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IRISH WEST COAST RAILWAY (Registered Provisionally.) Capital, 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. (..\ro Subscriber to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.) PSOVISIONAL COMMITITa. Mark Blake, Esq., M.P., Balllnafad, Mayo Robert Dillon Browne, Esq., M.P., Glencorrib, Mayo John Patrick Somers, Esq., M.P., Sligo Sir Thomas Bernard Going Dancer, Bart., Moireeny louse, Clough = (minty Tipperary, Director of the Galway and Kilkenny The lion. Geomy Browne, D.L., Wilton-crescent, London, and Castle M`Garrett, Mayo The lion. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney. Parliament-street, Whitehall, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway The Right Hon. Jelin Ladaveze Arabin, Lord Mayor of the City of Dublin Michael Gallagher, Esq, Mayor of Sligo John Netterville Barron, Esq., Resident Magistrate, Sanders Park, Cork Owen Edmond Blake, Esq., J.P. Frenclafort, Galway William Butler, Esq., J.P., Bunnahow, Ennis (late High Sheriff of Clare) Tames F. Burke, Esq., J.P., St. Clarence, Galway Dominick Joseph Burke, Esq., J.P., Greenhill, Mayo Theobald Burke, Esq., J.P., Woodville, Mayo William Campbell, Esq., Sackville-street, and Brighten John Carmichael, Esq., T.C., Rivertson House, Cork, Director of the Cork and Killarney Railway Charles Collins, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge, Director of the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Jamaica Railway Thomas Comins, Esq., Ballybrit House, Galway Edward Deane, Esq., J.P., Curragowan, Mayo John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New Wall, by Weston, Cheshire, Direc tor of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway James Dillon, Esq., J.P., Cogue, Mayo John Dunn, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S., L. and D., Drumsna, Leitrim Thomas Edwards, Esq., King William-street, London, Director of the Direct London and Dublin Railway Robert Fiske, Esq., Chepstow, Monmouthshire Robert Graham, Esq., J.P., Drumgoon, Fermanagh Klein Grant, Esq., St. James's-street, Pall-mall, Director of the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Jamalea Railway Henry Griffith, Esq. , D.L., J.P., Port Royal, Sligo, Director of the Sligo and Shannon Railway W. A. Hill, Esq., Lonsdale-square, Deputy-Chairman of the Glouces ter and Aberystwith Railway Dean John Hoare, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square Edward Hoare, Esq., Percy-street, Bedford-square, Director of the Great Welsh Central Railway, &c. T. Hodges, Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway, &c. Robert Hughes, Esq., Ely House, Wexford, Director of the Provin cial Bank of Ireland John Kerschner, Esq., Middle Temple William King, Esq., Spring-gardens, and Putney, Surrey John Knox, Esq., J.P., Greenwood Park, Mayo Joseph Myles M'Dennell, Esq., J.P. Doocastle, Mayo Rowland If. Mackenzie, Esq., Mo rtimer-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Great Wes tern Extension Railways Capt. Charles Carden Mansergh, Longraigue, Wexford, Director of the Wexford, Waterford, and Valenti& Railway Capt. Newton, Bruton-street, and Lugwardin, Herta Francis R. O'Grady, Esq., Tavrane, Mayo Richard O'Grady, Esq., Tavrane, Mayo John O'Hara, Esq., Raheen Gort, Treasurer, County Galway charles Ormsby, Esq., D.L., Cummin, Sligo Robert Dudley Perese, Esq., Galway Michael Perrin, Esq., Galway Rees Price, Esq., M.D., Tyne Hall, Great Ilford, Essex Richard Cowley Polhil, Esq Brompton, Middlesex .Toseph Richardson, Esq., J.P. Summer-hill House, Clones Thomas Seymour, Esq., J.P., Ballymore Castle, Balllnasloe lames Sexton, Esq., J.P., Limerick James Shirreffs, Esq., M.D., Liverpool-road, Islington J)espard Taylor, Esq., Newport, Swords John Walsh, Esq , Castlehill, Mayo Captain George Edward Watts, R.N., Langton Grange, Darlington Edward West, Esq., Westow Hill, Surrey (With power to add to their number.) CONSULTING ENGINEER—CoIoneI Landmann, R.E., ENGINEER—G. M. Lewis, C.E. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co. Scotland—Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank Ireland—National Bank and Branches Provincial Bank and Branches. STANDING COUNSEL—James Monson Carroty, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Langley and Mead, Bedford-row, London. William Thomas Kelly, Esq., 16, Mountjoy-square North, Dublin, and Castlebar, Mayo. LOCAL AGENTS. Galway—Captain F. O'Shaughnesiry Castlebar—Mr. Henry Murphy, Sligo—Mr. W. C. Tuite. SECRETARY—Henry T. Stuart, ESQ. PROSPECTUS. The object of this line of Railway is to complete the chain of coast communication, and form a connexion with lines already established or projected with reasonable hopes of success. It will commence at or near the city of Limerick, and taking a nor therly direction, proceed through the counties ofClare, Galway, Mayo, A 11.1511140, terminating at Sligo, by a junction with the Sligo and Ennis killen Railway, and accommodating on its route the important cities and towns of Limerick, Ennis, Gort, Loughrea, Athenry, Monivea, Tuam, liallinrobe, Castiebar, Westport, Foxford, Ballina, Kilalla, Swineford, Streamstown, and Sligo, which town being connected with the north, east, and south, by the different lines through Enniskillen, London derry, Coleraine, Belfast, Armagh, Newry, Dundalk, Drogheda, Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Valentia, Tralee, and Limerick, the establishment of this line will cause Ire land to present a completeness of locomotive communication which po other country in the world enjoys. Application for shares to be made in the usual ft rm to the Solici tor' in London and Dublin ; to the Local Agents ; to the Secretary, at the office of the Company, 10, Old Jewry Chambers ; to Scoble Willeafor,l, Esil., Castle-street, Exeter ; and to the undermentioned bruters • -Messrs. Martin and Heseltine, Finch-lane, Cornhill ; Mr. P. B. Change-alley, Cornhill ; Mr. Anthony Laurie, Liver pool ; Messrs. Brady and Staniforth, Manor-street, Hull; Mr. S. Grindrol, 3lanehester ; Messrs. Watson and Co., Lat.& ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol; Mr. John Balmer, Gloucester; Messrs. Tyeth and Wills, Plymouth ; Mr. T. Sandford, Exeter; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh ; Messrs. M'Ewen and Auld, Glasgow ; Mr. William Gor don, Aberdeen ; Messrs. Curtis and Power, Dame-street. Dublin ; )Ir. James Morgan, Cork. of whom Prospectuses may be had. N O'i TING HAM, BIRMINGHAM, AND COVENTRRAIWAY. Uniting Warwick, Coventry, and Birmingham vita Nottingham, Newark, and Lincoln. (Provisionally Registered.) Ofikes—(temporary), 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street. Capital 420,0001., in 21,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. yetovianonaL commirrice. Sir John Penniston Milbanke, Bart., Great Portland. street William Collins, Esq., M.P. for Warwick :Michael Thomas Bass, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of' the Cheater and Manchester Direct Railway Fraser B. lienshawe, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square, Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction Railway Major Waller, IC.H., Deputy Chairman of the South and Midlands Junction Railway Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, F.R.S., 15, Upper Montagne-street, Montague-squ tre, Director of the College of Civil Engineers Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Hyde Park-place, D rector of the Li mrpool, Manchester and Newcastle Junction Railway T. E. Blgge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square, Director of the Warwick and Cheitenham Railway The Hon. W. E. Fitzmaurice, M.P. for Bucks, Chasham-street, I:aigrette- square Henry Dann, Esq., 42, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe Railway George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Herts, Director of the South and Midland Junction Railway Jahn Clement Ruding, Esq., Director of the National Bank of Ireland ,folut Rawson, Esq., Halifax, Deputy Lieutenant for Yorkshire, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway The Eon. Colonel Leicester Stanhope, Ashburnham House, Chairman of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway John Thomas Haworth, Esq., Leicester Thomas :Tackett, Esq., Derby, Director of the Great Manchester and Southampton Railway John Sandars, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway Join Fisher, Esq., Fhort-hill, Nottingham, and Watling-street, London Captain Horatio Thomas Austin, R.N., C.B. N a thaniel Nadin, Esq., Stapenhill, Burton-upon-Trent Capt. Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headley Grove, Surrey Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth, and Derby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby Junc tion Railway Edmond Sharpe, Esq., Swandlincote, Potteries Sheldo. , Craddock, Esq., Leicester John Gretna, Esq., brewer, Burton-upon-Trent Ambrose Moore, Esq., Milk-street, Cheapside lames Arty.min, Esq., Mark-lane, Director of the London and York Railway Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the East India Company lent.-Gen. Taylor, Clarendon-place, Hyde Park George Ledwall Taylor, Esq., 45, Hyde Park-square Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway Matthew Gisborne, Esq., Walton Hall, Derbyshire Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq., Imberhorne House, Sussex John Taylor, Esq., Cross-street, City, Director of the Commercial Bank of London (With power to add to their number.) SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bass and Sweeting, Burton-upon-Trent. Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street. Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Royal Hj ngeatchinson, 1, Exchange-buildings, Excha. BANKERS. The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street. The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury, and 6, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. The Burton, I'ttoxeter, and Ashurne Union Ban Burton-tmon-Tren b t, o and Ashbourne. king Company, Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby. ACTING ENGINEER — Elijah Galloway, Esq. Th Him will commence at the Long Eaton station of the Midland C, ,tintie , i Railway , anti will proceed in a direct line to or near Castle , Donin,,ton, Asithy-de-la-'Gooch, Measham, and Market Bosworth to Nuneaton; joining, at Market Bosworth. the Birmingham branch, projected by the Tainworth and Leicester Company, and at Nuneaton, the projected Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway, at the point where that line crosses the Trent Valley line. Thus a direct communication will be formed between the important towns of Nottingham, Newark, and Lincoln on the one side, and Birmingham, Coventry, and Warwick on the other side, at the same tine supplying a rich mineral and agricultural district with railway advantages. A reference to the map will show that this railway will also com mand other collateral advantages. There is no doubt that the proposed railway communication be tween Cheltenham and Warwick will be effected, in which case the proposed line will fill up the railway chasm at present existing be tween the counties of Gloucester and Worcester, and Nottingham and Lincoln, and thus form a direct line from the Severn at Glouces ter to the Slumber at Great Grimsby. An amalgamation of the Great 'Grimsby and Sheffield Junction with the Grimsby Dock Company being now determined on, a large amount of capital will be expended ha rendering Great Grimsby a port of the first importance ; and it must be obvious that the traffic to that port, from the district south west of Warwick, will be vecy great. The distance saved by the proposed lino between Leamington, Warwick, Coventry, and Nottingham will be about fourteen miles ; and between Birmingham and Nottingham (by either of the projected lines from Birmingham to Leicester) the saving will be about ten miles. Being so much the shortest route from Birmingham Not- tingliam and Lincoln, it must secure the traffic from Birmingham t o Nottingham, Newark, Lincoln, and the port of Great Grimsby; and by joining with the Erewash Valley Railway at Long Eaton, it must command the traffic from Coventry, Warwick, and the district south of those towns to Sheffield, Leeds, York, and the north of Eng.and generally. It will also afford a direct communication between Not tingham and the district between Warwick and Worcester, by means of the projected Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby, and the Warwick end Worcester Railways. The entire length of the line will he under thirty miles. The Com- Patty's Engineer has completed his preliminary survey, and has made his report, that the character of the country through wh ich the line is intended to pass is unusually favourable for engineering ' Purposes. - It Passes directly through a very productive mineral district, in• 'ersecting the Leicestershire coal-fields and lime-works, and will ,fford communication north and south, to the Derbyshire Potteries. With such an assured Immediate and prospective amount of traffic, the profits on the small capital required cannot fail to be highly re munerative. Powers for allowance of interest at four per cent. on the paid-up capital will be taken, and the liability of shareholders limited to the atnount of their subscriptions. TABLE OF DISTANCES, 1 Present Distances. About 1 Miles --------__ Warwick to N o tti ngham, by \ ----- Saving _...-- Hampton and Derby .... • • • 1 -by • 72% 7 Warwick m Nottingham, , i c 17 1 ,4 Rugby and Leicester Warwick to LincYn ....... 1 1 03 , .• 13% Coventry to Nottingham I .. 38 2 99 45 I 13% Coventry to Lincoln Birmingham to Nottinghain ~ .. , 5. , 47 14 ' Birmingham to Lincoln ........ ........ ..... 10 ......... I P Cheltenham to Nottingham, by Birmingham and Derbv.... ~ 103 92 II Proapeetusas may be had at the Temporary Officer of the Company, ig, King's Arnie-yard, Coleman-street, London I where also applica tions for shams, addressed to the Provisional Committee, will be attended to. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. Te the Provisional Committee of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Railway. _ 0 entlemen ,—I request you to allot me shares of 201. oaol3, In the ab we railway ; and I undertake to accept the same, or such less nu nber as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulate= of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to pay when twin red the deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per share. Dated this day Of 1845. . Name in full . .. •1.:"; • Profession and professional residence In full 1 --, Residence in fa 11........................ .t--- References ••. FW /<^ }~ THE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND BIRMINGHAM SWINDON, DEVIZES, AND SALISBURY JUNCTION, church, Poole, and Southampton. At its northern terminus, Mr- Ingham, it communicates with a series of lines, projected. in pro gress, or completed, which will form the most direct line that can ever probably be constructed between the southern ports of England and the great manufacturing districts. In the alliance of lines forming the West Midland, Manchester and Southampton Railway project, a combination of advantages pre sents itself—the result of a design, to a great extent, but of contin gencies also. If it be desirable that the terminus of every railway should be situated at some commercial or populous place, in this re spect the present project is peculiarly fortunate. If Government be resolved on countenancing the shortest and most direct lines, It will be seen, by laying a rule on the map of England from Salisbury to Manchester, that a course due north and south between these places will pass very nearly through the towns mentioned in this prospectus, as being on the proposed line ; and actual measurement has shown this line to be the shortest between Southampton aid Manchester by 26 miles. By the construction, therefbre, of little more than 60 miles of rail, as here proposed, the shortest, most direct, and convenient communication between Manchester and Southampton will be es tablished--a line, also, however superior in po.ition to others pro mising similar advantages, may yet be considered as competing with none, but as an independent work, originating at Birmingham and terminating in the seaports of Weymouth, Christchurch, Poole, and Southampton. In the allotment of shares in this Company the Directors propose giving a prefereace to shareholders in the Smith and Midlands' Junction Railway Company. PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED. G REAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECS RAILWAY, By a Junction Nrith . the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedfor'4 Distance, 120 miles. Capital 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share. Being an extension of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,200,0001., in 60,000 shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Dillon, Halkin-street West, Belgrave square, and Loughlyn House, Loughlyn, Ireland, aud Ditchley, Oxon Lord George . Paget, Uxbridge House William Beresford, Esq., M.P., 77, fall-mall, Director of the Teen and Dove Valley Railway Wllllam Itulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid . . (Pursuant to the Standing Orden of the House of Commons. 211,QVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne Sir William Twysden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Directo. of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and Erewash Valley Extension Railways Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart, Parthenon Club, Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway, and of the South and Midland Junction, and West Midland Railways Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Director of the York and _ , --- land, and Director of the South and „ Midlands' Junction Railways Richard Pries, Esq., M.P., Director of the Welsh Midland, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways David R. Roes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, Director of the London and Manchester, and &oath and Midlands' Junction Rail- ways Will* John E. De Beauvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir mingham Extension, and Director of the South and- Midlands' Junction Railways Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Hertz, Director of the Chester and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junc tion Railways Sir William Wynn, Maesynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, Director of the Direct Western Railway Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London Lancaster Railway Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and Trent Valley Continuation Railways Henry Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Watkinson Hall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Midland Railway John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-street, Broad-street, Director of the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford, Railways William Banks, Esq., Honey-lane Market John Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Di rector of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction Railways Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's Park, Hampstead, Director of the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Railway Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq., the Lodge, Upper Clapton Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle House, Gomersall, near Leeds • Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds and West Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft House, sear Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Rallivay Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Selby Railway Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford Dr. Brigstock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the Cambedge and Lincoln, and Great Luxembourg Railway Job Bullinart, Esq., East Redford William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., J.P., Hull, Director of the Rugby Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways John Carter, Esq., Knottingley Thomas Carter, Esq., Tanshelf, J.P. for the Borough of Pontefract Charles Charnock, Esq., Holmfield House, near Ferrybridge - Millis Coventry, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Junction, and Birmingham Extension Railways B. Clements, Esq., Lowndes-square, Director of the Western Jamaica Railway J. Cottam, Esq., East Redford Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Manchester, Mid land, and Great Grimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Axholme, and the Wisbeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junction Railways John Cutts, Esq., Little Barfield Hall, near Braintree, Essex James Clift, Esq., Director of the Paris and Strasbourg, Southampton Manchester, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, and Maccles field Railways W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham Exten sion Henry Sherard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street Francis Deere, Esq., Stratford, Essex J. Dawson, Esq., Pontefract John Dennis, Esq., Director of the West Midland, and Thames Val ley Railways Joseph Dent, Esq., Aibston Hall, near Leeds, Magistrate for the North West Riding of Yorkshire A. A. Davenport, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten sion, and Worcester Junction Railways Joseph L. Davenport, Esq.,Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester hallway John Aleock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, near Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Richard Dransfield, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, of the Liverpool and Leeds Di rect, and of the Keighloy, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways Edward Doubleday, Esq , F.L.S., Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey mouth Railway Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Managing Direc tor of the York and Lancaster Railway Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten sion Railway Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans field, and Midland Junction Railway Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Sher: field Railway John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London. derry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways George Green, Esq., Pontefract Charles Gibson, Esq., Holland-place, Clapham James Gilbertson, Esq., Hertford William Gibson, Esq., Glasgow H. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside William Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Henry Swan Graves, Esq., Ely Bank Lodge, Halifax Jolla Gully, Esq., Ackworth Park, Ackworth. Richard Hall, Esq., Cantarvon Hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat- Applications for prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms of application for shares had, at the Office of W. B. James, Esq., Solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street ; and of the following gentlemen:— London—Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street; Mr. J. B. Har rison, 8, Bank Chambers ; Mr. Thomas Hanbury, 4, Angel-court. Liverpool—Messrs. Mills and Co , and Messrs. Neilson. Manchester—Messrs. Houghand and Leese, and Mr. William and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Sir William Twysden, Bart., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean Railway William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of Lon don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and London and Greenwich Railways, &c. &c. Thomas Famcomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lon don and Westminster Bank, and Namur and Liege, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways john Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South 'lO Marshall. Hull—Messrs Collinson and Flint. Leeds—Messrs. Young and Son. Stratford-on-Avon—Mr. William Bolton. Exeter—Mr. Thomas Sanford. Plymouth—Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer. Birmingham— Mr. Collis, and Mr. John Wright. Glasgow—Messrs Tassie and Co. Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co., and Messrs. M'Callam and Co. Derby—Messrs. Eyre and Co. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. Midlands' .ianctien Railways Donald Maclean, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Talley Con tinuation, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Major Oliver Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberyst with, and Central Wales, and Director of the South and Midlands* Junction Railways Major-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Worces ter and Crewe, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Captain James Patrick Macdougal, late Bengal Royal General Staff, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of Dean, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways, Sec. Captain Alexander Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, Director of the Legal and Commercial Insurance Company, the Great Western of Bengal, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth To the Provisional Committee of the West Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railway. Gentlemen,—l request that yo'u will allot to me Shires of 201. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parlia mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Name (in fall) .. ...... .......... .... Residence........ Trade or Profession ................ Reference . . • • • • .................... Address of Referee.... Date Railway Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment Railway Eichard William Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Man chester, and Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director ef the Britannia Life Insu rance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway lames Cliy, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Furness and White- haven, and South and ifidlinds' Junction Railways Col. Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail ways William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, Manag ing Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company, and Di rector of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway _ _ Richard FarP;nter, Esq , Magistrate of the County of Middlesex, Deputy-Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, Di rector of the Leicester and Bedford, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways G. W. Killett Potter, Esq., Secondary of the City of London Lieut.-General Sir Lewis Grant, K.C.8., 31, Harley-street John Jennings, Esq. Elm-grove, Hammersmith William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the Oxford, Witney and Cheltenham, and South and Midlands' Junc tion Railways Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 11, Upper Hyde-park-street William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Britannia Life Insurance Company, and Derby and Stafford, and South and Midlands' Junc tion Railways George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway _ _ Daniel PentonJohnson, Esq., Director of Uie London- and Mulches- ter Railway Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbrdge, Staffordshire John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of the Church of England Life Insurance, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director of the London and Dover, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Cash, Esq. Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London, Director of the South ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways John Charles Hall, Esq., New Grove-street, East Redford It. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Zrewa,sh Val ley Extension and West Midland Railways Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds John George Hammack, Esq., Director of the Direct Western and the Metropolitan Junction Railways William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lieut. and J.P. for the West Riding of Yorkshlie John Mason Hepworth, Esq., Eden-place, Ackworth, J.P. for the West Riding of Yorkshire Joshua Hepworth, Esq., Rogerthorpe Hall, Bedsworth Thomas Heelis, Esq., Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lan cashire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire North and Midlands' Junction Railway George R. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junc tion, and Northampton and Banbury Railways William Paxton, Esq., Langford, near Bicester, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street, Director of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of tho Manchester and Birmingham Con- tinuation Railway John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Vice-Chairman of the Lees aad York Railway J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway Flenry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond Eastern, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Dire c t Railways -- Robert Herries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct ailway Charles Holbrooke, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and :Manchester John Holmes, Esq., East Redford John Illidge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Direc tor of the Derby and Stafford Railway William Empson Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Di rector of the York and Hull Railway Harwell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Ma gistrate for the East Riding of York and Borough of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley Railways John Jameson, Esq., Honey-lane Market William Jameson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the Staf fordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet Valleys, or Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways George Lawton, Esq., Ditchleys, Essex, Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London Captain Henry Leech, Bedford William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of the Reading and Reigate Railway L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Western Ja maica Railway P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo and Shannon, the Ipswich and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale Railways John B. Mann, Esq., Leeds Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq Newark-upon-Trent, and Bedford - square, Hyde Park Thomas 31‘Turk, Esq., Hull William Mee, Esq., East Redford W. R. Mesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford Robert 3lellington, Esq., Ordshall House, near East Redford, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway William Moorhouse, Esq., Marine Villa, Knottingley, Provisional Director of the Sheffield, Barnsley, *tad Wakefield Railway Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of South and Midlands' Junction, and London and Birmingham Extension Railways James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract, J. P. for the Borough, a Provi sional Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension and Chester Junction, Railway Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Southampton, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways Willi a m Joseph Nash, Esq. Bedford I , ' ptire• George's-square, Westminster, and Moat of the Great Western Direct Railway Henry Esq., Director of th e T ren t V a ll ey and 12, Finsbury -place N or th John us N Ge o ,e r r t u o ar n rde , ii E r s h q oodr . i , y, Esq., Monkhill, near Po n t e f rac t Con tinuation aid Holyhead Junction, and W es t Midl an d an d S ou th Midland and Oxtord Extension Railway s . Mayor of Pont e f ract R o b er t Oxley, Esq., M.D., Pontefract JlBiso,eil William : Pin t t h eipsr Yell, Esq., cEst, Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Rireim, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Birming ham Direct, Leicester, Iron, and Dove Valley Railways Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah House, Enfield, Managing Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Junction, the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and the Direct Western Railways James Robson, Esq., Tanshelf, J. P. for the Borough of Pontefract George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junc tion, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate, the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Think June tion Thomas Rontlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director o. the Great Manc hester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railways Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing stoke Railway Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet and Blythe Valleys Railways J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and of the Leeds and York, and Midland Railways William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the South Midland Junction Railway, &c., &c. George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury Hall, Sheffield, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways Joseph Smithson, Esq., Kirklees Mills, near Halifax James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Darby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railway. Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., Banker, Bedford Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbals, Hull, Di rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbals, Hull Thomas Turney, Esq., Park Lodge, near Halifax David Wheatcroft, Esq. Buckland Hollow, Derbyshire; Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railways Major-General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester-place, Poctman square William Williams, Esq., Royal Foundery, Bedford Charles Waite, Esq., Willesden House, Middlesex John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex. as Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax (With power to add to their number.) ENGINEEY-IN42IIIEF—SIr John M`Neil, L.L.D., and F.R.S. ACTING Ezeotszaa—William Mullingar Higgins, Esq. LONDON SOLICITOZI. J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall - court Owen aa Gray, Esq., --, Great Tower-street, J. ll:Midge, Esq., BANKERS. Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co. London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Ce. James Durness, Esq., Leytonstoke, Essex Geurge Wines, Esq., Bungerford Park, Berks G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed Celyn, Denbighshire, and Lonsdale-square, Islington S: Alen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway 141.4:tin Furness, Esq., Director of the Newark and Sheffield Railway ir ',Ram Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York and _ _ Leeds Railway E,Lnund Phillips, Esq., Avon Rouse, Melksham, Wilts, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway _ . CltTriesihomas Ward, Esq., Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clopton House, Stratford-on-Avon, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway oseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield June t lon, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways orge Henry Brook, Esq., Edgulin-lodge, Huddersfield, Previsional Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax and Bradford Union Rail way, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway C ptain Hitchins, Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Birmingham and Oxford, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Alleoek Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li verpool and Leeds Direct, and Kelghly, Halifax, and Huddersfield Railways .Tames Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, and Brandon Lodge, near Coventry, and Director of tho South and Midlands' Junction Rail way ,Yilliam Watson Prole, Esq., Thurloe-sqnare, Brompton, Director of the Jersey, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways thomas Mortimer Cleobury, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton Major Waller, K.H., Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, and Alfreton, Derby, Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and South and Mid lands' Junction Railways T. It. W. Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and York and Lancaster Railways Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath, Director of the Me tropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway W. A. Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and - Aberystwith and Central Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman of the Church of England Life Insurance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway William Morley, Esq., Blackheath Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds Railway, Director of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Tohn Inglis Jerdein, Esq., Directer of the Great Manchester, Rugby and Southampton Railway Colonel Fitch, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway William Lee, Esq , Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and Essex and Suffolk Railways Thomas Gooch, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway J. Harvey, Esq., Rush-hill, Surrey _ . _ John Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Thomas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway C . Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex R. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's-wood, Director of the North Metropolitan Railway William Slark, Esq., Direct(); of the Guarantee Society Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Tharlow-square, Bromptoa Warren Stormes lisle, Esq. Gresham-street, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Kingsmill Grove Key, Bag., Wandsworth rhomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham Josepk Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Jaaction, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways W. Lee, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square Robert Power, Esq., Queen-street, May-fair, Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance Society Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place House, Southampton, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Major Grubbe, Eastwell House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the County, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways T. G. Norbnry, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continua tion, and South and Midlands Junction Railways, and of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance Company William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighten, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway rector of the South a n d Mi dlands ' John Brocke Walbancke , E s q ., Junction Railway Henry Savage, William 4Captain n Lee,Hamil to nE q., EA Director g' Roy o al f the Artillery Reading Railway Berkeley-street, Portman-squa re ,DEosqrse,t-Bpelace, Dorset-square J W ohn illia D rn enn T. rniiT,hEsq°E7,6D.n'irector of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway Joseph Crockett, Esq Alderman of Derizes, and Director of the North Wilts Banking Company, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway John Holbert Gloucester-place, Loudon, Director o f the Leicester and Birmingham Railway Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, London, Director of the. Rigby aoll Worcester Railway William Peppercorne, Esq., London, and Bexhill, Sussex Captain T. Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railwa - y P. Duffield, Esq., Bolton House, near Bradford Rev. F. IL Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge John Barnett, Esq.. Coroner for the County of Gloucester, Director of the Oxford and Cheltenham Railway Spooner, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the Newcastle and Liverpool Railway Alexander Prince, Esq., 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Bar net North Junction Railway James Lees, Esq., Delph, Saddieworth, near Manchester, Director of the Saddleworth Banking Company (With power to add to their number). BANIZES—The Commercial Bank of London. COWETLTItio ENGINEER—Sir John Mame', LL.D., F.R.S. ACTIN* Ertomis—William MuMager Higgins, Esq., C.E. Souctroa—W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street. It appears that England will be divided longitudinally by four great lines of railway, which will become so many main trunks, intersec lug and intersected by numerous lines, both transverse and oblique, opening rapid and ready communication with the intermediate dis tricts, with packet stations, and with seaport towns. Tha more easterly of these, which is also the longest, originating at Newcastle upon-Tyne, and passing through York, Peterborough, and Gambridge, may be said to terminate in London, whence all places are accessible. The second line, counting westward, is more tortuous, and has also a common northern terminus with the preceding, by which its ad vantages are materially restricted. This line, descending the Ere wash Vale, and passing through Rugby and Oxford, becomes a South ampton line by falling into the South-Western Railway at Basing stoke, The object of this railway is to connect, in the most direct coarse, the important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds with the Metropolis, the want of which has long been felt, and is too univer sally acknowledged to need any comment, and it Is under this con viction that this important undertaking, after several minute exa minations of the country through which it will pass, has bee* brought forward. The proposed line will commence at the junction of the Manches ter and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wake field, and will terminate by means of a junction with the Easters Counties Railway at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of that Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parlia ment), and by thus availing itself as far as possible of the existing railways, will complete the most direct and least expensive trunk Elite, from London to Leeds, York, and Hull. It will pass in its route wi hin an available distance of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster, Rotherham, East Redford, Nottingham, Newark, Grauthsm, Melton Mowbray, Oakham, and Stamford. The importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature of its course (embracing, as it does, a most extensive population within its limits) as also from the absence of any direct communication for the conveyance of passengers and merchandise. By the construction of this railway, railway communication to London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by means o f the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and Nottingham (by the Nottingham and Lincoln line), and to Sheffield and Gainsbo rough (by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much shorter route than by any existing Railways. Independently of the advantages offered to the towns in the several counties through which this Line will pass, the Line in itself consi dered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, is sufficient to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic between these two places would produce such a return on the capital required, as to admit of a dividend, equal to that of any railway in operation : but when It is borne in mind, that a Company is being formed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow with Leeds by means of a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no better line can be presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct communica tion from Glasgow and the Western parts of Scotland to London, but would also connect Edinburgh and the Eastern parts et' Scotland as well as Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North Midland, And Great North of England Railways), with the Metropolis, which would be considerably shorter than the accommodation offered by any other Company, and when cost of construction Is considered there The third longitUdinal line, er the most westerly, is still more de fective in design than the preceding ; employing the steep and narrow Tway called the Birmingham and Gloucester as its first link, it travesties nearly in a right line the least populous and molt undulating no dependent Berke, Wilts, and Banta ; and, properly speaking Catriet—a district inviting . i!. dependent terminus. lignicaultrated local advantages, still remains un A large longitudinal section of the k'ngdora—the West Midland a similar spec ies of accommodation ftorn auk line i ancl it is contetnplated provided with a chief present undertakig, to 4 %Arm longit u din al this de Ilciency by the rn trrits of the West Mid. Zell'. tw;lnte'lidon, where it will Adopting Birmingham as a unti l* lend, Manchester, and Southiunpton al line. • Dbel'G r ad weentr c e a t rr on y , , and the ato ll li w ne , twhorortllwghescor47FaitrirtfoorSdtr, actfriorctioadne-1: merge in, the South and hpcilarnhe Junction Railway. The length of the proposed iiii• Will be abOnt sixty mile. district tra♦ersed by it Ii gently undulating arid densely penm e d. At its southern terminus, Swindon, It becomes Identical with tits Routh and Midlands, by means of which it opens a most direct coramunica gip hlthirte suggested with the harbours of Weymouth, Christ- rHE SUN, LONDON, SATUTiIbA MO4NING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1645. cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given to the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway. The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a branch line with the East and West India Docks on the river Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 999 years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks, which are capable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods from all parts of the world can take place, is a most important fea ture In favour of the direct communication from the manufacturing towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway, and by branch railways to the main trunk line, through which all goods from the whole of the manufacturing dis tricts could be conveyed at once to these warehouses for shipment, thereby avoiding the present delay and expense of cartage, and in reality establishing an almost direct and an invaluable connexion between the rivers Clyde and Thames. It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties, that the works will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good, and that it will not materially Interfere with any ornamental property. The Subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first deposits until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only to the amount of their subscriptions. It is proposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and also to extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, in the event of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford. Applications for Shares (in the form annexed) may be made to J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court, and Messrs. Owen Gray and Illidge, 25, Great Tower-street, the joint solicitors to the Company, at the Company's temporary offices, 9, Copthall-court, London ; or to the following sharebrokers : London—Messrs. Marten and Heseltine, 9, Flneh-lane Leeds—Messrs. Ilopps and Co. Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons Bradford—Mr. Josiah Scholefield Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square No application will be attended to unless accompanied by a satis factory reference. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To tho Pro;isi•nal Committee of the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares, of 251. each, in the above undertaking, and I undertake to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me, and also to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree ment when required. Name in full .. • • • Address in full ....• .......... Occupation .... Reference.. • • • • .... • • • • • Wm. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and I Iron Bridge Railway C01111):1!ly C. Appleby, Esq., Broomiiill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Minchester Railway Company Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield, Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office Wm. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast Railway Company Captain Bowker, R.N., Devonport H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Di rect Railway Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield Director of the East and West of England Railway Company John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and Hat rowgate Railway Company William Marriott, Esq., Attereliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway. Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lineoln, Director of the London and York and East Lincolnshire Railways John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool David Price, Esq., Manchester William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington Rev. H. W. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction Heary Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse, merchant John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square John Norton, Esq., Moat House, Brentwood, Essex William John 31`Guire. Esq., Hampton Court John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxord-terrace Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Grove, North Brixton, Surrey W. J. Lefeuvre, Esq., Alderman and if agistrate of Southampton Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., F R.S., York-terrace, Regent's Park G. B. Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Coventry and Leicester Railway Captain Tringham, Solyhull, Warwickshire William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield The Hon. F. Byron, 21, Eaton-place William Higgins, Esq., Turvey, High Sheriff of Bedfordshire Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak-park, near Winchester, Deputy-Lieu tenant, and magistrate for the county of Hants William Jackson, Esq , Birkenhead, Chairman of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway E. H. Langworthy, Esq., Manchester Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman,, and Sheriff of London and Mid dlesex Nathaniel Gould, Esq., Barge-yard, Bucklersbury, and Tavistock square Edmund Lionel Welles, Esq., Cadogan-place, and West Koulsey, Sarrey Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, and Limehouse, Director of the London Dock Company, the Marine Assurance Company, and the General Shipowner's Society William Jackson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway George F. Earle, Esq., Hull Stephen Knowles, Esq., Exeter W. Lawrence, Esq., Brixton John Leannonth, Esq., Edinburgh, Chairman of the Edinburgh and Glasgow, and North British Railway Companies Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway William Tanner, Esq., Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars John Booth, Esq., Sherburn Grange, Durham Matthew Benjamin Robson, Esq., Whitwell Grange, Durham John Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Director of the Dorchester and Weymouth Railway, and York and Lancaster Railway William G. Bernard, Esq., - Clifton, Bristol Thomas Smallwood Richards, Esq., 59, Baker-street, Portman-square James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Manchester N. M'Cann, Esq., Parliament-street Henry Wenman Newman, Esq., Bristol, Magistrate for that City, and Deputy-Lieutenant and Magistrate for the county of Gloucester William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury William Empson Jalland, Esq., Holdemess House, near Hull Thomas Becket Massy, Esq., Newark-upon-Trent Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Axholme, and of the Wisbeach, Ely, and Lin colnshire Railways William Ruston, Esq., Catherine-court, Trinity-square G. Wingrove Cooke, Esq., Temple, London C. I. Selwyn, Esq., Exeter Joseph Hopwood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter and Falmouth Railway Richard Compton, Esq., Eddington House, Hungerford, Berks, a Magistrate for the counties of Wilts and Berke Henry Coa Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Malden, Essex The Constable of Hungerfoid Richard Davis, Esq., St. Helen's-place, Director of the South Midland Railway Edward Hyde Clarke, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Warwickshire and London Railway Captain William Lionel Lampert, The Highlands, Oxfordshire, and Leamington, Warwickshire Francis Burton, Esq., Milverton House, Warwickshire Captain Stewart, R.N., Leamington, Warwickshire Samuel Haines, Esq.. Chad-house, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director of the South Staffordshit e Railway William Northage, Esq., Upper Gower-street, Bedford-square John Wodley Hughes, Esq., Gloucester, Director of the Birmingham and Bristol Railway Lewis Bruce Knight Bruce, Esq., The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey Francis Cole Humbert, Esq., Oxford-street, Hyde-park Algernon Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park James Lamb, Esq., Hyde-park-square Richard Groucock, Esq.,; Bow-churchyard, and Dulwich, Director of the Direct Manchester Railway J. 15'. Simpson, Esq., Rutland-lodge, Brixton Henry Bellerby, Esq., Sheriff of York Henry Ledgard, Esq., 39, Wood-street, Cheapside, Director of the Rugby and Macclesfield Direct Railway John Williams, Esq., Eaton-square. Thomas Grimsditch, Esq , M.P., Macclesfield, Cheshire Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn-fields, Wolverhampton, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway William Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton Erasmus R. Foster, Esq., Birchin-lane William Bargett, Esq., Broad-street Peter R. Morrison, Esq., Princes-street, Bank Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Enfield, Director of the York and Lan caster Railway Thomas Kidley, Esq., M.D., Sheffield James Sheppard, Esq., jun. Valentine Knight, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Magistrate for Middlesex Seorge Sercombe, Esq., Exeter John Clan3pit.Sercombe, Esq., Exeter William Pearce, Esq., Liverpool W. Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham Robert Henry Hurst, Esq., jun., Temple William Nash, Esq., Capham Common Grey Ilazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton Hall, Leicester Captain Twisleton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the Leicester and Tean and Dove Valley Railway (With power to add to their number). BANKERS—Messrs. Curries and Co., Coruhili, London. JOINT SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard. London Messrs. Rickards and Walker. 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. SECRETARY—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq. ASSISTANT-SECRETARY—CharIes J. Whalley, ESQ. LOCAL SOLICITORS. At Newbury—Messrs. Godwin and Gray, and B. Pinniger, Esq. At Ramsbury—William Rowland, Esq. At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq., and John Edwards Hayward, Esq. At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton At Shepton Mallett—Francis Isaac Nalder, Esq. At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole At Exeter—William Denis Moore, Esq. At Tiverton, T. L. T. Rendell, Esq., and J. A. Toms, Esq. At Launceston—Messrs. Lawrence and Pattison At Bodmin At Truro At Penzance At Falmouth—Messrs. Tresidder and Son The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between London and the Land's End. In a national point of view such a line is indispensable. With the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from it, situatiox at the western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in creased its imports from 200,0001. to 3,000,0001. per annum. At Bris tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased. The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal mouth by way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by railway. The object of this prospectus is to show that no other line than the resent can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard to this, its most important outport—" the natural Packet Station of the empire." The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End. The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company having amalga mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company. The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frotne, Shepton Mallet, Wells (from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater), Glastonbury to Milton, being shorter by about thirty-two 'miles than any existing railways between these points, and without a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St. Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole iistance from London to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles. With 'erect to the traffic on the upper portion of the line it is needless to saylmore than that there is already thorough traffic suffi- Cent to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes tern : that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton about 32 miles, that it will traverse rich and populous agricultural and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as well from railways now in course of construction as from ethers pro jected, with every chance of success. As to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that the vast number of merchant vessels continually detained In the Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway; and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol and Southampton ; t o what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire may be further developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the map will make It manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of railroad accommodation. Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance in the event of war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet commerce of the kingdom; it may not be out of place to quote here the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley, which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways, he is reported to have said :—" I consider that the com munication between the metropolis and the groat outperts to be not a question of hours, but a question of iniuntee," Of the necessity of this particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth line, which was promoted by the Groat Western Railway Company, it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth; and it may be further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth was last session rejected, on the grotind that it might be supposed to interfere with that great national abject. The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for wa,ness, and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par liament. It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be constructed at an unusually small expense; that the undertaking will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways in the kingdom. Powers will be taken in the Act of Parllameat to allow interest at four pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected with the Direct Western district. Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary, or to any respect able broker in town or country 20, Poultry, London, September 11, 1645. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway Company. • Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 25(, each in the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21.125. 6d. per share thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con tract when required. Dated 1845. Residence.. ....... ...... ........ ..... Trade or Profession .................. Place of Business (if any) Signature ••• • • THE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER, AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND BIRMINGHAM, SWINDON, DEVIZES, AND SALISBURY JUNCTION. Notice is hereby given, that after the 30th of SVPTEMBBa instant, no applications for shares in this undertaking can be received. By order of the Board, G. N. WRIGHT. 5, Basinghall-street, London, Sept. 23, 1345. IH . AD RID AND VALENCIA RAILWAY, authorised by an Ordinance of her Majesty the Queen of Spain. _ - Capital 2,400,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 201. each, Spanish reala (Vellon) 2,000, fr. 500, of which 80,000 will be allotted in this country. _ _ Deposit 21. per Share, reals 200, tr. 50. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Most Noble the Marquis of Winchester, 27, Cavendish-square The Lord de l'lsle and Dudley, 16, New Burlington-street The Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor The Right Hon. LoniCharleißeauelerk, Chesham-place, Belgrave- square, and the Riding, Northumberland The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Hamer, M.P., 6, Tiluey-street The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., 27, Regent-street Sir William Wynn, Chairman of the North Wales Railway C. Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., 6, Parliament-street, Chairman of the Paris and Strasbourg Railway Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker (Messs. Cockburn and Co.) William Collin., Esq., M.P., Reform Club Edward Bates, Esq., Managing Director of the Argus Life Assurance Company Saiuuel Ellis Bristowe, Beesthorpe Hall, Newark, Nets, and 8, Great Ryder-street, St. James's _ _ John Cappee,..l.isq., merchant, 1, Adelaide-place, London-bridge William Chadwick, Esq., Montagu-square, Chairman of the Rich mond Railway John Charretie, Esq., Park Village East _ . Gideon Colquhoun, Esq., Walnier: Lodge, Avenue-road, Regent's park, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway Company William Cooper, Esq., merchant, 20, Mark-lane, and Kingswood Lodge, Dulwich Edmund F. Dayrell, Esq., 15, Old Cavendish-street, and Lillingstone Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff of Bucks, Deputy-Lieutenant of the County, Chairman of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Railway and Bridgewater and Minehead W. Eales, Esq., merchant, Mincing-lane, Director of the Direct Western Railway Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, Direetor of the London and Westminster Bank Richard Forman, Esq , Upper Thames-street James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street - Major Graham, 16, Grove, Clapham John Joseph Keene, Esq , St. John's-wood, near London, Director of the National Bank of Ireland Wm. King, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Com- pany James John Kinloch, Esq., 21, Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director ct the North Wales Railway Company John Knill, Esq., Fresh-wharf, Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and Crewe Railway T. Laurence, Esq., St. Mary-axe, Director of the Direct Western Railway Major James Oliver Lindam, K.H., 8, New-street, Dorset-square, Chairman of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and Central Wales Railway, and Director of the South Midland Junction Railway Nicholas M'Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street, Director of the Man chester and Rugby Direct Railway Charles Carroll Mactavish, Esq., 22, lintland-gate J. B. Montoflore, , 2, Winchester-buildings, Director of the Australian Mining Company William Nicholson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Railway S. P. Pratt, Esq., 55, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company George Clavering Redman, Esq., Limehouse Colonel Edward Stopford, 9, Manchester-square, Director of the Barbadoes Railway Company William Gordon Thompson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Junction S. J. •11 Waley, Esq., 22, Devonshire-place ..... . - William LiChmere Whitmore, Esq., 19, James-street, Buckingham gate, Director of the London Central Railway Terminus. BANICIES. London—Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill ; Messrs. Masterraan and Co. Nicholas-lane ; Messrs. Cockburn and Co., Whitehall. Madrid—Bank of Isabella 11. STANDING COUNSEL—Jacob Haley, Esq., Lincoln's Inn Sotacrroas--Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, 84, Lime-street. CONSULTING ENGINEER—P. Prickard Baly, Esq. SECRETARY—F. Kirkham Foweil, Esq. Offices of the Company, 37, Moorgate-street. The present Company has been formed for the construction of a line of railway from Madrid to the cityand port of Valencia, the mast central seaport on the Mediterranean. It will open out the re sources of an extensive district of country, eastward from the capital, remarkable for the richness and fertility of Its soil, the varied abun dance of its productions, and the commercial spirit of its inhabitants. This railway is authorised by a special ordinance of her Majesty the Queen of Spain ; and from its vast importance as a national route of intercommunication her Majesty has been pleased to accompany the grant with all the privileges and immunities which the Crown is empowered to confer upon a railway company. Amongst these way be enumerated— 1. A lease of the line and of its branches for 99 years. 2. The gratuitous grant of such Government and corporation lands as may be required for the railway. 3. The free use of all timber, the property of the State, that may be necessary for the works, or for other purposes. 4. The exemption for ten years, to be computed from the com mencement of the works, of all import duties on the machinery, rails, and other articles requisite for the completion of the railway. 5. The entire exemption from all national and local taxes that could otherwise be levied upon the railway, works, or buildings of any description, and upon the capital represented by the shares.. 6. The Government is not to interfere with the Company's tariff of charges for the space of forty years from the completion of the works ; and no revision thereof is to take place on the expiration of that period that can sink the profits below 15 per cent. 7. The line Is to be classed, by a special law, under the title of a " work of public utility," and as such to enjoy the royal patronage and protection, and all the peculiar privileges attached to important national undertakings. The proposed line, thus largely endowed, is about 240 miles in length, being upwards of 150 miles nearer the capital than the ports of Cadiz and the north coast of Spain, and generally nearer than any other port in the kingdom. Although it has not yet been minutely survei ed, it is well known that there is no similar district of equal extent in the kingdom which presents so few engineering difficulties. For upwards of 80 miles the line will traverse the almost level plain of Valencia ; and emerging from the boundaries of the province, it will follow as nearly as possible the course of the rivers which flow east and west from the central plateau in the province of Cuenca, and approach Madrid by the valley of the Manzanares. The line will either pass through or accommodate the most important towns in the two provinces, which will thus be brought into rapid com munication with the capital on the one side, a seaport on the other. This railway will be the means of supplying Madrid, containing 300,000 inhabitants, entirely dependent for provisions upon the con tiguous provinces, at a cheap rate, with the rich products of the pro vinces of Valencia, which abounds in most valuable mines, and is beyond comparison the most fertile district of Spain. Valencia, brought by this communication within ten hours' dis tance of the chief market of Spain, must necessarily become the port at which all vessels with supplies for the metropolis will unload, and the centre of the coasting trade along the whole sea-line from Barcelona to Gibraltar. The traffic in passengers and goods now existing between Madrid and Valencia has been correctly ascertained, showing the following results : —.— The annual number of passengers tra felling between Madrid and Valencia, and the intermediate towns, is upwards of 42,000; but taking that number at the present cost of conveyance by stage coaches, private carriages, galeras, and waggons, the amount will be £67,500 The annual weight of goods conveyed betwe.r. the two cities and the intermediate localities is 4,900,009 cr . from which the return is estimated at • • . 1,223,400 £1,291,200 Assuming that two -fifths only of the existing charges become a source of revenue to the railway, and that the tariff bo reduced considerably below the State tariff of Belgium, there will be deducted .. 752,320 Remains .• .• .03 ,880 Supposing that the present traffic will only be doubled by the railway, although experience has proved the increase to be equal to 300 and 400 percent., there will be added .• • . • • • • • • .. And add £1,077,760 For the transport of troops, military stores, Br.e., which the Government will substitute for the conveyance by waggons .. .. • • • . .. 50,000 25 per Cent., at the least, for the Ailcant trails .. 215,952 41,343,712 Frcm which deduct nearly 50 per cent. for maintenance or way, &C. • • • • • • • • 671,856 Leaving a net profit of .. £671,856 Or of nearly 28 per cent. upon the capital. The capital now proposed to be raised has been estimated, by competent authority, to be amply sufficient for the completion of the railway, including stations, a double line for rails, and the working plant. The royal ordinance authorises the erection of an electric tele graph along the line, which will answer the double purpose of placing the railway under the special protection of the Government, and closely uniting it with all the railways that intersect the kingdom and have their common termini in Madrid, to which capital maritime and mercantile information from the Mediterranean can be Instan taneously communicated. --- One-tfilrd of the shares are, by the terms of the concession, con ceded to Spain. _ The locale of the Company ►ill be in Spain, and it will be framed on the principle of a coinpania anonima, agreeably to the commercial code of that country. The affairs of the Company- will be conducted by a Board of Di rectors in London, assisted by a highly influential Committee in Madrid. The remuneration to the Directors will be made in ac cordance with the plan usually adopted in continental railways, and that to the Concessionaires consists of a mere contingent interest in two-twentieths of net profits, after five per cent. shall have been se cured to the shareholders. A deposit of 21. per share is payable on allotment, and no future call will exceed 21. per share, of which two months' notice at least will he given. Applications for shares, according to the subjoined form, to be ad dressed to Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, solicitors, 34, Lime street, London ; to Messrs. Hutchinson and Son, stockbrokers, Loth bury ; Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle-street; Messrs. Johnston, and Co., Manchester ; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool ; Messrs.Wreford, and Co., Bristol ; Mr. N. Lea, Birming ham ; Messrs. Watson, and Co., Leeds; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull ; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitkin, Glasgow ; Mr. W. Gordon, Aberdeen ; Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin; and to the Secretary, at the office, 37, Moorgate-street, London. London, Sept. 10, 1845. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Directors of the Madrid and Valencia Railway Company. Gentlemen,-1 request you will allot me s ares of 20!. each In the above Company ; and I hereby undertaketo accept the same, or any less number which you may appropriate to i. e, and to pay the deposit thereon of 2/. per share. Thited this day of 1145. Residence ..... Profession or Trade • . • • • • • Place of Business • • . Reference ..• MADRID and VALENCIA RAILWAY.— No APPLICATION FOR SHARES will be received after WADNEshar, the First day of October next. F. KIRKHAM FOWLER, Secretary. otto moorgat :y order, stz.et, s.pt. 25, 1645. ~F G REAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT RAILWAY. The Committee of Management of this Railway hereby giye no tice, that in consequence of the unprecedented number of applications already made for shares in this important undertaking, they hare determined upon rejecting all further applications made atter the 29th September instant. Immediately after that day they will proceed to make the allotment of the shares and procure the execu tion of the Parliamentary contract and subscription deeds. Signed by order of the Committee, J. R. GIBSON, OWEN GRAY, Registered Solicitors. J. B. MUDGE, 29th September, 1845. SHREWSBUR Y, WOLVERHAMPTON, DUDLEY, and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. WM. ORMSBY GORE, M.P.. Chairman. The Hon. ROOT. H. CLIVE, M.P., Deputy-Chairman. John Benbow, Esq., MP. W. Richford Collett, Esq., M.P. W. Fechney Black, Esq. James Clay, Esq. Richard Norman, Esq. Stephen Phillips, Esq. Richard Smith, Esq. It. A. Slaney, Esq. Sir W. Young, Bart. In consequence of the repetition ofAdvertisements signed " Thomas H. Smith," and an " Original Shareholder," the Committee of Ma. nagement think it their duty to publish the names of that Commit tee, as the best answer to the latter anonymous writer, and to caution the Shareholders against being misled by any statements which might be made at any meeting called by Thomas H. Smith, of whom the Committee of Management know nothing. The Committee of Management take this opportunity to state, that the surveys from Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton are nearly completed, and that the surveys from Wolverhampton to Birmingham are being made under the direction of it joint Committee representing this Company, the London and Birmingham Railway Company, and the Birmingham Canal Company, the whole under the immediate super intendence of Mr. Robert Stephenson. By order, GEO, KNOX, Secretary. 3, Moorgate-street, Sept. 22, 1845. D IRECT WESTERN RAILWAY (Upon the Broad Gauge), From London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and Bridgewater respectively. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 25/. each. Deposit, 21. Its. 6d. per Share. Office, 20, Poultry. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Camperdown, Sidney-place, Bath The Viscount Mandeville, Kimbolton-park, Hunts Lord James O'Bryen, Royal-crescent, Bath Lord William Powlett, Bath, and Downham-hall, Brandon, Suffolk General Sir John Slade, Bart., Muntys Court, Taunton Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, Somerset The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens Howard Elphiustone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London Ralph Neville, Esq M.P., Hill-street, Berkeley-square Charles Barry Ballwin, M.P., 6, Parliament-street Yon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, itelgrave-square Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-plaee, London William Bradley, Esq., 31ano; Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Companies Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P., Foxley, Herefordshire Sir John Cave Brown Cave, Bart., Kenilworth, Warwickshire Sir William Young, Bart., Westbourne-green, Hyde-park, East India Director John Clark, Esq., Benefield House, near Trowbridge, Wilts, Magis tr ate for the counties of Wilts and Somerset Alfred Batson, Esq., Ramsbury, Wilts, and Upper Bedford-place Major Hunt Grubbe, Eastwell House, Devizes John Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker John Lovel Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker William Adair Bruce, Esq., Lansdown-crescent, Bath Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company Thomas Farnconab, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman of tile City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin ster Bank, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder minster Railway Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the City of London Edward Harrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the South Midland Railway Joseph Armitage, Esq., Miln's Bridge House, Huddersfield, ')eputy Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park, Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and South Midland Railways Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Rally, ay Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe Philip W. Courtnay, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London Millis Coventry, Esq., hitehart-court, Lombard-street Barnet L. Philips. Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and George-street, Mansion Rouse Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Deputy Liodenant and Ma;istrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf William Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the Devon and Cornwall Banking Company Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director of _ _ the South Midland Railway Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London, Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South Essex Railways Francis Ede, Esq. ' 34, Great Winchester-street John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Insurance Company James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West Heath House, Er.th, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Chard", Devon, Direc tor of the Bridport and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railways Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, sad Cannon street, London H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park George M'lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-square Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland Railway Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company Patrick Fras. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the London and Blackwall Railway Company William Downing Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon Cuthbert Woodcock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstone-street, Portman square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension Railways George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square William Breyuton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway Company Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London and Blackwall Railway Company Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the St. Katherine Docks Company, and of the General Shipowners' .Socieey William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles street, Berkeley-square James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor place, London Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail- way Company Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London William Congreve Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, DI . • - - rector of the Warwickshire and London Bailway Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d Light Dragoons Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity- _ square, London Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Ne w bury, Barks Col. Bursiem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the _ County - Rev Chas. Fras. Bamffyide, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bath, Magis trate for Somerset Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming ham Railway Company B. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buckingham shire Railway and Wolverton Junction Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton Colonel Henry Duudas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton Wm. H. Holcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman of the Berks Union Banking Company William Hab,omb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager tof the Wilts and Dorset Bank Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berk., Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Kerle Habertield, Esq., Clifton, Bristol James Troup, Esq., Hastings John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Mortbrd Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director ef Coventry and Leicester Railway Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway • James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and Birkenhead, and Manchester and Southampton Railways Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies Joseph Nadi'', Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Mag,lstrate for the East Riding of York and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the "Hull and Barnsley" Committee, and Member of the acting .Committee of the "Liver pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies" John Holford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders field and ,;hetlield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford Union Railway Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South- ampton Railway John Robson, Esq., Hatton-le-Bole, Durham Cornelius Randall, FAQ, Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Dirkenlicad, and Midland Railway Companies Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool T" E NFIE LINE D MONTON,and E A STERN COU.NTIES' JUNCTION RAILWAY CMPANY. _ , ( rrovisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and S Victoria, cap. 1 10.) Capital, 30,0001., in 1,500 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 2/. 2socr Share. Liability limited to amount of subscription. Length of line three miles. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Jacob Vale Asbury, Esq., M.U.C.S., Silver-street, Enfield Edward Beata, Esq., 16, Warwick -street, doideu-stlusir. Charles Dennis Bowers, Esq., Cannon-street, London Thomas Dobson, Esq., Forty-hill, EL:field John Dixon, Esq., Forty-hill, Enfield Captain Holt, R N., Baker-street, Enfield Daniel Harrison, Esq., Chase-hill, Enfield William Henry Holt, Esq., 31 . D., Baker-street, Enfield Astley Holt, Esq., 31. D., Baker-street, Enfield Henry Samuel Hammond, Esq. , Church -street, Edmonton William Hainworth, Esq., Enfield Town John Fulford Owen, Esq., Ridgeway Oaks, Enfield Chase Major Ramsay, Hi 1 Lodge, Clay-hill, Enfield H en ry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoug hb y House, Tottenham Robert Wollaston, Esq., Tottenham ENGINEER—Robert Stephenson, ESQ. ,_, ...1 . e . BAR/dAmENmAgy A.GENT-31essrs. Parrett and AN aime...e.,,_ BANKERS—Messrs. Drewett and Fowler, Princes-stre et, );• , sowerrok.s. • . John Sawyer, Esq., Enfield H en ry Knight Esq., Edmonton W. B. James, Esq., London. aag - • .--=--------- PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS.at Enfield Ton This line of railway is intended to commenceunties, line and to form a junction with the Eastern C a o t L?tnveor) ,,. ,, d a ir o ll a l g o b t Edmonton station, crossing the turnpike - roa d where a station would be placed for the accommodates I that bourhood. from the circumstance of its not involving the sacuri.nLi'e'r-isieuice dentiary property (nearly the whole of it being a 13 e ssons w b° have It will be three miles in length, over an uniform level su_rLaciievlrsesnt.d. ture), its cost has been estimated by comp. tent . t i _ r , ra iwaYe e t fo s surveyed it, at a sum very much below that of ord :l e s s ,., eec ai e . By this junction, passengers will be conveyd, at '!„.. where! the present cost, from Enfield to London in half-a sasonion urge that time is now consumed in reaching the near d e t s.' Eastern Counties' line. It may be expected, indepen the following places, viz.:-Northaw, South Minnes_ s, s o utbil t ,„ diate neighbourhood of its stations, to draw considereablertottcffioe,ll?;,, Hadley, Chipping Barnet, East Barnet, Cock Forsintoestios sow Winchmore Hill, and it will also open a direct corn Ll." the markets and villages north of Enfield. felt to &in The expensive coach fares to Enfield have long been t w hen la' ciate the value of house property in the neighbourhood encbliu the fir residents will be enabled, by means of this line to_ . ', and suitahleur 1,1 nt of the ,nr polis at a moderate cost, not only such property, bat b • te Opole, wo building purposes, of which there are many favoura datab le ' eerY .... l es onfer t ; be greatly improved in value. In addition to the passenger traffic, which is there would be realised a large amount, annual, fr o T rsa ines , w: s ,,, ance of coal, corn, and other goods, from the riyer • ito s to r,l' s ' s ; which a communication is now in the course of beT 2 ,n. - „ coaa",, neighbourhood, by means of the junction of the I,ag,`,_ • ;:d, will e. with the Blackwall Railway ; and which, when comp at itle a cure to the public the convenience of three termini, T l3 ' wall, Fenchurch-street, and Shoreditch. . fro m the s r es To market-gardeners, as also to farmers, this line, . ods sof .0 . remarkable contiguity of its stations, would offer grea t ' d ot ser P r 4 by affording them the means of conveying their frui t n w i it s lese a cp . duce to the London markets, more expeditiously and dioue, slid ore of injury, than by their present very inconvenient, te 10 ,0 ro , particularly, e of conveyance; and to the SpitairildS fo s sueli s l oa s on account of its being the prineiP al s por e ' duce, and close to the Shoreditch terminus. Yroul e= I n ': a very large return would be obtained. the the ho hle t , Enough may have already been stated to show , e 9 bare , , ol d portance of this project to the neighbourhood and er a ralsiu.„ e but the fact should not be overlooked, that ashenehs _ sto ol .. ,. 1. convenient communication has been opened with t sf ed i a teill t o traffic very far beyond what before existed has rr e t , c cese In, lowed ; and from a project which would facilitat ta resett s aiS favourite and healthful a spot as Enfield, the sam e ofi i" anticipated. re oed,, s , otaf From the very moderate outlay which will s ,b e ..,, ti t, a ii,„ the many advantages which the line of railway will P r • - i e tura '"'" of which have been particularly noticed, a larg a `net capital invested may be confidently expected. e d IT, lima The responsibility of the shareholders will be ,11 ."" irr of Parliament to the amount of their shares. A lOlO Olll In the allotment of the shares, applications by I , *• - • t oaf terested will have the preference. sonsitorl. at Applications for shares may be made to the v i ral ° tr ot, offices ; and to Messrs. Oswin and Co., Angel-co j3ros d.l street; and to Messrs. Peppercorne and Co., 2, London. .------•---- SEE S d x'''' .... ter a FORM OF APPLICATION F OR ton, an To the Previsional Committee of the Enfield, Effinon le 0 . 0 Counties' Junction .Railway. ,bal d Iffn i s , Gentlemen,-I request that you will allot Ma s , .nniet , e ro - si loin v Enfield, Edmonton, and Eastern Coun tie w any s s deal way, and I agree to take al such shares, or so „ to exec - L acs La` - allotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, anu ~,a see Parliamentary Contract and Subscriber's • , so to do. Name • . ...... •• • • ...... .........„•., • Description .. ..... •••• • '' .......•', s a Residence ••••• • • • '' •••• ••••*•,:".. Date .... • • •• • • .... " .. • • •• " .. •• , I/ Reference to •• • • ....... ' IVA --' IS AID" $ 1 Agreement Was L ONDON and NOTTINGHAM "f..,101P' sw-h connecting LONDON, NOTTINGHA M, c 11 0 LEEDS. . slots -' (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 0 ~ ea cji. Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,00 0 Sha res of 2v.• .... of Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. the OW' (In compliance with the Standing Or ders of rf"' Parliament.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. ..., ) .. to • (With power to add to their narrlas,st :so The Right Hon. Digby, Lord Middleton, Wollatoll ill" ' The Hon. E. M. Lloyd Mostyn, M.P. The Hon. William Mackenzie Dawson I ,o° The Hon. Edward Stafford Jerninghant trii ir° ' Sir George G. De Hochepied Larpent, Bart, A"-- Notting 0 d af or *!' William Collins, Esq., M.P. lo tting 0 • , as Thom Adams, Esq., merchant, Lenten Firs, n 015,00 10 S'' It Charles Appleby, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the '. chester Railway ( i bt e i s o , , Ge rge Bacon, Esq., merchant, Nottingham otro eto 1 ~. Richard Bailey, Esq., Castle Dyke, near Oi efil ,si eldi ss 1" Ire ip° ',j ' Manchester, Sheffield. and Midland Junction R.- 1 sera •s' Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq., Director of the or " P. el le Robert Bell, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick tondo ° Charles Richard Bigge, Esq., Bryaaston-sqtrarerS'Sns .. William Boden, Esq.. Apsle Hall, near Nottingoa"- 'tae William Bradley, Esq., Sheffield W S ' T sai 1 0 01 Joseph Braithwaite, Esq., Magistrate, Standard is ' t o James Brand, Esq., New Broad-street, London„he CO ° 01 George B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Directo r c° fOr Nuneaton Railway stagi St° Edward Pegge Burnell, Esq., Winkburn, Not% s' County Wm. Butcher, Esq., the master cutler of Sheffield, , 3 Samuel Cartledge, Esq., Mapperley, near Not tingas William Cartledge, Esq.. merchant, Nottingham Charles Chouler, Esq., Wollatou, Notts Thomas Close, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham Henry Coe Coape, Esq., Union Club, London N o tts Major E. T. Coke, magistrate, Woodhouse Grove, - 0 1 Sheldon Craddock,Leicester 0 400, Thomas Cullen, Esq., merchant, N ottingham eet, l ' ' joa Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., Old Cavendish-str- . I,o° Lillingstone Dayrell, High Seriff for Bucks ta_phre`' Lieut.-Col. Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, WYDe lb ,,s-ece - .let Henry D. Erskine, Esq., 93, Mount-street, Gross'en" sae' William Felkin, Esq., merchant, Nottingham irec O f ti° William Edmund Ferrers, Esq., BucklersburY , P - - W pi , and Hots head Railway , O P James Fisher, Esq., 12, Watling-street, London s ,„„ c best e •' Charles Fitzgerald, Esq., London, Director of the a.'" and Southampton Railway , __,,,, oa , d ° The Rev. Henry Robert Fowler, Manchester - sa .L :,'''',) Smith Fowler. Esq., merchant, Nottingham Francis Gamble, Esq., merchant, Galusboroug n George Gamble, Esq., merchant, Gainsborougn James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, Loudon As 9 1/41 William Gilbertson, Esq., Baglan, Neath l -sa an d Pr- Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Livery -- Railway Thomas Foster Gimson, Esq., merchant, Nottingbani ot oof William Ilannay, Esq., magistrate, Nottinghau l 11% John Heard, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham Gnat 1 " Richard Heaviside, Esq., London, Director of the Railway ' Lewis Heymann, Esq., merchant, Nottingham Samuel Hollins, Esq., merchant, Nottingham ss tila ghs ° John llorsfall, Esq., magistrate, Standard-hill, 24° ' - - The Rev. Charles Hudson, Saundby, Notts Richard Hutchinson, Esq., M D., Nottingham Robert James, Esq., merchant, Nottingham Thomas Kidley, Esq , M.D„ Sheffield Cymric Lloyd, Esq., Brook-street, London ~.., Londe Robert Low, Esq., Keppel-strect, Russell-squar e ' si sre Ai 'the Mayor Nottingham -,,, ttingl is s ` - stO - David Melville, Esq., merchant, Standard-hill, ss ss ° ,,, - tor • Major J. A. Moore, Queen Ann-street, London, Dire Indian Peninsular Railway 1 John Newton Mappin, Esq., Shffield haat Edward Munk, Esq., merchant, e the Park, No tting-- Henry Newbould, Esq., Sharrow Bank, Sheffield t 04 1 9 John Nunn, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham Park , s , Wes of Overend, Esq., Sheffield, Magistrate for u``,,,if s' Capt. Adamson George Parker, Mapperley Mount, "e Samuel Parsons, Esq., M.D., Sackville-street, Loud° William Staines, Esq., the Temple, London .f : 4'te J. Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leieester , s , ric fle' Jonathan Reckless, Esq., merchant, Nottingliffs" boat' / s James Salmond, Esq., magistrate, Mansfield Iv ' i sisrar soa thigharn, Dir. ctor of the Newark and Sheffield U se, b0a, 4 01 0 Frederick William Seymour, Esq., St. James's-s 9 George Shelton, Esq., jun., merchant, Arnold, W ar r Sta d - 4 ". Henry Simonds, Esq., Di rec t or of the Great weste s• John Simpson, Esq., Arnot Hill, near Nottingh nni „, g p i t! Thomas Smith, Es Meadow Hall near Shane.' William Smith, Esq., Dam House 'near Sheffie ld ~,,a eDeCi °- , Henry Smyth, Esq., merchant, the ' Park, Na ttinS" ii - te f°r e:P iel' William Taylor, Esq., Ratcliffe Hall, Notts, Magl t s r Bud d William Thompson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of '- Sheffield Railway „ i , •0 11 , i ,,,, re , William Vickers, Esq., g Thomas Wakefield, Esq.,magistrate, Nottinghara r peri, o ras• John Ward, Esq., Wood-street, London, and pe l f * a' od ° Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the Manchester iD t Extension Railway of Edward w,illiam Webster ivebste r, B E ui s i g oc , k o W ak e h b a s m te Tß , Esq., D Rutland d ° Hendo n ta t to , ee • John Ingall Werge, Esq., Woodborough Hall, '- Newark and Sheffield Railway to° 41 Col. Henry Westenra, Camla, Monaghan s e All" 11 ; 1 00 144 David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, ---- John Wild, Esq., merchant, the Park, Nottinglor 5',, ett teld• • • Henry Wilkinson, Esq., Endeliffe Hall, mar ss utifi l the Sheffield and Chesterfield Railway "rota"' John Calthrop Williams, Esq., M.D., t nagistra te 'oon i l i t e o n b ry ert l N l V rill yn oug ne h W by il , d E a s m q s : sEestqti,nlglteodfnourdo-upslea,ce, l' ° , m a iton iss l; SIO COMMITTEE OF MANAGE t „ Ch Sir George G. de Hocirepled Larpent,qt.t.o an Frederick Pratt rHaettnry ßa l r t lo obe w, r E t Fsgo.wier, Djaempuesty-C,nnay.sa'o4,4 Germa n ' Se 4 '• vf Joseph Braithwaite, Esq. William rr" s delfi• '-..,. 1' James Brand, E,sq. Thomas 1%.4 ":„o cie ° ,7 Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq Capt. Adalll' - ' 9 , S.:S 4 ' Lieut.-Col. Eirington ' Samuel Fargo°•L.,o4. Wiliam Edmund Ferrors, Esq. Witham itainsaisrirc' _ sa nt .-, a° STANDING COUNSEL-Mr. Sesb- t 7 JAg s morts. I Messrs. Birch and Bramah, omGreat Winchester-stree - ) Messrs. Forbes and Drake, Warnfor d-court• , Messrs. Freeth and Rawson, Nottingha m ' Cr LOCAL soxras. „ e litist Messrs. Parker and Smith, S'.'.. --ef• 9- ; C. S. Busby, Esq., Chesterflear vet o+ PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS-Messrs. GregorY• dela" ' 11, Parliament - s treet. i t, le e C RANKERS. f d.stre Ty , . Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co., 15, Lomba ..,,, ssaa Al Messrs. Moore stud Robinson, Nottingha insw ' e el -- Nottingham. so y fr s l ;salr e ' JO , f ' tO r The Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Ct. - fit. -- rt I ,°ll 0' te", SECRETARY (pro tem.)-Mr. Wit r d.co a • ' o f l ie 13 1e i tl , Offices of the Company, No. 8, lArn ar° c ct l ine s od t 'aii:; The object of this Company is to form a u t ; g lialt o eo rOl!'f , ' tween the large and important town of Not _ so d l oo s or t efs polis, which, by means of the existing and r ° P; i ii la w „orn' o al e V former place, will afford also the most direct ts, she rd sio to ,S ,i ,1 tweet': London, Sheffield, Huddersfield, Ise,%d o o a ss l ri atlol`, o e ~ land generally and Scotland, and between 1 , ".„,, to the'' re ac ts s e It is not the present intention of this CornPt7,'„ait o f ir s or 4 dent line between London and Bedford, boV.,,, a iitag e , t se t b , e l s ensuing session of Parliament, and to take %ail r e" e sas o lo the projected lines between those places as - t i ; f 11 ,e 0 ~ a 0 .. of the Legislature. m elee Oct pr s il a The proposed railway will therefore coin 109 dls „al st cs io j taking a course n or th war d t h ro ugh the dine'P°P4owbr-t,,'.Pesifil er Ferran, to or near Kettering arid Melton • tea t!! ~~ almost a straight line to Nottingham. I ts ode ° oft!' e, '...a , e id one s se, all 'a , tP through a thickly-populated country, ° L .. s „cct eo n , thy' , tar s , s 1 of any moment to the construction, in a '-"- -, tha• barn le - ,i, o' r railway. A reference to the map' will shoo s ttiog 'pa sr th of IN ° ,I re it" ' tb e a kit' !" junction with the proposed railways nor wl s of s o o o I r' nearest route from London to Sheffield, , o efto sto o, eti ti .. a north of England, and Scotland; while, 5 i ,7 ,, , 1317,0 of r , pi Nottingham and Ambergate, and Dian direct ci! an d s al" gate lines, it will be found to offer a rneansttchesrer' 04 J.,,,i any in existence between London and ar ss. sde sta, s o , t e fi r with any one projected between those Pi.rr e , t ne 11 ," to er' it oelarror The promoters are already assured tf _T er lo calf„ ot o l, s o 0 0 ," , cordially approved by the landed and Directorsei t , sins fb,`, i te,, l s , the sanction and active assistance of c c arire e , s ea e Co - es' line of railway which it affects, It has „„Tshed iel a " ;id t il aes, trio habitants of the towns or Nottingham ~,. to sth. ;soli e ' is' i ‘se!, facturing and: commercial classes of fa',',, hc or P„, 111 1° (0 le,,,sr, are not aware of any grounds, either p lacid tyoraietore ire I ' o / 1 to _.... till ht OJ T 03 , the sanction of Parliament can be wii b the prolW a 'y iiS,,,s area, t the amount of its traffic, guarante es turn upon the capital to be invested ne r" . `l e will Lr N il fir oe. In the allotment of shares a prefere ° ta o uro' et ed to e , i n' a ce rta ,.. eeo sie 0 1 0 ,„,., locally interested in the line, and for the shareholders in railways inunediare' ~, coT s st; ol ,l' d sent undertaking. proa 4 ' l"o•L e c i e o l4 s , A prospectus, with plan and list of f ` lie , tt , ti . ie_,`„sa.,, 0 any further pat ticuiars, may be obta ‘ d i r ss ri ,.. I st a lol ; I , offices of the Company, to whom, or t ° ' a ppfi ca silurebmsikesrs, 53, Threadneedle -street, the usual form, may be made. • I eh, J . PR , IP;I I . . oh tr p 14 4 tOr e a 4 6. 4 4 , 41 Sr, tN;-• (1 t it . 4 „ 't kee, ~:.: I