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V ORCESTER and MERTHYR TYDVIL JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 110.) Capital, 800,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PEOVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Sir William Wynn, Maesynewydd, Chairman of the North Walesi Railway William Chadwick, Esq., Montagu-square, Director of the North Wales Railway, and Chairman of t h e W orcester and South /;44 Wales Junctitin Gideon Colquhoun, Esq., Weimer Lodge, Avenue. road, Regent's ,E Park, Director of the Manchester and Southampton ailw Th ß omas F ay arneomb, Esq., Alderman of London John Knill, Esq.. Thames-street, Director of tho Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., 19, James-street, Bucking ham-gate Henry Plumtre Gipps, Esq., Montagu-place, Bryanstone-sqnare, Director of the Trent Valley and Holyhead Junction Raiways Major- 1 General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate , Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London e Thomas B. Simpson, Esq., Rutland Lodge, Brixton, Director of f t the North Wales Railway, and Deputy-Chairman of the Nor- 8 center 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, Esq., Foregate-street, Worcester George Alfred Ellis Wall, Cross House, near Worcester, and o Wortley Park, Hampshire John Hemming, Esq., North Sank, Regent's Park A Philip Matthews, Esq., Burton-court, near Ross Samuel Higgins, Esq., Berrow-court, Worcestershire 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 Thomas Baylis, Esq., F.S.A., Pryors Bank, Fulham Henry Garrett Key, Esq., Tulse Hill, Brixton, Surrey Joseph Gillman Barratt, Esq., Ross James Upfill, Esq., Bromyard, Herefordshire William Candler, Esq., Newland Court, near Worcester James Chamberlain, Esq., Green Hill, Worcester. Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde Park-street, Direc tor of Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle, and Leeds and Li verpool Direct Railway Charles Grant, Esq., Fitzroy. square John Jennings, Esq., Elm Grove, Hammersmith, Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Railways (With power to add to their number). CONSULTING ENGINEER.. Exotxxxas—Messrs. R. and T. Hopkins, 31.1.C.E. BANKERS. The London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, Biddulph, and Co., Charing-cross Messrs. Webb and Co., Lecibury Messrs. Morgan, Hoskins, and Co.. Ross Messrs. Berwick, Lechmere and Co., Worcester Tho National Provincial Bank, Gloucester Messrs. Baileys, Graterex, and Williams, Abergavenny. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Gilbert, Hooke, Street, and Gutteres, Phi'pot-lane, London Charles G. Jones, Esq., 11, Gray's Inn-square Messrs. J. and F. Higins and Chamberlain, Ledbury. LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. Hydes and Tymbs, Worcester Messrs. Edwards, Ross Messrs. Gabb and Secretan, AbergaYenny. SECRETARY PRO TEX—William Borrow, ESQ. Offices of the Company, 7, Walbrook. This railway will commence al the — station of the Monmouth and Hereford 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 Lianeily, Nant y-Glo, Tredegar, Ebba 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, aed Ross, will perfect a continuous and direct communication from Merthyr Tydvil to London, Gloucester, Bir mingham. South Staffordshire, and the north. The population of Merthyr, and the surrounding mineral districts, exceeds 120,000, and this line will place it in direct connexion with the a ricuitural 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 Vrov ;tonal Committee, are requested to refer to one of such Committee; all other applicants will he required to give a reference to some hanker or other persons of known respectability in London or the tows from which the application Is made. A preference will he given to the holders of scrip in the Worcester and South Wales Junc tion Railway. . . _ usual power will be taken by the Act to allow interest at four per cent. per annum on V.e amount of subscription paid up, and no aub-eriber 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, and may be obtained of the Solicitors and Local Agents, and of the following Sharebrokers : Messrs. Ashton and Scott, Throgmerton• street, London; John San ford, Esq., Exeter; Messrs Rldsdale, Myers, and Bailey, Leeds; Messrs. Cameron, Cazenove, and Taunton, Liverpool ; Messrs. Green ani Oldham, Manchester; Messrs. Sohmes and Tripp, Bristol; Na thaniel Lea, Esq., Birmingham; Mr. William Miles, Worcester; and Mr. Andrew Brand, Glasgow FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Merthyr TydTll Junction Railway. _ _ Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of 201. ea^h 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 tract when required. Dated this day of 1845. Name .• •••• • • • • ..... •• • . Residence•.... ..... ....... Description • . • ............ t="••••••• irgnatttre.•. IRISH WEST COAST RAILWAY. (Registered Provisionally.) Capital, 1,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 1151. sash. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. pio Subscriber to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.) PIOTISIONAL COMMITTEE. Mar Blake, Esq., M.P.,Ballinafad, Mayo Robert Dillon Browne, sq., M.P., Glencorrib, Mayo John Patrick Somers, Esq., M.P., Sligo Sir Thomas Bernard Going Dancer, Bart., Modreeny House, Clough- Jordon, county Tipperary, Director of the Galway and Kilkenny 'ln•Giarrett - , -- Mayo The lion. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street, Whitehall, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway The Right Hon. John Ladoyeze Arabin, Lord Mayor of the City of Dublin Michael Gallagher, Esq., Mayor of Sligo John Netterville Barron, Esq., Resident Magistrate, Sanders Pak, Cork Owen Edmond Blake, Req., J.P., Frenchfort, Galway William Butler, Esq., J.P., Bunnahow, Ennis (late High Sheriff of Clare) James F. Burke, Esq., J.P., St. Clarence, Galway Dominick Joseph Burke, Esq., J.P., Greenhill, Mayo Theohald Burke, Esq., J.P., Woodville, Mayo William Campbell, Esq., Sackville-street, and Brighton Job Carmichael, Esq., T.C., Rivertson House, Cork, Directer of the Cork and Killarney Railway Charles Collins, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge, Director of the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Jamaica Railway ThAmas Comins, Esq., Ballybrit House, Galway Edward Deane, Esq. Jr., . Curragowan, Mayo James Dillon, Esq., j.P., Cogue, Mayo John Dunn, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S., L. and D., Drumm*. Leitrim Thomas Edwards, Esq., King William-street, London. Director of the Direct London and Dublin Railway Robert Fiske, Esq., Chepstow, Monmouthshire Robert Graham, Esq., J.P., Drumgoon, Fermanagh Ifloin Grant, Esq. St. James ' s -street, Pali-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 Ra‘lvray VP. A. Hill, Esq.. Lonsdale-square, Deputy-Chairman of the Glotces• ter and Aberystwith Railway Dean John Hoare, Esq., Percy-street, Bcdford-square Robert Hughes, Esq., Ely House, Wexford. Director of the Provin cial Bank of Ireland John Kerschner, Esq., Middle Temple William King, Esq., Spring-gardens, and Putney, Surrey Joh:i Knox, Esq., J.P., Greenwood Park, Mayo Joseph Myles M'Dennell, Esq., J.P., Doocastle, Mayo Capt. Charles Carden Manscrgh , Longraigue , Wexford, Director of the Wexford, Waterford, and Yalentia Railway Capt. Newton, Bruton-street, and Lugwardin, Harts Francis It. O'Grady, Esq., Tavrane, Mayo RI-hard O'Grady, Esq., Tavraile, Mayo Jolin O'llara, Esq., Ratteen Gort, Treasurer, County Galway Charles Ormsby, Esq., D.L., Cummin, Sligo Robert Dudley Persse, Esq., Galway Michael Perrin, Esq., Galway Rees Price, Esq., M.D., Tyne Flail, Great Ilford, Essex Richard Cowley Polhill, Esi , Brompton, Middlesex Joseph Richardson, Esq., J.P. Summer-hill House, Clones Thomas Seymour, Esq., J.P., B illymore Castle, Balllnasloe James Sexton, Esq., J.P., Limerick S. W. Siincoxes, Esq., Galway Despard Taylor, F.sq., Newport. Sword* Johu Walsh, Egg , Castlehill, Mayo Capta!:l George Edward Watts, R.N , Langton Grange, Darlington (With power to add to their number.) CoxsVLTING ENGINKBA-- Colonel Landmann, R.E., F.A.S., M.I.C.E. ENGINEAR—G. M. Lewis, C.E. Basaxxs. London—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co. Scotland —Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank Ireland—National Bank and Branches Provincial Bank and Branches. STANDING COUNSEL—JAnnes MOLISOD CAITOIC, SOLIcITOIII. Messrs. Langley and Mead, Bedford-row, London. William Thomas Kelly, Esq., 16, Bedford -square North, Dublin, and Castlobar, Mayo. LOCAL AOENTs. Galway--Captain F. O'Shaughneasy Castlehar—Mr. Henry Murphy Sligo—Mr. W. C. Tuite. SUSITAIIIT—Henry T. Stuart, Esq. PROSPECTUS. The object of this line of Railway is to complete the chain of coast communication, and form a connexion with lines already established or projected with reasonable hopes of success. It will cammence 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 cities and towns of Limerick, Ennis, Gort, Loughrea, Athenry, Monivea, Tuam, Ballinrobe, Ceatlebar, Westport, Foxford, Balllna, Kilalla, Swineford, Streametown, and Sligo, which town being connected with the north, e.tst. and south, by the different lines through Enniskillen, London derry, Coleraine, Belfast, Armagh, Newry, Dundalk, Drogheda, Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Velentia, Tralee, and Limerick, the establishment of this line will cause Ire lend to present a completeness of locomotive communication wislch to other country in the world enjoys. The country through which the proposed line travels Is most fertile in mineral and agricultural products ; It embraces many extensive coal fields, whose advantages it will extend to all p irts of Connaught and Ulster; and Intersecting, as it does, so many metropolitan lines of railway, it will develope those advantages in an equal degree to the province of Lelnster. The lead, iron, marble, and slate works on its route, will be rendered available to the most distant par:s of the island, and Perhaps not the least advantage, in a national point of view, will be the establishment of an intercourse between the population of the extreme north and that of the extreme south, as well as placing the trade of, and communication with, Scotland, within the easy reach of all towns of any Importance in Ireland. Added to this the cer tainty that on western lines, the ib completion of the projected southern, eastern, and Ireland will become e noble natural harbours on the Atlantic shore of probably theeßtait i t i tle British depots of American traffic, and most between the tw o co ed packet stations for postal communication this truly national unt , i,s, it i s i mpossible to over-rate the value of Projection. The counties wtileh this railway traverses abundantly supply the English markets with cattle, pigs , &c. This lin e , commun i cat i ng w; 4 11 so man y ports, will a ff ord greatest facilities for th e s hip p i ng o f this portion of t ra d e, some ide e s. of the extent of which may be formed from the fact of upwards of five hundred fairs being held annually in its immediate vicinity among them, the fair of for sheep an d cattle in theß B d a ti l s li h n i a s s l l ail oe as a . .- knowledged the greatest lii has been mcertained that the country presents great engineering faities for the construction of a railway, and in communications which have been received front the 1 greatest anxiety is manifested for Its completion . en 4°hg the 11 110, the tent of their first The subscribers will be held llableonl deposits until an Act of Parliament is ob y tated h , e an ez e only to the amount of their subscriptions. Power will be applied for in the Ant. —and in e branch or hereby given to the Committee—to alter the capital the meantime vary or abandon any part of the line, to m a k If nece seerf ;to enter into arrangements with any other company or companies end awn to nominate the first directors of the company, The Parliamentary contract and subscribers' agreement win be ready for signature on payment of the deposits. It will be seen from the plan that the railway intersects many train lines, and will thus contribute to, and receive from them a oen. Siderable amount in passenger and merchandise trams. From the estimates that have been made, a return of at least 10 per cent. must be realised on the capital. Application for shares to be made In the usual ft rm to the Bonet tore in London and Dublin ; to the Local Agents ; to the Secretary, at the ofilee of the Company, 10, Old Jewry Chambers ; and to the undermentioned brokers *—Messrs. Martin and Heseltine, Finch lane, Cornhill ; Mr. D. B. Major, Change-alley, Cornhill ; Mr. An thony Laurie, Liverpool ; Messrs. Brady and Staniforth, Manor-street Hull; Mr. S. Grindrol, Manchester; Messrs. Watson and Co., Lo, ds ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Messrs. Tyeth and Plymouth ; Mr. T. Sandford, Exeter; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh; Messrs. M`Ewen and Auld, Glasgow; Mr. William Gordon, Aber deen ; Messrs. Orals and Power, Dame.street, Dublin ; Mr. James Morgan, Corp / 0 whom Prospectuses may be lutd. THE SUN, t,oNDON, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER ‘,5, 1845. WOR CE STER AND LEOMINSTER RAILWAY, via Bromyard. (Registered provisionally.) Capital 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Henry George Ward, Esq., 31. P., Chairman of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company John Barneby, Esq., M.P., Brockampton, Bromyard William Bameby, Esq., Clayton Park, Bromyard, Magistrate of Herefordshire James Best, Esq., Worcester Mr. Edward laaunieter, wool-mersdiant and woel-marinfitefttrer, Lee minster William Bastow, 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 Coacher, wool-merchant, Worcester Henry Comfoot, Esq., Copthall-court, and Old Palace, Richmond, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Captain Charles Dutton. Bredenbury-house, Bromyard Tl'omas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's-wood, Di rector of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Henry Clarke Duppa, Esq., Quarry-house, Boughton, Merchelsoo, 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 Richard Hemming, Esq., Livington, near Bromyard, and Kingsland, Leominster James Hemming, Esq., Church House, Bromyard Mr. John Hughes, wool merchant, Clopgate, Worcester Mr. John Hood, merchant and carrier, Worcester Mr. George Hill, of the firm of Messrs. Hill and Turley, Worcester Henry James, Esq., Leominster, Mayor of Leominster John Kernpson, Esq., sen., Birchey- fields House, Bromyard John Irempson, jun., Esq., Birchey-fields House, Bromyard John Wheeley Lea, Esq., Vice Chairman of the Severn Navigation Company, Managing Director of the Droitwieh Patent Salt Com pany, and a Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway John Lilly, Esq., Alderman of Worcester, Worcester Royal Norco- I lain manufactory. Edward Lloyd, Esq., Sheriff of Worcester William Lawrence, BK., Brixton, Director of the London and Manchester Direct James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway Arthur Mann, Req., Webuna-square, Director of the Great Mktetern and Western Railway Mr. F. H. Needham, merenant, Worcester Mr. Powell, wine-merchant, Worcester Mr. James Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Bea and Sons, malstors, Worcester Mr. J. P. Res, of the firm of Messrs. Rea and ions, maltaters, Wor cester Jas. Reeves, Esq , Cheapstde and Layton, Direetor 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 Irpfill, 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 Estill of Bromyard Philip Warburton, Gent., Bromyard John Walker, Esq., Luisley Coart, Bromyard Mr. Wells, Hop-merchant, Worcester Mr. Woodward, Hop-merchant, Worcester John Henry Walsh, Esq., Worcester Mr. James Wall, Merchant and Carrier, Worcester (Wiih power to add to their number.) Cntzr Esonsenz—William Gravatt, Esq., F.A.S. ASSISTANT ENGINEER—S. F. Griffin, Esq., C.E. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate.street, London Henry Foley, Esq., Worcester BANTERS. London—The London and Westminster Bank. Lothbory The Commercial Bank of London. Worcester—Messrs. Farley, Lavendar, and Co. LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. W. and F. Devereaux, Bromyard John Bedford, Esq., Leominster This line will diverge from the line of the Great Eastern and Western Railway, near Worcester, and proceeding by Brom yard, will end at Leominster, at which point it will unite with the proposed lines connecting Hereford and Shrewsbury with North Wales. The communication by railway between these important towns and the continuous hop and cider districts has been entirely left unprovided for by existing arrangements, and this line is brought forward under the aespicee 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 eornmtmiestion 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 applie.d for to allow interest at 41. per cent. on all calls from the time of their respective payments, as well as to limit the liability of the shareholders to the amount of their subscrip tions. Applications for Shares, in the ann •xed form, to be made to the Provisional Committee, at the Office, 5, Gresham-street, London, or Messrs. John Shewell and Son, sharebroker, Tokenhouse-yard ; Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, 4, Bank-buildings, and Mr. Jphn Smith, 3, Shorter's-court, London ; 31r. 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, sharebrokera, Leeds ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, sharebrokers,Brii.tol ; Mr. James Pearson, sharebroker, Bir mingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., sharebrokers, Brad ford; Mr. William Miles, sharebroker. Worcester; Mr. Robert Allan, sharebroker, Edinburgh ; Mr. William Gordon, sharebroker, Aber deen ; Messrs. Black and Co., sharebrokers, Buchan-street, Glasgow ; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, sharebrokers, Glasgow; and Messrs. Bruce and Symes, sharebrokers, Dublin ; of whom prospectuses may bed. 1 procally with the counties through which the railway Is Intended to pass, the revenue nron the capltal will yield at least 10 per cent. As the project developed 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 whist 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, anu every variety of product or manufacture must inevitably dud theli transit by this railway, to meet the demands or exigencies of se veral counties hitherto subjected to the impost of incalculable ex pense and delay attendant on goods at pretknt being compelled to pass through London. SomaToss—Messrs. Miller and Carr, 47, Eastcheap, London. _ Applications for Shares to be made to Messrs. Miller and Carr, 47, Eastcheap ; and Messrs. Johnson, Longden and Co., Tokenhouse-yard ; and to the local solicitors, Messrs. Hart and Hart, Dorking ; Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge, Uxbridge ; Richard John Cole, Esq., Chertscy ; 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, Hull; and Messrs. George Edwards and Son, Bristol. W. JENKINS, &watery. Temporary Offices, 47, Eastcheap, London. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the . Northern and SontheralCor necting Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me Shares it hie above undertaking; and I hereby undertake to pay the deposit upon them or any smaller number that msy be allotted to me, an. to execute the Parliamentary contract ant subscribers' agreemen when required to do so. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name in full ................. . Business or profession ..... Residence ...... ................ ...... Reference .... Date of application .......................... T HE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN CONNECTING RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that no ♦pplications for Shares in this Railway will be received from parties resident in London or its vici nity after THURSDAY, the 25th, and elsewhere after SATURDAY, the 17th instant. By order of the Committee of Management, W. JENKINS, Secretary. Temporar► &tem, 47, Eitatekettp, Sept. 19, 1845. WELSH SOUTH MIDLAND, or CHEP STOW, FOREST OF DEAN, AND GLOUCESTER JUNCTION EXTENSION RAILWAY. (Registered Provisionally.) ' Capital 900,0001., in 45,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. No Shareholder to be liable beyond the amount of his Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore William Hughes Hughes, Alder- The Right Hon. Col. Dawson man of London Hamer, H.P. Col. Hugh Caldwell The Hon. C. Pelham Villiers, M.P. George Lawton, Esq. The Hon. Robert Gore, M.P. W. P. Andrew, Esq. The Hon. Col. Westenra, M.P. C. R. Coleman, Esq. Sir Henry Hnnleke, Bart. Joseph Davies, Esq. Sir Henry Webb, Hart. John Wheelton, Esq. Sir William Twysden, Bart. George Hall, Esq. Sir William Bacon Johnson, Bart. Major White Sir Henry Seale, Bart Captain J. P. Macdougall William Collins, Esq., M.P. William Shelford Fitzwilliam, Esq. Thomas Gill, Esq., M.P. William Frederick Beadon, Esq. Edmund Dayreil, Esq., High firstley Kennedy, Esq. Sheriff of Buckinghamshire. James Beech, Esq. William Strahan, Esq. James Morrison, Esq. (With power to add to their number.) COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Edward Francis Dayrell, Esq., 1 Wm. Hughes Hughes, Esq., Al Chairman dermaii Edward Hall, Esq., Deputy-Chair- George Lawson, Esq. man W. P. Andrew, Esq. Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart. C. R. Coleman, Esq. Sir William Twysden, Bart. W. S. Fitswilliam, Esq. Major White W. F. Beadon, Esq. James Morrison, Esq. ENGINEER. William Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S. LONDON BANKERS D IRECT WESTERN RAILW,AY Upon the Broad C From London s the Land's-end ; with Diverginz Lines o Bath and Bridgewater re kuctively. (Provisionally .t,..sl,tered.) Capi 41, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 231. eadh. Deposit, 21. 115. Gd. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street Sir Francis Dugdals Astlsy, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts Sir Henry Webb., Bart., 105, l'all-mall Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens Howard Elphinstene, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-plaee, London Ralph Neville, Esq , M.P. for Windior, Hill-street, Berkeley-square Charles Barry Baldwin. M.P. for Totness, 6, Parliament-street Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Be'grave-square Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Companies Sir John Key, Bart , 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-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. }:sq., SE, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the City of London Edward liarripson Burwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North. __ ._ ampton. Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the south Midland Railway Joseph Armitage, Esq., Min's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park, Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham. and South Midland Railways Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, Londez, Deputy Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Ralln ay Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe Philip W. Courtney, Esq. Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London Millis Coventry, Esq., Esq., Lombard-street Barnet L. Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and George-street, Mansionilouse John Wheelton, Esq., )teopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Boswell Middleton Jolland, Esq., noblemen House, near Null, . _ Deputy Lieutenant and ItiaOstrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire Charles Robert Coleman, E.g., Irongate Wharf William Bales, Esq., Mincinglane, London, late Director of the Devoe and Cornwall Banking Company Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-arose, Director of the South Midland Railway Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London, Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South Essex Railways Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Director of the Londonderry and Coleraine and the Londonderry and Euniski:len Railways John Addis, Esq., Rotherkithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Insurance Company James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West Heath House, Erith, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Dime. tor of the Bridport and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railways Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon street, London H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper Gloneester-place, Regent's Park George M'lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman square Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland Railway Charles Bleaden, Esq., Conleden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the LI. censed Victuallers' . iire and Life Assurance Company J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the Licensed VictUalle'rs ; Fire and Life Assurance Company Patrick Frits. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the Landon and Blackwell Railway Company W. D. Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. dames's, and Ripon Cathbert Woodstock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstene-street, Portman square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension Railways George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 3e, Pall-mall, London, Assistant Tithe Commissioner William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway Richard Harris Purcell, Esq. C am b r idge-street, Hyde Park, Lon don, Director of the Wilts, Esq., and Southampton Railway _ Company Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, Loudon, Auditor of the London and Blackwall Railway Company Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R N., 11, Eaton-square Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director et the St. Katherine's Dock Company William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire George PdYne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire , and C h arles . _ street, Berkeley-square James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor place, London Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Droinagh Castle, munty Cork, Union Club, Trafalgar-squars, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail- way Company • Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London William Congreve Russell, Esq. LeaMlllgtoll, Warwickshire, Di rector of the Warwickshire and London Railway Henry Bradley, Eeq., Leamington, Warwickshire John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain Ed Light Dragoons Robert Main, Esq.. Ravensbourno 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, Burlynx House, near Newbury, Berko; Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berka Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath ltev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Rey. Chas. Eras. Bamfylde, Rector of Dunkerten, near Bath Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming ham Railway Company R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Bucklighana shire Railway and Wolverton Junction Richard Mortimore, Req., Kingsmill, Collumpton Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton Rey. 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 Wm. H. Holcomb, Esq.. Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman of the Berks Union Banking Company William Holcomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and Dorset Bank W„,a,,lfuelnapa,N,„ Taunton John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Eerks Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Kerle Haberfleld, Esq., Clifton, Bristol James Troup, Esq., Hastings John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Morford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director of Coventry and Leicester Railway Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company John Ridgeway, Esq., Caulden-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and Southampton Railway Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direst London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Rail wa y s James Ogden, M.D., Salford Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the "Hull and Barnsley" Committee, and Member of the acting C omm itt ee of the "Liver pool Huddersfield , Deputy Ch a i rman of the Rudders field and She ffi eld, an d Directo r of the Ha li fax and Bradford ll an ow d or Leeds Direct Rai Rusholm Hall, Manchester lway Companies. , C. H. Jones, Esq. , John Union Railway Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Charles Bamford, Jun., Junction John Lillie, Esq.. Manchester, Director of Manoheiter and South• ampton Railway John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-Hole, Durh am 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. Newberg, Em., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and Iron Bridge Railway Company C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Company Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Railway , a n d S a lisbury and Swindon Railways /oh!' Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of th e Sh e ffi e ld, Rotherham, and Chesterf i e ld Life As surance - office WiniUdTileflehrosmillsdor',Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sh e ffi e ld, Di rec t or of the and Sheffield Railway Adderley Howard, Esq., Su tton Wisbe ch , Director of the East Coast Railway Company Captain Sower,R.N., Devonport H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverp oo l an d L eeds DI Eaq.,:SheMeld Direct or o f th e E as t an d West rect Railway Samuel Swann Brittain, ' of England Railway Company 1 John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and Ear ' rowgate Railway Company William Marriott, Esq., Attereliff-terraee, theßield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway. Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York and East Lincolnshire Railways John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool David Price, Esq., Manchester William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon -square, Leamington Rev. H. %V. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire Major Wornnin, Clarence-square, Cheltenham Edward Bell, 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 Juaotlen Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Lhinohouse, merchant John Moe Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Assistant Tithe Com missioner John Norton, Esq., Moat House, Brentwood, Essex William John M'Guire, Esq., Hampton Court John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey W. J. Lefeuvre, Esq., R.S., Alderman and Magistrate ofSouthampton Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park G. B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Coventry and Leicester Railway Captain Tringharn, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple James Whituay, Esq., Shrewsbury Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield (With power to add to their number). A further list of influential names will shortly appear. Baxxlas--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, Loudon Messrs. Haynes lend Moore, Warwick and London Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. SECRETARY—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq. ASSISTANT-SECRETARY —CharIes J. Whalley, ESQ. LOCAL AGENTS. At Devizes, Henry Gilbert, Esq. At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway At Bath, Mcs,rs. Batehellor, Haribrd, and Staunton At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole At Tiverton, T. L. T. Rendell, Esq , and J, A. Toms, Esq. At Truro At Penzance At Falmouth The object of this line is to effect a direct eoMmtmication 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 oreased its imports` rom 200,0001. to 3,000,0001. per annum. At Bris tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased. The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal mouth by way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reacled by railway. The object of this prospectus is to show that ne other line than the present can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard to this, its most important entport—" 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 Landon 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, p ursues it s cours e by or near Newbury, Hunger tbrfl, Great Bedwin, M a rlbo ro u g h, D e vizes, 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 Tannton, 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 lin, direct to the Landis End, Falai:N.:a,. St. Ives, and Penzance, boing shorter by : stout sixty niiirs tnaa the lately proposed line by vrty of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole (jitance num London to Falmouth, a saving of also= ninety miles. to, the traffic on the up iNV Port/Ott of the line it I 4411 / 0 ay* , was Past Sten iv tgotiugh VOW ea Cent to instify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes- 1 tern : that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton about 32 miles that it will traverse rich and populous agricultural and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as well from railways now in course of construction as from ethers pro jected, with every chance of success. As to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that the vast number of merchant vessels continually detained in the Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving both in insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway; and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol and Southampton ; 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 a•larger propor tion of winter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the map will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of railroad accommodation. _ Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance in the event of war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet commerce of the kingdom; It may not be out of place to quote here the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley, which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways, he is reported to have said :—"I consider that the com munication between the metropolis and the 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 Rot hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth ; and it may be further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth was last session rejected, on the ground that ;t might be supposed to interfere with that great national object. The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for wardness, and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par liament. It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be constructed at an unusually small expense; that the undertaking will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that this will prove to bo one of the most remunerative railways in the kingdom. Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at four pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land through which the line will pass, and to the shareholders in the Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected with the Direct Western district. Applications for shares, in the farm 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. Gentlemcn,—l request you will allot ine shares of 251. each in the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21.125. 6d. per share thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con tract when required. II AWL 1845. Name In full ......... ....... ........ Residence.. • • • • • • . • . • . • Trade or Profession • • • . • • • • • • • • Place of Business (if any) • . Reference . ........... • • • • • • .. • • • • LONDON AND WINDSOR RAILWAY, through Knightsbridge, Kensington, Hammersmith, Tutu ham-green, Brentford, Hounslow, Bedfont, Staines, and Old Wind sor, to Windsor, with an alternative Line from Staines to pass by Datchet to Windsor. Capital, 500,0001. (Provisionally Re4istered, pursuant to ,7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110. COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Major CHARLES L. BOILEAU, Castelnau, Barnes, Chairman Charles Goodwin, Esq. ' Batterseti Sir John Hare, F.A., Langham-place Thomas R. Kemp, Esq.. Abchureh-lane William Kuper, Esq., Camtoerwell _ S. H. Powell, Esq., Brixton Captain M. H. Sweny, R. V., Brompton Captain F. Bayly Wardreper, 11.C.5., Brompton Walter White, Esq., Fitzroy-square (With limited power to add to their number). ENGINEERS—Sir John Macneill and James Thomson, Esq. Soroctron—George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden-square. This line of railway has met with general approbation, and its im portance cannot he 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, Sunning-hill, and Egham, all abounding with elegant villas and a wealthy population, an easy access to London, and farm the main trunk for a direct communication to Exeter and the whole of the south-west of England. It will also afford a facility to reach Hun gerford -bridge on the south side of the river by the Richmond Rail way, by means of a branch from Hounslow to Richmond. The Committee have much pleasure in adding that the surveys are made, the deposits have been duly paid, the parliamentary contract signed and completed. By order, Office, 30, Regent street. E. W. H. BELL, Secretary. PROSPECTUS OF THE R HONDDA anciELY VALLIES JUNCTION RAILWAY, GLAMORGANSHIRE. (Provisionally Registered.) Promoted with the sanction and support of the Right Hen. the Earl of Dunraven. Capital, 200,0001., In 10,[00 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. Viscount Adare, M.P., Dunraven Castle, Glamorgan Crawshaw Bailey, Esq., Iron-works, Nant-y-Glo Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P., Foxley, Herefordshire Riehard Price, Esq., M.P., Radnorshire Sir William Wynn. Macs 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 Mancheetc,f ,sryansmne-square John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham, Kent Thomas Chitty, Esq., Director of the Rugby and Worcester Railway The Rev. James Cozens, Ynys Plwm, Glamorganshire 9fthe Edward C C o o m tt m on er , ci Esq., Bank ~St. James's-square and Kenilworth, Director 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, Glarmorganshire Windsor H. Humphreys, Esq., Garth Hall, Glamorganshire John J. Harris, Esq., Trevcrig, 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 Ingles 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 Hall, Glamorganshire William Llewellyn, Esq., Director of the Bridgend Branch of the National Provincial Bank of England James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean Railway Thomas Morris. Esq., of Newport, Monmouthshire Leyshon Morgan, Esq., Lower Tremains, Bridgend, Glamorganshire Samuel P. Pratt, Esq., F.R.S., Bath, and No. 55, 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, Esq., of Ton Dhu, near Bridgend Richard Fowler Rickards, Esq., Lantrissent House, Glamorganshire James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Edward L. Richards, Esq., Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire John Randall, Esq.,'OldCastle, Bridgend, Glatnorganshire Richard Lewis Reece, Esq., County Coroner, Cardiff Edward Scard, Esq., of Kew Green, Surrey, and Garth Hall, Glamor ganshire Henry James, Esq., Finsbury-square, London Captain Dawson, R.N., Barnes, Surrey, Director of Cambridge and Lincoln Extension (With power to add to their number.) SOLICITORS. W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street, London William Morgan, Esq., Bridgend, Glamorgan. BANKERS. Commercial Bank of London National Provincial Bank, Bridgend and Cardiff. ENGINEER This Railway is projected for the purpose of uniting the Rhondda and Ely Vatiles, with the South Wales Railway, at a few miles dis tance from the Port of Cardiff; and to open a new mineral district, one of the richest and most important in South Wales, which is at present without the means of transit for its immense and valuable products. It will pass through the central portion of the great coal-field of Glamorganshire, where Iron-stone also abounds with the coal in im mense quantities, and laying, geologically speaking, nearly flat, and, obtainable, for the most part, by proper levels. The coal in addition to its being of excellent quality for iron making, as is proved at Mer thyr and Aberdeen, is also, like that of those districts, of the very best description for * team 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 for purposes of steam navigation. This source of traffic alone will afford a handsome return for the capital invested. as has been demonstrated in every instance where even tram-roads or canals have been constructed to open the mineral resources of other less promising vallies in Wales than the Rhondda, which is cele brated for the abundance, quality, and facility of obtaining its pro ductions. An inexhaustible supply of limestone (so necessary for the manu facture of iron and for agricultural purposes) may be obtained by means of this Railway, much nearer and cheaper than by any other line. This line will afford to the increasing population of the rich vales of Ely and Rhondda a much desired communication with the great market town and port of Cadriff, from whence, at present, they may be said to be almost excluded. It is intended that the line shall commence at Blaen 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 he under the control of the Managing Directors, to to whom power is given to allot the shares, and to apply the funds of the Company in payment of all the expenses incurred in its forma tion, and in the preparation of the plans and sections to be submitted to Parliament. Power will be applied for in the Act (and in the meantime is hereby given to the Managing Directors as above), to raise any addi tional capital, to extend or abandon any part of the line, to make branch lines, or enter into any arrangements, by amalgamation or otherwise, with any other company or companies, and also to nomi nate the first D!rectors 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, Basinghall-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. Peppercorne and Co., 2, Old Broad-street. Liverpool—Messrs. Beultt and Co. Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Lew Leeds—Messrs John Young and Co. Bristol—Luko Arnold, Esq. ; Messrs. Tette and _Nash Birmingham—Mr. Collis SheMeld—lfesers. Bardwell and Sons. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SIIAIItEN To the Provisional Committee of the Rhondda and EIY THE LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEF FIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE (or LEEDS WOLVERHAAIPTON, and DUDLE 1) DIRECT RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,7e0,000/., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers, Staffordshire Sir William Young, Bart., East India Director, Westbourne-street, Hyde -park Gardens Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Deputy Chairman of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Rail way, &c. - Sir William Boothby, Bart, Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire Sir William Lowthrop, Knt. ' Hull, and Alga-house, Scarborough, Di rector if the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junc tion Railway Col. the Hon Leicester Stanhope, Ashhurham House, Chairman of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Hon. Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway, and Director of the Nottingham and Boston Railway, Parliament-street, London, &c., &c. The Sheriff of York Arnold, Henry, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of Remington's London and Manchester Railway Blurton, Robert, Esq., banker, Smallwood Manor, Uttoxeter, Direc tor of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershh e Junction Railway Booth, John, Esq., Macclesfield Bright, Selim, Esq., Buxton Bradley, Septimus, Esq., .Ashbourne, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Burgess, John, Esq., Boroughrecve of Manchester Buxton, John Harry, Esq., Ashbourne Clarke, Jeremiah, Esq., Macelesfitld, 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., Hobne Cottage, Ashbourne Cox, Walker, Esq., Breadsall, Derby, Director of the Tean and Dove Valley Railway Crockett, T. Esq., Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c. Croft, Major J. T., 15, Regent-street, Deputy-Chairman of Reming ton's London and Manchester Direct Railway Crossley, John, Esq., Lamberhurst, Sussex, and Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Dolby, John, Robert, Esq., Ishbourne, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Dale, Major, Thurston, Ashbourne Daniel, Richard, Esq., Oak Hill, Stoke-upon-Trent Dawson, Samuel, Esq., sen., Ashbourne Dent, Edward, Esq., Westfield, Huddersfield Dent, John, Esq., Northgate, Huddersfield Dyson, Thomas, Esq., Well-house, Holmfirth Earp, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Railway Eastwood, Edmund, Esq., Huddersfield Eastwood, Abraham, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the Hudders field, Sheffield, and Halifax Railway Edensor, Richard, Esq., Road-meadow, Ashbourne Fidler, Peter Pichott, Esq , uiggin Grange, Derbyshire Fisher, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Frost, Meadows, Esq., Chester Garle. Samuel, Esq., Uttoxeter Garle, William, Esq. Uttoxeter Gilpin, and Co., Messrs. William, Wedges Mills, Cannock, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Goddard, Thomas, Esq., Bank-house, Longton, Staffordshire Haden, Joseph, Esq., Dudley, Director 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 llarpin, John, Esq., Birk's-house, Holmflrth Hatfield, Thomas, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway, &c. Haywood, Richard Howard, Esq., Staffordshire Potteries Hill, John, Esq., Derby Hirst, Abraham, Esq., York-house, Huddersfield Ingleby, Joseph, Esq., Cheadle, Staffordshire Jones, the Rev. J. P. Vicarage, Alton, Staffordshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Johnson, John Goodwin, Esq., Bentley Hall, Ashbourne Johnson, D. T., Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of the Ches- ter and Manchester Railway Johnson, Richard Wm., Esq., Moorgate, Director of Remington's London and Manchester Direct Railway Knight, Edward, Esq., M.D., Stafford, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and orcester Junction Railway Keene, John Joseph, Esq.,, St. John's Wood, Regent's Park, Director of the National Bank of Ireland, &c. King, William, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance, &c. Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston Hall, Sudbury Lawrence, Richard Corbett, Esq., Wandfield-hall, Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Junction Railway Laughton, Richard, Esq., Barrow-hill, Uttoxeter Langley, Henry, Esq., Rakeway House, Cheadle, Director of the Der byshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, Richard, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf- tbrdshirc, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lassetter, James, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Mat ford hire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Lea, John Wheeley, Esq., Worcester, Vice. Chairman of the Severn Commission, &c. - - Marlow, Joseph, Esq., Walsall Mason, Charles James, Esq., Staffords'lire Potteries Mason, George Miles, Esq., Wetley Abbey, etaffordshire Meteyard, Uorace, Wm., Esq.. Director of Remington's London and Manchester Railway, Middle Temple, and Chatham-place M`Mahon, Daniel, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Derbyshire.. Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Manors, John, Esq. Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford• . . shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Mellard, James, Esq., Rugeley, Director of the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Minors, John, Esq., Eaton Dovedale, Derbyshire, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Minors, John, Esq., The Parks, Uttometer, Director of the East and Nest Junction Railway Mathew, John Meee, Esq., Director of the East and Vest Junction Railway Milner, William, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Direotor of the Derby. shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Mountford, Thomas John, Esq., Ashbourne Moorhouse, Joshua, Esq., Holmfirth Maskery, Thomas, Esq., Norbury, Derbyshire North, Joseph, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield Norton, George, Esq., Clayton West, liuddersfield,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., Silcoates, Cottage, Wakefield Roden, Thomas Clare, Esq., Birminham Sant, Edward, Esq., Cannock,. D rector of the Derbyshire, Stafford strlVl;WßlA:Vms:nr`riro,L'ourr,tiglritl-YaraeY TTireotor 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 Tork . -- Railway Smith, Thomas, Esq., Blore-hell, Staffordshire, Director of the Der byshire, Stafford.hire, 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 DOll2 Valley Railway &e. Smith, John, Esq., Barton House, Derbyshire Smythe, John Vere, Lsq., Kensington, Middlesex, Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Spiers, E. J., Esq., Carlton Villas, London, Director of the East and West Junction Railway Stephenson, Thomas, Esq., Director of the Agriculturist Cattle As- sarance Company Terry, Benjamin, Esq., Mayor of Walsall, Director of the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway, &c. Tibbits, Thomas, Esq.. Norton Manor-house, Leicester Tomlinson, Thomas, Esq. Bradley Pastures, Toogood, Rupert, Esq , Esq., Tylecote, Edward, Esq., surgeon, Great Heywood, Staffordshire Tyler, George, Esq., Holloway-place, Holloway, London, Director of the East and West Junction Railway, &c. Waller, Major, K.H., St. James's-square, Director of the Chester and Manchester Railway, &c, Walter, James Smith, Esq., Bakewell, Derbyshire Walters, J. T., Esq., Rugeley Watts, William Royde, Esq., Birmingham Weston, Samuel, Esq., Leeds Weston, Thomas, Esq., Tean, Staffordshire, Director of the Clerby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Willes, George, Esq., Thagerford-park, Berkshire Williamson, Hugh Henshall, Esq., Greenway Bank, Staffordshire Potteries - Williamson, Robert, Esq., Ramsdell-hall, Staffordshire Potteries Wise, Thomas, Esq., Ashbourne Witham, John, Esq., Ashbourne Woolrich, Thomas, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of the Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood, Charles, Esq., Uttoxeter, Director of ill.: Derbyshire, Staf fordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway Wood William, Esq., 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, Dirnsdale, and Co., Cornbill, 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., Uttozeter ENGINEERS. Sir John Rennie, F.R.S. George Remington, Esq., C.E. LOCAL AGENTS. Armishaw, J., Esq., Rugeley Bolton, Thomas, Esq., Wolverhampton Bolton, John, Esq., Dudley Eggington, A., Esq., Lichfield Green, James J.. Esq., Walsall. Lowe, Richard, Esq., Cheadle Floyd and Booth, Huddersfield and Holmflrth This line of railway, which is about sixty-five miles in length, is intended to commence at Uttoxeter (the terminus of the proposed Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway) and to proceed to Sheffield and Huddersfield. It will form a direct com munication between two of the most import int manufacturing and mining districts in England, viz., South Staffordshire, Hud.lerslield, 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. Tke 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 Holmfirth to Huddersfield, where it will join the iludderstield 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 hefts,* quality of ma terial. At present, the mode of transit is very circuitous and expen sive, the line from the Callon 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 Ashhourne, Cromford, Worksworth, and Bakewell country would have an entirely new trade opened to them. The iron stone in the neighbourhood of Sheffield is also becoming very scarce, and great quantities are introduced from Scotland; the same scarcity exists in South Staffordshire; and the route of this line would fur nish a cheap and good supply, at present not worked, and without a market, both north and south. In addition to these great advan tages, a good local market would be opened along the agricultural and other parts of the district at present very badly supplied with lime and coal, and that of an inferior quality, and by expensive car riage. It is, therefore, next to impossible to calculate the immense traffic which would pour down this line and the Derbyshire, Stafford shire, n.s d Worcestershire Junction Railway. The calculations which have been made show a very large profit. There are large lead and slate quarries on the line which only want an outlet like the one now contemplated to bring them into MU work. The coal is of a superior quality. There are also extensive barytes and paint-works at Ashbourne, Cromford, and other places on the line. The scenery of Derbyshire is the resort of vast numbers of tourists ; and particular care will be taken, in passing of the line near Dovedale, not to interfere with or change its beautiful and romantic character. The convenience, therefore, which this line will afford must necessarily cause a great influx of passengers, both on business and pleasure. Ironstone is not so abundant in the South as in North Staffordshire, and vast quantities are sent by the tardy, circuitous, and expensive canal company, which this and other lines of railway meeting at Uttoxeter will remedy. The gypsum formation runs from Staffordshire to the Humber, and the demand for this article for building, agricultural, and manufac turing purpose, along this line will be great. The timber from the neighbourhood of the Needwood Forest Banks, Bagels Woods, and Kingston Woods, upwards of 4,000 ores, ellityriv finds its to the :Man lesrcr market by C. like objectionable route of tardy and circuitous canal convey ance ; whereas this line would open a direct, easy, and cheap Communication to new markets. The line has been viewed prior to a detailed survey, and there are not more than ordinary engineering (=alum la =sequence of the lute Parliamentary decisions, it as ISLE OF MAN RAILWAY COI d- Capital 500,0001., in 25,000 Shares of 201. cad 5. Deposit 2'. per Share. (Provisionally Registered.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE IN THE ISLE OF Mu ,• Chairman.—Captain BACON, C. 8., Seafctll I. George Adams, Esq., Douglas Thomas R. Bridson, Esq., J. P. 004 Thomas Bridson, Esq., Director of the Commercial Bata -D0 F. B. Byne, Esq., Burleigh, Kirk Braddan Captain Campbell, Castletown Clarence Carey, Esq., Springyallev William Christie, Esq., it.bf., Castletown Archibald Clarke, Esq., Douglas J. W. S. Clucas, Esq., Ballycraggau, and Maryvoar, Sant9n . _ George Cookson, Esq., M.D., DouglaS Thomas Creighton, Esq.,Castletown Philip Elliot, Esq., Douglas Henry Faulder, Esq., Castletown F. L:Gelling, Esq., -Castletawn Samuel Harris, kill., Esq., Douglas George Jefferson, Esq., Stanley-terrace, Douglas John - Kelly, Esq., High Bailiff, Castletown R. Ma!ngay, Esq., Castle-lawn, Douglas Captain Martin, Woodville, Douglas John Moore, Esq., Douglas Captain M. Richardson, Castletown Oa 64efr George IVl`Gregor Skinner, Esq., Mount Murray IlouSe. tary to the Flax Improvement Society for Ireland J. H. H. Spencer, M.D., Douglas .-^ Major Tenison, 15ouglsui J. Underwood, Esq., Physician to the Government, Castlota' _ William Wilders, Esq., Woodville, Douglas (With power to add to their number). 791 st d, PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE IN LONDON. Tew .ot The Right Honourable the Earl of Uxbridge, P.C., Wellyn, Hes David Robert ft ßoss, Esq., M.P. for Belfast, Director of tile Pa of Union Railway Direc t° The Honourable Percy Evans Freke, Belgrave-square. - „ 1 the Bandon and Bantry Railway Se t ll 'o W. J. Macguire, Esq., Hampton Court, Director of the Trin , ing and Basingstoke, and Wilts, Somerset, and $ i l nm- Railways Direc t° Peter Thomas Legh, Esq., Ridge Hall, County Dublin , - the Clonmel and •Kilkenny Railway for Sir Wm. Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire , i,ipesl the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junct ion al;;, William Shaw, Eeq., Managing Director of the Royal Fi1 4 r, 11 ,;„ of ' 4 , General Fire and Life Insurance Company, and Direeloalss' London and Birmingham Extension Railway, and Seou l Junction Railway end IC° John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of the Warwic k caster Railway, and Birmingham and Lichfield Railway Richard Lea Wilson, Esq., Milk-street, City, and Streat'asi"'des her of the Honourable Court of the Common Counci l of 1-1044 Captain James Patrick M‘Dougal, Fir-grove, North Bt l , r iose a rector of the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and .4"' o f Railway 3) llact'r William Green, Esq., Walnut Tree House, Leytonston e, the Amman Vale Iron Company speriL l o i. E. F. Dayrell, Esq., Lillingstone Dayrell, Bucks, Flig:b Bucks, and Director of the Bucks Railway, and Oxford t'- verton Junction 0 0 1 01 Sir William Twisden, Bart., Cavendish-street, Cavendish-tcl„. The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street, P.m".ialea the London and Manchester, and Liverpool and Leeds B ‘re itt, William Kuper, Esq., Camberwell, Director of the Leeds, Midland Junction Railway 18 1 " j°) J. S Powell, Esq., Brixton, Director of the London stil- Railway lorlc ° o John Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Director of t 114 3410,0 Lancaster, and the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymoutbt , Captain Hodges, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Dir e ' to e Reading and Reigate Railway d G. A. Brovrn, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Callas) 4- e Railway --etboSe ' Henry Pratt Barlow,Esq., Kensington-square, Director... Aga Warrenpoint, and Rosstrevor Railway Captain Sweeny, R.N., Brompton, Director of the London Si d ~,d dos Railway William White, Esq., Fitzroy-square, Director of the '- Windsor Railway sD d John Kerr Esq., Stranraer Banker e/snl 4ri' Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Northampton , - Cheltenham Railway Isaac Holmes, Esq., Great George-square, Liverpool, eford pir e Direct Western and North Cheshire Railways Captain T. H. Newton, Burton-street, and Lngwardine. O ar etol Robert Lang, Esq., Dumfries, Banker ire uit , John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetter House, A : there/11 0 f ° of the Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham and South P Railways. BANKERS. London-The Union Bank of London C 'o nem-pool-The Bank of Liverpool Manchester-The Manchester and Liverpool District iN..• pany Dumfries -The Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank Isle of Man-The Commercial Bank and its Branches. ACTING ENGINEER.-Sandiforth F. Griffin, Esq., • RESIDENT SURVEYOR IN THE ISLAND-John Jefferson. SOLICITOR-R. H. Hill, Esq., 6'2, Moorgate-stree t LOCAL LAW AGENT-L. Craigie, Esq., Douglas, Isle i,. SECRETARY-A. B. Blackie, Esq. o f le ° LOCAL SECRETARY-P. C. Wood, Esq., Castlelawn, Is le 4l 1)1 The proposed line of railway will run from Dottgl., 4 9 l) •dri. Mills, Crosby, Ballacraine, and Saint John's, to Peel, wit h ,e 4 ", OD on the north from Saint John's by Kirk Michael, Bis LeY or 10 , liallaugh, and Sulby to Ramsey, and a branch line " t o r y through Ballassalla to Castletown, with continuation s Mary. flat P ur iD e i Douglas is the principal, most commercial, and its; town in the island, and visitors generally arrive there. goo" , admits vessels drawing 18 feet water, and affords shelter fjf north, west, and south ; and, although exposed to et' -- „,We'' ( or there Is not a more secure refuge in St. George's (g e tter' William Hilary first drew public attention to the neces Bl ".es pro' strutting a good central harbour of refuge, and the s ile 4 fr wards surveyed by Sir John Rennie. The establishmen l ji i posed line will lead to the formation of harbours e 9 calved the attention of Government), accessible at an tirfl at f ie A tide to vessels and steamers of any burden. This impel ° 0 01 ;re 0 will undergo the serious consideration of the present Ce, ra 'w sot" pier and two lighthouses have already been erecte d dad eioe° cost. The town is populous, and the neighbourhood c o ffer mansions and villas. Many first-class steamers and o ~12 are yearly built at Douglas. „ the 'ft!: Peel is celebrated for its great cod and herring lishei.e 4 l o o., rp, enjoying in the former the largest in the British dorm", 91weee" Immediately opposite to Douglas, on the western sid e ' e d to 'Joe sengers landing at Douglas might be immediately conv e l e 10 ,1 A which faces the north-eastern parts of Ireland ; and to ads Wei" gerous sea-passage would thus be saved. It also sb°%poS quities, sad is generally known from its being the localitt aI of the pen of Sir Walter Scott has so highly dilated. Ship-building is also largely carried on at RantS e ,f which is one of the finest In the British Channel, ter h ol_ i rie 4 o " sorted to by homeward-bound vessels. An active an d 4- cs Urn reside here ; but Vie want of good roads to the Prl o irils; e f and the other parts of the island has been found very t 1 0 4" The Liverpool and Glasgow steam boats regularly ca lla 70'' 10'. fi"'" embark and disembark passengers, and an extensiv e tort e 0 O' , o t, carried on, which is, however, capable of much imPref is will be facilitated r eside nc e the orations of this CompanY. sli A rtiOn Castletown is the of the Lieutenant-Gove 1 , 4 seat of governm nt. It is on the road to Port ie b ll j~ ti P ' o , ll l ' Erin and the celebrated Calf of Man. Visitors invarla b at ns 04 route to view the Calf of Man and the remarkablecl' fa . exist in ena this neighbourhood, ani which are unpara llele " phenom. 11,100, 8 The island is bounded by the following counties, VI Z ' . Kirkcudbright, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Lancashi re ' s od cs ep blgh, Carnarvon, and Anglesea, Dublin, ) counties 1447, The railways prof cted from the several Sui t _„„, st, line of steamers, and the contemplated extensions of thel'" n ole t a l f , the island accessible in a short period of time from everf„'oe' to most parts of Scotland and Ireland will be, by this fet e 1039 IS shortest, cheapest, and most pleasant route. the ft , 44 1, In cstedishing the railway, one great object has be 4- 4 . 0 d • meat of the obviously great internal resources of the lnish, all respects a producing island. Corn, cattle, potat° es A the Olt. &c., are shipped to Glasgow, Liverpool, Fleetwood , e", 4 ` t thePtil` coast of England. Locally, the aim will be to transP e ',, i oet of the northern and southern districts-eminently the l ' ote rco t to Douglas, the central and principal market. Pa il l or , Fl ca t tO i ' now extensively carried on with Liverpool, Whitehav an d 4 and the Scotch and Irish ports, by first-rate steamers vessels. 14111 1 °,"g At present, the number of travellers who visit tt i r bre ' r i . ati oo f_ ey gr a eat, but when a ready means th shall be afforded 0 1 tnces between Douglas and e more romantic distri presumed that the increase will be very considerab le. of its e ie bathing in the world, its antiquities, and the salubrity are among its prominent attractions. 90, 0w ,A filch osc" fhe island contains 130,000 square acres, of w, 4i91 4 „of. cultivation. The rivers are numerous, and the bin' ~,il/7,0!" tinuously so as not to interfere with the plan of (1010' island is one of the richest in minerals in her 3lsi s e r de 'rsbl s 1.0 t I d. Lead, co opper, and iron ore are worked in con orie d. 0 o ties, many thousands of tons are annually elUelstyail'„, stone, Super gr ior anit water e, mar powerble, manga also nese exists,, and w h theich finest will potte4o.;s4e be 4 e for manufactories when the facility fur t ra nsit by 11111 iqpe ration. In "Bethwick's Vein," between Castletown and 6t ,' iirit sll l ° ; of the largest bodies of ore ever discovered in Gretizotais';',l, depth of the level is 43 fathoms, driven through 11 ' se nt I 'o l tit fathoms, and the ore is strong in the sole of the Pre a nd „ e • tl excellent lead vein is worked on the Ellerslie estate, gini ers o f o'',/ numerous valuable mines at Laxey. In brief , gre3t,ortitl43o is a characteristic of this island. The mines pay aro to ' er tenth. It may be mentioned that in the lead ore ,0 e f f, silver per ton are f0und.30,""4911e ters ba rley rri no Ce'reP The produce in wheat is about 30,000 quar fie o f ters. There are 4,000 fishermen employed in s u rplus and 80,000 barrels are annually produced. Tile P dues returned to England is 25,000/. a year. Tho ' .% n aalt i tints manufactures estimated at the value of 30,000, esnitle„o' It is of consequence to reflect that the Isle of In i a,ool o ,„ercl4. resting-place en the great high setb.way betweel o'gor9,,e;rey north of England and Scotland, and that the Pai s t s w in '44ff ,j-4/ H A IO, dice, and mail-packet communication by which The o tp; must raise it high in statistical estimation. cad lis e th e ° lc a e No engineering difficulties exist on the preP° - „ r ival t in many parts is obtainable at a cheap rate, and ,1 1 '4,,,4 pe,i; Island is to be anticipated. The Committee are 'tri o -wil t : 6 o. 4 'oV authorities, with the sanction of the home Go , e , one e 4 a pt, power to grant the line, in which case the dela: 4 ; f olis'' Act et lie e heavy expense attendant upon obtaining an tlle,Doit,4,o be avoided. at ascertained t e ° P O . By a careful calculation, it has been o f th r ove o w p s be a highly remunerative one, and the liabilitte ~o .5, fr will be restricted to the amount of their subserlPY o n Od a ' applied for to allow Interest at four per cent. el_ o f i pter, d o granting of the line until its opening. A reser4, o ol l 3, 01_ 1 % 4, made for the inhabitants of the island and Pon fo r etw o s ifroi,gi g o ( Prospectuses may be had of, and a Solicitor age, l loo, Moorgate-street, City ; L. Craigie, Esq. , local n. s c 1 Isle of Man ; P. C. Wood, Esq., local secretarY__, mess.r s , l ; s og e ;,,ilC la i . , Man; and of the following brokers ;-Londell n 49, oni Boyd, 4, New Bank-buildings; Mr. Charles E:lf lai u tltt ylr, 0;00 0 , and Mr. A. Sym, Tokenhouse-yard. Live r Peel fdl" JPee• and Messrs. J. Power and R. Lowndes. Man t e er O at° A 014. ° fs l house ; Mr. Thomas Ross, jun.; and Mr. Wel_ an and.„, lo elc Mr. Robert Allan. Glasgow-Messrs. 3VE" J a mes T ft fries-Mr. J. M'Kinnell. Aberdeen-Messrs. and Lancaster-Mr. W. Walsh. Leeds-Messrs. • Ba laT d Vte Mr. Richard Binney. Gloucester-Mt J. ' a sh Messrs. Wilkinson and Sons. Bristol- 31 e s ,',sgAl l9 101 1 ;of FORM OF APPLICATION Fr" , e 31 0 s hol e o 01. 1 of To the Provisional Committee of the is' ieril l .,,os"e4 Gentlemen,-I request you will allot me ..„ 00 the „ D e °J;t9 each in the proposed Isle of Man RailwaY, pl oc erir'' annexed prospectus ; and I hereby imdert alco sr 2/. per share thereon, and to execute all nece .." ." deeds when required. ...... • Name in fu ll . ion •''' ..•'' .• Profess ....• ..• .• Trade or • ' • asI )" Residence.• "Ass bustn .. I:o;siiti No application for shares can Lateß oefe Placesr t e t fe Tajleg • a sattafactory refbrence. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Worcester and Leominster Railway. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me shares of 201. each in the above railway ; and I hereby undertake to accept the same or any less number you may allot me, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of September, 1845. Place of business or profession ..... ....... Residence.... Business or profession .. Signature .. Name, residence, and profession oC referee.. Residence.... ••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • CONNECTING . RAILWAY. (Provislonally Registered under 7 and Viet., cap. 110.) Capital 900,000/., 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, Riekmansworth, Uxbridge, West Drayton, Colnbrook, Staines, Eglutal, Chertsey, Weybridge, Leatherhead, Dorking, and Reigate. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. Major Adair, United Service Club, Pall-mall, Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of the South Midland. and Birmingham and Lichfield Railways Whliam Ayrton, Esq., Abbey-square, Chester William Arnold Bainbrigge, Esq., Uttoxeter, Staffordshire John Barnes, Req., Director of the Union Beak. Chorley Wood House, Hertfordshire William Bestow, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Railway George A. Brown, Esq., 20, Gower-street Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., M.?., Director of the Lancaster and York, Waterford and Kilkenny, and Great Munster Railway Jasper Capper, Esq , Watling-street John Castendeick, Esq., 37, Mincing-lane Walter Chamberlain, 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-Chairmaa of the Chester and Manchester Railway, &e. William Croft, Esq., Chertsey, Surrey Thomas Clutterbuck, Esq., Red Hall, Watford Charles John Dimedale, Esq., Easendon-place, Hertfordshire Thomas Edward Dyson, Esq., Tollpits, Hertfordshire Joseph Graham, Esq., Clapham, Surrey Hastings Green, Esq., Sion House, Kilkenny, Director of the Water ford and Kilkenny Railway Captain Hodges, 65, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the Mauritius Railway, &e. &c. Henry Jennins, Esq., Leeds Swinfen Jervis, Esq., Whitehall-place, and Darlastoa Hall, Stafford shire Daniel Turton Johnson, Esq., Aldermary Churchyard, Director of iteming,ton'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, Direc tor of the Somersetshire Midland Railway William King, Esq., Waterloo-place, Pall mall, London, Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Company George L iishley, Esq., Clarence Lodge, Shirley, Southampton, Direo tor of the Isle of Wight, and of the Oxford, Newbury, Andover, Manchester, and Southampton Junction Railways Daniel William Lucas, Esq., Mark-lane, and Crescent Lodge, Stock well Park Horace William Meteyard, Esq., Director of Remington's London and Manchester, the Chester and Manchester Direct, and the Derby shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways Joseph Bostick Massey, Esq., Cottered, Hertfordshire, and 50, Cam bridge-terrace, Hyde Park. Captain Ogle, 44, Eaton-place, Eaton-square, London. Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Upper Hyde Park-street, Director of the Manchester, Liverpool, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, aid Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railways, Ste. Hillebrant Meredith Parrett, Eeq.. Magistrate, Effingham House, Surrey William John Palmer, Esq., Molewood-hill, Rengeo, Hertfordshire Rev. G. B. P. Pollen, Magistrate, Little Bookham Rectory, Surrey W. 11. Ravenhill, Esq., Pedwell Honse, Worcestershire John Rawson, Esq., Deputy Lieutenant of the W es t Ri ding of York shire, and J.P., Stoney Royd, Halifax, Director o f Rosamel's Great North of France Railway, of the Manchester, Liverpool, and Great North of England Union Railway, and the National Bank of Ireland J. B. Shuttieworth, Req., Eastcheap Edward Scard, Esq., Kevr, Surrey, Magistrate, Direeter of the Toronto ant Lake Huron, and Jamaica Railways Julian Skrine, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway 'William Sainton, Esq., 49, Moorgate-street, and Sussex-gardens, Ilytte Park Thomas Stephens, Esq., 4, Lime-street-square William Tozer, Esq , Bishopsgate-street, Director of the South Staf- cordshire Junction Railway Thomas Weedon, Esq., Loudwater Mills, Hertibrdskire James Whitchurch, Esq., South Cliff, Netley Abbey (With power to add to their number.) COMMITTEE 07 MANAGEMENT. John King, Esq. George Laishley, Esq. D. W. Lucas, Esq. H. W. Meteyard, Esq. George Scard, Esq. Major Adair John Anderson, Esq. Jasper Capper, Esq. Jeremiah Clarke, Esq. Joseph Graham, Esq. 1). T. Johnson, Esq. RANKERS. Mews. Rogers, Olding, and Co., 29, Clement's-lane, London The London and County Bank Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, Manchester. Exot MIER —Joseph Gibbs, Esq. LAND AGENT—Layton Cooke, Esq. LAND SURVEYORS. W. T. Buckland, Esq. • Messrs. Sanderson and Hyde. LOCAL SOLICITORS. SE• Alban's, Herts—Richard Grove Lowe, Eeq. Chertsey, Surrey—Richard John Cole, Esq. Dorking, Surrey— Messrs. Hart and Hart. Hertford—Edward Robert Spence, Esq. Uxbridge, Middlesex—Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge. Watford and Rickmansworth—John Sedgwiek, 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 passengers or goods : and thus obviating considerable expense and great 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 lug its coarse by Hatfield, St. Alban's, to Watford, where it will cross the London and Birmingham Railway, from thence to Ricktnansworth, Uxbridge, and West Drayton, where it will pass under the Great Western Railway, proceeding by Colnbrook, (having a branch to Windsor from the main line at Horton), cross the Thames at Staines, to Eghain, Chertsey, passing into the South Western Railway at the Weybridge Station, approaching Cobham, Loather ?Tuin M. Dorking, and terminating at Reigate, where it will form a 3 T h e great with the South-Eastern and London and Brighton Railways. wa T y h s _great distance from each other of the various termini of rail hi L ondon, has for a length of time occupied the attention of the legisis,ture and f wentlinehtoll"ranothtern; andlntsyuPer pezt is__ been e an th n e interested Companies; but the great value been deemed the most effteienor able obstacle to effecting any improve onef a more direct communication from auq t t; srinth ee : t n careful surveys the present plan has surveys thus made, and tl e g v rn e eg rz tth d p e : s :Thm i rt d i er onuf at tic u o m ftu . trh: F o o l fo r vt t eh h le e s gather with a more aeeessi already taken, there do not ar The feature of the country 'spear to be a ny engineering difficulties. agricniturat • .-. • field to reciprocal commerce, by excha - ' --.. it will open a wide North with the product everye ble mode of obtaining description of fore' reasonable rates. au m erchandise at In consulting the best statistical authorities, and tion derivable from the only certain mode of obtaineningththOttgre", aud fluctuating traffic on so novel a featuie as this projected --- .7 a cOnslderable difficulty has necessarily presented itself in arriving at a maximum of mate, but it san with certainty be annonncetlithia c *OM tits resoarow Of tragic to tho inallatagint aft** net. Messrs. Glynn and Co.; and Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Co., Strand, PROVINCIAL BANKERS. Messrs. Itromage and Co„ Chepstow Messrs. Bailey, Greatrez, and Co., Monmouth Messrs. Williams and Pons, Newport The West of England Banking Company and Branches The Monmouth and Glamorgan Banking Company and Branches The National Provincial Banking Company and Branches The Gloucestershire Banking Company and Branches The 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 SECRET ULT. Mr. William Prothero, 10, Old Jewry Chambers, London. This Line will join the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway at Chepstow, and extend westward near to Plercifleld, the far-famed Windcliff, and Tintern Abbey, to the towns of Usk and Pontypool, and over the centre of the great iron and cc'al 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 Vale Railway, which connects Merthyr Tydvil and Aberdare with Cardiff—thus forming a much more direct and almost straight Line—by means of the railways already made and projected between those immensely populous districts, and the centre of the kingdom and London, by means of which the journey by land will be shortened between the metropolis and this great seat of industry to four and a half, and between Newport and Cardiff to five hours, which at present, even by the aid of existing railways, cannot be performed in less than ft om ten to twelve hours. It will be found by reference to the official census of 1831 and 1841, that the average increase of population of the county of Mon mouth exceeded that of any other county in England or Wales ; this fact is referred to as illustrative of the rising importance of the country through which this railway is intended to pass, and of the very large passenger traffic which may reasonably be calculated upon. The town of Usk, with Ragland, and the rich agricultural district for many miles around, are supplied by carts from the vicinity of Pontypool with coal and lime, which are there obtained at a cheap rate, and in return cattle and provisions of all kinds, hay, corn, and pit 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, lire bricks, and paving stone, which is of superior quality, and In great abundance. The present cost of conveying and delivering iron and th, mates from the works to London, including transit to the port, uos. per ton, villih,t"uy - flus railway, and those it is Intended to join, the average cost at the rate usually charged for such goods on rail ways will effect a saving of at least 2h per cent., and be conveyed within twenty-four hours, instead of the average voyage round the Land's End of three, and not unfrcquently 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 )ss. 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 of iron ore, known as" Thematete ore,"18 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 aril delivered from thence by means of this and the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway to the different iron works in Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire at an average of from 25 to 30 per cent. less than it costs at present, and at the same time leave a handsome remuneration to the Railway Companies. The Committee of Management have gone very carefully into estimates of the goods traffic especially, and they feel justified in expressing a decided opinion that the revenue from this source alone will yield S 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 Gliwiorganshire ; and the following short statistic of the extent of those stupendous undertakings will give an idea of the vast importance of the present project. The iron and tin works com mence at Pontypool, and are— _ . 1. The Pontymoile Tin and Iron Works of Capel Banbury Leigh, Esq. 2. The Blaendare Iron and Coal Works of R. 3. Blewitt, Esq., M. P. 3. The extensive Tin Works of Messrs. Conway, Messrs. Fother gill, and Messrs. Jenkins 4. The Pentwyn, Golonos, and Varteg Iron Works and Rolling Mills of Messrs. Williams 5. The British Iron Company 6. The Blaenavon Iron Company 7. The Nantylylo, Messrs. Bally, Brothers 8. The Coalhrooke Vale, Messrs. Brewer :9. The Cwn Celyn and Blaina Company 10. The Beaufort, Messrs. Bally, Brothers 11. The Ebbw Vale, Messrs. Darby 12. The Victoria Company 13. The Abberearnc, Poutymister, and Tydee Tin Werke, Messrs. Lewis 14. The Tredegar Iron Company 15. The Shirhowey, Messrs. Darby 16. The Ehymney and Bute Company 17. The Dowla's Iron Works, Sir John Guest, Bart., M.P., and Company 18. Carfartha. Wm. Crawshay, Esq. And added to which, in the vicinity, aro the extensive works and Collieries in the Aberdare Valley. _ _ And on either side of the intendeel railway are collieries raising and vending about one million and *elf 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 fcr 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 Ilartley's ; and notwithstanding the high price, so highly is it esteemed, that the present importation amounts to nearly 100,000 tons per annum. This coal for the most part is brought from a distance of 24 miles, and shipped at Cardiff, from whence freights to London have averaged from 10s. to 1 ls. 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, arc deterred from the too great uncertainty which exists against obtaining a regular and constant supply; these difficulties will be entirely superseded by the proposed railway, and those 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 be increased four fold, whilst a new-found trade will be opened out with Chepstow, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Witney, Oxford, and the numerous inter mediate towns to London, where steam coal is use 4. It has been considered more judicious to form a separate Company for the extension 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 he given to those locally interested, and to the holders of Shares in the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway. A reference to the map will show the importance of this line as forming a direct line of railway communication between the great mineral district of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, 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 which offers greater advan tages to the Shareholders than the present. Provision will be made in the Act of Parliament which will be applied for in the next ses sion to limit the liability of the Shareholder to the amount of his shares, and to allow four per cent. on the calls. Until an Act of Parliameet shall be obtained, the affairs of this Company shall be under the control of the Managing Directors, to w h om power is given to allot the Shares, and to apply the fluids of the Company in payment of all the expenses incurred in its forma tion, and in the preparation of the Plans and Sections submitted to Parliament. Power will be applied fbr 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 branch of the line, to make branch lines, or enter into any arrangements, by amalgamation or otherwise, with any other company or companies, and also to nomi nate tile 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. Backhouse and Co., No. 4, Angel Court, Throgmorton Street, London ;—Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co.. Cheitenhtun ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; —Mr. Thomas Evans, Bath ; Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester ;—Messrs. H. Davies and Co., Dale Street, Live - pool ;—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 ter Junction Extension Railway ; and I do hereby undertake to ac cept the same, or any less number you may allot ins, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and all future calls thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when re quired. _ _ _ Dated this Name in full Residence nAness or Profession ............ Name, Residence. and Prpfaisiou of itallPreA • ••• • • • ,s• Usual Signature of Applicant ..... •.. .......... day of 184.5. WELSH SOUTH MIDLAND, or CHEP STOW, FOREST of DEAN, and GLOUCESTER JUNC TION EXTENSION RAILWAY. 1447 Oa al Notice la hereby given that no Application for Sham to tWa CO3l. MeWell ittir tho Ist of Ootobas mixt% Janction Railway. ilentiemeet,-2 request that you will allot me sh arcs of 201. WI in this Company, at.d I undertake to accept the same, and to !Kr the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted tat me ; and I ;tic° undertA. , t' ct. , ott , thf Pnrliamentary Contract a•Li Subscribers' .; Name in full .. Residence • • ............ aft Trade with or tt Profession 4kareas it • Pd. Qf Aftaattma • - • . rr 1- ...r. intanded to make this line on the broad gauge principle, but VFro rooters do not pledge themselves absolutely to do so. aa l g At the urgent suggestion of some of the most influential tants cf Ashboinne, the Committee have ordered a survey of tion line to connect that town with the Derby, and with the Yr." and Gainsborough and Midland Railways 35, Applications for Shares to be made to John Owens, F 4 "sq s q., Moorgate-street, London, and William Arnold Bainbrig' 4 Uttoxeter ; and to the following Sharebrokers :—Messrs. Perot f lew Evans, 39, Lothbury ; Mr. Miles, Worcester ; Mr. Thomas' ~,y er . Wheeler, Worcester; Messrs. ToWnley and Whitehead , pool ; Messrs. Cameron and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Mw rig nolds, Liverpool ; Mr. Richard E. Hine, Macclesfi , Tastier, James Jamieson, Leeds ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and lac x. Leeds ; Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull ; Mr. Thomas Boardm; t , l ifor d ; burn ; Mr. George Clark, Bradford ; Mr. William Mason, isra , tio ; Mr. William Cronhelm, Halifax ; Mr. Charles Spencer, Not gl. ng f o rle, Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, l)erby ; Messrs. Grayston a , 101 tering York ; Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield ; Messrs. - 4 t 3tr. and Marshall, Leeds ; Mr. James Stokes, Cheltenh; ; Bois- Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton ; Messrs, Tate and a ', on o tel ; Messrs. Beaumont and Langworthy, Exeter ; Mr. 1 .bland Sandford, Exeter; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry ; Mesirs, TIM -ger; and Leese, Manchester ; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Itianch dell Messrs. A. Birchall and Manchester; Messrs. T. N. rijc }t hen' Sons, Sheffield; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. L. e old; ourn, jun Huddersfield ; Messrs. Everard and Co., HI tdder: ire " Messrs. Payne and Freer, Leicester; Mr. Nicholson, 1. %Da, c oo Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow ; Messrs. Ls hcr, Co.,' and Stafford, College-green, Dublin ; Mr. James Ross, Per tit, FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. ;geld, To the Provisional Committee of the Leeds, Huddersf ield, Sb 4- and South Staffordshire Direct Railway. e ach Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me s uch in of 20/ •cli in the above Railway, and I undertake to accept the s ame or t'os less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to th e TWA toot of the Company, and to sign the necessary Deeds, and to pa.r, required, the Deposit thereon of 2/. 2s. per Share. bated' this day of , 184 - . Name In full.. Profession and professiomi residence- Residence in full. Reference b,vtcirect Un T o 4 : 1 kki'hy t 'eqrt r ' , : ( ' cite to ti, 1 0 1, 1 At, ,, : ( .;n ant, if 4 DGI (:I N t 4 ' 4 ; 'I) 1 3 1 14 4,1 1 4 1 '°14t, 4 4 tkr„: Reference.... r 0 ~` MIDLAND AND THIIISK JTU-Na l • RAILWAY. d EOT e 81 ...; Wanted, a SECRETARY to this Company, who hag ha- w ok perience in Railway business, and can give satisfactory re . for character and ability. Salary 3001. per annum. or st-oi llA Applications, by letters only, addressed No. 64 Foy , Bradford, Yorkshire. - -----'_‘!4.