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PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. DIRECT SHEFFIELDWAY AND MACCLES FIELD RAIL, great and important Bail Ways in Forming Junctions with all the Great Britain. • (Provisi o nally Registered.) C a pital 600,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. b important line, commencing at the terminus of the Man and Sheffield tlailway, in the populous manufactUring town Sheffield, will proceed in a direct course by or through Hope, 4fathersage, Castleton, chapel-en-le-Frith, and Whaley (the great canal-port of tbs 'Potteries), to the terminus of the projected Man chester and Macclesfield Railway, at Macclesfield, the total length of the line being nearly thirty miles. This junction stands in the very centre of the entire railway sys tem of England, and will complete the chain of railway communi cation between the river Humber, the towns of Sheffield and Mac clesfield, the Staffordshire Potteries, the Salt Wiches of Cheshire, the City of Chester, Liverpool, and Birkenhead, Bangor-Ferry, and the Harbour of Holyhead. All the necessary arrangements are in pro gress to proceed;to Parliament at the ensuing session. • A detailed prospectus, containing the names of an influential Pro visional Committee, &c., will be published in a few days. Meantime applications may be made to the Solicitors, Messrs. "anemia and Fry, 62, Markdane, London ; and G. A. Coleman, ESQ., A, New Inn, Strand. By order, GEORGE F. HIRE, Secretary. THE HUDDERSFIELD AND EAST AND WEST COAST 3 DIRECT RAILWAY, onnecting Liverpool, Manchester, Huddersfield, Barnsley, Goolp, Great Grimsby, and Hull ; with a communication to the Metropoljt, from or near the Cudworth Station of the North Mifilind Rally/art, (Registered Provisionally.) ir o . Capital, 1,000,000/., in 50,000 Shares of Deposit 2k 9s. per Sharo. ?.•• It compliance with the Standing Order of the Honk of Lords. The objects of this undertaking are—first, to establish one cOn-, hnuous, and a more direct and shorter line of railway communica 'ion between Liverpool, Manchester, Huddersfield. Barnsley, Goole, treat Grimsby, and Hull, than at present exists, or is proposed by my other scheme now before the public ; secondly, to give the be nefit of railways to several populous and important intermediate places now unprovided therewith"; thirdly; to afford increased fa cilities to transit to the whole intervening district ; and fourthly, to seen a communication from Huddersfield, southward,' with the me tropolis. • The Legislature having, during the recent session, sanctioned the Staking of - a railway from. Minehester to Huddersfield, by the Sad ileworth and Marsden Valleys; a communication is thereby secured betwixt the pcirt Of•LivernOol and Huddersfield ; a similar conlmuni- Nihon is now called for with the Eastern Coast, and in order to ac * *fish the same, it is therefore proposed to make a line, cora xiencing at, or near, the station in Huddersfield, of the Huddersfield aind Manchester Railway, passing through the Kirkheeton and Kirk burton Valleys, by way of, or near Barnsley, to or near the Cud worth station of the North Midland Railiviy, there forming a junc tion with that railway (bywhiett a' toranimiUtion with the metro polis will be obtained), and thence, proceeding. to _Goole, Great Grimsby, and Hull; by the nearest practicable routes: In order to Sect the requited objectn, , at- scuttle expense; incites - son the dis tance as much as possible, liberty is reserved to form junctions with any other tsxisting.or.prejected railways. :On reference to a map': be seen that the construction of the proposed llne, with the existing and projected railways, will attain not only the several objects before stated, but also that it will pane through, •or near, several of the most extensive and celebrated coal-fields, beds of stone, and limestone, and other mineral districts, Ih the Walt Riding of Yorkshire. It is impossible, in the limits of a prospectus, to enumerate or eltimate the benefits to be derived from this undertaking ; .2naking Huddersfield the centre of communication between the two - seas, uniting it by means of the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway to Liverpool on the west ; and by the proposed line, to the three ports of Goole, Great Grimsby, and Hull, on the east ; and the line passing through a densely-populated commercial and manufacturing part of the kingdom, as well as a highly-cultieated . agrioulttiral district, will afford a ready transport to the natural productions of each locality ; added to which, it is well known that considerable portions of such manufacturing districts have hitherto been very inadequately sup plied with coal, 'and also that there is a daily increasing demand by the outports of that article for exportatfoit ;• whilst on the other hand the superabundant produce of the rich agricultural districts of York shire and Lineolnehire, bordering upon the line, are in equal demand for the manufacturing population. • 1 The immense traffic, both through and lee il, which must pass upon the line, will afford ample remuneration to the capitalist. A great part of the- line will pass through a country favourable for the construction of a railway, and the remainder presents no difilcul tks of a serious character. In the construction of the line, every en diavour will be made to cause the least possible infringement on the rights or claims of existing railways, or injury to private property. A portion of the shares will be reserved, at the discretion of the Committee, for such railway companies at this line may form junc tions, or be connected with. The liability of each Shareholder will be restricted .by Act of Par liament to the amount of this! subscription ; and power will be taken by the Act to; allow interest, at the rate of per cehtum per an num upon the paid-up capital, from the date of each payment until the completion of the railway. - . • - • I !Applications/or shares may be addressed, in the annexed form, to either of the uadernientioned aharebrokers, viz.:—Messrs. Bally and Hammondt Angel-court, Throgmorton-street, and Mr. John Dobson, Commercial Hall, London ; Messrs. Cameron, Cazenove, and Taunton, Liverpool ; Messrs. Johnston, Bradley, and Walker, Man chester ; Mr. William Moore. Mr. John Gatliffe, Mr. Frederick Tur ner, and Messrs. John Wilson and Co. Huddersfield ; Mr. James Hervey, Halifax% Mr. Walter Smith, H alifax and Elland ; Messrs. Smith and Perfect, Leeds ; Mr. William liodgetts, Barnsley ; Mr. John Dads, and Mr, David Foster, Goole ; Messrs. Flint and Tootal, Mr. Samuel Phillips, and Messrs. William, Caley, jun. and Co., Hull ; Mr. J. P. Loft, Great Grimsby ; Mr. Thomas Fir th, Ponte fract ; Mr. Joseph Nelson, Settle ; Mr. J. W. Haythorn, Notting ham ; Messrs. Williams and Sunderland, Leicester ; Mr. J. N. Balme, Gloucester ; Messrs. Thomas F. Dickinson and Co., Newcastle upon-Tyne ; Mr. Peter , Watt, Glasgow ; and Messrs. Stuart and Murray, and Mr. David Kinnear, Edinburgh ;or to • WILLIAM JACOMB, Esq., Huddersfield, Secretary to the Company. 5 The names of the Provisional Committee and of the several officers of the Company will be published in a few days. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Huddersfield and east and Wesi _ _ Coasts Direct Railway Company. _ _ Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot me shares of 201. each in this undertaking, and I engage to accept the same, or any lass number that you may allot to me, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per share, and to saga the Parliamentary Contract and Sub sCribers' Agreement when required. _ - .S7ame in full . • • •• • ...... ••• • • • Residence Profession or Trade (if any) ... Place of ISAshaess (if any) .••••• • • • • • Date of Application ......... •••• • • • • Reference • • • • • • IRISH WEST COAST RAILWAY (Registered , Prdyisiemilly.) • Capital, 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares 0f•251. each. - lleposit, 21.125. 6d. • (No Subscriber to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.) Mark Blake, Esq., M.P., Robert Dillon Browne, Esq., M.P., Glencorrib, Mayo John Patrick Somers, Esq., M.P., Sligo Sir Thomas Bernard Going Dancer, Bart., Modreeny House, Clough- Jordon, county Tipperary, Director of the Galway and Kilkenny Railway Thellon. Geoffry Browne, D.L., Wilton-crescent, London, and Castle *Garrett, Mayo The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Palteney, Parliament-Street, Whitehall, ea .... -..- Resident — gag -j istrate, Sanders Park, -Cork Owen Edmond Blake, Esq., J.P., Frenchfort, Galway William Butler, Esq., J.P., Bunnahow, Ennis (late High Sheriff of Clare) James F. Burke, Esq., J.P., St. Clarence, Galway Dominick Joseph Burke, Esq., J.P., Greenhill, Mayo Theobald Burke, Esq., J.P., Woodville, Mayo William Campbell, Esq., Sackvnle-Street, and Brighton John Carmichael, Esq., T.C., Rirertson House, Cork, Director of the Cork and Killarney Railway Charles Collins, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge, Director of the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Jamaica Railway Thomas Comfits, Esq., Ballybrit House, Galway Edward Deane, Esq., J.P., Curragowan, Mayo James Dillon, Esq., J.P., Cogue, Mayo John Dunn, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S., L. and D., Drnmsna, Leitrim Thomas Edwards, Esq. King Wi ll iam -street, London, Director of the Direct London and Dublin Railway Robert Fiske, Esq., Chepstow, Monmouthshire Robert Graham, Esq., J.P., Drumgoon, Fermanagh Klein Grant, Esq., M.D.. St. Jamea's-street, Pall-mall, Director of the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Jamaica Railway Henry Griffith, Esq., D.L., 'Port Royal, Sligo, Director of the Sligo and Shannon Railway W. A. Hill, Esq., Lonedele-square, Deputy Chairman of the Gloucester and Aberystwith Railway Dean John Hoare, Esq., Percy-street, Bedford-square Robert Hughes, Esq., Ely House, Wexford, Director of the Provin cial Bank of Ireland John Kerschner, Esq. ' Middle Temple William King, Esq., Spring-gardens, and Putney, Surrey John Knox, Esq., J.P., Greenwood Park, Mayo Joseph Myles *Donnell, Esq., J.P. Deocastle, Mayo Capt. Charles Carden . Mansergh, L ongraigue, Wexford, Director of the Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia Railway Capt. Newton, Bruton-street, and Lugwardin, Bert@ Francis R. O'Grady, Esq., Tavrane, Mayo Richard O'Grady, Esq., Tavrane, Mayo Charles Ormsby, Esq., D.L., Cnmmin, Sligo Michael Perrin, Esq., Galway Robert Dudley Persse, Esq., Galway Rees Price, Esq., M.D., Tyne Hall, Great Ilford, Essex Richard Polhill, Esq , Brompton, Middlesex Joseph Richardson, Esq., J.P. Summer-hill House, Clones Thomas Seymour, Esq., J.P., Ballympre Castle, Ballinaslo43 James Sexton, Esq., J.P., Limerick S. W. Simcockes, 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., M.I.C.E. BANKERS. London—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co. Seotland—Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank Ireland—National Bank and Branches Provincial Bank and Branches. STANDING COUNSEL—James Monson Carrow, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Langley and Mead, Bedford-row, London. William Thomas Kelly, Esq., 16, Mountjoy-square North, Dublin, and Castlebar, Mayo. LOCAL AGENTS. Galway—Captain F. O'Shaughnessy Castlebar—Mr. Henry Murphy Sligo—Mr. W. C. Tuite. SECUTAIIY—Iienry T. Stuart, Esq. PROSPECTUS. The object of this line of Railway is to complete the chain of coast communication, and form a connexion with line/3 already established r projected with reasonable hopes of success. -• • It will commence at or near the city of Limerick, and taking a nor therly direction, proceed through the•cotmties ofClare,Gtilwity, Mayo, and Sligo, terminating at Sligo, by a junction with the Sligo and Ennis killen Railway, and accommodating on its route the important cities and towns of Limerick, Ennis, Gort, Loughrea, Athenry, Monivea, Tuam, Ballinrobe, Castlebar, Westport, Foxford, Ballina, Knells, Swineford, Streatastown, and Sligo, which town being connected with the north, east, and south, by the different lined through Enniskillen, London derry, Coleraine, Belfast, Armagh, Newry, Dundalk, Drogheda, Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Valentia, Tralee, and Limerick, the establishment of this line will cause Ire land to present a completeness of locomotive communication which no other country In the world enjoys. The country through which the proposed lihe 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 in an equal degree to the province of Leinster. The lead, Iron, marble, and slate works on its route, will be Tendered available to the most distant parts of the island, and Perhaps not the least advantage, in a national point of view, will be the establishment of an intercourse between the population of the extreme north and that of the extreme south, as well as placing the trade of, and communication with, Scotland, within the easy reach of all towns of any importance in Ireland. Added to this the cer tainty that on the completion of the projected southern, eastern , and western lines, the noble natural harbours on the Atlantic shore o f , Ireland will become the British k de probably the established pots of American traffic, and moat between the twe countriePs!te_et stations for postal communication this truly national prol ection. it is impossible to over-rate the value of The counties which tiiie railwaypig traverses abundantly supply the English markets with cattle, so many ports, will afford the 8 . B, e• This line, communicating with theelltest facilities for the shipping of this portion of trade, some idea :.,7,, x. tent of which may be formed from the fact of some of five hu , the fair of iss.ilinasioe, ac- 1 in its immediate vicinity, among tt ' i l en r i ed fai re being held annually knowledged the greatest for sheep and cattle In the British islands. It has been ascertained that the co r, and in communicationgs acilities for the constrUctlon of a rr trY Pregtnt3 greet engineerin ' which have been received from the I:llWdaownors along the line, the greatest anxiety is manifested tbr 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 Butner; pti oni. In the 'act —and in the meantime is Power will be applied for alter the capital, if necessary. to hereby given to the Committee —to %to make branch lines, or vary or abandon any part of o a f n y t h o e t h I e l n r enter Into arrang ements also to nominate the first directors of the c o mpany r companies ; and The Parliamentary contract and subscribers 7 ready for signature on payment of the deposits. agreement will be It will be seen from the plan that the railway intersects man y lines, and will thus contribute t o, and receive from them main siderable amount in passenger and merchandise traffic. a eoa- From the estimates that have been made, a return of at least 10 per cent. must be realised on the capital. Application for shares to be made in the usual form to the Solid tars 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 , —Messrs. Martin and Heseltine, Finch lane, Cornhill ; Mr. D. B. Major, Ch ange -alley, Cornhill ; Mr. An s Zef TVs Liverpool ; Messrs. Brady a n d S tan i forth, Manor-street, A.. Ormdrod, Man c h es t er ; Messrs. Watson and Co., LeWtr - Mr: - Gear, ge Edwards, Bristol ; M essrs. Tyeth and Wi ll s, PlyznOta; Mr' T. Sandford, Exeter; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh; -- Klein. WErt anclAtlld,.Glasgow; Mr. William Gordon, Aber , . A wn ; meats. ,c, and Power, Dame-street, D u bli n; -Mr. halal , (11104440Ca1t, f whom Prospectuses may be had, , )rtis MANCHESTER and RUGBY DIRECT RAILWAY, via MACCLESFIELD. .Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share. PEOTISIONAL COMMITTER. The Hon. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Itancheeter and' Birmingham Continuation Railway John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Part-lane, Hyde Park John Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, banker Sir John Pirie, Bart., Alderman of the City of London, Di rector of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam racket Com- Q R 11 PaRY William Hughes Hughes, Esq., Alderman of the City of London, late M.P. for Oxford, and late High Sheriff for Hints - James Henry Attwood, Esq., Seymour-street, Portman-Square George Adam, Esq., White Lion-court, Cornhill John Bagshaw, Esq., Director of the Northern and Eastern Railway Joseph Brown, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng land Junction William Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway William Henry Forman, Esq., Upper Thames-Street Capt. George Probyn, Bryanston-square Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng land Rail Way Josh. Underwood, Esq., Director of the Commercial Bank of London William Langley Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex • J The Hon. Geo, Browne, Lowndes-square, Belgrave-square Sir Geo. Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square Sir Henry Richardson, Chessel House, Southampton '3lr William Wynne, 5, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of - the e:,-North Wales Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Southampton , -'and Portsmouth Railway . • Sir G. A. Lewin, Upper Harley-street, London Sir :William Young, Bart., Westbourne-street, Hyde-park Sir John Hare, Langham-place Themes Kelly, Esq., Alderman of the City of London The Mayor of Newbury, Director of the Oxford, Southampton. and -Portsmouth Railway.. . John Addis, Esq., of Rotherhithe, Surrey, Director of the Centre -Terminus, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Office The Rev. J. Harvey Astworth, Nes. bury M. W. C. Alston, Esq. Birmingham W. C. Alston, Esq., E lmdon Hall James Atty, Esq., Rugby ll'ogh Beaver, Esq., Manchester William Fechnez Black. Esq., 19, Wilton-place, BelgraVeeeqttare , Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Company Joseph Browne, Esq., Bedford Captain Burney, R.N., Gosport William Bardgett, Esq.,' Old Broad-street and , Carshalten, SONY, Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Company Samuel Swann Brittair, , Esq:, Sheffield Charles Baker, Esq., Southampton William Bland, Esq., Brixton, Director of the North Wales Railway George Burnand, Esq., Sussex-square; Hyde Park William Bevan, Esq., 48e Conduit-street. Bond-street, Director of the North Wales Mineral Railway Jacob Bell, Esq.; Langham-place, London W. E. Reyes; Esq., Alkerton, Banbury, Director of the East and West of England Railway Henry Brown, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Shef field and Manchester Railway, and Chairman of the Direct-West ern Railway .. George Borrett, Esq., Southampton Lieutenant-Colonel Burslem, North Hants Charles Bailey, Esq., Winchester Henry Baker, Esq., Mark-lane, London IL Burney, Esq., LL.D., Gosport John Burgess, Esq., late Boroughreeye, Manchester Joseph. Beech, Esq., 15; Grosvenor-place .George Bovill, Esq., Mill-wall, Poplar Louis Buckland, Esq., Lloyd's, and Avenue-road, St. John's-Wood Robert Beman, Esq., Donnington House, Stow-On-the-Weld, Glou cestershire W. Bailey, Esq., Wolverhampton F. F. Clossman, Esq., Mincing-lane John Chapman, Esq., Leedenhall-street, Director of the Devon and Cornwall Railway S. J. Capper, Esq., Adelaide-place, London -bridge Edward Chapman, Esq., Strand, London, Director of the Richmond Railway Sheldon Cradock, Esq., Manchester Philip Warner Courtenay, Esq., 26, Capel-street,Balgrave-sqaare Edwin Cadman. Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Direct Western Railway , Francis Carleton, Esq. . . • James Clift,.Esq., Bloontsbury4quarn ' • Robert Cruickshank, Esq., Gosport John Churchill, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Manchester - and Bir mingham Continuation Railway Robert Charles, Esq., 23, Endsleigh-street, Tavistocit-square Joseph Cragg, Egg.; Queen -square, Bloomsbury Colonel GeorgeLdsbrowe, Chester -square, London William Dredge, Esq., Newbury . Janiea•Denis - Devitre, Esq., 7, Grosvenor-street; Grosvenor-square, Director of the North-Western Railway George Dunlop, Esq., Southampton George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield . . Robert Dunwoodie, Esq., Manchester Richard Dyott, Esq. Freeford . John Alcock Dixon,Eeq., Burnley, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Capt. Farrington, R.N., West Cowes, Isle of Wight E. S. Farrow, Esq., Newbury W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq., Old Broad-street, Director of the Essex and Suffolk Railway F. B. Freer, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon William Tulloch Fraser, Esq., 5, Manchester-square John Fawcett, Esq., Broom Hall, Sheffield, Director of the Great Western Railway W. E. Gray, Esq., Newbury Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds - H. P. Gipps, Ewe, Montague-place, Bryanstone-square Captain Augustus Heyman, Cadogan-squara Themes Charles Higgins, Esqi; Turvey House, Bedfordshire Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgsbaston, near Birmingham, Director of the East and West and Birmingham and South Stafford shire Railways Joseph Hapgood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the East and West of England W. H. Hornby, Esq.,Blackburn George Calvert Holland, Esq., Sheffield John Newington Hughes, Esq. St. Michael's, Winchester William Hill, Esq., Manchester John Haddon, Esq., Director of the East and West of England Rail way Company W. Bayley, Esq., Manchester Charles Haigh, Esq. Manchester James Home, Esq.:Clapham Common, Director of the North Lon don Railway Company John Memming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park. Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway T. A. Hall, Esq., Ashfield House, Newcastle, Staffordshire Frederick Hewitt, Esq., Clapham, Surrey J. IL Blase's, Esq., Manchester . . . Theophilus -Hodges, Esq., Connaught -terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway - William Jecomb, Esq., Hudeersfield. Director of the East and West ; of England George Jones, Esq., Redland, Bristol . V. Clarke Kernball, Esq., 6,-Chestereplace, Hyde-park J. Kinlbch; Esq., Gloucester-road. Hyde-park, Director of the North Wales John Knill, Esq., Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and South Wales Junction Railway Charles Kelson, Esq. Teignmouth, Devon, Director of the East and West of England Esq., William Knott, Esq., 4, Adelaide-place, Director of the Richmond Railway M. R. Kymer, E. Hastings, Snare rt c..A.a.us .14CLIIILle. IT lIILILMJIV, Awl., •P tunes-street, tsucrangitam, late Director of the Worcester,and South Wales Railway Henry Ledgard, Esq., Wood-street John Dawson Lowden, Esq., Doughty-street, Director of the Rich mond Railway James Lees, Esq., Crescent, Salford • Joseph Liggins, Esq., Kensington, Director of the Southampton Dock Company J. H .Leckie, Esq., Richmond ' Stephed Lewis, Esq., Director of the) South Wales Railway James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde Park-square, Director of the Trans, Reading, and Basinstoke Railway Samuel Lovell, Esq., Bedford F. Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester,plaee, Regent's-park 1 William Mills, Esq., Newbury Joseph Maunder, Esq., Ashford John Mallesdn, Esq., Wimbledon, Director of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway W. Menne, Esq., Mansion-houseoplace. London. Director of the South Staffordablre Railway George Miller, Esq., Director of the Centre Railway Terminus Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington Charles Musgrave, Esq., Melverton-hill, Leamington R. F. afushet, Esq., Birchin-lane, and Coleford John Marshall, Esq., Hornforth Hall, near Leeds, late Mayor of Norwich John Macfarlane, Esq., Director of the Sheffield Railway /a. Moore, Ewe, St. John's Priory„Banbury William Nash, Esq.. Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway William Nicholson, Esq., Manchester Cornelius Nicholson, Esq., Cowan Head, Kendal, Deputy-Chairman of the York and Carlisle Railway Captain Alexander Nairne, Director of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company Joseph.Naden, Esq., Dudley Edward Norris, Esq. Manchester George Partatry, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the East and West of England Railway Apsley Pellatt, Esq., Director of the Staines and Richmond Railway Thomas Parker, Esq., Spring-gardens, London John Clarke Prescott, F.sq., .31anettester William Simpson Potter, !Esq., :of Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Di rector of the •Oxford. Whitney, and - Cheltenham Independent Railway - • . James Paxton. Esq., Rugby Richard Burton Philllpson, Esq., Rugby N. M. Priaqlx, Esq., South Western Steam-packet Company, Southampton . Stephen Phillips, Esq., Director of the Whitehaven and Furness Railway Charles Phillip', Esq., Camberwell, Surrey Edwin Preston, Esq., Manchester , . William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the Manchester and Car lisle Railway . Richard Ricketts, Esq., Bristol ... George Rougemont, Esq., 9, Chester-terrace, Regent's Park, Director of the North London Junction Railway Thomas Rolls, Esq., Bank, Chipping Norton Thomas Robinson, Esq., Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital David Roxburgh, Esq.. Bloomfield-road, Maida Hill Hartley Sager, Hall Grove, Coins, Yorkshire Major Charles T. Selwyn, of the Royal Engineers, Exeter, Director of the East and West of England Junction Charles Slocock, Esq., Newbury Edmund Slocock, Esq., Newbury . Christopher Shapland, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Bristol and Gloucester, South Devon, and Cornwall Railway Companies W. &allot - Ise, Esq., Daventry T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the-Richmond Railway Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park • E. Shawcross, Esq., Manchester John Stewart, Ern, M.P. for Lymington, Director of the East and West of England Railway T. 11. Sheppard, Esq., Towcester W. Tebbutt, Esq., Manchester Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, Director of the London' and Birmingham Railway Thomas Thomson, Pq., Stratford-on-Avon J. Tinker, Esq., Manchester Charles B. Fripp, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Jersey Railway J. Underwood, Esq., Blackheath Park Thomas Varley, Esq., Shorsten Hall, Melton Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton Charles Fenton Whiting, Esq., Beaufort House, Strand, Director of the Richmond R.: ilway B. M. Wilcox, Esq., Hantsrill°, Torquay . John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield Fire and Life Insurance Company George Whitmore, Esq., Austin-friars, Deputy Chairman of the North Kent Railway Thomas Woodham, Esq., Winchester W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the Yarmouth and Waveney Valley Railway Daniel Watney, Esq., Wandsworth, Surrey W. F. Wennington, Esq. Walsall Smith Willock, Esq., Birmingham W. D. Wills, Esq., Bristol A. H. Wylie, Esq., Liverpool George Young, Esq., Denmark Hill, Surrey, and Mark-lane (With power to add to their number.) Rsmus—Meyers. Masterman and Co., London. ENGINEER-IN-CHIET. ACTING ENGINEERS. • Messrs. J. 13. and E. Birch, Westminster Brackstone Baker, Esq. SoLieiTee--John Bethell, Esq., 78, King William-street, London. That another and a more direct line of railway is necessary between the metropolis and the manufacturing districts around Manchester, is now fully admitted, and the question is, which is the best line to be adopted. The above proposed railway will form the shortest and most di reet route from London to Manchester, and will therefore complete the direct communication with the metropolis at a much less expen diture of capital than by either of the projected London and Man chester lines (Retnington's and Ashurst's), the actual distance to be constructed being only 73, instead of 170 to 180 miles. careful preliminary survey has determined the promoters of this railwaytohfethp:e.eltonetadtitioopt nearly a straight lene from Rugby to Macclesfield, s an increased expenditure 0(200,0001. or 300,0001. judicially applied in een of state of civil engineering, and at the reduced cost real econete _ , earth works, will prove in the end a far greater the annual b o t h 4 r.ms. to the the Company itself in the saving effected in to the eonutry i n 'i w o r kin g. and also, what is of more importance, same end pi. 0,,,,, gene ral , by a n e ntire and distinct line from London to Mancheste r . othThereee' p arTinse s i t e h r o ati h e a na ve_ai lle so ve p r n° opo t the beeftet.ll.llllcienturtlyeketeptrtactin to o vie p w urs b u y e to Macciesneld, bn Rau Th w e a P y a i r s li a am par en a tar lei s valleys gftl an y lose the tahventaddvtientr,ge4lr devi ero ar a r ....A ties n l7i tie- . a railway from Rugby , which woreat thattlraeg in"eets' odaseeele,l°theiendtbli—oeethu,,Qte.ll°.,rth.,:e4CLobtlompooaufnythae country, difficulties to overcome, and m e -- 1 --- ; — ;', 7 7"...uith preen d Stumm adopted by Parliament in prefer: vin t - o - - e - r —? .. ° ,,, utl ,Y Wing more in a more or less sinuous direction nneth- - " -.ll t ving been in the House by very influential parti es . - supported Should it be found neceasary, arrangements h e e.„. which additional lines of rails will be laid betwee n - tL7b ' .! ..,Anlady..° by don on the London and Birmingham Railway It -- , -- th' .---- ."'n y- traffic northwards will be abundantly provided f w or bereb ' --- curette This line also possesses the singular advantage of affording sn. Shelton hill most direct route from Kuucheeter to So ut hampto n, Gosport, and Portsmouth, a feature presented by no other proposed railway. By adopting the Rugby and Oxford branch of the Great Western as far as Didcot, and thence the proposed Oxford, Southamp ton, Gosport, and Portsmouth line, the distance from Manchester to Southampton will be twenty-three miles less than by any other route, and On this account the project has been warmly supported by the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Company. The deviations from a perfectly straight line between Rugby and Macclesfield to avoid high ranges of hills, ornamental parks, or valuable buildings are very slight, and the line in general offers no engineering difficulties of any magnitude. The towns more directly interested as a local line are Nuneaton, Hinckley, Atherstone, Market Bosworth, Burton•upon-Trent, Tutbury, Ashboume, and Leek. The Company has made arrangements with the North London Junction Railway Company, whereby it has secured the use of their' station (of the extant of six acres) in the centre of the City of London, at the bottom of Moorgate.street, which will prove of the utmost importance to this line. Amidst the many railway projects that now occupy the public mind, and involve a vast outlay of capital, it will readily be conceded that a line that will attain such important. results at so small an outlay of capital, and the time required for its construction, and without interfering with any existing vested interests, must meet with general approbation, and at the'same time offer a Very excellent investment for capital The shareholders in the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Ports mouth, in the London and Birmingham, and in the Manchester and Birmingham Railways, will have a preference in the allotment of the shares. The deeds will provide that no call shall be made on the share holders beyond the deposit now paid, until the Act of Parliament is obtained, and power will be taken in the Act to allow 41. per cent. interest in all calls. Application for -detailed prospectuses, maps, and shares, may be made to the Secretary, at tke Office, 78, King William-street, City, London, and the followirg sharebrokers :—Messrs. R. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, 22, North-side Royal Exchange, London, and George Burpand, Esq., Cornhill ; Messrs. Houghland and Leese, 51, King-street, Manchester ; John Wills, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings, Liverpool ; Messrs. Wellbeloved an 1 Oastler, Leeds ; Messrs. Ed wards and-Son, and W. If. Land, Esq., Bristol ;J. R. Lane, Esq., Birminghanx; Messrs. Garton and Wright, Sheffield ; J. G. Ker shaw, Esq., Iludderstleld ; F. C. Spencer, Esq„ Halifax ; Messrs. Ilall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; -Henry Beaumont and Co., Southampton. Exeter . P. 'Lemon, Esq., Bath ; and Joseph Clar k, Esq., FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway Company, viA Macclesfield. I request that you will allot to me of 201. each in the capital of the above-named railway, and I will accept the same, or any less number and will pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per Share, and sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated the day of Name 1845. Address . • • .. Profession . ...... • • Reference •• • • .. • • MANCHESTER and RUGBY DIRECT RAILWAY, vii MACCLESFIELD. The Provisional Committee beg to announce, that practical Engi neers of great experience have gone over the proposed Line, and have satisfied the Committee that the country is perfectly practi cable for railway purposes. They have -11kbwise •the satisfaction to state, that Contractors of known - respectability are willing to execute the whole of the works within the estiniate in eighteen months, thus putting the matter of time and money beyond a doubt. PRELL3IINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. ELY and WISBEACH DIRECT RAILWAY, through Littlefort, Friary, Irpwall, and Ontwell ; to com mence at the City of Ely, where it will form a junction with the Eastern Counties and Norfolk . Railways, and proceed from thence to the important Town and Port of Wisbeach. (Registered Provisionally.) Capital, 250,0001., in 12,500 Sharer of 201. each. Deposit, 21. per Share. Distance, Twenty-four Miles. This railway will be the nearest route ftom London to Wisbeach. Prospectuses, with the names of the Provisional Committee, and other particillari of this important branch of railway, will be pub lished witt: as little delay as practicable. In the meantime, ap;llca tions for shares may be addressed to - • , • • . • HENRY F. RICHARDSON, Esq., Solicitor to the Promoters, 36, Coleman-street, London. NORTHAMPTON, BANBURY, AND ' CHELTENILL3I RAILWAY. • Offices, No. 3, Princes=street, 'Westminster. • Notice is hereby . given, that the Deeds of this Company will, on Monday next, be sent 'intO tht country for'signature, and conse quently no scrip can be issued at these offices after Saturday, the 20th inst., until Wednesday, the Ist of October. 'Sept. -18, 1845.. JAMAICA, SOUTHERN, EASTERN, AND NORTHERN RAILWAY, FROM KINGSTON TO MON. TEGO BAY._ Office, No. 43, ii , foorgate-street. Capital 1,500,0001., in 30,000 Shares of 501. each. Deposit 21. per Share. A Reservation of Shares for the Proprietary, and others interested in the Island. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Majoi-Gen. Sir Love Parry, K.C.8., Madryn Park, Caernarvonshire Sir John Key, Bart, Alderman of London, King's Arms-yard Sir John J. Hensler, Bart., F.R.S., Upper Bedford-place Sir George Rich, Bart., 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square P. S. Butler, Esq., M.P., Queen-square, Westminster Themes Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London Major Adair, U.S. Club,• Pall4llfill, Director -of the Church of Eng land Insurance Company Joseph Bishop, Esq:, Director of the Blackviall Railway John Blunt, Esq., Upper Bedford-place, Director of the London Docks Charles Collins, Esq., Caldwell Hall, Worcestershire Henry Cornfoot, Esq., Copthall-court, Director of the Commercial Bank, London Captain Edwards; Baker-street, Portman-Square • Thomas Edwards, Esq.; Bethel-place, Camberwell Lieuanaxit-Colonel Gullies, Cambridge-terrace F. W. Hamilton, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square Klein Grant, M.D., 73, St. James's-street, Pall-mall D. J. Hoare, Esq., Percy-street, Bedford-square D. T. Johnson, Esq., AldermaryChurchyard, Director of the London and Manchester Railway Francis John Lambert, Esq., 6, Kensington Gardeng-terrace Francis Lloyd, Esq., 10, Crown Office-row, Temple James Macmillan, Esq., Southampton, Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway Thomas Newte, Esq., Harley-street, Director of the Barbadoes Rail way James Reeves, Esq., Cheapside and Leyton, Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway Edward Scard, Esq., Kew, Director of the Toronto and Lake Huron Railway. _ B. M. Senior, Esq., Compton Lodge, Jamaica, Magistrate of St. Elizabeth's J. G. Senior, Esq., Leonard-place, Kensington, and Jamaica Algernon W. B. Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park, Di rector of the Barbadoes, and Great Eastern and Western Railways W. C. Beare, Esq., Porchester-place, Director of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Railway William Fitzgibbon, Esq., Director of the Cork and Bandon, and Cork and Kilkenny Railways John Joseph Keene, Esq., St.Joha. 's -wood, Director of the National Bank of Ireland William King, Esq., Waterloo-place, Director of the Freemasons' In surance Company Henry Cremer, Esq., Lime-street, and Barnes, Surrey John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars Charles Bleaden, Esq., Adelaide-place, London-bridge, and Coulsden Court, Surrey, Chairman of the Licensed Victuallers' General Firo and Life Assurance Co any allot uroit, 15, Kegent-street mp , Deputy Chairman of the Chester and Manchester Railway Company John King,Esq., St. John's-wood, London, and Glastonbury, Somer• setshire — • JehnLilley, Esq., Worcester, Director of the Somersetshire Midland Railway J. Haines, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham John Burgess, Esq., the Boroughreeve of Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junc tion Railway Captain D. K. Pulteney, Parliament-street Jeiemiah Clark, Esq., Macelestleld ___(With power to add to their number.) Excimmas—WAllam Grayatt, Esq., F.A.S. ; Jante - s PlThrow, Esq., C.E.; Frederick Braithwedte, Esq., M.I.C.E. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street. BANKERS—Sir Claude Scott, Bart., and Co., 1, Cavendish-square Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., 29, Clement's-lane. The great difficulty, delay, and expense attending the transit of passengers and goods from Kingston to Montego Bay and the inter mediate ports, either by sea or land, is well known to all persons conversant with the islan I of Jamaica. The average passage by steamer between Montego Bay and King ston, occupies ferty-four hours ; and the costs, including expenses on the route, amount to nearly 51. each passenger, while the quickest journey by land occupies three days, and the expenses, including horse hire, reach nearly 201. By the railway the whole line will be traversed in eight hours, at an expense not exceeding an average of 30s. per passenger. The difference in the freights between the northern and southern sides of the island and England is such, that independently of the saving of time, this railway will enable proprietors on the northern side, after payment of the costs of transit, to ship their produce at much less expense than at present, and will afford them the advan tage of shipping at all times from the very excellent harbour of King ston, instead of being confined, as they now are, to the exposed ports f the east and north of the island. The line will commence at a spacious quay, to be constructed at Kingston Harbour, with a depth of water sufficient for vessels of the largest tonnage employed in the export trade of the Island ; at or near to which point it is proposed to form a junction with the King ston and Spanish Town Railway, and proceed thence by or near Rock Fort, Yallahe, Morant Town, Port Morant, Plantain Garden, Man chioneal Harbour, Port Antonio, Buff Bay, Anotto Bay, Port Maria, t. Ann's, Duncan, Martha Brae, and terminate at or near Montego 1 ay. By these means a line of intercommunication will be formed b etween the most important and populous places, and facility offered for carriage of the produce of the most production portion of the is/load. Through the southern portion of the line, the physical features are gentle elevations, almost parallel to the principal range of moun tains, which run east and west, nearly the len g th o f the island ; the eastern portion, from Port Morant to Plantain G ar d en, is almost v northern runs an exceedi ng l y r i ch country, ri e shio e n l lge ; into hills other by spacious Vales. The of the country traversed by the lin e a b ounds in the staple ar ticles of sugar, coffee, rum, molasses, ginger, pimento, amid other spices, dye wood, drugs, &c. ; and as more than one-third of the land is still uncultivated, the production of these articles will, by the increased facility for traffic, be greatly Increased ; and cotton, indigo, cocoa, &c., and dry stuffs, at present unirnported, will again be brought into extensive cultivation. Timber of great variety abounds along the line ; besides the pimento tree, which flourishes spontaneously, there are mahogany, lignum vita, ebony, Spanish elm, fine cedar, and other trees of enormous bulk, The line will also bring largely into use the valuable pabnette , and various other woods for agricultural and household purposes, and cabinet works. Tho mineral wealth of the country oil the liee is very considerable ; lead ore is extremely rich and heavily impregnated with silver ; whilst - every variety of copper ore is found in abundance. Carbonate of lime, valuable as manure, &c., of which Long Mountain is com posed, will form a considerable item in the tables of traffic. The peculiarly favourable circumstances attending the construction of this Railway render it Highly probable that a considerable portion of the capital demanded will not bo required, as every materials necessary for its formation is to be found on the line, and should the atmospheric principle of propulsion be adopted, the necessity for cut tings and embankments will be generally superseded. A gratuitous grant of the unappropriated land required for the lint, and the free use of all the timber, stone, &c., necessary for its con struction, will, it is exp ec t e d, b e ce d ed by th'Legislative Assembly ; —the mineral wealth; which may be developed by the construction of the line, will accompany the grants of the land, and may be leased to capitalists its the benefit of the Shareholders. Of the varicas imports, and the internal traffic, a satisfactory esti mate can sea rely be given —it will be sufficient to state, that Coals, Fish, Lime and Salt, empty Puncheons, Shingle; Bricks, Hoops, Lead, Timber, Provisions, Cattle, Flour, Tobacco, Hardwares, and Manufactures generally, form important sources of profit. The working expenses of the railway will require but a moderate per centage, and from all the circumstances already stated, and'egre ful inquiries into the traffic, there can be no doubt that this line of railway will yield a very remunerative return upon the capital re quired, and the speedy communication established between the island and Great Britain, by means of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, will "enable the Directors in this country to exercise an efficient control over the management of the affairs of the island. The Committee propose to make provision in the Local Act for the payment, of per cent. interest upon the amount paid upon the shares from file passing of the Bill until the opening'of the line. Applications for shares in the usual 'form may be made to the Provisional Committee, at the offices of the Company, 43, Moorgate-street ; to Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, solicitors, 47, Moorgate-street, London ; and the following Sharebrokers 5. 11. Ellis, 17, Throgmorton-street ; Messrs. Preece and Evans, 39, Lothbury; Mr. D. B. Major, 2 7, 'Change-alley, London ; Messrs. Schroeder and Ashlin, Mr. W. A. Brown, and Messrs. Alston and Gage, Liverpool; Mr. John Clegg, and Messrs. Green and Tate and Nash, Bristol ; Mr. Wm. Miles, Worcester; Mr. F. Stamp, Oldham, Manchester •, Messrs. R. B. Watson and Co., Leeds ; M essrs. Hull; Mr. James Pearson, Birmingham; Mr. Samuel Hutchinson, Cheltenham; Messrs. Eyre arid Shaw, Derby; Mr. Thomas F. Di c k- Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., and Mr. William Lee, Bradford ; onson, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Mr. F. C. Spenser, Halifax; Messrs. Thomas May and Co., Exeter ; Mr. Joseph Clark, jun., Southampton; Mr. Samuel Clerk, Edinburgh; Mr. Wm. Gordon, Aberdeen; Messrs. Black and Lorimer, Glasgow ; Mr. Percy Bolger, Garden-street, Dublin ; and Mr. C. Forster, Cork ; and of whom prospectuses may be had. To the Provisional Committee of the Jamaica Southern, Eastern, and Northern Railway. Gentlemen,—l request that you will allot to me shares of 501. each in this undertaking, and I engage to pay the deposit of 2/.' per share upon the number allotted to me, and to sign such deeds as may be necessary, in furtherance thereof, when required.—l am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name in full .• •• • • ........ Trade or Profession .... • • . • • • • • .. Residence.. Place of business (if any) .•••••• • • • • • • Date ................ .. a Wood - is prepared nearly as hard as iron, and in that climate is more durable. JAMAICA, SOUTHERN, EASTERN, AND RILAY. Notice is hereby giv N en ORTHERN , that no f ur the r• application for shares in talt hise r undertaklng can •be received from Allies resident in London r ia lm it e n Tit . m i s t D h . : Y o t tuu he x 2 y s t a h ft d e a r y s o A f rmi Sep o t A em y, by le in 2 s 7 ta th nt d ; a a y nd or il• s om ept p e a m ri be ie r s ISM order; • • • - NIT MSLIZ and PRESTON, Solicitors. B Pt. 18,1845, THE SUN, I.;DON FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1845. D IRE CT WE - STERN RAILWAY (rp , r Ervin London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and Bridgewater respectively. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 3,000,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 21. 12s. Gd. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. _ The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid land Railway, Brookes' Club, St. Jarnes's-street Sir Francis Dugdale Astley, Bart., Everly House, Pewsey, Wilts Sir Henry Webbe, Bart., 105, Pall-mall - Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple, 3, Carlton Gardens Howard Elphinstone, Esq., M.P., 10, Eaton-place, London Ralph Neville, Esq., M.P. for Windsor, Hill-street, Berkeley-square Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P. for Totness, 6, Parliament-street Hon. Percy Evans Freke, 3, Belgrave-square Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Earl., 32, Grovienor-place, London William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Manchester and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway Companies Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of „ London, Director of the Direct Manchester and London and Direct Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company Tooley-street, Alderman C F i a t r y n of ln Lo b n d E on sq , " an G d ri fi l " l: e s ch l o V r h o arf f;the .London and theThoofm a 5 c° Westmin ster Bank, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington; and-Kidder minster Railway Thomas Challis, Esq., 32, Wilson-street, Finsbury, Alderman of the City of London Edward Harrisson Barwell, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the North ampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway, and Director of the South Midland Railway Joseph Armitage, Esq., Mihes Bridge House, Huddersfield, Deputy Lieutenant and a Magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, Chairman of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway William Gordon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde Park, Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and South Midland Railways • - Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Biansfwick-square, - London, Deputy Chairman of the Trea Valley Continuation Railway Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe _ _ Philip W. Courtney, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, London Millis Coventry, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street Barnet L , Philips, Esq., Corriwall•terrace, Regent's Park, and George-street, Mansion House John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent, Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Boswell Middleton Joiland,- Esq., H o m oroosa .House, near Hull, Deputy Lieutenant and Magistrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire Charles Robert Coleman, Eeq., Irongate Wharf William Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director of the Devon and Cornwall Banking Company • Charles Downes, Esq.; Warwick-atreet, Charing-cross, Director of the South Midland Railway Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace,' Regent's Park, London, Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and the South -Essex Railways Francis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester -street • John Griffith Frith, Esq., Austin-friars, Director of the Londonderry and Coleraine and the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railways John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Life Insurance • company James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart:court, Lomba-street, and West Heath House, Erlth, Kent,. Director of the Luth 'Staffordshire Railway Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon street, London H. G-Atkinson, Esq.,-I/Pner Gloucester-place, Regent's Park George M'lntosh, Esq. ' 127, Seymour-street, Portman-square Frederick Solly Flood, Esq., Alpha-road, Regent's Park, London Major White, 105, Pall-mall, London, Director of the South Midland Railway Charles Bleaden, Esq., Coulsden-court, Surrey, •Chairraan of tke Li censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company J,,G. Hammack, Esq., Essex House, Mile-end-road, Director pf the Licerised Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company Patrick Fres. Johnston, Esq., Great Cumberland-place Joseph Bishop, Esq., Crescent, Minories, Director of the London and Blackwell Railway Company _ IV. D. Bruce, Esq., F.S.A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's, and Ripon Cuthbert Woodstock, - Esq., Grove-road, North Bristol( Robert Andrew Ridden,' Esq:, 23, Bryanstethe-street, Portman square, Director of Tting; 'Reading, - Old Basignstoke, the Exe ter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and the Great Western Extension Railways Georg Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London, Assistant Tithe Commissioner William,Hagan,.Esq., 60, Baker-street, Portman-square William Breyn,lon, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway Richard Harris Purcell, Esq., Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon don, Director of the Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway Company Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London and Blackwell Railway Company Charles James Heath, Esq., 6, London-Street, Mark-lane Captain E. N. Trowbridge, R.N., 11, Eaton-square Anthony Ridley, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury, a Director of the St. Katherine's Dock Company William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-plice, BelgraW-Square . Charles Thomas Warlle, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charles street, Berkeley-square James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor place, London Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, county Cork, Union Club; Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail way Company Safnnel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London William Congreve Russell; Esq.,. Leamington, Warwickshire, Di rebt6t of the Warwickshire and London Railway ' Henry Bradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire John,William Yerbury, Esq., Belcombe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d Light Dragoons Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity square,'London Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire John Gillyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hornsey Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-building-s, Bath Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Berke Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath Rev. Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Balls Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County . _ Henry Toogood Davis, Esq,, Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the County Rev. Chas. Frm. Bamfylde, Rector of Dunkertan, near Batk Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Birming ham Railway Company R. Wootten, jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director if the Buckinghara shire Railway and Wolverton Junction Richard Mortimore, Esq., Kingsmill, Collumpton Rev. John Sydenham, Collumpton Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton Charles Justice, Esq., Collumpton,'DEVOß Richard Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton, Colonel Henry Dundee CaMpbell, forth End House, Portsmouth George Pearce, Esq., Bradnlnch House, near Collumpton Wm. H. llalconab, Esq., Ctxillon, Hungerford, Chairman of the Berke Union Banking Company • • William Holcomb, Esq., - Marlborough, Manager of the Wilts and Dorset Bank Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berks Thomai Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol John Kerle Haberfield, Esq., Clifton, Bristol Troup, Esq., Hastings John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol . J o o s h eu npMinfioildit,CEosttlq:,LEoisqoe..,toCrla, Director of goath Midland and rendon-sqUare, Leamington, Direator North ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Railway Company John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Staffordshire, Director of the Manchester and Southampton Railway James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and Southampton Railway Edward Norr i s, E s q., Clairville, Manchester, Di rec t or o f t h e Di rect London and Manchester , and Nort h Cheshire Railway Companies anchester and Southampton Rail ways J a mes Ogden, M.D., Salford Sir William Lowthrop, Hull , Magistrate for the East Riding of Y or k and for the borough' of Hull, Chairman of th e " Hull and Barnsley" dolseadnind, 24 Esq., Manchester, Director o f th e Manchester and v ep ig h an N , Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver poolH lford Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester John , C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the CHudders field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax and Bradford and Leeds Direct Railway Companies" Union Railway. Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South ampton Railway Esq Hetton-le-Hole, Durham John Robson, Cornelius Randall, Esq., heater Manc,Director of the Sheffield and Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Midland Railway Companies Manchester Wm. B. Newbery, Esq., ester, Director of the Dudley and Railway Company Iron Bridge C. Appleby, Esq., Broomhill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Isaac Holmes, Esq., Manchester Railway Company Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, Liverpool and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways Esq., Ma LifeSheffield,Director of the Sheffield, Machin Bank, Assurance -office Wm. Thompson, Esq . , Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the hefhield Railway Huddersfield and S Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast jo it hn oth V e a rh rd a ' m, and Chesterfield Railway Company Captain I3owker, R. Devonport Sheffield, Director of the Wakefi e ld and H. S. Bright, Esq., Hull Samuel Swann Brittain , Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Ea s t an d W es t Ear rowgate Railway Compa n y William Marriott, Esq., A t t ercliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the jo o h f n E F n a cl acnedt Fawcett R , E a i s l ( v i r . a? Company Isle of Ely, Wisbeach, and Lincolnshire Junction Railway. Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and York and East Lincolnshire Railways John Johnstone Hamilton, Esq., Liverpool David Price, Esq., Manchester William Hunter, Esq., Clarendon -square, Leamington Rev. Charles Cottle, Rector of Walton, Northamptonshire Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham Edward Hall, Esq., Westbank House, Macclesfield, Director of the South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley Junction Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Limehouse, titer - chant John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-squaro, Assistant Tithe Corn- . . missioner • • John Norton, Esq., Moat House,93rentwood, Essex William John M`Guire, Esq., Hampton Court John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace Capt. J. P. Macdougall, grove, North Brixton, Surrey WT. J. Lefceuhvaare. Harrison,,Eq,AldEennsq.a,nyaonrdk-Mtearrgiaseetr,atßeegofens Park Southampton tpa Thomas G. B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the • Coventry and Leicester Railway Captain Tringham, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield , (With power to add to their number). 1 3 Animas—Messrs. Curries and Co., Cornhill, London. • • JOINT souciToll3. Messrs. e: B s ra r o rt:Amd d N r eru i s. e srs k r saE , dc. a fßoG n Er d .diA ß l: eli end ßow Churchyard, London Messrs. Rickards R e i s c , k n ar e d nr s y an G d il l b ir erti alk E er s ,:: ~Lincoln's Inn-fields , London Messrs. Haynes and Moore', Warwick . and London ab J eriss . wid V agts . E a c n a d E J T . A T Ry . _Ha T r h ti o n in g, a r H , o L s i t i e tc r o s ln a ' u o n l d n e n rs -11 , e E ld4,. London. m na o t tr io th nal LOCAL SOLICITORS ALREADIr APfOINTED. AAAMtttetßsTsrarr:itdl:l, Messrs. Batehellor, Ha : r s fo r j s r h . .d a it , Sr a t . l: n r nB d o ej o S a l . t e n a Wd un hEa to Mll a lEag. At Tiverton At Truro At Penzance • The object of this line Is to effect a direct oonimunication between point of view such a line is London and the Land's End. at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has t A h t ln F al e vantages e advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from its position at the Western extremity of the kingdom, would 'undoubtedly long since have been the * 4 With • the advantage of P—ncipal port on that coast. toe, before the opening of the Great Western po sitionlantataispineonsaibtliei.iighWlth as a Packet Station. Southa pton , with far less natural ad- per annum. At Eris , has, since the opening of m the South-Western Railway, in creased its imports from 200,000/. to 3,000,000/. Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having R a ilway, the imports were declining ; since then they have very considerably increased. The merits of a line to the Land's End as an investment for ca pital, it was not left to the present Company to discover. The Great Exeter, it has been in contemplation, to extend that line to Fal mouth byalready reached way of Plymouth ; and various other projects have been set 'Cov foot on' the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by railway, - . The object of this prospectus is to show that no other line than the present can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard to this, its most important outport—" the natural Packet Station of the empire." The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is as nearly as p oss ib le a straight line from London to the Land's End. . The London, Bath, and Brid w ater Company having amalga mated with this C ompany, the immense local influence Commanded by them will now contribute to the great national object of a direct line ; while means have been taken for securing the traffic and afford ing all the accommodation contemplated by that Company. The Direct Western availing itself of the Great Western Railway so far as Reading, pursues its course by or near Newbury, Hunger ford, Great Bedwin, Marlborough, Devizes, the manufacturing dis trict of Trowbridge (from which a diverging line will be carried by 13radford flireet to Bath), Westbury, Frome, Shepton Mallet, Wells (from'which another diverging line will be taken to Bridgewater), Glastonbury to Taunton, being shorter by about thirty-two miles than any existing.or projected railways b e tween these points , and w itho u t a tunnel. From Tau n t on th e Bristol • and Exeter Railway (now leased to the Great Western) is traireised to Tiverton, whence it is proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St. lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole ninety miles. and Penzance, being sh o rter by about sixty m iles than the dis ive t s a ' nce from London to Falmouth, a saving of about With respect to the traffic between London and Tiverton, it is Direct Wes terncientto justify the construction of this portion of the on o Tiverton , needless to say more than that there is already thor ou g h traffic sulli : that it will shorten the distance from Lond on t about 32 mikes thit4 it will traverse rich and PoPulQuO agrictilt4r4 and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as ‘ , 011r5 , 2 of construction ;.5; st,Lar; Crecy As to the traffic on the lower portion of the line, it is evident that the vast .number of merchant vessels continually detained in the Channel by adverse winds, would effect an immense saving, both in insurance and time, by discharging their cargoes at Falmouth, and at once transmitting them to their destination by means of this railway; and therefore—without speculating on the extent to which the ports on either side of the great promontory of the Land's End may, by means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol and Southampton ; to what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire may be further developed, or the genial climate of Penzance and Mount's Bay, " the Montpellier of England," attract a larger propor tion of winter visitants—it Is obvious that this line will command a traffic both in goods and passengers, from its western terminus, the amount of which may be said to be without limit. . A glance at the map will make it manifest that no competing trunk line can ever be established between Tiverton and the Land's End. As between Taunton and Reading, an inspection of the map will show a vast ex tent of midland district, comprising rich and populous parts of So •mersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, now altogether destitute of railroad accommodation. Recurring to the features of this project as a national work, one of the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance in the event, of war, and of almost incalculable advantage to the general and packet commerce of the kingdom ; it 'may not be out of place to quote here the following expressions of Sir Robert Peel. Speaking of the project of a direct line from London to Liverpool through the Trent Valley, which bore much the same relation to the Birmingham and Grand Junction that this bears to the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways, he is reported to have said :—" I consider that the coin munication between the metropolis and the great outports to be not a question of hours, but a question of minutes." Of the necessity of this particular line, Parliament has already expressed an opinion ; for in the report- of the Committee on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth line, which was promoted by the Great Western Railway' Company; it Was stated that that Company had been required to pledge itself not hereafter to oppose a direct line to Fahnouth ;, and •it may be further Obse'rved," that a proposed line from Plymouth to Falmouth Was last session rejected, on the ground that it might be supposed to interfere with that great national object. • The survey of the line has been to a great extent completed, and correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are in a state of for wardness, and the whole will be ready for the next session of Par liament. It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are no engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have not been repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will he constructed at an unusually small -expense; that the undertaking will-meet with,the cordial support, concurrence, and co-operation of the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that this will prove to be one of the most remunerative railways in the kingdom. . , . - . fowers will be taken in the Act of Parliament to allow interest at four pounds per centum per annum on the deposits, and preference in the allotment of shares will be given to the proprietors of the land through which the line will pass, anetto the shareholders in the Great Western, the Bristol and Exeter, and other railways connected' with the Direct Western district. Applications for shares, in the form subjoined, to be addressed to the solicitors to the Company, or to the Secretary. London, September 11, 1845. •' FORM OF APPLICATION. • To therrovLsional Committee of the. Direct Western Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l request youwill allot me . shares of 251. each in the above Company, and I undertake'to pay the deposit of 21. Its. 6d per skare thereorf, or on any less number you may appropriate to me and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con• tract when tequired. Dated 1845. Name in full • 00000 • ••• • • • Residence .• • • • • • • .. Trade or Professicn •...... ..... Place of Business (if any) . • •.1 Reference ........ • • • • • • .. • • Signature .. . ..... , ••• • • . B ARNET and NORTH . METROPOLITAN JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Sth Victoria, cap. 110.) Capital, 400,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit, 21.25. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Hon. F. H. Berkeley, M.P., Chairman, Director of. the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway Company William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, also Deputy-Chairman of the Oxford, Wttney, and Cheltenham Railway Company Sir John Osborne, Bart., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing stoke Railway Company • The Right Hon. Lord Dunboyne, Belly Hatch House, Henley William Wilberforce, Esq., James-street; . Buckingham-gate, and Ilighwood Hill, Hendon Lieut.-Colonel Gillies, Porchester House, Bayswater William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway • Josiah Beale, Esq., Gray's Inn Major Lindam, K.H., Chairman of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales Railway Company ' . - Henry Beckley Richardson, Esq., F.S.A., Director of the Colchester, Cambridge, and Harwich Junction Railway Rowland Hill Mackenzie, Esq., M.D., Mortimer-street, Cavendish square Henry Chaytor, Esq., Clervaux Castle, Darlington, Director of the Warwick and Worcester Railway Thomas Hemming Johnson, Esq., Older's Hall, Hendon, Middlesex Thomas Priestley. Esq., Principal = of , Mill Hill Grammar School, Hendon, Middlesex The Rev. li. J: Crump, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex Captain Grover, R.N. Captain John Innes, H.C.S., Wentworth House, Mill Hill, Hendon,• __. _ . • kidtllesox - - The Rev. Bartholomew Nicholls, MA., Incumbent of St. Paul's, Mill Hill, Hendon, Middlesex - Mr. William Ward, Underhill, Barnet Mr. Bruce Johnson,.Finchley William Christopher Daniel Deighton,Esq., Fellow of Queen's College, • Cambridge, Holloway Ralph Allen Frogley, Esq., Hounslow, Director of the London, • Hounslow, and Western Railway Colonel Taylor White, Hadley-green, Barnet Abraham Scott, Esq., Hadley Priory, Barnet W. J. M'Clwire, Esq., 74, St. James's-street W. Prosser, Jun:; Esq. ; 36, New BrOad4treet, City James Berington, Esq., East-street, Hoxton George Freeman, Esq., Grange House, Leeds Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq., Director of the London, Hounslow, and Western Railway Company George Godfrey, Esq., The Elms, Hutton, Essex Robert Wright Wood, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Company Alexander Prince, Esq., Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basing stoke Railway Peter Graham, Esq., Angelo Villa, Gloucester-road, Regent's Park William Henry Halpin, Esq., 23, Graftonr-itreet, Fitzroy-square Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq., Director Of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway Company Chltrles Green, Esq., Director of thii Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales Railway Company I. N. Nicholay, Bsq., Oxford-street John Godfrey B. 'Hudson, Esq., Director of the Central Terminus Itaflway Company The Rev. G. A. Walker, Alvisthorpe, Wakefield, Director of the Wakefield and Biadford Railway Company (With power to add to their number.) COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. The Hon. E. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., W. H. Halpin, Esq. Chairman Richard Cowley Polhill, Esq. William Alfred Hill, Esq., Deputy- Alexander Prince, Esq. a li o Fß Tl e" N an kr G E ey ziG rt i l s g E ar Ea ds . o F n r , ai E ic S i g s aw rt Wright roo s: todge, .INR, : ohb 9 e rgB , Tr E S sig ! .h :N tc ; .E Z ., : E F.S.A.F. S.A. Charles Green, Esq. ACTING ENGINEER—J. Bailey Denton, n, Esq., 10, Gray's Inn-square. BANKERS—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, JOINT SOLICITOR-3, Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street G. P. Hill, Esq., 21A, Soho-square. • LOCAL AGENTS. Henry Hammond, Esq., solicitor, Wentworth Lodge, Finchley John Hughes, Em., solicitor, Whetstone. SECAETARY (pro tem.)—A. Doull, ESQ.. This railway will connect the important and hitherto neglected town of Barnet with the London and Birmingham and the Great Western Railways, at or near Holsdon-green ; with the Northern and Eastern and the Eastern Counties Railway, at or near Totten ham ; and the proposed Direct London and Manchester, and the Lon don and York Railways. The line, in Its course, will unite the town of Barnet with 'Whet stone, Totteridge, Highwood Hill, Mill Hill, Finchley, Holder's Hill, Hendon, Burrows, Golder's Hill, Gutterhedge, Kingsbury, Neesdon, Wilsdon, Wilsdon Green, Holsdon Green, Kensall Green, Westbourne Green, Maida Hill, Kilburn, Hampstead, West End, Highgate, Crouch End, Hornsey, Muswell Hill, West Green, Tottenham, Edmonton, Chinford, Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington, Newington Green, Clap ton, Highbury, Holloway, Kingsland, Layton, Stratford, West Ham, Bow, Bromley, Bethnal Green, Limehouse, Hoaton, Homerton, Hackney, Shacklewell, Dalston, Islington, St. Pancras, Shoreditch, Blackwall, Euston-square, Paddington, Kensington, Hammersmith, Brompton, Fulham, Chelsea, Sec. ; connecting those places with the various railways named, and all those south of the river Thames. The distance from the town of Barnet to the station of the London and Birmingham Railway, at Euston-square, by this route, will be 15 iniles. The length of the main line, from the point of junction at Totten ham to the London and Birmingham Railway, will be 11 miles ; and the length of the branch line to Barnet, will be 434 miles. From the junction with the Birmingham Railway to Chipping Barnet, 934 miles ; from the Decoy (near Brent-street, Hendon), on the proposed Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway, to the Northern and Eastern Counties Railway, by Stamford-hill, 6 3 4 miles. There are no engineering difficulties throughout the entire distance. The line will proceed beyond the range of the llighgate and Hamp stead Hills, and the branch from the main line to Barnet will follow the valley of the river Brent to the intended station at Barnet ; thus the expense of construction will be less than any other metropolitan line of railway, for the above reason, and because it will pass through an agricultural district, avoiding all ornamental property and large collections of houses and buildings. Upon the completion of this railway, a large and daily-increasing population, resident beyond the limits of the metropolitan omnibuses, will be largely benefited, and land and agricultural produce, hitherto affording an inadequate return to 'their cultivators, will be quad rupled in value. • The ancient, populous, and once-flourishing town of Barnet, too, will now have a railway communication of its own, without depend ing upon the caprice or uncertain goodnature of any company who raay hold out a prospect of a branch, in future times, from some of the trunk lines now contemplated. An ample return orprofiC - to the investments of shareholders may be safely anticipated, and will arise from the following sources, amongst others : . 1: From the conveyance of passengers. 2. From the carriage of goods and merchandise frem the City and Docks, &c., to the several railways which are intersected by this line, avoiding the delay and excessive cost of conveyance through London ; also from the conveyance of cattle, &c., more particularly during the period of the large Barnet fairs. 3d. From the conveyance of coal, both inland and seaborne, fuel, and other commodities of general consumption, the great expense of which has long been' felt by all classes as a most grievous evil' The Committee of Management reserve to themselves the power of adopting, upon this line, locomotive power, or Prosser's Railway guide and safety wheels, as may be deemed expedient. Applications for Shares in the form annexed (and communi cations from persons desirous of promoting the objects of the Com pany), may be addressed to the Secretary, at the Provisional Offices of the Company, 69, Newman-street, Oxford-street ; to the. Joint Solicitors, Edward Elkins, Esq., 59, Newman-street ; and G. P. Hill, Esq., 21A, Soho-square. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Barnet and North Metropolitan _ . • Junction Railway, 59, Newman-street, Oxford-street, London. Gentlemen,- , --I request that you will allot to me Shares of 201. each•in this Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the Parlia mentary Centract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Name in full ......... ..... ............ Residence.. ...... . Trade or Profession .......... .. • • ...... ••• • • • •• • • Name, Residence, and Profession or Trade of Referee.. :BARNET and • NORTH. METROPOLITAN JUNCTION RAILWAY. At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Barnet and its vicinity,. convened by a remtisition, numerously signed , and duly published, held at the • Victoria Hall, Union-street, Barnet,. the 17th day of Sep tember instant, • JOHN •HEY 'PUGET,. Esq., of Totteridge, In. the Chair; It was proposed by J. SPENCER, Esq. ; seconded by the Rev. J. D. THOMPSON, and carried unanimously 1. That it is the opinion of this meeting that a direct railway communication between the northern districts of the metropolis and the town of Barnet is of vital importance_to its, prosperity, and is now imperatively called for. It was proposed by B ENJAMIN SMITH, Esq. ; seconded by Mr, Jourr,. . ,HOPXWELL, and resolved unanimously—, 2. That this meeting having duly considered the prospectus and map of .the line of ;the proposed Barnet and North, Metropolitan Junction Railway,. and on comparing the same with the other pro jected lines, does most unhesitatingly declare that the proposed Barnet, and North Metropolitan Junction Railway will afford to the town greater advantages than any line of railway hitherto proposed to come in the vicinity of Barnet, it being the only one which will afford to the residents of the town the advantage of a station, and that it deserves the support of the inhabitants and all others having an interest in Barnet and its vicinity ; and that a petition be pre sented in favour of the line immediately upon the assembling of the Houses of Parliament. And this meeting pledges itself to further the views of the Company, and resolves that a Committee be appointed to promote the object; and secure the, interest of the town of Barnet. That the Committee consist of Benjamin Smith„Esq. Mr.. Brunt Mr.-John Hopewell ' Mr. 'Spencer Mr. George Bower The Rev. Mr. Stewart' Mr. James Hill ' The Rev. John DawsonThomp . Mr. James Cooper son • With power to add 10 their. number. It was proposed •by the Rev. ALEXANDER Sru &aT ; and seconded by J. SPENCER, Esq., and carried unanimously— • • 3. • That the'thanks of the meeting be tendered to the Honourable T. H. P. Ber'kele'y, the Chairman, and to the Deputy-Chairman, and the other members of the - deputation from the Barnet and North MetropOlitaii Junction Railway Company, for the able manner in which they haVe laid 'before the meeting the project of the Company. It was proposed by W. HILL, Esq. ; and seconded by W., H, HALM,* Esq.', and carried 'unanimously 4. That a vote 'of thanks' be tendei•ecl Yo Johri Hey 'Puget, VI., for ijuptvrtlal and able coadact Ii the Chair, !SHE. WEST MIDLAND, MANCHESTER, AND SOITTILAMP FON RAILWAY, AND SWINDON AND BIRMINGII-131 JUNCTION, Being an extension of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 1,200,006/., in 60,000 shares of 201. each. Deposit 21. 2s. per share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. Lord George Paget, Uxbridge House Major Beresford, M.P. William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid land, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Director of, the Welsh Midland;' and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways David R. Ross, Esq. M.P,, Chairman of the Belfast, Director of the London and Mancliester, and SOnth arid Midlands' Junction Rail ways . . Sir John E. De Beauv o ir, B ar t . , Ch a i rman of the London and Bir mingham Extension, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire, Director of the South and Midlands', Junction Railway Sir George Preicott, • Bart.; Theobalds, Herta, Director of the Chester and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junc tion Railways Sir William Wynn, Macsynewadd, Chairman of the North Wales, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways Brigadier-General Sir Henry Pynn, Director of the Direct Western Railway Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of. London, Director of the London and - Manchester Direct, • and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Sir William Twysden,-Bart., Director of the ChepstoW and Forest of Dean Railway William Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., Alderman of Lon don, Chairman of the Manchester and Birkenhead - Continuation, anti London and Greenwich Rail wa y s , & c . & c. • "- Thomas Sydney, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of .London, Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' June tion Railways Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the Lon don and Westminster Bank, and Namur and Liege, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways• John Kinnersley Hooper, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways . Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways . • Donald Maclean, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Trent Valley Con tinuation, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways • • • Major Oliver Lindam, K.H,, Chairman of the Gloucester ' Aberyi-. • tivith, and Central Wales, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railways • • ' • - Major-General Pariby, C. 8., Rutland-gate, Director of the Worces ter and Crewe, and Soittlr and Midlands' Junction Railways Captain Jame, Patrick Macdougal, late Bengal Royal General Staff, Fir-grove, North Brixton; Director of. the Chester and Forest of Dean, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways, &c. Captain Alexander-Hamilton Carle, Royal Artillery; Reform Clab • John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, Director of the Legal and Commercial Insurance Company, the Great. Western of Bengal, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Robert Henry Lyndam, Esq,, Director of the Exeter and Weymouth Railway. . Major Jelf Sharp, Deputy-Chairman of the Thames Embankment Railway . . . Richard William Johnson, . Esq., Director of the London and Man chester, and Derbyshire and South Staffordshire Railways • . William Fechney Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgreve-square, Direc-. tor of the Italian and Austrian, and South and Midlands' Junction . Railways • - - Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life Insu rance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway lames Clay, Esq., Brompton, Director of the Furness and White haven, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Col. Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, Director of the London and Birmingham - Extension, and South and Midlands' Junction Rail ways • • • • William Shaw,. Esq.,.Dii•ector.of the Thames Embankment, Manag ing Director of the Farmers' Life- Insurance Company, and Di ' rector of the South and Midlands', Junction - Railway - Richard Carpenter, 'Esq., Magistrate of the County of Middlesex,. Deputy-Chairman of the London and Birmingham Extension, Di rector of the Leicester and Bedford, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways G. W:Killett Potter;Esq., Secondary of-the City of London • Lieut.-General Sir Lewis Grant, K.C.8.,..31, Harley-street John Jennings, Esq., Elm-grove, Hammersmith William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens,-Hyde-park, Director of the Oxford, Witney and Cheltenham, and Southend Midlands' June-. tion Railways Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde-park-street - William Singleton, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Liverpool mind Leeds; and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Erasmus Forster, Esq., Director of the Britannia Life Insurance Company, and Derby and Stafford, and South and Midlands' Junc tion Railways George Parbury, Esq., Russelksgnare, Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway DanierPenton johnsOn, Esq., Director of the London and Manches ' ter Railway • • s • - Richard Parish; Esq., Bank House, Wordsley, Staffordshire Samuel Parish, Esq., Wordslex„ near Stourbt eige, Staffordshire Sohn Anderson, Esq., E.1.C,5., Director of the Church of England. Life Insurance, and South and Midlands' Junctibn.ltailwaY ' • • • Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughloyllouse, Tottenham, Director of the London and Dovercand • South and Midlands' Junction , Railways James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Cash, Esq. Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London, Director of the South . and Midlands' Junction Railway. , • - GeOrge R. Colman, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Juin ' tion,-and Northampton and Banbury Railways . William Paxton, Esq.,,La,ngford near Bluster, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway William Bardgett, Esq., Winchester Honse; Broad-street, Director of the Italian and Austrian, 'and South and Midlands' Junction • Railways • W. S.Cross, Esq., Director of the Manchester and Birmingham Con tinuation Railway John Blackburn, Esq,, Leeds - ' - Peter Fairbaime. Esq., Leeds, Vice Chairman of the Leeds and York . Railway . . I. D. Hopkins, Esq.,-,Bedfora-square, •Director of the London and ' Birmingham Extension Railway Henry Cornfoot, En., Old Palace, Richmond James Durness, Esq., Leytonstone, Essex El. N. Wright,. M.A.,' Coed Celyn, Denbighshire, and Lonsdale-square, Islington Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway Martin Furness, Esq., Director of the Newark and Sheffield Railway William Cadman, Esq., Leeds, Director of the Lincoln, York and Leeds Railway Edmund Phillips, Esq., Avon House, Melksham, Wilts, Director of the South and Midlands Junction Railway Charles Tomas Ward, Esq., Luton Hoo, Beds, and Clopton House, Stratford-on-Avon, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway . • Joseph Brook, Esq., Greenhead,_Huddersfield, , Direttor of the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester.. and Huddersfield aftd Sheffield Junc tion, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways • George Henry Brook, Esq., 'Edgulin-lodge, Huddersfield, Provisional Director of the Huddersfield, Halifax and Bradford Union Rail - way, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Captain Hitchins, H.E.1.C.5., Queen Anne-street, Cavendish-square, Director of the Birmingham and nwh,l and South Midlands' VT James Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place, and Brandon Lodge, near Coventry, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Rail way William Watson Prole, Esq., Thurloe-square, Brompton, Director of the Jersey, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Thomas Cleobury, Esq., 30, Sackville-street • Major Walker, K.H., Director of the London and Manchester Direct, . and South and Midlands' Junction Railways : • Frederick James Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, and Alfteton, Derby, Director of the Trent Valley Continuation, and South and Mid lands' Junction Railways Z. R. W. Atkirisorf, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways Joseph Underwood, - Esq., The tall; Blackheath, Director of the Me tropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Director of the London and Birmingham Extension Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway W. A. Hill, Esq., Director of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and Central Wales, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman of the Church of England Life Insurance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Colonel Fitch, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the .Lincoln, York, and Leeds Railway, Director of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance Company, and Director of the South and Midlands' Junction ' , Railway Captain C. W. Tyndale, Director of the South-Eastern and South and Midlands' Junction Railways • - • Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways John Englis Jerdein, • Esq., Director of the Greet Manchester, Rugby and Southampton Railway William Morley, Esq.; Blackheath William Lee, Esq., Director of the Gravesend and Rochester, and Essex and Suffolk Railways Thomas Gooch, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway J. Harvey, Esq., Rush-hill, Surrey • John Wheelton, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Thomas Collingridge, Esq., Highgate, Middlesex W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway C. Waite, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex R. W. Wood, Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood," Director of the North Metropolitan Railway ' William Slark, Esq., Director of the Guarantee Society Frederick Collingridge, Esq., Thurlow-square, Brompton Warren Stormes Hale, Esq. Gresham -street, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension Kingsmill Grove Key, Esq. Thomas Yates Hunt, Esq., - Brades, near Birmingham Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds, Director of the West Riding Junction, and South Midlands' Junction Railways • W: Lee, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-Square Robert Power, Esq., M.D., Queen-street, May-fair Admiral J. Ayscough, Prospect -place House, Southampton, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway Joseph Thompson, Esq., Director of the London and Brighton, and South - and Midlands' Junction Railways Major Grubbe, Eastwell House, Potterne, Wilts, Magistrate of the County, and Director of the South and Midlands'Junction Railway Captain Seth N. Fisher, Director of the Warwick and Worcester, and South and Midlands' Junction Railways T. G. Norbury, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Bedford Railway Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of - the. Trent Valley Continua tion, and South and Midlands',Junction Railways, and of the Legal and Commercial Life Insurance Company ' William Hallett, Esq., Kemp Town, Brighton, Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway John Brocke Walbancke, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction Railway • Captain HeMilton Earle, ROyal ArtillerY • William Lee, ESq., Director of the Reading Railway . Henry Savage, Esq., Dorset-place, Dorset-square William T. Thornton, Esq., Berkeley-street, Portman-square John Dennis, Esq., Director of the Erewash Valley Extension Railway Joseph Crockett, Esq , Alderman of Devizes, and Director of the North Wilts Banking Company, and South and Midlands' Junction Raihvay . . John Helbert Helbert, , Esq., Gloncester-place, London, Director of the Leicester and Birmingham Railway Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, London, Director of the Rugby and Worcester Railway William Peppercorne, Esq., London, and Bexhill, Snssex ' - Captain T. Hodges; Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, - Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway ' , • • - , • F. Duffield, Esq., Boltori House, near Bradford = Rev. F. R. Hall, D.D., Rector of Fulboutne; Cambridge John Barnett; Esq., Coroner for the County of Gloucester, Director of the Oxford and Cheltenham Railway William Spooner, Esq., Chapel-street; Belgrave-square, Director of the Newcastle and LNerpool - Rallway -- Alexander Prince, Esq., J 4, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Bar net North Junction Railway' James Lees, Esq., Delph, Saddleworth, near Mancheste r , Di rector of the Saddleworth Banking Company • • • • • (With power to add to their number). BANKERS—The Commercial Bank of London. Costsumtna ENGINEER—Sir John Maonell, LL.D., F.R.S. ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E. - • SOLICITOR—W: B. - James, Esq., 8, Basinghall-street. LOCAL AGENTS. It appears that England will be divided longitudinally by four great lines of railway, which will become so many main trunks, intersec ing and intersected. by numerous lines, both transverse and oblique, opening rapid and ready communication with the intermediate dis tricts, with packet stations, and With .Seti-Port . towns: The more easterly of these, which is also the longest; originating at Newcastle upon- Tyne, and passing . through York, 'Peterboro ug h , a n d Qambridge, may be - said to terminate in London, Whence all place's are accessible. The second line, counting westward, is more tortuous, and has also a Common northern terminus with the preceding, by which its ad vantages are materially restricted. , This line,' descending the Ere wash Vale, and passing through Rugby and Oxford, becomes a South ampton line by falling into the South-Western Railway at Basing stoke. The third longitudinal line, or the" most westerly, is still more de fective in design than the preceding ; employing the steep and narrow rail Way called the Birmingham and Gloucester as its first link, it traverses nearly in a right line the least populous and most undulating parts of Gloudestet, Berkti, Wilts, and Hants; and;properly speaking, has no Independent terminus. . A large longitudinal section of the kingdom—the West Midland district—a district inviting .a similar species of accommodation from concentrated local advantages, still remains unprovided with a chief trunk.line.; and 'it is contemplated to reinedy 'this deficiency by the present undertaking, or a fourth longitudinal line. ' • „. Adopting Birmingham as a northern terminus of the West Mid land, Manchester, and Southampton Railway, It is proposed to carry a line through or near to Stratford-ori-Avon, thence between Moreton, Stow, Northleach, Fairford, Cricklade, and .S - Windon, where it will merge in the South and' Midlands' Junction Railway, - - - • The length of the proposed line syill be, about sixty miles,, and; the district traversed by it is gently undulating and densely peopled. ,At its southern terminus, Swindon, it becomes _ identical with ,the...SOntil arid Midlands, by means of which it opens a most direct communica tion hitherto .suggested with the harbours of Weymouth; Christ- Church, Poole, and Southampton. Mils northern terminus, Bir mingham, it communicates with a ,series of lines, projected; in pro gress; Or Completed, which will form the most direct line that can ever be constructed between - the southern ports of England 'and the great manufacturing districts. 111 tilt *Mom of am Ormin Os Writ 7414140, Manchester, e s ' and Southampton Railway project, a combination advarita B p re . cents itself-the resrlt of a deeign, to a great extent, but of C henries alsci.• If it be desirable that the terminus of every % should be situated at some commercial or populous place , in tu t be spect the present project is peculiarly fortunate. If Governm.en.. it resolved on countenancing the shortest and most direct line, ": 0 . will be seen, by laying a rule on the map of England from Seht o e , to Manchester, that a course due north and south between '",,, 4 places will pass very nearly through the towns mentioned in..:e7t prospectus, as being on the proposed line ; and actual rneasur,e'od has shown this line to be the shortest between Southall:11On Manchester by 26 miles. 0 Mlles of 6 By the construction, therefore, of little more than - nient rail, as here prOposed, the shortest, most direct, ce : nle be communication between Manchester and Southamv-- w ' ll tablished—a line, also, however superior in position to others re musing similar advantages. may yet be considered as coTP n' with none, but as an independent work, or i g i na ting at Illrin n f oo ;, and terminating in the seaports of Weymouth, Christchur ch, and Southampton. . forcP°" In the allotment of shares, in this Company the Direct orS to give a .preference •to the original shareholders of the South Midlands' Junction Railway Company. fcruls ' Applications for prospectuses and plans may be made , and Esq,, • of application for 'shares had, at the Office of W. B. J a mes, Solicitor, 5, Dasinghall-street ; and of the following gentlerner!: London—Messrs. J. Peppercome and Co., 9, Old Broad-street 4, J. B. Harrison, 8, Bank Chambers ; Mr. Thomas Hau b url • Angel-court. Liverpool—Messrs. Mills and Co., and Messrs. Neilson. 1 ,010 Mrchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese, and Mr. Marshall. Hull—Messrs. Collinson and Flint. Leeds—Messrs. Watson and Co. Stratford-on-Avon—Mr. William Bolton. Exeler—Mr. Thomas Sanford. Plymouth—:-Messrs. Heyward and Pulmer, Itiimingham,-Mr. Collis, and Mr. John Wright. Gllasgow—Messrs. Tasaie and Co. • Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co., and MOWS' s ad CO. Ma ims FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES• To the Provisional Committee of the West Midland, ~.. au • " arid Sduthainptori Railstay: Gentlemen,—l request that you- will allot to me ( opt Shares of 201. each in this Company, and I undertake to a be tl3s' same, and to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any leas Mi ra . roll" may be allotted to me ; and I undertake also to execute the mentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when requi l " Name (in full). • ..... • • " • Trade or Profession • • • • • • • Reference ..... ..... •• • • Address of Referee • Date ~.•''' 4C' - IjRIDGWATER and MINEHEAD . 31-j TION RAILWAY. COMPANY, uniting the lzristcl the lish Channels„ and forming a direct communication .1 00 t ° 0 61 4 :, South of Ireland and Wales, with Briitol and London. an d s ed the South - Eastern and Western Coasts of England, Paw'. Channel Islands. (Provisionally Registered.) Capital, 300,0001. In 15,000 abfires of 201. each. Snd " Deposit 21. 2s. per Share. • ij Liability expressly limited to the amount of subsCrlPS ( Lotiu is intended to make no ihrther call until the Act of Parma' obtained. . f PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE, Sir Henry Seale, Bart., Mount Boom, Dartmouth or ~.„, ps, Sir John Hansler,P.R.S:, Walton, near Saffron WB l '.''''' As • Lieutenant of the county of Essex . --- 0.- . ___,,,,,-- 0 Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, near Minehead, Vice :Chairw — . Somerset uarler Sessions of ~r.astrati John Ha ll iday Q , Esq., Chapel Cleeve, near Minehead,,•- —, • county of Somerset a il, tg John Criclland, Esq., Spring-grove Park, near WivellSco— m. , ' trate for the County of Somerset Del gil Henry William Chichester, Esq. ' Rose House, Bampton, , R. 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 Caren, street, London, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire j ot 4, W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq.; Pinner's Hall, Broad-street 1ne re .,•,',3 4 " W. Revell Vigers; Esq., 50, Russell-square, and Aldel l33 ''' , merchant W. S. Potter, s Esq:, Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park ' al James Morrison, Esq., 28, St. Mary-at-hill, merchant ct , Per James Colhoun, Esq., 5, Half-moon-street, Piccadilly, an " ' ; chambers, Cornhill merchant - • " '", „.wlis..4:' Somuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury-square, and St . Bride 1 sre , Anthony Me l vyn Storey Maskelyne, Esq., Glanusk IPA"' shire I -4 ,. W.' Green, Esq., shipewner, Cornlu4 W. F. Beadon, Esq., 11, John-strect,(Berkeley-square - W. Strohm:, Esq., Banker, Strand. ~ . ' . Offlce- 7 3, Alderman's-walk, New Broad-street . SOLICITORS. - i Messrs. A'Beckett, Son, 8z S.kympson, 7, Golden.-00 0re ,,,,, i , • ~ Mr. Vaughan Prance, Nether Stowey and BridBvg s 7, - NANAGiNO ' =LECTORS. VP ' E. F. Dayrell, Esq. James Colhou n, W. It Nigers, Esq. W: S. Potter, Y-''..',4, . W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq. • --, Samue l Pocock' ... L .,,a, i • W. F. Beadon, Esq. - - James Morrison'' i -• • • F. 'W. Green, Esq. ..._ . _ . • • Szcarreitx—Mr. Edward Parratt. • • BANKERS. Messrs. Strahan and Co. ; and Messrs. Robarts and Ca. , Taun t rO s Messrs. Stuckey and Co., Bristol, Bridgwater, and i n fo ' Applications for Shares, plans, prospectuses, and detalle,:derrosPA tion, may be made at the Offices of the Company, O. 3•"' so pety - ' 0 ;; walk, City, London ; at th e Offi cel o f th e Company Doe! . 1 01 Messrs. A'Beckett, Son, and Symp son , 7, Golden-square'4 $. Mr. Vaughan Prance, Nether Stowey and Bridgwater; Lobal Agents—Mr. William Woodland, solicitor, Taunton.; P,earce, solicitor Wiveliscombe ; James Parsons, solleite+ r ; port; Messrs. ' Stone and Synaonds, solicitors, Dorciles Le . o lic o .4 Thomas - Phippard, solicitor, Wareham ; Mr. M. K. Welcll• iJOA Poole ; Mr. Henry Poole, solicitor, Bristol ; and of th e Stock .and Share-brokers Messrs. Tucker, Barnett, an d 307 Birchin-lane ; and Mes s rs. Muggings and Lang, Londo n ; Brig' r to Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Mr. John Morcott], go.; Mr. Thomas Evans, Bath; Mr. Charles O'Neil, Manchester;il; Der•t s , H. Davies and 'Co., Liverpool ; Messrs. Chantrell and D°Y.„6 St Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull ; Messrs. Labertouell e 7,01 ford, Dublin; Mr. Lilly, Bridgwater; Mr. R. Ball, Taunto°' Richard Neville Parker. solicitor, Cork. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. ...rinali t To the Managing Directors of the Bridgwater AO p` i Junction Railway Company. • . ha reS ° i t it° Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me • t daceer r in each in the above undertaking and I hereby undertass to same, or any less number you may allot to me, on the o l 7o ill t. ;? prospectus, and to pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per shsrs , „ A calls thereon, and to sign the parliamentary contract 8" - agreement; and other deeds, when required so to do. • Dated'ihis day of , 1845. . ....• • ••• Name in full• Place of business .......• • • • • 5.. . • • •• • Profession or business • • * ***** Usual signature ..... ... .. full 7.:1 Name, residenc e : W e : o f . . , B RIDGWATER and 211NEfao TION RAILWAY. W illD e , Notice is hereby given,, that no Application for Shar es d bit i tertained, unless the same be made in the form p reeeri be tai' ' Managing Directors; and the applicants must al so refer sit A t e' of the Provisional Committee, or to some person of ko.r hili.r To+aoi C.rtorrbcr 12, 1840. By Or ler, ; Messrs. A'BECKETT, SON, and SYMP 'l' 0 VAUGHAN PRANCE, Solicitors to the C L EICESTER AND TEAN AND VALLEY JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Provisionally Registered.) ;,? Capital, 300,0001., in 15,000 Shares of 201. eat' - Deposit, 2/. 23-per Share.- - PROWSIONAL COMMITTEE. - • 1, The Right Honourable the Earl of Uxbridge The Right Honourable Lord William Graham The Right Honourable Lord Alfred Paget, M.P. The MOO Honourable Lord George Paget k.sa"- Sir Riefulid Dobson, F.R.S., 47, •GlouCester-plaCe, Port - 4 London ' • ' ' ' The Honourable Francis Curson, Barrow Hall, Derby The Honourable Frederick Byron Edward Buller, Esq.; M.P. ' Dilhorn Hall, Staffordshire Major Beresford, M.P., 77, Pall-mall, London George Dodd, Esq., M.P., Grosve n or-pl ace , LOndOn _,,, A s William Henry Gregory, Esq., M.P. • 5, Cork-street, 1 ,0 "_;,411P - John Buller Yarde Buller, Esq., ' lO, New-street, SP FP ' London, and Mine Park, Devon ' - , WillianiJolm Blake, Esq., 62, Portland-place, LOndoil The Rev. Reginald Chandos Pole, Radbourn Rector)" John Bott, Esq., Cotton-hall, Staffordshire • Henry Barton, Esq., Rangemoor-house, Burton-on-Tre nt Capt. C. Twisleton Graves, Army and Navy Club, Londel e yt Wm. Coare Brocklehurst, Esq., Hurdsfield-house, 3faeele .. . f olk Richard Dyott , Esq., Freeford-hall, Li c hfi e ld If i r .l Charles Dickson Archibald, E sq ., F.R . S . , F.A.S., Regent's-park, and Walney, Lancashire . . Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq., 55, Chester-square, London Joseph Hoare, Esq., banker, Hampstead, London _.,,,,ati-g ti. o i. William J. Deane, Esq., 6, L ower Berkeley-street, ror-- 4 London ai Ws ,, George Dixon, Esq., Col one l S co t s Fusi li er Guards, -"' ' ' • street, London ~• 'Edward Thomas Coke, Esq., Mansfied Wood-house Edward Hyde Clarke, Esq., Hyde-hall, Stockport Thomas Landor, Esq., the Manor-house, Burton-on-Tre et William Sharp, - Esq.; Linden-hall, Lancaster Thomas Webb, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire Samuel Walker Cox, Esq., B rea d sa li-l odge, near D e rby . Henry Meakin, Esq., Burton-on-Trent f Moses Cartwright, Esq., Stanten-houte, Derbyshire John R. Raworth, Esq., Leicester . . . George Boden, Esq., St. George's-terrace, Kensington (With power to add to their number). ENGINEERS. FA. . i Joseph Cubitt, Esq. I J. F. Bateraile , • 1 . . SOLICITORS. Messrs. J. and J. Richardson, Burton-upon-Tre nt 4: G. H. R. Cox, Esq., Derby. -...-- BANKERS. ,i London—Messrs. Barnett, Mares, and CO. Messrs. Roberts, Curtis, and Co. Lesbitl' • Commercial Bank of London , west Leicester and Ashby-de-la-Zouch—The Leicester And ' 01 10 1/ ; Banking Company - ' tirl i - Burton-on-Trent—The Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashb y Bank. t ' SXca2TARY--John Richardson, Esq., Burton-on'T rel' 0 4 1i, PRUS. 4 , This short but important Iine OSPEC of railway is intended t . co 00, o at a point hi th e T ean an d Dove Valley Railway, at °l. aev• ' re ri Snareston, and to extend to Leicester. on the t A f r 64 4, It will thus furnish a link necessary for carrying „, 11e - o r brought to Leicester by means of the south Midlands, ~ ."4 'or ..'„o' and the Petaborough•Railways (all of which terminate 2, 0 of , pf, Leicester), to the Staffordshire Potteries and the great te"':4.0110 cashire and Cheshire, and complete an unbroken line of Pl ai porw the bestrand nearest practicable route, from the various A „, 0 / railway termini at Leicester to Manchestei and LiverP°T . the P- 0 ; 31 This great line of railway, it will be observed, traverse s Burton-uro e coal fields in the country, and embraces the towns o f - vid, B •, t a r Trent, Uttoxeter, Cheadle, Leek, Macclesfield, Lane ,„ r tallTh •If upon-Trent; and as.Teweastle-under-Lyme, and the illii - „,, Ive''" , rapidly-increasing potteries of Swadlincote and GresleY, "*" pc 1. those of Staffordshire. • lie s i r • An inspection of the map will show- that the junctiOn_„d it cA proposed is essential for the accommodation of the public, 1 1 , no . e dot fail be exceedingly remuneratirt to the proprietor s ' A nd A' •f° The undertaking has the cordial support of -the Tean ,hold e " Palley Railway Company. . given to Sh'" - re In the allotment of shares preference will be lgoe. RO - that Company, and to parties loCall#i interested in the, ,„ t o 1. , „IP , The capit il of the Company' will bo 300,0001., divided ':* i d -oft ife shares df 201. each •; a deposit of 2/. 2s..,per share must be P u ' o j pr A - lotment, and each original subscriber must execute the l o rleit e `iitlf 4 mentary and 'Subscription Contraot, or' his shares will be e seer' t po Copies of the prospectus and map xaay be had from tb,. de t 0,,, and Solicitors; .and applications for shares must be m a the the 'jlt' Secretary. only, accompanied by a re%rence to a membeV or s of Visional Committee, a banker, or to one of the Sa c ' „pile . Company: • ' . ' ' ; wh o %of' Shareholders in the Tean and Ddve Valley Railway t coiliP will please to state the number of sh eves they hold in th a. _,..--f; Burton-on•Trent,,Sept. 18,4845. ___-„ ti ov F AMPOUX • (ARRA.S); and ~11.AZEDI t' `' I. RAILWAY (O'NEILVS COMPANY). ci • - . PROVISIONAL brsEcrcias. 1113 i ' IN FRA.NCE.' • 'Dr ° Le Vicomte d'Abancourt, Peer of Frturee , Director of the St. Etienne Railway . • , Le Marquis de Flers, Conseiller a Is. Cthar des Comptes ~ ii M. Gabriel Heim, Entrepreneur de Tri.nsports, Paris 00 7- M. Hallette, Proprietaire•de Forges eti Fonderies. .Arrai.d 0 0.. r A —mu M. Alphonse Laurent, Banker, Diroctc , r o f the Orleans 4 ,. of / 3 ' - RailwaY, Anciert President of theri.ibunitrof Goninte° -- M..Fellx.o'Neill, Banker, Paris • i , lif.•-Louls Riant, Maitre de Forges, l'at:is •-- n P" — Le Baron de Tascher, Membre du Co! ise il G e neral dtt -e i to du Cher. ' , IN EITGL4 .ND. tree ' Frederic Chamier, Esq., R.N., Senitst United Service Cll2br I) of the Great Paris and Lyons Raul ray • t 00 0 sl .' James Watts Peppercorne, Esq., No:. 28, Old Broad-s f -"tr tt ioli Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Deputy -Governor of the Chairman of the Namur and Lle• i te ; Railway f el William Strahan, Esq., Banker, St ii I nd ," . rth got CP ° George Whitmore, Esq., Deputy-Chin Innen of the Iro A Railwa. ... BANsEs y s-•=Messrs. Strahan, -Pit r is, • and Bates, ?1 „, ,..%,'.. - str i d. . • SOLICITOR--E, Benham, , lsq 4 20, Austiri-tr u- ,4011. i SECRETARY"W. Fr e ling `Jerdan,LES o- he rebl,7lo 4 1 The English - Provisional . Comm'itt Ts of the ConiPanY - nt - thi', e 0 : 4 , 1 their Shareholders that, on the St l instimt, the leas e - of 3 ' ess' - railway was adjudicated to their{ !ompany for the term., 1 , 3 ,,,,p5y, rind 316'.dayri, being 49 days' only' uf icier the terni.tenderrn , C o d 0_! Rothschild and others, represent to j; the 'United ~ sor l 7.,,nrist_ c i, o n hies.; les. ; Not ice 'is therefore : her tl , :q / given, that' the i r ' e rvir' so irt° Shares issued by the 'English Pr 4 isionlll Diredtors ncrex9 p er S kir l( Or before the' Ist day' of - October (next,' to pat tt - Ca ll „tssrs• ' of t ' " on their respective Shares, at th Ilankirig-horise of Dies cr y Paula, and Bates, No. 217, S trend, ' the English ' feelal Gen et 20' „ The Provisional Directors also 'give notice, that a —, tbe .4", int of the Shareholders: will be In !Id On WzntrzsDAT. ta nt, ‘ ,"O not, .as first advortised •en• Teas) 94Y. the 23d in.: solie. to AV' o'clock •In the. afternoon, at the' a' filces of thea 00 the r the purpose of receiving the Repcat..) , of the Direct ors and prospects of . the Company. - • . „ . oider;. 5 PRS ,ELING R DA 20, Ati4thi-friara, September 14 1845. 0 1 DIRECT EA 00inn„cin 11 „ -- -g at I ,apital, 800, ss;ei hereby give r elved after II Il teet "4„._ ..o Compel] ;:,.............._ s ei.....2leLzat 4ID L . 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