Rhodes, Esq., Springfield-hou,e, Kirkburton Samuel Routledge, Esq., Huddersfield, dyer J. W. Roberts, Esq., Farnley Tyas, near lluddersfiehl The Rev. Thomas Skipworth,lton Rectory, near Epsworth William Sklpworth, Esq.. South !Ws:II-house, near Brig;; Robert Storrs, Esq., Doncaster William Stockit, Esq., Doncaster Bentley Shaw, Esq., Woocifieitiliouso, Huddersfield William Shaw, Esq., Wentbridge, near Pont e f rac t Edmund Smith, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Yorkshire and Glasgow Railway , - William Statter, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Bradford, Wake fielti, and• Midlands, Wakefield and Harrogate, and York, Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Junction Railways William Starkey, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Leeds, York, and Midlands, and Sheffield, Wortley, and Silkstone Railways Matthew Sykes, Esq., Miln-row, near Huddersfield William Shaw, Esq.,llottom-hall, near Huddersfield, merchant Benjamin Ledger Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield, merchant Thomas Salkeld, Esq., Huddersfield, merchant - _ . , John Shaw, Esq., Lockwood, near Huddersfield, merchant William Shaw, Esq., Lockwood, near Huddersfield, merchant S. E. Sichel, Esq., Bradford, merchant, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool. and the Leeds, York, and Midland Railways Foster t , haw, Esq., Huddersfield, merchant James Shaw, Esq., Priest Royd House, Huddersfield, merchant David Sykes, Esq., Marsh, near Huddersfield, merchant David Smirthwaite, Esq., Wakefield Robert Torr, Esq., Alderman, Doncaster William Taylor, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Grand Union, and Nottingham and Gainsborough Railways William Turnbull, Esq., Huddersfield, M.D. Edwin Unwin, Esq., Leavy Greave, Sheffield, Managing Director of the Sheffield Gas Company Henry Unwin, Esq., Orchard-place, Sheffield Charles Vickers, Esq., Pontefract John Batley Wrigley, Esq., Croft House, Netherton, near Huddersfield Thomas Cockhill Wrigley, Esq., Huddersfield, merchant Robert Welsh, Esq., Huddersfield, merchant, Director of the Leeds and West Rding Junction Railway The Rev. Eldred Woodland, llohne-bridge Parsonage, near Holmflrth George Hudswell Westerman, Esq., Sandal-grove, Wakefield. wool merchant, Director of the Leed., York, and Midland Railway David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Belper, Director of the Birmingham and Leicester, and other Railways J. Webster, Esq., Doncaster yrancis Wragg, Esq., Doncaster Abraham Wood, Esq., Rochdale . William Ward, Esq., Welton, near Hull, merchant William Roden Watts, Esq., St. Phinip's-square, Birmingham, M.D. Smith Wormald, Esq., Tipton-Grange, Beverley, Director of the Leeds and York Railway Edward Woolmer, Esq., Mayor of Exeter, Chairman of the Exeter and Dorchester Railway Wm. Walker, Esq., Longwood, near Huddersfield, merchant Messrs. Arthur William Goodwin, 1 John Hutchinson, Members of the Corpora- Francis Ingrain, Jonathan Allison, tion of Doncaster J. Rogerson, (With power to add to their number). COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. J. E. Morey, Esq., Mayor isf Don- Joshua Moorhouse, Esq. caster Joseph Birley, Esq. John Sutcliffe, Esq. Frederick Fisher, Esq. John Harpin, Esq. W. B. Morris, Esq. Abraham Hirst, Esq. Edmuni Smith, Esq. John Hannah, Esq. Bentley Shaw, Esq. Sidney Morehouse, Esq. (With power to add to their number.) BANKERS. London—Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co. Huddersfield—The Halifax and Huddersfield Banking Company Doncaster—Sir IV. Cooke, Bart., and Co. Wakefield—Messrs. Latham, Tew, and CO. ENGINEERS. CONSULTING ENGINEER—SIC John McNeill, L.L.D., F.A.S. ACTING ENGINEER—W. Billington, Esq., C.E. SoLiaTorts—Messrs. Floyd and Booth, Huddersfield. LONDON AGENTS—Messrs. Sucllow, Sons, and Torr, 20, Chancery-lane. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Sudlow and Kingdon, 6, New Palace-yard. LOCAL AGENTS. Edward Sheardown, Esq., Doncaster C. T. Mence, Esq., Barnsley John Drainstield, Esq., Penistone G. H. Capes, Esq., Epsworth Robert Owaton, Esq., Brigg. The object of the proposed undertaking is to complete a direct chain of railway communication between the western and eastern coasts ; and by means of the Liverpool and Manchester, and part of the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railways, with the contemplated new line of forty-six miles in length, or there abouts, passing immediately through the town of Doncaster, will form ono grand trunk line direct from Liverpool to Great Grimsby. It is intended to commence the present line at or near the junc tion of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway with the Sheffield, Ashton-under-L} ne, and Manchester, near Penistone, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. and to proceed in a direct eastern line through or near the extensive and inexhaustible coal-fields of Silkatone, Dod worth, Worsbrough-dale, and others in the Barnsley distriet, thence to the south of and near to the town of Barnsley, thence to continue in a direct course through or near to Wombwell, Darfield (where it will cross the Midland Railway), Billingley and its coal fields, Gold thorpe, Hickleton, Barnborough, Marr, and their extensive limestone field, Cusworth, to the town of Doncaster, where it is intended to cross the London and York Railway on the level, and thence will proceed through or near to Armthorpe, Cautley, Brampton, Wroot, where it will enter and cross the Isle of Axholme, and pass through or near to the town of Epworth, Belton, East and West Butterwick, Messingham Mill, Scawby, and then finally terminate in a junction with the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Railway, which was sanctioned by the Legislature during the last session of Parlia ment, at or near to the town of Glanford Brigg, in the county of Lin coln ; thus connecting the great manufacturing, mineral, agricultu ral, and populous districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire with Lincoln shire and its rapidly improving port of Great Grimsby, so as to afford the products of the several counties a most direct and speedy course of transit ; thereby also greatly facilitating the introduction of fo reign merchandise, and by this means perfecting the channel of communication between the Irish Sea and the German Ocean. The existing routes from Manchester to Great Grimsby are very circuitous ; so mach so, that the proposed line will effect a saving of about twenty miles, when compared with the Manchester and Leeds, the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, and the proposed Goole and Great Grimsby Railways ; and of about fifteen miles compared with the Sheffield and Maneliester, and the Great Grimsby and Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railways, and the relative distances from other places will be proportionally shortened ; even from Sheffield, via the Midland, with a branch from Swinton, on to the proposed line, the distance would be less by five or six miles than by the Sheffield and . . Lincolnshire, and the Great Grimsby and Sheffield lines. The saving of distance is most material, when it is considered that the proposed shorter and more direct line will, in addition, accommodate the towns of Barnsley, Doncaster, Epworth, and Brigg, and afford ex tended markets for their staple commodities. To show the advantage of this line of transit, wools and other merchandise landed at the port of Great Grimsby, and forwarded by the proposed line of railway, would be delivered in the manufacturing, districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire before they could be landed at Hull, and the great less of time, and the dangerous navigation of the river to Goole, besides the extra expense, would be thus entirely obviated, and passengers by this line, in conjunction with the steam packets from New Holland to Hull, would also be conveyed from Manchester and other places, in less time than by any other route. Several railway schemes are now before the public, to connect, in the best practicable manner, Keighley, Halifax, and Bradford, with Huddersfield ; and there are also the contemplated lines from Ash ford-under-Lyne to Stockport, and from Chester by Manchester, the latter by means of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway, with a branch to Birkenhead. When these desiderata shall be accom plished, the proposed line will open facilities for the shipment of merchandise at Great Grimsby, from Manchester, Huddersfield, Halifax, and the places northwards, Ashton-under-Lyne, Stayley bridge, Hyde, Stockport, Chester, Birkenhead, Liverpool, and the in termediate places to Germany, Holland, Belgium, the Baltic, and the north of Europe; added to which the increased traffic brought to bear upon the proposed line to and from the contemplated new Staffordshire and Derbyshire lines, by uniting with the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway at or near Holmlirth, must considerably en hance the value of the undertaking. _ Independently of the above, andof the superior advantages af forded by the proposed hne for the chipping of coal from the rich coal fields of Silkstone and Barnsley to the London and other mar kets, a considerable augmentation of passengers and traffic may be expected from the Midland and the London and York Railways ; and particular benefit will be rendered to the agricultural districts o Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Lincolnshire, by the opening of the ex tensive limestone districts in the neighbourhood of Doncaster, through which the line is intended to pass ; and by the cheap transit of corn and cattle to the manufacturing districts of Sheffield, Rother ham, Wakefield, Leeds, Huddersfield, and Manchester, the im mense agricultural produce of Lincolnshire (including the Isle of Axholme), together with that of Doncaster, being by this project thrown open to the great consumers of the west. Again, from the recent reduction of the duty on Baltic timber, there is no doubt the consumption of that article (superseding the inferior Canadian timber) will be greatly increased in Lancashire and Cheshire. From coal, lime, and timber, therefore, a large and very remunerative traffic may justly be calculated upon ; and even the internal resources of tht country through which the line will pass, in coal and lime alone, would be sufficient to justify the present undertaking, The impo - itant agricultural town of Doncaster, hitherto compara tively isolated and its market crippled for want of proper railway communication, will, by the proposed fine, become the principal corn mart for the manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Cheshire ; and also, with the aid of the London and York Railway, both lines passing direct through the town, be at once brought in elinnexion with all the main railway arteries in the Kingdom. Doncaster has long felt the want and desirableness of a direct west communication, and this Is the only line hitherto projected that is essentially calculated to serve the interests of that town, The value of the stock in all the above-mentioned lines to which a favourable reference has been made, must necessarily be greatly enhanced by the proposed line, whilst the increased facilities given for the transit of goods from Liverpool and Manchester, and from Huddersfield, northwards, and other manufacturing and agricultural places, to Great Grimsby, must especially most materially add to the Importance and benefit of the Sheffield and Manchester and the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railways. The large manufacturing district of Holmfirth will receive the ut most advantage from a constant and cheap supply of coal, whilst the agricultural portion of that district, equally with Lincolnshire, will prove a ready market for the valuable limestone in the neighbourhood of Doncaster. The country through which the line will pass is well adapted for carrying out the design of the promoters, and a great portion of the land will be greatly improved by the construction of this line of railway. Nothing beyond ordinary engineering difficulties is to be met with. A very satisfactory survey of the entire line, by the acting engineer, has already been made, and the necessary sections are nearly com pleted, so as to leave no doubt that the scheme will be fully perfected in due time for the approaching session of Parliament. The line, for about three-fourths of its whole length, is nearly level. The whole tunnelling required will only be about 1,800 yards. The prevailing gradient is about 1 in 380, and very favourable for work ing of locomotive power. The navigation of the river Trent will not be interfered with, nor the residence of any nobleman or gentlemen, and very little altera tion will be required in any drains or Turnpike roads. The expense of constructing the line, it is considered, will be less Ilea* the engineer's estimate. The success attending the project has been unexampled since its first very recent announcement, and before even the names of the Provisional Committee appeared, many times the number of Shares required have been subscribed for ; the Committee do not, therefore, feel justified in continuing the application of shares open beyond a very limited time. In the allotment of shares, a preference will be given to parties locally interested in the line. The promoters have it in contemplation, at a future time, to form some very desireable branches in connection with their main line, for which purpose power will be reserved to raise increased capital to meet the requirements. The favourable opinions se generally expressed as to the eligibility of the line, and its perfect adaptation to the wants of the important district which it will traverse, together with tile gratifying assurances of support received from parties locally interested, leave no room to doubt of the success of the undertaking. And, unlike many railway schemes of the present day, this undertaking has no really competing line to contend with, inasmuch as it extends from point to point en ground neither pre-oceupled nor contemplated by any other Com pany ; and is, unquestionably what it purports to be, the most direct route possible from west to east. ♦ reference to the Map will at once conclusively establish this fact. Power will be applied for in the Act, to allow interest at the rate of 41. per cent. per annum on the amount of the deposit, and upon the further calls, until the line shall be completed. Prospectuses with plans of the line, and any further information, may be obtained on application, at the offices of the solicitors, and of their London and local agents ; and applications for shares (for a limited time only), in the form annexed, accompanied with satisfac tory references, may also be addressed to them, or to any of the following Brokers, viz.—Messrs. Hill, Fawcett and Hill, Thread needle-street, London ; David Kinnear, Edinburgh ; Lloyd and Price, Liverpool; Cardwell and Sons, Manchester; I. N. Balme, Gloucester ; Wellbeloved and Go., Bell and Ledger, Leeds ; Garton and Wright, Sheffield ; J. Crawshaw, Doncaster ; J. Tee, Jun., Barnsley ; George Bowlby, Hull ; Charles Claye, Halifax ; John Cragg, Skipton ; John Gibbons, Settle ; F. Q. and C. C. Crossley, Bradford ; Henry Bellingham, Wakefield ; George Tinker, Holm firth ; Wilson and Heilawell, William Moore and Co., John Gatliff and Co., Fred. Turner, B. Casson, Chas. Fitton, J. H. Taylor, and Thomas Parratt and Co., Huddersfield. Huddersfield, 30th September, 1845. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Manchester, lludderfield, and Great Grimsby Direct Railway Company. I request that you will allot to me shares of 20/.each in the above undertaking ; and I agree to accept the same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, and also to pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per share thereon ; and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, when required. Dated the day of l 845: Name (in full). • • • • . • • • . Trade or Profession ... • MANCHESTER, HUDDERSFIELD, AND GREAT GRIMSBY DIRECT RAILWAY. (Registered provisionally.) Notice is hereby given, that in consequence of the immense nnmber of Applications for Shares already received, no further Ap plications will be entertained, except from landowners, after SATURDAY, the Ilth day of October instant. FLOYD and BOOTH, Solicitors. Huddersfield, Ist October, 1845, _E XETER, DORCHESTER., AND WEY MOUTH JUNCTION COAST RAILWAY. The Committee of Management beg to inform the public that the shares in this Company are now in course of allotment, and that they (the Committee) intend issuing the Letters and Allotments as soon as the requisite examination has taken place into the application for shares. By order, FRANCIS CREW, Secretary. Oct. 2, 1245. B ARNET and NORTH MiITROPOLITAN JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered, purstlaot to 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.) Capital, 400,0001., hi 20;000 Shares of 201. each. No Shareholder to be liable osit beyond the a Sh mount of his Subscription PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Hen. F. H. F. Berkeley, 31. P; Chairman, Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway Company William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, also Deputy-Chairman of the Oxford, Witney, and' Cheltenham Railway Company Sir John Osborne, Bart., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing stoke Railway Company Sir Henry Richardson, Knight, Chessel, near Southampton Lord of the Manors of Chipping Barnet and East Barnet The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch House, Henley William Wilberforce,- Esq.', James-street, Buckingham -gate, and Highwood House, Highwood Hill, Hendon Samuel Dendy, Esq., Montague-street, Russell..square, Lord of the Manor of Hendon Lieut.-Colonel Glints, Porehester House, Bayswater - William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn Major Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales Railway Company Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., F.S.A., Director of the Colchester, Cambridge, and Harwich Junction Railway Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., M.D., Mortimer-street, Cavendish. square Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington, Direator of the Warwick and Worcester Railway Thomas Priestley, Esq., Principal of Mill Hill Grammar School, Hendon, Middlesex The Rev. H. J. Crump, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex Captain Grover, R.N. Captain John Inner, H.C.S., Wentworth House, Mill 11111, Hendon, h3liddlesex the Rev. Bartholomew Nicholls, M.A., Incumbent of St. Paul's Mill 11111, Hendon, Middlesex 31 r. William Ward, Underhill, Batitet Alr.Bruce Johnson, Finchlay William Christopher Daniel heighton, Egg., Fellow of Queen's College Cambridge, Holloway • Ralph Allen Frogley, Esq., Hounslow, Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway Colonel Taylor White, Hadley-green, Barnet Abraham Scott, Esq., Hadley Priory, Barnet W. J. M'Gwire, Esq., 74, St. James's-street W. Prosser, jun., Esq., 36, New Broad-street, City James Berington, Esq., East-street, Hoxton George Freeman, Esq., Grange House, Leeds Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq., Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway Company • George Godfrey Esq., The Elms, Hutton, Eisex Robert Wright Wood, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Company Alexander Prince, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing stoke Railway Peter Graham, Esq., Angelo Villa, Gloucester-road, Regent's Park William Henry Halpin, Esq., 23, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Company Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales Railway Company J. N. Nicholay, Esq., Oxford-street , John G odfrey B. Hudson, Esq., Director of the Central Terminus Railway Company The Rev: G. A. Walker, Alvisthorpe Parsonage. Wakefield, Direc tor of the Wakefield and Bradford Railway Company John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leicester, Director of the South Union and Leicester and Birmingham Rs- way Thomas Francis Justice, Esq., Berner's-street, Oxford-street George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield -street, Russell-square, Director of the Grand Trunk Railway John D. Hopkins, Esq., 25, Bedford-square J. H. Lister, Esq., Director of the iouth and Midland Junstion Railway J. I'. Wright, Esq., Edinburgh W. Blark, Esq., Rockhalls, Lodge, Cricklewood Charles Waite, Esq., Willesden Thomas Cope, Esq., Cricklewood Captain F. N. Fisher, United Service Club, Whitehall George Howell, Esq., Finchley-common George Hayes, Esq., Vincent-villa, Finchley-common Robert Henry Lindham, Esq., 8, New-street, Dorset-square Alexander James Geddes, Esq., Parade, Thames Bank. (With power to add to their number.) COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., W. H. Halpin, Esq. Chairman Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq. William Alfred Hill,Esq., Deputy- Alexander Prince, Esq. Chairman George Freeman, Esq. Major Lindam, K.H. George Godfrey, Esq. Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., Robert Wright Wood, Esq. F.S.A. Charles Green, Esq. CONSULTING ENGINEER—Francis Whishaw, Esq., C.E., Brook Lodge Hendon, and Adelphi. ACTING ENGINEER—J. Bailey Denton, Esq., 10, Gray's Ins-square., BANKERS—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, JOINT SOLICITORS. Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street G. P. Hlll, Esq., 21A, Soho-square. LOCAL AGENTS. Henry Hammond, Esq., solicitor, Wentworth Lodge, Finchley John Hughes, Esq., solicitor, Whetstone. Messrs. Tatham and Son, solicitors, Highgate Themes Weeks, Esq., solicitor, Tottenham This railway will connect the important and hitherto neglected town of Barnet with the London and Birmingham and the Great Western Railways, at or near Holsden-green ; with the Northern and Eastern and the Eastern Counties Railway, at or near Totten ham ; and the proposed Direct London and Manchester, and the Lon don and York Railways. • The line, in its course, will unite the town of Barnet with Whet stone, Totteridge, llighwood Hill, Mill Hill, Fi nc hl ey, H o ld er ' s Hi l l , Hendon, Burrows, Golder's Hill, Gutterhedge, Kingsbury, Neesdon, Wilsdon, Wilsdon Green. Holsdon Green, Kensall Green, Westbourne Green, Maida Hill, Kilburn, Hampstead, West End, Highgate, Crouch End, Hornsey, Muswell Hill, West Green, Tottenham, Edmonton, Chintbrd, Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington, Newington Green, Clap ton, Highbury, Holloway, Kingsland, Layton, Stratford, West Ham, Bow, Bromley, Bethnal Green, Limehouse, Holton, Homerten, Hackney, Shacklewell, Dalston, Islington, St. Pancras, Shoreditch, Blackwell, Euston-square, Paddington, Kensington, Hammersmith, Brompton, Fulham, Chelsea, &c. ; connecting those places with the various railways named, and all those south of the river Thames. The distance from the town of Barnet to the station of tke London and Birmingham Railway, at Euston-square, by this route, will be 15 miles. The length of the main line, from the point of junction at Totten ham to the London and Birmingham Railway, will be 11 miles ; and the length of the branch line to Barnet, will be 4% miles. From the junction with the Birmingham Railway to Chipping Barnet, 9% miles • from the Decoy (near Brent -street, Hendon), on the p ro p ose d Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway, to the Northern and Eastern Counties Railway, by Stamford-hill, 6%. miles. There are no engineering difficulties throughout the entire distance. The line will proceed beyond the range of the Highgate and Hamp stead Hills, and the branch ftom the main line to Barnet will follow the valley of the river Brent to the intended station at Barnet : thus the expense of construction will be less than any other metropolitan line of railway, for the above reason, and because it will pass through an agricultural district, avoiding all ornamental property and large collections of houses and buildings. Upon the completion of this railway, a large and daily-increasing population, resident beyond the limits of the metropolitan omnibuses, will be largely benefited, and land and agricultural produce, hitherto affording an inadequate return to their cultivators, will be quad rupled in value. The ancient, populous, and once-flourishing town of Itarnat, too, will now have a railway communication of its own, without depend ing upon the caprice or uncertain goodnature of any company who may hold out a prospect of a branch, in future times, from some of the frank lines now contemplated. An ample return of profit to the investments of shareholders may be safely anticipated, and will arise from the following sources, amongst others :- 1. From the conveyance of passengers. 2. From the carriage of goods and merchandise from the City and Docks, &c., to the several railways which aro intersected by this line, avoiding the delay and excessive cost of conveyance through London ; also from the conveyance of cattle, &c., more particularly during the period of the large Barnet fairs 3d. From the conveyance of coal, both inland and seaborne fuel, and other commodities of general consumption, the great expense of which has long been felt by all classes as a most grievc,b The Committee ci M stfueffient rcocrve to thereselves the power of adopting, upon t his line, locomotive pcn et, or Presser's Railway guide and safety wheels, as may be deemed expellent. Applications for Shares in the form annexed ;ant osemuni cations from persons desirous of promoting the objects of the C pany), may be addressed to the Secretary, at the Provisional Offices of the Company, 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street; to the Joint Solicitors, Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, and G. P Hill, Esq., 21a, Soho-square ; or to Messrs. Sparks and Clark, 3, Bartholomew-lane ; Messrs. W. and H. R. Cox, Share-brokers, 16, Throgmorton-street; I. R. Lane, Esq., Birmingham; Charles 0. Net . F.sq., 15, St. Ann's-square, Manchester ; Mr. Landford, Exeter ; John Wells, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings, Liverpool ; and Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oaster, Leeds. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway, 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street, London. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of 201. each in this Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that slay be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parlia mentary Contract and Subseribers' Agreement when required. Name in full ......... ..... Residence Trade or Profession • ..... Name, Residence, and Profession or Trade of Referee.. BARNET AND NQRTH METROPOLITAN JUNCTION RAILWAY. At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Barnet and its vicinity, convened by a requisition, numerously signed and duly published, held at the Victoria Hall, Union-street, Barnet, the 17th day of September instant, JOHN HEY PUGET, Esq. of Totteridge, in the Chair ; It was proposed by J. SPENCER, Esq , seconded by the Rev. , J. D THOMPSON, and carried unanimously— That it is the opinion of this meeting that a direct railway commu nication between the northern districts of the Metropolis and the town of Barnet is of vital importance to its prosperity, and is now imperatively called for. It was proposed by BENJAMIN SMITH, Esq., and seconded by Mr. JonN HOPEWELL, and resolved unanimously 2. That this meeting having duly considered the prospectus and map of the line of the proposed Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway, and on comparing the same with the other pro. jected lines, does most unhesitatingly declare that the proposed Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway will afford to the town greater advantages than any line of railway hitherto proposed to come in the vicinity of Barnet, it being the only one which will afford to the residents of the town the advantage of a station, and that It deserves the support of the inhabitants and all others having an in terest in Barnet and its vicinity ; and that a petition be presented in favour of the line immediately upon the assembling of the Houses of Parliament ; and this meeting pledges itself to further the views of the Company, and resolves that a Committee be appointed to promote the object and secure the interest of the town of Barnet. That the Committee consist of Benjamin Smith Esq. Mr. John Hopewell Mr. George Bower Mr. James Hill Mr. Brunt Mr. Spencer Rev. Alexander Stuart Rev. John Dawson Thompson Mr. James Cooper -- With power to add to their number. It was proposed by the Rev. ALEXANDER STUART, and sconded by J. SPENCER, Esq., and resolved unanimously 3. That the thanks of the meeting be tendered to the Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, the Chairman, and the Deputy-Chairman, and the other members of the deputation from the Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway Company, for the able manner in which they have laid before the meeting the project of the Company. It was proposed by WILLIAM HILL, Esq., and seconded by W. W. lIOLPEN, Esq., anti carried unanimously 4. That a vote of thanks be tendered to John Hey Puget, Esq., for his impartial and able conduct in the chair. BARNET and NORTH METROPOLITAN JUNCTION RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that Ho turther Applications for Shares in this undertaking will be received after SATURDAY, the 4th October next. By order of the Committee of Management, EDWARD ELKINS, 1 G. P. HILL, Joint Soßotten. 59 Newman-street. Sept. 25, 1845. PORT of W ISBECH, PETERBOROUGH BIRMINGHAM, and MIDLAND COUNTIES UNION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 300,0001., in Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 58. per Share. No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his subscription. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. John Humphery, Esq., M.P., Alderman of the Clty of London, Dl. rector of the Central Kent Railway Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of London, Director of Rastrick's Direct Manchester Railway D. R. Ross, Esq., M.P., Director of the London and Manchester, and South Midland Railways George Danby Palmer, Esq., bomaglstiratetoferrotfhohceoluvnatvyeonfeyNlo,arifolelyk: and rough of Groat Grims ; r and Great Yarmouth, and the Lin p eol e n c , Louth, t and Great Grimsby Railways Ri c h a rd Hammond, Esq., mag istrate for the borough of Great Yar mouth, Di rec tor of the Waveney Valley Rail way John King, Esq„ Director of the Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby Railway. The Rev. H. R. Fowler. 7, M a nchester-square, Director of the London a nd Nottingham Railway W. A. Campbell, Esq Director of the Wexfbrd, Waterford, and Va lentia Railway F. Barretto, Esq„ Portland-place, London J ose ph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Erightoll Railway Joseph Underwood, Esq., Norwich, and Blackheath Park, Kent, Di rector of the Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury W. S. Potter, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Ambrose Miller, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Cheltenham, and 6Reacester Railway Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Northamptom, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Frederick White, Esq., R.N., Sheerness, Director of the Metropolitan Junction Railway, George Parbury, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury -square, London John Inglis Jerdeitt, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway Capt, Heathorn, Director of the South Metropolitan Gas Company R. Gray, Esq., 5, Adam's-court, Old Broad-street, London R. C. Colmaa, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railway ~~ .. ~.~ • , -v _~~` d ~ N Ity(i •Fjp^:;•,_._, \.,1.,:i1>. °I 4.., .41-.....4N*,..):i: c...__..(,; -:',..:stsl.-i Per Morttm, Esq., Director of . c i\tho South / Midland RalltraY > . - Henry Chator, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Bridgewater and Miractl.L.rALSAtag ~.•a., Railway • W. C. Duppa, Esq., Director of the Canterbury and Dover Railway William G. Harrison, Esq., HIP House. tipper Tooting, Surrey George R. Pye, Esq., Lavenham,•Suliblk William Tulloch Fraser, Esq., Director of the Manchester awl Rug Direct Railway (With power to add to their number.) naNgEas. London—The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury Wisbech—Messrs. Gurney, Peckover, and Co. Lynn—Messrs. Gurney, Cresswell, and Co. ENGINEERS. B. Albano, Esq., M inst. C.E., and Wm. Lawton, Esq., C.E. Soractroa—lngleby Thomas 31ilier, Esq., 3, Abchurch-lane, Lom bard-street, London. SECRETARY PRO TEM.—W. 0..1. Wollaston, Esq. This line is intended to commence at the Port of Wisbech, by a junction with the line of railway , now forming from Lynn, and pro ceed by . Thorney to Peterborough, there uniting with the branch of the London and Birmingham Railway to Northampton, and the Peterborough and Syston branch of the Midland Counties Railway, forming a through line from Yarmouth, Norwich, Derehem, Swatl ham, Lynn, and Wisbech, to Northampton, Birmingham, Derby, Nottingham, and the whole of the northern and western parts Of England. The entire distance being completed in about 18 miles. The importance of this railway, though only 18 miles in length, will be at once seen.by. an inspection of the map, when the following points will be self-evident 1. That the port of Wisbech is the nearest sca•port for Binning,- ham, Staffordshire, and the Midland districts of England. 2. That this line will open the whole of the manutheturing and mineral districts of the Midland Counties and the' Potteries to Wis.. bech, the nearest port for Belgium, Holland, Germany, and the nor. thern States of Europe. 3. That by the formation of this line a direct railway ommunic.t tion will be opened between the port cf Wisbech, and the ports of Southampton, Bristol, Gloucester, and Liverpool. 4. That this line will unite the itirmingbam and Midland Counties system of railway with those o. Novolk, communicating with Nor wich and Yarmouth. Application for shares (which must. In all cases be in the usual form, and accompanioi by a reference to [thank( r or to a member of the Provisional Committee) 'or prospectuses, may be made to the Pro visional Committee, .at theotlices of Mr. I. T. Miller, solicitor to the - Ccillipaily,. or the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Shewell and Son, Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs. Lyon, 2, Birchin-lane, London ; Messrs. Mann and Son, Norwich ; Messrs. Cruso and. Son, Ly nn ; Messrs Peet, Son, and l'otter, _Nottingham ; Mr. Collis, Birmingham; Mr. F. C. Spencer, Halifax ; and Mr. Ciirr, Culver-street, Colchester. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional,Connnittee of the Port of Wisbech, Peterborough, Birmingham, and Midland Counties Union Railway. I request you will-allow shares in this undertaking, and I agree to take the same cr such leas number as may be al lotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and sign the Parlia mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, when required. Dated this day of , 1845. Name in full Residence .......... Profession or Occupation..... Usual Signature Reference (Name in full ...... Address • . ... TO THE HOLDERS OF SCRIP in the LONDON AND WORCESTER, AND RUGBY AND OXFORD RAILWAY—aIso called the LONDON, WORCESTER, AND SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. The holders of Scrip Certificates of the above Company, com monly designe Led as the "Tring and Worcester," who have not already delivered their Certificates, to be exchanged for Bucking hamshire Shares, in conformity with the terms of the notice of 26th of August last, are informed, that SATURDAY next, the 4th instant, is the last day on which such Certificates can be received, and that from and after that date the holders will for feit all claim to an Allotment of Shares in the Buckinghamshire Com pany in right of their Tring and Worcester Scrip. HENRY MORGAN, Secretary. Office, 28, Waterloo-str:et, Birmingham, Oct. 1, 1845. ►pHE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT RAILWAY, via ABINGDON', WASTAGE, RU.NGERFORD, and LUDGERSHALL. (Piovisionally registered.) Capital 1,200,0001., in 48.00 Shares of 251. eack. Deposit 21. 15s. per Share. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. The importance of connecting remote parts of E..gland by Rail ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns and districts, can scarcely be be'ter exemplified than by the Line which is now proposed to form a short and direct channel of inter course between Oxford amt Salisbury. Numerous projected lines now before the public will make Oxford at the north, and Salisbury at the south of the intended Railroad the central points from which various radii will diverge to the north west, north, and north-east of the former, and to the east, south, and west of the latter; and the proposed Line from Cambridge to Ox'ord, continuing to that city the course of Railway front the north-eastern parts of the island, requires the appliance now suggested to effect a coniplete means of transit to the western and south-western counties. The Oxford and t-alisbury Direct Railway, in addition to the benefits which will be conferred upon the nation at large, by preferring a direct line of commun'cation be tween the north-eastern and western and south-western parts of England, will afford to the borough of Abingdon, the market towns of Vantage, Ilungerford, and Ludgershall, and the adjacent villages, an important railway accommodation, of which the agricultural districts in which they are seated stand in much need, and will provide a racility for the interchange of produce be tween the rural, manufacturing, and commercial population of Ma kingdom. The want of railway accommodation has long been felt to preAs unfairly upon the inhabitants of the important and thriving town of Abingdon. Their means and opportunities of competing with the more fortunate traders of those towns which are already provided with di rect channels of transit, are thus severely crippled W . The same rem ar k applies in some degree to the market town of antage, which, as well as Hungerford and Ludgershall, claims a share of the profits and advantages produced by railway traffic. _ _ It has therefore been determined to commence the proposecili ne at Oxford, and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great Western Railway at Steventon, thus giving to Abingd.m a direct rail road to London. Ity continuing the projected railway to Wantage, the same facility of transit to London will be afforded to that place ; and a perfect line of road from the north-eastern counties will, by a junc tion with the projection trom Cambridge to Oxford, be produced, through the towns which have been named, Ilungenord and Ludgers hall to Salisbury, and thence to the south and western ports and dis tricts. A map of the line, and a statistical report of the whole country intended to be traversed, is in course of preparation, and with the names of an influential provisional Committee, will very shortly be published. In the meantime, further information may be ob tained frown Messrs. Elmslio and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street, London, solicitors to the undertaking, to whom, at present, applies. tion for shares may be made. B UCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY, AND OXFORD AND I.IETCIILEY JUNCTION. (Registered Provisionally.) Capital, 2,250.000/., in Shares of 20/. each. Deposit V. 2s. per share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Ills Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, K.G. The Right Hon. Lord Nugent, the lilies, Aylesbury, Backs Sir John Chetwode, Bart., M P., Chetwode Manor-house, Bucks Sir Thomas Dighy Aubrey, Bart , Ching-house, Bucks Sir Harry Verney, Bart., Claydon-house, Bucks The lion. Philip Sidney Pie.r:epout, Evenley-hall, Brackley, North amptonshire Sir James Watson, K.C.8., Wendover Charles John Bailie Hamilton, Esq., 31. P., Theme-park, Oxfordshire Rice Richard Clayton, Esq., M.l'., Hedgerley-park, Bucks John Deering, Esq., the Lee, Bucks George Morgan, Esq., itiddlesdeti-park, Bucks Robert Bullock 3larsham, Esq., LL.D., Caverstield-house, Oxford shire Walter Henry Bracebridge, Esq., Morville-house, Warwi c k s hi re, and Chetwode Priory . , Bucks E. W. S. Lowndes, Esq., Winslo w G. Cooke, Esq., Winslow John Barnes, Esq., Chorley-wood, Herta WKen t illiam Osmond Hammond, Esq., St. Alb an ' s-court, Wine, Benjamin Price, Esq., Westbury, Bucks Col. John Hall, Life Guards-barracks, Ilyde-park, London John Newman, Esq., Brand's-house, Hughenden, Bucks Thomas Newland Allen, Esq., The Vedic, Chalfont, Bucks Henry William Beatielerk, Esq., 61, Chester-square, London Robert Fox, Esq., Wendo er-lodge, Bucks William James Bailey, Esq., Shenley-house, Bucks Thomas Sands Chapman, Esq , The Park, Aston Clinton, Bucks Robert Marriott Freeman, Esq.; Stoney Stratford, Bucks George Parrott, Esq., Castle-farm, Buckingham Captain Edward Dewes, Buckingham Humphrey Humphreys, Esq., Buckingham William Stowe, Esq., Buckingham William Davis, Eaq. ' Bicester, Oxfordshire Captain William Style, It.N., Bicester, Oxfordshire John Norwood, Esq.; Steane-park, Brackley, Northamptonshire John Henry Butterfield, Esq., 13rackley . William Henry Manna, Esq., Brackley - Alfred Hoperatl, Esq., Brackley Charles Tawney, Esq., Oxtbrd Riohard Wootton, jun., Esq., c.xford Jonathan Samuel Browning, Esq., Oxford Henry William Tancred, Esq., 31.1'., London Timothy Rhodes Cobb, Esq., Banbury, Oxen • Zacharias Daniel Hunt, Esq., Aylesbury, Bucks Joseph Ashby Gillett, Esq., Banbury, Oxon George Carr Glynn. Esq., London, Director of the London and Bit. rningham Railway • Joseph Frederick Ledsam, Esq., Birmingham, ditto Edward Cropper, Esq., Liverpool ditto Thomas Smith, Esq., Reigate lodge, Surrey, ditto Thomas Young, Esq., Albany, London, ditto Ross Donnelly Mangles, Esq , M.P., London, ditto Captain Constantine Richard Moorsom, R.N., Birmingham, ditto Robert Benson, jun., Esq., Fairfield, Manchester, ditto With power to add to their number). COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Sir Harry Vernoy, Bart. J. E. Ledsam, Esq. The Hon. P. S. Pierrepont Edward Cropper, Esq. Z. D.'Hunt, Esq. Thomas Smith, Esq. Captain Edward Dewes Captain C. R. Moorsom, R.N. Humphrey Humphreys, Esq. Robert Benson, jun., Esq. J. R. Cobb, Esq. Thames Younge, Esq. J. Samuel Browning, Esq. • Ross D. Mangles, Esq. G. C. Glynn, Esq. (With limited power to add to their number). ENGINEER—Robert Stephenson, ESQ. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Parker, Hayes, Barnwell, and Twisden, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London ; Mr. Samuel Carter, Birmingham, and 37, Great George. street, Westminster; Dlr. William 3leyrlek, 2, Furnival's-Inn, London; Messrs. Rose and Messrs. Tindal, Aylesbury ; Messrs. Hearn and Nelson, and Mr. Henry Smith, Buckinghattl, S E ca E reas—Windham Harding, Esq. BANKERS. L on d o n—Messrs. Glynn, Halifax, Mills, and Co., Lo m b ar d -street Aylesbury—Messrs. Bickford and Hunt, The London and County Bank Buckingham—Messrs. Bartlett, Parrott, and Hearn The London and County Bank Banbury—Messrs. Cobb and CO. • Messrs. Gillett and Tawney Oxford—Messrs. Wootton and Co. - The Loudon and County Bank. Bicester— Messrs. Tubb. The object of this undertaking is to supply railway communication to the towns and districtslying between the London and Birmingham and the Great Western Railways, giving them the best means of ac cess to the metropolis, and connecting them alFo with Birmingham and the north-west of England, with the eastern lines of rai 1 - y, with Oxford and the south, and with Worcester and . wales. and The main line will communicato from the (the Loudon of (abridge, Birming ham Railway, near Harrow, and, p to Aylesbury, from which to Missenden and Wendover, and thence approaching Brackley, wad will proceed up the Valley by Clialfol'itts,snileigartLersham and Cheshani, place it will extend to Buckingham, and, Wanvickshire and London this part of the line, it. t ß e a rm ilvs i • n a a y t , e n b e y ar a l j t u a l l ' i c b t u io ry n . t line from Aylesbury to Tring. with the proposed witheoctrui'munication between Aylesbury and. o old fo o i n d. an F d ro ll m ir t m l i e n t g e h hi st ey et In addition to the line is Londonpro proposed '1 ttaokiinwgpro' dvieretchel: above described, it is intended also to con struct,letoL Illey, through Is in course of construction by the Bedford and t• Bedford a mile ay ailwa a y, r a a t il Company, and from Bedford communica- Ilaeyte . , from the statio l l e o s f te tl , London and Dirmingrhomonsed. Vona eastward arc proposed. The proposed lin p gliain and London and Birmingham Railway Comps surveys of the country have been taken by Mr. Robert 15a. 7 is amalgamated with this Company. Stephenson, and it has been ascertained that no engineering difficulty of importance presents itself. The undertaking has already received the sanction and support of a very large proportion of the nobility, gentry, and proprietors or land, through or near whose property it is intended to pass. It is proposed that these lines should be made with tho co-opera tion and under the direction and superintendence of the London and BirminghaM Railway Company, under a lease In perpetuity, at four per cen'i, per annum on the outlay, with an equal division of the sur plus pralts. It is intended to allot the shares to the holders of scrip in the London, Worcester, and South S' afforshire Railway Company in certain proportions♦, subject to the 'approbation of the Committee of Management, such shares as may be required for parties having local interest being excepted. No further Applications for Shares can be received. Oct. 1, 1845, G REAT NORTHERN RAILWAY OF FRANCE. (LAFFITTF.'S COMPANY.). TRENCH ALLOTMENT. The ROLDERS of FRENCH CERTIFICATES Issued. by the above Company, arelmited to deposit them forthwith, at the offices: of Messrs. C. Latlitte, Blount, and Co., 4, Castle-court, Dirchin— lane, London, in order that the same may be arranged, and ex-. changed fbr the definitive shares. The amount of the deposit to be returned (in conseqr.enee of thee reduction in the original allotment); will be paid Inv_ so soon as tit() certificates have been examined. Particulars, &0., may be obtained on application the hours of 11 and 3. 'as above, betweein Notice.—As the last day for depositing share s in Paris expires oil the 15th instant, none can possibly be received after that day / 1 1 London. London, October Ist, no. ■ )tractor S core DI Or 30X of 4 0 " 1 ono' of; to I to