The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-02 00:00:00

TAE SUN, LONDON, THURSDA MORNING, OCTOBER 2) 1845.

DIRECT WESTERN RAILWAY
(Upon the Broad Gauge),
From London to the Land's-end ; with Diverging Lines to Bath and

Bridgewater respectively. -
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 3,003,0001., in 120,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 1•!s. 6d. per Share.
Offices, 20, Poultry, London.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Camperilown, Sidney-place, Bath
The Viscount Mandeville, Kimbolton-park, Runts
Lord James O'Bryen, Royal-crescent, Bath
Lord William Powlett, Bath, and Downham-hall, Brandon, Suffolk
General Sir John Slade, Bart., Muntys Court, Taunton
Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, Somerset
The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Director of the South Mid-
land Railway-, Brookes' Club, St. James'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., 19, Eaton-place, London
Ralph Neville, Esq., M.P., Hill-street, Berkeley-square
Charles Barry Baldwin, M.P., 6, Parliament -street
Hon. Percy Evans Freks, 3, Belgrave-square
Thomas Nugent Vaughan, Esq., 32, Grosvenor-place, London
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the
Sheffield and Manchester, and Huddersfield and Sheffield Railway
Companies
Sir Robert Price. Bart., M P Foxier. Herefordshire
Sir John Cave Brown Cave Dart Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Sir William Young, Bart, W•stheauve veep, Hyde-park, East India

Director
John Clark, Esq., Benefield House, near Trowbridge, Wilts, Magis-
trate for the counties of Wilts and Somerset
Alfred Batson, Esq., Ramsbury, Wilts, and Upper Bedford-place
Major Hunt Grubbe, Eastwell House, Devizes
John Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker
John LoYel Sealy, Esq., Bridgwater, banker
William Adair Bruce, Esq., Lansdown-crescent, Bath
Sir John Key, Bart., 9, King's Arms-yard, Alderman of the City of
London, Director of the Direct Manchester and Loudon and Direct

Liverpool and Leeds Railway Company
Thomas Farncomb, Esq., Griffin's Wharf, Tooley-street, Alderman
of the City of London, and Director of the London and Westmin-
ster Bank, and of the London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidder-
minster Railway
Thomas Challis, Esq., Enfield, 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., Min's 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-read, Hyde Park,
Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, and

South Midland Railways
Donald Maclean, Esq., 37, Brunswick-suaare, London, Depaty

Chairman of tke Trent Valley Continuation Railway
Thomas Lawrence, Esq., 3, St. Mary Axe
Philip W. Courtney, Esq., Chapel-street, Belgrays-square, London
3111115 Coventry, Esq., Whitekart-court, Lombard-street
Barnet L. ,Philips, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, and,

George-street, Mansionkouse
Boswell Middleton Jalland, Esq., Hollerness House, near Null,
Deputy Lieutenant and 3fa3istrate for the East Riding of Yorkshire
Charles Robert Coleman, Esq., Irongate Wharf
William Eales, Esq., Mincing lane, London, late Director *I the

Devon and Conniell Banking Company
Charles Downes, Esq., Warwick-street, Charing-cress, Director of
the South Midland Railway
Martin Stutely, Esq., 6, Cambridge-terrace, Regent's Park, London,
Director of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, sad the South

Essex Railways
Firancis Ede, Esq., 34, Great Winchester-street
John Addis, Esq., Rotherhithe and Mark-lane, London, Director of

the Central Terminus Railway, and of the Licensed Vietaallers'

Fire and Life Insurance Company
James Renshaw, Esq., Whitehart-court, Lombard-street, and West
Heath Mouse, Erah, Kent, Director of the South Staffordshire
Railway
Thomas Drane, Esq., Pall-mall, and St. Mary Church, Devon, Direc•
tor of the Bridport and Exeter, and Goole and Doncaster Railways
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Brembo Ironworks, Wrexham, and Cannon-

street, London
H. G. Atkinson, Esq., Upper 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., Couladen-court, Surrey, Chairman of the Li-
censed Victuallers' Fire and Life Assurance Company
J. G. Hammack, Esq., Essex Ileuse, Mile-end-road, Director of the

Licensed Victuallers' Fire and Lilt Assurance Company
Patrick Fras. Johnston, Earl., Great Cumberland-place
Joseph Bitihop, Esq., Crescent, Alinories, Director of the Leaden and

Railway
Blackwall Company
William Downing Bruce, Esq., 1.5. A., 17, Charles-street, St. James's,

ali.l Ripon
Cuthbert Woodcock, Esq., Grove-road, North Brixton
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., 23, Bryansteue-street, Portman-
square, Director of the Exeter, Dorchester, and Weymouth, and
the Great Western Extension Railways
George Hammond Whalley, Esq., 30, Pall-mall, London
William Hagan, Esq. 60, Baker-street, Portman-square
William Breynton, Esq., Montpelier, Cheltenham, and Temple, Lon-
don, Director of the Leicester and Tamworth Railway
Richard Hareis Purcell, Eaq.,Cambridge-street, Hyde Park, Lon-
don, Director of the Wilts, imerset, and Southampton Railway

Company
Philip Baker, Esq., Euston-square, London, Auditor of the London

and Blackwall 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 Docks Company, and of the General Shipowners'
Society
William F. Black, Esq., Wilton-place, Belgrare-square
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., Clopton House, Warwickshire, and

Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire -
George Payne, Esq., Sulby Hall, Northamptonshire, and Charlee-

street, Berkeley-square
James Beech, Esq., Brandon Hall, Warwickshire, and Grosvenor-

place, London -
Nicholas Philpot Leader, Esq., Dromagh Castle, cennty Cork, Union
Club, Trafalgar-square, Director of the Killarney Junction Rail-
way C(mpany
Samuel Baker, Esq., Lyppiat Park, Gloucestershire, and London
William Congreve Russell, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Di-

rector of the Warwickshire and London itailway
Henry Lradley, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire
John William Yerbury, Esq., Belcouibe House, Wiltshire, Captain 3d

Light Dragoons
Robert Main, Esq., Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, and Trinity-

square, London
Robert Millington, Esq., Ordsall House, Retford, Nottinghamshire
John Giliyatt Booth, Esq., Crouch Hall, Hernsey
Major-Gen. Martin White, Marlborough-buildings, Bath
Rev. T. Harvey Ashworth, Burlyns House, near Newbury, Barks
Col. Burslem, Harwood Lodge, Newbury, Berks
Major Kirwan, Great Pulteney-street, Bath
iks% Dr. Godfrey, Grosvenor-place, Bath
Edward Cooper, Esq., Staverton, Wilts, Magistrate of the County
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse, Wilts, Magistrate of the

Ccinety
Rev Chas. Fras. Bamffylde, Rector of Dunkerton, near Bath, Magis-

trate for Somerset
Richard Mortimore, Esq., Chippenham, Wilts
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, Director of the Bristol and Blrraing-

ham Railway Company
It. Wootten, Jun., Esq., Banker, Oxford, Director of the Bsckingham-
shire Railway and Wolverton Junction
Richard Morthnore, Kingsmill, Collnmptoi
Ray. John Sydenham, Collumpton
Rev. R. A. Roberts, Rector of Kentisbere, Collumpton
Chsrics Justice, Esq., Collumpton, Devon
Rich el Marker, Esq., Ufculm Cottage, Tiverton
Colonel Henry Dundee Campbell, North End House, Portsmoeth
George Pearce, Esq., Bradninch House, near Collumpton
Wm. H. Holcomb, Esq., Chilton, Hengerford, Chairman of the Becks

Union Banking Company
William H‘laornb, Esq., Marlborough, Manager •f the Wilts and

Dorset Bank _
Captain W. G. Maclean, R.N., Taunton
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton
John Dalzell, Esq., Wallingford, Berks
Thomas Carlisle, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John Kerle Hal:writeld, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
James Troup, Esq., Hastings
John Robson, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
John lforford Cottle, Esq., Clarendon-square, Leamington, Director

of Coventry and Leicester Railway
Joseph Knight, Esq., Leicester, Director of South Midland and North-
ampton, Banbury and Cheltenham Railways
John Newton Mappin, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Manchester,

Sheffield, and Midland Railway Cempany
John Ridgeway, Esq., Cauldon-place, the Potteries, Stalforishire,
Direotor of the Manchester and Southampton Railway
James Burt, jun., Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and
Birkenhead. and Manchester and Southampton Railways
Edward Norris, Esq.. Clairville, Manchester, Director of the Direst
London and Manchester, and North Cheshire Railway Companies
Joseph Nadin, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Wigan, and Manchester and Southampton Railways
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford
liir William Lowthrop, Hull, Magistrate for the East Riding antic
and for the borough of Hull, Chairman of the " Hull and Barnsley"
Committee, and Member of the acting Committee of the "Liver-
pool and Leeds Direct Railway Companies"
John Holford, Esq., Rusholm Hall, Manchester
C. H. Jones, Esq., Huddersfield, Deputy Chairman of the Hudders-
field and Sheffield, and Director of the Halifax aid Bradford
Union Railway
Charles Bamford, Jan., Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley

Junction
John Lillie, Esq., Manchester, Director of Manchester and South-
ampton Railway
John Robson, Esq., 'Lefton-le-Hole, Durham
Cornelius Randall, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Sheffield and
Manchester, and Chairman of the Manchester, Birkenhead, and
Midland Railway Companies
Isaac Holmes, lisq., Liverpoo
Win. B. Newbery, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Dudley and

Iron Bridge Railway Company
C. Appleby, Esq., Broonthill, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield and

Manohester Railway Company
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Isle of Ely, Wisbeach,
and Lincolnshire Railway, and Salisbury and Swindon Railways
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield,
Rotherham, and Chesterfield Life Assurance-office
Wm. Thompson, Esq., Upperthorpe, near Sheffield, Director of the
Huddersfield and Shffield Railway
Adderley Howard, Esq., Sutton Wisbech, Director of the East Coast

Railviay Company
Captain Bowker, R.N., Devonport
H. 5. Blight, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Di-
rect Railway
Samuel swami Brittain, Esq., Sheffield Director of the East and West
of England Railway Company
John Fawoett, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Wakefield said far-

rowgato Railway Company
William Marriott, Esq., Attercliff-terrace, Sheffield, Director of the
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
Rcv. H. W. Cottle, Vicar et Watford, Northamptonshire
Major Wornum, Clarence-square, Cheltenham
Edward Hall, Esq., Westbauk House, Macclesfield, Director of .the

South Midland and the Northampton and Cheltenham Railways
Henry Hubbersty, Esq., Hull
John Ostler, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hall and Barnsley Janette'
Henry Shaw, Esq., Fetter-lane
Henry Sayer, Esq., Commercial-road, Litnehease, merchant
John Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square
john Norton, Esq., Moat Hosse, Brentwood, Essex
William John M'Guire, Esq., Hampton Court
John Gray Wilson, Esq., Oxford-terrace
Capt. J. P. Macdougall, Flr Grove, North Brixton, Surrey
W. J. Lefeuvre, Esq Alderman and Magistrate ofSouthampton
Thomas Chas. Hart-L.-on, Esq., F 8.5., York-terrace, Regent's Park
G. B. Bunbury, Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of the
Coventry and Leicester Railway
Captain Tringkara, R.N., Solyhull, Warwickshire
William Jonson Neale, Esq., King's Bench-walk, Temple
James Whitney, Esq., Shrewsbury
Henry Paul Harwood, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
The Hon. F. Byron, 21, Eaton-place
William Higgins, Esq., Turvey, High Sheriff of Bedfordshire
Sir Raymond Jarvis, Fair Oak-park, near Winchester, Deputy-Lieu-
tenant, and magistrate for the county of Hants
William Jackson, Esq , Birkenhead, Chairman of the Chester and
Birkenhead Railway
I. 11. Langworthy, Esq., Manchester
Thomas Sidney, Esq., Alderman, and Sheriff of London and Mid-
dlesex
Nathaniel Gould, Esq., Barge-yard, Backlersbury, and Tavistock-

square
rAialllntl lAOII4 Welles, Esq., Cadogan-place, and West Moulsey,
Surrey
Duncan Dunbar Esq., East India-road, an I Limehouse, Director of
theh London Dock Company, the Marine Assurance Company, and
e General Shipowner's Society
William Jackson, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Goole and Doneaster
R stlwsy
Geor4e F. Earle,
Ewl., Hull
et.-;':en Knowles, Esq., Exeter
W. Lawrence, Esq., Brixton
Learmonth, Req., Edinburgh, Chairman of the Edinburgh and
,la:gow, :m1 North British Railway) Companies
Wellington Ross Sermour, Esq.,
of the Rugby, Derby, nd Montague-place, Russell-square,
Manchester. Railway
William Tanner, I, n
—reat Surrey-street,
John Booth, Esq., Shcrburn Grange,Durham Blackfriare
Matthew Benjamin Robson, Esq., whi.twtin Gran
John Holmes, Esq., St. Jame-.'s-street,Director ;1,7;-Itk,hrcahraester and
Weymouth Railway, and York and Lancaster Railway
William G. Bernard, Esq., Clifton, Bristol
Thomas Smallwood Richards, Esq., 59, Baker-street, Portman square
James Shaw, Esq., Salford, Manchester
N. M`Cann, Esq., Parliament-street
Henry Wellman Newman, Esq., Bristol, Magistrate for that City, and
Deputy-Lieuterlant and Magistrate for the county of Gloucester
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury
William Empeon Jalland, Esq., Holderness House, near Hull
Thomas Racket Massey, Esq., Newark-upon-Trent.
Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough, Director of the Gainsborough,
Goole, and Isle of Axholme, and of the Wlsbeach, Ely and Lin-
e g ehlre Railways
William Ruston, Esq., Catherine-court, Trinity-square
Q. Wingrove Cooke, Esq., Temple, London
C. I. Selwyn, Esq., Exeter
Joseph Hopwood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the Exeter and Falmouth
Railway
Richard Compton, Esq., Eddiugton House, Hnngerford, Berko, a
Magistrate lot the counties of Wilts and Berks
Henry Coa Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Malden, Essex
Richard Davis, Esq., St. lielen's-place,. Director of the Southididland
114.1 way •

Edward Hyde Clarke Esq., Leamington, Warwickshire, Director of
the Warwickshire and London Railway
The Constable of Hungerfoid
Captain William Lionel Lampert, The Highlands, Oxfordshire, and
Leamington, Warwickshire
Francis Burton, Esq., Milverton House, Warwickshire
Captain Stewart, R.N., Leamington, Warwickshire
:Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Director
of the South Staffordshb e Railway
Northage, Esq., Upper Gower-street, Bedford- square
John Wodley Hughes, Esq., Gloucester, Director of the Birmingham

and Bristol Railway
Lewis Bruce Knight Bruce, Esq., The Priory, Roehampton, Surrey
Francis Cole Humbert, Esq., Oxford-street, Hyde:Park
Algernon Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park
...

John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park
James Lamb, Esq., Hyde-park-square
Richard Groucock, Bow-churchyard, and Dulwich, Director
of the Direct Manchester Railway
J. B. Simpson, Esq., Rutland-lodge, Brixton
Henry BeHerby, Esq„ Sheriff of York
Henry Ledgard, Esq., 39, Wood-street, Cheapside, Director of the
Rugby and Macclesfield Direct Railway
John Williams, Esq., Eaton-square.
Thomas Grimsditch, Esq , M.P., Macclesfield, Cheshire
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Penn-fields, Wolverhampton, Director of the

Liverpool and Leeds Railway
William Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester
Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton

Erasmus B. Foster, Esq., Birehiu-lano
William Bargett, Esq., li:oad-street
Peter It. Morrison, Esq., Princes-street, Bank

Thomas Miller, jun., Esq., Leicester
John Reginald Itiddal, Esq., Enfield, Director of the York and Lan-

easterßailway
Thomas Kidley' Esq., 31. D., Sheffield
James Sheppard, Esq., Jun., White Hart-court, Lombard-street
Valentine Knight, Esq., Cornwall-terrace, Regent's Park, Magistrate

for Middlesex
George Sercornhe, Esq., Exeter
Jelin Clampit F.,ereombe, Esq., Exeter

William Pearce, Esq., Liverpool
W. Holiday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Robert Henry Hurst, Esq., jun., Tample

William Nash, Esq., Capham Common
Grey Hazlerigg, Esq., West Carlton Hall, Leicester
Captain Twisieton Graves, Duke-street, St. James's, Diraetor of the
Leicester acid Tean and Dove Valley Railway .

(With power to add to their *umber).
ENGINEERS IN CRIES'.
Sir John Mamiell, LL.D., F.R.S.
James Thomson, Esq., F.R.S.E.
Belgtuns—Messrs. Cutries and Co., Cornhill, London.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Bell, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow Churchyard, London
Messrs. Rickards and Walker, 29, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Londoi
_ _

Messrs. Haynes and Moore, Warwick and London
Messrs. J. V. and J. T. Harting, 24, Lincoln's Inu-fields, Lonioi.

SECRETARY—Thomas Hosier Saunders, Esq.
ASSISTANT-SECRETARY —Charles J. Whalley, ESQ.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
At Newbury—Messrs. Godwin and Gray, and B. Pinnlger, Esq.

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At Rams!4ury—William Rowland, Esq.
At DISViZed, Henry Gilbert, Esq., and John Edwards Hayward, Esq.
At Troubridge and Bradford, Messrs. Stone and Rodway
At Bath, Messrs. Batehellor, Harford, and Staunton
At Sliepton Mallett—Francis lease Nalder, Esq.
At Bridgewater, Messrs. G. S.-and J. R. Poole
At Exeter—William Denis Moore, Esq.

At Tiverton, T. L. T. Rendell, and J. A. Toms, Esq.

At Launceston—Messrs. Lawrence and Pattii.n

At Bodmin

At Tram
At Penzance

At Filmouth—Mesers. Tresidder and Son

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The object of this line is to effect a direct sommunisation between
London and the Land's End. _ .

In a national point of 'view such a line is indispensable. With
the advantage of a direct railroad, Falmouth, from its situation at the
western extremity of the kingdom, would undoubtedly long since ,
have been the principal port on that coast. With the advantage of
at least 280 miles of heavy road, that place has attained its high po-
sition as a Packet Station. Southampton, with far less natural ad-
vantages, has, since the opening of the South-Western Railway, in-
creased its imports from 200,0001. to 3,000,800/. per annum. At Bris-
tol, before the opening of the Great Western Railway, 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
Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway having already reached
Exeter, it has been in contemplation to extend that line to Fal-
mouth by way of, Plymouth ; and various other projects have been
set on foot on the conviction that Falmouth must be reached by
rally ay.
The object of this prospectus is to shim that no ether line than the
resent can ultimately satisfy the exigencies of the country in regard
to this, its most important eutport—" the natural Packet Station of
the empire."
The present project is distinguished by this—that it is direct. It is
as nearly as possible a straight line from London to the Land's End.
The London, Bath, and Bridgewater Company having amalga-
mated with this Company, 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
Bradford direct 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 railways between these points, and without
a tunnel. From Taunton the Bristol and Exeter Railway (now
leased to the Great Western) is traversed to Tiverton, whence it is
proposed to carry this line direct to the Land's End, Falmouth, St.
Ives, and Penzance, being shorter by about sixty miles than the
lately proposed line by way of Plymouth, and effecting, in the whole
tistance from London to Falmouth, a saving of about ninety miles.
With resrect to tho traffic on the upper portion of the line II is
needless to say more than that there is already thorough traffic suffi-
cient to justify the construction of this portion of the Direct Wes-
tern ; that it will shorten the distance from London to Tiverton
about 32 miles, that. it will traverse rich and populous agricultural
and manufacturing districts, and receive a large amount of traffic as
well from railways now in course of oonstraction as from ethers pro-
jected, with every chance of success.
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 nay, by
means of this railroad, attract the commerce respectively of Bristol
and Southampton ; t • what extent the inexhaustible mineral wealth
of Cornwall, and the unrivalled agricultural resources of Devonshire
may be further developed, et* 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, new altogether destitute of
railroad accommodation. _ _ _

Recurring to the features of this prejeet as a national work, one of
the greatest in point of magnitude, of vital importance ii 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 if the project
of a direct line fun London to Liverpool through the Treat 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 com-
munication between the metropolis and the great outperts 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 Falmouth ; and it may be
further observed, 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 cerapleted, and
correct estimates of the expenditure and returns are ia a state if for-
wardness, and the whole will be ready for the next semi*, of Par-
liament.

It is sufficient, as to these points, here to state that there are ne
engineering difficulties in any part of the line which have lot been
repeatedly surmounted in other cases ; that the first portion will be
constructed at an unusually small expense ; that tke undertaking
will meet with the cordial support, concurrence, and ce-operation of
the landowners, and that the Directors are justified in asserting that
this will prove to be one of the mast remunerative railways in tke
kingdom.
Powers will be taken in the Act of Parliament te allow interest at
four pounds per centum per anntun on the deposits, and preferenee
in the allotment of shares will be given to tke proprietors of the land
through which the line will pass, and to 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, at the Company's
Offices, '2O, Poultry, London, or to the local solicitors, or to any re-
spectable broker in town or country
20, Poultry, London, September, 1845.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Direct Western Railway
Company.
•

Gentlemen,—l request you will alla me shares, of 25/. each in
the above Company, and I undertake to pay the deposit of 21.125. 6d.
per share thereon, or on any less number you may appropriate to me,
and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Con-
tract when required.
Dated

1845.
Trade or Profession
Place of Business (if any) • • •• • • .. •• • •
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DIRECT WESTERN RAILWAY,
with diverging lines to BATH and BRIDGWATER.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Notice is hereby given, that no further Applications for Shares in
this Company will be received after TonsDAT, the 7th of October,inst.
T. H. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
20, Poultry, London, Oct. 1, 1845.

THE DIRECT LONDON, PORTSMOUTH,
AND CHICHESTER, AND DIRECT PORTSMOUTH
AND CHATHAM RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
VIA REIGATE.
Capital, 1,700,0001., in 85,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Egmont, of Cowdray Park, Bowe.
Colonel George Wyndham, of Petworth House, Sussex
The Hon. and Rev. L. Version Harcourt, of West Dean, Sussex
The Right Hon. Lord de Lisle, of Penshurst, Kent
The Right Hon. Lord Pelham Clinton, of Carleton Villas, Maida- hill
The Right Hon. Lord Ressmore, of the Dell, Windsor
Sir Charles William Taylor, Bart. of Hollycombe House, Sussex
The Hon. Robert Gore, M.P., of 21, Wilton-crescent
The Hon. William M. Dawson, Poole Lodge, Dorset
The Hon. Stafford Jerningham, Brook-street.
The Hon. Percy Freke, 3, Belgrave-square
Sir William Young, Bart., 7 Westbourne-street, Hyde Park, Director
of the East India Company
Sir James Eyre, of 11, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square
Sir James Carmichael, Bart., of 40, Sussex-gardens
Sir Robert Schomburgh, of New Kingston, Surrey
Howard Elphinstone, Esq., 31. P., of Eaton-place, Di rector of the
Direct Western Railway Company, the Thames Embankment
Company, &c.
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Welsh Mid-
tan 1 Railway
Robert Wynne Williams, Esq., Director of the Nottington and Gains-
boroughLe Steer, Esq.,eßaih o Railway
yf
Jay's Park, Surrey
Captain Charles Shirley, of Midhurst, Sussex
Llcut.-Colonel Eden, 1, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., of Broom Hall, Surrey
Admiral John Ayscough, of Prospect-place House, Southampton
Lancelot Archer Burton, Esq., of Woodlands, Emsworth, Hants
Charles Dixon, Esq., of Stanstead Park, Sussex
Archibald Douglas Stewart, of Bruton-street
E. T. Dayrell, Esq., 15, Old Cavendish-street, High Sheriff of Buck-
inghamshire
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, of Nerth-end House. Portsmouth,
Deputy-Lieutenant for Hants
Major Snow, of 4, Old Cavendish-street
The Rev. Henry Garrett Newland, of Westbeurne Rectory, Sussex
Francis Lysons Price, Esq., of Sydenham, Kent, Director of the

Shropshire Mineral Railway
James Beech, Esq., of Brandon Hall, Warwickshire
George Grantham, Esq., of Barcombe-place, Sussex
Charles Hurst, Esq., of Midhurst, Sussex
George Harrison, Esq., F.S.A., 7, Harleyford-place, Kennington
Frederick Clarkson, Esq., of Tottenham, 1 Directors K
Robert Chapman, Esq., of 1, Park-place, Regent's I the Great
Park, Manchester
William Watson Prole, Esq., of Thurlow-squared Railway
• Brompton, J Company
Thomas Chitty, Esq., of 8, Upper Gower-street, Barrister-at-Law,
Director of the Birmingham and Leicester Railway Company
John Napper, Esq., of Ifold House, Surrey
Stephan Loudell,Esq., of Lindfleld, Sussex
George Barker, Esq., of Stilland, Sussex
Jamas Ilitchins, Esq., of Lincoln, Director of the Manchester and
Southampton Railway Company
ThJoilooimn L" Neale,
Req.,
L,7eciziusel: olte;,Eisq.,., of Montague-street, Russell-square
of Reigate, Surrey
of Reigate, Surrey
Neale, Esq., jun. of Reigate, Surrey
Thom items, Esq., of Vaortiilliatallh-hill,
Edwaards illrulllelEysq, E.'
the Rugby, Warwieltssi,lallWl:
William hardy,
Req.,Esq. ..Soiceeosft Gerreßaatntuarryey-street, Director of
of Trotton-hmouysdeonne
Esq., of Bepton, Sussex.
Me-
tropolitan Junction Company
John
aßrumrriedyt:urDstireetor of Me-
Edrington-house. near Berwick-upon.
Anthonytimuntl Sadler,
En.,
Tweed
Joseph Eade, Esq., of Clapham Common
William Watson, Esq., of Burn-grove, Roxburghshlre, Director or
Bristol and Exeter Railway Company
Samuel Brown, Esq., of Clapham
Joseph Se4les, Esq., of 3, Dunster-court, Mincing-lane, and Upper
Clapton
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., of 3Ci, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park,
Directpr. of gio:Roading,an4 Rolgato Hallway Company

John Helbert Helbert, Esq., of Gloucester-place, Director of the Lei-
cester and Birmingham Railway Company
Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., of Clopton House, Stratford-on-Avon,
Director of the Warwick and London Railway Company
Captain William Cousins, of Compton-street, Brunswick-square, Di-
rector of the Doncaster and Goole Railway Company
Captain Frederick Chamfer, of Halkin-street, Relgrave-square, Di-
rector of the Fampoux and Hazebrouck Railway
John Barnett, Esq., of Cheltenham, Coroner of the county of Glou-
cester
John Moreton Cottle, Esq., of Leamington, Director of the Coventry
and Birmingham Railway Company
John Brightman, Esq., of Regency-square, Brighton, Director of the
Leeds and Carlisle Railway Company
William Spooner, Esq., of Chapel-street, Belgrave-square, Director of
the Newcastle and Liverpool Railway Company
Alexander Greig, Esq., of Lowndes-street, lielgrave-square, Director
of the Rug,ly, Warwick, and Worcester Railway
Captain Trophinrus Hodges, of 65, Connaught-terrace, Hyde Park,
Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway Company
George Parbury, Esq., of 37, Russell-square, Director of the Manches-
ter and Rugby Railway Company
George R. i'eppercorne, Esq., of Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the
Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway Company
Thomas Henry Evans, Esq.. of Lothbury, Director of the Rugby,
Warwick, and Worcester Railway Company
Benjamin Franklin, Esq., of 3, Harley-street
Rev. F. 11. Hall, D.D. Rector of Fulbourne, Cambridgeshire
Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Llanrothel, Herefordshire
W. Woods, Esq., of Chilgrove, Sussex
Henry Morley, Esq., of Midhurst, Sussex
William Gambier, Esq., Sumba Park, Berta
C. A. Tulk, Esq., of Totteridge Park, Herts
James Peard Ley, Esq., Sey ton Ironworks, Whitehavea
John Inglis Jerclein, Esq., 150, Piccadilly
H. R. bowman, Esq., of 47, Upper Bedford-place, Director of the
Cambrian and Grand Junction Railway
Davit Mountague, Esq., of Regent's-park
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Ludgate -hill, Director of the Waveney
Valley Raileray Company
James Gernon, Esq., Director of the London and Nottingham Rail-
way Company
James Macmilion, Esq., Southampton
Rev. Cecil Greene, A.M. of 3tidhuret
Rev. Charles Edward Twyford, of Trotton Rectory, Sussex
Major James Adair, Director of Church of England Insurance
Company
Captain Charles Frederick Parkinson, of Manchester, Director of
the Manchester and Southampton Railway, Managing Director of
the West Lancashire Railway, and of the Manchester, Wigan, and
Southport Railway
Robert Sykes, Esq., of Manchester, Director of Clltheroe Junction
Railway
John Clark Prescott, Esq., of Manchester, Director of Oxford, South-
ampton, and Gosport Railway, and of Macclesfield and Ru .by
Railway
Henry Farrington, Esq., of Manchester, Director of Wigan and
Southport Railway, and of York and Lancaster Railway
Joaephus Malley Mason, Esq., of Manchester, Director of Chester
and Manchester Direct Railway, and of Manchester aid Rugby
Ralway
Daniel Grant, Esq., of Springside, Bury, Lancaster, Director of Rem-
ington's Direct London and Manchester Railway, and of the
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junetion
Railway
Thomas Townend, Esq., of the Polygon, Manchester, Director of
London and Manchester Direct Railway
John Burgess, Esq., of Manchester, Boroughreeve of Manchester,
Director of the London and Manchester Direct Railway Company,
and of the Manchester, Burnley, Settle, and Carlisle Direct
Railway
James Shaw, Esq., of Salford, Lancashire, Director of the Mtuleheater
and Rugby ; tuiway
Edward Parrett, Esq., of the Buttons, Romford
John George Hammond, Esq., Essex-house, Bow, Director of the
Direct Western Railway
Joseph Bishop, Esq., Director of the Blackwall Railway
Phillip Baker, Esq., Euston-square
Samuel Ellis Bristowe, Esq., Twyford-hall, Derby
John Webster, Esq., 35, 3lecklenburgh-square, Director of the Great
Grimsby, and Lincoln Railway
The names of other noblemen and gentlemen will appear in a
further advertisement, whose support has been promised to the un-
dertaking.

COMMITTER OF MANAGEMENT.
Samuel Brown, Esq. Edward Parratt,
Frederick Clarkson, Esq. Win. B. Hughes, Esq., M.P.
Robert Chapman, Esq. Robert Wynne Williams, Esq.
Joseph Scales, Esq. H. R. Downman, ➢sq.
John Parkinson, Esq. David Montague, Esq.
ENGINEERS—Mews. Drayson, of No. 2, Palace-yard, Westminster.
SOLICITORS TO THE COMPANT—Messrs. Pontifex and Moginie, D, St.
Andrew's-court, Holborn, London.
BANNERS —The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury

LOCAL AGENTS.
Messrs. Rhoades and Greene, solicitors, Chichester
Thomas Hart, Esq., solicitor, Reigate
William Minchin, Esq., solicitor, Porisoa and Portsmouth
Thomas Bill, Esq., solicitor, Chatham
Daniel Smart, Esq., solicitor, Emsworth
Edwin Aldbery, Esq., solicitor, Midhurat
Thomas Holmes Bosworth, Esq., solicitor, Westerham.

THE CHESTER AND • MANCHESTER
DIRECT RAILWAY.
The Shares in this Railway having been allotted to all Deposits
duly paid, the Committee of Management have much pleasure in in-
forming their Shareholders that the Parliamentary surveys are pro-
gressing to their entire satisfaction, and that every care is being
taken to Insure compliance with the standing orders on going before
Parliament. By order,

- A. BARRETT, Secretary.
1, Royal Exchange-buildings, London, Sept. 27, 1845.

RUGBY, WARWICK,
land WORCESTER
The Directors, In consequence of the!r eceivinT daily applications
for shares in this Company, announce that the list was finally closed
on Saturday last, and that no further applications can be entertained.
By order,
• September 26th, 1845, GEO. H. WELLER, Secretary.

RLTGBY, WARWICK, and WORCESTER
RAIL WAY.
The Directors in reply to the numerous applications on the
subject, beg to inform the public that the shares in this Company
are now in course of allotment, and that they, the Directors, intend
Issuing the letters of allotment so awn as the requisite examination
has taken place into the application for shares.
By order,
September 27, 1845. GEO. H. WELLER, Secretary.

RUGBY, WARWICK, AND WORCESTER
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 900,0001., in 43,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
At a meeting of the Provisional Committee, numerously attended,
convened by circular, and held at the Offices of the Company, No. 1,
Guildhall-chambers, Baslngnall-street, London, the 30th September,
1845,
W. H. HUGHES, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., Sec., in the Chair,
The following resolutions were adopted :
Resolved,—That the Prospectus issued as that of the Provisional
Committee be now approved and adopted.
Resolved,---That the following gentlemen do constitute the Com-
mittee of Management:—
William Frederick Beadon, Esq
Thomas Farmer Cooke, Esq.
Peter Colston, jun., Esq.
Edward Doubleday, Esq.
John Freeman, Esq.
Alexander Greig, Esq.
Mr. Alderman Ilughes Hughes
Thomas Bagger, Esq.
John Haddon, Esq.
Richard Parry Jones, Esq.
E. W. Morris, Esq.
Resolved,—That tho following be appointed the Bankers of the
Company :
The London and Westminster Bank
The London and County Banking Company, In London.
The Northamptonshire Banking Company, at Northampton.
Messrs. Butlin and Son, at Ragby.
The Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company,
at Leamington, Warwick, and Southam
Messrs. Berwick and Co., at Worcester.
The Committee have great pleasure in informing the public of the
extraordinary support this Company has received, and they regret
that, in ollbolntysi :beg;
teunihscseafitootfritebh,eie number of applicants for shares in this
undertaking, many highly respectable and Influential claims must
unavoidaThe
will
be
not recedivenletthteercsounilestobef npgleaspredc'eteodaecacewp
week • thqse parties, therefore, who do
ti with,
aabondvethaes
apolcgy
of the Committee.' By order,
Guildhall-chambers, B GEO. H. WELLER. Secretary.
tusU-strset. Ist October, 1845.

James Morrison, Esq.
Cornelius Nicholson, Esq.
Benjamin Payne, Esq.
Robert Rising, Esq.
Thomas Sharp, Esq.
Joseph Satchell, Esq.
John Wheelton, Esq.
Edward Waddelove, Esq.
Edward Welch, Esq.
John Wooleton, jun., Esq.

N ORTH LONDON JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY, 8, Finsbury-place Sosth.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Victoria, sap. 110.)
Capital, 1,300,0001., iw 65,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Chairman
James no:ne, Esq., F.R.S., Clapham Common, Deputy-Chairman
Sir John Edward De Beauvoir, Bart., London

,James Henry Attwood, Esq., Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square
John Bagshaw, Esq., t.leucester-place, Portman-square
Richard Babel], Esq., Queen's Counsel, Lauderdale House, Highgate
George Bishop, Esq., South -Villa, Inner Circle, Regent's Park
;tutus
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Railway
George Woodreffe Franklyn, Esq , Clifton, Bristol
W. Hughes Hughes, Esq., F.L.S., Alderman of the City of

London
Henry Morton, Esq., Biddick, Durham
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the Manchester
and Birmingham Continuation Railway
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P., 39, St. dames's-place
Georga Rougemont, Esq., 14, Broad-street-buildings
Nicholas Wood, Esq., Kellingworth, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

BANKERs.
3fessrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills and Co., Loudon
Bank of Liverpool
The Union Batik, Manchester.
ENGINEER—George Parker Bidder, Esq.,
.licurxecr—Robert Abraham, Esq.,Torrin2,"ton-street, Russell-square,
SGLICITOR—John Bethell, Esq., 78, King William-street, City.
SECRETARY—Harry Burnird Fantail, Esq.

The Provisional Committee of the North London Junction Rail-
way Company have great satisfaction In informing their subscribers
that negotiations aro now pending between the Previsional Commit-
tee of this Company and the Directors of the Railways north of the
Thames of such a character as to assure them that the City terminus
of this Company will form the Grand Terminus of all the City traffic
north of London.
To effect this important object, an area of 10 acres of ground (the
southern boundary of which Is within 500 yards of the Bank of
England) has been most carefully surveyed and valued, and the re-
port of the architect and engineer is of so favourable a character as to
have induced the Provisional Committee to determine on purchasing
the entire site, and it has, therefore, been resolved b., them to
-amount importance
in-
crease The ith,reeyiecapiettail ofctolmtismCiottmeepteuelynstiodeir,3ioto,oofoop/a.
to secure within the limits of their City terminus, the amplest and
most complete accommodation for the traffic of each of the railway
companies who may co-operate with them, an object which will be
effected by opening the very extensive and valuable space of ground
alluded to, within the centre of the City of Lendon.
In conjunction with this enlarged plan, it is intended to embrace
that of a branch line to the present station of the Eastern Counties
Railway in Shoreditoh, which will effect an entire junction between
the eastern and western parts of the metropolis ; and at the same
time afford a direct communication between the whole of the rail.
ways, which reach London to the north of the Thames, and give
full development to each of their schemes by creating for them a
common centre within the heart of the metropolis.
Independently, therefore, of the almost incalculable local traffic
which the position of their City terminus will ensure to this Com-
pany-, will be added that of those tompanies aloe who will eventually
co-opera c with the North London Junction Railway Company, and
the perfection of a project of no ordinary magnitude and importance
will be realised throughout the whole of this short but very valuable
line of railway.

A lithographic sketch now publishing will accurately define the
entire district through wkich this Company proposes to run this lino;
by this means the most atsual observer will be enabled to ascertain
that the environs of London, north of the Thames, will be placed in
immediate communication with the City ; while the dense popu-
lation of the City will enjoy a fart ity of connexion with its suburban
localities, necessarily affording it the greatest accommodation.
With such important local resources, therefore, together with the
vast traffic on which the shareholders of this Company have a right
to rely for profit, a large amount of revenue may be fairly and justly
anticipated, fully commensurate with the outlay of the proposed
capital. That revenue will be derived thus :
The daily passenger traffic on the Great Western amounts to
3,345, one-half of which reaches the City. The London and Illr-
nsing•,ham amounts to 4,322 daily, two-thire.a of which reacts the
City. The Eastern Counties amounts to 2,400 persons daily, half
of whom pass to the West-end of London. The omnibus traffic daily
is 30,894 passengers, two-thirds of which may be given to the City.
Passengers front the suburban districts reaching the City, now un-
accommodated by any railway, are estimated at 4,000 daily.
From these sources the following products are derived:—
Per Ana.
Pass engers from the Great Western and Birmingham Rail-
way, at 6d. each........ • ..... ...... •••••• • • • • .. £52,523
Passengers from the Eastern Counties to the City terminus
of this Company, at ad. each .. ••••••• • • • • • • • •• • • 12,061
Omnibus passengers' traffic, at 6d. each, as taken at
present... ..... ..............................
142,208 tons of goods and parcels pass annually from the
Great Western and the London and Birmingham Rail-
ways into the City, at an average cost of carriage of 3s.
6d. per ton throughout. For the carriage of those goods
and parcels, therefore, at the reduced cost of 2s. 6d. per
ton, a revenue may be derived of •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 17,776
From the carriage of goods, parcels, and mails, bringing in
to the Eastern Counties Railway Company a revenue of
40,0001. a year, may be derived the sum of • . mow

The total of their calculations amoants t 0.... £280,289
Deduct 40 per cent. for workers' expenses ••••••• • • • •• • 11'2,115

£168,174
Estimatod Rental to be received from other Companies for
the use of Terminus ..

£198,174
Being a revenue of more than 15 per oent. on a capital of 1,300,0001.
The capital, as now extended, will be divided into 65,000 shares of
201. each, upon which a deposit of 21. 2s. per share will be payable
forthwith.
A portion of the shares will be allotted to parties locally interested.
The reanrinder will be distributed amongst the present shareholders
and the public generally, upon application being made by them in a
manner hereinafter mentioned.
The Directors, in compliance with the advice of their Parlia-
mentary Agents, deem it expedient, in consequence of the recent
standing ordn's of the House of Lords, to require a deposi of 101.
per cent. The shareholders are, therefore, requested, in order to
carry this arrangement into effect, to deposit their scrip certificate
with the Secretary, on or before the Ist of October next, in exchange
/or which they will obtain a certificate upon which the bankers of
the Company will reoeivc the amount of the difference payable, and,
upon producing the receiptand signing the new Parliamentary Deeds,
fresh scrip will be delivered to them.

Applications for prospectuses, maps, and shares, may be made to
the Secretary, at the Offices, No. 8, Finsbury-place South, and the
following sharebrokers :
Messrs. R. Sutton, Gribble, and Sutton, 22, North-side, Royal
Exchange, London
Messrs. Capel, Cuerton, and Lawford, 8, Royal Exchange
George Burnand, Esq , Cornhill
Messrs. Houghland and Leese, 51, King-street, Manchester
William Marshall, Esq., Bank-buildings, Manchester
William II aynes, Esq., Manchester
John Wells, Esq., Royal Bank-buildings, Liverpool
Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds
Messrs. Edwards and Son, and W. 11. Land, Esq.,"Bristol
J. It. Lane, Esq., Birmingham
' Messrs. Garton and Wright, Sheffield
J. G Kershaw, Esq., Huddersfield
F. C. Spencer, Esq , Halifax
Messrs. Henry Beaumont and Co., Exeter
R. P. Lemon, Esq., Bath.

tors in London and Dublin ; to the Local Agent's ; to the Secretary,
at the office of the Company, IQ, Old Jewry Chambers ; to Scobie
Willesford, Esq., Castle-street, Exeter ; and to the undermentioned
brokers !—Messrs. Martin and Heseltine, Finch-lane, Cornhill ; Mr.
D. B. Major, Change-alley, Cornhill ; Mr. Anthony Laurie, Liver-
pool; Messrs. Brady and Staniforth, Manor-street, Hull; Mr. S.
Grindrod, Manchester; Messrs. Watson and Co., Lezds ; Mr. Eleorge
Edwards, Bristol ; Mr. John Beale, Gloucester ; Messrs. Tyeth
and Wills, Plymouth ; Mr. T. Sandford, Exeter; Mr. Robert Allan,
Edinburgh; Messrs. M`Ewen and Auld, Glasgow ; Mr. Witham Gor-
don, Aberdeen; Messrs. Curtis and Power, Dame-street, Dublin;
Mr. James Morgan, Cork. of whom Prospectuses may tie had.

GAINSBOROUGH AND NOrTINGHAM
RAILWAY.
(THE TRENT LINE.)
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 300,0 ,01., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s.
This important line of railway, commencing at the port of
Gainsborough, is intended to pass along the Trent flat by
Sturton-le-Steeple, North Leverton, South Leverton, Treswell,
Bampton, Laneham, Dunham, Bagnal, Fleetborough, Marn-
bam, Normanton, Grassthorpe, Sutton-upon-Trent, Carlton,
Cromwell, Norwell, Bathley, North Muskham, Little Carlton,
Kelliam, to Newark, with a connecting branch from Kelliam
to Averham, thence by the Midlands Extension line of the Notting-
ham and Lincoln Railway to Nottingham. by the existing Midlands
branch, making the total distance to Nottingham thirty-nine miles,
thus effecting, by twenty-four miles of new railway, a direct line
from Gainshorough to Nottingham, which will connect Derby, Bir-
mingham, Gloucester, and the West of England generally, with
Hull and Great Grimsby. The object of the promoters of this rail-
way is to afford the existing interests an opportunity of uniting to
secure the immense traffic which exists along this line in its original
and legitimate course, via Newark-upon-Trent to Nottingham. They
propose no unfair interference with the rights and properties of
vested companies, but by cutting off the angles and curves of the
Aver, render the route the most direct, economical, and speedy of any
railway that can be made. It is free Irons any engineering difficulty
or obstruction, and its cost of construction will be less by at least
one-third than that of ar.y other competing company. "the merits
of the line want no extrinsic patronage from distant parties, hut will
command a Ifgh station amongst the best railway projects of the
day. It will stand the test of public scrutiny as well as the Parlia-
mentary ordeal.
A prospectus and plan are in progress, and will be ready for de-
livery in a few days, with a most influential Committee of parties
locally interested ; and in the meantime further particulars may be
had of the Joint Solicitors, G. Esq., 21 a, Soho-square, and J.
T. Sanders, Esq., 11, Gray's Inn-square; at the temporary offices of
the Company, 11, Gray's Inn-square, where all communications are
to be addressed.

G. P. HILL, Esq., } Solicitors
J. T. SANDERS, Esq.,

NoRTH-wEsTERN TRUNK RAILWAY,
FROM CREWE DIRECT TO GLOUCESTER, passing
through the Towns of Market-Drayton, Newport, Shiffnal, Kidder-
minster, Worcester, and Tewkesbury, with a branch from Newport
to Wellington, forming the shortest and most desirable Communica-
tion between Liverpool, Manchester, and the Northern Parts of
England and Gloucester and the Bristol Channel.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,250,0001., in 62,500 Shares of 201. each.
;Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
. .

(lielog in aecordaiceswiththe Samling Orders of the House of
Commons.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.

The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird l'ußaney, 4, Parliament-street, White
hall, Chairman of the York aad Lancaster Railway
Sir William Boothby, Bart., Ashbourn Hall, Derbyshire, Director o
the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester R tilway
Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Pall-mall, Director of the York and Lan•

castor Railway
Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the South Midland and North-
ampton and Banbury Railways
The Rev. Charles Leicester, of Whitton Hall, S',ropshire, Magistrate
for Shropshire, and Director of the Shropshire Mineral Rail»•ay
Jolla Bloor, Esq., Tutbury, Staffordshire, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries and Manchester and Liverpool Railway, and of the

Derby and Manchester and Shropshire Mineral Railways
John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetter House, Atherstone
Direotor of tke Leicester and Bedford and Shropshire Miners'

Rail ways
Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield and London, Director of the
Direst London and Manchester and Shropshire Mineral Railways
Clement Tabor, Esq., Cornhill, London, and Rayne, Essex, Director
of the London and County Bank, of the National Loan Fund
Assurance Company, and of the Direct London and Holyhead

Railway.
Thomas Reginald Kamp, Eeq., .Alchurch-lane, Loudon, Director of

the Chelmsford and Fury Railway
Dimas Bernard Baddelay, Esq., Newport, Salop, Director of the

Shropshire ➢tineral Railway
Alexander Brodie Cochrane, jun., Esq , irournitster, Holly Ball,
sear Dudley, Director of the Dudley, Madeley, and Broscley

Railway
George H. Fourdrinler, Esq., Hanley, Staffordshire Potteries, Three

toief the Shropshire Mineral Railway
John Benson, Esq., Park-place Villa, Malda-hill, London, Director of

. ..
the London and Holyhead Railway
William Shaw, Esq., Managing Director of the Royal Farmers' Fire
and Life Assurance Company, Director of the London and Eir-

minghstm Extension, and Warwick and Worcester Railways
Richard Lambert, Esq., Lyston Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk, Director
•f the Cork and Fermoy Direct Railway
Ambrose Miller, Esq., Lower Thames-street, and Upper Bedford-
place,•Russell-square, London, Director of the Oxford, Witney, and

Cheltenham Railway
William Millington, Esq., ironmaster, Summerhill Works, Tipton,
Staffordshire, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
William Holmes, Esq., St. George's-terrace, Kensington, and Kentish-

town
William Simpson Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, and
Lower Thames-street, Director of the South and Midlands June-

ticsa Railway
Thomas Lamle Murray, Esq., George-street, Hanover-square, Di-
rector of Rosamel's Great Northern Railway, of the National Bank
of Ireland, and of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
John Rawson, Esq., Stoney Royd, near Halifax, Magistrate, and
Deputy-Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and Director
of the Manchester, Liverpool, and great North of England
Union Railway, of the Shropshire Mineral Railway, and of the

National Bank of Ireland
Joseph Charles Ridge, Esq., merchant, Manchester, Director of the
London, Holyhead, and Portdynllaen Railway
William Tomkinson Riley, Esq., 31illfield Works, Bilston, Director
of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction

Railway
Joseph Bull, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Staffordshire Pot-
teries and Manchester and Liverpool, and of the Shropshire
Mineral Railway
James Stead, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire, Director of the Liverpool
and Leeds, and Shropshire Mineral Railways
Samuel Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Hull, Director of the
Deity, Uttoxeter, and Stafford Railway
William Wood, Esq., M.D., Chetwynd House, Newport, Salop, Di-
rector of the Leeds and Liverpool Direct, and of the Derbyshire
Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railways
Edward Edwards, Esq., Ironbridge, Shropshire, Director of the
Direct London and Holyhead, and of the Dudley, Madeley, and
Ihrot-elery Railways
Rev. Matthew Yatman Starkie, Rector of Rushhnry, near Church
Stretton, Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
3harles Merritt Rigg, Esq., M.D., York-place, Portman-sqaare,
Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
Rev. Thomas Humphreys, Bishops Castle, Director of the Shropshire

Mineral Railway -
James Bsq., Manchester-buildings, Westminster
George Young, Esq., Foley House, Longton, Staffordshire Potteries
Sampson Bridgwoo, Esq., Spratslade House, Longtou
William Ottey, Esq., Longton
John Ashwell, Esq., Longton, Director of the Nottingham and Gains-
borough, and Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester
Railways
William George, Esq., Weston, near Mneh-Wenlock
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Thomas Goddard, Esq., Bank House, Longton, Staffordshire Potteries
Thomas Weaver Lewty, Esq., Wilden Ironworks, near Stourport,
Director of the Dudley, Madeley, and Broseley Railway.
Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Redford-row, London, Director
of the London and Brighton, Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire,
and Manchester and Birkenhead Continuation Railways
William Heatrell Dowse, Esq., Chancery-lane, London
and Johnson, Esq., Derby, Director of the Shropshire Mineral
Railway, and of the Derby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby

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alltway
William Dutton, Esq., Tittensor Villa, Stone, Staffordshire, and
Ebury-street, Eaton-square, Director of the Direct London and

Holyhead Railway
George Cowen, Esq., Dalston, near Carlisle, Director of the London

and Holyhead Railway
Robert Foreman, Esq., Abbott's Hill, Derby, Director of the Teen

and Dove Valley Railway
Joseph Gilham, Esq., Hargreaves House, Oldham, Director of the
Shropshire Mineral
Teter Wood, Esq., merchant, Manchester, Director of the Shrop-

shire Mineral Railway
George Swift, Esq., Elford Hill, Eccleehall, Director of the Shrop-

shire Mineral Railway
John Robertson, Esq., St. Mary's-buildings, Glasgow
A. W. B. Greville, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park, Director of
the Groat Eastern and Western, and Harbadoes General Railways.
William Witte Coleman, Esq., Banbury, Oxfordsh:re
Panes Austin, Esq., Banbury
William Caless, Esq., Banbury

BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London
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The London and County Bank, Lombard-street, London
Messrs. Adams, Warren, and Co., Shrewsbury and Market Drayton
The Shropskite Banking Company, Shiffnall
The National Provincial Bank of England, Newport and Gloucoster
Messrs. Farley and Turner, Kidderminster
Messrs. Farley, Lavender, and Co., Worcester _ _ •

The GloncesteVshire Banking Company, Worcester and Tewkesbury
Esielseen-IN-Cnise—Sainuel Clegg, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITORS.
Ingleby Thomas Miller, Esq., 3, Abehuroh-lane, London
Edmund Garbett, Esq., Wellington, Salop
William Brinton, Esq., Kidderminster
Gilbert Brom., Esq., Shiffnal.
LOCAL A.OENTS.
Henry Him., Esq., Liverpool
William Burdett, Esq., Manchester
John Brampton, Esq., Worcester
Charles G. Brown,, Esq., Bilston
Thomas Griffin, Esq., Shelton, Staffordshire Potteries
Thomas Bernard Baddeley, junior, Esq.,Newport
William Harding, Esq., Burslem
Henry Saben, Esq., Stafford.
SECRETARY—J. Stevens, Esq.
Temporary Offices, 3, Abe'larch-lane, London.
This line of railway will commence at the junction of the Man-
chester and Birmingham, Chester and Crewe, and Grand Junction
Railways, at Crewe, in the county of Chester, and proceed Prom
thence through or Lear the towns of Market Drayton, Newport, and
Withal, in Shropshire, thence through the flourishing town of Kid-
derminster, to Worcester and Tewkesbury, and to the Bristol Rail-
way at Gloucester. By this means it will form the most direct
route from Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Hall, and Chester to the
important ports of Gloucester and Bristol, indeed the most direct
line from the north of England to the Bristol Channel. It will also,
In conjunction wtih the proposed Hereford and Worcester, and Swan-
sea, Merthyr-Tydvil, and Hereford Railways, form the most advan-
tageous route from Swansea and the iron districts of South Wales,
to Liverpool, Manchester, and Hull.
The line will cross the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway at
Shiffnal, and the Shropshire Mineral Railway and the Trent Valley
Union at the thriving town of Newport. It will forma a junction
with the two latter railways at Newport, whereby persons and lug-
gage may be conveyed to Stafford, Derby, the midland counties,
Staffordshire lotteries, Sheffield, and Hull ; and, in addition to the
carriage of heavy goods from Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester, and
Kidderminster, to Manchester, Liverpool, the whole of the north of
England, and Scotland—will secure a large pacssenger traffic in the
district through which it passes. A branch will be made from New-
port to the important town of Wellington.
The proposed railway will be about 87 miles in length, and be-
tween the two termini of Crewe and Gloucester, will save in distance
at least 20 miles, and the journey can be accomplished, at the pre-
sent rapid rate of travelling, in about two hours. This project as a
junction line, connects itself with some of the most important rail-
ways in the kingdom. It also skirts the large, extensive, and densely-
populated iron districts of Shropshire and Staffordshire, and in its
course passes through a rich agricultural country. It must, there-
fore, be obvious that there will be a sufficient traffics to pay a high
rate of interest on the capital required.
There are no engineering difficulties in the country through which
the Hoe is intended to pass, the whole being nearly on a level, and
on reference to the map of country, taken from the Ordnance survey,
which accompanies the prospectus, the line will appear straight, and
will at the same time show the superior advantages it possesses, and
that it cannot be surpassed by any existing or projected lines between
the same termini.

It will not interfere with any ornamental property, and no tunnel-
ling will be required.
Application is intended to be made, in the ensuing session of Par-
liament, for a direct line of railway (of which a survey has been
made) from Southampton to Kidderminster, and by which a ready
communication will be afforded to the most southern parts of England.
The liabilities of the Shareholders will be limited to the amount 01
their subscriptions, and interest will be allowed on the deposits and
thrther calls, from the date of the several payments to the opening of
the line.

Prospeetusc.s, with maps and forms of application for shares, can
be had thorn the Secretary on application at the temporary offices
of the Company, 3, Abehurch-lane, London; from the Solicitors and
Local Agents; also from the following Brokers, viz.:—Messrs. Lyon,
2, Birchin-lane, London ; Mr. Andrew Milligan, 2, 'Lord-street, Bir-
kenhead ; Mr. E. H. Collis, Birmingham ; Mr. w. Whitmore, St.
George, Liverpool; Messrs. Solimcs and Tripp, Bristol; Messrs.
Turley and Cooper, Leeds ; and Messrs. Green and Oldham, Man-
chester; to whom applications for shares may be addressed. It
will be necessary that referama be made to a Banker, Solicitor,
or pereen of responsibility.
NORTH WHSTERN TRUNK RAILWAY, FROM CREWE

DIRECT TO GLOUCESTER,
Passing through the Towns of Market-Drayton, Newport, Shiffnal,
Kidderminster, Worcester, and Twkesbury, forming the shortest
and most desirable communication between Liverpool, Manchester,
and the northern parts of England and the Bristol Channel,
(Provisionally Registered.)
Crpital 1,250,0001., in 62,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21.25. per share.
Being in accordance with the Standing Orders of the House of
Commons. .

Gentlemen,—l request you to allot mo Shares in the North-
Western Trunk Railway; and I undertake to pay the Deposit of
2/. 25., and all further calls upon the same, or such lesser number
as yen may allot to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement
and the Parliamentary Contract when called upon to do so.
Datos this day of , 1845.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient humble servant,

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Christian and Surname in full..
Residence.. • • • • •
Reference • • • • • • .. • • • • • ............

Residence of Referee-•• • • . ,• ••,,• • ~ ;
To the Provisional Dix ectors of the North-Western
Trunk Railway, 3, Abchurch-lane, London,

MANCHESTER AND RUGBY DIRECT
RAILWAY, via MA CCLESFIELD.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 1,700,0001., in 85,010 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. Howe Browne, Chairman of the Manchester and-
Birmingham Continuation Railway
John Attwood, Esq., M.P., Park-lane, Hyde Park
John Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, banker
Sir John Pirie, Bart., Alderman of the City of London, Direc-
tor of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam-packet Company
William Hughes Hughes, Esq , Alderman of the City of Lon-
don, late M.P. for Oxford, and late High Sheriff for Hants
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
IVil lain Chadwick, Esq., Chairman of the Richmond Railway
William Henry Forman, Upper Thames-street
Captain George Probyn, Bry-anston-square
Robert Watkins, Esq., Director of the East and West of Eng-
land Railway
Joseph Underwood, Esq., Director of the Commercial Bank
of London
William Langley Pope, Esq., Woodford, Essex,
The Hon. George Browne, Lowndes-square, Belgrave-square
Sir George Rich, 43, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square
Sir Henry Richardson, Chessel-house, Southampton
Sir William Wynne, 5, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the
North Wales Railway, and Director of the Oxford, Southampton,
and Portsmouth Railway
Sir G. A. Lewin, Upper Harley-street, London
Sir John Hare, Langha'n-place
The Mayor of Newbury, Director of the Oxford, Southampton, and
Portsmouth Railway
John Addis, Esq., of Rotherhithe, Surrey, Director of the Central
Terminus, and of the Lincensed Victuallers' Fire and Lift Office
The Rev. J. Harvey Ashworth, Newbury
M. W. C. Alston, Esq., Birmingham
W. C. Alston, Esq., Elmdon Hall
Samuel Ashton, Esq., Wood Hill, Prestwich
James Atty, Esq., Rugby
James Bancroft, Esq., Alderman of the Borough of Manchester
Henry Barlow, Esq., Highfield, Stockport
Samuel Barton, Esq., Didsbury, Director of the Chester and Man-
chester Direct Railway
Hugh Beaver, Esq.. Manchester
William Fechnez Black. Esq., 19, Wilton-place, Belgrave-square, Di-
rector of the Italian and Austrian Railway Company
Joseph Brown, Esq., Bedford
Captain Burney, R.N., Gosport
William Bardgett, Esq., Old Broad-street, and Carshalton, Surrey,
Director of the Italian and Austrian Railway Company
Samuel Swann Brittain, Esq., Sheffield
Charles Baker, Esq., Southamp'on
William Bland, -Esq., Brixton, Director of the North Wales Railway
T, wrae Brittain, Esq., Manchester
George Burnand, Esq., Sussex-square, Hyde-park
William Bevan, Esq., 48, Conduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the
North Witles Mineral Railway
Jacob Bell, Esq., Langham-place, London
W. E. Boyes, Esq., Alkerton, Banbury, Director of East and West
of England Railway
Henry Brown, Esq., Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Robert Bramwell, Esq., Upper Thames-street
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Shef-
field and Manchester Railway, and Chairman of the Direct
Western Railway
George Borrett, Esq., Southampton
Lieutenant-Colonel Burslem, North Hants
Charles Bailey, Esq., Winchester
Henry Baker, Esq., 79, Hark-lane
H. Bundy, Esq.. LL.D., Gosport
Jo eph Beech, Esq., 15, Grosvenor-place
George Bovill, Esq., Mill-wall, Poplar
Louis Buckland, Esq., Lloyds, and Avenue-road, St. John's wood
Robert Beman, Esq., Donnington House, Stow-on-the-Wold, Glou-
cestershire
W. Bailey, Esq.' Wolverhampton
F. F. Clossman, Esq., Mincing-lane
John Chapman, Esq., Leadenhall-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., Leicester
Philip Warner Courtenay, Esq., 26, Capel-street, Belgrave-square
Edwin Cadman, Esq., Sheffield, Director of the Direct Western Rail-
way
Francis Carleton, Esq.
James Clift, Esq., Bloomsbury-square
Robert Cruickshank, Esq., Gosport
John Churchill, Esq., Bayswater, Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham Continuation Railway
Robert Charles, Esq., 23, Endsleigh-street, Tavistock-square
G. Colquhoun, Esq., Director of the Worcester and South Wales
Railway
James Consterdine, Esq., Manchester
Joseph Cragg, Esq., Queen-square, Bloomsbury
Colonel George Disbrowe, Chester-square, London
William Dredge, Esq., Newbury
James Denis Devitre, Esq., 7, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square
Director of the North-Western Railway
George Dunlop, Esq., Southampton
George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield
Richard Dyott, Esq., Freeford
John Alcock Dixon, Esq., Burnley, Director of the Liverpool and
Leeds Direct Rail Way
Captain 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 al], Sheffield, Director of the Great
Western Railway
J. P. Fernistone, Esq., of Highfields, Wolverhampton
George Fernistone, Esq., Lays Ironworks, Stourbridge
W. E. Gray, Esq., Newbury
Samuel Giles, Esq., Manchester
Joseph Gill, Esq., Leeds
IL P. Gipps, Esq., Montague-place, Bryanston-square
William Gib!), Esq., Manchester
John Gould, Esq., Ardwick, Manchester
Captain Augustus Heyman, Cadogan-square
Thomas Charles Higgins, Esq., Turvey-house, Bedfordshire
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad-house, Edgbaston, near Birmingham,
Director of the East and West, and Birmingham South Stafford-
shire Railway
Joseph Hopgood, Esq., Exeter, Director of the East and West of
England Railway
W. H. Hornby, Esq., Blackburn
George Calvert Holland, Esq., M.D., 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
Joseph Haden, Esq., ironmaster, Dudley
David Harrison, Esq., Staley-bridge, Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham and Cheshire Junction Railway
T. Hodges, Esq.' Director of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
James Horne, Esq.,; Clapham-common, Director of the North Lon-
don Railway Company
John Hemming Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park, Director of the
Worcester and South Wales Railway
T. A. Hall, Esq., Aslifield-house, Newcastle, Staffordshire
Frederick Hewett, Esq., Clapham, Surrey
J. H. Higson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and Man-
chester Railway
T. .Hodges, Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, Director of the
Leeds and Carlisle Railway
George Calvert Holland, Esq., 31.D.,,Shefileld
John Hyde, Esq., Manchester
William Jacomb, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the East and West
of England Railway
William Jenkinson, Esq., Marl' orough-square, Salford
George Jones, Esq., Redland, Bristol
V. Clark Kemball, Esq., 6, Chester-place, Hyde-park
J. Kinloch, Esq., Gloucaster-road, Hyde-park, Director of the North
Wales Railway
John Knill, Esq„ Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and
South Wales Junction Railway
Charles Belson, Esq., Teignmouth, Devon, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
William Knott, Esq., 4, Adelaide-place, Director of the Richmond
Railway
M. W. King, Esq., Amblicote-hall, Stourbridge
Edward Lomer, Esq., Southampton
William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq., James-street, Buckingham-gate,
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., Brookville, near Manchester
Joseph Liggins, Esq., Kensington, Director of the Southampton Dock
Company
Captain J. H. Leckie, Richmond, Surrey
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde-park-square, Director of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Samuel Lovell, Esq., Bedford
F. Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-place, Regent's-park
William Mills, Esq., Newbury
Joseph Maunder, Esq., Ashford-house, Staines
John Malleson, Esq., Wimbledon, Director of the Great Indian Pe-
ninsular Railway
William Malins, Esq , Mansion-house-place, London, Director of the
South Staffordshire Railway
William Robert Mesham, Esq., M.D., Bedford
George Miller, Esq., Director of the Central Railway Terminus
Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington
Charles Musgrave, Esq., Melverton Hill, Leamington
R. F. Mushet, Esq., Birehin-lane and Coleford
John Marshall, Esq., Hornforth Hall, near Leeds, late Mayor of
Norwich
John Macfarlane, Esq., Director of the Sheffield Railway
Thomas Markland, Esq., Malfield, Manchester
James Marshall, Esq., Brinunigton Mount, Stockport
Robert Millington, Esq., Onisall Boise, Retford, Nottinghamshire
G: Moore, Esq., St. John's Priory, Banbury
Nicholas M`Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street
William Nash, Esq., Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings
Railway
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
Robert Ogden, Esq., The Oaks, Manchester
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford, Director of the Chester and
Manchester Direct Railway
P. Oldfield, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and
Liverpool Railway
Count Eyre, Director of the South-Western Railway
Vincent Eyre, Director of the South-Western Railway
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, Director of the East and West
of England Railway
Apsley Pellat, Esq., Director of the Staines and Richmond Railway
Thomas Parker, Esq., spring-gardens, London
John Clarke Prescott, Esq., Manchester
William Simpson Potter, Esq., of Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Direc-
tor ofthe Oxford, Witney and Cheltenham Independent Railway
Charles Potter, Esq., Darwen, Director of the Blackburn, Darwen,
and Belton Railway
James Paxton, Esq., Rugby
Richard N. Philippe, Esq., Sheffield
John, Perks, Esq., Wolverhampton
Richard Burton Phillipson, Esq., Rugby
N. M. Priaulx, Esq., South-Western Steam Packet Company, South-
ampton
Stephen Phillips, Esq , Director of the Whitehaven and Furness
Railway
Charles Phillips, Esq., Camberwell, Surrey
John Thomas Price, Esq., Heald Grove, Manchester
William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the Manchester and Car-
lisle Railway
Richard Ricketts, Esq., Bristol
George ROUgCMOIIt, Esq., 9, Chester-terrace, Hyde-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, Esq., Ball Grove, Colne, Yorkshire
Samuel Sangster, Esq., Brixton-hill, Director of the City Gas Com-
pany
Major Charles T. Selwyn, of the Royal Engineers, Exeter, Director
of the East and West of England Junction
James Shaw, Esq., Salford
John Sidebottom, Esq., Harewood-lodge, Cheshire
William Sidebottom, Esq., Etherton-house, Cheshire
David Siltzer, Esq.. Rhodes, near Manchester
Ckarles Slocock, Esq., Newbury
Edmund Slocock, Esq., Newbury
Christopher Shapland, Esq., Be istol, Director of the Bristol and Glou-
cester, South Devon and Cornwall Railway Companies
Joseph Stocks, Esq., Shibden Hull, near Halifax, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
W. Senhonse, Esq., Daventry
T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Richmond Railway
Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park
John Stewart, Esq , M.P. for .Lyrnington, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
T. H. Sheppard, Esq , Towcester
Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield
Horatio Smith, Esq., Strangeways Hall, Manchester
W. Tebbutt, Esq., Manchester
Joseph Thompson, Esq., John-street, Bedford-row, Director of the
London and Brighton Railway
Thomas Thomson, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
W. Tinker, Esq., Manchester, and Hyde, Cheshire
Charles B. Fripp, Esq , Bristol, Director of the Jersey Railway
Thomas Varley, Esq., Shorsten hall, Maiton
Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton
Charles Fenton IA biting, Esq., Beaufort House, Strand, Director of
the Richmond Railway
Benjamin Williams, Esq., Banker, 4, Whitehall
B. H. Wilcox, Esq., Hantsville, Torquay
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Shef-
field 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 Waveuey
Val-
ley Railway
Daniel IVatney, Esq., Wandsworth, Surrey, distiller
W. F. Wennington, Esq., IValsall
Smith Whilock, Esq., Birmingham
W. D. Wills, Esq., Bristol
Alexander H. Wylie, Esq., Liverpool
Edmund M. Waxen. Esq., Halifax
S. Watkins, Esq., Forest-hill, near Worksop
Paul Ferdinand Willert, Esq., Alderman of the Borough of Man-
chester
Charles James Stanley Walker, Esq., Longford-house, Stretford, I

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Alderman of Manchester, and Director of ti/0 Chest
chester Railway
Morris Were, Esq., Moorlands, Southampton
Pirate the
Join Woodcock, Esq.' banker, the Elms,
John York, Wig
Liverpool
Esq., banker, Thra and Bury Railway
Pston CompaNyrthampn
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J. B. Byron, Esq., Director of the Richmond'
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
Willia'n Chadwick, Esq., Chairman
Robert Watkins, Esq., Deputy-Chairmail.
The Hon. Howe Browne. John Bagshaw, ti.
Sir John Pine, Bart, Joseph Browne, Et•
John .Attwood, Esq., M.P. T. Bridge Simpson, -blkt
James Henry Attwood, Esq. Daniel Watney, Ef
John Masterman, Esq. James HOME, ESQ.-
Win. Hughes Hughes, Esq., Al- James Lees, Esq.
derman William Hill, Esq..
George Adam, Esq. George Parbury,
BANKERS.
Messrs. .Masterman and Co., London.
The Union Bank, Manchester.
ENGINEERS. wed/30SW
Messrs. J. B. and E. Birch,
Buckstone Baker, Esq., C.E.
SOLICITORS.
John Bethell, Esq., King William-streendon
.gigeen
Messrs. Joseph and Wiliam Heron, t,
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and Messrs.
Robins, Manchester. ie neeesSflo.a.
That another and a more direct line of railway non dad
between the metropolis and the manufacturing districts
wa.his the bee
chester is now fully admitted, and the question is,—w
lime to be adopted ? A most direct
rouTtheefraohemyLoe pnrdoopnesteodArleaiZaleyst‘evgir,
direct communication with the metropolis at a much
of capital than by either of the projected London a ,tiff.
of con;
afoniarnwilthie, shortest, cato_niicte
lines (Remington's and Ashurst's), the actutiallereditsbtral;ce;,,,idieto7
structed being only seventy-I hree,instead of one-hund d
to one-hundred and eighty miles. frs tbi.
A careful preliminary survey has determinedslob
railway to adopt nearly a straight line from Rugby to
the promoitscc,
diciouelp
as an increased expenditure of 200,0001. or 300,000/...i!?
e.,„erleb iogr
plied, in the present perfected state of the science of civiiwt.ev.,„ce
and at the reduced cost of the execution of earthworks. Tel'', in t
is
o
the end a far greater real economy, both to the Com
P""Yil:
saving effected in the annual expense of working, and At a
of more importance to the country in general, by accon.j)lll;t floe
much less cost, the same end proposed, by an entire AO al
A bf
from London to Manchester. in -e
These considerations have not been sufficiently kePt nut;bJ
other parties who have also proposed to make a railway
tract to PO'
to Macclesfield, but who, by deviating from the divect_ th
itteoiry,
sue valleys, and to avoid the irregularities of the face of
obviously lose the advantages proposed by this Company',,adon and
The Parliamentary decision oil the choice of the_,‘Tough Pre
Brighton Railway is a parallel case; the direct line, to`
eater oatiaP
cola:
seating more difficulties to overcome, and involving a gr
having been adopted by Parliament in preference to tli!_; were pt
peting projects in a more or less sinuous direction,
it
that time supported in the House by very influential
bee. node
ve
Should it be found necessary, arrangements
which additional lines of rails will be laid between Rugb An
Burp.
don, on the London and Birmingham Railway, whereby
the
traffic northwards will be abundantly provided for. affording toff.
This line also possesses the singular advantage of
southaMPWeti
shortest and most direct route from Manchester to lier proposat
Gosport, and Portsmouth, a feature presented bY no cli_f the Gre„
railway. By adopting the Rugby and Oxford branch;_..d, sate..
Western as far as Didcot, and thence the proposed rqoni Yaa.,
ampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth line, the distance
ss t,itian by anY
chaster to Southampton will be twenty-three miles wArnatt''.
other route, and on this account the project has heen osta
ported by the Oxford, Southa Upton, Gosport, and Patera
sad
way Company. n Pig or
The deviations from a perfectly straight line bctwene. noes,
Macclesfield to avoid high ranges of hills, °meow t, 'offers 1,
valuable buildings, are very slight,
engineering difficulties of any magnitude. The towns lammotoll
interested as a local line are Nuneaton, IltnekleZiootullesin
and the line in gener7ro directil
Market Bosworth, Burton-upon-Trent, Tutbury,
vealoft
Leek. North taelt
The Company has made arrangements with the use se
Junction Railway Company, whereby it has securedhteedn, of
station (of the extent of six acres), in the centre of the "'""of
tD
don, at the bottom of Moorgate-street, which will On"
abJic
most importance to this line.oce the „jot
Amidst the many railway projects that now con'
mind and involve a vast outlay of capital, it will readily Aniec,t
that a line that will attain such important results at so :1_1:1
lay of capital, and the time required for its construction, ger le;
interfering with any existing vested interests, must
approbation, and at the same time offer a very excmelle."
for capital. eoirit;i
The shareholders in the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport'ebaoter
mouth, in the London and Birmingham, and in the M.a2eationnee
Birmingham Railways, will have a preference in the hO.
shares.bb off
The e • ii °-
The deeds will provide that no call shall be made ea noeti. , ;re
ens beyod the deposit now paid, until the Act of par'_,„r
tained, and power will be taken in the Act to allovv 41. 1,
nhs9 be
terest in all calls.
Applications for detailed prospectus, mans, and„,i rthun ellares-stretit;ooS.
made to the Secretary, at the Offices, 78, King i°-•-01t11
London, and at 22, Cross-street, Manchester 22,
Sharebrokers :—Messrs. R. Sutton, Gribble, and ceta
Side, Royal Exchange, London ; George Burnand, Ewers, 11‘&.,
Messrs. Barclay, Allsop, and Co., Royal Exehange;3!e
land and Leese, 51, King-street, Manchester; ~,n -And v.: NI;
Royal Bank Buildings, Liverpool ; Messrs. Wellbelovea lin! J.
Leeds ; Messrs. Edwards and Son, and W. H. Lan
J. R. Lane, Esq., Birmingham ; Messrs. Garton and Wright,t, 1
5a.,1;,,',.
field ; J. G. Kershaw, Esq., Huddersfield ; F. C. SPen,ceilenl ,1014
lifax ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham 4.700ph
sari +
moot and Co., Exeter; R. P. Lemon, Esq.,
Esq., Southampton ; ana Messrs. Flint and Toots',
THE MANCHESTER and RUGBY
RAILWAY COMPANY, via Macclesteld' as
A certain number of the shares in this CoMPIMY -n-GosPgirro"
tioned to the scripholders in the Oxford, SouthamPtoo.,‘„ty, tAt
Portsmouth Railway Company, those gentlemen who_ tler sieSod
duce their scrip, between the 3d and 7th days of uTonpeilire'liir
the places below mentioned, will have their scrip t 19, te, toct
prnportionate number reserved in this ComparlY 1'
lane, Cornhill; or at 22, Cross-street, Manchester ; ;.Le7i;nt:i; 'Liver
Harrison, Southampton ; Mr. Godwin, selicitor, Nev` ,t CO., rj§tol;
Bailey and Wickham, Winchester ; Messrs. Willis Land' fidate4
pool; Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds,Kell.haty, tsl
Messrs. Garton and Wright, Sheffield; I,lr.
field ; Mr. Spencer, Halifax; Mr. Lemon, Bath; Nres'
Tootal, Manchester. VIA/
DIREC*I! BE '-
LONDON AND EXE - or•
Old
WAY, with Extension to Falmouth and • um-
No further application for shares can be received in
c_Atni.o6
taking. ergs ctt
the Committee of Management are now activey tau
the duties of allotment, but deem it necessary ta APPielar f.. it°
in advance, in order to prevent disappointment, that not 10"
mous number of persons who have applied for shAretf
one-tenth of even bona applications can be entertain'".
By order of the Committee, • 1/'
D. E. COLOMBINE, 0011"t°
STOKES, HOL LINGSWORTD,
TYERMAN, and JOHNSTON.,
6, Great Winchester-street, Broad-street,
Sept. 30, 1645.
D7' 01.
HEFFIELD, ROTHERHAM, /A li
*e.-3 WAKEFIELD, HUDDERSFIELD, and GOOL.:(01. ttls
(Passing through and giving the fullest means of translttieidi.)
of tha Barnsley, Silkstone, and MortornleY cosl'
(Provisionally Registered.)porgy
D
I,‘"
Capital, in Shares of 251. each. Deposit, 2/. 125.
FROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Master Cutler of Sheffield
Sir George Armytage, Bart., Kirkles Hall
Sir John L. L. Kaye, Bart., Denby Grange
Godfrey Wentworth, Esq., Woolley Park
Edward B. Beaumont, Esq., Finningley Park
Charles John Branding, Esq., Middleton Lodge
Charles Winn, Esq., Nostell Priory
Edward Tew, Esq., Crofton Hall
Henry Anthony Littledale, Esq., Bolton-hall
Richard Thomas Lee, Grove-hall, Pontefract
Ralph Creyke, Esq., Rawcliffe-hall
Henry Holdsworth, Esq., Manchester
Henry Wickham Wickham, Esq., Low-moor
J. 31. Laws, Esq., R.N., Crumpsall-hall
Robert Gill, Esq., Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts
J. R. Ralph, Esq., Halifax
Joseph Hegan, Esq., Liverpool
George Anderton, Esq., Cleckheaton
Wm. Ash, Esq., Wakefield
Edwd. Ackroyd, Esq., Halifax
James Audus, Esq., Headingley
John Aldred, Esq., Wellgate-house, Rotherham
John Barff, Esq., Wakefield
John Brackenridge, Esq., Bretton-lodge
Thomas Bayldon, Esq., Hollingburst
Joseph Brook, Esq., Green Head, Huddersfield
Samuel Butcher, Esq., Endcliffe, Sheffield
natherin°
Robert John Bentley, Esq., Eastwood-house, --
Henry Briggs, Esq., Overton
John Bentham, Esq., Clifton, York
Robert Buchanan, Esq., M.P., Pontefract
' Capt. Binstead, R.N., Wakefield
Benjamin Badger, Esq., barrister-at-law, Rotherban
John C. D. Charlesworth, Esq., Chapelthorpe-hall
• Joseph Charlesworth, Esq., Lofthouse-house
William Eden Cass, Esq., Goole
David Cass, Esq., Goole
Richard Clay, Esq., Goole
Thomas Chambers, Esq., Chapeltown aii ld
George Chambers, Esq., High Green-house, Sheffield
John Cordeux, Esq., Barnsley
Thos. S. Cordeux, Esq., Barnsley
Thos. Cope, Esq., Ilarnsley
Jonathan Carnley, Esq., Barnsley
William Dandison, Esq., wine merchant, Barn
Alexander Dixon, Esq., Cleckheaton
George Ellis, Esq., Fingley House
Joseph Fletcher, Esq., Goole
Jeremiah Bourn Faviell, Esq., Featherstone gall
William Gill, Esq., Burley Hall
John Green, Esq., Sheffield
Bernard Hartley, Esq., Milnthorp
William Haxworth, Esq., Barnsley
Edward Harper, Esq., York
James Hodgson, Esq., Rotherham
John Lister, Esq., Goole
John Lees, Esq., Staleybridge
Aaron Lees, Esq., Vissitt Manor, Wakefield
Edward Meynell, Esq., Wakefield
William Micklethwaite, Esq., Heresforth Hall, 13
William Moorhouse, Esq., Knottingley
William Moxon, Esq., Pontefract
Robert Nodes Newton, Esq., Barnsley
David Nesbit, Esq., Chapeltewn Ironworks _
Richard Patten, Esq., Goole, Collector cf Custom.
George Birks Piggott, Esq., Barnsley
John Birs, Esq., Barnsley
Edward Parker, Esq., arnsley
Rich.a rd Pope, Esq., LoBcwer Thames-street, Lend
John Buckingham Pope, Esq., Cliffe-house,
Colonel Pollard, Stannary-hall, Halifax
Henry Richardson, Esq., Barnsley
Thomas Richardson, Esq., Barnsley slay
James Russell, Esq., High Royd-house, Barn
~eoe
George Lewes Ridley, Esq., Banks-hall
William Rd, Esq., Bradford eidatonle'
harles Samanuel Robert Sanford, Esq., North
Joshua Smithson, Esq., Wakefield
Walter Steed, Esq., Leeds
John Sykes, Esq. Sheffield Meld
William Smith, Esq., barrister-at-law, She
William Smith, Esq., Barnes-hall, Sheffield .
coo
George Walker Smith, Esq., the BorburY, Sn
Hamer Stans, Es., Les
Thomas Taylofer,ld Esq.,q Dodwedorth, near Barns' °Y.
Thomas Edward Taylor, Esq., Barnsley
John Twibell, Esq., Barnsley
Samuel Thorpe, Esq., Barnsley
The Rev. Henry Torre, Thornhill Rectory
Henry Wormald, Esq., Wakefield
Joseph Wood, Esq., Woolley Moor
H. B. Wake, Goole Esq.,
Henry Wilkinson, Esq., Endcliffe-hall,
Rothe
Thomas Wheatley, Esq., South-grove,
Mathias Whitehead, Esq., Selby
William Walker, Esq., Bradford
Robert Younge, Esq„ Sheffield
therhara.
James Yames, Esq., Barbott Hall, Rot
GEmno.
COMMITTEE OF MAN Green, oreellr,sa.
The Master Cutler of Sheffield ,° Aron Lees,
Sheffield
Godfrey Wentworth, Esq. Aaro moo
.„.a,
WHIM'," ',tor, .P4o'
Ralph Creyke, Esq. Thos. t,
Edward Tew, Esq. George I, D. r 1;54• 4
John Barff, Esq. Jor en° Harreticl'
eel
fib
J. itl. Laws, Esq., R.N. voiairdproolt,
James Audus, Esq. •
j()sePi jai, Pad,
John Brackenridge, Esq. - , cvsel
Dr. Buchanan Edward
George Chambers, Esq.
ENGINEBES•
John HawkshawLr
George Leather,
suftvzxoas.
Esq
too
effeld
Henry Holt, she
William Fowler, E
anssql,
gad or
BANieed,
001`
The Yorkshire Banking Company' d
yo
The Sheffield Union Bank, Slieffie,
hester an
Messrs. Cunliffe and Brooks, Ma.,,„iodeld
Messrs. Leatham, Tew, and Co.,- ""
Messrs. Beckett and Co., Leeds.
sox,iciTos.s.
',ark
nd 13°
ft
Messrs. Atkinson, Dibb, ,A.
file /1
Ppe
oke I"• 40" '
Messrs. Leeman and Clark, 1-
aca ebe
John Marsden, Esq., W"--wteight, do d.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENMessrs•
London- vratlo3o, of ire, to
15, Golden-square.
flerePailh lie tc'vtoricsbostoe'
SECRITARY.-11/r. Spencer -
coot, t e a
60,,A0
The object of this undertaking Is t° cit tradod, ii,rottistf,ioo
and Rotherham, as the chief seat of the „tog ; c mig
pa
the other principal towns of the West,. -I;,tootoniatt•Ac :;f_7lll.rof
open the important mineral fled' 111whoic oasteFs ot))7f
connexion, on the one hand, with the
....4th tie tte fend
to,"_tat to
lNivitise ha
rsurround u t
„anal, on the other, eonipliirtito tc4tit,,gof,red
most effectual and economical manner, tt`ever 11
other, svita
couleiaresideniei se volire te° all the principal towns with each
_,e,101 deo it AS •..
communication to tlooccalompsuleptie)ortht their
af ti,cets to EA' "ilt"
and will serve thereby, in an emir` S.- .
with the district insures that these %It degree,
„iial
dot!
of Parliament to the undertaking. _d hy ;
the exception
line, and persons locally interestoct
cwephtololeneaopfitsalucths ahp..ieratidoynsuasbsc!,:rio.feeserf,eue.lll7