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IRISH WEST:COAST RAILWAY (Registered Provisionally.) Capital, 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares 0(2.5/. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. fid. (o Subscriber to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Mork Blake, Zeq., M.P., Ballinalad, Mayo bort Dillon Browne, Esq., M.P., Glencorrib, Mayo ohn Patriek Somers, Esq., M.P., Sligo Sir Thomas Bernard Going Dancer, Bart., Modreeny House, Clough- Jordon, county Tipperary, Director of the Galway and Kilkenny Railway The Hon. Geoffry Browne, D.L., Wilton-crescent, London, and Castle M`Garrett, Mayo The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney. Parliament-street, Whitehall, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway Right Hon. Jolla Ladaveze Arabin, Lord Mayor of the City cf übllil Michael Gallagher, Esq., Mayor of Sligo John Netterville Barron, Esq., Resident Magistrate, Sanders Park, Cork Owen Edmond Blake, Esq., J.P., Frenchfort, Galway Wllliam Butler, Esq., J.P., Bunuahow, Ennis (late High Sheriff of Cilare) James F. Burke, Esq., J.P., St. Clarence, Galway Dominick Joseph Burke, Esq., J.P., Greenhill, Mayo Theobald Burke, Esq., J.P., Woodville, Mayo William Campbell, Esq.. Sackville-street, and Brighton John Carmichael, Esq., T.C., Rivcrtson House, Cork, Director of the Cork and Killarney Railway Charles Collins, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge, Director of the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Jamaica Railway Thomas Comilla, Esq., /3allyl , rit House, Galway Edward Deane, Esq., J.P., Curragowan, Mayo John Campbell Dicker, Esq., New Wall, by Weston, Cheshire, Direc tor of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway James Dillon, Esq., J.P., Cogue, Mayo John Dunn, Esq., M,D., M.R.C.S., L. and D., Drumsna, Leitrim Thomas Edwards, Esq., King William-street, London, Director of the Direct London and Dublin Railway Robert Fiske, Esq., Chepstow, Monmouthshire Robert Graham, Esq., J.P., Dnimgoon, Fermanagh loin Grant, Esq. St. James's-street, Pall - mall, Director of the Southern, Esq., and Northern Jamaica Railway Henry Griffith, Esq., D.L., J.P., Port Royal, Sligo, Director of the Sligo and Shannon Railway W . A. Hill, Esq., Lonsdale-square, Deputy-Chairman of the Glonces • ter and Aberystwith Railway Dean John Hoare, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square Edward Hoare, Esq., Percy-street, Bedford-square, Director of the Great Welsh Cent ral Railway, &c. T. Hodges, Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway, &c. fiabert Hughes, Esq., Ely House, Wexford, Director ef the Provin cial Bank of Ireland lain Kerschner, Esq., Middle Temple W'lltlarn King, Esq., Spring-gardens, and Putney, Surrey Qettn Knox, Esq., J.P., Greenwood Park, Mayo Joseph Myles M`Dennell, Esq., J.P., Dooaastie. Mayo Rowland IL Mackenzie, Esq.. Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Great Wes tern Extension Railways Capt. Charles Carden Mansergh, Longraigue, Wexford, Director of the Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia Railway Capt. Newton, Bruton-street, and Lugwardin, Herta )raneis R. O'Grady, Egq., Tavrane, Mayo Richard O'Grady, Esq., Tavrane, Mayo John O'Hara, Esq., &them Gort, Treasurer, County Galway Charles Ormsby, Esq., D.L., Cummin, Sligo Robert Dudley Persse, Esq., Galway Michael Perrin, Esq., Galway Roes Prise, Esq. ' M.D., Tyne Hall, Great Ilford, Essen Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq , Brompton, Middlesex Joseph Richardson, Esq., J.P. Summer-hill House, Clones Thomas Seymour, Esq., J.P., Ballymore Castle, Ballinasloe lames Sexton, Esq., J.P., Limerick James Shirred's, Esq., M.D., Liverpool-road, Islington Despard Taylor, Esq., Newport, Swords John Walsh, Esq , Castlehill, Mayo Captain George Edward Watts, R.N., Langton Grange, Darlington Edward West, Esq., Wes tow Hill, Surrey (With power to add to their number.) OPTITtIitING Exelsexa---Colonel Landman, R.E., F.A.S., M.I.C.E ENGINEER—G. M. Lewis, C.E. BANKERS. Loodon--Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co. Reolland—Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank bets/Id—National Bank and Branches Provincial Bank and Branches. STANDING COUNSEL—James Monson Carroty, Esq. SOLICITORS. thelITS. Langley and Mead, Bedford-row, London. ‘9ll.llam Thomas Kelly, Esq., 16, Mountjoy-equare worth, Dublin sod Castiebar, Mayo. LOCAL AGENTS. Galway—Captain F. O'Shaughnessy Castlebar—Mr. Henry Murphy, Sligo—Mr. W. C. Tuite. SzcarreaNcHenry 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 sr projected with reasonable hopes of success. It will commence at or near the city of Limerick, and taking a nor therly direction, proceed through the counties ofClare, Galway, Mayo, owl 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, Castiebar, Westport, Foxford, Boffins, Kilalla, Swineford, Pnreantstown, and Sligo, which town being connected with the north, oast, and south, by the different lines through Enniskillen, London derry, Coleraine, Belfast, Armagh, Newry, Dund a lk, D rogheda, Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Valentia, peoiee, and Limerick, the establishment of this line will cause Ire land to present a completeness of locomotive communication which no other country in the world enjoys. Application for shares to be made in the usual form to the Solici tors in London and Dublin ; to the Local Agents ; to the Secretary, M the oßice of the Company, 10, Old Jewry Chambers ; to Scoble Willesford, Esq., Castle-street, Exeter ; and to the undermentioned brokers •—Messrs. Martin and Ifeseltine, Finch-lane, Cornhill ; Mr. D. B. Major, Change-alley, Cornhill ; Mr. Anthony Laurie, Liver pool ; Messrs. Brady and Staniforth, Manor-street, ; Mr. S. Grindrod, Manchester ; Messrs. Watson and Co., Leads ; Mr. George bidwards, Bristol ; Mr. John Balmer, Gloucester ; Messrs. Tyeth and Wills, Plymouth ; Mr. T. Sandford, Exeter; Mr. Robert Allan, Ndlaburgh ; Messrs. M'Ewen and Auld, Glasgow; Mr. William Gor don, Aberdeen ; Messrs. Curtis and Power, Danse-street, Dublin ; Air. 4amee Morgan, Cork, of whom Prospectuses may be had. N OTT' NGHA M, BIRMINGHAM, AND COVENTRY RAILWAY. Uniting Warwick, Coventry, and Birmingham with Nottingham, Newark, and Lincoln. (Provisionally Registered.) ORlcee—(temporary), 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street. Capital 420,0001., in 21,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Mr John Penniston Milbanke, Bart., Great Portland-street Willtem Collins, Esq., M.P. for Warwick Michael Thomas Bass, Esq., Burton-upon-Trent Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway ',reser B. Honshawe, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square, Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction Railway 411 o r Waller, K. 11., Deputy Chairman of the South and Midlands Junction Railway Llenteuant-Colonel Hutchinson, F.R.S., 15, Upper Montagne-street, Montague-square, Director of the College of Civil Engineers lienlarriln Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., Hyde Park-place, Director of the Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle Junction Railway T. E. Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square, Director of the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway The Hon. W. E. Fitzmaurice, M.P. for Bucks, Chesham-etreet, Beigrave-square Henry Dann, Esq., 42, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe Railway Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Herta, Director o f the South and Midland J un cti o n allwar John Clement Ituding, Esq., Director of the National Bank of Ireland John Rawson, Esq. ' Halifax, Deputy Lieutenant for Yorkshire, an d Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway The Hon. Colonel Leicester Stanhope, Ashburnham House, Chairman of the Chester and Manchester Direct Railway John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leicester Thomas Hackett, Esq., Derby, Director of the Great Manchester and Southampton Railway Johe Sanders, Esq., Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Railway John Fishe i r, Esq., Short-hill, Nottingham, and Watling-street, London Captain Horatio Thomas Austin, R.N., C.B. Nathaniel Nadin, Esq., Stapenhlll, Burton-upon-Trent Capt. Gustavus Evans, R.N., Headley Grove, Surrey Henry Francis Giaborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth, and Derby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby Junc tion Railway Hdmund Sharpe, Esq., Swandlincote, Potteries Sheldon Craddock, Esq.,. Leicester John Gretton, Esq., brewer, Burton-upon-Trent Ambrose Moore, Esq., Milk-street, Cheapside dames Arbouln, Esq., Mark-lane, Director of the London and York Railway Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the East India Cornpany tient:Gen. Taylor, Clarendon-place, Hyde Park George Ledwell Taylor, Esq., 45, Hyde Park-square Douglas Fox, EEL, Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe Hallway ' Matthew Gisborne, Esq., Walton Hall, Derbyshire Frederick Cayley Worsley, Esq., Imberhorne House, Sussex John Taylor, se — " i s - greet, City, Director of the Commercial Dank of London (With power to add to their number.) soLicrroas. Messrs. Bass and Sweeting, Burton-upon -Trent. Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street. Messrs. Sir George Stephen and Hutchinson, 1, Exchange-buildings, Royal Exchange. BANKERS. The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes -street. Ttte Conlmeircial Bank of London, Lothbury, and 6, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. The Burton, Utioxeter, and Ashbourne Union Banking Company, Burton-von-Trent, and Ashboume. Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby. AcTirto ENGINEEIL—EIijah Gallaway, Esq, This line will comment° at the Long Eaton station of the Midland Counties Railway, and will proceed in a direct line to or near Castle Donington, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Measham, and Market Bosworth to ffuneeton ; joining, at Market Bosworth, the Birmingham branch, projected by the Tamworth and Leicester Company, and at Nuneaton, the projected Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway, at the point where that line crosses the Trent Valley line. Vas a direct communication will be formed between the important towns of Nottingham, Newark, and Lincoln on the one side, and Itirminglism, Coventry, and Warwick on the other side, at the same Nma supplying a rich mineral and agricultural district with railway edvantagPs. A reference to the map will show that this railway will also com mand other collateral advantages. There is no doubt that the proposed railway communication be tween Cheltenham and Warwick will be effected, in which case the proposed line will till up the railway chasm at present existing be tween the counties of Gloucester and Worcester, and Nottingham and Lincoln, and thus form a direct line from the Severn at Glouces ter to the ilumber at Great Grimsby. An amalgamation of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction with the Grimsby Dock Company being now determined on, a large amount of capital will be expended in rendering Great Grimsby a port of the first importance ; and it must be obvious that the traffic to that port, from the district south ereat of Warwick, will be vecy great. The distance saved by the proposed line between Leamington, Warwick, Coventry, and Nottingham will be about fourteen Mlles and between Birmingham and Nottingham Chv lines from Islruliusbutu to Leicester) the saving will be about ten miles. Being so much the shortest route from Birmingham to Not tingham and Lincoln, It must secure the traffic from Birmingham to Zottingham, Newark, Lincoln, and the port of Great Grimsby ; and by Joining with the Erewash Valley Railway at Long Eaton, it must command the traffic from Coventry, Warwick, and the district south of those towns to Sheffield, Leeds, York, and the north of England generally. It will also afford a direct communication between Not linrsham and the district between Warwick and Worcester, by means ct the projected Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby, and the Warwick ind Worcester Railways. The entire length of the line will be under thirty miles. The Corn- Pany's Engineer has completed his preliminary survey, and has nu Lht his report, that the characte r o f th e country through which the line 15 luten ded to pass is unusually favourable for engineering rirPosee. It Pease& directly through a very productive mineral district, in• LtsO eting mthe Leiceatershire coal-fields and lime-work s , an d w ill i; "_,. t'llus'uochi anan lcatiurd o:north and south, t o th e D erbyshire Potteries, ' immediate and prospective amount of traffic, v Profits on the small capital required cannot fail to be highly re mnerative. Prmrers for allaw anc a e:if t interest at four per cent. on the paid-up enpital will be taken, hge. liability of shareholders limited to the sive' out of their subscription Present Distance;, Saying S 171 s 13%". 13i,4 a 13 1 - k WI TABLE OF DISTANCES, Atrout 2.i ilex Warwick to Nottingham, by \ Liampton and Derby .... 72% Warwick to Nottingham, by ; Rugby and Leicester •••• •• • • 6714 Warwick to Lincoln •••••• • • • •1 1035 •• • • sS Coventry to Nottingham Coventry to Lincoln Birmingham to Nottingham ....! 67 Birmingham to Lincoln ........ . Cheltenham to _Nottingham, by Birmingham and Derby......, 103 By p r — Route, about Prospectuses may be had at the Temporary Offices of the Company, 19, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street, London ; where also applies,. Lions for shares, addressed to the Provisional Committee, will be attended to. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201. each, in the abave railway; and I undertake to accept the same, or such less number as you may appropriate to me, subject to the regulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to pay when required the deposit thereon of 2/. 2s. per share. Datod 41110 day of 1845. Name in full . Profession and professional residence in MI Residence in full • . .• .• .• .• . • • • . • • • .• References ••.. • ..• filE S ON, LONDON, SAT URDA EVEN IN (-1, SEPTEMBER 27, -1845. church, Poole, and Southampton. At its northern terminus, Bir ingham, it communicates with a series of lines, projected, in pro gress, or completed, which will form the most direct line that can ever probably be constructed between the southern ports of England and the great manufacturing districts. In the alliance of lines forming the West Midland, Manchester and Southampton Railway project, a combination of advantages pre sents itself—the result of a design, to a great extent, but of contin gencies also. If it be desirable that the terminus of every railway should be situated at some commercial or populous place, in this re spect the present project is peculiarly fortunate. If Government be resolved on countenancing the shortest and most direct lines, it will be seen, by laying a rule on the map of England from Salisbury to Manchester, that a course due north and south between these places will pass very nearly through the towns mentioned in this prospectus, as being on the proposed line ; and actual measurement has shown this line to be the shortest between Southampton and Manchester by 26 miles. By the construction, therefore, of little more than 80 miles of rail, its here proposed, the shortest, most direct, and convenient communication between Manchester and Southampton will be es tablished—a line, also, however superior in position to others pro mising similar advantages, may yet be considered as competing with none, but as an independent work, originating at Birmingham and terminating in the seaports of Weymouth, Christchurch, Poole, and Southampton. In the allotment of shares in this Company the Directors propose giving a preference to shareholders in the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Company. Applications for prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms of application for shares had, at the Office of W. B. James, Esq., Solicitor, 5, Basin,hall-street ; and of the following gentlemen:— London—Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street; Mr. J. B. Har rison, 8, Bank Chambers ; Mr. Thomas Hanbury, 4, Angel-court. Liverpool—Messrs. Mills and Co , and Messrs. Neilson. Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. William Marshall. Hull—Messrs Collinson and Flint. Leeds—Messrs. Young and Son. Stratford-on-Avon—Mr. William Bolton. Exeter—Mr. Thomas Sanford. Plymouth—Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer. Birmingham— Mr. Collis, and Mr. John Wright. Glasgow—Messrs. Tassie and Co. Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co., turd Messrs. M'Callum and Co. Derby—Messrs. Eyre and Co. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the West Midland, Manchester, and Southampton Railway. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to are Shares of 201. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parlia mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Name (hr full) Residence . . ..... ............... Trade or Profession ................ Reference • • • • • • .. Address of Referee.... • Date r HE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER, Al AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND BIRMINGHAM, SWINDON, DEVIZES, AND SALISBURY JUNCTION. Notice is hereby given, that after the 30th of SapTanana Instant, no applications for shares in this undertaking can be received. By order of the Board, G. N. WRIGHT. 5, Basinghall-street, London, Sept. 23, 184 b. .3/I[ADRID AND 'VALENCIA RAILWAY, authorised by an Ordinance of her Majesty the Queen of Spain Capital 2,400,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 201. each, Spanish reels (Vellon) 2,000, fr. 500, of which 80,000 will be allotted in this country. Deposit 2/. per Share, ma's 200, fr. 50, PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Most Noble the Marquis of Winchester, 27, Cavendish-square The Lord de l'lsle and Dudley, 16, New Burlington-street The Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor The Right Hon. Lord Charles Beauclerk, Chesham-place, Belgrave square, and the Riding, Northumberland The Right Hon. George Lionel Dawson Danner, M.P., 6, Tilney-street The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., 27, Regent-street Sir William Wynn, Chairman of the North Wales Railway C. Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., 6, Parliament-street, Chairman of the Paris and Strasbourg Railway Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker (Mesas. Cockburn and Co.) William Collin., Esq., M.P., Reform Club Edward Bates, Esq., Managing Director of the Argus Life Assurance Company Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Beesthorpe Hall, Newark, Netts, and 8, Great Ryder-street, St. James's John Capper, Esq., merchant, 1, Adelaide-place, London-bridge William Chadwick, Esq., Montagu-square, Chairman of the Rich mond Railway John Charretie, Esq., Park Village East Gideon Colquhoun, Esq., Walmer..Lodge, Avenue-road, Regent's ' park, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway Company William Cooper, Esq., merchant, 20, Mark-lane, and Kingswood Lodge, Dulwich Edmund F. Dayrell, Esq., 15, Old Cavendish-street, and Lillingstone Dayrell, Bucks, High Sheriff of Bucks, Deputy-Lieutenant of the County, Chairman of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Railway and Bridgewater and 3finehead W. Sales, Esq., merchant, Mincing-lane, Director of the Direct Western Railway Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, Director of the London and Westminster Bank Richard Forman, Esq , Upper Thames-street James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street Major Graham, 16, Grove, Clapham John Joseph Keene, Esq , St. John's-woed, near London, Director of the National Bank of Ireland Wm. King, Esq., Director of the Freemasons' Life Assurance Com pany James John Kinloch, Esq., 21, Gloucester-road, Hyde-park, Director of the North Wales Railway Company John Knill, Esq., Fresh-wharf, Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and Crewe Railway T. Laurence, Esq., St. Mary-axe, Director of the Direst Western Railway Major James Oliver Lindam, K.H., 8, New-street, Dorset-square, Chairman of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and Central Wales Railway, and Director of the South Midland Junction Railway Nicholas M'Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street, Director of the Man chester and Rugby Direct Railway Charles Carroll Mactavish, Esq., 22, Rutland-gate J. B. Montefiore, Esq., 2, Winchester-buildings, Director of the Australian Mining Company William Nicholson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Railway S. P. Pratt, Esq., 55, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company George Clavering Redman, Esq., Limehouse Colonel Edward Stoprord, 9, Manchester-square, Director of the Barbadoes Railway Company William Gordon Thompson, Esq., Director of the Senth Midland Junction 8. J. Welty, Esq., 22, Devonshire-place William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., 19, James-street, Buckingham. gate, Director of the London Central Railway Terminus. BANKERS. - . London—Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill ; Messrs. Masterrnan and Co., Nieholss-lane ; Messrs. Cockburn and Co., Whitehall. Madrid—Bank of Isabella 11. STANDING COUNSEL—Jacob Waley, Esq., Lincoln's Inn gouciTons--Messrs. Keddell, Ilaker, and Grant, $4, Lime-street. CONSULTING ENGINBER—P. Prichard Baly, Esq. SECIETAItY—F. Kirkham Fowell, Esq. Offices of the Company, 37, Moorgate-street. The present Company has been formed for the construction of a line of railway from Madrid to the city and port of Valencia, the mast central seaport on the Mediterranean. It will open out the re sources of an extensive district of country, eastward from the capital, remarkable for the richness and fertility of its soil, the varied abun dance of its product!ons, and the commercial spirit of its inhabitants. This railway is authorised by a special ordinance of her Majesty the Queen of Spain ; and from its vast importance as a national route of intercommunication her Majesty has been pleased to accompany the grant with all the privileges and immunities which the Crown is empowered to confer upon a railway company. Amongst these may be enumerated— 1. A lease of the line and of Its branches for 99 years. 2. The gratuitous grant of such Government and corporation lands as may be required for the railway. 3. The free use of all timber, the property of the State, that may be necessary for the works, or for other purposes. 4. The exemption for ten years, to be computed from the com mencement of the works, of all import duties on the machinery, rails, and other articles requisite for the completion of the railway. 5. The entire exemption from all national and local taxes that could otherwise be levied upon the railway, works, or buildings of any description, and upon the capital represented by the shares. 6. The Government is not to Interfere with the Company's tariff of charges for the space of forty years from the completion of the works ; and no revision thereof is to take place on the expiration of that period that can sink the profits below 15 per cent. 7. The line is to be classed, by a special law, under the title of a " work of public utility," and as such to enjoy the royal patronage and protection, and all the peculiar privileges attached to important national undertakings. The proposed lino, thus largely endowed, is abent 240 miles in length, being' upwards of 150 miles nearer the capital than the ports of Cadiz and the north coast of Spain, and generally nearer than any other port in the kingdom. Although it has not yet been minutely surveyed, it is well known that there is no similar district of equal extent in the kingdom which presents so few engineering difficulties. Fer upwards of 80 miles the line will traverse the almost level plain of Valencia; and emerging from the boundaries of the province, it will follow as nearly as possible the course of the rivers which flow east and west from the central plateau in the province of Cuenca, and approach Madrid by the valley of the Manzanftres. The line will either pass through or accommodate the most important towns in the two provinces, which will thus be brought into rapid com munication with the capital on the one side, a seaport on the other. This railway will be the means of supplying Madrid, containing 300,000 inhabitants, entirely dependent for provisions upon the con tiguous provinces, at a cheap rate, with the rich products of the pro vinces of Valencia, which abounds in most valuable mines, and is beyond comparison the most fertile district of Spain. Valencia, brought by this communication within ten hours' dis tance of the chief market of Spain, must necessarily become the port at which all vessels with supplies for the metropolis will unload, and the centre of the coasting trade along the whole sea-line from Barcelona to Gibraltar. The traffic in passengers and goods now existing between Madrid and Valencia has been correctly ascertained, showing the following results : The annual number of passengers travel:ing between Madrid and Valencia, and the intermediate towns, is upwards of 42,000 ; but taking that number at the present cost of conveyance by stage coaches, private "carriages, galeras, and waggons, the amount will be X 67,800 The annual weight of goods conveyed betwe.tr: the two cities and the intermediate localities is 4,900,000 cr. from which the return is estimated at 1,223,400 £1,291,200 damming that two•flfths only of the existing charges become a source of revenue to the railway, and that the tariff be reduced considerably below the state tariff of Belgium, there will be deducted .. „ 752,320 Remains .. .. .. £53. , 80 Suppo!ing that the present traffic will only be doubled by the railway, although experience has proved the increase to he equal to 300 and 400 per cent., there will be added .. 838,86(, And add £1,077,760 For the transport of troops, military stores, Ec.e., which the Government will substitute fur the conveyance by waggons .. 96 per Cent., at the least, for the Aiicant traille 50,000 215 . 4" ,C 1,343,712 From which deduct nearly 50 per cent. for maintenance of way, &c. . • .. .. .. .. .. 671,856 Leaving a net profit of 4671,856 Or of nearly 28 per cent. upon the capital. The capital now proposed to be raised has been estimated, by competent authority, to be amply sufficient for the completion of the railway, including stations, a double line for rails, and the working plant. The royal ordinance authorises the erection of an electric tele graph along the line, which will answer the double purpose of placing the railway under the special protection of the Government, and closely uniting it with all the railways that intersect the kingdom and have their common termini in Madrid, to which capital maritime and mercantile information from the Mediterranean can be instan taneously communicated. One-third of the shares are, by the terms of the concession, con ceded to Spain. The locale of the Company will be in Spain, and it will be framed on the principle of a cornpania anonima, agreeably to the commercial code of that country. - - The affairs of the Company will be conducted by a Board of Di rectors in London, assisted by a highly influential Committee in Madrid. The remuneration to the Directors will be made in ac cordance with the plan usually adopted in continental railways, and that to the Concessionaires consists of a mere contingent interest in two-twentieths of net profits, after five per cent. shall have been se cured to the shareholders. A deposit of 21. per share Is pay - able on allotment, and no future call will exceed 21. per share, of which two months' notice at least will be given. Applications for shares, according to the subjoined form, to be ad dressed to Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, solicitors, 34, Lime street, London ; to Messrs. Hutchinson and Son, stockbrokers, Loth bury ; Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle-street; Messrs. Johnston, and Co., Manchester ; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool ; Messrs.Wreford, and Co., Bristol ; Mr. N. Lea, Birming ham ; Messrs. Watson, and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitkin, Glasgow; Mr. W. Gordon, Aberdeen ; Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford, Dublin ; and to the Secretary, at the office, 31, Moorgate-street, London. London, Sept. 10, 1845. FORM OF APPLICATION. _ . To the Directors of the Madrid and Valencia Railway Company. Gentlemen,--I request you will allot me s arcs of 201. each in the above Company; and I hereby tuldertaketo accept the same, or any less number which you may appropriate to t.• e, and to pay the deposit thereon of 21. per share. Dated this day of 1845. Name • • •• . • .• .••• .. • • Residence .... •••• •• • • • • Profession or Trade Place of Business Reference •••• • • • •••• •• •• MADRID and VALENCIA RAILWAY.— No APPLICATION FOR SHARES will be received after Wrzsr.snAr, the First day of October next. By order, f. iuKHAAI FOWLiER SecrigssY • Oface 37, Igoorgate-street,sept. 2 R 3, 1845. PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED. G MAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT RAILWAY, By a ,;unction with the Eastern Counties Railway at Bedford. Distance, 120 miles. Capital 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 257. each. Deposit 21. Its. 6cl. per Share. cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given to the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway. --.- The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a branch line with the East and West India Docks on the river Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 999 years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks, which are capable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together with wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods from all parts of the world can take place, is a most important fea ture in favour of the direct communication from the manufacturing towns of Glasgow and Leeds offesed by the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway, and by branch railways to the main trunk line, through which all goods from the whole of the manufacturing dis tricts could be conveyed at once to these warehouses for shipment, thereby avoiding the present delay and expense of cartage, and in reality establishing an almost direct and an invaluable connexion between the rivers Clyde and Thames. It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties, that the works will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good, and that It will not materially interfere with any ornamental property. The Subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first deposits until an Act of Parliament Is obtained, and afterwards only to the amount of their subscriptions. It is proposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and also to extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, in the event of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford. Applications for Shares (in the form annexed) may be made to J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court, and Messrs. Owen Gray and Midge, 25, Great Tower-street, the joint solicitors to the Company, at the Company's temporary offices, 9, Copthall-court, London ; or to the following sharebrokers : London—Messrs. Marten and lieseltine, 9, Flash-lane Leeds—Messrs. Hoppe and Co. Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal Manchester—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons Bradford—Mr. Josiah Scholefield Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square No application will be attended to unless accompanied by a satis factory reference. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. _ . To the Proyisisnal Committee of the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares, of 251. each, in the above undertaking, and I undertake to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me, and also to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree ment when required. Name in full .............. ..... Address in full • • .... • • Occupation .. Date . .. •• •• •• •••••• •• .. Itefcrence.. • • .• .... • • •• •• .. G REAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT RAILWAY. The Committee of Management of this Railway hereby giro no tice, that in consequence of the unprecedented number of applications already made for shares in this Important undertaking, they hare determined upon rejecting all further applications made after the 9th September instant. Immediately after that day they will proceed to make the allotment of the shares and procure the execu tion of the Parliamentary contract and subscription deeds. Signed by order of Use Committee, J. R. GIBSON, OWEN GRAY, Registered Solicitors. J. B. MIDGE, 29th September, 1845. • S H WSBU R Y, WOLVERHAMPTON, DUDLEY, and BIRMINGIIAIf RAILWAY. WM. ORMSBY GORE, M.P.. Chairman. The Hon. ROET. H. CLIVE, M.P., Deputy-Chairman. John Benbow, Esq., MP. W. Richford Collett, Esq., M.P. W. Fechney Black, Esq. James Clay, Esq. Richard Norman, Esq. Stephen Phillips, Esq. Richard Smith, Esq. R. A. Slaney, Esq. Sir W. Young, Bart. In consequence of the repetition ofidyertisements signed "Thomas H. Smith," and an " Original Shareholder," the Committee of Ma nagement think it their duty to publish the names of that Commit tee, as the best answer to the latter anonymous writer, and to caution the Shareholders against being misled by any statements which might be made at any meeting called by Thomas H. Smith, of whom the Committee of Management know nothing. The Committee of Management take this opportunity to state, that the surveys from Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton are nearly completed, and that the surveys from Wolverhampton to Birmingham are being made under the direction of a joint Committee representing this Company, the London and Birmingham Railway Company, and the Birmingham Canal Company, the whole under the immediate super intendence of Mr. Robert Stephenson. By order, 3, Moorgate-street, Sept. 22, 1845 GEO, KNOX, Secretary. D IRE CT WESTERN RAILWAY (Upon the Broad Gauge), From London to the Land's-end ; with D verging Lines tea Bath and Bridgewater respectively. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. Gd. per Share. Office, 20, Poultry. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Camperdown, Sidney-place, Bath The Viscount Mandeville, Kimbolton-park, Hunts Lord James O'Bryen, Royal-crescent, Bath Lord William Powlett, Bath, and Downham-hall, Brandon, Suffolk General Sir John Slade, Bart, Muntys Court, Taunton Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, Somerset The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. James's-street Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts Sir Henry Webbe, Bart, 105, Pall-mall Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 19, Eaton-place, London Ralph Neville, Esq , M.P., Hill-street, Berkeley-square Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P., 6, Parliament-street Hon. Percy Evans Prete, 3, Belgrave-square Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Companies Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P., Foxley, Herefordshire Sir John Cave Brown Cave, Bart., Kenilworth, Warwickshire Sir William Young, Bart., Westbourne-green, Hyde-park, East India Director John Clark, Esq., Bellefleld House, near Trowbridge, Wilts, Magis trate for the counties of Wilts and Somerset Alfred Batson, Esq., Ramsbury, Wilts, and Upper Bedford-place Major Hunt Grubbe, Eastwell House, Devizes John Sealy, Esq. ; Bridgwater, banker John Level Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker William Adair Bruce, Esq., Lansdown-crescent, Bath Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company Thomas Farneomb, 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, Esq., 32, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the City of London Edward Harrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North ampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the South Midland Railway Joseph Armitage, Esq., Miln's Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park, Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and South Midland Railways Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-square, London, Deputy Chairman of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe Philip W. Courtney, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London Millis Coventry, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street Barnet L. 'Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and George-street, Mansion House Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderneas House, near Hull, Deputy lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Rieder of Yorkshire Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf William Eales, Esq., Mincing.lane, London, late Direeter of the Devon and Cornwall Banking Company Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cross, 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 Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Insurance Company James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West Heath House, Er.th, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire Railway Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Direc tor of the Bridport and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railways Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon street, London H. G. Atkinson, Esq., limier Gloucester-place, Regent's Park George M'lntosh, Esq., 127, Seymour-street, Portman-sqnftre 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., Conlsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company Patrick Fres. Johnston, Eel s Great Cumberland-place Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the London and Blackwell Railway Company William Downing Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon Cuthbert Woodcock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryanstene-street, Portman square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension Railways George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London William Hagan, Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway Company Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London and Blackwell Railway Company Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street, Mark-lane Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R.N., I I, Eaton-square Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the St. Katherine Docks Company, and of the General Shipowners' Socieey William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square Charles Thomas Warde, Eeq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and Luton 1100, Bedfordshire George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles street, Berkeley-square James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor place, London Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail way Company Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London William Congrave Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di rector of the Warwickshire an London Railway Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire John William Yerbury, Esq., Beleousbe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d Light Dragoons Robert Main, Esq., Ravensboume Park, Lewisham, and Trinity square, London Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall Hou fl_Nottinalialasss, slssissets'etts. ‘ltettratf - rfrilte, Mar rough-buildings, Bath Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Barka Col. Bursiem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Beets Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Rev Chas. Fres. Bamffylde, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bath, Magis trate for Somerset Richard Mortimore, Esq., Cleippenham, Wilts George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming ham Railway Company R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Buekingham shire Railway and Wolverton Junction Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton Rev. R. A. Roberti, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon Richard Marker, Esq., Urculm Cottage, Tiverton Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North End House, Portsmouth Geor ge Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton Wm. H. Halcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hungerford, Chairman of the Berks Union Banking Company William Halcomb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and Dorset Bank Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berks Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Kerle Haberlield, Esq., Clifton, Bristol James Troup, Esq., Hastings John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Moe-ford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director of Coventry and Leicester Railway Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and Birkenhead, and Manchester and Southampton Railways. Edward Norris, Esq., Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direct London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways James Ogden, Esq.,'M.D., Salford Sir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding of York and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley" Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies" John Holford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford Union Railway Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley . . Junction John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South ampton Railway John Robson, Esq., Hetton-le-liole, Durham Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and Blanchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and Midland Railway Companies Isom Holmes, Esq., Liverpool Wm. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and Iron Bridge Railway Company C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway Company Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, I)irector of the Sheffield, Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office Wm. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast Railway Company Captain Bowker, R.N., Devonport H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Di rect Railway Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield Director of the East and West of England Railway Company John Fawcett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield and Har rowgate Railway Company William Marriott, Esq., Attercliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway. Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York and East Lincolnshire Railways John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool David Price, Esq., Manchester William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington Rev. H. W. Cottle, Vicar of Watford, Northamptonshire Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham Edward Hall, E.sq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways Henry Hubborsty, Esq., Hull John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse, merchant John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-sqaare John Norton, Esq., Moat House, Brentwood, Essex William John M‘Guire, Esq., Hampton Court John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, Surrey W. J. Lefeuvre, Esq., Alderman and Magistrate ofSouthampton Thomas Chas. Harrison, Esq., F R.S., York-terrace, Regent's Park G. B. Bunhury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Coventry and Leicester Railway Captain Tringham, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield The Hon. F. Byron, 21, Eaton-place William Higgins, Esq., Turvey, High Sheriff of Bedfordshire Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak-park, near Winchester, Deputy-Lieu tenant, and magistrate for the county of Hants Wiillam Jackson, Esq , Birkenhead, Chairman of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway E. H. Langworthy, Esq., Manchester Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman,", and Sheriff of London and Mid dlesex Nathaniel Gould, Esq., Barge-yard, Bucklorsbury, and Tavistock- square Edmund Lionel Welles, Esq., Cadogan-place, and West Moulsey, Surrey Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, and Limehouse, Director of the London Dock Company, the Marine Assurance Company, and the General Shlpowner's Society William Jackson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Goole and Doncaster Railway George F. Earle, Esq., Hull Stephen Knowles, Esq., Exeter . W. Lawrence, Esq., Brixton John Learmonth, Esq., Edinburgh, Chairman of the Edinburgh and Glasgow, and North British Railway Companies Wellington Ross Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway William Tanner, Esq., Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars John Booth, Esq., Sherburn Grange, Durham Matthew Benjamin Robson, Esq., Whitwell Grange, Durham John Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Director of the Dorchester and Weymouth Railway, and York and Lancaster Railway William G. Bernard, Esq., Clifton, Bristol Thomas Smallwood Richards, Esq., 59, Baker-street, Portman-square James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Manchester N. M'Cann, Esq., Parliament-street Henry Wenman Newman, Esq. Bristol, Magistrate for that City, and Deputy-Lieutenant and Magistrate for the county of Gloucester William Moratio Harrison, Esq„ Sunbury William Empson Jalland, Esq., Holdemess House, dear Hull Thomas liacket Massy, Esq., Newark-upon-Trent Robert Cook, Esq., Gaiusborough, Director of the Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Axholnae, and of the Wisbeach, Ely, and Lin colnshire Railways William Roston, Esq., Catherine-court, Trinity-square G. Wingrove Cooke, Eiq., Temple, London C. I. Selwyn, Esq., Exeter Joseph Hopwood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter and Falmouth Railway Richard Compton, Esq., Eddington House, Hungerford, Berks, a Magistrate for the counties of Wilts and Berks Henry Con Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Malden, Essex The Constable of Hungerford Riclfard Davis, Esq., St. Helen's-place, Director of the South Midland Railway Edward Hyde Clarke, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Warwickshire and London Railway . Captain William Lionel Lampert, The Highlands, Oxfordshire, and Leamington, Warwickshire Francis Burton, Esq., Milverton House, Warwickshire Captain Stewart, R.N., Leamington, Warwickshire Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director of the South Staffordshir a Railway William Northage, Esq., Upper Gower-street, Bedford-square John Walley Hughes, Esq., Gloucester, Director of the Birmingham and Bristol Railway Lewis Bruce Knight Bruce, Esq., The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey Francis Cole Humbert, Esq., Oxford-street, Hyde-park Algernon Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-park James Lamb, Esq., Hyde-park-square Richard Groucock, Esq.,; Bow-churchyard, and Dulwich, Director of the Direct Manchester Railway J. B. Simpson, Esq., Rutland-lodge, Brixton Henry Bellerby, Esq„ Sheriff of York Henry Ledgard, Esq., 39, Wood-street, Cheapside, Director of the Rugby and Macclesfield Direct Railway John Williams, Esq., Eaton-square. Thomas Grimsditch, Esq., M.P., Macclesfield, Cheshire Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn-fields, Wolverhampton, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Railway William Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton Erasmus R. Foster, Esq., Birchin-lano William Bargett, Esq., Broad-street Peter R. Morrison, Esq., Princes-street, Bank Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Enfield, Director of the York and Lan caster Railway Thomas Kidley, Esq., M.D., Sheffield James Sheppard, Esq., jun. Valentine Knight, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Magistrate for Middlesex aleorge Sercombe, Esq., Exeter John Clampit Sercombe, Esq., Exeter William Pearce, Esq., Liverpool W. Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham Robert Henry Hurst, Esq., jun., Temple William Nash, Esq., Capham Common Grey Hazlcrigg, Esq., West Carlton Hall. Leicester Captain Twlsieton Graves, Dake-street, St. James's, Director of the Leicester and Tean and Dove Valley Railway (With power to add to their number). Baxgras--Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill, London. _ _ JOINT SOLICITORS. Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. SECRETARY—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq. Assisranz-Secarrauv—Charles J. Whalley, Esq. LOCAL SOLICITORS. At Newbury—Messrs. Godwin and Gray, and B. Pinniger, Esq. At Ramsbury—William Rowland, Esq. At Devises, Henry Gilbert, Esq., and John Edwards Hayward, Esq. At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Itodway At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton At Shepton Mallett—Francis Isaac Nalder, Esq. At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S. and J. R. Poole At Exeter—William Denis Moore, Esq. At Tiverton, T. L. T. Rendell, Esq., and J. A. Toms, Esq. At Launceston—Messrs. Lawrence and Pettis= At Bodmin At Truro At Penzance At Falmouth-3lessrs. Tresidder and Son The object of this line is to effect a direct communication between London and the Land's End. In a national point of view such a line is indispensable. With the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from it., situation at the western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in creased its imports from 200,0001. to 3,000,0001. per annum. At Bris tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, the imports were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased. The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal mouth by way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by railway. The object of this prospectus is to show that no other line than the resent can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard to this, its most important eutport—" the natural Packet Station of the empire." The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End. The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company having amalga mated with this Company, the immense local influence commanded by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company. The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by Bradford direct to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells (from which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater), Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two miles than any existing railways between these points, and without a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St. Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole iistance from London to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles. With respect to the traffic oa the upper portion of the line it is needless to saylmore than that there is already thorough traffic suffi cient to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes tern ; that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton about 32 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 ; t o what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire_ may be further develened—ar_Aseir - ui - fracr - a - rargerpriffipol'- &-snrorivinter visitants—it is obvious that this line will command a traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the amount of which may be said to be without limit. A glance at the map will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of railroad accommodation. Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance In the event of war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet commerce of the kingdom; it may not be out of place to quote here the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley, which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways, he is reported to have said :—" I consider that the com munication between the metropolis and the great outperts to be not a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the report of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway Company, it was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Falmouth; and it may be further observed, that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed to interfere with that great national object. The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for wardness, and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par lia►nent. It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be constructed at an unusually small expense ; that the undertaking will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways in the kingdom. Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at four pounds per centttm 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 pas;, and to the shareholders in the Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected with the Direct Western district. . . . Applicationi for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary, or to any respect able broker in town or country 20, Poultry, London, September 11, 1845. ' FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 251. each in the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21. 12s. 6d. per share thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con tract when required. Dated 1845. Name in foil .. .. Residence .••• • • • .... • . Trade or Profession Place of Business (if any) .......... Reference..................... ..... ktignature.. - -------- . -----7-- IN ~..... , - ''---- -,-.-r n dE. A.Srt T HE ENFIELD,ED MONTO..o, „Ala. .. g . cow' 0 0.) COUNTIES' JUNCTION RAILWA.. _„ , ,,,,, n e, y i p., (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 v' - :'„,..E . • Capital, 30,0001., in 1,500 Shares of WI. .-- . Deposit, 21. 2s; per Share. "'" . on. • Liability limited to amo unt of subscrll Jacob Vale Asbury, Length of line three miles. Edward Beckett, Esq., 16, IVt;:cwick-street, W L. 511401 Charles Dennis Bowers, Esq., Cannon-street, Thomas Dobson, Esq., Forty-hill,. Ea llela Captain Holt, It N. Baker:: jIree:SEI John Dixon, Esq., Forty-hill, Enlie ld oxvirsql.o,SrAL COMMITTER. _ 0 In a Daniel Harrison,Chase-hill, elt , t, , n fi i ), 4 William Henry Holt, Esq., M.D., Ilake.'''s ,tree ia -•• Astley Holt, Esq., M.D., Baker-street, 1 'm a t. E dmea.te n Henry Samuel Hammond, Esq., Church-s tr'''"'' William Haiuworth, Esq., Enfield Town Enfield Chal.o John Fulford Owen, Esq., Ridgeway Oaks, - Major Ramsay, 1111 Lodge, Clay-hill, Enfie Henry Lewis Smalc, Esq., Willoughby llou. Robert Wollaston, Esq., Tottenham tSCI. ENGINEER--Robert Stephenson, l __,,• wa imersle/ PARL/AMENSIARY AGENT—MOWS. rarratt a 11, .sireet,l3ll4. BANKERS—Messrs. Drewett and Fowler, Princ, * sotictroas. • John Sawyer, Esq., Enfield Henry Knight Esq,, Edmonton W. B. James, Esq., London. —.------ - r — Olret PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS. ',v%rtfittl4T __ 14ve, TottenhatrA This line of railway is intended to cornretence at ~ one at t o e: and to form a' junction with the Eastern COUntieb _ . mroool he. Edmonton station, crossing the turnpike-road at Lova ,„ ;bat W a g where a station would be placed for the accorow udati °n " • and bourhood. 1 So rfA's' ek It will be three miles in length, over an unifornr leve •at froin the circumstance of its not involving the as crinc i s ife , • .gric;, :iivelder.46tr:-Ite'n-84 laare &ciliary property (n.arly the whole of it being la nd n _ o Its ture), its cost has been estimated by comp" ent p ere": 1 ; 0 ,14 surveyed it, at a sum very much below that of ordin arY "1,,„..11, if of By this junction, pasSeDgers will be conveyed, at n Carl,oo l 7 the present cost, fl•om Enfield to Loudon in lialf-ful-D0i1,,, et ble that time Is now consumed in reaching the nearvst I ,n; wale' Eastern Counties' line. It may i. , e expected, independes_l. tr t c at, diate neighbourhood of its station,'', to draw c onsidera w° ,'.vuere 13 ,, the following places, viz.:—Nortkaw, South Minims , ' s o uthlPr.ii, Hadley, Chipping Barnet, East listrnet, Cock Forste r6 J, i tion "'" Winchmore Hill, and it will also open a direct commtleue the markets and villages north of Enfield. d ot, te dee; The expensive coach fares to Enfield have long been b at wbeil metro' ciate the value of house property in the n'igßbourhe°dl, triableleet.",. residents will be enabled, by means of this" line to rees_,i re polis at a moderate cost, not only such propeolY, building purposes, of which there are many fa" llrable SP be greatly improved in value. oit sblo. but law " 0 7 4 coal s COO f el! , In addition to the passenger traffic, which ig Teri' the on . 4 there would be realised a large amount, annually, fr°lTirthimeS,lC,,,mit ance of coal, corn, and other goods, from the ever ,pencil I° "c. which a communication is now in the course of Pet °$ tern cootie' neighbourhood, by means of the junction of the Ells with the Blackwall RallwaY ; and which, when c 01 nP1e.......5; 131aa cure to the public the convenience of three termini,, viz" h• r e ' wall, Fenchurch-street, and shoreditcla. from t •e 0 To market-gardeners, as aiso to farmers, this r to, t alrantsb remarkable contiguity of its stdtions, would offer ge 3 et other 1 0 ; • b affordinthem the means of conveying their fru. g n WO ril w it 1 encorer deco to the London markets, more expeditiously ar d'oug, till of in • - Jur), than by their present very Inconvenient, te , ,arki; Pensive mode of conveyance; and to the Spitalfiel di ', l ,`, r such Pr ° , particularly, on account of its being the principal one •`:,,,00 one duce, and close to the Shoreditch terminus. From thi, '' d 101. a very large return would be obtained. slue - r . Enough may have already been stated to shoe,' th f ., i ,„ re holde ~ portance of this project to the neighbourhood and ti me ~ f r op id se: but the fact should not be overlooked; that wlteneftuetrer°lls;,l - vill oe: convenient communication has been opened with the • °d ual/ • L o traffic very far beyond what before existed has iso u ' webs I' D , lowed ; and from a project which would facilitate the lit o f ina F n r y o Fr om advantages very favourite and healthful a spot as Enfield, the same re t anticipated. w id,to • • "ark , i 214 " / 1.- capital invested may be confidently expected. of which have been particularly noticed, a large ram of moderate outlay lineo of railway awyill be req. -. . fe rf 00.0 ,. . The responsibility of the shareholders will be u"--sa 11 r of Parliament to the amount of their shareff• .., part'.os W ei' ....1 , In' the allotment of the shares, applications' ..,Y Ow' terested will have the preference. SollyltorL _ortoy Applications for shares may be made to Me Tbr''' ;reef offices •es , and to Messrs. Oswin and Co., Angel-cavil" rsad-e Did 1 3 street ; and to Messrs. Peppercorne ad C 0.,., 2, London. ?VP , . 0 0 FORM OF APPLICATION FOR 511.0.1--- _Tops T. the Previsional Committee of the Enfield, Edniontokas ' Gentlemen, —I request that you will allot l in e ii $0 .fipmireste iii: .4, Counties' Junction Railway. i l tare d ' icsil• Tht tclO n _./ be proposed Enfield, Edmonton, ant Eastern Counties' e i s sni t s way, and I agree to take all such shares, or so rgl' l . t ro" tea t :4 allotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and '''.-.0. fel Parliamentary Contract and Subscriber's Agreement /c ,"-- so to do. .. Name •• • .. • Description ...• • • • • • "' • • • . • • • " '• Residence •••••••• ' • '. • • • • Reference to ....... .• • °All'roolCitoi LONDON and NOTTINGHAM It , LEEDS connecting . LONDON, NOTTINGHAM , Sll Viet' 4. 00.) (Provisionally Registefed, pursuant to 7 a nd 8 . a. Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Share s of 2 0, ' P-- a Deposit, '2./. 2s. per Shar e. the l iar ' t (In compliance with the Standing Orders o f Parliament.) ruovislONLL COMMITTEIt• r.) ~,,, (With power to add to their nolo% lie"' The Right Hon. Digby, Lord Middleton, Pi °Raton The Hon. E. M. Lloyd Mostyn, M.P. The Hon. William Mackenzie Dawson ace I ,O P The Hon. Edward Stafford Jerningham A f il . 4 - ri' rl ' Sir George G. De Hochepied La Pent, Bart., .e O - ,,--1 William Collins, Esq., 31. P. Notting"dlf" Thomas Adams, Esq., merchant, Lenton Firs, near , A , e id 5 0 Charles Appleby, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the bile i ' chester Railway 0 0/ 40 4 Ge( rge Bacon, Esq., merchant, Nottingham Dir ect. Richard Bailey, Esq., Castle Dyke, near Sheffield, .., 1 0/ Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction ItailelLora r.- Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq., Director of the Gre at 1 vw Robert Bell, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick doe Charles Richard Bigge, Esq., Bry-awston-square, Len William Boden, Esq., Apsley Hall, near Nottingha m 0° William Bradley, Esq., Sheffield t un. Set ti" ,t Joseph Braithwaite, Esq., Magistrate, Standard =-- co`! .„ t e s- James Brand, Esq., New Broad-street, London George B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Director of t h. , n t , i 0 Nuneaton Railway ~trate Edward Pegge Burnell, Esq., Winkburn, Notts, I,r-elfr County Wm. Butcher, Esq., the master cutler of Sheffield Samuel Cartledge, Esq., Mapperley, near Nottingha m William Cartledge, Esq., merchant, Nottingham - Charles Chouler, Esq., Wollaton, Notts Thomas Close, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham Henry Coe Coape, Esq., Union Club, London ' 4 * Major E. T. Coke, magistrate, Woodhouse Grove, Ne tt° s, te a Sheldon Craddock, Esq., Leicester Thomas Cullen, Esq., merchant, Nottingham 1.0 04° tre, doe Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq., Old Caveridish - e- - yoe Lillingstone Dayrell, High Sheriff for Bucks ~__,,, F aace' _ Lieut.-Col. Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, WYhe al '"fsarae ll Henry D. Erskine, Esq., 93, Mount-street, Grosvenor odd, William Felkin, Esq., merchant, Nottingham r efil l ' William Edmund Ferrer's, Esq., Bucklersbury, Direct() and Holyhead Railway 0 01°' James Fisher, Esq., 12, Watling-street, London .... De etir , Charles Fitzgerald, Esq., London, Director ot the °°llll. and Southampton Railw Leu d° The Rev. Henry Robert Fowler, Manchester-W ere ' . Smith Fowler, Esq., merchant, Nottingham _.--- - Francis Gamble, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough " George Gamble, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, London ~, i , William Gilbertson, Esq., Baglan, Neath a n V W' Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpoo l - . Railway Thomas Foster Gimson, Esq., merchant, Nottingham William Hannay, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham John Heard, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham t I, 00 131' 4 . Richard Heaviside, Esq., London, Director of the Grea . , Hallway Lewis Heymann, Esq., merchant, Nottingham Samuel Hollins, Esq., merchant, Nottingham John Horsfall, Esq., magistrate, Standard-hill, The Rev. Charles Hudson, Saundby, Notts Riehard Hutchinson, Esq., 31 D., Nottingham Robert James, Esq., merchant, Nottingham '. Thomas Kidley, Esq., M.D„ Sheffield Cynric Lloyd, Esq., Brook-street pp , London „,,aOll Robert Low, Esq. Keel-street, Russell-square , i'v - : , ,, s i The Mayor of Nottingham No ttinOha ni WO 40' David Melville, Esq., merchant, Standard-hill, -"tiler of til ' Major J. A. Moore, Queen Ann-street, London, Di rge Indian Peninsular Railway ( 0 !:(1 JolWNewton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield Edward Munk, Esq., merchant, the Park, Nottingh ed3 Henry Newbould, Esq., Sharrow Bank, Sheffield Ill aing ll o John Nunn, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham Park .1, Wee • Oleg Wilson Overend, Esq., Sheffield, Magistrate for ~..e ~.r I t o Capt. Adamson George Parker, Mapperley Mount, e'''' Samuel Parsons, Esq., M.D., Sackville-street, London William Raines, Esq., the Temple, London '. 4 0P J. Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leieester Park flee - Jonathan Reckless, Esq., merchant, Nottingham = s e, James Salmond, Esq., magistrate, Mansfield WooP.olllo, thigham, Director of the Newark and Sheffield Ilauwia,ficiflis Frederick William Seymour, Esq., St. James's - sq uare, ,lattleg l 2. George Shelton, Esq., jun., merchant, Arnold, n ear - _Aireve., Henry Simonds, Esq., Director of the Great IVestern 1...- John Simpson, Esq., Arnot Hill, near Nottingham Thomas Smith, Esq., Meadow Hall, near Sheffield William Smith, Esq., Dam House, near Sheffield COI Henry Smyth, Esq., merchant, the Park, Nottingh William Taylor, Esq., Ratcliffe Hall, Notts, Nottingham i lle old ' William Thompson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the l l° maglstro dorel ;e l( ra*lee , Sheffield Railway William Vickers, Esq., magistrate, Nottingham stoo Thomas Wakefield, Esq., magistrate, Nottinghamnerbf l John Ward, Esq., Wood-street, London, and Belper, Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the Manc h e ster a n " Extension Railway Edward Webster Bullock Webster, Esq., Hendon Ap r ot William Webster, Esq., Oakham, Rutland plffs 7 Johningall "%Verge, Esq., Woodborough Hall, Notts , NeWark and Sheffield Railway ~,}' Jo]. Henry Weste, Cmla, Monaghan David Wimatcroft, nra Esq., a Buckland Hollow, near --41fret° D uel John Wild, Esq., merchant, the Park, Nottingham ,„„xj, Henry Wilkinson, Esq., Endclitie Hall, near Slicci` the Sheffield and Chesterfield Railway ng i 11° John Calthrop Williams, Esq., M.D., magistrats, 's tt Robert Wynne Williams, Esq., B e df or d-place, London Henry Willoughby, Esq., Settington House, Melton' COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Ch .olllo Sir George G. de Hochepied Larpent, Bart., lletzry Robert Fowler, Deputy-Chair in .. li Frederick Pratt Bsulow Es 4 ' Cernoll• I' Sa fstl• ,_ • ames Ac id, BrancT, - E - Mounts Waac „ g o Edmund Francis Dayrell, .Esq. Capt. Adamson Lieut.-Col. Elrington Samuel Parsons, William Edmderrer c a o , trESCINSL_. Wi l li am Raines, r t STANDING !11, soma:or:3.Serg:ant Cl ars, _AO jlfle" Messrs. Birch and Bramah, Great VP;.nctie B , str est , Messrs. Forbes and Drake, Warnford-co:ar t- Messrs. Freeth and Rawson, Nottingham, LOCAL AGENTS. Id OM, Messrs. Parker and Smith, Shane- o il C. S. Busby, Esq., Chesterfield. , . PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—MCSSIS. GregorY , .° ,• • 11, Parliament-street. cie ° ol °P BANKERS. f r et Vt Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co., 15, Lombard -8- -,:ains Messrs. Moore and Robinson, Nottinghamsh ire Nottingham. eftt ei4 The Sheffield and llallarnshire Banking CoMPan-T„' g p il es lo „jan• SECRETARY (pro tem.)—Mr. William sv- ,„ Offices of the Company, No. 8, Wharnford-cont` f t oir o st i rT o The object of this Company is to form a direct hfl e a :j a i T o of r e tween the large and important town of Nottingh ar . es o° ,.otlt e le sed li n ..st polls,' which, by means of the existing aim pcoP °- A 4 a i ort- - ,ef , former place, will afford also the most direct onty p oe,8:, tweeze, London, Sheffield, Huddersfield, Leeds , 3 t ftn iot le th ° land generally and Scotland, and between Lond ° to n fo_r e ln r s ' esi n ol o B o ° l iti s o e t ti It is not the present intention of this C•mpanY wait L" 41.1 C oc dent line between London and Bedford, but to o o sa ensuing session of Parliament, and to take advaut"eelye a s t t oa h fkT e ith p ihie r ge oj Lpa e re c et t o ed piusolrsa l t in u e re s . between those places as Sha ll rec toP . la of course d e nroairtlilivwayarw,iitllhrtohuegrhefotrhee commenceoteet o cc oc e• Ferrara, to or near Kettering and MeltoP;r3lloVbriltti:cilbel":o6/04c5,itiede. almost a straight line to Nottingham. Its l en° •4 °° pr ° ror eget . '" f th e fa e e through a thickly-populated country, and one ~e 4 o 11 1 of any moment to the construction, in a direct cet h t - tr ois h v ol To that railway. A reference to the map will shove t ha ,-,haln', l o 4B ' ,se ct junction with the proposed railways north of Ne tiu s e lieid, • 1 " yo"P` D er nearest route from London to Sheffield, lind u ff e u r s of „70 north of England, and Scotland ; while, by rt - o too• Nottingham and Ambergate, and Manchester, cometuq u gate lines, it will be found to oiler a more direct cu" . `" 410 11 11 be any in existence between London and Manchester, 0 001 , f P r i with any one projected between those place s ' unde r sO" et' r The promoters are already assured that the _, in ter(.„„st 1e Iti cordially approved by the landed and other loc s fo_„, :0 1. 1 ; o f the sanction and active assistance of Director ..y,-„,,po ) ;i ne 0 4 '1os line of railway which it affects. It has the col . 1 , 1 ; 1, o od habitants of the towns of Nottingham and north, or icl ti le u poo, trc t r ° facturing and; commercial classes of the north , ri v,te• _ 4 00 4 4 ,1 ye or P l ow r gs are not aware of any grounds, either Pub- , s the sanction of Parliament can be withheld il'onietors ten yjolvti e4 ee the amount of its traffic, guarantees to the P r r i l ;ay in e s t °l :cf r turn upon the capital to be invested as any Pro gIY re de' will ." 0 01 o‘' i ne r In the allotment of shares a preference wil ber 0.11 an j locally interested in the line, and a certain c n onn ected coiele itte s e t for the shareholders in railways immediately sent undertaking. visional _tor, io Co.' A prospectus, with plan and list of the I ro i.n ~e any further particulars, may be obtained fro . .L dvo r,l.f r offices of the Company, to whom, or to ' 'Sharebrokers, 53, Threadneedle-street, oPP '- the usual form, may be made. • • LHE WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY, AND BIRMINGHAM SWINDON, DEVIZES, AND SALISBURY JUNCTION, Being an extension of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,200,0001., in 60,000 shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Dillon, Halkin-street West, Belgrave square, and Loughlyn House, Loughlyn, Ireland, and Ditchley, Oxon Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House William Beresford, Esq., M.P., 77, Pall-mall, Director of the Teen and Dove Valley Railway William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Richard Price, Esq., 3f.P., Director of the Welsh Midland, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways David R. Ross, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Belfast, Director of the London and Manchester, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail ways Sir John E. De Beauvoir, Bart., Chairman of the London and Bir mingham Extension, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Sir George William Prescott, Bart., Theobalds, Herts, Director of the Chester and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junc tion Railways Sir William Wynn, Ifaesynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, Director of the Direct Western Railway Sir John Key, Bait, Alderman of London, Director of the Londen and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Sir William Twysdea, Bart., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean Railway William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of Lon don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and London anti Greenwich Railways, &c. Sec. Thomas Faricomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lon don and Westminster lank, and Namur and Liege, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South 'lid Midlands' Junction Railways Donald Maclean, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Valley Con tinuation, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Major Oliver Lindam, Chairman of the Gloucester, Iberyst with, and Central Wales, and Director of the South and 3lidlaads Junction Railways Major-General Parlby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Worces ter and Crewe, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Captain James Patrick Macdougal, late Bengal Royal General Staff, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Chester and Forest of Dean, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways, &c. Captain Alexander Hamilton Carlo, Royal Artillery, Reform Club John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, Director of the Legal and Commercial Insurance Company, the Great Western of Bengal, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth Railway Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment Railway Richard William Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Man chester, and Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways William Fechney Black, Esq. Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Direc tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life Insu rance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway James Clay, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Furness and White haven, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Col. Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail ways William Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment, Manag ing Director of the Farmers' Life Insurance Company, and Di rector of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Richard Carpenter, Esq , Magistrate of the County of Middlesex, Deputy-Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, Di rector of the Leicester and Bedford, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways • G. W. Killett Potter, Esq., Secondary of the City of London Lieut.-General Sir Lewis Grant, K.C.8., 31, Harley-street John Jennings, Esq., Elm-grove, Hammersmith William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the Oxford, Witney and Cheltenham, and South and Midlands' Junc tion Railways Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde-park-street William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Director of the Britannia Life Insurance and Stafford, and South and Midlands' Jnno tionForster,Derby and Railways George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and Manches ter Railway Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbridgs, Staffordshire John Anderson, Esq., E.1.C.5., Director of the Church of England Life Insurance, and South and Midlands' Junction Railway Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director of the London and Dover, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Cash, Esq. Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham Robert Richards, Esq. Inner Temple, London, Director of the South and Midlands ' Junct ion Railway George It. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Julio lion, and Northampton and Banbury Railways William Paxton, Esq., Langford, near, Bicester, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester House, Broad-street, Director of the Italian and A ustrian, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Con tinuation Railway John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds Peter Fairbairno, Esq., Leeds, Vice-Chairman of the Leeds and York Railway J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond James Durness, Esq., Leytonstone, Essex George Willes, Eaq. , Hungerford Park, Berke G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed Celyn, Denbighshire, and tonsdale-square, Islington Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway Martin Furness, Esq., Director of the Newark and Sheffield Railway William Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York and Leeds Railway Edmund Phillips, Esq., Avon House, Melksham, Wilts, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Cherles Thomas Ward, Esq., Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clepton House, Stratford-on-Avon, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway oseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead, Huddersfield, Director of the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Junc tion, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways George Henry Brook, Esq., Edgulin-lodge, Huddersfield, Previsional Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax and Bradford Union Rail way, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Captain Hitching, H.E.1.C.5., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Birmingham and Oxford, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Allcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Lancashire, Director of the Li verpool and Leeds Direct, and Keighly, Halifax, and Huddersfield Railways James Beech, ssq., 15, Grosvenor-place, anti Brandon Lodge, near Coventry, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Rail way William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurloe-square, Brompton, Director of the Jersey, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Thomas Mortimer Cleobury, Esq., Askew Villa, Acton Major Waller, K. 11., Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Frederick James Hall, Esq , Torrington-square, and Alfreton, Derby, Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and South and Mid lands' Junction Railways I. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and York and Lancaster Railways Joseph Underwood, Esq., The Hall, Blackheath, Director of the Me tropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway W. A. JIM, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwitk and Central Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman of the Church of England Life Insurance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway William Morley, Esq., Blackheath Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds Railway, Director of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby and Southampton Railway Colonel Fitch, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the Sou th and Midlands' Junction Railway William Lee, Esq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and Essex and Suffolk Railways Thomas Gooch, Esq., Director of the South . and Midlands' Junction Railway J. Harvey, Esq., Rush-hill, Surrey John Wheelton Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedfo r d R a il way Thomas Collingaidge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director ofthe South and Midlands' Junction Railway C .Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex R. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's-wood, Director of the North Metropolitan Railway William Slark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton Warren Stormes Hale, Esq. Gresham-street, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Klngsmill Grove Key, Esq., Wandsworth rhomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Braden, near Birmingham Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways 2 7 . - h r e,Enl, Gloucester-place, Portman-square Robert Power, Esq , Queen-street, May-fair, Director of the Great Britain Life Assur ance Society Admiral J . yscough, Prospect -place H ouse, Southampton, Director j o s o f p t. e T S h o o u , n t h p s a o n n d , EMsqkli.,aaDdiar'ejeatonretoifetnhßailway Jesoph Thompson, Req., Director of the London and Brighton and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Major Grtibbe, Eastwell House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the County, and Director of the South and Midlands' Ra ilway Captain Railw y Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwi c k and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways T. G. Norbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continua- Lion, and Pouth and Midlands' Junction Railways, and of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance Company William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway John Brecke Walbancke, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway elaptain Hamilton Earle, Royal Artillery William Lee, Esq., Director of the Reading Railway Henry Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square William T. Thornton, Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman-square John Dennis, Esq., Director of the Enmesh Valley Extension Railway Joseph Crockett, Esq Alderman of Devizes, and Director of the. North Wilts Bankin; COMM no - sal,4 via astuvray John Hebert lielbert, Esq., Gloucester-place, London, Director of the Leicester and Birmingham Railway Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, London, Director of the Rugby and Worcester Railway William Peppercorne, Esq., Loladon, and Bexhill, Sussex Captain T. Hodges, Connawnt-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Rail way F. Duffield, Esq., Boltno, House, near Bradford Rev. F. R. Hall, D. 1.1., Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridge John Barnett, Eaq„ Coroner for the County o f Gl ouces t er, Di rector of the Oxford and Cheltenham Railway William Spooner, Esq. Cha p el - str eet , Belgrave-square, Director of the Ne7fewitle and Liverpool Railway Alexan :ter Prince, Esq., 14, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Bar net North Junction Railway Jalnes Lees, Esq., Delph, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of the Saddleworth Banking Company (With power to add to their number). BArrxEas—The Commercial Bank of London. CONSULTING Excirraza—Sir John 3laonell, LL.D., F.R.S. ACTING Kullingar Higgins, Esq., C.B. SOLICITOR—W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street. It appears that England will be divided longitudinally by four great lines of railway, which will become so many main trunks, intersec ing and intersected by numerous lines, both transverse and oklique, opening rapid and ready communication with the intermediate dis tricts, with packet stations, and with seaport towns. The more easterly of these, which is also the longest, originating at Newcastle upon- Tyne, and passing through York, Peterborough, and Gambridge, may be said to terminate in London, whence all places are accessible. The second line, counting westward, is more tortuous, and has also a common northern terminus with the preceding, by which its ad vintages are materially restricted. This line, descending the Ere wash Vale, and passing through Rugby and Oxford, becomes a South- Pto e. n li ne by falling into the South-Western Railway at Basing stok The third longitudinal line, or the most westerly, is still more de fective in design than the preceding ; employing the steep and narrow traverses neariy railway called the Birmingham and Gloucester as its first link, it in a right line the least populous and most undulating parts of Gloucester, Iterks, Wilts, and Banta ;and, properly speaking has A ntao IndsPen'lentt enni se.Tt l iOn of the kingdom—the West Midland o district--a district inviting a similar species of wont toorunnckenitiroaote;daolodcalit lasdvooannttaerogespiasttledll t re o rmody this det:ednact:bnyfrthme matrix unprovided with a chief present undertaking, or a fourth longitudinal line. Adopting Birmingham as a northern terminus of the West Mid land, Manchester, and Southampton Railway, it is proposed to carry a line through or near to Stratford-on -Avon, thence between Moreton, Stow, Northleach, Fairford, Cricklade, and Swindon, where it will merge in the South and Midlands' Junction Railway. The length of the proposed line will be about sixty miles, and the district traversed by it is gently undulating and densely peopled. At its southern terminus, Swindon, it becomes identical with the South and Midlands, by means of which it opens a most direct communica tion hitherto suggested with the harbours of W e pa& outh, Christ- ~~_ , (Pursunit to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons, PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne Sir Wlllian Twyeden, Bart., Dorset-street, Portman-square, Directo. of the Ciepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, and Erewasi Valley Extension Railways Sir Willian Bacon Johnston, Bart., Parthenon Club, Director of the Chepstov, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction Railway, and of the South and Midland Junction, and West Midland Railways Major-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Thomas Alexander, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian, and Trent V4ley Continuation Railways Henry Amlier, Esq., worsted spinner and manufacturer, Watkinson Hall, near Halifax, Director of the West Yorkshire Railway, and Liverpooland Leeds Dina Railway C. H. Anderson, Esq., Upper Clapton, Director of the South Midland Railway John ajewder Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension R tilway William Haadgett, Esq., Winchester-street, Broad-street, Director of the Italian and Austrian, and the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford, Railways William Bulls, Esq., Honey-lane Market John li.vng Banks, Esq., Stockwell, Surrey William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Di rector of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midland Junction Railways Henry Weerh Burgess, Esq., Temple's Park, Hempstead, Director of the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Railway Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq. ' the Lodge, Uppe r Cl ap t on Josiah Burrowes, Esq., Castle House, Gomersall, near Leeds Thomas Burnley, Esq., Gomereall, near Leeds, Director of the Leeds and West Riding Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool stud Leeds Direct Railway Samuel Bateman, Esq., Croft House, mesa Bradford, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Selby hallway Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford Dr. Brigstock, Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street; Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln, and Great Luxembourg Railway Job Bullinart, Esq., East Redford William Baldwin Carrick, Esq., J.P., Hull, Director of the Eugby Warwick, and Leamington, and of the Lirerpool and Leeds Direct Railways John Carter, Esq., Knottingley Thomas Carter, Esq., Tanshelf, J.P. for the Borough of Pontefract Charles Charnock, Esq., Holmfield House, near Ferrybridge Millis Coventry, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Junction, and Birmingham Extension Railways B. Clements, Esq., Lowndes-square, Director of the Western Janie's& Railway J. Cottam, Esq., East Redford Robert Cook, Esq., Gaineborough, Director of the Manchester, Mid land, and Great Grimsby, Gainsborough, Goole, and Isle of Axholme, and the Wisbeach, Isle of Ely, and Lincolnshire Junction Railways John Cutts, Esq., Little Barfield Hall, near Braintree, Essex James Clift, Esq., Director of the Paris And Strasbourg, Southampton Manchester, and Oxford, and the Manchester, Rugby, and Maccles field Railways W. S. Cross, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham EXtest- Mon Henry Sherard Coleman, Esq., Crown-court, Old Broad-street Francis Deere, Esq., Stratford, Essex J. Dawson, Esq., Pontefract John Dennis, Esq., Director of the West Midland, and Thames Tal ley Railways Joseph Dent, Esq., Aibston Hall, near Leeds, Magistrate for the North West Riding of Yorkshire A. A. Davenlaort, Esq., Director of the Oxfbrd and Worcester Exten sion, and Worcester Junction Railways Joseph L. Davenport, Esq.,Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway John Alcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, near Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Richard Dranefield, Esq., Dalton, Huddersfield, Director of the Rugby,. Derby, and Manchester, of the Liverpool and Leeds Di rect, and of the Keighley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railways Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway Francis Ewalt, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey mouth Railway Lieut.-Col. Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Managing Direc tor of the York and Lancaster Railway Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Oxford and Worcester Exten sion Railway Solomon Foster, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the Nottingham, Mans field, and Midland Junction Railway Martin Furnis3, Esq., Mansfield, Director of the &mash and Shot field Railway John Griffiths Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Chairman of the London, derry and Coleraine, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways George Green, Esq., Pontefract Charles Gibson, Esq., Holland-place, Clapham James Gilbertson, Esq., Hertford William Gibson, Esq., Glasgow H. P. Gipps, Esq., Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway Charles Goldsmith, Esq., Friday-street, Cheapside William Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Henry Swan Graves, Esq., Ely Bank Lodge, Halifax John Gully, Esq., Ackworth Park, Ackwortk Richard Hall, Esq.;Carnarvon Hall, Stratford, Director of the Strat ford and Thames Junction, and North Woolwich Railways John Charles Hall, Esq., New Grove-street, East Redford R. F. Hall, Esq., Wiseton, near Bawtry S. C. Hall, Esq., F.S.A., Inner Temple, Director of the Enmesh Tal ley Extension and West Midland Railways Samuel Hammond, Esq., Leeds John George Hammack, Esq., Director of the Direct Western and the Metropolitan Junction Railways William Hepworth, Esq., Pontefract, a Deputy-Lieut. and J.P. for the West Riding of Yorkshire John Mason Hepworth, Esq., Eden-place, Ackworth, J.P. for the West Riding of Yorkshire Joshua Hepworth, Esq., Rogerthorpe Hall, Bedsworth Thomas Heelis, Esq. ' Skipton Castle, Skipton, Di rec t or o f the Lan cashire and North Yorkshire, Lancashire aid Yorkshire North- Eastern, and of the Liverp/o1 and Leeds Direct Railways Robert lierries, Esq., East-street, Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Charles Holbrooke, Esq., Derby, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester John Holmes, Esq., Best Redford John Midge, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and Direc tor of the Derby aid Stafford Railway William Empson Jalland, Esq., Holderncas House, near Hull, Di rector of the York and Hull Railway Harwell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Holderneas House, near Hull, Ma gistrate for the East Riding of York and Borough of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds, and Hull and Barnsley Railways John Jameson, Esq., Honey-lane Market William Jameson, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire, Director of the Staf fordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways Joseph Jones, Esq., Mayor of Hull, and Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director of the Blythe and Churnet Valleys, or Macclesfield and Lichfield Railways George Lawton, Esq., Ditehleys, Essex, Director of the Chepstow, London Forest of Dean, and Gloucester yg J p.l u as n tere c e t , l c o t n , Leahy, Esq., St. James's-square P ortman - square, Director of c M s o p s t e a s i nE Henry ward L L e e g e e g h , , E B s q e eod . , ufßoleTraedasi Railway 1 i n ievra. L W . til S hl t el e a p iint h e e Lad n e s i3;' L ' sqgE y a n n e d , " E ß4 s eo q lg ., Gatl Broad-street, Director of the Western Ja maica Railway P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Director of the Sligo and Shannon, the Ipswich and Southampton, and the Cork Passage and Kinsale Railways John B. Mann, Esq., Leeds Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq , Newask.,,p on _Trenr.," and Bedford square, Hyde Park Thomas M'Turk, Esq., Hull William Esq., Ordshall House, nea r E as t R edford, Director W. a it.3%3, 11e ,5 1 uti e, jannag E i s oE q n . ,:q. E ast M.D., Red Bedfordthd r of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway William Moorhouse, Esq., Marine Villa, Knottingley, Provisional Director of the Sheffield, Barnsley, and Wakefield Railway Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of South and Midlands' Junction, and London and Birmingham Extension Railways James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract, J. P. for the Borough, a Provi sional Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension and Chester Junction, Railway Joseph Nadir', Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Southampton, and the Leeds and Carlisle Railways William Joseph Nash, Esq. Bedford John Norton, Esq., 1, St. George's-square, Westminster, and Moat House, Brentwood, Director of the Great Western Direct Railway Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley and Con tinuation and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South Midland and Oxford Extension Railways Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D., Pontefract Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North William Perfect, Esq., Monkhill, near Pontefract John Phillips, Esq. Mayor of Pontefract Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Birming ham Direct, Leicester, Iron, and Dove Valley Railways R o b ert R i chards, Esq. , Di rec t or o f the West Midland Railway John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Bycullah House, Enfield, Managing Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Reading, and B as i ngs t ok Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of th e Exeter, Dorchester, James Robson, Esq., Tanshelf, J. P. for the Borou g h of Pontefract anda d t i ti V e e ym Directou Junctio n,thWestern Railways the Tring,e, George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junc tion, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate, the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Thirsk Junc tion Railway Thomas Rontlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director o. the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railways Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing stoke Railway Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet and Blythe Valleys Railways J. E. Slchel, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and of the Leeds and York, and Midland Railways William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the South Midland Junction Railway, &c., &e. George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury Hall, Sheffield, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Leeds, Director of the Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways Joseph Smithson, Esq., Kirklees Mills, near Halifax James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railway. Thomas S. Trapp, Esq., Banker, Bedford Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbals, Hull, Di rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street, and Gorbals, Hull Thomas Turney, Esq., Park Lodge, near Halifax David Wheatcroft, Esq., Bucklaud Hollow, Derbyshire, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railways Major-General Wright, Royal Engineers, Gloucester-Plaea. Tyonams, Esq., Royai ounaery, - Bakifi Charles Waite, Esq., Willesden House, Middlesex John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, sat Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax (With power to add to their number.) ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF—Sir John M'Neil, L.L.D., and F.R.S. ACTING ArulUngar Higgins, Esq. LONDON SOLICITOUS. J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall.court Owen Gray, Esq., } 20 Great Tower-street, J. B. Midge, Esq., BANKEIS. London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co. Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Co. The object of this railway is to connect, in the most direct course, the important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds with the Metropolis, the want of which has long been felt, and is toe univer sally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under this con viction that this important undertaking, after several minute exa minations of the country through which it will pass, has boen brought forward. The proposed line will commence at the junction of the Manches ter and Leeds, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wake field, and will terminate by means of a junction with the Easter' Counties Railway at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of Newark, Grantham, Melton that Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parlia ment), and by thus availing> itself as far as possible of the existing railways, will complete the - most direct and least expensive trunk Rotherham, t h h i e n rha a m n lute, from London to Leeds,York, and Hull. It will pass in Its route both from the nature of , a E v as ail t ab ß l e c df d o i r s d tr N c o e tti o i V i V ia a m ke , tlcld, Pontefract, Doncaster, Tti Mowbray,The importance otkillicaemo, of such h S Stamford. line fortils. obvious, its course (embracing, as it does, a most extensive population within its limits) as also from the absence of any direct communication tbr the conveyance of passengers and merchandise. By the construction of this railway, railway communication to London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by means of the Syston and Pet er b orou gh R a il way ) , t o N e wark and Nottingh am (by the Nottingha m an d Li nco l n li ne ) , an d t o Sheffield and Gainsbo rough (by the Sheffield a nd G a i ns b oroug h li ne ), by a much short er roluntedetpheanndbzuy of Railways.anyetxhiestadinvgant.ges to the towns in the sev era l offered counties through which this Lin e w ill p ass , the Line in itself consi dered as a direct trunk line bet ween L on d on a nd Leeds, is sufficie n t to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic between these two places would produce s u ch a return on the capital required, as to admit of a dividend, equal to that of any railway in operation : but when it is borne in mind; that a Co m pany is being formed for the purpose of connecting Glas g ow with Leeds by means of a junction wills the Y o rk an d Ca r li s l e R a il wa y, 110 better line can b e presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct communica tion from Glasgow and th e W e ster n p ar t s o f S c otland to London, b u t would also connect Edinburgh and th e E as t e rn Part s of Scotland as well as Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North Midland, and Great North of England Railways), with the Metropolis, which would be considerably shorter than the accommodation offered by any other Conipauy, and when cost of construction 15 considered there k t t , eh oh il '' A ipli, (311 :1Z'' ' : ° ' :7 / ' ik l 11 4 1 '11. 1 StikbrEl;.: 4th6 3t ' o 4 n