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d T HE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER church, ugui Po iV e uu , m an utu Southampton. wi r t orn a . northernA e tsitusflues,projected, in pro- SWINDON, DEVIZES, AND SALISBURY JUNCTION, terminus, Bir- i AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND BIRMINGHAM gross, or completed, which will form the most direct li ne th a t can Being an extension of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway. ever probably be constructed between the southern p or t s o f E ng l an d (Provisionally Registered.) and the great manufacturing districts. Capital, 1,200,0001., in 60,000 shares of 201. each. In the alliance of lines forming the W es t Midl an d , M anchester and Southampton Railway project, a combination of advantages pre- Deposit 21. 2s. per share. sents itself—the result of a design, to a great extent, but of centin- PROVISIONAL COMMITTZE. genies also. If it be desirable that the terminus of every railway The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Dillon, Halpin-street West, Belgrave- should be situated at some commercial or populous place, in this re square, and Loughlyn House, Loughlyn, Ireland, and Ditchley, Oxon sped the present project is peculiarly fortunate. If Government be Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House resolved on countenancing the shortest and most direct lines, it Wllliam Beresford, Esq., M.P., 77, Pall-mall, Director of the Teen will be seen, by laying a rule on the map of England from Salisbury and Dove Valley Railway to Manchester, that a course due north and south between these William Rulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid- places will pass very nearly through the towns mentioned in this land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways prospectus, as being on the proposed line; and actual measurement Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Director of the Welsh Midland, and has shown this line to be the shortest between Southampton and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Manchester by 26 miles. David R. Ross, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, Director of the By the - construction, therefore, of little more than 60 miles of London and Manchester, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail- rail, as here proposed, the shortest, mast direct, and convenient ways communication between Manch es t er an d S outhampton will be es- Sir John E. Be Beauvoir, Bart., Chai rman o f th e L ondon and Bir- tablished—a line, also, however superior in position to others tiro mingham Extension, and Director of the S ou th an d Midlands' ra i s i ng s i m i lar ad t - van ages, may yet be considered as competing Junction Railways Sir William with none, but as an i n d epen d ent work, originating at Birmingham Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director of the South and Midlands' Ju n cti on R a il way and terminating in the seaports of W e y mout h , Ch r i stchurch, Poole, Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Kee and Southampton.s, Director of In the allotment of shares in this Company the Directors propose the Chester and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' June- giving a preference to shareholders in the South and Midlands' tion Railways Sir William Wynn, Maesynewadd, Ch a i rman of the North Wales, Junction Railway Company and Director of the South and Midl an d s ' Junction Railwa s • Applications for prospectuses and pl a ns may be made, and forms Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, Director of the Direct y Western of application for shares had, at the Offic e o f W. B. J ames , E sq. , ]hallwaySolicitor, 5, Basinghall-street ; and of the following gentlemen London—Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street; Mr. J. B. Har gis' John Key, Bart., Alderman' of London, Director of the London rison, 8, Bank Chambers ; Co Thomas Hanbury, 4, Angel-court. and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Liverpool—Messrs. Mills and Co and Messrs. Neilson. Railways Sir William Twysden, Bart., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. William Marshall. Dean Railway iVilliam Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S . A ., F.L.S , & ll—Messrs Collinson and Flint. Sze , Alderman of Lou-Lon don, Chairman of th e M anchester and Birkenhead. Continuatio n, Stratford-on-Avon—Mr. Leeds—Messrs. Young and Son. William Bolton. and London and G reenw i ch Railways, &c. &c. Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lon- Exeter—Mr, Thomas Sanford. don and Westminster Bank, and Namur and Liege, and South and Plymouth—Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer. Midlands'Jtinction Railways Birmingham— Mr. Collis, and Mr. John Wright. John Klnnersley Ho o p er, Esq,, Alderman of London, Director of the Glasgow—M London and Manch es t er Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Edinburgh—Mesessrs Tassie and Co. srs. Robertson and Co., and Messrs. M`Callum Railways and Co. Thomas Kelly, iv", Alderman of London, Director of the South 'aid Derby—Messrs. Eyre and Co. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. Midlands' Junctio n R a i lways Donald Maclean, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Valley Con- To the Provisional Committee of the West Midland, Manchester, tinuation, and Director of the South an d Midlands' Junction and Southampton Railway. Railways Gentlemen,—l request that yon will allot to me Major Oliver Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberyst- Shares of 201. each in this Company, and I undertake to number tth a e t Junction Railways with, and Central Wales, and Director of the South and Mldlawis' that Junction and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less may be allotted to me; and I undertake also to execute the par a• Major-General Pariby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Worces- mentary Contract and Subscribers' im Agreemen t e(in full ) . .. .when . required..... ter and Crewe, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways • Captain James Patrick Macdougal, late Bengal Royal General Staff, Residence Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of th e Ch es t er an d F ores t o f Trade or Profession Dean, and South and Midl an d s ' Junction Railways, &c. Reference .. ere .. • . Captain Alexander Hamilton C ar l e , R oyal Artillery, Reform Club Address of Referee • • .. John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, Director of the Legal and Commercial Insurance Company, the Great Western of Bengal, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth Railway Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames 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, Beigrave-square, Direc tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life Insu r Railway ance Company, and Director of th e South and Midlands' Junction James Clay, Esq., Brampton Director of the Furness and White haven, and South a n d Midlands' Junction Railways Col. Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail ways William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, Manag ing Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company, and Di rector of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Richard 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 and Midlands' Junction Railways k G. W. Killett Potter, Mi., Secondary of the City of London Lieut.-General Sir Lewis Grant, K.C.8., 31, Harley-street John Jennings, Esq., Elm-grove, Hammersmith William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the Oxford, Witney and Cheltenham, and South and Midlands' Junc tion Railways Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde-park-street William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Britannia Life Insurance Company, and Derby and Stafford, and South and Midlands' Junc tion Railways George Parbunk Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester and Birmingllkm 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 Stourbridge, 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 Janes 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 mid 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' Juisc tion, and Northampton and Banbury Railways William Paxton, Esq., Langford, near Bicester, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction R a il way 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 Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Vice-Chairman of the Leeds and York Railway J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond James Durness, Esq., Leytonstone, Essex George Willes, Esq., Hungerford Park, Bergs G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed Celyn, Denbighshire, and Lonsdalo-square, Islington Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway Martin lumen Esq., Director of the Newark and Sheffield Railway William Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York and Leeds Railway Edmund Phillips, Esq., Avon House, Melksham, Wilts, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Charles Thomas Ward, Esq., Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clopton House, Stratford-on-Avon, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway oseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield 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 Hitchins, H.E.1.C.5., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Birmingham and Oxford, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Allceck Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li verpool and Leeds Direct, and Keighly, 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.H., Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, and Alfreton, Derby, Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and South and Mid lands' Junction Railways T. 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 11. 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., Rash-hill, Surrey John Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Thomas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway C .Walte, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex B. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's-wood, Director of the North Metropolitan Railway William Stark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society Fredericollingridge, Esq., Thu r l ow - square, Brompton Warren M'mes Hale, Esq. Gresham-street, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Kingsmill grove Key, Esq., Wandsworth Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the W est Riding jtuaction, an d South and Midlands' Junction Railways W. Lee, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square Robert Power, Esq., Queen-street, May-fair, Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance Society Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place House, Southampton, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Major Grubbe, Eastwell House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the County, and Director of the South and 3fidlands'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 Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continua tion, and s=outh and Midlands' Junction Railways, and of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance Company William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Tewn, Brighton, Director of the South and Midlands' Jqnction Railway John Brooke Walbitacke, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' 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 John Dennis, Esq., Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway Joseph Crockett, Esq , Alderman of Devizes, and Director ofte North Wilts Banking Company, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway John flelbert Helbert, Esq., Gloucester place, London, Di rec t or 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 Peppercome, 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, Belgrare-square, Director of • the Newcastle and Liverpool Railway AlexandNortherJunction 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Bar- James Railway James Lees E the „„,, Sq., Delph, Saddlewo r th, sear Manchester Director of oaaaneworth Banking Comp any , (With power to add t o th e i r number). E _ axxx as — The Commercial Bank of Lond on . Consul-ufo Enors rza—Sir John Mame% LL.D., F.R.S. .A.crom juiu. James, Esq., Mullingar Higgins, C.E. So ns the ft appears that England 5, Basinghall-street. will be divided ion itudin ll b I nes of railway lug and interseele:hblychnuwrinleirbecons°rnline so g a y y four great many main trunks, intersec opening rapid a I Packet rsetaadtyizininnnieaetsi, and both transverse and o'slique, trios, with easterly of these, which i on with the intermediate di with seaport towns. The more also the longest, origin:nine' at Newcastlewhence e: may he said to terminate in LCensdtwon, all and aces are accessible. The second line, counting e i s p i r n e o c r , e d t i P n ortu 0s . • a common northern terminus witsrdh' g, by which its ad vantages are materially restricted. This line, deseend'inagn'thhase 8 1 30 18 ;gby . and Oxford, ending wash Vale, and passing through Rugby and Western Railway at Basing ampton line by falling into the es a South itoke. The third longitudinal line, or the most and narrow fective in design than the precedi ng ; einp =terly, is still more de first link, it railway called the Birmingham and Glouceste7rthe steep traverses nearly in a right line the least populous aesndimteost undulating parts of Gloucester, Berko, Wilts, and Ha n t s ; and 'Properly speaki ng has no independent terminus. A large longitudinal section of the kingdom—the West Midland district—a district inviting a similar sp ec i es of accommodation from concentrated local advantages, still rema i ns unprovided with a chief trunk line ; and it is contemplated to remedy this deficiency by the present undertaking, or a fourth longitudinal line. ,Adopting Birmingham as a northern terminus of the West Mid land, Manchester, and Southampton Railway, it is proposed to carry a line through or near to Stratford-on-Avon, thence between Moreton, Raw, Northleach, Fairford, Cricklade, and Swindon, where it will merge in the South and Midlands' Junction Railway. The length of the proposed line will be about sixty miles, and the district traversed by it is gently undulating and densely peopled. At its southern terminus, Swindon, it becomes identical with the South and Midlands, by means of which it opens a most direct communica tion hitherto ,suggested with the harbours of Weymouth, Chrigt- Date THE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER, AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND BIRMINGHAM, SWINDON, DEVIZES, AND SALISBURY JUNCTION. Notice is hereby given, that after the 30th of SEPTEMBER 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. MADRID AND VALENCIA RAILWAY, authorised by an Ordinance of her Majesty the Queen of Spain Capital 2,400,000%., in 120,000 Shares of 20%. each, Spanish reals (Vellon) 2,1100, fr. 500, of which 80,000 will be allotted in this country. Deposit 2/. per Share, reels 200, fr. 50. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Most Noble the Marquis of Winchester, 27, Cavendish-square The Lord de l'lsle and Dudley, 16, New Burlington-street The Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor The Right Hon. 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, Parliament-street, Chairman of the Paris and Strasbourg Railway Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker (Mesas. Cockburn and Co.) William Collins, Esq., M.P., Reform Club Edward 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, 1, Adelaide-place, London-bridge William Chadwick, Esq., Montagu-square, Chairman of the Rich mond Railway John Chariche, Esq., Park Village East Gideon Colquhoun, Esq., Weimer Lodge, Avenue-road, Regent's park, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway Company William Cooper, Esq., merchant, 20, Mark-lane, and Kingswood Lodge, Dulwich Edmund F. Dayrell, Esq., 15, Old Cavendish-street, and Lillingstone Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff of Bucks, Deputy-Lieutenant of the County, Chairman of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Railway and Bridgewater and Minehead W. Eales, Esq., merchant, Mincing-lane, Director of the Direct Western Railway Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, Director of the London and Westminster Bank Richard Forman, Esq , Upper Thames-street James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street Major Graham, 16, Grove, Clapham John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's-woed, near London, Director of the National Bank of Ireland Wm. King, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Com pany James Jehn Kinloch, Esq., 21, Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director of the North Wales Railway Company John Knill, Esq., Fresh-wharf, Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and Crewe Railway T. Laurence, Esq., St. Mary-axe, Director of the Direct Western Railway Major James Oliver Lindam, K.H., 8, New-street, Dorset-square, Chairman of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and Central Wales Railway, and Director of the South Midland Junction Railway Nicholas M`Cium, Esq., 50, Parliament-street, Director of the Man chester and Rugby Direct Railway Charles Carroll Mactavish, Esq., 22, Rutland-gate J. B. Montefiore, Esq., 2, Winchester-buildings, Director of the Australian Mining Company William Nicholson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Railway S. P. Pratt, Esq., 55, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company George Clavering Redman, Esq., Limehouse Colonel Edward Stopford, 9, Manchester-square, Director of the Barbadoes Railway Company William Gordon Thompson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Junction S. J. Waley, Esq., 22, Devonshire-place William Lechmero Whitmore, Esq., 19, James-street, Buckingham- • gate, Director of the London Central Railway Terminus. RANKERS. • London—Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill ; Messrs. Westerman and Co., Nicholas-lane ; Messrs. Cockburn and Co., Whitehall. Madrid—Bank of Isabella IL STANDING COUNSEL—Jacob Waley, Esq., Lincoln's Inn Somcrroas—Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, 84, Lime-street. CONSULTING ENGINEER—P. Prichard Rely, ESQ. SECRETARY—F. Kirkham Fowell, Esq. Offices of the Company, 37, Moorgate-street. The present Company has been formed for the constriction of a line of railway from Madrid to the cityand port of Valencia, the most central seaport on the Mediterranean. It will open out the re sources of an extensive district of country, eastward from the capital, remarkable for the richness and fertility of its soil, the varied abun dance of its productions, and the commercial spirit of its inhabitants. This railway is authorised by a special ordinance of her Majesty the Queen of Spain ; and from its vast importance as a national route of intercommunication her Majesty has been pleased to accompany the grant with all the privileges and immunities which the Crown is empowered to confer upon a railway company. Amongst these may be enumerated 1. A lease of the line and of its branches for 99 years. 2. The gratuitous grant of such Government and corporation lands as may be required for the railway. 3. The free use of all timber, the property of the State, that may be necessary for the works, or for other purposes. 4. The exemption for ten years, to be computed from the com mencement of the works, of all import duties on the machinery, rails, and other articles requisite for the completion of the railway. 5. The entire exemption from all national and local taxes that could otherwise be levied upon the railway, works, or buildings of any description, and upon the capital represented by the shares. 6. The Government Is not to interfere with the Company's tariff of charges for the space of forty years from the completion of the works ; and no revision thereof is to take place on the expiration of that period that can sink the profits below 15 per cent. 7. The line is to be classed, by a special law, under the title of a " work of public utility," and as such to enjoy the royal patronage and protection, and all the peculiar privileges attached to important national undertakings. The proposed line, thus largely endowed, is about 240 miles in length, being upwards of 150 miles nearer the capital than the ports of Cadiz and the north coast of Spain, and generally nearer than any other port in the kingdom. Although it has not yet been minutely surveyed, it is well known that there is no similar district of equal extent in the kingdom which presents so few engineering difficulties. For upwards of 80 miles the line will traverse the almost level plain of Valencia ; and emerging from the boundaries of the province, it will follow as nearly as possible the course of the rivers which flow east and west from the central plateau in the province of Cuenca, and approach Madrid by the valley of the Manzanares. The line will either pass through or accommodate the most important towns in the two provinces, which will thus be brought into rapid com munication with the capital on the one side, a seaport on the other. This railway will be the means of supplying Madrid, containing 300,000 inhabitants, entirely dependent for provisions upon the con tiguous provinces, at a cheap rate, with the rich products of the pro vinces of Valencia, which abounds in most valuable mines, and is beyond comparison the most fertile district of Spain. Valencia, brought by this communication within ten hours' dis tance of the chief market of Spain, must necessarily become the port at which all vessels with supplies for the metropolis will unload, and the centre of the coasting trade along the whole sea-line from Barcelona to Gibraltar. The traffic in passengers and goods now existing between Madrid and Valencia has been correctly ascertained, showing the following results : The annual number of passengers 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-earriages, galeras, and waggons, the amount will be £67,800 The annual weight of goods conveyed between the two cities and the intermediate localities is 4,900,003 cr. ~ from which the return is estimated at • - 1,223,400 Assuming that two-fifths only of the existing charges become a source of revenue to the railway, and that the tariff be reduced considerably below the State tariff of Belgium, there will be deducted ~ £1,291,200 752,320 Remains Supposing that the present traffic will only be ouble7l by the railway, although experience has proved the increase to be equal to 300 and 400 per cent., there will be added 53 ,8s( And add X 1,077,760 For the transport of troops, military stores, &e., which the Government will substitute for the conveyance by waggons .. .. • • 25 per Cent., at the least, for the Alicant tragic 50,000 215,952 £1,343,712 From which deduct nearly 50 per cent. for maintenance of way, &c. • . .. .. • • .. .. 671,856 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. • • £671,856 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 on the principle of a eompania anonima, agreeably to the commercial code of that country. The affairs of the Company will be conducted by a Board of Di rectors in London, assisted by a highly influential Committee in Madrid. The remuneration to the Directors will be made in ac. cordance with the plan usually adopted in continental railways, and that to the Concessionaires consists of a mere contingent interest in two-twentieths of net profits, after five per cent. shall hare been se cured to the shareholders. A deposit of 2/. pet 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, Lime street, London ; to Messrs. Hutchinson and Son, stockbrokers, Loth bury ; Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle •street ; Messrs. Johnston, and Co., Manchester ; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool ; Messrs.Wreford, and Co., Bristol ; Mr. N. Lea, Birming ham ; Messrs. Watson, and Co. Leeds ; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull; Me ssrs . B uc h anan and Aitkin, Glasgow; Mr. W. Gordon, A berdeen ; Mess rs . L a b er t ouc h e and Stafford, Dublin ; and to the London, Sept. 10, 1845. Secretary, at the office, 37, Moorgate-st ree t, L on d on. FoRM OF APPLICTION. To the Di rectors of the Madrid and Valencia Railway Company. Gentlemen, I e p a a e y h t h i e " d " ; po - - si ' - t thereon- rees:lr Si.ou will allot me s. arcs of 20/. Same, or `Z y ri es r ini u m u i rrny ; and I hereby undertake to accept the which you may appropriate to r. e, and to 'kited this per share. day of 1845. Residence .. Profession or Trade Place of Business • Reference - MADRID and VALENCIA. RAILW AY No APPLICATION FOR SHARES will be received aster: WED.N ESDAY, the First day of October next. By order, F. KIRKHAM FOWLER, Secretary. Office, 37, Ifoorgltte-street, Sept. 25, 1845. PIZOVISTO.NA T. l " nrmsrErED. ai BEAT ',EEL N . " ( IN . 0155 •LO RAILWAY - , By a Junction with the Eastern Counties Railway at nedfc° Distance, 120 miles. Capital 2,500,0001., in 1 00 , 000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Ehare. (Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Coraoloo' Right Hon. Lord The PROVISIONAL commirrEz. Plrectol unboe Sir William Twysden, Bart , D orse t-street, Portinan-squa.-,. _, a nd of Chepstow, F o rest ' of Dean, and G loucester Jtuictlol) wash N alley Extension Railways ~,,pctor of ti l Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, ,-•••, a y, an. o Chepstow, Forest of Dcan, and Gloucester Junction liii*;.os r f the South and Midland Junction, alid West Midland A „ il and 3 ajor-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.11., Director of the 1. Henry Ale Lancaster Railway t Ambler, Thomas all it e a y n c d o er o , ti E n s o q a . t , io D o h• B ec a t il b w r of the Italian and Austrian, ad Wattfrsorl C. H. Anderson, Hall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Eau" • , Liverpool a, iiiitils ° and Leeds Direct Railway Esq.. worsted spinner and manufacturer, _ ay, a nd W t il h li e Oxford Esq.,andNo Railway or of am D irect John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, r Uppereester ExtensionCl apt on ,D R ir a e i c lw t Director the Paw Of , D 111"°r Al Bardgett, Esq., Winchester-street, Broad-stree A s pa) , the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, an Railways William Banks, Esq., H John Byng Banks, Esq., on St e oc y l la w n e e ll M , Surrey e-sani f joo l' Belga' 1J: THE. SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, .hIII'EMTI' ER 26, 1845. THE LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEF FIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE (or LEEDS WOLVERHAMPTON, and DUDLE 1) DIRECT RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21.25. per Share. PROVISIONAL CO3I3IITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Staffordshire Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street, Hyde -park Gardens Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Deputy Chairman of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail way, &c. Sir William Boothby, Bart, Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire Sir William Lowthrop, Knt., Hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Di rector ef the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc tion Railway Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, Ashburham House, Chairman of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Hon. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Nottingham and Boston Railway, Parliament-street, London, &c., &c. The Sheriff of York Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's London and Manchester Railway Murton, Robert, Esq., banker, Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter, Direc tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Booth, John, Esq., Macclesfield Bright, Selim. Esq., Buxton Bradley, Septimus, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyrhire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashbourne Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon don and Manchester Direct Railway Cleobury, Thomas, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton Cooke, the Rev. J., Uttoxeter, Director of the East and West Junction Railway, &c. Cooke, John, Esq., Macclesfield Cooper, John Douglas, Esq., Hohne Cottage, Ashbourne Cox, Walker, Esq., Breadsall, Derby, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley Railway Crockett, T. Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c. Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reming ton's London and Manchester Direct Railway Crossley, John, Esq., Lamberhurst, Sussex, and Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Dolby, John, Robert, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Dale, Major, Thurston, Ashbourne Daniel, Richard, Esq., Oak Hill, Stoke-upon-Trent Dawson, Samuel, Esq., sen., Ashbourne Dent, Edward, Esq., Westfield, Huddersfield Dent, John, Esq., Northgate, Huddersfield Dyson, Thomas, Esq., Well-house, Holmfirth Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, S shire, and Worcestershire Railway Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Hudders , field, Sheffield, and Halifax Railway Edensor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbourne Fidler, Peter Pichott, Esq., Higgin Grange, Derbyshire Fisher, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Frost, Meadows, Esq., Chester Garle, Samuel, Esq., Uttoxeter Garle, William, Esq. Uttoxeter Gilpin, and Co., Messrs. William, Wedges Mills, Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Goddard, Thomas, Esq., Bank-house, Longton, Staffordshire Haden, Joseph, Esq., Dudley, Director ef the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Haines, Samuel, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of the Lei cester and Birmingham Railway Hartshorne, Robert James, Esq., Ashbourne Harpin, John, Esq., Birk's-house, Holmfirth Hatfield, Thomas, Esq., Rageley, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c. Haywood, Richard Howard, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries Hill, John, Esq., Derby Hirst, Abraham, Esq., York-house, Huddersfield Ingleby, Joseph, Esq., Cheadle, Staffordshire Jones, the Rev. J. P. Vicarage, Alton, Stafford s hire, Di rec t or o f the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Johnson, John Goodwin, Esq., Bentley Hall, Ashbourne Johnson, D. T., Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of the Ches • ter and Manchester Railway Johnson, Richard Wm., Esq., Moorgate, Director of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of th e D er b ysh i re, Staffordshire, and orcester Junction Railway Keene, John Joseph, Esq.,, St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Director of the National Bank of Ireland, &c. King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance, &c. Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston Hall, Sudbury 1 Lawrence, Richard Corbett, Esq., Wandileld-hall, Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Laughton, Richard, Esq., Barrow-hill, Uttoxeter Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, James, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn Commission, &c. Marlow, Joseph, Esq., Walsall Mason, Charles James, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries Mason, George Miles, Esq., Wetley Abbey, etaffordshire Meteyard, Horace, Wm., Esq., Director of Remington's London and Manchester Railway, Middle Temple, and Chatham-place M`Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Manors, John, Esq. Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Mellard, James, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Minors, John, Esq., The Parks, Uttoxeter, Director of the East and West Junction Railway Mathew, John Mete, Esq., Director of the East and 'Vest Junction Railway Milner, William, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Direator of the Derby. shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Mountford, Thomas John, Esq., Ashbourne Moorhouse, Joshua, Esq., Holmfirth Maskery, Thomas, Esq. Norbury, Derbyshire North, Joseph, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield Norton, George, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield,Director of the Li verpool and Leeds Direct Railway Orton, James, Esq., Woodford, near Uttoxeter, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Parkinson, John, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, Di- Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Rail way, &c. Phillips, William, Esq., Springfield House, Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Roberts, Thomas, Esq., Manchester Robinson, John, Esq.,Silcoates, Cottage, Wakefield Roden, Thomas Clarke, Esq., Birmingham Sant, Edward, Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Shipton, Robert, Esq., Scropto., .uerbyshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, Charles, Esq., Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Smith, Thomas, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York Railway Smith, Thomas, Esq., Blore-hall, Staffordshire, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Smith, William, Esq., Sedsall, Derbyshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Smith, William, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire, Director of Tean and Dove Valley Railway &c. Smith, John, Esq., Barton House, Derbyshire Smythe, John Vere, Esq., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Spiers, E. J., Esq., Carlton Villas, London, Director of the East and West Junction Railway Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle As surance Company Terry, Benjamin, Esq., Mayor of Walsall, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway, &c. Tibbits, Thomas, Esq., Norton Manor-house, Leicester Tomlinson, Thomas, Esq. ' Bradley Pastures, Ashbourne Toogood, Rupert, Esq , Ashbourne Tylecote, Edward, Esq., surgeon, Great Heywood, Staffordshire Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, Holloway, London, Director of the East and West Junction Railway, &c. Waller, Major, K.H., St. James's-square, Di rec t or of the Chester and Manchester Railway, &c, Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire Walters, J. T., Esq., Rugeley Watts, William Royde, Esq., Birmingham Weston, Samuel, Esq., Leeds Weston, Thomas, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Willes, George, Esq., Thagerford-park, Berkshire Williamson, Hugh Henshall, Esq., Greenway Bank, Staffordshire Potteries Williamson, Robert, Esq., Ramsdell-hall, Staffordshire Potteries Wigs, Thomas, Esq., Ashbourne Witham, John, Esq., Ashbourne Wooirich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood, Charles, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood William, Esq., M.D.," Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc tion Railway Wood, William Hurd, Egg., Ashbourne Wright, Thomas, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsbo rough Railway. BANKERS. Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co. Clement's-lane, Lond on Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., Cornhill, London The Burton, Uttozeter, and Ashbourne, Union Bank, Uttoxeter Ditto Ditto, Ashbourne Dudley and West Bunwich Banking Co., Dudley Derbyshire Banking Co., Derby SOLICITORS. John Owens, Esq., 35, Moorgate-street, London William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter ENGINEERS. Sir John Rennie, F.R.S. George Remington, Esq., C.E. LOCAL AGENTS. Armishaw, J., Esq., Rugeley Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley Eggington, A., Esq., Lichfield Green, James J., Esq., Walsall. Lowe, Richard, Esq., Cheadle Floyd and Booth, Huddersfield and Holmflrth This line of railway, which is about sixty-five miles in length, is intended to commence at Uttoxeter (the terminus of the proposed Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway) and to proceed to Sheffield and Huddersfield. It will form a direct com munication between two of the most important manufacturing and mining districts in England, viz., South Staffordshire, Huddersfield, and Sheffield, and Rotherham in Yorkshire ; the South Staffordshire portion including Dudley, Tipton,Walsall, Bilston, Wednesbury, and Wolverhampton. This line will also open a direct railway communication between Leeds, Huddersfield, and the West Riding of Yorkshire and Kidder minster, Worcestershire, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, Taunton, and Exeter, and with Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford, Brecon, Car diff, Neath, Swansea, Llanelly, Caermarthen, Milford Haven, Fish guard, Aberystwith, and with Porthdynllaen, the future outport for Ireland. And also the most direct communication between Leeds and Southampton. The lins will pass nearly along the Uttoxeter and Caldon Canal to a point near Prestwood, in case the canal be purchased by the pro moters of this undertaking. It will proceed through Ellaston and Mayfield to Ashbourne. thence near Dovedale, Buxton, and Chapel en-la-Frith, Woodhead and Holmflrth to Huddersfield, where it will join the Huddersfield and Leeds Railway, and so to Think. It will open new mines, in addition to those already in work, of lead, coal, iron ore, barytes, and carboniferous and magnesian limestone on the route, in addition to forming a direct, speedy, and cheap communica tion between the important towns above mentioned. Arrangements have been made with other companies to run into this line from Sheffield. This company reserves the right to raise additional capital to extend the line to Leeds. Many of the above-mentioned mineral productions are essential to the mining districts of South Staffordshire and Sheffield. The North Staffordshire and Derbyshire Limestone is much superior to that of South Staffordshire in the fluxion of iron (15 cwt. of the former being equal to a ton of the latter), and producing a better quality of ma terial. At present, the mode of transit is very circuitous and expen sive, the line from the Caldon Mines having to go by canal round by Etruria, Leek, and the Potteries, to the Dudley and surrounding furnaces, when, by this railway, it would be taken in a straight line to them ; and the Ashbourne, Cromford, Worksworth, and Bakewell country would have an entirely new trade opened to them. The iron stone in the neighbourhood of Sheffield is also becoming very scarce, and great quantities are introduced from Scotland; the same scarcity exists in South Staffordshire; and the route of this line would fur nish a cheap and good supply, at present not worked, and without a market, both north and south. In addition to these great advan tages, a good local market would be opened along the agricultural and other parts of the district at present very badly supplied with lime and coal, and that of an inferior quality, and by expensive car riage. It is, therefore, next to impossible to calculate the immeeze traffic which would pour down this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, aed Worcestershire Junction Railway. The calculations which have been made show a very large profit. There arc large lead and slate quarries on the line which only want an outlet like the one now contemplated to bring them into full work. The coal is of a superior quality. There are also extensive barytes and paint-works at Ashbourne, Cromford, and other places on the line. The scenery of Derbyshire is the resort of vast numbers of tourists ; and particular care will be taken, in passing of the line near Dovedale, not to interfere with or change its beautiful and romantic character. The convenience, therefore, which this line will afford must necessarily cause a great influx of passengers, both on business and pleasure. Ironstone is not so abundant in the South as in North Staffordshire, and vast quantities are sent by the tardy, circuitous, and expensive canal company, which this and other lines of railway meeting at Uttoxeter will remedy. The gypsum formation runs from Staffordshire to the Humber, and the demand for this article for building, agricultural, and manufac turing purposes along this line will be great. The timber from the neighbourhood of the Needwood Forest Banks, Bagots Woods, and Kingston Woods, upwards of 4,000 acres, chiefly finds its way to the Manchester market by a like objectionable route of tardy and circuitous canal convey ance ; whereas this line would open a direct, easy, and cheap communication to new markets. The line has been viewed prior to a detailed survey, and there are not more than ordinary engineering difficulties. In consequence of the late Parliamentary decisions, it is intended to make this line on the broad gauge principle, but the pro moters do not pledge themselves absolutely to do so, Date At the urgent suggestion of some of the most influential inhabi tants of Ashbourne, the Committee have ordered a survey of a junc tion line to connect that tc , wn with the Derby, and with the Derby and Gainsliorough and Midland Railways Applications for Shares to be made to John Owens, Esq., 3 5 , Moorgate-street, London, and William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter ; and to the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles, Worcester ; Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler, Worcester; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liver pool ' • Messrs. Cameron and Co., Li verpoo l ; Mr. Morris Rey nolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfield ; Mr. James Jamieson, Leeds ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ; Mr. Thomas Boardman, Black burn ; Mr. George Clark, Bradford ; Mr. William Mason, Bradford ; Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax; Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham; Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York; Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield; Messrs. Kettering and Marshall, Leeds ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenham; Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton ; Messrs, Tate and Nash, M is tol • Messrs. Beaumont and Langw or th y, Exeter; Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry; Messrs, Houghland and Leese, Manchester; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manchester; Messrs. A. Birchall and Co., Manchester; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield ; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr.L. Weather bunt, jun., Huddersfield ; Messrs. Everard and Co., Huddersfield; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester; Mr. Nicholson, Edinburgh; Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ; Messrs. Labertouche . and Stafford, College-green, Dublin; Mr. James Ross, Perth. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Direct Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares of 281. each in the above Railway, and I undertake to accept the same or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to pay, when required, the Deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per Share. Dated this day cf , 184 . Name in full Profession and professional residence Residence in fu11.... • • . • G REAT NORTH of ENGLAND RAILW A Y RICHMOND /3RANCIL TO RAILWAY CONTRACTORS AND OTHERS. The Directors of this Company will be prepared to receive TEN DERS for the EXECUTION of the WORKS of the BRANCH from the GREAT NORTH of ENGLAND RAILWAY to RICHMOND. Plans, Sections, and Specifications of the same may be seen on application to Mr. Joseph Stephenson, at the Office of the Company, in Northgate, Darlington, on and after the 20th inst. The Directors will meet at their Office, in Darlington, on TUESDAY the 30th inst , at Twelve o'clock, for the purpose of letting the Contracts, and all Tenders must be sent in, sealed, addressed to the Secretary of the Company, before 12 o'clock on the day previous. The Directors do not bind themselves to accept the lowes Tenders. H. PARKER, Secretary, Darlington, Sept. 3, 1845 Itafford- I DIRE CT LONDON AND EXETER RAIL WAY COMPANY, (With Extension to Falmouth and Penzance). Through Hammersmith, Turnham-green, Brentford, Isleworth, Hounslow, Staines, Egham, Bagshot, Ascot, Bracknell, Bonfield, Wokingham, Kingsclere, Andover, and Salisbury; Shaftesbury, Sherbourne, Yeovil, Crewkerne, Axminster, and Honiton, to Exeter. Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each. " Deposit, H. 7s. 6d. per Share. [With further Deposit of 1/. ss. per Share after the Bill has passed the House of Commons.] With power to raise 1,000,0001. more, if necessary. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110.) OFFICES, No. 52, REGENT-STREET, WATERLO-PLACE, Adjoining the County Fire Office. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Mexborough, Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Direct London and Manchester Railway Lord Henry Loftus, Belgrave-square Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, Bart., Montague-square, and Down-hill, Londonderry The Hon. Cecil J. Lawless, 71, Pall-mall, Director of the Great Man chester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway Colonel Sir Frederick Hankey, G.C.M.G., Queen Ann-street, Caven dish-square, Director of the lonian and Ceylon Banks, and Bor deaux, Toulouse, and Cette Railway J. R. Phillinaore, Esq., LL.D., 42, Clarges-street, Chancellor of Salisbury John David Chambers, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Recorder of Salisbury Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, 19, Clifford-street, Director of the County Fire-office, and South and Midlands Railway Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak Park, near Winchester, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway The Hon. A. Capel, Theyden House, Essex, and Park-street, Gros venor-square Charles William Spicer, Esq., 28, Portman-square, Director of the Man chester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction, Warwick and Wor cester, Shropshire Mineral, and Grand London and Dublin Ap proximation Railways William Burge, Esq., Q.C., Temple The Rev. Bourchier Wrey Savile, Oakhampton, Devon G. Thompson Jacob, Esq., Blandford, Magistrate, and Deputy-Lieu tenant for Dorset Richard Francis Roberts, Esq., Burton Bradstock, near Bridport H. H. Hungerford, Esq., Dingley Park, Market Harborough, and Dover-street, Piccadilly, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Francis Dawson, Esq., Grosvenor-street Richard Francis Power, Esq., 73, Eccleston-square, and Long- Orchard, Tipperary Lieutenant-Colonel P. W. Pedlar, Mutley House, Devon, Director of the Manchester, Southampton, and Poole Railway. Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's-wood, Di rector of the Great Eastern and Western, and Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railways Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and Portsmouth Railway The Hon. Henry Savile, Dover-street A. W. Hillary, Esq., 66, Cadogan-place W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex, Director of the Oxford, South ampton, Gosport, 'and Portsmouth Railway George Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the London and Holyhead Railway Francis Lloyd, Esq., Temple, London, and Bingley House, Bir mingham William Thomas Davies Lhoyd, Esq., Lhoydiarth, Anglesey E. S. Blundell, Esq. 18, Lower Seymour-street John Allen, Esq., 12, Gloucester-terrace, Kensington William Birmingham Costello, Esq., M.D., Wyke House, Brentiord T. Piers Healey, Esq., Elm-court, Temple William Gunston, Esq., Piccadilly A. Abrahams, Esq., Member of the Town Council of Southampton William Lowten Jones, Esq., Wood Hall, Hilgay, Norfolk Thomas Champion, Esq., Stoke Wood House, Dorsetshire Captain T. C. Forde, Gracefleld, Aslane, Dublin Captain Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N., K.C.H., 9, St. James's street, St. James's-park, Director of the Australasia, British North America, and the lonian Banks, and Director of the Mutual Life Assurance Company Charles Gover, Esq., City Club J. Lane, Esq., LL.D , King's Bench-walk, Temple, and Keppel street George Waite, Esq., Old Burlington-street, Director of the Chelten ham and Brighton Railway H. Cane Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square, Director of the Sheffield, Buxton, Potteries, Leeke and Crewe, the Rugby, Derby, and Man chester, the Direct Birmingham, Oxford and Brighton, the Bognor and London Brighton Junction, the Great Leeds, the Great Welsh Central Railway, the Calais, Dunkirk, and Bruges, and Ghent and • Brussels Railways John Harvey, Esq., Ruth Hill, Wandsworth, Surrey, Director of the Commercial Bank of London Thomas Houghton Hardinge, Esq., 23, Park-lane Edward William Cox, Esq., Crown-office-row, Temple W. A. Hill, Esq., Deputy Chairman ofthe Oxford and Witney Railway Company, and Barnet and Metropolitan Railway Company. Henry Ludnell Dampier, Esq., of Colnishays House, near Bruton Augustus E. Greaves, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway Gowell Moore, Esq., S.P.D.L., King's County, High Sheriff County Roscommon Captain Charles Frederick Parkinson, Polygon, Manchester, Ma naging Director of the North Lancashire, and Manchester and Southampton Railways James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway Archibald Drummond Stewart, Esq., Ge t ind u ll y C astle The Hon. Stafford Jerninghara, 44, Brook -street John Blunt, Esq., Director of the London Docks James Gernon, Esq., Vico-Chairman of the Galway and Ennis Grand Junction, and Director of the London and Nottingham William Bestow, Esq., Director of the Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway Robert Bastow, Esq., Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway John Greathead, Esq., 133, Piccadilly Captain James Edward Carnegie, Somerset-street, Portman-square and Bruce-hall, near Inverness, Director of the Reading and Rei gate and Guernsey Railways. COMMITTER OF MANAGEMENT. Colonel Sir Frederick Hankey, T. Piers Healey, Esq.' G.C.M.G. A. W. Hillary, Esq. Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn H. H. Hungerford, Esq. E. S. Blundell, Eq. W. L. Pope, Esq. Thomas Dowglasse. Eq. Walter Shairp, Eq. George Evans, Esq. Charles William Spicer, Esq. (With limited power to add to their number.) ENGINEER—John Braithwaite, Eq., C.E., 4, Trafalgar-square. JOINT SOLICITORS—D. E. Colombine, Eq., 3, Carlton Chambers, Re gent-street; Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street. LONDON BANKERS—Messrs. Curries and Co., 29, Cornhill ; London and Westminster Bank, St. James's-square. LOCAL BANKERS. Bath—Tugwell and Co Birmingham—Attwood, Spooner, and Co. Bradford (York) —Banking Company, Bradford Bridport—Dorsetshire Bank Bristol—Baillie, Aimes, Baillie, and Co. Cheltenham—County of Gloucester Bank Devonport—Messrs. Hodge and Norman Exeter—Saunders and Co. ; Milford, Snow, and CO. ; West of Eng. land and South Wales District Bank Halifax—Joint Stock Bank Hull—East Riding Bank Launceston—Foster, Bolitho, and Co. Liverpool—Liverpool Banking Comp any Manchester—Scholes and Co. Neweastle-on-Tyne—W. H. Lambton and Co. Norwich—Harvey, Hudsons, and Co. Nottingham—Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and Co. Salisbury— Kverett and Co.; W. B. Brodie and Co.; Wilts and Dorset Bank Shaftesbury—Messrs. Brodie. King, and Macklin Sherborne—Wilts and Dorset Banking Company York—Swan, Clough, and Co. Prospectuses, and plans of the line, with forms of Applications for Shares, may be had at the offices of the Company as above, and of the following Stock and Share-brokers, viz. : Messrs. Sutton, Gribbin, and Sutton, Royal Exchange; Messrs Taunton and Bush, Austin Friars, London. Also, Exeter—Henry Matcher; John Langworthy ; Wilkinson and Sons Bath—J. B. Munday Leeds—Potter and Co.; Kirk and Co. ; Ridsdale and Co. Huddersfield—William Moore and Co. Derby—Eyre and Shaw Hull—Sibary and Simpson ; Samuel Phillip York—Grayston and Earle Wakefield—Henry Billingliam Plymouth —Hopwood and Palmer Cheltenham—Hall Brothers and Co. Newcastle-on-Tyne—W. W. Dickinson ; R. F. Bell and Co. Birmingham—W. H. Collis Taunton—Richard Ball Shaftesbury—Raymond and Son Manchester—Myers and Birkbeck ; Wm. Marshall ; Cardwell.* sons Norwich—John R. Mann and Son Edinburgh—Muurd and Co; James Pringle ; A. W. Moffatt; Bristol—Luke Arnold Coventry—John Thomas Holland Gloucester—J. M. Bahne Glasgow—Messrs. H. and W. A. Tassie ; James Watson ; Thomas Gray Leicester—Williams and Sunderland Nottingham—Roworth and Shepperly Liverpool—Messrs. Sudlow, Brothers Halifax—H. C. Spenser Bradford, Yorkshire—W. Mason ; James Clayton Reading—B. Cowderoy Settle—Joseph Nelson. The following gentlemen are appointed as Local Solicitors in furtherance of the interests of the Company, from wham Prospectuses and Applications for Shares may also be obtained : Exeter—W. Lambert, Esq. Egbam—Thomas Harvey, Esq. Bagshot—John Mears, Esq. Bracknell —Charles Cave, Esq. Wokingham—Francis Soames, Esq. Salisbury—Henry Cooper, Esq. ; Messrs. Foot and Radcliffe Shaftesbury—Measrs. Wills and Berridge Sherborne—George Hancock, Esq. ; Samuel Foot, Esq. Bruton—Messrs. Dyne and Son Yeovil—George Hancock, Esq. Crewkerne—Robert Lowman, Esq. Axminster —Walter Hancock, Esq. Blandford—George Moore, Esq. Dorchester—George Cull, jun., Esq. Bridport—S. H. (hummer, Esq. ; Henry B. Fox, Esq. Honiton—lsaac I. Cox, Esq. Lynn—George Platten, Esq. Lyme Regis—N. P. Waring, Esq. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of Management of the Direct London and Exeter Railway Compiny. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 25/. each in the above railway, and I undertake to accept the same or such less number you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations of the Company, also to sign the necessary legal docu ments, and to pay, when required, the deposit thereof of 11. 7s. 6d. per share. Namein full . ..... ......... •••• • • • ••• • • • • . Profession (If any) and Professional Residence, in full. Residence in full— .. • • •• • • • • ...... • • ' • • • •• • • . . Reference Signature of Applicant.... • • • • •• • • • • DIRECT LONDON and EXETER RAIL- WAY, with Extension to Falmouth and Penzance. The Committee of Management of the above Company, in order to remove any possible misapprehension in the minds of the public, beg to assure the landowners and others interested in this undertaking, that the engineeer of the Company, John Braithwaite, Esq., and his as.istants, are now actively engaged in completing the necessary surveys, in order to comply with the standing orders of Parliament. By order, D. E. COLOMBINE, 1 Joint Solicitors to ELMSLIE and PRESTON, the Company. Direct London and Exeter Railway Company, Offices, 6, Great Winchester-street, Broad-street, and 52, Regent-street Sept. 25, 180. amptonshire. and Lelee.terdthoe, can be co - isivred to fun and the this line ri2ittler a profitable amount of traffic certain, ttic fa cilities afforded by nature for its construction arc greater than those upon any other English line. The cheapness of the construction of lines in Belgium, and the safety upon them, arising from the level character of the country, are proverbial. The districts through which the line will pass, pos sess all the advantages of a Belgian course, together with the ad ditional facility afforded by the established dead level of the Nene navigation. A survey, by a distinguished engineer, has resulted in a report that the expenses of its construction will be small beyond all prece dent, and that in an unusully short space of time the various towns and districts which it will affect, may be in possession of the com mercial, social, local, and general benefits which it is so calculated to confer. Public meetings will promptly be held in all the towns along the line, at which a deputation from the promoters will attend, to give whatever information may be required. Applications for shares may be addressed to William Andrews, Esq., at the Offices of the Company, No. 41, Moorgate-street ; or to Thomas George Smith, Esq., at No. 2, Warnford-court, Throgmorton street, London. _ _ 41, koorgitie-street, Sept. 17, 1845. FORS! OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provfsional Committee of the Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peter borough, Midland Counties, and Birmingham Junction Railway liCompany (ORIGINAL LINE). Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 21/. each in the above -named Company, ant I her e by undertake to ac cept the same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share thereon, end to sign the SuLscrib Agreement and Parliamentary Contract when required. Dated this day of 1845. Name in full .. • ..... Profession or Business • • • • Residence, Private and Professional Reference.. - Williani Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton -place , - ,-,,,,dhara , rector of the Italian and Austrian, and South ano"''' Dow el Railways lian t _P ° „ tesd• Bnosl Henry Weech Burgess, Esq., Temple's Park, the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and C 7,1 ' ~,, 11.0atral ~ Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq., the Lodge , uPP - ea r Lee"' e te' Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle House, Gomemall, n for or th e Lee° Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomersall, near Leeds, D., ,_„,.,,ci an d and West Riding Junction Railway, and of thelo'r . " ,„. 0,0 Direct Railway Samuel Bateman, Esq., Cro ft House, near Brad ford, pirect°l ' O Ol Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway and Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director - a th e gail Railway a nd gin ell° Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford nerhlt - Dr. Brigstoek, Derby, Director of the Rugby, .----. ~,atilie Railway Direct) r ef tl/ ' "'- James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, and Lincoln, and Great Luxembourg Ra ilway Job Bullinart, Esq., East Redford bra ~ef 4 William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., J.P., Hull, ____APlreflc- Warwick. and Leamington, and of the LiVerPo'" Railways efra ct John Carter, Esq., Per, 4, °fro nt Thomas Carter, Esq., Tanshelf, J.P. for the Bore ee- ~r i dge et ell, Charles Charnock, Esq Holmfield House, near Fer_ l 7,',,,d Jai' Millis Coventry, Esq., Director of the South a nd Sji. " -I c / and Birmingh Extension Railways B. Clements, Esq am ., Lowndes-square, Di r ector of the wate ratTO" Railway 3f14. , J. Cottam, Esq., East Redford ganchesre!,noe, Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the r , w e of A:ors1 1 land, and Great G r i ms b y, Gainsboroug h, Goole, aty.,„ e tioa l'' and the Wisbeach, I s l e o f El y, an d Li n colnshire " - Ba ia „pros John Cutts, Esq., Littl e B ar fi eld Ha ll, nea r Braintre e, so aths"'lee James Clift, Esq., Director of the Paris and Strasboutt, A sti , '" Manchester, and Oxford, and the Manchester , Rugw' tier field Railways g ieua '". W. S. Cross, ESQ., Director of the London and WO W t sion Old road rstre. Henry Sherard Coleman, Esq ., Crown-court, -- 13 Francis Deere, Esq., St ra tf or d, E sse x 1 4 ' J. Dawson Esq., Pontefract A an d ?hi d ej John Dennis, E s q ., Director of the West Midlan d , fef ",, ley Railways liag istr° Jo seph Dent, Esq., Aibsto n Hall, near Leeds , Bite r North West Riding of Yorkshire „, worees ter A. A. Davenport, Esq., Director of the Oxford a n. per , ' sion, and Worcester Junction Railways g abY , Joseph L. Davenport, Esq.,Derby, Director of the ''' o r t 9 Director and Manchester Railway John Alcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, near Leeds , „ r t o tor v ,, Pr Liverpool and LeedDirect Railway , t La - yet.' doll Richard Dransfleld, E sq., Dalton, Iludderslle," ol so d Jeu c ' Rugby, Derby, and Manchester , of the Liverpo Acid et s ' •J , rect, and of the Keighley, Halifax, and Mudd 0 1 ii Railways Ilag b l' r Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Director of the so d IV and Worcester Railway Do • Francis Ewart , Esq., Director of the Exeter, m --- DO mouth Railway arrat nig „,.e lif 0' Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent'a-INY - ' I: 1 ' osier tor of the York and Lancaster Railway and wore- fo . Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford )ls sion Railway Nrottiog "°' S h at' Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the - - . 4 5D field, and Midland Junction Railvetty TF, siv a?' '''' f aJor Martin Furniss, Esq., Mansfield, Dlrector of the field Railway of t h e John Griffiths Frith ? Esq., Austira-friars, Chair Man„,„.„, derry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Car li sle liail"'"' George Green, Esq., Pontefract Charles Gibson, Esq., Holland-Nee e, Clapham James Gilbertson, Esq., Hertford Ilse William Gibson, Esq., Glasgow ~, e ste , ' so i Int H. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry a nd ' r. Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Chealo ide , the 1 41 err William Gordon, Esq., ht.D• , F,,L.S • , Director 0 , Leeds Direct Railway 0 11°' Henry Swan Graves, E sq ., E ly Bank Lodge, Ilia° eels John Gully, Esq., Ackworth Park, Ackworth ~,,c t ar __, Richard Hall, Esq., Carnarvon Hall, Stratford, AT - B a al/A" • ford and Thames Junction, rent North Woolwic h edford _,e John Charles Hall, Es q ., N ew G rove-stree t, East it r* se re R. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near I3awtry S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Directo r of the E ° $ 53 ley Extension and West Midland Railways er n Samuel Hammond, Esq., Le , xls w r eet t forth John George Hammack, Esq. Director of the .""' T r , the Metropolitan Junction Railways sad ". Os William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy- Li e--t. r (is . West Riding of Yorkshi re kivortb' .i. John Mason Hepworth, Esq., Eden-place, fic - I , West Riding of Yorkshire rth fil t. O a Joshua Hepworth, Eye, Rogerthorpe Hall, Bedsy r° ,,tor ° 1 0 Thomas Heelis, Esq ~ Skipton Castle, Skipton , '- T l orit' e lille o posi cashire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire an d Ba the- f' Eastern, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct „., to . 4 Robert Herries, Esq. East-street, Leeei, Director "'` of, ''" D ' Charles Leeds Direct itailway Charles Holbrooke, Esq., Derby, Director of the Bug* orer Manchester 1111 1 John Holmes, Esq., Bast Redford er'ddies''''' , I ,l ' John Midge, Esq.., late Sheriff of London and ~ ,e -, AO , tor of the Derby and Stafford Railway ..,.„. nee" - 9 William Empson Jalland, Esq,, ikddermas Bow- , or, ,Le j rector of the York and Hull Railway _...,,,_ nea r er sii :kf Barwell Middleton Jalland, Esq. , Holderness 80.7 A of .- gistrate for the East Riding of York and B ur° ead Director of the Liverp oo l and Leeds, and °a ."" st s( ' Railways ine A o f , l os , John Jameson, Esq., Honey-lane Market William Jameson-.treater ,11 51 1 SP Esq., Mayor .-- tree.' tr oo. , Rag., Shelton Staffor d s hire , . ..D fordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Man . jos e rt Joseph Jones, Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq , Dir ector of the Bv" -8 t er ' of Hull, and Director of ,_, `" h " goo aCP: o. Valleys, or Macclesfield andlachfield Railways _ o f tile v- George Lawton, Esq., Ditchleys, Essex, Director Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Raw" ' Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square . stlo are, Vile4' to Moses Edward Legg, Esq., wetting- Captain Henry Leech, Bedford street, London William Ley, Esq. 40, Gloucester-place, Portma n - ,atert' the Reading and ' Reigate Railway .., tne , W.- - ea L. Stephens Lyne, Esq., Broad-street, Director Y. ~io'ol ' melee Railway a s h ,, - 0 P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo a n an - Ipswich and Southampton, and the Cork ra -- ' Railways iie d‘'ti John B. Mann, Esq., Leeds Thomas Hackett Massey, E.,. , ..., Newark-nPuuTreat, 8111 square, Hyde Park Thomas M`Turk, Esq., Hull ~tof William Mee, Esq., East Reclaim Dr W. R. Mesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford Robert Mellington, ~..tiledf°l •6/ • 0 1 43 Pe"' i of the Leeds and Car li sle Railway Esq. Ordshall House, near."'" ~ , ,0 1 1 0 William Moorhouse, Esq., Marine Villa , Knotting e i , ,:' o ae , -. o p, Director of the She ffi el, Barnsley, and Wakefi eld Jau cia 4 1 ' Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of South and Mew" - ir r ;e t London and Birmingham Extension Railways rouglii,4o• James o n and Esq., Pontefract,th e Mon a il ,00/ sional Director of tb.e Oxford and Worcester E-u"' - OP Junction, Railway .h 3. / a ncl e Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester Director of t-e. - O t 3 1' Southampton, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways ,1 ' 0,011 William Joseph Nash, Esq. Bedford John Norton, Esq., +minster, , ce I, St. George's-square, . 1- Ve s ` - VW"' : 41,031 House, Brentwood, Director of the Great W-esterratioy rj7 , Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trou t w a nd tinuation and Holyh ead Junction, and West '"' r/- Midland and Oxford Extension Railways Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D. Pontefract Bennett Pell, Esq. 12, Fi nsbury-p lace North eo lj William Perfect, E Esq., Monkhill,nearPontefrac t ~f, Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq , Birstal Leeds, John Phillips, Esq. Mayor , of Pontefract DO i yee „ o r and West Riding Junction, and the 'Live ol. anee'icl °f !: : : : Railways ter and A John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Dir ec t or o f the Lefel wa y'S A f ham Direct, Leicester, Iron, and Dove ValleY Ra i d B ail , fy,S" Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midl a . e . n o deld, J O John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Byeunah House , - , ply Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Robert Andrew Riddell, R --scl , Director of the ~-„,,,- d 13: e e t . and Weymouth Junction, • the Trine, Reading , -- .., , , , ter, ' 40 teloP and the Direct Western Railways of?' .' ll ' „ James Robson, Esq., Ta ns h e lf , J. P. for t h e Bor.:ale c. / d i Barr - , I '' George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hun 80 n alvaY karrf, tion, and of the Rugby, Derby. and Manchester It on d . pl y' John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wak etl , eld ,, t id 1.1) the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midlan d - t „r ° ,' tion Railway - pliO . 410 ' Thomas Rontlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract - ~t or e, 41 e). , James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman -5. ton , of ' * oo' the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southamp t on' .„.4 / 3 1 Reading, and Basingstoke Railways ~.atng, '- Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, BY. — 11 101' 1, stoke Railway the `' t,..0 $ D Benjamin Shaw, E sq. , Ki l b urn P r i o ry, Director o f 4 ___,,al Di f. ' ,rd Blythe Valleys Railways 4 , J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and I,ll err- ~,B e` ,„, of the Leeds and York, and Midland Railways usref' i W William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish -5 4 #te f"' the South Midland J unc ti on R a i lway, ace., See' A pitefr f t ii. George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury Hall, 511°. `" „, " „ ' '' r° Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway , 'Pit ct t ot it Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Leees , . Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways 4 0- Joseph Smithson, Esq., Kirklees Mills, near HalifTherbi, w Pi' James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of th e T , and Stafford Railway. It Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., Banker, Bedford Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upp er Th ames - s t re et, and Wit'''' sle -11 e t rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway A 001 1015 ' Ct dr OJ William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, an d Trimey, Esq., Park Lodge, near Halifax David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct Leicester Railways ~,,,re ter-PlAce, ' Major-General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester - places IA square A William Williams, Esq Royal F drY ~oun e , Bedford 13shirtaire,i, Piiroriliste°olo, 0 Charles Waite, Esq., Willesden House, Middlese x gitla :and John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London Railway Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford 4. George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax umber.) and F.; Derby (With power to add to their n nS, Eshatierea-he-Cuiee—Sir John M'Neil, L.L.D. , 3 ° pg. ' ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam MUllingar T OTTINGHA Al". BIRMINGHAM, AND ';--.INTRY RAILWAY. with ..Noith,4lh-an. rig Warwick, Coventry, a ---- Newink and Linc o ln. (Provisionally Registe ed.) Offices—(temporary), 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street Capital 420,000!., in 21,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Sir John Penniston Milbanke, Bart., Great Portland- street William Collins, Esq., M.P. for Warwick Michael Thomas Bass, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway Fraser B. Henshawe, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square, Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction Railway Major Waller, K.H., Deputy Chairman of the South and Midlands Junction Railway 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, D rector of the Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle Junction Railway T. E. Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square, Director of the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway The Hon. W. E. Fitzmaurice, M.P. for Bucks, C he3ham-street, Belgrave- square Henry Dann, Esq., 42, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe Railway Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Herts, Director of the South and Midland Junction Railway John Clement Rutting, Esq., Director of the National Bank of Ireland John Rawson, Esq., Halifax, Deputy Lieutenant for Yorkshiro, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway The Hon. Colonel Leicester Stanhope, Ashburnham House, Chairman of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leicester Thomas Hackett, Esq., Derby, Director of the Great Manchester and Southampton Railway John Sanders, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway John Fisher, Esq., Short-hill, Nottingham, and Watling-street, London Captain Horatio Thomas Austin, R.N., C.B. Nathaniel Nadin, Esq., Stapenhill, Burton-upon-Trent Capt. Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headley Grove, Surrey Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth, and Derby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby Junc tion Railway Edmund Sharpe, Esq., Swandlincote, Potteries Sheldon Craddock, Esq., Leicester John Gretton, Esq., brewer, Rurton•upon-Trent Ambrose Moore, Esq., Milk-street, Cheapside James Arbouin, Esq., Mark-lane, Director of the London and York Railway Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the East India Company Lieut.-Gen. Taylor, Clarendon-place, Hyde Park George Ledwell Taylor, Esq., 45, Hyde Park-square Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway Matthew Gisborne, Esq., Walton Hall, Derbyshire Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq., Imberhorne House, Sussex John Taylor, Esq., Cross-street, City, Director of the Commercial Bank of London • (With power to add to their number.) SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bass and Sweeting, Burton-upon -Trent. Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street. Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 1, Exchange-buildings, Royal Exchange. BANKERS. The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street. The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury, and 6, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent, and Ashbourne. Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby. ACTING ENGINEER—EIijah Galloway, ESQ. This line will commence at the Long Eaton station of the Midland Counties Railway, and will proceed in a direct line to or near Castle Donington, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Meacham, and Market Bosworth to Nuneaton; joining, at Market Bosworth, the Birmingham branch, projected by the Tamworth and Leicester Company, and at Nuneaton, the projected Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway, at the point where that line crosses the Trent Valley line. Thus a direct communication will be formed between the important towns of Nottingham, Newark, and Unpin on the one side, and Birmingham, Coventry, and W arw i c k on elle other side, at the same time supplying a rich mineral and agricultural district with railway advantages. A reference to the map will show that this railway will also com mand other collateral advantages. There is no doubt that the proposed railway communication be tween Cheltenham and Warwick will be effected, in which case the proposed line will fill up the railway chasm at present existing be tween the counties of Gloucester and Worcester, and Nottingham and Lincoln, and thus form a direct line from the Severn at Glouces ter to the Humber at Great Grimsby. An amalgamation of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction with the Grimsby Dock Company being now determined on, a large amount of capital will be expended in rendering Great 'Grimsby a port of the first importance ; and it must be obvious that the traffic to that port, from the district south west of Warwick, will be vecy great. The distance saved by the proposed line between Leamington, Warwick, Coventry, and Nottingham will be about fourteen miles ; and between Birmingham and Nottingham (by either of the projected lines from Birmingham to Leicester) the saving will be about ten miles. Being so much the shortest route from Birmingham to Not tingham and Lincoln, it must secure the traffic from Birmingham to Nottingham, Newark, Lincoln, and the port of Great Grimsby ; and by joining with the Erewash Valley Railway at Long Eaton, it must command the traffic from Coventry, Warwick, and the district south of those towns to Sheffield, Leeds, York, and the north of England generally. It will also afford a direct communication between Not tingham and the district bet , . een 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 alLwrance of interest at four per cent. on the paid-up capital will be taken, and the liability of shareholders limited to the amount of their subscriptions. TABLE OF DISTANCES. Present Distances. About IBy proposed Miles Route, about Saving Warwick to Nottingham, by Hampton and Derby •••••• • • 72% Warwick to Nottingham, by Rugby and Leicester • • 673 Warwick to Lincoln ••• • • 103% Coventry to Nottingham . • 58% Coventry to Lincoln .......... ........ Birmingham to Nottingham • • 57 Birmingham to Lincoln .. Cheltenham to Nottingham, by Birmingham and Derby...... 103 Prospectuses may be had at the Temporary Of of the Company. i 9, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street, London ; where also applica tions for shares, addressed to the Provisional Committee, will be attended to. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional. Committee of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201. each, in the abeve railway ; and I undertake to accept the same, or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to pay when required the deposit thereon of 21. 2s. per share. Dated this day of 1845. Profession and professional residence in MR Residence in f 1111.• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • References ••• • • • • • -- LYNN, WISBEACH, & PETERBOROUGH, MIDLAND COUNTIES, and BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY (Original Line). (Provisionally Registered Bth of August, 1845.) Capital 325,0001., in 15,000 Shares of 20/. each. Deposit, 21.:25. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Hon. Edward Stafford Jemingham, Tonbridge Castle, Ton bridge The Right. Hon. Lord George Paget, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway Company. The Hon. C. M. Dawson, Director of the Dublin, Tullamore, and Parsonstown Railway Wynne Ellis, Esq., 31. P., Cadogan-place, Belgrave-square Samuel Wells, Esq., Fen-office, Ely, Registrar of the Corporation of the Bedford Level, and Clerk to the Commissioners of the River Nene Frederick Seymour, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton Hugh Seymour, Esq., 5, Carlton-terrace Henry Erskine, Esq., 95, Mount-street, Gresvenor-square, and Kirby Dale, Yorkshire Robert Bell, Esq., Manchester-square, Chairman of the Galway an d Ennis Railway Company, &c. James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, Bond-street, Deputy-Chair man of the Galway and Ennis Railway Company W. S. Wilson, Esq., Temple John George Norbury, Esq., 3, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, of Mancetta-house, Atherstone, Director of the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham and other Railway Companies William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, Director of the South Staf fordshire Railway Major Lindham, K.H., 8, New-street, Dorset-square, Chairman of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Alexander Prince, Esq., 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Thomas George Smith, Esq., Doughty-street, Mecklenburgh-square, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway William Holt, Esq., Inner Temple, and the Elms, Watford, Herts A. A. Fry, Esq., Temple, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man chester Railway R. Lewis, Esq., Stratford-place, and Worcester Park, Surrey George Thomas Smith, Esq., Oakham Ballemdaham J. F. Raworth, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Leicester and Bir mingham Direct Railway Company Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, and of Rowland Hall, Lancashire, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway Company Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, Director of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway Company William Henry Collis, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway Company James Upfill, Esq., the Green, Bromyard, Herefordshire, Director of the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway Company Thomas Boleman Uptill, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Dover arid Bristol Railway Company Thomas Gibson Brewer, Esq., Gray's Inn Hardy Hislop, Esq., Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the Dublin, Tullamore, and Parsonstown Junction Railway Company Colonel Fitch, Director of the York and Lancaster Company Walter Unett, Esq., Captain 3d Light Dragoons, 21, Great James's square, Director of the Dover and Bristol Railway Company. George Unett, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire. Director of the Dover and Bristol Railway Company Smith Whilock, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Dover and Bris tdl Railway Company (With power to add to their number). No stronger recommendation of this proposed line need be given, than the fact that since it was provisionally registered on the Bth of August last, the idea of the project has been pirated by companies to whose cupidity the lines appear to hold the strongest temp tations. The object of this Company is to form a direct communication be tween the extensive ports 01 Lynn and Wisbeach, and the mnnufae tiring and midland counties of England, by means of a direct rail way from Lynn, through Wisbeach, to Peterborough, thereby completing the line from the eastern coast of England, to No'thampton, and to Lincoln, Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool. The inhabitants of Lynn, Wisbeach, and Peterborough will then enjoy the advantage of a cheap and direct intercommunica tion between their respective towns, while the important commer cial interests connected with the 'manufacturing and export trades between the midland counties and the eastern parts of the coast will have very valuable additional facilities afforded them. Lynn and Wisbeach should be, and by the proposed line will be come, to Birmingham and the midland counties, what Liverpool is to Manchester, Lancashire, and the counties in the north More over, by the proposed line a direct railway intercourse will be esta blished between Lynn, Wisbeach, Southampton, Bristol, Gloucester, &c., as also between Lynn and Swaffham, Dereham, Thetford, Norwich, and Yarmouth. On the other hand, proceeding northwards, the line at Peterborough fails into others which constitute the great northern railways of England. This line will net interfere with either of the proposed lines to Wis beach, as those lines will proceed towards London, through Hunting don, St. Ives, and Ely ; while this line is intended to afford means of direct communication with all the manufacturing and midland districts. Apart from the large populations which will be benefited in the towns, through which this line will run, there are, according to the last census, more than a million of residents in Norfolk, Cambridge shire, and Northampshire, whom it will directly benefit. This calcu lation is quite apart from the advantages which will be con ferred upon many other districts, from each of which large traffic and passenger returns may with certainty be calculated upon. The districts through which the line will pass already possess an immense trade, and the rapidity of its increase at present and for years past exhibits in most favourable colours the enterprise of the population and the capabilities of the country. Within a few years the quantity of wheat sold at Wisbeach was increased more than fourfold. In 1826, the number of quarters sold there was 60,080; in 1834, it increased to 122,198 quarters; and in 1844 it was augmented to 250,000 quarters. The increase in the corn trade at Lynn has also been very great. ab Very wieaehfewweyreeaerais yha2v9,oo have passed since the are exports 16 o v r t 5 9 7 6 18 impor ts tons;e and the increase last year (1844), comparatively speaking, w as greater than that at any other port in the kingdom. A great impulse must be given to the trade of those ports by the oto tons: they proposed line. They must become the ports for Birmingh am and the whole of the midland district ; the productions, to sa ve di stance and time, would be sent thither for exportation to the wh o l e o f the north of Europe . - Some idea may be formed of the vast capacities for trade which Lynn possesses, from the fact that in its harbour 200 vessels can float ; and, by navigable rivers, it has a direct communication with no less than eight counties, as stated by Mr. Wells, the registrar of the Bedford Level, In his history of that vast undertaking. Lynn imports large quantities of timber from the Baltic. Its coal trade with Newcastle is very great ; it has also a considerable traffic with Holland and Belgium, and it is the most direct and economical port from which the wool of Norfolk, the Fein, Lincolnshire, North- _••....•• R UGBY, DERBY, RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Vic., c. 110.) Capital, 1,500,0001., in 60,000 shares of 251. each. Deposit, 2/. 12. Cal. per share. (In order to insure compliance with the standing orders both of the Lords and Commons.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Lord George Paget, Uxbridge. house, London Sir William Young, Bart., Westbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, a Director of the East India Company Sir James Carmichael, Bart., 40, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Dl rector of the Reading and Reigate Railway Company Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashbourne-hall, Ashbourne Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart., Orraaston-hall, Derbyshire Sir William Lowthrop, Bart., Alga-house, Scarborough, Chairrosa c f the Hull and Barnsley Railway Company Sir John Hensler, Deputy-Lieutenant ofEssex The Mayor of Derby John Parkinson, Esq., R.R.S., 80, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the Irish Great Western, and the Northampton, Ran bury, and Cheltenham Railways Thomas Stevenson, Esq., F.S.A., 37, Upper Grosvenor-street, Hyde Park, a Director of the Irish Great Western, and the Reading and Reigate Railways Thomas Bent, Esq., M.D., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gains borough, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway James Clifford, Esq., Broughton House, Shardlow, Derbyshire William Cox, Esq., Brailsford, Derbyshire David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Derbyshire James Sutton, Esq., Shardlow Hall, Derbyshire P. Wilmot, Esq., Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square Major Thurston Dale, Ashbourne Joseph Bridgett, Esq., Aldermanbury, London, Colney Hatch, near Barnet, and Derby Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., Ashbourne Hall, Ashbourne, and Bolton street, Piccadilly William Holt, Esq., Great Coram-street, and The Elms, Watford A. G. Greaves, Esq., Derby John Robinson, Esq., Silcoates Cottage, near Wakefield, Director of the Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland and Leeds, York and Mid land Junction Railway Edward Mammatt, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch Samuel Simpson, Esq., of the Greaves, Lancaster, a Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Douglas Fox, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction Railway Thomas M'Turk, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junc tion Railway Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Crown East, Worcestershire; Deputy Lieu tenant of the county of Worcester Henry Brigstock, Esq., M.D., Derby, Director of the Derby, Uttoxe ter, and Stafford Railway Joseph Lancelot DavenportlEsq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Ut toxeter, and Stafford Railway Frederick Fox, Esq., Melbourne, agent for Lord Melbourne James Joseph Dolman, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire John Earp, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire Charles Holbrooke, Esq., Alvaston, near Derby, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter and Stafford, and of the Derby, Gainsborough, Stafford, and Grimsby Railway Jeremiah Filcher, Esq., Russell-square, London, Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction, and of the Grand London and Dublin Approximation Railways William Seymour, Esq., Montague -place, Russell-square, Director of the Grand London and Dublin Approximation, and of the South ampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railways William Chance, Esq., Spring-grove, Birmingham, Deputy-Chairman of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, Director of the Trent Valley Midland, and of the Manchester and Southampton Junction Railway James Witham, Esq., Eaton-square A. A. Fry, Esq., Temple Thomas Geo. Smith, Esq., Doughty-street, Mecklenburgh-square, Director of the Lynn, Wisbeach. and Peterborough Railway John Hill, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Staf ford Railway Thomas Mimes, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire Thomas Hemsley, Esq., Melbourne, Derbyshire Henry Orton, Esq., King's Newt on , D er b yshire George Vandeleur, Esq., King's Newton, Derbyshire Mr. Samuel Robinson, Shaw House, Melbourne, Derbyshire John Tewle, Esq., Borrowash Mills, Derbyshire George Wooton, Esq., Chelston, Derbyshire James Hollingworth, Esq. Melbourne and Derby Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square James Renshaw, Esq., West Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway,, and 3, White Hart court, Lombard-street A. Inderwick, Esq., Brompton, Middlesex John Groom, Esq., Member of the Town Council, Northampton James J. M'Swiney, Esq., Sandal View, near W a k e fi e ld , a Director of the Wakefield and Harrowgate Junction Railway Richard Dransfleld, Esq., West-place, Dalton, Huddersfield, a Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway Robert Docksey Goodwin, Esq., Ashbourne John Bainbrigge Storey, Esq., Lockington Hall, Leicestershire Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Great Surrey-street, a Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway William Caldwell, Esq., Ince Hall, Wigan, Alderman of the Borough of Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway, the Staffordshire Potteries Railway, Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway Henry Stock, Esq., Bedggelert, North Wales, Director of the Great Eastern and Western John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New Hall, by Weston, Cheshire, Director of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Railway John Curzon, Esq., Derby James Peet, Esq., Derby William Taylor, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby, Gainsborough and Great Grimsby Junction Railway Charles Milnes, Esq., Dale-house, Matlock, Derbyshire Henry George Gascoyne, Esq., Lea-hall, Rugeley, Staffordshire Perry Dicker., Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch George Clark, Esq., Windham-lodge, Brighton, and Rusholme Park, Manchester, a agistrate James Consterdine, Esq., Rosinhall, Manchester, a Magistrate F. R. Hodgson, Esq., Oakey, near Manchester, Merchant Edward Attolden, Esq., Aston-hall, Derby; Henry Taylor, Esq., Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct ; the York and Lancaster ; the Eastern, Western, and Southern, or Ipswich and Southampton ; Reigate ; the Halifax and Huddersfield ; the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction ; the Staffordshire Potteries; the Dover and Bristol; and of the Cheltenham and Oxford Railways Captain T. Folliott Powell, Ashbourne Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, a Director of the York and Lanais. ter and Liverpool and Leeds Direct, and the Keighley, Halifax and Huddersfield Junction Railway Thurston Dale, jun., Esq., Ashbourne John Douglas Cooper, Esq., Holm College, Ashbourne C. Kelly Cooper, Esq., Ashbourne John Witham, sen., sq., Ashbourne Thomas J. Mountfort, Esq., Ashbourne James Osborne, Esq , Ashbourne Samuel Dawson, jun., Esq., Walton Bank, Ashbourne John Smith, Esq., Barton House, Ashbourne Thomas Smith, Esq., Blore Hall, Staffordshire John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury Samuel Fox, jun., Esq., Derby John Smith, Esq., Biddle Temple, and 2, Bury-street, St. James's, London, Director of the Leeds, York, and Midland Railway Joseph Peel, Esq., Singleton Brook, Manchester Edward Lucas, Esq., Member of the Town-Council, Birmingham John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leicester, a Director of the Leicester and Birmingham, and London, Bristol, and South Wales Railway John Osier, Esq., Hull, Member of the Provisional Committee of the Hull and Barnsley Junction and Leeds and Carlisle Railway C. Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Member of the Provisional Committee of the Hull and Barnsley Junction and Leeds and Carlisle Railway R. B. Childs, Esq., Swarkenstone Lewes, near Derby (With power to add to their number). ACTING COMMITTEE. Jeremiah Filcher, Esq., Russell-square, London John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.i., 80. Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park Thomas Stevenson, Esq., F.S.A., 37, Upper Grosvenor -street, Hyde. park The Mayor of Derby Matthew Pierpoint, Esq., Crown East, Worcestershire, Deputy-Liett Co. Worcester Joseph Bridgett, Esq., Aldermanbury, London William Seymour, Esq., Montague -place, Russell-square A. A. Fry, Esq., Templ e Thomas George Smith, Esq., Doughty-street, Mecklenburgh-square A. Inderwick, Esq., Brompton, Middlesex Sir Wm. Young, Bart., Westbourne-terrace, Hyde -part Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashbourne-hall, Ashbourne David Wheatcro' t, Esq., Buckland Hollow, Gerbyshire. ENGINEER—CharIes Blunt, Esq., C.E. SOLICITOR—Thomas Gibson Brewer, Esq., 13, Gray's Inn-square. STANDING COUNSEL—WiIIiam Holt, Esq., Chancery-lane. COUNTRY SOLICITORS. Derby—John Moss, Esq. Manchester—Messrs. Crossley and Sudlow Ashbourne—John Fox, Esq. Ashby-de-la-Zouch—Henry Minion Hawkesworth, Esq. PARLIAMENTARY AGENT.—Thomas Baker, Esq., Spring -gardens. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Masterman, Peters, Mildred, and Co. Derby—Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company Ashbourne—The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Bank. AGENTS. London—Thomas G. Smith, Esq., 2, Warnford-court, Throgmorton. street Ashbourne—Thomas Jones, Esq. Leicester—Messrs. Elgood and Harrison Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal Liverpool—Messrs. J. B. and D. Neilson. SECRETARIES.—WIIIiam Richard Scott, Esq. ; Horace Green, Esq. Offices of the Company, 33, Gresham -street. The Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway is a direct line from London to Manchester, coming from London to Rugby, along the London and Birmingham line, and proceeding from Rugby to Hinck ley through Market-Bosworth and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, to Derby, thence to Ashbourne, by Leek to Macclesfield, and along the Mac clesfield and Stockport, and Stockport and Manchester Railways, into Mandiester. A branch to Buxton is in contemplation. The principle of this railway is to obtain a direct through line be tween some of the most important districts in the kingdom with the least possible amount of new railway, and, consequently, the smallest expenditure of capital. It will also establish the shortest direct communication between Derby and London, Sheffield and London, and between all the towns on the North Midland Railway and London. The Manchester, Derby, and Rugby Railway, will open a direct communication between Manchester and Derby, and will consider ably shorten the distance between Manchester and Nottingham and Manchester and Leicester. The line from Derby to Rugby will establish the direct communi cation from that town to London, which has been so long considered desirable by the inhabitants. The same will apply to Sheffield, when the Sheffield and Chester field branch of the North Midland Railway is made. The Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway, in connexion with the Oxford and Rugby, and Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport Rail way, forms a direct Manchester and Southampton line. THE GREAT ADVANTAGES Of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway, over the other pro jects into Manchester, among oth'rs, are— First. That there are only seventy-five miles of railway to be made in place of one hundred and eighty-nine. Second. That it is a more direct line from London to Manchester than even the proposed direct lines. Third. That it interferes with no existing railway property or vested interests. Fourth. That it passes through a District rich in manufactur es, agriculture, and minerals, but which —more especially as regards its agricultural produce, and a convenient system of intercommunica tion for the conveyance of that agricultural produce, to supply the large manufacturing towns in the vicinity—has been hitherto left to tally without railway communication. Fifth. That it passes through the towns in its route, instead of avoiding them. Sixth. That the whole line of railway from Rugby to Manchester will be completed and in working order within ten months from the passing of the Act of Parliament. Seventh. That the maps, plans, estimates, and other documents required by the standing orders of Parliament will be lodged with the parish clerks, the clerks of the peace for the counties, and the Parliamentary offices, on the 10th of November next, being twenty days within the time required by the regulations of Parliament. In the allotment of shares a preference will be given, to the exi tent of 10,000 shares, to the holders of stock in the London and Bir mingham Railway; also, of 2,000 shares to the shareholders in the Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport Railway Company ; of 1,000 shares to the Oxford and Rugby Railway Company ; and 2,000 shares to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company. RUGBY, DERBY, AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that the last day for receiving applications was Friday the 19th, and in consequence of the great number re mitted far exceeding that to be allotted, no others can possibly be received, LONDON SOLICITOAL J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court Owen Gray, J. B. Midge, Esq., Esq. ' 3 25 Great Touter-ems Barnum London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co. de colll° the important and increasing , eL I itw ie r 01, nl oo ,d t ! o ,oo' The object of this railway is to connect, In —e ofm -- s' ' 0 - 0 ' Metropolis, the want of which has long bee n fe-' is coder Diu sally acknowledged to need any comment, an d It oral at 0 ''' viction that this important undertaking, a fter se ba y pet li manufacturing tr at i , t t . ip t i o eS p i unct l° l s the ini 4. 0 t O S K. o Y r s; minations of the country through which it Will P ase ' forward. tion of the ' tf sO te s ( The proposed line will commence at the in" lw oys, n' e deoo ter and Leeds, and York and North Midland Ra i w ith ti l teaesoc4 field, and will terminate by means of a i C ounties Railway at Bedford (to which Pla ce It sessi ° 1 ` - tr ti if that Company to extend their line in the ensuingbie o f tbe ,0 0 e ct , ment), and by thus availing itself as far as P0.r. 1 4 exPo t !! L e . 0 3 , 00 railways, will complete the most direct and Iciw il i ? Ass I ,'; sf i del' R w o l t h h i e n rh a am n , a E v a a s il t a ß bl e e df d o i r s d tr N c o e tt o in f g W ham ake , linte, from London to Leeds, York, and Hull. It ~,liitefract, ...„ 11( i '" 0 X, ' ot. OK,, then e '.fr F Mowbray, Oakham, and Stafd. ~„iii frot ° , o tio I c ' The importance of such a lines obvious, .-- e poPo - • 0 1 fi x el e d w , a r''' Go otb 3 w ii re ~ its limits) as also from the absence of any its course (embracing, as it does, a most extensive_oueiocl ~,, . 0 P ( '''' i '. 010 0 0 40 1 • they nveyance of passengers and merchandise' eei ntn , t o 0 47 . Bthe construction of this railway, rail y ' sl e ester (V o tto rel ef London will be given to Peterborough and Lei rk and ' A Ofki 0 the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to N ew t - meld 1113- 42 SP (by the Nottingham and Lincoln line), and to Sh by A 1: 011' y 11: ~ rough (by the Sheffield and Gainsborough lin e), in ths, Se e oaS route than by any existing Railways. toWns ' - itsou.riet Independently of the advantages offered to the Line in is 0 or•- x ig 1 counties through which this Line will Pass , t ' e „, Leeds' 'Ong tr in ' i dered as a direct trunk line between London and the :tis th OP, i ‘, to justify its formation, it being well known tha t . 1 , on .irica-' 4l l ,t between these two places would produce such that -of j oy +., 0 b , c, , 0 required, as to admit of a dividend, equal to Con 34tu, 0 01' 1 1) ! direct o • d that a feeds 13 ) , cte,„, 4 / operation : but when it is borne in min ' no Le ha - 0. formed for the purpose of connecting Glasgow Iv _ o be iter oirt ou 0 1 0 a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway' P a direct .. ,0 01 .n e 0 '6 0 i t, ton from Glasgow and the Western Par ts presented to the public, as it will not only effeci' thin d to '"scotw." Eastern P North oh w y V would also connect Edinburgh and the PIS dso ‘ ,021 s A rd well as Durham and Newcastle (by the York en,... one jis, e d 1). , , n g of Scoy arts of icot o, n , . Great North of England Railways), with the Me L t 'l o ;, off: d e: N d '' be considerably shorter than the accomrno d3 is GOPP other company, and when cost of coustructia ''' +.4eed Lty, .ra nd d Edi n fact r f c'r7 itie Pi (I 'ntle , ath there° ti gout o,' ex Th e Ch Chaff an 4 a• 414 4 A 4'l rr ed I k‘ r 1 1 444, , C o, •R ' • A etki e • It tz,. A qi tzici Ed wpa Ae„ r Y 4, ll;l i i tal Ugl IN A G lll t 4 ' u ttl ttaa ' 4 43 —ll er r , 4. 44 i: 1 1 Pro e ,, ti°ll Oft'