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W ORCESTER and MERTHYR TYDVIL JUNCTION RAILWAY. (YroTisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and S Victoria, cap. 110.) Capital, 800,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. • PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Sir William Wynn, Maesynewydd, Chairman of the North Walea - Railway William Chadwick, Esq., Montagu-square, Director of the North Wales Railway, and Chairman of the Worcester and South Wales Junction Gideon Colqshoun, Esq., Weimer Lodge, Avenue. road, Regent's Park, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway Thomas Parneomb, Esq., Alderman of London John Rnill, Esq., Thames•street, Director of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway Lechnsere IVhitmore, Esq., 19, James-street, Bucking ham-gate liaary Plunitre Gipps, iHq., Montagu-place, Bryanstone-square, Director of the Treat Valley and Holyhead Junction Railways Major-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London Thomas B. Simpson, Esq., Rutland Lodge, Brixton, Director of the North Wales Railway, and Deputy-Chairman of the Wor cester and South Wales Junction John Purchas, Esq., Upton Bishop, near Ross The Rev. Edward Higgins, Rosbury House, Herefordshire John Tanner, Esq., M.D., Ledbury William Barnes, sq., Foregate-street, Worcester George Alfred Ellis Wall, Cross House, near Worcester, and Wortley Park, Hampshire John Hemming, Esq., Ncrth :lank, Regent's Park hilip Matthews, Esq., Burton-court, near Ross Samuel Higgins, Esq. , Berrow-court, Worccstershire Wm. Nicholson, Esq,, Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Railway Company Stephen Phillips, Esq,, Director of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway Wm. Bland, Esq., 11 , Park?terrace, Brixton-road, Director of the North Wales Railway James Brand, Esq., New Broad-street Themes Baylis, Esq., F.S.A., Pryors Bank, Fulham -Henry Garrett Key, Esq., False Hill, Brixton, Surrey Joseph Gillman Barrett, Esq., Ross James Upfill, Esq., Bromyard, Herefordshire William Candler, Esq., Newland Court, near Worcester dynes Chamberlain, Esq., Green Hill, Worcester. ifklarsh Oliveira, Esq., 1.R.5., 8, 'Upper Hyde Park-street, Direc tor of Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle, and Leeds and Li vetpool Direct Railway • Charles Grant, Esq., Fitzroy-square Jahn Jennings, Esq., Elm Grove, Hammersmith, Director of the itifilhamptc4 Manchester, and Oxford Railways (With power to add to their number). CONSULTING ENGINEER. Ersorsnima--Messrs. R. and T. Hopkins, M.I.C.E. BANKERS. The London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, Biddulph, and Co., Charing-crops Messrs. Webb and Co., Ledbury Messrs. Morgan, Hoskins, and Co., Ross Messrs. Berwick, Lechmere and Co., Worcester The National Provincial Bank, Gloucester Messrs. Baileys, Graterez, and Williams, Abergavenny. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Gilbert, Hooke, Street, and Gutteres, Philpot-lane, London Chit:leg G. Jones, Esq. 11, Gray's Inn-square Messrs. J. and F. Higgins and Chamberlain, Ledbury. LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. Hydes and Tymbs, Worcester Messrs. Edwards, Ross Messrs. Gabb and Secretan, Abergavenny. Sficaamar Pao TEM—William Borrow, Esq. Offices of the Company, 7, Walbrook. TIM railway will commence at the station of the Monmouth and Heretbrd and Worcester and South Wales Junction at Ross, proceed ing through A rich agricultural district, now devoid of railway ac commodation, to Abergavenny, and from thence by Llanelly, Nant y-010 Tredegar, Ebbs Vale, Rumney, and Dowlais, to Merthyr Tydvil, at which place it will join the Taff Vale Railway. The dis tance will not exceed forty miles. On reference to the map it will be seen that this line, in conjunction with the proposed Worcester and South Wales Junction Railway, via Ledbury, Malvern, acd Ross, will perfect a continuous and direct communication from Merthyr Tydvil to London, Gloucester, Bir mingham, South Staffordshire, and the north. The population of Merthyr, and the surrounding mineral districts, exceeds 120,000, and this line will place it in direct connexion with the agrieultaral counties of Monmouth, Hereford, and Worcester. The line will be laid down so as to render the greatest accommodation to the principal ironworks in the district through which it will pass, and a saving of ten miles over any other linewill be effected between Merthyr and Worcester, and other places north and east of that city. Arrangements are in progress with the Worcester and South Wales Junction Railway Company, for the mutual advantage of both Companies. Applicants for shares, who are personally known to members of the Provisional Committee, are requested to refer to one of such Committee; all other applicants will be required to give a reference to some banker or other persons of known respectability in London or the town from which the application is made. A preference will be given to the holders of scrip in the Worcester and South Wales Junc tion Railway. The usual power will be taken by the Act to allow interest at four per cent. per annum on the amount of subscription paid up, and no subscriber will be answerable for more than the amount of his deposit until the Act Is obtained, and then not beyond his subscription. Detailed prospectuses, with the names of a powerful local Provi sional Committee, will shortly be published, aid may be obtained of the Solicitors and Local Agents, and of the following Sharebrokers : Messrs. Ashton and Scott, Thregmorton-street, London; John San ford, Esq., Rxeter Messrs Ridsdale, Myers, and Bailey, Leeds ; Messrs. Cameron, Cazenove, and Taunton, Liverpool ; Messrs. Green and Oldham, Manchester ; Messrs. Sohines and Tripp, Bristol ; Na thaniel Lea, Esq., Birmingham; Mr. William Miles, Worcester; and Mr. Andrew Brand, Glasgow FORM OF AI'PLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Merthyr Tydvil Junction Railway. Gentlemen,--I request that you will allot me shares of 20/. each in the proposed Worcester and Merthyr Tydvil Junction Rail way, and I undertake to accept the same, and pay the deposit thereon, or upon any lesser number that may be allotted to me, such payment to be made within the time limited and prescribed by you, and I undertake to execute the agreement and Parliamentary con treat when required. _ _ Dated this day of Name •• • • Residence.. ... ..... .. Description .......• •• esual Signature.. • • IRISH WEST COAST RAILWAY (Registered Provisionally.) capltAl, 2,600,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 231. each. Deposit, 21. 125. Gd. (;i's Sobseriber to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Mar Blake, Esq., M.P., Ballinafad, Mayo Robert Dillon Browne, Esq., M.P., Glencorrib, Mayo John Patrick Somers, Esq., M.P., Sligo Cdr Thomas Bernard Going Dancer, Bart., Modreeny House, Clough , Jordon, county Tipperary, Director of the Galway and Kilkenny Railway The Hon. Geoffry Browne, D.L., Will '`Garrett, Mayo The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney. Parliament-street, Whitehall, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway The Right Hon. Jofin Ladayeze Arabin, Lord Mayor of the City of Dublin Michael Gallagher, Esq.. Mayor of Sligo John Netterville Barron, Esq., Resident Magistrate, Sanders Park, Cork Owen Edmond Blake, Esq., J.P., Frenchfort, Galway William Butler, Esq., Bunnahow, Ennis (late High Sheriff of Clare) Jun" F. Burke, Esq., J.P., St. Clarence, Galway Dominick Joseph Burke, Esq., J.P., Greenhill, Mayo Theobald Burke, Esq., J.P., Woodville, Mayo William Campbell, Esq., Sackville-street, and Brighton John Carmichael, Esq., T.C., Rivertson House, Cork, Director of the Cork and Killarney Railway Charles Collins, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge, Dfeotor of the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Jamaica Railway Thomas Comins, Esq., Ballybrit House, Galway Edward Deane, Esq., J.P., Curragowan, Mayo James Dillon, Esq., J.P., Cogue, Mayo John Dunn, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S., L. and D., Drumena, Leitrim Thomas Edwards, Esq. King William - street, London, Director of the Direst London and Dublin Railway Robert Fiske, Esq., Chepstow, Monmouthshire Robert Graham, Esq., J.P., Drumgoon, Fermanagh Klein Grant, Esq., St. James's-street, Pall-mall, Director of the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Jamaica Railway Henry Griffith, Esq., D.L., J.P., Port Royal, Sligo, Director of the Sligo and Shannon Railway W. A. Hill, Esq., Lonsdale-square, Deputy-Chairman of the Gloacas• ter and Aberystwith Railway Dean John Hoare, Esq., Percy-street, Bedford-square Robert Hughes, Esq., Ely House, Wexford. Director of the Provin alai Bank of Ireland John Kerschner, Esq. ' Middle Temple 'William King, Esq., Spring-gardens, and Putney, Surrey John Knox, Esq., J.P., Greenwood Park, Mayo •eseph Myles M`Dennell, Esq., J.P., Doocastle. Mayo Capt. Charles Carden Mansergh, ngraigne, Wexford, Director of the Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia Railway Capt. Newton, Bruton-street, and Lugwardin, Harts Pranois It. O'Grady, E:q., Tayrane, Mayo Richard O'Grady, Esq., Tavrane, M ayo John O'Hara, Esq., Raheen Gort, Treasurer, County Galway Charles Ormsby, Esq., D.L., cuminin, Sligoßobert Dudley Persse, Es q ., G alway Michael Perrin, Esq., Galway Rees Pries, Esq., M.D., Tyne Hall, Great Ilford Essen Richard Cowley Esq , Brornpton, mis c u e "' -- x -!-- Jc i eepli Richardson, Esq., J.P. Summer -hill House, Clones Th omas Seymour, Esq., J.P., Bally more Castle,oineasioe James Sexton, Esq., J.P., Limerick irk W. Simcoxes, Esq., Galway Despanl Taylor, Esq., Newport, Swords John Walsh, Esq , Castlehill, Mayo Captain Geirge Edward Watts, R.N., Langton Grange, Darlington (With power to add to their number.) Cosstrirrso *renown —Colonel Landmann, R.E., ENGINEER—G. M. Lewis, G.E. BANKERS. Leadgar-Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co. SooddrNl—Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank Wand—National Bank and Branches • Provincial Bank and Branches. OTANDINo COUNSEL—James Monson Carrow, it, London. and Castle SOLICITORS. Messrs. Langley and Mead, Bedford-roir, London. Thomas Kelly, Esq., 16, Mountjoy-square North, Dub`du, and CaaUebar,Ye. _ LOCAL AGENTS. Oalway-kaptain F. O'Shaughuessy Castlebar--Mr. Henry Murphy Sligo—ltfr. W. C. Tuite. SEcturrasT—Henry T. Stuart, Esq. PROSPECTUS. lib* object of this line of Railway is to complete the chain of coast soutroanication, and form a connexion with lines already established * projected with reasonable hopes of success , It will at or near the city of Limerick, and taking a nor therly direction, proceed through the counties of Clare, Galway, Mayo, and Sligo, terminating at Sligo, by a junction with the Sligo and Ennis killen Railway, and accommodating on its route the important el ti ee and towns of Limerick. Ennis, Gort, Longhrea, Athenry, Monivea, Thant, nallitirobe, Castiebar, Westport, Foxford, Bettina, Kilalla, Swineford, eiOnsitnastown, and Sligo, which town being connected with the north, sant, and south, by the different lines through Enniskillen, London derry. Coleraine, Belfast, Armagh, •Newry, Dundalk, Drogheda, Dublin., Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Valentia, Video, and Limerie, the establishment of this line will eause Ire land to present a completeness of locomotive communication which no other country in the world enjoys. • The country through which the proposed line travels is most fertile C+ mineral and agricultural products ; it embraces many extensive anal fields, whose advantages it will extend to all parts of Connaught and Ulster ; and intersecting, as it does, so many metropolitan lines tf railway, it will develope those advantages in an equal degree to Um province of Leinster. The load, iron, marble, and slate works on its route, will be rwOered available to the most distant parts of the island, and Perhaps not the least advantage, in a national point of view, will be Ole establishment of ad intercourse between the population of the etetrems north and that of the extreme south, as well as placing the trade of, and communication with, Scotland, within the easy roach ( 2f .all towns of any i m p or t ance i n I re l an d. Add e d t o this the cer w. ty that on the completion of the projected southern, eastern, asd western lines, the noble natural harbours on the Atlantic shore of Ireland will probably the become the British depots of American traffic, and most established packet stations for postal communication hetween the two count, this truly national projection. es. it is impossible to over-rate the value of The counties which t English markets with cattle,railway traverses abundantly supply the as many ports , will afford l ltigs, &c. This line, communicatingwith this portion of trade, some wee' greatest facilities for the shipping of from the nisi of upward s of ;,;(e)fhthe extent of which may be formed in its immediate vicinity, among hundred fairs being held annually knowledge,' the greatest for sheep t andm them, e e ifnaitrheofna l Britishl in a islands.sioe , ac - It has been ascertained that th try presents great engineering Paellities for the construction of a ° ilw d ay. and in communications weir have been received from therallen owners along the line, the Diction. greatest anxiety is manifested for its ' The subscribers will be held liable :IT the extent of their first d e plete until an Act of Parliament is obtained , and afterwards only to the amount of their subscsiptions. Tesexr VIII be applied for in the .het —and in the meantime is uffewy given to the Committee—to alter the capital, if necessary; oar, or abandon any part of the line, t o make branch lines, to or „ eta tabs arrangements with any oth er company or companies *ea to nominate the first directors of the compa ny . ; and Tlt• Parliamentary _contract and subscribers' agreement will be esmAyfor signature on payment of the deposits. it ‘Ol be seen kern the plan that the railway intersects many main and will thus contribute to, and receive from them a eon _ ltd amount in passenger and merchandise traffic. i1;01112 the estimate; that have been made, a return of at least 10 tier cent. must be realised on the capital. Application for shares to be made in the usual form to the Solici- Ors in London and Dublin ; to the Local Agents ; to the Secretary, ot-the office of the Company, 10, Old Jewry Chambers ; and to gi:eundermentioned hrokers •--Messrs. Martin and Heseltine, Finch , Coinhill ; Mr. D. B. Major, Change-alley, Comhill ; Mr. An tbory /Anne, Liverpool ; Messrs. Brady and Staniforth, Manor-street gull • Mr. S. Grindrod, Manchester; Messrs. Watson and Co., Leod; ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol; Messrs. Tyeth and Wills, rtynuath ; Mr. T. Sandford, Exeter; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh; Messrs. M'Ewen and Auld, Glasgow; Mr. William Gordon, Aber deen; Messrs. Curtis and Power, Dame-street, Dublin ; Mr. James Morgan, Cork, of whom Prospectuses may be had. UT ORCESTERy, d. AND Bromviayar LEOMINSTER I;AlLWA(Registered provisionally.) Capital 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 201. eaels. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. rEOVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Henry George Ward, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Great Rag= and - Western Railway Company John Barneby, Esq., M.P., Brockampten, Bromyard William Barneby, Esq., Clayton Park, Bromyard, Magistrate of Herefordshire James Best, Esq. Worcester Mr. Edward Bannister, wool-Mete/Ant and Ivool-Mantifacturer, Leo minster William Bestow, Esq. Surrey-place, London Walker Chamberlayne, Esq., Worcester, Royal Porcelain Mann faetory George Beauchamp Cole, Esq., Chester-street, Grosvenor-place, Di rector of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Mr. James Coucher, wool-merchant, Worcester Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Copthall-court, and Old Palace, Richmond, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Captain Charles Dutton, BredenbarY-house, Bromyard Thomas Dowglasso, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's-wood, Di rector of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Henry Clarke Duppa, Esq., Quarry-house, Boughton, Morchelsea, Kent, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Com pany James Eckley, Esq., Bromyard John Freeman, Esq., Gains, Bromyard, Magistrate of Herefordshire and Worcestershire John Matthew Gutch, Esq., 'Banker, Worcester, Director of Wor cester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway Mr. Edwin Gardner, corn, hop, and seed merchant, Worcester E. W. Howes Esq., Bromyard Hemming, Esq., Livington, near Bromyard, and King's/and, Leominster James Hemming, Esq., Church House, Bromyard Mr. John Hughes, wool merchant, Clopgate, Worcester Mr. Jelin Hood, merchant and carrier, Worcester Mr. George Hill, of the firm of Messrs. Hill and Turley, Worcester Henry James, Esq., Leominster, Mayor of Leominster John Kempson, Esq. ' sea., 13irehey-fields House, Bromyard John Kempson. jun., Esq., Itirchey-flehis House, Bromyard John Wheeley Lea, Esq., Vice Chairman of the Severn Navigation Company, Managing Director of the Droltwich Patent Salt Cons paoy, and a Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway John Lilly, Esq., Alderman of Worcester, Worcester Royal Porce lain manufactory. Edward Lloyd, Esq., Sheriff of Worcester William Lawrence, Esq., Brixton, Director of the London and Manchester Direct James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway Arthur Mann, Esq., Woburn-square, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Mr. F. 11. Needham, merenant, Worcester Mr. Powell, wine-merchant, Worcester Mr. James Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Rea and Sons, malsters, Worcester Mr. J. P. Rea, of the arm of Messrs. Rea and Sons, maltsters, Wor cester Jas. Reeves, Esq., Cheapside and Layton, Director of the Direct London and Manchester, and Great Manchester and Rugby, and Southampton Railway Companies James Robertson, Esq., Worcester Joseph Sturton, Esq., Munderfield House, Bromyard, and Lincoln's Inn, London, Magistrate of Hereford. James Upflll, Esq., The Green, Bromyard, Director of the Stafford shire and Shropshire, and Dover and Bristol Railways T. P. P. Wight, Esq., Tedstone Court, Bromyard Philip Warburton, Esq., Bromyard, High Bahr of Bromyard Philip Warburton, Gent., Bromyard John Walker, Esq., Luisley Court, Bromyard Mr. Wells, Hop-merchant, Worcester Mr. Woodward, Hop-merchant, Worcester John Henry Walsh, Esq., Worcester Mr. James Wall, Merchant and Carrier, Worcester (Wish power to add to their number.) Cuter ENGINEER—WiIIi= Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S. ASSISTANT ENGINEER—S. F. Griffin, Esq., C.E. SOLICITORS. • Messrs. Elnaslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate.street, London Henry Foley, Esq., Worcester BANKERS. London—The London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury The Commercial Bank of London. Worcester—Messrs. Farley, Lavender, and Co. LOCAL AGENTS. • Messrs. W. and F. Devereaux, Bromyard John Bedford, Esq., Leominster This line will diverge from the line of the Great Eastern and Western Railway, near Worcester, and proceeding by Brom yard, will end at Leominster, at which point it will unite with tho proposed lines connecting Hereford and Shrewsbury with North Wales. The communication by railway between these Important towns and the continuous hop and cider districts has been entirely left unprovided for by existing arrangements. and this line is brought forward under the auspices of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company, on the strong representations and request of a large and most influential body of the landed gentry of the neigh bourhood. The object proposed is to make a direct communication between Leominster, Bromyard, and Worcester, which latter town has always been the natural market for the produce of these districts, and to af ford the inhabitants the most direct communication with London, as compared with other lines, by upwards of 30 miles. No person will be liable for more than his deposit till the act is ob tained, and power will be applied for to allow interest at 41. per cent. on all calls from the time of their respective payments, as well as to limit the liability of the shareholders to the amount of their subscrip tions. Applications Aar Shares, in the ann , xed form, to be made to the Provisional Committee, at the 011ie*, 5, G'reshara-street, London, or Messrs. John Shewell and Son, sharebrokers, Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, 4, Bank-buildings, and Mr. John Smith, 3, Shorter's-court, London ; Mr. John Duncuft, sharebroker, Manchester; Mr. John O'Neil, sharebroker, Manchester ; Messrs. Schultz and Carr, sharebrokers, and Messrs. Reynolds and Son, Liverpool; Messrs. H. and C. Beardshaw ' tharebrokers, Leeds ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, sharebrokers , Bristol ; Mr. James Pearson, sharebroker, Bir mingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., sharebrokers, Brad ford; Mr. William Miles, sharebroker, Worcester; Mr. Robert Allan, sharebroker, Edinburgh ; Mr. William Gordon, sharebroker, Aber deen ; Messrs. Black and Co., sharebrokers, Buchan-street, Glasgow ; Messrs. Bughanan and Aitken, sharobrokers, Glasgow; and Messrs. Bruce and Spines, sharebrokers, Dublin ; of whom prospectuses may be bad. THE SUN, LONDON,JHURSDAY _EVENINrG, SEPTEMBER 6 25, 1845. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SNARES, To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Leominster Railway. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to we shares of 201. each In the above railway ; and I hereby uadertake to accept the same or any less number you may allot me, and to pay the deposit of 21. 26. per share thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of September, 1845. Name in hill Place of business or profession . Residence.... .......• Business or profession ..... ....... Signature ..... ......................... Name, residence, and profession of referee.. Witness Residence ........ T,HE NORTHERN and SOUTHERN CONNECTING RAILWAY. (Provistonally Registered under 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.) Capital 900,0001., in 36,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share. Uniting the London and Birmingham, Great Western, the South Western, the London and Brighton, South-Eastern, and Northern and Eastern Railways, and accommodating, en route, Hertford, Hat field, St. Albans, Watford, Rickmansworth, Uxbridge, West Drayton, Colnbrook, Staines, Egham, Chertsey, Weybridge, Leatherhead, Dorking, and Reigate. PROVISIONAL COMMITTWIL Major Adair, United Service Club, Pall-mall, Direetor of the Geele and Doncaster Railway John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of the South Midland, and Birmingham and Lichfield Railways William Ayrton, Esq., Abbey-square, Chester William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter, Staffordshire John Barnes, Esq., Director of the Union Bank, Chorley Wood House, Hertfordshire William Bastow,Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Railway essorge A. Brown, Esq., 20, Gower-street Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., M.P., Director of the Lancaster and York, Waterford and Kilkenny, and Great Munster Railway Jasper Capper, Esq , Watling-street John Castendeiek, Esq., 37, Mincing-lane Walter Chamberlain, Esq., Worcester Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield, Director' of Remington's London, Manchester, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Wor cester Railways Major John T. Croft, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of the Chester and Manchester Railway, &e. William Croft, Esq., Chertsey, Surrey Thomas Clutterbuck, Esq., Red Hall, Watford Charles John Dimsdale, Esq., Essendon-place, Hertfordshire Thomas Edward Dyson, Esq., Tollpits, Hertfordshire Joseph Graham, Esq., Clapham, Surrey Hastiags Green, Esq., Sion House, Kilkenny, Director of the Water ford and Kilkenny Railway Captain Hodges, 65, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the Mauritius Railway, &e. Ste. Henry Jennins, Esq., Leeds Swinfen Jervis, Esq., Whitehall-place, and Darlaston Hall, Stafford shire Daniel Turton Johnson, Esq., Alderrnary Churchyard, Director of Remington's London and Manchester, the Chester and Manchester Direct, and the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's-wood, Director of the National Bank of Ireland John King, Esq., Glastonbury, and St. John's-wood, London, Mee tor of the Somersetshire Midland Railway William King, Esq., Waterloo-place, Pall mall, London, Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Company George Laishley, Esq., Clarence Lodge, Shirley, Southampton, Dire.- tor of the Isle of Wight, and of the Oxford, Newbury, Andover, Manchester, and Southampton Junction Railways Daniel William Lucas, Esq., Mark-lane, and Crescent Lodge, Stock well Park Horace William Meteyard, Esq., Director of Remington's London and Manchester, the Chester and Manchester Direct, and the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways J , : aeb s p e rit p a, h ilgii : ot e a.e s ir r t e ,a k r4 h : lassey, Esq., Catered, Hertfordshire, and 59, Cam yaEdtsq.e.P._,pait.. , Eaton-square, London. F.R.S., Upper Hyde Park-street, Director n ampt an on e , h m ea a t Z'h e L at iv ar e So th arratt, Leg., rP and l' Oxf and rd N J e n w nrti s o t n le ß -u arli n va -T ys y , n Bce e, . and of n santhien Hillebrant Meredith P • o Magistrate, Effingham Rouse, y John Palmer, Eats., Molewood-hill , ?lenge°, Hertfbrdshire WilliamSurre Rev. G. B. P. Pollen, Magistrate, Little B l" al ax Director of R i e , s y am t John Rawson, Esq., Lieutenant o t he Riding York shire, W. H. Ravenhill, Esq., DepPuedtywedllinsife,rwtham:stee" e S o T f. G e r y e orcestershire and J.P., Stoney Roy d, North of France Railway, of the Manchester, Great North of England Union Railway, and the Xiati@orP°n al of Ireland J. B. Shattlewortb, Esq., Eastcheap Edward Scard, Esq., Kew, Surrey, Magistrate, Director of the Toronto and Lake Huron, and Jamaica Railways Julian Skrine, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway William H. Swinton, Esq., 49, Moorgate-street, and Suseex-gactha ta , Hyde Park William Tozer,' Esq , Bishopsgate-street , Direetor of the South Star- Thomas Stephens, Esq., 4, Lime - street - square fordshire Junction Railway James Whitchureh, Esq., South Cliff , Netley Abbe y Thomas Weedon, Esq., Leudwater Hertfordshire (With power to add to their number.) COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. John King, Esq. George Laishley, Esq. D. W. Lucas, Esq. H. W. Meteyard, Esq. George Scard, Esq. Major Adair Jelin Anderson, Esq. Jasper Capper, Esq. Jeremiah Clarke, Esq. Joseph Graham, Esq. D. T. Johnson, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., 29, Clement's-lane, London The Loudon and County Bank Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, Manchester. ENGINEER—Joseph Gibbs, Esq. LAND AGENT—Layton Cooke, ESQ. LAND SURVEYORS. W. T. Buckland, Esq. Messrs. Sanderson and Ityde. LOCAL SOLICITORS. St. Alball'S, Herts—Richard Grove Lowe, Esq. Chertsey, Surrey—Richard John Cole, Esq. Dorking, Surrey—Messrs. Hart and Hart. Hartford—Edward Robert Spence, Esq. Uxbridge, Middlesex—Mcssrs. Riches and Woodbridge. Watford and Rickmansworth—John Sedgwick,Esq. . . The object of this undertaking is to form an unbroken link or communication with all the existing railways, by which means more particularly the Western, Southern, Eastern, South-Eastern, and South-Western parts of the kingdom may be traversed from the Northern Districts, without the necessity of making the metropolis a resting-place either for iassengers or goals : and thus obviating considerable expense and groat loss of time. The length of the main line will be 62 miles, commencing at Hert ford, (which has already a branch to the North-Eastern Railway), eontin .ing its coarse by Hatfield, St. Alban's, to Watford, where it will cross the London and Birmingham Railway, from thence to Rlekrnansworth, Uxbridge, and West Drayton, where it will pass under the Great Western Railway, proceeding by Colnbrook, (having a braneh to Windsor from the main line at Horton), cross the Thames at Staines, t o Egham, Chertsey, passing into the South Western Railway at the Weybridge Station, approaching Cobham, Leather head,cioDorking, and terminating at Reigate, where it will form a ittn i g, , , with the South-Eastern and London and Brighton Railways. The t distance f rom each other of the various termini of rail ways in London, has for a length of time occupied the attention of the legislature and o one line to another ; and after of property h c. . been r a t n h interested Companies ; but the great value been deemed the most efnclet meat : hence the n of a more direct communication from Z y uPorableo'sstacle to effecting any improve surveys thus made, and also t' t careful surveys the present plan has y exztural ; meet every desideratum. For the already taken, there do not asp from .....4 great portion of the levels ogether with a more accessl - f t e o at r u e r o e ip o r f oc t a lle to e m o m un e t r r o y e, i sb agri — 1 "" ano: engineering or gnmereh difficulties. ane . t North with the products of the South,nting and it will open a wide the ble mode of obtaining every description manufactures of the 1 reasonable rates. In consulting the best statistieal authorities, and on the i n c.,..„, C e on derivable from the only certain mod e o f obtainingthe -x-istill" and fluctuating traffic on so novel a feature as this projected rallwayg a considerable difficulty has necessarily presented it se lf in arriving at a maximum of profits, but it can with certainty be announced that from the reSources of traffic from the manufacturing districts, rest. f procally with the counties through which the railway is intended to pass, the revenue upon the capital will yield at least 10 per cent. As the project developes itself; the most cheering patronage is manifest from influential landowners and other proprietors declaring that the formation of this line is indispensable to meet the demands ; and who have promised to give this project their undivided support. Government for a length of time have deemed it advisable to send troops with all their materiel by railways, and the facilities which can be thus afforded will form a communicating medium with ever; military depot throughout Great Britain. Suffice it to state that coal, wool, timber, corn, bark, lime, tutu every variety of product or manufacture mast inevitably find their transit by this railway, to meet the demands or e.xigenotes of se veral counties hitherto subjected to the impost of incalculable ex pense and delay attendant on goods at present being compelled to pass through London. tioucrroas—Messys. Miller and Carr, 47, Easteheap, London. Applications for shares to be made to Messrs. Miller and Carr, 47, Eastcheap ; and Messrs. Johnson, Longden and Co., Tokenhouse-yard ; and to the local solicitors, Messrs. Mart and Hart, Dorking ; Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge, Uxbridge ; Richard John Cole, Esq., Chertsey ; Richard Grove Lowe, Esq., St. Alban's ; Edward Robert Spence, Esq., Hertford ; John Sedgwick, Esq., Wat ford ; and also to Mr. Crewdson, Liverpool ; Mr. S. Slater, Man chester ; Messrs. Watson, Tootal, and Barff, Leeds ; Messrs. Charles Bell and Co., Leeds; Mr. J. Wright, Birmingham ; Mr. J. Bowden, Bull; and Messrs. George Edwards and Son, Bristol. W. - JENKINS, Secretary. Temporary Offices, 47, Eastcheap, London. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Northern and southern . (:ea' necting Railway. Centlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares in tue aboVe undertaking ; and I hereby undertake to pay the deposir upon them or any smaller number that mAy be allotted to me, am' to execute the Parliamentary contract ant subscribers' agreemen• when required to do so. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name in hall ........ ...... ............ „ Business or profession Residence .................. Reference ......... . Date of application ............................ T HE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN CONNECTING RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that no Applications for Shares in this Railway will be received from parties resident in London or its vici nity after THURSDAY, the 25th, and elsewhere after Sarranar, the 27th instant. By order of the Committee of Management, W. JENKINS, Secretary. Temporary (aces, 47, Eastoheap, Sept. 19, 1845. WELSH SOUTH MIDLAND, or ciIEP STOW, FOREST OF DEAN, AND GLOUCESTER JUNCTION EXTENSION RAILWAY. (Registered Provisionally.) Capital 900,000/., in 45,C00 Shares of 201. eaah. Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore The Right Hon. Col. Dawson Darner, M.P. Tke Hon. C. Pelham Villiers, M.P. The Hon. Robert Gore, M.T. The Hon. Col. Westenra, M.P. Sir Henry Hunleke, Bart. Sir Henry Webb, Bart. Sir William Twysden, Bart. Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart.. Sir Henry Seale, Bart William Hughes Hughes, Alder man of London Col. Hugh Caldwell . George Lawton, Esq. IV. P. Andrew, Esq. C. K. Coleman, Esq. Joseph Davies, Esq. John Wheelton, Esq. George Hall, Esq. Major White Captain J. P,lfacdougall William Collins, Esq., M.P. IWilliam Shelford Fitzvrililam, Est, Thomas Gill, Esq., Edmund Dayrell, Esq., High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire. 111111 am Strahan, Esq. William Frederick Beadon, Hartley Kennedy, Esq. James Beech, Esq. James Morrison, Esq. (With power to add to their numbe'r.) COMMITTEE OP MANAGEMENT. Edward Francis Dayrell, Esq., Wm. Hughes Hughes, Esq., Al. Chairman dennan Edward Hall, Esq., Deputy-Chair- George Lawson, Esq. man W. P. Andrew, Esq. Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart. C. E. Coleman, Esq. Sir William Twysden, Bart. W. S. Fitzwilliand, Esq. Major White W. F. Beadon, Esq. James Morrison, Esq. ENGINEER. William Gravatt, Esq., F.Y.S. LONDON BANKERS. _ _ Messrs. Glynn and Co.; anCiii;osi;.Stralian Paul, ant Co., Strard PROVINCIAL IV NKERS. Messrs. Bromage and Co„ Chepstow Messrs. Bailey, Greatrex, and Co., Monmouth Messrs. Williams and Sons, Newport The West of England Banking Company and Branched The Monmouth and Glamorgan Banking Company and Brandied The National Provincial Banking Company and Branches The Gloucestershire Banking Company and Branches Tke County of Gloucester Banking Company and Branches. SOLICITORS. Mr. W. T. H. Phelps, Newport. Monmouthshire Messrs. A'Beckett, Son, and Sympson, 7, Golden-square, London LOCAL AGENTS. Chepstow—Messrs. Baldwin and Morgan, Solicitors Gloucester—Messrs. Ellis, Elliott, and Co., Solicitors SECILETAJLY. Mr. William Prothero, 10, Old Jewry Chambers, London. This Line will join the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction itaihray at Chepstow, and extend westward near to Piercifield, the far-famed Windcliff, and Tintern Abbey, to the towns of Usk and Pontypool, and over the centre of the great iron and cLal field of South Wales, passing near to and through the midst of the extensive Iron works and collieries of Monmouthshire and Glamor . . • . _ ganshire, to join the Aberdare branch of the Taff Yale Railway, which connects Merthyr Tydvil and Aberdare with Cardiff—thus forming a much more direct and almost straight Line—by means of the railways already made and projected between those immensely populous districts, and the centre of the kingdom and London, by means of which the journey by land will be shortened between the metropolis and this great seat of industry to four and a half, and between Newport and Cardiff to five hours, which at present, even by the aid of existing railways, cannot bo performed In less than from ten to twelve hours. It will be found by reference to the official census of 18E1 and Is4l, that the average increase of population of the eounty of Mon mouth exceeded that of any other county in England or Wales ; this fact is referred to as illustrative of the rising importance of the country through which this railway is intended to pass, and of the very large passenger traffic which may reasonably be calculated upon. - The town of Usk, with Ragland, and the rich agricultural district for many miles around, are supplied by carts from the vicinity of Pontypool with coal and lime, which are there obtained at a cheap rate, and in return cattle and provisions of all kinds, hay, corn, and pit timber to an enormous extent, are sent to the iron works and collieries, where the consumption is immense. This traffic alone must necessarily ensure a considerable revenue to the Company, in dependent of the great traffic from the manufactured iron, fire bricks, and paving stone, which is of superior quality, and in great abundance. The present cost of conveying and delivering iron and tin plates from the works to London, including transit to the port, shipping charges, freight, and insurance, amounts to little less than 20s. per ton, whilst by this railway, and those it is intended to join, the average coat at the rate usually charged for such goods on rail- ways will effect a saving of at least 25 per cent., and be conveyed within twenty-four hours, instead of the average voyage round the Land's End of three, and not unfrequently six weeks, and with the very important advantage of delivering the iron free from rust, which is unavoidable on a sea voyage, in small bars more particu larly, causing a deterioration of from 15s. to 20s. per ton at least. This railway, by means of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and the Birmingham and Gloucester Railways, will open Birmingham as a market for the manufactured iron of South Wales, from which it has been in a measure excluded, from tke difficult and expensive transit by the River Severn and Canals. Large quantities ofiron ore, knovi 7 n as ‘. lisematete ore,"ls imported into Wales, from Lancashire, Cumberland, Devon, and Cornwall; whilst ore of a similar quality, and equal productiveness for iron making, exists in abundance in the Forest of Dean, and may be raised and delivered from thence by means of this and the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway to the different iron works in Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire at an average of from 25 to 38 per cent. less than it costs at present, and at the same time leave a handsome remuneration to the Railway Companies. _ The Committee of Management have gone very carefully into estimates of the goods traffic especially, and they feel justified in expressing a decided opinion that the revenue from this source alone will yield 5 per cent. on the proposed capital of the Company, in addition to the revenue to be derived from the other traffic. This Railway will pass close to, and within a few miles of, all the iron and tin works of Monmouthshire, and the principal part of those in Glimorganshlre ; and the following short statistic of the extent of those stupendous undertakings will give an idea of the vast importance of the present project. The iron and tin works com mence at Pontypool, and are— I. The Pontymelle Tin and Iron Works of Capel Banbury Leigh, Esq. 2. The Blaendare Iron and Coal Works of it. J. Blewitt, Esq., M.P. 3. The extensive Tin Works of Messrs. Conway, Messrs. Pother gill, and Messrs. Jenkins 4. The Pentwyn, Golonos, and Varieg Iron Works and Rolling Mills of Messrs. Williams 5. The British Iron Company 6. The Blaenavon Iron Company 7. The Nantylylo, Messrs. Bally, Brothers E. The Coalbrooke Vale, Messrs. Brewer '9. The Cwn Celyn and Blaine Company 10. The Beaufort, Messrs. Bally, Brothers 11. The Ebbw Vale, Messrs. Darby 12. The Victoria Company 13. The Abbercarne, Poutymister, and Tydee Tin Works, Messrs. Lewis 14. The Tredegar Iron Company 15. The Shirhowey, Messrs. Darby 16. The Rhymney and Bute Company 17. The Dowlais Iron Works, Sir John Smut, Bart., M.P., and Company 18. Carfartha. Wm. Crawshay, Req. And added to which, in the vicinity, are the extensive works and collieries in the Aberdare Valley. And on either side of the intended railway are collieries raising and vending about one million and *air tons of coal per annum, which it is not unreasonable to expect will be greatly extended, by the facilities offered through the intended railway. In the districts of Merthyr, Aberdare, and westward, there exists an inexhaustible abundauce of a peculiar description of coal, which, though inflammable, is nearly smokeless, and is found to be superior in quality for steam purposes to any yet known. In the London market it meets with a ready sale at 30 per cent. higher than any of the best north country Hartley's ; and notwithstanding the high price, so highly is it esteemed, that the present importation amounts to nearly i rie per annum. This c oa l f or t h e most part is broughtfrr tons a sce of 24 miles, and shipped at Cardiff, from whence freights to London have averaged from 10e. to l Is. per ton during the past year; but so uncertain is the supply to the metropo lis, owing to the scarcity of ships on the Welsh coast, and the long and precarious navigation round the Land's End, that many who are anxious to adopt their engine grates for its use, are deterred from the too great uncertainty which exists against obtaining a regular and oonetant supply; these difficulties will be entirely superseded by the proposed railway, and these it is intended to join, with the great additional advantage and impetus to increased use and consumption, that it may_ be delivered to the consumer at from 2s. to 3s. per ton less price than at present. Under such circumstances, it will not appear unreasonable to those unacquainted with the trade, to expect that the consumption in the metropolis alone will bo increased four fold, whilst a new-found trade will be opened out with Chepstow, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Witney, Oxford, and the numerous inter mediate towns to London, where steam coal is used. It has been considered more judicious to form a separate Company for the Kxteneion line from Chepstow to the Taff Yale, than to alter the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway Company at present, but powers are proposed to be taken for uniting the two Companies hereafter, with the assent of their respective Boards of Direction. Preference will be given to those locally interested, and to the holders of Shares in the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Glonceetet Junction Railway. A reference to the map will show the importance of this line as , 1 forming a direct line of railway communication between the great mineral distr:ct of Monmouthshire and Glamorgaruthire, with the heart of the Kingdom and London. It may confidently be stated that in connexion with the Chep stow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway, there is not a line of railroad in the Kingdom w hi ch offers greater advan tages to the Shareholders than the present. Provision will be made in the Act of Parliament which will be applied for in the next ses sion to limit the liability of the Shareholder to the amount of his shares, and to allow four per cent. on the calls. Until an Act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of this Company shall be under the control of the Managing Directors, to whom power is given to allot the Shares, and to apply the ftmds of thepayment of all the expenses incurred i n i ts forma tion, and preparation of the Plans and Sections su b m i tted to C o Parliament. mpan Power will ' the in in be applied for in the Act (and In the meantime is hereby given to the Managing Directors as above), to raise any addl. ineaunael capital,h lines, tor emake or bor x enterten or a a b n a y n d a o r n ra a n n g y e branchnts, by yf tamalgamationhe line, to otherwise, with any other company or companies, and also to nomi nate the first Directors of the Company. Applications for Shares, in the form annexed, to be made to the Solicitors, or to Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle Street, and Messrs. Backhouee and Co., No. 4, Angel Court, Throgmorton Street, London ;—Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; —Mr. Thomas Evans, Bath ; Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester ;—Messrs. 11. Davies and Co., Dale Street, Liverpool ;—Messrs. Chantrell and Boys, Leeds ; —Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull;—and Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin. To the Provisional Committee of the Welsh South Midland or Chep- stow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway Extension. I request that you will apportion me shares of 20/. each, in the Welsh South Midland or Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Glouces teri Junction Extension Railway ; and I d hereby undertake to ac cept the same, or any less number you ma. clot me, and to pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per share, and all future ca thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when re quired. Dated this Name. In fu11.... Residence ... ..... ..... Business or Profession ............ Name, Residence, and Profession of Refeseo.• • ... Usual Blgnature of Applitent ...................... day of 1845. WELSH SOUTH MIDLAND, or CHEP- Tpam:e:lTto fi tov F : O lit ß aA E cte ll ri, T wth : A f yl lE o A f N oc , t a o n be d r :L ex o t l7 . CUTER JUNC- Notice N hereby given that no Application for Shares in this ~ODI• D IRECT WESTERN RAILWAY Upon the Broad (q•7ga), Gill London A the Land's-end ; with Diverginz Lines o Bah and Bridgewater res (Provisionally ..e,4ltered.) Capi al, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 11s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL COSIMITTREL The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly Rouse, Pewsey, Wilts Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London Ralph Neville, Esq., M.P. for Windsor, Hill-street, Berkeley-square Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P. for Totness, 6, Parliament-street Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester and Hadderefield and Sheffield Railway Companies air John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of London, Director of the Direct Manchester awl London and Direst Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company Thomas Faincomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tholey-street, Alderman of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin ster Bank, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder minster Railway Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the City of London Edward Harrisaon Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North ampton. Banbury, and Chelteaham Railway, and Director of the South Midland Railway Joseph Armitage, Esq., Miln's Bridge House, Huddersileli, Deputy Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park, Director of the Northampton,* Banbury, and Cheltenham, and South Midland Railways Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Rally. ay Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe Philip W. Courtney, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London Millis Coventry, Eat., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street Barnet L. .Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and George-street, Mansion Rouse John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tanbridge, Kent, Director if the Leicester and Bedford Lailway Boswell Middleton Joiland, Esq., Holderness House, near Bull, Deputy Lieutenant and Majstrate for theEstst Biding of Yorkshire Charles Robert Coleman, Ebel., Irongate Wharf William Eales, Esq. Ilincing.lane, London, late Director of the Devon and Cornwall Banking Company Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-orals, Director of the South Midland Railway Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-torraee, Regent's Park, London, Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the Seuth Essex Railways Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Director of the Londonderry and Coleraine and the Londonderry and Enniski:len Railways John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of the Central Terminus Railway, and ef the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Insurance Company James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West Heath House, Er:th, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Dire. for of the Bridport and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railways Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, sad Cannon street, Loudon 11. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloucester-place, Regent's Park George M'lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-sqnare Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland Railway Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-conrt, Surrey, Chairman of the Li censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company Patrick Fres. Johnston, Esq., Great Cusaborland-place - Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the Londe' and Blackwell Railway Company W. D. Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon Cuthbert Woodstock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Rryansteue-street, Portman square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension Railways George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 31, Pall-mall, London, Assistant Tithe Commissioner William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square William Breynton, Esq., Montpolier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon don, Director of the Leicester and Tamwerth Railway Richard Harris Purcell, Ecq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway Company Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, Loudon, Auditor of the London and Blackwell Railway Company Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square Anthony Ridley, Esc, Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the St. Katherine's Dock Company William F. slack, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square Charles Thomas Warde, . Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire - George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles street, Berkeley-square James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Wane-100111re, and Grorrenor place, London Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Drotnagh Castle, county Cork, Union Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail- way Company Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London William Congreve Russell, Esq. Leamington, Warwickshire, Di rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain id Light Dragoons Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbottrne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity square, London Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near .Newbury, Berko Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berko Major Kirwan, Great Fulteney-street, Bath Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the Caunty Rev. Chas. Fras. Bamfylde, Rector of Dunkerten, near Rath Richard Mortimer., Esq., Chippenham, Wilts George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming ham Railway Company R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buckingham shire Railway and Wolverton Junction Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsnilll, Collumpton Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton Win. Ir. lialeornb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerforil, Chairman of the Berko Union Banking Company William Haleomb, Esq., Marlborough. Manager of the Wilts and Dorset Bank Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Tannttn Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berko Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Katie Habertleld, Esq., Clifton, Bristol James Troup, Esq., Hastings John Robson, Esq., Cllfton, Bristol John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director of Coventry and Leicester Railway Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North sanpton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company -place, th e P o tt er i es, St a ff or d s hi re, Railway Jo p hn iree ß t i o dg r e o w f tahye, Manchester !dard Southampton James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and Southampton Railway Companies" Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Direetor of the Manchester and Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways James Ogden, M.D., Saltbrd Sir William LowthroP, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley" Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the. "Liver- Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders- S ked l7 : e l flield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford Esq Tr n ec u t sh ß o a i l m lw ij ay ail, Manchester Johnc. "Liver pool dli Jones,iaoanl nfdodr Union Railway Charles Bamford, jun., BEI, Hall, Direetor of the Hull and Barnsley Junction John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South ampton Railway John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Durham Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and Midland Railway Companies Isaac Holmes, Esq., Liverpool Wm. B. N ew bery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Di rector of the fihefleld and Iron Bridge Railway Company C . Manchester Appl Appleby, Railway Company Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Railway , and Salisbury and Swindon Railways John Ward, Esq., Machin Ba n k , Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield, Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-offi ce Wm. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the Hudd e rsfield and Sheffield Railway Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Di rec t or o f th e E as t Coast Railviay Company Esq., Hull, Director of the Li verpoo l aid Leeds Di Captain H. Bowker, R.N., Devonport S. Bright, • rect Railway Sheffield, Directo r o f th e Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq. , :Sheffield Director of the East an d We st of England Railway Company John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield , D i rector of the Wakefield and Bar rewgate Railway Company William a A n t d te L rc hi li co ffi n terr ,hi a r e c e Junction Railway. , Isle Marriott, of Ely, wi be E rch, Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York and East Lincolnshire Railways John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool David Price, Esq., Manchester William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon -square, Leamington Rev. H. W. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of 'the South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse, merchant John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-sqaare, Assistant Tithe Com missioner John Norton, Esq., Moat Howie, Brentwood, Essex William John M`Gaire, Esq. Hampton Court John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey W. J. Lefeuvre, Esq., F.R.S.,Aldennan and Magistrate ofSoutlaampton Thomas Chas, Harrison, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park G. B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Coventry and Leicester Railway Captain Tringhans, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield (With power to acid to their number). A further list of influential names will shortly appear. Bemuse—Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill, London. JOINT SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard. London Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London Messrs. a. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Loudon. SECRETARY—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq. . ASSISTANT-SECRETARY—CharIes J. Whalley - , ESQ. LOCAL AGENTS. At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq. At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Hanford, and Staunton At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole At Tiverton, T. L. T. Rendell, Erg , and J, A. Toms, Esq. At Truro At Penzance At Falmouth The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between London and the Land's End. In a national point of view such a line is indispensable. With the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from its situation at the western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in creased its imports: rom 200,0001. to 3,000,000/. per annum. At Bris tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased. The merits of a line to the Land's End Its an investment for ca pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal mouth by way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been set on foot on the conviction that Fahuouth must be reached by railway. The object of this prospectus is to show that no ether line than the present can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard to this, its most important outport—" the natural Packet Station of the empire." The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End. The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company having amalga mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company. The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells (from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater), Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two miles than any existing railways between these points, and without a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St. Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole llatanoe from London to Falmouth, a saving of about nicety miles. With reeageLto the traffic on the upper 132rtion of the line it I eogers to itirmbro than that Mere is atithloiy thbrough tragic suffi cient to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes tern : that it will shorten the distance front London to Tiverton about 32 miles that it will traverse rich and populous iwricultural and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as well from railways now in course of construction as from ethers pro jected, with every chance of success. As to the trade on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that the vast number of merchant vessels continually detained In the Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway; and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol and Southampton ; to what extent the Inexhaustible mineral wealth of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire may be further developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract alarger propor tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the map will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of railroad accommodation. Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance i❑ the event of war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet Commerce of the kingdom ; it may not be out of place to quote here the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley, which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways, he is reported to have said : —"I consider that the com munication between the metropolis and the great outports to be not a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company, it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself set hereafter to oppeGe a direct line to Falmouth ; and it may be further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed to interfere with that great national object. The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for war Bess, and the whole will be ready (Sr the next session of Par- Itamat. It is sufficient, as to these points, hare to state that there are no engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be constructed at an unusually small expense ; that the undertaking will meet with the cordial support, ooncurrenco, and co-operation of the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that Dais will prove to bo one of the most remunerative railways is tko kingdom. Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at four pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference M the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected with the Direct Western district. Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary, or to any respect able broker in town or country London, September 11, 1845. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 251. each la the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 91.123. Gd per share thereon, or ea any less number you may appropriate to me and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con. tract when required. Dated 1845. Name in full .......... ........ Residence .. ...• • • • ..... • . Trade or Profession • • • • Place of Business (if any) ••. • • • • • Signature.. • • • • • • • • .... LONDON AND WINDSOR RAILWAY, through Kaightsbridge, Kensington, Hammersmith, Turn ham-green, Erentford, Hounslow, Bedfant, Staines, and Old Wind sor, to Windsor, with an alternative Line from Staines to pass by hatchet to Windsor. Capital, 500,0001. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to:7th and Eth Victoria, eap. 110. COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Major CHARLES L. BOILEAU, Casteinan, Barnes, Chairman Charles Goodwin, Esq., Battersea Sir John Hare, P.A.Xangham-place Thomas It. Kemp, Esq.. Abehureh-lane William Kuper, Esq., Camserwell S. H. Powell, Esq., Brixton Captain M. H. Siveny, R.N., Brompton Captain F. Bayly Wardroper, H.C.S., Brompton Walter White, Esq., Fitzroy-square (With limited power to add to their number). Etionsacr.s—Sir John Macneill and James Thomson, Esq. SOLICITOII—George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden-square. This line of railway has met with general approbation, and its im portance cannot be questioned, traversing, as it will, a locality totally excluded from the benefit of railway communication, though, it may be said, one continuous town, for a distance of ten miles, and a densely-populated neighbourhood, the property around which is open, flat, and of a highly favourable character for the construction of a line of railway. In addition to the advantage of a direct communication between the two royal residences at London and Windsor, avoiding the de lay and inconvenience of three different conveyances, and reducing the time requisite for the entire journey to thirty minutes, the pro posed line will afford to Barnes, Kew, Isleworth, Bagshot, Ascot, Sanning-hill, and Egham, all abounding with elegant villas and a wealthy population, an easy access to London, and form the main trunk for a direct communication to Exeter and the whole of the south-west of England. It will also afford a facility to reach Hun gerford-bridge on the south side of the river by the Richmond Rail way, by means of a branch from Hounslow to Richmond. The Committee have much pleasure in adding that the surveys are made, the deposit., have been duly paid, the parliamentary contras signed and completed. By order, Office, 30, Regent•etreet. E. W. H. BELL, Secretary PROSPECTUS OF THE RHONDDA and ELY VALUES JUNCTION RAILWAY, GLAMORGANSHIRE. (Provisionally Registered.) Promoted with the sanction and support of the Right lien. the Earl of Dunraven. Capital, 900,0001., in 10,600 Shares of 201, each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. Viscount Adare, lf.P., Dunraven Castle, Glamorgan Crawshaw Bailey, Esq., Iron-works, Nant-y-Glo Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P., Foxley, Herefordshire Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Radnorshire Sir William Wynn, Maes Eewyeld, Chairman of the North Wales Railway James G. Barrett, Esq., Ross, Herefordshire Henry A. Bruce, Esq., Duffryn House, Cardiff William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Shef field and Manchester Railway Charles Richard Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham, Kent Thomas Chitty, Esq., Director of the Rugby and Worcester Railway The Rev. James Cozens, Ynys Plum, Glamorganshire Edward Cotton, Esq., St. James's-square and Kenilworth, Director of the Commercial ank John Dennis, Esq., Director of the Eyrewash Valley Extension Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway William Edmondes, Esq., of Cowbridge, Glamorganshire Thomas H. Evans, Mayor of Carnarvon, Director of the Rugby and Worcester Railway The Rev. H. R. Fowler, Felton, near Bristol, and No. 7, Manchester square Captain Hewitt, Tyr Mabb Ellis, Glarmerganshire Windsor H. Humphreys, Esq., Garth Hall, Glamorganshire John J. Harris, Esq., Treverig, Glamorganshire John Hopkins, Esq., Killely, Glamorganshire William Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway John Ingle. Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway Vero Clarke Kemball, Esq., Hyde-park-gardens, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Richard Kelly, Esq., Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Griffith Llewellyn, Esq., Raglan Hail, Glamorganshire William Llewellyn, Esq., Director of the Bridgend Branch of the National Provincial Bank of England James Morrison, Esq., Director, of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean Railway Thomas Morris, Esq., of Newport, Monmouthshire Leyshon Morgan, Esq., Lower Tremahis, Bridgend, Glamorganshire Samuel r. Pratt, Esq., F.R.S., Bath, and No. 65, Lincoln's Inn fields, Director of the Kennet and Avon Canal William Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park George B. Pye, Esq., Lavenham, Suffolk Evan Prichard, Esq., Collenna House, Glamorganshire James Brown, Egg., of Ton Dhn, near Bridgend Richard Fowler Rickards, Esq., Lantrissent House, Glamorganshire James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Edward L. Richards, Esq., Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire John Randall, Esq., Old Castle, Bridgend, Glamorganshire Richard Lewis Reece, Esq., County Coroner, Cardiff Edward Beard, Esq., of Kew Green, Surrey, and Garth Hall, Glaniof- gansb ire Henry James, Esq., Finsbury-square, London Captain Dawson, R.N., Barnes, Surrey, Director of Cambridge and Lincoln Extension (With power to add to their number.) SOLICITORS. W. E. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street, London William Morgan, Esq., Bridgend, Glamorgan. BANKERS. Commercial Bank of London National Provincial Bank, Bridgend and Cardiff. ENGINEER.= This Railway is projected for the purpose of uniting the Rhondda and Ely Vallies, with the South Wales Railway, at a few miles dis tance from the Port of Cardiff; and to open a new mineral district, one of the richest and most important in South Wales, which is at present without the means of transit for its immense and valuable products. It will pass through the central portion of the great coal-field of Glamorganshire, where iron-stone also abounds with the coal in im mense quantities, and laying, geologically speaking, nearly flat, and, obtainabie, for the most part, by proper levels. The coal in addition to its being of excellent quality for iron making, as is proved at Mer thyr and Aberdeen, is also, like that of those districts, of the very best description for steam purposes, being nearly smokeless, although inflammable, indeed so pre-eminently is the superiority of this de scription of coal established for steam purposes over any other, that the demand for It tar exceeds the supply, and promises, accord ing to the opinion of the most eminent marine engineers, to super sede all others fir purposes of steam navigation. This source of traffic alone will afford a handsome return for the capital invested, as has been demonstrated In every Instance where even tram-roads or canals have been constructed to open the mineral resources of ether less promising vallies in Wales than the Rhondda, which is cele brated for the abundance, quality, and facility of obtaining its pro ductions. An inexhaustible supply of limestone (so necessary for the manu facture of Iron and for agricultural purposes) may be obtained by means of this Railway, much nearer and cheaper than by any other line. This line will afford to the increasing population of the rich vales of Ely and Rhondda a much desired communication with the great market town and port of Cadriff, from whence, at present, they may be said to be almost excluded. _ _ _ It is intended that the line shall commence at Shen Rhondda, the head of the Rhondda Valley, and proceed down to a natural pass between the hills at Ffrwd Amws, a distance of eight miles, where it will enter the Ely Valley and proceed down (a further distance of six miles) to Lanelay-bridge, near Lantrissent, and there join the South Wales Railway, thus opening a communication under the most advantageous circumstances as to distance, with all the ports in the British channel. A preliminary survey has already been made by competent par ties, and it is found that the country admits of highly favourable gradients, so much so that it is confidently anticipated that the works will be executed very considerably under the advertised ca pital, _ _ _ The landowners along the line are favourable to this undertaking, and the names of many influential proprietors will be found on the Provisional Committee. No Subscriber will be answerable beyond the amount of his de posit until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his subscription. Until an Act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of this Company shall be under the control of the Managing Directors, to to whom power is given to allot the Shares, and to apply the funds of the Company in payment of all the expenses incurred in its forma tion, and in the preparation of the plans and sections to be submitted to Parliament. Power will he applied for in the Act (and in the meantime is hereby given to the Managing Directors as above), to raise any addi tional capital, to extend or abandon any part of the line, to make branch lines, or enter into any arrangements, by amalgamation or otherwise, with any other company or companies, and also to nomi nate the first Directors of the Company. In the allottment of Shares, a preference will be given to landowners on the line and other parties locally interested. Prospectuses and Maps may be had of, and applications for Shares, may be addressed in the form annexed to, W. B. James, Esq., Solicitor, 5, Basingliall-street, London ; to W. Morgan, Esq., Solicitor, Bridgend, Glamorganshire ; and to the undermentioned Brokers ; but no application for Shares will receive the attention of the Committee, unless accompanied by a reference to one or more of the Provisional Committee, Solicitors, or the Engineers : London—Messrs. John Shewell and Son, 25, Tokenhouse-yard. " Messrs. J. Peppercorns and Co., 2, Old Broad-street. Liverpool—Messrs. Boultt and Co. Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese _ _ Leeds—Messrs. John Young and Co. Bristol—Luke Arnold, Esq.; Messrs. Tait. and Nash Birmingham—Mr. Collis Sheilield—Mews. Bardvrell and Sons. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.' To the Provisional Committee of the Rhondda and Ely Valli: Junction Railway, Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of 20/. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me ; and I also undertake to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Residence • • .... Trade or Profession ............. . •*•retlc• dress . vate Or Appuclon •• •• •• .• . rrrITTI7 PF.Tv-'• TITTDDERSFIELD. SHEF % sou ru STAFFORDSII IRE ccx LEEDS ‘ ,. 0,\ - L.1.1.1A21i-T, .1,, and DUDIE i) DIRECT RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right lion. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Staffordshire Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westboume-street, Hyde -park Gardens Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalels, Deputy Chairman of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail way, &,e. Sir Williarnelloothby, Raft, Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire Sir William Lowthrop, Knt., Hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Di rector of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc tion Railway Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, Ashburham Hours, Chairman of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Hon. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Nottingham and Boston Railway, Parliament-street, London, &c., &c. The Sheriff of York Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Retnington's London and Manchester Railway Blurton, Robert, Esq., banker, Smallwcod Manor, Uttoxeter, Direc tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Booth, Jahn, Esq., Macclesfield Bright, Selim, Esq., Buxton Bradley, Septimus, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashbourne Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macclesfield, Director of Remington's Lon don and Manchester Direct Railway Cleobury, Thomas, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton Cooke, the Rev. J., Uttoxeter, Director of the East and West Junction Railway, &c. Cooke, John, Esq., Macclesfield Cooper, John Douglas, Esq., Holme Cottage, Ashbourne Cox, Walker, Esq., Breadsall, Derby, Director of the Tease 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 Dalby, John, Robert, Eeq., 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., Northvate, Huddersfield Dyson, Thomas, Esq.. Well-house, Holmfirth Earp, Thomas, Esq. Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worce stershire Railway Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Hudders field, Sheffield, and Halifax Railway Edensor. Richard, Egg., Road-meadow, Ashbourne Fidler, Peter Pichott, Esq., Iliggin 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 Gilpia, aid Co., Messrs. William, Wedges Mills, Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Goddard, Thomas, Esq., Bank-house, Longton, Staffordshire Haden, Joseph, Esq., Dudley, Director of 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, Holmflrth Matfleld, Thomas, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c. Haywood, Richard Howard, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries Hill, John, Esq., Derby Hirst, Abraham, Esq., York-house, Huddersfield Ingleby, Joseph, Esq., Cheadle, Staffordshire Jones, the Rev. J. P. Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staff ordshire, 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., Meorgate, Director of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Keene, John Joseph, Esq.„ St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Dliector of the National Bank of Ireland, &c. King, William, Ent. Waterloo-place, Director of the Freem a son s ' Life Assurance, & e. Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston Hall, Sudbury Lawrence, Richard Corbett, Esq., Wandfield-hall, Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Laughton, Richard, Esq., Barrow-hill, Uttoxeter Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, James, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Severn Commission, &c. Marlow, Joseph, Esq., Walsall Mason, Charles James, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries Mason, George Miles, Esq., Wetley Abbey, ;Staffordshire Meteyard, Horace, Wm.. Esq., Director of Remington's London aid 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 Meee, Esq., Director of the East and eV est Junction Railway Milner, William, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Warcestershire Junction Railway Mountford, Thomas John, Esq., Ashbourne Moorhouse, Joshua, Esq., Holmfirth Maskery, Thomas, Esq., Norbury, Derbyshire Not th, Joseph, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield Norton, George, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersitield,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, Myde-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. Silcose.., lottage, Wakefield Roden, Thomas Clarke, Esc.. edes ninham Sant, Edward, Esq. Canine& rector of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worceatershir..l-... ien Railway Shipton, Robert, Esq., &repress, euerbyshire, 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., Vlore-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 Talley Railway dee. Smith, John, Esq., Barton House, Derbyshire Smythe, John Vere, Esq., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Spies, 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, &e. Tibbits, Thomas, Esq., Norton Manor-house, Leicester Tomlinson, Thomas, Esq., Bradley Pastures, Ashboume Toogood, Rupert, Esq , Ashbourne Tylecote, Edward, Esq., surgeon, Great Heywood, Staffordshire Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, Holloway, London, Director of the East and West Junction Railway, &c. Waller, Major, K.H., St. James's-square, Director of the Chester and Manchester Railway, &e, Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire Walters, J. T., Esq., Rugeley Watts, William Royde, Esq., Birmingham Weston, Samuel, Esq., Leeds Weston, Thomas, Esq., Teen, Staffordshire, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Willer, George, Esq., Thagerford-park, Berkshire Williamson, Hugh Henshall, Esq., Greenway Bank, Staffordshire Potteries Williamson, Robert, Esq., Ramsdell-hall, Staffordshire Potteries Wise, Thomas, Esq., Ashbourne Witham, John, Esq., Ashbourne Woolrich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood, Charles, Esq., 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, Esq., Ashbourne Wright, Thomas, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Gainsbo rough Railway. BANKERS. Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London Messrs. Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co., Cornhill, London The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne, Union Bank, Uttoxeter 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., Uttoneter ENGINEERS. Fillr John Rennie, F.R.S. George Remington, Esq., C.E. LOCAL AGENTS. Armishaw, J., Esq., Rugeley Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley Eggiugton, A., Esq., Lichfield Green, James J.. Esq., Walsall. Lowe, Richard, Esq., Cheadle Floyd and Booth, Huddersfield and Holmfirtk This line of railway, which is about sixty-fly. 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 firm 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 line will pass nearly along the Uttoxeter and Caldon Canal to a point near Prestwood, in case the canal be purchased by the pro moters of this undertaking. It will proceed through Ellaston and Mayfield to Ashbourne, thence near Dovedale, Buxton, and Chapel en-la-Frith, Woodhead and Holmflrth to Huddersfield, where it will join the Huddersfield and Leeds Railway, and so to Thirsk. It will open new mines, in addition to those already in work, of lead, coal, iron ore, barytes, and carboniferous and magnesian limestone on the route, in addition to forming a direct, speedy, and cheap communica tion between the important towns above mentioned. Arrangements have been made with other companies to run into this line from Sheffield. This company reserves the right to raise additional capital to extend the line to Leeds. Many of the above-mentioned mineral productions are essential to the mining districts of South Staffordshire and Sheffield. The North Staffordshire and Derbyshire Limestone is much superior to that of South Staffordshire in the fluxion of iron (15 cwt. of the former being equal to a ton of the latter), and producing a better quality of ma terial. At present, themode 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 ne:ghbourhood 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, botlj 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 immeese traffic which would jfelar down this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway. The calculations with have been made show a very large prollt. There are large leifti 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 liaes 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 yanks, Bagote Woods, and Kingston Woods, upwards of 4,000 acres, chiefly finds its way to the MancheQter 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 dgtailql,l survey, aqd there are not more than ordinary enaneering difildaltloo. lu conitttiOllo3 Ottlio Intli ParliantUtitry cteclOOns, it ix -- ----, 7 intended to make this line on the broad gauge princir' , ', lilt the P ' mot. , :.s tio not . ple.d.•,e I nemseivcs obs , 4lntely taro Lio. - li= .., 111- A t the urgert suggem ion cf scmc of the most influential i nr- tants of Ashbomne, the Committee have or dered a stnvey of A j::.; tion line to connect that town with the Derby, and with the D..... 0 and Gainsborough and Midland Railways Applications for Shares to be made to John Owens, EN' ' „,' 35 Moorgate-street, London, and William Arnold Bainbrigge, rij Uttoxeter ; and to the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Preecii;nri Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles, Worcester ; Mr. Thomas .y_ Wheeler, Worcester; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, I._e.. pool ; Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. 31orris ii. 1... nolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, Maccissfield ; i S t ,' James Jamieson, Leeds ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and °l a d, Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ; Mr. Thomas Boardman, 1,13,,, burn ; Mr. George Clark, Bradford ; Mr. William Mason, Bra . 1° , !: Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingl?ll'' Messrs. Eyre and Shaw', Derby ; Messrs. Grayston and erg,, York; Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield; Messrs. ;iii.. and Marshall, Leeds ; Mr, James Stokes, Cheltenham , _..-',_ Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton ; Messrs, Tate and Nash: D'; tol ; Messrs. lieaumont and Langworthy, Exeter ; 31 1 '. ib li Taed Sandford, Exeter; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry; and Leese, Manchester ; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, liran che d wol Messrs. A. Birchen and Co. Manchester; Messrs. Dir. N• at hor. and Sons, Sheffield; Mr. W. Co., Collis, Birmingham ; L. We • id; turn, jun., Huddersfield j; Messrs. Eterard and Co., Hu t-1 ' 1. 10; Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester; Mr. Nicholson, Edinb , ,„, Messrs, Hoag or; Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ; 3lessrs. Lebertoww and Stafford, College-green, Dublin ; Mr. James Ross, Perth. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SIIARES. ~,,A,/, To the Provisional Committee of the Leeds, Huddersfield, Shaw — and South Staffordshire Direct Beltway. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me in the above Railway, and I undertake to accept elm , ' less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the ret. as hes of the Company, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to pal , " required, the Deposit thereon of 2/. 2s. per Share. . Dated this day of , 184 . • ......'". Name in full ••• • • • ........... . ... ' ltthare essi,omfe2Bl; essul:ccii RPreosifdesesniceongfdaipiro..f.ess..l.o.nal...re.:s:id: e:n..ca: ....... Reference • • •• • • ••• • • • •• • •• • • C TRW MIDLAND AND THIRSK JUN RAILWAY. Wanted, a SECRETARY to this Company, who has had l e acid perience in Railway business, and can give satisfactory re for character and ability. Salary 3001. per annum. 2fllicatiors, by lettero only, ed No. 64 Box'rOt4ilice. Bradford, Yorkshire. ISLE OF MAN RAILWAT C0MP.4141 Capital 500,0001., in 25,000 Shares of 201. each' Deposit 2'. per Share. (Provisionally Registered.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE IN TEE ISLE 0 7 1014 : A 4 Chairman.—Captain BACON, C. 8., Sean'''. George Adams, Esq., Douglas Thomas R. Bridson, Esq., J. P. DOOM Thomas Bridson, Esq., Director of the CoMMercial 85---i Y. B. Byne, Esq,, Burleigh, Kirk Braddan Captain Campbell, Castletown Clarence Carey, Esq., Springyalley William Christie, Esq., it.w7, Castictown Archibald Clarke, Esq., Douglas J, W. S. Clucas, Esq., Ballycraggan, and litaryVOitt liant°l George Cookson, Esq., M. D., Douglas Thomas Creighton, Esq.,CasUetoirn Philip Elliot, Esq., Douglas Henry Faulder, Esq Castletown F. L. Gelling, Esq., Castletown Samuel Harris, jtiri., Esq., Douglas George Jefferson, Esq : , Stanley-terrace, Douglas John Kelly, Esq., High Bailiff, CastleteWn R. Maingay, Esq., Castle-lawn, Doughy; Captain Martin, Woodville, DOuglai John Moore, Esq., Dvuglai - Catain M. Richa rSkinn dson, Castletown le le ... A7 " lb • , George M`Gregor , er, Esq., Mount Marray 1 10 . tarp to the Flax Improvement Society for Ireland . J. H. H. Spencer, M.D., Douglas , Major Tenison, Douglas tiastl oo° '' • J. Underwood, Esq., Physician to the Government, — .. William Wilders, Esq., Woodville, Douglas (With power to add to their number). e ll ' PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE IN LONDON., Torbg Tho Right Honourable the Earl of Uxbridge, l'A - '" tk So u Wellyn, H rt Ro erts of t he David Robess, Esq., M.P. for Belfast, Direc tor l°l. of Union Railway The Honourable Percy Evans Freke, Bolgrave-eo—,4 DireeAO ,1' the Bandon and Bantry Railway Via' ,pte' i W. J. Macguire, Esq., Hampton Court, Director of the ato p, ing and Basingstoke, and Wilts, Somerset, and tot of ec Railways m i n Dir Peter Thomas Legh, Esq., Ridge Hall, County Du b ' i,,r of the Clonmel arid Kilkenny Railway nfee,,,, Sir Wm. Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshir%—imilw7ool the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Jun e ,,, W hfiner e r til l William Shaw, Esq., Managing Director of the RoPu ve tor° o o4 o General Fire and Life Insurance Company, an d ali 0 1 " London and Birmingham Extension Railway, en d So 10' Junction Railway „. ,-wick And John Anderson, Esq., Lofhbury, Director of the ~ a" y geOr caster Railway, and Birmi'igham and Lichfield Railw%s, Richard Lea Wilson, Esq., Milk-street, City, and StrO u Lond ° pt• ber of the Honourable Court of the Common Counci l o ,,f ri roll , ap iji Captain James Patrick APDougal, Fir-grove, Nort h A 'rorin e , rector of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, an r° l OCt ° Railway Or William Green, Esq., Walnut Tree House, Leytonstolle, ri o of the Amman Vale Iron Companyhigh Si dW el. E. F. Dayrell, Esq., Lillingetone Dayrell, Bucks, dse Oxford Bucks, and Director of the Bucks Railway, and verton Junction Sir William Twisden, Bart., Cave n nd o l . sh i, s ar tr i e j e a t m , C ve ndisti l ifteetu ' r 4 en a t-stree t i t i ;ipolo The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulte the London and Manchester, and Liverpool and Le... cd ,,, e is, l'''' , William Kuper, Esq., Camberwell, Director of the l' e— Je Midland Junction Railway t i d 11" J. S. Powell, Esq., Brixton, Director of the London -- 1 ov • rt Railway f he I ,ll ° lfeY ° John Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Director 0- t,, 5,.-- w the Lancaster, and the Exeter, Dorchester, and WeYni n n u i r ecto r , Captain Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park' 1 7. Reading and Reigate Railway ~,,,i , sli d G. A. Brow*, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the ‘,•-• ° „ I ffy' Railway r ID " Henry Pratt Barlow, Esq., Kensington-square Director° ot Warrenpoint, and Rosstrevor Railway ' AO O ld 1811 j -A Captain Sweeny, R.N., Brompton, Director of the Lon- - 0 09 " 0 0 Railway , V William White, Esq., Fitzroy-square, Director of t" $ Ol Windsor Railway John Kerr, Esq., Stranraer, Banker we ll° • Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Northampton' - of Cheltenham Railway , pire cier „ if , Isaac Holmes, Esq., Great George-square, Liverpool , - r aiv 0 ~,, Direct Western and North Cheshire Railways ~.. ilell f Captain T. H. Newton, Burton-street, and Lugwara we ' Dire c t Robert Lang, Esq., Dumfries Banker 62100 John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetter House, Athereolso i of the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham and SOU L ' Railways. BANNERSI. London—The Union Bank of London a CO Liverpool—The sank of Liverpool 4 e t BO Manchester—The Manchester and Liverpool Db.. +,— ---- pany Dumfries —The Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank Isle of Man—The Commercial Bank and its Branches' A d j. • ACTING ENGlNEER.—Sandiforth F. Griffin, E t r ers o l RESIDENT SURVEYOR IN THE ISLAND—Jobe A treet; 3 lo SOLICITOR—R. H. Hill, Esq., 62, moorgat e .,•`o, LOCAL LAW AGENT—L. Craigie, Esq., Doutlas , OS' SECRETARY—A. B. Blackie, Es'a• pde LOCAL SECRETARY—P. C. Wood, E Di 0 sq., Castlelawo , o a f ; its.. Dr The proposed line of railway will run from P ° , l ' 4 ,,:ith t e Mills, Crosby, Ballacraine, and Saint John's, to Pe el ' ooP?„se";• on the north from Saint John's by Kirk Michael, "n 'to to Port Rallaugh and Sulby to Ramsey, and a branch ~, through Ballsssallse to Castletown, with continuaue— 111°'" , Mary. n ot Pgrber Douglas is the principal, most commercial, un et __ - eh e fr ee_j:, town in the island, and visitors generally arrive the'Z'Ater ever admits vessels drawing 18 feet water, and affords 1 3 n.,`" ter. north, west, and south ; and, although exposed t e _` - elte nli fsr_ c `,e' there is not a more secure refuge in St. Georee'% o o/ re` William Hilary first drew public attention to the ne e 'l o 11, P r ; structing a good central harbour of refuge, and the of 'o wards surveyed by Sir John Rennie. The establishree';j4,ll ' o f v.; posed line will lead to the formation of harbour' (` 01 0 11Pi e' t t ceived the attention of Government), accessible a ,octan t t sf., A l tide to vessels and steamers of any burden. This in , l cola; gne will undergo the serious consideration of the presen" te e A l 4 pier and two lighthouses have already been erec e ros"rc cost. The town is populous, and the neighbourhood, ot eef ficj mansions and villas. Many first-class steamers A O6 10 if are yearly built at Douglas. the it Peel is celebrated for its great cod and herring Ilshe r w ic e ' ;lo l oo 'd I'l4 enjoying in the former the largest in the British do , do ; re,, immediately opposite to Douglas, on the western '' c ced j a sengers landing at Douglas might be immediately eenjoog sin se.cs which faces the north-eastern parts of Ireland ; e nd toed' gerous sea-passage would thus be saved. It 5150 aP of quities, and is generally known from its being the loes ll ' e see r° , the pen of Sir Walter Scott has so highly dilated._ „ i4 ey, Ship-building is also largely carried on at 0 . 4.-- ,sll 6 'oP which is one of the finest in the British Channel, and besi a e to 0, sorted to by homeward-bound vessels. An active e n , t ee'llT s en t io tioe reside here; but the want of good roads to I detri g oi,• and the other parts of the island has been found , -5 0 c is en d The Liverpool and Glasgow steam boats regularlY e, trete:o, embark and disembark passengers, and an extentd"'rofel,'" carried on, which is, however, capable of much ilnP will be facilitated residencethe oerations of this ComPa nP oor• ° s od WO Castletown is the of the Lieutenant - G ove 5 150 Cu seit of govenment. It is on the road to Port le _ b ole Erin and the n celebrated Calf of Man. Visitors inye'eele'otse route to view the Calf of Man and the remarkable 001 exist in this neighbourhood, and which are unP arn tol o phenomena. is t P e The island is bounded by the following counties, vsl!r''o, Kirkcudbright, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Laneelte, an; re'of high, Carnarvon, and Anglesea, Dublin, Meath, th . .a re 9 . 0,1 The railways projected from the several counties line of steamers, and the contemplated extensions of tn . e ty pefo, the island accessible in a short period of time , fr p :l tat e :l r t ": l , : pr lor er to most parts of Scotland and Irelaud will be, by 01,10 shortest, cheapest, and most pleasant route. been In establishing the railway, one great object hee j ostle,' pe , je le meat of the obviously great internal resources of we 11 '": aloe all respects a producing island. Corn, cattle &c., are shipped to Glasgow, Liverpool, Fleetwoo d ', rt t i t fa t ,' coast of England. Locally, the aim will be to tran' t l i ; woo oi ar io j, of the northern and southern districts--eminen t V inc er ieet7o to Douglas, the central and principal market. e'', i j a yee, ' 4 ter " now extensively carried on with Liverpool, hlt e _„„rs t ail' and the Scotch and Irish ports, by first-rate stee"'" 4 16 air len • vessels. tee ,jat' At present, the number of travellers who visit _,, b rel „eir great, but when a ready means shall be afforded of el,ts, ce to Mimes between Douglas and the more romantic dist, Tee presumed that the increase will be very cons /arable. o f its bathing in the world, its antiquities, and the sa lubr ity 000 cos, are among its prominent attractions. f* Bich lose d Vid (116 The 130, square o cultivation island . The t rivers are ooo numerous, acres and , the 1 7, rell'ioielp;sti tinuously so as not to interfere with the plan n ; o st.e's je island is one of the richest in minerals in her NA',,dero t e l l , o ftd• Lead, copper, and iron ore are worked ill enj o i ;For t jo . el' ° l•l 3l° tics, and many thousands of tons arc annually 4 . no tter% f i le A is stone, granite, marble, manganese, and the filles'r,o Ole, - IS • Superior water power also exists, which ' , v . „ 6 0 ; for manufactories when the facility for transit bY • on 0, T 1 1 6; ration. d S'' OW (a r yl In "Bethwick's Vein," between Castletown 811 0 0 / 4 011, of the largest bodies of ore ever discovered in bo rlzo,' je ve`;„ er t ; depth of the level is 43 fathoms, driven through „ re sew - , ) 0 411 fathoms, and the ore is strong in the sole of thee to , ev ers l", o nr excellent lead vein is worked on the Ellerslio se ta _ at , s to li e/ ot ,o numerous valuable mines at Laxey. In brief; gr e „ roYa'„ ISO is a characteristic of this island. The mines PO:, 90 t" tenth. It may be mentioned that in the lead or 30, 0 4 10 ° 0 silver per ton are found. barley 'et t ? The produce in wheat is about 30,000 qUarte' - ' the be - - ters. There are 4,000 fishermen employed in surP ln : of il • r i and 80,000 barrels' are annually produced. Theejuiporto. dues returned to England is 25,000/. a year. ano n oen t ,(l std manufactures are estimated at the value of 30.te' Non Is e ee rc eo , s It is of consequence to reflect that the Isle or /0 1 resting-place on the great high sea-way betif e _ ss eng e .,;t north of England and Scotland, and that the Pe„ w et e eel , hich te° dise, and mail-packet communication by w OO,O must raise it high in statistical estimation. 111. 1 , 4 0 No engineering difficulties exist on the Pr° - rilot '0 in many parts is obtainable at a c heap rate, rin d _ a 0 se d ps,,, o fi island is to be anticipated. The Committee are erni nei rtai''' authorities, with the sanction of the home ,d delA) , .0011.." power to grant the line, in which case the Aet o r le ri heavy expense attendant upon obtaining an t tn e re °l l ' ; be avoided. , wed t", ,10 t ne By a careful calculation, it has been or t i. o ,„, tl be a highly remunerative one, and the liabilhet t i o n• fr. 0 0, will be restricted to the amount of their subs: lo o lv t l oe_b s o, e" re oo4 jo , , applied for to allow interest at four per cen t * n n,.. of I l i in,,, te sdeol, granting of the line until its openlrg. A re r , ie loe% o .," j iseo, made for the inhabitants of the island and Pa r „ for e' l cosse p otek ot Prospectuses may be had of, and alWile a the Secretary, or to H. R. Hill, Esq., Solicitor 50...51,,j%; Em local i ‘c a otw P ;• Moorgate-street, CityCraigie, tar p o ri• „ie tart. Man; of Man; P. C. Wood, Esq., local secretary, cha,", /et, Man; and of the following brokers :—lern i b m unt",: ii fhvii. Boyd, 4, New Bank-buildings ; Mr. Charles _,_ . - sfr..:_or.7,Ditoor and Mr. A. Sym, Tokenhouse-yard. Liverlll' ebo ster V and Measrs. J. Power and R. Lowndes. 31.3 Iter Date: Auje,o3o,o house ; Mr. Thomas Ross, jun.; and Mr. au ofael i c io je 6 o ./ Mr. Robert Allan. Glasgow—Messrs. hi 4,011 T . It p ot fries—Mr. J. IPKinnell. Aberdeen — M ess '' • J. tt n me. Lancaster—Mr. W. Welsh. Leeds—htessrs.., { Pal _„4 Mr. Richard Binney. Gloucester - -- 1 1, r • Messrs. Wilkinson and Sons. Bristol — e ee ! ell A l te e o FOR I'ORM OF APPLICATIO N 1,1 0 t itle; or o I To the Provisional Committee of the Isle 0 te rej eo o l o , l Gentlemen,—l, request you will allot In „„on oat' each in the proposed Isle of Man R ailwa3e. re-e l ect , annexed prospectus ; and I hereby undertaltece owe 2/. per share thereon, and to execute ell ..• •••"' deeds when required. •. 18 In full .• No application for sharti OanDiTßlTilbrleealeaditinceiead::: a eitistictbry fercrenee. 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