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London, England, 1845-07-14 00:00:00

Gil AND UNION R A ILWAY.—Notice is
hereby given, that the SUBSCRIBERS' AGREEMENT and
• PARLIAMENTARY CONTRAC f will LIE for SIGNATURE at
the Offices of the Company, No. 78, Cornhill, ftom M ONDAY, 14th, to
SATURDAY, 19th instant, inclusive, between the hours of Ten and
Four o'clock. The Bankers' Receipts may be exchanged for Scrip
at the same time.
Further notice will be given of the several places to which the
Deeds will afterwards be forwarded for Signature
By order, ALFRED BEESTON, Secretary.
NORTHAMPTON, BANBURY, and CHEL-
TENHAM RAILWAY,
Connecting the Ports of BOSTON, LYNN, and YARMOUTH with
GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL, and opening a Communication be-
tween the EAST and WEST of ENGLAND.
Provisionally ltegistered.
Capital 1,000,000/., in Shams 0t,201. each.
Deposit U. 2s. per Share.
raowsioNAL COMMITTEE.
Raikes Currie, Esq., M.P. for Northampton
Anthony Kington Barker, Esq., Director of the Bristol and Birming-
ham Railway
George Tate, Esq., ditto
Edward H. Barwell, Esq., Mayor of Northampton, Provisional Direc-
tor of the South Midland Railway
George Buxton, Esq., ditto
Richard Davis, Esq., ditto
John Freeman, Esq., ditto
Thomas nagger, Esq., ditto
Edward Hall, Esq., ditto
Joseph Knight, Esq., ditto
John Lawrie, Esq., ditto
George Osborn, Esq., ditto
Thomas Sharp, Esq., ditto
Joseph Adnett, corn merchant, Northampton
W. P. Andrew, Esq., Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square
Benjamin Aplin, Esq., Ch tcombe Priory, Banbury
John Aris, Esq., Loys, Weedon
Thomas Atherton, timber merchant, Northampton
John Griffiths Beavan, Esq., Cheltenham
James Beech, Esq., Grosvenor-place, London, and Brandon Lodge,
Warwickshire
Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., Ashburn Hall
George Capron. Esq., Southwick Hall, Northamptonshire, and New
Burlington-street -- •
Samuel Carrington, Esq., Cheltenham
Rev. Francis Clerke, Rector of Eydon, near Banbury
Joseph Dowsou, Esq.' Lambeth, and Champion Hill, Dulwich
Thomas Drane, Esq. Pall-mall, and St. Mary's Church, Westhill
John Elliott, Esq., Queen's Norton
Benjamin Smart F,,wler, Esq., Alder House, Staffordshire
Major-General Greenstreet, Northampton
William Higgins, merchant, Northampton
Samuel Horsey, merchant, Northampton
Captain Hitching, Queen Anne-street, and AcUlcott-house, Shipston-
on-Stour
George Lawton, Esq., Provisional Director of the Manchester and
Birkenhead Continuation Railway
John Manning, Esq., Harpole, Northamptonshire
Rev. Francis Wykeham Martin, Vicar of Chacombe, near Banbury
S. Oxenham, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's-park
Francis Parker, manufacturer, Northampton
John Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-part
Samuel Perkins, Mircham, Towcester
William Porter, Esq., Alderman of Northampton •
John l'hipps, Esq., Northampton
W. Phillips Price, Esq., Tibberton-court, Gloucestershire
James Maurice Shipton, Esq , Widmer Hall, Tewkesbury
William Simpson, Esq., banker, Peterborough
Henry Spencer, Esq., Green's Park, Blakesley
Patrick Stewart, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's Park
W. Strong Esq., Northampton
H. L Stockburn, Esq., Magistrate of Northampton
D. Mowbray Walker, Esq., Magistrate, Gloucester
S. Walker, Esq., Alderman of Northampton
Rev. C. F. Watkins, vicar of Brixworth
W. Williams, Esq., Alderman of Northampteni
annaduke Wetherell, Esq., Northampton
Maier-General Martin White, Bath
Major White, Pall-mall, Frovlsional Director of Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine Railway
William Washbonrn, Esq , merchant, Gloucester
Major Young, Maidwell, Northamptonshire
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COMMITTER OF MANAGEMENT.
, Edw. Harrison Barwell, Esq. Joseph Knight, Esq.
Richard Davis, Esq. John Lawrie, Esq.
Joseph Dowson, Esq. John Parkinson, Esq.
John Freeman, Esq. Thomas Sharp, Esq.
Benj. Smart Fowler, Esq. George Tate, Esq.
Thomas Bagger, Esq. Major White
Edward Hall, Esq.
(With power to add to their number.)
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. N. Stevens and Fearon, 1, Gray's Inn-square, London
Thomas Brooke Bridges Stevens, Tamworth
Thomas Scriven, Northampton
BANaxEs—Messrs. Currie and Co., Cornhill.
PROSPECTUS.

The proposed line (which originally formed part of the scheme of
the South Midland Railway) will commence at or near the Blisworth
Station of the London and Birmingham line, at a point of junction
with the Northampton and Peterborough branch, and will proceed by
Towcester and Banbury to Moreton-iu-the-Marsh (where it will effect
a junction with the Moreton and Stratford-on-Avon, and als:r with
the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton lines), and whence it
will be continued to ( heltenham, where it will unite with the Bir-
mingham and Gir•ucester Railway, thereby (by a continuation of not
mere than fifty-six miles, and in connexion pith existing or projected
railways) co:meeting a grand line of communication from the German
Ocean to the Bristol Channel, and opening the most direct route irom
tko eastern and antral districts of the kingdom to the ports of Glou-
cester and Bristol, and to the whole of the western and south-western
districts, as well as to South Wales and the south of Ireland.
Reference to the map of England will at once suggest the impor-
tance of this project, which will connect the eastern and western
coasts at their nearest points of opposite approximation, and save a
most circuitous and dangerous coasting voyage of many days or even
weeks' duration. Indeed, so obvious are the advantages, and so vast
the anticipated traffic, that a project was formerly entertained of
for-ming a ship canal across the kingdom in the course now con-
templated.
This railway will connect, by the shortest route, the following im-
portant towns, viz.:—
Boston, Ely, Bedford
Lynn, Cambridge, and -
Yarmouth, Huntingdon, Northampton,
Norwich, Peterborough, with
Tenbuty, Evesham, Worcester, &c. ; and with

Cheltenham, Gloucesta, Bristol, Exeter, I"lymciuth,Weimouth, &c.,
also, with Hereford, Swansea, Milford Haven, Fisliguard, and the
whole of the south of Ireland ; and will also connect Coventry, War-
wick, and Stratford-on-Avon, with the whole of the before-mentioned
places, thereby in effect accommodating a population of several

liifs...obvious that with these advantages the. traffic must neces-
sarily at once be unusually large, and susceptible of great further
increase. A considerable quantity of- barley and other corn is an-
nually shipped from the port of Lynn to the west of England and
Gloucester, which would hereafter be transported by the present line,
affording great advantages to the farmer by enabling him to avail
himself promptly of the most favourable market, the importance of
which is noticed by the Board of Trade in one of their recent re-
ports. The manufactures of Norwich would also secure a new and
profitable outlet, both for bonne and foreign consumption, by the
ready communication afforded wills the west of England and Bristol.
Between Northampton and Banbury a large traffic already exists,
and amongst other great and obvious sources of profit and local
benefit, may be classed the opening of a new and extensive field for
the consumption of coal and iron, brotight frcm the Leicester and
Swannington Railway by the South Midland Railway, and the deve-
lopment of the resources of the Warwickshire district by the junction
effected with the Moreton-in-the-Marsh Railway, thus bringing the
Leicestershire and Staffordshire coal into competition in the. same
markets.
The line presents no engineering difficulties. The landholders
generally are considered favourable to the p-oject, and the promoters
have every reason to calculate upon a most highly remunerative re-
turn on the outlay-
One-third of the shares will be resen ed for the shareholders in the
South Midland Railway Company.
Applications for prospectuses and shares (in the annexed form)
may be made to the solicitors or local agents, and Messrs. Carden
and Whitehead, Threadneedle-stret, London ; James Pearson, Bir-
mingham; Messrs. Tate and Nash, Bristol; William Lee, Chelten-
ham ; Collinson and Flint, Hull ; J. Greaves, Liverpool ; James
Jameson, Leeds ; and Joseph Fernyheugh, St. Anne's-square, Man-
chester.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the 'Northampton,
Cheltenham Railway Company. Banbury, and
-
Gentlemen—l am desirous of subscribing for shares
in this undertaking, and h
s' I hereby agree to pay the deposit on so many
of such shares as may be allotted to me, and to sign the Parliamen-
tary contract and subscribers' agreemeLt when required.
I am, gentlemen, your most obedient servant,
Name in toll ." • • • •
Profession or trade:• .• • • " ***** " • ••
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ITALIAN and AL
COMP
DIRE(
William Jackson
Thomas Alexander, Esq.
William Bardgett, Esq.
William Betts, Esq.
W. T. Black, Esq.
Italph.Bonfll, Esq.

r STR lAN RAILWAY
.ANY.
:rrotts.
Esq., Chairman.
Joseph Hegan, Esq.
Robert W, Kennard, Zsq.
William Reed, Esq.
F. J. ValleeUer, Esq.

BANKER IN ENGLAND.
Itfesers. Denison, Heywood, Kennards, and Co. London.
Messrs. Arthur Heywood, gem, and Co., Liverpool.
HANKERS IN ITALY.
Messrs, Torlonia, and Co., Rome Messrs. Carlo di Tommaso, and
Ilz,zarui, and Co., Do- logna Co., Iktihnt
„ Dupre pere et file, Turin
'
Fenzi, and Co., Florence Almagia, Brothers, and
Daniele Barrette and Co. Ancona
ENGINEER—j. R. Brunel, Esq., F.R.S.
Soracrrort—William Bevan, Esq.
The Drectors have much pleasure in informing the Proprietors that
a coalition with Messrs, Torlenia and Co., of Borne, who have interest
with the Bank of Rome, and the Marchese di Pizzardi, of Bologna,
has been formed, and that other arrangements highly advantageous
to the Company have been made by the Chairman and Deputation
in Italy. _ _

_ .
I' is expected that Stock applicable to the Papal and other States
in Italy will shortly have to be created, a rateable proportion of
which will be given to each Proprietor of the Italian and Austrian
Railway Company, who shall pay, on or before the 21st July next, to
the credit Of the Company, with their respective Bankers, a gather
instalment of 2/. per share en the stock held by them in that Com-
pany ; such call is necessary to meet the demand for the deposit of
caution-money, which will be required by the respective Govern-
ments. Parties not
paying such call will be excluded from all ad-
vantages arising from the cr ation of new stock.
The Directors have further to announce that the direction for the
management of the Railways formed
,in the Papal States will con-
sist of

PRINCE ALEXANDER TORLONIA, as Chairman,
with four others appointed by the Italian interest, and six to be ap-
pointed by the Italian and. Austrian ComPanY. Two-thirds of the
stock will be divided among the Proprietors of the Italian and Aus-
trian Company, and the remainingank of Rome one-third to Messrs. Torlonia
and Co., who will suppl B
y the , and Mes..rs. Pizzardi
and Co., of Bologna, and other influential parties in Italy. i
By order of the Board, G. D. LAURENCE, Secretary.
112, Bishopsgate-street, London, July, 1845.

THE ITALIAN and AUSTRIAN RAILWAY
COMPANY.
The Directors have the satisfaction to inform the Proprietors that
Duke of Tuscany, have succeeled
in i to twent
npreference obtaining front His Royal Highness the grand
-two n
competitors, a grant
flat sixty years, of a railway from ..,?riesnf.e to Peatoja, on terms highly
y.
advantageous to the Company presents Presents no engineering
difficulty, and passes through a district densely populated, and rich in
mineral and agricultural productions, and will be connected with the
railway already in operation between Leghorn and Pisa, by means of
equal to about 265,000/. steriine, one-
the line now forming from Piss to Florence. The capital will consist
subscribed for in Tuscany, and the
of 8,000,000 of Tuscan livres,
third of which has been already
. which will be Directors have have secured the remaining two-thirds
tributed, so soon as the necessary documents have been perfected in
Italy, to such holders of the Italian and Austrian Railway Company's
shares as shall have complied with the: termsof ..
, payable on the 21st July
the advertisement,
by which a call was made of 2/. per .htahre
Government grants for the
instant. Under the original prose a Directors were authorised
to take every necessary step to obtainnto
g to construct lines of
railway from Verona to Ancona, and coalesce or make beneficial
arrangements with any companies proposin
railway in connexion with the Italian and Austrian Railway Com-
pany or its branches, and the deputation who proceeded to Italy
having found that they could, with great ad.. antage to the Share-
holders, ei ter upon other railway undertakings in the Italian and
Austrian States, besides the line between Ancona and Verona, deter-
mined upon doing so, and upon giving to
of joining these undertakings. The Directors, therefore, tendered for
the valuable grant they have now obtained for the railway from
Florence to Pestoja, and also have entered upon several other nego-
tiations, which, through the aid of the wealthy and influential
parties with whom they are connected at Rome, 13010_ _
aim, and other
places in Italy, they feel confident will be brought to a successtbi ter-
mination. The benefits resulting from these negotiations will, as
they arise, be rateably apportioned to those Proprietors who shall
such calls as ghat] he made from time to time
pay .by the Directors
for carrying out fully the objects in contemplation.
By ardor of the Board,
G. 11. H. LAURENCE Re tas7
40. --• . !. . °r° •
112, Diehopsgate-litreet, July 3, 18 •