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'David Harrison, Esq., Staley-bridge, Director of the Manchester and
Birmingham and Cheshire Junction Railway
T. Hodges, Esq., Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park,Director of the Leeds
and Carlisle Railway
James Horne, Esq., Clapham Common, Director of the North Lon •
don Railway Company
John Flemming, Esq., North Bank, Regent's Park, Director of the
Worcester and South Wales Railway
T. A. Hall, Esq., Ashfield House, Newcastle, Staffordshire
Frederick Ilewitt, Esq., Clapham, Surrey
J. IL Higson, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Chester and Man-
chester Railway
Geuge Calvert Holland, Esq., M.D., Sheffield
John Hyde, Esq., Manchester
William jacomb, Esq., Huddersfield, Director of the East and West
Of England
William Jeukinaon, Esq., Marlborough-square, Salford
George Jones, Esq., Redland, Bristol
V. Clarke Kembali, Esq., 6, Chester-place, Hyde-park
J. Kinloch, Esq., Gloucester-read, Hyde-park, Director of the North
Wales Railway
John Kohl,. Esq., Thames-street, Director of the Worcester and
South Wales Junction Railway
Charles Kelson, Esq., Teignmouth, Devon, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
William Knott, Esq., 4, Adelaide-place, Director of the Richmond
- Railway
M. W. King, Esq., Amblieote Hall, Stourbridge
Edward Lomer, Esq., Southampton
William Lochmere Whitmore, Esq., James-street, Buckingham-gate,
Director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway
Henry Ledgard, Esq., Wood-street
John Dawson Lowden, Esq., Doughty-street, Director of the Rich-
mond Railway
James Lees, Esq., Brookville, near Manchester
Joseph Ligglus, Esq., Kensington, Director of the Southampton Dock
Company
Captain J. II Leckie, Richmond, Surrey
Stephen Lewis, Esq., Director of the South Wales Railway
James Lamb, Esq., 25, Hyde Park-square, Director of the Tring,
Reading, and Basnstoke Railway
Samuel Lovell, Esq., Bedford
F. Valentine Lee, Esq., Chester-place, Regent's-park
William Mills, Esq., Newbury
Joseph Maunder, sq., Ashford-house, Staines;
John Malleson, Esq., Wimbledon, Director of the Meat Indian
Peninsular Railway
W. Malin, Esq., Mansion-hotttt-place, London, Director of the
South Staffordshire Railway
William Hebert l‘lesham, Esq., M.D., Redford
.9S9rst Miller, Esq., Director of the central Railway Terminus
Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington
Christopher Musgrave, Esq., Melverton-hill, Leamington
R. F. Mushet, Esq., Birchin -lane, and Coleford
John Marshall, Esq., Hornforth Hall, near Leeds, late Mayor of
Norwich
John Macfarlane, Esq., Manchester. Provisional Director of the Bux-
ton, Leek, I'otteries, and Crewe Railway
Thomas Markland, Esq., Malfleld, Manchester
James Marshall, Esq., Brinnuigton Mount, Stockport
Robert Millington, i sq., Ordsall House, Itetford, Nottinghamshire
G. Moore, Esq., St. John's Uriory, Banbury
Nicholas M'Cann, Esq., 50, Parliament-street
William Nash, Esq., Chairman of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings
Railway
William Nicholson, Esq., Manchester
Cornelius Nicholson, Esq., Cowan Head, Kendal, Deputy-Chairman
of the York and Carlisle Railway
Captain Alexander Nairn., Director of the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Company
Joseph Naden, Esq., Dudley
Edward Norris, Esq. Manchester
Robert Ogden, Esq., The Oaks, Manchester
James Ogden, Esq., M.D., Salford, Director of the Chester and Mau-
-1 chsster Direct Railway
P. Oldfield, Esq., Manchester, Director of the Manchester and Liver-
pool Railway
George Parbnry, Esq. Russell-square, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
Apsley Pellatt, Esq., Director of the Staines and Richmond Railway
Thomas Parker, Esq., Spring-gardens, London
John Clarke Prescott, Esq., Manchester
William Simpson Potter, Esq., of Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park, Di-
rector of the Oxford, Whitney, and Cheltenham Independent
Railway
Charles Potter, Esq., Darwen, Director of the Blackburn, Darwen,
and Bolton Railway
James Paxton, Esq., Rugby
Richard N. Philipps, Esq., Sheffield
John Perks, Esq., Wolverhampton
Richard Burton Phillipson, Esq., Rugby
N. M. Priaulx, Esq., South Western Steam-packet Company,
Southampton
Stephen Phillips, Esq., Director of the Whitehaven and Furness
Railway
Charles Phillips, Esq., Camberwell, Surrey
John Thomas Price, Esq., Heald Grove, Manchester
William Raines, Esq., Temple, Director of the Manchester and Car-
lisle Railway
Richard Ricketts, Esq., Bristol
George Rougemont, Esq. 9, Chester-terrace, Regent's Park, Director
of the North London junction Hallway
Thomas Rolls, Esq., Bank, Chipping Norton
Thomas Robinson, Esq., Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital
David Roxburgh, Esq., Bloomfield-road, Maida Hill
Hartley Sager, Esq., Ball Grove, Coins, Yorkshire
Samuel Sangster, Esq., Brixton-hill, Director of the City Gas Com-
pany
Major Charles J. Selwyn, of the Royal Engineers, Exeter, Director
of the East and West of England Junction
James Shaw, Esq., Salford
John Sidebottom, Esq., Etheron-house, Cheshire
William Sidebottom, Esq., Harewood Lodge, Cheshire
David Silzer, Esq., Rhodes, near Manchester
Charles Slocock, Esq., Newbury
Edmund Slocock, Esq., Newbury
Christopher Shapland, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Bristol and
Gloucester, South Devon, and Cornwall Railway Companies
Joseph Stocks, Esq.' Shibden Hull, near Halifax, Director of the Li-
verpool and Leeds Direct Railway
W. Senhouse, Esq., Daventry
T. Bridge Simpson, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Richmond Railway,
Walter Shairp, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde Park
John Stewart, Esq., M.P. for Lymington, Director of the East and
West of England Railway
T. H. Sheppard, Esq., Towcester
Joseph Shaw, Esq., Huddersfield
Horatio Smith, Esq., Strangeways Hall, Manchester
W. Tebbutt, Esq., Manchester
Joseph Thompson, Esq.; John-street, Bedford-row, Dlsector of the
London and Brighton Railway
Thomas Thomson, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
W. Tinker, Esq., Manchester, and Hyde, Cheshire
Charles B. Fripp, Esq., Bristol, Director of the Jersey Railway
Thomas Varley, Esq., Shorsten Hall, Mahon
Edward Westlake, Esq., Southampton
Charles Fenton Whiting, Esq., Beaufort House, Strand, Director of
the Richmond Railway
Benjamin Williams, Esq., banker, 4, Whitehall-
B. M. Wilcox, Esq., Hantsville, Torquay
John Ward, Esq., Machin Bank, Sheffield, Director of the Sheffield
Fire and Life Insurance Company
George Whitmore, Esq., Austin-friars, Deputy Chairman of the North
Kent Railway
Thomas Woodham, Esq., Winchester
W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., Director of the Yarmouth and Waverley
Valley Railway
Daniel Watney, Esq., distiller, Wandsworth, Surrey
W. F. Wennington, Esq., Walsall
Smith Willock, Esq., Birmingham
W. D. Wills, Esq., Bristol
A. H. Wylie, Esq., Liverpool
Edmund M. Warren, Esq., Halifax
S. Watkins. Evi., Forrest Hill, near Worksop
Paul Ferdinand Willert, Esq.. Alderman of the Borough of Man-
chester
Charles James Stanley Walker, Esq., Longford House, Stretford,
Alderman of Manchester, and Director of the Chester and Man-
chester Railway
Morris Were, Esq., Moorlands, Southampton
John Woodcock, Esq. banker, The Elms, Wigan, Director of the
Liverpool and Bury Esq.,
John Yorke, Esq., banker, Thrapson, Northamptonshire
(With power to add to their number.)
13 AMMO.
Messrs. Masterman and Co., London.
The Union Bank, Manchester
ENGINEER. I N-CHIEF.
ACTING ENGINEERS.
Messrs. J. B. and E. Birch, Westminster
Brackstone Baker, Esq.. C.E.
SOLICITORS.
John Bethell, Esq., King William-street, London.
Messrs. Joseph and William Heron, and Messrs. Higson and Robins,
Manchester ".

That another and a more direct line of railway is neCessary between
the metropolis and the manufacturing districts around Manchester, Is
now fully admitted, and the question is, Which is the best line to be
adopted. _ _ _

The above proposed railway will form the shortest and most di-
rect route from London to Manchester, and will therefore complete
the direct communication with the metropolis at a much less expen-
diture of capital than by either of the projected London and Man-
chester lines (Remington's and Ashurst's), the actual distance to be
constructed being only 73, Instead of 170 to 180 miles.
A careful preliminary survey has determined the promoters of this
railway to adopt nearly a straight line from Rugby to 3taceleslield, as
an increased expenditure of 200,000/. or 300,000/..judielously applied in
the present perfected state of civil engineering, and at the reduced cost
of the execution of earth works, will prove in the end a far greater
real economy, both to the Company itself in the saving effected in
the annual expense of working, and also, what is of snore importance,
to the country in general, by accomplishing, at a much less cost, the
same end proposed by an entire and distinct line from London to
Manchester.

These considerations have not been sufficiently kept in view by
other parties who have also proposed to make a railway from Rugby
to Macclesfield, but who, by deviating fYom the direct tract to pursue
valleys and to avoid the irregularities of the face of the country,
obviously lose the advantages proposed by this Company.
The Parliamentary decision on the choice of the London and Brighton
Railway is a parallel case, the direct line, although presenting more
difficulties to overcome, and involving a greater outlay, having been
adopted by Parliament in preference to the many competing projects,
in a more or less sinuous direction, which were at that time supported
in the House by very influential parties.
Should it be found necessary, arrangements have been made by
which additional lines of rails will be laid between Rugby and Lon-
don on the London and Birmingham Railway, whereby the surplus
traffic northwards will be abundantly provided for.
This hue also possesses the singular advantage of affording the
shortest and most direct route from Manchester to Southampton,
Gosport, and Portsmouth, a feature presented by no other proposed
railway. By adopting the Rugby and Oxford branch of the Great
Western as far as Didcot, and thence the proposed Oxford, Southamp-
ton, (Import, and Portsmouth line, the distance from Manchester to
Southampton will be twenty-three miles less than by any other route,
and on this account the project has been warmly supported by the
Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Portsmouth Railway Company.
The deviations from a perfectly straight line between Rugby and
Macclesfield to avoid high ranges of hills, ornamental parks, or
valuable buildings are very slight, and the line in general offers no
engineering difficulties of any magnitude. The towns more directly
interested as a local line are Nuneaton, Hinckley, Atherstone, Market
Bosworth, Burton-upon-Trent, Tutbury, Ashboarne, and Leek.
The Company has made arrangements with the North London
Junction Railway Company, whereby it has secured the use of their
station (of the extent of six acres) in the centre of the City of London,
at the bottom of Moorgate-street, which will prove of the utmost
importance to this line.
Amidst the many railway projects that now occupy the public
mind, and involve a vast outlay of capital, it will readily be conceded
that a line that will attain such important results at so small an
outlay of capital, and the time required for its construction, and
without interfering with any existing vested interests, must meet
with general approbation, and at the same time offer a very excellent
investment for capital.
The shareholders in the Oxford, Southampton, Gosport, and Ports-
mouth, in the London ant Birmingham, and in the Manchester and
Birmingham Railways, will have a preference in the allotment of
the shares.

The deeds will provide that no call shall be made on the share-
holders beyond the deposit now paid, until the Act of Parliament is
obtained, and power will be taken in the Act to allow 41. per cent.
Interest in all calls.

Application for detailed prospectus, maps, and shares, may be
Made to the Secretary, at tke Offices, 78, King William-street, City,
London, and at 22, Cross-street, Manchester; and the following
sharebrokers :—Messrs. R. Sutton, Dribble, and Sutton, 22, b orth-
side Royal Exchange, London ; George Burnand, Esq., Comhdl;
Messrs. Barclay, Allsop, and Co., Royal Exchange ; Messrs. Hough-
land and Leese, 51, King-street, Manchester; John Wills, Esq.,
Royal Bank-buildings, Liverpool ; Messrs. Wellbeloved and Oastler,
Leeds ; Messrs. Edwards and Son, and W. H. Land, Esq., Bristol ;
J. R. Lane, Esq., Birmingham ; Messrs. Garton and Wright, Shef-
field ; J. G. Kershaw, Esq., Huddersfield ; F. C. Spencer, Esq.,
Halifax ; Messrs. Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham ; Henry
Beaumont and Co., Exeter ; R. P. Lemon, Esq., Bath ; Joseph
Clark, Esq., Southampton ; and Messrs. Flint and Tootal, Hull.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Manchester and Rugby Direct

Railway Company, via Ilacclestield.
I request you will allot to me shares of 201. each in
the capital of the above-named railway, and I will accept the same,
or any less number and pay the deposit of 21. 2s. per Share, and
sign the Parliamentary Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when
required.
Dated the day of 1845.
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BRIDGWATER, and MINEHEAD JUNC-
TION RAILWAY COMPANY, uniting the Bristol and Eng-
lish Channels, and forming a direct cqmmunication between the
South of Ireland and Wales, with Bristol and London, and also with
the South-Eastern and Western Coasts of England, Paris, and the
Channel Islands.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 500,000/. in 25,000 shares of 201. each.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per Share.
Liability expressly limited to the amount of subscription ; and it
is intended to make no further call until the Act of Parliament i 8
obtained.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Lord Sherborne, Sherbome, Gloucestershire
Sir Henry Seale, Bart., Mount Boone, Dartmouth
Sir John Hansler, F.R.S., Walton, near Saffron Waldron, Deputy-
Lientenant of the county of Essex
Colonel Luttrell, Kilve Court, near Minehead
Edward Aysford Sandford, Esq., Nynehead-court, near Taunton
George William Blaythwaite, Esq., Dyrham Park, Gloue,estershirte
John Halliday, Esq., Chapel Cleeve, ne r Minehead,3lagistrate of the
county of Somerset
John Cridland, , Esq., Spring-grove Pa , near Wiveliscombe, Magis-
trate for the county of Somerset
Henry William Chichester, Esq., Rose use, Bampton, Devon
Charles Bailey, Esq., 5, Stratford-p ondon
R. Braden Buller, Esq., Nether Stowe Somerset
Edwin Ley, Esq., Penzance, Cornwall
The Mayor of the Town and County of Poole
Richard Pinney", Esq., shipowner, Poole
E. F. Dayrell, Esq., of Lillingstone Dayrell, and 15, Old Cavendish-
street, London, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq., Pinner's Hall, Broad-street, merchant
W. Revell Vigers, Esq., 50, Russell-square, and Alderman's-walk,
merchant
W. S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park
James Morrison, Esq., 28, St. Mary-at-hill, merchant
James Colhoun, Esq., 5, Half-moon-street, Piccadilly, and St. Peter's
chambers, Cornhill, merchant
Samuel Pocock, Esq., Bloomsbury-square, and St. Bride's-wharf
Anthony Mervyn Storey Maskelyne, Esq., Glanusk House, Brecon-
shire
F. W. Green, Esq., shipowner, Cornhill
W. F. Beadon, Esq., 11, John-street, Berkeley-square
W. Strahan, Esq., Banker, Strand.

Sept. 12. 184 b

PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED. •
GRAND JUNCTION, GREAT WESTERN,
and SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY JUNCTION COM-

Office-3, Alderman's-walk, New Broad-street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. A'Beckett, Son, & Sympson, 7, Golden-square.
Mr. Vaughan Prance, Nether Stowey and Bridgwater.
MANAGING DIRECTORS.
E. F. DAY BELL, Esq., Chairman.
Charles Bailey, Esq. James Colhonn, Esq.
W. S. Fitzwilliam, Esq. W. S. Potter, Esq.
W. F. Beadon, Esq. . .- Samuel Pocock, Esq.
F. W. Green, Esq. - James Morrison, Esq.
W. R. VIGERS, Esq., Deputy Chairman
• SECRETARY--Mr. Edward Parratt.
BANKERS.

Messrs. Strahan and Co.; awl Messrs. Robarts and Co., London.
Messrs. Stuckey and Co., Bristol, Bridgwater, and Taunton.

In consequence of the favourable reception of this measure by
many important landowners and others locally interested, a number
of whom have become Members of the Provisional Committee, and
the additional evidence of the great traffic, the Managing Directors
have resolved upon adopting a Double, instead of a Single Line, and
increasing the capital to 500,0001., in 25,000 Shares, of 201. each, and
all app!ications for Shares received up to the present time will be
treated in the allotment as made upon the present capital, unless
recalled before the 27th instant.

Applications for Shares, plans, prospectuses, and detailed informa-
tion, may be made at the Offices of the Company, No. 3, Alderman's-
walk, City, London ; at the Offices of the Company's Solicitors,
Messrs. A'Beckett, Son, and Sympson, 7, Golden-square, London ;
Mr. Vaughan Prance, Nether Stowey and Bridgwater ; and of the
Local Agents—Mr. William Woodland, solicitor, Taunton ; Mr. N.
Pearce, solicitor, Wiveliscombe ; Mr. James Parsons, solicitor, Lang-
port ; Messrs. Stone and Symonds, solicitors, Dorchester ; Mr.
Thomas Phippard, solicitor, Wareham ; Mr. M. K. Welch, solicitor,
Poole ; Mr. Henry Poole, solicitor, Bristol ; and of the following
Stock and Share-brokers—Messrs. Tucker, Barnett, and Ellis, 11,
Birchin-lane ; and Messrs. Muggings and Lang, London; Messrs.
Hall, Brothers, and Co., Cheltenham; Mr. John Morcom, Bristol;
Mr. Thomas Evans, Bath; Mr. Charles O'Neil, Manchester; Messrs.
H. Davies and Co., Liverpool ; Messrs. Chantrell and Boys, Leeds;
Messrs. Wilkinson and Earle, Hull ; Messrs. Labertouche and Staf-
ford, Dublin; Mr. Lilly, Bridgwater; Mr. R. Ball, Taunton; and Mr.
Richard Neville Parker, solicitor, Cork

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Managing Directors of:. the
_Bridgwater and Minehead

Junction Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of £2O
each in the above undertaking ; and I hereby undertake to accept the
same, or any less number you may allot to me, on the terms of the
prospectus, and to pay the deposit of 2/. 2s. per share, and all future
calls thereon, and to sign the Parliamentary contract and subscribers'
agreement, and other deeds, when required so to do.
Dated this day of , 1845.
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Name, residence, &c., of referee in full..

BRIDGWATER and MINEHEAD JUNC-
TION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that no Application for Shares will be en-
tertained, unless the same be made in the form prescribed by the
Managing Directors ; and the applicants must also refer either to one
of the Provisional Committee, or to some person of known respecta-
bility:—Dated September 12, 1845. By order,
• Messrs. A'BECKETT, SON, and SYMPSON; and
VAUGHAN PRANCE, Solicitors to the Company.
Offices, 3, Alderman's-walk, Old Broad-street.

BRIDGWATER and MINEHEAD JUNC-
TION RAILWAY COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that no further Application for Shares in
this Company can be received after SATURDAY, the 27th inst.
By order, EDWARD PARRATT, Secretary.
Offices, 3, Alderman's-walk, Old Broad-street,
September 20, 1845.

PANY,

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
In a few days a full prospectus,wiA be issued, shOwing the Import-
ance of connecting the above great trunk lines. -
This is intended to he effected by starting from Birmingham on the
proposed Birmingham- and- Oxford Junction Railwdy, using the
Oxford and Rugby line to Hampton Gay; then forming a new line of
ritifefO the'SlOugh Station of the Great Western Railway, and con-
g therefrom thrOugh Windxor, Sunning Hill, AsOot, and Bag-
Shot, to the Farnkototigh station of the South-Western Railway.

Further particulars may be had on application to G. Smith, Esq.
solicitor, 24, Golden-square.

TI.XETER, DORCHES fER, AND WEY-
MOUTH JUNCTION COAST RAILWAY.

(Provisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.)
Capital, 1,250,0001., ill 62,500 Shares of 20/. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.

Lieut -General Sir Robert Barton, K.C.H., Montague-plaoe, Mon.

tague-square
Jacob Bell, Esq., Langham-place
George Brown, Esq., Gower-street

John-Carter, Esq., F.R.A.S., Park Lodge, Stockwell
John Carter, Esq., Dorset-place, Portman-square
John Chauntler, Esq., Friday-street, Director of the York and Lan-

caster Railway
Wiliam Colfax, Esq., Ras House, Bridport

W. S. Cross, Esq., 'New-court, Temple, Director of the London
and Birmingham Extension Railway
Newton Crouch, Esq., Southampton-place, London, Director of the

York and Lancaster Railway
The lion. Miles Dormer, Hans-place, Sloane-street.

Colonel Lothian Sheffield Dickson, Curzon-street, May-fair -
Colonel Robert Douglas, Royal Artillery, C. 8., Director of the Bide-
ford and. Tavistock Railway -
Peter Henry Edlin, Esq., Director of the Warwick and Worcester
. Railway
Francis Ewart; Esq., Brick-court, Temple, Director of the Equityand
Law Life Assurance Companies
Captain S. N. Fisher. Junior United Service Club, Director of the
Manchester and Birmingham Continuation Railway
Major Fitzgerald, Mount Edgar, Sidmouth

John Foster, Esq., Barge-3 ard, Bucklersbury
The Rev. H. Fellowes, J.P., Vicar of Sidbury

Captttin Sir Andrew l'ellett Green, R.N., K.C.H., James-street, Beek
ineham-gate, Director of the Bank of Australasia
. . _

Frederick Sames Hall, Esq., Torrington-square, Director of the Trent

Valley Continuation Railway
IV. Newton llarriott, Esq., Odiham, Hants
Josiah Heide, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Director of the Chelmsford
and Bury Railway
Thomas Heathcock, Esq., The Mermitage, Sidmouth
George Price Hill, Esq., Gawanbro House, Hampstead
F. B. Hoare, Esq., Lincoln's Inn
_ . . . . . .

John nolmes, Esq., Liverpool, and St. James's-street, Westminster.

Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., MT., Chairman of the Welsh
Midland Railway

Michael Elijah Impey, Esq., Duchess-street, Portland•place, and

Lawn Cottage, Twickenham
Swynfen Jervis, Esq., Whitehall-place, and Darlaston Hall, Staf-
fordshire, Director f the Great Indian Peninsular Railway, and
of tha Bideford and Tavistock Railway

Frederick Jones, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, Director of the Warwick and
Worcester Railway

Sir John Key, Bart., Alderman of London, Director of the London
and Manchester Direct Railway . _

Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman of London, and Director of the Wor-
cester and South Wales Junction Railway, and of the London and
Birmingham. Extension Railway _ _ _

Richard keily, Esq., Cleveland-row, St. James's, Chairman of the
New Ross, Carlow, and Kilkenny Railways

Siegerich C. Kreeft, Esq., Billiter-square
William Ley, Esq., Director of the Reading and Reigate Railway
L. Llewellyn, Esq., Ynis Penllwch, and Graig-Avon, Glamorgan-
shire

Robert Henry Lindham, Esq., New-street, Dorset-square, Director
of the London and Birmingham Extension Railway
C. W. Lovesy, jun., Esq., Charlton Kings, Cheltenham
William Alexander Long, jun., Esq., Wootton•under-Edge
J. Mee Mathew, Esq., Gray's Inn-square, Director of the Derby-
shire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway
Captain Matthews, R.N., Sidmouth Lodge, Sidmouth
Peter Morrison, Esq., Managing Director of the Britannia Life In-
surance Company, and Director of the South and Midland Junc-
tion Railway
Caleb Norris, Esq., Lancaster-place
The Mayor of Nottingham
George Parbury, Esq., Russell-square, and Director of the Trent
Valley Continuation Railway
William S. Potter, Esq., Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, Director of the
Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham Railway
John Thomas Raworth, Esq., Leicester, Director of the South Union,
Leicester, and Birmingham Direct, and Tring, Reading, and Ba-
singstoke, London and Nottingham, and London, Bristol, and South
Wales Railways _ _

Robert Rea, Esq., Exeter, and Cromwell Rock, Waterford
John Rawson, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant of the West Riding of York-
shire, and J.P., Stoney Royd, Halifax, Director of Rosamel's Great
Northern of France Railway, of the Manchester, Liverpool, and
Great North of England Union Railway, and of the National Bank
of Ireland

Robert Richards, Esq., Inner Temple, London, Director of the South
and Midlands' Junction Railway
J. Reginald. Riddell, Esq., Bycullah House, Enfield, Director of the i
York and Lancaster Railway
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq.. Bryanston-street, Portman-square,
Director of the Galway and Belfast Railway
J. Carrington Ridgway, Esq., Roehampton Lodge, Surrey
W. Digby Seymour, Esq., Doughty-street, Mecklenburgh•square
William Sloane Esq., Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Chairman
of the Church of England Life Insurance Company
Henry Lewis Smale, Esq., Willoughby House, Tottenham, Director
of the South-Eastern Railway
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq.. Deputy Governor of the Union Bank of
Londoriizand Chairman of the Irish North Midland Railway

Henry Savage, Esq., M. 8., F.R.C.S., Dorset-place, Dorset-square,
Director of the Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, Director
of the Leicester and Bedford Railway, and of the Taw Vale
Railway
Robert Wynne Williams, Esq., 29, Bedford-place, Russell-square.
Henry Wright, Esq., Brunswick-square, Director of the Birming-
ham and Brighton Direct, and South Midland Junction Railways
Sir William Wynne, Chairman of the North Wales Railway; Suffolk-
street, Pall-mall
(With power to add to their number).

CONSULTING ENGINEER—Sir John Macneil, LL D., F.R.S., M.I.C.E.

ENGINEERS.
Messrs. Rice and Thomas Hopkins, M.I.C.E.
31essrs. Gough and Roumieu.
SURVEYORS—Messrs. Shuttleworth and Sons.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Chauntler and Westwood, 8, Gray's Inn-square
Edward Strick, Esq., 10, Doughty-street.
SECRETAIY—D. Bartle, Esq.

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SUPPLEMENT,

THE CHESTER AND MANCHESTER ► LIVERPOOL AND BURY RAILWAY.
• DIRECT RAILWAY. CONTRACT FOR f LEEPERS.
Notice is hereby given, that the Parliamentary Contract and Sub- ,he DIRECTORS arc READY to RECEIVE TENDERS for the
scribers' Agreement are now lying for execution at the Company's SUPPLY of RAILWAY SLEEPERS, conformable to Specifications
Office, No. 1, Royal Exchange Buildings, London, between the hours to be seen at the Company's Offices, 33, Dale-street, Liverpool; or at
of Ten and Five o'clock in the day, when, upon signature of the deed, the Office of Sir John Macneill and James Thompson, 9, Whitehall-
the Banker's Receipt will be exchanged for. Scrip. place, London. _
By order, A. BARRETT. Secretary. Offers to be forwarded to the Secretary, up to the Ist Novem-
ber next. By order, _ _

JOHN S. HERO.Ig
Liverpool and Bury Railway ()Mee, 33, Dale-street, ,secretary.
Liverpool, Gth September. 1845.

LONDON, SALISBURY, EXETER, PLY-
MOUTH, AND FALMOUTH RAILWAY.
The holders of shares in this Company (1835-6) desirous of enter-
ing into the arrangement with the Cornwall and Devon Central
Railway Company, proposed at a meeting held at the George and
Vulture Tavern, on Monday, September 22d instant, are requested
to forward on or before 27th SEPTEMBER instant, their shares to Mr.
Price, the Secretary, 6, Throgmorton-street, for the purpose of regis-
tration.

FRENCH and SWISS JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY, from MACON to GENEVA.
Capital, 60,000,000 f. (2,400,0001.) in Shares of 500 f. (201.) each.
Of which 25,000,000 fr. (1,000,000) are reserved for England.
Deposit 2/. per Share.
FRENCH ADMINISTRATION.
Lient-Gen. Comte Colbert, Pair de France, Aid-de-Camp de S.A.R.
le Duc de Nemours, President
M. le Marquis de Boissy, Pair de France, Vice-President
M. James Fazy, Membre du Grand Council Municipal de la Re-
publique de Geneve
M. Ernest Basset, Chevalier de la Legion d'Honnetir, Chef du Secre-
tariat du Domain Prive du Rol.
M. Petry and M. Desvoyes, ,Administrateurs des Chemins-de-Fer de
Tours a Nantes, and de Creil a St. Quentin
M. Gilbert Coubayon, Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur, Admistra-
teur du Chemin-de-Fer de Paris a Lyons
M. T. Pemot, AdMinistrateur du Chemin-de-Fer de Creil I St.
Quentin.
RNGLISH PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq., Deputy-Governor of the Union Bank,
and Chairman of the Namur and liege Railway, Chairman
W. Collins, Esq. M.P., Director of the Northampton, Banbury, and
Cheltenham Railway
D. R. Ross, Esq., M.l'., Director of the Great Northern of France
Railway
Captain Chamier, R N., Director of the Groat Faris and Lyons
Railway.
John Griffith Frith, Esq., Director of the Great Northern of France
Railoray
Algernon W. B. Greville, Esq., Director of the Great Eastern and
'Western Railway
William Morley, Esq., Deputy-Chairman of the Manchester and
Birkenhead Continuation Railway
William Mountford Nurse, Esq., Director of the Union Bank
Charles M. Rigg, Esq., Director of the Shropshire Mineral Railway
John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London and Middlesex, Director
of the Leicester and Bedford Railway.
BANKERS.
In France—Messrs. Gaillard and Rampin, Paris
In England—Tire Union Bank of London, Princes-street, Mansion
• House, Pall-mall East, and Argyle-street ; and its branches.
ENGINEER—Mons. De Villeroy.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Mayhew and Son, 26, Carey-street,
Lincoln's inn-Fields.
SECRETARY—J. Edersheim, Esq.

This Company was constituted on the 28th of August, 1A45,
according "to an Acte de Societe, passed before M Baudier,
Notary at Paris. Its object is the construction of one of tile most
important lines of railroad hitherto projected in France,
and perhaps on the whole continent. A reference to the map
will make it sufficiently apparent that, although short in
itself, this line will connect, by means of the Paris and
Lyons, and other French railroads, the Atlantic and Mediterranean ;
as well as France, England, Belgium, and Holland with Switzerland
and Italy ; and will thus complete the great Trunk line of commu-
nicatien between the West and South-East of Europe.
The length of the line is 120 kilometres, or 76 English miles; it
branches off from the Great Paris and Lyons Railroad at Macon,
situated half way between Chalons-sur-Sayone and Lyons, at a dis-
tance of about 70 kilometres, or 27 English miles from each of those
places, and passes through Bourg, the principal town of the depart-
ment De l'Ain, and by Nantua to Geneva.
Negotiations are pending, and likely to be brought to successffil
issue, between this Company and the Swiss Government, with regard
to an extension of this line to Lausanne and Yverdun, which will
connect them with the remainder of Switzerland and Germany ; and
should this important concession be gained, a preference in the allot-
ment of shares will, of course, be given to shareholders in this
Company.
The capital of the Company has been fixed at 60,000,000 of francs
(or 2,400,000/.), of which 25,000,000 francs (or 1,000,0001.), are to be
subscribed for in England.
The English capital is divided into 50,000 shares,of 20/. each, upon
which a deposit of is to be paid on allotment. One month's pre-
vious notice will be given of all subsequent instalments, which are not
to exceed 21. each.

• In case a lease of the line shall not be granted to this Company, the
dePosits will be paid back without deduction, but without interest.
No applications for shares will be attended to unless accompanied
by a first-rate reference.
Applications for shares may be made, in the annexed form,
to the secretary, at the offices of the Company, 73, Basinghall-street,
London ; to the Solicitors ; or to the following Brokers and Aonts :
London—Messrs. John Shewell and Son, 25, Tokenhouse-yard
" Mr. Theodore Uzielli, 75, Old Broad-street
Liverpool—Messrs. Alston and Gage
Manchester—Mr. William Marshall

Hull—Messrs. Collinson and Flint
Leeds—Messrs. Watson and Co.

Birmingham—Mr. James Pearson

Edinburgh—Messrs. Robertson and Co.
Glasgow—Messrs. Tamale and Co.

Dublin—Messrs. Labertouche and Stafford

Halifax—Messrs. Nevrburn and Blakey.

FORM OF APPLICATION,

To the English Provisional Committee of the French and Swiss
Junction Railway Company.

Gentlemen,.—l hereby subscribe for shares of 201. each
in the Capital Stock of the above Company, upon the terms and
conditions of the Prospectus; and I undertake to accept the same or
any less number of shares that may be allotted to me, to pay the
deposit and calls thereon when required, and to conform to the
statutes of the Company.
Dated this

day of 1845.
Name and Surname in fall .. • • •. • • • •
Profession .. •••••.••••• • • • • . • • • • • •
Place of Residence or Address • . •• • .
Name and Address of Reference •• •

PROSPECTUS OF THE

RHONDDA and E1:1 VXLITE s JUNCTION
RAILWAY, GLAMORGANSHIRE.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Promoted with the sanction And support of the Right lion. the Earl

of Dunraven.
Capital, 200,0001., in 10,600 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Viscount .dare, Dunraven Castle, Glamorgan
Crawshaw Bailey, Esq., Iron-works, Nant-y-Glo
James Morrison, Esq., Director of the Chepstow and Forest of Dean

Railway
Sir Robert Price, Bart., M.P., Foxley, Herefordshire
Richard Price, Esq., M.P., Radnorshire
James G. Barrett, Esq., Ross, Herefordshire
Henry A. Bruce, Esq., Duffryn House, Cardiff
James Brown, Esq., of Ton Dhu, near Bridgend
William Bradley, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Director of the Slier-

field and Manchester Railway
Charles Richard Bigge, Esq., 19, Bryanstone-square
John Castendick, Esq., Lewisham, Kent
Thomas Chitty, Esq., Director of the Rugby and Worcester
Railway
The Rev. James Cozens, Ynys Plwm, Glamorganshire
Edward Cotton, Esq., St. James's-square and Kenilworth, Director
of the Commercial Bank
John Dennis, Esq., Director of the Eyrewash Valley Extension
Richard Dutton, Esq., Director of the South and Midlands' Junction
Railway
William Edmonds, Esq., of Cowbridge, Glamorganshire
Thomas H. Evans, Mayor of Carnarvon, Director of the Rugby and
Worcester Railway
The Rev. 11. R. Fowler, Felton, near Bristol, and No. 7, Manchester-
square
Captain Hewitt, Tyr Mabb Ellis, Glarmorganshire
Windsor H. Humphreys, Esq., Garth Hall, Glamorganshire
John J. Harris, Esq., Treverig, Glamorganshire
John Hopkins, Esq., Killely, Glamorganshire
William Harrison, Esq., Hill House, Upper Tooting
John James, Esq., Secondary of the City of London, and Director of
the South and Midlands' Junction Railway
John Ingles Jerdein, Esq., Director of the Great Manchester, Rugby,
and Southampton Railway
Vero Clarke Kemball, Esq., Hyde-park-gardens, Director of the
South and Midlands' Junction Railway
Richard Kelly, Esq., Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Griffith Llewellyn, Esq., Baglan Hall, Glamorganshire
William Llewellyn, Esq., Director of the Bridgend Branch of the
National Provincial Bank of England
James Morrison, Esq.
Thomas Morris, Esq., of Newport, Monmouthshire
Leyshon Morgan, Esq., Lower Tremains, Bridgend, Glamorganshire
Samuel P. Pratt, Esq., F.n.s., Bath, and No. 65, Lincoln's Inn-
fields, Director of the Kennet and Avon Canal
William Simpson Potter, Esq., S,ussex-gardens, Hyde Park
George B. rye, Esq.. Lavenham, Suffolk
Evan Prichard, Esq., Collenna House, Glamorganshire
Richard Fowler Ricards, Esq., Lantrissent House, Glamorganshire
James Reeves, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Direct,
and South and Midlands' Junction Railways
Edward L. Richards, Esq., Merthyr Tydvil,-Glamorganshire
John Banda, Esq., Old Castle, Bridgend, Glamorganshire
Richard Lewis Reece, Esq., County Coroner, Cardiff
Edward Scard, Esq., of Kew Green, Surrey, and Garth Hall, Glamor-
ganshire
ifez.yr James, Esq., Finsbury-square, London
Sit `#llllthrl Wynn, Maes Eewyeld, Chairman of the North Wales
VMS*:
Joseph Undefvfeedi taq., the Hall, Blackheath, Director of the Com-
mercial Bank, Etateidni and of the Leeds and Liverpool and Direct
. Manchester Railways
Captain William Dawson, RI C, Dartieff, Surrey, Director of Cam-
bridge and Lincoln Extension
(With power to add to their number.)
SOLICITORS.
W. B. James, Esq., 5, Basinghall-street, London
William Morgan, Esq., „Tlridgend, Glamorgan.
BANKERS.
Commercial Bank of London
National Provincial Bank, Bridgend and Cardiff.
ZNOINTER.

This. Railway is projected for the ptirpose of uniting the Rhondda
and Ely tallies, with the South Wales Railway, at a few miles dis-
tance from litift of Cardiff; and to open a new mineral district,
one of the richest and
means of
in South Wales, which is at
present without the means of tranalt for its immense and 'minable
products.
It will pass through the central portion of the great coal-field of
Glamorganshire the geological formation, of which is decidedly
prOved to afford most excellent coal and Iron-stone in greater ahtm-
dance than any other in the kingdorm with facilities of mining ac-
cess seldom manned, and the quality Of the coal is admirably
adapted for steam purposes arid the ManufitetttrO Of iron.
An inexhaustible supply of lintesitin€ (sd nects'sary for the manu-
facture of iron and for agricultural purilds4V) May be obtained by
theatid of this Railway, much nearer and cheaper thetti by any other
ft is latettdad that the line shall commence at Blaen Rhatiddlti the
head of the Rhondda ll'afieyf and proceed down to a natural poos
between the hills at Ffrwd Alttirs, a distance of eight miles, where it
will enter the Ely Valley and proceed down (a Ibrther distance of
stir miles) to Lanelay-bridge, near Lantrissent, and there join the
Sotittii Idles Railway, thus opening a eommunication under the most
advantagethiti elikititnstances as to distance, with all the ports In the
British channel.
No engineering difficulties present themselves in the formation of
this line ; and it is confidently anticipated thrt Pia 1.
will be
ein'etited very considerably under the advertisedtocathliV
'11)e lEttklorners along the line are favoitriabtoler,
and tne :names
of many influential propr c wiu
betflonadnedrtonnklinhge,
1;1'018101W Committee.
No SUN/scriber will be anSyrerable beyond the amount of his de-
posit until the Act la obtained, and then not beyond the amount of
his subscription. shares, a
.preference will be given to
In the anottment of
landowners on the line and other parties locally interested.
eaytivtes and Maps may be had uf, and applications for
h addressed in the form annexed to, W. B. James,
I3asinghall-street, London; to W. Morgan, Esq.,
VS:111717S; Solicitor, 5,
Solicitor, Bridgend, Olamorgansh ; and to the undermentioned
Brokers ; but no application for Shares will receive the attention of
the Committee, unless accompanied by a reference to one or more
of the Provisional Committee, Solicitors, or the Engineers :
London—Messrs. John Lovell and Son, 25, Tokenhouse-yard.
Messrs. J. Peppercorne and Co., 2, Old Broad-street.
Liverpool—Messrs. Boultt and Co.
Manchester—Messrs. Houghland and Leese
Leeds—Messrs. John Young and Co.
Bristol—Luke Arnold, Esq. ; Messrs. Taite and Nash
Birmingham—Mr. Collis -
She fti eld emirs Bardwell and Sons.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR Sit AXES
, To the Provisional Committee of the Rhondda; and Ely Vallies