The Sun. — London, England, 1845-09-27 00:00:00

IRISH WEST COAST RAILWAY. (Registered ProTisionally.) 2,500,000/., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. (110 Subscriber to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Mark Blake, Msg., Ballinafad, Mayo bert Dillon Browne, Esq., M.P., Glencorrib, Mayo °tin Patrick Somers, Esq., M.P., Sligo Sir Thomas Bernard Going Dancer, Bart., 3fodreeny house, Clough jonion, county Tipperary, Director of the Galway and Kilkenny Railway The Hon. Geoftl7 Browne, D.L., Wilton-crescent, London, and Castle M'Garrett, Mayo The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pultenev. Parliament-street, Whitehall, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway 71114 Right Hon. Jolla Ladaveze Arabin, Lord Mayor of the City of üblin Michael Gallagher, Esq., Mayor of Sligo John Netterrille Barron, Esq., Resident Magistrate, Sanders Park, 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., Sackyille-street, and Brighten John Carmichael, Esq., T.C., Rivertson House, Cork, Director of the Cork and Killarney Railway Charles Collins, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge, Director if the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Jamaica Railway Thomas Comfits, Esq., Ballybrit House, Galway Edward Deane, Esq., J.P., Curragowan, Mayo John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New Wall, by Weston, Cheshire, Direc tor of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway James Dillon, Esq., J.P., Cogue, Mayo John Dunn, Esq., M.D., M.Ii.C.S., L. and D., Drumsna, Leitrim Thomas Edwards, Esq., King William-street, London, Director of the Direct London and Dublin Railway Robert Fiske, Esq., Chepstow, Moamouthshire 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 Henry Griffith, Esq., D.L., J.P., Port Royal, Sligo, Director of the Sligo anti Shannon Railway W. A. Hill, Esq., Lonsdale-square, Deputy-Chairman of the Gimes. _ ter and Aberistwith Railway Dean John Hoare, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square Edward Hoare, Esq., Percy-street, Bedford-square, Director of the Great Welsh Central Raifway, &C. T. }lodges, Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the Mencilester and Rugby Direct Railway, &c. Hobert Hughes, Eeq., Ely House, Wexford, Director of the Provin- dal Bank of Ireland John Kerschner. Esq., Middle Temple William King, Esq., Spring-gardens, and Putney, Surrey John Knox, Esq., J.P., Greenwood Park, Mayo Joseph Mylea li'Dennell, Esq., J.P., Deocastle, Mayo Rowland H. Mackenzie, Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Great Wes tern Extension Railways Capt. Charles Carden Mansergh, Longraigue, Wexford, Director of the Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia Railway Cspt. Newton, Bruton-street, and Lugwardin, Herta Trends R. O'Grady, Esq., Tavrane, Mayo Richard O'Grady, Esq. Tavrane, Mayo John O'Hara, Esq., lisleen Gort, Treasurer, County Galway Charles Ormsby, Esq., D.L., Cummin, Sligo Robert Dudley Persse, Esq., Galway Michael Perrin, Esq., Galway Rees Price, Esq., M.D., Tyne Hall, Great Ilford, Essex Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq., Bromptou, Middlesex Joseph Richardson, Esq., J.P. Summer-hill House, Clones Thomas Seymour, Esq., J.P., Ballymore Castle, Ballinaslee James Sexton, Esq., J.P., Limerick James Shirreffs, Esq, M.D., Liverpool-road, Islington J)espard Taylor, Esq., Newport. Swords John Walsh, Esq , Castlehill, Mayo Captain (learge Edward Watts, R.N., Langton Grange, Darlington Edward West, Esq., Westow Hill, Surrey (With power to add to their number.) CONSULTING ENGINEER—CoIoneI Landmann, R.E., Ercuiszes—G. M. Lewis, C.E. BANEEES. London—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co. Scotland—Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank Iritand—National Bank and Branches Provincial Bank and Branches. STANDING COUNSEL—James Monson Carroty, ESQ. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Langley and Mead, Redford-row. London. William Thomas Kelly, Esq., 16, Moantjoy-square North. Dublin, and Castlebar, Mayo. I,OCAL AGENTS. Galway--Captain F. O'Shaughnessy Castlabar—Mr. Henry Murphy Sllgo—Mr. W. C. Tuite. SECRETARY —Henry T. Stuart, ESQ. • PROSPECTUS. The object of this line of Railway is to complete the chain of coast communication, and fonn 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 terminating at Sligo, by a junctionwith the Sligo and En killen Railway, and accommodating on its route the importsuit cities and towns of Limerick, Ennis, Gort, Loughres, Athenry, Monlvea, Tnam, Ballinrobe, Castlebar, Westport, Foxford, Ballina, Kilalla, Swineford, Streanistown, and Sligo, which town being connected with the north, east, and south, by the different lines through Enniskillen, London derry, Coleraine, Belfast, Armagh, Newry, Dundalk, Drogheda, Dublin. Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Valentia, Traleu,•and Limerick, the establishment of this line will cause Ire land to present a completeness of locomotive communication which so other country in tho world enjoys. Application for shares to be made In the usual term to the Solici tor. In Lplon and Dublin ; to the Local Agents ; to the Secretary, at the oWe of the Company, 10, Old Jewry Chambers ; to Scoble Win Word, FA., Castle-street, Exeter ; and to the undermentioned brokers • —Messrs. Martin and Heseltine, Finch-lane, Cornhill ; Mr. D. B. Major, Change-alley, Cornhill ; Mr. Anthony Laurie, Liver pool; Messrs. Brady and Stanifbrth, Manor-street, Hull; Mr. S. Grindro I, Manchester; Messrs. Watson and Co., Leads ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Mr. John Balmer, Gloucester ; Messrs. Tyeth and Wills, Plymouth ; Mr. T. Sandford, Exeter; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh ; Messrs. 14VEwen and Auld, Glasgow ; Mr. William Gor don, Aberdeen ; Messrs. Curtis and Power, Dane-street, Dublin ; r. James Morgan. Cork, of whom Prospectuses may be had. N OTTINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, AND COVENTRY RAILWAY. 1' aiting Warwick, Coventry, and Birmingheun wita / ( ottingham, Newark, and Lincoln. (Provisionally Registered.) ()dices —( temporary), 19, King's Anne-yard, Coeman-street. Capital 420,0001., in 21,000 Shares of 201. l each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. Pltovisioxat COMMITTEE. P,ir John Pennistoil Milbank., Bart., Great Portland-street William Collins, Esq., M.P. for Warwick Michael Thomas Baas, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent Major Croft, 15, i,egent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway Fraser fo r en Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square, Direc of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction Railway Major Waller, K.H., Deputy Chairman of the South and Midlands Junctioa Hallway Lieutenant-Colonel Hutchinson, F.R.S., 15, Upper Montague-street, Montague-square, Director of the College of Civil Engineers Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Hyde Park-place, Director of the Liverpool, M.lnchester and Newcastle Junction Railway T. E. Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square, Director of the Warwick and Clieltenhim Railway The ;ton. W. E. Fltzmaurice, M.P. for Bucks, Cheetutm-atreet, Ile'grave-square Henry Dann, Esq., 42, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe Railway Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Harts, Director of the South and Midland Junction Railway John Clement Ending, Esq., Director of the National Bank of Ireland John Rawson, Esq., Halifax, Deputy Lieutenant for Yorkshire, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway The lion. Colonel Leicester Stanhope, Ashburaham House, Chairman of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway Jelin Thomas illworth, Esq., Leicester Thomas Hackett, Esq., Derby, Director of the Great Manchester and Southampton Rail way Jolla Sanders, Derby, Director of the Derby a Crewe Railwa John Fisher, Esq., Short-hill, Not a n d Wa tl ing-stree t London Captain Horatio Thomas Austin, R.N., C.B. Nathastel Nadin, Esq., Stapenhill, Burton-upon-Trent Capt. Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headley Grove, Surrey Derby, Director of the Leicester and H en ry Francis Gisborne, Esq., ramworth, and Derby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby June pon Railway S wan dlincote, Potteries nimcnd Sharpe, Esq. , Sheldon Craddock, Esq., Leicester • John Gretton, Esq., brewer, Burton-upon-Trent Ambrose Moore, Esq., Milk-street, Chsepside James Arbouln, Esq., Mark-lane, Director of the London and York Railway Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the East India Company leut.-Gen. Taylor, Clarendon-place, Hyde Park George Ledwoll Taylor, Esq., 45, Hyde Park-square Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway Matthew Gisborne, Esq., Walton Hall, Derbyshire Yroderick'Cayley Horsley, Esq., Imberhorne House, Sussex John Taylor, Esq., Cross-street, City, Director of the Commercial Bank of London (With power to add to their number.) SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bass and Sweeting, Burton-upon-Trent. Mein. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street. Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 1, Exchange-buildings, Royal Exchange. 81411111. The London Joint-Stock Bank, Prinees-street. The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbz , ry, and 6, Henrietta-street, Covent -garden. The Burton, Uttoxeter, and shb upon Union Ranking Comp an, Burton-upon- A Trent, and Ashbourne. y Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby. ACTING ENGINEER —Elijah Galloway, Esq. This line will commence at the Long Eaton station of the Midland Counties Railway, and will proceed in a direct line to or near Castle Donington, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Measharn, and Market Boswortk to Nuneaton ; joining, at Market Bosworth, the Birmingham branch, projected by the Tarnworth and Leicester Company, and at Nuneaton, the projected Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway, at the point where that lino crosses the Trent Valley lino. Thus a direct communication will he formed between the important towns of Nottingham, Newark, and Lincoln on the one side, and Birmingham, Coventry, and Warwick on the other side, at the same time supplying a rich mineral and agricultural district with railway Advantues. A reference to the map will show that this railway will also com mand other collateral advantages. There is no doubt that the proposed railway communication be tween Cheltenham and Warwick will be effected, in which case the proposed line will nil up the railway chasm at present existing be te WI MC counties of Woucester and Worcester, Sin: _lrottinrazarn and Lincoln, and thus form a direct line from the blevern at Glouces ter to the lumber at Great Grimsby. An amalgamation of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction with the Grimsby Dock Company beinz now determined on, a large amount of capital will be expended in rendering *reat Grimsby a port of the first importance ; and it must be obvious that the traffic to that port, from the district south 'arrest of Warwick, will ho army great. The distance saved by the proposed line between Leamington, w v wick, Coventry, and Nottingham will be about fourteen miles ; An d be: weer Birmingham and Nottingham (by either of the projected lines frou! Birmingham to Leicester) the saving will be about ten miles. j/eing so much the shortest route from Birmingham to Not tingham and Lincoln, it must secure the traffic from Birmingham to Notting:lain, Newark, Lincoln, and the port of Great Grimsby; and by joining with the Erewash Valley Railway at Long Eaton, it must Command the traffic from Coventry, Warwick, and the district south of those towns to Sheffield, Leeds, York, and the north of England generally. It will also afford a direct communication between Not tingham and the district between Warwick and Worcester, by means Of the projected Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby, and the Warwick and Worcester Railways. The entire length of the line will be under thirty miles. The Com pany's Engineer has completed his preliminary survey, and has made his report, that the character of the country through which the line is intended to pass is unusually favourable for engineering purposes. It passes directly through a very productive mineral district, in tersecting the Leicestershire coal-fields and lime-works, and will afford communication north and south, to the Derbyshire Potteries. 'With such an assured immediate and prospective amount of traffic, the profits on the small capital required cannot fail to be highly re munerative. Powers for allowance of interest at four per cent. on the paid-up Capital will be taken, and the liability of shareholders limited to the ailioant of their subscriptions. TABLE OF DISTANCES. Present Distances. About Miles By proposed Route, about Saving \ Warwick to Nottingham, by naTopton and Derby .. •• •• • • 72% Warwick. to Nottingham, by Rugby and Leicester V% S W a rwick to Linc , )ln Coventry to Nottingham Coventry to Lincoln 131rmingham to Nottingham .. •. I 57 Birmingham to Lincoln . , Cheltenham to Nottingham, by, Birmingham and Derby...... I 103 1. 17% 13% 13 13% 1.34 ,Prospectusss may be had at the Temporary Offices of the Company, ig, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street, London; where also applica tion/4 for shame, addressed to the Provisional Committee, will be iti,eutled to. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To thei.Provisional Committee of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Railway. Gentle.'nen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201. each, In OA abcve railway; and I undertake to accept the same, or such less' nt rnber as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations Of a l , , Company, and to sign the necessary deeds , and to pay when reqttirch. the deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per share. Dated this day of 1845. Name in ftill . .. ,Profession and professional residence in full Residence in thll• • • • „ References .. "...• ... ** • .••• •. .. THE 'WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND BIRMINGHAM SWINDON, DEVIZES, AND SALISBURY JUNCTION, Being an extension of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,200,0001., in 60,000 shares of 201. each. Deposit 21.25. per share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Dillon, Halkin-street West, Belgrave square, and Loughlyn House, Loughlyn, Ireland, ar,d Ditchley, Oxon Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House William Beresford, Esq., M.P., 77, Pall-mall, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley Railway William Bulkeley Hugkes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Director of the Welsh Midland, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways David R. Ross, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, Director of the London and Manchester, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail ways Sir John Z. De Beauvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir mingham Extension, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshlre, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Herts, Director of the Chester and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junc tion Railways Sir William Wynn, Maesynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, Director of the Direct Western Railway Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Sir William Twysdea, Bart., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean Railway William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &e., Alderman of Lon don, Chairman of the Manchester aid Birkenhead Continuation, and London and Greenwich Railways, &c. Sic. Thomas Famcomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lon don and Westminster Bank, and Namur and Liege, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Kinneraley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South Midlands' Junction Railways Denald Maclean, Esq. D e puty-Chairman of the Trent Talley Con tinuation, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Major Oliver Lyndam, LH., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberyst with, and Central Wales, aid Director if the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Major-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Worces ter and Crewe, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Captain James Patrick Macdougal, late Bengal Royal General Staff, Fir-grove, North Brixton ' Director of the Chester and Forest of Dean, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways, &c. Captain Alexander Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, Director of the Legal and Commercial Insurance Company, the Great Western of Bengal, and Routh and Midlands' Junction Railway Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth Railway Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thanked Embankment Railway Richard William Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Man chester, and Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life Insu rance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway James Clay, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Furness and White haven, and South and Mid lands' Junction Railways Col. Robert Douglas, Keys.' Artillery, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail ways William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, Manag ing Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company, and Di rector of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Richard Carpenter, Esq., Magistrate of the County of Middlesex, Deputy-Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, Di rector of the Leicester and Bedford, and South a nd Midlands' Junction Railways G. W. Killed Potter, Esq., Secondary of the City of London Lieut.-General Sir Lewis Grant, K.C.8., 31, Harley-street John Jennings, Esq., Elm-grove, Hammersmith William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the Oxford, Wltney and Cheltenham, and South and Midlands' June- tion Railways Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 6, Upper Hyde-park-street William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways ' de) Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Britannia 'Life Insurance Company, and Derby and Stafford, and South and Midlands' Junc tion Railways George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manches ter Railway Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbedge, Staffordshire John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of the Church of England Life Insurance, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director of the London and Dover, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct, , and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Cash, Esq. Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway George R. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junc tion, and Northampton and Banbury Railways William Paxton, Esq., Langford, near Bicester, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction liailway William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street, Director of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Con tinuation Railway John Blackburn,-Esq., Leeds Peter Fairbaime, Esq., Leeds, Vice-Chairman of the Leeds aed York Railway J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the TAndon and Birmingham Extension Railway Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond James Durness, Esq., Leytonstoae, Essex George Willes, Esq., Hungerford Park, Berks G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed Celyn, Denbighshire, and Lonsdale-square, Islington Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway Martin Furness, Req., Director of the Newark and Sheffield Railway William Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York and Leeds Railway - - Edmund Phillips, Esq., Avon House, Melkeham, Wilts, Director el the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Charles Thomas Ward. Esq., Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clopton Haase, Stratford-on-Avon, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway oseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Junc tion, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways George Henry Brook, Esq., Edgulin-lodge, Huddersfield, Previsional Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax and Bradford Union Rail way, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Captain Hutchins, H.E.1.C.5., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Birmingham and Oxford, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Allcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li verpool and Leeds Direct, and Kelghly, Halifax, and Huddersfield Railways James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, and Brandon Lodge, near Coventry, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Rail way William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurloe-square, Brompton, Director of the Jersey, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Thomas Mortimer Cleobury, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton Major Waller, K. 11., Director of the London and Manchester Ditect, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, and Alfreton, Derby, Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and South and Mid- lands' Junction Railways J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and York and Lancaster Railways Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath, Director of the Me tropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway W. A. Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and Central Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman of the Church of England Life Insurance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway William Morley, Esq., Blackheath Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds Railway, Director of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Englis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby and Southampton Railway Colonel Fitch, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway William Lee, Esq Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and Essex and Suffolk Railways Thomas Gooch, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway J. Harvey, Esq., Rush-hill, Surrey John Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Hallway Thomas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director ofthe south and Midlands' Junction Railway C .Walte, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex R. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's-wood, Director of the North Metropolitan Railwey William Shirk, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton Warren Stormes Hale, Esq. Gresham-street, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension 'Climatal Grove Key, Esq., Wandsworth Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of. the West Riding Junction, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways W. Lee, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square Robert Power, Esq., Queen-street, May-fair, Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance Society Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place House, Southampton, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Major Grubb*, Eastwell House, Potteme, Wilts, Magistrate of the County, and Director of the South and Midlands'Junction Railway Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways T. G. Norbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway aenry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continua tion, and Soath and Midlands' Junction Railways, and of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance Company William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Tewn, Brighton, Director of the South • Ju.otit>rs 'Railway John BrOOkii Walbaricke, Esq., Director et the Youth and ..111,11andg' Junction Railway Captain Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery William Lee, Esq., Director of the Reading Railway Henry Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square William T, Thornton, Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman-square Jobs Dennis, Esq., Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway Joseph Crockett,Alderman of Devizes, and Director of the North Wilts Banking Company, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway John Helbert Helbert, Esq., Gloucester-place, London, Director of the Leicester and Birmingham Railway Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, London, Director of the Rugby and Worcester Railway William Peppercorn, Esq., London, and Bexhill, Sussex Captain T. Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway F. Duffield, Esq., Bolton House, near Bradford Rev. F. R. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge John Barnett, Esq., Coroner for the County of Gloucester, Director of the Oxford and Cheltenham Railway William Spooner, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the Newcastle and Liverpool Railway Alexander Prince, Esq., 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Bar net North Junction Railway J a mes Lees, Esq., Delph, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of the Saddleworth Ranking Company (With power to add to their number). BANC/SU—The Commercial Bank of London. Coltstibrino ENGINIEB — Sir John Maonell, LL.D., F.R.S. ACTING EffolNEna—William Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E. COLICITOZ—W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street. - - - - - •• • - - - It appears that England will be divided longitudinally by four great ties of railway, which will become so many main trunks, intersec -171.r and intersected by numerous lines, both transverse and oblique, o;aming rapid and ready communication with the intermediate dis t: icts, with packet stations, and with seaport towns. The more lsterly of these, which is also the longest, originating at Newcastle upon-Tyne, and passing through York, Peterborough, anol Qambridge, day be said to terminate in London, whence all places are accessible. The second line, counting westward, is more tortuous, and has also common northern terminus with the preceding, by which its ad vastages are materially restricted. This line, descending the Ere wash Yale, and passing through Rugby and Oxford, becomes a South ampton line by falling into the South-Western Railway at Basing stoke. The third longitudinal line, or the most westerly, is still more de fective in design than the preceding; employing the steep and narrow railway called the Birmingham and Gloucester as its first link, it traverses nearly in a right line the least populous and most undulating Pis of Gloucester, Barks, Wilts, and Hants ; and, properly speaking has no independent terminus. A large longitudinal section of the kingdom—the West Midland district—a district inviting a similar species of accommodation from remedy concentrated local advantages, tyo s k ; and it is contemplated toremains unprovided with a chief this deficiency by the present undertaking, or a fourth longitudinal it of the West mea ls Adopting Birmingham as a northern terminus e. Mid land, Manchester, and Southampton Railway,proposed to carry between Moreton, Swindon, aaway. where it will a line through or near to Stratford-on-Avon, Stew, It orthleach, ?Orford, Crickl Junction merge in the booth and 3fidlands' The length of the proposed line will be about sixty miles, and the district traversed by it is gently undulating and densely peopled. Its southern terminus, Swindon , it becomes identical with to South and Midlands, by means of which it opens a most direct communica tion nithsrto sn3psted vrtth the harbours of Weymouth, Christ. THE SUN, LONDON,SATITRDA Y EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27. 1845. churakyoole, and Southampton. At its northern terminus, Bir ingharrt, it communicates with a series of lines, projected, in pro gress, or completed, which will form the most direct line that can ever probably be constructed between the southern ports of England and the great manufacturing districts. In the alliance of lines forming the West Midland, Manchester and Southampton Railway project, a combination of advantages pre sents itself—the result of a design, to a great extent, but of contin gencies also. If it be desirable that the terminus of every railway should be situated at some commercial or populous place, in this re spect the present project is peculiarly fortunate. If Government be resolved on countenancing the shortest and most direct lines, it will be seen, by laying a rule on the map of England from Salisbury to Manchester, that a course due north and south between these places will pass very nearly through the towns mentioned in this prospectus, as being on the proposed line ; and actual measurement has shown this line to be the shortest between Southampton and Manchester by 26 miles. By the :construction, therefore, of little more than 60 miles of rail, as hero proposed, the shortest, most direct, and convenient communication between Manchester and Southampton will be es tablished—a line, also, however superior in position to others pro mising similar advantages, may yet be considered as competing with none, but as an independent work, originating at Birmingham and terminating in the seaports of Weymouth, Christchurch, Poole, and Southampton. In the allotment of shares in this Company the Directors propose giving a preference to shareholders in the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Company. Applications for prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms of application for shares had, at the Office of W. B. James, Esq., Solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street ; and of the following gentlemen:— London—Messrs. Peppercorns, 2, Old Broad-street; Mr. J. B. Har rison, 8, Bank Chambers ; Mr. Thomas Hanbury, 4, Angel-court. Liverpool—Messrs. Mills and Co., and Messrs. Neilson. Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. William Marshall. PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED. ' GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECS RAILWAY, By a Junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedfor., Distance, 120 miles. Capital 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share. (Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons. cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given to the Great I Leeds and London Direct Railway. The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a branch line with the East and West India Docks on the river Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 919 years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks, which are capable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods from all parts of the world can take place, is a most important fea ture in favour of the direct communication from the manufacturing towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway, and by branch railways to the main trunk line, through which all goods from the whole of the manufacturing dis tricts could be conveyed at once to these warehouses for shipment, thereby avoiding the present delay and expense of cartage, and in reality establishing an almost direct and an invaluable connexion between the rivers Clyde and Thames. It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties, that the works will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good, and that it will not materially interfere with any ornamental property. The Subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first deposits until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only to the amount of their subscriptions. It is proposed to take power in the Bill to anew interest at 4 per cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and also to extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, in the event of Applicationst hat Cop many for r n o s t h p a r r o e s s e ( c i u n t prosecuting their line e t e ß d e ) d f rd. may be made to J. It. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall - court , a nd Messrs. Owen Gray and Illidge, 25, Great Tower-street, the joint solicitors to the Company, at the Company's temporary offices, 9, Copthall-court, London ; or to the following sharebrokers : London—Messrs. Marten and Heseltine, 9, Finch-lane Leeds—Messrs. Hopps and Co. Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons Bradford—Mr. Josiah Scholefield Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square N. application will be attended to unless accompanied by a satis factory reference. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Great Leeds and London Direct PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right lion. Lord Dunboyne Sir William Twysden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Directo. of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and Erewash Valley Extension Railways Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway, and of the South and Midland Junction, and West Midland Railways Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.11., Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and Trent Valley Continuation Railways Henry Ambler, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Watkinson Hall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Midland Railway John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-street, Broad-street, Director of the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford, Railways William Banks, Esq. Honey-lane Market John Byng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey William Fachney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Di rector of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction Railways Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's Park, Hampstead, Director of the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Railway Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq., the Lodge, Upper Clapton Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle House, Gomersall, near Leeds Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, Director or the Leeds and West Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool aisd Leeds Direct Railway Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft House, sear Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Mull and Selby Railway Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford Dr. Brigstock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Headwater Railway James Brand, Esq., 9, Now Broad-street, Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln, and Great Luxembourg Railway Job Bullinart, Esq., East Redford William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., J.P., Hull, Director of the Rugby Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways John Carter, Esq., Knottingley Thomas Carter, Esq., Tansheif, J.P. for the Borough of Pontefract Charles Charnock, Esq., Holmfield House, near Ferrybridge Millis Coventry, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Junction, and Birmingham Extension Railways B. Clements, Esq., Lowndes-square, Director of the WestemJamaica Railway J. Cottam, Esq., East Redford Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborougb, Director of the Manchester, Mid land, and Great Grimsby, Gaiusborough, Goole, and Isle of Axholme, and the Wisbeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junction Railways John Cutts, Esq., Little Barfield Hall, near Braintree, Essex James chin, Esq., Director of the l'aris and Strasbourg, Southampton Manchester, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, and Maccles field Railways W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Loadon and Birmingham Exten sion ---- -....... Hull—Messrs Colllnson and Flint. Leeds—Messrs. Young and Son. Stratford-on-Avon—Mr. William Bolton. Exeter—Mr. Thomas Sanford. Plymouth—Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer. Birmingham— Mr. Collis, and Mr. John Wright. Glasgow—Messrs. Tassie and Co. Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co., and Messrs. M'Callum and Co. Derby—Messrs. Eyre and Co. -- • --- -_ _ _ Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me Shares, of 251. each, in the above undertaking, and I undertake to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me, and also to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree went when required. Address in full . ..... ... ..... ..• Occupation .. ..... ..• .. • ....... Reference.. • • • • .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • FORM OF APPLICATION FOE SHARES. To the Provisioaal Committee of the West Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railway. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to 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 undertake also to execute the Parlia mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Name (in full) .. • .. ...... ........... Residence. ••••••••••••• Trade or Profession ......... ...... . Reference.. • • • • Address of Referee • • • .. ..... ........ Date GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT RAILWAY. The Committee of Management of this Railway hereby give no tice, that in consequence of the unprecedented number of applications already made for shares in this important undertaking, they have determined upon rejecting all further applications made after the 29th September instant. Immediately after that day they will proceed to make the allotment of the shares and procure the execu tion of the Parllamentary contract and subscription deeds. signed by order of the Committee, J. R. GIBSON, OWEN GRAY, Registered Solicitors. J. B. MUDGE, 29th September, 1845. THE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER, AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND BIRMINGHAM, SWINDON, DEVIZES, AND SALISBURY JUNCTION. Notice is hereby given, that after the 30th of Szrrzwasi instant, no applications for shares in this undertaking can be received. By order of the Board, G. N. WRIGHT. 5, Basinghall-street, London, Sept. 23, 1845. SHREWSBURY, WOLVERHAMPTON, DUDLEY, and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. WM. ORMSBY GORE, M.P.. Chairman. The Hon. ROOT. H. CLIVE, M.P., Deputy-Chairman. John Benbow, Esq., MP. W. Richford Collett, Esq., M.P. W. Fechney Black, Esq. James Clay, Esq. Richard Norman, Esq. Stephen Phillips, Esq. Richard Smith, Esq. R. A. Slaney, Esq. Sir W. Young, Bart. In consequence of the repetition ofAdvertisements signed "Thomas H. Smith," and an " Original Shareholder," the Committee of Ma nagement think it their duty to publish the names of that Commit tee, as the best answer to the latter anonymous writer, and to caution the Shareholders against being misled by any statements which might be made at any meeting called by Thomas H. Smith, of whom the Committee of Management know nothing. The Committee of Management take this opportunity to state, that the surveys from Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton are nearly completed, and that the surveys from Wolverhampton to Birmingham are being made under the direction of a joint Committee representing this Company, the London and Birmingham Railway Company, and the Birmingham Canal Company, the whole under the immediate super intendence of Mr. Robert Stephenson. By order, 3, Moorgate-street, Sept. 22, 1845. MADRID AND VALENCIA RAILWAY, authorised by an Ordinance of her Majesty the Queen of Spain. Capital 2,400,000!., in 120,000 Shares of 201. each, Spanish reals (Vellon) 2,000, fr. 500, of which 80,000 will be allotted in this country. Deposit 2/. per Share, reals 200, fr. 50. PSOVISIONAL COMMITITr. The Most Noble the Marquis of Winchester, 27, Cavendish-square The Lord de l'lsle and Dudley, 16, New Burlington-street The Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beauclerk, Chesham-place, Belgrave square, and the Riding, Northumberland The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Darner, M.P., 6, Tilney-street The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., 27, Regent-street Sir William Wynn, Chairman of the North Wales Railway C. Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., 6, Parllament-street, Chairman of the Paris and Strasbourg Railway . Henry Sherard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street Francis Deere, Esq., Stratford, Essex J. Dawson, Esq., Pontefract John Dennis, Esq., Director of the West Midland, and Thames Val ley Railways Joseph Dent, Esq., Aibston Hall, near Leeds, Magistrate for the North West Riding of Yorkshire A. A. Davenport, Esq., Director of the Oxfbrd and Worcester Exten sion, and Worcester Junction Railways Joseph L. Davenport, Esq.,Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway John Adcock Dixon, Esq., Barniey, near Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Richard Dransfield, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, of the Liverpool and Leeds Di rect, and of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways Edward Doubleday, Esq F.L.S., Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway Francis Ewart, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey mouth Railway Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, Yoric-terrace, Regent's-park, Managing Direc tor of the York and Lancaster Railway Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of tke Oxford and Worcester Exten sion Railway Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans field, and Midland Junction Railway Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Erewash and Shot field Railway John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London• decry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways George Green, Esq., Pontefract Charles Gibson, Esq., Holland-place, Clapham James Gilbertson, Esq., Hertford William Gibson, Esq., Glasgow H. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside William Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Henry Swan Graves, Esq., Ely Bank Lodge, Halifax John Gully, Esq. Ackworth Park, Ackworth Richard Hall, Esg.,.Carnarvon Hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways John Charles Hall, Esq., New Grove-street, East Redford R. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Erewash Val ley Extension and West Midland Railways Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds John George Hammack, Esq., Director of the Direct Western and the Metropolitan Junction Railways William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lieut. and J.P. for the West Riding of Yorkshire John Mason Ilepworth, Esq., Eden-place, Ackworth, J.P. for the West Riding of Yorkshire Joshua Ilepworth, Esq., Rogerthorpe Hall, Bedsworth Thomas Heelis, Esq., Skipton Castle, Skipton, Director of the Lan cashire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire aid Yorkshire North- Eastern, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways Robert Herries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Directer of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Charles Iloibrooke, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester John Holmes, Esq., East Redford John Midge, Esq., Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Direc tor of the Derby and Stafford Railway William Empson Jalland, Esq., Holdemess House, near Hull, Di rector of the York and Hull Railway Harwell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Ma gistrate for the East Riding of York and Borough of Mull, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley Railways John Jameson, Esq., Honey-lane Market William Jameson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the Staf fordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet Valleys, or Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways George Lawton, Esq., Ditchleys, Essex, Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square Moses Edward Legg, Esq., Watling-street, London Captain Henry Leech, Bedford William Ley, Esq., 40, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of the Reading anßeigate Railway L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Western Ja maica Railway P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo and Shannon, the Ipswich and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale Railways Joint 11. Mann, Esq., Leeds Newark-upon-Trent, and Bedford square,Thomas M'Turk, Esq., Hull Thomas Hackett i)de r ar.k Massey, William Mee, Esq., East Redford W. R. Mesham, Esq. , M.D. , B edford Ho of b t r i t , e 3 William 3f oo rhouse, Esq., Marine Villa, K no tti ng l ey, P rov i s i ona l Director of the Sheffield , Barnsley, aid Wakefield Railway L ie e ll e i d n s gW an n j CarlisleEsq'Ordshall House, near E as t R e df or d,Di rec t o r Railway Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of South and Midlands' Jtuaction, and London and Birmingham Extension Railways James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract, J. P. for the Borough, *Provi sional Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension and Chester Junction, Railway Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Southampton, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways William Joseph Nash, Esq. Bedford John Norton, Esq., 1, St. George's-square, Westminster, and Moat House, Brentwood, Director of the Great Western Direct Railway Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley and Con tinuation and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South Midland and Oxford Extension Railways Robert Bennett°PielellY' Esq., M.D., Pontefract William Perfect, Esq., Monkhill, near Pontefract John Phillips, Esq. Mayor of Pontefract Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq. , Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds , Esq. 12, Finsbury-place North and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways John Thomas Raworth , Esq. , Director of the Leicester and Birming ham Direct, Leicester , Iron , and Dove Valley Railways lt o o h b 'REsde Director of the West Midland R a il wa y Riddell, Esq., Bycullah Hous e , Enfield, Managing John Reginald RReigiciniaardlds id Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Junction, the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and the Direct Western Railways James Robson, Esq., Tanshelf, J. P. for the Boroagh of Pontefract George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junc tion, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate, the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Thirsk Junc tion ltallwly Thomas Rontlidge, Esq., Alderman , Pontefract James Russell, Esq., Gloucester - place , Portman-square, Director o. the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railways Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing stoke Railway Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet and Blythe Valleys Railways J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and of the Leeds and York, and Midland Railways William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the South Midland Junction Railway, &c., &c. George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury Hall, Sheffield, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways Joseph Smithson, Esq., Kirklees Mills, near Halifax James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, Uttexeter, and Stafford Railway. and Gorbals, Hun Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., Banker, Bedford Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbals, Hull, Di rector of ti an ppe d SAff b o a rd rno ßailway Thomas Turner. Kea- Pariskodee David Wheatcroft, Esq. stand , cffiwinni inrector of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham: and Leicester Railways Major-General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester-place, Portman square William Williams, Esq , Royal Foundery, Bedford Charles Waite, Esq., Willesden House, Middlesex John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London 'and Middlesec. as Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax (With power to add to their number.) ENGINEEZ-IN.CHIEF—Sir John M'Neil, L.L.D., and F .R.S. ACTING ENGlNDEl—William MlLilingaT Higgins, EMI. LONDON BOLICITO2II. J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court Owen Gray, Esq., 2 20 --, Great Tower-street, J. B. Midge, Esq., Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker (Mess,. Cockburn and Co.) William Collins, Esq., M.P., Reform Club _ _ Ed — w;d Bates, Esq., Managing Director of the Argus Life Assurance Company Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Beesthorpe Hall, Newark, Netts, and 8, Great Ryder-street, St. James's John Capper, Esq., merchant, I, Adelaide-place, London-bridge William Chadwick, Esq., Montagu-square, Chairman of the Rich. mond Railway GEO, KNOX, Secretary. John Charretie, Esq., Park Village East Gideon Colqnhoun, Esq., `Palmer. Lodge, Avenue-road, Regent's park, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway Company . _ D IRE CT WESTERN RAIL VVAY (Upon the Broad Gauge), From London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and Williatii Cooper, Esq., merchant, 20, Mark-lane, and Kingswood Lodge, Dulwich Bridgewater respectively. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share. Office, 20, Poultry. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Camperdown, Sidney-place, Bath The Viscount Mandeville, Kimbolton-park, Hunts Lord James O'Bryen, Royal-crescent, Bath Lord William Powlett, Bath, and Downham-hall, Brandon, Suffolk General Sir John Slade, Bart., Muntys Court, Taunton Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, Somerset The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street SieFrancis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Ererly Nouse, Pewsey, Wilts Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London Ralph Neville, Esq , M.P., Hill-street, Berkeley-square Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P., 6, Parliament-street Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 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 Robert Price, Bart., M.P., Foxley, Herefordshire Sir John Cave Brown Cave, Bart., Kenilworth, Warwickshire Sir William Young, Bart., Westbourne-green, Hyde-park, East India Director John Clark, Esq., Benefield House, near Trowbridge, Wilts, Magi'. tr ate for the counties of Wilts and Somerset • Alfred Batson, Esq., Ramsbury, Wilts, and Upper Bedford-place Major Hunt Grubbe, Eastwell House, Devizes John Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker John Lord Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker William Adair Bruce, Esq., Lansdown-crescent, Bath Sir John Key, Bart-, 9, King's! Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of London, Director of the Direct Manchester and Loudon and Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company Thomas Farncomb, 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- Edmund F. Dayrell, Esq., 15, Old Cavendish-street, and LiMngstone Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff of Bucks, Deputy-Lieutenant of the County, Chairman of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Railway and Bridgewater and Minehead W. Eales, Esq., merchant, Mincing-lane, Director of the Direct Western Railway Thomas Farucomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, Direetor of the London and Westminster Bank Richard Forman, Esq , Upper Thames-street James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street Major Grakam, 16, Grove, Clapham John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's-wood. near London, Director of the National Bank of Ireland Wnt.King, Esq., Director of the Fi i' Life Assurance Corn, pany James John Kinloch, Esq., 21, Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director of the North Wales Railway Company John Kuill, Esq., Fresh-wharf, Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and Crewe Railway T. Laurence, Esq., St. Mary-axe, Director of the Direct Western Railway Major James Oliver Lindam, K.H., 8, New-street, Dorset-square, Chairman of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and Central Wales Railway, and Director of the South Midland Junction Railway Nicholas M'Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street, Director of the Man chester and Rugby Direct Railway Charles Carroll Mactavish, Esq., 22, Rutland-gate J. B. Monteflore, Esq., 2, Winchester-buildings, Director of the Australian Mining Company William Nicholson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Railway S. P. Praa, - Esq., 55, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company George Clavering Eedn - tan, Esq., Limehotnio Colonel Edward Stopford, 9, Manchester-square, Director of the Barbadoes Railway Company William Gordon Thompson, Esq., Director of the Beath Midland Junction S. J. Waley, ESQ., 22, Devonshire-place William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., 19, James-street, Buckingham• gate, Director of the London Central Railway Terminus. BANKERS. minster Railway Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wllsoa-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the London—Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhlll ; Messrs. liasterraan and Co., Nicholas-lane ; Messrs. Cockburn and Co., Wkiteliall. Madrid—Bank of Isabella 11. City of London Edward Harrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North ampton„Banbury,and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the STANDING COUNSEL —Jacob Waley, ESCI., LIIICOIIed Int Somenoes—Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, $4, Lime-street. CONSULTING ENGINIEI-P. Pilchard Baly, ESQ. SECRETARY—F. Kirkham Powell, ESQ. • Offices of the Company, 37, Moorgate-street. smith Midland Railway Joseph Armitage, Esq. Mtn's' Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy Lieutenant and a Esq., 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 The present Company has been formed for the construction of a line of railway from Madrid to the cityand port of Valencia, the nwst central seaport on the Mediterranean. It will open out the re sources of an extensive district of country, eastward from the capital, remarkable for the richness and fertility of its soil, the varied abun dance of its productions, and the commercial spirit of its inhabitants. This railway is authorised by a special ordinance of her Majesty the Queen of Spain ; and from its ♦ast importance as a national route of intercommunication her Majesty has been pleased to accompany the grant with all the privileges and immunities which the Crown is empowered to confer upon a railway company. Amongst these may be enumerated— South Midland Railways Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe Philip W. Courtnay, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London Millis Coventry, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street Barnet L. I,Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and George-street, Mansion Rouse Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull, Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire Charles Robert Coleman, E.g., Irongate Wharf William Eales, Esq., 3lincinglane, London, late Director of the Devon and Cornwall Banking Company Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, Director of 1. A lease of the line and of its branches for 99 years. 2. The gratuitous grant of such Government and corporation lands as may be required for the railway. 3. The free use of all timber, the property of the State, that may b. necessary for the works, or for other purposes. 4. The exemption for ten years, to be computed from the com mencement of the works, of all import duties on the machinery, rails, and other articles requisite for the completion of the railway. 5. The entire exemption from all national and loeal taxes that could otherwise be levied upon the railway, works, or buildings of any description, and upon the capital represented by the shares. 6. The Government is not tcelnterfere with the Company's tariff of charges for the space of forty years from the completion of the works ; and no revision thereof is to take place on the expiration of that period that can sink the profits below 15 per cent. 7. The line is to be classed, by a special law, under the title of a " work of public utility," and as such to enjoy the royal patronage and protection, and all the peculiar privileges attached to important national undertakings. The proposed line, thus largely endowed, is about 240 miles in length, being upwards of 150 miles nearer the capital than the ports of Cadiz and the north coast of Spain, and generally nearer than any other port in the kingdom. Although it has not yet been minutely surrey ed, it is well known that there is no similar district of equal extent in the kingdom which presents so few engineering difficulties. Far upwards of 80 miles the line will traverse the almost level plain of Valencia ; and emerging from the boundaries of the province, It will follow as nearly as possible the course of the rivers which flow east and west from the central plateau in the province of Cuenca, and approach Madrid by the valley of the Manzanares. The line will either pass through or accommodate the most important towns in the two provinces, which will thus be brought into rapid com munication with the capital on the one side, a seaport on the other. . . . . the South Midland Railway Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London, Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South Essex Railways Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Insurance Company James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of the South Stafordshire Railway Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Direc• tor of the Bridport and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railways 'Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon- street, London IL G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloncester-place, Regent's Park George M'lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-sqsare Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London Major White, 105, Pall-mal, London, Director of the South Midland Railway Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman •f the Li censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company Patrick Fres. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the London anti Blackwell Railway Company William Downing Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon Cuthbert Woodcock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstone-street, Portman square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension Railways George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway This railway will be the means of supplying Madrid, containing 300,000 inhabitants, entirely dependent for provisions upon the con tiguous provinces, at a cheap rate, with the rich products of the pro vinces of Valencia, which abounds in most valuable mines, and is beyond comparison the most fertile district of Spain. Valencia, brought by this communication within ten hours' dis tance of the chief market of Spain, must necessarily become the port at which all vessels with supplies for the metropolis will unload, and the centre of the coasting trade along the whole sea-line from Barcelona to Gibraltar. The traffic in passengers and goods now existing between Madrid and Valencia has been correctly ascertained, showing the following results : The annual number of passengers travelling between Madrid and Valencia, and the intermediate towns, is upwards of 42,000 ; but taking that number at the present cost of conveyance by stage coaches, private 7 carriages, galeras, and waggons, the amount will be £67,800 The annual weight of goods conveyed between the two cities and the intermediate localities is 4,900,000 cr. ~ from which the return is estimated at Company Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London and Blackwall Railway Company Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the St. Katherine Docks Company, and of the General Shipowners' Socieey William E. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire - George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles- 1,223,400 £1,291,200 street, Berkeley-square James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor place, tondon Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail- Assuming that two-fifths only of the existing el►arges become a source of revenue to the railway, and that the tariff be reduced considerably below the State tariff of lielgium, there will be deducted .. • • 752,320 way Company Samuel Baker, Esq., Lypplat Park, Gloucestershire, and London William Congrove Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d Remains .. .. • • £s3' ,880 Supposing that the present traffic will only be donbled by the railway, although experience has proved the increase to be equal to 300 and 400 per cent., there will L[gtct Drag..lia Monett Main, Esq., rark, tcyriaharn, and Trinity. And add For the transport of troops, military stores, &e., which the Government will substitute for the conveyance by waggons .. •• .• •• • • •• • • M per Cent., at the least, for the 11leant train• .. £1,077,760 square, London Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Badyna House, near Newbury, Berks Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berke 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 50,000 215,952 .01,343,712 From which deduct nearly 60 per cent. for maintenance of way, &c. • • .. • • • • .• • • • • 671,1156 Leaving a net profit of Or of nearly 28 per cent. upon the capital. The capital now proposed to be raised has been estimated, by competent authority, to be amply sufficient for the completion of the railway, including stations, a double line for rails, and the working plant. The royal ordinance authorises the erection of an electric tele graph along the line, which will answer the double purpose of placing the railway under the special protection of the Government, and closely uniting it with all the railways that intersect the kingdom and have their common termini in Madrid, to which capital maritime and mercantile information from the Mediterranean can be instan taneously communicated. One-third of the shares are, by the terms of the concession, con ceded to Spain. The locale of the Company will be in Spain, and it will be framed principle of a cornpania anonirna, agreeably to the commercial The affairs of the Company will be conducted by a Board of Di rectors in London, assisted by a highly influential Committee in Madrid. The remuneration to the Directors will be made in ac cordance with the plan usually adopted in continental railways, and that to the Concessionaires consists of a mere contingent interest in two-twentieths of net profits, after five per cent. shall have been se cured to the shareholders. A deposit of 21. per share is payable on allotment, and no future call will exceed 21. per share, of which two months' notice at least will be given. Applications for shares, according to the subjoined form, to be ad dressed to Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, solicitors, 34, Liine street, London ; to Messrs. Hutchinson and Son, stockbrokers, Loth bury ; Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle.street ; Messrs. Johnston, and Co., Manchester ; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool ; Messrs.Wreford, and Co., Bristol ; Mr. N. Lea, Birming ham ; Messrs. Watson, and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, full; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitkin, Glasgow; Mr. W. Gordon, Aberdeen ; Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin ; and to the Secretary, at the office, 37, Moorgate-street, London. .. £671,556 County Rey Chas. Fras. Bamffylde, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bath, 31agis- trate for Somerset Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming. ham Railway Company R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buckingham shire Railway and Wolverton Junction Richard Mortimore, Esq., Klngsmill, Collumpton Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon Richard Marker, Esq., Ufeulm Cottage, Tiverton Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collampton Wm. H. Halcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman if the Berks Union Banking Company William Halcomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and BANKERS. London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co. Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co. The object of this railway Is to connect, in the most direct course, the important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds with the Metropolis, the want of which has long been felt, and is toe univer sally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is wider this con viction that this important undertaking, after several minute exa minations of the country through which it will pass, has been brought forward. The proposed line will commence at the junction of the Manches ter and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wake field, and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of that Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parlia ment), and by thus availing itself as far as possible of the existing railways, will complete the most direct and least expensive trunk linte, from London to Leeds, York, and Hull. It will pass in its route wi bin an available distance of Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster, Rotherham, East Redford, Nottingham, Newark, Grantham, Melton Mowbray, Oakham, and Stamford. The importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature of Its course (embracing, as it does, a most extensive population within its limits) as also from the absence of any direct communication for the conveyance of passengers and merchandise. By the construction of this railway, railway communication to London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by means of the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and Nottingham (by the Nottingham and Lincoln line), and to Sheffield and Gainsbo rough (by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much shorter route than by any existing Railways. Independently of the advantages offered to the towns in the several counties through which this Line will pass, the Line in itself consi dered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, is sufficient to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic between these two places would produce such a return on the capital required. as to admit of a dividend, equal to that of any railway in operation : but when it is borne in mind, that a Company is being formed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow with Leeds by means of a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no better line can be presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct communica tion from Glasgow and the Western parts of Scotland to London, but would also connect Edinburgh and the Eastern parts of Scotland as well as Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North Midland, and Great North of England Railways), with the Metropolis, which would be considerably shorter than the accommodation offered by any other Company, and when cost of construction is considered there Dorset IBank - Captain W. G. Maclean, 8.N., Taunton Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berks Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Kerle Haberfleld, Esq., Clifton, Bristol James Troup, Esq., Hastings John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director of Coventry and Leicester Railway Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North- ampton, Banbury - and Cheltenham Railways John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester , Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and Birkenhead, and Manchester and Southampton Railways Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways James Ogden, Esq., 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 Holford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford London, Sept. 10, 1845. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Directors of the Madrid and Valencia Railwa3 Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me s. ares of 201. each in the above Company ; and I hereby undertaketo accept the same, or any less number. which you may appropriate to e, and to pay the deposit thereon of 21. per share. Dated this day of 1845. Name .. •• • • .... .• Residence .. .. Profession or Trade • ....• • Place of Business Reference ••• . • ..... ••• • • Union Railway Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South• MADRID and VALENCIA RAILWAY.— No APPLICATION FOR SHARES will be received after WEDNESDAY, the First day of October next. By order, F. KIRKHAM FOWLER Secretary. Office 37, Moorgate-street,Sept. 25,1845. ampton Railway John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Durham Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and Midland Railway Companies Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool Win. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and Iron Bridge Railway Company C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Company Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield, Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office Wm. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast Railway Company Captain Bowker, R.N., Devonport H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Di rect Railway Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield Director of the East and West of England Railway Company John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and Har rowgate Railway Company William Marriott, Esq., Attercliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway. Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York and East Lincolnshire Railways John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool David Price, Esq., Manchester William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington Rev. H. W. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse, merchant John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square John Norton, Esq., Moat House, Brentwood, Essex William John M`Guire, Esq. Hampton Court John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey W. J. Lefeuvre, Esq., Alderman and Ilagistrate efSouthampton Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., F R.S., York-terrace, Regent's Park G. B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Coventry and Leicester Railway Captain Tringham, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury Henry. Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield The Hon. F. Byron, 21, Eaton-place William Higgins, Esq., Turvey, High Sheriff of Bedfordshire Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak-park, near Winchester, Deputy-Lieu tenant, and magistrate for the county of Hants William Jackson, Esq , Birkenhead, Chairman of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway ; E. H. Langworthy, Esq., Manchester Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman,: and Sheriff of London and Mid dlesex Nathaniel Gould, Esq., Barge-yard, Bucklersbury, and Tavistock- square Edmund Lionel Welles, Esq., Cadogan-place, and West Moulsey, Surrey Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, and Limehouse, Director of the London Dock Company, the Marine Assurance Company, and the General Shipowner's Society William Jackson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway George F. Earle, Esq., Hull Stephen Knowles, Esq., Exeter W. Lawrence, Esq., Brixton John Leannonth, Esq. ' Edinburgh, Chairman of the Edinburgh and Glasgow, and North British Railway Companies Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Rusell-square, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway William Tanner, Esq., Great Surrey-street, Blackfriara John Booth, Esq., Sherburn Grange, Durham Matthew Benjamin Robson, Esq., Whitwell Grange, Durham John Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Director of the Dorchester and Weymouth Railway, and York and Lancaster Railway William G. Bernard, Esq., Clifton, Bristol Thomas Smallwood Richards, Esq., 59, Baker-street, Portman-square James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Manchester N. M'Cann, Esq., Parliament-street Henry Wellman Newman, Esq., Bristol, Magistrate for that City, and Deputy-Lieutenant and Magistrate for the county of Gloucester William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury William Empson Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hall Thomas Racket Massy, Esq., Newark-upon-Trent Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Axholme, and of the Wisbeach, Ely, and Lin colnshire Railways William Ruston, Esq., Catherine-court, Trinity-square G. Wingrove Cooke, Esq., Temple, London C. I. Selwyn, Esq., Exeter Joseph Hopwood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter and Falmouth Railway Richard Compton, Esq., Eddington House, Hungerford, Berks, a Magistrate for the counties of Wilts and Berke Henry Coa Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Maiden, Essex The Constable of Hungerford Richard Davis, Esq., St. Helen's-place, Director of the South Midland Railway Edward Hyde Clarke, Esq., Leamington, Wanvickshire, Director of the Warwickshire and London Railway Captain William Lionel Lampert, The Highlands, Oxfordshire, and Leamington, Warwickshire Francis Burton, Esq., Milverton House, Warwickshire Captain Stewart, R.N., Leamington, Warwickshire Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway William Northage, Esq., Upper Gower-street, Bedford-square John Wodley Hughes, Esq., Gloucester, Director of the Birmingham and Bristol Railway Lewis Bruce Knight Bruce, Esq., The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey Francis Cole Humbert, Esq., Oxford-street, Hyde-park Algernon Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park James Lamb, Esq., Hyde-park-square Richard Groucock, Esq.,l Bow-churchyard, and Dulwich, Director of the Direct Manchester Railway J. B. Simpson, Esq., Rutland-lodge, Brixton Henry Bellerby, Esq., Sheriff of York Henry Ledgard, Esq., 39, Wood-street, Cheapside, Director of the Rugby and Macclesfield Direct Railway John Williams, Esq., Eaton-square. Thomas Grimsditch, Esq , M.P., Macclesfield, Cheshire Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn-fields, Wolverhampton, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway William Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton Erasmus It. Foster, Esq., Birchiu-lane William Bargett, Esq., Broad-street Peter It. Morrison, Esq., Princes-street, Bank Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Enfield, Director of the York and Lan -caster Railway Thomas lidaley, Esq., M.D., Sheffield . James Sheppard, Esq., jun. Valentine Knight, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Magistrate for Middlesex • eorge Sercombe, Esq., Exeter John Clampit Sercombe, Esq., Exeter William Pearce, Esq., Liverpool W. Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham Robert Henry Hurst, Esq., jun., Temple William Nash, Esq., Capham Common Grey Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton Hall, Leicester Captain Twisleton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the Leicester and Tean and Dove Valley Railway (With power to add to their number). Batureas—Messrs. Curries and Co., Coruhill, London. JOINT SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. Secarram—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq. IssisTaxr-SECRETARY----Charles J. Whalley, Esq. LOCAL SOLICITORS. At Newbury—Messrs. Godwin and Gray, and B. Pinniger, Esq. At Ramsbury—William Rowland, Esq. At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq., and John Edwards Hayward, Esq. At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway At Bath, Messrs. Batchelor, Harford, and Staunton At Shepton Mullett—Francis Isaac Nalder, Esq. At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole At Exeter—William Denis Moore, Esq. At Tiverton, T. L. T. Mendell, Esq , and J. A. Toms, Esq. At Launceston—Messrs. Lawrence and Pattison At Bodmin At Truro At Penzance At Falmouth—Messrs. Tresidder and Son The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between London and the Land's End. In a national point of *view such a line is indispensable. With the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from its situation at the western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in creased its imports from 200,0001. to 3,000,0001. per annum. At Bris tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased. The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal mouth by way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by railway. The object of this prospectus is to show that no ether line than the resent can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard to this, its most important eutport—" 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 Compdhy, the immense local influence commanded by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company. The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, 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 Groat Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St. Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole distance from London to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles. With rearect to the traffic on the upper portion of the line it is needless to saylmore than that there is already thorough traffic suffi cient to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes tern : that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton about 32 tulles, that It will traverse rich and populous agricultural and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as well from railways now in course of construction as from ethers pro jected, with every chance of success. As to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that the vast number of merchant vessels continually detained in the Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway; and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol Ana dootliamptoa , o , hat, e...LeaL We liaealt.watible mineral wealth of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire may be further developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the amount of which may be said to be without limit. A. glance at the map will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of railroad accommodation. Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance in the event of war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet commerce of the kingdom; It may not be out of place to quote here the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley, which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and e.raind 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 not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth; and it may be fUrther observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth was last session rejected, on the 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 liament. It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be constructed at an unusually small expense ; that the undertaking will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways in the kingdom. Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at four pounds per centnm per annum on the deposits, and preference in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected with the Direct Western district. Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary, or to any respect able broker in town or country 20, Poultry, London, September 11, 1845. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 251. each in the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21.125. 6d per share thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con• tract when required Dated 1845. Name in full .. • ... • • . • • • •• .. Residence ...... Trade or Profession • • • Place of Business (if any) ........ Reference Signature .• .• • • • . • • . • • • • • • • • . THE ENFIELD,ED NIONTON,and EASTER COUNTIES' JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 110.) Capital, 30,0001., in 1,500 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s: per Share. Liability limited to amount of subscriptio n. Length of line three miles. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Jacob Vale Asbury, Esq., 31.1.1.C.5., Silver-street, Enfield Edward Beckett, Esq., 1 6 , Warwick-street, Cioldol - aq ua ° Charles Dennis Bowers, Esq. , Cannon-street, London Thomas Dobson, Esq., Forty-hill, Eafleld John Dixon, Esq., Forty-hill, Enfield Captain Holt, R N., Baker-street, Enfield Daniel Harrison, Esq., Chase-hill, Enfield William Henry Holt, Esq., 31. D., Baker-street, Enfield Astley Holt, Esq., M.D., Baker stye rchet, -sEnfitreetd Edmonton el Henry Samuel Hammond, Esq., Chu, William Halnworth, Esq., Enfield Town John Fulford Owen, Esq., Ridg ewa y Oaks, Enfield Ch ase Major Ramsay, Hi 1 Lodge, Clay-hill, Enfield Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willo u g hb y House, Tottenham Robert Wollaston, Esq., Tottenham Exotrilza—Robert Stephenson, Esq. ahnersley PARLISMENMARY AGENT-3IC 3 SrS. BSITAII and BANKERS—Messrs. Drewett and Fowler, SOLICITORS. John Sawyer, Esq., Enfield Henry Knight Esq., Edmonton W. B. James, Esq., London. Princes-street,liant• US .---------- PROSPECT . This line of railway is intended to commence at Enfield '!°: and to form a junction with the Eastern Counties' lii . s' niontorl, Edmonton station, crossing the turnpike-road at Lower h. amnia where a station would bo placed for the accommodation a that 1.-- bourhood. It will be three miles in length, over an uniform level ourfaacen .I....isad. from the circumstance of its not involving the sacrifice of r___ i li, dentiary property (nearly the whole of it being land undew:T4,o ture), its cost has been estimated by comp tent persons .._uu.'c'. surveyed it, at a sum very much below that of ordinary rau wa ..l l ,4f of By this junction, passengers will be conveyed, at nearly onews__..., the present cost, from Enfield to London in half-an-hour; al,.,aqii-0 that time is now consumed in reaching the nearest statleuevf.,„, Eastern Counties' line. Itmay be expected, independent of th s _T;;o3 diate neighbourhood of its stations, to draw considerable t(1)e1u;,'13,,,f, the following places, viz.:—Northaw, South minims , r !L og s% Hadley, Chipping Barnet, East Barnet, Cock ForsterS, ''," oo w ith Winchmore Hill, and it will also open a direct conaniulda". the markets and villages north of Enfield. felt tO d a P re- The expensive coach fares to Enfield have long been „tea the date the value of house property in the neighbourhood, haute metre, residents will be enabled, by means of this line buteach lu ci !_,,, fer polls at a moderate cost, not only such propertY, lauct 0 u o uld building purposes, of which , there are many favourable spots' be greatly improved in value. onsiderable, In addition to the passenger traffic, which is very c-, - on fel• there would be realised a large amount, annually, Mtn tu_ e _,,, oith ance of coal, corn, and other goods, from the river Tha l ,, as which a communication is now in the course of being oPea',7„untiee neighbourhood, by means of the junction of the EaStern.,';ol s with the Blackwall Railway ; and which, when coranletee;,.. t D iack• cure to the public the convenience of three ternaul, may al, Fenchch-street, nd Shoreditch. rn the re wTol market- ur gardeners, a as also to f a rmers, this line, fro vows remarkable contiguity of its stations, would offer great other lu9' by affording them the means of conveying their fruit and ~., ridc duce to the London markets, more expeditiously and with less es• of injury, than by their present very inconvenient, tetlious,.!;',ol pensive mode of conveyance; and to the SP particularly, oa account of its being the principal one for s ive cia o duce, and close to the Shoreditch terminus. From Ull a u italdelds luar a u e c i i ov a very large return would be obtained. e and IV Enough may have already been stated to show the Yalu "jos portance of this project to the neighbourhood And the suureZ 01 but the fact should not be overlooked, that whenever 'Y convenient communication has been opened with tat 11 36 e: t;•° ,1 18 to: traffic very far beyond what before existed has ilutu eu ' a c os to L ai lowed ; and from a project which would facilitate the a , „„y be favourite and healthful a spot as E nfield, the same resul t ' anticipated. and 010 aired , a From the ver moderate outlay which ay will be req . fsW many advantage y the line of railw will ?resin" for l''" of which have been particularly n oticed, a la r g e retj°l pi capital invested may be confidently expected. limited •by*. A The responsibility of the shareholders will be ' ter of Parliament to the amount of their shares. Ales WO In the allotment of the shares, application! by pa rtie s will have the preference.elicitors, a t thiir • Applications for shares may be made to the ..,,,,i0 offices ; and to Messrs. Oswin and Co., Angelourt, TbrulAT:oxieS, street; and to Messrs. Peppercerne and Co., 2, Old lir a ' . London. ---------- FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SIT/RES. a ii iter o To the Previsional Committee of the Enfield, Edinonton, an shares 11l l l r Counties' Junction Bailwa.Y• Gentlemen,—l request that you wilt allot we do n 10,, L • • proposed Enfield, Edmonton, and Eastern Counties' Ja a .„ c nisY ,7, way, and I agree to take all such shares, or so ruel,, - ,uts,,,,,i t ' allotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, an d ''''' ~ lee' Parliamentary Contract and Subscriber's Agreement when • so to do. Name -••••..•• • • •• " '' .• •• ** * * ... '. Description .. ..... ... • • • • ' ' '.....• . Residence ••••• • • • .. •• • ... .. :•••"•:. Reference to •• • • ........ ... • ir, L L EED O S N . DON and NOTTINGHAM RAITIVVI*O cviE YO LP• connecting LONDON, NOTTINGHAM, •-,--- I c W) (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 find 8 Vle t '',l, • Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. e a s' -• i Deposit, 2/. 28. per Share. ~,,, gotil eg ° (In compliance with the Standing Orders of ..- - Parliament.) .. itghby P , ROVISIONAL Confaurraz. The Right Tion ( . lV D l power Lord to m jaddddiettoouth, w ei o r li n a uM ton be tt r ap ' ) .,, sotto The lijn. E. M. Lloyd Mostyn, 31.1'. The Hon. William Mackenzie Dawson The Hon. Edward Stafford Jerningham Mart , ' iv- Sir George G. De Hochepied Larpent, Bart., Austin - liso Willia m Thomas Adams, Esq., merchant, Lenton Firs, flear be ffield is" Charles Appleby, Esq., Sheffield, Director of t he chester Railway r o f 0 Ge(.rge Bacon, Esq., merchant, Nottingham Richard Bailey, Esq., Castle Dyke, near Sheffi us el il d: o r op osi Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction wester Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq., Director of the Grea t " Robert Bell, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick London Chkrles Richard Bigge, Esq., Bryanston-square, L_ WMiam Boden, Esq., Apsley Hall, near Notting liaiu William Bradley, Esq., Sheffield 500" Joseph Braithwaite, Esq., Magistrate, Standard -MI td Jameißrand, Esq., New Broad-street, London _ roe , '" George B. Banbury, Esq., Leamington, Director of t he - o r it . Nuneaton Railway ma tstra te Edward Pegge Burnell, Esq., Winkburn, Notts, County Wm. Butcher, Esq., the master cutler of Sheffield ,„ SaMuel Cartledge, Esq., Mapperley, near Notting ua'" William Cartledge, Esq., merchant, Nottingham Charles Chouler, Esq., Wollaton, Notts Thomas Close, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham Henry Coe Coape, Esq., Union Club, Loudon Major E. T. Coke, magistrate, Woodhouse Grove, riche Sheldon Craddock, Esq., Leicester OW' Thomas Cullen, Esq., echant, Notingham ,I , Edmund Francis Dayre m ll, r Esq., Old t Cavendish-str eet yol los Lillingstone Dayrell, High Sheriff for Bucks In_pieeo:3 Lieut.-Col. Elrington, Scots FusWer Guards, Win d ''' . r -SqU' r Henry D. Erskine, Esq., 93, Mount-street, Grosvene William Felkiu, Esq., merchant, Nottingham wrec toref t he William Edmund Ferrers, Esq., BucklersburY, and Holyhead Railway James Fisher, Esq., 12, Watling-street, London manch eet.n Charles Fitzgerald, Esq., London, Director of the and Southampton Railway 1,00 10 11 The Rev. Henry Robert Fowler, Manchester-sena re ' Smith Fowler, Esq., merchant, Nottingham Francis Gamble, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough George Gamble, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough James Gerson, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, London William Gilbertson, Esq., Baglan, Neath and Deed° Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpw , Railway Thomas Foster Gimson, Esq., merchant, Nottinghant William Hannay, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham ife• John Heard, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham Great I,os ) Richard Heaviside, Esq., London, Director of the hallway Lewis Heymann, Esq., merchant, Nottingham Samuel Hollins, Esq., merchant, Nottingham ottl ooo John Ilorsfall, Esq., magistrate, St an d ar d-hill, N The Rev. Charles lludson, Saundby, Notts Itiehard Hutchinson, Esq., M D., Nottingham • Robert James, Esq., merchant, Nottingham Thodms Kidley, Esq M.D„ Sheffield Cynric Lloyd Esq., Brook-street, London 1, 011"9 Robert Low, , Esq., Keppel-street, Russell-square , 1 0 1 The Mayor of Nottingham NTotlag h ,fi t' David Melville, Esq., merchant, Standard-bile Major J. A. Moore, Queen Ann-street, London , . 1, Indian Peninsular Railway John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield Edward Munk, Esq., merchant, the Park, Notting-11 Henry Newbould, Esq. Sharrow Bank, shetneld John Nunn, Esq., magistrate, ' Nottingham Park We' t .otii eg Wilson Overend, Esq., Sheffield, Magistrate for thsneerls Capt. Adamson George Parker, Mapperley 3fount , Ac ,„ Samuel Parsons, Esq., M.D., Sackville-street , Len " Op William Raines, Esq., the Temple, London li J. Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leicester rorif• Ife et Jonathan Reckless, Esq., merchant, Nottinghar a _mouse' James Salmond, Esq., magistrate, Mansfield W'"'s„,,iiivel doe , tingham, Director of the Newark and Sheffield " a " - r - , lie e g oe' Frederick William Seymour, Esq., St. Jainea 's ' eclu ar le C et ..u t o l George Shelton, Esq., jun., merchant, Arnold, ne, tern Henry Simonds, Esq., Director of the Great Wes John Simpson, Esq., Arnot Hill, near Nottingli a l, Thomas Smith, Esq., Meadow Hall, near Sheltie; William Smith, Esq., Dam House, near She ri/el" ha t 0 1 '4 Henry Smyth, Esq., merchant, the Park, Noitie. for fil l William Taylor, Esq., Ratcliffe Hall, Notts, Magi t uida t William Thompson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of tits Sheffield Railway William Vickers, Egg., magistrate, Nottingha rn Thomas 'Wakefield, Esq., magistrate, Nottingha m ,r De r 0 111.1" John Ward, Esq., Wood-street, London, and liaw'led „ Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the Manchester Extension Railway 0 Edward Webster Bullock Webster, Esq., Hendon tor William Webster, Esq., Oakham, Rutland Ig oe John In g ell /Verge, Esq.. Woodborough O at* Newark and Sheffield Railway Col. Henry Westenra, Camla, Monaghan 00 011 pot David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, near pule John Wild, Esq., merchant, the Park, Nottingli,, t tfeeld l Henry Wilkinson, Esq., Endeliffe Hall, near 01 ' wen the Sheffield and Chesterfield Railway 11000 John Calthrop Williams, Esq., M.D., magistrete,.;aoo Robert Wynne Williams, Esq., Bedford-place ,le n ' „. Henry Willoughby, Esq., Settington House, 31 '" - , - an A lta l COMMITTEE OF MANAGEME t., kr George G. de Hochepied Larpent , li a ft r ir „ifte RBV. Henry Robert Fowler, Deptity-e..,„ 1 ' ( „ 0 , Frei:fence Pratt Barlow, Rog. .7:LBWS tie“ -- fter Joseph Braithwaite, Esq. William Benefield, James Brand, Esq. Thomas Wt e tt Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq. Capt. Adan t— , Es"' Lieut.-Col. Elrington Samuel Perste, pOl. William Edmund Ferrero, Esq. William F.ai e nt ' c uolCO' STANDING COUNSEL—MT. Sergen al ' t 1 ,1 SOLICITORS• W ei- I Messrs. Birch and Bramah, Great Winch ester- Messrs. Forbes and Drake, Warnford-court• Messrs. Freeth and Rawson, Nottingham. / 94 LOCAL AGENTS. u .nuut Messrs. Parker and Smith. SH` r C. S. Busby, Esq., Cheste rfield ' you lVie PAILLIAMENTABIC A G ENT S —Messrs. Gregor'' , ft 11, Parliament-itr eet• tl e ,,ter BANKERS. We t " Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co., 15, Lomba ie. Messrs. Moore and Robinson, Nottingham shire Nottingham. elied iejj ny, idte' IA re The Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking CoMP a it, P r ¢j SECRETARY (pro tern.)—Mr. f weep+ Offices of the Company, No. 8, Wh arw , ° ,..„ e t 1 4° 0 ° 4 ° ID ef l' e The object of this Company is to form a (I "torn "e i ne r oO si s: tween the large and important town of Nettl es e o lia, te st polls, which, by means of the existing &nu ereP l e in d oh ° ; o ft!' 00 , 4 0' former place, will afford also the most direct Leeds, .;011017t111 twee n; London, Sheffield, Huddersfield, n e y ri e 0 20 1 ,e, land generally and Scotland, and between Lan „ fa, re' c e It is not the present intention of this CelliP ar %oit in_ f se 4 0' , dent line between London and Bedford, but te „ , ta e . l . ' s t die , 11 ,1 ensuing session of Parliament, and to take ad v 7 i ' rece lt , 00.41 1 t e 11; Jok e' the projected lines between those places as sh e of the Le. The pro g posed islature railway will therefore collaineaseliStri:relP64l,llol taking a course northward through the PePel, c eased Odeli r ,o ol Ferrars, to or near Kettering and Melton 50 , g tif' ll , 1 001.00; almost a straight line to Nottingham. itgi„elotferie'ofill,e,i, to iU through a thickly-populated country, and eo erse. le;,' of any moment to the construction, in a direct oui i r do, railway. A reference to the map will sh°,. tr ,,r o ttlini,„4l, "„ junction with the proposed railways north of.f ri ders , " o /. tiro nearest route from London to Sheffield, earl s le Jon north of England, and Scotland ; while, hi 131 0t oln ic' e l e Nottingham and Ambergate, and Manchester , , a d gate lines, it will be found to offer a more dire c ee ' te e, st any in existence between London and Ma e° eta ° , 14 S. u ede 10' with any one projected between those plac e tri o ri te 0 00 i r The promoters are already assured that ioe , i f el, o f 0 ), cordially approved by the landed and othe r tor s fro u 'Oor; o o o ,t.7, the sanction and active assistance of Plr ee ,,tiesi 1 , 111 ,41 0 ,0 line of railway which it affects. It has the the . so e tr , „' She and tV , ~P habitants of the towns of Nottingham and ..te, •le facturing and: commercial classes of the I.l °' r l' o fV e s are not aware of any grounds, either Pub lic tr ° olo e ors t ' e the sanction of Parliament can be withheld ropr iet io o f; er s:: the amount of its traffic, guarantees to th e P ,ilo l 8 1 '1 , 10 r turn upon the capital to be invested ' ,ill te e In the allotment of shares a preferen ce I ,' „ r ebe• e d `p i locally in:erested in the line, and a certain c onne ct ed „jino as an, for the shareholders in railways immediately 00107,,, DW sent undertaking. v isia e , ie cf c , t ie4 o A prospectus, with plan and list of the rr e d i e ~ any further particulars, may be obtained troll t os l- 1 -of offices of the Company, to whom, or to Messli o tion 9 sharebrokers, 53, Threadneedle-street, aPP the usual form, may be made. t Ty e o i COS ;,' Dl etlaZ e t t i c ,' Za k And' g c 111, 41 t tw n kt k l ;, l4 l ill'Oxa• ne hi„ t Y , the k oma ' y . r 141 s 4 tilv . j.„l l E! Atis R'. /111.1'' I `ht i Pe 4 4 11,,, 4" A( - 44ei 4 1, 1! •N °11: 14, 4, Pi t 44 4 '41 u d % .ter, , u ,tierkizt eaPi I% *I