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THE SUN, LONDON MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 27, 1845 FLY and BURY ST. EDMUNDS RAILWAY. QOUTH AND MIDLANDS JUNCTION In consequence of the great number of applications for shares L RAILWAY. in this Company which are daily received from all parts of the At a meeting of the inhabitants of Woodstock, held at the Town country, the Provisional Directors feel it necessary to call the atten- hall, Woodstock, Oct. 21, 1845, tion o 1 the Public to the following Clause in the Prospectus, to the The MAYOR of WOODSTOCK in the Chair, terms of' which they will, in allotting the shares, be compelled most The following resolutions were moved, seconded, and carried : str:ctly to adhere:— Ist. That It is highly desirable that a railway communication As, under arrangements entered into with the Lynn and Ely, should be brought to Woodstock, and that it should be as direct as Ely and Huntingdon, and Lynn and Dereham Railway Companies, the nature of the country will admit of. a large proportion of the capital has been appropriated to the holders 2d. That this meeting having heard from the deputation of the of shares in those Companies, a very limited number of shares only South and Midlands Junction Railway Company an explanation of Is at the disposal of the Provisional Directors, and no application for the merits of their scheme, and of the advantages which the same shares therefore can be attended to, except from parties locally in- will afford, the town and neighbourhood of Woodstock pledge them terest‘d and of the highest respectability. selves to give the undertaking every support in their power. By order, 3d. That petitions be presented to both Houses of Parliament in L. F. EDWARDS, Secretary pro tern. favour of the South and Midlands Junction Railway, and that the Peers connected with this district of the county, and the representa tives of this borough, be requested to support the same. H. T. T. PALMER, Mayor. BRIGHTON, LEWES, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, GRAVESEND, and EASTERN COUNTIES .JUNCTION RAILWAY, with branches to Chatham and Maid. stone. PETERBOROUGH AND NOTTINGHAM JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110.) Capital 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. John Key, Bart. Alderman, Director of the Exeter, Dorches • ter, and Weymouth Railway John Saddington, Esq., Mayor of Gravesend Medhurst Troughton, Esq., Alderman of Gravesend Thomas Palliator, Esq., Alderman of Gravesend Mr. - fisdell, Councillor of Gravesend Jeremiah Rosher, Esq., Rosherville, near Gravesend John Breugh, E.q., Herne Bay John Burgess, Esq., Boroughreeve of Manchester, Director of the London and Manchester Railway Nathaniel Cumberlege, Esq., York.terraoe, Regent's park, Direc. for of the Leeds and Huddersfield Railway Thomas Camplin, Esq., Herne Bay W. A. Campbell, Esq., Wanstead-park Charles Goodwin, Esq., Battersea Captain Twialeton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, Director of the Leicester and Tean and Dove Valley Railway F. W. Hamilton, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Direc tor of the York and Lancaster Railway Company James Harmer, Esq., Ingress Abbey, Greenhithe, Kent William Kuper, Esq., Director of the Grand Junction, Great Western, and South Western Railway John Kerschner, Esq., Middle Temple-lane Edward Lacey, Esq., St. Paul's churchyard, and Gravesend Jonas Levy, Esq., 55, Tavistock.square H. C. Leahy, EA., St. James's-square, Director of the Direct Bir mingham and Brighton, and Great Welsh Junction Railway E. H. Lewis, Esq., 12, Upper Montague-street, Director of the Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Railway Major Moore, Military Secretary of Hyderabad Thomas Mortimer Cleobury, Esq., Acton, Middlesex, Director of the Sheffield and Nottingham Railway Cosnpany John Wheeley Lea, Esq., Worcester, Vice-Chairman of the Se vern Commission Edmund Pallister, Esq., Gravesend S. 1.1. Powell, Esq., Director of the Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Railway E. R. Simmons, Esq., Gloucester Lodge, Croydon W. White, EN., Fitzroy-square, Director of the London and Windsor Railway J. D. Williams, Esq., Milton-street, Dorset-square Edward Chapman, Esq , Gibson-square, Islington, Director of the Grand Junction, Great Western, and South-Western Junction Menry Dodson, Esq., Director of the Grand Trunk Railway R. W. Keate, Eaq., Albemarle.street, Director of the London and Windsor Railway H. C. Curtis, Esq., Portland-place t With power to add to their number.) COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Sir John Key, Bart. S. H. Powell, Esq. The Mayor of Gravesend W. White, Esq. John Brough, Esq. Nat. Cumberledge, Esq. T. M. Cleobury, Esq. H. C. Curtis, Esq. Wm. Kuper, Esq. R. W. Keate, Esq. John Kerschner, Esq. MANAGING DIRECTORS. Chairman—The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton Sir Montague Cholmeley, Bart., Easton-hall, Lin colnshire Vice-Chairmen Georga Walker, Esq. Eastwood-hall, near Noi tiugham General Johnson, M P. Witham on-the-Hill, Lincolnshire R. Newcomb, Esq Stamford F. F. Weiss, Esq. Chester-terrace. Regent's-park William Bell, Esq. Nottingham Robert Rising, Esq. 20, Regent street, Waterloo-place William Betts, Esq. Bevois-mount, Southampton' William Collins, Esq. M.P. War wick CONSULTING ENGINEERS—Sir JOhl ACTING ENGINEER William Procter Stanley, Esq. Peterborough Thomas Sambrooke, Esq. Arun del-wharf, Strand G. H. Betts, Esq, Ketton, near Stamford P. H. Edith, Esq. Temple John Grant, Esq. Northampton R. Carpenter, Esq. Lonsdale square Rennie, and George Rennie, Esq -William Lewin, Esq. The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury The Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Company The Northamptonshire Banking Company, at Stamford, Welling borough, and Northampton The Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Walker and Grindley, 5, Southampton-street Bloomsbury-square. LOCAL AGENTS. Nelson Wilkinson, Esq. solicitor, Peterborough Messrs. Clarke and Son, solicitors, Melton Mowbray James Atter, Esq. solicitor, Stamford John Bowiey, Esq. solicitor, Nottingham. The Shares in this Company being now allotted, the Directors beg to assure those applicants who may not have received letters, that the immense number of applications precluded the possibility of com pliance with all, and rendered it necessary to give a very limited number of shares, even in those cases where local or other claims were undeniable.—By order, THOMAS CROMWELL, Secretary, Company's Offices, No. 1, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street, Oct. 27, 1845. T HE BIRMINGHAM, NOTTINGHAM GAINSBOROUGH, AND HULL RAILWAY. Capital 1,600,0001., in 80,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21.25. per Share. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Combennere The Right lion. Lord Viscount Ingestre, M.P. The Right lion. Lord Charles Beauclerk, Chesharn-place, Belgrave. square The Right lion. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton The Right Hon. Lord E Chichester The Right lion. Lord Stephen Chichester The Right Hon. George It. Dawson The lion. Captain Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square The Hon. Cecil Lawless Sir James D. li. Hay, Bart., Rose Croft, Surrey Sir William Lowthorp, Hull William R. Collett, Esq., M.P. Thomas Bateson, Esq., 31. P. Richard Spooner, Esq. 31. P., Birmingham George Frederick 31uritz, Esq., M.P., Birmingham The Worshipful the Mayor of Hull C. S. Foster, Esq., High Sheriff of Staffordshire G. B. Thorneycroft, Esq., Shrubbery and Bradley Ironworks, Staf fordshire, chairman of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junction Railway Michael Grant): ook, Esq., Stourbridge, chairman of the Staffordshire iron trade Thomas Bagnall, Esq., Goldshill Ironworks, Staffordshire W. H. Alien, Esq., Leadenhall-street, London John Aston, Esq , Birmingham Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway William Broackes, Esq., Cork-street, Burlington-gardens Major Frederick Brownlow, United Service Club William Chance, jun., Esq., merchant, Birmingham Robert Chapman, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand Junc tion Railway George A. Hamilton Chichester, Esq., Chesham-place, Belgrave square Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Doctors'-commons, London Henry Crane, Esq., Wolverhampton Anthony Dickson, Esq., Erdington-honse, Berwickshire Henry R. Downman, Esq., Director of the Cambrian and Grand Junction Railway Duncan Dunbar, Esq., East India-road, Director of the London Dock Company Henry John Enthoven, Esq., Director of the Dutch Rhenish Railway Thomas Hartshorne, Esq., Silkmore-house, Stafford Joseph Gillott, Esq., Birmingham Charles James Heath, Esq., London James Peard Ley, Esq., Seaton Ironworks, Whitehaven Samuel Wilfred Lucas, Esq., Sandhill-house, Birmingham, Director of the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway William Mathews, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham, and Corbyns-hall Ironworks, Director of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhamp ton Railway Thomas Davies, Esq., the Austin, Handsworth, Staffordshire, and Crookhay Ironworks, West Bromwich Thomas Hackett Massey, Esq., Oxford-square, London Robert Marsden Massey, Esq., Oxford-square, London David Montague, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester and South ampton Railway William Morgan, Esq., Director 'of the Bristol and Gloucester Railway P. H. 31untz, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway Francis Parker, Esq., Manchester Archibald F. Paull, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton, Director of the Grand Junction and Midlands Union Railway John Gibson Reeves, Esq., Director of the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway Frederick Ricketts, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway John Shaw, Esq., Wolverhampton Charles Shaw, Esq., Deputy-Chairthan of the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway, and Director of the Bristol and Bir mingham Railway Henry Symonds, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway Thomas Timmins, Esq., Wolverhampton Charles Augustus Tulk, Esq., Totteridge-park, Herta Samuel Walker, Esq., Ablow-house, Wolverhampton, Director of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway William Watson ' Esq., Director of the B r i s t o l an d E xeter Railway John Webster, Esq., 35, Mecklenburgh-square, Director of the Great Grimsby and Lincoln Railway Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway John Brearley Payn, Esq., Birmingham Samuel Keirick, Esq., Handsworth-ha, Staffordshire Robert Peasegood Sleight, Esq., Hull, Provisional Director of the Hull and Holyhead Railway William Ayre, sen., Esq., Hull, Provisional Director of the Lynn and Ely Railway Joseph Ayre, Esq., Hull John Wells, Esq., Hull Wakefield Pim, Esq., Hull, Provisional Director of the Hull and Lin coln Railway Dr. Bell Fletcher, Birmingham Benjamin Bartleet, Esq., Birmingham Thomas Clark, Esq., Wolverhampton James Shaw, Esq., merchant, Birmingham C. S. Cotterill, Esq., magistrate, Walsall, Director of the South Staf fonlshire Junction Railway Benjamin Gibbons, Esq., Shut-end, Dudley, Director of th e S ou th Staffordshire Junction Railway John Neve, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the South Stafford shire Junction Railway Samuel Underhill, Esq., Wolverhampton John Barker, Esq., Chillington Ironworks, Wolverhampton, Di rector of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Christopher Musgrave, Esq., Lord of the Manor of Birmingham John Dixon, Iron Master, Wolverhampton Charles Greatrex. Esq., Walsall, director of the South Staffordae Junction Railway (With power to add to their number). SOLICITORS. Messrs. Edwards, Mason, and Edwards, 8, 3 loorgate-street, and De lahay-street, Westminster ; and Messrs. Motteram and Knowles, Birmingham. ENGINEER IN CHIEF—Sir John Rennie, F.R.S. ACTING ENGINEER—W. H. Pardon, Esq. BANKERS. The Birmingham Banking Company, and Messrs. Attwoods, Spooner, and Co., Birmingham. LOCAL AGENTS. Hull—Messrs. Frost and Moss Nottingliam—Samuel Maples, Esq. SECRETARY—Edward Hart Hart, Esq. OFFICES—No. I, Royal Exchange-buildings, London; and 36, Upper Temple street, Birmingham. It is proposed by this Company to establish a direct line of commu nication between Birmingham, Nottingham, Gainsborough, and Hull, at the smallest outlay of capital, and with the least possible injury to existing interests. To effect this object, use will be made of existing or projected lines, as far as practicable, and the chain of communica tion will be completed by throwing outpew lines, where requisite. Commencing at Birmingham, it is proposed to use the Birmingham and Derby Railway as far as Whitacre, whence a new line, about 29 miles in length, will be made, passing through Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Castle Donnington, to the Long Eaton or Sawley Station ou the Mid land Counties Railway lhe communication being thus perfect to Nottingham, it will be carried forward as far as Gainsborough, either by the proposed Not tingham and Gainsborough Railway, or by a line springing out of the line from Nottingham to Lincoln, fur which an Act was obtained by the Midland Counties Company during the last session of Parliament. From Gainsborough this railway will proceed to Barton-on-the- Humber, or New Holland, in the immediate vicinity of Hull, thereby rendering complete and entire the chain of communication between Birmingham and Hull. By this project the advantages will result to the public of a Direct line from Birmingham to Nottingham, 1 Birmingham to Gainsborough, and from Birmingham to Hull; and by Means of the proposed South Staffordshire Junction Railway, and the intended extension to Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Alrewas, a direct line from Wolverhampton and Dudley to Nottingham, and the other towns already enumerated. The support of several companies will be enlisted In favour of the line, which, together with its own merits, will ensure its success In Parliament. ni t m he un a ti p o le n tio is n already made, Asa o c r o i n n s i p ti r e o r g a r b e l s s e p , O t r h ti e on t i o n f e t h r e e q ll uir n e e d of fo co r great national undertaking will be materially shortened. g m m and u Independently nicat n between of th the eimportant advantages seaport p to o derivedrbteof Hull a b n y d a t h d e l r i e n c i t n i c n o manufacturing districts of&e Warwickshi re maybe confidentlyStaffordshire,and traffic in timber, corn, metals, expected. u be large great thorough traffic from Birmingham and the midland counties to The revenue of the Company, in addition, will derived from the Nottingham and Gainsborough, and the immense traffic from Bir mingham to Hull, the port at which the exports are shipped to Ham burgh, the German States, and the North of Europe ; and from the conveyance of merchandise, agricultural produce, and cattle from the southern, western, and midland counties. A preference will be given in the allotment of shares to landowners on the line, and other local proprietors, as well as to directors and shareholders in railways interested in supporting this undertaking. No subscriber will be liable beyond the amount of the deposit until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his subscription. The usual lower will be taken to allow interest at the rate of four per cent. from the time of payment upon each call until the opening of the lines. No applications will be attended to without a reference to a member of the Committee, a banker, or the solicitors to this Company. The Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract must be executed when the bankers' receipts are exchanged for scrip certifi cates, cf which clue notice will be given ; and the deposits paid by any party making, default in the execution of those deeds will be for feited. Plans and prospectuses, with forms ofapplications for shares, may be had of the Solicitors, and of the following Stock and Sharebrokers, viz. :—Messrs. Wells, Westropp, and Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street ; Mr. 11. Pritchett, I, Reyal Exchange-buildings; Messrs. Ilitchins and Harrison, 18, Thre Idneedle-street ; and Messrs. Peppercorns and Son, 2, Old Broad-street, London; Messrs. Gardiner and Heap, Charles M. Williams, and Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester; Messrs. Watson and Co., and Mr. Samuel Phillips, Hull ; Messrs. Davies and Son, Liverpool ; Messrs. Rklsdale, Myers, and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Earp and Son, Derby ; Messrs. Pott and Levick, Notting ham ; Messrs. Wreford, Nicholls, and Wreford, Bristol ; and Mr. James Robinson Lane, Birmingham. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Birmingham, Nottingham, Galnsborough, and Hull Railway Company. I request you will allot me shares of 201. each in the capi tal of the above-named Hallway ; and I will accept the same, or any less number, and pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated the 1845. day of _ . Name in full .. Place of Business or Profession.... • • Residence ..... ..... .... „.. .... .. Business or Profession .. • • .......... Signature.... • • • .......• • • • ... • • : • • Name, Residence,(' ...... ...... •• .. and Profession .• ••.. • ..... •• . . of Referee .. • • TIIE BIRMINGHAM, NOTTINGHAM, GAINSBOROUGH, AND HULL RAILWAY. I: ) , B A A : : po: T i t c hT a e t Eß l 2 okf . o i r nata ih asn a et r x. ::: this Company can be received after EDwit o a w nd LE E B D , W ß A ir ß uil D n S i, , h a am , oorgate-street, Oct. 10, 1845 - JOHN S. HERON, Secretary. Liverpool and Bury Railway Office, 33, Dale-street, Liverpool, Gth September, 1845. John Lewis Ricardo, Esq. M.P. Ralph Bernal Osborne, Esq. M. P. William Lacon Childe, jun. Esq. Kinlett T. W. Giffard, Esq. Chillington-hall Edward Monckton, Esq. Somerford-hall Philip Davies Cooke, Esq. Gwasanney, Fllntshire Rev. C. T. Luxmore, Guilsileld, Welshpool W. Lutiner, Esq. Dolorw Richard Griffiths Parry, Esq. Welshpool Lyon Winder, Esq. Vaynor -park, Montgomeryshire David Pugh, Esq. Llanerchydon, Montgomeryshire Rev. R. H. Mostyn Pryce, Gunley, Montgomeryshire Edmund Peel, Esq. Bone-hill, Fazeley Major-General Brook Parlby, Rutland-gate, Knightsbridge John Fellden, Esq. Mollington-hall, Cheshire James Taylor, Esq. Birmingham George Wilbraham, Esq. Delamere-lodge, Cheshire William Tarratt, Esq. Wolverhampton Richard Darby, Esq. Colebrook-dale Thomas Eyton, Esq. Eyton Thomas Cambell Eyton. Esq. Donnerville Robert Fisher, Esq. Chetwynd-lodge, Salop William Orme Forster, Esq. Stourbridge Ironworks John Horton, Esq. Priors Lee W. H. Sparrow, Esq. Wolverhampton Messrs. J. and E. Walker, Gospel Oak Ironworks John Williams, Esq. the Friary, Handsworth Philip Williams, Esq. Wednesday Oak Works William Harley Bayley, Esq. George Briscoe, Esq. John Edwards, Esq. Joseph Grout, Esq. George Harper, Esq. John Haseldine, Esq. George Holyoake, Esq. George Loch, Esq. Paul Griffiths Parton, Esq. 'George Stanton, Esq. John Stanton, Esq. Joseph Whateley, Esq. John Williams, Esq. James Durham, Esq. Robert Gardner, Esq. Henry Newbery, Esq. John Meeson Parsons, Esq. Joseph Paxton, Esq. George Sanders, Esq. Henry Tootal, Esq. James Walkinshaw, , Esq Directors of the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company Directors of the Shrewsbury and Tren• 1 Valley Union Railway Company Harvey Wyatt, Esq., Richard Barrow, Esq Wm. Gabbott Beare, Esq. John Chapman, Esq, Geo. Royle Chappell, Esq. Henry Dann, Esq. Edward Grignon, Esq. Thomas Groves, Esq. Edward Haycock, Esq. John Knill, Esq. Matthew Lyon, Esq. James Watkins, Esq., William Bickford Collett, Esq. M.P. chairman of the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company William Henri Thomas, Esq. deputy-chairman of the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company Joshua Proctor Westhead, Esq. chairman of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company. COMMITTEE OF mANAGENENT. The Earl of Powis, K.G. Chairman Joshua Proctor Westhead, Esq. Deputy-Chairman Colonel the Eon. G. E. Anson, George Loch, Esq. M.P. Henry Newbery, Esq. Richard Barrow, Esq. John Meeson Parsons, Esq Thomas Groves, Esq. George Stanton, Esq. Joseph Grout, Esq. I Henry Tooth], Esq. George Holyoake, Esq. John Williams, Esq . George Harper, Esq. Directors of the Crews and Worcester Railway Company ENGINEERS. William Cubitt, Esq. I Robert Stephenson, Esq. . William Alexander Provis, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co. Messrs. Jones Loyd and Co. Manchester The Bank of Liverpool Messrs. Taylor and Lloyd, Birmingham Messrs. Beckett and Co. Leeds Messrs. Rocks, Eyton, and Co. Shrewsbury and Ludlow Messrs. Holyoake and Co. Wolverhampton Messrs. Williams and Co, Chester % kr Messrs. Becke and Co. Welshpool Messrs. Berwick and Co. Worcester. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Parker, Hayes, Barnwell, and Twisden, I, Lincoln's Inn• fields, London Messrs. Potts and Brown, Chester Messrs. Slater and Heells, Manchester James Wheeler, Esq. Manchester Messrs. f.oxdale and Peel, Shrewsbury Henry Heane, Esq. Newport. SIANAGER—Robert S. Skey, Esq. SECRETARY—WiIIiam Cowan, Esq. The Committee of the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Com pany have the satisfaction of announcing that the preliminary nego tiations with the proprietors of the several canals whose works it is intended to convert into railroads have had an entirely successful result. The Committee have thus been enabled to unite the powerful rail way interest which had been associated for the promotion of the Shrewsbury and Trent Union and Worcester and Crewe Railways, with a not less powerful body of canal proprietors, who, being also possessors of large landed influence, are at once the most legitimate and efficient promoters of those railway facilities which Shropshire, and portions of Worcestershire, Staffordshire, _Cheshire, and - North Wales, so much need, and which parties thus locally interested best know how to provide. It is also satisfactory to the Committee to state that the projects outlined by Messrs. Cubitt, Stephenson, and Provis, and announced in the preliminary prospectus of the Company, have been carefully matured by these gentlemen, and their course definitively laid down, and that the surveys are, as to the greatest portion, complete, and as to the residue, in a very forward state. The lines determined on are— Firstly—.l line commencing by a junction with the Manchester and Birmingham and Grand Junction Railways at Crewe, and passing by Nantwich, Whitchurch (with a branch to Wem), Elles mere, Oswestry, and Weiskpool, to Newtown, whence a proposed line runs to Aberystwith. Secondly —A line commencing by a junction with the North Staf fordshire Railway at Norton Bridge, or Stone, and with the Trent Valley and Grand Junction Railways at Stafford, and passing by Newport, Donnington, and Wellington, to Shrewsbury. Thirdly—A line comixiincing at Shrewsbury, passing through the Colebrook Dale district, along the valley of the Severn by Bridge north, Bewdley. and Stourport, to Worcester, and thence to the Bir mingham and Gloucester Railway, having a branch from Ironbridge to Wellington and Donnington, and joining in its course the Bir mingham and Shrewsbury, the Stour Valley, and the Welsh Midland Railways; and _ _ , Fourthly —A line com menc i ng at Wolverhampton, and passingirt th e course of the Li verpool and Birmingham Canal by. Market Drayton and Nantwich, direct to the Chester and Crewe Railway. This extensive series of railways the Co mm itt ee are enabled to , state can be below the average const c r o u s c t ted of ,b means of existing cana l s, after a rate session of a very valuable railways, n leaving the Co mpany also i n pos radocks, zf c real and personal p ro p erty, i n lands, wharfs, warehouses, docks . ; and al so o f b etween eighty and ninety mil es o f canals open f • forty-five miles run from Ellesmeorre water forty-five on th e r i ver M ersey, to communication, of which Middlewich, in the c en t re of the Cheshire of salt district, and twenty six miles intersect th e m i neral district Shropshire, running from Colebrook Dale to Shrewsbury. It is hardly necessary to point out the important public objects which are thus accomplished. Stafford, and the Potteries connect themselves with Newark, and SheMeltdteries feeders Manchester, of traffic flowingagri t c h u r i ug Northward, the proposed railways Chester and Holyhead, and have also asth m arl D;e uf ra ac bnyd t , u tN ri h n oe g tvti d an i g s t t ha ri s t c mr t e s ,a , m h; becometh etwhilstb chan nels, a s aa nr t yi nels, and the rich and hitherto unopened agricultural districts of Cheshire and Shropshire, the iron and coal districts t wt l o lae g n e : of Staffordshire and IVorcestershire, and the western and south-w estern coast, must follow the course of the proposed lines. They are, moreover, whilst thus fruitful in their local d traffic, closely linked in, and identified in int erest with, notproper only those portions of canals belonging to or connected with this Com pany, which it Is intended still to keep open, but also with i numerous other lines of railway, which are either sanctioned by P u n a assured of Parliamentary favour, Including the Manchester and or Bir mingham, the Chester and Birkenhead, the Chester and Holyhead the Trent Valley and North Staffordshire, the London and Binning' ham, the Birmingham and Gloucester, the Shrewsbury and Birming ham (which it is intended shall eventually form part of this important chain), the Welsh Midland, the Stour Valley, and the Manchester and Southampton Railways. Thus united in interest, they will be enabled to command a largo measure of the traffic which those great trunk communications may have in their control. In this view It is most satisfactory to the Committee to refer to the fact that they have In active co-operation with them the London and Birmingham. the Manchester and Birmingham, the Chester and Holyhead, and the Trent Valley Com panies ; and that arrangements have been made for the eventual consolidation of the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, and Birmingham Railway with this Company. An eligible site has been already secured for the erection of a great central station at Wolverhampton, for the common use of all the companies before mentioned. The Committee entertain no doubt that a project thus largely beneficial, and of which the leading feature is that of saving from destruction an extensive as well as valuable vested property, by converting it to purposes accordant with the advanced views and information of the time, will receive the equitable consideration, and, as Its consequence, the sanction of Parliament ; and they are grati fied to feel that, in appealing to the Legislature for such sanction, they will be encouraged and supported by a very large proportion of the landowners with whose property the railways come into imme diate contact, and by the several communities they propose to ac commodate. The allotment of shares reserved for local and other interests will receive the most careful attention of the Committee as early as the numerous applications will admit of. Prospectuses and plans may be had, in London, at the Offices of the Company ; of Mr. Lionel Helbert, 4, Shorter's-court, Throgmor ton-street, City; and, in the country, at the Offices of the Solicitors to the 8111. Temporary Offices, 107, Jermyn-street. Offices, after the 22d instant, 9, Great George-street, Westzninater. October, 1845. IIHE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT RAILWAY. No Application for Shares can be received after THURSDAY NEXT, the 23rd instant. The following letter has been received from Samuel Charles Brees Esq., the engineer to this . Company, viz.: " Stoke Newington, 18th October, 1845. " Sir,—l have the honour to report, for the information of the Board of Directors, my return from Oxford. Agreeable to their corn.. mends I made tbrther examinations of the line of country, and have engaged and given instructions to a large and efficient staff of sur. veyors and assistants to perform the survey. I have much satisfac tion in adding that my last visit has been such as to warrant the statements made by me at the meeting of the Provisional Committee concerning the elegibility of the line, and have no hesitation in saying that the survey will be completed, aad the Parliamentary plans de posited, by the 30th November. "I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your obedient servant, " SAMUEL CHARLES BREES, "Engineer in Chief, Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway " To Z. Hubbersty, Esq. Secretary, Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway." By order o: the Committee of Management, Z. HUBBERSTY, Secretary. THE OXFORD . and SALISBURY DIRECT RAILWAY, via Abingdon, Wantagc, Hungerford, and Lndgeraball. At a public meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Abingdon and the neighbourhood, held in the Council-chamber of that town, on Friday, the 24th inst. (in pursuance of a requisition which had been presented to the Mayor), ___ WILLIAM DOE B ELCIf ER; Esq. Mayor of Abingdon, in the Chair, It was moved by JOHN ToeasNs, Esq., a member of the Town Council, seconded by Enwis JAMES TEENDELL, Esq., also a member of the Town Council, and unanimously resolved— " That, in the opinion of this meeting, the Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway passing the town of Abingdon will be highly beneficial to that town, and is therefore deserving the support of the inhabitants." On the motion of llEsav SvocK, Esq., seconded by WALTER SHAIRP, Esq. (two of the members of the Committee of Management)— " The thanks of the meeting were unanimously voted to the Mayor for his able and efficient conduct in the chair." WILLIAM DOE BELCHER, Chairman. L IVERPOOL AND BURY RAILWAY CONTRACT FOR SLEEPERS. ihe DIRECTORS are READY to RECEIVE TENDERS for the SUPPLY of RAILWAY SLEEPERS, conformable to Specifications to be seen at the Company's Offices, 33, Dale-street, Liverpool; or at the Office of Sir John Macneill and James Thompson, 9, Whitehall place, London. Offers to be forwarded to the Secretary, up to the Ist Novem ber next. By order, S lIROPSHIRE UNION RAILWAY an d CANAL COMPANY. (Registel ed Provisionally, pursuant to the Act of the 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.) Capital 5,400,0001., in Shares of 20/. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS. The Earl of Fowls, K.G. Chairman Marquis of Clanricarde, K.P. The Earl of Talbot, K.G. Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Stafford Earl Bradford The Earl of Lichtleld The Earl Granville, G.C.B. Viscount Combermere Viscount 11111 Viscount Ingestre, M.P. Viscount Clive, M.P. Lord Leveson, M.P. The Hon. Robert Henry Clive, M.P. The Hon. Colonel Anson, M.P. chairman of the Trent Valley Railway The Hon. C. Pelham Villiers, M.P. Sir John Cave Brown Cave, Bart. Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart. M.P. Sir Thomas Edward Winnington, Bart. M.P. Sir Robert IL Cuncliffe, Kt. and Bart. Acton-park, Denbighshire Sir Andrew Vincent Corbet, Bart. Acton Reynold, Shrewsbury Sir Francis Lyttletoo Holyoake Goodricke, Bart. Studley Castle, Warwickshire Sir Robert H. Cuncliffe, Kt. and Bart. Acton-park, Denbighshire William Henry Gregory, Esq. M.P. • L EICESTER, MELTON MOWBRAY, And BOSTON DIRECT UNION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 400,000/., in 20,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Thomas Bent, Esq. M.D. Derby, director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway John Blyth, Esq. Aldersgate-street, London, director of the Lime rick and Belfast Union Railway Samuel Buxton, Esq. Bangley-house, near Tamwerth, director of the Walsall, Wolverhampton, and Direct Norwich Railway Richard Carpenter, Esq. London, Deputy-Lieutenant for the county of Middlesex, Vice-Chairman of the London and Birmingham Ex tension, director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway, &c. Sir James Duke, M.P. director of the Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway Peter Henry Edlin, Esq. London, director of the Nottingham and Peterborough Railway Thomas Ekin, Esq. Grantham Robert Forman, Esq. Abbott's-hill, Derby, director of the Tean and Dove Valley Railway, &c. &c. Francis Gamble Esq. Gainsborough, director of the Grand Union Railway, London and Nottingham Railway, &c. George Gamble, Esq. Gainsborough, director of the Grand Union Railway, London and Nottingham Railway, &c. Warren Stormes Hale, E - q. Gresham street, director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway S. Harwood, Esq. Bradley-hall, Derbyshire Stephen James Hobson, Esq. Leicester, director of the Walsall, Wol verhampton, and Direct Norwich Railway Captain Hulme, Exeter, director of the Taw Vale Extension &c. John Inglis Jerdein, Esq. Piccadilly, London, director of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway Jas. Macmillan, Esq , Southampton, vice-chairman of the South ampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway Charles Millar, Esq. Grantham E. Monk, Esq. the Park, Nottingham, director of the Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midlands Railway, &c. Peter Morrison, Esq. London, director of the Birmingham Extension Railway, &c. Thomas North, Esq. the mayor of Nottingham Major-General Pariby, C.B. 18, Rutland-gate, Hyde-park Alfred Pickwoad, Esq. Bridport, Dorset, director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway William Pritchard, Eso. Doctors'-commons, director of the Direct London and Hastings Railway James Reeves, Esq. Leyton, Essex, director of the Oxford and Wor cester Extension Railway William Jubbins Spurrier, EN. Regent-street, London, director of the Lincoln and Grantham Railway William Walkington, Eso. Alderman, Grantham David Wheatcroft, Esq. Buckland Hollow, near Alfreton, director of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railway James Whiskin, Esq. London, director of the Croydon Railway (With power to add to their number). BANKERS. London—Messrs. Masterman and Co. Leicester and Mellon :Mowbray—Pare's Leicestershire Banking Company Boston— Nottingham—Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Banking Com pany Grantham—Messrs. Hardy, Walkingham, and Hardy. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Potter and Collingridge, 5, Basinghall-street, London. John Edward Lawton, Esq. Leicester LOCAL AGENTS. Nottingham— Grantham—Robert Henry Johnson, Esq. ; and Henry Thompson, Esq Boston—B. S. Simpson, Esq. ENGINEER. ACTING ENGINEER—Richard C. Carpenter, Esq. SECRETARY—E. Jones, Esq. The port of Boston affords the readiest outlet for exports from the manufacturing districts to the north of Europe, and the importance of direct communication from the midland counties to a place so ad vantageously situate cannot be over-estimated. Leicester has, or shortly will have, direct communication with Birmingham, and all the other important towns in the midland district. Tho Midland Railway Company is extending the communication to Melton Mowbray, by means of its branch from Syston to Peter borough, which passes throagh that place. There is also a complete line of railway about to be established from Nottingham, through Grantham and Folkingham, to Boston, as well as to Spalding, Wis beach, Lynn, Yarmouth, and other important towns in the eastern counties. The Leicester, Melton Mowbray, and Boston Direct Union Rail way, by forming a line from Melton Mowbray to Folkingham, will supply the only link wanting to complete a direct through communi cation from Birmingham, Warwick, 'Worces'er, Coventry, and the manufacturing districts generally, to Boston, as well as by moans of existing and projected railways from Wales and the Bristol Channel, to that seaport. The length of the proposed line will not exceed twenty-six miles ; and as it will pass through a country very favourable for engineer ing purposes, the expense of construction will, it is expected, be less than the usual average. The admirable position of this railway can not .ail, it is confidently expected, to command a large return, both in passengers and in goods traffic. The Company will be in a situation to deposit the Parliamentary plans and sections in ample time for complying with the standing orders, and enabling them to apply for their Act in the ensuing session. Applications for shares to be addressed to the solicitors, Messrs. Potter and Collingridge, No. 5, Basingliall-street London ; to the Local Agents ; and the following sharebrokers : Leicester—Messrs. Williams and Sunderland London—Messrs. Taunton and Bush, Austin-friars Derby—Messrs. Forman, jun. and Williams Nottingham—Messrs. Peet, Son, and Potter Birmingham—Mr. J. R. Lane Liverpool—Messrs. Samuel Woods and Co. Manchester—Messrs Bradley, Johnson, and Walker Leeds—Messrs. It. B. Watson, Tootal, and Bluff; and Mr. J. Smith, 57, Albion-street Hull—Messrs. Wilkinson and Earl. Bristol—Messrs. Sohmes and Tripp Leamington] Messrs. White and Son Warwick ' Hanley—Mr. William Albert Huddersfield—Messrs. Dyson and Jones Bradford—Messrs Smith and Miutoa Blackburn—Mr. Thos. Boardman Worcester—Mr. Wm. Miles Colchester—Mr. Henry Carr Cheltenham—Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co Gloucester—Mr. J. N. Balms Macclesfield—Mr. R. E. Hine Bath—Mr. R. P. Lemon Norwich—Mr. C. S. Gillman Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co. Glasgow—Messrs. Tassie and Co. Exeter—Mr. J. Sanford Plymouth—Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Leicester, Melton Mowbray, and Boston Direct Union Railway. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me shares of 201. each in the capital of this Company ; and I undertake to accept the same, and pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me; and I also undertake to execute the Sub sertaers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract when required. Name (in fu11)........... ...... ......... Residence .. -- •• -•••• • - • • ....... ••• • • Profession or Calling • .. •• .. .. • • •• • • •• Referee . .. Address of Referee .... .. Date.. D IRECT INDEPENDENT KENT, SURREY, AND SUSSEX UNION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) . -- - . Capital, 1,500,0001., of 75,000 Shares, of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. Temporary Offices, Queen-street Chambers, Queen-street, Cheapside PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Chairmanof the Cheltenham, Ox- Th fb e r ß d Sir William Wynn, K.B. Chairman of the North W a l es Railway Sir James Eyre, M.D. Lower Brook-street, dire c t or of the Hull g a b n t d Ho Brighton Lord Junction c Cunninghamti on Railways. Brr a Saint nga in Aubynand Swansea Junction Railway Major The Rev. Stephen Isaacson, A.M. Berner's-street, director of the Hull and Holyhead Direct Railway Thomas Steel, Esq., Edgware-road, director of the Railway Club Chambers Captain Bellew, Kensington, director of the Hull, Birmingham, and Swansea Railway R. Sylvanus P. Banfield, Esq. Percy-street, London Thomas Charles Newton, Esq. Bruton-street, Berkeley- square, and Lugwardina, Herefordshire, director of the Isle of Man, and the Hull, Birmingham, and Swansea Railways John Lloyd, Esq. Nicholas-lane, and Stoke Newington, director of the Thames, Southern, and Eastern Counties Junction Railways J. S. Moore, Esq., 5. Stone -buildings, Lincoln's I nn Rees Price, Esq. yne-hall, Ilford, Essex, director of the Hereford and Merthyr Tydvil Junction, and North Western Trunk Railways William Davison, Esq, Rothbury-house, Northumberland Joseph Turnley, Esq. Belgrave-square, London Major Hawkes, Baker-street, Portman-square, Chairman of the Ja maica, North Midland, North Midland Extension, director of the St. Alban's and Hertford, Bristol and Dovor, Boston and Bir mingham Direct, and the Lynn and Fakenham Railways Captain L. H. Scott, R.N. Royal Navy Club, Bond-s reet, director of the Jamaica, North Midland Extension, St. Alban's and Hert ford, Bristol and Dover, Boston and Birmingham, and the Lynn and Fakenham Railways W. B. Palmer, Esq. Piccadilly and Birmingham J. Bowra, Esq. Shame, Kent Charles Maclean, Esq. Newlands, Edgware Robert Phillips. Esq. Gloucester Villa, Gloucester -road, Regent's park, director of the Hereford and Merthyr Tydvil Junction Rail way Company John Ramsden, Esq. Kensington Gore, and Doncaster, director of the Deal and Dover, and Lyme Regis Railways John White, Esq. 7, Park-place, Clarence-gate, Regent's -park C. M. Brown, Esq. Montague-street, Portman-square, director of the Cheltenham, Oxford, and Brighton Junction, and Trinidad and Great Eastern, and South Western Railways John Strange Williams, Esq. Mitchem, Surrey, director of the Direct London and Hastings Railway James Cibbins, Esq, deputy chairman of the British Annuity Com pany, Broad-street, City Francis G. Moore, Esq. Half-moon-street, Piccadilly Charles Maplesden Noakes, Esq., Wrotham, Kent Thomas Walker, Esq. Wrotham, Kent Thomas Best, Eqq. Cuckdeld, Sussex (With power to add to their number). Barams —Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury, and No. 6, Hen rietta4treet, Covent-garden. CONSULTING ENGINEER. AcTING ENGINEER—R. Finlayson, Esq. ASSISTANT ENGINEER —Mr. Charles Clark. SURVEYORS AND VALUERS—Messrs. Booth and Son. SoLiCiToas—Messrs. Garratt and Co., Queen-street Chambers, Queen-street. LOCAL A GENTS —MESSIS. Tribe, Worthing. A prospectus with the complete list of local provisional committee will be issued in a few days. .... The object of this railway is not only to afford accommodation to the counties proposed to be traversed, but will also unite with the Brighton and Cheltenham Direct Railway, the Metropolitan Rail ways Junction, the Chatham, Rochester, Maidstone, and Tonbridge Wells Railway, and the Coast Railway. The great importance of this Union line of railway will be immediately seen upon reference to the map. It is intended to commence at High-street, in the Borough, passing through Camberwell, where it will divide and take the fol lowing course, viz. : The Kent branch will pass through the thickly populated parishes of Peckham, Peckham Rye, Lewisham, Bromley, Orpington, Chelsfleld, Shoreham, Otford, Kempsing Seal, Wrotham, near Addington, Town Mailing, East Mailing, and Dit ton, from thence to Maidstone, where it will form a junction with the Chatham, Rochester, Maidstone, and Tonbridge Wells Direct Railway. The Surrey and Sussex branch will run through Brixton, Brixton-hill, Clapham, Balham-hill, Tooting, Mitcham, Morden, Cheam, Ewell. Epsom, where it will form a junction with the pro posed branch to Leatherhead, Headley, Mickleham, from thence to Dorking, where it will communicate with the Metropolitan Railways Junction, and proceed through Capal, Rusper, Warnharss, Horsham, Nuthurst, West Grinstead, Ashurst, Henfield, near Wiston, and on to Steyning, forming a junction with the proposed Brighton and Cheltenham Railway, continuing through Bramber, Coombes, Lanc ing, Sompting, Broadwater, and to Worthing, where it will come in immediate contact with the Coast Railway, It is satisfactory to find, from strict calculations, that the pas senger traffic arising from the densely populated parishes contigu ous to the metropolis, hitherto unsupplied . by railway, viz., Cam•• berwell, Peckham, Peckham Rye, Brixton, Clapham, Tooting, Mitcham, &c. &c., will give this line a decided advantage over all other projects, and will alone secure a profitable return. The general passenger traffic of the Kent Branch, (notwithstand ing its unquestionable extent) may be considered of secondary im portance to the immense transit of agricultural produce which this county, justly termed " The Garden of England," daily sends to the metropolitan markets, and particularly the locality of the Borough. The importance of Maidstone as a terminus is obvious, it being situated on the River Medway, and containing courts of justice, connty gaol, cavalry depot, and many other public establishments, the assises and sessions, and the business of the whole county being conducted there. It is also, with the adjacent villages, the most flourishing part of Kent. being surrounded by paper-mills, which are more numerous and extensive in this neighbourhood than in any other part of the kingdom, besides several other extensive factories. breweries, &c. The Surrey and Sussex branch besides (unquestionably creating an immense increase of passenger traffic between the metropolis and the flourishing and new celebrated watering-place, Worthing) must necessarily command the entire transit of fish, of which many tons are conveyed weekly from Worthing to London, independent of other commodities, and the agricultural produce of these two fertile and productive counties. The proposed line will fill up the railway chasm at present exist ing between London and Epsom, Dorking, Horsham, and Steynng, and will afford direct intercourse with Worthing, one of the most romantic, fashionable, and delightful watering places on the coast of Sussex, and an Independent Railway will of necessity occasion a great influx of company to this already justly celebrated place. The superiority of Worthing as a bathing place stands unrivalled. The views of the surrounding country are both extensive and picturesque ; its sands are particularly worthy of note, being as smooth as carpet, and offering a healthy and delightful drive of ten miles. It is shel tered by an uninterrupted chain of the South Down, which excludes the wind even in the winter months. The salubrity of its climate is too well known to require further comment. But the greatest source of profit to the shareholders will arise from the immense number of passengers now proceeding by omnibus and other conveyances to and from the metropolis, and the extensive and densely populated suburbs through which this line is intended to pass, and it may be fairly calculated that not less than 30,000 will daily The entire distance of these lines from Camberwell will be about ninety miles, and is free from engineering difficulties. The charac ter of the country through which the railway will pass is peculiarly favourable; and from the report of the engineer, made on his preli minary survey, they will be constructed within the sum proposed. It is lute ded to construct this railway on the atmospheric prin ciple, both on account of the facility which that method a&,rds for stopping at short distances to accommodate the highly respectable suburban population, to avoid the possibility of collision, and also the bringing of locomotive engines into London. Powers for allowance of interest at 4/. per cent. on the paid up capital will be taken, and the liability of shareholders limited to the amount of their subscriptions. _ Power will also be applied for in the Act, and in the meantime will be given to the directors, to alter or vary the proposed capital, either before or after the allotment, in order to construct branch lines, to Seven Oaks, to Dulwich and Norwood, and to the South- Western Railway, thereby accomplishing the much-desired objeet of giving that Company a City terminus. Applications for prospectuses and shares may be made to the Secretary, at the temporary offices of the Company, Queen-street Chambers, Cheapside, London; or to the Solicitors, or the follow ing Brokers—Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothhury ; Mr. Matthew Cotton. 5, Bank-buildings, London ; Mr. W. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. J. 0. Niel, Manchester ; Messrs. Townley and Whitehead, Liverpool ; Messrs. Chantrell and Boyes, and Messrs. Wellbeloved, Barwick, and Co., Leeds ; Mr. Thomas Boardman, Blackburn ; Messrs. Horneastle and Ilibberd, Hull ; Mr. J. M. Balme, Gloucester; Messrs. T. N. Bardwell and Sons, Sheffield ; Mr. Joseph Clark, juu., Southampton; fir. Francis Mayes, Not tingham ; Messrs. Wrexford, Nicholls, and Wrexford, Bristol ; Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow; Messrs. Dowling and llowden, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York ; Mr. John Lowthin, Newcastle-on-Tyne ; Messrs. Smallpage and Co., Burnley, Lancashire ; and Mr. William Stimson, Bedford. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Committe of Management of the Direct Indep, ndent Kent, Surrey, and Sussex Union Railway. I request that you will apportion me shares of 201. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, or any less number you may allot to me, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and all future calls thereon, and to sfgn the Parliamentary Contract and Subscrihers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of 1845. Residence.... •••• • • • • ..... .••• • • • Business or Profession ............. ... Place of Business (if any) .. • • Date of Application • • • • ..... • • • • • • Nameof Referee ...... • • • • • . .. L OUTH AND GAINSBOROUGH DIRECT RAILWAY. (Registered Provisionally, pursuant to the Act, 7th and Bth Vic., cap. 110.) Capital 750,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 21. 12s. ad. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Lord Frederick Beauclerk, Little Grimsby-hall, near Louth Francis Brown, Esq. Glentworth-hall, near Spittal Percival Shearman Wilkinson, Esq. Toft, near Market Rasen, and Mount Oswald, Durham John Wilkinson, Esq. Welton Grange, Hull William Parker, Esq. J.P. Lysways-hall, Lichfield, director of the Derby and Crewe, and Worcestershire, Derbyshire, and Stafford shire Junction Railways William Loft, Esq., Trusthorpe-hall, near Louth Edward Sandars, Esq. Gainsborough, director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough, and also of the Wolverhampton, Birmingham, and Nottingham Railways Sir John Key, Bart. alderman of the City of London, chairman of the Mauritius, director of the York and Lancaster, and Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways William Whitlam, Esq. Louth Henry Healy, Esq. Clifton, near York, and Ashby, county of Lincoln Captain Robert Thomas Healey, Ashby, in the county of Lincoln William Blanchard, Esq. - York, a managing director of the York, Hull, and East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway Robert Newton Lee, Esq. Barnstable Richard Dawson, Esq. Withcall-house Captain Henry Caldecot, Holton-hall, near Market Raman George Andrews Hewett, Esq. Osgodby, near Market Rasen, and Cheltenham William Henry Hewett, Esq. Osgodby, and Liverpool Francis Gamble, Esq. Gainsborough, director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough, and Wolverhampton, Birmingham, and Nottingham Railways Charles North, Esq. South Thoresby Lieut.-Col. G. M. Eden, William-street, Lowndes-square George R. Peppercorne, Esq. Bexhill, Sussex, director of the Paris and Strasburg Railway Major W. Snow, Old Cavendish-street, Cavendish-square, director of the Portsmouth and Chatham Railway John Jackson, Esq. Louth Henry Smith, Esq. Gainsborongh, a deputy-lieutenant of the county of Lincoln John Egleton Morey, Esq. mayor of Doncaster, vice-chairman of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Railway John Walter Dudding, Esq. Saxby, near Market Rasen George Pereira Brown, Esq. Norbanby, near Spittal Frederick Fisher, Esq. Westfield-house, Doncaster, managing director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds Junction Railway Joseph Birley, Esq. alderman of Doncaster, managing director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Railway Frederic Flowers, Esq. Elm-court, Temple, London George Gamble, Esq. Gainsborough, director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough, and Wolvernampton, Birmingham, and Nottingham Railways Henry Etherington Smith, Esq. J.P. director of the Derby and Gains borough, and the Manchester and Lincoln Union Railway, and Chesterfield and Gainsborough Canal Company George Allen, Esq. Louth, director of the Lincoln and Grantham Direct Railway Robert Norfolk, Esq. Louth, director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Direct Railway Richard Dudding, Esq. Panton David Briggs, Esq. Oxcombe-house, near Louth Samuel Griffiths, Esq. Penflelds, Wolverhampton Matthew Sooby, Esq. Gainsborough, director of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Benjamin William Holroyd, Esq. Halifax, director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Charles Paddison, Esq. Louth, carpet manufacturer James Dalton, Esq. Fillingham Thomas Charles Oldham, Esq. Louth Bernard James Boulton, Esq. M.D. Horncastle Mr. Charles Boa mar, of the firm of " Campbell, Bowmar, and Ranshaw," mercers and woollendrapers, Louth Samuel Hall, Esq., Doncaster, director of the Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester and Great Grimsby Junction Railway, and of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Railway William L. Moffatt, Esq. director of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Rai' way, and the Hull, Sheffield, and Midlands Junction Railways Chapman Briggs, Esq. Burgh-house, Lincolnshire Mr. Samuel Samuels, Louth, shipowner William Lister Sharpe, Esq. Gainsborough, director of the Isle of Axholme, Manchester, Midlands, and Great Grimsby, and of the Manchester and Lincoln Union Railway, and Chesterfield and Gainsborough Canal Company, and Derby and Gainsborough Railway Mr. William East, merchant, Louth Mr. George Sutton, merchant, Louth Thomas Rockliffe, Esq. Horncastle Charles Frederick Sutton, Esq. Wragby Mr. Thomas Young, merchant, Louth Mr. Thomas Simons, merchant, Louth John Hughes, Esq. Gainsborough, director of the Isle of Axholme, Gainsborough, and Goole Railway Mr. Robert Green, iron merchant, Louth Henry Mason, Esq. Orgath-hill, near Louth Robert John Atkinson, Esq. Langholme, director of the Isle of Ax holme, Gainsborough, and Goole Railway Mr. Wright Milson, of the firm of " Milson, Laurence, Foster, and C 0.," tanners, Louth Mr. Walker Smith, of the firm of " Heald, Smith, and Parish," mercers and woollen-drapers, Horncastle Mr. C. Hunter Ryley, mister, Louth William Furley, Esq. Gainsborougb, director of the Derby, Gains borough, and Great Grimsby Junction, and of the Manchester and Lincoln Union Railway, and Chesterfield and Gainsborough Canal Company Mr. William Edwards, Louth Mr. William Potter, Louth John Thistlewood, Esq. Lambcroft, near Louth S. M. Hamilton, Esq. Fitzroy-square, London, director of the Direct Manchester, Leeds, and York Railways Mr. Richard Chatterton, Hallington, near Louth Robert Betts, Esq. Horncastle Mr. Edward Towler, mercer and draper, Market Rasen John. Saul Walesby, Esq. Ranby Fletcher Mercer, Esq. Gainsborough • (With power to add to their number). COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. John Walter Madding, Esq. Henry Etherington Smith, Esq. William Loft, Esq. Charles North, Esq. Francis Brown, Esq. Matthew Sooby, Esq. Sir John Key, Bart. William Finley, Esq. George Gamble, Esq. Mr. Charles Bowmar Robert Norfolk, Esq. Mr. Edward Towler. ENGINEER—W. J. Curtis, Esq. C.E. ACTING SuaVEYOR—W. H. Cooper, Esq. Verulam-buildings BANKERS. London—London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury, and 214, High Holborn Louth—Messrs. Garfit, Claypons, and Co., and Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company Gainsborough, Messrs. Smith, Ellison, and Co., and Lincoln and Market Essen, Lindsey Banking Company. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Coverdale and Lee, 4, Bedford-row, Gray's-inn, London Messrs. Ingoldby and Son, and} Louth Henry Frederick Lucas, Esq. Thomas Rhodes, Esq. Market Rasen Thomas Oldman, Esq. Gainsborough. SECRETARY —Thomas Philbrick, Esq. This line is intended to commence at Louth, and to proceed, by way of Market Rasen, to the town and port of Gainsborough. in the county of Lincoln; and is projected for the purpose of completing a direct communication with the towns of Rotherham, Sheffield, Man chester, and Liverpool, and thus affording to the rich grazing and agricultural divisions of the county a ready access to those towns, which have always been the natural markets for the produce of the district ; and at the same time to provide a certain and speedy transit for manufactured goods and other articles of merchandise. I he communication by railway between these important towns has not, by existing arrangements, been provided for, except by very circuitous routes ; indeed, that part of the line from Market Resell to Gainsborough has been entirely overlooked ; and therefore the pre- Sent oue has been proposed to meet the wants of the district on the strong representations and request of a large and respectable body of gentry deeply interested in the success of the scheme. is useless to dwell in the present day upon the advantages of railway communication, as those towns which do sot avail them selves of the facilities afforded must eventually sink in importance. To Louth and the surrounding neighbourhood especially the pro posed line cannot fail to be of paramount importance, as opening, in dependently of passengers' traffic, a directmeans of transit for cattle, corn, goods, &c., &c., to and from all the great Yorkshire, Lancashire, and other important markets. An examination of the map will at once show this, and also the connexion of the proposed line with ether important railways both in Lincolnshire, the adjacent counties, and all parts of the kingdom. To those acquainted with the town of Louth and its neighbour hood, it is unnecessary to point out the immense exportation of cattle, corn, wool, &c., to the Yorkshire markets, or the large im portation of Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, and other goods into the district, and the facilities the proposed line will afford for a plentiful supply of coals at a much cheaper rate than they can be procured by any other route. The Committee confidently relying, therefore, upon the testimony of the highly-respectable parties en gaged in commerce and agriculture who honour the present Com pany with support, have pleasure in announcing that the traffic re turns will be of a highly satisfactory character. It is no slight advantage in this scheme, that it cannot be said to interfere with existing railways. The main feature is the improve ment of communication between important towns by the old na tural roads, and thus affording facilities to the agricultural and com ercial interests, and to the public generally, in and through a dis trict where a railway is essentially necessary for its ultimate and lasting prosperity. A careful survey of the line has been made, and the engineer's report is of a very favourable character. He states that "the line is a very good ono ; it will pass for the most part along the surface of the ground, it does not cross any main road, nor any ornamental property, or interfere with the mansions of the landowners; the soil is of a favourable character throughout, and no engineering dif ficulties occur at any point." No subscriber will be answerable beyond the amount of his deposit until the Act is obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his sub scription ; and power will be applied for in the Act of Parliament to r IQ allow interest at the rate of 4/. per cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line. In the allotment of shares, preference will be given to landowners and parties locally interested; but no applica tion can be attended to unless accompanied with a satisfactory re ference. Further information may be obtained at the Company's Offices, Upgate, Louth ; and applications for shares, in the an exed form, may be addressed to the Solicitors, to the Secre tary, and to the following Stock and Sharebrokers : Messrs. Ewart and Bell, Copthall-chambers, and Messrs. Peppercorns and Co., 2, Old Broad-street, London ; Mr. Newall and Mr. John Hall, Liverpool ; Messrs. Cardwell and _Sons, Manchester ; Mr. James Pearson, Birmingham; Messrs. J. N. Bardwell and ions, Sheffield; Messrs. Warburton and Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Mr. John Watson, Leeds ; Messrs. Flint and Teotal, Hull ; Mr. William Short, York ; Mr. C. P. Loft, Great Grimsby ; Mr. J. M. Stark, and Mr. J. F. W. Bowden, Gainsborough ; Mr. Samuel Atkinson, Not tingham; Messrs. Cuff and Sons, Derby ; Mr. W. Ashton, Alford ; Mr. Bland and J. L. Thornton, Market Rasen ; and Mr. John Hurst, Messrs. J. and T. Jackson, Messrs. Lucas, Brothers, Messrs. Straw son and Young, and Mr. W. Armitage, all of Louth. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Louth and Gainsborough Direct Railw Com Gentlemen, — l request you will allot pan me y. shares of 251. each in the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept thet same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit of 21. 12s. 6d. per share thereon, and to sign the Sub scribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract when required. Dated this day of 1845. Name in full •• • • ........... ..... .. Profession or Business ..... ...... ... Place of Business (if any) .......... Reference.... ....... • ............. Residence of Referee Usual Signature of Applicant .. •• •• • • avail themselves of the accommodation afforded to them by this Company. '1 he promoters feel considerable satisfaction in announcing a source of revenue from this project never yet contemplated by any other Company, viz., the construction under the line to Camberwell of dwellings or tenements, forming one continued street, thereby im proving the locality through which it runs; from this an immer.se income will be derived. WWONDON and EDINBURGH DIRECT, . and DARLINGTON and HAIVICK JUNCTION RAILWAY. No Application for further Shares in this Company will be re ceived from parties residing in London after TUESDAY, the 28th, nor from the country after WEDNESDAY, the 29th of October, 1845. By order, HENRY LAKE, Secretary Temporary Offices, 11, Finsbury-place South, London. pIfIRMINGHAIII AND BOSTON DIRECT RAILWAY COMPANY, wills a Branch to Grantham. Capital, 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. (Provisionally Registered.) (Vide former Advertisements for the names of the influential Pro visional Committee.) COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. The Right Hon. Lord Edward Chichest, r, Chairman. Captain J. P. Ai acdougal, Vice-Chairman. R. Atkyns, Esq. G. G. Hay, Esq. H. Brown, 'Esq. James Lamb, Esq. W. F. Black, Esq. John Rennie, Esq. Joha Blunt, Esq. J. Thompson, Esq., Tottenham Lieutenant-Colonel L. Dickson John Thompson, Esq., Gr ea t St A. W. Grevill e , E sq . I Helen's. BANKERS. London. —Commercial Bank of London, 3, Mocrrgate-street, and 3, Henrietta -street, Covent-garden Messrs Spooner, Attwoods, and Co., 27, Gracechurch-street Birmingham.--Messrs. J. L. Moilliet and Sons, Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank Boston—Messrs. Garfit, Claypon, and Co., and Messrs. Gee and Co. Leicester—The Leicestershire Banking Company Melton Mowbray—Ditto. JOINT SOLICITORS. BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY. At a meeting of proprietors of the Bristol and Exeter Rail way Company, held at the offices of Mr. Henry Britten, No. 17, Small-street, Bristol, on the 21st of October, 1845, convened for the purpose of taking into consideration the provisional agreement en tered into between the Directors of the above Company and the Directors of the Great Western Railway Company, for the sale to the latter of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, and adopting such reso lutions thereupon as might be deemed advisable, Mr. WILLIAM CROSS in the Chair It was Resolved,—lst. That this meeting, looking at the past half yearly reporls, especially the last two, made by the Directors of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company to the proprietors of that Com pany —at the present receipts—and the gradually increasing traffic upon the Bristol and Exeter Railway, with the prospect of a still much greater traffic from its various branches and the already formed South Devon and projected North Devon and Cornwall lines, and also at the value of the shares which the Bristol and Exeter Company possesses in the former two lines —and at the same time making every allowance for the disadvantage of a possible competing line direct from London to Exeter (estimated by the Great Western Compan, itself at lA per cent.)—cannot but consider the provisional agreement made by the directors of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, for the sale of their railway and effects to the Great Western Railway Company, as a most improvident bargain, highly detrimental to the interests of the shareholders in the former under taking, and involving an unjustifiable sacrifice of the property of the Brist:7l and Exeter Railway Company, to which the proprietors of that company ought not to submit or assent ; and that measures be forthwith adopted to ascertain the sense of the proprietors in genes al upon the matter, and if they shall concur in opinion with this meet ing, to ensure their co-operation in preventing the confirmation of that agreement. 2;1. That for these purposes a Committee be formed, eousisting of the following gentlemen Mr. J. S. Tripp Mr. C. F. Dando Mr. C. F. Thomley Mr. J. Prowse Mr. Thomas Lucas With power to add to their number; and that Mr. Henry Britten be requested to act as the secretary and legal adviser of s the Com mittee. 3d. And that this meeting request the Committee to convene meetings of the proprietors of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Com pany as early as possible, at such places and in such manner as the Committee shall think expedient; and to take such other measures as the co - samittee shall deem advisable for effectuating the purposes before mentioned. WILLIAM CROSS, Chairman. The Committee appointed for carrying out the above resolutions will be happy to receive communications from any shareholder ; and would earnestly impress upon the shareholders generally, who may be prevented from attending the general meeting convened to con brat the provisional agreement on the 7th of November, imme diately to apply to the Committee for the form of proly (which will be forwarded duly stamped), to enable the Chairmafi of this Com mittee to vote in their behalf at such meeting, it being necessary that the proxy, in order to be effectual, should be lodged with the Secretary of the Company, five days before thee meeting. The Committee would further urge upon each shareholder the ne cessity of his personal attendance at the meeting of the 7th of No vember, and that in the interim he should immediately forward to the Secretary of this Committee a statement of each shareholder's name and address, and the number of shares, wholes or thirds, of which he Is the proprietor, By order of the Committee, HENRY BRITTAN, Secretary, 17, Small-street, Bristol. THE NEWCASTLE and LEEDS DIRECT RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered). Capital. 800,0001., in 32,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE Saville C. H. Ogle, Esq., M.P. for Northumberland T. C. Grainger, Esq. M.P. for Durham Win. Collins, Esq. M.P. Thos. Cookson, Esq. Swinburne Castle Riehard Pierce Butler, Esq. Swinbume Castle. Northumberland Captain John Harrison Bowker, R.N. Newcastle-on-Tyne Edward Bilton, Esq. Newcastle-on-Tyne Henry Bleckley, Esq. Newcastle-on-Tyne Andrew White, Esq, Tunstal-lodge, Sunderland Matthew Hutton Chaytor, Esq. Sunderland Joseph Hunter, Esq. Beech-grove, Chester le-street Robert Hawthorn, Esq. Newcastle-on-Tyne Samuel Sharp, Esq. Quarry-house, Harperly-park, Durham John Morley, Esq. Eastoft-hall, Goole, Yorkshire John Rawson, Esq. Stoney Royd, Halifax John Cresswell Jobling, Esq. Newton-hall, Northumberland, chair. man of the Quarter sessions for the county of Northumberland Gerard Salvin, Esq. Croxdale-hall, Durham James Atkinson West, Esq. Western-lodge, Durham John Burrell, Esq. Durham John Featherston Ayton, Esq. Sheriff of Newcastle-on-Tyne John Henderson, Esq. Leazes-house, Durham William Green, Esq. Durham John Harrison, Esq. Bell-wood, Ripon Thomas Fisher, Esq. Ripon George Smith, jun. Esq. Leeds Thomas Nunneley, Esq. Leeds Peter Fairbairn, Esq. Leeds Richard Hutchinson, Esq. Leeds The Mayor of Leeds John Darnton Luccock, Esq. Leeds John Haigh, Esq. Leeds C. G. Maclea, Esq. Leeds Thomas Drane, Esq. West-hill, Devon, and Pall-mall The Hon. Captain Hotham, R.Y. chairman of the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction Railway Company William Morley, Esq. deputy. chairthan of the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction Railway Company John Barnes, Esq. Chorley-wood-house John llagshaw, Esq. Gloucester-place, Portman-square Captain Ommanney, R.N. Upper Wimpole-street Capt G. Beare, Porchester-place, Connaught-square William Fitzgibbon, Esq. 21, Cambridge-street, Connaught-square Simeon Musgrave, Esq., Kirkstall, near Leeds Joseph Isateson, Esq. Leeds Wm. Gill, Esq. Richmond (With power to add to their number). ENGINEER—MOHIRS Storey, Esq. Bishop Auckland, Durham JOINT SOLICITORS TO THE COMPANY. Messrs. Dickson and Overbury, 4, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, London Edward John Teale, Esq. Leeds. BANKERS. Union Bank of London Leeds and West Riding Bank, Leeds Newcastle-upon-Tyne Joint Stock Bank, Newcastle The Yorkshire Banking Company, York, Hull, Bradford, and Ilud dersfield SECRETARY—E. C. Stevens, Esq. OFFICES OF THE COMPANY—NO. 4, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, London. PROSPECTUS. This railway is intended to complete a direct communication be tween Leeds and Newcastle. It will commence in junction with the Leeds and Think Rail way at Wath, near Ripon, and following the route, as near as may be, of the Old Leerning-lane coach road, will proceed to a point near Maskam, thence by way of Bedale, Catterick, Richmond, Middleton Tyas, Barton, and Mantleld, to Bishop Auckland, where it will join the Northumberland and Lancashire Junction Railway The length of the projected line will be about forty miles, which will render tile distance between the important towns of Leeds and Newcastle thirty miles shorter than by any existing, and flfteea miles shorter than by any proposed, line of railway. It will traverse districts abounding with coal, ironstone, lime, and agricultural produce, hitherto shut out from the advantages of rail way communication with the markets' of the populous and manufac turing districts of Yorkshire and Lancashire. la • As this line will join the Yorkshire and Glasgow Union Railway near Bedale, the Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway near to Richmond, and the Leeds and Thirsk Railway at Wath, it will afford the means of conveying coal, at moderate charges, to the extensive agricultural districts through which these several railways are pro • posed to pass. The coke produced in the Auckland district already eommands an universal preference over that supplied from any other part of the kingdom, and is accordingly in great request on all the principal lines, and the proposed railway will afford the most direct and con venient outlet far it to the midland districts, where the demand will be unlim ted. From the most careful and diligent inquiry it has been ascertained that tile coal and coke are alone sufficient to yield an ample return for the capital employed in the construction of the line, independently of the present, and continually increasing traffic, in passengers and merchandize, which experience has hitherto found to result, wherever the facilities of railway communication has been provided. The attempts now making to constitute Leeds the great centre of railway communication between the 'northern and southern parts of the kingdom, for which its geographical position and commercial importance offer so many facilities, must necessarily render the New castle and Leeds Direct Railway an important trunk line. The surveys are already made, and the line has been found to present no engineering difficulties, and to be of easy and inexpensive con struction. All other preliminary steps have likewise been taken to obtain the Act in the ensuing session of Parliament. Applications for Shares to be made at the offices of the Solicitors to the Company, to the Secretary, and to the following agents and stock, and stare-brokers :—London—Mr. Simon, Warnford-court ; Mr. C. J. Coates, 4, Tokenhouse-yard. Newcastle-on-Tyne --T. F. Dickinson and Co. Leeds—Smith, Knowles, and Cooke ; and Well beleved and Barwick. Manchester—Haynes and Co. Liverpool— A. Laurie. Hull—F. Stamp. Ripon—Mr. Asquith; Mr. Farrar. Applications for Shares will be received until the 2Jth of October, after which day no applications can be attended to. N EWCASTLE AND LEEDS DIRECT RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that no further Applications for Shares n this Company can be received after WEDNESDAY next, the 29th October instant. E. C. STEVENS, Secretary. 4, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, Oct. 21, 1845. Messrs. hook and Oldershaw, 7, Tokenhouse-yard Messrs. C. T. and A. Jenkinsou, 76, Caunou-street, City. LOCAL AGENTS. Birmingham—W. H. Reece, Esq. Boston—Messrs. Holloway and Harwood. ENGINEERS. Sandiforth F. Griffin, Esq. C.E. A. A. B. Bennet, Esq. C.E. ARCHITECT AND SURVEYOR—E. N. Clifton, Esq. Tokenhouse-yard. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—MeSSTS. Sudlow and Ringdon, Palace-yard. SEnaErsav--James Elliott, ESQ. Offices of the Company, 26, Moorgate street, London. PROSPECTUS. This line is designed to open a direct communication between the towns of Birmingham and Boston. The advantages t) be derived by a rich, progressing, and populous town, such as Birmingham, the great manufacturing centre of the kingdom, having a direct communication with a port on the eastern coast facing the Continent, and that port the nearest to it by geo graphical position, need but to be mentioned to be appreciated. Tir.) name of Birmingham speaks for itself; the capacity and value of Boston as a commercial port is daily increasing, and re quires but little enterprise to enable it to compete with soma of our best pores. It is proposed that this line should commence at Leicester, where it will form a continuation of the direct line from Birmingham to that town, and proceeding by or near Melton Mowbray, Corby, Folkenham, and Donnington, terminate at Boston ; thus affording a direct communication between Birmingham and its important manu facturing districts—Rugby, the great railway centre of England, and Boston, their nearest seaport, which eventually must command the traffic of the districts with which it is in connexion and the oppo site ports of the Continent. A glance at the map will show how this line is fed, and the towns in its neighbourhood supplied with railway accommodation by the in tersecting lines ; but in the event of the London and York line not obtaining its Act, it is proposed by this Company to construct a branch to Grantham. The country is easy, presenting few or no engineering difficulties. Another advantage held out by this project is the improvement of the harbour of Boston, whereby it will be restored to that eminent position it formerly held among the ports and harbours of the kingdom. 'file usual power will be taken by the Act to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum after passing the Act, on the amount of the sub cription paid up. No subscriber shall be answerable ior more than the amount of his deposit until the Act be obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his subscription. A n.ore detailed Prospectus will be issued In a few days, containing the names of many influential Gentlemen locally interested in the proposed line. Applications for shares and prospectuses, to be made to the solicitors of the Company, 7, Tokenhouse-yard, and 76, Cannon-street, City; at the offices of the Company, 26, Moorgate-street ; andto the follow ing stock and sharebrokers : Lond.ni—Mr. Edward Newton Bryant, 16, Throgmorton-street ; Mr. William Itodwell, 22, Throgmorton-street; Mr. A. Sym, 9, Token house-yard; Mr. J. S. Pidgeon, 10, Warnford-court, Throgmorton stre et. BIRMINGHAM AND BOSTON DIRECT RAILWAY, with a Branch to Grantham. Notice is hereby given, that no further Application for Shares in this Company can be received after the 31st October instant in Lon don, or after the 6th November from the country. By order, JAMES ELLIOTT, Secretary. 26, Moorgate-street. BANKERS. Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane ; Messrs. Cock Biddulph, and Cs., Charing-cross. At Lewes—Messrs. Molyneux, Whitfield, and Co. CONSULTING ENGINEERS-Sir John Macneil and James Thom eon, Esq. ENGINEERS—B. Albano, Esq., M.1.C.E., and Wm. Laxten, Esq., C.E. SOLICITOR IN LONDON—George Smith, Esq., 24, Golden square, and No. 2, Guildhall chambers, Basinghall-street. LOCAL SOLICITORS. Messrs. Coombe and Sherland, Town.hall, Gravesend Messrs. J. and E. Blaker, Lewes. SECRETARY (pro tem.)—Ms. James Ellen. Offices, No. 11, Adam-street, Strand. The object of this undertaking is to open a direct line of rail way to connect the Northern, Eastern, and South Essex Railways, by means of a steam ferry from Tilbury Fort to Gravesend, with Tunbridge Wells, Lewes, and Brighton. It is contemplated to proceed from the Eastern Counties Rail way at or near Harlow station to Tilbury, crossing the river by a steam floating.bridge to Gravesend, passing by Cobham, Snodland, Mailing, and Hadlow to Tunbridge, thence by the South_ Eastern Railway to Tunbridge Wells, passing Uckfleld to Lewes, and thence joining the Brighton, Lewes, nd Hastings Railway to Brightest. An inspection of the map will clearly show the great import ance of this railway, whether considered in a local or national point of view, forming as it will a most useful chain of local com munication for the fertile and populous tracts through which it passes. It will bring the Northern and Eastern Counties, the mouth of the Thames, and North Kent, into direct communication, by way of Brighton, with Dieppe and Havre, and thus term, in can. junction with the railways ROW in progress on the Continent, the shortest possible route to Paris and the Mediterranean. By this railway the large population of the North Eastern Coun ties, numbering nearly two millions, will have a direct and easy communication with the whole et the populous and important counties of Kent and Sussex, without going round to London, and thereby avoiding the inconvenience arising from the unconnected lines north and south of the metropolis. The utility of this line to the naval and military service, both in times of peace and war, for the conveyance of troops and stores, is evident. With the existing railways, and these now in progress in Kent and Sussex, a moat complete system of local communication will be effected ; and as such, the projeet has been received with the meat distinguished approbation and pledges of support from the principal proprietors along the line, and the Corporation of Gravesend have promised their entire sanction to, and will cordially support it. The ground has been carefully surveyed, and found to present no difficulties to the formation of a good working line. The existing local traffic bas been ascertained to be amply suf. Ilcient to fulfil the requirements of the undertaking; but a large accession of valuable traffii cannot fail to be the result of the increased accommodation thus afforded to the public, and rendering the undertaking one of the most important as well as productive lines of railway in that part of the country. The Committee reserve power to themselves I. form branches from Snodland to Chatham and Maidstone. The liability of the shareholders will be restricted by Act of Parliament to the amount of their subscriptions, and power will be applied for in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent, per annum en all calls, from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line. Applic itions for prospectuses and also for shares may be addressed in the annexed form to the Secretary, at the Offices of the Company, 11, Adam-street, Strand; to George Smith, Esq. Solicitor, 24, Golden-square, and No. 2, Guildhall-chambers, Ba singhalLstreet ; Messrs. Coombe and Sharland, Gravesend , Messrs. J. and E. Shaer, Lewes ; and also to the following share brokers :—Messrs. Field, Son, and Bayley, Warnford-court; Throgmorton-street, London ; Messrs. Harris and Sons, Change alley, London ; Mr. M. L. Pritchard, Liverpool ; Messrs. Gardiner and Heap, Manchester; Mr. Isaac Ironside, Shef. field; Messrs. Hirst and Brooke, Leeds; Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Plymouth ; Mr. J. B. Mundy, Bath ; Mr. A. Moffatt, Edinburgh ; Mr. Wright, Birmingham; Messrs..Keat and Son, Nottingham; Messrs. Loames and Tripp, Bristol; Mr. Brand, Glasgow ; Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton; Mr. John Pol. lock, Bradford ; Messrs. Tibary and Simpson, Hull. To the Provisional Committee of the Brighton, Lewes, Tunbridge Wells, Gravesend, and Eastern Counties Junction Railway. I request that you will allot me Shares in the above proposed Brighton, Lewes, Tunbridge Wells, Gravesend, and Eastern Counties Junction Railway ; and I agree to take all such Shares, er so many as may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit thereon, and to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree ment when required 83 to do. Name ....... Description . Residence Date Reference to v ) MGR I'ON, LEWES, AND TONBRIDGE ji ) WELLS DIRECT RAILWAY (HALLETT'S LINE). Capital 350,0001., in 17,500 Shares of 201. each. Depos,it 21. 2s. per Share. (Provisionally Registered.) Shareholders not to be liable beyond the amount of their Shares PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Most Noble the Marquis of Bristol, Ickworth-hall, Suffolk, Brighton, Sussex 7 ord Alfred Hervey, 31. P. for Brighton, Sussex Irederiek Seymour, Esq. Kemp-town, Brighton 1 ,-, °ward Elphinstone, EIKI. M.P. for Lewes S r George l'resg,tt, Bart. Theobald's, Vertu $ r William Magnay, Bart. London 3i r. Alde•mtan Farncomb, London Edwin James, Esq. the Nunnery, Horsham, Sussex George Rennie, Esq. director of the Commercial Bank, London Valentine Lee, Esq. director of the Eastern Counties Railway Richard Wellesley Rothman, Esq. Albany, London Ertntbrd Samuel, Esq. Poultry-chambers Captain Dawson, R.N. Barnes, Surrey Robert Motrie; Esq. Walling street, London Iti hard Dutton, Esq. Herne-hill, Surrey Jelin James, Esq. Secondary of London, 34, Branswiek-square Benjam Webster, Esq. Old Brompton W. H. Covey, Esq. Charing-cross James Reevcs, Esq. Leyton, Essex W. S. Potter, Esq. Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park Ste hen Lowildl, Esq. Lewes John Langnril, Esq. Lewes' Charles Henry Chitty, Esq. Lewes Joseph Underwoed, Esq. Blackheath Efrainour Conway, Esq. Kennington, Surrey. G. N. Wright, Esq. Coecl Celyn, Denbighshire 'William Nash, Esq. Clapham-common TrOVISIONAL COMMITTEE OF GENTLEMEN LOCALLY INTESIBMD TREE LINE. If ,rd Viso/mit Cautilupe, Buckitunit-park, Sussex John Villiers Shelley, Esq. Maresfleld-park A l exander l)onavon, Esq. Framfield-park, Sussex Alexander Donavon, jun. Esq. Framfleld-park, Sussex George Donovan, Esq. Buckham-hill George Molyettx, Esq. banker, Lewes John Raker Stapeley, Esq. Hamsell-place, Rotherfield Robert Fry, Esq. Welches, RothertleM T,:oinas Radford, Esq. Uckfleld John Kenward, Esq. Uckfleld Edson Kenward, Esq. Uckfleld William Kenward, jun. Esq. Uckfleld Russell Gray, Esq. Bareomb Jilin Hillman, Esq. Lewes William Cole, Esq. Newhaven Thomas IVistien, Esq. llenfield Edward Churchill, Esq. Tonbridge Wells A' exander Wright, Esq. Worthing, Sussex B. W. Morris, Esq. Pcmbury, near Tonbridge Wells G,arge Robert Paul; Esq. Worthing, Sussex William 11. Lidhetter, Esq. Tonbridge Wells John Smith, Esq. Pramtleld, Sussex Charles Theilusson, Esq. Sunmer-lodge, Worthing J. hunter, Esq. Montague-house, Tonbridge Wells Row. IL Bahleek, jun. Esq. 5, Hyde-park-place R" 1. Edwin Baxter, Esq. Lewes Be ward Beard, Esq. Lewes Joan Taylor Hallett, Esq. llcktiald COMMITTEE OF Lord A Simard Elphinstone, Erl Chairma n ., m.r. John Villiers Shelley, Esq. the George Prescott, Bart. Edwin 'James, Esq. Valentina Lee, Ess. George Rennie, Esq. W. S. Potter, Esq. James Reeves, Esq. George Molineux, Esq Frederick Seymour, John Kenward, Esq. Esq. Thomas Wisden, Esq. Edward Churchill, Esq. Biehard Wellesley Rothman, Alexander Wright, Esq. - .- ENGINEER—Sir John Rennie F.R.S. ACTING ENGlNEER—Willlartl Halle ' tt ,- SOLICITOR—W. B. James, Esq. 5, II •' Be . C. • SECRETARY—F. H. Nalder, Esq.eras, all alltreet. RANKERS. The Commercial Bank, Lothbury Messrs. Moline= and Co. Lewes, and Tonbridge Wells. LOCAL AGENTS. • William Polhill Kell, Esq. Lewes rp • . . , Esq. solicitor, Tonbridge Wells P ll I; / Z efi, 1 . 3 Int :' . .sq. Boosted Lodge, near Uckfleld. (-- . onwrorros , „ .any, 83, Basinghall-street, London. /41V .22- *••• / ...._2 \ -- -5 . -,== ,, \ ',•-• \z , ''' ,-,. • , _ i \ ~, '4 -: , :::1. .-:•::.,, --,- 7 , ),:e , ,i:14 ( XANA6SMENT. !flied Hervey, M.P. Stephen Lowden, Esq Edward Beard, Esq. William Nash, Esq. Richard Dutton, Esq. William H. Lidbetter, Esq. Alexander Donavan, jun. Esq. George Donavan, Esq. Jno. Langford, Esq. Nelson Kenward, Esq. Thomas Radford, Esq. Jno. Taylor Hallett, Esq. John Smith, Esq. William Kenward, Esq. J. Underwood, Esq. N i A S - NA LARNE, BELFAST, and BALLIIIA I RAILWAY. (With Extension to Portglenone.) tie The Managing Committee having rec e i ve d the following_ af t le from Messrs. Sherrard and Hall, their E ng i neers , h a ve the Ple a ' of submitting the same for the satisfaction of their Shareholde r& By order, J. KNIGHT, Secret s/. 4, Coleman-street, London, Oct. 23, 1845. " 2, Great George-street, Westminster, Oct. 24,y . - . t, " To the Managing Commit tee o f the Lame, Belfast, and 13a1.0'' Railway. " Gentlemen,—We beg to state, fer the information of the I N that the surveys of this Rua are in a very forward state, and completed in due time to comply with th e s t an di n g orders liament without fail.—We are, Gentlemen, " Your obedient servants, "SHERRARD and II IL~ • GALWAY) RAILWAY. old The DEEDS of this Company wilt LIE for SIGNATURE , ' — ,dos, Scrip will be Exchanged, at the offices, 19, Moorgate- street , l l. from Ten till Four o'clock daily, until SATURDAY, the Ist et vember. The duplicate of the l et t ers o f exc h ange will be c° ll ' l l o t t , in a few days, of which parties who have not yet received such Do i tere are requested to take noti ce , an d t o excuse th e d e lay whic h die been occasioned by the strict investigation entered into as respectability of the Scripholders. EITZSTE PH EN FILE N CH, ' Chair ina°. 19, Moorgate-street, Oct. 24, 1845. . _ EXTENSIONS of the Ilt Sli WESTERN (DUBLIN to GALWAY) RAILWAY- 01 Prospectuses, with Maps of thes e E x t ens i ons, t oge ther Wit ll ,7„, e , of Application for Shares, t o b e h a d at the Company ' s of AIES BRYDE' 19, Moorgate -street, London, October 24, 1845. G RAND JUNCTION, GREAT WF4614 EST ' AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY JUNCTION. The Managing Committee of the above Company hereby' notice, that the delay in allotting the Shares is consequen t immense number of applications received, which n ecessarily 1 ,01 plc s a considerable ti me i n t h e i nvestigation thereof, but bet' complete their labours in th e ensu i ng week, and the Allotment ters will be issued on the 28th instant. aine j. N.B. The many applications daily received cannot be ente rt By order, JOHN SOUTHGATE, jam, 2, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house. Office BIRMLNGHADI AND AIANCIIESTE AILWAY. No further application for RECT shares ß the can be received herein, having closed on the 15th inst. The Committee are actively engaged in the consideration : d o applications, but in consequenc e o f th e i r i mmense number, some must elapse before the letters, of allotment can be posted. to p A. A. FLINT, Secre Dated this 21st day of October, 1845, WORCESTER AND MERTHYR TA JUNCTION RAILWAY. The Committee of Managem en t i n f orm the Applicants .0r in OA. Company that the Letters of -.111,..u.aut Lwvo ta.t. m itte. but that, owing to th e l arge number of applications, the ennd id have been obliged to ref use many most respectable person'', coIA' all cases greatly to abridge the number applied for. TM DI mittee trust that this explanation will be accepted as an e 0 all applicants who have not received allotments. o tern' By order, WM. BORROW, S ecretary P r- Dated 25th Oct., 1845. • C AMBRIDGE ANL) LINCOLN EX-- UNC TI SION, and LINCOLN, YORK, an d LEEDS - RAILWAY, with a Branch to Doncaster. • this W WI ; Notice is hereby given, that the Allotment of Shares in t reg re taking is now completed, and the Directors of the Company e b b that it has net been in their power to meet the wishes of all , n o r. plicants for shares, but they have endeavoured to snake tu_ e _ e oui ment with due impartiality and discrimination out of the mu" body who applied. i ' l‘ The Parliamentary Contract an d Subscribers' Agreement , an d m - for Signature at the offi ces o f th e Company, both in London felloirjg Leeds, on Monday, th e 3d o f N ovember next, and the live nP days, between the ho urs o f T en and Four, when and where the will be delivered to the shareholders. he de o Due notice will be given of the othe r pl aces an d times will lie for signature. By order, GEORGE S. DYER, c. , Acr eisrf 1, Guildhall Chambers, Basinghall-street, London. • --- T UNBRIDGE and RYE lIARBOUR 1)-`13'14 RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Frederick Lawrence, Esq. Registered Projector. Capital, 500,000/., in Shares of 201. each. Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share Temporary Offices, 94, Cheapside. COMMITTE. Field-Marshal Lord Viscount PROVISIONAL Beresford, G . C.B. edgbilt ' C.B. P.C. - park, Kent The Hon. James William King, Capt. R.N. Angley, Cranbroot Thomas Law Hodges, Esq. Hemstead-park, Benenden, Ke nt Alexander Beres.ord Hope, E sq . M . P . Bedgbury-park, Ken' . Thomas Walton Roberts, Esq. Glastoabury, Kent Capt. Michael Tweedie, Rolvenden, Kent Edward Foynder, Esq., Oakfield-lodge, Ilawkhurst George French, Esq , Rixden, Hawkhurst, Kent Sackville Hhelps, Esq. Tongs-wood, Hawkhurst Major Curteis, Leashsun-house, Rye Thomas Twisdeu Hodges, Esq. Sandgate, Kent Admiral J. Ayscough, Southampton George Ballard, Esq. Sandhurst John Bishop, Esq. Bodiam, Sussex Henry Coe Coape, Es q . G o ldh anger, Essex, director of the cheater, Oxford, and Southampton Railway, &c. W. H. Collis, Esq. Handsworth, Staffordshire, director of the and Shropshire Junction Railway John James Conway, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Dover And tel Railway Robert Cook, Esq. Gainsborough John Mercer Durrant, Esq. Theobald's, Hawkhurst, Kent Thomas Mercer Durrant, Esq. Attwaters, Hawkhurst Wl ° Thomas Evans, Esq. Mayor of Carnarvon, director °tal e and Holyhead Railway John Hilder, Esq. Old-place, Sandhurst t weet° Sir Wm. Bacon Johnston, Bart. Hilton, Aberdeenshire, the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Railway o f the William Phillips Lamb, Esq. Ockham-house, Sussex, director Dover and Bristol, and Staffordshire and Shropshire Railway Rev. G. A. Lamb, D.D., Iden, Sussex baraP tA James Macmillan, Esq. Southampton, director of the Son t Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway gQ IItr Thomas Gybbon Monypenny, Esq. Hole-park, Rolvende n, director of the Dover and Bristol Railway E. W. Morris, Esq. Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, diree.- - Great North and South Wales Railway Francis Reeves, Esq. Delmonden, Hawkhurst George Smith, Esq. the Lambs, Staffordshire Robert Tooth, Esq. Swift's-place, Cranbrook, Kent the c° a Wm. Bastow, Esq. 20, S urrey - p l ace, London, director 0- f mercial Life Assurance Company, and Worcester, Wanv ie Rugby Railway 11 Robert Bestow, Esq. Surrey-pl ace , L ondon, director o f the 0110;i mercial Life Assurance Company, and Worcester, Warw. Rugby Railway the J. Benson, Esq. Park-place-villas, Maida-hill West, director • Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway Thomas Ferrand Dearden, Esq„ Rochdale an d O g ° John Blunt, Esq. direct or o f th e L und n Docks Compeer, Eastern and Western Railway 210 0 Alfred Bush, Esq. Queen- square, B ath, director of the Great r and South Wales and Worcester Railway of t les Captain F. Chamier, Halkin-street Belgrave-square, directo r liazebroak and Fampoux Railway M. Clements, Esq. 69, Lowndes-square, director of the Gre at „I and Loudon Direct Railway Henry Cornfoot, Esq. 6, Copthall-court, director of the C°' ° Bank of London of Miles Dormer, Esq. 51, H an ,- p l ace, Sloane-street, diree-ttv Great Welsh Central, Ex e t er , D orchester, and Weymo uth'' end and Eastern Counties Junction Edward Evans, Esq. Stone s - en d, B orough, director of -- Cetns l cial Life Assurance Company t oe D. T. Johnson, Esq. Aldermary-churchyard, director of Be Direct Manchester Railway f A. M'Moran, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, director Grantham, Nottingham, L e i cester, and Soth Midlands Junerdl) Major-General Parlby, C.B.,Rutland-gate, Hyde-park, dire ct London and Manchester tailway gene" James W. Peppercorn, Esq. Old Broad- s t ree t , di rector of t he brouk and Fampoux Railway R. M. Preece, Esq. Lothbury, and 24, l'ark-square s JO ° James Reeves, Esq. Leyton, director of th e S outh Midl a nds and Direct London and Manchester Railway Francis noose, Esq. Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-squar e , tor .. . ‘ ei James Russell, Esq. Gloucester-place, Portman-square, nir t ra'r"' the Great Manchester, R ug b y, and Southampton and Reading, and Basingstoke Railways James Saynes, Esq. Great Dover-street, Borough AY ° s'ij Edwin Smith, Esq. 51, Great Ormond-street, director of the Severn Railway °1 John Taylor, Esq. Hoxton, di rec t or of the West-End en d S 0 Counties Railway Thomas Wakefield, Esq. director of the Dover and Bristol (With power to add to their number). BANKES—Cemmercial Bank of London, Lothbury ENGINEERS—Francis Giles, Esq. and Alfred Giles, STANDING COUNSEL.—Francis Barrow, Eel' , 00' 4 Soracrroas—Meaars. Elmslie and Prest on , 47, Moorgme- London. LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. Willis and Neve, Cranbrook Mr. John Elliot Wilson, Cranbrook Messrs. Beechsm and Upperton, Hawkhurst SECRETARY—E. A. Lamb, Esq. PROSPECTUS. e ° This line will pass in a direct course from Tunbridge, v, - ' ia he pa•l e dic wood (thus connecting its e lf w ith Maidstone), through Theae!'"ess of Brenchley, Horsmond en , G ou dh urat, Cranbroo k, . Hawkhurst, Sandhurst, Rolvenden, Newenden, Northam' of of marsh, Beckley, Iden, a n d Pl ay d en, to the town an d . o f , it tP; „, Rye, and ft will emb r a ce a l arge extent of adjacent counn 4001- sent unprovided with, and muc h requ i r i ng the adm itted 414 eg i of railway transit. a g The length of the line will be about twenty-five rim e i'oPa portion of it will pass through a level country, and the,olo Pd ,sfl part is free Prom any material engineering difficulty, or 1, og ee , ' to require any serious outlay, and it is not expected to b e _ e el to interfere with any re'idences or ornamental property. obi" The saving of distance to Rye, and all the other place s by this line, will be considerable. The capital required is estimated not to exceed 580,0 0 a ode fb i f t During the last session of Parliament application vfa S wht a similar line, partially embracing the same coaritrY ( ' :, , o weiD o ` rx . was shown in detail, by evidence produced before the for 5 c ,. 10 ,1 that the contemplated traffic, after deducting 401. per ceni• 10 .0 1 , 00 „ ing expenses, would leave a large per tentage upon the be st a rt 01 Capital. That line was rejected on the ground that the the Pete tion had not been selected, but with an intimation thaitri the in re , Rye was e titled to a direct railway communication w The Lc rior of the country, in the best direction towards London'dvan,7,,i sent scheme has been based upon this intimation, takin_g yes itgati e ,"i of the merits and defects which appeared upo, , that t t, u otrY•., of and as it embraces a more populous and productis bene fit passes in a more direct line to London, and will have r e , of trig better access to other and more numerous lines, the souiZ ei l e ve,; are considerably increased, and there is every reason tou plau win what passed during the last session, that the present et Of $ favourably entertained by the Legisl a t ure . be lle • Vie t ' The chief object is to open the port of Rye to the f u lltiv e d ' s veil railway communication, through a populous and pro s in the direction of I ondon, t o th e b est po i n t a t whichauc . oth er itselfof the existing and contemplated lines. iime an-. I , die The imports of Rye, particularly coals, with " Win e 0.1 1 line manures will , are of and great chea impoperrtance and better mode to the country g oi r i e l hir pass, Increase the demand for them, and g i ve the oPPorturn o e Xing provement in the cultivation of the adjacent tr euun- .L . r ict of „ t og A railway through the heart of the chief hop di coinin un.-. et and cattle distrl timber, and dom, also producing corn, hop-poles , at its terminus with a great part of the important egt Romney Marsh, must be a public advantage. outlet and ancic. The port of Rye is admitted to be the best aA there . 11 1 4 rout to Paris and to other parts of the Continent , . e ; jai t oode tio ,.. no doubt if a direct railway should be made to 3 Led' oar p Improvement in the harbour, that it would be much ado w ith t atnc e i cularly as a national and commercial comn.vunicauon d to t ins and by persons travelling on business. to be eddrese e -a se . Applications for shares and prospectme „ yin o - Secretary, at the offices, 94, Cheitpside ; Messrs iator, craub7;: 'l 9 l rs. fla w ne • Ucitors, Cranbrook ; Mr. John Elliot Wilson, so khars to Messrs. Beecham and Upperton, solicit° Peppercort to the following Brokers :—Loudon 3icssrs . Du n A ston Co., 2, Old Broad- street; Messrs. Preece a an r o .v at oi _ ess rs Messrs. Fryer and Co., 1, Birchin-lane. L3ivicr. PJosepli Brice,4;o. and Gage; Messrs. Reynolds and Son; Leed chester—Mr. John Duncuft ; Mr. John al te ' r _3tr. A. and C. Beardshaws ; Messrs. Wellbelov_e a d st _r d p e C a o rs'on.4 l B „ d is; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Birmingham—Mr....L. ut otc 7 ster _.... ford—Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co. w Miles. Cheltenham—Messrs. Hall, Thomas Sanford. Southampton—Messrs.. E 3lr Robert •A ii i rAitkin• burgh—Mr. J. W. Lyon, 89, George-street , Buchanan a _ yowe. Co.; 3lessls. Bruce and b goo—Messra. Black and srs. Aberdeen—Mr. W. Gordon. Dublin—Mes Brothers, and Co. sEoxoes:.. •„tr TUNBRIDGE and RYE HARBOUR, Lj .At an adjo u r ne d meeting of RlaAnTedWpAriroPrietors and others locag interested in the above line, held at the Ball Inn, CranbrooX, tober 20, T. L. HODGES, Esq., in the Chair ; T. was moved by the Heil. C ap t a in KING, and se conded by 31orsirPENNT, Esq., and carried unanimousy; ~ That a railway from Tunbridge, via Paddock-wood , and port of Rye, passing to or near the parishes of BrenchleY, idea, monde'', Goudhurst, Cranbrook, Bennenden, Hawkhurg',. 'Oen, Must, Rolvenden, Newenden, Northeain, Beckley, Peasernarsi`, Playden, and Guildford, is desirable." .., Ig. It was moved by A. J. B. HOPE, Esq. M.P. and seconded TOOTH, Esq., and carried ;north" " That the line, as explained by Mr. Giles, passing to the east side of the town of Cranbrook, is the best line to be adopted b, Moved by T. G. MoNTPENNY, Esq. ; and seconded by W. r• I'm'' Esq. POI' " That the following gentlemen be added to the Provisional s- ~ mittee :—The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Beresford, the 110 a. Copt. J. W. King. R.N. ; Thomas Law Hodges, Esq. ; Alexander J! l ! o e t . Beresford Hope, Esq., 3LP, ; Thomas Walton Roberts, Esq. ; 31 ' 1 • r / go to the oto,svr: Curteis ; Captain Michael Twedie • Sackville Phelps, Esq. ° ldol French, jun., Esq. ; Edward Poynder, Esq. ; and Thomas Twi Hodges, Esq.,tb° Lord Beresferd having been called temporarily to the ...„ thanks of the meeting were given to the Chairman, Thomas .b." Hodges, Esq. G. A. LAMB, Secretart. ''',.„,............. . D t A l de OF A.:: : r o e i T u t i °l- nn i , r 4 Sequl With th e s : 4 41 " , the T r .. I" • " at A ti4 Pole( tr nent ; vast Trea . off Fern bea betwe lv ,bee ag Ur. ?At' liet4yiaPeleon 1 4 TRACTI1 e Vicar of Wri Tale of 1 7 etYe House,' ST ORY OF J E, 1,4 4 1 45T °f. 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