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All D L GUAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. COnnectiniihe Great Western, London and Birmingham, aad Direct Manchester. From Reading via Henley-on-Thames, Aylesbury, Buckingham, and Northampton. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 1,250,0001. in 50,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Jelin Anderson, Esq., Princes-park, Liverpool, Direstor of the East ern Counties and Southend Railway William Ashcroft, Esq., Bury, Director of the Lancashire, Cheshire, and Staffordshire Railway Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Montague-places Montague-square George Alfred Beardmore, 'Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Hull and Lincoln Direct Railway, and Nottingham and Peterborough Railway . Charles R. Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanston-square, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway Charles Bleaden, Esq. ' Coulsden-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Licensed rctuallers'Assurance Company John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London Docks William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman of the Direct Western Railway, and Director of the Sheffield and Man chester Railway James Brand, Esq., 9, New Broad-street, Director of the New Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny Railway Henry B:Bright, Esq , Hull, Director of the Durham and Sunderland 'and Direct Western Railway G. A. Brown, Esq., Broad-street, Director of the Callao and Lima Railway Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries Railway Pierce Somerset Butler, Esq., M.P., Director of the York and Lan caster Railway Win. Byrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham District, the Bir kenhead and Holyhead, York and Lancaster, and Cheltenham, Oxford, and London Railways Thomas Byrom, Esq., Wigan, Director of the York and Lancaster, Rugby, Derby and Manchester, Staffordshire Potteries Railways John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-street, Director of the York and Lan caster Railway Richard Clay, Esq., 1, Winchester-bulldlngs, London, Director of the Huddersfield and Eastern Coast Railway John Clampitt, Esq., Sercombe, Exeter, Director of the Exeter and Crediton Railway Ephraim Cocker, Esq., White Coppice, Chorley, Direstor of the Black burn, Chorley, and Liverpool Railway W. H. Collis, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire, Director of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway Nathaniel Cooke, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Direct Western Railway Nathaniel Cumberledge, Esq., 3, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Direc of the Leeds and Huddersfield Railway, &c. &c. Newton Crouch, Esq., 13, Southampton-place, Easton-square, Di rector of the Mauritius, and the York and Lancaster Railways Thomas Ferrand Dearden, Esq., Rochdale, Director of the Stafford shire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway Peregrine Royds Dearden, Esq., Birkenhead, Liverpool J. W. De Wolf, Esq., Liverpool Miles Dormer, Esq., Hans-place, Sloane-street, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway Richard Davis, Esq., Knaresborough, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway Colonel Lothian Sheffield Inekson, Curzon-street, May-fair, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway, the York and Lancaster, Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railways A. D. Ewes. Esq., Knaresborough Benjamin Smart Fowler, Esq., Alder House, near Tamworth, Direc tor of the Leicester and Northampton Railway. The Rev. H. R. Fowler, 7, Manchester-square, Director of the South Midland Railway The lion. Percy Evans Freke, Belgrave-square, Director of the Bandon and Bantry Railway William Garrow, Esq., Great George's-square, Liverpool, Director of the Eastern Counties and Southend Junction Railway William Gibb, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway Joseph Gillharn, Esq., Hargreaves-house, Oldham, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, and Huddersfield, and East and West • Coasts Railways James Glover, Esq., Longton, Director of the South Union alma Bir mingham Junction Railway Captain Twisleton Graves, Director of the Leicester and Teem and DOV 3 Valley Railway Charles Haigh, Esq., Broadley Wood, Rochdale and Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway F. W. Hamilton, Leg., 59, Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director °a the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway John Lawrence Harris, Esq., 4, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway John George Hammock, Esq., Essen-house, Bow-road, Director of the Direct Western Railway Chas. Harrisson, Esq., 31, York-terrace, Regent's-park John Hawkins, Esq., St. James's-place, New-cross Theophilus Hodges, Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway John Holford, Esq., Rusholm-hall, Manchester, Director of Reming ton's Direct London and Manchester Railway William Holiday, Esq., Chad-valley, Edgbaston, Director of the Direct Western Railway Charles Holland, Esq., of Liseard Vale, Cheshire, and Liverpool John Holmes, Esq., St. James's-street, Westminster, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend, and the Direct Western Railways George Holt, Esq., Willow-hill, Crumpsall, Director of the Stafford shire Potteries, and Liverpool and Manchester Direct Railway Joseph Hopgood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the East and West of England Junction, Direct Western, and Reading, Guildford., and Reigate Railways Adderly Howard, Esq., Long Sutton, Wisbeach, Direetor of the East Coast, and Direct Western Railways William Bielteley Hughes, Esq., M . P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid land Railway William Hunter, Esq., Leamington, Director of the Avon and Severn Valley, and the Great Western Direct Railways Herbert Ingram, Esq., Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway John. Charles Jack, Esq., Liverpool C. ll_ Jagger, Esq., Handsworth, Director of the" Great Western, Southern and Eastern Counties, and Ipswich, and Ipswiah and Southampton Railways Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart. Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon, Director of the Direct Western Railway ' Richard Kelly, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's, Chairman of the New Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny Railway Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South and Midlands Junction Railway William Kempe, Esq., Teign Villa, Teignmouth, Director of the Eastern Co idles Junction Railway, and the Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpool Railway Thomas Kidley, Esq. M.D. Sheffield, director of the Eastern Coun ties and Southend Junction and Direct Western Railways - George Lawrie, Esq. Manchester, director of the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway Peter Thomas Legh, Esq., Ridge-hall, county Dublin, tirector of the Isle of Man Railway Job Lockyer Seale, Esq., M.D., Director of the Direct London, Hest logs, and Rye Railway, and Great Northern and Southern Direct Railway from Huddersfield to Derby William Melville Lomas, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Lancashire, Cheshire and Staffordshire Junction Railway. Joins Lord, Esq. Standish Hall, Lancashire, director of the Stafford shire Potteries, the Liverpool and Manchester Direct, and Lanca shire, Cheshire and Stafford Junction Railways. Jas. APDougall, Esq., Fir-grove, North Brixton Janice Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway . A. M. Macmoran, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, Director of the East and West Junction Railway Major-General Sir Love Parry, Mardyn, Carnarvonehire Director of the North Wales Railway. William !Harriett, Esq., Ottereliffesterrace, Director of the Direct Western and the Isle of Ely, and Wisbeach and Lincolnshire Junction Railway heiltsJames Mason, Esq.. Fenton ham EsMiller, jun., Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Western Railway Richard MortimOre, Esq., Collumpton, Director of the Direct Western Railway Edward Norris, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Direct Western Railway M. Norton, Esq., Mont-house, Brentwood James • Ogden, Esq., M.D., Marlborough-square, Manchester,:director, of the Chester and Manchester Direct, and Direct Western Rail ways Nathaniel Ogle, Esq., Heath-lane-lodge, Twickenham, Director of the York and Lancaster Railway John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park, Di rector of the Direct Western Railway Richard William Perry, Esq., Barham Wood, near Elstree, Harts William S. Potter, Esq. ' Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the Oxesei, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway John Pratt, jun., Esq., Fenton - Frederick Ramsden, Esq., Seymour House, Old Strofford, Manchee; ter, Director of the Staffordshire Potteries, and the Liverpool-, Preston, and North Union Railways . Cornelius , Randall, Esq., Manchester, Chairman of the Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction, and Director of the Sheffield and Man chester Railway, Re. James Renshaw, Esq., West Heath House, Kent, Director of the Direct Western, and South Staffordshire Jnection Railways .1. Reginald Riddell. Esq., Eyelash-house, Enfield, Director of the Direct Western Railway It. A. Riddell, Esq., Director of the Great Western Extension Railway A. Macdonald Ritchie, Esq., Middle Temple, London, Director of the Eastern Counties Junction and. Southend Railway Jan Robson, Esq., Hittoti•in-Hole, Durham, Director of the Direct Western Railway Richard Rowe, Esq., Beauvoir-terrace, Maida Vale Hu Bey Sagan, Esq., Ball Grove, Cottle, Director of the East Lan cashire and Andale Junction Railway. Edward Scard, Esq , Kaw.. 2 . Tee „ C .J. Selwyn, Major Royal Engineers, Directorof the Direct Western Railway William Sidebotliam, Esq., Glossop, J.P. for Derbyshire, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Director of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway Edward Smith, Esq., Barnsbury Park, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway W i l li ari i medley-, Esq., North Brixton, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Henry Taylor, Esq , Wigan, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct, the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union and Oxford, Chel tenham and London Railway s Joseph Taylor, Esq., Clements-lane John Thompson, Esq., Wigs ii, Director of the Birkenhead and Ho lyhead, Manchester and V,rigan, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Railways Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton Railway Charles F. Thornley, Esa., Eastfleld House, Westbury, near Bri st o l, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Manchester, Settle, and Car isle Railways Thomas Tebbutt, Esq., Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Edward' Trelfall, Manchester, Director of the Eastern Counties Junc tion and Southend Railway James Troup, Esq., Basting, Director of the Direct Western and Direct Hastings Jzts. Tracy, Esq.. Great Winchester-street, City, London Sir Walker Twisden, Bart., Cavendish-street, Cavendish-square Joseph Underwood, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway, and Director of the Commercial Bank of London. George Walker, Esq., Manchester Thomas Upfill, Esq., Edgbaston, Director of the Wolverhampton, Birkenhead and Chester Railway 8. I'. Ward, Esq., Birkenhead, Director of the Eastern Counties .Tunetion and Southend Railway Edward . Westlake, Esq., Southampton. Director of the Di rec t West ern Railway William Ayscough Wilkinson, Esq., Woodbury Downs, Director of the Waveney Valley Railway Robert Wynne Williams, Esq., 29, Bedford-place,Rassell-square Thomas Wynne, Esq., Longton, Staffordshire. Director of the Leeds anti Carlisle, and South Union and Birmingham Junction Railways Sir William Wynne, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North Wales Railway Sampson Bridgwood, Esq., Loughton Thomas Bollinan Upfill, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Bristol and Myer Railway fleerge sercombe, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Direct Western Railway John Win. Yerbury, Esq., Bellomb-house, Bredford (With power to add to their number), COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Benjamin Smart Fowler, Esq. William Kempe, Esq. The Rev. 11. R Fowler, R. A. Riddell, Esq. William Garrote, Esq. Henry Taylor, Esq. ('apt. Twisleton Graves J. Underwood, Esq. John Holmes, Esq. i M. A. Wilkinson ' Esq. Itichatd Ke ll y, Esq. Thomas Wynne, Esq. . (With power to add to their number.) CONSCLTING ENGINEER—T. Urpeth Rastrick. Esq. . ACTING ENGINEER.—OIiver Byrne, Esq. SOLICITORS. • Messrs. Ehnen° anti Preston, Moorgate-street . J. E. Beales, Esq., 7, John-street, Adelphi William Burdett, Esq., Manchester. . . LOCAL AGENTS. .. Messrs. Christian and Jones, Liverpool. - Saunders Nash, Esq. ' High Wycombe Mews. Prickert and Watson, Aylesbury Messrs. King and Son, Buckingham BANKERS. ton-ion—The Commercial Bank of London .Manchester—The National Provincial Bank of England. SECRETARY—Niche. J. Kempe, Esq. Company's Offices, Palace-chambers, St. James's. This railway will form, as nearly as may be practicable, a direct tine from Reading, in Berkshire—one of the s ost important and •raeldly improving towns in the kingdom—to the large and populous s.owu of Northampton, where it will form a junction with the Itortampton and Peterborough Railway VS lin , e will pro cee d f rom the Reading station of the Great Western lit ' ailwa Yt and by the way of Henley-on-Thames, Great Marlow West Wycombe, Ayl es b ury, and Buckingham, through some of the .etellest and most fertile districts of England, from whence vast .supplies of live stock and agri cultur al produce ' are constantly fur nished to the metrop o li s ; and from Buckingham it will be continued direct to Blisworth and Northampton. From Ellsworth a line proceeds to Wellingborough, and forms a Junction with the Direct Manchester Railway; c and it i s i n t en d e d that a branch shall be formed from West W y Slough, on the Great Western Railway ombe to th e station at The pro w ed line with the branch w ill b e about seve nty-five miles t . vt . . i ir k ..! t has been ascertained that it may be constructed r 4 yaw ~ .: .: cility, whilst, by means of the intend e d j unctions with Wes - i Railway at Slough and Reading, with th e L ondon 4 ,,,, ,--A it d jxrrnitighstir k ßail way at Blisworth, and the Direct Manchester .., ' t ..... Medway it Wellibgborough, an uninterrupted and most desirable 4; r osesay com m unication will be opened between Portsmouth, else at " t h e -Bier of Melt, Aouthampton, Bedford, Huntingdon, the V - ~, THE ST)N. LONDON' . , TrEsDAY lITENINer i OCTOBER, 21, 1845. Staffordshire Potteries, Birmingham, Derby, Leicester, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle and Berwick, and with the great manu facturing and mining ilistricts of the north of England. The numerous partalks and - districts which will be traversed by the line comprise a population of nearly 1,500,000 persons, and passing, as it will, a portion of the counties of Berks and Oxfbrd, the whole of Buckinghamshire, and by the celebrated Vale of Aylesbury, adn uniting with the several completed or projected railways under mentioned, viz.:— The London and Birmingham The Great Western The Southampton Union The South Midland The Midland Counties The Northampton and Leicester The Northampton and Peterborough, and thus with The Direct Manchester it cannot be doubted that it must prove extremely convenient and beneficial to the public, and highly advantageous to the proprietors. The liability of the shareholders will be restricted by Act of Par liament to the amount of their subscriptions, and power will be ap plied for in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per cent. per annum on all calls, from the passing of the Act until the opening of the line. Arrangements have been made that the survey shall be completed, and the plans and sections deposited in time for obtaining an Act during the ensuing session of Parliament. Applications for shares may be addressed, in the form annexed, to the undermentioned brokers, viz.:—Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, Princes street, John Shewell, Esq., Threadneedle-street, and Messrs. Wells, Westropp, and Prinsep, 75, Old Broad-street, Mr. John Smith. Shorter's-court, Throgmorton-street, London; Messrs. Graystone and Earle, York ; Mr. Thackray, Harrogate; Mr. Joseph Nelson, Settle; Mr. W. Welch, Lancaster; Messrs. Geddes and Drinkwater, and Mr. Henry Waterton, Bank-buildings, Castle-street, Liverpool ; Mr. Peter Leicester, Messrs. Green and Oldham, Messrs. Green and Lockwood, Manchester; Mr. James Pearson, Birming ham ; Messrs. Joshua Wood and Son, Messrs. Watson and Co. and Messrs. E. King and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Brady and Etaniforth, Hull ; Mr. J. A. Butchart, Huddersfield ; Mr. Hervey, Halifax ; Mr. Nightingale, Wakefield; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co., Brad ford ; Mr. Luke Arnold, and Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Mr. G. R. Gliddon, and Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Messrs. Hopwood and Palmer, Ply mouth ; Mr. Robert Allan, Messrs. Hugh Munro and r. David Kinnear, and Mr. James Pringle, Edinburgh ; Mr. Co.,W. Pringle, Leith ; Messrs. M'Ewen and Auld, Glasgow ; Mr. Wm. Gordon, Aberdeen ; Mr. S. A. Gloag, Perth ; of whom prospectuses may be had ; or to the Provisional Committee, at the offices of the Company MIDLAND GRAND JUNCTION RAIL WAY COMPANY. NOTlCE.—Applications for Shares WILL NOT be received after TUESDAY NEXT, the 21st Instant. By order, NICHOLAS J. KEMPE, Secretary. Palace-chambers, St. James's, Oct. 14, 1845. ELY and BURY ST.EDMUNDS RAILWAYS In consequence of the great number of applications for shares in this Company which are daily received from all parts of the country, the Provisional Directors feel it necessary to call the atten tion o I the Public to the following Clause in the Prospectus, to the terms of which they will, in allotting the shares, be compelled most strictly to adhere : " As, under arrangements entered into with the Lynn and Ely, Ely and ,Huntingdon, and Lynn and Dereham Railway Companies, a large proportion of the capital has been appropriated to the holders of shares in those Companies, a very limited number of shares only is at the disposal of the Provisional Directors, and no application for shares therefore c.in be attended to, except from parties locally in terested and of the highest respectability. By order, L. F. EDWARDS, Secretary pro tem. LIVERPOOL AND BURY RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that, in pursuance of the authority given to them by the resolutions of the EXTRAORDINARY GE NERAL MEETING of the Bth instant, the Directors have resolved to issue Scrip in Fifth 101. Shares to represent the unallotted Shares to which the Company is entitled under the agreement of amalgama tion with the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company, and that such Scrip will be offered to the Proprietors registered on the 3d No vember next, in the proportion of one-fifth share to each original share standing in the Proprietor's name on the said 3d of November, subject to the payment of a deposit of 1/. per share (out of which the expense of the application to Parliament for carrying the amalgama tion into effect, if unsuccessful, will be defrayed), and to the condi tions of the letter of allotment, which will be issued immediately after the said 3d of November. By order of the Directors, JOHN S. HERON, Secretary. S HROPSHIRE UNION RAILWAY AND CANAL COMPANY. Offices, 107, Jermyn-street. The Offices of this Company will he removed on the 22d instant to No. 9, Great George-street, Westminster. WILLIAM COWAN, Secretary. Oct. 17, 1845, N ORTH LONDON JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY, 8, Finsbury-place South. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.) Capital, 1,300,0001., in 65,000 Shares of 20/. each. Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. John Aitwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Chairman James Horne, Esq., F.R.S., Clapham Common, Deputy-Chairman Sir John Edward De Beauvoir, Bart., London James Henry Attwood, Esq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square John Bagshaw, Esq., uloucester-place, Portman-square Richard Bethell, Esq., Queen's Counsel, Lauderdale House, Highgate George Bishop, Esq., South Villa, inner Circle, Regent's Park Augustus Bosanquet, Esq., Osidge, Southgate Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation Railway George Woodreffe Franklyn, Esq , Clifton, Bristol W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., Alderman of the City of London Henry Morton, Esq., Biddick, Durham George Parbary, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation Railway Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P., 39, St. dames's-place George Rougemont, Esq., 14, Broad-street-buildings Nicholas - WOW, Esq., Kellingwerth, Newcastle-on:Tyne. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills and Co., London Bank of Liverpool The Union Bank, Manchester. ENGINEER—George Parker Bidder, Esq., AmoutTEcr—Robert Abraham, Esq., Torrington-street, Russell-square. Scuerroa—John Bethell, Esq., 78, King William-street, City. . SECRETARY—Harry Burrard Faniall, Esq. The Provisional Committee of the North London Junction Rail way Company have great satisfaction in informing their subscribers that negotiations are now pending between the Provisional Commit tee of this Company and the Directors of the Railways north of the Thames of such a character as to assure them that the City terminus of this Company will form the Grand Terminus of all the City traiale north of London. To effect this important object, an area of 10 acres of grotusd (the southern boundary of which is within 500 yards of the Bank of England) has been most carefully surveyed and valued, and the re port of the architect and engineer is of so favourable a character as to have induced the Provisional Committee to determine ou purchasing the entire site, and it has, therefore, been resolved by them to in crease the capital of this Company to 1,300,0001. The Provisional Committee consider it of paramount importance to secure within the limits of their City terminus, the amplest and most complete accommodation for the traffic of each of the railway companies who may co-operate with them, an object which will be effected by opening the very extensive and valuable space of ground alluded to, within the centre of the City of London. In conjunction with this enlarged plan, it is intended to embrace that of a branch line to the present station of the Eastern Counties Railway in Shoreditch, which will effect an entire junction between the eastern and western parts of the metropolis; and at the same time afford a direct communication between the whole of the rail ways, which reach London tothe north of the Thames, and give full development to each of their schemes by creating for them a common centre within the heart of the metropolis. Independently, therefore, of the almost incalculable local traffic which the position of their City terminus will ensure to this Com pany, will be added that of those companies also who will eventually co-operate with the North London Junction Railway Company, and the perfection of a project of no ordinary magnitude and importance will be realised throughout the whole of this short but very valuable line of railway. A lithographic sketch now publishing will accurately define the entire district through which this Company proposes to run this Me ; by this means the most casual observer will be enabled to ascertain that the environs of London, north of the Thames, will be placed in immediate communication with the City ; while the dense popu lation of the City will enjoy a facilty of connexion with its suburban localities, necessarily affording it the 'greatest accommodation. With such important local resources, therefore, together with the vast traffic on which the shareholders of this Company have a right to rely for profit, a large amount of revenue may be fairly and justly anticipated, fully commensurate with the outlay of the proposed capital. That revenne will be derived thus : The daily passenger traffic on the Great Western amounts to 3,345, one-half of which reaches the City. The London and fir raingham amounts to 4,322 daily, two-thirds of which reach the City. The Eastern Counties amounts to 2,400 persons dally, half of whom pass to the West-end of London. The omnibus traffic daily Is 30,894 passengers, two-thirds of which may be given to the City. Passengers from the suburban districts reaching the City, now un accommodated by any railway, are estimated at 4,000 daily. From these sources the following products are derived:-- Per Ann. Passengers from the Great Western and Birmingham Rail way, at 6d. each.... . • • • Passengers from the Eastern Counties to the Ctty terminus of this Company, at 3d. each .... • • • • .. • • • • • • • • • • Omnibus passengers' traffic, at 6d. each, as taken at ..... ........... ..... .................. 187,929 142,208 tons of goods and parcels pass annually from the Great Western and the London and Birmingham Rail ways into the City, at an average cost of carriage of 3s. 6d. per ton throughout. For the carriage of these goods and parcels, therefore, at the reduced cost of 2s. 6d. per ton, a revenua may be derived of From the carriage of goods, parcels, and mails, bringing is to the Eastern Counties Railway Company a revenue of 40,0001. a year, may be derived the sum of 12,0 G 17,776 10,000 The total of their calculations amosnts t 0.... £280,289 Deduct 40 per cent, for workers' expenses . 112,115 £168,174 Estimated Rental to be received from other Companies for the use of Terminus • • £198,174 Being a revenue of more than 15 pe r cent. en a ca pital of 1,300,0001. The capital, as now extended, will be divided into 65,000 shares of 201. each, upon which a deposit of 21. 2s. per share will be payable forthwith. A portion of the shares will be allotted to parties locally interested. The remainder will be distributed amongst the present shareholders and the public generally, upon application being made by them in a manner hereinafter mentioned. The Directors, in compliance with the advice of their Parlia mentary Agents, deem it expedient, in consequence of the recent standing ordm of the House of Lords, to require a deposi of 10/. per cant. The shareholders are, therefore, requested, in order to carry this arrangement into effect, to deposit their scrip certificate with the Secretary, on or before the Ist of October next, in exchange for which they will obtain a certificate upon which the bankers of the Company will receive the amount of the difference payable, and, upon producing the receiptand signing the new Parliamentary Deeds, fresh scrip will be delivered to them. Applications for prospectuses, maps, and shares, may be made to the Secretary, at the Offices, )to. 8, Finsbury-place South, and the following sharebrokers : Messrs. R. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, 22, North-side, Royal Exchange, London Messrs. Capel, Cuerton, and Lawford, 3, Royal Exchange 1 3 v Ie ffi ss ian rs. I H M o a u n ghl hal an l, d E a s n q d ., L B ee an se k , George Burnand, Esq , Cornhill Bank - , st ju re a e n t e , h 3 e l s a t n e c r hester William Haynes, Esq., Manchester m M e els r in s. . E lV d e w ll a be rd lo s v a e n cl d a s n o d n ? r ii t d le w r, .L H ee . d L s and, Tohn Wells, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings, Liverpool Esq., Bristol J. R. Lane, Esq., Birmingham Messrs. Garton and Wright, Sheffield J. G Kershaw, Esq., Huddersfield F. C. Spencer, Esq , Halifax Messrs. Henry Beaumont and Co., Exeter R. I'. Lemon, Esq., Bath. r HE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRKT _l_ RAILWAY, via ABINGDON, WANTAGE, RUNGIRRFORD, and LUDGERSHALL. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital 1,200,0001., in 48,009 Shares of 251. each. Deposit 21. 12s. 6d. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Dillon, Ditchley-park, Oxon The Right Hon. Lord Suffield, Gunton-park, North Walsham The Right Hon. Lord Rossmore, the Dell, Windsor The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belle Hatch-house, Henley The Hoe. Robert Gore, R.N., M.P., 21, Wilton-crescent The Hon. William M. Dawson, Parkstone-lodge, Poole, Direotor of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway The Hon. Edward Stafford Jerningham, Director of the London and Nottingham Railway Sir William Drummond Stewart, Bart. Sir John Key, Bart., King's Arms-yard, Alderman of London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London Railway Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, United Service Club E. F. Dayrell, Esq.. Lillingston Dayrell, High Sheriff of Buckingham shire, Chairman of the Minehead and Bridgewater Railway James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby Railway Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-gardens, Director of the Dover and Bristol Railway Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and Kirby Dale, Yorkshire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Direct Railway Major Graham, late Scots Greys,l6, Grove, Clapham G. B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the Coventry and Manchester Railway The Rev. 11. R. Fowler, Felton, near Bristol, and 7, Manchester square, Director of the Rhondda and Ely Valleys Junction Railway James Gernon, Esq., 13, Conduit-street, Vice-Chairman of the Gal way and Ennis Grand Junction Railway Archibald Douglas Stewart, Esq., Grandtully Castle Robert Bell, Esq., Manor-house, Chiswick, Director •f the Dover and Bristol Railway Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester Thomas Ferrand Deaden, Esq., Rochdale Charles Haigh, Esq., Rochdale Charles Welland, Esq., Liverpool James Shaw, Esq., Pendleton, Manchester The Rev. F. K. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulborne, Cambridgeshire Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Marlborough-place, St. John's-wood Directors of the E. S. Blundell, Esq., 18, Lower Seymour-street Direct Lon- W. L. Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex don and Exe- G. W. Evans, Esq., Milbury-terrace, Regent's-park ter Railway Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, John Allen, Esq. 12, Gloucester-terrace, Kensington Francis Roose, Esq., Upper Montague-street, Montagne-square Francis Ewart, Esq., Temple, Director of the Equity and Law Life Assurance Company, and of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth Railway William Gambier, Esq., Sacombe-park, Harts Benjamin Swan, Esq., Jermyn-street, St. James's Nehemiah John Reed, Esq., R.N., Marlborough, Director of the London and South Wales Direct Railway Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough F. Walker Botterill, Esq., Burnley James Paxton, Esq.. M.D., Director of the Rugby and Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Railways Thomas Ingham Rayner, Esq., Lilac-cottage, Birstal, near Leeds, Di rector of the Great Leeds, and London. Midland, and Thirsk, and other Railways Major Henry Lyster, 9, Spring-terrace, Wandsworth-road, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties Railway J. Russell, Esq. Gloucester-place, Portman-square James Scott, Grove End-lodge, St. John's-wood, Director of the Hull and Holyhead, and of the Bristol, Bath, and Poole Railways William Doe Belcher, Esq. Mayor of Abingdon John Hyde, Esq., jun., Alderman of Abingdon John Tomkins, Esq. John Harris, Esq. ( Members of the Town Cowell, Abing- Thomas Copeland, Esq. don Edwin James Trendell, Esq , John King, Esq., Abingdon George Cox, Esq., Abingdon George Jackson, Esq., Abingdon John Knight, Esq., Abingdon Mr. Thomas Payne, jun., Abingdon John Alilworth, Esq., Frilford, Berks William Caudwell, Esq., Drayton, near Abingdon William Dewe, Esq., Stonehill, near Abingdon John Towle, Esq. 1 Members of the City Council, Oxford R. C. Godfrey, Esq.. James Morrell, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Oxford, Director of the London and Cheltenham Direct Railway - Santuary, Esq., Kidlington, Oxon Captain H. Strong, Oxford, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Railway Rowland Mackenzie, Esq., 68, Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and of the Chel tenham and Oxford Railways Abraham Bauer, Esq., 9, Arthur-street West, King William-street Daniel Hanley, Esq., Oxford William Seckham, Esq., Kidlington, Oxon Charles Shillingford, Esq., Sorer Town, Oxon Adin Williams, Esq., Somer Town, Oxen Mr. Thomas Hyde, Oxford Mr. Wm. Thompson, Oxford John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighten, Chairman of the Hounslow Railway David Bryan, Esq., Northampton, Director of the Eastern and Midland Counties Railway Charles Liddiard, Esq., Wantage Mr. Henry James Palmer, Wantage Thomas Brown, Esq. West Lockinge, Berks William Stone, Esq. Charlton, Berks Richard Barnard, Esq. Charlton, Berks Henry Hayward, Esq. Stirlings, Wantage James Staley, Esq. Wantage Thomas Brown, Esq. Wantage Mr. Charles Hart, foundry, Wantage Mr. William Beesley, \Vantage John William Palmer, Esq. Letcombe Regis, Berks Mr. J. Pottinger Palmer, Letcombe Regis, Berks John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London Docks William Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, Kent-road, Director of the Commercial and General Life Assurance Association Robert Bastow, Esq., Surrey-place, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway John King, Esq., St. John's-wood, London, Director of the Somer setshire Midland Railway Henry Stock, Esq., Beddgelert, North Wales, Director of the Great Eastern and Western Railway D. T. Johnson, Esq. Aldemary-churchyard, Director of the Direct Independent London and Manchester Railway John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Director of the Rugby, Derby, and Man chester Railway T. A. Dale, Esq., Malvern-house, Cheltenham, Director of the Bir kenhead and Holyhead Junction, and South Staffordshire and Pot teries Railways Charles 7Johnston, Esq., Aldersgate-street, Director of the Lynn, Thetford, and Ipswich Railway Admiral Ayscough, Southampton, Director of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway Frederick Chamier, Esq., Halkin-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the Northampton and Cambridge Railway George R. Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the Rugby and Warwick Railway Thomas Salkeld, Esq. Huddersfield, Director of Um Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby, and Huddersfield and Liverpool. Direct Railway Charles Finch, Esq., Fisherton, Salisbury General Wright, Gloucester-place, Portman-square (With power to add to their number). COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Thomas Dowglasse, Esq., Chairman. William Bastow, Esq. W. L. Pope, Esq. William Doe Belcher, Esq. Brigadier-General Henry Robert Bell, Esq. Pynn E. S. Blundell, Esq. M.D. Francis Roose, Esq. Francis Ewart, Esq. Walter Shairp, Esq. Charles Liddiard, Esq. Henry Stock, Esq. James Macmillan, Esq. (With limited power to add to their number). ENGINEER-IN-CHlEF—Samuel Charles Brees, Esq. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street, London. PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—Cadwallader F. Waddy, ESQ. BANKERS. London—The Commercial Bank of London Oxford—The London and County Bank Salisbury—The Wilts and Dorset County Bank .Abingdon—Messrs. Ileiry Knapp and Co. ; and the County Bank Wantage—Messrs. Henry Knapp and Co. Newbury—The Berkshire Union Bank Hungerford—Messrs. Tanner and Pinckney. LOCAL AGENTS. Oxford—John Francis Wilde, Esq. Salisbury—Stephen Hill, Esq. Abingdon—Messrs. Graham and Soa Wantage—William Ormond, Esq. Hungerford and Marlborough—John Halcoinb, Esq. SECRETARY—Z. Hubbersty, Esq. The Importance of connecting remote parts of England by rail ways, with the advantages thereby conferred upon intermediate towns and districts, can scarcely be better exemplified, than by the line which is now proposed to form a short and direct channel of inter course between Oxford and Salisbury. Numerous projected lines now before the public will make Oxford at the north, and Salisbury at the south of the intended railroad, the central points from which various radii will diverge to the north-west, north, and north-east of the former, and to the south and west of the latter • and the proposed line from Cambridge to Oxford, continui ng to that city the co ;I've of railway from the north-eastern parts of the island, requires the appliance now suggested to effect a complete means of transit to the western and south-western counties. The Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway, It addition to the benefits which will be conferred upon the natio" at large, by perfecting a direct line of cornmun;cation be tween the north-eastern and western and south-western parts of England, will afford to the borough of Abingdon, the market towns of Wantage, Hungerford, and Lndgershail, and the adjacent villages, an important railway accommodation, of which the agricultural districts in which they are seated stand in much need, and will provide a facility for the interchange of produce be tween the rural, manufacturing, and commercial population of the kingdom. The projected line will bring the Cathedral City of Salis bury into immediate connexion with the City and University of Oxford, combining also the advantage of a direct communication with the sister. University of Cambridge ; thus strengthening the ecclesiastical and academical relations of the whole, whilst the com mercial prosperity of the two terminal cities must of necessity be essentially enhanced. The want of railway accommodation has long been felt to press anfairly upon the inhabitants of the important and thriving town of Abingdon. Their means and opportunities of competing with the more fortunate traders of those towns which are already provided with di rect channels of transit, are thus severely crippled. The same remark applies in some degree to the market town of Wantage, which, as well as Hungerford and Ludgershall, claims a share of the profits, and advantages produced by railway traffic. It has therefore been determined to commence the proposed line at Oxford, and to proceed through Abingdon to the station of the Great Western Railway at Stevcnton, thus giving to Abingdon a direct rail road to London. By continuing the projected railway to Wantage, the same facility of transit to London will be afforded to that place; and a perfect line of road fern the north-eastern counties will, by a junc tion with the projection trom Cambridge to Oxford, be produced, through the towns which have been named, Hungerford and Lodgers hall, to Salisbury, and thence to the south and western ports and dis tricts. The survey is in a state of great forwardness; and will be com pleted in sufficient time to enable the Company to apply to Parlia ment in the next session ; and the promoters having received general and most satisfactory assurances of support from the local gentry, landowners, traders, and influential inhabitants, have reasonable ground to anticipate the unobstructed passing of the necessary Act for the formation of the Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway during the ensuing session. Applications for shares and prospectuses to be made to Messrs. Elmslle . and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street ; to the Secretaty, at the offices of the Company, 37, Gresham-street; and to the following Brokers:—.Messrs. Peppercorne, 2, Old Broad-street, Messrs. W and D. Ewart, 13, Finch-lane, and Messrs. Preece and Evans, Lothbury, London ; Messrs. Alston and Gage, and Messrs. Reynolds and Son, Liverpool ; Mr. John Duncuft, and Mr. John O'Neil, Manchester; Messrs. A. and C. Bradshaw, and Messrs. Wellbeloved and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr. James Pearson, Birmingham ; Messrs. Samuel Hutchinson and Co, Bradford; Mr. Vim. Miles, Worcester; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Mr. Thomas Sandford, Exeter ; Messrs. Easty and Sons, Southampton; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh; Messrs. Black and Co. and Messrs. Buchanan and Ai t k en, Glasgow ; Mr. Wm. Gordon, Aberdeen ; and Messrs. Bruce and Syrnes, Dublin. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Proyisional Committee of way the Oxford and S alisbury Direct Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares in the above undertaking; and I hereby agree to accept the same, or any less number which may be allotted to rue, and a l so to pay the de posits thereon, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement, Parlia mentary Contract, and all other necessary instruments, when re quired so to do I am, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant, Name in full Residence Post Town • • .. * Occupation • • • • - Reference • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Usual Signature • • Elinslie and Preston 47, Bl D oo a r t g ed ate . :st . re . e . t, Lend ' • on * r jr lHE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT RAILWAY. No Application for Shares can be received after THURSDAY NEXT, the 23rd instant. The following letter has been received from Samuel Charles Brees Esq., the engineer to this' Company, viz.: "Stoke Newington, 18th October, 1845. " Sir,—l have the honour to report, for the information of the Board of Directors, my return from Oxford. Agreeable to their com mands I made further examinations of the line of country, and have engaged and given instructions to a large and efficient staff of sur veyors and assistants to perform the survey. I have much satisfac tion in adding that my last visit has been such as to warrant the statements made by me at the meeting of the Provisional Committee concerning the elegibility of the line, and have no hesitation in saying that the survey will be completed, and the Parliamentary plans de posited, by the 30th November. "I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your obedient servant, " SAMUEL CHARLES BRE/15. "Engineer in Chief, Oxford and Salisbury Direct ItattwitY " To Z. Hubbersty, Esq. Secretary, Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway." By order of the Committee of Manag(atate. Z. IiUBBEESTY, Secretary. RELATIVE CLOSING PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES IN TB PRISCIP AL CITIES AND TOWNS IN ENGLAND, SQOTLAND, AND IRELAND. NAMES or RAIIWAYS.I Aberdeen • • • • • Airdrie and Coatbridge • • Arbroath and Forfar • • •• Ditto Half Shang • • • • Armagh, Colr., & Pwtrush Bandon and Bantry .• • • • Belfast and Ballymena • • Belfast and County Down Birkillal,Lan.ScChts.Jne. Birmingham and alo'ster Do. New (iss. at 7 dis.) Ditto Half Sharci .. • • Birminghm & Oxfrd.Junc. Blckburn, and Preston.. Illckburn, Darwn,&Boltn Bolton, Wigan, & Liverpl. Boston, Stamfrd and Birm Brighton, Lewes, & Hast. Bristol and Exeter • • Ditto New .. • • • • • • • • • • Bristol and Gloucester • • Bristol and S. Wales June. British and Irish Union.. Caledon. and Ayrsh. June Calcdon. & Dumbar. June Caledonian .. •. . . ..... Ditto Extension • • • • .• Cambridge and Lincoln • • Chester and Birkenhead.. Ditto New Shares •. • • Ditto Half Shares .. • • Chester and Holyhead • • Cheltenham and Oxford.. Chichester and Brighton.. Churnet Valley .•• • • .. • • Clitheroe Junction • • .• • • Clydesdale Junction ..• • • Cork, Blackrck & Passage Cork and Bandon .• • • • • • Cork and Killarney • • Cork and Waterford • • • • Cork and Youghal • • .. • • Canterbury and Dover... Coventry and Leicester.• Derby and Crewe . • • • • • • Direct Lon. and Manchstr Dies, Beceles, & Yarinoth Direct Man. (Remington's) Direct Northern • • •• • • Direct Norwich .• • • • • • • • Dublin and Belfast June. Dublin, Belfast, & Coln e Dublin and Drogheda.... Dublin and Galway ..... Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath ... Dundee and Perth Durham and 'Sunderland East Lancashire (No. 1) Ditto (No. 2) ........ Eastern Counties . Do. New 1)o. Perp.s pr Ct., No. 1 Do. do. N 0.2 East Denham & Norwich East Union ... .......... Ditto Extension .. .. .. Edinligh, Glas., and Dnm. Edinburgh and Glasgow.. Do. Quarter Shares . .. Do. New Quarter Shares Edinb. Leith, and Granton Do. Pref. 5 per Cent.. Edinburgh and Northern Edinburgh and Peebles.. Edinburgh and Perth.... Ely and Huntingdon .... Enniskillen and 51ig0.... Exeter, Yeovil, & Drchstr Ellwood, Prstn, & W. Rid. Unrukirk and Glasgow • • Glasgow and Ayr. •..... Do. Quarter Shares • ... Glasgow and Greenock • • Ditto New... Ditto Preference •..... fllasgw, Drat:ries, and Car. I nsgw, K ilmarnck, & Ard. Glasgow and Belfast tin. Goole and Doncaster • . Grand Juncti0n......... Ditto Half Shares .. • . Ditto Quarter Shares .. Ditto New Quarters .. Ditto Eighths Grand Union ........... Great Eastern & Western Gt Grimsby & Dk Extens. Gt Grimsby and Sheffield tit Sthrn & Wstrn (bind) ])ltto Extension ...... Great Munster.. • • Grt Northern of Scotland Grt Northern of England! Do. New 401. Shares .. Do. New 301. Shares iireat Western •••• • • ••• Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths . Farehm,& Piarts. Harwich Iludrsfd&Man.R.L Caul Huddersfield and She Meld !Tull and Gainsborg ugh .. Hull and Selby.. . Ditto Quarter Shares.. Ditto Half Shy ;17 .. .:•• Inverness and Mr sin .... Isle of Jersey Kendal and NI Pindermere Kingstown and. Bray .... Killarney Jun ction.s Lancaster and. Carlisle Lancaster and' - Preston .. Leeds and Bradford .... Ditto Extension ...... Leeds and Dc swabury.• Leeds and Th 4 Irak Leed I &W. Riding June. Leicester & Birmingham Leicester and Bedford ... Limerick and Waterford Limrek,Ennis,..&Kil. Joe. Lincoln, York.' and Leeds Liv. Man. & N. of Eng. Liverpool andl"Manchester Ditto Half Shares .... Ditto Qua' [ter Shares • • Liverrl,Orm skrk,& Prstn London and Birmingham Ditto Third's.. V . ])itto Quarters —.— London and 31.1ekwall Lndn. Oxfd. do Chltnham. London and 3r ignton • • • • Ditto Consalid. Eighths London and ( )zoydon • • • • Ditto New. ••••• • • • • 1)o. Ouarant. 5 per Cnt. London and C ireenwich • . 1)o. Pref. or Privilege.. London and S , math Weitrn 1)0. New C• tns. Eighths Do. New, 5(11. Shares.. Do. flew, or. Shares.. London and Yoa k . • • • • • • Ditto (Bawt ry) . • • • • • • London and Wistdsor.. • • Londe, Salsbury, & Yeovl Londonderry & Coleraine Londonderry & Xrualskilln Lynn apt Ely .. • • • • Lynn and DereArtm •• • blanche...ter and. Leeds Ditto Halt Shares •• Ditto Quarter Shares I . P 22% g 4 P -P % P - pl, j 218% % P - P, I 68% 1163 7' 146 4%1 32183 j 17356 d 5 - 886d1 7% 218}4 7% 220 Oct. 20. 16786 d ! 32s p! 15s 11% 30 p, 36 4 510 15 - Bs . 6d 3 NPI 1 62s6p' 76s 134 s I ' 74s 5% 16 — Is6d * , i PI 2: 7 /,p S 2 1 27 4I EXETER, Ocr. 20. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Exeter, Yeovil Dorchester, 1 p.—Exeter and Crediton, 6—Exeter, I, and Top- sham, and Kamouth (Daw's line), 1 ,4 p.—Ditto ( Head's), % p.—Central Cornwall and Devon, IA p.—Taw Vale Ex tension, % p.—South Wales, 7—Eastern Counties, 24. HUDDERSFIELD, Oar. 20. STOCK EXCHANGL—The sales are—Essex and Suffolk, 2 —Grand Union, 31. 2s. 6d.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Pres ton, 71. 158.—Nottingham and Mansfield, Si. 16s. 6d. —York shire and Glasgow, 5. HULL, Oar. 20. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Eastern Counties, New, 9%—Preston and Wyre, 43—York and North Midland Extension, 29—Great Glimsby and Sheffield, Quarter Shares, 6 1 4—North British, Carlisles, 4 1 /i—Axholme, 425. 6d. p.— Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, s%—Cambridge and Lin coln, 5 3 %—Derby and Gainsborough, 21. 19s. 6d.—Dudley, Madeley, and Iron Bridge, 355. p.—East Coast, 2%—Grand Union, 3—Great Eastern and Western, 3 1 / s —Great North and South Wales and Worcester, 3% p.—Great North of Scotland, 3%—Hull and Barnsley Junction, 3 p.—Leicester and Bedford, 3%—Lincoln and Wainfleet, 21s. p.—London and Birmingham Extension, 2 Y R —London and York, 5% — Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge, 12s. 6d. p.—Notting ham, Erewash, &c., 6% —Nottingham and Boston, V. 13s. 9d.—Nottingham and Mansfield, 51. 16s. 3d.—Rugby and Huntingdon, 2 3 A—Sbeffield and Macclesfield, 10s. p.—Tean and Dove Valley, 2%—York and Carlisle, 4%—Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 4%. CENTRAL CITY TERMINUS. LETTERS FROM CHARLES FEARSON,ESQ., TO W. H. ASHURST, ESQ., MEMBER OF THE CORPORATION OF LONDON, ♦ND CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE OF CITY LANDS; AND -FROM MR. ASHURST TO THE MEMBERS OF THE COH,PO RATION OF LONDON, AND OTHERS CONNECTED WITH TRADE IN THE CITY OF LONDON, ON THE IMPORTANCE OF A CENTRAL CITY TERMINUS TO THE CITIZENS AND TO THE WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TRADE OF THE CITY. W. H. ASHURST, Esq., Member of the Corporation of London, Chairman of the Com mittee of City Lands, and Solicitor of the Direct London and Manchester Railway Company. London, September 30, 1845. My Dear Sir,—While many of the most wealthy and influential of the citizens and corporators of London have em barked their capital, and lent the weight and influence of their character and station to support the numerous gigantic measures of public improvement which are now afloat, not a single Company exists to direct the stream of capital and enterpriee in furtherance of any local improvement within the City of London ; nay more—amid the mighty changes which are now taking place in the metropolis of the empire, so far from promoting the local interests of the City (the source of their wealth and influence), we find the names of many of our nice t esteemed citizens engaged in speculations, having for their avowed ob ject, to divert into other channels many of the advantages, which as the great centre of communication, the City of London has hitherto exclusively, or at least principally enjoyed. By some of these speculations it is proposed to expend mil lions in constructing great central railroad termini (as they are somewhat oddly designated) in the suburbs of the City ; Hungerford-market Lambeth, Southwark, Nine Elms, Cam den Town Battle-bridge, Finsbury. and other places are va riously talked of for this purpose. Other projectors have pro posed to connect the various existing and intended lines by railways round the outskirts of London ; and yet, amid the countless schemes which the newspapers are daily advertising, there is not in existence, I believe, a single company which contemplates the bringing of railway traffic into the City; although, as the principal seat of all the great banking, mer cantile, and trading establishments of the kingdom, the City is the common point to which the greater portion of metro politan railway traffic would seem naturally to tend. The evil consequences to the City of this vast expenditure of capital in the suburbs may not at present be perceived by those even who are, like yourself, deeply interested in its wel fare, but we may assure ourselves, that " where the honey is there the bees are found." The localities in which these im provements take place will (if the City do not provide itself with similar accommodation) speedily draw around them business establishments of every description, and will ulti mately drain from the City a large portion of the trade, which, if it be allowed a fair start in the race of improvement, its central situation and existing commercial pre-eminence will infallibly secure. - The reasons which surveyors and others engaged in these new undertakings have assigned for excluding the City from all their contemplated plans, is, that the Corporation upon former occasions resisted the introduction of railroads into the City with so much vigour and pertinacity, that specu lators are afraid to peril the success of their projects by en countering so serious an opposition. This objection has within the last few days been broadly stated by one of the active Directors of your Manchester line ; he informs me that the Company would gladly make their terminus in Farringdon-street, if they could obtain the sanction of the City. You, Mr. Ashurst, as an influential member of the Common Council, have much to answer for, if you, as solicitor of the Company, being acquainted with the existence of this feeling do not test the existing opinion of the Corpora tion on this subject, by bringing the subject under the serious consideration of the court. When, as guardians of the public interests, the Common Council thought fit to discountenance the introduction of railroads into the City, the subject was novel and but imper fectly understood. Danger from fire, and annoyance from smoke and noise were apprehended from the use of loco motive engines in a crowded city : besides which, it was anticipated, if one railroad were:permitted to penetrate into the heart of the City, it would be difficult to exclude others, and our principal streets might be intersected in all directions by a confluence of railroads on viaducts concentrating every description of confusion and noise. As an officer of the Corporation I should perhaps act more prudently if I preserved silence, allowed "hissez !tire" to be my motto, confined my labours to the discharge of my official duties, pocketed my salary, and left the City and its interests to take care of themselves. I cannot however per suade myself t,, be prudent upon such terms ; and even at the risk of being set down as a meddler in matters which in my official position concern me not, I have determined to open my mind to you upon this all-important subject, with the frankness and freedom of former times. Being placed in a situation in which I cannot act as I would do were I again a member of the Court of Common Council in which I spent so many years, I charge you by the responsibility you owe to the public (from the high station you hold in the Corpo ration) to arouse the citizens from their apathy, that they may not be deprived by foreign speculators of the trading advantages of situation they have hitherto possessed, and which by a little exertion they may continue to retain., In thus addressing you, you will of course understand that I do but represent my own individual opinions ,—I do not write as City Solicitor ;—I have no authority directly or indi rectly from the Corporation, or either of its Committees, or from any individual member, to communicate with you or with any other person upon the subject. I, however, am by no means desirous to shrink from any personal responsibility which the expression of these opinions may create; you arc therefore at perfect liberty to deal with this letter as you may think proper. I have kept a copy, and shall consider myself entitled to make it public, if circumstances should hereafter render it necessary to show that I am neither in sensible of, nor indifferent to, the serious injury which the the best interests of our city will suffer, if the present golden opportunity is lost, of effecting those local improvements which are absolutely essential to enable it to compete in com mercial facilities with the surrounding districts. I do not desire to excite your attention, and leave your mind distracted by idle speculations or vague generalities. I shall lay before you therefore a specific plan of improve ment within the City, which, for public utility and private profit, need not, in my opinion, fear competition with any of the great projects of the day. First.—l propose that a railroad shall be constructed, from Battle-bridge to Farringdon-street, for the use of such of the Northern, the North-Eastern, and North- Western lines, as shall desire to have a terminus in the centre of the City, and shall be willing fairly to contri bute to the cost of construction, either by payment of a due proportion of the first charge, or by a fixed or fluc tuating rent as may be agreed, by the Company making, and the Companies using, the lines. Explanation.—lt is presumed that this great undertaking may be more effectually, speedily, and economically exe cuted by one of the existing Companies, who are prepared with adequate capital, machinery, and staff to carry it out; or it may be carried into execution by a Company formed for the purpose out of members of the other lines. If the Railroad Companies know their own true interests, they will avoid all foolish jealousies, and avail themselves of the manifold advantages which a combined capital and an united plan of operations will afford, in obtaining for all who desire the centre of the City as the resting- place of their traffic, a great trunk line, and a grand central terminus, equal in capacity to all their wants. The union of the several termini at one central spot will prove equally convenient to the public and beneficial to the shareholders. The railroad may at once be made wide enough for all its customers pre sent and future : capital will thus be economised, costly law and Parliamentary contests will be avoided, and the expense and annoyance will be saved of piece -meal patching and " bit by bit reform." Let the originally defective arrange ments of the Greenwich, South-Eastern, Brighton and Croy don lines teach wisdom to those who desire like them to stop at the same spot. The plan here suggested will, I expect, remove one of the principal objections formerly raised against the introduction of railroads into the City. The dedication of one spot to the accommodation of half a dozen railroads is very different from a proposal to introduce them to half a dozen different termini, by half a dozen dif ferent routes. Secondly.—For the purpose of showing the line proposed, I have laid it down roughly upon a copy of Horwood's map which I send herewith :—I do not mean to pretend that this is the precise line which it will be found ulti mately expedient to adopt ; that will depend upon the adjustment of the gradients by competent engineers, when the levels are taken, and the longitudinal and cross sections are laid down upon an actual survey of the line. It will be perceived that the line pursues (with slight de viations) the low ground which anciently formed the valley of the Fleet River. Explanation.—Besides the other advantages of carrying the railroad in this valley, which will be presently enume rated, it will have the effect of uprooting the haunts of wretchedness, squalor, and disease, which infest the valley, and are, it is admitted on all hands, a standing reproach to the wealthy capital of the richest nation in the world. Any well-defined plan, capable of effectually removing this nui sance, will undoubtedly receive the support of the Govern ment and the Legislature. This part of my plan is one (and I will presently name the other) wing which would materially aid any Bill through Parliament. If, in addition to the intrinsic merits of their own line (of which I l: now nothing) the Direct Manchester" and the " Direct York " want tu gain, from extrinsic circumstances, votes to be used in an apprehended Parliamentary struggle, I advise them to lose no time in appropriating to themselves the merit of abolishing an evil, which Sanatory Commissions and Parliamentary Committees have in vain denounced. Thirdly.—lt is proposed that the railroad shall be worked by atmospheric power. Explanation.—When I suggested this project seven years ago, I thought of working the line by means of a stationary engine and an endless rope. The actual success of atmospheric pressure as a motive power to railroad carriages may cow perhaps be considered as sufficiently established to warrant its adoption, without waiting for any further proof. This in vention may be equally applied to all carriages to be brought to a proposed general rendezvous at Battle-bridge by the various lines, whether worked by locomotive or atmospheric power; and, by a proper disposition of the rails, it is equally available for carriages running either on the bread or narrow gauge. Besides working with steeper gradients and sharper curves, the use of atmospheric power will be attended with peculiar advantages in this case. It will remove the other great objection to the introduction of railroads within the confines of the City; all the danger and almost all the noise which locomotive engines produce will of course be avoided by the employment of this invention. Fourthly.—For the reasons which will presently be fully explained, the railroad is to be constructed in an arcade or covered way, with eyelets at stated distances in the roof, and with cuttings or open spaces at intervals in the centre or the sides, so as to admit of sufficient light and ventilation. Explanation.—The covered way here proposed must not be confounded with an ordinary tunnel, to which in all its ob jectionable features it bears no resemblance. Tunnels are dark, damp, unventilated, and unwholesome. The proposed covered way will possess none of those properties; it will be lofty, light, and dry, and as airy and cheerful as the West. end arcades. Fifthly.—The width of the arcade will be determined by the number of rails it may be found expedient to lay down for the accommodation of the various lines. It must at any rate be of sufficient width, and its roof of sufficient strength, to admit of the upper surface being used as a street for the accommodation and transit of foot pas- sengers, carriages, and carts. - By placing the railroad in the valley, and by slightly raising and depressing the line where necessary, suffi cient headway for the railway carriages will be pre served; and, at the same timt, by a little management of the side streets, easy levels for the cross traffic over the roof of the covered way may be readily ottained. Explanation.—This, in a public point of view, is one of the most important features of the whole plan, and might stti perhaps be appropriately called other if the order did not claim the preference. At present it Call ne v 7, be said that there is one continuous inlet from thennorth; into the City between St. John's-street and Gray In oil By the formation of the proposed street, there wilrhe_ long, wide, uninterrupted line of communication f Obelisk, 131ackfriars, to Battle-bridge, intersecting the in b s oth polis in the centre, and uniting the City and the I f TI north and south, oto each other, and each t° it" l i ie &- provide means for a cross communication between t tricts on each site of the proposed street is a mattero,ilol; of as important to the public convenience as the construb.t The the proposed principal street from north to '°flutlitittor. awkward, irregular, and defective state of Back- 111-, s. t h tie hill, Saffron-hill, and other cross streets, together scot horrible nuisances which now fill up the valley et. tli con ` 11 1„ present a serious imediment to a free communica tween the adjoining districts; and. until tl•ese nuisanc,", removed by some great undertaking of this nature, ?t i n possible that any effectual improvement in the Iscality,Jf o, the condition of the inhabitants, can ever take place. Zito the other hand, this great object is accomplished, by speculation will follow in the wake of public enterer's' uprooting the wretched haunts at the bottom of tbe_ to d. s and by the formation of a great central stree t, the n_ rry oe le ing . property of every description will speedily c' i o he live( f value, and those houses which arc not touch ed by t f tbe p er the improvement wig be soon raised to the level ° Sixthly. to which they adjoin. ist In a public point of view, one of the A r t e.. portant parts of my plan remains to be exe .6055 propose to carry the railroad in the covered Are?nr,, Min Holborn-bridge, so as to provide stations for on the using the railroad in Farringdon-mark et d north-eastern side of Farringdon-street. t don-street he b °"°111 Explanation.—By this plan the valley between , be of Holborn-hill and the bottom of Skinner-seree;ehallhe raised twelve or fourteen feet; and by t hi s means hilt enabled to adjust the levels from the crown of 11° , es in gift to the summit of Skinner-street ;so that insteadof mot this age of improvement one of the main avenues to th e o iS of the City dangerous and almost inaccessible to hear og ' ro sd we shall obtain what may be termed a good t r t l eo from Hatton. garden to the Old Bailey, rising I- or e tbe ll more than one foot in forty feet, and being little 0 1 tbe the rise in Fleet-street, Which is one in forty-°ti one° present moment the fall in a portion of Holborn -hi" , to Fi eld ; seventeen feet ; and from the west of Hatton-ga r- It re -W ee lane it is one in twenty; and the average of Skin ° tbs is one in twenty-five. 41 4 Some years after I had suggested my plan s't brio' of 5 4 ° 3 northern railroads into Farringdon-street P lea- se vered way, an eminent surveyor was employed hi vying the bitants of the locality to devise a scheme for rerao4e s ' dangers and difficulties of Holborn-hill and Skion'nteopir without resorting to a viaduct which was then in ~ tion to carry the traffic from one summit to the otl' e j eu istl After a careful survey, and a close and minute e,e_norter of the expense, this gentleman reported that this n .,7 11 1i/ bu improvement might be effected for 80,000 h, required to defray the cost of taking down an d r o e ], otb e o ll some of the houses, and altering and adjusting. s ° stree t ' •Se which " bu iisieg in Skinner-street, Holborn-bill, and Farring", °n• ro ad. would be affected by the altered levels of W e t ionle ll e . method at that time presented itself for provi ding now aist and the project fell to the ground ; the case is ork /9 rially altered. The Manchester Direct Line , th e th ei t to - 1 Line, the Tottenham Extension Line, all wan „d Gf es to Farrington street; and the Binninghaln , 1 0 or t'h Western in spite of themselves must come 1n 1 0 Iry will be distanced in the race for public f ist -our • competition will compel them to engage. 0 0 4 4: Farringdon market and a portion o f the wr - t dd aw e ; party at the northern end of Farringdon-street 1 1 1 ) . , ofele I at a comparatively moderate expense, sites an 1 1 1 „.-" cte sis for the termini of all the Northern and North - "a e tifi ce l t ) North-Western lines ; stations might be made ther hos ele o i if required even six times- the size of the ter,l n ste re. s t be now accommodates the Brighton, South- I ' l e is in ,it Croydon lines. The spot chosen for this purge exact centre of the metropolis ; it is near to theups abuts on one of the widest and most important t1 1 , 0 ,,'; (lc in the kingdom, opening into streets intersecting _,,,wouniloe all directions, and leading by direct channels of L' es , es y q tion to any part of the metropolis, and thence t ° sod ter d e he globe. s s. at le r g e ;pis ti Inailing the advantages which the public from the citizens of London in particular, will derive_„ ~eeW that opens out so many improved means of intel; iseit„ls• tion, and brings the elements of increased trade „,,a wi t y doors, I must not forget that lam addressing TpabliCniti ness, professionally engaged in promoting a gr es iseir cs llle dertaking, in which those who have enibarked le o f naturally and properly expect a remunerating remesitibout Directors may perhaps admire my project as a d o ll solf public utility ; but, without mature reflection an to consultation with their able engineers and surve , ' ° l 4 , bnla considerations of this nature more appropriatebiantell they may think its cost will more than counte r ite riv e n itbe profits which as a railway company they o uld -pa - 1 ,13 the undertaking. I have carefully examined th t e be li j e c o ut Junction Railway, as proposed in 14:36. and al s° l e d it' down on the map as a contemplated line for th,e be t ki s s Company, nd# I have no hesitation in saying , i s t eser,e; of the line I have proposed can be procured far a enrol' sum than that which is described in either of tb: rs s ei f,bl rtf , of this fact, however, you can easily assure Y°The itself, ploying competent surveyors to examine - - (I en t ois: Upon the comparative expense of a viaduct an ea se way your engineer will speak ; the saving of rai d ;eo . will be effected by combining in one line se, c , e b ,sieg s for the several companies, instead of their all rd lines for themselves, is too obvious to need a "" of " to mentary. e s rot In speaking of the comparative cost of two n o u ght{ o, structing a railroad in a populous district, 1,44;0 to omit mentioning an important distisguishing 'er r , tlinter plan. To all persons who have been engage d j e i O h o ' el r rations it is known, that where you have to de se ibie oft mixed property in crowded situations, it is W 1 30 4 410 taro the ground you actually need, without Put ° 005114' as far as the railroad is concerned is of no tt se ; rft ilto r i property is usually sold; but, being close to o ver, O is lt duct, it of little or no value; by my plan , 11°,1s tbe have a frontage to a wide and level street, all", fra'Al of ground will acquire a large additional IS ob it generally improved state of the neighbourboouto win from the improved value of the other prop e rt Y 11 ' e will adjoin. e be re cp It would be out of my province to state wha t c i t es e; s tes,' return in the shape of ground rents for building side of the new street from Battle -bridge to its f erY street ; your surveyor will readily supply' il s' e j t t ° lbc 4 culation. These ground rents, which will amnw - or tion lae sum of money, will be sold to defray a P stlie birt, cos; the Corporation . has sold the ground rentsrds Of q i adjoining their new streets in the City at ncr i prob s ot 'es: l l, l years' purchase. This very high rate wou .os ey il ser now be maintained, but I am confident your s' so . s et o te report to you that the building sites of the new a ceri this project will call into existence will yi eld 11 0°1: return towards the cost of its construction. eag - si g' l s While writing upon the subject of expens,f__ farnore„ serve, that when first I projected'this plan . M,` ,„ t tile° seer street had not been commenced, and since iitool,taft, houses towards the northern extremity of the l itt le pia ii erected ; these alterations are however of b ut It W -. 10 1- and will not create much additional expense; t ot' , fortunately, be necessary to take down t o b ion .stl t ik e s e houses on the eastern side of New Farrls , i ( „ e br rtL ee g tof tis convertingthefirst floors into shops they wi ll " deds"fgei e with the carriage -road and pavement of the inte is ° o obe.„ ° or the covered way ;from th e inc r eased traffic d i lch, l° ," re ttse g to that spot, they will in all probability he'll—ton. dot to a greater extent than the cost of the alters tO Committee, like men of business, will be disporiot teert ib nise the project with great caution, I think i t s r an anticipated objection by observing that Th e 0 0 ; 0 10 1 0 a gineer has looked at the site in reference to the e•„ h l t ia gas and water-pipes, &c. along the line, ond 1e"... el 'is the map of the sewers with the levels figure, of fieee tb st be after a conference with one of the intelligcn'a I sewers in the Finsbury district, he info llae ia en" should on this head experience no difficulti es " de be line that could not be readily overcome. Arse. A ilit b •il 6 I shall now bring this lengthy epistle to a ' oc tet; , e 0 know that I have omitted to state any fac t c°n an' ose subject which is within my knowledge, neithlead ;11 0 1,4 of having written a sentence calculated to nn - sot l e may peruse my letter for the purpose of forinioqeots.; de . , e ment upon the subject of its contents ; l esp eet,'„ebel o neither a surveyor nor an engineer. I cannot or tsn' t se that your friends should adopt such an free ° ge l e a without first receiving the fullest satisfactionwin t?eillrerr men by whose advice in those matters Yeinrefessi°es of In times past I communicated with several P oi o re ~ upon the subject, and I have never beard front oil any objection which did not after a little to e it!g io si the ground. the p l" se l3 Your engineer will of course find, both ltt „ ip , to my the execution of the measure, some diffi cuil a -Tch () %1 1 n ere' some to overcome ; they will, however, be i ; vo oo - , to P t i t e inseparable from every great undertaking. . I „ r eel,c d ; 0 ( . 0 ; think proper to direct their engineers and ?_s„liettorpri Pier" pare a plan and section of the line, the 5 1 "_ 1 e te plan and the facility of its execution will e- o s 8 , 4 (17,011 00 there will be no engineering difficulties to de c i i i tllge, j ab , cise of any extraordinary skill. Capital is l ibe 0 .011; 10 1 , required ; and although the first outlay wl t hen o t quite sure it will be reported to you as le ss °thew .° the required to obtain a City terminus b)' the 531e 1 li t) ril l When from this sum is deducted the return ~ ,,a r ev a l rents will yield, and when the balance is ein' ti r ie be money value of the immense traffic will ° t it °' be capable of conducting, I am quite confide') ...ietso ilea one of the most profitable projects which 0 ° sl pital has called into existence. the " existing Now oor nsepvi spirit ' o ' quiescence will ensue. If the plan be , now f m en us te t r b p e ri t s h e e s m nh o s t i t d o es o , f soceee a' t i l e of iefluence and capital, it is certain over, and it can never be revived. If not .0 ,( sss his pt lced fore another era of enterprising speculatio a t t eb l r;# l c r il l be power of effecting the improvement will has e_Z t elf, t s ji W 1 1 44. less some step in the right direction be imnu er i,evil to ' t een . : ""for projected street from Holborn -bridge t° • ros e Sc ° I se'se; continued upon the low level on which it remit , be. to A viaduct at Holborn, from summit to su n ' pet heP etl eie & sot, the fiftieth time again proposed, and In s a .Y, CitY t to co4ale nay more, an overwhelming necessity fo o ll ra tion ts . Se se a northern railroad may induce the C ' l 7 l+ e stre. i ontsl ll . i t to one or more railings upon viaducts ove r evil ,ise • s ,e e , tens eir either of these measures be adopted, th e deal; alt is destined to remove will be made Pe r P s ,d; an .Zing ea' barrier to improvement will be interpos eec t uprooting a mass of wretched habitations'e_l;ll in e ,7 o ,le: s at, sites to the influence of light and air,:„ s ess hoe . ',, t ser demn them to continue in a state of e _w ti e r o bedl e 4: c ote diless debasement.—l am,mv dear Sir, ":°, 7 , 1%. 1350 $ A citizen of London, and for 0 _ co s member of the Comm E 94. ef t° TO CHARLES PEARS 13 - , ma o let" l a CHARLES nPl.s•any yeacrsv.t. t of Y our ir o. l Dear Sir—l acknowledge the reee.l l _ clis,bat o 30th - ce loolonn to t ,he „c of the City Lands Committee, and 'se s" It was perhaps natural for ,you to addr,e.-to the h t e p ocv s),, happen to hold the appointment of s . 4 ., to s e ', bov e and 'Manchester Direct Railroad Compal,._o eel !lo ci ,' El dOi n g tit (u r 14 9 i e O s n te t d o b as rin te g a in c t e o n d t i r s a c l u c ss i i t o y n T t e h r e rn c i o n nsid b er , atio You have placed me in a difficulty c os e must therefore allow me to take the bes t ne: w siel o ) publishing your letter, together witit.°' n dr e e c s t e ed t, virtittihe the emtrabedrse of f f tthhee cCi.ovrpoofraLo7l.la_',.o.ls,l::: t of eletb o o r o tll r •It being addressed to me as the Ch 4 . t l „ .n i e, dear oir, s —0); potation should see it.-1 am, v v. .4 Committees, I think it right that ecy.ers es l9° TO THE MEMBe.RS OF THE _ _ THE CITY OF LO,Nll)„‘;_s:charles 4, Id, Gentlemen, —Having received fr_o2. --- . I %Pso FOB THE REMAINDER OF T O' Tll TS 1).1 I. SEE THE SUPPLEMENT Tv f g na t} hod by -o".tirs trusliop Ilof London : Printed and Pubhs t 77,e su „ . 1 11 1 ti v^^ ll No. 112, Strand, Printer, a sa Strand, in the Precinct of the S Y.) 21 18°. Middlesex, Tuesday, October FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Midland Grand Junetien Railway. Gentlemen,—l request you will allot to me shares of 251. sach in the Midland Grand Junction Railway, and I hereby undertake to accept that, or any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit of 21. 12s. Cd. per share thereon, and to execute the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required, Name in full Profession or Trade Residence Place of business Reference Date— FORM OF APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF SCRIP, To the Secretary of the North London Junction Railway Company. Sir,—l herewith transmit to you scrip certificates of shares held by me in this Company numsered as at foot, and I undertake to make the further payment of 14s. 61. per share on the said shares, forth with, and to execute the new Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of 1845 Christian and surname in full • • Business or Profession ...... . • • • • Residence • • • • • • • •• • FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the North London Junction Railway Company. I request you will allot to me shares of 201. each in the capital of the above-named railway, and I will accept the same or any less number, and pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when re quired. Dates the day of 1845. Christian and surname in dill •• •• •• Business or Profession •••••••••••• Address.. • • • • • • • • • • ••••••••• NORTH LONDON JUNCTION RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given that no further Applications for Shares cax be received after THURSDAY, the 23d instant, in order to enable the Company to be fully prepared to proceed with their Bill in Par liament at the next Session. By order of the Committee, H. B. FAINALL, Seereterf • Office, 8, Flita bury - place South. Ditto Sixteeriths • • Nianclis r and7ti rkenhead Manchester & 131 rininghm Ditto Quarteer Shares • • Ditto Yew Quarters . • • Do. Con. & Welsh June. Ataurthestr, Bolitn, & BurY Ninclistr,•Bux•ta, *Matik kfan. Shef. and'. mid. June !loneliest' & Fiouthamptn Midland • • •• • • Ditto Fifths • • • • • • •• DiVo New -• ••••• • • • • Do. ( ion. 1111131.& Derby Milled UtWitstrn (Irish) Do. Extension to Sligo Newest I Sr. Daitngtn Juno . Do. New (Etrundling) • • Newcastle and 'Berwick • • Newcastle and Carlisle. • Nwestle, Durlsam, & Lan. Newport & .A.bergavenny NCR' ry al id Enniskillen • • Newqrk and Sheffield . • • North firlish . • • • • • • • • • Ditto New Shares • • • Northern and Eastern • Do. Scrip (Iss. at 5 dis. Do. Quarter Shares • North ltevon • North Kent • • • • • • • North Staffordshire •• • North Eastern.. .• • • • • North Union(A).. • • • • • Ditto (13)• • • • • • • North Wales Mineral. • . Ditto New 3hares • • • Not tit Western .. • North Wales .... ••• • • Norwich and Brandon • Ditto New.. Not., Belvoir, & Graathm Nottingham and Boston • Nutt., Er wsh. Val. & Man. Nottingham 8r• Mansfield Oxford and Birrning.Junc Oxford and Worcester • • Oxford and Cambridge • • [WEIL and Inverness-- Portsmouth Direct Preston and Wyre Ditto Half Shares Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. Guar Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. & div. Preston & Wyre Extens. Richmond & W. End Junc Rugby and Huntingdon , -Scottish Central Scottish Midland.. Silent:ld and Mancheker Ditto Quarter Shares Ditto ditto (No. 2) Ditto ditto (No. 3) . • Sheffield and Lincoln.... Sheffield and Rotherham Shrewsbry & Grand Junc. Shrewsb., Wor., & Crewe Shrws.,Wolv., Dudl, & Bir iihrwsbry & Trnt Val. Um. Slims, I lerefd,& N. Wales Siamannan South Devon . South Midland South Eastern and Dover Do. New (iss. 321.) No. I Do. (155.33/.65.8d.) „ 2 Do. (iss. 301.) „ 3 Staines and Richmond Staffordshire & Shropshire Stirling and Dunfermline South Wales Tears and Dove Valley Trent Valley Do. and Holyhead June Vale of Neath.. West London, Old Shares West End & Sothrn Coun. Wexford itxd Carlow Warwick and Cheltenham Waterford and Kilkenny Watrfil,Wxfd,Wick& Dub Wakefield arid Bradford Wakftd, rentzirct, & Gool Wakefield and Harrogate Warwick and London . West Lancashire........ Worcester and Tring.: Whiteharen and Furness Do. New Half Shares.. Welsh M ialland.. West Cornwall • .. . • • West Yorkshire Wilsontwn, M. & Coltness Wilts, Somrst, & Weymth Wilts, Soinrst, & Southain Yarmouth and Norwich.. Ditto New. ..... York and Carlisle York and North Midland Ditto Halt Shares .... Ditto :.;extthro' Branch Ditto Selby ..... Ditto Extension ...... Yorksbite&alsgow Uan. YORK, Oar. 20. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—lpswich and Bury, 4 1 / 6 —Newcastle and Darlington Junction, New (Brand ling), 55 1 A—North British, Carlisles, 4 1 A—York and North Midland Extension, 29 1 / 2 —Cambridge and Lincoln, 5% — Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester, 3 1 A — Direct Northern, 3 1 4—Grand Union, 31. 3s. 6d.—Leicester and Bedford, 3% 2 —London and York, 6—Newcastle and Berwick, 18 3 4—North Kent and Direct Dover, 4 1 A—Welsh Midlands, 4/. Is. SPECIAL TRIP ON THE CROYDON ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY. Yesterday a special trip took place on this line of railway, preliminary . to its opening for public accommo dation, in order to afford the friends of the directors an opportunity of testing the atmospheric principle of iropulsion. After partaking of a very handsome cold collation provided by the Company, in the long room at the London-bridge station, the directors and their friends left by a special train at five minutes before two o'clock, and arrived at the Dartmouth Arms station in about fourteen minutes. The train, consisting of ten carriages, including the piston carriage, and weighing above 50 tons, was then placed upon the atmospheric tube, and instructions having been communicated by means of the electric telegraph to the stationary engines at the Jolly Sailors and at Croydon, the carriages were set in motion at Trecisely ten minutes past two. The speed on first leaving the Dartmouth Arms was twelve miles, increas ing during the progress to 18, 25, 32, 40, and 50 miles a'a hour respectively, dividing the whole distance of five miles into six periods. The whole distance was accom plished in eight-and-a-half minutes. The average speed was upwards of 30 miles per hour. After waiting at the Croydon station about half-an hoar, the train returned to the Dartmouth Arms, at an average of 28 miles an hour, the distance being accom plished in about ten-and-a-half minutes. It must be re collected that this was not so much an experiment of speed as an exhibition of the practicability of the prin ciple. After remaining a few minutes at the Dartmouth Arms the party returned to London. We could not help observing the very striking difference in the oscil lation of the locomotive train as compared with that on the atmospheric line, the balance being immensely in favour of the latter. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert and the Queen Dowager rode out in a pony landau and four this morning, attended by the Viscountess Barrington, in the Home Park and the grounds adjoining the Castle. On the return of their Majesties and Prince Albert, his Royal High ness went out on a shooting excursion, accompanied by the Marquis of Worcester, the Earls of Denbigh and Morton, and attended by the Hon. Colonel Grey and Mr. Anson. The royal party returned to the Castle at two o'clock. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken for their morning rides and walks. In the afternoon all the Royal Family walked out. Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington arrived at the Castle, on a visit to the Queen. Her Majesty and the Queen Dowager and Prince Albert rode out in a poney phaeton and four, attended by the Coun tess of Mount Edgecumbe, this afternoon. The Viscountess Barrington, the Hon. Misses Kerr and Napier, followed in another carriage and four; and the Earls of Denbigh and Morton, and the Hon. Colonel Grey, rode on horseback with the august party. The Marchioness of Worcester walked in the pleasure grounds this afternoon. The royal dinner party this afternoon will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Daw son, the Rev. Frederick and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and Col. Sir George Couper. The band of the Grenadier Guards was in attendance dur ing dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards at tended in the Castle. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the West India Colonies. THE THEATRES, HAYMARKET. The Lady of Lyons was revived at this theatre last even ing, for the debitt of Helen Faucit and Anderson, who have been engaged for twelve nights. As neither of these artistes have appeared in London for some time, the public curiosity was excited, and the house was well filled before the thing of the curtain. Helen Faucit, who appeared to be all the better for the change of air and change of scene which she has: enjoyed in her somewhat lengthened provincial excursions, acted the part of Pauline as she alone can act it. She was the original Pauline, and although many others have attempted the part, and have acted it well, too, yet none have approached Helen Faucit. Her reception was a glorious one, and she never acted better than she did last night. Anderson was the Claude Melnotte. He has been vastly improved by his practice in America. He has acquired greater confidence in himself, and if he gives him self fair play, he will become, not only first of the second-rates, but a first-rate actor. It was evident, in his acting last night, perhaps too evident, that he had taken Macready for his model, but on the whole, :his Claude Melnotte is superior to Macready's—there is more energy, more improvisation, if we may be allowed the term, in his acting, than in Macready's. In the acting of J - Macready it is evident, painfully evident, that every atti tude, every intonation, is the result, not only of study, but of .almost calculation--he has not yet attained the highest reach of art, the ars celare artem. Now, with Anderson, the ef fects seem more the result of the inspiration of the moment; they burst more suddenly upon the audience, and appear to be least; the result of calculation; besides, his youthful appearance giv es him a great advantage over his elder competitor. The play war a very well cast as regards the other characters, and Mr. Stu art, who appeared as Beauseant, in consequence of the illness of Howe, made a great deal of a very mediocre part. Am lerson and Helen Faucit were called for at the conclusion, and received with loud applause. ADELPHI. An operatic, romantic, magical, semi-burlesque Terpsi chorean burletta, in two acts, by Charles Selby (we like to be accurate in these matters, and therefore we quote from the playbill), 'yclept Taming a Tarter, or Magic and .1114- z aurkaphobia, founded on the grand ballet spectacle of Le :Diable a Quatre, which is nightly drawing crowds to the .Academie Royale, at Paris, was produced here last evening with the most triumphant success. It is at all times a .difficult task to give the plot of a ballet, and when that ballet is semi-burlesque, the difficulty is greatly increased. We are, however, in the present instance, relieved from our diffi .culty, because, although this ba let is borrowed from the French, it is. after all, but a payingus back our own, for Le Diable a Quatre is only a ballet version of the old English story of Jobson the cobbler, and his wife belly; and in this in stance Wright is the Jobson, here called Mazourki, and transformed from a cobbler to a basket-maker, and his wife is Madame Celeste. The great lord with a termagant wife is en acted by Mr. Braid, and the termagant lady herself finds an excellent representative in Miss Woolgar. The change of wives is brought about by the instrumentality of a magician, who is aided by certain fairies; and this machinery enables the adapter to introduce several pretty dances and some beautiful scenic effects. As a spectacle it is magnificent. The music by Adolphe Adam is pretty and appropriate. The costumes are magnificent ; and Wright and Munyard, Madame Celeste and Miss Woolgar, aided by Paul Bedford, act and dance admirably. Mr. Selby himself, too, as a maitre-de-ballet, contributes his quota of burlesque, and, in getting up the piece, he has managed to amalgamate his fun and his finery in such judicious proportions, that he has pro .duced a very laughable farce and a very splendid spectacle ...at one and the same time. The house was crowded to suffo cation. LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—Great numbers of the labourers who have been employed on this - railway, especially at Shap and its vicinity, are leaving for the Caledonian. A great cry for workmen having been :raised, they anticipate high wages will be given. Saturday last was the monthly pay-day, and for some miles on each :side of the Shap not a dozen men have resumed their work; ;some disputes between the sub-contractors and the labourers .having taken place, the departure of many of the labourers tfor the Caledonian has been delayed in consequence; and 4during the past week drunken brawls, fights, and scenes of the most riotous description have been hourly occurring.— fear/isle Journal, [ADVERTISEMENT.]—A CURE FOR ALL BILIOUS C 03/PLAINTS BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—A destructive blue pill cc •mposed of calomel, taken at night, and followed by a drastic ack draught the next morning, seems to be the favourite re edy for bilious complaints, when poison in fmall quantities is Ls; srcely less injurious. For all liver, stomach, and bilious com p% tints, let the patient take Holloway's admirable pills, a pure he rbal preparation, and for a time drink no wine, beer, or s pi rits, nor eat of fruits or vegetables. By this course he will not o n ly effectually cure himself, but will also feel himself younger aa d better in health than for years before. To be had at pro fessor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand, London. and of all medicine venders throughout the civilised world. TEE HARVEST.—Though the weather has not be en uniformly favourable during the present week, we have bta d several fine harvest days, and a good deal of the corn th. at was in stock in the fields in this and the neighbouring cof anties has been secured—we fear, not in very good condi the n, but we hope not essentially damaged. It would pro • bA blv :not be an over-estimate to say, that not less than a tin ith of the corn grown north of the Humber is yet exposed to , the hazards of the weather, so that the deficiency already ase ertained to exist in the harvest may be still further in , c,.e ased. Beans would also suffer from wet weather. Potato gr a :hering for the winter supply will soon be general should this weather, on the other hand, be dry ; at all events, it caftmot safely be delayed beyond the Ist of November. The pi n raise of this root in Yorkshire and Lancashire is still gee d. It is not improbable, from the result of observations w;ai 'eh have been made, that the disease will be found most ex:t 2nsive on ill-drained soils.—Leeds _Mercury. (GLASGOW PIG-IRON TRADE—During the past w eek, we have not had so much excitement in this trade as in the course of the week prior. The market of late has be en operated on mercurially, according to the state of the we lather. This is owing to almost all the large transac tio as at present reported being speculative, in anticipation of w extensive demand, based, however, in a great mea sure; on the result of the harvest being favourable. October 9th, the market heavy—no sales—nominally 95e. cash. 10t1 a, sales to-day at 958 , but closed heavy. 11th, the markt et firmer, sales at 925. 6d. ; buyers at this, but few Belle's I. 13th, few sales to-day; sellers at from 925. 6d. to 955.. but few buyers. Sales made founders at 90s. 3 me. --- 14th, sellers at 925. 6d. ; but we do not hear of any trans action s above 925. We are aware that some dealers are open to bn y largely at advanced prices on time—say four or six is' bills; but we quote monied transactions. The pricy* Ais day is 925., nett cash.—Glasgow National. L t'll a, 4 l 'ilL a li C h v6t 4/01 .._.., t. -_____ th4 l4p „1 1 11 ta e .4t, t ! 414,41t1;:i ter 4.1) 1 U,)