The Sun. — London, England, 1845-10-07 00:00:00

PROSPECTUS. to Stratford-on-Avon, there joining th e p ro p osed line from Warwick 1 land Leamington to Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, and the West of • England ; continuing its course through Alcester, the line will go di- Irect to Worcester, and thus terminate at the great centre of traffic for the mineral and manufactaring districts of South Staffordshire, Shropshire, and North and South Wales. This proposed line dors not interfere with any existing railways, and presenting, as it does, an unbroken line between two great centres of traffic, the Importance of the undertaking needs no further comment. Negotiations have been entered into with the Eastern Come ties Railway Company, by which their support and co-operation will be ensured for obtaining the line now proposed. An arrangement has also been made with the proposed Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Company, which this line will join at Al cester, and by means of which the Eastern Counties' traffic will pro ceed to Worcester. Power will be reserved to the Directors to amalgamate with any other existing or projecting Companies, or to vary the line. 4.4; Appli:ation for shares may be made to the Secretary, and to the following Sharebrokers, of whom prospectuses, with maps of the line. may be obtained :—London—Messrs. Peppercorn and Co., 2, Old Broad-street; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Me srs. Boyd. Birmingham—Mr. W. H. Collis. Blackburn—Mr. , Thomas Boardman. Bradford—Mr. G. Clark; Messrs. Tate and :I Nash. Cheltenham—Mr. James Stokes. Coventry—Mr. J. S. IdeZ land.l itiblin—Messrs. Labertonche and Stafford. Edinburgh—James IPringle, Esq., 79, Princes-street ; Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy. Glasgow—Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson. Halifax— M r.W.O ronhelm . I Ilit•lthrsfleld—Messrs. Everard and Co. Hull—Mr. Frederick Stamp. i Leeds—Messrs Weilbeloved and Oastler. Leicester—Messrs. l'ayne and Freer. Liverpool—Messrs. Townley and Whitehead ; Messrs. Cameron and Co. ; Mr. Morris Reynolds. Macclesfield—Mr. Richard E. lilac. Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell a d Sons; Messrs. A. Blrchall and Co. ; Mr. Cl'arles O'Neil. Nottingham—Mr. Charles Spencer. Sheffield—Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons. South ampton—Mr. Joseph Clark, jun. Wakefield—Mr. E. H. Armitage. , Worcester—Mr.Miles. York—Messrs. Grayston and Earle. Commencing at Cambridge, which has now become the traffic centre of the Eastern Counties, by the line of railway intended to be formed by that Company, this line will proceed to Bedford, there passing near Olney It will cross at or near the Blisworth Station of the London and Birmingham Railway, where it will communicate with the Northampton and Peterborough line; it will then proceed west- Wilas a'toivg the Oztixd and Rugby line at or near Fenny Compton FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES, To the Provisional Committee of the Eastern Counties Extensi , .l , , and Cambridge and Worcester Direct Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares, of 201. each in the above railway ; and I undertake to accept the same, or such less number as you may appropriate to me, spbje.:l to the regu lations of the Company, and to sign the necessary dee.ls, and to pay when required the deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per share. Dated this day of , 1845, Name, in fall .. • • • . • • • • • • Profession and Professional Residence in full. Private Residence in full .• • • • • • • • Usual 5ignature.............. Name.. •• •• •• .• •• •• .• Residence • • • .. • • • • • • • • • • And Profession of Referee .. • • • • • • Offices, 34, Meorgate-street, FASTERN COUNTIES EXTENSION anti, A CAMBRIDGE and WORCESTER DIRECT RAILWAY. PROSPECTUSES and MAPS will be ready for delivery on 7 ur.a- DA2L next, the 7th Instant. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDA V EVEN INC; OCTOBER 7 1845 r HE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT 1 RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, WANTAGE, HUNGERFORD, and LUDGERSHALL. (Provisionally regist e red.) Capital 1,200,000/., in 48,009 Shares of 25/. each. Deposit 21. 15s. per Share. PRELIMINARX ANNOUNCEMENT. The lmrortance or connecting remote parts of E..gland by Rail ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns and digricts, 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 maw of Railway front 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 :,•alisbury Direct Railway, in addition to the benefits which will be conferred upon the nation at large, by preferring a direct line of communtcation be tween the north-eastern and western and south-western part s of England, will afford to the borough of Abingdon, the market towns of Wantage, Hungerford, and Ludgershall, and the adjacent villages, an important railway accommodation, of which the agricultural districts in which they are seated stand in much need, and will provide a 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 comp e ti ng w ith th e more are thus se vei‘ l y crippled. The same remark s e i -e t, to the mark e t town of Wautage, which, as fortunate traders of those towns which are a l rea d y prov id e d w i th di and Ludgershall, c l a i ms a share of the profits produced by railway t ra ffi c. applies e andwpecpitlil c ea shsaninuesnlo advantages s gm o e er d t o, r e a . It has therefore been determined to commence the proposedil 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 road 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, Hungeriord and Ludgers hall to Salisbury, and thence to the south and wester' 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 C omm i ttee, will very shortly be published. In the meantime, further information may be ob tained front Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Ifoorgate-street, London, solicitors to the undertaking, whom, at p resen t , app li es tion for shares may be made. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY, AND OXFORD AND BETCIILEY JUNCTION. (Registered Provisionally.) Capital, 2,250,0001., in Shares of 201. each, Deposit 21. 2s. per share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, K.G. The Right Hon. Lord Nugent, the Lilies, Aylesbury, Bucks Sir John Chetwode, Bart., M.P., Chetwode Manor-Louse, Bucks Sir Thomas Digby Aubrey, Bart , Oving-liouse, Bucks Sir Harry Verney , The Hon. Philip Sidney Pier re p ont, Evenley-hall, B Blacklev, North.rt Claydon-house, Bucks amptonshire Sir James Watson, K.C.8., Wendover Charles John Bailie Hamilton, Esq., M.?., Thame-park, Oxfordshire Rice Richard Clayton, Esq., M.P., Hedgerley-park, Bucks John Deering, Esq., the Lee, Bucks George Morgan, Esq., Biddlesden-park, Bucks Robert Bullock 31arsham, Esq., LL.D., Caversfleld-house, Oxford- shire Walter Henry Bracebridge, Esq., Mordlle-house, Warwickshire, and Chetwode Priory, Bucks E. W. S. Lowndes, Esq., Winslow Johnwini Witham Barnes, G. Cooke, Esq., Winslow olxi Es ' q H ., " S ts t. Alhan's-cost, Wingham t Esq., Hammond,C to rl ey- w Osmond Kent Benjamin Price, Esq., Westbury, Bucks Col. John Hall, Life Guards-barracks, Hyde-park, London John Newman, Esq., Brand's-house, Hughenden, Bucks Thomas Newland Allen, Esq., The Vache, Chalfont, Bucks Henry William Beauclerk, Esq., 61, Chester-square, London Robert Fox, Esq., Wendo er-lodge, Bucks William James Bailey, Esq., Shepley-house, Bucks Thomas Sands Chapman, Esq., The Park, Aston Clinton, Bucks Robert Marriott Freeman,'Esq., Stoney Stratford, Bucks George Parrott, Esq., Castle-farm, Buckingham Captain Edward Dewes, Buckingham Humphrey Humphreys, Esq., Buckingham William Stowe, Esq., Buckingham William Davis, Esq., Bicester, Oxfordshire Captain William Style, Blcester, Oxfordshire John Horwood, Esq., Steane-park, Brackley, Northamptonshire John Henry Butterfield, Esq., Brackley William Henry Matins, Esq., Brackley Alfred Hoperaft, Esq., Brackley Charles TaWney, Esq., Oxford Richard Wootton, jun., Esq., Oxford Jonathan Samuel Browning, Esq., Oxford Henry William Tancred, Esq., M.P., London Timothy Rhodes Cobb, Esq., Banbury, Oxen Zacharias Daniel Hunt, Esq., Aylesbury, Bucks Joseph Ashby Gillett, Esq., Banbury, Oxon George Carr Glynn, Esq., London, Director of the London and Bir mingham Railway Joseph Frederick Ledsam, Esq., Birmingham, ditto Edward Cropper, Esq., Liverpool ditto Thomas Smith, Esq., Reigate 4odge, Surrey, ditto Thomas Young, Esq., Albany, London, ditto Ross Donnelly Mangles, Esq , M.P., London, ditto Captain Constantino Richard Moorsom, R.N., Birmingham, ditto Robert Benson, jun., Esq., Fairfield, Manchester, ditto (With power to add to their number). COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Sir Harry Verney, Bart. J. E. Ledsam, Esq. The Hon. P. S. Pierrepont Edward Cropper, Esq. Z. D. Hunt, Esq. Thomas Smith, Esq. Captain Edward Dewes Captain C. R. Moorsom, B. N . Humphrey Humphreys, Esq. Robert Benson, Inn., Esq, J. It. Cobb, Esq. Thomas Younge, Esq. J. Samuel Browning, Esq. Ross 1). Mangles, Esq. G. C. Glynn, Esq. (With limited power to add to their number). ENGINEER—Robert Stephenson, Esq. SOLICITORS. BARNEr AND NORTH METROPOLITAN JUNCTION RAILWAY. At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Barnet and its vicinity, convened by a requisition, numerously signed and duly published, held at the Victoria Hall, Union-street, Barnet, the 17th day of September instant, JOHN HEY PUGET, Esq., of Totteridge, in the Chair; It was proposed by J. SPENCER, Esq , seconded by the Rev. J. D. THOMPSON, and carried unanimously— That it is the opinion of this meeting that a direct railway commu nication between the northern districts of the Metropolis and the town of Barret is of vital importance to its prosperity, and is now imperatively called for. IC was prOpostd by BENJAMIN SMITH, Esq., and seconded by Mr. Joni( iIopEwELL, and resolved unanimously 2. That this meeting having duly considered the prospectus and map of the line of the proposed Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway, and on comparing the same with the other pro jected lines, does most unhesitatingly declare that the proposed Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway will afford to the town greater advantages than any line of railway hitherto proposed to come in the vicinity of Barnet, it being the only one which will afford to the residents of the town the advantage of a station, and that it deserves the support of the inhabitants and all others having an in terest in Barnet and its vicinity ; and that a petition be presented in savour of the line immediately upon the assembling of the Houses of Parliament ; and this meeting pledges itself to further the vilws of the Company, and resolves that a Committee be appcinted to promote the object and secure the interest of the town of Barnet. That the Committee consist of Benjamin Smith Esq. Mr. John Hopewell Mr. George Bower Mr. James Hill Mr. James Cooper With power to add to their number. It was proposed by the Rev. ALEXANDER STUART, and seconded by J. SPENCER, Esq., and resolved unanimously 3. That the thanks of the meeting be tendered to the Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, the Chairman, and the Deputy-Chairman, and the other members of the deputation from the Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway Company, for the able manner in which they have laid before the meeting the project of the Company. It was proposed by WILLIAM HILL, Esq., and seconded by W. W. HOLPEN, Esq., and carried unanimously 4. That a vote of thanks be tendered to John Hey Puget, Esq., for his impartial and able conduct in the chair. Mr. Brunt Mr. Spencer Rev. Alexander Stuart Rev. John Dawson Thompson Bi rm ingham, and 37, Great an d Twisden, Lineolies-inn-nolds, ke Mr. r I fi l a a m Y ease' Bar C a r re v r e , hress Londo P n ar ; George street, Westminster; Mr. William Meyrick, 2, Furnivars-Inn, London; Messrs. Rose and Messrs. Tindal, Aylesbury ; Messrs. Hearn and Nelson, and Mr. Henry Smith, Buckingham. SECRETARY—Wyndham Harding, Esq. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Glynn, Halifax, 31ills, and Co., Lombard-street Aylesbury—Messrs. Bickford and Hunt, Thu London and County Bank Buckingham—Messrs. Bartlett, Parrott, and Hearn The London and County Bank Banbury—Messrs. Cobb and Co. Messrs. Gillett and Tawney Oxford—Messrs. Wootton and Co. The London and County Bank. Bleester— Messrs. Tubb. BARNET and NORTH METROPOLITAN JUNCTION RAILWAY. Notice Is hereby given, that no further Applications for Shares in this undertaking will be received after SATURDAY, the 4th October next. The object of this undertaking is to supply railway communication, to the towns and districts lying between the London and Birmingham and the Great Western Railways, giving them, the best means of ac cess to the metropolis, and connecting them also with Birmingham By order of the Committee of Management, EDWARD ELKINS, Joint Solloltbro. G. P. HILL, 80, Newinin-gtzeot, 13ept. 25, 1845. ------ to may be allotted to me. I hereby agree to pay the deln _sl eein eat execute the Parliameitary Contract and the Subscri "z DIRECT WEST- END AND CROYDON RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 800,0001., im 40,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Sir James Anderson, M. R. I. A., New Burlington-street ; Director of the Hereford and Merthr Tydvil Railway Lieut.-General Sir R Barton, K.C.8., 2 Montagu-place, Montagu square, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Major Bcresford, M.P., 77, Pall-mall ; Chairman of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Director of the Teen and Dove Valley. and West Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railways Charles R. iligge, Esq., 10, Bryanston-square; Director of the Great Grimsby, lie utle Horneastle, Lincoln, and Nlidiend J unction Railway William Bland, Esq., Braxton; Director of the North Wales, and Richmond and West-end Junction Railways William Blanchard, Esq. ' York; Chairman of the Liberty of Ripon Quarter Sessions, and Director of the York. Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield ; Chairman of the Isle of Ely Rilway, and Director of the Manchester and Sheffield Railway Alfred Brodie, Esq , Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square Direc tor of the Grand Trunk Railway homes Byrom, Esq.. Wigan ; Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and Liverpool, Preston. and North Union Junction Railways Edwin Cadman, Esq., Westbourne House, Sheffield, Director of the Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway William Caldwell, Esq., ince Hall, near Wigan, Lancashire ; Direc tor of the Manchester, Derby, and Rugby, and Leeds and Liver pool Direct Railways John Castendieck, Esq., Lewisham, Kent John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-steet, London ; Director of the Chelmsford and Bury, and York and Lancaster Railways Thomas Challis, Esq., Alderman of London ; Director of the Direct Western Railway Richard Clark, Esq., Farnham, Hants George Clive, Esq., Sanderstead, near Croydon Benjamin Collett, Esq., Manor House, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire; Director of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kiddermin ster; and Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railways Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Bayswater; Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway Millis Coventry, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-street ; Director of the Birmingham Extension and Great Leeds and London Direct Railways Charles R. Dodd, Esq., North Brixton Lieutenant-Colonel Lothian Dickson, Curzon-street, May-fair ; Direc tor of the Reading and Reigate Junction Railway Miles Dormer, Esq., Hans-place, Sloane-street ; Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, United Service Club ; Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway Daniel Ebbetts, Esq., Mincing-lane ; Director of the Direct Western Railway Francis Ewart, Esq., Brick-court, Temple; Director of the Great Leeds and London Direct, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey mouth Railway Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London ; Director of the London and Westminster Bank, and Director of the London Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway Edmund Aldam Fawcett, Esq., London, Derby, and Nottingham Robert Fisher, Esq., Highbury Park, Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway The Rev. H. R. Fowler, Manchester-square ; Director of the Direct Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway Henry Glynn, Esq , Temple F. W. Hamilton, Esq., 59, Gloucester , :place, Portman-square ; Di rector of the York and Lancaster Railway C. J. Rogers Harrison, Esq., Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square; Director of the Grand Trunk Railway George R. Harrison, Esq., Harlingford-place, Kennington ; Director of the Grand Trunk Railway William Hay, Esq., 19, Clifford-street, Bond-street. Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn-square; Director of the Chelmsford and Bury Railway Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., Yew Tree, Liverpool A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place ; Director of the Direct Exe ter Railway John Holford, Esq., Rusholm-hall, Manchester ; Director of the York and Lancaster Railway John Holmes, Esq., 88, St. James's-street ; Director of the York and Lancaster, and Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railways William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., 31.P. ' Chairman of the Welsh Mid land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of London, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and London and Greenwich Railways John Kynnereley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London ; Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway Herbert Ingram, Esq., 128, Strand, and Swineshead Abbey, Lincoln shire ; Director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway Slegerich C. Kreeft, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Junction Coast Railway Richard Kelly, Esq., 6, Cleveland-row ; Chairman of the New Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny, and Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln Extension Railways Sir J. Key, Bart., Alderman of London ; Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton ; Director of the London and Man chester and Direct Western Railways William Alexander Long, jun., Esq., Kingswood House, Wootton- , under-Edge ; Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway William 3largetson, Esq., Streatham-hill, Brixton J. Mee Mathew, Esq., 4, Gray's Inn-square; Director of the Direct Western Railway Thomas Morris, Esq., Fairhurst Hall, near Wigan ; Director of the Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool, and Leads and Liverpool Direct Railways - James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean and Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junction Railway Horatio Nelson, Esq.. Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey mouth Railway G. Parbury, Esq., Russell-square; Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens ; Director of the Grand Trunk, the Oxford and Witney, and Reading and Reigate Junction Railways Samuel P. Pratt, Esq., F.R.S., Bath, and 55, Lincoln's-inn-fields ; Director of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company, and York and Lancaster Railway George Richard Pye, Esq., Lavenkam, Suffolk Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square ; Director of the Metropolitan Railways Junction Company, and of the London, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Byeullah House, Enfield, Middlesex ; Director of the York and Lancaster Railway R. A. Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square ; Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Oxford and Worcester Extension Railways James Reid, Esq. Director of the Metropolitan Railways Junction Company A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Middle Temple, London; Director of the Great Western Extension Atmospheric Railway Richard Rowe, Esq., Beaufoy-terrace, Maida Vale 11. Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square ; Director of the West Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railway William Studley, Esq., Alfred-place, Brixton ; Director of the Great Grimsby, Louth, Horneastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railways Timothy Steward, Esq., Ileigham Lodge, near Norwich Edward 11. 0. Scott, Esq., Hoe Garden House, Plymouth; Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway Henry Taylor, Esq , Wigan ; Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, Manchester and Wigan, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Railways James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Great Leeds and London, and Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railways Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath Park ; Director of the Direct London and Manchester, and Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railways Robert Watkins, Esq., 45, Lower Brook-street, Grosvenor-square ; Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport, and Liverpool and Derby Railways Sir Henry Webb, Bart., 105, Pall-mall, London ; Director of the York and Lancaster, and Direct Western Railways Sir Thomas Woollaston Whits, Bart., Walling Wells, Nottingham Thomas Williams, Esq., Belgrave-street, Belgrave-square Sir William Wynn, Maesynewadd, and Suffolk-place, Pall-mall ; Chairman of the North Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways James 31`31iller, Esq., Southampton Lewis Pocock, Esq., F.S.A., Montagu-square, Director of the South ampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction and Brighton and Chel tenham Direct Railways James Meaburn, Esq., Grove-hill, Camberwell John Byng Banks, Esq., Lansdown-road, Stockwell, Director of the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway Sir William Magnay, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the Great Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln and Midland Junction, and Leicester and Tamworth Railways W. S. Wilson, Esq., Norwich, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Maryport and Carlisle Railways William Carr, Esq., Blackheath-park George Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Francis Gamble, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Colonel Ellington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-place, Bryan ston-square, Director of the London and Manchester, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway John Jameson, Esq., St. George's-road, Brixton, Director of the Great Leeds and London Direct, and of the, Cumberland Union Railways (With power to add to their number.) BANKERS.—The Commercial Bank of London. CONSULTING ENGINEER. Sir John Macneil, L.L.D., F.R.S., ACTING ENGINEERS. Messrs. R. and T. Hopkins,M.l.C.E.; Messrs.Gough and Roumleu, C.E. Suavxyoas.—Messrs. Shuttleworth and Sons. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Chauntler and Westwood, 8, Gray's Inn-square. SECRETARY—J. L. Cotton, Esq. when required to do so, Name ...... •• • • ...... Residence • • • • • • ..... - .... •• • • Profession or Trade (if allY) Place of Business (if alt 9) •• • . • Reference • • • • • • • • • • .. . The principal objects of the scheme are-Ist. To remedy the evils of delay and inconvenience to which parties are, at the present time, necessarily subjected in proceeding from the west end of the metro polis to Croydon, or the most distant places on the South-Eastern and London and Brighton Railways, as well as the several sea ports and packet-stations on the coasts of Kent and Sussex; and 2d. To supply to the numerous and wealthy inhabitants of the district through which the intended line will pass (at present wholly with out railway accommodation), a greatly improved means for the in terchange of communication with the metropolis, and with each other. Commencing at the intended terminus of the South-Western Rail way, at Hungerford or Waterloo-bridge, the line will take the most practicable route to Kennington, from thence it will follow as near as possible the old turnpike road, passing through or near to the wealthy and populous districts of Stockwell, Clapham, Brixton, Tulse-hill, Streatham, Norwood, Beulah, and Thornton-heath, effect ing a junction at Croydon with the several existing or projected lines from that place. It is also proposed to form a branch or branches from the neigh bourhood of Streatham to Mitcham and Tooting, and thus to extend to those places, and their respective neighbourhoods, the advantages of a direct railway communication with the metropolis. A great portion of the traffic in passengers and goods upon the Brighton and Dover lines Is supplied from the west-end of London and the Birmingham and Great Western Railways. The necessity of proceeding to the station at London-bridge, and by the present circuitous route to Croydon, Is a serious and unnecessary inconveni ence, entailing additional expense and delay. The removal of this long-felt grievance is a leading object with the promoters of the pre sent undertaking. They deem it right, ItOwever, to observe, in lay ing this scheme before the public, that they have no desire to inter fere with existing railway interests, further than is absolutely indis pensable, but that on the other hand it will be their object to yield assistance to, and in return endeavour to secure it, irom each com pany with which this line may ultimately be connected. A glance at the map will show, that as a branch or arm of the London and Brighton Railway, this undertaking completes a straight line of communication from the west end of London to Croydon, Reigate, and Brighton, and renders the ports of Dover and Folke stone, as well as the several places on the South-Eastern line, more easily accessible from that part of the metropolis. The great amount of traffic at the present time upon the roads be tween Croydon, Mitcham, Tooting, :cc., and London, proves at once that the existing railway facilities do not at all meet the exigencies of the mass of population to whom this line will be available. The population who reside upon or in the immediate neighbour hood of the proposed line, independent of the-metropolis, and between the intended termini, exceeds 100,000, whose wants are almost wholly supplied from the London markets, &c., and whe have, at the present time, no mode of conveyance but upon the turnpike road. In the transit of building materials, corn, coal, lime, and other heavy goods, from the warehouses and wharfs on the banks of the Thames, and for marketable produce in each direction, this line must become to them particularly useful and convenient. Some idea may be formed of the local necessity of this railway when it is known that the number of passengers who avail themselves of the accommodation afforded by the several omnibuses and other public vehicles, running upon the turnpike-road, have been ascer tained to exceed 2,600 daily. An equal number (at least) proceed by private and other conveyances. Of foot passengers, although no accurate estimate can be formed of them, it is considered that they at least number four times that of passengers who travel by con veyance. The tonnage of goods it is calculated will be in full pro portion to the receipt from passengers. Experience has fully proved, that on however liberal a scale the probability of future traffic in the transit of goods and passengers has been judged, almost every line of railway has, upon its completion, vastly exceeded the calculated amount. There are, however, in this instance, reasons for supposing that the extended facilities of com munication will cause more than an ordinary increase in the con veyance of passengers. The country which the line of railway will open is singularly picturesque and beautiful, and in addition to the admired districts of Brixton and Streatham, the long-favoured and much-frequented Beulah and Norwood will be placed within easy access, and become more than ever, objects of interest and delight to the visitor and resident of the metropolis. There can therefore be little doubt but that the present line must become a profitable and eligible scheme for the investment of capital. The promoters of this undertaking have pleasure in announcing that it is approved of, and will be generally supported by local in fluence. They have caused a partial survey to be made, which will be completed shortly, and they have the assurance of their engineers that there are not more than ordinary difficulties to contend with. The liability of the shareholders will be restricted, by Act of Parlia ment, to the amount of their subscriptions ; and power will be applied for in the Bill to allow interest at 4/. per cent. per annum on all calls from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line. Applications for further information, prospectuses, and shares (in the form annexed), may be addressed to the Solicitors; to the Secre tary, at the offices of the Company, No. 34, Gracechurch-street ; or to the following Brokers :—viz., Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, Princes street ; Mr. H. J. Williams, 80, Old Broad-street ; Messrs. Greystone and Earle, York; Mr. Anthony Laurie, Liverpool ; Messrs. Cardwell and Co., and Mr. Henry Benton, Manchester ; Mr. James Pearson, Birmingham ; Wessrs. Watson and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Brady and Stalnforth, Hull ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Mr. Thomas Sand ford, Exeter ; Mr. James Pringle, Edinburgh. • FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee octhe.Direct West-End and Croydon Railway. Date •••• - • -• V d VREWASH VALLEY EXTENrSI O— T , an A Ol 12.4 ROCHDALE, BLACKBURN, and EAST ,LAN JUNCVION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 1,750,0001., in 87,500 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. Gentleman.—l re4hest you will allot me Shares of 201. each la the abov4 railYritY, 1 1 1)94 WWI Or PM any lea !maim that PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. th C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Directo r of the land Railway Company Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., gent's-park, and Walney, Director of the Tre nt VaL ey Company William Bean,Tube-hill • y or t z -terrace , _, ll6. William Beresford, ' Esq., M.P.. 77, Pall-mall, London. the Thames Valley Railwoy Company Hon. Augustus Berkeley, Berkeley-house, Spring-gardMi 11..i1w0 William Blantbrd, Esq., Director of the Shropshire Mineral Company ton. Charles Bradley, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Contilln,111;.0 and of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation fi' Companies Joseph Brown, Esq.,.Director of the Oxford, SouthamPtell, etll.iei and Portsmouth, and the South and Midland Railway C"arlogl Louis Buckland, Lloyd's, Director of the Manchester and Railway or of " Edwin Cadman, Company Esq., Westbourne-house, Sheffield , Dire' t , r i i n. t ll . Isle of Ely, Wisbech, and Lincoln.shiro ;of Lin: Great anie j and Lincolnshire ; and of the Direct Western R.tilwaY C °l4 William Campbell, Esq., Fairfield, Ayrshire • Cheil liSg Richard Carpenter, Esq., Magistrate ofMiddlesex, DePri t)- Ye s of The Warwick and Worcester ; and Director of the Tan Ra lw ay Compan'.es Rev. H. R. Chandos Pole, M.A., Rector of Radbourrse an d 3f glen. ten, sire John Derb chill,u Esq., Director of the Manchester and Continuation Railway Company or i te Major Morse Cooper, Hargrave, Henlv-on-Thames, Direcica:o South and Midlands, and Thames Valley Railway comPßni_ a the Samuel Walker Cox, Esq., Breadvale, Derbyshirz, Director co. Tean Dove Valley, and of the Thames Valley itallwaY panies t" William Thomas Cox, Esq., Spordon, Derbyshire, ih.--t° Tean and Dove Valley Railway Company th 11 0# John Dennis, Esq., Director of the West Midlands a nd of Valley Railway Companies ham Col. Robert Douglas, Director of the London end Birmirig, , ns nieg tension, and of the Trent Valley ,I.'ontinuatiou s '"ip a Jlef The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Director of the Thaug itaa Railway Company Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the South and 3 11 oiot, of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway 11000 W. T. Fraser, Esq., Manchester-square, Director of the ani Rugby Railway Company Lieut.-Colonel Sir L. Grant, K.C.8., 31, Hat ley-street to 10 s^as , Sir Andrew Pellett Green, Director of the Mill an d De--` way Company • c alif Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad.house, Edgbaston,' Director of ...oull ; Staffordshire, of the Oxford, Southampton, Gos,vort, and l'o l j 7,4t0 of tho London and Birmingham Extension, nell Daventry, and Warwick; and of the Manelieseer an't Continuation, and Welsh Junction Railway Goa tilan'e iti ', tret A F. J. Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, London, The ,n nreit Director of the Bideford and Tavistock Railway Cam. roe - S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.S., Inner Temple, Director °,,'„ Rall London and Leeds Direct, and of the Thames 1 11. "' al Companies the Breit Frederic Esq., Clapham, Surrey, Director o , L ot a - Western, Southern, and Eastern Counties, and of in& o t Mansfield Railway Companies Dir e° George Price Hill, Esq., Gavenbrae-house, HaMPa• -- d ' the Thames Valley Railway Compan ~,e t Roger Uolinsworth, Esq., Birmingham, y Director of t he Continuation Railway Company d O VP lff ir John Dearjas Hopkins, Esq., Director of the London a a ham Extension, and of the Staffordshire rottorle Companies GrO bf Abraham Howe, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Gras t Sheffield Railway Company f L am " W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A. F.L.S., &c., Aldernleu ° a nd 11 Chairman of the Birkenhead, ' Chester, Mold, Rh and uabo l; , the of Llangollen ;of the Leek and Mansfield ; ~opsal e°o l Western, Soutern, and Eastern C oun ti es Railway ore, 0 4 Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aber den ate lt Parthenon Club, Rcgent-street, Director of the Cllo , „. 1 Forest of Dean and Gloucester Railway Companies 0 iirar::: ; l Frederick I. Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the SP' and Worcester, Staffordshire Potteries, and Small **" Railway Companies allag b° Mr. Alderman Kelly, Director of the London and Bir t ot tension, and of the West Midland Railway Comilanie?,..et Resin Thomas Kidley, M.D., Sheffield, Director of the Dar Railway Charles George Knox, Esq., Old-square, Lincoln's Intr Ylv Law, William Esq., Director of the Shropshire 310' Se° ill Companies r CO ' George Lawton, Esq., Dutchley's, Essex, Director tbe faY Midland and South Union, and of Thames Valley panies Rev. Richard Lee, rector of Darley-dale, Derbyshire ,-,a11 4 Thomas Lee, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park ~„. . or (. 1 ' t agt" Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Raul' - e, ii° c olt William Alexander Long, jun., Esq., Kingswood -11 11W under-Edge, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester , a n Railway Company William Margetson, Esq., Streatham n or° xit' S Henry Blair Mayne, Esq., 14, Wilton-street, Gros-wort:De yol-di John Mollady, Esq., Marble-hall, Warwick, Director 0 1 We' and Birmingham Extension, and of the Exeter and oft jis Railway Companies „,,,etor Peter Morrison, Esq., Prince's-street, Bank, Londo n, I,— 04 Thames Valley Railway Company n t,- 31 0 ii i Robert William Netterville, Esq., Cruise Rath, Co ti - - - et g Sackville-street, Dublin tone, Dire John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetta-house, ,ethers yO l 1 ' of the Thames Valley Railway Company , v idls Henry Gerard Ohrley, Esq , Director of the South a nd ' „ie dtlA of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway CiA°l",,otory Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., 8, Upper Hyde Park-street, Di 4 o oa Thames Valley Railway Company George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the D el*l e rl Carlisle Railway Company l ,i The Rev. John Poole,Mansfield o r ho es sr John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Royd, Halifax, Direeter,v.erpo°7o,4 Great Northern of France ; of the Manchester, i. se a s P - f Great North of England; and of the Liverpool au d _,-ter e Companies a P u ' .. David R Ross, Esq., ALP., Chairman of the Belfast, all o itte the London and Manchester Railway Companies. Dir ecto r 4 Henry Savage, Esq., 34, Dorset-place, Dorset-so - IAM Ca t Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway Colufta ll3 Eotel l , c t Joseph Shaw, Esq , Huddersfield, Director of Ole r t' i " ,its' Railway Company ~, w o rc- William Shaw, Esq., Director of tho Warwick alw Thames Embankment Companies tor r Die t , lir William Simpson, Esq., York x re, - i i y'' William Sloane, Esq., IVimpole. street, Cavendish-sq° p so' ~ the South and Midlands Railway, and Belfast, 'A ril-. .tor` mena Railway Companies n i ei. William 11. Terrell, Esq., Stone-buildings, Lincoln's In ' weir the Hull and Doncaster Railway t ars je l William Thornton, Esq., Berkeley-street, Fortman - ''',- - rd P" psn' r Thomas Hammond Tooke, Esq., Director of the 13id- ,° - c010...,,40 ~,ay f)1, - il, tock, and London and Birmingham Extension Ro`i„roel,i;:;010" Sir William Twysden, Bart., Portman-square, Po rte ' -- JuO Ct. of of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean and Gloucester „tor , ir et, way Contany Oh 1 Aroj A Joseph Underwood, Esq., Blackheath-park and Norsr i the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway C00 3 P 4 :0 I V C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Director of the Worcest er Co opO t/ ' Railway Company Sony Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the Oxford, S °g "'" -- Gre at and Portsmouth Railway Companies Samuel Watkins, Esq., Forest Hill -,r a jleY si'd tot W. A. Wilkinson, Esq. Director of the WaveneY t ore' Yarmouth Railway Company tn uaret ..irr, B. B. Williams, Esq., Wyndham-iilace, Bryanstno: — ,ad 49' of the Direct London and Manchester Railway L ate , De' 1r Francis Sacheverel Wilmot, L iale n 'A 0 0 4 Director of the Tean and Dove ValleyßailvraY en v d :I'o4, Bpd G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed Coelyn, Denbighshire% m idial ~,, square, London, Deputy-Chairman of the Wes'oles i, 01 1 7 i Director of the Oxford and Worcester RallwaY Cli i stlle h sso W t Wright, Esq., Thorp-house, Norton, near ~t ioo , tor of the Sheffield, Barnsby, and Wakefield Jo n ' i fsle" -orti l alli Companies Sir William Wynn, Meseynewadd, Chairman of the a 3, De°! 104 and Director of the Warwick and Worcester Roil" ii'' COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION. ~A 1 . , • Ciuntmsx—W. HUGHES HUGHES, Esq., f.•° Alderman. AirS, sci. P F DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—JOSEPH BEO rge PO' Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart. Charles Gen , v q. G. N. Wright, M.A. William . 1 -' 3 ' ' Esq' T 06.4, William Bean, Esq. Stephen .-• .... pti. William Sho,_,,,"',_ $Ol - Carpenter, Esq. Robert `catkin fel' John Churchill, Esq. I W. A. Wi llanSv ' F. J. Hall, Esq. Frederick Hewitt, Esq. BANNERS. London—The Commercial Bank, Lothburl . Derby—The Derby and Derbyshire Ban k Awe" Rochdale—Messrs. Clement Royds and Sou Id a Blackburn—The Manchester and Liverpool Ban CONSULTING ENGINEER S Sir John Macneill, LL.D. and F. R. s *, James Thompson, Esq., F.R.S.E. an" ENGINEERS. 0 William B. Prichard, Eso- 00 °6 Wam Thomson, Esq., C•P' r iceS , ( 100 PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS —Messrs. Dyson , r a tr „4l ,o° SOLICITOR—HuII Terrell, Esq., 30, Basingling"' LOCAL AGENTS. J. „O Cressy Hall, E., Alfreton, Derbyshire r. George Henry Rich sq ardsonCox, Esq., Spon don, Do r . Esd• SECRETARY—Still ingfiee t Locker, re.. - witht i v r e Te o e'' ' v e Assuming the northern te • of ~ "eV ~ as- - ally r terminus h localitle .1,0 00 as its origin, tuts f im ro p m ort 2 a t t l i f t re l r in eh e , line will pass throng the pol' u tiet te te e, of the -'-'—`ls t ts provided with railway accommodation, iate rho its es, of nufacturing districts of Lancashire. It w „,„" f ".. - i iS„,f fri in Derbyshire,which i t bowrhreorwes t i I t i e w I P 'II h e the -[ O rs' traffic from the Cromford Canal—communicatiag the os, r o. 0 , ironworks—along the Dinting Vale, and, obeY saddl e" :oe, 6i tlis river Dement, enter Yorkshire, in the vicinity of j o i hos., e itit, 0 , its course, it will pass through or near to Mati°ek' i cliie ll l os I ll bs sop, Mottram, II —Ytleld, and Duckentleld, in reachinf ed, stal. ~ of t Manchester and Sheffield Railway will be intersec . w ho/ 00 dersfi unchda te field Canal Railway passed, near to the ---- 0 01 o f t os Manchester and Leeds Railway. of the c lot i t 1 Oa It is unnecessary to state here the character , o t „as 0 Rochdale to Blackburn : it will be sufficient to obserhset! scel!tivitworoe seat of those manufactures to which England ocee,,eto to I' l e ia t wealth. The line will proceed thence through a l :, itailt a c oo and Rossendale, and fall into the East Lancasb i' the ' W it" vicinity of Haslingden. Jr ° 51 0er A branch will be thrown out of the trunk line,. Dose th s with the East Lancashire line near Haslingden, 0 3 000 chid works and Bacup, to Todmorden. Nat e o ad c 'ett The Eyewash Extension will be the only alre ,, CL,,,,g , , e ciot: t e centre of Derbyshire to the great val ley m anufact uretr ifi t ie , trayricn; seaports of Lancashire. It will traverse at s ole t s ral I With the most picturesque scenery, and, at the w ith o . l o ', cs ee tlie mineral produce. It will communicate, laterally,__ w aitt j' ile al -- lines of railway, and will be fed by no less than niodeler'- ~,g the Cromford—the Manchester and Shellield—tlw writ- rt ills';',, , i iliac io s •• hr o Manchester and Leeds—and the Liverpool and flter,ect ~,1 th e t o 0 14 To the multiplication of advantages which 1 Ile Ito a ff°. ls '''' 0 l and lines of still-water navigation are con-We—thy iirec tio n , „ rd. to ing out of branches from the line itself in so rn, _ n " the cle v s re 'sos o h, still further powers of accommodation, and, " 11 '.., is eve r . w ill D e tion in the localities traversed is considered, thereepitio fo la v ote. conclude that an ample remuneration for ace , tr . twined. 's illy ahl e e ri In tin fa d 0, By following the cours hl h eef rivers, vt e , h i g hly t t l i ,an D ec with the exact direction of the projected line, _ iie wag , ~ h as . . 0 for dients are obtained for a considerable part of " T .,- set' e :'; rear dr other section of the country, upon a part 4.tlille tn lor ic ,o , reported as more than commonly practicable-. ties tbe . ,f f o ll I,e ' capital cannot be questioned, and the necessitleisiceessariu top mand accommodation, the expenditure lau s d ‘ c. 11 'I , 51 13 P ll'' the usual amount for works of equal magnatt _, O O V 5 ._% ft • „..0 To identify this project with that of the Game eocutl,.; lirejA is not included under, or belonging to the sarasi"itires ta_ttorepi: ,- posed to allow subscribers in that Cortina" . ale loteree ,100! Extension : the number to be regulated hY 0 the P ee t ls la the elder project.be ale °l'atileTe ot cv- The deeds will provide that no call sha like Act 4 p er i holders beyond the deposit now paid, until __ , r eow 0 1 ket w -- obtained ; and power will be taken in the .. Offi c° ° Ct e ,' °l terest upon all calls.: , a t the 0 . 0- 54 4 , s - be ,-. 4 0, ~.... Prospectusesj maps, and forms, al. - , nit street. )-- vt isoit '-'_,3lcsfect Terrell, solicitor, 30, Basinga.-„,--;,„ry 81010,0100 ..,:- 010 7.- „,,- Hall, Esq., Alfreton ; Georg e '"--,., s pareb- Tate , . h.-, Spondon, Derbyshire ; and the followiii, . ; 3tc , s es o . „sw e a t; a 0 0 Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle-str_CF,i oi d iito titeesl:l_ i'vree: Bush, 26, Austin-friars ; Mr. T. I.lzielll, !a_ . ges so.. ti'kft.. _dooi: don ; Messrs.Oastler and Wellbeloved, Lt!ea:is,apool:loo, Itite,ofsa Leese, Manchester; Mr. Norris Ileynolli,it_. it: „ et , n a' Preston • Messrs. Mint and Tootal, Hui .2 1 ' w. crowyre, "' te ° Messrs. ' Graystone and Earle, York ; •"; . 31r . S. ceS A Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and SonS, heffi el " ' v refaen4 v.., Mr( T. Boardman, Blackburn. rivalled t,ovettor cflpore. Applications for shares must be ace° r to the '''. o t he aPY member of the Provisional Conamittee--_Lciitr_a t Agent—to some person of known respect 0 0 cl sa banker in London or elsevVr:2: . _ . __...---- ----- R Sg.tg'!iell'lSlielf NI FO FORM OF APPLICATIO....e _..,, veuey PAOO,t Oh o tion -`" To the Provisional Committee of Lani _ .___ jut , Rochdale, Blackburn, and Bast aslttru soh. cot o f 20 1 . c pang. s 7 000 Sh ares Of 2° 0 106 Capital, 1,750,000/., in , er Share. h ,ras - t ne or Deposit, 2/. 2s.P ~ 5 co ot „ t he to Gentlemen,—l request you 1 v itt allot la' 10 to inderta o nd te t oo, If in the above Company, and I herebviaty '', allot Tl;e'cotire ....,e e at , ' or any portion of that number you I .. ,,, i t o sib. , Ag ree.' posit of 2/. 2s. per share on them , as "' lo athers d Su sign the Parliamentary Contract an ~:•' ... ~ ever required. . • '' • '..' , Dated full leag th .!..' •• ..'. Name at ...... • • ). • • Residence •• • • _if ......... --gusiness t '''''........ Place of 131- Pr:0591011 ow _ Deference or **** itodesie r rafelgOSO-4 t (Provis!enally Registered.) Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS. 1 ENGINEERS. Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., and George Remington, Esq., C.E. BANKERS. THE E ASTERN COUNTIES EXTENSION aal CAMBUIDGE and WORCESTER DIRECT RAILWAY, r ambridge through Bedford, Blisworth, Fenny Compton, Strat i wl-on-Avon, to Worcester, connecting the Eastern and North- Easta'a Counties with North and South Wales, South Staffordshire, Cheshire, Shropshire, Gloucestershire, Bristol, the West of England, and the Midland Counties. Samuel Anderson, ci -.] Directors of the Eastern Counties Rail F. Valentine Lee, Esq., • Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Pall-mall, London Major-General Sir Love Jones Love Parry, B ar t., K.C.8., Madryn-park, Caernarvonshire William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A. F.L.S., Sm., Alderman of London, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, anti a Director of the Chep.tow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction ; the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth ; the North London Junction ; and the London and Greenwich Railway Companies Captain William Cousins, Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railways James Beach, Esq., 15, Grosvenor -place, London, and Rran don-lodge,:Warwickshire, Director of the South Midland Railway Company Ellis, John, Esq., late M.P. for N-wry Robert Rising, Esq., The Shrubbery, Worcestershire James Morrison, Esq., Raymond-imildings, Gray's Inn, Pro visional Director of the Bridgewater and Minehead Railway CompanY Admiral Ayscough, Southampton John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton Captain Charnier, Halkin -street West, Belgrave-square, London at Thomas Chitty, Emi., 8, Upper Gower-street, London 7 - 3 Thomas Henry Evans, Esq., 30, Lothbury, and Mayor of Caer narvon Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, London John Helbert Helbert, Esq., Upper Gloucester-street, London 11_ James Watts Peppercorne, Esq., Old Broad-street, and Dul - j Surrey, Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashby-hall, Derbyshire, Director of the Derbysliire, Staffordsh're, and Worcesteithire Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways Adair, Major, Esq , Director of the Church of England Assurance Company Atkinson, J. B. W., Esq., Leeds Anderson, James, Esq., Bridge street, City Barry, D., £sq., Paris and London Brindley, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Star fordsh!re, and Worcestershire Junction, and of tho Direct East and West Junction Railways Brooks, John, Esq., Alderman of Manchester, Director of Reming ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway Brown, Thomas, Esq., Silsoe Brown, Joseph, Esq., Alderman of Bedford Burgess, John. Esq., Boroughreeve, St. James's-square, Manchester, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Burnett, John, Esq., Cheltenham Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester Enschek, C. Esq., 133, Fenchurch - street Cockburn, Sir Francis, Dover ( unaberledge, N., Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park ( larke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon don and Manchester, and of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Hudalersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways Croft, John T., Major, 15, Regent-street, Piccadilly, Deputy Chair man of the Chester and Manchester Railway, and Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Direct East and West Junction Railways Cooper, John Douglas, Esq., Home-cottage, Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail way Crocket, Thomas,Esti., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South-Staffordshire Railways Cooke, Rev. John, Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Hudders field, Sheffield, and. South Staffordshire Direct East and West Junction Railways Cooke, John, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Carpenter, R., Esq. Coape, Henry Coe, Esq., Goldhangers, Maldon, Essex, Director of the Oxford, Manchester, and Southampton Junction Railway Ccttle, J. M., Esq., Leamington, Director of the Coventry and Lei cester Railway ralby, John Robert, Esq., Ashbourne, Derbyshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Rail ways Dale, Major Thurston, Ashbourne, Director of the Leeds, Hudders field, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway Dawson Darner, the Rig lit Hon., M.P., Tilney-street, Part-lane raison Darner, the . Ho Wm., Parkstone-lodge Poole rayrell, E. Francis, Esq., Lffingstone Dayroll,l3ucts, High SherilT for Bucks Eames, John, Esq., Ashby kkin, Wm., Esq., Cambridge skine, Henry D., Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square F. eke, the Hon. Percy Eva ns . 3, Belgrave-squaro tch, Colonel George, 36, York-terrace, London, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway G'sborne, Henry Francis, Esq., Derby, Director of the Staffordshire, Leicester and Tamvrorth, and Derby and Crewe, Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways Gutc.h, John Matthew, banker, Worcester, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester, of the Direct East and West Junction, and of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railways Gambier, William, Esq., Salcombe-park, Bedfordshire Gore, the Hon. Robert, M.P. Gown, James, Esq., Conduit-street Tic neage, Charles, Esq., Cadeby-house, Lincolnshire Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of the Di rest East and West Junction Railways 'Won, Joseph, Esq., ironmaater, Dudley, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways Holford, John, Esq., Manchester, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester, of the Direct East and West Junction, and of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways Ilfiner, S., Esq., General Post-office, and Southampton-row, Rus s ell-square, Director of Remington's Direct London 2nd Man chester Railways fla'e, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Potteries Railway Hilt, John, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways Howard, John, Esq., Britannic4Fonndry, Bedford, Director of Re mington's Direct London and Manckester Railway Hurst, George, Esq., Bedford, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Hall, the Rev. J. V., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge Jetningham, the Hon. Edward Jores, Rey. J. P., Alton Vicarage, Cheadle, Staffordshire, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Direct Junction Railways King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of Freemasons' Life As surance-office Keane, John Joseph, Esq. St. John's Wood, Regent's - park, Director of the National Bank Of Ireland, and Chester and Manchester Direct Railway Kilpin and Son, Bedford Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Hud dersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttexeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lees, David, Esq., Wednesbury, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway-house, Cheadle, Direetor of Reming ton's Direct London and Manchester, of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways 31`Cann, Nicholas, Esq., 50, Parliament-street Moore, Major, Queen Ann-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Indian Peninsular Railway Meteyard, Horace William, Esq., Chatham-place, Director of Reming ton's Direct London and Manchester, of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction, of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, of the Direct East and West Junction, and of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railways ill liner, Wm., Esq., Teen, Staffordshire, Director of the Leeds, Hud dersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railways Murray, Samuel T. Esq., 16, George-street, Hanover-square, Director of the National Loan Assurance Company Monteflore, Joseph, Esq., Stanhope-street, May-fair Narshall, G., Esq., Godalming, Surrey Nugent, the Hon. M. W. 8., Higham Grange, Leicestershire Neracher, Thomas Henry, Esq., Dudley Norris, Edward, Esq.. Clairville, Director of Remington's Direct Lon • doff and Manchester Railway Prescott, Sir George, Bart., Theobald's, Hefts Price, Thomas, Rev, Llarothel, Herefordshire Pilkington, Henry, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway The Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor Riley, Wm. T., Esq., Pendeford-house, Wolverhampton, and Millfield Ironworks, Thlston, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Shropshire Mineral Railways Robinson, John, Esq., Silcoates-cottage, Wakefield, Director of the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midlands; of the Stockton, North, and Leeds ; Leeds, York, and Midlands' Junction ; Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways Seymour, Fred., Esq., St. James's-square Sanders, John, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford, Director of Reming ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway Sharpe, George Henry, Esq., Bedford, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Esq., F.R.M. and C.S., Bedford, Proprietor of the Skene, George R., Bedford Mercury, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manc h es ter Railway Skrine, Julian, Esq., Cambridge, Director of the Cambridge and Lin colnshire Railway Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, near Ashbourne, Director o f th e T een and Dove Valley R a ilway ; of the Derbyshire, St a ff or d s hi re, and Worcestershire Junction Railway ; of the Le>ds, Huddersfield, S,ceftleld, and South Staffordshire Railway; and of the Direct East awl West Junction Railway Esq Blore Hall, Ashbourne, Director of the Leeds Smith, Themes, And South Staffordshire, and of the Derby' Sheffield, Huddersfield, a hire Junction Railways - shire, Staffordshire , and Worcesters lton Villas, Maida Vale, Paddington, Spiers, Edmund John, En, Car _ ffordshire, and Worcestershire Director of the Derbyshire, Sta Sheffield, and South Staf- Junction, and oft e Leeds, Huddersfield, fardshire Railways Smith, F. Curwen, Esq., Frognall Hall eheffield The Sheriff of York, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield, , and South Staffordshire, and of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Juncon Railways Tr W app, Benjamin, Esq. (banker, Bedford, Direetor of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Trapp, Thomas S., Esq., banker, Bedford, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Tyler, George, Esq.Jlolloway-place, London, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Direct East and West Junction Railways Tylecote, Edward, Esq., Great Haywood, Staffordshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, and the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Rail ways Turner, J., Esq., M.P., Truro Weetenra, The Hon. J. C., M.P. Waller, Major, The Hon., St. James's-sanare Willis, George, Esq., Hungerford-park Welch, Edward, Esq., Leamington Walter, James Smith, Esq., Director of the Hayes, Bakeweli, Der byshire, Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways Wardle, Henry, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Direct London and Manchester, and Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Wor cestershire Junction Railways . Wheelton, John, Esq., Meopharn Bank, Tonbridge, Director of the Leicester and Bedfort, and Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Glou- eester Junction Railways Williams, Benj., Esq., banker, 4, Whitehall Williams, William, Esq., Royal Foundry, Bedford, Director of Re mington's Direct London and Manchester Railway Wood. John, Esq., Wednesbury, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways Weston, Thomas, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire, and of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railways Wood, William, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd-house Newport, Salop, Di rector of the Shropshire Mineral , and o f the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways Wood, Charles, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction, and of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railways 11 - 44 Wards, C. Thomas, Esq., Clopton - house , Stratforel-on-Avon .and Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire Williams, Benjamin, Esq., 4, Whitehall Turn, J. Borwick, Herne-hill, Surrey. Redford—Messrs. Cockburn and Co., 11 hitehall • Cambridge—Messrs. Foster Northampton—The Northamptonshire Bankin; Company. Leamington, Warwick, and Southam—The Leamington I'ric rs and Warwickshire Banking Company. SOLICITORS. Augustus Walter Arnold, Esq., 31, Golden-square John Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street George Pell, Esq., jun., Northampton. LOCAL AGENTS. Worcester Messrs.Gilham and Sons _ _ Leamington, Warwick, and Southam—Messrs. Patterson, ma , mcs, Hanbnry, and Gardner Offices of the Company, No. 34, Moorgate-street. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. THE HUDDERSFIELD and LIVERPOOL DIRECT RAILWAY, By Kochßale, Bury, and Bolton, formiug the shortest practicable route from Liverpool to Leeds, Hull, and Goole. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 1,250,0001., in 62,500 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share. BANBERS. London—Messrs. Glyn, Hal Wax, Mills, .ind Co. Hullonteld—The naiifax and 'Midden:llod Union Banking Com- pany. SOLICITORS, Mr. William Barker, Messrs. Brook and Freeman,lNew-street, Huddersfield. The object of this undertaking is to form a continuous line of rail way from Leeds to Liverpool, by extending the lines already made, or sanctioneol by Parliament, from their respective termini at Hud dersfield, in Yorkshire, and Bury, in Lancashire, through the iuter vetting country between Huddersfield and Bury, for which extension a line of railway only 25 miles in length is requisite. The proposed line will commence at the Huddersfield station, between which place and Leeds Parliament has already sanctioned the mrmation of rail ways, and from Huddersfield the proposed line will proceed by way of Hillhouse, Birchencliffe, and Lindley, and thence along the valley between Stainland and Greetland, through BaTk'sland, the Yale of Ripponden, and by Rochdale to Bury, in Lancashire, where it will join the terminus of the Liverpool and Bury line of railway. In addition to completing a direct communication from Liverpool to Leeds, Hull, and Gook by the shortest practicable route, and by a mach smaller outlay of capital than by - any other proposed line, it will provide for a large and important manufacturing population, hitherto without the advantage of railway accommodation, an outlet 'to the south by means of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Rai* and to Manchester and North and S outh Lancashire b y the rail above mentioned, and by the Leeds and Manchester Railway, by a proposed junction therewith at Rochdale. This line when completed will, in addition to the advantages which it presents as a through line, pass through a succession of valleys thickly studded with mills and manufactories, consuming a large quantity of raw materials and coal, all of which are brought from a distance, and transmitting to other districts the produce of their in dustry, for which purposes a line of railway has become absolutely necessary, and there can be no doubt that an ample return will be realised for the outlay of capital required. The distance between Huddersfield and Rochdale by the present line of railway is thirty miles, which by the proposed railway will be reduced to seventeen miles. The Provisional Committee reserve to themselves the right df en tering into any arrangements with existing railway companies that may appear desirable. And power will be taken by the Act of Par liament to allow interest to the shareholders at the rate of 41. per cent. per annum on the amounts paid on their shares from the respective times of payment to the times of opening the railway. Applications for shares may be addressed, in the subjoined form, to any of the undermentioned Sharebrokers, viz.—Messrs. Hill, Fawcett and Hill, Threadneedle-street, London; Mr. David Kinnear, Edin burgh ; Messrs. W. Moore and Co., Messrs. J. Gatliff and Co., Messrs. Wilson and Hellawell, Mr. Thomas Parratt, S.lr. Frederick Turner, Messrs. John* Atkinson and Co., Messrs. Tempest and Co., Messrs. Mooney and Hickes, Huddersfield; Messrs. John Young and Co., Mr. C. E. LangdOn, Leeds ; Mr. Hervey, Mr. Charles Clay, Messrs. Crowther and Brook, Halifax ; Mr. John Brooke, Dewsbury ; Messrs. Cameron, Bagenove, and Taunton, Messrs. Lloyd and Price, Liver pool ; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, and Messrs. Lynntll and Berlyn, Manchester ; or to the Solicitors to the Company. . . _ The names of a highly-respectable and influential Provisional Committee will be published in a few days. Huddersfield. Oct. 1, 1- 45. FORM OF_ APPLICATION FOR SHARES._ To the Provisional Committee of the Huddersfield and Liverp•Dl Direct Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of 20t. each in this undertaking, and I engage to accept the same % less number that you may allot to me, and to pay the deposit o 2s. per share, and to sign the Parliamentary contract and subscriberi' agreement when required. . Dated the day of 1845. Residence. .. • • ....• • • • • • • .. Profession or Trade (if any) •••• • .. Place of Business (if any) .. Reference ••• • • E LY and BURY ST. EDMUNDS RAILWAY (Registered rrorisionally.) Liability limited to tha amount of the Subscription. Capital 200,0001., in 10,000 Shares of 201. Deposit (to comply with the standing orders of Parliament) 2'. 2? per Share. Length of line, twenty-four miles. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. Sir W. Browne Folkes, Bart., Hillington-hall, Norfolk, Chairman of . . the Lynn and Ely Railway Company Francis Cresswell, Esq., Lynn, Director of the Lynn and Ely flail• way Company William Everard, Esq., Lynn, ditto William Seppings, Esq , Lynn, ditto Henry C. Lacy, Esq., Kenyon-house, Manchester, Chairman - of the Ely and Huntingdon Railway Company Frederick Ingle, Esq., :Lynn, Director of Ms Ely and Hi ntingdon • - - Railway Company Henry Champion Partridge, Esq., Snare-hill House, Norfolk, ditto Edward Self, Esq., Lynn, ditto Henry C. Lacy, Esq., Kenyon-house, Manchester, Chairman of the Lynn and Dereham Railway Company Thomas Neville Ahdy, Esq., Alhyns, Essex, Director of she Lynn and Dereham Railway Cpmpany Sir IL Roddam Calder, Bart., Sussex-place, Regent's-'ark, CM, Joseph Bridge ell Whiting, sq., Lynn, ditto Sir H. E. Bunbury, Bart., Barton, near Bury William D. Christie, Esq., M.P., Eeclestone-street, CI ester-squOi The Worshipful the Mayor of Lynn Joseph Andrews, Esq., Mildenhall, Suffolk Robert Ashton, Esq., Hyde, Manchester Wyrloy Birch, Esq., Wretham-hall, Norfolk James Bowker, Esq., Lynn Charles Burcham, Esq., Lynn Thomas A. Carter, Esq., Lynn William Clifton, Esq., Lynn Frederick Edwards, Esq., Baruham, Suffolk William Edwards, Esq., Framlingliam, Suffolk Mr. Thomas Ellington, merchant, Barton, Suffolk Mr. Richard Ellington, merchant, Barton, Suffolk Mr. Philip Fuller, merchant, Barton-mills, Suffolk John Turner Hales, Esq. Herringswell, Suffolk George Gataker, Esq., Mildenhall, Suffolk William Lowten Jones, Esq., Woodhall, Hilgay, Norfolk E. B. Manning, Esq., Lynn Thomas Carey Willard Pierce, Esq., Manchester Charles Neville-Rolfe, Esq., Sedgeferd-hall, Norfolk William Ship, Esq., Lynn Mr. Philip Smith, merchant, Soham, Ely Mr. Thomas Steel, Tuddenham, Suffolk John Teather, Esq., Alstonby, Cumberland John Wayte, Esq., M.D., Lynn William Layton, Esq., Wood House, Ely William Tinker, Esq., Hyde, Manchester Thomas Waller, Esq., The Rookery, Eyke, Suffolk. PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS. Henry Charles Lacy, Esq., Chairman Sir Henry Roddam Calder, Bart. Thomas Neville, Abdy, Esq. William Everard, Esq. Frederick Ingle, Esq. Henry Champion Partridge, Esq. J. B. Whiting, Esq. ENGINEERS. J. U. Rastrick, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., C.E. J. S. Valentine, Esq., C.E. Messrs. Goodwin, Partrid ge , SOLICITORS and William% Lyrn Messrs. Isaacson and Son, Mildenhall Messrs. Rooper,Birch, and Ingram, 68, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. BANKERS. Ifesns. Curries and Co., Cornhill • Messrs. Everards and Co., Lynn • Messrs. Gunieys and Co., Lynn Messrs. Oakes, B ev an, and C o., Bury St. Edmunds SECRETARY (pro tem.)—L. F. Edwards, Esq. PROSPECTUS. Thi s railway will commence by a junction the lines of the Ely and Huntingdon, via the r and d o a m ll Mildenhall, to Eastern Counties, the Lynn and Ely, and the Railways, at the city of Ely, and proceed thence, Bury St. Edmunds, forming there a junction that town to Ipswich, now in course of construction. northern markets. The town of Bury St. Edmunds and the adjacent districts, the country through which the line will pass, have for draWn their supply of coals, timber, deals, wine, oil-cake, tar, stones, and other general merchandise, from the port of Lynn, and have transmitted thither tinturth fruit, and other agricultural While the proposed line will affect the local object of preserving t u h c e e r , for their shipmentew corn,t ote the mercantile connexion that has so long subsisted between the county of Suffolk and the port of Lynn, it will effect the national one of affording to the ports of Ipswich and Harwich, and the im. portant towns of Colchester and Miry St. Edmunds, a direct com munication with Lancashire, Yorkshire, and the north, and, by means of the Ely aid Huntingdon, and the proposed Rugby and Huntingdon Railways, with Birmingham and the west. From these sources a most ample return on the capital required for the undertaking may be confidently relied on. The line is singularly easy of construction, the estimated cost, in cluding every contingency, being little above 8,0001. per mile ; it will not interfere with ornamental grounds of any kind, and it is not anticipated that any opposition will be offered by the landowne rs. The Provisional Directors are to be at liberty to take all,l4snch measures as they may deem requisite for obtaining tho necebsafY powers to construct the line or any part thereof, with such brantihesa extensions, or alterations, as they shall be advised to adopt ; and fig, such powers, or any of them, they are to have power to increase the amount of the capital, to lease or sell the line to, or amalgamate the same with, the Lynn and Ely, Ely and Huntingdon, and Lynn and Dereham Railway Companies, or any or either of them, or any other company or companies. It is proposed to raise the capital by issuing 10,000 shares of 201. each, a deposit of 2/. 2s. per share (in compliance with the Standing Orders of Parliament) to be paid on allotment. There will be au interval of two months between the calls, and net more than 5/. per share will be called for at one time. A Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract, in such fonn and with such clauses as the Provisional Directors may think right, will lie for signature at the offices of the Solicitors, in London and Lynn, on payment of the deposit. Arrangements will be made for transmitting the deeds to the principal provincial towns in or near which the shareholders may reside, due notice whereof will be sent to every shareholder by post. As under arrangements entered into with the Lynn and Ely, Ely and Huntingdon, and Lynn and Dereham, Railway Companies, a large proportioi of the capital has been appropriated to the holders of shares in those companies, a very limited number of shares only is at the disposal of the Provisional Directors, and no application for shares, therefore, san be attended to, except from parties locally interested and of the highest respectability, by whom applica tions may be made, in the annexed form, on or before the 13th October, 1845, to the Secretary, at the Company's Offices, Lynn, Norfolk, or to the respective solicitors ; no application, however, can in any case be attended to unless accompanied by a reference to one of the Provisional Committee, or to the Solicitors or Bankers of the Company. • To the Provisional Committee of the Ely and Bury St. Edmunds Railway. I request you to allot me shares of 201. each in the above undertaking, and I hereby engage to accept the same, or any less number which may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree ment when required. Dated the day of 1843. Name in full ........ Private Residence • ... Business or Profession (if any) ... Place of Business -. • • ...• •. .• • • Name of Referee .....• ........... Address of Referee ..,..... , _ f' OVER and BRISTOL RAILWAY, in continuation of the South-Eastern Railway, from Reigate to Bristol. Upon the Narrow Gauge. (Provisionallißegistered.) Capital, 1,500,0001, in 73,000 Shares, of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 28. per Share. PEOVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right lion. Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor The Hon. William M. Dawson, Parkstpne Lodge, ['oole, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway The Hon. Edward Stafford Jerningham, Director of the London and Nottingham Railway Lieut.• Col. the Hon. J. C. Westenra, 3f.P., Director of the East and West Junction Railway, and of the Brighton and Cheltenham Di rect Railway Sir William B. Johnston, Bart., Director of the Chepstow, Forest of 'Dean, and Gloucester Railway Ayscough, Prospect-place-house, Southampton, Director of - pc Birmingham and Leicester Railway, and South and Midland It dilway Admiral Sir George Sartorius, Director of the Direct Northern. Eastern, and Western Junction Railway Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Director of the York and Lancaster Railway William Collins, Esq., M.P., Warwick A. K. Baker, Esq., Longford-house, Cheltenham Directors of the John W. Hughes, Esq., Gloucester Bristol and Bir- George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, mlngham Railway The Worshipful the Mayor of Dover The W( r hipful the Mayor of Bath Henry Butcher, Req., the Mayor of Devizes Daniel Nanr, Esq. Edward Poole, Esq. Town Council:ors of Dover William Henry Payn, Esq. Edward Seward, Esq , The Rev. Just Henry Alt, Enford, Wilts, Director of the Manches ter, Southampton, and Poole Railway Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., Itusland-hall, Lancashire, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway J. It. W. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood-house, Leeds, Director of the Lancashire and North Yorkshire, awl North Eastern Railways George Addison, Esq., Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway John Anderson, Esq., London, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Joseph Acton, Esq., J.P., Wigan, Director of the Manchester and Wigan Railway - William Ascroft, Esq., the Willows, Yury, D:rector of the Stafford shire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway Joseph Austin, Esq., Heddingley-hill, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway William Ackroyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge, Ottley, 'Yorksh're, Di rector of the East and West Yorkshire, the Midlands and Thirek Junction, and Leeds and York and ]Midland Junction James Beech, Esq., Grosvenor-place, and Brandon, Wanvickshire, -,Director of the Reading, Guiklford, and Reigate Railway Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire, Director of • the South Union William Gabbett Beare, Esq., Porchester-place, Connaught-square, Director of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway John Boulton, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham, Lich- . ... field, and Manchester Railway Thomas Byrom, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manchester and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railways George Brown, Esq., Twining-park, Worcestershire Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Diiect Railway Robert Bell, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick, Direetor of the Great Eastern and Western Junction, and London and Nottingham Railways Robert S. Butterfield, Esq., Bradfohl, Yorkshire, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Luke Butler, Esq., Alderman, Dublin, Director of the Galway and Kilkenny, and Cork and Waterford Railways William Clode Braddon, Esq., Regency-square, Brigbton Christopher Bentham, Esq Birkenhead, Director of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway, and of the North and South cVales Bank William Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham Districts, the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction, and the Birken head and Holyhead Junction Railways Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, Director of the Central Kent Railway _ Joseph Charles Cohen, Esq., merchant, Birmingham John James Conway, Esq., Liverpool John Carmichael, Esq., Cork, Director of the Cork and Waterford Railway William Henry Collis, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway Thomas Cocksey, Esq., Atherton and Bolton, Director of the Man chester and Wigan Railway William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., Hull, Director of the Rugby, War wick, and Leamington Railway William Clifford, Esq , Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties Railway William Caldwell, Esq., Alderman, Ince-hall, Wigan, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway Intiry Coe Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Essex, Director of the Man- cheater, Oxford, and Southampton Junction Railway John Townshend Compton, Esq., Wedhampton, Wilts, Director of the Manchester, Southampton, and Poole Railway Captain F. Chamier, Haikin-street, Beigrave-square, Director of the Famponx and Hazebrouck Railway Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse Bradford, Magistrate for Wilts and Somerset John Campbell Dickers, Eq., New Hall, Neston, Cheshire, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Rugby, Derby, and Man ehester Railways Seignley Thomas Cuthbert, Esq., Clifton Thomas Davies, Esq., the .Lustins, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Di rector of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway W. T. S. Daniel, Esq , Recorder of Ipswich Miles Dormer, Esq., London, Director of the Exeter,. Dorchester, and Weymouth Coast Railway John Doughill, Esq., Locke ood, Huddersfield Joseph Dowson, Esq., merchant, Lambeth Thomas H. Evans, Esq., Mayor ofCarnarvon Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and Kirby Dale, Yorkshire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway William Edwards, Esq., Aston Furnaces, Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Great Leeds and Lon don Direct, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Rail ways Captain Gustavus Evans, Ileadly-grove, negate John Finn's, Esq., merchant, Dover Charles Fitzgerald, Esq., Charles-street, St. James's, Direetor of the London and Nottingham Railway Webster Flockton, Esq., Weybridge, Surrey Bell Fletcher, Esq., M.D., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway Thomas Folliott Powell, Esq., Esq., 16th Lancers, Lucan-house, %ppon, Yorkshire Benjamin Franklin, Esq., 5, Harley-street, Cavendish-square, Di rector of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway William Tulloh Fraser, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of the Dorking, Brighton, and Arundel Railway Charles Hay Frewen, Esq., Brickwall, Northiam, Sussex William Fitzgibbon, Esq., 21, Cambridge-street, Connaught-square, Director of the Cork an .1 Passage and Cork and Bandon Railways Major Grubbe, Eastwell-house, magistrate for Wilts William Gambier, Esq.,Sacombe-park, Herts Captain Goulde, Charles-street, St. James's George Frederick Gregory, Esq., Scacombe, Cheshire, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the South Stafford shire Junction, the Derby and Crewe, the Macclesfield and Lich field, and the Leicester and Tamworth Railways John Griffith Frith, Esq., merchant, Austin-friars, Chairman of the Londonderry and Coleraine Railway James Gernon, Esq., Conduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, Manchester, Oxford, and South ampton, and Cheltenham and Brighton Railways William, Gatlin', Esq., merchant, Leeds, Director of the West York shire Railway Joseph Gill, Esq , Potter Newton Mount, Leeds,Director of the Leeds and York and Midland Junction Railway John Hall, Esq., Bull, Director of the Hull and York Railway William Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Director of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway Samuel Haines, Esq , Chad House, Edgbaston, Director of the - - - Leicester and Tamworth Railway William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth and South Staffordshire Junction Railways William Wilkes Hill, Esq., Beeston Hall, Leeds Lewis Hoffman, Esq., Temple, Director of the Nottingham and South Staffordshire Railway James Inglis, Esq., M.D., Halifax, Director of the Manchester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction, and the London, Holyhead, and Portdynllaen Railways John Johnson, Esq., R.N., Birmingham tKensingtsn Lewis, Esq., Worcester-park, Surrey, Director of the Cheltenham, Oxford and Brighton Junction, and the Lynn, Wilt beach, and Peterborough and Midland Counties' Railways John Lowe, Esq., Norfolk Crescent, Hyde-park William Phillips Lamb, Esq., Oekham House, Sussex Edward Augustus Lamb, Esq., Westfield, Battle, Sussex, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway Darnton Lur ton, Esq , Potter Newton Hall, Mayor of Leeds, Dlreo tor of the Leeds and York, and Wakefield and Bradford Railways Sir William Lowthrop, Knt., Hull, Director of the Leeds, Hudders field, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Direct Railway John Lord, Esq., Standish Hall, Lancashire, Director of the Black burn, Chorley, Wigan, and North Union Junction Railway, and of the Staffordshire Potteries, and Manchester and Liverpool Direct Hyde Park-square, Director o f the Tring, Railway J R ow l an d Mackenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, ames Lamb,Reading, and E s e6' stoke ing Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Cheltenham, Basingstoke Railway Oxford, and Brighton Railways Thomas Gibbon Moneypenny, Esq., Hole-park, Rolvenden, Kent Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the Brighton and Chel tenham Direct Railway James Joseph M`Swiney, Esq., Sandal View, Wakefield, Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway J. Mee Mathew, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commissioner, Director of the Worcestershire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire Railway Captain Macdougall, fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the head ing, Guildford, and Reigate Railway John George Norbury, Esq., Mancotter-house, Atherstone, Director of the Teen and Dove Valley, and South Staffordshire Junction Railways Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield, Director of the Halifax, and Bradford Union Railway, and the Joseph vi ua,i k de N ef fl o Norton, and Harrogate Railwaydt ed Captain Thomas Ross, 58, Porchester-terrace, Director of the Di- Northern, Eastern, and Western Junction Railway George Parbury, Esq. Mansfield House, Russell-square, Director of I the Leeds and Carlisle Railway William Peppercorns, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the West Midland Railway William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the London and Notting- Alexander Prince, Esq., Lon ton, Director of the Cheltenham, Ox ford, and Brighton Railway ham Railway George Ewing Scott, Esq., Stoke Bishop, near Bristol Thomas Stocker, Esq., St. Ives, Director of the Wisbeach, St. Ives, and Cambridge Railway Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-terrace, Director of the Lynn, Wisbeach, Peterborough, &c., Railway William Spooner, Esq., London, Director of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool, Manchester, and New castle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway Henry Scott, Esq., 17, Pall-mall S. E. Sichel, Esq., merchant, Bradford, Director of the Leeds, York, anal Midland Junction Railway George Turner, Esq., 'Hunton Hill, Erdlngton, Director of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway Henry Taylor, Esq. ' Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manchester and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union John Taylor, dlways George Turton, Esq., Bagden Lodge, Clayton West, Huddersfield William Tinker, Esq., Conock, Wilts, Director of the Manchester, Southampton, and Poole Railway George Thom as uTapiliiii,olimi L iverp ool, Preston, Thompson, Esq., Dover, Coroner fbr the Cinque Part s John Thompson, Esq. Al d erman of Wigan, Director of the Birkhen -I,,ead and Uolyhead ' Rallway, of the Manchester and Wigan Rail and.srlhr" Preston, and North Union Junction Railway Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties Railwa y , •Ise Th e Green, Herefordshire, Director of the Staf fordshire Georg e Unett, E the Lynn, Wisbe op th slll a r n e , 4 .T p a Junc tion Peterborough Railway tor of the ~,, se, The Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Direc "' inaham Lichfield , and Manchester Railway, and Manchester Railway. allway e S ta ir t ri b i fht g h h e a T m n , n D g l: R ec e t a o d r in o g f , t an he d ß ß ir as m i l n xig gi i Thomas Bolman up f u i Ma h j a o m r , Wh Lic it h e ll , e P ld all , - A re nd t: llE , : l ire ' a ilwl t y a s frord s " am and south D ragoons , hand ' Captain 3a Light Maidstone Director `palter o s t r o k t e h tei.nNe ßailway tott,tEl!) i ts q Staffordshire, the Lynn, Wisbeach, and Ee l Peterbor i t William Royden Watts, 1.1 M.D., Birmingham, Director of the Lincoln, Louth, and Great Grimsby Railway Thomas Wakefield, Esq., Loudon, Director of the Nottingham and South Staffordshi re Railway Smith Whylock, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway Robert William Watson, Esq., Dover John Weelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, near Tonbrike, Director of and Bedford Railway the L'Aester Sir William White, Director of the Stafford, Uttoxeter, and Derby Railway, J. W. Yerbury, Req., house Belcombe- , Wilts, Capt. 3d. Light Dra goons, Director of the Direct Western Lancers Railway, 19th Lodge Murry Murry Prior, Egg. , , Coventry, Director of the Dublin, Tullamore, and Parsonstown Railway Edward Knight, Esq.,'M.D., Stafford, Director of the Grand Junction and Midlands' Union Railway William Henry Skelton, Esq., Shadwel , 1 near Leeds Charles William Reynolds, Esq., Capta i n 16th Lancers, Maidstone, Director of the Worcester, Warwick and Rugby Railway Thomas Bramall, Esq., Mayor of Tamworth, Deputy Chaiman of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway _ Richard Hughes, Esq., Stafford, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway Henry Wenman Newman, Esq., Thornbury-park, near Bristol, De. pasty-Lieutenant of Gloucestersshire, and magistrate of Gloucester shire and Bristol. CONSULTING - ENGINEF2X-- ACTING ENGINEER—Edward James 3faude, Esq., C.E. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Rogers, Oiling, and Co. ; the Union Bank Bristol—Stnckey's Banking Company Bradford and Trowbridge—The Wilts and Dorset Banking Company Doer—Messrs. Latham and Co. JOINT SOLICITORS. Edwin Smith, Esq., and Messrs. Lewis and Ford, Lmclen ; Edward Burgas, Esq., Bristol. LOCAL SOLICITORS. G. P. Thompson, Esq., Dover ; Henry Gilbert, Esq., Devizes; W. H. Reece, Esq., Birmingham. ~"~~~ t:' Messrs. Timbre]] and Merrick, Bradford and Trowbridge Messrs. Taylor, Kemp, and Kingston, Bath. PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—Cadwallader F. Waddy, Esq, SECRETARY—CharIes Martin, Esq. This Company has been formed for the purpose of constructing a line in continuation of the South-Eastern Railway at Reigate, whereby a direct junction will be effected between the whole of the south-eastern coast, includin ,, the port and harbour of Dover and the several ports and towns of Southampton, ' Gosport, Portsmouth, and Bristol ; and, by means of the Bristol and Birmingham Railway, with Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, and the north of England. From its proximity to the Continent, the port of Dover will always be the most accessible point of the English coast; an expeditious communication therefore between that and the other ports, harbours, and inland:towns of the United Kingdom, must necessarily be regarded as a great national advantage. Dover is :.t present the chief port of ernbarkat 7 on for Calais, Boulogne, Ostend, and other continental towns, and the vast numbers already resorting there both on busi ness an d p l easure , w ill b e im measurably increased when the railways of France, Belgium, Hol land, and Germany are fully brou g ht i nto operat i on. In addition to which, the Government Commissioners having selected Dover as a Harbour of Refuge, and recommended the outlay thee. • of 1,500,000/., it cannot fail of becoming a place of the greatest resort for the shipping and commercial interests of the coun try, and perhaps the most important town on the southern coast. In every point of view, therefore, whether for national security, or for travelling excursions, or the invaluable interests of our shipping and commerce, the paramount importance of a cheaper, snore conve• silent, and accelerated intercourse between tr-is great port and all parts of the kingdom, must be sufficiently Obvious. Th's the pro moters fully anticipate will be attained by the proposed railway, which will form a portion of a grand trunk line, completing the chain of railway communication , pon the narrow gauge between thn south-eastern coast, and Bristol and the western, northern, and mid land counties. _ The lira, will commence at the terminus of the South-Eastern Rail way at Reigate, proceed thence by Dorkinz, Godalming, Farnham, and ()Wham to the Basingstoke station, on the South-Western Rail way. It will then proceed by Andover towards Devizes, Trow bridge, and Bradford, with a branch to Bath, and pursuing its course through the Somersetshire coal-fleld, throwing off a branch towards Radstock into the heart of the collieries, terminate in a junction with the Bristol and Birmingham Railway at Bristol. By its muse through Dorking, Godalining, Farnham, and Odi ham, it will supply the railway accommodation so mach required by those towns, and connect the itch and fertile hop districts of Surrey, Kent, and South Hants, and afford the means of conveyance of their produce to the great Hop-fair at Weyhill. By its junction with the contemplated " Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway," it will afford to the inhabitants of Reading, Oxford, and to the midland counties generally, the best and shortest route to the Continent, as well as to Worthing, Hastings, Brizhlon, and the other watering-places in Sussex and Kent ; and a vast increase of visitors will undoubtedly be attracted to those places from the interior of England by the accommodation and facilities for travelling which will be accomplished by this and the proposed railway from Reading. By its intersection of the South-Western Railway at Basingstoke, and of the proposed Manchester and Southampton Railway further west, the present line will connect Dover towards the south, with Southampton (the packet station for the East and West Indies, &c.), Gosport, and Fortsmouth, and towards the north, with Cheltenham, Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool, also ' with tihrewsbury, Chester, and Holyhead, and in fact with the whole of North and South Wales. At Basingstoke, also, this lino w:11 join the proposed London, Salis bury, and Yeovil Railway, and throw open to Dover and the south eastern counties the populous and wealthy cities of Salisbury and Exeter, the rich agricultural counties of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, and Devon, the p rts of Plymouth, Devonport, and Falmouth, and the mineral regions of Cornwall. To Devizes, Trowbridge, Bradford, and Bath, and the other towns in the vicinity of its course, the benefit :which this line wll confer camot be too highly estimated; to the coal districts of Somerset shire it will open large and constant markets both in Bristol and to the south and cast, while to the inhabitants of Bristol especially, con necting its channel with the Straits of Dover and the Downs, pro viding a perfect line for telegraphic communication, and securing to them the whole of the trade between the south-east of England and the west and south of Ireland, it seems difficult, considering the enor mous traffic which must necessarily flow to that city, to conceive a project more deserving of their cordial support. In the memorable Parliamentary contest last session between two great rival companies, the Legislature for the first time admitted that principle of competition with existing interests which was claimed by the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Company for tire protection and benefit of the public; and it is with no fear of the resu't that the promoters of the present undertaking invite attention to one distinguishing feature it contains, viz., that by the construction of the line from Bristol to Basingstoke, the Box Tunnel will be avoided, and a new and independent communication will be established between Bristol and London, by a shorter line on the narrow gauge than by the devious course of the Great Western, inde pendently of all the advantages of the proposed central station at llungerford-bridge, and the convenient access to the Thames both there and at Nine Elms, over the distant and inconvenient station of the Great Western at Paddington. In length the proposed line will be nearly 110 miles (assuming this Company to have the construction of that portion between Reigate and Dorking, for which plans have been deposited by the South- Eastern Company) —the country through which it passas does not present any engineering difficulties of moment, nor will any resi dential or ornamental property be interfered with except under an imperative necessity. A reserve of shares will be made for landowners on the line, and the Committee also retain to themselves the power to vary the course of the line with reference to any arrangements with existing interests and projected lines that may be considered advantageous to the shareholders. The capital proposed to be raised is 1,500,0001., in 75,000 shares of 201. each, with a deposit of 2/. 2s. per share, to be paid on allotment. Power will be taken by the Act to allow interest, at 41. per cent. per annum, upon all deposits and subscriptions until the opening of the line, and no subscriber shall be answerable for more than the amount of his deposit until the Act has been obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his subscription. The Subscribers' Agreement and the Parliamentary Contract will be ready for execution, and the scrip issued immediately upon pay ment of the deposits. Applications for shares must he addressed to the Secretary, at the Offices of the Company, No. 12, Gray's Inn-place, only; but no appli cation will be attended to unless accompanied by a reference to a member of the Provisional Committee, one of the solicitors to the Company, 9r . a. banker. Copies of the prospectus and form of application for shares may be obtained at the offices of the Company, or of Messrs. Peppercorne, Old Broad-street ; Mr. Sym, 9, Tokenhouse-yard ; and Mr. B. B. Wil liams, Throgmorten-street, stock and sharebrokers, London. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Doyer and Bristol Rdllway. Gcntlemtn,—l request you will allot me shares of 201. each In this Company, and I agree to accept the same, or any smaller number which may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit thereon, and execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated this 1845. day of same in full . • • • • • . Occupation or Profession..,.. Residence • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . Reference • • • . and the north-west of England, with the eastern lines of railway, with Oxford and the south, and with Worcester and Wales. The main line will communicate from the London and Birming ham Railway, near Harrow, and, passing to the north of Oxbridge, will proceed up the Valley by Chalfont, near Amersbarn and C hesh am , to Missenden and Wendover, and thence to Aylesbury, from whicl. place it will extend to Buckingham, and, approaching Brackley, wil terminate by a junction with the proposed Warwickshire and London Railway, near Banbury. In connexion with this part of the line, 11 is proposed to improve the communication between Aylesbury an • London by taking a direct line from Aylesbury to Tring. In addition to the line above described, it is intended also to con struct a railway from the station of the London and Birminghan Railway, at Bietchley, through Bloester, to Oxfoi d. From Bletchle, to Bedford a railway is in course of construction by the Bedford am'. London and Birmingham Company, and from Redford corm - milieu tions eastward are proposed. The proposed BuCkhigham and London and Birmingham Railway Company is amalgamated with this Company. Accurate surveys of the country have been taken by Mr. Rob,r: Stephenson, and it has been ascertained that no engineering difficu 13 . of importance presents itself. The undertaking has already received the sanction and support a very large proportion of the nobility, gentry, and proprietors land, through or near whose property it is Intended to pass. It is proposed that these lines should be made wit's the co-opera tion and under the direction and superintendence of the London and Birmingham Railway Company, under a lease In perpetuity, at four per cent. per annum on the outlay, with an equal divisien of the sur plus profits. It Is intended to allot the shares to the holders of scrip in the London, Worcester, and South S' afforshire Railway Company in certain proportions, subject to the approbation of the Committea Management, such shares as may be required for parties havii:g lock 1 interest being excepted. • No further applications for Shares can be received. Oct. 1, 1845 11. 4A IXETER, DORCHESTER, AND WEY MOUTH JUNCTION COAST RAILWAY. Ti e Committee of Management beg to inform the pubic that the shares in this Company arc now in course of allotment, aid that they (the Committee) intend issuing the Letters and Allotmen's s soon as the requisite examination has taken place into the appleation for By order, Oct. 2, 1845. FRANCIS CREW, Secretary. B ARNET and NORTH MMTROPOLITAN JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Pros 'atonally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.) Capital, 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21.25. per Share. No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Subscription PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Hen. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., Chairman, Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway Company William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, also Deputy-Chairman of the Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway Company Sir John Osborne, Bart., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing stoke Railway Company Sir Henry Richardson, Knight, Chessel, near Southampton Lord of the Manors of Chipping Barnet and East Barnet The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch House, Henley William Wilberforce, .Esq., James-street, Buckingham-gate, and Highwood House, Highwood Hill, Hendon Samuel Dendy, Esq., Montague-street, Russell-square, Lord of the Manor of Hendon Lieut.-Colonel Glllies, Porchester House, Bayswater William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Josiah Heale, Esq., Gray's Inn Major Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales Railway Company llenryßeckley Richardson, Esq., F.S.A., Director of the Cs'chaster, Cambridge, and Harwich Junction Railway Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., M.D., Mortimer-street, Cavendish- square Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway Thomas Priestley, Esq., Principal of Mill Hill Grammar School, Hendon, Middlesex The Rev. H. J. Crump, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex Captain Grover, R.N. Captain John Ines, H.C.S., Wentworth House, Mill Hill, Hendon, I pliddlesex The Rev. Bartholomew Nicholls, M.A., Incumbent of St. Paul's Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex Mr. William Ward, Underhill, Barnet _ _ Air. Bruce Johnson, Finchley William Christopher Daniel Deighton, Esq., Fellow of Queen's College Cambridge, Holloway Ralph Allen Frogley, Esq., Hounslow, Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway Colonel Taylor White, Hadley-green, Barnet Abraham Scott, Esq., Hadley Priory, Barnet W. J. M`Gwise, Esq., 74, St. James's-street W. Prosser, jun., Esq., 36, New Broad-street, City James Berington, Esq., East-street, Horton George Freeman, Esq., Grange House, Leeds Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq., Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway Company George Godfrey, Esq., The Elms, Hutton, Essex Robert Wright Wood, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and _ Basingstoke Railway Company Alexander Prince, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing- stoke Railway Peter Graham, Esq., Angelo Villa, Gloucester-road, Regent's Park William Henry Halpin, Esq., 23, Grafton-street, Fitzroy square Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Triug, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Company Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales Railway Com",tany J. N. Nichelay, Esq., Oxford-street John Godfrey B. Hudson, Esq., Director of the Central Terminus Railway Company The Rev. G. A. Walker, Alvisthorpe Parsonage., Wakefield, Direc - —...... tor of the Wakefield and Bradford Railway Company John Thomas Haworth, Esq., Leicester, Director of the South Union and Leicester and Birmingham Rt.. way Thomas Francis Justice, Esq., Berner's-street, Oxford-street George Parbury, Esq., Manstleid-street, Russell-square, Director of _ _ th; . Grand Trunk Railway John D. Hopkins, Esq., 25, Bedford-square J. H. Lister, Esq., Director of the south and Midland Junction Railway - - J. P. Wright, Esq., Edinburgh W. 81ark, Esq., Rocklinßs, Lodge, Cricklewoo4 Charles Waite, Esq., Willesden Thomas Cope, Esq., Cricklewood Captain F. N. Fisher, United Service Club, Whitehall George Howell, Esq., Fincbley-common George Hayes, Esq., Vincent-villa, Finchley•common - _ Robert Henry Lindham, Esq., 8, New-street, Dorset-square Alexander James Gedd6s, Esq., Parade, Thames Bank. (With power to add to their number.) COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, W. H. Halpin, Esq. Chairman Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq. William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy- Alexander Prince, Esq. Chairman George Freeman, Esq. Major Lindam, K.H. George Godfrey, Esq. Henry Beckley Richardson, F:sq., Robert Wright Wood, Esq. F.S.A. Charles Green, Esq. CONSULTING ENorrons,—Francis Whishaw, Esq., C.E., Brook j.odge Hendon, and Adelphi. . _ ACTING ENGINEER—J. Bailey Denton, Esq., 10, Gray's Inn-square., EANSERs—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, JOINT SOLICITORS. Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street O. P. 11111, Esq., 21A, Soho-square. LOCAL AGENTS. Henry Hammond, Esq., solicitor, Wentworth Lodge, Finchley John Hughes, Esq., solicitor, Whetstone. Messrs. Tatham and Son, solicitors, Highgate Thomas Weeks, Esq., solicitor Tottenham •. , This railway will connect the important and hitherto neglected town of Barnet with the London and Birmingham and the Great Western Railways, at or near Holsdon-green ; with the Northern and Eastern and the Eastern Counties Railway, at or near Totten ham ; and the proposed Direct London and Manchester, and the Lon don and York Railways. The line, in its course, will unite the town of Barnet with Whet stone, Totteridge, Highwood Hill, Mill Hlll, Fluchley, Holder's Hill, Hendon, Burrows, Golder's Hill, Gutterhedge, Kingsbury, Neesdon, Wilsdon, Wilsdon Green. Holsdon Green, Kensall Green, Westbourne Green, Maida Hill, Kilburn, Hampstead, West End, Highgate, Crouch End, Hornsey, Muswell Hill, West Green, Tottenham, Edmonton, Chintbrd, Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington, Newington Green, Clap ton, Highbury, Holloway,.Kingsland, Layton, Stratford, West Ham, Bow, Bromley, Bethnal Green, Limehouse, lloxton, Homerton, Hackney, Shacklewell, Dalston, Islington, St. Pancras, Shoreditch, Blackwall, Euston-square, Paddington, Kensington, Hammersmith, Brompton, Fulham, Chelsea, &c. ; connecting those places with the various railways named, and all those south of the river Thames. The distance from the town of Barnet to the station of theLendon and Birmingham Railway, at Euston-square, by this route, will be 15 miles. The length of the main line, from the point of junction at Totten ham to the London and Birmingham Railway, will be 11 miles ; and the length of the branch line to Barnet, will be 43; milei. From the junction with the Birmingham Railway to Chipping Barnet, 914 miles ; from the Decoy (near Brent-street, Hendon), on the proposed Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway, to the Northern and Eastern Counties Railway, by Stamford-hill, 6 3 4 miles. There are no engineering difficulties throughout the entire distance. The line will proceed beyond the range of the Highgate and Hamp stead Hills, and the branch from the main line to Barnet will follow the Talley of the river Brent to the intended station at Barnet ; thus the expense of construction will be less than any other metropolitan line of railway, for the above reason, and because it will pass through an agricultural district, avoiding all ornamental property and large collections of houses and buildings. Upon the completion of this railway, a large and daily- increasing population, resident beyond the limits of the metropolitan omnibuses, will be largely benefited, and land and agricultural produce, hitherto affording an inadequate return to their cultivators, will be quad rupled In value. The ancient, populous, and once-flourishing town of Barnet, too, will now have a railway communication of its own, without depend ing upon the caprice or uncertain goodnature of any company who may hold out a prospect of a branch, in future Unice, from some of the trunk lints now contemplated. An ample return of profit to the investments of shareholders may be safely anticipated, and will arise from the following sources, amongst others :- 1. From the conveyance of passengers. 2. From the carriage of goods and - merchandise tem the City and Docks, &c., to the several railways which are intersected by this line, avoiding the delay and excessive cost of conveyance through Louden ; also from the conveyance of cattle, &c., more particularly during the period of the large Barnet fairs. 3d. From the conveyance of coal, both inland and seaborne fuel, and other commodities of general consumption, the great expense of which has long been felt by all classes as a most grlevc , b ev... The Committ re cf Ilattagc.mect re3crve to themselves the power of adopting, upon t his line, locomotive power, or Presser's Railway guide and safety wheels, as may be deemed expo lieut. Applications for Shares in the form annexed k an!, °remota cations from persons desirous of promoting the objects of the C pany), may be addressed to the Secretary, at the Provisional Offices of the Company, 69, Newman-street, Oxford-street; to the Joint Solicitors, Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, and G. P Hill, Esq., 21a, Soho-square g or to Messrs. Sparks and Clark, 3, Bartholomew-lane; Messrs. W. and 11. R. Cox, Share-brekers, 16, Throgmorton-street; L R. Lane, Esq., Birmingham; Charles 0. Nei , Esq., 15, St. Ann's-square, Manchester ; Mr. Landford, Exeter; John Wells, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings, Liverpool; and Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oaster, Leeds. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Barnet and Nortli Metropolitan Junction Railway, 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street, Lonclon, Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to ins Shares of 201. each in this Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parlia mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Name in Rill Trade or Profession Name, Residence; and Profession or Trade of Referee • . Date..