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i _ePt• 30 1845 CAMBRIAN AND GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY, 110 T, CONNECTING T II 1,, W ALES WITH BIRMINGHANI, LIVER pUo -, MANCHESTER, AND THE NORTH. REGISTERED PROVISIONALLY £2,200,000, in 110,000 Shoff: of £2O each. ,2, Deposit per Share. NICRuLAs-LANE, KING W ILLIAM-STREET PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE alr w. LOCAL. li to Thos. Stanley Massey Stanley, Bart., Hoo k Elits#CSheriff of Cheshire. o oho ChWerton Charlton, Esq., Apley Castle, Wel ftiern, High Sheriff of the County of Salop tth,anl Corbet, Esq., Adderley Hall, Salop irlitttld Burnan Pateshall, Esq., Ailensmore, Hereford reose Esq., Burcott House, Herefordshire I P Kerr Hastings. i Esq., Manager of the Herefordshire vili.rlking Company Will! a rn Webb, Esq., Mayor of Hereford Ch at l a na Pulling, Esq., Merchant, Hereford Th e , e " Bulmer Esq. Merchant, Hereford 101 l ". W. Cooke, 'Magistrate, Bromyard Qt Watson,sc' Carpet Manufacturer, Kidderminster ct _t a te tge Crump, ' Es"q., Carpet -' Manufacturer, Kiddermin- Trge Butcher Lea, Esq. Kidderminster p e ar s WhitnaoreWYld'e Browne, Esq., Woodlands, h! Bridgn or th, M ag i strate o f th e County of Salop, lo''' a the B oroug h o f B r id gnor th afd Baker, Esq., Dulforwyn Hall, Montgomeryshire, Bridgnorth Esq Magistrate of the Borough of lol l rk ,Tnorth I,evor Es Clerk of the Peace for the Borough of 144hridignoril N q 11-rtignorth"cob Smith Esq., Town Clerk of the Borough of Will' s " - F. Willetts, Cams Hall, Bridgnorth 1,4111 Grierson, The Grove, Bridgnorth VZh'`'°leY, Esq., M.D., Bridguorth Hall, Esq., Bridgnorth $1 14 1 1 41 Thursfield, Esq., Bridgnorth l ohl k —al ien', Esq.. pridgaorth Joh. P hillips, E sq , Bridgnorth 1 % - n c Gr een, - Esq. Badger Heath, near BridgnorthTh° • S.outhwell, Esq., Carpet Manufacturer, Bridguorth Joh tt a 3 Gri erson, Esq., C al pet Manu f acturer, Bridgnorth ;tie: O nions, Esq_,. Broseley 1011 4& 1 :1 Boycott, Esq., Banker, Broseley williaEsq., Albyns, near Bridgnorth ReCtl. Wvley, Esc', The Vineyard, Wellington 40 8 - WelSb, Wellington )4.4:Williams, Esq., Iron Master, Ketley, Wellington 4john Slaney, Wellington . Ileeston, Wellington Walthall Hammond, Esq., Wistaston Hall, near 10 8e ft n,wich Lozdale W arren , Esq., The Lodge, Market ehjY t nn, and Co nsa l H a ll, Staffordshire Al a "'Warren, Esq., Banker, Market Drayton Ile:ll4divards Wil son , Esq ,The Grove, Market Drayton H. Mac au l ev , Hodnet Hall, Salop Nathani e l Webb, Esq., The Vineyard, near H ere - I ket S ki " Beech, Esq. The Shaw, near Cheadle t ,,Nt Bristnwe Esq., Twyford House, near Derby Wk e : L ,"rntighton Esq.,' Tinistall Hall, Market Drayton .. Mou' sley,Esq., of Derby, Under-Sheriff of Iveheshire Shadbolt, illiam Esq Crome Hill, Surrey, of the Akb Ynoi Iron Works, Esq., Joint s Esq., London, Director of the London Stock B. k tr i . 8 a an t ho i 4 e r ,attlng, Esq., Thames-street, London, and Mines "tor" - ''oPper Works, Neath lehoge Hewlett, E q Birmingham 4h nson HaLlion, Esq - , Liverpool si eory LONDON. t -0 " Enthoven, Esq.. Merchant, London, Direc -4,5er of the Dutch Rhenish Railway .14. 3 ' Lewis Sinale, Esq., D,ctor's Commons, London, soh n 'ecto r of the South Eastern R.rilway ef Masterinan, Jun., Esq., Banker, London, Director I)o„',ne BlaenavOn Iron Company Maclean, Esq., Merchant, London,. Deputy . Chair 'rreq,l• 1 °I the Trent Valey Continuation Railway th e -r e Ricketts, Esq., London, Deputy Chairman y of Charristol and Exeter Railway Qd 'a Robert Colman, Esq., Iron Gate Wharf, Lon n, Director of the South Midland Railway p nwoes, Esq., Muswell Hill, Elornsey, Provi '4Bl)• ' 1., 41 ,,bire . tSouth Midland Railway ()r of et the q Bonehill House, near Tam -rth, Pi rov e i n sio P na e l l bire s i;i'or of the Trent Valley, M id 40:nd, and Grand Junction Railway titijarkiuson E sc! F.R.S., 81, Cambridge Terrace, 11" e Park P'revi - "nal Director of the South Midland g t. ail way Sl( ' 4 A rthur D e Cap el Brooke, Bart., Oakley Park, Ket- Joring, Northam - t e onshire ein Francis Wo P ody, Eq. The Moat, Tamworth, Pro i;skalal Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Rail klaY vi - " 1 Hall, Esq., West Bank, near Macclesfield, Pro tiettnal Director of the South Midland Railway _ ; I'l Dickson, E'sq., M.D., Edrington House, Ber- Rtif i tthire, late Physician General of Bengal 1 4 , 1 a m Watson Prole, Esq., Duaster-court, Mincing q,4e, Director of the Isle of Jersey Railway ' 4 „ . ,ge Emery, Esq., London, Director of the Waterford Nira.' Kilkenny Railway lin t h Gird 'Thomson, q., 3.3, Gloucester-road, 11, 4 ' . ..; Park, Provisional Director of the South Midland aY g ill4:1 Braman, Esq., Mayor of 'Tamworth, Deputy nl aothe of Leicester and Tamworth Railway h orse ° liver Mason, Esq., Old Broad-street, London, lien i tector of th e W es t C o rnwall Railway • Rido u t wnman, Esq., 47, Upper Bedford - place , Provisional Director of the South Union Rail ittr,• ; 4111 , Peel, Esq., Bonehill House, near Tamworth I) 7 ' Whiskin, ' ET!' 10, Upper Bedford-place, London, p. 4 ,:reet or of the Loudon an d Croydon Railway o t a t ,,, r d H. Barwell, Esq., Mayor of Northampton, Ded ,.A.l, Chairman of the Northampton, Banbury, an `'ait e r e nhana Railwayßailway ugall, Fir Grove, North Brixton, late of the Bengal General Staff Thom,illia Morley Esq., Blackueath, Director of the Union 4 10;' , '„f London r arnc E Alderman, London, Director of e orn , sq., 011, nclon and Westminster Bank , Laurie E 2 Charles-street, St. James's, London, Ite" R. ilwa '4 4 „, nr of the London and Croydon a . y "iout tt, E s :Staff The Close, Litchfield, Director of the attt e 9ri.s..ire Railway L t o k i l:d w ar ( w lir i i t s, Esq., M.P. for Warwick, 18, Pall Mall, is,l,*ttitehsakp r in ga an n: Esq., E,tl, Distiller, Drury-lane. London 11 Director of the Bristoi and Exeter THE GRAND JUNCTION AND MIDLANDS UNION RAILWAY, CONNECTING STAFFORD AND THE POTTERIES, via BURTON-UPON-TRENT, WITH DERBY, NOTTINGHAM, AND THE EASTERN COUNTIES. CAPITAL £600,000, in 30,000 Shares of £2O each. DEPOSIT, £2 2s. per Share. No Subscriber to be liable beyond the amount of his Subscription, and no Call to be made until the Act is obtained. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Honourable Lord Viscount Combermere 'I he Right Honourable Lord Thomas Pelham Clinton The Right Honourable G. R. Dawson The Honourable Cecil Lawless Sir Arthur De Carel Broke, Bart. Lieutenant-General Sir John Wilson, K.C.B. Thomas North, Esq., Mayor of Nottingham Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Twyford Hall, near Derby Frederick Ricketts, Esq., London, Director of the Great Western Railway J. C. Williams ' Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Bos ton, Sheffield, and Newark Railway William Hannay, Esq., Notting- Directors of the ham, Ambereate, George Bacon, Esq., Notting- Nottingham, and ham, Boston Railways Thomas Wakefield, Esq., Notting- Directors of the ham. Nottingham and David Wbeatcroft, Esq., Nottingham, Gainsborough William Boden, Esq., Nottingham, Railway James Sutton, Esq., Shardlow Hall, Derbyshire John Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire, Director of the Sheffield, Burton. Leek, and Potteries Railway William R. Collett, Esq., M.P., St. James's-square James Clifford, Esq., Broughton House, Derbyshire William Eaton Mousley, Esq., Derby, Under-Sheriff for Cheshire William Felkin, Esq., Nottingham, Director of the Not tingham, Mansfield, and Midlands Junction Railway Thomas Adams, Esq., Nottingham H. J. Euthoven, Esq., London F. P. Barlow, Esq., London, Director of the Great Wes tern Railway Francis Parker, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Lon don and York Railway George Emery, Esq., London, Director of the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway William Watson, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exe ter Railway Archibald F. Paull, Esq., London, Director of the South Wales Railway William Morgan, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Glou cester Railway James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, Di rector of the South Midland Railway Directors of the Great Wm. Watson Prole, Esq., l Manchester, Rugby, and Robert Chapman, Esq., J Southampton Railway Anthony Dickson, Esq., Edrington House, Berwickshire Sheldon Cradock, Esq., Leicester Ambrose Moore, Esq., London and Derby Francis Hall, Esq., Park Hall, Nottingham ^ ,4 1 1 1 ,.. 41 .1 1 : a \V ) , a ts°-; Esq., Director of the Bristol and Exeter S ° Pho p ' Shapland, E s q , Director of the Bristol and tan. wales J unct i on Iti ,\ Val ' es Pl. Y. Esq., Di rec t o r of the Bristol and South A Junction ' l ,.Nl 3 ,j, i n iEsq. ' Mark-lane ' 1 `,1741e - s i r •,Pitull, Esq., London, Director of the South mas anway in'rt Wright, Esq Northampton 1 / 4. (With power to add' to their number.) qt rs. •-•" SOLICITORS. 41115 , Mason, and Edwards, 8, Moorgate-st., Ni s. T. B. an Delahay-st, We,tminster. B. Stevens,reet Esq., Taruworth LOCAL SOLICITORS. • • • • .Thotn.:s Evans, Esq. ..William West, Esq. • .• Messrs. Bird, Saunders, and Bird. ...M. Haywood Williams, Esq. E. D. Broughton, Esq. •... Messrs. Pritchard, Potts, and Ni cholls. • • ..F. Buckle, Esq. .. Geo. lord, Esq. ,•.. Rd. Whitk Besi, Esq. • . John Bird, Esq. BANKERS. • .. Messrs. Nat , terman, Peters, Mildred, and Co , Nicholas-lane. Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., 43, Charing Cross. ;Herefordshire Banking Company. Messrs. Moss and Co. Messrs. Farley and Turner. - _ COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Chairman. F. P. Barlow. Esq. Archibald F. Paull, Esq Lori Thos. Pelham Clinton Frederick Ricketts, Esq William Morgan, Esq. William Watson, Esq. W. W. Prole, Esq. SOLICITORS Messrs. Edwards. Mason, and Edwards, 8, Moorgate street, and 8, Delahay-street, Westminster Messrs. Freeth and Rawson, Nottingham 11,,'ford k. • ... ts. 71rister 4)4 1e,, 11 '• • • LOCAL AGENTS. Burton-upon-Trent.... John Thornewill, Esq. Stafford.. - London BANKERS. Messrs. Denison, Heywood, Ken nard and Co., Lombard-street Samuel Smith and Co. Nottingham Burton-upon-Trent Stafford . Messrs. Stevenson, Salt, and Co ....... . ti. 1.;, 4 t0 rd t ' . ** • ' t br;;;,;1; Messrs. Pritchard and Boycott. .Messrs. Adams, Adams, Warren, and Co. ••...The Manchester and Liverpool Dis trict Banking Company. William(s; ENGINEER-IN-CHlEF.rava(sq, R s sEcnETARY. erbert Downman, Esq., flon. Sec. pro tem. tt,, ,, . ester THE proposed Railway is intended to commence on the Trent Valley Railway near Stafford, and pro ceeding thence in an easterly direction, to pass through, or near to, Tixall, Haywood, Colwich, and Abbotts Bromley, to the rapidly increasing town of Burton-upon- Trent, where it will run into the Birmingham and Derby Railway, forming the shortest and best practicable route from Stafford to Derby. Leaving the Birmingham and Derby Railway at Burton-upon-Trent, it will proceed along the Valley of the Trent by Repton, Swarkestone, and Shardlow, to the Midland Counties Railway at the point where that Railway forms a Junction with the Derby and Nottingham Railway : and thus, by means of these and other Railways in progress, form a complete line of Railway communication between the central towns of Stafford, Derby, Nottingham, Lincoln, Leicester, Peterborough, and Boston, on the east, and Shrewsbury, Chester and Holyhead, North Wales, and Ireland, on the West. This Railway will therefore form the only connecting Thls • link renuired in the great chain of Railway communica ; in n PROSPECTUS. tion from East and West through the heart of the King- Ilip—. l Nt ertant Line, the only one having for its ob- dorn, uniting the shores of the German Ocean on the el l i`olt ithatn e direct communication between South Wales, East with those ci the Irish Sea on the West, and tra- Pal:tr rand thehe Midland Counties, Liverpool, Man- versing in its course the rich agricultural districts of the ,1 4) 111 ' , i tt to th North, will commence at Hereford, and Eastern Midland and Western Counties, and a.cconrimo 'di ' Ilrn ," e Vale of Severn via Bewdley Bridge- dating the important and populous manufacturing towns b pli r eet to ".," ‘ eeY, Iron Bridge. and Colebrook Dale. takes of Stafford, Derby, Nottingham, Leicester and Shrews tiaroa 4 ; 4 1 through or near Wellington and Market bury. But another most important advantage . that . will ItiWill Crewe, or to Runcorn whence the existing result from the formation of this line, will consist in the th e Noeontinue the traffic to Liverpool , Manchester , fact of its affording in connection with the proposed %,, n th ic i !,t,h. M Bewdley there will be a Branch Line " South Union or Manchester and Potteries Railway," , s hlties muernainster to Birmingham and the Midland by far the shortest and best route between Derby, Not ,l aaaZ zi r_et; ce to the tingham, Newark, Lincoln, Peterborough, Leicester, and il 4 !'e f n c°nver He will show that three projected Loughborough , and the extensive and populous districts qtkttitrtainethee coast, at reford viz :—The South Wales of the Staffordshire Potteries, Macclesfield, Stockport, „coast, at Newport, via Monmouth; the and Manchester. By the proposed line the distance be ;"tettkAaste „ 'r° llo Bristol, over the Severn. and the tween Nottingham and Derby and Manchester will be at at % ',Yr stern and Western from Swansea, by way of least from fifteen to twenty miles less than by the present tii.i c anae n nt Ahergavenny. This grand trunk will, there- circuitous route by Sheffield. N o n; b.. V . fith the North and Central Portions of the The traffic on this line must . necessarily be equal, if , t lail ri of t n i ,tne nearest practicable route, Bristol, the not superior to that of any line in the district. I l lti pftt ,: a rd, and the whole of South Wales, con- The length of the line w . ill be about .. tl t i . irty-_three miles, an i :vte,Population, and extensive Iron, Copper , through a country presenting no rtifficul les of more than o t i t‘ la c kpu Coal Works, numerous and important an ordinary kind for its construction. . 4 k4 ,-,/ard "nig Alilford Haven, and the Government Tha capital proposed to be raised is £600,000, in t u , and ° , l l4,,lntis tr tc consentrate to itself the great Passenger shares of £2O each, upon which a deposit__ of £2 2s per VII' '''' aria ; Lac now conveyed by various circuitous share must be paid upon the allotment. No call will be ~ la Lin made %es ne,t, . made until the act is obtained ; and no subscriber will be 44kaith O, will unite the Iron Districts of South liable beyond the amount of his deposit, until the act is rt those °I Staffordshire and Shropshire. P i i _hil f a e ,, rata the obtained, and then not beyond the amount of his sub %t...ace _sa lry e of c'rdinary incentives to travelling, the scription ; and the usual power will be taken to allow tl i i„ „a p ill _, , S outh Wales and the various Water- interest at 4 per cent., from the time of payment, upon itA a,ane, ' 'ad considerably to the Passenger traffic e”pbceallunbasteirlitheersciipengirng of the line. -m a Q.,_ ,wa th an A eernent and the Parliamentary ""us t ra ,n o snal revenue may be calculated upon in Contract must be executed when the Bankers' receipts '''' ' arising from the extensive connection are exchanged for Scrip Certificates, of which fourteen existing between South Wales and the important termini, conveying, as this communication will, the various pro ductions of Iron, Copper, Coal, Tin Plates, &c., to the North, and Woollens, Cottons, Salt, Hardware, Pottery Ware, Cattle, and Agricultural Produce, required for t he several counties, districts, and towns, accommodated by this line, westward ; with the advantage of delivery in a few hours, free from the risks and delays of a sea voyage. and at one-third the distance. The conveyance of Coals to the counties through which these Lines run, will also be a means of considerable and increasing revenue ; whilst the supplies to the barren dis tricts of the Iron Works of Agricultural Produce, will add to the profit, as well as unite by ties of mutual interest the Agricultural and Commercial community. By means of this projection, portions of the kingdom not so provided by any other scheme, will participate in the advantages of Railway communication ; and it will also form hereafter, with other Railways about to be com menced, the nearest route to London for a very extensive portion of the country. Founded on the principle of direct and comprehensive communication with distant parts of the kingdom, this Line will be the most complete in the Empire, and, car ried as it can and will be, in almost a straight line, must thus secure itself for the future against the competition of any rival projection. At the same time every regard has been bad to local accommodation, and the closest scrutiny will convince those who know the wants and requirements of the towns and districts embraced within its scope, that this has been most amply provided for. Until an Act of Parliament shall be obtained, the affairs of the Company shall be under the management and con trol of the Committee of Management, who are hereby empowered to enter into such arrangements as shall best serve the interests of this Company and the Public, with existing or projected Companies ; and to raise additional Capital, if required, to extend this Line ; and also to nominate the first Directors of the Company. Should the Commission now sitting not disturb the gauge of the South Wales Railway Bill passed this Ses sion, it is intended to adopt the wide gauge, to avoid the inconvenience of different gauges. Power will be taken under the Act to limit the respon sibility of Shareholders to the amount of their subscrip tion, and to allow four per cent. interest on the calls. This Line presents no engineering difficulties ; and as the Landholders (having been canvassed) are favourable to the Line, a return, equal to any Railway in the King dom, may be relied on from the outlay. Preference in the allotment of Shares will be given to those locally interested, and to the Shareholders of Lines in connection with this, the Grand Junction, South Wales, &c. The Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agree ment will be ready for signature on payment of the deposits. No applicationsfor Shares can in any case be attended to unless reference he made to one of the Provisional Com mittee, the Solicitors, Bankers, or Brokers of the Com pany.—Applications to be made at the Offices of the Com pany, and to Messrs. EDWARDS, MASON, and EDWARDS, Solicitors, 8, Moorgate Street; and the following Brokers : —London, Messrs. BACKHOUSE and Co., 4, Angel Court, Throgmorton-street ; Messrs. PEPPERCORNE and Co., Old Broad-street ; Messrs. PARKER and SCRUTTON, BIA, Old Broad-street; Messrs. SUTTON, GRIBBLE and SUTTON. Royal Exchange; LIVERPOOL, Messrs. LLOYD, and PRICE ; Birmingham, Messrs. CoLus and SON, ; MANCHESTER, Mr. JOSEPH FEARNY HOUGH ; Kidder minster, Mr. C. H. SAUNDERS ; Cheltenham, Mr. . WILLIAM LEE ; Bristol. Messrs. EDWARDS and SON, and Messrs. SOHM and TRIPP. CAMBRIAN & GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the SHARE LISTS WILL BE CLOSED upon the following days, viz., for London Applicants on WEDNESDAY, the 24th, and for Local Applicants on MONDAY, the 29th instant. H. HERBERT DOWNHAM, Hon. Sec. pro tern. 12, Nicholas-lane. Sept. 20th, 1845. THL LIVERPOOL STANDARD day's notice will be given ; and the deposits paid by any party making default in the execution of those deeds will be forfeited. Plans and Prospectuses, with forms of Application for Shares, may be had of the Solicitors, and of the follow ing Stock and Sharebrokers, viz. :—Messrs. WELLS, WESTROP, and PRINCEPS, 75, Old Broad-street, and Mr. H. PRITCHETT, 17, Royal Exchange, London ; Messrs. GARDINER and HEAP, Mr. CM ARLES M. WILLIAMS, and Messrs. BRADLEY, FORD, and PARKER, Manchester ; Messrs WATSON and Co., Hull; Messrs. DAVIES and SON, Liverpool ; Messrs. RIDSDALE, MYERS, and Co., Leeds ; Messrs. EARS , and SoN, Derby ; Mr. SAMUEL COLLINSON, and Messrs. POTT and LEVICH, Nottingham ; Messrs. HALL, BROTHERS, Cheltenham ; and Messrs. WREFORD, NicHoLs, and WREFORD, Bristol. 20th Sept., 1845. FORM OF APPLICATION• To the Provisional Committee of the Grand Junction and Midlands Union Railway Company. I request you will allot me Shares of £2O each, in the Capital of the above-named Railway, and I will ac cept the same or any less number, and pay the deposit of £2 2s per share, and sign the Parliamentary cont act and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated the day of , 1845 Name in tuli--- -. Place of Business or Profession Business or Profession ~...--,. Name, Residence,{ and Profession of Referee. LIVERPOOL AND LEEDS DIRECT RAILWAY. A T the request of numerous parties residing in or near A to Manchester, the PARLIAMENTARY CON TRACTS and SUBSCRIBERS' AGREEMENT will LIE FOR SIGNATURE at the ROYAL HOTEL, MAN CHESTER, THIS DAY, (Tuesday,) the 30th instant, be tween the hours of Eleven and Four. ROGERSON and RADCLIFFE, Solicitors, Liverpool. FORTH AND CLYDE JUNCTION RAILWAY, FROM THE FORTH, AT STIRLING, TO THE CLYDE, AT DUMBARTON. CAPITAL increased to £500,000, so as to include a Branch from Balloch to Milngavie, thus affording a direct communication between Glasgow and the North of Scotland. His Grace, JAMES, Durgr.-ov . MONTROSE, Lord Lieutenant of the c . ounty of Stirling, Chairman. J. LECKIE Ewixo, Esq., Vice-Chairman. REFERENCE is made to the Report of the Meeting of the Promoters of this Undertaking, as the same appears in the Edinburgh and Glasgow Newspapers. For Shares rf the additional Stock, apply in Liverpool to E. M. BRODIE, 17, Exchange-buildings. HEREFORD AND MERTHYR TIDVIL JUNCTION RAILWAY, IN CONNECTION WITH THE GLOUCESTER, ABERYSTWITH, AND CENTRAL WALES RAILWAY. PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED. CAPITAL £400,000, in 20,000 SHARES of £2O each DEPOSIT £2 2s. per SHARE. PROVISIONAL COMMITTER. The Hon. A. Capel, Epping The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., 6, Spring-gardens The Hon. A. F. Berkeley, 6, Spring-gardens Sir James Anderson, Bart., M.R.S.A., New Burlington-street Sir James Eyre, 11, Brook-street Sir John Osborne, Bart., Earl's-court, Brompton Colonel Robert Douglas, C. 8., United Service Club Colonel Hanmer, Bearfplace, Maidenhead Major J. 0. Lindam, KM., 8, New-street. Dorset-square Thomas Fuller Maitland, Esq., Garth-house, Builth, and Park place, Henley-on-Thames T. F. Maitland, jun., Esq., 51. Upper Seymour-street W. A. Hill, Esq., 29, Lonsdale-'quare The Venerable Archdeacon Venables, Llysdinam-hall, Builth Barber John, Esq., is, Gray's-inn-place Bardgett William, Esq., Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Beamish Captain, Maes Mawr, Montgomery, and Kensington square Carrie J. Nichol), Esq., LL.D., Dimlands-house, Cowbridge Coventry Millis, Esq., Drector of the Britannia Life Assurance Company M'Cann Nicholas, Esq., Parliament-street Earle Captain Hamilton, R.A., Director of the Oxford and Wor cester Extension Railway Foster E. R., Esq., Director of the Derby, Uttoxeter, and Staf ford RAway Glen J. P., Esq., Presteign Green C. E., Esq., Blandford.street, Portman-square Gwynne Marmaduke, Esq., Llane:wyth-hall, Builth Halpin W. H., Esq., 23, Grafton-street, Fitzroy-,quare Hanc)me R., Esq , Euston-square, and Vron Vallin, Brecon shire, Director of the Metropolitan Railway Junction Rail. way Heale Josiah, Esq., Gray's Inn-square Montefiore J., Esq., 20, Chester-street. Grosvenor-place Morrison Peter, Esq., Director of the London and Birmingham Extension and South and Midland Junction Railways Phillips R., Esq., Gloster-villa, Gloster-road, Regent's-park Phillipson R. 8., Esq., Director of the Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick Railway Prosser William, Esq., 13, Windsor-terrace, Pimlico Ricketts T. 8., Esq., Combe-house, Presteign Rose Joseph F., Esq., Great Surrey-street Savage Henry, Esq., 34, Dorset-place, Dorset-square Stevenson Thomas, 37, Upper Grosvenor-street Thomas Edward David, Esq., Welfield-house, Radnorshire Thomas Thomas, Esq., Penkerrig. Radnorshire Waite Charles, Esq., Willesden, Middlesex Waite G.. Esq., 2, Old Burlington-street Walker The Rev. G. A., Alverthorpe Parsonage, Wakefield Watkins Lloyd Vaughan, Esq., Pennoyre Wood R. W., Esq., Lodge-place, St. John's Wood With power to add to their number. BANKERS. Abergavenny—Branch of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshlre Banking Company Aberystwith—North and South Wales Bank Birmingham—Messrs. Moilliett and Co. Brecon—Messrs. Bromage Snead and Co. Bristol—West of England and South Wales District Bank Cheltenham—The Coanty of Gloucester Bank Gloucester—The County of Gloucester Bank Hay—The Herefordshire Banking Company Hereford—The Herefordshire Banking Company London—Messrs. Glynn, Halifax, Milk, Co., Lombard-street Merthyr Tidvil—West of England and South Wales Bank Neith—Glamorganshire Banking Company Newport—Branch of the West of England and South Wales District Bank Ross—J. W. Hall, Esq. Worcester—Messrs; Farley and Co._ ENGINEER. Samuel Hughes, Esq. SURVEYOR. George Taylor, Esq. SOLICITORS. Mr. George P. 11111, 21 A, Soho-square Mr. Thomas Lawrence, Brecon SECRETARY. Mr. Thomas Hawker WHILST providing a grand Trunk Line for Central Wales in the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Cen tral Wales Railway Company, the Directors of that im portant Undertaking have not been unmindful of the various solicitations they hare received for the extension of its public usefulness, Amongst the first and most necessary of the contem plated Extensions is the Line of Railway now proposed ; the objects of which are to connect, by a direct Line, the teeming and fertile Districts of Herefordshire and the adjoining highly productive Agricultural Counties of Radnor and Cardigan with the great Mineral Districts of Merthyr Tidvil and the Neighbourhood •, and by means of the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, proposed to run from Crewe, aid Lien gerrig, (where that Line meets that of the Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales) to Aberystwith, to connect North and South Wales, also Shropshire, Cheshire, &c., with the West of England. It will hardly be necessary to dilate upon the enormous Traffic which must exist between the densely populated Districts of Merthyr Tidvil, the Agricultural Counties before mentioned, with the surrounding Country, and the Mines of Cardiganshire. In the latter neighbourhood the want of Coal is much felt. Improvement in Trade, increased profits to Mining Establishments and Manu facturers, the more ready interchange of Food for the pro ducts of the Mines, and general addition to prosperity must follow from the construction of this Line, which has the merit of clashing with no other project, and of being strongly sought after and recommended by existing inter ests. This Line will leave the Main Line at Glasbury, from whence it will run in an almost direct course along the Banks of the Lliinvy River through Talgarth by Llangose Lake, crossing the river Usk at a most favourable point; it will then intersect the populous neighbourhood of Taly bont, and, after striking the Valleys of the Glyn and Taaffechan, terminate at Merthyr Tidvil. The necessary connection of this Line with the Taaf Vale and South Wales Railways will be obvious. A short Branch from the Glyn Valley will connect the Line with the Great Iron Works and Mineral Districts of Sirlwwy Tredegar, and Rhymny ; and, by means of the Tredegar Railway, connect it also with the important Town and Port of Newport. It may be remarked that this Line bas long been called for by the Local Wants of the Districts affected by its progress, and was surveyed many years since by an emi nent Engineer (the late GEORGE OvnitTost. Esq., who planned the first Railway for Locomotive Power in the Kingdom). The length of the Line will be about Twenty Miles. In the Allotment of Shares (which will take place at the earliest possible moment, on account of the necessity of being prepared for the ensuing Session of Parliament), preference will he given to parties locally interested in the Line, and to Scrip Holders in the Gloucester and Aber ystwith Railway Company. Applications for Shares in the annexed form may be made to the respective Solicitors •, to the Secretary, at the offices of the Company, No. 1, New Broad-street ; or to the following local solicitors:—Birmingham, Messrs. HILL and EVERILL ; Gloucester, HENRY EVANS, Esq. ; Ross, Messrs. EDWARDS ; Hereford, J. H. RAVENHILL. Esq. ; Hay, W. PUGH, Esq.; Builth, EVAN VAUGHAN, Rhayader, EVAN WILLIAMS, Esq.; Aberystwith, W. MILLER, Esq. Reference FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Hereford and Mer thyr Tidvil Junction Railway. GENTLEMEN,—I request that you will allot me Shares in the above Railway, and I agree to mee t ac that or any less number that you may please to allot ; and I undertake to pay the deposit of £2 2s. per Share on the same, and to sign the Subscribers' Agreement and Par liamentary Contract when required. Name in full-- Residence Trade or Profession Place of Business (if any) MANCHESTER, :N. IDLAND. & GREAT GRIMSBY JUNCTION RAILWAY, (VIA ROTHERHAM.) HE Directors have satisfaction in intimating that it T has been determined to construct a BRANCH LINE to DONCASTER, commencing by a Junction with the Main Line at or near Bramley or hwell. The Survey is now in active progress. To prevent unnecessary trouble to parties at a distance, the Public are respectfully informed that one-half of the additional Share-Capital is already subscribed, and the other half will be confined exclusively to Landowners and Persons locally interested. By order, W. F. HOYLE, }Solicitors C. L. HOWARD, Rotherham, 15th September, 1845. HARWICH DOCKS, 0 11 , 1 D BIRMINGHAM AND CENTRAL ENGLAND RAILWAY. PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED. TEMPORARY OFFICES, No. 63, MOORGATE-STREET, CAPITAL, £1,400.000, in 70,000 Shares of £2O each DEPOSIT, £2 2s. per Share. pfIOVISIONAL COMMITTEE. John Blunt, Esq., Director of the London Docks Company Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mallyand St. Mary Church, Torquay, Devon, Director of the Goble and Doncaster, and Bridport and Exeter Railway • The Right Hmiourabl3 Lord Dunboyne, Bell Hatch House, Thames Ditton, Oxf•rdshire Captain Evans, R.N„ United Service Club William Evans, Esq., 3, Chesham-street, Belgrave-square, and Chertsey, Surrey, ormerly Sheriff of London John Griffith Frth, Esq., 11, Austin-friars, Director of the Great Northern of France Railway Frederick Hodgson, Esq., M.P. for Barnstaple Sir John Hare, 5, Langham-place, Director of the Oxford and Worcester Extension, and Chester Junction Railways John Hodgson, Esq., Sunderland House, Halifax, Director of the West Riding Junction Railway John Huntriss, Esq., Halifax, Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway James Inglis, Esq., M.D., Halifax, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway John Jennings, Esq., Elm-grove, Hammersmith, Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railway Sir William Johnstone, Bart., Hilton, Aberdeenshire Joshua King, Esq., East Bergholt, Suffolk James H. Leckie, Esq., Richmond George Lawton, Esq.. Ditchleys, Essex Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., F.R.S., 8, Upper Hyde Park-street, Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon- Tyne Junction Railway Sir John Pirie, Bart., Alderman of London Captain Parkinson, Polygon, Ardwick, Manchester, Director of the Trent Valley, Midland, and Grand Junction Railway Harry Purkis, Rsq., Sturner Halstead, Essex David Pollock, Esq., Q.C. and F.R.S., so, Montague-street, Russell-square Lewis Pocock, Esq., F. R.S., 29, Montague-street, Russell-square, Director of the Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junc tion Railway John Purkis, Esq., Eturmer Hall, Clare, Suffolk William Langley Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex William Adams Smith, Esq., Pall-mall Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., 17, Carlton House-terrace, Deputy. Governor of the Union Bank of London Foster Shaw, Esq., Halifax, Yorkshire Joseph Somes, Esq., shipowner, London William G-rdon Thomson, Esq., 33, Gloucester road, Hyde- Park. Director of the Leeds and Carlisle, and Northern T, unk Railway of England James Tracey, Esq., Great Winchester-street, London Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Director of the York and Lancaster Railway James Walkinshaw, Esq., Old Park, Is'e of Wight, Deputy- Chairman of the Manchester and Southampton Railway Frederick Young, Esq.. Bromley, Middlesex (With power to add to their number.) SOLICITORS FOR TITS DOCKS. Messrs. Lyon, Barnes, and Ellis, 7, Spring gardens. SOLICITORS FOR TRH RAILWAY. Messrs. George and Charles Pollock, 19, Great George-street, Westminster. Messrs. Fyson and Curling, 3, Fredetick-place, Old Jewry BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, and Mills. SECRETARY. W. Scott, Esq. PHIS Railway will commence at the port of Harwich, and proceed from thence to a junction with the Lon don and Birmingham Railway at or near Blisworth, or to such other point as may be agreed upon by the Engineers of the two Companies ; and the Provisional Committee has the satisfaction of stating, that they have received the assurance of the London and Birmingham Company, that their Board is favourable to the undertaking. The importance of the port of Harwich, as being the only safe Harbour along the east coast of England, has not failed to attract the especial attention of Government; and the following short extract from the very able report of Captain Washington, one of the Commissioners ap pointed to inquire into the most eligible situations for Harbours of Refuge, shows the great importance, which is attached by Government to its improvement. " It is well to bear in mind what this port was during the last war, and what it must again become for another North Sea Fleet. It was from Harwich that the Hollesley Bay fleet was always watered by transports; it was here that all vessels from a fri gate downwards, in case of need, came for a partial refit at the naval yard still in existence; here no less than sixty ships of war have b 'en built, fifteen of which were two deckers, while the ton nage of the vessels employed in the North Sea Fishery belonging to Harwich, a few years since was estimated at 3,000 tons, employing 500 hardy CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. FINAL NOTICE TO SCRIP HOLDERS. AS the period fixed for Registration will ex p ire, in terms of former Advertisements, on WEDNESDAY next, the Ist October, an EXTENSION of EIGHT DAYS is now allowed, in order to afford time to parties at a distance. At the same time, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that all Shares, the Scrip fur which shall not be delivered into this Office on or before THURSDAY, the Ninth day of October next, shall, without further notice, be registered as the Property of the original subscribers. By order of the Board of Directors, D. RANKINE, Secy. Office, 122, Prince's-street, Edinburgh, 26th September, 1845. N.B.—ln order to send Scrip in safety, it is recom mended to write across the face of each Scrip Note as follows :—" Sent fcr Registration by me o wner, this day of 1845." LONDON AND NOTTINGHAM RAILWAY, CONNECTING LONDON, NOTTINGHAM, HEFFIELD, AND LEEDS Provisionally Registered pursuant to 7 and 8 Vic. c. 110. CAPITAL, £1,000,000, in 50,000 Shares of £2O each. DEPOSIT, £2 2s. per Share. (In compliance with the standing orders of the Houses of Parliament.) PROVISIOI , IAL _COMMITTEE (With powel.to add to their number.) The Right Honourable Digby, Lord Middleton, Wollaton Hall, Notts - - - The Honourable E. M. Lloyd Mostyn, M.P. The Honourable William Mackenzie Dawson The Honourable Edward 'taffard Jerningham Sir George G. de Hochepied Larpent, Bart., Austin Friars, London William Collins, Esq., M.P. Thomas Adams, Esq., Merchant, Lenton Firs, near Nottingham Charles Appleby, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and Man- chester George Bacon, Esq., merchant, Nottingham Richard Bailey, Esq., Castle Dyke, nes.r Sheffield, Director of the Manchester, Sheffield, on Midlandl Junction Railway Fred. Pratt Barlow, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway Robert Bell, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick Charles Richard Bigge, Esq., Bryanstone-square, London William Boden, Esq., Apsley Hall, near Nottingham William Bradley, Esq. Sheffield Joseph Braithwaite, Esq. magistrate, Standard Hill, Nottingham James Brand, Esq. New Broad-street, London George B. Bunbury, Esq. Leamington, Director of the Coventry and Nuneaton Railway Edward Pegge Burnell, Esq. Winkburn, Notts, magistrate for the county Wm. Butcher, Esq. The Master Cutler of Sheffield Samuel Cartledge, Esq. Mapperley, near Nottingham William Cartledge, Esq. merchant, Nottingham Charles Chouler, Esq. Wollaton, Notts Thomas Close, Esq. magistrate. Nottingham Henry Coe Coape, Esq. Union Club, London Major E. T. Coke, magistrate, Woodhouse Grove, Notts Sheldon Craddock, Esq. Leicester Thomas Cullen, Esq. merchant, Nottingham Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq. Old Cavendish-street, London, and Lillingstone-Dayrell, High Sheriff for Bucks. Lieut.-Col. Elrington, Scots Fusileer Guards, Wyndham-place, London Henry D. Erskine, Esq. 93, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square William Felkin, Esq. merchant, Nottingham William Edmund Ferrers, Esq. Bucklersbury, Director of the Chester and Holyhead Railway James Fisher, Esq. 12, Watling-street, London Charles Fitzgerald, Esq. London, Director of the Manchester, Ox . ford, and Southampton Railway The Rev. Henry Robert Fowler, Manchester-square, London Smith Fowler, Esq. merchant, Nottingham Francis Gamble, Esq merchant, Gainsborough George Gamble, Esq merchant, Gainsborough James Gernon, Esq. 13, Conduit-street, London William Gilbertson, Esq. Baglan, Neath Joseph Gill, Esq. Leeds, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway Thomas Foster Gimson, Esq. merchant, Nottingham William Hannay, Esq. magistrate, Nottingham John Heard, Esq. magistrate, Nottingham Richard Heaviside, Esq. London, Director of the Great Luxem bourg Railway Lewis Heymann, Esq. merchant, Nottingham Samuel Hollins, merchant, Nottingham John Horsfall, Esq. magistrate, Standard Hill, Nottingham The Rev. Charles Hudson, Saundby, Notts Richard Hutchinson, Esq. M.D °Bingham Robert James, Esq. merchant, Nottingham Thomas Kidley, Esq M.D. *--heffield Cynric Lloyd, Esq. Brook-street, London Robert Low, Esq. Keppell-street, Russell-square, London The Mayor of Nottingham David Melville, Esq. merchant, Standard Hill, Nottingham Major J. A Moore, Queen Ann-street, London, Director of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway John Newton Mappin, Esq. Sheffield Edward Munk, Esq. merchant, The Park, Nottingham Henry Newbould, Esq. Sharrow Bank, Sheffield John Nunn, Esq. magistrate, Nottingham Park Wilson Overand, Esq. Sheffield, magistrate for the West Riding Capt. Adamson Geo. Parker, Mapperley Mount, near Nottingham Samuel Parsons, Esq. M.D. Sackville street, London William Raines, Esq. The Temple, Condon J. Thomas Raworth, Esq. Leicester Jonathan Reckless, Esq. merchant. Nottingham Park James Salmond, Esq. magistrate, Mansfield Woodhouse, near Not tingham, Director of the Newark and Sheffield Railway Frederick William Seymour, Esq. St. James's-square, London George Shelton, Esq. Jun merchant. Arnold, near Nottingham Henry Simonds. Esq. Dire for of the Great Western Railway John Simpson, Esq. A rnot Hill, near Nottingham Thomas Smith,Esq. Meadow Ilead,ttear Sheffield William Smith, Esq. Dam House, near Sheffield Henry Smith. Esq. merchant, The Park, Nottingham William Taylor, Esq. Ratcliffe Hall, Notts, magistrate for the county William Thompson, Esq. Sheffield, Director of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway William Vickers, Esq. magistrate, Nottingham Thomas Wakefield, Esq. magistrate, Nottingham John Ward, Esq. Wood-street, London, and Belper, Derbyshire Robert Watkins, Esq. Director of the Manchester and Birming ham Extension Railway Edward Webster Bullock Webster, Esq. Hendon William Webster, Esq. Oakham Rutland John Ingall Werge, Esq. Woodborough Hall, Notts, Director of the Newark and Sheffield Railway Colonel Henry Westenra, Camla, Monaghan David Wheatcroft, Esq. Buckland Hollow, near Alfreton John Wild, Esq. merchant, The Park, Nottingham Henry Wilkinson, Esq. Endcliffe Hall, near Sheffield, Director of Sheffield and Chesterfield Railway John Calthrop Williams, Esq. M.D. magistrate, Nottingham Robert Wynne Williams, Esq. Bedford-place, London Henry Willoughby, Esq. Setterington House, Melton COMMITTEE OF staxsomstEor. Sir George G. de Hochepied Larpent, Bart. Chairman Rev. Henry Robert Fowler, Deputy Chairman Frederick Pratt Barlow, Esq. Joseph Braithwaite, Esq. James Brand, Esq. Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq. Lieut.-Colonel Elrington William Edmund Ferrers, Esq. James Gernon, Esq. William Hannay, Esq. Robert I ow, Esq. Capt. Adamson George Parker Samuel Parsons, Esq. William Raines, Esq. STANDING COUNSEL. Mr. Serjeant Clarke. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Birch and Bramah, Great Winchester-street, London, Messrs. Forbes and Drake, Warnford-court, London Messrs. Freeth and Rawson, Nottingham LOCAL AGENTS. Messrs. Parker and smith, Sheffield C. S. Busby, Esq. Chesterfield PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS. Messrs. Gregory, Faulkner, and Co. 11, Parliament-street. BANKE RS. Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co. 15, Lombard-street, London Messrs. Moore and Robinson, Nottinghamshire Banking Com pany, Nottingham The Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield SECRETARY (pro. tem.) Mr. William R. Drake. OFFICES OF THE COMPANY. No. 8, Waruford-court, London. THE object of this Company is to form a direct Line of Railway between the large and important town of Nottingham and the Metropolis, which, by means of the existing and proposed lines north of the former place, will afford also the most direct and shortest route between London, Sheffield, Huddersfield, Leeds, the North of England generally, and Scotland, and between London and Nltuichester. It is not the present intention of this Company to form an independent Line between London and Bedford, but to wait the result of the ensuing Session of Parliament, and to take advantage of such one of the projected Lines between those places as shall receive the sanction of the Legislature. The proposed Railway will therefore commence at Bedford, and taking a course northward through the po pulous district of Higham Ferrars, to or near Kettering and Melton Mowbray, will proceed almost in a straight line to Nottingham. Its length will be 64 miles, through a thickly-populated country, and one offering no difficul ties of any moment to the construction, in a direct course, of the proposed Railway. A reference to the Map will show that this Line, in conjunction with the proposed Railways north of No:tingliam, will he the nearest route from London to Sheffield, Huddersfield, Leeds, the North of England, and Scotland ; while, by means of the pro posed Nottingham and Ambergate, and Manchester, Buxton and Ambergate Lines, it will be found to offer a more direct communication than any in existence between London and Manchester, and equally so with any one projected between those places. The Promoters are already assured that the undertak ing will be cordially approved by the landed and other lo cal interests. It has the sanction and active assistance of Directors from almost every Line of Railway which it af fects. It has the earnest support of the inhabitants of the towns of Nottingham and Sheffield, and of the manu facturing and commercial classes of the North, and the Committee are not aware of any grounds, either public or private, upon which the sanction of Parliament can be withheld from a Line which, from the amount of its traffic, guarantees to the Proprietors as large a return upon the Capital to be invested as any Railway in the kingdom. In the allotment of Shares a preference will be given to parties locally interested in the Line, and a certain num ber will be reserved for the Shareholders in Railways im mediately connected with the present undertaking. A Prospectus, with Plan, an d a Li s t o f the Provisional Committee, and any further particulars, may be obtained from the SECRETARY, at the Offices of the Company ; or to Messrs. EDWARD ELI-is and Co., Sharebrokers, 53, Threadneedle-street; to whom Applications for Shares in the usual form may be made. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES ...._. _ _ To the Provisional Committee of the London and Not- GENTLEMEN,— gh l a r in eou ß e a s i t lw yo a u y t C o o a m ll p o a t n m y. e Shares of £2O each in the imposed London and Nottingham Railway, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or such smaller number as may be allotted to me, and pay the Deposit, and sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required Dated this day of Signature Name in full ----- Residence and Place of Business Profession or Trade — Nantes and Addresses of two 1 well-known Referees j CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY. NTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the HALF II YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the PRO PRIETORS of the CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY will be l'eld, at the Clarendon-rooms South John-street, Liverpool, on TH URSDAY , the 16a; day of October neat, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, for the general despatch of business.' WILLIAM JACKSON, Chairman Birkenhead, 22d September, 1845. SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY. NOTICE IS HEREBY Gt \TEN, that a PARLIA MENTARY DEPOSIT of £lO per Cent, being rendered necessary by a recent Standing Order of the House of Lords, all Shareholders in this Company, to whom Shares were allotted previously to the Ist August last, and on which a Deposit of £5 10s. per Cent, only has been paid, are required to PAY THE ADDITIONAL DEPOSIT of £4 10s. per Cent, to one of the Bankers of this Company on or before the 18th instant, and that Scrip Certificates will be delivered in Exchange only for the Banker's receipts for the FULL DEPOSIT of £lO per Cent. _ _ The Scrip will be ready for delivery on and after the 18th instant, on execution of the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract,. which will lie for that pur pose at the places and times following, namely, One part or Duplicate of such Deed, LONDON—at the Offices of EDWIN SMITH, Esq , Soli citor, Gray . 's-lnn, on and after the 18th instant. And another part or Duplicate, WALSALL—at the Offices of the Company, Bradford street, from the 18th to the 20th instant, inclusive. LICHFIELD—At the Offices of Messrs. DYOTT and Sort, Solicitors, from the 22d to the 24th inst., in clusive. WOLVERHAMPTON—at the Offices of CHARLES CORSER, Esq., Solicitor, from the 25th to the 27th instant, inclusive. DUDLEY—at the Offices of WILLIAM FELLOW ES, Jun., Esq., from the 29th instant to the Ist October next, inclusive. BIRMINGHAM—at the Offices of Messrs. GEM, SON, and DOCKER, Solicitors, Waterloo-street, from the 2d to the 4th October next, inclusive. STAFFORD—at the Offices of Messrs. BENNETT and BOWEN, Solicitors, from the 6th to the Bth October next, inclusive. LIVERPOOL—at the Offices of Messrs. CLAY, SWIFT, and WAGSTAFF, from the 9th to the 11th October next, inclusive. By Order, HORATIO BARNETT, Secretary. South Sta f fordshire Junction Railway Office, Bradford-street, Walsall, 9th Sept., 1845, BIRMINGHAM, LICHFIELD, AND MAN CHESTER RAILWAY COMPANY. CAPITAL, £260,000. in 13,000 Shares of £2O each. DEPOSIT, £2 2s. per Share. (Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Vic., c. 110.) PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Lichfield The Viscount Ingestre, M.P., Ingestre The Lord Alfred Paget, M.P., Beaudesert, and Uxbridge house The Viscount Leveson, 111.1 ) ;;'Aldenham-house, Salop Richard Spooner, Fsq., M.l'., Birmingham G. F. Muntz, Esq., Birmingham General Dyott, Freeford-ball, Lichfield John Shawe Manley, Esq., Manley-ball, Staffordshire, Director of the Leicester and 'l'amworth Junction Railway John Levett. Esq., Wichnor-park, Staffordshire Captain Dyott, Freeford-hall, Lichfield, Director of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway Samuel Swinfen, Esq., Swinfen-hall, Staffordshire Richard C. Chawner, Esq., Wall, Lichfield, Deputy- Chairman of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway The Mayor of Lichfield I Richard Greene, Esq., Worley-grove, Lichfield, Director of the Trent Valley, Midlands, and Grand Junction Railway Major M jendie, Pipe-grange, Lichfield, Director of the Trent Valley, Midlands. and Grand Junction Railway Thomas George Lomax. Esq., Lichfield, Director of the Churnet and Blythe Railway The Rev. W. Villiers, Shenstone, Lichfield William Hartopp, Esq., Doe-bank, Warwickshire Harvey Wyatt, Esq., Acton-bill, Stafford, Director of the Trent Valley, Midlands, and Grand Junction Railway John Mott, Eq., The Close, Director of the South Staf fordshire Junction It rilway Tomas Nevill, Esq., Shenstone, Lichfield William Chance, Esq., Spring Grove-house, Birmingham Henry Sherratt, Esq., Lichfield William Henry Gem, Esq., Birmingham John Owen, Esq., Lynn, Lichfield The Mayor of Birmingham John Wilkes Unett, Esq., The Woodlands, Smethwick, Staffordshire George Uuett, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire William Jacot, Esq., New-hall, Sutton Goldfield George Turner, Hunton-hill, Erdington. Warwick shire, Director of the South Staffordshire Junction, and the Southampton and Oxford Railway Companies Thomas Welch. Esq., Birmingham, Director of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway Company Charles Machin, Esq., Blythe-house, Erdington, War wickshire David Barnett, liqi , Merchant, Birmingham, Director of the Leicester and Birmingham Direct Railway Company Samuel Haines, E,q., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Director of the Leicester and Birmingham, and Boston and Stamford Railway Companies John Boulton, Esq.. Birmingham Thomas Bollman Upfill, Esq., the Crescent, Birmingham William Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley Edgbaston, Bir mingham ' Theophllus Richards, Esq., Edgbaston, near Birmingham Thomas Pemberton, Esq., Warston-house, Birmingham, Director of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway Company B. B. Williams, Esq.. London, Director of the London and Manchester Direct, and the Leicester and Tam worth Junction, and Liverpool Railway Compacies. James Russell, Esq., Endwood Court, Handsworth, Staffordshire George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham William Edwards, Esq., Ashton Furnace, near Bir mingham Bell Eletcher, Esq., M.D., Birmingham Pe}ton Blackiston, Esq., M.D., Birmingham Thomas Davies, Esq., The Austins, Handsworth, Staf fordshire, Director of the South Staffordshire Junction Railway Company Thomas E. Davies, Esq., Bellefield-house, near Bir mingham With power to add to their number. ENGINEER. J. R. M'Clean, Esq., C.E. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Dyott and Son, Lichfield. George Birch, Esq., Lichfield. Messrs. Gem, Son, and Docker, Birmingham. LOCAL SOLICITORS. \V. H. Reece, Esq., Birmingham. C. H. Jagger, Esq., Birmingham. LONDON SOLICITORS. Messrs. Baxters, 48, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. SECRETARY. John S. Sherratt, Esq. BANKERS London : Messrs. Smith, Payne Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co Lichfield :—Messrs. Palmer and Green Birmingham :—Messrs. Attwoods, Spooner, and Cu and Smiths; and PROSPECTUS THIS Line of Railway is especially promoted for the purpose of effecting the nearest and most direct com munication between Birmingham and Manchester and Birmingham and Derby, and while it will, by a straight line, unite these great manufacturing towns, it will also form a most important connecting link with the greatest trunk lines in England. Placed in the exact centre of the kingdom, and uniting in a short and direct Line, the whole of the Railway com munication of the south-west (converging to a centre at Birmingham) with, that of the north and north-east, of which Manchester on the one hand, and Derby, Leeds, York, Hull, and the whole of the northern counties on the other, are the leading points, the great importance of this Railway cannot be questioned. By the present arrangements, the two great sources of traffic, the Manchester and the great northern districts are broneht to a point at or near Lichfield, from which place they have to take a circuitous ',lite in order to reach Bir mingham, which lies in a direct line before them, and which line is the one now proposed to construct. To the towns along the line, south of Manchester, namely, Stockport, Macclesfield, Leek, Cheadle, Uttoxe ter, Lichfield, and Sutton Coldfield, this Railway will secure the most important advantages. To the Staffordshire Potteries, Congleton, Stone, and Rugeley, by means of one of the projected lines to Lich field, a practicable and direct Railway communication will be afforded to Birmingham and to the counties and sea ports south and south we , t of Birmingham, while to Man chester and the towns above enumerated this Line will, by its junction with the Trent Valley Railway at Lichfield, afford as direct a communication with London as can be made. liabilitiestAiecttt,andill be ted all l )y the T Shares with payments made thereon will be forfeited in the event of the holders not signing the Subscribers' Agree ment and Parliamentary Contract. In the allotment of Shares the Landholders on the Line the aM ) foli thet of Shareholderstheirfitli will have a due preference. Applications for Shares may be addressed to the Secre tary, Boar-street, Lichfield; and to the Solicitors; also to Messrs. Aston and Scott, Stock Brokers. 32, Throginorton street, London; Messrs. CLEI_;(i and &VCR E IGLU, 34, Exchange-street East, Liverpool; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manchester; Messrs. Elgood and Harrison, Leices ter; Mr. Scott . and Mr. Lee, Birmingham ; and Mr. Payne, Wolverhampton. No applications will be attended to, unless accompanied by a reference to a member of the Provisional Committee, or one of the Solicitors, or Bankers. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Provisional Committee of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway. GENTLEMEN,—I request you will allot me Shares of £2O each, in the above undertaking, and I hereby agree to accept the same, or such less number as you may appro priate to me, subject to the regulations of the Company, and to pay the Deposit, and sign the Parliamentary Con tract and Subscribers'Agreement, when required. Dated this day of 1845. Name in full Residence Business or Profession • • Name and Resideoce of the Referee ..... seamen ' These considerations alone would more than justify any small outlay to preserve this port from further damage, but in addition it should be remembered, that this may shortly become the packet station for all our mail communications with northern and central Europe ; that as soon as the railroad open to Colchester is completed to Harwich, letters dispatched from the General Post Office might be delivered in three hours direct on board the mail steam-packet, lying waiting alongside the pier; that passengers could walk on board, and in less than a quarter of an hour be clear out at sea, in all wea thers, and at all times of the tide, and sixty miles ahead, even in fine weather, of those mailed at the same time in London, which would probably make the difference of a whole tide in arriving rff Ostend or the Bridle, or other bar harbours, while in north-easterly gales and fogs steamers would often make their passage before those starting from London could get clear of the shoals and currents of the deep gulf which forms the estuary of the Thames ; in proof of which, twenty-eight steamers, carrying mails, in spite of strict orders to the contrary, have been compelled to put into this port for fuel, or land their mails, after con tending for upwards of twenty-four hours against strong head-winds, which prevented their making their voyage. " Under these points of view, then, but chiefly as a Packet Station for all northern and central Euroi,e, the preservation of this port appears to be of national importance." On reference to the map it will be seen, that the Rail way, besides accommodating the important and populous districts through which it will pass, (as yet unprovided with railway accommodation) opens up, by means of existing and projected lines, direct communication be tween the port of Harwich, and every part of England : —by the Eastern Counties Railway, direct with London; by its connexion at Blisworth with the London and Bir mingham Railway, with all the manufacturing districts of Staffordshire ;—from the same point, by means of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Line, with the west of England and, by the South Midland, and Mid land Counties Railways, with all the northern and ma nufacturing towns. It may not be generally known that Harwich is nearer than Hull to the Elbe, by forty miles, whilst its situation as regards the opposite ports of Holland, places it in im mediate communication with all the railroads of Ger many,—being nearer, even than London, to Rotterdam and the adjacent ports, by one hundred miles. Regarding Harwich, therefore as a Packet Station, a Harbour of Refuge, and the most commodious port for all northern and central Europe, it is scarcely possible to estimate, too highly, the value of the present undertaking, whether viewed as a great national work, or as a commer cial speculation. A Parliamentary grant having been made for the im provement and preservation of Harwich Harbour, it is the intention of this Company to assist in carrying out the objects of the Government by the construction of Docks, which, in connexion with the Railway, will adapt the port of Harwich for that extensive commercial and passenger traffic, to which its situation, combined with othor advantages, appear so peculiarly to entitle it ; and the Provisional Committee have the satisfaction of stating, that intending to carry out the plan for the Docks in such manner as may obtain the sanction of the Government, they have, after consulting with Messrs. Walker and Burgess, reques ed those gentlemen to fur nish them with plans and estimates for the Docks. Power will be taken in the Act to allow four per cent. interest on the deposits, until the completion of the Line. A limited number of Shares will be reserved for Parties having a Local Interest on the Line ;—for Foreign Chambers of Commerce commercially benefitted by the undertaking, and also, for the London and Birmingham, the Eastern Counties, and Eastern Union Railway Com pany. No Application for Shares, unless accompanied by a reference to a Member of the Provisional Committee, the Solicitors, or Brokers of the Company, or other respon siblc parties, will be attended to. Application for shares in the annexed form may be made to the Secretary, at the Offices of the Company, No. 63, Moorgate-street ; to the Solicitors ; or to the following Stock and Sharebrokers, from whom copies of the Prospectus and Map may be obtained :—Messrs. CARDEN & WHITEHEAD, Threadneedle-streeet, Messrs. EWART and BELL, 3, Coptball Chambers, London ; Messrs. BRADLEY, FORD and PARKER, Manchester ; H. DAVIES and CO., Liverpool ; Messrs. CH ANTRELL, and BOYES, Leeds; Messrs. WILKINSON and EARLE, Hull; Mr. JAMES HERVEY, HALIFAX; Messrs. Bu- CHANAN and AITKEN, Glasgow ; and Messrs. LAMA TOUCH and STAFFORD, Dublin. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Provisional Committee of the Harwich Docks and Birmingham and Central England Railway. GENTLEMEN, -I request that you will allot me Shares of £2O each in the Harwich Docks, and Birming ham and Central England Railway ; and I do hereby un dertake to accept the same, or any less number you may allot me, and to pay the deposit of £2 2s. per share, and to sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Dated this day of 1845. Usual Signature Name in full Residence - - Business or Profession • Date of Application Name, Residence, and Profession of Referee ; Of o p 011 , tbe, "toet to' 4' 'a 1 $P ved rei ib e , °. 9 l 0 0 0 ; 0 JOpo , '