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London, England, 1845-10-03 00:00:00

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OVER and BRISTOL RAILWAY,'
in continuation of the South Eastern Railway, from Reigate,
to Bristol. Upon the Narrow Gauge.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 1,500,0001, in 75,000 Shares, of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. Is. per Share.
PEOVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. Lord Rossmare, the Dell, Windsor
The lion. William M. Dawson, Farkstone Lodge, Poole, Director of
• the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
The Hon. Edward Stafford Jerningham, Director of the London and
Nottingham Railway
Lieut.-Col. the Ilon. J. C. Westenra, M.P.,'Director of the East and
' West Junction Railway, and of the Brighton and Cheltenham Di-
rect Railway
Sir William B. Johnston, Bart., Director of the Uhopstow, Forest of
Dean, and Gloucester Railway
Admiral Ayscough, Prospect-place-house, Southampton, Director of
the Birmingham and Leicester Railway, and South and Midland
: Railway
Admiral Sir George Sartorius
Sir Henry Webb, Bait., Director of the York and Lancas'er

Railway
William Collins, Esq., M.P., Warwick '
A. K. Baker,'Esq., Longfonl-house, Cheltenham Directors of the
John W. Hughes, Esq., Gloucester Bristol and Bir-
George Tate, Esq., Tewkesbury, mingham Railway
The Worshipfulpie Mayor of Dover
Henry Butcher, Esq., the Mayor of Devizes
Daniel tiazgr, Esq.
Edward Poole, Esq.
William Henry Payn, Esq. Town Councillors of Dover .
Edward Seward, Esq.,
The Rev. Just Henry Alt, Enford, Wilford, Director of the Manclies-
- : ter, Southampton, and POol Railway
Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq., Busland-hall, Lancashire, Director
of the South Staffordshire Railway
J. R. W. Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood house, Leeds, Director of the
Lancashire and North Yorkshire, and North Eastern Railways
George Addison, Esq., Bradfordi Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway '
John Anderson, Esq., London, Director of the Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke Railway
Joseph Acton, Esq., J.P., Wigan, Director of the Manchester and
Wigan Railway
William Ascroft, Esq., the Willows, Bury, Director of the Stafford-
shire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway
Joseph Austin, 'Esq., Hcddingleyhill, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and York Railway
William Ackroyd, Esq., Westbourne Lodge, Ottley, Yorkshire, Di-
rector of the East and West Yorkshire. the Midlands and Thirsk
Junction, and Leeds and York and Midland Junction
James Beech, Esq., Grosvenor-place, and Brandon, Warwickshire,
Director of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway
Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire, Director of

the South Union
William Gabbett Beare, Esq:, Porchester-place, Connaught-square,
Director of the Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union Railway
John Bannon, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham, Lich-
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field, and Manchester Railway
Thomas Byrom, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manchester
and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction
Railways
George Brown, Esq., Twining-park, Worcestershire
Henry Smith Bright, Esq., Hull, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds

Direct Railway
Robert Bell, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick, Direetor of the Grea'
Eastern and Western Junction, and London and Nottingham
Railways
Robert S. Butterfield, Esq., Bradford, Yorkshire, Director of the
Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Luhe Butler, Esq., Alderman, Dublin, Director of the Galway and
"Kilkenny, and Cork and Waterford Railways
William Clods Braddon, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton
Christopher Bentham, Esq , Birkenhead, Director of the-Chee.tter and
„Zirkenhead Railway, and of the North and South Wales Bank
Wilfftftwilyrom, Esq., Oldham, Director of the Oldham Districts, the
Liverpool,Treston, and North Union Junction, and the Birken-
head and Holyhead Junction Railways
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Gower-street, Director of the Central Kent
'
Joseph Charles Cohen, Esq., merchant, Birmingham -
John Jathes Conway, Esq.' Liverpool
John Carmichael, Esq., Cork, Director of the Cork and Waterford
Railway .
William Henry Collis, Esq., Handsworth, Staffordshire, Director of
the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Themes Cocksey, Esq., Atherton and Bolton, Director of the Man-
chester and Wigan Railway
William Baldwin Carrick, Esq.,. Hull, Director of the Rugby, War-
, wick, and Leamington Railway
William Clifford, Esq , Hull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern
Comities Railway
William Caldwell, Esq., Alderman, Ince-hall, Wigan, Director of the
Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool, and Manchester Direct Railway
Henry Coe Coape, Esq., Goldhanger, Essex, Director of the Man-
theater, Oxford, and Southampton Junction Railway
John Townahend Compton, Esq., Wedhampton, Wilts, Director of
the Manchester, Southampton, and Poole Railway
Captain F. Chamier, Haikin-street, Belgrave-equate, Director of the
Fampoux and Hazebrouckßailway
Henry Toogood Davis, Esq., Waterhouse Bradford, Magistrate for
Wilts and Somerset
John Campbell Dickers, Esq., New Hall, Heston, Cheshire;Director
of the Birkenhead and Holyhead, and the Rugby, Derby, and Man-
cheater Railways •
Thomas Davies, Esq., the .kustins, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Di-
rector of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
W. T. S. Daniel, Esq.' Recorder of Ipswich
Miles Dormer, Esq., London, Director of the Exeter,. Doreheiter,
and Weymouth Coast Railway
John Doughill, Esq., Lockwood, Huddersfield
Joseph Dowson, Esq., merchant, Lambeth
Thomas H. Evans, Esq., Mayor of Carnarvon
Henry D. Erskine, Esq., Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, and.Kirhy
Dale, Yorkshire, Director of the Brighton and Cheltenham Railway
George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birmingham,
Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
John Edwards, Esq., Chester, Director of the Liverpool and Leeds
Direct Railway
William Edwards, Esq., Aston Furnaces, Birmingham, Director of

the, Bi rmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Captain Gustavus Evans, R.N., Ileadly-grove, Reigate
John Finnis, Esq. merchant, Dover
Charles Fitzgerald,' Esq., Charles-street, St. Jawed's, Director of the
London and Nottingham Railway
Webster Floekton, Esq., Weybridge, Surrey
Bell Fletcher, Esq., M. 1)., Birmingham,Direetor of the Birmingham,
Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
Benjamin Franklin, Esq., 5, Harley-street, Cavendish-square, Di-
rector of the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton
Railway
William Tulloh Fraser, Esq , • Gloucester-place, Portman-square,
Director of the Dorking, Brighton' and Arundel Railway
Charles Hay Frewen, Esq., Brickwall, Northiam, Sussex
William Fitzgibbon, Esq., 21, Cambridge-street, Connaught-square,
Director of the Cork and Pas Sage and Cork and Bandon Railways
Major Grubbe, Eastwell-house, magistrate fur Wilts
William Gambier, Esq., Sacombe-park, Harts
Captain Goulde, Charles-street, St. James's
Capt. Frederick Gregory, Esq., Seacorabe, Cheshire, Director of the
Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Henry Francis Gisborne, Esq., Derby, Director of the South Stiffer&
shire Junction, the Derby and Crewe, the Macclesfield and Lich-
field, and the Leicester and Tatnworth Railways -
John Griffith Frith, Esq., merchant, Austin-friars, Chairman of the
Londonderry and Coleraine Railway •
James Gernon, Esq., Conduit-street, Bond-street, Director of the
• Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, Manchester, Oxford, and South-
ampton, and Cheltenham and Brighton Railways
William, Gatliff, Esq., merchant, Leeds, Director of the West York-
shire Railway • . .
Joseph Gill, Esq , Potter Newton Mount, Leeds,Director of the Leeds
and York and Midland Junction Railway •
John Hall, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and York Railway
William Holliday, Esq., Chad Valley, Edgbaston, Director of the
Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Hallway
Samuel Haines Esq , Chad House, Edgbaston, Director of the
Leicester and Tamwortk Railway
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Sunbury, Director of the Leicester
and 'famworth and South Staffordshire Junction Railways
William Wilkes hill, Esq., Beeston Hall, Leeds
Lewis Hofisnan, Esq., Temple, Director of the Nottingham and South
. Staffordshire Railway
James Inglis, Esq., M.D., Halifax, Director of the Manchester,
Southampton, and Oxford Junction, and the Loudon, Holyhead, and
Portdynliaen-liailways
John Johnson, Esq., R.N., Birmingham
Kersington Lewis, Esq., Worcester-park, Surrey. Director of the
Cheltenham, Oxford and Brighton Junction, and the Lynn, Wis-
heach, and Peterborough and Midland Counties' Railways
John Lowe, Esq., Norfolk CTescent, Hyde-park
William Phillips Lamb, Esq., Ockham House, Sussex • •
Edward Augustus Lamb, Esq., Westfield, Battle, Sussex, Director of
the Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway
Darnton Lur ton, Esq., Potter Newton Ilan, Leeds, Director of the
Leeds and York, and Wakefield and Bradford Railways •
Sir William Lowthrop, Knt., Hull, Director of the Leeds, Hudders-
field, Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Direct Railway
-John Lord, Esq., Standlih Hall, Lancashire, Director of the Black-
burn, Chorley, Wigan,-and North Union Junction Railway, and ol
the Staffordshire Potteries, and Manchester and Liverpool Direct
Railway
James Lamb, Req., 115, Hyde Park-square, Director of the Tring,
Readiog, and Basingstoke Railway
Rowland Mackenzioj Esq., Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke, and Cheltenham,
Oxford, and Brighton Railways
Thomas Gibbon Moneypenny, Esq.,' Hole-park, Rolvenden, Kent
Major Moore, Queen Anne-street, Director of the Brighten and Cheri.
tenham Direct Railway
James Joseph It'Svriney, Esq., Sandal View, Wakefield, Director of
the Wakefield and Harrogate Railway •
J. MeeMathew, Esq., Assistant Tithe Commissioner, Director of the
Worcestershire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire Railway
Cantata Macdougall, Fir-grove, North Brixton, Director of the Read-
ing, Guildford, and Reigate Railway
John George Norbury, Esq., Mancetter-house, Atherstone, Director
of the Tean and Dove Valley, and South Staffordshire Junction
Railways
Joseph Norton, Esq., Clayton West, Huddersfield, Director
,of the
Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford Union Railway, and the
Wakefield and Harrogate Railway
Captain Ommaney, R.N., 2, Suffolk-place, Pall-mall, Director of the
Newcastle, Durham, and Lancaster Railway.
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield House, Russell-square, Director of
the Leeds and Carlisle Railway.
William Peppercorne, Esq., Bexhill, Sussex, Director of the West
Midland Railway
Captain Thomas Ross, 58, Porchester-terrace
William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the London and Notting-
ham hallway
Frederick William Seymour, Esq., Carlton-terrace, Director of the
Lynn, Wlsheach, Peterborough, Railway
William Spooner, Esq., London, Director of the Smith Staffordshire
Junction Railway, and of the Liverpool, Manchester, and New-
castle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway
Henry Scott, Esq., 17, Pall-mall
S. E. Sichel, Esq., merchant, Bradford, Director of the Leeds,,York,
and Midland Junction Railway
George Turner, Esq., iluntbn Hill, Erdington, Director of the South
Staffordshire Junction Railway
Henry Taylor, Esq., Alderman, Wigan, Director of the Manchester
and Wigan, and the Liverpool, Preston, and North Union
Junction Railways
George Turton, Esq., Bagden Lodge, Clayton West, Huddersfield
William Tinker, Esq., Conock, Wilts, Director of the Manchester,
•• Southampton, anl Poole ItailWaY •
George Thomas Thompson, Esq., Dover, Coroner for the Cinque
Ports ,
John Thompson, Esq., Alderman of Wigan, Director of the Birkhen-
head and Holyhead Railway, of the Manchester and Wigan Rail-
way, and Liverpool, Preston, and North Union Junction Railway
John Taylor, Esq., /lull, Director of the Lincolnshire and Eastern
Counties Railway - •
James Upfill, Esq , The Green, Herefordshire, Director of the Staf-
fordshire and Shropshire Junction Railway •
George Unett, Esq ; The Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Direc-
tor of the Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway, and
the Lynn, Wislataeh, and Peterborough Railway
Thomas Bolman Upfill, Esq., Birmingham, Director of the Birming-
ham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway
• Major White, Pall-mall, Director of the Tring, Residing, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Walter•Unett, Esq., Captain 3d Light Dragoons, Maidstone, Director
of the Nottiniam and South Staffordshire, and the Lynn,
Wiabeaeli, and Teterborough Railways
31.1)., Birmingham, Director of the
William Boyden Watts, Esq.,
aoyf the Nottingham and
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`SMith Whyleck, Esq.iltirtningtam, Director of the Staffordshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway,
Robert William Watson, Esq., Dover . .
John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham pink, near Tonbridgo, Director of
the Leicester and BedfOrd hallway
Sit William White, Director of the Stafford, Uttoxeter, and Derby
Railway .
J. W. Yerhury, F-sq., Belcombe-house, Wilts, Capt. 3d. Light Dras
goons, Director of the Direct Western Railway.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—
ACTING ENGINEER—Edward JaMes Maude., Esq., C.E.
RANKERS.
London —Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co. ; the Union Bank
Bristol—Stuckey's Banking Company
Bradford and Trowbridge—The Wilts and Dorset Banking Company
Dover-Messrs. Latham and CO.
JOINT itOLICITORS.
Burges, Esq , Bristol. -
rAwin Smith, Esi., and Messrs. Lewis and Ford, London ; Edward

LOCAL SOLICITORS.
G. E. Thompson, Esq., DIME' Henry 4Mbert, Esq., DOOMS; W
G.
11. Reece, Esq., Birmingham.
Messrs. Tiinbrell and Mefrick, Bradford and Trowbridge
PARLIA3IENTART AGENT—Cadwallader F. Waddy, Esq.
SECRETARY—CharIet} Mardi', Esq.

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the north of England. . : •
From its proximity to the Continent, the port of Dover will always
be the most accessible point of the English coast ; an expeditious
communication therefore between•that Mid the other ports, harbours,
and inland towns of the United Kingdom, must necessarily be regarded .
as a great national advantage.
Dovertii„tit present the chief port of embarkation for Calais,
Boulogne, °Mend, and other continental towns, and the vast numbers
'already resorting there both on business and pleasure, will be im-
meamirablyslncieased when the railways -of France, Belgium, 1101-
IMI, and Germany are fully brought into operation.
In nlilition to which, the Government -Ciimmissioners having
selected Dover as a Harbour of Refuge, :and recommended the outlay
I thae,,.,l pt 1,500,0001., it cannot fall of becoming a place of the