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London, England, 1845-10-06 00:00:00

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.

To the Provisional Directors of the Great Western, Brentford, and
Central Terminus Junction Railway.

Gentlemen,—l request you will allot me shares of 201. each
in the above Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same,
or any lesser 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 Co:itract when required.
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GREAT WESTERN, BRENTFORD, and
CENTR tL TERMINUS JUNCTION RAILWAY.
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.
By order, HENRY. MOREING, Secretary.
53, Charing-cross, Sept. 30,1815.

MANCHESTER, MIDLAND, AND GREAT
GRIMSBY JUNCTION RAILWAY, via ROTHERHAM.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 800,0001., in 32,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, IL 7s. Gd. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Captain Laws, R.N., Crumpsall-hall, Manchester
Joseph Began, Esq., Liverpool
( Directors of the London and York Railway)
George Crosland, Esq., Huddersfield
Joseph Kaye, Esq., Huddersfield
( irectors of the Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway)
Robert Buchannan, Esq., M.D., Pontefract, Chairman
William Moxon, Esq , Pontefract
,James Audus, Esq., Headingly, near Leeds
(Directors of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway)
William Butcher, Esq., the Master Cutler ofSheffield
E. B. Beaumont, Esq., Finningley-park
(Directors of the Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Bud,
dersfield, and Goole Railway)
John Burgess, Esq., Boroughrccve of Manchester
John Bolffird, Esq., Rusholme-house, Manchester
Lott Gardiner, Esq., merchant, Manchester
Edward Connell, Esq., Leaf-square, Manchester
Mr. Alderman Burd, merchant, Manchester
James Con terdin Esq., merchant, Manchester
Cephas [lnward, Esq., J.P., Brinnington-hall, Stockport
William Bayley, Esq., Larkhill, Staleybridge, Cheshire
P. England, Esq., Hudderptield
John Smith, Esq., Welton Garth, near Hull
John Wood, Esq., Glossop, Derbyshire
Vincent Corbett, Esq., Outhwaite-hall, Wortley
Thomas Chambers, Esq., Chapeltown
J. B. Greaves, Esq., Ecelesfield
William Hall, Esq., Royds-moor, near Penistono
Wilson Overend, Esq., J.P., Sheffield
Henry Walker, Esq., J.P., Clifton-house, Rotherham
Robert Bentley, Esq., Rotherham
Robert Younge, Esq., Sheffield
G. W. Chambers, Esq., Clough-house, near Rotherham
J. G. Clarke, Esq., Masbro'-hall
George Knowles, Esq., ironmaster, Rotherham
Henry Wilkinson, Esq., Endelitre-hall, Sheffield
C. S. R. Sandford, Esq., North Field-house, Rotherham
James Yates, Esq., Effingham Works, Masborough
John Aldred, Esq., Rotherham
Thomas Wheatley, Esq., corn merchant, South-grove, Rotherham
Samuel S. Brittain, Esq., Sheffield
James Hodgson, Esq., Rotherham Mills
John Brown, Esq., ironmaster, Rotherham
William Owen, Esq., Pluenix Ironworks, Rotherham
Benjamin Badger, Esq., barrister-at-law, Rotherham
Henry Thomas, Esq., Sheffield
John Nightingale, Esq., Greave of the Feoffees of Rotherham

Charles Sandford, Esq., Phoenix ironworks, Rotherham
Robert John Bentley, Esq., Eastwood-house, Rotherham
George Dawson, Esq., Sheffield
Alexander Grant, Esq., steel r. finer, Rotherham
E. J. Heseltine, Esq., RCherham
E. L. Sidebotham, Esq., J.P:, Aston-hall
Rev. Geo. Chandler, J.P., Treetop Rectory
.John Green, Esq., Sheffield
John Hall, Esq.. Kiveton-park, near Rotherham
R. C. Boyle, Esq., Aughton-hall, near Rotherham
Robert Fisher, Esq., Maltby
George Ridge, Esq., Sheffield
Thomas Dyson, Esq., Braithwell Manor-house
William Broughton, Esq., Hairy
John Bradley, Esq., Blyth
Joseph Taylor, Esq., Newington
James Cross, Esq., Gringley
Charles Cross, Esq., Glentworth-heath, near Gainsborough
William Wells, Esq., West Stockwith, near Gainsborough.
Henry Smith, Esq., Gainsborough'
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Robert Cook, Esq., Gainsborough
Francis A. Lowe, Esq., Gainsborough
John William Pashley. Esq., merchant, Gainsborough
Frederick W. Fleck, Esq., whartinger Gainsborough
Thomas Adwick Farmer, Esq., iron merchant, Gainsborough
Henry HAI, Esq., wharfinger, Gainsborough
R. D. Fretwell, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough
Robert Pinder Moxon, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough
H. Robinson, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough
John Hughes, Esq., Merchant, Gainsborough.
Edward Watson, Esq., merchant, Gainsborough.
ENGINEER—John Braithwaite, Esq.
SECRETARY_)fr. Francis Parker, Rotherham.
BANKERS—Sheffield and Rotherham Banking Company, Rotherham.
The object of this undertaking is to connect the Sheffield and Man-
chester—Huddersfield and Sheffield—Midland and Great Grimsby
Railways —the ports of Liverpool and Birkenhead on the western,
and Great Grimsby on the eastern coast, affording accommodation
to all the important intervening manufacturing and agricultural dis-
tricts—in fact, to opal the shortest and most direst communication
between the eastern and western counties of England. It is pro-
posed to commence at Wortley and run to the Midland at or near
Masbrough, affording au outlet north and south,- and thence for-

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the east end Nottinghamshire and North Lincolnshire, with a popu-
lation of 431,485.
Under any circumstances, the intercourse between two such
masses of population must be great; but in this case It is much
beyond the average from the different character of the country, and
the pursuits of the inhabitants at the two termini—Lancashire and
Yorkshire having redundant supplies of coal, ironstone, lime, and
m nufactured goods of every description, while Nottinghamshire and
Lincolnshire and the east are dependent on the former counties for
these productions—and send their large supplies of corn and cattle to
the Yorkshire and Lancashire markets. The traffic in goods and
passengers between such important and mutually dependent districts
must be unusually great.
A glance at the map of England will show that the proposed line
will be, as nearly as may be, a straight one. A circuitous line is an
evil, and opposed to public policy. The public suffer by being de-
tained a longer time—by travelling a longer distance—and by paying
a larger fare than is necessary—and the proprietors suffer by being
exposed to the risk, or rather to the certainty of their property being
destroyed at some future period by the competition of a shorter and
more direct line. Sir Robert Peel, in his place In Parliament, on the
15th of March, 1845, upon this point said—" Ile would make no re-
ference to any indiviaual railway schemes, but he thought they ought
to look ferward to the result of mechanical improvements as applied
to those schemes, and they might depend upon it (speaking of ulti-
mate results) that the shortest lines would be preferred.—(Hear,
hear.) The tendency of the improvements which were almost daily
introduced, was decidedly in -favour of the shortest lines."
It may also be observed that the Board of Trade, in their detailed
report, in reference to that part of the line from Rotherham to
Gainsbrough (which was submitted for consideration as a distinct
scheme), state it to be " decidedly preferable to the Sheffield and
Lincolnshire or the Sheffield branch of the London and York ;"
and that " It affords a better connexion also with the important
market town of Rotherham, and with the North Midland Railway,
and gives as direct a communication as could be desired with Gains-
borough and Lincoln."
While so favourable an opinion is expressed upon this portion of
the line, it may also be fairly granted to the extension ll'om Rother-
ham to Wortley. By the Sheffield and Manchester, and the
Sheffield and Rotherham Railways, the distance from Wortley.
to Rotherham is 11% miles, which by the proposed ex-
tension will be reduced to 9. That portion of the line
will also open out one of the best coal-fields in England, with inex=:
haustible supplies of Park-gate and Silkstone coals—besides the green
Moor Quarries at Wortley, containing very superior stone for
paving and building purposes—while at Thorncliffe and Chapel
Town, there are already most extensive ironworks in active ope-
ration. At Rotherham and Masborongh—and in the immediate
neighbourhood—there are large iron and steel works, and other
manufactories, requiring qualities of coal and ironstone, from which
at present they are almost excluded, on account of the heavy
carriage.
Rotherham is the great cattle market of Yorkshire, and likewise
an important corn market, and one of the objects sought to be
attained by the promoters of this undertaking is the shortest route
from the manufacturing to the agricultural districts —and front the
agricultural to the great markets of Yorkshire, and the consuming
districts westward. It will accommodate also the traffic of the
localities through which it passes, and possesses the peculiar feature
of following, as near as possible, the old route in which the stream of
traffic, and especially passengers, has hitherto been accustomed to
flow.
The district between Rotherham and Gainsborough is destitute of
coal, and there is no canal or railway from which it can be supplied,
excepting by a very circuitous route—in fact, the supply between
Rotherham and Bawtry is entirely carted along the turnpike-road.
The celebrated grindstones at Wickereley, with an immense quantity
of the finest freestone, from the far-famed Roche Abbey Quarries,
might also be sent—the former to Sheffield, Manchester, and Bir-
mingham—and the latter to every part of the kingdom, were an easier
and cheaper mode of transit established.
It is needless to remarkl that any line of railway commanding
the advantages referred to, and connecting Lancashire and West
Yorkshire, with the Trent and the Humber, must prove a very
ample investment for capital; indeed, the returns of the existing
traffic are highly satisfactory.
Surveys have been taken, and the landowners generally are
favourable to the project. The length of the line is about thirty-five
and a half miles.
There will be a clause in the Act of Parliament, limiting the Halol.
lity of each shareholder to the amount for which he may subscribe,
and power will be taken to allow interest at the rate of 4 per cent.
per annum upon the patd-Up capital, from the obtaining of the Act
until the completion of the railway.
By the Subscribers' Agreement, authority will be given to the Pro-
visonal Directors to vary or alter the line, or to enter into any
arrangement which they may think expedient, previous to applying
to Parliament in the ensuing session.
The Directors congratulate the shareholders upon their very satis-
factory position, having secured the valuable co-operation and
Assistance of several influential companies.
W. F. HOYLE,.
C. L. coyi,Ax, ,olicitorib

ptisulaars Oct, 2, leo.,

CHELMSFORD AND BURY RAILWAY.
The Committee have the satisfaction of informing the Share-
holders, that the whole of the capital has been subscribed, that the
engineers and surveyors have for several weeks past been engaged
upon the line, and that the surveys for Parliamentary purposes are
nearly completed.

The subscription and Parliamentary contract have been executed
by nearly the whole of the London Shareholders, and will remain at
the Company's Offices until Saturday, the 4th instant. They will
afterwards lie at the following places for the sgnatures of the coun-
try subscribers, viz.:—

At the Offices of W. 11. Coils, Esq., Sharebroker, Birmingham, on
Monday, the 6th instant

A the Offices of Thomas Forsyth, Esq., Sharebroker, 1, Exchange-
buildings, Liverpool, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the ith and Bth
instant.

At the Offices of Henry Benton, Esq., Sharebroker, Cross-street,
Manchester, on Thursday and Friday, the 9th and lath instant.
At the Offices of Messrs. Rhodos, Sharebrokers, 13, Albion-street,
Leeds, on Saturday ,lid Monday, the 11th and 13th instant.
At the Oflkes of F. Stamp, Esq., llull, on Tuesday and Wednesday,
the 14th and 13th instant.

At the Offices of Messrs. John Robertson and Co., Sharebrokers,
Royal Exchange, Edinburgh, on Friday and Saturdsy, the 17th and
18th instant ; and

At the Offices of Messrs. Duncan and Hutchinson, Sharebrokers,
67, St. Vincent-street, Glasgow, on Monday and Tuesday, the 20th
and 21st instant, each day, from Ten to Four o'clock.

By order, DAVID BORTIE, Secretary,
Company's Offices, GI, Moorgate-street, Oct. 2, 1845.

THE LEEDS, HUDDERSFIELD, SHEF-
FIELD, and SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE (or LEEDS
WOLVERHAMPTON, and DLTDLE 1) DIRECT RAILWAY.
(Provisionally- Itegistered.)
Capital, 2,000,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s. per Share.

AC FING COMMITTEE OF DIRECTORS,

Chairman—The Right lion. EarIof.SHREWSBURY, Alton Towers,

Stafr.rdshire

Vice-Chairman —Sir GEORGE W3l PRESCOTT, Bart., Theobahrs,

Ilerts

IL4ht Hon. Lord Ingestrie, M.P.,Broinpton-park, and Ingestrie-hall
Staffordshire
Sir Win. Boothby, Bart., Ashbourne-hall, Derbyshire
Colonel the lion. Leicester Stanhope, Ashbourne-house, Chelsea
Hon. Capt. Douglas K. i'ulteney, Parliament-street, Chelsea
Henry Arnold, Esq., Uttozeter
Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Macclesfield
John Robert Dalby, Esq., Ashbourne
Samuel Dawson, sen., Esq., Ashbourne
Robert Jas. Hartshorne, Esq., Ashbourne
Richard Wm. Johnson, Esq., Moorgate
John Joseph Keene, Esq., St. John's-wood, Regent's-park
Wm. King, Esq., 29, Moorgate-street
Nathaniel Cumberlege, Esq., York-terrace, Regent's-park
Horace Meteyard, Esq., Chatham-place, Blackiriars
Wm. Smith, Esq., Clifton, Derbyshire
Major Wallew, K. 11., St. James's-square.