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I, r 777- It ANx op pov o , colarr of ENGLAND, nt SEPT. 11, 1845. , _ • , the it,t,,,,. o...CTORS of the GOVERNOR and CO3l- ''.• • pee..." 1 " .9 biThist;;;;;:ai.:l)le iltvil.DcantE.sr:L.Ttt give notice Bank on Taues- • MI S tox - s t t:: the 18th ' hist s (-:;..' I V . ' at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, to \ .... 4 .,? , 1 ' the !tarter. °n° o f the Quarterly General Courts appointed \ ' '-`)•••, ~= r \ ,- , _.,,,,.-- . . •-•ai.,F.±.`-e- s `f • _G JOHN KNIGHT, Secretary. 4 °l' Al POLy • t io , A 3/401.1,,,,,E‘iT TECHNIC INSTITUTION. i th , •••,ioif TRoicA,L ritu EXTENSIVE, and UNIQUE COLLEC- ,„ 4 g residence in ITS, modelled by Mons. Grimaud during ; A teSt, • 1114..01N05t,,,,___ the Isle of France, is Just deposited. best. LONDON, NV 42t 2 zi er , a,,,,,lxitizAedivwm, is Lectured upon by Professor N o . 16,5 64. 1 EN , —VENTIONDtIY TI f ' 4I CAN Pe' and in the evenings. A NEW COLEMAN'S PATENT L 0003,10- tallw. ' t 'INE r ' D - Ys with “l l ,"°e nditi t y and descending inclined planes on d. 'VII % IL til9ut ebt atm t Lua nt le rr cCA, e stationary power. SWIMMING and port, ght • Prida;'; aaeher of ~,,, by the son of Captain Stevens, the ce 1112r at Two 0' clock, and on Mondays, Wednesdays, and ila 4 41 Y . 8 at h aii ... p c ut ,El_agnildt o i cloe the k. THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNIN( ETvheenionthgserofexlaiTublioansys, and& • • admit :21p60:w:erOrserbtryimportain 1•••,-.:,...z. Admission, 18. ; Schools, Half-price , ADVERTISEMENTS I. it. - , Ai 1 ''IoNAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR. - 7 - . - . . -. • _ capital .C 500,000. ,ANCIC SOCIETY, IL.lcitj'o f LO P N ar D lia O m L ent : , ;, .. t sb . ; bl w s itti ln r s e ti . t ,sui .M A The Directors of the London and Birmingham Railway feel I ONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. Nil t ( lira us the power of nexion whatever with a proposed li ne, announced as the " Lon themselves called upon to give Notice, that that Company has no ith fa' 1";:_ tSatlred h e3 l ' , et ma hoth N Life Assurance"s t c :n do n een and Birmingham ication, or (3,7e4oreforteiture ,e Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid ot al t l i ( i )e easia __ , London and Birmingham Railway have instructed Mr. alA ith n o na u l t vtl ex anes - : for a line from North ham Extension Railway." The Directors Robertof the 1(. 4; t h ) ' al ;c , the 0 Stephenson to make the necessarysur their Pe v t e e y r s borough Branch with the s• 6. fbrurtatseorsts to ineeetitZr" selecting heh ent B , and the ampton to Wcedon, to connec t . . . 7 6 conversion ' Kidderminster line; from `" ' 1 Years are granted conveniences or necessity. Assurance* proposed London, Warwick, Leamington, an d . Pulle rs, and 13 The th suet D IVISIO N the lowest possible rates. N 0 ilrele:4,ly:etdwl •icts for both which lines will be applied for in the ensui ng mentary session. .... . 0 9 •,- succes s at:el inereu,_ P PROFITS. London and Birmingham Railway Company being of opinion B o ' r ectors annual investigation to declare a third th Y Ina- . IS 6 rig% ax ,at th e iastul Prokasrity of the Society has enabled that the proposed London and Kidderminster line is, in connexion s kh p e il YlaS from 3 0 •• •••" c'S effect d t ° Per cent t and . 0 ITO - 2 on 't their most cordial support eon the pr scale. • the premiums paid on modation of the Public, will give i 1 t 6wi th the ondon and Birmingham line, best adapted for the accom- By order, '• • 0 - 6 EXAIIPL.ES. co-operation. R. CREED, Secretary. .... • 0 2 6 Office, Euston-station, Sept. 10, 1845. ••- • • 1 4 i ..,,, cl 'll 0 9 5 , the Bristol and Eng ••• • 6 • • 1 a 0 I' P Ist stialum. '4 l il ~ 3 ...f 1.• 0 ri 4IS •••• • . 0 6 the RIDG R I A V I A LW T A E Y R COm an p d AN M Y, I . N it E ing HEAD JUNC r"" 0 4 • a d de d, 11 ,-, nnu h s In I&0. ; lxi P;.• lisp Cha nn els, Tl and forming a direct communication between with .. ••• • 1 ° ... -...... , England, Paris, and the ..... • . 3 e ,____ rl 3 4 - d South-Eastern and Western Coasts of . . . i. . o .. the -as "' 5. 5 e . 2g 6 South of Ireland and Wales, with Bristol and London, and also i .. •• • • ' • .6 Channel Islands. 60 1..._ 7 8. d. 1,,1 ' 4 7 , - 7 F-__________ _______ _ (Proiisionally Registered.) 0 11 ° 7 4 a 4 11 , ,d• ; 6 ° 5 1. 1 3 3 5 ;4a7 13 s#i 3 17 1 4395 11 1 .•• • ; 439 Oi 74 13 10 11 8 6 346 2 3 ;lade ' s 5 (3 ---.....2__ , 138 13 Deposit 2/. 2s. per 1840 6 61 14 3 Capital, of subscription ; and it 1 • I lse divi, 89 0 0 ~ 9 210 296 13 4 Liability expressly limited to the amount 300,0001. in 15,000 shares of 201. each. , ••• •• il5 0 ee reb , rtif . lea of pr on ., • ------______ll2l± 6 0 0 247 4 5 ,_ • • " " 0 19 .„. • • _ a 6 - ' lO Drak.-. .la ar,,,,._. T RINIDAD GENERAL RAILWAY COM PANY. CHEPSTOW, FOREST OF DEAN, AND GLOUCESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY, An extension of this line is under survey, to connect it with the heart of the mineral district of South Wales. The project has been registered, full particulars of which will appear in a few days. WILLIAM. PROTREROE, Secretary. 10, Old Jewry Chambers. A Company is in the course of formation for the purpose of carry ing out a complete system of railways in Trinidad, and negotiations on the subject, with the most influential residents and proprietors of estates, and with the principal mercantile houses in this kingdom interested in the trade of that island, are now pending. Two prin cipal lines have already been decided on, viz.— From Port of Spain by way of San Josef to Arima ; and From San Joseph to San Fernando, and the Mission of Savanna PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. THE MANCHESTER, HUDDERSFIELD, BARNSLEY, and GOOLE JUNCTION RAILWAY. Grande; To which will be added such branches and extensions as the local population and estates may require. There can be no doubt that these lines will receive the sanction of the Legislature. (Registered Provisionally.) Arrangements having been made, since the issuing of the preli minary announcement, to extend this undertaking to the ports of Liverpool, Great Grimsby, and Bull, by which means a project of greater extent and more general utility will be obtained for the public and the districts locally interested than previously contemplated, it is intended to carry such combined scheme into effect, under the name and title of E. TAVERNER, 9, New Broad-street, Solicitor to the Company. THE HUDDERSFIELD AND EAST AND WEST COASTS • . _ DIRECT Connecting Liverpool, Manchester, Huddersfield, Barnsley, Goole, Great Grimsby, and Hull, with a communication to the Metropolis from or near the Cudworth Station of the North Midland Railway. A prospectus is now in the course of preparation, and will be pub lished shortly. In the meantime the numerous applicants for shares in the original scheme are respectfully informed that it will be neces sary for them to renew their applications (in the form which will be annexed to the prospectus) for Shares in such extended under taking, if desirous of obtaining Shares therein. 0 it 0 nadf. 11 0 1 5 • • • • • • 15 •• " 0 19 6 •' • • •• 0 14 6 •• • • • 1 ° 6 •• • •0 11 6 • " 0 19 0 •• • ••• 1 11 6 •• • • 215 0 ....... . 1 16 0 3 ••• • • • tlye netlee , A ...from 1 l i t 0 .trona ° od of, 'Rot APP r°l- , uets" sate An d 3{lor 0 . 01 , 15 4, tati 4 guard theeP_„ desinanlicnro:l7o 'l,lllO C.3er The, is re . ts.jlS• sr 0.1, .0 shrnoot, i o a ld (te lathing or 80 , , h et ott en t numed PI jj ...1 tot leans of Pft, ted or Pel;itlie a t f ron is e 4 weal' t P effiraci °u° s 6d., bl 31 ;15 1, " ; a nd CO. 'Zile, t. Paul's ;)iediciA: st , and 0 , 0 0- Great St' (Praiisionally Registered.) Capital, 300,0001. in 15,000 shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. Liability expressly limited to the amount of subscription ; and it is intended to make no further call until the Act of Parliament is obtained. ►d the next Will be nil lade in De- PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE, Sir-Henry Seale, Bart., Mount Boom, Dartmouth Sir John Bander, F.R.S., Walton, near Saffron Waldron, Deputy. Lieutenant of the county of Essex By order, WILL. JACOMB, Solicitor, Colonel Luttrell, KilveCoiirt, near Minehead John Halliday, Esq., Chapel Cleeve, near Minehead,Magiatrate of the county of Somerset John Cadland, Esq., Spring-grove Park, near Winilscombe, Magis trate for the County of Somerset Henry William Chichester, Esq., Rose House, Bampton, Devon B. Beaden Buller, Esq., Nether Stowey, Somerset Edwin Ley, Esq. , Penzance, Cornwall The Mayor of the Town and County of Poole Richard Pinney, Esq., shipowner, Poole E. F. Dayrell, Esq., of Lillingstone Dayrell, and 15, Old Cavendish street, London, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq., Pinner's Hall, Broad-street, merchant W. Revell Vlgers, Esq., 50. Russell-square, and Alderman's-walk, merchant W. S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park James Morrison, Esq., 28, St. Mary-at-hill, merchant James Colhoun, Esq., 5, Half-moon-street, Piccadilly, and St. Peter's chambers, Cornhill, merchant Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury-square, and St. Bride's-wharf Anthony Mervyn Storey Masicelyne, Esq., Glanusk House, Brecon shire F. W. Green, Esq., shipowner, Cornhill W. F. Beadon, Esq., 11, John-street, Berkeley-square W. Strahan, Esq., anker, Strand. Office-3, Alderman's-walk, New Broad-street. SOLICITORS. Messrs. a Beckett, Son, & Sympson, 7, Golden-square. Mr. Vaughan Prance, Nether Stowey and Bridgwater.. MANAGING DIRECTORS. E. F. Dayrell, Esq. James Coihoun, E?q. W. R .Vigers, Esq. W. S. Potter, Esq. W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq. Samuel Pocock, Esq. W. F. Beadon, Esq. James Morrison, Esq. F. W. Green, Esq. Szcarraav—Mr. Edward Parratt. BANKERS. Messrs. Strahan and Co.; and Messrs. Roberts and Co., London. Messrs. Stuckey and Co., Bristol, Bridgwater, and Taunton. One of the principal objects this Company has in view, is a great saving of time in the journey from Ireland and South Wales to Bristol and London, by avoiding the tedious and dangerous passage of the Bristol Channel, and at the same time effecting the long sought-for communication between the English and Bristol Channels, all of which will be gained by connecting Minehead with Bridge water by a Railway, and there forming a junction with the railways already opened, and also with those now in actual progress between Bridgwater and the commodious and important port of Poole. The question of an eligible steam-packet and post-office station on the Somersetshire coast for Ireland, Wales, and the Westward gene rally, from whence vessels may arrive and depart at all times, with out reference to tide, has for many years past been regarded as one of immense importance to the Government and the public. By making Minehead a post-office station, a saving of twelve hours will be e ff ected in the delivery of letters between Ireland and the whole of the west and south of England ; and no other port on the coast of Somerset (or even on the north of Devon) will be so safe, and sheltered from all the prevailing winds. At Minehead, the proposed railway will run down on a pier, which the largest class steamers may approach, and land and embark pas sengers at all states of the tide, and again proceed at once into the Western Ocean on their outward voyage. The public is perhaps hardly aware that, even with the present imperfect and rude arrangements for landing passengers at Weston Super-Marc, it is found that passengers from Ireland and the impor tant ports of the south of Wales save several hours by landing at that place ; whereas, by the proposed pier and railway from Minehead, passengers would save generally twelve hours, and very often a great deal more, on their journey to London, avoiding, besides, the dangers of the Bristol Channel. rILT-t e r igs ie p l u ls s t ile spe r E,['ours, SO* I , "S. E, 3 1 . 1) " A- keen, Id sage, , l ° 3., on "hind, •"` Lend er. titionerlll_, 0,641. leases. " .e I" 6e re • and Inen stye ° addressed t; 147, • e oor , and the _an .se fet o: A. 141) TH ,opf, Jll G ,n, post is. / yaw .1•11) A ' fe, such 551 To o fi n ; .0 reeociou , ;' n, . 1 ; ;, late liog aniiu earl`• .sh air, roodfiorePt.o meats toed may be re' fitted to nl3l',v, S., L.A• C "t; ,Ficet-stre e mer , .nd the evenings,' SE. 4 • A Ifedi." - 4 1 p E A . reg ult so., e at° o e merY,_, A ,, e s , t r, reCti °lll s toration t6 d oe e j, o f certain et , V' ::arolloe-stre ter, er t, 49, re teri q uf t . . h a ncer.r - la ne tteie S o , Ki n g.strge t 'se%, e . 3 fessrs. Gree, obinson, Idea or forrrurfor 3s. 6d. t 00 0 io ,40 of the nine,i n g sease, deO t l' ei ; and sirnP" e 511 0 '0 s liable to be .ft le the urre r f,4, st r sy are e1,,P ° 0 7- , commen u t o as a se forlun a Olvd 1. ptill atients Are r. t fre e, 1., and l e° tO 3s. 6d. [al. t oc iry t,,, i- ,$ w ith , r 1 „":03 „%nr , those ' o l no , Bence, tera,:irlico, on tlonal W e 7 .4 ,5 11 0, t f , ) ,4 ehenstve"i By C. " 00 0 eel Pee' 0 that ger w re" Health , fht , v% )f our be o y, rhich, tbuflt a l tf ; we deem dol e 0 Lust Dew* Di a not 01 '1•0 4 and sur e secrew,/a or o, t" P street, Us d Co'jor i ann al An 6 1,0 lordon, hwark, acheeter street, 131119 %., Edinburg h ' ple 111 end, and is crest' than Messeng er " •om Ten: — co, , lidenee• ) ; 13 1 1,10$ try patien t iocl it ease, no AO ) ESS, AI cEss, Sac' It is not among the least striking features of this project that it forms part of a grand scheme for shortening the communication between. Ireland and Wales with Jersey, Guernsey, Paris, and the Continent generally, as passengers landed at Minehead will proceed by this railway to others now in progress via Yeovil and Dorchester to Poole, from which port the distance to Cherbourg is only sixty miles, thus rendering the distance from Minehead to Cherbourg easily performed in eight hours and a half; and from Cherbourg a railway is now in course of formation to Paris. The distance also to the Channel Islands is reduced in the same proportion. A powerful com pany, hilly alive to the advantages of this mode of transit ill prefe rence to the more tedious one via Southampton and Havre, is about to put en a line of packets between the ports of Poole and Cherbourg and the Channel.lslands, thus shortening the route in point of time by about seventeen hours. This Company, in showing to tke public the probable amount of traffic which will flow over their line, beg leave to draw attention to the following extracts, taken from a prospectus of a Company, formed under the auspices of the Chairman of the Great Western Company, and the leading bankers and merchants of Bristol, for making a pier at, and railway from Portbury, to Bristol, and on which no further comment will be made, save that whatever applies to Portbury, ap plies with infinitely greater force- to Minehead, both in the saving of time,dang r, delay, and expense. " There are at the present time engaged in the trade with South Wales, Somersetshlre, Devonshire, Cornwall, Liverpool, and Ireland, twenty-three steam-vessels of the aggregate tonnage of upwards of 6,000 tons, making rather better than fifty voyages, or 100 arrivals and departures per week on an average throughout the year. "The principal part of the traffic of the whole of these vessels con sists of passengers, whilst of their goods traffic an important portion consists of merchandise brought by, and intended for carriage on, the existing railways, from and to places on either side of Bristol. For the conduct of this traffic, every vessel will necessarily require to use the pier and railway on each occasion of departure and arrival, as the most expeditions, convenient, and economical mode of conveying such traffic to or towards its place of destination. " The number of passengers carried by the existing steam-boats amounts to at least 200,000 per annum ; and when it is considered that the facilities afforded by the pier of starting and arriving at all times of the tide, will enable vessels which now perform but one voyage per diem, or every alternate day, to and from the nearer ports in South Wales, to make such voyages three or four times in the same day, at very trifling, if any, additional cost— that on the voyages to Swansea, Tenby, and Ilfracombe, they will effect a saving of one-half the time now occupied, and that similar advantages will be derived by the trade with Cemwstil and Ireland, it can neither be doubted that the expense of conveyance between Bristol and those places will be considerably reduced, nor that the effect of such re duction, combined with the advantage of greater certainty as to the times of departure and arrival, must have the effect of causing a great increase in the number of passengers. "A large and most valuable portion of the merchandise carried by the Cornish, Welsh, and Irish steam-beats consists of fish, poultry, eggs, vegetables, and other articles of provision ; speed and certainty in the conveyance and delivery of articles of so perishable a nature are obviously essential, and the facilities in this respect afforded by the pier are such as to secure this traffic to the undertaking. " A very considerable revenue will also be derived from the landing and carriage of Live Stock brought by the Irish steam boats, which being imported fat and ready to kill, now suffer much injury from the detention of the vessels in Kingroad whilst waiting for tide." Although it is unnecessary to calculate upon the whole of this im portant and justly founded traffic, it is nevertheless impossible to over-estimate the large portion of it that will come over this line, when it is remembered that by the proposed scheme the harbour of Waterford will, by means of powerful steamers, be brought within twelve, and the ports of Dublin and Cork within fifteen hours of the terminus at Mieehead, by which the danger, inconvenience, and un pleasantness of travelling by night will be altogether avoided. So also must the traffic derived from steam-boats, and on the line itself, be added, which will arise from the immense resort of persons seeking pleasure in the beautiful vicinities of Nether Stowey, Blue Anchor, Minehead, Porlock, Linton, Lynmouth, and the far-famed Valley of Rocks and adjacent country, so aptly termed the Switzer land of England, and which only require increased facilities to be much more than even at present, resorted to; and so great is the existing traffic that, by the calculations already made, a large reve nue will be derived from this source alone. The present number of cattle sent to Bristol from Ireland alone is upwards.of 150,000 head per annum, and it is only reasonable to ex pect that these will be landed at the far nearer port of Minehead, thereby creating a considerable source of revenue. The importance of this railway to the agricultural district of North Somerset is incalculable for disseminating, as manure, in every di rection the celebrated lime of Cannington Park, from which, and also from the carrying of coal, a large revenue will arise. Memel timber brought into the port of- Poole (the harbour dues of which are very insignificant) can be unshipped, carried across by rail, and re-shipped at Minehead, at a cost of 7s. per ton less in freight, than if carried round the Landsend, exclusive of the great saving in time ; this alone will open a large trade with Wales, as vessels will bring over coals to Minehead, and take back timber, limestone, flour, mine, slates, and copper ore. The blue lies lime-stone of Watchet, so admirably adapted for aquatic building, will also produce a considerable revenue to this undertaking. The flour and provision trade, at present carried on between the milting districts of South Wales and the coast of Somerset, must ne cessarily flow over this line, and create an important feature in its revenue. ns chars% • 1 Fi d Won, Pr ica 21. , 0 0 35. 6d., v s ol_ 'opUlar a s in voO W 010 1 Tru ,00 61 an ar g iorpcti lento. WO tg Surgeonp o ;to l TARE. 1) „' 11° 3 0 Edinburtn , c oti A Societh "4' , : and rgr elitt pro e ; 4 aLved tions .T 4u t o v' erussa 1 , ,*71 , 0 no EV"' t he 9 % es D i e t t: l 4 so of difle. l D O r s he „ re s. , t he 1 ` ) ;, 0 - Cla re ' 0;4 T din ce i i t v h il eta e dead l l'if° 0 4 ye iertaliq• a GOV er s.iteei by !et Qur i 4 Cl' Toble lief* a ll B;iolise r jelt! Five P.. • 011 FRIETTI ) O yings• It egie d ellO 0 r) 101 l WOr .4 lo d til o e e dical, 00 , axes i V o f P C' toratioo. 00,3 t. d oiv I. IAP I.o' sung 1 " 0 , ad at 6 3, A y .„ d C•6,133P , ' „ nnsol o t ; ru ridsl ' A sg 0 .,' t F of I o°6 L a m ' e a r jo iitY ° a to itiw i f ;ftV!. o 4 , left , ue put " - o il' 4 , ,mmend.,,,,, fr o , ; 4;4 3r suiferi:ae Ail if eL;p• g es." !ve il' °f o l , ass , exclu% 1 0 ,i 0 0° ' Ai iebiweittnlities coot 0 A ntal ofd c 00 . 1 - ,0 Yom sea P co r ' tn o o ; o er r os and. o o ' 49 oo . O' t" no o 1 .a., Prir e for , t r eccei turps. l rte o tail l o t,t e i ° o :, s l ;t t . t ita '/ i , 1; 1 e . fr.ra . 1 0 sonal vt IRV° ---1.01/14 )10' F l o . Ofbe e 'ocol l in the One of the first effects of the formation of this line will be, that steam communication will be established between Minehead and the following places :—Swansea, Tenby, Milford, Neath, Haverfordwest, Pembroke, and Carmarthen, and with the whole of the South of Ireland ; and this railway, with a suitable station and wharfs, will also afford to Watchet all the advantages of which it is capable as a port• Depots for goods will be erected at the station at Combwitch Reach, where at present all the larger 'vessels trading to Bridgwater stop ; and it may be mentioned that 130,000 tons of coasting trade come into this port annually, exclusively of 10,000 tons of foreign trade. From the estimates prepared, it is expected that only a portion of the proposed capital will be required to carry sut the objects of this Company. Powei will be reserved to allow the shareholders 4/. per cent. on the paid-up capital, and also to construct branches from Minehead or Watchet to Wiveliscombe, Porlock, &c., and the extensive iron mines of Sir T. Buckler Lethbridge, Bart., which, with the slate quarries of Sir John Trevylyan, are in active working within seven miles of Mine head. From this source, as also from the copper mines of Andrew Crosse, Esq., a large revenue must arise. The landowners have been communicated with, and are most anxious for the successful carrying out of the objects of the Com pany ; nor is there reason to expect that any Parliamentary opposi tion will be offered. The line will be twenty-five miles in length, and no engineering difficulties present themselves. Until an Act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of this Company shall be under the control of the Managing Directors, to whom power is given to allot the Shares, and to apply the funds of the Company in payment of all the expenses incurred in its formation, and in the preparation of the plans and sections to be submitted to Parliament. Power will be applied for in the Act, and in the meantime is hereby given to the Managing Directors as above, to raise any additional capital, to abandon any part of the line, to make branch lines, docks, piers, wharfs, or jetties, or enter into any arrangement with any other Company or Companies, and also to nominate the first Directors of the Company. Applications for Shares, plans, prospectuses, and detailed informa tion, may be made at the Offices of the Company, No. 3, Alderman's walk, City, London ; at the Offices of the Company's Solicitors, Messrs. a Beckett, Son, and Sympson, 7, Golden-square, London ; Mr. Vaughan Prance, Nether Stowey and Bridgwater. And of the Local Agents—Mr. William Woodland, solicitor, Taunton ; Mr. N. Pearce, solicitor, Wiviliscombe ; Mr. James Parsons, solicitor, Lang port ; Messrs. Stone and Symonds, solicitors, Dorchester ; Mr. Thomas Phippard, solicitor, Wareham ; 11r. M. K. Welch, solicitor, Poole ; Mr. henry Poole, solicitor, Bristol. And of the following Stock and Share Brokers—Messrs. Tucker, Barnett, and Ellis, 11, Birchin-lane ; and Messrs. Huggings and Lang, London; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Mr. John Morcom, Bristol ; Mr. Thomas Evans, Bath; Mr. Charles O'Neil, Manchester; Messrs. 11. Davies and Co., Liverpool ; Messrs. Chantrell and Boys, Leeds ; Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull ; Messrs. Labertouche and Star ford, Dublin ; Mr. Lilly, Bridgwater; and Mr. R. Ball, Taunton. RIDGEWATER and AIINEHEAD JUNC . . TION RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that no Application for Shares will be en tertained, unless the same be made in the form prescribed by the Managing Directors; and the applicants must also refer either to ono of the Provisional Committee, or to some person of known respecta bility.—Dated September 12, 1845. By orler, Messrs. A'BECKETT, SON, and SYMPSON; and Mr. VAUGHAN PRANCE, Solicitors to the Company. Oflice, 3, Aide:mauls-walk Old Bag-Meet. No. 16,564. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING ;kV ' 4 ' Z ; ' SEPTEMBER 17, 1' 45. PRICE) SUPPLEMENT, sd, THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIVE O'CLOCK , i n Ti me f or th e EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINS, and a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that flour. ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED i n ALL THE THRE E PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION at ONE CHARGE. RE3IINGTON'S LINE. T HE LONDON AND MANCHESTER DIRECT INDEPENDENT RAILWAY. The COMMITTEE of MANAGEMENT hereby give notico that one part of the PARLIAMENTARY CONTRACT and SUB SCRIBERS' AGREEMENT will LIE for EXECUTION, and Scrip Certificates will be issued to . the Subscribers in exchange for the Bankers' Receipts, at the places and times mentioned below : Bath—At the York Hotel, on Tuesday, the 23d day of September instant. Bristol—At the Bush Hotel, on Wednesday, the 24th day of Sep tember instant. Worcester—At the Star Hotel, on Friday, the 26th day of Septem ber instant. Birmingham—At Dee's Royal Hotel, on Saturday, the 27th day of September instant. Lichfield—At the Swan Inn, on Monday, the 29th daY of September instant. Leicester—At the Three Crowns Inn, on Tuesday, the 30th day of September instant. Bedford—At the Company's Office in the High-street, on Thursday, the 2d day of October next. Uttoxeter—At the Offices of William Arnold Bainbridge, Esq., Soli citor, on Tuesday, the 23d day of September instant. Burton-upon-Trent—At the Offices of Messrs. Bass and Sweting, Solicitors, on Wednesday, the 24th day of September instant. Ashby-de-la-Zouch—At the Offices of Edward M. Green, Esq., So licitor, on Thursday, the 25th day of September instant. Cheadle—At the Offices of Richard Lowe, Esq., Solicitor, on Satur- day, the 27th day of September instant. Leek—At the Offices of Thomas Redfern, Esq., Solicitor, on Monday, the 29th day of September instant. Macclesfield—At the OffiCes of Messrs. Parrott, Colville, and May, Solicitors, on Tuesday, the 30th day of September instant, and Wednesday, the Ist day of October next. _ Manchester—At the Offices of the Company, St. Ann's-square, on Thursday and Friday, the 24 and 3d days of October next. Derby—At the Offices of Henry Mosley, Esq., Solicitor, on Tuesday, the 234 day of September instant. Leeds—At the Royal Hotel, on Wednesday, the 24th day of Septem- ber instant. _ Hull—At the Victoria Hotel, on Friday, the 26th day of September LIVERPOOL AND BURY RAILWAY. FOR SLEEPERS. he DIRECTORS CONTRACT 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, JOHN S. HERON, Secretary. Liverpool and Bury Railway OM ce, 33, Dale-street, Liverpool, Gth September, 1845. instant. • Edinburgh—At the London Hotel, on Tuesday, the 30th day of Sep .. tember instant. _ Glasgow—At the London Hotel, on Thursday, the 2d day of 0e- toter next. Liverpool—At the Adolph! Hotel, on Monday, the 6th day of October next. By order,_ _ H. W. MATTHEWS, Secretary. IV4TORCESTER and SOUTH WALES y , JUNCTION RAILWAY, From Worcester, via Malvern, to Ross, At a PUBLIC MEETING of the INHABITANTS of the TOWN and NEIGHBOURHOOD of ROSS, held at Barrett's Royal Hotel, on Thursday, the 11th day of September instant, at which meeting a deputation from the Worcester and South Wales Junction Railway Company attended; The Rev. HENRY LAWSON WHATLEY, Rector of Aston, Ingham, and a Magistrate for the County of Hereford, having been unanimously called to the chair— It was moved by WILLIAM CART Com, Esq., and seconded by ELLIS LEE SANDERS, ESQ.; "That, in the opinion of this meeting, the construction of a railway from Ross to Worcester, - via Ledbury, and Malvern, as set forth in the prospectus of the Worcester and South Wales Junction Railway Company, is calculated essentially to promote the prosperity of this town and neighbourhood, inasmuch as it will perfect a direct main trunk line of railway from South Wales, embracing the ports of Swansea, Cardiff, and Newport, to Ledbury, Malvern, Worcester, South Staffordshire, Birmingham, and the North, and afford an ad vantageous outlet for the agricultural produce of this district ; there fore this meeting will give such undertaking its strenuous support."— (Resolution put and carried unanimously.) It was moved by PHILIP MATTHEWS, Esq., and seconded by Joint PIIRCHES, Esq. • " That the thanks of this meeting be given to William Chadwick, Esq., and the gentlemen of the deputation from the London Com mittee, for their attendance at this meeting, and for the satisfactory information they hafe afforded to the meeting respecting the pro posed Worcester and South Wales Junction Railway."—(Carried unanimously.) The Chairman having left the chair, and John Holder, Esq., of Cubberly-hall, having been unanimously called thereto ; It was moved by Tuomes WOODFALL, Esq., and seconded by JOHN TANNER, Esq . ; " That the best thanks of this meeting be given to the Rev. Henry Lawson Whatley for his impartial conduct in the chair," and which was carried unanimously. HENRY LAWSON WHATLEY, Chairman. ‘l7 ORCESTER, WARWICK, and RUGBY RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 900,0001., in 45,000 Shares of 201. each Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share, Offices, No. 5, Gresham-street, Bank. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Henry George Ward, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Sir William Smith, Bart., Cardiston House, Worcester Abraham Alexander, Esq., Leamington George Allies, Esq., Alderman of Worcester, Cwm Celyn Ironworks Richard Ashton, Esq., White Lion-courtr, Combat William Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, London Robert Bastow, Esq., Member of the Provisional Committee of the Great Eastern and Western Railway James Barker, Esq., Severn's Stoke, Worcester Charles Bleaden, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge, and Coulsden Court, Surrey .. . . John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the Great Eastern and Western hallway Company Walter Chamberlain, Esq„ Worcester Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company George Beauchamp Cole, Esq., Chester-street, Grosvenor-place, Di rector of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Mr. William Clay Mr. James Concher, Wool Merchant, Worcester Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Copthall-court, and Old Palace, Richmond, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Mr. George Cox, Glove Manufacturer, Worcester Edward Henry Cole, Esq„ Monasterwin, Kildare Thomas Dowgjasse, Esq., Marlbro'-place, Et. John's Wood, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company Henry Clarke Duppa, Esq., Quarry House, Boughton Winchilsea, Kent, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Com pany Francis Davis, Pershore Thomas Davies, Esq., Powick, Worcester George Ellins, Esq., salt manufacturer, Droitwich George English, Esq., needle manufacturer, Feckenham, Redditch John English, Esq , needle manufacturer, Feckenham, Redditch. George Farley, Esq., Henwick House, and Crowle, Worcesterghire, banker, Worcester Mr. J. Firkins, of the firm of Firkins and Co., glove manufaiturers and hop merchants Henry Grasett, Esq., Chesham-street, Belgrave-square John Matthew Gutch, Esq., banker, Worcester Mr. Edwin Gardener, corn, hop, and seed merchant, Worcester Mr John Hughes, wool merchant, Clop-gate, Worcester Mr. John Hood, merchant and carrier, Worcester John Hall, Esq., merchant, Worcester Joseph Hall, Esq., Alderman and Mggistrate of Worcester Edmund Herbert, Esq., Powick, Worcester Henry Herbert, Esq., Powick, Worcester Mr. George Hill, of the firm of Messr. Hill and Turley, Worcester James James, Esq., Swansea William Laurence, Esq., Brixton, Director of the London and Man chester Direct Railway John Wheeley Lea, Esq., Vice-Chairman of the Severn Navigation Company, Managing Director of the Droitwich Patent Salt Com pany, and a Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway Company John Lilly, Esq., Alderman of Worcester, Worgester Royal Porcelain Manufactory Mr. Lloyd Mr. Thomas Lucy, Albion Steam Flour Mills, Worcester William Lionel Lampet, Esq., The Highlands, Oxfordshire, Deputy- Lieutenant of that county, and Warwick-place, Leamington James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway Arthur Mann, Esq., Woburn-square, Director of the Groat Eastern and Western Railway Company Amos Middleton, Esq., M.D., Leamington - William Middleton, Esq., Lansdowne-place, Leamington Henry Moss, Esq., Severn Bank, Worcester William Moore, Esq., Elm Bank, Powick, Worcester John Morton, Esq., Wick, Worcester J. B. 3lorgan, Esq., The Terrace, Powick, Worcester B. Morgan, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Russell-square, London Robert Nuttall, Esq., Kempsey House, Worcester J. C. Nott, Esq., Hallow, Worcester Mr. F. H. Needham, merchant, Worcester Richard Pope, Esq., Camberwell Mr. Powell, wine merchant, Worcester John Pumphrey, Esq., Droitwich Mr. James Rea, of the firm of Messrs. Rea and Sons, Monsters, Worcester Mr. S. P. Rea, of the firm of Messrs. /tea and Son, Monsters, Wor- cester James Reeves, Esq., Cheapside, and Leyton, Director of the Direct London and Manchester and Great Manchester and Rugby and Southampton Railway Companies Messrs. James Smith and Sons, Needle Manufacturers, Astwood Bank, Redditch Captain Rattray, R.N., Barford House, Warwick, Magistrate for Warwickshire James Robertson, Esq., Worcester Joseph Rusher, Esq., Glyn Leiros, Neath Messrs. Smith, Imes, and Co., Iron Foundry, Leamington J. B. Spedding, Esq., Mines Royal Copper Company, London and Neath Timothy Steward, Esq., Higham Lodge, Norwich Henry Stock, Esq., Beddgelert, Carnarvonshire Mr. John Stone, Worcester Thomas Thorold, Esq., Impney Lodge, Droitwich Magistrates of Droitwich Thomas Tompkins, Esq., Droitwick William Trentham, Esq., Leamington George S. Trower, Esq., St. Mary-at-Hill, and St. James's-place, St. James's John Tolley, Esq., Westford, Magistrate of Droitwich John Tromley, Esq., Warwick Mr. Wells, Hop Merchant, Worcester John Hunt Wilson, Esq., I'ershore Mr. Woodward, Hop Merchant, Worcester John Henry Walsh, Esq., Worcester Mr. James Wall, Merchant and Carrier, Worcester Mr. John Webb, Worcester John Webb, Esq., Needle Manufacturer, Feckenham, Redditch Thomas Webb, Esq., Needle Manufacturer, Feckenham, Redditch Benjamin B. Williams, Esq., 37, Throgrnorton-street, London With power to add to their number, CHIEF ENGINEER. William Gravatt, Esq., F.R.S. ASSISTANT ENGINEER. S. F. Griffin, Esq., C.E SOLICITORS. Messrs. Elmslle and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street, London. Henry Foley, Esq., Worcester. BANKERS. London—The London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury. The Commercial Bank of London. Worcester—Messrs. Farley, Lavender, and CO. LOCAL AGENTS. Droitwich—Messrs. Curtler and Holyoake Warwick and Leamington—A. S. Field, Esq. Rugby—W. F. Wratislaw, Esq. This Line, which, subject to the decision of the Gauge Commis sioners, will be constructed on the Broad Gauge principle, will com mence at the Worcester Station of the Great Eastern and Western Railway, and, proceeding by Redditch and Henley-in-Arden, will touch Warwick and Leamington, and end at Rugby, the terminus of the Midland Counties Railway and of the proposed Rugby and Hunt ingdon Junction Railway. It will communicate 'with Droitwich, Studley, Ale-ester. and Stratford-on-Avon. At Warwick, it will unite with the Birmingham and Oxford Junc tion Railway, the Warwick and Cheltenham Railway, and the Lon don, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway ; and at Rugby, with the London and Birmingham, the Midland Counties, and the projected Rugby and Huntingdon Junction Railways. The country through which it will pass, is thickly populated, and of the richest description. It presents no engineering difficulties, and from its population, its manufactures, and agricultural produce, it possesses sources of rush abundant traffic as to render it highly re munerative to the capitalists. The object proposed is to complete the line of railway communica tion between the Western, Midland, and Eastern portions :of the Kingdom, and a glance at the Map of England will show that this will be effected in the most direct manner by the present line ; touch ing, as it will, at one of its termini, a railway running direct from Swansea to Worcester, and at the other, the projected line from Rugby to Huntingdon—from which point a railway communication has been already provided. By means of this Railway, the manufactures of all the towns and the agricultural produce of the country contained within its range, as well as the Ports on the Eastern and North-Eastern Coast, will have opened to them a direct and unbroken communication with the great and densely-populated mineral fields of South Wales, as well as the markets of the Northern portion of the principality. To the population ;long the line as well as to the Midland and Northern portions of `he kingdom, this undertaking will present the most direct communication with those towns of fashionable resort-- Leamington and Cheltenham. To the inhabitants of Leamington and Warwick, it will open the most direct communication with the city of Worcester and South Wales, whilst to the inhabitants of Worcester, it will open the markets of the Eastern portions of the country. The Shareholders in the several railways proposed to be joined or intersected, will have a preference in the allotment of shares in this undertaking. No person will be liable for more than hls deposit till the Act is obtained, and power will be applied for to allow interest at four pounds per centum on all calls from the time of their respective payments, and to limit the liability of the shareholders to the amount of their subscription. Applications for shares in the annexed form to be made to the Provisional Committee, at the office, 5, Gresham-street, London, or to Messrs. John Shewell and Son, sharebrokers, Tokenhouse-yard; Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, 4, Bank-buildings, and Mr. John Smith, 3, Shorter's-court, London; Mr. John Duncuft, shar e b ro k er, Man chester ; Mr. John O'Neil, sharebroker, Manchester ; Messrs. Schultz and Carr, sharebrokers, and Messrs. Reynolds and Son, Liverpool ; Messrs. 11. and C. Beardshaw, sharebrokers, Leeds; Messrs. Tate and Nash, sharebrokers, Bristol; Mr. James Pearson, sharebroker, Birmingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., sharebrokers, Bradford ; Mr. William Miles, sharebroker, Worcester; Mr. Robert Allan, sharebroker, Edinburgh; Mr. William Gordon, sharebroker, Aberdeen ; Messrs. Black and Co., sharebrokers, Buchan-street, Glasgow; and Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, sharebrokers, Glas• gow ; Messrs. Bruce and Spites, sharebrokers, Dublin ; of whom prospectuses may be had. FORM OF APPLICATION" FOR SHARES. To the ProvisionalecTnmiiice of the Worcester, Warwick, and • • • • • • Rugby Railway Company Gentlemen,--I request-you will allot to me Shares of 201. each in •the above-named Company, and I hereby undertake to pay the Deposit thereon, and to execute the necessary Deeds when required. - Name in full ..... •• Profession or Trade Residence . • •• • • • • . • . • . • Place of Business (if any) ..... Date .... :frlineSs Reference.. • • • • • • .... Signature. RUGBY, WARWICK, an d WORCESTER RAILWAY. Provisionally Registered. Capital 900,000/., in 45,000 Shares of 201. sack. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE: Major-General Sir Love Jones Love Perry, Bart., 1E.C.8., Madryn Park, Caemarvenshire Sir William Henry Clarke, Bart., Baker-street, Portman-square, London Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., Pall-mall, London 'Sir Henry Bromley Henrich, Court Garden, Great Marlow, Bucks William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &e., Alderman of London, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, and a Director of the Chepstow, Forest of Dean, and Gloucester Junction, the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth, the North London Junction, and the London and Greenwich Railway Companies T. Bagger, Esq., Northampton Directors of the South Midland and J. Freeman, Esq., Ditto Northampton, Banbury, and Chel- Thomas Sharp, Esq., Ditto tenham Railway Companies Arthur Haymes, Esq., Methem Villa, } Provisional Directors of the Leamington, - South Midland Railway Mr. Aldernian Porter, Northampton, Company Jonathan Dunn, Esq., Ryelands, Lancaster, Director of the Lancas ter and Preston Junction and North Western Railway Companies J. M. Cottle Esq., Leamington, Director of the Coventry, Nuneaton, and Leicester Railway Company John Gardner, Esq., Southam, Provisional Director of the Birming - ham and Oxford Junction Railway Company William Frederick Beadon, Esq., John-street, Berkeley-square, Lon don, Provisional Director of the Essex and Suffolk Railway Company John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Company Captain William Cousins, DireCt)r of the Goole and Doncaster Rail way Company Cornelius Nicholson, Esq., Cowanhead, Kendal, Provisional Director of the Lancaster and Carlisle, the York and Carlisle, and Manches ter and Southampton Railway Companies James Beach, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, Lon- Directors of the South don, and Brandon Lodge, Warwickshire midl and Railway George Buxton, Esq., Northampton • Company tshoeuthGrea North and George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Bir mingham and Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway Companies E. W. Morris, Esq., Grovehurst, Pembury, Kent Bronapton Provisional Directors of The Rev. D. Robinson, W. W. rd-square, London Wales and Wor- Robert Rising, Esq., The Shrubbery, Wor-i cester Railway eester s L q o ., nci D o o n rchester - place, John Haddon, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company John Satchell, Esq., Warwick, Deputy Chairman of the Leamington Roxburgh--Bristol and Exeter IHvesinlialriayremMlovragtsoan,nE, Esq., Burn Raymond-buildings, o G n i . d o: b e u , ildings, Board of Commissioners Robert Chapman, Esq., Park-place, Regent's-park, Director of the Gray's Inn, Provisional Great Manchester Railway Company Directors of the James Morrison, Esq., Railway Company Director of the Bridgewater and Mineh ead Railway Company Admiral Ayscough, Southampton Mr. Mr. 811eMrbegtAAtdtearburys, Thornby, Northamptonshire Stanhope-place,-Plece, Hyde-park John Burnett, Esq., Cheltenham, Coroner for the county of Glou cester John Brightman, Esq., Regency-striae, Brighton John Richards Burbidge, Esq., Surbiton Hill, Surrey Charles Brandt, Esq., Leamington Captain Cha m f er , H a lki n - s t ree t West, Belgrave-square, London Thomas Chitty, Esq., 8, Upper Gower-street, London Peter Colston, jun., Esq., Husband's Bosworth, near Market llar borough Thomas Farmer Cooke, Esq., Peatling Hall, Leicestershire Edward Doubleday, Esq., F.L.S., Great Surrey-street, London Thomas Henry Evans, Esq., 39, Lothbnry, and Mayor of Carnarvon John Eyston, Esq., Welford, Northamptonshire, and Salford Hall, Warwickshire Joseph Ellis, Esq., Glenfield and Leicester Alexander Greig, Esq., Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, London George Harper, Esq., Moss Fields, Salop John Helbert Helbert, Esq., Upper Gloucester-street, London William Hunter, Esq., Leamington Captain George James Hunter, Leamington Richard Parry Jones, Esq., Whitchurch, Salop Mr. George Wortley Lovell, Great Billing, Northamptonshire William Laslett, Esq., Worcester William Marshall, Esq., Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire The Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire Mr. Benjamin Paine, Leicester James Watts Peppercorns, Esq., ola Broad-street, and Dulwich, Surrey Captain Douglas Kinnaird Palteney, 4, Parliament-street, London J. Watson Prole, Esq., 31, Thurlow-square, Brompten James Whitchurch, Esq., Southcliff, Netley Abbey, Hants William Williams, Esq. Guilsborough, Northamptonshire EdWkrd Welsh, Esq., Leamington Edward Waddilove, Esq., Leamington Mr. John Woolston, jun., merchant, Wellingborough (With power to add to their number.) RANKERS. London—The London and County Bank, Lombard-street Northampton—The Northamptonshire Banking Company Rugby—Messrs. Butlin and Son L W e a a rw ming k S outham pany ton t Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Com - Worcester—Messrs. Farley, Lavender, and CO. ENGINEER IN CHIEF—John Urpeth Rastrick, ESCI. London—Mr. George Weller, 8, King' SOLICIT ORS s-road, Bedford-row Welford—Mr. George Pell, jun. Leamington Warwick Messrs. Patterson, Haymes, Banbury, and Gardner Southam Worcester—Mr. It. T. Rea Birmingham—Mr. T. R. T. Hodgson SECRETARY —Mr. George H. Weller. PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS. The object proposed by this railway is, as well to supply the wants of the district through whi c h i t passes, as to complete the chain of railway communication between the eastern and midland counties and the western district, including the whole of North and South Wales. - - thTichkleyepoounpultryateedm.braced by this line is of the richest description , and By means of this, and the existing and projected lines of railway, the whole of the ports in the eastern and north-eastern counties, in cluding the manufacturing city of Norwich, and towns of Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds, and the whole of Yorkshire will be brought in direct communication with the mineral districts of North and South Wales, the salt district of Droitwich, and the river Severn. The promoters of this line submit to the public, as a most import ant consideration, the abating of those causes of loss and inconveni ence which, along the line of country over which this railway will pass, are experienced from water carriage being from necessity at present a principal mode of transit for heavy goods and merchandise, and which,i n the winter season, is productive of the most evil con sequences to those engaged in commerce. A manifest advantage to the Shareholders will be the extent of traffic which will be secured and appropriated by the present undertaking,emore in lieu of that which hitherto has been engros sed by the dilatory course of water carriage. As a public aftantage to the inhabitants generally of the above-mentioned districts, the promoters submit that the equa lisation in prices of the produce and merchandise which the opening of this line of rail Way is calculated to produce is of the high est importance, and one of the principal benefits which this and other similar undertakings are alone capable of producing. The proposed line will commence at Rugby, the terminus of the Midland Counties and Trent Valley Railways, and also of the pro posed Rugby and Huntingdon Junction Railway, and proceed from thence near to the towns of Leamington, Warwick, and Alcester, and end at the City of Worcester. At Worcester this line will form a junction with the several Welsh railways, the Shrewsbury, Wor cester, and Crewe Railway, and the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Railway. At Warwick it will unite with the Birmingham and Oxford Junc tion Railway, the Warwick and Chellenllani Railway, and the Lon don, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster Railway. And at Rugby with the London and Birmingham, the Midland Counties, and the projected Rugby and Huntingdon Junction Railway. To the inhabitants of Rugby as well as to those of the Midland, Eastern, and Northern Counties this line will afford a direct com munication with the fashionable towns of Leamington and Chelten ham, as well as the whole of the Western Counties. To the inhabitants of Leamington and Warwick it will give a direct communication with the City of Worcester and North and South Wales, now so much needed. And to the inhabitants of Worcester, in addition to providing the nearest route to London via Warwick, it will be an outlet to the Eastern Counties and ports, and afford great facilities for the increase of the manufactories now carried on in that city. The whole of the country has during the present month, August, 1541, been most carefully surveyed by the engineers, and they report it to be free from engineering difficulty, and well adapted for a rail way; and the provisional Directors entertain no doubt that the line will be made under the average rate of expense incident to similar undertakings, and, from the statistics in their possession, that the traffic will afford an ample return for the capital invested. The line will Rot interfere with any ornamental property, and the landowners are favourable to the undertaking. The Shareholders in the several Railways proposed tobejoi in neci th o i r s intersected will have a preference fn the allotment of shares stfodertaking. No person will be liable for more ha an his deposit till the Act is obtained,and power will be appld or te allow interest at4lapnedr centum on all calls, from th e time of their respectiv e payments, to limit the liability of the Shareholders to the amount of their sub rcriptions. The Directors reserve power to themselves to amalgamate with any existing or projected line of railway ; to vary the route ; to make all desirable extensions; and to increase the capit a l as may be advisable or necessary. Prospectuses, with a Plan, will be published in a few days, and may then be obtained on application to the several solicitors, and to any of the following share brokers, VIZ " Megsr a• Peppercorns and Co., 2, Old Broad-street ; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Loth bury, London ; Messrs. Pay ne and Freer, Leicester ; Messrs. Alston n Ed c w re a g ri: p Son, tee ; andand Gage, Liverpool; Messrs . Freeman and Son, N orthampton ; Mr. John Duncaft, Manchester Le M ed e s ss ; rs if. George rjeh Bris tol; Mr. John Watson , MesSrs. Atkinson, Newcastle ; Messrs. Grayston and Earle, York , Mr. Collis, Birmingham ; Messrs. White and Son, Leamington ; Messrs. Flint and Tootal, Ilul l ; Messrs. Tempest and Britchart, Hud dersfield ; Messrs. Robertso n and Co., Edinbur g h ; and Messrs. Tassie, Glasgow ; to any of whom applications in the undermen tioned form may be addressed. FORM OF APPLICATION. arwick, and W orcester To the Provisional Directors of the R ay ugby, lir Railw. I request you to allot me nu m b er Shares in this undertaking ; and I hereby undertake to accept th e same or an y that smaller ecute may be allotted me, and to pay t he Deposit ther eon, and to e x the Parliamentary Contract and Subscriber's Agreement When re quired. Christian and Surnames in fill Residence• • • • • • • • ...... Business or profession ' • • Place of Business Name and Address of _Referee " Date • • • • WORCESTER RUGBY, WARWICK , AN D RAILWAY. In consequence of the immense number of applications already re ceived, the Prov isional C omm ittee give notice that no A ppl i cat i ons for Shares will be received after Tuesday the 16th instant, except from parties resident in the country, as to whom the time will be extended to Monday, the 22d instant. GEO. N. WELLER, Secretary. Met*, fro tam, 8, K.inee-road, Bedford-row, Lohdon, Sept, 6,1840 THE GREAT MANCHESTER, RUGBY, and SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY. - . With a Direct Line from Derby to Rugby. Prqvisionally Registered, Pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 110. Capital 3,000,000/., in 150,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Combermere, G.C.8., G.C.H. See. The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton The Right Hon. George R. Dawson The Hon. Cecil Lawless Sir Arthur de Capel Broke, Bart. Thomas Bateson, Esq., M.P. Albany, and Belvoir Park, county Lon donderry Major-General Pariby, C. 8., Rutland Gate, Hyde Park Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N., K.C.B. H. J. Enthoven, 5, Moorgate-street, Director of the Dutch Rhenish Railway William Watson, Esq.,l Directors of the Bristol and Exeter and the William Morgan, Esq.,s North Devon Railways C. R. Colman, sq., Iron Gate Wharf, London, Director of the South Midland and Junction Railway Anthony Dickson, Esq., Edrington House, Berwickshire, late Phi sician-General of Bengal William Shadbolt, Esq., Croom's-hill, Greenwich, Chairman of the Greenwich Railway, and Director of the Dendre Railway Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Twyford Hall, near Derby Frazer B. Henshaw, Esq., Lower Seymour-street, Portman-square, Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Railway William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurloe-square, Brompton, Director of the Jersey and South Midlands' Junction Railways John Inglis Jerdein, Esq., 150, Picadilly David Montague, Esq., Regent's Park James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and 15, Grosvenor place, Director of the South Midland Railway Grey Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton Hall, Leicestershire, Director of the South Midland Railway Benjamin Franklyn, Esq., 5, Harley-street, Cavendish-square Jonas Wilks, Esq., Watling-street, London William Morley, Esq., Blackheath, Kent, Director of the Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire Junction Railway Henry R. Downman, Esq., Kidwelly, Carmartheashire, and 47, Upper Bedford-place Robert Chapman, Esq., Coomb Lodge, Hants, and Park-place, Regent's Park James Reeves, Esq., Cheapside, and Leyton, Essex Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Northampton and Chelten ham Railway John Downes, Esq., 6, Bedford-place, Russell-square George Ashlin, Esq., Mark-lane Alfred Ricketts, Esq., merchant, Graccchurch-street William Lee, Esq., Satis House, Rochester John Hardcastle Mousley, Esq., Derby John Bowring, LL.D., M.P., Director of the Blackwell Railway Ambrose Moore, Esq., Milk-street, London, and of Derby, Director of the Dendre Railway Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and the South Midlands' Junction Railways Charles Augustus Tulk, Esq., Totteridge Park, Hertfordshire Henry Gosse, Esq., Epsom, Surrey James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of the London and Birmingham Junction Railway and of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway John Weston, Esq., 28, Woburn-square Edward Webster Bullock Webster, Esq., Hendon, Middlesex, Director of the New River Company James Hunt, Esq., 31, Parliament-street James Lys Seager, Esq., Director of the Welsh Midland and Shrews bury and Hereford Railways Edward Turst Carver, Esq., Forest Lodge, Tulse-hill, Director of the North Wales and Namur and Liege Railways William de Lanuoy, Esq., 42, Guildford-street, Russell-square Archibald F. Paull, Esq., Leadenhall-street, Director of the South Wales Railway William 11. Allen, Esq., Leadenhall-street J. Mee Mathew, Esq., Mecklenburgh-square, Director of the Derby, Sheffield, and Worcester Railway Burton Archer Burton, Esq., Woodlands Hall, Emsworth, Hants John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Royd, Halifax, Director of the Manches chester, Liverpool, and Great North of .England Railway John 8, Silva, Esq., Crutched-friars Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-street Frederick Clarkson, Esq., Doctors'-commons, and Hanger-lane, Tottenham. James Peard Ley, Esq., Seaton Ironworks, Whitehaven John Saunders, Esq. Derby, Director of the Derby and Crewe, and Erewash Valley Railways Thomas Hackett, Esq., merchant, Derby Mr. Herbert Holmes, carriage-builder, Derby. COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. The Right Hon. Lord Thomas Robert Chapman, Esq. Pelham Clinton Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq. The Hon. Cecil Lawless Ambrose Moore, Esq. Wm. Watson, Esq. Archibald F. Paull, Esq. Wm. Morgan, Esq. Henry R. Downman, Esq. Wm. Watson Prole, Esq. sham, Salter's Hall d Edwards, 8 Moorgate-street. lyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co., Boni roint-stock Bank, Princes-street. COLIC Messrs. Thompson and Deben Messrs. Edwards; Mason, and BANKERS IN LONDON—Messrs. G] bard-street ; and the London J Th ;ITORS. a commercial advantages and great facilities which the port of Southampton offers to the merchant and the manufacturer, clearly point out a demand for a more direct communication with it from Manchester and York, and the various manufactories of the north and of Staffordshire, than is at present afforded, either by the circuitous route on the eastern side, through London by the Bir mingham and the South-Western Railways, or on the western side, by the Birmingham and Cheltenham Railways. Numerous influen tial and monied parties, interested in improving this communication, have projected a direct line, proceeding from Manchester via Stock port, Macclesfield, Leek, Cheadle, Uttoxeter, Tutbury, Burton, Market Bosworth, and Hinckley, to Rugby, and then using the Rug by and Oxford Railway to Didcote (on the Great Western Railway), to form a railway thence to Southampton by way of Newbury, An dover, and Stockbridge. The distance between Manchester and Rugby by the existing rail way route is at present about 116 miles, and by the proposed line from Macclesfield to Rugby it will be only 92, so that the projected Railway willlessen the distance by 24 miles, which, as well in time as charge, will effect a most important improvement in the traffic both of passengers and goods between those places, and will afford an accommodation which is imperatively requiredin regard to the large population of the intermediate towns now without any convenience from railway conveyance. It is needless to remark how great must be the advantage which the whole manufacturing districts round such an emporium of manufac tures as Manchester will derive, from having direct access to such a port as Southampton, which has now become the chief medium of transit to all the islands and ports in the Mediterranean, and to India also, by means of the packets of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, as also to the colonies and ports of the Western Hemisphere by the mall established for that purpose. As the scheme embraces the important feature of a direct line from Derby to Rugby, by joining the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway, near Market Bosworth, thereby saving one fifth of the distance, it will be at once apparent that York and the whole northern district will, by means of the Northern Midland Railway to* Derby, obtain the same direct communication with Southampton ; and, in fact, the project will contribute a grand trunk commtm'eation from north to south through the centre of the king dom, and not only win the northern commercial and manufacturing towns benefit by this great undertaking, but the important coal and iron districts of Derbyshire and Staffordshire, which the line intersects, will derive immense advantages from the convenient and extensive new mart which will be opened for their valuable produc tions, whilst Southampton and the internaediatelocallties will greatly benefit by the ready and cheap manner in which coals and other necessary productions, not only of the soil, but of northern manu factories, will be supplied, whether for consumption or merchandise. It is proposed that the Southampton terminus shall be a convenient spot in the vicinity of the new docks, independently of the South- Western Railway. The lines of the proposed railways have been carefully surveyed, and levels taken by skilful engineers and sur veyors, and in no part present any unusual difficulties. The gradients will be unusually good, and the general line of country may be re garded as offering engineering facilities for the important work pro posed. A more direct communication from Manchester and from York, through Derby and Rugby to Southampton, is professedly the main object of the proposed scheme ; but it will be obvious to all who study the geography of the respective places, not only that the line to Rugby, both from Manchester and from Derby, forms a more direct communication between those places and London, by means of the Birmingham Railway from Rugby, than any other route now in use, but that it will challenge the skill of the engineer and the ingenuity of the speculator to devise a better line. It is no slight advantage in this scheme that the interference it offers to any of the existing railways is not considerable, whilst the increased traffic which it is certain to cause on the North Midland Railway, and the traffic which it is calculated to retail to the Lon don and Birmingham Railway, notwithstanding the threatened rivalry of two distinct Manchester and London direct lines ; as also the immense traffic both of passengers and goods which it must necessarily pour along the Rugby and Oxford line, now under the management of the Great Western Railway Company, appear not only to neutralize the opposition, but to entitle this project to the support of each of those formidable bodies. It appears unnecessary In regard to a line of railway like that pro posed to go into those details of passenger and goods traffic, which may be necessary where the amount is questionable ; but as the main feature of this scheme, is the improvement of communication between, and near places, the traffic of which is known to be immense, it would be idle to swell the prospectus with any such particulars. It is sufficient to state that it will be equal to that of any line in the kingdom. The Subscribers will be only liable to the extent of their deposits ; and power will be taken to allow the Shareholders 4 per cent. on the deposit and calls until the opening of the line. Plans of the line and copies of the prospectus and forms of appli cation for shares my be had by applying to the Company's Solicitors, or to the following :—Messrs. Pritchett and Monday, Stock Brokers, No. 74, Old Broad-street, and 17, Royal Exchange (eastern en trance); Messrs. Wells, Westrop, and Princeps, 75, Old Broad-street, London ; Messrs. Bradley, Ford, and Parker, Mr. J. Faringhaugh, Mr. W. B. Newberry, and-Mr. John Beethon, Manchester ; Messrs. Earp and Son, Derby ; Messrs. John Haselden and Son, Mr. S. Sum merfield, and Messrs. Davies and Son, Liverpool ; Messrs. George Edwards and Son, and Messrs. Wreford, Nichols, and Wreford, Bristol ; Mr. Charles Wickens, Northampton; Messrs. Watson arid Co., Hull ; Mr. Samuel Cullinson, and Messrs. Pott and Lerick, Not tingham ; Messrs. Wilkinson and Sons, Exeter ; Messrs. King and Co., and Messrs. Ridsdale, Myers, and Bailey, Lee Is ; Mr. Samuel Clerke, Edinburgh; Messrs. Collis and Son, Mr. Edward Wilson, and Mr. J. Wrighton, Birmingham. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Gr,at Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway, with a - direct line from Derby to Rugby: dentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares-of 201. each, in the above Railway, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or any less number you may allot me, and to pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per Share thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of September, 1545. Name in full •.. • ..... ........... . .......... Place of Business or Profession „ . •• • Residence . . ..... ...... Business or Professsion ..... Signature ...... ....... p .... ....... •• ••••••a• Name, Residence , and Prolix:4m of Referee .. IRISH WEST COAST RAILWAY. (Registered Provisiona).) Capital, 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. (No Subscriber to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Mark Blake, Esq., M.P., Ballinafad, Mayo Robert Dillon Browne, Esq., M.P., Glenvirrib, *ayo • John Patrick, Somers, Esq., M,P., Slid Sir Thomas Bernard Going DanCer, Ba .;11oirecny House, Clough- Jordon, county Tipperary, Director of the "Galway and Kilkenny Railway Thelion. Ocoffry Browne, D.L., Wilton-crescent, London, and Castle li‘Garrett, Mayo The lion. Douglas Kinnaird - Pulteney, Parliament-street, Whitehall, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Michael Gallagher, Esq., Mayor of Sligo John Netterville Barron,. Esq., Resident Magistrate, Sanders Park, _ Cork Owen Edmond Blake, Esq., J.P., Frenchfort, Galway William Butler, Esq., J.P,, Bnimahow, Ennis (late High Sheriff of _ Clare) James F. Burke, Esq., J.P., St. Clarence, Galway Dominick Joseph Burke, Esq., J.P., Greenhill, Mayo Theobald Burke, Esq., J.P., Woodville, Mayo William Campbell, Esq., Sackville-street, and Brighton John Carmichael, Esq., T.C., Rivertson Rouse, Cork, Director of the Cork and Killarney Railway Thomas Comins,.Esq., Ballybrit House, Galway Edward Dean, Esq., J.P., Curragowan, Mayo John Dunn, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S., L. and D., Drumsna, Leitrim Robert Graham, Esq., J.P., Drumgoon, Fermanagh Henry Griffith, Esq., D. L., J.P., Port Royal, Sligo, Director of the Sligo and Shannon Railway W. A. Hill, Esq., Lonsdale-square, Deputy Chairman of the Gloucester and Aberystwith Railway Robert Hughes, Esq., Ely House, Wexford, Director of the Provin- cial Bank of Ireland . William King, Esq., Spring-gardens, and Putney, Surrey John Knox, Esq., J.P., Greenwood Park, Mayo Joseph Myles M`Dennell, Esq., J.P., Doocastle, Mayo Capt. Charles Carden Mansergh, Longraigue, Wexford, Director of the Wexford, Waterford, and Valentin Railway Capt. Newton,Rruton-street, and Lugwardin, Herta Francis It: O'Grady, Esq., Taviane, Mayo Richard O'Grady,Esq., Taviane, Mayo Charles Ormsby, Esq., D.L., Cunmiln, Sligo Michael Perrin, Esq., Galway Rees Price, Esq., M.D., Tyne Hall, Great Ilford, Essex Robert Dudley Persse, Esq., Galway Joseph Richardson, Esq., J.P. Summer-hill House, Clones Thomas Seymour, Esq., J.P., Ballymore Castle, Ballinssloa James Sexton, Esq., J.P., Limerick S. W. Simeockes Esq., Galway John Walsh, Esq , Castlehill, Mayo Captain George Edward Watts, R.N., Langton Grange, Darlington (With power to add to their number.) ENGINEER—CoIoneI Landmann, R.E., F.A.S., BANKERS. London-..MeSSYS. Williams, Deacon, and Co. Scotland—Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank Ireland—National Bank and Branches Provincial Bank and Branches. STANDING Couslsn—James Monson Carroty, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Langley and Mead, Bedford-row, London. William Thomas Kelly, Esq., 16, Moat: joy-square North, Dublin, and Castlebar, Mayo. LOCAL AGENTS. Galway--Captain F. O'Shaughnessy Castlebar—Mr. Henry Murphy Sligo—Mr. W. C. Tuite. SECRETARY —Henry T. Stuart, Esq. PROSPECTUS. The object of this line of Railway is to complete the chain of coast communication, and form a connexion with lines already established or projected with reasonable hopes of eaccess. It will 'commence at or near the city of Limerick, and taking a nor therly direction, proceed through the sounties of Clare, Galway, Mayo, and Sligo, terminating at Sligo, by a junction with the Sligo and Ennis killen Railway, and accommodating on its route the important cities and towns of Limerick, Ennis, Gort, Loughrea, Athenry, Monivea, Tuam, Balllnrobe, Castlebar, Westport, Foxford, Ballina, Kilalla, Swineford, Streamstown, and Sligo, which town being connected with the north, east, and south, by the different lines through Enniskillen, London derry, Coleraine, Belfast, Armagh, Newry, Dundalk, Drogheda, Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Valentin, Tralee, and Limerick, the establishment of this line will cause Ire land to present a completeness of locomotive communication wkich no other country in the world enjoys. The country through which the proposed line travels is most fertile in mineral and agricultural products ; it embraces many extensive coal fields, whose advantages it will extend to all parts of Connaught and Ulster; and intersecting, as it does, so many metropolitan lines of railway, it will develope those advantages hl an equal degree to the province of Leinster. The lead, iron, marble, and slate works on its route, Will be rendered available to the most distant parts of the island, and perhaps not the least advantage, in a national paint of view, will be the establishment of an intercourse between the population of the extreme north and that of the extreme south, as well as placing the trade of, and communication with, Scotland, within the easy reach of all towns of any importance in Ireland. Added to this the cer tainty that on the completion of the projected southern, eastern, and western lines, the noble natural harbours on the Atlantic shore of Ireland will become the British depots of American traffic, and most probably the established packet stations for postal communication between the two countries, it is impossible to over-rate the value of kinno its w this truly national projection. The counties which this railway traverses abundantly supply the English markets with cattle, pigs, &c. This line, communicating with so many ports, will afforcL.the greatest facilities for the shipping of l i ed m g m e e d d t ia h t e e gr vi ea ci t n es i t t y, for amon gshee this portion of trade, some idea of the extent of which may be formed from the fact of upwards of five hundred fairs being held annually them, andca t t t h le e iifiaitrheofEßriatillinsh islands. It e ll has been ascertained that the country presents great engineering facilities for the construction of a railway, and in communications which have been received from the landowners along the line, the greatest anxiety is manifested for its completion. The subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first deposits until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only to the amount of their subscriptions. Power will bo applied for In the Act—and in the meantime is hereby given to the Committee—to increase the capital, if necessary ; to alter or abandon any part of, the line, to make branch lines, or enter into arrangements with any other company or companies ; and also to nominate the first directors of the company. The Parliamentary contract and subscribers' agreement will be ready ibr signature on payment of the deposits. It Will be seer in the plan that the railway intersects many main lines, and Will thus entitribute to, and receive from them a con siderable amount in ptisStriger and merchandise traffic. From the estimates that Have been made, a return of at least 10 per cent. must be realised on the capital: Application for shares to be made to the Solicitors in London and Dublin ; to the Local Agents ; to the Secretary, at the office of the Company, 10, Old Jewry Chambers; and to the Undermentioned brokers !—Mr. D. B. Major, Change-alley, Cornhill ; Mr. Anthony Laurie, Liverpool ; Messrs. Brady and Itaniforth, kaillor - !treo Hull ; Mr. S. Grindrod, Manchester ; Messrs. Watson aria „ Leeds ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Messrs. Tyeth and Wills, Plymouth ; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh ; Messrs. M'Ewen and Auld, Glasgow; Mr. William Gordon, Aberdeen; Messrs. Curtis and Power, Dame-street, Dublin ; Mr. James Morgan, Cork, of whom Prospectuses may be had. FORM OF APPLIC tTION. To the Provisional Committee of the Irish West-Coast Railway Company. _ Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of 251. each in the above undertaking ; and I agree to accept such shares as may be allotted to me, and to pay the Deposit of 21. 12s. 6d. each thereon; and also to sign the Parliamentary Contract and the Subscribers' Agreement, when required. Dated the day of 1545. Name and Surname in full • • Residence• • .. • • • • .... • Post Town ••.••• .. • • ...... •• .. Description Reference.. • ...... • • • .•... ...... pArtis and LYONS RAILWAY (COM PAGNIE DU SCUD-EST). Entire capital 200,000,000 francs (8,000,0001. sterling), to be raised by the issue of 400,000 shares of 500 francs (201.) Of which sum 120,000,000 francs (4,800,0001.) is subscribed in France, and 3,200,0001. is to be subscribed in England. Deposit 21. each share, to provide the usual caution money required by the French Government, which will be returned without de duction' in case:this Company shall not become the lessees of the railway. DIRECTORS IN FRANCE. M. Eugene Griolet M. Chopin d'Arnouville M. Odiot M. le Baron de Vaux du ('her M. Pißet, nine M. Guerin M. A. J. Robi'Hard. DIRECTORS IN ENGLAND. Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P. James Garrard, Esq., Pinner, Middlesex William Jackson, Esq., Birkenheitd Robert W. Kennard, sq., London William Mackenzie, Esq., Liverpool and Farb Richard Paterson, Esq., London William Reed, Esq., Paris and Twickenham George Stephenson, Esq., C.E. William Strahan, Esq., Banker, Strand ENGINEER IN CHlEF—Robert Stephenson, Esq. BANKERS. In London—Messsrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths In Liverpool—The Union Bank In Manchester—Messrs. Cunliffe, Brooks, and Co. SOLlClTons—Messrs. Beavan and Anderson, 2, Adelphi-terrace, London. Offices of the Company, 14, Old Jewry Chambers, London. Applications for shares are to be addressed to the solicitors, Messrs. Beavan and Anderson, 2, Adelphi-terrace; or to the Secre tary, at the offices of the Company, 14, Old Jewry Chambers, Lon don ; and must be made by tilling up and sending a printed form, which may be had at the Company's offices. 14, Old Jewry Chambers. London, Sept. 8, 1845. PARIS AND LYONS RAILWAY (COMPAGNIE DU SUD-EST). The public are informed that NO APPLICATION for SHARES in this COMPANY will be RECEIVED after the 20th SEPTEMBER instant. T. M. IVALFORD, Secretary (pro tem.) 14, Old Jewry Chambers, Sept. 15, 1845. FAMPOUX and HAZEBROUCK (ARRAS) RAILWAY (O'NEILL'S COMPANY). • PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS. • IN FRANCE. Le Vicomte d'Abancourt, Peer of France, Director of the Lyons and St. Etienne Railway Le Marquis de Fiera, Conseiller a la Cour des Comptes M. Gabriel Heim, Entrepreneur de Transports, Paris M. Hallette, Proprietaire de Forges et Fonderies, Arras M. Alphonse Laurent, Banker, Director of the commerce of M. Felix O'Neill, Banker, Parts M. Louis Riant, Maitre de Forges, Paris Le Baron do Taschler. Membre du Conseil General du Departement ditCher, Paris. ENGLAND. IN Fre d er i c Chamfer, UsDirector ~ of the Great Paris and Lyons Railway Esq., No. 2, Old Broad-street J ames Watts Peppercorns, R.N Senior United Service Club, Esq., Deputy-Governor of the Union B an k ; A n drew Spottlswoode , of the Namur and Liege Railway William . Chairman Itralian, 'Esq., Banker, Strand George Whitmore, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the North Rent (Dover) Railway. BANKERs-31essrs. Strahan, Paula, and Bates, 217, Strand. SoLicivoa—E. Benham,. Esq., 20, Austin -friars, SECRETARY—W. Freeling Jerdan, Esq. The English Provisional Directors of this Company hereby Inform their Shareholders that, on the 9th instant, the lease of this line of railway was adjudicated to their Company lbr the term of 37 years and 3IG days, being 49 days only under the term tendered by Messrs. Rothschild and others, representing the United "Northern" Compa nies. Notice is therefore hereby given, that the Proprietors of Shares issued by the English Provisional Directors are required, on or before the let day of October next, to pay a Call of £2 per Share on their respective Shares, at the Banking-house of Messrs. 'Strew, Pauls, and Bates, N o. 21 7 , Strand, the Engl i sh B an k ers o f th e Company. The Provisional Directors also give notice, that a General Meeting of the Shareholders will be held on TUESDAY, the 23d instant, at Three o'clock in the afternoon, at the oMces of their Solicitor, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors on the position and prospects of the Company. By order, W. FREELINgr JERDAN, Secretary. 20, Austin-friars, September 16, 1846. k r i ° l l or pree n year.innUnl, U 1‘111LI) Itl ------- 11di --- -- 3 OM LIFE ASSURANCE 8, IVATERLOO-PLC°4I.ANY• I o v i n :a Il l y ,. :1, l e l os t asthetd. 8/ tbho:4PAlebT.yESl°-!tll4l,:Luf lj_tl a . (l 3 , l l ellTniLtiLEl ii A L : oN D ON. • S S 3 S 4 U • RED. terrect Rectirity 111111-9-12-4' at i n ten dl a i l t ar sf ace Pa i l ts thu o tc inapiti, 4 an tha d ril i C ii ll t , h a e fiorcts e - at th s e ue m ees os s t iii.UlB l 4 E l i,ee Co ' WA RDS of 72,00rernent In 18 34 ' It 3 ANNUAL 111'1 °4-14.1 f of theirB-tParlY declared an addition to the Shareholders of 14 8, en the &m i l k : and also added a Bonus of 2/. per cent. per mont the tinos ads ` usu red to all Policies of the Participating Class The g eY Were efected. 1114 °nu ' , add 0, is as , ed to poli c i es ~, .... Boot .ollows • 4 141 Tin to frs.,m March , 1534, to December 31, $.5041r1, Assured. SUM added Sum to Policy. Assured. Time Sum cy. 40 0 ° Yrs. 10 tat 6 Year ha. X 683 8 X5OOO 4 years _Tilt p i .„ 200 600 00, 5000 2 years Suinmi4Aldded ~I.Yonthaitni,Ths, nevertheless, ars on the most moderate scale, and br” i tte is fi, i'r be paid for the Brat Five Years, where the Insu r•')'l4lbrihati • u,_fttors, d„, °l i Win be affOrded OR application to the Resident .Laterlee-pla I'd g,,,,,, --''' t f 4 q. and E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., of 8, 'l‘ -'4lllball, LondZ I RECT , -- - n ' - N ORTHER \T RAILWAY, t At a k tt , LONDoN to YORK. !rent, hiZ I NG of PROPRIETORS, held this day on at ' th m e e L° nt nd the rtS of v... IlgrateS, -.eel, pursuant to public ach ertise , from It b ee f ed f 0 •,.?,, e?, torB and Mr. Miller (the engineer) having been 4,--, ` , OPtlon ~...... " b Y a. B. Ltex Esn • seconded by L. Caostatz, Esq., web of the repo . and r olyo' '•• 1 , 1% 'm ly •-- rh - nR b e . :rt now reades be d ad a ted, eus and ihat the thanks of this seti c , ts- given to the Directors o f p or their past services. And this 44 3' hit s 'Urea them of its cordial support in their future efforts to Aloyeoeffect the objects contemplated in the report. ,bY .84xxAsinsp. ROBERTSON, Esq. • seconded by W. si t T h s .. at thefit4lt's, Esq., and resolved unanimously : Itoso res of 25 , each of the Company shall be 4,000,000 . 1., divided . into twyce4,,iioideersacolif, Jill je t p h re : en d t epos ser of 2/. 10s. per snare , and that si`ktlit Tod 1; shares in exchange for of el e h x j aN s •e ting the Option of ree reeicyeiinvg "Bl lo'„,', obi eachting share ; and also that a preference be ... "‘eri holder the allotment of the remaining shares. its CAairtnan ii . (Signed) J. S. CAPPER, Chairman. cated - the chair, chwtbeit"Nith.es°lved a3rAgtvathe unanimous thanks of this meeting be 7,,_. t° --' e b .' au That his impartial and able conduct in the 16,.78et w ideinher"!'thern Railway ()faces, 64, 3 foergate-street, Louden, Li 1845. F ' FEROVSON CAMROUX. Sea. 'ff------IItECT NORTHERN RAILWAY, from (..4 ,. ,„,_ LONDON to YORK. . t: ItZiliqtYK 411;14'hoef rPittlTlTTuOnlirian°uthrs pasdseedrtiatnga, 44 at the London Tavern this day, the holders of Scrip Certificates Cslz,s`reby informed that, on leaving the same at the office of the the OaY, with the numerical list, accompanied by an application in. tith,d'hii below, No. 1, they will, if approved by the Directors, be en tor ; 4 ., !•0 an allotment of two new Shares of 25/. each, in exchange har'ja original share, on payment of a deposit of 2i. on each new t ht 0 ; If they wish for any additional Shares, in aecerd att „ with tip theltrence P ot ' r fo b No. esolved upon at the Meet ing, they will likewise till ~. 2. 'NI apply Nat),shares 48 may remain for general distribution, applicants in the annexed form No. 3. eateek_ wedturningl' scrip are requested to write across each certiti e.; and address, with the words " Returned for ex- Mt,, J. S. CAPPER, Chairman. (r 11j, -.."'er n Railway Offices, Sept. 11, 1845. DORM OF APPLICATION, No. 1. t.l._hei, b Direct Northern Railway Company. -"`I held ' I°.r a You noti th t I desire to exchange the scrip certifl kinthe by rne in the ee aly Northern Railway Company, h a , reo —meet w hi c h I (and across tikieWritt, the _ a les4upoi t the ' li te Inc) for new sh t a h r e es D in tree th t i e s re un p d r e e r . - 14, ._ th e un.. _ I - M a S stated in the report of p e , lg_ to out o-.-,,1:145, and in. addition to the 11. per s tterai,L,pt,,,,:7r.2.:Nleeting of shareholders held on on the - 11th allot a 4 a `!, La above Scrip, I undertake to pay the s of 21 tun of 501 . . sai.„2_t:l74, .',c.lt. on such new shares of 251. each, as may ir)se, " TD7ili ttzlito7l,e%asirigoAlthe Parliamentary contract and subscribe day of ._ , 1845. Name Residence. ...... .. ..... • ... • • TO 411, Profession or Occupation •• • • • • • • • • • • •eel:ro.ritional 0 .erthern It 1-.nnnittelleeofefrtehleleDe.ilec— i . • • • • • • • • • • • • .. • • • • .. tier% inse4ll7e4Y Company. poillt _numbers specified in the certitleatee. Ilevi, Di., APPLICATION, No. 2. by ~,,, :,,,tnin c ,i my "tie''''lllern Railway Co tech In Th'nti.nreetNorthrrreo,t° ;exchange the scrip certificates held I,..!lrlitionai ,rdert4king, I 11 —4'4'43' Company for new shares of 251. bereon, analt es ' 4nd tree re quest you will allot to me itternento ex ecute the ... • 0 .p,,,,paY the deposit of 21. lOs per share. D ated :T,ta r eilttired . - `s•Litunentary contract and s per 44 3' of , 1845. l'e the Provisional Northern 11 Ite4Proifdesesincoen•O;Occ...upation :: :: ::: ; : COnlinittee of the Direct r _ mihray company. 1 p °, itst OF APPLICATION' N' 3 ki k! riN t _ 4-Firect zrorthern R." - ' °' • 4 agr"4 'Trill allot to in "uwaY Company. Laki t o to tak e th e sant e shares in this undertaking, w.`egte the Pay the a, r pnrp of 21. 103. per share thereon, and to 14' Naired . ' "atneatarY Contract and subscribers' agreement e d this day of NamQ 1845. • .„ ..... 1. 0 the ,z o r o r t a:i s e c t o f l e' ri ; I C C : O fn . • nd • • tiCt clPerciaiitee 8 85:1:: . 3).. Occupationil:r:e: . " : ** ''' .. .. '' •••• : : .: :. .: :. .. .. 4.,,e`4 Railway Coropany. PRELII III , TARY tiEsTER ANNDIINCEMENT. LEy OltEkr ou. , RUDERSFIEL, AND j4..._0t, telie; „,,,,..rSlll' DIRECT RAILWAY, via/3ARNS theTzoerestfiheemsailFicitecaesireg at Penistone Station at the Railway s. and Dlanchester and tereeipitei ~0500,,,. Tro.v.sis_i_o_nal.ly egistered) hare la eeniXen` c'eu 5p 000 Shares of 21. each. Deposit 21 2. teadoltessrs. Glyn w tua.textttalmalsing orders of Parliamnt.. •• • Halifax and akri.mitheliatins,rrirntdtarCkotanalluededniersptuktleykl.--.The col`ratiTrwrco. ItEillaiNNtoaGnE7at-E-74C.:rel111.XnGIXEElt. totta).o:LlClTOß.—Messrs. Floyd and•BoOatha_ Tdderslield. 4 AogarTsldeSsrS. SUdlow, Sons, d orr, 20, ChatteerY ,N. lane. I.‘tiawa,...hbject of the proposed line is to complete a direct chain of Vr conartunication betiveen the Western and Eastern Coasts, IT Liv.erPool to great Grimsby. . h, kr:akkt 4, _lntended as above stated to commence the lin P ie Itmetion of the Shellield, shton-under-Lyne and)si anihet7 kilrect ,c.'„t_lirestiddersfieM and Sheffield Railways, and 'to proceedeln a lA. he,.,:0.110 _eeezuth of and near to Barnsley, passing thence through baie' sth teusive and inexhaustible coal fields Of WOraberough hi th.,T tone, Cawthorne, Darton, Bretton, Billingley, and others :4 odjerls44!ha.;..leY: .Dwistr_ic_,t theence continuing in a direct line through irturothiti7,warVyoNhaenl2l,BeoDafeovladth(wswihearetealt, willßeitzsislitehkietonrthtalalrinid: eiest,,l,Fb, keaboroug , Conisboroug, Sprothorough Bentl ' Don -11?!ee-40(vrtkii_e_re. it will cross the London and York' RailweaYi), and ~,hire brerough or near to roe, Cawtley, ..ppotttakyr a a l_h _to Thorne, and such further branches aa alaY be Brampton (with a i: l ett,i.h e s iii7:2nritV •tr 11); Auekley, Wroet (where it will enter the ou,h or near to Maxey, Epworth, Helton, *ll ll th l', °widen M elirl4, tli('reat Gria;abYesauslirtlairn in Ind then terminate in a Junction I,2:erty_BlZue'r'ecting, by the coast eerud iljolinwoaT'aanteworlinneeiroPralii=dy, i',.B...Tade): ~,telle in legth, or thereabouts (the entire line required to `,:ser 4„ge Mnufacturing, ineral, and agricultural dis ztlepe`t°4llo4l.autp and Yor:kshire with Lincolnshire and the rapidly ,Illeit4 ~Zt ir te s a Great Grimsby, so as to afford the products of the tin, tl N th_ .arnost direct course of transit, thereby also flTea4Y ,fes Derf een 72 channelf foreign merchandise, and by this Il i ad th e „Cs the of corc ununication between the Irish tita?.,7l;;7 'int::;:ailuyeshe9sutetesr ''''ll.stin g r 4''' °ertean;ery circuitous so much so, that the pro (L, tlie It_ .Irect saving of about twe ' nty miles, when compared , and Leeds, and the Wakefield, Pontefract and pro r".,;My With e to Great Grisby, and of about fifteen miles corn- . ~ bliethe,:a Sheffield and Manchester and the Oreat Grimsby A_l_other 1714:Md Lincolnshire Railways a ' nd the relative distance com e seps:fs Will be proportionally shortened. errZcable ie'ancs a:Le nor? before the public to connect, in the best ke4datio,;"_ a direct N - P er ' t'eighly and Halifax with Huddersfield, so as to li, e '' 'bail I), rth.and SoUth communication. When this desidera rit„,„eeoraplished, the proposed new line, will, in addition to AN ati-''s,„7. before mentioned forrn grand direct railway corn -44.1 t o the 'lona:Scotland and the N'orthern Counties, vii Rudders tc)43? plaid 11 tigh Trishi a te g Port of Great Grimsby, whilst the additional the tt"td new ci - bea r aPon the proposed line to and from the con- Ito, lidge„.,.taffordshlre and Derbyshire Lines, by uniting with 7°,serahj:".C2? and Sheffield Railway, at or near got uniting must 4', t l ):l er'l7 o (it'a rth 3,`Vpehdent'Tance the value of the undertaking. trot ‘ets, a line for the shipping of coal to the London and other :::::: an a d b lie d , and of the superior advantages afforded l tl• '.. eollsiderable augnaentation of traffic may be expected ',l•lttl. eel_ Do rtant London and York Railways. B ec e ' aitliert and agricultural town and neighbourhood of Don the 44444,2: comparatively isolated for want of proper railway I, e.,!0A,84,17,, Will, bY the ;lido! the Lo'ndon and York Railway and V ac alo o ,;,?: both Passing through the town, be at once brought k_t yak. ~,.'m all the main railway arteries in the kingdom. v,hll,7ray t e Lt,'t the t he in the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junct.lon IC,'"ltii,e 14_‘,,a..cessarily he greatly increased by the proposed line, t;Ch:sterZ:e,sagleveti. for the transit of goods from Liverpool and r th r l leice trtrx'ntewtreerfistla must e e l v d ent z i 3 l i an m e ter t i e a r lll ta ail lw d a tot ti.;el,4.eerNea,s_ Yithrough which the line will pass is admirably adapted otia . at t the design of the promoters Nothing beyond ordt "' etnirjiTng difficulties is to be met with• A satisfactory survey it ~lirais ne ' 7 the acting en in r h • heady been made, and i r emir s of the line are in cougrsecoef ' pr as . a num' so that there is l e , for thetTlfidence that the scheme will eP re fully ' perfected in due Not oe,chhroacblog session of Parliament. A te 'a earl r 'lf gbares already subscribed for is very considerable, el;!,,lletni etit inaY therefore be expected. An influential tQeotai,;.;callinlttee is now forming and the na.me s of the v,'llr", 4111'14,g It will shortly be publi'cly announced. In the mean lo,l4: (irk4riortnation may be obtained from the Solicitors,. at gentle- Itih il,'glation,4,llo: Z,Zd Sur veYs of the Lino are lodged for intn, ,t4,1,e :filetery referee:es (ui the form given below), 4- 44 Pri,:"l,.. or to thecesroi=4Bl44lloleadrad:rnessedamelthy, Ar them,accompaniedar a t . ''". W 4verPool • ar 0;, ellb --‘essrs. Cardwell. and Sons, Manchester ; '11n,, 1 ( , b, r , ved, and Co Leeds ; Mes-rs. Garton and Wright. 11144,11lIddeesr414e, Eacl., Halifax; and Messrs. Wilson and othe a i-r ertno, ~. eld. ..apt. 13,1843. Z' he ~ toit ' ri ephg eti t OF APPLICA'----------noN----.7.__rott SHARES. t he Nitt„, , oretCce.minittee of the Manchester, Huddersfield, and ' ki, " ( flat - '4ll,lbY Direct Railway Company. 4kc ith,,,,..,0i.1 Will allot to me Shares of 201. each in !/, 2,, tat-Il`4lung, and I agree to accept the same, or any less ille Atter ghaT.Thbe allotted to me, an lto pay the deposit of tikliattbert; e4g e e Z n a , rld to sign thePitrliamentary Contract and flaYof 7Te (in few 1 845. ...imdenc e • • elle or Profe eaion Reference.. ~, fa Tf YT - , • - _ . ' of ' , . -s, •-t• ._ . ik . 86 -1 P - - * iet• I ...,' 4, , i r •l •, 11 4, , , I,: , ) k " ftA • . 11111 •( : j 4 .4'4'. t ;•••• . • -!.! f • • ~t• . ( ~,. - ' ' 1. % ' • - - ''' •••• '4, .:, I ~. -V ' . I 1 \ ' " .4, . , •.4 z . , .. 1 5 ,,, ..4 ; • i . , ri , : : :447*-. . 1 : : ?:" . 7 4. e .. .: - P' , 7l ..zio, ,, ' ' .•,,,, ' • lA' ...._:. ''' ..7tit•- 5 ..,,.,- ' • I ; •44. ', j • I P 4 \ - 0, 3 f2 ~Sg ' '' . •.'7, • ' ""t. , ` ll4 56 .4, - ' - I •C • --, j •11.• . ... 4 .s. , - 4 / .- ...._, , ~,,:,.., . .4r , . , . .. , r 4 -- , . '*401,,--__' :, z-' N z .z , - • • t,, . , - --,4,1.4 • lA ' Wit. %;,.-: , " • -r t , •et•-# ..`, <,.. , ~ .. - • lit , Q ~. • . i..,. + • , - % DrEil ~ • "" 4 s,'", '..'t v ll' .. 0,10,, . " I ).R 0 1 •,' ' fe ."\t , ' ' __.Y -- ',..'-''''' ZN --* 71 1 -r . ' , IMAMS EMBAIMMENT and RAILWAT JUNCTION COMPANY. Chairman.—The EARL of DEVON. Shareholders in the Blackwell, the Croydon, the South Eastern and South Essex Railway Companies, desirous of obtaining Shares in the above united THAMES EMBANKMENT and RAILWAY JUNCTION COMPANY, are requested to name the Company in which they have a proprietary interest, in their letters of application. E. W. WILLIAMS, Secretary pro tem. 00toes 94, Charing-eress. THE OXFORD and WORCESTER EXTEN SION and CHESTER JUNCTION RAILWAY, with Branches to Shrewsbury and Northwitch. On the Broad Gauge. (Provisionally registered.) Otkpital 2,2.50,0001., in 125,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, 4, Parliament-street, Director of the Nottingham and Boston Railway Major Beresford, 3f.P. Sir William Bacon Johnsen, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director of the Chester and Forest of Dean Railways Sir Win. Wynn, Maesyneward, Chairman ofthe North Wales Railway Sir Samuel Brown, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway Sir John Edward de Beauvoir, Chairman of the London and Bir mingham Extension Sir John Hare, Langham-place, Director of the London and Bir mingham Extension Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London and Manchester and Leeds and Liverpool Railways Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and Birmingham Railway Colonel Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Director of the South and Midland Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect-place, Southampton, Director of the South and Midland Railway Major Croft, 15, Regent-street, Deputy Chairman ef the. Manchester and Chester Railway Major Chase, 31, Nottingham-place Captain S. M. Fisher,jun., Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway Captain Hitchens, H.E.1.C.5., Director of the Birmingham and Ox ford Railway Captain F. Chamfer, Halkin-street, BelgraVe-square, Director of the 'Great Paris and Lyons Railway. Wm. Hugheslfughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S. &c., Alderman of Lon :don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation, Chairman of the London and Greenwich Railways, &c., Sic. Thomas- Kelly,: Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South JkLidland Railway dotm Vimersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway, and South Midland _Thos. Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South Midland Railway Thos. Challis, Egg., Alderman of London, Wilson-street, Finsbury Thos. Sidney, Esq., Alderman of London, Sheriff of London amid Middlesex Captain Alex. Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery, Reform Club. John Ines Jardein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby and StnitluZnPton Railway Wm. Morley, flei„ Blackheath Wm. Lee, Esq., /*ream* of the Gravesend and Rochester, and Essex and Suffolk RailWSyO Rd. Carpenter, Esq., Directorpf the Leicester and Bedford Railway Chas. Robt. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midland Rail way Henry Wright, Esq., Director of the Soma.and Midland's Junction Railway John Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester an Bedford Railway Thomas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South Midland Ita:.!waY John Brocke Walbancke, Esq., Director of the South :Midland allwaY Rd. Wm. Johnson, Esq. , Director of the London and 31ancheste 2 and Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways Francis Valentine Lee, Esq., Temple, Director of the Eastern Counties Railway Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy Chairman of the Thames Embankment Railway Major-General Brooks Parlby, C. 8., 18, Rutland-place W. Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the Oxford, Pitney, and Cheltenham Railway Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct and Liverpool and Leeds Railways Peter Morrison, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham Railway W. F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgraye-square, Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway W. G. Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway John James, Esq., Secondary of London Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth Railway Robert Andrew Riddell. Esq., 23, Bryanston-street, Portman-square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway J. B. Richardson, Esq., Director of the Colchester and Cambridge Railway Julian Skreene, Esq., Director of the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, Director of the Bide- ford and Tavistock Railvray Captain C. IV. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern Railway Frederick Jones, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director of the London and Dover Railway C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex R. N. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood, Director of the North Metropolitan Railway George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Wm. Shaw, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment Railway Wm. Alfred Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith Railway 'T. Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the Lincoln, York, aid. Leeds Railway Wm. Slark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Railway Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton Warren Stormes Hale, Esq., Gresham-street Robert Richards, Esq., Temple, Director of the Birmingham And Lon- don Extension Railway Kingsmill Grove Key, Esq., Wandsworth-common The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Falbourne, Cambridge Daniel Penton Johnson, Esq., Director of the London and hfanches ter Railway Charles Green, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberyetwlth Railway John Barber, Itsq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith Railway Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Hereford E. R. Foster, Esq., Director of the Derby, Uttozeter, and Stafford- shire Railway Martin Fern's, Esq., Director of the Nottingham, Newark, and Boston Railway W. 8. Cross, Esq., Director of the Birmingham and Manchester Extension Railway W. Bardgett, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Richard Parish, Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordsley, near Stourbridge, Staffordshire Alexander Grelg, Esq. Lowndes-street, Belgrave4qiiara, Director of the Leicester and Birmingham Railway Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., Brades, near Birmingham William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct Railway Wm. Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York, and Leeds Railway James Muscroft, Esq., Pontefract David William Nell, Esq., Leeds, J.P., Director of the Leeds and Thirsk Railway Joseph Robert Wilkin Atkinson, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and York and Lancaster Railways John Fagan, Esq., Gloucester-road, Old Brompton Charles Holden, Esq., Director of the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Railway J. D. Hopkins, Esq., Bedford-square, Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction Railway Peter Fairbairne, Esq., Leeds, Chairman of the Lincoln, York and Leeds Railway John Blackburn, Esq., Leeds J. 31. Douglas, Esq., Director of the Exeter and Weymouth Railway W. Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street John Anderson, Esq., Lothbury, Director of the South and Midland . . Railway W. Ley, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square Robert Power, Esq., Queen-street, May Fair, Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance-office. Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Old Palace, Richmond W. Pastow, Esq., Surrey-place James Burnes% Esq., Leyton, Essex G. N. Wright, M.A. John Alexander Bicknell, Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Extension Railway James Lees, Esq., Delph, Saddleworth, near Manchester, Director of the Manchester Banking Company (With power to add to their number.) The names of as influential Committee formed at Worcester aid Chesterovill be published in a few days. BANKERS. The Commercial Bank of London Enanizza—William Mullingar Higgins, Ee4. SOLICITORS. Potter and (..:411ngridge, 6, Basinghall-street ; W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street. s tair r Ai c. - -lliiton T. Jenkins, Esq. wc .:2:, AGENTS. Worcester—C. Geo, h. St. Patrick, Esq. Whitchurch—James BrOmIZId , Esq. Chester—John P. Maddock, Esq. Wellington—George Marcy, Esq. Shrewsbury—W. Cooper, Esq. The geographical position of Worcester has caused its adoption a% the point where the broad guage trunk lines of the west are to have a ;ommon terminus. From Oxford the Great Western Company bags lecided on constructing a line of rail :—another project under the ps,- tronage of the same powerful direction is now before the public,. uniting Worcester with Warwick ; and, that the broad gauge will be carried from Worcester into Wales, and to the Irish packet stations on that coast, is now no longer doubtful. This undertaking will com plete a series of great avenues of iron-road, whose ramification from Worcester will render every part of the kingdom directly accessible from that city. Passing up the Sevens Vale, where it will disclose a succession of picturesque scenes, it reaches Stourport, and proceeding thence through Kidderminster, arrives at. Bewdley. This district is one of the chief seats of our carpet manu factures, and in the towns here named, exclusive of the intervening districts, upwards of 30,000 persons are located. Leaving Stourbridge a little to the east, the line is taken to Bridgenorth, a town enjoying an active inland trade, and possessing woollen manufactures and iron works, that give employment to a population of about 15,000. Pass ing through or near to Much Wenlock, Broseley, and Madeley, from which place there will be a branch to Shrewsbury, the line ascends Colebrook Dale, and approaching in its course Wellington and Wem, sisters Whitchurch. From this central place a branch will he formed to Norwich via Stoke, forming a junction with the Liverpool and Crewe Railway. The trunk line will continue from Whitchrtreh, and passing through or near Malpss, have its northern terminus in the city of Chester. In estimating the probable amount of revenue which the Worms ter and Chester Railway may be expected to y ield, man y sourc es of profit present themselves, such are the dense population located along the length of the Severn Vale, and the enriching works of industry in which they are engaged. Amongst the latter may be mentioned the China manufactories of Worcester ; the iron, coal, and earthen- • ware works at Broseley and other places ; the agricultural produce brought to Stourport market ; the inexhaustible fields of coal and mines of iron ore in the vicinity of Colebrook Dale, Ironbridno, and the districts to the east of Shrewsbury generally. In calculating the cost of construction unusual advantages are also obvious. The line traverses a district •affording levels of several; miles in extent, and with a surface peculiarly favourable. The resi dent population, disappointed by the postponement of promised pro jects, have warmly espoused the present, and the labouring popula tion being familiar with mining operations, will be found better qualified for the execution of railway works here than in many other losanties. As a link in the railway network of England, or as auxin= to existing or projected lines passing in various directions, schemes hitherto proposed appear to afford greate r for travelling. investment, This o or p a r 0 7 n i e d t e en r range asilta t o as f t r t n a ft la chain h a a n d • West of England ;—its southern terminu , i s illaen broad gauge line : that will connect Liverpool with Bristol, twhewcgreasrstedr,trltusiktheofhathife. way station of the London and Por n t n Dyn ion aszlecnlnerdneadti°n link fro i r n ward to Swansea and Aberystae r d I r , nugh, Harwich, Lynn, Lincoln, by projected lines a direct coinn t . , ainadt, eastwwiallrdb,etnalyffoantlwedickrrntei Northampton, Cambridge , l'et and Bull. Th,eslaincteinhgasaiil,egienneerre,pe:thtendlraypnanrtad t cr ia re t ft t tll he y r e au xa f m or in num ed b y y mi th l e es e m om ay - Pan,' be laid on the natural level—that the gradients are in every in stance favourable —that the geological structure of the districts to be traversed is equally so, and that the want of such a line of com munication is acknowledged by the interests seated en its proposed course. Applications for prospectuses and plans may be made, and forms of application for shares had at the offices of Messrs. Potter and Collingridge, solicitors, 5, Basinghall-street ; (do of W. IL James, Esq., solicitor, 5, Basinghall-street ; of the local agents ; and of the foblowing gentlemen : IMr. Samuel Hanbury, 4, Angel-court, London .......... Mr. Whiston Powell, 12, Coptharl-court; and Messrs. Messr B A . Peppercorns, 2 e„. Old Broaki-street lston and Manchester c Messrs. Iloughland and Leese, and. Mr. Wil. Liam Marshall. Hull„ ~..........f Messrs. Collinson and Flint, and James ` Bowden _ _ _ _ Leeds . r Messrs. Smith and rerfeet, and . • • • • • • ' • t Messrs. J. Young and Co., Stratford-on-Avon..Mr. William Bolton. Exeter ..... . —Mr. Thomas Sanford. Plymouth • . Messrs. Hayward and Palmer. Birmingham Mr. Collis and Mr. John Wright. Glasgow Messrs. Tamils and Co. Edinburgh • • • • • • .• [ Messrs. Robertson and Co., and Messrs. M`Calinm and Co. Huddersfield . 'Messrs. Wilson and liellawall Worcester • Mr. Thomas Henry Wheeler. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Conitnittee of the Worcester and Chester • Railway. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me Shares of 201. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the same, an to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be al lotted to me; and I undertake also to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subwribers' Agreement when required. Rime (ta • • . Residence.• .• ......... ...... Trade or Profession . e, go , Reference— .. Address of RAM Date. aillTrern