The Sun. — London, England, 1845-09-30 00:00:00

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ILa fin. , orttra l ..1; n:-t., oi fats Contrucn Hall be resp(-ct• a .".Ye estilto to William Hunter, Esq., and Thomas Sidney, EN., be nnen and Sheriffs of London, and Sheriffs of Middlesex, during 14 ,Past year, for the splendour and hospitality with which they have kn a c i sutanied the dignity of that high office, for the punctuality a zeal, l agment with which they have discharged its various tena nth and official duties, for their liberal support to the public 'chanties t thei r Metr o Polis, for their humanity to the prisoners intrusted to charge, and for their uniform courtesy to their fellow-citizens. u MEREWETHER. Rs T Introduction to the Visitors of the ~ It__ ,ROYAL POLYTECHNIC IN STITUTION of Dr. RYAN ' S yliltE, which illustrates MASTERS' PATENT PROCESS for 1 , in';`,4ll ARTIFICIAL ICE, Daily, at MeV-past Three o'clock, and - Rill evenlngs of Mondays Wednesdays, and Fridays. Dr. Ryan b,"!. occasionally introduce' Mons. BOUTIGNY'S experiment ; Va a r Lth i e g . I CE in a RED-HOT CRUCIBLE. Professor BachoffneF e : Cleat;,_Lectures, with beautiful experiments, in one of which he 4,Z,'xplaii:ls the principle of the ATMOSPHER , IC RA I I_L L V ,O I_ 110.„,;LOr Which is at work Daily. The NEW AM ERIC.: N seeX •NGINE, Patented by Coleman, for ascending aul u d s e : Tit'4o.i.,,_ Inclined Planes. SWIMMING and DIVING . LI , ' I'lO . N. ~,P by Young Stevens. A magnificent and unique CO I LLEC o -_ bissoVItOPICAL FRUITS. A new and very beautiful series f ttp t • I ' I GI VIEWS, the new OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS, &c. nuients with the DIVER and DIVING BELL, &c. &c. Adlnission, One Shilling. Schools, Half-price. pu B IT E K NIGHTS ESTATE CO NIPAIN Y. —.c.e i s t his Com h ereby given that NO APPLICATION for 88 1 st Company can be RECEIVED AFTER Wnisims s ei October next. 15 Port man -stre e t , By order of th e Di rectors, 1 , 0 It. W. ROBERTS, Secretary. rtman-square, Sept. 23, 1845. PRELIMINAIRY NOTICE. AjLW AY BANKING COMPANY. c apital (Provisionally Registerect) The ' 2,509 ,000/., in Shares of 500/. each. soru,inlironsotere „ Deposit, 21. 10s. to_ serA t h o nian above Company have the satisfaction of in- The tlie le- -"' i nquirers that preparation is now being made ang°biter of r t its es. eitLeisPromoters is to open a Deposit and Discount 411 s rtl . 3 nliatiS — "°lcters in making good their calls, and to afford i ais l ° , ~ 11 n "tcl, by ,„" gha r ."erY subject relating to railways. "Plying t„,: may be made, and every information oh , V ES T OP • • W Pike Esq., solicitor, 26, Bedford-row. 0 March,, SCOTLAND,,,, EXCHANGE IN tected g ro ; LSTMENT COMPANY. I, e ra, Or Persons of Talent and Experience con of s , ° fleY and Share Market, and possessing general ori en 7 e ra o del sTlpeLcanti bus'iness, map h a s r a G,rettnent of MANAGER of the above . Compansd apPlica• und rally 'lnas who combines the above requisites, an A D W'' , l6 lqualified to fill so responsible a situation. All be al 'cations, considered as strictly confidential. Ce o 4 ( e l to itoh;'th references, either personally or in writing, to street ' f , 13 , tyres ' , t _ rt 3iutrie, Esq. 93, Watling-street, London ;or low - ""° 11 , Esq., Interim m Secretary, „ 133, St. Vincent isitrilett E Lov r ,IT O TEs AND LETTERS OF CREDIT. kskirt ss , l SSlTte7V . N and WESTMINSTER BANK on th ss w.li/LAR NOTES, for the use of Travellers and s oi ttat place in Cont inent. These Notes are payable at every of th wi st t'utiso n 4 ar ?Pe, and thus enable a traveller to vary his por and - ',..', ent ence; no expense is incurred except the price coss om ' , ten cashed no charge is made for commission. Loth„ s • "'" the He dance of the public, these notes may be obtained S• t, V.... , or , atT he ( tee of the London and . We . stminster Bank, in I '3 it:7 4 es 8-1-,, Branches of the Bank, viz..— '''Sh ss are I 4, Stratford-place, Oxford - street I 3, Wellington-street, Borough )3 > o rcier B7 f o , nigh-astreet, Wllitechapa W 4I,IE SVI I LI r I GrLBART, General Manager. ARWICKSHIRE and LONDON In „ ill RAILWAY. Sae de e ; Nuese e TO SCRIPHOLDERS. Sae p, B ens of " 1 Filodifications of this line, rendered necessary Pr o ,,,`"tlain eh „: Parliament in the late session, and of the increase of issucoZ),(lePosit required by the New Standing Orders, the Siti o '' , for th e •utinttee find it necessary to call in the scrip hitherto cal s, Purposa of Dares f Dosit or has the s i, 2 s • Per share, and to cause new deeds to be pr!- 414 .ef0P i stser as ator e Of the Proprietors. Parties to whom . scrip chf all ot c the ti re ' , accordingly requested to send in their scrip, on kap sl'ent day of October next, to the Secretary. New letters srs si s's aen t at once be issued to such of the present holders of l'es4 t he se'" were original sabscribers for their shares; but new i s ,bility ;'.,sas ch anged hands, satisfactory references as to the tei ns "iers .S,le h olders will be required by the Directors before 7reseTt(lh:t'clat:ent can be issued • en the additional deposit onereds hentltecordance with the new fetters of allotment), and the 441 1 ' 1 44 °ter g is exte med, the new scrip will be issued. Si ns )„, -se 10th of October next, the present sorip (unless it ' er n in to the Secretary, and received by him pre *rite I ,° lB h _ 3 ') will be considered as cancelled, and the shares t l o t sad , , bear r e - allotted. Parties sending scrip are requested son rimes across each scrip certificate for the sake of security, list of 4 Post letter, at the same time that they send their att s en naill'e litimbers of the scrip they have dispatched, with ' fuless 'e . lt s de nce, and (if necessary) that of their references, - see end of such list. East on By order of the Provisional Committee, Rahw ay WYNDHAM HARDING, Secretary. t TH E kliii4;sThert, ' 4 MBARRASSED.--IMPORTANT. tec t4 ;• the force re thousands o f p ersons w ho have straggled long sad ;„aetof mi sfortune, but few are aware that by a very their d[ other:man traders owing ' debts not exceeding 300 L, farmers, rn pteY °wi ng to any ount can be entirely raised trom " at Er. exPens a e m and Without imprisonment or bank b'4.l7,Bl-- Er. Weston ' besa will apply to him et Moira ern origer-lane, Cheapside, by letter or personally. t i tl/Sr As TO SURVEYORS. 8 Competent to undertake either large 'll. 4 7Artii -O. Portions of a RAILWAY SURVEY will meet with bier Aral Temptll3oll Producing proper testimonials, and applying, by letter, to Edward James Maude, Esq., C.E., street, Birmingham. A L LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 26 , COB - MULL, LONDON. h t k Capital X 500,000. i s Xibpowered by Act of Parliament. :• itr it 2esl et ti r bo °, h grere important and substantial advan (lZ, or f ,, , ha s, 0 ,, is Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. r hi. tabi s 7f eis tre 'psi occasions, the power to borrow, without kis° th the Policy, two-thirds of the premiu , p , erh n .4st s , e option of selecting benefits, and the cos. version ef),,,,kl,Beseet other convenionces sr necessity. Assurances t h Tlie I 44 granted on the lowest possible rates. tis,ltteceas ID IYISION OF PROFITS. trt increas' it t the Society has enabled h , at Ern ie prospan y o rcli es !thr last annual investigation, to declare a third effected °n to 75 per cent. on the premiums paid on Profit scale. EXAMPLES. ' l 'reitrat,„ . Buaodneae. i (7,' Banns in r g M Cash. 3 E . a pro oft td o t -- i" =O4ll - 1...... , , a, it ''...'"---.! .„ b._ t . , .—_______ vul 1 4 I. d. 1 , 11 37 *l9l 13 5 - a 4 ' B3 g,' 165 13 0 ~ 1839 , 138 13 itillePtlalow 1840' 89 001 "the 6r Ro tta to annual, present year. S COirt , F. FERGUSON - and the no: will cum b: o ln u a x d e . is e D . e - FE IGN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. ,_Tp he No 5 (Provisionally Registered.) e Ta for . 41 4„ blisb m S:r. J AMES'S -STREET, LONDON. Ist es ze wi se I all other contracts depending upon Life beneficial s -44 ; a,,..' , et.1u '"''' " 1 3 , Act of Parliament, for the Assuranc c e on of tt L b i g v e e n s . , °I. granting Loans, upon a new and highly ee Ntai, , , It e 4 %. 11. 4 ieni,,.. ~ e posit, 11. 10s. per Share. , c , i i' l4 ,-../ '40,0,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 101. each. 1 , 4, i i 1a of t hre72 l ee of the Act of Parliament, obtns a cer ke„!ht,:eihm.'4ll be received until the Company for the -ait s '"' tb e 'm re ostration, when notice will be given .., corn lOs. per cent. only I'lie h. vitl rliti: 44l k of the deposit, and the Company will Sir Pelt I t 'lt are.,.. TRUSTEES. ) 4111a 8 ' Nilo lien It tt. JG._ ssmore i Temple Clajl e l' t ov..„,:l i es'`‘,,,,,utilil e E nnike i r , , R Ba s rt, F ll s awley, Stowmarket, Suffolk ZZe ro cl*Srd'setseqti: It t 'u sg ss s e g i c il a s v q e il o a d . r ‘ i e s . , b ' a_ s n • q d o . ar S ' p • :ri . ng-grove, Hounslow e e lts ,ll o4 o L e_ imex, t....ao_VISIONAL DIRECTORS. tb stll R N n. Lora acs Chesham-place, Belgrave-square c s , li s e _, we nd .L., onald alatk 3l p "INN 01„,`441., M.P., Whitehall 14).“..1a ~,arebrut"inger, EN M.p., Temple IT' itujinrtier.-i.,..r' E N, ~ Alde ' rman, Lancaster-place, Strand square 41 4 -11 Fr -, AID., Wimpole-street, and Cavendish-square Ale s. ul lirdi sel., ~...as , , kro, , , 1 1 e r 0 v 1 bri c e s% , k v -, e s ti l e , N r l o a aa n c , h ß e s e t g e e r n - stq, Regent's a p r: i a k nd Crosby-square h 11 1,i; s her a b ' r-4(1, No rthumberland-street - mekl aqui, 1:0,mb:11d, tw u c a d. h_ s are 7 l'/Illiiou Po Esq., ; i:uiti v u e -fr n ia ls rs, and Sion House, Clapton Je re (With P o F 'scl., Russell-square lea 1 Pre,„ , - ower to add to their number). rd Watt y, q.E,,scip.aric,istigito.AastttroneleTtoßs. 1 7 , 1111, - ` l tri I Yall ' i'' Con • West, Regent's Park t.,. S taon, t„„ , Us tirk-friars and Cadogan-place ~ .isr , ~ 1 ., St. Relen's-place. It •• Sir elate RANKERS. \II Ptl,, .„ 4 'l' Se4tt, Bart., and Co., Cavendish-square. C4 SO LI 1 ~, lit M andl STANDING COUNSEL. C/. 1 , - ' 0 %I, ts—"ng, Sergeant's Inn wxs,„ 5w.......„. (1, Ificidle Tem le .4 N, ..-”sere. Da • P . Pus..,_ vis and Son, Warwick-street, LaNJohn Power, Esq., 31'13" Great Queen tdwr Street, Westminster. Regent-street. tow s , iii, r war b„,.. MECICAL REFEREES. Btitetits ,10,:kes4h._41IIA.keisettioAr.aitkied Odin j oo o r t e n , s E to s n q E A sq r . l , in! a ton- Ni str l ee . r. F.R.s., Reel. s ville-row. ...lo w,j'ary ur the - ;‘, 1. • J. Sylvester, . Regent-street ; tit -. tick r, ...' ~ tr,,,t4hur m`, 4 :: e l , 4l t , Y sti and e l a .. t a l w tob Li E t fe b sg a A to ' ss b . n o ; ts an , c , e Company. ~„ `-'• ~ • Parkinson, Esq., Sackville-street. ~,,,_ c,, -•,cltE'rsav—George Cumming, Esq. tosT:i_li wine-4,Paiir ,me h":;', oft.„" 1 addition to all the usual branches of Assurance -I .7rrow, - ; s to the Publ. 1. Tilt • ` e ol at' ana 3 ieldin Lc all‘‘s r s tu e rn to the Shareholder than we rs , a, tt ny t reae nt in us a be tte r e y t m of loans more loenefickal t .olle t , tile NI .4011 effeetin • assurance with this Company, can est:(lls'l;oltirectuntyl4Zl;itti,of theg s a u n insecured by his policy, upon giving t r. ' r a bles ~"e PaYrnent of an increased rate of premium, 'al I,„ r "ring ari ,i - ' , the Company, according to the age of the per -140403 born h ' ii -•" the amount borrowed, and interest on the loan, ' I N be borr„. 41 c' ~.,„ eo btr _,e , years only, which will in effect repay the t‘tkk3', will oot,'aea'.lri Maintain a Policon the life of the borrowe t r o , 14 1 0 f ere. _e sous. an'!,ll,rdinary cases, he liable i to l be m c o a b ll e e y d le u i p it on w ie • 1 7 4 .4 , ect oe , e_ .r , the D,r.osyp:agtiivsoesnodfa?othreopripnanc m y pa (which have been t ks 4 1 ;i . the tables, at length in the papers), and which contain speci- Th. leg 'MS. will aIOW the mode by which the Company effects (41 ,e1 ,.. , ottip„ y vi , t e. olik JlO.rity. also the money on annuity, mortgage, or 048, mders W lll re 1 70•ti te 4 t , n g t 1,0,... ceive a large remuneration in the shape of ;t.tres- PretniZiethe operations of the Company, augmented by the j: iietreDon thei r 14 nd in connexion with loans, in addition to ~ o at , ba _ti . i on pr,_ aPital invested in Shares; besides, by the mode ~'lltie 0 40 ealti g r ,lTed by the Cornpany, the certainty, in addition 4 1e se :: the e. a „,;ne of interest, of a proportionate increase in the Pres th e ''', bY the a ppropriation of a certain portion of 11 r 0 ,.._ Pectin.. p r ofits to the Capital Fund of the Company, 14 iation—°, eontainin ) me - can b e . g aPecimens of the tables, and every !4iu,.,_ turie,,, _0 ootamed rom, and applications for shares, tud ',44,oofilees:i.ol rtn, made to, the Secretary, at the Com ' I, ek r n' S olicit . St. t°' the London ; Messrs. Davies I rob, „, tar n , er , 21, Werw ck-street Regent-street ; Messrs. ktee s .. tYky,, , ".„,and Ellis, 'Brokers 7Change Alley, Comhill ; and ;tilq . l: b. e nd nli, ...Broker. 'Cl i ' aage-alley, Cornhill, London ; r;thn '3,-„ Z ke, ... ratri chea iN te eils° • jne,o,kers, Liverpool ; Robert /11LEN s y s e rg n, q 'e , Mr. andnd Co ' • • . Lu ndY , Esq., Broker, Bah; Me . 1 . .., .„,__ .1, Brokers, Messrs. Gordon, Stu and , ,rh141,, Conein.„;':_iiinjt. Calvert, Esq., NV.S., Edinburgh a rt, essrs. ' ,011eia.f.acaup.:;',.'n, Brokers, Glasgow • W. N. Fish, Esq., North '''', Elgiu7 '44'Pany, Aberdeen ; and George Gatherer, Esq., TO lv Ficyrti r ' 44 Pro •- °F APPLIC 1 - c,___._ ''lConl Directors of Ttlii?-4 SF o O v rt ere S igr il i Aß Li E fe S A • Assurance win allot me ~ .41- I ° , tbiel e, hi ‘oov a „ ,-- I requ est you C onMany" andl U si bs be ' T l y i t a u l lYj _o apps undertake to accept the same, sh o a r re su s c i li n 141;4'1 1 4 1 , 2 ne e e ssa ;71Yega;eriate to hens to pay the deposit, 4 aY of ocurnents, required. 1845. Name in full .. ... ...... Profession or tu I••••• • • • • • • . Address . 8 ne" .. •• • • • • • . .. . • Name o f R e feren • c •• • ..• • • • • • • - • • l : .. Address of Reference ...... :•• • • • £B7 13 8413 17 1 74 13 11 11 8 6 61 14 3 9 210 41 13 4 6 0 0 £395 Il 1 346 2 3 296 13 4 247 4 6 •• • • . • • • • 1 4 ti ex SELLING OPP CARP-T•;-.------- i tiu,' 'KENT, and CUMNIING beg to inform uobki_ii,ty and Gentry, as well as their friends and ...,.., II; _hat tV e the pub h;,',l,..t, L~~~Da,e REMOVED their business from CARPENTEW? '-`irEl,pp," WALL, to their long-established warehouse, 49 ~ties4,,,!."ELT, WATERLOO -PLACE, opposite Howell and !net Ila ro ' n " 1098, HATTON-GA.It DE N HOLBORN where they trust Lecbsbwards of 4ge will be continued whic'h they hAve, enjoyed rtsba'''ressee Zieer'turY. A. consideralsle portion of ' their large for up. etl4. .Irldertninster, and other Carpeting to be sold at a great lcishh,ennt,adaditlan to c r -srPeting, they ha;e, at their West-End rue._, ihe ',Well wl i -ge s tock of Chintzes, Damasks, Tabo th Stock of ~►B ens Iv y Of attentiQn. Wictilarst Reuse, to al L ell°ll se of arpenters Hall, with a capital ,lipply to 41., Let, With immediate possession. For par ' 4411,Q8.110uge agent, 139 A Cliertpside. with JO free pl i ca ti o n, or for , from 0 7 ill's, and 0 1 yip ma -0 IS g reg,lg- 1 2 ....... 0 2 6 ••••• 6 6 9 ..from 0 4 6 0 n •"•'. 0 u 0 12 ° nt;cl; 12 1 j 0 ' •". 1 13 0 ' •"• 0/ 8 4 “0 8 ` **** • 0 14 4" 4. 9 le •••" gl3 ~- •• " 0 18 •••• 1 6 " 11Y 0 • •21 , 0 .." . 115 ,; ••"• 3 3 " .• a t the netio, 1 1 6 n is 0 , " ea or. los &Pig*" .oeen,ai'ls44, fe fin* - tho iara 01ge" emcAorincell'ilibef rensol; .r ° it allot , 1, 0 ,0 (T try; or"' 311 044 fog ) 511 1i 617 " 1 t uned A t . t -01 ( 1 . 5 ; i i'3ll,lod.rooMlle ej Cen ~ a te o ld t o eccen; pr in. vo Yea r ' rs cticA l win; A P 00 1 ' o n WI P' r ornP lAl a nt tlCe ' the ' o ' or le° da clle. lay, ries od sto otc en ot• ifortab le t '.lth A e atinfh d ot!' bresthill o onle frrogul, a 51. 1.1 JO. mr• bi wh olen st o : oo t resPec PILL S,. O I ,fls of t for P er kf i tronoe..l semi." 6d.i by IP ° 'sarl et. eaiu and -op tat iit" [ll,lO. mar. t a e the 7rlee afe $r Scc. f. g,S , 31• D" iD I n irv ei 09 ,614 OP- , 1 , 00 .1 WorP t o and ' n DO °. a. VI by P r vtrateU ~,., L-1,;,0 foe 26 ' 644 04 V 661 1 4 01 gutio n l OW? 2 109 11 1.0 1 Y one JAW, , ta• W ;, Dorej° the oclg' yi nc i; D oit, saes' 1 1. • ' l°Vs t. ersttee • 54. o. ot r o 11°' atot rec2 d oef , • • —C • LONDON, TU ES DAY MORNINGSUN, SEPT EMBER 30, 1845. PRICE, SUPWRAT 5D PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED. D OVER, HASTINGS, AND BRIGHTON JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. Completing, with Existing and Proposed Lines of Railway, one entire Line of Coast Railwayfrom Dover to Exeter. Capital 360,0001., in 18,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. The public is respectfully informed that a most influential and powerful Company, of local and commercial influence, has been formed for the purpose of furaishing railway accommodation to the important agricultural district of Romney Marsh. including the towns of Sand gate, Hythe, New Romney, Lydd, and Rye ; and also completing one entire and unbroken line of coast railway from Dover to Poole, and then on to Exeter. Pull particulars will be published in a few days ; and, in the mean time, all applications for shares or otherwise can be made to the Com pany's Solicitors, Messrs. A'Beckett, Son, and Sympson, and Mr. Vaughan Prance, 3, Alderman's-walk, Old Broad-street, London. To the Provisional Committee or Managing Directors of the Dover, Hastings, and Brighton Junction Railway. I request that you - Will:allot me shares, of 201. each, in the above undertaking ; and I do hereby undertake to accept the same, or any less number you may allot me, on the terms of the pro spectus, and to pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per share, and all future calls thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary contract and subscribers' agreement, and other deeds, when required so to do. Dated this day of 1845. Name in full Place of 8u5ine55........................ Residence ..... ........• .. • • ••••• • • - • • Profession or Business ••••••••• • • • • • • • • •.• 'Usual Signature .. ..... • ..... ••••• • • • • • Name, Residence, and Profession j • • • • • • of Referee in full WitlICS3 ... ..... ............... ...... . Witness' Address and Description ••• • • • tion being familiar with mining operations, will be found better qualified for the execntion of railway works here than in many:other localities. As a link in the railway network of England, or as auxiliary to existing or projected lines passing In various directions, tVw schemes hitherto proposed appear to afford greater inducement for investment, or a wider range of accommodation for traffic and travelling. This project constitutes a lengthened link in the chain that will connect Liverpool with Bristol, the grand trunk of the West of England ;—its southern terminus, Worcester, is the half way station of the London and Portdynnllaen broad gauge line: — by projected lines a direct communication will be afforded west ward to Swansea and Aberystwith, and, eastward, to Warwick and Northampton, Cambridge, Peterborough, Harwich, Lynn, Lincoln, and Hull. The line has been repeatedly and carefully examined by the Com pany's acting engineer, who reports that the rail for many miles may be laid on the natural level—that the gradients are in every in stance favourable—that the geological structure of the districts to be traversed is equally so, and that the want of such a line of com munication is acknowledged by the interests seated on its proposed course. Applications for prospectuses - and plans may be made, and forms of application for shares had at the offices of Messrs. Potter and Collingridge, solicitors, 5, Basinghall-street ; also of W. B. James, Esq., solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street ; of the local agents ; and of the following gentlemen : Mr. Samuel Hanbury, 4, Angel-court ; London .. • • ..1 Mr. Winston Powell, 12, Copthall-court ; and Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street Liverpool.. • ... Messrs. Alston and Gage. Manchester • • . "• _ 3 _ l l e i s a s m rs. M ll a o r t s i lla h l ' l and and Leese, and Mr. Wit- Hu11.............. f Messrs. Colliuson and Flint, and Mr. James Bowden Leeds ....... ..... iMessrs.ln y lit o h m a w an adir t o t, and Stratford-ma-Avon-Air. William Bolton. Exeter . .....Mr. Thomas Sanford. Plymouth ... ..... Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer. Birmingham .. Mr. Collis and Mr. Joh' Wright. Tassie and Co. f Messrs. Robertson and Co., and Edinburgh "" / Messrs. M`Callum and Co. Huddersfield ....../iressrs. Wilson and Ilellawell. Worcester . • • • Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. THE OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTENSION and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY, with BRANCHES to SHREWSBURY and NORTHWICH. Capital, 2,250,000/., in 112,500 Shares of 20/. each. Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. To the Provisional Committee the Worcester and Cheater Railway. Gentlemeo,'—l request that you will allot to me Shares of 20/. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be al lotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Name (ix tu11)......... Residence •....... Trade or Profession Reference— .. •• • • • . Address of Referee . ......• ...• Date .. THE OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTEN SION and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY, with Branches to Shrewsbury and Northwich. On the Broad Gauge. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 2,250,0001., in 112,500 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21: 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Lord (leorge Paget, Uxbridge House The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulte'Lley, 4, Parliament-street. Chairman _of the York and Lancaster Railway William Beresford, Esq., M.P., 77, Pall-mall, Director of the Tean and Dove Talley Railway Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director of the Chester and Forest of Dean Railways Sir John Edward de Beauvoir, Chairman of the London and Bir mingham Extension Sir Samuel Brown, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway Sir John Hare, Langham-place, Director of the London and Bir- mingham Extension Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London and Manchester and Leeds and Liverpool Railways Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and Birmingham Railway _ - Colonel Fitch, 36, York-terrace,Regent's-park, Director of the South and Midlands' Railway Sir John Rangier, Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Essex, Wal ton, near Saffron Walden, Essex Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of the South and Midland Railway Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of the Manchester and Chester Railway Major Chase, 31, Nottingham-place Captain S. M. Fisher,jun., Director of the Warwick aid Worcester Railway Captain Hitchens, H.E.1.C.5., Director of the Birmingham and Ox ford Railway Samuel Kenrick, Esq., banker, Wrexham Captain F. Chamfer, Halkin-street, Beigrave-square, Director of the Great Paris and Lyons Railway Wm. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., See., Alderman if Lon don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, Chairman of the London and Greenwich Railways, &c., &c. Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South Midland Railway Matthew Harrison, Esq., Chester, Director of the North and South Wales Bank John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway, and South Midland Thos. Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Smith Midland Railway Thos. Challis, Esq., Alderman of London, Wilson-stieet, Finsbury Thos. Sidney, Esq., Alderman of London, Sheriff of London aid Middlesex Captain Alex. Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club. John Inglis Jardein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby and Southampton Railway Wm. Morley, Esq„ Blackheath Wm. Lee, Esq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and Essex and Suffolk Railways Rd. Carpenter, Esq., Director of the Leieester and Bedford Railway Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the South aid Midlands' Junction Railway John Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Thomas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway John Brocke Walbancke, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway Rd. Wm. Johnson, Esq., Director if the London and Manchester and Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Temple, Director of the Eastern Counties Railway Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment Railway Major-General Brooks Parlby, C. 8., 18, Rutland-place W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct and Liverpool and Leeds Railways Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway W. F. Black, Esq., Wilten-place, Belgram-square, Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway W. G. Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Talley Continuation Railway John James, Esq., Secondary of London Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth Railway Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway J. B. Richardson, Esq., Director of the Colchester and Cambridge Railway Julian Skreene, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway Frederick James Hall, Esq., Terrington-square, Director of the Bide ford and Tavistock Railway Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director'a the South-Eastern Railway Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director of the London and Dover Railway Frederick Jones, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex R. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the North Metropolitan Railway George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Wm. Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Railway Wm. Alfred Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith Railway Richard Dutton Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds Railway Wm. Stark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Railway Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Bromptoi Warren Stormes Hale, Esq., Gresham-street Robert Richards, Esq., Temple, Director of the Birmingham and Lon don Extension Railway Kingsmill Grove Key, Esq., Wandsworth-common The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Falbourne, Cambridge Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London aid Manches ter Railway Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and A.berystwith . . Railway _ John Barber, Esq., Director of the Gloucester aid Aberystwitk Railway Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Hereford E. R. Foster, Esq., Director of the Derby, Uttozeter, end Stafford shire Railway Martin Furnis, Esq., Directsr of tke Nettingkam, Newark, and Boston Railway Richard Groucock, Esq. Dulwich, Director of the Direct Manchester Railway W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and Manchester Extension W. Bardgett, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshiro Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, Rear Stourbridge, Staffordshire Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the Leicester and Birmingham Railway Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railway Wm. Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds Railway James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract David William Nell, Esq., Leeds, J.P., Director of the Leeds and Thirsk Railway Joseph Robert Wilkie Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and York and Lancaster Railways John Fagan, Esq., Gloucester-road, Old Brompton Charles Holden, Esq., Director of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Railway J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction. Railway Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Chairrcan of he Lincoln, York, and Leeds Railway John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds J. M. Douglas, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth Railway W. Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of he South and Midland Railway W. Ley, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square Robert Power. Esq., Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance office, Queen-street, May Fair, Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond W. Bestow, Esq., Surrey-place James Borness, Esq., Leyton, Essex G. N. Wright, M.A. John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Extension Railway James Lees, Esq., Delph, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of the Saddleworth Banking Company Arthur Agard Davenport, Esq., Eastwood, Notts, Director of the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway Joseph Lancelot Davenport, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Company David Wheatcroft, Esq., of Buckland Hollow, Derbyshire William Gambier, Esq., Succombe Park, Herts George Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the Paris and Strasburgh Railway C. Norburry, Esq., Mancella House, Atherstone, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley Railway (With power to add to their number). The names of an influential Committee formed at Worcester and Chester will be published in a few days. BANKERS. The Commercial Bank of London ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS. Messrs. Parrott and Walmesley, Palace-yard, Westminster. SOLICITORS. Potter and Cellingridge, _5, Basinghall-street; W. B. James, Esq., —5, Basinghall-street. SECRETARY—HiIton T. Jenkins, Esq. LOCAL AGENTS. Worcester—Charles Creswell, Esq. ; C. G. 11. St. Patriak, Esq. Chester—John F. Maddock, Esq. ; S. Brittain, Eeq. Whitchurch—James Bromfield, Esq. Shrewsbury—W. Cooper, Esq. Wellington—George Marcy, Esq. Bridgenorth—Edward William Ilaslewood, Eeq. The geographical position of Worcester has caused its adoption as the point where the broad gauge trunk:lines of the west are to have a common terminus. From Oxford the Great Western Company have decided on constructing a line of rail :—another project under tke pa tronage of the same powerful direction is now before the public, uniting Worcester with Warwick ; and, that the broad gauge will be carried from Worcester into Wales, and to the Irish packet stations on that coast, is now no longer doubtful. This undertaking will com plete a series of great avenues of iron -road, whose ramification from Worcester will render every part of the kingdom directly accessible from that city. Passing up the Severn Vale, where it will disclose a succession of picturesque scenes, it reaches Stourport, and proceeding thence through Kidderminster, arrives at Bewdley. This district is one of the chief seats of our carpet manu factures, and in the towns here named, exclusive of the intervening districts, upwards of 30,000 persons are located. Leaving Stourbridge a little to the east, the line is taken to ilridgenorth, a town enjoying an active inland trade, and possessing woollen manufactures and iron works, that give employment to a population of about 15,000. Pass ing through or near to Much Wenlock, Broseley, and Madeley, from which place there will be a branch to Shrewsbury, the line ascends Colebrook Dale, and approaching in its course Wellington and Worn enters Whitchurch. From this central place a branch will be formed to Norwich via Stoke, forming a junction with the Liverpool and Crewe Railway. The trunk line will continue from Whitchurch, and passing through or near Malpas, have its northern terminus in the city of Chester. . in estimating the probable amiunt of revenue which the Worces ter and Chester Railway may be expected to yield, many sources of profit present themselves, such arc the dense populat ion located along the length of the Severn Vale, and the enriching works of industry in which they are engaged. Amongst the latter may be mentioned the china manufactories of Wercester, , the iron, coal, and earthen ware works at Broseley and other places ; the agricultural produce ►rought to Stourport market ; the inexhaustible fields of coal and mines of iron ore in the vicinity of Colebrook Dale, Ironbridge, and the districts to the east of Shrewsbury generally. In calculating the cost of construction unusual advantages are also obvious. The line traverses a district affording levels of several miles in extent, and with a surface peculiarly favourable. The resi dent population, disappointed by the postponement of promised pro jects, have warmly espoused the present, and the labouring popula. OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTENSION and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that no further applications for Shares in this Company will be received after Tuesday, the 30th instant. By order, HILTON THOMAS JRNICINS, Secretary. b, Basinghall-street, September 23, 1845. WELLS AND DEREHAM RAILWAY. The Shareholders in the Wells and Dereham Railway are re spectfully informed that by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Norfolk Railway Company, confirmed by a meeting of Shareholders, they have the option of subscribing the Scrip Certificates in that under taking at the rate of two Wells and Dereham Railway Shares, upon which 1/. 7s. 6d. each has been paid, for one twenty pound Share in the Extension Stock of the Norfolk Railway Company, upon which an interest at the rate of five per,cent. per annum will be guaranteed, provided the Act for auth ' , rising the Extension is obtained. The Extension Stock is created for the purpose of providing the capital for the Wells and Dereham Railway, and other Extensions of the Norfolk Railway. Forms for claiming the Extension Shares may be had at the Office of the Norfolk Railway Company, Guildhall-buildings, London, which must be filled up and deposited at the Office, together with the Scrip Certificate of the Wells and Dereham Railway, on or before the 6th October next, and a repayment of seven shillings and sixpence per share will be made at the same time. By order of the Board, R. TLLL, Secretary. N OTTINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, AND COVENTRY RAILWAY. Uniting Warwick, Coventry,! and Birmingham, with Nottingham, Newark, and Lincoln. (Provisionally Registered.) Offices—(temporary), 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street. Capital 450,0001., in 25,000 Shares of 201. eacb. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Matthew Gishome, Esq., Walton Hall, Derbyshire Sir Edwin Pearson, 5, Gloucester-terrace, Regent Park, Director of the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway Sir John Penniston Milbanke, Bart., Great Portland. .street William Collins, Esq., ALP. for Warwick, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway _ . Michael Thomas Bass, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway Fraser B. Henshawe, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, POrtman-square, Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction Railway Major Willer, K.H., Deputy Chairman of the South and Midlands Junction Railway Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, F.R.S., IS, Upper Montague-street, Montague-square, Director of the College of Civil Engineers Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Hyde Park-place, Director of the Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle Junction Railway John Lucena Ross Kettle, Esq., Lincoln's Inn T. E. Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square, Director of the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway The Hon. W. E. Fitzmaurice, M.P. Cliesham-street, Belgrave-square Henry Dann, Esq., 42, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe Railway Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Herts, Director of the South and Midland Junction Railway John Clement Ruding, Esq., Director of the National Bank of Ireland John Rawson,Esq., Halifax, Depaty Lieutenant for Yorkshire, and _ _ _ _ Director of the tiverpool and Leeds Railway The Hon. Colonel Leicester Stanhope, Ashburaham House, Chairman of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway John Thomas Rsworth, Esq., Leicester Thomas Hackett, Esq., Derby, Director of the Great Manchester and Southampton Railway John Sanders, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crowe Railway John Fisher, Esq., Short-hill, Nottingham, and Watling-street, London Captain Horatio Thomas Austin, R.N., C.R. Nathaniel Nadin, Esq., Stapenhill, Burton-upon-Trent Capt. Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headley Grove, Surrey Henry Francis Giaborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the Leioester and ramworth Railway -- Edmund Sharpe, Esq., Swandlincote, Potteries Sheldon Craddock, Esq., Leicester John Gretton, Esq., brewer, Burton-upon-Trent Ambrose Moore, Esq., Milk-street, Cheapside James Arbouin, Esq., Mark-lane, Director of the London and York Railway Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the East India Company Lieut.-Gen. Taylor, Clarendon-place, Hyde Park George Ledwell Taylor, Esq., 45, Hyde Park-square Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq. Imberhorne House, Sussex John Taylor, Esq., Cross-street , City, Director of the, Commercial - _ Bank of London Lancelot Llewhellyn Haslope, Esq., Lifford, near Birmingham, Di rector of the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway John Eames, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch . _ _ Captain Beare, Director of the Worcestershire, Shrewsbury, and - Crewe Railway W. Fitzgibbon, Esq., Director of the Cork and Bandon Railway Matthew Wyatt, Esq., 1, tipper Hyde Park-street, Director of the Manchester, Oxford, and Southampton Railway John Douglas Cooper, Esq., Holme Cottage, Ashbourne John B. Story, Esq., iociington Hall, Leicester Captain Holden, Locko Park, Derbyshire - . The Mayor of Nottingham George Bacon, Esq., merchant, Nottingham William Charles Boden, Esq., Apslcy Hall, Nottingham Thomas Wakefield, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham Thomas Fisher, Esq., Short Hill, Nottingham Henry Attenborough, Esq., Nottingham _Williim Hannay, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham William Cartledge, Esq., merchant, Nottingham Lewis Heyman, Esq., merchant, Nottingham David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Alfreton Joshua Harding, Esq.,Rosliston, Derbyshire Morris Piddocke, Esq., Stanton, near Burton-upon-Trent Robert Collings eilbertson, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent David Melville, Esq., 13, Wood-street, Cheapside, and Nottingham (With power to add to their number.) SOLICITM. Messrs. Bass and Sweeting, Burton-upon-Trent. Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arma-yard, Coleman-street. Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 1, Exchonge-buildings, BANKERS. The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street. The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury, and 6, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent, and Ashbourne. Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby. ENGINEER—EIijah Galloway, Esq. This line will commence at the Long Eaton station of the Midland Counties Railway, and will proceed in a direct line to or near Castle Donington, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, M easham, and Market Bosworth to Nuneaton; joining, at Market Bosworth, the Birmingham branch, projected by the Tamworth and Leicester Company, and at Nuneaton, the projected Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway, at the point where that line crosses the Trent Valley line. Thus a direct communication will be formed between the important towns of Nottingham, Newark, and Lincoln on the one side, and Birmingham, Coventry, and Warwick on the other side, at the same time a rich mineral and agricultural district will be supplied with railway advantages. A reference to the map will show that this railway will also com mand other collateral advantages. There is no doubt that the proposed railway communication be tween Cheltenham and Warwick will be effected, in which case the proposed line will fill up the railway chasm at present existing be tween the counties of Gloucester and Worcester, and Nottingham and Lincoln. and thus form a direct line from the Severn at Glouces ter to the Humber at Great Grimsby. An amalgamation of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction with the Grimsby Dock Company being now determined on, a large amount of capital will be expended in rendering Great Grimsby a port of the first importance ; and It must be obvious that the traffic to that port, from the district south west of Warwick, will be very great. The distance saved by the proposed line between Leamington, Warwick, Coventry, and Nottingham will be about twenty miles ; and between Birmingham and Nottingham, the saving will be about six miles. Being the shortest route from Birmingham to Not tingham and Lincoln, it must secure the traffic from► Birmingham to Nottingham, Newark, Lincoln, and the port of Great Grimsby ; and by joining with the Erewash Valley Railway at Long Eaton, it must command the traffic from Coventry, Warwick, and the district south of those towns to Sheffield, Leeds, York, and the north of England generally. It will also afford a direct communication between Not tingham and the district between Warwick and Worcester, by means of the projected Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby, and the Warwick and Worcester Railways. The entire length of the line will be about 28 miles. The Com pany's Engineer has completed his preliminary survey, and has made his report, that the character of the country through which th e line is intended to pass is unusually favourable for engineering purposes. It passes directly through a very productive mineral district, in tersecting the Leicestershire coal-fields and lime-works, and will afford communication north and south, to the Derbyshire Potteries. With such an assured immediate and prospective amount of traffic, the profits on the small capital required cannot fail to be highly re munerative. Powers for allowance of interest at four per cent. on the paid-up capital will be taken, and the liability of shareholders limited to the amount of their Subscriptions. ;4 TABLE OF DISTANCES. By proposed Present Distances. Miles Saving Route, about ----------- -----. Warwick to Nottingham, by Hampton and Derby .. about 71 z 5 20 Warwick to Nottingham, b y 51 Rugby and Leicester • • ....do. 65 Z 14 Warwick to Lincoln ........do. 97 83 14 Coventry to Nottingham •• .. do. 62 42 20 Coventry to Lincoln ........ do. ..............20 • Birmingham to Nottingham.. clod 55 49 6 Birmingham to Lincoln ......do.i •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 6 Cheltenham to Nottingham, by Birmingham and Derby ....do.l 100 86 14 Prospectuses may be had at the Temporary Offices of the Company, 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street, London ; where also applica tions for shares, addressed to the Provisional Committee, will he attended to. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry 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 loss number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to pay when required the deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per share. Dated this day of 1845. Name in full .. Profession and professional residence in Rill Residence in References IP 0. OP II" op" PO el. Of., /0 IP@ GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY, Forming a connecting line between the Midland and Grand Junction Railways, with a Branch from Ashby-de-la• Zouch to Derby (Provisionally lleg,isterecl.) Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 20/. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Sir John Edmund De Beauvoir, Bart., Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-place, Regent's Park, Director of the Eastern Counties Railway William Simpson Potter, Esq., 7, Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Di rector of the Oxford, Gosport, and Southampton Railway Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Carlton House-terrace, Chairman of the Irish :North Midland Railway Barnet Laurence Phillips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the Direct Western Railway Valentine Knight, Esq., 3, Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the Dendre Valley Railway Henry Garrett Key, Esq., Director of the Newport and .Absrgavenny Railway Hugh Belishall Williamson, Esq., Greenway Bank, Newcastle-under- Lyno, Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Stafford John Robinson, Esq., Silcoats Cottage, Wakefield, Director of the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland Railway, and of the Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Railway Stephen Hutchison, Esq., London Gas Works, Vauxhall John Shaw, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the South Stafford shire Junction Railway Daniel APMahon, Esq., Wolverhampton Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway Samuel Walker, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the South Staf fordshire Junction Railway Thomas Timmins, Esq., Wolverhampton Thomas Randle Andrews, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Shrewsbury and Grand Junction Railway William Griffiths, Esq., Park House, Wellington, Salop, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway Herbert Broom, Esq., Kidderminster, and Essex-court, Temple Caleb Norris, Esq., Lancaster-place, Strand, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway John Hayes, Esq., South-ileids, Leicester Charles J. Mason, Esq., :on, Staffordshire Potteries, Director of the SoutkNnion and 11..-mingluar. Junction Railway- Joseph llenif, Esq.. Soutu-street, Finsbury, Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway Edward Gulson, Esq., Clonmel, Ireland, Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton, and Leicester Railway William B. Costello, Esq., Wyke House, Middlesex, Director of the Direct London and Exeter Railway Martin Stutly, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the Direct Western, Dublin and Belfast, and London and South Essex Railways. Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Iron Works, Wrexham, North Wales, and Cannon-street, Director of the Oxford, South ampton, Gosport and Portsmouth, and Direct Western Railways. Thomas Wynne, Esq., Liangton, Staffordshire, Director of the South Union and Birmingham Junction Railway Henry Dodson, Esq., Suffolk House, Upper Tulse-hill, Director of the Grand Junction, Great Western, tint' South-Western Junction Railways Joseph Loxdale Warren, Esq., the Lodge, Market Drayton, and Con sall Hall, near Cheadle, Director of the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, and Director of the Cambrian and Grand Junction Railway Alfred Brodie, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square Robert Chaplin, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch Edward Mammatt, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch John lleavington, Esq., Ashby - de-la-ZouchT. S. Kirkland, Esq., hby-de-la-Zouch Thomas Cantrell, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch William Mathew, Esq., Staunton Harold, Lessee of, the Staunton Harold Coal, Lead, and Lime Works Joseph Bostock, Esq., Breeden-on-Hill, Lessee of the Breedon Lime Works James Reeves, Esq., 150, Cheapside, Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway Harvey Wyatt, Esq. Acton-hill, Stafford, Director of the Trent Valley, Midlands and Grand Junction Railways, and of the Dudley, Madeley, Brossely, and Iron Bridge Railway, Benjamin Payne, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway, and the Leicester and Birmingham Direct Railway Thomas Farmer Cooke, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Rugby, War wick, and Worcester Railway, and the Leicester and Birmingham Direct Railway John Carter, Esq., F.R.A.S., Park Lodge, Stockwell, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Junction Coast Railway Joseph Carrington Ridgway, Esq., Roehampton Lodge Edward Tylecote, Esq., Great Heywood, Staffordshire William Field, Esq., Rugeley, Staffordshire Samuel Ginders, Esq., Ingestre, Staffordshire, Agent to the Right Hon. the Earl of Talbot, K.G. R. S. J. Winterton, Esq., Sketchley Hall, near Hinckley, a Magis trate of the County, Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton, and Leicester Railway James Morrison; Esq., St. Mary-at-hill, Director of the Bridgewater and Minehead Railway C. 11. Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montagu •street, Montagu-square George Augustus M`Dermott, Esq., Chesterton Hall, near Newcastle under-Lpne Captain Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton James Lamb, Esq., Hyde Park-square Wm. Tulloch Fraser, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square Wm. Clode Braddon, Esq, Regency-square, Brighton John Lowe, Esq., Norfolk-crescent, Hyde Park John Griffith Frith, Esq., Chairman of the Londonderry and Cole raine Railway Major-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Loudon, Bristol, and South Wales Railway, and Manchester and Rugby Railway George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield House, Russell-square John Anderson ' Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway, and Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn Fields, Wolverhampton Henry Turner, Esq., Brewood Hall, Brewood, Staffordshire, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway Henry Scott, Esq., Banker, Waterford, and 17, Pall-mall Lewis Adamls, Esq., Basford Hall, Stoke-upon-Trent Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Banker, Leicester. George Harrison, Esq.. F.S.A., Director of the Hull and Holyhead Railway Shirley Palmer, Esq., Tamworth, Director of the Leicester and Tam worth Railway Z Bruno Hamel, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway . John Thompson, Esq., Great St. Helen's • John Dove Harris, Esq., Leicester Richard Gray, Esq., Adam-street, Broad-street BaNazas—The Union Bank of London. STANDING COUNSEL. Charles Howard Whitehurct, Esq., Q.C. J. Mee Mathew, Esq., F.S.A. ENGINEER—J. U. Rastrick, Esq. ACTING ENGINEER--Robert Nicholson, Esq. Soucrreas—Messrs. Watts, Galsworthy, and Galsworthy, 19, Ely- place, Holborn SECRETARY—SamueI Stanway, Esq. The first line of the Grand Trunk Railway will commence at the Loughborough station on the Midland Counties line, and pro ceed through the Vale of Sheepshead, to Pegs Green Colliery, near to the terminus of the Leicester and Swannington Rail way, and from thence through the coal-fields of Swannington and Cole-Orton to Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It will thence proceed across the Moira Coal-field and through the rich agricultural districts of Seal, Clifton Campville, and Edingale, to the Birmingham arid Derby Railway, which it will cross near to Elford Park Farm, and thence traverse the Valley of the 'Paine until it reaches Alrewas, where it will form a junction with the branch of the Trent Valley line now in progress of making. At this point it also meets the proposed South Staffordshire line, by which means it reaches Lichfield, and by means of one of the proposed lines it will afford communication with Bir mingham. From Loughborough the line will be further continued to A sfordby on the Syston and Peterborough Railway, now in progress, and by means of this latter line, a direct intercourse will be opened with Melton Mowbray and the various towns through which that route passes to Peterborough. By mean.; of its junction with the Trent Valley line at Alrewas, the Grand Trunk reaches Colwich, and there meets the proposed North Staffordshire line, which proceeds through the heart of the Potteries to Newcastle-under-Lyre, Leek, and Macclesfield. By means also of the same Trent Valley line at Alrewas the Grand Trunk pro ceeds through Rugeley to Stafford; thus completing its route, and forming a connecting line between the Midland and Grand Junction Railways. This branch of the line was formerly surveyed by Mr. Rastrick, and approved of by him as a canal communication, so that no engineering difficulties exist. The second line of the Grand Trunk Railway will commence at the Derby station, and taking the course of the Derby Canal proceed to Chellaston, where there are extensive plaster-works, and thence by Swarkestone to the river Trent, which it will cross near to the ferry at Weston Cliffe, and so proceed to Kings Newton and Melbourne. From the latter place it will pass by the village of Wilson to Breedon-on-the-Hill, where there are extensive lime-works, and thence proceed by Staunton Harold, communicat ing by a branch line with the lead, lime, and coal works there ; thence by the Lount Colliery to Worthington Rough, where it will follow the line of the Cole-Orton and Swannington Railway until its junction with the first line of the Grand Trunk at or near the Pegs Green Colliery, and so proceed from thence to Ashby-de-la-Zouch. At Ashby-de-la-Zouch the Grand Trunk forms a junction with the proposed Nottingham and Birmingham, and with the proposed Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railways. Its importance as a line for passengers is too obvious for comment, forming as it does a complete junction between those two great thoroughfares, the Mid land and Grand Junction Railways, and by its branch from Derby to Ashby-de-la-Zouch another complete junction between the Great Northam and Southern lines now in progress, thus opening a direct line of communication to all parts of the kingdom. As a line for traffic, the Grand Trunk will form the most direct transit to the Leicestershire, Staffordshire, and Shropshire iron and coal fields, to the Burton breweries, to North and South Wales, and Ireland to Scotland, and all parts of the north, and to the eastern, southern, and western parts of the empire. It will also be the nearest and most direct communication from the east to the north western manufacturing districts, as well as become the great route from all parts of the kingdom to the midland counties of England. The mineral resources are of the very highest order. The Moira coal-field is inexhaustible, whilst the coal-beds at Staunton Harold alone comprise the finest quality of Kennel to a depth of seven feet, with a super stratum of main coal to a depth of six feet. The sub stratum is yet to be worked. There are beds of Kennel and main coal at Cole Orton of eqnal•quality, though not of equal depth with those of Staunton Harold, whilst the main coal at Swannington is un rivalled, being, in fact, tile bowl of the Leicestershire and Derbyshire coal strata. It is needless to describe the beneficial results which must arise from this opening of the midland coal district to the Lon don and southern markets. At Staunton Harold and Calks exist rich veins of lead ore, now in course of working. The properties of the Breedon, Staunton Harold, and Ticknall lime aro so well known to agriculturists and others, that an extension of traffic for so valuable a commodity into wire remote districts must be of the utmost importance to the practical farmer. In approaching the Trent, on leaving the lime district, the Grand Trunk will fall in with most valuable quarries of millstone grit, ser viceable for paving and building purposes, and for which a ready market would be found along the line. The country also abounds in gypsum, of which immense quantities are used in Birming ham and elsewhere : these markets will thus become opened for the quarries at Chellaston. A new and extensive outlet will also be opened for the earthenware of Wooden Box and Griesley Potteries. Until the Act of Parliament be obtained, the affairs will be under the control of the Committee of Management, to whom power is given to allot the shares and apply the funds of the Company in payment of all proper expenses in the formation of the Company and otherwise. Power will be applied for in the Act, and in the meantime the Committee of Management take power, to alter or extend the lines, to make branch lines, to abandon any part of the line, .to raise addi tional capital, and to enter into arrangements with any other Com pany or Companies. Application for shares mast be made in the usual form to the soli citors to the Company, Messrs. Watts, Galsworth -Y. and Galaworthy, Y. at the Offices of 19, Ely-place, Holborn, Loedon ; to the Secretar the Company, 3, Adelaide -place, London -bridge ; and to the fol lowing Wear. somerroas. Messrs, Keen and Hand, Stafford Thomas Bolton, Esq., 'Wolverhampton E. Kem Jarvis, Esq., Hinckley Messrs. Keary and Sheppard, Stoke-upon-Trent Thomas Piddock, E s q., Ashby-de-la-Zouch F. J. Hamel, Esq., Tamworth John Perks, Esq., Burton -upon-Trent Beauvoir Brock, Esq., Loughborough Charles Griesley, Esq., Lichfield Messrs. Moore and Gregory, Leicester. Also to the following : STIAREBROKERS. London—Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill, Threadneedle-street Messrs. Harris and Sons, 'Change-alley Mr. A. Sym, Tokenhouse-yard Liverpool—Messrs. Townley and Whitehead Bristol—Messrs. Tate and Nash Leeds—Mr. James Jamieson and Mr. W. Cronhelm Messrs. Weatherhurn and Jennings Birmingham—Mr. J. R. Lane Newcastle—Mr. W. W. Dickinson Bradford—Mr. William Mason Sheffield—Messrs. Bardwell and Sons Hull—Mr. Francis Stamp Wakefield—Mr. S. H. Armitage Nottingham—Mr. C. Spencer • Worcester—Mr. W. Miles York—Messrs. Grayston and Erie Blackburn—Mr. Thomas Boardman Southampton—Mr. Joseph Clark, jun. Exeter—Messrs. H. Beaumont and Co. Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Cooper, 30, St. Andrew's-square Cheltenham—Mr. James Stokes Leicester—Messrs. Williams and Sunderland Messrs. Eaglelleld and Co Newcastle-under-Lyne—Mr. Tomlinson B RIGHTON AND CHELTENHAM DIRECT RAILWAY. (Registered Provisionally.) Capital, 1,C00,000/., in Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor, The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Darner, M.P., f, Tilney-street, Park. lane, The Hon. Robert Gore, M.P., Bates, Edward, Esq., 3, Union-place, Clift, James, Esq., Bloomsbury-square, Coape, Henry COP, Esq., Goldbanger, 3faldon, Essex Fitzgerald, Charles, Esq., Charles-street, St. James, 3fackmPlan, James, Esq., Southampton, Pocock, Lewis, Esq., F.R.S., Montague-street, Russell-square, Willes. George, Esq., Hungerford-park, The Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square The lion. Thomas William Gage, Westbury-house, West moon, Petersileld The lion, Edward Jerningham Sir William Wynn, Suffolk-place, Pall-mall, Hughes, Hughes William, Esq., late M.P. for Oxford, High Sheriff of Hants, and Alderman of the City of London, Humphrey, John, Esq., M.P., Alderman of the City of London, Sir Henry B. Hinrich, Great Marlow, Bucks, Admiral Ayscough, Southampton, Chitty, Thomas, Esq , Upper Gower-street, Greig, Alexander, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave square, Chnlow, W. W., Esq., 12, Selwood-place, Brighton Brooks, John, Esq., Alderman of Manchester Dutch, John M., Esq., banker of Worcester King, William, Esq. Trapp, Benjamin, Esq., banker, Bedford Trapp, Thomas, Esq., banker, Bedford, Croft, Major, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman The Boroughreeve of Manchester Meteyard, Horace William, Esq., Chatham-place Johnson, Richard, Esq., Moorgate-street Waller, Major James, K.H., St. James's-square, Lieut.-Col. the Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Brook's' Club Clarice, Jeremiah, Esq., London and Macclesfield Harris, Samuel, Esq., ironmaster, Dudley Lea, John W., Esq., Worcester Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, near Ashbourne Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, London, Heneage, Charles, Esq., Cadeley-house, Lincolnshir Atkinson, J.R.W., Esq., Elmwood House, Leeds Wheelton, John, Esq.,. late Sheriff of London, Meopham Bank, Tonbrielge Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Chairman Sir Wm. Boothby, Bart., Ashbourne Hall, Der byshire Sir William Lowthrop, Hull Brindley, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter Cumberlege, N., Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park Lambert, Richard, Esq., Syston Hall, Sudbury, Suffolk, Cleobury, Thomas Mortimer, Esq., Askew Villa Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, West bourne-street, Hyde Park-gardens The Sheriff of York Crokett, Thomas, Esq., Cannock Allen, Robert, Esq., Sergeant-at-law, Sergeant's Inn Dalby, John Robert, Esq., Ashbourne, Derbyshire 11 Smith, G. W., Esq., Harbury-hall, Sheffield Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman Directors of Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Pall-mall the York and Hamilton, Frederick William, Esq., 59, Gloucester- Lancaster place Fitch, Colonel George, 36, York-terrace, Railway Directors of the Barry. John David, Esq., Paris and London Tours, Orleans, Mackenzie, William, Esq., Paris and London and Bordeaux Railway The Hon. William Dawson, Parkstone-lodge, Poole Directors of the Gemon, James, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, Vice. Galway and Chairman Ennis Grand Erskine, Henry D., Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor- Junctionßail square, way Keene, John Joseph, Esq., Chairman, Director of the National Bank of Ireland, St. John's Wood, Regent's-park, Directors of the Brown, Joseph, Esq., Alderman, Bedford Cork and Hamer, Samuel, Esq. General Post-office, and Fermoy DI- Southampton-row, Rlissell-square rect Railway Spiers, E. J., Esq., Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway, Carl ton Villa., Paddington, Wardle, Henry, Esq„ Macclesfield The Count Morel, Hereford-street, Park-lane Major-Gen. Sir Francis Cockburn, Dover 3fajof-Gen. Sir Love, Parry, Jones Parry, K.C.8., Madryn, Carnar vonshire, Director of the Direct East and West Junction Railway Adair, 3faj. Director of the Church of England Assurance Company Anderton, Ames. Esq., Bridge-street, Blackfrlars Allfree, John, Esq., Brighton Attree, Thomas. Esq., Queen's Park, Brighton Arnold, Thomas James, Esq., Sergeants' Inn, Temple, revising bar- 51- o v 2 0 erg J Directors of } the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport and Portsmouth Railway 1 Directors of the / Rugby, War wick, and Worcester Railway 1 Directors of Remington's London and Manchester J Direst Railway 1 . Directors of the Chester 1 and 3fanehes -1 ter Railway Directors of the East and West Junction Railway. Directors of the •Leicester and Bed ford Railway Directors ofthe Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Wor cestershire Junction Directors of the Leeds, Hudderslield, Sheffield, and South Staf fordshire Railway rister for the City of London . Bear, Capt., Porchester•place, Connaught-square Beech, James, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place Brightman, John, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton, Director of the Direct Northern Railway Brown, Thomas, Esq., Silsoe Brown, Henry, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch Burnett, John, Esq., Cheltenham, Coroner of the County Buscheck, Charles, Esq., merchant, 133, Fenchurch-street Chambers, William, Esq., Cocksbench, Derbyshire Cottle, M. 3f., Esq., Leamington, Director of the Coventry and Lei- caster Railway Dayrell, E. Francis, Esq., Llingstone Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff of Bucks, Chairman of the Minchead and Bridgewater Railway Everitt, Henry Yarburgh, Esq., Brighton Furner, Robert, Esq., Fitzroy-square, London Faracombe, Mr. Alderman Fladgate, Francis, Esq., Brompton Freeman, Thomas, Esq., Brighton Gates, George, Esq., Steyning Gisborne, Henry Francis,Esq.., Derby, Director of the Staffordshire, Leicester and Tamworth Railway ----- Greene, The Rev. Madden, Vicar of Rogate, Petersfield Hale, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Railway Hale, The Rev. William, Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge Haynes, Samuel, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, Director of the Lei cester and Birmingham Railway Ingram, iieutY ' j ihigh, E Esq. Chichester Steyniag, ester magistrate for Sussex Jenkins, Henry, Esq., 47, Woburn-place, Russell-square Jervis Swynfen, Esq., Whitehall-place, Staffordshire Lacy, Henry, Esq., Petersfleld, Banker Lyon, James, Esq., Dangstein, near Rogate, Petersfield Macaulay, Captain, R. E., Cheltenham Martineau, Joseph, Esq., Basing Park, Alton Mercer, Major-General, GE., Queen Ann-street, Cavendish-square Manwaring, John, Esq., Eagle Ball, Pately Bridge Mascary, Thomas, Esq., Norbury Hall, Ashbourne M'Cann, Nicholas, Esq., 50, Parliament-street Moore, Major, Queen Ann-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Indian Peninsular Railway Murray. George, Esq., Chichester Nadin, Joseph. Esq., Stapenhill, Derbyshire Nadin, Nathaniel, Esq., Stapenhill, Derbyshire Neracher, Thomas Henry, Esq., Dudley Norris, Edward, Esq., Clairville Norton, Joseph, Esq., Clayton West, near Huddersfield, Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford Union Parkingson, John, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Pilkington, Henry, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch Price, the Rev. Thomas, Llarothel Proctor, the Rev. Dr., Chichester-house, Kemp-town, Brighton Robinson, John, Esq., Silcoates-cottage, Wakefield, Director of the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland Railway Sleigh, Lieut.-Gen., C. 8., Shirley-house, Southampton Seymour, Frederick, Esq., St. James's-square, Director of the Lon don and Nottingham Railway Skeins, Julian, Esq., Cambridge, Director of the Cambridge and Lincolnshire Railway Turner, J., Esq., M.P., Truro Waddington, J. Horsey, Esq., Langush-house, Petersfleld Whitchurch, James, Esq., South-cliff, Nettley Abbey, Hants Williams, Benjamin, Esq., banker, Whitehall West, Thomas, Esq., Banker, Brighton Wood, William, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd-house, Newport, Salop, Di rector of the Shropshire Mineral Railway Yzarn, J. Borwick, Esq., Herne-hill, Surrey. ENGINEERS. Sir John Rennie, F.R.S. ; George Remington, Esq., C.E. ASSISTANT ENGINEER—Henry Wrigg, Esq. SOLICITORS. Augustus Walter Arnold, Esq., 31, Golden-square, London ; John Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London. LOCAL Somerroas—Messrs. Attree, Clarke, and M‘Whinnie, Brighton. LOCAL AGENT—William Mitchell, Esq., Petersteld. BANKERS. London —Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., 50, Cornhill ; . . Messrs. Cockburn, and Co., Whitehall. Brighton—The Union Bank ; Branch of London and County Joint- Stock Banking Company. Winchester—Messrs. Bailey and Wickham. Cheltenham—Branch of the National Provincial Bank of England. PARLIAMENTARY AGENT Cadwalladar F. Waddy, Esq., Fludyer- street. SECRETARY PRO TEM.-Mr. Frederick Penny. PROSPECTUS. This important line will commence at Brighton, and (passing through or contiguous to the towns of Steyning, Petworth, Mid hurst, Peterefleld and Alresford) will join at the Andover Road sta tion of the South-Western Railway, the proposed Southampton, Manchester and Oxford Junction. A negotiation has been entered into with the latter Company, and it is pronosed by means of their projected line, that the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway shall proceed through Hunger ford to Swindon. From Petersfleld a short branch will be made to Chichester, where, nearly at the same point of junction, the London and Ports mouth direct will intersect the line in its way to Portsmouth. From Swindon it is proposed to proceed by the Manchester and Southamptnn Railway to Chelt nham, and the North of England by the Derbyshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire Junction, or other existing and contemplated lines. On reference to the map, it will be seen that the primary object to be obtained by the formation of this line will be the immediate connexion of the northern, western, and the whole of the manufac turing counties; and North and South Wales, with the southern coast and the populous and fashionable towns of Brighton, Hastings, and Dover. It is unnecessary to observe on the daily increasing traffic between Brighton and Dieppe, which the railroad from the latter place to Rouen, and theoce to Paris, must greatly augment; thus, by means of the projected line, a direct communication with Trance, either from Brighton or Dover, will be opened with the northern counties of England. It is obvious that with those advantages the traffic must neces sarily be large, !the line passing through the centre of Sussex, con taining a population of about 300,000, at present almost devoid of railway accommodation. _ Power will be applied for in the Act to increase the capital, if necessary, to alter the line, or to make such deviations or branches therefrom as may be deemed necessary ; also for the purposes of amal gamation with other Companies, should the same be found desirable. The Company reserves to itself the option of adopting the broad or narrow gauge, or the principle of atmospheric traction, if preferable. No further call beyond the deposit will be made until the Act shall be obtained. In the allotment of shares, preference will be given to parties locally interested, and to the shareholders in the lines with which this Company will he connected. Application for shares may be made to the !Solicitors, Secretary and to the following Sharebrokers, of whom prospectuses, with maps of the line, may be obtained :—London—Messrs. Peppercorns and Co., 2, Old Broad-street ; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury. Birmingham—Mr. W 11. Collis. Blackburn—Mr. Thomas Board man. Bradford—Mr. George Clark ; Mr. William Mason. Bristol — Messrs. Tate and Nash. Cheltenham—Mr. James Stokes. Coventry — Mr. J. S. Holland. Derby—Messrs. Eyre and Shaw. Dublin—Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford. Edinburgh—James Pringle, Esq., 79, Princes-street; Mr. Nicholson. Exeter—Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy ; Mr. Thomas Sandford. Glasgow—Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson. Halifax—Mr. William Cronhelm. Huddersfield—• Mr. L. Weatherburn, jun. ; Messrs. Everard and Co. Hull—Mr. Frederick Stamp. Leeds—Mr. James Jamieson ; Messrs. Wellbe loved and ()sutler. Leicester—Messrs. Payne and Freer. Liver pool—Messrs. Townley and Whitehead ; Messrs. Cameron and Co. ; Mr. Morris Reynolds. Macclesfield—Mr. Richard E. Hine. Man chester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons ; Messrs. A. Birchen and Co. ; Mr. Charles O'Neil. Nottingham—Mr. Charles Spencer. Sheffield— Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons. Southampton—Mr. Joseph Clark, jnn. Wakefield—Mr. E. H. Armitage. Worcester—Mr. Miles; Mr Thomas Henry Wheeler. York—Messrs. Grayston and Earle. Offices of the Company, I, Moorgate. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Brighton and Cheltenham Direct Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201. eaeh in the above railway ; and I undertake to accept the same, or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to pay, when re quired, the deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per share. Dated this day of , 1845. Name in .. • • .. Profession and Professional Residence in full .... Private Residence in full Usual Signature.. . • . . • • • ....• •••• •• Reference •• •• •• •• •• • Oftices,l, Alooragte. ~~ NOTTINGHAM, MANSFIELD, and MID LAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. Notice.—The Applicants for Shares in this Railway are requested to receive the regret of the Directors at not being able to apportion them any. The few remaining Shares will be allotted to those only who are locally interested in the undertaking. By order, T. H. RIGBY, Secretary. ManStiehl, Sept. 26, 1845. rrHE OXFORD AND SALISB URY DIRECT AL RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, WANTAGX, HUNGERFORD, and LUDGERSHALL. (Provisionally registered.) Capital 1,200,0001., in 48,000 Shares of 25/. each. Deposit 2/. 15s. per Share. PRELIMINARY AN.NOUNCEMENT. The importance of connecting remote parts of England by Rail ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns and districts, can scarcely be better exemplified than by the Line which is now proposed to form a short and direct channel of inter course between Oxford and 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 Oxford, continuing to that city the course of Railway from the north-eastern parts of the island, requires the appliance now suggested to effect a complete means of transit to the western and south-western counties. The Oxford and Salisbury Direet Railway, in addition to •the benefits which will he conferred upon the nation at large, by preferring a direct line of communication be tween the north-eastern and western and south-western parts of England, will afford to the borough of Abingdon, the market towns of Wantage, Hungerford, and Ludgershall, and the adjacent villages, aivimportant railway accommodation, of which the agricultural districts in which they are seated stand in much need, and will provide a facility for the interchange of produce be tween the rural, manufacturing, and commercial population of the kingdom. The want of railway accommodation has long been felt to press 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. The same remark applies in some degree to the market town of Wantage, 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 commenee the proposedll ne at Oxford, and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great Western Railway at Steventon, thus giving to Abingdon a direct rail road to London. By continuing the projected railway to Wantage, the same facility of transit to,London will be afforded to that place; and a perfect line of row' from the north-eastern counties will, by a junc tion with the projection from Cambridge to Oxford, be produced, through the towns which have been named, Hunger,ord 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 from Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street, London, solicitors to the undertaking, to whom, at present, applica tion for shares may be made. rir HE LIVERPOOL and DERBY RAILWAY. JL (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 110.) Capital 1,500,000/., in 75,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. Offices of the Company, 28, Moorgate-street. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Hon. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation Railway John Attwood,: Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Hyde Park, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway John Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, banker Sir John Pine, Bart., Alderman of the City of London, Director E. it of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Packet Company William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, n g late M.P. for Oxford, and late High Sheriff for Hants o re James Henry Attwood; Esq., Seymour-street, Portman-square - g George Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Cornhill Tg. John Bagshaw, Esq., Director of the Northern and Eastern .1- 4 E Railway Joseph Brown, Esq.,Director of the East and West of England Junction • %. William Chadwick, Esq. ' Chairman of the Richmond Railway o William Langley Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway g g • Captain George Probyn, Bryaneton-square Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng- land Railway I A Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the Commercial Bank of London, The Hon. George Browne, Lowndes-square, Belgrave-square Sir Wm. Wynne, 5, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North Wales Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway Sir James Eyre, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square Colonel George Disbrowe, Chester-square, London Capt. Burney, R.N., Gosport Louis Auckland, Esq., Avenue-road, Regent's Park, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway George Bovill, Esq., 3fillwall, Poplar John Barnes, Esq., Charley Wood, Bucks Joseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds and Dewsbury Railway W. Black, Esq., 19, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway, and Italian and Austrian Railway Company W. Bland, Esq., Buxton, Director of the North Wales Railway W. Bevan, Esq.. 48, Conduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the North Wales Mineral Railway Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of the City of London Robert Charles, Esq., 23, Endsleigh-street, Tavistock-square, Direc tor of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway John Churchill, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation Railway G. Colquhoun, Esq., Director of the Worcester and Wales Railway E. Chapman, Esq., Strand, Director of the Richmond Railway James D. De Vitre, Esq., Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square James Fearniey, Esq., Longsight Abbey, near Manchester William Tulloch Fraser, Esq., Manchester-square, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Dire* Railway Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, near Birmingham, Director of the East and West and Birmingham South Stafford shire Railways James Horne, Esq., Clapham-common, Director of the North Lon don Railway Company William Halliday, Esq., merchant, Chad-valley, Edgbaston, Director of the Leekfleld and Birmingham Railway John Hemming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway Richard Heaviside, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton Railway William Jacomb, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the East and West of England Railway Jerdine, Esq. ' Piccadilly Charles Kelson, Esq., Teignmouth, Devon, Director of the East and West of England Railway T. Knit!, Esq., Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway W. Knott, Esq., 4, Adelaide-place, Director of the Richmond Railway John Kinlock, Esq., 21, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park-gardens, Director of the Newry and Enniskillen Railway, and the Great Britain Life Assurance Company Captain J. H. Leckie, Richmond, Surrey J. D. Lowden, Esq., Doughty-street, Director of the Richmond Railway William Morley, Esq., Blackheath-park, Deputy Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railway Robert 3futrie, Esq., merchant, 93, Watling-street, G. Miller, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway' N. M`Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway Wm. Nash, Esq., Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway Wm. Nicholson, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford, Director of the Chester and Man chester Direct Railway George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Direetor of the East and West of England Railway Apsley Pellatt, Esq., Director of the Staines and Richmond Railway S. Phillips, Esq., Director of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway Geo. Rougemont, Esq., 9, Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the North London Junction Railway Thomas Rogers, Esq., Laura-place, Bradford, Director of the Liver pool and Leeds Direct Railway, and the Keighley, Huddersfield and Halifax Junction Railway Christopher Shapland, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Bristol and Gloucester, South Devon and Cornwall Railway -, Walter Sharp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Richmond Railway John Stewart, Esq. M.P. for Lymington, Director of the East and West of England Esq., Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, Director of th London and Brighton Railway Thomas Varley, Esq., Shorstin Hall, Malton Daniel Watney, Esq., Wandsworth, Surrey, Distiller S. Watkins, Esq., Forrest 11111. near Worksop W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the &awash Valley Railway (With power to add to their number)., BANGERS. Masterman and Co., London The Union Bank,dManchester SOLICITOR—John Bethell, Esq., 78, King William-street, London. CONSULTING ENGINEER. ANGINEEBS. Messrs. Rice and Thomas Hopkins, M.1.C.E.; and John Belcher, Esq. SECRETARY. This Company is formed for making a railway from Liverpool to Derby, and will, in conjunction with the Manchester and Rugby Direct, and London and Birmingham Railways, form the nearest route from Liverpool to London. It will commence at Liverpool, and proceed along the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to within a importance of the Whiston Inclined Plane, and thence branch off, in a south-easterly direction, through Warrington, Knutsford, and Congleton to Leek (there joining the Manchester and Rugby Rail way), and from thence through Ashbourne to Derby. The whole length of the proposed line will be about sixty-six miles. It will be seen by reference to the map that this important line of railway will form the shortest route from Liverpool to London and effect a direct chain of communication between Liverpool and Derby, and will thence, by means of the Midlands and other railways, open an unin terrupted route to the more eastern counties, and afford a complete midland communication between the eastern and western parts of the kingdom and the important intermediate manufacturing districts. The most important feature in this railway is that it forms the shortest road from Liverpool to London. The distance by it, with the Manchester and Rugby, and London and Birmingham, will be only 188 miles, whereas by the present route it is 210 miles, and by the Trent Valley Railway 200% miles ; effecting a saving of 22 miles in one instance, and 123 miles in the other. And as regards Liverpool and Derby, the whole distance between Liverpool and Derby will be reduced by this line to about 74 miles, thus decreasing the distance by any present existing railway, at least 46 miles; an advantage which carries in itself the conviction of the necessity there is for the proposed railway, in order to connect more immediately two such important towns, especially when these towns are but the foci, as it were, for other railways from still more distant localities, as before adverted to. The distance also from Manchester to Leek (where the proposed railway will unite with the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway) will be about 30 miles, and from Leek to Derby about 26% miles, making the whole distance from Manchester to Derby only 563 miles ; and thus diminishing the distance by any present communi cation between those important towns by about 28 miles, an object most desirable to be attained, and of itself quite sufficient to recom mend a line of railway embracing such beneficial results. But great as these results most certainly will be, they are far out weighed by the very important consideration that, in conjunction with the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway, it will also be the most direct route from Liverpool to London. The distance from Liverpool to Leek (the proposed point of junc tion with the Manchester find Rugby Direct Railway) is 4731 miles; from Leek to Rugby, according to the line as proposed by the tivatuo chester and Rugby Direct Railway, 58 miles, and from Re g London 83 miles; thus making the whole distance from Liverpool to London 1883( miles, instead of 210, by the present route. With regard to the traffic and other detailosrceve cttoedtwheith great the working of the line, it seems only necessary g ht into communication t u importance of the towns proposed to be o with each other, in order to convi nce the ) m inds of all that the source of revenue thus derived will be immense. There are no engineering dif fi cu lties connected with the forming of the line. The deeds will provide that no call shall be made on the share holders beyond the deposit now paid until the Act of Parliament is obtained, and power will be taken in the Act to allow 4/. per cent interest on all calls. Applications for detailed prospectuses, maps, and shares, may be made to the Secretary, at the offices, 28, Moorgete-str ee t , London ; at Mr. Bethel's Offices, 78, King William-street, City, London ; and at 22, Cross-street, Manchest er , and the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. R. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, 22, North Side, Royal Exchange, London; George Burnand, Esq., Cornhill ; Messrs. Balclay, Allsop, and Co., Royal Exchange • Messrs. Mac kenzie and Lawrence, 38, Conlin ; Messrs. Houghland and Leese, 51, King-street, Manchester; Messrs. Marshall, Town-hall-buildings, Manchester; John Wills, Esq., Royal Bank-b" tidings, Liverpool; Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler , Leeds • Messrs . Edwards and Son, and W. H. Land, E sq , , Bristol; J.R. Lane,. Esq., Birmingham Messrs. Garton and Wright, Sheffield ; J. G. Kershaw, Esq., Hud dersfield; F. C. Spencer, Esq., Halifax; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham; Henry Beaumont and Co., Exeter; R. P. Lemon, Esq., Bath; Joseph Clark, Esq Southampton ; and Messrs. Flint and Tootal, Hull. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Liverpool and Derby Railway Company. I request you will allot to me shares of 20/. each in the capital of the above-named railway, and I will accept the same or any less number, and pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per share, and sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when re quired. Dated the day of , 1845. Name• • • • • • • . Address .. . Profession . Reference ........................ Nu. 16,575 . D IRECT EAST AND WEST JUNCTION RAILWAY, Commencing at Kidderminster, and ending at Hereford. (Provisionally Registered.) The survey of this line having been sufficiently completed to enable the engineer to form a decided opinion upon the requisite expense, the Acting Committee of Direction have to announce that it will be necessary to Increase the capital front 800,0001. to 1,000,0001., and the number of shares from 40,000 to 50,000 shares. The letters of allotment will be issued in two days, and so nume rous have been the applications along the line that the Shares Com mittee have been compelled to make large local allotments. Such applicants as do not receive allotments will take this as an intimation why it has been impossible to comply with their 'wishes. JOHN OWENS, Joint Solicitors. J. A. J. 3IACGREGOR, Offices of the Company, 38, Moorgate-street, Sept. 29, 1845. WEST MIDLAND RAILWAY. Comaecting the Eastern and Western - parts of the kingdom. (Provisionally Registered). Capital 1,700,0001., in 68,000 shares of 251. each. Deposit 21. 12s, 6d. per share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Sir W. Boothby, Bart., Ashbourne-hall Sir David Scott, Bart., Porchester-terrace, Hyde Park, London Jedediah Strutt, Esq., Director of the Derby and Gainsborough Railway Edward Hyde Clerke, Esq., Leamington Priors John Ashton, Esq., Newton Bank, Hyde, and Manchester William Bayley. Esq., Lark-hill, Ashton-under-Lyne The Mayor of Carnarvon, Director of the London and Holyhead Railway Edward Valentine Pegge Burnell, Esq., Winkburn-hall, Nottingham shire, Vice-Chairman of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway Henry Kendall, Esq., Austin-friars, London, Director of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway Colonel Thomas Wildman, Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, Di rector of the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midlands Junction Rail way John Calthorp Williams, Esq., M.D., Nottingham Major Bilble, Nettleworth Hall, Nottinghamshire, Director of the Derby and Gainsborough Railway James Salmond, Esq., Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire. Chairman of the Boston, Newark and Sheffield, and Director of the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midlands Junction Railway Francis Hall, Esq., Chairman of the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midlands Janetion Railway The Mayor of Newark-on-Trent Henry Boden, Esq., The Field, Earb,,, Director of the Derby and Gainsborotigh Railway William Tinker, Esq., Hyde, Manchester Thomas Horseley, Esq., Pye Bridge, Derbyshire Major Coke, Woodhouse Grove, Nottinghamshire, Vice-Chairman of the Derby and Gainsborough Railway John Ray, Esq., Heanor Hall, Derbyshire George Johnson, Esq., Mansfield Charles Allix, Esq., Willoughby Hall, Grantham, Director of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway John Brown, Esq., M.D., Broadfield House, Boston, ditto John Coke Fowler, Esq.. Duffield Bank, Derby, Director of the Derby axd Gainsbomugh Railway John Edward Brodhurst, Esq., Crow Hill, Mansfield, Director of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway Thomas Novae Andrew Burnaby, Esq., Newark-on-Trent Charles Holden, Esq., Junior United Service Club, London David Harrison, Esq., Staleybridge H. D. Dod, Esq., Mansfield, Woodhouse Lewis Novolli, Esq., Manchester Thomas Carey Willard Pierce, Esq., Manchester Thomas Ingram Ford, Esq., Abbey-field, Sandbeach, Cheshire IL Cave Leahy, St. James's-square, London, a Director of the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, and Potteries Railway, the Great Welsh Central Railway, and the Grand Trunk Railway The Rev. Dr. Cursham, Vicar of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, Di rector of the Derby and Gainsborough Railway Richard Greenhaigh, Esq,, Car Bank, Mansfield, Director of theflos ton, Newark, and Sheffield, and Nottingham, Mansfield, and *Mid lands' Junction, and Derby, anC Gainsborough Railways William Sacheverell Cook, Esq., Langton-hall, Nottinghamshire. Director of the Derby and Gainsborough Railway Richard Truswell, Esq., Mandrake-house, Sheffield Edward Dowland, Esq., Mansfield P. R. Dearden, Esq., Birkenhead The Rev. John Peatfield, West Bridgeford Edmund Sykes, Esq., Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire William Sabine, Esq., Broomhill-grange, Nottinghamshire Isaac Heywood, Esq., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire Montagu David Scott, Esq., Porchester-terrace, Hyde-park, Direc tor of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway William Heywood Paulson, Esq., Mansfield Thomas Spragging Godfrey, Esq. ' Balderton-hall, Nottinghamshi re , Director of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway William Hollins, Esq., Pleasly-vale, Derbyshire Richard Remy Wright, Esq., Mansfield William Gething, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, and Derby, and Gainsborough Railway Sibbald Scott, Esq., 62, Gloucester-place, Portman-square W. F. Handley, Esq., Newark-on-Trent Robert Ashton, Esq., Hyde and Manchester Watkin Lees, Esq., Dukinfleld William Sidebottom, Esq., Ethrow House, Hollingworth Richard Wharton 3dydclleton,:sq., Leasingham Hall John Dodsley, Esq., Skegby Hall, Nottinghamshire, Director of the Derby and Gainsborough Railway Robert Watson, Esq., Mansfield Thomas Burroughs, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gains borough Railway John Hudson, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsborough Railway Henry Brodhurst, Esq., Woodhouse-place • Samuel Wright Fearn, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsborough Railway Samuel Walker Cox, Esq., Breadsall, Director of the Derby and Gainsborough Railway General Reeve, Leadenham Nall, Director of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway Major Taylor, Radcliffe, Nottingham Joseph Gilstrap, Esq., Newark-on-Trent Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsborough Railway John Johnson, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsborough Railway William Foster, Esq., Sleaford, Director of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway William Gill, Esq., M.D.,Nottingham William Houldsworth, sq., Farnsfleld Jonathan Hardeastle, Esq., Illidworth Dale John Thorpe, Esq., Newark-on-Trent, Director of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railway Captain F. Chamier, Helkin-street, Belgrave-square Edward Newbatt, Esq., Old-place, Sleafotd.. Dr. Bent, Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsborough Railway Emanuel Howett, Esq., Farnsfield David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Provisional Director of :the Mid land and Eastern Counties Railways. R. M. Pruce, Esq., Lothblry, and 24, Park-square, Regent's-park William Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex Admiral J. Ayscough, Southampton Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, London Rowland Mackenzie, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingtoke, of the Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Junction, and of the Great Western Extension Railway Companies Thomas Ingham Rapier, Esq., Lilac Cottage, Bustal, near Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction, the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and other Railways Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Nottinghamshire Martin Furniss, Esq., ditto George Boden, Inner Temple, and St. George's-terrace, Kensington John Richardson, Esq., Mansfield Godfrey Tollents, Esq., Newark-on-Trent Samuel Hurt, Esq., Mansfield Richard N. Phlllipson, Esq., Rugby TOP FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN WILL FORM THY COMMITTEE OP DIRECTION. Edward Thomas Coke, Esq. Francis Hall, Esq. William Tinker, Esq. Montagu David Scott, Esq. James Salmond, Esq. Richard Greenhaigh, Esq. Henry Kendall, Esq. E. V. P. Burnell, F,sci, John Ray, Esq. John Dodeley, Esq. LONDON BANlESas—Messrs. Denison, Heywood, Kennards, and Co. ; Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co. COUNTRY BANKERS. Manchester—Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co. Liverpool—Messrs. Arthur, Heywood, and Sons Nantwich—Liverpool and Manchester District Banking Company's Branch Newcastle-under-Lyne—Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company's Branch Burslem—Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company's Branch Stafford—Messrs. Stevenson, Salt, and Co. Uttoxeter—The Burton Union Bank Cheadle—Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company's Branch Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co. Sheffield—The Sheffield and Rotherham Banking Company Mansfield and Chesterfield—Messrs. Robinson and Broadhurst Nottingham—Messrs. J. and J. C. Wright, and Messrs. Moore and Robinson's Banking Company. ENGINEER—Joseph Gibbs, Esq. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Parsons, Benn, and Parsons, and Messrs. (Land T. Walkden, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. LOCAL AGENTS. St. G. George Smith, Esq., Derby Newcastle-tuider-Lyne Stafford Ashboume PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Dorrington, Hayward, Eli combe, and Co., 16, Parliament-street The national object of this undertaking is to create a direct and united communication between the eastern and western parts of the kingdom. On reference to a railway map of England, it will at once be seen that Stafford and Crewe, on the Grand Junction and Derby, and Belper, en the Midland Railway, are the centres to which a great number of lines of railway, either already constructed or projected, converge ; and between these four points no railway exists. The West Midland Railway proposes to unite these points in the following way :—By commencing one of its arms at Crewe station, on the Grand Junction Railway, which will run through or near Newcastle-under-Lyne, Bursham, Stoke-ipon-Trent, Lane End, and Cheadle, to Uttoxeter, where its other arm from Stafford will meet it and proceed thence, by Ashbourne to a point near the Belper station on the Midland Railway, where it will take advantage of the pro posed Derby and Gainsborough, Nottingham and Mansfield, and Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railways ; thus opening a direct com munication between Holyhead and other:parts of North Wales, Cheshire, Staffordshire, and Shropshire,:en the one hand, and Sheffield, Retford, Mansfield, Nottingham, Newark, Norwich, and the ports of Gaineborough, Grimsby, Boston, Spalding, Lynn and Yarmouth, on the other. _ _ _ This line will accommodate a very considerable portion of the traffic proceeding from the west coast of Scotland, Cumberland, and Lanca shire, into Lincolnshire and the south-eastern parts of the kingdom, and by that portion if the line which is proposed to run between Beiper and Stafford, and the whole of the traffic from the east coast of Scotland, Northumberland, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and other populous northern counties passing to the west and south west, together with the opulent mineral districts of South Wales, will be effectually served. Passing as this line will do, through a densely-populated and ex tensive manufacturing district, it must be viewed, even in its local character, as one of vast importance. The mere enumeration of the towns affected by it would suffice to show that the traffic over it will be immense ; but, in addition to this, when credit is taken for the thorough traffic passing diagonally over the line from south-east north-west, and from no r th- east t o south-west , as well the se s for to the corn and other agri cu lt ura l produce from the eastern o manufacturing districts ; and a return carriage of manufactu redcuith en,,a ,re goods, slates from North Wales, salt front Cheshire , ear the midland counties as well as for expo rtike some adequate idea may from Staffordshire, and iron from Shropshire, fo in r t t h h e o co e n as su te m rn pti p o= of Hull, Grimsby, Boston, Spalding, • All these ob'o ts develop.c be formed of the advantages wh ic h ' the comple ion of this and deemed of such para mountthat the fullest and most in fluentialto Meal Interests, h cO a m ve pr be eh e e n n d sl e v e e ply sc a h n em d e ser vvl i t y la c t importance co-operation have been obtained to effectually support c o u n rall sid y ered, e ious onbj madeect sof w t t i h s mu ch undertaking, care and the result is highly favourable in an engineering point of view. district rldthe have var b The Committee in the allotment of shares will give a preference to parties l oc ally interested, and in all cases satisfactory reference will carry out Surveys a o n f d t h i insure i a i Ire required to some person of known respectability, Power will be taken in the act to allow interest, at the rate of 41, per cent. per annum, on the deposits, as well as on all fifture calls, from the date of each payment, till the opening of the whole line, or until a dividend be declared ; and the liability of subscribers will be limited by the Act of Parliament to the amount of their respective shares. The shares and all payments made thereon will be forfeited with out notice, should the holders thereof not sign the Subscribers' Agree ment and Parliamentary Contract as soon as required. Applications for shares in the fonn annexed may be made to the So licitors, or the undermentioned Sharebrokers : J. S. Yeatea, Esq., Bank Chambers, London Roger Mortimer, Esq Throgmorton-street, ditto J. W. Scott, Esq., Ba rtholomew-lane, ditto Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester John Duncuft, Esq., ditto Messrs. S. It. Healey, Liverpool Thomas, Forsyth, Esq., ditto Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby Messrs. Flint and Tootal, Hull Messrs. Brady and Staniforth, Hun James Thompson, Esq., ditto, Francis Wakefield, Esq., Nottingham, J. R. Lane, Esq., Birmingham. Messrs. Edwards and Son, Bristol. WiMane Lee, Esq., Cheltenham Robert Allan, Esii:, Edinburgh. Messrs. Mein and Cunningham, Glasgow. Messrs. M'Ewen and Auld, ditto. Henry Carr, Mansfield Charles Spencer, Nottingham FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Committee of Direction of the West Midland Railway Company. Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Gentlemen—l request you will allot me Shares of 25/. each in this Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, to pay the deposit thereon. or on any less number that may be allotted to me, and to execute the Parliamentary contract and subscribers' agreement in respect thereof when thereunto required. Dated this day of 1845. Name in 11111 ........ Trade or Profession .. •. • • .. • • • • • • • • • • • Address ... • •.. • • • • • • Name or Referee Addrelo of Referee.. ~.• •.......‘ <", ~, t' ~', R