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PitICE, SD.

Capital, 2,060,000/. in k•hares of 25/. each.
Deposit 21. 12s. Gd. per Share.
No Shareholder to be liable for more than the amount of his shares
Offices, 46, Moorgato-street.
rnovisto.NAL COMMITTEE.
Tl;e Right lion. Lord Suffield, Gunton-park, Norfidk
Thell'ght LordTelham Clinton

The Right lion .Lord Stephen Chiehe;iter
The linght lion. Lord -Edward Chichester
The lion. G. A. Hamilton Chieliester,

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11,jorlrles Jasper Selwyn, Royal - EughietrA, Exeter, director ti
the OxiOrd; Soutita::ptoti, and l'oroqnJatlt Railvvay

Captain Hahne, Royal Engineers, Exeter
Thviel Tupper, Esq. Queen's Ileceivcr, Guerniay
Edward Woolmer,Esq.,ruayor, of Exeter
William Cordon, Esq. M.D. F.L.S. Ilull

George Spry, Esq.- Surbiton, Surrey • •
Henry Vie, Esq. Colchester, Receiver-General of Taxes for Essex and
uticik
James Macmillan, Esq. Southampton and London, director of the
• Southampton, Manchester, and -Oxford Junction Railway
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Rob. Baugh Blakemorc, Esq. Director of the Shrewsbury, Wolver-
hampton, and South Staffordshire Railway
W. H. Cooper, Esq. Shrewsbury, director of the Direct Birmingham,
Oxforo, Reading, and Brighton Hallway
F. Carvill, i2sq. director of the Newry and Enniskillen Railway
Alex. Geo. Cordon, Esq. Linley-hall, West Brost,ley, director of the
London and Dubliu Approximation Railway
Charles Ilurst, Esq. Mldhurst, Sussex •
A. C. Jeffry, lisq. Liverpool, director of the Direct Birmingham, Ox-
ford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Win. Bunter, Esq. Leamington, director of the Direct Western, and

OirVERH AM PTON, CHESTER, and
Y.p. BULKEN'IIEAD 4Ult'LloN
n)tiee is hereby given, that no further Applications for Shires will
he entertained after MONDAY, the 20th inst.
W. C. VAR DA", 18, Finsburyitlaeo, London.
JOBS S3I
1 Birmingham.
" ' • C. J.- NOBLE,'
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Octoher 14, 1845. .

• PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED,
Pursuant to 7 and S Vict. c. 110.
PORTSMOUTH'. AND LANGSTON
WAY AND DOCK COMPANY.

of rem-
- Milforil

The lion. Win. Dawson Banter
Sir John Owen, Part:. Orb
I.rokeshire, o
Ilav,n, &c.
Sir J. lkardag [lantiltarrlT r,
Witt. Bromptme
64,Sarnin I Itapt,on.l.Tarviz.. ± r 0:11C-1,..07, nvar Mtn:heater, lie
puty-Lieutenant for Hantel- •-•
CapialitSir Win. Henry Plers,n, R.N. ll'est-house, Emsworth,Hants
sir (leorge Itieli, Lowntlas-street, lielg-rave-square
Nir.Jautee Eyre. 11, Lini-cr Brook-street, Grosvenor,.quare • •
With Bulkeley ,Esq.. M.P.. Plies-Cosh, Angkuey, Chairman
of the Wel Ai Midland Railway
Captain C. A. Manning, Portland Castle, Resident Magistrate ned
A.Poptity-Lieutenstatior Portland and _Dorset
Colonel Henry Dundas -Ctunphell, Northend-house, Portsmouth,
Deputy-Lieutenant for HantA •
Aleut-Colonel,-Colonel Patrick Greive,.Green-park, Bath

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John:Boyd, Esq. magistrate, Newry
Benjamin Collett, Esq. Grafton Manor, House, Broomsgrova
lionglas, Ef;q. merchant, LiVerpoOl
Captain Edmund Normeott, R.N. Illacklr.ath
Francis Garty, Esq.. director of the Birmingham, Oxford and
Re'idirr:.: Junction, Hull, Great Grimsby, and Southampton Direct

Railways •
Rev. George Ingram, Chedburgh Rectory, Suffolk
Edward Ward J ackson, Esq. Edge-hill, Liverpool, director of th 3
Staffordshire Potteries, Liverpool and Manchester, and of the direct

Liverpool and Leeds Railways
James Irvine, Esq. Liverpool, director of the Cheltenham, Oxford,
and London Junction, and Liverpool and Bolton Direct Railways
John B. Bankhead, Esq. director of the Great County Down Railway
Win. Kirkpatrick, Esq. director of the Newry, Armagh, and Lon-
derry Junction
Henry Keate,,Esq: Claremont-hill, Shrewsbury, director of the Di-
rect Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Robert Medill, Esq. merchant, director of the Direct Birmingham,
oxford, Reading: and Worcester Railway
Esq. director of the Great County Down Railway
Captain Wm..Trlngham. R.N. Solihull, Wa, wickshire
D. W. Whitehead, Esq.. Manchester, director of the Direct Birming-
ham, Oxford; Reading, and Brighton Railway
Wm. S. Sidle% Esq. Manchester, director of the Direct Leeds and
Liverpool Railway
.Major John T. Croft, deputy-chairman of the Chester and Manches-
ter Direct Railway
James Milman Coley, Esq. Bralgcnorth, director of the Cambrian and
Grand Junction Railway
Wm. Birmingham Costello, Esq. Wyke-house, Brentford, director of
the Direct London and .:xeter Railway

Rugby and Manchester Railways
George Gordon, Esq. Shrewsbury
John Onions, Esq, Broseley, Salop, iron-master, director of the Dud-
ley, Madeley, and Broseley Railway ; Grand J ion and Cam-
,. 12,rian ; and London and Dublin Approximation Railway •
Isaac Taylor, Esq. Mcmkmoor, Shropshire, director of the Direct
Birmingham, Oxford, and Reading Railway a
John Thorn, Esq. Broaden director of the Dudley, Madeley, and
Broseley; the Grand Junction and Cambrian; and the London
and Dublin ApproXimation Railway
Richard Thursfield, Esq. Much Weniock, Salop, magistrate
Robert ndreW Riddle, Esq. Bryanstone-street, Portman-square,
chairman of the Exeter, Dorcheswr, and Weymouth Railway
John Reginald faddist, ESq. Bycullah House, Enfield, managing
director of the Leeds and London Railway
Alexander Esq., Brandon Cottage, Bristol
Richard Lambert, Esq. Ley fon Hall, Sudbury
George Henry Thompson, Esq., Creenwood Park, County Down
(With power to ado !o their number)
SOLICITORS-31essrs. Coverdale and Lee, 4, Redford-row, London.
ENGINEERS-31ew:. Rennie-
SECRETARY —George N. White, Esq.
BA NKERS.
London—Mews. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Company
Liverpool—The Rank of Liverpool
Manchester—The Bank of Manchester
Birmingham—M: ssrs. Attwood, Spooner, and Company
Leeds—The Leeds Banking Company
Portsmouth—Messrs. Grant and Company.
Successive Administrations, from the time of Mr. Pitt, hare recog-
nised the importance of establishing at a point of the southern Coast
or England, within an eligible distance from the Metropolis, A Har-
bour tit ith docks and warehouses for bonding merchandise, whereby all
'tassels from the westward may save the delay and expense of a
voyage up channel, and avoid the risk to which that tedious and
dangerous navigation necessarily exposes them. The political con-
siderations which originally suggested the limitation of such a har-
bour arc, of course, infinitely strengthened by the revolution effected
in naval warfare through the agency of steam ; while the vastly im-
proved modes of transit between London and the provinces invest
such an midertaking wi h a commercial importance which could not
have been previously anticipated.
On the whole southern coast, from the Land's-end to the Fore,
Langston affords the only harbour adapted to the combined purposes
here indicated. Its proximity to thegreat naval depot of Portsmouth
—the unequalled excellence of its anchorage—the capacity of its
basin—the ease and stingy with which, at at all times of tide, it will
be accessible to vessels of every burthen, establish its nautical supe-
riot ity ; while with. London, only 66 miles from the docks, a rapid
communication is ensured by rsilway.
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The promoters have great satisfaction In announcing that the un-
dertaking has received the approval of the Lords of the Treasury, of
the Board of Ordnance, and of the Woods and Forests, whose sanc-
tion is a guarantee fer the intrinsic excellence of the meastre on
public and national grounds. A grant of Crown lands for the site
of the Docks has been obtained, subject to stipulations most favour-
able to the Company.
The circumstances under which the land is secured will allow of
such a reduction in the scale of charges and the expenses of ma-
nagement, compared with those of similar establishments, as must at
once command an extensive business; and the Committee feel as-
sured that they may recommend the undertaking as an investment
likely to prove highly remunerative.
The plan inclosed with the prospectus exhibits the situation of the
intended docks and warehouses, and of the adjacent localities in con
nexion with the harbour. The area proposed to be inclosed by the
boundary wall Is 220 acres, of which If 0 will be appropriated to
docks, and 120 for warehouses, quays, roads, &c.
Of the immense extent of the commerce for which these advan-
tages are available at Langston, some idea may be acquired from the
subjoined data, taken from the official returns presented to Parlia-
ment during the last session:—
Tonnage of vessels registered at Portsmouth, for the year 1844,
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13,623 tons :—Of coasting vessels entering the pert of London, duri

1843, 2,901,271 tons :—t if ships entering London from the Colonies,
during the Fame date, 492,805 tons : —Of vessels entering from foreign
ports, during the same date, 814,592 ton :—And of general shipping,
entered during the same period, 1,317,671 tons. Total, 5,539,962
tons.

The sources of the contemplated traffic and consequent revenues
of the Company are sufficiently obvious to those who are at all ac-
quainted with the nature of the import, export, and coasting trade
of the country ; but to the public generally the following statement

may be necessary.
The inducements to shipowners and merchants to adopt Langston
are of the strongest possible nature, for not only ate the well-known
perils of the Channel altogether avoided, but the saving 011 a voyage
up and down Channel, a distance of three hundred miles each way,
would be, on a vessel of 150 tons, 591. 16s Gd.; of 300 tons,
102/. 2s. ; of 600 tons, 2281. 18s. Gd., and on ono of LOGO tons,
358/. 16s.—exclusive of the saving of inairance, the difference of port
charges, pilotage, light dues, seamens' wages, and various otker items
of expediture, familiar td every merchant and shipowner.
Though it is impossible to approximate to au accurate estimate of
the proportion 01 this vast trade likely to be secured to Langston, yyt
it must be evident that much of it must be secured, and that even a
fractional part of it would alone constitute a very extensive busi-
ness.
But it will be apparent that a large proportion must be concen-
trated at the Langston Docks, when it is considered that a great por-
tion of the goods isoportedits housed and bonded for es at Langston,
x p r tati o t ; that
such goods cannot be deposited so advantageously as
which the privileges of a bonded port are already accorded by the
Treasury ; and that thence merchandise may be re-shipped and dis-
patched to sea more speedily and at far less expense than any other
port in the United Kingdom.
In connexion with the extreme eligibility of Langston for bonded
warehoust s, It should be mentioned, that by the railway to be co-
strutted as indicated on the plan, and by railways now in operation
••• the course of construction, mercantile samples may be as
ana
I•lbited in the codices of the Lomb brokers, n as from the
regularly cu.... • • Docks. By this mode of Conveyance all descrip-
East or West Trum.. he forwarded to the metropolis, while a n oat
bons of light goods MR), deStillatioll is secured to heavy mer-
economic tranrit to the same 2d between the harbour and the
chandise, by the Canal alrevvy opo.

Thames. .
An important source of emoldllleitt may 61e.. he anticipated from
le coastwise,
the large home market in colonial prodUce and goods ils nopoloto:
now furnished by a circuitous and expensive route to tin. . (~ii.
towns of Portsmouth, Havant, Portsea, Gosport, Fara enl, 'int. .
cheater, and the Sculh end the South Midland counties. Sof HIT:
places Langston will naturally have the exclusive supply; and
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population whose wants in the consumption of these commoditiefs
one
he this administered to, amounts to considerably upwards, o
Tl,_s
million, of whom 120,000 are engaged in trade and coniinrscos.
tr,exi,
result is obtained by taking merely the counties of
,li,.e
area
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Wilte, and Dorset, theirgh a much more comprellientsbe•
adv.iogu,
reasonably be included, as certain to
which Loigslon. of nU bastion's onirtleicSolPatuer,iinchiiinasttaliiiiiiewilitrced-
sorts. Thus this depot for articles consumed
c a mark bonded would
circle described, is in itself sufficient to its./
warract the construction of the propos e adocks and ware-
houses. purposes context.,
The combined advantagesgof.tl::
slated by the Company iii?caalliZifoonralaollr me-rem:tile point
comp
clap success of this great commer-
of view, leave no doubt oofttibee- interests, is sales:-
clot project, which se bile it disturbs co existing,
latcd to eevclope desh resource s of the country, and stimulate indivi-
dual enterprise to a degree to which no mere private speculation of-
tents a parallel.
At present, the rate of interest is estimated at 71A per cent. ; but
most cursory
analysis of the merits of this undertaking must Se-
ttleisoctrite that such a calculation is considerably below the average
babilities.
of merCal.tile pro
Vntil au Act of Parliament be obtained, the affairs of this Com-
pany will be under the control of the Provisional Committee of Ma-
'agement, Illicit shall have full power to effect arrangements witi _
tine projectors of this midertaking ter the purchase of their interest in
the site for the docks ; and to effect any other at rangements whatso-
ever in anywise relating to the said railway and docks.
topics of the Prospectus and Forms of Application for Shares is
haslet Messrs. Coverdale and Lee; solicitors, 4, Ledford-r ow,Loneon ;
Messrs. Johnson, I engin, and Co:, 22, Tokenhouse-yard ; IlefUs.
Lynill and Berlyn; and Mr. J. Fernyhoug,h, Blanchester; Mr.
'Sampson, 'Slessrs..Powell and I..iswncles, and Messrs. Neilson, Liver-
pool ; Mr. John Watson, Messrs. Kirle and Co., and gessrs. Ridsdal - ,
Leeds ; Messrs. Lucas and Co. Birmingham ; Messrs. Trigg ,415
Hodgson, Hull; Mr. Peter Dixon, Glasgow ; Mr. James Nicholson.
and Mr. Charles Coupes, Edinburgh ; Messrs. Camplin, Dub! n ; Mr.
T. R. Evans, (South Mall) Cork; Messrs. Edwards and Son, Bristol;
Mr. W. Bolton, StratfOrd-on-Avon; Mr. B. Cowderoy, Reading;
Messrs. Warburton and Crossland, and Messrs. Bardwell and Son,
Sheffield ; Messrs. Hall (Brothers) and Co.' Cheltenham ; Messrs.
Wilkings.on, and Mr. T. Sandford, Exeter; Messrs. It. S. Hasty and
I Co , Southampton ; Messrs. Cape and Son. Derby ; Mr. Charles
Wikens, Northampton; Mr. Samuel Collinsou, and Messrs. Potts
and Levick, Nottingham ; Mr Mason, Bradford. Yorkshire ; Mr.
iMills, Worcester; Messrs. Hopwood and Palm. r, Plymouth; Mr.
Richard Hine, Macclesfield; Mr. W. Crowell, Hal.fax; Mr. T.
Boardman, Blackburn; Mr. E. Armitage, Wakefield ; Mr. J. S.
Holland, Coventry ; Mr. S. Weatherburn, Huddersfield; Messrs.
..sesesos and Freer, and 31g61/8, Wiudrain and Son, Leicester ; and at
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GRFAT • WATERFORD, .
LONGFORD, AND SLIGO RAILWAY. '
• (Registered Provisiona!ly.) •
Pursuant to the ith and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.
Capital,.l,ooo,oo9/ , in Shares of 23/. each.
Deposit, :2/. 12s.- Qd. per Share.

'PROVISIONAL COMMITTET.
Lieutenant-General the Right. Hon. Lord Bloomfield, G.C.8.,
G.C.H., Nenagh, Tipperary
Lord Stephen Chiaiester, Ormeau, Antrim
The light Hon. Lord Edward Chichester, 15, Chesham.place, and
• Oakield, Donegal, director of the London and Exeter Direct
Railway
Lieutenant.Colonel.Nathaniel Cameron, Dan.y.Graig, near Swan.
sea, Glamorganshire
The Hon. Francis Henry Needham, Rlorne.park, Newry, director
of the hull and Hdyhead, the Newry and Carlingford, and the
Lincoln and Nshrthanipton Railways
Sir James Douglas qamilton Hay, Bart., Rose Croft, Surrey
Sir Wiliam Ogilvie, `Bart. Brampton
Sir Jatms Eyre, Bart. Lower Brook-street, director of the • Pors•
mouth and Langston Dock Company
Peter, Count D'Alton, J.P. Grenanstown, Nenagh
Frederick Led will, Esq. J.P. Dunard, Roscrea
Michael Ledwill, Esq Thurles
John Parkinson, Esq. F.R.S. director of the South Midland, and
Rugby. Derby, and Manchester Railways
C. D. Archibald, Eq. F.R.S. :Lancashire, and Re-
, gent't.park, director of the Isirmitr_ nnain ariciLichticld Railway
It . MR!ain, Esq. director of the Or Co ty,Dou,nylfailway
F. Carvill. Esq: director of the Newry Ifeji R3ifeiky
William Kirkpatrick, Esq: director of ,„44,;'•wiir,'Aiernagh, and
Londonderry Junction •
At C. 'Jeffry, Esq. Liverpool, director of .1
ford Railway • -
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George FL Thompson, Esq. Greenwood Park, CountrDovin
Edward Ward Jackson, Esq. merchant, Liverpool, 'director of the
- Leeds and Liverpoql Direct Railway
W. Douglas, Eiq., merchant, Liverpool, director of the London
and Edinburgh Railway .
J. Irvine, Esq.,' merchant, Liverpool, director of the Oxford and
Cheltenham Railway

.)n Hallway
S. E. SR lo 11, Eq. Manchester, director of the Lceds and Liv,rtwol

Direct Railway
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John floyd, Esq. magistrate, Seneschal of Newty
John. Thor+, Esq. Bros,ley, director of the (*and Junction. a,:rl
London and Dublin Approximation Railways
W. H. Cooper, Esq. Shrewsbury, director of the Eitkenliesd, !lir

ming.ham, and Brighton Union Bail way
D. W. Whitetteaif, Esq Manchester, director of the Direct Bir-
mingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Henry Keate, Esq. Shrewsbury, dircctur of the London and Dublin

Approximation Railway
Alexander John Gordon, Esq. Linley Hall, West Bromley, 'director
of the London and Dublin Androximatinn Railway
William Birmingham Ciotcllo, Esti Wyke House, Brantford,
ditector of the Direct London and Exeter Railway
Robert Medill, E-q. merchant, director of the Birkenhead, Bir-
mirgham,.r.nd Brighton Union Railway
Isaac Taylor, E•q. 11.1onkmoor,- Shropshire, director of the Direct
Birmingham, Oxford, Reading, and Brighton Railway
Jathes Millman Coley, Ei.q. Bridgenorth, director of the Cambrian

and Grand Junction Railway
Robert Biugh Blakemore, Esq. director of the Shrewsbury, Wol-
verhampton, and South Staffordshire Railway
Richard Lambert, Esq. Leyston.ball, Sudbuty,'ltirector of the
Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Henry Dinley Cockburn, Esq. Woolwich, Kent, director of the

Swansea and Loughar Railway
William Henry Kebbel, 1.4 q. Glebe-house, Kilby, Leicestershire
John A. Layard, Esq. 40, Keppel.street, Russell-square, director
of the HuU, Birmingli.ini, and Swansea Junction Railway
Henry S. Coleman, Esq. provisional director of the Great Leeds
and London Direct Railway, and of the Direct Manchester,
Leeds, and. York 'Railway
(With power to add to their numbers.)

BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co.
Birmingham—Messrs. Attwooda and Spooner
Manchester—The National Provincial Bank of England
Liverpool—Liverpool Union Bank
Dublin—Bank of Ireland and its Branches, the Provincial Bank of
Ireland and its Branches, and the Royal Rank
Belfast—Northern Banking Company and its Branches
Colkistamrta ENGINEER—Sir John LL. D. and F.R.S.

SOLICITORS.
In London—Thomas Nias, Esq., 5, Copthall.court
In Dublin—Messrs. F. G. Tlnkler and Robert I'. Cummins, 9,
Upper Gloucester..street, and I I, D'Olier.street.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENT—George Lewis Smyth, Esq. '2, Derby.
street, Parliament-street.
SECRETARY—S. T. Jones, Esq.

The length of this line will be 80 miles, serving as a cl,rect
main trunk connexion and continuation of two other important
lines; one in the course of formation, viz.—from Kilkenny to
Waterford, and the other, the Midland Great Western Extension
to Sligo—of whose success next session the requirements of the
country and the intrinsic excellence of that project forbid any
• reasonable doubt being entertained. The aggregate of the ttree
lines will be about 170 miles, traversing, almost in a straight
course, the entire centre of the island, from its principal port
on the North.west, to its principal port on the South..east ;
intersecting districts whose teeming fertility is proverbial even in
Ireland, and opening up sources of mineral and manufacturing
wealth hitherto neglected, or discredited; because deprived of
those facilities essential to their profitable development, which it is
the object of the present undertakiug to supply.
Interfering with no <xistir g interests, and not susceptible of being
itself menaced by future schemes, the Great Wa•erford, Kilkenny,
and Sligo Railway appeals to public consideration on grounds more
important than probably anything of a like nature yet broached in
Ireland. Without the slightest lrxrea,e, the present traffic would
guarantee an unusually lucrative return upon the investment of
the capital called for; aid such is the peculiar nature of the
country, that the comp!, tion of the line must be productive of
cast advantages to the nation generally, in furnishing an inex-
haustible home supply of costly and indispensable commodities of
universal consumption now circuitously imported <eve( sea;
while it must also hold out irresistible inducements for the loca-
tion, along its route, of British and foreign enterprise, wealth,
and skit!.

This is the only line in Ireland embracing the princival
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almost the exclusive—scats of naive co:,l and iron. At the
southern terminus of the eighty miles about to be con-
structed, coal in illimitable quantity and of the finest quality
abounds ; at the northern terminus the same may be said of
iron, though for rant of the means of rmening, the ere
has Leen turned to little or no account on the spot, and of course a
market at a distance is unattainable by pre,ent modes of conveyance.
The advantages of thus bringing these coal and into mines into
juxta position need not be enumerated ; and it would be equary
supertltious to dwell on the pecuniary merits of a line whic!i,
addition to the distinguishing feature just mentioned, accemmo.
riates an agricultural interest surpassing that of any area of the
same extent in Ireland.
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Commencing at the Waterford and Kilkenny terminus, in the
latter city, the line will pass, almost midway, through the great
grazing and corn-growing districts of the Queen's and King's
County, Westmeath, and Longford, touching at or near all their
principal towns, namely—Freshfield, Ballyragget, Durrow, Balli.
nakill, Abbeyleix, Balleyrowan, lUountrath, Maryborough, Mount.
mellick, Portarlington, Geashill, Tiallamore, Phillipstown, Kit.
beggsn, Clara, Moate, Ballymahon, and Longford. Tne population
is upwards of one million and at quarter. more than one-half of the
inhabitants of the towns being engaged in trades and manufactures.
Hence the passenger traffic, computed with great care, has been
moderately estimated at 90,337/. per annum ; white the live mod:
of the district was valued in 1841 at 3,639,035/. the conveyance of
which must devolve upon this Company. A vast increase in both
these items may with certainty be anticipated, for the following,
among many other reasons :-
Ist. By the junction at Longford with the Midland Great Wes..
tern Extension, much of the produce of Sligo, now going a 354
mile voyage to Liverpool, and much trove that hardly pays the cost
of rearing, because of the isolated position of that county, must
comealong this line, directly communicating with ao fine a port as
Waterford, the nearest to Bristol, and to the profitable markets of
the southwest of England. Alt writers on the capabilities of Ire.
land have enforced the necessity of throwing open SIT° to such in .
tercourse as is here offered, and the recent data of the
Commissioner more than confirm the propriety of such suggestions.
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met at Longford by the Limerick and Belfast Union,
which, like Being
the majority of the Northern railways, finds a common
focus at Clones, the principal markets of Ulster, Central Leinster,
and the East of Munster, are rendered mutually available by this
line. And,

idly. No line of any considecable length can be constructed in
Ireland without becoming, in a greater or less degree, an auxiliary
to this lire ; nor can any be projected to its material detriment,
unless running precisely parallel from terminus to terminus.

The suitability of the proposed 80 miles, for engineering pur.
poses, may be gathered from the fact, that the line a in cross both the
Grand and the Royal Canals, the summit level of the former being
270, and of the latter, at Mullingar, only 322 feet above the level
of the sea, and few elevations along the whole route are greater.

In Longford county, on the Roscommon and Sligo border, the
line slightly skirts Lough Allen; while the Midland Great Western
Extension, immediately after, enters the valley of the Arigna, the
history of the iron-works on whose banks so long and fatally in.
flucnced industrial enterprise in Ireland, though happily even
there prosperity is now rapidly becoming nianifest. The extraor.
dinary abundance and unequalled excellence of the iron in this
district are a matter both of history and present notoriety, I'v°
visturies ago, when charcoal could be procured for smelting, it
formed a large article of export to London, bettig prized as we now
prize Svedish and Russian Iron—used only for steel, ehrni, Cables.
and the like—and of treble and quadruple the value of
,British
iron. Dr. Kane, in his invaluable volume, " The Monate-id Re.
sources of Ireland," adduces ample reason for anticipating that
the transport of coal (especially the anthracite coal of Kilkenny)
into the neighbourhood of Lough Allen, and the improvements in
the preparation of peat fuel, will restore the superiority in this
article, which the singular richness of the mineral should secure to
the locality. The reader is referred to the foregoing standard
aitnh„,l,;- (second edition, 18.11 i) for the fullest and most asuis;,e.
tory infermat;On on this pointvary). also for a complete con fiemat
of what has already been imperfectly glanced at, as to the re,t.:ts
certain to spring from the contemplated railroad.
Not only does the railroad shout to be merle by thin Cllmpany
couple the iron and coal works of Ireland in a direct and contn
out line, but the route abounds with numerous of her elements '.5
manufacturing and commercial greatness, all of which *ill !,e
celled into active vitality as this undertaking progresses.
In estimating the magnitude of this project in its entirety, vs
extending from shore to shore through the hart of Irelat4d, it
hardly possible to exaggerate the importance of the proxbnify et
the noble harbour rf Waterford to the English coast; aisclth-,ve
advantsges must every day increase in proportion as ritilwry
munication between Londan end tli?. southern counties iropnlycE.
A much extended Provisional Committee will shortly to pub-
lished ; msanwhle the co-operation of all influential traicetila
alor-g the line is invited, to whom every intormatieri Mill be
afforded on application, personally or by letter, to the Solicitors,
of at the Offices of the Company, 1(i, Finsbury-place, south. Len-
dun, where Prospectuses may be had, and also of the fonoaing
Breakers,—Mr. James Thomas Berkeley, IS, Thu atint.edle street,
London ; Messrs Lynill and Befl)P, an ' Fernough,
Manchester; Mr. Hanyson, and Me- F..-:p'6,; rh
(4 ;611 owndrs,
Liverpool ; Mr. John Watson,, d"Messrs. Kist: al Co.,
Leeds ; Messrs. Lucas and • LirtniCgtiam ; Mess Tugg
and Hodgson, Hull; Mr. Peter Dixon, filiasgOxs; Mr.. James
Nicholson, and Mr. Charles CritiPcr,
,Edinburgh; Mess.ts7
wards and Son, Bristol; Mr. IV. Button, stratforcilm- ni
Mr. B. Cowderoy, Beading ; Messrs.-Wartairton and .1 Cross-
land, Sheffield; Messrs. Hall °the' s ant C.-impany, Chel-
tenham; Messrs: Wilkingson, arfit Mr._ T. S. Sandford, I4ater;
,
Messrs. H. S. Easty and Co., SOfthbOtitroni Messrs Cape arid
Son, Derby; Mr. Charles Wileens,tl44oampionNir, Samuel Col.
;insan, and Messrs. Potts and Levin,-N0tt1»1.......Mr.
Bradford, Yorkshire; Mr. Mills, Worcester; essrs. Hopwood.
ind Palmer, Plymouth ; Mr. Richatd Hine, Macclesfield ; Mr.
W. Crowell, Halifax ; Mr. T. Board:nen, Blackburn ; Mr. E. H.
Armitage, Wakefield; Mr. J. S. Holland, Coventry ; Mosses.
Bardwell and Son, Sheffield; Nit. S. Weatherburn, Huddersfield;
Messrs. Payne and Freer, and Messrs. Windt:ln and Son, Lei.
~_cester.s. and Kr. T. R. Evans. South Mall, Cork.

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.anway - • -
'aptain Edward Smith, R.N. Greenwich
Gin!' Wornum, H.E. 1.C.5., Cheltenham
.4eorge Spry, Esq. Sur.iiton, Surrey, director of the Portsmouth and
I angston Dock Comp .ny
faint M. Cottle, Esq. J.oamington, director of the Direct Binning-
Lam, Oxford, Reading, and Brichton Railway • •
Sfajor Amsinek, director of the Direct Northern Raltway.
Willtairrlli Eso. cr. 44w:or GL -
ford. and Bri:7liton railw” ... • .
s"
John onions, Erq. Braseiey, Salop, irotiniastcr. -direct, cf
Dudley, Madely, and 13roseley Railway. et the Grand tont-,ion
and Cambrian Railway, and of the London and Dublin A ppt
mat ion Railway •