The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-18 00:00:00

MORNING ocTeBER 18,_1845.

Henry Gerard Ohrly, Esq., Director of the Trent Valley Continuation
and Holyhead Junction, and West Midland and South Midland and
Oxford Extension Railways
John Ostler, Esq., Director of the Hall and Barnsley, and Leeds and
Carlisle Railways
Robert Oxley, Esq., M.D., Pontefract
George Osgood, Esq., Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn
Charles Frederick 'Palgrave, Esq., Bedtbrd •
Bennett Pell, Esq., 12, Finsbury-place North
W. Perfect, i'sq., Monkhiil, near Pontefract
John Phillips, Esq., Mayor of Pontefract
George Parbury, Esq., Mansfield-house, Russell-square
William Patterson, Esq., Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire
Robert Power, Esq., Director of the Great Britain Life Assurance
Society
Thomas Ingham Raynor, Esq., Birstal, Leeds, Director of the Leeds
and West Riding Junction, and the Liverpool and Leeds Duvet
Railways
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Birming-
ham Direct, Leicester, Iron and Dove Valley Railways
Edward Rawlins, Esq., Bedford
Robert Richards, Esq., Director of the West Midland Railway
John Reginald Riddell, Esq., Byeunah-house, Enfield, Managing
Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
James Robson, Esq., Tansheif, Magistrate for the Borough of Pon-
tefract
Frederick Redden, Esq., Itedford
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Director of the Exeter, Dorchester,
and Weymoath Junction, the "i ring, Reading, and Basingstoke,
and the Direct Western Railway
George Robinson, Esq., Hull, Director of the Hull and Barnsley
!unction, and of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Railways
John Richardson, Esq., Director of the Wakefield and Harrogate,
the East and West Yorkshire, and the Midland and Thirsk Junc-
tion Railways
Thomas Routlidge, Esq., Alderman, Pontefract
James Russell, Esq., Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Director of
the Great Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton, of the Tring,
Reading, and Basingstoke Railways
Edward Sankey, Esq., Canterbury
Henry Savage, Esq., Director of the Irving, Reading, and Basing-
stoke Railway
Benjamin Shaw, Esq., Kilburn Priory, Director of the Churnet
and Blythe Valleys Railways
J. E. Sichel, Esq., Director of the Leeds field Liverpool Direct, and
of the Leeds, York, and Midland Railways
William Sloane, Esq., Wimpole-strect, Caeendish-square, Director
of the South Midland Junction Railway, &c. &c.
George Walker Smith, Esq., Horbury-hall, Sheffield, Director of
the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Smith, Esq., M.D., 30, North-street, Leeds,Director of the
Leeds and York, and Liverpool and Leeds Railways
Joseph Smithson, Esq., Kirkless Mills, near Halifax
John Sanders, Esq., Bedford
J. W. Scriven, Esq., Throstlenest, near Otley, Director of the
Leeds, York, and Midland Junction Railway
Richard Shaw, Esq., Tulledge, near Burnley, Director of the Leigh-
ley, Halifax, and Huddersfield Junction Railway
James Henry Simpson, Esq., M. 8., Pontefract
Joshua Annable Skidmore, Esq. St. John's-place, Wakefield
William Starkey, Esq., Wakefield, Director of the Sheffield, Wort-
ley, Silkstone, and Wakefield, and the Leeds and York Rail Ways
William Stewart, Esq., Horbury, near Wakefield
George Eaton Stanger, Esq., Nottingham
Samuel Herrick Surplice, Esq., Beeston, Notts
John Streets, Esq., merchant, Spring Field-house, Sandiacre, Derby-
shire
William Surplice, Esq., 2.; ttinghara
Samuel James Sykes, Esq., Hull
James Templer, Esq., Brixton-rise, Director of the Derby, tittoxeter,
and Stafford Railway
Thomas .3. Trapp, Esq., banker, Bedford
John Best Trapp, Esq., Redford
Samuel Tudor, Esq., tipper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull, Di-
rector of the Derby and Stafford Railway
Thomas Turney, Esq., Park-lodge, near Halifax
William Tudor, Esq., Upper Thames-street and Gorbals, Hull
Joseph Francis Tempest, Esq., F.S.A., the Mount, Ackworth
Charles Vickers, Esq., Pontefract, Director of the Manchester, Hud-
dersfield, and Great Grimsby Railway
Wm. Watson,Esq Daybrook, Nottinghamshire, Director of Amber-
gate, Nottingham and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
Samuel Warburton, Esq., Hunsiet, Leeds, Director of the Wakefield
and Harrogate Railway
The Rev. Richard Whitelock, 31. A., Saddleworth, Magistrate for
Cite West Riding of Yorkshire
Joseph Whitaker, Esq., Ramsdale, Nottinghamshire
William White, Esq., Bedford
John Williams, Esq., 31. D., Magistrate for Yorkshire, Director of
the York, Hull, and East and West Riding Junction Railway
Abraham Wood, Esq., Rochdale, F.R.C.S.
Joseph Wyles, Esq. Grantham, Director of the Amber-gate, Not-
tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway
David Wheatcroft, Esq., Buckland-hollow, Derbyshire, Director of
tke Rugby, Derby, and Manchester, and Direct Birmingham and
Leicester Railways
William Williams, Esq.' Royal Foundry, Bedford
Charles Waite, Esq., 3, Old Burlington-street, and Willesdon-horse,
Middlesex
John Wheelton. Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, and
Director of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railway
Thomas Willett, Esq., Bradford
The Rev. H. Burdett Worthington, Bedford
G. N. Wright, M.A., Coed y Celya, Denbighshire, and L ns laic-
square. London, Director of the Thames Valley Railway
George Yates, Esq., merchant, Halifax
George Witt, Esq., F.R.s., Director of the Bedford, London, and
Birmingham Railway, and Aldermand of Bedford
George Gillett, Esq., 2, Grsovenor-gate, Hyde-park
(With power to aid to their number).
ENGINEER-ix-Cuiee—Sir John Mame% LL.D., and F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam Mullingar Higgins, Esq., C.E.
LONDON SOLICITORS.
J. R. Gibson, Esq., 9, Copthall-court.
Owen Gray, Esq. 1 25, Great Tower-street.
J. B. Midge, Esq.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Leeds—Charles Naylor, Esq., and
Pontefract—Henry John Coleman, Esq.
Rotherham—John Oxley, Esq., and John Wright Potter, Esq.
East Retford--Messrs. Mee, Bigsby, and Mee.
Nottingham—Messrs. Fox and Butlin.
Oakharn—henry Hough, Esq.
Kettering—Thomas Marshall, Esq.
Bedtbrd—Ezra Eagles, Esq.
SECRETARY ----J. B. Owens, Esq.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT —J. M. Widdicombe, ESQ.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co.
Leeds—Messrs. Beckett and Company
Pont steer i The Yorkshire Banking Company,
act
The object of tills railway is to connect, in the most direct course,
he important and increasing manufacturing town of Leeds with the
netropolis, the want of whica has long been felt, and is too univer-
sally acknowledged to need any comment, and it is under this con-
viction that this important undertaking, a.ter several minute exa-
minations of the country through which it will pass, has been brought

forward.
The proposed line will commence at the junction of the Manchester
and Leods, and York and North Midland Railways, near Wakefield,
and will terminate by means of a junction with the Eastern Coun-
ties Railway, at Bedford (to which place it is the intention of that
Company to extend their line in the ensuing session of Parliament),
and by thus availing itself as far as possible of the existing railways,
will complete the most direct and least expensive trunk line, from
London to Leeds, York, and Hull. It will pass in its route within an
available distance of Wakefield, Pontefl•act, Doncaster, Rotherham,
East Redford, Nottingham, Newark, Grantham, Mellen Mowbray,
Oakham, and Stamford.
The importance of such a line is obvious, both from the nature of
its course (embracing, as it does, a most extensive population within
its limits), as also from the absence of any direct communication
for the conveyance of passengers and merchandise.
By the construction of this railway, railway communication to
London will be given to Peterborough and Leicester (by 'means of
the Syston and Peterborough Railway), to Newark and Nottingham,
(by the Nottingham and Lincoln line(, and to Sheffield and Gains-
borough, )by the Sheffield and Gainsborough line), by a much shorter
route than by ally existing railways.
Independently of the advantages offered to the towns in the seve-
ral counties through which this line will pass, the line in itself, con-
sidered as a direct trunk line between London and Leeds, is sufficient
to justify its formation, it being well known that the existing traffic
between these two places would produce such a return on the capital
required, as to admit of a dividend equal to that of any railway in
operation ; but when it is borne in mind that a company is being
formed for the purpose •of connecting Glasgow with ;.Leeds by
means of a junction with the York and Carlisle Railway, no better
line can be presented to the public, as it will not only effect a direct
communication from Glasgow and the western parts of Scotland to
London, but would also connect Edinburgh and the eastern parts of
Scotland, as well as Durham and Newcastle (by the York and North
Midland, and Great North of England Railwa, s) with the metropo-
lis, which would be considerably shorter than the accommodation
offered by any other company ; and when cost of construction is con-
sidered, there cannot be a doubt but that preference would be given
to the Great Leeds and London Direct Railway.
The fact of the Eastern Counties Railway being connected by a
branch line with the East and West India Docks on the river
Thames, and the Railway Company having recently leased for 999
years the extensive pepper warehouses belonging to those docks,
which are capable of receiving 12,000 tons of goods, together
with
wharfs adjoining, where the shipment and trans-shipment of goods
from all parts of the world can take place, is a most important fea-
ture in favour of the direct communication from the manufacturing
towns of Glasgow and Leeds offered by the Great Leeds and London
Direct Railway and, by branch railways to the main trunk line,
through which all goods from the manufacturing districts could be
conveyed at once to these warehouses for shipment, thereby
avoiding
the present delay and expense of cartage, and in reality establishing
an almost direct and invaluable connexion between the rivers Clyde
and Thames.
It has been ascertained that there are no engineering difficulties,
that the w ,rks will be easy, and the gradients remarkably good, and
that it will not materially interfere with any ornamental property.
The subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of the it first
deposits, until an Aat of Par Lament is obtained, and afterwards only
to the amount of their subscriptions.
It is proposed to take power in the Bill to allow interest at 4 per
cent. per annum on all calls until the opening of the line, and also
to extend the line to Hertford on the Eastern Counties line, in the
event of that Company not prosecuting their line to Bedford.
BROKERS.
London—Messrs. Marten and Heseltine, 9, Finch-lane
Leeds—Messrs. Hopps and Co.
Liverpool—Messrs. Joseph King and Son
Hull—Messrs. Flint and Tootal
Manchest&—Messrs. Cardwell and Sons
Bradford—Mr. Josiah Scholeffeld
Edinburgh—Mr. Charles Couper, 30, St. Andrew's-square.

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G
REAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIRECT
RAILWAY.
The Managing Committee a this Railway hereby give notice that
they are now proceeding In the Allotment of the Shares in the above
undertaking, and that all the Letters of Allotment will be issued in
the ensuing week.

J. B. OWEN, Secretary,

Temporary Offices, Adelaide•place,
London-bridge.

•
GREAT LEEDS AND LONDON DIfiECT
RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management of this Direct Railway brg to ex-
press regret at the delay in issuing their Letters of Allotment, which
has been solely occasioned through the unprecedontod number of
applications for shares to which they hare been required to give
consideration, and which has thrown upon them some very exten-
sive labours, from which, however, they are happy to say they will
shortly be relieved, as the Letters ofAllotment are now in the course
of preparation, and will all be sent to their different destinations by
the evening post of to-morrow. The Committee also much regret
their inability to make allotments to a very numerous amount of
applicants of unexceptionable repute; but they have, in every in-
stance, endeavoured to arrive at their decisions in a manner hest cal-
culated to promote alike the interests of the public and the various
shareholders and promoters of this very important project.
J. R. OWEN, Secretary.
Temporary Offices, Adelaide-place, London-bridge,
16th October, 1845.

THE LEICESTER, MELTON MOWBRAY,
and SPALDING JUNCTION RAILWAY, giving, with other
formed and projected lines, the nearest route from Birmingham
Coventry, and Leicester to the Eastern Coast, and a communication
from Birmingham, via Nuneaton, Leicester, and Melton Mowbray,
to Spalding.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices, 4, Trafalgar-square, Charing-cross.
Capital 500,000/., in 25,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share.
ACTING COMMITTEE.
Wynn Ellis, Esq. M.P. for Leicester, director of the Brandon and
Spalding Railway
Francis Valentine Lee, Esq. director of the Eastern Counties Railway
Ambrose Moore, Esq. Milk-street, Cheapside
John D. Cooper, jun. Esq. Holme-cottage, Ashbourne, Derbyshire
director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester Railway
Josiah Wilson, Esq. Stamford-hill
John Smith Mansfield, Esq. 3, Essex-court, Temple
George Meek, Esq. 29,
Russell-square, .director of the Nottingham,
Birmingham, and Coventry Railway
Captain Gustavus Evans. R.N. Headley-grove, Surrey, director of the
Nottingham, Birmingham, and Coventry Railway
Thomas Wakefield, Esq. Nottingham, director of the Brandon and
Spalding Railway.
CONSULTING ENGINEER--ChallCB Fox, Esq.
ENGINEER--John Hughes, Esq.
BANKERS.

The London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street
Messrs. Pagets and Kirby, Leicester
Pare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Melton-Mowbray
The Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Company, spahling
Messrs. Evans and Co., Derby
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Lacy and Bridges, 19, King's Arms_
Yard, Cole-
man-street ; Abraham Bass, Esq. Burton-upon-Trent.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS-31eSSrS. Dyson, Hall, Parkes, and Coates,.
Parliament-street.
SEC LTARY—R'illiam Itanyard, Esq.
The first of this line is to connect the town of Birmingham,
Coventry, and Leicester, with the eastern coast by the nearest route,
and to supply an important link of communication between the town
of Spalding and the eastern coast with the Western and Midland
districts.
Commencing at the Spalding station of the Norwich, Dereham,
Lynn, and Holbeach Railways, the line will proceed by Bourn,
Witham, Castle Bytham, South Wytham, and Wyrnondham, to a
point on the Syston and Peterborough line of railway near Melton-
Mowbray, thus forming, by the Syston and Peterborough and Mid-
land Counties Railway, an almost direct route to Leicester, and
thence to Coventry and Birmingham by the proposed Coventry,
Nuneaton, Leicester, aml Birmingham Railway.
The Irojeeted lira will form the most direct commmileation
tv.-eca the caftan and midland districts of the kingdom, and will, by
means of the proposed lines across the county of Leicester, via Bur-
ton-upon-Trent, to Stafford, bring the markets of Lincoln, Norfolk,
Shropshire, and North Wales, nearer to each other by many miles
than any other line of railway-
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across the kingdom, from Yarmouth, via Norwich, on the east, to
Aberystwith, via Newton and Shrewsbury, on the west.
The entire length will not exceed thirty miles. There is no tunnel-
ling, cutting, or embanking of any importance necessary; the line
from Bourn to Spalding, a distance of about twelve miles, is very
level, and may be constructed at a small cost.
It will secure the advantages of railway communication to a tract
of country at present destitute of this accommodation, besides open-
ing out sources of trade undeveloped for want of the means of transit.
The central midland districts have felt greatly ' the want of direct
communication with the coast ; and this line will at once supply the
deficiency to the greater part of Staffordshire and Leicestershire.
It will afford a transit for the Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Lei-
cestershire coal into districts heretofore entirely dependent upon
supply from the north at high prices : it will also secure the advan-
tagcs of an unlimited supply of lime from the Leicestershire works,
to the agricultural districts of Lincoln, which are at present only
supplied at very high rates; and, in return traffic, the midland dis-
tricts will obtain the advantage of a direct transit fur the stock and
agricultural produce of Lincolnshire and Norfolk.

Several proposed lines of railway converge at Spalding, which is
the nearest point on the eastern coast for the midland counties, and
connected by the River Welland with the German Ocean.
The proposed capital will be sufficient for the construction of the
necessary works and every subsequent expense ; and the income
derivable from the traffic in passengers between Birmingham, Co-
ventry Leicester. Derby, Melton, Spalding, and Boston, the trans-
port
districts through which the line passes to the principal consuming
districts, and of coals, lime, and staple commodities for the inland
districts, will be sufficiently ample to warrant the outlay.
The Parliamentary surveys have been commenced, and are now
in active progress, and contracts have been entered into which en-
sure sufficient time for compliance with the standing orders.
A Provisional Committee of gentlemen in now in 'course of for-
mation, and will be published, with the prospectuses and plan, on
Monday next. In the meantime, application for shares, in the sub-
joined form may be addressed to the Secretary, at the offices of the
Company, 4, Trafalgar-square, Charing Cross.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Leicester, Melton Mowbray,

and Spalding Junction Railway.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201,
each in the above railway; and I undertake to accept the same, or
such less number as you may appropriate to me subjtct to the re-
gulations of the Company, and to sign the necessary deeds, and to
pay when required the deposit of 21. 2s. per share.
Dated this day of , 1845.
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GREAT WESTEAg,—BRENT id FORD, and
CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY, from
the vicinity of West Drayton, through Hounslow, Brentford, Ham-
mersmith, Kensington, Chelsea, and Westminster, to a Central
Terminus, near Charing-Cross.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices, 53, Charing-cross.
Capital, 850,C00L, in 42,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Earl of Devon
Vernon Abbott, Esq., 70, Gower-street
Philip Anstruther, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment
Railway Junction Company
Benjamin John Armstrong, Esq., Southall, Magistrate for Middlesex
John Auld.lo, Esq., Noel House, Kensington
Henry Pratt Barlow, Esq., 24, Kensington-square
Edward Oliver Benson, Esq., Hounslow
William Sprott Boyd, Esq., Director of the Thames Embankment
Railway Junction Company
Thomas Braman, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Leicester and Tarn-
worth Railway
Sir John Macpherson Brackenbury
Sir Archer Denman Croft, Bart., Director of the Thames Embank-
ment Railway Junction Company
Major John T. Crof; Deputy Chairman of the Chester and Manches-
ter Railway
John Chevalier Cobbold,:Esq., Chairman of the Eastern -Union Rail
way
William Cumming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park
George Cooper, Esq., Brentford
George James Stredwick Camden, Esq., Hounslow
Charles Downes, Esq., Director of the South Midland Railway
J. Fisher, Esq., Isleworth
Major David Fitzgerald, Valentia, county of Kerry
Captain Forbes, R.N., Forest, Windsor
Sir Andrew Pellatt Green, R.N., K.C.H.
James Montgomery, Esq., Brentford
John Bowyer Nichols, Esq., Hammersmith
The Hon. Colonel Phipps, Norwood-green
William Simpson Potter, Esq., Director of the South and Midland
Railway
Henry Pownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow, Magistrate for
`Middlesex
John F. Pownall, Esq., Spring-grove, Hounslow
Colonel Reid (2d Life Guards), Buistrode Park
Thomas Berry Rowe, Esq., Brentford
John Coysgarne Sim, Esq., No. 9, Clifton-place, Hyde Park-gardens
Major Jelf Sharp, Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Middlesex,
Denuty-Chairman of the Thames Embankment Railway Junction
Company
Henry Webb Smith, Esq. Hounslow
William Spooner, Esq., Director of the Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Railway
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Chairman of the Irish North Midland
Railway
John Stewart, Esq., M.P.
Frederics Thompson, Esq., 20, Kensington-square
Robert Richard Tighe, Esq., Bank, Windsor
Henry Tuffuell, Esq., M.P.
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER—Thomas Page, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Wilkinson and Cobbold, 7, Lincoln's Inn-fields
William Sian, Esq., 8, King's Bench-walk, Temple.
BANKERS.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS.

Messrs. Hugh Lines C;:ineron 5..1;; Gorge /3—al;: IS, Parliament-street.

SECRETART—Henry llioreing:Esq

Applications for shares, in the subjoined form, may be made,
addressed to the Provisional Committee, at the Offices of the Com-
pany, 53, Charing-cross, to the Solicitors and Parliamentary Agents,
and to the following agents and aharebrokers :—Messrs. Carden and
Whitehead, 61%, Threadneedle-street ; Mr. H. J. Williams, 80, Old
Broad-street, London ; Messrs. Bradley and Co., Manchester ; Mr. IS.
R. Pemberton, and Messrs. H. Davis and Co., Liverpool ; Mr. Luke
Arnold, Bristol; Messrs. Chantrell and Boyes, Leeds ;Messrs. Wil-
kinson and Earle, Hull ; Messrs. Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow,
and Messrs. Graystou and Earle, York, of whom prospectuses may
ha obtained.

No applications for Shares in this Company will be received which
do not contain a reference to one of the Provisional Committee, the
Sharebrokers, Officers of the Company, or a Banker.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Directors of the Great Western, Brentford, an
Cedtral Terminus Junction Railway.
_

Gentlemen,-1 request you will allot me

shares of 20/. each

in the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same,
or any lesaer number that may be allotted to me, to pay the deposit of
21. 2s. per share thereon, and to sign the Subscribers' Agreement and
Parliamentary Contract when required.
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THE GREAT WESTERN, BRENTFORD,
and CENTRAL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY

COMPANY.

SEIREWSBURYNAIONNDu TRENT VALLEY
UCompany's Offices, 68, George•street,
Manchester, October 3d, 1845.
The Committee of Management of the Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union Railway Company having this day unanimously re-
solved, that it is expedient that this undertaking should be combined
with the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company, and that
for thid purpose the Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union Railway
Company should be dissolved and its affairs wound up;—
Notice is hereby given, that scrip holders must forward their scrip
to these offices on or before the 31st October instant, and signify in
the annexed form, their election either to receive back their deposit,
which, in that event, will be returned to them without deduction for
past expenses, nr to take in exchange for the scrip of the Shrews-
bury and Trent Valley Union Company, a corresponding number of
Shares in the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company.
Parties who shall so elect may receive back their deposits forthwith
on depositing their scrip.
Parties who elect to take shares in the Shropshire Union Railway
and Canal Company, may, in like manner, on depositing their scrip,
obtain a letter of allotment for a coresponding number of shares in
the new Company, which allotment will be forwarded to original
allottees immediately after the scrip shall have been deposited, and
in other cases so coon as the Directors shall be satisfied of the miff- clency of the depositors.
Parties who shall fail to send in their scrip and notify their wishes ,
en or before the 31st October, will be considered as having elected
to receive back their deposits.
The Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement of the
New Company, together with a Deed of Release, will lie for signa-
ture on and after Monday, the 13th October instant;—in Menthes-
ter, at No. 58, George-street, and in London, at a place to be here-
after named ; and the scrip of the New Company will be issuable
immediately after the deeds shall have been executed.
HENRY TOOTAL, Deputy Chairman,
R. FOSS, Secretary.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the e Provisional Committee of the Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Unioa Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—Herewith are Scrip for shares in the
Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union Railway, in respect of which I
request you* to cause to be allotted to me a corresponding number of
shares in the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company, and I
agree to pay such deposit, and execute such deeds and agreements •
as may be required iu respect of such new allotment

Name in full ....................
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This form must be filled up in the handwriting of the applicant.
* Parties declining to take shares in the new Company, can substi•
kite the following for the remainder of the form of applleation—" To
return me the amount of the deposit thereon."

ALISBURY AND SWINDON EXTEN-
L., SION of the WILTS, SOMERSET, and SOUTHAMPTON
JUNCTION RAIDWAY.

On the Broad Gauges from Salisbury, by Amesbury, the Vale
of Avon, and Marlborough, to Swindon, forming a direct Line of
Railway through Cheltenham and Gloucester to Birmingham, Man-
chester, anti Liverpool. _

(Provisionallyßegistered.)
Capital 700,0001., in 28,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
LOCAL COMMITTEE.
The Hon. and Rev. Canon Bouverie Pewsey
Ambrose Goddard, Esq. the Lawn, Swindon
John Browne, Esq. Chiseldon, Swindon
Rev. Edward Duke, Lake-house, near Swindon
Joseph Purnell, Esq. Amesbury
Charles Dew, Esq. Salisbury
Robert Squarey, Esq. magistrate, Salisbury
George Bracher, Esq. Salisbury
Newell Vieary Squarey, Esq. Salisbury
William Blackmore, Esq. town conucillor of Salisbury
Colonel Stone, Bath, and Chisledon, near Swindon
John Stone, Esq. Bath, and Chisledon, near Swindon
John Harding Sheppard, Esq. Swindon
William Fawcett, Esq. Salisbury.

COMMITTEE OF
John Bagshaw, Esq. Chairman,.,

London
William Bradley, Esq. Deputy.
Chairman, Sheffield
William Bardgett, Esq. London
George Huiit, Esq. banker, South.

MANAGEMENT.
William John IWGwire, Esq.
Hampton-court, London
Richard Harris Purcell, Esq. Lou-
don
George Rougemont, Esq. London
J. Stewart, Esq. M.P. London
Edwin Cadman, Esq. Westbourne-

ampton:
William James Le Feuvre, Esq.
Alderman and Magistrate,,
Southampton
Edward Lomer, Esq. merchant,
Southampton

house, Sheffield
=Hs Coventry, Esq, Lombard.
I street, London.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Rebarts, Curtis, and Co. London
The Hampshire Bank, Southampton
Wilts and Dorset Banking Company.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
James Coppock, Esq. 3, Cleveland-row, St. James's
John Bell, Esq. Craven-street, London
W. H. Moberley, Esq. Southampton.
AcTitta Etroutszas—Messrs. Birch, Cannon-row, London.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
C. W. Squarey, Esq. Salisbury
John Pyke, Esq. Marlborough
Messrs. Crowdy, Swindon.
The Allotment of Shares is being proceeded with, but owing to the
immense quantity ofapplications, and the determination of theDlrec-
tors to allot to none but eligible and responsible persons, the Letters
cannot be posted for a few days.
The SURVEYS are NEARLY COMPLETED, and the Directors
are gratified in being able to state that they are now fully in a posi-
tion to PROCEED to PARLIAMENT In the ENSUING SESSION.
H. B. SHERIDAN, Secretary.

26, Greshath-street, 0ct.15.

PROSPECTUS OF THE

t OSTON, GRANTHAM LEICESTER, and
.2.11DL AND COUNTIES JUNCTION RAILWAY

COMPANY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices-5, Guildhall Chambers, Basinghall-street.
Capital, 800,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Wm. Corbett Smith, Esq., Bitteswell-hall, High Sheriff of Leices-
tershire
John Summerscales, Esq., Sheriff of Lincoln
Sir Wm. Wynn, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Chairman of the North
Wales Railway
Sir George Rich, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, Director of the
Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway
Major-Gen. Sir Love Parry, Madryn, Carnarvonshire, Director of
the North Wales Railway
Hon. J. C. Westenra, M.P., Sharavogue, Roscrea
Honourable Captain Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street,
London, Chairman of the York and Lancaster Railway
Rear-Ad:nirai Ayscough, Southampton, Director of the Manchester
and Southampton Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Elrington, Scotch Fusilier Guards, 12, Wynd-
ham-place, Director of the Leeds and Liverpool Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Fitch, 36, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
of the South and Midland Railway
Adamthwaite, John, Esq., Galati% Teen, Staffordshire
Allen, George Charles, Esq., East Shilton, Leicestershire, Director of
the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway
Atkinson, J. 8., Esq., Elmwood House, Leeds, Director of the Lei-
cester and Bedford Railway
Bell, Robert, Esq., Manor House, Chiswick, Director of the Direct
East and West Junction Railway
Bland, William, Esq., 11, Park-terrace, Brixton-road, Director of
the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire, and
the North Wales Railways
Betts, William, Esq„ Bevels Mount, Southampton
Browns, Joseph, Esq., Bedford, Director of the East- and West of
England Junction Railway
Bard, John, Esq., Alderman, Manchester
Caldecott, William Lloyd, Esq., Laura-place, Bath
Carver, Edward Turst, Esq., Forest-lodge, Tulse-hill, Director of the
North Wales, and the Namur and Liege Railways
Cooke, T. F., Esq., Leicester
Collett, Benjamin, Esq., Manor House, Bromsgrove
Croft, Major J. T., Regent-street, Piccadilly, Deputy-Chairman of
the Chester and Manchester Railway
Cumberlege, Nathaniel, Esq., Director of the Direct East and West
Junction Railway
Dalby, John, Esq., Ashbourne, Director of the Leeds, Huddersfield,
Sheffield, and South Staffordshire Railway
Eales, William, Esq., Mincing-lane, London, Director of the Direct
Western, and Leeds and Carlisle allways
Gernou, J., Esq., 12, Conduit-street, Hanover-square, Vice-Chairman
of the Galway and Ennis Railway
Gillham, Joseph, Esq, Hargreaves Nouse, Oldham, Director of the
Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction Railway
Groves, Captain Twisleton, Director of the Leicester, Teen and
Dove Valley Railway
Hazelrigg, Grey, Esq., Carlton-hall, Leicester
Heneage, Charles, Esq., Cadeby-house, Lincolnshire
Holmes, Isaac, Esq., Liverpool
Hungerford, 11. H., Esq., Dingley-park, Market Harborough
Kebbel, W. H., Esq., Glbe-house, Kilby, Leicester
Knight, Joseph, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Midland Counties,
Leicester, and Bedford Railways
Lambert, Richard, Esq., Lyston-hall, Sudbury, Director of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and rorcestershire Junction Railway
Laurie, George, Esq., Manchester
Macmoran, A. M., Esq., 58, Cambridge-street, Hyde-park, Director
of the Direct East and West Junction Railway
Mann, A., Esq., Denver-hall, Norfolk, Director of the Liverpool,
Manchester, and Newcastle Junction Railway
Maunder, Joseph, Esq., Liverpool, Director of the Rugby and Man-
chester Direct Railway
Meteyard, Horace Wm., Esq., 8.C.L., London, Director of Reming-
ton's London and Manchester Railway
Miller, Thomas, jun., Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Bir-
mingham and Leicester Railway
Mosse, R., Esq., Princes-street, Great George-street
Parker, Francis, Esq., Northampton, Director of the South Midland
Railway
Parkinson, John, Esq., Cambridge-terrace, Regent's-park, Director
of the South Midland Railway
Payne, Benjamin, Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Birming-
ham and Leicester Railway
Ramsey, J., Esq., Bushey House, Herts
Raworth, J., Esq., Leicester, Director of the Direct Birmingham

and Leicester Railway
Sbaw, Joseph, Esq., York-place, Huddersfield, Director of the East
and West of England Junction Railway
Shaw, George, Esq., M.D., Leicester
spiers, B. 1., Esq. ;Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Worcestershire Junction Railway
Stone, Nathaniel C., Esq., Rawley-fields, near Leicester, Director of
the Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway
Sagar, Bartley, Esq., Ball's Grove, Colne, Director of the Leeds
and Carlisle, and the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railways
Threlfall, Edward, Esq., Regent Road Mills, Manchester, Director of
the Eastern Counties Junction and Southend Railway
Tebbutt, Thomas, Esq., Rusholm, Manchester, Director of the
Rugby and Manchester, and Leeds and Carlisle Railways
Williams, B. 8., Esq., 70, Portland-place, Director of the Leeds
and Liverpool, Leicester and Tamworth Railways.
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COMMITTEE OF
Sir George Wm. Prescott
Sir George Rich
Sir William Wynn
Lieut.-Colonel Elrington
Lieut.-Colonel Fitch
E. T. Carver, Esq.
B. Collett, Esq.
Major Croft
Nathaniel Cumberlege, Esq.
J. Dalby, Esq.
Charles Heneage, Esq.
Joseph Knight, Esq.

MANAGEMENT.
Richard Lambert, Esq.
A. M. Macmoran, Esq.
Horace Wm. Meteyard, Esq.
R. Mosse, Esq.
John Parkinson, Esq.
% Parsons, Esq.
I. Ramsay, Esq.
J. Raworth, Esq.
Major Waller
Thos. Mortimer Cleobury, Esq.
Robert Bell, Esq.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding, and Co., Clement's-lane, London
Messrs. Garlit, Claport, and Co., Boston
Messrs. Kewney and King, Grantham
Pare's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester and Melton
Mowbray.

ENGINEER—C. Nixon, Esq.
SOLICITOR—J. A. J. Macgregor, Esq., 26, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall,
London.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Manners and Son, Grantham, and
Messrs. Millington and Kenrick, Boston.
SECRETART—George Farrer, Esq.

The object of this line of railway is to connect, by a direct route,
the Important town and seaport of Boston with the centre of Eng-
land, by way of Grantham and Melton Mowbray, where it will join
the Syston and Peterborough branch of the Midland Counties Railway.
It is unnecessary to enlarge upon the advantages which will arise
from this railway, which passes through one of the richest and
most fertile parts of England. The population is dense, and a
glance at the snap will show that this line is well laid out, not
only for the direct traffic from Leicester and the intermediate
places to Boston, but also for the general traffic which will be
brought to this line by the several railways which will be connected
with it.

By this railway, which will be about forty-four miles in length,
and laid through a country nearly level, it is intended to pass by or
near Swineshead, Donington, Folkingham, Grantham, Stoke, Rock-
ford, and Melton Mowbray. It is evident that this line will be of
great convenience and utility, by affording to a part of the country
at present deprived of it the advantage of railway communication
with the counties of Rutlandshlre, Leicestershire,
Northampton-
shire, Warwickshire, &c., and thus connecting the aericultura
districts of Lincolnshire with the manufacturing parts of England,.
affording to the latter an easy and accessible means of export tor
their manufactures.
'and Counties Ha-
In the allotment of shares, holders in the Mid,
landed interests along the line, whose concurrencemo
way will receive a preference, and reservation will
most of the influential
fully relied on by the promoters, by assistance
the
be received except those
sary trouble, no other applientieozinisbewill
landholders have been canvassed ;
of the Provisional Commit-
tee,wherein reference is made toarn. abiei d made
or the following Sharebrokers,
and:l,l;nnio_ order to prevent unneces-
sary
to the Solicitors or Bankers,
d Sutton, Royal Exchange
Messrs Sutton, Gribble, an
and Evans, 39, Lothbury,London
Messrs. Preece plans obtained :
Messrs. Town
Mr.-eel, 20, Atherton-buildings, Liverpool
from whom prospectiusoe,saannddwhilehead,Liverpool
Misers.
Welibeloved and Oastler, Leeds
Mr. Frederick Stamp, Hull
Mr. Geo. Clark, Bradford
Mr. Wm. Cronl►elm, Halifax
Mr. Charles Spencer, Nottingham
Messrs. Eyre and Shaw, Derby
Messrs. Grayston and Erie, York
Mr. E. H. Armitage, Wakefield
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Mr. James Pringle, 79, Princes-street, Edinburgh
Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Glasgow
Messrs. Labertonche and Stafford, College-green, Dublln.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Boston, Grantham, Leicester,

and Midland Counties Junction Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request that you w1:1 allot me shares of
201. each in the above proposed railway ; and I undertake to pay the
deposit of 21 2s. per share thereon, or any less number you may ap-
propriate to me, and to execute the Subscribers' Agreement and Par-
liamentary Contract when required.
Dated this day of 1145.

Residence ............
Trade or Profession ..
Reference •

BOSTON, GRANTHAM,LEICESTER, AND
MIDLAND COUNTIES JUNCTION RAILWAY COM-
PANY.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices-5, Guildhall-chambers.:Rasinghall-street.
Capital, 800,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 2/. 2s. per Share.
In consequence of the numerous Applications for Shares in the
above railway, no further application can be received after WEDNES-
DAY, the 224 of October* instant, when the lists will be finally closed
for allotment.
Dated the 14th October, 1845.
J. A. J. MACGREGOR, Solicitor to the Company.
5, Guildhall-chambers Basing • 's t t
Tee •

44;,11/EFFIELD ,NOTTIN GHA m and LON DON
DIRECT RAILWAY.
The Shares Committee give notice that they are occupied daily in
obtahing information and deciding upon the great number of appli-
cations received, and they hope In a few da, s to issue the letters of
allotment.

1, 3foorgate, Oct. 16, 1845,

IL T. ALSTON, Secretary.

DIRECT WESTERN RAILWAY.
In reply to the numerous inquiries made of the Committee
of Management, they beg to announce that, In consequence of the
number of Shares applied for having exceeded one million four hun-
dred thousand, considerable delay has necessarily taken place in
making the Allotment,. which, however, will be completed in a
few days.
The Committee have the satisfaction of stating, that the surveys
and Parliamentary plans are in a very forward state, and that all
will be ready for the next session of Parliament.

By order,

T. H. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
20, Poultry, London, Oct. 17, 1845.

ULL AND BARNSLEY JUNCTION

RAILWAY.

The Managing Committee have to announce to the Shareholders
in the Hull and Selby Railway, who, as such, have applied for Shares
in this undertaking, that the Allotment of their Shares cannot be
declared for a few days, in consequence of the registry of the Half-
Shares (for the Bridlington Branch) of the Hull and Selby Railway
not being yet completed.

_
By order,
JOHN MOOR, Secretary pro tern.
58i, Whitefliargate, Hull, Oct. 15, 1845.

HULL AND BARNSLEY JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
Extensions to Rotherham, Sheffield, Market Weighton, and Driffield.
(Provisionally Registered on the 29th September, 1845, pursuant to
7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 110.)
The Conunittee of Management of the Hull and Barnsley Junction
Railway beg to announce that they have determined upon extending
the line from a point near Campsall or Askern, southward to Rother-
ham and Sheffield, by a junction with the Midland Railway at or
near Swinton ; and to the north-east, through or near Market
Weighton, to Driffield, forming a junction at that town with the
Burlington Branch of the Hull and Selby Railway.
The engineers have nearly completed the necessary survey for the
proposed extensions, and so soon as their report is made to the Com-
mittee, the requisite capital will be raised by the creation of addi-
tional shares, which it is intended to allot rateably amongst the
original allottees of the Hull and Barnsley Junction Railway.
By order, J.O. MOOR, Secretary pro tem.
Hull, October 8, 1845.
LULL .RNSLEY JUNCTION
'WAY.

AND BA.
RAII
At a meeting of the merchants
6th day of October, 1845, at the It
ceiving a Deputation from the pro]
Railway Company :—Present—
WM. SHEPHERD
Josh. Clarke, Esq.
Richard Raywood, Esq.
Wm. Peckett, Esq.
Thomas S. Cordeux, Esq.
Jno. B. Pigott, Esq.
Wm. Hopwood, Esq.
Richard Inns, Esq.
Edwrd. P. Tee, Esq.
Henry Jackson, Esq.
Robert Ibeson, Esq.
Jno. Twibell, Esq.
Henry Richardson, Esq.
David Byrd, Esq.
Sir Wm. Lowthrop and the deputation having explained their
project to the Meeting, and it appearing that the Hull and Barnsley
Junction Railway is calculated to serve in the most eff ctual manner
the Interests of the town of Barnsley, and will form the most direct
communication with the port of Hull, and by means of the proposed
extension from Barnsley to Penistone, by the Manchester and Shef-
field Company, will communicate with Manchester and the west;
It was resolved unanimously,-
1. That this meeting do Hilly approve of the Hull and Barnsley
Junction Railway, and will give it their cordial support.
2. That the thanks of this meeting be given to Sir Wm. Low-
thorp and the deputation from Hull.

and others of Barnsley, held on the
303-al Hotel, for the purpose of re-
'posed Hull and Barnsley Junction

gsq. in the Chair,
Jno. Neill, Esq.
Thomas Eyre, Esq.
George Pitt, Esq.
Wm. Micklethwaite, Esq.
John Wall, Esq.
Wm. Jackson, Esq.
Saml. B. Jackson, Esq,
Wm. Buckley, Esq.
John Smith. vq(l.
John Hold! am, Esq.
James 8att,...,, Esq.
Joseph Bayldon, Esq.

WM. SHEPHERD, Chairman.
Win. Shepherd, Esq., having left the chair,
Resolved,
That the thanks of the meeting be given to Mr. Shepherd for hia
able conduct in the chair.

HE LONDOIN, BIRMINGHAM, and BUCK-
-I,INGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY.
(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7th and Bth Viet., cap. 110.)
Capital, 2,0E10,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.
(In compliance with the Standing Orders of the Houses of
Parliament.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
(With power to add to their number.)
The Right Hon. John Earl of Portarlington
The Right Hon. Edward Vernon, Lerd Suffield
The Right lion. Henry Robert Lord Rossmoro
The Right Hon. James Lord Dunboyne
Lord Sussex Lennox
The Right Hon. G. L. D. Darner, M.P.
Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq. High Sheriff of Bucks
The Hon. W. Dawson Darner, Parkstone-lodge, Poole
The Hon. Percy Evans Freke, Grenadier Guards, 3, Belgrave-
square
The Hon. Colonel Henry Hutchison, Weston, Northamptonshire
The Hon. Stafford Jerningham
The Hon. Cecil Lawless
The Hon. Michael W. Bellew Nugent, Higham Grange, Leicester-
shire
The Hon. Colonel Westenra,
The Hon. Henry St. John, 20, Bolton-street, Piccadilly
Count Bathyany, 5, Audley-square, London
Sir Henry Scale, Bart.
Sir William Bacon Johnston, Bart.
Sir William Drummond Stewart, Bart.
Sir William Twysden, Bart. 41, Dorset-street, London
Sir J. Eglinton Anderson, F.R.I.A. New Burlington-street
Sir James H. Annesiey, Albany
Abraham Alexander, Esq. Lullington-house, Milverton, Warwick-
shire
James Beech, Esq. Brandon-hall, Warwickshire, and IS, Grosvenor-
place, London
Emile Benassit, Esq. 66, Mark-lane
James Brand, Esq. New Broad-street, London
William Bradley, Esq. the Oaks, Sheffield
Henry Austin Bruce, Esq. Dufiryne-house, Cardiff
William Downing Bruce, Esq. 17, Charles-street, St. James's-
square
George R. Banbury, Esq. Leamington, director of the Coventry,
Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Railway
Edward Burton, Esq. 31ilverton-house, Leamington
Edwin Cadman, Esq. Westbourne-house, Sheffield
George Gunning Campbell, Esq. 37, Montagu-square, London
R. Chapman, Esq. Coombe lodge, Hants
G. A. H. Chichester, Esq. 15, Chesham=place, London
Edward Hyde Clark, Esq. Clarendon-square, Leamington, and Tick-
ford-park, Bucks
F. F. Clossman, Esq. Mincing-lane, London, Chairman of the Great
Luxembourg Railway
Henry Coe Coape, Esq. Union Club, London
John Morton Cottle, Esq. Clarendon-square, Leamington
Major John T. Croft, Deputy-Chairman of the Chester and Man-
chester Railway
Lieutenant-Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Wyndham-
place, London
Remy D. Erskine, Esq. 93, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square
The Rev. Henry Robert Fowler, Manchester-square, London
Francis Boyle Garty, Esq. Chepstow-house, Camberwell, director of
the Lincolnshire and Eastern Counties Railway
James Genion, Esq. 13, Conduit-street, London, director of the Lon-
don and Nottingham Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq. Potternewton Mount, near Leeds
Major J. R. T. Graham (late Scots Greys), Grove, Clapham-common
Charles Heneage, Esq. Cadeby house, Lincolnshire, and 17, Tall-
man, London
Captain George James Hunter, Bertie-terrace, Leamington, director
of the Manchester and Rugby Direct Railway
William Hunter, Esq. 21, Clarendon-square, Leamington, director of

the Direct Western, Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railways
Thomas Kidley, Esq. M.D., Sheffield
Captain Lionel Lampet, Leamington, Warwickshire, and Highlands,
Oxon
Robert John Lattey, Esq. Claremont Villa, St. John's-wood
George Lawton, Esq. director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean
Railway
William Lowndes, Esq. Chesham, Bucks
John Newton Mappin, Esq. Sheffield
Jacob Monteflore, Esq.
Major J. A. Moore, Queen Anne-street, London
Evan W. Morris, Esq. Pemhury, Tunbridge, director of the North
and South Wales Railway
W. Nash, Esq. Clapham-common, Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes.
and Hastings Railway
B. Oliveira, Esq. Upper Hyde-park-street, London
Samuel Parsons, Esq. Sackville-street, London
Matthew Pierpoint, Esq. Crown East, Worcester
William Raines, Esq. the Temple, London, director of the London
and Nottingham Railway
Cornelius Randall, Esq. Manchester
James Saunderson, Esq. Lansdown-place, Leamington, Warwick-
shire, and Castle Saunderson, Cavan, Ireland
Frederick William Seymour, Esq. St. James's-square, London
Thomas George Smith, Esq., Doughty-street, London
Captain William Trlngham, R.N. Solyhull, Warwickshire
Joseph Underwood, Esq. Blackheath-park, Kent, director of the Com-
mercial Bank
Edward Welch, Esq. Leamington, Warwickshire
B. 13. Williams, Esq. Wyndham-place, London
Henry Williams, Esq. Chalk-farm, London
Captain William Alexander Willis, R.N., Vicar's-hill, near Lyming.
ton, Mutts.
ENGINEER—CharIes Blunt, Esq. C.E.
SOLICITORS.

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Messrs. Forbes and Drake, Warnford-court, London
Messrs. Birch and Bramah, Great Winchester-street, London.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—C.
, Esq.
BANlCERs—Commercial Bank of London.
SECRETARY SECRETARY PRO TEM.—A. W. Harnett, Esq.
Offices, 127, Leadenhall-street.
By this Company it is proposed to supply railway accommoda-
tion, through an independent channel, to all the principal towns in
Buckinghamshire, and to many in the other counties through which
the projected line is to run, hitherto destitute of this now indispen-
sable mode of transit.
The project known by the name of " The Buckinghamshire Rail-
way and Oxford and Wolverton Junction" is announced in their pro-
spectus as being under the direction and superintendence of the Lon-
don and Birmingham Railway Company, as their lessees in perpetuity,
receiving four per cent. on the outlay, with a conditional arrange-
ment as to the surplus profit.
From this arrangement it must be obvious to every one that the
monopoly of the London and Birmingham Company, which it was a
principal object to destroy, is more strongly secured than before, and
the profits which would accrue to au independent line, after payment
of the 4/. per cent. interest, is virtually thrown into their hands.
In addition to this, the arrangement to make use of the termini of
the London and Birmingham Company, together with a considerable
portion of their line, reduces the Buckinghamshire Railway in fact to
a mere extension of the older company, and confers on the latter the
means of absolutely and entirely controlling the traffic, and conse-
quently the profits, of the projected line ; so that the reservation t s
to the surplus profits in truth amounts to nothing.
The adoption of the projected Buckinghamshire Railway by the
London and Birmingham Company proves their consciousness of the
necess!ty of a railway commuileation through the country proposed
to ba traversed; and to prevent a continuance of their monopoly,
to secure both to shareholders and to parties locally interested
the benefits of an independent line, the present Company has been
formed, and has met NNith the strenuous support of many landed pro-
prietors in the counties through which it will pass, who have hitherto
withheld their co-operation from the Buckinghamshire Railway
Company for the reasons enumerated.
The line will proceed through or rear to Uxbridge, by the Valley
of Chalfont, to Amersham and Wendever, and thence to Aylesbury,
by Winslow, to Buckingham. It will take a course from thence
through Lrockley and Banbury, by Leamington and Warwick, to
Birmingham, having the advantage of being the shortest route
hitherto proposed between Birmingham and London.

Applications for shares, in the annexed form, may be made to the
Secretary, at the temporary Offices of the Company, or to Messrs.
Edward Ellis and Co., Sharebrokers, 53, Threadneedle-street.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the London, Birmingham, and
Buckinghamshire Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201. each in
the proposed London, Birmingham, and Buckinghamshire Rail-
way, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or such smaller
number as may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit, and
sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement, when
required.
Dated this

, 1845

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