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London, England, 1845-10-20 00:00:00

BRISTOL AND ENGLISH CHANNELS
DIRECT JUNCTION RAILWAY; with a Branch to
Wivaliscombe ; in Continuation of the North Devon, Bristol and
Exeter, and Great Western Railways.
(Registered Provisionally.)
Capital, 1,000,0001., in 40,000 Shares of 25/. each.
Deposit, 2/. 12a. 6d. per Share.

No other Call is intended to be made urtil the Act has been ob-
tained. Parties' I:abitities will be limited to the extent of their
Shares.

PROTISIONAL COMMITTEE.
The Mon. William Dawson, Parkstone, Dorset
Sir Robert George Throckmorton, Bart., Buckland,
near Farringdon, Berks
Directors of
Sir John Trevclyan, Bart, Nettlecombe Court, near
the North
Watchet, Somerset, and Wallington, Northum- Devon
berland Railway
Lieut. General Sir George Pownell Adams, K.C.H.,
Ockington House, near Wiveliscombe
Lieut. Colonel Sir Henry Bayly, K.H., Burley-villa, Lyme Regis,

Dorset
Henry John Reuben Dawson Darner, Esq., Milton Abbey, Dorset
Edward Ayshford Sanford, Eq., Nynchead Court, Somerset, di.

rector of the North Devon Railway
Humphry Weld, Esq:, Chidcock House, near Bridport, Commis-

aioner of Bridport Harbour
Walter Cllverly Trevelyan, Esq., Nettlecombe Court
John Knight, Esq., Wolverley-halt, Worcestershire, and Simons..
bath, Somerset, director of the North Devon Railway
Frederick Wynn Knight, Esq., M.P., Wolverly.hall, director of

the North Devon Railway
Thomas Ale-a.;.nder Mitchel, Esq., M.P. for Bridpert
Lieutenant Colonel Bragge, Sadborrow-house, near Chard
Elbert Aitchison, Esq., Captain, R.N., Maperton-house, near
Bridport
Alexander Ramsay, Esq., Beaminster, near Bridport
John Dorrien Magens, Esq., 99, Cornhill, London
Joseph narrow Montefiore, Esq., York-street, Portman-square
Thomas Laurance, Esq., St. Mary Axe, London, director of the
Leeds and Carlisle Railway
John Charritie, Esq., Park-village East, Regent's-park, director
of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway
Thomas Wetherell, Esq., Lincoln, Director of the London and
Tick and East Lincolnshire Railway
Thomas Challis, Ekci , Alderman of London, director of the Liver-
pool and Derby Railway
John Knill, Esq., London Bridge-wharf, London, director of the
Worcester, Shrewsbury and Crewe Railway
John Stewart, Esq., M.P. for Lymington, director of the Liver-

pool and Derby and East and West of England Railways
Henry M. Kemshead, Esq., Westbourne-house, Paddington
Charles Bamford, jun., Esq., Hull; director of the Leeds and
Carlisle, and Hull and Barnsley Junction Railway
William Tanner, Esq., 84, Great Surrey-street, director of the
Leeds and Carlisle Railway
William Lechmere Whitmore, Esq , James.street, Buckingham-
gate, director of the Worcester and South Wales Railway
The Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, H.P. for Wolverhampton
William Gordon Thompson, Esq., 33, Gloucester-road, Hyde.
park, director of the South Midland, and Northampton, Ban.
bury and Chelteuham Railway
Martin Stutely, Esq., Cambridge terrace, Regent's-park, director
of the Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine, and South Essex Railways
Henry Rendell Wotton, Eaq„ Fitzroy square, London

IA devisee in trust of
the late Earl of Egre.
Lawrence Walker, Esq., King's.road, ) Toont, owner of the
Gray's Inn, London Harbour of Watchet,
and extensiveadjacent
manors and estates

William Ealcs, Esq., Mincing-lane
Frederick William Drewe, Esq., Woodlands-house, near Stowey,
Somerset
Joseph Gundry, Esq., Hyde-house, near Bridport, merchant and ship.
owner, Commissioner of Bridport Harbour
Robert Langham, Esq., Cottesbrooke, Northampton
John Hill, Esq., Fairfield-house, Lyme Regis, Dorset, merchant
William Tucker, Esq., Coryton-park, near Axminster, Devon
Thomas Hoskins, Esq., Haselbury, Plucknett, near Crewkerne,
Somerset
Thomas Fox, Esq., Beaminster, Dorset, Commissioner of Bridport
Harbour
William Loveridge, Esq., Paradise-lodge, near Chard
Charles Warre Loveridge, Esq., Crewkerne, banker
Benjamin Pearkes Gundry, Esq., Bridport, merchant
William Trevelyan Cox, Esq., Cheddington-court, near Beaminster
R. Walter, Esq., Coombe-head, near Chard
William Colfox, Esq., Rax-house, Bridport, merchant and ship-
owner, Commissioner of Bridport Harbour
Stephen Whetham, Esq , Bridport, merchant and shipowner, Com-
missioner of Bridport Harbour
John Pike Stephens, Esq., Bridport, merchant and shipowner, Corn.
rnissioncr of Bridport Harbour
John Kenway, Esq., Bridport, merchant
Thomas Colfox, Esql, Raz -house, Bridport, merchant
William Kinglake, Esq., Wilton-house, Taunton
William Beadon, Esq., Gotton- house, near Taunton
James Bunter, Esq., Taunton, banker
Henry Hooper, Esq. (late Mayor of Exeter), architect, director of
the North Devon Railway, and Deputy Chairman of the Exeter
and Crediton Railway
Richard Carver, Esq., Taunton, architect, county surveyor for So.
mersetshire
James Carrot Wilcocks, Esq., Exeter, director of the North Devon
Railway, and of the Exeter and Crediton Railway
James Marsh, Esq., Alphington, Exeter, director of the North
Devon Railway
John Hancock, Esq., liaise, near Taunton
Henry Daubney Harvey, Esq., Wiveliscombe, director of the
North Devcn Railway
Phillip Hancock, Esq., Ford-house, near Wiveliscombe
James Thomas Benedictus Notley, Esq., Coombe, Sydenham-house,
near Watchet
..3eorge Netley, Esq., Chillington, Somerset
Joseph Hitchcock, Esq., The Grove, Taunton
H. a King, Esq., Taunton
Stephen William Whetham, Esq., Bridport, merchant and ship.
owner, Commissioner of Bridport Harbour
Walter Eustace Gundry, Esq., Bridport, banker and merchant
Alfred Nicholetts, Esq., Woaderwell, near Bridport
William Battiscombe, Esq., East Cottage, near Bridport, brewer,
Commissioner of Bridport Harbour
Thomas Ewens, Esq., Allington, near Bridport, merchant and ship.
owner, Commissioner of Bridport Harbour
William Hounsell, Esq., Wykes.court, near Bridport, merchant
Richard Hayward, Esq., West Chinnock, Somerset, merchant and
flax-mill owner
John Hounsell, Esq., Bridport
Theophilus Miller Gunn, Esq., Bridport
James Brown, Esq., Burton, Bradstock, near Bridport
Joseph Hounsell, Esq., Bridport, merchant
Richard Tucker, Esq., Bridport, merchant
William Tucker, Esq., Allington-villa, near Bridport
Richard Tulle, Esq., Taunton, merchant
Robert Parsons, Esq., Taunton, merchant
Thomas Powell, Esq., The Gacr, near Newport, Monmouthshire,
coal proprietor; a director of the Taff Vale Railway
-Thomas Hughes, Esq., Kingshill, Newport
Franklin Meager, Esq., Swansea, Glamorganshire, of the firm of
M. I. Michael and F. Meager
George Bucknell, Esq., Crowcombe, near Watchet
John Southcomb Ling, Esq., Stogumber near Watchet
Henry Foote Ling, Esq., Stogumber, near Watchet
George Elers, Esq., Stogumber, director of the North Devon Rail.
way
John AVilliams, Esq., Buckland, near Farringdon, Berks
William Cockburn, Esq., Minehead, Somerset
Robert Hole, Esq., Alcombe, near Minehead
Henry Cade'', fsq., Stampford Brett, near Watchet
Frederick William Rossiter, Esq., Williton, near Watchet
William Avery, Esq., Barnstaple, member of the Provisional Corn.
rnittee of the North Devon Railway
Alfred Marriott, Esq , Broadlands-lodge, Taunton
John William Marriott, Esq., Taunton
Henry Alford, Esq., Taunton
John Eales White, Esq., Taunton, brewer
Jonathan Payne, Esq., Norton, near Taunton, corn factor and '

mill owner
William Middleton, Esq , Chard, brewer
Silvanus Stephens, Eq., Bridport
William Manley, Esq , Bridport
James Haydon, Esq. ) Flax-manufacturers,
Robert Turner, Esq. j Greenham mills, Crewkerne
James Hill, E,q., Ch:.rd
Thomas Llewellyn, Esq.. Taunton
Thomas Stoats, Esq., Washiord•mills and Watchet, merchant

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and ship.owncr
William Stoate, Esq., Watchet-mills, merchant and ship-owner
William Gimblett, Esq., merchant and ship-owner, Watchet
William G. Hole, Esq., merchant and ship-owner, Watchet
J. Wansbrough, Esq., } Paper-makers, Paper-mills, Watchet
John Date, Esq., and Bristol
William James, E.g., Doniford, near Watchet
Henry George Hole, Esq„ merchant andship.owner, Watchet
Joseph Williams, Esq., banker, Williton, near Watchet
Thomas Hawkes, Esq., land agent and surveyor, Williton, near
Watchet

(With power to add to their number.)
CONSULTING ENGINEER—C. B. Vignoles, Esq., P.R.S.A.
ENGINEERS W. C. Mylne, Esq., F.R.S., Principal Engineer to the
New River Company ; R. W. Mylne, Esq.
LONDON BANKERS.
Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph and Biddulph, 43, Charing-cross
Messrs. Currie and Co., 29, Cornhill.

COUNTRY BANKERS.
Stuckey's Banking Company, at their various branches
The West of England and South Wales' District Bank, at their
various branches
Messrs. Williams and Co., Bridport, Dorchester, and at their variou

branches
Messrs. S. and W. E. Gundry, Bridport, and at their various
branches
Messrs. H. It. and I. Badcock, jun., Taunton.
STANDING COUNSEL—A. W. Kinglake, Esq., 24, Old-square,
Lincoln's Inn.
SECRETARY—Mr. Charles P. Meryon. _ _

SOLICITORS IN LONDON—Messrs. Keddell, Baker, and Grant, 34,

Lime-street.
PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS—Messrs. Sudlow and Kingdon,
Palace-yard.

SOLICITORS IN THE COUNTRY.
Mr. Edwin Nicholetts, Bridport
Mr. Baruch Fox, Beamister
Messrs. Rowcliffe and Son, Stogumber, near Watchet.
LOCAL SOLICITORS.
Mr. Samuel Walter, Chard
Mr. Woodland, Taunton
Mr. W. Bridge, Dorchester
Mr. F. Napier Bower, Wiveliscombe
Mr. J. F. Knight, Axminster.

The object of this Company is to establish a direct line of rail-
way for passengers, goods, and commercial, mining, and agricul.
tural produce between the harbour of Watchet on the Bristol
Channel, and the harbour of Bridport on the English Channel, and
provide means of inland transit for a large proportion of the pro-
duce at present necessarily sent by the dangerous and uncertain
passage round the Land's End, and at the same time afford to the
Intermediate rich and populous districts ready and convenient rail-
way communication.

The direct line will be 48 miles in length, and will proceed from
Watchet to Taunton, and thence by Hatch Beauchamp, and by
Ilminster to Chard, and by Crewkerne and Beaminstcr to Bridport
harbour. A branch will: proceed out of the line, about mid-way
between Watchet and Taunton, directly to Wiveliscombe. All
these towns and their neighbourhoods are populous and opulent,
and many of them very much so, and the localities are remarkable
for their richness, fertility, beauty, and numerous resident gentry.
At Wiveliscombe this line will avail itself of the North Devon
Railway to Taunton, and also westward; at Taunton it will
enter the station of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, and thence
proceed to Mangerton, four miles short of Bridport, where it will
unite with the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, one of the
Great Western lines of Railway, and thence proceed on that line
to Bridport Harbour.

It will also cross the proposed line from Yeovil to Exeter
about two miles west of Crcwkerne.

The junction of the two Channels was long since deemed an im-
portant object. To effect it, surveys were successively made for e
ship canal by the late Mr. Rennie, Mr. Telford, and other scientific
men, who concurred in the importance of such a work in a na-
tional point of View ; the design was matured, and in 1824 an Act
of Parliament was passed ; and it stands recorded as the opinions of
Mr. Telford and Captain
Nichols, that the canal would afford a
remuneration to the subscribers of 16% per cent. on a capital of
1,712,844/.
The sum required for this work, being so much less than that
for the Ship canal ; the increased de.aand of a greatly increased
population, and the present vast commercial energies of the
country, make it manifest that goods may be Conveyed by this
railway at far less than half the charge upon which Mr. Telford.
and Captain Nichols tbrmed their opinion.
The intended line from Minekead to Bridgewater, will meet
Di CMS this line near Watchet.