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W ORCESTER and MERTHYR TYDVIL JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 110.) Capital, 800,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 20/. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Rh' William Wynn, Maesynewydd, Chairman of the North WaleBl i .73 Railway William Chadwick, Esq., Montagu-square, Director of the North Wales Railway, and Chairman of the Worcester and South Wales Junctiqp Gideon Colquitotn, Rog., Walmer Lodge, avenue• road, Regent's Park, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway Thomas Farneomb, Esq., Alderman of London John Knill, Esq., Thames-street, Director of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., 19, James-street, Bucking- ham-gate .. Hoary Plardtre Gipps, ESQ., Montagu-place, Bryanstone-square, j Director of the Treat Valley and Holyhead Junction , Railways Major-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London 1 Thomas B. Simpson, Esq., Rutland Lodge, Brixton, Director of i ! the North Wales Railway, and Deputy - Chairman of the Wor - o caster and South Wales Junttien John Feral:ma, Esq., Upton Bishop, near Ross The Rev. Edward Higgins, Rosbury House, Herefordshire Volm Tanner, Eaq., M.D., Ledbury o William Barnes, Eaq., Foregate-street, Worcester 4 George Alfred. Ellis Wall, Cross House, near Worcester, and .7, Wortley Park, Hampshire - 1 John Hemming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park - A Thilip Matthews, Esq., Burton-court, near Ross Samuel Higgins, Esq., Barrow-court, Worcestershire Wm. Nicholson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Railway Company Otephea Phillips, Esq., Director of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway Win. Bland, Esq., 11, Parknerrace, Brixton-road, Director of the North Wales Railway James Brand, Esq., New Broad-street Thomas Baylis, Esq., F.S.A., Pryors Bank, Fulham Henry Garrett Key, Esq., Tulse Hill, Brixton, Surrey Joseph Gillman Barrett, Esq., Ross James 17pfill, Esq., Bromyard, Herefordshire William Candler, Esq., Newland Conrt, near Woreester J4rnes Chamberlain, Esq., Green Hill, Worcester. Alajiunin Oliveira, Esq., 1.R.5., t, tipper Myde Park-street, Direc tor of Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle, and Leeds and Li verpool Direct Railway Charles Grant, Esq., Fitzroy-square John Jennings, Esq., Elm Grove, Hammersmith, Director of the SO4thampten, Manchester, and Oxford Railways (With power to add to their number). CONSULTING ENGINEER. Examine—Messrs. R. and T. Hopking, M.I.C.E. BANKERS. The London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury Ifessrs. Cocks, Biddulph, Biddulph, and Co., Charing-cross Messrs. Webb and Co., Ledbury Messrs. Morgan, Hoskias, and Co., Ross Messrs. Berwick, Lechmere and Co., Worcester The National Provincial Bank, Gloucester Messrs. Baileys, Graterex, and Williams, Abergavenny. SOLICITORS. Megars. Gilbert, Hoeke, Street, and Gutteres, Philpot-lane, London Charles G. Jones, Esq., 11, Gray's Inn-square Messrs. J. and F. Higgins and Chamberlain, Ledbury. LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. Hydes and Tymbs, Worcester Messrs. Edwards, Ross Messrs. Gabb and Secretan, Abergaysnny. SECRETARY PRO TEM—William Borrow, Esq. Offices of the Company, 7, Walbrook. This railway will commence at the station of the Monmouth and Hereford and Worcester and South Wales Junction at Ross, proceed ing through a rich atricultural district, now devoid of railway ac commodation, to Abelgavenny, and from thence by Llanelly, Nant y-Glo, Tredegar, Ebba Vale, Rumney, and Dowlals, to Merthyr Tydvil, at which place it will join the Taff Vale Railway. The dis tance will not exceed forty miles. On reference to the map it will be seen that this line, in conjunction with the proposed Worcester and South Wales Junction Railway, via Ledbury, Malvern, and Ross, will perfect a continuous and direct communication from Merthyr Tydvil to London, Gloucester, Bir mingham, South Staffordshire, and the north. The population of Merthyr, and the surrounding mineral districts, exceeds 120,000, and this line will place it in direct connexion with the a;ricultural counties of Monmouth, Hereford, and Worcester. The line will be laid down so as to render the greatest accommodation to the principal ironworks in the district through which it will pass, and a saving of ten miles over any other Unewill be effected between Merthyr and Worcester, and other places north and east of that city. Arrangements are its progress with the Worcester and South Wales Junction Railway Company, for the mutual advantage of both Companies. Applicants for shares, who are personally known to members of the Provisional Committee, are requested to refer to one of such Committee ; all other applicants will be required to give a reference to some bankeror other persons of known respectability in London or the t,,wa from which the application is made. A preference will be given to the holders of scrip iu the Worcester and South Wales Junc tion Railway. The usual power will be taken by the Act to allow interest at four per LAM. per annum on the amount of subscription paid up, and no satocritoer will be answerable for more than the amount of his deposit until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond his subscription. petalled prospectuses, with the names of a powerful local Provi sional Committee, will shortly be published, mid may be obtained of the Solicitors and Local Agents, and of the following Sharebrokers : Mesars. Ashton and Scott, Thregmerton-street, London ; John San ford, Esq., Exeter ; Messrs Ridsdale, Myers, and Bailey, Leeds ; Messrs. i;anieron, Cazenove, and Taunton, Liverpool ; Messrs. Green ani Oldham, Manchester ; Messrs. Sohmes and Tripp, Bristol ; Na thaniel Lea, Eel., Birmingham ; Mr. William Miles, Worcester ; and Mr. Andrew Brand, Glasgow FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. _ _ To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Merthyr Tydvll Junction Railway. Gentle: , — I request that you will allot me shares of VV. each in the prjr , osed Worcester and Merthyr Tydvil Junction Rail way, and I underttei'a to accept the same, and pay the deposit thereon, or upon any lesser number that may be allotted to me, such payment to be made within the time limited and prescribed by you, and m I undertake to execute the agreement and Parliamentary con tract when required. Dated this day of 1845. Name • • • Residence.• • • • • Description .. • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Bet . (irelaCe .. rectal Signature• • . .' . . WEST COAST RAILWAY. (Registered Provisionally.) Capital, 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 2.51. eada. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. (.No Sabeeriber to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTIVE. Mar Blake, F.sq., Ballinafad, Mayo Robert Dillon Browne, Esq., M.P., Gleneorrib, Mayo John Patrick Somers, Esq., M.P., Sligo Sir Thomas Bernard Going Dancer, Bart., Modreeny House, Clough- Jordon, county Tipperary, Director of the G. and Kilkenny Railway The Hon. Geoffry Browne, D.L., Wilton-crescont, London, and Castle M`Garrett, Mayo The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-etroet, Whitehall, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway The Right Hon. John Ladaveze Arabin, Lord Mayor of the City of Dublin Michael Gallagher, Esq., Mayor of Sligo John Notterville Ilarron, Esq., Resident Magistrate, Sanders Parr, Cork Owen Edmond Blake, Esq., J.P., Frenchfort, Galway William Butler, Esq., J.P., Bunnahow, Ennis (late High Sheriff of Clare) James 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, Eaq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge, Director of the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Jamaica Railway Thomas Colinas, Eaq., Ballybrit House, Galway Edward Deane, Eaq., J.P., Curragowan, Mayo lamas Dillon, Esq., J.P., Cogue, Mayo John Dunn, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S., L. and D., Drumana, Leitrim Thomas Edwarls, 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., M.D., St. James's-street, Pall-mall, Director of the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Jamaica Railway moor Griffith, Esq., D.L., J.P., Port Royal, Sligo, Director of the *lgo and Shannot Railway W. A. Hill, Esq., Lonsdale-square, Deputy-Chairman of the Gionces• ter and Aberystwith Railway Dean John Hoare, Esq., Percy-street, Redford-square Robert Hughes, Esq., Ely House, Wexford, Director ef the Provin cial Bank of Ireland John Kerschner, Esq., Middle Temple William King, Esq., Spring-gardens, and Putney, Surrey John Knox, Req.. J.P., Greenwood Park, Mayo Joseph Myles M`Donnell, Esq., J.P., Deocastle, Mayo Capt. Charles Carden Mansergh, Longraigue, Wexford, Director of the Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia Railway Capt. Newton, Bruton-street, and Lugwardin, Harts Francis It. O'Grady, E:q., 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 Persse, Esq., Galway Michael Perrin, Esq., Galway N ees pries, Esq., M.D., Tyne Hall, Great Ilford, Essex Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq , Brompton, Middlesex Joseph Richardson, Esq., J.P. Summer-hill House, Clones Th em es Seymour, Esq., J.P., Ballymore Castle, Itallinaidee James Sexton, Esq., J.P., Limerick 5. WV. Simcoxes, Esq., Galway Despard Taylor, Esq., Newport, Swords John Walsh, Esq , Castlehill, Mayo Captain George Edward Watts, R•N ,Langton Grange, Darlington (With power to add to their number.) M.I.C.E• CossulTtNer ENGINEER---0010 11 e 1 Landmann, R.E., ENGINEER—G. M. Lewis, C.R. RANICERS• Lelloll—Mesars. Williams, Deacon, and Co. Scotland —Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank Iraisuni—National Bank and Branches Provincial Bank and Branches. STANDING COUNSEL—James llonson Carrow, Esq. ROLICITOZIL Messrs. Langley and Mead, Bedford-row, London. William Thomas Kelly, Esq., 16, Monntjoy-square Nor*, Dublin, and Castlebar, Mayo. LOCAL AGENTS. Galway—Captain F. O'Shaughneasy Castlebar—Mr. Henry Murphy Sligo—Mr. W. C. Tuite. Bmm - rear—Henry T. Stuart, Esq. PROSPECTUS. The object of this line of Railway Is to complete the chain of coast eomuminication, 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 of Clare, Galway, Mayo, and Sligo, terminating at Sligo, by a junction with the Sligo and Ennis killen Railway, and accommodating on itsroute the imports.nt cities and towns of Limerick, Ennis, Gort, Loughrea, Athenry, Mouivea, Timm, Dallinrobe, Castlebar, Westport, Foxford, Ballina, Kilalla, Swineford, st re antstown, and Sligo, which town being connected with the north, mast, and south, by the different lines through Enniskillen, London flarrY, Coleraine, Belfast, Armagh, Kerry, Dundalk, Drogheda, Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Valeutia, Tralee, and Limerick, the establishment of this line will sense Ire land to present a completeness of locomotive communication which no other country in the world enjoys. The country through which the proposed line travels is most fertile In mineral and agricultural products ; it embraces many extensive coal fields, whose advantages it will extend to all parts of Connaught and Ulster ; and intersecting, as It does, so many metropolitan lines of railway, It will develop. those advantages • in an equal degree to We province of Leinster. The lead, iron, marble, and slate works on its route, will be rendered available to the most distant parts of the island, and Perhaps not the least advantage, in a national point of view, will be the establishment of an intercourse between the population of the gems north and that of the extreme south, as well as placing the of trade__ asl4 communication with, Scotland, within the easy rea c h all towns of any importance in Ireland Added to this the cer- Sala .,_._ t Y,._tba..t_ es, on the completion of the projected . southern, eastern, and =EL become the natural harbours on the Atlantic shore of tr . i .. the British depots of American traffic, and most ;;;' the , ira packet stations for postal communication thi o tru l y mas the Z'minties, it is impossible to over-rate the value of Th ..... u .. wu t ch roiection. this railvray traverses abundantly supply the English markets with cattle,tl , l ) :l 2 9 & , C. This line, communicating with Inany PoTtIN will afford r ompotgioninctofotrf irpw..ardssomeolfdta of t ea he te ex st te r n ac t il o i f ti w es hi f c o ti r ma the y s b hi . p f p o i nn ng ed of being held annually thathelp an e d m c,atthie. in the e o f ß ß ri la us Immediate vicinity nve hundxsrl fairs a ti llin sh asislianceasa.c k2irvic has elge4 been th aseertai e greattsnedg hem , re eo a m t m en un gi i n m ee t r io n n g . w hi tadil eit t4e 4Te r beten"nrerenivedetimifro: t.ah"MeralilanwiTYdayr"a:dntsing sro stost anxiety is manifested for its complet i on.sni along the line, the The subscribers will be held liable only tth extent of their first &poets until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only t o the actonnt of their subscriptions. Tower will be applied for in the Alt—and in the nanny given to the Committee—to alter the capital, if necess ary I. wary or abandon any part of the line , to make bra nchary ;to lines, or enter into arrangements with any other company or companies ; and also to nominate the first directors of the company. The Parliamentary contract and subscribers' agreement will be ready for signature on payment of the deposits. It will be stall item the plan that the railway intersects many mow cue, and will thus contribute to, and receive from them a eon oklerable amount In passeeget and merchandise traffic. Tions the estimates that hhaave been made, a return of at least 10 rist cent. must be realised on the capital. Application for shares to be made lu the usual form to the Solici tors In London and Dublin ; to the Local Agents ; c Seretary, st the else of the Company, 10, Old Jewry Chambers and to the undermentioned brokers :—Messrs, Martin and Heseltine, Finch fina, Coashill ; Mr. D. B. Major, Change-alley, C,ornhill ; Mr. An her] Laurie, Liverpool ; Messrs. Brady and Stanlforth, Manor-street 111111; Mr. S. Grindrod, Manchester ; Messrs. Watson and Co., Leeds ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Messrs. Tyeth and Wills, pi~nouth • Mr. T. 011Mdforel, Exeter; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh ; Nears. MIEWen and Aria, Glasgow ; Mr. William GordMron, James Aber dieen ; Messrs. Curtis and Power, Dame-street, Dublin . Morgan, COZY, al whom Prospectuses may be had. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY W ORCESTER RAILWAY, via Bromyard. (Registered provisionally.) Capital 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. TROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Henry George Ward, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company John Barneby, Brockampton, Bromyard Wfllium Banieby, Esq., Clayton Pant, Bromyard, Magistrate of Herefordshire James Best, Esq., Worcester Mr. Edward Bannister, wool-merchant and wool-manufacturer, Leo minster William Bastow, Esq. Surrey-place, London Walker Chamberlayne, Esq., Worcester, Royal Porcelain Mann faetory George Beau.champ Cole, Esq., Chester-street, Grosvenor-place, Di rector of the Great Easiern and Western Railway Company Mr. James Coucher, wool-mercha n t, Worcester Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Copthall-court, and Old Palace, Richmond, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Captain Charles Dutton. Bredenbury-bonne, Bromyard Thomas Dowglaase, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's-wood, Di rector of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Henry Clarke Damao, Esq., Quarry-house, Boughton, Morelielsea, Kent, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Com pany James Eckley, Esq., Bromyard John Freeman, Esq., Gains, Bromyard, Magistrate of Herefordshire and Worcestershire John Matthew Guteh, Esq., 'Banker, Worcester, Director of Wor cester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway Mr. Edwin Gardner, corn, hop, and seed merchant, 'Worcester E. W. Howes, Esq., Bromyard Richard Hemming, Esq., Livington, near Bromyard, and Kingsland, Leominster James Hemming, Esq., Church House, Bromyard Mr. John Hughes, wool merchant, Clopgate, Worcester Mr. John Hood, merchant and carrier, Worcester Mr. George Hill, of the Ilrm of Messrs. Hill and Turley, Worcester Henry James, Esq., Leominster, Mayor of Leominster John Kempson, Esq., son., l3lrehey-fields House, Bromyard John Kempson. jun., Esq., Birchey-fields House, Bromyard John Wheeley Lea, Esq., Vice Chairman of the Severn Navigation Company, Managing Director of the Droitwich Patent Salt Com pany, and a Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway John Lilly, Esq., Alderman of Worcester, Worcester Royal Porce lain naannfaotory. Edward Lloyd, Esq., Sheriff of Worcester William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton, Director of the London and Manchester Direct James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway Arthur Mann, Esq., Woburn-square, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Mr. F. H. Needham, mercnant, Worcester Mr. Powell, wine-merchant, Worcester Mr. James Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Rea and Sons, malaters, Worcester Mr. J. P. Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Rae and Sons, maltaters, Wor eeater Jas. Reeves, Esq., Cheapside and Layton, Director of the Direct London and Manchester, and Great Manchester and Rugby, and Southampton Railway Companies James Robertsen, Esq., Worcester Joseph Sturton, Esq., Munderfleld House, Bromyard, and Lincoln's Inn, London, Magistrate of Hereford. James rpflll, Esq., The Green, Bromyard, Director of the Stafford shire and Shropshire, and Dover and Bristol Railways T. P. P. Wight, Esq., Tsdstone Court, Bromyard Philip Warburton, Esq., Bromyard, High Bailiff of Bromyard Philip Warburton, Gent., Bromyard John Walker, Esq., Luisley Court, Bromyard Mr. Wells, Mop-merchant, Worcester Mr. Woodward, Hop-merchant, Worcester John Henry Walsh, Esq., Worcester Mr. James Wall, Merchant and Carrier, Worcester (Wish power to add to their number.) Cluny ENGINEER—WiIIIam Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S. ASSISTANT ENGINBER—S. F. Griffin, ESQ., C.E. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate.street, London Henry Foley, Elsa., Worcester Bananas. London—The London and Westminster Bank, Lothbnry The Commercial Bank of London. Worcester—Messrs. Farley, Lavendar, and Co. LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. W. and F. Devereaux, Bromyard John Bedford, Esq., Leominster This line will diverge from the line of the Great Eastern and Western Railway, near Worcester, and proceeding by Brom yard, will end at Leominster, at which point it will unite with the proposed lines connecting Hereford and Shrewsbury with North Wales. The communication by railway between these important towns and the continuous hop and cider districts has been entirely left unprovided for by existing arrangements, and this line is brought forward under the auspices of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company, on the strong representations and request of a large and most influential body of the landed gentry of the neigh bourhood. The object proposed is to make a direct communication between Leominster, Bromyard, and Worcester, which latter taws has always been the natural market for the produce of these districts, and to af ford the inhabitants the most direct communication with London, as compared with other lines, by upwards of 30 miles. No person will be liable for more than his deposit till the act Ls ob tained, and power will be applied for to allow interest at 41. per cent. on all calls from the time of their respective payments, as well as to limit the liability of the shareholders to the amount of their subscrip tions. Applications for Shares, in the ann .xed form, to be made to the Provisional Committee, at the Office, 5, Gresham-street, London, er Messrs. John Shewell and Son, sharebrokers, Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, 4, Bank-buildings, and Mr. John Smith, 3, Shorter's-court, London ; Mr. John Duncuft, sharebroker, Manchester; Mr. John O'Neil, sharebroker, Manchester; Messrs. Schultz and Carr, sharebrokers, and Messrs. Reynolds and Son, Liverpool ; Messrs. H. and C. Beardshaw, sharebrokers, Leeds ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, sharebrokers, Bristol ; Mr. James Pearson, sharebroker, Bir mingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., sharebrokers, Brad ford; Mr. William Miles, sharebroker, Worcester; Mr. Robert Allan, sharebroker, Edinburgh ; Mr. William Gordon, sharebroker, Aber deen ; Messrs. Black and Co., sharebrokers, Buchan-street, Glasgow ; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, sharebrokers, Glasgow ; and Messrs. Bruce and Symes, sharebrokers, Dublin ; of whom prospectuses may be had. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SRARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Leominster Railway. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me shares of 201. each In the above railway ; and I hereby undertake to accept Abe same or any less number you may allot me, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of September, 1845. Name in full • •• • rises of business or profession ............ Residence— .• ........ ...... Business or profession .. Signature ....... Name, residence, and profession of referee.. Witness ......... Re5idence..................... ..... T HE NORTHERN and SOUTHERN CONNECTING RAILWAY. (Provislonally Registered under 7 and 8 Viet., eap. 110.) Capital 900,0001., in 3G,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share. Uniting the London and Birmingham, Great Western, the South Western, the London and Brighton, South-Eastern, and Northern and Eastern Railways, and accommodating, en route, Hertford, Hat field, St. Albans, Watford, Xickmansworth, Uxbridge, West Drayton, Colebrook, Staines, Eghaas, Chertsey, Weybridge, Leatherhead, Dorking, and Reigate. PROWSIONAL COMMITTEE. Major Adair, United Serriee Club, Pall-mall, Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of the South Midland, and Birmingham and Lichfield Railways William Ayrton, Esq. Abbey-square, Chester William Arnold Bainb rigge,: Esq., Uttoxeter, Staffordshire John Barnes, Esq., Director of the Union Rank, Chorley Wood House, Hertfordshire William Bestow, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Railway *gorge A. Brown, Esq., 20, Gower-street Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., M.P., Director of the Lancaster and York, Waterford and Kilkenny, and Great Munster Railway Jasper Capper, Esq , Watling-street John Castendeick, Esq., 37, Mincing-lane Walter Chamberlain, Req., Worcester Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's London, Manchester, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Wor cester Railways Major John T. Croft, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of the Chester and Manchester Railway, &fa. William Croft, Esq., Chertsey, Surrey Thomas Clutterbuck, Esq., Red Hall, Watford Charles John Dimsdale, Esq., Essendon-place, Hertfordshire Thomas Edward Dyson, Esq., Tolipits, Hertfordshire Joseph Graham, Esq., Clapham, Surrey Hastings Green, Esq., Sion House, Kilkenny, Director of the Water ford and Kilkenny Railway Captain Hodges, 65, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the Mauritius Railway, Sze. &c. Henry Jennins, Esq., Leeds Swinfen Jervis, Esq., Whitehall-place, and Darlaston Hall, Stafford shire Daniel Turton - Jobnibn: Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of Remington's London and Manchester, the Chester and Manchester Direct, and the- Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways John Joseph K.Ofine, Esq., 3t. John's-wood, Director of the National Bank of Ireland John King, Esq., Glastonbury, and St. John's-wood, London, Diree.; for of the Somersetshire Midland Railway William King, Esq. Waterloo -place, Pall London, Director of the Freemasons' Life Assuranoe Company George LaishleY, Esq., Clarence Lodge, Shirley, Southampton, Diree tor of the Isle of Wight, and of the Oxford, Newbury, Andover, Manchester, and Southampton Junction Railways Daniel William Lucas, Esq., Mark-lane, and Crescent Lodge, Stock well Park Horace William Meteyard, Esq., Director of Remington's London and Manchester, the Chester and Manchester Direct, and the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways Joseph Bostick Massey, E sq ., C o tt ere d, Hertfordshire, and 59, Cam bridge-terrace' Hyde Park. Captain Ogle, 44, Eaton-place, Eaton-square, London. Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., of the Manchester, tat P.R.S. Upper Hyde Park-street, Director Southampton, Manchester , an d lerP' Ox an fo d rdJunc t io n Railways, ace. Hillebrant Meredith Parratt, Esq., Magistrate, Effingham House, Surrey William John Palmer, Esq., 3 lolewood-hill, Be II ngeo, ertthrdshire Rev. G. B. P. Pollen, Magistrate, Little 800 W. H. Ravenhill, Esq.there Rectory , Surrey Worcestershire John Rawson, Esq., Deputy Hone s , Lieutenant of the West Riding of York shire, and J.P., Stoney Royd , Halifax, Director of R osa mel s Great North of France Railway, of the Manchester, Liverpool, and Great North of England Union Railway, and the Rational Bask of Ireland J. B. Shuttleworth , Esq., Eastcheap Edward Scard, Esq., Kew, Surrey, Magistrate, Director of the Toronto and Lake Huron, and Jamaica Railways Julian Sh r ine , Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway William 11. Swinton, Esq., 49, Moorgate-street„ and Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park Stephens, Esti 4, Limo-street - square Thomas William Tozer, Esq , Bi s h o psgate-street, Director of the South Staf fordshire Junction Railway Thomas Weedon, Esq., L eu dwater Mills, Hertfordshire James Whitchureh, Esq., South Cliff, Netley Abbey (With power to add to their number.) COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. John King, Esq. George Laishley, Esq. D. W. Lucas, Esq. H. W. Meteyard, Esq. George Scard, Esq. Major Adair Jelin Andersen, Esq. Jasper Capper, Esq. Jeremiah Clarke, Esq. Joseph Graham, Esq. D. T. Johnson, Esq. BANS-Sas. Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., 29, Clement'S-lane, London The London and County Bank Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, Manchester. ENGINEER—Joseph Gibbs, Esq. LAND AGENT—Layton Cooke, EsQ. LAND SURVEYORS. W. T. Buckland, Esq. Messrs. Sanderson and Ryde. LOCAL SOLICITORS. St. Alban% Herts—Richard Grove Lowe, Req. Chertsey, Surrey—Richard John Cole, Esq. Dorking, Surrey—Messrs. Hart and Hart. Hertford—Edward Robert Spence, Esq. Uxbridge, Middlesex—Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge. Watford and Rickmansworth—John iledgwick, Esq. The object of this undertaking la to form an unbroken link or eomraunication with all the existing railways, by which means more particularly the Western, Southern, Eastern, South-Eastern, and South-Western parts of the kingdom may be traversed from the Northern Districts, without the necessity if making the metropolis a resting-place either for passengers or goods : and thus obviating considerable expense and great loss of time. The length of the main line will be 62 miles, eommeneing at Hert ford, (which has already a branch to the North-Eastern Railway), continuing its coarse by Hatfield, St. Alban's, to Watford, where it will MISS the London and Birmingham Railway, from thence to Rielunansworth, Uxbridge, and West Drayton, where it will pass under the Great Western Railway, proceeding by Colnbrook, (having a branch to Windsor from the main line at Horton), cross the Thames at Staines, to Egham, Chertsey, passing into the South Western , 1 !•allwaY at the Weybridge Station, approaching Cobham, Leather !wad, Dorking, and terminating at Reigate, where it will forni a !unction with th e S out h-E astern an d L on d on an d B r i g ht on Railways. The great distance f rom eac h o th er o f th e v arious termini of rail ways in London, has f or a length of time occupied the attention of the legislatur e an d of of prope r t y has bee. an interested Companies but the great value one line to another ; and city been deemed the most effiefiteart ment t hence the n insuperable obstacle to effecting any improve of a more direct communication from surveys thus made, and shi t so careful surveys the present plan has to meet every desideratum. For the already taken, there de not appear t_great portion of the levels The feature of the country is sgricuir any engineering difficulties. field to reciprocal commerce, by mh and it will open a wide North with the products of the South, tog e ther manufactures of the ble mode of obtaining every description e of wnli a more accemi reasonable rates. foreign merchandise at In consulting the best statistieal anthoritket, and on the infbrms tion derivable from the only certain mode of obtaining th e and fluctuating traffic on so novel a feature as this projected rallw4C a eOnsiderable diflioulty has necessarily presented itself in arriving at a maximum of profits, but it can with certainty be announced that from the resources of traffic from the miumfacturing districts, reel. r procally with the counties through which the railway is in:. nded to pass, the revenue upon the capital will yield at least 10 per cent. As the project developes itself, the most cheering patronage Is manifest from influential landowners and other proprietors declaring that the formation of this line is indispensable to meet the demands ; and who have promised to g:ve this project their undivided support. Government for a length of time have deemed it advisable to send troops with all their materiel by railways, and the facilities whiok can be thus afforded will form a communicating medium with ever . . military depot throughout Great Britain. Snake it to state that coal, wool, timber, corn, bark, lime, am; every variety of product or manufacture must inevitably find tbeli transit by this railway, to meet the demands or esigen.eles of se veral counties hitherto subjected to the impost of incalculable ex pense and delay attendant on goods at present being compelled to pass through London. Soucrrose—Messrs. Miller and Carr, 47, Eastcheap, London. Applications for Shares to be made to Messrs. Miller and Carr, 47, Eastcheap ; and Messrs. Johnson, Longden and Co., Tokenhouse-yard ; and to the local solicitors, Messrs. Hart and Hart, Dorking ; Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge, Uxbridge ; Richard John Cole, Esq., Chertsey ; Richard Grove Lewe, Esq., St. Alban's ; Edward Robert Spence, Esq., Hertford ; John Sedgwick, Esq., Wat ford ; and also to Mr. Crowdson, Liverpool ; Mr. S. Slater, Man chester ; Messrs. Watson, Tootal, and Barff, Leeds ; Messrs. Charles Bell and Co., Leeds ; Mr. J. Wright, Birmingham ; Mr. J. Bowden, Hull ; and Messrs. George Edwards and Son, Bristol. W. JENKINS. Secretary. Temporary Offices, 47, Eastcheap, London. FORM OF APPLICATION. Ts the Provisional Committee of the Northern and Southern;Co necting Railway, Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares it tue above undertaking ; and I hereby undertake to pay the deposit upon tbetn or any smaller number that may be allotted to me, an , to execute the Parliamentary oontract ant subscribers' agreemen when required to do so. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Business or profession ............. Residence ............... . Reference .................................... Date of application .......... ... .•••• • • •• • . T HE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN CONNECTING RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that no Applications for Shares in this Railway will be received from parties resident in London or Its ♦ici nity after THURSDAY, the 25th, and elsewhere after SATURDAY, the 27th instant. By order of the Committee of Management, W. JENKINS, Secretary. Temporary Oillces, 47, Eastcheap, Sept. 19, 1845. WELSH SOUTH MIDLAND, or CHEP STOW, FOREST OF DEAN, AND GLOUCESTER JUNCTION EXTENSION RAILWAY. (Registered Provisionally.) Capital 300,000/., in 45,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. Ito Shareheder to be liable beyond the amount of his Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE, The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore The Right Hom. Col. Dawson Darner, M.P. The Hon. C. Pelham Villiers, M.P. Th• Hon. Robert Gore, M.P. The Hon. Col. Westenra, M.P. Sir Henry Hunleke, Bart. Sir Henry Webb, Bart. Sir William Twysden, Bart. Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart. Sir Henry Seale, Bart William Collins, Esq., M.P. Thomas Gill, Esq., M.P. Edmund Dayrell, Esq., High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire. William Strahan,Esq. William Hughes Hughes, Alder s man of London Col. Hugh Caldwell . George Lawton, Esq. W. P. Andrew, Esq. C. R. Coleman, Esq. Joseph Davies, Esq. John Wbeelton, Esq. George Hall, Esq. Major White Captain J. P. Macdougall William Shelford Fitzwilliam, Esq. William Frederick Beadon, Esq. Hartley Kennedy, Esq. James Beech, Esq. James Morrison, Esq. (With power to add to their number.) COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Edward Francis Dayrell, Esq., l Wm. Hughes Hughes, Esq., Al- Chairman derman Edward Hall, Esq., Deputy-Chair- George Lawson, Esq. man W. P. Andrew, Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart. C. It. Coleman, Esq. Sir William Twysden, Bart. W. S. Fitzwilllani, Esq. Major White W. F. Beadon, Esq. James Morrison, Esq. ENGINEER. William Grivatt, Esq., F.R.S. LONDON BANKERS. 3fesars. Glynn and Co.; and Messrs. Strahan, ?aul, and Co., Strand PROVINCIAL BANKERS. Messrs. Bromage and Co„ Chepstow Messrs. Bailey, Greatrex, and Co., Monmouth Messrs. Williams and Sons, Newport The West of England Banking Company and Branches The Monmouth and Glamorgan Banking Company and Branches The National Provincial Banking Company and Branches The Gloucestershire Banking Company arid Branches The County of Gloucester Banking Company and Branches. SOLICITORS. Mr. W. T. IL Phelps, Newport. Monm•uthshire Messrs. Alteekett, Son, and SympsOn, 7, Golden-square, London LOCAL AGENTS. Chepstow—Messrs. Baldwin and Morgan, Solicitors Gloucester—Messrs. Ellis, Elliott, and Co., Solicitors SECRETARY. Mr. William Prothero, 10, Old Jewry Chambers, London. This Line will join the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway at Chepstow, and extend westward near to Piercifield, the far-famed Win&liff, and Tintern Abbey, to the towns of tisk and Pontypool, and over the centre of the great iron and coal field of South Wales, passing near to and througk the midst of the extensive iron works and collieries of Monmouthshire and Glamor ganshire, to join the Aberdare branch of the Taff Vale Railway, which connects Merthyr Tydvil and Aberdare with Cardiff—thus forming a much more direct and almost straight Line—by means of the railways already made and projected between those immensely populous districts, and the centre of the kingdom and London, by means of which the journey by land will be shortened between the metropolis and this great seat of industry to tour and a half, and between Newport and Cardiff to live hours, which at present, even by the aid of existing railways, cannot be performed in less than from ten to twelve hours. It will be found by reference to the official census of 1831 and 1141, that the average increase of population of the county of Mon mouth exceeded that of any other county in England or Wales ; this fact is referred to as illustrative of the rising importance of the country through which this railway is intended to pass, and of the very large passenger traffic which may reasonably be calculated upon. The town of Usk, with Ragland, and the rich agricultural district for many miles around, are supplied by carts from the vicinity of Pontypool with coal and lime, which are there obtained at a cheap rate, and in return cattle and provisions of all kinds, hay, corn, and pit mber to an enormous extent, are sent to the iron works and collieries, where the consumption is immense. This traffic alone must necessarily ensure a considerable revenue to the Company, in dependent of the great traffic from the manufactured iron, fire bricks, and paving stone, which is of superior quality, and in great abundance. The present cost of conveying and delivering iron and tin plates from the works to London, including transit to the port, shipping charges, freight, and insurance, amounts to little less than 20s. per ton, whilst by this railway, and those it is intended to join, the average cost at the rate usually charged for such goods on rail ways will effect a saving of at least 25 per cent., and he conveyed within twenty-four hours, instead of the average voyage round the Land's End of three, and not unfrequently six weeks, and with the very important advantage of delivering the iron free from rust, which is unavoidable on a sea voyage, in small bars more particu; larly, causing a deterioration of front 15s. to 20s. per ton at least. This railway, by means of tho Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and the Birmingham and Gloucester Railways, will open Birmingham as a market for the manufactured Iron of South Wales, from which it has been in a measure excluded, from the difficult and expensive transit by the River Severn and Canals. Large quantities of iron ore, known as" Hsematete ore," is imported into Wales, from Lancashire, Cumberland, Devon, and Cornwall; whilst ore of a similar quality, and equal productiveness for iron making, exists in abundance in the Forest of Dean, and may be raised an.! delivered from thence by means of this and the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway to the different iron works in Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire at an average of from 25 to 30 per cent. less than it costs at present, and at the same time leave a handsome remuneration to the Railway Companies. The Committee of Management have gone very carefully Into estimates of the goods traffic especially, and they feel justified in expressing a decided opinion that the revenue from this source alone will yield 5 per cont. on the proposed capital of the Company, in addition to the revenue to be derived from the other traffic. This Railway will pass close to, and within a few mile; Of, all the iron and tin works of Monmouthshire, and the principal part of those in GlAmorganshire ; and the following short statistic of the extent of those stupendous undertakings will give an idea of the vast importance of the present project. The Iron and tin works com mence at Pontypool, and are -. _ _ . 1. The Pontymeilo Tiu and Iron Works of Capel llanbury Leigh, Esq. 8. The Illaendare Iron and Coal Works of R. J. Blewitt, Esq., M. P. 3. The extensive Tin Works of Messrs. Conway, Messrs. Fother gill, and Messrs. Jenkins 4. The Pentwyn, Golonos, and Varteg Iron Works and Rolling Mills of Messrs. Williams 1. The British Iron Company 6. The Illaenavon Iron Company 7. The Nantylylo, Messrs. Bally, Brothers 8. The Coalbrooke Vale, Messrs. Brewer ""9. The Cwn Celyn and Blaine Company 1O The Beaufort, Messrs. Bally, Brothers U. Tho Ebbw Vale, Messrs. Darby 12. The Victoria Company _ _ 13. The Abberearne, l'onlymister, aid Tydee W•rks. Messrs Lewis 14. The Tredegar Iron Company 15. The Shirhowey, Messrs. Darby 16. The Rhymney and Bute Company 17. The Dowlais Iron Works, Sir John Guest, Bart., and . . Company . IS. Carfartha. Wm. Crawshay, Esq. And added to which, In the vicinity, are the extensive works and collieries in the Aberdare Valley. And on either side of the intended railway are collieries raising and vending about one million and alhalf tons of coal per annum, which it is not unreasonable to expect will be greatly extended, by the facilities offered through the intended railway. In the districts of Merthyr, Aberdare, and westward, there exists an inexhaustible abundance of a peculiar description of coal, which, though inflammable, is nearly smokeless, and is found to be superior in quality for steam purposes to any yet known. In the London market it meets with a ready sale at 30 per cent. higher than any of the best north country Hartley's ; and notwithstanding the high price, so highly is it esteemed, that the present importation amounts to nearly 100,000 tons per annum. This coal for the most part is brought from a distance of 24 miles, and shipped at Cardiff, from whence freights to London have averaged from 10s. to lls. per ton during the past year; but so uncertain is the supply to the metropo lis, owing to the scarcity of ships on the Welsh coast, and the long and precarious navigation round the Land's End, that many who are anxious to adopt their engine grates for its use, are deterred from the too great uncertainty which exists against obtaining a regular aid constant supply ; these difficulties will be entirely superseded by the proposed railway, and these it is intended to join, with the great additional advantage and impetus to increased use and consumption, that it may be delivered to the consumer at from 2s. to 3e. per ton less price than at present. Under such circumstances, it will not appear unreasonable to those unacquainted with the trade, to expect that the consumption in the metropolis alone will be increased four fold, whilst a new-found trade will be opened out with Chepstow, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Witney, Oxford, and the numerous inter mediate towns to London, where steam coal is used. It has been considered more judicious to thrm a separate Company for the ]extension line from Chepstow to the Taff Vale, than to alter the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway Cow - many at present, but powers are proposed to be taken for uniting the two Companies hereafter, with the assent of their respective Boar& of Direction. Preference will be given to those locally interested, and to the holders of Shares in the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucestet Junction Railway. A miof railway l show :ln the mu reference ng adire t e o t the i map fortinel nt is lit h ete great communication anbeetwee of this mineral district of Monm outhshire and Glamorganshire, with the heart of the Kingdom and L on d on. It may confidently be stated that in connexion with the Chep stow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway, there is not a line of railroad in the Kingdom which offers greater advan tages to the Shareholders; than the present. Provision will be made in the Act of Parliament which will be applied for in the next ses sion to limit the liability of the Shareholder to the amount of his shares, and to allow four per cent. on the calls. Until an Act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of this Company shall be under the control of the Managing Directors, to whom power is given to allot the Shares, and to apply the fluids of the Company in payment of all the expenses Incurred in its forma tion, and in the preparation of the Plans and Sections submitted to Parliament. Power will he applied for In the Act (and in the mean ti me is hereby given to the Managing Directors as above), to r aise any a dd l . t on al capital, to extend or abandon any branch of the line, to make branch lines, or enter into any arrangements, by amalgamation or otherwise, with any other company or companies, and also to nomi nate the first Directors of the Company. Applications for Shares, in the form annexed, to he made to the Solicitors, or to Messr s . Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle Street, and Messrs. 13ackhouse and Co., No. 4, Angel Court, Throgmorton • Messrs Hall Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; —Mr. Thomas Evans, Bath ; Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester ;—Messrs. H. Davies •—Messrs. Chantrell and B o y s , L ee d s ; and Co., Dale Street, Liverpool , —Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull ;—and Messrs. Labertoucke and Stafford, Dublin. To the Provisional Committee of the Welsh South Midland or Chep. stow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway Extension. T request that you will apportion me shares of 201. each, in the Welsh South Midland or Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Glouces ter‘ Junction Extension Railway ; and I d hereby undertake to ac cept the same, or any less number you ma. llot me, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and all future ca thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when re quired. Dated this Name in fall.. ........ .. Residence • • . • • • .. • • • . • . Business or Profession • ........... Name, Residence, and Profession of 11ekiree......... Vstial iii lature of Applic sat ..................... day of WELSH SOUTH MIDLAND, or CHEF. STOW, FOREST of DEAN, and GLOUCESTER JUNCO TION EXTENSION ItAILWAT. Notice is hereby given that no Application for Shares in this Coin pang can be received after the lot of October next. D IRECT WESTERN RAILWAY Upon the Broad ( From Lom:on a the Land's-end ; with Diverginz Tines o Bath and Bridgewater rd veli. (Provisionally .e,...,S,tered.) Capi al, 3,000,000 i., in 120,000 Shares of 25/. tech. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6(1. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The lion. 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 Wobbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple. 3, Garlton Gardens Howard Elphinstone, Est, M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London Ralph Neville, Esq., M.P. for Windsor, Hill-street, Berkeley-square Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P. for Totness, 6, Parliament street Hon. Percy Evans Yreka, 3, Belgrave-square Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Companies Sir 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 Farucomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Teoley-street, Alderman of the 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 Noorth ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the South Midland Railway Joseph Armitage, Esq., Min's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy 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 Rath\ ay Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe Philip W. Courtney, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London Millis Coventry, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street Barnet L. .Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and George-street, Mansion House John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Keit, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Boswell Middleton Jolland, Esq., Holderness House, near full, Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf William Rates, Esq., Mincing.lane, London, late Director of the Devon and Cornwall Banking Company Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-crow, 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 Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Director of the Londonderry and Coleraine and the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railways 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, Direztor of the South Staffordshire Railway Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, an fit. Mary Church, Devon, Di.ree• for of the Bridport and Exeter, sled Goole and Doncaster Railway's Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Irainworks, Wrexham, aed Cannon- street, Loudon 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, Loudon, Director of the South Midland Railway Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of Um 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 Jogeph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the Londe,' and Illackwall Railway Company W. D. /truce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon Catlibert Woodstock, Esq., Grove-road, North Arixtol Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Eryanstone-street, Portman square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and . the Great 'Western Extension Railways George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 311, Pall-mall, London, A.saistant _ Tithe Commissioner William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon don, Director of the Leicester and Tamwerth Railway Richard Harris Purcell, Esq. C am b r idge-street, llyde Park, Lon don, Director of the Wilts, Esq., 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, It N., 11, Eaton-square Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director •f the St. Katherine's Dock Company William F. slack, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-squara 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., Brandoa Hall, Warwickshire, and Grorrenor• place, London Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Xillarney Junction Rail way Company Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London Wiiliaw Congreve Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire John William Yerhury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain id Light Dragoons Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourna Park, Lewisham, and Trinity. square, London Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, llornsey Major-Gen. Martin Whits, Marlborough-buildings, Bath Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyris House, near Newbury, Berks Col. Burslem, 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. liamfyide, Rector of Dunkerten, near Batk Richard liorthnoro, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Binning• ham Railway Company It. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of th• Buokinghant• shire Railway and Wolverton Junction Richard Mortimore, Esq., King,smill, Collumpton Rev. John Sydenhant, Collumpton Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumptois Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon Richard Marker, Esq., tifeulin Cottage, Tiverton Colonel Henry Duadas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth George Pearce, Esq., Itradninch House, near Collumpton Wm. 11. Ilalcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman of the Barks Union Banking Company Haleomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and Dorset Bank Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton John Dalzell, F.sq., Wallingford, Betts Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Kerle Haberfleld, Esq., Clifton, 'Bristol James Troup, Esq., Itastings John Robson, Esq.., Clifton, Bristol John Morford Cotole, Esq., Clarende!i-squarc, Leamington, Director •f Coventry and' Leicester Railway( Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Direcb)r of Seuth Midland and North ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester, Shefileld, and Midland Railway Company John Ridgeway, Esq., Ca.uldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and Southampton Railway Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Compa&e.s Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways James Ogden, M.D., Salford Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate 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 Holfurd, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax. and Bradford Union Railway Charles Bamford, jun., Isq., Hull, Director of tke Hull and Barnsley - - Junction John Lillie, Esq., Ifanchastor, Director of Ifaneheater and South. ampton Railway John Robson, Esq., lletton-le-Hole, Durham Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, liirkenhead, and Midland Railway Companies Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool a Wtichester, Director of the Dudley and Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Company Edwin Cadman, Esq. , Shef f ield , Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, In2ro.ii Appleby,lliC Bridge wbe Railway erYE "ICompany ' C. and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield, Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office Win. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of tke East Coast . Railway Company Captain Bowkar, R.N., Devonport H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Direetor of the Liverpool aid Leeds Dl rect Railway Samuel Swann lirittain, Esq.,7,Shetlield Director of the East and West of England Railway Company John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield aid liar rewgate Railway Company William Marriott, Esq., Attereliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway. Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of tho Loudon and York and East Lincolnshire Railways John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool David Price, Esq., Manchester William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington Rev. H. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire Major Wonun, Clarence-square, Cheltenham Edward Hell, 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 Jazotien Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Litnehouse, merchant John Moe Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Assistant Tithe Com- missioner John Norton, Esq., Moat House, Brentwood, Esaex William John M'Guire, Esq., Hampton Court John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey W. J. Lefeuvre, Esq., F R.S.,Alderman and If agistrate of Southampton Thomas Chas. Harrisoi, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park G.B.Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Coventry and Leicester Railway Captain Tringkare, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple James Whitiity, Esq., Shrewsbury Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield (With power to add to their number). A further list of influential names will shortly appear. BANknas—Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill, London. JOINT SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Chnrohyard, London Messrs. Rickards and Walker. 29, Lincoln's Inn-flelds, 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 AGENTS. At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq. At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway At Bath, Mes , rs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. It. Poole At Tiverton, T. L. T. Rendell, Esq., and J, d. Tow, Esq. At Truro At Penzance dt Falmouth The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between London and the Land's End. Ina national point of view such a line is indispensable. With the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from it- , situation at the western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedlr 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 Sonth-Western Railway, in creased its imports( rom 200,0001. to 3,000,00 01 . 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 C om pany to dover. 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 ne other line than the present can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard to this, its must important smtport—" 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 Batii), Westbury, From., Shepton Mallet, Wells (from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater), Glastonbury to Taunton, 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 1 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 distance from London to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles. With resract to the traffic) on the uiwar Portion of the line It i eedle3s to say more than that there Is already thorough tramp sum EVENING-, SFPTEMBER 25, 1845. ci ent to instil) , 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 ftom 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 ; to 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 adarger 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 great outperts to be not a question of hours, but a question of minutes." 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 Great Western Railway Company, it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself net 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 ground that it might be supposed to interfere with that great national object. 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 wardness, and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par- It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there aro 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 Parliament to allow interest at four pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, aid 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 London, September 11, 1845. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Wester* Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 251. each la 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 1844. Name in full • • •••• •• • • .• •• • • •• • • •• Residence• • • • • . Trade or Profession Place of Business (if any) .•• • • • •• • • Reference ......... . Signature...... LONDON AND WINDSOR RAILWAY, through Knightsbridge, Kensington, Hammersmith, Turn ham-green, Brentford, Hounslow, Bedfont, Staines, and Old Wind sor, to Windsor, with an alternative Line from Staines to pass by Datchet to Windsor. Capital, 500,0001. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to :7th and ath Victoria, cap. 110.) COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. • Major CHARLES L. BOILEAU, Castelnau, Barnes, Chairman _ _ Charles Goodwin, Esq. ' Battersea Sir John Hare, F.A., Lanicham-place Thomas R. Kemp, Esq Abehureh-lane William Kuper, Esq., Camtoenvell S. H. Powell, Esq., Brixton Captain M. H. SiVeny, R.Y., Brompton Captain F. Bayly Wardroper, H.C.S., Brompton Walter White, Esq., Fitzroy-square (With limited power to add to their number). ENGINEERS—Sir John Macneill and James Thomson, Esq. SOLICITOR—George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden-square. This line of railway has met with general approbation, and its im portance cannot be questioned, traversing, as it will, a locality totally excluded from the benefit of railway communication, though, it may be said, one continuous town, for a distance of ten miles, and a densely-populated neighbourhood, the property around which is open, fiat, and of a highly favourable character for the construction of a line of railway. In addition to the advantage of a direct communication between the two royal residences at London and Windsor, avoiding the de lay and inconvenience of three different conveyances, and reducing the time requisite for the entire journey to thirty minutes, the pro posed line will afford to Barnes, Kew, Isleworth, Bagshot, Ascot, Sunning-hill, and Egham, all abounding with elegant villas and a wealthrpopttlation, an easy access to London, and form the main trunk for a direct communication to Exeter and the whole of the south-west of England. It will also afford a facility to reach Hun gerford•bridge on the south side of the river by the Richmond Rail way, by means of a branch from Hounslow to Richmond. The Committee have much pleasure in adding that the surveys are made, the deposits have been duly paid, the parliamentary contract signed and completed. By order, Office, 30, Regent street. E. W. 11. BELL, Secretary. PROSPECTUS OF THE R HONDDA and ELY VALUES JUNCTION RAILWAY, GLAMOROANSHIRE. (Provisionally Registered.) Promoted with the sanction and support of the Right Hen. the Earl of Dunraven. Capital, 200,0001., In 10,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Viscount Mare, Dunraven Castle, Glamorgan Crawshaw Bailey, Esq., Iron-works, Nant-y-Glo Sir Robert Price, Foxley, Herefordshire Riehard Price, Esq., M.P., Radnorshire Sir William Wynn, }Lacs Eewyeld, Chairman of the North Wales Railway James G. Barrett, Esq., Ross, Herefordshire Henry A. Bruce, Esq., Duffryn House, Cardiff William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Shef _ . field and Manchester Railway Charles Richard Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham, Kent Thomas Chitty, Esq., Director of the Rugby and Worcester Railway The Rey. James Cozens, Ynys P/wm, Glamorganshira Edward Cotton, Esq., St. James's-square and Kenilworth, Director of the Commercial Bank John Dennis, Esq., Director of the Eyrewash Valley Extension Rlchanl Dutton, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway William Edmondes, Esq., of Cowbridge, Glamorganshire Thomas H. Evans, Mayor of Carnarvon, Director of the Rugby and Worcester Railway The Rev. H. R. Fowler, Felton, near Bristol, and No. 7, Manchester, • square Captain Hewitt, Tyr Mabb Ellis, Glarmorganshlre Windsor H. Humphreys, Esq., Garth Hall, Glamorganshlre John J. Harris, Esq., Treverig, Glamorganshire John Hopkins, Esq , Killely, Glamorganshire William Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway John Inglds Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, _ . and Southampton Railway hero Clarke Kemball, Esq., Hyde-park-gardens, Director of the _ South and Midlands' Junction Railway Richard Kelly, Esq., Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Griffith Llewellyn, Esq., Raglan Hall, Glamorganshire William Llewellyn, Esq., Director of the Bridgend Branch of the National Provincial Bank of England James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean Railway Thomas Morris, Esq., of Newport, Monmouthshire Leyshon Morgan, Esq., Lower Tremains, Bridgend, Glamorganshire Samuel P. Pratt, Esq., F.R.S., Bath, and No. 65, Lincoln's Inn fields, Ditector of the Rennet and Avon Canal William Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park George B. Pye, Esq., Lavenharn, Suffolk Evan Prichard, Esq., Collenna House, Glamorganshirs James Brown, Esq., of Ton Dhu, near Bridgend Richard Fowler Rickards, Esq., Lantrissent House, Glamorganshire James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Edward L. Richards, Esq., Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire John Randall, Esq., Old Castle, Bridgend, Glamorganshire Richard Lewis Reece, Esq., County Coroner, Cardiff' Edward Scard, Esq., of Kew Green, Surrey, and Garth Hall, Glamor- ganshire Henry James, Esq., Finsbury-square, London Captain Dawson, R.N., Barnes, Surrey, Director of Cambridge and Lincoln Extension (With power to add to their number.) SOLICITORS. W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street, London William Morgan, Esq., Bridgend, Glamorgan. BANKERS. Commercial Bank of London National Provincial Bank, Bridgend and Cardiff. ENGINEER.` This Railway is projected for the purpose of uniting the Rhondda and Ely Venues, with the South Wales Railway, at a few miles dis tance from the Port of Cardiff; and to open a new mineral district, one of the richest and most important in South Wales, which is at present without the means of transit for its Immense and valuable products. It will pass through the central portion of the great coal-field of Glamorganshire, where iron-stone also abounds with the coal in im mense quantities, and laying, geologically speaking, nearly flat, and, obtainable, for the most part, by proper levels. The coal in addition to its being of excellent quality for iron making, as is proved at Mer thyr and Aberdeen, is also, like that of those districts, of the very best description for steam purposes, being nearly smokeless, although inflammable, indeed so pre-eminently is the superiority of this de scription of coal established for steam purposes over any other, that the demand for it far exceeds the supply, and promises. accord ing to the opinion of the most eminent marine engineers, to super sede all others for purposes of steam navigation. This source of traffic alone will afford a handsome return for the capital Invested, as has been demonstrated in every instance where even tram-roads or canals have been constructed to open the mineral resources of other less promising vallies in Wales than the Rhondda, which is cele brated for the abundance, quality, and facility of obtaining its pro ductions. An inexhaustible supply of limestone (so necessary for the manu facture of iron and for agricultural purposes) may be obtained by means of this Railway, much nearer and cheaper than by any other line. This line will afford to the increasing population of the rich vales of Ely and Rhondda a much desired communication with the great market town and port of Cadriff, from whence, at present, they may be said to be almost excluded. It is intended that the line shall commence at Rlaen Rhondda, the head of the Rhondda Talley, and proceed down to a natural pass between the hills at Ffrwd Amws, a distance of eight miles, where it will enter the Ely Valley and proceed down (a further distance of six miles) to Lanelay-bridge, near Lantrissent, and there join the South Wales Railway, thus opening a communication under the most advantageous circumstances as to distance, with all the ports in the British channel. A preliminary survey has already been made by competent par ties, and it is found that the country admits of highly favourable gradients, so much so that it is confidently anticipated that the vrorks will be executed very considerably under the advertised ca pital. The landowners along the line are favourable to this undertaking, and the names of many influential proprietors will be found on the Provisional Committee. No Subscriber will be answerable beyond the amount of his de posit until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his subscription. Until an Act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of this Company shall be under the control of the Managing Directors, to to whom power is given to allot the Shares, and to apply the funds of the Company in payment of all the expenses incurred in its forma tion, and in the preparation of the plans and sections to be submitted to Parliament. Power will be applied for in the Act (and in the meantime is hereby given to the Managing Directors as above), to raise any addi tional capital, to extend or abandon any part of the line, to make branch lines, or enter into any arrangements, by amalgamation or otherwise, with any other company or companies, and also to nomi nate the first Directors of the Company. In the allottment of Shares, a preference will be given to landowners on the line and other parties locally interested. Prospectuses and Maps may be had of, and applications for Shares, may be addressed in the form annexed to, W. B. James, Esq., Solicitor, 5, Basil:Oa-street, London ; to W. Morgan, Esq., Solicitor, Bridgend, Glamorganshire ; and to the undermentioned Brokers ; but no application for Shares will receive the attention of the Committee, unless accompanied by a reference to one or more of the Provisional Committee, Solicitors, or the Engineers: — London—Messrs. John Shewell and Son, 25, Tokenhouse-yard. 44 Messrs. J. Peppercorne and CO., 2, Old Broad-street. Liverpool—Messrs. Betilit and Co. Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese Leeds—Messrs John Young and Co. Bristol—Luke Arnold, Esq.; Messrs. Tait. and 'Cask Birmingham—Mr. Collis Sheffield—Messrs. Bardwell and Sons. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHAV.ES.I To the Provisional Committee of the Rhondda and Ely Vat Junction Railway. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares 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 also undertake to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Name in Rill Trade or Profession . ..... :....... Reference with Address ... • • • • • • • • • M Date of AppliCation .... THE LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEF FIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE (or LEEDS WOLVERHA3IFTON, and DUDLE Y) DIRECT RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Staffordshire Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street, Hyde-park Gardens Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Deputy Chairman of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail way, &c. Sir William Boothby, Bart, Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire Sir William Lowthrop, Knt., Hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Di rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc tion Railway Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, Ashburham House, Chairman of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Hon. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Nottingham and Boston Railway, Parliament-street, London, &c., &c. The Sheriff of York Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Retnington's London and Manchester Railway Blurton, Robert, Esq., banker, Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter, Direc tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershi, e Junction Railway Booth, John, Esq., Macclesfield Bright, Selim, Esq., Buxton Bradley, Septimus, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashbourne Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon don and Manchester Direct Railway Cleobury, Thomas, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton Cooke, the Rev. J., Uttoxeter, Director of the East and West Junction Railway, &c. Cooke, John, Esq., Macclesfield Cooper, John Douglas, Esq., Holme Cottage, Ashbourne Cox, Walker, Esq., Breadsall, Derby, Director of the Teals and Dove Valley Railway Crockett, T. Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c. Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reming ton's London and Manchester Direct Railway Crossley, John, Esq., Lamherhnrst, Sussex, and Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Dolby, John, Robert, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Dale, Major, Thurston, Ashbourne Daniel, Richard, Esq., Oak Hill, Stoke-upon-Trout Dawson, Samuel, Esq., sen., Ashbourne Dent, Edward, Esq., Westfield, Huddersfield Dent, John, Esq., Northgate, Huddersfield Dyson, Thomas, Esq., Well-house, Holmfirth Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, itafford shire, and Worcestershire Railway Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Hudders field, Sheffield, and Halifax Railway Edensor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbourne Fidler, Peter Pichott, Esq., Higgin Grange, Derbyshire Fisher, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direst Railway Frost, Meadows, Esq., Chester Garle, Samuel, Esq., Uttoxeter Garle, William, Esq. Uttoxeter Gilpin, aid Co., Messrs. William, Wedges Mills, Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Goddard, Thomas, Esq., Bank-house, Longton, Staffordshire Haden, Joseph, Esq., Dudley, Director if the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of the Lei oester and Birmingham Railway Hartshorne, Robert James, Esq., Ashbourns Harpin, John, Esq., Birk's-house, Ylolmflrth Hatfield, Thomas, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c. Haywood, Richard Howard, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries Hill, John, Esq., Derby Hirst, Abraham, Esq., York-house, Huddersfield Ingleby, Joseph, Esq., Cheadle, Staffordshire Jones, the Rev. J. P. Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Johnson, John Goodwin, Esq., Bentley Hall, Ashbourne Johnson, D. T., Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of the Ches • ter and Manchester Railway Johnson, Richard Wm., Esq., Moorgate, Director of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshi re , Staffordshire, and orcester Junction Railway Keene, John Joseph, Esq.„ St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Director of the National Bank of Ireland, &c. King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance, &c. Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston Hall, Sudbury Lawrence, Richard Corbett, Esq., Wandfield-hall, Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Laughton, Richard, Esq., Barrow-hill, Uttoxeter Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle, Director of the Der- byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, James, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice• Chairman of the Severn Commission, &c. Marlow, Joseph, Esq., Walsall Mason, Charles James, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries Mason, George Miles, Esq., Wetley Abbey, Etaffordshire Meteyard, Horace, Wm., Esq., Director of Remington's London and Manchester Railway, Middle Temple, and Chatham-place M`Malion, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Manors, John, Esq. Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Mellard, James, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Minors, John, Esq., The Parks, Uttoxeter, Director of the East and West Junction Railway Mathew, John Meee, Esq., Director of the East and ,Vest Junction Railway Milner, William, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Direotor of the Derby. shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Mountford, Thomas Joins, Esq., Ashbourne Moorhouse, Joshua, Esq., Holmflrth Maskery, Thomas, Esq., Norbury, Derbyshire North, Joseph, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield Norton, George, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield,Director of the LI. verpool and Leeds Direct Railway Orton, James, Esq., Woodford, near Uttoseter, Director of the Der• byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Parkinson, John, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Wyde-park, Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Rail way, &c. - - Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield House, Uttozeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Roberts, Thomas, Esq., Mancheeer Robinson, John, Esq., Silconnv.. - Jottage, Wakefield Roden, Thomas Clarke, Esa.. ninham Sant, Edward, Esq., Cann. , k- k rector of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershir. 1.. n Railway Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropton, werbyshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, Charles, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Smith, Thomas, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and "York Railway Smith, Thomas, Esq., Blore-hall, Staffordshire, Direetor of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, William, Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of Tean and Dove Talley Railway Ste. Smith, John, Esq., Barton House, Derbyshire Smythe, John Vere, Esq., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Spiers, E. J., Esq, Carlton Villas, London, Director of the East and . _ West Junction Railway Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle ls• surance Company Terry, Benjamin, Esq., Mayor of Walsall, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway, &c. Tibbits, Thomas, Esq., Norton Manor-house, Leicester Tomlinson, Thomas, Esq., Bradley Pastures, Ishbourn• Toogood, Rupert, Esq , Ashbourne Tylecote, Edward, Esq., surgeon, Great Heywood, Staffordshire Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, Holloway, London, Director of the East and West Junction Railway, &c. Waller, Major, K.H., St. James's-square, Director of the Chester and Manchester Railway, &c, Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire Walters, J. T., Esq., Rugeley Watts, William Royde, Esq., Birmingham Weston, Samuel, Esq., Leeds Weston, Thomas, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Willes, George; Esq., Thagerford-park, Berkshire Williamson, Hugh Henshall, Esq., Greenway Bank, Staffordshire Potteries Williamson, Robert, Esq., Ramsdell-hall, Staffordshire Potteries Wise, Thomas, Esq., Ashbourne Witham, John, Esq., Ashbourne Woolrich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood, Charles, Esq., Uttometer, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood William, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc tion Railway Wood, William Hurd, Esq., Ashbourne Wright, Thomas, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsbo rough Railway. BANKERS. Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co.. Cornhill, London The Burton,,Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne, Union Bank, Uttoxeter " - Dit+- Ashbourns Ditto —itto, Dudley and West Bunwich Banking Co., Dudley Derbyshire Banking Co., Derby SOLICITORS. John Owens, Esq., 35, 3foorgate-street, London William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter ENGINEERS. Sir John Rennie, F.R.S. George Remington, Esq., C.E. LOCAL AGENTS. Armishaw, J., Esq., Rugeley Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley Eggington, A., Esq., Lichfield Green, James J., Esq., Walsall. Lowe, Richard, Esq., Cheadle Floyd and Booth, Huddersfield and Holmfirth This line of railway, which is about sixty-five miles in length, is intended to commence at Uttoxeter (the terminus of the proposed Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway) and to proceed to Sheffield and Huddersfield. It will form a direct com munication between two of the most import ant manufacturing and mining districts in England, viz., South Staffordshire, Huddersfield, and Sheffield, and Rotherham in Yorkshire ; the South Staffordshire portion including Dudley, Tipton,Walsall, Bilston, Wednesbury, and Wolverhampton. This line will also open a direct railway communication between Leeds, Huddersfield, and the West Riding of Yorkshire and Kidder minster, Worcestershire, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton, and Exeter, and with Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford, Brecon, Car diff, Neath, Swansea, Llanelly, Caennarthen, Milford Haven, Fish guard, Aberystwith, and with Porthdynllaen, the future outport for Ireland. And also the most direct communication between Leeds and Southampton. The line will pass nearly along the Uttoxeter and Caldon Canal to a point near Prestwood, in case the canal be purchased by the pro moters of this undertaking. It will proceed through Ellaston and Mayfield to Ashbourne. thence near Dovedale, Buxton, and Chapel en-la-Frith, Woodhead and Holmflrth to Huddersfield, where it will join the Ituddersfield and Leeds Railway, and so to Thirsk. It will open new mines, in addition to those already in work, of lead, coal, iron ore, barytes, and carboniferous and magnesian limestone on the route, in addition to forming a direct, speedy, and cheap communica tion between the important towns above mentioned. Arrangements have been made with other companies to run into this line from Sheffield. This company reserves the right to raise additional capital to extend the line to Leeds. Many of the above-mentioned mineral productions are essential to the mining districts of South Staffordshire and Sheffield. The North Staffordshire and Derbyshire Limestone is much superior to that of South Staffordshire in the fluxion of iron (15 cwt. of the former being equal to a ton of the latter), and producing a better quality of ma terial. At present, the mode of transit is very circuitous and expen sive, the line from the Caldon Mines having to go by canal round by Etruria, Leek, and the Potteries, to the Dudley and surrounding furnaces, when, by this railway, it would be taken in a straight line to them ; and the Ashbourne, Cromford, Worksworth, and Bakewell country would have an entirely new trade opened to them. The iron stone in the neighbourhood of Sheffield is also becoming very scarce, and great quantities are introduced from Scotland; the same scarcity exists in South Staffordshire; and the route of this line would fur nish a cheap and good supply, at present not worked, and without a market, both north and south. In addition to these great advan tages, a good local market would be opened along the agricultural and other parts of the district at present very badly supplied with lime and coal, and that of an inferior quality, and by expensive car riage. It is, therefore, next to Impossible to calculate the immense traffic which would pour down this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway. The calculations which have been made show a very large profit. There are large lead and slate quarries on the line which only want an outlet like the one now contemplated to bring them into flill work. The coal is of a superior qatality. There are also extensive barytes and paint-works at Ashbourne, Cromford, and other places on the line. The scenery of Derbyshire is the resort of vast numbers of tourists; and particular care will be taken, in passing of the line near Dovedale, not to interfere with or change its beautiful and romantic character. The convenience, therefore, which this line will aftbrd must necessarily cause a great influx of passengers, both on business and pleasure. Ironstone is not se abundant in the South as in North Staffordshire, and vast quantities are sent by the tardy, circuitous, and expensive canal company, which this and other lines of railway meeting at Uttoxeter will remedy, The gypsum formation runs from Staffordshire to the Humber, and the demand for this article for building, agricultural, and manufac turing purposes along this line will be great. The timber from the neighbourhood of the Needwood Forest Ranks, Bagots Woods, and Kingston Woods, upwards of 4,000 acres, chiefly finds its way to the Manchester market by a like objectionable route of tardy and circuitous canal convey ance ; whereas this line would open a direct, easy, and ()heap communication to new markets. The line has been viewed prior to a detailed survey, and there are not more than ordinary engineering difficulties. In cOnsequenCe of the late Parliamentary (U 019161119, it is • int2r.ded to make this line on the broad gauge principle, but the P t a n A t t s t o li f e A t s i r u g b e ( lt rn s u . g , g i c h s e t io n Committeeo f som e h o a f ve t motors do not pledge themselves absolutely to do so. tion line to connect that town with the Derby, and with the A... 0 and Gainsborough and Midland Railways ... r. 35, o h r e de m re o d st a Applicztons for Shares to be made to John Owens, J , s'i*.,,,' , ;(1 , Moorgate-street, London, and William Arnold Ilainbrige• . - an "d Uttoxeter ; and to the following Sharcbrokers :—Messrs. rree e l, n l i s i n itl n ae e l y it Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles, Worcester ; Mr. Thomas , I wet* Wheeler, Worcester; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, L„_„, pool ; Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Morris yr. nolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield ;o'. James Jamieson, Leeds ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and 0 . 1 1,` . Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ; Mr. Thomas Boardinan, 11 ,,n ; ioalf In j...2... habf: burn ; Mr. George Clark, Bradford ; Mr. William Mason, Pril h iv a ; ; Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax; Mr. Charles Spencer, Net ting •c.rie, Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby ; Messrs. Grayston and J. -- York; Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield . ; pir. and Marshall, Leeds ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham, „,10. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton ; Messrs, Tate and Nash , P ___ a s tol • Messrs. Reaumont and Langworthy, Exeter • Mr. Thow , ' Hou'll ianli Sandford, Exeter; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry; Messrs, 'I ster; and Leese, Manchester; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, hiane-eiwen Messrs. A. Birchen and Co., Manchester ; Messrs. T. .N . • 13 , ar ; ha. and Sons, Sheffield; Mr. W. 11. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr.L. lir Huddersfield;ea Dorn, jun., Huddersfield ; Messrs. Everard and Co., rg.; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester ; Mr. Nicholson, Edinba 1?.. a b e rtollee . Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ; Messrs. L and Stafford, College-green, Dublin; Mr. James Ross, Perth. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. ~,,,,Reij, To the Provisional" Committee of the Leeds, Huddersfield, SAP and South Staffordshire Direct Railway. aril Messrs. Ketterint Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares a 20l• saw in the above Railway, and I undertake to a cce p t the same or tiouca ea less number as you may appropriate to me , su b j ect to the regul3 of the Company, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to paY, " required, the Deposit thereon of 2/. 2s. per Share. Dated this day of , 184 .• Name in full . .................. ''' . • Profession and professional resides •..., Residence in full .......... . .•• ll •• ' .. RefPvence . • • • • • • ........... • • TIOS MIDLAND AND THIRSK JUNO RAILWAY. p arWanted,ienee in, Railway aH S EwCaRyETA businessß Y t , o a t h d s C n o a n m pa give ny e a , w ho for character and ability. Salary 3 00 /. per annum . .„...012 0 0 Applications, by letters only, addressed No. 64 80, Bradford, Yorkshire. ' ISLE OF MAN RAILWAY C OMP Capital N 0,0001., in 25,000 Shares of 201 . e ach. Deposit 2/. per Share. (Provisionally Registered.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE IN THE ISLE OF M AX ' Chairman.—Captain BACON, C. 8., Seatield. George Adams, Esq., Douglas Thomas R. Bridson, Esq., J. P. Paa ol Thomas Bridson, Esq., Director of the Commercial 8.--• t h a as ctobraydr V4.eSe4:l F. B. Byne, Esq., Burleigh, Kirk Braddsua Captain Campbell, Castletown Clarence Carey, Esq., Springvalley William Christie, Esq., R.N., Castletown Archibald Clarke, Esq., Douglas J. W. S. Clucas, Esq., Ballycraggan, and Maryvoar, santon George Cookson, Esq., M.D., Douglas Thomas Creighton, Esq., Castletown Philip Eliot, Esq., Douglas Henry Faulder, Esq., Castletown F. L. Gelling, Esq., Castletown Samuel Harris, jun., Esq., Douglas George Jefferson, Esq., Stanley-terrace, Douglas John Kelly, Esq., High Bailiff, Castletown R. Maingay, Esq., Castle-lawn, Douglas Captain Martin, Woodville, Douglas John Moore, Esq., Douglas Captain M. Richardson, Castletown George M'Gregor Skinner, Esq., Mount Murray Hong, ifto tart' to the Flax Improvement Society for Ireland -y. J. H. H. Spencer, M.D., Douglas Major Tenison, Douglas Of ° J. Underwood, Esq., Physician to the Government, Castle William Waders, Esq., Woodville, Douglas (With power to add to their number). PROVISIONAL COMMI of TTEE IN LONDON. The Right Honourable the Earl Uxbridge, P.C., Wellyn, Herts , the P P David Robert Ross, Esq., M.P. for Belfast, Director ai• of Union Railway ~, Direc tor The Honourable Percy Evans Freke, Belgrave-Elua—' the Bandon and Bantry Railway wring , roii W. J. Macguire, Esq., Hampton Court, Director of th e m i oniP ing and Basingstoke, and Wilts, Somerset, and S° r°l T ay Railws Dir ei° Peter homas Legh, Esq., Ridge Hall, County Dublin , o ( the Cionmel and Kilkenny Railway pircN o v Sir Wm. Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Ab er d een shire, 311 0 : the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junctioll;ore, f ps William Shaw, Esq., Managing Director of the RoYai ,for General Fire and Life Insurance Company, and Dire` A li ttan London and Birmingham Extension Railway, and S al, " 4 . Junction Railway i k Jahn Anderson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of the Wary. c o ly cester Railway, and Birmingham and Lichfield Richard Lea Wilson, Esq., Milk-street, City, an d Streatipoil her of the Honourable Court of the Common Council n„ f ..,,,t00 , Captain James Patrick M`Dougal, Fir-grove, North .1,,“4:001° rector of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, an d r Railway Dir e cto William Green, Esq., Walnut Tree House, Leytonston c, the Amman Vale Iron Company 114/I ,sl l fi ll' ' P E. F. Dayrell, Esq., Lillingstone Dayrell, Bucks, Bucks, and Director of the Bucks Railway, and o s l°P4 verton Juncon Sir William Tw ti isden, Bart., Cavendish-street, Cavendish seer„,c The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street. 3'oo'ol the London and Manchester, and Liverpool and Leeds , 11 ,0' William Kuper, Esq., Camberwell, Director of the Lee'" dial Midland Junction Railway I I filj J. S. Powell, Esq., Brixton, Director of the London slat Railway John Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Director of the all°l h Lancaster, and the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wertin.,, nt ~cto- Captain Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Reading and Reigate Railway an l G. A. Brows, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Cali° e rri , Railway Henry Pratt Barlow,Esq., Kensington-square, Director 0 . 1 jir Warrenpoint, and Rosstrevor Railway d Captain Sweeny, R.N., Brompton, Director of the Londo n $ Railway 0 , I) , William White, Esq., Fitzroy-square, Director of Windsor Railway John Kerr, Esq., Stranraer, Banker Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Northampton , 0e Cheltenham Railway , eN E rne sq wa . tnod G n N, r h e n a ur t trnto Ge cn o -n rg setar e he - e s i r q te, u a a int r a e dhLw L u i agw v y e a rp a :: :. 7 :::: ,„ p: ; 4 ir etir Isaac D p i t r a I c n t o T W lr n . eHe Holmes, C Robert Lang, Dumfries, Ranker John George Norbury, Esq.,lla.ncetter House, Athe'',.'tsiw of the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham and South - Railways. BANKERS. London—The Union Bank of London ois CO I Liverpool—The Bank of Liverpool BOP - Manchester—The Manchester and Liverpool District pany Dumfries —The Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank Isle of Man—The Commercial Bank and its Branches' c,E, , ACTING ENGlNEER.—Sandiforth F. Griffin, E: cl4 oa, RESIDENT SURVEYOR IN THE ISLAND—John , ••' SOLICITOR—IL H. Hill, Esq., 62, 3i o orgate - si , ". A* LOCAL LAW AGENT—L. Craigie, Esq., Douglas, ,310' Secarraity—A. B. Blackie, Esc/. ple LOCAL SECBETAKT—r. C. Wool, Eaq., ca./away' , " 1 .11 ): 1/ 0 00„ The proposed line of railway will run from p°,".witl l6 , (no, Mills, Crosby, Ballacraine, and Saint John's, to Pel t ,' Orp on the north from Saint John's by Kirk Michael , Th a n 0 1- 101 1 Ballaugh, and Sulby to Ramsey, and a branch line ns to co , through Ballassalla to Castletown, with conthilla ll° Mary. 4t P'oe rao„, 1 1 , Douglas is the principal, most commercial, . „ a town in the island, and visitors generally arrive there' it er admits vessels drawing 18 feet water, and affords sl ie as ter north, west, and south ; and, although exposed t o e ctiall'i c e„,, , there is not a more secure refuge in St. Georg e a „ s al o o P,,, , William Hilary first drew public attention to the n ec :;te ° 'o,9 P r e' structing a good central harbour of refuge, and the ''„" t of ho i wards surveyed by Sir John Rennie. The establishrae),,,a Ya/,', 0 1 posed line will lead to the formation of harbours ( 1 t oe! ,4 ceived the attention of Government), accessible at 1 " r tal ll ,/•, 5 t tide to vessels and steamers of any burden. This irledoePT will undergo the serious consideration of the pres ent ,,tecl ,i s 4 l pier and two lighthouses have already been erey„oll.`fe cost. The town is populous, and the neighbourhood; othermansions and villas. Many first-class steamers an h et it are yearly built at Douglas. .0, Peel is celebrated for its great cod and herring dsherliniolo,l enjoying in the former the largest in the British de i r de ; ,;a r o t' immediately • opposite to Douglas, on the wester n t i• sengers landing at Douglas might be immediately CO ip which faces the north-eastern parts of Ireland ; and a bo als i p ° , gerous sea•passage would thus be saved. It also a gullies, and is generally known from its being the local'' , e la te , the pen of Sir Walter Scott has so highly dilated. • ill it' _op , Ship-building is also largely carried on at Ba'"„ i d is; pal which is ono of the finest in the British Channel , ' i d IA ' sorted to by homeward-bound vessels. An active an rio clPoesoi tioa reside here; but the want of good roads to th vee I ; (11,,,,V0/ 1 and the other parts of the island has been found r i , $ t 00 1 The Liverpool and Glasgow steam boats regularly o,oest, embark and disembark passengers, and an extensiloei l 1 11 carried on, which is, however, capable of much 1 10 ,oo r ort will be facilitated by the operations of this ConlParlP,.fi ,01 or, 0 1 4 tlO Castletown is the residence of the Lieutenant-G0ve,4,01,011 seat of governm , nt. It is on the road to P ort le f li to' 0' . 41 Erin and the celebrated Calf of Man. Visitors inyave,o4%, route to view the Calf of Man and the renTarkablewled n gei exist in this neighbourhood, and which are ualla ra ~f it oo l l, phenomena. is fl , • - eo• ; The island is bounded by the following counties , h ire, 0 1 4 / 0 , Kirkcudbright, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Lallc„a s- u th, „ i e bigh, Carnarvon, and Anglesea, Dublin, Meath, i v _.,;th l ',,alr' The railways proj cted from the several counties _T ie , P io ; 0e line of steamers, and the contemplated extensions y ' e rf I'ol,f' the island accessible in a short period of time from ta li to most parts of Scotland and Ireland will be, bY t his shortest, cheapest, and most pleasant route. the 1 orP In establishing the railway, one great object has,b, e- 15 0 t e e u s tlf: meat of the obviously great internal resources of 1' 1 t v„,0, 11 , 5 , 0 all respects a producing island. Corn, cattle, P. ta a nd &c., are shipped to Glasgow, Liverpool, Fleetwoo d • o ort 1 4 01 1 ' .4 P coast of England. Locally, the aim will be to trahib e aw e rco w i ; of the northern and southern districts—eminentlY • intpeet e jiii to Douglas, the central and principal market. D A~tr „„; wi t ite er , a•• c er/ now extensively carried on with Liverpool, and the Scotch and Irish ports, by first-rate stew tm JO JO' isl °l‘ ;ll 4 vessels. d ie evla At present, the number of travellers who a lt , n btir it I f ; 0 great, but when a ready means shall be afforded 0 trios, Tl<opeoi tances between Douglas and the more romantic dig , presumed that the increase will be very considertiabbirti, o f nno bathing in the world, its antiquities, and the s e are among its prominent attractions. • 11 10761 ce p Me island contains 130,000 square acres, 01 „nig w i tissrtaro• cultivation. The rivers are numerous, and the '' f rt tinuously so as not to interfere with the Plll i jestr_oe island is one of the richest in minerals in her on ,ider . , e d, Lead, copper, and iron ore are worked le ,00P 1 , 4 1 11 ,;1 1 `;;• "a" rY e ol ties, and many thousands of tons are arm n ate .de ja stone, granite, marble, manganese, and the filles, l " - be 1 11 '",•1 1 4 / Superior water power also exists, which l'r" 1 o ,ll lo ' tea by for manufactories when the facility for tram. 61 ration. a % t•i i t ets ifi fo r yi In "Bethwick's Vein," between Castletown a ore at , r 4 of the largest bodies of ore ever discovered 1% 1 , 0 00 .4 ;O' er / J ," depth of the level is 43 fathoms, driven throug h pr ese c p 00 4 ; 0 : e fa x t e h e o h m e n s ,t lead tyheetnore worked g o i n n the sole rso ereult.' t:, 10 nity s l 6 brief, rof"' Is' ai numerous valuable mines at Laxey. „n to g is a characteristic of this island. The minesp or e v. tal col tenth. It may be mentioned that in the lead gOrio o ll l silver per ton are found. bar ief e rrO, CO" The produce in wheat is about 30,000 qtlarte r t the 11 ,0 0; 10 to sh e There are 4,000 fishermen emploYed atil , r ts 0 1 : and 80,000 barrels are annually produced. ' The lli ta iif ell Li ni dues returned to England is 25,0001. a Year. N O 0 11-„,o' manufactures are estimated at the value of 30, , , It is of consequence to reflect that the Is betwf, o ott : l, l ' o t resting-place on the great high sea-waY north of England and Scotland, and that the f i t 1 , /1" „i t / as s dise, and mail-packet communication by w hich 0 4 , 1 must raise it high in statistical existti __ o wl I T o ,l' .l ,lo l ,_ lv al in N m n a many g p l a n r e t: ri ls ng ob island is to be anticipated. The Committee ar%veroi_cert dtairneaubllteteast acheapon r t a k t e e, Pr a ° ,2 l ' l, , i, o l ;' , l 4 : etl o it s ,,,i l oo ,l4; if o o • authorities, with the sanction of the hom e • u,lleligto) „It heavy expense attendant upon obtaining all _ t t11...„1; 0 0r power to grant the line, in which case the Act o f 1 a it s I ' l 4 be avoided. , that .11i elf OW° a ils' ° fr°oll,3, hia careful calculation, it has been `ce rtf " u f ; 11 . be aghly remunerative one, and the Ila c,4 will be restricted to the amount of their subs A ll ,or o te granting of the line until its opening. A a do npar u ot pf ,o o , o i applied for to allow interest at four per cen ..e t• se o r " o. o_ , ( o ° y_ l , ll t oo l , e , made for the inhabitants of the island and Il ion , for e co po o , Prospectuses be had of, and an s P o li n c e T to r . t i O cov tb og .ei el i s t ,:dl l3. , o ,,l e „: the Secretary o n t oH. R. Hill, Esq., loca l eas tt ie' Moorgate-street, City ;L. Craigie, Escl* , p ens* Man ; and of the following brokers ; --L 01 12',',010 ee ° 11. Isle of Man ; P. C. Wood, Esq., local secrets ,Cb_ of Boyd, 4, New Bank-buildings; Mr. Charlesoor-S,3tr.r.....ThiroalptS and Mr. A. Sym, Tokenhouse-yard. Llveg o chet e tea and Messrs. J. Power and R. LoWndes• „ co tter P o d 7,4 house ; Mr. Thomas Ross, jun. • and Mr•_„,,,,,, , an , ~,00 ,tor Jal"` - • ' 1 1 $ Mr. Robert Allan. Glasgow 2 Messr s. fries—Mr. J. M‘Kinnell. m are . e. T. 7 ; 01 1 ', 0 0 '' Lancaster—Mr. W. Welsh. Leeds -3, dh law al O f ' Mr. Richard Binney. Gloucester—MS• s o. Nni k f Messrs. Wilkinson and Sons. Bristol -0 1,4c 111 FORM or APPLICATION _ • 01 ,51 , o i To the Provisional Committee of ho the ter" t ie' t l" Gentlemen,—l request you will allot 1 110 0 011 the o ol each in the proposed Isle of Man Rallt„A' • yrJ an!exed prospectus ; and I hereby lin de • 21. per shire thereon, and to execute all deeds when required. ..,•• .• .• in 11111 • 10 0 .• • " " • Name profeas• •'' Trade or Besidence••ooo _ as • Place ° I. bu . .• • • "•• . .... • 04 10 41 7, Date • • • • t i p i c al Reference. to 05. No application for shares can be a a satisfactory reference. tteadc. CE~T~rRA ~@ vet tiny e4 Dita To t bdr t 4t ri tler 4 ki h tre ,lo d ')/ t° eie '..(11Z_g1461" tft," .9 l 1 4 0 41 ~~~