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BIRMINGHAM AND LICHFIELD
RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 300,0001., in 15,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per share, in accordance with the standing orders of
the Houses of Lords and Commons.
No call to be made until the Act is obtained —and no Subscriber to be
answerable beyond the Amount of his Subscription.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P. for Birmingham
Geo. Frederick Muntz, Esq., M.P. for Birmingham
The Right Worshipful the Mayor of Birmingham
John Wilks Unett, Esq., The Woodlands, Smethwick, Staffordshire
George Unett, Esq., The Laurels, Handsworth, Staffordshire
William Jacot, Esq., New Hall, Sutton Colfield
C. D. Archibald, Esq., F.R.S., Rusland Hall, Lancashire, and Re-
gent's Park, London
John Godfrey Hudson, Esq., St. George's-terrace, Hyde-park, Direc-
tor of the London Central Terminus Company
George Turner, Esq., Hunton Hill, Erdington, Warwickshire, Diree-
tor of the South Staffordshire and the Southampton and Oxford
Railways
Thomas Welch, Esq., Birmingham
Charles Machin, Esq., Blythe House, Erdington, Wanviekshire
R. Fowler, Esq., Manchester-square, London, and Filton-park,
Bristol
Samuel Phillips, Esq., Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, London, and
Levant House, St. Helen's-place, London, merchant
W. L. Whitmore, Esq., Director of the Great Western (Irish), and
the Worcester and South Wales Railways
Thos. Davies, Esq., The Anstens, Handsworth, Staffordshire
David Barnett, Esq., merchant, Birmingham
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Smith Whilock, Esq., Birmingham
John Boulton, Esq., Birmingham
Bell Elcock Fletcher, Esq., M.D., Birmingham
Thomas Bellman Upfll, Esq. Birmingham
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Henry Coe Cope, Esq., Hungerford Park, Wilts, Military Secretary
Director oSfmtchtehwGriceka
at Hyderabad
Edward Harrison Barwell, Esq., Mayor of Northampton, Director
of the South Midland ; the_Northanipton, Banbury and Chelten-
ham ; Leeds and Carlisle ; Manchester and Southampton, and
MajorEdw ardmßooarebr e, Esq.,
other Railways
T. R. Wright, Esq,, Northampton, Director of the South Midland
Railway
William Horatio Harrison, Esq., Director of the Leicester and Tam-
worth, Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction Railways
Z. T. Walters, Esq., Rugeley
W. Drury Holden, Esq., 10, Green-street, Grosvenor-square, and
Locke Park Derbyshire, Director of the Lichfield and Macclesfield
Railway
John Kempe Devonshire, Esq., River Dale Villa, Hampton
William Royden Watts, Esq., Birmingham
J. Mee Mathews, Esq., Director of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and
Manchester Railway
Theophilus Richards, Esq., Edgbaston, near Birmingham
Thomas Pemberton, Esq., Wharstone House, near Birmingham
Capt. M`Dougal, Fir Grove, North Brixton
John Anderson, Esq., Honourable East India Company's Service,
Euston-place, Easton-square, London
Sir William White, Director of the Church of England Insurance
Company
Griffith Frith, Esq., Director of the Londonderry and Coleraine
Railway, &c., &c.
John Johnson, Captain, R.N., Edgbaston, Birmingham
George Edwards, Esq., Birmingham
Hercules ITALICS DMICOCkS, Esq., Manor House, Kempsey, Glouces-
tershire
William Edwards, Esq., Aston, near Birmingham
John George Norbury, Esq.' Manchester House, Atherstone, Direc-
tor of the Teen and Dove Valley and South Staffordshire Railways
Geo. Frederick Gregory, Esq., Seacombe, Cheshire
James Russell, Esq., Endwood Court, Handsworth, Staffordshire
Thomas E. Davies, Esq., Bellelield House, near Birmingham
John Russell, Esq., Mandsworth, Staffordshire
Lieutenant-Colonel Elrington, Scots Fusilier Guards, Director of the
Manchester, Southampton, and Oxford Junction, and Leeds and
Liverpool ailway
Joshua Horton, Esq., !Etna Iron-works, Smethwick, Staffordshire
Richard Underhill, Esq., Birmingham
R. B. Williams, Esq., Director of the London and Manchester Di-
rect, the Leicester and Tamworth Junction, and the Leeds and
Liverpool Railway Companies
(With power to add to their number.)
ACTING ENGINEER.—E. J. Maude, Esq., C.E.
JOINT SOLICITORS.
J. Graham, Esq., 60, Moorgate-street, London.
Richard Ford, Esq., 28, Essex-street, Strand, London.
LOCAL AGENTS.
Birmingham—SP. H. Reece, Esq., New-street ; and C. H. Jagger,
Esq., New-street.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co., London.
Messrs. Attwood, Spooner, and Co., Birmingham.

This short but very important Lino of Railway will commence at
the nearest point on the Trent Valley Railway to the City of Lich-
field, and proceed through a rich and populous country, by Shenetone,
Sutton Coldfield, and Erdington, to the town of Birmingham.
The length of the Line will be only about sixteen miles, and a
glance at the map will suffice to show the very numerous advan-
tages which this Railway offers. The projected " South Union Rail-
way," from Manchester, joins or falls into the Trent Valley Railway
just below Lichfield, and, proceeding along the Trent Valley Line,
via Tamworth and Rugby, will form the shortest and most direct
route from Manchester to London, but will leave Birmingham on the
west, which can only be reached by the circuitous route through
Tamworth, a distance of twenty-five miles.

The proposed Birmingham and Lichfield Railway will effect an ex-
tension of the South Union, North Staffordshire, and other projected
Railways, from Lichfield in a direct Line to Birmingham, and thus
save no less than nine miles in the twenty-five, and constitute the
shortest and best line between Manchester and Birmingham yet de-
vised.

As to the returns to be expected for the capital embarked, it is
sufficient to mention, that in addition to the very large income aris-
ing from the local passenger and goods traffic (the latter of which is
very great, as most of the agricultural supplies of Birmingham, the
emporium of the Midland Counties, and its densely populated neigh-
bourhood, are derived from the vicinities of, and must pass along this
Line), every passenger direct from Manchester to Birmingham must
necessarily proceed along the projected Railway, should either of the
lines from Manchester to Lichfield be made.

This line will also form the nearest route from Derby and the
North to Birmingham.
The Capital proposed to be raised is 300,000/., in 15,000 Shares of
201. each. A deposit of 21. ,2s. per Share will be requited to be paid
upon the allotment, to the credit of the Directors with the Bankers
of the Company.
No call will be made until the Act of Parliament shall be obtained,
and power will be taken in the Act to allow Interest at 41. per cent.
per annum, upon the amount of each call, from the date of payment
until the opening of the line, and Subscribers will not be answerable
beyond the amount of their Shares.
The Subscribers' Agreement and Parliamentary Contract, which
shall contain a clause empowering the Directors to amalgamate with
any other Railway now formed, or to be formed, to extend or make
Branch Lines, or transfer, mortgage, or dispose of the present un-
dertaking for the benefit of the Company, as they may deem proper,
will be ready on the day fixed for the payment of deposit, and will
be required to be executed when the bankers' receipts are exchanged
for certificates of Scrip ; and the shares of any Subscribers making
default in the execution of those deeds within the time limited, of
which fourteen days' notice will be given, will be absolutely forfeited..
No application for shares can be attended to, unless accompanied
by a reference to a member of the Provisional Committee, one of the
Solicitors, Agents, or a Banker.
Forms of application for shares, copies of the prospectus, and a
map of the line, may be obtained at the temporary offices of the
Company, 60, Moorgate-street, London; from the Solicitors ; from
Local Agents ; from Mr. B. B. Williams, 17, Throgmorton-street,
London ; Mr. W. H. Collis, 104, New-street, Birmingham ; Messrs.
Ludlow, Brothers ; and Messrs. Pownall and Worthington, Liver-
pool ; Mr. John Barlow, Manchester ; Messrs. Robinson and Farlay,
Leicester.
Leeds • Mr. Thomas Evans, Milsom-street, Bath ; Messrs. ltllgood
and Harrison,

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BIRMINGHAM AND LICHFIELD RAILWAY.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR /MARES.
To the Provisional Committee of the Birmingham and Lichfield
Railway Company.
Gentlemen,—I request you will allot me Shares of 201.
each in the above Company; and I undertake to accept the same, or
such smaller number as may be allotted to me, and to pay the de-
posit of k/. 2s. per share thereon, and to execute the Subeeribera'
agreement and Parliamentary contract when required.
Dated this
Nameday of 1845.
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READING AND REIGATE RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that NO APPLICATIONS for
SHARES will be RECEIVED after WEDNESDAY next, the 24th inst.
By order of the Board,
DIOBY FOWELL, Secretary (pro tern.)
Offices, I, Old Jewry, Sept. 16, 1845.
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IRISH WEST COAST RAILWAY.
(Registered Provisionally.)

Capital, 2,500,0001., in 100,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d.
(No Subscriber to be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.)
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
Mark Blake, Esq., M.P., Ballinafad, Mayo
Robert Dillon Browne, Esq., M.P., Glencorrib, Mayo
John Patrick, Somers, Esq., M.P., Sligo
Sir Thomas Bernard Going Dancer, Bart., Motlreeny House, Clough-
Jordon, county Tipperary, Director of the Galway and Kilkenny
Railway
The Ilon. Geoffry Browne, D.L., Wilton-crescent, London, and Castle

31`Garrett, Mayo
The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird Pulteney, Parliament-street, Whitehall,

Director of the York and Lancaster Railway
Michael Gallagher, Esq., Mayor of Sligo
John Netterville Barron, Esq., Resident Magistrate, Sanders Park,

Cork
Owen Edmond Blake, Esq., J.P., Freneldort, Galway
William Butler, Esq., J.P., Bunnahow, Ennis (late High Sheriff of

Clare)
James F. Burke, Esq., J.P., St. Clarence, Galway
Dominick Joseph Burke, Esq., J.P., Greenhill, Mayo
Tbeobald Burke, Esq., J.P., Woodville, Mayo
William Campbell, Esq., Sackville-street, and Brighton
John Carmichael, Esq., T.C., Rivertson House, Cork, Dlreeter of the
Cork and Killarney Railway
Thomas Comins, Esq., Ballybrit House, Galway
Edward Dean, Esq., J.P., Curragowan, Mayo
John Dunn, sq., M.D., M.R.C.S., L. and D., Drumana, Leitrim
Robert Graham, Esq., J.P., Drumgoon, Fermanagh
Henry Griffith, Esq., D.L., J.P., Port Royal, Sligo, Director of the

Sligo and Shannon Railway
W. A. Hill, Esq., Lonsdale-square, Deputy Chairman of the Gloucester

and Aberyst;,iith Railway
Robert Hughes, Esq., Ely House, Wexford, Director of the Provin-

cial Bank of Ireland
William King, Esq., Spring-gardens, and Putney, Surrey
John Knox, Esq., J.P., Greenwood Park, Mayo
Joseph Myles M`Dennell, Esq., J.P., Deocastle, Mayo
Capt. Charles Carden Mansergh, Longralgue, Wexford, Director of
the Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia Railway
Capt. Newton, Bruton-street, and Lugwardin, Herts
Francis R. O'Grady, Esq., Taviane, Mayo
Richard O'Grady, Esq., Taviane, Mayo
Charles Ormsby, Esq., D.L., Cummin, Sligo
Michael Perrin, Esq., Galway
Rees Price, Esq., M.D., Tyne Hall, Great Word, Essex
Robert Dudley Persse, Esq., Galway
Joseph Richardson, Esq., J.P. Summer-hill House, Clones
Thomas Seymour, Esq., J.P., Ballymore Castle, BallinaslOe
James Sexton, Esq., J.P., Limerick
S. W. Simcockes Esq., Galway
John Walsh, Esq , Castlehill, Mayo
Captain George Edward Watts, R.N., Langton Grange, Darlington

(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER—CoIoneI Landmann, ILE., F.A.S., M.I.C.E.
BANKERS.
London—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co.
Scotland—Edinburgh wid Glasgow Bank
Ireland—National Bank and Branches
Provincial Bank and Branches.
STANDING COUNSEL—James Monson Carrow, Esq.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Langley and Mead, Bedford-row, London.
William Thomas Kelly, Esq., 16, Mountjoy-square North, Dublin,
and Castlebar, Mayo.

LOCAL AGENTS.

Galway—Captain F. O'Shaughnessy
Castlebar—Mr. Henry Murphy,
Sligo—Mr. W. C. Tuite.
SECRETARY—Henry T. Stuart, ER.

PROSPECTUS.

The object of this line of Railway is to complete the chain of coast
communication, and form a connexion with lines already_ established
or projected with reasonable hopes of success.
It will commence at or near the city of Limerick, and taking a nor-
therly direction, proceed through the counties ofClare, Galway, Mayo,
and Sligo, terminating at Sligo, by a junction with the Sligo and Ennis-
killen Railway, and accommodating on its route the important cities and
towns of Limerick, Ennis, Gort, Loughrea, Athenry, Monivea, Tuam,
Ballinrobe, Castlebar, Westport, Foxford, Ballina, Kilalla, Swineford,
Streamstown, and Sligo, which town being connected with the north,
east, and south, by the different lines through Enniskillen, London-
derry, Coleraine, Belfast, Armagh, Newry, Dundalk, Drogheda,
Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Killarney, Valentia,
Tralee, and Limerick, the establishment of this line will cause Ire-
land to present a completeness of locomotive communication which
no other country in the world enjoys.
The country through which the proposed line travels is most fertile
in mineral and agricultural products; it embraces many extensive
coal fields, whose advantages it will extend to all parts of Connaught
and Ulster; and intersecting, as it does, so many metropolitan lines
of railway, it will develope those advantages in an equal degree to
the province of Leinster.
The lead, iron, marble, and slate works on its route, will be
rendered available to the most distant parts of the island, and
perhaps not the least advantage, in a national point of view, will be
the establishment of an intercourse between the population of the
extreme north and that of the extreme south, as well as placing the
trade of, and communication with, Scotland, within the easy reach
of all towns of any importance in Ireland. Added to this the cer-
tainty that on the completion of the projected southern, eastern, and
western lines, the noble natural harbours on the Atlantic shore of
Ireland will become the British depots of American traffic, and most
probably the established packet stations for postal communication
between the two countries, it is impossible to over-rate the value of
this truly national projection.
The counties which this railway traverses abundantly supply the
English markets with cattle, pigs, Re. This line, communicating with
so many ports, will afford the greatest facilities for the shipping of
this portion of trade, some idea of the extent of which may be formed
from the fact of upwards of five hundred fairs being held annually
in its immediate vicinity, among them, the fair of Ballinasloe, ac-
knowledged the greatest for sheep and cattle in the British islands.
It has been ascertained that the country presents great engineering
facilities for the construction of a railway, and in communications
which have been received from the landowners along the line, the
greatest anxiety is manifested for its completion.
The subscribers will be held liable only to the extent of their first
deposits until an Act of Parliament is obtained, and afterwards only
to the amount of their subscriptions.
Power will be applied for in the Act—and in the meaenectsimsaeryls;
hereby given to the Committee—to increase the capittilr,alLii
to alter or abandon any part of the line, to makebonipaiiiiiir
;sa,nodr
enter into arrangements with any other company or
c
also to nominate the first directors of the companY•
The Parliamentary contract and subscribers' Agreement will be
ready for signature on payment of therd,eupwo,sil;,s.
s main
It will be seen in the plan that the
nd receivelntersect m t frohemmany a con-
lines, and will thus contribute
and merchandise traffic.
te,
siderable amount in been made, a return of at least 10
passenger
Prom the estimates that have
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per cent. must be realised on the capit a .
Application for shares to be made to the Solicitors in
office London
of the
ho, old Jewry Chambers; and to the undermentioned
brokers :—Mr. D. B. Major, Change-alley, Cornhill ; Mr. Anthony
Laurie, Liverpool ; Messrs. Brady and Staniforth, Manor-street,
h nil ; Mr. S. Grindroi, Manchester ; Messrs. Watson and Co.,
Leeds ; Mr. George Edwards, Bristol ; Messrs. Tyeth and Wills,
Plymouth; Mr. Robert Allan, Edinburgh; Messrs. M`Ewen and
Auld, Glasgow; Mr. William Gordon, Aberdeen; Messrs. Curtis and
Power, Dame-street, Dublin ; Mr. James Morgan, Cork, of whom
Prospectuses may be had.

FORM OF APPLIC iTION.
To the Provisional Committee of the Irish West-Coast Railway
Company.
Gentlemen,---I request that you will allot to me Shares of
251. each in the above undertaking ; and I agree to accept Bush
allures as may be allotted to me, and to pay the Deposit of 21.
12d. 6d. each thereon; and also to sign the Parliamentary Contract
and the Subscribers' Agreement, when required.
Dated the day of 1845.
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